{"created_utc":1569764418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dav8tn\/nursing_vs_pumping_at_work\/","id":"dav8tn","body":"So the break time for nursing mothers under the FLSA law requires employers to provide \u201creasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child\u2019s birth each time such employee has need to express the milk.\u201d\n\nSo my question is in this definition does expressing mean pumping only or does it also include nursing? While my husband is on paternity leave he plans on bringing our baby to my office so i can breastfeed her once during the day. Leaglly am i afforded this or only to pump? Thanks.","title":"Nursing vs Pumping at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505183499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zk6jc\/co_my_apartmentsupplied_wifi_included_in_lease_is\/","id":"6zk6jc","body":"We (my bf and myself) pay $105 for utilities at our apartment (rented), including gas, water, trash, and wifi. We thought this was a great deal, however ... the wifi is absolute crap. When it works, the speeds are fine, but it is constantly cutting out, making loading even a single page an onerous task (often I'll have to reload more than once, or turn the wifi off altogether and turn it back on). This has impacted my ability to work from home and to enjoy Netflix, or generally the utility that we are supposed to have. As far as I can imagine, if my water or electricity were so undependable, I'd demand some sort of compensation - I am paying for this.\n\nI should note that we don't have a router in our unit - the routers are in the hallways, and everyone is on the same network, but has their own login.\n\nDo I have any recourse here?","title":"(CO) My apartment-supplied wifi (included in lease) is crap","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408409988,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2dxt0j\/strong_fumes_coming_from_apartment_management\/","id":"2dxt0j","body":"Apt in tennesee. \nLandlords are painting apartment next door. The company they are using only opens backdoor no other ventilation. \n\nI was not given a notice of painting or anything. The fumes are making my fiancee and I light headed and nauseous. \n\nCan I request they show me the chemicals they are using so I know if me and my fiancee are in danger?\n\nAre they in the wrong in any way?","title":"Strong fumes coming from apartment management next door.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503178458,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6urqqr\/orthodontic_troubles\/","id":"6urqqr","body":"Location Canada\nWent to orthodontist to get a moderate-severe overbite fixed. She (orthodontist) explained to us three options 1 being a powerscope device 2 being teeth extraction and 3 being jaw surgery. She suggested number 1 would correct my weak chin and overbite however some of the changes would be \"dental rather than skeletal\". My parents signed the contract (16 YO at the time) agreeing to my treatment using option 1. I am now a little over half way done my treatment and the changes are mostly dental and i still have a weak chin unlike what she said would be corrected. Do i have any grounds to sue or ask for reimbursement ? \nThank you","title":"Orthodontic Troubles","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1442496329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3laszj\/landlord_violated_30_city_regulations_now_i_cant\/","id":"3laszj","body":"Hi, thank you so much for taking the time to hear my story!\n\nI live in Allston, MA and 2 weeks ago, a news crew came by and told us that our house had broken nearly 30 violations and the city inspectors deemed it no longer habitable until repairs were made.  My roommates and I had filed various complaints regarding the condition of the house throughout the year, and the property manager basically ignored us.\n\n(link to news story here: https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2015\/08\/30\/city-inspectors-hit-streets-during-move-weekend\/Athx4YDe8359GKVkhkV1EN\/story.html).  \n\nI knew that the condition of the house was bad, but I didn't think it was uninhabitable!  Our property manager never notified us of any of these violations, and we only learned of it when the news crew arrived.  so I was left with the option of moving to a new place or paying the same rent ($750 a month) and move to Dorchester.  In addition, I had just re-signed my lease with them for another year, and they charged me $450 as a resigning fee and since the rent went up, another $100 added to my last month's rent (I did not have to pay a security deposit). So not only did they probably know that the house was uninhabitable, but also allowed us to re-lease for another year knowing how bad it was!\n\nI told my property manager that I would look for a new place as soon as possible, but to be allowed to still keep a majority of my items in my room while trying to find a new place (at this point I was sleeping at my girlfriends place).  He said yes, nothing would be thrown out if I just kept it in my room.  I recently found a new room to rent in Cambridge and signed for the lease.  I came back last Wednesday to pack up my belongings and started to move some of them over to my new place.  I had left my laptop and iPad out in my room and forgot to take them with me when I left.  When I came back the next day to pack more of my stuff, I found both my laptop and iPad missing and it clearly looked like someone had been going through my things.  The only people who had access to the house was me and my other roommate (who was also re-leasing and noticed that his speakers, guitar, and mic was missing) and the people who were doing repairs on the house and the property manager of course.\n\nI contacted the landlord\/property manager about my stolen items and they basically said it was not their responsibility to secure my items.  \n\nLuckily I have renter's insurance, but I'm not sure if it will cover the full cost of my items, plus all the personal files that I have on them.  Is there anything I can do at this point?  I also asked the property manager to return my re-leasing fee to me, my last month's deposit, and to cover some of my moving expenses since it was their fault that the house was under so many violations and he told me he would need to ask the landlord but could not guarantee a refund of anything.\n\nI was just wondering what legal action I could take and if I am at fault or liable or anything.  \n\nThank you for your time!\n\n","title":"Landlord violated 30 city regulations, now I can't live in my room and my realtor won't return my rent! What can I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540148297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q63bl\/baitandswitched_on_apartment_lease_ky\/","id":"9q63bl","body":"Several months ago I went apartment hunting at a corporate owned luxury\/apartment home-type community. I was looking during a 'slow' time of year and was offered a significant discount on my rent if I moved in during that month. \n\nI applied online for one of the units I toured and paid \\~$300 in application fee and deposit. I was accepted and got the first draft of my lease. The lease didn't include the discount I was offered. I sent emails and voicemails to the leasing office and got another draft of the lease- this one with a lower price, but still not the full value of the discount I was offered. \n\nI contacted the office again, and this time when they got back to me they said there was a problem-  the unit that I had applied for and put down a deposit for had already been rented. I was told that there was a 'clerical error' in their system, and that the employee who toured me on it shouldn't have shown it to me.\n\nAt this point it was nearing the end of the month and the pricing I was offered and the security deposit were both going to expire. I was told that there were no more units available at the price I had been offered before- the only units with the same floor plan and comparable location had higher finish\/trim packages and higher base rents. When I went into the office to try to sort things out, the employee who I had talked to on the phone about the situation acted nervous and wouldn't make eye contact. No one offered to refund my deposit- instead I was told that I would need to finalize a lease and move in day in the next 1-2 days.\n\nI signed a lease for one of the upgraded units and have regretted it ever since. The longer I've thought about it, the more I'm convinced that this was a planned bait-and-switch- that either the unit I put my deposit on was not one they wanted to offer the discount on, or that they  decided after seeing my credit check that I was a good prospect for an up-sell. I think they got me to commit and then ran down the clock with the first two bogus leases.\n\nMy questions are 1) can the terms of their deposit agreement actually make it OK for them to have kept my deposit if I applied for a specific unit, was accepted, and then told that it wasn't available? If I hadn't thought I was going to lose my deposit, I would have been more likely to walk away. 2) Have I lost any type of claim I might have had by signing a lease on a different unit at a higher price?\n\nI'm going to be paying like $2000 more for this apartment over the lifetime of the lease because of the switch that they pulled. I documented the phone calls, voicemails, and emails I got along the way and have the draft lease agreements, etc. that I was sent. Between the money and feeling taken advantage of (I'm recovering from a TBI and struggle sometimes when I'm put on the spot) I'm willing to turn this over to an attorney or take it to small claims myself if I have a case. I'm just wondering if their deposit agreement might really boil down to 'we aren't agreeing to anything in particular before the lease is signed', and if that could actually undermine any claim I might have.","title":"Bait-and-switched on apartment lease? (KY)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554651956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bahkgy\/landlord_double_booked_my_current_room_requesting\/","id":"bahkgy","body":"I\u2019m doing an internship in a diff city. The housing contract I signed was for January - June. However the landlord just told me she accidentally gave the room to someone starting May 15. She offered me a different room on the main floor outside of the kitchen at $40 less per month. \n\nShould I be civil and just move to that room. Or realize I am supposed to have this room until June and it isn\u2019t my fault the landlord double booked it ","title":"Landlord double booked my current room. Requesting I switch rooms","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568810218,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5x5dw\/can_an_employer_require_a_woman_to_have_a_doctor\/","id":"d5x5dw","body":"Job is at a warehouse\n\nEmployer is a temp agency\n\nType of job isnt the normal work for this person who previously performed work within an office setting\n\nEmployee has advanced education. This is to say that despite that & prior office work, was pushed out of Corp due to age.\n\nSo had to take a warehouse job bc no other temp agency could place me into office work bc their client Co's want younger.\n\nI experienced heavy bleeding at work. Lifting heavy boxes triggered blot clots (typical for women in perimenopause), light headedness, brain fog - forgetfulness.\n\nI needed to leave work early to go and rest. But the employer trapped me into \"we need a certificate of fitness\" from a doctor before you can return to work \n\nThe HR person kept talking over me and shutting me down when I attempted to speak.\n\nI have knowledge about issues in healthcare and HR but due to my title and level of work, they dehumanize me and talk AT me.\n\nI dont have a primary care doc. I'm not established with any doc due to lack of being able to afford health insurance.\n\nWalk in clinics are not free nor do they complete certificates of fitness forms.\n\nThis form us lengthy, very detailed and specific about how much (heavy) I can lift.\n\nI cant get a doctors appt until Nov.\n\nThe form has to be returned in 10 days.\n\nOtherwise I lose my job.\n\nOver monthly bleeding problems related to perimenopause","title":"Can an employer require a woman to have a doctor complete a certificate of fitness due to complications from her peri-menopause?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554835272,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbbm3q\/my_landlord_charged_me_a_late_fee_even_though_i\/","id":"bbbm3q","body":"This is a short one \n\nI am going into my second year at my apartment. Before resigning my lease my landlord informed me there will be a $25 rent increase. I am financially capable of paying the increase but today I was sent a late fee from my landlord because I did not submit the entire amount of the new rent price. They\u2019re asking for $55 for the late fee however my rent automatically went through on the 1st of April. When I called to confront them they decided now was the time to mention I have to change the amount I pay through our online portal. I was never told this when I agreed to the rent increase, I just assumed like most automatic billing the price would be adjusted to the current rent. However my landlord failed to mention to me to update my payment on my online portal. I am I liable to pay this late fee even though they failed to inform me to update my account? Is there anyway I can get them to wave the late fee? And yes I have called the landlord, from what it seems they\u2019re willing to waive it but I\u2019m nervous they\u2019re gonna try to weasel out of it. \n\nTLDR, Rent went up, Landlord never mentioned to update my automatic pay to the new amount and am now getting charged a late fee.","title":"My landlord charged me a late fee even though I have automatic pay (WI)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447701263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t1zt7\/massachusetts_dash_cam\/","id":"3t1zt7","body":"**Edit: Sorry for bothering you guys. I didn't know if there were any legal requirements a camera would need to meet if I wanted to submit footage as evidence. Sorry.**\n\nHi r\/legaladvice!\n\nSince my last post - where I was gently dissuaded from antagonizing the raving maniacs I share the road with - my car has been hit once and had a damn near miss on a head-on collision. \n\nAs a frequent reader, I see dash cameras recommended in here on a regular basis. I know this is r\/legaladvice, not r\/techadvice, but does anyone have any recommendations, specification-wise, for an exasperated driver who would like to have some proof of another driver's reckless behavior the next time she ruins her tires stopping to avoid someone crossing a double-yellow to pass a garbage truck on a narrow two-lane road?\n\nI know that I need to be able to disable sound, but is there anything else I should know, especially since I fully intend to send footage to the police if something similar happens again?\n\n","title":"Massachusetts - Dash Cam","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552154324,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az64cp\/preemployment_contract_question_arizona\/","id":"az64cp","body":"If I signed a pre employment contract, but then was never hired and then a year went by and I applied for a separate job posting for the same company, but was never given a new contract to sign, is that old contract still valid and enforceable? The old contract states I must give 60 day notice to leave, but I\u2019m giving 2 weeks and they\u2019re trying to say I signed a contract and could result in legal action against me. Any advice would help. Adding that I also live and work in Arizona, if that matters. Thanks! ","title":"Pre-Employment contract question (Arizona)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553899085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b73ql0\/got_fired_from_job_is_unemployment_an_option\/","id":"b73ql0","body":"Not sure if this  correct spot to post but...\n\nI have worked for the company 10-11weeks and I was laidoff work and they said I could do unemployment till I get a new job. Not sure if I qualify \n\nLocation: Oregon\n\nAnything helps ","title":"Got fired from job, is unemployment an option?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555543299,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beeig9\/received_a_parking_ticket_for_a_car_i_sold_almost\/","id":"beeig9","body":"I have a huge problem.\n\nLate August\/early September 2018 I sold my first car to a woman on Craigslist. I gave her the signed title and bill of sale filled out with my info and just told her to fill out her side and take both documents to the DOL. I completed a report of sale, but I never once got her personal info. Just a first name she told me, and I don't remember it anyways. The report did not require me to enter the buyer info so I thought nothing of it. Flash forward to now. Today I received a 72 dollar parking ticket for the license plate of the car that I sold, citing \"expired\/improper plates\". I realize that the car is still under my name. I call the city court to try and tell them I no longer own the car. The lady told me in a roundabout way that because I never got the buyer info to put in the report of sale, every single ticket they rack up will go straight to me until they transfer the title, and there is nothing I can do about it. What do I do? I understand that it wasn't a very smart move to not get their info but what's done is done. I need to figure out a solution before the 30th or the ticket will go to collections. Any help or advice is appreciated.","title":"Received a parking ticket for a car I sold almost a year ago","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552940616,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2nkm7\/17_and_got_pulled_over_for_the_first_time_today\/","id":"b2nkm7","body":"I am 17 years old and had my first police encounter today. My dad left recently so I have been babysitting my younger siblings while my mom works a minimum wage job to provide for us. Today, my younger sister was walking to the bus to go to her job when she ran back and asked me to drive her to the bus around the corner so she wouldn\u2019t miss it. I ran out to my car, went down my block, and got pulled over. I was texting my 9 year old sister at home that I would be right back. I also forgot to grab my drivers license on the way out. I was given two slips and told to appear in court in two weeks. Do I need my mom to take off work to appear with me? It would definitely put a lot of emotional\/financial stress on her, and wasn\u2019t mentioned by the officer. Also, should I speak with a lawyer? I\u2019m not sure at all with the traffic court process, especially for minors. ","title":"17 and got pulled over for the first time today","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568783184,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5sz19\/desperate_sec_reg_qs_im_about_to_dive_head_first\/","id":"d5sz19","body":"Here\u2019s the scenario:\n\nI sign up onto an online platform where I create a stock portfolio, viewable & investable by the public. \n\nAs the portfolio creator, I won\u2019t be conducting the trades. \n\nAs the portfolio creator I will make a fee from transactions(when others buy into & sell out of the fund). It has nothing to do with the performance of the portfolio. \n\n*these are the basics, what kind of licenses would I need, if any?* \n\nThanks in advance","title":"**DESPERATE SEC REG Q\u2019s** I\u2019m about to dive head first into a shallow river, please help with the scenario below.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541997822,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wawtd\/question_about_the_deed_on_the_house_in_ca\/","id":"9wawtd","body":"My DH and I have been living in his mother's home. She passed away over a year ago. The siblings want to sell the place. However, I have a question. My DH found out he is on the deed. Can my DH and I legally stay in the house and have rights to not selling the place? The is a irrevocable trust with the siblings names on it. They (not my DH) are wanting to get the house out of the trust. I'm not sure why, but it came up when they were discussing their wishes to sell the house. \n\nWe really cannot afford to move in this very expensive city. My husband is now older, and has enough stress already. When we first moved in here they said that it was okay for both of us to be here and that my husband could be here until he died and I could remain as long as I paid the bills. Now that has changed. If my DH knew this before maybe we would have figured out something else. We were in a tough spot already, and not able to afford the rent anymore. \n\nThere is some resentment towards us being here because they feel that we didn't talk to them first about it. Technically, they don't live here and have their own place to live. We talked to his mother about it and she agreed. She was ailing and would have been here by herself. The siblings are welcome in this house and in now way have we ever made them feel otherwise. My DH just told me that they want him to sign a new trust that names them all. They had problems with the old trust since there were problems with the insurance, and who was the trustee since there were some names crossed off and changed but not legalized with a notary. He says he is going to read the trust first before he signs anything. I'm sure they have all had their time to read it so I hope he gets a copy first and not sign anything that screws us over. They don't care what happens to us they just want their part of the money and not have to deal with the house anymore. There is an account set up for incidentals for painting and fixing up the house. That came from the rent of our roommate. I don't think they put any money in there. They have helped with money in other ways to fix up the place. They feel since we are paying a low monthly mortgage there should be no problem. We also pay the insurance and property taxes, and all the other bills. So if my DH is is the only person on the deed besides his mother who passed away and does he have the legal sole right to say no to selling the house and stay there? \n\nWhat other rights do we have if we are paying the mortgage, insurance and other bills if the sale does occur? Would my DH be entitled to more of the share since he put more into it?","title":"Question about the Deed on the House in CA","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569366072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8uxvq\/charges_dismissed_never_arrested_will_it_show_on\/","id":"d8uxvq","body":"In Maine. The case was dismissed due to evidence showing that I was unaware of a suspended registration. Do I need to get it expunged still?","title":"Charges dismissed, never arrested, will it show on my record","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540001424,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pqahq\/is_it_legal_for_a_business_to_have_no_religious\/","id":"9pqahq","body":"Sorry if my flair is wrong but I believe this is under employment law. I work for a chain of convenience stores in New Jersey and they have stated that even if I\u2019m a Muslim, I am not allowed to have a beard even though I work outside at a gas station. Basically, is this a legal practice for a business to have? If I have a beard for religious purposes how is it right for them to tell me it\u2019s not allowed? Hypothetically, they are barring Sikhs from working anywhere in their stores as well since they cannot shave their beards in their religion. I know it\u2019s not a huge life ending deal for me to shave, which I currently do, but it\u2019s kind of shocking for upper management to flat out tell you there are zero religious exceptions for something so prominent in many religions. ","title":"Is it legal for a business to have no religious exceptions for men with beards?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568959974,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6qpvu\/as_a_first_time_landlord_what_type_of_lease_is\/","id":"d6qpvu","body":"I own a 3 bedroom town home and am going to rent out the other two bedrooms. I know one of the people fairly well and they vouch for the other person. I am aware that things can still go very wrong in this situation and want to make sure I am protecting myself legally. I have never done this before. I am wondering if a month to month, 6 month, or year lease would be best. Do I ask for a security deposit? What else should I know? I am 22 and don\u2019t have parents so I really appreciate all advice and tips!","title":"As a first time landlord what type of lease is best and what else should I know","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539353754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nkmxq\/ohio_i_was_pink_slipped_and_held_involuntary_at_a\/","id":"9nkmxq","body":"Long story short: I had a suicide attempt about two weeks ago. I told my work and asked if there was any kind of help I can receive, they pretty much told me it wasn\u2019t their problem. This past Monday (10\/8) I went to the hospital because I couldn\u2019t stop vomiting. The hospital found out about my attempt, pink slipped me and sent me to a psych ward to where I was released yesterday (10\/11). My friend  call both my staffing agency and my actual workplace on Tuesday (10\/9) to let them know I was being held against my will at that psychiatric hospital because that is the day I arrived  at that specific hospital and was unable to contact them. I received a call this morning from my staffing agency; they pretty much said that my absence from work was sort of a \u201cmini vacation\u201d without approval and they were never informed I was in the hospital even though they were TOLD EXPLICITLY I WAS BEING HELD INVOLUNTARY. I explained to them that I had just been released the day prior and had no opportunity to contact them yet, and she informed me that she will have to contact my actual workplace to see if my position is \u201cstill available\u201d, because my absence is being seen as \u201cirresponsible\u201d and \u201cthey have a business to run.\u201d I have a screenshot of my friend\u2019s phone proving he contacted both the staffing agency and my workplace informing them of my situation on 10\/9. I also have my discharge papers from the bullshit hospital I had to stay at. Can they legally fire me even though I was pink slipped? Both hospitals I stayed at said no, they can\u2019t and I told them I was in jeopardy of losing my job because it\u2019s run by complete morons . What power do I have? ","title":"Ohio: I was pink slipped and held involuntary at a psych ward, now my job is threatening to fire me?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540853002,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9si3jk\/some_ontario_employment_law_questions\/","id":"9si3jk","body":"I\u2019m working for a company who originally gave me a 3-month probationary period in my contract. After four months, I received a backdated letter notifying me they were extending my probation period for another 3 months. \n\nIt sounds like I\u2019ll be terminated in the next week or so, and they say I\u2019ll be receiving a week of severance pay.\n\nNow, I know I\u2019m on extended probation and 1 week severance is the legal minimum after 3 months, but if my contract states that they owe me 2 weeks notice upon termination, can they still only pay me the 1-week, or do they have to pay me the two weeks\/give me the two weeks notice?\n\nAny help here would be greatly appreciated!","title":"Some Ontario Employment Law Questions...","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540590410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9royhu\/boyfriends_work_paid_him_after_he_quit\/","id":"9royhu","body":"My boyfriend quit suddenly after an issue at work without giving his two weeks notice. He called and told them he wouldn't be coming in anymore. \n\nHe received an email from the company a few days ago with a pay stub for the week after he quit and when he showed up to the office to question it he was handed a pay cheque. \n\nHis old job was paid weekly. He only worked there about a month. The statement with the cheque states the pay period on it being after he worked and states the amount of hours it's for. It's signed in pen by the boss.\n\nCan we cash this? If they realize it's a mistake and we cash it and spend it can they make us pay it back? What do we do if they keep writing cheques for him? ","title":"Boyfriend's work paid him after he quit?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569597735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da1xtz\/can_my_landlord_tow_my_car\/","id":"da1xtz","body":"This is in Portland, Oregon. My apartment complex has a parking lot. There's no assigned parking, but my lease specifically says I'm allowed to park a vehicle in the lot. Parking isn't always easy in the city so this was a major perk of moving here.\n\nMy apartment complex recently switched management companies. The new management recently sent a letter informing tenants that too many people were leaving inoperable cars in the lot, and therefore cars must move once every three days or be towed.\n\nI try to avoid using my car when I can help it, so I often do not move it for long stretches. No one has given me trouble yet, but does management have the right to tow our cars when the lease promises parking?","title":"Can my landlord tow my car?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542215978,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x22dv\/want_to_add_bio_dad_onto_birth_certificate_child\/","id":"9x22dv","body":"Hi, all. I (25F) would like to amend my birth certificate to have my biological father\u2019s (40) name on my birth certificate, and legally take his last name as one of mine (I\u2019m Mexican and my family uses hyphenated last names). I brought it up to my dad and he would love that, but he\u2019s concerned about potentially having to pay back child support to the state. My mother didn\u2019t have custody of me growing up and had to pay child support to my grandparents (before I was adopted by them I was a ward of the state for a while). She had threatened my father if he came around that bad things were going to happen, and that I wasn\u2019t actually his baby and instead the guy on my birth certificate is some fool serving life in prison who she was dating at the time (young and dumb was her excuse, which I get). There\u2019s no question that I am my fathers daughter, but would it be an actual concern for him to have to pay any dues to the state?\n\n(Also, my mother and father are friends now, and I have great relationships with both of them. It was a super rocky start, but all is well!)","title":"Want to add bio dad onto birth certificate, child support concerns [CA, US]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552153854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az61bd\/spying_landlord\/","id":"az61bd","body":"Found hidden camera in multihome apartment do not know if I call the cops or confront my landlord... ","title":"Spying landlord?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571084244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhwdn0\/my_friend_cannot_live_in_her_apartment_as\/","id":"dhwdn0","body":"Basically, she is leased in an apartment that has a no pet rule. While she was in Europe for the summer her roommates got 3 cats. She is highly allergic to cats and cannot be around them. Her roommates refuse to get rid of them. And kicked her out. She is currently living in her boyfriends place and can\u2019t get her stuff because most of it is covered in cat hair and is scared to go back. This is taking place in West Virginia. Any help is appreciated. She talked to her landlord but was scared to mention the cat from fear of her roommates. Landlord said she needs to find someone to swap with her. ( he doesn\u2019t know about the cats) what can she do?","title":"My friend cannot live in her apartment as roommates brought cats in there.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554422529,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9ka0s\/divorce_question\/","id":"b9ka0s","body":"Hey there, quick question regarding serving a spouse with divorce papers: My wife's parents are going through a divorce. Her mom lives in California, her dad lives in Pennsylvania. Her dad is currently staying with us in California for the next month.   \n\n\nWould her mom be able to serve him with divorce papers while he's in California? Or will she have to wait until he's back in Pennsylvania to serve?  \n\n\nThanks!","title":"Divorce Question","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442764887,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lopsf\/had_a_password_stolen_and_3000_of_charges_made_do\/","id":"3lopsf","body":"Over the past week I've had someone logging into online accounts and ordering about $3000 of stuff. The most recent purchases were today, and they actually put in a shipping address to a warehouse in portland and listed a phone number.\n\nI've gone through what steps I can to get them canceled, but now I'm wondering what I do about reporting it. I don't think it's really identity theft on the level to report to the FTC, since they've just used a password to order a bunch of stuff. Do I report to my local police or to the Portland police? ","title":"Had a password stolen and ~$3000 of charges made. Do I report to local police, FTC, or police department of purchases were shipped?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539212603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n4hla\/apartment_complex_with_key_fob_locks_will_only\/","id":"9n4hla","body":"I live in Virginia. \n\nI have no spare key and no way for someone to get in of there were an emergency without tracking down maintenance. I live alone and they claim to only give a key to people named on the lease. They want to charge me $100 and a written explanation of why I need it to get another one. Like I mentioned they use key fobs so there is no way for me to make my own copy like every other place I've lived. Is this legal?\n","title":"Apartment complex with key fob locks will only provide 1 key","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570647653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfln9l\/co_my_employer_has_demoted_me_from_a_position_and\/","id":"dfln9l","body":"I am employed with a company that recently requested me to be lead. I agreed on condition they train someone soon to take my place. \n\nNow they are saying that since I am stepping down from the position I am now going to be paid less. \n\nEvery job I have had before has held back raises but never taken pay away like this. Is this allowed? \n\nA dollar less an hour doesn't sound like a lot but I am really unsure of this situation.","title":"CO, my employer has demoted me from a position and are deducting a dollar from my hourly pay. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540550712,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rjn37\/a_scholarship_contract_with_an_unfair_clause\/","id":"9rjn37","body":"I am an international student from Kuwait, I have gotten a fully covered scholarship to study in the UK. \n\nThe unfair bit of the contract is I cannot get married to someone from anywhere outside of the Gulf area and if i do so my contract will be broken and Id need to pay off every fund i got from the scholarship.\n\nMy question is.. Is this okay? is there a way to challenge such contract?\n\nI am in a relationship with someone who is from Europe for 5 years now and expected a child soon. Ive been keeping it a secret due to this.. \n\nThanks in advance!","title":"A scholarship contract with an unfair clause.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1409711458,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fbjlc\/do_i_have_a_case_no_written_lease_landlord\/","id":"2fbjlc","body":"I'm moving to Montgomery County, Tennessee from out of state and found a place when I was visiting there last month. We paid a deposit and pro-rated rent for the rest of the month of August on the 15th. He knew I was moving from across the country and that we wouldn't be moving in until I got there on 9\/13. We were having some second thoughts about moving in together so quickly so on the 27th, I called to ask the landlord if there was any way we could get out of it and have my deposit, but not the rent, returned. He said no so I said okay, I thought it couldn't hurt to ask, I guess I'm moving in then. Today, because yesterday was a holiday, my boyfriend went to pay September's rent and was told that he rented the place out to someone else because I expressed doubts about moving in. And that he wouldn't return the deposit or rent because we \"violated the agreement\" by not moving in. I called the police, who called him, and they determined that there was nothing they could do because there's no written lease. I have a handwritten receipt from him on the back of one of his business cards as well as the receipts from the money orders I paid with. Do I have a chance at seeing any of this money ever again? Is it worth the expense to take him to small claims court or am I just SOL? ","title":"Do I have a case? No written lease, landlord collected rent and deposit and then rented house out to someone else.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571497884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk4zys\/my_boyfriend_has_a_wife_and_needs_to_get_divorced\/","id":"dk4zys","body":"We are currently living in Oklahoma together. We have been together 3 years, they\u2019ve been (legally) married for a little over than 3 1\/2. He regrets this marriage, obviously, but is looking for a way to just get it done, without her if at all possible. She currently lives in Portland, OR, and they were married in California. \n\n\nI don\u2019t know if this matters, but i guess there\u2019s paperwork you have to file after marriage to change your name on your social security card, etc. She never did this, would that matter or help us in anyway? \n\n\nSaying she has some mental issues would be an understatement. It\u2019s almost like it\u2019s a game for her to bring up divorce then ghost him when it gets serious. I\u2019m wondering what is the easiest way to handle this? Is there an easy way, especially since she\u2019s in OR, we\u2019re in OK, and the marriage was in CA?","title":"My boyfriend has a wife and needs to get divorced but she is transient and appears long enough to be an annoyance in our relationship and conveniently disappears anytime divorce is brought up.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550088326,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqatja\/job_accidently_overpaid_me_am_100_willing_to_pay\/","id":"aqatja","body":"Some background: I have been at this company since November of 2018 but have also worked previously for the same company in a different town almost 2 years ago. It is a call center based company that calls for a cable\/internet\/phone provider and I have always worked in their promotions department. I am only part-time (25 hours a week) however I am placed top 3 within the company's program that I am in; the other two are full-time agents so needless to say -- I work my god damn ass off there due to I me being 20 years old and currently 5 months pregnant as well. I have been very happy working here up until this last month or so. There has been major changes in the coperate building (where I also work, lucky me) that has resulted in an entire program being unexpectantly  laid-off, our program never making goal anymore (which is bizzare because up until then we never missed goal) and now each day many people are unhappy and a quarter of the agents already have quit or have put in their two week notice. I kind of felt like I was in a grey area, I slowly became unhappy there day by day by not making any sales anymore but also planned to just stick it out for the rest of my pregnancy since it was an easy job and something I already had. That all changed yesterday and now I want to jump ship ASAP.\n\nNow usually because I'm only part-time and it's a commissioned based job my checks are always in between $650-750 every two weeks. My check I recieved last friday was $804 with some change. I honestly thought no biggie of this and just chalked it up to me finally being paid a few sales that took some time to process (this happens frequently -- previously I had a sale that I didn't get paid for until I finally showed up a few months later). Also, my check before this one was $737 so I really thought nothing of the extra $70. Direct deposit hit and my bills were paid + my savings was happy. \n\nFast forward to yesterday (Tuesday) and at the very beginning of my shift, my supervisor pulled me to the side and warned me about a meeting I was going to be in along with him, another supervisor, the program head director, as well as the payroll lady. It was about me being supposedly over paid by $405. He also told me that if he were in my shoes, not to sign anything they give me and to tell them that I just wanted to continue my shift, go home and research my rights for having to pay back overpayments. He also mentioned how he has never seen this happen, only underpayments (sales not being processed for a while like I mentioned above) so even he didn't know what exactly I would be required to do. Understandable. I agreed to what he said and also wanted to talk to my dad about it as well.  I cannot stress this enough, I am 100% willing to pay back my overpayment because technically it wasn't my money. Like he advised, I too also just wanted to know what exactly I am legally required to do. I've been working since I was 15 years old and have never seen or heard of this either (only illegal ways like abusing overtime and falsely clocking in) so lord forbid I signed what they gave me only to come find out that I  didn't have to pay them back since it was their mistake on their end. Overall, I just wanted to make sure my bases were covered just like they would want to, too. Again, no issue at all paying it back if I had to-- just wanted to know if I actually had to and would gladly sign the document the next day. Now, I have went on my states law website and learned that I do have to pay it back, and that is okay.\n\nNow, what I feel isn't okay is how they (minus the supervisor who warned me, he stayed quiet) treated the situation. I went into the office with them and listened to what they had to say and they apologized for the inconvience. I told them that it was a mistake so I understood and also explained what I mentioned before: no issues paying it back, would just like to go home and research my rights and would sign tomorrow first thing if that was the case. I just really didn't want to feel duped and blindly sign something with no questions asked. Nobody in their right minds would do that for anything. Now knowing that I do in fact have to pay it back I would've signed and got on with it happily but once I explained my side the smiles and lightness during the meeting dropped. \n\nThe head directer got visibily angry and told me that I do this the easy way or the hard way and that the hard was was until I signed the document I wasn't to leave the office and that I could not retrieve my purse, coat, and work supplies. He dismissed the supervisors and then it was just me, him, the bankroll lady. I again tried to speak up and reexplain that Im on their side, I just also had to know the legalities of it as well but instead just got told again that I wasn't to leave the office and that I was to stay there until I signed it; if I still didn't sign it by the end of my shift he was to call the police and file for theft and larceny against me. He also said that he \"wouldn't feel bad\" for me if he did it. At that point I admittedly freaked the fuck out. That was a lot to take on for anybody especially a pregnant 20 year old who had no idea that this could even happen. I told him after the end of the next two paying periods (they told me that they were going to split up the $405 and evenly take it out in my next two checks) that I was never going to step foot in this place and that it wasn't nice for him to have treated me like that. I highlighted the fact that I had no issue paying it, just wanted to know exactly how to go about it first and that I didn't appreciate them treating me like a criminal and acting as if I really stuck in my hand in the payroll lady's purse and stole the money out of there. It was their mistake and I shouldn't be treated like that if I'm willing to do everything that I need to do in the longrun. I just did not want to sign something blindly no questions asked. I felt cornered so I signed the document and left the office crying. I also left work and went home as well -- which I really should not have all in all but the entire situation was very upsetting. I was wrong for that. \n\nNow I just feel really gross about working there. If they had given me the chance to just research especially finding out that I do have to pay they would still have a semi-happy employee. Now I don't even want to work there anymore, at all. I do not want to stick it out for the last month and have to see the head director every day knowing  how he treated me and the situation. Even though he technically is in the right for me needing to pay back, I also can't help but to feel kinda abused; it really put a bad taste in my mouth. \n\nNow I am planning to quit ASAP. I can't stand even thinking about spending another day there and do not wish to stay there at all. I have filled out a few applications today to gas stations and and a local grocery store, just places I know that would accept me quickly. I will 100% pay, I am now just wondering if I could go to them and tell them that I am jumping ship and that maybe I could work out a payment plan for $100 every two weeks (2 months to pay back) instead of $200 every 2 weeks (1 month). The document I signed said that the two payments would be automatically taken out of my next two checks. Thats a lot of money to be taken away over their mistake, especially since we don't rake in as many sales now and since Im also pregnant. \n\n\nAll in all, am I legally allowed to quit now? And when I do quit, how would I go about setting up a payment plan with them since there wouldn't be the next two checks through them. What should I do if they refuse to let me quit and if they refuse to come up with a payment plan with me. I really do not want to be there anymore and want to leave ASAP but also recognize that I very may have to stay this last month. Should I suck it up or should I seek other routes.\n\ntl;dr -- company overpaid me, am willing to pay them back but now I want to quit because of how they treated the situation. ","title":"Job accidently overpaid me, am 100% willing to pay them back but now I also want to quit due to how they treated the situation. [IA, USA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553094491,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3d4xj\/or_my_mum_got_pulled_over_in_a_car_park_by_an\/","id":"b3d4xj","body":"This morning when my mother was sending my brother for school, an officer pulled her over for distracted driving. She was using her phone, so this is indeed an offense she was guilty of. However, it did occur in a parking lot while she was barely moving 10 km\/h and the policeman was from the City of Fairview (according to the car markings). The incident occurred in the neighbouring city of Troutdale.\n\nDo we have a case for contesting the citation in court?","title":"[OR] My mum got pulled over in a car park by an officer outside their jurisdiction","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1550279013,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ar3kfs\/my_girlfriends_boss_expects_her_to_work_from_home\/","id":"ar3kfs","body":"What can be done in this situation? This has been going on for a while. First it started off as an hour of paperwork here and there, a couple of nights a week. \n\nI told her to stand up for herself, to say something, to tell her boss she needs to be paid for work no matter where it is performed. She didn\u2019t listen and the boss has piled on more work to be done for free, because, hey, it\u2019s free. \n\nNow the boss has sent her home with a company laptop to work from home for a couple of hours almost nightly now. I again explained to her that she needs to say something, but she is timid and unlikely to do so.\n\nWhat is the best course of action? Should she be logging her hours even if she won\u2019t try to log them in?","title":"My girlfriend\u2019s boss expects her to work from home for free.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508215339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76wada\/nyc_landlord_of_my_rent_stabalized_apartment_may\/","id":"76wada","body":"About two years ago I signed a lease on a rent stabilized apartment in Brooklyn and received the standard lease rider with the calculations governing our current rent.\n\nA few weeks ago, I learned you could request your apartments rent history from the DHCR, and when I did so I found what seems to be a serious discrepancy.\n\nOn our original lease rider, the \"Last Legal Regulated Rent\" was listed at about $2,446, but on the Apartment Registration Information packet sent by the DHCR, \"Legal Regulated Rent\" listed for the last tenant was about $1287.\n\nOur rent was based on an 18% increase of the reported $2,446; it seems like it should have been an increase on the $1287 paid by the previous tenant.\n\nIs there any legitimate reason why there would be a difference between the two values? I'm considering consulting with a local real estate lawyer, but I'm not sure if there's something obvious I'm missing.","title":"[NYC] Landlord of my rent stabalized apartment may have misrepresented the last legal regulated rent when calculating our rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540577740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rn7da\/boyfriend_recorded_by_student_without_permission\/","id":"9rn7da","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nMy boyfriend is a teacher in the state of California. Recently, he told one of his students that she needed to stay for detention. She tried to escape, but he blocked the door and made sure that he was not in close proximity to avoid any touching allegations. She went home and told her mother that he pulled her arm. His classroom aide and other students are witnesses to this event and they can attest to him never touching her. The mother attempted to get him fired, but the principals backed him up. They went on to tell him that this parent has a history of being a problem parent. \n\nBecause of this event, the mother has told her daughter to record videos of him and she came back around to say she has \"dirt\" on my boyfriend. He was recorded WITHOUT knowledge and permission.  What are the legal steps he can take?","title":"Boyfriend Recorded By Student without Permission","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554705902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baqh2q\/can_i_put_my_published_articles_in_a_magazine_on\/","id":"baqh2q","body":"I work as a trainee technical writer in a magazine. Is it legal to get my published works there uploaded on my own website as a kind of reference for future jobs chances?\n\nThese articles are published in the magazine printed version, and after some time (15 day approximately) on their website.\n\nI have two ideas in my mind:\n- The first is to publish these articles and topics as text and images normally on the website and mention that was published in issue number (x) on (date of publication).\n- The second is to publish a pdf scanned version of articles.\n\nI have no idea if this considered a copyright violation. Looking for answers and Thanks in advance!\n\nPS: I'm not from the USA nor EU if this makes a difference.","title":"Can I put my published articles in a magazine on my own site?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1446060478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qlnv8\/united_kingdom_self_employed_injury_claim_advice\/","id":"3qlnv8","body":"Hi, So there's a few things bugging me and I shall explain all and I'd like to know if there's any help or legal advice or claim I can make to combat this.  \n  \nSo first things first, I'm a self employed Scaffolder (From the UK).  \nI've sustained painful wrists since I began the job earlier this year to which I put down to getting used to the physical side of things but 8 months down the line they still ache like man and sometimes I get pins and needles and get numb hands whilst resting. I was informed something like this can be claimed for?  \n  \nSecondly, working on constructions sites is noisy and banging metal tubes certainly hurts the ears. Every now and then I noise will deafen me for a few seconds and I have a constant pain in my right ear and jaw. My company doesn't supply ear defenders or plugs.   \n  \nThe next biggie is the fact that they want me to drive the company vans without insuring me due to the fact that I have previous endorsements on my licence which means a high premium for them. I was lead to believe I was insured and proceeded to drive the van however upon discussion with a colleague I realized I may not be insured do the fuss they made about it. Surely this is breach of conduct and misleading me?\n\nNow with payments we work with invoices every week and paid every 2 weeks. Sometimes we work over and put the extra time down and for a week I worked over and they said they wasn't paying me. Doesn't being self employed and invoicing them for work I done mean they have to pay me what's on the invoice?  \n\n  \nIf anyone can give me any advice I would greatly appreciate this.\n\nEDIT: Also, the vans give out a horrible choking fume which increases with the heaters on (needed in this weather) that gives me headaches and a couch most of the day.","title":"[United Kingdom] Self employed injury claim advice","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539141569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mvxd2\/soontobeex_working_2nd_under_the_table_jobproving\/","id":"9mvxd2","body":"My sister is within 2 months of finalizing her divorce from someone who has demonstrated extreme, pattern dishonesty and selfishness. She has a hunch that her husband has returned to his past job in a restaurant for a second job. He has not reported this employment or income, and she would like to verify it before the divorce is finalized.\n\nDoes anyone have a recommendation on how to handle this? Should there be concern that notifying her attorney first would alert the husband, who could just deny it? She has the 2 minor children 11 of every 14 nights, which limits her availability to track him down. I imagine hiring a private investigator would be costly.\n\nSincere thanks for any thoughts or ideas you may be able to share!","title":"Soon-to-be-Ex Working 2nd, Under the Table Job-Proving?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542145576,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wthse\/just_invested_in_a_business_i_think_its_a_10k\/","id":"9wthse","body":"So This weekend IFU. I put $10k into this solar business that I almost immediately regretted as I felt I got scammed.  Less then 24 hours after that the owner asked for $6k more on loan to fulfill an order, I said no which then he threatened to cancel the contract. I agreed and just wanted my money back. Unsurprisingly he said he decided to keep the contract as a one year investor. \n\nSo I called today and talked to a CPA that works for the business what the revenue for last month was and he stated that he would have to confirm it with the majority shareholder(owner) if he could release that information. As an investor(even at 5% shouldn\u2019t I be able to see that info?) \n\nHow fucked am I? Should I be contacting an actual lawyer to try to get out of this or it is what it is and I got to hope for the best. \n\nThanks much ","title":"Just invested in a business, I think it\u2019s a $10k learning lesson","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553864655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6x0j6\/theoretically_if_i_was_the_only_person_at_my_job\/","id":"b6x0j6","body":"Say, 3 months down the line they come asking, can I say \u201cI\u2019ll tell you it for $200\u201d?","title":"Theoretically, if I was the only person at my job who knew the password to a critical system, but get laid off, do I legally have to tell them it if they ask later?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553806483,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6o6r8\/in_a_motor_accident_why_do_lawyers_hold_on_to_the\/","id":"b6o6r8","body":"My wife was in an accident over 2 years ago, and the guy that hit her, his insurance paid the 25k liability soon after the accident, but our lawyer has been holding on to it since then, waiting for a much larger pay out from our insurance for underinsured. Any reason why? We live in Arizona. ","title":"In a motor accident, why do Lawyers hold on to the other Insurance\u2019s liability while they wait for a final settlement from our insurance?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505703976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70sb1q\/best_way_to_defend_myself_against_speeding_ticket\/","id":"70sb1q","body":"This occurred in county of Kent while I was driving home from visiting a friend upstate.  Occurred back in April\n\nI have pled not guilty, and my court date is Thursday\n\nThe facts:\n\nIt was late night, raining\n\nI was clocked at 84 in a 65 on highway\n\nI didn't realize I was going this speed, because everyone around me was going faster or as fast, I was more worried that if I went any slower it was dangerous\n\nI was driving down hill, so I didn't mean to go that fast anyway\n\nThis is my first ticket of any kind (outside an automatic red light ticket from a camera but those don't appear on a driving record)\n\nI am also wondering if this is going to affect me in any way outside fine\/insurance.  Do I have to report it to the BAR association? (I am a law student)","title":"Best way to defend myself against speeding ticket? [NY]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554223889,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8lqzs\/considering_writing_a_book_telling_people_how_to\/","id":"b8lqzs","body":"Nothing too serious, but stuff that would be in violation of the TOS of several websites, setting up fake online identities, things like that (it's a book about unusual marketing and promotional techniques).  \nBesides the reputational aspect, would writing and self-publishing this get me in legal trouble?","title":"Considering writing a book telling people how to do illegal things","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553212187,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3xvik\/tx_divorcing_with_a_2_year_old\/","id":"b3xvik","body":"So my(32m) stbxw(28f) and I are going to punctuate the end of an 11 year sentence (married for 8.5).  I'm not 100% okay with it, but she is growning to resent me and I don't want her to be forced into a relationship with a man she actively despises. We want to try to salvage a friendship that we can use to effectively co-parent our 2 year old son. \n\nOver the last week, I've been telling the important people in my life about our situation (parents, friends, etc).  As almost all of my siblings and my father have been divorced with kids, I've been getting a lot of unsolicited advice that has been scaring the hell out of me. \n\nRight now our son is full time at an amazing daycare that fosters an atmosphere of learning and development in emotional intelligence. \n\nHere is the the thing I'm getting scared about right now. My STBXW want to move to be near her father who lives several hours away. She also wants to split our custody 50\/50. That would mean having him in 2 different daycares until he is school age.  I've done research trying to figure out how this could work and everything I read says that judges would not sign off on something like that. They tend to go with a managing custodian and shared custody, or they make both parents stay in the same geographic area. \n\nI tried bringing this up to my STBXW, but she responded negatively. Because I haven't fully come to terms with the marriage ending, she thinks that this is a ploy for me to try to keep her close by.  \n\nI want to keep this as amicable (and cheap) as possible, but I'm afraid of what I might have to do in order to protect the well being of my son.  I really don't want to ruin any chance of us being good co-parents. \n\nWhat are the state approved options for custody in Texas? And what options do I have as a father here?","title":"TX- Divorcing with a 2 year old","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554759120,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bazgd2\/tx_i_was_hit_by_a_car_and_it_was_ruled_my_fault_i\/","id":"bazgd2","body":"I was exiting my apartment complex. The car that hit me had their blinker on. I pulled out into the road thinking they were going to turn and that's when they hit my driver's side. When the police showed up they issued me a ticket for failing to yield but I didn't speak with the couple that hot me. I over heard the passenger say she had whiplash but besides that there were no injuries. I got a call a few minutes ago from my insurance company (I thought I still had insurance) and they stated that I hadn't made a payment for a couple of months so they cancelled my insurance. The woman on the phone said the other party had claimed an injury.","title":"[TX] I was hit by a car and it was ruled my fault. I dont have insurance.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443730778,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n58eg\/nv_landlord_trying_to_deduct_fees_from_security\/","id":"3n58eg","body":"Hello,\n\nLast month I moved out of a house and after a month, I received a letter from my landlord deducting a $500 fee because I had pets in my house. When I moved in, the landlord knew I had pets (and met them many times over the 6 years at the residence). When we moved in, she even waived any pet deposit fees. \n\nThe landlord's justification for this fee is [the following from our lease](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/AYYC1Cb.jpg) agreement. Is the landlord justified to charge me for this after the fact after not demanding the \"immediate fee\" at any time in the past 6 years?\n\nEdit: In case it's helpful, we moved out on Sep 5th and received this letter yesterday (Sep 30th) that included this and many other [\"charges\" that could be considered normal wear and tear](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hdeLVdc.jpg). In addition, during the last 3 days of our residence at the house, we were unable to sleep there because the landlord brought in a plumbing company to completely replumb the house. \n\nNot only did we have to do our entire move around these plumbers who had cut 18 large holes in the walls, they left the house a complete mess and we still did a thorough cleaning of the house.\n\n\nFor reference, I am in Nevada. Please let me know if you have anymore questions about the situation. Thanks in advance!","title":"[NV] Landlord trying to deduct fees from security deposit for pets","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570827719,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgl90q\/someone_hit_my_car_and_ran\/","id":"dgl90q","body":"So a few days ago someone hit my parked car and ran at my university's parking lot. When i say this people think it's a small scratch but no there's a massive dent on my left back door, idk how they managed to do that... The possibility of finding out who did it is there because i talked to the school and they're looking at the cctv footage. What I'm asking is can i sue this person for running? or for the damage they did to my car??","title":"Someone Hit My Car and Ran","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570674919,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfrm30\/leak_in_my_closet\/","id":"dfrm30","body":"As the title says, there's been a leak in my closet. Since around June (when I notified him), whenever it rains hard, water comes into my closet. Since I've let him know, he's said that he would set up an appointment with a contractor but nothing seems to have changed. I emailed him last week voicing my concerns as whenever there is wind or as the temperature is dropping, I've felt a drop in temperature in my room as well even if the heat is on. The ceiling seems to have drooped down (in the closet) and is speckled with cracks and mold now. I've attached an image of the situation of the closet as well as my email. I'd like any help in terms of regarding what to do next, please. \n\nTo add on: The house has had a lot of blue tarp all over the roof since i've moved in, and recently a shingle fell off the roof.\n\n[Screenshot of e-mail](https:\/\/imgur.com\/OU6pGOB)\n\n[Closet Ceiling](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/KSRLi8y)","title":"Leak in my closet","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571280935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj09e0\/fiance_wants_to_put_my_dd_from_another\/","id":"dj09e0","body":"My Fdh wants to put my daughter on the deed to his house when we marry. His mother gave him the money to buy the house when he was 17 and was starting university. The house is in the Bay area so the value has gone up an insane amount. House is paid for with only a 12k equity line of credit against it, his mom is a cosigner on the equity credit line. Value is aprox 1 million\n\nI want to add Fdh is open to putting the house in a trust before we marry that names DD as the recipient so he knows that bio dad would have less of a chance forcing the sale if anything did happen to either of us. \n\nShould he just put her on the deed as a 50\/50 owner who gets the rest when he dies or should he put it in a trust for her? \n\nWHis concern about putting me on the deed is that he dies and I get the house, \nI die before DD is 18 and DD gets the house in my estate. \nUnder 18 DD's abusive bio dad can force the sale of the house from my estate because she has \"expenses\" and he needs money to care for her. \n\nOr alternatively that he puts me on the deed and he dies. I remarry another man and I die. Other man screws DD out of the house because he gets it as my husband.","title":"Fiance wants to put my DD from another relationship on the deed to his house but not me when we marry. (Would a trust be better?)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555005769,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc31kr\/mass_meeting_the_murderer_of_a_family_member\/","id":"bc31kr","body":"New here didn't know how to title my mistake\n\nMay 3rd I'll be going to the guys final arrangement if he gets jail or not (he killed my brother for such a petty reason basically cause he felt like it) I just want to know... How do I dress (guy) how to act (cause I'm sure they'll talk shit about my brother) IF the judge were to ask me something how should I respond etc","title":"Mass meeting the murderer of a family member","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553088524,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3c0q7\/fl_computer_programmer_gave_notice_to_employer\/","id":"b3c0q7","body":"I received a job offer from another company and gave my resignation to my current employer. The company that I am moving to was started by two former employees of the company I resigned from, we all used to be coworkers. The two guys who started the company were part of a big layoff a few months ago.\n\nThe day after handing in my letter, my manager pulled me into his office and said that the company is going to \u201cmake an example\u201d out of me. He says that HR is angry and that they are contacting lawyers to see what they can do. Their concern is that I am leaving their company for a competitor, and that it violates an agreement.\n\nI am a programmer. I am not privy to any trade secrets, and I do not have any client lists or customers to take with me. I didn\u2019t receive any special training that isn\u2019t readily available online through a google search. Although the new company is made up of former employees, they are not really competitors in the same field. The products and\/or services I would be working on do not compete with what my current employer does.\n\nMy new employer assured me that this is just a scare tactic and I have nothing to worry about, but I\u2019d like to hear what you guys think.","title":"[FL] Computer programmer. Gave notice to employer, they are threatening to sue and\/or block me from my new job","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1502976737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u9yza\/mn_got_rear_ended_last_week_geico_canceled_the\/","id":"6u9yza","body":"I got in my first accident last week. I was in heavy, fast traffic on my way to work. Cars suddenly braked in front of me and I did the same to not run into them. The car behind me didn't pay attention and ran into me. \n\nI was completely stressed and frantic because I'd never been in an accident and it was busy traffic with cars speeding around us. I knew to take pictures of everything and to get his insurance. I even called my dad to make sure I was doing everything correctly. I completely blanked and forgot to exchange licenses though. My fault, I'm dumb and should have known. \n\nWe started a claim with their Geico insurance. It turns out the policy was for a woman, not the man driving the car who spoke to me (not sure if that makes a difference). She may have been present as there was a woman in the car. \n\nGeico says they have never picked up their calls so they are cancelling the claim. They even said they will not accept an after incident police report. I never thought to call the police because nobody was injured and the damage was minor (lesson learned). \n\nOur insurance said it's not worth to ruin our clean record with a minor incident. Is there anything further we can do, or are we stuck with paying out of pocket vs not fixing it?\n\nEDIT 1: This got way more responses than I thought it would. I'll go through and try to read all of yours and answer anything. Thank you all for the advice. Just to be clear, the people who ran into me are not answering Geico's calls. It's not Geico who isn't answering. My dad seems to think this is a lost cause and isn't worth the trouble of suing or filing reports, even though he estimates it would be ~$1200 to replace the bumper. \n\nEDIT 2: After calling my dad, it turns out the claim IS NOT actually cancelled, just basically put on hold for now. He's going to call back in a couple weeks to see if the policy holders have been reached. At this point he does not want to bother with small claims courts and the time it takes. I'm going to be in school and he isn't anywhere close to the court houses and it's not worth it for what we'd be getting. ","title":"[MN] Got rear ended last week, Geico canceled the claim because they won't pick up the phone.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555697478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf2c0p\/looking_for_legal_advice_for_my_friend_had_a_10\/","id":"bf2c0p","body":"He's about 55. A girl came into his life about ten years ago, and they've been married since. They bought a house together and have been living together. He pays for pretty much everything and she lives on disability. \n\n​\n\nRecently, she cheated on him and she said she doesn't want to see him anymore. He's moved in with his ex for the last little bit (Another friend of mine). He's honestly a really nice cool guy.\n\n​\n\nHe's been unsure on what to do, but they have a house together \\~400,000. We think he should get some of that money, but the girl is claiming she said she has lawyer friends, and if it came to it she would claim domestic abuse. As well, since she's on disability, she would want support from him. He feels like it would be a lot of hassle, and he doesn't want to have to pay $1000 a month.\n\n​\n\nWe honestly, think he deserves his modest share, and not just give away the house he put money into. We think she's incredibly manipulative and this was a bit of a set up on him. but he doesn't want to deal with it in fear that he will have to pay. \n\n​\n\nWe're unsure what to do in this case, as I have no legal background in divorce or anything domestic.","title":"Looking for legal advice for my friend. Had a 10 year marriage. She's trying to keep everything, and he just wants to pay her off. I think he deserves his investment.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555430646,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdvo9f\/girlfriend_has_over_3000_in_fees\/","id":"bdvo9f","body":"King county, Washington . My girlfriend had caught a \u201cdui\u201d but lowered down to reckless driving and probation. So she has to pay fees for that and the car that had hit her . Ok. But this morning she was pulled over and received  4 tickets totaling 1,000 . She\u2019s scared and freaking out . The tickets are 22 over speed limit , hov lane , and no insurance . The other ticket was a minor one,  I\u2019ll have to call her and see what it was . I suggested she take it to court but she\u2019s scared because of her probation , sayin if she gets in trouble again she\u2019ll get 85 days In jail. What should she do?","title":"Girlfriend has over 3,000 in fees .","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552949243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2pa42\/got_parking_ticket_from_my_college_but_i_didnt\/","id":"b2pa42","body":"[Here is the ticket, with personal or identifying information censored\/blurred out](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/8Mt6voA)","title":"Got parking ticket from my college, but I didn\u2019t have my Student ID sticker thing, so, other than looking up the plate number, is it possible for them to enforce the ticket? Should I be worried? Pay it? Or ignore it?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1447119585,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s7q66\/nyc_i_am_working_as_a_private_tutor_for_a_company\/","id":"3s7q66","body":"I have been working for a private tutoring company for the past 1 year and 2 months. According to my contract I am classified as an independent contractor.\n\nThe company is run by one person and is registered as an llc.  Basically a student will contact him for tutoring and I would get a text or email with the name of the student, their contact info and the course they need help with. I can then accept or reject the assignment. He then bills them and pays me somewhere around the beginning of each month. There are packages of hours that he tries to sell them - i.e. buy 20 hours up front for a reduced rate.\n \nI recently told him I could no longer accept any more assignments and asked if he could look for another tutor to take on my two current clients, stating that I was willing to continue working with them through the end of the current semester while he found someone else.\n\nBoth of my current clients purchased packages with the company after our first session.  One was for 15 hours and will likely end sometime in December and the other is for something like 40 hours and wouldn't likely be used up until the end of the spring 2016 semester.  I am not generally made aware of how many hours they are planning to purchase until after I accept an assignment (In these cases I wasn't).\n\nHe stated \"You are legally obligated fulfill the packages of your outstanding students. I cannot guarantee that we will find a replacement for ___ for the Spring. In case we are not able to, you will be responsible to work on completing his package. Otherwise, I will have to take legal action for breach of contract.\"\n\nHe cited this section of the contract:\n\n\"2.3 Contractor agrees to provide Services to Client, for as long as Client requires Contractor\u2019s Services, up to the duration of one year. After which, Contractor has the option to discontinue providing Services to Client or to continue providing Services for a period of another year, and renew the agreement yearly, in this manner.\"\n\nI am not really sure how to handle this... Let me know if I may be missing relevant info.","title":"[NYC] I am working as a private tutor for a company but would like to quit. Employer is citing breach of contract and threatening to sue if I do.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540617498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rrvj9\/columbus_ohio_company_closing_down\/","id":"9rrvj9","body":"Two weeks ago the owner of a small engineering company I work for died. He had no will nor any plan on what to do with the company. \n\nIt turns out he hadn\u2019t been billing clients since 2016 nor did any of the taxes the last 4 years. \n\nThe company is around $40k in debt. \n\nI did receive a  paycheck for my last pay period but I\u2019m still owed two more including this current one which isn\u2019t over yet. \n\nI\u2019m only there to do clean up and hang on until I find a job. I\u2019d rather just leave there and file for unemployment so I can be free to work on freelance work and find a job (probably in another state). \n\nIf I quit will I be able to file for unemployment? I\u2019ve never been unemployed before since I was 17 when I started working. ","title":"Columbus, Ohio Company closing down","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447279641,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sgkof\/deposit_return_questions_colorado\/","id":"3sgkof","body":"I moved out of this house I rented on July 31st of this year.  Colorado law states that they have 30 days to return my deposit or provide written statement of why they are withholding my deposit, or up to 60 days depending on the lease.  Okay my lease says 60 days, I have a copy still.  Well its November and my friend tells me if I haven't gotten my deposit back or a written statement, I can send a 7 day demand letter.  Take note, my friend just went through all of these steps and ended up suing his landlord for 3x the amount and got everything, so I trust his advice.  I ask around to my roommates if they have heard from our landlord or gotten anything since moving out and they assure me nothing has come to them in the mail or by e-mail or phone call.\n\nMy next step was to dig up the address I sent my rent checks to, found a template 7 day demand letter, filled in all of the correct information and sent it off via Certified Mail asking for my full deposit back, because after 60 days the landlord no longer has the right to withhold any of my deposit.\n\nIn response I get [this](http:\/\/imgur.com\/5zSNinh) letter back.  Lets point out that I did send my letter via certified mail, and nowhere in my letter did I state anything about the condition of the property we left it in.  As you can see my landlord also happens to be a lawyer, but that doesn't mean hes a very good one.  He sent my roommates and I a certified letter to our \"last known address\" which is what is stated in the Colorado Revised Statutes, C.R.S. 38-12-103 (1), and sent me a photocopy of the returned certified letter, mailed to my last know address which was the property I was renting from him.  He obviously knew I didn't live there any more and didn't bother to use my email or phone number on file to contact me about a new address. The certified letter photocopy has a tracking number on it which shows that he didn't send the letter until October 1st, 62 days after we vacated the property.\n\nSo my questions are:\n\n**1)** I never outright provided a forwarding address, does this matter? He never sought my address either.  We have proof.\n\n**2)** He sent the certified letter to my old address after the 60 days and since I sent a 7 day demand letter, I can technically still proceed to sue him for treble amount via 38-12-103 (3)(a) if he doesn't send the check within the 7 day limit?  \n\nWhat is considered reasonable attorney fees and court costs? Can I ask for the $4 for the certified letter, money for paperwork for the lawsuit or anything else?  \n\n**3)** What is my risk for him claiming damages still, and can he add more damages than the ones provided in his response letter?  It states if I sue him for (3)(a) that in (3)(b) \"the landlord shall bear the burden of proving that his withholding of the security deposit or any portion of it was not wrongful.\"  Meaning he has to now prove everything on his damage claim list, not me. \n\n**4)** My original 7 day demand letter asked for the full deposit, my roommate reminded me of our $300 pet deposit, can I still ask for that if I proceed to sue him under 38-12-103 (3)(a)?\n\nI would really like to screw this guy over, he was a terrible landlord, was very invasive and annoyed us constantly. His damage claim list is the most outrageous thing full of over exaggerated damages, false claims (not returning garage door openers we were never supplied with, etc.), and overestimated costs and as you can see by his response letter he was fairly threatening.  His damage total adds up to around $3000, I would be suing him for around $4500.  Not to mention im broke as hell right now and could use my deposit back.\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Deposit Return Questions - Colorado","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408642762,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e75iu\/startup_troubles_advice_needed\/","id":"2e75iu","body":"So, some months ago my startup started needing an additional investment. The current shareholders were not willing to cough up this money, so I started looking for an additional investor. I found one and we had two talks.\n\nIn the second one we both talked about the amount of money and which percentage of shares he would get. I told him I would need to talk this through with my shareholders first and he told me he wanted to see the finished product first. These were proviso. He went on holiday and I had a talk with my shareholders.\n\nHowever, suddenly the current shareholders were willing to invest AND they didn't want any additional shares. So I told the potential investor I found the money and wouldn't need his investment.\n\nNow he's threatening me that we made an agreement and I can't undo that. Eventhough he at first wanted to see the finished product, before investing. He even wrote that in his email...Also, he contact a lawyer, who contacted our lawyer. He told our lawyer that there was a written agreement, eventhough I didn't sign anything. I've been feeling nauseated all day.\n\nWhat do you think? Does this guy stand a chance or shouldn't I worry about it? Location: Europe","title":"Startup troubles. Advice needed.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446234796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qvqgx\/can_patent_lawyers_work_for_a_percentage_of\/","id":"3qvqgx","body":"Location-Canada and thanks for reading.\nI have an idea but I need help to bring it to market. I have neither the funds or the experience and I know I will lose my proverbial shirt if I go it alone.\nThe potential market is huge, the idea is simple and cost effective to produce and ship. Nothing similar is currently on the market.\n\nI know I need a patent-can a lawyer work for future profits or a percentage of a company? Thanks!  ","title":"Can Patent lawyers work for a percentage of future profits?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540770576,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s81fv\/nyc_shady_landlord_using_security_as_last_month\/","id":"9s81fv","body":"Do not trust landlords to give deposit back and can't afford to write it off, but will this cause any problems down the line? Nb LL never ran credit or bg check and does not have any information except name.\n\nUpon moving in last summer, paid 3 months rent: first, last, and deposit. Signed a 1 year (individual) lease which expired in July; paying month to month since. Thought I was leaving Nov 1 so used October as last month. Turns out my new place won't be ready for another month, so need to stay here November too. Asked to use security, landlord said no.\n\n\u2014One of the reasons I'm moving out is that it turns out this is an illegal sublet, violating SRO laws. Single house, 9 unrelated tenants each with individual leases. LLs have Dec court date and are about to be slammed with fines at the very least. Do I understand correctly that my lease was maybe never valid in the first place?\n\n\u2014My room has no heat, and didn't last winter either. I have a space heater so haven't been bothered by this but I understand this makes it uninhabitable? Have months of email documentation begging them to fix this. 5\/9 tenants currently don't have heat; 311 complaints lodged but no action from city yet. Not interested in taking action I just want to be out.\n\n\u2014Do I understand correctly that security deposit is supposed to be held separately in escrow, and is it reasonable to say that I will pay last month if they can show me proof of this otherwise no? Does the 6 unit rule not apply as it's an illegal conversion?  \n\n\nThere's a whole host of other issues but these are the main ones. Nb I've always paid my rent on time and otherwise on good terms with LLs but have seen them become verbally abusive to roommates at any disagreement. Waiting to hear back from other former roommates but at least one has been waiting for 2 months and communication ignored. Room will be left in immaculate condition.","title":"NYC: Shady landlord + using security as last month? Sublet turns out to have been illegal conversion","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570129073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcvcim\/legal_advice_against_my_landlordroommates_mi\/","id":"dcvcim","body":"Hi all, I'm wondering if I can get some legal advice. I'm looking to break my lease, I have been living in this apartment for a little less than a month and my roommates are downright filthy and awful. That's another story but nothing that I need legal advice on -- What's important to know about this situation is that yesterday morning I went into my kitchen and found multiple cockroaches. I talked to my roommates about this and they said it isn't the first time that they have had a cockroach infestation and that our apartment, in particular, has been sprayed twice already.\n\nWhat is alarming about this is that I have a severe cockroach allergy, among other allergies, which can cause severe respiratory issues (anaphylactic shock in worst-case scenario) and has been tested. I have lab work to prove this. There was no information disclosed by my roommates or landlord about the infestations or sprayings. My landlord also isn't reacting in a timely manner as they have scheduled an exterminator to come out 6 days after the fact. In my area, exterminators can get out to a problem the day of or the next day, so he is just doing this out of spite. \n\nI have shown lab work to my roommates and explained that I physically cannot live there and need to break my lease. I don't want to pay for a room\/apartment I can't live in. The landlord has told me that my only option is forcing them to split my rent until another tenant is found, and my roommates absolutely will not work with me. I understand that I can't force them to split the rent but they are very picky about who they want to live with them and I'm at my wits end. Prior to me moving in, they turned down multiple people that were interested in the room because they weren't the perfect \"match\" for their living style. I have text messages as proof of them saying they won't split the cost and won't approve another person as a tenant. Do I have any case here?","title":"Legal Advice Against My Landlord\/Roommates? [MI]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569377151,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8wvxa\/can_my_employer_fire_me_if_i_dont_pick_up_shifts\/","id":"d8wvxa","body":"As the title states my employer has been trying to call me in the day before to work half days and random hours. Our schedules generally come out a month in advance and I have been declining because they are not days I can work.\n\nI believe they are doing this to try and paint me as unreliable and let me go.","title":"Can my employer fire me if I don\u2019t pick up shifts? [arizona]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570569691,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df6iaq\/company_theft\/","id":"df6iaq","body":"\\*\\*\\*Names have been changed for anonymity\\*\\*\\*\n\nOne of my companies best-selling products is a shirt. About a month ago, over five thousand of these shirts were stolen from our warehouse. We hired a private investigator, Rich, who found an online advertisement for the sale of exactly five thousand of these shirts with the same description as my company's. Rich called the contact on the website and set up a meeting with the seller, Mike. Rich pretended to be interested in purchasing these shirts and after asking, found out Mike's distributor was Jane. Rich inspected the five thousand shirts and confirmed they were indeed the same products that were stolen from the warehouse. That same afternoon, Rich sent an email intended solely to the company leadership, but accidentally hit \"reply all\" to a previous message, and sent the email to every employee. The email stated that \"Mike was a thief and had an extensive criminal record. He stole the shirts.\" This statement was not true. Mike\u2019s old friend, who is one of our employees, forwarded this message to Mike. Later, Rich arranged a meeting with Jane, again pretending to be a buyer. He asked Jane if she had any distributors she could recommend for the shirts. She said that she works directly with a sales agent named Joe from OUR company and that she recently purchased a large order of shirts from him. Rich came back and checked our personnel records and found Joe is a warehouse employee who has been with the company for many, many years. Joe's personnel record is spotless, with no prior personnel issues and no complaints. Joe is an at-will employee who is in charge of night security at the warehouse and has no history in sales. Rich also found company emails between Jane and Joe in which Joe posed as a sales agent. Reading the emails, it became obvious that neither Jane nor Mike knew that the five thousand shirts were stolen. Rich also collected video from all of Joe's shifts and was able to locate a film of Joe packing the shirts into his minivan and driving them out of the warehouse parking lot. \n\n​\n\nWhat are the legal issues surrounding the stolen property? Which laws have been broken and what can be done?","title":"Company Theft","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1447343001,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sjlbk\/pa_volkswagen_tdi_x2_i_have_no_idea_what_to_do\/","id":"3sjlbk","body":"1) Do I need to join a CAS?\n\n2) What are the differences between law groups that are actually suing versus those that are going to refer me to groups that are suing? I.e., I'm receiving solicitations from law offices that are then telling me they will file my suit with \"XYZ law firm\". They also want me to sign a single page sheet that affirms them as my representatives and that they get 40% of any settlement.\n\nAre there firms that will only ask for 35%? 30%? Less?\n\n3) I've received payout from a CAS (from 1996) that I had no idea I was a part of. Why should I join a CAS against VW? Won't I receive a settlement once it is decided upon regardless of whether or not I join a CAS against VW or not?\n\n4) What are the advantages of joining a CAS in the VW case? Disadvantages?\n\nTIA!","title":"[PA Volkswagen TDI x2] I have no idea what to do with class action law suit solicitations.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552355081,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b01wue\/female_employees_shifts_cut_given_to_male\/","id":"b01wue","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice!\n\nA close friend of mine works in childcare in Australia. It is quite a large company. We will call her Sarah. A new male employee started working there a couple of months ago, we will call him John. \n\nSince John began work, Sarah\u2019s number of shifts and hours have been heavily cut. She has gone from 25 hours per week down to 15 hours per fortnight. On the other hand, John is now working the shifts and hours that she used to, perhaps even more. \n\nI have worked with Sarah in the past, and she is an extraordinary employee. She will work at a last minute notice, she will pull twice her weight of the workload, and she always treats the children with upmost respect and prioritises their experience. Based on that, it would be absolutely fair to say that her shifts being cut are unrelated to her work ethic, and that all ~100 children from the service would claim that Sarah is their favourite.\n\nA few days ago, Sarah asked the centre co-ordinator (boss, manager, in charge) why her hours had been changed so drastically, and why John gets so many. Without any hesitation; the Boss told Sarah that it was because \u2018John is a man, and we want more men in the service\u2019. Therefore, it is now confirmed that John gets rostered on the shifts rather than Sarah; purely based on gender.\n\nIs this discrimination? I understand that there are far bigger and more important issues regarding human rights in the world right now, and I do care about those issues deeply. However, I feel that the coordinator of a workplace telling their employee that she gets less hours due to the fact she isn\u2019t a man completely crosses the line.\n\nI suggested to Sarah that perhaps she should secretly put her phone on voice memo mode and ask the boss about it again, recording her response as proof. However, I told her I will ask here before she goes ahead with that. Is it legal? If so, would the evidence need to be in video form or is audio sufficient? If it is caught on tape and taken further; could the manager later claim that it was based on work performance, even with the evidence saying otherwise? What if Sarah also got audio\/video proof of a stellar performance review?\n\nWhat could come from this? Would Sarah need to hire a lawyer and bring this to court? Would Sarah just have to approach FairWork to report it? Clearly after 2 months of barely any shifts, financing has become a problem. This problem has been caused by what I believe is discrimination. Does Sarah have any grounds to stand on (with the audio proof or without) to be compensated for this in any way? Even just to make a change for the future of the company?\n\ntl;dr: New male started work, female friend got shifts cut and male got 3 times the amount. Boss admitted that it was because he is a man. Should she record the next conversation? What is the next step?\n\nThank you very much for taking the time out of your day to read this! ","title":"Female employee\u2019s shifts cut & given to male employee; Boss admits \u2018it\u2019s because he\u2018s a man\u2019","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553108559,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3fy48\/connecticut_employer_making_me_work_literally\/","id":"b3fy48","body":"I currently hold a salaried office position at a trucking company in Connecticut ($68k\/year); I\u2019ve held this position for the past 10 months (I was hired at this company ~20 months ago as an hourly employee, making $20.25\/hr, working a 50hr\/week). In both of these roles I have been working 4 days\/week @ 12hrs\/day, for 48hrs\/week. This business operates 24\/7 365, regardless of inclement weather, holidays, etc. For the past 20 days that it has been in operation, it has never closed. \n\nThe company employs ~60 employees between CT and NY, though the only administrative location is the one that I work at, in CT.  \n\nWhen I received the promotion that changed my pay structure to salary, I wasn\u2019t given or asked to sign any forms outlining the changes in terms of job responsibilities, pay, etc. This all came about after an off-record conversation in the owners office. In short, I took on a few additional responsibilities, one of which being to help provide coverage when another office dispatch employee calls out of work. \n\nFast forward to today: dispatch office staff has been turning over like crazy, and as of right now, we are short 2-3 dispatchers. This has created a gap in coverage on the night shift; 2 nights per week, there is nobody in to work at night.\n\nTo remedy this, I\u2019ve been made by the owner to go \u201con call\u201d (although this is a misnomer, as I am expected to perform all of the functions that would normally be performed on a fully staffed night shift) for these 2 nights, working from home with a laptop. These nights fall on days in which I am also in the office, so for the past few weeks I have been working quite literally around the clock, for 60hrs straight (Tuesday day, Tuesday night, Wednesday day, Wednesday night, Thursday day), sleeping in between phone calls. There are no breaks anywhere in this coverage. I am the only office employee working during these times. Naturally, I am exhausted and at the end of my rope. \n\nCan I be compelled to do this by my employer due to the fact that I\u2019m salaried? \n\nAdditionally, when physically working in the office, because I am the only one there, there is nobody to relieve me or cover me to take a lunch break, or a 15 minute break over the course of my 12+hr shift. I cannot leave the phones unattended for any length of time; if I were to miss a single phone call, I would be subject to disciplinary measures. \n\nTl;dr\n-employee is compelling me to work 60hrs straight\n-now doing the work of 3 people; not able to take lunch breaks, or any other kind of break\n-60 employees, located in CT.\n\nIs all\/any of this illegal?\n\nThanks!\n\n\n","title":"[Connecticut] Employer making me work literally 60hrs straight - no lunch breaks, etc. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569836081,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db91cx\/a_shrine_in_my_office\/","id":"db91cx","body":"I reported in for the first time in two days to find that one of the \"temporary\" workers that the hotel owner had hired decided to set a shrine to Ganesha and Durga in our office. Our Front End manager was not asked when I asked her about it. Is this a legal thing to do at work?","title":"A Shrine in My Office?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541720730,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vfara\/would_there_be_legal_consequences_to_accepting\/","id":"9vfara","body":"Virginia, US\nLong time lurker, first time poster. Forgive any formatting or posting miatakes. \n\nLike the title says, I'm wondering if there would be any legal consequences if I accepted multiple job offers then backed out of some. Backstory: I've begun looking for a new job and had several interviews (1 phone, 3 in person) for a really good position (company A). They made a soft offer contingent on multiple background checks, which I know I'll pass. However, during this process (about a month so far) I've continued to have other interviews and have received at least one other soft offer (company B) where they specifically told me that they really wanted me and asked me not to accept any other offers without speaking to them first and hope to make their decision in the next week. I also have an interview for a third company (company C) tomorrow that also sounds promising, but the interviewer from company A wants to meet for lunch tomorrow where I feel I'll receive a written offer. I know Virginia is an at will state, but would there be any issues if I accept position at company A tomorrow, give my two weeks notice to my current position, but during which time before i start with xompany A I receive a better offer from B or C and decide going with them would be the better choice? I know Company A has already invested a lot in me both time wise and financially with multiple background checks, but really want to choose the best option for myself and family and not be obligated to company A because the offered first. Also, if it's not a good idea to accept a position if there's a chance that I'll accept another offer, how do I tell her I'd like a few days to consider her offer as I have others pending without sounding like I'm trying to leverage the companies against each other for more money and generally avoid sounding like a dick. Thanks in advance for your advice.","title":"Would there be legal consequences to accepting multiple job offers?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553493071,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b56ufw\/someone_hit_my_car_and_left_a_note_they_refuse_to\/","id":"b56ufw","body":"Hello. I live in CA. \nSomeone hit my car while parallel parking at night. I was in my house while it happened and woke up in the morning to a huge scratch on my car. I called my insurance and the police to notify the damages on my car. Originally, I did not see a note on my car; however, an hour later I noticed the note on the ground. I called the number on the note and I asked for their information. The lady who hit my car is refusing to give me her insurance and is asking me to get my car quoted and she will pay me cash. I have her drivers license, car license and pictures of her damages on her car as well. \n\nI updated with my insurance about her information so it\u2019s on my claim. \n\nShe constantly calls me. Begging me not to contact the police and her insurance because her daughter got her the car. It\u2019s her daughters insurance and she does not want to anger her. \n\nA day after, she is now asking for my drivers license and car license. Does she need this information if she hit me AND that she is not going through her information???\n\nI am annoyed to the point where I want to call the police because she is bothering me. I just want my insurance and her insurance to handle it the normal way and get this over with... \nPlease help. This is the first time I\u2019ve ever needed to make a claim to my insurance and having someone hit my car. I really need advice. ","title":"Someone hit my car and left a note. They refuse to go through insurance.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571398343,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djm67e\/wife_26f_had_her_legally_parked_car_hit_by_a\/","id":"djm67e","body":"A couple things to say first. My wife works at night and I leave before the sun comes up so that's why the damage wasn't noticed immediately. \n\nMy wife went to work the other night and parked her car correctly in the employee designated parking. She got off work and came home. \n\nThe next day I came home from my work and saw a massive dent in the right side of the rear fender. I asked my wife about it and she said she had no idea what happened. \n\nWe came to the conclusion it must have been somebody side swiping our car in the parking lot. So she contacted her companies security department and asked to review the footage of the car, and sure enough. A man in a white truck is on tape backing his truck up into our car, then pulling forward and correcting the wheel then parking right next to our car.  He even got out to look at the damage. \n\nMy wife works for a massive company and I'm not sure what the odds are of identifying the man who hit our car.  The footage was at night and the camera doesn't pick up any plate numbers.  \n\nWhat are my options? Do I file a police report or just send the security footage to my insurance. I have full coverage with All State. \n\nAnd if we can identify the individual at a later time would our insurance reimburse us if we can get his insurance involved?","title":"Wife [26f] had her legally parked car hit by a truck backing into the parking spot next to her [Tx]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542171713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wwz2g\/choosing_custody_as_a_minor\/","id":"9wwz2g","body":"Location: Ohio\n\nRecently I have started to become more independant from my parents and would like to be in only my mother's custody (my father isn't really all that great of a person but isn't horrid). From what I know, the laws in Ohio do not allow me to independantly choose without the parent relinquishing custody. \nI feel I am mature enough to decide even though I am still a minor and I should be able to choose who should have custody over me and I already spent at 4-6 day of the week entirely with my mother and see my father at most for 3 days of the week, so what would my possible options be?","title":"Choosing custody as a minor?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540838701,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sfyi3\/ohio_judge_dismissed_my_custody_case\/","id":"9sfyi3","body":"Filed my case for shared parenting with my ex in June. We have a soon to be 3 year old and a 1.5 year old. We were never married, which gives me no rights as a father. Except to pay child support. I've been in their life since birth. In May, my ex and I had a falling out. She took the kids and filed and restraining order. \n\nI hired a lawyer and got the kids and 3 years knocked off the 'agreed no contact'. After the hearing, my lawyer filed for a shared parenting agreement. He also filed an emergency visitation order because she was not willing to negotiate between lawyers. \n\nOur first court date was continued because my lawyer had a double booking. On our second scheduled court date, my car broke down on the way to court. I immediately called my lawyer and told him I was going to be 20-30 minutes late. He said he would be there on time and convey the problem to the judgr. When I was 5 minutes from court (25 minutes late to court), my lawyer called and said the Judge dismissed my case. He objected, but since I was not there, it was dismissed.\n\nI'm going on 7 months, not seeing my kids. I miss the shit out of them and have no way of talking or seeing them. I paid almost 4k plus to my lawyer and 1k to a GAL. And I'm back at square one. My lawyer said I could file an appeal, but he said it will probably be upheld. [He is no longer my lawyer] \n\nWhat are my options? I do not have the money to hire another lawyer, it's will take me 2-3 months to raise that size of capital again. If I go at it alone, filing the necessary paperwork, will her lawyer destroy me in court? Could the judge appoint a public defender in a civil case? \n\nAny input above and beyond my general questions are greatly appreciated. Thank you for the read.","title":"[Ohio] Judge dismissed my Custody Case","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570479370,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dep23v\/bully_talks_shit_in_group_chat_about_me_being\/","id":"dep23v","body":"I have been taking this shit for a long time since end of 7th grade... I'm currently in 10th grade and can't take this shit anymore. If he says anything more about me I'm gonna beat him up. Do I have any rights or can I sue him for anything he has done to me?\nI'm from Serbia","title":"Bully talks shit in group chat about me being gypsy while I'm not and making others judge me","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541504434,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9unlu7\/wishcom_how_can_it_still_exist\/","id":"9unlu7","body":"after i tried to start a business as a dealer ive noticed that you will get into big trouble if your product doesnt work as expected \n\nso my question is \n\nhow does Wish still exist when almost every single product (in the electronics part) is just pure scam\n\nlike Old 1GB usb sticks are labled 2TB or a battery that doesnt even have 1\/100 of the capacity it says on the website\n\n\nor even worse, you order a graphics card and you get some useless piece of plastic (like a small toy or Something like that)\n\n\n\n\nhow does wish still exist when they constantly scam people? i mean if that happens one time in 1000 orders.... oh could happen but they do that on purpose?","title":"Wish.com, how can it still exist?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571351558,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djdx0o\/i_have_a_condition_called_temperature_activated\/","id":"djdx0o","body":"I live in Utah, which can get very hot and very cold. Just the walk from my car to the school makes me break out in painful and itchy hives. The more time I spend in severe weather, the the worse it gets. Would it be possible to get handicap parking for myself so I am closer to the entrance?","title":"I have a condition called temperature activated physical Urticaria. Am I eligible for handicap parking?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568901074,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6ec4a\/i_have_an_interior_quality_door_in_the_doorway_to\/","id":"d6ec4a","body":"I want to complain and get the door replaced, but don\u2019t want to be told no. Not sure if this is the right place to post, but it\u2019s not only a safety issue, but the door has zero sound-proofing so it\u2019s frustrating.","title":"I have an interior quality door in the doorway to my outside balcony. Is there any code against this for apartments in Texas?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554416088,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9j5vk\/no_fire_alarms\/","id":"b9j5vk","body":"I live in an apartment in Detroit near a college that\u2019s 100 years old. There is no fire alarm or smoke detector anywhere in the building. Can they do this?","title":"No fire alarms???","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541702081,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vcldw\/how_do_class_actions_lawsuits_work_nyse_stock\/","id":"9vcldw","body":"A controversial stock that was on the NYSE got delisted recently and I was redirected to a couple of law firms that are taking class action lawsuits. (Thumbs up for you if you can guess which stock). \n\nI didn\u2019t invest much into the stock and it really doesn\u2019t matter to me... I will not be a part of the lawsuit if it\u2019s not worth the time and effort. \n\nBut this is my first time finding out about a delisted stock that I have invested in and am wondering how it works exactly. I genuinely cannot find enough about this particular type of class action lawsuit... Can I file a claim with multiple firms? And is there anything else on my end that I will have to do other than provide personal information and my shares? \n\nThank you in advance. ","title":"How do class actions lawsuits work? (NYSE Stock Delisted)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1441993330,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kkgk2\/concerned_about_my_uncleneighbor\/","id":"3kkgk2","body":"Hello, my uncle attacked my father and brother last night. We live in a trailer park near cleveland, ohio so our homes are very close. \n\nMy uncle was upset that our grill was on the lawn and yelled at my father. Swears were said and it ended up with the cops being called and my uncle being put in jail. My uncle has told my grandmother that we provoked the fight and she will be bailing him out today. \n\nWe are terrified of my uncle, he is not a stable man. We are worried he may do something worse. Please, is there any way we can press charges that might get him put away for any amount of time? Would a restraining order help at all? We are so shaked by the incident that we don't know what to do at all. \n\nAny help would be much appreciated.","title":"Concerned about my uncle\/neighbor","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504329517,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xjyxy\/ct_what_are_the_criteria_for_determining_whether\/","id":"6xjyxy","body":"My husband and I have been having issues for the past few months stemming from my need to study for the bar exam, and not having time to pay attention to him as much as he'd like. I explained to him multiple times that the bar isn't a test you can just pass without studying, and that I just needed him to be patient for a few more weeks until the exam, but he thinks I've been using studying as an excuse to \"withhold affection\"\n\nThe month of the exam, I had a panic attack which was the first one he'd witnessed. His response was to immediately kick me out of the house (with none of the materials necessary to study). He wouldn't talk to me about it, and wouldn't give me a timeframe, and naturally the panic attacks got worse. I went back to talk to him a few days later, he didn't want to talk, and then he let me come home the end of the week.\n\nWhen I went home, he said he wanted a divorce because I wasn't \"affectionate enough\" while stressed about the bar. He was also pissed that I withdrew my application because I was homeless and unable to study right before the exam and there's no way I would've passed. He was upset I made a decision like that without him and was worried I'd resent him for it. Although he created the conditions that led to my withdrawal, I told him that I was choosing him over my career, and that he was more important.\n\nHe decided he didn't want to risk my resenting him for that later on, so pushed for divorce, but I talked him into counseling. We went to two sessions, which seemed to help. I was violently ill the day of our last appt so we cancelled it. I was supposed to reschedule when I felt better, but I haven't called- it's been 2 weeks.\n\nWhat led me to forgetting to call is that I'm bipolar with panic disorder and he hated that I take medication. He took away my meds during that panic attack, and one of the conditions on my coming home was that I was supposed to stop taking them. Obviously that's a bad idea, but I agreed just so he could see that they are totally necessary. Without school, a job, kids, or any outlet to focus on, the depression got pretty severe.\n\nHe doesn't like if I'm upset, but also doesn't want to hear about it. He gets mad when I talk to my family or go visit them, and I haven't spoken to them in 2 months because I don't want to upset him. My only real outlet now is the internet, and the whole point of my existence has become cleaning the house, asking how his day was, and never refusing sex. I've failed on all those fronts because of the depression and lack of medication- per his demand.\n\nI went from having career plans from age 12 and doing all the work for it, to having no purpose beyond being a perfect Stepford wife, which I could never be. I've spent the past few weeks unable to do much of anything, while thinking about ways to kill myself and make it look like an accident so my mom would still get the insurance. \n\nTwo nights ago, after I'd written out a draft of a will, all my online account info, and what he'll need to get rid of my student loans, my husband told me he went to see a divorce mediator and that we had an appt scheduled for today. That was the last thing I could handle, and I tried to keep it together, but had to go to the hospital.\n\nHe dropped me off, but came back because his dad told him to stay for logistics and appearances. He never asked why I was there, or why I thought I may need to spend a night or two in the psych ward. He doesn't know about the suicidal thoughts, and I had to have a doctor give him a factsheet on bipolar and panic disorders because he won't hear that info from me. *(Part of why he wants me off meds other than stigma is because he thinks panic attacks and depression always have a trigger, and doesn't believe me when I say they don't.)*\n\nI didn't agree to the mediator appt today, and called the mediator to let him know I wasn't going, partly because my husband didn't give me the address until half an hour before. I was served with a return date next month, on the grounds of \"irrevocable breakdown\". \n\n**Tl;dr:** husband comes from a cookie cutter family, doesn't like that I'm not perfect, won't talk to me, and we've only been to 2 counseling sessions. He served me with divorce for not being sufficiently affectionate while suffering suicidal bipolar depression over a span of \u2248 three weeks\n\n________________________\n\nIn doing my own research, it looks like the court said people can't get divorced simply for not getting along, or having normal marital problems. There was another case that said the \"irrevocable\" part is determined by the court. \nhttps:\/\/www.jud.ct.gov\/lawlib\/Notebooks\/Pathfinders\/divorce\/divorce.pdf\n\n**My questions are:**\n\n\u2022How exactly does a court decide what constitutes an irrevocable breakdown? Particularly, how is \"irrevocable\" determined?\n\n\u2022What are the chances the court will say no, and recommend counseling? Or rather, is that something a judge would do at all?\n\n\u2022If he decides to cheat on me and use that as grounds for a divorce, what are my options?\n\n\n***Basic Info***\n\nI'm unemployed, have been looking for work with no luck, house is in his name, and he's got the insurance and everything\n\nWe've been married 2 years, in CT, he's active duty military.\n\nAll of this from the panic attack that started it to today has been a span of 2 months.","title":"CT: What are the criteria for determining whether issues amount to \"irrevocable breakdown\"?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541579956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uxrca\/am_i_getting_ripped_off\/","id":"9uxrca","body":"First off this is an Australian legal question. \n\nI work in travel and as you all know there is commission in my industry. The way my company works is say I sell $180,000 worth of travel in a month and in that there is $20,000 of commission my company would pay me 20% that's my full wage I'm an independent contractor. \n\nIf there is a financial error I wear the mistake. This happens in every travel company. I have worked for my now major competitor prior to this. The difference is in my previous role the $$ would come out of my total commission transfer (the $20,000) in my current role it is taken out of my wage (the 20%) \n\nTo be this seems like double dipping. I have put an enquiry in with Fair Work but I thought maybe someone here could give some advice. \n\nCheers","title":"Am I getting ripped off?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553670269,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b619pa\/i_just_received_a_writeup_from_work_but_a_lot_of\/","id":"b619pa","body":"So, I got an official write up that was written and talked over with my supervisor. \n\nI signed it, and on the form given to sign it says specifically that I\u2019m singing due to acknowledging it, not that I agree. \n\nIt is pretty much a build up of any issues  that anyone has had against me since I was hired 08\/2019. \n\nThe problem is a lot of my late or called off days, are largely due to mental health. And they are complaining about it in the write up, but legit I called out sick those days because I had been crying so much I can\u2019t answer phones. Which is a bob part of my job. \n\nSo even tho I\u2019m in the middle of writing a formal rebuttal, I don\u2019t know how to include my private issues that (at the time) I could have totally provided a doctors note. But I can\u2019t for so long ago now. ","title":"I just received a write-up from work, but a lot of the complaints are accumulated from when I was hired 7 months ago.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570376432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de4uo5\/mom_forcing_me_to_give_her_power_of_attorney\/","id":"de4uo5","body":"I don\u2019t completely trust my mom. She\u2019s gone in court and lied on people before. We once had a joint bank account but something happened on her end and I ended up losing all the money.  I believe my mom to be bipolar but sometimes she has good intentions. \n\nMy mom said she will pay for driving lessons and hep me get a cheap auto loan but only if I give her power of attorney. She said she\u2019s looking out for me. She said if she was to die tomorrow in order for me to get anything in that state of Georgia I would have to give her a power of attorney since I\u2019m over 18 or else everything would go to her husband (my dad) and my underage siblings.\n\nI feel like this is a lie. \nCould I give her power of attorney then revoke a year later? Would she know if it\u2019s revoked??","title":"Mom forcing me to give her power of attorney","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568776954,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5rwys\/nyc_landlord_got_a_bill_for_trash_violations_and\/","id":"d5rwys","body":"I moved into a new building in June. Great location, nice apartment, terrible landlord. Market rate. Here\u2019s the story of my current conundrum. \n\nA. The trash violation: I don\u2019t spend much time in my apartment so I throw out trash once a month. Last time happens to have been last Saturday (the 14th), which I know because my cleaner did it. On Wednesday, September 12, as I was walking out in the morning to work, I noticed a pink slip from the sanitary department on the building front door. I though it would be funny to take a picture of it and send to my roommate. Good thing I did. It cites uncovered trash bins as the reason for a small fine. \n\nB. The 311 call: I moved in June and tried to use an appliance in my apartment. It did not work. I asked him many times to fix or replace it. It took him a month to be convinced that I\u2019m not lying, another month to determine that he should buy a new one, and a third month to fix it. June 1 to Sunday, September 15, the date it was fixed. I filed a complaint through 311 to have it fixed on Saturday, September 14. \n\nToday: when I got back from work there was a letter from him at my door saying that he received a violation notice. He then says that he received a trash violation because \u201cthere was a bag with your name on it outside the trash bin even though there was room\u201d. First, the violation was not for a bag outside the bin, it was for an uncovered bin. Second, I didn\u2019t take my trash out that week or the week before it. Third, who labels their trash bags? I don\u2019t. \n\nNote that he has a number of other violations: the self locking mechanism on the building door was broken for months, he just fixed it. The hot water only works sporadically (I shower at the gym anyways so it doesn\u2019t bother me). There\u2019s no carbon monoxide detectors in my apartment. He has violated the reasonable right to quiet enjoyment clause several times. My bathtub is chipping paint but I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a real violation. \n\nI wrote a rather passive aggressive letter that\u2019s say (1) I called 311 for the dryer, but it\u2019s fixed now, although there are other violations I haven\u2019t complained about yet and (b) I have a picture of the sanitation summons, it wasn\u2019t about an errant trash bag, and even if it were you couldn\u2019t have known that it was my trash bag. I haven\u2019t given it to him yet. \n\nAny advice on how to proceed? Are there issues here I\u2019m not aware of? I\u2019m 100% sure he\u2019s trying to retaliate for the violation complaint which is itself illegal but I can\u2019t prove it.","title":"[NYC] landlord got a bill for trash violations and is trying to pass it on to me (probably) retaliating for a 311","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571254484,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diugoe\/legal_advice_on_startup_contract\/","id":"diugoe","body":"Hello there,\n\nRecently I have been approached by a man on Discord that has asked me to join his startup. It is for making a app. We have then invited a couple of people to join along and have started working on the app. Then I asked him to please make a legal document that states that I have rights within the company and that I am an owner. Is the linked document enforceable by court and a legal binding or is it just something he made up?\n\n[https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ghxvx1W](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ghxvx1W)","title":"Legal advice on Startup contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540903974,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9snkr0\/what_action_can_i_take_against_my_landlord_in_nyc\/","id":"9snkr0","body":"My landlord takes forever to fix things and is a total asshole about it. Most recently, our bathroom sink was totally loose from the wall. He sent his brother in law who lives upstairs to fix it, this guy put a piece of wood behind it in the wall. My boyfriend was here when he fixed it not me, so I didn\u2019t see this fix happen, otherwise I would have stopped him in his tracks. \n\n\nIt looks disgusting. I told my landlord I was unhappy with the so called fix and that it seemed unsafe and was unsightly and he said it wasn\u2019t unsafe and gave me an attitude. I hate him. I want to call 311. Do I have a case?\n\n[sink](https:\/\/ibb.co\/eu0JCf)","title":"What action can I take against my landlord? In NYC.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553609121,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5q467\/letter_of_reference_for_custody_help\/","id":"b5q467","body":"My sister needs me and my husband to write up a letter of reference for her. She\u2019s applied for full custody of her daughter. I\u2019ve never met met the father, he\u2019s not involved in his daughters life at all despite being given plenty of opportunities. From my understanding he initially agreed to her having full custody but has recently decided to make it difficult for her. What should I include in this letter. I asked my sister if she knew what it should address and she wasn\u2019t really sure either.","title":"Letter of Reference for custody help","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445789965,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q5v1q\/va_which_path_to_take_to_get_a_prenup\/","id":"3q5v1q","body":"My SO and I live and plan to get married in Virginia. I've talked to her about a prenup and she agrees that it's smart for us to get one to protect our assets which we've worked so hard for before we get married.\n\nMy question is, what is the general process? \n\n* I see that I can probably download a complete looking form online for a small fee.. and get that signed up. Is there something else that I'm missing?\n\n* Should we just go straight to a lawyer and have them draft it up? If we took this route, we would be able to customize it to suit our needs but would surely cost more since we would both need a separate lawyer.\n\nI am thinking maybe I could just use the form I could buy online, and then pay a family law lawyer look it over to translate the legalese and make sure everything is OK and then we sign. This seems like the cheapest and less time consuming way.\n\nThank you for your help!\n\nEdit: Neither of us own businesses, our biggest asset\/liability would be that each of us would be bringing a house that is not fully paid off yet.","title":"[VA] Which path to take to get a prenup?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568679550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d596pu\/car_broken_into_by_other_tenant_and_not_evicted\/","id":"d596pu","body":"New to this subreddit so let me know if there is somewhere better to post this\n\n​\n\nLong story some what short...My car was parked on the road in front of my apartment complex and was broken into. Multiple things were  stolen but the big thing was my golf clubs which were my trunk. I had a suspicion that my things may have been stolen by a tenant because I later found some belongings on the ground in the courtyard of my apartment complex. I went into the office to ask for access of the camera footage and told the manager what happened.  She admits I was not the only one to report things stolen over the weekend and confirmed with me that the unit I believed had them was indeed the one she suspected due to past events. She said she would take a look at the footage and sure enough about 30 min later she knocks on my door with my golf clubs. She said the tenant claims his friend showed up to his room that night with my golf clubs and he did not know whose they were\/ that they were stolen. I did not see the camera footage so I cannot confirm if it was truly a friend who walked in with them or if it was the tenant. It is my understanding that management has pretty much just told him that friend is not allowed back into the complex and that is it, he is not being evicted or anything. Is this grounds to terminate my lease without penalty? I am concerned with my car \/ apartment being broken into again and would like to move out if I can. I filed a police report the night of so I have that as a record as well.\n\nLet me know your thoughts","title":"Car broken into by other tenant and not evicted, can I terminate my lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502825329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6twirc\/ive_been_honorably_discharged_from_the_military\/","id":"6twirc","body":"I've been honorably discharged from the military. Under the military clause in my lease it says that with proof of orders (in this case, it's \"separation orders\") and rent for 30 days I am able to break my lease. Because I have separation orders rather than transfer orders am I still obligated to pay the lease breaking penalty?","title":"I've been honorably discharged from the military. Still responsible for rent?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553452931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4zswu\/south_carolina_what_is_prefile_status_on_a_court\/","id":"b4zswu","body":"Google searches weren't clear. When I go onto my state's case record search, under action it says prefile. Status says pending. It's been 2 years since the initial arrest and its been sitting in pending\/prefile status for a year and a half.\n\n\nDefendant (not me, my ex) was arrested, out on bond, has a lawyer. \n\n\nDoes this mean prosecution is still gathering evidence? That they may not pursue it further based on evidence or lack thereof? \n\n","title":"[South Carolina] What is prefile status on a court case?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541823783,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vrhjw\/new_york_nonprofit_board_of_directors\/","id":"9vrhjw","body":"Good evening all,\n\nI was recently appointed to be a voting Board Member of my local volunteer ambulance service. I was a compensated employee for approximately a year, and, in March of this year, resigned back to being a volunteer as I took a state job. \n\nAfter about 4 months, I was asked if I would like to fill a Board of Directors vacancy and accepted. I\u2019ve been filling this role for approximately 2 months when the President of the Board asked me to resign because I apparently am in conflict with the NPCL of New York as I \u201ccannot serve in a Board position for three years after being an employee\u201d. I asked him for the law and wording, but he said he didn\u2019t read it, only that he was told about it. \n\nI have searched through the NPCL and cannot find anything remotely like it and he only references the Non Profit Revitalization Act. \n\nMy questions are:\n-Is this a real thing?\n-The only thing I can remotely find that would apply would be \u201ckey parties\u201d but I was only a Paramedic and made approximately 35k out of the Ambulances 650,000 budget. I did not have any influence over deliberations or operations. Would I still be a \u201ckey party\u201d\n-Is this worth my time pressing the issue as it is only my volunteer squad and it really does not effect my role as a volunteer Paramedic? It was nice being able to make some type of comment on the agency, but at the end of the day it does not effect the responses. \n\nMy Background: I am a Masters Criminal Justice student and this question sparked my interest as I could not find anything that fit and am turning to you all!","title":"New York Non-Profit Board of Directors","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542283952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9xanen\/employer_changes_scope_of_work_but_nothing_else\/","id":"9xanen","body":"Backstory: I\u2019ve been working with this company for 8 years.  The company started out small and was merged into a larger company.  I was promoted 2 years ago to a supervisory role, and the person who\u2019s spot I filled was promoted up.\n\nIssue: The company is letting 20 people go at the end of this year, and my employer is telling me and the co-workers at my level that we will be absorbing their work.  We are told that we will be deadline oriented, work as many hours as needed, including weekends, and to answer our personal phones on the weekend for work related items.  Zero compensation increase even though the position being absorbed is a significant promotion.\n\nQuestion: I agreed to a job with a scope of work and a matching compensation.  Can my employer change that on me without accepting it at my compensation or without a negotiated compensation?\n\nI live in Michigan","title":"Employer changes scope of work, but nothing else","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541190327,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tnric\/crazy_father_that_takes_awaydestroys_my_property\/","id":"9tnric","body":"I am currently 19 years old and going to college at the moment as well as working. I use most of my money on necessities like gas, food, and school. however recently I saved up and purchased a ps4. my father who I am currently living with has some huge problem with video games that he has made obvious throughout my childhood. constantly destroying video game systems when I was younger to win arguments, etc. but recently he has done it again but this time with the ps4 I mentioned earlier (100% paid for by me). he also at times will not allow me to drive my car that is under my name and paid for by me as well. He never has any actual reason as to why he does this but he just does. I know that I live under his roof and he does support me in many ways, but is this legal?","title":"Crazy father that takes away\/destroys my property","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555130638,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcn14h\/are_lolis_illegal\/","id":"bcn14h","body":"Simple question. Can\u2019t find a clear answer.","title":"Are Loli\u2019s illegal?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553839045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6tmjq\/can_you_get_a_family_lawyer_in_ca_without_paying\/","id":"b6tmjq","body":"I want to take my kids mom to court for custody but I don\u2019t have any funds. I was the provider up until a month before me and my kids mom separated. I provided for my kids their whole lives and now that she has a job, I look helpless because I stayed home for her to start working. I want to know if I could get a lawyer for free and be charged the expenses after the custody is settled that way I can start working to pay it off.","title":"Can you get a family lawyer in CA. without paying any expenses upfront","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504510116,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xywic\/ut_warrant_for_my_arrest\/","id":"6xywic","body":"  So I got pulled over today because the cops found  a problem finding my insurance when running the plate. After they took my license to run it through and try to resolve the issue, they came back and said there was a warrant for my arrest. They arrested me right there and took me to jail where I had to pay an almost $900 bail. \n\n  They told me that the reason for the warrant was because I had a charge over criminal misdemeanor. I know that they're referring to an incident that happened close to 2 years ago because that's the only thing it could be. The thing is, I paid for that and have receipts saying I did so, and the probation officer told me that I didn't need to worry about it on the day I paid. Just as some background info, resolving the issue was done in a non-judicial manner, meaning that I admitted to my mistakes, paid a fine for the act, and was told that it would no longer affect me in any way or show up in any records. \n\n  My questions are these:  \n\u2022 Is $900 really a reasonable bail for a criminal misdemeanor? (egging specifically, because I was a stupid 16 yo)\n\u2022 Will I be able to get my bail money back? \n\u2022 Why me and why now? I had friends who were in on this too who took care of this at the same time I did and after being pulled over themselves nothing came up for them. I also registered my car and did a few more legal things and was never told about any warrant. \n\u2022 Will this affect my record?  I did get arrested and go to jail, but if it turns out there was an issue with the paperwork or something, will it still be there? \n\u2022 I'm currently working and studying under DECA, will this affect my status in any way? Especially if it turns out to be a misunderstanding or mistake on their end. \n\u2022  Then the last and most important thing, what do I do?\n\n  I have a court hearing Tuesday and I don't even know what to prepare for, what to bring, what to say, I'm literally clueless and really freaked out. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. If I'm in the wrong subreddit please let me know so I can ask the correct one asap. \n\nTl;Dr: got arrested over a Warrant for my arrest over a matter that was taken care of 2 years. Paid $900 bail and have court hearing. What do I do? Help please. \n","title":"(UT) Warrant for my arrest?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551477144,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awa7q2\/my_landlord_doesnt_want_to_return_my_security\/","id":"awa7q2","body":"I rent a room in Denver and due to family health issues I need to return home. I told my landlord this and now he doesn\u2019t want to return the deposit bc I didn\u2019t give him 30 days notice, I need that money to fly back home . That was never part of the deal and he already rented the room out to someone new and they move in today. The landlord didn\u2019t give the security deposit back to the previous tenant bc he said the tenant left the room without telling anyone. What can I do to get my money back? ","title":"My landlord doesn\u2019t want to return my security deposit back and wants me to leave before my move in date.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553118231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3hx0s\/speeding_ticket\/","id":"b3hx0s","body":"The cop claimed I was going faster than what I was. Well at least my car said. I know I was speeding and I agreed to that but he's saying I was doing almost 10 more mph that what my cars speedometer said. Anything I can do to prove what's going on?","title":"Speeding ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571143287,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di7brm\/probably_cause_for_cp\/","id":"di7brm","body":"Someone I know is not a bad person, but has made bad choices. I am almost certain they possess CP. How can I guarantee a conviction without getting myself arrested? I plan to turn everything over to the police, but I am formulating things as best I can before I do, because this person needs to be put into prison.","title":"Probably Cause for CP","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539299552,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9neyre\/draw_against_commission_advice\/","id":"9neyre","body":"Hey guys, \n\nI have been working at a company for a few months and unfortunately it is not working out. Luckily, I have other opportunities, but I have been working on a draw against commission. I am concerned that if I leave, the company will demand that I pay back the balance of the draw.\n\n Based on my calculations, the draw balance due is less than minimum wage. If they do that, is it a violation of FLSA laws?\n\n I also live and work in Illinois. Are there any state laws that would help protect me?\n\nI did sign a compensation plan, and it does state that if employment is terminated prior to repayment, it is due in full at time of termination. However, since the balance is under minimum wage, wouldn't that violate FLSA law?\n\nAny help\/advice is greatly appreciated. Please let me know if any additional information is needed. I have been a bit vague because I am currently still employed at the place.\n\nThanks.\n\n","title":"Draw Against Commission Advice","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554763563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb0a1w\/ilpossible_litigation\/","id":"bb0a1w","body":"Hey guys, currently going through a divorce. I formed an LLC to provide the father-in-law with a service that he and a friend were wanting. They provided what I would call a substantial amount of money to build and maintain what they were wanting. I spent the money on exactly what they requested. Afterward, I became ill to the point where I was unable to work for a few months. During this time my wife cheated on me and we are now going through divorce proceedings. I've scheduled a meeting with legal council, but I was also wanting to see if anyone else had information regarding what I might be liable for? The partners plan to dissolve the LLC, and I would be in agreement, but they are also asking for their initial investments back. Are they up a creek or am I?","title":"(IL)Possible Litigation","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555206474,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcxxgr\/renters_rights\/","id":"bcxxgr","body":"When we moved in, we got all the keys to our place except for a dead bolt key. Our door has a deadbolt, but it cannot be unlocked or locked outside withouy a key. Our other neighbors have one, but we don't have one. We have a lock on our doorknob we have a key for, but it doesn't do much for peace of mind when gone for a long period of time.\nWhen we asked our landlord where it was, we were told they didn't have it. We are ready to start pushing to either get replacement keys or a new lock and keys, but were wondering what laws or protection we might have on our side to get the keys and protection on our apartment.\nAny advice or information is welcomed and thanks in advance!","title":"Renters Rights","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507056577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/742hpu\/ex_and_visitation_rights_indiana\/","id":"742hpu","body":"My ex and I were never married; we have a young son. We do not have a Visitation agreement. I have sole custody and allow for my ex and myself to follow state-suggested Visitation guidelines.\n\nEx's father passed away, whom he lived with, and where my son stayed during overnight weekend Visitation. Ex no longer is able to live in the home, so he's decided to move in with his girlfriend at her parents' home. She seems like a nice enough girl, I've had no issues with her being around so far, but it's been agreed upon that she is not to spend the night when my son has been at ex's home. He's decided that he will have my son stay in their room with them during overnight Visitation at her home. I'm not comfortable with this set-up, and in the general guidelines for Indiana parenting time, it says that no one of the opposite sex is to be with the parent and child unless the parent is married to them- what my basis of our original agreement was.\n\nWhat can I legally do about this situation? I'd prefer not to abruptly stop Visitation- my son has some sensory issues so that routine is important (yet another reason why I'm uncomfortable with him staying in a stranger's home), but is also prone to panic attacks around strangers and socially stressful situations that requires added therapies and sometimes breaks from school to deal with his emotional healing. Ex doesn't seem to think much of what is best for our son, and I'm concerned about his emotional well being. I know not having\/having a legally binding agreement makes a difference in this matter.\n\nHere is a link to the guidelines that we follow: https:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/rules\/parenting\/#_Toc470860990z","title":"Ex and Visitation Rights [INDIANA]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541862461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vuz24\/anpr_approved_device_controlled_parking_ticket_uk\/","id":"9vuz24","body":"Help!\n\nI drove to a party in North Greenwich, by the O2 arena (London), and parked in Car Park 2, which had free hours between 23:00 and 05:00 or so, no problems. Afterwards, in the early morning (3\/4 am) on the 1st November, I dropped my friend to greenwich station and then drove home. \n\nToday I received a parking fine notice saying I 'failed to make payment upon exit from an ANPR approved device controlled car park'. I drove into the station, pulled up for maybe a 2\/3 minutes and then left, nowhere did I notice anything about paying for parking\/dropping off, especially as it was late and dark, I didn't see any signs saying I needed to pay :( \n\nThe evidence cited is a very blurry image of the silhouette of my car, can't make out anything apart from the headlights, no number plate, nothing. \n\nI don't live local to the area so it'll be hard for me to go back there to check out any signs covered or lack of lighting at the time.\n\nThe amount due is \u00a360 if paid within 14 days, or \u00a3100 within 28, which I will have to find the money to pay if I have to, however if I can contest it I would like to.\n\n​\n\nAny help appreciated!\n\n​\n\n​","title":"ANPR Approved Device Controlled Parking Ticket (UK)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551216033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av4qiz\/apartment_complex_refusing_packages\/","id":"av4qiz","body":"My apartment complex is refusing to accept packages. They've always been anal about packages (i.e. rude when you come to pick them up, and sending them back if they've been in the office over 24 hours). Today they send an email telling us to send packages to work or family members addresses.\n\nIs this legal? USPS refuses to deliver to the front doors of residents and will only leave packages at the front office.","title":"Apartment Complex Refusing Packages","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569977239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc2tso\/my_car_was_hit_while_i_was_parked_in_a_parking\/","id":"dc2tso","body":"Hello everyone, \n\nYesterday my boyfriend and I were at our local Aldi store. We parked in the best spot that we could find and then began writing out our grocery list for the week. \n\nWhile we were parked, sitting in our vehicle, a driver drove into my driver side door resulting in a nasty dent in my door frame. \n\nThe driver gets out and is under the influence of marijuana. His eyes are incredibly bloodshot and the smell was overwhelming. \n\nI called the local police department and filled them in on what was happening. Astonishingly, I was told that they would not dispatch an officer because there wasn't any bodily harm caused to the people involved and that the accident happened on private property. So, the person on the phone tells me that we would have to go through our insurance reps. \n\nLuckily, the man who hit me had insurance. So, we both took pictures of our vehicles, exchanged information, and went on our way. \n\nI called and filed a claim through his insurance that evening and submitted all of the pictures and witness statements from my boyfriend. The dudes insurance contacted me the next morning and told me that the other driver was found to be at fault and that they would provide me a rental car while repairs were happening. Awesome. Right? \n\nWell.... They called back exactly 11 minutes later and informed that in light of new evidence provided by the other guy, they would now be denying the claim. They said that I had to have my door open and because I had my door open that it meant that I was now who was at fault. \n\nSo, I'm now bewildered at trying to figure out how I could possibly be at fault for damage caused to my parked vehicle at the hands of someone who crashed into my driver's side door. It just made absolutely no sense to me. \n\nSo, I went to my insurance agent and they said that it was absolutely the other drivers fault and that they would be fighting this with their territory manager (both me and the driver have the same insurance company) \n\nSo, the dudes insurance rep reaches out to me again and says they will be hiring a photographer to come take HD pictures of both of our cars?\n\nThat is where we are at currently. \n\nMy question is.... How could I possibly be found at fault for his hitting my parked vehicle? Even though my door was closed, what would it matter if my door was open or not?","title":"My car was hit while I was parked in a parking space at a grocery store.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570758883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg892g\/ny_entered_a_parking_lot_by_accidentally_going\/","id":"dg892g","body":"Hello. I'm a 21 year old driver in New York. Never got a driving ticket in my life and no points off my license. Today, I was driving to a place I've never drove to before towards the night. I was using my GPS (Maps) and it made me enter the parking lot through a \"Do not Enter.\" This was one of the exits for the parking lot and it goes downhill. I didn't notice the sign right away since it was partially blocked by a bush\/shrub and it was hard to see. By the time I saw it, I was already halfway up the hill. I decided to continue and was careful.  A car was close to exiting the lot, but that was about it. He\/she didn't honk or make any gestures. \n\nI've been worried about this since the moment it happened until now. I'm not sure if anyone possibly wrote my license plate # or if there were cameras around. If I end up getting something in the mail, how severe is the penalty for this under New York? Is this consider as a WWD? It was honest mistake which I know doesn't mean much, but I really didn't mean to do this. Even if I did decide to back out, it would have been extremely difficult. If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it. Thank you.","title":"(NY) Entered a parking lot by accidentally going through a \"Do not Enter\" entrance. If I get something in the mail, how severe is this?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506098897,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71s99f\/advice_appreciated_on_ending_a_noncontracted\/","id":"71s99f","body":"Hello, thanks for reading. I'm going to keep this short as possible. I live in the state of TN, own my home, and invited a family member who was on hard times to live with me. There was no contract, just a mutual understanding of trading labor for a place to stay. It's family, after all. Recently the family member has become violent and I don't wish to continue this verbally-agreed-to living arrangement for fear of how it will affect my well-being. They are refusing to leave on grounds that I must legally evict them. Where do I go from here? The info online I've tried to gather is related to tenants and landlords under contract. Do I have rights in this case since I opted to go without a contract? This is a new area for me; but I've learned now not to take contracts so lightly! How do I get myself out of this? Thanks for any advice you can provide!","title":"Advice appreciated on ending a non-contracted living agreement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441665291,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k0tle\/getting_chargedback_for_virtual_items_please_help\/","id":"3k0tle","body":"(Location: UK, Birmingham)\n\nHey Guys, I'm pretty new to this Sub, I read the rules through a couple of times and I am in need of a little help.\n\nI run an online Garry's Mod Community that sells a Premium Subscription that unlocks certain features for the member when purchased. \n\nAn Admin on one of my servers made 3 Different Payments regarding the Premium rank totalling \u00a320.00. He later made a one-off payment to myself for a custom feature to be implemented for him (of \u20ac35 (he's Dutch)). After the feature was coded and implemented, he then paid the fee. This was about 1 month ago. He was given ALL of the things he paid for, there is no doubt about it.\n\nIn the past week, he has resigned from the community to join another community as staff. Since then, he has charged back all the payments totalling about \u00a345 and he escalated all the disputes too. He charged the premium payments back for the reason \"Never received items purchased\" and he charged the one-off \u20ac35 payment back for \"Items weren't as described\" (just thought I'd add this incase it's important. I now have until 14-15th of September to reply with evidence that all of the payments were justified.\n\nThanks for Reading guys, if you have any tips for this kind of thing, please let me know!","title":"Getting Chargedback for Virtual Items, please help!","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569457413,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9byxl\/certified_copies_of_divorce_decree\/","id":"d9byxl","body":"Husband and his ex divorced in Nevada in 2014. He\u2019s currently in the process of speaking w\/counsel re: taking the ex wife to court for child support since my stepdaughter literally got dropped on our doorstep to live here (TX) full time two years ago. \n\nHe has originals of the decree (not with official raised seal, but stamped\/signed as original. The atty wants CERTIFIED copies and he\u2019s telling me that he needs to PHYSICALLY fly to NV and visit the courthouse in Las Vegas to acquire these. Looking at the website, it doesn\u2019t really say shit anywhere re: this. \n\nIs it bullshit or is this actually a thing? I\u2019m just wondering because I was able to get copies of my oldest daughter\u2019s birth certificate from N.C. a few years afterward when I was stationed in CA. I was also able to get copies of my divorce decree from my first marriage from TX when I lived in CA as well. None of which required me to travel.","title":"Certified Copies of Divorce Decree?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1410158519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fsd4o\/software_patent_i_believe_may_be_invalid\/","id":"2fsd4o","body":"Location: Ontario, Canada\n\nSo, I'm an Network Administrator and my hobby is programming.\nI was designing an system that sends TCP packets over SMS.\nThen my buddy was like \"hey, check this out.\" He sends me this: \t[US8099115 B2](https:\/\/www.google.ca\/patents\/US8099115)\n\nTo my horror, it did not even occur to me to google this. I thought it would be original and fun.\n\nNow, after reading this they use BASE64 encoding. Which, I do not use. I developed my own encoding scheme that is nearly complete & more efficient.\n\nAlso, realistically speaking. An patent for patterns of ascii text over text messages seems invalid. Could one claim its a violation of freedom of speech as its legitimate text. In addition to this, it is very common for SMTP (email) to use BASE64 encoding to encode messages.\n\nWould it seem I have ground for ignoring this patent?\n\nI could change my technology to be some other transport protocol over sms.\n\nI'm not sure if this complicates matters, however I intended to release my software under an open source license.\n\nIf you need more information, feel free to ask. :)\n\ntl;dr The linked patent is similar to an technology I'm designing, however its stupid. Am I cool to ignore it?","title":"Software Patent, I believe may be invalid","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552250785,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azk7r2\/oregon_minor_custody_question\/","id":"azk7r2","body":"Can someone elaborate what this means? Specifically if the one parent has the right to forbid a parent seeing the child. \n\n'Petitioner should have custody of Minor subject to parenting time by Respondent as agreed upon by the parties.'\n\nOne parent is saying that the minor (8) feels a certain way about the other and has completely shut off all contact with said minor. ","title":"Oregon Minor Custody Question","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446957454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rz1j0\/oh_confused_about_paying_a_maintenance_fee\/","id":"3rz1j0","body":"[TL;DR] Lease says they are responsible for repairs; miscommunication and now I'm expected to pay $90 for repairs. Do I or no?\n\n\n\nOhio here, bot. I am renting a condo from a married couple, husband is the one who owns, wife is not on any paperwork as owner or manager. I refuse to deal with the husband anymore because of inappropriate conduct when I initially moved in November of 2014. I only deal with the wife now, and it seems like they are new to this renting thing.\n\nBefore I signed the lease I offered to do the maintenance in exchange for a discount on rent, as that's what I do for a living. They said no, they have a maintenance guy. [Just to add, the condo was in very poor condition when I moved in, and still is, mostly.]\n\n\nMy question is: I had to have a dual lightswitch(shocked me a few times), an outlet(blew sparks out when I'd plug something in), and my garbage disposal(looked like someone disposed something porcelain and broke it) replaced. Landlord bought the parts, brought them to my house and told me to install them. I said no, and they said ok, we will call the maintenance guy. This was a few months ago, and finally I got tired of dealing with it so I got his number from them and called him myself.\n\nHe came to install the parts. LL Wife's mother just died so I told her I'd work it out with him, and due to some confusing conversations over text message, she assumed I'd pay him. I did not correct her. Maintenance man told me it would be $90. I told LL wife. When rent time came she asked when she could pick up rent +$90.\n\nDo I pay this $90? The lease clearly states \"11. Maintenance and Repairs: Landlord shall be responsible for repairs in or about the Leased Premises unless caused by the negligence of the Tenant. Tenant will be responsible for any repairs caused by his\/her negligence. A. It is the responsibility of the Tenant to promptly notify the LL of the need for any repair of which the tenant becomes aware. B. If any required repair is caused by the negligence of the Tenant and\/or Tenant's guests, the Tenant will be fully responsible for the cost of the repair and\/or replacement that may be needed.\"","title":"[OH] Confused about paying a maintenance fee.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541907178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w0oej\/landlord_entry\/","id":"9w0oej","body":"Pretty simple, in a house with 2 other people and we party every once in a while. Due to this, there can be cans and such around. \n\nAlso, our landlord is know to be pretty bad when it comes to giving us notice. Usually when he comes to mow the lawn he has given us notice about 6 minutes before he planned to arrive. Is he able to enter the house without significant notice?\n\nI\u2019ve heard from many people that a landlord needs 24-48 hours notice before entering the house. I signed the contract but do not remember if there was anything about it written in. So is there some kind of federal\/state laws about the matter or can he come in whenever if the rule is not specifically stated in the contract?","title":"Landlord Entry","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540475910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rajcf\/businessfinancemausa_are_we_entitled_to_copies_of\/","id":"9rajcf","body":"I closed my business in December 2017. When it came time to file taxes our bank locked us out of our accounts. Our banking institution is withholding our 1099-K form and ANY account transactions from our ledger, this is because we have an outstanding balance with the bank. The bank will not give us any type of invoice for this, and refuse to speak with us unless we immediately pay the bill - which is way higher than it should be and we cannot afford to pay in full. We lost everything. It has crippled our family finances. \n\nBecause of this we had to estimate all our sales and costs on our taxes. Well not surprisingly the IRS has contacted us with a huge huge bill - claiming our bank sent them completely different numbers. The numbers the IRS reported to us are not possible, however we have the opportunity to send new documentation.\n\nDo we have rights to view the balance ledger? \n\nDo we have rights to view the 1099-K form? \n\nWhat should our next steps be other than preparing thousands of copies of receipts to the IRS?\n\nThank you for your time in advance! \n\n\\[Massachusetts\\]\n\n\\[SmallBusiness\\]\n\n\\[BusinessTax\\]","title":"[Business][Finance][MA,USA] Are we entitled to copies of our account transactions from our banking insitution?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505155295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zhdas\/auto_insurance_application_provided_by_company\/","id":"6zhdas","body":"Located in Washington DC\n\nI'm looking to get my own car insurance (car is currently insured under my parents) and the company I've been dealing with is asking me to sign an application with incorrect information on the application that they populated. \n\nThe incorrect information pertains to the following:\n\n-Phone number (they listed my dad's-it's through the same company)\n\n-Amount of time spent at current residence (they put \"more than 3 years\" on the form but I've only lived there 1)\n\n-Where the car will be garaged (they put \"at residence\" but I'll be using street parking)\n\nI called, and they said to go ahead and fill out the form as is and that they can't make changes. They also said that none of those incorrect stats will have any effect, and I asked for that statement in writing.\n\nAm I safe to proceed? Or should I switch to another company?","title":"Auto Insurance Application Provided by Company has Incorrect Information that \"Can't be changed\"","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555608392,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beo9q1\/ilchicago_help_need_advice_about_renting_an\/","id":"beo9q1","body":"I am 22 years old with $0 income and i have just applied to a very nice and new apartment building for a studio apartment. My mom and I will be splitting payment 50\/50 with a future job i will hold so I had to sign a guarantor but since she is self-employed she could not provide the paperwork they asked for. The leasing agent requires either past 2 paychecks or 2 years of tax return as proof of sufficient income from guarantor. This was not an issue but it was new because prior i would rent an apartment with my friends and my mom was just able to sign as the co-signor.\n\nAnyways, talked to my uncle and he agreed to be put as the guarantor for the apartment. He provided the proof of income she requested and other required information such as SS # and other normal, expected questions.\n\n Now, she has sent over a very lengthy document full of various questions and my uncle expressed how this would take him a very long time to fill out. He also expressed that he is not comfortable with some of the questions that are being asked. Some of the questions are asking if he owns any pets, and if so what kind as well as if he has a car and what kind of car he drives.\n\nSince he is my guarantor, i don\u2019t understand why he needs to fill out those questions because i was not asked to do the same. We both don\u2019t understand why they are relevant to him being my guarantor.\n\nMy question is, are they allowed to ask him questions of that nature? I want to give her a call but i want to make sure i know if by law these questions are required for approval of an apartment or if i am legally allowed to not have him answer them and they would still be able to approve my application. \n\nThank you in advance!","title":"[IL](Chicago) HELP! need advice about renting an apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441507905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jtfgk\/landlord_going_too_far\/","id":"3jtfgk","body":" I live in Washington state.  I'm renting a room with two other people in a unit that is sanctioned off but connected to my landlord's house.  During the night and during the day he'll come over to our side, clean,  move our shit around,  take our things and put them away or move them to another place.  I was late to work one morning because I couldn't find my keys and I found out they were put under the sink.  My question is is there anything I can do about this legally?  Not to mention he tries to make us do chores.  That's right I said chores.  Grown men Best to do chores despite us all cleaning up after ourselves.  If he's in the wrong and all and there's anything I can do about it I'd just like to know. Thanks.\n\nUpdate: https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/mobile\/doc\/278845433\/Roommate-Agreement Here is the document. All person info has been removed","title":"Landlord going too far?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505951861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71fbmi\/ca_us_hiring_a_middleman_to_deal_with_a_security\/","id":"71fbmi","body":"Location: California\n\nSo my roommates and I did not leave on good terms with our other roommate. We are all moved out now, but our one final hurdle is getting back our security deposit.\n\nUnfortunately, our landlord refuses to split the deposit check and distribute to us individually, even if we all provide written consent that we mutually agree on who gets what on their check. Our landlord has stated that the only way she'll be releasing the check is if she includes ALL of our names on it (using \"and\"), or if EVERY person listed on the check provides written consent that the check should be written to an individual person (and this person must, of course, be agreed upon to receive the check). \n\nThe problem roommate is out of town, so the first option isn't reasonable - she won't be able to be present at my bank to show ID and endorse it. So we're stuck with the second option. However, she decided to hold that over us and has demanded that we first pay her her portion of the deposit, and then she'll give the written consent. I do not trust her to hold up her end of the deal, so as of right now, we are at an impasse.\n\nMy first thought was getting a mediator, but I'm wondering if there are other options. We just need somebody neutral and trustworthy to hold our money, then release the money to her once she holds her end of the deal. My roommates and I are all separated now (i.e., living miles away back at our hometowns), so that's complicated things a bit. Any advice would be appreciated!","title":"[CA, US] Hiring a middleman to deal with a security deposit transaction?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570536926,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dez4ck\/mother_passed_share_a_joint_account\/","id":"dez4ck","body":"Hello! My mother passed and we have reported her death to the bank.\n\nMy question is, I had auto payments from her every month, and the next one came out after she has passed.\n\nWill I get in legal trouble if this continues? My account is a joint account with her (made it when I was 14 with her and never removed her), and she was the soul owner of her account.\n\nLocated in Florida.","title":"Mother passed, share a joint account","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1507774850,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75u10s\/subpoena_delivered_to_my_address_but_wrong_last\/","id":"75u10s","body":"In the mail today, I received a subpoena addressed to someone with my same first name and first letter of my last name. The address is identical to mine. The county is about an hour from where I live, and I have never lived in that county. \n\nI don\u2019t want to open it, as it is not addressed to me. Should I call the phone number on the back? Open it and see what they want (maybe the last name is just wrong...)? Return the letter to sender?","title":"Subpoena delivered to my address, but wrong last name.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444781133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3onn2r\/x_post_pittsburgh_just_moved_here_landlord_trying\/","id":"3onn2r","body":"So after moving to this city form out of state I am a little more than two months into a new apartment. My landlord called me and stated I have been paying short (were talking less that 30$). I have paid on the first every month and followed specifically the lease agreement.\n\nThey are upset that in the lease they did not (I assume a mistake) specify a charge for water. After speaking over the phone with the accountant I stated that I have paid the exact amount per the lease. At this point she stated that my lease states differently and that there is a amount for water. As I numbered the lease pages and signed appropriately, my copy matches exactly the original lease. I asked her to direct me to the specific page where this fee is noted. On my lease there is $0 and she noted that it is stating a different amount. She also stated that sometimes after the parties sign it gets sent to the manager where thats likely when the change occurred.\n\nI explained that any alteration to the lease after signing and receiving a copy was not approved and its no acceptable. The following day I took notice that I needed to change the lease and included a addendum where I needed to sign. \n\nI sent tracked mail that basically stated I was not interested in altering the lease agreement and also requested a copy of the lease. (they have refused to produce a copy)\n\nI should also note that they agreed to provide gas to the premise but have yet to do so.\n\nSince then they have harassed me and have been attempting to find other ways of making it sound like I am breaking my agreement.\n\nToday I took notice form their law firm that I was in violation of the lease and to move out in 15 days due to having a dog. I of course signed the pet addendum on the lease but they are attempting to enforce restrictions that are not present on the addendum. \n\nI am essentially being retaliated over $30 that they failed to put in the lease.\n\nAs I just moved here and spent quite a bit of money moving, I am not in the greatest situation in retaining legal counsel. I moved up here and essentially doubled my income however I will likely have to withdraw from my ROTH if I wanted to safely hire legal counsel.\n\nWhat should my next steps be? I know the 15 days is a threat of legal action to come and they arent going to just toss my stuff on the street after 15 days.\n\nToday I emailed a few local firms but have not heard back. I also scheduled visits at other rentals to get the ball rolling should I need to leave. I really can handle living in a hostile situation like this as my life is busy enough right now.","title":"(x post \/pittsburgh) Just Moved Here: Landlord Trying To Sue Me For Following Lease Agreement (pittsburgh)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555686711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf081o\/enforcing_an_interstate_child_custody_agreement\/","id":"bf081o","body":"  \n\nWe have an interstate custody case between LA (where we live with my stepdaughter(9f)) and OH (where bio dad lives). There is an agreement in place that specifies visitation, tax dependency each year, includes the child support order, health insurance requirements, and 50\/50 split of uninsured medical expenses. Ohio has home state jurisdiction and we haven\u2019t challenged this after living in LA for 5 years. \n\nMy question is how do we proceed in taking the bio dad to court for not obeying the agreement regarding health insurance, paying his 50% share of costs and possibly modifying the visitation portion of the agreement? \n\nAfter her entire life of him not paying or keeping insurance as ordered, we have hit our breaking point with his irresponsibility. It just seems like such a burden to try and vet an attorney from 1000 miles away in Ohio, and then having to travel if anything makes its way to court. I\u2019ve read the UCCJEA, and I believe it said something where the courts where we live, respectively, would hear either side, talk to each other, and handle cases that way? We tried a LA attorney when we first moved and they turned us away, but after 5 years here do we have a chance of either moving jurisdiction or at least 2 courts working together to eliminate travel for both sides? I feel the real dad knows what a burden traveling would be on our young family and acts the way he does because the court is 4 blocks from his home and 1000 miles from ours. \n\nTL;DR Can we use our local attorney and court to communicate with home state court of an interstate custody case\/agreement.","title":"Enforcing an interstate child custody agreement","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445380418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pk0e1\/ca_our_landlords_have_cancelled_our_lease_and\/","id":"3pk0e1","body":"My SO has been living in this house for five years, and I have been living in it for four months.\n\nOur landlords, a month and a half ago, gave us 90 days notice saying that they will be selling the house because their daughter, also a tenant, is moving in with her boyfriend in another city, and they \"don't see a need for the house anymore.\" This is cancelling our lease early, as ours was going through at least the end of the year (my SO has lived there so long that she hasn't had to renew her lease in a long time, but mine is pretty new\/is identical) They also knew what they were doing to us, and tried to offer their apologies, which I gobbled up at the time, before they started to make things \"untenable\".\n\nMy SO has paid rent on time for five years, and our rent together has been paid on time since I moved in. We have had zero \"warnings\" for absolutely any reason.\n\nSince then, we have dealt with:\n\n1) People showing up to get into our room or the house without 24 hours notice (occasionally we have been notified, but several times we were caught off-guard, or even without ANY notification at all).\n2) We have been required to vacate our single parking spot so as to make room for other crews, and have also received a parking ticket for one time we had to park somewhere else (we were given a check to pay for it weeks later when we received the ticket and knew how much it was, and told them).\n3) In our quest for finding somewhere else to live in a VERY short timeline, we realized that we have to relocate over 400 miles to live with relatives because we can't find anything else in the area.\n4) Several times we were caught unawares by a sudden showing on the day of the notice via email, leaving us scrambling to get home to clean the room OR making ourselves busy because we couldn't come home - this has happened so that they were still showing the house after 5, the end of the normal work day, and we still had to \"make ourselves busy.\"\n5) Repair crews coming by without knowing what they're doing, asking us things like we own the place. \n\nI had just landed a part-time job with full benefits after the notification, when we were scrambling for what to do. I have been flaky with them and unable to finish the onboarding process because I have been unaware of where I will be from one month to the next, and that isn't an acceptable circumstance for a new employee. We thought we were moving 400 miles at the end of this month - we were just notified their second buyer dropped out and we have another month, but will have to pay rent. That doesn't work, because we can't pay the rent without jobs. This does not help my job situation, nor my SO's, who quit a while after getting notice because of our lack of a stable place to live.\n\nMy SO was in the application\/interview process for two different jobs in our county, but since the notification, hasn't been able to pursue them and has been looking for work in the place where we are supposed to live in a month or two. That isn't even a guarantee. We are resorting to glorified couch searching.\n\nI've been trying to drive Uber to make up for the lost employment but it isn't working.\n\nWe were paid $300 for \"keeping the house clean\" during viewings, which have gone on since the notice, and we have been totally compliant with any and everything they've needed to sell the house. We've kept it clean, vacated when we needed to, let them into the room and house, moved our cars, etc. I even helped them with a few menial tasks, carrying things, helping repair our ceiling fan, talking to workers for them, etc. All with a smile on my face.\n\nWe have even been notified late at night for \"possible\" showings the next morning (10pm for a 11am showing), causing us to change our plans for a possible showing that didn't end up happening. We have been very vigilant with their emails so as to not cause any problems for them.\n\nMy SO also had necessary repairs that the landlords didn't give a single shit about until they suddenly announced they were selling the house, and crews started coming in a week later. They have since fixed a faulty railing on our porch.\n\nRepairs they've made since:\n1) a loose railing (aforementioned) on our balcony, which wasn't properly rooted in the foundation. I believe this to be an important repair that they neglected, and could have resulted in personal injury.\n2)A broken bathroom sink (plug didn't work correctly) and\n3)A dysfunctional a\/c unit (stays unplugged b\/c it's broken) in the bedroom.\n\nWe have since tried to find places to live within 90 days, shifting focus from second jobs and passions for the sake of survival mode. I had a script that was expected by producers to then turn around and sell that I couldn't finish (still haven't) because of the ever-present stress. The opportunity came and went. \n\nWe were absolutely unable to find anywhere to live remotely close (making the job I landed impossible) or within our price range, and had to ask family to help, hence the 400 mile relocation.\n\nIt's worth noting that there is another tenant who lives in a refurnished work office space (very tiny) who is also being evicted with an identical \"reason\", couldn't find a place to live, and is moving back home, also 400 miles. I'm not sure he was even paid to keep the place clean, and I know we wouldn't have if I didn't ask them about it after a vague promise a few weeks prior. For all intents and purposes, he was equally wronged.\n\nAre there any potential grounds with which to pursue legal action?\n","title":"[CA] Our landlords have cancelled our lease and given 90 days notice without wrongdoing on our behalves, and my SO and I have been rendered homeless and jobless as a consequence. Do we have options for compensation?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551508761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awewv3\/seattle_wa_can_an_employer_terminate_me_without\/","id":"awewv3","body":"Context: was employed there (at will!) for 3.5 years. In Jan 2018, I was promiser a retention ($10k) bonus as part of my compensation package, to be paid out February 15 2019, only terms per the letter were that I be a full-time employee. \n\nwhen I inquired about it on feb 15, I was basically told that  the only way the company will pay that is if they fire me. 3 days later, I got a phone call where they terminated me effective immediately, and were requesting I sign a release that I wouldn\u2019t sue them over anything (retaliatory termination?) in order to actually get that $10k paid out. \n\nI didn\u2019t sign it yet and 6 days after I got terminated, they sent a revised agreement, that they found a fraudulent letter on my google drive and now have \u201ccause\u201d for the termination, even though \u201cthe company became aware of this behavior only after the termination.\u201d And now rescind their promise to pay the $10k, because they found this. \n\nI\u2019m stuck - do I accept this and hope they don\u2019t press fraudulent charges? Or do I fight back and even ask for my bonus? \n\nPlanning on talking to a criminal attorney on Monday. Any insight is appreciated! Thank you so much. ","title":"(Seattle, WA) can an employer terminate me without cause AND THEN a week after termination, find a \u201ccause\u201d to blame?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571791149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlrd9o\/questions_about_our_move_in_date_being_pushed_back\/","id":"dlrd9o","body":"I live in Utah. So we applied to rent a townhome that was being built in June. Me and my girlfriend are perfect renters, never been evicted, good stable jobs, good credit, yady yady yaddah.\n\nI had a bit of a spat with the property manager who was super rude to me, so I filled a complaint against her to the corporate office, it ended up going to straight to her. She called me personally to confront me about the complaint, I stood my ground, she got very frustrated and said *I* was the rude one, blah blah blah.  This culminates in her telling me she is going to rescind my application (this is after we already were approved and put down our security deposit) because we weren't \"a good fit\"\n\nLong story short, the president of the company calls me and apologizes for the property managers behavior and says we're welcome to move forward with the rental if we wished. This would be a great home so we agree and move forward and are given a tentative move in date of August 15th.\n\nDue to construction delays this is moved to mid September. We had already given notice on the previous apartment, but we were able to walk it back and are now renting month to month. \n\nDelayed again to October. \n\nDelayed again to November 1st\n\nNow we're delayed to November 21st.\n\nI went and looked at the buildings under construction and they were definitely being built and there is progress being made. But I am worried that somehow we were moved lower on the list somehow by a pisseed off property manager. \n\nWhat steps can I take to verify that that isn't happening? Can we push for some sort of compensation for going month to month when we were given a move in date that was super inaccurate? I don't know what to do","title":"Questions about our move in date being pushed back","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446758982,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3roivq\/legal_advice_on_estate_held_by_fiduciaries_ny\/","id":"3roivq","body":"My mother passed away and she appointed the estate (house) to 2 fiduciaries . The estate will be transferred to me when I have reached a certain age. My question is what happens if the fiduciaries can no longer make the mortgage payments to the estate before I have reached that age. Is there a way to transfer the estate to me before I have reached that age? Is it the law that I have to be at that age to receive the estate? Is it possible for the fiduciaries to sell the estate? This is in NY.","title":"Legal advice on estate held by fiduciaries (NY)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540426888,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r5au5\/slumlord_landlord_should_my_friend_be_compensated\/","id":"9r5au5","body":"Posting for my friend that doesn't have a reddit account and isn't very tech savvy. We're in CT. Sorry it's so long. I'm trying to include as much info as possible upfront.\n\ntl\/dr: My friend moved into an apt. that was infested and the landlord refused to treat. She couldn't afford to move right away and waited a long time to report the infestations to the authorities. Is the landlord responsible for any costs she incurred? Would this be a small claims thing?\n\nShe moved into an apartment two years ago that, while a relatively cheap apartment in a low income neighborhood, appeared ok. A few months after she moved in she thought there might be bedbugs. Within a few months it was obvious that she did, as well as mice and cockroaches.  She asked the landlord to treat; he refused.  She's a single mom and the cost of first, last, and a deposit in our area is $3000, so she couldn't move right away. She spent her own money to treat her apartment, but the whole triplex was infested so she just reduced the amount in her apartment. She asked her landlord to treat the whole complex multiple times. She saw him daily because the front of the first floor was a convenience store that he owns. He eventually said ok he would treat her apartment, but he sent up a guy with flea bombs who's a homeless alcoholic who hangs out in front of the store. The man stunk of urine and was drunk, so she refused to let him in her apartment. The landlord then accused her of not letting him treat the apartment. At this point she's spending a lot of money keeping the pests at a low level. She is also apparently really allergic to the bedbugs because her hands swell up a few times to the point where it affects her writing and she can't sleep well. I also noticed that her decision making at this time wasn't necessarily at her usual level, which may have been from the lack of sleep\/stress.\n\nFast forward a few more months and she mentioned it to me. I looked up the issue online and it said for CT you need to ask the landlord in writing a few times and then you can report them if they fail to treat, so she typed up a letter and presented that to him. He responded by saying she hadn't been paying all of her rent (untrue) and raising her rent by $100 a month.\n\nShe wrote a second one maybe 6 weeks later. At this point she has a video of cockroaches just walking on her downstairs neighbor's door in plain daylight. (Her apt. never got quite that bad). This time her landlord just puts a note on the main door for her saying she is evicted and needs to leave in a week. \n\nCoincidentally that weekend we found out that her downstairs neighbor was using section 8 and that the laws are stricter for section 8 apartments. She called the section 8 office. They had someone come out the next Friday and the apartments were immediately shut down because he wasn't on any of the section 8 paperwork (it was all in the previous owner's name). They sent everyone to a hotel that night. The people who sent them to the hotel said the landlord would have to cover the hotels and the deposit for a new apartment. We thought everything was solved. Nope.\n\nShe ended up spending 10 weeks in hotel rooms with her son during the school year and never got the deposit back. After 2 weeks they did at least move her from going to a different motel room every night to an extended stay place with a stove and small fridge so she could cook real food and not move every day. \n\nShe is now in a new apartment, but she left all of her furniture at the old place because she didn't want to bring anything over. \n\nIs there anything she can do to try and recoop some of her financial losses? Or does her delayed time in seeking an investigation from the Section 8 office hurt her? During this time she also ended up dropping out of her classes at a local university bc the stress of everything was too much. She's re-enrolled now, but she lost the money she had paid for last semester. So she's out quite a bit of money overall.","title":"Slumlord Landlord - Should my friend be compensated?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555022747,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc6a49\/ex_controlling_ex_gf_is_trying_to_get_me_jumped\/","id":"bc6a49","body":"Hi. So my ex GF who\u2019s been controlling and abusive both emotionally and physically is threatening to press charges for a fight we got into where i snapped and ended up defending myself physically. She created additional bruises after and has photographs claiming the altercation was much more than what occurred. After the incident happened we broke up and i have been trying to keep my space. She\u2019s been holding the incident over my head and showing up at my house unannounced, contacting me a bunch of times and generally acting crazy. All a while going around and telling people that its the other way around. That i am the one harassing her. I have been out of town for weeks now due to this. She is now organizing for her new boyfriend and family members to ambush me at my residence upon returning. I have a lot of evidence to prove the contrary of her claims. Text messages after i blocked her where she claimed i couldn\u2019t run from her. Messages where she stated she was going to fight me. Etc. What are my options?","title":"[EX] Controlling Ex - GF is trying to get me jumped and threatening to file domestic abuse charges","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447600291,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3swgxz\/oh_shot_paintballs_at_people_and_received_a\/","id":"3swgxz","body":"Ok for starters I know I'm an ass and everything. With that said me and 4 friends were driving around a college town at about 1:00 at night, we shot at a few moving cars and a few groups of college kids. On top of the college area, we shot just cars and houses in another nearby area. The police told us 3 people had called in complaints about us. ( were pretty sure it was just the college area calling in). \n      When their lights flashed we pulled over quickly, we complied with the officers request, me and one friend confessed on the third time they asked who shot, and we were in general being compliant and the police left seemingly happy saying goodnight and everything.(they were easygoing so I don't think anybody got seriously injured). \n        Anyways my friend and I got a misdemeanor citation form that said we were disturbing the peace, (wit:shooting pedestrians with a paintballs gun.) So what I would like to know is what a likely outcome to this could be\/ how important would it be to get a local lawyer before my first court date\/ is there anyway too keep it off my permanent record (only other punishment I would definitely want to avoid is jail time), and if it's possible what are some options I have for keeping it off my permanent record? \n        Thanks and sorry if I gave too much\/too little information, let me know if it's the latter","title":"[Oh] shot paintballs at people and received a citation, what can I expect?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540225855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qfg03\/mail_man_straight_up_told_to_my_face_he_wasnt\/","id":"9qfg03","body":"Long story short; my apartment complex has a wall of mail boxes (community mail box) and mine broke. My housing manager got me a new box, 5 feet away from my old one, and put my address on that one. Mail man said he\u2019s not going to put my mail in the next mail box because it\u2019s inefficient for his sorting process.\n\nNote, there are no hazards, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the new mail box, other than it makes his sorting process 2 seconds longer than usual. Is there anything I can say to someone? I\u2019ve made 6 complaints and 2 personal complaints to him in person and nothing has changed.","title":"Mail man straight up told to my face he wasn\u2019t going to deliver my mail. Is this legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569638013,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daabga\/renter_having_service_dog\/","id":"daabga","body":"Hi guys, I live in upstate New York and my friends and I are renting a house for the school year. One of my friends has had her doctor recommend getting a service dog, and we found a very nice charitable organization that will provide the service dog and training for free. However our landlord has not been cooperating with us at all, we send her very long and thorough emails describing the situation and such, and she responds with single sentences such as \"it clearly says no pets in the lease. Please share what section of NYS law you are referring to.\" and after I sent her tons of links and information about it, she responded with \"I will not be responding to you. All dogs bring fleas, and flea removal costs $350 dollars. If one flea is found flea removal will be required.\"\n\nThere's no way she can legally act like this right? Service dogs are protected under the fair housing act and the Americans with Disabilities act, and she is acting like a complete child about it.\n\nCan she make us pay for flea removal every time a flea is found? What do we do in this situation?\n\nThank you so much for any help, it is greatly appreciated.","title":"Renter having service dog","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539251636,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n8ixr\/ca_cotenant_refusing_to_pay_rent\/","id":"9n8ixr","body":"I am located in California. I am sharing an apartment (off campus housing near a university) with 3 other people. All 4 of us are listed on the lease. One of the co-tenants is refusing to pay their share of rent. The rest of us have covered the rent payment to avoid incurring any penalties from the landlord.\n\nWhile asking about the rent, they turned hostile and confrontational. I received written confirmation (over the text conversation) that they will move out this weekend, with an explicit date mentioned.  \n\nI have the following questions-\n1. Can they refuse to move out on said date? If yes, what are my options? I have read that 30 days notice is required to evict, but am unclear on how it affects removing 1 of the co-tenants. Will their text saying they are willing to move out on the weekend removing that 30 day requirement? \n2. There are unpaid utility bills and their share of the rent. How can I go about pursuing the money?\n3. What is the easiest way to replace their name on the lease? The landlord does allow substitution of tenants in the middle of the lease, but if the cotenant doesnt comply with any requirements (signing the transfer of lease etc) can I legally compel them to do so? \n\nAny assistance is appreciated\n","title":"[CA] Co-tenant refusing to pay rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1549588367,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aob4ak\/i_was_recently_told_id_be_reinstated_at_my_city\/","id":"aob4ak","body":"I resigned my provisional position from a city department on January 28, 2019 to leave for another city department where I felt Unhappy and immediately resigned on February 4, 2019. \n\nI emailed my old department agency for reinstatement. I was emailed back saying it was approved with an official email showing salary, start date, where report, employment commencement etc.\n\nHowever I later received a call stating that everything is on hold since provisional employees do not have rights to their previous title, that DCAS is trying to see if there\u2019s a rule that would allow me back.\n\nIs there a lawsuit here seeing that they made me an offer?\n\nDoes anyone know if I\u2019ll get my job back?\n\nThank you ","title":"I was recently told I\u2019d be reinstated at my City of New York job, now they\u2019re taking it back.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506231018,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/723dl1\/would_my_build_fee_count_as_taxable_labor\/","id":"723dl1","body":"So, I have a bit of a simple question for those that know more about labor and taxation laws. I live in Central California and I plan on doing a hobby business where I build custom computers for clients. In short, I get with a client who requests a build within their price range, and perhaps some inclusions such as desired parts or capabilities, and create a list of parts that are all compatable with one another and bought from Amazon, Newegg, and B&H. On top of that, all parts or data going into a computer case is subject to a build fee of 10% the cost of those parts added up. Things that're excluded are keyboards, mice, monitors, speakers, and other items that do not go on or into the case itself.\n\nIf the client agrees to the price, I am paid in full and order the parts. Once all of them arrive, I build the computer and install a legal copy of the operating system of their choice. The computer is then delivered or picked up. In addition, I include free CAT-6 Ethernet cable installation (not the cable price itself) for high speed data transfer between their modem\/router and the computer, instead of wi-fi. This is done with tape or cable clips that go in the wall and no walls are being drilled through.\n\nWhat it all boils down to is, is this taxable labor and thus I would need licenses and such to do it?","title":"Would my 'build fee' count as taxable labor?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568935885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6m8tr\/new_roommates_separate_lease_oregon\/","id":"d6m8tr","body":"So I have roommates wanting to move in and my landlord wants them to sign a separate lease and raise the rent - again for the same unit. Is this legal? How can I confront my landlord if it is illegal in a way that won't tick them off and throw their hands up and say they can't move in?","title":"New roommates, separate lease? OREGON","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551784677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axk1vm\/before_me_the_undersigned_authority_on_this_day\/","id":"axk1vm","body":"I'm dumb.  I'm having a hard time deciphering the language on this final section of my trust waiver, immediately after my signature.  \"Notary Public\"\n\nIs this for the attorney?  Is this for a witness?","title":"Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared...","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569265220,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8b41g\/younger_brother_16_is_inheriting_600000\/","id":"d8b41g","body":"Quick run down. Parents passed away 2017 step mom had a life insurance policy with only my step siblings on it (no biggie for me). Step brother (16) is inheriting ~$600k. He lives with my step sister who is 24, who also inherited ~$600k.\n\nHow can we stop him from blowing the cash?\n\nSister officially adopted him a few months ago.\n\nWe will be going to the final probate court and they will be releasing all funds to him...\n\nIs there anything we can do to make him invest it or o or give him portions of it at certain ages...?\n\nThanks.","title":"Younger brother (16) is inheriting ~$600,000","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569371723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8vysj\/are_subreddits_aloud_to_ask_for_id\/","id":"d8vysj","body":"I am 20 years old and was going to post on the subreddit Roastme a picture of myself, and they removed it on the auspices that I am not over the age of 18. And wanted me to show a form of ID, yes censoring it where i just shows the relevant info but still dont like the idea of giving that info away like that.","title":"Are subreddits aloud to ask for ID?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568582657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4qt5w\/options_if_exwife_doesnt_vacate_on_time\/","id":"d4qt5w","body":"This is in Florida. Ex-wife and I previously had co-ownership of a house, both names on title. She is still living in the house. She agreed to a buyout of her half of the value of the house and to move out within 30 days of receiving her buyout. \n\nSo I went through the refinance process, with the bank and title company, fully aware this is a refi with a buyout. The title company had her do a quitclaim deed and some other paperwork, and had her put in a signed, notarized letter she had agreed to the buyout, the amount, and the date that she will vacate.\n\nAt this point, the refi process is done, I have gone through closing, and she has received her funds. The clock is now ticking for her to pack and vacate. I have given notice at my apartment complex, and will have about two weeks of wiggle room between her vacate date and my date to be out of the apt.\n\nShe has had a problem in the past with getting anything done on time. If she fails to vacate on the agreed upon date, what are my options?","title":"Options if ex-wife doesn\u2019t vacate on time?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571690107,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl6i7i\/my_landlord_walked_into_my_apartment\/","id":"dl6i7i","body":"While I was at work and my girlfriend was at home my landlord knocked on the door then after a couple seconds just walked in, my moms snake is staying here while she is moving into a new place this week and she said that we must get rid of it and then said we owed $75 for a pet fee although I already paid a pet deposit when I got the apartment, advice?\n \nLocation: Illinois, USA","title":"My landlord walked into my apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542136439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ws2vh\/filing_annual_report_for_llc\/","id":"9ws2vh","body":"This is an extremely simple question but I have not been able to find a clear answer anywhere online. I have an LLC for my business in Oregon. I moved to a new state this year and filed a foreign qualification for the new state (it was easier than moving the entity to the new state). Oregon requires an annual report. That's fine.\n\nMy question is, do I list my principal place of business as my new address, even though it's not in OR anymore? I'm assuming yes, I should use the new address, but wanted to make sure. I did not see anyone else asking this question!","title":"Filing Annual Report for LLC","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570554494,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df2xrb\/help_with_a_bad_landlord_and_arizona_law\/","id":"df2xrb","body":"So me and my brother moved into my friend\u2019s place because they told us we\u2019d be paying 500 a month. This place is 30 min away from where I work so I basically am paying extra on car fees. A few months later they start charging us for electricity. 2 months ago they moved out and started charging us all of the electricity with no warning. They made us sign a \u201croommate agreement\u201d which is basically a lease to them. Now not only have they started increasing rent, the neighborhood is terrible (a pipe bomb went off outside the place and gun shots are normal) and they\u2019re being complete asshats.\nI\u2019m the roommate agreement that we signed, it says we have to give a 90 day notice if we\u2019re going to leave and if we do it after the first of the month we have to pay this month and the next 3 months of rent. Arizona law says a tenant must give only a 30 day notice. Can we get out of it? Also I do not believe they are putting us in as a source of income on taxes.","title":"Help with a bad landlord and Arizona law","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444365365,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o2aib\/how_to_get_my_thumb_drive_back\/","id":"3o2aib","body":"I am wrapping up a legal settlement with my firm in San Diego, CA.  I have resigned, and they have agreed to give me my personal data on the computer I used.The agreement states: \"XYZ Firm\" agrees to provide AfricanFish with personal files she maintained on the hard drive of her computer she used at XYZ, or electronic copies thereof, and certain personal papers.\nThe owners could not figure out how to get my personal files off my computer, so I hired their IT guy to do it for me, at my expense.  To get all the data onto a thumb drive, it was going to take 8 hours so he left, and told me it's on a thumb drive at the firm.\nI texted one of the owners, and asked her to put it in the mail to me.  She did not reply, and is being uncooperative.  \nThe settlement has been signed by both parties, but I still have 5 days left to revoke it. I do not want to revoke it, because it took months to settle, but at the same time, I feel like I'm going to get shafted on my personal data (photos, correspondance, mp3s etc.)\nDo I have any leverage here?","title":"How to get my thumb drive back?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569436668,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d97iko\/my_father_is_stopping_paying_child_support_next\/","id":"d97iko","body":"Here\u2019s the situation (Indiana)\n\nMy parents divorced in 2016(?)...a few years ago. I am 18 and my brother is 20, but not emancipated yet. My father has been sending child support to my mom since then (she had full custody).  Recently we (myself mom bro) learned that my dad will be moving a state over next month, and does not plan on paying child support until I am at least 19(age of emancipation).\n\nI have been told that a warrant will be issued for his arrest if he doesn\u2019t pay but it seems he doesn\u2019t plan on it anyways (Idk if this is true I haven\u2019t done research yet)\n\nWhat are our options? My mom barely makes enough to get by right now and I would like to pursue any and all options possible. \n\nSide note cuz not sure if relevant: He was arrested in 2013 for a DUI (I was in car) and later he drove drunk again with me but I was young and scared and didn\u2019t call the police, luckily I made it home safe (2015). For these reasons I want to do as much as I can on this issue","title":"My father is stopping paying child support next month, even though he is still Required to. He is moving a state over for a new job next month as well.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553533301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5d94u\/law_regarding_being_fined_twice_for_the_same\/","id":"b5d94u","body":"Jan 25th - Fined for two front tinted windows. Cop explains to me I have until April 16th to get them fixed or go to court. I can have them on up until that day he told me.\n\n​\n\nHave not fixed them yet as I have a few weeks left to.\n\n​\n\nMarch 25th - Pulled over for front tinted windows. Cop explains to me they can fine me \"as many times as they want\" until I get it fixed.\n\n​\n\nThis was in California. What is the law? Which officer is lying?","title":"Law regarding being fined twice for the same citation","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554237344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8ojve\/is_there_a_minimum_wage_law_for_training_at_work\/","id":"b8ojve","body":"A friend got a job as a server at a local restaurant about 1 month ago. I know employers are required to pay enough in wages if the server doesn't make enough in tips to satisfy minimum wage (7.25). \n\nMy friend's 1st paycheck they - only worked 10 hours (2 days-training). They were paid the regular server wage of $2.13\/Hr but was not given tips because employer said it was 'training'. \n\nTheir next paycheck, they worked 20 Hours and was paid the 2.13\/hr, and $200+ tips, so employer acknowledged them as a regular employee no longer in training. \n\n​\n\nLocation: Texas\n\nBut was their 1st paycheck legal? I've done extensive googling, but closest thing I could find was people under 20 can be paid 4.25 for training, but read nothing about being paid only 2.13. \n\nThank you.","title":"Is there a minimum Wage law for training at work? (Texas)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569364233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8uk7j\/i_have_two_bench_warrants_for_traffic_offenses\/","id":"d8uk7j","body":"I received 2 fines a couple weeks ago in a county I rarely visit with inconvenient courthouse hours, 9-5. I work 8-5 and I tried to phone in to give a guilty plea but was told that I need to either do that in person or through writing.\n\nI wasnt able to make it up there at all due to my work schedule and now I have two bench warrants for the fines I got that day, one for my inspection and one for my windshield.\n\nIf I go to the courthouse to plead on the tickets, will I get arrested immediately without having a chance to pay anything for it? I'm really freaking out and I know I seriously screwed up, I just dont want to go to jail...I was gonna take a sick day tomorrow to go up and take care of this.","title":"I have two bench warrants for traffic offenses. Will I go to jail? [PENNSYLVANIA]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569638338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daadjs\/cash_app_scam_i_dont_want_money_i_want_revenge\/","id":"daadjs","body":"Location : New York, USA\n\nI was contacted by a girl to buy illicit goods through Snapchat. I sent the money through cash app but they never supplied the goods. I am not interested in getting the money back, but is there anything I can do to screw them over? Obviously they have a digital footprint of me trying to buy illicit goods so I would also need to make sure I don't screw my self over. They probably will continue to use these accounts to screw other people over so I would like to at least get those accounts banned.\n\nThe info I have:\n\n* Cash App account\n* Snapchat\n\nAppreciate the advice.","title":"Cash App Scam - I don't want Money I want Revenge!!!!!","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571280014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj02wi\/woman_fired_for_hygiene_problems_now_suing_for\/","id":"dj02wi","body":"(Louisiana) My boyfriend is a cook at a fast food place, and it\u2019s all white people working there except for two black girls. One of them worked in the front and she had really bad hygiene problems which customers complained about, she smelled bad, greasy hair and face, wiped her nose on her sleeve etc. Apparently there were a lot of complaints about her B.O. from her coworkers and from customers. For a long time the manager said he couldn\u2019t do anything but recently the restaurant got new management, and the lady was fired last week. She is now claiming that she has been fired for being black and is threatening to sue everyone working at the restaurant, including my boyfriend, the manager, and the old manager for what she says \u201cdiscriminatory practices and unfair work environment\u201d. Word of this spread through text. She was apparently fired for having hygiene problems. The manager has told all the employees not to talk about any of this with anyone, but no one has followed that rule. He also has talked about firing certain people who have complained about this woman before, just to \u201cavoid litigation.\u201d What does that mean? Does she have a case? What should my bf do? His manager already is cutting his hours and openly blaming him and a few other employees for this whole thing.","title":"Woman fired for hygiene problems now suing for discrimination","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539422041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nshlc\/clocked_for_speeding_officer_wrote_wrong_speed_on\/","id":"9nshlc","body":"I was going on highway 5 southbound where the speed limit is 70mph in the Grapevine. I admit that I was speeding in the range of 86-88mph. Officer said he clocked me at 95mph and wrote that on the ticket. I asked him questions on how and that I wasn\u2019t going that fast but he ignored me. I know in CA that 20mph over the speedlimit is reckless driving and you don\u2019t get offered traffic school. This is the first time I\u2019ve been pulled and this has a potential of being 2 points. I have an arraignment soon and don\u2019t know how to approach it. Any suggestions?","title":"Clocked for speeding, officer wrote wrong speed on ticket. (CA)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552690775,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1lg9a\/right_to_shoot_california\/","id":"b1lg9a","body":"My car has been broken into. The next time the person is sitting in my car and is stealing my stuff, do I have the right to shoot to injure him from getting away or the right to kill? ","title":"Right to Shoot? CALIFORNIA","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444399499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o3ovp\/florida_contracted_roofers_and_paid_6000_down\/","id":"3o3ovp","body":"Background info: My girlfriend and I live with her brother + brothers fiancee in a 1,500sqft house that my girlfriend and her brother jointly own (no mortgage, their names are on the deed). I work 60+ hours a week, my girlfriend works 20 hours a week + is working on her masters degree, brother works 40 hours a week as a teacher so he also spends 10-20 hours a week grading papers at home. His fiancee is a social worker who works 40 hours a week. This is all to point out that we're all regularly very busy during normal business hours.  \n\nRelevant bits: \n\nWe signed a contract, paid half before and half after the job, to redo the roof of our house with a roofing company that has been around for ~20 years. So, we paid them $6000 in late June.\n\nWe had contact with them during July- picked out shingles, arranged a start date (mid-July), etc. Then, the lead of the roofing team assigned to our house had a family emergency -- his brothers sudden death -- and they asked if we could postpone the start date a week or two; we said yes but did not discuss a specific new start date. \n\nAfter waiting 3-4 weeks, now mid August, we called them a few times and got no answer. We ended up calling a few times every week or two when the roof came up, never got an answer or a call back. \n\nNow, yesterday we found out from the realtor that originally recommended them that they went out of business in mid August. I don't know if they filed for bankruptcy or what, all I know is I have a signed contract with them, we paid $6000, and then they shut down without so much as a call to say \"Oh by the way, we're going out of business\". \n\nAs far as getting our money back goes, what recourse if any do we have?\n\nEdit: I found the contractors License number, and looked it up; it is listed as \"Revoked, Active\" which based on their glossary is directly contradictory, so I have no idea what his licenses current state is. His company is listed in some places as \"[Company] Inc\" but his license specifies \"d\/b\/a [Company]\" so I believe legally it's a sole proprietorship or partnership meaning he is personally liable. ","title":"Florida: Contracted roofers and paid $6000 down, they went out of business.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1411832735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hmeoc\/pulled_over_for_going_85_in_a_65_i_didnt_have\/","id":"2hmeoc","body":"I live in California. I was pulled over for going 85 in a 65 on the I-5. For some reason my insurance card was not in my glove box where I usually keep it, but I do have insurance. My ticket has the violations 22349(a) and 16028(a), and they are both listed as non-correctable. I have done a little research and from what I've read my fees may be well in excess of $1,000. I am not in the best financial situation right now so I'm wondering if there is any way I can provide proof of insurance and get my fees reduced. I'm also curious how many points this will add to my license. ","title":"Pulled over for going 85 in a 65. I didn't have proof of insurance.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554951618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbv3k6\/do_i_the_tenant_have_to_pay_for_a_high_water_bill\/","id":"bbv3k6","body":"In the past two months the water bill has equaled $1600. My two roommates split last month's because I couldn't afford it, and this month's is going to be the same price. Am I responsible for paying that bill, even though I had no influence of a broken water main? Can we get compensated? The landlords got a plumber to fix it hopefully. I have no idea why my roommates haven't sought compensation and they're asking me to pay $300 for water again when they had a whole month to figure this out. Utilities are under my roommates name. Live in Texas.","title":"Do I, the tenant, have to pay for a high water bill because of a broken water main?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569962532,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbzhin\/ca_got_a_hernia_from_work\/","id":"dbzhin","body":"I first worked at this restaurant when I was 17(2018), for 3 months, and although some of the duties seem normal for a restaurant they are strenuous; bring down heavy boxes, carrying ice buckets, etc. Sometimes they would keep me past 9:30 which was not allowed on account of me being 17 at the time. Shortly after quitting and while on vacation I started to feel a sharp pain in my lower abdomen and was underweight  for the majority of that year. I didn\u2019t think much of it at the time but after coming home and visiting my doctors I found out that it was a hernia and my mom and I knew right away it was from working there. I mean where else was I gonna get a hernia from, I was just going to school and going to work. I took no legal action then but recently have been needing some financial help and decided to just go back to that job since I left on good terms. The job I have now is the same job I had then, lifting the heavy boxes and carrying ice buckets, same duties and same title. Its the first of October 2019 today the hernia is much bigger, causing me pain, and I\u2019m now in the process of scheduling a surgery. \n\nI read on a poster at work that they won\u2019t pay me the days I\u2019ll be out since I haven\u2019t been there for 90 days. I\u2019m not even making minimum wage here. If anyone has any advice on what I can do please let me know.","title":"[CA] Got a hernia from work.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541532876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9urjqe\/in_florida_truck_carrying_yard_work_palm_tree\/","id":"9urjqe","body":"The driver wouldn\u2019t acknowledge her and refused to pull over on the highway.  She has his license and took a picture of vehicle.  Can she still make a claim?  There is significant damage to her vehicle.  How do we go about doing this?  ","title":"In Florida, truck carrying yard work (palm tree roots, branches) and a stump fell off their truck and hit my girlfriends car while on toll highway.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553251872,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b43mi1\/project_manager_in_foreign_country_is_my\/","id":"b43mi1","body":"Throwaway account, because reasons.\n\n​\n\nLet me say first that I am not a legal expert nor am I an accountant. I know nothing about these things which is why I just went along with anything. it was not until this point that I realize I may want to be a bit more assertive.\n\n​\n\nBackground:\n\nI am a US citizen.\n\nI am a traveling project manager (PM) for a very niche industry. We offer services for a specific industry and we have very few competitors (none for some of our services) in the world. The company is based in Utah, USA and that is where most of our projects are done (with a few in Canada and occasionally in the UK). Most of our projects involve sending a PM to the location of the client. The PM then hires a team of local temporary employees (the amount depends on the size and scope of the project), trains them and manages them until the project as been completed, the client satisfied and the contract fulfilled. These projects can range from 1 month with 6 temporary employees to 1+ years with 20+ temporary employees.\n\n​\n\nMy Project:\n\nI am currently on our company's first project in Greece. I arrived in the country about 4 weeks ago. I used the first two weeks to prepare and hire. I'm now two weeks in to production with a team of 9 locally hired Greek employees. The project is supposed to last until early - mid August.\n\nI currently have a Greek national visa that lasts until mid-August.\n\n​\n\nThe problem:\n\nEven though we signed the contract for this project in 2017, our controller and president put off preparing what was necessary to legally hire in Greece. It was not until a week before my plane left the United States that they finally decided to contract with a business\/legal consultant in the country to handle all of the legalities of hiring the team I needed. This consultant determined that it would be best for us to hire our employees under what I understand is the Greek equivalent of \"contract\" employees. This would be temporary until our company established a Greek entity (LLC) to be able to hire them as actual employees.\n\nI'm not sure of all what goes into setting up this Greek entity but we're in the process and currently not finished. for reasons I'll explain soon, I have paused performing my end of this until I have some questions answered. However, it should be said, that I am being assigned as \"director\" of this Greek entity. I'm not sure exactly what that entails. I'm pretty sure what they want me to sign next gives the consultant's lawyers power to open this entity on my behalf and do what needs to be done, which I have not signed yet.\n\nAs I mentioned, I am already in Greece with full team, working in the client's building. The client's general manager approached me today to sit down for a meeting. This is not ordinary because I am just a project manager. I do not deal with invoicing, contracts or anything like that. I just make sure the work gets done. He informed me that the way my company is setting up a Greek entity is inefficient and unnecessary. He informed me that while what we're doing is legal, it will most likely result in loads of unnecessary taxes and most likely an audit from Greek authorities in which case I (as the director) will have to return to Greece and handle. He suggested that we stop establishing the entity and instead allow them to hire our team and handle their payroll since they are already legally established int he country, then just deduct the employee's pay from our invoicing of the work.\n\nObviously, this spooked me a bit. I did not realize that what's happening might be putting me in a precarious situation. Obviously I want to now go with the client's suggestion as it would make my job much easier and make me less liable (I think?).\n\n​\n\nI'm contacted my direct supervisor, our company's controller and president about this meeting I had and the client's suggestion. As it's not day time in the US yet, I have yet to hear back. However, I am fully prepared to demand my own personal legal representation and a raise if they want me to be \"director\" of this Greek entity and handle all responsibility that comes with it. I'm not paid much. I have this job because I love it and I get to travel the world. However, I'm not prepared to put myself in jeopardy for it.\n\n​\n\nMy questions essentially boil down to this:\n\nWhich method sounds the best legally speaking for me?\n\nAm I in any legal trouble if we decide to go with the Greek entity?\n\nAm i over-reacting in asking for personal legal advice and a pay raise?\n\nWhat else should I know\/be asking?\n\n​\n\nThank you all kindly!","title":"Project Manager in foreign country, is my incompetent company putting me in legal danger?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1507224427,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74hhwa\/north_carolina_felony_larceny_of_motor_vehicle_by\/","id":"74hhwa","body":"My 16 year old brother was arrested last night and charged with felony larceny of a motor vehicle and misdemeanor unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Over the weekend, he was checking cars to see if they were unlocked with the intent to steal things, found an unlocked car with the keys in the console, took it for a spin, lost control and ended up on a median. There was a witness who identified my brother as the driver and he confessed when the police came to our house to question him. \n\nMy brother completed a diversion program for a misdemeanor trespassing charge earlier this year and just had a misdemeanor paraphernalia charge dismissed earlier this week. His lawyer says he will not be eligible for a felony diversion program and his only chance at avoiding jail time is getting the charge reduced to misdemeanor larceny.  \n\nI know that felony larceny in NC is decided based on if what was stolen was worth more than $1000 and the car definitely was. There was minimal damage to the car. I also know he will be tried as an adult. What are the chances the lawyer can get the charge reduced to a misdemeanor considering his history with the law, his confession, and the witness? \n","title":"[North Carolina] felony larceny of motor vehicle by a minor","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1408666653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e8cqz\/florida_my_father_died_left_his_house_to_me_and\/","id":"2e8cqz","body":"My sister's been living in the house since my father's death 8 years ago, when I was age 14. Now that I'm an adult and have bills to pay, I realize that she's reaping the benefit from my half of the asset. What are my options? There are renters in the house and I'm under the impression that enough rent is being charged to result in a profit. Am I entitled to 50% of that? If the only other option is selling the home, what route would I take to put legal pressure on the other party (my sister) to sell, or buy me out of my half? Thanks in advance for your time and if there are any further questions, ask away.","title":"(Florida) My father died, left his house to me and my sister. I haven't seen a dime since his death. How do I legally seek the benefits from my asset?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540572700,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rmghj\/can_my_landlord_refuse_to_repair_an_appliance\/","id":"9rmghj","body":"I'm a renter in Vermont. There's a large appliance in my apt; a few months into the lease it was inspected and the inspector decided that it's not safe to use. I don't think our landlord is planning on having it repaired but we can't get a firm answer out of him about it. I looked at the Vermont renters handbook, and it says clearly that appliances that come with an apt are expected to be kept in working order, so I think they should have to repair it, but what recourse do we have if they don't or just stall forever?  \n\n\n​\n\nI don't think I can have a professional fix it myself, due to my apt being a condo and there being an HOA that has to be dealt with.  \n\n\n​\n\nI offered that the landlord could give me a rent reduction instead of repairing it, if the repair is too difficult but they amount they're willing to deduct is extremely small, so we can't seem to solve it that way.  \n\n\n  \nIs there anything I can do? Please keep in mind that I want to keep living at the apt.  \n","title":"Can my landlord refuse to repair an appliance that broke during our lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570745138,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg5czl\/easy_2k_for_me_per_new_client_or_fraud\/","id":"dg5czl","body":"Trying to assess the legality\/my risk of a situation I\u2019ve encountered at work. NYC medical  device startup \n\nDon\u2019t need specifics, but we are charging clients $100,000 and they need financing sometimes. I\u2019ve contact a finance broker that would link them up with a lender. This financier company would give a 2% kickback. The rep said \u201cwe can donate the money to a local church, give it directly to you, or your company. We even have a guy who likes us to order things on amazon and ship to him.\u201d\n\nSo my question is if hypothetically I was able to get this company to send me the 2% without having to let my colleagues know, is this illegal. As a representative for the company am I required to disclose this?\n\nProbably won\u2019t work.. I\u2019ll probably end up pitching it as an extra revenue source or maybe give it to the client as good will.\n\nThanks!","title":"Easy 2k for me per new client or fraud?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552669193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1hbx6\/landlord_and_management_are_actively_refusing_to\/","id":"b1hbx6","body":"I live in Minnesota, which is currently facing a lot of flooding issues. Two days ago, my basement apartment began flooding because of the melting snow and heavy rain combo. We reported it immediately to our landlord, who said okay, \u201cI\u2019ll address the issue\u201d tomorrow (this occurred in the late evening). \n\n​\n\nThe next day (yesterday), the flooding got worse. My girlfriend\u2019s father was coming from two hours away to get us a ShopVac and dehumidifier. At this point, there has been no further contact from our landlord in terms of a solution\/temporary fix. My girlfriend called the main management office and had to leave a message. \n\n​\n\nMy girlfriend, her father, and I spent all day moving\/packing away items. Luckily nothing was damaged because we began moving things right away. Still no response from management or our landlord. At this point, the landlord has called in a ShopVac and dehumidifier. For use in their own unit. My girlfriend\u2019s father has now spoken with the landlord and received the management\u2019s personal cell number.\n\n​\n\nAfter calling the manager\u2019s office phone several times with no answer, he finally resorted to calling her personal phone. Her response was \u201chow did you get this number,\u201d \u201cI wasn\u2019t aware of this issue.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t call me again.\u201d During the call, my girlfriend\u2019s father mentioned condemning the building because of the mold that would surely grow as a result of the lack of action.\n\n​\n\nWe continued working, now coming up on half the day spent on this issue. My girlfriend\u2019s father called the landlord again to tell them that the management is refusing to respond. A little while later, I passed the landlord in the hallway and she asked to speak with him. I heard her say \u201cDon\u2019t talk to us about condemning this building, that\u2019s our business, not yours.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019ve been calling us all day and I don\u2019t want you bothering us anymore. This happened last time too.\u201d (I should add that this is the second time the apartment has flooded in less than 6 months). \u201cWe can\u2019t give them another space because they can still live in there.\u201d\n\n​\n\nI will close this rant by stating that the landlord claimed that our apartment was still livable despite the fact that \\*she has not even bothered to check for herself\\*.\n\n​\n\nToday, the day after the above-mentioned fiasco, the apartment smells like must and damp carpet. We have ShopVac-ed all affected areas many times, have had fans running since we originally reported the issue, and have had two dehumidifiers running as well. My father came out and helped us pack away our things in his truck and rent a hotel room to share with us. Wouldn\u2019t you say this is worth breaking lease without punishment? Did I mention that this is all happening during midterms week at university?\n\nI\u2019m exhausted, send help.","title":"Landlord and management are actively refusing to assist with ongoing flooding.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551524143,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awgnwh\/aus_nsw_employee_did_not_pay_me_wages_and\/","id":"awgnwh","body":"So here's the summary of the situation  \n\n\nOver a year ago I was sent to interview with and then worked for a business. They turned out to be sketchy as fuck.  \nThey never paid me a last paycheck, and the last paycheck I ever did get was a week late so essentially I wound up missing 3 weeks of pay in the end. I did call them after that to mention this and they said to email them about it and deal with it later. nothing came of it and due to reasons I didn't chase after it. Now I'm in better health and want to get my money.  \nAlong with that, I never got a contract and so am not even 100% what my title or status was. Based on my pay rate and hours I must have been classed as full time, but I never got paid out my unused benefits on leaving. I'm not sure how to work out what my entitlements I'm owed are though; is it only eligible to be paid out if I work for so long for the business, or from the start?   \n\n\nAnyway I am going to contact them again, but I'm 100% certain they will not want to pay me my wages so what do I do next? ","title":"(Aus, NSW) Employee did not pay me wages and entitlements","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506536512,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72u7gf\/illinois_my_father_died49_and_my_sister_is_17_how\/","id":"72u7gf","body":"She currently receives money from social security from our fathers death because she doesn't work, but she wants to be able to make money now. I've heard people say you can work X hours a month, and I just wanted to know if she's allowed to work, and if so, how much.","title":"[Illinois] My father died(49) and my sister is 17. How much is she allowed to work and still receive full SS benefits?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445868433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qa4tc\/pa_quotation_usage\/","id":"3qa4tc","body":"So I did search posts previous to asking, and one Q\/A comes close, but not close enough, so I feel comfortable asking you guys and gals for help.\n\nI would like to sell paintings with quotes on them. How can I tell what quotes are legal to use, and which are not? \n\n\nI see so many quotes done up in so many mediums on sites like Etsy and Amazon. While I cannot imagine they all have obtained the rights to use these, I could be wrong. \n\n\nI want to do this as well, but what do I run into legally? And what if the quote is from \"Unknown\"?\n\n\n","title":"[PA] Quotation Usage","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571771787,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlmth8\/my_landlord_gave_me_a_three_day_notice_to_preform\/","id":"dlmth8","body":"So some previous details if it matters. My wife and I are 23M and 20F in Central Valley CA, I just got approved for disability, and my wife is my payee. I spent most of my formative years in a very different culture and country, despite being a US citizen my entire life, which has contributed significantly to my disability, because of this there are some things about the US I genuinely don't understand. Please be nice with your language, I'm mentally ill as heck, and this is all terrifying, I moved out of an abusive house hold into this mess. There have been other incidents with management generally being shitty, although I'm not sure what I have recorded from that. I think I have some pictures from when it took them a week to clean up a full bag of trash strewn about the grounds that I ended up grabbing, when I talked to them about that one their response was that they only had one arborist working. A friends girl friend works at a local legal aide office and apparently their highest number of complaints are from specifically this place, and specifically this realtor.  \n\n\nSo on 10\/21\/2019 we went to the office because we found out the toilet was leaking. They asked us what time we'd be home and I specified I didn't want them there after 3:00, I am emotionally disabled and if I don't live my life on a schedule very meticulously my psyche suffers. At 4:00 while I was sleeping someone rang the doorbell, I got out of bed in about a minute and went to the door and the person was already gone. No worries, I walked down to the leasing office and told them I missed the guy, and that I didn't appreciate them showing up at 4:00 when I specified I didn't want people there after 3:00 and had told them so. The guy shows up a few minutes later around 4:20 or so, by 4:28 he was gone. His words were, \"It's getting close to quitting time boss\". I was frustrated but I didn't say anything, I triple checked with him the time he'd be here in the morning. He said 8:00.  \n\n\nThis is now 10\/22\/2019 I woke up at 7:20 in the morning, I even got ready to make eggs for the dude because it must be hard waking up and going into other peoples houses. 8:25 roles around and I'm starting to get upset because I know I specified 8:00. I went to the leasing office and asked them to print out a copy of my rental agreement, and the work order, and while they were printing them out I chewed them out for generally being lazy about their job when their job is peoples lives. I didn't raise my voice, there weren't other residents in the office, I didn't threaten them with anything other than implied legal action. Again, I recorded the entire thing. Fast forward to 8:40 AM the maintenance guy I specified the time with the night before shows up. I was leaving the house for the day, and told him such and he headed off.  At 10:00 AM they gave me a work notice stating that weather or not I agree they would be in the apartment tomorrow from 9:00-5:00. Which again isn't a problem, I'm disabled, I don't mind people coming over and fixing stuff, it's just the way they went about it. Then at 11:00 or so who I assume is the companies lawyer delivered a piece of paper. So the specific wording is   \n\n\n**\"Three day notice to perform conditions and\/or covenants or quit. The condition the quote is, \"Resident and residents guests shall not violet any criminal or civil law, ordinance or statue in the use and occupancy of the premises, commit waste or nuisance, annoy, molest or interfere with any other person on the property, or neighbor. Any such action may result in the immediate termination of this Agreement as provided herein by law. Resident shall refrain from creating, or allowing to be created, any noise that is disturbing to other residents. Resident is also responsible for compliance with any local noise ordinances.\"**\n\n\"**State specific facts of breach and\/or Violation(s): On 10\/21\/2019 John Doe came into the leasing office twice using threatening statements and foul language towards office staff. Again on 10\/22\/2019 John Doe came into the office with the same aggressive attitude using foul language and talking down to office staff. Any issues need to be addressed in a calm non threatening manner. Residents and guests are not to approach office or maintenance staff in an aggressive or threatening manner.**  \n\n\nThere weren't any other residents in their office, I chewed them out without raising my voice while they were printing out copies of my leasing agreement and the work order because I thought those might be handy to have. I even informed that I was recording when I walked in, loud enough for the audio to pick it up clearly. \n\nFrom what I understand they aren't evicting me, they're just threatening me, I'm scared my wife is scared, what do we do? I have a copy of the work order, all papers they've given me, the conversation at the leasing office, and a copy of every notice they've given me. \n\nThis complex is known for fucking people around, I know that property agencies especially do this with low income people, I don't know if I should lawyer up or just start paying attention. Please help me, I'm making immense progress with my mental health and I can't be homeless, I won't come back from it. I'm terrified. I know I probably shouldn't have gotten mad but they 're disrespecting me because they can get away with it and that's very upsetting to me, I didn't raise my voice, that's why I recorded it all.  \n\n\nWhat's the game plan?","title":"My landlord gave me a three day \"Notice to preform conditions and\/or covenants or quit.\" For complaining about them not fixing my leaking toilet.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541629393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v42xh\/landlord_charged_me_1100_for_blinds_and_cleaning\/","id":"9v42xh","body":"Washington state, king county\n\nNow, I know this isn\u2019t anywhere near as interesting as some of the posts you get here, but I do have a couple questions and would appreciate any assistance.\n\nLong story short, I recently moved out of an apartment I\u2019ve been at for the past five years. Did the usuals deep cleaning, minor repairs, etc. \n\nMy original deposit was $1250, less a $100 non-refundable cleaning fee. My old landlord sent me a check for $45, citing \u201cdamaged blinds and apartment not left in a clean state.\u201d\n\nBoth of these charges I have an issue with. Admittedly, two or three sets of the eight blinds in our apartment needed repair. We had two cats and a dog over those five years (all allowed in the lease), and you know how animals can get. However, they were not new when we moved in, and we were charged $60\/piece for all sets of blinds in the apartment, which does seem reasonable for a restring, but I don\u2019t understand how I\u2019m on the hook for all of them. He did send a copy of the invoice from the company, where it shows they charged $528 for the work. Which he subtracted $600 from the deposit for, so that\u2019s obviously not right.\n\nIi\nAs far as the cleaning, nothing was ever specified as to why or what needed cleaning, just that the apartment did, and they used a flat fee \u201cmove out cleaning\u201d service that charges by the hour, for which I was charged $55\/hr for 11 hours of work (in a 600 sq ft apartment, mind you) and deep cleaned the whole thing.\n\nAgain, I don\u2019t understand if I should be on the hook for what (to me) seems an egregious sum designed to pass on as much of their turnover costs on to me as possible. If say, the cupboards weren\u2019t cleaned, how does that justify $600 of charges during which the entire apartment was cleaned?\n\nI did receive invoices from both companies they used, not estimates, and as mentioned before, the math was wrong as those charges do not add up to 1105.\n\nDo I have any recourse here? I\u2019ve scoured local tenant rights materials, but can only find information on if deposits are withheld without detailed invoices.\n\nThanks you in advance.","title":"Landlord charged me 1100 for blinds and \u201ccleaning.\u201d","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539211861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n4e45\/magic_car_repair\/","id":"9n4e45","body":"Hi and TY- first time poster\ud83d\ude0e\nMy car was hit by a (likely) uninsured driver.  \nIt leaked fluid all over the street.  I have pictures of this on my phone.  \nI had it towed to the local Toyota dealer because I didn\u2019t want to drive it and risk it.  Toyota sent it to the dealer- owned body shop next door instead.  \n10 days later the body shop fixed the exterior damage and called me up \u201cit\u2019s fixed, come get it!\u201d\n\n\u201cGreat!  What did you do to fix the leak?\u201d\n\n\u201cNo leak, we checked it all out, it\u2019s good to go!\u201d\n\nInsurance adjuster called a few minutes later and said I needed to return the rental car by the end of the day ( it\u2019s 3pm) and go pick up my car.\n\n\u201cDid they fix the leak?  Cause I wanted the mechanic at the dealership to look at it and fix whatever broke.\u201d\n\nIns. Adj :  no, body shop says it\u2019s fine come get it\u201d\n\nMe:  \u201cWeird, did they replace any parts or bill us for labor on leaking parts?\u201d\n\n\u201cNo, just the body and paint\u201d\n\nAt this point they had my car for 10 days and a mechanic had still not seen it.\n\nSo I authorized out of pocket tow and inspection at the Toyota dealership ( same campus, same owner, down the street) to have a mechanic look at it.  Next day I call at 9:15 am and ask if they had plans to look at it today.  \n\nManager said he had his top dude look at already it and IT IS Good2Go!  \n\nI\u2019m like wow, what was broken and leaking all over the place?  Radiator?  Washer fluid bottle?   Hose?\n\n\u201cNo, nothing we can see, no leaks and good to go\u201d\n\nI said I wanted a second opinion and I would call their manager directly.  Turns out that they DROVE MY CAR back to the body shop and refuse to release it until I pay \n\n- $500 deductible,\n-$?   Two tow bills \n-$?     Diagnostic fee$$\n-$?   Two days of my rental car and counting \n\nI call bullshit, but what can I do?\n\n\n","title":"Magic car repair","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553279124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b48jdm\/do_i_have_to_speak_to_this_insurance_company\/","id":"b48jdm","body":"So to put a long story short I was driving at night and pulling though to the center of a highway so that I could turn left. I saw a car coming but it was a good enough distance away that I should have been able to make it, but the car was speed 40mph above the speed limit. He swerved at the last second to avoid t-boning me and in the process swerved off the road. As soon as it was safe to do so I turned around pulled over behind where he went off and joined the other people who stopped to see if he was ok. Police arrive and we both tell him what happened. To the mans credit he did tell the trust while not specifying his speed stated he was driving too fast. All of this was recorded by the officer. He did not ask for my insurance information but he did take my name,phone number, and statement. This all happened about 2 months ago and I have not heard anything from the police in regards to the incident or my insurance company. I have however begun receiving calls from his insurance company about the inside the asking for my insurance information. I told them that I didn\u2019t have it on me which was true and asked them to call me again at a different time. I\u2019ve since been declining there calls. My question is can I get in any legal issues if I continue to decline there calls. ","title":"Do I have to speak to this insurance company. Indiana","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554773020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb1wyh\/contract_percentages_for_theatre_collaboration\/","id":"bb1wyh","body":"US-based writer here hoping someone on this sub has some knowledge of the theatre industry! I am a musical theatre librettist currently seeking composers for a few upcoming projects, and for the first time, I'm probably going to be working with someone I don't know well. Because of this, I want to have a contract upfront, the way the Dramatists' Guild (the playwrights' union) recommends, but I could use some advice regarding the division of future profits.\n\nIn musical writing, there are three jobs: the book writer (who does story structure and all non-song scenes), the lyricist (who writes the words to the songs), and the composer (who does the actual music). In many cases, you'll have one of each, and the usual agreement is to split everything in thirds. However, I'm never sure what to do in cases like mine, where there is only two people, with one doing two jobs (the book and the lyrics) and one doing one job (the music). Complicating matters is that, of the three components, composing music usually takes the most time\/energy.\n\nIt feels wrong to have a 50\/50 split when I've done two \"jobs\" to my partner's \"one,\" but it also feels wrong to take 2\/3rds when there are two of us who are theoretically in an equal partnership. The music produced by the composer would not be work for hire or commission, but part of a collaboration. Any chance anyone here has knowledge of the theatre world and can advise on what is appropriate or typical? Thanks!","title":"Contract percentages for theatre collaboration","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539807175,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p26zn\/i_forgot_to_pay_a_40_ticket_now_i_have_to_apear\/","id":"9p26zn","body":"I feel like I have a very good excuse for forgetting to pay it. So, I would like to explain myself in an attempt to convince the judge to lower my fine to the original amount. \n\nI've never had to appear before a judge before. Do I plead guilty and then explain myself? I'm definitely guilty of the original fine but I do feel like I have a decent reason for forgetting to pay. ","title":"I forgot to pay a $40 ticket. Now i have to apear before a judge and the fee is up to $150.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570918929,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh1va3\/apartment_complex_has_one_dumpstercompactor_and\/","id":"dh1va3","body":"I've lived here since February and one thing I've noticed was how terrible they are with compacting it often. It piles up and it's disgusting. A couple months ago they sent out a flier telling residence that they would charge us $25 a bag if it is left outside the dumpster. Problem is they dont compact it so where are we gonna put our trash? Have it pile up in our house until they finally compact the dumpster? It's disgusting and unlivable and a ridiculous way if blaming the residence for a problem they caused. \n\nSo what can I do? This has to be violating some kind of law. We are in the state of Arkansas by the way, if that matters.","title":"Apartment complex has one dumpster\/compactor and they don't compact it often enough for the amount of waste, and have now started charging residence $25 a bag if they leave it sitting outside the dumpster.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1413436390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2je4nz\/california_im_a_computer_tech_what_are_my\/","id":"2je4nz","body":"For the third time in a year one of my clients found a listening device in her home. It was disguised as a USB stick with a hidden microphone and enough memory to record 60+ hours of conversation. I was able to find a hidden switch on the device and copied the audio files to her computer, then I switched it off and gave it to her. \n\nAs a rule I don't involve myself in my clients lives. However, this keeps coming up and I worry that since I'm the one doing the initial discovery I may eventually get called to testify in court about what I found. Anything I do could damage evidence if I screw it up. I have legal protection and obligations to report child abuse in California, but wiretapping and computer tampering against an adult does not carry the same duty to report (I think). Is there anything I should be doing to protect myself and my clients? \n\nThank You, \n\n-M","title":"[California] I'm a computer tech, what are my obligations and rights when I find evidence of a felony? (Penal Code 631?)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1447183864,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sb7dx\/tx_looking_for_help_understanding_an_eviction\/","id":"3sb7dx","body":"Last week I won an eviction case by default (I was the plaintiff) and the tenants filed an appeal two days after judgment via an \"eviction case appeal bond (surety)\".  A third party (an individual) acknowledged they are firmly bound to me in the amount of $3400 in order to file an appeal.  \n\nThis is below the back rent due but would be sufficient for me to not pursue any further legal action.  How do I interpret this?  Does it mean the third party had to post this amount to the court in order to file an appeal?  Or are they merely acknowledging they are \"on the hook\" for this amount if the tenants lose their appeal case?\n\n[Here is a link](http:\/\/www.jp.hctx.net\/forms\/2013%20APPROVED%20FINAL%20RULES%20-%20WEBSITE%20DOWNLOADABLE%20FORMS\/EV-Appeal,%20Appeal%20%20Bond%20and%20Oath%20of%20Surety%20510.9.pdf) to the form the tenants and the third party had to complete for reference.","title":"[TX] Looking for help understanding an Eviction Case Appeal Bond (Surety)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568848934,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d65eeb\/illinois_my_employers_prohibits_employees_from\/","id":"d65eeb","body":"Pretty self explanatory. I\u2019m wondering if this is legal. Today I learned that my employer won\u2019t let us leave the premises during a break (not a lunch break). Can they enforce that? I guess I wouldn\u2019t be surprised since employment laws are generally not in an employee\u2019s favor.","title":"Illinois: My employers prohibits employees from leaving the premises on a break.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446679704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rk4ih\/am_i_entitled_to_compensation\/","id":"3rk4ih","body":"Background; this happened in August of 2014, I live in Maine and am 18 years old. In August I got into a car accident on my way home from work. It was about 9:30 at night and I was on my way home from work. I was on a busy 4 lane road and a drunk woman ran into the street and I hit her with my car. Not hard but enough to give her a concussion. No charges were pressed on me because she wasn't in a cross walk and there was nothing I could have done to avoid hitting her. I didn't receive anything from the accident other than my insurance going up. I feel horrible about this whole thing still and I really need to go to counseling. My insurance only covers so much and my payment to go to counseling is roughly 1,000 dollars. Is there anything I could do to get help with counseling from this accident? I have anxiety and now its horrible driving at night especially in the town in occurred in. Any help is appreciated, thank you.","title":"Am I entitled to compensation?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569275045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8dfhf\/pretty_sure_my_fiances_boss_violates_federal\/","id":"d8dfhf","body":"My fiance's boss is an older fellow who operates a local fast food joint, and being old with money on his hands he likes to take quite a few vacations a year. Now as we can all imagine this wouldn't be a problem except that when he does this he moves payday temporarily every single time. \n\nAs I understand it since it's not permanent or for business reasons he's violating the FLSA. Am I correct? Should we consider pursuing further advice? It really hurts our budget when he does it and we have a kid to worry about.","title":"Pretty sure my fiance's boss violates Federal labor standards act every time he takes a vacation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553399593,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4s5ei\/landlord_keeps_promising_to_make_a_repair_and\/","id":"b4s5ei","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice,\n\nI have some questions about dealing with my landlord. I'm posting the actual relationship side to \/r\/relationships. \n\nWe've had a few problems in the past and he isn't super consistent and the building is kind of shitty in ways that might be too detailed to post here but I think might be out of general compliance. But this is about one of the issues in particular.\n\nBasically, we were told in early January that our tub was causing a leak on the floor below us. We can shower but not take baths (which is irritating because a bathtub was a major requirement for finding a place). We were told vaguely that he would be coming in a day or two, which he did not. We have communicated entirely via text since then and have followed up no fewer than seven times. Sometimes he responds, sometimes not. He has been here at least twice since then, coming into our apartment for other reasons (complicated and identifying reasons, but basically he made time to come speak with us. One of these times was a day he said he was going to fix it but that his repair team was not able to come). I know he's been in the building at least once another time as well and is probably around every once in a while. \n\nLast update was a vague kind of \"my guys are busy, waiting for them to be free\", which is nuts to me because it's been over two months and if they are that tied up... why not have another repair person who isn't one of his usuals?\n\nThe Rent Board has told us that he's required to provide basic features including plumbing, but I'm not sure if being unable to use the bathtub counts. They suggest we discuss a rent reduction with him as compensation. \n\nBasically, I'm not sure if that's appropriate or not, I'm not sure how one goes about doing that (asking about reduction), and the Rent Board says that he cannot evict us for that reason but I worry about other retaliatory action. How do we handle this situation? We are, according to him, now month-to-month tenants, so can he just kick us out then and it not be an eviction and is instead him just deciding to end the business relationship? **We only have it from him saying that we are now month-to-month in person. the lease says that the term of the rental begins XXXXXXXX and ends on XXXXXXXX, which has now passed.** \n\n**tl;dr told we can't use the bathtub because it leaks on the floor below. LL has been giving us the runaround when we request that he fix it for about 2 months. Not sure how to push this forward and also avoid unfair consequences.**\n\nLocation: CA\n\nThanks!!","title":"Landlord keeps promising to make a repair and then not doing it","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445887527,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qbhux\/ohio_data_preservation_and_liability_it_service\/","id":"3qbhux","body":"I run a small IT service provider in Ohio, and we provide outsourced IT services to small and mid-sized organizations (e.g. $10-$20 million businesses are our typical customers).  As part of our offering, we provide various levels of backup and recovery capabilities based on the needs and budgets our clients, including disaster recovery services.  For some clients, we're just consulting (e.g. here's your backup configuration; you monitor it and let us know if you have any problems).  For other's we provide monitoring, and for others... disaster recovery validation work.  From a technical standpoint, problems with recovery most often arise with line of applications (e.g. practice management software, ERP systems, etc.) where recovery procedures really need to be validated before the disaster occurs.  The risk that I'm trying to determine is if... what could we be liable for?  If we just setup the backup software, and they never once looked at it, and they're not paying us for monitoring, and 3 years later the disaster occurs... can we be held liable?  If not, what if we're doing monitoring?  If not, what if we're doing validation and something goes wrong and we can't recover?  From what I understand, if this were this Massachusetts and not Ohio, the provider would be protected under [General Law 93H](http:\/\/www.mwe.com\/info\/news\/wp1109a.pdf), which has something to do with data security, and the preservation of data being the business owner's ultimate responsibility (e.g. not us, as the service provider, and not any of our providers that we're reselling).  Or at least, that's what folks I've talked to in my business tell me.  So far, I haven't found if Ohio has an equivalent - is there such a thing?\n\n\nTLDR; As an IT service provider in Ohio, one that's providing backup and disaster recovery services... would we be liable if we were not able to recover everything?  Is there some equivalent to the Massachusetts [General Law 93H](http:\/\/www.mwe.com\/info\/news\/wp1109a.pdf) in Ohio?  Is there anything I can do in terms of our service contract to limit our liability?","title":"[Ohio] Data preservation and liability (IT service provider)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570675901,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfrsmm\/uklandlord_not_sending_invoices_for_deductions\/","id":"dfrsmm","body":"Hi all, \n\nMe and a few friends moved out of a rented house on the 1st July of this year. After a month I contacted the letting agents asking what had happened to our deposit as we had no received our deposit back. They replied saying \"The landlord was due to send me some invoices for cleaning and something else , which he believes should come from the deposit\". This was great and I was hoping that our deposit would come back to us. \n\nAfter a month of not hearing anything I contacted the letting agents again asking what had happened to the deposit. They replied saying \"Apologise I thought the deposit info etc had been sent across. I will resend , but it may either be later today or tomorrow morning at the latest.\" Great hopefully things are now getting sorted. \n\nFast forward to October 1st and still no deposit back. I once again asked for information about the deposit and got this reply \"We are just waiting for the landlord to resend us a cleaning invoice and damage to the hallway floorboard. I envisage this will be with us today.\"\n\nI have still yet to hear back from them. What can I do in this situation? Do I have any legal protection that can speed the process up or get it resolved ? \n\nThanks","title":"(UK)Landlord not sending invoices for deductions from deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571457025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djyl5g\/my_boss_outed_me_at_work_lgbt\/","id":"djyl5g","body":"hey all,, I was told I should put this post in r\/legaladvice because you might be able to help me. \n\nif you are not LGBT+ friendly, and not transgender friendly, please leave this post. \n\nI am a transgender man (FTM), identifying as he\/him, and I am having problems at work because of my LGBT status. I want to know what my legal standing is in this situation. Even if nothing can be done, I would still like to know if it\u2019s not legally acceptable, so that I can have some closure in that area. \n\nI just recently got a minimum wage job at a clothing store. Everything was great and I actually enjoyed going to work, until we got a new assistant store manager. She flat out asked me what I was transitioning from and to, and since I\u2019m \u201cstealth\u201d***, I don\u2019t like questions. I just replied that I\u2019m male. That\u2019s all I\u2019m comfortable with anyone knowing. I have been in really dangerous situations before when other people knew I was trans, some have come after me in groups to my home.\n\n{*** Stealth. The term stealth in its most extreme sense refers to a person who passes as their desired sex or gender at all times and who has broken contact with everybody who knew their gender history.}\n\nI have never and will never feel comfortable being out as trans. I am trying to be stealth and am only ever comfortable being stealth. I do not enjoy being a social experiment or a teacher. I just want to live and do my thing. My being transgender has never had any bearing on how I preform at work. I do what\u2019s asked of me, don\u2019t slack off, don\u2019t expect special treatment, and am always respectful to other staff. I have never had any need to tell anyone at work that I\u2019m trans, and I would have preferred that no one knew, given my history with bad experiences.\n\nAfter this new assistant store manager asked me that, I started feeling really uncomfortable. I meant to respectfully talk with her after my shift, but she had left. I ended up accidentally crying about it in front of the store manager, and he took a very cautious (but ignorant) approach to calming me down. I don\u2019t expect cis people to understand, but I expect basic decency. From this talk, I found out that someone in the executive tier of the store thought it was a good idea to tell all the management staff that I am transgender.\n\nI never gave permission, and was never once asked for it.\n\nI really feel that they have been treating me differently since I found out. Maybe I only noticed it because now I am aware and scared. They have tried to get me to talk about\/admit to being trans, and recently gave me \u201cgrunt-work\u201d duties that are not in my job description. I am not in operations, but they had me doing cart pulls and loading the garbage dispenser. They could have asked anyone else, we have janitors as well. I have also noticed that they\u2019ve been either more distant or pushy, there\u2019s no in-between. I don\u2019t feel safe or welcome at this job anymore, but I can\u2019t afford to just quit. I have had a very hard time finding legal ground for what went on, and I don\u2019t even know if it is legal to out me. It should not be.\n\nI would really appreciate any helpful advice, or even any kind words to help me through this. (I don\u2019t really have much support where I am.) If you\u2019re going to tell me that this is just how it is, then keep it to yourself. I don\u2019t do well with \u201csuck it up buttercup\u201d approaches. I want to fix this somehow or find a solution, even if that means just letting it go and getting another job. Please feel free to share any information that may be helpful. If you have any suggestions on how I can prevent things like this from happening again (from a legal point), please let me know. Thanks for reading...","title":"my boss outed me at work (LGBT+)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504838778,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ys2gc\/casubtenant_vs_guestwhen_does_someone_become_a\/","id":"6ys2gc","body":"So I was moving to a new city and was looking to replace myself with a friend who was moving here from a new city. My friend moved in and I moved out. Two months in I sent several emails asking about subletting or adding my friend to the lease and received no response from my onsite manager. He did eventually call me and let me know that subletting was not allowed, I explained that I wanted to be kept on the lease and add a new roommate which seemed to be okay. I wanted to be kept on as I was going to be moving back after a year. My friend sent in an application to the onsite manager to be forwarded to management but received no response. After about a week of no response the onsite manager served us with a 3 day covenant or cure to remove the illegal roommate, still without any response as to the application. My apartment is a two bedroom and is currently rent controlled and month-to-month on the lease.\n\n \n\nThe main lease itself does not forbid subleasing but has this about guests:\n> * Guests staying over 14 days cumulative or longer during any 12-month period, without the owners written consent shall be considered a breach of this agreement. ONLY the following listed individuals and or\/animals, AND NO OTHERS shall occupy the subject apartment for more than 14 days unless the expressed written consent of the owner is obtained in advance, (the 14 day period maybe extended by local Rent Control Laws): \\_\\_N\\A__\n\nSince the lease doesn't actually list who the only people allowed in the apartment are above a 14 day period would this allow me to have my friend stay over that 14 day period? \n\n \n\nAn addendum to the lease states this for a sublease\/guests:\n> This is an Addendum to the Rental Agreement and\/or Lease and shall be attached thereto and made a part thereof. Lessor and Lessee agree to the following additional terms:\n\n> * The lessee agrees not to assign this lease nor sublet said premises, not conduct any form of business in the apartment or on the premises.\n\n> * No subletting shall be allowed at any time without the express written permission of the owner. Any additional persons residing at the premises must be approved by landlord, prior to move in and requires a full application and approved credit at owners sole and absolute discretion. No other person may take occupancy without the express written permission of the owner.\n\n> * No guest shall stay more than 7 days without notification to owner, and any one staying past 7 days shall be considered a tenant and the above rules apply.\n\nDoes my friend staying above the 7 day period technically make him a tenant or occupant of the apartment?\n\n \n\nI never signed the lease however I did sign a \"roommate addendum\" which stated: \n\n>Added TENANT NAME (\u201cAdded Tenant\u201d) is responsible for all obligations pursuant to the Agreement. \nThe parties hereto agree as follows:\n\n> * All legal rights pursuant to the Rental Agreement, including return of any Damage or Security Deposit(s) are assigned to the remaining and added tenant. Any apportionment of such deposits or of prepaid rents, between Incoming Tenant and Departing Tenant are solely to be resolved between them and Landlord has no responsibility for such apportionment.  An additional pet deposit of $50 will be required.\n\n> * Tenants  agree to be responsible for all terms of the lease.\n\n> * Nothing herein shall be construed to imply that Owner\/Agent will consent to any future change in tenants.\n\n> * Except as set forth herein, all terms and conditions of the Agreement remain in full force and effect without amendment. Receipt of a true copy of this agreement signed by all parties is hereby acknowledged and attached to Residential Lease.\n\n\nSince I never signed the original lease does the addendum on subletting still apply?\n\n \n\nMy roommate can of course find a different place, and I have other friends who can move in. However, there has been no official response to the application. When I called the onsite manager he said my friend was denied because of not having a credit history. When I asked if he could reapply with a guarantor they seemed hesitant to allow me. Are there any applicant rights as far as response to an application\/discrimination go?","title":"[CA]Subtenant vs Guest\/when does someone become a tenant?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444241080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nv9lg\/pa_does_the_credit_card_purchases_minimum_allowed\/","id":"3nv9lg","body":"The nearest convenience store put a sign on their signature capture machine that there is now a $3 minimum on debit and credit transactions. I know that Dodd-Frank allows a \"minimum purchase amount\" of up to $10 on credit transactions, but does this also apply to debit transactions? I was under the impression that debit transactions were capped to prevent this.\n\nThank you for the help.","title":"(PA) Does the credit card purchases minimum allowed by the Dodd-Frank refrom also affect debit transactions?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555188737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcv4b5\/why_report_fiscal_tax_year_in_a_financial\/","id":"bcv4b5","body":"I just served my financial disclosure and my X is upset that I did not calculate based on the 12 months leading up to the due date. I did as my lawyer recommended, and used numbers directly from my 2018 tax return. \n\nWhy is she wrong?\n\nThanks \n\nOntario","title":"Why report Fiscal tax year in a financial disclosure. Ontario","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444689904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oifhy\/oakland_ca_landlady_is_cancelling_our_lease\/","id":"3oifhy","body":"Okay, here's the situation.\n\n - Two of my buddies signed a lease and put down a deposit of ($4800) for a 3 BR in the Cleveland Heights neighborhood in Oakland.\n - The move-in date for this lease was today (10\/12).\n - A few weeks ago we asked to put my name on the lease, to which we got absolutely no response despite several follow up emails.\n - Today (our move-in) when my two buddies asked for the keys to the building the landlord began yelling saying that she doesn't want \"6 people living there\" (her words, there's just 3 of us), and then not only did she not allow me to join the lease, but refused to let my two buddies move in at all. She says that she'll refund our security deposit but the lease is cancelled for everyone.\n\nIs she legally able to break a lease like this? (Remember, we only *asked* if I could be added to the lease. Never once was I going to sublet or stay there secretly). Also, it seems absurd to not allow 3 people to stay in a place that was advertised as a 3BR. We're all now without homes for the time being, what action can we take?\n\nAlso, what legal action could we take if she refuses to give our $4800 back?\n\nThanks!","title":"Oakland, CA Landlady is cancelling our lease without notice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443628303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mz9yk\/illinois_do_i_have_any_recourse_to_convince_the\/","id":"3mz9yk","body":"This year my wife was killed when her stopped vehicle was struck by a woman who was driving under the influence of multiple drugs.  Through the investigation it was determined that she was stealing these drugs from her place of employment.  At this time the states attorney has filed two counts of aggravated dui and one count of reckless homicide.  The states attorney offered her a plea after a 402 conference earlier this month.  The defendant then last week requested a stipulated bench trial which as described to me would essentially provide an option for a not guilty verdict but the judge would be bound by the same guidelines of the plea for sentencing should she be found guilty.  Because of this I feel she has no incentive to take the plea deal.  I feel like now is the time to press the other charges as an incentive for the defendant to take the plea deal so this can all be over.  That being said I would also like to see this woman also charged for stealing the drugs from her employer as well so she can be prosecuted for her actions to the fullest extent of the law.  Do I have any recourse to convince the states attorney to file these additional charges?","title":"[Illinois] Do I have any recourse to convince the States Attorney to file complete charges against the woman who caused my wife's death?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1538661514,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lc4nk\/partner_accused_of_sexual_harassment_but_beyond\/","id":"9lc4nk","body":"I'm using a throwaway, obviously, and changing some personal details to protect our privacy, but the details are specific and unaltered.   \n\n\nMy partner is currently in Illinois for a seminar with the company he works for. He, with several other employees, have been housed in a local hotel and are being shuttled back and forth to the seminar by the company. The other employees, like him, are from all over the country so he doesn't know any of them and though he's conversational with them after several days in their company, he's not really friendly with any of them. That said, a couple of days ago he was notified that someone in the hotel (not sure if guest or employee) made a complaint against the company, naming my partner and one of the other employees specifically for sexual harassment. Both men have been blindsided by the complaint, and since the company is refusing to give ANY other details (particularly what the behavior was that prompted the complaint), they have zero idea what they've done to offend.   \n\n\nI've been through this myself, so I'm *assuming* they were talking and someone overheard something they thought offensive. In my case, many years ago, I was with a group of coworkers and there was a slightly off color joke and a passing employee overheard us and reported us. But they told us what we were in trouble for, though they didn't reveal who reported us; it was irrelevant anyway and protecting her privacy is of course important. My partner doesn't flirt, he doesn't touch (he doesn't like to BE touched, so he keeps his hands to himself 100% of the time), he doesn't tell jokes or stories that disrespect women or minorities or any other marginalized people. I don't know the other employee, so I can't speak to their conversations over the last few days or his own behavior, but my partner and I have actually talked through everything he remembers over the last week (which is how long he's been there) and even I'm not hearing anything that's even cringe-worthy, much less harassment. Not the point though... I believe my partner, but I also believe that someone felt harassed and my partner understands that, too, so that's not why I'm here. The company has reprimanded both men and stated that they're not being fired, but that it's a one-reprieve policy and that any other complaints will result in termination.   \n\n\nHe was going to just keep his head down and finish the last two days of the seminar, but it's become apparent this morning that the instructors are aware of the situation and they're treating him and his coworker differently... as of now, it's not affected the training they're attending, but it has affected the attitude of the instructors and it's becoming stressful and difficult to get through the day, particularly since neither of them have ANY idea what they've done. I want to know if he has any recourse for making the company tell him what prompted the complaint. He doesn't even want or need to know WHO made it, just what he did\/said that was offensive so he knows how to modify his own behavior to ensure it doesn't happen again. ","title":"Partner accused of sexual harassment but beyond notifying him he's been accused, company is refusing to share ANY details or allow him to refute\/explain","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568625141,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4y4au\/advice_on_a_possible_error_in_a_will_usa\/","id":"d4y4au","body":"Okay, Unfortunately my grandfather passed away  a few months back and the time has come for the will to come out.\n\nHis estate were sold, leaving just money in the will. My mother is the main benefactor of the will once any tax liability etc has been paid. However my mother's cousin has also been made a benefactor of the will. Previous wills he was entitled to 200,000 usd of which this was to be paid 2000usd a month until either the money ran out or he passed away. This money was intentionally staggered due to drug problem with him and also he is currently in prison for stealing from a church.\n\nHowever the very last iteration of the will before he passed was changed for various reason and the monetary figure is now written as 200,00usd like that. Which either the comma is in the wrong place or they have dropped a zero off by accident, either way an error, but it is written as twenty thousand dollars, not two hundred thousand dollars.\n\nIs this grounds for contesting the will? At the minute solicitors believe he is entitled to 200,000 usd, however the will doesn't state this technically.\n\nThis man is a drug addict who spent his mother's comsiderable estate on drugs also within weeks of receiving it and fed his addiction from also stealing from a church so in regards to morals it is a bit grey. If he was a good man, it wouldn't be contested. My grandfather was sheltered from this due to his frail health, a career Air Force NCO and a patriot who turned to God towards the end of his life.\n\nMy mother is thinking of going to court over this, can I gauge people's opinions on this?","title":"Advice on a possible error in a will USA","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569667177,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daef8o\/is_it_legal_to_test_semen_taken_from_a_workplace\/","id":"daef8o","body":"There are three men where I work and one of them went out on his own and bought an black light and scanned the male bathroom without telling anyone( he\u2019s not in a position of leadership or authority if that matters). He told our boss that the bathroom was covered in semen from the walls to the sink and basically blamed the other to men working at our site. Is it legal to DNA test the semen samples found in the men\u2019s restroom and would the testing even be possible? Thank you!","title":"Is it legal to test semen taken from a workplace bathroom? And how old does semen have to be before it\u2019s unreliable for DNA?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569345414,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8q9jd\/work_comp_claim_clarification_kansas\/","id":"d8q9jd","body":"I was injured on the job (Federal Detention Center in Kansas Ran Privately) on 9\/6\/19 around 0700 hours when I stepped into a hole in a section of uneven ground, at the time I happened to be transporting inmates out of the RHU (Restrictive Housing Unit) due to a fire. As a result I severely twisted my ankle and haven't been able to walk well seance. I was put on indefinite light duty provided by there work comp doctor(No Prolonged standing, crouching, or bending. However today I came in for my mandatory overtime the Captain decided to put me into a housing unit that I would have to stand for 12+ hours. When I notified them of my light duty and showed them the note that is on file in HR, they had me wright and sign an Incident Statement for refusal for follow verbal orders (Insubordination) . What does Kansas State Workers Compensation Law saw about this? \n\nThank you - \n\nOPKingfisher in Kansas\n\nP.S. Please no comments about US Private Prisons","title":"Work Comp Claim Clarification? Kansas","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507096122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7468hq\/ca_tow_yard_has_my_car_fees_seem_excessively_high\/","id":"7468hq","body":"Hello, first off I am not disputing the legality of the tow (parked on a fire lane in my residential complex, forgot to move it), but the fees amount.\n\nMy car was towed tonight from 92677 after 6 PM, to a towing yard in 92561 (close at 5 PM) - if I was to pick up my car right now, as of 10:40 PM, they would charge After-Hours, and it would be $394.\n\nIf I wait until tomorrow morning, it's $284. How fucking absurd is it that they are charging a day's storage (even if I pick it up tonight) when it hasn't even been 12 hours yet? Is there any bullshit I can call them out on via laws\/municipality, or am I screwed like this?\n\n* please don't remove zip codes, I thought it'd be helpful to specify laws","title":"[CA] Tow yard has my, car fees seem excessively high for less than a day's storage","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446993889,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s0bl7\/ontario_canada_ex_husbands_payroll_sloppy_in\/","id":"3s0bl7","body":"Here's a good one. 3 years ago, my now wife divorced her ex. He agreed to child support, a paltry sum. He did not make a single payment for 6 months and the Family Responsibility Office issued a garnishment order for the support.\n\nHere's where the fun begins: His employer's compliance has been spotty at best. Some months, they will pay on time, but more often than not, they will not remit to FRO in a timely matter and the chasing starts. 36 days go by, they are now considered late and it's a call to FRO. FRO then calls his payroll and the money eventually shows up.\nThe whole idea of getting FRO to enforce the support was so that my wife did not have to do any chasing. She asked FRO what leverage they had to get the payroll person to pay on time. The answer: not much, all they can do is call and hound. Because it's a company, not a person, their position is that the employer would have to be \"grossly late on a regular basis\" for FRO to take any legal action.\n\nSo here we are, it's November 8 and both October and November's payment has not been remitted and the 36 day phone call to FRO is going to happen tomorrow.\nWhat legal means are there to ensure the garnishment gets paid in an orderly and as agreed manner? I should add, is there an inexpensive route because the support amount is a joke, 200\/month. And though we don't depend on the money, there's a principal at play. We're simply fed up with having to chase. We pay our bills on time, we expect that the employer handling the garnishment would behave in the same fashion.\n\nThe employer is a small-ish company, family run and the paymaster is related to the owner, we hear she's a bit of a dolt. Contacting the ex husband directly is not an option.\n","title":"Ontario, Canada. Ex husbands payroll sloppy in remitting support garnishment.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553789155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6kn91\/notice_for_adult_child_to_move\/","id":"b6kn91","body":"On mobile, apologies for formatting. \n\nMy daughter lives with her father to save money. He and I have been divorced for 10 years. He has recently flipped out and told her she needs to move out today. We are in Colorado and I believe he has to give her 30 days notice even if she is not on the lease for their shared apartment . She has been there 6 months and receives mail there. I\u2019ve tried looking up the statutes but only found one that MIGHT pertain to the situation. \n\nShe does have money saved but realized yesterday that her check shows she\u2019s just short of the income requirements. If she claims her cash tips, she will exceed the income requirements but needs time to show the extra income. \n\nCan anyone point me in the right direction? TIA","title":"Notice for adult child to move","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541711132,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vdxv5\/estate_questions_for_living_grandfather\/","id":"9vdxv5","body":"Hey, everyone! \n\nI hope this is the right place for this post. So my grandfather raised my brother (28m) and I (26f) as his own and has a house in Southern California. He recently retired and moved to Indiana with my mother to be closer to his friends and other family. He also owns the house out there in Indiana. This is the first time he hasn\u2019t lived with us and we decided we should start implementing legal plans for if anything were to happen to him considering he\u2019s pushing 65 and not in the greatest health. The legal plan we hope to have in place is as follows: I would become POA for medical decisions and other legal issues while he is living. If he were to pass, the Southern California house would go to my brother and I, while his Indiana house would go to my mother. I\u2019m flying to Indiana in the beginning of January to visit him and was hoping to get the process rolling for all of this. What are my options? I\u2019ve been told by family lawyers that we need estate lawyers and told by Indiana lawyers we just need to be added to the deeds. I don\u2019t even know if that is possible or reasonable considering our ages? Any advice or help is appreciated!!! ","title":"Estate questions for LIVING grandfather.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552950526,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2pizh\/customer_attempted_to_use_someones_credit_card\/","id":"b2pizh","body":"A customer came into the shop to buy an age restricted product, his ID did not match his card information.\n\nMy boss has told me to confiscate the credit card and report to the police if this happens.\n\nWould I be opening myself to legal repercussion for confiscating this card?","title":"Customer attempted to use someone\u2019s credit card who wasn\u2019t present.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570413127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/decwut\/question_about_deceased_bank_account_and_my_own\/","id":"decwut","body":"My mother passed away on the 21st. I had a deposit that she gave me monthly of 250 dollars come out of her account into mine automatically (its set up to do so), and her name is also a co-name\/owner on my bank account, but I dk not have my name on hers.\n\nWould I get in trouble for this if it were to continue to go into my account before I can provide the bank the death certificate, or would money be able to be transferred from her to mine since her name is technically on mine?\n\nAlso, will it freeze or take any assets from my account or just remove her name from mine?\n\nI am in the state if Florida, thank you!","title":"Question about deceased Bank account and my own.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1549912955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apjv4c\/employer_clocking_us_out_for_lunch_at_a_set_time\/","id":"apjv4c","body":"Hey all. I am from Missouri. \n\nWe all have set lunch times of when we\u2019re supposed to go, but due to what we are doing (childcare) we actually can not go without someone coming to relieve us. This started to become an issue with people waiting until they had two hours left and they\u2019d take their (hour long) lunch which would make it a little hectic sometimes. They would claim that no one would watch their child. \n\nThe issue lies in the fact that they are clocking us out at whatever our assigned time is no matter WHAT. Say your scheduled lunch time is at 1 but you don\u2019t get to go until 1:30, you\u2019re clocked out at 1 regardless. From what I have gathered, the boss has a tough shit attitude about it. We\u2019re losing half an hour of pay and only getting half an hour for lunch. you legally cannot leave your child without another staff or you can be charged with child neglect, so just leaving isn\u2019t an option. \n\nI know that this can\u2019t be legal but I am not sure how to go about it? \nI am already planning on leaving due to other things (refusing to pay us after x time, even though we CONSISTENTLY have to stay because parents refuse to pick up their child, and the company refuses to do anything about it. This wouldn\u2019t be so bad if I wasn\u2019t staying half an hour to an hour without pay every single day but that\u2019s another story). I mainly just need to know what I can do about this until I am able to find another job that pays at least around what I already make. \n\nThanks!","title":"Employer clocking us out for lunch at a set time even if we aren\u2019t leaving at that time MO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447038142,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s34cc\/ontario_i_have_been_handed_an_eviction_notice\/","id":"3s34cc","body":"So, this is my first time dealing with something like this. I'm really scared and young (19) and don't really understand why this is happening. Sorry for any poor formatting, I'm on mobile as I don't have a computer.\n\nOkay here's the rundown-\nI moved in on October 31st. Exactly nine days ago.\nI paid first and last, was promised a reciept but never recieved one. Money paid equalled $1100. \nThe agreement was I could have my pets (domestic pet rats) as it was a pet friendly household, although my one housemate doesn't like them. They do not leave my room.\nI was aked not to clean anything of their's (the rats) in the bathroom, I disagreed politely as I need some access to clean water and that is what I pay rent for. I made sure after this that no trace was left of them and I had always and continue to wash anything in the bathroom I use with boiling water and saop (the bathtub). It was requested that I sanitize and disinfect the entire bathroom, which I refused to do on the grounds of it being unnessesary.\nI have been told the rats could be smelled in the hallway and in another tennants room (the latter I found out to be a lie after speaking with the other tennant in person) on the day that I cleaned them out (five days after move in). I apologized and have since been cleaning them everyday and changing their bedding every three days.\nI was given 24 hours notice that my landlord was coming to check on things, and that I was expected to be fully unpacked and my room spotless. As I do not have any furniture yet, I informed them that that would not be possible, and that the landlord cannot choose when the tennant unpacks. The room was dirt and garbage free and the rats cleaned out again. The landlord never showed up and my inquieres into it were ignored.\n\nToday, the day after the landlord was supposed to show up I recieved an eviction notice that said: \n\nWe as a houshold are not pleased with your attitude and cleanliness of your rodents. You have been given one and only chnace to change\/fix things and it has been nothing but further problems. You have 2 choices, 1. You must be moved out by December 1st and you will recieve on months rent back which is (rent amount). 2. If you choose to take this as your thirty days notice, you are to be out as of december 8th and will recieve one months rent minus one week whih is (rent amount). \nDated and signed by my housemate (landlords daughter). With a request to email her my decision. As well as for me to sign it and return it.\n\nI emailed her asking to speak in person, and spoke with another housemate who has the room next to me. He has no problem with the rats, cannot smell them in the room and had no idea this was going on. He can also not hear them despite them being next to the wall on his side and the walls being thin. He has smelled them in the hall the odd time, but did not complain about it only stated it when asked if he could.\n\nThe only other housemate lives in the basement and I have talked to him once, he is the landlords son. I am assuming he also has no problems with me at this point in time.\n\nWhat I am wondering is if this is a legal eviction. It is obvious that one housemate (the landlords daughter and who is freaked out by rats) has decided this on her own\/with the help of her boyfriend. Her boyfriend doesn't live here but is over often. He has threatened to poison the rats in a joking tone previously, and made snarky comments when I walk past him. The household obviously hasn't agreed on this, and she will not state the actual problems she referenced in the note at this point in time. She was very friendly with me for the first few days, but now will not speak to me now unless it's over email and often my emails to her are ignored.\n\nIf this isnt a legal eviction notice, what do I do? If it is, could\/should I bring it to court? As far as I can tell I haven't done anything illegal or deserving of eviction. I have followed the rules and then some. \n\nPlease help me, I don't want to be homeless again. My previous landlord never had any of these problems, I only moved because of unexpected personal reasons. I'm quiet, keep to myself. No loud music, i've had one friend over today, we stayed for ten minutes before leaving. I am nice to her animals, bring them treats and let them outside, as well as cleaning up after them so they don't hurt themselves. When emailing her I try to be polite and professional. I do admit I have been sarcastic once, when she was telling me I had had a week to unpack. I have since apologized for that.\n\nSorry this thread is such a mess, my mind is all over the place. My questions are: Is this a legally binding eviction? If it is, should I fight it? If I should fight it, do I have reason to? \n\nThank you for reading this, and if I broke any rules please please please tell me. This is my first time doing anything like this.\n\nUpdate\/\/ I have recieved an email back. She has denied my request to speak in person, stating that \"we feel there is no more to discuss...the desision had been made\". This was fallowed by a jab at my financial situation and job status.\n\nUpdate 2\/\/ I want to thank everyone for their help and input. It does seem that I have no legal standing here, so I have no choice but to move out. I guess it was to good (for the first few days) to be true. Finding a place where I live is going to be tough, it took me months to find this place. The housing market in my city is awful. Thanks again everyone! You've been really helpful and I appriciate everything that was said!","title":"Ontario- I have been handed an eviction notice after living here for one week. I feel it is wrongful and unfair. I need advice on what would be the best course of action.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540740380,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s3y2n\/ca_school_putting_up_cameras_in_the_bathrooms\/","id":"9s3y2n","body":"I know that this has been posted here before at a school in pal alto, but I\u2019m trying to see if there is any specific law this violates in California that I can site to justify protesting the cameras. \n\n","title":"(CA) School putting up cameras in the bathrooms, what action can I take","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1417783649,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ocy57\/patenting_a_method_or_an_idea_for_doing_business\/","id":"2ocy57","body":"Hello \/legaladvice\/,\n\n\nMe and a friend have a new original idea to start some sort of new web platform, but we are afraid that some entity with much more resources than us hear about our idea and develop a competitor platform much better and faster than us, making us obsolete.\n\n\nImagine a platform like Kickstarter, would it have been possible for them to prevent someone else from stealing their idea and implementing it while they were still starting out? \n\n\nI'm imagining something like a \"temporary\" patent on our idea that gives us a few years to perfect our platform and gain recognition with no competition. Could this kind of thing be achieved? Would it hold up internationally? (We live in Israel)","title":"Patenting a method or an idea for doing business?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569246400,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d86r4y\/child_support_medicaid_tx\/","id":"d86r4y","body":"The father of my child is incarcerated, and will be unable to pay child support. Unfortunately, I\u2019ve been unable to work full time for the past three years and have Medicaid to cover my asthma medications. (I would not be here typing this without coverage. It\u2019s saved my life)\n\nThe Attorney General wants to close the case since he\u2019s incarcerated, but will I lose benefits since he isn\u2019t paying medical?\n\nPlease help!","title":"Child Support & Medicaid (TX)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554649412,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bah49u\/a_marketing_mess\/","id":"bah49u","body":"Okay, there are 3 entities with a role in this. \n\n- The company I work for - a tech news platform focused on blockchain.\n\n- The agency - they help startups with their marketing campaigns.  Typically early in the fundraising stage. \n\n- The startup - a company that just launched. \n\nI\u2019ve worked with this agency 20+ times. They come to me and few other sites whenever they take on a new client and to arrange for us to promote their new client. \n\nThe agency also often does a marketing campaign where people from the public can participate by sharing things on social media.\n\nObviously, the people just sharing it only earn a couple bucks. My company gets a few thousand, varies but in the $2k-$5k range. \n\nWhen the work is complete - every time the pay actually comes from the company, not the agency. \n\nSo recently the agency contacted me, we ran ads for their client.  Then was told that we\u2019re getting screwed - the company won\u2019t pay. \n\nThe company claims the agency wasn\u2019t authorized to offer any sites like mine. \n\nBut that can\u2019t free them from liability, right? The agency WAS hired by them, and officially you could say they were \u2018running their marketing\u2019.\n\nIf this was okay companies could hire contract workers, have them order services for them, fire them, and say he never had permission so.\n\nI was contacted to do marketing - by the people officially running their marketing.\n\nAnd no one disputes that. \n\nAppreciate any feedback, thanks everyone! \n\nPS - if you\u2019re a lawyer and want to send out some demand letters or something, I\u2019ll put you in for 40% if you collect.   \n\nThis is a multimillion dollar company, since a well known (someone you would know) tech legend became a part of it, which was shortly after all this.\n\n\n","title":"A marketing mess...","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541315113,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u1lu6\/attempting_to_obtain_temporary_guardianship_of_my\/","id":"9u1lu6","body":"(I live in Madison, WI and my sister lives in the St. Louis, MO area)\n\n**I want to know if my fiance and myself may have a case to seek temporary guardianship of my nieces?** \n\nMy family has become seriously concerned that my sister is abusing narcotics and living in unsafe conditions. She has not been keeping appointments with her primary care doctor, instead going to the ER and complaining of debilitating back pain in order to receive medicine. She has stolen pain medication from our brother after he had surgery and takes pain medication from our grandmother. She is unemployed, lives in government housing (where she owes over $2k in unpaid rent), receives food stamps which she sells for cash and lives on her husband's disability paychecks. She smokes pot heavily and has 2 children, both under 4 years old. Her husband is bipolar and schizophrenic and refuses to see a doctor (he is actually diagnosed by a doctor.)\n\nWe became concerned after she mentioned taking acid while her 1 year old was in the house and then after noticing the pain pills from my brother's house were missing. We then had a former friend of her's reach out and let us know that my sister stole $200 from her and that she often drives around at night trying to find someone to sell her weed or pain pills. She had her water shut off and when we went to visit her, her house stank of cat\/dog urine, feces and there were bugs in the kitchen and in the stove. \n\nMy sister allowed us to take her children to live with us while she tried to sort things out, we asked her to find a primary care doctor and keep her appointments, seek a counselor for herself and her husband and clean her house thoroughly. We have had her children for 3 weeks and in that time she has done none of the things we asked or even attempted. We have proof that in the time we've had our nieces, my sister has been selling her food stamps for cash, buying pot and drinking heavily. She is also now refusing to let us keep our nieces until the original date we agreed on and wants them back now.\n\nMy sister has never been caught in anything, she has no arrest record but does have a history of domestics at her residence. We have the proof of some of what she's been doing and invoices of unpaid rent at her apartment and records can show water has been shut off 2 or 3 times in the last year. We are trying to get a clearer picture of if we even have a case in eyes of the legal system before I completely destroy my relationship with my sister. ","title":"Attempting to obtain temporary guardianship of my nieces","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570242831,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddhezr\/ghosts_gun_regulations\/","id":"ddhezr","body":"Under California\u2019s law your are not allowed to purchase a handgun unless you are 21 what if I was to make my own handgun by making it with a p80 built, can i legally register it if I\u2019m 18?","title":"Ghosts gun regulations","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569354749,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8sf4j\/almost_entire_security_deposit_being_taken_by\/","id":"d8sf4j","body":"So I know these are probably asked a lot but my situation seems weird. This is my first apartment, the security deposit is $450 I'm getting back $118.05. I live in Wisconsin. For cleaning theres a breakdown. One is \"pull out fridge; clean\" - 45 minutes. Another strange one is \"clean oven\" - 3 hrs and 45 minutes. The total cleaning is 7 hours 38 minutes  for $267. The other portion of my deposit is for carpet cleaning ($64.95). He told me several times I couldnt hire someone to clean the carpets, its even in my lease. What sucks is I spent a ton of time cleaning. Some of the things listed I know I cleaned well.","title":"Almost entire security deposit being taken by landlord for cleaning is there anything I can do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507649587,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75ht7z\/letting_agency_wants_me_to_pay_400_when_i_am_only\/","id":"75ht7z","body":"I rented a property in England for a year. My contract ended in March,2017 and since then I have been on a periodic contract (month to month). I pay my rent on every 13th of the month.\n\n\u2022 I have paid my rent until 13th of October\n\u2022 I have paid a \u00a3100 deposit\n\nAgent's is telling me that I have to pay the full month of November until the 13\/11\/2017 even though I gave notice on the 02\/10\/2017.\n\nIn my understanding the most I have to pay is around \u00a3140 calculated from the dates of 13\/10\/2017 (the date I paid by) to 02\/11\/2017 (the date my 1 month notice expires).\n\nMy landlord wants me to pay \u00a3200 full rent + the outstanding balance of \u00a3200.\n\nThe outstanding balance comes from January and February when I paid \u00a3100 less rent for the two months because the house was neglected, it was full with serious maintenance issues such as dangerous boiler, wires, not having hot water, rats, the oven was broken, the washing machine as well.\n\nAll this was unavailable to use for 1 month, which led me to wash my clothes in my neighbours and was taking showers in the gym for about 3 weeks. Some of these issues like the oven and the washing machine were fixes within a month, but others like the boiler for the hot water was broken for 5 months and when someone finally came to fix if, 2 days later it was off again and it was just recently fully fixed in September, 2017. The boiler was only for the hot water in the sinks. We had hot water for the shower but during January and February we had our showers available to use for no more than 2 weeks.\n\nLandlord asks me for full balance, because the accounts team probably didn't get the info when I was complaining in January and February, I left the house already and I am abroad now and will be here until November. Landlord sent me an email saying:\n\n\"If you don't pay the balance within the next 48 hours you will incur more charges\"\n\nMy payment date is 13th or October for the next months rent but I stopped my standing order. \n\nMy question is:\n\n1. Can my landlord say they didn't except my notice and continue to charge me for the months ahead?\n\n2. Can this ruin my credit if I don't pay it?\n\n3. Can I sue my agency as I have evidence and witnesses for the neglecting of the house during this period?\n\n4. Is that a threat by my agent?\n\nI would greatly appreciate your help. \n\ntl;dr My agent's landlord wants me to pay a balance that I already argued about in the past and the November rent, because I failed to give him 28 days notice, but my living conditions have been completely inconvenient.","title":"Letting Agency wants me to pay \u00a3400 when I am only supposed to pay \u00a3140 due to maintenance and notice issues. (HELP!)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568989715,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6vpfp\/police_showed_up_asking_to_talk_to_son\/","id":"d6vpfp","body":"In Kansas\n\nSo the police showed up asking to talk to my son (17).  I asked them what it was about and they would not tell me.  \n\nMy son was not home.  I told them this.  They asked where he was and I did not know and I told them I did not know.  They asked me if I knew what he was up to and I asked them to leave. \n\nSo I told them to call my lawyer, not to come back without a warrant.  Gave them my lawyers name.  Called my lawyer.  He (a good friend) told me not to pay him and that when the cops called him he would tell them he was not represnting my son.  If they call me or show up again to refer them to him again.\n\nI want clarification, but sometimes I feel like he likes to be cryptic just to sell his value.  What is the best way to proceed.","title":"Police showed up asking to talk to son.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508537782,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77pipt\/should_i_fill_out_the_fee_waiver_for_my_divorce\/","id":"77pipt","body":"The filing fee is $435, which I don't have right now because I was unemployed for 2 months before my husband and I separated.   I'm couch surfing at the moment.  If I fill out the fee waiver and put only myself down, will the judge want to know where I'm living?  Could that get me into a sticky legal situation?  Should I just borrow money to pay for the filing fee?","title":"Should I fill out the fee waiver for my divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555549455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/befj18\/florida_hoa_is_demanding_that_we_resod_our_lawn\/","id":"befj18","body":"Renter in Florida. My roommate was told about possible fines but never took action or told is about it. Now my landlord is coming after us for 2700 dollars to re-do the lawn. How should i proceed? Can I avoid paying to redo the lawn if i don\u2019t resign my lease (up in July) or can the money come out of my security deposit?","title":"Florida- HOA is demanding that we re-sod our lawn and is saying we have accrued $1000 in fines. My landlord apparently notified my roommate multiple times and he never told me about it until now. What should I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446913185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rwfg6\/missing_cash_register_drop_can_my_boss_make_me\/","id":"3rwfg6","body":"I live in Kentucky.  I work in fast food and one of our really busy days a cash drop went missing (~$200).  I was the one to drop it but when my boss checked the safe later it wasn't there.  They have said that they know I did not steal it but they want me to pay the money back.  They have no way to prove who stole it or what happened since there are no cameras in the store.  Can they make me pay it? ","title":"Missing cash register drop, can my boss make me pay it without evidence?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1508234089,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76xiv2\/will_my_bank_give_information_to_landlord_without\/","id":"76xiv2","body":"Paid my rent a few minutes past midnight and landlord flipped out demanding to know why ect. I didn\u2019t want to deal with the crazy so said I did pay by midnight it must be a bank thing whatever it\u2019s paid. He starts calling me a liar and flipping out about calling my bank to find out. So can the bank give him the info of when I transferred it without my consent?","title":"Will my bank give information to landlord without my consent? Australia SA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569847115,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbaxo4\/my_uncle_left_his_kids_with_their_abusive_mother\/","id":"dbaxo4","body":"My uncle divorced his first wife because she was abusive towards him and the children he left the custody of the children in her hands though. One is over 18 but still lives with his brothers and mom. Also the father (uncle) married another woman and has step kids and doesn\u2019t seem to want the kids. Is there any way to make this easier on the children or to transfer custody?","title":"My uncle left his kids with their abusive mother. Anything I can do to help?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553656558,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5zbz6\/roomate_agreement_for_brother_in_law\/","id":"b5zbz6","body":"Hi Legal Advice,\n\nI know my post is not very entertaining but I was hoping I could get some advice. My husband and I are having my brother in law and sister in law move in with us. I have created a lease but want to know if everything I have in it is legal or if there is anything I am missing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. \n\nRental Agreement https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/2cGM1c9","title":"Roomate agreement for Brother in Law","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539188155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n0vvy\/kids_dad_threatens_to_sue_for_custody_every_time\/","id":"9n0vvy","body":"I live with my family in New Mexico, my ex-boyfriend lives in Maine. we are all originally from Maine. My daughter is 11, son is 7. We had a one night stand, I got pregnant with daughter, moved to NM w\/ my family shortly after she was born because he wanted nothing to do with her. \nFlash forward a few years, we tried to work things out. I moved in with him for 3 years, we had son about 1.5 years in. He started drinking heavier and doing drugs, even though I am an ex addict and asked him not to, especially around kids. He refused and continued to do drugs in the house, so my dad came to Maine, bought my kids and I a plane ticket and we got out of there. \nI have tried for 5 years now to get him to take responsibility, to call the kids, to send them a letter or even a text once in a while. He sends them each $20 on their birthday and Christmas, and never calls or texts. \nI have asked him nicely many times to help me out financially with their care. Every time, he says that I am a drug addict and that he is going to sue me for custody. I have been on methadone program for 5 years, suboxone for 2 years before that. I was prescribed pain meds and started taking too many, got hooked, so went on a program. I took care of my addiction and therefore I take care of my children. I\u2019m not okay with him still doing drugs (smoking pot heavily, no prescription, drinking heavily, does pain pills when friends bring them around, does coke, crack, anything they give him he is up for, so never sure what could be in his system). \nI am sure he says he will sue for custody just to shut me up and stop asking for money. I am just so tired of this same old story, for five years, that I want it to end. I have no idea where to start. \n\nJust as a side note, I talk to his mother more than I speak to him, and her answer is always that if I moved back to Maine then they would help financially (which is not a guarantee). I have repeatedly told her that it did not and will not work out with him and I am not leaving my family. I am sick of the false accusations of me being on drugs, I have years of urine tests to prove otherwise. I need his help and he refuses. \nThanks for reading, I know this is a convoluted post. I get frustrated when I think about the situation. \nTYIA!","title":"Kid\u2019s dad threatens to sue for custody every time I ask for child support","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444883632,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3otgk6\/tn_i_work_in_a_franchised_hotel_the_general\/","id":"3otgk6","body":"The general manager also owns the franchise, I believe. We have rooms with nice furniture that's been updated, and shoddier rooms that haven't. He's told me on at least two occasions not to rent the newer rooms to black people. Other employees have been told the same thing, including one woman who worked at the front desk who he told not to rent to black people at all. I'm  sure this isn't legal, but I don't know who to report it to or how I'd prove it.","title":"[TN] I work in a franchised hotel. The general manager has told me not to let black people stay in the nice rooms.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571266614,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dixd17\/college_giving_out_bs_parking_tickets_and_denying\/","id":"dixd17","body":"Hello! To give some back story, I live in an apartment on campus. We have parking in front of our apartments (that I assumed would be the primary parking, and that I would always have a spot here considering I paid $120 for a pass). If these lots are full, I park in an overflow lot a short walk from my apartment. The other night when I came back pretty late, my entire apartment parking lot and overflow lot was full. It was 1am and I had no idea where to park or what to do, so I parked in the motorcycle parking area because there were like 8 empty spots and I assumed 8 motorcycles would not be arriving considering how late it was. The next day I had a $50 ticket for illegal parking. My school gave me no guidance on where to park if both lots are full, and the parking division is only open until 5pm so I could not call them to ask. I also looked up the parking division policies and found this: \n\nd. Illegal parking is parking in any place on campus other than those areas designated for parking.\ne. Improper parking is parking incorrectly in designated parking areas. Improper parking includes, but is not limited to:\n(1) Parking in an area restricted by signs;\n(2) Parking without an appropriate permit;\n(3) Parking in an area designated for persons with disabilities; (4) Parking in a loading zone over the time limit; and\n(5) Parking over a stall marker line.\n\nWhich should mean I was improperly parked, not illegally parked because I was still in a stall designated for parking correct? I have an in person appeal sometime next week and I\u2019m looking for advice on how to fight it, either getting it lowered to improper parking according to their policies, or getting it completely waived because it was a dumb ticket. Any help is appreciated, thank you!","title":"College giving out B.S. parking tickets and denying appeals, can I fight this?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539976759,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pn08y\/material_possessions_of_a_minor_when_they_become\/","id":"9pn08y","body":"My friend has just turned 18 and her parents have not yet complied to give her both her laptop, SSN, and birth certificate back to her as she\u2019s about to move out. The laptop was given to her when she was 16 from me as a present. She was also given an emergency burner phone from me in case she was in a bad situation which the parents took and have yet to give back. Now that she\u2019s 18, can her belongings be returned to her or should she just cut her losses? She most definitely needs her SSN and birth certificate but the laptop and phone might be casualties she can afford. \n\nWhat are the California laws for material possessions of a minor when they become majority? Specifically are presents\/gifts to said minor, and items the minor purchase themselves, the property of the parents even after they\u2019re of age? Thank you for any and all advice.","title":"Material possessions of a minor when they become 18 CA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442279361,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kzgnm\/multiple_families_dealing_with_mold_in_apartment\/","id":"3kzgnm","body":"Hello Reddit- I'm going to try to keep this short and sweet, so here is the issue. We just moved into brand new apartments in May. Since then mold has been found in multiple apartments (over 37 families affected). The apartment complex is acting like it's the tenants fault (again NEW apartments- we all just moved in), multiple families are still not able to return to their homes (the mold is still there- over a month now), two women have miscarried, multiple children are sick, at least one elderly woman had to move out due to it affecting her health, the county health department says that if they are \"taking steps to fix it\" then there is nothing they can do, and no one will give the tenants records of the mold issues being addressed. The apartment complex is now trying to get the tenants to sign legal documents to cover their ass (which I hope to god no one has signed) and still the issue is there. My question is- What the hell can we do?! What steps can we take to protect ourselves? The county seems to be irritated with all of the residents calling in, so instead of offering help we get blown off. The local news has been called- they were very interested and planning on coming out until SOMETHING changed and now they won't touch it. What the hell? We've been advised to get lawyers- but even the local lawyers have said they don't have the resources. What is that supposed to mean? Any direction would be great. (Indiana) ","title":"Multiple families dealing with mold in apartment complex- no answers are forthcoming","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570662394,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfp2uu\/ca_am_i_required_to_pay_a_parking_ticket_where\/","id":"dfp2uu","body":"So I\u2019m not sure how LADOT has managed to do this twice, but on two separate occasions in the last month I\u2019ve gotten a parking ticket where the issuing officer (one time LADOT parking enforcement and other time LAPD officer) has listed the wrong state for my license plate on the ticket. My car is registered in NC and has NC plates, but on one ticket the state was listed as WA and another time as CA.  \n\nI know LADOT uses an online database for parking tickets and you have to input your license plate info in order for the ticket to show up. If I didn\u2019t pay them, would they even be able to trace it back to me and my vehicle since the information they have on file is incorrect? \n\nAm I still legally required to pay these tickets? If I am, are there any loopholes or technicalities I can use to get out of them?","title":"[CA] Am I required to pay a parking ticket where the information on the ticket is incorrect?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542239531,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x5n9c\/appartment_complex_i_moved_out_of_charged_me_1200\/","id":"9x5n9c","body":"Hi folks ,\n\nCould really use your help in this matter.\n\nI recently moved out of an appartment complex in Charlotte, nc in July  , not sure if I am allowed to post the name of the place so not putting it here.\n\nI recently received an call from a collection agency saying I owe money to this complex , they directly swnt my account to collections on oct 19, no emails , no calls.\n\nAfter much emails and calls between the the agency and appartment complex, this is what they are charging me for.\n\nNormal utilities 150 around ... This is fine I owe this anyway .\nBurnt carpet spots ... This also I owe that's fine around ,60$ \n\nDiscoloration - 200$ .. I ask them what exactly still waiting..we had the house professionally cleaned before handing it back.\n\nMain cost bed bug treatment 850$ , they sent a dog before we handed over the building and they found nothing. Still they are charging us now, also charing for the blinds which were damaged due to the treatment.\nUnits around me have been treated for bedbugs before do I have to pay for them if bed bugs crossed over internally ?.\n\nCollection agency is saying there was no proper inspection scheduled by me with the leasing office when moving out so it's my fault. \n\nThey are offering me a settlement of 900$ which is BS because they have already deducted 250 of my deposit.\n\nWhat can I do to fight this.\n\nWelp....\n\nThanks ","title":"Appartment complex i moved out of charged me 1200$+ for damages and bed bug treatment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555559887,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beh5ib\/get_refund_for_flat_tire\/","id":"beh5ib","body":"Hello! I own a motorcycle and in San Francisco i run into a hole in the street which caused the front tire to explode. I\u2019m fine but my insurance will not cover the expenses. Can I ask a refund to the city somehow? Thanks in advance","title":"Get refund for flat tire","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444779834,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3onk4y\/tx_got_a_random_notice_to_vacate_for\/","id":"3onk4y","body":"**Initial facts\/info:** Austin, TX. Typical TAA Lease at large apartment complex managed by the huge conglomerate \"GreyStar\" (I'm sure some of you have heard of them). \n\n\n**Story Time:**\n\nInitially, my roommate and I found this place right when UT was getting out - place was nearly empty. They wanted $2200 in rent a month for a 2br 2ba luxury corner-location apartment in an amazing area. Somehow my roommate (who is in sales for a large tech company) got them down to an amazing $1650 a month... A steal. \n\nMid summer, my roommate found out his (very close) uncle passed very randomly and went on kind of a 2 week drinking binge... I only *saw* one written noise violation along with my roommate definitely saying he only saw one (same one I saw) but they claim they posted 2 (and provided them both when I went to discuss the issues that we are currently now facing). The one we saw and went and talked to them about had no inclusion of any notes about warning us that we will be evicted if it occurs again... note **we were never told and especially given in writing that we were on the verge of getting evicted**. However, my roommate calmed down, I unplugged our surround sound - we hadn't got a complaint since then (a little over 2 1\/2 months ago). \n\n**Fast forward to now:**\n\nRich college kids came flooding back in, the place was packed to the point that you could hear parties quite a bit... we never had the ambition to go file complaints or anything - I'm a hard sleeper... it's whatever. Anyway, last week we got a *random* noise complaint *on a Tuesday* (note: we both work 9-5's, we were definitely not partying or even watching a 'loud' movie\/TV... clearly a wrongful allegation that was most by the large influx of Rich college kids). When I said the circumstances are sketchy, this is why... they took it upon themselves to use that as our 'third violation' and to evict in 3 days (which I got pushed to the end of the month, but haven't spoken with them since as directed by lawyer). Note, they would also not provide any evidence to us - the APD or ANY sort of security, management, or person has ever come by to actually knock on our door, during the actual noise, especially for last week's noise allegation which caused this 'Notice' on the inside of our door. \n\n**What is sketchy:**\n\nOur locked in lease price per month is crazy cheap - rates have gone up so much since we signed that after some quick searches for smaller sq. footage in the SAME BUILDING are showing as **$2500-$3000!!!!** Oh... I wonder why they are so quick to kick us out! Wow. Oh, and on top of that - they are trying to get us to pay the reletting fee on top of trying to kick us out, and then potentially they could make us pay the rent up until the end of the *15 month lease*. I'm **infuriated** and I just need some good honest advice.\n\n**What do we do? Fight or Submit?**\n\nSome more quick notes: we both have a clean record of rented houses, this is the first apartment I've ever lived in, there has never been *any* police involved and in College we had police come many times without so much as any 'eviction' like this (but that was in a college town). At this point, we are grown adults in our mid-to-late twenties both working for 2 different software companies (I'm a developer, roommate in enterprise sales). We are not crazy party animals and never even *had* a \"party\" here... yet we get such an outlandish punishment for essentially NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE besides allegations from mainly months ago and one from last week. So finally... what's the best advise? What should we do? \n\n***Again, thanks in advance my fellow redditors. Cheers.***\n","title":"[TX] Got a random \"Notice to Vacate For Non-Delinquency Breach of Lease\" posted on inside of our door. The circumstances are very sketchy. I've gotten quite a bit of advice but I want to get one last bit of advice before making the decision on whether to submit or fight...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445306074,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pfnqn\/usa_mi_living_with_friends_do_i_need_a_formal\/","id":"3pfnqn","body":"Hi,\n\nSome friends (both 23 years old) of mine intend to buy a house. They would be the sole owners of the property. I (24 years old) have no vested interest in the property. This is entirely their show.\n\nI would like to live with them as a tenant. We haven't verbally agreed upon specific numbers, but we've tossed the idea of me moving in a fair amount of times.\n\nDo I need to have a formal, written contract with them? Most of the advice I see on this forum indicates that writing > verbal \/ speaking.\n\nIf so, what should I ensure should be in the landlord-tenant contract? \n\nIf the heat goes out, I want to ensure they fix it in a timely manner, and the contract should keep them liable to that. Same for other unexpected house repairs.\n\nAre there any items or clauses I should avoid?\n\nThese guys are my friends and I don't want to come off as \"I don't trust you one bit\", but at the same time, I want to cover my ass and guarantee adequate housing for the foreseeable future.","title":"USA - MI - Living with friends - Do I need a formal lease \/ contract?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538951057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m9cad\/can_my_previous_employer_discuss_personal\/","id":"9m9cad","body":"My wife worked for a company that knew she is married to a woman. She now works for a new company. She decided she didn\u2019t want her personal life discussed amongst her very gossipy coworkers. There was a situation where the new employer didn\u2019t have her cell number so they called her previous employer to get it. They started talking about my wife\u2019s personal life and now her new employer knows she\u2019s gay. Is this illegal? ","title":"Can my previous employer discuss personal information with my new employer?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553206301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3wsf6\/florida_i_just_received_a_letter_from_the_hoa\/","id":"b3wsf6","body":"Hey everyone this is pretty straightforward with a little bit of sketchiness. I started renting with this apartment December 2017. I renewed my lease which should be terminated February 2020. \n\nSo far I have been paying rent to my landlord monthly on the 15th and I have already paid for rent for the month of March. Now I have received a letter from the association citing Florida law section 718.116(11). \n\nThe letter also states that I will have complete immunity from eviction when I start paying rent to the association.  \n\nAfter receiving the notice I sent a copy to the landlord. He immediately called me and said \u201cignore this B.S., and continue paying rent to me, because how will I pay the mortgage?\u201d I sensed urgency in his voice but said okay and got off the phone. \n\nThen I started researching the law and the language seems confusing to me. Please help I do not know what to do going further. See below a word for word copy of the letter. *** will replace personal info. \n\n\n\u201cPursuant to section 718.116(11), Florida Statutes, the association demands that you pay your rent directly to the condominium association and continue doing so until the association notifies you otherwise. Payment due the condominium association may be in the same form as you paid your landlord and must be sent by the US mail or hand delivery to *******, payable to the ******* Association Inc.\n\nYour obligation to pay your rent to the association begins immediately, unless you have already paid rent to your landlord for the current period before receiving this notice. In that case, you must provide the association written proof of your payment within 14 days after receiving this notice and your obligation to pay rent to the association would then begin next rental period.\n\nPursuant to section 718.115(11), Florida statutes, your payment of rent to the association gives you complete immunity from any claim for the rent by your landlord for all amounts timely paid to the association. \n\nFrom the board of directors\u201d ","title":"[Florida] I just received a letter from the HOA telling me to pay rent to them and not my landlord.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569299685,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ia20\/work_cut_my_hourly_rate_and_didnt_tell_me\/","id":"d8ia20","body":"I\u2019m a college student. I work in retail. I transferred locations and departments about a month ago(it should be noted that I was technically on a leave of absence from the company for maybe 5 days). What I didn\u2019t know was that they were decreasing my pay. I found this out by seeing the lower hourly rate on my paycheck and then confirming with management that it wasn\u2019t an error.\n\nI chose an apartment based on the previous, higher pay. The higher pay adds up to roughly $40 more every two weeks and I really need that money.\n\nI believe that it is illegal for a company to decrease pay without notifying the employee, but I wanted to double-check. I\u2019m also curious as to what my options are, if any.","title":"Work cut my hourly rate and didn\u2019t tell me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553750553,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6euhd\/can_my_gym_charge_me_a_cancellation_fee_when_the\/","id":"b6euhd","body":"Hey everyone, I went into cancel my gym membership today (moving away for the summer) and I was informed that I\u2019m still locked into my contract for another 10 months. The gym wants to charge me $99+tax for cancelling early. However I don\u2019t see anywhere in the contract that I signed that there is a $99 cancellation fee. Am I entitled to pay this amount? I will copy out the full excerpt from the contract regarding cancellation below:\n\nThe member may terminate this agreement as follows: (a) Dues membership: After the expiration of the agreed number of bi-weekly dues the member may terminate this agreement by, (i) completing a cancellation form 30 days prior to their next billing date, within any WH facility, or (ii) sending written notice of cancellation by prepaid registered mail 30 days prior to the next bi-weekly dues date to (gym head office located at X). No further charges shall accrue after such cancellation, however, the member shall be liable for all fees and other indebtedness which accrued prior to receipt by (gym) of the notice of cancellation. \n\nSo with this, I gave them notice (my last day to use the gym is the 25th of April) and my last biweekly charge will be around the 10th of April. However, they are also saying I owe them $99 for cancelling. I have already prepaid all the fees from when I signed up so there is nothing outstanding. \n\nCan anyone share some insight into whether I owe these guys $99?\n\nThanks!","title":"Can my gym charge me a cancellation fee when the amount isn\u2019t stated in the contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554069632,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7tdus\/friends_soontobe_exhusband_wants_5050_custody\/","id":"b7tdus","body":"(Posting on behalf a friend, with her permission.)\n\n​\n\nStory is, friend and her husband are getting divorced (PA), it's already filed and it'll be official in about a month. She stuck it out for a while, but he's proven time and time again that he's just a liar, manipulator, and narcissist. So she's finally done with it. They're currently attending mediation and very soon are gonna be putting a custody order in place involving their kids (one age 2 and one age 3), which based on how they've already discussed the subject amongst themselves will be 50\/50. She works overnights, he goes to school during weekdays, but she's confident they'll figure out a solid agreement together. Currently they're still living together, but she'll have her own apartment very soon and that's when the agreement will be necessary.\n\n​\n\nThing is, ex-husband has been planning to move out of state for his future job for months now, at a point over the summer. He got a career offer while in school and supposedly has a position waiting for him the second he graduates and makes the move. He told her as much as far back as October, but she completely disagreed to the move. Regardless, he still wants to do it and plans to do it, and thinks he'll be able to maintain aforementioned 50\/50 custody when he does it. The place is eight hours away in a different state from where they're currently residing, and as said, she has no desire to move whatsoever. There was also a point at a previous mediation where he said he'd forget the move and instead find work much closer (of which there is plenty available), but he not long afterwards dropped out of that verbal deal and backpedaled to his first plan. She has a job she likes and wants to advance in here, she wants to stay, and her kids like it here - they're rooting in. She's already put off divorcing him, uprooted, and moved them all once before (just so he could attend said school), but she's adamant about not doing it again. Hence why she finally filed here in PA, when she had the window of opportunity. She's been the primary caregiver for the kids throughout the majority of their lives so far. If the ex-husband does move, he's claimed his own parents are willing to sell their home from where they're from and move to the same area in order to support him and the family through all this. That, on top of the fact that he would be making a good deal more money than her (aside from the mountain of school debt he's accumulated), seem to be the primary factors in him thinking he can keep that 50\/50 custody with the move, despite such a long distance case probably winding up to be a total nightmare for the kids.\n\n​\n\nShe's scared he actually does have a very good shot at this, and what it'll do to their kids. A lot of that fright is because her own lawyer has told her as much: that 50\/50 is probably all she can hope for here. Friends and family have called bullshit on that, and told her she needs a new lawyer. \n\n​\n\nSo I suppose the advice requested is...how high of a chance of this actually being approved by a judge is there? And, if the chance actually is low, unlike what's been told to her by her lawyer, should she now be seeking a new legal representative?","title":"Friend's soon-to-be ex-husband wants 50\/50 custody despite moving hours away to a different state.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507139692,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/749vr7\/new_york_no_lease_what_are_my_options_to_legally\/","id":"749vr7","body":"Hello, I'm sorry if this has been answered already, but I did try my best to go through search results and found nothing. So my parents own a 2 family house, and they rent the second floor out to another family, on a month to month rental agreement. To reiterate, there is not and has never been a leasing agreement, there is a deposit however.\n\nWe have asked the family to vacate the house for the past 2 years and nothing. At the beginning of this year, they asked for time till the end of June so that their children could finish up school in the neighborhood, and my parents being the generous souls that they are, agreed to this. They were originally supposed to leave 3 months ago, at the beginning of July, again they agreed to, but this has not occurred. My parents constantly ask them to leave, but their excuses is that they are looking for a place, but they have not been able to find one, which from what I understand, we are not responsible for (correct me if I'm wrong).\n\nLegally, can we flat out tell them that they have 30 days to vacate, and then go onto change the locks on the doors without any legal recourse? If not, what are our options? Can we have an eviction notice sent for this. \n\nRent is coming in on time with them, the only complaints that we had with them have gotten better. But we personally want to move on from this tenant.\n\nWe want them gone so that we can do a couple of things, repair some things in the house (there was a leaking pipe in their kitchen that they did not tell us about, we found out after getting water damage on our ceiling. The pipe has been repaired upstairs for a long time.) and keep the second floor for ourselves. \n\nThank you for the help, let me know if you guys need any other information!","title":"[New York] No lease, what are my options to legally get the tenant to leave.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540396430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r0vtx\/alaska_dads_insurance_coming_back_and_saying_they\/","id":"9r0vtx","body":"I\u2019ve told them they need to get a lawyer as we are talking amounts around $40k. The surgeon was in network per the docs office and the insurance company. They are coming back and saying jk no they aren\u2019t and you\u2019re responsible for this bill. The drs office is willing to settle if my parents come up with $20k in cash, but even at that amount I\u2019d really like to point them in the direction of an appropriate attorney so they at least get a consultation. \n\nI know the state bar website can be a good source for finding a lawyer\u2014but what kind of lawyer should we be looking for?\n\nTl:dr; Insurance trying to screw my parents, what kind of lawyer should they get a consult with?","title":"Alaska. Dad\u2019s insurance coming back and saying they won\u2019t cover his heart surgery from almost two years ago.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571748818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlhijj\/guam_paid_a_security_deposit_of_2000_in_june_when\/","id":"dlhijj","body":"The security deposit for the apartment was $2000 and I paid it back in June and the complex was just placed under new landlords and management about a month ago. They are increasing rent so I was reading up on the landlord-tenant laws here where I live. I just read that the total security deposit can\u2019t be more than one month\u2019s rent and one month\u2019s rent for the place is $1295. Is there anything that can be done or am I just out of luck because it\u2019s already been paid and it\u2019s been 5 months.","title":"(Guam) Paid a security deposit of $2000 in June when lease started and I just discovered I paid too much according to the law.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503724632,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w3vbg\/lease_agreement_contract\/","id":"6w3vbg","body":"Wondering if someone can give some input on a lease agreement I wrote up before I have an attorney look at it. If there are any obvious changes I'd like to make them now. Both parties would reside in Washington State, same county.\n\n\nLease Agreement\n\nParties Involved\n\nThis document serves as a contractual lease agreement between XXXXXXX LLC (hereby the lessor) and _______________________________________ (hereby the lessee).\n\nOverview\n\nIt is agreed upon by the lessor and lessee that the below listed property of the lessor, will be leased to the lessee, following the terms and conditions within this agreement.\nProperty\n____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________\n\nTerms\n\nThe above listed property will be leased by the lessor to the lessee for a period of ______ month(s). This lease agreement will go in to effect beginning __________________ and ending __________________. \n\nThe lessee will have the responsibility of making payments to the lessor in exchange for the property leased. The payments are due monthly, with the first payment due on the 15th day of the month following this agreement going into effect. Remaining payments will be due on the 15th of every month for the term of this agreement.\n\nA down payment in the amount of $________ is due on the date this agreement goes into effect.\n\nDuring the term of this agreement, the lessee will be required to keep and maintain a liability insurance policy on any motor vehicles listed under this agreement, in accordance with Washington State law. The lessee will also have the responsibility of any maintenance costs associated with any motor vehicles leased under this agreement; this includes fuel, oil and tires.\n\nThe lessor will remain the owner of the property listed above during the term of this agreement. This agreement does not extend any ownership right to the lessee. The lessee may not lease the property to another party. The lessee may not sell the property to another party.\n\nWhile this agreement is in effect, no leased property may be removed from Washington State without a separate written agreement between the lessor and lessee.\n\nPrior to the date this agreement ends, the listed property will be returned to the lessor, and the final month\u2019s payment, as listed above, will be due.\n\nAny damage to the listed property while it is being leased to the lessee shall be reported to the lessor within one week, via written notice. A separate, civil agreement will be made between the lessor and lessee as to repairing the damage. This may include contacting the lessee\u2019s insurance company.\n\nBoth parties agree to be bound by the Courts of Washington State.\n\nPenalties\n\nUpon breach of this agreement by the lessee, the lessor may seek a civil settlement within the Courts of Washington State. The lessor may repossess the listed property. The lessor may terminate this lease agreement upon written notice to the lessee.\n\nAgreement\n\nBy signing this agreement, both parties agree to the terms of this document in its entirety.\nLessor:\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLessee:\n_________________________ Date: __________\t________________________ Date: __________\nSignature of authorized representative.\t\t\tSignature of authorized representative.\n_________________________ Title: __________\t________________________ Title: __________\nPrinted name of authorized representative.\t\tPrinted name of authorized representative.\n\n","title":"Lease Agreement Contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551531699,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awhjtx\/milwaukee_area_wi_legal_for_an_employer_to_force\/","id":"awhjtx","body":"I recently had a bit of a mental health issue while at work and was told to go home, then all my appointments were cancelled for the following week even though I told my employer I should be fine to return to work by the beginning of the following week. Is it legal for the employer to basically just remove me from the schedule like this without asking me?\n\nNow my employer is saying if I don\u2019t have a note signed by a Dr. it\u2019s \u201cjob abandonment\u201d even though a primary doctor as well as hospital assessment personnel refused to give me such a note and I can\u2019t get in with a psychiatrist\/psychologist in time to save my job. All I could get for paperwork was an after visit summary outlining my care and upcoming appointments, which I gave my employer. Is it legal for her to consider me having abandoned my job in this scenario? Is this employment discrimination based on mental illness?","title":"(Milwaukee area, WI) Legal for an employer to force an employee to take time off work for a mental health issue \/ employment termination due to mental health?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554820037,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb8kvf\/vacation_day_payout_ct\/","id":"bb8kvf","body":"My employer is saying my vacation days are not front loaded, they accrue monthly, therefore I won\u2019t be paid out the 24 days I\u2019ve earned. Is this legal? They will only pay me for 7.23 days.","title":"Vacation Day Payout (CT)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569962516,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbzhe9\/my_father_is_insane_and_negligent\/","id":"dbzhe9","body":"First post here guys, how are you all?\n\nThe third part is the most important but the rest serve as backstories and may give you an insight on events and what else I can do legally. \n\nAs the title states, my father is insane. He\u2019s been constantly fighting with my mom and accusing her of cheating and recording her and etc and just manipulative towards her and the kids (me, brother and sister). At this point we\u2019re fed up and we left the house to go to my aunt\u2019s house and we\u2019re currently situated in her attic with my three cats (which I\u2019ll get into in a few.) I\u2019ll break this up into a couple parts.\n\n1. My father  and my mother \n2. My cats\n3.The house and belongings \n\n\n1. My father as stated earlier is an alcoholic and he\u2019s constantly looking for a fight with my mother. While nothing gets physical, my mom always freaks out and sometimes lashes which then gets physical but mainly on her side. I\u2019ve told her to not get physical as it may bite her in the ass. He drinks a lot and always accuses my mom of sleeping with someone with absolutely no proof to the point where he records her calls, texts and whatever it takes to try and find one flaw to pick at and blow it up. He doesn\u2019t give up until she says she\u2019s sleeping with someone and even if my mother says she doesn\u2019t, he never believes it and assumes she\u2019s hiding it. It gets overbearing for my mother to constantly hear about it and she sometimes leaves the house for a night to go to my aunt\u2019s and recently it was days. Anything my mom does threatens her ego.  My mom works, comes home and goes to sleep and she doesn\u2019t do anything otherwise and I fully believe everything she says and so do many others involved. It sucks and my mother fears for her freedom and life and the kids all fear what the father may do. Recently we moved in with our aunt after he forced my mother out through verbal abuse and he told the kids to go keep the mom happy so we all left leaving just our belongs and our cats at home. He\u2019s been consistently showing up to our aunt\u2019s house begging for us to come back and expecting us to come back. We say no and our uncle who\u2019s an older person, refuses to let him in and he goes on his way in our car while extremely intoxicated. \n\nTL;DR Crazy father constantly accuses mother of cheating. Mother leaves the house to live elsewhere. Kids follow her. He follows us begging us to come home. \n\n\n2. My cats were with him alone for a bit. He\u2019s negligent of the cats and has always taken them out to \u201cforget\u201d about them so they\u2019d run just to make us feel bad because he knows our connection with the cats. We love them and take care of them and he uses this as a way to mentally abuse us by threatening to leave the cats out and making them run away, which one of our cats already did. He refuses to feed them, and even yesterday in order to bring us home, he took the cats to our aunts house and let one of them out the car so that we would come out and find her. My mom went outside and with the help of my aunt and my cousin we were able to get her inside and we brought the other cats inside as well because we were forced to. I feel bad doing it because they have no space since they own cats already and my dad forced us to take the cats in but fortunately my aunt would be more than OK helping us. He takes his anger out on the cats and gets violent but doesn\u2019t do anything. \n\nTL;DR father negligent of cats constantly losing them and even though of abandoning them in front of my aunts house in the middle of the night.\n\n\n3. This to me is the most important part. I paid my father money for a car with his help and my moms help to get a ~5K car. I paid 2300 and pay insurance monthly. The car is tilted under his name and I wanted the car back and went to the house to get it. He refused to let me have it and got very aggressive and so I asked him to either give me my share or give me the car. (My cousin was here so that things didn\u2019t escalate and fortunately it didn\u2019t) he went inside to get the money and went through the back and got in the car and pretty much zipped out of there. He was intoxicated out of his mind and served as a danger to not only us but the rest of the drivers. When doing this he left our house u locked which is the second point. I refuse to be near him for my safety and when he left he left the house unlocked with a ton of personal belongings inside still. Mainly my gaming PC and PS4 which are worth a lot combined. \n\nWHAT CAN WE DO?\n\nFor our safety and my moms what can we do to keep him away from us?\n\nWhat can we do to get him out the house so we can sell it or get rid of it and get my moms money back?\n\nWhat can I do about my heavier personal belongings that are at his disposal and if he destroys them or his negligence gets them stolen?\n\nWe can\u2019t stay here unfortunately forever so we have to try and get a safer place so that he leaves us alone. \n\nPlease let me know what I can do because we\u2019ve all been mentally abused by his manipulative ways and constantly fear for our safety.","title":"My father is insane and negligent.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553904730,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b74q4b\/ex_says_he_cant_pay_child_support_because_his\/","id":"b74q4b","body":"In the state of Virginia:\n\nMy ex-husband and I have an 11-year-old daughter together. We were married for three years, and during that time I was a stay at home mother and he worked.  We divorced in 2010, when our daughter was two.\n\nWhen we divorced, I was the petitioner, and it was an uncontested divorce. Everything was done outside of the court room through depositions.  Our divorce decree has a property settlement agreement incorporated into it. In that property settlement agreement, it outlines child custody and child support. At that time, we were sharing time with our daughter exactly 50-50, and we agreed no child support would be paid from either of us.  The divorce decree itself states that we share joint physical\/legal custody, and I am the primary custodial parent.  The divorce decree does state that if child-support will be paid, it will be paid by him, the defendant to me, the petitioner.  All of this was done in what I\u2019ll call \u201cJURISDICTION A\u201d.  This is the jurisdiction in which he still lives.\n\nTwo years after the divorce, I remarried. I am still a stay at home mother, and my husband is the sole breadwinner. My husband and I have one daughter together.  My daughter from my ex-husband lives with us. I am responsible for her day-to-day care, getting her through school, overall we raise her, not her father. We moved 2 1\/2 hours away from him, into a different jurisdiction, what I\u2019ll call \u201cJURISDICTION B\u201d and have been living here for nearly eight years.  My daughter has gone through school, from Pre-k to what will soon be her sixth grade year.  She\u2019s doing well, honor roll in a gifted academy.  On track for the International Baccalaureate program or Governor\u2019s high school in the future.\n\nWhen we moved, my ex and I agreed upon and signed a new custody arrangement, and we both signed a paper stating that he gives me permission to move and that neither of us will seek child-support from the other \u201cthrough any court system or otherwise\u201c in the future.  It sounds ridiculous now, but that was eight years ago and I was eight years younger and eight years dumber, as was he.  Keep in mind that we\u2019ve done everything outside of the court system. Every phone call, every negotiation, has been one headache after another.  I\u2019ve been doing everything I can to encourage a relationship between them.  \n\nThe agreement now, is that she is with him at least eight weeks in the summer, we split spring break and Christmas break equally (although I usually give him the entire spring break with her) and he gets her for Thanksgiving break, her birthday weekend, Father\u2019s Day weekend, and basically any other time he says that he wants to have a weekend with her- I make that happen, although he does not take advantage of this very often. Maybe once a year.  We are supposed to share drive time and meet halfway, but there have been exceptions to that occasionally.\n\nSo basically, we\u2019ve been living in jurisdiction B for almost 8 years, have established a life here- school, doctors, church family, the works.  This entire time, my husband has been supporting all of us, encouraging me to continue my role as a stay at home mom for both children, and we have a very happy, established life.  My ex has lived in Jurisdiction A this whole time, bought a house, and changes jobs and girlfriends more than he changes his underwear.  Constant trouble in his personal life, DWI on his record, etc.  Just overall very unstable.\n\nNow, three years ago, I had the tough talk with my ex- that I would like for him to help support his daughter financially.  As she gets older, she becomes more expensive.  That\u2019s just the nature of having kids.  At first, he gave me grief about it, but eventually caved and agreed to pay $200 per month in child support.  This was a verbal agreement.  There was nothing in writing about it.\n\nSo, he paid the agreed upon amount for about six months- and since then, has \u201cstruggled\u201d to pay his own bills (he owns his own home) and now he remains at least $1500 behind in payments to me at any given time.  He has cycled through roommates, live-in girlfriends, etc.- and whenever they\u2019re not paying their rent, he falls behind with me.  Most recently, he had a couple move in to his home to help pay bills.  The couple broke up soon after moving in, and he immediately started dating the girl before the boyfriend moved out.  Now the boyfriend is gone, she\u2019s his live-in girlfriend (who is very nice, btw) but she lost\/quit her job due to an illness.  Meanwhile, he maintains a gym membership, throws large BBQ parties, eats out regularly, just bought a new living room set, etc.  Keep in mind, I don\u2019t hassle him about it at all.  He constantly thanks me for being so patient with him. All I\u2019ve ever asked is for regular updates so I know what\u2019s going on with him.\n\nMy ex is saying:\n1.  He can\u2019t afford to pay the meager $200 per month because his girlfriend no longer works and now he has to pay for everything himself.\n2.  He technically doesn\u2019t have to pay because we agreed that he wouldn\u2019t pay child support years ago (back when custody was 50\/50)\n3.  He shouldn\u2019t have to pay because he\u2019d rather have our daughter live with him full time (this is the guy that fed her top ramen for Christmas breakfast and sleeps until noon when she visits).\n\nWhew.\n\nSo here are my questions.\n\n1.  Is it too late to seek support?  Would the judge frown upon me waiting so long?\n2.  Is the \u201cagreement\u201d we signed yeeeears ago saying we waive the right to seek child support from each other actually enforceable?\n3.  Am I crazy in thinking that his excuses for not paying are ridiculous?\n4.  What is the likelihood the judge would order MORE visitation time for him if he asked (I.e. every other weekend, or something like that).  It would be very expensive for both of us, not to mention an upheaval in our child\u2019s routine.  She has obligations on the weekend (piano lessons, choir, church, etc.).  We\u2019ve had this visitation agreement for the past eight years almost, and it\u2019s been working for this long.\nLastly, the divorce decree states that child support\/custody is remanded to Jurisdiction A, where he lives.  Would I have to file for support in that jurisdiction, even though our child\u2019s residence is in jurisdiction B, and has been for eight years?  Or will I need to file for a change of venue?  Do I have jurisdiction A rule on support and then file for change of venue afterwards, or the other way around?  Is there a way to avoid a change of venue and just file where I live?  Will I need to file just for support, or should I file for custody\/visitation and support, so that the current visitation agreement is on record and enforceable with the court system?\n\nI know it\u2019s a lot.  Thanks for bearing with me.  I\u2019m happy to clarify anything to help get the answers I need, and clear up any confusion.\n","title":"Ex says he can\u2019t pay child support because his live-in girlfriend lost her job. Complex story ahead.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508280122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/772a6f\/my_wife_paid_her_traffic_ticket_on_time_but_her\/","id":"772a6f","body":"My wife got a speeding ticket a couple of months ago but she paid it on time. I was attempting to renew my tags online yesterday and was told that one of the drivers under the insurance had a suspended license. After a simple license check we found out that it was my wifes license that was suspended since 8\/10\/17. The reason given was failure to pay a traffic ticket. \n\nWe called our local clerk and told them we had proof that the ticket was paid (we have the receipt) but they said that the case was left open and because of this the license was suspended. They are requiring that we pay a suspension fee as well as a renewal fee to reinstate the license. When we asked why was the case left open they responded by saying that my wife had told the clerk she had planned to take a course to have the point removed from her license. The clerk left the case open until a certificate was provided upon completetion. My wife never said she would do the course. The clerk had advised her to do it since it was her first time ever getting a ticket and a point on her license. The clerk had told my wife that the course was optional. \n\nWe really don\u2019t want to pay additional fees to have this fixed since the ticket was paid on time and is not our fault the clerk left the case open. What can we do?\n\n*location*: Florida\n\nTL;DR: Traffic ticket was paid on time but the clerk still suspended the license by leaving the case opened on a supposed implication that my wife planned to take a course to remove the point and they want us to pay more fees to fix it.","title":"My wife paid her traffic ticket on time, but her license was still suspended.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571167349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dicwbu\/is_it_legal_to_release_security_camera_footage_to\/","id":"dicwbu","body":"I work in IT for a certain company in Ohio and from time to time Police Detectives will call and request that we search through our Camera footage for specific crimes that happened nearby and see if we have gotten it on camera or not.  \nI was recently informed by my higher ups that it is illegal for us to release ANY camera footage to anyone without a Subpoena.  \nThis may be a dumb question but is this true? Even if it's being requested by the Police themselves?","title":"Is it legal to release Security Camera footage to the Police?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555516216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be9e3q\/garnishment_summons\/","id":"be9e3q","body":"I keep receiving garnishment summons on my door that aren't for me. I can only assume that they are for previous tenants. I cant find a phone number anywhere on the page to call and give them back. This is the third time within the past few months. I'm concerned because the person's SSN is listed on here. Am I supposed to return these to someone? I'm not sure what to do.","title":"Garnishment Summons","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554839509,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbch12\/i_think_my_school_stole_my_candy\/","id":"bbch12","body":"Today I was called in with the principal because people reported me for saying I\u2019ll sell candy on social media and in the past advertising to sell candy. Because of this he made me empty my bag and confiscated candy I had. He said he\u2019ll give it to me at the end of the day in the office. However when I came he said he didn\u2019t promise and will give it to me in the morning for drug testing (these are sealed candies well known brands like snickers). Did the principal steal my candy? Is there any complaints I can file?","title":"I think my school stole my candy","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1505260740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zqywk\/estranged_mother_refusing_to_provide_paperwork_so\/","id":"6zqywk","body":"When I was around 5 my great-grandfather started an UTMA investment account for me, with my mother as the proprietor (guardian?) until I turned 21. My parents split when I was in my pre teens. I am now 22 and have been trying to access this account. My mother has consistently refused to turn over any information to me about the investment. I recently on my own found out the company the investment was made with and the last four digits of the account number. In order to access the account the company needs a letter of intent with a medallion guaranteed signature from my bank. My bank won't provide that too me without proof that I'm the owner, with some sort of statement showing the account is under $1million dollars. My mom is the only one that would have that information and she has never, and probably will never, provide it too me. Is there anything I can do to gain access to this account?\n\nSorry if this doesn't make a whole lot of sense, there's a lot of family drama involved and I am unfamiliar with all this investment adulting stuff.","title":"Estranged mother refusing to provide paperwork so I can access investment left in my name by my maternal great-grandfather (U.S; Washington State).","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540601902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rqbp5\/ohio_minor_misdemeanor_for_passing_in_marked\/","id":"9rqbp5","body":"TLDR; I got a ticket (that I don't agree with) for Passing in Marked Hazardous Zone - ORC 4511.31 - which is a minor misdemeanor. If I pay the ticket, does this give me a criminal record, and is it something that would come up on a background check? What do you think my chances are of fighting it or at least getting it reduced?\n\nSo just as the title says, I got pulled over today after passing two cars going about 45mph in a 55. I noticed the State Trooper as I was passing and moving back into the lane. He was about 100 yards ahead, parked on the right, facing the road, and he pulled out driving the opposite direction as me, then turned around and pulled me over. The officer said that I was speeding to pass and that I had started to pass when the lines were still double yellow, even though I'm certain that I waited until I was in the passing zone and the road was clear and safe (otherwise I would have passed them forever ago), and I didn't go over 60. I said \"I don't believe I did, but okay\" because there's no point in arguing with the police. He prints me a ticket, reviews the rules of the road with me, tells me to be safe, and we both go about our lives.\n\nThe ticket was for Passing in Marked Hazardous Zone - ORC 4511.31 and warning for the speeding. Paying it is $150, sucks, but not a big deal, but I look it up when I get home and I see that if I am guilty, it's a minor misdemeanor! In Ohio, does this mean that I have a criminal record and is this something that would come up on a background check? I am a nurse, so now I'm concerned that I have to report it to the Board of Nursing in case it ends up popping up on a BC, especially since I am currently in a graduate nursing program. I did have one speeding ticket before this, about 7 years ago. I don't have any lawyer friends, and when I try searching about it, I get a lot of different answers that are generally unspecific or unhelpful. \n\nAlso, do I have any chance of fighting this in court? He was a young Statie, so I'm pretty sure he'd show up, even if I were to ask for the date to be moved. But I feel like there is NO way he would have been able to see if I crossed the double yellow line or not, especially with how far away he was, and like I said, if I wanted to pass illegally, I could have done it long before then. I'm not really hellbent on this, I'd actually rather just pay it and be done with it if it isn't going to have any negative consequences for my nursing license or future employment; but, if it could pose a problem for me, I would like to know what my chances are for going toe-to-toe with this guy.\n\nThanks in advance for the help!","title":"[Ohio] Minor Misdemeanor for Passing in Marked Hazardous Zone - Criminal Record? (Medium)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551961560,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayc2so\/roommate_put_up_security_camera_in_common_room\/","id":"ayc2so","body":"I\u2019m back with more roommate concerns. Still rural South, GA on a college campus. \n\nThis time the dude put a camera up in our kitchen (central to our living space). I didn\u2019t notice it until all of the lights were off and I went to get a glass of water and saw a red light. \n\nI don\u2019t know if he\u2019s been recording noise (so inevitably conversations I\u2019ve had in the living space), or what he\u2019s seen because there was a camera I was not aware of. \n\nI feel a very intense violation of privacy, and I honestly don\u2019t know what to do. Everything causes him to explode (like off the wall anger, I\u2019ve seen him hold himself back from punching a wall) so confronting him intimidates me (and I\u2019m a pretty big dude). \n\nThis is honestly the icing on the cake. He\u2019s pulled a lot of bullshit with me and I accept it because we coexist peacefully, but this is next level, even for him. \n\nWhat can I\/should I, do? \n\nNeedless to say, I\u2019m ready to move out. \n\n","title":"Roommate put up security camera in common room without telling me","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554914720,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbo8ur\/my_employer_didnt_offer_health_insurance_or_any\/","id":"bbo8ur","body":"Like the title says, I was working on a full time basis regularly for about three months with an employer, part time for six months. It was a small business \u2014 a spa made up of the owner, independent contractors (massage therapists), and a few receptionists. There are only maybe 25-30 employees. I was never offered any benefits and health insurance was not discussed, despite me working full time. Is this legal? Can I report this? If so, how? State is Michigan.","title":"My employer didn\u2019t offer health insurance or any benefits despite working 40\/hours per week. Is this legal? Can I report this? (MI)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442095740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kppva\/what_are_our_best_options_for_receiving_a_full\/","id":"3kppva","body":"Here's the situation:\n\nMy roommates and I have lived in an apartment in New York City for three years. We moved out on July 31st. It is now September 12th. \n\nTechnically, a landlord has 30-45 days to return the security deposit. September 15th would be 45 days from now.\n\nUnfortunately, our landlord has been less than cooperative and frankly very passive aggressive about returning the deposit.\n\nI've included the facts below, and because I'm not a lawyer, I'm not sure which are really relevant. My roommates and I would definitely appreciate your expertise and advice in terms of what our best options are.\n\n1. We gave our landlord 30 days notice saying we would not renew our lease.\n\n2. We moved out on the 18th and turned in our keys on the 31st because we were using the time in between to clean out the apartment, including meeting people who were buying our old furniture off of Craigslist.\n\n3. Our landlord had access to our apartment the entire 30 days in terms of being able to come in and she came with contractors several times.\n\n4. During the walkthrough on the 31st, she said that we damaged the floor in one bedroom and in a spot in the common area in front of the closet, and so the amount of money it costs to refinish the floor will be deducted from the security deposit. She did not mention this at all beforehand even though she came in with a contractor and has seen our almost empty apartment multiple times before the 31st.\n\n5. The landlord is completely remodeling the apartment (changing the kitchen into a bedroom and moving kitchen things into the common room (taking over the closet), which means she would have definitely needed to refinish the floor in the living room, anyway. \n\n6. We asked the landlord to give us the security deposit back within the 45 days and in person or via electronic transfer during the walkthrough (and have proof on a recording that we did so). \n\n7. We texted our the landlord on August 31st (30 days after move-out) to schedule a time to pick up the deposit.\n\n8. On September 1st, the landlord left a message saying that we have not received the security deposit minus the cost of rewaxing because we didn't give her our new address. We said we wanted in person or via electronic transfer, and that it was 30 days later that she even mentioned needing our address (See point 6). Our landlord then said that she can meet us in person on September 16th or the 17th. \n\n9. On September 1st, the landlord also texted: \"I prefer to give the security deposit back in the same form that I received the initial deposit. No itemized deductions: I am not deducting for anything other than the floor and since the flooring person can't sand, stain and seal only certain areas here and there, the entire area has to be redone. I will provide you with a quote from a flooring refinisher. \n\n10. On September 2nd, we said: \"The 16th\/17th is more than 45 days after we returned our keys and this is unacceptable. You have had more than 30 days to contact us. In order to move forward we need the contractor's written estimate before the end of this week.\n\n11. On September 4th, we mailed her a formal demand letter summarizing the situation and letting her know that she had not given us the deduction list and she had not given us the deposit, and that if she did not resolve this, we would take her to small claims court. \n\n12. On September 10th, she emailed back a very long letter with many points that were incorrect and that we can go through paragraph by paragraph to disprove with proof. Tl;dr, she believes she is in the right and threatens to counter-sue.\n\n13. We mailed a packet to the attorney general on September 8th to start a mediation process.\n\n14. In addition to this whole fiasco, living at the apartment itself was a mess. We had mice, insects and heating issues during the winter where temperatures dropped below legal limits (all documented with pictures). The heating issue was particularly problematic because we needed to pay extra in order to make sure our apartment was liveable and the heating was technically supposed to be included in our rent. It came out to an extra $97.26. She also increased our rent by an amount 3 times higher than our neighbor with the exact same apartment and who has an animal. She had given us a $50 rebate every month to make up for the heating costs for 5 months, so the extra $97.26 is what was not covered by this rebate. That cost is not huge \u2014 just putting this point her to show that she knew something was wrong but wasn't willing to completely cover her breaking the law. Another crazy thing is, our apartment didn't have a carbon monoxide alarm until we insisted that she install one.\n\nIn short, we want our full deposit back, we're willing to go through small claims, mediation, anything (so long as it brings us the highest amount of our security deposit back). Time needed to do so is pretty unlimited because I personally am viewing this as a great introduction to the legal system and find it kind of fun.\n\nYour advice would be very much appreciated.\n\nThank you. ","title":"What are our best options for receiving a full security deposit back from an uncooperative and passive aggressive landlord? [New York City]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550027206,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aq1w5c\/employer_is_threatening_to_fire_people_for\/","id":"aq1w5c","body":"I work for the military as a DoD contractor. Pay has been discussed between fellow employees at work and there have been threats about firing people if this talk continues. Someone at work pointed out the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and Obama's Executive Order -- Non-Retaliation for Disclosure of Compensation Information should protect us from this very thing. I want to know if this is actually correct; as contractors are we protected?","title":"employer is threatening to fire people for discussing pay at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540168146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q8pt4\/former_landlord_trying_to_collect_debt_i_shouldnt\/","id":"9q8pt4","body":"Hello,\n\nIn February 5th of this year, I submitted my 30 day notice to my former landlord notifying him that I would be leaving by March 15th. This was a yearlong lease.\n\nPrior to submitting my letter, on February 3rd, I asked him in person what the date was that our lease expired so I could submit the letter accordingly. He told me March 15th. This was only spoken verbally and he never told me this date in writing.\n\nI submitted the letter on the 5th, and two days later received a notice that I was due to pay them rent for the entire month of April ($2,420) for \u201cbreaking my lease early\u201d. I didn\u2019t understand and thought that they were charging me for submitting my notice a few days too late. I looked at this from every angle and assumed it was bullshit.\n\nI went in to talk to the landlord, but instead of him in the office, his second in command (not sure of her exact position in the company but I think she was something of a secondary property manager?) was there. I talked over this with her and she said \u201coh that\u2019s strange, your lease ends on April 1st, not March 15th. I\u2019m not sure why he told you that.\u201d She made it seem like this was all resolved so I was not worried. However, because I had in fact submitted the letter detailing our leaving on March 15th, we were bound to stick to that date. \n\nWe paid our last month of rent for March in full, and left. I\u2019ve just now received a debt collection letter for the $2,420 in rent for April that we were \u201cobligated\u201d to pay.\n\nI don\u2019t know what to do. All of the written documentation on this points to us being in the wrong. The landlord is an absolute asshole, so if I were to say that he verbally told me the incorrect date of my lease expiration, even in a court setting, he would almost certainly deny it or claim he doesn\u2019t remember. \n\nFrom my little understanding of the law, I have nothing to defend myself here. Am I correct to assume that? Is there anything I can do? I am very poor and I cannot afford to pay out $2,420 for something I had thought was resolved. Any help would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Former Landlord trying to collect debt I shouldn\u2019t owe to begin with","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552336004,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azyauw\/employer_claims_he_cannot_pay_me_my_accrued\/","id":"azyauw","body":"So I just quit my job (<5 person startup) and gave my one month notice (my employment contract elects a month notice instead of two weeks). This was my first job out of college and looking back, was riddled with red flags. This is going to be a pretty long post, detailing the financial issues throughout my employment in case any of it is helpful. \n\nMy employer, who for the most part has personally funded the company since the start (July 2018) started me out at $2800 a month for a ten week internship period. All payment has been through a payroll he set up with a bank, so it\u2019s all been over the table, luckily. Throughout the internship period, he threw many differing numbers at me about my salary increase in the case that I stay as a full time employee, ranging from $60k to $125k. Nothing ever written but spoke about it many times. \n\nI decided to stay after ten weeks because I enjoyed the work and had good feelings about the product\u2019s success that I was developing. My employer wrote up an informal plan to start to pay me $6600 a month starting Mid-October (an extra four weeks of my internship pay). I trusted him that he would increase my pay and agreed. Come October, he writes up a more formal business plan that requires me to be very flexible with my pay since this is a personally funded startup and he convinced me that everyone must make sacrifices. \n\nThe plan dictates that I will continue to make $2800 a month until November 1st (another two weeks past his original raise promise), at which point I will begin \u201caccruing\u201d an extra $5200 a month, effectively raising me to $8000 a month, although this accruement will be paid to me in lump sums on January 1st, March 1st, and May 1st. So $10,400 at each of those dates, along with the steady $2800 a month throughout that time. The plan said that at the point of May 1st, I will stop accruing money and outright be paid $8000 a month with biweekly paychecks. Makes sense? I hope so...\n\nSo, come end of December, I sit down with him to write and sign a formal Employee contract (yes I know, months too late) and he again changes things on me. He says he doesn\u2019t have the money to pay me the first lump sum of $10,400.  At this point, my employer has already raised $75,000 which I recently just learned he prioritized other payments (not my accrued salary). \n\nI end up agreeing to continuing on my internship pay of $2800, along with continuing to accrue $5200 a month in addition to the $10,400 I\u2019m already owed to be paid \u201cat the employer\u2019s discretion based on the financial status of the company.\u201d Looking back I\u2019m kicking myself in the ass for agreeing to such muddy words. Along with that, he promises me 10% equity of the company (which is forfeit in the case I leave within the first 5 years). Lastly, at the point in which he successfully raises $150,000 in investment capital, I will stop accruing pay and will just be paid $8000 a month outright. \n\nOk, so that\u2019s the official written agreement. Now, I just gave my one month notice because of a multitude of reasons (inability to pay me the money, no longer confident in the product, and mismanagement to name a few). I finish work on April 8th. I said that I expect him to pay me my backlogged $26,000 (5 months x $5200) and he agreed, but also said he doesn\u2019t have any more investment money so he\u2019ll have to wait until he has the money. No set date. \n\nThe entire reason that I stuck with this for so long was that my employer\u2019s charisma, optimism, and excitement about the product we were developing was infectious and I was naive in thinking that things would work out as quickly as he thought they would. Then I learned that he had the investment money and chose to spend it on different things than his employee\u2019s wages. \nSince December, I recently learned that he has not made any more attempts to fundraise (his main job as the CEO) because is so sure that the product will be successful by this summer. \n\nAnyways, sorry for the long post and I hope it all made sense. I completely realize a lot of what I agreed to was pretty shady and I regret it, but I\u2019m basically asking what I can do to maximize my chances of getting my accrued $26k as soon as possible so I can separate entirely from this company. I don\u2019t want him to push back my accrued pay date again like he has done with my salary time and time again. \n\nThanks for reading. ","title":"Employer claims he cannot pay me my \u201caccrued\u201d salary by the time of my deparature","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568567286,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4n9zz\/car_disappeared\/","id":"d4n9zz","body":"Backstory:\nWere in the United States, Tennessee. My stepfather is the executor of his recently (a few months) deceased father. We came back from a vacation yesterday and his father's car is gone. We've talked to the next door neighbors who confirmed that someone claiming to be with a bank was there looking at it earlier this week. No one saw it actually leaving the property. The car was completely paid for but the house that it was sitting at is going into foreclosure. His will stated the car was to be sold and split between my stepfather and his sister. The car is still in my grandfather's name. It had no keys or title on the property, but vanished Saturday. \n\nWe have a strong suspicion, but do not know for a fact, that my step aunt is involved in taking the car. She has been trying to get as much as possible from the estate and has expressed interest in the car. We are not on speaking terms with her and haven't been for years, so directly contacting her is not an option. \n\nWe called the police as soon as we got home and the officer told us that if she did take it this would be a civil matter. We have filed a stolen vehicle report because, at this time, we don't know who took it for a fact. The bank has made no contact with us about seizing any property.\n\nQuestions:\nIf my aunt is the one who took the car, is this in fact a civil matter?\n\nWould\/could a bank take a car for a house going into foreclosure?\n\nPlease let me know if more details are needed. I'm posting on here because no one in my family is an expert on this type of thing.","title":"Car disappeared","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552169498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az8she\/might_not_be_a_simple_question_but_need_advice\/","id":"az8she","body":"So to make this short: I need advice.\n\nI have been free from the monster who sexually abused me for almost six years now. A counselor in high school saved my life. I was hurt for 12 years and was told if I choose to go to court, it would be useless because he was still a \"youth\" at the time. The asshole was almost a decade older than me. All the court did was make him go to therapy. Now, I am 19 and stuck on the knowledge that a rapist who ruined my life and could ruin other kid's lives and I have no idea what to do. Should I try hard to let it go- or pursue taking him to court?\n\n((sorry if it's the wrong flair))","title":"Might not be a simple question: But need advice badly.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554687488,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/banu2m\/possibly_got_a_girl_pregnant_she_is_being_more\/","id":"banu2m","body":"I matched with a girl on a dating app a while ago, and I never messaged her because I wasn't particularly interested in her. A few weeks go by and after a night out of drinking (on March 8th), she messaged me and said she saw me at one of the bars I was at. She ended up coming over and we had sex (with a condom and I pulled out). She was gone before I woke up at 8am. I regretted hooking up with her and decided that I wasn't going to do that again. She texted me the next night at about 2 am asking if I was up and I just didn't respond. Fast forward to this past week (April 4th), she messaged me and said that she was pregnant and claimed the last person she had sex with before me was in January. She got it confirmed by a doctor the following day that she was pregnant, but for some reason didn't want me to go with her to the doctor. My stance on the issue was to get the child aborted for the following reasons:\n\n1. I could never see myself in a relationship with her\n2. She had been drinking and taking drugs because she didn't know she was pregnant, which greatly increases the chances for birth defects\n3. We don't know each other almost at all. I have literally had 1 conversation with this girl before this ordeal\n4. We are both college students and not even close to being financially stable enough for something like this. She also had to switch to a community college because she couldn't afford going to a University.\n5. She was kicked off of her mom's health insurance\n6. She is very, very immature. For example, when she didn't respond for a while I said \"we need to figure out what we want to do\" and she responded with \"K\". I then said \"I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just trying to get this situated sooner rather than later\" to which she then said \"K\". I later asked if I could call her sometime today and she just said \"I'm busy\".\n\nSo the overall quality of life for the baby, her, and me would be horrible.\n\n​\n\nHowever, I understand that it's her choice so she can do whatever she wants. She was interested in the abortion at first but then was afraid it would be bad for her mental health with that on her conscious and seemed like she was leaning more towards having it. This is possible, but there is an article online saying 95% of women who get an abortion are happy with their decision. Anyways, I said adoption would probably be the next best thing and she stopped responding. Then I asked if she was considering keeping it for herself and she said \"Idk\". \n\n​\n\nNow today, April 7th, I texted her and this was the conversation:\n\nMe: Do you want to meet up tomorrow and talk about this?\n\nHer: It's taken care of. No worries\n\nMe: What do you mean?\n\nHer: It's gone\n\nMe: can you elaborate please?\n\n\\*didn't respond\\*\n\nMe: Hello?\n\n\\*didn't respond\\*\n\nMe: I'm not trying to be rude at all I just need to know what is actually going on. This is not something to be immature about.\n\nHer: I'm not? I said it's over with. Taken care of. Gone. Don't worry about it now. Lma\n\nMe: can you please tell me what happened?\n\n\\*she didn't respond\\*\n\n​\n\nSo I really need advice on the whole situation. What if she is lying, still has it and keeps it? What should I do right now?","title":"Possibly got a girl pregnant, she is being more unreasonable than I could ever imagine.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446159669,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qrp6a\/i_need_roommate_help_asap_in_texas\/","id":"3qrp6a","body":"I let a really good friend of mine move in with me June-mid October. Turns out, she's not so great of a friend and was usually a few days late on rent and bills -- blamed for her towing, plays victim, etc. This is a 3 bedroom apartment shared with other roommates. She was not legally put on the lease. \nI told her a few weeks ago that I was planning to move to another city by the start of January, and so she would need to start looking for a place to be by then. She took it as a personal attack and decided to move out early. Except she left her bed\/bedframe and dresser in the garage. She said she would be here for the remainder of October (2 weeks), but instead I think she paid a little money extra to move in early somewhere else. \nThe bills came in (for the time that she was here) and I notified her. She didn't confirm she was going to pay them. So I texted her again today to get confirmation she was going to pay her bills, and she hasn't responded. She did however, respond to the other roommate when asked what she was doing this weekend and said something along the lines of \"Oh my PARENTS are coming up here to help me move my stuff out of the garage this weekend, and I'm really broke right now.\"\nSo I texted her again saying I need an answer from you. No response. \n\nWhat can I do here? Can I tell her I'm going to move her stuff to the dumpster if she doesn't pay her bills\/doesn't respond to me? \nI'm sure legal action would be cost\/benefit for utilities of around $60. \nI want her to pay her stuff so that we all don't have to cover it. And I'm upset that she still has an apartment key, and that she'll probably have her parents come here and try to strong-handle the situation. \nWhat can I do? ","title":"I need roommate help asap in Texas","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540523126,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rh22p\/breaking_lease_early\/","id":"9rh22p","body":"I moved into an apartment in Phoenix, AZ in July. Upon entering the unit for the very first time, there were cockroaches EVERYWHERE, both dead and alive. I reported the roaches to the leasing office within 24 hrs of move in. \n\nThere was no follow up, yet I kept seeing live roaches throughout my apartment, so I told the office again that my unit had a roach problem. They were pretty awful with their communication and follow-up, and I had to make multiple requests for treatment. They made attempts with their contracted pest control company to bait my unit, and I additionally went out of my way to set traps and fastidiously clean my kitchen, keeping all my food sealed away in air tight containers. It helped to some extent, but I still had roaches. I even found them in my fridge- no idea how they were getting in, since maintenance came and reported that my fridge was sealed. \n\nMonths after me complaining and their handful of attempts to bait, we tried spraying. Still had roaches. All this time, they have had issues with their manager, and the office had really poor communication and miscommunication with me (the manager was recently let go). It\u2019s been 4 months since I\u2019ve lived here, and the issue has YET to resolve. \n\nI\u2019m at the point where I no longer want to be at the mercy of my leasing office, especially when it takes them SO LONG to even attempt to get anything done, and this issue has yet to resolve. Cockroaches are one thing, but it\u2019s a whole different issue when they\u2019ve been found in my FRIDGE. Isn\u2019t this a health violation? \n\nI would have to pay a month of rent to break my lease ($810), but I\u2019m a grad student and really don\u2019t have that kind of money sitting around. And were it not for the roaches, I would not have any issue living here. However, I really don\u2019t think I can continue living with roaches, especially when there is no end in sight. Is there a way to break my lease without the early termination fee? ","title":"Breaking lease early","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539055932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mlroh\/school_tracking_technology\/","id":"9mlroh","body":"I go to a school in Illinois. We use Chromebooks daily for our work. Our school has had a g suite account, and gives us heavily managed Google accounts. We are required to use them to log in to our computers. Recently our school has started installing software like \"Gopher Buddy\" and \"Chromium\". They are both software to manage our accounts, track searches, block features, force updates, ect. Chromium is incredible hard to research, as it is the the same name as a beta version of Google chrome, and not on the chrome web store. Neither me nor my parents have agreed to any type of terms of service. Both services manage account data, IP address, location, and search history. They are both 3rd party software sending our data to a \"secure\" server, where it can be managed by school administrators. Is this legal? I never agreed to send my data, let them track my data, or anything related to our accounts in general.","title":"School tracking technology.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554835514,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbbnsc\/mo_usa_my_company_is_forcing_employees_to_include\/","id":"bbbnsc","body":"Missouri, USA. \n\nVery simply, my company will soon force employees to put a headshot within an email anytime we correspond with clients. We are otherwise non-client facing. All team members in this department have stated they are 100% against this policy. Do I have any legal right to decline to participate in this policy and keep my image private? Is there anything we can do? Thank you","title":"[MO, USA] My company is forcing employees to include a headshot when corresponding by email with clients","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540370431,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qxu0h\/my_boss_didnt_fire_me_he_put_me_on_suspension\/","id":"9qxu0h","body":"Tl;dr: I was put on suspension pending further investigation for being out of uniform and I was wondering if this is lawful or is there something strange going on here.\n\n\nSo I have been working for a company for 2 and a half years it's still a young business. This job was paying my bills and that was about it I wanted to get a second job and my friend was kind of pushing me to put my application in so I did. About 5 people that work for my current company moved over there because we I am in a very toxic work environment. I made it through my first interview and when they asked me why I wanted to leave my old job I didnt say anything negative about the company I was then moved on to a second interview with the head of HR. This was where things got a little wierd. They told me they needed to do a background check on me and that they needed two managers from my current job. I haven't done a lot of interviews I was in the military for 5 years right out of highschool and only had one other job after that. They tell me I should let my managers know that they'll be getting a call. The first manager I tell literally tells everyone and I was brought in a room with the owner and the manager and they belittled me told me that I was only good for showing up on time and clocking out I was brought to tears but I held out i kept strong and i kept working as hard as i ever did. Two weeks later i get a call saying that because of negative feedback from my current employer (she didnt say it outright but I know the drug test wasn't the problem) they could not employ me. The next day I walked into work I was pulled in the owner's office with the HR rep. And they gave me a letter of disciplinary action for being out of uniform and that the corrective action was to put me on unpaid suspension pending further investigation. I dont know a lot about labor laws but I feel like this is their way of avoiding something.","title":"My boss didnt fire me he put me on \"suspension pending further investigation\" without pay. After I tried to apply for a second job.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568688761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5aztx\/do_i_have_a_possible_case_to_sue_for_early\/","id":"d5aztx","body":"Links for California Vehicle Code, imgur link with mailed paperwork for reference, and California Highway Patrol (CHP) Ordinances pertaining to \u201cabandoned\u201d vehicles included below. \n\n[CA Vehicle Code](https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH&sectionNum=22651)\n\n[CHP Link](https:\/\/www.chp.ca.gov\/ResearchAndPlanningSectionSite\/Documents\/HPH%2087.1,%20Chapter%204.pdf)\n\n[Images of Mailed Vehicle Paperwork](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/QosjIJc)\n\nTimeline:\n\nSept. 6th @ ~12:30pm-1:00pm: vehicle broke down and was left, unoccupied to the right of the hwy shoulder off the side of the hwy (58)\n\nSept. 6th: prior to leaving the vehicle on the side of the hwy, registered owner (me) left a written note on the outside of the vehicle (underneath wiper blade), stating intent to return & tow vehicle, along with two (2) phone numbers to reach the registered owner by. \n\nSept. 6th or Sept. 7th: A citation was left on the back windshield of vehicle by CHP stating that the registered owner had up to 72 hrs from the time the citation was issued to remove vehicle, or it would be towed & impounded. \n\nSept. 8th: Vehicle was called in to dispatch at towing company for removal and storage (either 24 or 48hrs from time of issued citation)\n\nSept. 13th: Notice of lein was delivered to listed mailing address (presumably from TX DMV), along with \u201cDeclaration of Opposition\u201d form. \n\nAdditional Information: \n\n* Listed as a \u201cPublic Agency Tow\u201d\n\n* Listed \u201creason for stop\u201d: 11-24 - \u201cunoccupied vehicle\u201d \n\n* Vehicle is valued at $4000 and less\n\n* Neither listed number left by registered owner of vehicle (me) was contacted in an attempt to reach registered vehicle owner prior to towing of vehicle \n\n* Vehicle had license plate that was not forged\/or a license plate not issued to that car\n\n* Vehicle had expired tags (Aug. 2019) expired for less than 6 months at the time of \u201cdiscovery\u201d\/\u201cabandonment\u201d of vehicle \n\n* Vehicle was \u201cabandoned\u201d on the side of CA hwy (58), but has Texas license plates (is\/was registered at TX DMV) \n\n* Vehicle not parked on a causeway, viaduct or bridge, was not in a Construction zone, or parked in such a way that it was obstructing the flow of traffic\n\n* Vehicle was not issued five (5) or more parking violations prior to CHP issued tow\n\n* Sale date as listed on lein notice is 10\/15\/19\n\nAlso, do i need to go through Texas DMV, or can I handle this through the CA DMV, where I am currently located?","title":"Do I have a possible case to sue for early removal of my vehicle from public property, or should i just cut my losses? [CA Hwy\/TX license plates]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570623710,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfg8no\/name_is_being_slandered_during_divorce_texas\/","id":"dfg8no","body":"So I got counter papers from my ex wife. In the papers it states that I have a history of family violence and abuse which is far from the truth. My ex wife is saying that she has never said this to her lawyer. Her mom who was in the meeting says the same. \n\nWhat recourse do I have for this. If she didn\u2019t say this to the lawyer and they just put this in the papers with out any proof what can I do? Can I sue for slander? Also what can I do to protect my name. This was put in to gain sole custody of my 2 year old daughter who is my life. \n\nSide note. I am not taking the word of my ex at all. When I filed I read thru 3 drafts and the final draft before I said it was ok to send file the paper. I also have a lawyer he is on vacation at the moment.","title":"Name is being slandered during divorce Texas","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568671962,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d57ks0\/friend_knows_about_suicide_but_no_one_else_knows\/","id":"d57ks0","body":"My friend was supposed to commit suicide with their friend. Their friend committed suicide in my friend's presence but my friend changed their mind last minute. The dead friend's family and friends think they're missing and has been looking for them for a while. My friend wants to tell the family that their child is dead but doesn't want to do it they are going to get in trouble. Can my friend get in trouble?","title":"Friend knows about suicide but no one else knows (Fl)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554924550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbq8r3\/or_if_someone_is_on_bench_probation_and_theres_a\/","id":"bbq8r3","body":"Hello, I'm new to this subreddit.The two people I'm talking about got in a domestic dispute about May of last year, I don't really know too much about their parole but I'm sure their parole lasts one more year, the details are bumpy, but I'm just wondering if that order would still be in affect or not. (Sorry for the lack of information, I just know if their regular probation is over the order would no longer be in affect but I was just curious about the bench parole)","title":"[OR] If someone is on bench probation and there's a no contact order would that order still be affective?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443928713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3neywc\/uk_civil_suit_following_assault\/","id":"3neywc","body":"Hi Reddit,\n\nI'll save the details of the incident for later on. I was assaulted by a guy in a club who has subsequently been arrested on posted on bail pending his plea hearing. Since then I've had threats from members of his family (assuming by the same surname) on my life.  \n\n**Where do I stand in pursuing damages against my own mental health?** As a sufferer of relatively-severe social anxiety, this happening to me has taken me so many steps back in terms of therapy and trying to get better.  \n\n**Incident:** Went to a club with guys from work. Saw a friend of mine whom I also work with who was stumbling drunk. Two guys hounding on her the entire time, neither of these her boyfriend.  \n\nDEV0UR3R tries to intervene, 5 seconds later I am punched by aforementioned boyfriend. Fractured eyesocket, concussion and a bruised jaw.  \n\nTL;DR Chivalry is dead.\n\n**EDIT:** X-posted over to [\/r\/legaladviceUK](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/LegalAdviceUK\/comments\/3nf00w\/xpost_legaladvice_uk_civil_suit_following_assault\/) ","title":"[UK] Civil suit Following Assault.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508186891,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76ti40\/my_wife_was_taken_off_her_work_schedule_for_her\/","id":"76ti40","body":"This morning my wife's boss asked her to come in this afternoon before her shift at 4. When she went in, her boss told her that due to her pregnancy, she's being changed from the 4 pm shift to the midnight shift \"for her safety.\" She works with developmentally disabled adults, and she has asked not to work with a particular client (out of about 20 clients), but she was fine with her current client and hadn't expressed any concerns. Now, normally a shift change wouldn't be any concern for me (annoying, but well within the company's prerogative), but there are no available midnight shifts, meaning she has no scheduled hours and is \"on call.\" If it matters, she only worked 3 shifts before this (24 hours\/week).\n\nWhat should we do, if anything?\n\nEDIT: We live in Idaho\n","title":"My wife was taken off her work schedule \"for her safety.\" She's pregnant","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551723893,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axafbs\/a_mistake\/","id":"axafbs","body":"Okay short and sweet. Made a stupid stupid mistake and ended up swapping pics with a minor over seas on one of those stupid stranger messaging apps. And all of a sudden I got a message that said that the conversation was recorded and IP address was located and I was gonna be charged and prosecuted. Is this real or do I need to seek legal advice? Get an attorney? Everything was deleted and history wiped. Someone please help me","title":"A mistake","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507989630,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76c8vc\/what_can_i_do_about_my_number_being_spoofed\/","id":"76c8vc","body":"Over the past couple weeks, I've received phone calls from some upset people asking if I'm a telemarketer or solicitor. I've never called them or seen their numbers before. The first woman who called, I tried to explain that I had never called her and she could just block my number to ensure it doesn't happen again.\n\nLong story short:\n\nAfter several calls, I started searching for answers. Found articles about telemarketers and scammers spoofing the number that shows on caller ID. Best course of action I can think of is report it to the FCC.\n\nIs there anything else that I can legally do? Because it's starting to irk me in addition to the people they are calling.\n\nObligatory: Live in Ohio.","title":"What can I do about my number being spoofed?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539382007,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9non55\/our_apartment_complex_has_shut_off_the_ac_service\/","id":"9non55","body":"Hello so our air conditioning is included in our rent at our apartment complex. It\u2019s a chiller system and they usually shut it off in the winter. This year our apartment changed management companies and they decided to shut off the AC last week. The problem is we live in Phoenix, Arizona where it\u2019s still mid-80\u2019s usually until the end of November. It\u2019s also been rainy this month so the apartments are hot and humid. People have obviously been complaining as today they sent out an angry mass email telling people it\u2019s a done deal and to stop reaching out to them about it. Is there anything we can do here? ","title":"Our apartment complex has shut off the AC service for the year.. in Arizona","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446437770,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r669l\/what_is_the_going_rate_for_lawyers_in_traffic\/","id":"3r669l","body":"I was just quoted 750 for essentially ten minutes of work by one law firm. I'm wondering if I'm just going to have to eat this charge. Will be checking out some other firms but would like some feedback on this.\n\nEDIT: harford\/baltimore county region\n\nThis is for a failure to control speed to avoid collision ticket.","title":"What is the going rate for lawyers in traffic court in Maryland?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447164541,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s9vaz\/fl_what_are_my_rights_as_a_tenant_in_this\/","id":"3s9vaz","body":"I signed a lease for an apartment back in April. Moved in, everything was fine. I am a veteran with PTSD and anxiety issues. I have it documented from two therapists\/mental health professionals recommending an Emotional Support Animal. I have a dog that is trained and 'prescribed' based on those recommendations. She made a HUGE uproar about my animal. I filed a complaint with the local Human Relations commission. They sent them a packet stating the difference between an ESA and a pet as well as print outs of the statutes from the Vet Rehab Act and the ADA act that allows ESA's and that states if documented papers from a mental health professional are acquired, accommodations must be made.\n\nSince then, the landlord has basically harassed me. I have a sign posted on my door with \"Please do not knock. If needed call (my phone number\". She comes by and pounds on the door anyways knowing that the dog will bark if someone knocks. She then uses that to tell me that my dog is vicious.\n\nI had a guest over (my lease states that someone can be there for up to fifteen consecutive days). My guest was there when the landlord came yesterday (while I was at work). Landlord called me and told me that whoever is in my apartment needs to leave now and that guests were not allowed. She complained that I have two vehicles parked at the property that both are in good condition and current tagged. I am allowed to two parked vehicles based on the lease.\n\nWhile my guest was there and the landlord was pounding on the door, my guest said through the door that she had just showered and couldn't come to the door at that exact moment. The landlord turned the doorknob and tried to push the door open, but the deadbolt was locked, so she was unable to.\nI filed a complaint with the local police just so it was documented that it happened, in case she tries to take me to eviction court.\nAnother tenant in the building has a PET, but does not get grief for that at all. I feel like the landlord is harassing me directly.\n\nShe has called me names over the phone said some ridiculous things.\nDo I have any rights? What can I do in this situation? I can not afford to move before my lease is up. I have a feeling she may be on meds and does this when she is having an episode.\n\nTLDR; Landlord is trying to bypass my veteran\/ADA rights, tried to enter apartment unannounced with no notice, lies regularly, and just generally harasses me.\n\nEDIT: I would love to move out, but I can not afford security deposits and utility deposits at another place right now. I still have 6 months left on my lease.","title":"[FL] What are my rights as a tenant in this situation?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551123169,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aup8q0\/fired_from_job_over_snapchat\/","id":"aup8q0","body":"Mandatory I'm on mobile, and location is North Carolina.\n\nI was fired from my job as a cook via Snapchat messages about 20 minutes ago. I know I'm an at-will state, and I'm okay with being fired, jobs are a dime a dozen. But my question here is, can somebody actually fire you over Snapchat?\n\nI did take a screenshot of it for my own personal records just incase. ","title":"Fired from job over snapchat.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569895918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbmfd5\/va_apartments_gave_my_fatherinlaw_a_notice_i_dont\/","id":"dbmfd5","body":"A bit of background:\n\nI live in AZ with my wife, whose parents both live in VA in a income-based apartment complex. Both of her parents struggle with English as it is not their first language. For the past 2 months, their washer has been broken and they have requested repair through the proper channels multiple times. Almost countless. This past Friday, my Father-in-law was understandably frustrated with the situation and went to the apartment office by himself to try and see why it hadn't been fixed after 2 months of requests. My FIL did his best to try and ask why their repair requests had seemingly been ignored. Because of the language barrier, the Community Manager started getting frustrated with my FIL and my FIL became frustrated also. There was some arguing, and my FIL left the office and went home. After he left the office, the community manager called the police and filed a report. Today, they presented my wife's parents with a \"30 Day Notice to Cure or Quit\". The language I don't fully understand and is why I'm am asking for guidance here.\n\nThe 2 pages of the notice I've linked here: [Page 1](https:\/\/imgur.com\/3yBMFs0), [Page 2](https:\/\/imgur.com\/4kbzisX)\n\nThe portions of the lease agreement they reference as being breached appear to be behavioral in nature. From a cursory Google search, these types of notices are typically issued with regards to repairs, or monetary fees, or removing an unauthorized pet from the premises. How do they expect my FIL to \"cure\" the breach of lease? Does he need to issue a formal apology? I have never seen this type of notice being a lifetime renter myself.\n\nAny advice or guidance you can provide would be much appreciated. My wife's parents are deeply distressed as are we for their well-being.","title":"[VA] Apartments gave my father-in-law a notice I don't fully understand.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539122796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mtksd\/i_am_a_clueless_17_year_old_boy_charged_with_a\/","id":"9mtksd","body":"Today, I was charged with Trespassing at a local high school I do not attend, and I was told by the officer who caught me that I\u2019ve committed a class C misdemeanor. I was taken into his office, my phone was searched, and I was charged with trespassing. I was on school property during the school day, and I don\u2019t attend the school where this took place. My intention was to eat lunch with my friend.  (Yes, I am a jackass. Yes, I am a dumb stupid idiot. I recognize this fact and I won\u2019t do anything like this again.)\n\nI\u2019ve never experienced anything like this in my life. My parents are pissed and I\u2019m scared that this will follow me for the rest of my life. I\u2019ve been told that i\u2019ll be contacted by my principal and that i\u2019ll receive paperwork in the mail for the hearing.  From my research, I\u2019ve determined that I can\u2019t be fined more than 500$ for my offense.\n\nWhat do I do? What should I expect? Do I hire a lawyer? Am I going to be labeled a criminal for the rest of my life?","title":"I am a clueless 17 year old boy charged with a Class C misdemeanor in Texas, and I have no idea what I\u2019m doing.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569300901,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8igtd\/i_believe_my_employer_violated_ada_and_my_set\/","id":"d8igtd","body":"I suffer from PTSD and MDD which has a variety of symptoms like insomnia for example. My schedule I had my two therapy appointments set on my days off. \nTwo things, my job works on a point system for attendance etc. Once you reach 9 points you are terminated. You can roll off a point by working 6 hours of OT so 40 hrs + 6. Or a month of perfect attendance. \nNow the paperwork my healthcare providers filled out stated I am unable to work or highly recommended to not exceed 32 hours a week. Making me unable to actually work any OT to take a point off if needed. As for the month of perfect attendance, it is very likely I will have an appointment I won\u2019t be able to get on an off day and will need to miss some work. I talked to HR and they said I\u2019m pretty much SOL with rolling off points unlike the rest of the employees can do making my job unstable. \n\nNow I work at a large company who sent out an email asking if employees who don\u2019t work Fridays and work Sundays if they would be willing to switch that. Now I\u2019m off Fridays one of my set appointment days for therapy. I emailed stating I would be happy too only if I can find another day for that appointment. I wasn\u2019t I let them know and they switched it anyways. I let my supervisor know even before it took place I could not. I told HR, my supervisor requested for A WHOLE MONTH. Not only did they not know I could not work that full shift (long commute and long appointment) but still had me scheduled 1-10pm when at 3pm is my appointment. Not only did that cause financial issues but caused my symptoms to worsen making me miss more days. \nFinally I got fed up and went to the site director who was astonished it wasn\u2019t changed yet and got it switched back the next day. I felt like I was owed money for part of my hours being placed on a day I could not work I was upset. But also I got POINTS for that month when I actively everyday spoke to HR to get it swapped. \nThe response from HR was that I had to follow the typical process and I needed to apply for available shifts. I was applying for my old shift that shouldn\u2019t of been changed to begin with. Not only did I need to choose to miss that appointment some weeks because I needed money but it made my symptoms worse because of that. It effected my treatment and it should of never had happened. But now I have almost 9 points which they will not work anything out that I can achieve. \nEvery single absence or time missed from my shifts I need a note for. Which is ridiculous no one else there under fmla or Ada needs a note for EVERYTIME otherwise why did my doctors fill out the paperwork. \n\nAlso other things like I\u2019m not allowed to use any borrowed PTO for anything when every employee is able to use borrowed PTO. \n\nAm I in the wrong here or am I right to feel upset due to the hardship I underwent that entire month which caused my symptoms to worsen since I wasn\u2019t able to consistently attend my treatment.","title":"I believe my employer violated ADA and my set appointments for treatment (Mental Illness) am I wrong?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503444236,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vey4v\/new_york_i_get_paid_my_commission_quarterly_im\/","id":"6vey4v","body":"I gave my two weeks notice and I asked about the commission due. They told me that it's gone and that they will not be paying me my commission for the work I've done for the past two months because I won't be here for the last month.\n\n\n* July - Worked the full month\n* August - Worked the full month\n* September - Will work 1 day, last day is September 1st.\n\n\nThey're saying I will not get my commission for July and August. Is this legal? I don't expect September's sales to count towards my commission, but I worked July and August. The amount will be $2k to $3k so it's quite a bit of money.\n\n\nI have a contract. The top of the contract states, \"Covering January 1st to December 31st 2017.\" There is no mention of what happens if I leave or am fired. Then it lays out the % information. \n\n\n-----------\n\n\n**Some quotes from my one page contract that are relevant to the pay out of the commission plan:**\n\n\n\"Commissions will be paid quarterly at the rate of X%.\"\n\n\n**and**\n\n\n\"Sales commission for assigned customers will be broken down on a quarterly basis. Commission goals are as follows. For the first year, all sales of assigned customers will be paid a X% commission.\"\n\n\n**then for a joint commission deal, though my counterpart was fired during last quarter so it has been just me,:**\n\n\n\"Gross sales will be paid on a X% basis and split equally between both salespersons, based on quarterly sales.\"\n\n\n---------","title":"(New York) I get paid my commission quarterly. I'm leaving my job 2\/3rds into the quarter and they said they are not paying me for the two months due to me because I'm forfeiting by leaving. No mention of that in my contract. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539882566,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pb75e\/birth_mother_lost_custody_and_now_years_later\/","id":"9pb75e","body":"Throwaway for obvious reasons, but my girlfriend has legal custody of her nephew. The birth mother was a drug addict and did not even show up to court to fight for the kid.\n\nIt has now been at least a few years, the kid is safe and happy and is in a great school district, but the mother has decided she wants him back. \n\nDoes the mother really have any claim here? She is supposedly clean now and is trying to get an apartment for the both of them to live in, but her history seems like a big flag. ","title":"Birth mother lost custody and now years later wants child back.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569905841,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbocyi\/tx_hole_in_kitchen_ceiling_for_the_past_week_and\/","id":"dbocyi","body":"On Sept. 3 my roommate and I moved into our first apartment. When we walked through the place there was no obvious issues. After a few days passed we realized our air vents would cause condensation to drip on our floors and counters. We told the complex and nothing was done. \n\nThen tropical storm Imelda rolled into town and then we started to see leaking from our kitchen ceiling, primarily from the light. We immediately called the emergency hotline and recieved no response, we then called the office to no response and then put in a work order after the damage caused our light to fall from the ceiling. The second day of the storm our ceiling then collapsed creating hole roughly 1 meter in diameter. We called both lines again, no response and then put in a new work order. I went in that following monday, the first day the office was open and told them about the issues, they sent two men to clean it, which the only removed the dangling sheet rock and they told us it would be fixed the following Tuesday and we have yet to recieve any word back from them as it is still not repaired.\n\nThe hole has allowed insects to enter freely from the attic which has cause us to have terrible problems with horse flies taking over the apartment. We have also seen and heard mice. We finally cleaned it our selves and have covered the hole with a tarpe. The complex put the work orders status as completed even though nothing was done. I have since put in another order to no response.\n\nIs this horror story enough to leave the lease. We both have renters insurance.","title":"[TX] Hole in kitchen ceiling for the past week and half. Constantly dripping vents and steadily growing horse fly infestation.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444031761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3njumf\/tenant_on_rolling_contract_by_month_landlord\/","id":"3njumf","body":"********EDIT****** We are in the UK\n\nHello everyone,\nwe are in a rolling contract, renewed every month, and we have to give 1 months notice if we want our contract the end, this would be counted from the next due date of the rent (4th of the month)\n\nWe contacted our letting agents, who has been dealing with everything so far throughout the tenancy (inspections, repairs, queries) for them to tell us that we need to tell the landlord, and they do not manage the property (weird considering how much they have done for it)\n\nAnyway, they gave me contact details for the landlord, and i emailed him to say we were looking to end our tenancy, and were serving 1 months notice (it has to be written),\nWe Haven't heard back from them yet, and it has now gone past our rent due date,\n\nAs we have attempted to contact the landlord, and left an email for them, before the date required, is our notice still valid, even if they havent acknowledged it, or does it only count if the Landlord replies \/ confirms they have seen it?\n\nWe have proof it was sent, and we also used the details provided by the letting agent, so we have done everything within our power to let the landlord know in time.\n\nDo you have any advise on what we can do in this scenario?\nIf the landlord \/ letting agent try to count our notice as being handed in after the rent due date, it means we have to stay until 3rd December, rather than 3rd of November, if they do this, do we have an argument against this as we did everything we could, and the issue is their end?\n\nThanks guys.","title":"Tenant on rolling contract by month, Landlord hasn't replied to us serving notice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447641521,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sz0le\/tx_copyright_issues_on_photos_while_working_for\/","id":"3sz0le","body":"Okay so just a little background info, I work for a newspaper at a college in Texas as a staff photographer. I shoot stuff anywhere from campus life, concerts, sports and breaking news. I am paid based off shifts (hourly) for the majority of stuff I cover for the paper. The one thing I do not get paid for is shooting football games. My job states it is a \"privilege\" despite the fact that the work day on days of football games is around 7+ hours. I am not complaining too much on the fact we do not get paid because I am really big into sports and to shoot high-level sports is a great opportunity.  \n\nSo to get to my question\/concern. When I first started working for the paper I first and foremost did not sign any documents pertaining to anything copyright related. When I get cool photos while on shift I post them online(Facebook, Instagram, my website, etc) and no one had a problem with me using my watermark, until my first football game(unpaid). I posted photos from that day online and my boss tried to tell me that if I use the newspaper's equipment, am under a press credential issued by them or am being paid, they own all the rights and I must use their watermark when posting to my personal account. I did some research and am not sure if it is true but read that the paper can only tell me what to do with my images if I am being paid. The credential and use of gear just implies the newspaper can use my photos. I am wondering who is in the wrong, and what are the actual laws on this sort of instance. I do not have a problem with them using my photos whenever they want becuase it is a win-win for both sides. But I do not want to use the paper's watermark on things such as my website, plus the way they have the watermark setup is it resizes my photos at the same time in photoshop, which degrades online quality. I asked my boss about this issue with the watermark and he basically told me to deal with it...\n\nAny help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! \n\nTL;DR I work at a newspaper as a photographer and they are trying to tell me I must use their watermark when posting to my own social media accounts when posting photos I took for them, paid or not.","title":"[TX] Copyright issues on photos while working for newspaper.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541514846,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uosr5\/is_it_wage_theft_ga\/","id":"9uosr5","body":"Honestly this is just a quick question on base pay calculation. I am on biweekly paychecks(26 in a year) and also salaried. My company calculates pay by dividing the base pay by 52.1667 weeks and then multiplying by 2 for the gross pay check total. For example if your yearly base is $50000 your total pay would be $49840. Is this wage theft? HR said it\u2019s the same for everyone and not to worry about it. I know it\u2019s not a lot of money but it feels super sketch.\n\n50000\/52.1667 * 2 = 1916.93 per pay check gross\n1916.93 * 26 = $49840","title":"Is it Wage Theft? (GA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503435539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ve1gj\/eviction_roommates_and_legal_recourse\/","id":"6ve1gj","body":"Greetings Legal Advice,\n\nI'm hoping this question will be a fairly straightforward one to answer. Approximately 1 and a half years ago I was evicted from from my apartment, which I shared with a roommate.\nThis roommate was on the lease and shared equal responsibility for paying bills\/rent\/etc. This occurred in Arizona.\n\nBasically, he did not pay his part of the rent and hid then notices from me (I was working 50-60 hours a week on mid-shifts at the time) and, among other things, we were served with an eviction notice.\n\nNow, I have achieved enough financial stability to really pay back the money owed to the land lord. Between the two of us, we both owe approximately $2,500.\n\nMy ex-roommate is now refusing to pay his half of the bill. I've been in touch with the collections agency and paid the half that I owe, and naturally have received the same answer regarding full responsibility regardless of the roommate when it comes to footing the bill. The complex is also unwilling to work with me.\n\nIs there any legal recourse available where it would be possible to shift the remaining weight to be my roommates? While I understand the need to collect, it seems crappy that if someone decides not to pay their part (even if they share the responsibility) that this is falling back on me.\n\nI appreciate your time and any advice you may have. \n\n","title":"Eviction - Roommates and legal recourse","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542044915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wg6r6\/i_was_accused_and_forced_to_sign_paperwork_for\/","id":"9wg6r6","body":"On Friday I was pulled out of class (I\u2019m an aid to a student) 10 minutes before the final bell. I was told to go to the principals office. He had an official form\/letter stating effective immediately I would be terminated from the school district and have Do Not Hire on my file. I signed not aware as I was made to not have a choice. I\u2019m already working to try and get into contact with my local union about next steps and I hope it\u2019s a misunderstanding or an overreaction. The only thing negative I can think of is I said to the effect \u201cI wish I could slap you but I can\u2019t\u201d to an older student who was messing around. I have high doubt that would result in me on a do not hire designation. \n\nAny help or thoughts appreciated. ","title":"I was accused and forced to sign paperwork for being terminated, am I screwed?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570833181,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgme7v\/iowa_can_you_drive_without_insurance_card_on_you\/","id":"dgme7v","body":"My brother recently switched over his insurance from one car to another because winter is coming. A day after he switched it he got pulled over on his way to work and because he didn't have the insurance card (which takes time since he switched over) he was given a $390 insurance ticket. He called and they said that he can prove it in court but that will cost $60 in court fees.  \n\n\nHe is trying to get out of this without paying anything because he doesn't see as what he did was wrong. So any advice?","title":"Iowa - Can you drive without Insurance card on you?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553367279,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4mr49\/my_college_wants_me_to_help_cover_up_for_an_audit\/","id":"b4mr49","body":"I\u2019m supposed to graduate from grad school this May, but I was notified that an independent study I took in 2017 was entered under the wrong class code, and it was showing as the undergrad version. In 2017, my advisor spotted the error and told me twice that she\u2019d corrected it. Now, in 2019, I\u2019m finding out this is not the case. \n\nIn Feb. 2019, I got an email from the instructor saying I needed to sign a backdated study contract under a new syllabus. She created the syllabus last month to make it look like the course I took was grad level. I had no idea the course wasn\u2019t grad level when I was taking it. She told me she added assignments and practicum hours, but I didn\u2019t need to worry about actually doing the work. She\u2019d already submitted a statement saying I did the grad work. I refused to sign and lie. \n\nAfter several meetings and conversations expressing my concern, the head of the department admitted that the new syllabus had to be added because the department is being audited by the agency of education. If they keep the syllabus I worked under on file, it will be flagged and the department could lose its license as a teacher prep program.* I stood my ground and requested the code on the syllabus I worked under be changed to the grad code since the grad syllabus did not exist when I took the class. My position is that I am not being given adequate time to meet those new requirements, therefore it makes more sense for the college to waive those credits. Other students will have an entire semester to do the work and I will have just over a month. That is inequitable.\n\nNow, the dean is involved and I am being told to submit a course challenge. With the course challenge, I am supposed to identify work I\u2019ve done in other courses that would satisfy the requirements (that didn\u2019t exist in 2017). I\u2019m frustrated by this because I do not feel the onus should be on me to make this argument. I\u2019ve been arguing the opposite of this. In the 2019 syllabus there is information and a required text that I would have loved to have access to and to have applied during my practicum. I am not being given an opportunity to do that. Future students will, but I will not. I believe the department should go through my transcripts and make an argument for how I still received adequate instruction and information despite their error, and that would justify granting me grad credit. I need this course to graduate and get my license, so I feel cornered. I know this course challenge has little to do with \u201cmaking things right\u201d and more to do with correcting their books for the upcoming audit. I asked the head of the department if I was being asked to either do additional work or lie to keep them out of the hot seat during their audit. She responded, \u201cYes, to some degree.\u201d Should I just go through with the course challenge? Tell the department to complete the challenge? File complaints? Sue for lost wages if I do not get my degree\/license on time?\n\n\n*The upcoming audit will review their program goals from 2012-2019. One of those goals was to create a grad version of the course I\u2019m fighting to get credit for. They did not accomplish this goal between 2012-2018. It\u2019s a very small program so I suspect I was the first student to need the course since the 2012 audit. It looks like the code issue caused a mad scramble, and they want it to look as if they met their goal before the audit. ","title":"My college wants me to help cover up for an audit","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1442522074,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lci9c\/tenantatwill_security_deposit_question\/","id":"3lci9c","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nI'm writing from Brooklyn, NY here. I have a question about getting my security deposit back. \n\nI rented a room from a man who lived in the back room, and he required first month's rent and a security deposit. We didn't go into the specifics of the security deposit at all, so I took it to mean insurance against physical damage to the room.\n\nAbout nine months later, I decided to move out, since I found a cheaper room for rent in the same neighborhood. This was in May. Finding housing is notoriously difficult in New York City, but I was able to find a place around May 17th or so, and told the man I was renting from that I would be moving out at the end of the month. He had about twelve days notice. \n\nHe told me that he was going to keep the whole security deposit because I didn't give him at least 30 days of notice. I thought this was unfair, because there was never a written or even oral agreement that I had to give him a certain amount of notice before leaving in order to get my security deposit back. But he said that he had talked to his lawyers about it, and that they assured him he was in the right. \n\nI should add that there was absolutely no physical damage to the room I rented, and I was a respectful, quiet roommate\/tenant.\n\nHe is in his 60s, and I am in my 20s, so he probably thought he could just get away with it, and he turned out to be right. I considered bringing it to small claims court, but I had never brought suit or been involved in any court room procedure at all, and didn't proceed with it. \n\nHowever, it was a considerable amount of money, $1250, and I think I deserve it.\n\nMy question is--do I have a case? And if so, how should I go about trying to get my money back? And would the costs of bringing the lawsuit cost more than I would be getting?\n\nThanks for anyone with knowledge who can help--it is much appreciated!","title":"Tenant-at-will security deposit question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569163306,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7ravm\/al_my_brothers_work_trailer_got_rear_ended_and\/","id":"d7ravm","body":"Hello everyone! My brother has been talking to me about an incident he\u2019s recently been dealing with and I thought maybe someone here could offer some insight. \n\nMy brother owns his own very small construction business in Alabama. He has two employees plus himself and mostly does small projects and renovations.  A few weeks ago he had to use use his second trailer to haul material while his primary enclosed trailer was left on the job. At the end of the day he had two trailers there and only one truck. One of his employees just upgraded from a car to a truck (that he bought from his grandmother about a week before this) and offered to bring his trailer to the house for him so he didn\u2019t have to make two trips and my brother appreciated the gesture and told him to go ahead. \n\nOn the way home, my brother\u2019s employee was rear ended after just going over a big bridge and sitting at a stop light at about 4pm (still very bright daylight). Luckily he, his truck, and the other party who hit him are all okay but the enclosed trailer that got rear ended is in pretty bad shape. \n\nThe police showed up and handled the scene while making an official report and, of course, the employee pulling my brothers work trailer did not have the trailer lights hooked up. Turns out his truck doesn\u2019t even have the wiring ran to pull a trailer even though it does have a hitch on it. (My brother did not know this or would not have let him pull it. It goes without saying that my brother should have done a proper check on the guys insurance and vehicle before he let him hook up to his work trailer but he didn\u2019t and now we\u2019re here.) However, the guy who hit him admits in the police report that he took his eyes off of the road for a moment to look over into the canal and when he looked forward again he rear ended the trailer. \n\nSo, long story short, here\u2019s the spot my brother is in: \n\n(1) the trailer damage is around $3,500 according to his insurance company. It\u2019s not enough that he can\u2019t survive buts definitely going to hurt him significantly. His business is extremely small and this tool trailer was his livelihood. \n\n(2) his insurance won\u2019t cover the trailer because his employee is not listed on it\n\n(3) his employee\u2019s truck was still under his grandmother\u2019s name and her insurance. Of course my brother doesn\u2019t want to pursue that and hurt his employee or his employees family. If this is the absolute only route that can be taken he\u2019s willing to eat the $3,500 in damage to not hurt his employee or their family. \n\n(4) the guy who rear ended the trailers insurance is denying the claim against it because his employee didn\u2019t have the break lights hooked up. We all understand that this makes sense but because the driver of the vehicle admitted in writing that he took his eyes off the road we\u2019re all hoping that something more can be done to pursue this route. I mean, how is this any different than if you are rear ended at a stop light and your vehicle was in park because your brake lights are not on then, right? \n\nI apologize for the poor formatting and grammatical errors, I\u2019m writing this on my new phone (which I hate and I\u2019m not used to). Unfortunately these are all of the details I have off the top of my head. I can easily get more from my brother later today if they are not needed. He didn\u2019t ask me to post this (although I\u2019m sure he won\u2019t mind) but I wanted to at least give it one shot before he just gives up out of frustration.","title":"[AL] My brother\u2019s work trailer got rear ended and the insurance company is refusing to pay out","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541113419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9teikg\/usa_need_to_report_sensitive_data_found_on\/","id":"9teikg","body":"Hello Reddit -\n\nI'm hoping someone can give me an idea of where to go with a serious concern about data that remains on some used HDDs that I purchased from  the liquidation of a now defunct college.\n\nOn the very first disk that I popped in my dock to test (looking to see if  these were usable drives for my personal IT lab), I found the HDD of a former admin at the college. The disk is not encrypted. The disk contains an email OST file which was not protected in any way. This is the file that keeps cached emails on the local device, basically an almost full copy of data on the server for this particular account.\n\nBased on ONLY looking at the meta data, this OST contains sensitive data for not only the defunct college's IT department, but likely students too.\n\nAt first pass I thought it'd be best to be quiet about this and just move on, but this is really bad. I mean maybe NCIX level bad. I want to report this, but I also don't want to get caught in some legal situation for trying to do the right thing. Is there any protection for this?","title":"[USA] Need to report sensitive data found on auctioned HDDs - Who to contact?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1538986224,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9md07n\/homeless_village_tiny_houses_insurancelegality\/","id":"9md07n","body":"This is going to be vague, so I'm sorry, but this is all theoretical. I really want to try to make a homeless village with tiny houses and a cafeteria and job help etc (imagine a military base idea) to help people get back on their feet and find the resources they need while somewhere safe. My question is, specially in Oregon or nearby, what is the legality of building multiple tiny houses or a dorm-like building on a piece of land for multiple temporary residents such as in a hotel or apartment. I can figure out other issues later, but for a very basic start of giving people somewhere to sleep, eat, and bathe, what legal steps would I need to take to maintain this? What kind of insurance would I need as a non-profit organization or something of the like? I have heard too many stories already of cops seizing and even destroying tiny houses built for homeless people. Please give me ANY advice you have as this is a very obscure issue and I have found VERY little information so far. Thank you!","title":"Homeless Village (Tiny Houses insurance\/legality?)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1445803287,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q6qie\/can_a_canadian_citizen_be_tried_under_us_law\/","id":"3q6qie","body":"As the title suggests. Specifically if said Canadian citizen commits say assault and robbery, do they get sent back to Canada to face trial there or do they face trial in the United States (If it is pertinent, say the crimes were committed in New York)?\n\nThanks.","title":"Can a Canadian citizen be tried Under U.S. law while visiting?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571162910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dibti0\/help_with_determining_child_custody\/","id":"dibti0","body":"So this is a throw account I created since my child\u2019s mom knows I frequent reddit. I live in AZ and have a child with with my now ex GF. Shes in school right now 4 hours a day 5 days a week and currently she is only letting me see my kid on the weekends, she is 20 and has no income, her parents pay for everything. I on the other hand make about 40-45k a year and work 40 hours a week. The reason I am giving all this information is because I know AZ is a right to parent state and I am thinking of taking her to court for custody of my now 1 year old daughter, would I have a good chance of winning custody considering I have a good income and can put my daughter on my health insurance plane through my work?","title":"Help with determining child custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542140607,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wsq9l\/ma_signing_lease_apartment_building_may_at_some\/","id":"9wsq9l","body":"Hello, while reviewing my new lease I noticed this section and was curious if I should be concerned about it.  It's all rather vague to me and I'm concerned about the statement appointing the Landlord Attorney-in-fact.  Simply put: Should I be worried about this? Does this give the landlord any special and unusual power over us in the event that the building is converted to condominiums?  Thank you for the help.  \n\n​\n\n**CONVERSION TO CONDOMINIUMS**\n\n​\n\n*At some undefined point in the future, the building may be converted into condominiums, pursuant to and governed*\n\n*by MA. Gen. Laws ch. 183A, during the Term of this Lease. Resident hereby consents to such conversion of the*\n\n*Building to condominiums and agrees at the request of Landlord to subordinate this Lease to any documents required*\n\n*or necessary for the conversion of the Building to condominiums and to any documents relating to the management*\n\n*of the condominiums, including but not limited to the master deed of the condominium, the bylaws of the*\n\n*condominium, and the rules and regulations governing the condominium; provided that the Landlord (or other owner*\n\n*of the condominium covering space that is currently the Premises) agrees not to disturb the Resident in its*\n\n​\n\n*possession of the Premises so long as Resident continues to perform its obligations hereunder and to accept*\n\n*Resident as Resident of the Premises under substantially similar terms and conditions to the terms and conditions of*\n\n*this Lease. Resident shall promptly execute and deliver any instruments necessary to carry out the foregoing*\n\n*provisions upon Landlord\u2019s request, including executing a new lease agreement that is reasonably comparable to this*\n\n*Lease. Resident hereby appoints Landlord the attorney-in-fact of Resident to execute and deliver such instrument on*\n\n*behalf of Resident, should Resident refuse or fail to do so promptly after request, such power being coupled with an*\n\n*interest.*","title":"[MA] Signing Lease - Apartment building may \"At some undefined point in the future...be converted into condominiums\"","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555467445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be2gnc\/im_a_witness_to_a_crime_that_never_happened_but\/","id":"be2gnc","body":"I\u2019m hoping this counts as a legal question because I need advice and\/or opinions. Trying to summarize and use unidentifiable details.  I know someone who is being accused of a \u201che said, she said crime.\u201d I heard the ENTIRE encounter which has been proven and confirmed by each party already. There are no other witnesses. Let\u2019s call the accuser \u201cSally\u201d. What Sally is saying happened, I actually heard the exact opposite so I know it\u2019s not true. Sally\u2019s legal team has stated I would lie for the person I know so my statement stating I heard the complete opposite of what Sally is saying is moot. I\u2019m meeting with Sally\u2019s legal team for the first time. Do I only answer their questions or do I also reiterate to them they are attempting to prosecute an innocent person?! I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s appropriate here and I feel terrible for the person being wrongly accused.","title":"I\u2019m a witness to a \u201ccrime\u201d that never happened but is being prosecuted. I have a chance to meet with the legal team prosecuting; do I just answer their questions or is it appropriate to tell them they got it all wrong?!","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507120637,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/747usq\/fighting_a_ny_speeding_ticket_from_out_of_state_ct\/","id":"747usq","body":"I was pulled over allegedly doing 73 on the Taconic Parkway in Stanfordville southbound in a 55 on 9\/21\/17 at about 1238.  The officer who pulled me over did not explain why, only asked for my license and registration, then returned to the car, explaining what to do with the ticket.  Days later (I was on a trip) when I got home I realized he wrote it was in a work zone.  It was 100% not in a work zone.  I drove 2 hours back to where I got pulled over (exact location mapped via my history on Google maps) and took video and photos of the area to prove there were no work zone signs posted anywhere - there weren't.\n\nI was obviously targeted for being out of state as I am a Connecticut resident but the officer didn't even get the correct address from my license - there is an updated address on the back.\n\nI mailed back the ticket back with \"not guilty\" this morning.  How likely am I to get it dropped when I appear in court since he fucked up?\n","title":"Fighting a NY speeding ticket from out of state [CT]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553391210,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4quoi\/medical_bills_years_after_car_accident\/","id":"b4quoi","body":"I was in a car accident in 2013. I wasn\u2019t buckled, my partner was driving, we went off the road and slammed into a row of trees going 55 mph. He broke his tailbone, I had 20 broken bones, needed surgery immediately, and will have life long complications due to my injuries. To say I was out of it after the accident is an understatement and I don\u2019t remember ever dealing with insurance papers of any kind. However, my hospital stay was covered, as was my treatment immediately after. As in the week following. Since then I\u2019ve been paying for everything and stacking some serious debt. I make too much for state assistance. My parents say that injuries from the accident and\/or issues connected to those injuries should be covered. Still. I don\u2019t speak to my ex partner and he wouldn\u2019t give me any info anyway. At the time I know insurance covered most of if not all costs for a new car. In fact he got a better Challenger than we had during the accident. So, I can\u2019t get any information from him. Could they be right? If so how do I go about even addressing this? I have long term difficulties stemming from this accident. I\u2019ll need specific care for the rest of my life. Thanks in advance for any help. ","title":"Medical Bills Years After Car Accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569781073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daywut\/arested_and_charged_florida\/","id":"daywut","body":"arrrsted by da cops and chargd with 24 counts drug poseesion. I had 24 grams of crakc with me so mr. oficcer said 1 gram = 1 chrage.\n\nwhat da fuck do I do I can,t go jail. how get cracck??!!!","title":"arested and charged [florida]","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539891773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pck02\/ca_us_divorce_and_separation\/","id":"9pck02","body":"So long story short, H 36m and myself 34f have been physically separated since February 2017 since he took a job in WA State. We both lived in Ontario, and I live here still.\n\nIn August 2018, H called to let me know he wanted to separate and eventually divorce. \n\nI\u2019ve spoken with a legal rep through my work\u2019s benefits and he has advised me that in order to get a divorce in Ontario, one of the parties filing for divorce must be a resident of ON for at least one year. This would be me although I do not want to initiate the divorce. For WA on the other hand, he stated that I must live in WA for a year before departing the state prior to divorce proceedings for property division. \n\nI am assuming he wants to file ASAP, would H need to be in Ontario to do that in this specific case? I did not live with him since Feb of last year.  Would he be able to file within the jurisdiction of ON while living in WA? What are the possible implications of this? \n\nBackground of us:\n\nMarried: 5 years\nCommon Law: 5 Years\nTogether: 11 years\nNo kids\n","title":"[CA] [US] Divorce and Separation","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569162798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7r6y1\/do_i_have_to_repay_relocation_allowance_if_i_am\/","id":"d7r6y1","body":"I moved countries to join a job but it seems like I maybe fired in the next couple of weeks. It's just a feeling but in my contract it says and I quote, \"if your contract with XXX company is terminated for any reason within 2 years then you have to repay the relocation money on a pro-rated daily basis.\"\n\nHowever I am not voluntarily leaving myself, I want to stay and they are getting rid of me. So in such a situation, do you repay the relocation allowance? If yes, then my question would be why would I pay from my pocket the money that I've already spent for a mistake of them hiring me and later finding it out that I'm not a good fit?\n\nHoping to get some views on this.","title":"Do I have to repay relocation allowance if I am fired?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553293552,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4be04\/response_to_the_fighting\/","id":"b4be04","body":"Never used Reddit before but here we go.\n\nSo, I am a 9th grader in a Virginia school. We always have issues with fights and such but it has never been this serious.\n\nWe have had four or five physical fights in the past three days. Nothing crazy, a couple punches and it was broken up. \n\nEveryone thought that the fighters would just be suspended and an officer would talk to them. No. The principal gave an announcement that if there was one more fight, we would go into \"lockdown\". \n\nHe explained that \"lockdown\" is where all four grades in the school will have separate lunches, our lunch time will be cut to thirty minutes (usually in hour), and we would not be allowed to be anywhere other than the Commons in the morning. This is school wide.\n\nI already knew about the war crime against collective punishment. I read up on the Geneva Convention and from what i understand, the students are not protected people until this lockdown occurs. But once it does, the school is commiting a war crime. (If I am wrong please do correct me!)\n\nIf I am right about them commiting a war crime, how would I go about informing them\/ accusing them\/ etc.?\n\nAnd if I am wrong about the war crime, I still believe that it is wrong to punish all of us for those fights. ","title":"Response to the fighting","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541706609,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vd9so\/mil_picked_up_children_from_school_refuses_to\/","id":"9vd9so","body":"My MIL has repeatedly throughout the past month claimed that I am an unfit mother and that she would be looking to obtain custody of my children after my daughter killed herself.\n\nWe've had it worked out that my eldest daughter's girlfriend was to drive her and my middle child home. We completely forgot to tell school not to let MIL pick up our children. Girlfriend however goes to different school because of zoning (even though she lives 3 minutes down the road) and MIL went to school and picked up both children stating I had sent her.\n\nNow MIL is refusing to release my children to me.\n\nHow do I proceed? Is there a way to stop MIL from being allowed on the campus in the future?","title":"MIL picked up children from school, refuses to return them","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571359540,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djflvv\/landlord_is_acting_strange_with_giving_us_our\/","id":"djflvv","body":"Just finished renting a home here in Texas. Lease ended on October 1st. Left the home in immaculate condition and even submitted early notice of departure with landlord on September 23rd. Landlord inspected home and texted us back that everything checked out and we\u2019ll be receiving our check in the mail. \n\nTwo weeks went by and we still haven\u2019t received our check. Contacted landlord and he claimed check was mailed out on September 25th. It was a cashiers check. We confirmed he did mail it out on the 25th in which he texted us a pic of the check. Just found out today that since the check was lost in the mail and he has to send another check it\u2019s costing him $60. He\u2019s wanting us to go half on the cost with him. It obviously wasn\u2019t our fault that the check was lost. How can we get around this? Thanks for all advice!","title":"Landlord is acting strange with giving us our security deposit back...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569088271,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7dqls\/expired_registration_was_paid_for_but_i_cant_show\/","id":"d7dqls","body":"I got a ticket a few months ago for expired registration\/tags. I paid for them later, but I just went through my car to clean it out and found the ticket I got, saying I need to appear in court in a few days. I haven't asked for the day off so I have no way of appearing at court. Is the fact I paid my registration already enough or do I have to go some way or another? And if I don't, what can I expect to happen?","title":"Expired registration was paid for, but I can't show up to court date","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447272854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sg3hz\/i_was_in_a_car_accident_and_the_other_driver_was\/","id":"3sg3hz","body":"I'm in Massachusetts.\n\nMonday I was in an accident and there were no witnesses. My car is totaled (according to the body shop). I spoke with my insurance company today and me and the other driver are both covered by the same company. \n\nThe guy on the phone told me the other driver was unregistered but still had an insurance policy, and seems to think it will be a 50\/50 blame situation. (I disagree, but that's not important right now).\n\nIf the other driver was driving an unregistered car, doesn't that make him shoulder more of the blame? If he wasn't driving his unregistered vehicle, I probably wouldn't be the proud owner of a smashed up car. \n\nThanks for any insight on this. ","title":"I was in a car accident and the other driver was unregistered","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551165007,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auwhmj\/tx_employer_will_not_pay_wages_for_hours_worked\/","id":"auwhmj","body":"Hello. I posted recently about my job as a teller, and how my superiors were allegedly spying (and later gossiping) on my spending habits.\n\nI took the advice to heart, and am in the process of leaving this job. However, I've hit on another problem that I would love some advice on. \n\nMy soon to be ex-employers are refusing to pay me for hours worked due to vacation time taken last month. \n\nI handed in my two weeks notice and soon after I recieved an email stating they were sorry to see me go, wished me luck on my new career, and blindsided me with an explanation that, per our employee handbook, I will not be receiving payment for 24 hours of work in these coming two weeks due to vacation time I took in January. \n\nI looked feverishly through our handbook and found that there was indeed a stipulation that applied to me. You become eligible for 80 hours of vacation time after 6 months of work. Should you use some of this vacation time and then leave before you finish your first year of work, they will not pay you for future hours worked, equivalent to the vacation hours used. (As an aside... Leftover hours are ignored, I will not receive any money for them.)\n\nHaving used 3 days of vacation time, I'm not going to receive 3 days of pay, due to this highly specific rule in our handbook. Should I simply not come in during the last 3 days of my two weeks, I will simply not get paid for 3 other days on that pay period.\n\nThis can't be legal just because it's in our handbook, right? Won't the federal laws about hours worked take priority? If so, what recourse would I have?\n\nTl dr; my soon to be ex-employer's rule about will prevent me from receiving money for days I actually worked. Is that really kosher?","title":"(TX) Employer will not pay wages for hours worked due to prior vacation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569261031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8a2rx\/can_my_exs_mother_get_her_security_deposit_back\/","id":"d8a2rx","body":"When I moved in with my ex, his mother paid the security deposit of $575. I lived there for 5 years with him before we broke up. Then I lived there for a year and a half after that with rent increased to $625. During that time my daughter and I were harassed by the neighbors, and the landlord did nothing about it and left me really nasty voicemails on top of everything. When something broke he didn\u2019t fix it. I had to move out there as soon as possible due to the stressful living situation. When I found a new apartment I called the landlords wife and had an oral agreement that they would keep the security deposit as my last months rent. I been living in a new apartment for about 2 months now. I received a claims court date in the mail from my previous landlord for my last months rent for $625, when he still has the $575 from the security deposit. I believe it\u2019s because the mother wants her security back. There was never a lease, I always paid month to month. Can the landlord do that on her behalf or take me to get the last month from me even if the difference is only $50? I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s her or the landlord trying to take me to court for the last months rent","title":"Can my ex\u2019s mother get her security deposit back after I move?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551984430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayg3r8\/tn_i_want_to_take_my_daughter_to_a_store_but_wife\/","id":"ayg3r8","body":"This is a throw-away account with no history for obvious reasons. I am seeking advice to a few legal questions and I am not interested in relationship advice. I will post to r\/relationship_advice when I am.\n\nI [M] am currently married to my wife [F] with a young child [F7]. Both my wife and I are on our daughter's birth certificate as parents. My wife is dysfunctional and has obsessive \/ compulsive issues.\n\nI would like to take my daughter to a store that is about 2 hours driving time away and about 2 miles on the other side of the state line in a neighboring state. This would be a short half day excursion and then return home same day with a visit to a good restaurant. The store is a retail store open to the public including children. My wife refuses to let her go alone with me because of the \"bathroom situation.\"\n\nMy wife states that our daughter is too young to go to the women's restroom alone because she might get assaulted. My wife is also adamant that I cannot take my daughter to the men's room or a family bathroom as I must stay with the daughter at all times. And that would be inappropriate.\n\nMy wife has told me that if I try to take my daughter to the store without her permission she will call the police and tell them I have abducted the daughter and taken her across state lines.\n\nMy legal questions are:\n(1) Can my 7yo daughter go to the women's restroom alone while I wait outside?\n(2) Can my 7yo daughter wait outside at a table in a restaurant or fast food while I use the bathroom?\n(3) Can I take my 7yo daughter into the restroom if I need to use it?\n(4) If I defy my wife and take my daughter to the store, and she calls the police and tells them I've abducted her, what are the legal ramifications for me?\n(5) What are the legal ramifications for my wife?\n\nThank you in advance.\n\n\n\n\n","title":"[TN] I want to take my daughter to a store but wife is threatening to call police and tell them I have abducted her because it is too far away","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445532950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pskxi\/ontario_exemptions_from_residential_tenancy_act\/","id":"3pskxi","body":"1. Suppose I rent a room in a house that is inhabited by the landlord's children, and I share their bathroom\/kitchen. My understanding is that the rental agreement is not bound by the RTA, per section 5(i). Besides that specified by a lease, do I have any right to things like notice before room inspection or receipts of payment? Are there any laws specifying the rights of the parties in this relationship?\n\n2. Suppose I rent a room in a house that is inhabited by a tenant, not the landlord. My rental agreement is between me and the tenant. Does this sound like subletting? Is this bound by the RTA? \n\n3. Suppose at #2, I sign a lease with a statement that \"this relationship is not bound by the RTA.\" Is our relationship bound by the RTA?\n\nThanks!","title":"(Ontario) Exemptions from Residential Tenancy Act","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570638533,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfjhyu\/ca_property_manager_dropped_off_a_garage_opener\/","id":"dfjhyu","body":"A month ago I moved in to a 5 bedroom house with 4 roommates. The garage is attached to the house, but provides no access to the house itself.\n\nThe owner of the property asked the property manager to deliver a second garage opener remote to us because they only had one when we moved in and promised a second later on. \n\nAfter calling the manager to deliver the remote several times, we could not work out a time to meet. The matter was set aside for about a week since we rarely enter the garage and don\u2019t park our cars in it. \n\nAbout 2 weeks later, my roommate gets home in the afternoon and enters the garage to find everything missing including a motorcycle of his. Luckily this roommate is an police officer and quickly filed a report, documenting everything that was taken. He calls the property manager who admits he left it in the mailbox on Sept 24 and also admits that he forgot to tell us he did so. Note that the mailbox has a key, but it only locks a small metal flap that does not even block your hand from reaching in to grab letters and small items. (Think of a typical mailbox shape with this smaller door nested inside)\n\nI had not purchased a renters insurance policy at the time of the incident, but even with the one I got recently, the deductible is $1000, making a claim pointless.\n\nWhat can I do about getting the owner to compensate me, if anything? Would this be considered negligent behavior? \n\nThank you for your help.","title":"[CA] Property manager dropped off a garage opener in our mailbox and did not notify us. Garage opener was taken and >$800 worth of my tools were stolen. Can I have the owner compensate me due to negligence?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569972894,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc1x4w\/fired_after_asking_a_coworkers_salary_arizona\/","id":"dc1x4w","body":"Hi, on Friday, I had asked a new coworker what his hiring salary was because we do the same job\/ we are in the same department. I was told previously that I could not receive a raise because \"the company didn't have the money\". The new employee made roughly $5000 more than me after working there for a long time. \n\nI asked my boss about it and I got \"how do you think you can even talk to me about his pay\" \"NEVER talk about a coworkers salary again\" he asked for all of my company access passwords about 30 minutes later. I had a vacation slated for this weekend, and I arrived back to work this morning. When I came in one of the co-owners sat me down and fired me with no time to plan or anything. Do I have anything here?","title":"Fired after asking a coworkers salary (Arizona)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540440827,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r6zo4\/false_record_of_employment_im_getting_screwed\/","id":"9r6zo4","body":"Hello\n\nI need some legal advice on my previous employer.\n\nThe situation is this: on North Vancouver, British Columbia\n\nI was hired on September 4th as a line cook \"trainee\", agreed verbally 40 hours a week. I had little to no training on the time spent working there.  I was asked to do all types of tasks, from running 3 stations at once without proper training, to cleaning up everything. \n\nMy boss who is a really good person who had to \"follow\" orders from above, started sending me early so as to \"save costs\" because not enough costumers were arriving and he could manage on his own. I talked to him about this and the fact I was not making the hours promised when hired. so he asked me to start work later instead of leaving earlier. I refused to accept and demanded the hours I was promised.\n\nHe started giving me more days off instead, or better said, taking days of work from me. At the end I had 2 - 3 days per week.  \n\nAfter putting up with this  I was told by my employer on October 3rd the \"company\" had decided to cut down on staff due to fewer costumer load because of the season and that I was getting laid off. No previous notice whatsoever.\n\nDate on which I requested my T4 and Record of Employment forms. They made me wait 48 hours for \"part of my cheque\" and then wait for 14 days for the other part.\n\nThe T4 was denied at the moment and was told to request it again on April Next Year....\n\nThe ROE was finally emailed today October 24th, after I asked for it several times to which I got the excuse: The accountant has been very busy lately, we will try to get it to you soon....\n\nAfter having to call one of the owners and telling him I would be filling a complaint against them. One day later they sent it BUT turns out there are 2 ROE, The first one with the first 52 hours, and then a second one with the rest of the hours, I thought this was unusual but I don't know what to make of this. Both ROE say I quit which is a lie, also the second ROE says my last pay day was actually on the 14th which was the time they made me wait for the second part of my cheque, which I had to go pickup at that date, but still no ROE. The ROE itself says it was issued on the 16th but was delivered to me until the 24th.\n\nThey said I quit when I was actually fired, when I went to pick up the second part of my cheque, turns out they had hired a new worker to fill up my place.\n\nWhat can I do about all of this?  I feel cheated, I could actually not pay rent that month and had to ask for a loan in order to do so. This is really a big disappointment from Canada, I am a Canadian citizen because my dad is also a Canadian citizen, but I had actually never been to Canada before. At my 32 years of age I decide to come here and try to make a living just to find the same abuse and unjust treatment you can find in Mexico a completely corrupt country. \n\n​\n\nAny advice is really appreciated","title":"False Record of Employment, I'm getting screwed. What could I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550205469,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqswae\/questions_about_being_laid_off_canada\/","id":"aqswae","body":"I was recently laid off from work due to the slow nature of the season (automotive) this is the first time I\u2019ve ever been laid off work. I was laid off for my decision to move to a new province and that I wouldn\u2019t be at that location for much longer (I leave in 4 months). \n\nI personally feel as this is a terrible reasons as my work performance is above average. Numbers detailing that my amount of labour hours output is higher that 3 other employees of the same position; also one doesn\u2019t have a license and can\u2019t drive vehicles in, as well as only one other employee other than myself; can drive manual. \n\nI was told I will be getting a call back by mid March, I\u2019ve also been told in the past that when lay offs happen and the company isn\u2019t going out of business (and this company isn\u2019t going out of business) that when hirings open back up that I HAVE to be one of the first people they call back. Is this true? \n\nCan a company lay me off then not call me back even if hirings open up again? \n\n","title":"Questions about being laid off? (Canada)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503506117,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vk5yc\/uspa_employer_planning_layoffs_i_know_who_how\/","id":"6vk5yc","body":"This is in the US, Pennsylvania.\n\nMy company has been in a freefall financially for a few years now.  Smart move would have been to move on ASAP, but I like the work I do, coworkers, manager, commute, ect.  So I stayed.  In Q1 we were purchased by another company in the same field as us, from out of state.  I did the smart thing and started looking for jobs despite management saying \"nobody's job will be impacted for at least a year\".  \n\nSince then, there has been radio silence from all management about layoffs.  Or really anything of importance.  The communication here is very poor.  Until about a month ago.  I was told they wanted to keep me for 6 months, but that my employment had an end date.  Ok, whatev, I had already had some 2nd and 3rd round interviews.  I have since accepted a job offer and am working out my two week notice.\n\nWhile dropping off some files in the COO office, I saw a spreadsheet listing which departments and individuals would be getting laid off.  Through conversation with those individuals I know that management has said nothing to them so far, and they probably won't give a courtesy \"you have 3 months here\" either.  \n\nIt's eating me up that management secured their own jobs and bonuses, and they won't tell the worker bees about their future.  If I tell the people about to be laid off that it's coming, how much trouble could I get in?  What if I did it in a way that (probably) wouldn't be traced back to me?  Like a reddit throwaway?","title":"[US:PA] Employer planning layoffs, I know who. How much trouble can I get in for warning those effected?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571149330,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di8lom\/can_a_parent_sign_a_contractagreement_about_their\/","id":"di8lom","body":"Hi, i am in school and the school wants me to not use my phone and that is it against some agreement, even though previously i was not informed of this and was allowed to use my phone freely. They insist my parents signed an updated version, and that they will remove my phone from me if they catch me with it. I argue that since i havent signed that agreement it shouldnt apply to me, also i was not aware of this agreement. Who is correct in this situation?\n\nIm not saying i shouldnt be punished, or that im not breaking some kind of rule by disobeying a teacher, but im asking if i am correct in that because i didnt sign the agreement, i shouldnt be affected by it.","title":"Can a parent sign a contract\/agreement about their child? (UK)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1503354318,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v6lrf\/ca_question_about_written_30_day_notice_on_move\/","id":"6v6lrf","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice \nMy husband and I are living in San Diego and the lease on our place is ending August 31st. I emailed our property management company a few days ago to schedule our move-out inspection. I got a response today saying that I had to provide them with a 30 day notice and would be responsible for rent until September 18th. I was confused why I would have to give 30 days since our lease is ending. It does go month to month if we don't move out, but it doesn't seem to say in the lease that I have to give 30 days if we just stay until the end of the lease. Here is the specific language if anyone can help me out that would be great! \n\nFixed term lease - For a period of 4 months and 0 days thereafter expiring on 8\/31\/2017 (the expiration date). Renewal of the term shall be as described in paragraph 23 of this agreement. \n23. Termination\/Holding Over. If this Agreement is a Month-to-Month Agreement tenancy, the Resident may terminate the tenancy by the service of at least a thirty (30) day written notice. The Owner\/Agent may terminate the Month-to-Month tenancy by the service of at least (30) days written notice if the tenancy is less than one year and the service of a sixty (60) day written notice if the tenancy is one year or longer at the time of service. If this agreement is a Fixed Term Lease, it shall convert to a periodic tenancy upon the expiration date of the Fixed Term Lease, unless a party has provided written notice of their intent not to renew. In the absence of any written communication between the parties, the residency shall continue on a periodic tenancy basis, including any changes, i.e. rent adjustments, having been made by Owner with proper notice.\n\nI didn't see anything in there about a fixed term lease having to give 30 days, but please let me know if I'm wrong about this. \n\nThanks in advance!","title":"CA - Question about written 30 day notice on move out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569526200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9oj87\/legal\/","id":"d9oj87","body":"Situation: fired for attendance. I had recieved verbal warning, then written warning. But job attendance policy stated: verbal,written,suspension, termination. In that order. I was fired on Thursday. But the thursday before i was fired an employee that been with the company for years older guy made racist comment to me: \"Oh well since your up there that makes it easy for me to hang\/lynch you\" I told office assistant she told me oh maybe he's joking. Superiors offered mediation or wateva but thats a weak apology for someone who knew wat they were saying. But exactly a week later the next thursday i was fired..\nIs this a case of retaliation??\n\nAfter written warning i recieved in march i was placed on 90 days probation. Only missed 6 hours not even a whole day of work before getting fired.\nRecieved written warning 11th of one month and fired on the 11th of april only missing 6 hours in between. Not even a whole day of work in a month. Racial Incident happened on the 4th of. April nd i was fired on the 11th exactly a month after my written warning and a week after racist comment and me telling.","title":"Legal","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506128290,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71va8f\/or_us_can_a_landlord_legally_evict_someone_for\/","id":"71va8f","body":"Posting for my neighbor.  My neighbor was recently charged with DUII - my understanding is that he drove home sober, had a few drinks in his car where a neighbor saw him and called the police.  The police showed up and took him into custody, and he's being charged with DUII.  Seems a little harsh, but them's the breaks I suppose.\n\nDuring the course of the police being at his residence the on-site apartment management (large apartment complex) came over and apparently told him that if they see him behind the wheel of a car again they'll evict him.  My neighbor is still in the middle of his lease.\n\nMy understanding is that a lease can't be broken until either the expiration of the lease, or if there are special circumstances (emergency eviction, etc.).  Would an individual who's been charged with DUII getting behind the wheel of a vehicle count as grounds for an emergency eviction or similar?  In addition to the fact that we as citizens are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, it seems like unless a tenant is causing damage to a landlord's property or being a public menace or something they wouldn't have grounds to evict.  Obviously I know they can always choose not to renew the lease, and of course they *could* evict even if it's not legal - I'm more concerned about what's legally allowed.","title":"[OR, US] Can a landlord legally evict someone for driving after they've been charged with DUII?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569994417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc5ypf\/i_have_a_stalker_and_need_help\/","id":"dc5ypf","body":"This guy has been stalking my gf and I for the last 3 weeks. He\u2019s been following my girlfriend and just drove to our college and is following us. I have texts to prove it but the reason he\u2019s texting me is a sticky situation. \n\nCan someone please PM me and help? I don\u2019t wanna tell the story in public. I\u2019m in the US btw.","title":"I have a stalker and need help","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539898552,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pdipz\/housemate_gave_me_a_half_month_notice_of_moving\/","id":"9pdipz","body":"I sublease a room in my apartment- month to month. My sloppy housemate  told me today he will be out by the end of the month. What does this mean? This is completely going to fuck me over because it\u2019s hard to find people for that spot mid school semester. Help me law wizards. ","title":"Housemate gave me a half month notice of moving out?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553097338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3dopr\/was_rear_ended_in_nj_by_a_man_driving_a_suv_owned\/","id":"b3dopr","body":"Just wondering if I am able to sue him in civil court for loss of wages, both from the day of the accident and being unable to use the rental car (mines in the shop) for Uber and Lyft? Also my expensive glasses were scratched up when they hit the dash and landed at my feet. Other expenses like the depreciation of value in my car when I sell or trade it in? Am I to sue the man that was driving or the company or both?? Any help would be appreciated. I\u2019ve never been a nice car before and this is very upsetting.","title":"Was rear ended in NJ, by a man driving a SUV owned by a nursing home.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505436296,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/706hfk\/fault_in_a_traffic_accident\/","id":"706hfk","body":"Location: Meridian, Idaho.\n\nI was pulling out of a strip mall onto a four lane road, turning right. I looked to my left and saw the first lane was clear for a mile, but there were cars in the fast lane, closest to the center lane. I made my turn into the clear lane, and a driver in the other lane changed lanes and hit me. The other driver admits that he changed lanes and said that he did not see me because of the truck in front of him.\n\nI was ticketed for a failure to yield infraction. The officer explained to me that cars travelling the road own all the lanes, not just the one they are in, so even though the first lane was clear, and even though the other driver had to change lanes in order to hit me, I am at fault.\n\nMy issue though, is that he struck my rear driver tire and fender, with the outside corner of his right fender\/headlight. When he struck me, I was completely straightened out in the lane. If I had been struck in the side closer to the middle or front then I could concede that I had been unsafe, but I was struck in the back corner by the outside of his front, and I contend that he made an unsafe lane change. My problem is that I have no idea how far one has to travel in a lane before they are considered to own it.\n\nDo you think that I will have any chance at contesting this? If I do contest it and I lose will the penalty get worse? \n\nThank you for your time and consideration.","title":"Fault in a traffic accident.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447213494,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sd5zp\/on_canada_getting_out_of_a_lease\/","id":"3sd5zp","body":"I signed a lease for 5 years, which I heard isn't legal, but I did sign it...I can get out of the lease on a year by year basis but I have to notify them 6 months in advance of the school year I want out. \n\nI didn't do this in time so I was stuck with the lease for this year, even though I'm no longer living in the city. So I found a sublet but we had an issue with the hot water. The hot water stopped working (which is required according to the contract I signed) and it took them a month to fix it. My sublet got frustrated and is going to leave. \n\nI'm going to try to petition the board to release me from my lease. I'm worried they will take me to court though. If we go to court and we lose, will it affect our credit at all? My mom owns her own business and is worried that it may affect our credit rating or something if we lose which could affect her ability to run her business.","title":"[ON, Canada] Getting out of a Lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552844379,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b27osr\/fl_i_am_headed_on_spring_break_in_one_week_and_my\/","id":"b27osr","body":"We are a large group of under 25s and they basically stated that they had an incident this previous week with another group of under 25s and they have to increase our amount because they\u2019re worried it won\u2019t cover potential damages. We have already paid in full for the week. Is this something we can fight? The $1500 is refundable at the end of the trip pending damage costs. ","title":"[FL] I am headed on spring break in one week and my landlord increased renters insurance by $1500 or else we can\u2019t go.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551386323,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avvvwq\/im_feeling_petty_about_being_fired\/","id":"avvvwq","body":"I was fired about a month ago from a really toxic workplace.  I\u2019m glad I\u2019m out of there, so that\u2019s not the issue.  I got a letter saying that I have to return the work laptop they issued.\n\n1) Termination letter bans me from the workplace and grounds unless I have written permission. (Not sure what that\u2019s about, I\u2019m not some violent criminal.) Employee contract does say all equipment issued must be returned, but they blindsided me at the end of the workday and said that was it, I was done. The laptop was kept at my home for the purpose of doing things remotely if necessary. \n\n2) Equipment return letter demands that I contact the Safety Director to arrange a time to drop the laptop off, and he will give me the permission I need to be there.\n\n3) I must do so by today (Feb 28.)\n\nHere\u2019s my question: Am I within rights to tell them they will have to come get it, that I am not burning my gas to drive there to be humiliated and treated like some kind of asshole?  ","title":"I\u2019m feeling petty about being fired.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570466907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dem3nz\/california_marijuana_laws\/","id":"dem3nz","body":"Hello all,\n\nA chef friend of mine has been making cannabutter for personal use and friends. He's thinking of turning it into a profession. \n\nI'm looking for a source I can use to look up all the legalities for California?\n\nThank you","title":"California marijuana laws","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554511298,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9yvnf\/testify\/","id":"b9yvnf","body":"If I'm a victim of sexual abuse am I supposed to testify? If so when will I be notified that I will be testifying?","title":"Testify?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444468135,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o79u9\/uk_two_questions\/","id":"3o79u9","body":"1. I have recently become tenant of a new flat, and due to the fact that no one in London wants a baby in the house, I didn't tell my landlord that my partner and son would be moving in. No one ever asked so I kept it to myself. Furthermore my tenancy agreement forbids subletting and lodging, but not just letting people live with me. If the landlord finds out can he do anything about it?\n\n2. I was on housing benefit for a year recently. During that time my partner was given student finance. I submitted an online form to the council informing them of this change and was told a response would be with me in 10 days. No response appeared and I just forgot about it. We continued to receive housing benefit until we cancelled it because we were moving and I had a decent job. 4 months later I have received an email telling me that I owe nearly \u00a32000 in overpaid benefit. The council claims to have informed me in July and therefore since it has been over a month since the debt was issued I can no longer challenge it. I was not informed about the debt, or even that we had been overpaid until 3 days ago. No emails, no phone calls, the only possibility is that they posted it to the address I moved out of, but I'm sure my old landlord would have called or e-mailed me if that were the case. My partner panicked and agreed on teh phone to pay the debt in monthly installments. My question is this: Can they really prevent me from challenging the bill when it is their fault I wasn't informed? And does my partner agreeing to pay the debt constitute accepting the debt?\n\nThanks","title":"[UK] Two questions","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539339808,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nj2p7\/school_wants_to_install_monitoring_software_on_my\/","id":"9nj2p7","body":"Basically the school currently has laptops for all year levels from 7-12 and they will be taking them away at the end of year and have asked all students to purchase their own laptops before the start of next year. \n\nThe laptops which they have to buy have to have Microsoft windows installed. \n\nAnd they have asked the students to bring them to ict at the start of the year to configure them with their remote management software to allow them to make sure the computer is staying up to date and to install necessary software for school related purposes. \n\nThey also will be installing monitoring software to ensure that they are used correctly during school hours which means they will have full admin access over the laptops and the students will be locked with standard accounts until they finish school completely and then ICT will give them full control again.\n\nThese ways are understandable for laptops that are owned by the school to ensure their property is being used correctly but is this appropriate for students that are being forced to buy their own laptops? ","title":"School wants to install monitoring software on my sisters personal laptop","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553218603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3yzw3\/tenant_leaves_wo_final_walk_about\/","id":"b3yzw3","body":"Hey New Yorker here....\n\nMy tenant expected her security deposit on the day she moved out but then didn't even get me for a final walkthrough.\n\nNow after nasty texts about court. What should I do?\n\nThe apt is dirty and carpet needs to be cleaned or replaced. Some issue with light switches too.\n\nThanks","title":"Tenant leaves w\/o final walk about.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569294211,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8hc5c\/friend_did_voyeurism_has_no_criminal_record_has\/","id":"d8hc5c","body":"Decided to post on behalf of friend\/roommate who was not up to posting his crime himself. I thought it would soften the blow. He is extremely embarrassed. I am stressed because of our living situation. \n\nThis is in **Manitoba, Canada**. Friend made a secret video of someone he used to live with for sexual purposes. Deleted it immediately after viewing. Wiped the drive clean. Even tried using recovery programs to make sure it was gone. Says it's unrecoverable. Feels remorse. Moved out of his old house after feeling bad. Never got caught, but fears there is potential for getting \"snitched\" on at any point in time. He is not sure what to do while living with constant worry there is a chance for his life to go down in flames. \n\nLet's take the scenario he does get snitched on. What is the evidence against him? I don't understand, I told him the evidence is gone and the victim can only be impacted if information is shared with them. I guess if it can be proven by circumstantial evidence that it was done even without an actual recording, I'm sure that's enough, right? I'm not trying to encourage his behaviour, I know what his did was wrong, but it has been months of sadness and worry. He believes confessing may be a tough choice but may absolve him emotionally. \n\nI do not know if it would be wise for him to confess. He wants to. I have read that is a stupid idea...I don't know how to get this across. He is so down on himself knowing at any point in time he could lose everything. He wants to show that he has learned, by exposing himself to the victim now. I don't know, it seems odd to do because it would add distress to the victim's life too. He worries nonstop.\n\nCriminal defence lawyer said on the phone that the stress of going through legal proceedings would be much more difficult and taxing on him. Friend says it would be over with, however. (He has an argument for everything)\n\nHe talks about how he wants to live his life and build it up but he says there is not much to lose now whereas in the future if he was snitched on there would be, so now he is afraid to even pursue his dreams.\n\nCan't tell if he's going through a crisis or if this is actually going to destroy him for long-term. Maybe both.\n\nI have to try and keep in mind that he will probably lose a lot of friends and respect of those who know him, and there will probably be a widespread amount of ridicule for a decent period of time. I think he would have to damn near reset his life if he exposed himself. He just moved to a new city, needed a fresh start. But he hasn't even taken in the new city at all. He just sits around all day. It's ridiculous. No one wants him to confess. He is just upset because his one friend knows about his incident and he does not think their friendship will last. She lives in the old city, thinks she could cross paths with the victim and potentially tell him. But victim is not friends with this woman. His friendship with this woman means a lot to him but he just feels ungenuine with her lately, because he can't stop associating this secret with her. I don't know how to deal with this myself. I just feel stressed out because I feel like this is constantly a worry for him. And he doesn't even know what he wants. To face legal and emotional consequences now, or emotional consequences for what he thinks will be for years, at least.\n\nHe is already punishing himself. So, I don't know.\n\nThis is also a hybrid crime. So I don't think there's necessarily a statute of limitations on this (in Canada). Unless it is proceeded summarily. So, I just try to tell him that, but again he argues that it is not up to him to determine whether or not that is how it will be elected. Constantly going in circles. We need to break free from this somehow. I am concerned as he is my roommate and I do not know if he will be forced to move up if he is caught or confesses. This is stressing me out too.","title":"Friend did voyeurism. Has no criminal record. Has not been charged. Victim of the crime is unaware. Few people know.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555528199,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bebqmb\/ca_how_can_i_get_my_deposit_back\/","id":"bebqmb","body":"I found a room and paid a deposit. The person that I subleased for was not on the lease and also paid a deposit to another person living in the house for the same amount. From my understanding, the person I subleased for kept my deposit and told me that I have to ask the other person living in the house for my deposit back. I talked to the person living in the house and they said they never received a deposit from the person I subleased for. My question is how can I get my deposit back?","title":"[CA] How can I get my deposit back?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539831636,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p5cir\/how_do_i_remove_any_mention_of_myself_from\/","id":"9p5cir","body":"My dad's ex-wife had a blog where she wrote about parenting. Being a step-son to her, she wrote about me and used my photos in her website. I recently turned 18, and now that they are divorced (and the fact I didn't like her in the first place) I want any mention of me removed from her site. I wanted to know if there was any legal backing that I could use if she declines me politely asking. If anybody could help it would be greatly appreciated!","title":"How do I remove any mention of myself from someones website?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503242525,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uwa2o\/iamo_spouse_trying_to_keep_me_from_child_not_sure\/","id":"6uwa2o","body":"Alright \/r\/legaladvice, I'm sitting here pretty scared and confused and need help. I\u2019ll try to keep this brief:\n\nMy wife and I split several months ago, when, without warning, she said she would be leaving our apartment and getting a new one. Luckily able to get out of a lease I could not afford on my own, I only had two weeks to find a new apartment and was able to do so in Iowa only three hours away. She still currently lives in Missouri.\n\nWe had arranged for my daughter to go back and forth between us every two weeks while we figured out divorce proceedings. This was not done legally through temporary custody (I know I\u2019m stupid) but I can easily prove she agreed to this with texts and messages she has sent.\n\nThese past two weeks, she has been refusing to answer messages I have sent her to arrange my pickup of our daughter, and has not answered requests to speak to my daughter. I was only finally able to establish contact yesterday, two days before I need to arrange pickup. I was told that my daughter had been enrolled in Pre K (without my knowledge) and that my ability to see her would not be able to go as planned.\n\nI am now worried about my ability to see my daughter and believe she is maliciously trying to keep me from her. She has severe BPD and I feel this is her attempting to lash out to hurt me despite it being not in the best interest for our daughter. She has been very emotionally abusive towards me in the past.\n\nI lack the residency requirements to file for divorce in Iowa or Missouri, but want to get this divorce on the road and develope a fair plan so I can apply for a temporary custody arrangement. I\u2019d especially like to do this while she is in my care soon for extra safety (I have informed my ex I will be picking her up as usual as school is not starting yet). I don\u2019t know where I should file, but I feel I need to take the initiative. She currently meets residence requirements in Missouri if this is helpful. \n\nThree other things worth noting:\n\n* While we were together, her family attempted to keep my child away from me at one point to the point I had to call law enforcement in order to get my child back. I am afraid a similar situation may happen now.\n\n* I am a transgender parent. I am concerned especially if forced to file in a place as conservative as Missouri, I will be treated unfairly. If there\u2019s anything in general I can do to keep myself safe regarding this during proceedings I would love the advice. \n\n* My child WAS born in Iowa oddly enough, her birth certificate is from this state. Not sure if this helps me out or not.\n\nSo \/r\/legaladvice, how do I take these next steps, and is there anything I\u2019m missing and need to think about? \n","title":"(IA\/MO) Spouse Trying To Keep Me From Child, Not Sure Where\/How To Start. Help?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507647376,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75hkbm\/texas_i_was_served_a_lawsuit_against_me_and_a\/","id":"75hkbm","body":"I received a \"Citation Personal Service TRCP 99\" letter by certified mail a few days ago. In it, I'm informed that I'm being sued for selling a property insurance policy to someone in Brownsville, Texas(I don't live there) and then, along with the insurance company, not paying out claims when their property was damaged.\n\nI was a health insurance agent in 2013 and I never sold a single property policy. I have never even known of the existence of the property insurance company listed, much less worked for them on the other side of the state. I didn't even have the licensing to sell property insurance. This is a complete mistake of identity, even though the letter has my name and address correct. \n\nMy uncle advised me to reply to the judge with this information, and to contact the opposing attorney, but I'm hesitant. I've heard numerous legal horror stories whereby simply having to drag your name out of the legal mud takes a lot of money and time.\n\nTruth is, I don't have the first clue on how to go about responding to clear my name, any and all help would be appreciated.\n","title":"(Texas) I was served a lawsuit against me and a property insurance company for failure to cover losses. The problem is, I haven't been a licensed insurance agent for 4 years, and when I was licensed, I never sold a single property policy, only health insurance.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541550147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uu5s8\/comment_personal_injury_lawyers_in_michigan\/","id":"9uu5s8","body":"I got rear ended today. The offender admitted to Texting and Driving, and speeding 80 in a 35. \nI am suffering multiple bad injuries and will be in the hospital for a good while and start PT tomorrow morning. \n\nI need a personal injury lawyer. \n\nPlease comment personal injury lawyers in Michigan. \n\nI live in West Bloomfield, the accident happened in dearborn.\nI am willing to work with a lawyer in any part of Michigan. \n\nIf you need more details, refer to my post history. I\u2019ve been in the hospital since noon today.\n\nThank you. ","title":"Comment personal injury lawyers in Michigan.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447077620,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s4tmt\/nj_child_custody\/","id":"3s4tmt","body":"To keep a long, long story as short as possible:\n\nMy sister and her boyfriend signed a consent order granting my husband and I custody of their (then) 2 year old daughter back in May. Went through an attorney for the consent order and were clear to not put any clause for visitation in it and it can only be reversed by a judge in the state of NJ.\n\nThe day the judge signed and filed it, the two were arrested - him for Burglary with Bodily Injury, her for shoplifting. \n\nShe got out and has been in and out of rehabs and is now back to using heroin and apparently working at a strip club, she also has a history of resorting to prostitution for money.\n\nI'm assuming he's refused plea bargains and is taking his case to trial as he is still in the county jail, not prison.  If I'm mistaken here, please let me know.  He wrote a letter to his daughter on her birthday (he last saw her in March, that was October). \n\nT (my niece) is flourishing with my husband and I. Drugs, neglect and violence (not to her, but between her parents) were rampant in her life before. Now she has a schedule, eats fruits and vegetables, sees a counselor and is truly the center of our lives. \n\nI'm not sure what will happen with her father, but whether or not he gets out soon, he has been spotty at best in her life and has never provided for or taken care of her. He's 35 and has never kept a minimum job for more than a few months and broke 3 years of sobriety from a crack addiction to start an opiate addiction after my sister got pregnant. \n\nThe thing is, even if they both got clean and became productive members of society, they could never give my niece what my husband and I can. I think my sister knows this, but her boyfriend has the most faith in himself of anyone I've ever met. I've heard from his brother that he's talking about trying for full custody when he gets out of jail. \n\nIs there any hope of my husband and I being awarded full custody\/termination of parental rights? What should we be doing to move forward to this? I have the name of a \"beast\" custody lawyer and want to reach out, but it's only been 6 months. Should I wait and see how things play out a little bit further?\n\nThanks, and I can answer any questions further.\n","title":"NJ Child Custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554305576,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8zgph\/landlord_charging_me_for_an_animal_i_dont_have\/","id":"b8zgph","body":"A little context: My apartment complex is horrid. Front office staff has a high turnover rate so there is no flow of communication, they blatantly lie to their tenants, lose rent money, barge in with no notice, etc. When my much older, much bigger neighbor started breaking into my house and stalking me, apartment staff did the absolute minimum to put me in a safer situation - in fact at first they put me in a more dangerous position, but that\u2019s a story for a different post. Long story short, in January I stopped living at Apartment X and moved in with my boyfriend. I am still making regular payments until my lease is up in July. \n\nToday I got an email saying management went in my room yesterday (I was given no notice) and charged me for having an animal, with the threat of having to pay more fees if the animal wasn\u2019t removed in 24 hours.\n\nThere are no animals in my apartment. There has barely been a human in my apartment since January. \n\nA few weeks ago my friends house had to get bug-bombed, and I offered her a space to stay for a few hours with her fur babies. She brought cat food and I picked up a small litter box - both of which she ended up leaving when taking her cats back home. Like I said, I am no longer living in said apartment so I haven\u2019t been back to clean - not cleaning is gross, but not against my lease. \n\nI have been going back and forth with Apartment X staff all morning. They sent me pictures of pet supplies in my house as \u201cproof.\u201d I asked them to reiterate that they are charging me hundreds of dollars for having a pet that is not there. I can\u2019t even abide by the \u201cremove the animal in 24 hours\u201d rule because there is no animal to remove. \n\nDoes my landlord have any real ground here? The entire message says \u201cWe found X animal, remove X animal\u201d and I have emails stating that they found only supplies and no cat. \n\nHow should I go about fighting this? ","title":"Landlord charging me for an animal I don\u2019t have.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540430771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r5sa7\/car_was_broken_into\/","id":"9r5sa7","body":"Car was broken into. They stole my camera which wasn't visible. Its cheaper to fix the window myself rather than paying my $500 deductible.   What about my camera? Its worth around $1700. What can I do.","title":"Car Was Broken Into","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1445170016,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p7wig\/nv_after_a_brief_phone_conversation_and\/","id":"3p7wig","body":"I'm using a throwaway. I don't want this linked to my main account. I've never posted here, if i'm breaking any rules please don't delete my post, i'll correct anything I need to. \n\nTL:DR.\n\nMy brother (Dan) and I own a small business. We travel to Europe and China once a year to meet with customers and suppliers. I'm in NYC on the way home from meeting with customers in Europe. My plan was to take a few days to rest and relax in NYC before going home to Vegas on Tuesday. Because of what has transpired I'd like to travel home today (Sunday)\n\nI called and left a message with the firm that handles our business needs to get a recommendation for a criminal attorney. I have a few questions that I would like answered before tomorrow:\n\nIs it safe to fly if an arrest warrant has been issued? I have no reason to believe there is a warrant at this time. I'm just being cautious. \n\nI checked online to see if there was a warrant in my name. I found nothing. Does anyone know if the warrant check system is up to date, accurate or if all warrants are even listed? (Clark Co. Nevada)\n\nShould I wait until I've talked to a lawyer before I attempt to fly home? \n\n-----------------------------------------------------------\n\nWhy I'm concerned:\n\nI received a call Saturday night around 8pm PST. I was asleep when the phone rang and totally out of it from traveling. The caller told me that he was detective and had some questions. I've never really had any interactions with law enforcement and honestly, it made my heart jump of my chest. He verified my name and address and then asked If i'd recently ordered anything from China. At that point I instantly thought the person calling was playing a prank on me. \n\nDan and I receive shipments from China every week. We don't speak Chinese. We have 2 employees that handle phone calls and translate emails, packing slips and other docs. Shipping issues can be a bit of a nightmare. Over the past week our biggest supplier shipped us another customers shipment. In turn they shipped our shipment in 3 parts to 3 different customers. All 3 customers are in the US and we (mostly Dan) spent the week trying to get our product from these US based companies, instead of waiting for a reship from China. After dozens of emails and calls between myself, my brother, the supplier and these US based companies, everything was sorted out. \n\nThat is why I thought it was a joke. Plus the call was on a Saturday night. Also, Dan has college buddies in town this weekend and I knew they were out on the town. I thought he had one of them call me. Anyway, I laughed at the detective and told him to fuck off, hung up on him and shut off my phone so I could get some sleep. \n\nI woke up a few hours later and checked my phone. I had 2 more called from the detective. I also had several calls from my GF. The detective said that is a \"very serious issue.\" He said it was \"very important that I speak with you tonight.\" My GF told me that there was a business card from the detective stuffed in our door when she got home. She also said there was a police car down the street all evening. Dan also drunkenly confirmed that he didn't have anyone call me. \n\nI looked up the name the detective online. I found a story in the paper from a few years ago about a large drug bust. He was involved with the investigation. The name is unusual. I believe it's the same person. \n\nI might be overreacting, but a drug detective asking about shipments from China, a place where I get shipments all the time. I'm really worried. \n\nEDIT: I'm very tired so i'm going to sleep for awhile. Any advice or recommendations are greatly appreciated. I will try to answer any questions that may be pertinent when I wake up. Thank you. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n","title":"NV - After a brief phone conversation, and additional missed calls from a detective, I'm worried I'll be arrested.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445698524,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q1aef\/new_jersey\/","id":"3q1aef","body":"Earlier this month I got in a fender-bender, where I was deemed at fault: I was pulling into a road, didn't see the other guy coming, and we crashed.  \n\nHis and my repairs were covered by our insurance.  Yesterday, I get an email from him asking me to pay him almost $500 to cover the cost of his rental car.  \n\nFrom what I gathered from his email, he decided that the insurance estimate was too high and decided to buy the parts and do the repairs at an other body shop (I don't know why).  But, this made his repairs take longer, and his insurance provided rental car coverage expired after ten days, and he had to pay, out of pocket, for the remainder of coverage (I think 8 days or so).\n\nDo I have to pay for this? \n\nEDIT: Sorry, I effed up the title, I'm a little rattled by this. ","title":"New Jersey:","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552686951,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1kri6\/someone_opened_my_paycheck\/","id":"b1kri6","body":"I\u2019m not sure if there is anything to do here but wanted to ask you all. The past 3 pay periods my work has been delivering our paychecks to the office instead of our usual direct deposit. They have not explained why they did this but It May have to do with them not paying the company that handles our checks. Today my check was delivered but it was open before I got it. I feel as though this is a huge violation of my privacy. Is there anything I should be doing about this? I don\u2019t want other people seeing what I make.","title":"Someone opened my paycheck.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571111593,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di28zs\/landlord_took_back_notice_of_termination\/","id":"di28zs","body":"Hello!  Long time lurker, first time poster, blah blah blah.\n\nLast Friday\/Saturday (10-4 and 10-5) night we hosted birthday parties at our apartment that ended up going late into the night and did get pretty loud. Saturday night was the worst of the 2. It was originally supposed to be a chill drinking and board game night but friends of friends starting coming and we had 20 people in our 2 bedroom apartment and people got pretty drunk.  But no neighbors complained directly to us or the cops were not called. When we woke up the next morning there was puke outside of out apartment where we share a space with 3 other apartments.  \n\nSo, Monday night (10-7) we got an \"courtesy e-mail\"  late at night after the office was closed, from the head manager at our apartments saying that we violated our agreements and our lease (noise complaints and cigarettes butts on the property which were not from us, no one we invited smokes)  is getting terminated in 30 days and we will get paper work delivered to us the following day. We of course sent back a apology e-mail with an explanation and said if there is anything we can do please let us know. We have never had complaints about our behavior before it was just these 2 days.\n\nI waited 2 days for the paperwork an did not receive anything.  So I sent an e-mail telling her that I need the paper work so we can read it. I also told her that it sounds like she was just making threats to terminate us since there was no paperwork delivered. At this point we just want to move out.\n\nShe sent me an e-mail back saying that she does not make threats and she is not on a time-frame to deliver me there paper work promised. \n\nComes Friday 10-11 and no paper work still. I call the head company management and leave a VM to talk to someone.\n\nCome today 10-14, no letter yet. I call the head management twice today and left VM no call back. So we decide to just cancel the lease on our end and get it over with, we do not want to live in a place with such bad management. I go and ask for the paperwork but one of there workers said there there is nothing to sign, just send an email and that is it. It sounds sketchy to me, I've broken a lease before and we had to have everyone in the household sign an agreement to break the lease early.  \n\nI decide that I need to contact a lawyer because none of this treatment is ok at at best is terrible management.  \n\nShit you not, a hour later we got a warning on out door for our behavior, not a notice of termination, a WARNING. A week after we got the e-mail what we were getting kicked out they backed out. We spent a week scrambling on where we were going to live, figure out our finances, emotional distress of it all. \n\nIs this sort of treatment illegal? Or is it just bad management? What can a lawyer do at this point?\n\nThank you all in advance this is so stressful on our household.","title":"Landlord took back notice of termination?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506310568,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/729y1f\/ex_employer_didnt_pay_time_and_a_half_for\/","id":"729y1f","body":"Illinois here. My boyfriend's ex employer only would give out paystubs if you picked them up in the office but there isn't always someone there and it's pretty far from where we live. Boyfriend has called, texted and emailed ex-boss and gotten no response. We need them because we suspect he didn't reimburse for work related expenses that had been submitted and we know he didn't pay time and a half for overtime hours. What can we do to get him to provide the paystubs?","title":"Ex employer didn't pay time and a half for overtime and is ignoring requests for paystubs.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569435408,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d97810\/not_being_allowed_to_return_to_my_house_after\/","id":"d97810","body":"I am 21 and live in California, up until about a 2 weeks ago I have lived with my sister and mother in a house in California. My mom found out I was smoking weed and sent me to a rehab facility but when they denied me entry beacuse I wasent addicted to any drugs according to the psychiatrist that interviewed me she sent me to a different place that specializes in mental health. Long story short the program has been very very rough, I have been here for about a week and a half and it has just not gone well. Culminating in the director pulling me into her office and telling me if I don't change I'll be discharged (I had been leaving groups early beacuse I was having emotional breakdowns, and sitting outside). So while I was in tears I blurted out \"what do I have to I have to prove to you Yahoo's to graduate from here\" obviously not my finnest moment but she was very very hurt and basically kicked me out of the program. I tried to call my mom multiple times to tell her but she wouldn't pick up, she eventually texted me when I messaged her what was happening and she said that she was sorry I got myself kicked out but I have a drug and meantal health problem and as such I would not be welcome back in her house.\n\nSo my question is if I get myself back to the house somehow (I'm 3 hours away with no car friends or family) can she have police remove\/arrest me?","title":"Not being allowed to return to my house after being kicked out of a mental health program","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539060912,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mma7n\/car_towed_while_at_a_clients_house\/","id":"9mma7n","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nI am reaching out to you to get some advice on a recent situation that I encountered. I am a dog-sitter and I get hired to stay in other people\u2019s homes and care for their dog while they are away. I get paid directly and don\u2019t use any third party platform.\n\nThis past weekend, I was house-sitting for regular client and my car got towed from his complex. There are signs posted above the spaces that state  \u2018Guest Parking by Permit Only\u2019 but I have worked for this client before and parked there overnight without issues.\n\nMy question is, do you think my client is responsible for or should be inclined to pay for the impound fees*? I have worked for him 3 other times and he has never said anything about the parking situation (he never explicitly told me to not park there, did not ask for my information to add me as a guest or told me I should park on the street).\n\nWhile working for a different client, I encountered a situation where I couldn\u2019t drive my car out of her driveway and because of that I had to take Lyfts. When I informed her she immediately reimbursed me for my Lyft charges.\n\nAny input is appreciated, I am just trying to figure out what the right thing to do is. I understand I am partially responsible because the signs were posted but since I parked there before I assumed it was fair game. Just sucks that I ended up losing money instead of earning money for my services.\n\n*Is costed $240 is get my car out of the impound.\n\nThank you in advance!","title":"Car towed while at a clients house","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539334643,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nimp7\/landlord_calls_us_third_world_country_students\/","id":"9nimp7","body":"Hi, I'm from abroad and I study in the UK. As such, I would be staying in a rented house. This is my second year of staying in this house.\n\nSo recently, we had a house inspection since one of my previous housemates moved out. We also notified him of a few problems that occured in the house, particularly about leaks, which were apparent after we got back from summer.\n\nSo he sent a few plumbers to inspect and fix it and found out that we have a makeshift mixer tap using bottles since the sink had two separate taps hot and cold.\n\nSo he then sent me a text, which drops the bomb, by calling that idea as \"Third world country makeshift student silliness ideas\". Tbh, it wasn't even our idea. It was what the previous tenant left. He didn't even took the responsibility to clean the house before we moved in. We just used what was there and now he calls us \"third world country students\".\n\nWe feel harassed. How could this be taken legally? Btw, he even signed the text in his name.","title":"Landlord calls us \"Third World Country Students\".","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539906986,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pems3\/nyc_reasonableness_in_deductions_from_security\/","id":"9pems3","body":"Hi Reddit, \n\nUntil recently, I was the leaseholder on an apartment in New York City. The last roommate who moved out may have left a bit of a mess\\*.  But now the landlord\\*\\* is trying to withhold around $2000 from my security deposit, and I'd like some \/r\/legaladvice about whether this is worth my taking into small claims or some other legal option. \n\nAt the moment they're billing me for: \n\n* 12 hours of cleaning at $120\/hour--invoiced from a local cleaning company.\n* $450 to 'reimburse new tenants for the apartment not being ready to move in.' \n\nI basically have three issues here:\n\n* This is a huge number of hours for a \\~1,000 square foot apartment--on several occasions I had professional cleaners into the unit who never took more than 4 total hours, and that was including lots of surfaces and chemicals--the landlord's own move-out terms ask for the apartment to be 'broom sweep' clean. I don't think it's possible that it took a team of three people four hours to sweep the apartment, no matter if a mess was left in the space.\n* $120\/hour is an actually-astounding rate for cleaning--they could have gotten actual lawyers to clean the space at that price. \n   * I called the cleaning company on the invoice and they quoted me a flat $222 to clean a unit like this--much lower than this price. \n   * \\[Of course doing a rush clean would be more expensive, but 6x more expensive? and...\n   * ...you'd expect a management company to have cleaners on-hand for move-out day--they can't be making an emergency call every time an apartment is left messy\\]\n* The charges together don't make any sense--They told me on the phone that the cleaners came in on the evening of the last day of the month--if that's so, and they spent 12 man-hours cleaning, how could the apartment have been unready to move in the next morning? \n\nThe city government website ([here](https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/rentguidelinesboard\/resources\/security-deposits.page)) states that: \n\n> The security deposit must be returned to you with interest. Generally, the landlord can make deductions as reimbursement for the reasonable cost of repairs beyond normal wear and tear (if you have damaged the apartment); or, as reimbursement for any unpaid rent.\u00a0 \n\n\\[To date, nobody contends that the apartment was damaged--just messy.\\]\n\nIt seems like the 'reasonable' there is doing a lot of work. In real-life world it seems clear to me that 12 hours of cleaning is unreasonable, that $120\/hour is highly unreasonable, and that a $450 payment to the new tenants is both inconsistent with the other charge and possibly outside the bounds of 'reasons for which security can be withheld.' \n\nBut I'm aware that legal world is different--and in this case they've supplied a third-party invoice, and I can imagine them arguing that, well, this is just what we pay for cleaning services--that they're not charging me themselves but passing along charges that my roommate incurred. \n\nSo the big ask is: at the moment I can just accept these charges, take what I can out of the possibly-delinquent roommate's portion of the security deposit, and suffer a loss of a few hundred dollars. Or I can look into bringing this into small-claims court or some kind of other city housing adjudication--might a court or other body be sympathetic to my concerns about the unreasonable amount + price of cleaning I've been invoiced for? Or does a landlord have pretty wide latitude to do what they want if they can claim the place was messy? \n\n\\[\\*landlord has photos of the place looking pretty messy indeed. The roommate claims that these pictures were taken on the morning or early afternoon of move-out day, and that he finished cleaning later in the day--I've asked landlord if they can verify that the pictures were taken after move-out, and they haven't been responsive. Personally I'm not sure I really trust either party--the roommate may indeed have left some mess, but it's also not beyond the landlord to be opportunistically charging here. I'm not sure if I'll ever know what actually happened. Clearly the lesson for me is that I needed to insist on him getting photos\/other proof of the place's cleanliness before he moved out.\\]\n\n\\[\\*\\*For their part, the landlord has been operating somewhat evasively through this process. I heard nothing about any of these issues for a full month after move-out, despite being in text-contact with both super and building manager--only when I attempted to get my deposit back was this mentioned. They've also gone back and forth a couple of times on whether the place was cleaned by their employees or a contractor, and whether the amount was based on invoices or just 'determined by' the building manager.\\]\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​","title":"[NYC] 'Reasonable'-ness in Deductions from Security Deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447297753,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3shpj3\/hawaii_licensing_a_food_truck_in_hawaii_question\/","id":"3shpj3","body":"After doing a web search, I only came up with the 'Food Establishment Permit' application on the Hawaii DOH site. Are there any other steps to take? I really need some more details on this or even some recommended resources would be great. Or even better, would someone provide a brief step-by-step breakdown\/checklist on how to license a food truck in Hawaii? (preferably the island of Oahu)  \n\n(Also, can't seem to figure out how you apply for a location for a food truck to sit during hours of operation, anyone know how that's done?)\n\nAppreciate the help!\n\nEdit: Gave Hawaii DOH a call but they didn't give me a much of a breakdown. Just rushed me off the phone. I hope that someone has maybe some experience in licensing cases or has done this before themselves and might be able to help!","title":"[Hawaii] Licensing a Food Truck in Hawaii Question","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553790684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6kyre\/paternal_leave_cut\/","id":"b6kyre","body":"I work for a large company that told us after we were bought out we would have 6 weeks paid paternity leave effective April 1st 2017. \nMy wife is pregnant.\nI was told today they are going to be cutting the paid time in half. Effectively cutting my pay by 1.25 per hour for the year with no way to recover the lost benefits.\nIs this considered a layoff since it is a material change in my benefits?\nAlso how would I reach out to the PAC that pushed for the change to get their support since my company is trying to keep it under wraps.\n\nhttps:\/\/www.coca-colacompany.com\/stories\/paid-leave-for-all-parents--millennial-employees-drive-cokes-new","title":"Paternal leave cut","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1445024947,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p13kr\/home_renovation_was_shoddy_and_incomplete_but\/","id":"3p13kr","body":"[NC] ~ My mother recently had new flooring and some walls installed throughout her house, where lots of issues occurred. The contractor assured her the work would be done within two weeks, and at maximum a month, it is now 4 months later and the work is still not finished. \n\n\nThe first install of wood was orange, instead of the matching brown which was already installed in other parts of the house. The contractor initially blamed this on the company they bought the wood from, then on my mom \"for allowing the wrong wood to be installed.\" When they got the correct color in and installed it in that room, there were lots of boards where the edges were badly chipped during installation, AND they put one of the orange boards in the middle of the room. Then during carpet installation, some of the brand new wood got chipped and scratched. They broke a stud through one of the walls and kind of pushed it back in and threw spackle on it without ever saying a word about it. On wall \"decorations\" (small glass rectangles of varying shades) quite a few of the pieces are broken, and the grout was sloppily placed on top, making the top look like a child's finger-painting project. The last thing I can remember is that yesterday and employee came to install a section of wood in a doorway that goes from tile to wood, but the piece he installed is about 2 cm too small, so there is a noticeable gap in that section of the doorway.\n\n\nAlso, during installation, my mom had paid to rent a construction waste container, but the workers still poured out old grout mix and threw broken pieces of glass, wood, and tile into her yard (where her dogs practically live) and only used the container for the large things.\n\n\nThe company has a \"satisfaction guarantee\" and she's definitely not satisfied with the quality of work, their inability to keep to the timeline they promised or with the way they've treated her. So she thinks (and I agree) that she should not have to pay the full amount, yet the contractor has been harassing her for the last 3 days for the final check (roughly 10% of the initial total) texting and calling 10x a day, and as of today is threatening to put a lien on her property if she doesn't pay the full amount.\n\n\nSo what can she do here?\n\n\n**TL;DR:** Renovators did a mediocre job, purposely installed wrong pieces, and damaged new flooring while taking 4 times the promised amount of time. Don't want to pay full amount, but they're threatening to lien if we don't. What can we do?\n\nedit: Forgot to include location","title":"Home renovation was shoddy and incomplete, but they're demanding full payment","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443812947,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n9dig\/suing_a_contractor_for_breach_of_contract_in\/","id":"3n9dig","body":"To be as short and specific as possible, I am in Pennyslvania, Westmoreland County, and I hired a contractor to do a full bathroom remodel, furnace repair, window replacements, and installation install during the last week of August. I have a signed contract from him with his name, my name, the work to be performed, the price and payments to be made, and the completion date. The project was supposed to be completed September 11th and I was supposed to pay him half upfront for the supplies and half upon completion. \n\nFirst week of the job, his dad died. He took a lot of time off for this. Then he asked if I could make another payment since the job was stretching longer. I made another payment which meant he had about 75% of the total contract at this point.\n\nFast forward to last week and he said he would not continue the job until I made the last payment. The bathroom is only half done, no windows installed, one of the windows has not been delivered, no insulation installed, and he has yet to buy it. I told him absolutely not and he completely quit coming, sent me very rude text messages. Finally, I gave in when he said he could accept the payment via credit card (this way I can hopefully dispute it). After giving him the final payment, he came half a day, only painted, and then did not show the next day. \n\nSo in summary, I have a very specific contract that states what was to be done, the date it was to be done by, and when I would pay him. We are not 3 weeks past the date it was to be completed, and I'm pretty sure he has no intention of coming back. He strong-armed me in to giving him payments earlier than the contract asked for by refusing to work until I paid. \n\nWhat are my options when it comes to taking him to court where I live, and what is the likelihood of me being able to actually recoup anything? What is it going to cost me to go through this? Should I dispute the credit card transaction immediately, or should I give him notice to the effect of, \"If it's not all done by X date, I will dispute the charge and file in court.\"\n\nTL;DR- Contractor ripped me off but I have a signed contract- how hard will it be to sue?","title":"Suing a contractor for breach of contract in state of PA","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541713931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vecpc\/life_insurance_payout_10_months\/","id":"9vecpc","body":"My brother died in June, and he\u2019s left one of his children as the trustee for his estate. To clarify, I am a beneficiary in his life insurance, and his child (the trustee) is the beneficiary to the estate. I received a letter in the mail from a law firm September 19th stating that the claims filing date is November 19th. My family (other beneficiaries for life insurance) and I had thought that this date would be the time frame we would start to receive checks for life insurance.\n\nHis child had gotten in touch with one of the other estate beneficiaries and said it could be 10 months before ANYTHING is paid out. I am not well versed in life insurance vs estate pay outs, however from what I have read, insurance is usually paid within 60 days (makes sense from the timing of the letter I received) and estate could take up to a year as things need to be sold.\n\nI have contacted the law firm, but have not heard anything back yet. If someone could help explain to me if his kid is confusing the insurance money with the estate money, or if it can really take that long to receive insurance money, along with what the \u201cclaims filing date\u201d actually means, as it is a future date. \n\nThank you!","title":"Life insurance payout - 10 months?!","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571011539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhip5l\/time_and_a_half\/","id":"dhip5l","body":"So I work at the movie theater as a regular employee and had to work on Thanksgiving Day last year and thought that I would get paid time and a half because I heard that you were supposed to get time and a half for working on the holidays but my boss said that they don't do that, at first I thought it was weird but shook it of as me not knowing much about the workforce. But recently I found out that the managers get paid for time and a half for working on the holidays while the employees get regular pay for working on the holidays. I don't know if this information is true or not but I don't know what to do. So what should I do?","title":"Time and a half?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551829687,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axs04f\/bought_some_products_from_online_store_and_havent\/","id":"axs04f","body":"I've gone to their contact page but all they have listed is an email that says they get back within 24-48 hours. I've emailed twice nicely asking for an update and have gotten nothing back. At this point I just want my money back and looking back now I should've realized that this website looked a bit sketchy. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Bought some products from online store and haven't heard anything in almost a month","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444357450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o1w3x\/nj_debt_collector_provided_copy_of_contract_per\/","id":"3o1w3x","body":"An alleged unpaid balance from a former gym I was a member of has gone to collections.  I have just received the collector's copy of the Membership Agreement and it is substantially different from the copy in my files.\n\n* My name has been edited from [First MI OldSurname] to [First MI NewSurname OldSurname]\n* New credit card information has overwritten the original contract information\n* Additional clauses have been inserted above my signature\n* My signature has been reproduced and inserted under new clauses\n\nMy original agreement stated \n\n>[Gym] reserves the right to alter these rules and regulations\n\nbut later states \n> This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and may not be modified unless in writing  \n\nThis gym has previously gone in front of the NJ Division of Public Affairs and settled over writing an unenforceable contract (which my original categorically falls into), but I fall outside the period wherein the the Division would have automatically handled this for me.\n\nThis all seems *highly* illegal to me. The alleged balance is not substantial, collection fees included. Is it worth my time to try and sue these guys? CAN I sue these guys?","title":"[NJ] Debt Collector Provided Copy of Contract per FDCPA, but it Does Not Match the Original","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569950251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbwkcd\/bullied_by_an_insurance_company\/","id":"dbwkcd","body":"TX-About a month ago my girlfriend and I were in a drive through line when the truck in front of me decided to back up and didn\u2019t see me hitting the front of my car. His insurance guy came one looked at the car for a few minutes and then later called me and told me it was totaled and offered me $3500 and I keep the car (the Leon holder won\u2019t accept salvage title so we\u2019d have to pay it off in full and then pay for the repair) or $5000 and for them to keep the car (leaving me almost nothing for a down payment on a new car). The damage is slight and purely cosmetic. After getting a few estimates the repair would be around $2500. \nThe car is valued around $5000 and I still have $4500 to pay left. \nThey agreed to take back the totaled status and I could get it fixed. But if the damage is greater than 80% they would consider it totaled and would take the car giving me only $4200. \nToday they sent a letter for me to sign to authorize they payments and they had changed the terms and didn\u2019t mention it. The letter stated the repair company could only use off brand parts,limited what pieces they could replace (not part of any previous discussion), said they would only pay 2 hours of teardown time, and said if the repair exceeded 70% of the value they would total and take the car. I did not sign it. \n\nThey have been repeatedly calling me and telling me to hurry my decision. One time (about 2 weeks after the accident) he said \u201cI hope you haven\u2019t been driving it, because the will lower the value of what we can give you.\u201d \n\nI\u2019m tired of dealing with them and I just want my car fixed and I don\u2019t want it totaled. What can I do?","title":"Bullied by an insurance company","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554255301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8rv2n\/can_my_boss_do_this\/","id":"b8rv2n","body":"About 4 months ago, I quit a job that I had due to being treated unfairly and I felt like I was in a very hostile work environment, all because of my boss (mid 30s, female). I live in Oregon. I am a student going to school and trying to work part time as well. Upon employment, my boss expressed how school ALWAYS comes above work and that\u2019s the way she liked to run her business. I was very pleased and felt she cared for her student employees. This was the main reason I accepted the job. I am very broke and living here is very expensive, especially for a college student. I am 21 years old. During my employment, I was experiencing depression, anxiety and I was diagnosed with chronic GERD, for which I had doctor\u2019s notes for. \n\nMy boss and I scheduled a quick meeting to discuss a couple things, *not* work related things, and the morning of that quick meeting, I realized I had forgot to finish an important assignment for a class that was an hour after that meeting. (My fault, but I let her know as soon as I noticed it wasn\u2019t complete yet). My boss became very angry and called me on the phone, telling me how she thought I \u201cdidn\u2019t care\u201d and I was \u201cbrushing off our meeting\u201d which was \u201cunimportant to me\u201d. I would not be paid for this meeting, and my work is a 45 minute commute from my home. I told her I was very sorry and I would like to reschedule the meeting because it *did* matter to me, but I needed to get this assignment done. She told me \u201cNo, I am going to see you right now whether you want to or not. Either you get down here right now or I will come to your home.\u201d I told her I really couldn\u2019t do either, because of my schoolwork, while apologizing frequently for my mistake and letting her know I could meet any other time. \n\nEventually, because she would not let up, I told her she could come to my apartment so I could work on my assignment while she drove here. She showed up, knocking very loudly and angrily at the door (I actually thought it was the police at first) and I let her Inside. She sat down with me and told me that she \u201cknew\u201d that I was bulimic and making myself throw up, completely throwing out the fact that I have been diagnosed with chronic GERD and have supplied doctor\u2019s notes for this condition. She told me I was very undernourished (she had no proof of this, because it wasn\u2019t true) and I needed to be hospitalized ASAP to get an IV. I told her over and over again that I was not bulimic and I didn\u2019t need hospitalization. She had no reason to believe I needed help in any way. At this point, I was very hysteric because I had been hospitalized for depression when I was 13 years old and that experience was very negative for me. She convinced me that the hospital could force me to be hospitalized, which I\u2019m still not sure is true or not. I was hyperventilating and having an extreme panic attack, which does happen from time to time but has NEVER required immediate medical help. I have been dealing with these mental issues for 10+ years and know myself well. \n\nMy boss then told me that I had 2 choices and only 2 choices, to go with her in her car to the hospital, or make a big scene of it when she called the ambulance and had them come pick me up with their sirens on. I believed this was true and I had no other choice. I feel violated and that I was taken advantage of. Knowing my anxiety, and the cost of an ambulance ride alone, I decided to go in her car with her. She was acting like she was my mother the entire time, which was very uncomfortable for me. When we got to the hospital, she walked up to the counter quickly and said \u201cwe need a mental exam immediately\u201d. This next part sincerely creeped me out, she had already printed out copies of my driver\u2019s license and passport from my hiring and gave them the information without my consent. After hours at the ER and being admitted, gown and everything, they determined it wasn\u2019t necessary that I came into the ER at all and they weren\u2019t sure why I came. The hospital visit did absolutely nothing for me, because there was nothing to be done, and I was responsible for the $300.00 bill. I am a broke college student who is already paying off huge medical bills, with the help of my parents, for a very expensive and necessary jaw surgery I had done 2 years ago. During this time at the hospital, my boss told me she would really prefer to go back with me to make sure I didn\u2019t lie to the doctors, her words. She also made me miss my class, which ended up being the one factor that stopped me from getting my CPR certification and she never told anyone from the school why I was absent, after she promised she would. \n\nI don\u2019t know if this is legal or not, but it\u2019s completely unfair and I seriously feel like I should be reimbursed for that appointment. After that day, my boss required me specifically to check in with her every day, morning and night, via text. She said if I did not respond in a timely manner, no matter what I was doing, she would call the police to do a welfare check. She also said I *must* have a doctor\u2019s note for each and every day that I miss work because she believed I was bulimic and not coming to work because of that. She did not require other employees to do this. I cannot afford to see a doctor every time my GERD gets out of control and I have no control over when it happens or where. From that day on, she treated me like a different person, to the point where she wouldn\u2019t acknowledge I was even there, but would acknowledge others right in front of me. Even the other employees started to treat me differently, and every minute at work was agony because of how uncomfortable I was around my coworkers. I go to school with one of my former coworkers from this establishment, and since I quit she has not spoken to me or even looked my direction. We were good friends before this. Is it legal for a boss to be sharing confidential information like that with other workers? After all of this, she suspended me 2 times due to medical issues, and the second time I told her I couldn\u2019t work for her anymore because I felt unwelcome there. She quickly snapped back at me \u201cokay send in your resignation letter\u201d. This made me feel like she was *trying* to make me quit. This entire ordeal has been extremely difficult to manage in my head and I have since required more counseling because of it. Money is the #1 cause for my anxiety attacks, and the way she acted made me afraid of what employers are allowed to do in the workplace. \n\nSorry that was so long. Let me know your thoughts on this situation, because I feel it\u2019s necessary to report her but I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019m overreacting or not. If I do report her, who is the best to get in contact with for that exactly? Just HR? I really don\u2019t want this woman doing this to any other students with disabilities. It should end here. Thank you!","title":"Can my boss do this?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442432992,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l7mn7\/was_notified_i_committed_unemployment_fraudutah\/","id":"3l7mn7","body":"I was laid off earlier this year and had to start collecting unemployment after not being able to find a job by the time my severance ran out. So I was on it for about 4 months and finally was able to find a job. So about a month after I started, I got a letter that my last claim was being looked at for fraud. The amount is for $334.00\n\n I called and talked to the guy listed on the letter and he asked me a few questions. After speaking with him, I was told that I failed to report earnings for that week when I submitted my claim. \n\nI made no excuses and said I would take full responsibility for my mistake and lapse in judgement and pay it back plus any fees. \n\nSo the other day, I got another letter, and it bold letters at the top, it says it is being reviewed for criminal prosecution along with information on repayment. \n\nWhat I am wondering is if this is most likely a scare tactic to get people to pay it back and work with them. That's my hope. This is the first time something like this has happened. If anyone has any experience with something like this, I'd appreciate some guidance. \n\nAccording to Utah law, it would be a Class B misdemeanor so I find it hard to believe they would waste more resources to prosecute someone that is going to pay them back, but I could be wrong. ","title":"Was notified I committed unemployment fraud-Utah","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445655710,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pzm97\/looking_to_start_a_business_in_us_how_similar\/","id":"3pzm97","body":"The state I want to start my business in is in Oregon. I'm not sure if I can say the names on here of my (future) business and the current one that I think my name is close too. \n\nSo both businesses would be similar in type. Both a type of retail. The other business is a large business with several (maybe hundreds?) of locations. The first name would be the same but the second would be different but possibly close enough to be confused. For example their name would be Sale Town and mine would be Sale Boulevard. Is that different enough for a business of the same type? ","title":"Looking to start a business in U.S. How similar could the name be to another business?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569594894,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da1ajl\/stepbrother_got_fired\/","id":"da1ajl","body":"Short and sweet post. So, my stepbrother (18 years old) got a job working at Birdsong Peanuts here in South Georgia. He worked 68 hours last week, and about 45 hours this week. Essentially yesterday he passed out at work (due to heat exhaustion) and was sent home. Today he found out he had been fired before he was able to go to work. I understand the company usually decides things like this, but is there anything we can do? Not necessarily legal actions of course, but something a little more...minor? Because I feel like it\u2019s unfair for someone to be worked so hard, pass out at work, then get fired the next day.","title":"Stepbrother got fired?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508522924,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77nwax\/bad_landlord_situation_in_nyc_turned_into_an\/","id":"77nwax","body":"(Am posting for a friend but she also has this account so she may respond in comments)\n\nMy friend was on a month to month lease in NYC since January. In March, her landlord asked her out. She said no. \n\nApril- there were bedbugs, he refused to do anything, blames her, screams at her because he wants her to hang out with him instead of dealing with the situation.\n\nLate April- She asks him to give her a copy of the lease\/rental reciepts so that she can prove how much she\u2019s paying in rent and he refuses. As a result she loses her food stamps and is denied for insurance.\n\nMay- He starts admitting to going through her room. She has fallen behind because of losing aforementioned aid.\n\n\nJune- They start arguing constantly and he starts getting more aggressive, most of these arguments are about how he doesn't like how distant she is. She also gets legal aid to help write a letter demanding rental receipts, he refuses to give them to her.\n\nJuly- A male friend visits. Landlord flips and threatens both of them. \n\nAugust- He terminates her lease and takes her to court to evict her. Judge gives her 3 weeks to find a place, and she is told to come back if she can\u2019t find anything. She chose that over going to trial because she didn't know what to do and she really didn't want to be there any longer. His behavior was escalating and it was to the point where he was harassing her whenever they were alone.\n\nShe called the cops on September 8th to file a report for harassment. She has on video the cops visiting as well as her landlord\u2019s actions (him screaming and verbally abusing her). They talked to him and he screamed at them too. She told them that he was escalating and she wanted to file a report. They told her that, they could,\"file a complaint but it would go into a file and basically not be looked at\".She asked them if there were any other legal ways she could push to prevent this and they basically told her that they couldn't help unless he put his hands on her. Landlord claimed she threatened to kill him, but refused to explain how she threatened him, even when the cops asked him, and in fact, the cops *do* ask him in that video and he refuses to explain how she \"threatened\" him. Cops told her that they could give her the complaint number via email. \n\nThey go to housing court again. Judge gives her two more weeks- so out by the 15th. Landlord refuses to let her into the kitchen so all of her money goes to Metro cards and food. He threatens her any time she goes in the kitchen. \n\nOn the 15th she and a friend move all of her stuff out- she even has the moving truck receipt. The landlord is not there all day. Part of the housing court stipulation was that she was supposed to give back the keys and he was supposed to give her a receipt. \n\nOn the 16th she returns to leave her keys and get the last of her stuff. Locks have changed so she knocks on the door. Explains that she\u2019s there to get the last of her stuff and leave the keys. He lets her in but starts yelling at her. He hits her. She hits back, pushes her up against a wall, and starts choking her. She gets away, locks herself in her old room, and calls the cops. \n\nCops arrive and she tells them that she was there to leave her keys and get her stuff. They ask if she wants to press charges, she says all she wants to do is leave and never see him again. They ask if she\u2019s injured, she says she doesn\u2019t know. \n\nThey arrest her. She is not read her rights. She is not told what she is being arrested for. She tells them repeatedly that she called them. They say that he is more injured than she is. She cries And Is told to shut up. She didn't know until she got the little receipt for her phone and keys that she was being charged for felony assault. \n\nSo the arresting officer comes by and asks if she wants water. She tells him she wants the complaint she filed in September. He goes and does not come back, and she is taken to central booking. She gives them her aunt\u2019s phone number and asks to call her family. She is stuck in central booking for hours. Finally gets to see her public defender. DA tries to set her bail at 5k. She gets out. \n\nPolice wrote she attacked her landlord with a weapon. She had no weapon. She is not allowed to press charges against her landlord because she was arrested.\n\nIs she SOL? What does she do from here? \n\nTL;DR- Landlord with history of asshole behavior, who my friend told the police was going to attack her, attacks her. She calls the cops. She is arrested and charged with felony assault. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Bad landlord situation in NYC turned into an assault - NYPD violates my rights and I\u2019m being charged with felony assault.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508183176,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76t237\/wi_immigration_and_a_bad_divorce_lawyer\/","id":"76t237","body":"My SO is currently in the process of getting a divorce from an abusive arranged marriage she was forced into about two years ago. She is from Vietnam and is currently in the process of applying for her 10 year green card. \n\nHer soon-to-be ex-husband has drawn out the divorce over a year and is now contesting the agreed terms (He retains his debt and his accounts, as well as all of his property, and pays maintenance for her for a given period of time). IMO this is reasonable, as she has nothing, and is in a foreign country, and he did not allow her to drive or work until the divorce was filed. She currently works at a nail salon where she is not paid anything besides a small commission for each \"job\" she does. She is also living with another Vietnamese man at an apartment that is being sublet to her by her \"employer\".\n\nHer \"employer\" is not legally employing her as she is being paid via personal check, and she has never filled out a W-2 or paperwork from the DHS.  She is a legal resident of the United States though, and very concerned now that she has not paid taxes and is worrying that she will not be able properly file at the end of the year. This may in turn affect her green card renewal.\n\nMy main concern is that her divorce lawyer is a state appointed one (Since she has no money to afford one). My SO speaks fluent English, but the lawyer INSISTS that they use a translator to speak (Who speaks very poor Vietnamese), and the lawyer is overall very insulting and unhelpful. The lawyer insists that she is getting money from other sources, and when she explains how her job pays her, the lawyer insists \"That's not how it works\". Even when offered references to validate the information that my SO has provided, the lawyer dismisses it and says that she has worked with this employer before, and that my SO is lying. She also often suggests that my SO is currently pursuing other men to get their money, including her current roommate who is about 40 years older than her. It really does seem that the lawyer is not working in her best interest, and seems to be marginalizing her due to the fact that she is an Asian immigrant and the victim of an arranged marriage. \n\nGiven that my SO is in a rather delicate situation, and cannot afford to replace her lawyer with another, are there any other options or resources for her to help her get out of this situation and land on her feet? I would happily assist her financially myself, but I tend bar full time to pay for me going to school full time, and I can barely afford to feed myself as it is. \n\nTL;DR My SO is a legal immigrant who is in the middle of a divorce from an arranged marriage with a man who wants her to have nothing, and a lawyer who is patronizing and unhelpful.","title":"WI - Immigration and a Bad Divorce Lawyer","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1414043860,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2k2naa\/my_almostnew_car_was_damaged_while_it_was_parked\/","id":"2k2naa","body":"Location: Seattle, WA\n\n\nHi,\n\nA week ago, I noticed that there is this damage (size of quarter coin) on the back bumper, and found out that one side of my license plate frame on the back of the car is cut. The damage on bumper is not severe, but still is very easy to be noticed when you are standing within 7 feet. It seems like something very sharp was bumped into the back bumper. My car was parked at the in-door garage, which can hold about 15 cars.\n\nI checked other cars in the garage and did not find any damage on other cars. In fact, there is only one car that in the garage that could possibly damage my car because it is an assigned parking garage. One side of the license plate frame is completely cut such that I do not think this can be done by regular bump in a parking lot. \n\nOne thing that I am very skeptical about is that, our apartment is going under construction\/re-paint. A lot of construction related materials are stored inside of the garage at the one end. This includes ladders that are longer than 10 feet, paints, tools, wood materials and many other stuff. I personally think that damage was done (whether it was knowing\/without knowing or mistake\/not mistake) by construction workers when they were carrying some of materials in\/out of the garage.\n\nI reported this to my on-site management on the same day that I discovered this. The apartment management said she will contact the construction company about this. On the next day, I called the apartment management, but she said she has not received a response, and asked me if it is okay for her to give my contact info to the construction company. I said that is totally okay, but has not received any message from them for about 4 business days. I called the apartment management again today, and the management said something like \"Construction company replied that there is no tools\/materials that could damage my car like this, and they do not believe it is their fault.\"\n\nI would be really surprised if the damage was not done by them... Who in this world just does quarter size damage to the back bumper of the car and cut the license plate frame in indoor garage? I do not really care about damage to the license plate frame since I can easily replace them with few bucks. But I do not think it will be cheap to fix the damage on the bumper.\n\nIt is quite frustrating that this is happening to me considering the fact that I bought this car only weeks ago. What is the course of action that I can take? Is it even legal to accuse construction company\/workers with this damage? :(\n\n\nHere is the damage done on the car and also top down view of the garage. http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/daLS1 Hope this helps..","title":"My almost-new car was damaged while it was parked. I think I know what happens, but there is no evidence. What is the best course of action that I can take?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447335761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sj6sc\/can_i_sign_away_certain_renters_rights_in_ohio\/","id":"3sj6sc","body":"Being rather brief, I signed a paper that says:\n\n\nI _______________ understand by signing this policy I am fully aware that <apartment name> has a no lease break policy or buyout clause. \n\nI know Ohio has some laws to break lease legally, does signing this remove those rights. The only info I could find was that No they can't have me sign away renters rights. The document I read that in though was based in Washington state.","title":"Can I sign away certain renters rights in Ohio.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541464411,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ujeda\/what_are_michigans_laws_on_property_managers\/","id":"9ujeda","body":"So I am hoping someone can help me figure this out because I am finding conflicting information online about Michigan\u2019s ruling on this.\n\nSo when I went to tour this apartment, the property manager tried calling the tenants to ask if we could walk through the apartment. Even though they knew two days in advance what day and time I would be touring, they didn\u2019t call the tenants until I was *there.*\n\nThen the tenants did not answer their phones and so he walked me to their apartment to see if they are home.\n\nNo answer from the door, couldn\u2019t see anyone inside, so he insists that it\u2019s okay if we go inside even though I said that I wasn\u2019t comfortable with that. He opens the door and steps inside, yells through the apartment that management is there and I just stay in the doorway and say that it looks nice.\n\nThen he notices that the reason the tenant probably didn\u2019t answer their phone is that they are in fact in the apartment, in the bathroom, he can hear the shower running.\n\nWhat if they were just getting out? Wtf? I thought this was really unacceptable but I can\u2019t find what Michigan\u2019s specific laws are. I already signed the lease on this apartment because it\u2019s really my best option and this particular company has a near monopoly in the area. And I\u2019ll only be there for a year.\n\nI just do NOT want this happening to me while living there. Is there any law I can point to if they try this with me?","title":"What are Michigan\u2019s laws on property managers entering your apartment without proper notice?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442639026,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3liv5f\/socal_tenant_is_trying_to_sue_for_all_her_rent\/","id":"3liv5f","body":"So my family lives in Southern California (SD County) and my mom has been renting a converted garage area for the past 10 months or so (an area that unfortunately my parents never got building permits for). My mom has trouble falling asleep at night and so do I. Our room is located right next to the converted garage, and this tenant would constantly have people come over late at night (sometimes there all night until sunrise) talking loudly inhibiting both of us from sleeping for as long as she's lived there. My mom asked her to stop multiple times and she would for a while but then it would pick back up again. A month ago we tried evicting her but my mom gave her another chance. The noise continued, so we wrote out another eviction notice evicting her for being a \"nuisance\" at night and giving her 30 days to leave. She asked for 3 months time to get the money to rent somewhere else but admitted to my mom that she was going to refuse to pay rent for those 3 months. She's also claiming it's illegal for us to give her an eviction notice. I know it's illegal to forcibly remove her from the property ourselves after the 30 days without a court order\/sheriff\/etc but it's not like we were planning to do that. We only handed her an eviction notice we wrote.\n\nShe now wants to sue and say we have no reason to evict her because she always pays the rent on time (that's not even the issue, we were evicting her for being a nuisance which last I checked was a valid reason) and sue for all the rent she's paid the past months. She's also said she's going to call the city inspectors and have them force us to tear down the place. I also overheard her saying she wanted to sue for harrasment and \"broken glass\" (IDK what she's referring to) which I'm assuming she's going to claim that we refused to repair whatever this \"broken glass\" is even though she never requested we fix it and we didn't know about it.\n\nBecause it is an illegal dwelling, we can good as 100% guarantee we're going to be forced to tear that place down, but will she be able to get all the money back from her renting it? Does her benefitting from living there with her and her 5 year old son all these months make a difference? She has no lease so she's a tenant at will. She can't prove she didn't know it was an illegal dwelling. I guess what I'm trying to ask is what's the worse that can happen to us? I'm not feeling too optimistic. It's not even about the money anymore, we just want her gone. \n\nThis whole situation is seriously stressing me out. Any advice would be appreciated. I really didn't want this to escalate this far but this tenant is fired up and is not holding back at all. ","title":"(SoCal) Tenant is trying to sue for all her rent money back because she was living in an illegal dwelling, AFTER the fact we handed her an eviction notice. What case does she have?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568432294,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4054k\/im_being_forced_to_come_into_work_after_5_hours\/","id":"d4054k","body":"I have to work a closing shift on saturday (1pm-11pm) and then be back sunday (not joking) from 5 am to 9 pm.\n\nI know the labor law states that I must have at least 8 hours between shifts. What can I do about this? I've spoken to my managers, and all of them say something along the lines of \"well all the other closers have to come in as well\". I really dont think I'll be functional during that if I just stay up, even if it was possible to knock myself unconscious immediately at 11:02pm I won't get enough sleep let alone the difficulty of waking up after such little sleep. \n\nWhat do I do?","title":"I'm being forced to come into work after 5 hours of my previous shift which is illegal here.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555460161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be18wq\/cross_post_from_personal_finance_navy_exhusband\/","id":"be18wq","body":"My ex-husband is not paying his share of our joint bills.  We were married for 10 years, and we've been divorced for 1.  When we were divorced we split our bills, I got some, he got others, and pretty much in line with our incomes.  I then joined the Navy (go me). I'm doing well in the Navy, but as a junior enlisted, I'm not making much.  \n\nWhen we were divorced he agreed (and it's in the divorce decree) that he pay the credit card and my car payment. When I  left there was nothing on the card (stupid me, I should have closed it but I was emotionally distancing myself. No excuse but there it is).  We also had a joint checking account through Navy Fed, which will come into play later on.\n\n​\n\nHe made payments on both, but a year later the credit card went from no balance to 30k (yes, 30k).  He missed last months payment on the credit card, and they debited the minimum payment from my new checking account (it was about 1500 dollars). That left me with nothing in my checking and ate into my savings.  He also texted me to let me know he wouldn't be paying the car payment anymore.  I told him he couldn't do that, but he didn't really respond.  He did mention he starts a new job soon, which implies he isn't in the Navy anymore (which was odd, because his enlistment isn't up for another few months).   \n\n​\n\nI don't make enough in a month to make both. I don't make enough in a month to pay just the credit card bill.  I have the divorce decree, but that isn't going to pay the credit card or the car if he doesn't pay it, and I don't know what to do anymore.  I think he's going to hide as best as he can from paying it - he hid from the divorce proceedings for two years using a law that protects service members from legal issues.  I honestly don't know what to do at this point. I'm in trouble.  I'm not even sure where he's going if he really is out of the Navy. I don't know where he's going if he is still in.  \n\n​\n\nI'm putting this up in a couple of places, because I'm not sure where advice for this issue would best come from.  Thank you all.","title":"Cross post from Personal Finance - Navy ex-husband, huge Credit Card Bill and Car Payment","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569365987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8uxau\/i_was_asked_to_testify\/","id":"d8uxau","body":"hi i\u2019m. it sure where to begin. last summer i saw a man being arrested in front of my house. i helped provide video footage from my cameras and pictures i took. \n\ni am currently in college. the da of my county called me and asked me to testify in october. i saw majority of what happened. i know the guy who was arrested is the defendant and that\u2019s it. \n\nis there anything i should do? how i could prepare? if i should actually testify?","title":"I was asked to testify??","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539615524,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9odexo\/491k_missing\/","id":"9odexo","body":"Hi there. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, I started to post in r\/PersonalFinance but it seemed like more of a legal issue. Also the flair probably isn\u2019t the best flair but it seemed closest...\n\nAnyways, I recently lost my job and decided to rollover my 401(k) into a Roth IRA. I had recently moved, and the bank would not update my account address. I didn\u2019t think it would be a big deal as my mail was forwarded. Fast forward 2 months and the check they were supposed to send me hasn\u2019t arrived yet. I call to get my account balance and try to get a new check issued, and my balance is $0.00. \n\nNeedless to say I\u2019m kind of freaking out and I\u2019m not sure what to do. But we\u2019re talking 10s of thousands of dollars just gone and I dont know how to find it. \n\nI\u2019ve been trying to get a human on the phone at the bank, but due to my account balance, I cant get past the automated system. I\u2019ve also called my previous apartment complex to see if they have any word on if I received mail at that location. \n\nAny help or direction would be greatly appreciated. ","title":"491(k) Missing","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554904978,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbme0b\/just_found_out_that_i_own_bonds_and_would_like_to\/","id":"bbme0b","body":"So I just found out (today) on my 19th birthday that a relative of mine bought some bonds in my name when I was really little. This relative I have no way of contacting. So my questions are: Since I'm over 18 does she have the ability to use them herself? And if she doesn't how can I go about getting them for myself?\n\n​\n\nAlso sorry if the Flair is wrong. I don't know where government bonds falls under","title":"Just found out that I own bonds and would like to know how I can get them.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1508420994,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77ehna\/inappropriate_bag_lab_coat_search_while_at_work\/","id":"77ehna","body":"Good Morning everyone. I\u2019ve always enjoyed reading through posts here but never thought I\u2019d be here for advice.... so here we go... \n\nMy wife works for a national company as a medical professional and has done so with this organization for close to a year now. She is usually located in a specific store, but has the ability to pick up shifts elsewhere if needed. She was clocking out and getting ready to head home from a store she\u2019s not usually at when the manager approached her and said she needed to be searched.  She went back and forth with the manager before agreeing to what she believed to be a simple bag search. The manager reached into her bag to look, and then checked her lab coat, which she was wearing (lab coats usually have 2 deep pockets on the sides and one or two pockets located over the breasts). He opened both of her breast pockets to check for whatever he thought he needed to check for. To be clear, he didn\u2019t grope her, but touching that she perceived as highly inappropriate.  She wasn\u2019t sure how to react so she left. \n\nShe contacted her divisions manager who agreed what happened was inappropriate and pulled the company\u2019s policy. The policy states something along the lines that hands should not be placed in bags and that jackets can not be checked while on a person. The policy gets a little blurred in the fact it doesn\u2019t specifically state that her division should be subject to searches. The division manager stated she had never been searched before. It was suggested that my wife reach out to HR while her manager bump it up the chain on her side.  They said they would pull the tapes \u201cto see what actually happened\u201d and were extremely condescending and  non empathetic to the situation.  As you can probably guess, HR is positioning to protect themselves at this point. Where we\u2019re at right now....They said at this point she can choose to be searched or face punitive action in the future. It\u2019s not the search that she has an issue with, it\u2019s the way it was handled and the fact the documentation is not black and white.  What does she do at this point?  We\u2019re in a right to work state so she could look cross eyed at the wrong person and be let go.\n\nEDIT: Located in Connecticut\nEDIT 2: At will, not right to work. \n\nTLDR wife was inappropriately touched\/ searched while at work. HR is no help (surprise). ","title":"Inappropriate Bag\/ Lab Coat Search While at Work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442676605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lke2v\/terrible_roommate_horrible_experience\/","id":"3lke2v","body":"I don't think I have any legal protection in this situation, but here's what has happened to me. \n\nI am a graduate student in Chicago, IL. A couple months ago I needed to find a new roommate, as my old one was moving out. I made the mistake of posting an ad on craigslist to gauge interest, but fully expected to offer the place to a friend or someone I felt comfortable with instead. \n\nTo my surprise, an incoming graduate student from my home state responded to the ad, and he seemed really cool. He sent me an email from his new university account, we talked on the phone numerous times, and I decided i felt comfortable with him moving in. \n\nHe drove a U-Haul up with his girlfriend and things seemed great. When she left a few days later I was happy to show him around. A week later, very unexpectedly, he told me he was getting cold feet about graduate school and wanted to move back home. He told me he might move out in a week, but that he'd find another roommate for me and pay for the electricity (he had been absolutely blasting his AC unit at all times of the day ever since he arrived). \n\nThe next day he left briskly without telling me where he was going. A couple hours later police were at my door saying that he had called about a domestic dispute. I was shocked that they were looking for me. I invited them inside and showed them the text messages I sent him that he had referred to when he called them. They were non-threatening messages of me telling him he was acting impulsively and I didn't feel comfortable around him or understand his plans. They agreed that his call was unwarranted, but I asked if they wouldn't mind staying around anyway to see what was up. \n\nHe arrives in his U-Haul, crashes into my neighbor's car, and seems generally manic. He had called a bunch of people from his program telling them that I was a threat and that they needed to help him move out. Within two hours he and his things were gone, on their way back to his home state which is a thousand miles away. \n\nWhat do I do? He didn't sign a lease, but he did submit an application with his information which my landlord approved, and he turned in a deposit check that I'm now afraid he's going to cancel. I am left with a place I can't afford on my own, and an electricity bill that will probably be unusually high. Is there any distinction between legal resident and legal tenant that could possibly work in this situation, perhaps to at least get electricity money? Are there any laws about providing notice that one is leaving after establishing residency? \n\nI am desperate and I don't know who to turn to, right as I'm about to begin a very stressful and busy year of graduate studies. ","title":"Terrible Roommate, Horrible Experience","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569261480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8a6sx\/am_i_wrongfully_being_charged_more_for_breaking\/","id":"d8a6sx","body":"I was living in an apartment in Arizona and decided I wanted to go back to school in California so I chose to break my apartment lease early. The apartment complex charged me over $4,200 dollars just to do this, and on my receipt for ending the lease contract I have 2 charges in particular I was not sure about. One of them says:\n\n \u201cInsufficient notice fee (did not give 60 days notice) -$2,064.77\u201d\n\nAnd the other says\n\n\u201cBuy out fee -$2,160.00\u201d\n\nThe only thing that concerns me is that everywhere I\u2019ve read states that under Arizona law you are only responsible to pay for the amount of rent that the apartment complex lost while no one was living there.. considering someone moved in a month and a half of me moving out and my rent only being $1,032 a month just I think $4,200 just seems like way too much money to end a lease contract. Please let me know what you guys think. Thank you.","title":"Am I wrongfully being charged more for breaking my lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553004219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2xslk\/my_friends_brothers_12m_dyslexia_is_being\/","id":"b2xslk","body":"so, I'm from Hesse, Germany, and my friends brother is being constantly bullied and gets far worse grades than everyone else because of his dyslexia. his teachers constantly disregard his dyslexia, and wave it off as him being lazy, or not doing enough work, etc etc.\nhe goes to a Gymnasium (a particular type of German school). \ncan they possibly sue the school, and is this legal?","title":"my friends brothers [12M] dyslexia is being disregarded by his teachers","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571709766,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlayoc\/can_my_landlord_enter_the_front_yard_and_fenced\/","id":"dlayoc","body":"I rent a full house in Colorado. Today I came home to see all my shrubs trimmed down. The shrubs are both in the front yard, set far-ish away from the main street and in my fenced backyard. I live in a country area and like my privacy. \n\nThis happened to not be an issue this time as it was too cold for me to keep my dog outside for the day. But during the summer this could have been a major issue.\n\nTo add to it, my front door was left unlocked. I have zero proof that my landlord entered my home and in all fairness I have left the door unlocked before. I thought I locked it, but I was half asleep and I may have forgotten. \n\nDo I have any legal basis to demand they do not come on the property at all with no notice?","title":"Can my landlord enter the front yard and fenced yard without notice and with no emergency?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507642992,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75h49r\/fingerprints_as_a_teachers_aid\/","id":"75h49r","body":"Michigan here, sorry this might not exactly be a legal issue but its the kind of thing you guys are smart about, it's at least policy...\n\nSo my girlfriend got hired yesterday as a teacher's aid, and they want her to go get her fingerprints done. It's super expensive, and she thinks they want her to pay for this out of pocket, is that normal? It seems weird to me since it's a job requirement. I told her she needs to talk to her new boss about it and see if she just misunderstood, do any of you have any knowledge of this or suggestions?\n\nThanks!","title":"Fingerprints as a Teacher's Aid","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1416527144,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2mxfy3\/am_i_obligated_to_follow_to_the_refund_laws_of\/","id":"2mxfy3","body":"Refunds are becoming something of a hot-topic in the gaming world. Some countries have refund laws (Australia and Germany seem like a big ones) that seem to allow people to just ask for a refund for pretty much any reason, and it seems like they have to get it. Many online vendors seem to have radically differing policies on this sort of thing which makes finding a real answer difficult.\n\nMy question is, if I am an American from Florida, or from any country or state or whatever that doesn't have such refund laws, and I have a Business, AirPhforce's Software Solutions, which, online only, sells software, and I sell some software to someone from one of those refund-law countries, am I obliged to follow\/obey their refund laws if the customer isn't happy with my software?\n\nWhat if I don't?","title":"Am I obligated to follow to the refund laws of other countries if my business has international customers?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1443648181,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n0pbd\/georgia_is_interest_in_a_family_limited\/","id":"3n0pbd","body":"My wife is a Limited Partner in a FLP that was set up for managing and inheritance of real estate.  Is this an asset subject to division?  She was made a partner after the marriage.  ","title":"[Georgia] Is interest in a Family Limited Partnership an asset to be divided in a divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569966506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc0gbh\/ct_can_i_get_a_child_support_payment_reduction\/","id":"dc0gbh","body":"Sorry for the terrible formatting. I am on mobile.\n\nIn March of 2018 my ex-wife (wife at the time) and I separated. We have one daughter together. We did not divorce right away because we wanted to fix the situation. She filed for child support though. At the counselors office in the court, the agreement was that we get joint physical custody. I will have our daughter on 3 set days and so will my ex. On Wednesdays I will have my daughter one week and my ex will have her the next week. So our daughter will be 4 days with me and 3 days with her mom. Then the next week I will have our daughter 3 days and my ex will have her 4 days. Even though we had equal physical custody, the court demanded that I pay child support. My ex only works 3 days a week. She said she could not work full time because she has 3 other children (she receives child support for 2 of them, from a previous marriage). So since I work full time, I had to pay $150 a week in child support based on my income, which was about $580 a week after taxes and insurance at the time. I could not afford that, so the court lowered it to $120 a week, even though I can\u2019t really afford that either. There was nothing I could do, so it was set at the $120 weekly. The court gave me residential custody (basically my daughter will go to school where I live.) They only did that because I live in a town with a better school district\n\nStarting in July of 2018, my ex would leave me with my daughter on days that were her days. I did not complain or get bothered by it. That is my daughter and I will gladly have her every day if I could. So I started writing down every day my daughter stayed with me.\n\nIn January of 2019 we divorced.\n\nMore than a year passes and she is still leaving my daughter with me on her days. On average I have my daughter 4-5 days a week and my ex-wife only has her 2-3 days a week. It has been more than a year of this. I was told to go back to court and ask for a reduction or even a complete removal of the child support payments. I did not bother because I did not have a great experience at court the first time. \n\nFinancially, things have been tough lately. I have a mortgage payment now. I am down to the last 2.5 years of my car payment (I bought the car before I met my ex-wife). It is getting harder budgeting everything as a single father. After taxes and insurance my paycheck is about $600 a week now. Then after child support I am at $480 a week. I do have a small 401k and a small about of savings just Incase things get bad.\n\nWith mortgage, car loan, insurance, phone, power, gas and now pre-k tuition payments, I am down to my last $10 weekly. Is it worth going back to court to see if I can get a lower child support payment if they know I am with my daughter 4-5 days a week?\n\nIf it makes any difference, my daughter is only 4 years old and I purchased a home after the divorce.\n\nThank you for your time.","title":"CT Can I get a child support payment reduction?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550847097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atigg5\/the_legalities_of_a_reanimated_corpse_not_a_joke\/","id":"atigg5","body":"So I'm working on a zombie character and I want to know what the possible procedures would be for said character.\nHe died an accidental death (doing graffiti in a subway tunnel that turned out to not be abandoned, then flying a few hundred feet and landing on a barbeque) was originally thought to be something suspicious so a small autopsy was preformed, security footage and subway conductor testimony proved it was an accident. Next of kin didn't really care about him, funeral, or belongings. \nWhat would happen to his belongings\/bank account\/legal documents?\n\nAnd I know that there aren't any existing legal procedures for this but I don't have the know-how to speculate this","title":"The legalities of a reanimated corpse (not a joke)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539651730,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oisit\/landlord_wont_respond_to_termite_problem\/","id":"9oisit","body":"I am located in southern California. \n \nMy building manager will not return my phone calls, text messages or emails regarding the termite problem we have. I also wrote on the envelope of the rent check that they needs to get back to me. I have no way of contacting the landlord for they have never given me their contact information and the manager has even told me if I got ahold of their information I would  still never talk to them. (?)\n\nThe termites appeared about a month ago little red, ant looking things with wings and curved antenna. Sprouted from the window sills and I've seen them flying around the building. I don't know what to do or what actions I should take. I spray bug spray on them but know that doesn't do much to solve the problem. It is my understanding that termite problems must be addressed by the landlord as they potentially pose a safety hazard. \n\nIs there anything I can do beyond call my landlord and be ignored for more than a month? I don't want to cause them problems but I also don't want this infestation to be ignored. Any advice on my recourse options would be very appreciated.","title":"Landlord won't respond to termite problem","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570682033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfsvna\/dispute_of_ownership_while_establishing_a_business\/","id":"dfsvna","body":"My roommate and I back in February of this year started coming up with names for businesses and jotted a few down. Up until about three months ago nothing ever came of these, since then, I, by myself, trademarked a name, made a logo, website, and just sent out designs for a prototype to be made. During this time I never brought it up to him that I was starting to do something with one of the ideas.\n\nEarlier tonight I jokingly asked him to run finances, and he freaked out when he found out I actually used one of the names that we came up with and now demands to be part of this upcoming business. After I\u2019ve put in a significant amount of money and time, he wants 50% stake in this company that he\u2019s put no effort into solely because he helped come up with the name.\n\nAll I want to know is if he is entitled to any portion of this business. If helpful state is Indiana.","title":"Dispute of ownership while establishing a business.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570126459,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcur26\/me_and_a_colleague_competed_for_a_job_i_got_it\/","id":"dcur26","body":"Some back story. This actually happened in April of last year, I work in the public sector in a financial department for local government. In my workplace, there\u2019s 3 levels of salary bands before you start getting into management. Apprentice band, band 4, and band 6.\n\nI was an apprentice at the time, and I was applying for a recently advertised permanent band 4 post, in my current team. \n\nAnother colleague (let\u2019s call her Leah) was also applying. She was actually a band 6, but she was on a temporary contract, which had only a month left on it. Leah\u2019s mother is very high up in the social services department, is cushy with senior management, and has many \u201cconnections\u201d. The reason why Leah was on a temporary contract was because she is notoriously known for leaving our office, disliking her new job, and somehow finding her way back despite there being no apparent job vacancy. She\u2019s also a massive bitch. \n\nSo we both apply, I got the job and was personally told by management that I scored more \u201cpoints\u201d during the interview, and that she was appointee.\n\nObviously, I was happy with the outcome - until literally 2 hours later and I heard news that Leah, had somehow been offered a PERMANENT band 6 post, on a completely different team of which she had absolutely zero experience working on (I did), because she was on the \u201cat-risk register\u201d \n\nTo my understanding the \u201cat risk register\u201d is a list of employees who are on temporary contracts which are due expiry, and this is somehow their way of keeping her \n\nAt the time of these events I\u2019d been working at that place for 2 years, I spent 6 months of those on the team she\u2019d been moved to, she had never worked there in her life. I enjoyed working there but was forcibly moved by management somewhere else.\n\nSo not only has she been given a better job than me, despite essentially losing the interview process, it\u2019s on a team that I\u2019ve always wanted to get back to, on \u00a37000 more per year than me, with less[no] experience than me, coming off a temporary contract, known for job hopping, and I\u2019ve been kicked in the teeth.\n\nIs this legal? This has been bugging me massively since it happened, and I can\u2019t stand her over this. I feel like a laughing stock. How can they justifiably do this? Is there anything I can do to get this investigated?","title":"Me and a colleague competed for a job, I got it - and she ended up with a higher paid job anyway.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552576725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b11jwt\/thoughts_on_school_registration_fraud_in\/","id":"b11jwt","body":"We recently bought a new house - paid a whackload of a premium to get our kids into the best public school district in our city - a Toronto suburb. We haven't moved in yet, and my wife already has two of her friends ask her if they can register their address at our house.\nThe reason being is they want their kids to be in that school district as well.\n\nAt first, I felt uncomfortable but didn't say much. Started researching the practice. It is clear that the practice is common, and not cracked down on much in Toronto. \nBut then I find out one of the friends has filed for bankruptcy and is going through a very nasty divorce. My Spidey senses are firing on all cylinders now. So, I make it clear to my wife that I won't be an active or passive participant in fraud or take the risk of her personal situation somehow biting us in the ass.\n\nMy wife didn't like that answer, is making me feel like shit for not helping out her friends when they need help. Also, I've been getting multiple text messages from our friends telling me not to be an asshole and to think of the future of the kids - how I'm blocking them from getting a good education by not letting them put our house as their address.\n\nI don't know anymore. My wife has been cold for a while, and on advice from others, posting it here to get some arguments and ammunition that I can use to persuade her that I won't be a participant in fraud nor put our family at risk. I'm acting on principle here, and our entire family\/circle of friends is ganging up on me.\n","title":"Thoughts on School registration fraud in toronto\/canada","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541395282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uauxl\/exhusband_filled_discovery_on_my_wife\/","id":"9uauxl","body":"My wife and her ex husband have 2 kids and have been divorced for several years.  His is bitter and has it out for her anytime he can and he does so using the court system.  He is trying to get child support payments reduced which is why he has a discovery on her.  \n\nI was reading through it and it is requiring my wife to list me for some of these answers directly related to finance,  knowledge of my wife\u2019s finances.  \n\nI do not want to get involved in this whatsoever but I have a feeling this guy will summon me for questioning .\n\nAm I protected from answering anything as to not incriminate my wife?  What should be said for this or how do I tell them that I won\u2019t talk.  \n\nThis is in Maryland by the way","title":"Ex-husband filled discovery on my wife","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443291315,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mhojd\/utahsoftware_application_name_movie_posters_and\/","id":"3mhojd","body":"I am currently in the process of creating\/porting an application over to the new Apple TV (Plex), but I have a few questions that I just do not know the answers to. I plan on selling the application for $1-2 as well as release the source code online for free (for anybody to compile or install).\n\n~~1. I initially planned on naming my application PlexTV (similar to my other application named [PopcornTV](https:\/\/github.com\/ostlerdev\/popcorntv)), but shortly after realized that it might not be a good idea as the main domain for Plex is [plex.tv](https:\/\/plex.tv). Seeing as I had contributed in the past to an Application named \"PlexConnect\" for the Apple TV 2 and 3, I decided that I might be able to go under that name (as it uses similar technology). The issue that I am having is in [Plex's legal guidelines](https:\/\/plex.tv\/legal#trademark), they are a bit vague and even though the application is currently named PlexConnect it might violate the terms that they have set. Am I violating their [terms](https:\/\/plex.tv\/legal#trademark) by using the name \"PlexConnect\"?~~\n\n~~2. The current PlexConnect logo that I was planning on using (at least a similar version) has a Plex logo in it. Does that violate their [terms and conditions](https:\/\/plex.tv\/legal#trademark)?~~\n\n3. On the initial page I planned on using movie posters as part of the background art ([as seen in this mockup here](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/yEM4NrC.jpg)), is that legal to do?\n\n4. Should I consult with a lawyer in my area for further advice?\n\nThank you for your support and guidance!\n\nReference URL's:\n\n[Plex Legal Guidelines](https:\/\/plex.tv\/legal#trademark)\n\n[PlexConnect Project](https:\/\/github.com\/iBaa\/PlexConnect)\n\n[Image Mockup with Movie Posters and Logo](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/yEM4NrC.jpg)\n\nEDIT: After speaking to the original author of PlexConnect he wishes to not have me use the name, so those initial questions are invalid.","title":"[Utah][Software] Application Name, Movie Posters, and Logo","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539762866,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9owlp1\/i_was_fired_for_typos_and_misspellings_i_have\/","id":"9owlp1","body":"I live in Washington and I was just let go because I made errors and mistakes on spelling when dealing with customers. I don\u2019t want the employer in trouble. I just want to know my rights as someone with a learning disability. ","title":"I was fired for typos and misspellings. I have dyslexia and a learning disability. Just want to know my rights.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445204357,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p9x6j\/rlegaladvice_i_want_to_break_my_lease_how_do_i_go\/","id":"3p9x6j","body":"Hey \/r\/legaladvice, I live in Illinois and 3 months ago I signed a 12 month lease. Due to my work, I was unable to look around the neighborhood before moving in (moved from far away on very short notice), but now that I've been here I realize that it's in a very unsafe area. I personally have been a witness to a shooting, among other things. That being said, I'd like to break my lease and move somewhere safer. I've thoroughly read through the lease agreement and there's a section that states: \n>\"Owner shall be responsible for the following duties in addition to those set forth elsewhere:\nMaintain the Unit and Development Property in a decent, **safe** and sanitary condition in accordance with the standards established by IHDA and the applicable local codes. Conduct a Section 8 Housing Quality Standard inspection annually.*\n\nEdit: Emphasis is mine.\n\nHow do I go about making this stick? I don't have a problem going to small claims court, I'm just not sure of whether this will be enough to make them let me go. Also, I'm not sure if I'll get my security deposit back. Please help?\n\n\nEdit #2) Ok, the safety thing isn't going to do it. There has also been copious drug use and trafficking on the property and in the building. Is that helping my cause at all? If not, what's the best way to get out of this? ","title":"\/r\/legaladvice, I want to break my lease. How do I go about doing that?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505405303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7037t5\/pa_apparent_mouse_infestation\/","id":"7037t5","body":"I apologize in advance if this is formatted poorly. I am on mobile.\n\nSo my fianc\u00e9e and myself have lived in our apartment on the outskirts of Pittsburgh for approximately a year and a half. We have had no real issues with the apartment or our landlord until recently. Two weeks ago, one of our cats caught a mouse in the apartment. Neither of us really thought much of it, due to the weather getting cooler and mice being common. \n\nTwo days later, we found another mouse in our apartment. At this point, we went and spoke with the building manager, who provided us with mouse traps. Three days later, another mouse was found in the trap. We spoke with the building manager again, who gave us more traps, and informed us that maintenance would come and take a look at the apartment. One of the women who works in the office also informed me that other tenants have been having similar issues and that they were working to resolve the issue. \n\nMaintenance came and said that they could not find an entry point. Last night, another mouse (total of four at this point), was caught in the same trap (which was placed behind our stove). I went and spoke with the building manager again this morning, who said he would send maintenance again. I told him that I believe the mice were coming from behind the stove, and he said the maintenance worker would check. At this point, we began to discuss getting out of the lease, and the building manager refused. \n\n\nIs there anything we can do? The work that maintenance is doing is putting out traps and steel wool, but not addressing that there are potentially more mice living in the building. I have tried to look into PA law regarding this, and all I have found regard implied warranty of habitability, and I am not sure if this applies in this situation. Any help is appreciated!","title":"(PA) Apparent mouse infestation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553194111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ucop\/flagstaff_arizona_can_my_landlord_kick_me_out_for\/","id":"b3ucop","body":"I live in Flagstaff, Arizona and I rent an apartment through a real estate company, though all of the apartments are individually owned. The owner of my apartment is selling it to a new owner, so when my lease is up, I must move out. However, they did some inspection and found \"bio growth\", as they called it, in my apartment. Now they are saying that starting Monday, I must find somewhere else to stay until Friday. That's a whole 5 days and I only have 3 days to try to find somewhere else since she just sent the email this morning. Not to mention they stated that they will not be reimbursing me for the hotel. \n\nShe mentioned that this is in the lease agreement, but of course I'm on vacation so there's no way for me to check but I don't remember reading that.\n\nIs this even legal?\n\nBy the way, I've tried calling lawyers, but they either only represent the landlord, or they have $200 consolation fees. I'm in college, no money.\n","title":"(Flagstaff, Arizona) Can my landlord kick me out for a week?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412315577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2i5zdl\/roommate_situation\/","id":"2i5zdl","body":"My wife and I moved out of an apartment that we **weren't** under contract on via lease nor written document. We had a verbal agreement with a former co-worker of mine, the roommate, that we'd pay $250 a month and *not* have to worry about lights. We were told that we could *come and go at any time*, whether it was leaving the apartment with friends, or moving out. However, that quickly changed to $300 and paying lights, which was demanded rather than \"negotiated\". \n\nShortly (about a month) after moving in we learned that they (the roommates) were buying, selling, and manufacturing marijuana and marijuana \"edibles\" in the home within' the male roommates bedroom. Both him and the female roommate (the former co-worker) are in the \"business\" together. The female roommate's ex-boyfriend sleeps on the couch, and collects firearms which he **doesn't** store away, but rather places randomly around the house. (So, there were a total of three people in the apartment before we moved in, *all of them* on the lease.)\n\nMy wife and I planned on leaving while they weren't there, but the male roommate decided not to go to work on the day we had friends come over, so in order to safely move *without* creating drama within' the home\/provoking them, we lied and stated that my wife was leaving me (which wasn't fun as we had to make it convincing). The day after my wife left with all of our possessions (she left Wednesday), I left while everyone was at work. \n\nThey are now threatening us with legal action through *my wife's grandmother*, showing up on her property at 11PM *searching for my wife*, stating that they are going to be taking us to small claims court. My wife and I feel as though there is little to no case against us, as we left *without being on the lease*, abiding by *our end* of the verbal agreement of being able to \"come and go as we please\" (roommates words *exactly*), as well as leaving because we feared our safety. \n\nSince we've moved, we've been ignoring *all contact* from the three people. Blocking them in our phones, as well as on all social media. \n\nWhat should we do? \n\nAlso, if it matters, we have friends and family who are *witness* to their drugs, drug paraphernalia, as well as firearms being scattered across the home.  \n\n**TL;DR:** Wife and I moved out of an apartment that we *weren't* on a lease under, and drug dealing, trigger happy roommates are threatening us with legal action.\n\n**EDIT:** This is in *Texas*.\n\n**EDIT #2:** Re-written to make more sense. Was tired when I first constructed this. ","title":"Roommate situation","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554126641,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b82mri\/housemate_that_didnt_sign_lease_moved_out_before\/","id":"b82mri","body":"Is there anything we can do as compensation or at least, to make things even? Anything we could use?\n\nIt is already understood that not having him on the lease was a terrible mistake, and we're indeed suffering for it. But is there anything else we can do at all?\n\nOr does not being on the lease completely excuse him from any consequences despite complete and utter scumbag behaviour. \n\nMalaysia","title":"Housemate that didn't sign lease moved out (before lease expired) and left behind damaged furniture and flea infestation, refuses to pay for the repairs and treatment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571632814,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkvc2z\/can_i_sue_landlord_for_a_portion_of_paid_rent\/","id":"dkvc2z","body":"We moved in during June. \n\nOutlets in our two bathrooms haven\u2019t worked since moving in. \n\nThe installed microwave hasn\u2019t worked since moving in. \n\nWe went two months without a working dishwasher. \n\nOne month (so far) without access to our Master shower, because when used it leaks on our downstairs neighbors. \n\nWindow blinds in a bedroom were just installed yesterday October 20th (lease states that only the Landlord can install blinds) \n\nThere was mold from a dishwasher leak and cabinets had to be removed. Landlord paid for us to stay in a hotel for 3 days, but did not give a per diem for food. \n\nWhen we got back to our condo, our kitchen sink was laying in our living room. So for the next three days we opted to drive to a friends everyday, and return home at night, instead of staying in a cheap hotel again. (Should we be compensated for mileage?) \n\nToday we used our dishwasher and checked for leaks under the sink... we saw [this. ](https:\/\/m.imgur.com\/gallery\/H7B9RSu) \n\nApparently the mold removers had to cut the garbage disposal cord to remove the cabinets. This is how whoever our landlord hired decided to repair this. (We have a toddler) \n\nCan we sue our landlord for the difference between the rent we\u2019ve paid and the actual value of our condo over the past few months? \n\nDoes our landlord have to reimburse us for food and mileage while our condo was uninhabitable? \n\nIf I can sue, would I be able to easily represent myself or should I hire a lawyer?","title":"Can I sue landlord for (a portion of paid rent)\/ lower rent for repairs not fixed since moving in? :: Indiana","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552695510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1m9bi\/applied_for_apartment_with_last_months_deposit\/","id":"b1m9bi","body":"Hello, Reddit!\n\nI have a tricky situation that I am trying to get figured out.\n\nFor starters, I am located in Ontatio and was planning to move to Ottawa for May 1st with the intention of going to school in the fall.\n\nI had applied to the apartment and went to see it the same day (in that order). They requested last months deposit prior to acceptance, and on the grounds we were denied, it would be refunded back to us (this is fairly standard).\n\nI had a chat with the realtor when we were there being shown the  place and said in honest, \"We won't be able to make the April 1st date, it would have to be May 1st\". This was said after putting \"April 1st\" on the application but not the lease. He promptly replied with, \"No problem, if you send the deposit for the last month we will hold it for you until May 1st\". I said, \"fantastic, that's awesome\".\n\nSent the deposit, and was sent the lease a few days later from the parent realty company.\n\n\"April 1st\", I saw after looking the form up and down.\n\n\"Oh must be a mistake\". I thought to myself.\n\nGave the partner of the guy I talked to a call (he handled the emails and calls), and asked him why it says May 1st.\n\n\"You out April 1st on the application, why would it say May 1st.\" He said blankly.\n\n\"Oh, you must not have talked to [other partner]. We had agreed on May!\"\n\n\"Sorry it said April 1st on the application\".\n\nAfter talking and talking about it he said we can try and do April 15th and pro-rate it for the remainder.\n\nI said, \"I will sign off on the pro-rate if its a guarantee\/conditional for the lease.\"\n\nHe responded with, \"I can't guarantee it\".\n\nSo I deliberated for a day and decided to say no after he said that morning, can you sign it by 2pm the landlords are waiting.\n\nAsked for deposit back, he said \"no\".\n\nAnd here I am...\n\nWondering what to do now since we had a verbal agreement that was broken, in my eyes I see it as voiding the entirety of their, \"Deposits are non-refundable after acceptance\".\n\n\n","title":"Applied for apartment with last months deposit, had verbal agreement to sign with May 1st on the lease, said April 1 on lease, little to no exception.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571142281,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di74t8\/if_i_get_an_appointed_lawyer\/","id":"di74t8","body":"Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question\n\nI have court the first of November.  Today I\u2019m taking a leniency letter to the court for the judge in hopes that she won\u2019t be too hard on me. Included in that letter I\u2019m asking for a lawyer because I can\u2019t afford one at all. If she appoints me one.  Will it be completely free or is there some type of Payment plan. \n\nThis is Cleveland Ohio \n\nThe ticket was for doing 92 in a 60 and also got reckless operation.  See previous post","title":"If I get an appointed lawyer","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539738154,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9otpl1\/a_professor_is_taking_over_our_vr_dev_space_for\/","id":"9otpl1","body":"We dont wanna burn bridges with him since he is a great connection for us getting deals and sponsorships but we want our space , we want students to use it, we want to build and make it a community\nWe cant with his trash \n\nWhat can we do? Advice?","title":"A professor is taking over our VR dev space for storage. He helps us a lot and because of him we get a lot of money and sponsors but the contract says the space is ours not his. We can't expand on our space or do what we want cause he uses the space to safe keep his stuff.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553738468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6d1dq\/leaving_a_job_that_had_me_sign_a_term_agreement\/","id":"b6d1dq","body":"So I'll just be brief since I'm posting from mobile. I'm a full time student about to graduate in a month. 3 months ago I was offered a job in my field of study by a guy that had gone through the same program. I was told up front that I'd be signing a contract to start part-time while I was still in school to guarantee a certain amount of full time work from me after I graduate, since they're \"working with me while I'm still in school.\"\n\nWell, this is a nightmare job. They do everything on the cheap and cut a lot of corners. The biggest issue I've had to deal with, which I looked into and found is a blatant OSHA violation, is the fact that they spray paint in the open air of the shop. And not just a little, half the shop cuts and welds the products, the other half paints and assembles. So I have to sit in an office, huffing paint fumes, and put up with a headache every time I go in.\n\nThe \"contract\" I signed was a 2 page word document with a bunch of bullet points, mostly covering non-disclosure, salary, and what-not. There is one bullet point that says something along the lines of \"will work a 2 year term after graduation.\" And there nothing else written about this, no escape clause, no terms for ending the time early.\n\nI started looking for another job a few weeks ago and today took an offer. I hid my current employment and hope for my life that it doesn't come to haunt me. But what I need to know, once I go to drop off my equipment and break the news, is can an employer enforce such a vague contract while also failing to adhere federal workplace safety standards.\n\nI've documented the conditions and I hope an idle threat of something along the lines of \"sure, you can come after me, but your dirty laundry will get aired out in the process\" will just make them leave me alone. The job is in Georgia, U.S. I'll lawyer up if I get any legal threats, but I just need to know what I can say to try to break this smoothly.","title":"Leaving a job that had me sign a term agreement to start.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571774442,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlnh9k\/illinois_mold_in_our_apartment\/","id":"dlnh9k","body":"When me and my SO were getting our winter clothes out of storage we found mold all over them. We decided to go through everything in our apartment. We found mold on random clothes in our closets In rooms on opposite sides of the apartment, found mold spots on the ceiling. We contacted our landlord about the issue. Thankfully they sent someone out right away and he said there was water behind one of the walls by our front door. The specialist said it\u2019s not a major issue that it wouldn\u2019t cause any health concerns. This morning the handyman came out to cut part of the walls, he told me that they have had this issues for years that the foundation has mold on it that\u2019s eating away the brick. He said they had someone to inspect it a few years ago and they told them it\u2019s a major issue that it\u2019s on the brick on the inside and outside of the apartment. \n\nWhat can we do if they neglect the mold growing on the inside and outside of the apartment? We live in the basement apartment and we have a kid. The humidity is plus 70 degrees in the apartment and they want us to constantly run dehumidifiers.  The small patch that the handyman is repairing said it\u2019s a pointless fix that it\u2019s not going to stop the issues.","title":"Illinois mold in our apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508299453,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7746fh\/what_happens_to_my_friend\/","id":"7746fh","body":"Tennessee\n\nMy friend (15), throughout her whole life, has had abusive parent figures. Her father raped her, but her mother wasn't aware of this. Her father died last Christmas and she got a stepdad. Now, her mother and step dad are emotionally and I feel physically abusing her. They hit her with a belt, which is legal, but I feel at her age it is not ok. They pulled her out of her trip to Spain and  her play at school because she received one B on her report card instead of all As. This all could be found as strict parenting, but then her parents took away all of her electronic devices, her stuffed animals, all of her personal belongings, and forced her to end her relationship with her boyfriend. They then hit her again. This, plus her trauma with her real dad, obviously caused her some physiological damage.  She has expressed her issues to her parents, but they refuse to get her help and told her that she needs to fix this herself. *this is why I think they said that: they are political figures and don't want it getting out that they emotionally abuse their daughter.* This morning she was in the car with her mom on the way to school, and she started crying, her mom then told her that she was tired of her and wanted to give her to the state so she doesn't have to deal with her anymore. Then her mom went to the office of our school and told them that if she (the daughter) is seen with her (ex)boyfriend to all her (the mom). Her mom told her that if the teachers call, she will immediately take her out of school and enroll her in a zoning high school. *we go to a very nice catholic highschool*. \n\nThis girl has cut herself and  has told me numerous times that she would rather kill herself then continue living the way she is. She said she will kill herself if she gets pulled out. \n\nIf we were to tell my parents and the school about this, will this be under the category of child abuse, and if she is taken by the state or whatever happens, will she be taken out of this school and placed somewhere else? She claims she has no family to go to. \n\nWe are just a bunch of teenagers who don't want to loose our friend. Any advice or questions will be greatly appreciated. ","title":"What happens to my friend.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540444505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r7d9f\/north_nj_landlord_tenant_squatter\/","id":"9r7d9f","body":"This is taking place in Northern New Jersey \n\nI will try to list the details of the case and arguments, to make it easier to understand. I am not sure how much i can disclose here but i want the whole picture understood so i may receive the best advice possible.\n\nMy case is that the squatter does not have a lease and does not now or ever had their name on the property. There is no lease nor there ever was. Interestingly enough two leases have surprisingly popped up that states the squatter can live in the property for 30 years as long as they pay the building costs. These forgery's were said to be signed by me and another  person on the deed. The fakes do not even have real signatures just scribbles and its sickeningly obvious.  I stated to the court that i am now the sole owner and that there is no leases because at the time of the leases signing the other owners were too young to give consent.\n\n​\n\nThe squatter case is that they own the house regardless of the fact they were never on the deed. They also stated that they owned the house and the previous owners before my family only owned it in name. They are claiming since they have been in the property for so long that they own it. i forget the term that was used. it has something to do with a person taking ownership if no one else for a certain period of time contests the squatting. Latches maybe?\n\n​\n\nHISTORY\n\nMy family inherited the property from 2 people one living and the other deceased. The squatter has worked in the building with their own business since the 90's and lived in it since 10 years ago roughly. Much of this happened as i was growing up and i did not have much say in the matter. Growing up I wanted to evict this person but I did not have the resources to do much. I also have been fearful of facing this person in court due to threats. This person has threatened my family and myself with physical and legal 'destruction'. I pressed charges but this person has enough understanding of the court and they have been able to weasel out of any type of charges sticking. But due to a financial crisis this person has put my family under i have been forced to act.\n\n​\n\nTHE squatter WAS NEVER ON A DEED OR LEASE. But due to the seemingly limitless supply of funds and knowledge they were able to move into the building and take ownership in the sense they live and work in the building without paying rent. This happened when i was younger and i didn't have much say in the matter.  The property is currently under my name alone because i felt if it was under my name alone it would be best. This squatter has been convicted of fraud and stated so on the stand. They went so far to say on the stand that the property which they occupy was purchased with fraudulent money and although they were never on the deed they own the property.\n\n​\n\nTRIAL (JUNE)\n\nAt the trial my lawyer and their lawyer stated each sides case. The judge stated he would need more time to make the decision and each side would have to submit the arguments in writing.  Each side did so and the squatter lawyer needed more time which my lawyer felt was ok. Within this time period both lawyers submitted what the judge wanted and some. What i mean is that the squatter lawyer submitted additional arguments not brought up during the trial forcing my lawyer to respond. Apparently due to the answer submitted by their lawyer something went awry causing another court date to be scheduled. i believe this to be a plot to elongate the decision being made. reason i believe this is due to the domino effect the squatter answer to the court created. it coincidentally coincided with new county clerks being put in place.\n\nCURRENT SITUATION\n\nConspiracy theories aside the new court trial was cancelled the day it was meant to be held by my lawyer. My lawyer stated he had to go through the county clerks office to sort out this mess. My lawyer says they cannot bother the judge or rush him which i fully understand. But what i do not understand is what to do now. I do not understand why this is taking so long and my lawyer is astonished by how long this is dragging out. The squatter  still occupies the property and is paying the taxes on the property but not to me and no other monies are coming to me. I have never received a dollar from this person and they have refused to ever do so.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nMy question is: Why is this judge taking so long? What can i do to get a a quicker decision? Does the defendant have any legal rights? \n\n​","title":"NORTH NJ landlord tenant squatter","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569984055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc47e7\/my_employer_instituted_a_policy_today_that_if_we\/","id":"dc47e7","body":"We do in home care for mentally challenged people to help them be more independent.  At our site we have 4 to 6 people covering 24\/7.  I\u2019m not really comfortable with 44 people I have never met having my personal phone number.  First, I\u2019m not a manager, second, I\u2019ve never called off from this job.  Third, there is very high turnover here so it\u2019s possible that non employees will also have this list of numbers.  \n\nIs this even legal?","title":"My employer instituted a policy today that if we call off, we have to find someone to take our shift. They sent everyone list of every employees name and personal phone number.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568568902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4nmyw\/dealership_takes_car_back_1_month_later\/","id":"d4nmyw","body":"Georgia. Not sure if flair is correct either.\n\nMy friend purchased a used car from a major car dealership on August 18th (I\u2019ll refer to her as Mary).  Signed all contracts for financing and drove the car home.  \n\nThey called her Friday or yesterday stating that they had found a different financier that would actually make her payments cheaper.  She agreed to come back.  Mary, her finance, and his 5 yr old kid drove to the dealership which is over an hour away today to sign new contracts.  They get there and are told that they either have to put another 2k down or they have to return the vehicle.  She doesn\u2019t have the money (she already gave them 1k) so the dealership is taking the car and currently trying to find an employee to drive them home.  She just called me from the dealership upset (who wouldn\u2019t be) and I just don\u2019t see how they can do this nearly a month later.  If they had been honest, the finance would have followed her in his car.  Does she have any recourse?  If so, who should she talk to?","title":"Dealership takes car back 1 month later?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540336726,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qu9bw\/daughter_was_being_bitten_at_daycare\/","id":"9qu9bw","body":"Daughter was being bitten at daycare. About 6 or 7 times in the last 6 months. The last 2 times she was bitten was within conservative days. The last bite we could count the child's teeth on her arm. My wife and I removed our daughter for safety. Today I received a letter in the mail stating that they required 2 weeks notice or they will charge. Is this a legally binding contract? ","title":"Daughter was being bitten at daycare.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1504739845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yjbmb\/am_i_legally_binded_to_this_job\/","id":"6yjbmb","body":"I'm currently in PA. Company is located in CT\n\nCompany A: I accepted a job offer over email that gave me a deadline of two weeks to accept. That was middle of May. I had to go through security clearance and then I had to do some onboard tasks such as watching videos on rules for the company and \"signing\" things like checking off boxes to give that proves I've watched the video. I also had to do things like my W-4 form, I9 form and veteran status.\n\nI wasn't given a start date until my security clearance clears. The security clearance took 3 months and I was cleared last monday but I found another job that I don't want to leave. I don't believe that I signed any employment contract. Just that I filled out the forms that I mentioned above and a few others. I figured that I would be signing employment contract papers when I am formally given a start date? What happens if I don't? Will I be blacklisted? Am I legally binded to start the job?\n\nMy HR representative sent me an email on the status of my security clearance and is currently seeking me to schedule a date to discuss when my start date will be. I'm having trouble with writing the email.\n\nedit: I actually just checked but my I9 form isnt signed or filled in","title":"Am I legally binded to this job?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539093231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mpc0x\/employer_emailed_multiple_social_security_numbers\/","id":"9mpc0x","body":"Throwaway for identity reasons. I received an email with an Excel sheet attachment with about 40 employees social security numbers (full) including my own. This was forwarded to me by a higher up and it was clearly sent to at least 10 managers as well as 3 other email addresses from outside of the company. \n\nThis spreadsheet was also printed in full form in a secured area in two separate areas that could be looked at by employees only, but still, those social security numbers were out and could be seen by people that did not receive the email.\n\nMy question is what legal steps should I take (if any) against my employer for putting my identity at risk as well as implicating me by sending me an email with others' full social security numbers.","title":"Employer emailed multiple social security numbers to multiple managers as well as an outside agency.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503603618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vtagm\/virginia_hit_a_blown_out_tire_on_i95_n_want_to\/","id":"6vtagm","body":"I hit a big tractor trailer tire on I-95 this morning and it has damaged my bumper, brakes and God knows what else. I had it sent to a shop already and it's getting checked out. \n\nIt was recommended to me by a co-worker that I take out a claim with the state to pay for damages to my truck but I don't know where to even start. They told me a \"I know a guy\" story but didn't have any real advice. \n\nIs this a real possibility? I feel as though it is the state's responsibility to keep the roadways safe and leaving a blown out tire large enough that it damaged my truck so badly seems pretty negligent to me. \n\nPlease let me know what I can do (if anything) to take a claim to get my truck fixed. ","title":"[Virginia] Hit a blown out tire on I-95 N want to take a claim out with the State of Virginia","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540433461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r64lb\/ca_being_charged_with_misdemeanor_embezzlement\/","id":"9r64lb","body":"Made some bad mistakes at work and proceeding to be charged with misdemeanor embezzlement. Took about $250 worth of property from my place of work and they have enough evidence including cameras and transactions to convict me. I mentioned I'd be willing to help pay everything back I took as well and stayed completely honest with the process.\n\nWas arrested and given a court date for late November. I found CA law says misdemeanor embezzlement can be up to one year in jail and\/or up to $1000 fine. I'd rather have the fine and no jail time but I know I don't really have a choice in what happens. \n\nWondering what's the next thing I should do. 23, first time offender of anything. \n\nSide note: Not sure if this is relevant but I had previous cowrokers at my work steal way more than I did but charges were never pressed against them by the company. ","title":"[CA] Being charged with misdemeanor embezzlement. First time offense. Wondering what to do from here.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551478610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awagwu\/lease_modification_question\/","id":"awagwu","body":"My ex fianc\u00e9 and I are on the lease for our apartment. He has moved out, but his name is still on the lease. \nHe contacted the landlord to get a lease modification. It removes him from the lease, but it also absolves him of all responsibility for any damage found after we leave and so on and so forth. Basically his name is removed and he walks away scot free. \nThis paperwork needs both of our signatures and to be turned in at the leasing office. \nWhat are the legal repercussions of not signing? ","title":"Lease Modification Question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570510708,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deve3q\/my_friends_family_is_dealing_with_an_issue_with\/","id":"deve3q","body":"\nSome background story on how this all happened. \n\nMy friend: F\nHer brother: B\nHis girlfriend: G\nMy friends mom: M\nMy friends step-dad: D\nMy friends little sister: S\n\n\nB was living with G in her moms house with their baby for quiet some time. They were kicked out because they failed to go to school again by Gs mom and didn\u2019t graduate because of that.\nHaving nowhere to go they go, B goes back to M to stay. M believed that they\u2019ll stay until they found a place to for themselves and help out while they\u2019re there.\nAfter weeks of being there, both B and G are laid back and don\u2019t help out in the house. They leave the place a mess and don\u2019t clean up after themselves. They break things around the house and mistreat M by talking back having her clean up after their mess. They hardly pay attention to their baby as the child has gotten sick quiet a few times as well as recently for not receiving the flu shot. The baby wears a helmet to get his head in shape and also for always falling off the bed or bumping his head consistently because they are not attending their baby and doing other things; playing games, watching videos, being on their phone, gossiping etc.\n\nB has started going back to school and has only one class for his high school semester  but has decided to  quit his job to be able to \u201cgo to school\u201d which he doesn\u2019t go to school and stays home instead just laying back and playing video games. So he is currently not working and not going to school.\nG took summer school online and graduated high school and she now works \n\nG & B goes shopping with whatever money they have to spend on themselves and food but lack in paying bills to help the family. \n\nI should mention that they live in an apartment which only a few people can live in that apartment at the time. The landlord has gotten suspicious of loud noises and constant complaints about their home and asked how many people are in the apartment and M said it was just F,M,D,S. B and G are just visiting. If they discovered more people were being housed then they\u2019d get in trouble. \n\nWhat the whole family has mentioned to M is that they need to get kicked out the house for always causing a noise, getting complaints, breaking things, disrespecting F,M,S and talking back, B not working and going to school and not taking care of the baby.\n\nThey\u2019ve yet to do anything because their is a child involved in this situation I believe.\n\nWhat is it that they\u2019re are able to do is my question\n\nI really hope that I was able to give enough info about this situation and if theirs any sort of info needed I\u2019ll included it in an edit for others to see.","title":"My friends family is dealing with an issue with her brother (19) and his girlfriend (18) along with their baby (one year) who moved in after being kicked out of his girlfriends house. (NY)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569636233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daa0dm\/my_insurance_handled_my_case_poorly_and_the_other\/","id":"daa0dm","body":"Recently I was in an accident, it was after 5 pm and I was coming out of a stop sign to get into the median and eventually make a left, which is how I get to school in the mornings (I was going late for a club meeting that day). From what I could see, there was no cars close enough and I had enough time to get into the median at a reasonable speed. There were cars stopped before and after the stop sign (it\u2019s a stop sign leading into a 3 lane road a couple hundred feet before an intersection) but they allowed me enough space to get out and to see, I saw no cars in any of the 3 non turning lanes so I made my way to the median. Once I was already halfway through the leftmost lane a car was going so quickly that they t boned my rear drivers side and caused me to spin into the median. I have no collision insurance, and a cop arrived later to give me a ticket for \u201cviolation of right of way\u201d. However the lady who hit me stopped about 100 feet after my car, braked super late, and had space to swerve into the next lane to avoid hitting me, not to mention she was speeding to an intersection that had a red light. When I made the claim to my insurance, they asked me what happened, told me I\u2019d most likely be at fault and my car would likely be a total loss, and then never contacted me to confirm, give updates on what the other driver said\/claim amount\/etc. Finally I found out I can access the claim online and all it said was the claim had closed (without my knowledge) and the woman who hit me got 2k in property damage. The problem is, her car is a 2000 maxima and isn\u2019t worth more than 800 (and al that was wrong with her car is her headlight fell out) I want to know if there\u2019s anything I can do because I don\u2019t believe me being tboned in the rear is my fault, and the insurance handled my case horribly, closing it super quick without ever informing me of anything, and I even found out my claims agent was just a trainee. I think they treated me this way because I am young and have little coverage, and the lady should\u2019ve been more at fault. Is there anything I can do? I\u2019ve used up all my school loan paying for the damages to my car myself.","title":"My insurance handled my case poorly and the other person involved shouldn\u2019t have gotten the payout\/liability they got","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568954736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6pvxk\/i_bought_a_house_3days_later_a_man_caused_over\/","id":"d6pvxk","body":"Lucky me. Thankfully I decided to purchase a fantastic Insurance policy. Damages are over $60k... question for others who may have been in this situation, or could possibly tell me another sub to get advice. My insurance company has been great. The man who hit my house has garbage insurance. My insurance company always alerts me when they are coming or sending anyone. The other day I was checking my security cameras to see if Orkin actually came or not, when I saw a lady knocking on the front door. Nobody uses the front door because of the extensive damage. My fianc\u00e9 answers and the lady states she is with our home owners insurance and even states the name of our insurance company. I asked my fianc\u00e9 about it to which I get a \u201cidk I was in the middle of something.\u201d Something did not feel right, I email everyone on my team, my claim is under the large loss department, so a fairly large team of about ten people. They all state that they did not send anyone out. I send them the video footage. The subrogation rep on my team dug and found out the lady was from the insurance company of the man who hit my house... why would they lie? Should I do something about this? Why give false pretenses that are usually indicative of malicious intent? \n\n\n\n\nI would post the video but I do not want it to be public, it\u2019s very clear she is pretending.\n\nEmails [with my insurance](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/OiJBEhd) company, redacted identifiable components.\n\nTLDR; guy hit my new house with car, his insurance company sent a rep to my home that pretended to be from my insurance company.","title":"I bought a house, 3-days later a man caused over $60k in damages via crashing his car into my house, his insurance company sent an agent who lied about her identity.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568442584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d41o3c\/im_22_f_and_i_want_to_adopt_have_legal_custody_of\/","id":"d41o3c","body":" I'm sorry this is so long, I have no one else to turn too and I literally have no idea what to do. \n\nI'm 22yo and my little sister is 12yo. We have the same mom but different dads.  My family is a total mess and has been from the beginning. My mom has been off and on drugs for her entire life. My sister being the product of one of her  careless drug spree moments. Ive lived with my dad my entire life, and thankfully never had to live with my mom or my grandma (mom's side).\n\nSo  basically my sister dropped a bomb practically begging to come live with me. She told me mom was using again and this time it was really bad. Bad as in she left her at her grandmas house for two weeks while she went to get high. When she came back she couldn't remember where she was.  Grandma's house isn't any better. There are two druggy uncle's living there that are constantly fighting. On top of that random people are always coming and going. My sister also informed me that she wasn't going to school and she was barley passing. Apparently she got suspended last year.\n Currently I live with my dad but Im in the process of saving up for an apartment with my boyfriend and going back to school for my BFA. \nI know that if my sister lives with me I'll basically have to be the parent..and to do that I want to take legal custody of her but I don't even know where to begin. She lives in a while other county. I figured if I can get my mom to hand over custody then my sister can live with me and my dad until I can find a place.  I'm going to call CPS tomorrow and see if there is any info they can give me.\nIf anyone knows the first steps to doing this in the state of FL or what to expect, I can use any advice I can get.","title":"I'm 22 (f) and I want to adopt\/ have legal custody of my little sister. Where do I begin?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505958983,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71g0i8\/do_i_have_to_pay_back_money_that_was_taken_due_to\/","id":"71g0i8","body":"I'm on mobile so I apologize for the format. \n\nAbout two weeks ago a customer came into the store and bought some items totaling over $1,000. The transaction went through on a forced sale using a credit card. I had only been working here for less than a year so I didn't know what a forced sale was. I just know when a receipt comes through it means the sale went through. \n\nToday I got a call from my boss saying it was fraud and that he's out the money. And that I have two options. Pay half and don't come into work anymore or continue working and get it taken from my check until it's the total amount. \n\nThis isn't the first time he's done this. One of them being when the money didn't match and I found they had taken it from my check to make up for it. \n\n\nMy question is do I have to pay it back just to quit? Or is this even legal? \n\nThank you in advance. ","title":"Do I have to pay back money that was taken due to fraud? (US, Southern California)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554864431,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbgxvj\/former_employer_wont_process_my_fsa_claim_advice\/","id":"bbgxvj","body":"Typical personal finance advice says to use your employer\u2019s dependent care FSA. Now I\u2019m not so sure.\n\nI quit in January with $2400 still in my FSA from the prior year. I put in a claim later that month with the company administering it. They told me my employer had cancelled the FSA relationship with them and I\u2019d have to talk to my employer. I talked to my employer\u2019s HR manager and asked how to do it. She said the claim check was on their desk and told me to submit the claim info to them, which I did.\n\nChecked back a week later and now they say they won\u2019t issue my check because their new FSA rule says claims had to be made in the year of the expense. This wasn\u2019t the case with the old administrator, and other FSA administrators I\u2019m aware of give you a grace period (you can claim expenses from early in the following year) and a run-out period (you can file claims early in the following year).\n\nI think they\u2019re being jerks because I quit. I believe this because they also \u201cforgot\u201d to reimburse my business trip expense that I wrote on my exit interview they owed me, until I kept bugging them about it. They\u2019ve also been jerks to other former employees, in former lawsuits, and have Glassdoor reviews suggesting other funny business.\n\nWhat should I do?\nA) Nothing - tough luck, bud, you didn\u2019t follow the rules\nB) Small claims suit - nothing to lose\nC) Something else\n\nThanks in advance for your insight!","title":"Former employer won\u2019t process my FSA claim - advice?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541104109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9td5w1\/do_i_have_to_go_to_court_again_if_thr_charges\/","id":"9td5w1","body":"So I went to court on Oct. 25th and for driving without insurance and registration although I did have it and handed the cop the expired one by accident. He had still written the summons but I presented the right paper work and he said just go to the court and they'll dismiss it. So when i went on the 25th, I presented the right paper work and all and they confirmed with the cop and they dismissed the charges. Today, i received another summons letter for December 12th. Do I have to go to this one? I'm going to call tomorrow but will they still force me to go although the charges have been dismissed? I already missed work once for this and I used all of my unpaid time so I don't have the day to miss.","title":"Do I have to go to court again if thr charges have been dismissed?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555449164,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdzafw\/retracting_a_signed_tenancy_agreement\/","id":"bdzafw","body":"We signed our tenancy agreement on the 9th of April, move in date set for 23rd April, all via email. I spoke to the agent twice over the phone, both times I mentioned that we had applied for a bond loan, just in case we couldn't save up enough, turns out that we could so problem solved, the unused application was just sitting there.\n\nI also spoke to her about when the bond needed to be paid, in my limited rental experience, the bond gets paid when you get the keys, but we agreed that I would transfer the funds on the 17th. \n\nCue to yesterday 16th, I received a call from agent saying that they had withdrawn the offer for tenancy and that she sent it in writing also. \nSO stepped up and rang her back and she told him that there was no communication between her and I, that I didn't tell her about the bond loan, that she had no idea when we were going to pay the bond. This was all a lie.\nI feel as though she got a better offer and she is now trying to cover her ass.\n\nWe turned down other houses to accept that house, we ended our lease early to move in on the date they needed. As of the 29th of April we will officially be homeless with two young children, unless by some miracle we get another house in the next few days. \nWe are unable to extend our lease as the owner wants to sell (we have been in this house 5 years).\n\nNow I know what they did was morally wrong, but are they allowed to retract a signed tenancy agreement ? \n\nPlease help !","title":"Retracting a signed tenancy agreement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541536049,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9us1n1\/works_wants_to_move_me_to_a_place_i_cant_work\/","id":"9us1n1","body":"Hello, I live in Alberta Canada.\n\nI have a chronic pain disorder that makes a lot of things difficult for me. Luckily, I work in an office where it isn't really a problem. The issue is my boss wants to me to move to another part of the building. This room used to be a service room and was changed into storage for old manuals. It's also freezing. It gets colder then 10\u00b0C in winter.\n\nCold causes flares of pain so excruciating I can't move. This has been recorded by my doctor. Would I have a legal reason to not work in that room? The girl that used to work there had to wear her winter coat all day. \n\nI'm planning on talking to my boss and raising my concerns, but I was wondering before I did if I my illness would count as a reason not to.","title":"Works wants to move me to a place I can't work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506794649,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73gfky\/child_support_set_up_while_hospitalized_new_jersey\/","id":"73gfky","body":"I had a nervous breakdown and tried to kill myself, I've fought with mental illness my whole life. Right before this I lost custody of my son due to him missing school(I had not known about it because of work and thought my ex-wife was handling it) Sometime during that time in the hospital my sons mother filed for child support, I never received any notices and it has accumulated to $11,000. I've taking care of my son since he was a year old losing him was devastating enough. I can't work and have no other income, How do I fight this, $11,000 filling up without anyone letting me know and doing so while being hospitalized.   ","title":"Child support set up while hospitalized- New Jersey","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541103278,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9td1e8\/was_this_trespassing\/","id":"9td1e8","body":"My husband and I have been renting out a couple of rooms in our house to a couple of people. One of the tenants told us that he would be moving out at the end of October. Yesterday we believed he had moved out while we were at work\/school. Last night I could hear him sneaking in, even though my husband thought it was just the other tenant coming in quietly. But when we woke up this morning we saw the \"moved out\" tenant's car in the driveway and when I knocked on the bedroom door sure enough he was in there. Even though he still had the keys at the time, did he trespass in our house? We are in Tennessee. Also, any extra thoughts or advice would be helpful. ","title":"Was this trespassing?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444018731,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3njbsh\/noisy_assembly_misdemeanor_near_u_of_minn\/","id":"3njbsh","body":"This weekend I received a citation for a noisy assembly, I don't know the fine amount yet but it is classified as a misdemeanor. Any recommendations for how to handle this, possibly get it reduced to petty misdemeanor status or dropped? There were no previous warnings from the police and despite being cooperative I was cuffed. Everyone was compliant and I was the only one to get a citation, because I lived there and let the police in. Thank you!","title":"\"Noisy Assembly\" Misdemeanor near U of Minn, Minneapolis, help?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447091325,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s5qc1\/nevada_harassment_and_eviction_from_old_roommate\/","id":"3s5qc1","body":"[Edit] I'm not even sure of the proper flair to put for this.\n\nI'll try to make this as short as possible. About six months ago I moved in with a friend of mine and her boyfriend into a new apartment. We agreed that rent would be split 3 ways. Her boyfriend had lost his job so we split the rent in half until he could find new employment. So fast forward and the apartment is always trashed, and me being who I am, I keep cleaning and nicely tell her to clean up after herself. Nothing changes. She then ends up marrying her boyfriend and shortly after that, her father paroles to our apartment. At this point I tell her that I'm not gonna keep cleaning up after everyone, and that I didn't agree to paying half the rent for 3 then 4 people. She laughs and tells me that I did, and I respond with no I didn't and that I'm going back to paying what I'm legally responsible for and that she better figure it out between her now husband and father. At this point I mess up. We had always been good friends so because of my not wanting to blow it up so much I hand her the cash for my portion of rent instead of walking a money order into the managers office. Luckily I had two friends with me when I did this that wrote statements for me. So she acts as if we never had that conversation and tells me its not enough rent. (Also if its relevant, her husband left the prior night for work in a different state, while her father was off doing who knows what.) At this point im furious and the next morning I go to speak with the manager to find out what I can do. The manager tells me that she violated the Lease Agreement by having her father parole there, and to add insult to injury her boyfriend now husband was not put on the Lease. She then proceeds to tell me that she was getting ready to post a 5 day pay or quit notice on our door because my roommate had not payed the rent and instead pocketed the money I handed her. Because, of my limited income at the time I couldn't afford to pay the full rent and then take action so my mother helped me pack my stuff and move back in with her while I figure this all out. It was at this time I start getting calls from my roommate and her family yelling at me and saying how wrong I did her. I was even getting messages from her family threatening to beat me up if they see me. My mother happens to be a school district employee and her little sibling go to the school my mother works at. She gets called into an investigatory meeting on grounds that she allegedly said something inappropriate to her little sister in law. My mother has been in the district for 10+ years and she wouldn't jeopardize her job like that. A few weeks after that, I'm with my mother and my former roommate follows us into a shopping center parking lot and she and my mother get in a scrap. This brings us to the present. A few days ago, My mother was arrest while she was at work and the charges were battery with a deadly weapon. My former roommate being the person who filed the report and claims my mother hit her with a crowbar, which is untrue as I was there and saw everything. My mother got an indefinite unpaid suspension pending investigation because of the arrest. \n\nSo I'm just curious as to what legal action I can take regarding this whole mess of events. If it helps I have saved phone recordings and messages of the threats and harassment. Documented proof that her husband and father were living with us.  And I almost forgot, pictures of damages that her and her husband caused to their living quarters of the apartment. \n\nMy apologies for the long read and I appreciate any advice.","title":"[Nevada] Harassment and Eviction from old roommate.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555562855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/behk33\/i_received_a_criminal_subpoena_to_my_previous\/","id":"behk33","body":"My relative still lives there and gave it to me, but they are probing me about what it is for and I do not want to tell them yet. If I comply and acknowledge I received the subpoena what is the likeliness of anymore subpoenas or documents mailed to that address again? \nAlso, is there a way for me to change my address or ensure nothing regarding this goes there again?\n\nI am in Southern California","title":"I received a criminal subpoena to my previous address.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568826622,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d60uwc\/unknown_ticket_showed_when_i_tried_to_renew_my\/","id":"d60uwc","body":"Last year on July 4th I was driving with a permit when I wasn\u2019t supposed to I got pulled over and got a ticket. I was in a different city than I live in. The ticket said to go to the court in that city in 30 days. About two days before my court date I called ahead to verify and they said I wasn\u2019t in the system. So I called every surrounding city just in case. Nothing. Fast forward a whole year later when I try to renew my license an 800 dollar ticket pops up and I can\u2019t renew my license. So I call that city and my ticket is there they said it got processed 2 months after the ticket was issued so I had no idea. no one contacted me. Do I have any way to fight this ticket or am I screwed. I\u2019m from Texas and I\u2019m 20.","title":"Unknown ticket showed when I tried to renew my license","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569631813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da97tm\/roommate_trying_to_avoid_paying_their_share_of\/","id":"da97tm","body":"Basically, roommate moved in with me and my partner, we all signed the lease together, met with the broker and did our background checks. \n\nPartner and I paid all the money required to move in upfront since roommate didn\u2019t have the cash, which involved first month\u2019s rent, a security deposit and a broker\u2019s fee (all which individually are the equivalent of one month\u2019s rent, which was $2,400 for the apartment as a whole, $800 for each roommate). I have screenshots to prove I paid everything (it came from my account and that roommate never paid anything aside from first month\u2019s rent).\n\nThe roommate in question was supposed to leave the apartment halfway through the lease (and find a subletter) so we didn\u2019t require them to pay us back for the security deposit (which we\u2019d get back anyways) nor the broker\u2019s fee, since they weren\u2019t going to stay the whole year. They did end up paying me for first month\u2019s rent when we moved in. \n\nHowever, roommate did end up staying for 10 out of the 12 months of the lease (subletted room for the last 2) and now my partner and I are trying to contact the roommate about splitting the broker\u2019s fee, but he\u2019s been ignoring my messages. \n\nWe\u2019ve all since moved out of the apartment, since the lease ended Aug. 31st. \n\nMy question now is: I\u2019m trying to settle this like adults with the person, but they\u2019re ignoring my messages even though they know it\u2019s only right for us to split the amount. If I have to escalate this, would I go to small claims court? Do I get a lawyer? I\u2019ve never sued anyone before and don\u2019t want to have to do this, but it seems like it\u2019s the only option if they keep ignoring me. \n\nThanks in advance for all the help!\n\nP.S: Throwaway account bc legal matters are weird","title":"Roommate trying to avoid paying their share of broker\u2019s fee, ignoring messages [MA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503732303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w4bcc\/car_accident_looking_for_a_contract\/","id":"6w4bcc","body":"About 2 months ago, I rear ended someone coming off an exit ramp. (im 17, the girl was 20). We both decided that my car had got more damaged than her, and she agreed that I can just pay her in cash to fix her rear bumper\/trunk. No police, no insurance, she went off on her way and i got stuck to call the tow truck. She recently told me only 400 to fix her car. So I have the money to give her but my mom also suggested I write up a contract or something so that she cant claim she never got any money. Is there a template i can use, or any way someone can help me write something out? \n(Dallas, TX)","title":"Car accident, looking for a contract.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541809986,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vpxci\/can_anyone_make_sense_of_this\/","id":"9vpxci","body":"My sister lived with me and her 3 kids destroyed the rented house that was in my name. We paid a security deposit of $1750.00. But after the final bill it says i owe $205.00 to the landlord. Can anyone explain why I owe more than the damages? [https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/rFGIX9p](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/rFGIX9p)","title":"Can anyone make sense of this?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447428011,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3so49y\/my_partners_daughter_doesnt_live_with_us_we_want\/","id":"3so49y","body":"Hi all. \n\nMy partners daughter, Emma, currently lives with her father, and his wife, they recently got married. \n\nMy partner Janet has a daughter who is 6 years old. When she and the father, Andy, split up a few years ago, her daughter went to live with Andy, as Janet had moved across the country to live with Andy when they were in the relationship, Janet wanted time to look for a job to be able to provide for her to give her a good life. \n\nFast forward to now, 3 years later, me and Janet are living together, and we get Emma every other weekend to spend time with us, since we're a few hours away, every weekend is tough. We have a great time, we go places and she has a lot of fun with us and is always sad when she has to go back home. Right now, things are OK, Janet and Andy rarely fight and are cordial when it comes to Emma. \n\nJanet is getting increasingly upset, she feels like she is getting pushed out if her daughters life, Emma calls Andys new wife \"mummy\", and they don't seem to understand that this is hurting Janet. Me and Janet have agreed that we would both like Emma to live here, but we don't know how to broach the subject with Andy and his wife,we both know that they will dig in their heels and fight us all the way, we don't want to stop her seeing her father, but Janet wants her baby back. \n\nDo any of you good people have any advice on what to do next? Has anyone been in the same situation before? I've told Janet to book an appointment with citizens advice, after that, I'm not sure what to do! We're in the UK \n\nTL:DR: partner is feeling pushed out, we want Emma to move in with us. How do we go about it? \n\nThanks in advance","title":"My partners daughter doesn't live with us, we want to change that","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571392396,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djl839\/please_help_me_get_out_of_a_contract\/","id":"djl839","body":"It\u2019s a university contract, this school started doing some very shady things + I can\u2019t afford it anymore and I want to end the contract immediately. They tell me that I can\u2019t do it until March 30th 2020 (when semester ends) and even if I don\u2019t enroll and participate in the course I still have to pay this monthly fee. Please look for anything that can give me a right to end it immediately. I will really appreciate your help. thank you in advance to anyone who takes their time to help me\n\nPM me for the contract photos and any other info","title":"Please help me get out of a contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1442726439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lnac9\/oregon_tenant_landlord_raising_rent_out_side_of\/","id":"3lnac9","body":"My lease is coming to an end and I'm going month-to-month and the lease agreement that I signed states that I'll be paying $935 a month the letter I just got from the landlord today states that because of market inflation I will have to be paying $1035 per month I'm wondering since I have a signed agreement stating that I will only had to pay $935 is there anyway legally that they can raise the rent like that even though I have a signed agreement by all parties stating my month-to-month want to go to 935 thank you","title":"Oregon, tenant, landlord raising rent out side of contract agreement.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569204070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d801nb\/ny_what_happens_if_my_respondent_doesnt_show_up\/","id":"d801nb","body":"Hey all, I appreciate any information that this community can provide. \n\n**BG Info:** Basically I am taking my ex to family court to begin fighting for custody of our son, whom she has alienated me from completely. He was born sometime in the past month and has not informed me of his name, birthdate, etc ANYTHING. She has completely blocked and removed any avenue of communication other than showing up at her house, which I\u2019ve refrained from for obvious reasons. Thus, first step is to petition for paternity. Lawyer won\u2019t accept my retainer until after the paternity hearing. We were engaged and I\u2019m 100% sure the kid is mine, as well as her having acknowledged prior to our breakup. My family has a pretty strong inkling she won\u2019t show up, despite being served in person and in the mail.\n\n**Question:** Aside from the obvious bench warrant, suspended license, etc.... is there any way I could request any sort of relief, temporary visitation\/custody, etc that a judge would rule on? Or would this just continue to get messy and the court just says \u201ctough shit\u201d and sends me on my way while issuing a warrant for her? \n\n**ANY AND ALL HELP\/INSIGHT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED**","title":"[NY] What happens if my respondent doesn\u2019t show up in family court?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1408576479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e4mxb\/what_is_the_next_step_i_should_take_against_my\/","id":"2e4mxb","body":"Apologies if this isn't the right subreddit for this. An AskReddit moderator suggested this after deleting my question over there.\n\nI smashed my phone a few weeks back and sent it off to my insurance company. The replacement phone I received had a faulty front camera and also contained some dodgy looking photos ([which can be seen here.](http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/mildlyinteresting\/comments\/2bhjcf\/found_these_pics_on_the_new_htc_one_x_my_insurers\/))\nI emailed them and explained, and was told to send it back addressed to the person I emailed and it would be a priority job. I also explained that I wasn't happy paying more postage costs to fix their mistake, and was assured that the postage would be refunded if I included receipts, which I did.\nI received another replacement today, with just a bog standard \"here's your replacement phone\" type letter. No mention of postage refund, nor any mention of exactly how I ended up with a defective replacement (which I was assured was being \"investigated\").\nThe battery was dead when the phone arrived, no protective cover on the screen, and not in a HTC box - so clearly this is a refurbished phone. I've had the phone on charge (using official HTC charger) for 6 hours and there is now 6% charge in the battery.\nI am absolutely livid, but am unsure what my next move should be. Any suggestions?\n\nEDIT: Also wasn't sure which flair I should assign to this","title":"What is the next step I should take against my phone insurance company? [Wales, UK]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569970687,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc1f77\/possible_rental_scam\/","id":"dc1f77","body":"Long story short I had to rent an apartment for a friend of mine who had legal issues that prevented him from doing it himself. On the day of move in he killed himself. When I went to tell them I needed to break the lease due to the circumstances at hand I was initially told to pay 2 months of rent as well as put in a notice of when I was going to \u201cmove out\u201d. Which I gave a notice and because he paid the first month I only have to pay 1 more month and I\u2019m supposedly free from the lease right?\n\nWell I called today to confirm and was told I needed to pay $708 for this months rent (final rent). This doesn\u2019t make sense since the lease clearly states the rent is $976. \n\nSecondly I was told due to me breaking the lease after I pay the $708 I have to pay an additional amount of $976 for breaking the lease. But I was never told about that also it doesn\u2019t make since I pay less for the month of October but then pay the actual amount for the month of November although I was told I only had to pay for October since September was already covered. \n\nDoes this seem right or does it seem off? I keep getting told I\u2019m being scammed this was my first solo rental just trying to help out a friend down on his luck.","title":"Possible rental scam?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570773049,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgaqq7\/mi_old_landlord_giving_my_mother_the_run_around\/","id":"dgaqq7","body":"To start things off, we have always paid rent here on time and stayed for the entire 12-month lease. The place isn't that great and has tons of apartment reviews of how shady the staff are and how difficult it can be to get a hold of them as they have unusual hours and often you have to schedule a time to have someone there in the leasing office by calling ahead of time. \n\nMy mother and I moved out of this townhouse on the last day of August. We left the place spotless as my mother is a neat freak who intended to have every cent of her deposit returned and even took pictures of each room of the townhouse.\n\nThe day we returned the keys we left my mom's new address with the folks in office after having to schedule for someone to be present. My mom has moved plenty of times and knows the usual process of providing a mailing address to recieve the deposit check back and has never had an issue recieving the full amount back before. We also did not recieve a walk through.\n\nSeveral weeks pass and my mother calls up to follow up on whether the check has been sent. We called multiple times to inquire and we're told how long the mail can take. We haven't moved far and are actually still in the same zipcode but we know mail can take some time. \n\nThis is where things get more sketchy. After multiple unanswered calls, the person on the phone claims that we will be recieving only half the amount. I read up this in regards to our situation \"Under Michigan law, a landlord must return the tenant's security deposit, with an itemized statement of deductions, within 30 days after the tenant has moved out.\" We never recieved either the check or list of deductions to this day but I wanted my mom to dispute the withholding for the other half.\n\nAs of today my mom has called the landlord and was told to call another number that couldn't release any information about the whereabouts on this check. When she called back to say this new number didn't get her anywhere her calls were deliberately unanswered. \n\nI don't have much legal experience but I know we'll have to at least file a claim with small claims court. We plan to go on Tuesday. I definitely  intend for her to add the court fees to her claim and dispute for her full security deposit but should any other things be added to this? The complex doesn't know we took pictures of the property before leaving and we intend to use them but is there anything else we should do or provide?\n\nTL;DR Landlord has been giving us the run around to recieve back our security deposit and likely made false deductions. It's been over a month and we still have yet to recieve anything after multiple calls to inquire.","title":"[MI] Old landlord giving my mother the run around and has yet to recieve her security deposit that should have came over a month ago.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570861017,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgrd1h\/unlawful_parking_on_public_street_parking_was\/","id":"dgrd1h","body":"I live in a college town, and tomorrow is a home football game. Our street is near the stadium and is constantly filled with cars on gameday. \n\nMy driveway is filled with cars (there\u2019s 6 people that live in my duplex), and the street spots out front of my house are filled with random cars. There is no signs that designate street parking to any person, the only signs there are say that if you are blocking driveways we can have your car towed. \n\nCame home from the store tonight with my parents and parked in one of the open street spots, only to be yelled and screamed at by the people living in the house we parked outside of. They yelled in my moms face until she was so uncomfortable she parked two blocks away from our house, and they moved a car from further down the street into that spot to \u201cblock it\u201d. \n\nThey have a driveway with no cars in it as well. \n\nThey left a note on our porch saying that they will take legal repercussions against us if we park in that spot. She said she has spoken to the landlord (who is also our landlord) and *supposedly* was told that she can have our cars towed for parking there. \n\nAs I said before, it is public parking on a public street. \n\nI was just wondering if they actually can take legal repercussions against us and have our cars towed even though we are parking on a public street because there are no spots in front of our own home.","title":"\u201cUnlawful parking\u201d on public street parking; was told I cannot park on the street in front of a neighbors house.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505848618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/715d86\/paid_for_permanent_advertisement_on_an_instagram\/","id":"715d86","body":"Paid $200 for a Permanent Post on an instagram page with 655k followers last month - it did very very well with about 8k likes and 1.2k comments and brought in a lot of sales. I purchased through their webstore so I have a receipt for an \"Instagram Permanent Post\" in my email and all the documentation from the order. I was recently looking at their page because I was curious about promoting again through them and noticed my post had been deleted AND that the competitors product was being sold on their webstore. \n\nWhen I contacted the page itself they responded with \"Hey, we signed a contract with Competitor to sell their product on our site so the terms included that we cannot advertise for any similar product to them anymore\"\n\nI mentioned that they signed the contract after our post, and that I'd like my money returned or my lawyers would be in contact with them. \n\nHow should I continue?\n\nEDIT: United States","title":"Paid for permanent advertisement on an instagram page - now page has put competing product on their website and deleted my post. Requesting money back.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570472511,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/denffy\/ontario_canada_i_started_subletting_in_a\/","id":"denffy","body":"Is this at all legal? The ceremony, or being able to tell me to leave is not mentioned in the contract at any point. The landlord (one of the members) offered to give me $100 (my rent is $750\/mth) as compensation. How should I go about dealing with this situation?\n\nThank you for your help r\/legaladvice !","title":"[Ontario, Canada] I started subletting in a fraternity in Toronto in September (not a member), and I was told last week that I will not be allowed in the house for 5 days in November for a 'ceremony'.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508359571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/779jdr\/al_aftermath_of_mvc_and_insurance_issues\/","id":"779jdr","body":"Hello all, I come to you today with a bit of a complicated issue that I'm unsure of the best steps to take next. \n\nI was involved in a wreck a week ago, we had to wait to get the accident report online before contacting any insurance agency. I got the report and there were some concerning things on it. The other driver was driving with a suspended license, and was deemed at fault. They did have insurance, on paper at least. We notified their insurer and I was called to give a statement. After they received my statement I was informed that the other party does not have liability insurance (or that their liability insurance would not cover it, they were very vague) and that I would receive a written report when they finish their investigation. \n\nMy car wasn't worth much but my laptop and several other things were damaged in the crash. \n\nI have insurance in good standing but I'm a bit confused about the next steps to take here. Not sure what else, if anything, can be done from here. Any advice on what my next steps should be?","title":"[AL] Aftermath of MVC and Insurance Issues","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1443094488,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m6rif\/oh_breach_of_contract_penalties_for_educational\/","id":"3m6rif","body":"If I have a contract to provide services for a school year, but the contracting entity had not been forthright about the actual work load, what recourse do I have? I have tried to work with them to find solutions but I am unable to do the amount of work they suddenly need. They are threatening to sue for damages if I quit, and refuse to do anything to reduce the case load. Can they sue me or do I have other options? \nEdit: One other thing they keep bringing up is that they paid a lot for my contract to get it from another firm. That's the money they want to sue me for, but I never insisted or asked that they pay that in the first place...","title":"[OH] Breach of contract penalties for educational services contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553740913,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6dfsr\/if_someone_steals_a_file_of_of_a_computer_that_is\/","id":"b6dfsr","body":"If there was a file such as a root kit, or RAT say contained in a word file labled as btc wallet codes that if stolen and ran by a scammer conected to a virtual pc would allow access to the scammer's pc would this create any leagal issues and is there any specifics legal issues with allowing a scammar to steal this malicous file. \nSorry for formating on mobile","title":"If someone steals a file of of a computer that is q malicous file and procedes to run it could you be held acountable","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507046245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/741bak\/us_indiana_landlord_hates_us_and_now_using_pest\/","id":"741bak","body":"Sorry for the dramatic title, but it's really gotten crazy. Midway through my lease, the complex changed management (and possibly ownership, not sure), and one of the new office girls absolutely hates us. The other girl seems neutral. The first lady came after me about my dad's service dogs. He doesn't live here and isn't on the lease, but spends a lot of time here as I am his caregiver (about 16 hours a day, he can be alone just not for days on end) and it's easier for him to get to me than for me to get to his place. He brings his PTSD dog and his seizure alert dog with him and it's not a problem. After the one girl gave me crap about his dogs after she saw them looking out the sliding doors (during non-vest break time), we told her they were service dogs and even if he was on the lease and even if he lived there, they have certain rights. His doctor even graciously provided documentation to the complex after they asked us to, even though that's not generally required.\n\nShe didn't like that one bit and has been a hassle ever since then. It's hard for us to get packages, especially his medications which he has sent here as his neighbor is a self-proclaimed drug addict and started asking about the street value of my dad's meds and that freaked him out (yeah, I'm being serious). We had maintenance in after we noticed one HVAC vent didn't have much output and he said the \"tunnel\" was collapsed inside. They did nothing. We told them our A\/C was dripping and leaking and her first answer was that it wasn't hot enough for them to be obligated to fix it. I said ok, but that I was concerned about the moisture and water leak. She sent maintenance out to change the filter. Come to find out that my apartment's laundry room houses the water shutoff valve for the entire building!\n\nNow, they are claiming that my apartment is the \"source\" of our building's roach problem. They told us they sprayed all of the other apartments, and after one week would come and spray ours. I expressed surprise first of all that we could be the source since the apartment is clean. On the day of, I confirmed that pest control was coming, which I have no problem with, but I told her I was seeing a lot of roaches now (I hadn't before) since they have no where else in the building to go. Why would you spray everyone else and then wait a week?\n\nI don't believe we are the source since there are like 10 units in the building, and our upstairs neighbor lets their dog go to the bathroom off their balcony (we sold our patio furniture), and the roaches I have seen in the past week are coming out of the vents primarily.\n\nIf I am somehow \"the source\", which I am unsure how they could even determine, I'd imagine it might have something to do with having a collapsed HVAC tunnel or maybe an open grate in the floor of my laundry room which also houses the water shutoff for the whole building?\n\nI know she is aware of the HVAC because last week there was some kind of squirrel or rodent in there scratching at the ceiling, so it is obviously open to the outside somewhere, but she wasn't concerned at that time.\n\nI do not want to be the target of this woman's petty revenge or discrimination against disabled people and their families, but I don't know what to do. If she tries to stick me with the pest control bill for this entire building, especially given my lease is up in 2 months, I will have to do something. Any advice? What are my rights and next steps here?","title":"US, Indiana: Landlord hates us and now using pest control as revenge","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541436371,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uf4s2\/fl_roommate_let_his_gf_move_in_and_they_assumed\/","id":"9uf4s2","body":"I live with 2 roommates on our lease. One we can call Michelle and one we can call John. John wanted his gf Sam to move in and told Michelle. She told him that was fine, and apparently John told her that Sam couldnt pay rent, she could only pay utilities. Michelle tells me that Sam is moving in but fails to mention that she cant pay rent. I feel like if anyone is going to move in somewhere it's only logical that they also pay their fair share of rent, so I assumed that would be the agreement.\n\nI'm the one that always manages the rent and a majority of the utilities, so when sam moved in last month midway through the month I didn't ask for her to pay a share of the rent. I only asked John to pay his third and moved on. I will also tack on the fact that John lost his job a couple months ago and I had to cover him 370 dollars that he said hed pay back. He has a job again now and is paying rent but hasn't paid back that 370.\n\nI went to ask for everyones 1\/4 rent this month and Sam freaked out on me. I told her about the cost and at first i think she thought I was lying about it bc combined for both her and John was 200 more than last month due to it now essentially being 1\/2 as opposed to 1\/3. I will spare details but this spurred an argument that she was very condescending and rude towards me with and she made threats that she would leave and take John with her.\n\nJohn has made no efforts to get her put on the lease and after this situation I asked him to put her on the lease that way I could have some legal way to show she needs to pay a fair share of rent. Our lease states that if someone is living on the apartment for over 2 weeks they need to be put on the lease. Should I go to our leasing office and tell them that he refuses to put her on the lease along with her refusing to pay a fair share of rent? If they both did leave I do have someone that would move in and replace them, but I know if I got her kicked out it would cause a lot of drama. Also, if he leaves what should be done about him leaving the lease? I know that Michelle and I would still be responsible for rent but I wanted to know if theres something legally to be done of he abandons us to take care of rent ourselves.\n","title":"(FL) Roommate let his gf move in and they assumed she didnt have to pay rent, what can\/should I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552952149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2ptye\/have_a_question_for_any_los_angeles_officers_or\/","id":"b2ptye","body":"TLDR: If I catch someone violating traffic laws on camera, endangering me, or being an reckless asshat.... what legal options are available to me with the video proof?\n\nFirst post ever on Reddit after lurking for sometime. \n\nSo I regularly ride my Motorcycle down the 405 freeway.  I either lane split the HOV lane (as safely as possible) or stock to the fast lane or HOV lane as needed.  For those unsure, this is legal here, when done properly it keeps traffic flowing and everyone safe.\n\nHowever as anyone in L.A. knows the 405 freeway is backed the hell up most points of the day.\n\nSo Im Riding as described above, when a car will suddenly merge over the double yellow solid lines, and many cases, quad yellow lines.  Sometimes with signaling and often suddenly with no signaling. This is incredibly illegal and highly dangerous not just for motorcyclists but also normal car drivers.\n\nWith that being said, I've decided to purchase a helmet camera, just in case something goes down.  I've been hit once, fortunately no major damage beyond a skinned knee.\n\nNow the question at hand, if I catch a motorist, on camera, crossing the double\/quadruple solid yellow lines in front of me, with\/with out signaling, can I bring the evidence to a cop\/lawyer\/officer and sue them for endangerment (or something else) or have them charged to teach them a lesson?\n\nOr do I need to wait until I get hit by a car?\n\nBasically what should I\/can I do with this video evidence?\n\nThank you for your help and insight yall!","title":"Have a question for any Los Angeles officers or Lawyers on traffic violations and dash cams.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503246677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uwo1l\/taiwan_evict_someone_who_isnt_paying_rent\/","id":"6uwo1l","body":"I'm posting this for my mum:\n\nHer father (my grandfather) passed away recently and owned some houses in Kaoshuing; the ownership of the house is in my grandmother's name. My mum is currently renting out the houses to tenants, but like my how my grandpa did it - there's no actual contract and stuff like that since the area is still very old fashioned and your word is your bond kind of situation. The tenant said that they'd pay rent on the 25th of July, not sure if it's in writing or not, and it's been almost a month now. What can be done in this situation?\n\nThanks","title":"[Taiwan] Evict someone who isn't paying rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571585336,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkl3cf\/car_broken_into_in_hotel_parking_lot_is_the_hotel\/","id":"dkl3cf","body":"I'll keep this short. For military drill with the Army Reserves, we get put up in a hotel for a weekend. Overnight, 8 cars were broken into, including mine. They smashed and obliterated my passenger side window, and took the pocket change from my glovebox. I filed a police report, and I have a copy. Had my car towed to the nearest glass shop to get the window repaired ASAP, as it was raining, and I was stuck without a car until it was fixed. I did this through my insurance, however, I must pay out of pocket because the cost doesn't exceed my deductible. \n\nThe crime occured on the property\/parking lot of the hotel, where I parked. Can the hotel be liable for the price of the glass replacement?","title":"Car broken into in hotel parking lot, is the hotel liable?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1415658109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2lwj4h\/portland_or_mechanic_put_lien_on_my_motorcycle\/","id":"2lwj4h","body":"So I had my motorcycle on consignment with my mechanic to sell it for me. He claims the agreement was for a 90 day consignment, but I know he told me 180 days. Regardless there is a document that I signed and filled out the information for, but of course I can not locate it. There is no way I miswrote both my address and phone number. Even if the agreement was for 90 days, I spoke to him more than 90 days after the agreement went into place and he mentioned nothing about coming and getting my bike. In fact it was the opposite, he acted like the bike should be sold in a day or two and I should wait for his call. That was two months ago, it kind of slipped my mind with school and other things going on. Called him today and he claims he sent multiple letters and phone calls which obviously I would not have received. But he did have my email address correct and I never received an email from him. He sold my bike at auction for well below what I would have agreed to sell it for and what we agreed he would sell it for. Just wondering what my options are and what I should do. I can not locate my copy of the contract. ","title":"Portland OR- mechanic put lien on my motorcycle because he had the wrong phone number and address","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1506464182,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72nx62\/wisconsin_ex_landlord_hit_me_with_a_huge_bill_not\/","id":"72nx62","body":"Here is the long and the short of it, about a month ago I moved from Wisconsin to Illinois due to work. I was at the time renting out a one bedroom with a friend on a month to month lease(Which started out as a one year lease that we were necer asked to renew). Here is where is gets complicated, over the course of us living together, (5 years) the owner of our duplex changed several times. Now a month after I've moved out we are hit will a 1100 dollar \"cleaning bill\" with no mention of the security deposit (775 dollars) that we had on the appartment. What should my next course of action be? ","title":"[Wisconsin] Ex landlord hit me with a huge bill, not sure what to do.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541007729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t1171\/itunes_account_got_hacked\/","id":"9t1171","body":"So my Itunes account got hacked and the hacker bought in app purchases and gift cards worth 250 \u20ac via my Paypal account which was connected to the Itunes account.  I already contacted the Itunes Support and they say I have to wait until the Letter with the pay Information arrives(the one where is noted what was bought).I also have the email which the hacker used to transfer the app purchases and gift cards to.\n\n Should i contact the Police?\n\n​\n\nIm from germany so there will be some mistakes in my Text.","title":"Itunes Account got hacked","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555557226,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/begria\/if_you_cum_inside_of_a_bath_before_letting\/","id":"begria","body":"I never even heard of this until it was done to me. The bath is covered in bubbles to hide the semen. I am asking because my dad just did this to me and I have no idea if I can report him or not. This seems to be a new concept because when I googled it, there were no results. This was the first instance of major sexual abuse he did to me. This may have been an accident but it is likely not.\n\nI am a teen and in Florida","title":"If you cum inside of a bath before letting someone use it, is it a sex offense?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542111169,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wojik\/classmates_got_in_trouble_for_memes\/","id":"9wojik","body":"So they took a screenshot of a teachers YT video and put a caption \u201dwhen you see the students grades\u201d and put it on instagram, and then one of my classmates dared to my friend to show it to the teacher, then the teacher made a report to police for imperaonation an defamation, for a meme....","title":"Classmates got in trouble for memes","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1445737400,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q3o1q\/usmassachusetts_security_deposit_return_if_my\/","id":"3q3o1q","body":"Hey guys and gals, I would appreciate any help you can give.  Based on my analysis it sounds like I have to have actually received the notice within thirty days for it to be at all relevant.  Regardless of the shenanigans described below, her itemized list of \"damages\" was not received before the deadline.  Am I completely off base on my interpretation?\n\nMA General Law 186 Section 15B (2)(b) - the relevant [law](https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Laws\/GeneralLaws\/PartII\/TitleI\/Chapter186\/Section15B) is written out here.\n\n_________________________________________________________________________\n\nBelow are a few more details (and a little swearing, you've been warned) in case you brilliant arm chair lawyers can point out anything big I should bring up to the attorney I will likely be using.  I understand it will be a small claims court matter but I hesitate to go in myself as I am quite personally invested in this and have a hard time keeping a level head when talking about the number of times she's screwed me over.  With a lawyer I can just sit on my hands and let them do the talking.\n\nThe letters were mailed to me and my roommates vacant apartment.  Our landlady claims that it was our last known address and that we were living there due to the fact that one of my roommates didn't return their key.  The property was vacated on time and our lease included a key deposit so this is complete bullshit.  As for the letters I have text messages proving that at least one of the three letters was willfully addressed to the wrong location (an explicit request to have the letter sent to the military base he was moved to after moving out).  They were also returned to sender by the post office on 09\/02\/15 and 09\/04\/15 but according to her when we physically picked them up from her house the letters were JUST returned to her yesterday (10\/23\/15). \n\nI have filed with the attorney generals office and they reached out to attempt mediation.  I am currently waiting on a few attorneys and have sent a demand letter (better late than never) but I was wondering if there is anything else I can do to expedite this?  I work 38 hours a week and go to school online part time, I don't have time to be dealing with this bullshit. \n\nI don't have any of the account information it was held in as I was not provided any receipts but I don't know that I have any way to prove that now.\n\nAny help would be appreciated and thank you very much to those of you who read this far.\n\nThank you,\nC\n\nP.S.\nThis was my first time renting an apartment and I realize it was stupid so please avoid any topics that aren't immediately helpful to my situation.\n\nEDIT: Deleted irrelevant partial sentence.","title":"[US][Massachusetts] Security Deposit Return - If my landlord mails my receipt of damages on the thirtieth day after the end of my tenancy does it count as me having received it within 30 days?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540874280,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9skrzd\/any_repercussions_after_getting_away_with_a\/","id":"9skrzd","body":"Ok, so I was being a dumb shit and driving way too fast down a street because I was in a rush to pick up my sister from her university, turns out I was going 78km\/h in a 50 km\/h zone, at night with no other cars around, I got pulled over and the asked me where I was going and where from, I said \u201c from my gym  to the university to pick up my sister\u201d, he said \u201c you must have been in a rush then, you\u2019re going 78\u201d I said \u201c sorry sir, I was and, I wasn\u2019t paying attention to my speedometer, it\u2019s my bad\u201d, and he said \u201cthat\u2019s probably a bad idea\u201d and I said \u201c I\u2019m sorry sir, it was my fault, I should have been watching my speed\u201d, after I gave him my licence he said \u201c normally I ticket everyone, but since you don\u2019t have any other tickets, consider this your one warning\u201d and I said \u201c thank you sir, I appreciate it\u201d. \n\nIs it possible at all for him to give me a ticket after pulling me over or it being put on my record? I feel like I shouldn\u2019t have gotten away with that, of course I\u2019m going to change my behaviour and watch my speed, but I feel paranoid that I\u2019m going to get a letter in the mail for my ticket some how. ( first time getting pulled over) \n\nTL;DR cop pulled me over for going 78km\/h in a 50km\/h, let me go without a ticket and now I\u2019m paranoid \n\nFrom Saskatchewan, Canada ","title":"Any repercussions after getting away with a ticket ( SK)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538727907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lkfyz\/wa_my_sos_employer_has_been_shorting_her\/","id":"9lkfyz","body":"My SO works for a certain retail store and got paid yesterday. After looking at their stub they noticed their hours were a few workdays-worth shorter than what they'd actually worked. All of their pay and time card information is available to them online, and so we looked at that and noticed that the hours on their time card did not match how many they were being paid for.\n\n​\n\nFurthermore, we noticed some weird things with their time card. There were a few days listed that said they clocked off a few hours early, and one of them was a day where I had picked them up... at the time they normally get off. They say they had no recollection of getting off early any of the days it said they did, and if anything they usually end up clocking off late.\n\n​\n\nAfter looking through a few more of their pay stubs and time cards, we noticed a common theme:\n\n* Their time card says they would clock off earlier than normal a few days every pay period, some on days I picked them up from work and others not. It was not consistent with which days and I have only ever picked them up from work early once in the past 6 months.\n* We've only checked about 3 months back so far, but the hours listed on their pay stub are less than what their time card says they worked. They've worked there for a couple of years so it could end up being a few thousand dollars they've been shorted.\n\nI can't say I'm surprised that this company would be doing something like this. Recently they've been hemorrhaging money and have been making a lot of decisions like cutting back store and working hours, laying people off, refusing to give people job descriptions so they can pay them less, etc. They're just all around a really scummy company. Every move they've made to keep themselves afloat has negatively impacted their employees.\n\n​\n\nWe're going to sleep on this and wait until tomorrow to look at all of my SO's time cards and pay stubs but it's already looking like this might be larger than we thought. If this is happening to several other employees it could be huge.\n\n​\n\nI'd like to know who they should talk to. Do they contact the company directly after documenting the shorted wages, should they go directly to L&I, or should they be finding a lawyer? The job isn't union, so they don't have a rep to talk to about this, but I'm also wondering if they should reach out to a few other coworkers to see if they've been having the same thing happen to them?","title":"[WA] My SO's employer has been shorting her paychecks for several months","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553638109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5w1nu\/how_to_set_up_a_nanny_for_work_release_from_jail\/","id":"b5w1nu","body":"My mom is the full time nanny for my two young children, and she watches them and cleans the house. Unfortunately, before the children were born, she committed a financial crime and was sentenced today. She\u2019s been sentenced to 90 days of work release, and we aren\u2019t sure whether her case manager will approve her to be my nanny still, or if he or she will force her to find another job. \n\nShe wasn\u2019t operating under a contract since she\u2019s a family member and I thought she wouldn\u2019t need one, but I\u2019ve been paying her a monthly wage since August via regular checks. \n\nDo you have any advice about whether I can set up a contract for her now (or what else I could do) so that she is in the best possible standing to be allowed to return to nannying? ","title":"How to set up a nanny for work release from jail?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1442342870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l2p2i\/nc_the_death_of_a_roommate_carpet_replacement_and\/","id":"3l2p2i","body":"So at the end of July, my co-tenant roommate of over 1 1\/2 years died. My roommates parents paid a crime scene cleaning company for the cleanup of his room, which he died in, and the removal of the carpet that was in there (it was soaked through with blood and vomit and needed to be removed as per OSHA standards). I have been attempting to get the apartment complex to replace the carpet that was removed, but they say that all repairs are at the discretion of the owner and this is not one they feel they should have to do.\n\nI have told the management company that it seems only fair that I pay a prorated rate for replacement based on the remaining life of the carpet. The management company has flat out refused, saying all responsibility lies with me and the family of the deceased. As of right now for the past month and a half, the room has been vacant with no floor coverings. I have asked over the phone, but not yet in writing, for the type of carpet I should put down and have been told \"Whatever you choose, just don't go crazy.\" I am terrified if we do replace it, they are going to hit my security deposit for that carpet since it won't match the shitty carpet in the rest of the unit. Speaking of deposits...\n\nNow the management company is saying that they will require a new security deposit from me since they had a chance to review our file and saw that the deposit we had was under a previous tenants name (we both came into a running lease on a unit at different times, me at least a year after my roommate). This is 1 1\/2 years after I have moved in and two contracts into the lease with almost half a year to go on the current lease. \n\nI guess my questions are: Do I have any ground to stand on for a legal resolution to the carpet situation or are my roommates parents stuck with paying for the replacement of the carpet? \n\nCan the management company make me pay a new security deposit when we have been riding on this old one for so long and neither of us were even initially responsible for most of the damage that has happened to the apartment(not much)?\n\nAm I pretty much just screwed over or do I have means of fighting any of this? If so, what are they? I figured the management company would act after receiving my written request for help, but all I have gotten so far was another no and a request for a new security deposit.","title":"NC - The Death of a Roommate, Carpet Replacement and Security Deposits","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542046898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wgi55\/lead_in_prayer_at_a_veterans_day_program_at_a\/","id":"9wgi55","body":"TL;DR at bottom\n\n      I went to the Veterans Day program today at my child\u2019s school because I\u2019m a veteran and my daughter wanted me there. After everything was over the principal stated that there would be a moment of silence followed by a prayer lead by a student. This is not right or legal. I tried to address this nicely, even thanking her for having the program, but after a heated exchange with the principal, where she asked why did you come here if I just wanted to complain and in a raised voice told me how she knew people that have sacrificed for this country, I walked out. With a cop directly behind me. (I guess you can\u2019t voice your opinions). \n\n    I have never in my life been so insulted by someone. The hatefulness on her face and her tone was horrible. I fought for this country. I\u2019ve had people that we\u2019re brothers to me die for this country and everyone in it. Not just Christians. We fought for everyone\u2019s rights. One of those rights is freedom from religion. Separation of church and state. I know this won\u2019t get anywhere because the smith county school board also prays before every meeting, which is illegal. I guess I just needed to get this off my chest. Veterans stand and fight for everyone.\n\nTL;DR :Got chewed out by the principal because I called her out for leading students in prayer. \n\nEdit: I\u2019ve been in contact with FFRF several times. This is not the first time this has happened. At every school board meeting they hold the Lord\u2019s Prayer before hand. They haven\u2019t gotten back with me yet. \n\nEdit 2: This happened in a small town in TN. And please help me make this go viral. I\u2019m so tired of this happening. ","title":"Lead in prayer at a Veterans Day program at a public school","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1414200239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2k910c\/reckless_driving_in_ada_county_idaho_is_it_worth\/","id":"2k910c","body":"After making a right hand turn on a green light I was a bit greedy on the gas pedal and my car began to slide. I was able to catch and recover this maneuver and sped away (under the posted limit of 55) but a motorcycle cop had seen this and followed me to pull me over a block away. He said he pulled me over for reckless driving and I told him I hadn't driven the car in two months and I was just test driving it. None of these excuses matter to him obviously. It wasn't until he handed me the ticket and I read it that I understood that it would be a mandatory appearance in court and a misdemeanor.\n\nWhile I am likely guilty of driving a bit aggressively while taking the corner I didn't intentionally slide the vehicle. I am really just interested in keeping this from having a major negative impact on my insurance which has been relatively spotless over the course of my life. Should I get a lawyer to ensure this doesn't happen? I'm not really in a position to spend $1000 on fighting this and from what I'm reading people are seeing insurance rates climb up to $100 a month which again, not desirable! I'd really be happy with this being reduced to inattentive driving or something.\n\nHere's the statute I've been charged with and I'm blown away by the maximum sentences!\n[Statute 49-1401(1)](http:\/\/www.legislature.idaho.gov\/idstat\/Title49\/T49CH14SECT49-1401.htm)","title":"Reckless driving in Ada County, Idaho is it worth a lawyer?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539334798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nin3s\/question_about_hitting_a_nj_transit_bus_from_the\/","id":"9nin3s","body":"I sadly hit a NJ transit bus and just a little damage that occurred leaving me a dent. Didn\u2019t wanna file anything but the bus driver said to sign a waiver saying I admit fault. Very basic stuff just my name, date, address and phone(no issuance info). He said it\u2019s just for protection in case I want to file a report, which I don\u2019t because is no big deal I\u2019ll fix it myself. \n\nWould I get anything in the mail from NJ transit ? Again he said they will not file anything. And they Nj transit will not mail me anything. Can they sue me for anything or will they just let this go? Thank you in advance ","title":"Question about Hitting a NJ transit bus from the back","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505251520,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zq2ha\/can_a_landlord_charge_for_repairs_out_of_the\/","id":"6zq2ha","body":"My old landlord is withholding 75% from my security deposit, I lived in a duplex in Texas. The landlord is charging us for replacing the microwave and installation of the microwave. The handle of the microwave had come off from regular use, it appeared to have been glued on previously, so I had re-glued the microwave handle back on. The microwave had to be at least 10 years old. She's claiming that we broke the appliance and has charged us a big fee. However, she hasn't shown any receipts or documentation that she actually purchased a new microwave. Is she legally allowed to charge us based off estimates on third party websites without actually installing a new microwave? Although the handle was glued on by us, it was also functional. \n\nSide note: my suspicion that she hasn't replaced the microwave is due to her charging the people in a similar fashion that lived in the house before me. I have yet to go by and meet the new tenants. I figure I may buy them some beer in exchange for inspecting the microwave as well as a few other issues. \n\nAny help is appreciated, I couldn't find anything about this within Texas Laws or any cases that covered this topic!","title":"Can a landlord charge for repairs out of the security deposit but not actually fix anything? (Texas)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541015273,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t26wy\/car_was_totaled_because_of_prior_damage\/","id":"9t26wy","body":"Hey everyone,\n\nI got a car last month (09\/11) and low and behold I got in accident about a month later. The accident wasn't terrible or at least didn't feel terrible, but I could tell the car was f'd up pretty badly (tire screeching when driving, axle misaligned, etC). I called my insurance company (Geico), and they determined the car a total loss (price to repair is greater than price of car). Upon calling the people who took apart my car for Geico to do the inspection, with hopes of maybe being able to pay for the repair, I was told that they wouldn't repair it and pretty much no body shop would repair it, because the prior repair on it (I didn't know it had a prior repair) was so shoddy and poorly done, that the car was unsafe to drive (I shouldn't even have been allowed to drive it off the lot). **I'm wondering if there's anything I can do in this situation.** I was financing the car, and though Geico's covering the finance cost for the most part, I was sold an unsafe car. I feel that it's one thing to be driving a car that could break down on you at any moment, but that's different than driving a life threatening car. The shop that took apart the car was very helpful, and even told me they'd tell me what to take pictures of (rusting, shoddy worksmanship, etc).\n\nSorry if this isn't the right forum, but it seemed applicable?\n\n​\n\nUpdates after posting on other forums:\n\nThis was a used car dealership\n\nI did not get a CarFax until today. They did not offer me one at the dealership  \nHere is the only incident reported on the CarFax :\n\n 11\/13\/2017 New Jersey Damage Report Accident reported Involving left front impact with another motor vehicle Front primarily damaged Vehicle disabled Vehicle towed Airbag deployed CARFAX Airbag \n\nThe dealership did a safety inspection, however I did not do one myself.\n\nFeel free to ask any questions\n\n​","title":"Car was totaled because of prior damage?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552165749,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az84to\/loose_vending_machine_items_is_it_stealing\/","id":"az84to","body":"Short sweet to the point.\n\nAt my work people lose coins and dollars constantly because our machine steals money. Usually people shake the machine\n\nEventually you\u2019ll see hanging items. I wondered since they are paid for if a quick shake on someone else\u2019s transaction would be stealing.\n\nSo, is it?","title":"Loose vending machine items, is it stealing?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569347973,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8quk8\/if_when_i_receive_my_w2_in_jan2020_and_its_not\/","id":"d8quk8","body":"This is Alabama My employer just cut my net pay by 50 dollars a week. I know its sounds crazy but I dont believe she is deucting any less from my gross pay in taxes. So basically I am paying taxes on money that I m not earning. If I receive my W2 and it has the exact same numbers as last year what should I do? She is trying to sell the company and move out of town so by the time this happens she will most likely not be my employer anymore. Who will be responsible for the error. I am salary so my W2 have been identical for the past 4 years. She writes our check and has her accountant do our W2s. Who will I report this too? I cant voice my suspicions cause she will flip out and make my life hell.","title":"If when I receive my W2 in Jan.2020 and its not correct what will be my options?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506417405,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72j6qe\/texas_ive_had_to_call_the_cops_on_my_neighbors\/","id":"72j6qe","body":"Posted in \/r\/advice and was suggested I post here. As the title says. I live in what used to be a quiet apartment complex before this couple moved in four doors down from me. The first time I called the cops on them, they had been arguing in the parking lot. She was in the car trying to leave, he was standing behind it stopping her from backing up. After screaming at each other for five minutes, she slammed on the gas and drove her car up onto the sidewalk and into one of the complex's shared USPS parcel drop-off boxes. The next day I talked to our management(they're new to this complex, they only acquired it less than a year ago). My new landlord told me they'd be evicted by the end of the month.\n\nIt's been months since that incident, and they still live here. Tonight, they started walking up and down the parking lot in front of my apartment. She was screaming as he walked away, but after they went out of view I heard him shout \"Get back here\". I was already upset, but that freaked me out considerably. She was always the one to scream and he would be loud, but he never sounded as violent as that before. I called the cops again, but I believe they drove off before the cops got here. I heard a car going too damn fast drive by, and I can't imagine it'd be anyone but them. Not sure if it was him or her driving off. I talked to one of the cops when they got here and explained what happened tonight and the last time I called the cops on them, but I haven't heard anything since then.\n\nI know they're dangerous from the damage they've done to the property before. These two instances were the only times I ever called the cops, but there have been plenty of other times they come outside and shout at each other. I don't feel safe when this happens. I've verbally complained to management about their fighting, as well as the mess in front of their apartment(old clothes, bottles and cans, empty lighter fluid bottles all thrown about a shared walkway that I have to use to get to the dumpster)\n\nWhat can I say to my management so that they actually get evicted this time? Are there any steps I can take to make sure it happens, or is that not possible? I hate not feeling safe in my own home. The first time they fought it was broad daylight, but right now it's well past 2am and that makes it worse for me. I have anxiety problems and this really shook me. It's almost an hour later and my hands are still shaking.\n\nUpdate: I'm fairly sure the cops didn't talk to them because they had driven off before the cops arrived. I heard their car drive back in, and she started screaming again as they went back inside their apartment. That was an hour ago and I'm too tired to call the cops again. The screaming has stopped for the night. I'm going to talk to my landlord in the morning, but I don't know what to say. I also don't feel like talking to him will matter, he and his employees are all incredibly unprofessional, and they didn't take my first complaint seriously months ago. I'm going to bed for now, will read as much as I can in the morning.","title":"[Texas] I've had to call the cops on my neighbors twice, landlord said they'd be evicted the first time.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569635907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da9y9w\/fraudtheft\/","id":"da9y9w","body":"My father has somehow rationalized that it's okay for him to purchase brand new copies of a couple tools (leaf blower valued at $119.99 and a portable car battery jumper valued at $49.99) he already owns broken versions of with the intention of replacing the new ones with the old ones in the boxes and then returning them for his money back. I tried to convince him that this is theft and fraud but he insists that what he's doing isn't illegal. Since I know this is illegal, I just want to know what his potential sentence could be if he's caught. And maybe some specific laws regarding this. Also I should mention that we live in Oregon so any laws applicable to our state are preferred.","title":"Fraud\/Theft","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570045662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcfe4e\/neighbors_marijuana_smoke_entering_my_apartment\/","id":"dcfe4e","body":"Located in Upstate NY for reference. \n\nOver the last few weeks, there has been the smell of pot coming from my neighbor's apartment in my complex. The smell has on several occasions leaked through our adjoining wall and into my apartment. I have complained personally to them and they have said they'd stop, but their habitual smoking is still causing a smell in my bathroom. (As a side note, there seems to be a lot of traffic to and from their apartment, making me think they are also engaged in selling pot)\n\nToday, I contacted my superintendent to see what she could do about it. While she relayed my complaint to my neighbors, she claims there is nothing she can do unless she witnesses them engaging in illegal activities and that I need to contact the police.\n\nMy question is: what are my options? I really don't want to contact the police, as it's just marijuana, but I do not want my apartment to continue smelling like it does. Any advice is appreciated.","title":"Neighbor's Marijuana Smoke Entering My Apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553011664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2z93m\/how_to_fight_a_ticket_in_florida\/","id":"b2z93m","body":"I was involved in an accident where I was turning left onto a road and the single lane of oncoming traffic had 3 cars turning right into the road I was on. I turned left and the car behind the 3 cars turning right decided to speed up and pass them in the left hand turn only lane and hit me as I was clearing the intersection. \n\nThe officer at the scene found me at fault and wrote me a ticket for failing to yield to oncoming traffic. However I did yield, and as the cars were turning right I had time to go, since the car tried to pass them she hit me. I\u2019m not sure if this is even worth fighting or how I would go about it. Any information is appreciated! ","title":"How to fight a ticket in Florida?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446241954,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qw838\/pade_father_is_selling_rare_and_valuable_art_via\/","id":"3qw838","body":"My father is in possession of two rare Washoe Native American baskets by the late weaver Datsolalee.  We currently host a website to advertise the basket, along with our contact information.  Recently we have gotten a few inquiries regarding the price and the history of the baskets.  Before long I am sure we will be negotiating a deal with the other party or parties.  Should we have a lawyer present for the private sale?  If so, what should we know before getting too deep?  I would like the sale to go as smoothly and safely as possible.  Thank you!","title":"[PA\/DE] Father is selling rare and valuable art via private sale. Is a lawyer recommended?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568493931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4arsh\/i_stopped_in_the_middle_of_a_crosswalk_driving\/","id":"d4arsh","body":"The light turned yellow and I had to brake a little hard to stop on time. To reduce the breaking I stopped a little further ending up on the crosswalk. A guy decided to try walking across the hood of my car so I backed up, and he fell off resulting in a traumatic brain injury. I received a letter by his lawyer about the incident.\n\nWhat can I do?","title":"I stopped in the middle of a crosswalk driving, and backed up when a guy stood on my car and tried walking across. It resulted in a head injury for the guy falling and he needed an ambulance. Now being sued?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540557134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rkb18\/can_i_have_legal_problems_for_refund_of_purchases\/","id":"9rkb18","body":"Ok so I have requested some refunds of purchases made in a mobile game of virtual currency and spent that currency. Google have refunded all my requests and I have my money back into my bank account. Do you think I could have legal problems for this matter or I am just thinking about it way too much? I guess I can get banned in the game but of course that is not THAT important as having legal problems and such.\n\nI guess I should NOT have any trouble because is Google the one who accepts or nah my refunding requests, so if Google let me do so and give my money back I dont think I should have problems.\n\nWhat do you guys think? \n\nThank you!","title":"Can I have legal problems for refund of purchases in a mobile game of virtual currency?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569433075,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d96ofg\/guy_who_murdered_my_friend_released_from_jail\/","id":"d96ofg","body":"I don\u2019t know if this is the right sub for this, I\u2019m just angry and confused and want to know what\u2019s going on. Earlier this month, one of my friends was murdered by her boyfriend via a gunshot to the head. He was charged with first degree murder as well as multiple drug offenses and taken to Denver County Jail. Earlier today one of my other friends informed me that, when you search him on the Denver Sheriff Department website, it now says he was released. I was confused because I know that you aren\u2019t allowed bail with first degree murder charges in Colorado. I searched his case on the Denver courts website and found that his it says \u201cdismissed\u201d under disposition for drug offenses but it doesn\u2019t say anything about the first degree murder charge?\n\n [Here](https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/ZBIT3Xe) is a screenshot of the info I found on the Denver County Court website and [here](https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/WCvYfIW) is the info from the Denver Sheriffs department website. I\u2019ve blocked out all names, dates\/times, and case numbers to maintain privacy. I just don\u2019t know what any of this means and want to know what\u2019s going on.","title":"Guy who murdered my friend released from jail?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503501627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vjnl1\/al_trying_to_settle_a_divorce_what_should_i_ask\/","id":"6vjnl1","body":"Asking for my best friend. Her husband was extremely abusive, but never to the kid. There are criminal charges pending. He's getting supervised visitation every two weeks with their two year old son, but always wants to change time and location.She's low on funds and wants to get the divorce settled. She only just started receiving child support. He didn't pay for the first several months they were separated, she still owes medical bills from birth of the son and the abuse she suffered. She wants to avoid going to court in the future but wants the agreement to be enforceable if she has to take him to court for non compliance. Any suggestions of things she should ask for or demand, and things we may not be thinking about for the future? We want to ask for him to cover all of the kids medical and dental bills, past and future, things like that. Thank you. \n\nEdit: can he be made to pay her back for attorneys fees too? ","title":"[AL] Trying to settle a divorce: what should I ask for\/make sure is covered by the settlement agreement, and how can I best protect myself?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571742003,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlg9t9\/sexual_battery_and_retaliation_by_state\/","id":"dlg9t9","body":"Throwaway for obvious reasons. This took place in Europe, but it's irrelevant, given that it technically took place on US soil.\n \nThe gist is that a friend (not a US citizen), whom I will refer to as Lucy, just informed me that, while she was employed at a US Consulate as a European \"local hire,\" she was groped by a State Department employee on consulate grounds.\n \nApparently two high-up employees and their wives had been sitting around discussing Lucy's body and trying to determine Lucy's breasts were \"real.\" One of the wives (also an employee, but not a diplomat) groped Lucy and told her about the conversation with the others. The wife then stated that now she now knew that Lucy's breasts are real. Lucy was obviously humiliated by the act of sexual battery, but also knowing that her body was a topic of conversation amongst her co-workers.\n \nSeveral diplomats encouraged Lucy to file a complaint with HR, but Lucy was too afraid of losing her job (it turns out this fear was justified). Another employee filed a complaint on Lucy's behalf. Shortly thereafter, the four employees began to retaliate against Lucy by making her job very difficult in a variety of ways that were designed to make her look incompetent. Later, Lucy was informed by one of the men (not the husband of the woman who groped Lucy) that Lucy's pay was going to be cut severely. Lucy was told to accept this or quit. Lucy quit.\n \nLucy not compensated for several months' salary and other benefits totaling approximately USD24,000. The man who forced her out refused to meet with her in order to resolve the outstanding debt. Lucy felt powerless given that she could not sue in a local court and is not in the US.\n \nLucy was later informed by a fellow employee that the man who forced her out had said in a meeting that under no conditions would he allow a complaint by a \"local hire\" to be filed against a US citizen employee of the State Department. This seems particularly egregious since he was intimately involved in this series of events and is now making the decision whether or not to pursue it.\n \nThere are several issues at play here:\n \n1.     Where to file a suit?\n2.     What to file it for, i.e., what is the claim and what is the amount?\n3.     Whether to file a criminal complaint for sexual battery with the FBI?\n4.     Whether to sue the employees, the State Department, or both?  \n \nNote that an attorney has also informed Lucy that he does *not* believe that diplomatic immunity applies, as he believes that this only covers prosecution *by* the host country for crimes committed by diplomats *in* the host country, whereas this is a crime committed on land that is *technically* US soil and the prosecution and law suit would be filed against the diplomat and the State department in the US.\n \nThanks in advance for all the help. Lucy deserves justice.","title":"Sexual Battery and Retaliation by State Department Employee at US Consulate","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569363051,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ub87\/brother_arrested_for_communicating_threats_of\/","id":"d8ub87","body":"Hello everyone, my brother was arrested yesterday with a class H felony in NC. We have hired a lawyer for him today but I am wondering what you all think on what will happen. He is a minor with no prior convictions but was charged as an adult based off the crime. I understand that in this day and age you can't take chances so hopefully the judge has mercy. I have told my lawyer every detail about the case; even how he was arrested (without handcuffs, got a chance to use the bathroom supervised, and house was not searched). It seems as if the people who arrested him did not think he was dangerous but did it to set an example. Even the deputies told me that they felt the detectives were taking it too far. His bond is currently at a large amount of 150,000 and we were denied reduced bail. The judge also added conditions if we were to meet this amount . After hearing this we hired our attorney who is confident in the case.  Just wondering what everyone thinks and what else can people think of to tell the lawyer. Thanks for reading and hopefully my brother and kids his age learn that these types of actions have consequences.","title":"Brother Arrested For Communicating Threats of Mass Violence","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570284662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddnpwa\/car_demolished_confused_seeking_advice\/","id":"ddnpwa","body":"Hi everyone I\u2019m seeking advice for my parked car being totaled.\n\nA few months ago, I was in my home about to fall asleep, and my car was totaled while parked. \n\nMy car did not have insurance on it because I drive another car. \n\nMy car was parked on the street, and a drunk driver crashed into it, the car is no longer drivable and is basically a scrap car now. \n\nI was in total shock and didn\u2019t know much but trusted the police and tow truck driver on the scene that they have the car insurance and that it\u2019ll be on the police report.\n\nThe next day I go to the tow place and they say I need their insurance, and said which would be on the police report. I get the full police report and it has no information of their insurance, except for their names\/ contact information\/ license plate. I tried calling them but no one would pick up. \n\nI\u2019m really confused now and want to be compensated for my car, which was only worth a few grand.\n\nI\u2019m struggling to find their insurance, I was very naive and didn\u2019t get their insurance information. \n\nToday I also got a letter from the district attorney office about being a victim in this incident. \n\nI have 2 questions- \nHow should I proceed with this letter?\nWhat should I do to find their insurance or be compensated for my car?\n\nThank you, I am only 24 and am very ignorant to these things, any advice is greatly appreciate.","title":"Car demolished, confused, seeking advice","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506207848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/721l1j\/applying_for_a_job_at_spirit_halloween_store_and\/","id":"721l1j","body":"[This is the agreement](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/SeBAm). (State is Ohio). Basically it asks prospective employees to sign away their right to sue Spirit Halloween for violating a bunch of fair employment acts, and instead insists that it be settled with an \"Arbiter\" who is within the company. I just want to know is this legal, and if not how do I leak this so it gets struck down? I did not see them ask me to sign any agreements not to leak information about their employment process and also I am a minor so any agreement I signed is null and void so I feel it's safe to share it here, I'm just using this fake account so that I can still get a job there so I can suck them dry of every penny.","title":"Applying for a job at Spirit Halloween store and found a contract they make you sign that has questionably legal content (Contract linked to inside) that basically asks me to sign away my legal right to ever take them to court for discrimination. Is this contract legal?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554153240,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b896jn\/my_mom_and_dad_are_getting_a_divorce_and_i_want\/","id":"b896jn","body":"I don\u2019t know what to do since I don\u2019t like my mom and like my dad, but my mom basically wants full custody what do I do?   Ps my mom is a divorce lawyer.","title":"My mom and dad are getting a divorce and I want to be with my dad.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554479944,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9symu\/are_schools_legally_allowed_to_make_you_clean\/","id":"b9symu","body":"They made us do it when we've never used them.","title":"Are schools legally allowed to make you clean their microwaves","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570144836,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcz0mc\/do_final_paychecks_need_to_be_delivered_in_mail\/","id":"dcz0mc","body":"I quit my job today and I requested that my paycheck be mailed to me because I am out of state. I just want to know what my rights are. My old boss is kinda petty and I don\u2019t want her to give me the runaround just because I had to quit. \n\nMy next scheduled pay date is October 9. I live in Virginia. This paycheck would cover the last two weeks of September. So would I be receiving two pay checks then, for the last two weeks of September and a little bit of October? \n\nSince I requested it in the mail am I entitled to receive it in the mail by October 9 as well?","title":"Do final paychecks need to be delivered in mail by the regular pay day?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553122253,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ipkz\/insurance_company_charging_me_1500_after_selling\/","id":"b3ipkz","body":"I feel like the insurance company is making this up. I sold my home in early Feb of this year and with that, came having to cancel every service that I had going on autopay. One of these was the businessowner policy I had on my home.\n\nWhile on the phone, the lady told me about the money that was in my account and since I was cancelling with them, she wrote me a check! It was a refund, she stated, and that I should expect it in the mail.\n\nBeing a normal adult, I said thank you, professional, and cashed it. It was <$900. The bill I just got on the mail is for $1,700. They called and told me that they reached out to \"my mortgage company\" and will have them pull the money from somewhere. \n\nI need some help lol. Maybe someone can ask me the right question to help me understand? I've tried calling them but I can't get ahold of them and am wondering if I can politely ask them to stop harassing me.","title":"Insurance Company Charging Me $1,500+ after selling my home. WTF?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553160410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ofyi\/looking_for_advise_to_get_my_17_year_old_sister\/","id":"b3ofyi","body":"My half-sister\u2019s father has custody with our mom having visitation (she hasn\u2019t seen my little sister in over a year).\n\nHer father lost his job, is supposedly dying, and now wants to take his one bedroom camper to see the US while he still has time.\n\nHe put paperwork for her get to her GED and and join the army or join him in the camper and homeschool. She said she was not signing anything, and he took away her car. His biggest motivator is not paying any money for child support, I believe.\n\nMom was removed as custodian and given supervised visitation due to mental health concerns, and although she is no longer committed, and holding steady employment, she is not being treated as she refuses any treatment, so it\u2019s difficult to know which version of her you get moment to moment. At least that was my last experience with her 3 years ago.\n\nMy wife and I are considering every option available to provide my sister with a third option: live with us and finish school, which is what she wants.\n\nIf father was willing to let her live us without handing over custody (for fear of mom getting involved and demanding sister and child support), could we adopt her at 18 so we get her on our insurance?\n\nWe live in Alabama, and the best I know is that you can\u2019t adopt an adult unless they have serious issues. However, you can adopt a person who is minor, which is until you are 19 in Alabama. I don\u2019t know whether that means I can adopt her at 18 and go around both her parents who have dropped the ball or not once she turns that age or what else would be involved.\n\nThe alternative is to have a legal battle with my mother over custody and father as he is unwilling to relinquish custody for fear of child support payments to my mother (or anyone). My sister does not need to move back in with my mother as she is unstable.\n\nMy wife and I are willing to do go to court and fight for my sister over this, but I would rather sit down with her father and go over everything with him and provide him with a least unpleasant option from his perspective, which I believe is driven by money.\n\nIdeas appreciated. Thank you.","title":"Looking for advise to get my 17 year old sister out of tough, but not abusive situation.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549419062,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anlqhq\/former_employer_enforces_noncompete_by\/","id":"anlqhq","body":"I worked at company X for 2 or 3 years. Everyone internally knows that the non-compete you have to sign to work there  is probably not enforceable in court. \n\nHowever, no companies that work with company X are willing to hire employees of company X. Company X has a lot of control over the people that have access to their product, and importantly, the training material for their product. There is an understanding that if a company hires company X's employees, they can lose access to that product or training materials, which could be hugely detrimental to a large organization using the product.\n\nI've heard from people that recruiters they've talked to were told not to hire company X's people because of that non-compete. Since no company in the space cares to challenge the non-compete, I doubt it will ever be challenged. This seems crazy anti-competitive though, it's clearly there to lower how much company X has to pay experienced employees. Is this at all legal?","title":"Former employer enforces non-compete by blacklisting all it's employees. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409861417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fhi84\/i_think_my_new_job_is_trying_to_make_me_do\/","id":"2fhi84","body":"I have recently started a new job as an Administrator at a small motor sales company. \n\nThis requires processing and sending many documents, one of which is the Registration Certificate. The form states for the customer to write their personal details: name, home address etc. The form then requires a signature from a member of staff, i.e. myself, and the customer's signature. It is then sent to the DVLA (Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency).\n\nNow, I have been ordered by my superior to sign the customer's signature for them. For example, if they're name is John Smith, I would make a fake John Smith signature.\n\nI have voiced my concerns about this to my superior about being uncomfortable about it and would rather another member of staff would take care of this simple tasks. This have been met with bad attitude about it, threatened that I will not be able to work there if I do not do my job. I have spoken to my higher management today about this and am currently waiting for him \"to get back to me when he is ready\".\n\nNow here's the kicker, I still haven't signed a contract for my job yet so I feel like they are in the hot seat and could fuck me over whenever they please.\n\nI've been there less than a week and already feel completely uncomfortable in my position and could lose my job for not partaking in an act I believe could be illegal.\n\nCould I please have some advice!\n\ntl;dr: Boss makes me forge signatures in the customer's name to send to the DVLA, I haven't signed a job contract since starting Monday and I don't know what to do.","title":"I think my new job is trying to make me do illegal activities (UK)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568929793,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6kwrm\/al_security_deposit_clarification\/","id":"d6kwrm","body":"Hello, I have been reading about security deposit return time since I previously had problems with my previous rental company. In Alabama the law is 60 days to return a security deposit, does that mean I am supposed to have it within 60 days or they have 60 days to mail it? I can not find a clear answer. Thanks","title":"[AL] Security Deposit Clarification","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571278321,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dizqcw\/will_i_get_sued_for_defamation\/","id":"dizqcw","body":"I run a website where I warn people about unethical brands and explain why they should not support them. I back up everything with sources (some more official than others) but I am not directly involved in getting the facts and data to support my argument. \n\nAm I going to get sued?","title":"Will I get sued for defamation?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553704302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b66c0u\/is_it_legal_for_my_apartment_complex_to_require\/","id":"b66c0u","body":"A bit of background- I already have a medical alert dog for my hemiplegic migraines, but I got and trained him before I became wheelchair bound and he is only 8 1\/2lbs so he is very limited in helping me with my other needs. They required me to give them documentation from a doctor stating I required a service dog. \n\nThe more pressing issue is that recently my boyfriend bought me a bulldog\/blue healer mix to train to pick up things I drop, open and close doors, turn lig of and on, bringing me items I need, helping me get my wheelchair up inclines, and other various tasks. I have a progressive autoimmune disease that has left me in a wheelchair full time and I will be losing more and more functions as time goes on so having an assistance dog is kind of a big deal at this point for me to simply function day to day. When I told management that I am training a new service dog for this they informed me that they now require not only I have documentation on my need for this new service dog, but that I also show them a certificate of training. I am self training this dog since I have prior experience, and from what I understand federal law says they cannot require me to prove I need a service dog nor can anyone require a certificate of training since there is no official certification process. Are there any laws that I\u2019m missing, because they say if I don\u2019t comply I\u2019ll be in breach of my lease and they will have to start the eviction process. Also lease is up at the end of April and I\u2019ve been trying to find somewhere else to live but because of my needs it\u2019s been very difficult and I may have to go month-to-month for a month or two before I can make other arraignments so I\u2019m scared they may try to use this as a reason to not let me renew my lease for the month-to-month option that is normally an option. Im a single mom and I can\u2019t afford to be evicted because my ex-husband that was a narcissistic abuser will try to use this to change the custody orders that he has been in happy with. So I\u2019m seriously freaking out that this could screw up everything in an already complicated situation. ","title":"Is it legal for my apartment complex to require documentation to prove I need the service dog I am training? If I don\u2019t comply they say they will start the eviction process. Parker county, Texas","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1410798231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ggypz\/witness_to_police_harassment_how_can_i_help_a_man\/","id":"2ggypz","body":"While visiting Cleveland OH this past weekend, my wife and I were witnesses to a shocking police event. While waiting for an RTA Train, a transit police offer entered the station and attempted to arrest a man for an open container violation (and rightfully so- dude was drinking beer in public). As the officer attempted to confront the offending drinker, one of the bystanders (light skinned African american or Latino, I'm not sure) started to ask questions about the legality of the proceeding. The officer began to raise his voice, shout, act unprofessional, and bully the bystander. I have about 2.5 mins video of this. Claiming alcohol\/intoxication as probable cause, he stops-and-searches bystander.  Officer calls for backup, bystander is cuffed first, officers attempt to cuff drinker, drinker makes a run for it, cops use tazer, drinker's coat catches fire, shit goes crazy, etc. Drinker gets away, bystander is arrested dragged off, train comes, wife and I jump on and leave.\n\nLong story short, I believe the bystander was stopped-and-searched without probable cause and should not have been arrested (he was not acting drunk or under the influence of a narcotic). I believe the officer escalated the situation through unprofessional behavior. The question is, what's the most effective way to go about offering my testimony as a witness? As a white male (who is also ordained Christian clergy), I have a resigned and deeply upsetting feeling that my testimony would be helpful in a case marked by some significant racial overtones. I'm considering contacting the Cleveland Department of Public Defense- would that be helpful? Thanks in advance for the help!\n\n**Edit:** Spoke with the Cleveland Public Defense office this PM. They said the case might take awhile to filter down to them, and if it does, my contact info will be passed along to the appropriate public defender. Was thanked for reaching out, encouraged to be patient, and will be contacted by a lawyer to see if my testimony is helpful to the case.","title":"Witness to Police Harassment- How can I help a man I believe was wrongly arrested?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503712761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w2z5u\/ca_landlord_entered_my_apartment_while_i_was_gone\/","id":"6w2z5u","body":"So, I came home from work a few weeks ago and found a notice taped to my door that stated that an apartment manager had entered my unit that day in order to show it to lenders. This took me by complete surprise, as that note had most certainly not been there when I left in the morning.\n\nAs far as I'm aware, landlords are required to give [reasonable advance notice](http:\/\/www.dca.ca.gov\/publications\/landlordbook\/living-in.shtml) to tenants before entering apartments, which California considers to be 24 hours. In addition, my lease unambiguously states that we'll be notified at least 24 hours in advance. I am certain that no note was on my door the previous day. \n\nI find this particularly irksome, as I had laundry hung up to dry in my apartment, which included a large amount of underwear. I also had a bit of cash laying out, and the general state of cleanliness of my apartment was, erm, lacking. I'm pretty certain nothing was stolen, but as a woman who lives alone, I'm not exactly thrilled knowing that a bunch of strangers came into my home and saw all my underwear without me knowing... \n\nSo, my question is, do I have any recourse here? I can't prove anything, and the letter they taped to my door was dated several days prior. Thanks y'all. ","title":"(CA) Landlord entered my apartment while I was gone without giving advance notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554136363,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b84p1h\/multiple_businesses_under_same_llc\/","id":"b84p1h","body":"Is it possible to have multiple businesses under the same LLC? Would I need separate EINs or anything like that?","title":"Multiple Businesses Under Same LLC","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446842150,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rt38w\/ct_landlords_admin_trying_to_enforce_a_different\/","id":"3rt38w","body":"First time posting here so not sure of standard format- apologies if it's off...\n\n\nMy boyfriend and I signed a lease for an apartment in September with an October 1st move in. Unfortunately, shortly after signing his mother's health took a turn for the worse so the move got put on the back burner among other things. Basically I have taken the whole move on myself so it is going slow and I haven't spent a ton of time focusing on it.\n\n\nNow we both have lived on our own, but this is the first rental for us both entirely on our own so we are not familiar with the details of a typical lease. This is why I never thought twice when it said the 15th as the due date for each months rent with a ten day grace period ending on the 25th. After which, a $150 fee would be charged.\n\n\nFast forward to this week when I finally turn my thoughts to paying our first rent bill since the original payment\/deposit. I looked at our invoice and noticed it said November 1 as the due date. I emailed the admin who sent the invoice asking if there was a misunderstanding. Her response that she was sorry but clearly there was a typo in the lease and that our rent was due on the 1st and after the 10th we would be charged the fee.\n\n\nOur lease was signed and executed with the 15th and 25th literally spelt out as the due date and deadline. I know that the lease should stand and I emailed the admin back with the attached lease pretty much saying that for this month we needed to stick to the lease, but would be willing to sign an amended lease for December on. That was two days ago and I have not heard back since. My questions are: Can they legally charge us the late fee after the 10th? Is it easy enough\/likely that they will issue an amended lease and if so what is that process like? Is there anything we should look out for and can we get screwed over in this process? Whatever advice can be offered is welcome here. We are so up to our knees in shit from dealing with an ongoing family tragedy that we do not have much energy to deal with more.\n","title":"(CT) Landlord's admin trying to enforce a different rent due date than lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552675969,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1inxt\/social_media\/","id":"b1inxt","body":"Does threatening messages over social media constitutes as a crime? I was told by the police that there is nothing they can do unless they act on the threats. This is in South Carolina. Is that true. ","title":"Social media","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1538586366,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9l31p9\/my_employer_isnt_paying_the_amount_listed_in_my\/","id":"9l31p9","body":"I\u2019m a salaried, at-will employee in the state of South Carolina and my employer isn\u2019t paying me the amount that was agreed upon in my employment contract. I\u2019ve been with the company for a little over a year and when I started, I signed an employment contract that was also signed by the Vice President of the company that stated that I would receive a performance evaluation at 6 months and if my performance review was positive I would receive a 5% salary increase and that at 1 year I would receive an additional performance evaluation and if the performance review was positive again I would receive an additional 5% salary increase. \n\nI never received a 6-month performance evaluation despite asking on several different occasions for one and consequently, I never received a pay increase at 6 months. My 1-year mark recently came around and I got a performance review that stated that I exceeded expectations in all categories of my job. My direct supervisor said that the most that they could give me was a 5% increase in salary (the amount I was supposed to receive at 6-months), but that he would have to get it approved by the corporate office. The next day my supervisor informed me that the corporate office denied the 5% and would only give me a 4.95% salary increase.\n\nIs this normal and is there anything I can do? I worked really hard to earn those pay increases and was really making financial plans around getting that rate of pay. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.","title":"My employer isn\u2019t paying the amount listed in my employment contract","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570150191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd02q8\/my_dad_passed_away_my_car_was_in_his_name_what_do\/","id":"dd02q8","body":"Hey folks, I\u2019m not sure if the flair for this one was right but it seems appropriate.\n\nI\u2019ll keep it short, basically:\n\nMy dad passed away a few months ago, there was no will.\n\nThe car I have been driving for years, which was bought, was in my dads name. I don\u2019t believe my name is on the loan in any way. The payments are late, because we could not find the papers initially. If I don\u2019t make the payment by tomorrow, it will be repossessed. \n\nIs there any way I can put the car in my name? Ideally I can do this without waiting for the whole estate sha-bang to be settled, because I\u2019d like to trade it in for a new car. It\u2019s not worth but maybe $6000 (I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s important.) \n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated!","title":"My dad passed away, my car was in his name, what do I do","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569358684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8tc1i\/being_investigated_by_hr_for_sex_with_coworker\/","id":"d8tc1i","body":"In FL\n\nMy old boss called me today and gave me a heads up that I'm being investigated by HR for sleeping with a subordinate. Coincidentally I had taken the day off so I was not at work today, they did not mention anything about tomorrow so I intend to go to work as normal.\n\nHow do I deal with this? Its caught me completely off guard, should I get a lawyer? What are the typical next steps for something like this?","title":"Being Investigated by HR For Sex with Coworker","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569686100,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dahrrf\/cop_put_the_wrong_license_plate_number_on_my\/","id":"dahrrf","body":"That\u2019s all, I noticed they were off one number when they wrote my ticket so it\u2019s technically not under my plate when I look up the ticket. Everyone is saying it\u2019s fine and that I don\u2019t have to pay it, but is that true? They also have a description of my car and my sister said if it\u2019s just one number off they might just realize their mistake and hold me accountable when they find out it was my car. What should I do?","title":"Cop put the wrong license plate number on my parking ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541456806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uic3x\/boyfriend_trying_to_kick_me_out_we_are_both_on\/","id":"9uic3x","body":"My boyfriend and I got into a fight that was in my opinion petty. In all honesty I think the fight will be over by tomorrow but I'm done with the relationship and he said some concerning things. The fight was over him saying if I made some lifestyle choices then my autoimmune disease would be cured, and that I was being overdramatic, which isn't true. He denies my illness exists even with legal documents (lupus). I got incredibly angry he would suggest this and said that I no longer wanted to be with him or live together (one bedroom apt) and that I would take over the lease, but his name could remain on it so his credit wouldn't be destroyed. He already has another place in his name in this city where he can live. \n\nHe told me he had spoken to the landlord and that I had seven days to move out or I would be evicted. I spoke personally to the landlord and this is false as we are both equal parts on the lease. He then said because someone consigned for him and I signed for myself that he had more legal right to reside here which I think is false. He then said that if we took this to court he had more of a right to stay here because he goes to school less than a mile away and I do not, and because he has a job and I do not (I'm getting SSDI). \n\nIf this went to court, what should I expect? I personally have more money in the bank than him, and then my family who doesn't have to but is willing to intervene has a hefty amount of money. I was assuming going to court at all would be ridiculous since we are both equally on the lease and they'd say we have to hash it out between ourselves. What legal standing do I have? He has a history of emotional abuse but I know that doesn't stand up in court. \n\nTLDR: boyfriend thing to kick me out of an apartment I have equal possession of, what rights do I have?","title":"Boyfriend trying to kick me out. We are both on the lease. (WV, USA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571361651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djg1tk\/update_mother_tried_to_strangle_me_cops_instead\/","id":"djg1tk","body":"this is an update to [https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhg6f5\/mother\\_tried\\_to\\_strangle\\_me\\_cops\\_instead\\_of\/?utm\\_source=share&utm\\_medium=web2x](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhg6f5\/mother_tried_to_strangle_me_cops_instead_of\/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x)\n\nthis is in Texas by the way\n\nAfter the incident on saturday, the police have now filed assault charges against me, citing these few pieces of evidence:\n\n\\-Blood on the floor: This blood is actually mine, however the police took a picture and are claiming that it was my mother's blood after i beat her\n\n\\-Unreliable witness's testimony: This witness is my brother, who claimed that he saw me \"beat my mother,\" when he didn't even end up witnessing the entire event. Furthermore, he's been known to be a chronic liar, and even my mother denied his testimony, saying that I did not lay hands on her.\n\n\\-Injuries on my mother: They are attempting to link me to some very minor scratches that they found on my mother, which I did not cause.\n\nSo what can I do? I didn't lay hands on her, in fact she had tried to strangle me.","title":"UPDATE: Mother tried to strangle me, cops, instead of arresting her, attempt to send me to a psychiatric ward instead","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541981348,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w8xt2\/i_need_advice_on_breaking_my_lease\/","id":"9w8xt2","body":"Im fed up paying to live in squaller. Theres mice droppings everywhere. My roommates don't care since they can afford to eat out every night. Im at the end of my rope both financially and mentally. \n\nIve never met the land lord but I beleive I have cause to break the lease.\n\nTheres mold in the 1 bathroom we share, water damage in the basement. A sulphurous smell where i have to do laundry. \n\nOne of my roommates sleep walks but they are more like sleep tantrums. Hes come barging through my door at 4 am and i dont feel safe there anymore.\n\nWhat are my options?\nI already have a place to live.\nI doubt i could find anyone to take room.\nI wouldn't make my worst enemy live like i do.","title":"I need advice on breaking my lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505606908,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70kd83\/nj_planning_on_renting_the_first_floor_of_my\/","id":"70kd83","body":"Sorry for the potentially crappy title.\n\nKnown my buddy for 10 years. We are as close as can be as people in their 30s are. His parents too. We would eat dinner with them, jam every weekend in the basement, just overall was a real good vibe. They are a little wild and probably did way too much coke, but never really did anything bad to make me think they are bad or anything like that. He lives in one of those big old 100 year old 3 story houses in an urban area that isn't very pleasant. His parents kicked their friends out after they apparently weren't paying rent. Took em to court they left last november.\n\nAfter that they asked if my girlfriend and I wanted to move in. We said depends on what rent is because we both are living cheap with our family members. It was mentioned that we need help out with taxes if we fix everything up. Well the house was pretty trashed. The bathroom has tiles messed up, water damage and leaks, doesn't look like it was every taken care of. Did you ever see mold on glass? The ceiling in the living room and 2 walls were falling apart. The rest of the walls have huge cracks in the plaster. The one bedroom is the same way. Shitty. The other bedrooms door has holes in it and has shit paneling covering the walls with holes in it. The kitchen had huge water damage in the window and that ceiling needed to come down.\n\nI had my dad, who is a carpenter of over 35 years come look at it with me. He said unlivable as is, but with work it can be fixed. The frame of the house was still good, but the house is 100 years old and looks like it hasn't been maintained in 25 years.\n\nSo we tell my friends parents what we are gonna do and get to work. I have constructioin and home carpentry experience. My dad clearly does. My girlfriend and my friend do not.\n\nWe take down 2 walls, 2 ceilings,  RIP out the shower enclosure because it's falling off. Find out that the hoouse is still live with old ass knob and tube. It's live, looks shitty as hell and we all agree it needs to fixed.\n\nSo John (the father who we were going to rent from says that he will do. Now this is January mind you. For 5 months we had the walls open and our hands tied with a lot of stuff because he didn't do it. 5 damn months. So I did what I could around it, had my father come over a couple times and give me a hand with his tools etc. \n\nFinally end of may\/June comes and the electric gets done. So we throw some rock up and try to pound it out.\n\nI got a job up there because it was easier to sleep on the floor in one small room and work on the house then to spend a tin of money ubering 20 miles there and back from my dad's. Work is going slow because I'm doing 40 a week and getting discourage my buddy and girlfriend barely help. \n\nHere is some more info:\n\nJohn doesn't have a job, and hasn't for over a year. He plays video games and guitar all day. His wife we will call Laura got fired from her job of 20 years in May and somehow only got 15k on her severance pay. There was also some legal battle going on with the courts over the house. Her mother owned the house, when she passed away Laura's brother tried to claim the house, so they had a court battle and some how has to pay her brother 10k to get rid of him. So they are strapped for cash and won't help themselves by looking for work or anything. Also found out they are back on taxes. Taxes are about 8k a year and the house is valued at 82k. Also as the months went on, in passing the rent number went up. And when we asked them we wouldn't get a response until they menti9ned a higher number in passing. It went from 800 all the way up to 1200. Finally we said we need to figure this out, cuz if we knew 1200 from the start then we'll we would have said nah. We could have stayed at home. They have also been trying to get their son to take put shady loans, or refinance the house in his name so they can get out of here. Sketch shit that we've found out since January \n\nFinally about a month ago they came down and said 900. We said ok and started busting our asses to get this stuff done. \n\nThen Tuesday happens. I'm in a ladder sparkling, my girlfriend is outside and John comes down at 1000 mph and starts screaming, and cursing at us. Telling us that we said we weren't going to pay rent (wut, we literally just agreed like 2 weeks ago).  Telling us we owe him 900 or have to leave tomorrow. Calling us freeloaders and saying he wasn't hosting a charity. It took a lot of composure but after his diatribe I went up stairs and told him \"We never said anything about not giving you money, but maybe you would have known if you came to talk us like a human instead of a fucking piece of shit. We are gonna leave\" And I went back downstairs. After hearing them yell about what are they gonna do etc. Laura came down 20 minutes later and tried to be like let's start over, blah blah, you can give us some money by the end of the month for this place. And then John sent me a Facebook message apologizing. \n\nMy girlfriend nor I want to stay there in anyway shape or form anymore. She's been working 4 straight days since, so haven't been able to get my stuff out since she drives. They are acting like we going to stay..\n\nI have over 1400 dollars of my own money plus over 250 hours of my time working on the house, which even quantified at 10 bucks an hour is 2500 dollars. My girlfriend has like 40 50, and my buddy has maybe 80. \n\nThey have no money and are desperate people, showing that with the shady stuff the past 5 months or so.\n\nThere is no paperwork on a rental agreement.\n\nAre their legal repercussions that they could try and sue us for leaving or anything? Because we just want to take the loss on time and supp,lies and get the hell out","title":"[NJ] Planning on renting the first floor of my friends parents house after doing work. Now they are acting crazy and demanding money. I want to leave, but I don't know about reprocussions","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412789399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2iofg7\/autoaccident_advice_texas\/","id":"2iofg7","body":"On a certain day, I was driving down the road with my friend. I looked and noticed the green light ahead, so I proceeded straight. Unfortunately, a young man decided to not yield and quickly made a left turn. I hit the brakes, but my front bumper hit his rear bumper. Both cars pulled over, to start with information exchanging. Come to find out, that the young man did not have insurance or a driver's license. My friend noticed the odor of marijuana venting out of his car and even asked him if he was high. My friend says he did admit it. The young man spoke to my friend and mentioned that he had a warrant and would be arrested if the cops arrived. I had called the police before finding out about his warrant. Right then and there my friend and I felt bad that the young man would go to jail. We decided to get whatever info we could especially his mothers number to speak with and sort out later.( After waiting for about an hour for the police to show up) My plan was to get the mother to sign a sheet after it would be notarized stating that the mom would pay the damages, which she agreed to on the phone the same day.The following day she disagreed.I spoke on the phone with her and ended with me telling her we would settle it in court. Days later after finding out that court would be too pricey, we just left it alone. My insurance is going to help with the damages. Suddenly, I receive texts from the mother of the young man who says she is going to sue for harassment, for threatening her on the phone and not providing my insurance information. What should I do? I just don't want to worry about pricey court disputes. I am having money trouble as it is. I felt that I was doing them a favor, by not sending her son to jail.","title":"Auto-Accident Advice (Texas)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507991633,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76cfl0\/car_accident_caused_by_part_recall\/","id":"76cfl0","body":"Yesterday morning I was involved in a car accident. The car behind me rear ended me after I came to a complete stop due to an ABS failure. So basically I hit my breaks and they locked up, my car spun out sideways - came to a stop and then I felt impact from the other car which pushed me into a guard rail. There is minimal damage to both cars (just cosmetic), and neither driver plans to file a claim with insurance. \n\nMy issue is that I received a 4 point ticket for careless driving. This ticket is going to spike my insurance. Since the accident was caused by an ABS failure that is currently under an active recall do I have grounds to fight the ticket and get the points removed? Will I need a lawyer? Is this an easy win or will it not be worth fighting? \n\nThe car is a 2009 VW GTI and the accident happened in the state of Colorado. I am a 23F, and I don\u2019t know much about cars, etc. I went on VW\u2019s website and searched their recalls database and the VIN of my vehicle is part of the recall. \n\nAny help is appreciated. \n\nTL;DR - 2009 VW GTI with active part recall involved in accident caused by faulty part. Driver was issued a 4 point citation for careless driving since the car slid sideways, but the ABS malfunction is what caused this. ","title":"Car Accident Caused by Part Recall","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554609963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bacmop\/my_stepfather_is_beating_my_mother\/","id":"bacmop","body":"Alright this might be a long one, forgive me if some of this seems long winded I really don't know what to do. My Stepfather is beating my mom, and has been for years. My mom has suffered major back injuries from this, and was recently in the hospital I suspect because he did something again. He has beaten me a few times in the past, early high school, as far as I know he doesn't beat my stepsister. My mom cant do much of the work she used to do (such as any lifting) but she still can work. I'm in my junior year of college, Ill be graduating one semester past the 4 year mark. My step sister is in high school, sophomore year.\n\nI have no problem calling the police or whatever I can do to get rid of my stepdad, my worry is the impact it will have on the family. He pays for almost everything, he even bought me the house I live in for college. The college house essentially pays for itself because of roommates, so Im not so worried about that being a burden. I don't know any other expenses, my parents keep all of that info under wraps. Further Im worried about what will happen with my sister? She's my stepdad's kid so I guess she would have to go back to her mom(not my mom) if he went to jail or whatever would happen.  Finally I think finances wouldn't be a huge deal, yes things might get tight But my grandparents have money and I think they would help. Also when I graduate Im hoping I can get a really good job and If need be Ill split my checks to help support my family. Right now  though I barely make enough money to support myself.\n\n​\n\nGuess this is more scatterbrained than long winded.","title":"My Stepfather Is Beating My Mother","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568935081,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6m2v8\/hello_i_am_14_and_currently_under_the_care_of_my\/","id":"d6m2v8","body":"Hello I am 14 and currently under the care of my mother is there anyway I can get her to give up custody of me.\n\n\nMy mother is mentally unstable and tries to act like a teenager again she constantly has break downs and breaks my stuff while drunk and sober as well as shouting that she hates having kids and that she only got pregnant for the attention.  My dad has signed away his rights because at the time of divorce he didn't have a stable job is there anyway she could give up custody of me or my dad get custody back.\n\n\nP.S. sorry if this is a little to personal\n\n\nU.S. NY","title":"Hello I am 14 and currently under the care of my mother","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539121594,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mtekc\/landlord_lied_in_courtnv\/","id":"9mtekc","body":"So I went to court today for my unlawful detainer eviction and the landlord\u2019s lawyer lied.\n\nThey said that I was screaming at my girlfriend \u201cI\u2019ll kill you bitch!\u201d and that i went around to my neighbors threatening them.  I didn\u2019t have any evidence to prove I didn\u2019t do this.  All they had were written statements from other tenants saying I did.\n\n\nThe judge ruled in favor of the landlord.  Can I appeal this?  How do I appeal it?","title":"Landlord lied in court.(NV)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555360773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdl5up\/car_broken_into_bike_stolen_apartment_complex\/","id":"bdl5up","body":"I live in Kentucky. \n\n3 weeks ago my car was broken into. \nToday my bike's lock was cut and the bike was stolen. \nI live in a gated community, but they do not have cameras. \n\nI am a student at the nearby college. This place advertises itself as a student housing, but it is open to the public. \n\nWhen I reported the car break in the police told me that this place is supposed to have cameras because it is associated with the university, and there are students living here. \n\nWhen we first moved in they had told us that they did have cameras, but once all of this began happening they came out and admitted they did not have them. \n\nThe apartment manager is absolutely no help, and because there are not cameras I don't really know what to do. \n\nIs there a way I can get force them to get cameras installed, or is my best option to move somewhere else?","title":"Car broken into, bike stolen, apartment complex refuses to get cameras","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541462445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uj4or\/someone_confessed_being_involved_in_the_death_of\/","id":"9uj4or","body":"So this person confessed to my father and I that they lured someone over social media to meet...(we thought they were lying but it turned out to be true)...once they met that persons boyfriend shot him and they both got rid of the body. But I can\u2019t find the source to submit a tip and this apparently happened 2 years ago. The person that was killed was an enemy drug dealer. \n\nWhat can I do? ","title":"Someone confessed being involved in the death of an individual","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554014018,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7ksng\/question_about_income_tax_refunds_in_light_of\/","id":"b7ksng","body":"Location: Oregon, USA\n\nSo, Husband I just filed our taxes a couple weeks back. We have been married appx 3.5 years, Husband is the Primary Tax Payer, and Breadwinner as I do not work due to disability. We filed under the status \"Married: Filling Jointly\" as we have always done for length of our marriage. Had our refund set to deposit into My account. \n\nHere's the slight catch and what I'm curious about:\n\nWe are heading for Divorce in the near future. We were advised to wait until we filed taxes before filing for Divorce. Now that taxes are filed though, Husband says it is HIS refund, not Ours, and that I have no claim to it since I don't work(pay taxes). And that I cannot use any of it. \n\nIs this true? For example, would I be breaking any laws if I used part of the refund to pay for:\n The filing fees for Divorce, or for \nHousehold goods(new vacuum, bigger bed for our kid, etc) \nOr for any big purchases (security deposit on new  apartment, car down payment, attny consults etc)?\n\nThanks!","title":"Question about income tax refunds in light of pending Divorce. What is allowable?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554441292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9n5rs\/tx_about_to_file_for_divorce_want_full_custody_of\/","id":"b9n5rs","body":"So now what do I do (I\u2019m 35M). It\u2019s illegal in TX to possess any of it, but who do I call or what should I do, since it\u2019s my home, I work full time, and she is a part time stay at home. \n\nHow do I get her rightfully in trouble for breaking the law, with that stuff in my home?  \n\nI feel strongly this is what I needed to get full custody; so now what? ","title":"[TX] About to file for divorce, want full custody of kids, and lo\u2019... I find A bottle of CBD Oil!!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571235852,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diq0ic\/my_guarantors_employer_didnt_complete_their\/","id":"diq0ic","body":"My friend and I were in the process of applying for a tenancy in the UK, everything else had been completed, a holding deposit had been paid, but we were just waiting on the guarantors employment reference to be completed.   \n\nThe provisional move in date was 19th September (I am writing this on 16th October, nearly a month later) due to problems on our side the guarantor paperwork was not completed and sent off until 30th September. We were told that we just had to wait on their employer to complete the reference, something that usually takes 48 hours, and we'd be able to move in.    \n\nAround 2 weeks later they still hadn't completed the reference, so the landlord decided to put the property back on the market. Someone else applied and now the landlord has decided to go with them instead.   \n\nBecause we hadn't moved in yet, my friend was unable to work at her job as she lives in a different county at the moment and was waiting to resume her job as soon as we moved.   \n\nIs there a case for unnecessary hardship and\/or loss of earning because of the employer not completing the reference?\n\nI'm happy to provide any more details if anyone needs more information","title":"My guarantors employer didnt complete their reference so now me and my housemate lost the house we were applying for","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553044353,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b35ovs\/il_workers_comp_for_worsening_small_painless\/","id":"b35ovs","body":"I had a small, painless hernia, until 1 week ago. After beginning my workweek, my first shift incurred un-ignorable pain and it became larger. I focused on lighter duty since the first hour, but it was too late. Now, I'm on Leave backed by medical Documentation.\n\nMay I have some advice? What are your experiences?","title":"IL | Worker's Comp for Worsening Small, Painless Hernia | Need Advice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555247610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd2m4h\/guy_on_kik_claims_his_cousin_is_a_cop_and_my\/","id":"bd2m4h","body":"Is this even possible? I manage a musician in Boston Massachusetts and the musician asked me to find a stranger to tickle torture her and she is wanting a non consensual aspect but it\u2019s consensual. So I asked people on kik to tickle her. Now this guy claims what I did was illegal and it\u2019s non consensual abducting and his cousin is a cop and I\u2019m going to be arrested as a sex offender. I can\u2019t even be charged when nothing has even happened to girl yet and she requested it. Told me to find a stranger to tickle her randomly. I\u2019m following what she said. \n\nI never once said to abduct anyone and I said it\u2019s non consensual\/consensual role play. \n\nWhat the fuck is illegal? \n\nHere is the screenshot of the message I sent. https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/BFm3suz","title":"Guy on Kik claims his cousin is a cop and My location has been tracked","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571642582,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkwulp\/lady_wants_money_from_me\/","id":"dkwulp","body":"Hi guys, I recently left home due to domestic violence with no income. A friend of mine told me to stay at a lady\u2019s house. I stayed less than 1 week. I had to go back to my home due to some family discussion. My abusive family has gotten stricter so now I can\u2019t go back to the lady\u2019s house. They\u2019re not letting me leave. Now she is texting me asking me to pay for the rent for the days I have stayed there. During the time I was there, none of this was discussed. I was going to pay her rent when I was offered a job nearby. But 3 days I didn\u2019t know she was charging me rent. Also I wasn\u2019t even offered food at her house. My friend had to buy me food. I feel like at least she could be a little compassionate about my circumstances until I get back on my own two feet. Her family was staying with her and I didn\u2019t feel welcome at all. What should I do? Will I get into legal trouble for this? Is it unfair for me to pay?","title":"Lady wants money from me","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551604896,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awsgl7\/ca_meal_break_violation_at_target\/","id":"awsgl7","body":"[Not sure if this is the right sub but hear me out]\n\nTL;DR - Target thinks I violated meal compliance when it shows I technically didn\u2019t\n\nSo the other day I most likely hit my 5th hour before clocking out for my meal break. Now it looks like I\u2019m going to be written up and such.\n\nI\u2019m with the security team so I have access to the cameras, so I decided to check the time stamps on my time clock usage.\n\nI clocked into work at 10:55:48 AM (give\/take 3 seconds)\nI clocked into lunch at 3:55:11 PM (give\/take 3 seconds)\n\nSo in reality I worked 4 hours, 59 minutes, and 23 seconds. I didn\u2019t violate my meal compliance correct? \n\nAny thoughts? Or maybe direct me to a more specific sub","title":"CA Meal Break violation at Target","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539313157,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ngmnc\/is_my_school_legally_allowed_to_do_this_wa\/","id":"9ngmnc","body":"Hello. I go to Washington and my school recently issued us Chromebooks to use both in and out of school, which is great for kids who don't have personal computers at home, and great because now we don't have to lug around big-ass carts around the whole school for when a class needs to use something on the computers. I find it very nice. The bad part, though, is they added a proxy extension called \"Hapara\" which is used to block websites, etc. You get the deal. All schools have some kind of extension that blocks even the most mundane of websites from being accessed. \n\nHere's the crazy part. I was told that if you are logged into your school G-mail account *at home* then they can see what websites you access, your search history, and even what you download on your **personal computer.** I'm not sure if they actively do this, but they said it is within reason to be punished for something you did at your home. Is this legal?","title":"Is my school legally allowed to do this? [WA]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553375336,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4o9xv\/former_landlord_is_requesting_part_of_the\/","id":"b4o9xv","body":"I ended my lease on March 1 and moved across the country about a month ago. I left the condo I was renting spotless and had it professionally cleaned. I was in Houston, TX.  \n\nMy security deposit was $1350 plus a pet deposit, $350. So altogether, $1700. My former landlord (LL) did not view the property until 2 weeks after I moved out and had deducted $300 for a thermostat that was falling off the wall (not my fault) as well as curtain rods I forgot to remove. I didn\u2019t fight these issues since I had moved across the country and just wanted to be done with the LL. So I accepted the $1400 and moved on. \n\nNow, 2 weeks after I received my deposit back, she is requesting that I return to her $350 from the pet deposit as she is now claiming there is an \u201coverwhelming cat urine smell\u201d in the condo and that she\u2019s probably going to have to replace carpet. There was no such smell when we moved out. I even had my mom visit our condo a few days before the lease ended to make sure it was in good condition. \n\nNeedless to say, I\u2019m not returning any of the pet deposit returned by LL. \n\nIs there any legal action she take against me? I\u2019ve checked all of my rights and laws regarding rentals and deposits and I seem to be in the clear. \n\nTL;DR Landlord returned my security deposit and is now asking that I return a portion of it two weeks later. What can\/should I do? \n\n","title":"Former landlord is requesting part of the security deposit back after they returned what was owed.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553188835,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3t8u7\/ca_landlord_wants_to_charge_me_85_to_get_off_a\/","id":"b3t8u7","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice,\n\nI've tried finding information about my situation online and reading my lease agreement, but it's still unclear to me if I have any legal rights around this.\n\nI'm a senior college student living with 4 other college students in an apartment. We all signed a lease in February 2019 that would renew our current residence in September 2019, 7 months in advance. Since then, things have come up in my life that influenced where I wanted to live and work next year, and I no longer want to be a part of this renewal. \n\nI spoke with my landlord who said it would cost $85 to remove me (just me) from the lease. This isn't breaking the lease (so far as I understand) because the 4 other girls would stay on the renewed lease. He also said if we wanted to add another person to the lease, it would cost another $175. This might seem like chump change for some, but as a broke-ass, ramen eating college student I would rather not pay these costs.\n\nI checked my lease for any mention of these costs and here's what I found that I think might be relevant information:\n\nUnder TERMINATION OF TENANCY:\n\n* A 210 day's notice in writing is required for vacating the premise. \n* If I vacate before the expired term \"Residents shall be liable for the balance of the rent for the remainder of the term, less any rent Landlord collects from a replacement Resident.\"\n\nUnder ASSIGNMENT and SUBLETTING:\n\n* Resident agrees to pay a $350 fee any time a lease is changed for any reason.\n\n​\n\nNow, the last part about paying a $350 fee seems like it could applicable to my situation. But we haven't even begun the new lease, it begins in September, so I don't know if that applies. \n\nI'm probably in denial because I feel duped, but please let me know if you have any advice for me. \n\n​\n\n**TL;DR** Are there penalties for getting 1 individual removed from a lease renewal, 7 months in advance of that renewal starting?","title":"[CA] Landlord wants to charge me $85 to get off a lease renewal (7 mos advance) even though my roommates are staying\/keeping lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570442115,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dehb5i\/resuspended_because_my_employer_sent_me_to_an\/","id":"dehb5i","body":"In May I failed a random drug test and was suspended from work. I was sent to a substance abuse professional by my employer. I returned to work after following their treatment recommendation and a returning drug test. However, my employer found out that they sent me to someone who isn't certified as a substance abuse professional by the Department of Transportation guidelines. \n\nIn September I was told that my return to duty process was nullified and I am re-suspended until I did the whole thing over with a certified person. It has taken about a month and I have had some coworkers tell me that they think I should be compensated for the lost wages. It is required that the employer provide me with the names of a certified professional and they failed to do that the first time, resulting in another month of no work. \n\nI don't know if it is even worth pursuing and would really appreciate any insight or feedback on my situation. Thanks!","title":"Re-Suspended because my employer sent me to an unqualified substance abuse professional [Iowa]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504144751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x3zin\/signed_up_for_gym_membership_thought_i_had\/","id":"6x3zin","body":"(Washington State)  \nOk, so I'll try and make this a simple as possible.  \n  \nI got a call yesterday from the gym I worked out at earlier this year saying they hadn't received payment from me since December. They explained that they had recently undergone new management and were trying to clean up outstanding memberships. \n  \nI signed up for a gym membership maybe back in October. I cancelled in November, then renewed in December. Last I can recall, I cancelled back in February with whoever the manager was at that time. They had stopped charging my card (still using the same card that they have on file, nothing has changed) at that point so what's done is done right?  \n  \nFast forward to yesterday when I received the phone call. According to new management, I never signed the contract to cancel the membership (Nor did I for the one back in November, but aparently they are not disputing that). They have not been charging my card for all these months, and I have been under the assumption that it was canceled so why would I worry. They are now claiming I owe all those months that I wasn't charged because I was technically still under contract.\n  \nI have had no activity at the gym (they confirmed) since February. So what is my option here? I mean, if I am legally bound and owe them that money then I guess so be it, but they were the ones that chose not to bill me, am I legally at fault for that? \n  \nTL:DR; canceled my membership 6 months ago over the phone, new management claims old management should have had me sign contract to cancel. I wasn't being charged since February, now they want me to pay all the months I wasn't active because I was technically still a member (but not going)","title":"Signed up for gym membership, thought I had cancelled, now gym trying to collect.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1503246631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uwnvq\/i_want_to_report_my_ex_boyfriend_to_the_police\/","id":"6uwnvq","body":"This happened in Washington, DC in March 2015. I was going to school there and dating a guy. We had been dating for about 18 months when the rape happened. He was very verbally and mentally abusive, and had me completely under his thumb. I was also suffering from depression and untreated anxiety at the time. He penetrated me while I was sleeping. I immediately felt assaulted, but I didn't file a report because I was too depressed to make myself do anything and too afraid of him.\n\nI've been haunted by this ever since it happened. I still feel violated, I still have issues with intimacy, I still have huge issues with distrust. I know he's out there being successful and living his life with no consequences while I deal with nothing but pain. I feel like the only way I can move on is if I get some sort of justice. \n\nBut there are problems:\n\n-I don't live in Washington, DC anymore. I ended up transferring colleges. \n\n-It was so long ago. I don't even remember the exact date and time. \n\n-We had consensual sex before he raped me and consensual sex afterwards, because I was in shock and afraid. I know that kind of thing looks bad to police and juries though. \n\n-He asked me if he had raped me several times and I always told him no. I only said no because I still loved him like a fool, and I was terrified. But I know it makes me look really bad. \n\nI would change what I did and said if I could in a heartbeat, but I can't. \n\nDo the lawyers here recommend that I report him anyway? Would I look like a liar or someone who wanted revenge? And how would I go about it since I don't live in the same state that it happened, and I don't remember some vital details?\n\nThank you","title":"I want to report my ex boyfriend to the police for raping me, but it's pretty complicated","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1550426804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arn48x\/tn_female_equality_pay_issue\/","id":"arn48x","body":"LONG STORY WARNING :\n\nPlease note that it\u2019s hard to provide all details and I cannot provide all details regarding newest hire as this is not his fault. I did my best providing as much detail in but I can continue to clarify if needed. \n\n\n\nOn June 4th, I started a job as a tech specialist that focuses on a physical helpdesk role and a ticketing system. My team is small and has one director who visits both campuses during the week and each campus then has the associate director (lead). Then there is me at the high school and then there is an identical role at the lower school that was filled January 7th.\n\nSince being hired I have revamped the ticket system and I am also developing all the help guides.\nI do repairs on MacBook Airs and run all over campus working on toner and printer issues. I work on audio issues in classrooms and switch out cables. I order supplies. I type up documents and help guides for classrooms an our provided technology.  I also created a monthly newsletter. That being noted, I KNEW what my role was going into this job and I dived in with 100% and then some.\n\nSix months pass and the same position at the other campus opens up. So, these jobs are the same level and are both considered \u201centry level\u201d for our small team.\n\nSeveral people apply along with a guy I used to work with. I had a nice working experience with him and when it comes time, I give him a nice referral.\n\nWELL, when all is said and done, my employer hires him but he doesn\u2019t like the pay. How do I know this, you ask? \n\nMy director called him and made him the offer while I was still in the office and I overheard it all! This guy was automatically offered $5k more. Then he doesn\u2019t like the pay. My director told him that it\u2019s not a knock on him or his experience but it\u2019s an entry level job. My director decides he will try to see if he can get him more. AND He does. So at this point, this guy who started last month is making 15-20% more than me. Of course I shouldn\u2019t know this but my director intentionally told me things and then stupidly had a loud job offer call while I was feet away. Yes, there was a wall and shut door but I heard it all.\n\nI sat on this info for weeks and at first just accepted it as it\u2019s the norm for me. The more I sat on it, I realized it wasn\u2019t right. I had asked for around the same amount they initially offered him but they gave me the lowest amount they could. My hiring convo was totally different as it came  from the director\u2019s boss who signs off an ALL contracts. There was no room for open negation and I didn\u2019t question it upon my hiring. \n\nNow it\u2019s time for contract renewals and the head employer stated we could arrange convos about our renewals, so I scheduled one with him. I DID NOT TELL HIM ABOUT WHAT MY DIRECTOR SAID. \nI didn\u2019t tell him what I knew. I approached it as I had been there for 7 months and had worked hard and made a positive impact. I wanted to see if they had it in the budget to renegotiate my salary (which breaks down to hourly pay). \n\nI was met with \u201cyou are great but if you want more, you will have to take on more outside your role\u201d. During my core hours I\u2019m hired to do my job and I can\u2019t take on more work. That would defeat the purpose of having me as a tech. Outside of this job, I have another part time job (remote) and I have my family to take care of. Anything done outside of my core hours would result in over time so it doesn\u2019t not come into play with my contract offer.\n\nFrom what I have gathered, this new guy isn\u2019t being told he needs to do more outside his main role to make more. They just gave it to him. And my director foolishly told me that he has stated he can\u2019t do more outside these core hours because of his family and commute.\n\nI had a development convo with my director a week after I asked the head honcho for higher hourly pay. \n\nI had the primary convo where we discussed what my areas of focus would be going forward. He then proceeded to tell me that I\u2019m doing great and loved my implementations in the classrooms. He then told me I was senior to the new guy (remember, they are both \u201centry level\u201d roles; just different campuses) and I would need to mentor and be a resource to him. Then he wanted me to learn how to do things on our website to directly help him (my director). I asked if the guys at the other campus would also be expected to learn the website. My director realized I was bothered by this portion of the convo. \n\nThis is when I told him how much I knew along with what he had told me himself. I told him how it made me feel and that I didn\u2019t feel it was fair. Seeing as I am \u201csenior\u201d  and need to be there for the new guy, why am I paid less? That doesn\u2019t make sense.\n\nCan you guess what comes next?\n\nWhy he is being paid more :\n\n1. He is more experienced (not totally accurate) \n2. He is ANTICIPATED to have more responsibility but not sure what yet. \n\nI\u2019m being being misled and feel I\u2019m now being lied to.\n\nMy contract is due next week and I have not met with HR yet. I should but I\u2019m wary of it as it\u2019s also a man and I have burned by HR before. \n\nA male co-worker warned me that if I filed a complaint he didn\u2019t think it had been done before and down the road, they would find a \u201creason\u201d to fire me. ","title":"TN | FEMALE | EQUALITY PAY ISSUE","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553787773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6kczq\/our_apartment_manager_told_me_our_heat_doesnt\/","id":"b6kczq","body":"Chicagoan here; we live in a building with radiators, and while we like almost everything about it, fall and spring are pretty frustrating seasons because our radiators don't turn on as frequently as the weather begins to fluctuate between warm and cold.\n\nRight now the temp is hanging in the low 50s, and I texted my building manager to ask what's going on. He told me the radiator boiler, which has temperature readers throughout the building, doesn't kick in unless the temp falls below 50 degrees F. That seems pretty cold to me; if the temp hangs around 55 for days on end, we're going to be cold more often than not. Is this legal? Should I contact local government, or should I start by going above my building manager directly to the leasing company?\n\nThe radiators work fine, in general, and when they're on, it's very cozy inside. But on days like today, where the temperature is going to hang just over 50 degrees for the better part of 24 hours, the radiators would be really useful.","title":"Our apartment manager told me our heat doesn't come on unless it's under 50 degrees F. Is this legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540356768,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qwq1f\/discussing_salary_az\/","id":"9qwq1f","body":"Is discussing your salary with coworkers legal even if it is explicitly forbid in your contract?","title":"Discussing salary? Az","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552664994,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1gim7\/i_feel_like_a_drunk_driver_is_getting_away_with_a\/","id":"b1gim7","body":"I will spare the majority of the details of the incident as its not really that important, so in keeping it short, a couple of weeks ago allegedly a drunk driver hit a car parked opposite the road from me and swerved into the back of my car making it no longer driveable. The driver of this vehicle ran away leaving the car behind. The reason I believe its a drunk driver is because the police that arrived on the scene told me that the car was known to be reported for drunk driving and the amount of alcohol bottles and beer cans that were in the passenger side of the car didn't really leave much to the imagination. \n\n​\n\nI contacted my insurance who put me through to solicitors to deal with my non-fault claim and recently received the update that the policy holder of the culprits car is claiming that the car was stolen and that they are not liable for the incident. This is simply not true, the cars steering wheel was locked and there were no indication that the car was stolen neither was there a report of the car being stolen that night when the police arrived on the scene. Also me and the three other people present would've have been able to tell if the car was stolen. Now I'm waiting for the culprits insurer to do an investigation on the incident to determine whether the car was stolen or not. I'm vary wary of this as I get the vibes that they are a bit dodgy and they can easily claim that the car was stolen to avoid a payout.\n\nThis has already taken a lot of time and nothing is happening with regards to my vehicle which I need to for travelling to and from work that would not be possible on public transport. \n\nI was given two options by my solicitors;\n\n1. Make a claim through my own insurance - I seriously don't want to do this as my excess is quite high due to me being a young driver of a high-end vehicle and the obvious that I am at no fault for this incident.\n2. Wait - This has already taken 2 weeks, and potentially could take months, I need a my car so this is out of equation.\n\nWhat else can I do, it's so obvious that this person is lying and it feels like I'm being cheated because they're potentially getting away with it. I should also mention that when I contacted the solicitors today they told me that the most recent update that they received was that the policy holder of the culprits vehicle had not made any contact with their insurer, however, when I spoke to their insurer, I was told about them making the claim that their car was stolen (bullshit!!!).\n\nPlease help me, I feel so helpless and cheated at the moment :(","title":"I feel like a drunk driver is getting away with a hit and run that I'm the victim of.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1417569835,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2o3voz\/is_teaching_a_craft_class_one_day_a_week\/","id":"2o3voz","body":"PM me is you need the specific city, please.\n\nAfter 19 years of teaching crafts in this city, either on request at the library or regularly at their senior center they have sent me a letter telling me I must have a business license by Jan. 1st.\n\nI have no presence in this city in the way of an office, supplies, equipment, etc., I do not sell anything, nor do I reside here.\n\nI receive a 1099 every year for what they pay me.\n\nDo I really need a business license? \n\nThanks for your response.\n","title":"Is teaching a craft class one day a week considered a business? (AL)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554925917,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbqig5\/could_you_still_press_charges_against_someone_if\/","id":"bbqig5","body":"About two weeks ago I was over my friends house celebrating her birthday. I got drunk and passed out pretty early in the night. I woke up around 3am to find my friends dad completely naked over me trying to pull my pants down. As soon as he realized I was up he went back to the other couch and I ran to my friends room and told her what happened. She went to confront her father and I stayed in the room with her husband and told him what happened. \n\nI want to press charges but I\u2019m afraid that I won\u2019t have enough evidence. The only thing i have is my word and a long and detailed apology from my friend thru text exposing how she feels ashamed and disgusted this happened. I haven\u2019t heard from her since but i want to take action because i don\u2019t her  to sweep this under the rug. \n\nAlso I\u2019ve grew up with her family since I don\u2019t have an extended family in the states. Is this a good idea to publicly go through with it and take it to court. Also if he is found guilty what kind of sentencing are we looking at? I do want this to happen to anyone else and it makes me sick to think what would of happened if I didn\u2019t wake up. \n\nAlso there has been one other time where I slept over after a night of drinking a couple months ago to only find myself extremely sore \u201cdown there\u201d and I thought it was so odd, but also thinking that this might not be the first time he\u2019s attempted this. \n\nAny feedback would be greatly appreciated. I want to know if it\u2019s even worth it to press charges and if I have enough evidence.","title":"Could you still press charges against someone if it was an attempted sexual assault?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569596932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da1r6x\/divorce_proceedings_just_started_what_are_the\/","id":"da1r6x","body":"My sister is the one getting divorced and is waiting to hear back from her lawyer. I figured I would all her in the meantime.\n\nI recently moved closer to my sister, just an hour away, but across state lines. Her ex is causing problems, and doing pretty much everything he can to be an issue. He's the one who cheated and literally can't even tell the kids to do anything without screaming at them which is the reason for the divorce.\n\nCan she get in trouble for bringing them to visit me? Does she need his approval? If he says no and she still brings them, what could happen?\n\n They literally just started proceedings three days ago so there isn't a formal custody agreement in place and they are still living together at this point. \n\nShe's in KY, I'm in IN","title":"Divorce proceedings just started - what are the rules about taking kids across state lines","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570507024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deusnq\/sticky_wait_time_penalty_situation_in_ca\/","id":"deusnq","body":"Hey everyone!\n\nFrom my understanding and past experience, CA has a wait time penalty that is put into employers if they do not pay you within 72 hours of you quitting without notice. My GF is in the current situation, and I'm kinda wondering how I should go about it.\n\nShe got hired at a part-time job, and went in for orientation (8 hours). She decided the job wasn't for her, so she didn't show up the next day or the day after. She attempted to call the manager to let them know that she quit, but never heard back from them. She has yet to be paid for that 1 day of work. It's now been over 30 days.\n\nSo my question is... 1) Would the wait time penalty begin the day after her orientation, or the day she attempted to resign over the phone? And 2) How would the hours be calculated if she was supposed to be a part time employee, but worked a full 8 hour day?\n\nIf you have any questions that will help me resolve my issue, please let me know and I'll get as much info as I can!\n\nThanks!","title":"Sticky Wait Time Penalty Situation in CA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554309769,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b90cx5\/are_companies_allowed_to_advertise_that_they_have\/","id":"b90cx5","body":"In New York State. ","title":"Are companies allowed to advertise that they have the 'lowest prices gauranteed' if they don't price match?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541948584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w4exk\/speeding_ticket_while_driving_across_country_us\/","id":"9w4exk","body":"I\u2019m currently traveling across the US from Arizona to Kentucky to visit family. In the Midwest I got slammed with a speeding ticket (82mph in a 65). The officer was a good dude, bumped it to 80 so it wouldn\u2019t be criminal speeding or something like that. When the officer was typing in the tags he put in the incorrect state and said he couldn\u2019t find my registration. I noticed and corrected him. Received my jolly ticket of $262 and was on my way, at a slower pace.\n\nLater I was looking over the citation and noticed that my vehicle tag is still incorrect. Plate number is correct, but the state is not. Technically speaking, my car is not the car that received the ticket. Is this something I can use to fight the ticket? If so, would I be able to do this without driving halfway across the country to do it?","title":"Speeding ticket while driving across country (US) with a twist.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554412979,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9il86\/is_it_legal_for_my_employer_to_make_me_pay_to\/","id":"b9il86","body":"I currently am holding a job at a company I dislike strongly. The only way to leave the job is to pay $XX,XXX (Real total may ID me to fellow co-workers. It's in the tens of thousands of $$ to leave.) to my employer. Is this even legal? I've tried to google this question but Google just didn't bring up anything useful. \nYour advice and help is appreciated.\nThanks. ","title":"Is it legal for my employer to make me pay to leave the company?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571597005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkns4u\/is_this_illegal\/","id":"dkns4u","body":"Total throwaway post but recently I found out a sr. manager at work started seeing my ex bf. In a totally small world from what I know, they met on Tinder, matched and have been going out the last 6 months. He has no affiliation where I work so I was kind of caught off guard when I bumped into him at our departments company award ceremony with her. This is a manager that I run into DAILY and might even be one of the gatekeepers for the next position I\u2019ve been eyeing. I\u2019ve been super worried lately that my ex is going to tell her damaging information about me. When we were together the final straw to our tumultuous relationship was him going through my phone and I caught him doing it and FREAKED out. He started recording me from his phone instigating a fight so I\u2019m pretty sure in the video I look crazy coming after him trying to get my phone back. The whole thing felt setup and didn\u2019t help we had both been drinking the night before (happened at like 4am half asleep). Now, if she knows all this and creates an impression of me. Can she use this against me at work?!","title":"Is this illegal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569685105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dahk6a\/my_mother_is_being_falsely_accused_of_child_abuse\/","id":"dahk6a","body":"A little background, I am currently a sophomore college student living away from home. I was raised by my single mother after she divorced my biological father. She remarried in 2014, had my half-sister, and then divorced my step-father in 2018, since my step-father would constantly belittle and harass both me and my mother, and also kept a great deal of secrecy with his finances. Even though my mother has a stable income as a physician, her attourney was absolutely terrible and my stepfather was able to make a case for neglect based on her working too much. In the end, they settled with joint custody with my mother paying child support fees to my stepdad. (he claimed he had no assets under his name even though he said he was \"the co-owner\" of a daycare)\n\nAnyways, Yesterday I came back from college to visit, and my mom told me that the daycare called and warned her that my step-father is bringing a CPS case against her. I'm actually typing this while waiting for CPS to come visit my home. While i'm aware  things may have changed while i've been gone, i'm absolutely certain that my mother did not abuse my sister. My stepdad had previously harassed my mother through both text messages and email, even preventing her from being enrolled at an early education school for Chinese. (even though my mother has the right to choose her place of education)\n\nAfter some investigation online, i have found that it is a felony to falsely accuse of child abuse  in my home state of Texas. What is the process to take legal action, and what are some preparations we can make for it? Also, could we sue in civil court for character damage and undue stress? I can imagine my stepdad will deny any allegations thrown at him, so what are some of the ways we can ensure he is punished for false reporting?","title":"My mother is being falsely accused of child abuse","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570536071,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deyypn\/breaking_lease_in_nonsmoking_community\/","id":"deyypn","body":"The community I live in is strictly a non-smoking building (interior and exterior - including balconies and 25 ft within the building itself). Many people here smoke cigarettes all the time in the courtyard where all our balconies face, I smell it every time I have my windows open and there are cigarette butts tossed everywhere. I've caught and taken pictures of the guy below me smoking. I've made two efforts to correct it with the building manager but there hasn't been a change in the issue, even after giving them clear proof of a violator. The lease specifically says smoking is prohibited and that they have the right to terminate the lease due to violating the no-smoking policy BUT it also says in the non-smoking addendum that there is \"no guarantee that any specific unit is smoke-free\". Obviously, because enforcing smoking is pretty difficult for a large apartment community. It's getting the point where the apartment complex is violating their \"duty to correct the issue\" with a reasonable solution.\n\nThe verbiage of the lease states the tenant complaining must also give a reasonable solution to fix the issue they're encountering in an effort to assist the apartment community. So I'd like to break my lease \\[without paying the exuberant buy-out fee\\] and move to another apartment complex, which is still owned by the same management company - but I'm pretty sure each building is owned by a different owner so transfers aren't allowed. The security deposit we paid is only $200 and I'm not seeking anything in return. I'm prepared to go through the credit\/background check process, I just want out of this place because we can't even open our windows and enjoy the fall weather without our place smelling like an ash tray. My SO has asthma that is controlled by medicine prescribed by a pulmonologist. I'm a 100% Permanently & Totally disabled veteran so I have a plethora of issues that are easily aggravated by secondhand smoke. Neither of us can physically or medically obtain \"quiet and safe enjoyment of our unit\". I'm going to write up an email to the building manager in hopes they'll be understanding and will allow us to break our lease due to this issue. Us leaving would most likely be cheaper than them going on a witch-hunt and eventually filing to evict the smokers. There's only so much I can do to accommodate the smoking. I'd write up an intent to vacate in 7 days on the grounds of quiet enjoyment\/health\/safety but unlike Florida, Massachusetts does not have any laws I can use as leverage so this would probably be a good faith move for the building manager if they take it. I'd like to avoid hiring an attorney and suing the apartment. It's a pretty cut and dried issue with a feasible solution offered to solve the issue. \n\nAny tips on getting out of here without owing the apartment complex?","title":"Breaking lease in Non-Smoking Community","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503427876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vd5wm\/issuance_of_a_bad_check_jury_summons\/","id":"6vd5wm","body":"Jurisdiction: **State of Texas**\n\nI have been summoned for jury duty.\n\nIn 1998, I pled nolo to Issuance of a Bad Check. This was a Class C misdemeanor -- pay a fine and go on with your life.\n\nIn Texas, people who have been convicted of a \"theft charge\" are ineligible to serve on juries, including misdemeanor theft charges. There are charges like \"Theft By Check,\" which by the name you can tell is a theft charge. However, in my case, no goods changed hands.\n\n**Question:** Is Issuance of a Bad Check considered a theft charge for the purposes of a jury summons in Texas?\n\nThank you.","title":"Issuance of a Bad Check - Jury Summons","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540491792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rcvmq\/embezzlement\/","id":"9rcvmq","body":"Hello, I am starting off by saying thank you in advance here before I start because I will and am grateful for any advice\/insight\/knowledge  that you guys will be providing.\n\nMy parents opened a restaurant 2 years ago. It was a company based LLC. From my knowledge there were 4 partners. The restaurant started off slow but began to grow. My mom suspected Emily (random name for the witch) of embezzlement. She noticed this because she was the \u201caccountant\u201d for the company\/ restaurant and she was asking all the partnerships to add more pocket money due to the company not breaking even. But the suspicions quickly faded away because my mom thought of her as family and trusted her. My mom is not a partner of this company.\n\nMy mom has found evidence that she has been taking money from the restaurant. One way was from my mom\u2019s wage. She paid my mom less than minimum wage(my mom was not part of the company). She also took money from her tips.  Secondly, she stole money from the restaurant\u2019s earning\/profits. When you order a meal, it will be paid for, which ends up being paid for at the end. Somehow Emily found a loophole around this. She started to mark these orders (in the POS machine) as \u201cvoided.\u201d For a fact these orders were paid for because the food was made and everything. There is also a hole in this \u201cvoid\u201d method. How can there be over x (I do not know the exact amount) voids in a year? The restaurant was not very popular so it does not make sense to have this many voids.\n\n\nThere are also other methods she used to approach this embezzlement. I can explain them all if you guys do not believe\/still do not understand the reason why this is embezzlement. \n\nI can provide more information or clarify my post if you guys need it.\n\nHow should we approach this?\n\nThank you in advance!\n\n\nTL;DR: Person embezzled company\/restaurant and do not know how to approach it. We have evidence of it and would like you guy to give advice on how to use these evidences. \n\n","title":"Embezzlement","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555345372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdhzge\/ca_landlord_moved_us_into_a_new_unit_that_is_much\/","id":"bdhzge","body":"My landlord moved us (my 5 roommates and I) into a new apartment after our old one's roof had mold. This new unit is much smaller than the original and we're struggling to fit everything inside. \n\nWe are paying based on amneties and also square footage. Since we've lost 2 balconies and a lot of square footage, shouldn't we pay less?\n\nWe also had to throw out furniture, but I read that it has to exceed $3,000 and we didn't reach that amount.\n\nI'm planning on measuring or getting access to the floor plans for my unit and the previous one to compare sizes. But what else should we do?\n\nWe also now have bed bugs but that's a different story....We're moving in june too.","title":"[CA] Landlord moved us into a new unit that is much smaller after our original unit has mold. How do I talk to her about lowering rent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409869705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fhx6r\/i_live_in_the_uk_my_girlfriend_18_years_old_s\/","id":"2fhx6r","body":"I am fairly certain facebook messages count as personal electronic-mail as access to the account requires a password known only to the account holder. Accessing anyone's personal mail, electronic or physical, without consent is illegal.","title":"I live in the UK. My girlfriend (18 years old) 's parents have been reading her facebook messages secretly without her consent and are using them against her through emotional manipulation","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1542242216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x60mh\/exgirlfriend_is_getting_ready_to_accuse_me_of\/","id":"9x60mh","body":"I am management in operating  a mixed used building that contains offices and restaurants. A couple months ago, the local police department arrested a guy taking creepshots of the various people in and around the building. As a result, I took it upon myself to look online to see if anymore of these exists to try and see if other people have posted photos online from a possible hidden camera in the building. Thankfully, I didn't find any fixed, hidden camera photos but there were definitely other creepshots posted on various websites.\n\nRecently, I broke up with my longtime girlfriend on bad terms in which her immediate response was to warn my female roommates that \"he probably won't hurt you but he's a creep and takes creepshots\". I talk to my roommates and while they are friends with my ex, they also understood my motivations with my search history and my ex's recent unstable behavior which led to the breakup (our relationship had been rocky for at least a year by then).\n\nA couple of weeks go by and my roommates inform me that my ex has \"evidence\" that I was distributing child pornography and creepshots and that I have photos of them and my other friends on my computer too. My ex refused to show them at least some of that evidence as she is \"building a case\".\n\nI don't know what other evidence she might have and the fact that my ex knew all my passwords and once installed malware on my old laptop makes me paranoid that \"evidence\" was fabricated or played up. What can I do to legally protect myself from such accusations? Is there a way to counter it before it happens?\n\nI just want it to be ended as cleanly as possible because i know that if it does go to trial, my main legal defence would be to exploit her mental illnesses and that's the worst possible thing to do to a person imo.","title":"Ex-girlfriend is getting ready to accuse me of distributing child pornography\/creepshots. Its not true but accusations like that can kill my life\/career. What can I do to protect myself legally when accusations like this are made? [CA, USA]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446072495,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qmkc1\/landlord_holding_deposit_and_charging_additioinal\/","id":"3qmkc1","body":"I recently moved out of a 2 bed 2 bathroom unit in Vista, CA. The management company sent us a bill for the unit of over $1800 on top of the $1200 deposit they are keeping. When we signed the lease we were told that we would not be responsible for the carpet or the paint when we moved out being that we lived there for over a year. They also stated the same thing during the initial inspection before the final inspection. They required us to pay to have the carpet professionally cleaned, which we did. They are now charging us to have the carpet completely replaced, claiming that they found animal urine in every room. We never had an animal in the unit aside from my goldfish.\n\n They are also charging us to paint the walls even though we were told to simply Spackle over any holes and not worry about paint. They are also charging outrageous fees to replace a few blinds that we broken. I replaced the blinds on the sliding door with a pack i bought at Home Depot for $14 yet they are charging $10 each to replace smaller ones on the windows (Which I didn't replace because i couldnt find the size). What can I do?","title":"Landlord holding deposit and charging additioinal $1800 (California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539799571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p132q\/rearended_someone_this_morning_and_they_didnt\/","id":"9p132q","body":"(WA State) \n\n​\n\n\\*\\*tl;dr\\*\\* I rear ended someone- no damage on the other's car, didn't get pictures of their car\/ID\/insurance, no contact info, no police. They got pictures of my ID\/insurance. Could I possibly get screwed over if he makes up a story and blames future damage on me?\n\n This early morning I was on the way to get on the highway to go to class for an exam. I was at a stop light and the traffic was stop-and-go, so of course I couldn't have hit the car at more than 5 mph max. I was in shock and mortified at what stupidity came over me. The man in the car in front of me got out of his car as did I, and we both looked for damage. Fortunately, his car went completely unscathed; unfortunately, not mine. I just stood gaping, completely unsure of what to do- I didn't say sorry, since that's like the number one rule of car accidents I believe. He asked for my ID and insurance and I went and retrieved them from my car. Here's the part where I goofed up- after he took a picture of my ID and insurance card, he went to his car and just drove off. I did not get a single picture of his car, his ID\/insurance, nor his contact info. \n\n​\n\nI called my dad after it happened almost in tears and he said that since I didn't get any pictures, he could go jack up his car by his own fault and then trace back to me to lay down all the fees and charges since I got no evidence. I don't think the driver took any pictures aside from my ID and insurance, but- am I doomed? Is this possible and did I just double my expenses?\n\n​","title":"Rear-ended someone this morning and they didn't give me their ID\/insurance","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555696730,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf26o7\/getting_bio_dads_parental_rights_terminated_and\/","id":"bf26o7","body":"My fianc\u00e9\u2019s daughter is 4. We\u2019re getting married this fall and want to adopt each other children when we get married. My daughters bio dad left when he found out my fianc\u00e9 was pregnant. She contacted him after she had our daughter but he never responded. She has had the same phone number, he has chosen not to contact them. \n\nShe has never received child support, although she also never filed for it, she didn\u2019t want to force contact him. I met them when she was about 6 months old and we became serious when she was about one. I\u2019m her dad, and we would like to make it official. \n\nWe live in Alberta, Canada. He moved to Ontario when she got pregnant. He has since moved back to our province, though hasn\u2019t tried to contact my fianc\u00e9 or daughter.\n\nWe are you going to get a lawyer. Just wondering if he tries will he be able to stop us terminating his parental rights? And me being able to adopt her?","title":"Getting bio dads parental rights terminated and adopting my fianc\u00e9\u2019s daughter?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571540444,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dke09t\/if_an_infants_name_is_changed_do_they_have_to_put\/","id":"dke09t","body":"Basically the title, I\u2019m having a really hard time finding actual information and not just wiki-how directions on how to change a babys name. \n\nMost of what I have found says before six months doesn\u2019t even always require a court order. \n\nThank you so much.","title":"If an infants name is changed do they have to put their old name as \u201cother known names\u201d on paper work for the rest of their life?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445455963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3po9tf\/i_was_in_court_yesterday_and_would_like_some_help\/","id":"3po9tf","body":"I'm a student and for one of my classes I went and observed some state level court. There was a man who would give the judge a brief run down of each case before it would be officially announced for the record and he would give his opinion on what the judge should do. He dismissed someone who was there without consulting the judge. He is obviously an official individual, who is he? What is his title?","title":"I was in court yesterday and would like some help identifying the role of the man who kept speaking to the judge","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542237957,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x5fh9\/sociopath_aunt_is_getting_custody_back_of_her_kids\/","id":"9x5fh9","body":"My aunt is a grade A sociopath.  She was in a mental hospital and had someone bail her out, starved herself and her children, neglected the youngest, and a whole it more that I\u2019d rather not write.  Basically while she was sober enough to agree to sign over custody for a temporary period.  While she wants them back even though she is still mentally unstable.\n\nThe problem comes with her kids.  Ones 17 (18 in a few days) ones 15 and the youngest is 12.  The youngest has been living with is for the time and my sane aunt had the other two.  The oldest two hate her because they know almost everything she did and the youngest is oblivious.\n\nBasically I don\u2019t wanna see custody handed back over to that woman just like that and need some advice.","title":"Sociopath aunt is getting custody back of her kids","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443890666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ncw96\/ebay_has_restricted_me_from_selling_forever\/","id":"3ncw96","body":"I live in Pennsylvania and I have been selling on eBay for years now. I have almost 1,800 transactions and I messed up about 10 of them so eBay closes my account. The 10 transactions I messed up I was able to talk to every buyer and come to a conclusion, most of them just wanted me to cancel the order, which is the reason my account was closed. Could I take eBay to small claims court for loss of income? I had a couple thousand dollars of inventory on eBay when they closed my account and I read the terms and conditions and I didn't break any rules. I would just want my account reopened to continue selling, does anybody know if I have an actually case here?","title":"eBay has restricted me from selling forever, anything I can do?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571692324,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl71ip\/nevada_death_and_money\/","id":"dl71ip","body":"My grandfather in law recently passed away in Nevada. He left a will that was 9 years old in which he disinherited my wife\u2019s mother. He did not specifically name my wife  in the will at all but the relationship that they had was such that she was left his ashes by the rest of the family who does not have to split assets three ways with her mother being disinherited. Would that be a case to contest the will putting my wife in her mother\u2019s place for the dispersement of his assists.","title":"Nevada, Death and Money.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1507805942,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75w8ff\/australia_landlord_wants_payment_for_replacing\/","id":"75w8ff","body":"So the carpet in the place I'm renting got pretty damaged thanks to cats.  I've admitted fault and told my landlord that I will pay to have the carpet replaced, she's given me 30 days notice to vacate which is fine because I was actually planning on giving her 60 days notice, so this is cheaper for me.\n\nHowever she is asking me to pay for the carpet now, and directly into her back account. I've yet to see a quote. When I said I'd prefer to pay directly to the carpet company she's come back saying she's already paid them and I need to pay her now.\n\nIs this legal? If she can show me a receipt I might feel better about it, but so far all she's offered is to send me the quote.\n\nUpdate: she's now called my 73yr old mother who was on my agreement as an emergency contact and told her she is on the hook for any costs I don't cover because her name is on the agreement too. What planet is this lady on?! Advice for all future renters - always go through an agency!!! ","title":"[australia] landlord wants payment for replacing carpet directly to them, no invoice\/quote","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539874749,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pa105\/protecting_my_unborn_daughter_ks\/","id":"9pa105","body":"First time mom here (21yrs) wondering what steps to take to best protect my unborn child from the father and his family.\n\nMy daughter is getting my last name, and I planned on putting her father on the birth certificate to rid of any extra drama but not sure if that is a good idea or not. If I don't, he has no rights but his family would lose their minds. What other legal steps should\/could I take to ensure her safety should anything happen that causes his family to betray me again and go after custody?","title":"Protecting my unborn daughter (KS)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570812607,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dghvs5\/fired_from_job_after_informing_general_manager\/","id":"dghvs5","body":"\nA little backstory:\n\nI have been working with this company in California for over two years. During that time I was always on time, I had no write ups, and had only called off work due to an excused sick leave. I was promoted to supervisor this year, with the responsibility of running my department. As soon as I was promoted to supervisor many of my supervisors began insulting me, saying offensive things behind my back, and spreading rumors about me to the other workers. I brought this to the attention of the general manager and we had a meeting but it didnt go away. I ignored it and moved on. In our employee handbook it says that employees and customers are not allowed to be under the influence of any substance while on the premises. We even had to do a mandatory drug test before we got hired. Customers would always be under the influence which lead to me almost getting assaulted by a group of customers and created a unsafe work environment for me. This event lead to more rumors being spread about me which I also brought it to the attention of my general manager as well.\n\nFlashforward a couple weeks ago and one day I saw smoke coming from the back where we store all the food and I hear my supervisors back there.  A couple days later I hear from them and other employees that they were smoking marijuana. I asked my general manager if I could talk to him and we sat down and talked. I told him that we should have a random drug test on all of management and told him what I saw and heard. He thanked me for bringing this to his attention since no one ever tells him things like that, and said he would contact our corparate office to get approval. Weeks passed and nothing happened. Then one day I go in to work and my general manager tells me if we could talk. He pulls me aside with the assistant manager, who is great friends with the supervisors I saw. They tell me I am getting terminated for creating a hostile work environment due to the fact that other people heard about what I told my general manager. He accused me of spreading rumors about the situation, which was not true, since someone informed him that I was. My general manager tells the assistant manager every thing that happens.\n\nNow I'm wondering if they even had the premise of terminating me due to the fact that I had a clean record over these two years that I have been working there. I am considering getting a lawyer but dont know the correct approach to this situation.","title":"Fired from job after informing general manager about my supervisors smoking marijuana on the premises. (CALIFORNIA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551368634,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avsi07\/landlord_took_my_entire_security_deposit\/","id":"avsi07","body":"Hello all,\n\nAs the title says my landlord took my entire security deposit. \n\nI gave $1500 plus $500 up front for 1 month deposit and pet deposit. \nI also moved out a few days earlier than agreed so I was given 212 as a prorated amount. \n\nAll in all I had $2212 coming to me if nothing was taken out. \n\nThey sent me an itemized list with charges that all sound legitimate but are very exaggerated. \n\nIt looks as though they charged me for cleaning every aspect of the house. There are charges for window and door cleanings. Pressure washing. Missing light strings from the ceiling fans (these weren\u2019t missing they are installed so the light string is small and you are supposed to use the wall switch). And a whole other mess of random things that were tacked on to the bill. \n\nI ended up getting a check for $92 when it was all done. \n\nI am pissed. How can get my money back from her?\n\n","title":"Landlord took my entire security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554590701,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba9wnk\/stealing_while_high_is_this_an_excuse\/","id":"ba9wnk","body":"I took a lot of opiates and was breaking into cars taking peoples stuff... I was so high.  \n\nIs this a defense? ","title":"Stealing while high is this an excuse?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551403200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avyqob\/old_job_never_gave_me_breaks_even_on_8_hour_shifts\/","id":"avyqob","body":"I used to work at a large fast food pizza chain which may or may not rhyme with crominos.\n\n\nThey treated me very poorly. I was the low man on the totem pole so whenever there was an order I would be on it and my superiors would then decide whether or not they felt like helping me. There were numerous occasions where I had to man the store by myself whilst the assistant managers ate food in the back. \n\n\nIt was my first job so I didn\u2019t know much about how labor laws worked and stuff and I was just happy to be getting a paycheck. No matter how long my shift was, they never gave me a break and would yell at me if I tried to sit down for a few minutes when the store was dead. I was 16 years of age at the time I held this job and worked there for around 9 months. \n\n\nSomeone at my new job told me I could go after them for this and that I had up to 5 years since I stopped working there to do so (it\u2019s been about  1 1\/2 years). \n\n\nSo what kind of legal action can I take and is it smart to pursue this? Thanks in advance","title":"Old Job never gave me breaks, even on 8+ hour shifts","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570547815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df1dme\/terminated_lease_properly_have_not_received\/","id":"df1dme","body":"Is this legal? I terminated my lease peacefully and with proper communication. Still waiting on return of security deposit. I keep calling the leasing company and they said they are not responsible for the deposit. No one ever wrote me a new lease agreement upon transferring of companies.\n\nI'm thinking of sending certified mail to the original leasing company address and beginning the small claims procedure. Should I or am I wasting my time?","title":"Terminated Lease properly. Have not received security deposit ($300). Company says they sold the unit I lived in and to seek the deposit from the other company.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550414979,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arl64h\/elderly_man_wants_his_food_cooked_dangerously\/","id":"arl64h","body":"Throwaway because I have coworkers on reddit. I couldn\u2019t find a relevant flair so \u201cemployment\u201d seemed to be the closest fit other than healthcare. \n\nI work at an elderly retirement community (Oregon) as a cook. As most (I hope) know, restaurants have disclaimers printed on their menu stating that consuming raw or under cooked food can result in a food borne related illness. For reasons unknown to me, and although I have asked and not been given an answer, we do not have such a statement posted anywhere. \n\nOne particular resident demands to have his scrambled eggs undercooked. And I mean that they are literally still runny, and staining the plate yellow. This is unsafe for a normal person, and far lore unsafe for an elderly person that is immunocompromised.\n\nMy question: if I were to continue cooking his eggs the way he demands them to be made, and he becomes mortally ill, can he or his family take legal action against me specifically? Or only the business? I have no desire to be caught up in some legal battle that could have been completely avoided by a legal affidavit stating that he, of sound mind and body, chooses to eat his eggs in such a manner. ","title":"Elderly man wants his food cooked dangerously","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554705586,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baqflv\/being_harassedthreatened_online_while_a_resident\/","id":"baqflv","body":"I am a resident of USA - VA \nBeing harassed and threatened online by the girl dating my STBX husband \nI have an order of protection against him, he is a resident of VA \nHis girlfriend is a resident of TX \nI am currently visiting family in HI \n\nHow do I go about enforcing legal repercussions?\nI have screenshots of everything, have kept all of the correspondence and am not responding to the harassment and threats - which amount to extortion\/blackmail with damages to my character\/relationships\/employment.\n\nI am hoping this is something I can report to the police, and not have to take on the financial duress of an additional lawsuit.\n\nAny advice is appreciated. ","title":"Being harassed\/threatened online while a resident of one state, from someone in another state, while currently out of state with family. How to go about legalities?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539372899,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nncum\/can_a_single_owner_llc_buy_into_another_llc\/","id":"9nncum","body":"I have an opportunity to buy into an LLC, let\u2019s call it ABC. I need a loan to finance this. I\u2019m not having the greatest luck (or greatest terms) on getting a personal loan to do so. So I was thinking, what if I were to start an LLC, we\u2019ll call it XYZ. I\u2019ll get a startup business loan on behalf of XYZ, and then buy into ABC with those funds. All the income from my ABC partial ownership will go an account for XYZ. I\u2019m confusing myself here and I just want to know is this 1) legal and 2) smart. \n\nAnd then also is XYZ going to have a legitimate enough business plan for a lender to approve a startup loan? Help me...","title":"Can a single owner LLC buy into another LLC?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540259251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qkdim\/what_is_the_best_way_to_protect_yourself_when\/","id":"9qkdim","body":"I have a passion for entrepreneurship and dream of one day starting my own business. I was thinking perhaps I should start an online store (on something like Etsy) for now and see how it goes.\n\nLets say for example the first people who started selling those shirts\/other merchandise with generic cartoon characters on them with a funny quote: [https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Funny-Fox-T-Shirt-Really-Foxes\/dp\/B0767CVFGT](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Funny-Fox-T-Shirt-Really-Foxes\/dp\/B0767CVFGT)\n\nI'm not sure who started these types of merchandise but since then I've seen them blow up all over the internet and see ads from various companies\/online stores all the time. \n\nMy question is: is there anything someone like them could have done to protect themselves starting out? So there wouldn't have been so many copycats\n\nI'm not too well-versed in copyright \/ patent law, but I know that ideas cannot be protect and anything generic like cartoon animals, etc... also cannot be protected correct?\n\nWhat then is the best way to yourself\/ideas when starting out?\n\nThank you very much!\n\n​","title":"What is the best way to protect yourself when starting an online business?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571372907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djibao\/half_of_nursing_class_expelled\/","id":"djibao","body":"Last year in November, half of our Registered Nursing class including I were expelled from our college (For-profit, not state university).\u00a0 We were 3 months away from graduating after being together in classes for 2 years... all because of a false accusation.\u00a0 I would have taken the loss if we were actually in the wrong but no, we were the ones who were wronged.\u00a0 I am here not for pity but for serious advice, I will try my best to make it as short as possible.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nI have been an LPN since 2012, a little over 2 years ago I decided I wanted to go for my RN.\u00a0 I made nearly straight A's and I even did my part with the school and attended each open house for people interested in becoming students for our college.\u00a0 I was passionate and\u00a0it was stressful (nursing school!) but I had so much fun thanks to my classmates and our teachers.\u00a0 It was roughly half a year before we got expelled when the school went downhill as our dean had quit and so did over half of our teachers.\u00a0 We would come to class and clinical just waiting and wondering if a teacher would show up to teach, (the clinicals that were missed were never made up).\u00a0 They changed the way the testing was to not be covering our source material.\u00a0 So on and so forth.\n\nThere was a big chain hospital that our school did clinicals at.\u00a0 They required us to have done these little quizzes that ask about hand-washing, fire safety, and how to be polite to patients.\u00a0 We completed them half a year before we got expelled and gave them to our teacher (who was the dean at the time and later quit half into our class period which hurt us in the end because we could not get a hold of her).\u00a0 It was 4 months after that in which our recent dean asked for them again over the phone while we were in clinical (we could hear him screaming at our teacher over the phone who was 40 yrs old and pregnant with previous miscarriage).\u00a0 I faxed our saved copies to the email provided, it turns out they came out distorted and they believed them to be fake.\u00a0 The big hospital chain's IT told me they delete records every 90 days... so we literally had no actual proof we did these quizzes.\u00a0 We got in trouble and were told we were on suspension and that we would be held up with a panel of a handful of faculty to discuss our fates.\u00a0 The panel never happened, the dean ended up calling us in one by one with our pre-printed expulsion papers and even after I cried to him and pleaded and begged to him that we did not make these up he didn't care.\u00a0 In fact his emotions\u00a0and posture were scary and so negative... he nearly threw his chair across the room.\u00a0 NO COMPASSION from a NURSE who is in charge of FUTURE NURSES... not a great example.\u00a0 He didn't even have a teller to record information for some of us...\u00a0 So here I am with unaccredited classes even though they are A's and over 30,000$ of debt on me because of false accusations...\n\nI cannot explain to you all how heart-broken and soulless I feel every day of my life.\u00a0 I have cried so many times because a man decided to hold me back from my dreams.\u00a0 I absolutely was ecstatic to have been able to hone my skills as an RN in a hospital setting.\u00a0 I even wanted to be NP one day... but it is impossible for me now as I have a large loan over my head.\u00a0 I have already wrote appeals, to which were denied without investigation. What can I do??\u00a0 Should I seek legal advice?\u00a0 Thank you.","title":"Half of nursing class expelled.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1504271240,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xeeav\/ar_my_halfsister_stole_my_identity_round_three\/","id":"6xeeav","body":"I've posted here twice in the last few weeks detailing how my discovery of a credit account in collects led to a further discovery that I was listed as a guarantor for my niece's emergency room visit.\n\nSince then, the hospital where this occurred, and therefore the original creditor, has contacted the debt collection agencies involved and had this incident removed from my credit. All in, it took less than two weeks to repair my credit. I'm happy about that part. However, the hospital would not divulge any details about how specifically I came to be listed as the guarantor since I wasn't present to sign. I asked explicitly \"Was this an honest mistake that occurred later on, or is my signature on the intake form?\" I made it very clear that I was gladly willing to forgive an honest mistake. The billing manager said she was \"not able to give legal advice.\" I understood this to mean that this was not an honest mistake, and that she didn't want to potentially further incriminate the hospital. She fell back on HIPAA as an excuse not to tell me how my credit became attached to my half-sister's hospital bill.\n\nTwo days ago I visited the police department in my town to file a report for identity theft. The officer took the report, but also suggested I go to the next town over (where the theft occurred) and file a report there since it might expedite things. I did what he suggested. \n\nThe new officer at the second police department didn't seem to think that a crime has occurred. In his opinion, unless I can prove that my sister had criminal intent, then no crime has occurred. I insisted that I can't prove anything without the hospital cooperating, but he seemed to think that was proof that it was solely the hospital's fault and not my half-sister's. Furthermore, he said that since the hospital had \"made me whole\" by fixing my credit, that again no crime has been committed. \n\nThis last part really rubs me the wrong way. So I can steal a car and take it for a joy ride, but no crime has been committed as long as I fill up the gas tank and take it through a car wash? \n\nNow, the officer in my town says they can't pursue this is the PD in the town where it occurred isn't going to pursue it. So as of right now it looks like either my sister, the hospital, or both are getting out of this with no consequences. This obviously isn't the end of the road for me, and I'm supposed to be speaking with a lawyer today. Am I missing or forgetting something?","title":"[AR] My half-sister stole my identity, Round Three","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541254879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tugd9\/being_kicked_out_by_roommate\/","id":"9tugd9","body":"So this is in Australia, I couldn\u2019t find a r\/legaladviceAU, so Im posting here.\n\nLast year Nov 2017, I was with my friend and a couple, which was 4 people in total, 3 boys 1 girl, signing a lease contract for this year, which ends by the end of Nov 2018. All of our names are on the contract that we signed with agent. So recently, that couple told me and my friend that they were going to sign the next year\u2019s contract, as they need it for future immigration purpose, which is like a proof for living together. Then me and my friend were like cool, go for it, as throughout the year, we sort of had a good time, like half of a friend with them, so we trusted the couple. Then around a week later, that couple came to us and said hey now we have the lease under our names, so we are not going to rent the place to you two. Then me and friend were like, wow thats really not cool, they made the decision without our acknowledgment and consent. Their reason is that girl\u2019s mom is coming to town and something like she doesn\u2019t want her mom to know that shes living with other guys, anyway it just sounds really fishy as its not a really strong reason. A few day passed, they came to us and said hey there will be an inspection tomorrow, please clean up your room and stuff, and it makes it sounds even fishy that her mom coming is just a total excuse to get us out.\nAnyway, as I don\u2019t have the contract, there wasn\u2019t really much I could do. \n\nTherefore, I come to ask for 2 questions:\n1. Is there anything I can do for the fact that she decided not to rent us the place without acknowledging us? The only reason me and my friend allowed the couple to sign the contract for only their names was because we trusted them. But having zero idea that they were going to do that.\n\n2. How to legally trash the place before I left the ? I paid around a month\u2019s rent worth bond, is there anyway I can make a mess but still getting my bond back? The place was unfurnished, so is it illegal that I \u201caccidentally\u201d break the furnitures they bought?\n\nThanks in advance if any of you can answer me! Thanks a lot!!","title":"Being kicked out by roommate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412964035,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ivj8r\/hit_a_parked_truck_about_a_month_ago_in_my_new\/","id":"2ivj8r","body":"About a month ago, I was in a residential parking lot in the middle of the night and I backed into a parked truck. No witnesses. I inspected the truck and there was absolutely no damage (it was a customized truck that looked like it was used in a landscaping business, the only part of the vehicle that I made contact with was a solid piece of rusty, unpainted steel. My car, on the other hand, has a destroyed trunk that will need to be replaced. I didn't do anything about it yet because I didn't want to go through insurance and I can't afford to replace it yet (by the way all lights are working perfectly, only centre of trunk is damaged). Can I be charged with hit and run even though there was no damage? Should I talk to the police to file a report even though it has been about a month since the incident? Will I be questioned when it is time to have it fixed, and what should I say?","title":"Hit a parked truck about a month ago in my new leased car and didn't report the accident or contact the owner (Canada).","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542030028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9we37y\/i_got_pulled_over_for_100_in_a_65_i_need_help\/","id":"9we37y","body":"Massachusetts\/State Police\nI was doing 100 in a 65. (35 over) And I got pulled over. I was super good with the officer. Put my hazards on, I was already stopped before he even pulled out onto the highway, I shut my engine off, keys on the dashboard, rolled all my windows down, told him I have a knife in my right pocket where my wallet was, waited for his permission to grab the wallet slowly. I know he should've taken my license. He gave me a $350 ticket instead. \nI can't pay it, I make $200 (MAXIMUM) a month.\nDo I have any chance going to the court and asking for them to take a couple dollars off, give me a few more weeks. Anything? \nFirst pullover, spotless criminal record, got my license in early October. I'm trying to pay for school, and gas. I can barely afford that. ","title":"I got pulled over for 100 in a 65. I need help","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571264408,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diwuz2\/evicted_for_loud_sex\/","id":"diwuz2","body":"Utah btw, i know laws are different state by state. A close friendhas been told she has to leave where she currently lives, the reasoning and legality is questionable to me and I know she won't fight it so I'm trying to see what I can do to help. It's a townhouse shared by her, one housemate and the land lady. The eviction notice was actually a hand written note placed on her door and the reason being was for \"noise disturbance\" which we later learned was loud sex. What is the legality of this. She was never given a warning or 3 days notice to cease or vacate. How do we approach the landlady and not loose her housing.","title":"Evicted for loud sex?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542205966,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x0l91\/i_was_given_a_job_title_promotion_effective_april\/","id":"9x0l91","body":"This is in Connecticut. \n\nOur department had a reorganization that was effective 01-April. I was given a job title that was one higher than my previous title. HR told us that there would be no other job changes at that time, but that come review time any salary increase would be retroactive to the 01-Apr date. \n\nI found out from a friend that still works there that they all received payments on 01-Oct that was the difference in the new salary and was retroactive back to 01-Apr. he also stated that at no point was there a formal review and that the new salary and retro pay was just sent to them. \n\nI was terminated from the job on 30-July for \u201clack of performance\u201d during the meeting with HR they never cited any actual performance related issue and the only thing my department director kept saying was that I was disloyal to his team because I had reach out to the project management department to learn about positions and requirements of their department since I have a master\u2019s degree in project management. My state\u2019s unemployment claim was approved as well because there was no evidence I broke a company policy or didn\u2019t perform \n\nSo my simple question is this, does the company \u201cowe\u201d me any retro pay from between 01-April through 30-Jul since during that time I was at a higher position than I was being paid for. \n\nIf they do, how would I go about contacting them or what avenue would I take to inquire or collect?","title":"I was given a job title promotion effective April 1st, fired July 30th, all remaining employees who had the same title change got a check retroactive to April 1st on Oct 1st","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1549914723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apk6tk\/facing_termination_from_false_sexual_harassment\/","id":"apk6tk","body":"Hello,\n\n​\n\nI'm currently suspended from work and facing termination for a false sexual harassment claim. As background, I'm a manager at a franchise-owned business located in Missouri and the accuser is a 21-year old girl who has a history of making false accusations against managers and other staff (that they're racist, homophobic, abusing drugs, etc.) that has already resulted in two other managers being fired\/quitting in the past 6 months (I've only worked there that long so I can't verify any further rumors). One of those two managers in question attempted to fire her before being fired HIMSELF, but was unsuccessful (our upper management is very dysfunctional and the VP of the franchise and the girl are in frequent communication).\n\n​\n\nI have numerous pieces of physical evidence as well as footage from our locations security cameras that can be pulled in my defense to show that it was in fact HER that was flirting with ME (touching, offering to have a threesome with her and\/or my girlfriend, writing affectionate notes, friending me on Facebook, saying she likes older men, etc.), all while she was in a relationship with another 19-year old girl who is on staff (she is bisexual).\n\n​\n\nI assume this happened because the accuser's girlfriend found out about all of this and accused her of cheating and then threatened to break up with her, so now the 21-year old accuser is trying to accuse me to get out of being caught and dumped.\n\n​\n\nOrdinarily I'd rely on upper management to be a fair and neutral third party and that eventually the investigation would reveal that I'm innocent, but after speaking to the two now ex-managers, apparently the VP had been telling other managers to fire me for MONTHS, but thankfully they refused (as a result of which the first senior manager put in his two weeks notice and then was promptly fired the next day in retaliation).\n\n​\n\nThis girl is a monster and needs to be stopped before she does this to someone else, and I can't rely on management to help me - What should I do?","title":"Facing Termination From False Sexual Harassment Claim","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443642759,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n0bjp\/toronto_if_a_charge_is_sealed_will_a_criminal\/","id":"3n0bjp","body":"The charge was sealed because I was a minor and after a probationary period it was sealed automatically","title":"[Toronto] If a charge is sealed, will a criminal record check will be returned stating no criminal record was found?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555390981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdpzav\/do_i_need_a_business_license_to_tutor_for_one\/","id":"bdpzav","body":"I'm a public school teacher. A group of parents of former students of mine has asked me to tutor the students for a week this summer. I don't plan on tutoring outside of this. It's mostly a favor to the families, though I would be getting paid. \n\nWould I need a business license? How do I file taxes on this income (about $600)?","title":"Do I need a business license to tutor for one week? [California]","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1408733394,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eav2n\/portland_or_car_towed_is_it_worth_going_to_court\/","id":"2eav2n","body":"I drive my car once or twice a week, otherwise I park it on the street. I heard that a TV show was going to film in my neighborhood Tuesday to Thursday, so on Monday I moved my car away from the temporary no parking signs that lined a few streets in the area.\n\nI went to get my car today on Friday, only to find it had been towed on Wednesday. Apparently, the temp no parking was extended to my street some time Tuesday and I was unaware.\n\nNow I have a parking ticket and towing fees to pay. Would there be any point in fighting this ticket? I realize that ignorance isn't a good excuse, so I don't want to even try. However, a friend suggested that disputing it might decrease my parking fine. Thoughts?","title":"Portland, OR - Car towed, is it worth going to court?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571685814,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl5hcq\/need_advice_on_losing_my_job_to_a_lower_position\/","id":"dl5hcq","body":"I have a friend who is an airfield manager at an airport. Her contract company that she is employed with is going to GS. Her position was listed and she had to reapply. She did not get her same position and was downgraded to airfield management assistant.\n\nShe is a disabled veteran. The guy who got her position used to work for the contract company that was going GS. He would voluntarily go on duty every time an inspection would come up and leave his co workers to deal with it.  Contract company called him out on it and he sued the contract company for 500,000 and won and quit 2 months later. This is where my friend got the job three years ago. Also this guys wife works in the Human Resource department through which this guy was hired.\n\nNot only did my friend lose the position but she has to train this guy for two months. If anyone has any info that can help her I would greatly appreciate it!","title":"Need advice on losing my job to a lower position.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508185612,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76tcmt\/wisconsin_how_much_proof_do_i_need_to_take_a\/","id":"76tcmt","body":"My landlord withheld my deposit. The landlord is required to provide an itemized deduction list with the reason and cost for each reason. Instead she made a list of issues and then charged $800 for 11 hours of \"general cleaning.\" The things on the list do not constitute 10 hours of work and it also includes things that I know for a fact were not done. I unfortunately do not have any pictures of the unit after it was cleaned (stupid I know). \n\nDo I need more proof in order to take her to court and win? I tried meeting up with her but she was not receptive or willing to return the deposit. She did send me 3 pictures (that's all she had) of issues in the home. There were all extremely minor and would not have taken more than one hour TOPS to remedy. I think even without any pictures I have a okay chance in court if I argue I was never provided with a proper itemized deduction. I am not familiar with the court system and how much proof is required so I am really just looking for any advice.","title":"[Wisconsin] How much proof do I need to take a landlord to court?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553660383,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5zww5\/employer_being_unprofessional_potential_lawsuit\/","id":"b5zww5","body":"I work for a company as a mechanic;however I am classified as an independent contractor. \n(I believe I am a miss-classified employee, but thats a different story.)\n\nI work flat rate which means I get paid a certain amount of time per job regardless of how long it take me. Example: A full service on a light duty truck pays 2.0 but I can complete a full service in 1 hour, I\u2019ll still get paid 2. So at the the end of the week I can end up racking up lots of hours in a 7 day work week (80-110 hours). All of my jobs get sent to my company\u2019s customer and then the customer approves the work before I get paid. Normally this works out fine. \n\n\nAs of the last three weeks my company has been manually lowering my hours after the customer has already approved the work. Last week I had 97 hours and I checked my hours today and it was changed to 87. This has been happening a lot lately with me and ALL of my coworkers. I seem to be getting it worse as their hours only get reduced by 2-6 except for one co-worker who had his reduced by 26 three weeks ago. \n\n\nAnother incident is where I have a co-worker who has insulted me calling me things like \u201cuseless\u201d and \u201cget my thumb out of my ass\u201d to my face with multiple witnesses. I\u2019ve also heard this coworker be very blatantly racist. As far as to say \u201cyou\u2019re as useless as those Mexicans\u201d not knowing that the coworker he said it to was Mexican. He has made fun of slaves, insulting my Mexican co-worker to his face, and I\u2019ve even heard him play a video on his phone with a very racist song that says \u201cAlabama n****r\u201d loud enough for anyone near by to hear it. I\u2019ve informed the NATIONAL manager on every occasion and I get a response along the lines of \u201cit\u2019s being handled\u201d  things keep happening with this certain coworker. This has been going on for months. \n\n\nThe lack of discipline for these actions screams lawsuit \nRight? \n\n\n\nThe last thing is I am classified as a independent contractor but get treated like an employee. I work on my employers schedule, I have to request time off from work before I can even get any days off, my shift is suppose to be 84 hours a week with no overtime or benefits since I\u2019m an independent contractor. I am also told how to do my work and when to do it. These go against the rules for independent contracting from my research with the IRS. \n\n(State: TX)\n\n\nI enjoy the job and the things that I get to do everyday but this amount of sketchiness from the company makes me wonder what I should do. ","title":"Employer being unprofessional. Potential lawsuit? (Pay reduction, no punishment for racism, misclassified employee)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569520446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9n7sc\/just_needing_some_legal_advice\/","id":"d9n7sc","body":"Hello everyone I'm just looking for some advice on a problem I have at work. Ok here it is I work at a horse farm and my boss let me live on the property  I've been working at the farm for almost 3 years now and I this is the agreement I made with my boss basically I work and do my job and I have a place to live but I don't I haven't really get paid  and my boss buys my food and anything else like clothes and stuff like that for me and says they my money is used to buy my stuff and food so I'm just wondering if anyone can help me understand my situation a little better if I where to be fired\/quit am I eligible for some sort of compensation for the time I've worked and would I be able to get all or almost all of the unpaid wages from the past 3 years please and thank you","title":"Just needing some legal advice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570746403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg5moi\/insurance_screwing_me_over_on_a_rental\/","id":"dg5moi","body":"I got rear ended in a car accident and the person at fault insurance\u2019s won\u2019t give me a rental car past 2 days.\n\nMy car was my only mode of transportation to work.\nThey refuse to extend my rental until I get a new car.\n\nWhat or who do I need to talk to get them to extend?","title":"Insurance screwing me over on a rental","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553780687,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6iyt4\/ca_friend_was_drugged_and_raped_at_a_party_and_is\/","id":"b6iyt4","body":"First off, I\u2019m posting this for a friend, as this needs to stay completely anonymous for obvious reasons. My friend went to a party and had a few drinks. Not nearly enough to get her black out drunk. She was talking to this guy and now we\u2019re pretty sure he drugged her. \n\nThey went back to his place (which she never would have done consensually without being drugged because she\u2019s a virgin) and he raped her. She didn\u2019t remember anything, not even how she got home. The last thing she remembers is talking to this guy. \n\nShe sees him in her Snapchat this morning and messages him and [this](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/fiwpJ1E) is the conversation that happened. \n\nShe is an absolute wreck and we don\u2019t know what to do from here. Is there anyway we can go about dealing with this where he won\u2019t have a chance to leak these photos? Obviously revenge porn is illegal, but that doesn\u2019t mean he can\u2019t get out damaging photos before the cops get to him. Photos like this can be life ruining and we don\u2019t know what to do. Please help, reddit. ","title":"[CA] Friend was drugged and raped at a party and is now being blackmailed by the man","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539766162,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9owvrb\/tech_social_media_company_drying_ny_dad_out\/","id":"9owvrb","body":"So my dad owns a smal scale clothing company which has recently taken a down turn. In order to to try and boost sales they decided to invest some money into social media and improving there website in hope to boost sales. They found a IT group who said they improve sales and establish a strong social media presence. They have charged \u20ac2500\/month and also insisted on \u20ac2000\/ month for fb ads. My dad hasn't a clue about tech or social media, he is near 70\n\nFast forward 9 - 10 months and my sister has started working in the company to try and help it survive, she started working in marketing and has had a lot of communication with the company. Now I don't know the full ins and outs or it, but since a month of my sister working with them they basically said that they don't feel it's a good fit anymore. But in that time she has asked them to do mutiple things, remove all sales related post off fb, she still finds them. She asked them to change the charges on postage and packing on the website, they only changed the text that says how much it cost, but when you go to the cart it hasn't change or added any addtional pp options. \n\n Since about a week ago she got a new IT guy who works specifically with the website, he charges \u20ac150\/month. He went through the website with her and said that it's quite slow, due to design reasons, and also showed her this button kinda thing which when clicked it won't allow search engines find it unless they look for the very specific name, the new tech guy says he can't tell how long it's been on for but it's not something  you press unless you know what your doing. \n\nThey we're with holding the passwords to access the website, on not replying to emails untill she contacted the website hosts directly who had to request it themselves, before she received it from the them.\n\nNow I think what they did is fucked up, and I dunno if we have any legal grounds, also there is no contract, can they be sued or any legal grounds for the near 50k they spent of the business money over the past year ish. And does email correspondence count as any verbal contract ? ","title":"Tech & Social media company drying ny dad out","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569737194,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/darg41\/work_will_not_let_employees_leave_until_they_are\/","id":"darg41","body":"Location: Georgia \n\nIs it legal to not give *hourly* employees a set time when their shift ends? I\u2019ve had coworkers have to stay 10+ hours (sometimes over 12) because their employment was threatened if they left without being cut first. \n\nI\u2019m getting trained for other employment. But Idk if it\u2019s something I should report.","title":"Work will not let employees leave until they are \u201cCut\u201d","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553742957,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6drgu\/pulled_over_for_speeding_after_dealing_with_a\/","id":"b6drgu","body":"I was driving on the highway in Kentucky in the left hand lane with someone to my right that I was passing. Out of nowhere, a redneck pickup truck drove into the ditch to my left to pass me at highway speeds. It was incredibly reckless and really disoriented me. I tried to follow him to get his license plate but he was going too fast.\n\nI then saw a car to the side of the road and thought it was him, having crashed or spun out. Turns out it was a metro cop who clocked me at 84 on what I later found out was a 55mph speed limit. I explained the truck and he knocked it down to 80mph so it wasn't a 25+mph fine but he still gave me a speeding ticket.\n\nI was in a new car with Kentucky plates but I have a Pennsylvania drivers license. I'm in the process of getting it changed to a Kentucky one. Questions:\n\n* Is there any chance I could challenge this in court on the grounds that I was disoriented by pretty unusual circumstances and also attempting to identify the reckless pickup truck driver?\n\n* If I do challenge it is there any way that I could end up with the 84mph ticket instead of 80mph like I got and have a higher fine\/penalty? 84 is in parentheses on the ticket.\n\n* Since I'm about to get a Kentucky license anyway, will the points on my license even transfer from Pennsylvania?","title":"Pulled over for speeding after dealing with a reckless driver","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542143590,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wt6wj\/ga_employer_accused_me_of_stealing_from_the_tip\/","id":"9wt6wj","body":"Service industry job. Wouldn\u2019t let me come into the restaurant, told me outside. Didn\u2019t say who accused me. Didn\u2019t say how much I stole. The employer is known for her shady shit and treating employees horribly. Just said \u201cI think you know when...\u201d \n\nSometimes I\u2019ve taken change in the tip drawer and converted it to dollars, as employees there are known to do. I Always put cash in the tip jar when it\u2019s been left on tables etc. \n\nAnyways, do I have any rights? Everyone I work with says if she doesn\u2019t like you she\u2019ll upright fire you. \n\nI know Georgia is a right to work state. But damn. Thanks in advance!\n\n","title":"(GA) Employer accused me of stealing from the tip jar. Said she had it on camera, pulled up the camera, but wouldn\u2019t show me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570901685,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgy7se\/paid_for_the_wrong_parking_spot_and_got_a_ticket\/","id":"dgy7se","body":"Hi All,\n\nI live in western suburbs of Chicago .\nFor my commute to work, I park my car at a Metra train station . I pay the parking fee through an online app. One rush hour morning, I paid for the parking spot 75 whereas the spot number was 715. It was probably the morning haste or not enough coffee but the number \u2018one\u2019 looked like a white separator line design. Come evening, I see a parking ticket on my car.\nI have the parking receipt for the spot 75. I only have one car and have a parking history through that parking app. The parking app didn\u2019t have my car\u2019s number plate added in it at the time and I just used the spot number to pay.\nI asked for a police review and they rejected it. Should I contest this ?","title":"Paid for the wrong parking spot and got a ticket. Should I contest it ?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571609011,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkqnk3\/can_a_child_sue_for_back_child_support\/","id":"dkqnk3","body":"Assuming their 18 and over, is it possible someone can sue lets say an absentee father that either never paid or never paid fully for back child support. And if so, are their statue of limitations. I'm not in a situation like this myself but I've had had other family members and friends that have had parents\/guardians that were legally assigned a child support order and have never paid or paid spotty (not on time\/never in full amount). I live in New York by the way if that helps.","title":"Can a child sue for back child support?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541647414,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v6h1d\/voter_fraud\/","id":"9v6h1d","body":"Hello everyone. I received a call from my grandmother this evening in which she informed me that she voted for the very first time yesterday. Usually this would be great news, however my grandmother was convicted with multiple felonies 30+ years ago. We are both worried and would like to know what her next step should be. This occurred in the stage of Iowa.","title":"Voter Fraud","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571356693,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djf120\/divorcing_psychotic_husband\/","id":"djf120","body":"Location: California \n\nMy husband was diagnosed with a major psychiatric disorder this year which includes 2 separate 5150 stays, and despite trying to make it work I cannot. We have 2 kids together and he wants 50\/50 custody of the kids even though he was neglecting them at the point I fled with them for our safety. \n\nHe also wants half our assets, including the equity of a house that was purchased before we were married.\n\nMy question is: despite it being a clear case that he doesn't have rights to the house, and that he cannot care for the kids I feel the need for a lawyer to safeguard the custody of the kids and the house. Do I need one, or would his medical records and the house being only in my maiden name be enough?\n\nI am 100% the financial provider for the kids and the household if that makes a difference.","title":"Divorcing Psychotic Husband","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445189043,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p8x4c\/canada_questions_about_the_legality_of_a\/","id":"3p8x4c","body":"Within the past few months or so, I came up with an idea for a trivia website where you can bet on.  Essentially how it works is that a person may create an account, so they can then answer trivia questions.  Along with their answer (it would be multiple choice) they can wager a set amount of money, as a bet for how right they think their answer is.  If they bet lower, they minimize their potential losses if they lose, but don't get much returns if they win, and if they bet higher its riskier, but they can win much more money.\n\n\n\nAlright so here's where I need some help.  I know that the creation of gambling based websites is illegal at it's current state in Canada (Ontario), but I'm wondering if this particular website would classify as a \"gambling website.\"  As far as I know, to be considered \"gambling,\" there would need to be a certain element of chance involved.  With this trivia idea, you could say that there is really only one answer, and that the contestant either knows it, or they don't.  And with the betting, you could say that the contestants are simply \"choosing\" how much money they want to receive.  (sorry if this doesn't really make sense, it's hard to phrase this properly!)\n\n\n\nBut again, I have no idea if this is right or wrong, so I'll wait for your help on this!  And if there are any other legal things that you think I might need to know for this, it would be nice to hear them!  \n\n\n\nAnyways, thanks for all your help guys!","title":"(Canada) Questions about the legality of a potential trivia gambling site","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1538775087,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lqh8y\/usca_salaried_employee_with_40hour_schedule_being\/","id":"9lqh8y","body":"Hi. I live in Florida and work remotely (full-time) for a small company headquartered\/incorporated in California. I receive an annual salary, paid bi-weekly, and am an \u201cexempt\u201d employee with regard to overtime. When I started the position a year ago, I had specific conversations with my employer about the expected work hours. Nine-hour days, M-F, with an unpaid one-hour lunch break, equaling 40 hours per week. \n\nI\u2019ve been informed that the company expects myself and the other members of the small \u201csupport\u201d team to be available (\u201con call\u201d) on alternating weekends beginning sometime soon. The amount of time worked will vary based on the amount of inbound customer contact we have. If many requests come in, we may have a lot to do, but mostly we are expected to be monitoring the support queue and responding within a few hours if something comes up. To begin with, I anticipate very few weekend requests, so maybe an hour a month. But the stated reason behind this change is that we are signing new clients and should expect the traffic to pick up. Thus, I\u2019m interested in being prepared for the future. \n\nI think it would be wise to discuss with my employer the exact expectations of what an \u201con call\u201d weekend involves, and how my compensation should change to reflect that. We should get on the same page now, before the new schedule kicks in, and certainly before the workflow increases. \n\nMy question is this: as a California employer, are there any guidelines with regard to how \u201con call\u201d time is organized (i.e., what expectations the employer can set regarding availability and behavior), or how it must be compensated? I was thinking of suggesting a salary adjustment or an agreement to \u201cflex\u201d time from the weekdays for time I must spend on-call, but I\u2019m not very familiar with the specifics of California law on the matter (if it even addresses this), so I was hoping to get some advice about what I should expect. I realize that as an at-will employee, they\u2019re welcome to let me go if I ask for something they don\u2019t want to give, but I\u2019m curious whether there are any guidelines or minimum specifications in the law regarding the compensation of salaried, exempt employees when adding on-call periods to their weekends.\n\nThanks for any\/all advice and tips you can offer!","title":"[US-CA] Salaried employee with 40-hour schedule, being asked to add \u201con call\u201d weekends","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568437198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d40wds\/inappropriate_access\/","id":"d40wds","body":"Soon to be ex gained access to my iCloud and downloaded it to their google drive. Spoke to someone about it. Evidence of said conversation about this video is within a text message. I have the screenshot of it. This video I believe is intended to be used as blackmail. Currently in a divorce proceeding with custody arrangements to be made. What options do I have here. The video is sexual in nature. Thanks.","title":"Inappropriate access.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555543409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beej44\/prenup_advice\/","id":"beej44","body":"Getting married in the next couple months. We are both joining the military straight out of high school and was wondering how necessary a prenup is if neither of us have any assets going into the marriage. Might be a dumb question but oh well","title":"Prenup advice","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554698425,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bapgvp\/when_do_you_become_a_smoker_to_an_insurance\/","id":"bapgvp","body":"After reviewing the FDA\u2019s systematic review on the risks involved with cigar smoking , I\u2019m comfortable with a level of cigar smoking of 1 every month or two, but I don\u2019t know if my insurance providers would be. Currently I haven\u2019t smoked anything for the past year (took me a while to get around to looking through this study), and I\u2019ve gotten conflicting info on what makes you a smoker in the eyes of insurance providers. Generally, it appears to be that any level of smoking within a certain time frame automatically makes you a smoker, regardless of level, but I was wondering if in general there is any more nuance. \n\nSorry if this has been posted before (or if it\u2019s not necessarily the domain of this sub), didn\u2019t see anything quite like my question when I searched post history.","title":"When do you become a smoker to an insurance company (generally?)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555340111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdgwnh\/need_help_with_fort_bend_county_courts\/","id":"bdgwnh","body":"In a custody battle, attorney isn't helpful and neither is the county or district clerk. I recently moved, my attorney said even though I gave him the address I still had to update ot myself with the courts. I called the courts they said my attorney could have done it, the woman couldn't give me an address for this e-file reports thing, when I Google it only thing that pops up is tax return stuff. I really would love to know why it's so difficult to give a straight answer, or at least have a helpful one. \n\nPlease even if you have to private message me, I really need help with this. I don't understand why no one seems to know how to do anything, everyone you ask has a different answer..","title":"Need help with Fort Bend County Courts","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554072270,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7tuc8\/selling_my_car_with_suspended_plates\/","id":"b7tuc8","body":"I\u2019m currently in the state of NY and I want to sell my car but I\u2019m not sure if I can exactly. I was let go from my job and wasn\u2019t able to keep up with my $253 a month car insurance anymore (I\u2019m young and just started driving so my rates were all fairly high) and I had to stop driving my car. Of course my insurance was then canceled due to no payment and I got a letter from the DMV warning me of my plates being suspended due to no proof of insurance. I\u2019m stressed and broke and I just want this car gone, problem is, I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019m allowed to sell this car due to my suspended plates. I figured that all I would need was a bill of sale and the title to sell my car but I\u2019m not sure so I just wanted to ask just to be safe. ","title":"Selling my car with suspended plates","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571200942,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dik8tr\/missed_jury_duty_indiana\/","id":"dik8tr","body":"So I was summoned for jury duty on 9\/23. I got the mail and just completely forgot about it and ended up not going. I just found the paperwork as I was cleaning some stuff out. Will I face any legal consequences or what usually happens in this case?","title":"Missed jury duty - Indiana","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444227503,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nudhb\/parody_police_social_media_account_ca_usa\/","id":"3nudhb","body":"Just checking up on the legality of having a parody police account on a neighborhood social media app called Nextdoor. the name of the account is the name of the police department, however under the bio if you click on the account it clearly states that it is a parody account and not meant to rustle and jimmies. \n\nThe residents\/senile old folks are up in arms due to the percieved apathy of the local PD several issues so ive been making posts that are a hyperbole of the apathy to lighten the mood and to mess with people if possible. People have been enjoying it, but i dont want the police to see it and have some way to come at me because of it. Anyone with half a brain could read the posts and understand its not really the police social media account. Thanks in advance.","title":"Parody police social media account. CA, USA","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504213817,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x9ttr\/upstairs_neighbors_keep_causing_maintenance\/","id":"6x9ttr","body":"My fianc\u00e9 and I have lived in our apartment since October 2016. About six months ago we got new upstairs neighbors. Not long after, we started having issues with dirty water coming up from our drain into our kitchen sink. The first time this happened we were told it was due to the upstairs neighbors putting inappropriate things down their garbage disposal (grease, a whole head of lettuce). Somehow the systems are connected between our apartment, the upstairs neighbors, and the downstairs neighbors. This happened again maybe two times and maintenance had to come and cut a hole in our wall so they could access the system.\n\nToday we noticed the water coming up into the sink again and immediately notified management. We then left and about 45 minutes later they called and told us our apartment had flooded because of this issue. Our downstairs neighbors were flooded as well. They have maintenance here with a wet vac and they supposedly have cleaners coming to do microbial treatments but at this point, I just want out of the lease. This has gone on way too long, it's disgusting\/a possible biohazard, and if we hadn't been home today and able to immediately notify maintenance this could have been a lot worse. Clearly they have no idea how to actually fix this problem, and even if they did evict the people upstairs they'd still have several weeks (I assume) to continue doing this. I don't think they're going to evict them though.\n\nOur lease is up October 21st anyway, but I don't want to deal with this another two months. This is the first time the issue has caused flooding so it's clearly getting worse. Next time it might happen while we aren't home and destroy our apartment and belongings, and possibly harm our pets. \n\nI also don't feel comfortable with maintenance, especially after I came home today and they had left their key in the door - they were in the apartment, but this still isn't safe. \n\nIs there any legal recourse we might have so that we can pressure them to let us end our lease a few weeks early? I don't want to take any legal action if unnecessary, I just want to be able to show that I know my rights (if I have them). Is this any kind of violation?","title":"Upstairs neighbors keep causing maintenance issues that management is not effectively addressing, today our apt flooded with dirty drain water because of this issue. Can we get out of our lease early? (New Mexico)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541644023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v61r8\/my_friend_is_trying_to_get_her_phone_and_laptop\/","id":"9v61r8","body":"As the title implies my friends phone and laptop is in possession of the police. Assuming what she says is true. What legal avenues does she have? She was told to speak to a District attorney, but she is not sure what to tell them.\n\n\n\nShe lives in Texas and shared a post which described a threat from some student threatening to shoot up their school.This is what she told me  in her own words \n\n\n\n\u201cOkays so on October 9th or so a threat was made to some middle school i used to attend. (I didnt make it, nor did i have to do with anyone who made the threat it self....im almost 20 why the hell would i be making a threat to a middle school) anyways...although in 2015 JTTF did get involved...at the time i was about 15-16....and i was trolling (they were aware of my trolling) and they showed up about a month after the post. Anyways 2-3 years later...similar situation occurred...although i don't really troll anymore...nor do i really care about internet stuff...just simply shitpost every now and then...nothing offensive. Anyways....2-3 years later....in the situation i am currently in....i was questioned about the threat...which i told detectives multiple times i didnt make it. (Yes they were aware of 2015 im assuming reason why they showed up to my place in the first place) anyways...its now been 30 days and i have not received any calls...other than the ones i have made directly to the detective who..just happend to hung up on my face after i asked how may i obtain a search warrant....written statement for probable cause as to why they took my devices in the first place WITHOUT A search warrant after i stated they cant take my things without a search warrant they simply said \"well we are keeping them\" . I have gone yo the police station asked to speak to supervisor and was told i could obtain search warrant with Houston DA.\u201d\n\n\nShe also went on to say that she was asleep when the police entered her room. Her parents let them in, but she hasn\u2019t given me any information about what her parents might of discussed or said with the police who came.\n\n\nShe said they did not have a warrant. \nGiven the situation do they even need one?\n\nDepending on what the parents said or allowed did it negate the reason for a warrant?\n\n\nWhat should she do what contacting an attorney?","title":"My friend is trying to get her phone and laptop back from the police","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1415070547,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2l84ky\/texas_need_to_visit_dubious_website_for_work_but\/","id":"2l84ky","body":"My job with the state involves investigating people's backgrounds. I have suspicions that someone I'm investigating is a prostitute and I would like to check the websites that are commonly used for that.\n\nI definitely can not check from my work computer (due to the web filter used, for which exceptions are never granted) but I feel uncomfortable checking it from my personal computer. \n\nAm I going to end up on some sort of list? My colleagues and supervisor are completely checked out of their jobs so there is not really anyone I could ask.\n\n","title":"[Texas] Need to visit dubious website for work but can not do so on work computer.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568794337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5umg3\/help_my_apartment_building_has_a_terrible_flea\/","id":"d5umg3","body":"Tldr at bottom.\n\nA few weeks ago, I noticed both my cats were extra scratchy. I didn't really take much notice until I found a flea on me IN MY BED. And then I found another and another...I checked my cats and promptly treated them both. They seemed to being doing so much better , until maybe 2 to 3 days after the initial treatment, when they started furiously scratching again. \nSo I bombed, sprayed, and flea vacuum powdered my whole apartment. I washed all my clothing, bedding, towels, anything I thought they could hide in. I moved furniture and vacuumed; basically I did everything possible to no avail, and at quite a cost to myself.\n\nEvery month or so the apartment building has a dog come in for a bed bug inspection. I was out in the hall waiting my turn and watched the dog go into the apartment across from me. The handler and dog were in there for maybe 30 seconds before I heard a yelp and they were running back out into the hall. In just that short time, the dog had picked up HUNDREDS of fleas! I could see the dark spots against the lighter fur of it's face and legs. It was terrible! They were on the handler as well, who had basically come out screaming. The maintenance man was also there supervising, and his only response was that he only knew how to do preventative stuff for fleas. And that was it. \n\nIt is now the wee hours of Wednesday morning, and they have not set foot back into that apartment. That means it's been a week this Thursday since they were informed, and I know other apartments have complained about the fleas. I have myself multiple times. \n\nSo my question is, what can I do now? Anything dramatic to get their asses in gear, like call the health department? Would the health department even handle something like this? Please, any advice would be greatly appreciated! My cats and I are suffering immensely and I am seriously coming to my breaking point! \ud83d\ude14\ud83d\ude14\ud83d\ude14\n\nTldr:  flea infestation in apt across hall; management has done nothing despite many complaints and it's been a week.","title":"HELP. My apartment building has a terrible flea infestation that has gone untreated. What can I do to force the issue?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550604995,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aseedf\/employer_planning_on_making_me_sign_legal\/","id":"aseedf","body":"So my supervisor today informed me that I would be speaking with the company owner to discuss a compliant I got from a client (I was seen on my cellphone). He let it slip that they would have me sign alot of legal documents that would set me up for lawsuit if I did anything after the fact and then percide to fire me after I finished signing them all. So my question is if I refuse to sign any documents can they threaten or do anything to me besides fire me?","title":"Employer planning on making me sign legal documents before I'm terminated.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550701166,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asunnw\/trust_advice\/","id":"asunnw","body":"My mother inherited some cash and it's being held in a trust but needs to be liquidated. We live in California. She is receiving disability benefits and would not like to receive said cash because it would make her ineligible to continue assistance. The amount is not very much; under $150k, but she would like to insulate it into a trust. Do we have to use a California attorney to establish a new trust in her name or can we use someone out of state - per se, Florida? ","title":"Trust advice","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541462018,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uj2p7\/can_i_sue_my_former_company\/","id":"9uj2p7","body":"So after taking a leave of absence my company called to see if I was coming back since it was coming to the end of my 1 year period. I told them yes I would come back so they said \u201cok let me call you back, I need to check something.\u201d They called me back & said it was too late & I needed to reapply as a new hire & I should have been looking at job postings 6 weeks ago.  This was with about a week or 2 left on my leave. \n\nThey said my app would be marked as a previous employee and given priority but I would be starting over with benefits. \n\nIt has been about about a year since this occurred but I still feel so wronged!! I was there for over 15 years.\n[AL]","title":"Can I sue my former company?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550861182,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atl88q\/restricted_access_to_water_at_work\/","id":"atl88q","body":"(On mobile, sorry if formatting isn't great)\n  Writing for my wife who has been working at one of those doggy day camps for several months now. Up until now she has kept a steel reusable bottle with her since there is no access to water fountains or any other water besides the break room sink.\n  Staying hydrated is an absolute necessity, the building itself is a non-insulated outside warehouse with no AC. We live in south Texas so it gets HOT year round but espeically in the summer where a place like that can easily hit 100+ degrees.\n  Well now they just changed the policy so nobody is allowed to have a water bottle outside of the break room, and you aren't allowed to leave the \"yard\" to go on break unless someone else is free to take your place, which isnt often, or for their once daily lunch break.\n  The defense the owners give when the employees expressed concern was that they are in compliance with the law because you are technically allowed to go on break at any time but it seems that in practice this just isn't the case most of the time.\n  Is it truely legal to restrict water like this? Do we have any recourse either way? I myself work in similarly warm conditions but my employer requires we keep water on us and even still it gets brutal in the summer months, I cant imagine going without.\nThanks for reading.","title":"Restricted access to water at work?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554825679,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb9o24\/whose_laws_do_i_answer_to\/","id":"bb9o24","body":"I live in country A, have country B's citizenship (EU member) and hold my servers in country C (EU member) for international services.\nServer provider requires me to comply to country C's laws in its terms of use, but who do I answer legally to?","title":"Whose laws do I answer to?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539552120,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o6i1d\/car_accident\/","id":"9o6i1d","body":"So firstly; I got in my very first car accident. \n\nI wasn\u2019t out of my addiction, I was literally a block away.. I had JUST turned off my street, going left. There was a gray trailer parked in shade and it blended in with the road pretty well and I turned back to hand my 3 year old something since we were still \u201csafely\u201d cruising through the addition..\nWhen I look up I\u2019m hitting the trailer.\nI was told trailers that aren\u2019t attached to any vehicle and parked on a road need cones?? \nAlso, my geico insurance that I pay $600 every 6 months for doesn\u2019t cover apparently anything for me except road side assistance.. they said I \u201copted\u201d of of collision coverage.. which, I\u2019m not an idiot and I know I didn\u2019t! I requested the phone call made between myself and the representative who helped make my plan. They don\u2019t have it, so there\u2019s no proof of me wanting it but not proof of me denying it either. \nNow I have a totaled car and apparently no insurance to cover it. \nAlso, yesterday I received a letter that there might be a airbag defect on my car. I was heading to breakfast and meant to call after to get that looked into.. my airbag did not go off in the accident? Something I can do about that legally or no? \nAny help is appreciated ","title":"Car accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570309800,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddtdkc\/can_da_constantly_change_charges_nc\/","id":"ddtdkc","body":"My husband was initially charged with a felony and two misdemeanors (against me) back in May.  The felony charge was erroneous (strangulation) and I told the officers that at the time of arrest.  I made no argument for the other charges.  I didn't say this *because* it was a felony, I didn't know that.  It was because strangulation didn't happen.  I wasn't trying to cover for him either, I assumed we would be parting ways.  I signed an affidavit saying that the strangulation didn't occur and the felony charge was dropped in June.  Since then, my husband and I had a brief separation and he had a mental health evaluation and began therapy.  He was diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder with major dissociative episodes and has been medication compliant and it has made a world of difference, as has the therapy.  \n\nWe had a court date in September and I was subpoenaed and the subpoena had three misdemeanors were listed- the original two and a new one. In court, we didn't even go before the judge- the DA took me aside and I was asked what I wanted as a final outcome, and I said for all charges to be dropped but that I knew he was interested in a local DV program, and that could be part of a sentence.  I was told there would be no jail time for him and that the final court date would be in October.  The DA said we could have had it all finished that day actually, if my husband's lawyer hadn't had to leave for Supreme Court.\n\nYesterday I was served with subpoena for the October court date and it has the felony charge back on it, the new misdemeanor from September, and none of the original misdemeanors.  It seems the charges keep changing and it's really confusing.  I never know where we stand.  I just opened it today, so I can't call anyone to ask, and it's got me on edge.  My husband's lawyer is no help because we try not to use up our deposit with lots of calls and he has never once reached out to us.  So now it appears we have a new felony that wasn't there before, on a case we could have had done last month.  Is that legal?  Can they keep changing the charges from month to month?  This is hell on earth.","title":"Can DA constantly change charges? NC","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569702643,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dalfge\/accused_of_violation_of_privacy\/","id":"dalfge","body":"Im on mobile, so forgive me for a wonky format.\n\nShort Preface:\nLocated in Portland, OR\nCurrently living with four other individuals sublet style on a month to month lease. I have lived here six months currently. \n\nThis morning I was awoken to a text stating I had thirty days from monday to vacate as I had \u201cbroken\u201d the lease by entering another tenants room.\nThis is specifically referring to me placing the litter box of my adjacent housemates cat in the ALREADY OPEN doorway of his room, as it smells so badly it was hurting my quality of living (He usually keeps it in a space next to my room, even after I expressed not wanting this.) I communicated this to my landlord in the past but was told its not \u201cher\u201d issue, and to handle it with the housemate.\nLow and behold, the housemate never made any attempt to communicate and things have escalated from there.\nWhen asked for a definitive reason for eviction I was basically told it was a combination of things (wishy washy explanations but can delve into them if necessary) but the main reason being violation of privacy. \nAfter talking to a few different sources I\u2019ve been told that I may have grounds to fight this as the door was already open and I didn\u2019t physically enter the room, just the doorway. \n\nLandlord claims she doesn\u2019t have to have a clear reason for eviction as its a month to month lease in the state of oregon. \n\nAny help in the matter is greatly appreciated.\nJust curious if this is truly justified on their end! \n\nThanks","title":"Accused of Violation of Privacy","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507770761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75tni7\/risks_in_being_a_voluntary_administrator_for_my\/","id":"75tni7","body":"Jurisdiction is NY.\n\nMy grandfather died in 1977 and recently, it came to light there are unclaimed funds with the state comptroller office. The only remaining family members are his kids (one son, one daughter) and two grandkids (me and my sister). He died without a will.\n\n* do my sister and I have an interest in the unclaimed funds as the child of one of his now-deceased heirs?\n\n* the surrogate court staff says that I can apply to become a volunteer administrator of the small estate and if it turns out to be worth a lot more, I can amend my application and probate the estate. Any risks in doing this? My uncle is a pretty shrewd and scuzzy person. The bonus is that while the estate and surrogate court are in NYS, I live in Canada so I think that may insulate me somewhat from any potential litigiousness.\n\nThoughts and opinions are welcome.","title":"Risks in being a voluntary administrator for my long-dead grandfather...","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539365447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nmaix\/plumbing_problems_landlord_was_made_aware_of\/","id":"9nmaix","body":"So I have moved to an island, and as to be expected, housing here is not at the greatest standard. \n\nNevertheless, when finding an apartment, I made the owner aware of the mould on the walls, the front door which leaks water straight into the lounge, the shower that floods after 5minutes of use, the toilet that blocks up atleast twice a month, we have told her all of this from the first week, and she has never sorted it out, its 4months later, and whenever these issues have lead to a serious problem, like now, we cant shower as its completely blocked in the pipes, she now says I have to pay for the repairs, \"because its obvious that its our fault after living with it for 4 months and having to fix it by ourselves\" simply because we were being comprising to the fact that perhaps this is just an unfortunate card we've been dealt and if we just maintain it, atleast we have a place to stay.\n\nThe landlord lives in the flat next door, it is a double storey building with two small flats downstairs and a big flat being re-done upstairs, and this has been the worst experience for someone that works from home, the building and noise that would start at 8 in the morning but finish well after 8pm due to different teams doing different tasks, some nights its literally kept me up until 10pm.\n\nThe owner constantly phones me at early hours in the morning, the other day, at 6:40am, and asks trivial things, even though im 10metres walk away to the next door...and another thing she also does is exactly this, knocking at ungodly hours for the most stupid of reasons, almost seeming to me as though shes playing a motherly role to a young married couple. Its infuriating to never feel like I simply live my own life when I am at home, and this I know is a mistake with moving into a private house as compared to an apartment building that is maintained by a company.\n\nI fear she will withhold our deposit, and since she has a key for the flat, I imagine she takes liberties coming inside without our knowledge, and\/or may do so after a heated discussion recently, when she told me to pay for repairs that have needed to be made her due to her shoddy built building.\n\nUnfortunately I have no paper trail of mentioning these problems in the state of the apartment as she was all to quick to want to just mark it as in generally okay condition to help us with a fast transition, but realizing now that this is definitely not a safe place to live in and me just being a very understanding person and making the most of what I have. Yesterday our argument resulted in a notice to move out.\n\nI am english but speak a beginner level of french and my wife thankfully is french, the language on the island is french, so this is a very frustrating issue to deal with not being able to express myself fully.\n\nI will look into the laws with a colleague of my wife, but for now I am mainly worried about our safety and whether we will get our deposit, and also how to go about a one month notice if it is the second week of the month.\n\nThanks in advance","title":"Plumbing problems landlord was made aware of since the first day, is now telling me to pay for blockage 4 months later","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505942883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71edl2\/cams_sisterinlaw_niece_nearly_homeless_trying_to\/","id":"71edl2","body":"My wife's family is in Mississippi. We are in California. Throwaway for obvious reasons.\n\nMy sister-in-law (SIL) has a 2 year old daughter. Her husband (the child's father) was recently arrested, though I haven't been able to ascertain exactly why. Sentencing won't be for another several weeks, and posting bail isn't an option. In the meantime, SIL is staying at a hotel that has been paid up through the end of the month, but she will likely opt to leave early to recoup some funds to put toward food and diapers.\n\nSIL has been diagnosed with bipolar and major depressive disorders; she is not working due to crippling anxiety on top of her medical diagnoses, though she is physically capable. She was denied disability benefits earlier this year, and the family was denied food stamps around May due to her husband's income.\n\nExtended family in MS refuses to take in or financially assist SIL. My wife has given her information for local shelters, emergency SNAP benefits, WIC, and so on, but SIL feels she waited too long to get said processes started. SIL is worried about childcare preventing her from being able to become financially stable. My wife and I know that SIL has many options available to her, but SIL is adamant that it may come down to us taking her child in while she \"gets on her feet.\"\n\nWhat are our options here regarding custody of our niece, especially considering she would be crossing state lines?","title":"[CA\/MS] Sister-in-law & niece nearly homeless, trying to help from afar","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506697337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/738d20\/next_step_for_a_noncommunicative_lawyer_ks\/","id":"738d20","body":"I tried a few different searches first but if anyone has a link I may have missed please point me in that direction.\n\nOver the past several months we\u2019ve been involved in a case and needed a lawyer. At first things went smoothly, however roughly 2 months ago communication sort of just stopped. If there were no updates I\u2019d understand but forms were needed and I can\u2019t seem to get the lawyer to send me the documents or even return my communication attempts. \n\nAt this point I have emailed, called\/left messages, sent a regular letter and most recently a certified letter (signature required).\n\nAccording to USPS the letter was delivered\/signed for earlier this week but I still have not gotten a response. How long should I wait before reaching out again? Google suggested anywhere between 2 days and 2 weeks. \nFailing that, what is my next step? \n\nThanks!! \n\n","title":"Next step for a non-communicative lawyer (KS)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571689997,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl6h7o\/nyc_landlord_wants_to_airbnb_neighboring\/","id":"dl6h7o","body":"I've lived in a small NYC building (5 units) for many years. My landlord wants to list the unit beneath mine on AirBnB. He has suggested we work together to list the apartment, let guests in, etc., in exchange for my receiving some of the proceeds. (Details of how much of this work would be on me and how much on him are vague, but I'm not totally opposed--I could use the money.) The landlord does not live in the building. Is his proposal actually legal? If I know this is going on but don't participate--but also don't report it to anyone--am I potentially setting myself up to be charged with something?","title":"NYC landlord wants to AirBnB neighboring apartment--with my help","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571648672,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkxqib\/sued_by_exlandlord_but_never_notified\/","id":"dkxqib","body":"Just found out from my ex-roommate (who I haven't spoken to since moving out) that we were collectively sued for several thousand dollers over a year ago.\n\nWe rented a place together but quickly found it to be unlivable (black mold), however our landlord wouldn't respond to our messages. We would go weeks without a reply, then they'd show up without notice to collect rent (weeks late) and possibly fix something.\n\nWe tried to find subletters but we're unable to because our landlord wouldn't respond to us. In the end we told the landlord we were leaving, and headed out. We never heard from them again. This was roughly 4 months into a 12 month lease.\n\nApparently shortly after they set up a court date (we were never notified), and because we didn't know about it we weren't able to represent ourselves and our landlord won the case.\n\nAt this point is there anything I can do? This happened over a year ago and as far as I know hasn't impacted me in any way. Can I ignore this for now, or should I start seeking out legal help? TIA.","title":"Sued by ex-landlord, but never notified.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447612993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sx86u\/scotland_question_about_an_insurance_claim\/","id":"3sx86u","body":"[UK] I recently had an item stolen, that was covered by home insurance for up to \u00a33000. I obtained a quote for its replacement for \u00a32800, however I don't particularly want this expensive replacement. I was initially hoping to be paid cash, use part of the payout to cover the increased insurance premium, and use the rest to pay for a cheaper version of the item I had.\n\nUnfortunately, the insurance will only reimburse me after the purchase, which leaves me in a bit of a situation, as I won't have the money for the extra insurance premium. What is the legality on either returning the item to the retailer, or selling it on myself?\n\nThanks in advance for all your help!","title":"[Scotland] Question about an insurance claim","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551998184,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayipjz\/downloading_youtube_videos_for_personal_use\/","id":"ayipjz","body":"I have a quite long flight in a few days, and I want to download some YouTube videos to watch on the plane. Videos are from relatively small creators (They really do not make a living of YouTube, to be clear). I have done a little research, but all Google gave me was some mixed opinions, and YouTube Premium recommendations. Taking a YouTube Premium subscription is not an option at this moment for me.\n\nWorth mentioning, I live in the EU.\n\nSome clarification would be appreciated!","title":"Downloading YouTube videos for personal use","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569209138,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d80zji\/ways_of_avoiding_child_support_va\/","id":"d80zji","body":"I'm prepping a child support case against the ex. I want to cover all my bases. I have full custody. Status quo has been that she pays me every month but is constantly behind. What are some ways that she can try to lower or get out of paying? I feel like she is going to go that route once I file.\n\nI already have her on record saying she is a manager at her job, as well as another job that is paid in cash.","title":"Ways of Avoiding Child Support (VA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552326936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azwgaj\/ohio_tenant_24_hr_in_advance_notice_to_come_to\/","id":"azwgaj","body":"So today I had my property manager come in with a group of people unannounced to look at my apartment. I have a really good relationship with this company and they have always given me 24 hour notice before house showings and the place is spotless. I\u2019ve always payed my rent on time and thus far the relationship with them has been great. However, today they came in and saw some animals that were not supposed to be there. I am worried they will try to charge  me the $100 charge for having it except they came in without a 24 hour notice. They didn\u2019t seem too pissed but just Incase they try something who is in the wrong here? Furthermore, I called them to try and talk about what happened and the property manager said she sent the email pertaining to today\u2019s house showing at 8:45 am on last Friday (3\/8\/19), which would have been over 24 hours in notice if I had received it. I can honestly say that as a young professional  I check my email several times a day and I would have seen it if I had received it. Also, I have thoroughly checked my spam, clutter and deleted emails for aforementioned notice and I cannot find it. She swears that is says sent in her email though. I\u2019m just wondering if she has any grounds of being right here considering I don\u2019t have an email from her. If anyone knows how I should follow up with this and what I should do, etc. please feel free to share. Thanks for the consideration!","title":"(Ohio) tenant 24 hr in advance notice to come to apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502852625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tzaay\/mold_at_my_job_at_state_school_they_refuse_to\/","id":"6tzaay","body":"First off, sorry if my Flair is incorrect. Also, it's my moms work. \n\nSo she works for a state college as a payroll supervisor and they are kept in a basement. Apparently for about a year now there is a section of the building in the basement that has had a persistent leak. Rather than fixing the leak they have the area \"blocked off\" with fans running on it in an attempt to keep it dry. This doesn't work too well and it just soaks into the carpet and stays squishy wet.\n\nSo they've had a few people come in and assure everyone that it is not mold. However, the amount of people getting sick has been increasing more and more. People with allergies and mold sensitivities are having more and more issues as the problem persists. The building managers are still adamant that it's not mold. \n\nSo it's clearly mold and the entire floor knows it but are unsure about the action that can be taken. Again, it's a state government building, I don't know if that matters. They obviously don't want the problem to persist.\n\nAny advice?","title":"Mold at my job at State School, they refuse to acknowledge it, people are getting sick","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571386356,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djke2s\/do_i_have_to_pay_rent_after_served_a_30_notice_in\/","id":"djke2s","body":"I was given a 30 day notice two days ago from my  friends mom. Now she is demanding I pay rent and it's more than I normally pay. I have never been late but she is telling me she will throw my stuff out to the curb if I dont do it. I'm literally just waiting until the roof on my parents house to be finished. she has been verbally and mentally abusive for the past year. The house is inhabitable to a point. She has thrown out and destroyed a lot of my things and will not replace what she destroyed. I have been googling for an answer all night. I know her threatening to lock me out is illegal along with the new laws in place I should have been given a 90 day notice since I've lived in this house almost 7 years. I feel like I shouldn't have to pay since she is kicking me out without proper notice. Thank you for reading this.","title":"Do I have to pay rent after served a 30 notice in NEW YORK STATE","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539653844,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oj2c4\/discriminated_against_when_i_applied_for_a_job\/","id":"9oj2c4","body":"I recently applied for a job and made it all the way through the process before being told I would be considered next time they hire. \n\nI have a close friend on the hiring team of this employer, in fact, he helped me write my resume and fill out the application. We have been in the same line of work for years and he thought I would be a shoe in due to my experience and references. \n\nAfter I was informed that I would not get the job, my friend told me that they hired 5 out of the nearly one thousand that applied. He also told me that the hiring team was down to me and a black male with no experience in our field what so ever. The company hired the latter because he was black and although I had ample experience\/education it didn\u2019t matter. Apparently all minorities make it to the second part of the application phase for the sole purpose of being a minority. \n\nIs there anything I can do to fight this blatant discrimination? ","title":"Discriminated against when I applied for a job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551112981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aun8rc\/ohio_caught_my_boss_editing_me_and_my_coworkers\/","id":"aun8rc","body":"First off, I\u2019m writing this on mobile so apologies for any formatting\/grammatical issues.\n\nA few weeks ago, corporate visited our store (a restaurant chain) and they chewed our GM out for leaving on the clock and not helping with actual work because it meant that no employees were getting breaks. The company rule is that if you work more than 6 hours you can choose to take a 30minute break, but most people choose not to or don\u2019t have the time because we are short staffed.\n\nFast forward to last night, when I check my time card to see how many hours will go on my paycheck and notice that multiple shifts have been trimmed into perfect 6 hour blocks with 30minute breaks. The card says by who and when the times were edited, and why they were changed (GM says that I forgot to punch in\/out). While i only lost like 30minutes off this paycheck, I don\u2019t know how long this has been going on for, and I had other employees check and they were loosing 2+ hours of overtime each. \n\nI took pictures of all time cards\/edits and everything (both me and my coworkers) and texted them to my boss asking why he has done it. He said \u201c[he] edited because it was over 6 hours, [he would] check and correct it in the morning,\u201d and didn\u2019t respond to anything else. I have screenshots of the texts, time cards and edits. What next steps should I take? HR for the company is notoriously bad, so is there any legal repercussions I should pursue instead? Any advice is appreciated!","title":"[ohio] Caught my boss editing me and my coworkers time cards","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538944545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m8i6v\/parenting_plans\/","id":"9m8i6v","body":"maybe I should have come here first...\nI was in an extremely abusive relationship with my kid\u2019s dad, and was manipulated into naming my baby after the dad. My son will be 5 next month, and I\u2019ve been putting off making a parenting plan b\/c of establishing the status quo, now I am ready to do that, plus I want to change my child\u2019s name. I am constantly haunted by my abuser and have to relive the trauma whenever I have to say my abuser\u2019s name, that I gave to my darling, innocent child. I have not purposely been in the presence of the ex since my son was 6-months, when the ex forced himself into my house, roughed me up, and attempted to kidnap my baby. Since then, he has been stalking me, despite the restraining order. \nI have no idea how to attempt to change my son\u2019s name, nor how to do a parenting plan. I do have a lawyer on retainer, but charges $300 per hour. I would like to do mostly everything on my own so as to save $ because I have no additional financial resources.  Any suggestions? (State of WA) Thanks in advance. ","title":"Parenting plans","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541723639,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vfold\/usmi_usoh_sec_settlement_check_addressed_to\/","id":"9vfold","body":"I\u2019m posting this on behalf of a family friend who lives in Michigan. Her father, who resided in Ohio, died approximately 10 years ago and the estate was handled uneventfully by her and her sister by filing with the state that he had under $5,000 of assets at the time of his death.\n\nSeveral days ago she received a settlement check as a result of SEC litigation addressed to her deceased father in the mail. How should she legally cash the check since it\u2019s not addressed to her?","title":"[US-MI, US-OH] SEC Settlement Check Addressed to Deceased Father","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539382044,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nonar\/my_late_great_uncle_was_a_bank_robber_in_new_york\/","id":"9nonar","body":"A while back my grandma told me that one of her late brothers was a bank robber. I know his full name and where he committed his crimes, but i can\u2019t find his criminal records anywhere. I\u2019ve tried criminal record bases but i can\u2019t find anything, and i know he went to prison at least more than once. He was also shot in the head by his partner at one point (which is crazy because he survived) so would there be hospital records out there too? (also i\u2019m not sure if this is the right flair for this but oh well)","title":"My late great uncle was a bank robber in New York. How can I, as a resident of washington state, obtain his criminal records?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571627485,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkudr7\/business_attorney_interview\/","id":"dkudr7","body":"Salutations folks!  I was wondering if one of you would be so kind as to help me with my Intro to Business Law class.  My assignment is to interview a Business attorney but they all want to charge for the consultation (obviously) so I was hoping maybe one of you guys could help me out, perhaps by answering at least questions 7-18 (and maybe PM'ing me 1-6 if you feel comfortable enough sharing) Thanks!  I appreciate your guy's help.\n\n1. Attorney\u2019s Name: \n\n2. Firm Name:\n\n3. Firm Address:  \n  City & State:  \n 4. Phone number:  \n 5. Email address:   \n 6. Law Firm website:\n\n7. Undergraduate Degree, and School: \n\n8. Law School graduated from: \n\n9. What things did you most enjoy about law school?\n\n10. What things did you NOT enjoy about law school? \n\n11. What kinds of cases do you normally work on?  \n\n12. How much time do you spend in court? \n\n13. What do you enjoy most about practicing law? \n\n14. What negatives have you experienced in practicing law? \n\n15.  If you were not practicing law, what other types of employment would you consider? \n\n16. If a student were interested in a career in business law, what would you advise that student as to the type of undergraduate training to get as training (majors, degrees, etc.)?\n\n17. What is one of your most memorable cases?\n\n18. What is one of the silliest things you had to argue for on behalf of your client?","title":"Business Attorney Interview","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1502983173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uanih\/ca_i_was_rear_ended_im_uninsured_they_want_to\/","id":"6uanih","body":"UPDATE: I contacted a lawyer, they suggested basically everything else that was in the comments. I appreciate it. If she doesn't give me any information I'll find out her name from work and fill out a form with the DMV to get her insurance info anyway. Thank you everyone.\n\nTuesday the 15th (day before yesterday) I was driving home from work when I came to a line of traffic in a construction area, I slowed and had to step on my brakes a little hard the final few feet. I checked my rearview and saw the next car coming, knowing they wouldn't be able to make the stop.\n\nShe hit me, a 2010 Ford fusion, I bumped the car in front of me, a nissan..Altima? We pulled off to inspect the damage, the 3rd car had minimal damage, some paint was scuffed, so he left without a word to me or the other girl. The girl had called a friend from work to come by and pick her up so she did. The girl's car, some kind of Toyota crv\/hrv, had some grill damage, her hood was bent up a bit and her radiator got cracked I think. I got on the ground and only saw a small saucer sized puddle under her vehicle so I don't think anything serious occurred. However my rear bumper is crunched in, my taillight lost the red cover, and there's some actual body damage because my trunk can't latch now.\n\nI don't have insurance, I haven't been able to find anything reasonable (under $188\/month) in fact my registration is 3 years expired because I can't make $900+ appear for fees. When I told her she said \"oh hun! I'll call it as a hit and run\". Ok well that's not what happened. She suggested that because if not I'll get a ticket for no insurance, or points on my license or something (that's what the friend said.)\n\nNow, I'm willing to deal with that. I made a choice to have food and rent over car insurance. But I'm *not* paying to get my car fixed, I didn't do anything.\n\nI work with both parties involved in the accident, our work is so large I don't know their names but I can find out, I'm sure. I got a photo of my car, I didn't get a shot of hers which means I have no plate for her.\n\nWhat pisses me off is I immediately asked if she was ok, I even asked several other times to make sure (my head went forward and I hit I on my seat. My neck hurts and my SO said I had a faint bruise along the back of my neck) but all she kept saying was \"oh my God my car! Girl, I just got this, oh my god\"\n\nI just don't know what to do...I'm sorry if this is discombobulated...","title":"(CA) I was rear ended, I'm uninsured, they want to claim hit and run.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539353816,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nkn7q\/im_sure_this_has_been_asked_before_but_what_is\/","id":"9nkn7q","body":"Last week my brother in law passed away. It was easy to dole out his stuff. We knew he didn\u2019t have any deb. My father on the other hand while he did live in an appt and they have released us from his contact he did have his own teal estate business. He owned his vehicle outright. But how do I make sure I can give his things away without creditors coming after me if there are any?","title":"I\u2019m sure this has been asked before but what is the easiest and quickest way to settle my fathers estate.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539899146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pdlng\/roommate_terminated_the_lease_early_without_my\/","id":"9pdlng","body":"My co-tenant\/ roommate submitted a lease termination form to our apartment complex without my signature on it. \n\nI live in Atlanta , Georgia. \n\nBefore anyone gets any wrong ideas. This guy is my best friend and he definitely did not intend on doing this. He is very inexperienced with renting and also he has a bit of social anxiety and most likely had trouble expressing his desire to the leasing agent he spoke to It was his belief that it was just removing him from the lease\/cancelling his side of the involvement. So this is not his fault at all. \n\nHe went down to the office in September attempting to remove himself from the lease and somehow ended up filling out a form to terminate our lease. \n\nI did not write my name or sign my name on this form. I was not present when he gave them the form nor was I present when he asked to be removed (when they gave him the form to do so. ) It seems like the leasing agent he spoke to provided him wrong information and the wrong form. \n\nMy roommate wanted to leave early since he got married and has already moved in with his wife. \n\nOur lease is supposed to end on January 25th but I just received a notice letting me know I\u2019m supposed to be moved out by the end of this month. \n\nSince I was not part of the signing and I was not there when the form was given to be terminated. I was not aware of this. \n\nI don\u2019t want to leave nor do I want to terminate the lease. As I do not have anywhere to go currently and it is going to be a nightmare to find a new apartment on such a short notice. \n\nI qualify based on income and credit for the current two bedroom apartment by myself. \n\n\n\nMy questions: \n1) Do both tenants need to be present and consent\/ sign on the termination of the lease for it to be valid? \n\n2) If it is legal for him to terminate the lease without  both tenants\u2019 consents, then is there anything I can do to reverse this ? \n\n3) If none of the above, what can I do? What are my rights in this situation ? \n\n","title":"Roommate terminated the lease early without my involvement but I want to stay","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554770781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb1jnv\/child_custody_father_accused_of_filming_16_year\/","id":"bb1jnv","body":"Tonight I got a call from my daughters stepmother asking me to come get my daughter cause they were calling the police on my ex husband. The stepmothers sixteen year old sister said that he was filming her in the shower but there was no evidence on his phone so I\u2019m not sure if charges will be filed or not. If charges are filed I\u2019m certain I can get full custody but if they are not can I argue with just the accusation that she should no longer be in their home? I\u2019m hoping charges are filed because their are 4 other kids including the 16 year old living there, but my main concern is obviously my 4 year old daughter","title":"Child Custody - Father accused of filming 16 year old showering","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550796234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atauvt\/hearing_advice_fired_for_illness_absences_and\/","id":"atauvt","body":"Some background: I worked for my company for 3 years and have had chronic health issues for the entirety of my employment (migraines, generalized anxiety disorder, and depression). I've had about 4 manager changes during this time as well. The first two were very understanding of my circumstances and allowed me to work from home when not feeling well, and when not I logged sick time. I was salary so it wasn't stated in our handbook about sick time for us.\n\nLate 2017 into 2018 I had 3 minor surgeries and a mental health decline due to management change and sudden increased workload. I applied for ADA accomodations and had a little flexibility of a couple hours I could make up a week, but suddenly I was no longer allowed to work from home. My new manager said I didn't deserve \"special treatment\". Then they fired the other girl in my position and my workload doubled. \n\nThings just fell suddenly with my mental health and I found myself having frequent suicidal thoughts. I couldn't deal with the stress from work anymore. No matter how much I asked for help from my manager he would just call me his most frustrating employee, but then say I did great work. I ended up taking FMLA leave. When it came time to return I learned they hired someone new in my position and they were requesting I see a doctor of their choice before I return. This pushed me back a month and they never found anyone. The day came to return and my S.O. of 6 years left me the day before and I had a mental breakdown over that and the stress over work. I requested starting a couple days later and they fired me the next day after agreeing.\n\nI applied for unemployment and they denied me saying I was overly absent despite warnings (which I was never formally given) and willful misconduct. I appealed and my hearing is tomorrow. I'm hoping to overturn the decision because my absences were due to chronic illnesses I have plenty of documentation on that my employer also had for my ADA paperwork.\n\nWhat can I do? Do I have a chance to win? I'm so afraid because I don't have anyone representing me.\n\nTl:Dr Got fired after fmla sick leave from illness related absences and yet denied unemployment. Seeking advice for unemployment appeal hearing tomorrow. ","title":"Hearing Advice - Fired for illness absences and denied Unemployment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553269569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b46mhh\/my_friend_has_been_married_to_his_wife_for_7\/","id":"b46mhh","body":"She can't just take their child and leave. And he can't just take their child and leave. It's KIDNAPPING, is it not? What can he do if she leaves? ","title":"My friend has been married to his wife for 7 years and they have a child and a rented home together. He's afraid his wife is going to leave and take his child. Isn't it kidnapping if either of them leaves and takes the child? Pennsylvania.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552964839,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2s4ce\/cross_post_what_do_i_need_to_do_to_make_sure_i\/","id":"b2s4ce","body":"[https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/relationship\\_advice\/comments\/b2ryex\/me\\_27m\\_and\\_exgirlfriend\\_25f\\_going\\_through\/](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/relationship_advice\/comments\/b2ryex\/me_27m_and_exgirlfriend_25f_going_through\/)","title":"cross post: what do i need to do to make sure i dont ever lose seeing my son?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552573264,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b10w9a\/school_wifi_is_tracking_online_conversations\/","id":"b10w9a","body":"South Africa.\n\nMy school allows children to use tablets and the miebooks app for textbooks. The school has a login and password for every learner for school wifi.\n\nSpecific online chat\/social media groups are not prohibited (blocked) on the wifi. \n\nMy school has a code that runs whenever a blocked or inappropriate word is said, it flags onto our account and gets saved.  Recently the school has come with printed copies of online conversations ( one on one, private messages ) while on the school wifi with screenshots of us swearing. \n\nThe school now has called me in and showed me the evidence, and will show my parents in an urgent meeting. \n\nI looked on the schools parent and learner manual online from 2016 and I can\u2019t find anything that says they are allowed to record and keep track of anything we say to others in Private Messages to people. The school does not allow you to swear, but this is on social media (discord) and didn\u2019t once contain the name of the school, however I swore while connected to the wifi.\n\nIs it legal for the school to keep track of our conversations?","title":"School wifi is tracking online conversations, printed it and wants to show parents.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1444449697,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o6m3z\/lease_says_landlord_can_require_me_to_move_pa\/","id":"3o6m3z","body":"I'm a tenant in Pennsylvania, with a formal, written, one-year lease. My lease says that my landlord can require me to move out of my apartment, and move into another apartment of the landlord's choosing (owned by the same landlord). The landlord can do this at any time, as many times as they want, whenever they want, even if I haven't broken the lease or done something wrong, and with only five days' notice. I have to cover all of my own moving expenses each time.\n\nAlso, even if the landlord forces me to move, this doesn't let me break the lease if I don't like the new apartment. I'm still required to pay the original rent, and fulfill all the other lease terms that I had when I was renting the old apartment.\n\nAlso, if I don't want to move, and the landlord sues me in court, the lease says I have to pay all of the landlord's attorney's fees. I'm still required to pay their attorney fees even if I win in court and the judge decides the lawsuit is frivolous.\n\nIs this legal in PA?","title":"Lease says landlord can require me to move? (PA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568451764,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d42v33\/had_an_accident_flipped_my_car_and_my_insurance\/","id":"d42v33","body":"This was back on Dec. 9 2003. I worked 2nd shift and had rode with a friend to get some dinner. On the way back I had a used tire of my own on my right front as the original had got a nail in it the day before and as I was waiting for a replacement I had the tire shop put the used one on. Ok back to that night coming back from dinner to work and it blew out ( I'm assuming it was dry rotted. I went down an embankment and flipped my car. My best friend died in the car with me and I was devastated.  Mind you I was not drinking at all and there were no drugs in my system. Yet the insurance comp refused to pay for my brand new WRX which I had just about all my $ invested at that point in my 21 year old life. I've been back and forth with them since with them never admitting any responsibility or wanting to pay anything towards. I know it's been over 15 years but is there anything that can be done? It ruined my life on some many different levels and have been traumatized over my friends death ever since. Any advise from anyone would be very welcome.","title":"Had an accident, (flipped my car) and my insurance went pay.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553468714,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b52vzf\/my_mom_is_going_to_sue_my_bastard_of_a_stepfather\/","id":"b52vzf","body":"Hey guys, now first of all I would like to state that English is not my or my mother\u2019s first language so sorry about that, now my stepfather is refusing to pay or even help with things like diapers for the babies, milk and other things like that, he had 2 children with my mother and now all of a sudden this happens, we suspect that he is cheating on her. It would really be helpfully get some more knowledge on this topic, thank you everyone ","title":"My mom is going to sue my bastard of a stepfather and put him on child support, is there anything we should know?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571673924,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl2ol3\/can_employers_force_their_employees_to_use_their\/","id":"dl2ol3","body":"I live in Ontario Canada. My work is closed down from the 18th-29th of December, as in the building is locked, no one allowed in. They are forcing me to use my days off to during this time period. Is this allowed? I mean you literally aren\u2019t allowed in the building, how is it allowed to force me to use my vacation days?","title":"Can employers force their employees to use their vacation time?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568863884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d68dk8\/noncompete_from_2015_wondering_if_still_valid\/","id":"d68dk8","body":"I signed a non-compete in 2015 when I was a Senior Project Manager. Last year, I received a promotion and they did not have me sign another form. My job title and salary changed. My non-compete specifically says my former title. Is it still valid or is it null and void?","title":"Non-compete from 2015 - wondering if still valid (Oregon)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553819634,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6qpf9\/my_son_was_finally_bonded_out_of_jail_but_the\/","id":"b6qpf9","body":"Part of my son's bond agreement says \"No Social Media\/Internet Access\"\nI can understand the \"No Social Media\" part where he isn't allowed to communicate or post on social media and officials can just check if they made any posts. \nBut the \"No Internet Access\" doesn't make sense to me. How could officials know if he is using the internet?\nHe doesn't want to break the law, so he will not be trying to go online. We are just concerned as to what this really means.","title":"My son was finally bonded out of jail, but the bond agreement doesn't make sense","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506434707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72kjql\/pittsburgh_pa_city_is_revoking_street_parking\/","id":"72kjql","body":"I got a nice email yesterday from they city notifying me that I was one of the tenants who was incorrectly granted a parking permit, and that my permit would be cancelled in five weeks.\n\nHe said that when the city approved the development of my building, it did so forbidding the building's participation in the parking program. However, the leasing agent told me in an email that there **would** be street parking. Virtually everywhere requires a residential parking permit, and it is very unusual for a resident to be unable to purchase a permit to park on their own street. (This makes me think that even if the leasing agent did not tell me there would be street parking, he would have had a responsibility to tell me that our building was the only to be barred from using the surrounding residential parking area.)\n\nIs there anything I can do about this? Parking has a big influence on rent and property values. Do I have a legal right to be compensated?\n\nThe apartment building sells expensive private parking spots.","title":"[Pittsburgh, PA] City is revoking street parking permits to tenants of the new building I moved into, since the building was barred from participation in parking program when it was built. The leasing agent told me there would be street parking. Options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542062265,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wizu4\/can_a_private_investigator_use_their_position_for\/","id":"9wizu4","body":"Hypothetically, if someone had a Pi license and was financially secure already so they didn't care about money, could they just use their license to investigate anything they wanted to? Or are they required to have a client in order for a case to be legit? What's stopping them from solving crimes in their spare time?","title":"Can a Private Investigator use their position for their own benefit?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555153292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcpe3m\/cybercrime\/","id":"bcpe3m","body":"My girlfriend's ex-boyfriend threatens to leak her private pictures. She is always afraid and tensed because he threatens to send them to her dad. He has still got the pictures in his smartphone. Please help her. She is living in Nepal.","title":"Cybercrime?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569061530,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d78slf\/my_license_expiration_date_was_9_days_after\/","id":"d78slf","body":"My license was issued on February 8th and the expiration date, instead of being years later, was set for my birthday of the same year, which happened to be February 17, 9 days later. This was also the day my previous license expired. Because I didn\u2019t think to check for mistakes, I did not notice until I received a speeding ticket and they also issued a ticket for an expired license. The \u201claw section\u201d number is 46.2-300\n\nI immediately was confused and said that wasn\u2019t possible, and after realizing what happened, the police officer said I could mail in documents if I couldn\u2019t show up in court. Unfortunately, I did not write down what he said, and in the stress of it all, I don\u2019t remember. I\u2019m trying to figure out what I would probably need to mail in to prove this isn\u2019t valid. The speeding ticket was issued in a county 3 hours away, and I have classes that day.\n\nMy thought would be a copy of the license and an explanation of the issue, but I have never gotten a ticket or another charge so I have absolutely no idea. I\u2019m going to the DMV today when it opens to renew my license if any information could\/should be gathered there.","title":"My license expiration date was 9 days after issuance and I didn\u2019t notice until I got a ticket (VA)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507435399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74znj8\/our_landlord_may_be_going_to_jail\/","id":"74znj8","body":"We are renting from a guy and just saw that he may be going to jail for embezzlement. If he gets convicted what would happen? Does the house go to the bank and we pay to them or what? Just curious.   \nOklahoma","title":"Our landlord may be going to jail.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505167730,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zipc5\/specifically_called_isp_to_verify_internet\/","id":"6zipc5","body":"So off the bat I know there is no legal requirement for ISP to provide service, am in Michigan so there is no franchise agreement requiring buildout.\n\nThat being stated my wife and I were house shopping and both of us have some remote work required.  We found a house we liked, checked on Spectrum website it said service was available, to prevent this exact scenario I followed up with a phone call to verify if service was available and was told by phone rep that yes service was available and to just call once we are ready.\n\nSo I call and am told they need to do a site survey, and then get another phone call saying they need to charge me $15,000 because the address is not in service because they need to run 2000 ft of cable.  This includes 1400 ft along the road to reach my home.  \n\nIn my original call I was never provided any type of disclaimer regarding service and I checked the website and there is not one there either.  I wouldn't be seeking anything beyond the cost to have it installed in damages.  Wondering if it's worth the cost to involve a lawyer or not.","title":"Specifically called ISP to verify internet service was available when purchasing house. They said it was, now being told service will cost $15,000 to install service, can I sue ISP for material misrepresentation?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553389800,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4qmtj\/obtaining_a_lost_car_title_when_its_not_in_my_name\/","id":"b4qmtj","body":"Back when I graduated high school in Illinois I used my graduation money to pay part of my first used car. My mother covered the rest and put the title in her name. Never really bothered to transfer it to my name, and neither of us ever thought to do so even after I paid off the car completely. Flash forward to now though, and instead of living in Illinois I now live in North Carolina, and I have to register my car in this new state.\n\nI tried getting my mother to send the title but supposedly it was lost in the mail. Now neither of us have the title and neither of us live in the state the title is in (titles are tied to the state correct).\n\nIs there a way to order it online? Anyway for me to just get the title in my name without too much hassle? Most online searches said it required a lawsuit but this isn't a legal thing between us so of course that'd be a massive waste and super inappropriate.","title":"Obtaining a lost car title when its not in my name?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538600881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9l5deq\/my_pregnant_wife_has_a_doctors_note_prescribing\/","id":"9l5deq","body":"We are in Louisiana and my wife works for a charter school (50+ employees) and does not belong to a union. She is 30+ weeks pregnant and the doctor prescribed her 8-hour work days. Her usual work week is 45 hours. She has not been diagnosed with a condition resulting from her pregnancy. The HR department at her school said that her pay is based on a 45 hour work week and if she is going to do 8 hour work days five days a week she needs to use her PTO for the missed time, her FMLA, or she could go ahead on to short term disability. \n\nAre these her only options? Is the school required to shorten her day now that she has a doctors note? Should we contact a lawyer?","title":"My pregnant wife has a doctors note prescribing 8-hour work days, her employer says she has to use PTO for this","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505536263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70ezyk\/texas_starting_a_tenants_organization_how_to\/","id":"70ezyk","body":"I live in a low income apartment complex that is subsidized by Section 8. Management has never been great, but it's gotten worse and this place is becoming less and less livable. I'm working on starting a Tenants' Association. \n\nI've discussed this with several residents and they all have voiced concern about retaliation by management. Our property management company is in another state and isn't directly involved in the community. The only employees of the apartments are the manager and the maintenance guy. The manager has a reputation for deviousness and underhandedness, and residents fear that she could work to make people's living situations here worse if she were provoked.\n\nIs this a reasonable fear? How can I tell people that it is safe for them to participate, or how can I see that they are protected if they need protection from management for being involved?\n\nI have written out the following to post to the Facebook page. Is what I've said in it correct? Is there anything else that needs to be added?\n\n---\n\nThe Threat of Retaliation\n\nTexas State Law protects the rights of Texans to participate in a Tenants\u2019 Association. [Here](http:\/\/codes.findlaw.com\/tx\/property-code\/prop-sect-92-331.html) is the relevant bit of the law.\u00a0\n\nAnyone who participates in a Tenant Organization is protected from retaliation for six months after their participation. The landlord cannot attempt to evict a tenant, or deprive them of use of the premises, or decrease services to the tenant, or break a lease, or\u00a0engage \"in bad faith, in a course of conduct that materially interferes with the tenant's rights under the tenant's lease.\". These rights that cannot be interfered with include the right of quiet enjoyment of your home, and the right to health, safety, and security in your home.\u00a0\n\nIf a landlord attempts to do any of these things within six months of your participation in the Tenants' Association then the law will assume that they are retaliating against you. By participating in the Tenants' Association, you are protecting yourself from these things.\n\nThere is a big exception, tho - the law does not assume it's in retaliation if you are evicted for being behind on your rent. There are other exceptions listed [here](http:\/\/codes.findlaw.com\/tx\/property-code\/prop-sect-92-332.html). Intentionally destroying property, threatening the safety of the landlord, and materially breaching your lease have always been things that can get you evicted. If you do these things then it doesn't matter if you've participated in the Tenants' Association - the landlord's actions in evicting you or whatever they do will not be considered illegal retaliation.\n\nThe big warning there - IF YOU ARE BEHIND IN RENT IT MIGHT NOT BE SAFE FOR YOU TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN THE TENANTS' ASSOCIATION. Until we learn more, you probably shouldn't post in the Tenant's Association group if you're not up to date.\n\nIf you are behind in rent but would like to communicate with the Tenants' Association, please email\u00a0<tenants' association email address>. All emails received at that address will be kept confidential.","title":"[Texas] Starting a Tenants' Organization - how to allay the residents' fear of retaliation by management?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441737319,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k4j60\/was_pushed_by_my_parents_to_file_a_police_report\/","id":"3k4j60","body":"Hi all. I was robbed at knife point over the weekend while visiting my parents in my hometown. They took my purse and my car. I was robbed by two men with no real distinguishable characteristics (i.e, no tattoos, not particularly short\/tall, generic clothing). The Blue Book value of my car is less than $500. Because I've never been the victim of a crime before, I was incredibly upset, and wanted to deal with it in my own way. I contacted a therapist, but my father pushed me to file a police report. \n\nThe officer that took my statement clearly did not believe me, and call me shortly after I filed the report. He was very aggressive, and I felt like he was accusing me of lying rather than treating as a victim who may have misremembered something or might have had more information to offer once I got home.  \n\nOverall, my experience with the officer was incredibly stressful, and the idea of confronting my accusers, should they be found, is probably the worst thing for me right now. Is there any way that I can contact the police to withdraw my statement or ask that the crime not be investigated? Would it be possible to express to them that as the victim of a crime, this is not the closure that I need? \n\n\nEdit: I appreciate the advice that was offered so quickly. I contacted the police department to state that I did not wish the case to be investigated. The clerk kindly told me that she would put the statement on file, and advised that the police would continue their investigation if they found it necessary. She also advised that I contact the DA if I did not wish to press charges. ","title":"Was pushed by my parents to file a police report, but it's not the kind of closure that I need. Can I withdraw my statement and request the crime not be investigated? [California]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553174274,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3qf5i\/im_seeking_to_interview_a_possible_criminal_under\/","id":"b3qf5i","body":"I'm not good with legal jargon and I'm not a journalist, just a filmmaker trying to prepare something I'm passionate about. I'm nervous to give too many details but, the backstory, tl;dr at bottom: \n\nThe person is believed by many in my hometown to have committed a crime some 3 years ago. He was an officer (ex-officer now) and the case was dropped, but a lot of things dont add up (paperwork saying the victim died of suicide when she was still alive, CoP calling her parents to tell them she was dead AFTER confirming she was not, his stories being inconsistent with video surveillance). After this another scandal involving the same officer occurred and was covered up by the PD, only to be uncovered in three hours by a local journalist. \n\nNow for my question: I want to interview him under the guise of someone who believes him but just wants the full story, as he never spoke to any journalists or anything, only other officers. This will be difficult to do, I'm sure, but what steps do I need to take as far as release forms and securing my own ass? \n\nTL;DR Need to lie to a (possible) criminal to get a recorded interview. What steps should I take to make sure I'm legally secure?","title":"I'm seeking to interview a possible criminal under the guise of someone looking to defend him. What steps should I take regarding paperwork?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554133376,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b841rh\/rental_company_is_now_claiming_piece_of_equipment\/","id":"b841rh","body":"I rented some equipment from a rental house, after returning the gear with no problems. I received a call later on stating a piece of the equipment was missing, I know for a fact it was not. This place has a reputation for not giving out all the pieces of equipment  and then claiming it\u2019s missing. (I think the owner has memory issues).\n\n\n\nAnyways, no real paper work was done. Only a general contract that states if the gear is damaged or lost it must be replaced, also since it was one of my employees that took the call they freaked out and gave the company a replacement part, which I\u2019m now being told is being held as collateral, that seems illegal in its self?\n\n\nBut since they accepted the return in the first place, it seems ridiculous to me they can then claim the missing pieces must be replaced. It\u2019s like renting a car, returning it and then receiving a call three months down the road that the manual is missing. That doesn\u2019t seem fair, and it just seems ripe for abuse to get customers to pay for extra equipment. \n\nTLDR: rental company accepted return. Later claimed a part was missing, when I know it was. Now they\u2019re holding some of my equipment hostage until I pay for the replacement. ","title":"Rental company is now claiming piece of equipment is missing after returning gear. I know it\u2019s not. NY","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554321909,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b92yfx\/are_websites_a_public_accommodation_under_the\/","id":"b92yfx","body":"One of the most popular subs on Reddit, r\/BlackPeopleTwitter, recently decided to become \"for black folks only\" and require invitations.\n\n​\n\nI found [some case law](https:\/\/www.gtlaw.com\/en\/insights\/2018\/7\/11th-circuit-determines-informational-websites-for-places) affirming that websites are indeed a \"public accommodation\" when it comes to the ADA, so I can't imagine the same wouldn't apply under the CRA.\n\n​\n\nAlso, what is the culpability of Reddit itself? I know Reddit is afforded some protections due to their being considered a platform rather than a publisher, but surely there's some culpability.","title":"Are websites a \"public accommodation\" under the Civil Rights Act?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552946114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2oo4u\/tx_fender_bender_with_no_information_exchanged\/","id":"b2oo4u","body":"I was in a car accident. It was a fender bender and I was the one that rear-ended them. Her car had a dent in the bumper while my car had some moderate damage. Nobody was injured. My insurance lapsed at the time of the accident but I renewed my insurance on the night of the accident. The other driver was nice and did not file a police report because we agreed that I would venmo her $200 to call it even. We did not exchange any contact information, and the only info that she has is my venmo account that has my name. A couple of days later she is texting me in venmo asking for a license plate number and VIN number saying it's for insurance purposes. Also she threatens to file a police report if I dont provide that information. \n\nHow can I protect myself if I share my license plate and VIN number with her? And what could happen if I don't provide that information? Can she hold me liable? Can she still sue me? ","title":"[TX] Fender bender with no information exchanged","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442680965,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lko4r\/ny_laws_regarding_toy_guns\/","id":"3lko4r","body":"Hey, I live in New York City and I know gun laws are strict here. You can get into trouble for even having a toy gun. But what about toy guns that are clearly toys? Like guns with an orange cap or even nerf guns? Can I walk around with a gun like that without getting into trouble? I want to know for a costume I am preparing.\n\nThanks for any help! ","title":"[NY] Laws regarding toy guns.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542142717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wt1xg\/unfair_speeding_ticket\/","id":"9wt1xg","body":"I was driving in Ohio today and had my cruise control set on 74 MPH in a 70 MPH zone (I know, technically speeding.) However, I was pulled over and the cop wrote me up for what he claims was 87 MPH and gave me a $146 ticket. Is there any way out of this? I literally could not have been going faster than 74 because I had cruise control set for my long drive and didn't touch the gas pedal. Am I just screwed?","title":"Unfair Speeding Ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553194781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3uhi2\/upstairs_flat_potential_child_abuse_uk\/","id":"b3uhi2","body":"My boyfriend and I just moved into a new flat, and there have been a few things that stick out as unusual about the people living upstairs. We aren\u2019t 100% sure on any of this so are just looking for opinions and potential next steps based on what you guys think.\n\nThe first thing we noticed was this thudding that would happen over and over on our ceiling. Initially we just thought it was the kid maybe climbing onto its bed and jumping off over and over. But later we started to put together a few other odd things that made it seem a little more suspect. \n\nFor instance, when we first moved in there was a strange man who was ethnically different to both mother and son who we know live upstairs, and seemed a little sheepish, and not like he was coming home, and we never saw that man again. Not weird in itself, but there are frequently new adults at their door or acting strangely coming in and out, like hanging around the front door. One guy returns often and always looks shifty when leaving. Late one weekday evening there were several adults at once waiting to be let in - again not particularly suspect on its own, but odd nonetheless to be having so many people over so late on a school night with a relatively young child in the house.\n \nWe haven\u2019t really spoken to the parents yet - they haven\u2019t seemed to want to stop and say hi in the hall if we happen to pass (which we rarely do anyway due to having different schedules). Whenever the child is home almost all the time we hear him crying upstairs or screaming. Or otherwise the thudding. I know children can cry a lot, but this does seem unusually excessive (happens morning & evening). \n\nThe last thing we want to do is ruin someone\u2019s life and get authorities involved in a harmless situation, and it\u2019s possible we\u2019re adding up 2 and 2, and getting 5 - we just wanted some general opinions!\n\nTL;DR - constant child crying, thudding on the ceiling, strange adults (usually male) coming and going. Any red flags?","title":"Upstairs flat, potential child abuse? (UK)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570055164,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dchofd\/can_i_paid_in_damages_or_am_in_the_wrong\/","id":"dchofd","body":"Last weekend my friends were at a party and they got drunk and were talking shit to some other people and they pretty much set up a fight at the other people's houses and my friends called me to come help so when I showed up one guy came at our cars with a crowbar or a piece of rebar \" it was dark so i couldn't see exactly what it was\" and as i was driving  away he hit the back of my truck leaving a big dent and a gash in the panel, could I go talk to the cops and actually get him in trouble for that or am I also in the wrong and would I get in trouble as well?","title":"Can I paid in damages or am in the wrong?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552397981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b07w8x\/partner_is_holding_our_kids_passports_and_keeping\/","id":"b07w8x","body":"We live overseas and the father of my children is hiding our kid's passports my and refusing to let me take the kids back to the US to visit their extended family.\n\n\nCan anyone let me know if I have legal rights in this situation? I have always thought you need both parents permission for minors to travel, so I have thought we are at a stalemate. I am worried he might accuse me of kidnapping if I just find their passports and take the kids and get on a plane and go, and that I might get in legal trouble for that and risk my custody rights. Am I right that that is the wrong course of action?\n\nOr is he legally implicated for stopping me because he is holding them away from their legal home?\n\nOr? \n\nA secondary question: Can we have a custody battle outside of the US? Sometimes he has threatened to fight me for custody of the children, but I thought we would have to be present in PA to do that? I don't think he will go to the US for that unless maybe the kids and I are already there and I initiate it. We also don't have much money to be fighting legal battles. I want to avoid that and keep life peaceful for the kids. Beside this disagreement life is good and I want to remain living and co-parenting overseas.\n\n\nBackstory:\n\n\nWe have been living overseas with our children for most of their lives. They are 6 and 10. We are all US citizens, and our permanent residence is my mother's house in Pennsylvania.\n\n\nWe do not have residence in any other country, we have just been living on tourist visas.\n\n\nWe generally agree that we prefer our children to live overseas because we believe it gives them a better life than we could give them in the US.\n\n\nWe have never married and our relationship has been rocky, on and off, but we have stayed together, at least living in the same place, for the sake of the children, and have repeatedly tried to make it work between us, also for their sake, but right now it is not working, and not amicable.\n\n\nBoth of our names are on their birth certificates and we've never had any court-ordered custody arrangement.\n\n\nThe disagreement is that I want to bring our children to the US to visit their grandparents, great grandparents (who worry they won't get to see the kids again before they die), aunts, uncles, cousins, etc, who all really want to see them. This is my side of the family. If I went to the US I would also bring the kids to see his side of the family, who I know also would like to see them, though they don't ask me because we don't have a very personal relationship, but it is amicable and we share pictures and updates and happy holidays greetings etc. My partner also doesn't care if the kids never see his family or mine. He doesn't want them in the US. He is convinced it is a toxic place and the children are better off without the influence of US culture. He is a serious and stubborn person, but generally a good and loving father. He is convinced that keeping me from taking them is in their best interest.\n\nIf it's relevant, the kids would definitely say they want to go to visit their family. \n\nThe last time the kids were in the US was with me 4 years ago. Partner and I had separated, he stayed overseas, and the kids and I lived in my mother's house for over a year. He never came and never asked me to bring them back to him. My son was asking to see his father, so I brought them back to where he was overseas so that the they could also maintain a relationship with him. Since then he has been more possessive and worried that I will take them away again and not come back. This is not my intention. I have talked to him about wanting to take them to visit their extended family in the US every year since then (now the 4th year) and every time I have ended up compromising with a \"maybe next year\" to avoid a major fight or possibly a legal battle. Like I said, besides this disagreement, life if fine, and I have wanted to maintain that peace for the kids. This year it is clear he is more adamant than ever that they should not go, and I am more adamant that I no longer want to compromise.\n\n\nThanks so much for any advice you can give.\n\n\n","title":"Partner is holding our kids passports and keeping me from bringing our children to visit family in the US. We are US citizens living overseas. (PA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539001602,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9meebl\/my_high_school_is_a_joke\/","id":"9meebl","body":"I'm not sure if anybody might be able to help, but I wanted to give it a shot anyways. I have 2 mental disorders and I had a VERY hard time getting through high school. I repeated a year, and basically was in school until I was 19. I took (and passed) the graduation tests in my state and also passed my senior project. When I was in 9th grade, I failed civics and I never made up the credit. So when I was ready to graduate I needed to take summer school. There were very specific rules to this summer school, you could only go to the bathroom during designated breaks and if you showed up even one minute early you were told to leave. On my third day I felt an anxiety attack coming on, and I needed to leave. It wasn't an option, I needed to remove myself from that room with all of those people in it. So I left, and I regretted it instantly, but I also felt like I was dying so it was a shitty situation. I called the school the next day, no answer. I called the school when the next year started, no answer. They have NEVER been helpful or understanding of my condition and it's getting to the point where I'm ready to take legal action. I really feel like I being treated differently than someone who hasn't had an illness like mine but I don't have any evidence. I don't know what I can do. In my state, severe anxiety and depression is treated as a disability so I know that there IS some illegality with it. ","title":"My high school is a joke.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569109771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7ilks\/transferring_my_ok_car_title_in_my_parents_name\/","id":"d7ilks","body":"Okay so I put the flair as close as I could to the issue I think, and this may not even be the correct sub? I just didn't know where else this would fit so here it goes.\n\nI recently moved from OK to ND. In OK, my car was in my parents name, under their insurance, etc. The thing about this car is, my parents haven't paid a cent on this car, except for the original tax. Idk why they put it in they're name instead of mine to begin with but probably because the whole thing was a shit show.\n\nTo back up a bit, my parents bought this car for me (car B) a month after I turned 18. That's because they took the car they had given me when I was 16 (car A) away and gave it to my brother. This is because it came on them that they were no longer drawing my social security money, and I was getting it instead directly. They knew I would be getting this until I graduated, 7 months later. Here's the kicker: they took the money to buy car B directly from my bank account. I did not know at the time that after I turned 18 they would still have access to my bank account... So while I was at school I had a $6k withdraw from my account. I panicked and called my dad. He said he would tell me what hairbrush when he got home from with that night. So turns out I bought a car, but everything is in their name and I'm expected to pay everything on it too,insurance, tags, etc. This was in 2013\n\nFast forward to a couple months ago, I move to ND. This finally convinced my dad to put the damn thing in my name. So we get it signed over and everything, notarized, but in the spot where it asks how much I paid them for the car, I put $10. I didn't want to put $6K and have to pay the taxes AGAIN so this just made sense to me, as I also didn't want to put $0 for fear of having to pay some kind of gift tax or something else equally as stupid I made up in my mind.\n\nWhen I got to ND, I switched my license and my plates for the car over to ND, and they sent off my registration to be converted to ND as well. I got a piece of mail in some time later, asking why the purchase price was so low. I told them I paid that amount in cash, and the rest of the car had been worked off to pay for it through labour, during high school. I made this story up because that's how my dad advised me to write, and he's a law man (retired cop, now a city employee and is very knowledgeable on law and stuff for his job) so I did. They've now written back asking again why the price was so low. Specifically as follows :\n\n\"in your statement of fact your state that you worked for this vehicle. We will require you to state if there was an exchange of actual money between your parents and you, or if the vehicle was signed over without monetary exchange, if you did pay your folks for the vehicle please state why the purchase price was so low. Was there any damage to the vehicle that could lower the value? Please complete the enclosed.... \"\n\nIs there a way to word this to get them off of my back? I need my registration so I can sell the damn thing. Also, there are a few things wrong with it that I'm having to fix, like the starter went out, the headlights are in useless condition, the paint job is in dire need of work, there's some kind of problem with the power steering I've yet to have diagnosed, the tires are trash, and the windshield wiper fluid jettison thingy does not work.\n\nWhy help would be appreciated, or a point in the right direction. Sorry for the long winded post!","title":"Transferring My OK Car Title in My Parents Name to My Name in ND","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539822603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p4971\/am_i_allowed_over_when_my_boyfriends_daughter_is\/","id":"9p4971","body":"Sorry if this was already asked. I tried googling it but got a lot of general FAQs and only really need a short, simple answer (unless anyone wants to go into more detail!)\n\nMy boyfriend currently lives in an apartment with his own bedroom (the bathroom is inside the bedroom). He shares the whole apartment with three other people during the summer, one having the other bedroom and the remaining two (myself included) occupying the living room.\n\nHe recently let it slip to his ex wife that his daughter does not have her own bedroom when she visits in the summers and that she stays with him in his room. She\u2019s threatened to take away his visitation rights unless he moves to an apartment where she can have her own bedroom and that doesn\u2019t occupy ANY roommates while she\u2019s visiting.\n\nHe\u2019s looking at new apartments now but says I\u2019m unable to live with him in summers while she\u2019s visiting. Would it be any different if I\u2019m his girlfriend, same sex as his daughter? Or would it change anything if it was a two-bedroom apartment with my boyfriend and I sharing one room? (He was thinking about getting a 1 bedroom and sleeping in the living room while she visited.)\n\nSorry if the question was over-explained, I\u2019m not sure how much info is needed to have the question answered.","title":"Am I allowed over when my boyfriend\u2019s daughter is over for summers?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553287716,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4a97m\/philadelphia_pa_i_have_been_paying_7x_my_gas_bill\/","id":"b4a97m","body":"I moved into my current apartment on 8\/1\/18, where in my lease I agreed to pay for gas and heat for my unit (through PGW, the local gas company). As part of the paperwork, the agent for my landlord told me to sign up for an account with the gas company. I did that, and thought no more of it. \n\nMy first bill was over $70. That was quite a shock to me, but this is my first apartment, so I paid and went on my way. From the 1st bill until now I\u2019ve paid almost $700. \n\nToday I called my gas company to see why my bills have been so high, and it turns out I am the only person in the building that is paying for gas. The building is 7 units, but there is only 1 meter, so when I signed up for service I took the bill on completely. \n\nI got in contact with my landlord and as it\u2019s quoted in the title, they said it was errors in the filing cabinet. \n\nThey said that they want to make things right for me, but for now those are meaningless words. \n\nWhat are the steps I should take to make sure I don\u2019t continue paying for the entire building\u2019s gas, and hopefully get the money I spent back? What may I have to do legally to get my landlord to comply if they don\u2019t keep their word that they\u2019ll fix this all for me? \n","title":"(Philadelphia, Pa) I have been paying 7x my gas bill due to \u201cerrors with utilities in the filing cabinet\u201d of my landlord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1410977508,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gojna\/i_have_received_a_dmca_takedown_notice_claiming\/","id":"2gojna","body":"Accidentally erased OP due to crappy iOS client, basically I own http:\/\/dogechat.org and the owners of http:\/\/coinchat.org (previously dogechat.net) who wrote their website first are claiming my code infringes upon theirs but were quite vague about it. The name was owned by myself before they owned it and so is mine, but their site existed first under the coinchat name (they moved to dogechat.net and then back for some reason).","title":"I have received a DMCA takedown notice claiming my website is too similar to another. I disagree but am I being biased?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568548205,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4jg5t\/i_left_my_old_apartment_for_a_new_one_but_am\/","id":"d4jg5t","body":"There\u2019s one roommate who is a nightmare (bad attitude, let\u2019s dog shred apartment, got gas shut off for five weeks, etc) and one who is okay and I would have stayed if it was just her. I showed the apartment several times to find someone to replace me on the lease but was unable to by the time I needed to move into my new place. Mostly the reasons were due to the behavior and damage done by the nightmare roommate who the landlord is well aware of.\n\nMy old landlord told me I\u2019d be responsible for rent until a replacement was found, but the nicer girl told me that she would handle finding the replacement and has just asked me if I\u2019m still on the lease. I told her I wasn\u2019t sure.\n\nThe worse roommate had started destroying my personal items and it was really very out of hand. I had to leave. I\u2019m worried if they know I\u2019m still on the lease they will not pay my portion of the rent, even though I have fully moved out and returned the keys to them.\n\nI told my old landlord I\u2019d be leaving and gave him over 30 days notice, but I don\u2019t think he really thought I\u2019d move out. I don\u2019t know. In my lease it says I have to pay two times the rent to break the lease agreement but I\u2019m not sure if he\u2019ll let me do that because the other girls are continuing to live there. I\u2019m fine to lose my security deposit if that\u2019s what happens but I can\u2019t afford to just pay rent on both places.","title":"I left my old apartment for a new one but am still on the old lease, what can I do from here? (New Haven, CT)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540589873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rovy6\/multi_car_accident_was_not_my_fault_but_its_being\/","id":"9rovy6","body":"Hey everyone. Throw away account for obvious reasons. Here's my story.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nThe other day I was in an accident where I was driving down a road that had a speed limit of 35 mph. I was driving 40 mph, which admittedly is over the speed limit, but isn't reckless by any means. I saw a ball roll out into the road a little bit in front of me. I pumped my breaks because I figured a kid might run out after it. Out of nowhere a kid bolts into the road about 50 feet in front of me and I slam on the breaks and swerve right (two lane road) into the right lane. A women was in my blind spot and she saw me swerve and she swerved even further right because she was in the right lane. She ended up on the sidewalk and then into someones front lawn. She couldn't stop in time so she crashed into someone's car that was in the driveway of their house. I got out and saw the young kid dart into his house and I went over to see if the women was okay. She had blood on her face and was clearly very distraught. I  called 911 and they showed up. I gave my statement and then the ambulance showed up to take her to the hospital. I told the officer that the kid darting in front of my car was why I swerved. When he went up to the house the kid ran into the mother apparently refused to speak to the officer and basically slammed the door in his face. Because she wouldn't give a statement and the kid wasn't spoken to the officer wrote down on the accident report that I swerved into the women's lane of traffic and forced her off the road. I'm freaking out right now because I have no idea what to do. This woman obviously has bad injuries and I am going to be sued for her injuries, car, and not to mention the car that she hit because apparently this entire accident was my fault when it was the fault of the kid who ran in front of my car. What should I do? I feel like it's really unfair that this is being put on me even though I swerved to avoid killing a child. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nAttached is a crude paint drawing of what happened to try and give you a better visual: [https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/aXjhKFl](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/aXjhKFl)","title":"Multi car accident was not my fault, but it's being pinned on me.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570140233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcy0f4\/noncompete_which_state_matters\/","id":"dcy0f4","body":"I am currently working in Illinois for company A, but considering relocating to California to work for company B. There's a chance that company A would make a case for company B being a competitor... and though I don't have (and am hesitant to ask for) a copy of what I signed when I was hired, I'm fairly certain there was a non-compete agreement. \n\nI have heard that non-competes aren't really enforceable in California - does that apply to this situation? What could it depend on? Does it matter that my future employer is in California, or that my current employer is Illinois? Appreciate any help.","title":"Non-compete: which state matters?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550297493,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ar629n\/tn_wrongfully_fired_from_job_trying_to_figure_out\/","id":"ar629n","body":"Yes, this is a throwaway account. Yes, I am being intentionally vague, because I don't know who reads this, and I'm not sure how I will pursue this at this moment.\n\nI worked retail up until today, when I discovered I was not able to clock in. I was told by the records clerk that I was terminated by a specific manager. This manager had apparently called me earlier this week. When I answered after a \"certain number of attempts\", I supposedly told them to go f\\*\\*\\* themselves, that I would not be returning, and they were to stop contacting me in the future. This did not happen, and I was able to prove that the last time I was contacted by my work was last month from my call history on my phone. I also received a letter in the mail that reflected I supposedly quit on my own **last week** (still not true), and the details for separation section is left blank. This is definitely not true, because I worked last week and also at the beginning of this week. This form was signed by the specific manager as well.\n\nMy specific store manager refuses to speak with me about this situation, as they believe my being fired was the solution. I currently have plans to meet with my district manager after the weekend is over. \n\nI'm aware that TN is an at-will state, but is there any way I can pursue wrongful termination? Also, do I have grounds for suing the manager individually for lying about my reason for termination?","title":"[TN] Wrongfully fired from job, trying to figure out next steps.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505618170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70l9dk\/san_diego_ca_rent_rate_changed_before_signing_but\/","id":"70l9dk","body":"I'm living with four other people (for a total of five), and we're all on the lease. For this whole time, we've been told the rent would be a certain amount (let's say $1500\/month, but this is not the actual amount). The deposit along with some other paperwork we signed does also say that the rent (market) is $1500. However, our lease agreement says the rent (market) is now $1700 (also not exact amount). I unfortunately did not notice this change, and already signed my share. The other four and the owner did not sign yet. We'll be calling ASAP about it, but I was wondering if this was allowed and if we're now bound by the new rent since I fucked up and signed. \n\nTo clarify, we have not moved in yet and the lease will not be in effect for some days.","title":"[San Diego, CA] Rent rate changed before signing, but we signed on a different rate?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571753737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlijbj\/catchment_area_school_is_c_of_e\/","id":"dlijbj","body":"Little monster starts school next year and we went to view our local school. We are only in the catchment area for this one school and the other nearby schools are oversubscribed. \n\nIt is a C of E school and we are atheists. We were both quite uncomfortable about aspects of the school (a few examples - bible verses on the wall but nothing from other religions, multiple prayer sessions a week, visits to local churches but not to places of worship of other faiths, amongst other things). This is our only catchment area school and it is very likely that this will be where our kid is placed. It feels strange that we could be forced to send our kid to a faith school of a religion we do not practice. On the application guides it states you must put your catchment school as one of your choices or you run the risk of not being assigned a place anywhere. Is anybody able to advise if there is any other option other than just hoping one of the other two options we choose has a place available? \n\nSide note - We do want her to learn about religions but want it to be done equally. This school offers RE but the main faith is Christian and it is evident throughout the school. We are going to arrange a meeting with the school to discuss it further and see what these prayer assemblies etc would actually be like. \n\nAny advice would be gratefully received.","title":"Catchment area school is C of E","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552205184,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azdmkf\/wa_usa_apartment_complex_essentially_holding_me\/","id":"azdmkf","body":"Hi everyone. I'm currently living in an apartment with very crappy management. Basically, none of their policies align with the lease, they are very disorganized, and constantly messing up accounts\/payments.\n\n\nAbout 4 months ago my debit card got hacked and someone drained my bank account with fraudulant charges, causing my rent autopayment(and several other bills) to bounce. After my bank sorted this out and refunded me, all bills were paid in full. My rent was on time and not late. However, because the payment had bounced, I am now no longer allowed to pay via cash, check, online bill pay, or my online resident portal. I am only allowed to pay with a money order dropped off in person(not mailed) This is not stated in the lease as a consequence of a bounced payment. \n\nI tried to fight this by giving proof from my bank that the cause of the payment bouncing was the fradulant charges, but my apartment complex is refusing to budge. Oh well, a bit of inconvenience every month but overall not bad.\n\n\nHowever, I recently got an unexpected job offer and am now relocating across the country in May. My lease is up in August. I told my apartment complex about the situation and that I fully understand I am still on the hook for the rest of the rent money, but would like an update to my situation so that I could pay the rent with another method. I provided proof from my bank and my bank statements outlining the fradulant charges that caused the payment to bounce. They refused to budge and basically told me that I have to stay in my current town, since they will not allow me to mail the money order and will not update my account. \n\n\nDo I have any legal recourse here, since it was fraud that caused this issue in the first place, and since the whole money order ideal is not in the lease anywhere? I am NOT staying in my current town- I am definitely planning on moving. This is not only a current job offer I received, but a large scholarship to get my PhD with a large scholarship as well as a guaranteed job upon graduation in an extremely competitive field, so any help going about this would be greatly appreciated. ","title":"[WA USA] Apartment complex essentially holding me hostage, refusing to let me move by requiring me to pay rent in person via money order","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552840915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b271uo\/school_is_investigating_students_for_ding_dong\/","id":"b271uo","body":"So throwaway for obvious reasons as post could be incriminating.\n\nI\u2019ll try to keep this brief. A group of friends and I have been ding dong ditching a classmates house over the past few weeks and after a recent incident the police have gotten involved.\n\nIt started out pretty innocent, ring the bell, drive off. But last weekend we\u2019d decided to take it a step further and a friend of mine pooped into a bag and dumped it over their door and doorstep.\n\nI\u2019m not sure if police were called prior to this but it\u2019s definitely escalated since then. The Tuesday after that I was called into the office and questioned about it, as were a few of my other friends involved and some others who were not. I didn\u2019t tell them anything and I\u2019ve gotten through the week just fine. I\u2019m under the impression they are just looking for a confession since they are just interviewing people? Which leads me to believe as long as I keep quiet I\u2019m in the clear.\n\nI\u2019ve looked it up online but haven\u2019t found a clear answer if there is DNA in fecal matter? Is there anyway the police can use the feces to link me or my friend to the crime? I\u2019m pretty worried at the moment and wondering if there is any possibility of being caught even if I stay quiet? Will staying quiet and not admitting get me in more trouble than if I do admit it?\n\nThis is in high school btw.\n\nP.S. not looking to be berated by your stupid morals and whatever. Yeah I know it\u2019s immature and shitty, but the girl who\u2019s house it is is awful. If you met her I\u2019m sure you\u2019d wanna do the same thing\n\n","title":"School is investigating students for ding dong ditching","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553300584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4cn86\/establishing_paternity_in_ohio\/","id":"b4cn86","body":"A few days ago, my wife gave birth to our daughter. We have been separated for a few months, bouncing back and forth between possibly divorcing and trying to work things out. \n\nOne question I have is, if I wasn't present during the signing of the birth certificate, does my name automatically go on there since we are married? \n\nAnother is, if we do get divorced, how do I establish my rights as the father, other than talking to a lawyer and such. \n\nI'm not asking for much, just to be able to see my daughter throughout the week and to have her on weekends. \n\nI'm trying to remain civil but things aren't easy right now and I'm already aware the courts normally rule in the mothers favor which us very frustrating. \n\nI'm just a father who wants to see his child and as I said, aside from talking to a lawyer, I'm not sure of other steps that may help my case. Any advice is appreciated. ","title":"Establishing paternity in Ohio.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569511759,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9l6rw\/help_with_translation\/","id":"d9l6rw","body":"So this isn't the usual kind of request but I hope it's still allowed. I do some freelance interpreting work from my native language into english, I recently got  job to translate 30 pages of an amendment to and final family trust documents into english.   \n\n\nThere is a lot of legal jargon that's quite easy to translate and figure out but my speciality is still languages and not law stuff.   \n\n\nIs there anything specific I need to know about these types of contracts? Would writing 'because of' in stead of 'considering' be a fatal mistake? There are a lot of examples on the internet but they all seem to differ. ANY advice would be appreciated.","title":"Help with Translation","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551143293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aut0as\/lease_break_clause_or_lease_termination_advice\/","id":"aut0as","body":"[Tenant US-VA]\n\nWe are currently in month 9 of our first 12 month lease with a private landlord. We are discussing renewal and plan to be here for at least another 12-18 months but possibly longer. We\u2019re in our late 20s and getting married in the next year or two so many things may change in the next couple years. We have every intention to stay here for at least 12-18 months and are considering a 24 month lease. Our current lease does not have much regarding early termination, sub-letting, or a lease break fee so we\u2019re looking for advice how to negotiate something like that into our renewal. Any feedback or sample clauses is greatly appreciated. We\u2019re looking for a way to protect ourselves and our landlords in case life happens and we need to vacate sooner than planned. \n\n\nOnly clause in our current lease related to termination - \u201cEARLY TERMINATION OF OCCUPANCY. Tenant shall not be released from liability for Rent and other charges due under lease for the full Lease Term unless Landlord agrees in writing to release Tenant from such liability. If Tenant vacates the Premises prior to the end of the Lease Term, Tenant shall still be responsible  for what would have been the Rent for the balance of the Lease Term, including any physical damages to the Premises and such other remedies as may be appropriate under Lease and Virginia Law.\u201d","title":"Lease Break Clause Or Lease Termination Advice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444202100,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nta7w\/ny_friend_was_incapacitated_by_a_medical\/","id":"3nta7w","body":"Friend works freelance in television, commercials, &c. Was financially ruined and nearly made homeless by ordeal. Last job represents many thousands of dollars and he could really use the money. Unfortunately, I don't know the details of the original contract. Is there any icky legal issues he may need to prepare himself for should he choose to pick up where he left off?","title":"[NY] Friend was incapacitated by a medical emergency last year before sending invoice for completed job; is there a time limit to collecting payment from client?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1409869584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fhwzf\/missouri_seeking_advice_for_the_best_course_of\/","id":"2fhwzf","body":"Hello, let me start by thanking whoever is reading this in advance for any advice you may have for me.  I am writing because I do not have the disposable income to pay for a short consultation with a lawyer but I fully intend on saving up to get one before I actually file.\n\n\nI am trying to look at getting a divorce from my wife. Here are the details:\n\n-We live in MO\n\n-Married two years.\n\n-We have no kids.\n\n-We never really combined our incomes (separate checking accounts); all we have is a joint savings account with a few dollars or so in it.\n\n-I am a graduate student and I have funding along with a small stipend (from research) that is enough to live on, she has an actual job and makes more money than me.  That said, I still pay all of the bills.  It is very much a \"my money is our money and her money is her money\" situation.  She spends it on shoes, clothes, vacations, etc.\n\n-I have sortof proof of emotional affairs, I am not sure how important this is because I read that Missouri is a no-fault state.\n\n-We still live together in a rented apartment.\n\n-Very few joint assets, most of the stuff in the apartment is mine from before we even met (does this matter?), but I would sacrifice even some of that to ensure a fair and clean break.  Probably the biggest joint asset we have is her car (she paid for) which is in both of our names.  I don't want that either.\n\n-I have a lot of previous student loan debt as well as credit card debt from when I was in college and didn\u2019t know how to spend money.\n\nBasically I am writing to try to get a feel for what my best course of action is.  Should I push for us to live separately which would demonstrate she can live on her own without my help?  Should I ask her for money towards rent and other utilities to not demonstrate that I am not willing to pay all of her bills?  Something I am very concerned about when I file is if she tries to come at me for maintenance.  In my research, that would be awarded in situations where the spouse can\u2019t support themselves on their own or if they made some kind of financial sacrifice while we were together (like if SHE paid the bills while I was in school instead of me paying), is that right?  Could she spin the idea that I will make a lot of money when I graduate in her favor?  Could I go after her for maintenance?\n\nI guess really, I am just trying to get a handle on the best course of action for me to ensure I am in the best situation possible before I actually get a lawyer and file.  I am somewhat confident that we could actually come to an agreement on how to divide the few things we own jointly mostly because I would make some sacrifices just so we can break this off, and like I said, I want to take care of it before I move on to the next stage of my life (3 years from graduation), learning from my mistakes etc.\n\n\nThank you for your time and any advice you may have.\n\nEdit:  I put custody divorce and family for my flair as it seemed to be the closest, but as I said we have no children.\n","title":"[Missouri] Seeking advice for the best course of action before filing for divorce.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447400690,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sn1ak\/i_stand_accused_of_a_theft_i_did_not_commit_and\/","id":"3sn1ak","body":"On the 26th of September, my friend and I were walking around in a field at the bottom of the village I live in. We found two little children's plastic tractors, and messed around with them for maybe 10 minutes, like the idiotic 14 year olds we are, before returning them to the location we found them.\n\nOn the 10th of October, we receive a knock on my door from the police. They ask me if I know why they're there, and I say \"Is it about the tractors?\" before going to fetch my friend. We are told that the tractors were stolen on the first of October at 6PM. We are not told what day the first of October is. They ask us if we have stolen them, we of course say no, as we haven't. We then show them the area where we last saw them. Everything is perfectly amicable.\n\nNow, to answer the first question - How did I know the police were coming to talk to me? On the school bus, the child of the family who had the items stolen came up to me and told me that if the tractors weren't returned within 7 days, the police would be in contact with me. I have as of yet, had no chance to explain this to the officer dealing with my situation.\n\nOn the 11th of November, my dad receives a phone call from her, essentially trying to convince him to convince me to accept their Youth Restorative Justice program, which essentially involves us replacing the tractors and me getting a \"telling-off.\" All fine and dandy, except I didn't steal them. She says that the alternative is for me to be charged and prosecuted, but my dad and I both rightly say that she will have a hard time with that when she has no evidence.\n\nYesterday, the 12th of October. We have found out that on the 1st of October, the date the object was stolen, I wasn't in the village. I was in the nearest town over, sleeping at my friends house with two others. They are all willing to testify that I was there. We of course head to the station straight away to tell the officer in charge that I was not in the area at the time of the theft, and thus I could not have stolen them. She basically flipped out, (She has also done this on the phone with my dad) started yelling at me, saying I admitted to taking them, (She believes I said that I took them when she walked into my house) and very heavily implied that we made up a \"story\" about me being away. We had no chance to explain that the date I meant when discussing the tractors was the 26th of September, or that we assumed the 1st of October was a weekend, as my friend would naturally only visit us at weekends. She decided that conversation any further would be pointless, and I am now being formally questioned on the 21st of November. My friend is not being formally questioned, as of yet. My family and I think the best option would be to have a private solicitor with me during the questioning, so that we can discount the conversation with the police on the 10th of October as irrelevant as it was not under caution.\n\nHelp me out here reddit, I don't want a criminal record, especially for something I didn't do. Ask any questions you need answering below.","title":"I stand accused of a theft I did not commit, and am being pulled in for formal questioning with a police officer who I think is unsuitable for the job. (UK)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541267095,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tw2x2\/friend_still_has_access_to_his_old_bosss_facebook\/","id":"9tw2x2","body":"I\u2019ve told him it\u2019s a bad idea and probably illegal but I don\u2019t have any laws to cite or any legal knowledge to discourage him. He\u2019s claiming it as a \u201cmoral obligation\u201d as justification. ","title":"Friend still has access to his old boss\u2019s Facebook account. Wants to post on it to alert his followers of \u201cshady business tactics\u201d. Claims it isn\u2019t illegal because he was given the password.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551669050,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax26xk\/employer_trying_to_deduct_from_final_pay_without\/","id":"ax26xk","body":"FYI, typing on mobile... I work for an international company and I work remotely in georgia, my final day is Friday March 8th. My expense card has already been shut off and I have submitted all my reports to have all transactions paid. I get an email from the financial team that there is a balance of $160 (which is very little but its the principle) I replied immediately stating that all my reports show a balance of $0 please forward the reports that resulted this balance with the out of policy expenses and I will gladly pay it. I get no reply, I call I get a voice mail, I leave one and follow up with an email repeating my voice mail. I do this 2 more times before I contact HR and tell them that my records show $0 balance and I do not expect any deduction from my final paycheck. She is now no longer responding and I am now getting her voice mail... As of today I have 1 week left and I want to make sure what I am permitted to do to prevent them from deducting anything from me. Thanks in advance. ","title":"Employer trying to deduct from final pay without proof, refusing to talk to me","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568752896,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5mwan\/im_going_to_lose_a_1400_deposit_on_an_apartment\/","id":"d5mwan","body":"So I just moved out of an apartment complex two weeks ago. We lived there for one year and it was horrible. Truly the rudest, greediest, most conniving place I\u2019ve ever lived. We lived in a 2 bed 2 bath about 1,000sqft total. The living room\/dining room area and the hallway to the bedrooms has cheap shitty vinyl flooring (I have nothing against vinyl and I actually liked it, just emphasizing it was not of high quality or expensive) All the other rooms have tile or carpet. \n\nDay one of moving in, the movers scratched it with our couches (one of the couch legs had a sharp edge I guess). Totally not their fault that the fake wood was cheap enough to scratch that easily. Didn\u2019t think twice about it chalked it up to every day wear and tear since that\u2019s covered in the lease. \n\nFast forward a year later to move out day. We kept the house pristine, even rented a carpet cleaner for the two bedrooms the day before we moved. I cleaned the shit out of everything and then requested a walk through. The woman in the office acted very confused and insulted that I would ask for a walk through. She first told me she had no idea what I was talking about then I explained further and she said I could have a \u201cpre-walk through\u201d but I wouldn\u2019t be there for the actual walk through of damages. I was pretty surprised by this because it\u2019s been customary at every other apartment I\u2019ve lived in that you walk through with the landlord at the end of the lease to note damages together. \n\nAnyway we insisted on having this \u201cpre-walk through\u201d because we knew how evil and greedy this complex was and we didn\u2019t want them to make stuff up. We got the walk through and the person who did it actually commented on how incredibly clean and in good condition the apartment was and asked me if I hired someone. I said no I just made sure to be thorough. Again the person complimented me and jokingly offered me a job as a cleaner for the apartments. \n\nSo we go over the checklist they said everything looked good except that scratch in the floor. They said it was really gonna cost me and I legitimately thought they were trying to be funny so I laughed and then they went on to say I could lose the whole deposit because of it. I was completely floored. How could I lose $1400 from a scratch in the vinyl?! Anyway they said they would contact me with the official break down next week (This was over two weeks ago). \n\nI just assumed the person didn\u2019t know much about pricing or wear and tear and since that wasn\u2019t even the official walk through I tried not to sweat it too much. I called today and was told they were only going to contact me IF I was getting any of my deposit back and since they were pretty sure I wasn\u2019t they didn\u2019t bother to do the paperwork. I insisted on a price breakdown immediately and she said she would get back to me by the end of the day. \n\nSo Reddit, is there anything I can do to fight this? I could really use that deposit, or at least a good portion of it. Sorry for the long post, just wanted to be thorough. Thanks in advance!","title":"I\u2019m going to lose a $1,400 deposit on an apartment because of a scratch in some cheap vinyl flooring. What can I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540587278,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rojb7\/is_my_class_legal\/","id":"9rojb7","body":"I attend university and I am enrolled in a class right now that I think is a bit sketchy. I have never posted here before and I am sorry if this isn't the right place but I was just curious.\n\nI have a class with a professor we will call M. M has us run a on campus club for a grade. I originally thought it was odd for a class to be around a club but I went with it. However there are some things I don't think are legal or maybe I am just wrong.\n\nIn this class all we do is club stuff, we talk about the meetings we attend and the events we hold. We keep M updated on projects we are doing and if anyone has contacted us about what we do. All that seems normal. Here is where I think the water gets murky. This club is run by M. He is the advisor. This club does not have elections, M appoints whoever is in the class to executive positions i.e president, vice president, secretary. M also oversees and approves our budget.\n\nWe actually have a fairly large budget, something around $10,000 annually. M has in the past taken club money to fund his department. Is this legal? Can a professor make students join a club, which entitles them to attending weekly mandatory meetings, and then also use the club budget for the school's benefit beyond our control? Any advice is appreciated.","title":"Is my class legal?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571674443,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl2sxa\/hello_i_would_like_some_advice_on_a_fender_bender\/","id":"dl2sxa","body":"Here\u2019s the summary:\n\nI was waiting at a red light. I drive a manual transmission, which has the possibility of rolling back a little bit when taking one\u2019s foot off the brake to begin accelerating. As I initiated the first gear, my car rolled back maybe 3 feet and the person behind me rear ended my car.\n\nI walked out and the lady was not happy, obviously. So we met in a parking lot to assess the damage. Her fender was bent in the front but that\u2019s all I could gather. My car was not even scratched. We did NOT call the police or file a police report (yet).\n\nShe has sent me her insurance info, along with a diagnostic price to repair it. ($1200). \n\nHere\u2019s the grey area: who is at fault here? My car does do this from time to time but it would have taken a pretty big rollback for me to even come close to hitting another car behind me.  And say it were my fault, how do I go about it with insurance to help pay for her repairs? Who is going to determine all this?\n\nPersonally, I think she was tailgating my car a bit. But I am not claiming no fault, nor am I saying I was. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.","title":"Hello! I would like some advice on a fender bender I was involved in that has a few grey areas.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446480174,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r81s2\/help_getting_90_days_suspended_license_waived_at\/","id":"3r81s2","body":"3 years ago I got a ticket for driving on a suspended license. I recently found out that I never paid the fine. (I was both financially and mentally in a bad place when I got the ticket, so I must have pushed it out of my thoughts.) I received a letter saying my license is now indefinitely suspended.\n\nWhen I called the court, they told me that my license will be suspended for 90 days after they receive payment. I asked if there was anything I could do to waive that or get it shortened. They told me that the city is holding traffic court this Wednesday and I can go talk to a prosecutor to try to get it changed.\n\nI live in Indiana. Specifically in Indianapolis area but the court\/citation are in Clark County.\n\nI've never been to a courthouse like this. What should I do to prepare? What should I say to the prosecutor? What are my actual chances of getting the 90 days suspension waived?\n\nThanks in advance.\n\n**Update:** Went to the court, nervous as all hell, prosecutor called my name. I walked in and before I could even say \"good morning\" he shoved an amended ticket across the table and told me I had 60 days to pay the fine. No extra 90 days suspension, no increased fine. Just that easy. I feel silly now for even getting worked up about it.","title":"Help getting 90 days suspended license waived at Traffic Court?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553685349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b63795\/pa_my_landlord_is_telling_me_i_need_to_sign_a_new\/","id":"b63795","body":"My wife and I signed out lease on January 8th, 2019. I got a letter with a new copy of a lease saying we would need to sign a new copy of the lease changing the fact that the water bill goes from being the responsibility of the landlord, to the tenant. I brought it to the office, also to bring to the property managers attention, that our water heater was broken.   \n\n\nI come to find out the previous property manager has been fired and the  district manager from NJ is here for the interim while they find a new manager. ...I raised an open ended question about it but she is a very... intense woman and I backed off in the moment, just satisfied that my water heater would be getting looked at.   \n\n\nNow, I don't believe they can alter the lease without both agreeing and they couldn't do anything so long as we pay every month on time (which we have without fail so far), I on't want to make an enemy of the property manager, or make life more difficult. But if I give here and let them change the lease now, what else could change in another few months?   \n\n\nI went to print out the copy of the original lease with the old property manager, and realized she dated it for last year. Now I am trying to collect utility activation notices along with when my renters insurance started, but would the fact that their was a clerical error hurt my chances of being able to hold them to the original lease I signed?   \n\n\nAnd then in your personal opinion is it worth the fight?","title":"[PA] My landlord is telling me I need to sign a new lease while the previous one is in affect, where I would take on another bill.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552015620,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aylkax\/not_sure_if_i_can_fight_for_wrongful\/","id":"aylkax","body":"I got hired for a major company recently that sells stuff for diy home stuff. I've worked a total of 5  days as a lot associate starting last weekend , my third (3) day of working, a costumer started backing into a forklift as I was spotting the driver. I told both to stop went over to this crippled looking man and asked him if he was OK. He tells me that he had gotten into an motorcycle accident some streets and was fine, goes about his business inside the store and leaves maybe 30 or so minutes later. As far as i know nothing else happened. The guy who was driving let me know though that something may come of it. The costumer called corporate sometime after all of this i am assuming this week or even today. As of today  the driver lost their license and I was terminated. They're reasoning for firing me is that they said I lied over not seeing them and not warning the driver but they have not shown me or found any reason to say that I was lying other than the word of that costumer and by this point I had only spotted one time  prior to this. I've never worked in this environment I didn't have anyone supervising me during this point as well. I'm just not sure what i should do at this point any help would be appreciated.","title":"Not sure if i can fight for wrongful termination(scapegoat)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539717518,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oqtvf\/land_lord_trying_to_get_us_to_pay_for_lawn_care\/","id":"9oqtvf","body":"Hi, \n\nI go to college in Michigan. Last year I rented a house on a twelve month lease from June 1, 2017- May 31, 2018. In the lease it was stipulated that the tenants were required to take care of the lawn. We were prepared to do so, but when we arrived there was already a lawn care service hired by our land lord. He never told us this while we lived there and only now, 4 months later, says we owe him money.\n\nThanks to anyone who can help. ","title":"Land Lord trying to get us to pay for lawn Care","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540669943,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rx6pl\/ca_what_rights_do_i_have_when_attempting_to_break\/","id":"9rx6pl","body":"Afternoon, all. I'm going to try and keep this as brief and to the point as possible, but I will also be completely transparent and give all of the facts. I am in a very tough situation, and I just want to know what I can do to protect myself.  \n\n\nI am currently renting an apartment with another person. We are both on the lease. Recently, some extremely difficult things have happened in my life, and a portion of it is centered around that apartment. I am trying to do whatever I can to move out, but the other tenant is doing everything he can to keep me tied to the place.  \nI have been talking to several people about taking over my portion of the lease, which my landlord already is aware of. However, my room mate is price gouging every potential renter. Basically, he is trying to tell the potential renters that they will need to pay $1050 of the $1700 a month rent. He has no reason, that's just what he is doing.   \nThe reason I am trying to leave is because I fear for my safety in that apartment. I admitted myself to the veterans hospital earlier this week due to overwhelming suicidal thoughts centered around that living situation. (Not trying to play some sympathy card, I just don't know if mental health could be grounds for breaking the lease.)  \n\n\nI have tried working with him, but I told him that come December, I will be both unwilling, and unable to pay rent. I will keep looking for a new tenant, but I can't promise anything at his price point. The lease currently has 6 months left.  \n\n\nHe is threatening to take me to court if I don't pay my portion of the rent. I just need to know what I can do, if anything, to get my name off of that lease so I can move on with my life. I am willing to take a credit hit, be fined, whatever it takes. I would just rather make this as clean a break as possible. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. I will respond to questions as soon as I have time, I am currently very busy trying to figure things out.  \n\n\nAgain, thank you all in advance.","title":"CA- What rights do I have when attempting to break a lease agreement for health reasons","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569277928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8e31x\/i_want_to_share_a_garden_and_chickens_with_my\/","id":"d8e31x","body":"I get along super well with my neighbor. My sister and I watch his dogs all the time, and he lets us just randomly come in the house to check on them and play with them.\nI want chickens and a garden but we have a husky so neither of those things are happening in our yard. \n\nThe plan is to ask if I can keep the chickens and a small garden in his yard, and in exchange he could have some of the vegetables and eggs and I'd be able to spend more time with his dogs. But I'm worried about what happens if he ever stops being okay with us? He loves me and my sister, but my dad is a dick at times and has pissed off the other neighbors and I'm worried about what would happen if he pissed off this neighbor. Can a contract be made between me and the neighbor?","title":"I want to share a garden and chickens with my neighbor in his yard but am worried about property laws and contracts","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1409393194,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ezugq\/landlord_refused_to_honour_written_agreement_till\/","id":"2ezugq","body":"My partner and I had agreed in writing (but not signed) that we could end our contract at a property three months early, subject to new tenants being found.\n\nThe tenants were found, and we had another email confirming a moving out date.\n\nOnce it came to the week before we were moving out, the landlord asked us to sign a document agreeing to deductions from the deposit. We did not agree and did not sign.\n\nEventually, the landlord claimed if we didn't agree, he would have to cancel the next tenants contract, since he had to make repairs and wouldn't pay for them. Moreover, the new tenants were due to move in less than 24 hours after our tenancy ended, and since this wasn't enough time, he insisted we move out earlier than had been agreed (and earlier than we had paid rent for).\n\nWe were advised that since nothing had been signed it was plausible, though unlikely, that he could cancel the contract with the next tenants and continue to charge us rent, so we did sign the document.\n\nThe deposit issue is being dealt with by the deposit protection scheme, but I would like to know if there is anyone I can complain to regarding the landlord's general behaviour (assuming it is innapropriate, though I am rather sure this is the case).","title":"Landlord refused to honour written agreement till we signed a document - UK","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541446902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ugtsu\/car_was_keyed_while_i_was_at_work_work_place_has\/","id":"9ugtsu","body":"I work in IT for the public schools in my area, i drive around a lot and am not provided a work vehicle to do my job. I tend to work the middle schools and high schools in my side of town and now that my car has been keyed by what i would assume is a wayward child I\u2019m not really too keen on driving my personal car in unsupervised lots any longer.\n\nIm taking my car to have estimates done at the earliest opening available to do so at my insurances suggested shop. Ive called the police using the non emergency number and they are calling me back to file a report over the phone. Ive called my supervisor who has emailed the head of legal and security about the situation and at this point im not sure what i have left to do?\n\nGiven the depth of this scratch and the fact that its on multiple panels of my cars exterior i would assume it will exceed my $500 deductible. Even after this repair is done what options do i have available to ensure this doesnt happen again? And are there any provisions protecting me from paying for such a hefty repair since it happened on work premises during work hoursHonestly putting a damper on my interest in staying employed here.","title":"Car was keyed while i was at work, work place has no cameras on lot. Can my workplace be responsible?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568672770,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d57r2i\/arrested_two_years_ago_and_case_dismissed_do_i\/","id":"d57r2i","body":"I was arrested a little over two years ago while driving through South Alabama for drug related charges (dumb kid trying to get down to spring break with a week\u2019s worth of not so legal \u201cfun\u201d in the car). I live in Georgia. I spent my life savings on a good lawyer and by the time it actually got to court, all charges had been dropped except for one count of Possession of a Controlled Substance. This is a class D felony in Alabama. \n\nFor a number of reasons, mainly lack of a prior record, I was able to do \u201cPre-Trail Diversion\u201d which consisted of a court approved drug abuse class, paying a shit ton of fines, and being on something similar to probation for 1 year (no drugs, no drinking, don\u2019t get in trouble, etc). After one year and completion of the program, my case was dismissed by the court. I never plead guilty or not guilty, was never convicted, never even saw a judge again. All that happened was my lawyer told me the case was dismissed and a week or so later I received an official letter in the mail saying the same thing. \n\nMy lawyer said that 1 year after the case was dismissed, I could move to have the arrest itself expunged from my record altogether. From what I understand, in Alabama, the arrest stays on your record no matter what the actual verdict is. I know it will cost a ton of money to go through the process of removing it. Is there any reason I should be worried about not having it expunged? I\u2019ve had to go through numerous background checks for jobs and volunteer work since then and nothing has ever showed up.","title":"Arrested two years ago and case dismissed. Do I need to get the arrest expunged?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568927319,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6kcvt\/shady_practices_at_my_brothers_work\/","id":"d6kcvt","body":"First some background, my brother is a personal trainer and gets paid hourly with commission for each person he trains. He is not a contractor. We live in Virginia and the company he works for has a corporate office in California. \n\nWhat is concerning to him happened after he worked a 12 hour double shift when he was new to the company. On that day there was a three hour break between two clients where he did not do much work. Later, his boss told him that if he has a lot of time between clients he should be staying busy (by reaching out to clients who haven\u2019t come in a while or finding new clients) and if he doesn\u2019t he should clock out. On my brother\u2019s next paycheck he had the pay for those three hours taken away.\n\nWhat I am concerned about is how he is being asked to clock out between clients. Even without \u2018staying busy\u2019 he still answers emails and calls to schedule appointments and has to be prepared for walk-in appointments. He also can\u2019t go home if he clocks out because we live too far away and Northern Virginia is very traffic heavy.\n\nHis question is: Was it okay for his boss to take that money away even though he was at work?\n\nMy question is: Are employers allowed to ask hourly employees to clock out, even if they are scheduled to work?","title":"Shady Practices at my Brother's Work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446683061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rkcci\/collapsed_ceiling_in_rentallandlords\/","id":"3rkcci","body":"Hey r\/legal\n\nI live in an apartment in Tennessee. The building is very old (100+ years) and is quite well maintained, but has its problems. Last year, the ceiling above my shower partially collapsed. I think this was due to longterm water damage from the plumbing above me and possibly also to the humidity in my bathroom (there is no ventilation). It was fixed fairly promptly and I thought the problem was over and done with. \n\nLast night, I noticed that the area above the shower had a crack. I dropped by the office this afternoon to report it to the landlord, but he was out of the office. I went to work and figured I'd tell them tomorrow. I came home and the ceiling had collapsed again, pretty spectacularly (last time, there was just plaster everywhere; this time, there is plaster and a few hunks of wood beam). \n\nWhat is my landlord's duty here? Obviously what they did last time to fix the problem didn't work as a long-term solution. The tub\/shower are currently unusable unless I clear all of the debris. Even then, it sorts of freaks me out to shower under an open hole, especially one that wood beams have fallen through. I am also wondering if there's any responsibility I have--I only noticed the issue last night after business hours, but it's true that I didn't send an email immediately. Is it kosher that I waited 24 hours? I truly didn't expect the problem to escalate that quickly. Is there anything I should be doing now to cover my ass? I've never had an issue with the management--been here for a couple of years--but I've heard enough horror stories to be worried.","title":"Collapsed ceiling in rental--landlord's responsibilities?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568490871,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4a4al\/took_too_long_to_pull_overdrove_3_blocks_cop\/","id":"d4a4al","body":"I was driving to my friends house ( next town over) at around 11pm to pick him up and play games at my house. I did an illegal u turn about 4 blocks away from his place. Cop saw me and turned his lights on, we were by a bridge with no shoulder or anywhere to safely pull over. I drove about 3 blocks, past a stop light (which was green) and I pulled over next to a residential area. The cop approached me and asked me why I took so long to pull over and I explained to him I didn't feel safe pulling over on the bridge. He said\" I don't believe that\". Long story short I was ARRESTED for evading police. My car was towed and searched for drugs( I have a Black Sabbath decal and they kept looking at it and questioning if my car was actually clean). \n\nI got 3 tickets. \n\nEvading police \nReckless driving\nIllegal u turn. \n\nOnce they processed me, searched my car and towed it and reviewed the video to see if I threw anything out my window. The cop who arrested me did a whole 180 and said that he believes now that I wasn't doing anything illegal. He said to tell the prosecutor to talk to them so they could tell the DA to give me the lowest charge. \n\nIm not really concerned about this since I know this whole thing was bullshit. I do not plan on getting a lawyer but I'm afraid this whole fiasco will affect my insurance. I'm 23 years old.","title":"Took too long to pull over(drove 3 blocks) cop arrested me for evading police? (NJ)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570898353,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgxi26\/idaho_i_work_for_a_major_insurance_company_and_i\/","id":"dgxi26","body":"So sorry as I am on mobile and this will be pretty lengthy. \n\nSo basically I\u2019ve been working for Allstate, and when I interview and was hired on it would be for a receptionist position. Once I started in August I was told I\u2019m going to go straight to a license position but I\u2019d have to get my P&C license. \n\nI\u2019ve only been with the company for a max 60 days and I had a \u201creview\u201d where they told me I need to be licensed by the end of October and hinted that if I wasn\u2019t I would be let go. I find it wrong in a sense that I was hired on as a receptionist so I can have time to get my license at my learning pace, and I did not sign a contract stating that I had to be license within a certain amount of time. Do I have a reason to sue if I am let go because I didn\u2019t get licensed by their timeline?\n\nNot to mention I\u2019ve been trained to do a lot of work that only a licensed person can do by the rules of the company. I still have to do it as they hired another girl and made her the receptionist, but I feel wrong as I don\u2019t want to get in trouble for doing work I was told to do. I can not talk to my boss as the girl who quit told me if I make him feel \u201cthreatened or small\u201d that he would fire me on the spot, and not to bring up how getting paid $12.50 is terrible. Which it is with all the work and hours I pull while taking new business and editing policy\u2019s and not being licensed. \n\nHow can I go about bringing up my concerns? I\u2019ve already been looking for another job but most places don\u2019t want to hire me when I say I\u2019ll only be here for 2 years as my husband is in the military. Luckily I have interviewed with an amazing company but I\u2019m still waiting to here back from them. Any advice is welcomed I\u2019m just tired of dealing with being walked on and pressured.","title":"(Idaho) I work for a major insurance company and I feel like if I don\u2019t get my license in time I\u2019ll be canned.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506985431,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73wgs8\/de_employer_attempting_to_renege_on_tuition\/","id":"73wgs8","body":"Hello, my SO works as a RN in a Delaware Hospital (we also live in DE).\n\nThis hospital **had** a tuition prepay program. You applied to the program, and then once you were accepted, you applied to a program at one of the local colleges the hospital partnered with. The hospital would directly pay for all tuition expenses for whatever degree you were seeking.\n\nTimeline of events:\n\n* Late-December 2016: Accepted into Hospital Pre-Pay Program. Signed [Document](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/St8f9) with Hospital.\n* Spring 2017 (Month Not important): Accepted into local College Graduate Program\n* Mid-July 2017: Hospital informs Nurses that Pre-Pay program no longer exists. However if taking classes before July 1st 2017, will be grandfathered in.  \n* Late-July 2017: SO receives e-mail from Director of Nursing Development & Education informing her that even though she did not start classes before July 1, she will be grandfathered in.  \n* Today: Gets word that Late July e-mail was in error, and she will not be grandfathered in as she did not start classes before July 1, 2017.  \n* Today: is told over the phone that the Chief Nursing Executive is the only person with the power to change the decision. She has since sent CNE an e-mail.\n\nImportant sections:\n\n\"Whereas, [Hospital] and Employee desire to enter into this Agreement under the terms and conditions outlined below.  \n\n* [Hospital] shall pay the cost of tuition directly to the selected College\/University for the completion of the degree indicated.  \n\n* ln consideration of the mutual promises herein and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties agree to the\nfollowing:  \n\n ----This document embodies the entire agreement between the parties and may be modified only in writing and signed by\nboth parties.\n\nHere's the question\n\n1. To me, this seems like a legally binding agreement. As such, the hospital cannot simply disband the program for those people who were already in it. Is this an accurate viewpoint? Am i missing something?\n\nI'll be happy to answer any questions I\/She can.","title":"[DE] Employer attempting to renege on tuition pre-pay program.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540173857,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q9e3k\/girlfriends_grandfather_trying_to_have_a_stranger\/","id":"9q9e3k","body":"My girlfriend and I currently live with her father and grandfather.they are both owners of the house (both names on the mortgage). The grandfather always causes issues whether its breaking things or selling things that are not his. He recently met some random woman (60). He is 80. He wants her to move in and is clearing a room for her to move into. Is he even allowed to do this without the other owner's agreement? Also we have placed cameras outside and in common area of the house to monitor if anything is stolen as she has a history of that. ","title":"Girlfriends grandfather trying to have a stranger move in. [NY]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554482202,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9tfre\/what_could_a_school_legally_do_if_they_hand_out\/","id":"b9tfre","body":"They can't *legally* force you to stay, can they?\n\nThis scenario is hypothetical. I wonder what would happen in different states.","title":"What could a school legally do if they hand out detention and the pupil ignores it and goes home anyway?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552353879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b01pr3\/my_employer_is_deliberately_changing_my_timesheet\/","id":"b01pr3","body":"Hello all, I was advised to post here as it seems you would be the most fitting community to help me with this issue.\n\nContext: I work for a large company and my position is essentially an entry level scientist. It was brought to my attention that one of the supervisors was going into the employee time sheets (we work hourly, not salary) and modifying their \u201ctime worked\u201d on the computer so they would not get paid for overtime even though they had in fact worked the hours initially reported.\n\nRecently I saw my timesheets suspiciously modified in this same manner. We are severely understaffed due to a series of inappropriate layoffs at the company, so although we are advised to keep overtime to a minimum, we are also ridiculed if we do not complete our daily tasks before clocking out. \n\nI\u2019ve done a little bit of a research on the topic and it seems like this is highly illegal. I\u2019ve contacted HR but only get an answering machine (also highly strange considering we likely employ hundreds of thousands of people worldwide) and have yet to receive a callback. \n\nDoes anyone have experience with this? I have yet to speak to my supervisor regarding this because I want to know exactly what to say. Are there any situations in which not paying an employee for worked overtime would be legal?? Any advice is appreciated. Being overworked and underpaid is bad enough, but I\u2019m really surprised a company as large as mine would go as far as to intentionally manipulate employee timesheets to avoid having to pay overtime. Ideally I would like to make this case larger than just me, as I know there are a lot of other people I work with who will not speak out for fear of retaliation, even though we know this is illegal too. Clearly things are not being done by the books. What are my options on how to proceed? \n\n","title":"My employer is deliberately changing my timesheet to make it seem like I haven\u2019t worked any overtime. How can I proceed?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445942784,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qejdy\/wa_received_debt_collection_letter_for_previous\/","id":"3qejdy","body":"Last week I received a letter from a debt collection agency for around $2000. The debt was accrued by my previous employer through one of the distributors we used at the time. I have not worked for this company for 2 years. The company was\/is a sole-proprietorship and I have no stake in it.\n\nIt looks like I received the letter because I setup the account through the distributor for my boss so my name was on the application. I was an authorized signer on the account when parts were purchased in the absence of my boss.\n\nAm I liable for this debt?\n\nEDIT: Thank you for the comments so far. [Here](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/XpHyy) is a copy of the letter I received; identifying information hidden. My SSN is nowhere on here, but the owner's is. The language on the last page concerns me, but I am not smart enough to properly decipher it.","title":"[WA] Received Debt Collection Letter for Previous Employer","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539666282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9okj2n\/ri_walnut_tree_dropping_large_nuts_in_my_driveway\/","id":"9okj2n","body":"I live in a 3 story apartment with a pretty small driveway and 2 car garage. The garage spot on the left is my neighbors along with the spot outside the garage on the left, I have the two right spots. There is also street parking available. \n\nThe tree branches hang over mostly our garage\/driveway and some are over my neighbors driveway. My roommate claimed he ran over a broken nut that actually punctured his tire. The woman next door also got clocked in the head with one when she was walking down her driveway and went to the hospital so obviously my landlord already knows about this tree. I texted her with my concerns just to cover my ass if something happened which I\u2019m pretty sure she\u2019s liable for. My only concern is could she claim with street parking available I should have parked there? \n\nMy other question is there are tree branches outside one window of my place and when it\u2019s windy they bang against the house. Not a huge issue because it\u2019s usually not that windy but when it is they\u2019re really annoying to hear continuously banging. I know it\u2019s not good for the house in general but would there be any reason she should be responsible to cut them back? ","title":"[RI] Walnut tree dropping large nuts in my driveway. Is landlord responsible for any damage to my vehicle if I told him about the trees? Other tree question inside as well.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552803025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b22952\/tx_wife_hit_me_and_i_had_her_arrested_for\/","id":"b22952","body":"Like the title states. After a month of on\/off superar\u00edan, I came to mine and my wife\u2019s home yesterday to attempt a final chance at reconciling.  While here we began to argue, and she started hitting me repeatedly. Because of not wanting to leave in the middle of the night with my 2 year old daughter I stayed at the apartment.\n\nToday, I called and made a police report, they came and took pictures and later arrested my wife. In the process of, they asked if I wanted a protective order, and I said I just wanted to be sure nothing happened again. Officers took that as a no and didn\u2019t apply for one in the warrant they issued.\n\nI called the police to try and get the protective order added on, and they weren\u2019t clear on wether or not it could happen. We have a 2 year old little girl, and my fear is that she\u2019s going to take the baby and disappear; or that she\u2019s going to come back and be violent towards me in front of the child again.\n\nBeing that tomorrow is Sunday. What are my options? How hard is it to apply for a protection order for me and my child to ensure that she cannot do this again. ","title":"(TX) wife hit me and I had her arrested for domestic violence.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550346995,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arcdki\/ca_fired_because_of_a_solidworks_software_piracy\/","id":"arcdki","body":"The company I work for was the subject of a lawsuit by Solidworks because they had evidence of the use of pirated software on the company internet. I wasn't shown any evidence other than a mac address but apparently it was enough to convince the CEO.\n\nThey want me to sign a severance with release of liability but I'm worried about whether the company I work for could sue me if they are forced to pay out by Solidworks?\n\nAlso they said it would be for cause and they would fight my unemployment benefits if I didn't sign the severance.","title":"[CA] Fired because of a Solidworks software piracy lawsuit against the company, could I get sued?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570063525,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcjhal\/rent_error\/","id":"dcjhal","body":"So I just moved out for college this year and currently staying at some near by apartments. When I applied for them they had a special of a $300 concession which I could use all at once or over time. I decided for the latter, and after paying my second months rent I've noticed they are crediting me the full $300 for the first two months. I don't know if this will continue or not, but $300 off rent sounds nice. Just wanted to know if they eventually catch on to this problem would I have to pay back the \"free money\".\nAlso don't know if this would be the correct flair.","title":"Rent error","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550072221,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aq7se5\/employer_wants_me_to_provide_fingerprints_for_new\/","id":"aq7se5","body":"First time doing this so please forgive any mistakes.\n\n​\n\nShort amount of background here, I have worked with this company for going on 4+ years and I am relatively happy here. I am salaried so I work the general 9-5 Monday through Friday. I do not have a contract as one was never presented to me when I started working here. it is a really laid back workplace and I get on well with all of my colleagues and my manager and MD.\n\nMy workplace dropped on us a new \"policy\" today and have advised us they are installing a clock in \/ clock out machine which is fine, however, they want us to use our fingerprints as a type of bio-metric authentication.\n\nNow, I am extremely uncomfortable with providing my bio-metric information to my workplace for personal reasons and due to issues in the past that i'd rather not go into and shouldn't need to go into regardless.\n\nI immediately became uncomfortable with this and wanted to bring this up with my manager and I essentially was told that I would have to provide my fingerprints or pay a fee for \"alternative means\" to register myself on this system.\n\nCan my employee force me to register my fingerprints and if I refuse, do I really have to pay for an alternative method?\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"Employer wants me to provide fingerprints for new policy regarding clocking in or pay a price","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570894755,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgwqd2\/someone_on_the_run_is_texting_me\/","id":"dgwqd2","body":"Hello. From Southern California. \nAn old friend of mine, who I\u2019ve actually never met in person, has been texting me this morning. He tells me that he is on the run from the law and is making his way to Canada. I\u2019m unsure of the actual crime. I do not want to be involved in this at all, I simply texted back to say be safe and suggested he turn himself in. Will this effect me in any way? again, I don\u2019t wish to be involved at all and I wish I never texted back. I\u2019m not sure what to do in this situation.","title":"Someone on the run is texting me.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1410034070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fnuwg\/how_long_until_property_is_considered_abandoned\/","id":"2fnuwg","body":"My business shipped a package for a customer destined for outside of the United States. The package was unclaimed and returned four months later. I have the customer's name, but no phone or address. I cannot contact the customer and I'm surprised that he hasn't contacted us. The contents are worth $800.00. In the past, I've held onto things for six months and disposed of them, but they were not as valuable. How long should I hold on to this item?","title":"How long until property is considered abandoned?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1444628704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3of4ij\/was_falsely_accused_of_a_sex_crime_found_not\/","id":"3of4ij","body":"You can read a detailed description of the event in my post history but long story short, I was at a bar and a girl accused me of groping her. It was a lie and I was eventually found not guilty by a jury of my peers.\n\nNow, the parties in question.\n\nAccuser: She made it up, spread the lie, and eventually filed a false police report detailing fictitious events that can be shown on surveillance tape to prove their falsehood. She lied in initial statements to the police, later stated to investigators her original statement to be accurate and true, and then changed her story the night before she took the stand, with a story that was also fictitious.\n\nThe Bartender: He told the police he saw the event happen in front of him with his own eyes. Later told investigators he was standing 3 feet in front of me and saw said event with his own eyes. In trial changed his story to \"saw *something* in the corner of his eye\" but video shows he could never have seen anything at all because of where he was positioned (he was facing the opposite direction and on other side of the bar).\n\nThe Bouncer: Said he heard me laughing and bragging about said event outside in statements to police and on trial.\n\nLead police officer: Only interviewed 4 people in an entire bar after an accused sex assault, all of whom were close friends.\n\nAnother police officer: Said in trial that I never made a certain statement. It can be shown on police body cam that I did in fact make that statement and prove that he perjured himself on the stand.\n\nThe state\/county? Idk, I hear malicious prosecution must mean there was absolutely no probable cause for the arrest but what do I know.\n\nThe pain, suffering and damage this arrest and trial did to my life can never be repaid. For me it's not even about money, more so just putting them through some far away semblance of the hell I went through and getting at least the money I spent on my defense back. So who should I and can I sue?\n\nEdit: I should add, before the accuser made her accusations to the bouncer (a personal friend of hers, as well as the bartender) we had just gotten into an argument with her finally telling me \"if you keep talking shit to me, I'm gonna have you kicked out of here.\" She made a false allegation to get me kicked out of the bar and when the cops got involved things spiraled out of control for her and she had to lie. I was acquitted, now how do I get my money back?","title":"Was falsely accused of a sex crime, found not guilty in trial. Fucked up my whole life and spent life savings on defense. Now how and who to sue? [Colorado]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554534030,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba1rsp\/workplace_bullying_and_harassment_australia\/","id":"ba1rsp","body":"So I work as shift supervisor for a global fast food company. I have been here for 4 months.\n\nI recently discovered that before I my first day working here,  two female workers told a junior female (15) that I was a meth dealer and I was going to drug and rape her out the back of the shop.\n\nIt should go without saying, I am neither a meth dealer or a rapist.\n\nThis has played on my mind since hearing this and now i am finding it hard to go to work and it has also affected my social life - living in a small town rumours fly fast.\n\nI have approached the owner of the store and he thinks that it was all just said in fun and no disciplinary action was taken.\n\nSurely this is unfair? Surely this constitutes workplace bullying and harassment?\n\nShould I phone FairWork Australia and talk to someone or should I engage the services of a solicitor first?","title":"Workplace Bullying And Harassment (Australia)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553703447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b665o5\/old_company_sent_me_a_cease_and_desist_letter_for\/","id":"b665o5","body":"They sent me a Cease and Desist letter because i exposed that they were Anti-Semites and sexually harassing people. Can I leave it up? I truly don't know how they know it was me. I have not contacted them since I got the letter","title":"Old Company sent me a cease and desist letter for leaving a Glassdoor review.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555443522,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdy72v\/insurers_cancelled_my_insurance_with_them_less\/","id":"bdy72v","body":"Unsure if I added the proper flair, anywho, I recently purchased a vehicle on the 25th and while at the dealership I went over a few options for insurance etc. it was a process since this was my first vehicle I\u2019ve purchased but yesterday I received a letter from my insurance stating that my insurance will be cancelled the 24th of this month for no real reason aside from saying that \u201cthis risk does not meet our underwriting criteria\u201d Confused, I reached out to my agent and he was confused as I was when I told him about the situation he had me send him an email\/picture of the letter so he could get back to me and it has been a day with no call back (said he\u2019d get back to me in a few minutes) and my calls going unanswered. What can I do to potential get my payment back for services that weren\u2019t necessarily rendered?","title":"Insurers cancelled my insurance with them less than a month after starting with them when I purchased a vehicle.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571783813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlpsum\/denied_promotion_due_to_being_male_tx\/","id":"dlpsum","body":"I\u2019m a server at a restaurant that used to be an all female staff until about 3 years ago. I\u2019m one of the top servers there, and have bartending experience.\n\nOne day our bartender didn\u2019t show up so I covered bar for the night and it went exceptionally well. I asked about possibly being put on more bar shifts, since we are low on bartenders. They told me that only women are able to bartend. Is this legal?","title":"Denied promotion due to being male (TX)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570587833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfala4\/priest_responsible_for_hostile_work_environment\/","id":"dfala4","body":"A friend of mine works at a Catholic parish in Portland, OR. They recently got a new pastor\/boss. The boss has expressed his expectation that quick action be taken on anything that he wants done (\u201cI want it done yesterday\u201d), including things that need time to be approved by the pastoral council, etc. The boss has also repeatedly described how he fired employees who didn\u2019t get things done quickly enough at his former parish. He\u2019s forced my friend to take on significant additional hours and responsibilities after firing a coworker. The Human Resources for the archdiocese doesn\u2019t seem like it will be that helpful because they have made each parish its own legal entity to protect the archdiocese from legal action. My friend feels like they are in a hostile work environment. I advised them to at least start writing down incidents as they occur. Is there any recourse in Oregon or Federal employment law for my friend? They are worried they will unfairly lose their job and they are close to retirement.","title":"Priest responsible for hostile work environment?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541002108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t05ul\/not_receiving_the_right_to_at_work_nor_receiving\/","id":"9t05ul","body":"20 Year Old, Male\nSaint Louis, Missouri\nPlace of Employment: Amazon\n\nI recently got a promotion, and with that came a pay raise. I was to receive a $1.50 raise. This began September 30... so the next check I would receive, which was on Oct. 6, should be with the pay raise (they told me this). Well, it wasn\u2019t. No worries, I understand, with such a big company, sometimes it takes a little. I went to HR, spoke to them, they put in a ticket for my issue. Well, come around to Oct. 13th I receive my next check and still no pay raise, as well as no back pay is received. I once again, I go to HR and tell them what is happening and they send out another ticket. \n\nAt this point they my pay is switched to every two weeks, which is what the position calls for. I have received the paystub for my check that I will receive on Nov. 2nd. MY PAY WENT DOWN .50, NOW THEY OWE ME $2\/hr in backpay for this check. As well as backpay for the past two checks.\n\nKeep in mind I have a coworker that received the same promotion and pay raise and they are fine, everything is up to date for them.\n\nI love working for them, but how long should I wait for my money? What should I do? It\u2019s not fair I\u2019m doing more work, but getting paid equal as a regular associate. I\u2019m doing the same if not more work than my supers. \n\nIf you have any questions, I am more than willing to answer.","title":"Not receiving the right to at work, nor receiving my back pay.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552361027,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b02was\/my_grandfather_is_facing_35_to_life_for_trying_to\/","id":"b02was","body":"A little background:\nMy grandfather has been jailed twice before in his liffe. The first time a minor, friend of my aunt who was mad, accused him of molesting her and he served 5 years. The second time he made a slightly sexual joke around my mom's teenage friends and their moms found out and put him on trial. All the girls refused to testify against my grandfather, because of how nice and caring he is. He served 7 years and got out on good behavior. \n\nMy grandfather taught me self defense as I was growing up, because he wanted me to be able to defend myself if I was ever kidnapped or attacked. He also taught me what to look out for. He got me a rape whistle when I was 10. He had my other aunt enroll in karate and other self defense classes. He promised to teach my cousin self defense when she got older. He has always been worried about the women in our family as he heard terrible stories in jail of what some guys had done to women.\n\nNow on to the issue:\nMy grandfather is a single man and he was on local website looking for a date when he spotted a post that was a woman trying to sell her 14 year old daughter for sex. My grandfather wanted to catch her. He called the hotline for human trafficing and they told him to contact her to get more information and to see if it was true. So he did. \n\nThe lady would only text him. He tried only talking about dating her and she would bring up her daughter. He told her to meet up with him a local business and she agreed. He got there early and waited for almost an hour. When she didn't show up, he texted her and she said that something had come up and she couldn't make it. \n\nHe kept texting her to try to get more information. He would also keep calling the hotline and they kept saying to get more since he had so little. He finally asked the mom if she would like to come over to his house alone. She said she wanted to bring her daughter. After a bit of back and forth, my grandfather agreed. They set up a time for her to come over. \n\nThe day came and about 30 minutes from when the mom was going to arrive, my grandfather called the local police to tell them what was going on and that the lady was on her way. They said they would send a unit over. When the time came, my grandfather looked outside and there were cops. The cops and the FBI. It turned out the post was to try to catch pedophiles. They arrested my grandfather and he went to trial. He defened himself with a little help of his brother who was a lawyer. But the judge ruled guilty as it would make him a third time offender. He is now facing 35 to life and awaiting the possibility of an appeal. Is there anything else we can do to prove his innocence?","title":"My grandfather is facing 35 to life for trying to do the right thing. (Arkansas)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569947078,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbvtc7\/where_do_i_go_to_get_boilerplate_contract_made\/","id":"dbvtc7","body":"Looking to get a basic model release made for my photo shoots. It\u2019s my understanding that I should not just pull one off of google. \n\nI\u2019m not collecting large amounts of money if any. I just want to educate the model on expectations, our rights to the photos, ect.\n\nThanks!\n\nLocation: Texas","title":"Where do I go to get boilerplate contract made?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569616715,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da672z\/my_landlord_is_refusing_to_return_my_security\/","id":"da672z","body":"In May I signed a one year lease with a very nice couple for the address I currently live at and put down a security deposit of $725. In August, the owners sold the building to a small company in my area and my lease was transferred to the new owners. \n\nAt the beginning of September, I found out I'd be moving mid October. I spoke with the new property manager, who confirmed with the new landlord that I could find a subleaser to take over. The owner would transfer my security deposit to the subleasee and the subleasee would pay me the deposit directly. The property manager has spoken with me almost exclusively via phone call. \n\nNow that I've found a subleaser, the owner has decided that he will NOT allow me to subleasee, instead I will need to break my lease and the person who is going through the application process right now will start a new lease and pay a new deposit. This would be fine, but the landlord is refusing to return my deposit with the reasoning \"you didn't complete the lease terms so you can't have your deposit back.\" \n\nMy lease explicitly states \"Tenant shall not sublease the unit without written permission from the landlord. Permission will not be withheld without good reason.\" Good reason is a strange phrase to me, but I've never paid my rent late and I have the best upkept unit on the property. According to the property manager, the owner's 'good reason' is because \"it's my property.\"\n\n$725 is a lot of money to me right now and the property is in the same condition that I acquired it. I've read my lease and nothing in it explicitly states that ending the lease early removes my right to my deposit, though the property manager said \"it should.\" I move in 2 weeks and I can't afford to pay rent in both places so I NEED my \"subleaser\" to take over. \n\nIs what the landlord is doing legal? What are my next steps to get my deposit back?","title":"My landlord is refusing to return my security deposit, what are my next steps? (Columbus, OH)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552105229,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayzk4g\/can_my_future_wife_be_charged_with_kidnapping_her\/","id":"ayzk4g","body":"I'm in the Army, stationed in Hawaii and my fiancee and I are getting married in May when I go on leave. She plans on bringing her son with her when she moves here. Her ex boyfriend (never married) says that he plans to take her to court for kidnapping our son, plans to send out an Amber alert, etc. Can she be charged for that? He's a deadbeat who's thousands behind on child support for his OTHER son (we aren't going to ask him for child support), and they have no current custody agreement or court order. She's scared and hurt. I really don't think he will take her to court, but what can\/should we do to help this situation? Especially if he somehow finds a way to pay for a lawyer.\n\nExtra information: he doesn't have his own vehicle, he won't be able to pass a drug test, he works at a gas station full time ($10\/hr), and he has extreme anger issues (holes in the walls, just broke the TV when she told him she was moving here).\n\nP.S. Thank you for any responses.","title":"Can my future wife be charged with kidnapping her own son?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571689464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl6ciq\/question_about_our_inheritance\/","id":"dl6ciq","body":"Our dad died back in June and is supposed to be split between myself, my brother, and my sister. Our sister is playing games and blocking us and acting like she's trying to get the entire thing. Can she? What can we do about this? There is no will. It's all in a trust and gets split between the 3 of us. We're in Washington State.","title":"Question about our inheritance.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505928710,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71copr\/my_husbands_ex_wife_calls_his_job_incessantly_and\/","id":"71copr","body":"My husband's ex wife has been diagnosed as bipolar. She has lots of issues with mental instability. In the past few years she has utilized Hearts Apart and the Red Cross to illicit his personal work number as well as his coworkers and his boss while we were living overseas to harass him at his place of employment. She lives in Council Bluffs Iowa. We live in Alabama now and were living in Ramstein Germany prior. Over the past few months her harassment has increased. His old boss and coworkers were aware she has mental issues, but considering we have only been here one week, my husband has not had a chance to establish a solid report his new boss and coworkers and it makes him look bad. He could lose his job if this harassment continues, not to mention she is impersonating me to gain contact, which is identity theft. Law enforcement in neither state is willing to help because they just keep saying the crime is taking place and\/or originating in the opposite state. This woman claims she is me (his wife) to contact him and knows all of his personal information. She now rings his desk phone and office phone incessantly, emails, and has stalked me on Facebook repeatedly sending friend requests until I blocked her, wants to shoot the breeze and chit chat with my husband, also claims she has overdosed on her mental health medication so she has an excuse to contact him and claims she misses her husband whom she divorced 3+ years ago. She elicits the help of her friends and calls my husband's family and office incessantly 50+ calls a day to his office. We have told her to stop, and to email only, no more phone calls. Up until now she has had no justifiable reason to get into contact with us. Since we just transferred back to the US, my husband's pay has decreased by 30%. Since they were divorced in Iowa while he was still in Germany he had no representation and she was awarded $1200\/month in alimony. My husband is only making $54,000\/ year now. They have no children, we do but my son is not biologically his. We can barely pay for deposit and rent after paying mostly out of pocket on our own to move back to the US and payroll has not reimbursed him for any moving expenses as of yet so he is 11 days being on his spousal support for the first time since they have divorced. He has never been late before.There is also the issue of a huge tax debt that was incurred during their marriage that he and I have been paying back because she has the nerve to file injured spouse while she collects disability, lives rent free with her mother and does not report the $1200\/month income she receives from my husband. I know that I have the ability to claim injured spouse, but that doesnt get this IRS debt paid back or keep my husband in his job where he is required to have a security clearance. We plan on taking her back to court for a support modification since his pay has dropped considerably, but getting this started and fighting to get our moving experiences reimbursed may take about a month so. We need a place to live. We have no money to give her right now. In the mean time this woman feels even more empowered to call and the harassment has increased. In two to three weeks we will have the money for an attorney. In the mean time, besides harassing him, is there anything else she can legally do to hurt my husband if he continues to withold spousal support? How late do you have to be to worry about garnishment? Would she have to go back to court to get an order for garnishment first? How can we get the harassment to stop? This is a civil matter and we have asked her to stop. She is claiming she has an attorney who is telling her to do this now. If he doesn't have a job, he can't pay her. I'm sick of this woman treating my husband like he is her personal ATM machiene. What can we do to stop this until we can get the money together to hire an attorney to take her back for a modification? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Sorry so long and complicated. Divorced in Iowa.","title":"My husband's ex wife calls his job incessantly and impersonates me to harass him","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539569685,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o8mwr\/streaming_movies_online\/","id":"9o8mwr","body":"So; I've got a group of online friends and we want to watch movies together. There's a streaming service called Rabbit. It's pretty much a virtual machine computer that multiple can connect to, and we can watch videos together. \n\nWell I wanted to host a movie night. I would buy a movie off of YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, etc. I would go onto rabbit. Log into my account and pull up the video I bought\/obtained legally. \n\nHowever because I'm streaming across the internet to others, there could be some copyright\/ fair use issues. I wanted to know what the legality of doing this is. Like would I get in troubled\/fined even though I'm obtaining the movies legally. \n\nTl;dr I want to stream a movie I own online to random people\/friends ","title":"Streaming Movies Online","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539198433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n2g9r\/landlord_ignoring_me_and_hasnt_returned_deposit\/","id":"9n2g9r","body":"Hey all, I am very willing to take my landlord to small claims court if necessary, but I'd like to make sure I have a solid case first. Unfortunately this is not the first time this man has been sued so he's pretty smart about only giving verbal agreements and never replying to emails, which is why I couldn't do anything when I lived there. The apartment was absolutely disgusting when we moved in, ripped up and torn. We sent in a list of damages, but never officially agreed and signed anything with the landlord. In December, the apartment flooded pretty badly. The carpet (which had visible dog poop in it when we moved in IN AUGUST and reeked of urine) was finally replaced and the ceiling was fixed where it was caving in. There was still visible water damage everywhere. At one point our oven caught on fire. There was visible mold on the walls because it wasn't properly dried- I actually contacted the health department over this. He didn't have pressure regulators installed on the water valves which is what caused the floods- another apartment also flooded because of this. There is still extensive water damage in the apartment that was never repaired. There was even a 4 month period where I didn't have hot water. \n\n​\n\nSo come July and I finally get to move out of this hell. And now he has completely ignored me and hasn't returned my security deposit. Now- he never gave us a list of why the deposit wasn't returned so I'd like to file in small claims court over this, but I'm concerned he will try to blame these extensive damages on myself and my roommate and try to get us to pay for them. Is this a valid concern and could he even do this despite the fact that we were never provided these damages within a month of terminating the lease? I have none of these facts in writing aside from the initial move-in, only in phone conversations and verbally (he wouldn't reply to any emails sent because that's proof he received them. He knows his way around this.). Would it be safer to just leave alone and not try to get my deposit back?\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Landlord ignoring me and hasn't returned deposit (Georgia)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571588541,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dklswg\/is_this_workplace_discrimination\/","id":"dklswg","body":"This is a throwaway account. I work at one of the oldest and largest technology companies in the US. I'm a woman and non-white. I joined the company after two decades of enterprise architecture work followed by project and people management. I have an advanced computer science degree and almost 10 certifications in architecture and specialized topics like automation. \n\nI joined a consulting part of the organization.  When I joined, I was assigned to a project where I shadowed a longtime consultant. This was a project about staffing optimization. And in my next project, I was asked to write a communications plan.\n\nI asked my manager why I wasn't given work in the area in which I had the most experience. He said that it wasn't immediately available. And to make every assignment an opportunity to show what you can do. I thought this was odd because I had 20 years of experience and solid education. It was as if no one was looking at my resume. But I persisted.\n\nAfter this project, I was asked again to write a communications plan. I said no to avoid being labeled a communications plan writer. Finally, I was given work in my area.\n\nAt this engagement, I unfortunately experienced sexist behaviour. Whenever notes had to be taken, the men would look to me. The men would also complain about the sound of women's voices, and wanted to talk about race. These were all older white men.\n\nI told my manager, and he was supportive. He discussed this with the offenders' managers, and said that they would be dealt with. However, I worked with another one of the individuals on a project, and he hadn't changed.\n\nFast forward 1 year to today. I find out that another one of the men from that project got a promotion despite no discernible skills other than being close to our new practice leader. He could not even use PowerPoint\/MS Project\/Excel on our project, and commonly acts as an engagement manager (which doesn't require any technical skills). He is not outstanding as an EM, so this was a head scratcher to a lot of people. The practice did give me a raise, but not a promotion. The person who got the promotion spent a significant amount of time doing clothing design, and does not have any industry certifications. I have always worked in my area, so even though he's older, I have more experience and more education. \n\nI was recently offered a project coordinator role on a project where the client doesn't even want our company there. I knew something was off. I found out there are no longer procedures in place to objectively staff projects -- it's word of mouth. Our new management also just put high billable hours targets in our yearly evaluations. \n\nThis points to an easy way to freeze out people from assignments, and use low billable hours to let them go. Especially if that person is expensive.\n\nI'm more qualified than people being staffed to great assignments -- in experience, and in education. My past evaluations were at the top 1% according to my manager. I don't complain, work quickly, and clients have given our executives positive feedback about my work during contract negotiations. Yet, I'm not getting billable hours. When I'm offered a project, it's often not one that would help strengthen my career.\n\nMy family suggested going to legal at the company. But legal exists to protect the company, not me. So I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to leave because it's a solid company. But this is troubling. I'd appreciate your advice on whether I'm being wronged.","title":"Is this workplace discrimination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551834505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axssq6\/long_story_of_family_legal_drama_advice_needed\/","id":"axssq6","body":"This is a bit of a long one and there are a few conflicting storylines, so I apologize for any confusion. So about 2-3 years ago, my grandmother passed away. She left a rather large house, an antique truck, and probably thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and other belongings. She did have a will, however my aunt (who is her power of attorney) never turned in the will, until about 2 years later. She did this so she could live in my grandmothers home for as long as possible. My grandmother had acquired about $15,000 worth of credit card debt, and her will states clearly that any debt should be paid from her estate. \n\nHere is where another storyline comes in. My father passed away in December of 2017. He never got to see his own mothers will because my aunt refused to turn it in or show him. My father went to his lawyer over this matter. He was very very sick at the time, as it was about 3 months before he passed. Since my father passed, I am technically him in my grandmothers will. (My aunt didn\u2019t turn in the will to the courthouse until my father had died). So since that is roughly the backstory, allow me to get into the actual situation. \n\nAbout 6 months ago, I received a letter from the court house, stating that my two aunts accused my dead father (their brother) of racking up $15,000 in credit card debt, using my grandmothers credit cards. This is a completely asinine claim. I called the credit card companies listed, these companies could not give me any information, because guess what? My fathers name was not on any of the accounts and they had never heard his name before. So I filed an objection to these claims, as there is no proof whatsoever. My aunts are very greedy women, and I know exactly why they did this. They didn\u2019t want the 15 grand to be taken out of their cut for my grandmothers house, so they are trying to take legal action to force me to pay off these debts that are not my responsibility. \n\nToday, 5 months later, I received a follow up letter stating that a hearing will be scheduled after someone calls them to set one up. They court wants $250 in advance and the fiduciary commissioner wants $150 an hour. I don\u2019t have money to pay for this, but that\u2019s neither here nor there. \n\nMy question is: is there a case here? To me this is completely asinine. My grandmothers will clearly states that any debts will be paid off using her estate. If anyone could offer any advice or knowledge to me about this very odd situation, I would be very appreciative. I will answer any questions you may have. ","title":"Long story of family legal drama. Advice needed!!","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555629225,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bes5p9\/father_trying_to_take_custody_against_sons_will\/","id":"bes5p9","body":"So my cousins mom just died, and he\u2019s left with his step-dad and two sisters. The sisters are the step-dads, so custody isn\u2019t a problem for them. However, the biological father is stepping in, and trying to take custody. Which is actually going to be easy, considering the step-dad has no ties to him now.\n\nThis wouldn\u2019t be a problem, if his biological dad wasn\u2019t an abusive waste of human flesh. No one in be family wants the son to go with him, and the son obviously doesn\u2019t either. \n\nSo we\u2019re currently trying to see if he has any rights as an ex-step-dad, but it\u2019s not looking so good.\n\nAnyone know if a step-father has rights to a child, after his wife dies? Can his biological sisters allow him to stay\/visit them too?","title":"Father Trying to Take Custody against Sons Will","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539354969,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nkskm\/im_not_sure_if_this_is_the_right_place_for_this\/","id":"9nkskm","body":"As the title says, I wanted to try a Quizlet subscription for 7 days (Quizlet by the way is an Android and web app for flashcard learning). Because of that, I pressed a large \"Try for free for 7 days\" button in the Android app. I was immediately charged for the subscription, as opposed to getting into a trial period. I have since cancelled said subscription, but of course, the charge remains on my card and my subscription is active until \"October 2019\" according to Google Play.\n\nI am extremely pissed, not because the subscription was expensive or anything, but because I feel I was misled. Is there anything I can do about it, other than contacting Quizlet through their communication channels?\n\n(If this kind of behaviour is commonplace and expected from service providers, please do excuse me, the only subscription services I've tried never charged me upfront but they might not be the norm)","title":"I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but: I think I was misled into purchasing a \"Quizlet\" yearly subscription, thinking I was getting into a free 7 day trial; can I do anything about it?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539915038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pfl3p\/200_for_24h_of_work_classified_as_live_in_shifts\/","id":"9pfl3p","body":"So I work for a company in Alberta who do Home care, I have a few clients who require 24\/7 doctor ordered care if they want to live in their homes. As per my contract which I signed - I was in my third month of unemployment and money was getting tight - it states that I agree to the pay of $200 per live in shift. \n\nBasically my shift consists of going to my clients house, doing the cooking, cleaning, any nursing care and assistance with activities of daily living etc. I work from 0900 till 0900 the next day and I am expected to sleep when the client sleeps. My hourly rate in my contract is $17, I am making nowhere near that when I am issued a 24h shift. \n\nWhat I want to know is: is it even legal for them to do shifts like that? I\u2019m making less than $7\/h and I\u2019m busting my fucking balls. I love my profession and I never want to stop nursing but honestly this is making me reevaluate it. Why am I getting paid half of what minimum wage is in my province.","title":"$200 for 24h of work - classified as \u201cLive In\u201d shifts.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446034782,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qjusf\/my_father_died_yesterday_probable_leaving_a_lot\/","id":"3qjusf","body":"Hi,\n\nMy father passed away yesterday after a month fighting cancer. We are all pretty broken. In his possession there were two big assets. His company (as small bathroom supply store that barely broke even bluebidet.com) and an apartment that was half on me and my siblings  name and half on his. He left the company fully to his wife. \n\nWe haven't been able to go through his finances yet, but I think he probable owed money. \n\nMy biggest concern is his widow (he got remarried to a woman that had 3 kids already who we all really care for) I want to help her as much as possible in the next couple of days. I know my dad had a leased car, and read online Toyota usually sucks when you have to end a lease of someone that died. \n\nAny legal advice? things that if you were in my situation you think I should know about?\n\nThanks\n\nEdit: He lived in Miami, I live in NYC, there was a small will that just said the company goes to his wife, the apartment should be divided between his 3 kids. (Not were he an his wife lived). His big life insurance policy goes to his wife 50k and the small one for 10k to my brother to pay a student loan.","title":"My father died yesterday, probable leaving a lot of debt, what should I know from the legal side.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554734193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bauk7c\/could_a_contract_be_created_that_makes_an_actor\/","id":"bauk7c","body":"If a character is written off, could a contract be signed that ensures a return in the future for a guest arc for example?","title":"Could a contract be created that makes an actor must be available at any time for filming though they may not be a series regular for years?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1503505816,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vk4ss\/north_carolina_quick_question_about_hiring_and\/","id":"6vk4ss","body":"I heard somewhere that they cannot ask you to take a drug test until you are officially offered the position in writing. I did a quick google search but all I found was in Minnesota. They are trying to make my coworker who works for a temp agency take the drug test before the official offer. Is that allowed? Is it only some states that require the letter first? ","title":"[north Carolina] Quick question about hiring and drug tests.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410187683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ft7mq\/canada_stolen_account_online_game_thehunter\/","id":"2ft7mq","body":"Okay, to start this topic I would like to explain my side of the story:\nI\nused to be a big player in this game, started around early August 2013,\nand played for months and ended up costing me around >$100 and like 7\ndays of playing (**INGAME**) put into this account. At the end of the 3 month\nmembership, I started getting into playing League of Legends, and the\noccasional Minecraft. I ended up completely forgetting about this game,\nand would only play a game here or there, killing a few mules bot not\nreally wanting to spend some money and get another membership. Because\nof this Google Chrome auto saved my login information, and in the end,\nscrewed me over.\n\nMy friend got onto my account, changed the password so he would be able to log on freely, and sold the account for $20 on www.reddit.com.\nI ended up searching through my friends submitted history, and found\nthe thread where he sold my account. I frantically went to www.thehunter.com,\nand tried to log on, but they buyer had already changed the\npassword\/email. I tried the \"Forgot Password?\" option, and I wouldn't\nget emails concerning changing the password, as the buyer changed the\naccounts Email. So yesterday, I made a new account, and contacted my old\naccount, AKA the buyer. The conversation went as follows: http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/KRJ0q\n\nI\nfeel bad for trying to scare the kid into giving me my account back,\nbut I was furious. Is this enough to get the stolen account back?\n\nI am located in Canada, the buyer is located in the US, and the company in Sweden. \n\nScreenshot of my email to the support: http:\/\/imgur.com\/0rmiBIr\n\nLink to things provided in the email: \n\n[Here](http:\/\/gyazo.com\/fa09855e702b020738a46a2f9f0759ad) <- screenshot of my post on the forums answering from the forum account created before the account was sold.\n[And here](http:\/\/gyazo.com\/e5cf4a35bda9b8e0914c768b9e66bd07)  <- Forum post proving that its me, I took the ingame screenshot while on the account, and [posted it to a competition for the best picture.](http:\/\/gyazo.com\/59ff606890705c58be351e36fe81ed8e)\nEven the \"profile picture\" is the competition shot I took a year ago. Seen [here.](http:\/\/gyazo.com\/376f2efd5549a8012e4a3d334d4c9010)\n\nAnything I should provide to further prove that it is indeed my account?\n\n","title":"CANADA: Stolen Account- Online Game \"TheHunter\"","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1508331857,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/776dyt\/principal_threatened_to_ban_me_from_graduation_nc\/","id":"776dyt","body":"This happened to me last May but I figured I would follow up on it because my younger siblings and friends still attend the high school in question. Last spring a boy was banned from graduation by our principal for missing rehearsal. His mother was pretty up in arms about it and started a change. org petition asking the school to allow him to walk. I commented on her petition with a few choice words about the principal and his policies, but nothing violent or particularly vulgar. Just my opinion based on several specific examples. Within 24 hours my mother got a call where the administration essentially threatened to prevent me from walking across the stage at graduation. I of course deleted it but was completely outraged. Particularly at the idea that the administration was combing through thousands of comments on some website and secretly forcing students into removing their negative opinions.\n\nOf course I know that because I don't have the threat recorded and because they didn't follow through on it, there's nothing illegal in my case. But if the school was to use this tactic on students in the future would it be a violation of student freedom of speech laws? The posting happened off campus, it wasn't disruptive to school activities because classes had already ended for the year, there were no threats or inciting of violence. Is threatening to take away school privileges enough to constitute preventing free speech? Any input would be greatly appreciated for advising my siblings how to act around the current administration.\n\nThis happened at a large public high school in North Carolina.","title":"Principal threatened to ban me from graduation [NC]","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570574097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df7l2v\/trains_and_them_hogging_traffic\/","id":"df7l2v","body":"Trains always are stopping at tracks to take up time for other people, they have no reason to o stop yet they do, is there any legal things helping stop this? It happens too much.","title":"Trains and them hogging traffic","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570764831,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg9edp\/freshmen_orientation_trip_incident\/","id":"dg9edp","body":"I attend a college where it is required to take a trip from a list that you\u2019re give for freshmen orientation. I had signed up for a five day canoeing trip down some rivers on the morning of the third day in the neighboring state (as the river was the boarder) We were on government camping site right on the river with private property right behind us. We had gotten up and after a bit we started taking down our campsite. We heard a couple of gun shots near by but around that area and where I grew up which was just farther north it is usual. I we stood around the tent taking it down together she. We heard another shot but this time very quickly after the bang we heard a wiz. None of us that heard it first ever heard it before but we knew almost instantly what it was we all ducked and ran yelling to the rest of our group who were spread out around the campsite to run. I fell to the grown tripped over my feet brain thinking faster than I could move. I heard from my guess 3-5 more wizes go over or around me i don\u2019t know. We ran to a trail off to the side were we were out of the way of the bullets. We than decided to take three of us (one group leader, hockey player, and me) to go see if we could find where this was coming from to stop it. I had the most experience with guns and gun safety and I told the other two to raise their hands and wave and yell as we did not want to seem like we were trying to sneak up on these people as they had guns and we did not. We finally go their attention and simply asked if they could stop for a few hours and let us pack up and leave. They seem to have shown a sort of negligence when it came to gun safety but we didn\u2019t say anything cause we didn\u2019t want to get them angry cause again they had guns. We made contact either the school and they made contact with police and said there was an investigation started it\u2019s been over a year and I haven\u2019t heard a thing from the school or any sort of police.\nI was wonder if there was any sort of legal action I could take as I\u2019ve started recently to become distracted by thoughts of the event especially when I hear about shooting(s) or about guns or massacres (history major) when in class I find it hard to pay attention if I can I sit against a wall or near the door and never by a window. I used to hunt but now season is coming up and idk if i can bring myself to go into the woods again as there will be gunshots going off all day for a week. \nI also feel like maybe this is all in my head I didn\u2019t have problems last hunting season I didn\u2019t have problems until this school year","title":"Freshmen orientation trip incident","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570042829,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcep2t\/new_job_sketchy_direct_deposit_contract\/","id":"dcep2t","body":"Hi everyone, so I recently received a job offer as an independent contractor through Arise.\nI was asked to sign a document for direct deposit which seems a little risky, I would just like some legal advice. The contract is as follows, \n\n\n\u201cI hereby authorize KALEO VIRTUAL SOLUTIONS to initiate automatic deposits to my account at the financial institution named below. I also authorize KALEO VIRTUAL SOLUTIONS to make withdrawals from this account in the event that a credit entry is made in error.\n\nFurther I agree not to hold KALEO responsible for any delay or loss of funds due to incorrect or incomplete information supplied by me or my financial institution or due to an error on the part of my financial institution in depositing funds to my account. \n\nThis agreement will remain in effect until KALEO VIRTUAL SOLUTIONS receives a written notice of cancellation from me or my financial institution, or until I submit a new direct deposit form to the payroll department.\u201d","title":"New Job, sketchy direct deposit contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570479478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dep350\/received_a_reckless_driving_ticket_on_my_private\/","id":"dep350","body":"Before anyone gets upset about the speed, this is a gated off private road \/ driveway. There was zero chances of another car being on it unless they broke through a locked gate and trespassed on clearly marked private property.\n\nSo my driveway is in a weird spot that goes alongside a highway for about 4 miles before turning off and up towards the house.  The entire property is fenced off and  gated\/posted private property no trespassing. It is about 800 feet from the highway and slowly moves further and further from the highway.\n\n\nI use my driveway as a place to work out kinks in my cars, get them setup properly etc before going to the dragstrip. I love cars and try to do things as safely as possible, roll cages, proper harnesses and helmet etc. I never open them up on the road because I have no need to, I can do it on my own private property.\n\nAnyways last night I was having fun with my newly broken in engine swapped car. Doing a few runs back and forth and after the 6th or 7th run down I notice a cop with lights on sitting down at the gate. I head down and tell him I'll be right back, I have to go get the key to the gate but he insists I stay there. So I stay and he demands license, registration, insurance. I tell him I have none of those on me, and the car isn't even registered or insured (I bring it to and from the track\/strip on a trailer). I tell him this because the car isn't even street legal and is a track car. \n\nSo he just gets my information from my name, dob, address etc. I ask him why he's even here because this isn't a road, why is he stopping me. He tells me reckless driving and he has me on laser doing 162, I start to argue that this is a private road\/driveway clearly because he's sitting behind a locked gate and how can I be recklessly driving on private property? He starts telling me I can goto jail if I keep arguing, after about 20 minutes of just standing at my gate he gives me a ticket to sign for reckless driving. The ticket doesn't even have a posted speed for the road on it because this isn't a road.\n\nWhat do I need to bring to the court date to show this isn't a road and he has no jurisdiction to enforce traffic laws on? I'm not trying to cause a huge issue but it's kind if stupid he even gave me a ticket, I didn't feel like continuing to argue with him because it was going nowhere. I live in Texas and the sheriffs department is who wrote the ticket.","title":"Received a reckless driving ticket on my private property road\/driveway","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541181308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tmf22\/i_received_2_parking_tickets_due_to_expired\/","id":"9tmf22","body":"I\u2019m back in my town for my 2 weeks vacation. My uncle let me borrow his car for the time being because he\u2019s not allowed to drive for right now. I took his car and drove home.\n\nI parked on the correct side of the street and went inside my house. When I went back to my car there were 2 tickets. One ticket for expired registration and another ticket for illegally parking due to expired registration. \n\nIs there any way to fight this and avoid paying this bogus $65? I got plenty of time and I\u2019m willing to spend it in court. ","title":"I received 2 parking tickets due to expired village stickers and illegally parking. Is there any way to fight them?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553009449,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2yt2h\/fired_from_job_2_weeks_after_proposing_a_stress\/","id":"b2yt2h","body":"In Ontario, Canada \n\nLong back story but ive worked as a sales rep 2 years, i started out with a decent paycheque through salary and commission, over the years our commission structure has increased drastically while simultaneously reducing the pay outs and increasing staff numbers at our location making it near impossible to hit targets for commission at our already slow retail location. \nEssentially by January 2019 i was working a job making numerous sales just to fall shy of my target and not getting any commission so ive been working the last 3 months for minimum wage trying to support my family and its been stressing me out. \nId made numerous complaints about my mental state and had even told my manager and HR about a potential leave. \nIt got to a point i had my 2 week notice ready to go but my manager wasnt in ALL WEEK (this was march 15) to my surprise my District manager walks in and just hands me a notice of termination with 3 fabricated reasons, 2 of which would have required write ups or performance improvement help before just stepping to termination. \n\nIm really in panic mode now as I believe the company did it this way to make me have to fight for EI, it\u2019s disgusting and its caused me alot of emotional distress the past 3 days as ive never even had a single VERBAL warning at this place, let alone knew a termination was coming... i missed the first year of my kids life pulling close to 100 hours some weeks bi-weekly when we were short staffed (didnt even get OT because they forced me to sign a contract stating i dont get it unless i work 6 weeks or more in a row at 45+ hours i even stepped up as manager for a few months while mine was on medical leave!!!\n\nI feel betrayed and really need advice ","title":"Fired from job 2 weeks after proposing a stress leave","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555246992,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd2j21\/landlord_trying_to_collect_money_i_do_not_owe\/","id":"bd2j21","body":"I would appreciate any help! My fiance and I signed a lease renewal for July 2018-July 2019 which contained all of the same terms as our first lease except the renewal additionally contained a provision for the payment of prorated lease in the amount of $800. The issue is that we simply do not owe any prorated rent. This is the second year we have rented this apartment, so it is not as though we moved in part way through the month. We are simply continuing our rent (We paid prorated rent at the very beginning of our first lease with this apartment so our \"extra time\" in the apartment was already covered and since then, all of our rent has been paid out for the full month.) Neither my fiance nor I realized this provision was in the second lease and so we signed it (we know, we should have paid more attention, and we did reading through the first lease but we \\[wrongly\\] assumed this would be fundamentally the same and were not in a place to apartment shop again in NY). Fast forward 9 months later and our landlord has contacted us to collect this prorated lease amount. All in all, $800 wouldn't be a complete killer but It might as well be if it is $800 that I am not actually obligated to pay. Do I have to pay this amount even though it is clear that I do not owe it and it is in the signed contract due to a mutual mistake? (If it helps, the lease makes it clear that this $800 is for prorated rent - so if I don't actually owe prorated rent, would this void the specific provision?) thanks!","title":"Landlord Trying to Collect Money I Do Not Owe","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541874953,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vwnpn\/oh_what_to_do_while_out_on_bond\/","id":"9vwnpn","body":"Location is Ohio. I'm out on bond awaiting trial and my bond restrictions keep me in Ohio. What should I do in the meantime while waiting for trial? Is there anything that would get me into more trouble?","title":"(OH) What to do while out on bond?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568510233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4dzeq\/landlord_not_spraying_for_cockroaches\/","id":"d4dzeq","body":"So about 3 months ago my landlord sent out a notice saying he was going to be spraying for roaches the next week. Roaches starting showing up from a nasty apartment a few doors down from me. I don\u2019t know how they got over to my apartment but they did.\n\nMy boyfriend and my two roommates put away all our belongings and prepped for the spray. The day came and we all left for the 5 hours the landlord asked us to be gone. We came back and I am under suspicion that he didn\u2019t actually spray mostly because our can of Raid was gone that we had under the sink that was there when we left and there was not smell of the pesticides. \n\nThe roaches did not go away and we informed him of this. I\u2019m having roaches jumping at me out of cupboards and it\u2019s disgusting. We are on a month to month but are scared to leave because we are not financially stable enough and we are scared we won\u2019t get our deposit back. The carpet is a bit stained but it can be shampooed. It\u2019s only from walking in the apartment with shoes on. It also states in our lease that the landlord is responsible for spraying pesticides.\n\nCould I take my landlord to court for not getting rid of the roaches? If so, what would I sue him for?","title":"Landlord not spraying for cockroaches","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570897330,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgxa18\/girlfriends_mom_assaulted_her_over_some_weed\/","id":"dgxa18","body":"My girlfriend (19F) has recently started to move out of her moms place and is staying with friends. She went over to get some things for her sister as she was supposed to stay the weekend. Her mom is the one who give her weed and when she went over she demanded that she give it back. They got in a physical altercation that left her with a laceration to the head among other injuries. Shes worried that if she goes to the cops she will get in trouble because of the fact the fight was over weed. How can she approach this?","title":"Girlfriends mom assaulted her over some weed. (Portland, Or)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569691032,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daiuum\/my_court_date_fell_on_saturday\/","id":"daiuum","body":"So today is my court date to appear in court for my $180 ticket for failure to provide registration.\n\nHowever when I went to the court, I realized they were closed on the weekends, I want to try to get the ticket dropped because of it being a first offense. That's why I didn't pay it, I get paid on Tuesday and I don't have any money to pay the ticket.\n\nI don't know what to do, I'm scared that I'll get a warrant for my arrest.","title":"My court date fell on Saturday","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445970705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qgau0\/will_i_be_held_responsible_for_my_husbands_debt\/","id":"3qgau0","body":"Does anyone know how dividing debt works in the state of California?  Is it 50\/50 even if one spouse doesn't have access to ANY of the other spouse's accounts and isn't allowed to make any of the financial decisions? Say he purchases \"guy toys\" (eg, guitars, gaming systems, etc), can I deduct that from my side in the divorce?\n\nMore background, it's long, sorry:\n\nWhen my husband was around 18 he opened a bank account and put his mom on there as an authorized user. The purpose of this was so that his mom could put money in his account for bills and groceries while he was in college.  \n\nThe problem is we have been married for almost 7 years now (we are in our mid and late 30's) and he still has his mom on his account BUT I am not allowed to be on ANY of his accounts. He refuses to take his mom off of the account and says that if there is an emergency (say he gets into a car accident and is in a coma), that I need to go to his mom and ask her to pull money out of his account so that I can pay the bills. As far as I know she doesn't take any money out of the account (his parents are VERY well off so I know this is true), but she can get into the account to see how much money is in there, and what the money is being spent on. If she wants to send my husband money for his birthday or our child's, she has the ability to deposit it directly into his account. I don't have the right\/ability to do any of this and I'm worried about what is going on with the account. \n\nI should also note that 1.5 years ago we moved out of our area. I did not want to move because I was working and moving would add another 50 min to my already hour commute. Not only that, but it would be very difficult for me to find another job where he wanted to move. My husband really wanted to move so he made me a deal that if we moved that I could quit my job to stay home full-time and that he would give me an \"allowance\".   I stupidly and naively hoped things would changed and agreed to move.  \n\nShortly after we moved (5 months in), he started becoming increasingly angry because i wasn't working and he was worried about bills.  He would start threatening me with divorce, so I paid 60$ for a consultation with an attorney about custody (we had so much stuff to go over that I didn't get into details about the financial situation).  My husband ended up finding out that I spoke with an attorney for $60 and was pissed. He then completely cut me off from any money and my allowance (to add insult to injury, I found out several months later that he took out a $4,000 loan and HIRED an attorney behind my back). \n\nSo now I am not allowed to do any of the grocery shopping or even get my own gas because he will not give me his card or give me cash.  I make a list of what we need and he gets the groceries, or he takes my car in to get gas. \n\nAlso, he complains about money, but then spends money on lotto tickets, buying $200+ gifts.  I have no idea about any of our finances.  I am not allowed to give suggestions on how to handle the finances\/pay them off\/what to cut back on\/what we should spend \"his money\" on. I am worried that when we divorce that I will have to split our debt 50\/50.  \n\nI have very good credit, very little debt (i'm not irresponsible with money!) and I am back in school.  He makes me use what very little savings I have in my personal account to pay my student loan every month since he went back on his deal to pay my bill when we moved. \n\nI'm so afraid that when we get divorced I'm going to find out \"we\" are 75k in debt and that he's been buying god knows what. I'm just counting down the year left I have in school to get out of this marriage.\n","title":"Will I be held responsible for my husband's debt in the divorce? (California)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569673459,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dafb86\/united_states_employees_coming_in_sick_to_save_pto\/","id":"dafb86","body":"I'm in a situation where I had to use up all my PTO early on in the year, and will not receive anymore until 2020. I recently called in sick for 3 days due to food poisoning, but I received 3 occurrences for each day I was gone. I feel like my company's current PTO system has a significant conflict of interest in that regard. \n\nOn the one hand, if you're running a fever, or puking your guts out, of COURSE your boss will want you to go home. Don't want everyone else to get sick, after all!\n\nOn the other, if you're out PTO\/sick time, then management views taking a day of for sickness as being no different than taking a 1-day vacation. Unless you're absent long enough to qualify for FMLA, you could face disciplinary action for staying home due to the flu or pink eye.\n\nWhat kind of safety nets do employees have for situations like this? I've looked at dozens of articles, and they never seem to have any straight answers; only recommendations that the company switch back to having sick and vacation days separate. Obviously, many employees, including me, don't have that kind of bargaining power to convince corporate of such a change. Right now, it feels like we're being punished for when life happens. \"Hey, Susie, you better not get seriously ill or go to the hospital, or you can't take your family on vacation next Spring!\"\n\nSeeing as this is such a common problem at work, what systems are in place to protect employees, especially when they're forced to use PTO until they run out? Do employees just have to hope they never get sick or hurt, or never have to miss any work outside scheduled holidays? How do you solve the dilemma of your boss being unhappy that you came in sick vs being unhappy that you missed work?","title":"[United States] Employees Coming In Sick To Save PTO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555647251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bev0bp\/de_annual_unit_inspection\/","id":"bev0bp","body":"My mom recently got a studio apartment near my college campus to stay at when she\u2019s working at the other office for the business she works for. Her main home is near the main office where she works most of the time (2 hours away from here). I\u2019ve been staying at her studio a lot. Probably even more than my own apartment because I have roommates that are obnoxious. I even have a lot of my stuff and clothes there and even my cat. My mom got a notice saying they are performing an annual unit inspection between the 16th and 19th. Are they going to say something to my mom if I\u2019m there and my cat is too? My mom has her own cat who I take care of for her while she\u2019s gone so it\u2019s not like pets aren\u2019t supposed to be there. Someone told me we could get in trouble so I figured I\u2019d post here and ask.","title":"[DE] Annual Unit Inspection","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552495308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0o4t5\/employer_not_letting_me_take_tips_but_keeps_a_tip\/","id":"b0o4t5","body":"Hi. I\u2019m 18 and I work at a take out style restaurant in the same style as many burger places (smash burger) and chains like Viva Chicken. It\u2019s a very small local business and I get paid around 9.25 an hour and was told very informally that we will not be allowed to take tips when I was hired. However, they keep a tip jar out and a lot of the customers total the bill out on the receipt (if they paid with card) and often tip me $4. We get a lot of regulars so a lot of those customers like me since I make their food everyday and they keep tipping thinking that I\u2019m receiving them but I\u2019m not. The tip jar is extremely misleading and my employer told me the tips are for the company and not the employees. It\u2019s really hard for me to stand up for myself at work since I am also one of the two actual employees working here that aren\u2019t related to the owners. Is this technically illegal? Is there any way I can ask them to give me the tips? (I am literally also the only one working during my shift and usually I see around $30 of tips in the jar by the end of my shift and someone today put $85 in and this isn\u2019t even including the tips that people who pay with card give)","title":"Employer not letting me take tips but keeps a tip jar out? Is this illegal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504549443,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y24qu\/va_reading_the_law_vs_law_school\/","id":"6y24qu","body":"Sorry this isnt really a legal matter, so I hope this fits within community guidelines. Does anyone here have advice on law reading? My father is an attorney in Virginia and I have an opportunity to save a ton of money by applying to read the law vs applying to a traditional law school. Here is my logic as to why I should go this route. I already have a great job waiting for me once I pass the bar as a partner with my father. I have been around law my entire life and shadow my father in court often. I study extremely well on my own and think this path could be a good fit for me. I feel like spending the extra money for law school would only really be worth if for better bar prep, but I can sign up to take bar prep courses at a nearby law school without having to actually be registered, as well as a variety of online barprep tools. My main concern is the guidance through the program. I know my father really wants me to succeed regardless of which path i choose, but from what I have gathered from research this will be a huge time constraint for him as well. Furthermore, there are many areas of the law he does not specialize in, so I would pretty much be on my own to study out of textbooks (this is fine with me, I prefer to study on my own anyways). So basically my question is, will I be okay studying on my own in areas of law that my father does not exactly specialize in (i.e Constitutional Law)? Thank you so much in advance for any and all advice. ","title":"(VA) Reading the Law vs Law School","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552418739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0bvxs\/employer_failed_to_file_w2c_in_2015_created_hell\/","id":"b0bvxs","body":"I was an independent contractor (\"consultant\") at a large international organization in 2015. The employer first filed a W2, corrected it to a 1099, but then never filed a W2C to \"cancel out\" the W2 income. Fast forward, the IRS thinks I earned double what I did in 2015 and I get a tax bill and fines, etc. I resolve it after months of hell with the IRS and now I have to resolve it with the state -- again, very scary. Do I have any legal recourse against this organization for their tax office failing to file a W2C? Thank you for your advice.","title":"Employer failed to file W2C in 2015; created hell with CP2000 issues. Recourse?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553559284,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5io02\/can_i_collect_unemployment_in_a_commission_job\/","id":"b5io02","body":"I'm in Ohio.\n\nI'm currently collecting unemployment, and have just accepted a commission only job. Can I collect unemployment until I get my first paycheck?\n\nI can't find the answer on Ohio's unemployment website.\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Can I collect unemployment in a commission job, before I earn any money?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1415822349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2m3qrx\/i_got_banned_from_an_online_mmorpg_for_no_reason\/","id":"2m3qrx","body":"Hey Reddit!\n\nI'm from Austria (EU) and I've been playing an mmo called ArcheAge. It's new in the west and they had to deal with huge waves of bots and hackers. In a wave of bans they banned my account although I have nothing to do with that kind of stuff. I paid with paysafe card (cash service).\n\n13 days ago I wrote an appeal to get my account unbanned but I haven't. I spent 45 \u20ac on the game, that package included early access, some ingame currency which you can only get by paying and some other stuff. So a part of that has been consumed, a part not. \n\nWhile not banned people can access live chat to have their problems solved and get a talk with an employee in less than 30 minutes I haven't got an answer in 13 days. The company is called Trion Worlds Inc. and is located in the US. I was wondering if there are any legal actions I could take and if that would even make sense. There is like no way to contact them for me at least it seems.\n\nI feel treated like some nobody by the company and hope to get useful advice here :) I understand that there probably isn't much I can do but since they got me really salty by stopping my progress in the game for no reason I'm trying to look for some options. Please bare with me if my demand for justice is like super unrealistic, it's my first time posting here.","title":"I got banned from an online mmorpg for no reason and they are not responding to my appeal, what can I do?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555018902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc5kr1\/might_have_accidentally_nicked_a_neighbors_car\/","id":"bc5kr1","body":"I'm pretty new to driving and on the way home form work i found that maintenance was parked in my parking spot at my apartment. I needed to use the bathroom so i pulled into the nearest unassigned parking spot. i got out my car and as i did my car door, from what i interpreted made really soft contact with the car next to me. I checked for damage and didn't see any so i ran inside to go to the bathroom. Later i find my car with [this note](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/7mErV9J). pretty crazy, strongly worded. I called insurance and they said to do nothing and the she hadn't filed a report, my parents say to do nothing until insurance calls. The only problem is she lives near me, and her car is parked pretty close to my spot. I'm wondering if dog noting is the\"right\" thing to do in this situation. I don't really have a formal way to contact her.  I have ptsd and a terrible anxiety disorder im terrified of someone coming up to me and yelling at me (huge trigger) or something. if she approaches me, what should i say?","title":"Might have accidentally nicked a neighbors car door with mine while getting out of my car, confused as to what to do, even more confused about the letter from the other driver.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541713599,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9veb20\/life_insurance_payout_9_month_wait\/","id":"9veb20","body":"My brother died in June, and he\u2019s left one of his children as the trustee for his estate. To clarify, I am a beneficiary in his life insurance, and his child (the trustee) is the beneficiary to the estate. I received a letter in the mail from a law firm September 19th stating that the claims filing date is November 19th. My family (other beneficiaries for life insurance) and I had thought that this date would be the time frame we would start to receive checks for life insurance.\n\nHis child had gotten in touch with one of the other estate beneficiaries and said it could be 10 months before ANYTHING is paid out. I am not well versed in life insurance vs estate pay outs, however from what I have read, insurance is usually paid within 60 days (makes sense from the timing of the letter I received) and estate could take up to a year as things need to be sold.\n\nI have contacted the law firm, but have not heard anything back yet. If someone could help explain to me if his kid is confusing the insurance money with the estate money, or if it can really take that long to receive insurance money, along with what the \u201cclaims filing date\u201d actually means, as it is a future date. \n\nThank you!","title":"Life insurance payout - 9 month wait?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1408859572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2efc0v\/sublet_tenant_3_weeks_late_on_rent_not_sure_what\/","id":"2efc0v","body":"Hey there,\n\nI am in Utah, and I lease a Condo. My landlord has full knowledge that I sublet the rooms, under contract, to others in order to help pay the rent [rent's expensive] - he's fine with it and he used to do the same thing when he lived here. [Edit: He's the Owner.]\n\nI have a signed contract with my tenant as of February this year, it was originally for 6 months, we signed an extension in July that ends next February.\n\nHe has been consistently late with rent but has always paid; he lost his job this month [had only gone to work 3 times in 3 months due to \"migraines\" so ofc they let him go]. This month, he wrote me a check - dated the 5th, I didn't get it until the 10th - that bounced. I didn't find out about that until yesterday. Joyous day, that one.\n\nI am now out rent and he's claiming he has some tax refund coming in at most 2 weeks, but he's basically telling me in advance that he won't be paying on-time next month, either.\n\nI need his room generating rent, I can't afford to carry him [and shouldn't have to do so]. I can technically still pay my lease [his portion] so I don't get in trouble myself, but it's gonna hurt, BAD.\n\nWhat are my options? What do I have to do, legally, so I can evict if necessary in a timely manner, so I can have a new tenant by mid-September if necessary?\n\nI live in a college town, and if I don't get one by about October 1, I'm pretty sunk.\n\nThanks Redditors","title":"Sublet Tenant 3 weeks late on Rent, Not sure what my options are","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441620172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jygog\/study_in_canada_with_a_criminal_record\/","id":"3jygog","body":"Hello good people of reddit.\nTo keep it brief: I have some minor offences in my home country of Australia dating back to when I was 18-19. I have since (I'm now 28) cleaned up my life and intend to study a year abroad in sunny (?) Canada. Do I have to declare convictions from over ten years ago? There was no jail sentence and all fines have been paid. By law, I don't have to declare them in Australia anymore so I am wondering whether I need to declare them on my visa application?\nThanks all!","title":"Study in Canada with a Criminal Record","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569106683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7hvnf\/girlfriends_apartment_was_robbed_by_the\/","id":"d7hvnf","body":"Most of what the title says, with some extra detail here:\n\nHer roommate came home and could tell someone was in because there was some stuff missing. My GFs bra, and the roommates razor. The office and maintenance has been told time and time again that they cannot enter unless one or both of them are home, and this was obviously not the case. \n\nWhat can they do? I don't know for sure if they've called the police yet, but can they go against the company renting to them at all?","title":"Girlfriend's apartment was robbed by the maintenance. What can she do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571691060,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl6qdo\/scooters_everywhere_on_large_property\/","id":"dl6qdo","body":"I\u2019m the property manager of a moderately large residential property in Columbus, Ohio.\n\nAs with most large metro areas, we\u2019ve become overrun with scooters everywhere. I don\u2019t really mind them, I\u2019ve even used them once for fun. However, tenants and their visitors are bringing them onto the property and leaving them laying around. They\u2019re blocking doors, sidewalks and parking areas.\n\nI\u2019ve reached out to the scooter companies and asked them to blacklist the property as a no parking zone. In their apps, they show large corporate and college campuses as no parking zones so I know they have this ability built into the app to prevent this. But every time I email and demand this, they give me the customer service go around with Educating their riders and bettering the community, bla bla.\n\nThis is litter at this point. The scooters are trespassing. Their scooters are on the property without legal authority to be there. How can I force their hand?\n\nThanks!","title":"Scooters Everywhere on Large Property","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1503330647,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v3t42\/apartment_building_wants_to_install_facial\/","id":"6v3t42","body":"Myself and my partner rent a flat in a nine-story apartment building in the UK. \n\nRecently the building lift was out of action for two months, and the building management company placed a sign in the lobby stating that the lift had been damaged by someone, and it was costing several tens of thousands to fix. \n\nThe lift has now been fixed, however in response to this the building company has installed 8 security cameras in the small lobby, and one in the lift itself. We spoke to the workers installing these, and they stated that this was to be able to identify and prosecute if anyone was seen damaging the lift further. This felt like an overreaction to us, but fine; if they need to monitor these things more closely then they can.\n\nToday maintainable workers approached me and my partner, and informed us they were installing facial recognition software in the building entrance which we would have to use in order to enter the building (we currently have to use an electronic fob). They then asked to take a picture of our faces to 'add into the system'. We declined and said we were in a hurry. \n\nThis doesn't really sit comfortably with us; I understand the need for good building security, but I don't particularly want the movements of myself in and out of my own home being monitored remotely. I don't have anything to hide, but I'd also like to maintain a reasonable level of privacy. I also don't want to have to use my face to enter the building; I can see potential problems with this in the future- I work random shifts and don't really want to be stuck out on the street in the middle of the night trying to get the camera to recognise my face. Even the UK customs passport facial recognition software doesn't always pick up your face, and I can't see the technology in a middle income rate apartment building being a significant improvement on this. \n\nDo I have any rights in declining this? If they replace the fob system with a facial recognition system as they aim to, do we have to comply? Is this an invasion of our privacy, or is this legal? Any advice appreciated!\n","title":"Apartment building wants to install 'facial recognition software' to allow entrance to the building","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508136984,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76oslv\/video_recorded_without_consent\/","id":"76oslv","body":"Burner account here. \n\nI'm in Utah\n\nThis whole thing is kind of a long story, but here's the gist of it:\n\nI work at a big-box home improvement store. As with any retail environment, sometimes customers are not happy and for whatever reason they take it out on the employees. \n\nWhatever. That's part of the job.\n\nWell the other day a guy comes up to my counter, asks for a military discount *as well as* tax exemption. These things, by themselves, are no issue whatsoever. However, my company has a policy that you can not do them both on the same transaction.\n\nWhen I informed this customer of this policy, he escalated VERY quickly. He started raising his voice and at one point he took out his phone, practically shoved it in my face, and started recording a video. He asked (or rather, yelled) something like 'so you're telling me [company name redacted] claims to support this country's veterans and then they make policies like this to steal their money?!'\n\nAt this point, I'm less concerned about answering his obviously pointed question and more concerned with getting this camera out of my face. I asked several times to stop recording me; I tried to duck out of the camera's view; and, somewhat out of desperation, I even tried swatting his hand away from me. \n\nLook, I have nothing to hide, and I feel like I kept my cool as well as humanly possible for this whole episode, but I made it *very clear* that I do NOT want to be recorded. All he did was try harder to record me and said he would post this video all over his social media pages \"so the world will see what liars you all are!\"\n\nI get it, you wanted a discount and you were disappointed and frustrated when you didn't get it. But this was COMPLETELY out of line.\n\nSo what are my rights here? I honestly felt like he practically attacked me. \n\nIs there anything I could\/should do? Is there anything I could\/should have done?\n\nTl;dr\nAngry customer gets angry and records me against my will; tries to get me to (falsely) admit that the company I work for steals money from vets. He also threatens to post said video all over his social media pages.","title":"Video recorded without consent","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540416591,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r3xcx\/redlight_camera_ticket_friend_was_driving_the_car\/","id":"9r3xcx","body":"So the following happened: \n\n​\n\n\\- Drove to Redding, CA along with a friend. \n\n\\- Friend skipped red light ( right turn with red only), and the camera caught us. \n\n\\- The city sent me a citation. \n\n\\- I called up the Red-light cameras division and told them that the driver wasn't me. \n\n\\- Officer confirmed that I was on the passenger seat and told me that yes, he says that the driver is not me and will dismiss the ticket. \n\n​\n\n\\- He asks for the driver information. I just gave the Firstname, Last Name ( first letter) and the city. My friend is from Georgia, and told the officer that I'll give him information later. \n\n​\n\n\\- Officer told me that I'll receive a mail to give them more information about the driver, and also told me to call them with the information of the driver ASAP. \n\n​\n\nWe both are on H1B visa, and I'm thinking of not calling the division to give the information of the friend. Will this get us into trouble? Should I call the division again with the information of my friend?\n\n​\n\nThanks!\n\n​","title":"Red-light camera ticket -- friend was driving the car","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553115215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3hatt\/sons_mother_not_following_child_custody_agreement\/","id":"b3hatt","body":"Posting for a friend at work.  I heard his story and I'm pretty sure he's being screwed around....\n\nHe has a 7 year old son and has been split up from the sons mother since she got pregnant... in 2011 they went to court for visitation and the outcome was supervised visits (for him) due to her putting a restraining order against him (which all was dismissed in the end) for 6 months then went back to court and was granted unsupervised visits every other weekend.   In 2016 the boy started kindergarten and they (Mother & Father) came to an agreement (without the court) that they would alternate full weeks for a whole year up until his job got slow and he could no longer afford to give her the money she wanted so she told him they are going back to alternate weekends.. Last year he took her back to court because she wasn't letting him talk to his son on the phone (even tho the court transcript says the judge told her he is to be able to speak to him on the phone) he bought his son a phone and she left the phone at the police station (she is a police officer) the police treat him like a POS and they tell him they cannot interfere with it.  In court she testified that during a certain period he did not see his son at all And he went to the his son school and got a notarize letter stating that during that time she is saying he didn't see him at all that he was actually picking him up from school most weekdays and tried to show the judge that she is lying and trying to destroy his character but to no avail. He feels like just cause she is a police officer the court or the police will not help him. My advice was he should get a lawyer and his response was what is a lawyer gonna say that he didn't? Can he sue her for defamation of character for lying under oath? Shouldn't he be able to speak to his son during the week on the phone? And what route can he take to get more days with his son? They are agreeing with her on just every other weekend. At the moment he is about to be unemployed again and they will not lower his payments from $175 weekly.. Thank you in advance.  He is really a genuine good guy and a great dad I Really wouldn't be wasting my time otherwise.....","title":"Sons mother not following child custody agreement and court is Not helping.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1409604627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f74yi\/sublessor_claims_i_am_responsible_for_the_cost_of\/","id":"2f74yi","body":"I rented an apartment in Houston, Texas for the summer under a sublet agreement which is provided below (I am from New York). At the time I was set to vacate the apartment, the sublessor was not available to meet in person. He instructed me to mail him the house key along with the final check for the electricity bill, both of which I did. He says that he did not receive the key, but that he did receive the check. Apparently, the key he had given me was the master key. He claims that because of this he cannot simply make a copy of the key, but must completely change the locks to the apartment as stipulated by the master lease (provided below). He says that he has the right to charge me in full ($110), but has agreed to split the bill. He has stated he will take the $55 out of my deposit and send me proof later. I was wondering if I am actually obligated to pay to change the locks. It is perplexing to me that he would have me mail the master key when he could have provided me a copy for the duration of the summer. In addition, I could find no provision about needing to change the locks in the event of the loss of the key. Any help would be really appreciated. I've shared the master lease and the sublease, with names and addresses deleted, below.\n\nhttps:\/\/drive.google.com\/folderview?id=0B0_4KARVHS67ekJRZnZ2Z3JQbFE&usp=sharing","title":"Sublessor claims I am responsible for the cost of changing the locks","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569885795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbk7o0\/can_my_ex_legally_change_the_locks_to_our_house\/","id":"dbk7o0","body":"We rent privately from from a friend and he\u2019s keeping the house but in the mean time I\u2019m staying there because of our cat, which will be coming with me. \n\nHe keeps threatening to change the locks despite me still paying rent to live there and has become emotionally and verbally abusive. \n\nWhat can I do legally if he does change the locks, can I call a locksmith or the police? All my things are still inside the house and we agreed in message that I could stay there as long as I needed. We live in Australia.","title":"Can my ex legally change the locks to our house in an attempt to kick me out?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554220052,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8kx8b\/agent_offering_me_750_for_a_mva_feel_like_im\/","id":"b8kx8b","body":"Back in July, I was in a MVA (Motor Vehicle Accident) where I slowed down and stopped, to let a vehicle in front of me turn into a driveway. When another driver was not paying attention, and rear ended me. (At approx. 45mph) The driver claimed full fault. \n\nA summary on my issue is, Right now I was gonna settle with the insurance company, until I was informed that the doctor and insurance agent chalked all of my back pain (lower and middle back) up to a bone degeneration in my L4-L5. The Agent is only offering me 4700 to pay for medical expenses (Over 60 days), 250 for loss of wages, and 500 for general inconvenience. Which feels pretty low, and was expecting more for pain\/suffering.\n\nOn the day of the accident after speaking with the arriving officer, and handling everything with him I went to the ER for lower back pain that was forming. I was given pain relievers and muscle relaxers. Later in the week when the pain hadn\u2019t subsided I when to see the Doctor. There I was given different prescription. After almost a month I started physical therapy for two months. And got an MRI, (which showed the degeneration.) Then took took three weeks of work for rest. (I\u2019m a dealer at a casino.) Most of the pain subsided, but I get flare ups in my middle back. \n\nBefore the accident I rarely went to the doctor mostly for allergies, ear cleanings, and vaccinations. I exercised regularly and had no pains. But right after the accident, I\u2019m having plenty of back pain. I don\u2019t know exactly how to argue this to the Agent, or what I can do to fight for more. I feel like this is might be a normal tactic for insurance companies to pay out substantially less. I know a Lawyer might be able to help, but I\u2019m also afraid that he might now be able to and then I gotta give them 1\/3rd of the small amount I receive. Any and all advice would be very helpful, I\u2019m not exactly sure how to handle any of this or to say it\u2019s not enough.","title":"Agent offering me 750 for a MVA, feel like I\u2019m getting screwed. Don\u2019t know how to handle it.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569196161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7yj6c\/threatened_on_reddit\/","id":"d7yj6c","body":"A week ago I asked on Reddit if I should report someone regarding an illegal porn situation where someone said they had it. Someone then randomly said I had illegal porn too, either to fuck with me or he was serious. I don\u2019t have anything of that sort. He sent me a PM threatening me. Idk what to do and my anxiety is jumping up. What should I do? I\u2019m afraid he will report me like he said he would even thought I didn\u2019t do anything.... located in Canada. Ontario.","title":"Threatened on reddit","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568570139,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4nwzc\/store_manager_lying_after_work_injury_tx\/","id":"d4nwzc","body":"I work as an overnight stocker for a chain grocery store in Texas. \n\nSo over 5 months ago while I was working I broke my foot. Stress fracture from walking so much and carrying so much weight all night. I went to my manager and got all set up with their own form of workers comp. They sent me to a doctor but I ended up going to a specialist (long story, irrelevant). The specialist overall put me on light duty (desk only - no standing) for four months. During this time I worked with the bakery and really enjoyed the people. I requested to be moved over and the bakery manager got it all setup and confirmed the store manager said okay (all while I\u2019m still on light duty). \n\nMy doctor ends up telling me because of the nature of my injury if I continue the overnight stocking work I will continue to break my feet over and over. I discuss working in the bakery and how they transferred me and he agreed that would save my feet and be great. Eventually, knowing I\u2019ve been switched over - he allows me to work with a full duty release. \n\nOn my first day starting in the bakery I\u2019m approached by the bakery manager and the store manager. The store manager decided I needed to be back on overnight (very much upsetting the bakery mng.). I tried to explain what happened and she says my work release does not discuss that and I have to work overnights. \n\nFrom there I tried contacting the doctor who said I couldn\u2019t talk to or see without permission from my work comp insurance agent. When contacting her, I was told since I was on light duty and not completely off I had to contact HR about the issue. When I contacted HR he continually tells me that he will see what he can do and call me back. \n\nI was told by another manager that it \u201cshould be two weeks\u201d before they could get me back to bakery. This was early August. The store manager told me \u201cbeginning of September sometime\u201d. After two weeks the other manager again told me \u201cgood news! You should be over in bakery in about two weeks!\u201d (I am assuming she forgot our previous encounter about this. I contacted HR again and he gave me the same \u201cI\u2019ll see what I can do\u201d and never calling me back. It has now been 4 weeks, it is the middle of September, and I see no hope of any progress being made of me being moved back to bakery. \n\nMy feet are already hurting again and I\u2019m very concerned they will break again soon... Now my questions:\n\nWhat can I do to be moved over? Do they have any obligation to be true to their word?\n\nIf my feet do end up breaking again, can they fire me? Should I try anything in court since they should have known it would happen and therefore caused my injury?\n\nI\u2019m a young guy. I\u2019ve tried applying elsewhere but I have zero luck. I know I should probably just get away from this employer but I need the money. Thank in advanced for any advice.","title":"Store Manager Lying After Work Injury. TX","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553276352,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b47yx8\/llc_address_changed_and_1_member_need_to_update\/","id":"b47yx8","body":"We just added +1 member to the LLC and the EIN address has changed, so now the letter saying \"sole member LLC to old address\" needs updating.\n\n1. Do I need to get a new EIN completely?\n2. Is there a way to update my address online? Or phone, less preferably?\n3. How long does it generally take to get an updated EIN letter? Can I get an email\/digital letter, or only snailmail?\n\nThanks!","title":"LLC address changed and +1 member: Need to update EIN?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571358535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djfei7\/coworker_locked_me_in_office_and_stood_in_doorway\/","id":"djfei7","body":"\nAbout two weeks ago a coworker (we\u2019ll call her Angela) entered my office. She proceeded to lock the door behind her and stand in front of it. She then asked me questions. Her reasoning was because of something I apparently said to another coworker that she deemed inappropriate (it was not. It was appropriate for the workplace but she is pissed I got a promotion over her and is trying to get me fired). \n\nShe started asking me strange questions about the conversation she overheard between me and another coworker. I was caught off guard because she locked the door and stood in front of it, and I was in a state of shock when she did. I answered her questions with \u201cI don\u2019t understand how you can feel that the conversation was inappropriate. I apologize if you took offense\u201d. Basically the conversation lasted nearly 5 minutes and felt like an interrogation. \n\nI was in shock and didn\u2019t know how to proceed. Our supervisor had left for the day and my shift was almost over and I was going on vacation the next day so I didn\u2019t have opportunity to bring this to HR or to my supervisor. \n\nI came back a couple days ago and was waiting until my union rep was around so I could bring this up with him. In the meantime, another coworker approached me and told me that Angela had tracked him down, while I was on vacation, and told him I am a racist and that she recorded a conversation between me and her. She then proceeded to play the recording for him. \n\nToday he informed me of this and I decided to go talk to HR. I told HR how Angela locked the door, stood in front of it and started to ask questions while recording the conversation. I told HR I felt threatened and intimidated by her. All I was told was that they will look into it. \n\nMy fear though is that she is now spreading allegations against me that I am racist against Hispanics (of which I am not, nor have I EVER said anything to appear that I am). I know of one coworker she said I was racist to and overheard her a couple days ago saying that she works with a bunch of racist people (meaning me). \n\nHere\u2019s some history with her:\n\nShe makes frequent complaints about other coworkers just to try and get them fired. Four years ago she accused me of having sex while on the job (I was off that day and in another city visiting my dad with my girlfriend). She also has a history of recording conversations, carrying a voice recorder around with her in the workplace. We suspect that she has placed microphones in the workplace at times. HR and our supervisor was informed of all of these events. \n\nWhat should be my course of action? What can I expect? \n\nI wanted to add that our workplace has allowed this individual to continue on recording conversations secretly and to create a hostile work environment.","title":"Coworker locked me in office and stood in doorway. Accusing me of racism.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551831505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axsb17\/nycis_a_verbal_month_to_month_lease_enforceable\/","id":"axsb17","body":"I had a verbal agreement for a month to month lease for a furnished room with my roommate [I know, not the greatest thing, but she was a friend].\u00a0 She lived in my apartment for about 2 years.\u00a0 She fell behind on rent, which I was patient with and willing to work out a payment plan. \u00a0\n\nCut to today: \u00a0She moved all of her stuff out when I wasn't there, left no forwarding address, and has blocked me on her socials.\u00a0 The total amount owed to me is near $4000.\u00a0 I have emails and texts and voicemails where she does admit to owing me the money.\n\nIf I am even able to locate her to serve papers, do I have a case?\n\nAlso I own my place, so this wasn't a sublet or against any lease terms.","title":"NYC-Is a verbal month to month lease enforceable in small claims court to sue for unpaid rent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541625893,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v3kb9\/maintenance_using_our_electricity_that_we_pay_for\/","id":"9v3kb9","body":"Hi, new subscriber here.\n\nI live in a little 2br2ba with my friend in a large apartment complex. Maintenance has been doing work on the water lines outside of our building for a couple days and while this alone has not been an issue, they recently started coming into our apartment unannounced and plugging big machines into our kitchen outlets to use outside without asking us. When they are plugged in, our lights dim and do not get as bright as they usually do. \n\nElectricity is not included in the rent and is paid to a third party, so my roommate and I end up paying for this ourselves. While this may only end up costing us a couple dollars, it is still inconvenient and they have been rude about it when I talk to them about it. \n\nCan they legally do this? To clarify, in the lease we signed it gave them permission to do unannounced inspections on the apartment, but there was nothing in there about using the outlets.","title":"Maintenance using our electricity (that we pay for) without asking","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409695076,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fas00\/phone_repair_shop_owner_took_my_cell_phone_with\/","id":"2fas00","body":"Last week the LCD screen on my phone got damaged. I took it to a cell phone repair shop in downtown Atlanta on Monday, August 25th. The owner (the only person that does repairs at the shop) told me he had to order a new screen and that the phone would be ready in 3-5 days. I paid in advance (that seemed kind of sketchy, but it was a small business and the owner said he needed the money to order the screen, which seemed pretty legit) and gave the owner my email address so he could contact me when it was finished. \nI went in that Friday (August 29th) just to check if it was done. The owner said he received the new screen and that the phone would be fixed by the end of the day. I went back later and they said it wouldn't be fixed until Monday, but that I would definitely get to pick it up on Monday. \nI went back on Monday and they were closed for labor day. I went back on Tuesday, super angry at this point, and was informed that the owner went out of town on a personal vacation and that he took my phone with him and that he would be back next week. The owner has yet to contact me to tell me about any of this.\nI want to know if it's even legal for him to take my phone out of the store, and what laws\/business codes were broken? And who I should contact to report this? ","title":"Phone repair shop owner took my cell phone with him on a personal vacation.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1503611009,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vu47h\/ny_filing_articles_of_incorp_for_subsidiary_of\/","id":"6vu47h","body":"What form would I use here if his legacy foundation will be a subsidiary of the parent company as well? I'll clarify the powers with him for Board of Trustees with subsidiary company because 5% equity in a subsidiary can be crap if the parent company has all the power etc. \n\nSorry if if my post is a bit jumbled up, trying to leave office, but basically his charity is what I'm confused about under NY state law what forms I need to file. All one the subsidiary with the charity under parent? Thanks for the help!","title":"[NY] Filing Articles of Incorp for subsidiary of parent company, but owner also wants charity subsidiary","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1442513961,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lbxzk\/tx_divorcecustody_separated_not_filed_yet_and_no\/","id":"3lbxzk","body":"Posting for a friend in Texas\n\nMy friend Sam separated from spouse Taylor earlier this week (Monday).  They have 1 child which Sam is primary caregiver for.  Taylor left the house and a note stating intention to not return for a while and has sent 2 text messages since then, but otherwise, aside from taking all of the legal and banking documents from the house, hasn't been heard from. \n\nSam has paper work to file for divorce, but wants a chance to make it as amiable as possible so hasn't filed yet, because of the thought that, \"Maybe if we have a chance to discuss this before I file, it won't be so nuclear\"\n\nTaylor finally made contact via their mother, (Sam's MIL), for the first time regarding the child.  MIL asked to see child this weekend, requesting the child stay over at the MIL Fri-Sunday.  \n\nSam has yet to speak to Taylor, doesn't know their state of mind at all.  MIL has not spoken to Taylor either, all this has been via text message apparently.  Sam is not comfortable with letting child go for the weekend, because state of mind (Taylor has a pretty bad anger problem) hasn't been established and because Sam isn't sure the legal ramifications of custody if Taylor decides to take off with the child.\n\nWhat can Sam do to protect themselves in between now and when they file in regards to custody of their child.  Taylor is vindictive and controlling.  Sam doesn't want to keep child from Taylor, Sam just wants to make sure that the child isn't used as a pawn.  \n\nAlso, how long does Taylor have to be gone to establish abandonment, so Sam can change all the locks? (There is a history here that causes Sam to be afraid for the safety of themselves and the child)\n\nThanks for any advice.   ","title":"TX: Divorce\/Custody - Separated, not filed yet and no custody agreement","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539008442,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mf9da\/my_university_is_taking_50_per_class_for\/","id":"9mf9da","body":"I go to a large private university in central VA. I've seen course fees on my account for years. I'm a senior and I'm taking residential classes this semester with one left.\n\nI've seen on my account that I have $50.00 in course fees for each course I'm in. I asked my professor why we have fees and one said \"if you want to design a package made of concrete, you need to go to Lowe's and buy a bad of concrete\". Another professor explained that they do not implement these fees, and do not know what the money goes toward. I went to Registrar and they told me to go to student accounts, student accounts told me to go to billing, billing told me to go to Registrar. Speaking with a supervisor, she told me that the dean of the college is responsible for the charges, and he can explain why the charges are on the account\n\nI spoke with him and he is giving me the run around. He said he's going to email his people and get back with me. It's been two weeks. \n\nThe issue here is that every student in my college is being charged hundreds in course fees with for seemingly no reason. One class specifically is raking in $800.00 extra dollars in course fees that the department doesn't even see. Professors beg for money for tablets, materials, etc, and allegedly, get denied consistently.\n\nWhat can I push for or ask for to resolve this issue? Could I get a petition signed or anything? I would like to get this resolved for my entire school if possible. What are my options?\n\nThanks!\n","title":"My university is taking $50 per class for \"materials\" but is providing no materials to any courses.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553887117,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b71g3k\/ny_victim_of_crime\/","id":"b71g3k","body":"NY. Minor. My mom thinks I was victim of an assault. I wasn\u2019t. She\u2019s taking me to the cops to file a report. Do I have to cooperate and tell? Or can I just not? ","title":"NY - \u201cvictim\u201d of crime??","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571773602,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dln9sm\/bank_is_putting_a_1216_week_hold_on_my_certified\/","id":"dln9sm","body":"Hello, I am currently going through the process of buying a home. Luckily my stepdad is providing me with 5% of my down payment. He sent me a check certified by the bank and I deposited it on 10\/18\/2019.\n\nHere is the issue. The bank(top 8 American banks) is saying that due to this check being issued by a Canadian bank and deposited into a new account there will be a 12-16 week hold on it. The check was issued by the New York brand and in US Dollars. \n\nCan a bank legally do this? Do I have any recourse on this? It will effect my closing and I will now have to get a wire transfer that \u201cmight\u201d go through?\n\nOn their website and on government websites it states guns have to be available within 9 business days. Not sure if this is true. Any advice?","title":"Bank is putting a 12-16 week hold on my certified bank check. I have a new account.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541710670,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vdvew\/if_you_get_into_an_accident_with_a_selfdriving\/","id":"9vdvew","body":"I ask this because a couple of the self-driving cars have shown up in our city, and while somebody is in them, other cars have been showing up in the news where they don't have a pilot.\n\nMy curiosity is really more about whether or not a self-driving car can be held accountable in a situation where software error is clearly at fault, or somebody in an autopilot Tesla uses the defense that the car, not the driver, made the critical decisions in an accident.","title":"If you get into an accident with a self-driving car, who is at fault?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571699197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl8mkg\/utah_usa_messy_divorce_and_disgusting_accusations\/","id":"dl8mkg","body":"So basically my friend was in a very abusive and manipulative relationship. He said he was going to leave her when she got her second paycheck; she wasn't working previously. The time came and he stuck to his guns. He moved out, got a new place, etc.\n\nHis ex didn't like this. So now she's constantly accusing him of things. She went and got an order of protection against him (don't know how as he has no record but I'm not a lawyer) saying that he abused her. I know that isn't true. \n\nTo make matters worse she's concocted some story saying their daughter has been \"making her dolls have sex\" and saying she \"saw stuff\" at his apartment. Essentially implying that he's sexually abusing his daughter. I know none of this is true, everything she's doing is out of spite. She's truly crazy and she's made no effort of hiding that in the years I've known them. \n\nIt started out as her denying him access to his child and quickly progressed. What can he do to fight back\/safeguard against this stuff? As ignorant as I am on the subject I did tell him to keep records of their interactions like texts. Any help would be greatly appreciated. He's a great guy who just wants to be there for his kid. He doesn't deserve this.","title":"Utah, USA. Messy divorce and disgusting accusations.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570559965,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df46z2\/is_undisclosed_leadbased_paint_found_in_apartment\/","id":"df46z2","body":"I currently live with my pregnant wife in MN and just took over a lease. The lease substitution agreement we signed states that we are legally aware of the lead-based paint disclosure agreement originally signed by the previous tenants are legally binded by it. That's all fine, but when reviewing the lead disclosure, it disclosed the presence of lead-based paint (LBP) only on the exteriors of the apartments. Given that this was an apartment built originally before 1978, I got a bit suspicious if there is lead within the interior of our apartment. I asked for the full report from the most recent inspection (2012), and they gave me a printout of a full list of places they sampled that found to contain LBP.  To summarize, the report echoed what they told us that the interior of our apartment has no lead. \n\nI bought those home lead test kits from Home Depot and did my own testing of some of the old wood columns in my apartment that has some chipped leftover paint. Some areas of the columns tested positive for lead. When I informed management, they position shifted slightly, saying that of course there will be LBP in such an old apartment. I talked to the previous tenants about the potential for LBP in the apartment, and they also said that management assured them that there is no LBP in the interior of the apartment.\n\nReasonably, there is probably low risk that LBP will affect the baby before pregnancy, but I'm not comfortable risking it once the baby is born in case they end up ingesting paint chips that are easily removable from the wood columns. I asked management if we can negotiate a lease buyout. They position is that there are set \"black-out\" dates on when I can buyout a lease, and I wouldn't be able to until February, meaning that I would have to pay rent until February and then pay the two-month lease buyout. I'm aware in MN that there is no obligation from the LL to help us in breaking our lease, but this still would be financially difficult for us since that would be over 10K to effectively buyout the lease if we wanted to move out next month.\n\nI was wondering what my grounds for claiming the lease void for the fact that I discovered lead in my apartment despite having been assured that lead only exists in the exterior of the apartment in case I want to take this to small claims court. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!\n\n​\n\nTL;DR - Lease agreement provided lead disclosure on the exterior of the apartment, but found lead on the interior of the apartment. Not comfortable with this as I'm expecting a kid; wondering if this is enough to break out of a lease early without having to pay large buyout.","title":"Is undisclosed Lead-based Paint Found in Apartment grounds for breaking lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570647121,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dflir8\/how_do_you_determine_if_you_are_a_successor_in\/","id":"dflir8","body":"The company I work for received a notice from an attorney that someone listed a company we purchased land from and each successor in interest as a beneficiary in her will.  \n\nThey are asking for documents made between my company and the one we purchased land from to determine if we are a successor in interest. \n\nThe company closed when we purchased the land and some thought it was a program that actually ran under us.  This was about 25 years ago so my company doesn't have\/ can't find any records of this.\n\nWould there be records of this online or at the county clerks? They asked me to look into it, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for.  Or if it's  a generic letter and even worth it?\n\nI did find the deed and property records. We then sold that property a few years later. Both companies are not-for-profit in FL.","title":"How do you determine if you are a successor in interest","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568439155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d416rw\/wisconsin_im_going_to_be_getting_an_emotional\/","id":"d416rw","body":"I'm going to be getting an emotional support animal in the next few months, and my apartment complex has specific rules for dogs. Only certain breeds (namely small, non shedding dogs), and a weight limit rule of 35 pounds max. The breed of dog I'll be getting is an Aussie Doodle, and they can get to be 70 pounds at the biggest (according to google).   \n\n\nI know my landlord can't refuse an ESA, but can they enforce those limitations they've set in place?   \n\n\nI was also wondering about something else- They have a pet deposit fee ($200) and they add an extra 30 dollars onto the monthly rent- I read online that they can't force me to pay those extra fees if it's an ESA, is that true? I'm not \\*super\\* trusting of stuff I read online and was wondering if anyone here could tell me, as it seems like it'd be considered legal advice.   \n\n\nThank you in advance!","title":"[Wisconsin] I'm going to be getting an Emotional Support Animal, but my apartment has restrictions.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552602779,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b16urb\/tx_apartment_flooded\/","id":"b16urb","body":"The apartment complex I\u2019m renting is a bit old. There was a huge leak and my floor was flooded (second floor). I was able to soak up as much water as I could before it got worse. \n\nThe apartment office wants to take out the carpet and redo the flooring, but they said it\u2019ll take 2-3 days. \n\nI do not feel comfortable staying in the complex while workers will be free to come in and out, and having to walk around on concrete.","title":"[TX] apartment flooded","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539836613,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p5xc8\/my_apt_complex_broke_lease_i_think\/","id":"9p5xc8","body":"Technically a repost, but I really really need some help. Living in Texas. Howdy Y'all!\n\nSo I actually made a previous post about this complex [here](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lfpss\/old_apt_management_is_saying_our_pet_deposit_was\/) where I basically rant about the over arching issue I'm having, which is them trying to get us to pay for carpet replacement that we really shouldn't have to pay for. However, what brings me to writing this post was, as I was looking through our lease agreement (trying to see if they specify our Pet Deposit as a \"Pet Fee\" or not) I noticed an instance where THEY may have violated the lease. Allow me to explain:\n\nBack in December of last year, Management upped our rent by about 3-6 dollars (I can't remember the exact amount right now, it was enough to notice, but not enough to be upset about). At the time it didn't mean anything to me, and their reasoning was it was for added cable benefits (the complex has a contract with Spectrum to be the sole providers for internet and tv available for tenants. Furthermore, the cabling to include these \"benefits\" resulted in our apt. being flooded, but that's a separate story). However reading through the lease just now, I came across paragraph 16, which states:\n\n​\n\n\"*No rent increases or lease changes are allowed before the initial lease term ends, except for those allowed by special provisions in paragraph 9, by a written addendum or amendment signed by you and us, or by reasonable changes of apartment rules allowed under paragraph 19.*\"\n\n(paragraph 19 is mostly about consequences of violating rules such as \"no glass containers in pool area\")\n\nPar. 9 states\n\n*\"  The following or attached special provisions and any addenda or written rules furnished to you at or before signing will become a part of this lease and will supersede any conflicting provisions of this printed lease form.\"*\n\n​\n\nAlso worth noting, jump to Par. 33.1 to read\n\n*\" Representatives authority; waivers; notice. Our representatives (including management personnel, employees, and agents) have no authority to waive, amend, or terminate this lease or any part of it unless it in writing, and no authority to make promises, representations, or agreements that impose security duties or other obligations on us or our representatives, unless in writing. \"*\n\n​\n\nI'm currently hunting down all my old bills and confirmations of payments (they have a break down of the total payment and could show the increase in rent), but considering we never signed anything regarding a increase in rent, and since its not a utility like water or electricity that can fluctuate month by month, is there any validity in this finding? Did my complex break our lease? And can I use this as a bargaining chip to not pay for that stupid carpet?","title":"My apt complex broke lease. I think.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553891302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b729s6\/customer_base\/","id":"b729s6","body":"So, say someone works for a company for 26 years in a industrial sales position, building relationships with other companies and building a book of business. If they decide to leave, and go work for another company that does the same thing, and his customers chose to start doing their business with the new company to stay with the same salesman that they have had for 26 years, is that legal? Most of his customers have called\/emailed him since he left the company saying they would like to continue doing business with him with the new company. He never signed a non-compete or anything like that.  \n\nThanks in advance. ","title":"Customer Base","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505167032,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zimrc\/montgage_company_or_all_state_somehow_didnt\/","id":"6zimrc","body":"So I pay a mortgage.. I have home owners insurance and they require me to hold a flood policy.\n\n5 years down the road, my policy has been in tact. I recently refinanced my mortgage and everything was carried over.\n\nFast forward to hurricane Harvey and my house gets almost a foot of water. Luckily myself and others on my street have flood insurance. I file a claim and they said it just expired last month. I was 2 days away from missing the renewal grace period.\n\nSo I've had this policy for 5 Years with no issues, and never got a call or email about this policy. After speaking with Allstate, I was told they sent a letter in the mail about it (unsure if this really happened). \n\nSo my insurance agent is trying to help me out.. But on the chance he says he can't..\n\nIs there any legal action I can take? Someone dropped the ball between my insurance or mortgage company. Can they just random drop required coverage on a home?","title":"Montgage company or All State somehow didn't continue my required insurance.. Didn't find out till Harvey. Do I have any options?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568762904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5p3n0\/speeding_ticket_plea\/","id":"d5p3n0","body":"State:NY\nCitation: 74 mph in a 55\n\nI live in VA but got a speeding ticket in NY. The cop told me I could try to send it a letter with the ticket asking for a reduction. I pled not guilty and mailed in the ticket with a letter admitting responsibility for speeding but asking for a reduction (in the boat I\u2019ve always pled not guilty and went to meet the DA for a reduction). They mailed me back a court date to appear in person. \n\nWas I supposed to plea guilty and mail in a letter? I figured if I did that they would charge me the full amount. What do I need to do now? Call the court and ask if I can change my plea to guilty? Thanks in advance for any help.","title":"Speeding Ticket Plea","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555118865,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bclflu\/my_real_dad_owed_my_mom_over_130k_in_child\/","id":"bclflu","body":"My dad is a real piece of shit. Skipped out and bailed on my mom when we were growing up and never helped her whatsoever. Eventually when my mom could afford it, she went after him for child support.\n\nHe lost tremendously in court in Texas and she was even nice enough to forgive $30k to make the payments more affordable for him. But he still owed a very large sum, which I believe was still north of $130k. \n\nMy mom died of cancer a couple of years ago while I was abroad in the UK studying for my Bachelor's\/Masters degrees. Does he still owe the estate of my mom the child support even if she's dead?","title":"My real dad owed my mom over $130k in child support and was demanded by a Texas to pay or he'd go to jail. My mom died so what happens?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568432144,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4047v\/oregon_step_daughters_father_has_left_the_state\/","id":"d4047v","body":"So it\u2019s been about 8months or more since biological father left the state to \u201cfind work\/figure his life out\u201d so we were pretty thrown off by the fact he was just leaving his child spontaneously and there was no forewarnings indicating this move was coming up. \n\nthat being said, no new plan was ever made on how visitations or contact would be done. Decided amongst ourselves (myself, my wife, and the father of the child) we would try to do phone calls when convenient because having three kids total and different time zones and full time jobs etc. planning a time would more than likely lead to missed calls or rushed conversations. \n\nout of the kindness of our hearts we didn\u2019t think grandma (his mom) should suffer and not see the grandchild just because dad wasn\u2019t in the picture. \nAnd even when dad was in the picture she would still request to see the child on days that we\u2019re not on his time and we always shared happily. We have been allowing her every request to see her except  one time where we expressed how it was a rough day and we think going over would ultimately lead to more behavior issues in the days to follow after the child would return home.  \n\nAs recent as yesterday grandma has become very aggressive and threatening and saying all sorts of out of line and unnecessary comments\/remarks about how we are not thinking about what\u2019s best for the child and keeping her from her family yet we were ONLY acting out of the best interest of the child trying to avoid confusion and too many back and Forths on such a rough day already. Grandma is bringing up how she thinks we are ridiculous and expecting too much from the child and now She is mentioning court and how we do not understand grandparent rights. Yet we believe we have an understanding of the law which states the parents are always presumed to have acted in the best interest of the child unless it can be proven the parents are unfit and not acting in the best interest. \n\nBasically what I am hoping to get from this is a more clear understanding of what can be done to make this a lot smoother for everyone involved. Any and all input is appreciated.","title":"[Oregon] step daughters father has left the state and grandma is threatening\/coercing us into giving up our daughter whenever she wants to take her. We\u2019ve said no this time for logical reasons and now we are being threatened with court. Help please","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554783635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb3k9q\/filed_a_police_report_and_a_detective_called_me\/","id":"bb3k9q","body":"Florida. No children. Not married. Just living together. A while back, I filed a police report against my ex for domestic violence. She attacked me and I ended up in with a minor head concussion in the hospital (I have the medical records). Everything turned out meh - bleeding under the scalp and dizziness for a week. I promptly moved out.\n\nI also found out that she filed a police report claiming that I allegedly hit her and stole her personal items. She dragged my name through the dirt with her family and close friends. Luckily my family and close friends didn\u2019t overlap with hers.\n\nToday, I received a phone call from a detective following up on my police report. I told him that I was busy due to traveling and might call him back later in the week. Should I consult with a lawyer before returning his call even though it\u2019s my own police report?","title":"Filed a police report and a detective called me.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447574657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3svlr2\/id_divorcecustody_advice_meeting_with_lawyer\/","id":"3svlr2","body":"[Idaho] Based on this post: [\/r\/relationships](https:\/\/redd.it\/3svjmm)\n\nI just need to know what I'm getting into, what to bring in, when to even talk to a lawyer, and where to find a decent one in my area. No money here either. Is that entirely critical at this point? All comments welcome. Thanks.","title":"[ID] Divorce\/custody advice. Meeting with lawyer.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554951238,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbv1k2\/realty_company_screwed_up_my_rent_and_now_wants\/","id":"bbv1k2","body":"Location: New Orleans, LA\n\nGist: Back in March I was unable to pay my rent online, I contacted my realtor (landlord?) about it to get it sorted, one email and no follow up later I noticed my account said I had credit, I assumed all was well. April rolls around I pay the excess due that was presented including the credit. Received an email eight days later saying that the realty company made a *mistake* and now needs me to pay $1,500 in back rent.\n\n​\n\nI want to make this clear, I have no problem with paying my rent, I know it is necessary. What I want is the realty company to take responsibility for *their* error. I need assurance that this will not happen again, I have asked for it and I was responded with an email blatantly ignoring my request and proceeding to present me with a payment plan. \n\n​\n\nIs there anything I can do?!? Any compensation over the stress this is causing somehow, anything that will guarantee that this won't happen again?!?  \n\n\nThank you for the help! If more details are needed please direct message me.","title":"Realty Company Screwed Up My Rent and Now Wants Me to Pay","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571694229,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl7hqe\/last_minute_legal_advice\/","id":"dl7hqe","body":" \n\nHey All,\n\nI'm in an interesting predicament and need some guidance. A few weeks ago I received a summons ticket for a Fare Evasion charge, and it is technically a misdemeanor. This was a complete mistake because I didn't realize my metro card didn't scan properly and was stopped by a Metro Officer. I offered to pay the fare that I missed since I had no idea my card didn't go through and the Officer wrote me a ticket. I have a completely clean record, take the metro to work everyday, this was a complete misunderstanding. My court date is tomorrow, and at first I was advised to not hire an attorney because the case could get dismissed since I have a clean background but after speaking to a few attorneys I'm not sure if getting the case dismissed is a possibility if I represent myself. I'm going through the process of getting a Secret Clearance, and I'm curious to hear what could happen if I am found guilty of fare evasion\/should I hire an attorney or should I try to represent myself?\n\nI've spoken to a good amount of people with active clearances and they are all telling me to avoid paying insanely high legal fees since the court date is tomorrow and that I should just represent myself, and if the case does not get dismissed and I am found guilty of fare evasion it shouldn't really affect my clearance at all. Does that sound accurate?\n\n​\n\nThanks for the last minute advice\/help","title":"Last Minute Legal Advice","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505610625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70kog4\/tx_water_damage_from_broken_attic_pipe\/","id":"70kog4","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice,\n\nA fire sprinkler pipe broke in my attic a couple days ago due to a careless Frontier tech laying a line for another tenant. My apartment is on the 3rd floor and took the brunt of the water damage.\n\nWater leaked into the ceiling, walls, and onto the floor - kitchen and laundry room. The most damage done to my personal items were to a couple of books I had on my counters.\n\nSo far the complex has left an air mover in my kitchen for 4 days to dry out everything. They assured me that contractors will be coming out to repair the damage. I have not seen any progress since the damage occurred 4 days ago.\n\nShould I worry and start to make plans to ask to terminate the lease? Or should I wait it out and trust in the complex? What's your advice?\n\nTldr; Fire sprinkler system leaked into the kitchen and laundry room. Little progress with repairs by the apartment complex. Please advise.\n\nStarted out in r\/advice but they recommended yall too :)","title":"[TX] Water Damage from Broken Attic Pipe","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1411223595,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gybh4\/wondering_what_can_be_done_to_help_clear\/","id":"2gybh4","body":"A friend of my daughter was recently sent to juvenile detention for auto theft. She was sentenced to three months and has been there about two weeks now. My daughter says she recently had a conversation with the owner of the car, a friend to both girls. According to her, the owner bragged to her that her car was never really stolen, that the friend had her permission to be driving it, and that the whole thing was a setup. Apparently, the friend had been dating a boy the owner had a crush on. When the friend borrowed her car, she reported it stolen so the friend would be caught driving it. \n\nNobody else was party to this conversation, so it\u2019d just be my daughter\u2019s word against the owner and you can bet she\u2019d just lie and deny having said anything. Is there anything that we can do in this situation to help this poor girl out? She doesn\u2019t deserve to be in jail, but I\u2019m worried that she may have to stay there regardless. \n\nWe are in Dallas, Texas btw.\n\n\n","title":"Wondering what can be done to help clear daughter's friend.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445439788,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pn35b\/issues_with_stubhub_what_are_my_legal_obligations\/","id":"3pn35b","body":"I had a number of tickets to a concert listed on Stubhub. On the Saturday night before the Tuesday night show (in D.C.) someone offered to buy them offline. Before selling them to this person I made sure I went online and deleted my listing off of Stubhub first, so as not to double sell. Me and this person offline made the transaction and he received the 4 tickets. Then the next day (Sunday) I got an email from Stubhub saying 2 of my tickets had been sold. I was totally freaked out (worrying about looking like I scammed this person) and called Stubhub to tell them to void the tickets sold and explained that I had deleted them. I was told they would look into the issue, solve everything, and see if there was a technical error. I received no call back (after 3 days) and this morning I got an email from Paypal saying that the money from the 2 Stubhub tickets sold had been added to my account.\n\nQuestions:\nAm I legally obligated to contact Stubhub and give that money back? If I receive no communication regarding the payment am I legally allowed to keep the money? Would the person who paid for the 2 tickets on Stubhub be reimbursed by Stubhub, Stubhub through me, or not at all?\n\nEdit: From Stubhub's Legal Page \"If you sell your tickets and send them in accordance with the StubHub User Agreement, policies, and emails we send you but there is a problem with the delivery that was not caused by your actions or inaction, you will still get paid for the sale.\"","title":"Issues with Stubhub. What are my legal obligations?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540226655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qfkgh\/landlord_took_12_days_to_begin_work_on_an_issue\/","id":"9qfkgh","body":"13 days ago I made my landlord aware of water damage in my kitchen that had been caused by a maintenance employee in the apartment above me. 3 days after someone comes and cuts a 3'x3' hole in my wall and says within the next 3 days they will begin to fix the damage. Now 10 days after they first came out, they are beginning to work on my kitchen. The contractor said I wont have access to my kitchen for upwards of a week. \n\n​\n\nI would be more understanding, but this is damage that was caused by one of their employees, and the office staff have been wildly incompetent in getting this issue resolved.\n\n​\n\nMy question: Is there any financial recourse I have for this? Am I able to withhold rent? Will they have to reimburse me food costs since I cannot use my kitchen?","title":"Landlord took 12 days to begin work on an issue in apartment. What recourse do I have (PA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505154510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zha63\/reported_to_title_ix_three_times\/","id":"6zha63","body":"I'm a freshmen at a college in New York City and received the email below the other day. I have set up a meeting with dean of students for tomorrow but I'm going in blind. I don't know who reported me and what for but apparently it happened 3 times. Worst case scenario I'm kicked out. Do I bring a lawyer, record the meeting, reschedule and bring a lawyer if it sounds too serious? How do I approach this?\n\n[Email](https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/yieOF)","title":"Reported to Title IX three times","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554050179,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7pmg3\/tenant_requesting_landlord_pays_for_damaged\/","id":"b7pmg3","body":"I (the landlord) had hired someone to install a new water heater in the home. The water heater was located in the attic for the 2 story townhouse. One of the guys that was working on installing it, took a bad step and accidentally made a hole in the ceiling. I took a picture of where the hole was for my records. They took full responsibility for the damage and had cleaned up the mess as well as hired someone to repair the damages. Everything was fine, until the tenant sends me an email stating her keyboard was damaged in the process and that it needs to be repaired. I responded by letting her know she should reach out to her insurance and file it under her renters insurance. She then responded back over a week later saying it is my responsibility to make sure she is compensated...\n\n​\n\nWe have had issues with these tenants before, they are very difficult to please. The only problem I have with this is that I know exactly where that keyboard was, and there is now way that it could have been damaged in the process. It was not near where the hole was made, and there was no insulation or ceiling pieces on it at all when the guys foot went thru the ceiling. \n\n​\n\nIm having a hard time deciding how to answer to them as I dont want to create more problems. ","title":"Tenant requesting landlord pays for damaged property","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444847774,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3or77e\/still_have_not_received_security_deposit_back_ma\/","id":"3or77e","body":"So I moved out of my last apartment on August 30th, and Massachusetts law requires your security deposit to be sent to your new address no later than 30 days after your lease is up. Well I still have not received my deposit back. \n\nI have contacted the property management company, Kunevich & Lau, and they said the landlord was going to release it directly. I gave my forwarding address to our property manager twice, so there should be no excuse. \n\nI emailed the management company and told them they have until Friday. If I don't receive the check by then, I am contacting my lawyer, and will notify city hall, and possibly get a local news station involved if it comes down to it. \n\n\nDoes anyone have any other advice as to what I should\/can do? Am I entitled to any interest as it is well past 1 month? I used to live in Brighton, and am now in Cambridge. \n\nThanks! \n\n*edited to correct date. Meant August 30th, not September 30th.","title":"Still have not received security deposit back (MA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541052586,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t6z32\/can_i_protect_myself_from_being_fired\/","id":"9t6z32","body":"Obviously a new account for anonymity, and I'll obfuscate some details, but I have a potential employment issue and I want to know if I have any protections, or potential recourse.\n\nI am a migrant worker on a transfer visa. I am in the process of attaining a green card, sponsored by my company, but we haven't filed yet. I am not happy in my work, but I work my ass off, because I want to make sure I get my green card and the security it provides.\n\nAt a particularly low point, after some drama in the office, I decided that I wanted to work on an exit strategy. I foolishly decided to announce my intent to the universe (social media under a persona, not directly linked to me) that I wanted to work towards a life change, once my residence in the US was secured. Unfortunately, someone (I don't know who) in the office who knows that persona is me saw the post, and ratted me out to my employer.\n\nApparently my employer is not very happy, but they have said nothing yet. Thankfully I was tipped off that they are aware of the post and not happy, so have some time to prepare for whatever they intend to do with the information. \n\nIt is, and has always been, my intent to work my ass off for the company while I waited for said green card. I just needed some hope for the future, and who knows what will happen in the next few years wait.\n\nAnyway, if they turn around and fire me, based on what I posted, do I have any form of protection whatsoever? All I did was post alluding that I don't want to be working for them forever, and want to work towards the next stage of my career (in a different field), but is this enough for them to let me go? If they do, it will result in me going out of status, and having to return to my home country.\n\n​\n\nAny advice or information appreciated.","title":"Can I protect myself from being fired?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554186246,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8ffgv\/cctv_surveillance_on_staff\/","id":"b8ffgv","body":"I\u2019m in Ontario, as is my cousin.\n\nMy cousin was talking to me today about her supervisor in a retail store using the cctv footage to critique the performance of staff at work. This has also resulted in reprimands when staff appear to not be working to the manager\u2019s standard.\n\nI\u2019ve done a quick google search but am looking for more information.\n\nMy understanding is that the use of the cameras in this way is illegal, as it infringes on the workers\u2019 reasonable expectation of privacy. \n\nThe cameras are not being accessed because of the possibility of theft, physical harm to anyone within the store, or security purposes. They are solely being accessed to check on the staff\u2019s performance in daily tasks. \n\n\n","title":"CCTV surveillance on staff","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443399738,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mn0es\/fiances_coworker_is_threatening_to_leak_nudes_he\/","id":"3mn0es","body":"Houston, TX.  This is a very complicated situation and we're all feeling sick from it.  Basically my fiance and I have been coasting for years.  We're trying to fix things now.  This is one of the things we have to deal with.  This has all occured over the last 3 years or so, I don't really know the timeline of it all.\n\nA while back my fiance made friends with one of her co workers and would visit him in his apartment.  He would ask her for sexual favors after work from time to time.  She would always say no, but eventually she gave in.  She says she didn't enjoy it and made it clear to him that she didn't want this and that he was creepy.  I think she just laid there and probably cried.  I didn't want to get all the details.\n\nMonths later, she meets another boy at work and falls in love with him.  She performs sexual activities willingly with this boy and it drives the other coworker insane.\n\nHe had stolen some nudes off her tablet she kept at work somehow.  She must have left it unlocked and he'd send them to himself.  She also sent him some intentionally, but they weren't as risque.  He would use this against her from time to time saying that he would send them out to everyone and post them online and whatnot if she didn't let him touch her \"just a little bit\" every so often.  I'm not sure how many times she agreed to this.\n\nRight now he's heavily medicated from a knee injury he got a few days ago.  He confronted her at work (he's not scheduled at the moment) and claimed that \"she's doing this to him\", \"she's making him crazy\" and mentioned having suicidal thoughts.\n\nA lot of their conversing was through IM and he's not very bright.  He used the word blackmail.  All she wants is for him to delete everything, even his copies in the cloud etc, and leave her alone forever.\n\nI know this guy, I grew up near him.  He currently is living with his parents.  I know them, but I also know that they don't like me.  My first instinct is to call his Dad, tell him everything and ask for access to all of his devices so we can settle this \"out of court.\"  Part of me wants this guy to be on a list, though.  \n\nShe thinks he'll be very upset if we do this.  She wants to give him an ultimatum.  He deletes everything and leaves her alone, we leave his parents and\/or lawyers\/police\/whatever out of this.  I don't think he'll stop no matter what we do.\n\nObviously, I'm going to contact a lawyer and I'm not going to attempt anything she doesn't agree with.  Is there a special type of lawyer I would need here?  Last time I talked to a lawyer (for a completely different issue) he laughed me out of his office, so I'm not really excited to try again.\n\nPlease help us.\n\nThank you.\n\nEdit:  I called the police.  She will have to report him herself, which I figured.  I hope that she can agree with this, otherwise I'm afraid something will happen that can't be undone.  Wish us luck.\n\nEdit:  I talked to her this morning.  She seems really scared that something will happen between the time they confront him and actually lock him up \/ get him therapy.  I mean, the guy is already yelling at her in public.  He has no boundaries.  She also gave me an anecdote of a friend of hers where they were given the chat logs which were clearly implying some creep was harassing her friend, but they kept questioning her as if she was instigating.  Nothing ever happened to the guy and they never gave her her phone back.  Also, she knows he has the pictures saved on multiple devices and doesn't trust that they won't be leaked.  She says the guy apologized about trying to blackmail her saying \"he would never actually do that.\"  Neither of us believe it, but I think she thinks he believes it.  This is a tough cookie to sell.\n\n","title":"Fiance's Co-Worker Is Threatening To Leak Nudes He Stole If She Doesn't Perform Sexual Favors","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541888837,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vyihs\/mediation\/","id":"9vyihs","body":"I won\u2019t give too many details, but a few years ago I worked for a major corporation (before starting my own business) and was terminated for a frivolous reason. \n\nI sued. After discovery but before deposition they wanted mediation. We gave them a starting number, and they said it was a non-starter.\n\nI was deposed...and three people at the corporation were then deposed by my legal team.\n\nNow, they told my team they want to meet again to mediate ASAP. Trial is set for January, but they want mediation in November.\n\nThey\u2019re multi-billion dollar corporation. Do you think they just want this saga to end? I\u2019m all for settling but I\u2019m curious as to why they\u2019re rushing at this point.\n","title":"Mediation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554432016,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9ltw4\/can_i_sue_my_school_for_unequal_treatment\/","id":"b9ltw4","body":"Sorry in advance for formatting, I\u2019m on mobile.\n\nSo recently I was removed from my leadership class and stripped of my title of senior class President for:\nAn Instagram post where I voiced my opinion and the opinion of the students I was elected to serve that senior contracts need to be changed and aren\u2019t fair to students. The school saw this as being a being a bad leader and role model but I disagree because while I know the administration doesn\u2019t agree with what I said, but I was being a voice for my peers and leading by example. (It should be noted that our leadership contract also says \u201cyou have the right to voice opinions\u201d)\n\n&\n\nAttempting to change the music playlist at a dance. About 20 leadership students, including my self, attempted to change the music playlist for a dance because we felt the music was sub-par, the list was caught before the dance and our alternative playlist was never played. But in the end I was the only one who got any type of punishment.\n\nThe school is saying I do not meet their definition for \u201ca good role model\u201d and \u201ca good leader\u201d, but these terms are not defined anywhere in anything I signed to get into the class, but nevertheless I was still removed.\n\nAs for other students last year were caught drinking and vaping and were suspended for these acts. All 3 of the previously listed acts are specifically against our leadership code of ethics, but the 2 students who were caught remained in the class for the remainder of the last year and hold cabinet positions this year.\n\nI feel the school is treating me unfairly due to the precedent they set last year, the fact no one else was punished, and the way I didn\u2019t directly break the leadership Code of Ethics, but still was removed, and potentially ruining my chances for colleges and I was wondering if anyone knew if I could do anything to dispute this claim.\n\n[here is the Instagram post](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/I3HsZ1k.jpg)","title":"Can I sue my school for unequal treatment?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539301482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nf7is\/my_daughters_mother_is_taking_me_to_court_for\/","id":"9nf7is","body":"Is this just about child support? Or is she trying to get a court to give her permanent full custody?","title":"My daughters mother is taking me to court for determination of parentage, parental rights and responsibilities, and child support. What does that mean exactly?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555206386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcxx12\/would_an_immigrant_on_a_marriage_visa_lose_their\/","id":"bcxx12","body":"My boyfriend [27M] and I [25F] have been in a long-distance relationship for nearly 3 years, and we are planning to get married. He's a US citizen (Missouri) and I am a non US citizen. We are planning to get married, and I found that I can get a marriage visa to the US. Of course, no one plans to divorce someone, but in the event it happens, would I lose my visa? Could I be deported?","title":"Would an immigrant on a marriage visa lose their visa if they get divorced?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570555597,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df376j\/car_insurance_fronting_uk\/","id":"df376j","body":" My friend's son is a new driver 17yo and insurance is around \u00a33-4k per year so my mate is thinking of getting the car insured in his name.  I'm worried he will be in serious trouble if he gets caught.\n\nWhat's the penalties for this?","title":"Car insurance fronting - uk","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541352463,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u5638\/my_friend_just_moved_to_florida_from_texas\/","id":"9u5638","body":"So I don't know if this falls under the custody divorce and family flair. But it was the closest to what the issue is.\n\nSo my friend (f 19), let's call her Jane. She moved here with her dad a month ago, and lives with him. She has her own car, paided for it and everything else for it. But her parents keep a strict leash on her. They track her phone where ever she goes and if she turns off her phones GPS, she will get in trouble. Is there any way she can tell them to stop this? Like any legal documents she can sign or something? \n\nThanks for the help you guys","title":"My friend just moved to florida from texas","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446188238,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qt810\/my_mother_is_not_giving_me_the_details_of_an\/","id":"3qt810","body":"Basically what the tittle says. I'm a 20yr old Australian living in rural South Australia. I have no money, I have no car. Jobs are incredibly scarce and a lot require own transportation in the first place. I have so much I want to do and explore but getting off the ground is quite difficult.\n\nMy grandmother kindly left me with some money to use when I turned 18 in her will when she passed roughly 7 years ago. Currently that money would help me immensely with my life's ambitions. I asked to get the details from my mother and I was refused and told that money is apparently for going towards my first house. I have no intention of settling down any time soon and right now I feel a bit trapped in my living situation. \n\nWhere and how do I dispute this so I can claim the money?","title":"My mother is not giving me the details of an account with 8k that is intended for me when I turn 18 as stated in my Grandmother's will. I'm now 20.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539103444,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mqskm\/can_i_keep_small_investor_donations_private_with\/","id":"9mqskm","body":"I am starting a company in the vaporizer industry. Some of my friends and family are willing to donate to me, but wish to remain anonymous. Can I get them to write a check to me personally, then I transfer that money to the business account thus obscuring their identity? Just a few thousand here and there, nothing too crazy. ","title":"Can I keep small investor donations private with my startup?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553011267,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2z636\/never_got_an_appeal_date_for_my_speeding_ticket_ma\/","id":"b2z636","body":"I got my speeding ticket almost a year ago for $150, and after a few days, I requested a court hearing along with my $25 check. I can see that they deposited the check, but I never got my court hearing date. I kind of forgot about it until recent, and I checked and still looks like I have the ticket for $150. I'm trying to get in touch with an RMV, but they take forever to respond to anything. Is there a way to request another hearing date? Is this an RMV issue or court issue? Basically, I'm just not sure where to contact.","title":"Never got an appeal date for my speeding ticket (MA)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570478453,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deou0w\/how_to_get_out_of_a_workers_union\/","id":"deou0w","body":"I'm 18 and have been working at my job for about 3 weeks\n\nI was forced to join the workers union and have money deducted from each paycheck and expected to go to meetings?\n\nNone of the benefits or anything apply to me and I never wanted this to begin with and I am stuck in a pickle\n\nThe guys who signed me up were very forceful and all I wanted them to do was leave so I signed the paper\n\nAny advice on getting out and how?","title":"How to get out of a workers union?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570694352,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfuqyp\/worked_for_a_company_for_about_a_month_before\/","id":"dfuqyp","body":"I (22 M) began a new job working in the real estate industry with a company that provided a full salary as well as benefits to perform as a licensed realtor and handle leads\/clients as any regular realtor would do, and the best part was this company was also paying for all the leads so I didn\u2019t have to do anything except sit and wait for the leads to be pinged to my phone. At my age, this sounded like a fantastic gig since I\u2019ve had my license for 3 years already and I know what I\u2019m doing more or less.\n\nThis job from the get go sounded too good to be true, but this company swore by their business model and seemed sure it was a sure fire method to \u201cchange the industry\u201d.\n\nDuring our training period which lasted a month, the operations manager who was overseeing the whole project dramatically informed us that they drastically \u201cover shot\u201d the salaries and that the business model simply isn\u2019t going to work if they pay us this much, and that we had the option to take a smaller base salary (25K) in order to have a \u201clonger leash\u201d with the company if we do not perform well in the beginning stages. I\u2019m pretty sure that nobody opted for the 25K option and all decided to stay at 50K, and after a week of training, we officially launched. 3 weeks in, there were no executed contracts or even any remnants of a deal in the works, and everyone was discouraged since the leads and clients we were getting were absolutely horrible. I was sitting at home for 2-3 weeks doing absolutely nothing, maybe showing 2-3 properties a week, and I knew that unfortunately this job wouldn\u2019t be lasting very long.\n\nA couple of days ago, we were on a conference call and were informed that the company has decided to shut down all of their operations nationally (some of you may have an idea by now who this company is) and they stated that our last day of employment would be on the 15th of October.\n\nMy question is, I had an absolutely terrible experience with this company, and I feel like there must be something that I can do or say in order to get the best severance package possible. (Since I\u2019m 22 and this is my first corporate job, I really would love to take any input and advice as to how to handle this situation as best as possible)\n\nDisclaimer: this is a publicly traded company, I was employed by them but worked under their brokerage division, and this division of the company is the one that has shut down operations, not the entire corporation.","title":"Worked for a company for about a month before they closed down their operations nationally, what should I expect in terms of severance, and is there any way to possibly negotiate a better severance than the one they give me?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541373831,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u89ei\/improvements_made_to_the_condo_i_rent_look_awful\/","id":"9u89ei","body":"I rent a very nice condo in Toronto.  Long story short, there was water damage to the parkay flooring (not my fault) and the landlady has finally found someone to fix it (7 months later) the improvements are done but there is a definite difference in the flooring.  I find it embarrassing and I don\u2019t want people over seeing it.   As a tenant is there anything I can do?\n[Here are a couple photos](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/4uESaye).  Sorry for poor quality \n","title":"\u201cImprovements\u201d made to the condo I rent look awful.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446108594,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qohfe\/so_this_was_posted_as_a_joke_but_i_think_it_begs\/","id":"3qohfe","body":"This was posted on Imgur today. http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/NJQImuh\n\nIt is a joke, of course, but in the comments section, we got into a discussion of whether or not this would actually be legal to do.\n\nThe location on this is open to all states, but let's assume USA.\n\n\n\n**The question is this**: \n\nIf you still have keys to a house you lived in a long time ago, and no owner since has changed the locks, is it illegal to enter their home? \n\n\n\n\nFor the case of this theoretical situation, we'll assume the following:\n\n* The current owners are not home when you enter. (also assume no pets).\n\n* You enter the house unarmed, unmasked, not looking suspicious or as though you intend to commit a crime.\n\n* You enter the house with the intent of seeing what has changed since you lived there.\n\n* You take nothing, you break nothing.\n\n* The only things you move are the doors (to open them).\n\n* You put everything back as it was when you entered.\n\n* The current owners come home as you are leaving.\n\n\n\n\n**Here's what I would argue**:\n\n* The usual laws that would be broken entering someone else's home uninvited, such as \"breaking and entering\" would not be violated in this case. Because you have a key, no breaking would take place for you to enter.\n\n* Not changing the locks when you move in could be considered to be *at least* allowing someone else to have a key, if not giving them a key. \n\n* Allowing someone to have a key to your home could be considered consent to allow them to enter your home at any time.\n\n* The house was not entered with the intent of burglary, vandalism, or any other crime, nor were any of those crimes committed when you were inside.\n\n* No physical harm was done to anyone by entering the house to look around.\n\n\n\n\nAre there other laws in the US that you would violate if you did this? I'm not a lawyer (which is why I'm asking), but I can't think of any.\n","title":"So this was posted as a joke, but I think it begs a good legal question...","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555090247,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcgb47\/first_speeding_ticket\/","id":"bcgb47","body":"So, I am 22 years old and I got my first speeding ticket today. I was running late so I was speeding and i got pulled over (literally right across the street from where I needed to be...  just my luck lol). \n\nThe officer clocked me going 53. Apparently the speed limit was 35. I\u2019m not from that town and i was confused and thought that it was 40 because if you go down the road a little further it is 40. Either way, though, I was speeding. \n\nThe officer wrote on the ticket that I was going 50 in a 35. The price on the ticket is about 300 dollars. Is this the amount I am to pay?\n\nI live in WV and I will get 5 points on my license for this. But if I was going 49 in a 35 I would only get 3 points. \n\nDo you think it\u2019s worth it to try and get it lowered? Or is it my best bet to just pay it?","title":"First speeding ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446238318,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qvze0\/misigned_contract_in_the_wrong_place\/","id":"3qvze0","body":"I was placed on unpaid leave from work.  The contract I signed had a spot where the owner of the company was supposed to sign it and the employee (me) was supposed to sign it.  I signed it in shock and looked over it a second ago, and the owner signed it in the employee spot and I signed it where he was supposed to.  I was wondering if the contract is still valid.","title":"[MI]Signed contract in the wrong place","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553901453,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7460u\/new_landlord_wants_me_to_sign_rules_regarding_esa\/","id":"b7460u","body":"My landlord recently sold the complex to a company that wants me to sign a rules\/regulations contract regarding my ESA. I\u2019ve had her here for four years with no problems so I\u2019m hesitant to sign something that I assume may waive my rights regarding my animal.\n\nI have not acknowledged that I received the text message they sent me yet. What are my options here? Can I refuse to sign, and if so, can they legally evict me?\n\nContext: She\u2019s a 9lb papillon mix that has never so much as barked at anyone. We live in the Las Vegas area.","title":"New landlord wants me to sign rules regarding ESA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571350906,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djdryr\/workplace_rumors\/","id":"djdryr","body":"I am a female that works in a mostly male (4 women\/60 men) manual labor work environment for a local government agency. I get along great with my coworkers and superiors. I have a great work ethic, I am reliable, and possess an overall positive and witty attitude. Working with men over the years on job sites I\u2019ve come accustomed to crude humor, and can actually dish it as well as take a joke, but this is a first for me. \nI\u2019ve now heard from the 5th person in the past 3 weeks that a certain coworker, who I\u2019ve never worked along side of, has been saying I use my female genitalia (I won\u2019t say the actual word he uses because it\u2019s vulgar) to get what I want at work. I\u2019m extremely uncomfortable about it and others must be as well as they\u2019ve been coming to me to tell me what this man has been saying. This person is also known for being terrible to other women at work, and always trying to get people fired (and had been successful). He\u2019s a known troublemaker that seems to keep his job. You almost literally have to kill someone to get fired where I work due to unions and such. \n\nAlso, a little background is that I have been recently approached to apply for a leadership position \/ promotion based on my overall performance and merits, and this is what makes me feel that maybe he feels threatened and set his sights on me. I declined to apply for the position because I\u2019m very happy where I stand now, and this promotion was since given to him. He is now in a leadership role. It\u2019s troubling on its own...\n\nMy question: What action should I take? Do I approach my manager with this issue? Do I go to HR and file a complaint? I have no actual proof other than word of mouth, and I\u2019m scared to involve my fellow workers and bring them to light in this case as the ones who told me what\u2019s going on behind my back (don\u2019t want retaliation). Thank you in advance.","title":"Workplace rumors","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568496608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4bc27\/if_the_executor_dies_before_dispersing_the_estate\/","id":"d4bc27","body":"My grandmother recently passed and she named my aunt as the executor. I recently found out my aunt has an aggressive form of cancer and may not live very much longer. My grandmother\u2019s estate is still working it\u2019s way through the court. \n\nShe does have a lawyer she hired to handle the estate. \n\nSo who then takes over as executor? Would it be handed over to one of her children? Or to another aunt? \n\nWe are in Texas.","title":"If the executor dies before dispersing the estate what happens?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1444489807,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o84eg\/washington_dc_management_company_attempting_to\/","id":"3o84eg","body":"Hello!  I have a question regarding rent control in Washington, DC.  \n\nLast December I moved from one apartment to another in rent-controlled building in Washington, DC.  In doing so, I signed a new 12-month lease that included several line items for the cost per month:  \n\nRent charge:  $3,600  \nRent adjustment:  $1,700  \nBase rent:  $1,900  \n(Values are approximate for ease of this discussion.)  \n\nThe $1,900 figure is the only one advertised on the website, and it's what I have paid each month since December.  The $3,600 figure isn't advertised anywhere, and when I asked about it as I was signing the lease, the leasing agent indicated that it was just a figure that their corporate headquarters made them include, and would have no bearing on the amount I paid.  There were no one-time or recurring concessions included on the lease.  \n\nFlash forward to today.  My lease is coming up for renewal, and having lived here for a number of years, I expected that it would be increased between 2.0 - 6.5% in accordance with DC's rent control laws.  The amount permitted by DC this year is 3.50%, well within the range that I anticipated last December.  \n\nHowever, building management has applied the 3.50% increase to the \"rent charge\" figure of $3,600\/month rather than what I've been paying on a monthly basis, $1,900.  Their new proposed 12-month lease aims to have me pay about $2,700, an increase of around 40%.  \n\nIt seems clear to me that the management company has set an artificially high \"rent charge\" price and included an arbitrarily malleable \"rent adjustment\" line so that they can circumvent DC's rent control laws from year to year.  The increase of 40% rather than 3.5% is certainly not in the spirit of the law, but is it within the letter of the law?  \n\nHas anyone encountered a situation like this before?  If so, how did you deal with it?  What are my rights as a tenant, and what resources can and should I be seeking out to address this issue?  \n\nThank you!  \n\n---\nEDIT:  Here's a quick table of the 2015 lease and the proposed 2016 lease, which will hopefully clear up some of the math.\n\nLine Item|2015|2016|Percent Change\n:--|:--|:--|:--\nRent Charge|$3,600 |$3,726 |+3.5%\nRent Adjustment|-$1,700|-$1,026 |-39.6%\nActual Amount Paid|$1,900 |$2,700 |+42.1%\n\nI've rounded the 2015 numbers to the nearest hundred for ease of reading.  ","title":"[Washington, DC] Management company attempting to increase rent-controlled apartment cost by 40% rather than by 3.5% - advice sought","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571160269,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dib67k\/recent_mba_grad_tuition_repayment_to_employer\/","id":"dib67k","body":"I graduated with my masters degree in Feb and my employer paid for classes. For every class\/semester I signed a repayment agreement that stated I would repay employer if I quit or was terminated with cause within one year of completion. \nMy dilemma - a company recently contacted me and after several discussions and meetings, offered me a great position and I have verbally accepted. I initially thought that based on my current employers agreement that I would be responsible for only the courses that I completed less than one year ago and the older courses would remain paid for (since agreements were signed for every class) however now I am second guessing and I am worried that I will be responsible for the entire degree\/courses. \nThoughts???? If my current employer wants full repayment, would I be able to argue it based on the multiple agreements or legally required to repay everything in full?","title":"Recent MBA grad - Tuition repayment to employer???","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541747891,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vifa2\/when_is_too_soon_to_quit_a_job\/","id":"9vifa2","body":"Location: MD\n\nI\u2019ve had a job since August and at first the hours were okay (every weekend for both Saturday and Sunday) but now I\u2019m only getting one day a week and that\u2019s being generous. If I leave where I work now (I\u2019ve been there for about 3 months) will that have a negative impact when I\u2019m applying to new jobs?","title":"When is too soon to quit a job?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569962310,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbzfpl\/tn_what_are_my_rights\/","id":"dbzfpl","body":"TLDR: our neighbors are loud and smelly, what can we do?\n\nMy husband and I recently moved states (from CO to TN) and have been having problems with our apartment. When we first moved in, we didn't have reliable water, sometimes we wouldn't have enough pressure to shower for 2-3 days. It took 3 months for them to get our water working properly, and while they were fixing it, they didn't tell us it would be off for an entire week. I also have pet allergies, and am always careful to ask about previous pets in the units I plan on renting. We were told it was a new remodel and there were no pets for the past 2 tenants. Upon move in, there was dog hair everywhere. Not sure if there's anything we can do since these are old issues.\n\nNow, we have new neighbors downstairs. They have been blasting music to the point where our walls and floors shake. We've had picture frames fall off the wall. This happens daily from about 8am-2am. Once the music stops they have what I'm guessing is a white noise machine that runs the remainder of the day. It sounds like thunder and keeps us awake at night, sometimes startling us awake. They yell and scream at each other across the apartment, and slam doors. Our complex manager says that's \"normal\" apartment living and there's nothing they can do about it. \n\nSince they moved in our apartment smells awful. Whatever the smell is sets off my allergies, giving me nosebleeds and migraines. We've had to turn off our air conditioning because most of the smell is coming through our hvac closet. We also can't do laundry because our dryer vents are connected and our dryer smells. No amount of candles\/air fresheners\/vinegar\/air purifiers has helped.\n\nWe looked into just canceling our lease, but we have 10 months left and have to pay in full the remainder of the lease.\n\nDo my husband and I have any options, or are we stuck living in this environment?","title":"[TN] What are my rights?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553471698,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b53f0w\/thief_hurt_during_apprehension_question\/","id":"b53f0w","body":"The case goes like this: A woman is suspected of stealing from a store. An employee has reason to believe she took something so he stops her. In apprehending her, she is badly hurt. She is then detained in the store until the manager arrives. \n\nThe question is: Would the merchant\u2019s defense relieve the store from liability under the cause of action of false imprisonment? ","title":"Thief hurt during apprehension question","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540662424,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rw7bc\/floridahouse_im_renting_is_being_foreclosed_on\/","id":"9rw7bc","body":"So a month ago I started renting a house from my uncle-in-law, the place we were renting from decided they were going to up the rent by $150 while refusing to remove a tree that was rotted and dying and any repairs they did to the unit were half ass done ex. the unit was broken into before we moved in and the door was just caulked back together and not replaced, door seals weren't replaced properly where bugs could easily crawl in.  \n\n​\n\nToday while watching tv someone from the court knocked on the door and asked if the home owners were in, I said \"No but I just started renting from my uncle-in-law\" which our last names are the same so there's no way I could lie about that.     \n She handed me a packet of the foreclosure case and said to have a good day.  I tried calling the Lawyers office and forgot it was saturday but decided i will try again on Monday.  I contacted my husband and let him know then called my father-in-law seeing if he could help us with a new place or let us temporarily stay at his place so i'd have a back up plan. My back up to back up plan involves moving to another state which I can't rent a uhaul for that fast of a long move so it'd be limited to what could fit in a convertible and see what is ship-able.\n\n​\n\nMy question is what can I do? How do I know how long till I have to vacate? Is there an avenue I can take to see about possibility of taking over the loan where I just pay the bank? Is it best to just move out as quick as possible and find a new place?\n\n​\n\nLocation Florida Panhandle","title":"[Florida]House i'm renting is being foreclosed on","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553719815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b69k7g\/got_in_a_car_accident\/","id":"b69k7g","body":"I got in a car accident Sunday morning. The other party took full blame and I\u2019m in the process of waiting for my insurance company to appraise my car. My cars financed and has full coverage but I just switched insurance companies so I have two policies when the crash happened.\n\nI talked with my new insurance and they said I have $2k deductible. They said I had to take up the $2k deductible with the other parties insurance. \n\nMy old insurance policy is active til the 8th of April. This company said I have a $1k deductible.\n\nI\u2019ve been out of work for 3 days now and counting. I got a concussion and lower back pain. My walking has been wobbly and visions been a little fuzzy. Went to the ER and got diagnosed with a concussion.  I\u2019ll probably out of work al this week.\n\nA few questions\n\nWith full coverage I thought I didn\u2019t have to pay anything to get my car fixed when it was the other parties fault?\n\nShould I go with the cheaper deductible or the higher? The cheaper deductible is with the general insurance and the higher deductible is with progressive if that makes a difference.\n\nCan I get reimbursed for the work I\u2019ve missed?\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Got in a car accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555616621,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beptt8\/can_police_officers_legally_ask_to_see_a_drivers\/","id":"beptt8","body":"After stopping a car, police officers usually say \"Give me your driver's license and I'll tell you what traffic law you broke\". Is that legal or do they have to state the violation before asking for the license?","title":"Can police officers legally ask to see a driver's license before stating the traffic violation?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444800473,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ooqml\/realestate_agent_claims_he_did_not_receive_my\/","id":"3ooqml","body":"So i just moved into a new place in Denver, i moved in Sept. 28th. I was busy the day of the official move in so i had to have my roommate take my rent money order to the real-estate office. She is new to renting and didn't get a receipt, she gave her half of the rent, my have of the rent and our pet deposit to our landlord personally, he told her he had everything he needed and she went on her way. \n\nThe lease stipulated that the first months rent was due at the time of move in, so i feel that they tacitly accepted our rent. But i got an email saying that they hadn't gotten the rent yesterday on Oct. 12th...\n\nNow the agent is basically saying it's down to my word vs. his, i cant find the receipt for the money order anywhere but im planning on going to the grocery store where i got it to see if they can help me find some record of it.\n\nI make next to nothing and this situation is threatening to destroy my life. Your advice would be extremely helpful, thank you.\n\n","title":"Real-estate agent claims he did not receive my rent, demands to be repaid. Denver, CO","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504889266,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yvz1n\/being_intimidated_to_settle_the_case_because_i\/","id":"6yvz1n","body":"Hi guys,\n\nIn [Europe] instead of USA but I thought I could do with some general advice regarding lawsuits.\n\nSometime ago I joined a startup as a shareholder and board member. Founder of the startup is a senior person with considerable experience in industry who formed the team and chose me and one other person to be in the board. Usually it was understood that everything will happen with mutual understanding and board is just a formality since everyone was focused  on growing the business. However within few months, there were several clashes between him and other team members (who were also shareholders) mostly because of his stubborn behavior.  \n\n\nRecently he has served me with legal notices regarding a decision I took as board member and claiming I've breached a contract that says that this particular action requires approval of n number of shareholders (I have written approval of everyone but him) The decision I took however was on his directions itself (verbal directions with multiple witnesses present). Moreover, I merely approved the action which was performed by other people and since contract doesn't not restrict approval of that action it should not make me liable for the breach they are claiming (according to my lawyer). \n\n\nDue to his behavioral issues every other shareholder has stopped working for the company too  (most of us being working students) and now he blames the failure of company on me . In order to take revenge he has claimed that I should pay him around 8000 usd to cover the cost of legal notices he has sent me or they would file a civil case against me. \n\nAccording to my lawyer their case is very weak and most likely they are trying to intimidate me in paying the money. However being a poor student I don't have enough money to handle the legal fees (+ their legal fee and claims if I lose the case approx 30K USD, my current lawyer is provided by uni but since it's outside uni matters I'd have to hire another one myself  ) At the same time I believe I did everything in good faith and hence it is very unfair that I have to pay fines to get the work done for the company's benefit. Specially when I already already losing my initial capital since company is going under.  Paying the amount they are asking for settlement would mean giving up all my savings and investments I have saved up till now. I  have also heard from some sources that the guy has been bragging about how legal game is  like poker which can crush people like me who don't have enough money. \n\nBeing far from my native country  and in absence of any experienced  friends I can talk about this scenario, I am really stressed and worried. This is my first time handling a legal matter so the stress about the decisions and aftermath is seeping into my work as well as into my studies so much so that the case is only thing I think about all the time. The only person I can talk about it is my lawyer who keeps it very professional and has said that though their case is very weak he can never guarantee a 100 percent win in the court since he doesn't know what they might pull up in the court, also that in the end I'd have to choose an option. \n\nI am worried that its screwing my mindset too much might harm me much more in other areas of my life. So I wanted to ask if this is normal ? And As experienced lawyers or people who have handled high stress cases what advice would you give me to handle this issue as calmly as possible and not let it affect other areas of my life ? \n\n\nPS: I have kept the case details a bit vague since you never know who might be reading. Also, forgive my English. ","title":"Being intimidated to settle the case because I might not have money for the worst case outcome of lawsuit","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571317190,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj61z6\/variable_compensation_bonus_is_being_delayed_by\/","id":"dj61z6","body":"Hey legal advice,\n\nI started a sales engineering job six months ago and in my offer letter there is a section that reads: \n\n\u201cVariable compensation starting 6 months after hire date.\u201d \n\nIt is basically a small bonus based on a calculated figure from our quarterly sales.\n\nThere is another line below it that reads: \u201cCompany reserves the right to alter this plan in the future due to business conditions or needs\u201d\n\nI went to my boss a couple of weeks ago and asked if I would start receiving bonus and he mentioned he would need to speak to the other executives about it. I asked another executive and they mentioned there was still discussion about it. I feel like there has been a bit of bait and switch here. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m a top performer because of some personal issues but at the end of the day I\u2019m punctual, have never missed a day of work, and get what is asked of me done. \n\nDo I have any recourse here? Or is the fact the disclaimer is in the offer letter give my employer all of the power?","title":"Variable compensation (bonus) is being delayed by employer","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554398442,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9flqk\/sexually_harassed_at_work_and_dont_want_to_stay\/","id":"b9flqk","body":"I am no longer at the company I was sexually harassed at, as it was an issue that was not being resolved by HR or the head of the office regardless of how many times I reported it. \n\nI don\u2019t want to stay silent, yet I have basically have no solid evidence other than what I have written down in my notes on my phone about the incident that happened. I would like to warn others about this incident so it doesn\u2019t happen to them. \n\nAre there any ramifications if I do this? \n\nI don\u2019t necessarily want to take them to court or sue them or even report it, I just want it on the internet to let others hear my story.\n\nThank you for listening.","title":"Sexually harassed at work and don\u2019t want to stay silent. Will I be in any danger if I post anything about it on Glassdoor?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409876507,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fi8gj\/landlord_is_terminating_my_lease_for_something_i\/","id":"2fi8gj","body":"Today my landlord came by and gave me a letter stating that I have to vacate the premises in 30 days. The letter did not indicate a reason, although she stated her reason was that I was seen smoking pot through the window. I do not smoke pot and would not have been seen smoking pot because I don't. She said that people above me could smell it. We live right next to a parking garage where people often smoke, both cigarettes and weed. She told me she didn't write the reason on the letter to save me so that the reason being pot smoking is not on my record. Is there anything I can do? My parents are helping me get a lawyer and such, but I feel helpless right now. \n\nI start school in 2 weeks and I work 5 days a week which doesn't offer much time to go apartment hunting. Let alone it is so close to school starting and there are no apartments open for rent! I am incredibly frustrated at the fact I am being accused of something I didn't do and I need some help.\n\nEdit: I also went out today (day i received the letter) and got a drug test that proves I am negative for all drugs including marijuana. \n\nEdit 2: This is in California","title":"Landlord is terminating my lease for something I didn't do","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570069863,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dckq59\/please_need_help_for_a_friend\/","id":"dckq59","body":"I hope this fits but I'm trying to help a friend after finding out she has been being stalked and assaulted today so please help all you can and he was being a idiot and admitted to almost all of it and we got screenshots of all of it","title":"Please need help for a friend","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570103228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcpqfe\/did_i_get_duped_on_my_military_clause_fl\/","id":"dcpqfe","body":"I received orders to a new unit and let my leasing office at my apartment know that I will be vacating the apartment. They told me I need to give them 30 days advance notice before I leave, which i said okay to because i wasn't going to be leaving immediately. However my departing date was rescheduled and I had to leave sooner than expected. They told me I had to pay the prorated amount for the date that I initially had set for departure. Not being sure of what to do, I agreed.  But I considered it afterwards and realized I may have gotten duped. Am I wrong, how can I rectify this problem?","title":"Did I get duped on my military clause? [FL]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554095787,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7xs0f\/the_company_i_work_for_didnt_pay_me_on_payday_and\/","id":"b7xs0f","body":"On Monday, March 25th the paychecks came in but mine were missing. No big deal, this happens quite often with the company and the problem is usually fixed in a day or two. Not in this case, it is now march 31st and i still have not been paid my last check for march and its looking like I will not be getting paid until Tuesday, April 2nd. Ive done some reading on labor laws and wages and there is $100 penalty for first offenses and a $200 for future payment delay, or so thats what I am taking from it. \n\nIs there anything I can do? Or can someone help clarify for me?","title":"The company i work for didnt pay me on payday and still hasnt a week later. California","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550715331,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asxcn4\/the_unattended_space_heater\/","id":"asxcn4","body":"I work in a manufacturing company in Michigan and as you might have seen in the news we've been hit by lots of storms and cold weather. In the company, I work alone in my department on second shift. My boss leaves at about 4pm or 5pm. He has repeatedly left a space heater on in his office. The office is a closed room with windows 14'L x 8'W x 9'H (with a 7' drop ceiling). I don't work in the direct vicinity of his office but it's on my way out to my car. On Friday January 25th, Friday February 15th, and today I have found it left on. We don't have a third shift or a weekend shift and I leave at 9pm. Had I not noticed it, it would have been left on all night this time and the two previous times, left on over the entire weekend.\n\nThe question is if I send an email to my HR bringing up the issue and my boss finds a reason to fire me (it would have to be fabricated, I am a good worker and my 2nd shift co workers would vouch for that), do I have a legal recourse on wrongful termination? \n\nThe ultimate issue is that its a huge safety problem. While OSHA does not have regulations regarding temporary heaters such as electrical space heaters, the fact is it is a fire hazard left unattended. Outside of OSHA, I'm sure our insurance company would have a fit.  When I told my boss the first two times all I got as a response the first time was \"Will you shut it off\" and the second time I never even got a response. It's clear he has little to no regard for my safety, the safety of my coworkers, nor the safety of the very nice cleaning lady. I don't feel like I should have to babysit my boss. \n\nI have pictures of the second and third offenses, should I include those in the email to my HR? \n\nM","title":"The Unattended Space Heater.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571197152,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dijjzy\/al_friend_16_is_working_at_a_small_local_coffee\/","id":"dijjzy","body":"I have a friend who works at a small coffee shop that has recently opened, and she said she is technically not \"employed\" and she gets paid cash by her boss, so she doesn't pay income taxes, doesn't get paid overtime pay, and doesn't get accurate paychecks. She is a minor, and her boss has her doing things such as using ladders\/step ladders (I'm pretty sure you cannot use either while at work in the state of Alabama if you're under 18, at my job you cannot, and i am pretty sure it's not just a company rule.) and walking across a busy highway to retrieve things. Her boss does not have a child labor certificate, and her 2 other coworkers are also minors who are in the same situation.  She's too scared to do anything because she doesn't want to loose the job, so is there anything she can do? I recommended calling the Child Labor department or something, but i'm not sure who should be contacted if anyone. IRS maybe? OSHA?","title":"[AL] Friend (16) is working at a small local coffee shop, but is not \"employed\" and gets paid in cash.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571421979,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djrc2d\/i_was_caught_in_a_political_interview_thinking_it\/","id":"djrc2d","body":"I was on vacation and a person asked my significant other and I for \u201chelp\u201d and that it would \u201conly take 30 seconds\u201d then she pulled out a microphone and her camera guy was ready. I was not the one that agreed to help her yet I was the one that ended up talking the whole time. The \u201c30 second\u201d event turned into a 6 minute debate. The interviewer was not professional or civil and never once confirmed as to weather or not she could release our image. I have tried to reach out to YouTube to have the video removed but the automated system that manages their complaints saw no violation. Is there anything that I can do to have to video taken down?","title":"I was caught in a political interview thinking it was for a college students project. It was not and was posted to YouTube. I never consented verbally or physically even though I did the whole interview. Is there anything I can do?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540947497,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9su1br\/scared_work_might_cause_a_miscarriage\/","id":"9su1br","body":"So my wife is 4 months pregnant. She's a teacher (6th, 7th, and 8th) and they just informed her that they were going to put her in another class that she is not qualified to teach nor knows any of the material. She has to learn 3 new curriculum for subjects she has never taught nor knows anything about. She has 2 days to prep for this and will be given a full class. She is scared because evaluations are shortly after she gets given the class and feels she will be evaluated based upon something she has expressed repeatedly. One of the classes requires special training but they override that. She came home shaking and has been crying all day. I am very scared this is going to cause a miscarriage.","title":"Scared work might cause a miscarriage","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552021850,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aymgrp\/do_i_have_a_case_to_sue_for_back_pay_in_california\/","id":"aymgrp","body":" I was recently terminated from employment for violation of timekeeping policy. I would clock in once I started working when I was at home and then would go to the office and finish out my \u201c8-hour day\u201d but I would usually still have to work once I got home. \n\nI was a non exempt employee. However, I was the \u201con call\u201d person for a 24\/7\/365 facility and would need to monitor my email on my work cell or laptop for any actionable incidents that need response - usually once per hour. I would also need to respond to those requests as I was the only person with remote access. I was not paid for this time, did not get \u201con call\u201d pay, and work was frequent. And I would get the run around when I would ask about it...Which is why I started clocking in from home - which got me terminated. Do I have a case for back pay?","title":"Do I have a case to sue for back pay in California?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541295694,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tzr5j\/nj_parking_ticket_how_to_dismiss_without_showing\/","id":"9tzr5j","body":"I got a notice that I didn\u2019t pay a parking ticket and now the court added additional fee. I either plead guilty and pay or plead not guilty and show up in court. \n\nThe thing is I was never at the city where the ticket was issued (Elizabeth, NJ). When I went online to take a look at the ticket, it shows a different make of the car. It seems my license plate was wrongly recorded for someone else\u2019s car. \n\nHow can I resolve this without having to take a day or possibly two days off to go to the court?  The notice simply says plead guilty and pay or not guilty. I may just end up paying if I have to go to court to fight it.   ","title":"NJ Parking ticket - How to dismiss without showing up in court?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443622417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3myvdz\/arrested_in_maine\/","id":"3myvdz","body":"My brother was recently arrested in Maine and has two charges being brought against him. One is for aggravated assault - 17A 208 1A and the other is for assault 17A 207 1A. Assuming this originated from a singular incident against one person does it make sense that he would be charged with two separate counts of assault? From my basic understanding it seems as though he is being charged for the same crime two different ways; is that normal?\n\nThanks.","title":"Arrested in Maine","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555547055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bef4yo\/pa_can_a_minor_be_considered_a_tenant\/","id":"bef4yo","body":"Trying to move into a apartment with my underage GF that was kicked out of her parents house over a year ago. Landlord says \u201cAll additional tenants found living on premises are an additional 150.00$ monthly fee\u201d. Soo Can my underage GF be considered a tenant and require me to pay that extra fee?","title":"[PA] Can a minor be considered a tenant?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568672706,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d57qkw\/can_anyone_help_me_figure_out_what_this_means_do\/","id":"d57qkw","body":"I don't know if imgur links are allowed so I'm going to type what the document I'm supposed to sign says. If someone could ELI5 I'd really appreciate it.\n\n\"In the circuit court of the state of Oregon for the county of ____. Family law department\n\nIn the matter of the marriage of (father), Petitioner, and (mother), Respondent, and (me), Necessary Party.\n\nI, (my name), am the child of Petitioner and Respondent herein. I am over the age of 18, under the age of 21, and constitute a \"necessary party\" as defined by ORS 107.108. I understand that the law makes me a \"party\" to this action, and the law gives me a right to participate and be heard. I understand that, among other things, the issue of my financial support and right to receive monthly child support from each of my parents will be considered.\n\nI hereby accept service upon me of true copies of initial pleadings in the above captioned proceeding. I waive any and all deficiencies, defects, or irregularities in the method or manner of service.\n\nHaving been advised of that opportunity, and having been advised to seek independent legal advice before making this decision, I hereby voluntarily waive any appearance in my parents' case, and I do not consent to entry of a judgement my parents agree to or a judgement the court might make after trial, including provisions with respect to my financial support, without further notice to me.\n\nI hereby declare that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief, and I understand it is made for use as evidence in court and is subject to penalty or perjury.\"","title":"Can anyone help me figure out what this means? Do I need a lawyer? Oregon, USA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444929045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ovnsl\/company_threatening_legal_action_on_me_after_i\/","id":"3ovnsl","body":"Hey guys. Apologize in advance for a lengthy post, but details are important right?\n\nOk, so on May 6th of this year, I placed an order from a company online that does custom carbon fiber and vinyl work for cars. I ordered (sorry if you don't know about car terms but again, detail) a carbon fiber front license plate delete, carbon fiber fender badges, and vinyl emblem overlays.  Their site does say up front that orders may \"take up to 6 weeks.\"\n\nOk, that's fine. I place my order on May 6 and forget about it.  Around the end of May, I ask for shipping information. On the first of June, they reply back with a tracking number, and I get my license plate delete on June 4th. So far so good, although there are flaws in the piece. I don't mind much because I'm not incredibly picky about things, but there is a bubble underneath the resin on it that is very visible. I ask about the fender badges, wondering if they're on the way.  They tell me on Thursday, June 4th that they're still working on them and that they'll ship the following Tuesday, June 9.\n\nOk, they gave me a reasonable reply and timeframe.\n\nOn June 16th, I had not received the fender badges, so I send an email inquiring about the status. No response. I wait for a week, and email again on June 23rd following up on my inquiry on the 16th about the status.  They reply back saying they made a mistake and that they would send the correct shipment out that Friday, the 26th.  I received no tracking information or confirmation of shipment, so I reply back on Wednesday, July 1 asking for a tracking number or shipment confirmation.\n\nAgain, no reply.  I wait 6 more days and send another follow up on July 7 saying that I haven't heard or received anything.  Two days later and still I have no reply.  I send an email on July 9 indicating that it has been more than two weeks since I last heard from them and that if I got no reply or information on my shipment by that Friday by end of day, I would start a dispute with my company. He replied saying that they 'just finished everything up' and they would have tracking available in the morning.\n\nI send an email at the end of the day Friday asking for any information, and once again receive no reply so I start a dispute with my company.\n\nShort recap to this point: I ordered a license plate delete, fender badges (set of two) and emblem overlays (set of two). It has been two months now and I have received (after consistent communication on my part) only the front license plate delete.\n\nSo I go through the dispute process and my bank starts taking care of things and issues me a 'temporary credit' for the full amount into my bank account.  A month later, on August 10 I randomly receive a tracking number from them with no comments and a few days later receive my fender badges.  One isn't formed\/contoured as much as it should be, so it doesn't fit in place of the car's OEM one and looks weird, and the other one has the wrong color paint on it for the logo.  Still no emblem overlays.\n\nSo fast forward to today. I get an email from them stating this:\n\n>Your order has been updated to the following status:\nChargeback\nThe comments for your order are:\nAttention Legal Department,\nCustomer is attempting second charge back for items delivered. We have provided 2 sets of tracking numbers showing proof of delivery. Customer (killthehighcourts)  will be responsible for all legal fee's incurred from this point.\nPlease direct all inquiries to (company owner).\nPlease reply to this email if you have any questions.\"\n\nSo I replied back with this:\n\n\"Hello,\nTechnically I STILL haven't received all items I paid for. I have never received the vinyl badge overlays for my front and rear emblems.\n\nThe fact that communication has been sorely lacking this much and that my order hasnt been completely fulfilled, as well as inconsistencies in the product all led to me pushing this claim. Inconsistencies being: there is a bubble in the print on the front license plate delete. The STi logo on the fender badges are different colors. One is the correct WRB color, the other is a noticeably different flat blue color. The drivers side emblem has inconsistent moulding and doesn't fit well. The passenger side fits fine.\nI will drop it if I receive all my items but it's been 5 months now and I haven't, and that is unacceptable.\"\n\nWhat should I know or be on the lookout for? Am I in the wrong and actually subject for legal action here? They haven't fulfilled the entire order that I paid for.\n\nThanks for help in advance!\n","title":"Company threatening legal action on me after I filed a dispute against them with my bank...","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570597447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfcart\/ohio_does_notice_have_to_be_in_writing_for_my\/","id":"dfcart","body":"I asked my landlord to reschedule a showing at my apartment because they did not give us 24 hours notice. They then mentioned they would reschedule to \"Thursday\" over the phone, but hung up before giving me a time. \n\n\nTechnically, any time on Thursday would have given us 24 hours notice at the time, but does this count as notice? They only spoke to me and have not contacted any of my other roommates.","title":"(Ohio) Does notice have to be in writing for my landlord to enter my property?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447226742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sds7e\/how_to_fight_back_fraud_online_business\/","id":"3sds7e","body":"Recently I have been approached by two friends who have been a victim of a fraud by so called \"genuine\" online business in separate cases. Mostly I can differentiate between a genuine or scam business online. But the once I am talking about are hard to figure out until your deep into it. \n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n**Case 1 - X Payment Gateway **\nWe are online e-Visa service agents. We leveraged a (i will call it X Payment) payment gateway services to receive online payments from our customers in US, Australia, European countries etc. Our relationship with X was going well until mid June 2015, then suddenly they locked our account and kept our money on hold. During these 8 months (Starting from 20th Oct.), X used to transfer our weekly earnings to our paypal account. After this they locked our account and kept our funds ($15K+) on hold for 90 days stating that we exceeded the acceptable customer chargeback claims. The more number of chargebacks according to us were because of the inability of X to allow us put a custom text on the customer's credit card statement. Instead they used to appear on customer's statement causing confusion for the customers.\n\nWhen this 90 days period was about to end, we received an email from X saying it's banking partners needed an extra amount of time to investigate the increased number of chargebacks. We responded strongly to this email and warned them saying if they didn't refund our money, we would proceed with legal course of action. Since then, X is not replying to our email. We have sent multiple follow up emails to them, but there is no success.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n**Case 2 - Y Design Bundle Deals Site **\nY cheated my Friend who is a hardworking small time graphic\/webdesign struggling to make ends meet and robbed him of $500+. They don't respond to his emails and they continue to sell his designs without giving him any share of it. I need advice to stop such activity from this professional and friendly looking design resource site.\n\nI have also contacted Scamadviser about this activity and left my comment on the page but not sure if this will help.\n\nIf you have any advice to tackle any of the above situations please kindly let us know. This will greatly help us.\n\nThanks","title":"How to fight back fraud online business?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539896981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pdb08\/father_potentially_withholding_scholarship_money\/","id":"9pdb08","body":"Several months ago I applied for a scholarship through my fathers job. I did have crappy grades at the time, and I figured I wouldn\u2019t get it. Over these past few months my dad has somewhat held it against me, like \u201cwell maybe if you got that scholarship money you could afford it\u201d or \u201cyou could\u2019ve tried harder to get better grades and gotten the scholarship.\u201d He has told me directly and indirectly that I didn\u2019t get the scholarship. \n\nMy parents are divorced by the way, and I\u2019m 18. \n\nThere\u2019s two problems:\n\n1. He told my mom that I got the scholarship right after I sent the form in. \n\n2. The acceptance and denial letters don\u2019t come out until the end of this month. \n\nI have asked him how he knows I didn\u2019t get the scholarship, and he says \u201cwell your grades were crap and I called and they said you didn\u2019t get it.\u201d\n\nSince he\u2019s been hounding me about not getting the scholarship, I decided to call and find out for myself. They told me I got the scholarship in the full amount. They also said they mail them out at the end of October, and you have to sign for the package. \n\nMy main concern is that he\u2019s going to hold onto the check, and not let me have it, not because I\u2019m irresponsible with money, but because he feels I don\u2019t deserve it. Can he legally withhold the money from me? If he can legally withhold it, what can I do to get it? If he can\u2019t legally withhold it, what can I do to get it?\n\nMind you this isn\u2019t a small scholarship. Somewhere between $6000-$7000. ","title":"Father potentially withholding scholarship money","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1507568200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75af2u\/nyc_employer_wont_give_me_my_final_paycheck_can_i\/","id":"75af2u","body":"tldr: Company hired me, then fired me, and won't give me my last paycheck. What are my options?\n\nA few months ago I started working for a small company as a contractor. I was working full-time and on site. Payments were bi-monthly and always on time. In August I received a formal offer letter to be an employee there (with stated monthly salary). The offer was predicated with the statement \n> [...] Subject to an employment agreement executed by you and the Company, which will lay out the full terms of employment [...] \n\nthough no employment agreement was ever executed and I was still being paid as 1099.\n\nOn Sept 7th I was fired, and the company has since ignored my attempts to collect my last paycheck. The excuses my boss has given me have ranged from \"you weren't doing your job\" (I was) to \"we aren't going to pay you for labor day weekend since you didn't work then\" (I did, though I regret it now) to \"we're not paying you for the last day since we fired you in the morning\".\n\nA few weeks ago I formally sent them an invoice, at my stated salary prorated through the last day I worked, which they've so far ignored. At this point I don't know what to do. If I take them to small claims court, what is my burden of proof? Can I just bring the offer letter? If they claim that I wasn't doing my job, do I have to prove that I was? Can they claim that the offer letter isn't binding since it was conditioned on an employment agreement? I've never had to do this before, please advise.","title":"[NYC] Employer won't give me my final paycheck. Can I sue?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443464314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mq9qv\/carpet_beetles_in_apartment\/","id":"3mq9qv","body":"We have noticed that our apartment in Beaverton, OR has carpet beetles. We have been at this location for over 3 years and this just started happening about 2 months ago. We are having trouble getting them to go away. Our apartment complex management says it up to us to deal with it. Is there an argument to be made about this to get help from the management?","title":"Carpet Beetles In Apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554963004,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbwgt4\/move_out_and_move_in_dates_are_on_different_days\/","id":"bbwgt4","body":"Hi - I posted this on my local city thread but hoping I might get more general replies here! \n\nNot sure if this is the right place to post this but I am asking on behalf of my mom. She previously signed a lease with the current landlord but has not renewed the terms since May 2018 but is paying month-to-month now. The previous lease states \"Move in on the 1st of the month and move out is the last day of the month at noon\". My mom has found a new place which she has already signed a lease (no copy has been given to her) and paid a damage deposit but is not letting her move in until May 1st at noon.\n\nSo - current landlord says she must move out April 30th by noon and new landlord says she can't move in until May 1st at noon.\n\nThe new landlord previously stated my mom could have moved in early but now his current tenants are being difficult (but their place is empty) and have the right to stay until May 1st at noon.\n\nWhat is the best way to approach this situation? Is the current landlord able to kick her out? Can she just stay the extra night and move out May 1st from the current place even though the current landlord has stated by April 30th?\n\nAny help\/advice would be greatly appreciated.\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Move out and Move in dates are on different days","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552602532,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b16svj\/work_is_making_my_job_asn_anxiety_fest_by_moving\/","id":"b16svj","body":"So a bit of background. I work as a night shift Baker a lot of the time it's a lone shift. They have been fixing it so we now have two people working together after some big policy changes and menu changes aka more work now. We are a chain so we have 10 or so stores that we can cover within a 40-50 mile radius. I have been working there for 3plus years and they always compliment my work yet I still have not gotten a store for 5 days I have been weekend coverage. That was ok because at least it was consistent and I knew where I was going on what day no problem.\n\nThen as they start moving people to work together I get placed with someone EVERY ONE in the company refuses to work with because he is rude. I work with him for 3 months before finally reporting him for basically harrassment (not relevantstory) they solve this by moving ME to another store which is 40 miles from my home. This becomes a burden because my SO works at the same company so we commute together and now it's almost impossible to do so. I bring it up and they sort it out in a couple weeks by basically having us work together. \n\nThis is the best for us we have one commute now and we have great communication so it's great working together. So cue another few months we get married and of course we have to disclose this to the company so we can get time off as well and such. Yet somehow now that we are married we can't work together anymore. Either one of us leaves within 10 days OR I get a split shift where I have to work two 4 hour shifts at two stores. Another commuting issue... \n\nSo do I have any options in contacting HR or is this a lost cause?\n\nTl;dr I was working with my SO for months then we got married and they want me to move locations and do split shifts. Feels like they are always making me the b*** of the company.","title":"Work is making my job asn anxiety fest by moving me around and having me do split shifts. Got worse after just getting married.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508090096,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76khhk\/ca_exemployer_wrongfully_terminated_me_and_owes\/","id":"76khhk","body":"I worked as assistant manager for a notary company for seven months. During this time, employees were not given over time pay, lunch breaks, rest periods, or sick pay, and I would still be called to help with work when I called in sick. When I was terminated, the manager and one of the bosses said the company owes me a lot, and that I would not be denied unemployment. Ultimately, the owner of the company claimed I would keep showing up late, skipped work, and my unemployment was denied (I did not come late or skip work).\nThe amount I calculated with the department of wage and labor came out to about $8,000. I'd like to take my former employer to court for that, however, he has committed other wrong doings. The manager currently working there is undocumented, and gets paid under the table, avoiding taxes. A former employee admitted he knew the owner previously, when the owner slept with him when he was only 16 (the owner was in his late 30s to early 40s, this was about 5 years ago). The owner also has backdated, postdated, and forged signatures in his notary work.\nAny help would be appreciated, so far I have gathered my paycheck stubs, my hours worked, and some former employee testimony claiming we never received appropriate breaks or pay. ","title":"(CA) Ex-employer wrongfully terminated me and owes me about $8,000 in pay. He also committed illegal activities, including rape.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570503953,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deu91h\/mom_leaving_house_to_me_in_will_how_do_i_transfer\/","id":"deu91h","body":"So my mom doesn\u2019t have very long to live and has since had a will made up by a lawyer that leaves her house and property to me and my wife.\n\nHowever we\u2019re not sure what to do when she eventually dies and will need to transfer the mortgage into our names, I\u2019m just looking for advice on how to prepare for this and what we\u2019re going to need to do when the time comes. \n\nWe don\u2019t really have enough money to afford a lawyer so I\u2019ve turned to you guys for the best advice possible. \n\nThanks guys","title":"Mom leaving house to me in will, how do I transfer the mortgage?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568432176,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d404eu\/ca_employer_threatened_me_with_termination_if_i_a\/","id":"d404eu","body":"Here are the facts of this situation:\n-  I started working at this company in February of this year. I have never worked in this construction industry and I haven't had previous experience working with the materials that I have to deal with now. \n-  I was never given adequate training in anything and mostly told to shadow my boss (let\u2019s call him COO) or figure it out on my own. COO is very fast at what he does and he doesn't like to slow down and explain.\n-  There is a big project going on with our main client. \n-  In June of this year, COO had me calculate out how much material total that we needed. With my lack of knowledge and training, I miscalculated the amount of material that we needed. Because of this, we were short in the order and it cost the company about $20,000. I apologized for my mistake (even though it was due to the lack of guidance and training) and I told him that I will do my best to fix what I can.\n-  COO is currently out of the state for a family vacation.\n-  My sister is going through a divorce and she is very depressed and suicidal. I made plans with her this weekend to spend time with her and cheer her up. \n-  COO called me and asked me if I can go onsite tomorrow (Saturday) to supervise the installation of the additional material that we had to order. I kindly told him that although I cannot be onsite due to my plans, I will be available to call and Skype whoever is installing the material. He said okay and the call was over. \nCOO called me again (7 mins later) and insisted that I go to the job site and supervise the installation. I explained to him that this is a family emergency and that my sister really needs me. He said that this is my job and this was caused by my mistake so I absolutely have to be there and take responsibility for it because I am a \"project manager\" even though I am not, I am an administrative assistant. I apologized and said that my family is more important to me at the moment. He said \"I guess that this is not a good fit for you (OP) then\". I was in shock and I asked him if he really means that. He said yes. In shock, I told him that I will do what I can. The call ended. \nI cried after this because I have put in so much hard work, blood sweat and tears and a ton of unpaid overtime and I was threatened with termination over not willing to come in on a weekend. \nI then called CEO (COO\u2019s boss and father, 5 min later) hoping to address this issue. He told me the same thing that COO did. He also added that \"your sister is probably going to be fine from 5:30am to 11am and she won't do anything to herself while you come in and supervise a project\". He told me to get myself together and do anything I can to fix my mistake. He said that he had to miss family events due to work (it\u2019s his company). What my sister is going through is not a \"family event\" but a crisis. He asked me where my father is and I told him that he is not present. He asked where my mother is and I said that she is 8 hours away by car. He said that if it's so serious, maybe she should drive up here and help my sister. I couldn't listen to that anymore and I said okay and that I will do anything that I can. He said that I cannot do \"anything that I can\" and that I need to step up. I just said okay and I the call ended. \nI do not think that it is fair for the company to threaten me with termination when I do not agree to work on a weekend, especially when there is a family emergency that is going on. I have been a hard worker and I can get others in this company to vouch for my work.","title":"(CA) employer threatened me with termination if I, a salaried employee, do not come in on a weekend","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554376683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9bf1y\/us_tn_is_there_a_difference_between_driving_30\/","id":"b9bf1y","body":"Just settling an argument. Is there a difference between practicing driving around a neighborhood with people under 21 in the car without a license and driving 30 minutes on highways with many people under 21 in the car with an intermediate restricted license (only one passenger allowed)? Thank you!! ","title":"[US, TN] Is there a difference between driving 30 minutes and driving around a neighborhood without the proper license?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571353820,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djef30\/is_it_possible_to_remove_a_noncommunicative\/","id":"djef30","body":"Hello everybody. I'm still pretty inexperienced at using Reddit, so I'm sorry in advance if this is formatted poorly.\n\nApproximately eight years ago my grandfather passed away and left me behind a trust fund, as well as a handful of other stocks he bought on my behalf which were not a part of the trust fund. At the time, I was a minor, so my grandfather's sister was made trustee of the estate. Due to words exchanged between my parents and my grandfather's sister (and her offspring, who are my parents age), there has been next to no communication with that branch of my family since my grandfather's death. This has mostly been  fine with me. At some point unbeknownst to me, my grandfather's sister's son (my \"Uncle\") became the trustee, which I am okay with, but I don't communicate with him at all either.\n\nHowever, recently I have been meeting with a new financial advisor. After showing him the statements from my trust fund, I believe that, while nothing malicious was done, some of the investments may not have been the best. I would like to transfer the accounts over to the new advisor. I don't know if I like, need the approval of my trustee to do so, but I have literally no means of contacting him. I would like to know if I can remove him as trustee or if I can at least get these accounts transferred without his involvement?","title":"Is it possible to remove a non-communicative trustee?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555526880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bebh16\/officer_gave_me_and_my_gf_a_speeding_ticket_and\/","id":"bebh16","body":"Me and my gf got pulled over and the officer gave us tickets for 10 over speed limit(we were in different cars). He pretty much ignored me and even turned away when I went to get my insurance and registration from glove box, but he kept screaming at her and reaching into her car on drivers side and kept saying do I need to repeat myself when she was answering him right away. He also opened her pass side door and searched her glove box without her permission. We talked to his supervisor and he said he will call him and tell him not to do that again. I called a lawyer and he said he can get the tickets dismissed for 150$ and then we will have to take traffic school which is another 150 per person but I looked it up and it says 15$ per person on gov website. What should we do, should we just pay the 150 to the lawyer to get those tickets dismissed or should we try to fight it ourselves in court. The lawyer said that since the officer didn't find anything in her car there is nothing he can do about him searching her car without her permission. This was kentucky state police btw.","title":"Officer gave me and my gf a speeding ticket and he kept screaming at her and gave her a panic attack and he also searched her glove box without her consent","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568499825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4bzxz\/creepy_stalker_neighbor_office_refuses_to_do\/","id":"d4bzxz","body":"This is in Washington State.\n\nWe have a creepy neighbor who live right above us. We are not the only people who have an issue with him. We've all been reporting the things he does to the office but they have done nothing but tell him to stay away from us. \n\nIt started at the start of summer. We have kids the same age. Our kids enjoyed playing together but N (neighbor) would do nothing but be creepy toward me. He gave off a weird vibe and toward the middle of summer our kids stopped playing together. That's when N started to stalk me around. \n\nSome of the highlights:\n\n-waiting until my husband leaves and then pounding on my door seconds after my husbands car leaves\n\n-staring at me or my kids\n\n-staring in our windows even when curtains are closed\n\n-following us to the pool in the complex and staring at us behind the fence while we swim. N won't leave when other people ask him to quit staring\n\n-pounding on our door for 5 minutes straight because we don't answer (yes I was home, if I open the door he will just stare at me smiling until I close the door)\n\n-talking to my kid through the screen door while standing on my pouch as I'm in ths back room. Then running off when he sees me (we are bottom floor)\n\n-I went home from the pool to shower as my oldest swam with her bff and their parents. N pounded on my door really loud and frantic like. I got out of the shower thinking it was my kid. When I look through the peephole I saw it was N. He continued to pound for 5 minutes. When I got out of the shower he was walking by my window staring in. According to him he did that because his kid wanted to play with mine. But when he saw my hair in a towel he got this really creepy smile on his face it would not stop staring at me\n\n- my husband has told him to stop and he threatened to beat up my husband\n\n- yelled really racist things that kids\n\n-said he hoped a kids dad would die\n\n- after the office talked to him, he stood on the corner of my porch and stared in at my kid for a solid minute before walking away\n\nI could go on but the list would never end. Today he stared at my oldest as she went to come in the house. From my back door to my front door he stared at her and then glared from the stairs as she went in. My husband went out to talk to him and say not to do that and N started screaming at him. He threatened to beat him up, called him a faget over and over, admitted that he had been staring at us out his window two days ago when my husband and I were matching shirts, ETC. I called the office right away and told them that I'm done with this because they haven't done anything. One of my neighbors saw the whole thing and called the office as well. They promised me that they were doing everything they could but I no longer feel safe in my home.\n\nI only have his first name and his apartment number. I'm going to be calling the non-emergency line to start a report. But will they do anything if I only have that information? Can I get his last name from the Office? I'd like to get a restraining order but I'm not sure if that would be enough. I really just want this guy to leave. If he wasn't right above me I just stay clear of him but it's really upsetting that I'm being stared at all the time and the office refuses to do anything about it. Is there anything that I can make the office do in the meantime? I'm worried he's going to escalate into something else at this point. I have cameras in my house, but I'm not allowed to put them outside. Any other suggestions would be very much welcomed.","title":"Creepy, stalker neighbor. Office refuses to do anything about it WA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570397792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de9t5t\/my_mom_was_raped_in_the_80s_she_never_told_police\/","id":"de9t5t","body":"She was 19 at the time. She never told her family because they were awful people and never believed anything she said. She figured the police wouldn\u2019t either. I\u2019m her adult daughter, and she revealed this secret to me recently. I\u2019m pissed. I want justice. She knows his name and the city he lives in. I know the statute of limitations is probably up (I\u2019m in Ohio) but I want _something_ done about it. \n\nWould it be illegal if I called his family? His boss? Made it public? I want this fucker to suffer. Point blank.","title":"My mom was raped in the 80s. She never told police. Can I make a case for her now? Can I tell the rapists family and ruin his life? I know who he is.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554752181,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bay36h\/theft_by_deception_legal_advice\/","id":"bay36h","body":"So I fucked up and did the dumb shit\n\nCurrent College student and got charged with NJ 2c:20-4 for being an employee of a store. I made a statement with LP and talked with detectives. So I have court appearance coming up soon and I need advice on how I could less punishment and not affect my records regarding internships\/jobs background checks. I know most of you will say I fucked up for making a statement since they caught me in camera and have proof. Also, this would be my first offense. Just want to ask what should I do either before my court appearance or the day of. Please help dont want this to affect my life for applying for jobs.","title":"THEFT BY DECEPTION LEGAL ADVICE","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541639242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v5fnp\/paid_time_owed_for_having_to_come_in_after_final\/","id":"9v5fnp","body":"I just worked my last scheduled shift at my job yesterday, and our HR manager was supposed to pay me out and conduct an exit interview with me at the end of my shift. However, for whatever reason she left early and went home without cutting my check, which means I have to go back in again tomorrow in order to get paid out. An older co-worker of mine told me that because I had to go back in again, I would be owed two extra hours of pay. I tried finding out about this myself, and the only thing I think I could link this claim to would be if it fell under Reporting Time Pay, though I think that mostly deals with when you're sent home early and your employer is required to pay you for at least half of your originally intended shift. Anyone have any advice on this, or possibly point me to some resources regarding this?","title":"Paid time owed for having to come in after final day","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571235093,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dipumo\/overlybroad_assignment_of_rights_and_limitation\/","id":"dipumo","body":"Fist time posting, so I'll do my best to keep this as specific as possible without identifying companies or individuals.\n\nBackground: My SO has accepted a position during an M&A deal to move to a new company and the new company has some bizarre (in my opinion) media\/image\/information rights assignments tied with a clause to not sue and unconditionally indemnify the company regarding enforcement of the contract. The contract demands enforcement in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (where I believe the division, though not the company, is headquartered).\n\nKey issues I have:\n\n1. Assignment of all film, photographic, audio, and mixed media rights \"in perpetuity, throughout the universe\" (and yes, this verbiage is in the contract) without limitation to the new employer and its licensees\n2. Agreement that the company and its licencees can release any information about my SO including but not limited to images, film, media, and PII information (specifically stated as name, location, and other related information).\n3. Agreement that my SO has no rights to review any media or information released prior to doing so and no right to limit that release.\n4. Agreement that no legal action can be brought related to the contract and to indemnify company if action is brought or if SO violates the contract and the company chooses to pursue legal action.\n\nIn my opinion based on dealing with overly-broad rights assignments related to my own work and working with a lawyer to redline them in the past, I think the thing is unenforceable as written because it's too broad, however I have redlined specific sections and advised her that we need to get a lawyer to actually review the contract and to return a signed, redlined copy noting that our attorney is also going to be doing a review. The only reason I have suggested returning it at all is because they're pressuring her to do so as a condition of employment after the M&A process is completed.\n\nI'd really love any feedback on this that I can get.","title":"Overly-broad assignment of rights and limitation of recourse","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539126046,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mu0bp\/the_other_parties_insurance_provider_is_giving_me\/","id":"9mu0bp","body":"I am from California. Last summer I was involved in an accident that totaled my car. It was an elderly man that pulled out in front of me in a residential neighborhood. Contrary to my username, I was not speeding. The police report indicated that he was 100% at fault. Now, dealing with his insurance has been a nightmare. First instance... I had a desktop PC in the back of my car at the time of the accident. My girlfriend, now wife, was coming over and we were bringing her PC over to play video games at my place. The accident jarred the PC so hard that it bent the a port on the motherboard which not only broke the video card but also the motherboard itself. We spent months going back and forth trying to get compensated for what the repair costs on the PC would be. He didn't believe the computer was ever in the car. After fighting with that statement, he wanted proof of damages. I took a YouTube video with audio of me explaining what parts we damaged. In that video I also booted up the computer to prove to him that it was not working. After of waiting for a response for  a few weeks, we ended up having to call him. He explained that it still was not enough evidence for him, and that we would need to get it examined by a professional. Not only that, but they would not reimburse us for what those costs would be. Then, once they valued the computer, they would apply a 10% depreciation to the value of the computer. We got fed up and called his superior. She explained that they would settle on a small amount to give us, probably to just get us to drop it. This amount was less than what it took to fix the PC but at that point we thought we were going to get nothing if we didn't accept. So... we accepted. \n\n​\n\nNow my medical costs  are a separate monster. This accident resulted in me needing to go the ER. They performed an EKG on me to see if there was any damage that would cause my heart to beat irregularly. As you can imagine that generated quite a costly bill. The final amount they want to offer me (which includes pain and suffering, as said by them) is significantly less than what my medical bills will cost. Enough to make a young adult of my income sweat. Numerous times I have reached out to the agent to ask for an explanation as to why I am being offered so little. Especially when I am 0% at fault! He never contacted me with an explanation. Instead he continues to mail\/email me the paper work to sign and settle. Basically, he is saying \"that's all you're getting\". This has gone on for so long, that I have now been sent to collections by the hospital. I cannot afford to spend my own income to pay these bills which is why I have not paid them. Before I entered collections, I tried asking the agent if they are able to pay my bills then take it out of my settlement but he said that they cannot. \n\nFrom what I understand, in California I have 2 years to settle this case. The two year mark will be in summer of next year. I am panicking, because I am in collections and being offered to accept an amount that still screws me. I want to pursue a lawsuit, but am not sure how much of a case I have. I just feel that this isn't right. I have done nothing wrong, so why am I being screwed? \n\n​\n\nTL;DR\n\nI was involved in a car accident last year. It is still an open claim, as I have not settled yet. I feel as if I am being pressured to accept a ridiculously low number from the other parties' insurance company for an accident that I was proven to be 0% at fault for. I also feel that they have been shady, and reluctant to answer any of my concerns. I want to pursue legal action against the insurance company or even the other individual. Do I have a good case? Or would the legal fees make it not worth it? \n\n​\n\n ","title":"The other parties\u2019 insurance provider is giving me a hard time. How much of a case do I have if I pursue a lawsuit?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539645482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ohzd8\/advice_about_bullied_daughter_and_the_school_is\/","id":"9ohzd8","body":"So, here is the full story. My daughter, we will call her \"Tracie\", who is 13 years old is a Freshman at the local High School. The boy, who is a 20-year old Super Senior (we'll call him \"Nick\") are in the same Drama class. Now, they used to be friends, and Nick enjoyed her company. My girlfriend and I have met this boy multiple times, and we felt no malice from him. It seemed to be (and according to \"Tracie\" it was) 100% platonic.\n\n​\n\nThis all started with our daughter saying that she didn't eat anything (they went together to a school function, which was confirmed by multiple sources), because she needed to give him gas money. We weren't too upset about it, but wondered why the sudden change. He said she was lying, and it quickly escalated from there. We got a very weird feeling about it, and told him that he won't be giving her rides to school in the morning anymore (again, since we figured this was about the gas money).\n\n​\n\nThis is where things took a very weird turn. He starts spreading rumors about her that the only reason why she hung around him was for the popularity (which he isn't, not that it matters) and for sex. He also starts sending text messages to my girlfriend about how he is going to ruin her life. He was even trying to get \"Tracie\"'s boyfriend to dump her (we got that straight from her boyfriend's mouth).\n\n​\n\nWe brought this to the attention of the school, and they promptly stated that it is a \"He said, She said\" sort of thing. They decided that they were not going to do anything.\n\n​\n\nWell today, my girlfriend got a call from the school, saying that my daughter groped a boy inappropriately (something my daughter has said she has never done). They have no evidence of this, except that it was seen by some \"adult\". When my girlfriend plainly stated that it was a \"He said, She said\" sort of thing as well, they said because it was an adult stating it, that it had more credence. When asked if this was a staff member, a volunteer, or some random adult; they couldn't say.\n\n​\n\nSo now the school is going to make sure that the two don't have any interaction with each other. Remember, they have Drama together (a class that is all about interaction). They aren't doing anything to this boy, and seem to be going out of their way to protect him. They are not protecting my daughter at all. So what sort of things can I do to get this rectified? Should criminal charges be filed against this boy?","title":"Advice About Bullied Daughter and the School is Protecting the 20-Year Old Boy","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540053507,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pvkak\/health_insurance\/","id":"9pvkak","body":"Hey all. I'm pretty lost right now.\n\nYesterday I got into an argument with my parents  on the phone as I was on my way to my friends new apartment. The conversation ended with my mother throwing a fit and refusing to speak to me. I got home an hour ago and I'm to my understanding I'm being excommunicated. I don't have any other family and I'm just reeling on what to.\n\nThe reason I'm posting here is because during the conversation I was told that they would be taking away all provided insurance and benefits I received. Luckily most of my belongings either came from myself or my grandparents, so I can legally say their mine (as long as they don't destroy them while I'm at work later today) and I'm not going to be without anything. However, my car, phone, and most importantly health insurance are bundled to save money. Obviously that ends, but the insurance is tricky.\n\nEarlier this year, in order to get health insurance, my parents filed me as a dependent. I'm 20 and make most of my own money (which has usually been ransomed out of me in order to live there) so I wasn't happy in the first place but with assurance that they would make up the difference with my grandmothers estate money, and the fact that we were on good terms then, I let it happen. Now though? They're screwing me. And since they don't want anything to do with me, I want to make sure that they don't even get one penny because of me.\n\nSo, I'm here, asking for advice on what to do, and how to get myself back to filing independent, getting out from their insurance, and getting their names off of my car title (that was given to me by my grandmother). And even if it's a good idea to do or if I'll be getting an even bigger shit sandwich if I do.\n\nI'm lost, angry, and crying for the first time in a long time. I feel betrayed because I'm not even being treated like a person, let alone family. I don't ask for help but I see how you all have helped before. I can't afford a lawyer as all of my meager savings are about to dissappear. Literally anything you all can offer would mean the world to me. I thank you for reading my mess of a post and I'm sorry if I don't have access to the internet to respond. I don't know how long I'll be here before they physically throw me out. ","title":"Health insurance.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1447516295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ssfy1\/what_can_criminals_do_to_lessen_discrimination\/","id":"3ssfy1","body":"Let's say someone commits a very serious crime, such as homocide, criminal negligence, major theft... They finally get released from prison and want to pursue a career that will allow them to earn enough to provide for themselves and their families. How could they legally minimize that crime in terms of getting it removed if that's possible, not report it on a job application (maybe there are situations where it is not required), not put it on their resume, etc.? I know there's going to be a ton of variation, but responding with how it might work in your state or country would help out with that question.","title":"What can criminals do to lessen discrimination while getting a job?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540585469,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9roaok\/turned_in_30_day_notice_in_apartment_in_michigan\/","id":"9roaok","body":"Hopefully there is a simple answer. I put in my 30day notice for my apartment today meaning my end date is Nov. 25th. I was under the impression that Michigan law stated that rent in these kind of circumstances are supposed to be prorated. Meaning I wouldn\u2019t have to pay for the 26th-31st. My landlord is claiming that I need to pay for the full month of rent for November. The difference is $145. Not a big ordeal, but I\u2019m still wondering who is right in this instance.  Other notes that you guys might want is that I\u2019m currently in a month to month situation with my apartment. ","title":"Turned in 30 day notice in apartment in Michigan","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541887210,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vyawp\/apartment_complex_said_i_did_not_return_keys_sc\/","id":"9vyawp","body":"The apartment complex I recently vacated on Oct 31st just issued me a deposit refund.\n\nThey kept $125 out of my $300 deposit saying that I did not return the keys and called it a \u201crekey fee\u201d.\n\nI was issued one apartment key and one mail key. I returned them both in the drop box that evening and my boyfriend witnessed this.\n\nWhat can I do? I obviously didn\u2019t take a picture of myself putting the keys in the drop box (although I thought about it). But I did drop them in there. \n","title":"Apartment complex said I did not return keys (SC)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552674007,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1ia4a\/sister_getting_continuously_bullied\/","id":"b1ia4a","body":"So basically, my sister has been going her middle school for 2 years. She has been doing well  until her 7th grade year started. Our school district has 3 middle schools to my knowledge and 1 of them was shut down for being so trash (for lack of better term). The kids in the school were moved to my sister\u2019s school and that\u2019s when things began to get rough. She was being bullied left and right until she had enough (Note: she has began making scratch marks on her arms and coming from someone who has experienced this makes me even more mad). She has been seeing her school counselor to let out her feelings and vent. But of course, every week day, she has to go back to the same hellish environment she has been in. I hear about her stories second hand from my mom and nothing angers me more than to hear her getting this treatment from basically everyone. This has been going on for 7 months and what I\u2019m getting at is the principle and other authorities have done little to nothing about it. Multiple kids in the same school have come to the counselor my sister has been seeing. Of course, the counselor herself can\u2019t do much except give the children comfort but something NEEDS to be done about this. (There have been no preventative measures to keep these situations from happening.)\n\nThere is nothing me and my mom can do to stop this other than going directly to the principle to talk about the things that are happening which my mom did do, and got nothing out of. There is nothing left in our power to do so I turn to this subreddit for help. If I can take this to court then what should I do and how should I approach it?\n\nTLDR: My sister is getting bullied non stop and the school authorities have done nothing to prevent this. It\u2019s a continuous problem for multiple children in the school and me and my mom have no power to stop it.","title":"Sister getting continuously bullied.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1410719114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gdy1l\/question_about_how_much_information_is_required\/","id":"2gdy1l","body":"Hello all. I don't know if this is the right place to ask this-if not, please point me in the right direction.\n\nMy husband and I recently received a letter from a company called HMS Employer Solutions. Apparently we need to submit a marriage certificate and the front page of our 2013 federal tax return in order for this company to verify that I am eligible for coverage under my husband's insurance.\n\nThis is new, and I found the documents required. However, I'm concerned about the amount of information on these documents going to a company that, when reading around on the internet, doesn't seem very...legit? I don't think that's the right word, but my nevertheless my feeling is that there's a lot of information on the documents that aren't needed by the company to simply verify that I am indeed eligible. For example, my parents\/his parents names and places of birth, our places and dates of birth, our income, names of both my sister-in-law and my mother-in-law. \n\nCan I redact some information without being penalized? I feel like if I do, they'll come back with an \"insufficient information\" letter or something similar and I'll get bumped.\nI guess just don't feel comfortable having all this information floating around out there and am unsure what my rights are.\nShould I just suck it up and give them what they want?\nSorry if this comes off paranoid and\/or disjointed.\nThanks for any help.","title":"Question about how much information is required by HMS Employer Solutions for insurance dependents verification? (WA state)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541692693,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vb6u4\/apartment_landlord_shut_off_the_entire_complexs\/","id":"9vb6u4","body":"So this actually happened this past Monday. MO, USA\n\nI woke up for class around 8:50am and went to go take a shower before class, like I do every day. But when I turned the handle, nothing happened. I tried both my sinks too and nothing came out. \n\nI called Maintnence and they said \u201cyeah sorry we had to shut the water off and it won\u2019t be on for a few more hours\u201d\n\nI only know like 2 other people in this whole complex, and they said they didn\u2019t have water either. \n\nIs there anything I can do? I can supply more details if needed. ","title":"Apartment landlord shut off the entire complex\u2019s water without telling anybody","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539308025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ng0xq\/do_i_have_to_attend_school_if_there_not_having\/","id":"9ng0xq","body":"I go to highschool in a small charter school in central Texas. My school us having a \"field day\" where there are no regular classes. I was wondering if they can count me absent for missing it even though we're not actually having class.","title":"Do I have to attend school if there not having classes?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539807213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p277y\/moved_into_an_apartment_that_is_disgusting_and\/","id":"9p277y","body":"Hi legal advice! I've read posts around here before but never made one myself so if there's anything wrong with the content or format a d I'll change it!\n\nSo the short of the story is this:\n\nI was overseas and had to take any room I could before school started (I'm a college student). I wasnt able to check out the property before I moved in because I was so far away but I've stayed with the same dorm company before but in a different building and had a great experience so I figured the same would apply here. I assumed I was just lucky when I found they owned a different building that had a few open spaces. I was wrong. I moved in and the place had ants, \"suspicious\" white stains on the carpet and walls by the bed frame, a hole in the floor, holes in the wall, rust all over the shower and sink, mold in the grout, a fist sized whole in the desk (fully furnished was a selling point), profanities sharpied on the furniture... The list does on and on and on but the cherry on top is this. Yesterday I found an outlet hidden behind our couch that had the prongs from an old charger stuck inside and sticking out (I can post a picture if the description is unclear). I am outraged. This is such a huge safety hazard. The building conducts, and charges for, a room inspection before move in so they know who did what damage. My issue with this is twofold. 1). Who saw this room and determined it was acceptable? And 2). After doing some research, it seems this company has a history of charging for every and anything when it comes time to get your deposit, even damage catalogued in the initial report. Our deposit is $700! I can't afford to lose that! One hundred dollars is always withheld from the deposit for cleaning service but I'm angry about this as well as it has become abundantly clear that this place has NEVER been deep cleaned. I want to speak with leasing about this because this is insane. It's not even a \"You get what you pay for situation\" as the total for this year will come up to $7,000 for a room I share with three other girls. The girls in the other bedroom pay close to 12,000 for ten months! I'm upset that we all pay this much for a room that we don't feel comfortable living in. But I signed a contract. What do I do? Please help! \n\nAny advice is appreciated. Thank you so much in advance. \n\nTo clarify: yes, it's classified by the university as a dorm even though they are set up like apartments. We have no meal plan so all the prices listed above are exclusively rent. They are not owned by the university but the university does occasionally recommend and advertise for them. ","title":"Moved into an apartment that is disgusting and half destroyed. What am I allowed to do about it?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552109216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az040v\/ms_how_to_handle_new_neighbors_weed_smell_filling\/","id":"az040v","body":"**Note:** I want to get this out there first and foremost. I am 100% okay with  adults choosing to smoke weed for whatever reason they choose. Years  ago, I used to smoke a ton myself. I have been around it many, many  times. I am 100% in favor of it being a legal activity to partake in.  However, when your habit has negative effects on others, I believe that  is a problem.   \n \n\nSo my girlfriend and I recently moved into an apartment. All has been great since moving in. We love our unit, the  location, the staff, everything was pretty rad from the start. A few  days after we moved in, some people moved in directly above us \u2014 no  problems with them or anything. Apart from the dogs barking occasionally  or what sounds like them hulk smashing with their feet every so often,  it's all groovy.   \n \n\nThis past week\/weekend, some new neighbors moved in right beside us  on the ground level (As in our door is right beside theirs). That's all  cool. Saw them moving in, said hello, but other than that we haven't  had any contact with them. We can't usually even tell when they are home  most times because they are relatively quiet it seems. The times we can  tell they are home, however, when they smoke what seems like enormous  amounts of weed. On all but one day this week, we've found our apartment  filled with a pungent smell of weed at random times throughout the day.  When we come home from work, when we wake up, when I have come home for  lunch, and even once when I woke up to take a piss at 4 AM on a weekday  - all of these times we find our entire 2BR 2BA apartment to wreak of  weed. I am aware that the timing of these events could all be  coincidence and it could be another neighbor, but I honestly find that  hard to believe.   \n \n\nAs I said earlier, my girlfriend is pregnant. The overwhelming  smell of it in our apartment is causing her to become extremely nauseous  as well as giving her splitting headaches. So not only is she having to  deal with waking up and going to work pregnant, but she also has to  deal with going into work feeling like absolute crap because of the  smell. On top of that issue, I work for a company that does not allow  drugs whatsoever (unless prescribed of course). Despite popular belief  by weed smokers, weed's smell does \"stick\" to things. It just doesn't  stick as much as something like cigarettes. They just cannot smell it  because they are nose-blind. We cannot risk me losing my job because of  someone else's habit.   \n \n\nWe've tried informing them of the habit in casual, non-threatening  ways. We've left notes on their door stating how it's affecting us and asking them to please smoke in another part of their unit or get fans or something, I've knocked on their door to only get no answer, we've said loudly through the walls that we smell their weed, exclaimed about how bad it was when we walk into the apartment, and we even put a damn note\/bulletin on the lamp post directly in front of the stairs of our building about it. This has done nothing. I tried to be nice about it and to be a \"bro\", but I cannot  accept someone's habit to affect my girlfriend's well being. I compare it  to when I used to smoke cigarettes: I tried my damn hardest to never be  near high traffic areas, tried to not smell like an ashtray when I was  in class, etc. because I did not want to be \"that asshole smoker.\" I  don't know how to proceed with this whatsoever. This is the first place on my own and have never experienced issues with neighbors like this.  We need some guidance or something. \n\n​\n\n* Is there anything we can do legally? I'm not talking about a lawsuit or anything, but there's got to be something. Maybe I am just grasping at straws though. \n* Can management actually do anything about this issue and if so, will they? I know given the sub I'm on that it might seem like a stupid question, but I have no reason to believe they are shitty as of yet. \n* Will the police do anything if called, or is that not even worth the effort?   \n \n\n**Relevant lease provision**: 14.2.2 You, an Occupant, or any guest or  invitee shall not engage in criminal activity, including drug-related  criminal activity, on or near the Premises.  \n \"Drug-related criminal activity\" means the illegal manufacture, sale,  distribution, use or possession with intent to manufacture, sell,  distribute, or use of a  \n controlled substance (as defined in Section 102 of the Controlled Substance Act (21 USC 802)).  \n \n\nTL;dr: New neighbors smoke a lot of weed, makes girlfriend sick, smell  could potentially stick to our stuff and cause me to lose my job,  efforts to address it have not worked. Help. ","title":"[MS] How to handle new neighbor's weed smell filling our apartment? I know it's just weed, but I'm at my wit's end","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571249362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dit8h3\/do_i_have_grounds_to_break_my_lease\/","id":"dit8h3","body":"This is in WV. \n\nI have been renting from the same property management company for a year and a half now and my lease ends in May of 2020. \n\nThis weekend I was in my apartment and started to smell a strong sulfur smell. Our building is heated by radiators and the boiler is gas powered. The smell was starting to make me feel light headed and queasy and I thought maybe it was a gas leak. I left my apartment and called the gas company and they dispatched a service man. I called the property management company and was redirected to an answering service at a hotel chain. Finally I was put in contact with the property manager (or one of them). \n\nI explain the situation to A, and she tells me that our property does not have gas on site and that perhaps it\u2019s sewer gas leaking since some tenants were apparently complaining about clogged drains recently. I know for a FACT we have gas on the property-it\u2019s listed in the lease, I can see gas lines in the basement, and Ive seen the gas company on site reading meters. I bring this up and she starts being incredibly condescending and telling me that the radiators were powered by boilers and explained boilers to me like I was 5 years old. I continue to say that regardless, there is a chemical smell on site making me ill and something needs to be done. She says she\u2019ll make some calls and get back to me. \n\n15-20 minutes later, she calls back saying that there is gas on site and I remind her that I was aware of that. At this point she continues to belittle me and tell me that it\u2019s nothing and that I need to let the gas people into my apartment. She tells me she lives over an hour away and couldn\u2019t be on site but was trying to get someone there. After that, she tells me \u201cwhen I was a teenager like you...uh a college student I meant..I had an issue like this so the gas people will tell you what to do.\u201d  This is not the first time she\u2019s said something nasty like that about my age-I\u2019m 22, a college student, and work full time, so I don\u2019t know why she feels the need to make those comments. \n\nAnyways, not long after the gas company shows up along with a maintenance man employed by the property management company. The gas man begins testing and finds no gas leak but comments on the strong smell. The maintenance man tells us both that he recently poured Liquid Fire down a drain which may be causing the smell or that there was an electrical fire on site that could have caused a sulfur smell. \n\nThis incident combined with my new neighbors being drug dealers who are not at all covert about their activities has me feeling very uncomfortable with my living situation and I\u2019d like to go about breaking my lease. I see drug deals occur daily, and can hardly park because of how many customers they have. My boyfriend and I have caught them casing our vehicles as well. \n\nI\u2019ve looked into the laws in my area and it seems like they could try to hold me liable for rent until they fill the unit with someone else, unless I have good cause. Would this incident, especially the property management not knowing the utilities on site and potentially endangering 20+ people be a reason to break the lease without being penalized?","title":"Do I have grounds to break my lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444224037,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nu6ak\/nc_fair_housing_discrimination_accommodation\/","id":"3nu6ak","body":"Quick version of the story. I suffer from a mental disorder, specifically Contamination OCD. I requested that my apartment complex not enter my apartment to preform a third party install of low flow devices that was optional according to Duke Energy. The apartment complex agreed verbally (also, have that in writing that they did agree to do so).\n\nThree days later they came in anyways to install the devices. Do I have a case of Fair Housing Discrimination?\n\nThere is definitely more to the story, but the email chain is extremely long and would require a lot of editing to take out personal information. I can provide more details, if requested.","title":"(NC) Fair Housing Discrimination - Accommodation Granted, but No Follow Through","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506667446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7365bg\/llc_business_loan_nuances\/","id":"7365bg","body":"California: My sister was recently sued and just had her case presented in small claims court. She is feeling insecure after being blindsided by some extreme untruths that we're told by the plaintiff. I just want to see your thoughts on this case and small claims court in general:\n\nBusiness is a 50\/50 LLC that is no longer in operation due to the Plaintiff abandoning the LLC and her fiduciary duties (yes, this is ridiculous) \n\nPlaintiff's parents give business loan of $x,xxx but deposited the money directly into plaintiffs bank account which is then used to open and fund the business. Memo of deposit reads \"this is a business loan to ___ LLC.\" Loan is also listed as a liability to her parents on the company on P&L sheets (judge did not look at these but did read a statement from the LLC accountant stating this)\n\nPlaintiff claims my sister promised to repay 50% of the  loan  \n\nPlaintiff's parents required repayment but no contract or operating agreement is ever finalized or signed \n\nAll references to the loan are noted as a \"business loan\" to the LLC. This is stated repeatedly throughout evidence submitted by both plaintiff and my sister  \n\nPlaintiff claims parents actually gave her the loan and that the money was 100% to her (note money was sent directly into her bank account) which she then put into the company. \n\nPlaintiff claims she paid her parents back 100% of the loan\n\nPlaintiff claims my sister now owes her 50% of the loan amount as it was classified a personal loan from the plaintiff to my sister in order to equally contribute capital to the business \n\nSister argues this was not a personal loan, it was a business loan and therefore personal assets are protected \n\nMy sister kept her cool while plaintiff got emotional and even yelled out \"you're lying! You're lying in court!\" and paints my sister as an opportunist who used her for capital\n\nCourt did not go well. The judge barely let my sister talk or explain herself and barely looked at the evidence provided. He asked the plaintiff if there was a contract for the loan and she claimed there was even though it was not provided as evidence because it doesn't exist \ud83d\ude12 \n\nPlaintiff also failed to mention her role in the ending of the LLC but my sister did mention it in her brief statement. \n\nMy sister is not confident that she was able to clearly explain her side and is worried that she wasn't given much of an opportunity to dispute the claims made against her. She is concerned that the judge will side with the plaintiff because of how the loan was portrayed as a personal loan. The judge did not seem interested in hearing more. \n\nWhat do you think? \nCan the plaintiff claim this loan as her own rather than to her parents?\nCan the loan be portrayed as a personal liability rather than a business loan?\nWas the judge swayed by this or was he likely able to see through the bs resulting in a short case without many clarifying questions?\n","title":"LLC \/ Business Loan nuances","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541993287,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wae2u\/should_i_get_a_restraining_order\/","id":"9wae2u","body":"Hi, this is a throwaway account for obvious reasons that I will get to later in this post. I'm new here so please let me know if there is another subreddit this should go. Thank you so much for reading (: \n\n​\n\nMy (22F) ex-boyfriend (22) of four years broke up with me in early July, saying he no longer had romantic feelings towards me. We attend the same school and have similar friend groups. Shortly after our relationship ended, I requested that he give me some time to process everything and one day perhaps we could be friends. \n\nAbout a week after the break-up, he began texting me saying he wished me the best, hoped I was happy, etc. I replied and left the conversation at that. The next day, he texted me repeatedly so I blocked his number. Fast forward to the start of this semester, early August, he started sending me direct messages on twitter asking me to unblock his number and that he \"wished I would have listened\". I blocked him on twitter, facebook and instagram as well. A few weeks after that, I began receiving cryptic emails saying I \"should be hesitant\".  I have screenshots of this and everything mentioned below. \n\nThen, I learned that there was a new romantic partner in the picture, so I assumed he would leave me alone. I was wrong. One night in September, he followed me to my friend's house. Once I arrived, he began sending said friend and his roommate messages saying that we were terrible people and should not be together romantically, which was not the case. The next day, he created a new Twitter and sent me demeaning messages about my friend. I replied to those messages out of anger and frustration asking him to never contact me again, to which he responded saying he only wanted what was best for me, he didn't like my friendship, and didn't want my new friend to hurt me like he did. The first new Twitter was blocked. \n\nAt an away sporting event about a week later, I received another email, asking if I was in attendance. I didn't see this email until after I had returned home so I replied asking him to please leave me alone once again. In mid September, he created a Pinterest page and messaged me through that. I blocked him on that (and every other social media that I hadn't thought would be an issue). \n\nSince the Pinterest page, I have seen him in person once about two weeks ago. He followed me to my bus stop but did not try to speak to me. \n\nOn Wednesday, yet another twitter page was created and began liking my tweets. My twitter is now private and the account has been blocked. \n\nThroughout our relationship, he had some anger management issues that he refused to acknowledge and was emotionally abusive. However, I do not think he would be violent towards me, but I also didn't think I would ever be writing this post on Reddit. I have been talking to some friends and they believe a restraining order is the best form of action to stop him from contacting me. I don't know how far he will go to remain in contact and that is what is worrying to me. \n\n​\n\nI'm sorry for all of the text, and thank you for taking the time to read it. Any advice would be awesome. \n\n​\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Should I get a restraining order?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539271836,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9naz65\/dad_in_prison_how_to_prove_stepmom_is_guardian\/","id":"9naz65","body":"My dad has just recently gone to prison. In order to visit him, we have to apply for visitation. Two of his sons are minors and in the application it says if you are not the minor\u2019s parent, you have to prove legal guardianship in order to bring them to visit. \n\nHow do we prove that my step mom is now their legal guardian? Birth mom is still alive, but does not have custody. \n\nThank you.","title":"Dad in Prison, How to prove step-mom is guardian?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508014042,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76enl0\/question_concerning_parole\/","id":"76enl0","body":"From Indiana. Looking for legal advice concerning my brother's sentence. I don't know all the details specifically, but he has asked me to help him get some perspective on his case.\n\nHe is serving two consecutive sentences. The first sentence carried a two year parole period. He was released on parole and after roughly ten months or so, was arrested and returned to prison on violation of parole.\n\nBased on his understanding of the way the situation was handled, the charge of parole violation was attached to the first sentence. Part of that sentence's parole was served while he was serving time for his second sentence. By the time he was arrested, that first parole sentence would have ended and he would have been on his second sentence parole.\n\nThe question is: Does he have proper legal ground to fight against this? Is there a specific type of lawyer we need to look into? This seems like some form of double jeopardy. Based on our limited understanding, had he been charged with violation of his second sentence, he would have been released about 8 months ago. There's obviously a chance we just aren't understanding how everything was calculated, which is why we are seeking guidance. Thanks for the time!","title":"Question concerning parole.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447341802,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sjio0\/report_filed_against_my_vehicle_for_a_traffic\/","id":"3sjio0","body":"I received a letter in the mail from a local police department's traffic section stating that a report was filed against my vehicle for a violation. If my memory is correct, my behavior was actually legal. That piece of information aside, the letter then states that an interview has been schedule for me asking that I please report to a specified police station. At the bottom of the letter it states, \"This matter will not be discussed over the phone. A personal appearance is required.\" \nThat last sentence is the only one made stating that I am required to attend said appointment. This was a letter I received in the mail and at no point is it referred to as a court summons. Am I required by law to attend this appointment?\n\nUPDATE: You all convinced me to finally call my lawyer and he told me not to go in the hopes that they just do nothing. If they do end up writing me a citation I will need to go fight it in court. Thanks for the help and I'm glad I didn't head into the interview without some advice.","title":"report filed against my vehicle for a traffic violation, OH","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552676737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1itjc\/a_disturbing_video_on_a_porn_site\/","id":"b1itjc","body":"I was on a porn site when I came across a video depicting a man masturbating on some underwear. The comments by the poster revealed that they were the underwear of a minor. I reported the video and am just overall stunned. Call it naivety, but this site is so popular, I would\u2019ve never expected anything like this on there. I figured that certainly they must have mods. \n\nMy questions come down to this: will anything be done? Is what he did even legal? Clearly, it\u2019s extremely dancing on the line but is it punishable? Please get back to me. I am shocked and disturbed. ","title":"A Disturbing Video on a Porn Site","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444408753,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o49s3\/divorce_planningproceedings_with_asd_spouse\/","id":"3o49s3","body":"So [THIS](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/relationships\/comments\/3o17f1\/me_34_f_with_my_husband_30_m_together_five_years\/) is happening, and I was directed here to seek out some advice on how to plan and initiate divorce proceedings. I'm in Oklahoma and we've been married 5 years in January.\n  \nSome pieces of info:  \n  \n* Pretty much everything is in my name. Bills and bank account (he doesn't have one...I closed it because he wouldn't track his money himself, and I'm not his mommy). His debts are in his name, but we DO have an outstanding debt to the IRS thanks to his failure to file taxes on his own before we met, and me making the stupid mistake of filing joint one year and discovering the IRS can now hunt me down for it. Lease is in our names.\n  \n* He will refuse to participate in any of this based on his past reactions to conflict in our relationship, so this is really all on me, and he's extremely likely to not even sign the papers if I serve him.\n  \n* We have pets (not sure if there's legalities around pet custody, haha, but I AM worried about that and I'd like to keep them all together with me since he's not responsible).\n  \nI'm concerned about the whole process being a complete headache thanks to his total detachment in crisis, so any advice on planning out how to address financial and other divorce related processes before I drop the bomb. Thank you in advance.","title":"Divorce planning\/proceedings with ASD spouse","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571635606,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkvsn7\/wife_put_under_citizens_arrest_in_california\/","id":"dkvsn7","body":"Story starts yesterday, the neighbors below us have a dog, and they locked it in, so it was making a lot of noise as it did not want to poo inside. So we filed a complaint with the apartment. Two o clock rolls around neighbor approaches me irate. His main argument is we should have talked to him first. My main argument is that his outright aggression from the gate, makes me think I did the right thing. Guy refuses to internalize anything or let me get a word in edge wise, and in fact says \"No\" when I asked if I could talk, so I said \"We're done here,\" and went inside.\n\nLast night 2 am, agro guy decides to violently bang on his roof, our bedroom floor. He didn't persist because he knew he could only do like 5 bangs or I would have a recording.   \n\n\nToday we find out that they have filed many petty grievances against us. Tonight around 9 my wife goes out to make sure all the groceries are out of the car and the car is locked. She see's the neighbors girlfriend coming outside so she tries to have a civil conversation to smooth things over. GF is as agro as the BF.   \n\n\nI'm watching all of this from our landing above. Agro BF comes outside. Personal space becomes an issue very quickly, before I can fully understand what's going on, Agro BF is saying my wife pepper sprayed him.    \n\n\nObviously after that both parties called the cops. I tell my wife, when stuff like this happens someone usually ends up in cuffs, good chance its going to be you, just be chill about it. Our interaction with the cops was almost enjoyable, and may I say those were some of the four most attractive cops I've ever seen. They leave to talk to the other people and come back, to  tell us that Agro guy is placing my wife under citizens arrest. No surprises there, dudes agro.   \n\n\n1) Obviously getting a lawyer\n\n2) Obviously getting a restraining order on both of them\n\n3) Probably going to move.   \n\n\nI would like to know a lot more about the citizens arrest. The cops said this guy is full on liable for this, but google and the links after have been super unhelpful. I would also like to know a little bit more about the nature of macing someone when you feel threatened. Thank you for you time! \n\n​\n\nPS Super posting to flair this douche, but I guess criminal law is appropriate.","title":"Wife put under citizens arrest in California","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554095185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7xoco\/girlfriend_is_a_nurse_her_supervisor_forwarded\/","id":"b7xoco","body":"hi my girlfriend is a nurse and they have a reporting system for work that they use to document either \u201cnear misses\u201d in health care and actual errors that were made by staff. She had made a couple of reports on one unit and the night supervisor agreed that they should be submitted. Girlfriend submitted them, and then sent the manager a summary of the rooms and errors that were reported through the system. \n\nThe manager decided to forward the email with my girlfriends name on it to the entire unit without her knowledge or consent. The only way she found on was that another nurse approached her and notified her that this was done.  My girlfriend afterwards emailed the director of nursing informing her of the situation in addition to emailing the manager to meet with her. \n\nMy girlfriend is worried about floating to that specific floor again as they may retaliate or treat her poorly. Now her manager emailed her wanting to meet and HR is involved. \n\nShould she be concerned about anything or be doing anything proactively? \n\nThank you","title":"Girlfriend is a Nurse, her supervisor forwarded her complaint to the entire staff","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569600518,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da2kcc\/the_place_i_was_working_for_has_not_payed_me_my\/","id":"da2kcc","body":"Okay, so, I live in Colorado. I was working for a roofing agency and I just so happened to be \u201cput on suspension\u201d until I\u2019m needed. But truthfully I know that I\u2019m \u201cfired\u201d because the season is over until next year. But they haven\u2019t paid me my final check. However, Colorado law states that I should get it 6-24 hours after my termination. What should I do?","title":"The place I was working for has not payed me my final check yet.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444263119,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nwqbg\/us_california_i_have_two_questions_with_this\/","id":"3nwqbg","body":"In regards to my first question. I work at a small restaurant in California with only 3 employees including family of the owner. My hours are varying anywhere from 12 a week to 39 a week. I was wondering that even if I am a part time employee am I entitled to over time if I work more than 7 days a week. I am currently on day 10 of 13 days without a day off. I was wondering if there was any chance I can collect over time for this time worked and if I could contact my closest labor board if it is not provided. \n\nIn regards to my second question. I was wondering if I would be able to collect unemployment on the chance that I am released from this job. There is a warning system set up for writing up employees if anything unsatisfactory occurs. After the third time it is \"grounds for termination\" as stated on the write up. I recieved my third written write up but was not let go. My question is that even if I am issued these but I am let go my boss has verbally stated that \"if you claim unemployment I will fight it.\" I was simply wondering that even with the 3 write ups am I still able to apply for unemployment in California.\n\n","title":"(US, California) I have two questions with this thread. The first is based upon wages and the other is on collecting unemployment.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540178219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q9wrv\/my_mother_was_fired_from_her_teacher_associates\/","id":"9q9wrv","body":"Hi, apologies in advance if this is the wrong flair...\n\nOn a Monday in March of 2016, my mother was fired\/forced to resign from her job as a para educator\/teacher's associate due to events that transpired earlier in class on the previous Friday. A kid, let's call him Nathan, who suffers from learning disabilities, namely ADD was rocking back and forth in his chair like kids do, lifting the chair off of the ground and moving his body with the chair. My mother verbally warned him three times to stop, telling him that he would hurt himself. Nathan did not stop and was about to fall out of his chair when my mom grabbed his shoulders to keep him in the chair and said, \"Stop!\" Nathan promptly stopped and was safe. All went on scheduled during that school day.\n\nThat next Monday, my mother went into work as schedule, but was told by the teacher she works for that the vice principal wanted to see her. She had no idea what was about to follow. The vice principal of the elementary and the vice Superintendent of the school district were there to talk to her about her alleged corporal punishment of Nathan. They told my mother that she was to sign a statement of resignation immediately (written by the HR director who was also present) or else they would put corporal punishment on her record. She signed the statement which acknowledged none of the events she was being accused of and curiously, was given papers which listed the educator and employee's right to use reasonable force within the law to both protect the student from harming himself or threatening harm to others and to maintain control and order in the classroom.\n\nMy mother was very distraught, devastated even. She loves kids and was working her way up in school to become a teacher. She was also the only Latina who was working at the school at the moment. My mother was visibly crying at the outlandish and insane accusations of abuse and mishandling, repeating to the vice principal who was raising his voice, \"I didn't mishandle him, I didn't touch him, I didn't hurt him. I stopped him from falling out of his chair\" thinking simply stopping Nathan from falling wasn't a big deal...\n\nThe vice principal yelled back, \"but you DID touch him,\" clearly not understanding that when my mother said she didn't touch him, she meant she did not harm Nathan as she was being accused of. The vice principal told my mother that Nathan's guardian had been notified of \"the abuse,\" and called the VP and that my mother had to resign or else Nathan's guardian would press charges. Both the vice principal and vice-superintendent told my mother that if she didn't sign, she would never be able to work with children again due to the things they would place on her record.\n\nMy mother was at a loss for words but managed to ask the vice principal if she would ever be able to work at the school again, \"This is my whole life, I love these kids. What am I going to do? I've grown so attached to them that I can't imagine my days without them. Is there a chance I can come back and work here again?\" The vice principal replied, \"well, give it some time. there's always vacancies in the school cafeteria and you can apply there.\" My mother can cook, but like she told him, she has no experience whatsoever in a school kitchen. She wanted to become a teacher. She loves kids and that was taken away from her. \n\nMy mother fell into a deep emotional distress for the new few months, broke her leg on a biking accident in July 2016 and was stuck recovering for eight months. She continued her studies between March and December of 2017, until she applied to a local daycare where she takes care of toddlers and young children. Fast forward to a month ago, September 2018, a friend and teacher's associate from the same school district prompted my mother to re-apply to the same district. Her friend had gotten the job with far less experience or education than my mom has. My mom decided to re-apply, but this time to a different elementary school.\n\nMy mother was given a great recommendation  by her friend who knew the HR person and interviewer, so she was given an interview on the spot. She was told the school whose position she wanted had been filled, but her previous elementary school was still available. She decided to go for it, it was now or never. She was filling out her W-2s right after the interview since she had presumably gotten the job, when the interviewer told her to pause. She took out my mom's file, and my mom saw a paper with notes that she had never seen in her file before. She doesn't know what's on the paper yet, but the lady who was interviewing her had an immediate reaction and the conversation's tone changed.\n\nMy mom said, \"what's wrong?\" The lady replied, \"we'll let you know...the same way you heard about this job,\" my mom was puzzled but left. A week later she hadn't heard anything, so she sent an email and received the automated response claiming they had found someone else and she will still be in the files for future consideration. Well, it's been a month and a half now and my mom's above mentioned friend has said that TAs are getting hired weekly, and with far less experience than my mom has. \n\nWhat I want to know is this, what options does my mom have? My dad and I have convinced her to take this on and fight to clear her name. We've narrowed it down to three options: 1). Sit down and have a meeting with the superintendent where she explains her side of things and demand an investigation into the events to get to a conclusion for all parties. 2). Contact Nathan's guardian to see whether she really contacted the authorized and was interested in pressing charges, which was used to justify my mom's forced resignation or 3). Contact a lawyer for a consultation and move forward depending on the outcome of the investigation and the actions of the superintendent after option 1's meeting. \n\nThank you for your time and reading. ","title":"My mother was fired from her Teacher Associate's job a little over two years ago for stopping a little kid from falling out of his chair, mess ensued. They accused her of corporal punishment and forced her to resign, threatening legal action. She wants to clear her name now.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554243360,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8prn1\/ga_i_believe_my_leasing_office_has_fraudulent\/","id":"b8prn1","body":"So it has been a month since I vacated my previous apartment and moved into another apartment under the same leasing management. My move to the new apartment had issues but that is not the point of discussion for this post. \n\nI received my security deposit back after deductions for the previous apartment and there is a a fee for 450$ for bed bug fix. So my security deposit ended up being\n\n(555-450+122 odd bucks in unapplied credit) = 227 bucks\n\n\nThis made things look fishy. First, I lived in the previous apartment door for close to two years and I know for a fact that I did not have bed bugs. When I asked about the charges, the lady mentioned that it looks like there were bed bugs which were treated for, which costed 450 bucks.  Second, she was not able to explain why an necessary amount of 122 bucks was added back to the deposit. So my question to this subreddit is:\n\n1. Is there a way to challenge a bed bug charge? Like how to go about it?\n\n2. Do I have any chance of winning if I challenge? I am an international and not a resident of the States, and currently on Visa.\n\n\nThanks!\n\n\n\nTL;DR: My leasing management has charged 450 bucks against my security deposit and applied \u2018unexplained\u2019 credit back. I believe I never had bed bugs in my place so wanted to see if I can challenge them.","title":"[GA] I believe my leasing office has fraudulent charges on my security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541194878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9toema\/company_promoted_me_but_isnt_paying_me\/","id":"9toema","body":"I was promised a promotion and went to my panel interview for the promotion on 10\/18. The interview went exceptionally well and I was placed into the manager development program. Typically someone stays in this within their current store for 6 months to train and then get placed as a manager into their own store. \n\n\nOn 10\/22 I was placed into a store on a stretch assignment because they have an urgent need for a manager. There is no one else doing my position there. Typically the company pays you half of what the overall salary difference will be and gives you full once you are assigned permanently. I was told I wouldn\u2019t be getting any salary increase but I\u2019d get paid mileage. In the two weeks I\u2019ve been here I\u2019ve doubled the stores numbers and the store entered the top 250 out of thousands in the entire company. \n\n\nThe manager in my original store is getting promoted to another position in a different store. I will now take that role as of 11\/12. AT MY SAME CURRENT SALARY. I was told it would be like this for an undetermined period of time. And I am now losing the $400 extra a month from mileage reimbursement. \n\n\nThere are others in the district on stretch assignments that are getting the pay bump. There are dozens of others who once did a stretch assignment who confirmed the pay bump. \n\n\nI can not afford to continue to do this at this rate when the position should pay just under triple my current salary. I am the only female and I am feeling like this is discrimination because every one else has gotten the fair treatment and pay. Do I have any legal standing here for a discrimination case? \n\n\nI love the company and want to stay here. But I am not afraid to leave on principle. Any advice would be appreciated. ","title":"Company promoted me but isn\u2019t paying me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446475131,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r7pw8\/does_alimony_automatically_end_if_the_exspouse\/","id":"3r7pw8","body":"After reading around over the weekend I saw a few legal websites out there that suggested alimony ends as soon as the ex-spouse is remarried.  However, after talking with my own payroll department and the local Clerk of Court office it seems as if I have to file a motion to have this ended even though there is verifiable proof my ex-wife has remarried.  The verifiable proof is the public record on the same Clerk of Court's website.  \n\nI know the Clerk of Court response may seem to be the answer to my question I am asking because she was basically trying to rush me off the phone and stated she cannot provide any legal advice.  So, this is why I am asking here.  Also, I did a search on Florida + Alimony and FL + Alimony and could not find an answer to my question.  ","title":"Does alimony automatically end if the ex-spouse gets remarried (FL)?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505259404,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zquky\/truancy\/","id":"6zquky","body":"State of Texas. I viewed other posts and looked online for answers to no avail. My brother is 16 and turns 17 in October. He misses school without legal excuses and refuses to attend. We've already been to small court and they had us pay a small fine for his truancy. It has now gotten worse, he ran away after stealing his mother's car and crashing it. He returned home a few days later and told us he refuses to attend school and that he will drop himself out when he turns of age. We don't know what to do. Will we be fined Again? Should we drop him out of school? We've spoken to the school and the police but were just told to \"force\" him. As a sidenote, we've tried to help him with everything as best we can. He told us he was being bullied by teachers so we moved schools and even districts. Then he said he was being \"watched\". From what we gather, he thinks someone has a hit out on him? He claims that he looked himself up online and that his family has been lying to him about who he really is. He is not adopted. He seems mentally unstable as of late to be honest but we have nowhere to turn. I am mostly concerned about school and the fines associated with his truancy. What can we do legal advice? Thanks in advance","title":"Truancy","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570582668,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df9jay\/the_boyfriend_woke_up_to_a_note_on_his_car\/","id":"df9jay","body":"I\u2019m trying to inform the boyfriend that it\u2019s something he should tell the insurance company and not accept a payment because I fell a legal action could be associated with him being an accomplice or something of the sorts.","title":"The boyfriend woke up to a note on his car claiming it was hit in the parking lot, we suspect the driver doesn\u2019t have insurance due to him wanting calls only. What can happen if the boyfriend accepts a cash payment and it becomes discovered this transaction happened?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554491432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9vbb8\/old_boss_threatening_to_sue_ontario\/","id":"b9vbb8","body":"Hey all just a quick question about a situation I'm finding myself in. A few months ago I worked for this guy and his construction company. He paid me in cheques and sometome etransfers but I never once signed any documents saying that I ever worked for him or the company. A few days ago I resigned on bad terms and he refuses to pay me for my last 2 weeks of work. He just called me and told me he wants me to pay back my last paycheck I received from him. He is claiming he is going to pursue legal action if I do not pay him back asap. He wants the last pay back as he says I've made errors that's costing him money to fix which Is not the case. Does he have any legal basis to actual do anything? Am i required to pay him back?\n\nQuick facts\n\n1. Never signed anything that shows I worked for him legally\n\n2. Paid me in etransfers and cheques but I've since closed those banks accounts because I didn't need them\n\n","title":"Old boss threatening to sue (Ontario)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507947230,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/769gid\/vendor_inside_a_major_home_improvement_store\/","id":"769gid","body":"This is very long I am sorry....\n\nSo I work for a vendor inside a major home improvement store.  My check comes from my company.  All my bosses and colleagues work for my company.  The only affiliation I have with this major home improvement store is I work inside one of their locations M-F 7am-4pm because my product is sold exclusively in their stores.\n\nIn my job description (located in both companies HR) clearly states my job duties and specifically states that I am at no time to be covering shifts or working alone in the paint department.  I am also not to be tinting any paint unless it is for my customers (I handle only professional contractors).\n\nWell 3 separate times this year management has asked me to \"cover the paint department\" because they had people call out.  Instead of them calling other employees that work in paint to come in or having other employees in other departments cover.   They do this because I am free labor.  Countless times I have been left alone.  When there is 10-20 people waiting at the counters for help.  My shirt has my companies logo on it so it puts me in a tight spot where I will either look nice for helping or they will have negative thoughts about me and my company because I was the ass who wouldnt help.  These customers (mostly homeowners and NOT PRO CONTRACTORS) dont know my job they dont know that I just work with pros they just see my logo on my shirt and assume I can help and I am way to nice to tell them no and just leave while all the other employees just vanished.  While I am doing this though it prevents me from actually doing my real job which is work with pros on specs for jobs, new product inquiries, product demos etc etc\n\nAll of my customers and potential new customers are inside this paint department all day but I sometimes have a fear of even going over there because as soon a they soon me these people disappear like crackheads its unbelievable. This store last December had a department head and 5 full time employees and also 7 part timers.  Now they have a department head and 3 full time and 6 part timers.  They also used to have one person in at 530am every day then the next at 7am.  But I come at 7am.. coincidentally they stopped scheduled the 2nd person at 7am and now they come in at 8am.  They are scheduling around me and then the 530am guy harasses me because I refuse to go into their department before 8 because hell leave me alone.  My business cards are in their store and it clearly starts professional market segment.  Ive told everyone 100s of times that I do not deal with home owners so stop telling them to call me and that I will fix their problems for them.  And of course they continue to do it... \n\nI have talked to their managers about this all in detail numerous times.  They could not care less... they basically shrug it off like \"oh thanks for helping\"  Ive talked to my direct manager in so much detail ALL the time about this.. via email, via text, in person.  Every time he just says \"well have to set up a  meeting with management to explain your role here\".  Well not only does he never do that but I've already done it myself and they just DONT CARE.  They choose to ignore it or whatever I dont know. \n\nIf I am sitting down at a desk logging sales calls or doing quotes etc on my laptop these people harass me like its hilarious.  \"Wish I could do nothing all day\".  \"Oh are you lost paint departments that way\".  \"Hiding from your job?\" etc... and its not in a playful way.  It's in a \"i hate you because i hate myself\" tone... I dont even know these people barely so they are not allowed to playfully tease me like my brother or best friends would do anyway.\n\nSo anyway..... Since my direct boss has done nothing... major home improvement store has done nothing...do I have any type of legal precedent here? \n\n TLDR.  Besides the constant harassment from stores employees... Let's say I was helping a homeowner because one of their employees left me alone at the paint department.  And Grabbing their paint bucket I pulled my back or i slipped and fell and broke my foot... who's liable?  I am almost certain that the store would be as well as my company.. that's why it's insane their management allows all this to happen.  I could get hurt at any minute...","title":"Vendor inside a major home improvement store, mistreated & pressured into doing THEIR employees work because they dont hire anyone. FLORIDA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539044398,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mkdkr\/my_ex_wont_work_and_pay_child_support_oklahoma\/","id":"9mkdkr","body":"I have two children and have been divorced 7 years.  We have joint custody but I am custodial.  \nHe is about $13,000 in arears now.  He is ordered to pay about $350 a month. He has stopped working the last 4ish years. He and his girlfriend live in income assisted housing and live off TANF and foodstamps.  They have my kids listed on they're foodstamps and housing.  They donate plasma for cigarette money.  I am civil with him for the children and don't let his arrears affect them seeing him except that he rarely asks to see them.  I will bring them anytime he does ask and they'll stay a day or two every other month or so.  The state did revoke his driver's license for him not paying child support.  \n     So onto my question. Can I file contempt without a lawyer? The state will not file contempt charges because they don't want to put someone in jail who cannot pay up. I understand that but he is not working so he won't have to pay  child support. \n    This feels childish but it's not fair! I would like him in jail at least to scare the shit out of him for a few days.  What he's doing now works too well for him and he has no reason to change.  He claims a knee injury but I know this man and he is faking it at the doctors for pain meds which I caught his girlfriend selling once.\nHe does not take the stuff himself.   I cannot afford a lawyer and we barely scrape by as it is.  \n","title":"My ex won't work and pay child support. Oklahoma State says they wont file contempt because he has no assets.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552092418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayxoru\/fiances_friend_harassed_and_terminated_from_job\/","id":"ayxoru","body":"This is a bit long but I'll try and keep it to the important details. I'm posting this on the affected person's behalf (with permission) because she doesn't know about Reddit.  TL;DR at the end.\n\n​\n\nMy fiance is a dentist. We recently moved away from Florida, but before we left she had been working for a large corporate dental chain for approx. two years. My fiance worked with a woman who we'll call Brenda. Brenda has been a dental assistant at the company since July 2017. She has never had an issue with the dentists she worked with, and my fiance absolutely loved working with her. She feels she was wrongfully terminated on March 4th. The problem has been the office manager, who we'll call Steve. \n\n​\n\nBrenda has been criticized relentlessly, chastised publicly, and could never do anything correct. She asked the dentist that owns the practice for a transfer but he denied her. (Unfortunately this was all done verbally.) She tried to explain what Steve had been doing:\n\n​\n\n1. **Changing her time card so she worked for hours she didn't get paid for.**\n2. Denying vacation time with no reason given (may not be anything wrong with that, I'm not sure.)\n3. Not being provided a work schedule until last minute.\n4. Treated with an overall hostile and threatening attitude. (Not the whole office, just her.)\n\n​\n\nOn Friday, March 1st, a co-worker asked Brenda for a ride to work because of a flat tire. On the way there, they discussed work and they both vented their frustrations about their office manager, Steve. The next Monday, March 4th, Brenda was pulled into the office by Steve, with the dentist that works in that office with them. Steve proceeded to tell her that the conversation between Brenda and her co-worker was \"accidentally recorded\" on his voicemail. Since it was disrespectful towards him, he was now \"writing her up.\" Brenda remembers her co-worker on her phone in the car, but didn't think in a million years she would be recorded. (I informed Brenda that FL is a two-party consent state. It's the first thing I looked up.)\n\n​\n\nSteve accused Brenda of several things that he couldn't provide evidence for, such as letting patients leave without the Doctor knowing about it. There were no dates, no documentation. She's never been written up prior to this, mind you. Brenda was told to sign it. She refused, stating she disagrees with it and will not put her name to it. Steve tells her she either signs it or she's terminated on the spot. Brenda asks for a copy for her records and she is told she cannot have one. She again refuses to sign, and leaves the room. When she goes to clock out, the dentist approaches her and asks her to please sign it, and says that she doesn't agree with it, but she (the dentist) felt coerced into writing her up. The co-worker in the car was not written up or reprimanded in any way.\n\n​\n\nBrenda called the dentist that owns the office. She expressed her concerns, and he said he would have to get Steve's (the office manager) side of the story as well. It's Friday and he hasn't gotten back to her. She is sending a letter to HR of the company describing all of this, which I think is a good step. But I offered to see what Reddit has to say. \n\n​\n\nSo, what do you think? I have a feeling the advice is talk to HR and get an attorney. If true, the unauthorized recording is really fucking damning. Even if it \"was an accident,\" then that'd mean neither of them consented to it, correct? (And therefore it's worthless...I'm guessing.)\n\n​\n\n**TL;DR: Dental Assistant at fiance's old job harassed at work continuously by office manager, possibly recorded without permission, written up for content of said recording, then terminated due to refusal to sign the write-up.**","title":"Fiance's friend harassed and terminated from job at dental clinic.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542247785,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x6r3a\/how_to_deal_with_an_inherited_house\/","id":"9x6r3a","body":"I have a somewhat unique situation. I co signed for a mortgage on my mother's home when she and my father divorced 4 years ago so that she could afford to stay in the house. So the mortgage is under her name and my name. My mother passed away and left her half of the house to my sister, so we both inherited half (half was already mine). My sister is living in the house and paying the mortgage, but I want my name off of it. My sister declared bankruptcy about 3 years ago so I doubt she could get a mortgage to buy me out. All I want at this point is to sign it over to her so that my name is off of it entirely. I intend to find a lawyer, but I'm overwhelmed with everything at the moment. Anybody have any advice on the situation? ","title":"How to deal with an inherited house","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554251991,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8raxm\/fired_but_employer_has_labeled_it_as_quitting_no\/","id":"b8raxm","body":"My cousin [no Reddit account] was recently terminated from a food making business we will call, Be Well. Prior to the termination, he had been taken off the original schedule because they were under the belief he quit. He didn't. He told the GM he closed his position and left 30min early. Later the next day after him seeing he is off the schedule, and hearing from others he quit, he contacted his GM and told them he didn't quit. They then re-add him to the schedule. Very soon after he receives word from his gf that her grandmother will be going through a very risky operation and would like him with her at the hospital. He then spent that time contacting everyone and anyone to cover him. Even his GM and the individual above him. A few hours before his shift, he is told if he doesn't show up for his shift, the owner stated, that he will be fired for a \"no call no show\". Now he has a text from his GM that he would be terminated. Not as a no call no show, just terminated. He then finds out, when grabbing his stuff he has been labeled as quitting. Now he cannot file for unemployment to help pay for his bills while he is applying as a cushion. Is there any legal action he can pursue for this?\n\nEdit: words","title":"Fired but employer has labeled it as Quitting. No longer able to apply for unemployment while job searching for security. Is there any legal action that can be persued?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555587251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bekgq2\/i_lease_an_apartment_in_oregon\/","id":"bekgq2","body":"I lease an apartment in Oregon. The complex has very strict rules about what you\u2019re allowed to have on your patios among some others. I like it because it keeps the place from looking like a ghetto. Recently they sent out notices saying nobody is allowed o raise their blinds. They want everything looking uniform from the outside. Needless to say people are pissed. My cat likes to lay on the window sill and look outside. There\u2019s nothing in the lease that says your blinds have to stay completely lowered. Can they control our blinds that are adjustable and inside the apartment we pay rent for? This seems over the top and petty.","title":"I lease an apartment in Oregon.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542175163,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wxdg8\/friend_let_someone_drive_his_car_while_traveling\/","id":"9wxdg8","body":"Ill refer to my friend and John and the person who wrecked as Jane. This is in missouri\n\nTo give context: \n\nJohn is part of my team and we are traveling to an event using our own cars, I am in a separate car. We are all exec members of this club.\n\nJohn must pick up jane in the city she lives in, when she gets picked up, john requests to jane to drive so he can do homework.\n\nLater on Jane hits black ice on a bridge, panics, brakes hard, hits a median, and the car is fucked. There was little to no snowfall at the time. No one is injured thankfully.\n\nThis is where all the legal stuff starts:\n\n John is asking Jane to help pay for some of the insurance costs, she responds to him texting:\n\n\"Page 25: \u201cshould personal vehicles be used, the vehicles owners personal liability insurance will be responsible for coving any and ALL liability that may result from the use of the vehicle for the proposed club sponsored trip\u201d so I\u2019m not paying for anything and legally you can\u2019t make me bc that\u2019s insurance fraud. I also told you I didn\u2019t want to drive. I also mentioned the weather and you the president blew it off. I\u2019m sorry about what happened but this is all on you. You are responsible for your vehicle not me. I\u2019ll be happy to take you to get groceries or home from practice or to and from for thanksgiving but that\u2019s it\"\n\n*Page 25 refers to a club manual that our school issues to all clubs. \n\nMy response to this is:\na) thats school policy not state or federal policy, that only means we can't sue the school\n\nb) in none of the groupchats we are in together did she ever state concern for weather. 4 other teams from the same region, that take the same roads as we do, went and made it to the event. The rest of the execs also checked weather According to her car mates she did not verbally state concern over the weather either.\n\nc) it's fraud to say she wasn't driving at the time\n \nd) she willingly drove, in the snap group we are in she expressed how she was very willing to drive and according to the other car mates she didnt express discomfort in driving\n\nI think she has 0 legal backing to her claims.\n\nThoughts and advice would be very appreciated.\n","title":"Friend let someone drive his car while traveling for a college club event and that person wrecked his car due to black ice.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553125122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3j90q\/long_appeal_wait_time\/","id":"b3j90q","body":"So I got a message from an online friend of mine, his uncle has just been convicted of battery and sexual abuse. He is convinced that his uncle is innocent, I told him to appeal the case. He said that he had to wait 8 months until they could appeal. Could you let me know if this is normal? Or if there's a way to reduce this time?","title":"Long appeal wait time","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1409776609,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fe1q9\/old_apartment_complex_going_to_put_bill_into\/","id":"2fe1q9","body":"Here's the story.\n\nI lived in an apartment in Minnesota from October 1st of 2012 to July 31st of 2014. During our stay, my roommates family stayed a few times for a few days each time, and my roomate's brother also stayed on some separate occasions, but not for long. There were some stains on the carpet due to pop spills and other things. That portion of the carpet in the living room needed to be replaced. I also moved my cat in in the later half of the second year, but has never had any issues with not using the litter box. \n\nMoving out, we cleaned the apartment to a condition that was better than we moved in. I found items from the previous tenant stuck in the floor heating vents, including a DVD and a school picture of a girl I don't know. We went through their provided checklist of everything to clean, and, when the move-out inspection took place, nothing was mentioned to us other than the area underneath the sink, which we had forgotten to wipe down.  \n\nTurns out, we were billed over $250 on top of our $500 security deposit (300 deposit, 200 pet deposit.) This includes 2 hours of cleaning at $35 per hour and then the cost of replacing all of the carpeting. When I asked the apartment manager why two hours of cleaning was needed, she said that she was told that the windows needed to be cleaned (I did that), the oven was dirty (cleaned twice right before move-out), dishwasher was dirty (I had told them weeks prior that it was not draining properly but ran empty cycles anyways as instructed), and kitchen cabinets were dirty (also untrue.) I have pictures and a video walkthrough of the apartment after cleaning was done, but nothing too detailed because I didn't assume I'd be screwed over like this. \n\nThe part I'm more concerned about is the carpeting. I got the invoices of when the last carpet was installed, and when the new was installed. They say the carpet is rated on an 8 year cycle, and that we did 5 years of damage to it so it needed to be replaced. I figured out, from the invoices, that the carpet was 3.25 years old when we moved out. I also called the manufacturer of the carpet and the company who installed the carpet. Both said the carpeting is rated at 5 years, not 8. I did the math, figuring we did 1.75 years of damage to the carpet, and, even with the cleaning charges of $70 still on the total, it comes out to less than what they have for the deposit. \n\nThe manager also made a very bold (and very untrue) claim that she SAW my cat urinating in SEVERAL places on the carpet while she was there for 10 minutes doing an inspection. My roommate was there when she did that, but I was not. He told me all she said to him was about how my cat is fat, which is true. I know for a fact my cat did not pee anywhere on the carpeting, as I have a very strong sense of smell for cat urine, and I was on my hands and knees edging the carpet when cleaning. \n\nWhat do I have here for a case? What happens if they submit this to collections? I'm not even that worried about getting money back, but it is absurd that we should pay any more than we already have. \n\nThanks.","title":"Old apartment complex going to put bill into collections if I don't pay up.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553987927,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7hat3\/tx_how_do_i_mom_begin_the_process_of_termination\/","id":"b7hat3","body":"Background:\n\nMy son (now 5 1\/2 years old) was born out of wedlock and there is no established custody agreement. The father, who was present at delivery, signed the birth certificate to establish paternity. We gave him his father's last name because we'd talked about marriage and it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. -_-\n\nThe father has been out of the picture almost completely since he was about a year old. By almost, I mean that his understanding of child abandonment law was that he must make contact at least every six months, so he made sure he didn't miss that marker. This went on for the first few years but stopped completely about 2 years ago. He does provide financial support in that he collects federal disability due to mental illness (PTSD, anxiety, and depression related), and so, his son receives a monthly installment from the Social Security Administration, as well (there is no other child support received).\n\nHe struggles with mental illness and has been in and out of psych wards in the years since our separation and his cessation of contact with me and our son. \n\nI have not heard from the father in any manner in approximately 2 years. I don't know where he lives currently. I have what may still be his current email and phone info but I'm not sure. He knows how to contact me but does not have my current address. (I live in the same apartment complex that I did when he last visited but I'm now in a different apartment - one bedroom to three bedroom.) Otherwise, all of my contact information has remained the same, so I'm certain that he hasn't been trying to reach me. \n\nCurrent situation:\n\nI've been in a stable, loving relationship with my SO for almost 4 years and we have plans to marry. My SO would like to adopt my son as soon as we figure out how to get this ball rolling.\n\nAlso, I'd like to have my son's name changed from his biological father's last name to my last name, as that's what he knows himself as through daycare and such. He'll be starting kindergarten in fall and I'm concerned that it would confuse him to begin going by his birth name. Do I need to have the father's knowledge or consent to do this? Or is it as simple as visiting the social security office? \n\nAny pointers to send me on the right path would be verrry appreciated. \n\n","title":"[TX] How do I (mom) begin the process of termination of parental rights of very absent father? Also, can I change my son's last name to my own without the father's consent? Which should I do first or is this done concurrently?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539991119,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pp26s\/i_have_a_court_date_for_not_waiting_for_a\/","id":"9pp26s","body":"So far the only excuse I can make is another car literally did the same thing in front of me but the cop was closer to me. What can I do?  ","title":"I have a court date for not waiting for a pedestrian to criss the crosswalk. What are my options to make sure I dont break the bank with the judge?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570412257,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/decr0f\/mobile_county_alabamaobtaining_legal_guardianship\/","id":"decr0f","body":"Hi! This is my first post and I am on mobile so I apologize for any mistakes. \n\nI live in Mobile County, Alabama. I am a 21 year old college student\u2014job title Residential Assistant, income $11,000. I am married and my husband\u2014job title School Teacher, income ~$40,000. \nMy little sister is 15 years old. She has diagnosed severe depression and anxiety. Even worse for her mental health, she is homeschooled. \nOur father has custody of her, but she lives with our mother due to disagreements with our father and his new girlfriend. Her mental health is not correctly taken care of or even acknowledged(it wasn\u2019t when she lived with our father either.) She is struggling with homeschooling as well but the public schools around her are unsatisfactory. \nI would like for her to move in with me and my husband and go to school where he teaches (in Irvington, AL\u2014we will move into city limits if I can legally get permission for her to move in with me.)\nShe is not being abused. \nOur mom never graduated high school, and works full time in customer service. Our father also never graduated high school, and is a full time construction worker. \nI know that I can help her with her mental health, school work, and future plans with college. \n(A bit of back story\u2014from me being age 12 to 18, I pretty much raised her and our other sister. I helped her with all of her homework and cooked for her and took her to school\u2014when I could drive\u2014and anything else she might have needed. It was only when I moved away for college that I couldn\u2019t be there for her and her mental health took a downfall.)\nMy husband and I have talked about it and we both want her to to live happy and healthy with us. \nI tried google and everything but I do not know what to do.\nPlease ask me any questions and let me know if I missed something.","title":"Mobile County, Alabama\u2014Obtaining Legal Guardianship or Whatever I May Need","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571333403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj9ov9\/hr_director_and_my_former_boss_keeps_torturing_me\/","id":"dj9ov9","body":"US\/ New Jersey\n\nI\u2019ve been at my current employer for ten years now, working in various roles, and have consistently been treated badly by the company\u2019s Humans Resource manager. I worked for her from 2011-2013, until I was given a different boss. \n\nTo name a few instances she has:\n\n\u2022Withheld my vacation hours and made me work hours of overtime to \u201credeem\u201d them (1 hr OT = 1 hr vacation)\n\u2022called me dumbass, told to \u201cshove my procedures in my ass\u201d, \u201cmen are stupid\u201d, amongst many, many other things\n\u2022my hours are 9-5. If I left at 5, she constantly asks me if I\u2019m \u201cleaving early.\u201d I was pressured into working until 10pm most nights.\n\u2022made my current supervisor \u201clower\u201d my annual review scores because it was \u201ctoo good.\u201d\n\u2022informed employees I had mono\n\u2022I complained about the tardiness of two other employees - so she took away duties of the two employees and gave them to me to punish me\n\nI\u2019m really just touching the tip of the iceberg here. I\u2019ve complained about this to the highest levels for quite sometime and never has she been disciplined. Nothing has happened and she is still calling me names to this day. Every employee in the company knows how terrible she is to me.\n\nMy questions to LA are:  Technically, I\u2019m not a protected class. I\u2019m a single white male (30). Do I have any protection\/rights? How do I proceed?\nAnd - what would be the statue of limitations on something like this that\u2019s been ongoing for years? Would it only be the most recent episodes?","title":"HR Director (and my former boss) Keeps Torturing Me","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553190604,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3tlym\/im_being_askes_to_sign_a_noncompete_agreement_at\/","id":"b3tlym","body":"Long story short. I work at an axe throwing venue primarily, i worked at another venue in the area and now the prime company I work for is threatening to fire me if i don't sign a non-compete that will affect my ability to work in a area that's booming right now.\n\nI've already told them i wouldn't be willing to sign it of it affects my ability to put my skills to work after i leave this job.\n\nDo i have any recourse to refuse signing it? \n\nIt's a new thing they are doing and I've been employed there over 2 years.\n\nIs there anything i should know or lool for before signing?","title":"I'm being askes to sign a non-compete agreement at my Kentucky job.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555107057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcjjcd\/mother_of_child_had_license_suspended_is_still\/","id":"bcjjcd","body":"Location: Michigan\n\nNot my son, but my s\/o\u2019s. He has majority custody (60\/40). His son (10) lives with us but goes to moms every other weekend, and a few hours during the week. Last year he paid her several months of child support while she vanished and he had his son the whole time (didn\u2019t see mom at all for several months). He fought to have her pay those months back, and won (this was the same time he won majority custody). She was supposed to start paying in October of last year but never did, even quit her job to avoid having her wages garnished. Her license was suspended a few weeks ago for non-payment. My s\/o went to his son\u2019s school right as he was getting out today (on her weekend) because we suspected she was still driving, and sure enough she pulled up, but she didn\u2019t see him. She\u2019s driving her 3 kids (only one is my s\/o\u2019s) in her brother\u2019s car (hers just got repoed) with a suspended license. He\u2019s been accumulating a list of her violations to fight for supervised visits (for many reasons that would take a long time to explain) as directed by his lawyer. Can he get things to move along faster because of the suspended license? Should he just wait or is there something we can do? We don\u2019t want her driving him illegally, would like to do something about it even if it\u2019s not going to affect parenting time. He\u2019s offered to keep his son overnight and bring him to school, then drop child off at Mom\u2019s, and to pick him up for baseball practice, but she won\u2019t cooperate. And now he\u2019s missing practice because my s\/o told her he was waiting there (he has all the baseball gear). She had previously said she was on her way then as soon as he texted her, she said she went the wrong way and wasn\u2019t going to make it on time..Thank you for any advice. Tried to keep it as short as possible, hopefully I explained enough!","title":"Mother of child had license suspended, is still driving with child in car","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539790013,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ozn5n\/tenant_rights_in_the_case_of_a_building_sale\/","id":"9ozn5n","body":"Hi all,\n\n​\n\nI currently live and rent in Denver, CO and have heard rumors that the building I reside in is potentially up for sale. I was just curious what tenant rights were in place in cases like this - can they force the current tenants to move out, and is there anything I need to do proactively to prepare myself\/my neighbors for this situation? I've been told I need to join or form a tenants rights group or coalition, but I'm not sure how I would do that or where to find one. My lease isn't up until April 1, 2019 and I was hoping to renew for another year, but I'm not sure if that will be an option if the building is sold because I heard the new property management group wants to completely gut and renovate the building so they can jack the prices way up (this is an old building, built in the 1930s). I've checked my lease and the only thing I see about a lease buyout option is in the case of the tenant needing to buyout of the lease. Can tenants be forced to move out before their lease expires, and in that case would the leasing company have to buy the tenants out? Any advice or insight would be appreciated. Thank you!","title":"Tenant rights in the case of a building sale?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551573451,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awoi3p\/ca_ceiling_caved_in_in_my_bedroom_wondering_what\/","id":"awoi3p","body":"I woke up this morning to loud cracking noises in the ceiling and then suddenly 1\/3 of the plaster on my ceiling came falling down on pretty much everything I own (I don\u2019t own much). Emergency maintenance came over and kicked us out; I\u2019m now staying on a friend\u2019s couch and I\u2019ve been promised $100 of compensation per day to cover food and whatnot.\n\nMy main concerns are:\n\n1) testing for asbestos. This apartment is old, old, old. The property manager claimed he was told there\u2019s no asbestos but that he\u2019ll double check. I want to make sure the check is done thoroughly for my and my roommate and future tenants\u2019 safety. How would I enforce this? How would I get proof? California asbestos\/tenants rights are really confusing for me. \n\n2) if there is asbestos, what do I do next? I assume I throw out everything I own, and I can\u2019t afford to replace much\u2014I\u2019m living paycheck to paycheck here. I also DONT have renters insurance. Would my landlord\/property management company be liable for that? It\u2019s mostly just clothes and a few books, but still worth a few hundred bucks. Not including my furniture (bed and dresser, also covered in debris). \n\n3) anything else I should be doing\/making sure is being done? \n\nI\u2019m at work so I might not be able to reply right away, but I definitely appreciate any and all advice. \n","title":"[CA] Ceiling caved in in my bedroom, wondering what my next steps are.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550475816,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arusp8\/usor_my_mil_wants_to_sell_her_second_home_whats\/","id":"arusp8","body":"My MIL has a second home in her current small town in rural Oregon that she currently rents, but is looking to sell outright. Right now, she might sell to a family friend or to her current tenant. \n\n​\n\nShe purchased the home about 30yrs ago for $20k. It's currently valued at \\~$85k, which is where she'll likely sell it at. She owns the home outright. Is there anything she could or should do with the deed to the home, prior to selling, to best position herself for both taxes and liabilities? \n\n​\n\nI believe she is looking to take the funds from the sale and provide cash to her children as each was recently married and are saving for homes. \n\n​\n\nThanks-","title":"US-OR | My MIL Wants To Sell Her Second Home, What's The Best Structure For Her?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555128016,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcmp1e\/i_29m_just_found_out_that_my_sister_39_cut_me_and\/","id":"bcmp1e","body":"Throwaway account for reasons. \n\nAllow me to begin with my mother passed away last year from cancer. She was the big family figure for everyone. She made the gatherings, made the holidays happen, and kept up with everyone in the family. Needless to say it was hard on everyone.\n\nBefore mother passed she had a list of all the things she wanted to happen after she passed on. S was around making sure she went to her cancer treatments cause her job allowed her to be mobile. I was my mothers emotional support. She would call every day asking how my day and some times ask if I could come and help her which I loved to. \n\nThe days leading to the funeral, B and I was told we was not needed everything was taken care like Mom wanted. B has wife and son, I was working 6 days a week and taking care of a mentally abusive gf at the time. Day of the Funeral arrives and things are ok. The whole church was packed for the service with many nice things brought up and notice how many lives my mother had done to the community and the schools for being a teacher for over 20 years.\n\nMonth later, Dad is \"just friends\" with a woman that the family just knew from working in a dentist office. He tells everyone that she was good friends with Mom and they talked all the time. Everyone in the family never seen this person in any gathering or ever show up at the Family Home. \n\nDuring summer I went to FH to talk to Mom (we had her cremated and her ashes sit on a mantle) and I noticed a vehicle I didn't recognize. To me I figured it was a coworker of Dad who is going swimming. I didn't look to see who was out there, but didn't think that much was just going to be there for a little bit. \n\nI received a text from my Dad within 5 minutes of me arriving FH about if I was there. I told him yes and before I could explain why he tells me that his friend is there and she's uncomfortable with me just around. \n\nThis just shocked me as now my Dad has chosen someone else over me. We always had a family member present while swimming so A) no gets hurt or drowns while swimming and B) we have been robbed before by my B's friends when he had a party ( almost 20 years but still) \n\nSo come to this year after a 1 year after Mom's passing, I have seen all photos of my mother that she decorated the house with family photos are all gone. The photos of her by her urn have gone and when either B or I press Dad about the photos he shrugs us off.\n\nNow I got done with dinner with B and his family tonight, and I confirmed neither one of us seen our mother's will or even her list of what she wanted. Second we found out Dad has given S 100% of everything. The FH, our grandparents property, everything savings.\n\nOur S has already told us she is selling everything. My S and I haven't been on good terms since she cheated on her husband years ago and when Mom confronted S about her actions and just wanted her to tell the truth, S lashed out at everyone calling out our faults. When she got done with Mom last I let her have it. I called her out for every single fault she has and she decided to work out of the country for years to stay away.\n\nWhen Mom passed I tried to bury the past with S. Hoping that we can be a family now more than ever. \n\nI'm wondering now what can I do since my S wants to effectively push me and B out of the family. I feel so lost and helpless, I know Mom would be furious with how my S is acting not just her superiority complex but so conniving that she knows she's my Dad's favorite that she will tell him what he wants to hear, not just what's right. Example being that Dad believes truly that this \"friend\" is ok. Dad brought this \"friend\" to my birthday dinner and she didn't even talk once to me, my dad barely said happy birthday and S refused to barely acknowledge me besides handing me a birthday card.\n\nTl;dr My dad has given my S 100% in the will our family has worked for, just so she can sell it for maximum profits.","title":"I (29m) just found out that my sister (39) cut me and my brother (40) out of our Father's will.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540756253,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s64ir\/what_to_do_when_your_lawyer_didnt_put\/","id":"9s64ir","body":"Okay bear with me. So I rent out a small garage to a food and beverage business on my property. They\u2019ve been late late with the rent for 3 months by anywhere from 3 to 7 days however the checks are always dated the day that it\u2019s due. Our lease says \u201cpayment is due at the office of the landlord on or before the firths day of each month\u201d.  Our lease doesn\u2019t list repercussion. Is it possible to evict them or threaten to evict them?","title":"What to do when your lawyer didn\u2019t put repercussions in your tenants rent","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443319479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mj8ya\/tuscaloosa_al_and_austin_tx_i_am_a_freelance_web\/","id":"3mj8ya","body":"I had a really long Adderall-fueled post typed out, but decided that it would be in this sub's best interest to only provide details as needed.\n\nAnyway, without a contract, I provided services to a client in exchange for compensation. I recently voiced interest in establishing the terms of our relationship in the form of a contract and tried getting the client to agree to a contract that was not drafted or approved by a licensed attorney. To avoid going broke, in debt, evicted, etc., I signed the original contract despite not actually mentally agreeing with the terms. I'm looking for a licensed attorney who is capable of drafting a technical service agreement. I live in Tuscaloosa, AL, and the clients wants the governing law to be those of Texas.","title":"[Tuscaloosa, AL and Austin, TX] I am a freelance web developer and don't know where to start to acquire a technical service agreement for a client and me.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541099572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tch2m\/i_have_evidence_of_somebody_soliciting_nudes_form\/","id":"9tch2m","body":"I\u2019m terrified of having to go to court\/making my identity known. If I reported would I have to testify?","title":"I have evidence of somebody soliciting nudes form a minor","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447375687,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3slrxl\/lease_terminationsecurity_deposit_in_md_my\/","id":"3slrxl","body":"To start, I live in Baltimore, MD, and I have a question regarding lease termination and return of my security deposit. I\u2019d really appreciate any advice about whether I should bother with small claims court or not. \n\nI terminated my lease after living in a sublet for one week. I was shown the apartment by the girl currently living there and signed after meeting up with her twice more. Because her last roommate moved out without notice, I was told that as long as I gave her the security deposit, I could live there free until the end of the month (1 week). \n\nAfter moving in, however, she refused to give me space in the refrigerator or cabinets in the kitchen (both were packed completely full). By the end of the week, it got to the point where another request for space in the shared area was met with \u201cno\u201d. I responded that it might be better for both of us if I only lived there for a month, and we could use that month to find someone that would be a better fit. She didn\u2019t like that idea, and sent messages that made me feel unsafe. (No direct threats, however.)\n\nAt this point, I told her that I wanted to terminate our lease, and that I would be moving out before the end of the month (30 hours). I moved everything, cleaned, and returned the keys, along with written notice of termination. I was also told around this point that if I wanted my security deposit back I could see her in court. \n\nDo I have any claim to the security deposit if she found a new tenant before the end of the month following my termination? In MD, I believe that landlords have 45 days to give you a list of damages and return your deposit (in full or in part). However, this may be nullified by the fact that the lease states that termination incurs a fee of $xxx (the amount of the security deposit).\n\nIs this affected by the fact that I felt unsafe living with her? \n\nIs this affected by the fact that I did not receive the lead information required by MD law? (She checked a box for no known lead paint in the unit, but did not give me the two documents required by law. I also did not receive a multiunit dwelling license number or verification that any inspections for lead paint had ever been done. As such, I did not initial this section of the lease, and I actually highlighted the two lines about the 2 lead docs.)\n\nAny preliminary advice would be appreciated! I am happy to contact a lawyer, but if I\u2019m clearly in the wrong, I don\u2019t want to waste anyone\u2019s time. Thanks!","title":"Lease Termination\/Security Deposit in MD. My roommate wouldn't give me any space in the fridge!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551223868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av670y\/black_mold_in_basement_of_rental_house\/","id":"av670y","body":"I have been living in a rental house with my girlfriend and several roommates for almost two years. We discovered an extreme case of black mold in the basement which may has been the cause of health problems. \\[New York, US\\]\n\n​\n\nWhen I first moved into the house, the house was absolutely filthy, mold-ridden, and was teeming with a variety of cockroaches & fruit flies in the kitchen area. There were HUNDREDS of fruit flies everywhere in the house. We immediately wanted to break lease however, I could not break the lease early because of several reasons.\n\n​\n\nMy GF and I had to clean the ever living shit out of the kitchen, which took us months to finally completely cleanse it. After the house was finally cleaned up, we decided to continue living here because we thought it was pretty nice here, and we had a decent deal.\n\n​\n\nFast forward a couple of years later, I noticed some mold growing on the kitchen ceiling which was directly under the bathroom. I immediately contacted the landlord to check it out and also to check the basement for any mold (in case), they have told me they fixed it however it appears they just painted over the mold in the kitchen ceiling. This set off a red flag for me, so a roommate & I went downstairs to check for mold.\n\n​\n\nIt's important to mention the lease only permits the basement to be a storage space. It's unfinished & quite disgusting, everything is pretty much covered in spider webs and there was what we thought were dirt spots around the basement's cinder block walls. We looked around and the roommate noticed the dirt spot was around water pipe valves, that was when he began questioning what it really was. You have to keep in mind, the lease specifically prohibits us from using the basement as a living space, so we were never really downstairs except to retrieve items from storage.\n\n​\n\nThe roommate googled pictures of black mold in basement and sure enough, it was exactly what the dirt spots looked like.  Plus to add on it, the roommate's girlfriend (also living here) has a specific type of disease and her symptoms has worsened since she moved into this house (last fall).\n\n​\n\nWe have discussed and we want to immediately break lease, however the landlord refuses to let us to do it even after reporting to them about initial mold in kitchen.\n\n​\n\nCan we get out of the lease and hold Landlord liable for this black mold?\n\nIf so, what actions should we take since the mold has been there since before we moved in.\n\n​\n\nBecause it existed there since we moved in and the house was an absolute mess (I have pictures of the initial mess in kitchen but I never took pictures of the mold in the basement when I moved in until now but I am not sure if I'm allowed to post the photographs in this sub)\n\n​\n\nTLDR: Discovered I have been living with black mold in rental house for two years, what can I do to break lease and hold landlord responsible for the potential health problems?","title":"Black Mold in Basement of Rental House","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552739080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1rwvd\/illinois_community_college_refusing_to_place_a\/","id":"b1rwvd","body":"Not sure if flavored correctly:\n\nI work at a community college in Illinois, or chief was recently fired, due to a disagreement with the board. The board has since assigned the VP of the college over the dept and said they would not be filling a interim chief, but will hire a new chief after summer. The VP has stated he is basically just doing scheduling and other officer work, he is not going to approve of officers actions due to his lack of law enforcement training.\n\nIs this legal? There is no supervisor over the department and any arrest and legal actions are being done without any approval. Reports are sent to states attorney and other parties without a supervisors approval. We are all monitoring and assisting others best as we can, but what legal recourse can we face for this? There just is no other option other than to move along for the next several months.","title":"Illinois community college refusing to place a chief of police over dept.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553511124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5955l\/wage_and_timekeeping_for_salary_employee\/","id":"b5955l","body":"I\u2019m in the Indianapolis area and work as a salary employee. I\u2019m employed by the corporation currently contracted to provide mental health services for the state prisons. Two situations I\u2019m curious about: \n1. We have a physical clock in machine. It\u2019s inside the complex so that means I need to go through all of the shakedown, sally ports, etc before I can clock in as well as do all of that after I clock out. All in all I\u2019m at the facility about 20-30 minutes minimum where I\u2019m not being paid due to having to go through all of our security. \n\n2. They also deduct 30\u2019minutes for lunch. They do give us the option to indicate we didn\u2019t take a lunch however my supervisor has told me that they\u2019re very skeptical if we use this more than once a week even though I never take a lunch. I just started here so I\u2019m not sure what their actual response is. We are very short staffed so I\u2019m trying to help fill a lot of gaps so I doubt I\u2019ll have an opportunity for lunches soon. \n\nRegarding the first point I\u2019m curious if they are complying with whatever relevant timekeeping laws by not counting us as in until we make it to the other side of the complex? Secondly as a salary employee if I accurately indicate I am not getting an uninterrupted lunch on a consistent basis would they be able to deduct that from my pay even though I am accurately reporting my time? \n\nHopefully I explained that clearly. I\u2019m about to go into the facility but will answer any questions when I get done. ","title":"Wage and timekeeping for salary employee","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505388956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/701n1x\/so_about_turo_and_insurance\/","id":"701n1x","body":"[This \/r\/cars thread](https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/r\/cars\/comments\/6zyyob\/i_have_been_renting_out_sports_cars_on_turo_for_a\/) really piqued my interest in auto insurance, and shared-services in general (Uber, AirBnB, Turo). While OP made it sound all rainbows and butterflies, I can't help but wonder about what would happen if someone(s) dies or gets seriously injured while renting your car. [Turo's insurance policy covers up to $1,000,000](https:\/\/support.turo.com\/hc\/en-us\/sections\/200711520), but I can see a worst-case scenario easily surpassing that. \n\nYour personal insurance won't cover renting out, and I'm assuming that even if you're 3000 miles away from the rentee at the time of the accident, your ass(ets) is still getting sued. Some light digging gives a possible solution of putting the car title under a LLC and getting commercial auto insurance for it. A) How exactly would this work, and B) Is this the best solution to protecting yourself? \n\nEdit Location: Texas \/ USA","title":"So: About Turo and Insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541199543,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tp27g\/doggo_shit\/","id":"9tp27g","body":"Apartment wants to charge me 150$ for a pet fee for my dog pooping in the grass with me know the rent contract has nothing in there about being able to charge a fee. Also the contract was signed way before the pet poop fee was implemented. \n\nAny help as what I could do would be awesome","title":"Doggo shit","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569779902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dayn85\/missouri_wife_left_cheated_and_took_money_from\/","id":"dayn85","body":"I found out yesterday that my wife of 7 years cheated with another man and took money from our bank account for drugs. She was recently in a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. She was out for about a week or two and decided that she didn\u2019t want to stay in our home. We currently live with my parents due to me being the only one who works. She has been a stay at home mom since last June when our second child was born. \n\nShe was upfront and honest about what\u2019s going on with her. She\u2019s also been self harming with cutting and using weed (that I know of so far) to try to cope. She took the last $40 in our account for the weed and has been impulsively spending for the last week so I had to borrow money from my parents for gas, groceries etc. I\u2019m concerned that when she gets paid again that she will try to take more money to get high and numb her pain. \n\nThe situation she was in the other night sounded like something out of a movie. The guy she cheated with was someone she met in the hospital who was recovering from drug abuse. Apparently from her story, his child died, and his brother overdosed on fentanyl and almost died while she was there. It\u2019s obviously not a good situation to have our kids around in her current state.\n\nSo my questions are: What can I do about money? I don\u2019t want it to seem like I\u2019m cutting her off because I feel like this could be used against me down the line but I don\u2019t want her to keep taking money so I can\u2019t pay bills and support my children. My other question is, what should I do about her interactions with my kids? I work full time and she was staying at home. I\u2019m very concerned that she would try to take them even though she doesn\u2019t want to be around them. She said she can\u2019t handle them in her current state.\n\nI appreciate the advice in advance.","title":"Missouri - Wife Left, Cheated, and Took Money From Bank Account for Drugs","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444701822,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oj5uc\/landlady_came_in_without_warning_and_did_an\/","id":"3oj5uc","body":"So I'm in kind of a weird situation. One of my housemates is the landlady's daughter and came to visit for a few days. When she got here she noticed that the kitchen was dirty and got really angry. So angry, that upon meeting me she shouted at me for ~15 mins. During her tirade she called me juvenile, a child and disrespectful; but she also told me that if they were to do any maintenance to the kitchen I would be fiscally responsible.\n\nI understand keeping the kitchen clean is a no brainer, and I took responsibility for my share of the mess and cleaned it. What I am concerned about is whether or not it is legal for her to enter and perform an impromptu inspection without warning to me or my third housemate. I want to know just in case anything becomes of this.\n\nI live in Tempe, AZ if that helps.\n\nThanks!\n\n","title":"Landlady came in without warning and did an \"inspection.\" Is that legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446955121,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ryxg3\/sued_landlord_special_civil_part_being\/","id":"3ryxg3","body":"USA: NJ\n\nI sued my landlord for not paying back my security deposit. The judgement I put in just got vacated because I did it wrong (long story), but I was going to hire a lawyer and do it again properly.\n\nBut, they just offered me a semi-crappy deal of the original deposit plus 20%. Provided I sign a \"warrant of satisfaction\" and take their money via certified check.\n\nHeres the kicker: In their papers to vacate the judgement, they have counterclaimed an amount that goes well beyond my original security deposit. Kinda contradictory, considering they want to pay me off isn't it? It's probably a scare tactic to take a lesser deal, and I plan to negotiate up a bit. I have IMO rock solid proof against their claims, including checks cashed and recorded conversations I took part in with him directly (recorded conversation is legal in my state)\n\nThe counterclaim, as far as I know, is not YET filed. The court papers have stated in the vacated judgement that my old landlord has ___ (left blank, weird) days to file his claim.\n\n Assuming I negotiate upwards successfully and take the deal:\n\n1. Will the \"warrant of satisfaction\" sufficiently protect me from a potential future counterclaim? (however invalid it may be). It would be a separate case number, so I assume not.\n\nIf not:\n\n2. What additional step do I need to take to protect myself from the hassle of a counter claim? Perhaps I create a document, then have him and his lawyer sign it saying they are satisfied in specific language and that they consider the entire matter closed upon this payment? \n\n3. They plan to pay me via certified check, with his lawyer present. Is this the correct way to go? This man is VERY shady.\n\nSorry for length! But wanted to be thorough and appreciate any good advice.","title":"Sued landlord special civil part. Being counterclaimed. Does a warrant of satisfaction protect both parties?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554738711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bavftv\/sued_by_my_previous_employer_falsely_accusing\/","id":"bavftv","body":"[Texas] I work in IT industry as a software developer. I was working for employer A. I was sent to their client C  as a contractor through vendor V1 where I worked until December 2018. My contract with my employer A was that I would not be able to join their client C for one year after I left them. If I break the contract and go fulltime with C then I would have to pay 35k to them. There are no other terms in my contract with them.  I  joined my current employer E on Feb 2019. \n\nThe lawyer of employer A sent me an email asking my employment status at around the end of January 2019, if not threatened to sue me.  At that time I was actively looking for a job. So I responded that my project at C ended on December 2018 and I can give them employment verification letter once I start working with new employer.  I didn't have offer from E at that point. \n\nNow after about 2 month out of curiosity I checked Dallas County Courts Portal and searched my name, lo and behold I was sued. \n\nHere are the few points that are in the suit filed against me: \n1. They seek a monetary relief of min 100k not exceeding 200k\n2. They advertised my resume (correct) and they gave me training ( incorrect I had work experience before joining them )\n3. They figured out I am still working at C via Vendor V2. (Completely false since I work fulltime for E now).\n\n4. Torturous interference with their vendor V1 and I diverted the projects away from V1.( Not sure what they are referring. On my last f2f meeting V1, they wanted me to work for them after my project ended but I simply denied and left. Never had contact with them after that.\n\n\nThe case type  on court portal CNTR CNSMR COM DEBT.\n\nHere are the few questions that I have:\nWhat is my best course of action at this point? Do I  hire an attorney or I can simply send them the employment verification letter (or third party verification links like theworknumber)?  Should I send the verification letter to my previous employer A? Or should I wait until I get letter from court and respond to that? Do I have to go in person to the court or can I send a mail to the given clerk address? \n\nI am fully stressed right now and can't focus on my day to day activity. I would appreciate your feedback. I can provide more details if needed. \n\nThanks! ","title":"Sued by my previous employer, falsely accusing that I still work for their client","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553306850,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4dn1t\/learners_permits_and_suspended_licensed_drivers\/","id":"b4dn1t","body":"So my question is this, if a person with a learners permit was driving a car, and I who am over 21 with a full drivers license that is not expired but suspended, was in the passenger seat, what would happen if we were pulled over for say, a minor infraction such as a broken tail light or minor speeding, dim license plate light, anything that wouldn't normally result in an arrest or the car being towed.\n\nWould the person with the permit get a ticket for driving without a license? Would the person with the suspended license get a ticket for driving with a suspended license? Is there a unique charge for this event, or is it legal, since technically the person with the suspended license isn't driving, and the permit owner does have a licensed passenger in the seat?","title":"Learners permits and suspended licensed drivers","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571276798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dizfl3\/my_ex_physically_assaulted_me_if_i_file_a\/","id":"dizfl3","body":"I\u2019ve known my ex since we were 16. We\u2019re now in our late 20s and had been dating for 1.5 years. I know he\u2019s been violent in the past (broke a stranger\u2019s car window, strangled roommate, has broken his own car window, plus more that I\u2019m sure I don\u2019t know about). \n\nAnyway, he moved here when he was 10 from Europe and has only a green card for the US. For whatever reason, he hasn\u2019t given up his other citizenship. \n\nAbout 3 years ago he told me he got arrested for rape charges, but he got off on it and told me he didn\u2019t rape the girl. He said she did that because her bf found out they slept together so she claimed rape. Now that I\u2019ve been with him, I\u2019m not sure if I believe that story, but nevertheless charges were dropped. The arrest is still on his record though and has caused him issues at TSA checks before. At least that\u2019s what he told me held him up so long at the airport for 4 hours last year. \n\nAnyway, about a year ago we got into an argument and he had gotten physical with me (strangled me twice). I forgive him for it and he promised he\u2019d never do it again. \n\nFast forward a year, well he did it again. A week ago I got back from a trip with friends and he started an argument, looked through my phone behind my back and verbally degraded me. He wouldn\u2019t stop calling me names at one point. He was calling me a slut, telling me to spread my legs for my ex and this was after he had thrown my suitcase outside and other clothes I was trying to organize, so I hit him with my shirt (I was unpacking). When I did that he lost his shit on me even more, cornered me into the wall, spit in my face, pinned me on the bed multiple times, spit in my face again, he put me in a chokehold, took my head in his hand and hit it against a wall twice and backhanded me as his final hit. After that I just stopped fighting it and literally tapped out. \n\nI didn\u2019t call the cops because I was in complete shock and because I hit him with my shirt first, I believed it was all my fault. I left him a couple days later, but got a message yesterday from him telling me he was going to bring some mail to my work today. I said not to. He then calls me today and started degrading me again and telling me why he doesn\u2019t want to be with me anymore, and said he wanted to tell all of this to me before he never speaks to me again. \n\nThe thing is, I have a feeling that won\u2019t be the last time he tries seeing me or contacting me. I\u2019ve blocked him on everything, but I\u2019m scared he will come to my work. \n\nI already let HR know last week and gave a full report. My managers and security also know, but I work in retail so there\u2019s nothing they can do about keeping him out unless I have a restraining order. \n\nMy main question is, since he\u2019s not a US citizen and has a really bad arrest on his record will they deport him for this? I\u2019m not sure if a restraining order and arrests fall under the same judicial issues, or would effect him keeping his green card. \n\nI really don\u2019t want to get him deported or ruin his life, I just want him out of mine and no access to me. \n\nThank you in advance.","title":"My ex physically assaulted me. If I file a restraining order, will they take away his green card?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554680943,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bamta6\/breaking_my_lease_early_but_for_very_good_reason\/","id":"bamta6","body":"As a precursor, I'm in Massachusetts, and I'm aware of the landlord\/tenancy laws, which is why I'm making this post.\n\n​\n\nI've been in the same apartment complex for the better part of the decade. When I moved in, it was under one company, and proceeded to fall under the ownership of a new company, which they kicked off by evicting the in-building super. The new company does the least minimal possible, outside of starting an initiative a few years back where the tenant leaves, and they remodel the apartment and increase value.\n\n​\n\nWhen I moved into my apartment a good few years ago, I moved in out of desperation due to inventory, but also due to convenience, between work, socializing, and general life. The apartment was already beaten up, but it was off the September cycle in the Boston area, which inventory is lower for in general. A few years later, what had turned into beaten up had promptly degraded into pretty damn ugly, which I continued to live with due to the price, location, and complacency. During that time, they switched from a model that allowed us to report on issues in the apartments everywhere when we renewed the leases, to one that just allowed us to renew the leases, and that's all.\n\n​\n\nMy bathroom is literally rotting and falling apart. There is rotting wood (it has become increasingly worse since I arrived) , which failed to be properly weather sealed after a break in the paint, and a breaking and falling apart support wall (it was brought to the out-of-building super's and company's attention several years ago, who told me that I would be without a bathroom for a month as incentive for me asking not to fix it). I've had significant others and family refuse to spend the night out of concern for health, and the fact that it looks like black mold (95% it's rot, but it could be a lingering question.) I've finally secured a lease in a new building, and my current place wants 60 days up front, as well as 2 month's rent on the back end to terminate my lease. They claim to have lost record of the status of my apartment, though the out of building super has been in my bathroom multiple times since then (including within the last 3 months), and it would literally be \\*\\*impossible\\*\\* to miss the issues with my bathroom, considering they have been in there to check for leaks to lower floors since then as well.\n\n​\n\nAt this stage, I need to know if there's any right I have given literally breaking walls and rotting wood in my bathroom, or if I'm mercy to my landlord\/management company given MA landlord laws. I''m willing to discuss in PM, but keeping things vague in case this needs to escalate to a lawyer.\n\n​\n\ntl;dr: My Massachusetts apartment bathroom is literally rotting, people don't want to be in my apartment, and when I raised it to the consistent out of building super, he told me I wouldn't have a bathroom for a month. Can I use this info without escalating to a lawyer to break this lease without dropping several months rent? ","title":"Breaking my lease early, but for very good reason, need next steps [MA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552780805,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1z2th\/how_do_i_do_something_about_a_person_that_has\/","id":"b1z2th","body":"My family never did anything about my aunt going missing. I know who did it this happened when I was still in my early teens. I know her husband killed her when I was 11 I saw him with another woman and my cousin who was 3 at the time told me her dad put a knife at my aunts neck. My aunt was always bruised. The day she disappeared many people saw her husband had scratches on his face. His eldest kid is in the process of trying to get custody of his younger siblings. This happened in Mexico and I live in the US. ","title":"How do I do something about a person that has been missing for 6 years?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570756763,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg7tgw\/being_faced_with_getting_rid_of_puppy_or_getting\/","id":"dg7tgw","body":"I just moved into my new apartment 3 months ago with my parent, roommate, husky, cat, and my new puppy. I had gotten the puppy for Christmas of 2018 and she has been my baby ever since. She is a super sweet dog, but very hyper and protective, to a point. She will bark and jump, but the minute anyone she doesn't know goes near her, she cowers. She may seem a little tough, but she is truly not aggressive. She usually minds her own business, stays inside or goes to the park.\nFast forward to two weeks after we moved in. Apparently, our downstairs neighbor had already filed enough complaints about us to validate the apartment building sending us a warning about eviction. At this point, the puppy had not had any contact with the neighbors. Because it was a new place, she would bark more than she does now, but she has a crate. She would go in the crate and be quiet during the nighttime. We contested the apartment about the claim because at the time, no neighbors had even introduced themselves. \nNow comes in the neighbor. She comes knocking on our door late one night to complain to us about how apparently she has been having trouble sleeping because of the puppy. At this point, I was already ordering the puppy a bark collar and a new harness to keep better control of her and cut down on the noise as it was. I explain this to the neighbor, but she goes off about how we walk too loud in the morning, the dog interferes with her afternoon sleeping, and our door closes too loud. She also didn't like that when we moved in, we had to do it in the night due to work circumstances. I told her about how I was training the puppy and how we were brand new into the apartment. After that confrontation, I followed through with all the things I planned. We even bought throw rugs to put on top of the carpet to cut down on us \"walking too loud\", even though that was a strange thing, and even though the neighbor, who is black, constantly was talking down to and being rude to my white mother and only really listening to what I, the mixed one, had to say. I don't condone racism of any kind, and seeing her blatantly being disrespectful to my mom and puppy did get on my nerves, but I let it go. This is an apartment community. Things have been calm mostly since then. The neighbor even met my puppy, saw that she listened to me and the neighbor even pet the puppy, who's tail was wagging and really showing she meant no harm. Things were quiet. \nNow, today, I get home from work to see that we have a notice about how my puppy was cited as \"aggressive\", and that if we didn't get rid of her, we could be evicted in 6 days. I know for a fact that my puppy had never hurt anyone. Her biggest crime is barking when people come near. Is there anything I can do other than trying to contest the office again? It honestly feels like a harrassment case from the neighbor. How she fixated on us from the day we moved in and apparently hasn't stopped for over 3 months now. I know she is making stuff up about the puppy, and I can prove that she has her bark collar, her harness, her crate for bedtime, and that I have been doing all I can to cut down on noise and be a good neighbor. I love my puppy, but can't lose housing right now. I'm trying to find a place for her with family, but I don't want her to have to be in a different house for 9 months. What can I do? \nTl;DR\nNeighbor has been filing complaints about us for the 3 months that I've lived in a new apartment, the claims are false, but now I either have to lose my puppy or get evicted.","title":"Being Faced with getting rid of puppy or getting evicted","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554429998,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9li9i\/coworker_suffered_brutal_verbal_abuse_while_under\/","id":"b9li9i","body":"If any of y\u2019all have seen The Office, this relationship was basically Michael Scott v. Toby if Michael Scott had Andy\u2019s temper. Said coworker has suffered weekly verbal abuse, escalating to screaming (while the coworker never yelled back, just explained himself) for the past year or more. I\u2019ve seen it happen. The coworker finally had enough after the owner got in his face and started screaming at full volume and he walked out. He was under contract to work until November. Is there any wiggle room for him? Apparently the contract was pretty tight, having to do with some investment money in the second location. I\u2019m just astounded and curious if this is something he still has to be held to.\n\nSmall retail location, NC, USA","title":"Coworker suffered brutal verbal abuse while under contract and walked out - which was against the contract. Any legal action able to be taken?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508432243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77fql2\/suspicious_quickbooks_use_and_accounting_methods\/","id":"77fql2","body":"Throwaway for obvious reasons. This post is a semi-follow up in relation to this [post](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/personalfinance\/comments\/6oqgqg\/us21_in_a_very_important_position_at_the_family\/dkjf7tt\/?context=3)\n\nAs the only controller for the company I have started keeping track of money leaving the company is suspicious ways.\n\nOne of these suspicious ways (and after checking the audit log on Quickbooks) is a particular individual in the company that has been mentioned in the past post has cut checks out to \"Cash\" and then changes the name on quickbooks to an affiliated vendor.\n\nMy question is, is this illegal? Can I, the person responsible for the books, get in trouble? How can I protect myself if so? If you read the previous post as to why I am recording these transactions, is because they happen consistently, and I hold a 10% value on any income reported at the end of the year.\n\nIt seems to me this person is extracting money from the company secretly, and lying straight to my face about it. Some of the vendors that are listed under the falsified checks are insurance claims that should be paid out. Now, 6 months later, insurance is sending ME invoices saying the dues have not been paid. However when I look back into my ledger, you can clearly see the IDENTICAL dollar amount from the claim, AND an extra $1,000.\n\nI have found photoshoped or doctored invoices in contrast to the originals as well, and the individual claims to have done it by accident.\n\nI really do not condone these actions, and mostly am looking for advice on protecting myself from these small business practices that I am no accomplice too.\n\nBefore the whole, \"report the individual to the IRS\" I should include that they and I are related by blood. That would make the situation awkward and devastating to the family relationship if a fallout occured.\n\n\nThanks for reading!\n\nEDIT: The person who's doing this is the owner\/president of the company of whom I am an employee too.\nEDIT2: The state is FL in the USA.","title":"Suspicious quickbooks use and accounting methods","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1538694173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lgvjz\/my_employer_overpaid_me_i_refuse_to_sign_a_letter\/","id":"9lgvjz","body":"My employer sent an email a day or two ago to anyone who had worked overtime claiming that we had been overpaid.\n\nWhen the alleged overpayment took place, it was during an end of the month check which included incentive. My hours weren't 100% consistent, but if I compare this incentive check with the prior month's there's about 100 dollar difference, which is hardly noticeable as overtime hours have varied a slightly.\n\nThey claim they overpaid me by a little over $400.00; they informed us via letter today and asked us to sign. There were no details as to how they came to this conclusion. And the managers seemed like they were in a rush to collect all of the signatures, even though the letter tells us who to return it to and there is no stated deadline, although it's obvious they will want it back in time to process payroll for the last pay period in the month.\n\nI decided I wouldn't sign until I got the an explanation of how they came to their conclusion. I went to HR and inquired. I was told Payroll would send me details of how they came to that conclusion.\n\nI feel as though I will be hassled a bit for the letter tomorrow by one of the managers that my concerns will be downplayed. I'm almost willing to bet I was the only person that didn't just sign and hand it over. \n\nAs far as I'm concerned, while the managers were instructed to collect the letters, the issue is between the company and it has nothing to do with them. \nI am more than willing to return the amount without any resistance or retaliation as long as they can show me what happened. I don't feel it's fair to expect me to immediately sign something saying I acknowledge they overpaid me by that amount when I can't clearly see where it occurred. \nI'll happily sign the letter after they give me the details and everything checks out. \n\nAm I going about this the correct way? Is there anything I'm overlooking? Also, do I have to comply with their request for my signature immediately? \n\n","title":"My employer overpaid me, I REFUSE to sign a letter acknowledging this...","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442109276,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kqhca\/usa_got_a_ceg_tek_copyright_infringement_notice\/","id":"3kqhca","body":"I just got this notice. And truthfully, am scared crapless.\nIt\u2019s from CEG TEK and News Sensations and fine is $300.\n\nI mean as cliche it may sound, it was partly a mistake. But then just curiosity. Regardless, I don't wana get involved in the proving and disproving situation. I mean, I can\u2019t afford to be stuck in this issue, with big important things (like post grad school) coming up for me. \n\nSo should I just pay and be over with it? And if I pay, that will be the end of it, right? (Never used torrents before or now will hereafter). As in will I be harassed and fined\/sued further?\n\nAlso, I did went to their site and logged in. But I didn\u2019t put in any personal information like name and stuff. How bad was this of me to do this and logg in?\n\nAlso, I can't afford professional help and don't wana do so and get my family\/parents aware of it.\n\nThanks for all your help guys!","title":"[USA] Got a CEG TEK copyright infringement notice (email). Should I just pay up? Help!","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553779554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6irhh\/il_i_am_a_1099_dailyworker_being_held_to_the\/","id":"b6irhh","body":"I am a 1099 freelancer for a building\u2019s management company (Company A). I work 25 hours a week (hard capped) with no employment taxes deducted, no benefits, no formal paystub and no proper on-boarding\/contract\/non-compete. I found another company (Company B) within the building with whom I want to pursue full-time employment. The building\u2019s management says if I was to leave and work for Company B, then Company B will have to pay a 15k \u201cfinder\u2019s fee\u201d. They are referring to terms on their agreement that states \u201cThe Client, any employee of the Client, or other businesses under the Client\u2019s ownership, shall not hire any (Company A) employees at any time during the term of the Agreement or within 12 months of termination of the Agreement. The Client shall pay to (Company A) the equivalent of 50% of the annual salary required of the new employee in such an event\u201d. Nothing states that this includes freelancers or 1099 workers. Additionally, my current position does not involve a salary, as I am paid through AP weekly and I am not on payroll. As far as I understand, I am not an employee under the definition of the IRS, and I am not asking to be considered one, therefore cannot be classified as such. How do I proceed and work for Company B without Company A attempting to pursue this fine?","title":"(IL) I am a 1099 daily-worker being held to the standards of an employee with a threat of a substantial fine if I leave. How do I seek legal counsel?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553393934,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4raip\/concerned_my_auntinlaw_is_stealing_from_my\/","id":"b4raip","body":"Hello.  My wife's aunt (Aunt) is essentially and potentially legally the guardian of my wife's grandmother (GM), who has dementia.  Aunt has sole power-of-attorney so long as she is available and able to perform her duties, which falls to my wife's father (FIL) otherwise.  Aunt lives in a house on a private drive with GM, while FIL lives several states away, as do I.\n\nRecently Aunt notified FIL that she would generally be unable to continue to be the guardian of GM for various reasons, and wanted FIL to take on the responsibility as soon as possible.  This is not surprising, as she has not done a particularly good job with the day-to-day care of GM, with many tasks falling to the other nearby family members and family friends for the care of GM.  So my FIL and wife found a very nice memory care facility five minutes from my home, began the process of getting her a room there, buying items to furnish the room, linens, sheets, etc.  They also worked out a purchase agreement with other family members to purchase the fabricated home GM is living in, with closing worked out as soon as the end of the month.\n\nAt this point, Aunt steps in protesting, claiming she needed time to \"get stuff out\" of her mother's house, and that she needed \"time to grieve\" the moving of her mother from the property she had lived so long (which is the house that Aunt is currently living in, given to her as an agreement to have guardianship over GM in the event that her father (GF) passed, not the new fabricated home).  Being told that everything was already in place for the move that she had requested, Aunt  had a mental evaluation done on GM, where it was determined that GM couldn't make even the most basic of financial decisions, and put the sale of the property on hold until at least May 1st, which could jeopardize some of the plans that have already been set into place and may essentially waste hundreds of dollars spent for the preparation of moving to this new facility.\n\nSo, it sounds like Aunt is planning on taking items belonging to GM from her home, keep them, sell them, or give them away, without GM having any ability to make financial decisions on her own.  She seems to be using her financial power-of-attorney to serve her own interests (grieve for the leaving of her mother) while ignoring her fiduciary responsibilities.  Even with her being relinquished of the responsibility of guardianship, she insists on keeping her FPOT, which seems odd, but her behavior with the fiduciary duties has been very sketchy \/ non-transparent to FIL and family for the entirety of her having FPOT.  She has definitely swapped out furniture and household appliances from GM's house for older \/ worse items of the same type from her house, and given all of this together and her most recent behavior, we're very concerned that there's going to be a great big financial surprise waiting for us long before the end of all of this.\n\nSo, what recourse\/protection is there for the fact that Aunt may take items of value from GM house that were either meant to be a part of a purchase agreement for the house or that just belong to GM and were meant to be distributed as part of the estate?  What recourse \/ protection can we get against the state of GM finances, which Aunt is not forthcoming with?  What other concerns should we have about this situation, such as the FPOT or money spent on this process thus far?","title":"Concerned my aunt-in-law is stealing from my grandmother-in-law","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1412108155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hx87o\/illinois_my_mother_had_400_dollars_hacked_out_of\/","id":"2hx87o","body":"Hello, my mother uses her computer to pay bills. Her computer is pretty shitty and run down. My little brothers download a lot of probably virus ridden games onto this computer. Recently, my fiance showed them Kerbal Space Program and had them play it on his Steam on the computer. \n\n\nNot long after, my mother calls me and asks me if their company has any cases of hacking into bank accounts. I tell her I don't know but I doubt it, as they were running it off Steam. I'm unfamiliar with Steam but I assume it's safe to DL games off of. I'm thinking it's probably something else my brother's downloaded.\n\n\nAnyway, what are the legalities of this? My mother has been on the phone all day trying to contact people about this. She mentioned something about a company named \"Prion\" (?) and thinks they're the ones who hacked her computer.\n\n\nI'm not very tech savvy. What can we do about this in a legal sense? Point me towards any other subreddits that can help if this isn't the right one. I'm familiar with reddit but not with these types of advice subreddits. \n\n\nThanks. ","title":"(Illinois) My mother had 400 dollars hacked out of her bank account?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1408474251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e0b1i\/stolen_foreclosure_letters\/","id":"2e0b1i","body":"My co owner tried to go into strategic default without my permission from May 2012 to July 2012. He hid mortgage and foreclosure letters during this time. Am I able to call the post masters office and file a felony against him? ","title":"Stolen Foreclosure Letters.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570531258,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dey72d\/can_i_be_banned_from_smoking_at_my_own_frontdoor\/","id":"dey72d","body":"Hi, I understand how incredibly menial this is - but - I frequently go downstairs to smoke a cigarette with my girlfriend, as do several others in our building. Its a small building in Amsterdam and the bottom floor (where the door\/outdoor porch and bench are) is next to a store. The stairs to our apartment are not part of the property of this store, from my understanding.\n\nSeveral times they have told us that there is too much mess from cigarette butts, but we never leave any. It\u2019s a very touristic area and most of the people who smoke here are not living in the building or even Amsterdam. Today they took photos of us for leaving ash on the floor. It was a very small amount and would typically be blown away by the wind. \n\nThey threatened us today with invoices for cleaning bills, took our apartment number and are contacting the owner of the building. \n\nAre we actually doing anything wrong?","title":"Can I be banned from smoking at my own frontdoor?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540169141,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q8tx9\/automatic_charge_to_steam_clean_carpet_taken_from\/","id":"9q8tx9","body":"So I'm moving out of my apartment of about 4 years soon. I recieved a package for cleaning fees which state I am automatically going to be charged 110 for a steam cleaning of my apartment. I've been in a few different apartments over the years and never recall having something like this being automatically charged. Is this legal and normal? I dont really have an issue paying it but as I've said I've never seen something like this. I am currently living in Florida.","title":"Automatic charge to steam clean carpet taken from my security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570454168,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dejanz\/ive_got_a_very_close_friend_who_has_been\/","id":"dejanz","body":"My friend has suffered this from a long time. The father even chokes her and hits her with belts and such. It's made her cut herself to deal with the situation. The mother is alive and well but everytime she intervenes she gets hit as well.\n\n\nI'm in Bangalore, India and beg for help.. I'm new to reddit so I don't know if this belongs here. \nHow am I supposed to deal with the father and what actions can I take?","title":"I've got a very close friend who has been physically abused by her father a lot. The father is a lawyer himself. I want to report about what he is doing but have no idea where to start.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552420820,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0cb0x\/md_stuck_in_home_with_stbx_what_are_my_options\/","id":"b0cb0x","body":"My wife and I have decided to divorce. No children, but we do own a house that we will be selling. She wants a \u201cfew\u201d months to save so she can afford her own place before we move on with the process. I am kind of stuck in the mud with a pretty crappy roommate in the meantime. \n\nMy concerns are that she doesn\u2019t appear to be saving and that I don\u2019t particularly care to drag this out any longer than it has to be.\n\nIs there anything I can do to move this process along? How exactly will this affect the actual divorce process?","title":"[MD] Stuck in home with STBX. What are my options?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570320797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddvrsa\/home_contract\/","id":"ddvrsa","body":"Hey everyone , i live in Germany so i don\u2019t know if my case applies to other countries.\nSo because my university was starting soon and the dorms were all full , i decided to live in a shared apartment \u201eWG\u201c as i had no other chances , now the Apartment  ist 120 square and as i saw the fotos online the room looked decent too so i said okay i will give it a go.The owner was ready to make the contract and i was relieved.Since i could not go and see my room as i lived 7 hours away , i just hoped that everything would be fine.The problem is that the room is much smaller than it looks in the photos and then later discovered that the rent was actually too expansive because where i live is a small town so with that kind of rent i could actually get my own apartment.Before discovering all this , i already had signed a two year contract with him and now i don\u2019t have any choice rather to live here.Is that any chance to call off the contract?","title":"Home Contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541115575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tet40\/was_raped_now_have_child\/","id":"9tet40","body":"This is gonna be a weird one but I\u2019m in California so it\u2019s fine. So this happened a while ago I was at a party and was drinking and was having fun. I end up going to this groups of people\u2019s house. We get there and this girl is all over me and I\u2019m not really interested in her. I pass out and wake up with be but naked and her on top. I tell her to get off and I get my clothes and go to the couch. I wake up in the same bed and naked so I did what I needed to. I filled a police report and told them everything. They didn\u2019t seem to really care about it at all and just told me that it be a waste of time to press charges. I leave and life goes on. I later get a message from that same girl that she\u2019s pregnant. I obviously didn\u2019t want it and really don\u2019t want to pay for child support what are my options since it is recorded that she raped me?","title":"Was raped now have child.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551683487,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax4a9x\/what_to_look_out_for_while_publishing_apps_on_the\/","id":"ax4a9x","body":"Should I post it as an individual or open up a company through which I shall post?\n\nPls give advice with respect to both scenarios where I plan to make the app freely available and run ads on it and the other where I don't run any ads.\n\nI don't think ppl get sued over there(not that I am planning to infringe any copyrights) but how to protect oneself?\n\nLocation : India","title":"What to look out for while publishing apps on the Play Store? Location : India.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569261558,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8a7g2\/roommate_wants_to_run_business_out_of_my_home\/","id":"d8a7g2","body":"As the title says, one of my roommates wants to run her business (a carpentry shop) out of my garage. I own the home and also live there. \n\nTechnically in our zoning area this would be allowed if she applies for the correct permits. (I live in unincorporated Adams County, Colorado.)\n\nAre there any repercussions for me as the home owner even though it\u2019s not my own business? What risks should I be thinking of before I say yes or no? \n\nAny help is appreciated!","title":"Roommate wants to run business out of my home","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541459625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uiqos\/can_my_public_university_ban_my_organization\/","id":"9uiqos","body":"I attend a public University in New Hampshire. This year the school instituted a policy that banned organizations from having private meetings in school buildings. The school stated that to use their rooms the meetings have to be public. Is this allowed? ","title":"Can my public university ban my organization, which is recognized by the university from having closed door Private meetings in a school building.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553546815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5g5rr\/ca_land_lord_said_i_could_break_my_lease_in_order\/","id":"b5g5rr","body":"so this is a really long post, buckle up everyone.\n\nso while i was living in this place my girlfriend \\[23\\] and myself \\[22\\] where already looking at prospective places to move into together. a roommate \\[L\\] of mine complained about a leak in his room that destroyed his bed and warped the hardwood floor beneath. my landlord \\[J\\] did not have a spare room to move L into while she had repairs done, i offered J to have L move into my room if i could move out early and break my lease. J agreed as it would save her money rather than put L into a motel for a couple weeks. \n\n   with that my girlfriend and i put in our application, got approved and set up a date to sign the lease. the month goes on and L asks J to pay for half of a replacement bed (rather than having J pay for the entirety of it as detailed in the lease). this leads to J cursing at L, a lot of yelling, and J telling L that he will have to stay in his room till the end of the lease despite the leak. i leave not wanting to get caught in the middle of this and J stops me telling me that i need to have a friend cover my room.\n\ni reread my lease and show my landlord the L is in the right to ask her for a replacement bed and she has to provide him with a safe place to sleep. she agrees and even discloses that L's room is not up to code, then quickly telling me that the room i had been renting is. J thanks me for my advice and we continue with the agreement we originally had. the day before i sign the lease J changes her mind again and then quickly says in a group text offers L the room, L accepts, J says that i will move out ASAP and i go sign the lease on the 2nd. The night of the 3rd i am completely moved out and i hand J the keys. J stops me from leaving and tells me that she isn't giving the room to L and i must find someone to rent in his place or i will have to pay the rest of the lease. J told me that she would offer L cheaper rent or terminate the lease entirely. side note J also told me that i could not talk to L about this because that was between them? I told J i already signed a new lease and i couldn't afford paying both rents. i couldn't understand what J was saying after that point and i went home. \n\n   I was able  to talk to someone for legal advice and they said that as long as i have proof of J saying that i could break the lease and move out i am in the clear, contact her on the 24th and ask for my security deposit.\n\nwhile i waited for the 24th to come J\n\n\\- Told me her son is a lawyer and she is in the right.\n\n\\- Told me i have to send her my new address to forward my mail, was upset that i gave her my old one and told her that i would pick it up from there instead.\n\n\\- Gave L the option to take $50 off rent or leave.\n\n\\- Terminated the lease with L and told him to move out anyways.\n\n​\n\nThis morning (3\/25\/19) i asked her for my security deposit and in response J told me that she never promised that, that our messages prove that, i need live there until my lease is up in order to get it back, if i think that i can break the lease without a penalty i am mistaken, and she reserves the right to sue me for the lease.\n\nAt this point i am extremely stressed out. i am trying to make sure that i do the right thing and i don't know what i need to do next.","title":"[CA] land lord said i could break my lease in order to give another roommate a room while repairs are made to his room to stop a leak. now she is threatening to sue me for the rest of the lease and keeping my security deposit. i don't know what to do.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554276498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8uvi5\/statute_of_limitations_for_speedingreckless\/","id":"b8uvi5","body":"Let\u2019s say a friend of mine posts videos of him speeding, racing, etc. to YouTube. After what period of time are they non-prosecutable? My understanding is that speeding is technically non-prosecutable already, and it just a moving violation. However, I assume reckless op, contest of speed (street racing), stuff like that...is not in that category and is prosecutable. \nWhat is that time limit?","title":"Statute of limitations for speeding\/reckless operation (Ohio)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570139085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcxqx2\/possibly_contesting_a_ticket_nv\/","id":"dcxqx2","body":"Hey everyone, first post here.\n\nEarlier today I was pulled over by Metro police for speeding at 48 mph in a 25 mph zone. Normal procedure of being asked for license registration and insurance. I told the officer I didnt have my insurance card on me as I had just bought this new car and forgot to put it in, but I do have a digital copy on my phone, which I know is legally allowed here. After a bit of scolding by the officer, the officer accepted my phone and looked at the insurance before asking if the car I'm in is the 2015. I explained to him that my car is the 2019. Well, I don't have a 2015 car on my insurance and never have.\n\nThe officer left and came back a few minutes later with my ticket. The officer gave me my ticket without giving me the chance to even sign it before leaving.\n\nThis is where the question comes in. On the ticket it says my car's model is unlisted, and is a 2015. I had clarified before he went to type the ticket up that it was the 2019 Hyundai Ioniq, yet it was all still wrong. With this being the case, how can I believe that he read his radar correctly if he cannot even read the insurance correctly, even after I had clarified it for him?\n\nOn top of that, my passenger said she hadn't even seen him until we were already on him, and hadn't seen a radar gun at all, as he was on a motorcycle. She also mentioned that the bike was already on with lights flashing, which can affect the result of the radar itself. I dont know how true the last part is, but it all makes a bit of sense to me.\n\nIs it possible to contest this? And if so, how should I go about doing so?","title":"Possibly Contesting A Ticket? (NV)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551317333,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avl711\/new_york_state_i_work_a_minimum_wage_fast_food\/","id":"avl711","body":"I\u2019ve asked about it and I was told that when I applied for the job (about 6 years ago, for a different franchise run by the same owner) I signed a contract that said I agree to getting no breaks. \n\nWhen I first started working at the original place, I quit, and then got rehired with no new application. Then I quit again, and later asked the manager (who managed both franchises) if I could work at the other store. They already knew me for years so I didn\u2019t have to apply and was hired on the spot. \n\nSo, if I had signed something that said I didn\u2019t get breaks, it would have been 6 years ago, and for a different store (that is now out of business). \n\nI was also told that since the store isn\u2019t often busy that this \u201cdowntime\u201d is enough of a break, and that I have time to sit in the back and eat a meal (I don\u2019t. And I\u2019ve been told we\u2019re not even allowed to have food in the back unless we\u2019re *on break*). I\u2019m also not allowed to sit down. \n\nOn days when I\u2019m scheduled with others the hours will often be longer. I\u2019ve worked 11 and 12 hour days with only one 30 min break. \n\nAt my very first job (before these two jobs) I was told that 6 hours or more gets me a 30 unpaid break, and 8 or more hours gets me an additional 15 minute paid break. \n\nIf I signed a contract, is it legal? \n\nIs it legal to give me no breaks since I have \u201cdown time\u201d and \u201cshould have time to eat between taking customers\u201d? \n\nIs only one 30 minute break for an 8-12 hour shift legal? ","title":"New York State. I work a minimum wage fast food job part-time and am regularly scheduled 9+ hour days by myself with no break.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441561878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jvm8q\/my_friend_and_i_moved_out_of_an_apartment_2\/","id":"3jvm8q","body":"Basically, we had a shit landlord. He took months to fix things he said would be done within days of us telling him, he stopped coming by for rent himself and sent his girlfriend instead, he was incredibly condescending toward my roommate and I (took a while for me, but he was borderline misogynistic with her right from the start), he gave us maybe 5 rent receipts over the 13 months we lived there, etc. \n\nWe moved out July 1, and I haven't heard from him since late June when he said he would stop by the apartment the first weekend of July to collect the keys and do a final rundown of the place to determine what we would get back. He wouldn't even let me schedule a time to be there because his \"schedule changes too often\" for him to set a date. He said he would call me after he checked the place out. I've called him at least 3 dozen times now and left about 30 voicemails, but he won't answer or call back. Now he's blatantly silencing his phone whenever I call (I know this because it rings three times and goes right to voicemail). My old roommate won't even try contacting him because he was such an ass to her.\n\nWhen I told him we were moving out, he wasn't happy at first because we didn't tell him 32 days prior to our leaving, but he said it was fine and that he wouldn't penalize us for it. However, he never told us we had to do that and as far as my roommate and I could remember, it wasn't in the rent agreement we signed. She took both copies though so I can't check for myself. This was the first apartment either of us had rented so we had no way of knowing the time limit, either.\n\nI honestly don't know what we can do. I'm worried that if we try taking him to small claims court, he'll throw the time limit thing in our face. I also don't have an address for him, so how would we even get him in court? I appreciate any advice you can give me; I know Constitutional law, not rental law lol","title":"My friend and I moved out of an apartment 2 months ago. The landlord refuses to talk to me and we haven't gotten our security deposit back. What can we do? [New York]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542058479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wiex2\/police_shot_my_brother_yesterday_he_is_in_icu_and\/","id":"9wiex2","body":"They won't tell us anything. All the reports are hearsay. I have advised everyone in the family to not say anything because I don't believe they have our interests in mind. I don't trust that he didn't have his part in this thing, but there were 8 shots and he was hit in the back. He did have a gun, it was a bb gun and I know that doesn't matter. I fully acknowledge that there was provocation by my brother, but I don't know what lead to gunfire. \n\nI believe that he should get a chance to at least be heard fairly. The way they are going about this I feel like they are ready to kick him while he is down and I don't know what to do.","title":"Police shot my brother yesterday. He is in ICU and they won't let us see him or be there. We can't pay a lawyer. How do help make sure he is represented when he wakes up?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554828469,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bba8sf\/grandfather_is_creating_a_new_will_illinois_and\/","id":"bba8sf","body":"Due to differences, he wants to cut my mom out and give everything to my sister and myself. He called today to get my SS and address as well as calling my sister to get the same info.\n\nProblem is he told me and my sister (separate phone calls) not to tell my mother. My sister will tell my Mother and I\u2019m afraid of the backlash.\n\nMy mother has POA due to him being in a bad place a couple years ago. He\u2019s cleaned his act up but my mother hasn\u2019t relinquished POA.\n\nGoing to post this in r\/relationships to get some other advice, but I\u2019m nervous about my sister telling my mother. \n\nCan my mother (again who has POA) due anything to stop this will?","title":"Grandfather is creating a new Will (Illinois) and cutting my Mother (who has POA) out","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1444183875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nsehk\/il_contractor_threatening_to_file_a_lien_unsure\/","id":"3nsehk","body":"###TLDR: \nI had a contractor come to do some work in my bathroom. While the fit and finish left something to be desired, I was willing to swallow it (very low pricing, rookie mistake on picking a contractor).  My fiancee was nervous, she thought she saw potential water damage on the ceiling. Two separate contractors (friends of friends) have expressed concerns about water damage and the overall workmanship. One is coming out tomorrow evening to give a line item of all the problems and costs to fix, etc. Contractor is threatening to file a lien over $75. If I pay the $75 to avoid having the lien filed, will it reduce my capability to file a small claims suit?\n\n###Longer Version\n\n We foolishly hired a general-services handyman we'd worked with a few times to come and remodel our bathroom. At the outset, everything seemed great - very responsive, professional, cleaned up perfectly after themselves, etc.  However, as time went on, there were more and more issues - poorly done painting, shoddy drywall patching, wonky tile placements, etc. The contract included a mirror and fan replacement as well, neither of which have currently been completed (we elected not to do them and to wait to buy a nicer fan and mirror both, rather than just hang something up).  The last payment (we were on a payment plan) came up, and due to other circumstances (fiancee's brother ordering over $300 in ppv and porn on our cable account...) we asked for a two week reprieve before we paid.  During that time, fiancee grew more and more concerned about water damage, noticing discoloration on the ceilings during the shower; we argued back and forth over it, I kept trying to tell her it was nothing. We finally got out from under the idiot brother's extra bill paycheck before last, but by then fiancee was adamant that something was wrong.\n\nI caved and we contacted a reputable contractor, a friend of a friend. He expressed disgust with the remodel of our bathroom and concerns about water damage, etc. This was on 24th of September. He was due to come over Monday to give a line-item estimate of all the issues and what needs fixing, but wasn't able to make it. He rescheduled for tomorrow evening instead.\n\nOn Monday, the contractor dropped by my house and told me that if we didn't contact them to pay, they would file a lien on the house. I contacted them (contractor and his wife, they are partners) and asked for a sit down tonight, to which they agreed, but then didn't show. Instead, the discussion ended up happening over the phone. Their position is that we never complained (we did) and that we didn't complain about fears of water damage soon enough. I asked if they'd be willing to counter the independent guy's accusations, they said no. They reaffirmed over and over that they will file the lien if we don't pay and that they do not believe there are any problems since we didn't ever complain.  \n\nI'm not happy with the work, the two contractors whose advice we solicited both seemed pretty sure we're getting screwed.  My fear is that if I pay them now on the lien that they'll use it as evidence that we couldn't possibly have been too worried etc.\n\nThey've offered a compromise of sorts - the original contractor will come back out, fix the grout and re-caulk (if we pay for the caulk) but only if we pay at the time of the action. They're refusing to contemplate any further complaints, it sounds like.\n\nI'm not sure what to do and whether I'm gonna screw myself. It seems like fighting a lien could be more painful. Until tonight, I thought we were pretty solid. Now? I think I got screwed out of all that money and I'm still gonna have to pay them.","title":"IL: Contractor Threatening to File a Lien; Unsure if by paying I lose traction for a small claims suit","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1447306693,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3si5ui\/procedure_for_students_who_kill_in_self_defense\/","id":"3si5ui","body":"I'm writing a story in which several students Mark and Shelly are assaulted by a third Student David. The story is set in California and at the climax\n\nShelly is sexually and physically assaulted and left for dead as David follows Mark to a location and attempts to murder him. Shelly collects herself enough to pursue them and is without a way to contact authorities. David stabs Mark repeatedly and pretty much kills him, as David moves to leave Shelly has reappeared and kills him. \n\nCOULD Shelly be tried for murder or would it be self defense despite David attempting to leave the scene? What if David was in possession of the only cell phone able to contact authorities and emergency services?\nWhat would be the school's position toward Mark and Shelly, while they are the victims Shelly did kill a fellow student, would they be expelled? Would they still be able to attend a graduation?","title":"Procedure for Students Who Kill in Self Defense in California","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504626475,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y8ual\/being_subpoenaed_for_something_that_happened_a\/","id":"6y8ual","body":"Title says most of it, I have never been to court before. I do not remember much of the night small bits of the night. I actually forgot about the entire night up until I got the subpoena. I do not know what to expect\/ even what to say... Help.\n\nUnited States, DE","title":"Being Subpoenaed for something that happened a year ago, I was very intoxicated\/cannot remember anything","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1549422364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anm8jq\/employer_nj_state_university_is_being_audited\/","id":"anm8jq","body":"My employer is being under some kind of homeland security audit and they claim\u00a0they have lost payroll and employee data.\u00a0\nI don't know what it involves with this missing data whether\u00a0they destroyed the files\u00a0or if there was some kind of data breach. Should I fill out a new I-9? They are pressuring us not to talk about it. \u00a0\u00a0","title":"Employer (NJ State University) is being audited. They can't seem to find payroll data and employee information they asking us to fill out I-9 forms. Should I be concerned?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540212335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qdhjm\/illinois_can_my_girlfriend_really_lose_her\/","id":"9qdhjm","body":"Basically my girlfriend was driving her friends car and got pulled over, there was no proof of insurance so the officer gave her a court date. The problem is her friend and her got into it because she got pulled over in her friends car (because it had no front plate, still not my girlfriends fault..?) and now she, the friend, won't speak to her and she has court coming up this friday with no way to show proof of insurance for a car she doesn't even own or drove all the time and possibly lose her license or a big fine that we can't really afford, or both. I'm more worried about the license thing because we share a car and she has a job, if she loses her license she has no way to get to work, throw a fine ontop of that and we are done for.","title":"Illinois. Can my girlfriend really lose her license if the car (wasn't hers) she was driving wasn't insured and didn't know about it?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555185001,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcug6f\/my_fianc\u00e9es_car_got_hit_and_nobody_left_info\/","id":"bcug6f","body":"So my fianc\u00e9e left her car at my place last night. When she moved it today, she didn\u2019t really check it because it was raining, but when she got home she realized that the front passenger light was crushed and her hood was bent. Someone had back into her. I live in a duplex that has several other duplexes around it, and there was likely someone in the duplex next to us who backed into it and didn\u2019t leave any info. I\u2019m fairly certain I know who did it, but because they didn\u2019t come and tell anyone I can\u2019t prove that it was them. What do I do?","title":"My fianc\u00e9e\u2019s car got hit and nobody left info","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539800418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p17ln\/college_collecting_senior_design_fee_from_a\/","id":"9p17ln","body":"To me it seems like there are is a lot fishy business going on here.\n\nOur college has senior design projects given to senior engineers every year, each project has a sponsor either a commercial or faculty sponsored one. In the first week we are presented with all the sponsorship projects and asked to list them in order of interest. There are more projects than there are senior design groups. The next week we were assigned projects. When looking at the assigned projects I noticed a few key details.\n\n\\*Commercial company projects were all assigned while not all faculty sponsored projects were.\n\n\\*My senior group had picked a faculty project as our top pick of which that project did not get assigned to anyone while my group was assigned a commercially sponsored project that was on the bottom third of our list.\n\nThese two points to me show the college is showing preference to assigning the commercial company sponsorship; and I believe this is because the college is pocketing a sponsorship fee in exchange for senior students labor.\n\nThis is advantageous for the college and the commercial company. The commercial company gets exclusive access to fresh engineer grads that other competitors do not have. The commercial company also gets cheap engineering labor. The college pockets extra money for no work.\n\nI feel like I am being used in this senior design project scenario for my skills and knowledge. \n\nIs this a legal practice for colleges to effectively sell their senior's work to commercial companies?","title":"College collecting senior design fee from a commercial company for my senior design work","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554717603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/barx0q\/does_a_court_order_automatically_make_the_listed\/","id":"barx0q","body":"Alabama, USA. \n\nJoint legal custody. Live out of state. \n\nCourt order states I provide health insurance. I have for years. Ex has never used the plan and used Medicaid instead. \nCancelled Medicaid a few years later, and then went ahead and added our kid to her boyfriends insurance plan. And now uses that and still doesn\u2019t use mine because her boyfriends is \u201cbetter\u201d. Basically she wants to modify our parenting plan so that I no longer get the child support deviation for holding insurance. She told me this over text. It\u2019s also another tactic to keep me in the dark about our son. Because if she doesn\u2019t run my insurance I don\u2019t know about doctors appointments, etc. Apparently I cannot access info or even use the insurance card without his SSN, which interferes with our parenting plan. \n\nI finally got a copy of her boyfriends insurance card, called up the company and told them that my son is covered by me by court order. Gave them the info so they could do coordination of benefits for all future claims. They seemed surprised that my son has been covered by me for years, almost like my ex and her boyfriend didn\u2019t disclose that when they enrolled. Not sure if that\u2019s even legal to withhold that information. \n\nSince I gave the insurance company the court order, will they automatically run mine as primary from now on? My thought is that they won\u2019t want to cover my son as primary when there is a court order that my insurance company pay first. The lady on the phone did not know the answer. \n\nI\u2019ve read that sometimes there\u2019s a birthday rule. But since there\u2019s a court order, would it override that? ","title":"Does a court order automatically make the listed parent\u2019s insurance primary?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1445155827,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p7gu8\/my_boyfriend_is_on_a_fixed_term_month_to_month\/","id":"3p7gu8","body":"I'll try to make this simple and to the point:\n\n\nWe live in California\n\n\nMy boyfriend and I have made the decision to move in with each other. He currently lives with two roommates (a boy and girl couple) on a Fixed Term month to month lease. Due to some drama stirred up by the girl roommate (I'll get into detail later to see if it helps my point), he's decided to move out asap, but still gave his 30 day notice to the landlord. The landlord said ok.\n\n\nMy boyfriend understands that since he gave his 30 day notice a little into this month, that he is responsible for this months and next months rent. Well, out the blue today, the girl roommate and the landlord told him that he is liable to pay rent no matter if he lives there or not due to section 10 on the lease agreement. \n\n\nI don't have the lease agreement to write word for word, but it just says that all tenants residing at the residence can only terminate their residency status if all three of them were to terminate it together. They are all liable and even if one resident would no longer stay there, he\/or she is liable to pay. \n\n\nSo when I read this lease with my boyfriend, I noticed that is was drawn up back in 2011. The original term was a 12 month duration between the dates of July 2011 to August 2012. Further into the agreement, it says that once the term is over, the lease will turn into a month to month agreement with all the same conditions.\n\n\nSo since it's month to month lease and he gave a 30 day notice, is he still liable to pay the difference because his roommates want to stay after those 30 days? Who can he speak to about this?\n\n\nHe can't stand living there all because of the girl roommate. She is a hoarder (no joke) and she is very hostile. She's made the house into her personal dump and has damaged some of the walls due to her aggressive behavior. Can he use this as a uninhabitable place to live in order to terminate his lease? He's taken pictures of the conditions its in in case he needs proof.\n\n\nIt also states in the lease that subletting is not allowed, so they can't get a new roommate.\n\n\nI feel like my boyfriend is trapped in this agreement unless all of them want to move out. It sounds so ridiculous! I'd tried googling this type of situation , and can't find anything similar to it. If anyone has any advice or can point me in the right direction , I'd really appreciate it.","title":"My Boyfriend is on a Fixed Term Month to Month Lease, gave his 30 day notice of moving, but roommates are making him liable to pay rent while they still live there.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504127833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x2b8n\/car_accident_settlement_involving_damaged\/","id":"6x2b8n","body":"First-time poster here, looking for guidance in settling a car accident settlement (Oregon). \n\nMy husband was involved in a head-on vehicle collision with a literal dump truck. The car was completely totaled, and the guy who hit him even told the police he thought he killed him due to the damage of the accident. The driver was later cited of careless driving and a judge upheld the citation. Husband was taken by ambulance to ER, got some stitches on his head, soft tissue damage, a concussion, but luckily came away mostly unscathed. The key thing, though, is that my husband has a prosthetic leg which was damaged beyond repair, and had to get a new one that took 9 months to make. So that was 9 months of painful walking on a damaged prosthetic. We\u2019re trying to settle with the insurance adjuster without an attorney, and I feel like we\u2019re struggling to understand the value of his case because there are virtually no examples online of this kind of accident. \n\nHis medical specials were about $45k (with $20k being for the prosthetic), and using the multiplier method (we used a 4 given that it was a commercial vehicle, the guy was clearly liable and negligent, and my husband had to spend 9 months walking on a painful leg) we were hoping for something like $175k, but the insurance company is only offering less than half of that. We\u2019ve already gone through a couple rounds of negotiations, but the adjuster seems to have changed her attitude from one of friendly to one of not. \n\nSo are we pushing our luck here asking so much? Should our estimate NOT include the prosthetic? Any tactic for handling an adjuster who seems to turn sour? Any guidance or advice would be really appreciated. ","title":"Car accident settlement involving damaged prosthetic","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569971022,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc1i2f\/in_can_a_boyfriend_kick_me_out_of_his_apartment\/","id":"dc1i2f","body":"Hi, kind of crashing at a friends house. Just wondering what my rights are.\n\nTo;dr Basically my BF and I got into a fight, his name is only on the lease. I work from home and buy groceries, but do not pay utilities or rent, and he breaks up with me and tells me I have to be out in 3 days.\n\nI was so scared and was in such a hurry that I even forgot some of my stuff in my rush to get out because his friend texted me that third day morning and told me he didn\u2019t give a shit about my convenience and that he was coming over now as opposed to the midnight deadline my ex gave me. I was out by noon but left behind some important valuables\n\nIs there any way I can get them back? Is this normal that I don\u2019t have any tenant rights after five months of living together and contributing to the household?","title":"[IN] Can a boyfriend kick me out of his apartment after a breakup after we\u2019ve lived together for five months with no warning?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553769193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6h5d3\/aging_dad_with_a_sizable_gun_collection_how_can\/","id":"b6h5d3","body":"-Nebraska- Let me start by saying this is no average gun locker, grandpas shot gun, type of collection. We\u2019re talking easily six figures in value, probably close if not more than 100 guns. Most are pistols, but there are sniper rifles, assault rifles, and even Vietnam era fully automatic machine guns. \n\nI am no gun nut like my father, but I do know the basics (hunters education, gun safety, etc.)\n\nI know he\u2019s mentioned having to get his \u201cclass 3 license\u201d and various other background checks and classes just to own some of the guns he has. \n\nBut now that he\u2019s aging, we are worried about the best way to pass down the collection after he goes. I\u2019ve heard the words \u201cgun trust\u201d thrown around but I\u2019m not sure he knows what those actually are and I know for sure that I don\u2019t.\n\nSo now, in preparation, what is the best thing we can do now to make sure everything is passed down in an efficient manner with as little red tape or unnecessary taxes as possible? ","title":"Aging dad with a sizable gun collection, how can we ensure that they are willed down with as little legal trouble and financial loss?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1503971805,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wo5qy\/can_my_rental_company_require_me_to_keep\/","id":"6wo5qy","body":"As the title states, my rental company has asked that I keep utilities active in the apartment for an additional five days after I am scheduled to be out. I will need to have the unit vacated and keys turned in by the end of business hours on 8\/31. They've requested that I keep electricity and gas\/water active until 9\/5. This seems unreasonable considering I will obviously need to transfer these to my new apartment. What might make this more difficult is that I have lived in my building for 6 years now, and signed the lease to the unit when it was under management of a different rental company. When the current company bought out the former I was not asked to sign a new lease, and was not made aware of any changes until after the new company had already taken over. I unfortunately do not possess a copy of my lease.\n\nDo I have any legal obligation to honor this request? Thank you in advance!","title":"Can my rental company require me to keep utilities active in the unit after my move out date? (Virginia)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504353070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xlfh1\/att_uverse_and_directv_contract_fl\/","id":"6xlfh1","body":"After having yet another problem with my U-Verse internet, I decided that it was in fact, time to cancel service. For the past year, at least 2-3 times per month I've had to call ATT to \"troubleshoot\" my internet and fine out why I'm paying for 18MBPS download speed and consistently getting less than 6MBPS. I finally called to cancel (and have since ordered service with a new company, although it hasn't been installed yet) and the rep told me that because of all the problems with the U-Verse internet there would be no early termination fee for the internet, but there would be an approximately $300 early termination fee for the DirecTV.\n\nNow the rep suggested that I drop the internet and go with a different ISP, and then keep the DirecTV to avoid the fee. My problem with that, is that, because I would no longer be \"bundling\" my monthly cost for just having DirecTV would go up, and then just having internet on a separate plan would make it very expensive as well. If the service wasn't so horrible, and I got reliable speeds, based on what's being advertised, and what I should be getting, I wouldn't be cancelling the service, so how is it my fault that they're advertising a certain speed, yet I'm unable to consistently get anywhere near that? Basically, tech support said they've tried every method of fixing the problem with no luck, so I'm essentially forced to switch ISPs, yet I'm being penalized because it isn't \"directly effecting\" the DirecTV.\n\nI looked in the contract that was signed prior to getting the service, and it does explain the early termination fees, but it says nothing about if ATT is unable to fulfill their end of the bargain. It also mentions that my service can be terminated if I violate the contract, but what if they violate the contract, do they get penalized?\n\nTL:DR Is there a law that requires a service provider to provide me with a certain reliability of service, or at the minimum provide me with the level of services that are being advertised?","title":"ATT U-Verse and DirecTV contract... [FL]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555036110,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc8gr7\/ca_lessor_took_my_deposit_and_blocked_me_on\/","id":"bc8gr7","body":"I was looking for a place to live for my last year of college and found a nice room. I messaged the person who lived in that room and agreed to pay the $1,300 deposit and rent for the whole school year. I didn\u2019t sign any paperwork but have record of our conversation and money transfers.  When I moved into the room, the person blocked me on all social media and I had no way of contacting her. Now the school year is coming to an end and I don\u2019t know how to get my deposit back. What should I do and do I even have any chance of getting my deposit back? Thank you.","title":"[CA] Lessor took my deposit and blocked me on social media","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554144105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b86oyq\/accidental_murder_please_help\/","id":"b86oyq","body":"What do I do please respond. This is serious.","title":"Accidental murder please help.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568916177,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6hsxz\/maryland_landlord_keeping_deposit_and_claiming_an\/","id":"d6hsxz","body":"Hello!\n\nSo. My wife and I recently moved from Maryland to Georgia. We vacated our previous apartment after giving 90-days notice and completing all lease paperwork on 7\/29. \n\nWe received what we thought would be our deposit return on 9\/17, and it was postmarked 9\/14. Straight away we knew this was a problem since they were required by Maryland to get it to us within 45 days and it seems to not even have been postmarked by then. \n\nInside we find a huge issue. Our deposit of $1380 had apparently been entirely used up on cleanings, repairs, and replacements. In addition they claimed that we owed them another $3-400 to settle the total bill. \n\nA sampling of items include: \n-a medicine cabinet that was completely removed and replaced which was perfectly clean and functional minus some wear and tear which was very fixable with small touchups.\n\n-a microwave that was removed and replaced (including mounting brackets) which also only had minor wear and tear and was certainly completely functional and clean when we left it.\n\n-several windows which were removed and replaced, which had frames which were beginning to rot. When we moved in one such frame actually had a hole in it larger than a silver dollar that we noted on our move-in form. For 2 years we submitted tickets for them to fix it, and they said they would on their dime. And for 2 years they made excuses. Now we see that they are charging us and using our deposit to front the cost of these replacements.\n\n-2 itemized entries on their sheet are entirely non-descriptive. Just a 45$ and 110$ charge with no discernible purpose or description.\n\n-an air filter replacement. We did throw away the air filter we were using before move-out. There wasn\u2019t one when we moved in and we left the apartment in that same condition, but now they are charging us while probably also making the next tenant buy their own. \n\n-door stop replacements.none of our doors had stops on move-in. We noted this but they are charging us to replace them and repair the doors.\n\n-crown molding. We got a dog during our time at the apartment, and as a puppy he chewed up 2 corners of the crown molding on the ground. We fully expected to pay for repairs for this, but they are claiming over $230 for removing and installing this new molding, which seems a bit outrageous. \n\n\nAll that being said, my wife and I want to get a reasonable amount of our deposit back. We have video and photo evidence of the state of the apartment at the time of our departure, and we know what we put on the move-in document even though we submitted it to the landlord and no longer have it. \n\nWe have communications from the landlord confirming that we would not be charged for any window replacements, but many of our ticket communications are now locked behind a login portal we no longer have access to.\n\nOne thing is that we were unable to perform the final walk-through with our landlord due to the distance of our move.\n\nWhat are our options here and what should our first steps be?\n\nThank you!","title":"(Maryland) Landlord keeping deposit and claiming an additional charge on top of it.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569074907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7axs9\/should_i_fight_my_citation_and_should_i_fight_the\/","id":"d7axs9","body":"Hello, recently I was in an accident in which there was a long turn lane that spanned multiple neighborhood entrances [I can draw a diagram] and basically I waited til the last break in the lines to get in the turn lane. Well I don't know how but as I was merging a lady must have been in the lane and so I turned into her.  We got out and she said i'm so sorry etc etc she said she was eating cereal and it was her fault but this is my first accident and I was a teen I didn't know what to say for the police report. Suffered no damage to her car and a decent amount of damage to mine. We called the police and they showed up and cited me for an improper lane change. Should I fight it?\n\nSecondly, recently we were told by our insurance company that a claim was filed for my accident and they wanted my statement, yet there was virtually no damage to her vehicle? (minor scuff I can post a picture) Can she do that?\n\nThirdly, We cant decide whether or not we should file a claim to fix my car or pay out of pocket. If we do file it to fix my car will the rates likely increase more than if we didn't? I don't know what to do and I don't know if I want to fight this.","title":"Should I fight my citation? and Should I fight the claim? Should I file a claim myself? help [GA]","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554923484,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbq11u\/just_found_out_im_pregnant_my_employer\/","id":"bbq11u","body":"I work as an \u201cIndependent Contractor\u201d but am misclassified working a front desk job, have a schedule, uniform , don\u2019t have a contract and my employer set my wage. I was under the impression I was going to work for this small business as an employee. Just found out I\u2019m pregnant, do I have any rights as an Independent Contractor? And what are my options?","title":"Just found out Im pregnant, My employer misclassified me on purpose as an Independent Contractor, what are my options and do I have any rights as an IC?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540479212,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rb0fd\/threatened_to_pay_200_pounds_for_nothing\/","id":"9rb0fd","body":"Idk what you call the person who rents a room in a rented house. I'm gonna call them landlord anyway.\nI told them that i am going to leave at the end of november, but the job isn't working out, so i decided to leave early in november i told them today that i am leaving soon and they started threatening us to give them at least 200 pounds because we did not warn them a month before.\n1. We are 2 people.\n2. Never trust a gypsie that he's a nice person, never.\nWhat should i do, i am pretty sure we rented the room \"illegal\", they are a family of 6 or more that live of the gov. Money and the school money.\n","title":"Threatened to pay 200 pounds for nothing.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541573130,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ux413\/friend_needs_advice_on_technical_college_meal\/","id":"9ux413","body":"Hey y\u2019all\n\nI have a friend who lives in Washington State. We\u2019ll call him Casey. Casey attends a technical college program. His class is Monday through Friday from 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM (It\u2019s all one class, not like CC or university where you attend several different classes) In the schools handbook, their meal break policy is that you get a 10 minute break per hour that you are in class.\n\nFor the last 11 months or so of his program, Casey has been allowed a ten minute break an hour into class starting and then two hours into class would have a 30 minute break. \n\nSo he told me that a new instructor just took over his program last week, and is basically being a huge hardass. She told them on her very first day that they would no longer be getting ANY breaks from start to finish for the duration of the program. \n\nCasey and a couple of his classmates went to the director of the program, AND the director of the school and told them what was going on. Both directors sided with the new instructor, and said that the policy in the handbook was just a suggestion, and that the instructors can do what they please in their classrooms.  After that, one of Casey\u2019s classmates asked for the phone number of the CEO or the owner of the school (It\u2019s a for-profit college. There is an entire family who owns the college, and then there\u2019s also a CEO). The director of the school threatened to take disciplinary action against anyone who tried to press the issue, and refused to give them the phone numbers. \n\nA lot of his classmates are having a hard time due to the fact that they go to school in the evenings because they have full time jobs and\/or kids at home. They use their breaks to call home, and check on their kids. He said a lot of his classmates also use their breaks to call their significant others as it\u2019s the only time of day that they get the chance to even talk to each other!\n\nDoes anybody know the laws in Washington regarding meal periods for students? Or if there even is any? I know when you\u2019re working in Washington the meal period law is that you are required a lunch before you hit the 5 hour mark of working. Is this the same? Is there anything Casey can do or should he just suck it up? Any advice is appreciated!\n\nTl;dr- don\u2019t go to a for-profit school, they\u2019ll overcharge you and all you get in return is a piece of crap education. ","title":"Friend needs advice on technical college meal periods","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571077639,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhuqta\/georgia_united_states_boss_wants_me_to_start\/","id":"dhuqta","body":"Georgia, United States.\n\nSo, title says most of it. Work at a fab shop as the floater, or do it all guy, if that makes more sense to you. One of my duties is maitanence. Lawn mowing and the like, my concern here being, the owner of the company owns multiple properties around the shop, most of them on the same block to. My boss would like me to take care of these properties, even though the shop property ends at the parking lot borders. I cant prove that the properties belong to my boss as personals or if they are under the ownership of the company itself. Any advice on how to proceed?","title":"Georgia, United States. Boss wants me to start taking care of properties off of work site","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542239618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x5np0\/question_relating_to_a_job\/","id":"9x5np0","body":"I live in Tulare County in California. A friend of mine works for a transportation company and has a few questions regarding the legality of their practices. \n\nSo the summary of the job is this-\nThe night before work, she'll get a message saying when to come in. That next morning, she goes to the yard and grabs a company owned car. Throughout the day, she gets told where to go and who to pick up and drop off. There is no time for lunch, no designated break time, and if she does fine time for any of these things, the boss replies with a \"must be nice...\" kind of attitude and makes her feel guilty. The day is over whenever the last person is dropped off. They don't tell her when the last clients time is nor of she wants to work over time. They just keep working her. \n\nAs for asking for getting off early or days off for personal things, they really chastise her for doing so. They consider it to be \"busting her chops\" but it causes her to be afraid to ask for any time in fear of retaliation. \n\nIf there's any info that's needed, let me know. Based off of this though, how much of this is legal?","title":"Question relating to a job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569777312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/day1tq\/i_work_in_a_supermarket_and_my_boss_refuses_to\/","id":"day1tq","body":"As title says I work in a supermarket, previously I rode a motorbike to work but after an accident I was left without transport as my bike was written off.  \n  \nThe journey to work previously took 20 minutes, now it takes an hour and a half. This is why I want the transfer. Learning to drive a car is not an option as even being on a bus puts me on edge after my accident.  \n  \nThere are 2 stores near me that I could actually walk to in less than half an hour, so I have been requesting a transfer to one of these 2 stores for the past 9 months.  \n  \nI have spoken to people in both stores who have confirmed that more than 5 staff have joined each store respectively in this time, and as I work there I know my current store has enough staff, even without me.  \n \nSo my transfer could have easily been arranged by now without damaging the business. On top of this my boss has actually lied to me and told me both the stores I want to transfer to havent needed any staff in the past 9 months.  \n  \nIs this legal? I'm getting very upset with the situation and although it's only a supermarket job, I like it. I do not want to have to quit.  \n  \nThank you very much for any help provided!","title":"I work in a supermarket and my boss refuses to transfer me even though she could, is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1412802804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ip5op\/business_llc_pa\/","id":"2ip5op","body":"Hello all,\n\nI had a question regarding my LLC, my EIN, and the IRS (all one big question involving all 3).\n\nI just started my first business in the last few months, an LLC created in Pennsylvania, but I've had some problems and fixing them has brought on additional issues.\n\nMy business is online and will be accepting transactions online. To accept Credit Card payments, I am in the process of creating a Merchant Services account with a bank. Since I owned the majority of the business, apparently the EIN is registered under me. Problem was, I am only 17, so I had my Operating Agreement updated to hand over majority control to my parent so that the business could continue with registering the Merchant Services account.\n\nNow that I have made that change to the Operating Agreement, the bank is telling me that since the Operating Agreement has been updated we need to file this update with the IRS so that they are aware that the business is officially owned by someone else now, and so we can have a new EIN issued under my parent's name (since they now have majority control in the business).\n\nMy question is, how or what should I do? What form(s) do I need to fill out, and how and to where do I send it?\n\nI'd be more then happy to answer any questions!\n\nThanks,\n\n-Brandon","title":"[Business, LLC, PA]","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551327782,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avmt7t\/not_sure_how_to_go_about_breaking_my_lease\/","id":"avmt7t","body":"I'm renting a house from a couple that owns 2-3 properties in my small town in Illinois. My boyfriend and I have been living here since June 1st, 2018, and it's been nothing but trouble. When we moved in there were bugs everywhere, mouse droppings throughout the kitchen, and it had not been cleaned or emptied from the previous tenants. I was in a tight spot and decided to sign a year long lease with them as they were friends of my boyfriend. He didnt see any of this coming. They have denied or flat out ignored our requests for various repairs, and when I found a large amount of mold behind paneling in the bathroom in December they threatened to charge us for the damage and also to evict us for violating our lease (we have a dog, he's not on the lease but they told us it was fine and I have messages that prove this). \n\nAs of today, Febuary 27th, I have a well paying full time position two hours from here. We want out, and I obviously cant make that commute every day. However, we obviously cant just skip town. Our lease is due to be up at the end of May, but I'm wondering what our options are here. I've found a new place for us to move into near my job, but we can't start moving in until the 8th. Do I give them 30 days notice and plan to be out by the end of March, paying for our stay for March only? Do we pay for March but not give them notice until we are already gone? What is our responsibility towards this lease? I cant live with this mold any longer, it's really started to impact my health, and this is the best job opportunity I've ever gotten. \n\nWhat do I do???","title":"Not sure how to go about breaking my lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570219528,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddcp09\/proof\/","id":"ddcp09","body":"If someone says I have proof of something to the police with nothing just their word to back it up and I say I don\u2019t, because I don\u2019t want to deal with it. Do they make me show it? Or it\u2019s the typical \u201cyour word against mine\u201d?","title":"Proof","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568986898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6v3ak\/looking_for_some_oneonone_preparation_for_my\/","id":"d6v3ak","body":"I have an upcoming employment insurance appeal hearing (I was denied, I initiated the appeal) and I'm looking to run the situation by someone and maybe get some free legal pointers in the process. If anyone has any experience with Unemployment Insurance hearings and has some time to discuss over the in-app chat feature, please message me or I'll message you. My previous employer was a financial institution; so if you have a specific knowledgeset about that, that would also be handy. Thank you Reddit.","title":"Looking for some one-on-one preparation for my upcoming unemployment appeal hearing","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541900832,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vzz82\/jail_withholding_my_brothers_medications_bp\/","id":"9vzz82","body":"So here is the most concise explanation of the specifics:\n\nMy brother has an old DUI from a couple years back. He went to court and they put him on a work release program. He was complying up until about a month and a half ago when he was hospitalized.\n\nSome context on his health, when he was about 14 years old he got a VERY rare tumor on his adrenal gland that was causing him high BP and a slew of other problems. He had the tumor removed but this last month he was re-hospitalized for high BP. They have been working on tests to find out a diagnosis but the symptoms he is presenting are similar with those from when he had his tumor.\u00a0\n\nThe fact that he was hospitalized caused him to miss his work release and a warrant was issued. As soon as he was well enough to take care of this problem he went to court to try and sort everything out and explain to the judge why he missed work release but she wouldn't listen or look at any of his medical documents, she arrested him on the spot on Thursday.\u00a0\n\nNow he is in jail and he is having high BP. He is currently at 170\/105 (normal is 120\/80). We gave the jail a list of his medications but as of today they are still not giving them to him. He was taken to Arrowhead Regional last night because he was feeling so sick from his high BP but they berated him and scolded him for trying to somehow make his BP go up just so he could get admitted to the hospital. They gave him some medication and sent him back to jail this afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThere is no bail set for him so we can't get him out even if we tried. He's scheduled to be in until thanksgiving day and without his medications his health could deteriorate really quickly. We just need someone in medical to listen to us and take him seriously. They are even testing his eyes with a light and his pupils are dilated so they think he's on meth but he is telling them to do a blood or urine test. He's not on drugs, his adrenal gland is so compromised that it is causing his adrenaline to course which is what is causing the pupils and BP to be out of whack (according to my wife who is an RN)\n\nThanks for listening! Sorry it's a lot to take in but I wanted to make sure you had all the details","title":"Jail Withholding my Brothers Medications. BP Currently 170\/105 [CA]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553885263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b712nd\/california_ticket_from_car_i_sold_took_my_refund\/","id":"b712nd","body":"Hi, I sold my car about 3-4 years ago and immediately afterward filed a release of liability and transfer of title with the DMV. A few months later, the car was abandoned on a freeway with bad tags and was towed and ticketed. When my CA tax refund came, I received a notice saying the towing company had claimed it and I found out that the towing company had sold the car to cover costs. I don\u2019t care about the car, but how do I clear this up? It seems the new owner failed to complete the transfer. ","title":"California ticket from car I sold took my refund","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446175457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qsnis\/broker_liability_fraudulent_misrepresentation\/","id":"3qsnis","body":"This incident took place in BC, Canada.\n\nI was solicited at a car dealership by a salesperson who told me he is also a broker.  Long story short, he brokered an off lot deal in exchange for referrals and sold me a total lemon from his 'friend'.\n\nThe salesperson has since been fired as a direct result of me going in to try and resolve the issue.  They are denying any liability however, because it happened across the street even though the employee was working during two out of our three interactions...and not ON their lot. \n\nI should also mention the the vehicle was supposed to have had 84km on it and actually has 84000 miles because its from the US which was not disclosed to me. Of course the sale had to be quick quick quick for a number of reasons.   Long story short...The car is parked now.  Deemed unsafe to drive without a minimum $3000 worth of repairs which I do not have.\n\nI'm a single mom and got burned hard.  Do I have a leg to stand on as far as holding the dealership liable for the actions of their employee?","title":"Broker Liability, Fraudulent Misrepresentation and\/or negligence","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571603984,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkphmx\/am_i_allowed_to_drive_my_car_while_its_under\/","id":"dkphmx","body":"So i\u2019m a student in high school, on Thursday my car got clipped by a bus on a turn. The front left bumper and blinker is shredded\/falling off. The bus didn\u2019t stop, and claimed he \u201cdidn\u2019t feel it\u201d. Was more or less a hit and run. I wasn\u2019t there when the accident happened, my car was parked on the side of the road and a neighbor left me a note and participated as a witness. I reported it to the police and my parents notified the insurance. Is it ok to drive my car in the meanwhile, or will that impede the investigation?","title":"Am i allowed to drive my car while its under insurance investigation?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568534582,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4hnnj\/first_ticket_40_mph_over\/","id":"d4hnnj","body":"I got pulled over on the highway and detained and thankfully let go on a small road trip. The cop paced me at 115 in a 75 although I honestly know that\u2019s a bit much. Ive never received a ticket before this. I realize it\u2019s a class 3 misdemeanor in Arizona, is it worth my time to get a lawyer and try and fight it (hopefully get it reduced)?","title":"First ticket, 40 mph over","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551746325,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axeqmh\/help_on_obtaining_a_trust\/","id":"axeqmh","body":"Sadly my grandfather passed away 2 years ago and he left me an 800k trust with me as the sole beneficiary and my uncle as the trustee. My uncle is refusing to let me get a copy of the trust and is only giving me a very small portion of the money each month plus paying any education related expenses. I am 22 now and have decided that I am old enough to handle this money on my own but my uncle is refusing to let me even see the trust let alone give me the lump sum. I am getting increasingly frustrated and I could really use some help on this. If it matters, I am in New York. ","title":"Help on obtaining a trust?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1542056919,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wi61y\/virginiafather_of_my_child_has_finally_contacted\/","id":"9wi61y","body":"I don't know if this is the right place to post but I am really worried and seeking advice. \n\nSo I got pregnant at 18 by this guy who I pretty much had a one night stand with. We didn't know eachother and I learned later though people that did know him that he wasn't a nice person and many refered to him as a degernerate etc.\nRegardless of who he was, I decided to keep my child and he begged me to abort and then later said he wanted no rights to the child, wanted to forget he exists and wanted no contact.\n\nI dropped out of college and moved the 3 hours back home with my parents and gave birth to my son. 6 months later I applied for child support through the department of family services. It was a horrible and long proccess because he deined he was the father and was forced to take a paternity test. Then he appealled the case as many times as he could until we had to go to court ,where I or course won. He paid me a tiny amount of money from his paycheck every month from then on. But I never saw him or heard from him EVER again after that day in court. \n\n5 years have past and I am now a junior in college living still with my parents and son. I used to work full time but am finally going to school full time so I applied for a redetermination for child support in july. I finally heard he was served the paperwork and then just last week learned my child support would be tripling. \n\nToday I opened Facebook for the first time in a long time and saw several messages from weeks ago from my child's father saying how sorry he is and how he wants to talk to me and make things right. I have no idea what this entails or what he could want or have to say but I'm worried. He is not a good person, has never done anything positive purposefully for me or my son.  I feel he is only reaching out because he has to pay more money. I want nothing to do with him but wonder if this is the best choice for my child. \n\nUltimately I'm afraid he may want custody of my son. Is this possible? This would be horrific for me because he lives 3 hours away and my son has never met this absolute stranger. Let alone the fact I don't even know this man and have no idea how he would treat my son. What can I do? Should I reply back to this guy at all or just ignore him or..?\n\nTL:DR: man I had a kid with from one night stand wants to contact me after 5+ years of no contact right after I filed for child support redeterminarion. I don't know him at all and am worried he wants custody of my son. \n\n","title":"(Virginia)Father of my child has finally contacted me after 5 years of no contact","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540861572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sj94n\/my_friend_minor_got_in_trouble_with_the_school\/","id":"9sj94n","body":"My good friend was texting another person. My friend made a joke about shooting up the school, which was obviously a joke. But the other person screenshotted it and used airdrop on iphones to send the message to other people. The police got involved and the school suspended him for it. It will be on his school record. I think it is violating his rights to punish him for making a joke, but I'm not sure because we are minors. ","title":"My friend (Minor) got in trouble with the school when he \"threatened\" to shoot it up","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569340471,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8p47t\/are_we_required_to_sign_a_lease\/","id":"d8p47t","body":"So my fiancee and I are looking for an apartment in Michigan, USA. We applied to a complex and were approved immediately and set up a move in date. We are having second thoughts about moving in and looking at other places. When we applied, the application had a section stating something to the effect of \"upon approval, the applicant is required to immediately enter a lease agreement.\" We have not payed anything beyond our application fee and have not signed anything besides or application papers. Are we required to sign a lease with this complex?","title":"Are we required to sign a lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553034162,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b33t9d\/would_i_be_notified_if_there_was_a_will\/","id":"b33t9d","body":"I have a close relative who has passed away recently. Would I be notified if there was a will? If not, how can I find out if there was one? I am in the state of New York.","title":"Would I be notified if there was a will?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1549637189,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aoh6xv\/current_employer_calling_new_employer\/","id":"aoh6xv","body":"(MI, USA) \n\nI have no clue if this is illegal or just a bad thing for an employer to do but here it is.\n\nMy father and I work at a dealership together, same department different jobs. My dad has just found a better offer of employment, put in his two weeks, two weeks ago and this is his last week. \n\nI have heard my manager calling the new dealership and asking questions about my dad such as pay, benefits, sign on bonuses etc. that the new employer is offering them wanting specifics. \n\nNow here\u2019s the fun part, I have heard this and let my dad know and he got a little unhappy with it (this was a couple days ago) today, Friday February 8th, the manager has called the new employer again but he didn\u2019t hear it from me, he heard it from the other mechanics that he is friends with. Again the manager is asking for specifics and had been heard to \u201cjust wanted to verify that he was getting paid what he said he was.\u201d \n\nSo my question is, is any of this legal? Can an employer call your new\/soon to be employer and ask specifics about your pay, benefits, sign on bonuses, vacation time etc? My dad is furious as that is not a professional way of doing things at least to our understanding. \n\nAny help would be greatly appreciated, thank you. ","title":"Current Employer Calling New Employer","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506848296,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73knl9\/received_notice_of_hearing_before_magistrate\/","id":"73knl9","body":"Central Florida : short version: a yr ago my daughter was force placed with me by dcf due to mother being abusive and an alcoholic. 2 mos ago we finally went to mediation and papers were signed. A month ago I was given final judgement signed by judge. I have sole decision making and sole physical custody. She can only see her with supervised visitation at a facility. In that final judgement I was awarded her last name changed. I sent papers to get her birth certificate changed and am waiting their return. Today I received a referral to a magistrate hearing with her denying change of my daughters name that was granted in the final judgement? My question is 1. How can she do that? 2. Would they possibly make me change it back when her mothers last name isn't even the same. 3. My daughter was so happy that her name is being changed, this is what my daughter wants. She is 10. Thanks","title":"Received notice of hearing before magistrate!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554322818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b935fa\/hey_all_my_girlfriend_creates_and_sells_different\/","id":"b935fa","body":"Hey all! My girlfriend creates and sells different kinds of gaming memorabilia, and redesigns Pokemon cards, taking the central photo and creating a new background and foreground scene in placement of all the text and what not (so it is basically one big picture). Are there any legal problems she may have to be worried of?\n\nLocation is PA, USA","title":"Hey all! My girlfriend creates and sells different kinds of gaming memorabilia, and redesigns Pokemon cards. Anything she should know about legal things?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569331684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8n748\/ma_lease_question\/","id":"d8n748","body":"Under the section \u201cTerms\u201d my lease says \n\u201cAny notice to terminate this tenancy must comply with the Act.\u201d \n\nWhat is the \u201cAct\u201d specifically? \n\nContext: the landlord is based out of state but the lease is currently active here in Boston, MA. \n\nThanks!","title":"(MA) Lease Question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550173465,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqnqea\/collecting_unemployment_question\/","id":"aqnqea","body":"I'm not sure if this is the right section to post, but my tech company in IL has been laying people off left and right.\n\nI'm pretty sure I'm coming up on the chopping block next (due to quota) and I'm currently on the job hunt in preparation, but I know that it may take anywhere from 1-4 months to find a solid job.\n\nAn alternative to getting completely fired and losing all my current accounts+base salary is being a bonus only rep and getting a max of like a few hundred dollars a month in commission.\n\nI was wondering if taking this W2 bonus only position would completely jeopardize collecting unemployment? I'm thinking worst case scenario that it might take 4-5 months to find a new job and I need to pay rent and other bills so it would come in handy.\n\nWould it be better to turn down the bonus only position (and lose my accounts) to possibly take unemployment?\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.","title":"Collecting Unemployment Question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446524294,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rb6cc\/fail_to_produce_registrationinsurance_documents\/","id":"3rb6cc","body":"Hello,\n\nI was pulled over for speeding on a rural road today,  the posted limit was 80km\/hr, Peace Officer \"clocked me at 127km\/h\".  I was operating a motorcycle and was passing a pickup truck at the time the officer took my speed.  The officer was in a moving vehicle in the oncoming traffic lane when he took my speed reading.\n\nHe didn't issue me any ticket for the speeding.  However I didn't have my registration and insurance documents with me.  \nI left the scene with 2 tickets, 1 for each missing document. I am fully insured, registered, and have a valid license.\n\nOn my \"offense notice\" there is a section that says \"The following does not form part of the charge\" and in that section  is noted the speed limit of 80km\/hr, my recorded speed of 127km\/h, and \"Radar\".\n\nThe Officer told me that if I went to court he wouldn't play along with any idea of lowering these fines since he already gave me a break by not issuing a speeding ticket and by not towing my motorcycle since I had no proof of insurance.\n\nI have been reading quite a bit on traffic court, fighting tickets, etc.  All the advice I have found relates to moving violations, and how to fight those.  \n\nI have read other reports online of people in the same jurisdiction i reside being stopped for moving violations and not charged for those but given tickets for \"Fail to produce\", basically the same situation I am in now.\n\nIn Alberta, Canada there is no option to produce the documents within a given time frame in order to have the offense suspended.\n\n\nHas anyone ever heard of a defense along these lines:\nAttack the reason for the initial traffic stop and then claim that the officer would never have been able to determine that I couldn't produce these documents if I hadn't been stopped in the first place?\n\nBasically I am wondering that if I can prove that the officer had no reason to stop me in the first place, are these tickets now \"fruit of the poisonous tree?\" \n\nSince he didn't write me a speeding violation, I am thinking of attacking the initial stop.  \n\nThe part I am worried about is that in Alberta the Peace Officers are 100% allowed to randomly stop any vehicle, at any time to ask for insurance and registration documents.  They don't need a traffic violation to pull anyone over, they can just do it and say it was to check documents.\n\nI am hoping that since he didn't randomly stop me, but stopped me for a speeding ticket which he didn't write, I can get these other two ticked nullified through a creative defense.\n\nThanks for reading!","title":"Fail to produce registration\/insurance documents. (Alberta, Canada)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504721660,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yhehz\/recieved_speeding_ticket_and_never_got_my_right\/","id":"6yhehz","body":"I got a speeding ticket when the day came I went to court and handed my ticket to the clerk, she quickly gave me another slip stating I come to court 1 month later. So I did. This time when I went i handed the clerk my new slip and original ticket, she stated that the clerk from the first time inputed my ticket number wrong and mixed my name with someone else's. They had me waiting for 1 hour to just tell me they will call me because they cant seem to find my ticket (I also had school, college student) . Exactly 2 weeks later I received in the mail the payment paper saying I have this amount of time to pay and the cost is 400 dollars. I never went to actual court or trial. They couldn't find me or my ticket on the date i was instructed to go. What do I do? Can I contest it?","title":"Recieved speeding ticket and never got my right to trial and they are demanding pay. Im from San Diego, California.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552896135,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2fxbi\/california_original_move_away_requestorder_is_no\/","id":"b2fxbi","body":"I was in the process of going through the courts to get a move away order to North Carolina, but now I am moving into the area that the entire legal process was filed in and he moved out of it, essentially switching the entire order. He would now need the move away order and I would, I think, not. I no longer have a lawyer as I fired mine and am confused on this whole process. We have pre-trail in April and I know I am in over my head. ","title":"[California] Original move away request\/order is no longer needed, now what?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507251219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74kb32\/tx_signed_lease_on_apartment_property_manager\/","id":"74kb32","body":"With all parties having signed the lease a few weeks ago, and just a few weeks until I move in, are they really able to just decide they want to upgrade the unit and charge me more, making that lease we both signed pointless? They want me to sign a new one. Can I hold them to the lease that I signed?","title":"[TX] Signed lease on apartment, property manager signed and finalized it... Now say they are doing an upgrade on the unit and I have to either pay an extra $100\/month or I lose it.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506360282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72dynr\/advice_for_disputing_move_out_charges\/","id":"72dynr","body":"Hi all. \n\nI just received a letter with my move-out charges, from the apartment I move from the end of July. There are about 200 dollars in charges which is split between my former roommate and I, broken down below, with the reasoning why I am disputing\n\n65- labor for \"unclogging 2 bathtubs\" with the documentation stating the next tenant indicated slow drains on the move in form. Which was an issue we had. They drained fine just a little slow, not enough to back up. Probably the one I am the least concerned about\n\n75 for new blinds plus 50 for labor to replace. These are vertical blinds in the living room covering French style doors. There was one slate on the side missing but this did not affect the covering of the door at all. We had significant and repeated issues with the door frame, and subsequent flooding that resulted in many maintenance visits. One of those visits knocked the slat off. They were aware and said it was not an issue. The property manager was aware and also said it wasn't an issue. Unfortunately I didn't have this in writing, which was my own fault. The only documentation was the maintenance visits. I had a good relationship with the property manager and no reason to believe there would be an issue. Until he left shortly before move out. \n\nThe remaining charges are light bulb replacements and labor for them in my former roommates bedroom. I do not by any means want to pay for those, as they were not my responsibility. She didn't clean anything when she left and didn't pay the last few months of power and I don't want to pay another penny for her. \n\n\nI have pictures showing all the lights working in the common areas and my bedroom, as well as the blinds intact.  I don't have pictures or a way to prove that the lights out were my roommates? \n\nI just really have no idea how to word the letter to appeal the charges, or what else to do other than including the photos I took. \n\nAny advice would be appreciated! Mostly just looking for help with wording a dispute letter. \n\nEDIT: I still live with this management company, just a different property. I am in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. \n","title":"Advice for disputing move out charges","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553853121,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6vagj\/legality_of_cheaper_initial_rent_scotland\/","id":"b6vagj","body":"Looking for a student  flat for next year and one was advertised as \u00a31500pcm and came up on the agency website as that amount, but in the fine print said that this was only for the first three months, after which the rent rises to \u00a31650pcm. I'm wondering on the legality of this as I've not seen anything like it before","title":"Legality of cheaper initial rent (Scotland)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554759659,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bazjwp\/noncompete_clause_attorney_consult\/","id":"bazjwp","body":"I am posting on behalf of my partner. She has a non-compete clause for her contract as a speech therapist. She wants to switch to working straight through the district but her contracting company has a very strict non compete clause. To be safe, I told her to contact an employment attorney and get a consultation.  The contract is 5 pages or less and I know someone who paid $100 for a consult. She made an appointment with the same attorney who wants to charge her $350 now, for a consultation over the phone.  Does this seem inflated ? We don\u2019t foresee this conversation to be longer than 30 minutes. \n\nThanks.","title":"Non-compete clause attorney consult","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568755792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5njur\/how_to_terminate_parental_rights_mn\/","id":"d5njur","body":"My daughter is 14 months and in the time she's been alive her biological father has seen her 4 times total. I have sole physical custody and legal custody is split 51% 49% my way. He was ordered to pay $50\/mo in child support. I'd like for his rights to be terminated for a number of reasons. I'm concerned about his ability to pay this money and I'm worried about him getting into legal trouble for not paying it. Also he has never been present or shown any interest in her life. He doesn't know anything about her. I doubt he even knows where we live or what her middle name is. Is there any chance that the courts will allow for his rights to be terminated? I'm almost positive that he would agree that he wants them terminated as well.","title":"How to terminate parental rights (MN)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540567612,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rlpks\/recieved_a_citation_for_an_expired_inspection\/","id":"9rlpks","body":"Some details, I was cited under PA Code #67, Section 4703, Subsection A. I was also given no total due, so I had to call the Magisterial office for a total of $141.50. Also it occurred in Lehigh County, Hanover Township. Any advice on how to proceed\/ do I have a case to fight this?","title":"Recieved a citation for an expired inspection even though it was fully updated, the sticker was just on a corner windshield that was replaced before I even bought the car 9 months ago. [PA]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539380555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nofz2\/i_have_to_be_a_witness_at_my_best_friends_divorce\/","id":"9nofz2","body":"Hey! Kind of a complicated situation, so a little background:\n\nFriend (26F) was married to JerkFace (~24ishM) for I think 6-7 years. We have been friends for almost three years. We are all in Texas. \n\nEver since I\u2019ve known her, she was unhappy in her marriage. He was physically, verbally, sexually abusive. She and I became very close, and while I never directly witnessed any of it, I was usually her first phone call (though I don\u2019t have a log of calls- i never thought i would need it. Ugh) and I\u2019ve seen the holes in the walls from his fits, etc.\n\nSo a lot of stuff came out when she decided to leave him. Apparently Friend had fallen in love with me (22F). I found out about this after she and JerkFace had separated (side note, I know there\u2019s \u201cno legal separation\u201d in Texas, but I\u2019m not 100% sure what that means).\n\nI have been common law married since February of 2017, and officially married since September of 2017. \n\nAfter they had separated (and she has texts proving the day that he moved out, directly contradicting the dates he gave his lawyer), JerkFace started showing up to their house in the middle of the night. He still owned the house. One of the times he came in and \u201cforced her to have sex with him while he was drunk,\u201d in quotes because I have not asked specific details of what sort of force was used (coercion, physical restraint, etc). The times he would come into the house at night, he would go in through the window, or use the key and break the chain (we have pictures of the broken chain on the door from one such occasion). He told Friend that he was showing up unannounced like this because he was trying to catch her in bed with me. He messaged me on social media accusing me of being the reason for their divorce and that \u201cFriend changed when she met me\u201d etc.\n\nDuring this separation, Friend started seeing another guy. When JerkFace came in one night, he found Friend asleep next to (both clothed) her new BF. JF took photos of \u201chis slut wife\u2019s adultery\u201d and BF left. The next day, we filed a police report, but the DA declined to press charges. The officer was really upset, and told Friend she needed to get out of the house because he was scared for her safety. He included notes about his personal feelings and the survey about abuse in his report.\n\nSorry for all the background, it\u2019s just complicated! Of course, JerkFace and Friend made a plan for 50\/50 custody, discussed (in person) plans, etc. And JF went back on all of it, claimed they made plans for him to maintain sole custody, etc. He\u2019s been dragging everything out.\n\nHe claims that his wife\u2019s \u201cadultery\u201d (which if there\u2019s no legal separation in Texas, my understanding is that adultery was not committed? I am confusion) makes her an unfit mother. She is now living with BF, they have plans to get married, they have stable jobs and an apartment. \n\nSo now I have to go and testify (is that the right word?) at divorce court, because we are under the impression that JF is trying to paint a picture of a slutty\/poor\/unstable person that Friend is. So my question is, as someone who \u201cseduced his wife away from him\u201d-his words- what kind of tips are there for me as a witness? Did I really even witness anything? Or am I just a character witness and there to say \u201cnah dude I really didn\u2019t sleep with your wife\u201d?\n\nFriend has decided to take the high road at court, saying why she is qualified. While JF just says why Friend sux because she hurt his feelings. \n\nFriend has a lawyer, and aside from a few issues (he took DS out of state without Friend\u2019s knowledge once, coaches DS to lie about Friend and BF), they have shared custody while awaiting divorce\/custody hearings. She seems as prepared as possible, my real question is basically about my role as a witness and how to behave\/answer questions. \n\n \nI hope that was enough information to give you a picture! I\u2019ve never testified before and I have no clue what to expect. I\u2019m also pregnant and don\u2019t want to start crying on the stand because I\u2019m stressed, haha\n\n","title":"I have to be a witness at my best friend\u2019s divorce hearing","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553359208,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4l7ai\/driving_unlicensed\/","id":"b4l7ai","body":"Okay so I\u2019m 18 Y\/o in Maine. My parents both are deceased and I have a very good paying job. I do not have my license due to not being able to afford drivers ed before 18 and getting my current job. I have my state permit that I got when I turned 18. I have all my hours with the permit and meet all current requirements for a license. However I\u2019m currently awaiting an appointment for my license and have no rides to work. Since my father died I\u2019ve been out of work. Roughly about 3 weeks. My boss has been very very patient with me due to my circumstances but corporate is getting upset with the vacancy in the position. Now my drive to work is about 45 minutes on a very rural route until the last stretch which is only about 2 miles. Now do I risk driving illegally to keep this very good paying job or cut my losses and wait for my license and be financially strained due to medical and funeral expenses for my fathers recent death? Any advice\/help is very appreciated. Thank you. ","title":"Driving unlicensed","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507885089,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/763jyr\/landlord_claims_to_have_lost_cash_payments\/","id":"763jyr","body":"Okay, long story short, I stupidly sent cash in the mail a few years (about 2 and a half now) back for rent. At the time I panicked because he contacted me after four months to suddenly say he hadn't gotten the payments and he needed them. I panic agreed to 'pay him back' (Despite paying them) and it has... essentially destroyed my life. I've spiraled into a depression\/am fighting to pay it back on top of normal life payments. One thing that has happened because he is an absurdly slack landlord is I have not technically signed a lease for the past two years. Am I legally obligated to him in any way? Are my rent payments at all counting towards my supposed 'debt' to him? I ask because it has effectively screwed up my life for the past 2 years and I am just... done... with it all. This is all on top of him failing to do basic things like fix two broken windows (That have been broken since I moved in four years ago), etc, etc...\n\nThis is in South Carolina, for the record.","title":"Landlord claims to have lost cash payments...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441500995,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jt3bj\/owner_of_neighboring_property_not_taking_any\/","id":"3jt3bj","body":"(This is in California)\n\nI live next to a property that has been abandoned.  It has become a local spot for addicts to use as a crash house.  Living in California I know all about the squatter laws so I reached out to the owner of the property.  He has shown no interest in doing anything about the problem.  \n\nThere is not one set of people coming and going its a lot of different people.  They have broken our fence to enter the property and on one occasion threatened us when we saw them exiting the house.\n\nMy question is there any action I can make towards the home owner to force his hand?  We have called the police multiple times knowing the best they can do is scare them off.  As it stands I wont leave my property without pepper spray or something of the sort out of fear of my safety.\n\nAny help would be much  appreciated. ","title":"Owner of neighboring property not taking any action to remove squatters from property","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568422984,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3yj8s\/is_this_illegal_nm\/","id":"d3yj8s","body":"[Albuquerque] So I hot wired my treadmill, put a motor on it, and it also it is remote controlled. When I turn it on and use it, I have my friends controlling it down the streets. If I was intoxicated while riding it, since it has a motor and I\u2019m not controlling it can I get a DUI if a cop pulled me over and I was intoxicated?","title":"Is this illegal? [NM]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444435855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o5xlr\/car_crash_advice_parked_car_in_the_middle_of_the\/","id":"3o5xlr","body":"A car was parked in the middle of the highway behind a disabled car. I did not see any hazard lights nor road rangers near by. No brake lights and no hazard lights. By the time i noticed he wasn't moving I was able to slow my car from 70 to 5 mph. No airbags were deployed and no one was injured. I was given a citation. Anything i can do? Florida, Weston, 33327","title":"Car Crash Advice: Parked Car in the Middle of the highway","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553300732,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4co39\/abandoned_vehicle_on_my_property_what_are_my\/","id":"b4co39","body":"February 21st 2019 I woke up to a 2008 BMW 335i on my property. Literally just abandoned. I called the police as I thought it was stolen but it turns out it is not. Police asked me if I would like it removed but I refused.  \n   Questions: How long must the vehicle sit before I can file for an abandoned title? What might prevent me from receiving the title?\n   I\u2019m going to assume that the vehicle has a lien against it, either bank or title loan. If this is the case, can I, a private citizen request to be paid the abandoned title fee plus (x) amount of days storage\/ impounded on my property? Who determines how much I can charge per day storage?\n  \nSorry if format or spelling sucks. Location is Phoenix, Arizona. U.S.A.  ","title":"Abandoned vehicle on my property. What are my rights?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504982641,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z3ezh\/is_it_illegal_to_request_and_receive_nudes\/","id":"6z3ezh","body":"I'm writing this on a burner account because I definitely don't want this associated with me in any way. I am wondering if it is illegal to request a specific someone's sexual photographs or videos and receive them so long as they are not shared by me. \n\nMeaning that if I requested to see or have someone else's nude photographs and I received them without the consent of whom those photographs are of, could there be any legal repercussions? This is assuming that I receive this content and do not share it with anyone else. It goes to me and I keep what I receive for myself. Is there any legal issues with this?\n\nI ask because there are numerous threads and posts on various pornographic websites in which nudes are uploaded illegally and it can be very hard to tell if that is the case sometimes. I know morality is certainly an issue here but I am asking strictly about the legal repercussions that could occur from this.\n\nAnd obviously, I am referring to pictures of adults, nothing that would be inherently illegal no matter the case.\n\nedit: I am from the United States but to retain anonymity, I will list four possible states I could be in. Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, or Oklahoma","title":"Is it illegal to request and receive nudes?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506668637,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/736848\/usa_related_to_fraud_indirectly\/","id":"736848","body":"A friend of mine I believe is guilty of using stolen credit cards to buy crypto currency. He had me use on a prepaid card or somethign that's reloadable to buy some stuff for him on paypal.... Was over $200, he's in a different country. If he used money he stole from credit cards to send to me to buy items, did I break some kind of law? I know this quote 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' I didn't think about this really until he brought it up. He wouldn't admit or deny it. What should I do?\n\nNote: I didn't assist him into buying bitcoins or using stolen credit cards at all. He just sent me bitcoins well prepaid visa that you could load with bitcoins... Am I at risk? Washington State, USA","title":"[USA] related to fraud? indirectly?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554305761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8zi46\/mom_trying_to_evict_me\/","id":"b8zi46","body":"My mother is trying to evict me from our rented home. My brother, her and I are all signed on the lease.  My mother has decide, after numerous arguments, that she wants me out of the house. I know that she cannot force me to leave, only a landlord can. I have already spoken to the landlord and they refuse to let me off the lease. I will not go into detail, but my mother is know to be malicious and hateful when angry. She\u2019s already told me \u201cnot to mess with her\u201d. I\u2019m not sure what this means, but what can she do in this case? ","title":"Mom trying to \u201cevict\u201d me.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552528651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0ukmn\/vice_principal_wants_to_search_luggage_for_school\/","id":"b0ukmn","body":"My sister is a junior in high school going on a trip to a state competition for DECA (school class\/club) this weekend. The vice principal wants the students to bring their luggage to school tomorrow so she can search through it. Is she able to do this or is it violation of privacy or something like that?","title":"Vice principal wants to search luggage for school trip","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1447716043,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t3108\/can_my_apartment_manager_prohibit_guests_wa_usa\/","id":"3t3108","body":"I am living by myself in a two bedroom apartment. My manager is letting me pay the one-bedroom rate as long as I don't have anyone living with me.\n\nPart of my lease agreement states \"Any guest(s) that are in the apartment for at least (5) five consecutive days\/nights, would also result in the lease rate change to the normal two bedroom rate, whether or not they are qualified tenant(s).\"\n\nThis is the only part of my lease that pertains to guests.\n\nI was under the impression that \"days\/nights\" means days AND nights not just days...\nMy boyfriend spends the weekdays with me in my apartment. He picks me up and we leave town every Friday.\n\nHe never has spent the night here.\n\nHowever, he does drive over in the morning to grab breakfast on his way to class and leaves late in the evening after we eat dinner and do homework together. This seems to have given my manager the impression that he stays here as his car is here before and after my manager's office hours.\n\nHe is paying for his own apartment down the road. I pay for my apartment by myself.\n\nToday, my manager was in my apartment fixing something and my boyfriend and I were there. My manager brought this up and said \"I see him here all the time, you know you aren't supposed to have anyone else living here.\"\n\nWe informed him that my boyfriend does not live with me and has his own place. My manager nodded but we were getting the feeling that he doesn't believe us. He sounded unconvinced as if he thought we were blatantly lying.\n\nMy boyfriend went into complete panic mode after and is all stressed out, he seems to think he should stop coming over for awhile and thinks my manager can take legal action or raise my rent.\n \nI think that's absurd for many reasons.\nFor one: Can my manager really restrict my boyfriend from visiting?\nEven if the lease does mean days OR nights as opposed to days AND nights, my boyfriend is here for four days, and then picks me up on the fifth and we leave town so I don't see how that's any violation.\n\nI don't want to change our whole lives around just because we are in fear of my manager's false perception of our situation. It makes me feel more like a prisoner than a tenant.\n\nTo ease my boyfriend's worries and as a precaution, should I confront my manager about this and ask him to clarify or maybe show him a copy of my boyfriend's lease? He could do a search of my apartment and wouldn't find any of my boyfriend's stuff. I don't know what to do. I was thinking if my boyfriend walks here instead of drives, it would solve part of the problem of my manager seeing his car here all the time?\n\n\nTL;DR Is there any way I could prove to my manager that my boyfriend doesn't live with me? Is it even worthwhile to prove that? If I don't, are there any legal consequences I should be concerned about, if I am not in any violation of my lease?","title":"Can my apartment manager prohibit guests??? WA, USA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447638072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sytc5\/white_out_on_invoicefraud\/","id":"3sytc5","body":"Location: Ontario, Canada\n\n**April 2015:** The lease on a house I was renting with 5 other people ended at the end of April 2015. I had moved out about four months earlier because of a job and subletted my room. Unfortunately, my housemates left a lot of stuff behind when they moved out (i.e. desks, mattresses, couches, dishes, a general mess) and the landlord tried to make them pay for the cost of cleaning the place up.\n\n**May 2015:** I was sent an invoice in June with the details of the cost of the clean up (the landlord only had my contact info). 21 labour hours (performed by the landlord's company) and dumpster removal charges totalled $1000. The labour hours were handwritten on top of the dumpster company invoice. I was also sent an email that has the landlord's company stating \"*the invoice sums to $1000.*\" My housemates did not pay up.\n\n**July 2015:** I received an email from the landlord's company saying \"*We are in the process of getting together the paperwork to file a claim for the court. I ensure you this will be a much more expensive route to take...hoping we can settle this amongst ourselves.*\"\n\n**November 2015:** I was served a small claims court file saying the people on our lease need to pay $2300. The same dumpster company invoice was included in the file, however the handwritten labour hours were whited out (poorly). A new page was included that says 79 labour hours were required to clean the house.\n\nIs this white out on the invoice thing fraud? It seems very fishy to me. Also, who should be paying the clean up costs: me or my subletter? Thank you for the help.","title":"White Out on Invoice...Fraud?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539179661,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mznwj\/other_than_wearing_glasses_what_are_some_ways_one\/","id":"9mznwj","body":"A friend of mine is going to court charged with the rape of several underage girls. We know he didn\u2019t do it but in today\u2019s political climate the odds are seemingly stacked against him. He has already bought a pair of smart looking glasses and we are looking for other ways to convince the judge and jury that I didn\u2019t do it. Any ideas? A friend suggested subtly acting gay, is that worth considering?","title":"Other than wearing glasses, what are some ways one can look less guilty in court?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554604202,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/babvlb\/employer_only_giving_breaks_when_we_work_6_hours\/","id":"babvlb","body":"[MN] As the title states when I go to work on Sundays I am scheduled to work 5 hours (4-close, we close at nine), however I looked up how often I get a break and saw that I get a break every four hours. My boss during orientation said that I would only get a break if I worked more than six hours. \n\nI have brought this up to my employer before and it works for that day but it\u2019s back to the same old ways after that. \n\nI\u2019m wondering where I would lodge a complaint to get my employers to comply with the law, if it changes anything I am a minor for another month and a half","title":"Employer only giving breaks when we work 6+ hours","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552678798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1j895\/hairdresser_left_salon_now_theyre_calling_past\/","id":"b1j895","body":"New Jersey. \n\nMy girlfriend, a hairdresser, was working at a local salon for roughly 5 months when the owner instituted a new rule that employees had to sign a non-compete contract that would bar them from working within 20 miles for 5 years after separation. It would also give the salon rights to sue employees who left and took clients with them. \n\nMy girlfriend was not planning on staying at the salon long-term for several reasons. Mainly, her friend is opening a salon soon that\u2019s not far away and she was planning on moving there (we\u2019ll call this one the \u201cnew salon\u201d and the one she left the \u201cold salon\u201d). She also was not comfortable with the fact that the old salon did not pay any employees on the books even though the pay structure was set up as though they were employees (as opposed to 1099\u2019s or renters). The new salon will be on the books. Finally, she had been there only a short time, so she wasn\u2019t comfortable with commuting to 5 years\u2019 worth of working 20 miles or more from home, as our home is blocks from the old salon. \n\nSo, when it came time to sign the contract, she told her old boss that she wasn\u2019t comfortable because of the short amount of time she\u2019d been there, and that she understood if that meant she couldn\u2019t work there anymore. She didn\u2019t mention the new salon. Her boss told her it\u2019s not optional, and my girlfriend left on good terms. \n\nThis morning, my girlfriend was told by one of her clients who she\u2019s friendly with that the old salon called the client and told her that my girlfriend was fired for calling out sick too often, that my girlfriend was \u201cpre-arthritic,\u201d and that my girlfriend wasn\u2019t sure if she even wanted to stay in the hair industry. Now, my girlfriend probably did complain to her coworkers at the old salon about feeling like she was pre-arthritic so that\u2019s not a bold-faced lie, but it\u2019s still highly unethical to call clients and tell them this. And I\u2019m sure she never told them that she might not want to stay in her industry. \n\nAs she was not a legal employee, is it worth her time to pursue her old boss for what she\u2019s saying to past clients? Some of them were likely to follow her to her new salon because she got them through social media promotions, and I\u2019m afraid this will damage her chances of being followed. It\u2019s also just wrong and a crappy thing to do. \n\nFor the record, this was her first salon job and none of the employees were paid on the books. ","title":"Hairdresser left salon, now they\u2019re calling past clients and lying about why she left","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551150840,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auua1j\/landlord_wants_us_to_pay_for_any_pluming_issues\/","id":"auua1j","body":"I'm not sure where else to ask this but I'm a student living with my boyfriend in a rented flat. A few months after we moved in our toilet and sink drains started to get more and more blocked even though we weren't misusing it or anything. Then the toilet blocked up completely so I contacted our landlord and they just said it's our responsibility and they can call a plumber but we would have to pay for it. We decided to call a plumber ourselves and paid \u00a3120 for them to come over and fix it. After two visits the plumber managed to clear the drains and after that we were super careful but exactly a month later the drains blocked up again. So we called a plumber for the second time two weeks ago and paid another \u00a3120 for them to fix it. Now less than two weeks later all our drains are blocked again. We 100% haven't flushed anything that we shouldn't have and it feels really unfair that I have to pay yet again when it's clearly not our fault. I just wanted to know if we have any rights in this situation? This is the first place I've ever rented that isn't student accommodation so I'm really out of my depth. ","title":"Landlord wants us to pay for any pluming issues but we've already paid for our own plumbers twice and our drains continue to keep blocking up. Do we have any options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568415242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3x0uw\/wa_i_had_insurance_when_i_was_hospitalized_but\/","id":"d3x0uw","body":"Title sums it up pretty well. If it matters, I was hospitalized for a suicide attempt and the bills I\u2019ve gotten are for the hospital stay, ER visit, and ambulance.","title":"[WA] I had insurance when I was hospitalized but don\u2019t anymore and just got the first bill months later. Does insurance still cover it?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553259750,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b44tad\/california_i_got_a_ticket_and_dont_know_how_to\/","id":"b44tad","body":"Last year,  in \u201cHarbor Newport Beach Facility (that\u2019s what it says online)\u201d, my speedometer went out and was clocked at going 100 mph. Cops were cool and gave me a citation, craziness with life happened and I had to leave Cali. Completely forgot about the court date. Now it\u2019s stopping me from getting my license back. I tried paying it online on the occourts website, but it said it was unavailable to be paid online. From what I\u2019ve found, everything is saying I have to go turn myself in (for this now warrant) and go to court. I\u2019m in Florida now, and that\u2019s kinda next to impossible. I absolutely need my license back and I have the money to pay whatever fines, it\u2019s just I can\u2019t figure out how to. Any help would be much appreciated, as it\u2019s causing me so much more unneeded stress is my life right now. ","title":"[California] I got a ticket and don\u2019t know how to pay it.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569000359,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6y695\/is_it_worth_going_after_this_company\/","id":"d6y695","body":"First time posting and not super well versed in the legality of all of this, so bear with me please.\nMy car was recently totaled in a company\u2019s parking lot in a flash flood. I attend a local university, and this company and the university have a good connection in terms of parking and living for students like me. I don\u2019t live on campus, I commute. However, my girlfriend lives in an apartment close to campus, so I purchased an all week pass confined to certain lots so that my car would not be towed or ticketed during the nights I stay with her. I was parked in one of the lots indicated on the pass.\nFast forward a few days after buying the pass, I get back to my car and find standing water in my car, after a night of hard rain. Unfortunately, there was also water in my cup holders. This indicated to me that I had close to three feet of water in my car and I assumed the worst. I call my dad, insurance company, and the company that sold me my pass. After sorting out towing and making a claim with my insurance I call the company that sold me the pass. All I was told was \u201cwe can\u2019t predict the weather\u201d. Even though the lot is in a considerable lowland, and there were many other cars like mine with water in them parked there. Plus, there is knowledge that this parking lot floods as I have heard from people after the fact, and also vehicles from this company taking water out of surrounding buildings\u2019 basements. \nFast forward a few days, I look at my pass and the sheet that I signed in order to receive the pass, and neither say anything about parking and damages to cars, nor is there any postage in the lot. With that being said, I already have everything sorted with insurance and am getting a check very soon. \nIs it usually the insurance company that would go after this company that sold me this pass in order to make up for what they are giving to me? Or do I have a case to go after this company? I am just wondering how to go about this. Any help is much appreciated.","title":"Is it worth going after this company?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446070971,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qmgeu\/can_i_ask_for_child_support_after_agreeing_to\/","id":"3qmgeu","body":"**Location is Tennessee**\n\nI have a custody agreement with my ex and in the agreement he gets 3 days per week with the child and I get 4. That was 3 years ago and my situation has changed. I have moved to a different school district and am now homeschooling my child. Next year I will send her to public school and it will not be possible for him to have her the 3rd day of his week, since he cannot travel 2 hours to take her to school. \n\n\nSince my situation has changed and I have no income, is it possible for me to change the custody\/support agreement and ask for support after I already agreed on receiving none?\n\n**Edit:** Just to clarify, I am not trying to take any quality time away from him, even though he has her on the weekend and some Fridays, his work schedule does not allow him to see her on Fridays, I am in no way taking time away from him, I am just asking if I can change the Parenting Plan to include child support, when I denied it 3 years ago as we were living 10 minutes apart and he was helping me with things for school, clothes, etc. That has since changed when I moved. ","title":"Can I ask for child support after agreeing to receiving none?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568853302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d66b2z\/can_i_decline_a_job_offer_after_accepting_it_what\/","id":"d66b2z","body":"[USA] I have been offered a position at one company but I\u2019m expecting an offer from my dream company. The first company has given me a deadline till Friday to accept and are sending an offer letter to me tomorrow. The dream company says they are trying to expedite the offer process. If I accept the first company\u2019s offer and the dream company gives me an offer a day or two later, can I decline the first company\u2019s offer after accepting it? I don\u2019t want to get into legal trouble. Pls help.","title":"Can I decline a job offer after accepting it? What are the consequences?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538257299,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9k0t63\/excompany_decided_to_contact_attorney_for\/","id":"9k0t63","body":" I do not put exact amounts, dates, or peoples names\n\nBackground: I was fired this past year (2018).\n\nMistake 1: I had 2+ accounts of the company rewards points. me, and close family members. I would buy things in their behalf when I went to work. That is against company policy, and reason I was fired. (A week after I put in my two weeks). It is considered fraud, but the total amount that was \"frauded\" was less than $60.\n\n​\n\nMistake 2: I did not take a cooler after a customer asked me to void the purchase. It was an honest mistake. The person did give info, so the LP manager asked me if I knew \"xxxx yyyy\" and I did not and he believed me. He asked what my brothers names are and best friends, and I was honest (about not knowing the person). the customer left with 100+ dollars in store merchandise. (I did check out his other things, but he wanted to void something and I forgot to take it). It was an honest mistake. There is proof that that person is not my brother, and I do not know this person.\n\n​\n\nSo a few weeks after the second mistake, a manager told me to go in the store managers office and the LP manager was there and a lady representing xxx company.\n\n​\n\nHe questioned if I had 2+ Rewards accounts and I said yes, but that I did buy things on my families behalf. I also explained the honest mistake of letting someone (one mistake in more than 4 months) leave with unpaid products. He did believe me and the lady that was taking notes said \"this is peanuts compared to what I usually do.\" I wrote down that it was an honest mistake. I did not write down that I would pay for anything. The LP guy tried to say that I would pay about 100+ dollars in restitution, but I never explicitly said that I would pay, since I am a college student and paying some bills. He spoke with upper management. He came back and said that the company would not seek police and that if they would come forward for the $150+ dollars that they would contact me. I was also fired by the manager that was present and left immediately.\n\nTHEY DID NOT GIVE ME ANY PAPER WORK OF MY FIRING. THEY DID NOT EXPLICITLY WRITE DOWN THAT I WOULD PAY. The LP manager said that they may or may not call about restitution. this was less than 4 months ago. ALSO, that store is closing down. and guess what.... the company store has a \"store closing\" sign.\n\n\\--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nA paper came in the mail within a few days saying an attorney company said they want 100+ (and more) dollars in restitution for \"misappropriation and or damage of company assets.\" It is a CIVIL CLAIM. they also want add a \"civil penalty component in accordance with State code xxx yyy. Action for shoplifting and employee theft in the amount of 200+ dollars. It says \"the current balance being \" 100+ and 200+ so more than 300+ dollars in total. I guess allowing someone to leave by mistake is considered employee theft or action for shoplifting.\n\nIt says I have until 10+ days of receiving the letter to pay. Also, it says \"should you fail to be made, we may review the file for the possibility of future civil action by our client.\" and more below.\n\n\"the company may consider filing a lawsuit, in which case it will likely seek any amounts allowed by law throughout such litigation. ...If successful in any litigation, we estimate ...seeking... maximum amount allowed by law. \"\n\nWhat can I do? What can I say? Is it possible that I do not pay anything without any repercussions. Or at least only the 100+ and not the company fee?\n\n​\n\nIs it possible that I speak to the LP guy ad simply pay the 150+ dollar issue and not pay anymore and have them sign a form that states they will not proceed with anything other legal issue or  legal suit ?\n\n​\n\nI was given a file number and pin number","title":"Ex-company decided to contact attorney for restitution of \"misappropriation and or damage\"","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542139242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wsil7\/anyone_familiar_with_wisconsin_truancy_laws_and\/","id":"9wsil7","body":"My sister and her husband decided to take my nephew and nieces out of school a few years ago. There have been no efforts made to homeschool or any education what so ever. There are 6 kids total. They are home all day watching TV or cleaning. Everyone acts like I\u2019m crazy to think this is not normal, downright wrong and not to mention illegal. The 2 youngest seriously only have a 1st and 2nd grade education. The oldest would be a senior next year and I believe he was taken out in 9th grade. \n\nWhat can I do? Is there something I can\/should do or am I just crazy? Enough is enough. I researched Wisconsin laws as far as fines and such but who do I call? The school, CPS? \n\nThanks in advance, from an extremely concerned aunt. Those kids are life.","title":"Anyone familiar with Wisconsin truancy laws and where to report?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1446882662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rv95u\/food_stamp_fraud_ca\/","id":"3rv95u","body":"I control the food stamp account and fill out all the paperwork. I don't actually qualify for them due to being a full time student. So, it's just for my mother and two brothers. I buy all the food and distribute it, because they are irresponsible and would just spend it on cookies, candy, and soda. \n\nHowever, one brother did live with us for about two years. He came back sporadically for about 6 months. Staying about half of every week and returning to another house. For about the last year he hasn't lived here, we have literally $0 income, so we didn't take him off. We were always told he was coming back soon. One of the people he was staying with died and the next day he went to the office to apply for food stamps. Told them he never lived with us for YEARS. Which isn't even true. Besides, he's coming back to live with us this week! \n\nI am a good kid, in college, trying to become a teacher. I was just considering moving out of that house this next month, giving up the responsibility to my sister to take care of the food stamps and the family. Now I'm worrying about JAIL. I'm the type of person who was never even sent to the principals office.  \n\nI've tried googling it and there's so many situations. I don't even know how much of it would be considered fraud. I cannot afford a lawyer as I have no income whatsoever. I can't\/don't want to go to jail or have this on my record. I was trying to get out of the slums, not deeper in them. \n\nI haven't been charged yet or even sent notification. My brother called me today and told me that this happened yesterday.\n\nPlease help!","title":"Food Stamp Fraud CA","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445883759,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qb7vj\/co_ive_discovered_that_i_cant_control_how_my_own\/","id":"3qb7vj","body":"So, background: I am living in a 1920s building that was originally a single residence, which has been converted into 6 apartments. My apartment is upstairs, and there is a 2BR apartment downstairs.\n\nThere's no thermostat in my unit, and the unit is heated with radiators that have an open\/close valve attached to them. What I've discovered as we approach winter is that I can't actually control my own heat. There is a thermostat in a downstairs unit that controls the heat for the entire building. I don't know the people living there very well. If they turn off heat for their apartment, they turn it off for the entire building. The open\/close valve appears to do nothing, at least if they've turned the heat off.\n\nAccording to the Colorado Warranty of Habitability, my landlord has a duty to provide:\n\n>Functioning heating facilities that conformed to applicable law at the time of installation and that are maintained in good working order;\n\nSo, my question is this: Are my heating facilities in good working order if I cannot control when\/how they are used?\n\nCurrently, it is fairly cold outside in recent days (40s fahrenheit) and my fellow tenants do not see fit to turn on their heat. As such, my unit is completely without heat.\n\nMy landlord's current remedy is to \"educate\" the other tenants on how to use their heat; I obviously do not have any control over these tenants' behavior. Can my landlord even compel these tenants to heat the building?\n\nMy landlord has also mentioned \"looking at how I could control the heat from my unit\" but did not mention with any specificity (or time table) how I could do that.","title":"[CO] I've discovered that I can't control how my own apartment is heated? Is this legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553525363,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5blga\/ny_annulment\/","id":"b5blga","body":"We live in New York, got married in Louisiana if that matters.\n\nI got married about 4 months ago. Since then, my husband has become increasingly emotionally and mentally abusive. Additionally, he is an alcoholic and refuses to get help or counseling for any of it. We have a joint account that only deposits into so he can transfer me his share of rent and expenses, but he likes to yank the money out suddenly out of anger to spite me. \n\nCan I get this marriage annulled? Additionally, I make three times more than he does. We don\u2019t have any assets aside from a large monetary gift his parents gave us (which he yanked out of the joint account). I don\u2019t expect or want any of that money, but I\u2019m concerned he could come at me for alimony. I also plan to go through the courts to get him evicted since he\u2019s not on my apartment lease. \n\nI\u2019d really appreciate any advice on how to start this process and if he can come after me for anything. Thanks in advance, Reddit!","title":"NY Annulment","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554329546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b94hn3\/can_a_school_permanently_take_someone_laser\/","id":"b94hn3","body":"In CA\n\nI have a friend who brought a laser pointer to our private school (8th grade). He was messing around in class and shining it on a teacher. He noticed and ofc took it. He didn't return it and next day he came to class and told the kid that he gave the pointer to his own kids. I understand that schools can take your property but I thought it was only temporarily. Is that legal?","title":"Can a school permanently take someone laser pointer?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553865014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6x2sy\/my_lawyer_was_secretly_working_for_my_babys\/","id":"b6x2sy","body":"I went to court for custody of my daughter this past Tuesday in Georgia. I paid $1500 for a lawyer but was unaware that my lawyer was actually close friends with my baby\u2019s mother, who subsequently disregarded our plan for court and threw the case so my baby\u2019s mother would be given all her demands and I was unaware until we were physically in court. Papers have been filed saying that I work full time at my job when I\u2019m only part time, that I\u2019ll have to start paying $450 a month before paternity is even proven, and that visitation will only occur every other weekend. This is far from what I wanted as I was seeking full custody. I don\u2019t have enough to pay another lawyer to fix what the last did and I don\u2019t have any witnesses to what occurred. Are there any steps I can take to get the ruling overturned given that most of the papers we filed were done under false pretenses and with the wrong information? Or if that isn\u2019t possible, what can I do to get the payments reduced or more time with my daughter? ","title":"My lawyer was secretly working for my baby\u2019s mother. Help?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540350303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qw00b\/my_sister_age_12_is_being_viciously_targeted_by_a\/","id":"9qw00b","body":"This is my first post on Reddit and I\u2019m just rambling on my phone, but any advice would be greatly appreciated. This is in Pennsylvania, if that helps.\n\nSo I\u2019m 14 and scared for my little sister. She\u2019s been having issues with one particular, toxic fucked-up-in-the-head female POS in her grade and things have really escalated since then. They were once close but stopped speaking to each other near the end of 6th grade because my sister had confronted the girl about rumors. The girl became angry, the confrontation led to insults and apparently she hasn\u2019t let it go. They return for the new school year and \u201cmend\u201d their friendship; at this point, my sister didn\u2019t want drama and thought everything was cool between the two of them. Things went really downhill when the girl brought up the \u201cincident\u201d from the year before and took it way out-of-proportion, telling the whole grade about the \u201cawful\u201d things my sister had done. My sister, shocked and confused, confronted her about this and asked her why she was doing this considering she had already apologized that summer. The girl ignored her, but my sister pressed on and asked again. This time, she responded, \u201cYou\u2019re so fucking annoying, I feel like beating the shit out of you.\u201d It was at that where my sister exploded on her and suggested they fight then and there. The girl shook her head and told her to \u201cwatch what fucking happens,\u201d and began cyberbullying her today after school. Simply put, it was hell. She kept adding my sister into group-chats and began insulting her along with a group of other girls \u2014 despite my sister not even being online at the time. Once my sister was online, the girl saw this as an opportunity to threaten her, first by saying, \u201cI\u2019m gonna kill you.\u201d My sister didn\u2019t really take the whole thing seriously and said, \u201cCool, good luck with that.\u201d  A couple of minutes later the girl messaged her again, but only this time she said: \u201cI wanna stab you. Watch out tomorrow b\/c I\u2019m bringing the biggest knife I have. I don\u2019t care if I go to juvie, I\u2019m gonna stab you and all your friends. You\u2019re gonna see what happens.\u201d\n\nSo obviously my sister took THAT seriously and became fucking hysterical. Immediately after reading those texts, she ran to my mom and showed her everything. We told her to take screenshots of the conversations to show to the administration to have the girl expelled. My parents are planning on meeting with the principal tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, but I\u2019m afraid that the girl will actually target her as she\u2019s known to have some mental issues. :\/ Maybe she was bluffing, I don\u2019t know... the whole thing is extremely confusing and terrible.\n\nDo you guys think my parents should call 911 ASAP or wait until after showing the messages to the principal and meeting with the administration to have her expelled? My parents are considering the second option, but I feel like this is extremely serious. What would the police do about cases such as this one?\n\nTL;DR: This toxic, 12-year-old POS really fucking hates my sister and is threatening to stab her (and others) at school. My parents want to have meet with the principal & have her expelled, but I feel like the police should be involved. What does a person do in this situation?","title":"My sister (age 12) is being viciously targeted by a girl in her class. The girl is threatening to stab her.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553815166,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6pwal\/question_about_using_art_found_online\/","id":"b6pwal","body":"I don't know if this is the best place to post this, but I wanted to get clarification on a question where Google wasn't helpful.\n\nI moderate a small (<1000 subscribers) subreddit where people can post custom designed cards for the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. The idea is that people can create new designs for cards that don't exist yet, or ones which support pre existing cards.\n\nHowever, the majority of them (myself included) are not artists. I want to get some info on the legality of using art people find online. I made a rule specifically stating that you must give credit to the original artists, unless you made it yourself.   The main focus of the posts is the text in the card, not the picture, anyway, but I am still against plagarism. \n\nSo, is what I have set up ok as is, where posters *must* cite their source for the art? These aren't actually being produced, they're just theoretical designs. The art is just used so that there isn't a big white space where the art would be. Nothing is being sold or distributed, so as long as they clearly state it is not their artwork and give a link to where they got it, it should be ok, right? How different is this from reposting it somewhere to share the art? ","title":"Question about using art found online","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541859685,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vun5a\/international_divorce_usaaut\/","id":"9vun5a","body":"Hi! I'm Austrian and my husband is American. We married in summer 2015 in PA and shortly after moved together to Germany and got a Visa there for him. About a year after he left with 3 weeks notice and from then on I knew it wasn't going to work anymore (around September 2016). He went back to PA and moved to Las Vegas with a few friends. I went back to Austria in November 2016.      \n\nSince we both don't plan to visit each others country, getting into one court room for a divorce will be impossible. If I initiate the divorce in Austria, can he get a lawyer to speak for him in court? I couldn't find any information about this and I was googling for a few hours at least to get most information I need. I know that you are excused from court if you or a family member got ill, but nobody can tell me what happens if there are just no funds to fly a 1000\u20ac flight only for appearing in front of a court to get a divorce done. We both want the divorce and there are no funds to be shared, we have lived our lives completely separated after he went home and never had any bank accounts together. Any advice? ","title":"international divorce USA-AUT","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569768300,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daw0ws\/employer_trying_to_make_you_quit\/","id":"daw0ws","body":"My employer has stopped scheduling me and ignored my texts telling them I need to work at least 3 days a week and asking if I just need to look for another job. My dad told me it was because instead of firing me they want me to quit, so they\u2019re not scheduling me. Is this legal to do?","title":"Employer Trying to Make You Quit?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571082730,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhvzxd\/store_manager_deleting_recorded_labor_time\/","id":"dhvzxd","body":"Context: I work at a gas station which is part of a chain and whose fuel is distributed by Marathon.  We\u2019re located in the southwestern region of Virginia near North Carolina.\n\nMy manager sent us all a text today saying that if she saw us on camera talking she would dock our pay.  I\u2019m under the impression that with hourly jobs you are required by law to pay employees for any and all time in which they are on the clock, and that the proper response would be to discuss the issue on and individual basis and punish individuals as necessary.","title":"Store Manager Deleting Recorded Labor Time.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542300295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9xctx7\/employer_threatening_disciplinary_action\/","id":"9xctx7","body":"I never do this stuff so I hope I word everthing ok, I'm really in a pickle.  I work a retail job in MA and my boss is ready to reprimand me if I need to take a day off or show up late if my son's daycare is closed due to snow.  If I'm late I get a half point, if I miss over half my shift I get a full point.  4 points and I'm terminated, and they cancel out after a whole year.  I am out of vacation time and sick time, both she would not approve anyways for such a situation unless I lie and say I'm sick or something.  I need to know is this legal?  Is there anything I can do to avoid my inevitable termination from my job?  Thank you in advance.  If you need any more information please ask!","title":"Employer threatening disciplinary action, including termination because of potential child care issues.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554755717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bayshn\/i_got_fired_from_my_work_place_because_im_not\/","id":"bayshn","body":"It's a long story ,but I will try to stay on point.\n\nI worked for this *logistics* company for 5 months with my mother and my stepdad.They work direct for the company(for almost 6-7 months) ,but I work with an intermediary company.I did a good job there ,I didn't took sick days and I was friendly with everyone around me.I was always punctual and when was a lot of work I stood an extra hour for 3 weeks straight.I other words ,I tried to do everything in my power to not get fired and start to work directly for them.Apparently,it doesn't matter.\n\nOn Thursday I got a phone call from my intermediary company saying that I don't bring performance (I don't know what is the right term) and the logistic company doesn't want to work with me anymore.This is what I didn't understood.Ok ,so I was being too slow,but why do they tell me this now.Why now ,after 5 months?Many come from an intermediary company to work [here.](https:\/\/here.Like)Also, many come and go after 3 [weeks.](https:\/\/weeks.So)Why do I get to work for 5 months and I get fired on the spot?Others that take sick days or others that play football in the warehouse(I wish I was joking),they get a warning.\n\nAnyway, I spoke with the shift manager how knew about this,so I asked him again.The real reason is that ,\"3 family members can't work at the same company.\"What?!?I still don't fuking [understand.How](https:\/\/understand.How) is this still a problem after 5 months and why did my intermediary company sent me here then,if this is the company policy?My mom and stepdad worked for the same  intermediary company ,so they(company) knew where they sent me.\n\nThis happens in Germany and I don't know if I can do something about it but it's worth atleast to ask,cuz this is the first time this happens to me","title":"I got fired from my work place because I'm not supposed to work with my family members there","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550875975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ato1k3\/estate_question\/","id":"ato1k3","body":"Hello Reddit, First of all I am on mobile so I apologize for any formatting issues. My mom fell and ended up needing to go into a long term nursing home. I have been working with an elder law attorney to get her on Medicaid. Since her home is an exempt asset he suggested a family member or friend move in and pay the mortgage so we wouldn\u2019t have to sell the house and have the profits (or half of them) go to Medicaid. I have a family friend moving in at the beginning of March. The lawyer wrote up a quick draft for us to sign but he did state that I can change it as he is not a real estate attorney. I just wanted to see if there is anything I need to add to this? My specific concern is what if something major needs to be repaired? Am I liable? I have my own home to take care of and I have spent down my moms assets to get her to the income limit to be approved for Medicaid. The lawyer said this is a more informal agreement and is not even considered \u201crenting\u201d, it really benefits both of us because I\u2019m getting the principal paid down and will be able to sell and keep the full amount at selling, and she is paying way less than what renting would cost. Here is a copy of the agreement- I would really appreciate some feedback! Thanks in advance!\n\nOCCUPANCY AGREEMENT\nI, (Moms name), being the Owner of the property located at (address) do hereby allow (Name) (hereinafter \u201cOccupant\u201d) to occupy said premises rent-free, under the following conditions:\n1. For the period of time Occupant occupies the premises, Occupant will be responsible for paying all monthly mortgage payments, property taxes, homeowners insurance, and utilities. Occupant will provide payment to Owner by the 5th of each month, or as otherwise requested. \u00a0\n\u00a0\n2. Occupant is responsible for general upkeep of said premises. \u00a0Any change and\/or improvement must be approved in advance by Owner (or Owner\u2019s representative) and will not be reimbursed, unless otherwise specified in writing by owner. \u00a0Such changes\/improvements become part of property.\n\u00a0\n3. Occupant agrees to leave the premises in the same condition as when this Occupancy Agreement is signed, reasonable wear and tear expected. Exception is made for any Owner-approved changes\/improvements as in paragraph 2 above. \u00a0\n\u00a0\n4. Occupant holds the Owner free of liability for any loss that may occur to Occupant\u2019s personal belongings at said premises, regardless of cause. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\n\u00a0\n5. This is an at-will agreement, and can be cancelled by either party at any time with a 60-day notice, after which time the Occupant agrees to vacate the premises.\n\u00a0\n6. The terms of this Agreement remain in full force and effect, notwithstanding the death of the current Owner, or any change in ownership of the premises from current Owner to (My name) (ie. the transfer-on-death Owner).\n\u00a0\n7. $500 deposit will be held by the Owner as a security deposit to ensure the Occupant\u2019s conformance with this Agreement.\u00a0\u00a0Deposit to be paid prior to occupancy and returned when Occupant vacates in accordance with the terms herein, minus any needed repairs in the Owner\u2019s discretion. \n\u00a0\n8. The intention of this Agreement is to maintain the property at (address) during the period of the Owner\u2019s stay in a long term care facility, prior to eventual sale of this real estate. \u00a0\n\n\n","title":"Estate question","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571675751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl34b6\/ct_no_longer_receiving_direct_deposit_only\/","id":"dl34b6","body":"\nThis is kind of a convoluted mess and I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a legal issue, hypothetical legal issue, etc. I\u2019m just in need of advice in case something illegal is happening. \n\nI\u2019ve been at this place (a restaurant) for 3 years and some months. I had received direct deposit for most of that time. Recently no one is receiving direct deposit and rumor has it that boss man isn\u2019t using our payroll company anymore so everyone is receiving what I think are business checks. Something that is confusing\/worrying me is that the amount on the check is the same that I would receive after taxes withheld on my direct deposit checks. However, there\u2019s no breakdown of anything being withheld so I have no idea if I\u2019m actually getting taxes withheld or if this is just shady under the table pay to avoid paying taxes on his end. Not to mention the payroll paycheck stubs would also show my reported credit card tips. (When I file my taxes, I do report my cash tips to the best of my ability.)\n\nWhen I confronted my boss he was dismissive. Other employees not getting paid at all is an entirely different legal issue I understand. Some haven\u2019t been paid in upwards of a month to 6 weeks. \n\nObviously something shady is going on, maybe the business is tanking. \n\nI\u2019m here because I want to know what I can do to protect myself while I\u2019m searching for other work. Hypothetically would these taxes withheld reflect on my W2? Do I cut my losses and jump ship? I can\u2019t afford to not have any income currently as I live paycheck to paycheck. \n\nIf he were to be audited, would I also get into trouble with the IRS? \n\nAny advice on what might be happening or what I can do in the meantime to protect myself would be appreciated. If this is not a legal issue I\u2019m sorry in advance.","title":"[CT] No longer receiving direct deposit, only business checks with no breakdown of taxes withheld or rate of pay. The amount is never consistent. Some employees are not being paid\/haven\u2019t been paid since last month.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554076434,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7ujub\/i_recently_found_out_that_i_23f_have_a_1600\/","id":"b7ujub","body":"I am a resident of King county in WA and I lived at an apartment complex from mar 2017-2018. I never received notice from them after leaving about any sort of damages or bills. They had my forwarding address and information upon my move in and out date. \n\nAs of October 2018 they sent this \u201cJoint Bill\u201d to collections and it has been open since. I don\u2019t know where to go from here. There wasn\u2019t any damage done to the apartment. There was an incident where the washer broke and flooded but it wasn\u2019t deemed to be because of human error. This is the only reason I could think I would be charged for any damages.\n\n Where do I go from here?","title":"I recently found out that I (23F) have a 1600$ collection fee addressed to me from an old apartment complex. What do I do now?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541606487,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v0n2t\/purchasing_house_has_basement_apartment_with\/","id":"9v0n2t","body":"Location: North Carolina\n\nMy wife and I will be closing on a house at the end of the month.  The house has an apartment that we will be reincorporating back into the main house.  There is a tenant in the apartment, the current owner gave the tenant verbal notice in August to be out by the end of October (they are on a month-month agreement, likely verbal) but no progress.  The owner gave written notice last week that they had to be out in 30 days.  We are nervous that this tenant could pose a problem for us after closing.  We do not want to walk away from the deal, as this house is in a very desirable location and meets all of our very specific wants\/needs.  Is there anything we can be doing now to prepare ourselves for the worst case scenario (tenant refuses to move out?)?  Although we have been landlords in the past, this is a new one for us and don't know what we could potentially be dealing with.  Thank you.","title":"Purchasing house, has basement apartment with tenant who doesn't seem interested in leaving","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555268325,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd6611\/i_was_attacked_last_night_and_almost_ran_over_for\/","id":"bd6611","body":"Me and my friend were attacked for no reason.\n\nSo let me start from the beginning. I went over to a friends house to play some drinking games. There I met a few guys and my attacker. Guy was cool and had no problems with him the entire day.\n\nNote: This guy has a prior criminal record for getting irrationally angry and doing destructive things when he\u2019s drunk for no reason. \n\nAs the night progressed everyone got more intoxicated and especially the attacker. \n\nAt one point he\u2019s so drunk that his friends take him to a corner to calm him down and chill out. We take no worry in this as we are all respectful and chilling. He comes back to my friend and calls him a racial slur and try\u2019s to get a response from him. My friend says what did I do to you?\n\nThen attacker just starts punching him and trying to attack him. \n\nMy friends and I break it up and in the process drunk guy throws my friends backpack in one of the neighbors yards. So we try to look for it and they\u2019re cleaning up. This guys just really drunk and irrational so we try to excuse it. \n\nI ask one of the mutual friends which  yard did you throw the backpack and help us look for it. He is drunk and gets aggressive and starts getting upset because I\u2019m pressing him. I just say man where did you throw it. And attacker comes and sucker punched me in the jaw out of nowhere . I was in shock for a moment and trying to comprehend why this happened. We literally didn\u2019t do anything to this guy.Drunk guy starts threatening us saying that he will kill us and I will murder you also saying racial things about my friend. \n\nThey hop in there car and reverse and basically he tries to run us over. He reverses rapidly down an alleyway and crashed his car in the process. I hop in to my friends car and we make a getaway. I don\u2019t know if he chases us but we get away. We call the cops and have a police report made for the drunk guy. The car we were in had dashcam footage of the incident going down and there\u2019s a camera in the alleyway where a neighbor caught him crashing. \n\nI want to press charges and file a suit against him because I now have clicking in my jaw from the punch and the death threats were scary . The detectives should follow up with me this week. But I want this guy to be taught a lesson. I didn\u2019t nor my friend didn\u2019t deserve this when we\u2019ve been respectful and chill. I want a restraining order and want to send this guy to jail for being racist and trying to run us over. How should I proceed from here?","title":"I was attacked last night and almost ran over for no reason.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568917337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6i2n3\/my_soon_to_be_exwifeof_2_year_marriage_wants\/","id":"d6i2n3","body":"The HOA bylaws specifically state guests(which she will be considered) must be accompanied by a resident which she won't be as she says 'I'll never see her, it will be while I'm at work.' So I have to worry about a girlfriend in the future that moves in with me will have to deal with my ex-wife at the pool? Or getting in trouble with the HOA? This seems way out of the norm and highly illegal.\n\nWe are working with a document preparer that knows the law, will she just shoot this down as something that is not legally possible? Are there any specific things I can bring up that will help my case not agreeing to this madness without having to get lawyers that I can't afford? Please help, I am at the end of my rope. This is in California btw.","title":"My soon to be ex-wife(of ~2 year marriage) wants access to the townhouse complex pool for as long as I own the townhouse even though I am paying her tens of thousands to buy her out of it.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443373276,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mle96\/nyc_crazy_exs_parents_threatening_to_make_false\/","id":"3mle96","body":"I posted this on r\/relationships and was told to post here. \n\nhttps:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/relationships\/comments\/3mlci4\/update_me_28_f_with_my_bf_29_m_of_3_years_his\/\n\nEx's parents accused me of domestic violence, prostitution, and drug dealing. I have never done either of those in my life, but they are threatening to call the cops and get me in trouble. \n\nWhat should I do and how do I get in front of it? Do I contact the cops first? Do I just stick to getting a lawyer?\n\nI have never been in trouble with the law and I don't have any clue as to how to proceed, so any help would be greatly appreciated.","title":"[NYC] Crazy ex's parents threatening to make false report to the cops, long complicated story.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1413242254,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2j5wgj\/subleased_without_a_contract_indiana\/","id":"2j5wgj","body":"So this summer me and a few other guys subleased an apartment under the table with no contracts and nothing in writing. We paid the agreed upon rent and utilities fine for those few months but now the person whose name is actually on the lease is trying to make us pay for damages and other things that we didn't cause. He is threatening to take us to small claims court if we don't pay, but if we didn't sign anything and there is nothing in writing, do we have anything to worry about? Any help is appreciated.","title":"Subleased without a contract [Indiana]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555299307,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdbilb\/wa_us_new_upstairs_neighbors_noise_complaint\/","id":"bdbilb","body":"Going to try to keep this short and sweet.  I live in an apartment complex with my boyfriend.  We\u2019ve lived here going on 4 years, and recently acquired new upstairs neighbors (only 2 story building - we\u2019re on bottom).  \n\nOur apartment is pet friendly for animals under 40lbs, and they have a chihuahua that we\u2019ve seen them walking a few times.  It probably barks for at least 10 hours a day.  It\u2019s the loudest in our bathroom - you can hear it right above you, so we\u2019re thinking they lock the dog in their bathroom?  We know the units are built with the same floor plan, so their bathroom is right on top of ours.  \n\nI\u2019m going to make a noise complaint to our office that manages the apartment complex, but I know they don\u2019t handle animal abuse.  Who\/where would I contact about that?  And how much evidence would I need?  We\u2019ve seen them yanking the dog around outside, and hear the constant barking.  Should I go about reporting the possible animal abuse first, then talk to the office after?  I have no idea how investigating animal abuse goes, sorry for my cluelessness!","title":"(WA, US) New Upstairs Neighbors Noise Complaint \/ Animal Abuse?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551423541,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw1uq7\/landlord_gave_us_back_23_of_our_original_security\/","id":"aw1uq7","body":"We live in California, in Santa Clara county. We shared a house with other tenants but my family in particular moved out of that house in December 2018. We paid the penalty and everything and my dad had been doing some repairs around the old house on the weekends to reduce the bill on our security deposit. The landlady was there every time my dad did the repairs to supervise.\n\nShe just gave us the check for our security deposit and the itemized receipt this week. She\u2019d taken over $1000 from us. Some of them seem plausible but most of them seem so exaggerated. For example, we paid for SMALL holes and scratches for around $50 each. One of the other \u201cdamages\u201d was painting a small area on the walls a slightly different color (the walls are white. We literally used white paint for the repair)...the landlord charged us $200 just for that alone. She briefly told us the costs of these holes and small patches in the beginning but we didn\u2019t want to take that from the security deposit, hence my dad coming on weekends to repair them. In the end she still charged us.\n\nWe could go to the small claims court, but that\u2019s our last resort because she\u2019d once told us that if we take her to court, she\u2019ll hire a good and expensive lawyer and she\u2019ll win and we\u2019d have to pay for it.\n\nI\u2019m desperate for advice. We\u2019re thinking of consulting a lawyer but I want some advice and opinions from here too.","title":"Landlord gave us back 2\/3 of our original security deposit and charged us hundreds for small damages.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542150816,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wu9gb\/my_neighbors_child_passed_a_note_to_me_through\/","id":"9wu9gb","body":"this isn't so much of being mad at my neighbors, as they have to deal with me when im too loud at night. the walls are very thin. on either side of my unit, theres a neighbor who annoys me. on one side, theres a couple with a dog that never shuts up; all it takes is me to hop off the couch and the thing will yelp for the next ten minutes. on the opposite side theres the single father who has different people in and out of the house at random times of the night. if i have sex he can hear everything. one time he knocked on the wall until i stopped. more recently the other night, he was imitating the girl i was having intercourse with by moaning in a high pitch woman voice. tonight i just happened to glance at the corner of the room where there was an empty envelope sticking a few centimeters in with a stick figure drawn on it and a big \"HI.\" can i get something done about how thin the walls here are and the fact that the corners separating the units from each other are not closed 100% (you can even see light through them when my lights off and theirs is on, just enough to not be able to see through). this complex is an old build but i feel like it's private enough for anyone. the floorboards are so creaky it sounds like when my neighbors are walking that they are in my unit because it travels through the floor. some are separated half an inch and are impossible to clean cause theres so much junk stuck in them from the last owner. can someone tell me if the only solution is to look for another place? i would like to stay as the area is really nice. also i live in rhode island and i am renting, not the owner of the unit.","title":"my neighbors child passed a note to me through the wall separating our condo units","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554121874,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b81q7n\/got_into_an_argument_about_baseball_guy_spam\/","id":"b81q7n","body":"So this guy and I have mutual friends. Let me tell you this guy sucks, history of abuse and is a known hothead. In an argument about baseball he decided to tell me how awful of a dog owner I am and much more (my dog was hit by a car and passed away while on a run with his usual runner a few days ago) then continued to send me privately 8 more messages of vile name calling (literally over a group argument about baseball). This 24 year old guy wants to be a cop, so I posted his messages to me online because if this guy wants to be a cop it should be public record how easy he blows up, and I was very hurt about the comments about my recently deceased dog. \n\nThis guy is now saying I have harassed and slandered him for exposing his spam of messages to me. \nAnd is threatening to call in a false tip for \u201cthe drugs flowing into my house\u201d (I may or may not smoke marijuana in a state and city where it\u2019s not decriminalized)\n\nBasically can he even claim harassment\/slander. \nAnd can my house be searched based on an exaggerated\/false tip? (We currently have 0 marijuana in the house) \n\nAlso his dad used to be a lieutenant in this city. This guy is literally crazy I want to make sure what he can actually do","title":"Got into an argument about baseball. Guy spam texts me some mean stuff (reacquiring thing with multiple people) I post his mean messages online. He threatens harassment and to call in fake tips to the police.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541146381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ti4q2\/ohio_i_think_im_being_emotionally_abused_by_my\/","id":"9ti4q2","body":"My mom never likes to listen to my problems, says that they annoy her and constantly yells at me whenever I do. Speaking of yelling, she yells at me a lot that whenever she does I get extremely anxious and scared. She name calls me all the time whenever I don't do something for her (ex. fat ass, dumbass, idiot, asshole, etc.). I have extremely low self-esteem because of all the belittling and the name calling. She's made my suicidal thoughts worse and when I told her I was suicidal she simply told me to go into my room because she didn't wanna hear it. I always see the worse in things, could possibly be because of how my mother treats me. I'm afraid to tell her about my thoughts and I only told her about my suicidal thoughts because I had a tiny bit of hope that \"I'm her son, she should care.\">!(she didn't care)!< I constantly crave attention, which sounds bad at first, but I just want people to actually care for me because my mom never did emotionally. My mom has this thing wrong with her foot that is preventing her from working and moving around so I have to be the man of the house. My mom, my grandma, my grandpa, my whole family expects me to be fine with it. Never asking how much pressure I'm under or never even batting an eye. I always feel guilty if I do something to my mom or someone in general even when I shouldn't deep down inside.","title":"(Ohio) I think I'm being emotionally abused by my mother. Should CPS get involved?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568506972,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4dele\/friend_found_evidence_he_isnt_sure_he_can_use_and\/","id":"d4dele","body":"So my roommate is in a pretty intense custody battle right now. \n\nHis ex is claiming he is on all sorts of drugs. She escalated it to a domestic violence case now so he can\u2019t see his daughter. \n\nShe lied about him going over to her place and threatening her but the day she claimed he was there, I was with him all day until he left for work. He already has everything from time punches for work and the full day of video surveillance in our apartment complex so she made the scenario up. She is already screwed with that. \n\nSo here is the evidence section: I personally don\u2019t know if he can use this as evidence but he thinks he can. So he found out that she was arranging drug deals with random people and prostituting though he only found it out by hacking her Facebook account. I just wanted to clear it up if he is legally allowed to use the information. \n\nI am also curious that when we produce his alibi and other statements against her, is she going to get in trouble for lying in court? \n\nLike I said I have no clue about laws or anything like that so I\u2019m just asking. Thank you!","title":"Friend found evidence he isn\u2019t sure he can use and a couple other questions","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553564754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5joh4\/overtime_hours_help\/","id":"b5joh4","body":"So I\u2019ve worked a lot of music festivals and they all add up all the hours in the work week even the overtime. \nI had some time off and decided to work a security job at the BNPA tennis tournament in Indian Wells, California to make some extra cash.\n\nI worked Monday 4 hours, \nTuesday 7 hours \nWednesday 7 hours \nThursday 8 hours = 26 work week\nFriday 12 HOURS = 4 OT 38 work week\n\n(Right here is where they screw up they should pay me 34 hours and my 4 overtime but still count the overtime hours for hours worked in a workweek which is 38)\n\nSaturday 12 HOURS I reached 40 hours.+10 overtime hours \n\nFinal Count 40 Hours 14 Overtime.\n\nMy security company\u2019s count is 40 hours and 10 overtime.\n\nThe 2nd week I worked \n12 hours Sunday :\n12 Hours Monday : 24 hours 8 overtime \n9 hours Tuesday :  33 hours with 8 OT\n9 hours Wednesday: 42 hours which is 40 in a work week and 10 overtime \n8 hours Thursday : 40 hours and 18 overtime\n50 hours total\n7 hours Friday: 57 hours total.\nAll overtime adds up with 25 OT \n\nThey shouldn\u2019t pay me the full 40 hours but they should count 40 hours and 25 OT hours.\n\nThere count is 40 hours and 17 hours of overtime.\n\nWho is wrong?\n\nI\u2019m working for the coachella music festival and we use an app called TSheets and they count the hours how I count them. All hours add up! Even the OT. Today I did 10 hours and 25 minutes. They just don\u2019t count 8 total weekly and 4 OT it\u2019s 10 damn hours. \n\nHere is a YouTube video of the security company saying I\u2019m wrong and that Overtime hours are there own separate hours and don\u2019t count towards the work week. \nCan I post videos? It\u2019s called: Bower Security Not Paying Overtime Hours\n\nThey screwed me over 29 OT hours that adds up to 587.25$\n\n\n","title":"Overtime hours help","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569304074,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ixs9\/can_my_private_college_ticket_me_off_campus_if_im\/","id":"d8ixs9","body":"(VA) I am a residential student at a small private college in Virginia. One of the rules for parking as a residential student is that you are prohibited from parking on residential streets off campus, even if you\u2019re parked legally. \n\nLast week, I was parked at a friends house near campus and received a ticket from campus PD because I was parked on a residential street. I was parked completely legally (not blocking a fire hydrant, not blocking a driveway, no signs indicating no parking), and the town the college is in has no laws against parking on a residential street (even if you don\u2019t live where you parked), and as long as you\u2019re not blocking anything.\n\nAre they allowed to ticket me? How would I go about fighting this?","title":"Can my private college ticket me off campus if I\u2019m parked legally?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446003603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qike3\/colorado_the_apartment_i_just_moved_into_is\/","id":"3qike3","body":"I moved to Colorado in August and was in desperate need for a place to live on my limited budget. I wasn't expecting the Ritz or anything, obviously. But I had lived in pretty comfortable places prior to this one that met my budget needs. Sure, the neighborhoods weren't amazing, the walls were thin, and there were minor cosmetic problems, but there weren't any major problems.  \n  \nThen came this place. The office is in pristine condition, highly decorated, and generally very impressive. The model unit is similarly decked out. This was the only thing they showed me before I signed. I was desperate and everything else was financially out of reach, so I took a place on the second floor.  \n  \nHoly Jesus, EVERYTHING beyond the leasing office and model apartment is a travesty. There's damage on virtually every surface, dirt and garbage everywhere (especially condoms and beer cans), and it's incredibly obvious that there's no maintenance, no janitorial staff, and no concern at all for the condition of the building. Lots of screaming kids, domestic violence, and hard drugs.  \n  \nI might have been able to cope with all this as long as I could lock myself in my apartment and live comfortably, but obviously that wasn't in the cards. First came the roaches. They were all over the place from Day 1, and they came in every domestic variety (German\/American\/Ect.). Then came the gnats, likely attracted to the discarded food and standing water left for weeks at a time in the halls. Finally, there are the bedbugs. Shortly after moving in I noticed a lot of really dirty furniture being shuffled out of a small apartment where about 5-6 adults and at least 4 children were living (likely without the leasing office knowing or caring). Everything had very obvious signs of bedbugs. Soon afterward I started waking up with itchy welts all over my arms and legs. Examining my box spring confirmed my suspicions. There wasn't a large population, but they were definitely there.  \n  \nReading the reviews, this has been a constant problem for a long time, and the leasing office is legendary in its negligence. I know, I know, I should have been more diligent in my research, but I was extremely pressed for time and money. Now I'm desperate to get out of my lease, and the terms of that lease are about as unfriendly as you'd imagine.  \n  \nIs there any sort of pressure I can apply to terminate my lease without penalty, or at the very least reduce the penalty? I've looked into Colorado law as much as I could, and it's generally just vague \"don't rent with vermin in your property\" stuff that could be subverted by pleading ignorant to everything. In case it wasn't obvious from living in a horrendous apartment, I don't have a lot of money, so I absolutely can't afford to pay the full penalty and still move somewhere else.","title":"[Colorado] The apartment I just moved into is infested with EVERYTHING. Looking for a way out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551811686,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axon8e\/master_tenate_wont_fill_my_room_after_i_left\/","id":"axon8e","body":"(SF, CA)\n\nIn early January, I gave notice that I'd be moving out of my old spot. Because it was under thirty days, I was informed that I still had to pay for February if a replacement was not found. During January, I sent multiple candidates his way and due to \"scheduling issues\", he was unable to interview anyone I sent his way. Understanding that is made sense, I paid rent for February.  \n\nAfter expressing my concern about not finding a roommate, he sent me a text that I should not worry, seeing as he had people lined up for March and that he could \"forsure find somebody by then\". Come March, he says that the people he had lined up bailed and that I still had to pay for rent and utilities, even though I was only in the house twice to pick up mail, take pictures of the room, and give him the keys. He then said that if we couldn't find anyone, my security deposit and last month's rent would not be returned and he's seek legal damages if my security deposit runs out (It ends in June). \n\nI'm really upset because I've sent a lot of people his way and I really feel like he's trying to have the house as empty as possible while still having me pay rent. \n\nI'm not sure what to do, because paying rent in San Francisco is hard enough and definitely won't be able to pay double rent. ","title":"Master Tenate won't fill my room after I left","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554935081,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbsb03\/withholding_money_from_alimony_or_child_support\/","id":"bbsb03","body":"My boyfriend is divorced with 4 kids. In their separation agreement they agreed that when they file taxes, each would claim 2 of the children as dependents and it was outlined which child gets claimed by whom. She filed her taxes first and claimed all four children \"mistakenly\". Now he can't file his taxes with the two he is supposed to (his return already got rejected by the IRS - that's how we found out that this happened).\n\nThere is a significant difference in how much he owes based on the two kids, especially since he can't file as head of household now because he effectively has no dependents. We are planning on withholding the difference from the next few alimony payments since there's no way she's going to just pay us the difference. We plan on documenting this to the fullest extent in case she tries to fight us on this (which she probably won't).\n\nIs this an appropriate course of action? Should we specifically be taking this money out of alimony or child support or both? \n\nThanks","title":"Withholding money from alimony or child support from ex-spouse because of tax mistake?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504264068,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xdu0b\/security_deposit_and_last_months_rent_at_new\/","id":"6xdu0b","body":"I'm moving into an apartment today and the person moving out told me that I basically owe them $800 for their security and last months rent instead of the landlord himself, since the $800 she gave him when she moved in will \"cover me.\" This makes me nervous, because she said he didn't give her her money back and I can't afford to throw $800 around. How can I best approach him to get something in writing saying I'll get my deposit back when I leave if I'm technically giving it to the person moving out? I'm not a fan of this situation, maybe I'm just being paranoid though. \n\nCurrently, my housemate in my old apartment is refusing to give me my $50 utilities deposit even though we all signed papers saying we'd get them back when we move out, she's deciding on her own that I get it when the last bill is due, but she rarely checks the mail and didn't respond when I asked if the last bills came in a few days ago. She still has the paper I signed, in hindsight I should have kept it but this housemate turned out to be a nightmare and I'm the second person leaving because of her. I don't know how to go about getting my check before I fully move out today. Also, both apartments are in Massachusetts. ","title":"Security deposit and last months rent at new apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552963983,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2rz5n\/can_a_real_estate_agent_enter_without\/","id":"b2rz5n","body":"So my landlord is selling this house I am currently living in and hired a real estate agent. I am wondering if it is legal for the real estate agent to just enter the home even when nobodys home to show it to other agencies? The guy said that I may not like it but he can still enter even when I'm not home because he has a key, I don't know if he got permission from the landlord or how this works.\n\nI have a problem with this because I am not going to be home when this is supposed to happen and I have dogs that will get aggressive if I am not home and someone trys to enter and I don't want my dog's to end up running out of the house or biting someone ether.\n\nI live in California,\nThank you.","title":"Can A Real Estate Agent Enter Without Permission\/no one home?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571087489,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhx6g2\/does_child_support_calculations_factor_in\/","id":"dhx6g2","body":"My ex wife and I are both remarried (to different people) and have 50\/50 custody of our two kids. I pay for their health insurance and I still pay child support. If we were to recalculate child support would it factor in just our individual incomes or the incomes of both our households?","title":"Does Child Support calculations factor in household income and not just parent income if there was a remarriage? [Massachusetts]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550528901,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/as2yot\/university_paying_student_employee_below_minimum\/","id":"as2yot","body":"I'm a student employee at a public university in Missouri, where minimum wage is currently $8.60.  I am being paid $8 per hour.  I assume this must be legal, like there is some loophole they can use to pay student employees less, but I want to make sure.  \n\nIf it matters, minimum wage in Missouri was just recently increased from $7.70 in the most recent election cycle, and will continue to increase over the next few years.","title":"University paying student employee below minimum wage.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569428865,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d95p0o\/first_traffic_ticket\/","id":"d95p0o","body":"I (20 male) got my first speeding ticket a couple weeks ago (Jackson county GA)and I have my court date in 3 weeks. I was given the ticket for going 74 in a 55 zone and the ticket amount is $150. I don\u2019t mind paying the ticket but i don\u2019t want to have any points on my driving record that could raise my insurance. Do I go to court and try to fight the ticket or should I hire a lawyer that deals with traffic violations?","title":"First traffic ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504983046,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z3gg9\/car_repair_shop_sending_me_an_unwarranted_bill\/","id":"6z3gg9","body":"Location: east bay area california. <--i hope this is correct update\n\nMy car was parked on the side of the road, a drunk driver hit it and claimed responsibility the car went to the repair shop and everything was fixed. The other insurance company claimed liability and I was reimbursed my deductible and the entire payment for the cars repairs was paid for buy them. The situation though, is there was a crack on the windshield before the accident happened. Basically the auto body manager asked me if I wanted them to replace it while they were repairing my car.  he said he would talk to the insurance company and see if they would clear it before he did. They replaced it and then after replacing got denied from the insurance company for reimbursement. a week after I got my car back he called me saying that insurance is not going to pay for it and they're going to bill me for it. I never would have allowed them the replace it without the insurance company paying for it, should I tell them no? Should I give the bill to the other insurance company? What can I do in this situation?  I feel like he should have cleared with insurance whether or not they would pay for it before replacing.  \n\nIf this is the wrong sub please tell me where to go? I apologize for taking your time if it is","title":"Car repair shop sending me an unwarranted bill","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1503523907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vm6y2\/ca_la_county_got_a_ticket_not_insured_father_and\/","id":"6vm6y2","body":"I got a ticket VC 21658 (a) last week. I gave the cop my dad's insurance and registration as we share the same name. He accepted it. My plan is to handle this on my own by having an attorney go to court for me. If I end up having to do traffic school or get a point on my record, is my father affected in any way? Will his insurance rates go up? He only has car insurance for himself as we share the same name. If it matters, I am not a minor. ","title":"(CA, LA County) Got a ticket, not insured, father and I share the same name and the cop accepted the insurance. Any repercussions?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1408785754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ecs0f\/va_advice_regarding_a_reckless_driving_charge\/","id":"2ecs0f","body":"How's it going, r\/legaladvice. I recently got a reckless driving charge out in Hampton Roads doing 88 in a 60. I was en route to picking up my girlfriend, and I guess I was just in a hurry to get her since I was in the \"home stretch\", of sorts. Idk if time is relevant or not, but it was around 3:30a.\n\nAnyways, I live in MD and now I have to drive back down to Hampton to appear in court in a little under two months. I'm really worried since I just financed a new car, and this is a jailable offense from what I've been reading. I had a prior reckless driving almost four years ago (91 in a 65, ended up paying a $400 fine) in Hanover, VA. And, you guess it, I was visiting her that night, too.\n\nI'm at a loss here. I'm paranoid of jail time. I don't know how to approach this. A lawyer I consulted earlier is asking $750, which seems a little excessive... but when you compare that to potential jail time... anyways.\n\nHow should I move forward with this? What are the odds they'll take my license or suspend it in VA? Any advice is greatly appreciated -- if I missed any helpful info, feel free to ask. Thanks!","title":"[VA] Advice regarding a reckless driving charge","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541063937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t7voh\/i_stole_my_girlfriends_car_after_she_already_gave\/","id":"9t7voh","body":"So extremely short. On Sunday night my girlfriend let me take her car to Texas to take care of some business, originally she was going to come with me but something came up last minute for her and I had to go alone. We were taking her car because it's more reliable on longer trips. Especially a drive from Kentucky to Texas and back.\n\nI made it here no problem and I'll have everything done and start driving back on Saturday night or that was the plan. Tonight and this morning she calls me up and demands her car back right now or she's reporting it stolen. I'm not sure why, she won't answer me and around 30 minutes ago a cop called me saying he's there with her and she's filling out a report about her vehicle and if I can return it now or tell them where I am it is a lot better overall for me. \n\nI explain to him she gave me permission to drive it, knew I was going out of state and I will return it when I get done with everything down here and if he can ask her why and tell her to call me. He informs me that while I did have permission that I no longer do and continuing to use the vehicle and not return it immediately is a crime. Not as severe a crime as grand theft auto but still a serious one. So I tell him fine, I'll stop using it.\n\nCan I tell her where she can pick it up in Texas, since permission was originally given to drive it to Texas and I can't use it anymore can I just tell her where it is and leave it, rent a car and go home when I planned to Saturday? \n\nOr do I need to drive back right now and give it back to her? I don't know why the sudden change or what's going on but what do I do with this car that I'm now stealing? ","title":"I \"stole\" my girlfriend's car after she already gave me permission to drive it?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446416283,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r4tyw\/question_regarding_evictions\/","id":"3r4tyw","body":"Say you're a landlord. You have a tenant who has given their 60 days notice to vacate by a certain date. Their lease ends during the middle of a month, so the last month is pro-rated.\n\nSaid tenant has not yet paid the full month's rent prior to the end of their lease (for clarification, let's say their lease ends in March, which is the prorated month, so they haven't paid February's rent.) So the full month, plus the pro-rated month, are a balance to the tenant's account.\n\nWould it be worth the landlord pursuing an eviction at this point if the tenant would be vacating the premises soon? Is the actual eviction process more costly then pursuing the remaining balance in small claims court?\n\nEdit: Assuming Maryland tenant\/landlord law.","title":"Question regarding evictions","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444082928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nmp5a\/my_grandpa_is_trying_to_get_an_800_rent_payment\/","id":"3nmp5a","body":"My grandpa owns a garage in Pennsylvania and a couple years ago he allowed his nephew to store equipment there for a monthly rent payment. After a some disagreements between the two of them they decided it would be best if the nephew moved his stuff out. However, the nephew still owes my grandpa $800 in rent and doesn't look like he plans on paying it back. What should my grandpa do?\nThanks for any help.","title":"My grandpa is trying to get an $800 rent payment from his nephew.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568753366,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5n01v\/my_employer_is_taking_away_holiday_pay_for_those\/","id":"d5n01v","body":"This is in Virginia. \nAs an example, say Monday is a paid holiday. If I want to take off the rest of the week as well (Tuesday-Friday) the company will not give me holiday pay for the holiday, and I will be forced to use PTO. Is this legal? Is there any action I can take to prevent losing paid time off?","title":"My employer is taking away holiday pay for those who request the rest of the week off.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541179803,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tm744\/health_insurance_refusing_recent_claim_because_of\/","id":"9tm744","body":"So, my health insurance is not paying out a claim because I was a passenger in a car accident in early 2015. This new claim has nothing to do with that incident. They say they need a 3rd Party liability questionnaire filled out - the whole thing is slightly fishy.\n\nI received a settlement for that accident in early 2017 that was between me and the auto insurance carrier from the party at fault in that accident. Again, I was simply a passenger. I did go to the doctor and did some Physical Therapy, all of which was covered and insurance paid out. Unfortunately none of it actually helped my pain at the time. Now they say they can randomly deny claims until they get this questionnaire. It requires I enclose a copy of the settlement and sign the form - which I assume is so they can have a legal form and then come after my settlement money.\n\nSo, what should I do here? Do I fill it out and let them try to bill me for god knows how much? What are the legal options I have here? Is denying a claim that has nothing to do with something that happened almost 4 years ago legal? I just want to know what I\u2019m in for and if this is on the up and up. Or if there\u2019s a way to fight this.\n\nI am in CA.","title":"Health Insurance Refusing Recent Claim Because of Unrelated Incident in 2015","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541174710,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tlf9w\/i_own_the_domain_mybigcompanynamecom_and_i_got_an\/","id":"9tlf9w","body":"It is a large media company.  Am I obligated to give it to them for free?  I've found conflicting and vague answers online so any advice would be appeciated.","title":"I own the domain \"my-'bigcompanyname'.com\" and I got an email threatening legal action if I don't give it to them by X date","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539288984,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ndi76\/social_security_clashing_with_need_for_money_in\/","id":"9ndi76","body":"Background info: mom and dad, 2 kids (17F, 14M (me)), dog. Family needs lots of medication and the works, the whole whatnot. Mom works anywhere from 55-65 a week but it could be more, pay is upward in the 25+ per hour (I could be wrong). Dad recently started working again for the first time in nearly 2 decades due to back injuries. He lives on social security and disability, but the job he has now isn't cutting it at all. he is skilled in photography and recording, and I want him to start working more, but I'm scared that if he looses disability we'll be in a bigger hole. What are some things that my dad can do to either A. Keep the SS and still work more, B. Make enough to counteract the loss of the SS, Or C., Make money that won't effect the \"countdown to SS loss\". Thanks in advance , this sub probably isn't the right place to go but I couldn't really find anywhere else.","title":"Social security clashing with need for money in the family, advice needed.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553779645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6is2q\/pa_threemonth_driving_privilege_suspension_can\/","id":"b6is2q","body":"I hope this counts as seeking legal advice, if I\u2019m in the wrong place, feel free to direct me elsewhere.  I tried my best to keep it concise and formatted.  On mobile. \n\n\nI\u2019m facing a three-month suspension of both my drivers license and vehicle registration for a traffic stop where I couldn\u2019t provide proof of insurance.  I had my old card from the previous period, and thought the new one might have gotten lost in my mail.  Nope, I missed a payment and the company has a call (to me, warning me of the termination) on record that I can\u2019t find.  So my policy lapsed.  I take full responsibility for the mistake; I\u2019m not asking for advice about that.  I got a new policy so that I was legal again and submitted that to the police.  I was subsequently fined for driving without insurance on the day of the stop.  I decided not to fight it, since I *was* in the wrong.  I plead guilty and paid the fine.  Thought that would be the end of it.\n\nWrong yet again.  Now the DOT wants to suspend my driving privilege for 3 months.  This now makes sense to me, but I never saw it coming.  I\u2019ve never had this happen to me before, or knew anyone else who did.  I had that policy for damn near 20 years now and I\u2019m already upset that I lost it.\n\nThe advice I am seeking is regarding the suspension of my license.  For my vehicle registration, I am being offered a one-time opportunity to pay a $500 dollar civil penalty in lieu of the three-month suspension.  I would have been more than happy to pay that, as I need my car to get to\/from work.  However, it appears that I have no similar recourse to retain my license.  I was about to pay the penalty when I was informed that it would not cover my drivers license as well, where I had stupidly assumed it would.  When I asked, the customer service rep said there was no choice on my license.\n\nIs this true?  Both my warning letters state I have the right to go to the court of common pleas, but I don\u2019t want to waste anyones time if I literally have no case at all.  I don\u2019t deny that the mistake was 100% my fault, but as a first-time offender, this seems a little ruthless.  Why let me buy my registration back if I can\u2019t drive the car?  I paid the insurance in full already and now I have to let it sit?  I\u2019m willing to take my lumps on this, but the local bus service is pretty much useless in terms of my work commute.  I\u2019m better off walking or paying to have my bike repaired, both of which will suck.  I\u2019m also in the middle of moving so the timing of this could *not* be any worse.  I don\u2019t have a support network for rides, but I have a few coworkers who might help me out.  I\u2019m terrified I might lose my job over this, but I\u2019m hoping that\u2019s an irrational fear, as I\u2019ve been extremely reliable up to this point and I **really** don\u2019t want that to change.  There\u2019s no way I can pay a penalty on my license, or even get a permit just to drive to work?  Nothing?  That\u2019s it?\n\nAny advice is greatly appreciated.  Thanks for reading.","title":"[PA] Three-month driving privilege suspension. Can pay penalty to restore registration but not drivers license?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446053792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ql5g5\/fl_help_understanding_a_criminal_court_case\/","id":"3ql5g5","body":"Back Story:\n\nLinda was working for a company.  Renee was working for the same company.  Linda embezzled money from the company.  Charged with 3rd degree felony.  (do not know the details\/amount).  Arrested, arraigned, etc.  Renee is depo'd. by both sides and is subpoenaed to appear at trial. DA says that it's a slam dunk.  No Plea Bargain.   \n\nTrial was set for 27 Oct on Court Calendar.  Renee receives a phone from DA's office on 16 Oct telling her that the trial was postponed until after the 1st of the year.  Court Calendar now has it scheduled for 6 Jan.\n\nWhat would cause this to happen?  We all  loathe Linda and really want her in jail.  And no, we don't know who requested the delay.  We didn't even know you *could* do that\n\nThe Court Calendar shows that a Hearing was held on the 27th, but nothing more.\n\nDoes this indicate that there may be a plea deal going on?\n\nThanks","title":"(FL) Help understanding a Criminal Court Case","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1418230713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ovml1\/my_workplace_just_accidentally_emailed_out_an\/","id":"2ovml1","body":"So my employer just accidentally emailed out an employees extensive personal information. This information included home address, social security number, as well as the full name and social security numbers of their spouse and children. The information went to about 100 people. I am wondering what the employee could legally do in response to this? This is in Wisconsin, USA.","title":"My workplace just accidentally emailed out an employees extensive personal information, what legal repercussions could this have on the company if the employee decides to act?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555440263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdxk2v\/ohio_landlord_decided_to_put_our_home_on_the\/","id":"bdxk2v","body":"We moved in in October. The landlord told me he wasn\u2019t going to put it on the market, if he got tenants. Suddenly, 4 months in, without any discussion, he told me people were coming to look at the apartment (a condo). Originally he said it was \u201cinvestors looking to buy his portfolio of properties\u201d. I quickly realized it was not. I would guess that we have let in around 35 people or more since February. Most have not been investors. Most are people shopping for a home, and they are shocked to find out we live there and plan to stay until October. Many are angry for their time being wasted (fair, but it is always directed at us who absolutely did not sign up for this!) These visits are all\nWeek, and on the weekends. If we aren\u2019t available, he expects us to give them the code to our door so they can let themselves in. I have let him do this a couple times but it has gotten out of control. The landlord lives in another state and I have not even met him, nor does he attend any of these \u201cshowings\u201d.  There is always ta realtor with them, but the realtors almost always seem floored by not having been told people are residing there and plan to for 6 more months. I have expressed my unhappiness in a polite and fair way with the landlord after he told me he had three showings this weekend and Monday. Of course, I have to keep my home in museum type shape to show to potential buyers. Apparently, at all times...\n\nThe landlord has not responded to me since Friday when I told him how we were feeling. He has been told a few times that the shoppers are unaware of our living there. I have even gone so far as to contact the realtor who is apparently scheduling the appointments. She said she would talk to him, because she was under the understanding that our lease had something  that would force us to move 90 days after a sale. Our lease does not have this in it, I have had it checked by a realtor and several other people.  \n\nPeople are now showing up on our doorstep without anyone telling us at all. This happened twice last week. \n\nWhat are our rights? \nAre we doomed to deal with this for the next 6 months? \nDo we have to let people in all the time, if given 24 hours? \nIs it reasonable to ask for a rent reduction or to be let out of our lease so we can leave the situation? \n\nWe want to be cooperative, but we pay a LOT of money to live there and we are now trapped there with people in and out every week (even when we aren\u2019t home), and forced to keep everything clean and tidy every day of the week.","title":"[OHIO] Landlord decided to put our home on the market, but he doesn\u2019t seem to be telling most of the people that there are tenants with a lease to stay until October. He consistently doesn\u2019t give me 24 hour notice, and people are showing up unannounced to see the place.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569223880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d837sj\/do_i_have_any_rights\/","id":"d837sj","body":"KS \u2014 When my dad died he didn\u2019t leave a will, so naturally everything went to my mom. When my mom died she left everything to my sister (we\u2019re both adopted) and there was a property that was involved and my sister told me that if she ever ended up selling it she would split the profit with me 50\/50, but now she\u2019s telling me she took a $60,000 loan against the property in order to build a new house on the land and now she\u2019s decided to sell the property in order to pay back the loan she took against it basically cutting me out of any money of revived. Do I have any rights?","title":"Do I have any rights?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570503509,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deu5zz\/can_someone_help_me_tell_if_im_at_fault_in_this\/","id":"deu5zz","body":"I was trying to get into the left lane with my blinker on after making a right turn. The back left end of my vehicle was struck my the front right of theirs. I can't tell for sure if it would be considered me being rear ended or not. It's right next to my tail light but behind the gas tank door. I'm trying to figure out if I should file or not","title":"Can someone help me tell if I'm at fault in this accident please?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570080980,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcml9j\/im_not_on_the_lease_can_i_be_kicked_out_if_my\/","id":"dcml9j","body":"I'm a 20yo that recently moved out of their folks house. I moved into a house with one person owning it and paying for utilities and their name on everything, and me and 3 other roommates living here. I feel like I'm a good roommate, I keep noise down, ask if I'm being inconsiderate, dont mess up communal spaces, etc. The annoying thing that I've noticed up till a few days ago was leaving pans out to cool before cleaning them, less than an hour wait time during period where my roommates were out of the house. For reference, we all have separate rooms, I keep most of my stuff in it except for some soap in the bathroom, not even my makeup.\nAbout a week ago, I joined a poly relationship with two people. They've stayed over twice, and my main roommate was not having it (main being the one whose name is on everything). She said I'm allowed maybe one person. I personally didn't see a problem because we were quiet and weren't ever in communal spaces other than walking up the stairs to my room. I dont even use the kitchen more, one pizza is enough for the three of us. She's been getting pretty heated about it, and I'm planning on continuing this relationship, and having them over sometimes. One of them is homeless and while I know I can't accommodate all the time, he has other friends who are able to take him in the majority of the time, but I'll still put him up a few nights a month w our other bf.\nLegally speaking, she has been heated enough I'm worried she will want to evict me. I looked up a little bit and legally I believe I'm a tenant, I've been here 3 months, and I've never been short nor late on rent payment. Are there laws regarding having three people in a large bedroom (safety maybe?). As well as is she able to evict me if she doesn't like me?","title":"I'm not on the lease, can I be kicked out if my roommates don't like me","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571371548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dji2b9\/parenting_plan\/","id":"dji2b9","body":"Hello guys. I'm wanting to take my wife's baby daddy back to court to get better custody of my step daughter. However, in the parenting plan it states we have to pay 50%-50% of the mediation cost if we go back. I was wondering if anyone could give me better information on what that entails exactly? I don't want to go through mediation. I want to get better custody of my step daughter through the courts. Is that possible? Where do I even begin? We don't have money for a lawyer...","title":"Parenting Plan","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571248712,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dit2m5\/injured_on_the_job_workers_comp_denied_because\/","id":"dit2m5","body":"Hello,\n\nRecently I was injured on the job (back issues after a couple weeks of physical labour, long story). I went to the doctor mid September and was diagnosed with Sciatica and he gave me a note to provide to my employer stating I shouldn't be lifting anything for 6-8 weeks. \n\nI handed my employer the note during a meeting we had regarding my injury and was instructed to use my benefits ($500 a year for physio) to cover my treatment. I had no concept of what workers comp was at this point in time. \n\nSo I go to physio a week later and they ask me if my employer filed a workers comp claim. Obviously oblivious to workers comp my therapist explained it all to me and told me she would make a claim for me.\n\nI got word yesterday that my claim was denied from my physio therapist so I called workers comp to sort it out. Well turns out my employer didn't have workers comp insurance at the time of my injury (why it was denied), didn't report my injury 5 days after, and they purchased the insurance 8 days after I informed them of my injury. \n\nWorkers comp informed me to get in contact with workers advisory program, which I did and they sent my file to my local office to be assessed if an advisor will be assigned to me or not. They informed me I'd be waiting 6-8 weeks to hear back but to file an appeal for my workers comp denial in the mean time.\n\nOn the form there is a section where I can have legal representation to assist me with the appeal.\n\nAt this point I'm kind of lost what to do. I have to drive an hour to work each way which makes my back hurt more than it already does. My employer said I can come and go early if need be or work from home but not to 'dissapear on them'. \n\nI feel hung out to dry here. I only have so many physio sessions I can attend via my benefits then it's out of pocket (which will be a struggle). This, coupled with an issue surrounding me reporting my injury to my employer multiple times to begin with, has left a really bad taste in my mouth. If anyone can give me some advice on how to proceed that would be great.","title":"Injured on the job, workers comp denied because employer didn't pay for insurance (Canada)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570645400,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfl43e\/missouri_can_my_ex_wife_go_after_my_girlfriends\/","id":"dfl43e","body":"My ex wife receives child support from me. My girlfriend makes much more than me. If we move in together or eventually get married, can she legally go after her money in addition to my child support?","title":"(Missouri) Can my ex wife go after my girlfriends money if we get married for child support?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1502768315,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6trqo1\/pet_sitting_for_a_coworker_am_i_putting_myself_at\/","id":"6trqo1","body":"A woman at work asked me to pet sit for her and I agreed to stay at her house with my own dog for a couple of nights since hers is a service dog and this would be a nice thing to do, so why not? Then it turned out that her dog has some minor aggression problems, and a lot of health problems. She is also an expensive former show dog. I'm suddenly nervous about what might happen if anything goes wrong, like if her dog attacks mine or if her dog gets sick or suddenly dies. I don't think this would happen, but since both dogs weigh > 115 lbs  emergency vet visits would be particularly complicated. My coworker is also very wealthy and in a high level at my company so there is an unequal power balance. How big of a risk am I taking here? Is there something I ought to do to protect myself in the unfortunate situation that one of the dogs is injured? I am hesitant to back out because of my having very recently started my job. I think it would be bad for my career. Thanks for your advice. ","title":"pet sitting for a coworker-- am I putting myself at risk? (CA)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551555393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awlec7\/maryland_united_states_landlords_gave_me_a_30_day\/","id":"awlec7","body":"[Maryland, Unites States] I\u2019ve lived in my apartment for 3 years. It\u2019s one big house. Essentially, the top floor was renovated to have a tenant (kitchen, bathroom, two bedrooms, living room) and the lower two floors are where my landlords live. I\u2019ve always been given 48 hour notice if someone needs to come in, they come in every 6 months to check apartment with my permission, and I\u2019m quiet and usually at my boyfriends 6\/7 days a week.\n\n\nI have a one year contract (I am 7 months in the renewed lease) that stipulates that I must give 60 day notice if I plan on moving and they must give me a 90 day notice if they need me to move, am evicted for any reason, etc. My landlord called me (not even a letter or official form of notice) and told me they sold the house to move back to New Zealand and I have 30 days to leave before the new home owners move in. They did offer my deposit back and told me they\u2019d give me a great recommendation but that\u2019s not really good enough as I liked my apartment, now have my stuff to move while working full time, etc. \n\n\nI don\u2019t want advice telling me to move in with my boyfriend. I like having my own apartment. I need to know if it\u2019s legal for them to give me 30 days since we have a contract and if it\u2019s not, what should I do\/who should I contact? I\u2019m only 25 so I\u2019m not super well versed in the legal arena, especially when it comes to housing. I\u2019m also as poor as you\u2019d imagine someone at 25 to be. Landlords are real estate agents so they should know better? \n\n\nThings to consider:\n-This house is in a small city - not like in the country or anything\n-We have a contract that should give me 90 days, not 30\n-They sold the house without telling me and gave me a 30 day notice\n-Landlords are both real estate agents\n-The house is apparently actually sold already - not something that\u2019s going to happen soon but already did. \n\n\nThank you so much for taking the time to give me advice! I really didn\u2019t know what else to do. \n\n\n\n","title":"[Maryland, United States] Landlords gave me a 30 day notice to move out because they sold the house.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541630290,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v47n1\/dodgy_wills_of_relative_relating_to_land\/","id":"9v47n1","body":"Hi lads, I'm from Ireland so I'm unsure if many of you are aware of the legal proceedings of Irish Inheritance but you'll probably help out in any case.\nBackstory...\nSo last November my grandad's cousin (f) past away in a nursing home (she was the center of attention there so it wasn't so sad and she was happy). Up until the previous year she had lived alone with her only visitors being some friends, my grandparents (until they past) and me, my uncle and my dad (Others would pop in and out of course but we were the regulars). She had lived alone since around the 70s when her immediate family died leaving my granddad and his brothers being the closest relatives to her.\n She ran a small dairy farm (33 acres) up until around 1994\/5 when she retired and began leasing the whole land and farmyard to my father who farms around 160 acres of adjoining land for a dairy farm aswell. So for around 20 years everything went well up until the point when she past, the same month my dad became quite sick... And the will(s) came into light.\nThe first will that was found was dating from around the 80s where she had left all the land to a  group of priests in Africa, not mentioning any relations (1980s rural Ireland, the Church had sway then). \nThen two more recently dated wills were found. They were pretty much the same in every way so I really only need to talk about the most recent one from 2015. This will left the land and farmyard to me and my father (I'm studying agriculture in college and it was clear for a while I would be taking over the home farm) and her house and some money to my uncle (a nurse who helped her out in the last few years), more money was also left and divided out among her other distant relations and friends etc etc. Everything seemed fine...\nBut it turned out that the two witnesses of the most recent will had died in the previous year and the clause wasn't added in the event of such an... event.\nSo the last will that seems to be fully legal is the one from the 80s with everything left to some priests who no one has heard of up until this point. \nI'm just wondering if any of ye have any advice or suggestions on what to do because my father, mother and uncle have had over 7 meetings with solicitors regarding this will and have posted an add in the local paper looking for advice as well. There are talks of it going to court but I'm not sure on that yet and if the estate goes to the priests it will be sold and my dad's cousin (mother's side, another dairy farmer) will most likely buy it up, which believe me, no one in the parish wants because half of them hate him or have fallen out with him (including his own family and workers) and we can't buy it if it goes to auction because of my father's treatment.\n\nSo ya, any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated...thanks from this probably biased source \u263a","title":"Dodgy will(s) of relative, relating to land.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552586186,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b13hjm\/connecticut_bought_a_car_1500_miles_away_having\/","id":"b13hjm","body":"Oh Boy this is insane. I recently purchased a vehicle using my brother in law to bid for me since i'm 20 and it said I had to be 21. He is fully aware and gave me permission to do this. Here is the issue. To get transit tags to drive it 1500 miles home, The owner (Title is in his name) has to be there to sign, and the company I bought it from will not be providing any assistance in getting registered. My brother in law cannot be there as he works as a teacher and  is the head coach of our local track team and cannot leave town until may. My plane leaves this coming wednesday. I have insurance to cover the vehicle, but its looking like the insurance has to be in the \"Owners\" name as well. I've been researching all day and have only come to 1 thing I can try\n\n​\n\nThe DMV said I could use power of attorney to sign as the owner on his behalf, and If we can fill out the info and get it notarized before Wednesday this seems pretty complicated and will involve me getting a new insurance policy in his name or adding the vehicle to his insurance which he would do but is so much extra. \n\n​\n\nThe main reason I made this thread is to ask the following: If I am his POA, can I take the bill of sale and title in his name, and \"sell\" the vehicle to myself, basically copying the bill of sale but putting his name and signing as \"Through Him\" since im the POA, then taking the signed title and new bill of sale and register it in my name, in order to skip the massive headache above? \n\n​\n\nI'm kinda out of options here and have to figure something out by Tuesday night so whatever advice would be awesome.\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​","title":"[Connecticut] Bought a car 1500 Miles away. Having Serious issues with registration","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541963190,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w6g9r\/dad_schedules_visitation_with_me_and_does_not\/","id":"9w6g9r","body":"Today I was supposed to have visitation with my dad (which I do not want to have) and the last few visits have ended in arguments and only lasted 5-30 min and he always waits until the last second to tell me anything to make me anxious. Today when I drove to Starbucks to meet with him, he was supposedly going to pick me up and I was going to spend from 10 AM until 8pm with him, but when I showed up my paternal grandfather was there trying to get me to go with him, I talked to him for a bit and discussed how me and my dad could fix our relationship because I told him I don\u2019t feel comfortable around my dad. He kept asking me to go with him which I refused. He then called my dad on the phone and told me that my dad is in LA but decided not to come back because he thought I was not going to show up for visitation. Is there any way I can stop visitation? It\u2019s seriously fucking with me, i get bad anxiety every time and he argues with me on text, telling me that my mom is texting him from my phone and then pulling stuff like this. It ruins my weekends and affects my ability to function in school, I can focus when Im anxious and can\u2019t stop thinking about our visitation or other issues.","title":"Dad schedules visitation with me and does not show up","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505800624,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7110wr\/tenant_in_washington_state_is_my_landlord_within\/","id":"7110wr","body":"Hey, I beg of you guys because I am at Wit's End here.  \n\nIf you got a minute, please read all of this because I have no clue what to do and I will be homeless within a week.  \n\n \n\nI live in Washington State and I have lived on this property for Three Years.  My sister, her Fiance, and myself all signed a 1-Year Lease agreement for the first time back in February 2017.  We have been living here for around 40 months and only 7 of these months have been on our 1-Year lease agreement.  \n\nNow, here is when it turns into a clusterf*ck...  \nMy sister died from a brain tumor, in March, a single month after we signed that 1-Year Lease Agreement.  My landlord never gave us a copy of the Lease Agreement and she to this day has never given me a copy or allowed me to see it after signing it back in February of this year.  We have only a single working Smoke Alarm as the other one short-circuited and will not work.  Our Water Heater exploded due to incredible amounts of rust back in May of this year.  It flooded our house; the kitchen, the laundry room, the hallways, and we have hardwood floors.  I am POSITIVE there is indeed rotting now.  She replaced the water heated Seven Days later and has never done a single thing about the rotting hardwood floors.  There have been so many breaches to the Lease Agreement on my Landlord's part, but she refuses to show or give us a copy.  \n\nAnother thing is, a week after My sister, her fiance, and myself signed that Lease Agreement we had an inspection by my Landlord's bank.  **She told the bank we were renting a single room, not the entire house, and that SHE was living here.**  Of course, we told the inspectors that we are indeed renting the entire house and that she doesn't live here.  A day after they completed the inspection, she called us on the phone while very mad and explained \"You were supposed to say you are only renting a single room.  Now I have to re-write the entire Lease Agreement!  I am supposed to be written down as a resident there!\"  Which is INCREDIBLY SKETCHY as she only comes around once every two months.  \n\n \n\nEnough about the crappy Lease Agreement.  My rent was due September 9th and my roommate (dead sister's fiance) refused to pay his part of the rent and my Landlord refused to accept a payment plan with me.  Our rent was due on the 9th and we didn't notify the Landlord of our plans to Move-Out until last week, September 16th on Saturday.  My landlord came by today, claiming that she has legal reason to entire my home within 24 hours to \"check if we broke anything\" and she can enter whenever she wants because we have not paid September's rent.  So yeah, she will be forcing her way inside tomorrow afternoon and I'm in a panic.  The house is fine, it just looks like a mess because we're moving out and packing!  \n\nIs anyone familiar with Washington State's laws?  I'm only 20 and have no clue what kind of situation I am in and I want to get out of this house without having an Eviction notice on my record.  \n\n \n\nTLDR; I need help.  I don't know any of my Rights or any of the Laws.  Lived on this property for 40 months.  I have a 1-Year Lease Agreement currently that is Seven Months in.  My landlord has breached the Lease Agreement numerous times and I have never seen a copy or been given a copy since I signed it.  Rent was due September 9th, Landlord was notified September 16th that it will not be paid and we are moving out.  Today, she claims she has full legal reason to enter our home whenever she wants (after 24 hours) \"because we have not paid September's rent\".  \n\nI need help.  I'm going to be homeless next week.  Does anybody know what I can do?  Any homeless shelters in Whatcom County that allow a single man and a single cat?...  I can't leave my cat.","title":"Tenant in Washington State - Is my Landlord within their legal Rights during my 'Moving-Out' process?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550638910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ask7k5\/not_paid_minimum_wage_in_mi\/","id":"ask7k5","body":"Without getting into much detail about the company itself, I was a commission only dog groomer (this is common across the board for groomers in non-corporate salons) and have received my tax documentation for the year showing my earnings for 10 months working at a doggy daycare. My tips are included in the amount of my earnings. I sometimes worked as little as 32 hours a week, sometimes up to 40. \n\nFrom my understating, they are allowed to pay me less than federal minimum wage because I was a tipped worker - as long as my tips bring my hourly pay up to at least $7.25\/hr.  \n\nI calculated out what my hourly wage would be based on these numbers and it does not amount to federal or state minimum wage whether I go by 32 hours or 40 hours a week. At 32 hours I earned $7.02\/hr including tips, and at 40 hours that dropped to $5.62\/hr including tips. I calculated this using what my monthly gross was. \n\nThey also sent me a 1099 though I was an employee and not an independent contractor. That is a whole other thing I'm already dealing with, and a long story I won't get into here.\n \nI am reporting them to the appropriate state and federal agencies for employee misclassification.\n\nI called the the UIA fraud line (which is who I have so far been told to call), left a message about the misclassification, and they've left a voicemail telling me to contact wage and hour division. \n\nMy question involves what happens when I speak to the wage and hour division. Obviously, they had a duty to at least pay federal minimum wage and that requirement was not met any way you slice it... but they've reported that I was an independent contractor when I wasn't. Does that matter? Or, since I fit the legal definition of an employee, will wage and hour still go to bat for me? Will they attempt to recover and pay to me what I should have been paid by the employer? Am I even owed the money that would bring my pay up to minimum wage? Do I need a lawyer to address this? Is it worth involving a lawyer since the sum of money I'm owed isn't that large in the grand scheme of things? \n","title":"Not paid minimum wage in MI","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552451814,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0ht3c\/legal_advice_for_an_rn_arrested_for_felony\/","id":"b0ht3c","body":"Hello recently my husband was severely hurt with a back injury and sciatic hip pain and muscle spasms. He went to an er.  He\u2019s a diabetic, and was treated with Methyleprednisalone and Valium  and a lecture about wasting er resources  For coming  \n\nThe treatment was not helping and he spent three sleepless nights in horrible pain  I got him to go to another er   There, things deteriorated quickly   He lay on a stretcher in enough pain he couldn\u2019t turn over for X-rays   He got adgitated  angry then turned into someone I\u2019ve never seen in our 20 years together.  He\u2019s normally the calm big teddy bear and he was screaming and cursing at the nurse and staff  it was horrifying  this is not the way he acts   He then demanded we leave   Fell twice on the way out   I left him for two minutes to get the car and he apparently went back inside and got in a physical tussle with security  guard  was pushed to the ground with bad back and leg and he swung backwards and hit the SHERIFF.  He was immediately jailed and brought to prison.  \n\nPertinent medical info:  \ndiabetic   Blood sugar very elevated  \nMethylprednisalone  - raises blood sugar and maybe increases aggression?\nValium  it\u2019s supposed to calm you down but I read it can cause aggression\nNo sleep and In incredible constant pain \n\nHe\u2019s been charged with a felony    \n\nThis man lives to help others.  He\u2019s never violent   And has never done anything wrong in his life  \n\nAfter I bonded him out we went to another er  received treatment  walked out of the er and is improving daily   \n\nBut he\u2019s our sole source of income and feels like everything is doomed   \n\nWe have obtained a lawyer but are so lost on what could happen   Any advice is appreciated   Has anyone else overcome this kind of obstacle before or can tell us the fall out to expect   Its dire   \n\nOfficer not injured but was hit during the performance of his job   \n\nWhat would be our best course of action moving  forward    Any chance of a nobill ?","title":"Legal advice for an RN arrested for felony assault of a police officer in Texas","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570489389,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dercvj\/towing_company_drama\/","id":"dercvj","body":"Hello,\n\nI was in a fairly serious accident in the desert of Nevada about one month ago as I was relocating across the country back to school after my summer internship (that is to say, I have no connection to or in Nevada). I was at fault for the accident, and I only have liability insurance (so insurance won't be covering anything). My car was towed by highway patrol to get it off the road and I wasn't informed where to or given any information at all. The car was an old junker and is now totaled.\n\nI recently received the bill from the towing company. The charges are about $1000 for towing and fees and another $1000 (and growing) for storage. They're charging me more for storage of scrap metal per day than I pay to store myself in my apartment.\n\nI can't afford to pay what they're charging me, and that I've tried negotiating with them to pay for the cost of towing and related fees (what I see as services rendered). However, they've refused to negotiate and have threatened with auctioning the car in November (which they're welcome to do and which won't get them anything), as well as send the bill to collection (which will be around $4000 by the auction date).\n\nI've been reading Nevada towing law and searching through other sources, but I haven't found many clear answers. The main question I'm trying to get answered is this: **what are the potential consequences of not paying?** As best as I can tell, the towing company is within their rights to sell the lien on the car - which I'm completely fine with. However, this will not approach covering the massive bill that they are claiming due. What I've tried to convey to them is that I, financially, have no other choice but to let them hang on to the car until the world ends if they aren't willing to come to the table. Further, auctioning the car and selling the remaining debt to collection will net them significantly less than what I'm willing to pay.\n\nAny advice, resources or past experience would be welcome. Thank you for reading.","title":"Towing Company Drama","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552527616,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0ueoa\/help_my_mother_has_practically_turned_her_home\/","id":"b0ueoa","body":"Some preface: My parents are separated for the 3rd time and my brother and sister still live at home. They stay with my mother on weekdays and my father on weekends, but my father only has one bedroom that they share. My wife and I were hoping that he would purchase a home with enough room to take them both permanently, but it doesnt seem like that's going to happen.\n\nMy mother has a history of substance abuse, she's been an alcoholic and a chainsmoker for almost as long as I can remember. Recently she made some friends at her job that got her hooked on cocaine... which was a slippery slope because since this started, my brother and sister have described the home as a loud revolving door, for men and for hardcore drugs. I love my mom but she makes reckless decisions as if she has no responsibilities, and I think the following anecdote makes for a strong case as to why she's unfit to parent my brother and sister:\n\nOn Saturday 3\/9, I arrived at my mother's house at about 6:30am to pick up my brother and sister and take them camping (it was the first day of their spring break). I walked in the front door without knocking and there sat my mother at the table (in her work clothes from the night before) with her friend \/ coke dealer sitting next to her. They quickly tried to cover what they were doing with their hands, but I walked right past them and got my siblings out. My mom was completely incoherent very, very high. I did not recognize her fron the look on her face. She was speaking jibberish and crying. She had not slept all night, and instead stayed up doing coke, drinking, and smoking. *She knew I was coming to pick up my brother and sister that morning.* What's more, she DRIVES THEM TO SCHOOL LIKE THIS ON A REGULAR BASIS.\n\nAs if that wasn't enough, in that house, my siblings sleep in an upstairs loft... where *all* of the indoor cigarette smoke accumulates and they have to choice but to inhale it while they sleep, all night, almost every night. If that isnt neglect and abuse, I dont know what is. \n\nThey're both addicted to nictone and were begging me to purchase them JUUL replacement pods the wntire camping trip. It's completely unbelievable \n\nThe main problem is I dont know where to start in trying to prove she is unfit to be a parent... I dont think I can collect physical evidence without her getting suspicious, and my brother and sister refuse to do anything that will actually incriminate her. I really want to avoid confrontation with her about this. I spent my entire childhood begging my mom to get help and I dont think she's going to listen until she gets a wakeuo call and is completely alone.\n\nDo I have any choice but to go to the police with this? Or child services? Or do I look into a lawyer?\n\nWhat I do know- under absolutely no circumstances do I want to see my brother and sister end up in the foster system. My wife and I would gladly take full guardianship but we are unsure of how to make it work financially. We are looking into help from friends and family. My grandmother lives close and might be able to help but just survived cancer and also  recently moved into a one-bedroom apartment.\n\nI live in Florida if that is helpful.\n\nThank you for taking the time to read \ud83d\ude4f","title":"Help- my mother has practically turned her home into a crackhouse... how can I (24) get my brother and sister (15 & 14) out of her house and into the care of myself or my grandmother?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552107584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayzvxv\/why_do_some_nudist_websites_have_naked_children\/","id":"ayzvxv","body":"Isn\u2019t it illegal in the US for pictures of naked children on websites? I was on previous websites were I seen pics of it and I reported them but why are they on there?","title":"Why do some nudist websites have naked children on them?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542061507,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wivqr\/willed_property_and_ownership\/","id":"9wivqr","body":"I have a question on property ownership. So my grandma passed away and left the property and house to myself, my little sister, and her late husband\u2019s (passed before she did) sister. Their will named his sister the executor of the will. The complicated part is that the sister died a couple weeks later before the will was found and probated. No one was left that wanted to do it, so I positioned the court and was granted executor of the estate. I spoke with an attorney at the beginning and he told me to leave all of the property in their names (grandma and her late husband), and sell from the estate as it would be cheaper, and then just distribute the cash. I\u2019ve been trying to sell the property and double-wide for 2 years, but no one seems to want to buy it. Understandable so - it\u2019s in an extremely rural area and it\u2019s a double-wide. I have a family friend who wants to buy it on a land contract, and apply for a loan later on to purchase it. From what I\u2019ve seen online and from speaking with other paralegals, this is possible. My question now is if the property is now owned by the heirs. I get tax bills with the heirs names, and that it\u2019s in care of myself. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s just due to me taking care of the estate and the taxes are paid by the heirs, or if the heirs actually own the property now. I never transferred the property into their names. I would check with the courthouse, but they\u2019re not easily accessible as it\u2019s 2 hours away and I work throughout the week. ","title":"Willed property and ownership.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1542210228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x16t3\/incorrect_university_advisement\/","id":"9x16t3","body":"Last year, I was advised to take 2 courses that I ultimately registered for. These courses ended up not counting at all toward my progression requirements and I now have to take extra classes during the summer. Is there grounds for a lawsuit here? I\u2019m losing thousands of dollars just because I now have to pay for classes that could have been in place of the ones that I was advised for.","title":"Incorrect university advisement","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570866282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgs26p\/texas_being_forced_to_huff_paint_for_eight_hours\/","id":"dgs26p","body":"hi, to start, I apologize if this is a jumbled mess. I\u2019m six hours into an eight hour shift, and am very high. \n\nI work security \/ asset protection for a luxury retail store. part of my job responsibility is maintaining physical security of the store. \n\ntonight we have some paint contractors who are spray painting the metal frames of our glass doors. they\u2019re painting inside a vestibule with one door to the outside open. they all have gas masks on. because the doors to the store are unlocked, I\u2019ve been instructed by my boss to sit outside the vestibule inside the store to watch and make sure no one besides me and the contractors enter the store (I can sit outside but it\u2019s currently 55\u00b0 and I only have a small sweater). I\u2019ve been sitting here since 8:30pm, and it\u2019s currently 2:30am. I\u2019m supposed to be here for two more hours, at least. they may take longer. \n\nI\u2019m wicked high. I\u2019m wearing my sweater and using it as a makeshift gas mask. I haven\u2019t been offered any sort of protection from the fumes or anything. it\u2019s hard to breathe with the sweater over my mouth, but if I don\u2019t have it, I\u2019m breathing in straight fumes from the spray paint being used. if I get up and move to my office which is not in any contact with the fumes, I run the risk of being either written up or fired. my head hurts and I\u2019m extremely nauseous. this is not a high I enjoy. my boss did warn me about it, claiming I might get \u201cblazed out of my mind on paint fumes\u201d (word for word). this doesn\u2019t seem safe to me and I\u2019m concerned about my health but I also need my job. should I just stick it out and suffer the consequences or what can I do? I feel like I\u2019m dying.","title":"(texas) being forced to huff paint for eight hours at work. was told I\u2019m not allowed to move. is this legal??","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553100243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3e9yz\/need_advice_to_possible_discrimination_case\/","id":"b3e9yz","body":"My situation is complex and I\u2019m not sure who to turn to as my union hasn\u2019t been of much help as I am a nontenured teacher in a new district. I was told I am being let go (had to resign) due to \u201cpoor performance\u201d when this was not brought to my attention all year and I was told my evaluations were fine by my supervisor. My principal refused to explain the evaluations and the decision. I believe my absences are the real reason as I had a meeting with the principal about them before and all was good when I explained the medical issues and had the paperwork to show. I also recently found out I am pregnant and had to stay home sick a few days with medical notes to back them up. What are my legal options? Should I get a lawyer? None of it sits right with me and I feel like I was treated unjustly. Any advice is appreciated.  ","title":"Need advice to possible discrimination case","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542052577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9whh2m\/breaking_a_rental_lease_in_bc_canada\/","id":"9whh2m","body":"Question for anyone well versed in Canadian tenant laws. My girlfriend and I are renting a basement suite in the Lower Mainland of B.C. it\u2019s a single family home that\u2019s been converted into three rental suites, one upstairs and two downstairs. We\u2019re pretty unhappy here, and are considering trying to break the lease 6 months early and I\u2019m wondering what possible penalties there are. \n\nIdeally we\u2019d be out of here on December 1st but might be willing to wait until January, but really I just want to make sure we\u2019re not stuck on the hook for extra rent. I\u2019m hoping this information helps us - the suite did not have a smoke detector and I had to install one myself and the thermostat that I was told \u201cjust needs batteries\u201d actually isn\u2019t connected to anything and is entirely useless. I\u2019ve also recently read that a home in Greater Vancouver can only have one legal basement suite. Which means either us or the neighbour on the other side is not in a legal suite. Do I have any options here for breaking the lease?","title":"Breaking a Rental Lease in BC, Canada","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554936971,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbsnoy\/california_and_ip_laws\/","id":"bbsnoy","body":"I was working full time at a company, but had a startup on the side. While we outsourced the development of the product, I would answer emails and chat with my partner about the startup, and occasionally do Google searches related to the startup on my company machine. I was eventually let go because of this, which I understand, but is it possible that the company will try to sue me for some ownership of the business? The business is not related in any way whatsoever, and the platform was technically created outside of the company. Furthermore, we dissolved the LLC after I left the company and re-incorporated as a Delaware C-Corp. Would that make any different as well?\n\nLocation: California","title":"California and IP Laws","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551055293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auesf4\/can_your_work_place_make_you_pay_for_fake_bills\/","id":"auesf4","body":"The place my sister works at tried to make her pay fot a fake $20 bill she was given today and also makes people pay when their drawer is short\n\nI wotk at a different place and where I work fake money gets paid back from insurance and unless your drawer is short repeatedly (or large numbers) then they just ignore iy","title":"Can your work place make you pay for fake bills","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505884284,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/718xan\/what_constitutes_operating_a_business_in_a_rented\/","id":"718xan","body":"Today, I was given leasing agreement forms for an apartment to be signed and returned later. All the provisions seemed normal except one which read: \"Lessee shall not allow the property to be used for the operation of any business.\"\n\nI'm a developer currently working remotely full-time, and after researching a bit, the broadness of the wording in this provision raised two questions for me.\n\nWill this provision affect my ability to work from home? I would assume not, as I will not be operating a business but working as an employee for another.\n\nMore importantly, if I decide to work from home and develop a piece of software (independent of my current job or any other business) and sell it down the road, will that constitute \"operation of any business\"?\n\nI have seen questions asked about people running home businesses that require customers, inventory, or other use of a residential space that could disturb others, but I can't find any examples of people asking about merely creating a work from home and selling it. The only real world impact I could see this having is potentially receiving payments by mail once the software has been sold.\n\nWisconsin","title":"What constitutes \"Operating a Business\" in a rented apartment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569360036,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8tn70\/washington_state_our_fridge_broke_down_12_days\/","id":"d8tn70","body":"I share the house with other 5 tenants with separate leases. Our fridge broke down 11 days ago and immediately I sent an email to the landlord asking for a repair. They replied a day later saying they would get back to me asap. But I had to send another email 4 days later because I hadn't heard from them. Finally 2 days later, they replied that a fix was to be scheduled today but then said they needed to order parts for the fridge and it'd 3-5 days to arrive. Only after that can they schedule another fix. I'm guessing no one will come to look at the fridge for at least another week.\n\nI know that Washington state laws require them to stary repairing the fridge within 72 hours. Does replying to my email count as \"start repairing\"?\n\nIs this legal? And what are our rights as tenants?\nThank you very much!","title":"(Washington State) Our fridge broke down 12 days, sent request for repair immediately, landlord responded and hasn't fixed it yet. What are our rights?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441948360,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ki7p0\/landlord_issues_what_to_do_next\/","id":"3ki7p0","body":"NY State, Steuben County. I'm looking for some advice on where to go from here. Short story is, My boyfriend, me and his roommate Rented a house from the roommate's mother. She lives next door. We were on a verbal agreement for rent. Everything seemed fine until we told her we had plans to move into our own place within the next month or two then she went totally batshit crazy. She is allowed in the house to use the laundry and shower.\n\n Day 1 She asked for our rent or to find other arrangements, we exchanged notes, and I left 2 checks for her on the table. She took both checks and bounced. \n\nDay 2 -The next day I come home for lunch and the door is locked. She was inside so I knocked peeked in the window and saw her moving our possessions from our room. I asked nicely to be let in and she refused, I tried to talk to her and she argued with me. I called the state police. At one point she had opened the door and started putting our stuff in the driveway. The officers warned her not to go into our room and let me back inside and I returned things to my room. They told her if she wanted us out she would have to file with the court for eviction.  \n\nDay 3-We woke up. My boyfriend noticed his car keys were missing, I also noticed a few of my personal items, makeup, bathroom essentials were missing. We shrugged it off and went on with the day. Planning to move asap so she wouldnt go in our space again or lock us out again. We didnt feel comfortable to stay there until they served the notice, so we quickly found another place that afternoon, and signed a lease. We went back to the place to start packing our items, as were walking up the driveway she comes storming out of her house into ours and locks the doors behind her. Her son, our roommate let us in, and she started yelling at me to get out then charges at me and starts grabbing and pushing me out the door. I pushed her off of me and tried going around her to our room, but she followed me then tried to charge into the room. She finally left and all 3 of us called the state troopers back. She had lied and said I attacked her for no reason, apparently ran to her house and put a bunch of marks on her arms and denied her own actions. State police advised to get a key lock for our room and take pictures of everything. We moved as much as we could, locked the rest in and set up a motion camera and left. She had blocked my boyfriends 2nd car into the driveway and his keys were still missing so we couldnt move it. It had to stay there all night. \n\nDay 4- My boyfriend returned to get the remainder of our items, as hes packing the neighbor had a friend at her place. They were standing in the driveway talking and about 30 minutes later my boyfriend comes out to check his car and they both dart, the one guest leaves immediately. He noticed there was massive paint damage. Someone had keyed DBAG, THIEF, and X's all over his car. Called state police again for a 3rd time in a row. Also the doors were all mysteriously unlocked, and 2 bags of old garbage were sitting in the backseat leaking all over the inside of the car. Sneaky ho, used our own garbage we had put out the night before we left. Still no proof she did it but it's pretty frickin obvious. Anyway, got the car towed after a few more hours with the police, calls to the DA, other officers. Still can't charge her with anything, because theres not enough evidence. She is not cooperating with the police at this point. She wouldnt answer her door when they first got there, and then she talked through the window when they finally banged long enough on the door. Now we're here. Car has been towed to the dealership for a replacement key. Nice pricey chip and reprogram deal. Tow fees, last minute expenses incurred for having to relocate so soon. And the paperwork she filed for eviction still hasn't been served. Boyfriend was trying to sell his car, but now we're at a loss of what to do first. He was going to go through insurance but not sure if we need to file something against this lady and leave the car as is for now, or what? Any info would be helpful. We aren't usually spiteful people, but she has put us through so much in just a few days, this is not going unresolved. ","title":"Landlord issues, what to do next?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504293542,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xgsga\/my_girlfriend_was_just_fired_after_being_injured\/","id":"6xgsga","body":"My girlfriend was just fired from her job after a machine smashed her hand on Wednesday. They said they were firing her for \"innapropriate conversations\" that took place a few months ago, and she was written up for already. What can we do? Obviously the reason they gave was a cover, since she had already been penalized. They also mentioned that they heard someone say she wasn't wearing a bra, and included that as well. ","title":"My girlfriend was just fired after being injured at work. (Michigan)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540498487,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rdvay\/is_lying_on_your_resume_illegal_at_all\/","id":"9rdvay","body":"This question is coming about because of the following. [https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sysadmin\/comments\/9r1wgp\/rant\\_wish\\_there\\_was\\_a\\_way\\_to\\_flag\\_folks\\_that\\_lie\/](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sysadmin\/comments\/9r1wgp\/rant_wish_there_was_a_way_to_flag_folks_that_lie\/)\n\n​\n\nI swear I heard lying on your resume is illegal. And to me it makes since because I think that would be fraud. Can someone confirm it is or isn't legal? If it isn't, then what law is it breaking to be exact?","title":"Is lying on your resume illegal at all?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446572634,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rdn8p\/my_brother_non_us_citizen_getting_a_divorce_from\/","id":"3rdn8p","body":"They got married in New York 2 years ago and now they've had a bit of a falling out and decided to get a divorce. \n\nWhat I want to know is, do divorce laws of New York apply to him? does he need to worry about anything punitive? And does he need to prepare anything?\n","title":"My brother (Non U.S. citizen) getting a divorce from his wife (U.S. citizen). Do U.S. divorce laws apply to him?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503088285,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ukl7m\/californian_can_i_quit_a_job_and_qualify_for\/","id":"6ukl7m","body":"I'm in California. Asking for a friend who is confused and upset because the job he agreed to do has nothing to do with what he was given when they started there. I'm not talking about additional tasks, but some completely different job. So can they quit and qualify for unemployment?","title":"Californian - Can I quit a job and qualify for unemployment if what they have me doing is no where near the job they promised me when I agreed to being hired?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553226276,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b408o4\/problems_with_land_lord\/","id":"b408o4","body":"I'm close to signing my next year lease. Some things have come up and I need to know what I can do before I sign the next lease to see if I can get her to fix and do some things around the apartment.\n\nI love in Chicago. I have a 'security' door. It's broken. It doesn't shut or lock because everything is off from her raising the building years ago. The door was slamming open and shut because of the wind. She contacted me and asked about the door and I told her about it. She asked if I could do anything. I said I'd try but idk what to do. She had her fix it guy out to look at the door but hasn't fixed it. All of this was about a month and a half ago. I came home one day and there are bricks in front of my door. And other times when I'm home she's put them in front of my door. I've almost tripped down the deck stairs which are right next to my door out of the appartment. All of this without telling me. She's boasted safety. \n\nI asked her about all of it today and she said sorry and that she may remove the door. I don't feel safe with that. I want a security door.\n\nMy rent is going to go up from 725 to 800, after 6 months of month to month paying g at 725, citing high raises in taxes. I asked her to lower it 25 but said no. \n\nWhat can I do if anything to get my door fixed?","title":"Problems with land lord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555325145,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdej4s\/nc_first_ticket_for_a_traffic_offense_should_i\/","id":"bdej4s","body":"I accidentally ran a red light, got popped for it, this is my first offense in my six years of driving so far. \nI\u2019d really prefer to take the more painless route because I don\u2019t have a consistent job currently and I\u2019m barely making enough for groceries. If showing up at court and accepting responsibility could mean a lesser fine, if not the ticket being dropped, I\u2019d like to do so. Is that something that could happen here in NC?\nAlso, can someone explain why it\u2019s as steep as it is? To pay off the cuff is listed as $238- the base offense is 50, but then there\u2019s $188 in \u201cFees\u201d.","title":"[NC] First ticket for a traffic offense. Should I pay it off ahead of time or show up in court?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540943878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9stjtc\/im_confused_about_the_landlords_duty_to_give\/","id":"9stjtc","body":"Some quick background: I'm a woman and I used to live alone. This is also a throwaway account.\n\nI live in Washington (not Seattle) and I've read the state law saying that landlords need to give 48 hours notice before entering a premises. Does that also extend to service people for the complex? \n\nA year ago when I moved in I hadn't called for maintenance (they had visited the previous day to this event) because everything seemed to be running operationally. I woke up from dead sleep because I heard my shower curtain open. I live alone. Immediately I assume the worst and that I'm about to be raped in my own apartment. This was while I was moving from one apartment to another and I didn't move my bat yet so I grabbed my blowtorch ready to fire it in some random person's face.  I swung my door open and immediately got in a defensive stance. MY MAINTENANCE MAN SEES ME ABOUT TO BLOWTORCH HIM and throws his hands up in the air and starts apologizing profusely. Apparently he had knocked at my door earlier (it was like 8:30 am or something) and no one answered so he walked in. I cannot hear my doorbell if my bedroom door is shut so its highly unlikely I would have heard knocking while I was asleep.\n\nI went to my apartment's office and explained what had happened and they told me that they can't give tenant's phone numbers out to maintenance for tenant safety. Okayyyyyyyy. Later that same year I got a text from a maintenance guy while I was out of town asking if there were any more wasp nests he could take care of for me. ????\n\nSo I just went to my landlord's office again asking about that discrepancy and they told me that they can't give warning when maintenance is coming because they do their workorders in the order they are received and they just go. The lady I was speaking with offered to put my unit down as a \"text before\" unit if maintenance has to return to the unit after the initial maintenance. But they only message me 15 minutes before they were to arrive. If that. Is this legal? There is no mention of any of this maintenance bullshit in my lease at all so I'm deferring to the law.","title":"I'm confused about the landlord's duty to give warning before entering my apartment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550358949,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arebp5\/my_wifes_employer_is_changing_her_job_description\/","id":"arebp5","body":"My wife just had our first kid and her employer is changing her job description and decreasing her hours from 40 a week to 24. Is this illegal for them to do based on her having a baby? ","title":"My wife\u2019s employer is changing her job description and hours because she had a baby. Please help!","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552615916,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b195e2\/i_got_a_letter_from_a_firm_saying_my_i_have_money\/","id":"b195e2","body":"I don\u2019t believe this is a scam, I read reviews of the firm online and my mom thinks she know what they\u2019re talking about. The issue is I\u2019m not sure what bank the account is with, my mom and I are going to dig through some old documents and will probably be able to find out. She also thinks there might be other trust accounts other than the one this firm found so we will look into that. I don\u2019t want to pay the firm the 10% to claim it, and my name is changed from the one on the account (but I have my court order so I can show that to whoever I need to). My sisters all received similar letters so I\u2019m asking not heir behalf as well, how do we go about claiming this money?","title":"I got a letter from a firm saying my I have money in a 3rd party trust account with my (old name, it\u2019s been legally changed) and my deceased (20 years ago) father\u2019s name on it, I don\u2019t want to pay the firm to claim it, how do I go about claiming it myself?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541263460,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tvkrj\/could_being_punched_once_in_the_face_be\/","id":"9tvkrj","body":"A gay student at my school was apparently called a homophobic slur and punched in the face. Our school announced it as an \u201caggravated assault and battery\u201d, but unfortunately, they refuse to give any further information on the incident or on the condition of the student. ","title":"Could being punched once in the face be considered aggravated assault and battery?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444583797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oclqq\/ohfather_passed_away_shortly_after_buying_a_new\/","id":"3oclqq","body":"Hello \/r\/legaladvice, my father passed away recently but only a few weeks after buying a brand new Honda. He traded in his old car which he was paying off for a 2015 model.  I believe he owes 27k or so on it.  When I called Honda they gave me three options:\n\n1. Take over payments.\n2. Sell it and pay off the loan.\n3. Give it back to Honda and they would auction it. However if they didn't make up the money on the sale they would possibly come after the estate with the remaining amount.\n\nHere is my issue: Nobody in my family wants the car and Dad was the only person who signed on the loan, so I don't want my grieving Mother who is already dealing with large financial burdens to have to worry about Honda knocking on her door, and I would like to get this resolved as quickly as possible without opening door number 1 or 2. We have spoken to a lawyer but he wasn't much help with giving us an idea on how to proceed, he just said \"Don't make any payments on the car, and keep insurance on it until you figure out what to do.\"  So that is why I am here, I don't know what to do but what I would love to do is just give the car back to Honda.  One reason I am worried is that he dented the car's fender backing into the garage so I'm worried they won't get the full amount out of auctioning the car even though everything else about it screams brand new car, hell it still has the new car smell. However I am worried they will open an estate on my Dad even though there is no money left to even pay off whatever they want.\n\nHelp?\n\n**Edit** My father is the only name on the loan, my mother did not cosign it.","title":"(OH)Father passed away shortly after buying a new car, and nobody in the family wants it. What are my options?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1508467441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77jc2q\/adding_someone_to_my_lease\/","id":"77jc2q","body":"[21, F, FL] So I'm gonna have to go back a bit for context in this story. I'll summarize it as best as possible. My best friend and I decided we wanted to live together. May of this year she goes back home up north, while I look for a house for us to live in. While she is gone, a coworker of mine agrees to live with us. Because she is not here to sign the lease, my coworker and I end up signing it together. Fast forward to about two weeks ago, she decides she wants to move out for her own personal reasons. Since she's not on the lease I say fine. Whatever. Now we have a third room I'd like to rent out. My other roommate doesn't wanna rent it out to anyone. He's doing this as a way to sabotage me financially as he knows I cannot afford living in the house just the two of us. I need a third person. He says if I move someone in against his will he can have me evicted. I understand this as it's in the lease, but I also know I can write a letter to my landlord asking him if I can add someone to the lease. If my friends application is approved, does my current roommate have to be present with me when my friend is added to the lease? Or can it just be me since I'm the one submitting the letter to my landlord asking for approval? ","title":"Adding someone to my lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552196476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azcox2\/evicting_roommate\/","id":"azcox2","body":"going to the magistrate on Monday to file a dispossessory warrant against my roommate. I know I can\u2019t cut off utilities like electric\/heat. But can I change the WiFi password??\n\nHe\u2019s also been eating my food, can I put like a lock on the fridge lol. I don\u2019t think I\u2019d really do that but I\u2019m considering it.\n\nHe hasn\u2019t paid rent since December, stole my credit card and transferred money out of my savings account, detective is trying to get a warrant ","title":"evicting roommate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502916313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u4zf6\/usgafulton_can_a_landlords_erroneous_charge_of_a\/","id":"6u4zf6","body":"I had experienced an issue in my old apartment and the landlord agreed to waive the early termination penalty with a 60 day notice (in writing). After leaving, they sent me a final bill for:  \n\n[Final rent] \n-[my payment for final rent] \n+[Final month utilities]\n-[Security Deposit]\n+**[Early termination fee]**  \n\nI sent letters to the business manager, the regional manager, and customer service, notifying them of the incorrect charge, but they ignored the letter, said the refund is being processed (for months), and stated they don't know how to refund or who to contact in the company, respectively.  \n\nI filed a small claim for 3x the amount they owe me (acc. to part (c) [here](http:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/georgia\/2010\/title-44\/chapter-7\/article-2\/44-7-35)).  \n\n1. Is this article really appropriate, given that the root cause is the erroneous charge of the early termination fee?  \n2. The landlord just sent me a check for the amount they originally owed us (after just being served). If I cash this check, do I forfeit the remaining 2x of my claim? In other words, is this a trap and me cashing the check is likely to be construed as agreeing to a settlement?\n3. Part (c) of the article I referenced above states that if the defendant can prove that the withholding was unintentional, the defendant only owes 1x. How likely is that judgment, given that I tried to contact them after the erroneous charge?\n\n\n(I had previously posted some threads about this matter, but I don't think referencing them would help in the context of this post; they only related to technicalities of the forms I had to fill out at small claims.)\n","title":"[US-GA-Fulton] Can a landlord\u2019s erroneous charge of a lease termination penalty in the final balance be construed as not returning the security deposit if the security deposit is part of the final balance? Does cashing a partial check from the landlord, after being served, forfeit my claim?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443703701,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n3hce\/i_want_to_break_my_lease_because_there_is_a\/","id":"3n3hce","body":"I have 11 months to go in my lease with a huge corporate company in VA. My neighbor reported months ago a guy was stalking her that she didn't know. He would follow her home and wait outside the door. She would call the police and every time the guy managed to get away. He would say obscene stuff to her and one time tried to open her patio door. \n\n\nRecently, I was followed home by a guy who matches the same description. He made comments to me as well and walked so close to me I thought he was going to grab me. He ran away when another neighbor stepped off the bus and walked with me. I called the police and filed a report. \n\n\nI'm scared to leave my house alone now. Especially as Winter is coming and its dark when I leave for work and sometimes at night when I get home. \n\n\nI know there is a penalty of a few months rent to break my lease but I'm curious if I provide them with the police report, will they let me break my lease without paying all 3 months? Is there any legal recourse I have? \n\n\nAdditionally, a man I don't know was found sitting in my car a few months ago. My neighbor saw him come into our parking lot and go straight for my car. He sat in the drivers seat (I accidentally left it unlocked or he found the key fob that had fallen of my key chain a few weeks before) the cops were able to catch him and charge him with vehicle trespassing. So I have that report as well. \n\n\nI pay a ton in rent and I don't even feel safe in my apartment. ","title":"I want to break my lease because there is a peeper\/stalker harassing myself and my neighbor.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506469212,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72oeyw\/virginia_tenant_law_moved_out_of_a_very_small\/","id":"72oeyw","body":"Apologies in advance for the wall of text.. I tried to cut it down as best I could. Bolded the most basic questions!\n\nMy wife and I are currently being billed far beyond our security deposit and are currently at a loss as to how to move forward. \n\nWe moved out July 30th and due to a wedding across the country and work in the prior month, we were unable to bring the house up to the pristine condition that we typically have upon move out in any other rental in which we have lived (we have never had a problem with previous landlords). That being said, as someone who has experience working as a turnover worker for a property management company, I can very confidently say that the state of the unit was no where near as terrible as our former landlord is making it sound and the charges she has sent us are very unreasonable and seem to borderline fraudulent. \n\nWe swept, wiped down counters and sinks, vacuumed all carpets, scrubbed the majority of the bathroom with the exception of the shower floor (we scrubbed the shower walls) and emptied the house with the exception of one (maybe two) black contractor bags and a box of cleaning supplies. That being said, we expected to be charged for a quick cleaning by professional cleaners and expected a portion of our security deposit to be deducted as a result. Keep in mind that the unit is a very small house and approximately 750 sq. feet.\n\nHowever, last week we received a bill which outlined charges including 3.5 hours of dog hair removal at $40\/hr and 19.5 hours of 'extensive cleaning' at $25\/hr (distinct from dog hair removal) done by \"cleaner #1\" and a later charge of $340 \"as billed\" by \"cleaner #2.\" We reached out to her for clarification as to what services were rendered during the 19.5 hours that \"cleaner #1\" was allegedly in the unit and requested photos of the unit and invoices from both cleaners. We were surprised to find out that the \"cleaner #1\" was the landlord herself who, in response to our request, offered no details as to what was actually done over her 19.5 hours of 'extensive cleaning' and did not offer any response to our request for photographs of the unit prior to cleaning. Instead, she only offered a description of how disappointed and shocked she was and how our unit was in the worst shape of any unit she's ever seen.\n\n**Is it legal in VA for a landlord to charge an hourly rate for their own services (especially when they also hire an outside company to do the same work)? She is not a professional cleaner, refuses to describe the specific cleaning services she rendered and I absolutely do not buy her accounting of 23 hours of cleaning prior to hiring a professional crew who then charged $340. She has not yet provided photos of the unit before cleaning.**\n\nIn the bill we received, she charged us for an inexplicable 11 boxes of items and 4 bags of trash (and their removal) for a total of $420. We are certain that there was nowhere near the quantity of items left behind that she has charged us for. Looking into things, we were very disturbed to see that she had publicly posted a long rant on facebook expressing resentment towards the privilege of her tenants and college students in general and specifically alluded to our unit (mentioning the box of cleaning supplies and other identifying details about the unit) and remarked that we \"had left 3 or 4 boxes of household items\" behind.\n\n**Is there any actionable conclusion that can be drawn from this contradiction? I have not yet informed her of my archiving of her post, instead telling her that we would believe a charge for 3 boxes could be more appropriate and asking her to explain what the 11 boxes contained. She did not respond to this request.**\n\nI could go on to describe other details of the bill that don't add up but I believe that:\n\n1. landlord's own hourly charges for allegedly spending an unexplained 23 hours of cleaning prior to hiring a professional cleaning company coupled with,\n\n2. her self-incrimination in overcharging us (charging for 11 removed boxes while posting about removing 3 or 4 in a facebook rant about how privileged her tenants are) puts us in a good position to resist the bill?\n\nI archive.is'd the facebook post in which she contradicts her invoice but am unsure as to the best course of action moving forward. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! \n\nThank you so much for taking the time to read this!","title":"[Virginia Tenant Law] Moved out of a very small house. Landlord sent an exorbitant invoice for 23 hours of cleaning services which she claims to have done before hiring and also billing for professional cleaners to clean the house. Facebook rant also reveals gross overcharge for box removal.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539113643,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ms9lx\/is_freelancing_legal\/","id":"9ms9lx","body":"Actually, I'm pretty sure [freelancing](https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freelancer) is legal, I'm not sure if I fulfill the requirements to work as a freelancer or if it is legal in my situation though. \n\nSo here is my situation: I'm 16 years old and I'd like to work and make some pocket money as a programmer in my spare time. Obviously, there's no way someone will ever hire a random teenager in programming industry **unless** you: don't care about his age, your project is small, you're not willing to pay lots of money and\/or the guy's portofilio has quite some cool stuff that might attract you. Those things are by the way what being a freelancer implies (pretty much).\n\nThe thing is that I'm not entirely sure how all the money stuff is going on. I might need a paypal account, which is relatively easy to do, assuming that my brother or one of my parents will create a card to store money or something, but I don't really know what else should I take care off.\n\nOh, and by the way, I'm living in Romania. My target is anyone who'd like my services (most likely not other romanians), including people that are not from Europe.\n\nThanks in advance!\nIf you any questions, let me know! :) ","title":"Is freelancing legal?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507430533,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74za74\/or_my_roommates_are_crazy_and_need_to_go\/","id":"74za74","body":"My roommates are a married couple, and fight pretty frequently. Last night I came home and their fight was going over the line. I could hear then getting physical, so my other roommate and I stepped in and separated them. The man tried to fight me and we had to wrestle him to the ground. He also tried to fight a neighbor who asked what was going on. After the fact I found out she had pulled a knife and threatened to kill herself. He grabbed the knife and sliced his hand super bad.\n\nThey need to go, my question is how do I legally get them out. I live in Portland proper and know that renters rights are strict. They aren't on my lease and pay me rent in cash. Thanks in advance for any help.","title":"[OR] My roommates are crazy and need to go.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570130557,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcvozd\/i_fl_purchased_nude_photos_from_a_woman_mo_did\/","id":"dcvozd","body":"Hopefully this does not seem like a joke, or in bad taste.  \n\n\nSeptember 12, me and a friend were discussing somebody we mutually know but are not close with. He said he found her attractive, and suggested we try to buy nude photos from her.  \n\n\nI contact the seller and negotiate in my friend's name. I make it a point to consistently treat my friend as a \"client\", who I am acting as an intermediary for (as he's a bit inept at stuff like this). It is made clear (not implicitly, explicitly stated) that the naked photos are primarily for him, but that I would be looking at them as well. It is stated that the money is coming from me directly, but that the transaction is for my friend. I give her $210 for her electric bill, to be exchanged for naked photos. She says it is $100 more, and the electric bill was a separate thing. I hesitantly accept paying $100 more, with it being made clear prior (by her) that it would be for a total of 50 naked photos of her and perhaps her girlfriend. She accepts payment and states it would take a while, as she wanted to get various angles\/outfits. I accept these conditions.  \n\n\nA few days pass, and she states that for $100 she would make a generic video with her girlfriend. This offer is rejected. She later offers $200 for an anything-goes girlfriend video, and it is rejected.\n\nA few days later, she asks if there is anything I would personally want to spend $200 on her for, and I tell her I would think about it. the day after, I am drunk and tell her something to the extent of, \"I am drunk, but here is $200 for a video with your girlfriend, to be sent to my friend\". She reads the message but does not make further conversation.  \n\n\nSep 25., she makes a Facebook post saying that somebody was talking about her sending nudes, but that in reality she had a scam to get $500 by agreeing to send nudes. I contact her about this and she says that since her girlfriend was embarrased, she lied about it being a scam but still intended to deliver.  \n\n\nThis brings us to this past Friday, when she said her phone broke but that all of the photos were on iCloud and that she would send them promptly. On Monday she says that only 20 were recovered and that she would send that immediately. My friend contacts me that she sent 12 photos, of which most were visibly from a third person (as evidenced by tattoos visible), and 3 were already publicly visible on her facebook profile (and non-nude).  \n\n\nI'm thinking about contacting her about this as at this point it has been about 3 weeks, but I'm not sure what steps I should take or if I should even get into legal territory. While there are not signatures or anything, I'm pretty sure it falls into contract law (since it was a transaction), but I could be wrong. Any advice would be appreciated and if this is not the best place, please redirect my small brain to the correct one. Thank you in advance.","title":"I (FL) Purchased nude photos from a woman (MO), did not receive full agreement (NSFW)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570807694,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dggrsw\/is_signing_over_rights_worth_it\/","id":"dggrsw","body":"Will I still have to pay child support if I sign over my rights. Child does not want anything to do with me or my family even went as far as lying to her mom who called cps only to have it back fire because they found out she was lying never heard anything back from cps about that either. The mother has changed her number and moved I have no way of contacting them but she goes to the AG to try to get child support. Previous to all this she sent me to court to get more Child support lost and we agreed on 50\/50 but she never signed or payed her attorneys fees so nothing got changed even tho we were doing the 50\/50 for 3 years no problem but now I owe all this Child support when I had her equally for 3 years and I just had a new baby and they are threatening me with court for non payment.","title":"Is signing over rights worth it?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444931786,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ovuo9\/uhc_insurance_problems_tx\/","id":"3ovuo9","body":"I cross-posted in r\/healthinsurance as well, and I'm really sorry that this is a giant, giant wall of text. I've provided a TL\/DR at the bottom.\n\nBack in November, I signed up with UHC through the Marketplace for 2015. In February, I realized that I'd never received anything from them in the mail. No welcome package, no information, no insurance card. Nothing. I had received an email originally with information about how to pay in their separate billing portal (of course), but that was pretty much it. I would sign in and pay and receive a confirmation that I had paid, but this was all the contact from UHC that I received.\n\nI called UHC, and we realized that the problem was that they had left my building number off of the address. They tell me that they can't change my address; I have to call the Marketplace to change my address. I call the Marketplace and they say that they only change address if I change postal code. In addition, they have my address listed correctly! I call UHC- they repeat the same line. I call Marketplace- they repeat what they'd told me before. After six or seven phone calls, I finally get someone at UHC to sit with me while we call the Marketplace. The Marketplace explains to UHC about the rules- even reading rules straight to them, but UHC says they need Marketplace to resend them my address anyway. Marketplace says they'll actually have to renew my application to resend it, but we walk through the process.\n\nAfter another month passes, I still haven't received anything. So I call back. UHC did apparently receive information, but it still doesn't show the building number. My guess at this point is that Marketplace puts in addresses in two fields- first part is street number and name, second part is building number or additional info. UHC doesn't recognize or doesn't grab this second part. They say they'll escalate the issue. \n\nThis pattern continues- where I call once a month to check and see what they can do. They basically say nothing- we'll pass this to someone else to look at it. \n\nLuckily, I'm a healthy lady in my 30s, and I only had to see a doctor once during this time, and I had to print out a temporary card in the online portal after I called and had them give me all the information I needed to sign up for the online portal (again- this is different than the billing portal). \n\nOn July 4th, I realize that when I paid my bills recently, I forgot to pay the insurance, so I sign into the billing portal to pay. For whatever reason, I decide to poke around a little in the portal, and I open up one overview screen and I see that it says \"Account Terminated for Inactivity: 3\/31\/15.\" I look into the other portal and sure enough it says Account Ended 4\/30\/15. (I have no idea why it shows a month discrepancy between the two). I freak out. Try to call both UHC and Marketplace, but both are closed because it is the 4th of July. \n\nI hate the idea that I don't have insurance, and that if a major accident had happened... I would have been screwed. Looking at all my information and how terrible UHC has been this whole time, I decide that I'm going to call Marketplace and see if I can get different insurance. \n\nI call on 7\/6\/15. Marketplace says that I can't sign up in non sign up time period even though UHC terminated my account. Luckily, my boyfriend and I had recently bought a house, and I CAN sign up for new insurance based on the move. Weird, but okay. I sign up for Humana, but it doesn't go into effect until 8\/1\/15. I know about emergency short term insurance (I used it during job search after graduate school), so I called BCBS and sign up for four weeks of short term insurance starting that same day. \n\nThen I call UHC. They confirm that my account was terminated for non-activity. They can't explain further. They give no helpful information. They agree this probably has to do with the awful address issue (maybe my mail was being returned? I have no idea). I point out that I have made payments AFTER my account was terminated. I ask for a full refund (I'm pissed- and I even realize this is unrealistic), and after much discussion they say I am eligible for a refund on the money that I paid after my account was terminated. They tell me that the refund process takes a lot of time (sometimes up to a month) but they give me a reference number. I hear nothing, but I call back on 7\/26, and they say it's still being reviewed. \n\nI call back in August twice, and same. Each time I call back, I walk through the whole thing- the address issue- the termination- my refund request for amounts paid after account terminated. Each time they go through my information and agree that they are seeing the same things and that my refund is just being processed. I call back on September 22nd. This time... the woman is super helpful, and she puts me on hold to go talk with a supervisor. We stay on the phone for about 45 minutes total, she comes back a few times to verify information, and finally she tells me that my refund has been approved and I should see the money returned into my account within 5-10 business days. \n\nYesterday, I realized that I still haven't seen the money. I call back. The woman who answers says that I should call my bank (Ehhhh????) to see what's happened, and I tell her I won't until she confirms that my refunds have been sent. I ask for a deposit or invoice number (admittedly, I'm only guessing at this point that it would even have a deposit or invoice number). She tells me she can't, but she'll send me to a billing manager. I'm put on hold for about twenty minutes (weirdly, she comes back twice to \"see if I'm still on the line\"). Finally, the billing manager comes on the line, and asks \"How can I help you?\"\n\nI'm a little pissy that I have to go through the whole story again, but I do. At this point... everything changes. She says that her screens tell her that I terminated my account with UHC through the Marketplace on 7\/31\/15. I am not eligible for a refund because I just paid like normal up until I cancelled my account. I sign into the billing portal where I'd originally gotten the account terminated message, and it has been changed completely to show what she is saying. \n\nI'm... furious. I blow up. I try to avoid yelling or cursing, but I say that they've changed the information. I ask her why I would have called on 7\/6\/15 and 7\/26 to start this if I cancelled with the Marketplace four weeks in the future. She keeps with her line over and over again. She says I called on 7\/6\/15 to cancel. I ask her why I've gotten a different story the past five times I've called. She says she shows in her notes every time I called, the only thing that was notated is that I called to check on my refund request. I tell her I have a screenshot showing the original termination. She tells me I can send it to them, but I have to follow a \"complicated process\" to email it. I ask for the contact information for UHC's legal team because I won't drop this. \n\nAt this point, she says... Hold on... and asks for me to give her two days to review further. She asks for me to send the screenshot to the uhc email address AND her UHC email address and walks me through the \"complicated process,\" which is just to use the case reference number and attach the screenshot. \n\nUnfortunately, the screenshot I have is the one from the healthcare portal (not billing portal), which shows Account Ended 4\/30\/15. I do not have a record of the one saying \"Account Terminated: 3\/31\/15.\" I am totally kicking myself for not having saved that. I send it along. Now I'm just waiting to see what happens next. \n\nAny advice for what to do? Unfortunately, I can't go back in time and record the September 22nd conversation (or any prior). The money I'm asking in refund is less than $1000, but that's a pretty big chunk of change for me. I'm also just furious with how I've been treated this entire time, and I don't want to just drop it and let them get away with this super unethical tactic. \n\nTL\/DR: Insurance company never gets my address right. They terminate my account. I don't know they terminate my account, so I continue paying. Finally find out about account termination, and ask for a refund for the money I paid after my account was terminated. They process for a long time and then finally say yes to refund. Refund doesn't show up, and when I called back yesterday.... they have changed their tune altogether, changed their data, and now say my account was never terminated, I chose to cancel, and my refund is denied. I have a screenshot that does support my side of the story, but that's it.\n","title":"UHC Insurance Problems (TX)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446247506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qwky3\/coloradolandlord_trying_to_add_new_lease_terms\/","id":"3qwky3","body":"I'm in Colorado Springs, Colorado and have a somewhat new lease with my landlord for a year. Recently he has talked about adding new terms. Specifically about him being able to terminate the lease early by giving me 60 days notice. Is this legal? The lease did include a line saying he can \"create new rules by the landlord as new situations arise.\"\n\nI told him this is a bit more than a house rule and changing the terms of a legal document like this requires my consent as well. He then said that \"Colorado state law requires termination terms in any sort of rental agreement policy\" and this is why he's adding a new termination policy. Is that even a real law? The original document did NOT have any sort of term for him ending the lease early, but it DID say if I wanted to terminate it I had to give at least 30 days notice.\n\nTurns out he's possibly getting married and looks like he just wants an easy way to terminate the lease early if need be for the new wife!\n\nAny advice? Thanks in advance!","title":"[Colorado]Landlord Trying to Add New Lease Terms","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442268404,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kysli\/required_notice_of_intent_to_vacate_missouri\/","id":"3kysli","body":"Hey guys,\n\nLooking for advice about a situation that reared its head today. This may be a long explanation but I think that I am correct and am looking for some guidance.\n\nBasically, I went to my leasing office (Missouri) about a and a half ago about the necessary steps to extend my lease a few days as I am being relocated for a job. On february 27,2015 I signed a 7 month lease that has a defined lease term (2\/27\/2015 - 9\/25\/2015). I went to the office to see if I could extent my lease to October 8th for a easier transition for my relocation. The lady told me to send an email saying that I would want to do that and I am required to give a 30 day notice of intent to vacate.\n\nI completed the notice on September 8th. Today, I got a call from a different employee that says I have to do a 60 day notice and cited the lease. The lease does in fact say 60 days. Although I didn't do my due diligence, I think I still have a compelling argument.\n\nUpon looking up my state's legislation, It shows that a notice of intent to vacate is not necessary if the end date is explicitly stated in the lease. The front office is sticking to their guns that I have to pay that extra months rent in order for my notice on 9\/8 to be 60 days. I showed the office the Missouri Legislature section ([Here](http:\/\/www.moga.mo.gov\/mostatutes\/stathtml\/44100000701.html))  that says this is not true. \n\nI'm not sure what my next steps should be. Should I contact the office of the lawyers for my properties? Should I just move out on the date at the end of my lease (9\/25)? I would do this but I don't want to lose my deposit. The 2nd employee mentioned that if I did that, my deposit would just go towards the remaining rent. Any help would be greatly appreciated.\n\nThanks.","title":"Required notice of intent to vacate (Missouri)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569314539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8kcvb\/i_handed_my_pcp_car_back_and_garage_is_now_saying\/","id":"d8kcvb","body":"So i handed my car which i had on a PCP contract back a couple months ago. I'd already paid 9 months of my service plan for the year however the Service and MOT fell due after i handed the car back. The Garage are now saying i have to pay the remaining 3 months and pay for the MoT for the car. Is this my responsibility to pay even though the car is no longer under my name on the V5?","title":"I handed my PCP car back and garage is now saying i still have to pay for this years MOT and Service even though they fall due after i handed it back. UK based if that makes a difference","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1441735450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k4eke\/landlordroommate_locked_me_out_and_wont_let_me\/","id":"3k4eke","body":"Williamsburg, MI\nI'm going to try to present this as unbias as possible.\n\nI got a job in Traverse City and had to move quick, so I found a place on craigslist that was good. I talked to the person renting it out and we both agreed that we could get along for a short time that i would be there; and that in total it would be 550$ in rent for a month. I said that it was not permanent since I was moving again sometime in early fall when my SO came up. They were more then ok with this. There was no lease or contracted signed.\n\nWell I was terminated in the first 90 days but I have lived there for more than a month. I took a break and went to visit my SO and decided the best option was for me to move back home and get a job and save up a bit. I told the roommate\/landlord that i would be leaving and will pay them the days that I stayed for this month (about half rent) and will move out this weekend friday and saturday.\n\nThey came back to me stating I now owe them 1100$ in cash, for two more months, by thursday and have to have everything out by them if I want my stuff back (still in Ohio with my boyfriend till my parents can come help me pick up my things from there to move). The condo we shared is on a resort property that their family bought for them that has a hotel type key system. they told me my key doesnt work anymore and that is that. \n\nWhat can i do? I dont want to draw this out nor have the time for it, but i want to go as civilly as possible without paying for two months of rent which was never agreed on! Am i in the wrong? I just want my things back ","title":"Landlord\/Roommate Locked me out and won't let me retrieve my things to move","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570890670,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgvvd6\/death_by_school_negligence_and_child_idiotic\/","id":"dgvvd6","body":"If A Child Dies or is seriously injured by the schools teachers not being there to oversee the child, and the child it at fault by breaking school rules(running in the hall, not being where they should be etc).  \nCan the parents of the seriously injured or dead child Sue the school?\n I'm not very sure as both are at fault since the child was breaking the rules and by doing so got harm which should not hold the school liable. But the school should be in charge of the child's safety.","title":"Death by school negligence and child idiotic actions","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540088105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pzzcu\/dealership_sold_me_car_told_me_no_previous_wreck\/","id":"9pzzcu","body":" Dealership sold me a car (End of May '18), told me it was accident free and I still have the carfax that says no previous incidents. I had the car appraised at Carmax today(Oct.20) and the records they pulled show a previous accident with major body work. What are my options? \n\ncross posted from \/personalfinance that directed me here.","title":"Dealership sold me car told me no previous wreck, I now have proof it had previous wreck","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554591595,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baa1m9\/nj_customer_is_suing_because_i_refused_to_service\/","id":"baa1m9","body":"I own a popular restaurant that specializes in seafood dishes and Korean bbq. Due to different recipes, the marinade for the meat and other side dishes contain seafood ingredients such as small shrimps. We place warning signs about the seafood ingredients on the walls but a  year ago, a customer went into anaphylactic shock because of a shellfish allergy. As a result, we politely refuse to serve customers who notify us of any seafood allergy. \n\nA customer came in a couple months ago and informed us of a shrimp allergy. The waitress politely informed him that the only foods he would be able to order would be rice and salad as the meat was marinated with seafood ingredients. He demands for a substitution and to see the manager so I come out and repeat what she said. He took out his phone and started recording the conversation and refuses to leave. Eventually I had to call the police to escort him out. \n\nToday I was informed that I was being sued for refusing service due to a disability. I honestly didn\u2019t believe it so I called the lawyer to confirm that yes, I really am being sued. Do allergies count as disability and am I really liable for trying to protect the customer? Do I need a lawyer and what kind? This is just so ridiculous that I can\u2019t wrap my head around the situation. ","title":"(NJ) Customer is suing because I refused to service based on his allergy.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539024859,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mhqsk\/am_i_required_to_pay_rent_for_a_joint_property\/","id":"9mhqsk","body":"My deceased mother left her property in CA, (already paid for) in a trust for my brother and me.  We are joint owners.  Do I need my brothers\u2019 permission to move in to the vacant house and do I have to pay him rent?  He demands that I pay rent, and that I agree to pay for maintenance and repairs, out of my pocket. Also, he has asked for proof that I intend to buy his half of the property.\n\nAlso, the property is currently in probate, because my mother had a joint tenant in common, who is also now deceased. I recorded the affidavit death of joint trustee, in error.  His survivors are not claiming inheritance of the property.\n\nWhat are my rights and options?","title":"Am I required to pay rent for a joint property?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571423705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djrqk1\/hypothetical_kinda_would_my_girlfriend_have_a\/","id":"djrqk1","body":"So this just happened to my girlfriend a few hours ago, but we both work at a private transport company providing ambulance level care. So the way that it works is that there is a pair of people one driver and technician who operate the ambulance for a 12 hour shift. So my girlfriend was paired with a driver who she had trouble working with in the past. The driver seems to have an attitude problem when it comes to working with women. I\u2019ve worked with the girl before and she has said directly to me \u201coh, I don\u2019t work well with other females. I hate doing it\u201d. In the past my girlfriend has been paired with her before and reported not working well with her to a supervisor who apparently didn\u2019t document that issue. So today my girlfriend gets paired with her again and has the same issues with this girl again and then requested to be re-partnered with someone else to avoid conflict throughout the day. The dispatch supervisor agrees to this and had them comeback to base. Once there the operations manager confronts my girlfriend and apparently berates her to the point where she\u2019s in tears telling her she needs to \u201cthis isn\u2019t middle school suck it up. We\u2019re busy you can\u2019t just have a new partner because you don\u2019t get along\u201d and then sent her home without pay. So what I want to know is if my girlfriend were to be terminated or partnered with this girl again would she have a case for a hostile work environment?\n\nTL;DR\nMy girlfriend didn\u2019t wanna be stuck in an ambulance for 12 hours with a partner she didn\u2019t get along with and got berates for it by her supervisor and sent home. Is it a hostile work environment if she gets fired or partnered with this person again?\n\nP.S.\nSorry for formatting on mobile and bad at English and grammar and all that","title":"HYPOTHETICAL (kinda) would my girlfriend have a hostile work environment case? (Maryland)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552953005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2pzqx\/my_father_fled_the_country_while_a_divorce_and_a\/","id":"b2pzqx","body":"For context, my father, 53, was discovered having an affair for almost 20 years. My mother, 56, decided to file for a divorce. We retained a well-known local attorney. In mid September last year, a sheriff served  my father the papers. He did not take it well. When my mother came home later that day, he attempted to assault her. I was forced to restrain him until the police arrived. He spent the night at the station and my mother's lawyer was able to get an emergency order of protection in place until a hearing. That hearing was on October 5th and the order of protection was extended for 2 years. I was informed by the state prosecutor that I would receive a subpoena for the next court date, but I have yet to receive anything since. I assume the case is still ongoing. \n\nHowever, the divorce case has been proceeding in the background. Except he has been less then willing in responding to my mother's lawyers (late in submitting financial affidavit, request for production of documents, 213 matrimonial interrogatories, etc). But recently we been alerted by a family friend of a concerning development. That my father has left his job of 25+ years, withdrawn his entire 401k, and fled to Mexico. I have no idea what this means for the divorce\/domestic violence case or what kind of trouble he has just put himself in. We set up an appointment with my mother's lawyer to discuss our options (I will update this post after we see him). \n\nAs of now, my plan (besides seeing the lawyer) is going to the Courthouse and speak to the state prosecutor. I also plan on going to my father's former place of work and speaking to his managers, hopefully he told them something useful but that's pretty much it. So I was hoping the attorneys, law students, legal sleuths on this subreddit could offer their opinions and maybe some advice. Thanks.\n\nTL;DR My father fled to Mexico with pretty much all his money during the middle of divorce and domestic violence proceedings. My mother and I are going to see her attorney tomorrow. How do things look for us?","title":"My father fled the country while a divorce AND a criminal case is ongoing. What are our options?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541703975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vcvfy\/nc_apartment_ceiling_constantly_leaking_and_not\/","id":"9vcvfy","body":"Every time there is rain or any kind of water (today it was caused by power washing), the ceiling in our laundry room leaks. We are in a terrace level apartment. There are 3 floors above us and we are down a level from the parking lot. Each time this happens, I call the office and they send maintenance out. They look for 5 seconds, tell us to let it dry for 3 days, and then they'll come back to paint. Just paint, to cover the stains, not actually to fix anything. They never come back. I've started emailing to have correspondence in writing and get no reply. The first time this happened was during last year's hurricane season and obviously high wind and rain. We were told the space between the floor and the front door of the apartment above us was where the water was seeping in and causing the leak and there was nothing they could do about it. The next time was during this years back to back hurricanes and we called the emergency line because there were literal gallons of water coming in and we have a toddler and a newborn living here. The maintenance guy basically asked my husband if it was really *that* bad and if it was cool if he came in the morning instead and told us to put a bucket out. Promised he would be there first thing at 8am, didn't show til the afternoon. The dome over the light fixture has been off since this first happened a year ago because they tell us not to replace it ourselves every time but they never do either. \n\nThis, along with all the other issues (mold in ceiling vents, our AC overflowing and flooding our toddlers closet 3 days after we moved in, the AC above us overflowing and raining into our kitchen [maintenance actually said to us it was the tenants fault for not having their AC serviced as they should], the transom above our front door leaking when it rains, trashy neighbors upstairs pouring bacon grease and trash from the third floor onto our patio) has really killed this place for us and we want to leave ASAP. \n\nI'm wondering if \"well is the cement upstairs and basically we'd have to tear it all our and repour it level and then seal it and that would be so expensive and time consuming so, sucks, but its gonna leak\" falls under not providing a livable apartment. OR if they do repair this, but it continues to happen as I feel it will, will they be able to take our security deposit for the damages?\n\nPhotos: http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/OmcjkdQ\n\n","title":"[NC] Apartment ceiling constantly leaking and not being repaired.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553926148,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b77wwb\/rounding_time_clock\/","id":"b77wwb","body":"Sorry if the flair is incorrect. \n\nMy work has let us clock in and out with a 7 minute buffer and we get paid the same because our time clock rounds to the nearest 15 minutes.  \n\nRecently they have started punishing of we clock in after :00 and if we clock out before :30 while keeping the rounding pay the same. \n\nIs it legal in Springfield,  Oregon for them to round our pay and punish us if we try to utilize it?\n\n (Essentially always rounding down unless we punch in on the dot or get punished)","title":"Rounding time clock","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552431774,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0egvg\/is_there_any_way_i_a_14_year_old_can_choose_who_i\/","id":"b0egvg","body":"My parents got divorced almost 5+ years ago, and they have had shared parenting since I am wondering if there is any way possible to live primarily with my dad rather than my mom. My mom is anti-vax and seems to be against technology and looses her sh\\*\\* when I am using a computer too much no matter what I am doing this includes homework. Is there anyway that at 14 I can stay at my dad primarily.\n\n​\n\nall help is appreciated","title":"Is there any way I a 14 year old can choose who I want to live with","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571277166,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dizi8f\/va_usa_apartment_complex_is_requesting_utility\/","id":"dizi8f","body":"My apartment complex has requested that I release my utility data, along with my usernames and passwords, to a 3rd party utility company. There are several sections that suggest this is voluntary but it doesn\u2019t not state it explicitly. My worry is the use of my data and potential violation of privacy. Am I legally obligated to sign off on this?","title":"[VA, USA] Apartment complex is requesting utility data.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569695171,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dajryg\/wa_landlord_is_trying_to_weasel_their_way_out_and\/","id":"dajryg","body":"I'll do me best to be brief.\nAn about a year ago we had some leaking issues in the bathroom. They did a crap job fixing it and it began leaking again. In January they completely replaced the shower lining and fixed it. None of this was said to be our fault. A month or so later I noticed a segment of wall right next to the tub was swelling and quite soft, more rot. Landlord said they would fix it but they were having trouble getting a contractor at the time. \n\nThis last week the water heater leaked everywhere, Landlord replaced it. A couple days ago someone from the property company came over to inspect the damage to the floor and determined it would need to be replaced. While they were here they noticed that the last ring on the shower curtain had come undone. They immediately (I kid you not) claimed that this was proof that the wall rotting is our fault because we \"clearly don't close the shower curtain all the way when we shower\"). They are now saying they will not fix the wall and it will come out of our deposit when we leave. \n\nWhat are my options? How can I push back?","title":"(WA) Landlord is trying to weasel their way out and pin a repair on me they said they would do back in March.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508197114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76ullq\/landlord_growing_marijuana_plant_on_property\/","id":"76ullq","body":"Hello everyone,\nMoved into current rented house less than 2 months ago. We've got about 3 acres and it's in a fairly rural area with few neighbors (Oklahoma). \nOn a walk with my dog and son, I found a marijuana plant. \nMy landlord comes every couple of days to feed some feral cats he has out here and he came today so I watched him through the blinds and he went over and checked on the plant. \n\nI do smoke pot, but smoking and growing are two different things. If the cops were to find this I would be in prison for a while. My question is if I call the police and report him, how easily will it turn around on me? With how big it is I think it's pretty obvious that we didnt plant it as, like I said, we've only been here almost two months. \nSecond question is, what happens to our rental agreement if he gets busted? I assume the police seize the property, which leaves us out of a home.\nThird question is, what options do I have here besides confronting him and him punishing us some way or calling the cops?\n\nThanks in advance. ","title":"Landlord growing marijuana plant on property. Illegal state.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539556841,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o73zl\/i_havent_been_paid_for_homework_i_have_done_for\/","id":"9o73zl","body":"Sorry for formatting\/grammar I am on mobile. \nI am a college student at a university. I was looking to make some extra money during the semester, so I logged on the the app 5 mile. On this app I saw someone posted an ad looking for someone to do their homework in exchange for money. I accepted the offer and completed multiple modules of online homework for this individual. In the beginning everything was running smoothly. I was paid on time for the modules I completed. Until I finished the last module(note this was the longest and hardest module in which I charged more for).  It is also important to note that this was an online course to obtain your HS diploma in Texas. I also only completed the modules for Math and English. When it came time to pay me I was given \u201coh I forgot\u201d and \u201c hold on let me pay you when\u201d etc etc. I have made multiple attempts to remind them, but have no luck. I wanted to make sure I make the right moves before I attempt to write the app or write their school. Could this also affect me at my school? I have all of our conversations screen shotted and was only paid through Apple Pay. I also realize it is shitty to do someone\u2019s homework for them, but I really needed the money. Overall my concern is, should I let this go or try to get my money? \n\nTLDR: I did some online modules for money . Online modules where for a HS diploma. Competed modules. They have not paid me. ","title":"I haven\u2019t been paid for homework I have done for another individual.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1542238799,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x5jmu\/if_i_dont_have_a_will_does_my_family\/","id":"9x5jmu","body":"Hi,\n\nI\u2019m wondering if in the case I DONT have a will what happens & is it automatically my next of kin that would be notified upon my passing\/if I got into an accident? \n\nI pretty much do not want my family to be notified\/have anything to do with my estate, inherit anything or have any say in my medical treatment should I be unresponsive from an injury or be able to have my physical remains etc. & I am also wanting a DNR (do not resuscitate in Canada) in case I am in a bad accident or near death. \n\nShould I be getting a will or is there an alternative? Please advise as I\u2019m really not sure what I should be arranging for myself. Any\/all thoughts r much appreciated! Thanks! ","title":"If I don\u2019t have a will, does my family automatically get my estate?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445095489,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p4blk\/md_forged_a_signature_on_a_private_companys\/","id":"3p4blk","body":"It was my first job in a GLP analytical laboratory. I forged a signature on one of the documents in order to save time and get off of work on time. The signature was reported to management, and as a result I was fired for falsifying documents. Talking to management, I came clean about what I did.\n\nI have a few questions.\nThis is my first job, I now have no income, and I have no property. I am aware that forgery for documents directly involving money can get you jail time, but my forgery has led to the company incurring some losses. On employment, I signed a mutual agreement to mediate and arbitrate claims. We have already discussed the situation, and it has led to my dismissal. Can and will the private company sue me knowing that they can win with my testimony? Is my unemployment their sole interest or can they come back a month from now and slap me with a lawsuit?","title":"[MD] Forged a signature on a private company's documents.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568843614,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d64evo\/how_to_get_away\/","id":"d64evo","body":"My girlfriend needs to get away from her family her family is terrible but her parents are hiding all her paper but she needs the papers so that she can get emancipated. How can she get she get away legally? Please help if you need more information please ask. Thank you!","title":"How to get away?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569962093,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbzdu1\/my_landlord_might_reject_my_esaservice_dog_in\/","id":"dbzdu1","body":"I have been able to go therapy after years, and have been diagnosed with severe PTSD and major depressive disorder. I am about to get a dog with the means to train it for abilities. It will be an ESA until I've successfully trained it to do tasks regarding my PTSD.\n\nI contacted my landlord who doesn't allow dogs, and they said it was fine as long as my therapist gave a letter and approved the 504 Reasonable Accommodation forum. \n\nI just got an email from them stating he is concerned about how I live in a 1bdr apartment, have two cats, two adults, and then a large dog. The dog is not large, he is 30 lbs. He is also not an wildly energetic or herding breed. I also have rehomed one of the non-mellow cats to my room mate's sister back in August, which when I applied for the apartment, we told them we would be rehoming him soon.\n\nI replied back stating those things. Does anyone have any opinions or advice? I need a dog, I've had good responses\/feedback to therapy dogs regarding my ptsd symptoms. My therapist and psychologist highly suggest it. I don't know if I'm wrong or not. I've had dogs when I was younger, took good care of them, I'm not terrible. \n\nAlso these apartments really aren't fancy. I came into the place with the floors cracked, walls unpainted and cracking, it stank of cigarettes, people smoke weed constantly, the people are very loud, and I had dealt with bed bugs the first two months.","title":"My landlord might reject my ESA\/service dog in training?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446669031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rje09\/oregon_remarriage_to_ex_how_do_we_drop\/","id":"3rje09","body":"My ex and I are getting remarried and we are trying to figure out the steps we need to take to nullify our divorce decree. Primarily we want to end support payments, but would also like to have everything else in the decree nullified.\n\nWe contacted the lawyer we used to handle the divorce originally, but he was unable to advise us together due to legal reasons of being a mediator. He did, however, offer to officiate since he's also ordained. Talk about irony!\n\nThanks in advance for any help!","title":"[Oregon] Remarriage to ex - How do we drop spousal\/child support? How do we nullify our divorce decree?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554911394,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbnl6f\/car_title_and_licensing_moving_from_one_state_to\/","id":"bbnl6f","body":"Hi, I recently moved from Minnesota to Iowa. I bought a car in Minnesota as a Minnesota resident and had to make an unexpected move back to Iowa about a week after due to a rough life change. I got my receipt of purchase and interim title from the Minnesota DOT, but not the official title. \n\nI went to my county licensing center in Iowa and they told me they would need me to have the full title in order to register my car down here. The Minnesota DOT website said it can take up to 6 months for the title to come through, and the current Minnesota registration will only last until June. I have never purchased a car before so I don\u2019t even know how this should work normally. Does anyone know what my options are so I can make sure I\u2019m not driving illegally? \n\n[Just to clarify, I am currently assuming I am okay to drive this car under its Minnesota licensing (I have valid insurance). ]","title":"Car title and licensing moving from one state to another shortly after purchase","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568926027,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6k2gy\/cease_and_desist\/","id":"d6k2gy","body":"Hi!\n\nRecently I have left a company that was started by myself and 1 other individual. We brought out speakers and basically did business conferences. \n\nI ended up leaving the company after the owner\/president (I was the VP) went back on an agreement to pay myself as well as saying some other stuff behind closed doors that triggered some red flags. \n\nAfter leaving, the President has done some crazy stuff such as; offering me a job as a commission position then not even an hour later sending a screenshot of my address and saying \u201cdo not mess with me\u201d.\n\nI went to go to my car this morning and a \u201cCease and Desist\u201d letter was on my door. \n\n\u201cRE: Cease and Desist\n\nDear....\n\nSlander and Discussing our Business\n\nI demand that you cease and desist from this activity as soon as possible and, in any event, within 0 days from your receipt of this letter. If action is not taken by you to cease and desist within the given time frame, I will have no choice but to take appropriate legal action against you. \n\nSincerely...\u201d\n\nHe also has sent me a text stating\n\n\u201cI have just served you a Cease & Desist letter with the Sheriff office present and it is on Record and recorded . If you choose to continue to discuss our Business and not return our belongings. It is going to be a long expensive journey for you. Our attorney is in full action mode and we will subpoena anyone you discuss our business with.Your choice.\u201d\n\nCurrently I have the video of our first event and am happy to give it back. \n\nI\u2019m just curious, is this legit? Is there any grounds for what he is doing? My wife does feel threatened and he does technically owe me money.\n\nThere were no contracts between myself and him, no NDA, or anything like that.","title":"Cease and Desist","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1408644813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e79jj\/17_yo_son_wants_to_appeal_for_court_supervision\/","id":"2e79jj","body":"Ok, so when they gave him the ticket (it was his first one) he got a bunch of papers, one of which being a pamphlet that told him his options. It said that you have to be 18+ years old to choose court supervision, but other people told me he can choose it. Can anyone here tell me the rules for minors that apply for court supervision in Illinois? Do I just need to be with him at the court date?","title":"17 y\/o son wants to appeal for Court Supervision for a traffic ticket. Need some legal fact checking.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555272747,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd704m\/va_child_support_ex_falsified_proof_of_income\/","id":"bd704m","body":"Last year, my ex advised me of his $4 per hour increase in wages. He never submitted the review request to have the child support order increased so I did. I know for certain he still receives Veterans Disability (VA from here out) at 70% rating. VA benefits are non-taxable so they don\u2019t show up with your tax returns. State law requires each parent to include this income for child support purposes. My own VA is properly included. He included the then-current VA benefit letter in the original income calculation for the support order (6\/2016), but this time to offset his increased wages that he can\u2019t hide he submitted a VA benefit letter from multiple years ago which was at a lower disability rating (40%) and therefore lower amount of benefits and DCSE caught this. The case manager spoke with me about it and explained that DCSE will be sending this matter to JDR for a judge to subpoena his full current proof of income. My questions: when the judge finalizes this case and the support order is increased will he be ordered to pay arrears on the 6+ months dating back to when I filed for the review? And other than my current proof of income and the letter from DCSE and the current support order is there any other else I should bring to the hearings?","title":"VA child support ex falsified proof of income DCSE sending to JDR court","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1409790274,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fepre\/i_need_some_help_before_my_stbe_and_legal_fees\/","id":"2fepre","body":"I don't want to give too much information because I don't want this to affect legal proceedings, but I am currently trying to end my marriage after my husband repeatedly committed adultery. I got a lawyer (he decided he didn't need one) and we decided to try and tackle things amicably through a pre-divorce agreement. I thought things were going well, but then he decided to undercut the whole thing and leave me with almost nothing. He's even refusing to pay for insurance for me and my daughter (who has had serious health issues). Now it's been months and the lawyer is asking for more money, but he made all the money in the family and I don't know how much longer I can afford these legal costs. I think I have to drop my lawyer, but if I do he'll ruin me. I live in Maryland and family law here is too hard for me to understand by myself. If there is anyone with advice on how I can protect myself and my daughter I really need some help.","title":"I need some help before my STBE and legal fees drive me and my daughter into poverty","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553356338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4kn9c\/separated_from_a_narcissist\/","id":"b4kn9c","body":"My SIL has been married for about 20 years to my BIL who is emotionally and verbally abusive.  I would say he is a textbook narcissist. Everything is her fault, and he often berates her even in front of others. They have 4 children ranging in ages 5 to 12 years old. He has been verbally abusive with them and has previously spanked one of the children so hard he left bruises (no proof, it happened months ago).\n  She has now separated from him but has not gone far so that he can still see the children. He is absolutely livid though and cannot stop discussing how much he hates her and how everything is her fault (lies). When the kids visit him he makes them feel bad about leaving and tells them \"Don't you love me anymore?\" They feel tremendous guilt for him, but don't really want to spend that much time with him. They're actually afraid of him because of his temper.\n  My SIL and I pick up the kids after school.  The other day when waiting for her kids, they were no where to be found. We were frantic! Eventually we found out that he had taken them out of school early without telling anyone just to spite her.  Afterwards we found out that the kids were so fearful that he was going to kidnap them and they broke down when they returned home. \n  So, we want to know what she can do to get full custody of the children. BTW she has nothing at the moment, he controlled everything. If you can offer any other helpful advice that'd be great.","title":"Separated from a Narcissist","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570214854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddbl6k\/boise_idahoapartment_flooded_due_to_unmaintained\/","id":"ddbl6k","body":"This morning my roommate and I woke up to a burst hose flooding the apartment at 2:30AM. We got the water turned off within a couple minutes. Unfortunately the apartment was already under about half an inch of water in most spots. We put down as many towels and sheets as we possibly could to stop the water spreading to any dry spots left in the apartment. Which was just some of the two bedrooms. There was about 900sq ft under water\n\nWe immediately called the emergency number listed by the apartment management company to get a crew over to get the water out of the apartment. They arrived within an hour and a half. At about 5:30AM they finished extracting water and put out fans and left. The crew confirmed that they issue came from a hose connecting to the washer. It was so old it ruptured. We haven't had anyone inspect that, or ask to inspect that, within the 3 years we've lived there. We also have old appliances that I'm guessing are from the 80's, although I'm not sure if that's really a factor. They came back later with the land management company and did an inspection. They'll have to tear out most of the hardwood floor, cut out some dry wall, and probably tear out some cabinets. Basically a remodel. We were told it will take a couple months to remodel. They are kicking us out of the apartment, we have 3 days to leave, and they're only putting us up in a hotel for 4 days. They said they don't have any vacant apartments for us to move into. In that time we have to be moved out and find a new place to live. We also do not get to keep the apartment, we are effectively being evicted with a 3 day notice. We were told we don't have to pay rent, we will get our security deposit back. They said it'll take 2 months to fix as well because it'll be considered vacant and they won't rush to fix it.\n\nI'm not worried about any of my personal property, most of it's okay. I'm worried about having a place to live. I don't have enough money save up to move into a new place. Is there anything I can do to fight this? I can find a place to stay for a couple months, I just want to be able to keep the apartment. From what I found from the Idaho Attorney General, they're allowed to evict us with only 3 days notice if we caused significant damage to the apartment. Also from the same source (Idaho government website) the landlord is responsible for the safety and maintenance of the apartment. Specifically this:\n\n*\"Landlords must maintain the rental to protect a tenant\u2019s safety \r\nand health. This means landlords must comply with city and \r\ncounty ordinances and state laws regarding housing \r\nconditions.\r\nThe following are examples of housing conditions that may \r\nviolate local or state housing standards:\r\n\u2022 Structural deterioration, including cracked and crumbling \r\nwalls and ceilings and broken or missing doors and \r\nwindows;\r\n\u2022 Defective plumbing, including a broken toilet, lack of\r\nhot\/cold water, absent sinks or bathing facilities and \r\nserious leaks\"*\n\nAm I fault for the old hose that ruptured and for the damage? And do we have legal ground to keep the apartment without being evicted?","title":"[Boise, Idaho]Apartment flooded due to unmaintained hose connecting to washer. Being evicted for remodel with 3 days notice, don't get to keep the apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441905759,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kfdw1\/rhode_island_the_2nd_floor_apartment_and_my_1st\/","id":"3kfdw1","body":"Recently the guy living in the apartment above mine complained to the landlord saying that his electric bill seemed too high. My landlord had his handyman check the apartment and it turns out every single ceiling and wall light in my apartment, and one wall outlet, is wired to his utilities upstairs, and not mine downstairs. As such, any time I turn the lights on in my apartment (with the exception of a floor lamp in the bedroom), that electricity is coming off the upstairs guy's meter.   \n   \n  \n  \nMy landlord said straight out that going in with the proper contractors and rewiring the house would be too expensive and he doesn't want to pay to have the work done. He asked me to send him my last few electric bills so he can see what I've been paying monthly.   \n  \nIn my lease agreement, it states that utilities are the responsibility of the tenant. When I moved in, the utilities were transferred into my name through National Grid, so the gas and the electric coming into my apartment is paid by me directly.  \n  \n  \nAs it stands right now, my neighbor upstairs has mentioned that my landlord is currently giving him a small discount on his rent because of the issue, but it's cause for growing unease between him (the other renter) and I because any time I leave a light on, he sees it as me costing him more money. He's approached me a couple times when I forgot to turn a light off leaving the house and complained that it was costing him money.   \n  \n   \nWhat's the proper fix for this? The way I see it, there's absolutely NO way to reasonably expect to divide up the electricity fairly without re-wiring the house. There's two people living upstairs, and just myself downstairs. I'm pretty much only at home at night, and use barely any electricity as it is. There's no way I would allow the electric bills to be combined and then split 50\/50 and there's no way to determine what the actual split would be without fixing the meters. Can my landlord actually request that I give him my electric bills, and is there anything that he's actually allowed to do?   \n  \nI don't want to screw over the guy upstairs, but at the same time I don't want to be involved at all in something that is essentially my landlord's problems, not mine. If I give him my electric bills it's just going to get more involved than I want to be. ","title":"[Rhode Island] The 2nd floor apartment and my 1st floor apartment have cris-crossed electrical wiring, and my landlord does not want to fix the problem, but is requesting that I send him my last 3 months electrical bills. What's the proper recourse here?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552534265,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0vglp\/can_comcast_refuse_to_return_landline_and\/","id":"b0vglp","body":"My mom lives in suburban California. She asked Comcast to help with her spotty reception. Comcast came and said the cables to her house had been damaged by a tree root. They disconnected her landline phone, internet and TV service and said they would need to lay new cable. A few weeks later, they said my mom's neighbor didn't give them permission to lay the cable, so they will not reconnect her phone line, internet or TV. They said they don't have to because TV is considered a luxury, not a utility. Is this legal? My mom is nearly 70 years old and she has been at home with no phone or internet.","title":"Can Comcast refuse to return landline and internet to my elderly mother?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571465217,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djztt0\/needs_advice_workplace_bullyingharrassment_then\/","id":"djztt0","body":"Hello Fellow Redditors,\n\nI wish I was coming to you with a better circumstance, but usually here we have something going on.\n\nI worked for a Brazilian startup tech company that relocated to Florida.  I was recently fired for apparently missing days, which were sick days that I was approved for and was told to stay home specifically and work from home.  Then the other reason was vague, something like a poor attitude\/morale.\n\nThis is where the situation comes in.  My main boss and my supervisor are married. His wife (the supervisor) strongly disliked me for no discernible reason.  I still to this day do not know and I was only let go a week and a half ago. She would slam doors in my race, turn the lights out in the bathroom if I was in it, one morning I had shut my eyes because I had a migraine and she stood up from her desk to get 2 inches from my face and snapped in it and yelling \u201cwake up,\u201d and would block me off from using the break room so I sat in my car every day for the three months I worked there and cried. HR sat a few desks away and could see all of this going on and I felt like I could never talk to my boss about his wife, so I just kept to myself and didn\u2019t talk to anyone. I was promoted to start a new campaign they had and they moved me to an office by myself so things were getting better.\n\nI had food poisoning and was not in the office for 3 work week days - I worked from home, was clocked in, and even worked that weekend without pay for this campaign with doctors notes telling me not to work and my boss telling me not to come in and just work from home.  Being harassed and bullied in an environment where I did not speak Portuguese in a predominantly Brazilian staff also meant I could hear insults and jokes about me and pick up that I was being harassed though the \u201cteam\u201d would just say \u201cit\u2019s nothing\u201d and laugh. I don\u2019t know how at all I was supposed to be chipper and happy in this environment and was set up to fail. \n\nI also was never trained to do my job. My boss was sick and out of work 5 days from my start date in, and the supervisor refused to help me for whatever reason, so even three months in I was struggling to use a system not in English, but I was good at my job and I loved my job. They recently had to rehire someone his wife (the supervisor) fired because he hopped in our slack groups to say goodbye and that he was never trained and had no guidance as he was solely work from home. They deleted his messages and rehired him.\n\nMy boss was very open about refusing to hire black people, and was the office was very open about \u201cit\u2019s a boys club, you are going to have to deal with vulgar stuff but you\u2019ll play along, right?,\u201d and were uncomfortably open with telling each other that most of them didn\u2019t have visas and were making so much money here.\n\nI am not a malicious person, this was just a job I saw myself turning into a career. When I learned this said supervisor had people I had never spoken to file a group complaint against me when I kept to myself and kept asking my main boss if I was doing anything wrong with the repetitive \u201cno\u201d answer and even the morning of the day I got fired the HR manager and my lead boss told me my job was safe (both in text on Skype) ..,, it all is very frustrating as with zero notice & I was doing very well it was out of nowhere,\n\nDo I have any recourse here? If so what can I do? I\u2019ve never done anything like this before,","title":"[NEEDS ADVICE] Workplace Bullying\/Harrassment Then Fired (Florida)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570179784,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd4sqm\/i_reported_likely_widespread_theft_by_one_of\/","id":"dd4sqm","body":"I'm a full-time student and I live in an apartment building on a college campus. Over the past month, me and at least other tenants of the building that I live in(there are 10 in total) have had quite a few packages delivered by Amazon(a high-ranking amazon employee later told me that a subcontracted company handles the delivery in this area) go missing. Initially, I thought it was just me that was having the problem. I've spent hours and hours talking to Amazon customer service trying to get refunded, but also figure out why this was happening. Then I started asking other people in the building, and 6 of them said they were having the same problem. All of them said that it was only amazon packages going missing, with one exception. An employee in logistics finally told me that the problem was that my \"ping\" was at the wrong address and that's why this was happening. The other address is the address for the college mailroom. I explained to the student employees what was going on, and I was expecting to leave with a lot of lost packages, at which point I would notify amazon so the refund could be reversed. It surprised me to hear that the mailroom REFUSES to accept deliveries from Amazon, and so they didn't have any of my packages. The wheels start turning and I thought there might be something nefarious going on, or it could be a simple mistake. After all, the ping was erroneously at the main mailroom, seemed likely to be an honest mistake that could be fixed with another phone call to customer service.\n\n​\n\nSo I call customer service and explain my findings. They tell me they fixed my ping location, and I figured all was well. I continued to lose packages, not all of them, but at least 3 or 4 a week. (Yes, I'm an Amazon addict). I kept calling to report missing packages; luckily there would occasionally be a picture of my packages clearly left in the wrong place because after calling and reporting so many missing packages, I was being treated like a criminal by customer service. Their incredulity was understandable, but you can't argue with pictures. This made me lean toward honest mistake, why would someone intentionally deliver packages to the wrong place and take a picture. Also, why weren't pictures always taken? I had to call to get my ping put in the correct place at least three times, and I'm beginning to wonder why it continues to be changed back to the wrong place, and who was doing it. I continued to ask around, and I found out that amazon packages going missing was widespread. I made calls, asked classmates, etc. and confirmed that it got so bad that building managers at three buildings that I know of started offering transportation to Amazon lockers. A key point here is that at all three buildings, amazon packages are left behind an electronic keypad locked door, for tenants to pick up at their leisure. This narrows down the potential suspects. Either college students are stealing from each other, or an Amazon subcontractor had found a loophole in the system and employees were stealing packages.\n\n​\n\nLast week, I had like 5 packages coming in. To my surprise, around 2 pm I get notifications that \"delivery failed, signature required\". None of the packages had very expensive contents, and a signature had never been required in the past(I've been here three semesters). The next day I decide to do some recon, if you're familiar with the app, then you know that you can track the delivery truck's exact position when they're within I think 5 stops. The next day, as the delivery driver got close, I sat across the street and watched the van park next to our building, get out and deliver a package to the building to the left, then she got back in the van. As she sat in the van, and I sat across the road, I start getting the same notification \"delivery failed\/attempted...\" and I watched the entire time. She went nowhere near our building. As soon as I get the notifications, I walk to the passenger side of the van, knock on the window and asked with exactly these words, \"why does it say here that delivery was attempted, when I watched the entire time and I know you didn't attempt to deliver them?.\" She was very evasive, but I asked to have my packages, and after she made a phone call, she opened the sliding door, unzipped the box bags, and let me have my packages. There was also a package that belonged to a different tenant in the same building.\n\n​\n\nI call the cops to file a report, and they refuse to do a report because no crime had taken place. True, but I explained what had been going on and that I was only asking for an eye witness report to be taken so I could turn it into amazon, should they decide to do an investigation. They refused.\n\n​\n\nI called Amazon customer service, was transferred to logistics, I asked for a supervisor and I told him what had happened. He took it seriously, elevated it to Amazon's \"executive customer service\" I think it's called and said I should receive a call within 48 hours. A person who identified as the highest-ranking individual in charge of investigating things like this called and we were on the phone for probably 30 minutes. He was pretty dismissive, which is strange when Amazon must be losing a lot of money, and there was a pretty clear loophole that could have been being exploited. However, he's right, it's possible that we all live in the building with a thief. He said that he would be doing an investigation though, so I asked if he could send me an email \"asking that I reattempt to get an official eye-witness report because it may be useful in the investigation\". He refused. I got pissed because at this point because I was using the little free time that I have to help Amazon, presumably stop losing money. I could've just said fuck it and started using an Amazon locker or the USPS across the street.\n\n​\n\nFast-forward to today. I have heard nothing back and now I can't get a package delivered by amazon at all. I haven't had time to sit across the road again to do \"recon\", but now, every single package says \"unable to deliver, signature required.\n\n​\n\nI really don't know what to make of this. It seems like retribution by the subcontracted company, but I don't even know if the investigation has finished or maybe it was just dismissed, who knows. I've already switched to a p.o. box, so I won't have problems anymore, but I still don't know if I should just drop it. I'm fairly convinced that the subcontracted company is stealing from Amazon, using a simple loophole, but I admit, I could be wrong.","title":"I reported likely widespread theft by one of Amazon's subcontracting delivery companies; now I'm experiencing retaliation.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508121156,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76nkig\/australia_help_with_partnership_dispute\/","id":"76nkig","body":"My wife and I left a Partnership over a year ago and our former \u201cpartners\u201d are now pursuing a claim that we took more money from the partnership than what was rightfully owed. There is a formal dispute resolution process clearly described in our Agreement which states that all efforts should be made to mediate without legal intervention, but they lawyered up immediately. We\u2019ve spent thousands providing proof that their claim is crap, but they keep coming. My question is: does the agreement for dispute resolution still stand after we have left the partnership? Have they breached the agreement by not following the resolution process? I\u2019ve found nothing in the original agreement or the sale agreement that indicates that the process should not still apply. Now they\u2019ve lodged a claim in court which includes a claim for their costs, which if by some unknown element is found against us will no doubt cost us a bundle (more than the original claim). It seems like we\u2019re being bullied. We\u2019ve tried legal representation and don\u2019t feel like we were getting value for money there. It\u2019s like we\u2019re damned if we do and damned if we don\u2019t. Help please. ","title":"[Australia] Help with Partnership dispute","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539637052,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ogqzo\/buying_trailer_and_the_landlord_didnt_enforce\/","id":"9ogqzo","body":"We're in Indiana.  \n\n\nMy wife and I purchased a single wide trailer in a sale that was facilitated by the trailer park. The trailer park provided the loan and we never had to deal with the previous owner. We went through their vetting process for tenants and were approved to buy the trailer and move in.  \n\n\nFast forward eight months, and we've been given a 14 day notice that if we don't repair or replace the trailer skirting, we will be evicted.\n\n​\n\nOur lease has a resale clause stating:\n\n\"Vinyl siding, vinyl skirting, deck, and carport must be installed and\/or repaired to management specifications as needed prior to new owner assuming possession of the home.\"  \n\n\nThe skirting has a number of holes from rocks flung by mowing, etc., that originated prior to our purchase of the home. The previous tenant plugged these holes with that orange insulation foam spray. No other damages have appeared on the home as we use an electric mower that dumps clippings, rocks, or whatever else it picks up into a heavy mesh bag.\n\n​\n\nThe park did not enforce the Resale clause of the lease, and for us to repair or replace the siding is going to be a large undertaking, and fairly expensive. My wife can't do the work, and my employer's working on a JSOX audit so I'm not able to put the time in before the 29th of this month.\n\n​\n\nI've contacted them pointing out that they did not enforce the resale clause on the previous tenant, and that there have been no additional damages to the skirting since we moved in. I let them know that I've already made plans for the repairs but it's going to be some time before I'm able to make them as I have other more important items (Furnace, weak spots in the floor, etc.) that need to be dealt with first.\n\n​\n\nIf we are evicted, they won't let us out of the trailer sale or the lease and will pursue us for both of those items even though they'll simply sell the trailer to another tenant once it's been abandoned long enough since we won't be able to afford to move it.\n\n​\n\nWhat options do I have on this, if any? I plan to get some white tape and seal over the ugly orange foam spray, but that's about the only thing I'll be able to do in the meantime.","title":"Buying trailer and the landlord didn't enforce repair clauses on previous tenant. Now they are attempting to make us suddenly put money into the trailer we just bought.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568589615,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4sbo7\/what_are_reasonable_custody_requests\/","id":"d4sbo7","body":"I used to have an agreement with my ex girlfriend that Wednesdays I'll pick my daughter up and Saturdays she would pick her up. She was struggling for a bit and was out of a job so I offered to do her the favor of picking my daughter up and dropping her off. I've been trying to get a second job so I can no longer drop my daughter off and continue doing her the favor of dropping my daughter off which got my ex mad and is now threatening to keep my daughter and fight full custody because I can no longer keep doing her this favor. It was originally a verbal agreement we both had that we did this and we were doing 50\/50. She now wants to change this and I'm wondering do i have the chance of losing custody of my daughter? Is me picking up our daughter my days and having her pick up our daughter her days a fair request?","title":"What are reasonable custody requests?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552678230,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1j48e\/apartment_lease_ends_in_july_landlord_doesnt\/","id":"b1j48e","body":"Signed a 1 year lease back in June 2018. My lease ends July 1st. I contacted the property manager and was told that the lease is an auto renewal, but I can give notice that I will not be renewing the lease. They offer shorter terms leases for 9 months with a 5% rent increase. I only need a place to live for two additional months and then I\u2019ll be moving out of state, so it\u2019s pointless to sign a short term lease. I asked if a month to month is an option when my lease ends and was told it wasn\u2019t. They said they don\u2019t offer that. Is that legal? What are my options? ","title":"Apartment lease ends in July. Landlord doesn\u2019t offer month to month after initial lease ends. What are my options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539991351,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pp38q\/dc_how_soon_after_not_signing_a_lease_can_you_get\/","id":"9pp38q","body":"A week ago I gave my roommates 30 days notice that I\u2019m moving out. They\u2019ve been interviewing new potential roommates and thus far the news has gone over smoothly. None of us have a paper lease, we\u2019ve been living there since July on an oral lease.\n\nToday after work, I noticed I was added to a group text where my roommates confirmed with our landlords that all of us (myself included) will be signing a paper lease that our landlords drafted, and then they\u2019ll add an addendum once I move out. \n\nI don\u2019t plan to sign the lease. I agreed earlier to pay through November because I gave notice October 15th, but will be moved out by November 1st. \n\nIf I refuse to sign how quickly can I be evicted? I can\u2019t be fully moved out until October 29th. ","title":"[DC] How Soon After Not Signing A Lease Can You Get Evicted?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571086106,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhwu74\/so_had_cash_of_mine_in_her_wallet_and_was_robbed\/","id":"dhwu74","body":"Using a throwaway to keep this off my main account. \n\nThe other day I went and took out $200 from an ATM in order to make a few purchases at stores that are cash only in my town, and yesterday I gave my SO the list of things I was going to buy and asked her to buy them after her shift at work since she works where all the stores are and I did not have time (I worked 8am to midnight and she worked noon-7). Before anyone blames her, the stores opened at the same time she started work so going after was the only option. As she left work to go to the stores she frantically called me saying all the money in her wallet was gone (she also had $50 of her own money that was also gone) in which I told her to go back to work, report it, and see what happens. The place she works asked her to be patient and wait to do anything about this and it will be handled internally. I disagree with this, and so does my SO and we want to go to the police and report it. We have a copy of video surveillance showing her coworker going into her locker. Should we wait for the store to handle this or should I file a police report? I've never been in a situation like this and I have no idea what to do","title":"SO had cash of mine in her wallet and was robbed at work","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554554640,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba3xo3\/blizzard_entertainment_sent_police_to_my_house\/","id":"ba3xo3","body":"I am a World Of Warcraft player and was in a raid a few days ago and in the game chat we were talking about suicide and its effects on people. A few hours later my house is surrounded by cops and my dog is barking. I walk outside to be met with aggression and was told that Blizzard Ent, made the call about suicide over comments I said online. \n\nI never said I wanted to commit suicide, I did however mentioned playing kamikaze to pull enemies away from the point. \n\nMy question is, would they have been liable for what basically is SWATTING. I have no identifying information on my account that ties it to my character and I use a VPN. How the hell did cops get to my house in the first place?","title":"Blizzard Entertainment sent police to my house claiming I wanted to commit suicide","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1447413951,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sngk4\/ri_usa_downstairs_neighbor_is_grade10_snoreer\/","id":"3sngk4","body":"Going to try to keep this simple and not vent\/rant and thanking you all ahead of time if take time to read\/respond.\n\nWe started our lease mid-September. About a week in, we started to notice our neighbor below us snores extremely loud. For the first month, we have been able to either go to sleep before the snoring begins, but it's getting to the point where either a) the snoring wakes both myself or my partner out of a dead sleep, or b) if we happen to wake up in the middle of the night, the snoring keeps us awake. This person also has erratic sleep patterns and the snoring can also be heard\/felt in our other room (we only have two, and the kitchen) at any given point.\n\nI've already done some cursory research and the outlook isn't great. If a person is snoring this hard, most of the time they have ZERO clue or are in denial or hide behind their health condition and cry disability. Add to this that most landlords\/property managers don't have a single fuck to give because all they care about is collecting rent.\n\nWell, myself and my partner both have registered disabilities of our own and lack of sleep SEVERELY aggravates those issues. My partner is on SSI\/SSDI and despite my own issues I work 40 hrs\/wk. and the lack of sleep is starting to unravel my life. The stress this is causing is a massive strain on our relationship as we are both are constantly stressed out and under-slept.\n\nSo, here is what I know so far as options are concerned and what kind of push-back I expect from the property co.:\n\n-Earplugs: Don't work because this is a bass frequency; this is snoring you FEEL, not hear.\n\n-White-noise: Tried this too, but in order to drown out the snoring, the white noise is also too loud to sleep through\n\n-Carpet\/padding\/soundproofing: An undue burden as in order to sound-proof my floor (hardwoods) a carpet and padding would be well near $1,000 I just don't have to drop on a whim (and our rent is $910\/mo.)\n\n-Change rooms: The layout of the apartment and our furniture would make this impossible\n\n-Move the bed: The snoring permeates the entire room\n\n-Record it and talk to the neighbor: Due to the fact it's not a volume but a vibration noise, I can't afford equipment that will actually pick this up\n\n-Sleep-aids: Another undue burden - we will NOT risk becoming dependent to hardcore medications or build up a resistance to melatonin or something like Zzzquil which we use RARELY\/as-needed on nights when we can't sleep due to our disabilities and usually result in waking up feeling like you're hungover\n\nEdit: Formatting.\nI plan to try to talk to the neighbors, but the folks that live in the unit below us don't speak English very well and I fully expect them to act like they don't speak English at all if I try to approach them or leave them a letter. I've also internalized guilt for being angry because I know this person likely also has sleep apnea and is either breaking through their treatment, ignoring treatment or can't afford treatment (CPAP machines are EXPENSIVE).\n\nAt this point, we just don't know what to do. We can't afford to move and the kind of property owners we have, based on how they strict they are about \"late fees\" and the general condition of the building, we aren't expecting even a sliver of compassion or empathy. I would bet money they would NOT be interested in relocating us and I cannot afford the time\/money to move again even if they offer a different unit.\n\nThe feeling of being stuck in this situation is really destroying our mental state. We moved to this side of town because it's nicer, quieter and has significantly less crime. We love this unit and the location and it's infuriating\/depressing this is what we have come in to.\n\nIf you made it this far, thanks for reading and if you happen to have any advice to share, thank you so, so, so, so much! Have an awesome day, r\/legaladvice!\n\n\n\nEdit: Every single comment I make on this post is getting downvoted almost instantly after posting. I have a feeling either a bot or a troll\/s or someone who just doesn't want me talking about this has an ax to grind and is trying to sink my worthless internet points. Isn't that... uh... breaking some rules?\n\n\n\nEdit numero dos: My comment karma just shot up 40 points... so, huh. Weird. Either someone got banned, or someone else actually went through and counter-voted the downvote bot\/troll.\n\nAnywho, just talked to the rental office folks: It appears that it is indeed a new tenant who moved in recently, hence why we didn't notice this day one.\n\nThe gentleman who rented the unit to this person is going to call them to give them a heads up and see if they can open up a dialog with him. They also advised that I contact the occupancy manager via email to open a dialog there as well. They told me that if it does indeed get bad enough and there is a tenable unit of similar price\/size\/condition\/location the likelihood of having to pay the transfer fee would be incredibly low and we would only be on the hook for our own moving expenses. Thankfully, all the units are in a relatively close proximity to eachother, so hopefully, if things come to pass as such, we do have options.\n\nSo, to all who genuinely contributed, from a legal or personal prospective, thank you SO much, really. Your input, advice and kind words have made this quite a bit easier to process and brainstorm around.\n\nAnd to all the trolls, name-callers and those who pandered antagonism I only have this to say: I'm sorry your life is so miserable you feel the need to take it out on other people. I hope you get the help you need and maybe a hug or two sometime soon.\n\nEdit # 3: and my comment karma just dropped 60-points. Sweet. Getting closer and closer to my negative karma bucket-list goal. Man, must have REALLY rustled some jimmies for people to sift through the entire thread (and possibly my post history) just to downvote everything.\n\nFinal Edit: thanks again to all who have contributed. I now have a LOT more to work with and a much better outlook on the situation as a whole. I appreciate you time and really can't thank some of you enough for the trully valuable feedback.\n\nAnd a final note to the downboat brigade: If you guys just make two more throwaway accounts and downvote the whole thread again, I'll finally be at negative comment karma! It's a dream come true! THANK YOU SO MUCH LE REDDIT for showing, yet again, that internet points are srs bizness that you'd take the such precious time out of your life to go through my entire comment history just to downvote me because reasons I guess.\n\n\n\n... oh, and hello, SRD. Thanks for breaking your own rules and brigading not only this thread, but my account as a whole. Top notch work you folks are doing over there.","title":"[RI, USA] Downstairs neighbor is grade-10 snore-er causing loss of sleep","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539197992,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n2duv\/possible_elder_financial_abuse\/","id":"9n2duv","body":"  \n\nHello everyone,\n\nThis is my first time posting here. This post was originally meant as a way to vent but based on the responses I got there I think its best here. If anyone has any experience with this any advice would be greatly appreciated.\n\nUpdate: Mom receives $1,300 a month in benefits and the house is paid for.\n\nLong post ahead:\n\nI\u2019m writing this partly to hopefully get some insight from anyone that has been in this situation or similar. The other half is because I\u2019m pissed off at my friend for not sticking up for herself and for her family successfully being able to guilt trip.\n\nThis story is about my friend J.\n\nJ is originally from TN but has lived in CA the last 5 years.  \n\nShe\u2019s been making plans this year to move back to TN next fall because her and her now ex bf wanted to buy a house and have more space.\n\nSunday she calls me out of the blue to let me know that those plans have now changed. She\u2019s no longer waiting until next year and now will be leaving at the end of this year instead, without the bf.\n\nConfused at the sudden change in plans, I ask what\u2019s going on.\n\nHer mom suffers from dementia and the day before her my mom left the house and got lost for hours .\n\nThe mom apparently ended up knocking on someone\u2019s door and they took her to the police station. At this point I get the full background of the situation and whats going on.\n\nJ is the youngest of 6 siblings, all of which live in TN. Her older sister and her 2 kids moved in with the mom in order to help take care of her. This has been the arraignment for the last year.\n\nWhen the sister got home with her mom the siblings began yelling at her and accusing her of being negligent. Her, being fed up says fuck it! I\u2019m done, wasting all my time money and energy, when yall don\u2019t do shit!\n\nThis is where J comes in.\n\nApparently now the older sister is moving out immediately after Christmas. Instead of them all taking turns taking care of mom the older brothers decide that mom goes to a home or J should be the one to come home to take care of her because according to the family, \u201cJ has no kids anyway, it\u2019s about time she was responsible for something.\u201d\n\nOfcourse J doesn\u2019t want to go home. Why would she? She\u2019s an educated, independent, world traveler.\n\nHer family says her only options are to come back and live home with mom or help or pay half of her assisted living monthly rent ($300) because like they said, \u201cShe doesn\u2019t have kids or extra responsibilities.\u201d\n\nSince J doesn\u2019t want to live at the house they are now in a rush to sell it. I asked her is it because they will be using the money for the sale to cover moms living cost? No because her sister in law wants to divvy up the money amongst all the grand children!\n\nThe other issue with that is that her older sister wants majority of the money because she had been taking care of mom for the last year by herself.\n\nJ is going on a 2 week trip to Bali next week so by the time she gets back that will leave her with only 2 months to prepare. She says she barely has any savings but that\u2019s what you do when family needs you.\n\nI don\u2019t want to seem unsympathetic just for the fact that its her mom, but I don\u2019t feel like she should put her life on hold to take care of her. \n\nRight now J is bubbly and energetic and I\u2019m afraid the toll with having to take care of someone 24\/7  she\u2019s going to wind up one of those angry ,lonely spinsters who\u2019s spend her whole day taking care of her mom while she watches days of our lives on the soap network  all day or some shit.\n\nShe\u2019s already gone ahead and broke it off with her boyfriend of the last year, because, \u201cwhile I love him, I\u2019m leaving soon anyway, no need to drag it out.\u201d \n\nI really wish she could see this isn\u2019t a good idea. Her siblings have already decided she will be responsible for her mother\u2019s primary care, without asking her, but telling her. Her older sister was tired of it even after a year. I don\u2019t see someone who\u2019s used to being social being ok being stuck at home all the time.\n\nI know I\u2019m not wrong on this guys! I know her family is going to take full advantage of her and the situation. If she does go back I predict in 5 years she\u2019ll be a shell of the person she is today.\n\nWhy can\u2019t they sell the house and use the money for the AL home, so that way J doesn\u2019t have to come out of pocket for rent and could just visit whenever she missed her or something. Why does she have to move to be a live in, unpaid nurse? Why are the only options to come home or pay the AL rent? Who the hell do they think they are to dictate someone\u2019s whole life like that?\n\nI\u2019m sorry but it could never be me. We\u2019re meeting up for dinner\/drinks after work next this Friday so I can see if I can talk to her more about it. All our friends think that I\u2019m the one to talk her out of it but my thing is like I said , I don\u2019t mind her going as long as it\u2019s on her terms and not her families, but what I don\u2019t appreciate is the no kids excuse as a reason for them being selfish assholes.","title":"Possible Elder Financial Abuse","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505367233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/700b01\/universitys_new_clockin_system_is_rounding_up_by\/","id":"700b01","body":"I work for a University in Utah which had a paper clock in system up until recently. We have basic benefits and vacation days that accumulate each pay period (.50). We clock in at the beginning of the shift, clock out at lunch, then back in after lunch and finally clock out after the end o the night.\n\nThe time clock system changed in August, and now the system is such that we have the clock in on iPads, -no mobile devices allowed- there\u2019s currently 7 iPads for about 40 employees. The system runs that after 7 minutes of being late, it rounds up and subtracts 15 minutes of vacation time. \n\nIn order to clock in, a person must enter his\/hers ID which is 8 characters long and wait approx 7 seconds for the iPad to load a profile to continue and finally authorize to clock in. \n\nIt takes just 1 person a total of about 20 seconds  to complete this, resulting in some employees clocking in, up to 3 min late. Ever tried parking at a university? It\u2019s a nightmare, coupled with night shift starting the same time  as evening classes and parking everywhere - even employee parking -  is free.\n\nSo, if you are late 2 min clocking in first time and 5 min late the 2nd time after lunch. You lose 15 min.\n\nIs this sound crazy? \n\nI\u2019m completely lost as to what to do. HR claims the state lets them do this, and since it\u2019s an \u201cat will\u201d work state there\u2019s probably nothing that can be done right?\n\nTL;DR - new system at university has inadequate ability to clock people in on time resulting in vacation time lost due to 7 minutes late = 15 minutes of vacation time taken away. ","title":"University\u2019s new clock-in system is rounding up by 15 min if late","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553874566,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6yx32\/accidentally_accessed_the_wlan_of_the_technology\/","id":"b6yx32","body":"So, a little backstory here:\n\nI'm 14 and I live in Germany\n\nToday I spend some time on [shodan.io](https:\/\/shodan.io) (This is a completely legal site which lists every kind of IoT Devices and it's IPs). I found an IP and I clicked on it. The site asked for a password and a username. I typed a default password (i won't wright it here so that no one can access the site.) And suddenly I were in the Router Config. I didn't touch anything. I did't even red something. I clicked the site away and wrote an email to them (after I had to use google translator to read thai lol). I wrote this text:\n\n​\n\n>  \n>  \n>Hello,  I found your WLAN password on shodan.io. I didn't change anything. Just  wanted to report this so nobody can acces your WLAN. Here is the link:  \n[https:\/\/www.shodan.io\/host\/](https:\/\/www.shodan.io\/host\/161.246.45.112)\\[censored\\]  \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  this is your wlan ip  \n \n\n​\n\nNow, i'm a little worried about the law (as I said I live in Germany, so just mind there are other laws). Did I do something illegal? I mean I wrote them to change their password. And it's Thailand. Shit. \n\n​\n\nP.S. isn't it ironically if a 14 year old can acces the wlan of a tech institute with a default pw and username?","title":"accidentally accessed the WLAN of the Technology Institute of Thailand.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507947362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/769gv4\/i_was_recorded_in_traffic\/","id":"769gv4","body":"So i was driving around during the day with my friends, and i entered a right turn lane with one of those crosswalk islands that block the front of the curve. I needed to get back into the middle lane, but some cars weren't giving the right of way. (I wasn't blocking anyone in the right turn lane) One car happened to not be moving and just far enough for me to turn, so i proceeded to turn cutting him off and continuing i to the middle lane. Even tho there was no contact between the cars (and the truck had plenty of space between it and my car) the truck honked twice at me. The truck was driven by a man and who i assumed was his wife sat in the passenger seat. The lady then started to take pictures of my plate, recorded me driving and recorded all of us potentially recording our faces. I know all she has is pictures of my car and video of me driving normally in traffic with my friends flipping her off in the back of my car. I wanted to know if I should worry about facing any sort of legal action against this person and what I should do to prepare for it. \n\nEdit: This happened in the state of Florida ","title":"I was recorded in traffic","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571086808,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhx0dm\/my_mom_is_being_sued_for_child_abuse\/","id":"dhx0dm","body":"Hi Reddit,\n\nSorry for the terrible English, I'm French and still in shock.\n\nSo for some context on this problem, my mom has just been informed that a family has file a complaint against her for child abuse on the 02.07.2019.\nShe has been on medical leave since the 26.03.2019.\nShe hasn't been informed before, and now she is summon to court the 04.11.2019.\n\nThis boy is known in the school to be a liar and a difficult kid, and the family is known to be a lot of trouble.\nThey are part of the reasons my mom had to take a medical leave.\n\nI don't know what to do. She just want to give up and agree with what the family will say during the trial because she is tired of all of this already and doesn't want to get more involved with that family. The mother has verbally assaulted her a couple times before, but she never reported it to the police (she is the type of person who runs away when there's a conflict)\n\nIs there anything we can do ? \n\nThank you for reading","title":"My mom is being sued for child abuse.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552344029,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azzxrm\/does_my_wife_have_to_disclose_an_emotional\/","id":"azzxrm","body":"My wife wants to get an ESA (emotional support animal) based on advice from her therapist. She is embarrassed to volunteer this information to our land lord and doesn\u2019t want to do so unless legally required to. \n\nCan she still be protected under the law if she doesn\u2019t notify the land lord prior to adopting the animal? Our land lord has a no let\u2019s policy so we don\u2019t want to be caught with an animal and not be within the confines of the law.  We have tried googling this but can not find any reputable answers. Citation of the law would be preferred. ","title":"Does my wife have to disclose an Emotional Support Animal prior to adoption","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553038247,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b34lmg\/can_there_by_any_retaliation_if_i_use_16_hours_of\/","id":"b34lmg","body":"I put my two weeks in last Friday and they told me that this Friday will be last day as it works out better for payroll.\n\nHowever I have 16 hours of sick time available, i know this won\u2019t be paid out to me so i wanted to ask. If I use it Wednesday and Thursday could my company retaliate in anyway to jeopardize my last check I will receive Friday?","title":"Can there by any retaliation if I use 16 hours of sick time?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504763739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yldfn\/us_nevada_speeding_ticket_first_time_being_pulled\/","id":"6yldfn","body":"Hi all,\n\nI am 20 y\/o and just got my first speeding ticket totalling over $600. I have never been pulled over and the situation I got pulled over for felt a little unfair. I was traveling a 2 lane road which requires you to go into the oncoming lane to pass people. I am a very conservative driver so when I need to pass someone, it is because the person in front of me has a trailer or is a semi. I quickly passed the person in front of me, and wouldn't you know it, a cop sitting underneath a speed limit 55 sign. Before I even saw him I started to slow because I saw the sign but it was too late.\n\nThe town that the ticket is in is 4 hours away from my town and I was planning on fighting it as I would prefer not to pay $600 and have my insurance go up.\n\nIs there anything I should do or you recommend for my situation? I was very respectful to the officer as I was taught to fight the ticket in court, not on the road. I was planning on pleading not guilty and explaining the situation as well as having a perfect driving record prior to this.\n\nAny advice helps. Thank you!","title":"[US - Nevada] Speeding Ticket, First time being pulled over. Advice?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504814421,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yppdb\/there_is_almost_definitely_a_signalcellphone\/","id":"6yppdb","body":"Since the start of this year that has been TERRIBLE signal inside and near the front of the school. Pages would load continuously on phones and calls\/texts never deliver. The thing is, near the back of the school signal is fine, but right near the office signal is 100% dead. (heres a crude paint drawing of what the signal is like around the school http:\/\/prntscr.com\/gidwav)\n\nThe reason I'm almost 100% sure that there is a jammer is because some of the teachers were saying how they wish they would blacklist the jammer for staff.\n\nWhat can I do?\n\nEDIT: My school is in North Carolina\n\nEDIT2: I have since called the FCC and was told to call back and ask for someone specific tomorrow. Will update after I get to talk to him.","title":"There is (almost) definitely a Signal\/Cellphone Jammer in my school. What can I do?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571790955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlrbh3\/mt_exhusband_trying_to_grant_access_to_childs\/","id":"dlrbh3","body":"My ex-husband and I have been divorced for over a year now. Parent-teacher conferences are approaching and he is trying to bring his current girlfriend to the meeting.  I have no problem with him sharing information directly with her after the meeting, but I do take issue with her being in the meeting because my child's performance and education records are not her concern. \n\nI have a couple of questions with respect to restricting third parties, like a girlfriend, from attending parent-teacher conferences:\n\n1. The school principal told me he could bring whoever he wanted to the meeting, referencing a buddy from a bar. Wouldn't this be a FERPA violation because a third-party is receiving information about a student's educational history *directly* from the teacher who is required to keep that information confidential? \n2. Can my ex unilaterally grant a third-party access to education records? I have primary physical custody and we consult on all other major decisions, but our divorce agreement does not explicitly address similar situations. The school district requires written consent to extend third-party access.\n3. If this is a violation and he does end up bringing his girlfriend to the conference, is there an appropriate avenue to seek recourse? Or is this such small-potatoes that it's not worth pursuing? \n\nThank you in advance for any advice.","title":"[MT] Ex-Husband trying to grant access to child's education records","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554496082,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9w8cw\/gf_started_smoking_meth_i_want_to_move_out_and\/","id":"b9w8cw","body":"I recently found out my GF smokes meth.\n\nThis includes lying to me, stealing money of mine to support it, and endangering the dog. \n\nI am moving out,  but someone told me I can\u2019t take the dog or I will get a felony. \n\nThe dogs original paperwork is in her name but last time we went to the vet he was listed as mine and I paid all fees. \n\n(GF owed money to vets for him and they wouldn\u2019t see him without back bills paid, so she orchestrated it so it was like he was mine and new)\n\nWhat do I need to know?\nWhat do I need to do?\nWhat steps do I need to take to prove I am the best person to take care of him? (She is negligent)","title":"GF started smoking meth, I want to move out and keep the dog. Help.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541439476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ufmab\/using_art_like_paintings_on_products\/","id":"9ufmab","body":"I wanted to use art by the artist Salvador Dal\u00ed on products and sell them. But i can't seem to figure out if its legal or not. And the cases with art on products seem to differ. For example, the brand Off White uses Mona Lisa on their shirts.\n\nThe only guideline or law i have come across is that the copyright of the artist lasts the lifetime of the artist + 70 years. I live in Europe and plan to ship the products only to Europe. \n\nThanks in advance for any help!","title":"Using art like paintings on products","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1508568090,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77rx7h\/company_required_training_but_no_compensation\/","id":"77rx7h","body":"Indiana, for you good bots\n\nCompany I work for requires online training outside of work without paying. Some of us have bebe working on this site for over a month and they are just now requiring this. \n\nLegal to do without compensation? ","title":"Company required training but no compensation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507740882,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75qdwp\/west_virginia_is_it_really_worth_taking_landlord\/","id":"75qdwp","body":"A couple of years ago, I attended college in West Virginia where I rented a house with two others for three years. All three years were smooth living and there was always an excellent line of communication with the landlord and property managers. There were a couple of maintenance issues that were out of our control (siding coming loose in a bad windstorm, varmints in the walls because the chimney was not properly sealed -- this was annoying as hell) but there was never any mention of \"You guys damaged X, I'm going to charge for for this\" the whole time we were tenants. \n\nUpon moving out and handing over the keys, I receive word that they typically issue refund checks within 2-4 weeks of vacating, they just need to check the residence for damages\/repairs--understandable. (In retrospect, I should have done a final walk through with a manager, but this was the first time I had to rent on my own and didn't consider the need because of the good relationship with landlord those three years). A month passes, and I reach out to the landlord via phone and text--nothing. I try again in a couple of weeks--nothing. You get the story. Since the day I moved out, I have had no successful attempts at contacting the landlord. I then do some research on WV law. I do not receive any bill, or itemized list of costs against the deposit. I send final demand notices to two known addresses of the landlord\/holdings company. Both were never claimed and are now in the process of being returned to me. Over the past 5 months, I have versed myself in West Virginia code in regards to landlords' responsibilities and my rights as a renter.\n\nAlthough I am aware this is common in college towns, what caught me off-guard was the fact that there were essentially zero conflicts in the three years of living there. **Is it worth it (in terms of chances of success) to drive three hours from home to take him to court over a security deposit? Are there any possibilities of this coming back the other way (ex. counter-suit) of any sort? Is this something that is commonly settled out-of-court, or will I need to retain a lawyer and start racking up costs**","title":"[West Virginia] Is it really worth taking landlord to court for not returning security deposit \/ landlord noncompliance","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553236018,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b41l9x\/baldwin_park_ca_91706_rented_an_illegal_converted\/","id":"b41l9x","body":"I don't even know where to begin, but I'll try my best.\n\n​\n\nA couple months back (Sept\/Oct2018) I rented a place with my girlfriend. It is a an illegal garage conversion. The landlady only wants cash payments each month.  Throughout our stay, we had no heat ( temperatures dropped to the 30s at night\/inside was mid 40s) and the landlady wanted us to pay for the extra electricity costs when we started using a small personal desktop heater out of desperation. There was a gas leak from the stove that they never really resolved. We had no hot water for a week when the water heater broke. There is black mold on the walls of the restroom (illegal dimensions. The wall from the toilet bowl is no more than about 8-12\"). We had to shower inside their home for the entire week.  All of these were something I could turn a blind eye on, as I prefer to not blow up minor issues if I don't have to. \n\nWhat threw it over the top was the landlady received a complaint for illegal conversion of the garage, which the landlady did not disclose to us at the start of the lease. Through this, the landlady forced us to move out of our place into their house since last week. On top of this, they put their cockroach\/rat infested belongings in our rental space\/removed the stove to make it seem like it was only used as an office space instead of a living unit. Last but not least, during this charade, the landlady went into our home without giving any written notice what so ever multiple times to put more of their stuff into our home. I have a husky living with me ( landlady approved it at the start of our lease), and she could have easily ran out or bit someone. \n\n​\n\nMy gf and I have 30 days to move out according to the landlady's daughter (I'm guessing it was told via text) and we would like to get this over with. We do plan on suing the landlady for everything listed above, but we don't know where to start, nor how much we can sue for. I'm currently going to school full time and work part time, so my income is pretty dam low and I can't afford an attorney. \n\n​\n\nTL;DR: Landlady committed trespassing, illegal garage conversion, illegal housing conditions, now evicting us in 30 days, because apparently nothing is going the way they wanted.","title":"[Baldwin Park, CA 91706] Rented an illegal converted garage, now being evicted.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568398345,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3t81x\/ups_freight_trying_to_charge_extra_after_the_fact\/","id":"d3t81x","body":"Our small business had USP Freight pick up an item and ship it for us. From one state in the US to another. On the pickup  date we were prrovided with a quote which we paid in full in advance.  Amount was $232.28. We signed the Domestic Bill of Lading, which  included a hold harmless. Today we received a bill for hundreds of dollars in additional  charges that we were not quoted and did not agree to. \n\nI called the 1-800  number and was told that after an inspection, the rate changed. When I  explained that I was not provided with any documentation that an  inspection would take place OR that it would incur additional charges, I  was told by the CSR that \"it is industry standard practice, and I  should be expected to know that\".\n\nI replied that in the US (CSR was in  the Philippines) a contract cannot be adjusted after the fact and the  initial signing without both parties agreeing to the change and signing  off on it. I told them to remove the additional charge.\n\nI was put on  hold. CSR came back, told me \"her manager was the only person who could  handle this and that he was busy\". In addition, she told me that in  order to get this resolved, our company would have to agree to open an  account with UPS. \n\nThis has gotten ridiculous. We have been charged money  for something we did not agree to, and are being told we have to jump  through additional hoops and further bind ourselves to UPS for 2 years  in order to resolve it. Absolutely unacceptable. We want UPS to waive these charges they are trying to sneak  through. \n\nDo we have any recourse?","title":"UPS Freight trying to charge extra after the fact and lock us into a 2 year account","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1550810903,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atd824\/noncompete_question_for_frodo_a_1099_independent\/","id":"atd824","body":"**I've done my best to make this post as short, concise, and LOTR entertaining as possible.**\n\nPosting this question for a friend, I'll call them (Frodo).\n\nThey live in Canton, Ohio and have an extensive Safety management background. \n\nFrodo is looking to start working as a 1099 independent contractor for another person's 2 man safety consulting company, I'll refer to as (Rivendell)  in Canton, OH. Rivendell is more lucrative, higher risk, and Frodo is more interested in it. There is a non-compete that my friend would need to sign (below).  There is also a larger second company, (The Shire) that has a position that will remain open for Frodo to go back to at any time. Both Rivendell and The Shire provide safety training in the same region and may overlap on customers that they call on and solicit to. \n\n​\n\n**Our clear legal question:** Could Frodo sign the non-compete, work for Rivendell, decide that that type of work is not for him, and then take the position at the The Shire as long as he himself does not call on any current or past customers of Rivendell for the next 12 months. \n\n​\n\n**Our reason for the question:** The language in section A is very broad and we fear that it means that he cannot work for The Shire if any single employee (of The Shire) might accidentally call on a customer of Rivendell even if Frodo himself has no part in it. \n\n​\n\nI've included the entire non compete below, although I think only the short sections of A &B are relevant.\n\n​\n\n13. Covenant Not to Compete\/Nonsolicitation\n\n**Frodo hereby covenants and agrees that, for a period of twelve (12) months after the termination of this Agreement:**\n\n**(a) Frodo shall not directly or indirectly, own, together or in association with others, either as a principal, agent, owner, shareholder, officer, director, partner, Frodo, lender, investor, or in any other capacity, engage in, have a financial interest or be in any way connected or affiliated with, directly or indirectly, enter into and\/or engage in competition with Rivendell, the sale and furnishing safety, health and environmental consulting and training in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, except as noted below.**\n\n**(b) Frodo shall have the right, in the territory described in Section 2 above, to continue business with any client, customer, or contact that has not previously contracted for products, or services from Rivendell, as of the termination of this agreement.**\n\n(c) Frodo further agrees that he shall not divert, take away, solicit, interfere with or attempt to divert, take away, solicit or interfere with any past, or present customer, referral source, or account of Rivendell, or offer to provide, sell, or lease to any such customer, referral source or account of Rivendell, in any location, goods, products, or services of the type provided by Rivendell during the term of this Agreement.\n\n(d) Frodo further agrees that he shall not solicit, induce, influence or attempt to solicit, induce or influence any present employee or agent of Rivendell to leave his or her employment or engagement with Rivendell, offer employment or engagement to, or employ or engage any such employee or agent of Rivendell, or assist or attempt to assist any such employee or agent of Rivendell in seeking other employ.\n\nThis restrictive covenant shall be construed as an agreement independent of any other provision of this Agreement and the existence of any claim or cause of action of Frodo against Rivendell, whether predicated on this Agreement or otherwise, shall not constitute a defense to the enforcement by Rivendell of this covenant.\n\nFrodo has carefully considered the nature and extent of the restrictions upon him and the right to remedies confirmed upon Rivendell under this Agreement and hereby acknowledges and agrees that the same are reasonable in time and territory, and are designed to eliminate competition, which otherwise would be unfair to Rivendell This restrictive covenant is not intended to stifle the inherent skill and experience of Frodo, and is not intended to operate as a bar to Frodo\u2019s sole means of support, but are fully required to protect legitimate interests of Rivendell, and do not confer a benefit upon Rivendell disproportionate to the detriment to Frodo.\n\n​\n\nThank you to anyone with input!","title":"Non-compete Question for Frodo, a 1099 Independent Contractor in Canton, OH.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446230213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qveqq\/landlord_is_going_to_charge_me_for_neighbors_trash\/","id":"3qveqq","body":"Hi guys,\n\n\nI live in my apartment, there are two girls who live below me and another set of tenants who live right across from me. We all share the same big porch.  When I moved in (a year ago) the LL noted the trash and said it would be cleaned up upon moving in. Pretty sure it was, I wasn\u2019t really paying attention because I didn\u2019t care about the outward appearance. So I move in and go over my lease, it says that trash should be put out ON THE SIDEWALK after 6pm on SUNDAY. I follow this rule and make it a routine to take my trash out Sunday night off onto the sidewalk. There is almost always trash bags on the porch, days before trash is supposed to be picked up. I\u2019m assuming the other tenants put it on the porch so they don\u2019t have to deal with the space or smell in their homes. I have communicated this to the LL in email before, I got a reply giving thanks for the email. I sent another after I received an email regarding trash outside. I explained there was trash in front of the place and it was not mine, I got another email telling me thanks. I\u2019ve received an email letting me know to keep the area clean for an inspection, so I emailed back to inform the LL there was trash on the porch that would needed looked at before. Again, a \u201cthank you\u201d reply and the trash was not moved. Today, I received an email stating that the trash continues to get into by animals and makes a mess on the porch and that it needs an \u201ceye\u201d kept on to prevent it. (The trash shouldn\u2019t even be on the porch according to the lease) and that because the LL doesn\u2019t know who is putting the trash out the next time a mess is left all of the tenants (including myself) will be charged a clean-up fee of $75. I\u2019ve tried countless times to let the LL know what has been going on, stating I\u2019m not involved with the trash, or any of the tenants. I\u2019ve saved emails and have photos of the trash. I\u2019m going to start documenting that my trash is set out and I\u2019m not the one putting it on the porch, aside from that, is there anything I can do to prevent getting this fee due to tenants not following the rules? I don\u2019t feel it\u2019s my responsivity to have to say something to them about it, we\u2019re all adults and they should be following the rules and taking the emails they get from the LL seriously. I can also understand that the LL can\u2019t actually pin-point who is doing it because unless they see them, there\u2019s no way of knowing.\n","title":"Landlord is going to charge me for neighbors trash","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540811707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sc5o7\/question_about_stepparent_adoption_and_child\/","id":"9sc5o7","body":"Hello - I have questions about what happens to the child support I am owed if my boyfriend adopts my daughter.\n\nBackground: my daughter's bio father broke up with me during pregnancy,  had little contact with her right after she was born, but has now effectively abandoned her (or at least very close to it). I can count on my fingers the number of times he has seen her and she is 5 years old. He generally sees her about one time a year at this point (a few hours on Christmas, because his mother insists) despite living less than 20 minutes away. \n\nOn the other hand, my boyfriend, who I met when daughter was 1 month old, and has had at least weekly contact with ever since, wants to pursue adopting her in the near future. The three of us have been living together for about a year and a half now, and she calls him daddy (by choice, without our prompting).\n\nChild support from bio father has been spotty to say the least. He has what I'm guessing is near the minimum ordered payment, but still very rarely hits that in a given month. We are at nearly $6k in arrears currently. \n\nI understand that if an adoption occurs, those support payments will stop accruing (which I think is enough to get his consent, even though I may not need it, given the abandonment laws). \n\nMy question is 2 parts:\n\n1) what happens to the ~$6k in arrears if adoption occurs?\n\n2) if I need his consent, can I offer to forgive the $6k in arrears in order to \"sweeten the pot\", so to speak?\n\n","title":"Question about stepparent adoption and child support in Ohio","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443658235,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n1d4s\/mi_leaving_apartment_after_landlord_sent_me_a\/","id":"3n1d4s","body":"tl;dr: A lawyer I consulted with suggested I write a sternly worded letter requesting\/demanding a written consent to terminate the lease and absolve me of any damages to the bathrooms and any further rent after I move out.  Is there anything I can do if I obey the notice-to-quit but the landlady refuses to terminate the lease?\n\nSo I've been living in this apartment for 2.5 years.  The term of the lease is 12 months, and I have about 7 months left.  Just this summer, the caulking has been going bad in the shower\/bathtub.  I complain about it, the maintenance guy comes to replace the caulk, and then the caulk goes bad again soon after.  I complain again and we repeat this cycle.  This happened 4-5 times.  The last time that they replaced the caulk, they said that if it happens again, they would have to ask us to move out so that they can remove the shower to make repairs.  Before the caulk even finished curing, it was forming pits and holes in it, so I wrote a letter explaining the bad caulk, informed them that I asked my roommates to vacate in 30 days and requested information on \"how you wish to proceed in order to properly end the lease\".  She came back to me and said I could choose between leaving on October 31 and November 31.  I indicated that I would prefer October 31 over November 31.\n\nNow, I was expecting them to mail me some sort of mutual agreement to end the lease.  Instead, I received a 30-day notice-to-quit ([this form](http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/documents\/aero\/Notice-to-Quit_224823_7.pdf)).  The \"other\" box was checked, and the reason was left blank.  I start to freak out, and I start emailing landlord-tenant lawyers and looking for apartments to move to.  A lawyer emailed me back on Monday (on the 28th), and yesterday I paid $200 for a consultation.  During the consultation. I tell him that I am OK with moving out, but I am afraid that the landlady will try to charge me for the remaining balance on my lease after I move out, PLUS whatever damages they feel like charging since they are upset about me complaining about the caulking all summer long.  The lawyer advised me that I don't have to move out if I don't want to, and that if I was taken to court my position is very defendable (he said several terms of the contract which might be used to evict me either do not apply or are unconscionable).  I DO want to move out, since the landlady has been antagonistic, so the lawyer tells me that if I want to avoid the possibility of going to court over additional rent and damages to the bathroom after I move out, I need to write a letter requesting\/demanding a written consent to terminate the lease and absolve me of damages to the bathroom.\n\nToday I was supposed to sign a lease on a new apartment.  Instead I paid $200 to hold the apartment (non-refundable, but it goes towards my security deposit) for 24 hours.  Now that I am sitting down to write that letter, I am wondering: why in the world would the landlady ever give me written consent to terminate the lease?  What do I do if she doesn't agree?  Is the only thing I can do is wait to see if she bills me after I move out, and then fight it out in court?  The lawyer told me that if I want them to defend me in court, they will charge me a $2500 retainer, which is less than palatable to me, but certainly affordable.  But how long do I have to wait before I can forget about this whole ordeal safely?   Am I potentially responsible for TWO apartment's rent if I sign this other lease?\n\nSorry for the long post and I know I should probably be paying another $200 for another consultation to ask these questions, but I need to sign the lease for the other apartment by 6PM tomorrow or I lose the hold (and the $200).  I don't think I have time to set up an appointment (which I will have to skip work AGAIN for).","title":"[MI] Leaving apartment after landlord sent me a notice-to-quit on my fixed term lease to make repairs to the shower.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552659879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1fkm3\/a_guy_i_went_on_a_date_with_stole_something_and\/","id":"b1fkm3","body":"I am currently in South Korea and I went on a date with a guy as the title says, he took me to a clothes shop and stole an iPhone, I was a little bit drunk and I can\u2019t remember much and the cops are saying I was making suspicious eye contact with him and saying I could get charged with accessory. They have the cctv file of me making eye contact that I can\u2019t remember.\nThe cops said I chased after him after I left the store, I assume I followed him because I was on a date with him. \nI have to go to the police station tomorrow and give my statement, I haven\u2019t spoken to the guy since but I\u2019ve recently been trying to get a hold of him to sort this situation out.\nI am really scared and worried that I\u2019m going to get into trouble for this .\n\nI am korean and the guy is a foreigner.\n\nI don\u2019t know what to do or what\u2019s going to happen.\n\nIf they use a lie detector is it 100% accurate? Could I get wrongly accused?what could happen to me since I wasn\u2019t aware of the crime being committed until now, what can I do.\n\nWhat if they think I was helping, I don\u2019t believe I was, I can\u2019t remember, I was drunk.\n\nWhat can I do to assure I don\u2019t get wrongly accused and how can I prove that I did not help or know of the crime.\n\nI would appreciate any and all legal advice, I really don\u2019t know what to do in this situation so any help will be greatly appreciated","title":"A guy I went on a date with stole something and I\u2019m being investigated, what can\/should I do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506532152,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72tpae\/pennsylvania_need_to_break_contract_with_a\/","id":"72tpae","body":"I feel like an idiot.\n\nBack in August, I tried to contact my student loan provider to defer my loans due to unemployment and got forwarded to a loan service company. They talked me into getting my loans consolidated for about $600. I thought it was a little weird but I had the cash so I agreed. I signed some documents digitally and didn't read them fully.\n\nI made the first payment on the day, here I am a month later. They called when my payment didn't go through. I'm almost out of money and I've been job searching full time. The rep told me I couldn't cancel at this point since it's been a month and they've already processed a third of my paperwork. I countered that they have a third of my money so it should be fine to cancel. She said she'd check and call me back. \n\nShe calls me back and tells me they won't cancel but that they can work with me on when I can pay. I'm upset, but I stay cordial. She says if I don't pay it'll go to collections, etc. I tell her that I can just go online and fill out the loan consolidation myself, making it impossible for them to fulfill their contract. She doesn't answer that and I demand to speak with someone above her. She said she'd see what she can do.\n\nAm I screwed here? Or is there some way for me to get out of this contract. I figure the first payment is a sunk cost. I read the contract (after the fact, ironically - stupid me) and it looks like it's designed for this kind of situation. ","title":"[Pennsylvania] Need To Break Contract With A Student Loan Service Company","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569686166,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dahs9i\/employer_changed_my_shift_from_days_to_nights\/","id":"dahs9i","body":"I posted yesterday, but deleted in error.\n\n\nI work in Hillsboro, Oregon and have an employer who employees a few hundred employees, about 20 do the same job as me, there are day shifts and night shifts. I started as a part time employee and filled in wherever I could. But was moved into a full time days employee about two years ago. \n\nI signed a contract stating that I\u2019m full time, but it did not specify days. However, no one in my area has specified \u201cdays or nights\u201d in their contracts, they like me have assumed set schedules. And I\u2019ve worked the same schedule for almost two years.\n\nI recently received the new schedule which changed me to nights without any notice or agreement. I tried to speak with my supervisor to no avail, so I brought him a note from my doctor stating that I can\u2019t work nights due to health reasons. He was livid and was threatening to fire me. \n\nI have a meeting with him this week, and his supervisor. I plan to talk to HR as well. Do I have any rights as far as keeping my day shift, and do I have any legal recourse if they fire me or cut my hours?","title":"Employer changed my shift from days to nights without notice, I can\u2019t work nights for health reasons. I\u2019m worried they\u2019ll fire me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569076587,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7b9ri\/shooting_threat_made_at_workplace_by_client\/","id":"d7b9ri","body":"A simple summary:\n\nClient made threat to enact a shooting at my workplace. Threatened staff and myself.\n\nThreat was determined to be very credible based off of information we had about the client and we had no reason to believe they were not capable of this.\n\nPolice said they couldn\u2019t or wouldn\u2019t be able to pursue the matter unless I was will to press charges or testify in court, as they was a \u201cgrey area\u201d.\n\nI felt I was placed in a position where I had to press charges on behalf of my company to ensure the safety of my staff and self, otherwise police would not have attempted contact.\n\nClient is in custody as of yesterday.\n\nI do not want to personally be responsible for pursuing charges against the individual as I feel this is very dangerous. I want the company to press charges.\n\nIf they do not do so, I want to drop charges against client to keep myself from becoming further involved.\n\nVery confused on how this can play out.\n\nIdeas?","title":"Shooting Threat Made at Workplace by Client","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551082183,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auit99\/ohio_mentally_unwell_mother_how_to_prepare_for\/","id":"auit99","body":"Hello I'm posting on behalf of my partner. His mom's mental and physical health has been rapidly declining in the past years but the past 2 months she has admitted herself into the ER 4 times. The first time she truly was sick but came home after a week. About a week after that she went back in and the hospital was insisting that it might be good for her to go to a nursing home. She denied at first but when she was checked out of the hospital she went back in, before 30 minutes passed. She's now been in the nursing home but insisted on going back to the ER after 4 days. \n\n\nThe legal advice I'm asking about is we live in a trailer park. She owns the home, but not the land and pays lot rent. We're concerned that if she can't be released from the nursing home that her insurance(Medicaid) will make her sign over the property, or if she passes away that the park could seize the house. Is there any way that we can insure that we keep the house? If she writes a will to give it to us, is there a way the park can work around that? \n\nMobile user so I apologize for any format issues and I hope I used the right flair. \n","title":"[Ohio] Mentally unwell mother, how to prepare for the worst? Property owning, Insurance","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571165160,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dicd1a\/quit_was_paid_last_check_twice_for_different\/","id":"dicd1a","body":"My main question is whether or not I have to pay them back, can I negotiate a lesser amount, and what ways they can legally require me to pay them back. \n\nHere it goes: \n\n- Put in 2 week notice\n- Last working day was a Friday\n- The last day in the pay period was following Monday (This is important) \n- Payroll was ran on Friday for myself as it was my last day. \n- I woke up Saturday morning to see 2 different transactions deposited in my account from my now former employer. \n\to Because I had a little over a week\u2019s worth of unused PTO, I assumed that there was something else I was also owed, and that some weird deposit needed to occur. My former employer pays accrued PTO on termination. \n\to I check the payroll portal, and see no paystubs. \n\to It\u2019s a weekend so I don\u2019t call or email anyone. \n\to I decide to move my money around, make some payments and etc.\n- Monday comes around, everything is dandy. \n- Tuesday comes around, everything is dandy. \n- Wednesday comes around, I notice one of the deposits in an account I didn\u2019t use any money in was reversed.\n\to I then noticed that another account (one included in Direct Deposit) is near $0, due to a reversal. \n- Thursday, I\u2019ve concluded that I was overpaid \u2013 or something like that, since some of direct deposits were reversed. (*not all were able to be reversed)\n\to Also found out that there are some laws, saying that they cannot reverse a payment that will leave the account below $0.00. \n- 2 weeks goes by. I\u2019ve started my new role at another company, everything is dandy. \n- Then receive a call from my former HR confirming the deposits and reversals. They say I owe them the remaining deposits. We came to the following collusion: \n1. The 1st check was incorrect, and included an extra day of pay that I did not work. Fair. So they reversed the direct deposit. \n2. The 2nd check was correct. \n3. For some reason, the 1st check\u2019s reversal took several days. Also the banks will not allow a reversal to occur if it will put the account at or below $0.00. The former employer was not able to recuperate 100% of the erroneous check. So because I had already moved that money around, some of the reversals were unable to be made. \n- I told the HR manager that I don\u2019t want to pay the amount, that I t wasn\u2019t my fault, and I don\u2019t work for the company any longer so idk how they\u2019ll get their money back. She escalated the issue to her manager.\n- A day later, I receive an email from the head of accounting at my former employer saying I will need to pay those amounts back to \u2018Company\u2019 directly, and that I can mail a check.  \n\nMy questions: \n- Am I legally required pay them back? \n   -  Could they sue me with ease?\n- What are the stipulations? \n- It seems like a small enough amount for the company to just write off, how can I pursued them to just write it off?","title":"Quit. Was paid last check twice for different amounts from 2 checks. Moved money before they could reverse the erroneous check. Now they want their money back. What are my options? U.S., North Carolina.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555482784,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be4lgm\/nc_nj_it_appears_me_and_my_girlfriend_have_been\/","id":"be4lgm","body":"My girlfriend (soon to be wife) and a friend of hers have an agreement to adopt her baby boy upon birth. This has been set for several months and lawyers are involved. They opted to do this without an agency to keep cost lower. \n\nEarlier tonight, we were browsing the mother\u2019s Instagram and came across some of her old ultrasounds (she is a mother of 2). Something didn\u2019t look right so we compared the ultrasounds that the mother sent my girlfriend. Lo and behold, some of the ultrasounds that we were sent claiming to be of the baby boy due this year were of her first child from 2 years ago. As you can imagine, this is extremely perplexing. It seems that we have been lied to about the entire situation. This is very circumstantial at best, I understand, but that is all it has taken for us to view this as a scam. \n\nThe mom and \u201cchild\u201d are in New Jersey and we live in North Carolina. My girlfriend and the mother knew each other well before my girlfriend moved to NC. We were planning on either meeting with the lawyer in the morning, or going to see the mother in person to see what exactly is going and why we were lied to. What should we do? \n\nIf more information is needed, please ask and I will provide it as soon as I can. Thank you.","title":"[NC & NJ] It appears me and my girlfriend have been caught in an adoption scam. How should we proceed?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569285472,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8fn0x\/friend_received_a_text_saying_her_new_employer_is\/","id":"d8fn0x","body":"Posting on behalf of my friend. My friend has been looking for a new job the past couple months while working at another job. One company offered her a position and she accepted, they gave her paperwork and she put in her 2-week notice at her current job last Friday 09\/13 and her last day is this Friday 09\/27. After putting in her notice, she continued to corroborate with the new employer, meeting for interviews, talking about the position, etc.  The last time they met was last Friday (09\/20) and the employer was ready for her to start on 10\/02, the new employer was aware of when the notice was put in. Today she got a text not long ago from the new employer saying they can\u2019t offer her the position. She tried calling to speak to the new employer, but her call wasn\u2019t answered and she left a message. Is there anything she can do?","title":"Friend received a text saying her new employer is no longer offering her the position after she put in 2 weeks notice (CA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409090234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eo27m\/if_i_had_a_friend_who_has_a_felony_warrant_out\/","id":"2eo27m","body":"Lets say I had a friend, lets call him Jake, who was arrested with the charge of \"Delivery of cannabis over 30 grams\" which is  class 3 Felony under Illinois law. And at the time of arrest, he was let go and  told that the charges were dropped because of various issues with the arrest (lets say the police thought he was trafficking much harder drugs and were surprised to find out it was only weed). After the arrest, let's say he moved to a state where weed was legal (Colorado for instance), and was unaware he had a warrant until he was pulled over. And then he found that the warrant was non extraditable , what actions could he take to reduce or negate the charge. \n\nOn a similar note lets say the same friend was driving on a suspended license in this new state and was pulled over and now has to create a court date. What could he expect to happen in court that day? All of this is hypothetical.","title":"If I had a friend who has a felony warrant out for him (29 M) which was issued in Illinois, would there be any way I can help him out.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503013208,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ue0gd\/fake_hit_and_run_scamfraud\/","id":"6ue0gd","body":"Hi LA- asking for a friend (no really, haha):\n\nMy friend and I were leaving work in separate cars and headed the same direction. I was in the left one and she in the right. She tapped the bumper accidentally of the car in front of her. The driver gets out and my friend rolls down her window and apologizes and asks if the driver is okay. The driver says she is fine, she hopes there is no damage because it's a lease. There is no damage. They both drive off and turn right at the light, where the lady (who was previously in front) switches lanes to get behind my friend and takes a picture of her license plate. \n\nMy friend is freaking out that this lady is going to create some damage where there previously was none and drag this through court. I told her to take pictures of her car now to show with a time stamped photo that there is no damage. Is there anything else my friend can do (other than knowing in the future that she should take pictures of both cars in the future even when there is no damage)? She's heard of one of her husband's friends who was in a similar situation where it was one driver's word against another and he lost 5k even though he knew there was no damage. \n","title":"Fake Hit and Run Scam\/Fraud?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539983414,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9po060\/guy_steals_my_backpack_at_library_local_pd_say_no\/","id":"9po060","body":"Yesterday I was at the library, where I left my backpack full of personal belongings (laptop, wallet, textbooks) sitting on a table while I went to the restroom. I come back, and a guy about the same height as me is carrying it slung over one shoulder, hastily walking away. I did a sort of \u201chey! Stop!\u201d to the guy and basically we ended up both being confronted by a police officer at the main entrance of the library. The guy says I\u2019m harassing him, I say that he is trying to take my bag with my belongings in it. \n\nHere\u2019s where it gets juicy: the cop who stopped me says \u201cif you can prove it\u2019s yours, it\u2019s yours. I cannot charge a man with theft based on a he said this, he said that situation.\u201d I get pretty pissed upset at this because I tell the police officer that my wallet, full of cards that I list off, is in my backpack and I could login to the laptop in the bag. \n\nThe guy taking my bag says he does not have to prove what is in \u201chis bag.\u201d And tries to walk away again. The police officer tells me that he is correct, and let\u2019s the guy walk away. I then filed a formal statement about the guy literally stealing my bag and the police officer tells me that \u201cthe library is not responsible for stolen goods.\u201d\n\nNot once did I mention it being the library\u2019s fault, I was trying to say that my bag is stolen. I filed a police report this morning but essentially a police officer let a criminal get away with theft. What do I do? What did the officer do wrong?","title":"Guy steals my backpack at library, local PD say no way to prove it\u2019s my property.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553477856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b54hnl\/my_sister_is_15_and_had_sex_with_16_year_old_age\/","id":"b54hnl","body":"I am 16, she is 15. My parents weren't home last night, so me and my sister were the only ones in the house.\n\nSo, last night around 2-3 am, i heard some noises, it wasn't loud but my sister walks in her sleep sometimes so i thought it was her. I went to check on her.\n\nI opened her door and i saw her with her bf busy having sex. Without asking anything i immediately grabbed him and kicked him out. I told him that i will kick his ass when i see him again, he is in the same school as us. I also told him to never go near her again and to never talk to her. My sister was mad, she said that she hates me and that i am an asshole for kicking her bf like that, i didnt give him his clothes, neither his shoes. He was wearing his boxers though.\n\nShe wanted to go after him but i stopped her. She has been crying all night, she said that i am a bully. She has been cussing me all night, i told her i will tell our parents, i said that because of the way she was acting, she was acting as if she hasnt done anything wrong.\n\n​\n\n''i was shocked, i didnt even know if he was a murderer or thief, especially that our parents werent home with us. Secondly, where i live, 15 is too young to consent (16 is the age of consent), idk if he is 15 or 16, i asked her but she refused to tell me, i will talk to her, our relationship is great (most of the time). Also i did that to protect her not just because i am her older brother or whatever. My parents wouldnt have liked it too.''\n\n​\n\nSo, should i tell my parents? should i tell the police?\n\n​\n\n btw, her bf isnt trustworthy, he dated his ex for  months then he dumped her, he then started dating my sister a while after that (i think). He is  16, at first i didnt know he was 16 but i started asking about him and i found out. i want to get him into trouble. So any advice?","title":"My sister is 15 and had sex with 16 year old, age of consent is 16, will he get jailed because of that?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540681547,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ryma7\/who_is_responsible_for_damages_when_someone\/","id":"9ryma7","body":"What is my recourse in the following situation? \n\nTL:DR Am I financially responsible for damages sustained to my vehicle as a result of driving over large debris - in this case, a full-sized spare tire - sitting on a major highway?\n\nI was driving down a busy highway last night. It was dark and the section of highway in question isn't well lit. I'm in the passing lane going 60 mph in a 55 mph zone and actively passing someone when my headlights illuminate what is clearly a large obstacle no one would want to strike with their vehicle. No sooner do I see it than I run it over, and it sounded and felt horrible.\n\nI pull off to the side of the road and see I'm not the only person this happened to; there are maybe 10 of us all together. First, I call AAA. My front driver's side tire is completely blown out and the wheel itself is bent on the inside, too. I'm also concerned I may have a problem with my axel. I was able to move the vehicle and had a donut, but still had it towed to a garage. It's the weekend, so the verdict is still out on the damage. \n\nNext, I called the state police (I'm in PA), just five minutes down the road. They informed me they'd already been called and had dispatched troopers. Well, it took them 20 minutes after my call to show up. Meanwhile, more drivers pull off to the side of the road, and eventually one of the guys waiting for a tow and the cops waits until the highway is clear and yanks the obstacle - a full-sized spare tire - off the road.\n\nThis is a major inconvenience and financial burden for me, and I want to know who is financially responsible for this. Is it PennDOT? Is it my insurance company? Is it me? The repairs may be expensive, but they may not. My car is nearly 20 years old, but it's in otherwise good repair. However, I do only have minimum coverage for the vehicle because of its age. But since it's my only method of transportation, I have to rent a car to get to and from work.\n\nI'm apprehensive about how much this will cost, and I'm hoping this is not my sole burden to bare. Any advice you can offer would be super!","title":"Who is responsible for damages when someone leaves a full-sized spare tire on a major highway?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568931996,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6lerl\/i_moved_to_another_state_and_forgot_to_close_a\/","id":"d6lerl","body":"So I decided I wanted a gym membership. Two weeks later I was offered a job in Florida and left immediately. I contacted the gym previously about leaving but they wanted me to come in and give evidence of a address change or pay 250$. I forgot about it and now months later they\u2019re harassing me to get a 250$ closing fee. I originally paid in cash when I signed up but the lady over the phone demanded to have my credit card information and scheduled two 125$ payments for October 10 and 31st. Anything I can do to not pay this?","title":"I moved to another state and forgot to close a gym membership. They want me to pay a 250$ closing fee","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1507656735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75injp\/alabama_landlord_has_yet_to_fix_a_hole_in_my_floor\/","id":"75injp","body":"Rented a manufactured home in early August. During move in we noticed a very small soft spot in the floor just in front of an access door for our a\/c unit. Told the property manager in person about this and they claimed they would come look at it. 3 weeks go by, holes gotten much bigger and still haven't heard anything so I file a formal maintenance request. Get a call the next morning trying to blame me for the reason why they haven't been able to come look at it, as I have to work and can't be there during their \"open\" hours. Fast forward to the next month, I got to the office to speak with them about why it hasn't even been looked at and I get a bunch of excuses about their maintenance man not showing up, not my problem. So she sends her husband up to look at it that day, he places a cut piece of plywood down over the hole and tells me someone will be there in a couple days to fix it. \n\nI just paid my rent again. Can you guess what still hasn't been fixed?\n\nI'm just trying to figure out what my options are. Thanks advance","title":"(Alabama) landlord has yet to fix a hole in my floor","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569889882,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbl4an\/previous_apartment_complex_owed_me_a_refund_two\/","id":"dbl4an","body":"I briefly lived at an apt. complex in AZ. I moved in early but on the same day I moved out due to disliking the property (unable to view room prior to move-in). I immediately subleased it, and that process was finalized a week or two later.\n\nThe complex told me I'd get a refund for my advance rent, early days for which I wasn't there (girl moved in during this time), deposit, etc. Normal things.\n\nThey said the check would arrive within two weeks. At the time, it was the first week of August.\n\nOctober Eve, here we are! No check in sight. \n\nThe complex claims the check couldn't be delivered and is in the process of being sent back. For two months? Ha. They also cannot provide a copy of the check, a number, or any proof that it exists.\n\nI have a text message from them acknowledging that I'm owed a refund and a sticky note or two on which a leasing consultant wrote out the details of my refund.\n\nI doubt the check exists. Do I have the grounds to take action? I was thinking about filing a police report, but I have no idea if that's the proper response or how it would work...","title":"Previous apartment complex owed me a refund two months ago-- what actions can I take?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570757513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg7z1d\/employer_lied_about_my_bonuses_and_now_i_cant\/","id":"dg7z1d","body":"Hi everyone. I have been trying to refinance my house after a divorce. My husband left me because I am infertile but agreed I could keep the house on the terms that I refinance by December. Long story short, I went through the whole process, got prequalified, got conditional approval, etc. The lender called me today and said after the paperwork received from my employer I was not eligible. He told me everything was fine until the Verification of Income paperwork they received said I don\u2019t receive any bonuses. The woman who sent the paperwork is the HR director. She knows that I get bonuses around $2,500 a year due sales and I have proof. This literally caused the refinance to fall apart because the lender thinks I have been dishonest. Said HR lady has been out to get me and I have documented that in my file. She has unfairly reprimanded me and I am certain she lied to the lender on purpose. Is there anything I can do about this? I am going to lose my house because of her.","title":"Employer lied about my bonuses and now I can\u2019t refinance my house.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553315069,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4evww\/speeding_ticket_help\/","id":"b4evww","body":"I (18 M) in Michigan, just got my second speeding ticket in the past week. I have a company lease car and this would constitute a 2nd violation out of the three I'm allowed until I'm 21. How can I fight this ticket (40 in 25 but officer gave me a 5 over, mind you I have no clue about any part of this town) or plea to get this ticket off my record? I'll still pay the fine","title":"Speeding ticket help","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570572252,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df74zl\/reconcile_marriage_missouri\/","id":"df74zl","body":"My wife and i filed for divorce, we are going to attempt counseling now before finalizing the divorce.  I was representing myself and she had a lawyer, her lawyer Is dragging his feet now that he knows we aren\u2019t going through with the divorce.  I am in the process of buying a house and close in less than a week.  The bank is requesting signed documentation that we aren\u2019t getting divorced.  I can\u2019t find any template or document that me and her both sign to submit to the court stating we would like to end the case. Any help or advice is appreciated.","title":"Reconcile Marriage Missouri","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541891808,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vyw44\/ca_landlord_did_not_send_new_lease_to_be_signed\/","id":"9vyw44","body":"I am currently renting a house in San Diego.\n\nWe had signed a 1-year lease that expired on 10\/31\/18. We had verbally agreed via email to renew for an additional year and agreed on a slightly increased monthly rent. However, the landlord (property manager) has not sent over a new lease even though I requested one be sent over for us to sign.\n\nDoes this mean we are technically in a month-to-month situation right now? Or because we verbally agreed via email to renew for another year are we bound by that?\n\nIf we are indeed in a month-to-month situation right now, how much notice am I required to give if we wish to vacate?\n\nThank you.","title":"[CA] Landlord did not send new lease to be signed","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447051334,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s3sw2\/when_can_spousal_abandonment_become_grounds_for\/","id":"3s3sw2","body":"After ~18 years of marriage, my mother discovered my stepfather impregnated a twenty-one year old in his native country. After being confronted, he left. Two weeks later, we finally found out that he went *back* to the country he'd emigrated from, and that he'd moved in with his mistress and new baby. He's telling everyone out there that he's not coming back. We haven't heard anything from him directly, and it's been three months now. \n\nThat's all fine and dandy, but he and my mother are real estate investors, and he left her with five mortgage payments and two car payments she can't afford on her own. \n\nHow can she divorce him if he's in another country? At what point can spousal abandonment count as grounds for divorce in California? She needs to sell the properties they invested in together, because he's no longer helping her make payments and she can't afford them. Can she still sell them if he's listed as a cosigner and doesn't give his consent?  ","title":"When Can 'Spousal Abandonment' Become Grounds for Divorce in California?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569864493,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbezt4\/wi_cars_are_being_towed_excessively_at_my\/","id":"dbezt4","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nI have lived at my current apartment for over a year and within the past few months, cars without parking permits have been getting towed at an increasing rate. I park my car in my garage and my guests park outside. I have never given any of my guests parking permits because they've never stayed overnight. \n\nA friend was visiting the other day and her car got towed 30 minutes after she parked it. The lease states that guests must follow all parking signs. There are two signs regarding parking at the entrances to the complex. The first one says \"Resident Parking Only\" and cites [MGO Section 23.07(2)](https:\/\/library.municode.com\/wi\/madison\/codes\/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=COORMAWIVOIICH20--31_CH23OFAGPUPO_23.07UNTR). The second one says \"Permit Parking Only\" and cites [Wisconsin State Statute 342.40](https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/statutes\/statutes\/342\/III\/40).\n\nI would like to know if those laws are sufficient for them to be towing cars. The apartment managers are claiming that the signs are adequate and that all vehicles parked outside must have a parking permit regardless of how long they're staying. This means that if a friend wants to come over after the office is closed, I'm screwed! This is clearly no way to live and would appreciate any advice regarding this matter. Thank you for reading.","title":"[WI] Cars are being towed excessively at my apartment complex and I'm wondering if anything can be done","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1413141040,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2j1r4k\/17_year_old_caught_shoplifting_with_tools\/","id":"2j1r4k","body":"a friend was caught shoplifting for 650 dollars worth of stuff from a local electronics dealer. They supposedly have video evidence and he was stopped at the exit. Police arrested him and he has been arrested for a felony. What chances does he have of getting charges dismissed? no criminal record? and since he is 17, what chances does he have of getting his record sealed\/expunged? his family cant afford an expensive lawyer, as he barely makes ends meet. what is his best course of action?","title":"17 year old caught shoplifting with tools suggesting premeditation, arrested for Felony, what to do? [Los Angeles, California]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553981398,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7g94y\/roofing_company_caused_2300_damage_to_ac_contract\/","id":"b7g94y","body":"Roofing company punctured my AC line with nails, but their contract says they are not liable for damage to AC line to close to the decking.\n\nDo I have any options here?","title":"Roofing company caused $2300 damage to AC, contract says they cant be held laible.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1505763989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70xgsj\/ticket_for_phone_in_hand_at_a_red_light_worth\/","id":"70xgsj","body":"Live in California. In Dec 2016, there was a new law put in place that you can't have a phone in your hand at any time while driving, even if you aren't moving. I was not aware of this new law.  \n\nI was at a red light and temporarily took my phone down from my dash mount to edit my GPS. When the light turned green, I put the phone back up before ever stepping on the gas. Immediately past the light, I got pulled over and received a ticket for having the phone in my hand. My ticket says I was going 0 mph.  \n\nIs this worth going to court to argue against? Obviously I'm on the wrong side of the law, even if I didn't know about it and even if I still think it's stupid. There was zero chance of threat to any person on the road around me. Prior to this I had a perfectly clean driving record, and before and after this I still have never actually been on my phone while my foot is on the gas. I only ever check it at red lights.  \n\nWould a judge take offense to my asking for a warning or a pass given my history, and given the really non threatening nature of the infraction, even though I know 100% I did technically break the law?","title":"Ticket for phone in hand at a red light - worth contesting?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1414514161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2kkyub\/usa_was_fired_for_not_cooking_the_books_my_boss\/","id":"2kkyub","body":"I was recently asked to quit when I refused to hide some inconsistencies. I didn't want to be part of something illegal, but also didn't want to quit. My plan was to do the books the right way, even if it made the company look bad. My boss fired me over this. He recently sent a letter asking me to destroy the evidence I have. I realize that I should not keep company property if I'm not currently employed, but I also don't want to destroy evidence that would possibly be used against the company.\n\nWhat should my next step be?","title":"[USA] Was fired for not \"cooking the books\" my boss asked for. He is now telling me to destroy the evidence.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569450178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9aio8\/speedping_ticket_in_va_classified_as_reckless\/","id":"d9aio8","body":"I was clocked in I-85 in Brunswick County at going 88 in a 70 in a rental vehicle going back home to MD. \n\nEverything I've looked at makes it seem like I'm truly screwed, thousands of dollars in fines, losing my license possibly, or even ending up in jail. I've got a pretty clear record otherwise but I'm really freaking out here. Any help or advice would be really appreciated.\nThanks!","title":"Speedping ticket in VA classified as \"reckless driving\" please help.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571580161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkjztb\/school_that_i_did_not_attend_still_continues_to\/","id":"dkjztb","body":"So back in 2017 I was originally going to attend FAU, but decided to switch to a community college. All I paid for at the school was my application fee and because I was originally intending on going, a non refundable $200 deposit to sign up for classes and orientation (something along those lines). So I paid that deposit (this was even before my graduation) but about a month later when I decides not to attend I was told that I could refund the deposit because I was not going to the school since I let them know of the situation and was able to get the $200 back on my card. However, even two years later, I am being emailed again and again about how I have to pay this \"outstanding balance\". I never signed up for classes and I believe this is from that $200 fee since I checked once and that's what it kept saying I needed to pay. They say if I don't pay within the 90 day mark that I will be reported to the credit bureau. What do I do? Pay the fee? It says that I have to sign into my student account to see specifically what it is that I owe but I can't even log in. I contacted them last year about this and explained my situation and they said I still have to pay even though I don't go to their school. I really need help with this situation, and I live in Florida by the way. Thank you.","title":"School that I did not attend still continues to email me about paying fees even two years later. Do I have to pay? They keep threatening to report me to the credit bureau.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570324904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddwlku\/how_long_is_an_employer_allowed_to_give_you\/","id":"ddwlku","body":"A bit of a long story but I really really need help. \nI\u2019ve been working at a small bakery for 4 months. The owner has been nothing but terrible to me. Yelling at me for things that happened when I literally wasn\u2019t even at work. She told me when I was hired that I\u2019d be working 20-25 hours a week. I\u2019ve never gotten more than 12. \n\nShe recently talked to me about moving me into prep instead which is fine. I\u2019d be working 18-24 hours a week. I was supposed to come in on Wednesday for training but I texted her on Tuesday to make sure. No reply. So of course I showed up for training at 7am anyway since that\u2019s what she told me last. I texted her when I got there again to make one last effort. She replied saying she\u2019s sorry for not replying but I\u2019m not training today. I asked her when she wants me to come in. She said she has to figure things out. I never got another reply. Today is when the next weeks schedule is supposed to come out and I haven\u2019t gotten one, which means I\u2019m not working again at all this week. 2nd week in a row. \n\nIs there any rule for how long an employer can schedule employees for literally nothing before they have to fire them so I could get unemployment? I\u2019ve literally never been fired before but I have bills to pay and I can\u2019t live like this. Do I have any options?","title":"How long is an employer allowed to give you literally no hours?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541728625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vgaz3\/my_school_goes_through_students_data_and_filters\/","id":"9vgaz3","body":"Posting from a throw away account.\n\nMy school board goes through students data, filtering, blocking, and doing who knows what with the data. This is an attempt to \"speed up\" the internet they say. For my own privacy, I, along with many other people, use a VPN to hide the data. They have begun to block VPNs as well as anything that they deem unwanted. This includes YouTube, Spotify, social media, ect.\n\nNow normally they could get away with this because it's their network and people agree to the terms when they connect.\n\nExcept for that last part. There are no terms and conditions to connect, no signed waiver, nothing. This is a public network on public property.\n\nWhat can I do?","title":"My school goes through students data and filters data to \"speed up\" the internet","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1504144912,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x4035\/should_i_fight_this_traffic_ticket_rockland\/","id":"6x4035","body":"Hello all,\n\nToday I received the first traffic ticket of my life, other than one for driving with the license plate light out when I was 16, and would like some basic legal insight before I decide to plead guilty or not guilty.\n\nI was driving home on a long curvy road in the middle of rush hour. There were several cars in front of and behind me, all driving 45mph at least, which was the speed limit. As we rounded a turn up a hill I saw a cop giving someone a ticket on the side of the road. We continued driving at 45mph and everyone in front of me swerved to the side a bit to give him space, which I was pretty sure was the standard procedure, so I began to follow suit. The officer had evidently just pulled someone over as there was a car parked in front of him and his emergency lights were on, but no sirens. This was a two-lane road with two yellow lines in the middle. As I was passing him, with the front of my car already passing the back of his car and my vehicle becoming parallel to his, he turned his blinker on and started abruptly turning into the road, causing me to have to swerve more than I intended to avoid hitting him. His emergency lights were still on but there were no sirens. I had no idea up until this point that he was attempting to merge as he was sitting stationary in his vehicle with a car stopped in front of him, leading me to believe he was printing a ticket. As I was already in the process of passing him, the cars in front of me had done it, there were cars behind me, and I was driving the speed limit, I completed passing him since a dead stop seemed unsafe. \n\nHe then pulled me over and berated me, asking me if I had somewhere important to be that made me think I could cut off a police officer. I apologized and said I was just trying to get home. He then asked why I didn't completely stop when he turned his blinker on and I answered that I was already in the middle of passing him and felt that it wouldn't be safe to come to a stop. He scoffed and said \"Unbelievable. Common sense alone should have told you to stop.\" and asked for my license and registration. I responded to everything with both hands on the wheel and said \"sorry officer, yes officer, no officer, etc.\" at every relevant point. He then went back to his car and did whatever an officer does during a stop before returning with my ticket. At this point he was far, far, nicer, which I assume was because my record is so clean. He gave me the ticket and said that he made it out for driving on the wrong lane instead of cutting off an emergency vehicle with its lights on to go easy on me. The ticket says the violation was \"Drove across hazard marking.\" and on the back where his personal notes are it says that I passed him over double yellow lines while he had his emergency lights on and was attempting to merge.\n\nHe said that I should plead not guilty to see if they're lenient with me. According to the ticket, the town the ticket is for and where the handling court is isn't the town whose police department he's a part of. I apologized again and said that it could have been a stupid mistake but that I just didn't feel safe stopping and wasn't sure of what to do. He calmly said not to worry about it and told me that I should plead guilty and try to get off as I have \"nothing to lose\" by doing so. \n\nI want to fight it as I feel that I did nothing wrong whatsoever \"in a perfect world I would like to give him a ticket for endangering my life by almost merging into me\" but I wonder if it's hopeless as it's a case of an officer's word against a non-officer's. I don't so much care about the money, it's more about the points going on my record. \n\n\nIn your personal opinion, should I plead not guilty? I have no idea what the fine would be or how many points this would entail as the ticket says nothing about it and I can't find it on NY state's websites, but I feel like there's a good chance the court fees would be just as much if not more than the fine. This would go to a village court.\nI plan to go to the court as soon as I can to ask these questions, since the number on their site gives me a dial tone and their email address apparently has no valid domain anymore, but I'd appreciate it if anyone could help me out.\nDoes Rockland county New York allow deferred adjudication? Does it allow trial by written declaration? Any other insights?\n\nI live and have a NJ license right now, this happened in Rockland County NY, and I will soon be moving to Kansas or Missouri \"the job I just got is in Kansas city and I haven't chosen what state to live in yet.\" If I plead guilty, will the points carry to Kansas or Missouri? All I can find on their websites is that if I was a Missouri or Kansas driver and got a ticket in New York it would count, but I don't know if that applies retroactively. \n\nMost of the advice that I've gotten thus far is to just plead guilty and pay the fine. My mother, for example, claims that the points won't even carry to NJ as she's gotten a few NY speeding tickets but none of them transferred over. Some of the advice has been to fight the ticket since all standing advice and guidelines are to move over for a stopped officer and this officer gave no indication that he was merging until I was already passing him. My wife thinks the cop pulled me over because he didn't notice his blinker wasn't on and was pissed no one was stopping for him and I was just unlucky enough to be the last person to pass him.\n\nThank you in advance.\n\nEDIT: The ticket says the relevant driving code is 1128 (d).","title":"Should I fight this traffic ticket? (Rockland County, NY)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541113239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tehm2\/1099_vs_w2_misclassification_questions\/","id":"9tehm2","body":"I am working on a IT installation project as a 1099 employee. \n\nI am almost certain that I am being misclassifed as a 1099 rather than a W2. Of the 20 factors ( http:\/\/www.vec.virginia.gov\/irs-20-factors-and-exemptions) pretty much all point to employee. I have completed shorter multi month contracts for this employer starting last year. I am on a multi month contract now. The 1099 contract even specifies that I work under general supervison and make an hourly wage. I am giving daily tasking for the project by a boss and I am required to fill out a daily time card. I believe people doing similar work on the project are W2 employees. \n\nI need the work, so I don\u2019t want to bring it up with them as they might find a reason to get rid of me. \n\nCan I file an S8 (Determination of Worker Status for Purposes of Federal Employment Taxes and Income Tax Withholding)  after the contract is over and get them to pay my payroll taxes retroactively? I would only want to file the S8 if there would be financial gain for me. \n\nIf they say I should have been a W2, can I get the payroll tax (aka self employment tax) I paid to the IRS refunded if I file a correction? I already paid it for 2017, and it will well into 2019 or later before I would get a decision on an S8. \n\n\n","title":"1099 vs W2 Misclassification questions","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570149031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dczulr\/az_driving_on_suspended_license_second_offense\/","id":"dczulr","body":"Please remove or suggest a more appropriate sub if this doesn't belong here. I tried the search function, but it wasn't helpful, and I am embarrassingly inept at legal stuff.\n\nI was pulled over for driving on a suspended license (ARS 28-3473APM) and failure to obey turn signs (ARS 28-751.3) while at work on 08\/2019. I have court tomorrow and reviewing the statute for the first one, since that one is a criminal traffic case, and I'm not sure if it's because I'm nervous, but I am still uncertain on what to expect. \n\nMy license was suspended on 07\/2019 after I failed to make two payments toward an installment plan set up for a prior instance of driving on a suspended license, which occured on 12\/2018. This suspension was a result of failing to provide proof of insurance by the set time, but I was able to fix everything and get it reinstated on 3\/2019. In case it matters, I was pulled over for the first instance due to having forgotten to add my new registration sticker on my license plate. Court for my first suspension was 04\/2019, so they dismissed it, as I had gotten my license back by then.\n\nI'm reading that for a second offense, the prosecutor might seek a minimum of 5 days to 12 months max in jail. I know this might be a very stupid question, but if the charge was dropped, does this count as a second offense and will I be facing jail time, or will I be able to wait out my suspension and get limited driving privileges to and from work?\n\n I don't have money to hire an attorney and my knowledge of legal proceedings is based solely on law shows and amateur research, this being part of the latter. Any and all help is welcome and thoroughly appreciated. I am very inexperienced with all this and it may seem I am being deliberately obtuse, but I like eliminating as many doubts and 'what-if's' as reasonably possible. I tried to describe the situation as neutral and factual as possible, as I don't want to rely on a sympathetic judge to explain why everything panned out the way it did.. if that would even help in the first place.","title":"[AZ] Driving on suspended license, second offense, but first time dropped.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444904025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ou945\/germany_today_bumped_my_car_door_into_a_car_while\/","id":"3ou945","body":"I took some Pictures and documented the exact time and place.\n\nEDIT for LocationBot: Germany, Hesse. There you go.","title":"Germany, today: Bumped my car door into a car while opening it.. Doesn't look like it made a scratch, but there's some kind of stain now. What could it be? Should I inform the owner?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568897486,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6dlgf\/how_do_i_enforce_a_child_arrangements_order_due\/","id":"d6dlgf","body":"U.K\n\nNot entirely sure this is the right place so apologises in advance. \nBasically as the title says, we have a child arrangements order from a few years ago put in place by the courts and over the last 1.5-2years childs father has basically done what he wants, and shown up at times that weren't put in place or agreed to. \nHe lives roughly 2hrs away from us so I understand the travel itself is exhausting as in the past myself and my husband have had to go and collect our LO after receiving calls\/texts that he is unable to bring him home because he is too poorly, but upon arrival he is hungover and stinks of stale ale. \n\nThe court order states that he should collect a certain time on Fridays after school every other weekend, return on the Sunday before bedtime and have 50% of all school holidays. He collects (when he shows up) on Saturday mornings between 7 & 8am stating he cant face the Friday traffic anymore and he is too tired for the journey. I let this slide because my LO didn't seem to mind. But the last 12months he hasn't bothered to spend time with our LO over half terms and only having 1 week out of a 6 week summer break claiming he has family commitments and cant commit to more. He palms our LO off with other relatives to attend weddings and stag parties and our LO comes home upset and telling me he slept on a duvet or camping beds at other people's houses or with his Step mums family. \nI cant keep doing this, but I have no idea where to start, do I have to file a new application for family court? Do I take in all the proof I.e texts\/emails between me and my ex?\n\nI cant even update CSA to say he has him a lot less now because they wont stray from the court order. We get a lot of grief from him and he laughs when he tells us that we cant update CSA without his consent when they called him to confirm the changes he lied about having him, so we cant even benefit financially for my LO which would make all this rubbish a bit more bearable. Not to make it sound like we are just after money. I just want a more stable realistic routine for my kid. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Am I about to cough up for a brand new court order for my LO and my sanity?","title":"How do I enforce a child arrangements order due to childs father constantly letting child down and not showing up?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554252171,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8rc26\/in_receiving_retirement_per_divorce_decree_time\/","id":"b8rc26","body":"Basically what the title says...  Is there a time limit after a divorce decree is granted for the retirement to be split and distributed?  \n\nI've been divorced for a couple years now.  My ex-wife was to receive half of my retirement (403b) from during our marriage.  Pretty standard stuff, I'd assume.  She never had the money to pay her half of the legal fees in order to obtain it (the QDRO).  Now my concern is that at some odd time down the road, she'll decide she desperately wants it and will cause me grief over it.  \n\nSoooo.... Can she?  Or how long does she have?","title":"[IN] Receiving retirement per divorce decree time limits","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507489859,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/753p1u\/new_roommate_threatened_to_kill_me_complex_wont\/","id":"753p1u","body":"Location is Austin, TX. Throwaway since there\u2019s some specific details. \n\nTLDR: Roommate threatened to kill me, apartment complex won\u2019t do anything about it until Tuesday at least, but want me to move out instead of the roommate. \n\nI live in a 4BR\/2BA apartment. It\u2019s been me and one roommate for the past month, but we got a new one on Thursday. She\u2019s on my side of the apartment so we share a bathroom. \n\nI noticed on Thursday she doesn\u2019t lock the front door when coming home or leaving. Before I could talk to her about it, our apartment was broken into on Friday evening. When she came home on Saturday, we told her about it and she immediately got defensive and said we were only upset because we don\u2019t want a black roommate. She then went in her room and locked her door behind her. \n\nLater that evening she was in our shared space talking to someone on the phone and told them she was so pissed at me she was about to spend the day in Austin. She then told me directly she was going to beat my ass so bad I wouldn\u2019t be around to file a police report against her, and not to fuck with her because she\u2019s from St. Louis. \n\nI was freaked out and called the police. They came by and talked to all three of us, gave me a report number, and said a detective would contact me. I went to the front office of my apartment complex to file a complaint, and the roommate was also there filing a complaint against me. The manager is out of the office until Tuesday so I was only able to speak at the people working at the front desk and they said they can\u2019t do anything until the manager makes a determination about who\u2019s in the wrong. I feel like that\u2019s pretty clear, but they told me that even if someone needs to move from the unit that person will probably be me. That doesn\u2019t seem right to me. \n\nThe roommate has continued to loudly talk on the phone about what a racist bitch I am and how she wants to kick my ass. I\u2019m staying in a hotel for the time being, but I can\u2019t afford it for more than a night or so. Is there anything I can do here? I feel like she should be the one to move out, not me, but in the mean time I don\u2019t feel safe in my unit. My already bad anxiety is through the roof and I don\u2019t know what else I can do. ","title":"New roommate threatened to kill me, complex won\u2019t do anything about it. (TX)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506955034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73t55a\/in_slavic_surnames_in_usa_legal_or_not\/","id":"73t55a","body":"My fiance is from an Eastern European country that has Slavic naming customs. You can find out information about it [here](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_Slavic_naming_customs). My fiance, let's call him Ivan Ivanov, is moving to America by means of a K1 visa to marry me, Jane Doe. When we get married, I want to keep his tradition alive because it's important for both of us.\n\nKeeping with the customs of his country, when we get married and I take his last name, my name would be Jane Ivanova. Women, in this instance, would have an -ova ending, as opposed to just -ov for men. Is there a way, through the marriage certificate, that I could keep the -a suffix?\n\nAnother question for the future is in regards to children. How could I name my child, if they were a girl, Sally Ivanova? ","title":"[IN] Slavic surnames in USA, legal or not?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569304448,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8izsk\/tx_does_my_exboss_have_to_give_me_my_employment\/","id":"d8izsk","body":"I\u2019m getting offered a job at a maybe competitor so I wanted to review my old contract and had signed a employment contract with a non-compete in it. A few years later and he fired me and he won\u2019t give it to me, saying because it has so much other stuff about the job in it and our commission structures.\n\nDoes he have to give it to me now?  If he doesn\u2019t can I just go work anywhere?","title":"[TX] Does my ex-boss have to give me my employment contract w\/ a non-compete in it?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1447434366,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3soizf\/advice_about_breaking_a_lease_on_an_apartment\/","id":"3soizf","body":"Wisconsin, US.\n\nMy boyfriend and I moved into a new apartment building on Aug 7. We paid a security deposit and a pet deposit. We pay a $35 pet fee each month for my small dog. He has separation anxiety issues and started barking when left alone since we moved into the apartment. (something he has never done in the past) Our immediate next door neighbors have complained several times to the property manager and have even gone directly to the owners of the building to complain about his barking. We cannot leave my dog at a doggy daycare due to our late work hours (we work until 10 pm or later). \n\nAfter nothing helped his barking and whining our property manager and I came up with the idea of renting a storage unit in the basement to board our dog while we are gone from work. We approved it with the owner of the building and I signed a lease on the storage unit. The unit is in a large ventilated and heated room. It is a 6x6 and about 12 foot tall chain link cage. I can provide a picture. We put a dog bed, water, food, and his kennel for him to go in and out of. He was never down there more than 3-4 hours. It was working very well until some tenants started claiming \"animal cruelty\" with out even seeing inside the storage unit. The property manager did her best to explain to the tenant the situation but they are not having it. Also the tenant is friends with the owner of the building so they are complaining directly to him. Now it has come down to having to take \"serious action\". Either get rid of our dog (which is completely out of the question) or move out and pay upwards of thousands of dollars. We have also not had any other issues with the manager. She really likes us and we have even met the owner and he seemed to like us as well. We both have good rental history and have paid all our bills for the apt exactly on time. The only issue is the dog. \n\nWe would like to move, but in order to break the lease, we would have to pay $300, the $1,600 incentive they gave us to move in (free first months rent) in addition to the monthly rent until they can find someone else to move in. Since this is a new building, they will have trouble finding a new tenant. Our lease ends September 2016. I understand it is our dog that is causing these issues, and the property manager has been very patient, but we cannot take a hit of thousands of dollars to move out. Are there any routes we could take to get out of this situation? Thank you. \n\n ","title":"Advice about breaking a lease on an apartment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444796052,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ooimg\/in_california_friend_suggested_theft_as_a_means\/","id":"3ooimg","body":"Throwaway because I don't want to risk anything.\n\n\nSo some background. I've been trying to save money for a new computer, but I'm also trying to think ahead for college. (I'm currently 17, college comes up next fall) Even though I actually have the money to buy a computer, I haven't spent it because I don't have a steady job, due to still being in high school which is quite busy. This is where the \"friend\" (I'm using the loosest definition of friend here) comes in. While we were alone volunteering, he suggested that I should break into some local schools and steal stuff to resell for money. He went into some detail about having a \"bump key\" and how it's really easy for him to break into places. I immediately declined his offer, but he implied his own intent to commit theft, regardless of my own choice. He also said that he has \"family connections\" that would relieve him of any legal charges if he were caught, which is kind of disheartening.\n\nMy question is, is there anything I can do in the case of implied intent? He never admitted to doing anything, although in our conversation it felt implied that he'd stolen things before, in part due to his mention of experience and how easy it is to steal.","title":"In California, \"friend\" suggested theft as a means of profit, not sure what to do","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569074886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7axmb\/sueing_steam\/","id":"d7axmb","body":"First of all I live in Germany, but I think this is an international problem\n\nRecently I got scammed on steam, this worked that someone somehow hacked my account (shouldn't be possible cause I have a mobile authentificator on my phone, but that's not the point) so I got send messages from someone claiming to be a Steam-Support-Admin and my account is corrupted and I need to trade my Items to a friend or another account of mine or otherwise they would be deleted. Then i traded them to a friend and some how the trade was intercepted and now they are on another account.\n\nDue to the 14 day trade ban (after an item is traded it can't be traded again for 14 days ) it is absolutely possible for Steam to restore and track these Items. So I had hope.\n\nI then contacted the Steam-Support who  admitted that there was some criminal thing going on but said due to their rules they do not restore these Items.   I then answered again pointing this Reddit post out  https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Steam\/comments\/d0baos\/discussion\\_valve\\_giving\\_special\\_treatment\\_to\\_a\/      and some examples of equality rights. But I only got about the same kind of auto answer like the first time.\n\nI also checked back the account where my items are now and it is not even banned or so.\n\nMy question is now if this is a precedent that will require Steam to restore stolen and scammed items and\/or if it would be enough to maybe sue Steam\n\noverall apologies for my imperfect english","title":"Sueing Steam???","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554226902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8mdy2\/is_there_any_legal_repercussions_for_taking\/","id":"b8mdy2","body":"So I work for a company that has a promotion of 25$ off when you put your email on the website. I just hatched the idea of making multiples and ordering stuff from the website online for free with stacking codes. As far as policy goes I don\u2019t believe there is anything against it. Can I get in any legal trouble for this? ","title":"Is there any legal repercussions for taking advantage of a promotion my company is doing?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507643812,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75h75r\/can_my_landlord_make_me_get_rid_of_my_piano\/","id":"75h75r","body":"I'm a student living in an apartment in Tennessee advertised as \"student housing\" - however, it is privately owned and managed and in no way affiliated with the university. My apartment is a 2 bedroom. Rent and leases are handled separately between the tenants.\nI have a new roommate this fall who's a bit... Particular, and doesn't really seem to like the look of anything that isn't hers. \nA few weeks ago I removed a broken chair (that belonged to me) and a table (that belonged to me) and replaced it with a keyboard. Evidently she has privately complained to the landlord about it, because I was called down to the office last night and told by him that my roommate had been (I quote) \"willing to overlook your other furniture\" but that \"as the property manager, I'm telling you the piano has to move or be removed from the apartment.\"\nHe knows that I have absolutely NO room for a keyboard in my bedroom or closet - our rooms are shoebox sized. That's not the point, though - does he actually have any right to insist I move or remove a piece of my own furniture from my living room?\n\nEDIT:\nI have taken a second look at my lease, and here is what I have found -\nIt specifies that am I renting a \"Unit\" (designated by my apartment number\"), and that I am renting the common area and my bedroom. The only note about furniture is that I am responsible for keeping the furniture provided by the apartment in my unit and I am responsible for any damages to it. \n\nUPDATE #2:\nI spoke to my roommate about it. I asked her if it was a space issue, and, if so, what I could do to help her get more of her things in the common room, or what else I could move. She told me, \"I'm honestly just tired of looking at it.\"\nI'm\nI really don't see how an LL could make me get rid of something based on that. ","title":"Can my landlord make me get rid of my piano?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508122870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76npw0\/connecticut_how_can_we_stop_my_girlfriends_mother\/","id":"76npw0","body":"(I doubt this is an entirely appropriate flair but it's the closest they provide)\n\nLong story short, when my girlfriend's maternal grandfather died, he left $8,000 dollars to each of his daughter's three children, being my girlfriend and her two brothers. This was meant to help them pay for collage, and was set up in a way that each month of their senior year they would receive $800 dollars. (While this seems convoluted, we have a theory on this so bear with me).\n\nBut it turns out his daughter never mentioned that to her children or her husband.\n\nA few days ago he was going over her account records and noticed an $800 deposit. When he asked, she guiltlessly admitted the following. \n\nSince his death, every time one of her kids hit senior year my girlfriend's mom got a monthly deposit of $800 dollars which she proceeded to spend. It's been around 12 years since his death and she spent all of her two sons college fund money without telling them it existed and has just spent the second month of my girlfriend's. \n\nWe suspect my girlfriends grandfather did not trust his with a $24,000 dollar deposit to keep safe for at least 4 years before her oldest son would hit college age and need the money. Perhaps he found a way to space the deposits out so she couldn't spend it all at once, and that by waiting until their senior year the prospect of paying for college would be too \"real\" for her to shamelessly use it for her own purposes.\n\nUnfortunately, being seniors in highschool means that they're minors for the majority of this stretch and the money is in fact going into their monthers account, I believe legally establishing it as hers. The family has never had a ton of money, the oldest son never bothered with college, second oldest is working 30+ hours a week and paying for community college and as I mentioned, my girlfriend is 17, (as I am) and a senior in highschool.\n\nWhile she now admits to the existence of the money she won't explain why or what she used the money for. She has a history of slight mental illness and is unemployed due to health issues. Her husband, my girlfriends father, is working full time but in a number of seasonal jobs. This $8000 dollars ($6400 now) could mean the difference between community college and the school she wants to go to but her father hasn't gotten over the initial shock of the lie yet and when he does it's unlikely he'll fight her on this. She refuses to discuss it with any of her children who are understandably enraged with her and I just want to know if there's anything that can be done to save the last $6,400 out of the $24,000 that was supposed to go towards her children's education. Any advice?","title":"(Connecticut) How can we stop my girlfriends mother from spending her daughter's college fund?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1441789865,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k7u6g\/paternity_case_miami_fl\/","id":"3k7u6g","body":"I have built a paternity case and court date will be in the upcoming with, I, the father am petitioning my son to visit, and study in Houston Texas. The little one is 1 year old and is with his mother in Florida. \n\nHow should I prepare myself for court? \nHow will the court case carry on? \nDo I need evidence or would the judge simply agree? \n\nThank you.\n\nMore details: The mother and I have never been married. I used the self help packet that Dade County provides (I have it all scanned). The child will be in better hands with his father due to a good amount of factors, including safety (as can be seen in this video the child is not wearing a seatbelt and it just angers me, no one likes dead children https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OBR98m7mXU0 ), there are many fights at home in which I was witness to, and just negligence on her part in leaving dangerous materials around the house within the childs reach.\n\nMy wife has a bachelors in psychology and have diagnosed her to be a pathological liar. The childs mother also harassed my wife with fake facebook accounts, spoofed phone numbers and so on. Will these details help me in court? \n","title":"Paternity Case - Miami, FL","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446290905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qyeco\/divorce_with_a_child_need_some_opinions\/","id":"3qyeco","body":"(We currently reside in Illinois... sorry I forgot to include it in the title)\n\nSorry, this is really long and might be jumping around a bit..\n\nI'm in a really horrible situation with my wife to whom I've been married  to for 6 years. I got married to her in the Philippines when we were 18, back in 2009. I arrived back in the US with her in 2010 and lived with my parents for a short amount of time, after which we moved to an apartment.\n\n\nShe has only held one job from 2010 - 2011, where she worked at Panda Express. She constantly moaned about how she had to mop and throw the trash, and how she felt belittled. So, she quit in April 2011 and went on a one month vacation to the Philippines. \n\nWhen she came back, I discovered pictures of a man whom she was having an affair with while she was there. At that same time, we learned that she was pregnant. I ended up having a hell of a time getting paternity tests done and putting myself in debt to figure out if that was going to be my child.\n\nShe has been going to the Philippines every other year. I've been working my ass of to try to get us out of hole I'm in on a $57k salary. It's impossible to do it because she won't work with me to try to knock down the debt. Whatever I clear she puts right back. In May, we moved back to my dad's place so that I could start getting out of the $12,000 debt. \nThis woman states that I don't do enough for the family and that I am a shitty husband. She claims that I never put time to teach her how to drive or that when she arrived here that I didn't want her to go to school (I was just ignorant on whether or not it could be done without going into debt. She did go to school for a semester in 2014 but decided to stop so she could go on her Philippine escapade again.).\n\nI am working full-time at night in IT for a hospital just to try and provide for my family and to make plans happen but she always just bashes me stating that I'm a workaholic, even though I just work a regular 40 hour work week. I'm attending school full-time so that I can get a degree, because I believe I am lucky making that $57k with no degree. Come tax return time, she says that the income tax return should go to her because of my son's tax credit. The other year I used the money to pay off some debt and she just went berzerk on me, so I end up just giving it to her and she uses it to go to the Philippines.\n\nShe doesn't like my family but she was the one who agreed with the plan to go back to my dad's place until we clear the debt. She refuses to go in the kitchen even when no one is there. So we basically have to eat out every day. She only likes very specific foods. I end up having to buy my son a happy meal every day because by the time I get home he is starving.  \n\nThe real kicker is that she even refuses to use the bathroom. It is fucking embarrassing to say but she pisses and shits in my son's DIAPERS. I feel bad for my son having a mother who shits in his diapers, and who doesn't care about him. She also refuses to go out because she doesn't drive. I'm blamed because I don't have time to teach her. She won't use public transportation because she feels humiliated, so I have to chauffeur her around. She consistently threatens to divorce me because \"she can do so much better,\" yet she wants me to file the papers.\n\nTonight, she even wanted me to call in at work so that she could go out with her friends at midnight. I ended up arguing with her until past my start time and ended up being super late. It happened once before where she wasn't even home. I had to end up taking my son to work. I refused to do that tonight and she basically said that I never do anything for her, and that I just don't care. \n\nI'm not sure what to do. I really love my son, but I think his mother is going to ruin him. She doesn't seem normal to me. Would I stand any chance at all of gaining custody of my son?\n\nAgain, I apologize. I didn't really organize this really well. I'm just so stressed tonight.\n\nThanks.\n","title":"Divorce with a child - Need some opinions","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570141742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcycmk\/disclosing_a_deferred_adjudication_while_a\/","id":"dcycmk","body":"Looked up my employee handbook after receiving deferred adjudication yesterday and saw the following. \n\n\u201cAny staff member who is convicted of a felony while employed must inform a supervisor of such conviction (including pleas of guilty and no contest) no later than seven calendar days after the conviction.\u201d\n\nWhile I know that deferment is not a conviction, the \"including pleas of guilty and no contest\" has me scratching my head. \n\nDoes this mean that I need to disclose what has happened with my Employer?","title":"Disclosing a Deferred Adjudication while a current employee","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540876911,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sl1ao\/new_job_requires_one_year_commitment_but_i_leave\/","id":"9sl1ao","body":"Details don\u2019t really matter. I\u2019d really like to take this job, but I don\u2019t know how well this one-year commitment thing will work. Are they able to take legal action against me if I leave before my time is up? \n\nNote: I remember reading in the job application that either the company or I can terminate my job at any time, and for any reason (or something)","title":"New Job \u201cRequires\u201d One Year Commitment, But I Leave The Country In Three Months","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1446734293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rms47\/are_original_words_copyrighted\/","id":"3rms47","body":"Can I use the name of a D&D location for a band name?\n\nLocation: Canada","title":"Are 'Original' Words Copyrighted?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1443707327,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n3om8\/what_are_a_few_things_you_should_ask_your\/","id":"3n3om8","body":"[Treasure Coast, FL] Hey reddit. I'm looking into signing a lease on an apartment. What are some specific questions I should ask before signing a lease? Things I should make sure are in\/not in my lease? Other general tips? Thanks!","title":"What are a few things you should ask your landlord before signing a lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569862959,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbelzy\/alberta_canada_are_these_breaking_lease_terms\/","id":"dbelzy","body":"Hello everyone. I live in Alberta, Canada. I've been diagnosed with cancer and my girlfriend wants to move in with me so she can support me which would require her to break her 1 year fixed term lease. What we found on her lease for terms of breaking it is a really complicated way of saying that my girlfriend would have to pay rent until the landlord can find a new tenant.\n\nDoes this hold up legally? I can't find anything that says it does but I also can't find anything that says it doesn't.\n\nThanks for your help!","title":"(Alberta, Canada) Are these Breaking Lease terms legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569713999,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dann07\/alcoholic_stepfather_accuses_my_mother_of_letting\/","id":"dann07","body":"Hi. A bit of backstory, I\u2019m currently 18 and my stepfather has been doing this since I was 12\/13. It started when he got out of the hospital, after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. He drinks very heavily (anywhere from 8 to 12 16 ounce cans a day) and every night he acts up, says my mother lets men come in the house and rape my siblings. Says we\u2019re being controlled. Talks about a mystery man he wants to kill and gets very angry over it. Every once in a while he says we\u2019re going to get eaten and he isn\u2019t saving us. Nothing he\u2019s saying is true. He\u2019s a huge guy and I\u2019m kind of whimpy which is the only thing stopping me from attacking him. I\u2019m wondering if I can pursue any legal action against him because it\u2019s starting to be too much. But when I was still in high school I used to tell my teachers and the school counselor about it and nothing was done. I\u2019m really worried about my little siblings growing up around him, and developing mental health issues like I have. Any advice would be appreciated, it would be gods gift for him to leave and never come back.","title":"Alcoholic stepfather accuses my mother of letting pedophiles into the house","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554316179,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b91pyi\/police_forxed_me_to_tow_my_car_with_their_choice\/","id":"b91pyi","body":"Yesterday I got in an at fault accident. My car technically didn't need to be towed anywhere because it was on my street so I could have easily pushed my car back into my parking garage. If I needed to tow it immidietly I would have used CAA as it wouldn't have cost me anything.  Instead the police called me a tow truck and told me not to waste my CAA as insurance will cover it. I told him I only have liablility and it will not be covered so he tells me insurance is legally required to pay.  Eventually I give up and just allow him to call the tow truck. \n\nEventually the tow truck comes and picks up my car. The driver hands something to the police officer (I'm assuming he paid him cash).\n\nNow as I knew from the start, my insurance will not cover the tow. The place (towtal) tells me they want 350 plus 60 per day.  If I want them to keep the car they want 350 but I do not have to pay the storage fee.  \n\nI do not care about the car but getting it back would be nice.  What are my options. If I don't ever pick up the car or pay them can they come after me as I didn't sign anything.  ","title":"Police forxed me to tow my car with their choice of towing company and didnt let me use CAA","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553994420,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7i9pb\/petty_parking_lot_incident\/","id":"b7i9pb","body":"Hi, this is my first time posting here. I\u2019m hoping to gain some clarity regarding an incident that occurred in a gas station parking lot.\n\nThere was a car parked next to me which was parked ON the yellow line, while my car was parked well within the yellow lines.\n\nAs I was getting into my car, my door accidentally bumped into the car next to me. The owner of the other car got out and started screaming, demanding that I give him my insurance information. I denied his request, which caused him to become more agitated, angry, and aggressive. At this point, I invited him to call the police, which he did.\n\nAfter waiting for about 15 minutes, the police called this gentleman back and said that they were not going to come and tend to this trivial matter.\n\nAfter learning that the police were not coming, this gentleman continued to harass me for my insurance information. I refused again, saying that if the police don\u2019t even care to stop by that it\u2019s not a big enough deal for me to give him my info\/I didn\u2019t break the law\/I owe him nothing. His anger and agitation continued to the point where I didn\u2019t feel safe. However, I also didn\u2019t know whether or not I was allowed to leave the scene and did not want to get into trouble for leaving, so I called the police as well so that I could learn my rights. \n\nWhen the man learned that I was on the phone with the police, he swiftly got into his car and left the scene.\n\nThe dispatcher said that I do need to give him my insurance information, and I told her that he just left and I have no way to contact him. She also said that I am now responsible for filing an accident report online. I asked what would happen if I didn\u2019t, and she merely responded that it would be \u201cagainst the law.\u201d I pressed to find out what the penalty would be, to which she had no response, other than \u201cit would be up to your insurance company.\u201d She did say that if such a thing should happen again that I should just give the person my info.\n\nMy question is, what will happen to me if I don\u2019t file a report online or report the incident to my insurance company?\n\nI think this whole thing is ridiculous. Dings in parking lots happen and life moves on. Every car  gives and receives dings in parking lots. In my (uneducated) opinion, it\u2019s neither a police or insurance matter, and this guy acted completely inappropriately. ","title":"Petty parking lot incident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569532984,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9q6h8\/how_can_i_deny_a_game_companies_new_terms_of\/","id":"d9q6h8","body":"I clicked an already installed games shortcut in Steam to have it install software on my personal computer with no prompts because I agrees to the TOS \\~4 years ago, when said software did not exist. I dont want to take action or care, I just want to deny the terms, get the account closed forever, and move on without my sign in credentials connected to a company I no longer have dealings with or own software from. Strictly a security issue as I have removed said games from my Steam library permanently after the automatic installation. Have a single credit card stolen\/leaked online and maxed out and You would be sure all unused accounts are closed as well.\n\nI have already sent in a ticket to the company due to them Not Having an option to close the account. Answered the 5 questions required including a screenshot of my logged in Steam account. I even told them that I agree that this is On Me and I expect nothing other then the closure of said account, no refunds no nothing, just close it. \n\nIts been Days and the required ticket was 'Closed' but they still have my linked credentials and I can still log in against my wishes. \n\nMy understanding is that I may have Zero rights in regards to this as I did agree to the TOS when buying said game. If this is the case please let me know asap so I can delete this.\n\nA single click = accepting, why does a single click not reverse this action? (rhetorical part right here)\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"How can I deny a game companies new Terms Of Service to close an online account?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571140977,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di6wga\/understanding_a_joint_will_between_deceased\/","id":"di6wga","body":"My mother's life was recently taken, violently and unexpectedly, leaving my sister and I lost and confused and facing tons of things we never expected to face in our early adulthood, things we hadn't yet properly planned for - one being trying to navigate and understand the reality of how wills work beyond what's seen in the movies. \n\nOur mother had a joint will with our stepfather, who refuses to show us the will. We were incredibly close with our mother, and not especially close with our stepfather. They lived in a community property state. \n\nBecause of this, we've received nothing and can't afford an attorney on our own, and would offend our stepfather if we asked for funds to hire one, or he just would say \"you don't need one\" and move on. \n\nWe are wondering, are we entitled to a copy of the will? He said we were mentioned in it but refused to tell us any specifics beyond \"I'll take care of you\" or \"you're covered\" \n\nAlso wondering what happens if he gets remarried? Can he get another joint will? Will his next wife get our mother's half of all of their shared assets due to the marital property laws that say all marital assets are split? \n\nHow can we ensure we are protected? \n\nSOS! Thank you.","title":"Understanding a joint will between deceased mother and living stepfather","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553006696,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2y9oj\/im_about_to_get_evicted_over_noise_complaints_im\/","id":"b2y9oj","body":"Last week a received a noise complaint while at work, I told management that me and my SO are full time workers who are TRULY in bed by 10:30pm and don\u2019t really do much around the house when we are there (barely). Our quite hours at this complex are 10pm to 8am. Management said he would look into it.\n\n4 days later at midnight, my SO out of town and me already asleep. I hear loud banging at my door, and see a cop at my door. I suffer from PTSD and I went into a spiral of panic, I called the non-emergency line and I discover once again that it is a noise complaint.\n\nI called management this morning and they pretty much told me there is nothing they can do about it and they will write up those complains as it is protocol (you get a call, then a notice then get evicted) \n\nThat means, my apartment complex works on a kind of 3 strike basis and Im supposedly at 2, aka if I get another noise complaint I will be evicted and charged $2K.\n\nMy anxiety is out of control and Im currently unable to sleep at my own apartment because Im afraid they\u2019ll be more cops at my door as I have no idea what noises these people think they\u2019re hearing from my apartment above them. \n\nDoes anyone has any idea what I can do to stop this? This is heavily affecting my emotional stability. Thank you! ","title":"Im about to get evicted over noise complaints... Im not the one making noise","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444087990,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nn0iy\/my_insurance_company_messed_up_my_car_repairs_i\/","id":"3nn0iy","body":"Basically at the beginning of June someone drove my car on to a curb, hit a sign and then pulled off of the curb backwards, which left pieces of my undercarriage on the ground. This obviously did damage to my engine. I contacted the insurance company and got the car in the shop.\n\nIt took over a month before anyone from the insurance company to come assess the damage, and then almost another month before they turned in the report. I was told the amount of the damages and my deductible (1000$) and was told how long it would take to fix. I went to pick up my car and THE ENTIRE FRONT BODY of the car had been replaced. The insurance person thought the damage to my car was the scratch it had on the sides, which had actually occurred 4 years earlier and had no effect on the performance of the vehicle. I sit in the body shop for a few hours talking to several people from my insurance company before they eventually verbally agree that they messed up and that they will fix the damage to my car from the accident.\n\nI get a call back a few weeks later saying that all of the damage to my engine was caused by normal wear and tear and none of it was a direct cause of the accident, so they will not be covering ANY of the expenses.\n\nThe damages they were referring to were some cracked\/ripped lines (ok, I know that was done in the accident, but maybe time made them more brittle and easy to break so w\/e I'll cover those), my coolant pump (WHICH I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE BREAKS FROM A FRONT END COLLISION) and damage to my oil pan(? or something like that) which is consistent with undercarriage trauma. Oh, did I forget to mention that I had JUST had the car in the shop about a month before the accident and had DRIVEN the car that day with NO engine problem notifications, and then suddenly, the first time I turn the car on after the accident it says the engine is overheating and that the oil is low?\n\nSo my insurance company is trying to weasel out of fixing damage to my car after I've already paid a deductible and now can still NOT DRIVE my shiny new looking car (which I never asked nor insinuated that I cared about it looking shiny and\/or new). I have contacted them, but I can not get anyone on the phone that can actually do something about my situation. My problem at this point is that I have no idea what to do next.\n\nI assume contact a lawyer and also get the car looked at by a professional not affiliated with the insurance company to corroborate that the damages are IN FACT consistent with the accident. Does anyone know what kind of rights I have here? Does anyone have any suggestions of who to contact? This happened in June and the insurances companies feet dragging has made me unable to drive my car (which I'm still paying insurance for) until now, the beginning of October and they are basically saying that I'm f***ed. I'm in Georgia.\n\nPlease someone help me :( I wasn't even the person driving the car (and yes my insurance covers other people driving my car) so this whole thing is just completely f***ed up.","title":"My insurance company messed up my car repairs, I paid my deductible, and now they won't pay to make it driveable again","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569655827,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dacyhw\/usa_corporate_you_must_use_pto_during_your\/","id":"dacyhw","body":"I apologize for format; on mobile.\n\nI currently work in a data entry firm, and have been there for just over 2 years. Earlier this year, I had to be hospitalized for almost attempting suicide at that same job, so I used up all 80 hours of PTO during my departure. I was allowed to keep working there, but then had to take a month-long FMLA leave due to a relapse in clinical depression. I finally returned back to work after Labor Day, and have had a solid support system from my awesome boss, nice HR, and counseling from my company\u2019s EAP (Employee Assistance Program.) I still struggle with the post-traumatic stress sometimes, but I\u2019m able to handle myself just fine most of the time. If I ever do have another breakdown, I\u2019m required to clock out for the day if I need immediate counseling outside of scheduled breaks.\n\nFast forward to this week. I made the big mistake of trusting grey meatballs for lunch, and have spent the last 3 days suffering from a bad case of food poisoning. I returned to work today expecting a nice reception from my boss. What I got instead was 3 occurrences on my attendance record, raising my occurrence average from 0.6% to 1.0% in less than a week! In addition, I never went to see the doctor, so I didn't have a note that could exonerate my occurrences. I didn't think there was much a doctor COULD do since the sickness wasn't severe enough to warrant immediate medical attention; just taking a million trips to the bathroom while trying to stay hydrated.\n\nWhile I do admit that maybe I could've prepared more on my end, I also feel back-stabbed in some way. Corporate was incredibly generous and supportive when I was at my lowest point, but now that I'm back, it's like I'm nothing more than a money-making machine again. Now, when life happens again, whether it's seeing my family for the holidays (we're closed on Christmas,) or getting sick again (mentally or physically,) I could get disciplined for it, even if taking the time off was the best call. It's like corporate's indirect way of saying, \"You should've thought about that before you decided to attempt suicide!\" \"You better not get sick or hurt, or you can't go on vacation with your family next Spring!\" \n\nNow that I've got the moral argument out of the way, let's talk about it in a legal sense. My confusion is the apparent conflict of interest between being forced to use PTO for legitimate reasons (as opposed to say a 2-week vacation,) but then getting disciplined later for taking time off for other legitimate reasons (with exceptions like bereavement or maternity leave.) Does this sound like a case of upper management trying to have it both ways? Are there any employee protections under the law that could assist me for this kind of thing? I know my boss wouldn't want me coming in sick to my stomach, and would send me home anyways if I insisted on staying to avoid getting occurrences.\n\nWhat do you think? Under the law, are there additional protections for employees who need more time off after using PTO? Or have I already been given what I'm entitled to under the law? How much would FMLA apply for medical leave outside the depression and PTSD from the July incident?","title":"[USA] Corporate: \"You must use PTO during your hospital stay.\" Also corporate: \"You have no PTO, so you'll get disciplined for taking time off.\" Hypocrisy, or is this perfectly legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541622718,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v3303\/california_hostile_work_environment_and_a_little\/","id":"9v3303","body":" \n\nHello all my wife is having some issues and i wanna know my best course of action to pursue these \"problems\"\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nIts  a really long story and almost as juicy filled with shady mangers who  were never taught any better but to spare you the hours of reading i  could type up on what has happened to my poor wife i will give you the  simplified version\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nmy  wife is a nurse who has been employed with kaiser permanentae   for 15+  years. she is the charge nurse for her unit. and a award winning nurse.  now the manager of this floor was transferred to so cal kaiser from no  cal kaiser . these two are completely separate entities. from what i  understand the union rules are different .\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nlike  i said to keep things short this manager has belittled humiliated and  has attacked my wife in front of other coworkers on multiple occasions.  so much in fact the union president is filing 3 grievances against the  manger for hostile work environment  retaliation and discrimination.  Problem is the manager got a wind of it and its now worse than ever.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nthe manager is singling my wife out and doing whatever she can to get her in trouble.\n\n​\n\nthe  other day  some health ed class was due. there are rules in place for  said health ed one being you have to remind the nurses that the  education class is due 3 times with a document or email from the manger.  my wife never received these documents nor were they sent. The due date  of this class one being the 31st .when my wife got to work the manager  told her she was suspended for not finishing the education class. That  day there was a list posted of nurses who haven't completed  the  education class.there was 15 nurses on that list. the only one who was  suspended was my wife.The manager even gave other nurses extra time  during their shifts to complete the education class.\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nOn voting day. the manager informed the nurses that they could go. Let me rephrase so it sticks.\n\nOn the day of the manager informed the nurses they could go vote This was the first mention of voting during work.\n\nmy wife has never voted during work.\n\n​\n\nAccording to California. time for voting has to be in the beginning of your shift or the end of your shift (2 hours) paid\n\nTell  me why the manager who told the nurses what time they could go chose my  wife's time period to be in the middle of her shift during a traffic  rush. Not only that but told my wife she wasn't gunna be paid and out of  20+ nurses only asked my wife to provide the sticker as proof that she  voted.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nI HAVE 5 OR 6 MORE STORIES LIKE THIS JUST IN THE PAST 2 WEEKS! THAT ALL VIOLATE HER UNION CONTRACT IN SOMEWAY OR THE OTHER\n\n​\n\n​\n\nMy  poor wife cant sleep nights she has to go to work in the morning. im  talking up for 24 hours+ stressing about having to go to work where her  boss is. she cries. she doesn't eat. she now gets debilitating   migraines  almost everyday from thinking about how bad her work  environment is she had to get prescribed medication. FFS a PROFESSIONAL   masseuse said they  couldn't get the knots from her back out  due to  all the stress\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nwhat do i do? what can i do? its so unfair to see her go through this and not be able to do anything.","title":"California: Hostile Work Environment and a Little Bit of Voting Rights Violated","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505706449,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70siak\/ca_what_kind_of_attorney_do_i_need_to_help_me\/","id":"70siak","body":"I am currently a student and I took out a $50,000 student loan to loan to my father. In hindsight that was a really bad thing to do. \n\nHe is now planning on declaring bankruptcy and has contacted an attorney to draft a promissory note on that loan. There are clear terms in this promissory note that are adverse to me, the most obvious being that he is not charging himself any interest on the loan while the state is charging me 6.5%. I want to find an attorney to help advocate my position and help me understand the terms of the promissory note but I don't know how to find the specific type of attorney I need. What type of law does an attorney who does this type of work practice?\n\n Once I find out the practice area, I know where I can find recommendations for local attorneys in that practice area but I don't even know what practice area I need to ask for. Any advice is appreciated, thanks!","title":"[CA] What kind of attorney do I need to help me decipher a promissory note?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570589812,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfayym\/landlord_trying_to_charge_for_appliance\/","id":"dfayym","body":"Hi all,\n\nCurrently living in Florida. Our garbage disposal stopped working a few weeks ago and our landlord sent the handyman out to fix it. Turns out, it needed to be completely replaced. A few days later, handyman was back out and replaced the disposal! YAY!\n\nLandlord is now saying we owe a $50 deductible on this \"repair\" as per our contract. The lease mentions repairs\/appliances as follows:\n\na. REPAIRS: Tenant agrees to be responsible for any minor repairs or maintenance not to exceed $50 for each occurrence.\n\nb. APPLIANCES: LANDLORD shall furnish the following items as part of the rented premises: stove, refrigerator, microwave, dishwasher, washer & dryer and disposal. Items left for Tenants use but not warranted: Ceiling Fans.\n\nIt should be noted that last year (a different tenants by one, but the same exact contract\/sections) our refrigerator (on of the appliances listed in b) broke and was replaced. No fee presented in that situation.\n\nMyself and the other tenants believe that we should NOT have to pay this fee based on the previously mentioned lease terms. We asked for clarification from our landlord on the terms and were met with fire (and a threat that she should just charge us the full replacement cost then!?!).....are we in the wrong here for thinking we should not have to pay?\n\nThanks!","title":"Landlord trying to charge for appliance replacement?! *FLORIDA*","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443751215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n6gun\/recently_hit_with_an_app_store_notice_infringes\/","id":"3n6gun","body":"Around 2 hours ago, I was hit with a DMCA request (from Apple, via Eyeo GmbH). I'm sure a lot of apps on the App Store are being hit with the same notice after the [recent ad block boom](http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/sep\/17\/adblockers-ios-9-app-charts-peace).\n\nBefore reading the notice, there's on thing you have to understand about the ad block market. There are *plenty* of different ad blocks, [AdBlock](https:\/\/getadblock.com) and [Adblock Plus](https:\/\/adblockplus.org) being the two major ones. **Adblock Plus** are the guys hitting me with the takedown request. I would just like to get some honest opinions (and as soon as possible, please \u2013 I'm freaking out right now).\n\n>Dear J,\n>\n>**Please include APPXXXXX-F in the subject line of any future correspondence on this matter.**\n>\n>On 9\/29\/2015, we received a notice from Eyeo (\"Complainant\") that Complainant believes the app listed below infringes its intellectual property rights.  In particular, Complainant believes you are infringing its trademark and app name.  Please see their comments below.\n>\n>F. Developer: J\n>\n>Provider: J\n>\n>App Title: Adblock Pro for Safari\n>\n>Apple ID: XXXXXXXX\n>\n>Comments from Complainant: Dear iTunes Connect  team,\n>\n>\n>\n>I like to inform you about a violation of Eyeo GmbH\u00b4s IP-rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by a Software that appears to be hosted using your Download service.\n>\n>As you may know Eyeo GmbH is the developer of Adblock Plus, the actually most popular adblocking open source extension (see www.adblockplus.org ) used by over 60 Million users worldwide. Also, we have introduced a mobile browser: Adblock Browser just recently.\n>\n>We duly noted that correlating with the growing success of our extension and app there is an also growing number of copy cats that use our name and\/or logo to trick users of your download portal into using an extension confusingly similar to ours. User will think they use the original Adblock Plus software in which we heavily invested to make it secure and easy to use. So these copy cats are harming our user\u2019s security and our reputation. That\u2019s why we feel the need to enforce our registered trademark rights and stop such irritations.\n>\n>In order to protect our software, we have registered numerous national and international trademarks enjoying protection worldwide and especially within the United States and the European Union. Inter alia, we hold rights in the community trademark \u201cAdblock Plus\u201d under No. 009643453 with priority as of January 6, 2011. This trademark is protected in every member state of the European Union \u2013 amongst others for the following services:\n>\n>nice classification 09\n>\n>computer programs and parts thereof, program modules, program generators, help- and interface programs; computer software;\n>\n>nice classification 42\n>\n>scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; industrial analysis and research services; design and development of computer hardware and software\n>\n>nice classification 45\n>\n>security services for the protection of property and individuals\n>\n>We also hold international trademark rights in the logo\n>\n>We can also provide you with an overview regarding our trademarks described above.\n>\n>For the reasons above we feel that the extension should be removed in its current form from all of your download pages as it is a violation of our IP-rights and it is also against your TOS.\n>\n>\n>\n>I (i) believe in good faith that the use of the material that we claim to infringe our IP-rights is not authorized by law, or by the rights owner or such owner\u2019s agent; and, (ii) that all of the information contained in our TM Notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that Eyeo is either the owner of, or a person authorized to act on behalf an owner of, the exclusive IP-right that is being infringed.\n>\n>\n>\n>Thank you for your time and let me know if you need any more information to process the complaint.\n>\n>Kind regards\n>\n>\n>\n>Simona Foldesova\n>\n>\n>-\n>\n>You can reach Complainant through SXXXX FXXXXXXXX (email: sxxxxx@adblockplus.org), copied on this email.  Please exchange correspondence directly with Complainant.\n>\n>We look forward to receiving written assurance that your application does not infringe Complainant's rights, or that the parties are taking steps to promptly resolve the matter.  Please keep us apprised of your progress.\n>\n>Please note that during the course of this matter:\n>\n>1.  Correspondence to Apple must include the reference number noted above in the subject line and copy the other party.  All correspondence sent to Apple may be shared with the other party.\n>\n>2.  Written assurance of rights may include confirmation that your application does not infringe Complainant's rights, an express authorization from Complainant, or other evidence acceptable to Apple, and should include documentation wherever possible.\n>\n>3.  Should you choose to remove your application (for example, while you make any necessary changes), visit iTunes Connect at http:\/\/itunesconnect.apple.com and access your app in the Manage Your Application module.\n>\n>          > Click on the \"Rights and Pricing\" button from the App Summary Page,\n>          > Click on the \"Deselect All\" button to uncheck all App Store territories, and\n>          > Click on the \"Save Changes\" button\n>\n>4.  Developers with a history of allegations of repeat infringement, or those who misrepresent facts to Apple and\/or the Complainant are at risk of termination from the Developer Program.\n>\n>5.  Failure to respond to the Complainant or to take steps toward resolving a dispute may lead to removal of the app(s) at issue as in violation of the App Store Review Guidelines and\/or the iOS Developer Program License Agreement.  Please keep Apple apprised of your progress.\n>\n>Thank you for your immediate attention.\n>\n>Sincerely,\n>\n>Sunny\n>\n>\uf8ff Apple Legal | Apple | 1 Infinite Loop | Cupertino | CA | 95014 | AppStoreNotices@apple.com\n>The information in this e-mail and any attachment(s) is intended solely for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipients.  This message may be an attorney-client communication protected by privilege.  If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, forward, or otherwise disseminate this message.  Please notify us of the transmission error by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the message and any attachment(s) from your systems.  The use of the sender's name in this message is not intended as an electronic signature under any applicable law.  Thank you.\n>\n\nMy app can be found [here](https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/app\/adblock-pro-for-safari\/id1033969479?mt=8).\n\nThere is actually an [AdBlock Pro](https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/adblock-pro\/ocifcklkibdehekfnmflempfgjhbedch?hl=en-US) that has already been around for years, that I recently found out about (it was oddly hard to find any information on this, whatsoever). I am in the middle of renaming the app altogether; however, all images were done, by hand, by **myself**.\n\nAlso, it is important to mention that I have invested $4000 in an upcoming promotion, and I am afraid to lose this. Please, if any of you have any wisdom or advice, anything would be appreciated as soon as possible. I am an 18 year old developer who just entered college and this app was created simply to make some side money to help pay for tuition. I did not mean to purposely infringe on anything.\n\nThere are two reasons as to why I'm questioning this:\n\n1. There are many variations of the term 'Adblock' that have been used throughout the past few years and are still up and running.\n\n2. The DMCA seems a bit sketchy. The lack of proper punctuation and grammar leads me to be skeptical.\n\n**EDIT:** It is important to notice that Apple has been notorious for passing along DMCA requests without and validity. That's **not** saying this one is invalid, but this has been an issue in the past with various developers.\n\n**EDIT 2:** Was asked to give location; I'm from Canada.","title":"Recently hit with an App Store notice: \"infringes on intellectual property rights\" \u2013 HELP, 18 year old College student","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569964594,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbzzai\/workplace_rumor_causing_injury\/","id":"dbzzai","body":"So a workplace rumor has been spread about me looking to quit immediately. While I have been looking for another job, there is nothing concrete nor have I alluded to there being. \n\nThis rumor was just used to deny training I put in for. The training is free, and falls over my days off so manpower isn\u2019t an issue. It was denied solely based off a not-true rumor I am quitting soon. Do I have standing for a defamation suit? This has caused injury (denial of training that could help with promoting).","title":"Workplace rumor causing injury","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568397691,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3t2d9\/ca_trust_problems_with_the_trust_is_this_a_normal\/","id":"d3t2d9","body":"A family member passed away recently and my family is currently in the stage of notarizing settlement agreements for their trust. I noticed a clause in the settlement agreement which seemed like it could have negative repercussions for myself and other beneficiaries in the event that new information on the family members finances comes to light. Of course, it could be a normal clause to put in any such settlement, but I thought I'd ask y'all if you knew. Thanks in advance! \n\n\"Upon completed performance of all of the actions agreed to in Paragraph 3., above, each party hereto agrees for himself or herself, their assigns or for any other person or persons who may claim through them, to hereby waive, discharge and release any claims. demands or causes of action against each other of any namre whatsoever. which they had, now have or may hereafter have. arising out of. in connection with. or relating in any way to the Trusts or the estates of either of (Family Member) or (Spouse)\"","title":"(CA) Trust problems with the trust: is this a normal clause for a trust settlement?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1507049399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/741og1\/consignment_seller_wont_return_product_or_pay\/","id":"741og1","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice. I'm a artisan living in Minnesota and was contacted by a new company based in New York interested in selling my handwoven rugs. She sent me a contract, which included this phrase \n\n\"CONSIGNMENT PERIOD. In the event that tall the Consigned Items are not sold within three(3) months from the date of delivery, all unsold Consigned Items shall be returned to the Consignor with all domestic delivery costs borne by the Consignee. The Consignment Period may be extended upon mutual written agreement of both parties.\"\n\nAfter 3 months, I contacted her and told her I did not want to renew my consignment. I gave her my address and asked for the rugs to be returned. That was in July.  I'm missing out on potential sales by not being able to offer those rugs at craft fairs or on my website. After badgering her relentlessly, she offered to by the rugs wholesale. I quoted her a price and haven't heard from her since.\n\nWhat's the best way to proceed? She's breached the terms of the contract, right? Do I need a lawyer? ","title":"Consignment seller won't return product or pay wholesale price","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569392151,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8zbsq\/trigger_warning_reported_my_rape_after_12_years_i\/","id":"d8zbsq","body":"Hi everyone,\n\nThis is really hard to talk about but I was raped when I was 14, he was 17, I don't remember much except how it happened, where it happened, and obviously who did it. I don't remember the exact date, I just remember it being in grade 9, semester 2. At this point it's my word against his. The only evidence I have is a facebook conversation where he messaged me and I told him to leave me alone and how much I hated him and basically told him he raped me. However I had a really hard time with saying the word raped, let alone the words \"you raped me\". In the messages I basically said \"you took something away from me that I can never get back\" (I was a virgin) and \"what did you think when I kept saying no and stop?\" and he replied with \"I am sorry I did that to you\". I reported him in December 2018, he was arrested in January 2019, and released on promise to appear.\n\nMy worry is that even if he is convicted, he won't have to register as a sex offender or face jail time because I was told by my special victims witness assistance counsellor that he is being charged as a minor because it happened when he was 17. I personally don't think he will even get convicted because I am so fuzzy on the details. I just know I was sober, I tried to fight him off, I remember the layout of his bedroom when it happened, I was a virgin, he didn't use a condom, and he came inside me. I remember the impact it had on me immediately after (but I didn't mention it in my taped interview, will I be able to bring this up in court?) as well as the impact years later. My trial is set for December 16th, literally the next day after my birthday. Can I change this date now that I've been subpoenaed? I just don't want to have to associate my birthday with this trauma every single year after this. I was told by a friend who has been through this not to cry while on the stand as it can be used against me, but I know I will cry, I cry thinking about the whole thing sometimes. Is it true that if I cry it will be used against me? I feel like if I don't cry it would seem that I'm lying or making this whole thing up (again, i'm going to cry naturally because it's a trauma I have lived with since I was 14, I really don't know how i'm gonna prevent myself from crying). Do you guys have any tips for me when I am on the stand, especially since I don't really remember much? I was told by my SVU counsellor\/support person that he's hired a really tough lawyer. If you all are wondering why I decided to report my rape 12 years later, it's because I needed closure and I have come to the idea that I will finally get my closure by telling my story, even if he doesn't get convicted. I don't know if that'll be true but that's my thinking right now. \n\nJust to add, at the time, yes, I was going through a rebellious streak, just starting high school and all. I did engage in sneaking out at night (but the rape happened during daylight hours), underage drinking, hung out with a bad crowd. My parents were good parents and tried to steer me in the right direction and prevent me from doing all the things I was doing. I do plan on being very transparent about all of this and I hope it doesn't get used against me, which it probably will. But regardless, my rebelling doesn't mean I wanted to lose my virginity or engage in sex. I really wanted to save my virginity for marriage. But after losing it through rape, I became very promiscuous because what was the point? I already lost my virginity, and I felt dirty after being raped, so I guess it was a way of self harm and regaining control of my sexual decisions. Again, I plan on being transparent about this as well. My mind is a mess and I guess I just want to know what the outcome might be so I can better prepare myself if he doesn't get convicted. \n\n​\n\nTL;DR - I was raped when I was 14, he was 17. Reported it last year in Dec. he got arrested this Jan. trial set for December 16th, 2019. Fuzzy on the details except for during the rape itself, have proof from a facebook convo with him. In the convo I didn't specifically say he raped me but asked him \"what did you think when I kept saying no and stop?\" and \"You took something away from me that I can never get back\", he responded \"I'm sorry I did that to you\" (had a really hard time saying the word rape). I was rebellious at the time, underage drinking, sneaking out at night (but raped happened during the day time), hung out with a crowd that had a bad influence on me. Became very promiscuous after the rape as a coping mechanism. SVU support person told me he will be charged as a minor because he was 17. My questions:\n\nIf convicted, will he face jail time or have to register as a sex offender?\n\nWill his record be sealed?\n\nWhat are the chances of him getting convicted, especially since I don't remember much but the rape itself?\n\nCan I change the date of the trial now that I have been subpoenaed (it's the next day after my birthday)?\n\nCan I mention things in court that were not mentioned in my taped interview with the detective?\n\nShould I try and hold back my tears during court\/while on the stand (heard it was more detrimental than good)?\n\nIs being transparent about my bad streak and being promiscuous do more harm than good while on the stand?\n\nAny tips for me when I am on the stand? \n\nDo I get to do a victim impact statement even if he doesn't get convicted?","title":"Trigger warning: reported my rape after 12 years (I was 14y.o.), case is going to trial, need insight please, Mississauga, Canada","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541036003,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t55rz\/my_husbands_ex_girlfriend_has_her_bf_stalking\/","id":"9t55rz","body":"I met my now husband knowing he had a child. It was clear in the very beginning she didnt want anything to do with him in terms of relationship.  He felt the same way toward her due to circumstances that happened during her pregnancy.  \n\nHe was told she was pregnant 3 months into their relationship. She told her family to no longer speak to him after he found out she was dating a different guy behind his back. So he was no longer able to contact her through phone, text and email. She only reached out to him when their son was born. He agreed he wanted to be in his life so she let him have non court ordered visitation.  As long as he paid 400 in child support.  Which he followed through with from money gram and kept receipts from other things he had provided for his son. \n\nBOYFRIEND #1 She found a disabled boyfriend who moved in with her, proposed to her, paid her bills, and sent her to booty camps. \n(Broke up with him because his foot was infected and couldnt take care of two children) her words in a recording. \n\nBOYFRIEND #2 Only dated for a little while and he had a thing for magnums and vehicle. \n\nBOYFRIEND #3 is the one driving around our neighborhood parked in weird places watching our house.\nHe was driving his car around our block until my husband  notices him as he was getting his son in his seat, he said nicely:\"are you lost or something?\" Boyfriend gets out of car and aggressively says \"do you have the authority to be asking me questions? As he gets out of his car with his arms crossed. My husband replies\" I live here and noticed you driving all around the neighborhood. I have the right to assert neighborhood watch. \" My husband proceeds with his day with his son. \n\nTL;DR: what should he do. Honestly i just want to feel safe knowing my house isnt being watched by some stranger. I feel like theres been somebody in my backyard previously to this recent incident.  My husband's ex girlfriend's boyfriend stalks us. ","title":"My husband's ex girlfriend has her bf stalking outside our house, what proper action should be taken?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551642011,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awxmq4\/lease_interpretation_in_reference_to_breaking\/","id":"awxmq4","body":"Hello!  I'm hoping to get a bit of help understanding the specific terms of my lease in Colorado.  My partner and I are looking to buy a home soon and want to fully understand the repercussions of breaking our lease.  Relevant portions of the lease are given below.  \n\nI understand that if we want to terminate the lease agreement, we will be charged $300.  The lease goes on to explain the consequences if we default on the lease such as pay additional fees, that we are still responsible for rent until the Landlord is able to re-rent the property, any damages to the property, etc.  Our question is, if we terminate the lease & pay the $300, is that considered a default on the lease where we are then responsible for the portions outlined under REMEDIES UPON DEFAULT?  Or is it that if we are upfront about breaking the lease, this is just considered a lease agreement termination where we pay $300 and that's the end of it.  \n\nThanks in advance for the help!\n\n​\n\nASSIGNMENT\/SUBLETTING: Tenant(s) shall not assign their interest hereunder, nor sublet the Premises absent Landlord\u2019s prior written consent. Tenant(s) shall remain joint and severally liable for the payment of the rent and performance of all other provisions hereunder with any assignee or sub tenant. In the event Tenant(s) must terminate the Lease Agreement before the completion of the Lease Period, Tenant(s) shall be charged $300.\n\nDEFAULT. Tenant(s) shall be in default of this Lease Agreement if they are in arrears in the payment of any installment of base or additional rent, or any portion thereof, which default remains uncorrected for a period of three (3) business days after Landlord has given written notice thereof: or if Tenant(s) vacate premises prior to the termination (or end of the Lease Period) hereof and any part of the total rent reserved hereunder is unpaid. Tenant(s) shall be charged a $25 fee for each Notice of Default posted at the premises by Landlord.\n\nREMEDIES UPON DEFAULT. Landlord\u2019s rights and remedies shall be deemed cumulative, not exclusive, and if Tenant(s) are in default hereunder, Landlord shall have any one or more of the following described remedies in addition to all other rights and remedies provided at law or in equity:\n\nA.) Landlord may evict Tenant(s), and forthwith repossess the Premises, and be entitled to recover as damages, the total cost of recovering the Premises, including attorney\u2019s fees (whether incurred pre-suit, during suit or post-judgment) and\/or collection agency fees; the unpaid base and additional rent due at the time of termination, plus interest thereon at the rate of 21% per annum from the date due; damages for the unlawful holding of the Tenant(s) to Landlord, and subject to the followingSubsection b., the balance of the total rent owed for the remaining Lease Period;\n\nB.) If Tenant(s) are evicted or vacate early, Landlord will retake possession of the Premises as agent for Tenant(s) without being deemed to have accepted a surrender thereof and without termination this Lease Agreement, and attempt to re-let the Premises for the remainder of the Lease Period provided for herein for such rent and upon such conditions as Landlord, in Landlord\u2019s sole discretion, thinks best; and if the rent provided through such re-letting does not at least equal the total amount of rent due for the remaining unexpired term hereof, Tenant(s) shall pay and satisfy any deficiency between the amount so provided for and that received through re-letting; and, in addition thereto, Tenant(s) shall pay all reasonable expenses incurred in connection with any such re-letting, including, but not limited to, the cost of renovating, altering, decorating for a new tenant, and\/or administrative costs associated with the transition. All administrative activity involving , but not limited to negotiations, showings, addendum and lease signings, deposit collections, deposit reimbursements, and any other activity deemed by \\[property management company\\]. This $300 fee will be charged to Tenant(s).","title":"Lease Interpretation in Reference to Breaking Lease [Colorado]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569305794,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8j6q0\/written_up_for_calling_out_for_my_mother_entering\/","id":"d8j6q0","body":"So my mother went into the hospital and I called in an hour before my shift to let my manager know I would not be making it as I was heading to the hospital to see my mother. Less than 2 weeks later I called my manager more than 3 hours before my shift to tell them my wife was having stomach pains and I was taking her to the ER. Company policy does usually require 2 hours notice.\n\nI was given a second write up (the first being for unrelated issues, and that's a whole other story but not for legal advise) for my attendance stating that I had made 8 call outs within 12 months with the 2 most recent being specifically mentioned in writing. Any tardiness or absence for the next 2 months could result in termination. After reminding my manager of the reason for these absences, I was told it didn't matter the reason, and the issue was the absences themselves. I was told more than 2 call outs in a 12 month period was \"excessive\" despite being able to accrue up to a week of paid sick time per year.\n\nMy manager and I have a history of not getting along and he has pulled shitty but, to my knowledge not illegal, tactics like removing my status as a full time employee without warning or notification until 7 months later when asked, cutting my hours to an absolute minimum, moving me outside my home department that I have expertise and training in, falsifying a reported incident in my first write up, and making my schedule as random and unpredictable as possible. \n\nI am also curious if this added context changes anything.\n\nI just wanted to make sure none of this was illegal before I took the issue to HR to discuss company ethics and policy as I feel I should take different actions if that's the case.","title":"Written up for calling out for my mother entering the hospital and my wife entering the hospital within 2 weeks","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552085734,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aywk0y\/ontario_canada_landlord_was_given_70_days_notice\/","id":"aywk0y","body":"As of January 19th, 2019, I contacted my landlord stating that I was departing from this unit. Landlord then proceeded to list my apartment looking for prospective tenants. Now, my landlord is saying I have given him my notice improperly, and that I ***must*** file a N9: Notice of Termination of Tenancy. Currently we are charging him through the tenant board of ontario, and I feel this may be a way for him to recoup his losses, if I was to sign this.\n\nOn the N9, you are required to give 60 days from the signing date, so I feel as though he is using this to regain financial loss.\n\nShould I sign the N9? Any advice?","title":"[Ontario, Canada] Landlord was given 70 days notice of termination of tenancy, asks for a N9 now.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443992314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nhsne\/are_nontransferable_things_legal_if_so_what\/","id":"3nhsne","body":"This most falls into the transfer or resale of something you own or paid for (but do not \"pay to use\" like subscriptions) in the digital medium, accounts with digitally purchased games, anything with a virtual currency or that you paid money for. They all include things like Non-Refundable, Non-Transferable, Non-Resalable, etc.\n\nWhat laws support this as an option, because it just doesn't happen with physical goods (i can hand someone a fork and they can use it for awhile, return it, or keep it, etc). So what specifically is supporting a company charging you upfront money but preventing you from doing anyhing non personal to yourself exclusively with it?\n\nI hope what I am asking comes through I tried to be over detailed\/extra details. I am in florida\/USA but as this is a digital thing I am not sure relevancy.","title":"Are non-transferable things legal? If so What statues or laws support this (USA)?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555053987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcarwj\/or_possible_civil_suit_over_mmo_account\/","id":"bcarwj","body":"Hello.  Long story, I'll try and summarize as well as I can.\n\n​\n\nAbout five years ago a friend of mine (will be referred to as A) purchased a copy of Final Fantasy XIV for me, everything is in my information he just sent me the code.  I briefly played the game before effectively abandoning the account with no intentions to continue playing.  \n\n​\n\nAt some point he gave the information to an on again off again fling of his (will be referred to as B) who has been playing on the account, buying game time, purchasing in game items etc. Account sharing is strictly against the games terms of service for the record.  I've made several attempts to get the account back over the years, have B transfer her character to another account, B even offered to buy me a new account several times but never has.  I believe at some point B changed the e-mail associated with the account to hers but that is the extent of her changing any personal information on the account as far as I'm aware.\n\n​\n\nThe other day A discovered B had been attempting to sabotage his relationships for years and has also been cheating on him.  A called square enix and took control of the account after learning of this and has offered to return the account to me, I guess it's effectively in my possession?  B and her new boyfriend (will be referred to as C) have told A via in game mail that they talked to a lawyer that said they have a civil case and that I will be on the hook, this occurred over the course of roughly 24 hours of A taking control of the account.  \n\n​\n\nOther random maybe relevant information: I live in Oregon. A and B live in Florida and C lives in Georgia.  I'm homeless and autistic.  I'm pretty sure neither B or C know my legal name or where I live, Discord has been my only form of communication with B or C.\n\n​\n\nI believe this to simply be a bluff to scare us into returning the account, should I be concerned?","title":"OR - Possible civil suit over MMO account?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539007800,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mf65y\/fire_hazard_in_student_dorm_how_to_break_the\/","id":"9mf65y","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nMy girlfriend and I have been renting a room in Brussels for a month now, we used to have rooms from our university itself, so we rent for the first time at the private market via Brik (the organisation for student rooms).\n\nFrom our arrival in the new room we have had problems:\n\n- Joints of the shower that were broken\n- Large leak in the toilet\n- Stove that gave electric shocks\n- Heating that is broken\n- Sockets that sometimes make a crackling sound, sometimes with fire particles that come out, even if no device is plugged into the socket in question, we also often suffer from a power failure. \n\nWe had the landlords (a man with his 3 children) contacted for this. We spent 3 weeks without a stove, which has been replaced. The toilet is solved, just like the shower. The electricity however remains a problem, because it is not a constant sound, the landlord heard nothing when he first came along.\n\nThen we had a few days without any problems, until other outlets also started making this sound, now it is the case that when we plug in a device sometimes from another outlet a loud and crackling sound comes. We made videos of this and showed them to 2 electricians, their reaction was unanimous: high fire risk, immediate repair OR have a very good fire insurance. So when the landlord and his handyman came by they looked at this but also found nothing, the sound could be heard once. They tightened the wires a bit, and our problem seemed to be solved.\n\nAfter that, apart from the fridge, we had done everything we could to charge the electricity a minimum and then we went for a day to visit our family. When we returned home on Sunday evening we had no electricity, the fuses had (again) jumped and 3 sockets that made noise no longer work (the electricity always goes out, I have a phone charger that lights up as soon as it is connected, and the light flashes on\/off each time...). My girlfriend then called the 2 children on Sunday evening: one referred to the other because they were abroad, and then we got, anonymously, the landlord on the phone. He was extremely angry that we called, that it seemed as if we had no trust, that it was up to the previous tenants, and that they had never complained, so why did we call. That it was always something in our room, that we called every other day and that that was not okay, that he will now have to break out the wall, that it really will cost a lot etc etc etc. He was also angry because my girlfriend was ill during his visit (at 9 o'clock in the morning) and she was in bed with the flu. \n\nMy girlfriend insisted on sending an electrician, but the landlord sends 'his team' of handymen, does not seem to be open to an objective electrician. Although it is understandable that he first tries to solve this problem with his own team, we really hoped for an electrician. But that's not really going to happen.\n\nWe contacted Brik a week ago, that man barely took us seriously and nearly laughed: 'You can only cancel the contract if there are serious problems, we know the landlord and he is open to repairs. 'That may all be true, but now he is going to open the wall, something that the electricians we asked claim is not necessary. Moreover, I fear that they will not see anything when the wall breaks open, and that we will be blamed. He already said: 'Well we are going to remove the wall and you will be full of dust, that's what you want, isn't it?'\n\nMy contact with the landlord was always pretty good. Friendly man. I do feel, however, that we are being blamed fo 'complaining a lot', for us it does not even matter that we do not have heating, but fire safety is really important and that is not the case here. We are not complaining here about a minor thing like bad wifi, but we are complaining about electricity, which is a problem. It does not help that we are two women, and I have the feeling that we are not always taken seriously.\n\nWe would like to leave as soon as possible. My father talks about 'ingebreke stellen\/mise en demeur' but I think that is impossible. After all, he does something about it, just not the right thing. We wonder what our options are? How can we get out of this contract?\n\n","title":"Fire hazard in student dorm, how to break the contract? (Belgium)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504622963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y8g8i\/friend_was_expelled_from_school_for_failing_3\/","id":"6y8g8i","body":"This is in PA. Basically my friend flunked a couple classes and ended up going to summer school. None of the teachers told him that he was failing in summer school as well, and were genuinely surprised when he failed. They had no idea what his grades were. His high school has a credit minimum, and it seems that he can no longer attend. What are his choices?","title":"Friend was expelled from school for failing 3 courses, but was not told he was failing. What are his options?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1506754385,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73dj8e\/what_address_do_i_put_on_my_drivers_license_ms\/","id":"73dj8e","body":"It sounds like such a stupid question now that I ask, but it\u2019s serious. \n\nI\u2019ve permanently moved out of my childhood home to another city where I go to school. I pay some bills but I\u2019ve gotten seriously lucky in that my mom helps me out a lot. I go home to visit but my permanent residence is in my new place in a new town. \n\nI turn 21 in October, and this will be my first license renewal. Even though I\u2019m moved out, I\u2019m not sure whether to put my new or old address on my license. I\u2019m not financially independent whatsoever. Like I said, a lot of my bills are taken care of for me. My car is under my mom\u2019s name and she holds the insurance. \n\nBut I\u2019m not sure of the legal ramifications of not having my permanent address on my license. I don\u2019t want my changing of my address to screw with my insurance under her or her taxes, since I\u2019m still a dependent. \n\nWhat are the issues here? What do I need to do and why? I appreciate any answers. ","title":"What address do I put on my driver\u2019s license? [MS]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444268845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nx27w\/can_i_stop_my_landlord_from_spraying_my_apartment\/","id":"3nx27w","body":"I live in North Carolina. Can I stop my landlord from spraying for cockroaches in my apartment? Does my landlord have to tell me what they are spraying?\n\nI\u2019m not an all-natural\/anti-chemical nut but the sprays don\u2019t seem to have any effect on the roaches. The smell of whatever chemical they are using makes me cough and causes my nose to run and my eyes to burn for days afterwards. They spray the whole building every 3-4 months. Yes, my apartment complex has roaches. I keep my place clean and I rarely see any. If I leave food out they appear pretty quickly but I\u2019ve just learned to wash all my dishes\/counters immediately. I know that if you see one roach, there are 100 you can\u2019t see but there is no way the roaches are as bad for me as that spray is. I\u2019d like to have some facts before I confront my landlord. I don\u2019t see anything relevant in my lease and I wasn\u2019t able to find anything specific online.","title":"Can I stop my landlord from spraying my apartment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505929247,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71cqze\/texas_waiting_to_file_all_the_legal_paperwork_for\/","id":"71cqze","body":"Waiting until late October or early November to file for a business, but doing some pre-work to prepare for the business right now. Can I spend my personal money (ex - meals for business meeting) but still save the receipts and file them as business expenses once the biz is launched? OR am I better off filing paperwork for the official business and using a business card for all expenses? TIA!","title":"Texas - Waiting to file all the \"legal\" paperwork for a business - can I temporarily use my personal finances for my business related expenses? Clarity in info..","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569989355,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc55wq\/backed_into_a_guy_at_01_mph_in_a_parking_lot_and\/","id":"dc55wq","body":"Hey legal people of reddit, last Sunday I went to a smash tournament and did a pretty sub par park job when I came into the parking lot, but I left a space to my left because I\u2019m a new driver (16) and didn\u2019t feel comfortable parking right next to another car in this cramped, ran down parking lot. \n\nAnyways, while on my way out, a car had parked to my left, which wasn\u2019t a big deal; I could easily pull out. So, I looked at my phone and set up gps because I had to deliver stuff for someone. While this happens, a brand new Subaru Outback pulls in backwards to a non existent parking spot across the already lot from me in my huge Tahoe. I didn\u2019t know this, and backed up as usual; the Subaru in my blind spot. I backed all the way up, and was shifting to drive when a dude waves through my window. Then it hit me; the Tahoe had stopped moving. \n\nGot out of the car, there was a tiny paint scuff (looked like mud and rust from the Tahoe) and a tiny dent in his grill. Me being myself, I was fucking panicked. I was eyes wide, staring at this 20 something year old bearded man looking for mercy. He asked for my insurance, told him that I\u2019m under state farm. This dude then proceeds to file a claim call the sheriff to the accident, and leave me, a 16 yo, completely boned. \n\nAnyways, I now have a 218 dollar ticket chilling on my desk (which the sheriff said that if I went and took care of it that i wouldn\u2019t have to pay anything, which was a lie) and I\u2019ll probably have to pay this guy\u2019s deductible soon too. Is there anything I can do? Was the cop right and I\u2019m just retarded? State is North Carolina\/Tennessee if that helps","title":"Backed into a guy at .01 mph in a parking lot and now my whole life has been flipped on its head","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1550829140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atfosk\/if_your_previous_employer_pays_you_a_month_after\/","id":"atfosk","body":"A little back story: I've worked for a company for a couple of years and then left. A month after starting the new job, I get paychecks from both my current and last employer, tax and national insurance paid for.\n\nI've notified the previous office that there must be a mistake - they said yes, payroll have been a bit tardy that month and that I should not spend the money because they will want it back. It's been a month since I've mentioned this.\n\nSo my question is if they fail to claim the money back after some time (let's say a couple of months to a year), am I obliged to give them that money back? This is all in the UK if it makes a difference.","title":"If your previous employer pays you a month after you leave, are you obliged to pay them back if they don't ask for it soon?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569547912,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9te4k\/im_buying_a_car_but_i_dont_know_if_i_am_being\/","id":"d9te4k","body":"I moved to Iceland a year ago, and I am still not very acquainted to their laws when it comes to situations like mine. I want to buy the car from an add I found on facebook. The car seems in very good condition, next inspection is on may of 2020 and has been recently fixed for major and obvious issues. But my brother in law warned me to get the car evaluated at a specialist for eeeeeverything which apparently is a more thorough inspection than the basic yearly ones. I even took a risk and send this car guy the money to take the car to it but for the past week he's been leading me on with \"I'll take it either today or tomorrow\"  but now, the day before my long 3 to 5 hour long trip to go see and potentially buy the car, he tells me he's been too busy and the best thing for us to do is to write a contract  so that if the car turns out to have issues and I am not satisfied with it, I can just return it to him and have my money back. The problem is, I am not sure that writting a contract between the 2 of us without a lawyer to look through it, will ever hold any significance in court in my favour, if it turns out he scammed me. What should I do? Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated!\n\nP.s. It is also my first time buying a car and I know nothing at all about cars which makes this situation extra nerve wracking for me.","title":"I'm buying a car but I don't know if I am being scammed!","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571530910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkc68h\/is_it_illegal_to_sell_food_at_your_high_school\/","id":"dkc68h","body":"In my particular case, I am a student at said high school. This high school also contains two separate lunch \u201cbusinesses\u201d as well as a student run store that the high school profits from. \n\nI know of several other students selling food, but would it be illegal to sell food (in this case cookies and fudge)?\n\nNot much else to be said, thank you for your help in advance!","title":"Is it illegal to sell food at your high school?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554244441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8pyxq\/my_apartment_made_a_mistake_but_is_trying_to_say\/","id":"b8pyxq","body":"A few weeks ago, letters were hand delivered to the apartments in my building. The letters were explaining upcoming renovations to the property, and encouraging people to select a transfer date to move into a renovated unit. It also noted that they were allowing people to select their move out date if they didn't want to transfer, and gave a list of about 5 dates, and they asked for 60 day notice. My wife and I aren't super happy with the apartment, so we decided to elect to move out may 31st, and gave them 61 days notice. We handed written notice to the administrator onsite, and went to an apartment showing. We loved the place and applied and signed that day. \n\nThe next day, the property management said they didn't mean to give us the notice, as it was intended only for residents in un-remodeled units, and thusly we can't end our lease early. We are in a remodeled unit, and what he said makes sense, but it also didn't say that on the letter. \n\n In an email to his team, which he CC'd us on, he admits that there was a mistake, but said he is unwilling to make an exception unless they can rent the unit to someone else early.\n\nTheir mistake could cost us 2 extra months of double rent, which we don't really have the money for right now. What are my options? I'm willing to go to small claims court if necessary, but I don't even know if I have a case.","title":"My apartment made a mistake, but is trying to say they don't have to do anything about it.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553739295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6d699\/us_tx_attending_college_on_military_benefits_can\/","id":"b6d699","body":"I'm a 20 year old male currently attending South Texas College on military benefits, specifically Chapter 35 which gives a stipend every month for school supplies, and the Hazelwood Act, which fully pays for my tuition.\n\nHowever my home life has become a bit rough. My Dad is a retired marine with some personality issues that make living with him in our apartment a nightmare. On top of that rent is piling up on our apartment (currently at a thousand and some dollars) and for the last two weeks there's been no food here as he's out of town for medical treatment.\n\nI want to withdraw from my college and move in with my mother and stepfather back in Illinois, however I was told that if I withdraw mid semester I'd have to reimburse the VA for this semestere tuition, which I can't afford to do.\n\nAny advice?","title":"[US, TX] Attending college on military benefits, can I withdraw mid semester if I have no where to live, and no food?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555377217,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdnwwk\/al_a_rental_cars_tire_came_off_and_hit_my_car_car\/","id":"bdnwwk","body":"I just traded in an old car to get a new used car. I opted in to the extended warranty by CarMax, and my old car insurance will automatically be transferred to my new car. Same day, a pickup truck's tire (wheel and all) just came off and rolled into my front, activating all airbags and caused severe frontal damage. Me and my SO are fine, other than emotional trauma and soreness after the initial shock wore off (in the process of an ER checkup for documentation). \nOther than calling my car insurance for the claim, how do I make sure I am not responsible for any costs? No one was at fault after the police report so far, and my car insurance said that the medical expenses will be covered, what can I do in regards to getting a new car? I am very upset that my new car is practically gone, but now I am concerned about future physical issues and the run-around in getting a new car when neither me or the other driver was at fault. Also would I need to speak to an accident attorney? Thank you!","title":"[AL] A rental car's tire came off and hit my car. Car is most likely totaled, and it was just bought today. No one is at fault; looks like everything is being pointed at the rental car not getting inspected before the driver got it.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554575584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba7ehs\/my_internet_is_shit\/","id":"ba7ehs","body":"Hey, so I live out in the country, yee-haw land virginia, and I need some advice, as it is, I only have two choices when it comes to internet, sattelite and DSL, we have DSL right now but it sucks literal ass, my peak speed is around 200KBs per second, and sattelite would mean that we have to enter into a contract, install a settelite, and even then we've been told it's not fast at all. I live on a private drive about half a mile off of the road, there are three houses on this private drive, one about as far back as we are, and one that's about the same distance from the road a regular house that was on the road would be, there's only a single company willing to run fiber optic cables down my road and even then, they refuse to run it down my private drive unless we pay a lot of extra money out of pocket for it, and even if we were to do that it'd take them an incredibly long time to get here since they can waste time and slack off as they're the only company after my road, what can i do to speed them up or get them to run cables to my house?","title":"My Internet Is Shit","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555032807,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc7xgd\/talking_about_family_members_on_youtube_video\/","id":"bc7xgd","body":"Hi - there I am about to create some filmed content explaining true matters about family members and others - I can hide the other people but the importance of mother father and brother being known is important for the information to help others. How do I do this without legal problems? From Australia","title":"TALKING ABOUT FAMILY MEMBERS ON YOUTUBE VIDEO ABOUT STORIES THEY HAVE done -","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570749569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg6bjg\/3rd_strike_advise\/","id":"dg6bjg","body":"My husband is being charged with residential burglary in a Northern California County. Back in April 2019, he was detained and booked on a Ramey warrant by our local PD (a different county). He was bailed out and later questioned by detectives about an incident that occurred on March 2019 where my car was spotted in the area where a home had a window broken. We were told that nothing was stolen. We appeared for his court date in May 2019 which was indicated on his bail papers and were told upon arrival at the courthouse that the DA had not charged him as of yet. About a week ago and 6 months after the incident, at our residence 5 local officers came into search the house for him stating that county where the incident occurred has asked to make contact with him. Due to the aggressive nature of the officers at our home, he was afraid to come back home. The officers came back for a 2nd search of our home later that evening again he was not home. \n\nMy husband is currently on parole. He was charged at age 19 (he is now 33) with robbery and burglary and received 2 strikes which resulted in him serving 12 years. He was released early 2018 and since had a perfect parole record and has become a productive member of society, he has been promoted With his company 5 times and is surrounded by a very strong support system. \n\nWe received word the following week from our bondsman for the Ramey warrant in April 2019) that there is an active warrant that has been issued for residential burglary and that bail has been set at $650,000 due to special enhancements. We now see this is what will be considered as his 3rd strike if convicted. We would like to find out what options we have and possible routes to go with all of this. We would also like to hear your experience in 3 strike cases in and what outcomes\/negotiating down the charges that may be a route for our case particularly in the CA Bay Area. This is beyond difficult for us to process right now and I am looking for insight on how to proceed.","title":"3rd Strike Advise","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443221956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3meamz\/who_would_inherit_my_home_by_default_california\/","id":"3meamz","body":"I'm a single guy, that got a home a couple years back. What would happen with my home if I passed away? Should I set up something legally to make sure it gets to either my parents or a sibling?","title":"Who would inherit my home by default? [California]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553850657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6uz5t\/how_to_create_a_terms_of_agreement_document\/","id":"b6uz5t","body":"Location: Australia\n\nA legal representative body has agreed to take on my case under the conditions that I have a terms of agreement document returned to them in less then 4 days.\n\nI've never had to do this before or been in a similar situation. Please help me through the writing process and all relevant information that I should include.\n\nI do not have a solicitor.","title":"How to create a terms of agreement document.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569100787,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7ghxo\/ca_landlord_hasnt_sent_us_an_itemized_list_for\/","id":"d7ghxo","body":"So this is actually the first place I have ever rented, and the total deposit was $2000. We had some roommate disputes and one of our roommates couldn\u2019t pay the last month of rent so management said they will take their portion out of the security deposit (~$600). I know more will be deducted out since there was some damages to two doorways. \n\nWell, we moved out on Aug 31 and haven\u2019t gotten an itemized list of deductions. The management company is notorious for not answering emails on the weekends so I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll get an answer today. I\u2019ve read most of the posts here about being entitled to they entire deposit back, but does it apply here since rent was still owed? What should our next plans be if we don\u2019t get this list?","title":"[CA] Landlord hasn\u2019t sent us an itemized list for deposit. Today is the 21st day since move out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446052091,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ql0vy\/property_management_adding_fees_randomly_that\/","id":"3ql0vy","body":"So we're living in an apartment in Atlanta, GA that initially was fine, but the management staff changed half-way through our lease. We have always paid the full amount we're billed for, on time or early. Ever since the change in management was made, we keep incurring random fees and being told we have balances on our accounts due to \"clerical errors\" to the tune of several hundred dollars. This has led to such explanations as a technical error in the billing system, errors inputting amounts into the system on their end, and most recently, \"well, the lease wasn't done properly and this fee SHOULD be here.\" This last example is in reference to a $40 \"amenity\" fee randomly showing up on the bill, and when we asked about it, the office told us it was a rental fee for our appliances, which when we looked in the specific verbage of the lease, it says \"a $40 rental fee, included in the cost of rent\". Each time they find some error on their end, it ends up costing us several hundred dollars.\nIt's definitely not ethical, but is this legal? My understanding is that we are only responsible for paying the amount we're billed, and that if they make an error, we shouldn't be responsible for it. The penalty for vacating the lease early is also really enormous, so I'm not really sure what we can do other than wait it out and hope they don't do this again (it's now been 3 times in the last 3 months). The last thing I want is for this to impact our future negatively in any way.","title":"Property management adding fees randomly that aren't listed in the lease. (Atlanta, GA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571101320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di08pv\/ny_can_my_landlord_require_me_to_not_be_home\/","id":"di08pv","body":"Hello!\nMy landlord has it in the lease that I\ufe0f have to be vacant for showings and that he can charge me a 65$ fee if the apartment isn\u2019t cleaning enough for his standards during showings... is this legal? He has three showings in the past 5 days. He has told me about the showings the night before around 11pm-12am and has given me little time to leave my apartment and clean etc...\n\nI\ufe0f do not have a car and I\ufe0f am a student.\n\nHe wants to do another showing tomorrow and demands that I\ufe0f am not there, what do I\ufe0f do? I\ufe0f really need to study and the bus system is poor... does this qualify as a nuisance?","title":"NY can my landlord require me to not be home while he gives showings?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570999135,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhg7ek\/i_got_scammed\/","id":"dhg7ek","body":"I was looking for Lana Del rey's concert ticket. All the tickets were sold out. I found a guy in twitter, who was trying to sell. We had a good chat and agreed to sell 2 tickets for $235. I asked him to ship me the tickets, he asked for money first which (I thought ) was fair enough so, I tranfered money using VENMO. Now, after money was sent. He doesnt show any sign to send me tickets. He replies late. I dont know if he is busy or prenting to be but doesnot reply me for hours. Is there anyway I can take legal action on him? Or do anything? Please help!","title":"I GOT SCAMMED!!!","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1538928124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m652y\/should_i_lawyer_up_for_an_auto_accident_medical\/","id":"9m652y","body":"Hello everyone.\nYesterday I was involved in an accident that wasn't my fault.\nI was going straight through a green light and the other driver failed to yield when he turned left. I had no time to stop my vehicle and ended up totalling out my car.\nI'm a full time Lyft driver, it is my primary source of income. After this wreck I'm left jobless.\nI had to go to the ER and they did some X-rays and cat scans and I walked with a concussion, pain meds, and muscle relaxers.\nI'm losing wages, medical treatment, and I no longer have a vehicle.\nMy credit isn't the best anymore since some things fell out from under me and I've struggled to catch up. And I'd be hard pressed to get approved for a new car. I have no idea where to begin.","title":"Should I lawyer up for an auto accident + medical + lost wages?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571255065,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diult7\/landlord_wont_fix_ac_is_trying_to_charge_400mth\/","id":"diult7","body":"I live in an apartment complex with 3 roommates and our AC has not worked since the day we moved in. We asked that they fix it and they sent a half-baked maintenance worker who basically said they won't fix it. In the lease agreement it states that working AC will be provided.\n\nOur electric bill is ridiculously high, last month it was $128\/ea so we went to complain. They arbitrarily reduced it by $50\/ea which still is insanely high. I live in GA and used to split a $60 electric bill this time of year.\n\nGA power came and said the AC isn't working that there is a freon leak. The apartment workers are supposed to come fix the unit but it seems increasingly unlikely that they will do anything. \n\nWhat can we do? We are literally being charged extra for living with a broken AC. We should be compensated for their failure to provide AC, not charged extra.","title":"Landlord won't fix AC, is trying to charge $400\/mth for electricity. GA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541826670,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vrrzr\/my_dad_died_before_my_grandpas_estate_was_fully\/","id":"9vrrzr","body":"Hoping someone can give me some advice here because I don't trust my family at all and I'm afraid of getting screwed over in my father's estate settlement. \n\nSo to start, my grandfather died almost 2 years ago now and his estate has been very complicated. My dad has been buying his house from my grandfather for most of my life through a land contract and still owed quite a bit when grandpa died. What they decided in the settlement was that he could keep the house but owed each of his 3 siblings 1\/4 of the amount he owed on the house. However, there has been a lot of struggle here because my dad wasn't able to make any payments or qualify for a loan to pay them. It has been getting very tense regarding the situation because my aunt and uncles are getting impatient to get their share. \n\nHere's where my question comes in. My dad just died with this still unsettled and I am just very unsure of my and my brothers rights regarding the house. Is it now our responsibility to pay them or sell the house? Or does it go to another sibling now? Will they owe us anything for my dad's share? I have no idea how this stuff works and I just don't want to go into this not knowing what to expect. I don't want to accidentally give up any rights to anything if I have any. I dont know if this is enough info to go off of, but any advice or information would be so greatly appreciated. ","title":"My dad died before my grandpa's estate was fully settled, do I have rights to his share of the estate?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552305134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azsjr3\/facebook_frames\/","id":"azsjr3","body":"Are Facebook frames copyrighted? Can I edit them and use them for whatever purpose I like?","title":"Facebook frames","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540568970,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rlwk8\/won_a_tv_as_a_door_prize_work_place_is_saying_i\/","id":"9rlwk8","body":"So I just won a very nice 55\" Samsung TV in a random drawing at a professional development opportunity at my University. The drawing chance was given to everyone at the conference\/expo and it was open to the public (all you had to do was register). The TV was donated by an undisclosed group so far as I am aware. This was not given with the intent to garner favor, improve on a business relationship, or to sell something. Currently we do not have any contract or purchasing with the vendor sponsoring the expo.\n\nMy workplace defines gifts as,   \n\n\n\"**Gifts**  \nA charitable donation made by a donor (individual or organization) for the benefit of the University to be used in accordance with donor intent.\u00a0 Gifts may be transfers of money or property (i.e., equipment, land, etc.) for which the donor will not receive a direct economic benefit or any other tangible compensation (i.e., goods or services). \n\nor a second definition (so which is it) of:\n\n**\u201cGift\u201d** \n\nA transaction involving the transfer of funds by a third party to the University without any requirement on the University's part to provide the third party(i) and direct economic benefit, or (ii) a return of any unused funds.\n\n​\n\nThis prize was defined as a door prize and was NOT targeted to me specifically, therefore it was not \"a transfer to the University.\" I obviously think I should be able to keep the TV, am I right on this?\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Won a TV as a Door Prize, Work Place is saying I cannot accept it, need advice\/opinions.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444087020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nmycf\/roommates_wont_let_me_move_outsublease_but_i_need\/","id":"3nmycf","body":"Need some advice, I'll try to be quick.\n\nI live in California, and about 6 months ago I signed a year lease with two people I met on Craigslist. They are horrible, and I need to move out. I've been trying to for over a month, but every qualified candidate I bring to look at the place they reject for one reason or another. At various points, my roommates have threatened that they will never approve a person to sublease my portion of the apartment, forcing my hand to continue paying rent until the lease is up. The thing is, I'm barely even spending any time there anymore because it's such an unlivable environment. (Aside from some minor damages caused to the apartment by them, they are just the worst roommates I've ever had. Super loud, constantly leaving stacks of dirty dishes around for days collecting bugs, not picking up their dog's poop from the carpet and hard floor for days at a time, etc. I've tried talking to them about these issues for several months, pretty much starting right after I moved in, but nothing has gotten any better.) I now spend about 5-6 nights a week elsewhere, so they are basically living there alone while I continue to pay my full portion of the rent and utilities. (So I guess I see that benefit to their behavior - why would they want to agree to a new person moving in when they are enjoying living alone now?)\n\nI don't want to just ghost out of the apartment and then be liable for rent, as I expect my roommate would bring legal action against me and I don't want to destroy my credit. I don't want to continue paying rent when I'm not really living there, and I certainly don't want to ACTUALLY keep living there for the next six months. My friends suggest that I just move back in full-time and be the worst roommate ever until they cave and let someone else sign for my name on the lease, but I don't want to stoop to that immature level.\n\nMy landlord says it's a fairly easy process to sign my portion of the lease over once I find someone who all the roommates agree to, but that's the issue - we ALL have to agree, and I don't think that will ever happen. They've rejected every single person who has toured the place, or intentionally slowed the process down until that person is forced to look for other housing.\n\nI don't really know what else to do. Do I have any other options here?","title":"Roommates Won't Let Me Move Out\/Sublease, But I Need to - I still owe $10K+ in rent - Help!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550154563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqkb1d\/i_m_24_recently_let_go_for_not_clocking_out\/","id":"aqkb1d","body":"I worked at Walgreens 11:45 to 8am we get a 30 minute lunch break during shifts & I had not been advised during the hiring process that we had to clock out and was not warned prior to being let go. Today I was let go for not clocking out saying that I committed time fraud. My only other job history is being in the Connecticut national guard.\n\nI don\u2019t want to go on unemployment. I\u2019m wondering is this legal ? Is there anyway to get my job back and will this stop me from applying for jobs in the future? \n\nI\u2019ve been applying and signing up for all the job search sites since I\u2019ve gotten home but I\u2019m in a pretty down mood though.","title":"I [M] 24 recently let go for not clocking out during lunch breaks. Connecticut","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539284832,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ncvvo\/could_i_be_liable_for_breaking_a_nocompete\/","id":"9ncvvo","body":"I signed a No-Compete contract when I was hired by my current employer. It states that I cannot go to work for a competitor within 2 years of leaving my current job.\n\nI am interviewing with a company that does similar work but not exactly the same. They are claiming that the No-Compete is not a problem, but will have their attorney review it.\n\nSo, let's say the attorney decides there is no conflict in me taking the new job and I accept an offer. If my current employer decides I broke my contract, am I liable for that? Would my new employer be liable? Is there a way I can make sure I am protected in this case?\n\nWhat typically happens when someone breaks a No-Compete? Could I be fined?","title":"Could I be liable for breaking a No-Compete?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568860930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d67tpu\/foreign_student_leaving_before_lease_expires\/","id":"d67tpu","body":"I\u2019m graduating earlier than expected and I\u2019ll be returning home. My lease is still valid for another 8 months.\n\nOf course I\u2019ll try my best to sublet it, but what\u2019s the worse case scenario for me if I just...bail ?","title":"Foreign student leaving before lease expires","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555482704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be4l47\/ny_can_i_create_my_own_contract_incase_an_app\/","id":"be4l47","body":"I had an app idea and have found a college student on Reddit to work on it for me! I will be purchasing the service through PayPal in increments of 6 payments with descriptions of what each payment will cover. (UIUX, Research, etc). \n\nI\u2019m wondering if I can create a contract (using word or google docs) outlining the terms of my purchase I.e \u201cDeveloper will create the app, I will have sole ownership of the app, etc. \u201c \n\nI\u2019m in new Your and the developer is in another state. \n\nAny other advice or insights welcome and appreciated.","title":"(NY) Can I create my own contract Incase an app creation deal goes south or I don\u2019t get what I\u2019m promised?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552011239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aykw82\/former_employer_still_hasnt_paid_me_all_im_owed\/","id":"aykw82","body":"I\u2019m in Michigan. This isn\u2019t very serious but I\u2019d like some guidance as to what I can do about this. I worked at this place for 2 weeks, well over 40 hours each week. First paycheck the paystub said 39 hours exactly. I knew I worked more than that and he was avoiding paying me overtime but I let it slide and just made sure to take a picture of my time card in case it happened again. I quit before the next pay period started because of how disrespectful and slimy my boss was overall so i\u2019d just have that last check to get then I can move on from that hell hole. Well sure enough my next paycheck again said 39 hours exactly. I added up the hours on my time card and I worked 51 hours. I called him out and sent a picture of my time card and he said he\u2019ll write me a check for the difference and he\u2019s gonna do it through payroll. I\u2019m sure he does this to all his employees until they call him out and he\u2019s got a lot of new highschool kids working for him cause so many people quit, literally 3 people quit during my 2 week span there. And I know a few of these kids it\u2019s there first job and they\u2019d be too scared of him to mention it (my first day there he said he\u2019d stab me in the neck and fuck my mom if I messed with him or his restaurant that gives you an idea of what kinda person I\u2019m dealing with). So I pick up the check that\u2019s supposed to be what he owes me and of course it\u2019s still short. Still didn\u2019t pay me overtime or correct my hourly rate. Just want to know what I can do about this situation and if there\u2019s anything I can do can I fight for the missing hours from my first paycheck without any solid proof I worked more than 39 hours? Thanks in advance. \n","title":"Former employer still hasn\u2019t paid me all I\u2019m owed","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443096692,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m6uuf\/georgia_questions_about_what_constitutes_animal\/","id":"3m6uuf","body":"Does refusing to allow humane euthanasia of a suffering animal with no chance of recovery count as cruelty, or is this within the rights of the owner?  If someone seeks veterinary care but then refuses all available options to alleviate their animal's suffering, is this grounds to report them or would I be wasting my time?\n\nEDIT: This is a moot point for the case that inspired the question, but say this isn't an animal with a chronic terminal disease (I agree that these follow more of a spectrum rather than a definite line that gets crossed before euthanasia is \"required,\" and that's not what I wanted to ask about).  For the purposes of my question, this is a dog or cat with a surgical emergency that will be fatal without treatment and there is only one option that gives any chance of survival.  The other two choices are euthanasia or a slow, painful death that no pain medication the owner can take home will touch.  Is the owner committing an act of cruelty by taking the pet home without treatment with full knowledge of the pet's condition?","title":"(Georgia) Questions about what constitutes animal cruelty","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570577005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df89e1\/wa_my_17yearold_friend_was_choked_by_his_mom_and\/","id":"df89e1","body":"My friend (let\u2019s call him James) lives with his abusive mom who refuses to give up custody. His mom choked him, and he went to the police when he had the opportunity. After showing them pictures the marks, they said that it was a \u201creasonable form of discipline\u201d and drove him back home. His parents are consistently physically and emotionally abusive, and a lot of people have seen it first hand. His mom has even had the police called on her for how she treats him in public. \n\nI have upper-middle class parents who would be willing to adopt him if his mom gave up or was forced to give up custody. Also he\u2019s transgender, in case that\u2019s relevant. \n\nWhat can James do to get out of this situation, and what can I do to help him?","title":"[WA] My 17-year-old friend was choked by his mom and wants to move out, but police said it was a \u201creasonable form of discipline\u201d","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1538101734,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jj4pn\/i_was_treated_so_badly_at_my_last_job_that_i_had\/","id":"9jj4pn","body":"31 year old female. I was in a car accident in February and suffered a concussion. I\u2019m still having symptoms of memory loss, issues with multi tasking, losing words etc. ( yes, this is an actual thing that can happen- I have other neurological issues:) \n\n1) my boss was discriminatory. I couldn\u2019t sleep because of panic attacks & then couldn\u2019t get to work on time sometimes. \n\n\u201c you\u2019re too slow\u201d\n\n\u201c you ask to many questions & to the same people \u201c\n\n\u201c you\u2019re not efficient enough \u201c \n\n\u201c you have to many doctors appointments\u201d\n\n\u201c you have to many health problems\u201d \n\n\u201c Your health shouldn\u2019t affect your life .\u201d \n\n\u201c Your health is not my problem\u201d \n\n\u201c I don\u2019t know what your problem is, but it\u2019s bad\u201d \n\n\u201c Do you even have an official diagnosis?\u201d \n\nI expressed that I didn\u2019t feel supported. \u201c I need you here at 9\u201d.  I tried to get FMLA and ADA accommodations. The employer didn\u2019t qualify as they didn\u2019t have enough employees ( 15 minimum). I was devastated. \n\n2) My boss allowed another employee to literally yell at me in front of my peers on and off for an hour. \n\nI sent a voicemail to a colleague which apparently wasn\u2019t appropriate. \n\nMy boss\u2019s door is always open, so she could see and hear what was happening.\n\n\u201c oh it was ________.\u201d The person said, while storming out of their office. \n\n\u201c I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve been present at any of our meetings or in last year at all but I\u2019m not advising that patient.\u201d \n\nRambles on about the policy. \n\n\u201c you know, I like you and all, but this shit has to stop.\u201d \n\n\u201c well I\u2019d appreciate if you didn\u2019t pull this shit.\u201d She said while walking away. \n\nI leave and cry in the bathroom. \n\nAfter while back at my desk ( with everyone else) , my boss was talking to another employee who offered to handle the situation for me, as she could see I was upset. \n\n\u201c oh , so typical ________, just going through the back door and passing her work off to other people .\u201d \n\nI repeated myself calmly. \n\n\u201c don\u2019t start with me\u201d \u201c don\u2019t play games\u201d \u201c you\u2019re a liar \u201c screaming. \u201c Don\u2019t lie\u201d \n\n\u201c well. Everyone heard you. I\u2019m sure someone can help you with your story.\u201d Screaming \n\nI asked the person to calm down. \n\n\u201c no, you stop lying!.\u201d Screaming and pointing at me\n\nI asked the person to please stop speaking me like that. \n\n\u201c sorry you don\u2019t like it, but I don\u2019t like that you\u2019re a liar\u201d she yelled. \n\nI had to leave because my boss and everyone else in the room was just sitting there. My boss did nothing to defuse the situation at all. \n\n\u201c you\u2019re going to just walk away? See, I\u2019m trying to apologize and she\u2019s just walking away.\u201d \n\nI responded \u201c Don\u2019t speak to me like that ever again. That\u2019s not an apology at all. That\u2019s excusing your behavior and still calling me a liar\u201d \n\nI had a panic attack in my car for 30 minutes. \nMy boss and I talked. \n\nShe said \u201clm sorry that _______ can be a little heated and ummm passionate at times. You\u2019ll just have to take her with a grain of salt.\u201d \n\nI had to quit. I couldn\u2019t take the hostile environment anymore. That wasn\u2019t the first time she had spoken to me that way. Other people were allowed to behave like that as well towards me and other people. Clearly, it wasn\u2019t going to change. \n\n\nI have an interview with UI on Monday 10\/4 as I \u201c voluntarily quit . Willing and able\u201d \n\nAny suggestions of what I say ? I really need some income as I have interviews next week and rent is due. \n\nThanks in advance! \n ","title":"I was treated so badly at my last job that I had to quit unexpectedly. I have a phone interview with unemployment as I voluntarily quit. What do I say?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503952963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wm95y\/i_dont_believe_im_being_compensated_fairly_for_my\/","id":"6wm95y","body":"I'm located in the state of Maine and recently began this job 3 months ago. So far there haven't been any issues as I show up to the job site at 6:30AM, leave at 4PM and get paid for 9 hours; no problem. Two weeks ago I got transferred to a different crew as they were short a man. This job site is a little over an hour away and the company policy is to compensate for travel with personal vehicles after traveling an hour, so we all meet at the work truck at whatever time the foreman tells us to which is about 45 minutes away for me; again no problem here.  \n\nLast week on Monday and Tuesday I was told to meet at the work truck at 6AM. I arrived on time, got in the work truck and drove the hour and 20 minutes to the job site, worked for the day till 4PM then drove back to the meeting spot and I got in my personal vehicle around 530PM. On Wednesday and Thursday I was told to arrive at the work truck at 5AM, which I did, got in the truck, made the drive, worked till 4PM, then drove back and got in my personal vehice at 530PM again. On Friday, the workday was cut short due to rain and per EPA regulations we cannot work in the rain so I got to the work truck at 5am, made the drive, worked till 10:30AM and got back to my personal vehicle around noon. \n\nHere I thought WOW, this is going to be great for overtime. On Monday the supervisor told me and my foreman work as long days as you need, this job needs to get done in 2 weeks. What I did not hear him tell my foreman is that only the foreman gets paid travel time as he is driving the work truck. So for all of those hours I worked last week, I just got my paycheck for ONLY 37 hours!\n\nThinking this was absurd I talked to my foreman today to see what was up and he told me what the supervisor told him and that he only put me down for 8,8,9,9,3 hours (M,T,W,Th,F). Here I am thinking this is crazy illegal as if I am in a company truck at a certain time that I am told to be there by my boss I should be getting compensated from then, till when I leave said work truck to go home for the day. I mean what would happen if we got into an accident? Would I be on company time then? Sure would. To me travel time should only be considered what I do in my personal vehicle. NOT THE COMPANY VEHICLE THAT IM TOLD TO BE AT, AT A CERTAIN TIME!!!!!\n\nAfter talking to my supervisor and foreman, no one is willing to help me and making it seem like I'm a pain in the ass. I find it insane that I'm working almost 12 hour days and getting paid for 9. Any help would be appreciated. ","title":"I don't believe I'm being compensated fairly for my time at work, employer is being shady.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507047399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/741gaj\/fl_interested_in_purchasing_a_property_owned_by\/","id":"741gaj","body":"Not sure on the terminology here: There's a small parcel of land in a neighborhood I'm interested in building in. This property owner on the tax appraiser website is designated as a \"life estate\" under the name of the original owner, so \"Doe, John Life Estate\". The quit claim deed for the last sale designates the property to a person, Tom. My understanding of what a life estate is suggests that John intended to bequeath the property to Tom upon John's death.\n\nThat happened in 2014. A few months ago, Tom passed away. I'm not sure if John has passed away, but I assume they have since Tom was 85 when the life estate was signed over to Tom.\n\nIs my understanding of the previous transaction accurate? Who owns the land now, and how can I verify or contact them about buying the parcel? The address for tax purposes in a PO Box, which is not ideal, since the owner of the PO Box, presumably, has passed away. Who knows when they'll check it, or if they'll open my mail.\n\nAnyone have any other advice how I can make this transaction happen? Who should I be talking to get in contact with the current owners?","title":"[FL] Interested in purchasing a property owned by an life estate that is designated to a dead person","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1508393499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77cn79\/pa_believe_i_may_have_grounds_for_slander_against\/","id":"77cn79","body":"I'm a college student in Pennsylvania, 20 years old. There have been some prevalent rumors about me that have recently been brought to my attention. People believe I committed some kind of sexual assault or relationship abuse against my previous partner from last semester. These are absolutely untrue, we had a peaceful (and frankly rather boring) relationship free from any conflict or hate.\n\nAfter last semester, we parted ways, planned to visit each other over the summer and continue the relationship. I was weak, and bad, and stopped replying to her texts and attempts to contact me. I should have broken up with her, but I felt uncomfortable with the situation and I felt \"ghosting\" her was the only way to do it. One day, she sends me a long text stating how she's had enough of it and she's breaking up with me. I was sad, but it was what was going to happen and I thought it was fair enough.\n\nLate September - she puts out a \"no contact\" request with the school against me which was approved. This is not a problem as any student can request it against another student. I didn't really care to spend time with her at this point. Though I was a bit shaken up over it this wasn't a big deal.\n\nRecently - people, including my current girlfriend, are telling me that \"many people\" have been telling them that I sexually assaulted my last partner. It's always very vague, ranging from rape to relationship violence to battery, though usually in the sexual assault category. I've additionally been blacklisted from two of the fraternities on campus. The fraternities are free to do as they like as they are independent organizations. I'm sad because I have a lot of good friends in this fraternities, watching them question if I'm really a terrible person is tiring.\n\nIs this slander? Is there any way I can target these ridiculous allegations? Do you all have any recommend course of action for me, legal or not? Should I try to ignore it and let it blow over or should I take a stand somehow? Thank you for your help.","title":"PA - Believe I may have grounds for slander against me","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1447278036,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sggpy\/is_it_legal_to_intentionally_destroy_a_us_passport\/","id":"3sggpy","body":"Assume that the person destroying the passport is the person to whom it was issued.\n\nIf it matters, assume that the passport was expired.\n\nAdditionally: In this situation, is it legal to fail to make any report as to the status of the passport (\"lost or stolen\", etc.)?\n\nThanks.\n\nLocation: Wisconsin.\n\nEDIT:  Not too sure about the appropriate flair. Feel free to re-tag as necessary.","title":"Is it legal to intentionally destroy a U.S. passport?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446125902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qp9zn\/ca_how_do_you_get_notified_about_hit_and_runs\/","id":"3qp9zn","body":"I wasn't the most sober when driving home the other night and I got into a car accident that messed up my front bumper. The worst part is I'm not entirely sure if I hit a car or if I hit a wall or something else. I've ruled out hitting an actual person. My bumper just has a lot of scratches. I pulled over after the accident in a strip mall to compose myself. I've told myself that I most likely scraped a wall but its not a guarantee. \n\nI didn't see any cops or anything. It was a very, very messed up situation and I feel absolutely terrible about it. 100% Never Again.\n\nI'm not too sure whether or not anyone witnessed me hit anything or took down my license plate. It was very late at night. No one tried to pull me over on the road or tailed me. \n\nHow long does it take for me to get notified if I did do something wrong? Is there a place I can find crime reports or notifications about it, without the police contacting me first?\n\nNothing malicious, just searching for some peace of mind\/ resolution of this guilt.","title":"(CA) How do you get notified about hit and runs? Crime reports?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506297842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/728uv1\/car_wash_crashed_my_car_while_i_was_at_work\/","id":"728uv1","body":"So this happens about 3 months ago. My car was dirty so I decided to go to my local car wash (we are friends with the owner) they wanted it for about 2 hours so I went on my way. \n3 hours go by and I go to pick it up, They owner (John) leads me to my car and asks me if a broken mirror and 2 huge holes in the right door where there before, he prosides to tell me that his bike fell on my car, I got extremely disappointed because the car is 13 years old and is red so the paint is been through some stuff and if it needs to be repainted is gonna be a different color with the rest of the car (he also broke my gas cap a months ago and you have to punch it to close). \n\nJohn tells me to not call the insurance company to report it immediately because he does t have insurance to his car wash for accidents like these (his bike is registered to the car wash) so we postpone the insurance call to about 3 days. He calls me and ask me to call the insurance to my house to record the accident, I agree. He comes over but while he is there my as an idiot I don\u2019t ask his what he is gonna tell to the insurance company assume he gonna say it like it is so they comes over and out of the blue John tells them a totally made up story so he doesn\u2019t have to pay me for the damage and we tell that the accident happened with his car witch is insured,not the bike so he will not pay for my damage his IC will \nand me AS A FUCKING IDIOT I AGREE with this shitty story and I sigh the papers (all of this wouldn\u2019t have happened if we were not friends) if he was a stranger I\u2019ll have called the IC right away.  \n\nThose months go by and I desired it\u2019s time to fix my damn car so go to the guy who is gonna fix it and they do something in there computer and tell me that the IC decided that the accident was my fault and I have to pay it out of my poket about 700-800\u20ac worth of damage so I call John and tell me that we are gonna do another report that says that it\u2019s his fault I DISAGREE and I demand my money, he is ofcourse willing to give it to me but my incurance cost came up and it\u2019s gonna stay up be cause I agreed to this shitty made up story. He is a good guy and is willing to cooperate what should I do. My insurance cost came up by a lot cause I\u2019m a new driver and that gap is gonna build up over time should I ask him to pay my extra cost or tell him to admit his mistake to the IC so they bring my costs down, is that even possible?","title":"Car wash crashed my car while I was at work","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553129618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3k2f0\/seller_wants_to_back_out_of_business_sale_after\/","id":"b3k2f0","body":"Hey everyone,\n\nThe Seller (US) messaged me saying he forgot there's another business owner and when he brought up the deal, the other person refused on the basis of not being part of the deal.\n\nI (CA) made sure that jurisdiction of the contract falls under his state (Georgia). He signed as an individual not company. Within the contract, seller agrees he's the owner of the business and is willing to sell.\n\nI've already spent thousands for work that I have to deliver for new clients I secured for this business with delivery just after closing date of contract. I also received money from the client for the work in advance. I have potentially work in worth six figures in line after I deliver this job.\n\nClosing date in contract is March 29. The transaction was to take place via Escrow.com and I couldn't yet transfer the money to them because  the seller had to upload a document and has been stalling and ignoring my messages.\n\nIn Canada, even if it is a partnership (not a company) a single owner can sign in the behalf of the business and it's binding regardless of the other owner. Is this the case in the US or Georgia?\n\nTo me, it's his problem and not mine as a buyer. He has to deal with his \"partner\" and has to legally proceed with the sale.\n\nWhat do you guys suggest? I'm happy to PM the contract (6-7 pages).\n\nThanks!","title":"Seller wants to back out of business sale after signed contract","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554424441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9klij\/ticjet_for_following_too_close_to_cop\/","id":"b9klij","body":"Al.) \n\nToday on my way to work, in a very slow zone (25mph) a cop pulled in front of me. We were going the same speed anyway and I followed him the same distance i would usually (obviously I do not sit and actively think about this, checking my distance obsessively) and not in any way too close in my opinion. Like i said-i don't actively think about this so I'm not gonna say i was exactly some amount of feet away from him. I'm also not an absolute dumbass who's gonna tailgate somebody who has control of my license. \n\nAnyway, he let me follow him for a good 6 miles and then suddenly switched lanes and got behind me. When he pulled me over I was clearly upset, had no clue I was doing something wrong, apologized and told him i didn't mean to do that. He ticketed me for almost $200. \n\nIve got $7 in my bank account. I'm 19 and pretty much handle all my own finances and recently I've lost a job and got extremely screwed over and I'm living check to check struggling to pay for anything. I even had to cancel my motorcycle insurance and phone bill for awhile. $200 is not something I can manage by the time I'm required to and I'm super stressed out right now. So my question is what can I even do? Traffic school isn't an option because I got a ticket when i first turned 16. ","title":"Ticjet for following too close to cop","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444968715,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oy6sn\/does_this_situation_constitute_copyright\/","id":"3oy6sn","body":"[Michigan] I did my best researching this, but there seem to be a lot of grey areas relating to copyright law and Facebook, and I'd really like some expert input on this.\n\nWhat happened was, I posted a video that I took of a tornado on my personal Facebook account earlier today, and then \"shared\" it to a few of the local news stations Facebook pages, with nothing but the original descriptive caption.\n\nA few of the news stations simply \"shared\" the video, but one of the stations downloaded the video, then re-uploaded it to their Facebook page with the caption \"Check out this great video by [my name]!\"\n\nI contacted them about this because I didn't think they were supposed to do this (download and re-upload, even if giving credit) and they responded that by sharing the video to their page I was giving implied consent for them to use the video. How *I* had previously understood it was that unless I said \"Here, feel free to use this however you want\" they can only \"re-share\" the video.\n\nFor this video it wasn't a big deal, but I do take semi-pro photography that I often share to other pages, and it would certainly be nice to know where the legal boundaries are here and what constitutes \"full use\" consent of an image or video posted to Facebook.","title":"Does this situation constitute copyright infringement on Facebook?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540447047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r7lu9\/door_dash_charged_my_card_twice_despite_me_never\/","id":"9r7lu9","body":"Hey legal advice! Never thought I\u2019d actually be posting here but, unfortunately, I\u2019ve been faced with an issue.\n\nSo on 2 separate occasions, a local service, doordash, has charged my card without my permission for a charge of 34.96 and 48.57.\n\nI have never used this service before and I\u2019ve already contacted the company.\n\nHowever, the issue is as followed: they\u2019ve completely started to ignore my emails. On October 15th, I sent out my first email. Doordash customer support said that they\u2019d get back to me within a maximum of 2 days. As of today, it\u2019s been almost 10 days yet no message back.\n\nI\u2019ve emailed them repetitively too get ANY updated but they\u2019ve yet to respond to a single one!\n\nI don\u2019t want to seem like an impatient and entitled person but I wanted to see what legal recourse I could take for this issue.\n\nSincerely,\n\nU\/crossfire2215","title":"Door dash charged my card twice despite me never using their service (Vancouver, Canada)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553794864,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6ltzi\/mn_mother_has_a_sizable_amount_of_debt_if_she\/","id":"b6ltzi","body":"My mother has a large amount of debt, easily 100,000+ in loans. She has the farm split with my dad, and to my understanding, she\u2019s making payments on the debt, occasionally. \n\nIf something were to happen to her & my dad, would my sister and I inherit that debt\/would that much farmland be taken before it gets put in our name?","title":"[MN] mother has a sizable amount of debt. If she were to die and my sister and I get her belongings, would we have to pay\/see some of our farm get taken?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541616479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v247h\/laboratory_billing_company_chasing_me_to_pay_for\/","id":"9v247h","body":"I am currently in the US on a K1 visa (I am a British citizen). I visited an urgent care centre months ago for a UTI and was sent home with antibiotics, I was informed lab tests could not be carried out as I had taken a medication that changed the colour of my urine. \n\nNow I have received several letters from a company requesting that I pay for lab testing that was not covered under my insurance. I have not paid this and have now had a letter saying action will be taken by debt collection agencies. \nThe letters state that the lab tests were carried out two days before I even entered the US!! The date is totally incorrect. I have in writing that lab tests could not be carried out due to urine colour. \n\nAm I required to pay for this? I\u2019m not sure how it works.\n\nThe lab test company only has a number I can call to make payment, not to discuss or dispute. \n\nThanks in advance to anyone who helps me shed some light on this. ","title":"Laboratory billing company chasing me to pay for tests that were not carried out","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569111613,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7j0yd\/ca_lodger_pursuant_california_civil_code_section\/","id":"d7j0yd","body":" \nI had a room were renting from the father of a friend (shared house and kitchen).\n\nI was traveling back to Brazil for some months and sublet the room for 3 months paying rent in advance.  For which i wrote a contract. (July 1st 2015- October 1st 2015.)\n\nAfter my sublet Lodger left, the son found another tenant to rent the room for a short period. I had given my permission to do so. (October 2015 -December 2015)\n\nAfter this person left I expected the land lord to rent the room again but they didn't.\n\nI had left my property there expecting to return after my trip to Brazil.\n\nI never moved out my belongings as evidenced by leaving my items in the apartment with the intention of retrieving them when I return. However i gave them permission to rent the room to whomever they chose.\n\nMonths after the second lodger left, and i had been away from the country for almost 11 months, I received this notice from the landlord:\n\n \"Since I haven't heard back from you, I've decided to let the room to a permanent tenant and not try to find another sublet, which is more difficult. No rent has been paid since mid-January, either by you or a sublet, so I need to get someone in ASAP. I'm still owed 4.5 months rent by you as it has still been your room, with your belongings in it, for all this time.\"(may 2016) (He did not contact me at all during Jan 2016- May 2016)\n\nThere was nothing other than an oral contract I always paid month to month, I never gave written notice that I am permanently moving and I did not remove all my personal items from the premises, he rented (he called it \"sublet\") it to another party.\n\nHowever as a lodger, I have no rights to possession, pursuant to California Civil Code Section Hiring of Real Property [1940 - 1954.05] has the land lord screwed me in demanding payment?\n This situation also involved a good deal of harassment from the landlords son including slander, as well as what I believe is intentional infliction of emotional distress, and as a result of the circumstances involved in returning and paying them I was homeless for a period of about 2 years. Any help in resolving and bringing clarity to this situation would be greatly appreciated.","title":"[CA] Lodger, Pursuant California Civil Code Section 1946.5 ------ Help.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539103001,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mqq98\/my_boyfriends_job_requires_10_more_hours_of_work\/","id":"9mqq98","body":"This is in Ontario, Canada. \n\nMy boyfriend just got a new job working in construction and we were hyped because it is a 60+ hour a week job and we really need the money. \n\nAt my previous jobs and current job overtime pay has always started at 45 hours per week. after 45 hours, the overtime pay kicks in at what I believe is time and a half per hour. \n\nMy boyfriend got his first pay today from the new job and it was significantly lower than expected and when he asked about it he was told that for construction workers overtime doesn't kick in until 55 hours have been worked.\n\nIs this true? If it is the job isn't worth the pay as it's only minimum wage. Thanks LA. ","title":"My boyfriend's job requires 10 more hours of work than normal to pay overtime","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553042992,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b35ggd\/what_do_i_expect_for_driving_without_my_glasses\/","id":"b35ggd","body":"i\u2019m 16 and have my license, the lights in front of my neighborhood had the right turn lane blocked off by cones and i needed to turn right to turn into my neighborhood, so i cut through a little bit of the parking lot to be able to go to my neighborhood. i got pulled over and wasn\u2019t wearing my glasses which my license says i need to wear. I never wear my glasses and can see everything perfectly fine in class and can drive safely. i know i should be wearing my glasses but i made a bad decision and ive learnt my lesson. my parents say that the ticket says i need to go to court. ive researched for the last 5 hours and cant find much info so ive resorted to here with my questions. Do i need to go to court? if i do, what should i expect in court? what should i bring to court? is there a way i can get both the citations for cutting through the restraunt private property and not wearing glasses dismissed? what charges will i likely be faced with? will i go to jail? will i receive points on my license or lose my license? can i do something to dismiss the ticket? thank you","title":"What do i expect for driving without my glasses?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505010422,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z5usr\/am_disabled_about_to_possibly_have_an_apt_to\/","id":"6z5usr","body":"Hi. Am a 33yo disabled little person. Living my entire life with a disgusting narcissistic parents in near total isolation. For years I wanted to move out and I applied to several accessible apts and just a few weeks ago to a Waiver to get an aide going for help in general physical tasks.\n\nA few days ago the apartments call me, apparently my application went through (this is a brand new building and there's an accessible unit). So dream come true right? As usual life takes a steel toed boot to my gonads.\n\nEven if I find a way to get there on such short notice with my powerchair (meaning I either have to charter an expensive shuttle or rent a wheelchair van because the shuttle doesn't regularly go to the city).\n\nSo even after I sign on the dotted line, my Waiver still isn't completely approved because they keep telling me they haven't received a fax from my doctor. ARG!\n\nLong story short: what kind of things should I ask for before I sign the lease and concessions can I meaningfully ask them to make? For example I'd like to ask to install (obviously I'll have to buy it) a touch faucet. Can I do this? Do landlords usually concede this stuff or not? Do I have a reasonable expectation of catering to my needs?\n\nAny help is appreciated.\n\nA woman from Inglis who suggested this apt building suggested to not move in till the Waiver is approved and I get help. I don't know what to do. I'm literally sick to my stomach at what should be the happiest time of my life.\n\nSomeone please suggest things to me.","title":"Am disabled, about to POSSIBLY have an apt to myself. Need advice on lease questions and so on.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504986815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z3tml\/friend_took_my_motorcycle_without_permission_and\/","id":"6z3tml","body":"North Carolina - A month ago a close friend of mine took my motorcycle out for a ride and laid down the bike doing about 35. Thankfully, they walked away with minimal injuries and are recovering fine. A police report was filed when they wrecked and I was notified when I was work. I have not filed an insurance claim as my insurance does not cover this damage.\n\nWe made a verbal agreement that they would pay for parts and repairs and I would have to pay nothing.\nI feel as though I've been going at this pretty fair, I've been giving them time and working with them but it's been a month now and no progress has been made and I'm starting to get agitated. I'm down in the hole about $5,500, I'm this deep because, estimated cost of repairs to get the bike to how it was before it was wrecked is about $1,000, BUT there is about a 3 inch long scratch and dent along the frame. So technically, the bike is totaled.\n\nI'm not sure where to go from here. I need to know where I stand legally. This is a very close friend of mine and I know legal action will absolutely destroy this friendship, but when it comes down to it this is setting me back. I want my motorcycle, I bought it to ride it and instead I'm watching it sit broken, and I don't have the money to shell out for repairs and I won't for a little bit. How should I go\nAbout this with my lawyer?\n\nTL;DR - Close friend took my Motorcycle without permission and wrecked it. $1,000 in body damage, frame also damaged. Verbal agreement to pay for and repair damage. 1 month later no action. Considering bringing in lawyer.\n\n\nEDIT - I guess I should also put how I won't be around much. In about 2 weeks I'm leaving with the Military for about 9 months so I feel as though I should probably make a move on this soon. ","title":"Friend took my Motorcycle without Permission and crashed it. Need info on proceeding legally and talking to my lawyer.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554782338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb3deu\/parents_renting_home_and_landlord_put_up_for_sale\/","id":"bb3deu","body":"I live in Iowa with my parents and they are currently renting a home. Just today I noticed a for sale by owner sign out front with our landlord's phone number. My father texted him and was told, because they have no lease that they can sell the house and we are allowed to live here until it is sold. Is this right? It is very unsettling finding out that they did this without prior notice and that we may be kicked out just because they want to sell the home.\n\nThank you sorry if this is to long.","title":"Parents renting home and landlord put up for sale by owner outside, without notice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551906467,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay3ytf\/updatei_forwarded_my_attourneys_office_number_to\/","id":"ay3ytf","body":"Am I doing the right thing?","title":"[Update]I forwarded my attourney's office number to a cop who wants to speak with me about a crime that happened five years ago and he left them a message calling it \"suspicious\" he hasn't gotten to talk to me yet.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570035868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcd3de\/i_got_rearended_in_a_hit_run_by_an_uninsured\/","id":"dcd3de","body":"I was on my way to work yesterday and was rear ended by someone who didn't even bother to hit their brakes. They drove off but I was able to get their license plate number. I called the police because it was a hit and run and I was pretty shaken up. \n\nI stopped by the police station today to pick up a copy of the crash report and was notified that the driver was uninsured. The owner of the vehicle received a ticket for fleeing the scene but was not ticketed for not having insurance, (which is a ticket-able offense in WI). \n\nI received a rough estimate of what it would cost to fix the damage to my vehicle, $1000. As far as bodily injuries I was fine in the moment but it has aggravated some back issues today, I've gone to PT successfully for the issues but fear I might need to get a referral from my Dr. to go again because of it flaring up. \n\nWhat am I able to \"do\" in this situation? I would like the owner to be ticketed for not having insurance, and I would like to get the damage on my vehicle fixed without causing any \"hits\" against my insurance since I've never had any issues or accidents. Will my insurance even touch this if they're uninsured or will I possibly have to go to small claims court to cover cost of the car\/possible PT bills?","title":"I Got Rear-Ended In A Hit & Run By An Uninsured Motorist - What Can I Do? (WI)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442347011,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l2z2h\/mom_filed_bankruptcy_now_my_dad_is_screwed\/","id":"3l2z2h","body":"So ~5 years ago my parents got a divorce. At the time my father owned his own business and had to buy her out. From what I understand he agreed to pay her somewhere between $1,000 and $3,000 a month until he payed off the agreed amount. Fast forward a few years and he is in the process of selling his business and has used the (little) money he's made from it thus far to pay off some bank notes, and also gave some of it to my mom. \n\nJump to today and my father found out my mom filed bankruptcy in April. However when she filed she did not mention that my father was a cosigner on one of her loans. Now the bank is coming after my father threatening to sue him if he does not pay off her loan. He now wants to know if he can legally get out of paying her every month if he agrees to pay her loan off? Also he thinks she may be in contempt because she did not mention him while filing bankruptcy meaning he had no way to defend himself since she agreed in the divorce to pay for that loan herself. \n\nAlso, my dad is not some dick that has the money to pay her but wont. He has hardly any money and works his butt off to scrape by, while my mom is constantly demanding he give her more money so she can work the bare minimum. Both of my parents live and work in Missouri","title":"Mom filed bankruptcy, now my dad is screwed.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446218937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qulb0\/manchester_england_internet_provider_bt_scheduled\/","id":"3qulb0","body":"We moved into our apartment on the 31st of July and obviously set about getting our internet set up before anything else. After being told BT already had cables set up in our building by our letting agent we decided to go with them. We where initially given a date of the 16th of August for the engineer to come and install what ever needed installing which was fair enough. The 16th came around and one of my flat mates took a day off work to let the engineer in but nobody came or called. So we called them up and were told that the engineer was cancelled and we should have been informed, but it was due to the exchange not having enough cables or something to that effect. Anyway this exact situation has happened now 4 times, they've given a date, sent numerous emails\/texts saying make sure you're at home to let the engineer in, only to not turn up or ring and claim he should have been cancelled when we rang back. At this point we're completely out of patience, but they keep telling us we can expect compensation (they won't say what exactly) when it finally gets done so we're reluctant to leave now we've come this far. Is that anything we can do from a legal perspective now to force there hand a bit more? Every time we ring we only ever seem to get hold of some poor foreign employee who usually has no idea whats going on and guarantee's us it will be sorted soon. Any help?\n\nEdit - They've sent me a text just now saying they've tried to contact us (they haven't) and they'll get in contact again on the 16th November :| ","title":"Manchester, England - Internet provider (BT) scheduled to install internet in our apartment on the 16th August, still not fitted and constantly telling us that it will be done in the next few days only to constantly cancel on us without giving notice resulting in wasted days taken off work.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554813443,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb7fi7\/my_parked_car_was_hit_and_there_is_video_of\/","id":"bb7fi7","body":"Heads up, I\u2019m in Australia!\n\nEssentially, the quick breakdown is:\n- Parked at uni 10am and returned to my car at 5pm\n- After returning, my car had damage to the front bumper, front quarter panel and passenger door.\n- No note, no nothing.\n- I went to the police, and after a month, the uni sent the CCTV footage to the police where they told me they were unable to get a car license plate out of the footage (too low quality or something)\n- Currently my car has been getting fixed after contacting insurance and giving them my event number etc...\n\nIs there anything that I can be compensated for in this scenario? There\u2019s proof that someone hit me, but they just can\u2019t find out WHO hit me. Am I still the one to pick up the bill in this scenario, or can I attack insurance and demand they pay it?\n\nEnd of the day, to me, nothing was my fault but I\u2019ve been stitched up with these expenses I can\u2019t really afford too easily right now :(\n\nAny help would be greatly appreciated!\nThankyou!","title":"My parked car was hit, and there is video of another car hitting my car, but no rego could be extracted from the video.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443639741,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n03nc\/ma_i_moved_here_for_school_apartment_has_many\/","id":"3n03nc","body":"Hello, this is my first time seeking help on here so I hope that I'm doing this correctly.  \nI moved here for school in September, into an apartment near campus. I found the apartment and roommate online, because I couldn't afford to fly back and forth. I saw photos of the apartment, and had the lease mailed to me. (I know that this isn't an ideal situation, and if I could go back I would have gotten a dorm room instead.)  \n  \nWhen I moved here, I was immediately in shock at the bad condition of the apartment. Doors that don't close, lights with no cover\/fixture or way to even turn them on, paint peeling off the walls, broken windows, you name it. I got advice from my school and called the city. Inspectors came out, and found NINE code violations (including no carbon monoxide detectors!!) Now what I'm wondering is, because of all of these code violations, can I break my lease and move somewhere else? The school is aware of the situation and has advised me to try to do this and get into a dorm room asap. They said that there have been a lot of problems with students getting ripped off by landlords in this area in the past few years. ","title":"[MA] I moved here for school, apartment has MANY code violations...can I break my lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507531191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/757c8m\/i_was_fired_from_my_job_and_now_am_completely\/","id":"757c8m","body":"Sorry if this is posted in the wrong place, wasn't certain. So this happened about 6 months ago, and am only posting this now because was slightly afraid of a legal situation for I'm too young.\n\nSo here's the story:\nDuring my time at my job (Medical field located in California) I told an African-American co-worker, \"Not trying to be rude or racist, but what is your stance on the word 'Nigga'?\". This was because it's something I wanted to understand. She stated that it all depended on the matter of context with a few examples. We didn't have any problems with one another, and we were cool with one another to the point where she asked if i was gay. Anyways, a month or 2 passes by and i get HR where the sun doesn't shine because someone filed a complaint. The interesting part is that the complaint wasn't filed by the individual I asked the question, but by another African-American co-worker who overheard the story, NOT the conversation. \n\nDuring the review process by HR, they pressured me to sign a sheet of paper stating that I'm required to sign it, so foolish me did. The paper stated that i acknowledge I \"...stated the 'N' Word\". Then a week later i get a letter of termination for \"harassment and discrimination\". Recently i got news from an ex-co-worker that the lady who filed the complaint wants to sue. Finding a job now is just about pointless since who wants to hire someone for such a termination? \n\nMy questions are was i wrongfully terminated if the company has a zero tolerance harassment\/discrimination policy? Is there a way to combat this, if so, how? I'm completely lost here folks, thanks in advance!\n\n**TLDR:**\nAsked Co-worker for her stance on the word nigga, was given kind\/polite response, but then got beaten to pulp and placed out of work with HR's ban hammer for Harassment\/Discrimination.","title":"I was fired from my job and now am completely lost how to proceed","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1549673701,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aonamy\/the_executor_of_my_aunts_will_is_resigning_and\/","id":"aonamy","body":"Hi, I would like some help with a will. Do I need a paralegal\/lawyer to proceed here? I have no experience with legal matters. \n\nThe executor of my aunt's will is resigning and the back-up executor is predeceased. How is a replacement chosen? \n\nThe contract states the following: \n\n\" Any further replacements which are required shall be made by a majority of my heirs, bu notarial deed \\*en minute\\*.\"\n\n\"My liquidator shall render an account of his administration as provided for by law, by notorial act \\*en minute\\*.\"","title":"The executor of my aunt's will is resigning and the back-up executor is predeceased. How is a replacement chosen?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1502761971,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tr6g7\/nc_trying_to_get_a_deed_of_a_house_transferred_to\/","id":"6tr6g7","body":"The deed is still in my grandfathers name but he died 8 years ago and my grandmother took charge of the house. A few months ago  she passed away also. I lived with my grandmother all of this time and she never put in her will, nor my Grandfather, to pass the deed over to the child if they died(my Mom). We have been able to get money\/estate and car transferred over to us. \n\nmy question is do we need a lawyer to transfer over the deed of the house? and if not where do we go? the clerk of courts? if any of you had to do this before, how did you handle it?\n\nThank you for taking time to look at this. ","title":"(NC) Trying to get a deed of a house transferred to my Mothers name. It was my Grandparents but they passed away.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541543454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ut6yv\/georgia_traffic_accident_over_three_weeks_ago_guy\/","id":"9ut6yv","body":"Hello all, hope you can help me out in this quandry I'm in.\n\nCurrent college student in Georgia. Home state is Utah.\n\nOn October 12th I was in an accident where I was driving South down a two-way road, and as I approached the intersection, I saw a green light and went through the intersection. I was then T-boned on my passenger side by a guy going East. Airbags were not deployed for either cars, we were both going roughly under 30 mph. I exchanged info with the guy; **he didn't have his license on him or insurance.** Then a witness who was going North down the road I was on told the officer at the scene that his light was red, so my light would be red. So the officer told me I was to blame. I was extremely surprised as I 100% believed it was a green light, and was wondering when I got hit why the guy ran the red light. I wasn't under the influence, wasn't distracted by anything. Honestly that was really confounding to me, and I felt awful that I allegedly ran the red light. I have never been in any accidents, I wasn't trying to \"make\" the light. I honestly thought it was green. But, I don't really have any way to fight that since there was a witness alleging I ran the light. So I had been resigning myself to the fact I was wrong when I was so sure the light was green. Honestly, I've felt really terrible about the whole thing. I've never had a traffic ticket, much less an auto accident.\n\nFlash forward an hour or so, both cars get towed. Again, no airbags deployed for either. My insurance pays for both our cars, and I have a court date December 6th. Everything seems to be going as smoothly as these things can go.\n\nNow to today, November 6th. I received a call from my mom saying that the guy who had hit me is now filing an injury claim. I know the statute of limitations for Georgia is two years for filing these claims. Still I am kind of confused as:\n\n1. I took the brunt of the hit, and I had expected soft tissue pain 48 hours after the accident. I was fine within a few days.\n2. Both passengers of the car were uninjured and could stand on their two feet after the accident, of course I have to take adrenaline into account though.\n\nI am wondering why the guy is filing a claim so long after the accident. I would rather not think ill of another person, but this is giving me a bad feeling in my gut. This was a low speed accident, that if it wasn't for the T-bone, would be a fender bender. \n\nI am wondering if I should be looking for an attorney or lawyer right now? Why would the guy file the claim so late after the accident? I am very willing to own up to my mistake, as the law requires, but I have never been to court and want to make sure I don't get wool pulled over my eyes as well.","title":"Georgia- Traffic accident over three weeks ago, guy is now filing injury claim- Should I get a lawyer?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541165590,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tk4cm\/canspamcasl_a_company_is_offering_to_deliver_to\/","id":"9tk4cm","body":"A company is offering me an email marketing program to target 100k emails where these 100k emails will be exposed to my brand. My company would pay them to be part of their program. They would send a targeted email to their database and target them with ads online+social for 7 days. Then on day 3 they would send a second email with more urgent messaging.\nWhat worries me is the conclusion that they will deliver to me the names, email addresses and home addresses of each individual who opened and clicked the email messages. I am under the impression that I am buying these emails from them. Is this legal?\n\u200b\nNote this is in North America (US+Canada)","title":"CAN-SPAM\/CASL: A company is offering to deliver to me the names, email addresses and home addresses of each individual who opens and clicks an email they send (that promotes my product).","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569067068,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d79kxt\/is_there_anyway_to_deny_my_brother\/","id":"d79kxt","body":"He is 18 gonna turn 19 i am 15 gonna turn 16, is there anyway i can deny him and have no more contact with him i don\\`t want him to come close to me again and say any of his shitty words i don\\`t wanna see or hear him anymore in my life, if he comes in my parents house can i call police? Would it help cause he can live there too, but he lives in another place he comes here for training and to talk shit to me, i would like to sue him and to have restraining order\n\n( Sorry if flair is wrong, first time posting in this subreddit )","title":"Is there anyway to deny my brother?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569554323,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ulcj\/i_got_rearended_last_friday_night_with_some_mild\/","id":"d9ulcj","body":"I got rear-ended pretty hard last Friday sitting at a red light, I was also pushed into another car in front of me. I called the cops, made claims with both insurances the next day and went to the doctor. Doctor said I had a mild concussion but nothing looked wrong with cat scan, I had some busing\/lacerations on my left wrist. He prescribed some meds (although I didn't pick them up) and gave me a note to take a day off work. Person who hit me has progressive and I spoke with adjuster on Monday, she recorded the call. I was advised when asked about injuries to say 'I'm currently speaking to an attorney and I'm not gonna answer any questions about that just yet'. Attorney tells me that if I'm feeling fine by tomorrow (which I think I am) then it's probably more effort than it's worth to hire one. He also says all they are legally responsible for is paying for a 'new' car of similar value. The car I was in was worth maybe $1900 according to KBB. I've been driving a rental from enterprise for a week now, now it'll have to be two weeks. They haven't sent someone out to look at damage yet because they wanted to talk to person in front of me who got hit, and also said mentioning the attorney will make this take longer. Attorney gave me 'demands' template to send to them, however the billing for the doctor said they don't send it out to 3-4 weeks. Should I just call the adjuster tomorrow?","title":"I got rear-ended last Friday night with some mild injuries - Realistically what are the odds I'll get some decent pay?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505982002,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71hqzo\/mo_sophomore_in_college_need_registered_esa_after\/","id":"71hqzo","body":"    My roommates and I have been moved in for two months and I need to move my emotional support animal from my parents house into my house. All roommates are completely okay with my ESA, he is not a restricted breed, and I have a doctor's note explaining my need for him. The lease I signed did not allow pets, but the landlord has previously allowed a tenant and charged a rather high deposit.\n\n\n    What are my rights in this situation? I am confident that I meet the qualifications for an ESA. If he agrees, is he still allowed to charge me the deposit?\n\nThanks, Neck","title":"(MO) Sophomore in College, need registered ESA after signing lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539623312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oel70\/working_on_the_books\/","id":"9oel70","body":"I am in Rhode Island USA.\n\nI was told by my boss to be at the job at a certain time only to be told (in one case 20min and the other about an hour later) that work is cancelled. Am I legally entitled to be paid for four hours each day.?  The job is 100% on the books. I cant find anything online myself.","title":"Working \"on the books\"","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570538332,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dezdlp\/pennsylvania_can_i_quit_my_union\/","id":"dezdlp","body":"I'm a member of AFSCME. Our union contract used to have a clause saying something like \"if you wish to resign your union membership you must do so within 15 calendar days of the contract termination date\". Our current contract doesn't say that. In fact our current contract doesn't even include instructions on how to resign. It says nothing about leaving the union.\n\nLast year's Janus ruling says unions can no longer force membership. Normally this applies to \"fair share\" members who don't want to be in the union but were forced to pay dues anyway. I'm a full member and have regretted that choice for years. Does this ruling mean I can quit AFSCME at any time now?","title":"[Pennsylvania] Can I quit my union?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551847103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axusf2\/my_stepmothers_attorney_has_submitted_a_proposed\/","id":"axusf2","body":"I'm contesting my dad's will. I requested Discovery nearly a year ago. Opposing counsel has failed to adequately respond. Repeatedly. A hearing on my Motion to Compel discovery responses was held in October 2018. The court ordered that opposing counsel respond and produce documents that may lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. Opposing counsel's response was partial, and a motion for contempt and requests for sanctions occurred on March 1st 2019. Opposing counsel has failed to produce those documents but has until tomorrow. The problem is that opposing counsel has filed a proposed motion ordering mediation before the trial date, set to occur on March 25, 2019, yet we have not received all discovery.  There are responses that are not only deficient, but also completely absent. This information is vital for depositions. How can I oppose this proposed motion? I do not want opposing counsel to be able to fall back on an agreed order if it's signed before they have provided all discovery as a means to evade full compliance with the discovery process. Furthermore, how can I convey to the court that I should not be the one to suffer due to opposing counsel's evasive actions in which they are trying to run out the clock? \n\nIt should be noted that a Motion for Substitution of Counsel was ordered on January 28, 2019, because my former attorney unilaterally withdrew and did not provide me with proper notice. At that time, when my new attorney made a notice of appearance he stated to the judge that Discovery responses from opposing counsel were deficient. However, opposing counsel stated in open court that Discovery was not deficient. However, after page-by-page review of over a thousand documents, I constructed a list identifying all missing documents. This was then used for the motion for contempt and request for sanctions hearing that occurred on March 1st 2019. Opposing counsel has been given a deadline respond link completely to my request by tomorrow, March 6th, 2019. The problem is that information requested includes medical records and other documents that cannot be reviewed haphazardly before depositions, which we also need to occur before the trial date of March 25th, 2019.\n\nThe judge in this probate matter clearly despises opposing counsel and once this matter mediated and out of her Court. What I find issue with is the fact that I am not enjoying my right to due process because of malfeasance and ethical violations on the part of not only opposing counsel, but also my former attorney. I don't know how to convey the necessity of a motion for continuance to the court when the judge signed a continuance in January with a case to be continued in March, but in March we're still arguing about a lack of Discovery responses.\n\nCan I object to this proposed mediation order, and if so on what grounds? This is occurring in the State of Texas. All individuals involved are residents of the State of Texas.","title":"My stepmother's attorney has submitted a Proposed Order of Mediation to occur before trial, set for 3\/25\/19. Problem: Discovery requests submitted to her nearly a year ago are deficient. Can I object to this Order on mediation?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570741180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg4gnl\/possible_employer_contacted_my_school_about\/","id":"dg4gnl","body":"Hi everyone. This is my first time posting here. I applied for an entry level job for a company which will remain nameless. A few weeks passed since I last heard from management and i finally managed to get in touch with them the other day. Management gave the position away. Okay. That happens. But when i pressed the hiring manager as to why, she told me she called my university and asked about my attendance. I was somewhat in shock. Surely that sort of information is supposed to be confidential? Right? She went on to explain how my attendance at uni wasn't \"Satisfactory\" enough for this job position. She said if i dont care enough to show up for class then she figures i wouldn't care enough to show up for work. Is there anything I can do? Was this a violation? Can i take any action against the school or company?","title":"Possible employer contacted my school about attendance?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541829439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vs1q1\/my_manager_said_she_would_call_the_cops_if_i\/","id":"9vs1q1","body":"The other day, I was fired from my over one year job at a Subway restaurant in the state of NY. She texted me that morning and told me to come in to talk. She told me I was done and to hand her my key. I'll admit, I showed that I was angry with the decision and when I left I stormed out and slammed the door to the back area of the store. I then left through the exit and got into my car. She came running out and said \"if you ever enter the store again I'll have you arrested for trespassing since you slammed the door. \" After she said this I simply drove away. I'm gonna have a paycheck available on Tuesday, as well as the Tuesday after. The address on the paycheck was for my college, where I no longer reside, and my employer never updated my address to my current one. So if she sends it in the mail, I won't get it. Should I just go in on Tuesday and get my paycheck anyway? Will I really get arrested for doing so? If she decided to actually get the cops involved? I don't think that my reaction was unusual for someone who just lost their only source of income and has rent and bills to pay. I should've acted more professionally and calmly, but what is done is done. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really don't feel like having them send me the checks, because I have no interest in talking to my ex employers anymore. Also, I have no reason to give them personal information like that if I'm not working there anymore, in my opinion. ","title":"My manager said she would call the cops if I returned to my job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551877975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axyoce\/getting_a_divorce_in_illinois_whats_the_fastest\/","id":"axyoce","body":"Not sure if that\u2019s the right flair, let me know if there\u2019s a better one(:\n\n-Me and the soon to be ex-wifey agreed to get a divorce.\n-We agreed (mutual agreement, not on paper yet) to not sue each other.\n-Have been separated for a month+ now, neither of us is looking to reconcile.\n-Marriage lasted just under a year before we got separated. It\u2019s been 1 year and 1 month now. \n-No leases, real-estate, contracts, vehicles, other legalities under both of our names. I believe that this should make things easier(?)\n- The small amount of property we both had has been shared between the two and agreed that we were ok with what we got. (Once again, not on paper)\n-I am 21M, she\u2019s 19F. Not sure if this helps at all.\n\nA rundown of the process\/documents needed would be appreciated, I\u2019d be happy to provide more information. Thank you!\n\n\n","title":"Getting a divorce in Illinois, what\u2019s the fastest way to go about it? Quick summary inside.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550937364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atwt8x\/worth_getting_a_lawyer_short_term_disability\/","id":"atwt8x","body":"Last year I took 5.5 weeks as a short term disability to have brain surgery.\n\nBefore I left I went over this leave of absence with my manager in a meeting as well as separately with HR on a recorded line. I was told that all of my pay would be covered 100% as long as I didn't exceed a 60 day absence period. I specifically asked during both meetings about a performance bonus I receive quarterly. Again both times I was told it would be covered 100% because it is a medical leave of absence. \n\nThe bonus was paid out recently and it turns out it was 1\/3 of what I normally get and what is stated in my contract. My manager told me it had been prorated for the time I was gone during that month. My payment contract isn't clear about whether it should be prorated. It covers more about calendar dates you need to work for it to be prorated and doesn't specify the types of leave that it applies to. Everything else I can find tells me to refer to my manager. I received an email packet from HR before I left that states my annual bonus would be covered 100% but I am now being told this isn't related to my quarterly bonus. I don't receive an annual bonus. No where in the packet I was sent does it mention any other pay conditions. My contract states my bonus is an annual sum to be paid quarterly based off that quarter's performance.\n\nI have a co-worker who took paternity leave twice last quarter totalling 4 weeks. Additionally he took an additional 2 weeks at the end of the quarter I was out. Our benefits allow you to split your paternity time into 3 blocks. Total time he took was 6 weeks but he received 100% pay out every quarter. It should also be mentioned that he was gone during the dates our contract states you have to be working to not have a prorated amount. \n\nResulting loss to me for this is about $2k. Additionally I was passed up for promotion because my manager said that, though everything else looked fantastic, a yearly averaged statistic was low. I was gone for 5.5 weeks of the year, of course it was low. This statistic he referenced is commonly known to be easily manipulated and he said it was in comparison to other candidates. I have told him before I am not willing to partake in some of the things people do to inflate it because I think it's unethical and will eventually come back to haunt me if my company ever looked into it.\n\nI was approved for a 6 week leave but came back early due to almost daily texts from coworkers and my manager asking when I would be back. Numbers dropped considerably while I was gone. \n\nI have also had huge issues with my paystubs being unclear. There are corrections even now being applied to time worked last year. These line items are adding and subtracting dollars at varying rates for the same amount of time. I honestly have no idea how to read it or if I'm getting paid appropriately as it's 20-30 lines of debits and credits. My employers 401k match was also withheld while I was on my disability leave. I was told my benefits are 100% still in force and that this would be corrected during a correction they do in March. \n\nWhen I returned it was obviously a hot mess. The person who was supposed to be helping me during this time did next to nothing. Numbers were down and I was 2 months behind in work. My coworkers and manager started complaining about this starting a week or two after I returned. We were short staffed due to every one taking vacation and I never got a chance to catch up until a month after I returned. Which also meant putting in 6-8 hours of overtime weekly to do so. I was still recovering from brain surgery during this time. No one offered to help me get caught up despite repeatedly asking.\n\nFinally I have told my manager and the managers before him that I am overworked. I never get an opportunity to take a lunch. I am lucky if I get a bathroom break twice a day at this point. I deal with an emotionally abusive coworker and I have documented some of our interactions and requested to be removed from repeatedly. We had one or two meetings in the past trying to resolve this issue but nothing has changed and I have been refused to be taken off said coworker as no one else will work with them. My managers response to I'm not getting a lunch was to just tell me I should be taking a lunch. No further action taken.\n\nI have already started applying to other jobs obviously. This is really impacting my mental health. So far I haven't had much success outside though as I'm also trying to change industries.\n\nTl;Dr: Took a 5.5 week short term disability for brain surgery. Was told before I left all of my pay would be covered 100% but was paid 1\/3rd of a performance bonus. Coworker on paternity leave had no change despite being within rules to have his bonus prorated as well. Also having other issues at work with paystubs and coworkers. Should I bother getting a lawyer?","title":"Worth getting a lawyer? Short term disability issue with performance bonus.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1411090886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gtju6\/australiansw_any_tips_for_defending_a_small_claim\/","id":"2gtju6","body":"I'm being sued in the local court for a 4-figure sum.\n\nI retained the services of somebody to perform renovation work. Before accepting the quote I confirmed with them that they had accurately measured a specific thing. They stated they had, and a subcontractor had confirmed it. In the course of the renovation it came to light that they hadn't measured it. They tried to increase the quote by 50%. I refused and asked them to perform none of the tasks. They informed me that they had already performed some of the tasks (unrelated to the one in which they mismeasured). I offered to pay a reasonable sum for the duties they had performed (based on ballpark figures they had provided and my own knowledge of the cost). They refused this and are suing me for all labour and materials (including for the task in which they were negligent), and for interest, and for expenses incurred in filing the claim. I have all of this in writing and a witness who can provide an affidavit. How best should I respond to the Statement of Claim, prepare evidence, prepare my defence, etc?","title":"(Australia\/NSW) Any tips for defending a small claim (debt)?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570309687,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddtcma\/contract_between_wholesaler_and_retailers_that\/","id":"ddtcma","body":"It\u2019s a long story but I can\u2019t hire a lawyer to write me the contract, at least not yet. If you have a good template or willing to sketch up a simple 1-2 page Contract\/Agreement that aims to stop the retailers from bypassing me and buy directly from the supplier\/manufacturer\u2019s website. Even buying in bulk I can\u2019t complete with the price they can get by signing up for a wholesale account. Supplier doesn\u2019t require \u2018Resale Certificate\u2019 to register and the MOQ (minimum order quality) is very low. I need a non compete for 24 months from first contact. \nI know I can\u2019t hold you reliable for the effectiveness of the contract etc. etc.","title":"Contract between wholesaler and retailers that prohibits retailers from bypassing the wholesaler?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1446148297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qqvst\/can_i_be_fired_for_discussing_the_disciplinary\/","id":"3qqvst","body":"The situation: I was talking with some co-workers in the break room and one of them brought up that \"John Doe\" was written up for noncompliance. I asked a co-worker that works with \"John Doe\" on a more regular basis if it was true. He immediately told me that he was uncomfortable discussing this and that such actions could \"get me fired\". Is this true? ","title":"Can I be fired for discussing the disciplinary actions of an employer enacted on an employee? (Nevada)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570029990,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcbqqk\/when_is_it_justifiable_to_not_pay_your_rent\/","id":"dcbqqk","body":"So for context I live in a shared house, with rotating roommates, there are usually 4-5 of us living here at any given time. I've been here for about 5 years, excluding the leasee(who we will call Pete), who has lived in and rented out the upstairs rooms for at least 20 years. He has a good heart but is unfortunately, for lack of a better term, an absolute dimwit. Terrible judge of character, can't pick up on social cues, spineless and avoids any conflict big or small.\n\nThere has been a slew of terrible roommates brought in by Pete over the years here including: a guy who was a craigslist buyer\/seller who brought junk home, a hardline, anger mismanaged Baptist with a huge chip on his shoulder, and  an alcoholic \"old friend\" of Pete who had just been divorced and eventually pointed a gun at me in an argument over noise, and was arrested and removed from the house \n\nRecently two guys have moved in, about two months apart. The first completely took over the living room with his 60\" TV and PS4 and treats the area like his bedroom; sleeping on the couch,  smoking weed, and generally just leaving his stuff everywhere. A month ago the second moved in, another  \"friend\" of Pete's from a previous job. It became immediately apparent to me that he was either a recovering or still using addict; staying up all day and night, the sound of snorting something, jumping around, snapping and just weird noises. This guy is across the landing front me on the top floor, and having to wonder if he's going to turn violent whenever I hear him bouncing around his room is a lot.\n\nHaving been in the house the longest, I tried to address some of this through trying to set some house rules, the ones that I had been aware of from my time in the house, ie: no smoking in common areas, doing your dishes, being aware of noise andslamming doors, (it's a very old house), and how shared spaces are for everyone. I also made Pete aware of my concerns with my roommate across the hall. He dismissed the rules I had suggested and said we needed to decide them as a house, even when he is the one who should be in charge. I wrote some ideas down on our whiteboard in the kitchen and they were of course not acknowledged by anyone, or followed up on by Pete. \n\nI am now in the process of moving out, but have a half month still left. I never signed a lease, I won't be using Pete as a reference, and I honestly see this house being torn down by the real landlords within the next five years. It is in constant disrepair with junk everywhere that Pete says he will eventually take care of but never does. I have not felt safe or secure here for quite sometime, but due to housing prices\/availability in my city have been more or less stuck. \n\nAlong with this he has been giving me the run around in regards to my damage deposit which I used around $100-$150 of to pay my rent when I was short. After weeks of asking he's sent me figured totalling way more, and is asking me to confirm the numbers against my bank statements. While I can easily do this and find the etransfers in full, it still really rubs me the wrong way.\n\nTo me, it feels like he doesn't care about my security or mental state in the house anymore and that is ultimately the reason we pay rent, to have somewhere we can feel safe. \n\nI know this is very longwinded and will probably just end up getting lost in new but I really just needed to write this down and get it off my chest.\n\n\nTL:DR Living in a shared house, leasee has lost control and will not set ground rules for new roommates using the living room as their bedroom and the other using hard drugs and making an obscene amount of noise at all hours. I have a half month left, never signed a lease and feel no obligation to pay anymore money for somewhere I feel unsafe.","title":"When is it justifiable to not pay your rent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550510341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arzhwn\/question_about_nys_intestacy_law\/","id":"arzhwn","body":"What happens if there are two spouses and one dies where real estate is under both of their names. Does it automatically go to the surviving spouse, or are children entitled to anything?","title":"Question about NY's Intestacy law","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1444229297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nuhfp\/afghan_interpreter_for_us_armed_forces_denied\/","id":"3nuhfp","body":"He's one of the few who was able to not only get out, but bring his whole family. He has his wife, and three children with him. Some volunteers I know were able to help him get work in Denver at $13 an hour, but the apartment they were in was down in Colorado Springs. He's looking to move his family here, but can't find anywhere that they can afford to live on his small income. \n\nThe volunteers were able to find a place that said they had an opening for someone with only a year of work history, and a letter from an employer that describes his income. When they showed up with the interpreter and his family, the management yelled at the volunteers and told them there's no vacancy (they did not record the conversation, or the calls where the employees said those terms were acceptable). Apparently the manager didn't want any more refugees (seems he has several already, and is choosing to not let them renew their leases).\n\nI've reached out to another subreddit that acts as a classified listing to see if anyone there can help him find affordable housing. My question is, what kind of evidence would Tamim (the interpreter) need to open a case against that rental company for discrimination? If he were able to get a settlement, it would greatly increase his chances of succeeding here in the states. \n","title":"Afghan interpreter for US Armed forces denied apartment for rent in Denver, Co.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541791955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vnhva\/contractor_not_getting_paid_appropriately_for\/","id":"9vnhva","body":"I work as an employee (W-2) for a contracting company that handles business and residential installs for a major cable provider. Different installations are worth different amounts based on the difficulty and scope. I'm not privy to how much my employer receives for a particular install, but on my end each installation type is worth a set number of points, and my base rate of pay fluctuates based on points\/hour (i.e. 12 points at base, so if I averaged 18\/he I would receive 150% of my base rate).\n\nThe cable company allows customers to choose a self-install option. If they can't get it, we have to come out as if it were a regular install to get the customer running. We were also paid as if it was a regular install. Recently, the cable company started assigning them as a \"Trouble Call\", which is worth significantly less than an installation but is much more work in terms of both time and labor. I have complained to my internal management team, and we're told that unfortunately we have to just suck it up. This is in many cases a 50% reduction in points for a job.\n\nIs there any recourse? This seems like blatant theft of labor to me, but a position as a contractor is also tenuous, and I wouldn't want our company to get dropped.","title":"Contractor not getting paid appropriately for work done.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552176469,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az9wrh\/trolling_accounts_uk\/","id":"az9wrh","body":"My sons school has had an abundunce of meme accounts on instagram taking the piss out of teachers. He made one aswell and posted poorly photoshopped picture of teachers heads on different bodies, the school has been tracking down the accounts and banning pupils that had similar accounts from computers and bringing in phones to school. My son got brought in and admitted to him having one of these accounts, now the police are getting involved for cyber bulling staff. I was wondering if this is something i should be worried about further action being took against him. Ive grounded and banned my son from computers and phones. ","title":"Trolling accounts [UK]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568713604,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5enp3\/construction_works_at_night_in_shopping_mall_next\/","id":"d5enp3","body":"So, long story short: I live very close to a shopping mall that has gone construction work after closing hours overnight (10 pm; mostly lasts till 4AM). The problem is its really loud work like hammering or drilling and living directly next to the mall building, we here it through our walls very loudly causing the entire apartment complex having problems falling asleep. We already complaint to the landlord to no avail, the police has also been called twice with the same outcome, aswell as us getting as desperate as just going over and asking them to be more quiet which (as you can imagine) didnt do anything either. What would be the best next step to do here. Would be a reduction of rant be appropriate in this situation. Whom would be the best to complain to (Living in the Republic of Ireland)  \n\n\nThank you","title":"Construction Works at night in shopping Mall next door, what to do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508447400,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77hebt\/i_work_in_sales_in_california_on_100_commission\/","id":"77hebt","body":"For example, I correctly place an order for my client for a car with custom wheels, the order has $1k profit, and I get paid 1\/2 that profit, or $500. \n\nHowever, the coordinator accidentally orders standard wheels, and we have to pay $500 parts and labor to swap out all the wheels. \n\nMy employer would take $500 profit from the deal, affecting my commission by $250. \n\nIs there anything I can do about this?\n\nFYI - I don't sell cars, but just wanted to use a common example.","title":"I work in Sales in California on 100% commission, based on profit. Can my company take away my commissions due to losing profit from a mistake my colleague makes on the order?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568864583,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d68i9k\/former_employer_not_paying_me_unused_pto\/","id":"d68i9k","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice \n\nFirst time poster here. I need some advice on how to handle this situation. I worked at a small start-up company for the past two years and quit 8\/31 so that I could take care of some personal things before moving to St. Louis in December (getting married next spring!). My workplace was pretty stressful at times, but overall it was a good experience and I learned a lot. However, my boss (who became the boss about 10 months ago) was not a very good boss. Extremely unprofessional at times, had a huge temper, and was just overall unpleasant. Knowing this, I knew that it would be hard to quit so I bit the bullet and gave her a full months notice, even though there were many days I almost quit on the spot. She reacted poorly as expected and was extremely distant with me the last month (whatever \ud83d\ude44). I get paid on the 15th and the last day of the month so I got my normal paycheck direct deposited into my account as usual in the first week of September. However, I did not get my PTO payout for 32 hours accrued. I waited until the 15th of this month and when I didn\u2019t get anything I emailed her nicely asking when I could expect my PTO payout. She didn\u2019t respond (which is abnormal, she is ALWAYS on her phone) for 3 days so I emailed her again yesterday morning. I still haven\u2019t heard back from her and I have a feeling she is going to ignore me again. I really don\u2019t want to go in person to the office because frankly I never want to see her face again. Do you have any recommendations? I\u2019m in Illinois BTW. \n\nTL;DR\nFormer employer not paying me my unused PTO. Tried contacting her via email twice with no response. What are some next steps?\n\nThank you","title":"Former employer not paying me unused PTO.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553258204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b44k1n\/miranda_rights_recently_arrested\/","id":"b44k1n","body":"So yesterday i was arrested for driving without a license. It is true that i dont have a drivers license however the officer that arrested me told me that i was under arrest and didn\u2019t read me my Miranda rights. Nor did any of the other officers. If i got this right that would mean that all of the evidence including when i admitted to not having a drivers license should be done away with? Is this correct and if so, how would i go about clearing these charges and getting money back, etc.? ","title":"Miranda rights? Recently arrested.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504766672,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ylk77\/help_my_landlord_is_stealing_my_rent_and_security\/","id":"6ylk77","body":"I moved into a room in a house for a job in LA county, California, USA which I ended not being in the job for long.  I pre-paid last month's rent, and my security deposit.  I need to move because I cannot afford this place anymore, and have a place I can move to immediately.  The lease says that the Landlord needs to approve an assignee or subtenant, but says nothing about reasonableness.  I found an assignee, but the landlord decided to refuse to accept my person to assign the lease on the grounds that she does not want to deal with a subleaser.   The landlord has offered to keep my deposit and my last month's rent in exchange for breaking the lease.  What can I do about this?","title":"Help my landlord is stealing my rent and security deposit. (CA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571245470,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/disa2j\/fl_apartment_building_association_refuses_to\/","id":"disa2j","body":"Good afternoon guys,\n\nI live in Broward Florida and I just moved out of my apartment building. When I first moved in they asked for a money order for $500 refundable deposit. I am moved out now (moved out September 30th) and I still haven\u2019t received my deposit. \n\nWhen I contact them they are stating that it is because there was fraud and that they had to change management. They are saying they don\u2019t know how long it will take for their forensic CPA to investigate and see if my money order was cashed into their account. They are refusing to return me the money and are asking me to be more patient. However I need the money to get another apartment. And frankly I don\u2019t see how the building going through fraud is my problem at all. \n\nNow they are refusing to answer my calls or reply to my messages stating that I need to contact the previous management of the building. So I did, previous management states that they left all the records in the hands of the new management and that just don\u2019t want to give me my deposit back. \n\nPlease help, I need my money back, and hiring a lawyer will cost me $500 if not more so I do not want to go that route. Is there any other way I can get my deposit back? \n\nThank you in advance for all of your replies.","title":"[FL] Apartment building association refuses to return deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442860279,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lu3wj\/being_threatened_with_rape_charge_and_she_claims\/","id":"3lu3wj","body":"obvious throwaway\n\nI have been divorced for almost 2 years and separated for almost 4.  During the 2 years of separation me and my ex would have sexual relations at times that were very fetish intensive.  These encounters would involve her stating she took an over the counter medication that would make her drowsy and me dominating her.  She stated she had no outlet for these yearnings and that since i was not in a relationship she asked if I could help.  I unfortunately said yes.\n\nNow she states that she has videotape via a nannycam and has started to try and blackmail me with the tapes and accuse me of rape.  We were willing participants and I never gave her any drug or even saw her take them.  I am guilty of making a dumb decision but i am not guilty of rape.  \n\nCan anyone advise me of how to go about stopping this threat against my character and freedom?\n\nSorry if the format is not correct, never posted here before.","title":"Being threatened with rape charge and she claims she has video tape(Illinois)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568988083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6vc7j\/18m_help_got_robbed_and_lost_my_key_asked_my_land\/","id":"d6vc7j","body":"I got robbed by 2 guys who stole my stuff and possibly know where i live and i called cops, filed a report against the guy and hes identified, i called my insurance company and said to send them the receipts for the locks and stuff, i called my landlord and its been 6 days and my locks still havent been changed even though cops said its a urgent and also my insurance company. Can i file a claim against this or get some kind of recovery since they could enter my house anytime?\n\nThanks!","title":"(18M) help - Got robbed and lost my key, asked my land lord to change locks, still not changed","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568745651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5l84f\/employer_refusing_to_hire_another_worker_and\/","id":"d5l84f","body":"Work in CT but employer is out of MA. I know as a US employee we have very little federal rights just wondering if either state has laws against this. \n\nSo 3 people in a different office quit and they hired 1 person to handle it since the workload isn't that great but still needs at least 2 people because we operate 24\/7. Whenever this person has a personal issue or can't work certain hours they ask our office to handle the load and just say we need coverage between x time and x time. The couple times I stayed late I just came in late the next day. \n\nNow it is getting out of hand though and they are asking multiple times a week, people are switching and moving hours around like crazy. We take the phones\/workload at random times during the day then switch it back. I do not want to work overtime because they refuse to pay time and a half claiming we are exempt which is a lie. Plus I do not know the other offices area and just try to wing it but it gets very stressful not knowing what you're doing and no one can help.\n\nDo I have any legal protection here? I am eventually going to quit and find another job but what if I am fired before then, is it possible to claim distress and\/or abuse? Can I quit and claim the same?","title":"Employer refusing to hire another worker and changing hours\/dumping work on the rest of us","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504737939,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yj4qk\/va_leasing_office_asking_fianc\u00e9_to_sign_pet\/","id":"6yj4qk","body":"My fianc\u00e9 is living in an apartment on her own with two dogs (one is a service animal, the other is a pet). Two years ago, when she applied to the complex, she listed both dogs on the application and ended up signing a lease. During her first year there, she never ended up paying a pet fee\/deposit to have the non-service dog with her due to an \"unforeseen reason\" at the leasing office (presumably whoever processed the application saw the first dog was a service animal and negated the pet fees altogether). The same lease was renewed for a second year (this year) with no modifications. \n\n \n\nLast week during an inspection, the apartment manager noticed the 2nd dog (the pet) and saw that my fianc\u00e9 had never been charged a pet fee\/pet rent to keep him in the apartment. The apartment manager verified in an email to my fianc\u00e9 that the 2nd dog was listed appropriately in her apartment application and that this has been a mistake on the leasing office's end. However, the leasing office is asking her to register and pay a deposit for the non-service dog and sign a pet agreement that will increase the monthly rent by $15\/month.\n\n \n\nI looked at her lease (specifically the section on pets) and it says that \"Resident shall keep no pets at or about the premises except with management's prior written consent...consent will be conditioned upon the payment of pet fees and resident's agreement to observe management's rules pertaining to pets. If consent is given by management in keeping a pet, Resident agrees to pay a one-time non-refundable pet fee...and an additional pet deposit\".\n\n \n\nIs the leasing office legally able to increase the rent if they admitted the error and we have the existing lease in place? The pet section of the lease sounds specific enough that it could force her to sign the agreement, to which this could be a very quick \"no, you have to sign, pay, and accept the increase in rent,\" but I wanted to ask for any advice before doing so. Thank you in advance.","title":"[VA] Leasing office asking fianc\u00e9 to sign pet agreement after an error on their part","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554997338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc1dlp\/parental_rights_nh_whats_the_first_step_to_take\/","id":"bc1dlp","body":" \n\nHello! I'm a 17 year old female, in the State of New Hampshire.\n\nSo, my step mother, my father, and I have all talked about terminating my birth mothers rights due to her lack of being a mother. We were wondering, what's the first step we take to get her rights terminated?\n\nMy birth mother left when I was about 3-4 weeks old, and I've never really heard from her, I haven't seen her in god knows how long. The last time I saw her, my biological brother and sister were with me, we spent the weekend at her house. While we were there, she lied to us about out dad and how our step mother is a \"crazy loon\" and \"is brainwashing us\", etc. etc. That built a huge wall between us kids, and our step mother and our dad. That caused a huge emotional wreck when we got back home. Lots of screaming, crying, doors slamming, etc.\n\nAll in all, these are the factors that allow me to get my birth mothers rights terminated. She had:\n\nabandoned us, neglected us, she is VERY unfit to be a parent, when we're with her there is a huge chance of there being emotional pain caused from them telling us false information regarding our other parents, and she made very minimal effort to care for us and to keep in contact with us.\n\nSo, I have a very valid reason to terminate her rights (there's other factors that take part in this but are to personal to say)\n\nThank you!","title":"[Parental rights, NH] What's the first step to take in order to terminate a parents rights?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571715997,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlc7ay\/first_time_being_pulled_over\/","id":"dlc7ay","body":"Hi. I just got pulled over about 2 hours ago. I wasn\u2019t speeding or anything. I\u2019m a very good driver! I was coming home from Walmart...A lil backstory on me - I\u2019m a stay at home mom and have been since my first kiddo was born 6 years ago. I\u2019m 25 and this was my first time being pulled over! I\u2019ve never been in trouble before in my life! Unfortunately I let my insurance lapse like a dumbass due to an auto withdrawal not going through about 2 months ago...So I got a big ol ticket and it says all this crazy shit about a misdemeanor on it?!!! I\u2019m googling stuff and it says I could go to jail for a year LOL. How likely is this?? I\u2019m freakin out man. I\u2019m going to call the court(or wherever) in the AM.","title":"First time being pulled over","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571155593,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dia14f\/not_subpoenaed_or_charged_but_accused_in_partners\/","id":"dia14f","body":"What type of lawyer do I need to consult with? Any other advice? Cease and desist make sense here? Straight to sueing for defamation?\n\n1. Known partner's child for 1 year (less than term of my relationship with partner, who spent time vetting me). Great relationship with child. Spent many weekends together at partner's house. Spent vacations away with other party (other bio-parent) being aware. No issues whatsoever. \n2. Moved in with partner who lives with child majority of week (minority with other the other party - parties have been separated since early pregnancy). Person has known my existence for the entire time, and we have met. Was civil. Upon learning of plans for me to move in, weeks in advance, becomes angry and hostile toward me.\n3. Just weeks after moving-in, other party accuses me (to my partner) of \"kissing \\[the child\\] in a way that makes \\[child\\] uncomfortable\", then files for full custody, and includes (along with a litany of other lies) the accusation in his petition, using a phony quote from child as evidence of abuse.\n4. Other party is coaching child on what to say in court. (This is reflected in my partner's counter petition. Child has said, \"\\[Parent\\] told me you are very bad. \"\\[Parent\\] says I'm not allowed to hug you or be alone with you. \"\\[Parent\\] is very mean to you and says you are very bad all day every day.\") \n5. After 1st court date - no temporary agreements made. Child Services investigation has begun. I was randomly visited and I've consented to random drug test. I was never served any legal documents, never given any opportunity to find legal advice. I am still not directly named anywhere in any filing. Other party continues to coach child on what to say.","title":"Not Subpoenaed or Charged, But Accused in Partner's Custody Battle of Sexual Impropriety w\/ Child by Other Party","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552259925,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azlw88\/exwife_forged_mothers_signature_on_dmv_documents\/","id":"azlw88","body":"Sorry in advance, written on mobile.\n\nMy father's now ex-wife has forged my mother's signature on the DMV paperwork on ownership of my father's only vehicle, removing my mother from being an owner of the vehicle along with my dad. What can be done legally in response to this? For context, my father and his ex-wife divorced late last year, and after the divorce she took his second car, all of the groceries, and tried to kick him out of the house he owns. There's also been multiple accounts of her abusing him behind closed doors. My question is what can be done to legally to make her leave our family alone and stop leeching from us?","title":"Ex-wife forged mother's signature on DMV documents for vehicle ownership","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552248998,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azjvi6\/can_a_judge_influence_child_support_amounts\/","id":"azjvi6","body":"I'm entering a counter petition to modify child support. This really is a long story so I'll keep it as brief as possible.\n\nI make 34% less money than I did when the decree was entered. My support payments are nearly $500\/mo. I'm trying to have them reduced to $360. $360 is what the Texas child support calculator suggests they should be with my new wage and my ex wife's salary.\n\nShe originally entered a petition to have child support increased from the close to $500\/mo. (Bleeding me dry for Christ's sake). \n\nThe judge is best friends with her attorney. The entire county knows it, and won't even touch my case without exuding apprehension. Can the judge rule against state law? ","title":"Can a Judge influence child support amounts?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571556242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkgg4i\/can_my_restraining_order_help_me_in_this_way\/","id":"dkgg4i","body":" I  filed a police report of him of sexual assault when I was 17 and of the abuse  he did to me through out the 8  year relationship we had together.\n\nI ended up filing a restraining order against him because he kept stalking and trying to get back with me, while he was dating other women. He did appeal it, but to only take off the  church I go to,even though he drives 30-40 minutes to it (and wasn't consistent with attendance in the past), when there is one next to his home in less then 5min. I honestly believed he appealed  it just to  stalk me. Every time I see him in church, no matter how far  on the other  side he is, I still get scared enough that he will try to hurt me or retaliate in some harmful way. And  I'm unsure if I should call the police to have him  arrested, because he  is no where near me and I can't always know if he  looking at me (not  going to watch him through out service, that'll  increase my anxiety and  cause me to hyperventilate\/panic attack). \n\nDo  you think it would be best  to call the police, even though I feel  scared for my life, despite him  being more or less 100ft away from me  (small church)?\n\nWhen we discussed the appeal in court, the judge did mention there is no distance for a police officer to come and arrest him. He only mentioned that if he remains on his side of church it's fine, but that was all verbal discussion and not in the written modified restraining order that was filed. \n\nMy lawyer did advise me if I feel scared in anyway to call the police. \n\nI did try what the judge suggested to let him be on one side of the church, but the first time I saw him back at my church on 10\/13\/2019, I felt scared (tempted to run and hide from him) and my anxiety shoot up and frozen on what I should do.\n\nAlso if I do happen to get the strength to call the police, can he fight those charges? Will the officer(s) arrest him on the spot?\n\nI'm also part of a youth group at that church along with their Facebook page, he is on there too and did not leave the group. I don't plan to accept events that are going on (through FB), because I believe he will be using that as a way to stalk me as well to see if I'm going or not, and I don't want him to know that. I'll still be able to see the events and go on my own accord though.\n\nWhat the restraining order says:\n\nNo Crimes: Defendant shall not commit any crimes, including but not limited to harassment, stalking, or conduct involving the use, attempted us, or threatened use of physical force that would reasonably be expected to cause bodily injury, against Plaintiff or Protected person(s)\n\nNo Contact: Defendant shall have no contact with Plaintiff expect through attorneys, legal process, court hearings, and as follows: Other: no contact means no contact. no indirect contact such as through third parties, electronic means or otherwise. Visual contact is contact. \n\nThis is in the state of AZ.","title":"Can my restraining order help me in this way?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444697735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oiwud\/my_laptop_was_stolen_abroad_i_have_found_an_ip\/","id":"3oiwud","body":"Last month, my bag, including my Canadian passport and my laptop, were stolen from me in a public place in Stockholm, Sweden. I immediately created a police report, but they had to drop the case as there was no leads on finding the stolen property.\n\nAs of four hours ago, this person attempted to log on to one of my online accounts. I was notified by the two-factor authentication of the service and given the IP address, which is in Stockholm.\n\nTechnically the police should be able to contact the ISP and ask who was using this IP address at the time, and find the laptop along with a lead on the stolen passport (which I'm pretty sure the Canadian government does their own investigation on recovering, this would help?).\n\nShould I contact the police in Sweden, or go as far to contact the RCMP as well since the passport was involved in the stolen possessions. Or should I not even bother?","title":"My laptop was stolen abroad. I have found an IP address from the thief's login attempt. How do I proceed?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1550899413,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atruec\/antisemitism_in_my_workplace\/","id":"atruec","body":"Hi guys, thanks for any advice. I work in a privately owned food-production business in MA. We are fairly small but have been on a bunch of cooking channels, semi-famous. The owner, \"Robert\" also owns an apartment complex nearby. ","title":"Antisemitism in my workplace","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443719721,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n4hig\/landlord_raising_rent_after_suspecting_extra\/","id":"3n4hig","body":"Location: West Virginia\n\nMy landlord sent me a text informing me that he has somehow confirmed that a girl is also residing in our apartment and per our lease agreement is nearly doubling our rent. He claims she has been confirmed to have spent the night over here for more than 5  days in the past month without prior written consent. I'm also assuming that he's gathering this information from the fact that her car is often there overnight.\n\nI can prove that she does not in fact reside here, has her own apartment with her own lease, and allows me to use her car frequently and keep it over at my place during nights. We have her lease, I have copy of her car key. What do I need to prove my case? Do I need to prove it or does he?","title":"Landlord raising rent after suspecting extra resident. Who has to prove what?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446179737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qsv9j\/can_someone_really_trademark_sparkle_bow_and\/","id":"3qsv9j","body":"So I run a small Etsy shop and I have lots of headbands, bows, etc. One of the terms used to describe them is \"Sparkle Bow\". Now I get a notice from a company\/shop that has trademarked this and this seems crazy to me! How can anyone just trademark a descriptive phrase so no one else can use it? Is there any legal ground for this? I did look up and looks like its a \"1A\" trademark status for that word phrase.","title":"Can someone really trademark \"Sparkle Bow\" and prevent you from using it to describe your online shop items? (Los Angeles)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539121599,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mtele\/does_subject_to_taxes_means_the_salary_written_is\/","id":"9mtele","body":"I live in Egypt an I have an offer from a company, the salary is stated and under it is this line. \n\n\"All  aforementioned  amounts are subject to taxes\"\n\nand I don't know if this means that the mentioned salary is the salary after taxation, or before taxation. \n\n​","title":"Does \"subject to taxes\" means the salary written is after subtracting taxes or before?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1504206119,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x8y5x\/apartment_complex_wont_fix_my_kitchen\/","id":"6x8y5x","body":"I'm in Indianapolis, IN. I just moved in with my fiance, and there are some issues with her kitchen plumbing. Nothing that's a deal breaker, just inconveniences (low pressure, slow draining, etc.) We've told maintenance about our problems before (both before and after I moved) but they've never actually done anything about it. I was wanting to know what some of my options are; maybe getting it fixed myself and deducting the cost from rent, or withholding rent until they come and fix it? Or is there a place I can read up on the law myself without all the technobabble? ","title":"Apartment complex won't fix my kitchen.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553458236,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b50vzk\/is_it_illegal_to_ask_my_female_roommate_if_she\/","id":"b50vzk","body":"I recently got a new roommate, and she\u2019s female, in her mid forties and seems to be single. I\u2019m a male in my prime, and attractive. \n\nI\u2019ve just been noticing her curves and have been fantasizing having her \u2018sit on my face\u2019.\n\nI was wondering if it is considered harassment and illegal to straight up ask her if she\u2019d like to sit on my face? \n\n","title":"Is it illegal to ask my female roommate if she would like to sit on my face?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540316757,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qrbrs\/ga_contractors_at_apartment_entering_premises\/","id":"9qrbrs","body":"My apartment complex has always been good about giving notice before entering, usually with a letter they stick in your door and an email. However, they currently have contractors working on painting the outsides of the building. I came home today to find trash all over my porch (I live on the 3rd floor and there is no possible way for a neighbor to get to my porch), my outside furniture was moved (and blocking the door so I could not get out without some shoving and maneuvering), and my dog evidently freaked out at seeing strangers just outside and tore down the blinds on the windows and door facing the porch. \n\nMy biggest concern, past what I consider a violation of my privacy, is the blinds. They give you a fee sheet when you move in, and it states that replacing damaged blinds are $100 each. I simply don't have $300 to spend replacing them, and I don't feel I should have to just because the complex gave permission for someone to be on my porch without my knowledge or consent. My question is, even though it's outside, does my porch still fall under the rule that they must give notice before entering? Is there a law that I can\/should cite when I bring this to the property manager's attention? \n\nThank you in advance ","title":"[GA] Contractors at Apartment Entering Premises with No Notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569889363,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbl06r\/new_insurance_rep_is_trying_to_massivelyincrease\/","id":"dbl06r","body":"**The Smallest TL;DR I feel to give:** Drunk Driver driving w\/o a license hit my car a few years back. He got cited with like five different things and I with nothing.  He apparently filed an insurance claim against me, lied entirely and said he was a pedestrian and I struck him. They believed him\/paid him out more money than I've made my entire life. I was never told this and never had a rate increase.  I just got a new rep who saw this and FUCKING >>TRIPLED<< my insurance rates because I am now a dangerous driver I guess.  \n\n\n  \nDetails: I was making a delivery, in my person vehicle, at probably 10:30 three years ago. I was making a left-hand turn on an arrow and some one struck my passenger-side rear door. It was a drunk-man on a bicycle which had been modified with a small 2-stroke engine.   \n\n\nSome on-lookers called the police and such blah blah, and he was basically intoxicated at the time, and driving with a suspended license from previous drunk driving charges. He **lied** to the police and told them he was just walking across the street that I'd have been turning on-to and that I struck him.   \n\n\nThis was an obvious lie as there where actually impact-marks on the rear-passenger side. All the police on scene (This is a weird intersection where they were trying to figure out jurisdiction, so there were actually at least seven\/eight officers there) completely agreed that this was impossible and that my recount was correct. They took him to the hospital and then the jailhouse on multiple citations\/charges.  \nDriving with a suspended license  \nDriving while under the influence  \nLying to the police\/obstruction  \nReckless endangerment  \nDriving without insurance  \nI know these since I was on a delivery at the time so the company had to check the reports to make sure I could still perform my job, even they all-cleared me.  \nWhile I got charged with absolutely nothing, not even points on my license, and my insurance did not increase my rates at the time, they were informed, by me and the police.  \n\n\nWhatever rep handled my account has switched and been replaced I guess... but I went to pay my part of the bill for the last month only to find out that it had ***god-fucking-damn TRIPLED, T-R-I-P-L-E-D.*** I obviously called them up about it, and the new rep gave me some sass and pretty much told me that it was only expected since I'd 'had so many accidents the past few years.'   \nThis is the only incident that even comes close to an accident that I've ever been involved in, even as a passenger. I told her this and then she fed me a line about how this was a very serious accident though, since I ***apparently hit a pedestrian who was paid out multiple tens-of-thousands-of-dollars.***  \n\n\nIt's extremely obvious that this man must have fed the same bullshit story to my insurance... and they actually bought it and are now trying to pass on their expense to me.  \nIs there anything I can do to refute this or am I just bending over and taking it... this is literally the difference between having to change my life's-schedule by a few years and maybe finding a new job. I have access to the police reports.  \n\n\nOn a side question, since I'm the most spiteful person I know: Can I ruin this man's life by exposing his insurance fraud?","title":"New insurance rep is trying to massively-increase insurance rate because of a claim, which I was found not-at-fault for, from three years ago.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1507702410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75n78z\/qdro_agreement_how_do_i_get_it_court_certified\/","id":"75n78z","body":"FL I\u2019m trying to file my own QDRO and the legal agreement is required to be court certified, signed by the judge, the parties involved and then submitted back to the financial retirement institution.   All parties including the judge have signed it, now how do I get it court certified? ","title":"QDRO agreement, how do I get it court certified?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553120884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ig1a\/brother_lost_custody_battle\/","id":"b3ig1a","body":"This is mainly a venting post but question is posted in TLDR.\n\nMy brother's ex wife left with their child for months I didn't get to see my nephew for at least 4 months, neither did my brother! So when we got the money for a lawyer we hired one and started the process. She had no lawyers threw a pity party and wound up winning (Texas courts usually favor the mother) was all she had going for her. \nThey (her mom and ex wife) made up multiple lies and made a go fund me so she could hire a lawyer, never did! (No clue where these people's money went who donated) her family mooches off of the system (claim to be disabled and in school and shit when they arent) They harassed my mom, my brother, and the lawyers. \nSince January my nephew has been in my brother's custody cause she broke the rules in what the last judge said to do. I don't see how they could have won this and I'm furious because my daughter won't be able to spend time with her cousin since she's taking him three hours away!\nEvery time she takes him from us he either comes back injured or sick, this last weekend when we got him back from spring break he had to go to the er. She doesn't take him to the doctor, doesnt give him his medicine when needed, wouldn't even vaccinate him! (My family and I are super against anti vaxxers) I have a hereditary immune disorder from my moms side that we haven't been able to test my nephew for yet. It acts up around air pollution and cigarette smoke, they smoke in the house when my nephew is there so I can only assume he has it when he comes back sick all the damn time. (The blood test was around $600+ when I was tested 15+ years ago, not quite sure what the price of it is now)\n\nTLDR. Brother lost custody battle to petty mom, what can we do other than get CPS involved? Looking into an appeal already but haven't heard back about it.","title":"Brother lost custody battle?!?!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550794200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atai8a\/ca_employee_lawrestaurant_pays_out_tips_at_the\/","id":"atai8a","body":"So I work for a small California restaurant group as a full charge bookkeeper and recently began processing payroll for a fine dining store. The issue I am facing is transitioning employee tips from nightly tip outs to bi-weekly pay outs included in their paychecks. Current procedure is to have the server\/direct service employee complete a tip out form noting the total credit card\/cash tips received, and then calculating how they distributed their tips with the other employees. They aren't required to share their tips with other employees but there is a unspoken assumption that servers will share a percentage with other front of house and back  of house employees (food runners, bussers, bartenders, cooks). Then from this completed form the general manager pays out the credit card tips from our cash on hand, which is a paaaaaain in the neck since the credit card transactions are usually 3\/4ths of our sales (and pain on my my car since I have to write the cash checks, travel to the bank to cash it, and travel some more to the location all during peak CA traffic hours!) \n\n​\n\nThe plan is to change our standard operating procedure for all locations to pay out tips on their bi-weekly paycheck. All of this is uncharted territory for my baby-deer-fresh-out-of-college self and need some wisdom from the internets to make certain that I am understanding the regulations (i feel like i am over thinking everything but juuuuuuust to be sure).\n\n1. Before moving the tip payouts onto payroll, is there any legal steps\/documents (notification notice?) we need to take or make the employees sign?\n2. Down the line when the topic of tip pooling crosses the GM's mind, will we need to draw up any documents for employee signature (notification? disbursement calculations?)\n3.  Is there industry standard tip pooling percentages? How would I go about tackling this monster? Would we have to throw percentages together ourselves?\n\n​\n\nAny help is greatly appreciated!! I am a perfectionist which is why this has been procrastinated for so long. I haven't found that sentence that, in no uncertain terms, says what I need to do! CYA!-cover your ass... this is me trying to get some ass coverage.","title":"CA Employee Law-restaurant pays out tips at the end of every night (credit card and cash) and wants to transition tip outs on to biweekly paychecks","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552878379,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2dlww\/in_a_3_car_accident_person_who_caused_the_wreck\/","id":"b2dlww","body":"I was the rear end of a 3 car accident in Oklahoma a few weeks ago and was injured. The police arrived on the scene and made an official report. \n\nThe other drivers (both 16 year old girls) were uninjured. The girl who caused the wreck on the report claims she was at a standstill and saw the light turn green and hit the car behind me who hit me. The events of the wreck and the damage done to my car says otherwise. \n\nThe officer who wrote the report notes that she suspects texting and that the driver was going the speed limit (50 mph) when she made impact with the first car. I filed a claim with the insurance company and submitted the police report.\n\nThe girl who caused the wreck and her mother are now dodging calls from the insurance company. With medical costs of getting my arm fixed and being unable to get to jobs more than 5 miles away because I\u2019m currently using public transportation I\u2019m starting to get desperate and don\u2019t want to file with my insurance just yet (don\u2019t think I can afford the deductible) I\u2019ve let my insurance know and they said to give it another week. \n\nI don\u2019t want to be the douche who sues a 16 year old either... any other steps I can take before I show up at her doorstep with a poster saying \u201ccall your damn insurance!\u201d?","title":"In a 3 car accident, person who caused the wreck won\u2019t respond to the insurance company.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506955851,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73t84o\/pa_trying_to_get_out_of_a_contract_for_a_vacation\/","id":"73t84o","body":"So I found out that a friend is subscribed to a vacation package with a company called Sundance Vacation. She realized immediately that she didn't want it but has been paying the dues for almost 3 years because she was scared of the repercussions and she hid this fact from most people. With a drop in her income, this payment has become a huge burden and she wants to stop it\n\nCalling the company isn't helping as they aren't ready to let her go and cite the fact that she signed the contract\n\nShe understands that she signed a contract that she didn't want but due to her financial circumstance, she just wants out of the contract and doesn't really care about recovering the money that she already spent on them. If she stops making payments, I'm guessing they'll come after her with a lawsuit.\n\n Is there anything she can do to pre-empt the lawsuit and just end the entire nightmare? Has anyone here been in such a situation? Any advice would help as we are completely clueless about how to go about this without jeopardizing her financial future\n\nEdit: the contract says that it is not subject to any rights of recession or may not be cancelled","title":"[PA] Trying to get out of a contract for a vacation (timeshare) package","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539109775,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mrpsf\/lease_is_ending_in_a_month_landlord_requires\/","id":"9mrpsf","body":"We were informed a week or so ago that the landlord will not be offering a new lease after our 12 month lease is up due to wanting to sell the property. A shame, but whatever, it was always a possibility. For reference, we live in Florida so obviously Florida Tenant\/Lease laws would apply.  \n\nSo in reviewing my lease, I caught something that I didn't notice previously (obviously, shame on me for not being more careful when we signed the lease). The landlord requires that the utilities be kept on for 7 business days after the end of the lease. This is not something that I anticipating as I have signed many leases in Florida (and elsewhere) and have never seen this requirement previously. My concern is that someone can come in and run the water plenty after we move out, turn the thermostat down into the 60's, etc and we'll be on the hook for those charges up to a week after we leave.  \n\nNow obviously, it's in the lease agreement that my wife and I signed. My question for this sub is, is this requirement legal because obviously you can put anything in a lease that you would like but if it's not legal, it's not enforceable. Looking for any avenue to explore in fighting this requirement prior to us moving out.","title":"Lease is ending in a month, Landlord requires Utilities Kept on 7 Business Days After, Advice Needed","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442450484,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l8rbl\/oh_probate_questions\/","id":"3l8rbl","body":"So long story short, seeking help in finding a probate lawyer. There was a power of attorney involved, and we thought everything was okay. Upon closing their bank account, bank had us seek a lawyer. \n\nFirst lawyer ended up having a conflict, and now we're unsure of how to proceed. Never had to seek counsel before and no idea how to know who to hire and if they're any good. Seeking suggestions and recommendations.","title":"[OH] Probate Questions","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541452573,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uhpe5\/got_let_go_from_my_job_without_reason\/","id":"9uhpe5","body":"So about 2 months ago I started a job working for a really big produce company. They hired me as a line lead and told me that the company had lots of room to move up and quickly. The company itself hires many immigrant workers that do not speak English and most of the supervisors also are not highly educated. I had a back ground as a health and safety advisor for an oil company previously. \n\nIn the first couple weeks they had barely any training for the position they gave me and I told them immediately that they really have much better training set up for new comers. I gave them ideas that would make it much more efficient to which they actually implemented right away. One of the supervisors was actually someone I new a little bit . The other 2 were women from Indonesia and Jamaica. Out of all the line leads and supervisors there which was roughly about 10 people , I was the only male line lead. The first week they were nice to me but after the second week I noticed they were not speaking to me much. They always seemed to be very clicking with each other . They would literally hold hands with each other and talk for several minutes in a group. They put me on the hardest line and within a couple days I was running the line very efficiently. A month later they pulled me into the office and told me I was doing well and that everyone seemed to get along with me. Fast forward a couple weeks and I have a tiny disagreement with one of the female supervisors. They had told us previously to always follow the spec sheets and computer to which I did. She asked me why the order was not packed out and I replied it said nothing about pack out on the spec sheet or the order. She continued to berate me in front of my line. I approached the main supervisor letting him know what had happened and left it at that. The end of the day came and the other floor supervisor told me I could go home and she would sign off on the clean up sheets. Next day I get approached by the supervisor I had the disagreement with and she tells me I am getting a verbal warning to which I replied \" what for?\". She then tells me for not signing the clean up sheets. It so happens that the main supervisor is standing right there and I proceed to tell her that the other supervisor dismissed me for the day and said she would take care of it. She then calls her over and asks her in front of me and she answered yes it is true. She never got a verbal warning however like they were just trying to give me. Another week later an extra few boxes were done by mistake on the line. The same supervisor comes to try to give me a verbal warning again. At this point I feel as if she is trying to get me on purpose. She tells me I'm getting a warning for making extra boxes. I tell her that I had asked the stackers for the count and they gave me the wrong count. I had asked them 3 times and they do not understand English very well. I give her the exact time I ran the line and tell her she can check the cameras and she will see that I ask them and actually proceed to count what is on the floor. They had not crossed out any of the numbers on the board and the only way of knowing what was done was count them on the floor. \n\nThis again turns into a disagreement with her. I speak with the main supervisor and tell him that I am really having issues with only her and I think she has it out for me. Finally a week later I get told I will be rotating on the line with another lead cause hours are depleting. I don't argue about it I say I understand as I was last hire. Friday comes and I get called into the office at the end of the day. The main supervisor tells me that they decided to go in a different direction .I ask him why and he has no reason at all. I then tell him my cost prices are lower than the other line leads running the same line and again he has no response . I tell him that it feels like a personal matter . I find out through someone else there after I leave that they had seen a blog on a website about me from an exgirlfriends and decided to let me go because of it. Is there anything I can do about it? I was still technically on probation for another 30 days but they had not given me any written warnings or technically a verbal as I did not sign anything for the 2 they tried to give me. This blog has become a real nuisance and I have been trying to get it taken down but there is nothing I can do because of American internet law's allowing freedom of speech and yet I live in Canada. I am really starting to fall into a deep depression and my wife and I separated 2 weeks ago because of it. I am feeling extremely lost and without hope.","title":"Got let go from my job without reason","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552189784,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azbt8v\/is_dumpster_diving_illegal_in_sarasota_county_or\/","id":"azbt8v","body":"I looked through the ordinances and couldn't find anything about it. Just trying to get some clarification two different sheriff's told me different answers on the matter. One said yes it's perfectly legal, the other said it's not.","title":"Is dumpster diving illegal in Sarasota County or Manatee County in Florida","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571242603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dirkk8\/can_i_break_my_lease\/","id":"dirkk8","body":"Can I break my section 8 housing lease if the Condo Association allows owners to smoking so they give suggestions of purchasing a purifier which increased my electric becsuse I wanting to protect my son who have pre-existing asthma?","title":"Can I break my lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445872367,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qadvz\/offering_a_monetary_incentive_to_lease_an\/","id":"3qadvz","body":"So I have to end the lease to my apartment in a managed high-rise early for reasons. I've already given notice and moved out. However, the penalty for ending the lease early means I'm on the hook for 2 months of rent (~$2K) *unless* someone else signs a lease before November 11, in which case I only owe them rent for the first 11 days of November - a substantial savings. I've given permission for the landlord to show the apartment, but I can imagine they'd drag their feet on this to double-dip on rent for a couple months.\n\nMy question is, can I help things along by making a craigslist advertisement, directing them to the leasing office of the building and then offering an independent cash incentive of say $500 if they sign the lease before November 11? I thought it was a great idea to save some money but the first three people I talked to about it asked me if that was legal, so now I'm second guessing myself.\n\nThanks for your help, and if there's anything I left out, let me know.","title":"Offering a monetary incentive to lease an apartment I don't own? [DC]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570916056,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh19nq\/im_having_a_hard_time_finding_out_what_permits_i\/","id":"dh19nq","body":"I want to start a mini farm in Arizona and I'm trying to find out what permits I would need if I was sell ing micro greens such as pea and sunflower shoots.","title":"I'm having a hard time finding out what permits I would need to sell unprocessed microgreens grown from home in arizona.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1443989168,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nhlfy\/two_pipes_from_the_unit_above_me_broke_began_to\/","id":"3nhlfy","body":"The ceiling in my kitchen has a huge hole in it. My guess is 2 of the 4 walls need to be completely redone. I have to wipe drywall & insulation off of my counter tops every day. Oh and the carpet by the doorway smells like mold. \n\nI live in LA and wasn't even going to say anything at first but my landlord is acting like it's my fault that the pipes in the unit above me leaked and is taking his sweet time fixing it. At this point I'd like to get some, if not all of my September rent off.\n\nI'd like some help\/advice before I approach him. Thanks reddit fam :)","title":"Two pipes from the unit above me broke & began to flood my kitchen. They fixed the leak that day, but it has been weeks & despite plumbers, adjusters, and drywallers coming out to give quotes, nothing else has been done to remedy the situation.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1415901258,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2m76nl\/temp_agency_ca_is_there_anything_i_can_do_legally\/","id":"2m76nl","body":"This is a bit of a complicated story, so I will try and make it sound as simply as possible.\n\nI signed up with my first temporary agency recently. When I signed up, I obviously filled out a bunch of forms, including I-9 and W-4.\n\nThe agency sent me on my first assignment, with no information on pay or anything. I asked, and they sent me a one line email, claiming they had already discussed it with me.\n\nWhile I was at the assignment, the client paid me in cash money. I attempted to give it back to him. He said no. So I considered it a one off thing.\n\nThe following day, the agency called me multiple times to inform me that they heard he paid in cash, and to give the money back. I tried again to give him the money back. He said no, keep it. Use it for food, etc.\n\nThe client continued to give me cash at the end of each day of work.\n\nThat's the background.\n\nHere's the legal issue. I went in to the temp agency, informed them of what happened, and they told me to give them all the money the client gave me in cash, plus receipts to prove how I spent it.\n\nOn this same day, I went in to speak with them. The front desk basically asked me who I was, and said they had no record of me ever being there, no I-9, nothing. I told the front desk this wasn't true, and to look. They found my paperwork within 5 minutes.\n\nI then asked to speak with the temp agent that sent me out on assignment. I informed them that it was not my place to be handling cash, and that I wasn't sure if it was their place to ask for cash from me because they were being paid by the client.\n\nI sent them an email to create a paper trail, saying the above. They never responded. I also contacted the client and told him what was happening, and my need to return the money (apparently). He said no again.\n\nInstead, they then called me every single day, multiple times a day. Leaving at least 3 voicemails a day asking me:\n\n-We want you to bring us the cash.\n-Did you give the money back yet? Can you prove it?\n-The client says he has no arrangement with you to return the money, why do you still have it?\n-One agent said the client did not pay them (so, that's my problem?)\n\nI picked up the phone, only to hear them insinuate that I was lying about everything, and their client knew nothing.\n\nI feel harassed and I feel that my character has been inappropriately smeared. I obviously won't get to work for them again, which is unfortunate because I am unemployed.\n\nAny advice at all?","title":"Temp agency, CA. Is there anything I can do, legally here, based on the way they treated me?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555071704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bccx25\/ma_we_are_being_forced_to_move_temporarily\/","id":"bccx25","body":"Hello, I am going to try and keep this as short and as anonymous as possible.\n\nI am a student and live on campus with my wife. We are bringing a child over from a different country for medical care in the summer. We have been denied the ability to stay in our home while the child is here. We just learned that we have legal guardianship of the child while they are with us. Does this change anything? Can we be denied housing because of a child if we have legal guardianship, or would this be discrimination? Can someone provide me with the Massachusetts state law or federal law that pertains to this subject? Do I need to provide proof of legal guardianship?","title":"[MA] We are being forced to move temporarily because of a child, but we have legal guardianship","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504561073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y3dug\/fired_for_discussing_my_pay\/","id":"6y3dug","body":"So, I just got off the phone with my manager (whom I'm good friends with actually) so she was sad the whole time. I didn't really mind because I planned on putting my two weeks in soon anyways, but I'm just confused if it was even legal because of what I've seen in the past. So she explained that my boss hates when people discuss pay for whatever reason. (she pays everyone really odd amounts from what we found) i.e. we're all 15-18 but the ones under 18 including myself make under minimum wage, you'd think it would be just 85% but some made 85% exactly at $7.86 here in Michigan, while I made an even $8 and some made $8.10. It just made no sense as I was newer than most of them, so we were trying to figure out why and I'm assuming someone asked our boss like an idiot. And since I brought up the idea, I guess it got put on me. The exact phone call was \"she thought you'd be further along in your job and better, but we're mainly letting you go because ___ doesn't like people discussing pay\" \n\n\nEdit: is what my boss fired me for legal?\n\nEdit #2: yes it was discussed on their time technically, \n\nEdit #3: also, forgot to add it in, but I injured my wrist at work a week or so ago. And from what others have told me, you can't be fired while you still have an on the job injury\n\n\n*Tl;Dr*  **fired for discussing pay wages with co-workers.**","title":"Fired for discussing my pay.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569689999,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daimc0\/surrendered_our_dog_to_the_humane_society_when_we\/","id":"daimc0","body":"Hi all. Any help would be greatly appreciated. \n\nMy girlfriend and I purchased a dog from a breeder in November of 2018. When we purchased the dog, we signed a contract restricting us from breeding, requiring us to maintain certain standards of medical treatment, and a few other things. \n\nIn February of this year, I was cleaning our tiny apartment and had stacked up a bunch of furniture and objects, including the dog's cage, so that I could clean the floor. Our six month old dog climbed jumped on top of this stack when I wasn't paying attention and toppled the whole thing to the floor, landing on her head and having heavy objects fall on her. This fall left her with a fractured skull, an injured neck, and vision loss. She ended up in the animal hospital and was there for weeks, receiving two surgeries and spending a lot of time in the ICU. In no time, we had paid nearly $7000 in bills and the outstanding bills had continued climbing, to almost $13,000. The treatment wasn't over yet and there wasn't even an end in sight. \n\nMy girlfriend and I did everything we could, emptying out our chequing accounts and filling up our credit cards, but we didn't have enough to get the dog back. We're just students attending university in Toronto. When we asked what our options were, they said we could either pay the bill or surrender ownership of the dog to the Toronto Humane Society. We had a very long talk about it, but eventually we said our goodbyes and chose the surrender option. \n\nI've just recently messaged the breeder about what happened. There was no sympathy in her response at all. She started demanding dates and receipts and documents and lots of other stuff, and told us that we had signed a contract that required us to return the dog if we were no longer able or willing to care for it under ANY circumstance. I've since looked, and that paragraph of the contract reads, word for word: \"If for any reason the Purchaser wishes to place the above mentioned animal in another home, or is no longer able or willing to care for the animal for any reason (including injury, accident, or any other life event), the Purchaser agrees to return the animal to the Breeder and shall sign over and include registration papers immediately.\" \n\nIt wasn't that we were unable or unwilling to care for her. We absolutely did not have the money we needed to get her back from the hospital, so to return her to the breeder under those circumstances would've been impossible. Did we screw up here? Are we liable to the breeder? \n\nAny help at all would be greatly, greatly appreciated.","title":"Surrendered our dog to the Humane Society when we couldn't afford medical bills. Now breeder is alleging we broke contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571460349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djz47g\/my_dog_bit_a_maintenance_guy_that_let_himself_in\/","id":"djz47g","body":"Short version: \n\nI got an email asking if it was okay to enter the day before. I didn\u2019t see it or respond. Maintenance guy let himself in unannounced. My dog allegedly bit him. We pay pet rent. They\u2019re kicking the dog out (and therefore us). Can they do that? Is they trespassing? Can they take further legal action against me?\n\nSide note: they just spent 20k remediating  our apartment for mold that we had a private guy come and test the air for. \n\n\n\nLong version:\n\nYesterday a maintenance worker let himself into our  apartment without our consent. They emailed  the day before asking for permission to enter, which we didn\u2019t see or respond to. When the worker came, I was in the other room so I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s true but they\u2019re claiming that our dog bit the worker. \n\nThey\u2019re now saying we have until end of day Monday to \u201cpermanently remove the dog from the premises\u201d or they will take \u201cfurther legal action\u201d against us. We are charged pet rent every month and the dog is part of our family so obviously the dog\u2019s eviction is also our eviction. Our financial situation isn\u2019t necessarily conducive to it at the moment, but we do want out of the apartment ASAP because of the mgmts recurring negligence even before this. \n\nPlease advise what we should do. We have until end of day Monday. \n\n\nThey didn\u2019t send an official notice of intent to enter like they have done in the past when they aren\u2019t asking if it\u2019s okay. They have also asked in the past if we have dogs and if it\u2019s ok to enter when we aren\u2019t home. We have told them on multiple occasions that it\u2019s not ok and we do have dogs. This is also not the first time they have entered without permission which they\u2019ve apologized for in the past (in writing).\n\nThe dog has no history of violent behavior and is cool with all the people and dogs in the complex. \n\nAdditionally, the maintenance guy was coming to replace our kitchen drawers that they removed over 3 weeks prior. \n\nFinally, aside from leaving us without kitchen drawers for over 3 weeks, there have been a lot of issues with the mgmt after the mold issue, including not repairing all damages caused during the time we were locked out of our apartment. \n\nThanks for your help. Please advise.","title":"My dog bit a maintenance guy that let himself in unannounced.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571671855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl275z\/about_freedom_of_speech\/","id":"dl275z","body":"Is there a law against employers firing employees for posting political beliefs or other things on personal social media accounts if it doesn\u2019t  effect the company\u2019s.\nThanks you for those who respond","title":"About freedom of speech","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569256655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d890i8\/how_to_respond_to_a_summons_for_child_support\/","id":"d890i8","body":"So, basically I lost my job in may and haven't been able to pay child support. They were garnishing my wages. The back support is based on me working a better paying job and her not working at all. I just need to know what I need to put on a paper to say that I am contesting the amount.","title":"How to respond to a summons for child support","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551812560,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axotag\/im_a_home_renter_and_i_have_no_one_to_pay_my_rent\/","id":"axotag","body":"To start I live in Florida. Volusia county specifically. Early last month (February) the man that owns the home I rent (we'll call him gary) had sent a letter stating that starting after March 31st, he would no longer be using the property management company I typically pay rent to. This has cancelled my lease and I no longer know who to pay rent to or how much to pay. Gary is in his 70s and doesnt use email or a cell phone. I've called his land line and left a voicemail as well as sending him a letter asking him about a new lease, but I've yet to get a response. His initial letter only stated that he was no longer using the property management company, not whether or not we had to leave\/pay rent. The PM company couldn't, or rather, wouldn't give me any advice on what to do. Some questions I need help with are do I have to pay rent if there's not a lease agreement in place? And is he able to tell us to vacate the property without notice? Thanks in advance for any help. ","title":"I'm a home renter and I have no one to pay my rent to.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1410209994,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fud89\/car_accident_and_insurance_isnt_really_helping\/","id":"2fud89","body":"I got in a car accident (Southern California). 4 cars involved. On the freeway, cars suddenly stopped, No.1 car stopped, No.2 car (me) stopped really close, 3 car behind me was coming in fast, so I got closer to 1. 1, 2, and 3 are pretty close, but no one hit anyone. In comes number 4 hitting 3, 3 pushes 2, and 2 hits 1. 1 flees (no damage on his car). 4 flees as soon as police are coming. \n\nSo now, 2 (me) is waiting on my insurance to do something, but so far, they say they need statements from others. They need the police report. I haven't given my statements to other parties. It's going to be 3 weeks now. Everyone is saying I should get legal help to get my car fixed because the insurance will take a long time and it will be too late by the time they do something. Should I wait on insurance or get legal help.","title":"Car accident and insurance isn't really helping. Time for legal help?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553551143,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5h2uz\/dress_code_question\/","id":"b5h2uz","body":"Can I be held to different dress code than the rest of our staff? \n\n*facts*\n*Other staff members have the same hair styles I desire with no consequences. \n*I have had the hairstyle in question before at this employer (I was even hired with it)\n*The only difference is that I was promoted and now I am told I can\u2019t wear my hair like that anymore even though others still do with no issues. ","title":"Dress code question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443834724,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nando\/renting_apartment_to_family_member_that_was\/","id":"3nando","body":"So I had an in law staying with me at my house for the past month. I have another rental unit on an another floor in the building. In Law was only staying for three months so we agreed that the month of September she could live with me and in October she would move into my rental until the end of November and she would leave. Everything was fine until the end of September but we started having problems as soon as she moved into the rental at the beginning of October. We agreed on 600$ per month and rent was paid 1200$ for the next two months. She then proceed to disrespect my husband, come in my home and steal my copy of the lease after going thru my drawers. \n\nWhat rights do I have as a landlord in order to evict her? Lease was month to month and I am ready to give all her money back and get her out. ","title":"Renting apartment to family member that was staying with me. Stole lease from my house and now refuses to leave, Can i evict(alexandria, VA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554131681,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b83o8u\/a_friend_accidentally_bought_something_stolen\/","id":"b83o8u","body":"So here's the story: \n\nMy buddy buys and sells stuff from Kijiji for a living. Arguments aside whether it's a morally good thing to do, it's what he does. \n\nAnyways, 2 days ago he went to meetup with the customer at a Tim Hortons to sell the item. The customer took photos of the drone, sent them to his buddy, and his buddy told him that it was indeed the drone that was stolen a few days prior. So, as they're exchanging the item, a cop rolls up, and arrests my friend, telling him that he's arrested for possession of a stolen item. \n\nBut the plot thickens, my friend had actually bought the drone 2 weeks prior, and this definitely wasn't this mans stolen drone. Long story short, the man says he'll get to the receipt to \"prove\" that the serial numbers match up (but they won't). \n\nBut the story doesn't stop there. As my friend is sitting in the cop car, the cops go into his vehicle, and checkout what other items he has there, one of them being a Macbook Pro. They check the serial number, and he just so happens to have a Macbook that was reported stolen, which he had no clue about. He still has the messages, phone number and address of the person he bought this stolen Macbook from. Thankfully, all of the other high-end items he had in his vehicle were all clean\/not reported as stolen. \n\nThe cops brought him to the station, and eventually released him. They said they would be contacting him soon. My buddy is now worried that he could be facing some serious consequences.\n\n  \nSo, my question to you is this. Does he a good chance of getting charged, despite him not knowing that one of the items he was selling had been stolen?","title":"A friend accidentally bought something stolen from Kijiji, got arrested.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553280830,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b48vw8\/workmans_compensation_l\/","id":"b48vw8","body":"I don\u2019t know if this is necessarily legal advice, but I\u2019m very curious why small construction companies are forced to carry workman\u2019s compensation. Small as in no employees, just the owner. The workman\u2019s compensation doesn\u2019t even cover the owner. \n\nHow do these people get away with literally stealing from these small businesses and how has no one stopped this?\n\nAlso I\u2019m unsure where this falls so I picked employment law. ","title":"Workman\u2019s compensation l","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569223061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d833z6\/breaking_lease_on_my_apartment\/","id":"d833z6","body":"Hello,\nI started living in this apartment last month and my neighbor above me has a bigger dog that keeps making noise even after 12. I moved into this apartment knowing that no one is  not allowed  to have a dog. So I contacted my landlord and it turned out the dog is an emotional support dog. I understand their situation but I am the victim of the noise here. Now I realized there is a thing called peaceful enjoyment and I believe it goes against this rule. Would I be able to break my lease and move out?","title":"Breaking lease on my apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552676085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1iorl\/sexual_harassment_at_a_pizza_place\/","id":"b1iorl","body":"I\u2019m a 17F and I work at dominos in BC Canada. I think I have been discriminated against because of my gender and have been sexual harassed. My question is, do I just report this to work safe bc or look into an attorney(I have no money for this what so ever and neither do my parents) is it even worth reporting? \n   \nI have written down in as most detail as I can remember with the date and time of some incidences. \n\nThe big one is my boss told me that they were comparing my tits to a dough ball guessing if it would fit into a size B bra or size C he told me this as if I thought it would be funny, I confronted another work member who was near him when this joke was made to confirm and he said yes, I asked why he didn\u2019t tell me they said this, he said I didn\u2019t think you would want to know. I have the date and time of this incident written down. \n\nAlso Anytime if I am sick or if I seem down I am asked if I am on my period, I don\u2019t have those time and dates recorded but one. I have been bending down before and my boss and has come up behind me and screamed damn big ass, I don\u2019t have that time or date written down. \n\n\nI also have a second incident written down but I don\u2019t think it is sexual harassment or discrimination but just a violation of my safety and others:  I had opened the store by myself and it was over a 500$ day. I was stressed out as I hadn\u2019t gotten any prep done because it was so busy I called a staff member in early 45 minutes before her shift started to help. I am by myself from 1030 to 4. I have 1 delivery driver but they are obviously on deliverys. I went to my boss and explained that I feel it is an impossible task to open the store by myself and I couldn\u2019t do it. I asked to not be manager anymore but to be a regular employee. I was extremely stressed and upset when explaining this. The response I received was asking if I was on my period and told I have a week to think about it if I still don\u2019t want to be manager, he then said if I was a boy and spoke to him like that he would have hit me and kicked me out he also gave me permission to start clocking in at 1030 as I was clocking in at 1055 before for a store that opens at 11. \n\n\nThe next week \nI opened the store as usual. It became very busy for me to handle with me making food, getting the oven, answering the phone, and having to prep food. I started shaking and I threw up because I was so stressed out. I threw up multiple times. I called in two staff members in early, one regular staff and a manger so I could leave. the regular staff member arrived 15 minutes after I called her and the manager got in around 50 min after I phoned him. Shortly after a manger who wasn\u2019t scheduled to work came in and asked if I was okay. He then asked if I was on my period. I was told to finish prepping the food and then call a third staff member and work until they show up. I had to call a couple staff members before someone came in and then I was instructed to go home.\n\nI understand this a lot to read and a lot of stuff. Anybody who has advice I thank you very much as I\u2019m kinda lost on what to do. I did leave out dates and times as I didn\u2019t think it was necessary but any questions just please ask and I will clarify. ","title":"Sexual harassment at a pizza place","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555475538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be3ntx\/ex_hit_kids_can_i_go_for_full_custody_ga\/","id":"be3ntx","body":"I have 50\/50 custody with my ex of my 3 and 5 year old. He has a job out of state and they are only with him 2 nights a week as of now. He isn\u2019t paying child support and we are struggling. He wanted to take our son (5) to the beach and I had to take my daughter to a preschool open house so I had her Monday all day one on one. She randomly says that daddy hit \u201cyaya\u201d (brother nickname) and daddy hit her too. I was trying to understand why but wasn\u2019t able to understand. We have never hit or spanked the kids before so I was confused. I brought it up to him later that day and he just said she is silly and obviously he didn\u2019t hit anyone.  He did mention though that the kids stayed up really late and it was frustrating. I brushed it off. I picked up my son today. He comes into my room and starts talking about his time with his dad. I ask if he had fun, what they did... then I mention \u201cwas daddy happy.\u201d He said he was happy sometimes but mad a lot and he hit me in the face. I got out my phone and recorded the conversation at this point. He said he was playing under the blankets and daddy got very mad, wanted him to go to sleep really bad, and hit him in the face. I said was it an accident or a joke and he said no he was very mad. I said has it happened before and he said it happens sometimes. I asked if he hit his sister too and he said yes a couple of times. He said he was crying. Could I go for full custody with this video? Would it be enough? Is hitting in the face illegal? Considering I have them 75% of the time anyway and he doesn\u2019t pay the court ordered child support... now this? I\u2019m scared to let them go back to him. I\u2019m scared he will hit him in the face again, but I don\u2019t know if this one video will be enough. He doesn\u2019t do anything to support them. He only feeds them junk the two days he has them. He doesn\u2019t provide health insurance even though he works full time. I pay for preschool myself and paid for summer camps for both of them myself. I pay for all health expenses. I pay for sports and karate and swimming. I make all appointments, go on school tours, take them to every activity. I do everything for them. I don\u2019t think he deserves 50% and I want to keep them safe and at this point I feel like their mental health is at jeopardy. I can\u2019t afford another lawyer, the divorce just finalized and it cost me everything. \n\nI was going to go to child support enforcement but he \u201cdoesn\u2019t have any money\u201d. His bank account is empty and he volunteers to stay home when his job is low on work and barely makes anything lately. When he actually works he makes good money but this past month he has barely made anything. Well as far as I know...","title":"Ex hit kids, can I go for full custody? (GA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568922272,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6j7nu\/pawn_shops_and_the_competency_of_there_police\/","id":"d6j7nu","body":"Hi all. Perhaps this is my paranoia speaking, or a legitimate concern. \n\nYou sell an item to a pawn shop. It is NOT stolen. Perfect sale. You sign a few papers, one to your local PD to put it into the database.\n\nSome civilian buys the item you sold and holds onto it for a few month before it gets stolen, and they report it.\n\nSo my question is, would your (the original sellers) name still be on it and effectively cause a mix-match and case where your are being\ncharged for theft even after you legally sold it when it was clean?","title":"\u201cPawn Shops\u201d and the competency of there police check for stolen items.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553706218,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b66qjy\/has_anyone_ever_successfully_broken_a_lease_due\/","id":"b66qjy","body":"Just trying to get some information on what our rights are if anyone else has been through this... \n\nWe have lived in our apartment (managed by a large property management company) for 4 years. The past year or so we have been battling a major cockroach infestation. At first, it was just a few here and there and didn\u2019t seem like a big deal. But the past 6 months, the infestation seems to have gotten way worse. Management has been really responsive. They have hired multiple pest companies to come out and spray, lay traps, etc. However, the problem is only getting worse. (I have a feeling our dirty, hoarder neighbors with whom we share a wall aren\u2019t helping the situation). \n\nWe have roaches EVERYWHERE. They are ALL OVER our kitchen. I see at least 20 a day. From tiny ones to giant ones. I find dead ones all over the place, too. We have nowhere safe to store food and clean dishes. I have been trying to be patient because of how responsive management has been, but the sprayings and traps are not working. I am worried for our health and the health of my cats who are eating the roaches. \n\nWe want to write a letter and politely inform them we are ending our lease early because of this. Our lease is up June 30, but I would love to be out June 1 or even May 1. So we are only trying to get out 1-2 months early. We have documentation of every time we\u2019ve emailed them about the issue. We\u2019ve also started taking pictures every time we see a roach. I have pictures of dead roaches on my clean dishes in the cabinets... \n\nMy husband is not sure they will just say \u201cok!\u201d and let us move out no penalty. I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced something like this and has a better idea what our options are. \n","title":"Has anyone ever successfully broken a lease due to a pest infestation? (Chicago)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553088470,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3c0e4\/previous_employer_did_not_give_myself_or_anyone\/","id":"b3c0e4","body":"Denver, CO\n\nMy previous job was at a courier company that transported blood and hospital equipment between hospitals. I worked there for 2 years and took a lunch break less than 5 times. An average shift was about 9 hours, however I worked countless overtime shifts. Some of said shifts were often up to 16 hours. We were so busy that a lunch break was never offered or even considered. Do I have any options as far as seeking legal recourse against this company. Any help or advice would be very much appreciated. ","title":"Previous employer did not give myself, or anyone in the company lunch breaks for at least 2 years. Denver, CO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552695890,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1mboc\/how_do_you_find_a_person_from_the_license_plate\/","id":"b1mboc","body":"To establish some background, I\u2019m aiming to file a civil lawsuit, for which I have recordings of the conversation to bolster my case.  All I have is a license plate number to go off of.\n\nThis would be in Nevada.","title":"How do you find a person from the license plate?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540920720,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sq3qx\/im_a_school_crossing_who_is_being_harassed_by_a\/","id":"9sq3qx","body":"Hi everyone, I apologize in advance if this isn't where I'm suppose to post this.\n\nI've only been a school crossing guard since the end of August, and I've seen this homeless guy around. He usually looks like he is intoxicated, staggering through the street yelling at cars, from past experiences working in a restaurant that had a high volume of homeless who were unstable come through, I knew not to engage. (I understand that not all homeless are like this, I mean in this case that by not engaging is a good way to stay safe.) Typically he ignores me, and I've only had to cross the steeet to get myself and my kids away from him like twice before.  Except that changed yesterday. \n\nI heard him coming down the street, he is very loud, saw him come up to the intersection, and it looked like he was going to cross away from me. At the last minute he saw me, and while walking through traffic was yelling at me that I'm pretty and such. I ignored him, didn't make eye contact, kept checking to see if he was coming at me. He kept coming, telling me I had a leaf on me, and went to reach for me. At this point I tell him he needs to leave. He's causing a disturbance, and I'm extremely uncomfortable. I move out of the way, while he walks around me continuing to talk nonsense to me. I repeat myself, and tell him he needs to leave. Well, this upset him, and he starts to go off and as I'm pulling my whistle to my mouth, he reaches out and hits me. I'm not injured or hurt, but I'm now scared out of my mind because I don't know if he's dangerous or not.\n\nAt this point, blowing my whistle and I'm telling him that I'm now going to call 911 made him take off. I made it to my car and called 911. The police officer came out and took my statement,  and informed me that he is mentally ill. He asked me very rudely if I was pressing charges. Which I did. The officer said that this was the fourth call on this homeless guy that day, and over the weekend he broke someone's car window. And they only issued him a ticket.  They said they can't take him in until his ticket goes to warrant status. I called my supervisor, gave her the run down, and all she told me to do was wait in my car if I saw him again. \n\nWell, it didn't stop there. This morning I went back to my site. Everything was going okay, and then I saw him and he saw me. From the other side of the street he started shouting foul things, and then he started to pick up speed coming at me. I ran. I barely made it into my car before he started beating on my windows. I started my car, and he left. I called 911 again,  and the same cop comes out. All he said was I chased him off and told him to leave you alone. (WTF!!!) The officer also told me to contact my boss about switching sites, and to have a male posted there. He then promptly left. \n\nI've let my boss know what happened, and I'm moving sites. But I hate that. I love the kids that I cross, and I know all of their names. Is there anything else that can be done when it comes to something like this?","title":"I'm a school crossing who is being harassed by a homeless, mentally ill guy. And the police haven't done anything.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554348316,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b97o6u\/rent_deposit_help\/","id":"b97o6u","body":"So when my fiance and I moved into the house we told the landlord we had two dogs and didn't want rug because the dogs aren't the best house trained. After about three months he decided to add a rug to the apartment. We are moving out now and despite renting a carpet cleaner it still smells like pee and they want to charge us for damages. Can he do that? I understand that the carpet is damaged but the lease doesn't state the carpet because we didn't have a carpet at the time. ","title":"Rent Deposit Help","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568677480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d58rh7\/license_suspension_for_unpaid_traffic_ticket\/","id":"d58rh7","body":"I have an unpaid \"driving without proof of insurance\" ticket. My date to pay has passed. I'm sure my license is suspension. But would they put a bench warrant out for me for a non criminal ticket?","title":"License suspension for unpaid traffic ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571620877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkt3d1\/az_landlord_issue\/","id":"dkt3d1","body":"Last month, 9\/13, I had a issue with my garage door, where it wouldn't open at all because of a broken spring. My landlord wasn't available due to him being out of the country. Before leaving he said he would give me his spouses number in case of a emergency. He didn't.\n\nBack to the garage issue, I had to pay for someone to come out and fix it. I texted him informing him about the issue, now I know I should have emailed him about letting him know. \n\nApparently from what the garage technician said was that the garage doors in my community was poor installed and that they have been having a lot of calls about the same issue. \n\nI wanted to hold from the rent only the amount what I paid for which was $528. I decided against that and wanted to wait until he got back. \n\nToday I had a different issue come up with my washer in my house, so I emailed him and let him know, he replied saying he was back. He called my shorty after and we discuss about repairs to the washer and I brought up the garage door.\n\nWhen I told him the amount he said he would not reimburse me. I told him that I would be find with taking out of the rent for 2 months. Split the difference so it wouldn't be such a burden to him. He said he has a person who works on his garage and pays only $150. I'm here thinking that wouldn't be enough. I had to pay for 2 spring, a spare and a bracket to be installed because the door had caved in.\n\nI'm at a loss and dont want to do anything irrational to get evicted or worse have a big problem with him.","title":"AZ Landlord issue?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541603973,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v0a93\/lady_injured_my_mom_in_a_car_accident_and\/","id":"9v0a93","body":"About a month ago, my mom was involved in an accident caused by a reckless driver. My mom has full coverage on her SUV but she is getting the run around from a lawyer and the insurance company. We are just really confused right now and could use some advice.\n\nAt the accident, the lady who caused it gave her mother in law's insurance card. We found out about it a few weeks later and we're still waiting for my mom's insurance to confirm if the lady really has insurance or not. We're pretty sure she doesn't because she wouldn't have lied at the accident and given her mother in law's insurance info if she had her own. \n\nMy mom paid her insurance deductible for a rental car and to get her SUV fixed. They took care of it and her SUV is back from the shop but she still has medical bills to take of. One emergency room visit, a doctor's visit and probably a chiropractor soon because she said the neck and back pain isn't going away. \n\nI'm trying to make sense of her insurance coverage and I'm so confused. She has \"Bodily Injury\" up to $30k. Does this cover her medical expenses if it turns out the lady doesn't have insurance? \n\nWe were advised to hire a lawyer and she talked to one but she doesn't really understand what he said. I was told he basically can't do anything until it's confirmed the lady doesn't have insurance. Should that take a month? I feel like it should be known by now and if she doesn't, should we sue her? \n\nWe have no idea what we're doing so any advice would be appreciated. ","title":"Lady injured my mom in a car accident and apparently she doesn't have insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446239069,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qw18c\/texas_received_subpoena_from_comcast_in_regards\/","id":"3qw18c","body":"Received a mail from comcast stating Cobbler Nevada LLC has issued a subpoena due to DL a movie off the internet. Subpoena is due on 11\/23\/15. Talked to this [group](http:\/\/www.antonelli-law.com\/Cobbler_Nevada_LLC.php) i saw posted from another thread and they told me motion to quash would be difficult because once they corrected whatever mistake they did they can just file another subpoena to comcast for our information. \n\nThey suggested I try to settle but the $$ is not known yet how much I would need to pay. I guess I know what I should do already, what Iam really asking for is more information on how to handle this case better and if anyone has been in this situation before maybe can help me out.\n\nI know it was my mistake and I already stopped DL things off the internet because I really dont want to be bothered with this kind of problem again.\n\nThank you all in advance for the help.  ","title":"[Texas] Received subpoena from comcast in regards to Cobbler Nevada LLC","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570851918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgpyet\/idaho_teacher_pay_change\/","id":"dgpyet","body":"I\u2019m a teacher in Idaho. I was recently hired, but due to the backlog at the state department I have yet to receive a contract because, while my license is valid and approved, the physical copy won\u2019t get here until later this month. So I\u2019ve been working contract-less since August. \nWhen I was initially hired they asked for a bulk of documents which I supplied. One document was any certificates I had previously taught with. I had taught for several years abroad on an EL certificate. One of those online type things, so I handed it in, and my employer from abroad verified my previous employment. \nBecause of waiting on my license and having no contract, I had no idea what my salary would be. I was also new to Idaho so I was looking to buy a house with my husband. I needed a document to give the bank to verify my employment and payment. When I reached out to HR for this they sent me a letter to give to the bank, verifying my employment, pay rate and dates I would be paid. It was at a rate that showed they would accept my experience abroad as valid experience. This letter was on official district letterhead and had a signature of an HR employee. \nAgain, before the first pay check on Sept 25, I reached out again to confirm. This time I received an email from a different person at HR, verifying the same amount I was previously told. \n\nI have since been paid once, and it was what I expected. \n\n\nThen, last week, I get an email from HR saying that actually, no, the experience from abroad did not count and that they would be bringing me down to base salary for a first year teacher, about $7,000 less than was promised to me. They said that because of \u201cNegotiated Agreement\u201d they were allowed to do this and there was really nothing that could be done, but I could schedule a meeting if I wanted. I said I would definitely need a meeting. \n\nI am part of the union and I have reached out for their help.  They said they would get the lawyer to take a look at all of my documents, but it\u2019s going a little too slow. The next pay period is about to end and I\u2019m worried that they\u2019ll try to cut my salary and then deduct more for the first paycheck they\u2019ve already paid me. \nA few people I\u2019ve spoken to have said the first letter could be considered a contract and I shouldn\u2019t settle for less than was offered originally in the letter. \n\nI\u2019m at my wits end, closing on a house this week, and scared that things are all going to fall through, so I\u2019m looking for a little advice.","title":"Idaho teacher pay change","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1542211958,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x1g76\/ex_husband_custody_and_abuse\/","id":"9x1g76","body":"My girlfriend separated from her husband about a year and a half ago. Officially divorced in May of this year.\n\n1. He has been accused by multiple family members of abuse. This includes throwing cups at a her step child. Emotionally and physically abusing the mother up until the divorce. At one point he lined up all of their kids up in the hall, pulled down their pants, and had them spread their buttcheeks in order ascertain who had not flushed a bowel movement.\n2. Repeated negligence. Her youngest child, 2 years old, developed rashes all over her body. She was given lotion to treat this. On his week (she shares custody) she came back much worse,  and we suspect he was not applying the medicine routinely.  \nHer second-youngest kid, a 5-year-old boy has not been taken to school on his weeks with him. This has become so frequent that she is about to be fined--apparently she is the custodial parent and her address is the one on file. \n3. Suspected Drug Use. We are pretty sure he uses methamphetamine as well as other drugs; likely pot and pain pills. \n\nWhat can we do to try to keep her 2 kids away from him? We are planning to get in touch with a lawyer already but we're wondering what else we can do to assure full custody? Or to just get him out of their lives? She has 5 other step kids with him that she desperately wants too, they deserve better. \nPlease help","title":"Ex husband. custody and abuse","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539111253,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mrxc2\/my_flight_was_cancelled_which_caused_me_to_miss\/","id":"9mrxc2","body":"I know in Europe the laws are a bit more obvious on this sort of thing, but I'm having trouble determining what it would be in my case.\n\nI'm from the us and traveled to canada. I was supposed to be returning home to the yesterday evening. Today I'm supposed to be putting in my longest day of the week at work, earning over a quarter of my hours this week. Needless to say me missing work is costing me a lot of money and probably not going to go over well with my boss.\n\nThe airline had originally delayed the flight half hour, then an hour, then nearly three hours, then finally that time came around and no one even came to explain the situation until a passenger hunted down a representitive who basically just told everyone the plane's not coming, go find customer service. Customer service put everyone in hotels and got everyone new tickets for today but mine isn't even until late afternoon. Almost a full day after I was supposed to get home.\n\nI'm not really someone who can afford to travel, but unfortuantely the person i plan to marry lives in a different country so its quite necessary to do so every few months. This delay really screws over my ability to buy groceries since it's all been very carefully budgeted for. Is there anything I'd be eligible to make up for this so I'm not just out a bunch of money I can't afford? ","title":"My flight was cancelled which caused me to miss an important day of work and a good chunk of pay. Am I entitled to compensation? (canada\/US)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568854598,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d66kl4\/caused_accident_indirectly_should_i_go_to_the\/","id":"d66kl4","body":"I was driving down an older back country road with lots of hills and thicker forest coverage. For like 20 minutes straight, this motorcycle with a sidecar was really close behind my SUV. After 20 minutes, the motorcycle guy (52) started shaking his fist at me and attempted to pass. I ignored him though, and in calm retaliation I sped up enough to where he couldn\u2019t pass me. This went on for about 20 seconds, and then the horrible thing happens. Just as we are \u201cracing\u201d over a steeper hill, a semi truck hauls ass over the hill, slams into the motorcycle and all I see in my rear view is a fireball come from them and the semi launch off the road.\n\nI kept going. Read the news paper a couple days later, turns out the man and his wife, 52 and 60, were both killed instantly. Semi driver happened to stink of marijuana according to police, so they arrested him. \n\nMy fault? Should I turn myself in??? Please help. I\u2019m scared","title":"Caused accident indirectly, should I go to the police station? (Very horrible, more below) (Ohio)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540340376,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9quqef\/how_can_i_tell_if_i_signed_a_promissory_note_or_a\/","id":"9quqef","body":"The short of it is that I attended a trade school in California 8 years ago that went out of business. At the time it was folding I was offered an amount to close out the private loan that was greater than the amount I owed. I spent 2 months (all documented) trying to contact the school for an accounting of my payments. When no one responded I stopped making payments figuring that would get their attention. They are now trying to collect on the loan. The thing is, it's out of the statute of limitations if it's a loan but not if it's a promissory note. I've looked around for the answer and haven't found anything that makes it clear so I would really appreciate the help. If it is indeed a loan then I'l hire a lawyer but if it's a promissory note I just try to settle. Thank you in advance. ","title":"How Can I Tell If I Signed A Promissory Note Or a Loan?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553027390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b32g81\/landlord_went_through_my_personal_items_is_this\/","id":"b32g81","body":"I am in California. My landlord had provided me written notice that my apartment was due for an semi annual inspection and when the day came all was well until they started opening up the suitcases I had stored in my closet and going through my laundry. It doesn\u2019t really matter but just for some context I\u2019ve been diagnosed with OCD. I don\u2019t have anything to hide but them touching my things sent me into a panic attack and in the future I\u2019d really like to avoid any unnecessary stressors. ","title":"Landlord went through my personal items, is this legal? Can I prevent this from happening in the future?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569866263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbfftv\/pa_filing_an_affidavit_to_gain_ownership_of_the\/","id":"dbfftv","body":"I posted here several days ago asking how to get access to inheritance money that is currently being held hostage by an uncooperative family member. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nAfter unsuccessfully speaking to several law firms over the phone and doing some research, it seems that simply obtaining a copy of the will and filing my own affidavit release form would save time and money in probate fees. In the state of Pennsylvania this can be done so long as \"the total value of these assets is $150,000 or less and 40 days have passed since the death, you can transfer personal property by writing an affidavit\". The form is printable on the state's Register of Wills website. It gets signed by a notary and sent off in the mail. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nWould it be worthwhile to give this route a try? Obviously it might not be enough to get the unwilling party to relinquish control of the assets, but it just might be. Any advice? Thanks.","title":"[PA] Filing an affidavit to gain ownership of the money in an estate?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568733136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5idev\/length_of_time_between_execution_of_search\/","id":"d5idev","body":"Trigger: mention of child sexual abuse. \n\nI am working as a legal intern in the state of RI. In a case I\u2019m dealing with, I\u2019ve seen an indictment notice that three men were arrested recently (in the same day) for accessing and possessing child porn through an online bulletin website. \n\nHaving read the indictments, I learned that each of the three accessed and possessed these images \u201cno later than\u201d one single week of February in 2015. \n\nI understand these cases take time to build, but that is typically after months (or years) of investigators forensically reviewing material. So I suppose I have two questions here:\n\n1) Is it likely that these men had search warrants served on them at a time MUCH earlier (2015 or 2016) but simply weren\u2019t arrested and indicted until this year?\n\nIf so, \n\n2) Why did it take multiple years (4+) for the state of RI to hand indictments to these three?","title":"Length of time between execution of search warrants and indictments in child porn cases?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1504623425,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y8hxx\/getting_threatened\/","id":"6y8hxx","body":"Hello all!\n\nI've recently come into contact with some kid that has been threatening me. [Small snippet of texts](http:\/\/www.cbr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/watchmen.jpg)\n\nThe issue being that I sold his girlfriend (almost 3 months ago, this all happened yesterday) some drugs in a shittily wrapped bag, i gave it to her and she later dropped it and expected me to give her more\/reimburse her. I said no because I did what I was supposed to do, give her drugs.\n\nAnyhow, she texts me and the dude texts me \"On my way to collect\". he shows up to my house while my father and brother are over visiting. he rings my doorbell and since i was in the shower my dad goes to the door. i came out later and went to talk to him with my brother (kid brought some dude with him).\n\nI normally would ignore this as I think it's a bluff but for one: i don't know this guy so i don't know what he's about or if he bangs, and two: this guy came to MY HOUSE. my father is now all worried and my brother is pissed.\n\nI just don't know what to do, suggestions?\n\nnotes:\n-i have $80 to give them if need be\n-the girlfriend is fucking crazy (one example: slit her wrists in her high school english class because the poet she was doing a project on did)","title":"Getting Threatened","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553507642,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b58mfy\/subleaser_hasnt_paid_me_my_security_deposit_and\/","id":"b58mfy","body":"Hello all, i signed a lease back in June of 2018 and I decided that I no longer wanted to live there . I found a subleaser and transferred the lease to the subleaser. In the subleaser contract, the property management service stated that the subleaser and I would have to arrange the payment of the security deposit ( I already paid ) on our own accord. I have been asking for the security deposit for 4 months now; however, the subleaser won\u2019t pay me. What can I do? ","title":"Subleaser hasn\u2019t paid me my security deposit and it has been 4 months. What can I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541034668,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t4zgp\/revenge_doxxed_thief\/","id":"9t4zgp","body":"Last weekend someone stole my identity because of a leak that happened by a major bank. I did take precautions to minimize damage from someone like this and it paid off. But I was really angry at this and tracked the guy down and doxxed his info for all to see. (Perks of being a software engineer) Anyways how can I minimize or completely get off scotch free?","title":"Revenge doxxed thief","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443267842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mgdxy\/is_it_ok_to_use_youtubesoundcloudother_thumbnails\/","id":"3mgdxy","body":"Hello,\n\nI am wondering what the policy is on using youtube thumbnails (or from other websites like soundcloud) in an Android application?\n\nThank you.","title":"Is it OK to use youtube\/soundcloud\/other thumbnails in an Android application?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571200114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dik3lq\/game_console_insurance\/","id":"dik3lq","body":"I don't know if this is the correct place for this but I wanted to know what are some insurances that would cover computers, game consoles and game for damages like earthquakes, fires, and flood damage. Specifically in California.","title":"Game Console Insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540941549,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9st82k\/il_will_a_traffic_charge_get_dropped_if_police\/","id":"9st82k","body":"A few days after my license expired I got into not at fault accident and got a ticket for driving under suspended license. I renewed my license the next day. On my court date I pleaded not guilty thinking it would get dismissed. Will the charges get dropped if police does not show up to the new court date? Should I plead guilty or not guilty again? USA IL.","title":"[IL] Will a traffic charge get dropped if police does not show up to court?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570803914,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgfxd8\/cop_said_one_thing_wrote_another\/","id":"dgfxd8","body":"Hey all. So, a few months ago I was driving, and my registration was expired. I was pulled over for speeding, and the officer kindly chose to only ticket me for the registration. \n\nHowever, I have a recording of him telling my that my court appearance needed to be on or before the 15th of October. Now, being the fool I am, I didn\u2019t actually check what he had written on the citation. \n\nSo here I am with a renewed registration, sticker and all, ready to drive a few hours down the highway to get this sorted out. As I looked at the sheet with the address on it, I sadly see that I was to appear on or before the 1st at 10 AM.\n\nThis is in Texas. I live in Travis County, and the citation is in Waller County. \n\nWhat are my next steps?","title":"Cop said one thing, wrote another","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444236813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nuzci\/canadian_and_american_looking_to_start_california\/","id":"3nuzci","body":"**tl;dr:** We are a 19 year old Canadian \"Joe\" and 22 year old Californian \"Mia\". We are looking to start a niche business in California that would require a physical location (warehouse or office) for essentially an interactive entertainment experience for all ages. We have identified the city and have a timeline for completing logistics, but we want to be sure we are legal. Joe will fly to California in April. We're looking to open our doors by May\/June and want to understand what we need to consider. \n\nOur main questions: \n\n**What is the best business structure for us?**\n\n* 1) I understand a Canadian can found part of a US-based LLC. Are there any other good options worth considering?\n\n**Can Joe get a visa?**\n\n* 2) Joe would be looking to start his sophomore year of college either in August 2016 or January 2017 (depending on the business needs). Could he get a student visa if he went to school in the US?\n\n* 3) Alternatively, what if I (Mia) found an LLC or sole proprietorship or something similar--could I then sponsor his visa as a business? If so, would he need to be an \nemployee or could he have any company ownership?\n\nSide note: Even if Joe can only stay 6 months out of the year we will be pursuing this; the visa would be a bonus if possible. If not possible, he'd likely go back to school in Canada 6 months out of every year.\n\n**What do we need to file?**\n\nSo far I'm aware we need:\n\nFederal Tax ID\n\nGeneral Liability Insurance\n\nBusiness License(s?)\n\n* 4) For the business license, what do we need to file on federal, county, and city levels?\n* 5) What other things do we need to consider to be legal?\n* 6) How far ahead of opening our doors should we start filing for everything?\n\n**Before we go to a lawyer**\n\n* 7) What type of lawyer(s) should we consult with? \n* 8) What questions should we ask that we haven't considered?\n\nEven if you only have a couple answers, any help is appreciated! ","title":"Canadian and American looking to start California niche business","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555114387,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bckr76\/oregon_current_landlord_wont_give_rental\/","id":"bckr76","body":"We've been searching within the competitive market of western Oregon for months now, and were unable to find a place that fit our needs and budget until this week.\n\nWe sent in our application and they're contacting references. However, our current propery manager refuses to give a reference without our 30 day notice first. However, if we gave that notice when we first started looking around, we would be homeless.\n\nThe new rental agency said their failure to send a reference could influence the final decision.\n\nOur current rental is on a month to month basis, and we've been here over a year.\n\nIs refusal to give a reference without a 30 day notice legal?\n\nThanks for any input!","title":"[Oregon] Current landlord won't give rental references without us submittimg a 30 day notice first","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569469884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ebxu\/am_i_being_setup_for_human_trafficking\/","id":"d9ebxu","body":"(I was directed to this sub by a job sub, so I hope someone here can help)\n\nI\u2019m legitimately concerned right now, and am hoping someone here has experience in this field. I\u2019ve been offered $300 to go on a road trip to various casinos to pick up their membership cards. There will apparently be 9 of us.\n\nAnd I can\u2019t quite understand who would pay $2700 to 9 people to do a job that sounds like it could be done by significantly less people for less cost.\n\nHas anyone done this before? Is this a normal job? Any information is helpful here.","title":"Am I Being Setup for Human Trafficking?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568482048,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d486rx\/us_i_moved_out_months_ago_parents_keep_opening\/","id":"d486rx","body":"I\u2019m 18 years old and moved out out my mom\u2019s house, and my dad lives in a different place. They both receive mail that\u2019s addressed to me, and open it. Multiple letters were from my bank, one containing a new debit card I requested, and another with info regarding credit monitoring, along with other statements\/notifications. Should I do anything about it legally?","title":"(US) I moved out months ago. Parents keep opening mail that\u2019s addressed to me?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503510996,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vkqbw\/need_jargon_explained_and_if_i_need_to_share\/","id":"6vkqbw","body":"I had an ugly modification of my divorce decree in January (after being divorced for a decade) and I'm in need of someone explaining what the verbiage on one part of the parenting plan means in simple English. I am part of a lawsuit from a car accident and the case is listed as myself individually and as the mother and custodian of my daughter (who was injured) and my ex wants me to send him all financial information that I'm sending the lawyer. We know he is trying to extort money from her court case. He is always trying to get out of paying for things and I'm trying to figure out if I'm legally obligated to send him anything based on how my car accident case is worded. Does this only mean things like doctor's office visit notes, which he can call and get himself as well? He does have joint legal custody but I have have full physical custody, if that helps answer anything. I've listed the wording below for the decree. Thanks!!\n\nEach parent shall be entitled to complete, detailed information from any pediatrician, general physician,dentist, psychiatrist, psychologist, consultant or specialist attending to the child for any reason whatsoever and to be furnished with copies of any reports given by them or any of them to the other parent. \n","title":"Need jargon explained and if I need to share financial info with ex trying to extort money.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541302101,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u0hd5\/mn_us_i_was_injured_at_work_and_my_boss_told_me_i\/","id":"9u0hd5","body":"I injured my eye during work today and while I was filling out my workers comp form, my boss told me I can only go to a certain urgent care location because that\u2019s the one that their insurance covers. By the time I was done with my shift, the place was closed. Would I still be able to receive workers comp if I go to a different location? I feel like the injury is serious enough that I can\u2019t wait until morning to go to their specific location.","title":"[MN, US] I was injured at work and my boss told me I can only go to a specific urgent care location to receive workers comp but they\u2019re closed now. Could I still get it if I go to a different location?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541606741,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v0of6\/child_custody_issue_in_texas\/","id":"9v0of6","body":"Good morning Reddit.   \nI am a father of a 13 year old boy. His mother is a drunk who doesn't provide care and support, but has primary custody of him. She never makes it to school event, karate practice, etc. He lives with her as a roommate. He cooks his own meals, cleans the house and does his own laundry. As you can imagine, this makes me angry.  \nLast night was the final straw that made me post here.  \nHe was supposed to be at karate lessons, and she replied to my inquiry about going with \"We will try\". She then ended up coming home drunk late, which, of course, made him miss karate. I have said from the beginning that I will \"chauffeur\" him to and from karate from her house, even offering to feed him on the way home. I get a standard, \"No, it's MY day with him\" answer every time. This is in spite of the fact that she is rarely home in time to see him before he goes to bed.  \n\n\nI have never missed a child support payment AND I pay for everything he needs, such as clothes, dentist, doctor, glasses, contacts...etc. I do not mind this at ALL, and am merely stating it for background.  \n\n\nWhat do I DO? I can't really afford an attorney, but I am saving up for one. He absolutely HATES living with her, and expresses it to me constantly. His friends even make fun of him (good naturedly as friends do) about his \"drunk mom\" passing out \"all the time\". She even falls asleep on a chair in her yard!\n\nI have secondary custody, and I get him 1,3,5th weekends and every Thursday. He makes all his obligations on days with me, but misses MOST of them on her days. He has also not been able to belt-test and attend tournaments for karate because she refuses to take him.\n\nWhat do I do? Hire someone to follow her for a DWI which I know would be fairly easy?\n\nSuck it up?\n\nTake him to karate anyway and risk violating the custody order?\n\n​\n\nThank any and all of you in advance for any insight or guidance you can offer.","title":"Child custody issue in Texas","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569617565,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da6dyf\/slumlord_issues\/","id":"da6dyf","body":"I\u2019m a single mother of 2. This past summer I was homeless and that started in May due to realtors blocking any chances of tenants with section8. So, needless to say after exhausting all of my funds on hotel\/motel.  So, I come over to Hunterdon County heading straight to social services, thinking I\u2019d receive immediate help regarding shelter. Well, according to social services, I needed a lease in order for them to provide me with temp shelter. So, I ended up having leave not knowing where I was going sleep. Long story short, I called #211 because I needed a place to stay which they did and tells me to contact social services again. I go back to social service, but now this time because I didn\u2019t have a lease I was then placed on a do not shelter list. I remember that day so vividly... I cried and cried, and all the girl could say on the phone was that it was just added per social service office. So, having no money, I started asking everybody for money for a motel and the cheapest I could afford was in New Brunswick, but my section 8 was in Flemington. \n\nThe next day, I get a call from housing how they have a landlord that has a 3 bedroom available and that she was going to inspect first thing in the morning for me in order to house me up come July first. The next day, I go back to social services to inform them how I have a lease and if they could provide me with temp shelter to only get turned away AGAIN with an excuse on how 1 of the contracted motels didn\u2019t accept children, my youngest 9, and that the other contracted motel had no vacancies. So, I leave like WTF!!! Like why don\u2019t they wanna help me even when seeing me with a child. Now mind you, I never saw the apartment and I had gone to social services hoping to get temp shelter and because they are so close in proximity, the housing coordinator came over and I signed the papers for the new unit. The coordinator says to me, \u201cdo you like coffee or tea?\u201d and how I\u2019m going to love it because I had a patio. She then goes to add how the landlord was installing new carpeting. So, here I\u2019m am so excited from being homeless for 3 close to 4 months that spending those last three days were the longest from borrowing and begging... okay fast forward- \n\nJuly 1, I head over to the new apartment and desperately signs the lease. The landlord gives me a brief walk through because he knew I\u2019d never seen it. So, I\u2019m walking through afterwards and notices strong odor from the bedrooms. I look down and see new carpeting in the living and hallway, but not the bedrooms, which was where the strongest odor was coming from. So, I asked the landlord why haven\u2019t he changed the bedroom carpeting and he goes how he put down enzymes just 2 weeks ago when the tenant left. So to his defense, he\u2019s like. \u201cYou shoulda smelled the apartment 2 weeks ago, that soon as I opened the door it smelled like a dog liter\u201d all I can do was say to myself, do you not hear yourself? You\u2019re basically confirming what I\u2019m smelling. So, after talking to him begging for him to change the carpet, he\u2019s like I\u2019ll prorate you and for 7 months you pay me $134 in addition to your rent. I admit, I agreed only because given the statement from the landlord how the dog had cancer\/tumor adding her and the dog never left the room along with the visual of how it wasn\u2019t even clean, I needed to have them ripped up! \n\nOnto clean day, I purchased Murphy\u2019s oil and wet jet wood solution to clean the floors, but little did I know... each time the padding and water would come out so black and disgusting. I go to the landlord to just mention the condition and he facetiously laughs saying, \u201cthat Nancy wasn\u2019t the cleanest.\u201d Now mind you, the floors could never get cleaned unless a professional service clean them because I went through mopping 3 times or 5 times to using the wet jet 3 boxes of pads and Still BLACK.  I clean the washer machine, dog hair everywhere so freaking disgusting... the stench in the apartment was disgusting. I ended up having depression... I closed off from speaking to people because I was not happy. First week in August, cigarette smoke begins to enter the apartment. I send a email to the condo office 1) to ask if smoking was permissible 2) that my son and I been suffering with headaches and etc... was instantly told owners can smoke and to purchase a air purifier. \n\nI get my electric bill and it 5 times the usage from July\u2019s bill.. not to mention the owner downstairs was continuously smoking. The landlord goes, oh I asked them and they said they don\u2019t smoke and if they is smoke what time and if he can come by. I told him I was insulted because my word was questionable. So to protect my ass I had to purchase an air quality test over $200 and guess what? It comes back positive for cigarette smoke. \n\nThe landlord like, I can break your lease but I don\u2019t wanna take a hit and plus my wife just lost her job and that he need someone to rent ASAP. Meanwhile, I\u2019m like first off... no one in their right mind would say yes to this apartment giving the condition and secondly how he\u2019s clearly taking advantage of a single mom. I told him knowing that if he don\u2019t let me go end of October that I was going to sue. Thank GOD I took photos and videos of this condo because it confirms how he never cleaned.  But I also noticed on Zillow it\u2019s not even re-listed... please help me find an attorney because I can\u2019t deal with a lying disgusting landlord who placed money over health which sounds so much like the young lady that spoke on climate change.","title":"Slumlord Issues","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571773856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlnc49\/ma_question_on_annual_review\/","id":"dlnc49","body":"My employer did the annual review with me for last year based on my performance and paperwork got sign off, but the process was not finish because we have not finish talking about the salary changes. \n\nNow my employer is asking us to do the annual review for this year. And have not mention what was left off from last year. \n\nUnfortunately I think this is legal since I already sign on the review, so whatever after doesn't really matter in their eyes......but I just want to get some advice here.","title":"[MA] question on annual review","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552587496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b13qym\/il_short_term_guardianship\/","id":"b13qym","body":"Are they gonna be able to enroll the child into school and how would someone go on proceeding this.\n","title":"[IL] Short Term Guardianship","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553398091,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4rxr6\/changing_custody_to_one_parent\/","id":"b4rxr6","body":"Hi I am 15 years old and in Highschool. My parents got divorced 6 years ago and the agreement was me and my two brothers to be at one parents house for a week and then switch to the other. My relationship with my dad has been rocky and he has made me suicidal and makes me feel worthless. His actions includes teasing and verbal abuse. He has also called me worthless and basically a lazy bitch in general at times. He has also gotten drunk and made me concerned for my personal safety. He has text me to ask about my mom sex life when I was in the 6th grade. The addition of depression and stress his actions caused me to have suicidal thoughts. This has made me want to live with my mom who has basically mad feel better about myself and forget those bad thoughts. I am signing up for college early and feel like I can\u2019t live with him any longer. I know I\u2019m at a huge disadvantage for changing the agreement but I was wondering if I could do anything to live with my mom. ","title":"Changing custody to one parent","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553205992,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3wq6f\/legal_implications_if_buying_a_new_product_and\/","id":"b3wq6f","body":"Let me clarify since my last post was destroyed by illegal activity hating subreddit.my friends employer is asking him to go to a hardware store and purchase a new drill the same model as their old one. Then later that day put the old one in the box and return it to basically get a new drill for free. I am worried that he will get in a lot of trouble and want to know the legal implications so I can tell him and convince him not to do it ( next time give me a chance to explain before deleting my post)","title":"legal implications if buying a new product and returning an old one in the same box. Canada","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569258531,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d89go1\/is_my_work_contract_still_valid_time_sensitive\/","id":"d89go1","body":"Greetings, I will do my best to explain my situation as I can, but if anyone has any followup questions I of course can answer those in the comments below.\n\nSo, back in January my company paid for me to take a course, to which I enjoyed it and it was definitely a huge help around the office. The course cost over 3000$, which I did not know at the time. Anyways, 4 months later in May, they came to me saying that they \"forgot to give me the contract for the course\". I looked at it and it said something along the lines of, \"I agree to pay back the course if i leave the company within a year of taking the class\". I complained about the stipulations, but I was told I absolutely needed to sign it and there was no way around it. I was pressured by my boss ultimately and I did not want to lose my job, so I did. \n\nHere's the thing. If I had known this, I just wouldn't have taken the course. It was good but I would never pay over 3000$ for an online, one week course. The cost wasn't disclosed to me at the time and its frustrating. Are they allowed to make me sign an agreement after already taking the course? Now, I have received a job offer and I cant miss the opportunity, and ultimately after I gave them my 2 weeks notice, they are attempting to withhold my last paycheck and make me set up a payment plan for the residual amount. This really effects me as I am already taking a pay cut at this new position and 3000$ is a lot of money to just let slide.\n\nIs there anything I can do about this? I just feel like I was bullied into a contract to maintain my employment and now its like I gave them a loaded gun to hold against my head when its time to leave. \n\nThanks for the help.","title":"Is my work contract still valid? Time sensitive please help.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554344209,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b970qo\/nc_employer_cut_hourly_pay_rate\/","id":"b970qo","body":"Let me begin by laying out the general structure of my department. There are three levels of pay in our Dept, we will call 1 the highest paid and 3 the lowest. There were four tier 1 and four tier 2 employees on the machine I work on, as well as more 1 and 2s on other machines in the department.\n\n\nMy shift was recently cut and we are being relocated to different positions throughout the department and possibly whole building. My position was a pay level 1, and my new job is a pay level 2. I was informed that my pay will be cut as well. I assume this to be legal, although not sure.\n\n\nHere is my other issue. another employee voluntarily went from a job with pay level 1 to pay level 2, but his pay level was not cut. He moved to the lower position and kept his top level pay rate.\n\n\n\nSo here are my two questions. First, is it legal to cut my pay rate when forcing me to a lower position?\n\n\nSecond, is it not considered discrimination or harassment to cut my pay rate when making the exact same change of positions as the other employee and his pay rate didn't get lowered?","title":"[NC] employer cut hourly pay rate","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555599197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bemh5n\/ar_i_escaped_an_abusive_husband_years_ago_that\/","id":"bemh5n","body":"My ex doesn't want anything to do with my child. He is only refusing to sign the denial because he's vindictive and it's all a game to him. I have a restraining order on him but I don't know what to do as far as letting him know that he has to sign this denial. I'm half scared that he won't sign it just to be a jerk. Is there anything I can do legally to get him to sign this paper that doesn't involve me personally contacting him? I don't have much money for a lawyer so that's kind of off the table.","title":"(AR) I escaped an abusive husband years ago that has been refusing to divorce me. I have since had a child with my current partner and honestly dont thinl ex will sign a denial of paternity. I have no idea what to do. They won't let SO on birth certificate until ex provides denial of paternity.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542040713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wfjh7\/signed_a_no_media_form_for_sons_school_and_it_is\/","id":"9wfjh7","body":"Chicago, Illinois\n\nAt the beginning of the school year, we have signed a form stating that we do not want our son's image used publicly.\n\nThere is a Facebook page, run by parents, but frequently staff post there. Our son's picture and video taken from the middle of a school day is frequently posted there.\n\nWe have talked with the principal and agreed that we can't do anything about public events outside of school hours, so it's on us to figure out that.\n\nBut this last instance was during a school day where parents were invited. However, it was a school employee that posted the video.\n\nHow do I get the school to take this seriously? And what are the laws surrounding social media and student images?\n\n","title":"Signed a no media form for son's school and it is repeatedly being ignored","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571531407,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkc9v6\/i_bought_a_retired_cop_car_and_want_to_put_decals\/","id":"dkc9v6","body":"I recently bought a retired police car at a city auction and had the idea to put \u201ccity of Gotham\u201d, \u201cHazzard County\u201d  or some other decals on it.  However I don\u2019t want to get in any kind of trouble for impersonating police or anything like that. The car doesn\u2019t have any lights or other toys on it. Also don\u2019t want to stir up any kind of trouble if it\u2019s questionable.","title":"I bought a retired cop car and want to put decals on it.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541600885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uzv5s\/is_it_legal_for_my_manager_to_prevent_me_from\/","id":"9uzv5s","body":"Recently I suffered a panic attack episode with heart palpitations at work. I'm uninsured and had to pay a large sum to cover a walk-in clinic bill in which they checked my vitals. turns out I'm fine and have nothing to worry about. however, my manager insists on sending me home with (unpaid) medical leave or FMLA, regardless of the medical paperwork declaring I'm physically fine. he's giving me 30 days to get a doctor's signature on the papers and have them sent out. I don't have a primary care doctor, because I don't have any insurance. I've notified him of this and he still says I need the signature. any advice on what to do?","title":"is it legal for my manager to prevent me from returning to work without having leave papers signed?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571088328,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhxdpm\/my_mother_used_student_loans_a_walmart_card_and\/","id":"dhxdpm","body":"Title. Don't know exactly which flair to use, so I'll just use school related (if that isn't the correct one just let me know what to change it to and I'll do so ASAP). \n\nSo basically I found out my mother has used student loans, a walmart card, and opened several accounts, all in my name (don't know how many, or what they are to), and I have no idea what to do. She has accumulated around $4,000+ debt in my name, and from the looks of it, it has been owed for years. Is there anything I can do? I really need the help, really, really, badly and I'm honestly panicking. Is there any way to find out where all 'I' owe money to? I can't pay off this debt, and I'm not even the one who did it. Please help me.","title":"My mother used student loans, a walmart card, and opened several accounts in my name.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1414438215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2khqi5\/client_revised_my_contract_for_a_web_design\/","id":"2khqi5","body":".","title":"Client revised my contract for a web design project and his revisions concern me. Need advice.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554063815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7s9tx\/how_to_divorce_my_husband_if_we_live_in_different\/","id":"b7s9tx","body":"So I am looking for advice on how to divorce my husband, who lives in Nevada. I live in Oklahoma with my daughter, but we got married in California.\nWe agree on everything - we agree on a non-contested divorce, and we agree that I\u2019ll get custody of our daughter, and that he will pay child support whenever we do get divorced. We haven\u2019t lived together since November 2017, and we do not own any property together. I know where he lives, he isn\u2019t hiding from us or anything.\nWhat would be the quickest and cheapest way to go about filing for divorce? We both want this to be over but aren\u2019t sure how to approach it. Thank you in advance for any advice.","title":"How to divorce my husband if we live in different states than the one we got married in","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552266855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azn1ss\/does_a_man_who_didnt_know_he_was_a_biological\/","id":"azn1ss","body":"A 22 year old young woman knocks on our door the other day and thinks my husband maybe her father.  The young woman's mother is my husbands ex girlfriend.  My husband tells me his ex left him for the other guy and they got married soon after.  This young woman says she took a ancestry dna test and found out there is no way her dad is her father.  Some how she found out about my husband and here we are.\n\n​\n\nI told my husband not to do a dna test.  I don't need this drama.  The man that raised this child isn't married to this this girls mother anymore.  Can he sue my husband for back child support?  Can they come after my husband's money if it turns out he is this young woman's biological father?  How can I protect my family from these people?\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Does a man who didn't know he was a Biological Father have to pay back child support after the child is an adult?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554883364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbjeu5\/do_custodial_parents_have_to_maintain_a_job_at\/","id":"bbjeu5","body":"My ex wife (24f) who has custody of our son recently told me she quit working because she\u2019s newly pregnant. She lives with her parents and currently lives off of her parents\/boyfriends income and the child support. As the custodial parent, doesn\u2019t she have to maintain some sort of job\/income? She didn\u2019t mention to me that she was pulling our son out of daycare even though I\u2019ve continued to pay my portion bi-weekly. The daycare told me he\u2019s being dis-enrolled. She\u2019s been having her grandparents pay daycare when she couldn\u2019t afford to so it wasn\u2019t ever surprising to hear it wasn\u2019t being paid. The child support is based off her making $2000\/month. Any advice would be great thank you.","title":"Do custodial parents have to maintain a job at all times? (FL)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568726494,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5gwhm\/husbands_boss_is_not_holding_up_the_contract\/","id":"d5gwhm","body":"my husband\u2019s boss doesn\u2019t pay him what is stated in the contract. He is shorting my husband $10,000-$15,000 salary per year, doesn\u2019t pay $ on the mile, and a ton of other things. Any time my husband tries to contact him about anything, his boss blows up almost like having a 3-year-old\u2019s hissy fit. He cusses at my husband and yells at him, and won\u2019t ever just sit down and talk with him. He always says my husband is wrong. (I\u2019ve read over the contract and the numbers, my husband is not wrong)\n\nThe only option left is to sue for his lost money, does he have a case? Can anyone give us direction or advice on this type of situation? \n\nThank you!!\n\nTL;DR: Husbands boss isn\u2019t paying him so we want to sue. Do we have a case?","title":"Husband\u2019s boss is not holding up the contract, doesn\u2019t pay me the amount that\u2019s stated, etc.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1542155461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wuwe2\/i_was_rear_ended_in_an_accident_while_driving_my\/","id":"9wuwe2","body":"I was in the left lane of the highway, and the car in front of me stopped to cross 3 lanes onto the exit ramp. During the second I was stopped, I was rear ended by a taxi, totaling my car and the taxi. The car ahead of me that stopped was not hit. We already filed an insurance report and it\u2019s no fault. I had consent from my girlfriend to use the car, as she stated. The car in front of me had his information taken but was dismissed by the police officer at the scene, as he was not technically involved in the accident. I have a sprained wrist and stretched tendon. I will be out of work for a week or so. I am wondering if it is worth the time to try to file a law suit against the taxi driver. Thank you in advance for the advice. ","title":"I was rear ended in an accident while driving my girlfriends car. Is it worth it to sue?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552968680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2sq6x\/in_can_i_sue_my_landlord_for_negligence\/","id":"b2sq6x","body":"Throwaway. To make a long story short, my complex rented an apartment directly below me to a convicted felon, who has over 40 citations and arrests on record. These range from felonies, theft, assault, intimidation, stalking, possession, etc. The most recent was within 3 months. He has pending lawsuits from multiple other apartment complexes and I\u2019ve personally called the police on him for noise complaints, to which the tenant retaliated and harassed me. The apartment is in the process of evicting him, but I have had to stay at multiple other places and am scared to be in my apartment complex. \n\nDo I have any legal standing to sue for negligence and attempt to recoup expenses? \n","title":"IN - Can I sue my landlord for negligence?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539786311,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oz433\/can_an_employer_require_you_to_be_filmed_to\/","id":"9oz433","body":"The retail company I work for is launching a new loyalty program, and our upper management is wanting us to film each other talking about how \u201cexcited\u201d we are about it. If I decline to be filmed, can they legally write me up or punish me in any way?","title":"Can an employer require you to be filmed to promote something for the company?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540053636,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pvkw5\/friends_car_got_towed_from_her_own_apartment\/","id":"9pvkw5","body":"My friend lives at an apartment close to a university(if that\u2019s relevant), and her car was towed a few days ago. When she asked the complex what had happened, they said that they had changed the sticker requirements to park at her building, and that there were posters put up that described the changes. But she received no notice through mail or otherwise that indicated this change was happening. Are they allowed to do this? Simply set up posters that announce the change without formally notifying the renters, and then resort to towing? Thanks in advance. ","title":"Friend\u2019s car got towed from her own apartment building","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503497909,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vj96i\/de_usacar_accident_what_kinds_of_financial\/","id":"6vj96i","body":"In the state of Delaware at night, I (Car 1) was traveling south on a three lane highway in the middle lane; it was dark no additional lighting, very light traffic. (Car 2) was parked in the right lane; not the right shoulder the right lane, pointed in the wrong direction, lights off, passengers inside. (Car 3) was traveling south in the right lane. Car 3 stuck the parked Car 2. The collision pushed the parked Car 2 across all three lanes into the left median where it came to a stop. The collision also pushed Car 3 across the highway were Car 1 (me) t-boned Car 3 in the middle lane and both cars came to a stop in the middle lane.\n\n\nI am mostly okay. The driver of Car 3 is quite injured. The occupants of the parked Car 2 were also injured. The occupants of Car 2 fled on foot and were found at a local hospital. They are being charged with a DUI and a list of related automobile crimes. I assumed that any financial restitution would be taken care of in civil court if I wanted to pursue that. Insurance took care of my totaled car and I survived with minor bumps and bruises. I was planning on moving on and being happy I was alive. \n\n\nBut I was wrong. I am a witness for the state prosecutor and after speaking with them on the phone they said I would have a chance to claim financial damages during the court case, and said to claim any financial loss but wouldn't give examples or get specific. So I was looking for some guidance with what was reasonable to ask for. I did physical therapy following the accident. My car was totaled. I used a rental for a few weeks. I purchased a new (used) vehicle. But, insurance payed out for my totaled car and covered some amount of the rental. \n\n\nThank you for your time and any help you are able to give me, also have I mentioned Car 2 was parked.","title":"[DE, USA]Car accident, what kinds of financial damages can I reasonably ask for?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1441948138,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ki7c5\/landlord_kicking_roommate_out_of_room_and_moving\/","id":"3ki7c5","body":"I am on a lease (California) along with several other roommates.  One of our roommates had his lease expire (separate lease from other housemates) and is going month to month.  Last week our landlord informed us that our roommate would have to move out of that room so that landlord could move in (roommate was given the option of moving to a smaller room).  I'm not so sure my roommate has any leverage to keep the room, but at this point we're concerned about tenant rights with live-in landlords and what we might want to add to the lease.  This has all happened very quickly (after living here for several years) and I don't think my landlord knows any more than I do about the legal changes we might be encountering.  All resources and advice are appreciated as I haven't been able to find very much on the subject so far.","title":"Landlord kicking roommate out of room and moving in - looking for advice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1549970897,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apselm\/accommodation_bonus_payout_system_was_changed\/","id":"apselm","body":"So as I said the company offered us an accommodation bonus aside from the general salary.\n\nThe terms I signed and agreed upon stated \"300\u20ac  gross accommodation bonus per month (only over the first working year) + 130\u20ac net relocation bonus per month in vouchers\"\n\nthe thing is, as mentioned above, the 130 net isn't net anymore because the company decided to not give out vouchers anymore, but to pay it together with the salary, thus leaving me with the amount after taxes.\n\nThese changes weren't agreed upon by anyone but the company, also we weren't officially informed, only verbally.\n\nWhat can I do, it's a small amount I know but still, we are entitled to that money, and over the course of months it is a larger amount.\n\n​","title":"Accommodation Bonus pay-out system was changed without employee consent, now is taxed, thus leaving the net worth of the bonus now in gross, which then means it is not the arranged amount. What to do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446515127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ral38\/wondering_if_i_have_to_sign_a_lease_addendum\/","id":"3ral38","body":"I live in Denver, CO. Recently I signed a lease for an apartment complex with a parking garage. During the lease signing the apartment manager gave me a reduced price for my parking spaces ($75 for 2 spaces). Fast forward 2 months to a few days ago. They emailed me and requested that I sign an addendum. The addendum is a $200 per month increase for my parking spaces. Do I have to sign this or can I refuse? I'd prefer to stay with my initial deal.","title":"Wondering if I have to sign a lease addendum","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552891383,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2fdjm\/kansas_need_help_with_possible_custody_issue\/","id":"b2fdjm","body":"My best friend divorced her ex about 14 years ago.  The original decree was every other weekend but they later modified it verbally and in written but never went back to court with the changes.  The changes they agreed to was spring break, 1 week for Christmas and 4 weeks in the summer.  The 2 boys are now 16 and 15 and the 16 year old has a job and she told her ex that he won\u2019t be able to go down there for his visit if he has to work and now the 15 is about to get a job and she feels that he will take her back to court if she does the same thing with both of the kids.   What can he do and what would be the most likely response if he does take her back to court?","title":"[Kansas] need help with possible custody issue.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541367856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u7g4v\/usa_both_husband_and_i_get_va_benefits_at_the\/","id":"9u7g4v","body":"I'm considering divorce.  I already know I want to sell our two houses and each keep our own cars.  However, how would our VA benefits be divided?  This is federal, not state, hence I put USA and not our state.  ","title":"(USA) Both husband and I get VA benefits at the same %. How would that be divided on a divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541037417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t5ces\/my_mothers_will_is_potentially_being_withheld\/","id":"9t5ces","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice\n\nI'd like to start this out with the note that have absolutely zero knowledge regarding law or common will practice and I apologize in advance if I ask any silly or obvious questions. Secondly I should probably say that I am from New Zealand, but this issue does span three continents, so I'd appreciate your help regardless.\n\nMy mother died when I was 6 years old. I have one older brother by the same mother and father who was 8 at the time. Her side of the family has a lot of money. They are typical upper class English socialite types and are very well off. I speak to them once or twice a year between Holiday's and Birthday's but I probably haven't seen them since I was 12 or 13 (My brother and I used to travel over to Europe and stay with them for 3 months every year before we realized how poisonous they were). \n\nThey hate our Dad. They see him as poor and lower class and they've never gotten along. Despite this, my brother and I were left to him as per my mother's wishes, and not to her husband at the time. I recently learned that they were gearing up to sue for custody shortly after my mother's death but they abandoned that idea after a while, probably because they knew that they had no legitimate argument against him. \n\nNow, here's where the will comes in. My dad was never 'allowed' to see it. My brother and I have never seen it either, of course. My dad was told when she died that we would be able to see it once we turned 21. He also remembers being told that she had left some shares to us, as well as some Jewelry and personal items (He wasn't told anything about money, property, etc). \n\nI recently got in contact with her husband who is now re-married to another woman with more step-kids. I asked him about the will as I recently turned 21. He informed me that there \"wasn't really a will.\" According to him, due to their marriage, everything had just gone to him. That doesn't ring true to me. Why would a woman who knew she was going to die -- who left her kids to a man who she knew wouldn't be able to afford to put us through University -- who probably had saved her whole life to leave something behind -- not leave anything to her kids? Nothing?\n\nShe came from a wealthy family and she was very well off herself. She lived in a Beautiful house in the most expensive part of my city and  had numerous University degrees with a rich job history. There's no doubt that she had savings -- anyone in such a great position would. How in the hell did none of that trickle down to myself or my brother (or my dad)? \n\nMy step-dad was very vague when I questioned him about all this. He's given me some of  her old photo's and paintings, and my grandparents are sending me some of her jewelry, as per the apparent will that doesn't exist, but as far as I can tell, that's all there is. We cannot find her solicitor and we have no hope at the point of anyone telling us the truth or pointing us in the right direction. My dad was forced out of everything; my grandparents wouldn't even allow him to see her before she died. \n\nWhere do we go from here? How would I go about finding her solicitor when we have no clue who he\/she is? My Grandparents live in Europe and the rest of her family live in Asia. She died here so I would assume that her solicitor practices here, but would it be possible for her to have one overseas?\n\nIf I'm right and we are being denied anything that was left to us, where do we go from there? \n\nIf I'm wrong and everything was just left to my step-dad, is there anything I can do about that? As far as I'm aware he sold their house (they were co-owners) and he potentially sold all of her possessions. Is there anyway I can go about getting some of that back?\n\nI apologize for how non-specific this post is but I genuinely have no clue where to go from here. I can't afford a lawyer to look into this so I would appreciate any and all help\/advice. Thanks guys. \n\n​","title":"My Mother's Will is potentially being withheld from my Brother and I","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568777728,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5s207\/previous_dentist_claims_i_owe_300_6_months_after\/","id":"d5s207","body":"I received today a bill for almost $300 with no itemized debts and almost 6 months after my last visit. \n\nThe bill stated I was 90 days past due, and I have till next month, from this day to pay. \n\nI had switched dentists because of some drama at their offices (people not being paid) and actually knew several of the people who used to work there which is why I had given them my business to begin with. \n\nWhile I was a patient, I had two different insurance plans (work & spouse\u2019s plan) which covered everything I needed done for the most part.  \n\nI have only ever received one bill from them to begin with, and had paid that balance at my next visit. \n\nObviously something is off here, but what is my recourse?  \n\nI have not changed addresses, & have not been back for 6 months at this point and never received any bill till now in over a year.","title":"Previous Dentist claims I owe $300 6 months after my last visit.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504723555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yhlxa\/payday_labor_wage_theft_lawsuits_nyc_ny\/","id":"6yhlxa","body":"What are some prime examples of previous lawsuits built upon [1] an employer not paying on a given payday and withholding funds and\/or [2] labor and wage theft?\n\nThank you.","title":"Payday, Labor, Wage Theft Lawsuits [NYC, NY]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552000463,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayj4lc\/charged_for_recording_a_fight\/","id":"ayj4lc","body":"Hello I am a minor in high school. There was a fight that was happening off of school grounds at lunch, so I whipped my phone out and started recording. Fast forward to passing time adter lunch. Another fight happened and I recorded this one too. My luck right? So I got called down to the office and a polive officer asked me about it. The people that fought are already arrested. So back to the point the cop asked if I recorded the fight and I said yes. He asked me other questions like if I deleted the video and I did before I got called down to the office. Anyways he said he could charge me with Disordlery conduct for recording the fight. I shut my mouth the rest of the time there. I am now at home facing a suspension and a criminal charge. I am fucked. I need you guys to tell me what I should do.","title":"Charged for recording a fight.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568438058,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d41125\/what_could_happen_to_a_minor_driving_an_unlawful\/","id":"d41125","body":"So I have another car but it needs a new master cylinder and if I drive it I could damage the transmission severely. Spent a lot of time and money on it I cant have that shit happen.\n\nAs of sept 1st I no longer have insurance, valid registration, and I lost the title. Titled owner is my sister who lives in another state and technically doesnt own the car anymore. (Required as she turned 18 and got a license in another state where cars cannot be titled under 18). Car is illegally loud, has no air bags, and muffler is detached (section of pipe is missing). Frame is rusing away. Car is in no way street legal. \n\nI have no choice but to drive it for another week(or rather I could be forced to drive it for another *year* if I damage the alternative before its fixed). I have already missed 5 days in my first period class, another week and I can lose the credit, as my principal informed me he would no longer accept car issues as an excused absense. \n\nParents are trainwrecks. I cannot afford to resolve the document issues, I can only afford to properly register my other car.\n\nI dont know what the fuck to do. Am I risking my license? Could they potentially permentantly sieze the vehicle? Could I be charged with motor vehicle theft? Im freaking the fuck out I was just told this and the other day I was driving very recklessly and illegally to avoid a tornadic storm ( i had saw a funnel in it before it rain wrapped). Driving recklessly to avoid storm? Slap on the wrist. Driving recklessly with zero documentation? I could have litterally got arrested.","title":"What could happen to a minor driving an unlawful car?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568995506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6x1m3\/settlement_for_a_horrible_accident\/","id":"d6x1m3","body":"So I was in a bad car accident in july of last year. A very drunk driver collided with me and destroyed my vehicle. \n\nI have been suffering with a chronic illness since I was 7, prior to my accident I missed countless days of school and had to do my work from home.  My chronic illness was contained until the accident happened,  essentially causing it to go crazy and impact me very much.  \n\nThe insurance company is coming to a offer soon and I wanted to know if normally in these situations,  if I will receive a decent settlement back or if I should expect a low amount?  I just want to know if I should lower my expectations for my dream jobs or not.  Because at this rate I feel like I'm losing control of my life. \n\n\nThanks","title":"Settlement for a horrible accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553040330,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b34zlr\/commission_pay_vancouver_wa\/","id":"b34zlr","body":"On Sunday I quit my job due to mismanagement. \n\nMy thing is, I still have pending orders. Sales people don\u2019t get paid on orders unless they\u2019re delivered out. What do I do if they don\u2019t pay me on those orders? Does the company have a legal obligation to pay me? \n\nThey also pay an hourly Incase we don\u2019t make enough for commission, which makes me think they can say they already paid me for those hours and therefore don\u2019t get to get the communism. ","title":"Commission Pay Vancouver, Wa","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539141618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mvxk0\/pa_traffic_citation_will_my_insurance_hike\/","id":"9mvxk0","body":"Received a citation that cop says will not Cary points. If I pay the citation without contest will my insurance be able to see the citation? Citation was for not obeying the posted speed unit.","title":"PA Traffic Citation: Will my insurance hike?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551033905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aub0d0\/possible_identity_theft_and_negligence_at_work\/","id":"aub0d0","body":"I work at the Post Office in a mail processing facility. My mother told me (she works at the same facility) that a manager informed her that there was a postal inspector conducting an investigation and that my name popped up. So apparently one of my coworkers let\u2019s call him M (works a different shift then me now but we used to work together) was caught making fake Facebook accounts of me and a fellow coworker we can call her K(only one fake account for me supposedly and 4 other accounts for K) apparently K found out because M got her phone number and started harassing her. So she did some snooping and found out about the four accounts under her name. The postal inspector supposedly found out about the fake account M had made of me. My mother told me so that I would be \u201cprepared\u201d and told me not to say anything about her telling me. She just said that they would talk about it with me and to wait, but they haven\u2019t and I don\u2019t think they plan to. Which whatever, but on Friday when I came into work I saw M working there, and it felt like a slap in the face. I just felt wrong and I could not believe this guy hadn\u2019t been fired. No one has informed me what information he\u2019s had or what\u2019s been taken, if anything, what he planned to do with it. And there that fucker is at work chatting it up like it\u2019s nothing. The postal union hasn\u2019t mentioned anything to me either, and I know my supervisors must know if a postal investigator was called. I can\u2019t find M\u2019s original accounts or the ones he made of me and K and USPS is supposed to have a no tolerance policy for this sort of thing. He\u2019s not even high ranking or anything, so it should have been easy to fire him on the spot. I don\u2019t know is there anything here? What steps should I take? I\u2019m honestly pretty upset about this and I\u2019m not sure how to go about it.","title":"Possible identity theft and negligence at work?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570143684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcyryz\/need_help_fighting_a_parking_ticket_ny\/","id":"dcyryz","body":"Prior to reading please see https:\/\/govt.westlaw.com\/nycrr\/Document\/I504f0254cd1711dda432a117e6e0f345?viewType=FullText&originationContext=documenttoc&transitionType=CategoryPageItem&contextData=(sc.Default)&bhcp=1 section b. \n\n\"(b) Where a nonresident becomes a resident of this State, a certificate of inspection issued by any other jurisdiction to a motor vehicle owned by him will be accepted in lieu of a certificate of inspection issued in this State. Such a certificate will be valid until the expiration date of the out-of-state certificate, or one year from the date of New York registration, whichever occurs first. Upon expiration of the out-of-state certificate, the motor vehicle must be inspected and bear a certificate of inspection from an official New York inspection station.\"\n\nHello, long story short, I received a $100 parking ticket for not having an NY inspection sticker. However I had an NJ inspection sticker which I received while my car was registered in NY (prior to me moving to NY and registering it in NY). \n\nAccording to the document above, I did not have to get my car inspected. NJ inspection expired August 2022. Car was registered in NY in April 2019, so I had until April 2020 to get a NY inspection sticker. \n\nThis is where I have issues. I no longer have the old NJ registration. \n\n\nIn short, I have no proof that I was an NJ resident and that my vehicle was previously registered in NJ and hence having an inspection sticker. I have proof of previous address but I don't think that'll be enough. I'd go to NJ MVC and see if I can get a copy of my old registration but it's a 3 hour trip I don't want to make. \n\nCan someone help me build a case? I'm thinking of saying something like \"It was inspected in NJ and you can't get a vehicle inspected in NJ without it being registered in NJ'. \n\nWhat do you guys think? Thanks. \n\nTLDR: Received parking ticket for not showing inspection sticker. NY law says I could've stayed with my old states (NJ) inspection sticker for up to a year from registering car in NY. I have no proof. What's my best way of fighting this ticket?","title":"Need help fighting a parking ticket. NY","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552795631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b21bwq\/toxic_work_environment_and_sexism_eeo_case\/","id":"b21bwq","body":"First time posting here... \n\nTLDR: Toxic environment in male dominated consulting firm refusing female employees for promotion. I'm on US work visa, can't quit or I have to leave the country. Looking for advice on EEO claim\/lawyer?\n\n\\---\n\nI am working in a global consulting firm in FL. About 90% of the consultants are men and the few women can mostly be found in admin roles, marketing, and HR.\n\nI\u2019ve been working for this company for 3 years, having a decent education and track record in Fortune 500 firms. While my peers enjoy working with me and my clients respect my work, senior management (boys club) has created a toxic work environment. Throughout this time, less experienced male colleagues and even interns have surpassed me on the career ladder while I was promised many things that never materialized. I believe there are two main reasons for this:\n\n1. I am a woman\n2. I am in the US on a work visa. If I resign I need to leave the country (my bosses abuse this power)\n\nI would like to file an Equal Employment Opportunity claim, but I'm not sure how to get started.\n\n* The company employs many foreigners on H1B visa, paying less than to US peers\n* 15 male colleagues were promoted overnight, not ONE female in the announcement\n* Visits to strip clubs, golf sessions, or dinners without inviting female colleagues (Nike got in big trouble for that:\n\n[https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/28\/business\/nike-women.html](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/28\/business\/nike-women.html))\n\n* constant sexism\n* obvious favoritism\n* I did not get a raise for 2 years, even though I met my goals and went above and beyond\n* My annual bonus was not paid out (is this legal?) for bogus reasons. Also citing that I was on short-term disability for medical problems (which I believe were caused by the toxic work environment)\n* sexual harassment known by HR and not actioned upon for months! (HR is a joke!)\n* We are expected to share a room (when on company events) or an apartment (when on consulting assignments) to save costs\n* glassdoor reviews are bad\n* social media postings show mostly pictures of male executives 'doing great things at work'\n\nI realized long ago that I will not grow in this company, but my home and friends are in FL and I don't want to give up. I know most people would just start looking for another job, but I've reached out to several companies and they turn me down as soon as they realize that I need visa sponsorship. Overall, it is about the lost time and money, and reverse career that I am most unhapppy about.\n\nAny advice?","title":"Toxic work environment and sexism - EEO case?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555001988,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc2af4\/roommate_stealing_from_me_landlord_wont_help_do_i\/","id":"bc2af4","body":"Hi, I\u2019m posting on behalf of a good friend. They in MA. The landlord is just a landlord, no LLC. One roommate has been stealing from the other roommates and harassing them. The roommate with the most stuff stolen has filed a police report and showed the detective texts from the other roommate. The detective recommended a women\u2019s shelter potentially if his behavior escalates. The landlord has been notified multiple times and has either not responded or has said sounds like a personal problem. \nAre there any options?","title":"Roommate stealing from me landlord won\u2019t help. Do I have any legal rights? Is there anything else I can do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552764268,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1w77u\/co_my_little_sister_9_just_called_me_and_told_me\/","id":"b1w77u","body":" Hi r\/legaladvice, this literally JUST happened about two hours ago and my mind is still reeling. I apologize if this post is formatted strangely or jumbled or if I'm missing information, as I'm still trying to process everything. I'm happy to provide clarification wherever it is needed.   \n\n  \n  **But tl;dr: My stepfather beat my little sister and my mother is trying to cover it up. The kids are no longer in a safe situation. How can I help my uncle gain custody of the kids to protect them?** \n\n  \n  Some background: I am a childhood abuse survivor. My younger brother and I endured years of neglect, emotional abuse,  and physical abuse at the hands of my divorced mother and father. They split when I was ten years old and life became hell for us: my brother and I never had coats or warm clothes, went days at a time without eating anything at all because my folks spent their money on booze and drugs, beat me senseless on multiple occasions when household chores weren't done properly, etc. We were homeless several times and I ended up dropping out of high school so I could work to have enough money to pay for food and rent. The star of this tale is not me or my brother, however- it's my mother and her husband. \n\n  \n  She got remarried when I was twelve or thirteen, I don't remember exactly, and had my little sister shortly thereafter. My mom was too busy drinking and smoking to properly look after her, and stepdad was clueless\/terrible with kids\/indisposed, so I cared for her (and eventually my youngest brother who came along shortly after) almost entirely until she was three. I love those two kids with all my heart and promised them that no harm would come to them as long as I had any say in the matter. \n\n​\n\nTime passed and things eventually seemed to get better. I live 20 minutes away but rarely see the kids because I don't get along with my mother. \n\n​\n\n  This morning I got a call from my little sister, who is nearly ten years old. She was sobbing and panicked and told me her dad hit her, and mom told her not to say anything. She was talking in a really  I reassured her that things would be ok, it's not her fault, and that I love her and will help her. I'm livid that they would do that to her- she is an angel, always quiet and mindful. So is my little brother- he is extremely quiet, reserved and sensitive... and now I think I understand why.   \n\n  \n  Here's where I'm stuck. I know  need to get those kids out of there. These children have been physically and emotionally abused, as well as severely neglected, under the state's definition of those terms. I can expand on this if necessary. I'm not in a position to take the kids in, but my uncle (mom's little bro) is. He is aware of the situation and is equally angry. He's agreed that it would be best for him to take the kids in, as he has a stable income, a house he owns outright, and lives in an excellent school district. He lives many states away in the Deep South.\n\n  \n  So my questions are: \n\n  \n  1. Do I report this to CPS? Does my uncle need to report it instead of me? Do we both need to report it? \n\n2. How can my uncle call into question her suitability as a guardian? Does he need to be in CO to intiate some kind of custody battle?\n\n3.  Can I show my high school truancy record and medical history in court as evidence of her abuse and neglect in the past? Will her past actions even matter here? \n\n   \n  I'm really at a loss here. I feel so sick. I promised those kids that I wouldn't let anything bad happen to them, and now I just see history repeating itself verbatim.\n\n  \n  If you made it this far, thank you for reading. My family and I appreciate it. ","title":"[CO] My little sister (9) just called me and told me she is being abused. How can my uncle and I get them help?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571188101,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dihq1f\/question_about_extensions_and_trial_by_written\/","id":"dihq1f","body":"I got a speeding ticket (infraction) in San Mateo, CA. My letter in the mail doesn't say mandatory appearance and all options are available to me. Trial by Written declaration is an option for me. It says if I want to extend my date, I have to go online and do it. When extend online it says \"*Appear By Date Extension 1st Extension*\" as the option.\n\nDoes this mean if I choose this option, I can not choose Trial by Written Declaration after the new date? Is this telling me if I chose the extension, I have to appear in court whether I'm pleading guilty, challenging, or neither? Thanks in advance!","title":"Question about extensions and Trial By written declaration for traffic violations (infractions)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446672549,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rjn24\/ohio_writing_up_a_contract\/","id":"3rjn24","body":"As ridiculous as this sounds I am in an opportunity to form a contract with a friend of mine. We are in a fantasy league and he wants a trade and said he is willing to make the trade in return for me getting to name his first born child. Is a contract like this even legally enforceable? How would writing this even begin?","title":"[Ohio] Writing up a contract.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552332497,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azxl4j\/suspected_of_being_on_drugs_at_work_had\/","id":"azxl4j","body":"So basically I was suspected of being on drugs at work because I had one hour of sleep and had a concussion recently so I was acting different. They brought me to the back and talked to me in confidence and drug tested me. I am a current employee and results have not come back.\n\nNow I\u2019m hearing that my coworkers who were not there are repeating what happened like I was there and are sprinkling in things like results came back with multiple drugs and I was officially fired. But some what they are saying is what would only be known if you were in that room and everything was supposed to be confidential\n\nCan I potentially sue or something since confidential information was spread by the higher ups and Human Resources?","title":"Suspected of being on drugs at work, had confidential conversation in office at work with hr and store team leader, now coworkers are talking about the situation in detail and seem to know everything like they were in the same room","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555482321,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be4jez\/help_im_panicking_i_have_family_court_tomorrow\/","id":"be4jez","body":"I have the upper hand in the case & i don't know what i will be asked tomorrow. I'm the father, i filed the case against my first child mother & my daughter has basically lived with me for 2 years, she broke our agreement of filing taxes & filed 2 years in a row & has not bought one single thing for my daughter with $7000 in 2 years, she called her once a month for the past year & didn't tell her happy birthday or buy her anything, she also lives with several people in a small home where as I have a 4 bedroom house with 5 other kids I take care of as well & she has requested a motion to appear on telephone & also she lied about receiving the paperwork on her reply (03\/29\/19) but I have email proof (12\/04\/18) that I sent it to her, I have alot more against her as well as several broken arrangements but I'm not sure what I will be able to say tomorrow, I want this to end quickly with me getting full parental responsibility & i want her mother to only have to ask me for visitation which I will grant at every request I just want my daughter to remain in my custody.","title":"Help I'm Panicking! I have family Court tomorrow first appearance.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541966603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w6xr2\/roommate_moved_out_just_over_a_week_after_signing\/","id":"9w6xr2","body":"So the basics. I will edit with more info as this post continues. \n1) I am writing this to get a course of action for my Sister In Law. \n2) Location is in Katy, TX.\n\nMy SIL, her partner, her partners 4 kids, and Deadbeat signed a 1 year renewal on their lease (house) last month. A few days after, Deadbeat started acting weird. He would stay out later than normal, and when he was home, he would lock himself in his room. SIL and Partner both tried talking to him several times, and got the response, \"I'm just tired\". One night, he just didn't come home (way out of character), so SIL and partner started calling him (no response), and friends. They finally found him staying at a friend's house, but he didn't want to talk. Two days later, they came home to find all of his stuff gone. His response was, I don't want to live here anymore. No written notice of any kind. He has since agreed to help with the month of December (they had already paid November), but that's it.\n\nThey discussed moving someone else in, but with kids aged from 5-15 (and all boys), they are understandably hesitant. They can currently afford rent and utilities, but just barely so. What options do they have?","title":"Roommate moved out just over a week after signing a new lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445306849,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pfpid\/contract_question_i_signed_a_contract_with_golds\/","id":"3pfpid","body":"Ok, here's the story: In 2005 I joined a Gold's Gym in Wisconsin.  Years later the Gold's Gym franchise left the area and some of their gyms became Xperience Fitness.  The Gold's gym location I signed up at has closed and is now a thrift store.  Today I just noticed that Xperience Fitness (which is located in a new building no where near the old Gold's Gym) has been billing me for years (since the name and location change).  \n\nI never signed a contract with Xperience Fitness, nor did I authorize them to withdraw money from my checking account.  In fact I have never set foot in one of their gyms.  On the surface this appears to be fraud me.  \n\nCan I sue Xperience Fitness to recoup the monies I've payed them?\n\n\nUPDATE: I have discovered a typo in the contract in the sentence that releases them from most liability. The typo is \"tins\" the sentence is as follows:\n\n \"In consideration of Member's participation in Seller's exercise program, Member hereby expressly, voluntarily, and knowingly releases and discharges Seller and it's successors, and assigns from all claims, damages, judgements and executions, of every kind and nature whatsoever, which Member, Member's heirs, and Member's legal representatives ever had, now has, or may have, known or unknown, created by or arising out of the use of the facilities and services provided for in tins agreement.\"\n\nWill this typo help me by voiding that sentence? ","title":"Contract Question: I signed a contract with Gold's Gym which has become Xperience Fitness. I never signed anything with Xperience, yet they are billing me! Is this legal? Could I sue to recoup charges I've already paid to Xperience? (details in text)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554808513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb6nn0\/loophole\/","id":"bb6nn0","body":"Amazon seller company will give \u00a315 amazon gift code if you review, not reviewing but inspecting and altering then ss and send it them? How do I stand doing it now and again?","title":"Loophole","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552847985,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b28d53\/canv_denial_of_children_even_with_custody\/","id":"b28d53","body":"I was just informed by my children's mother via text that they (9 and 6) have stated they do not want to return with me to NV. There is a custody agreement through the courts of CA which granted me custody of the kids in NV for this school year which ends in June. The kids have March off and have been with their mother visiting. Through lots of conversation and emotions I decided to not get cops involved at this moment, was that the right move? I also made it seem as if I was giving in to the kids but not their mother, but I want to hold their mother accountable, just not with cops.\n\nI have two questions. Is there a time constraint in holding her accountable to not giving me the kids? Also with me agreeing with the kids wishes does that null and void the agreement? I did it as to not force them out with a cop and destroy what relationship we do have. I'm hoping it was the right call. I'm trying to keep this as vague as possible so if anyone would like to help more specifically just message me.","title":"[CA\/NV] Denial of children even with custody agreement.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570286771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddo4la\/my_sister_is_dying_in_the_hospital_and_her\/","id":"ddo4la","body":"My sister has a vegetation in her heart valve that has already caused a pulmonary embolism and a brain bleed. She needs to have the valve replaced. The only hospital it seems in the country that is willing to do the surgery is the Cleveland Clinic, but her insurance(UPMC for you) won't pay for it to be done there. Some rep told our grandmother on the phone that if she were to go to Pittsburgh with a picket sign and stand in front of the upms corporate office, they might just throw her in the psych ward. My sister is going to die, no doubt, if she doesn't have this surgery is there anything we can do?","title":"My sister is dying in the hospital and her medicaid insurance won't cover the heart surgery she needs to live.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554277957,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8v1xm\/just_found_out_my_bf_is_going_to_be_put_on_the\/","id":"b8v1xm","body":"17, F, Florida.\n\n\nBoyfriend, late 20s, Australia\n\n\n\n      Long story short, we met online when I was 16, he bought me birthday presents, we talked more and have been a \u201cthing\u201d ever since. He\u2019s really funny and likes buying me things. We talk every chance we get, every morning, say goodnight, everything you\u2019d do in a long distance relationship. He\u2019s even close to a college I was thinking of going to and in a very similar career to the one I want.\n\n\n    Yes, we\u2019ve sent bad pictures to each other. We\u2019ve had calls together where he\u2019s going at it (I don\u2019t enjoy those calls too much so I\u2019ve never done anything on the phone with him). \n\n\n     He just told me that he\u2019s going to be put on the sex offenders list from a previous girl and that he\u2019s not allowed on social media. I don\u2019t remember exactly what he said but he told me something about a year. I was freaking out and couldn\u2019t really read the texts, but I think he meant the investigation or whatever had been happening for bout a year. He told me he texts me on a secret phone and there\u2019s now worries about getting caught. But that still scares me because he had my address and name from buying me things in chat. If the police looked at that phone they\u2019d have my identity and where I live. \n\n\n     I don\u2019t want to cut him off, I\u2019ve gotten attached to him but I\u2019m really scared of getting in trouble. I\u2019m a good kid, I have good grades, I have a good future. I know I shouldn\u2019t have sent the pictures and not the best idea to send my address, but he was harmless. Am I gonna be in trouble if I cut him off now? What if he gets mad? He has my address, he knows who I am.   If the police see the chats, they know who I am. What do I do? What\u2019s at risk of happening to me?","title":"Just found out my bf is going to be put on the sex offender list. Am I safe?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569094797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7f6dy\/condo_almost_burned_down\/","id":"d7f6dy","body":"My boyfriend luckily called off work today & had to call the fire department for our upstairs neighbors. We live in a 4 condo complex and my boyfriend saw the upstairs neighbors condo was pouring smoke out the windows, no other neighbors were home. The police busted down their door and informed us they were cooking food that caught fire BECAUSE NO ONE WAS HOME. I am beyond livid, had he not called, my two dogs and all of my possessions could have burned down to ashes, along with the two other families with dogs and children. I\u2019m so upset at their irresponsibility & am not sure if I can write in a complaint somewhere, talk to my landlord, I just need advice on what I can do to give me comfort in knowing it won\u2019t happen again.","title":"Condo almost burned down","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539533432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o3wac\/trying_to_find_legal_way_to_get_roommate_to_leave\/","id":"9o3wac","body":"Ok, so for starters, I'm pretty new but a friend told me that this is a good place to go for advice, and I looked through the FAQ's relatively quickly but couldn't find anything that pertained to this. So, for context, this is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, four people live in one apartment with our own rooms and have individual leases. One roommate consistently comes in late at night (when we are usually asleep) and does not lock the doors (we live in north philly, so you do not want to fuck around with that). On top of that, she brought cockroaches from her previous apartment (which she denies but I saw her previous apartment and it was horrifically infested) and consistently leaves food out so no matter how much we spray them or put out traps they keep coming. It's so bad that my keurig became infested and I had to buy a new one. We made a weekly chore chart and agreed verbally on basic rules around the house (if you cook an elaborate meal, you need to clean it up before it is problematic for everyone else, or letting us know in the group chat when you are having people over) and she agreed to all of them yet never actually follows any of them. We can't find any way to hold her accountable other than we just keep telling her when she does this (which clearly doesn't work). \n\n​\n\nWe've had many conversations, and some arguments, about this. She claims that she is trying her best, however, her behavior never changes. My roommates and I talked to her about moving out which she first agreed with then two hours later changed her mind. I noticed a line in our lease which said under obligations and duties of tenant \n\n\"2.Not permit any person on the premises with his permission\n\nto willfully or wantonly disturb the peaceful enjoyment of\n\nthe premises by other tenants and neighbors.\"\n\n​\n\nI don't know if that applies to the situation, or gives us as roommates (who are all feeling unsafe and uncomfortable all the time) any rights to talk to the landlord about eviction. I also understand that any action would be up to the discretion of the landlord, but I wanted to hear what people with more knowledge and understanding of these rules thought. I realize this is probably a massive shot in the dark as long as she has a lease and is paying rent, but I can't help but look for anything at this point. \n\n​\n\ntl:dr: In Philadelphia PA, 4 roommates all have their own lease, 1 roommate is continually problematic and the other 3 would like to know if we have any legal rights if we go to the landlord about eviction.","title":"Trying to find legal way to get roommate to leave","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507834915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75z6dw\/is_it_agreeing_to_be_underpaid_if_i_cash_a_check\/","id":"75z6dw","body":"Getting paid has been a challenge from this particular client. They sent a check with \"final payment\" on the voucher portion but not in the memo section. They still owe us over $55k and are probably not going to pay or try to pay less than what they owe.\n\nCan we cash their lastest payment with \"final payment\" in the voucher section without agreeing that it is the final payment legally? I don't want to get screwed out of the remaining balance, especially since it's been a challenge just to get paid in the first place after we reduced the bill.\n\nThank you for your help!","title":"Is it agreeing to be underpaid if I cash a check with \"final payment\" on the voucher? Oregon","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554754181,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bayhme\/friends_mother_was_fired_and_now_wants_to_report\/","id":"bayhme","body":"My friend's mother was fired from a cleaning company. About a year ago she asked for a week off to go to her father's funeral back in Peru. She even managed to find someone to cover for her for that week. She was still denied permission. She then contacted the Union and was given verbal permission from them. When she went back to work she started getting a different vibe from the manager in charge. No physical or verbal abuse but he certainly made it uncomfortable for her. \n\nOne of the many stories she told me was, one day as she was walking the hallway to the equipment area, she was stopped by this manager and he told her to take the longer hallway just to say hi to him because he was the owner (he isn't). Walking that hallway was never a problem before. Over the course of the year these 'micro aggressions' continued.\n\nThen about a month ago she had a doctor's appointment and asked if she could be half hour late. Via text they told her that she wouldn't be asked to go back again.\n\nNow during her time in this company she realized about half of the staff were illegal immigrants who received even worse treatment from this manager. Since they're illegal they can't report this manager to anyone, let alone sue the company. \n\nEven her now, because of a car accident lawsuit she won last year shes hesitant but not oppose to seeking legal counsel. But she still wants to let the relevant authorities know what's going on. \n\nShe wants me to either sent an anonymous letter to immigration, the cleaning company itself or the huge corporation that hires this cleaning company. Perhaps even get in contact with some news outlets.\n\nThis cleaning company is not small. They have hundreds of clients and the corporation that hires them is even bigger.(microsoft big)\n\nBecause these places might just end up doing nothing with these anonymous letters, should I insist to her to seek legal counsel to handle her individual case?","title":"Friend's mother was fired and now wants to report illegal immigrants","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554145124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b86z8z\/just_got_an_arrest_warrant_in_the_mail\/","id":"b86z8z","body":"I have a warrant for my arrest for missing a court appearance on a retail fraud case 3rd degree in Michigan. I wrote a letter asking for court to be adjourned because my employer wouldn't let me take off and I was advised by a consulting attorney that a letter would allow me to adjourn my date. Now I have an arrest warrant and I'm freaking out. What do I do? It said I can post 600 dollar bond (10%of 6000) but I dont have that kind of money atm . I'll need to save up for that, but anyways what are my options? Will the police come to house and arrest me? It says the letter was issued March 23 but no one has came or come to my workplace.  Very nervous can't afford an attorney. ","title":"Just got an arrest warrant in the mail","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540342478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qv02j\/my_landlord_wants_to_rent_out_a_storage_room_in\/","id":"9qv02j","body":"Myself and my 2 roommates are renting the basement of a house in Utah. Our landlord has mentioned that he has plans to rent out a cold storage room in the basement that only has a window access directly outside. The only other access is a door straight into our family room. Anyone renting the space would have to move stuff through our living space. There\u2019s nothing in the lease that mentions it and it seems to be just a standard Utah lease. Is this ok for him to do or are there legal protections for situations like this?","title":"My landlord wants to rent out a storage room in our apartment. Can he?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554445139,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9nnay\/any_way_to_legally_argue_refunding_a_software\/","id":"b9nnay","body":"If I purchase a \"lifetime membership\" software license (one time purchase) but subsequent software updates by the developers make the software useless for it's initial function (i.e. taking the software in a \"new direction), is there any legal recourse to refund my membership cost and cancel my liscense?","title":"Any way to legally argue refunding a software lifetime membership?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1504606817,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y72t9\/niece_moved_in_with_boyfriend_without_my_consent\/","id":"6y72t9","body":"Long story short:\n\nMarried guy with two small children. My niece was disowned by my brother and his wife, had nowhere to go, and was allegedly still in college. I felt pity for her, so I convinced my wife to let her live with us until she finished her schooling. Wife reluctantly agrees. \n\nWithin a day, my evil bitch of a niece brings her loser 40 year old boyfriend to live with her. They both begin to do drugs and drink booze in the house. They begin walking around naked and having sex **in front of my young children**. In addition, she lied about college and actually dropped out months ago. I gave her one warning to clean up or I'd throw her out. She didn't. She only stayed there a week and a half before I took their belongings (all in her shitty, stinky dufflebag) and threw it out into the lawn.\n\nEvil Bitch Niece and Disgusting Asshole Boyfriend threaten to sue my wife and I because \"they are tenants\". They are **NOT** tenants. Neither of them paid rent or contributed anything to the household except creating drama. Neither signed or otherwise had any sort of contract. They are claiming they are bringing cops later today to get them back in the house.\n\nCan she do this? What legal rights does this little tramp have? Is there any way I can use her drug use and degrading sex life against her though I have no proof of it? State is New Jersey.\n\n**Edit:** I'm receiving messages that I am being heartless for making my \"poor\" niece homeless and that a young adult like her shouldn't be thrown on the street. Just stop. She's lost any sympathy from me after the shit she pulled by bringing a strange man into our home, doing drugs, and exposing herself and him to my children. I've disowned her like my brother has, and it's the best decision I ever made. Screw her.","title":"Niece moved in with Boyfriend without my consent, then proceeded to do drugs and have sex in front of our family. Threw her out but now she's trying to weasel back in our home?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570898695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgxkp6\/valedictorian_award_taken_away_shortly_before\/","id":"dgxkp6","body":"I was named class valedictorian at the end of first semester senior year. I then got a B second semester and a few days before graduation was told I was no longer a valedictorian. In previous years students not maintaining a 4.0 GPA were still valedictorians, I believed this to be the status quo and was never told otherwise by any member of the school administration. I then found out students in the following years were still awarded valedictorian even though they didn't maintain a 4.0. Can I sue the school district? \n\nSide note: the school awards valadictorian honors to any and all students who have a 4.0 after the 7th of 8 semesters. My name was still in the graduation handouts and yearbook as valedictorian.","title":"Valedictorian award taken away shortly before graduation (publicly humiliated)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553241269,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b429hr\/i_was_hit_by_a_car_as_a_pedestrian\/","id":"b429hr","body":"Last year around February I got in a car accident where I, as a pedestrian won the crosswalk (yes with the walk signal on), was hit by a car taking a left that kind of came up from behind me. Obviously, it wasn't going too fast as I'm alive to tell the tale today, but I did suffer from nerve damage in both arms-- an injury that came from when I caught myself after rolling off of the driver's hood. There is some sort of official accident report that was filed. The damage and ensuing pain medication made it difficult to do college school work, be effective at my paid internship (I took a week off), participate with the waterskiing team ($200 dues), etc.\n\nThe injury greatly affected my grades and life as everything was very slow and painful to do. Even today after working out to gain back muscle strength in my arms I can tell the difference. The driver's insurance company is offering to cover all of my medical bills from the ER that night as well as $700 in compensation for the way the nerve damage affected my life in the multiple months after.\n\nIt was my funny bone nerves y'all. You know when you hit your funny bone? It felt like that 24\/7 for months in both arms.\n\nIs $700 adequate or would it be worth it to hire an attorney to handle the situation\/insurance company, or would the resulting cost of legal help not be worth the slight potential gain in compensation?\n\nP.S. Let me know if this is an incorrect flair!","title":"I was hit by a car as a pedestrian","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1409143861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2epyiu\/usa_tx_divorce_proceedingsnow_what\/","id":"2epyiu","body":"Hello all,\n\nI'm just looking for some general guidelines on my next steps.  I have filed a petition for divorce with minor children, and had to have my husband served with the papers.  He did not file a response to the petition within the 20 day window, and as of next week, the 60 day waiting period is over and the divorce can be finalized.  We have no assets to split, only a minor child, and I am willing to give him visitation, while I will remain the custodial parent with the right to be the sole decider on all matters regarding the child.  Questions:\n\n- The district clerk told me that I could file my divorce decree during an uncontested docket session and that the judge would pretty much just sign off on it.  My husband doesn't have any say in what goes into the final divorce decree.  Is this accurate?  Can he still contest anything in the divorce decree?\n\n- The above being taken into account, should I lawyer up?  I have been advised by a family friend whose specialty is family law that husband's behavior thus far calls for a lawyer.  However, that was before he missed his window to file an answer.\n\n- The minor child in question is under the age of 2.  Do I have to follow the attorney general's guidelines of no unsupervised visitation, or can I allow my soon-to-be-ex to take him a few times a week unsupervised.  I trust him to care for the child and return him to me as agreed.\n\nIf these questions are better answered by a lawyer in person who knows my case, please let me know of that as well.  I have one lined up that I can consult with.\n\nTIA","title":"USA - TX Divorce proceedings...now what?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506174386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71ycig\/my_dad_was_the_owner_of_my_car_and_i_am_the\/","id":"71ycig","body":"My dad passed away unexpectedly at a young age so there was no will. I've already checked to see if the car would be paid off in the event of his passing and found out that no it is not paid off. \n\nI have been continuing making the payments on the car because it is my car and I had always made the payments anyway. My dad got it in his name because I was young and he didn't think I would be able to get it on my own. \n\nIf it matters I am in Texas.\n\nAlso, does the car need to be completely paid off until I can get the title in my name or is there anyway I can do it now? As a cosigner I don't know if it's automatically my responsibility at this point or if there's a process I need to go through. \n\nI have contacted the bank I make payments to and informed them of the situation. They didn't say or help much just said they didn't really care who made payments and if I wanted the car I should keep making payments or if would get repossessed. \n\nThank you. \n\n(EDIT) I just did my car registration renewel this week and for owners it has both our names. Good thing I'm assuming?","title":"My dad was the owner of my car and I am the cosigner. He unexpectedly passed away and had no will. How can I get the title in my name?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568903120,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6esa6\/i_moved_out_but_my_roommates_stayed_but_i_never\/","id":"d6esa6","body":"Hi everyone, I hope someone can give me some advice on what to do here, as I am at a complete loss. From July 20, 2018 - August 1, 2019, I lived in a house with two roommates in Austin, TX. We were all three on the lease, and the owner of the house is a realty company rather than just an owner leasing out their property.\n\nI moved out at the end of the original lease. Both my roommates and I made the owner of the realty company (Landlord) aware that I was moving out. On June 10th, I sent him a written correspondence through his online resident portal stating that I was leaving at the end of July and asking some general moving out questions, one of which was how to get my name removed from the lease. He responded on the June 17th, stating that once the new tenant taking my place was approved, he would execute a lease renewal and a tenant change amendment. As far as I know, the new tenant was approved, but neither me nor my roommates received any additional paperwork. I have since moved into a new apartment, and am completely unsure of how to make 100% sure that I am no longer financially responsible for the property in ATX. We have all tried to call, email, and send messages through the resident portal to no avail (I am still listed as a resident on this website, and the new tenant is not).\n\nI have looked at our original lease, and it does state that once the original term is up, the lease will move forward on a month-to-month basis and that any notice of intent to vacate has to be done in writing, no exceptions. My roommates were told they were now operating on an \u201cat-will\u201d leasing situation, which makes sense given the original lease, but none of us know if I am still responsible and the Landlord will not respond to us at all.\n\nI have a few questions regarding this situation. Does the message I sent him through the tenant portal (and his subsequent response) prove that I gave written notice at least 30 days before the lease was up? I asked him very clearly what he was expecting from me regarding moving out, and he never once mentioned that I needed to provide any additional written intent to vacate notices. And where do I go from here? I live 8 hours away at this point, the Landlord does not have an office, and he uses a PO Box for all correspondence. I am concerned that if I sent certified mail, he will just continue to ignore me. Any advice is appreciated. I have tried to call the Austin Tenants Council about this as well, but they cannot help me because I do not live in Austin anymore. If you need any additional info or clarification, please feel free to ask.","title":"I moved out but my roommates stayed, but I never received confirmation that I was removed from the lease and ex-Landlord seems to be avoiding me - Austin, TX","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553992246,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7hy9s\/il_can_i_sue_my_fatherinlaw_for_money_owed_to_me\/","id":"b7hy9s","body":"In mid April 2014 I became unofficial partners with my father-in-law. We made a handshake deal where he would pay me a guaranteed $20k at the end of the year.\n\nOn paper, it looked like I worked for him. The end of the year rolled around and I got a 1099. He told me he couldn't pay me yet because he had a problem with his mortgage and if he didn't use the money to pay the bank, he and his family would lose the house and become homeless. \n\nTo make a long story short, it's coming up on 5 years and he hasn't paid me a penny. I looked up the statute of limitations on verbal agreements in Illinois and it's exactly 5 years. Is it possible to sue him for this and win? Thanks in advance for any help!","title":"[IL] Can I sue my father-in-law for money owed to me from a handshake business deal?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1506537692,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72uciq\/pennsylvania_found_bed_bugs_in_my_bed_landlord\/","id":"72uciq","body":"Hello. I'm renting in Pennsylvania, and last week I started getting bumps on my body (I moved in August 2017). Yesterday, I found a single bed bug in my bed. I have a picture of the bug and the bumps.\n\nI emailed my landlord about this (I've heard they are shady and wanted to have everything in writing from the start), and they sent an exterminator to inspect today at 11:00AM. Myself and one of my roommates was there. It was just a guy with a flashlight and a phone, and after looking at my bed for 2-3 minutes max, he said he'd \"talk to the landlord and they'll call you\" and then left.\n\nOur landlord emailed us around 2:00PM saying that the exterminator checked my bed for bugs and found \"the beginning of an infestation,\" and he also checked the rest of the apartment. This isn't true, as we were there for it and watched him. They said they will charge me for the extermination process tomorrow because the infestation was \"brought into the apartment\" by me.\n\nWhat can I do here\/what should I do? I haven't emailed them yet. I'm a student, and we are able to get a 15 minute consultation with a lawyer for free, but their scheduling is strict and they don't have an appointment today. I don't feel that I should be charged for something they are lying about.\n\nEither the exterminator lied or the landlord lied. We have no proof the \"exterminator\" was even such, and it could've just been a maintenance man or some guy off the street.","title":"[Pennsylvania] Found bed bugs in my bed, landlord lied about the exterminator checking the whole apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570635376,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfiqy4\/oh_pulled_over_for_something_i_didnt_do_and_then\/","id":"dfiqy4","body":"I was driving to work in the left lane on I-71 between Cincinnati and Dayton when I was pulled over for what the officer claimed to be attempting to pass a car on the right while going over the posted speed limit. The officer said he witnessed me change lanes from the left lane to the center left lane and speed up in order to attempt to pass a white truck. I informed him that this was false and in fact the roles were reversed. The white truck had been tailgating me for the past 10+ miles and made many attempts to pass me on the right. I remember vividly during one of the trucks attempts to pass me we passed a marked vehicle on the shoulder that was tending to a separate case (the officer was behind a stopped PT Cruiser) and I saw him pull out after we passed him. The officer was behind me but not tailing me for about a mile. When the officer got behind me and started pacing me I adjusted my speed to safely switch lanes to the left center lane (my exit was coming up). As soon as I did this the officer pulled me over. The officer recounted his story and as soon as I refuted and gave him very good evidence to support my story he backtracked and changed his, citing me for going 80 in a 65 (I probably shouldn't have said as much as I said as refuting a ticket for passing on the right probably would have been easier than refuting the speeding ticket). He asked me if I knew what speed I was going and I told him I was doing my best to maintain the same speed as the cars around me, I never said yes or no or gave a speed.\n\nI did some research that I was hoping could help me and I found The State of Ohio v. Nedelkoff, which stated \"Speeding is allowed when law is Prima Facie.\" Would this be an acceptable argument? After reading through it I am not 100% certain this would apply to my situation, as I was driving in the safest manner possible to my ability (the speed of traffic was about 70-75), but the circumstances seem different (Dry pavement, clear visibility at dawn, no adverse weather, with moderate traffic on a freeway). I also don't want to possibly admit guilt by using this defense and have it end up not working. Would it be an acceptable argument to cite the officers false observation of the situation? I am currently in a situation where a $120 fine\\* would financially cripple me for a while and I want to do as much as I can to reduce that cost. \n\nNo matter what happens I am going to appear at court on the chance that the Officer does not show up.\n\n​\n\n\\*I've yet to call the court to confirm the fine amount as this has just happened. I am going off of numbers I found online.","title":"[OH] Pulled over for something I didn't do and then cited for something else.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551753286,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axfx4w\/pto_payout_kentucky\/","id":"axfx4w","body":"I live in KY, am about to give my notice to take a job in Tennessee, and I have nearly 3 weeks of unused PTO. I was under the impression that in KY, any earned and unused PTO was to be paid out upon separation of employment. However, I'm reading mixed information and cannot find the right legal information. Documention is pretty much nonexistent at my job, so if there are any policies regarding unused PTO, they aren't posted for employee's reference anywhere. Every job I've had in KY has paid out unused PTO.\n\nI forsee my employer trying to withhold PTO if possible, but want to ensure I'm able to get that earned time without having to schedule it all and use it before I leave. Does anyone have legal clarity here? ","title":"PTO payout - Kentucky","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505154582,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zhaga\/military_divorce_questions_il_ri\/","id":"6zhaga","body":"Hello. \n\nMy husband and I are going through a tough time right now.  We are currently married in Illinois, but he is stationed in Rhode Island. \n\nSome facts- \n\n-He has not sent me money. He gave me $200 when we left. I left August 23rd, 2017 with my child and a suitcase. \n\n-We lived together in military housing in Rhode Island. I am on his insurance along with my daughter. Can I go back to my home? Is that a bad idea? \n\n-His co-workers want to report him to Fleet and Family Services for verbal abuse and neglect (not sending money for diapers, not letting us go back to the house, among some things). How can this affect if we divorce? \n\n- He has been drinking a lot and having a hard time emotionally being away from our child. \n\nI guess I'm just trying to ask, what can I do? Can I go back home since I have no money, no place to live, and have important doctors appointments to get to? What will happen with counseling and reporting him? \n\nSorry if this is kind of all over the place. I am emotionally exhausted and whenever I ask what is happening, he says I don't know. But he hasn't filed, hasn't told his command that he's considering divorce. ","title":"Military divorce questions [IL] [RI]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504198611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x83s7\/how_does_someone_get_out_of_a_traffic_ticket\/","id":"6x83s7","body":"I was ticketed for driving down the berm of the highway just before an intersection because the traffic was backed up, except in the lane I needed to be in. Is there any argument I can make to get out of it? \n\nEdit: Pittsburgh","title":"How does someone get out of a traffic ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447463253,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sq98h\/can_current_roommate_sue_me_for_a_random\/","id":"3sq98h","body":"Location: MA.\n\nI am currently on a joint lease and I'm trying to have someone take over my lease. \n\nRoommate's demands are pretty high for a roommate, it needs to be from 'this specific country' or else it's a no-go. Told him that I am moving and he said that he will sue me if I don't get a roommate that he wants. \n\nLandlord told me that once I have an ok tenant that will takeover, told me to scratch out my name on the contract\/lease and have him\/her go on top of my name and sign. \n\nSoooooo can this go to legal procedures just because I found a replacement roommate that he doesn't like? \n\nThank y'all in advance, lawbookworms.","title":"Can current roommate sue me for a random replacement roommate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539118743,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mt0b1\/seattle_wa_protecting_myself_renting_apartment\/","id":"9mt0b1","body":"I\u2019m attempting to rent an apartment in Seattle, WA. Me and the landlord are discussing ways to both protect ourselves when attempting to place a down payment to secure the apartment. He said he will have his attorney draft up a lease, sign it and e-mail me the signed documents and then ship me keys\/paperwork when a payment is received.\n\nI want to know how I can protect myself from getting scammed if this doesn\u2019t turn out to be legit. How to send money or what documentation to sign etc. I live across the country so I can\u2019t sign anything in person. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"[Seattle, WA] Protecting myself renting apartment across the country","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570878704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgtsd6\/two_points_for_too_fast_for_conditions_ticket\/","id":"dgtsd6","body":"I was driving on interstate on a clear night 5 below the speed limit, the car two cars ahead of mine hit a deer and came to a complete stop. Every subsequent car therefore hit each other in the back and mine was the last one. The officer deemed the cars following the first car as too fast for conditions and gave two points to each of us. Also from the point where I started up till the point of incident there was not deer hazard sign anywhere. I don\u2019t know if I should fight the ticket as I dont think there was a case to be made for hazardous conditions or at least it should not be two points. Please advise.","title":"Two points for too fast for conditions ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447438865,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sotog\/ticketed_for_watching_youtube_videos_on_cellphone\/","id":"3sotog","body":"I was driving down a fairly busy road listening to music on my cellphone (plugged through aux cable). The song I was listening to in particular can only be found on Youtube and as I'm sure many of you know, the screen has to remain on. I keep the phone on my crotch region just because I don't like to throw it onto the side seat and losing it in between seats is just a pain. \n\nThis street has many stop lights, so sometimes I'll pick up my phone when stopped to either read or get in a quick message. As soon as I get the green, phone goes back in my lap in a pretty calm and standard motion...I'm not gonna gronk spike my phone down and it's not a child either...\n\nOfficer pulled me over citing me for 39:4-97.3, improper use of cell phones, stating that I was watching youtube videos. I'm assuming either a) I didn't put my phone down fast enough, or b) he assumed I was watching videos while driving. Ummm it is perfectly possible that I looked down as I've made it a habit to look around as a drive, just to pick up any information that might affect my driving, etc. \n\nIs there any argument I can make against this officer that would deem not guilty? I pleaded not guilty twice already. The prosecutor pushed for the court to be adjourned because the cop hadn't shown up to testify the first two times. I'd rather not have to deal with the prosecutor again, he was fairly rude and it sounded like he was trying to intimidate me into pleading guilty. Any help would be awesome.\n","title":"Ticketed for watching Youtube Videos on cellphone (NJ)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568442040,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d41lbm\/former_employer_has_not_disabled_gsuite_or_slack\/","id":"d41lbm","body":"Hey all,\n\nJust left a job where I was privy to a variety of metrics and stats about the company, as well as the details of the team I led.\n\nI left 2 weeks ago, and my former employer still has not disabled my Slack account or Gmail account. I went on a holiday between leaving this past job and starting my new one, so I wasn\u2019t checking or aware that they hadn\u2019t disabled it.\n\nI don\u2019t really care about the stuff I have access to, but I\u2019m just wondering what the ramifications might be if they were to figure out I still had access. I genuinely haven\u2019t looked through anything, and don\u2019t plan to. Just curious where the fault lies here.\n\n Cheers,","title":"Former Employer has not disabled G-Suite or Slack access","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551557461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awlrnu\/company_setting_my_coworker_up_to_be_fired\/","id":"awlrnu","body":"Hey everyone. I am on a throw away account because my boss and manager both have Reddit and are very active in it. \n\n​\n\nThere is a situation at my work that seems highly unethical and I want to know if there is any advice or course of action. My Co-Worker has been with the Company for over two years. The first year and a half she was a full time employee. She picked up her dream job elsewhere and they kept her as an On-Call Part Time employee. Whenever they needed her they'd call and find out if she could work then schedule her based on their agreement. We were always short staffed so she was a great help and life saver. She would often work 7 days a week just to help us out.\n\n​\n\nThey recently hired enough full time staffers so they didn't need a part timer anymore. My boss texted her asking her to resign since they no longer needed her and wouldn't be calling anymore. They claimed that it would just look better on 'paperwork' if she did so. \n\n​\n\nShe actually didn't. They just took her off the schedule all together.\n\n​\n\nA couple months later (this past Thursday) they release a new schedule and she is suddenly on it three days in a row. I texted her this morning because I was excited she was coming back. She is scheduled for tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday. She actually had NO idea about it. They never called her, never emailed her, never told her she was on the schedule. In fact they told her they wouldn't need her anymore so it came as a huge shock.\n\n​\n\nNow the company we work for is HUGE and global. She has been very loyal to them and helped out -  sacrificing her off days at her other job for months on end. If she gets fired she can never work for the company again, but stuck around and helped out to keep her options open so she could still have a way back into the company in the future. They are ruining that for her. Now, they are setting her up to fire her because they don't need a part timer anymore. The plan seems to have been just to have her marked as three no - call no shows in a row and claim job abandonment.\n\n​\n\nIs this legal? What can she do? She wanted to keep a good note with the company incase she ever wanted to return in the future to another one of their branches. \n\n​\n\nWe also live in Illinois, if that info helps.","title":"Company Setting My Co-Worker Up To Be Fired.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542154431,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wurcj\/i_accepted_a_six_figure_job_i_cant_start_because\/","id":"9wurcj","body":"Sorry for the lengthy title. I was trying to condense my situation. I\u2019ll break down the details here:\n\nI work in tech. About two months ago I was starting to respond to recruiters to interview since I was ready to leave my current contract position for something where I could grow long term. I liked the company I was working for enough and got along great with my coworkers. This move was purely because I thought it was better for me professionally, not because of any actual work related issues. I mention this because I had no problem waiting it out and taking my time with the interview process.\n\nWell long story short, after 3 weeks of interviewing I found myself with 3 offers on the table. All six figures and pretty comparable, except for one thing. The one I chose is 100% remote. Also, it starts off as a contractor for 6 months and then converted to full benefit employee. It\u2019s important to know that everyone who has been placed in the same type of role (they need multiple people for this role since the company is extremely large) has been converted in 6 months.\n\nWell, I put in my two weeks, I sign all of the on boarding paper work and pass the background check. Get set up with payroll and am given a start date of October 29.  My last day at my old job was the Friday before and I was set to start this position the following Monday. Well, my recruiter calls me on my last day of work and tells me that they were in the process of renegotiating the contract with the new employer and it would just cause a week delay on my start date. No problem. I could just use this week as some unexpected time off before I start. Well, it looks like negotiations went south and has now been an ongoing back and forth between the recruiting company and new employer. I get regular updates and they have been very apologetic about the situation. They keep assuring me they are doing everything they can to push this forward but it has been almost three weeks and they can\u2019t give me a start date.  \n\nTo be clear, my actual job isn\u2019t on the line. They are renegotiating their terms for how much they will receive once I\u2019m converted to a full benefits employee in 6 months. \n\nMy question is, is there anything I can legally do to help me financially in this situation? I have a very good relationship with my recruiter and was thinking of asking if they could provide with the health insurance while I wait. Right now I\u2019m still paying out of pocket with no income. I was also thinking of asking about getting an advance on my paycheck once I start to help catch me up. I feel like there must be something else I can do since I am already 100% on boarded with the new company and the documents I signed had the start date set at 10\/29\/18. This delay is obviously no fault of my own but I\u2019m the one paying for it.\n\nRight now, I\u2019m not terribly desperate to find a new job as I don\u2019t have children, own my home which thanks to roommates covers my mortgage and can stay on top of my bills for about another month or so without working. But obviously, I don\u2019t like the situation I\u2019ve been put in and am trying to figure ways to make it easier while I wait. If I haven\u2019t started in two weeks, I\u2019m going to interview again since luckily landing a job is pretty easy with my expertise. The only reason I hesitate is because this is the ideal position for me right now and I really just want to start. It\u2019s really hard to find 100% remote positions. \n\nI don\u2019t know if this changes anything but mine is not the only contract in limbo because of this. I found out there is one other person playing the waiting game with me. \n\nAny advice is appreciated :) \n\n","title":"I accepted a Six figure job I can\u2019t start because of on-going contract negotiations between the recruiting company and future employer. So far, I haven\u2019t been working for almost 3 weeks because of this. State:PA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539106862,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mram9\/address_update_required_for_insuranceetc\/","id":"9mram9","body":"I live in Wisconsin for reference. \n\nI recently moved out of my moms house into my own apartment. Am I breaking any laws if I do not update my address? My new place is not that far away from my old one and I\u2019d rather not update that info. It\u2019s not like I wouldn\u2019t be able to access or receive any mail as I usually stop by the old house at least once per week. For what would I absolutely have to update my address? Is it required for the DMV, postal office, my bank etc? \n\nOne of the bigger reasons for not updating as well is so I can stay on my families health insurance plan. Am I commuting insurance fraud or anything like that by not letting the insurance company know? My money would be spread pretty tight if I had to get my own policy. \n\nReally confused as this is my first time in my own place. Any help is really appreciated!\n\n","title":"Address update required for insurance..etc?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554824775,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb9hle\/could_i_be_charged_for_assaulting_the_man_who\/","id":"bb9hle","body":"I was on sixth street in Austin last month when my girlfriend and I were walking around. There was a group of about 6 young guys walking behind us and I heard them talking in laughing. I knew they were up to no good from the start... My girlfriend was showing me a place that we should visit in Austin on her phone when one of those punk ass kids ran up behind us and quickly reached under her dress and groped her. At this moment the kids behind us started laughing and quickly went in a different direction and I didn\u2019t know what happened until I saw the guy who did it run away. \n\nI tackled him to the ground and hit him about 6 times before I was pulled off of him by a couple of bystanders who started asking me why I did what I did. I was about to leave but of course the police showed up within a couple of minutes and detained me. Long story short I was booked for assault and had to stay the night in jail. An investigator told me that the guy who I fought was not under 18 (which I was stressing about) and that he was in the hospital for a broken nose and a fractured cheekbone. \n\nI plead not guilty and told them that there were several witnesses on how he sexually assaulted my girlfriend. The officers also never told me if he would be detained or booked for assaulting her. \n\nThis whole situation pisses me off so bad that it makes me sick. I\u2019m not entirely sure where to go from this point. I don\u2019t even live near Austin so this makes things so much more complicated. They told me that I would be contacted soon regarding my case. \n\nWill I have to go back to Austin for a trial? And shouldn\u2019t he have been arrested for the fact that he assaulted my girlfriend? Does he have the opportunity to press charges?","title":"Could I be charged for assaulting the man who sexually assaulted my girlfriend in front of me?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446235197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qvrhr\/sister_was_practicing_driving_before_her_driving\/","id":"3qvrhr","body":"My sister was practicing driving with her boyfriend in a large parking lot. She has no license, but wanted to practice a bit before taking her written test tomorrow. I KNOW this is no excuse for what she did, but that's what she did.\n\nWhen she was driving through the parking lot, this older woman turned into the parking lot, and stopped short right in front of my sister. My sister tried to stop, but couldn't in time, swerved a bit and scratched the other woman's car. \n\nShe has no license, and called my mother to speak with the older woman about paying for the damages so that she wouldn't call the cops over it. We got her info and she left. The woman's insurance is expired.\n\nNot sure if it's worth making a police report over. The older woman was threatening my sister (age 17) to pay for the damages, which I am told is a scratch, and also yelling at her for being a child and having poor judgement. \n\nNot sure what to do from here, but any advice would be appreciated!\n\nEDIT: Thanks for all the helpful tips, guys! I feel less stressed about how I'm going to handle this. :)","title":"Sister was practicing driving before her driving written test, and got into an accident. She has no license. Other driver had expired insurance. Need advice\/help! (In New Jersey)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569614718,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da5r8n\/someone_enrolled_me_in_the_ku_klux_klan_and_i\/","id":"da5r8n","body":"Virginia, US. Came home from work, checked the mail and found a letter addressed to me. It had a return address so I opened it. Inside was a letter thanking me -by name - for joining the KKK.\n\nObviously I didn't do this, and I'm clueless as to how this happened. I don't know how these guys operate but I dont want my name associated with this. Whom should I call?","title":"Someone enrolled me in the Ku Klux Klan and I have no idea who.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555004154,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc2q5z\/colleges_mistakes_cost_me_money\/","id":"bc2q5z","body":"Hey so this is a long story but I want some advice. About 2 semesters ago I didn't receive any financial aid because I was told they were missing paperwork from me despite filling it out multiple time. Because of this I was told I had to leave my classes because I couldn't pay for them. I was then charged about 2500$ for dropping my classes. I was really stressed out about this until 2 weeks ago whe I go to the office to see what I can do about my debt. That's when the man helping me discovered that they never looked at my paperwork and he confirmed that I had filled it out on several occasions. Because of them not filing my papers I've missed my original gradation date. They tried to say I was only owed 750$ despite being a scholarship student and having financial aid which always gives me much more since 750$ barely even cover 1 class. Wondering if there's anything I should\/can do","title":"College's mistakes cost me money","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1447295806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3shlit\/help_with_oral_contract\/","id":"3shlit","body":"hey all so im from oregon and when i was working for a mining company we all sat down and made an oral contract detailing that they would give me $20,000 in exchange for working for the season. i have 5 witnesses to that but 3 of them are my former bosses and his son which are now not on good trms with me so obvioulsy they will deny the statement in court.\n\nmy questions are will my oral contract hold up in court? is it possible to make the other 3 witnesses take a lie detector test to prove that they did infact agree to give me the $20,000?\nDo you think my case would have enough worth to get a lawyer to work for contingency if i offer him $5,000 of the $20,000 i receive? i know there is the statute of frauds here in oregon but i cant really understand the legal mumbo jumbo on the webpages i find.\n\nplease and THANK YOU for any and all help, comments, and anything else you have to say. if you needmore info please dont be afraid to ask!","title":"Help with oral contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539618376,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9odu4t\/nj_driving_truck_without_bed_legal\/","id":"9odu4t","body":"So I have the bed off my project pickup truck to do some restoration on it. I won\u2019t be able to put the bed back on for a while.\n\nIs it legal to drive without a bed? I still have the rear bumper and license plate. I installed a set of trailer lights on the bumper and have fully functional tail, turn, and brake lights. ","title":"[NJ] Driving Truck without Bed Legal?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568993781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6wn61\/a_big_company_that_me_and_millions_of_other\/","id":"d6wn61","body":"I know there\u2019s not much I can do if there\u2019s no evidence behind this, and as far as I know, no hours have been cut yet and no terminations have been made yet. \n\nWe\u2019re a pharmacy\/retail company, so it\u2019s natural to have things to upsell, that I understand. This has never been an issue in the past, up until now. The company has released a new product that probably costed them millions to introduce, and they\u2019re not seeing good numbers, so they\u2019re threatening each store with cut hours, and even termination if we don\u2019t meet a certain quota within each day. This product is much like Amazon Prime, but not quite. It\u2019s not a necessity to many people in our store and it\u2019s very evident that lots of people really don\u2019t want it.\n\nIs this necessarily legal? I know nothing about business workings so it could be totally legal, but I\u2019d like to know in order to further put in my two weeks or speak to someone else about this.","title":"A big company that me and millions of other people are currently working for is threatening to severely cut hours if we don\u2019t meet weekly sales quota for a new product.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1409708480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fbet5\/text_conversation_as_written_notice_in_michigan\/","id":"2fbet5","body":"I live in Michigan and my terrible landlord has a few illegal clauses in the lease that I wanted fixed during a text conversation.  She initiated the conversation, acknowledged what I said (even said if she fixed it she would add hundreds of dollars in other fees as retaliation)\n\nWhat I am wondering is if push comes to shove and we end up in court would this count as a written notice?  Essentially some of the illegal clauses would void the lease after 20 days if not fixed and I wanted to know how to handle it.\n\nThanks for any help!","title":"Text conversation as written notice in Michigan?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506644080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7348g8\/tx_my_so_and_i_are_having_relationship_issues\/","id":"7348g8","body":"To make the story short my SO has been having difficulty maintaining her composure within our relationship, she has been making threats and calling relatives and friends of hers asking to get picked up, within those same threats she mentions taking our son with her, I'm not sure how or where to begin searching for legal help so that's what brought me here. One of my main concerns and question is can she do that? Just leave and take our son with her to god knows where without my consent? \n\n","title":"TX, my SO And I are having relationship issues, threats are being made and there's a 7 month old in the middle of all this","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540496840,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rdm5n\/school_not_following_up_with_title_ix_because_of\/","id":"9rdm5n","body":"\\[trigger warning: rape\\]\n\nSo in the middle of last semester I was greatly intoxicated while hanging out with a friend (f) who was slightly intoxicated. (I could barely speak, she could speak clearly) ((also there are witnesses on how drunk we were)) We started kissing because we do that sometimes idk why. But once I was really drunk and just lying there in bed she \"went down on me\" (I also woke up with bite and bruise marks) We previously discussed in person how we didn't want to have sex because i would ruin out friendship. when she left she said \"I feel like I just raped you\" then about half a week later I filed a Title IX with the DOS and had an interview with RGL. I asked for updates because I want to know whats going on. None received to this day.\n\nA week later I attempted suicide because of this and was put on medical leave. The medical leave technically wasn't processed until august when I got an e-mail\n\nNow in October I asked if any progress has been made. I am not currently attending school because of the leave and I don't want to see her. \n\nThe DOS said because I am on leave the investigation is put on hold. I reported it half a week after it happened and still nothing was done. none of the 5 witnesses I provided have been interviewed. This still effects me every day and I don't want to go back to school until the case is followed through. (I can drive there in 45 min if they need me and they know that)\n\nShould I contact the police? Does the school have the right to just not follow through with a case? Do I need a lawyer? \\[IL\\]","title":"School not following up with Title IX because of leave of absence","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569819622,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db6pvg\/co_how_do_i_take_a_moving_company_to_small_claims\/","id":"db6pvg","body":"According to the Colorado Judicial website, I have to file a claim in the county the defendent is in but the company is based in Boca Raton, Florida (I moved from South Florida).\n\nThe situation is that I got pre-charged for \u201cshuttle\u201d service at pick-up and delivery ($750 total) since it was assumed that the full-size truck wouldn\u2019t be able to fit since I was moving from and to an apartment building. Long story short, they were able to squeeze the big ass freight trucks into the parking lot next to the building both times and I only realized this at delivery on Saturday which was already after 5pm on the east coast so I couldn\u2019t get ahold of anybody and all the banks were already closed so I was forced to pay with the cashier\u2019s check I had previously taken out with the remainder of the amount.\n\nI sent an email to the rep I had been communicating with (about several other issues) explaining the situation but I won\u2019t actually find out if they\u2019ll reimburse me until Monday. If not, I need to know what my options are for small claims court. I\u2019ve never needed to sue anybody before or even had cause to so I\u2019m a little lost and any advice would be appreciated. TIA!","title":"[CO] How do I take a moving company to small claims court if their HQ is in another state?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553616607,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5rln5\/terminated_without_cause_close_to_2_years_in\/","id":"b5rln5","body":"Apologies for the essay, this is a long standing battle in the tumultuous cannabis industry !! \n\nI have worked for this particular Cannabis company for 19 months now based in BC. I was originally their only Canadian employee. I was one of the highest grossing reps in the company who consistently received shining feedback from management and clients. \n\nAbout a year in to working with them we established an office in the east coast of Canada hiring a Director out east as well. This is were the problems began. \nFrom the very beginning I was put into a state of limbo where my position was forced to pivot 10 times in 9 months I was told I was not longer a Rep but despite my continuous request I was never provided with an updated contact despite them removing my bonus structure and changing my role from field to working from home. \nI had done my due diligence to establish what exactly my role was with my new Director and was largely ignored, given non answers and intentionally left out of conference calls that pertained to the future of the company. Knowing this I involved HR in our communications many times to establish open communication.. Essentially again our Director mislead me and painted blue skies. \nFor several months now our company has been in restructuring. During this time I adopted many different roles and had requested for an updated contract. Again, nothing \u201cjust wait, it\u2019s coming, we are figuring it out\u201d. \nSo finally last week I sent our Director a letter that states: \n\n\u201cHi DIRECTOR\n\nI know that you will be OOO this week, At some point would like to have a formal conversation with you and SALES MANAGER about what exactly my role is with  XXXXX CANNABIS  and where it is going. We have had several discussions on this topic but it seems that nothing we discussed is any closer too coming to fruition.\n\nI don\u2019t seem to have a lot of clarity and context to the role I have now assumed without officially agreeing to anything on paper or VIA an updated contract. SALES MANAGER had mentioned my role is no longer service or sales.  My contract\/ initial job offer is apparently no longer relevant in terms of both compensation and job description. Initially my bonuses would be based on sales\/success of my region as that was my official role. Obviously with restructuring that is no longer relevant - how am I being evaluated now?\n\nThe financial impact of restructuring was also quite staggering, I stand to lose $12,342.93 total of my annual salary paid out in monthly bonuses. Not to mention the purchase of a company vehicle costing me roughly $9000 annually that I am now on the hook to pay for for the remainder of my 4 year finance agreement.\n\nHow are we going to address these issues and move forward in a way where we are both happy?\n\nI have been nothing but a team player. I have pivoted as the company develops, been on call to assist clients on my weekends\/evenings, worked weekends (as needed), consistently held down the  Rep leading sales and received nothing but positive feedback from both my clients and the XXXX USA leadership team. Yet despite my best efforts it feels as my professional development with XXXX Cannabis has been stalled from the start. I am not sure if this is an issue with me personally or professionally. I had hoped\/prepared for more professional development - I don\u2019t know where we stand on this.  Its my goal to continue to utilize my experience and knowledge to help XXXX Cannabis grow and develop.  \n\nI am hard-working, ambitious and passionate about this industry. I want XXXXXX Cannabis to be a place where I can grow professionally. I want to feel like I am a valued member of the team.\u201d\u201d\n\nI get a response saying \n\u201cthanks for this, I have scheduled some time next week for us to talk about your future with the company\u201d \n\nSo we jump on the call, she tells me I am being Terminated Without Cause as they are eliminating my position in Western Canada. \nI am offered $3,341 in severance pay ONLY (My salary was $1,750 Bi Weekly)\n\nI feel like I am getting screwed for severance and screwed for asking for a new contact.. \nWrongful dismissal??\n\n  \n","title":"Terminated Without Cause close to 2 years in after asking for an updated contact. Wrongful dismissal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552220531,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azf5ks\/workplace_not_honouring_my_need_for_accommodation\/","id":"azf5ks","body":"Hi guys, I\u2019m in Ontario Canada and in a tough spot. Worked for a company for a few years now,  and two years ago I had pretty major surgery on my arm. In order for me to continue to perform my job, I needed an ergonomic desk, which included an ergo keyboard and having the desk adjusted exactly to my needs. I submitted all the proper documentation for this, and I did receive the accommodations but \n\nThere are a select few people in my office who completely disregard the signs on my workstation indicating that nothing should be adjusted. I\u2019ll come into work and my desk or chair will be adjusted. It\u2019s happened over 10 times in the last year alone and my employers response is just to put up more signs and \u2018monitor the area\u2019.  They\u2019ve also asked me to report anyone who\u2019s sat there, but it puts me in a really awkward position where I have to continually report my colleagues instead of my employer being proactive and preventing the situation from happening. \n\nThe continual adjustment of my desk has left me beyond frustrated. They feel they\u2019re doing enough by putting signs up but it\u2019s obviously not working. If I work in a desk that isn\u2019t adjusted properly, I end up in pain which can last for days and if I leave work because of this, I\u2019m penalized. \n\nWhat are my next steps here? I don\u2019t feel my employer is doing enough to prevent my workstation from being adjusted and I keep hurting myself by pushing through it. ","title":"Workplace not honouring my need for accommodation.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539649445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oihzf\/very_loud_and_obnoxious_macaws_that_will_not_shut\/","id":"9oihzf","body":"CA\nMy neighbor has two macaws in their backyard. All day everyday for the past year or two, the birds have been making noise so loud that even with the windows and doors closed, even with headphones, you can hear them. Though multiple people have complained about the birds, all the police do is go and give them a warning, what will it take for the police to actually take these birds away? They don\u2019t even belong in California, these birds need to go to the wild again or to a zoo where they are actually taken care of or are able to survive on a better environment.","title":"Very loud and obnoxious macaws that will not shut up.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541091380,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tb7zr\/terroristic_threats_charge\/","id":"9tb7zr","body":"So I\u2019m being charged with terroristic threats by my ex girlfriend of one month and it\u2019s an unfortunate case for me because in regards to what I had said to her it wasn\u2019t serious in anyway and it was just a joke I hadn\u2019t thought through that can have a devastating affect on my life.  I was 22 and she was 19 at the time. This happened 8 months ago. February 14th. Valentine\u2019s Day.\n\nMe and this girl met online and we live a few miles from each other. I talked to her for a bit and we ended up meeting to eat one night. Well that night she invited me to meet her family and I decided okay let\u2019s do it I enjoyed spending time with this girl. She has a large family. 4 Sisters, nieces and nephews that live with them. They all seemed to like me. Iv met a few of her sisters at the local casino before too. One of her sisters boyfriends was even a cop from my hometown and I met him too. \n\nWe would always hang out at her house with her family and watch movies and have family parties and they would always want me to come over. She\u2019s a gamer so we had a connection there too and her nephew had gotten a gaming computer but was unable to play most games because he didn\u2019t have a powerful card or power supply so I ended up giving him parts out of one of my computers and set it up for him and everything. I was generous and always nice and considerate and we never fought or had any relationship issues. \n\nWell now it\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day. I\u2019m running a little late but get to her house at 6:30. This is where I get to give her gifts I had bought her. Card, flowers, gift card, and also a good night out. We leave after a little bit and go to eat. After eating we drive like 30 min away to go see a movie. Well turned out black panther didn\u2019t come out till the next day so we decide to go back home. \n\nOnce we get back to our town she gets a call from her sister and she\u2019s asking what she\u2019s doing and if she\u2019s back at the house or something because apparently they have gps enabled on her phone. She tells her why we came back. Well we continue  driving and we pass my road and she asked where we are going. Well I tell her we are going crazy.. Now this is just something I say. It means nothing it\u2019s just a response I use which others could attest to. Well I chime in saying no, I gotta find a big open field. Well she asked why and instead of straight up tell her that I was taking her to go launch Fireworks. I said \u201cto bury your body\u201d It wasn\u2019t just sparklers either, I had bought large fireworks that had just became legal to launch  without a permit in my state Pennsylvania. \n\nI was laughing as I said it! It was a joke. In no way did she look, seem or act offended. We continued down the road and I started looking around the cabin and console for a lighter. Well I didn\u2019t have one in there or on me so I stopped at dollar general. I parked and told her I\u2019ll brb I gotta run in and get a lighter... \/s too burn your body, run before I\u2019m back. Well I come back out and she\u2019s not in my car..  I get in and pull around the side of the building and she\u2019s on the side talking to her sister on the phone. I roll the window down and ask, really? Obviously puzzled that she really is no longer in the car with me and obviously distraught over however she interpreted what I said. She nodded her head and walked inside the store, so I parked and just waited. Her sister came and picked her up and that\u2019s it. \n\nFast forward a few days, I get served a pfa at my door. Well I\u2019m upset. Wondering what I had made this girl feel. I even hired a lawyer. It was eventually court time and they dismissed the pfa no questions but kept a temporary one on me. That\u2019s fine. Atleast that\u2019s it right? Wrong.\n\nAs I was in court for something unrelated, they surprised me with more charges! Terroristic threats and harassment. Oh man..\nHonestly it\u2019s been months of waiting. I finally got a court date in the mail on oct 10. The pfa Hearing is November 6 and the lawyer I hired and used two other times hasn\u2019t even communicated with me and we have never even met up to completely discuss the case. \n\nI\u2019m not an intimidating person. I hate conflict, I don\u2019t even have the balls to shut a telemarketer down on the phone. It\u2019s devastating and the only way I haven\u2019t gone crazy by it all is by just not thinking about it as much as possible. I have absolutely no idea what\u2019s gunna happen, or if I\u2019ll even get an adequate chance to explain this all to them. It\u2019s actually too close for comfort now and I\u2019m not prepared. \n\nI\u2019m not a social extrovert or a fake person really I understand a lot, kinda the technicalities of the court system and just social justice and I\u2019m worried I\u2019m just screwed from the beginning. I\u2019m a smart forwarding thinking mixed male. I grew up in a religious conservative family and with a great life. \nThe plaintiff, just for context, it\u2019s not there first time going to court. I think they take any opportunity to go to court. \n\nThey want to charge me with terroristic threats and harassment. The plea deal they gave me was for both charges plus 2 years probation which includes, drug testing, 300 hrs community service, anger management classes and just a barrage of things that will do nothing more than ruin me mentally and destroy my life and career. \n\nIs it possible to represent myself in plea court or is that all around a bad idea. Idk if I can find an attorney this quickly. I have one on this case already but I haven\u2019t be proactive and we haven\u2019t talked. I think she gave up. How does plea court work? I received the plea deal s few months ago. Is this were I accept or decline or counter offer? \n\nSimply put \n\nI need help soo bad ; (","title":"Terroristic Threats charge.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508415899,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77e157\/oregon_parking_ticket_woes\/","id":"77e157","body":"Hey r\/legaladvice,\n\nThis is the dumbest thing. Okay, so:\n\nMy apartment is great, but the only drawback is that it's a two bedroom and only gets one space. We have two cars, as do most of the other tenants. So we all park on the nearby streets\/parallel park on front of the building, which apart from being no fun when it rains isn't that bad.\n\nI came out the other morning to a lovely yellow ticket under my windshield wiper, for $50. Apparently one of the curbs (the one I parked next to) was a \"yellow zone\", and you apparently cannot park in yellow zones. The paint is chipped faded and it's hard to recognize, particularly at night when I park. There are no signs in the neighborhood\/on the street about parking there whatsoever, and I have never seen anything about curb color distinctions here except for red curbs being fire lanes. I am going to go and try to fight this ticket tomorrow, but I'm trying to figure out what my options are. There is an \"information hotline\" that describes how to plead but the number is crossed out on the envelope. \n\nHow should I go about fighting this? ","title":"[Oregon] parking ticket woes.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552616829,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b19an8\/grandma_passed_now_renovations\/","id":"b19an8","body":"First time posting. My grandma passed a few weeks ago. My cousin and her child are in a shelter and want to take over the apartment, however management is asking us to turn over the key to make renovations so that they can contact us \u201clater\u201d. I do agree that the renovations should happen, but it seems sus. \n\nWhy do we have to turn over the key? Is there any law that allows the family to take over? Any experience is welcome! FYI this is in the hood near yankee stadium in the Bronx. Both front doors to enter were unhinged, broken stairs and windows, my grandma would have drugs thrown into her window and no one did anything. Just so you know how management and the area gets down and why I don\u2019t trust them. ","title":"Grandma passed, now renovations?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553119142,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3i3lh\/would_my_brother_still_be_under_my_parents\/","id":"b3i3lh","body":"My brother is 22 years old. He moved to Russia, got married over there and is planning to move back in with our parents in America near the end of this year or next with his wife.\n\nWhat exactly is he cut off of from our parents now that he is married? ","title":"Would my brother still be under my parents insurance?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540180007,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qa4bv\/my_dog_supposedly_bit_another_dog_while_boarding\/","id":"9qa4bv","body":"My dog has boarded in group situations and been around countless other dogs over the past 6 years. I have also been fostering dogs for over a year in my home. He is the kindest dog and has never had any issues with true aggression (he\u2019ll growl if a dog tried to take his food or toy, but they can still take it and he won\u2019t actually do anything). He boarded this past week\/weekend and after being there for 3 days, I was contacted saying that he attacked another dog. I was shocked and I asked if my dog was provoked in some way because that is totally out of his character. The owner of the boarding facility said that my dog was not provoked and that the other dog is submissive. When I asked what happened, she then said that she was not outside when the incident occurred so the dogs were completely unattended and she didn\u2019t actually see what happened... contradictory, right?\n\nShe said that she just heard a dog screaming and claims she went outside seconds later. She said at this point she saw my dog pinning another on the ground (I do believe this because he has pinned a dog down before in defense, but has never bitten and has never done anything like that for no reason. He has also tried to stop fight between other dogs and between my other dog and the vacuum by trying to get between them\/pin one down.) There were several dogs in the yard as well, but she insists that my dog caused puncture wounds to this other dog\u2019s leg even though all she saw him doing was holding her down. Not \u201cattacking.\u201d\n\nShe has handled this extremely unprofessionally and has been very rude. I signed a contract that stated I am liable if my dog causes injuries to another dog, but am I still liable if she was not there and does not actually know what happened? She said I will be receiving a copy of the medical bill (the owners are taking the dog to the vet tomorrow, 2 days later, because the injury was not significant. The facility owner claims there are 4 puncture wounds, but my dog has 1 canine that is ground down and sealed from a root canal. That leaves 3 teeth that could have possibly actually caused a puncture according to my vet.)\n\nI am having a very hard time beliving that my dog caused these wounds and all she tells me is \u201cI can\u2019t tell you what happened I can just tell you that your dog attacked another dog. You are behaving childishly and you need to be a responsible owner. Your dog is aggressive.\u201d She also told me he should never be in a group boarding situation again and that I shouldn\u2019t foster anymore because he is \u201caggressive\u201d. This is the first time I\u2019ve ever used this facility (she runs it out of her house and has no other employees) and I am livid with the way she has spoken to me and handled everything. I have asked to see photos of the injury and asked to have the owner of the other dog contact me, but have received nothing and have not been contacted by them. She also says that a neighbor saw what happened, but then says she doesn\u2019t know what they saw and also will not have them contact me. I just want to know what truly happened and she cannot give me an answer because she wasn\u2019t there. \n\nAm I in the wrong to be questioning her and the situation? I feel that she is in the wrong for leaving a yard full of dogs unattended. That is irresponsible. She told me that I am \u201clucky she was nearby inside so nothing more happened\u201d as if it isn\u2019t her job and as if she shouldn\u2019t have been out there the entire time! I am appalled. Can my dog be labeled as an \u201caggressive dog\u201d due to this? This makes me very concerned as he is not an aggressive dog whatsoever, but is a breed that is widely considered \u201caggressive\u201d (German Shepherd). Again to recap my main question, am I still held to the contract I signed, if the dogs were unattended and she didn\u2019t see what happened?","title":"My dog supposedly bit another dog while boarding, but no one was there to see it. Am I still liable?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1442862862,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3luadj\/exboyfriend_cyberstalking_me_boston_from\/","id":"3luadj","body":"I live in Boston, MA.\n\nMy ex-boyfriend of 4 years ago lives in San Diego, CA. He is still contacting me to this day via internet and phone.\n\nI believe he is stalking and harassing me. Although he has made threats to my safety I have no record of that. It has caused me a lot of anxiety and stress.\n\nI have had little to no contact with him over the past year. I have told him to stop contacting me several times, but he sends me an email every week (which I filter to the trash in gmail) saying how much he misses me, dreams of talking to me, I am the only thing he thinks about, etc. Really weird\/obsessive\/creepy stuff. He is mentally unwell. I have blocked him on every form of social media b\/c he would keep trying to contact me there too (facebook, instagram, etc.). I blocked his phone number too on my cellphone w\/ Verizon. He says he calls my phone just to hear my voice on my voicemail.\n\nThe problem is that even though I have blocked him, he contacts my friends (sends them facebook messages asking about me), he tried to wire me money (out of the blue) which I rejected last week, he calls my work phone number (last week called my work phone number 6 times in a row which really freaked me out), and send me an email every week. He also sent me flowers in the mail last Thanksgiving.\n\nHe is drug addict, and I assume has some sort of mental illness.\n\nAlthough his emails haven't been threatening, he can be aggressive and violent. I also have a police report of assault (from 2011) when he hit me in front of other people. The university I was studying at basically bullied me into not getting an order of protection. He just won't leave me alone, and I don't know what to do. He is not threatening, although the emails he send me makes me sick to my stomach.\n\nSeeing as I live in MA and he lives in CA, I don't know if there's anything I can do. Especially since I don't have any recent threats of physical harm. \n\nPlease advise if there's anything I can do at all. I'd like to know if it's worth it to follow up with a local lawyer.","title":"Ex-Boyfriend Cyber-Stalking Me (Boston) From Different State (CA)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444863207,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3os9gu\/should_i_buy_a_motorcycle_with_a_lien_on_it\/","id":"3os9gu","body":"The situation is this small motorcycle repair shop is selling a motorcycle with a lien on the title. \n\nApparently what happened is some guy brought it in to get repairs on it, and never picked it up. So now the title has a lien on it. \n\nThe seller said all I have to do is sign a paper called power of attorney. At this point I would also give him the full price of the vehicle($1000). He would take the documents to his dmv friend and she would attempt to contact the original owner that possessed the title. If the person does not contact her in 10 days, then I will receive the title in my name.\n\nThis seems a little sketchy to me. Is there any way I could do this without any risk?","title":"Should I buy a motorcycle with a lien on it? [Virginia]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553556420,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5i4y3\/if_i_notify_my_landlord_that_im_leaving_on_a\/","id":"b5i4y3","body":"Pretty much what the title says. Our lease says that I notify them at least 30 days prior, i want to tell them a little earlier since they have been good to us but also scared that they might find someone prior to the date I leave and kick us out. ","title":"If I notify my landlord that Im leaving on a specific date, can he make me leave earlier?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568736114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5j1ue\/landlord_is_keeping_whole_refundable_deposit\/","id":"d5j1ue","body":"My landlord is keeping the entire $2500 refundable deposit I placed on renting a house. It's been over Arizona's 14 day limit for him to send me a notice of itemized deductions. I havent received anything but texts. \n\nMy lease states the lease runs from X date to X date, OR until Tenent or Landlord provide notice. It doesnt specific the type ortime of notice needed. Im assuming it's a 30 day based on AZ state laws. \n\nMy lease ALSO states that NEITHER the Landlord or the Tenant can use the lease for unpaid rent.\n\nI provided notice I wanted to leave by October 1st. He accepted that notice.  \n\nMy home was broken into August 27th and MOST of what I owned was taken. I gave him the police reports asap and told him I was terrified to be there. He didn't change the locks and told me I was \"locked in\" until October 1st. I asked him to please let me go, I was scared. I told him I needed to leave and gave him all of the police information again. \n\nI paid him $250 (which is was all I had left) and left by 3pm on September 3rd. I stated I could make payments on the $1950. \n\nHe is now saying he can keep the entire deposir. I can understand the unpaired rent but is is in WRITING that neither of can use the deposit for unpaid rent and he's past the 14 day itemized deposit written notice for arizona...I also feel like my home being broken into and robbed is an acceptable reason to leave. \n\nWhat should I do?","title":"Landlord is keeping whole refundable deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568676481,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d58k6d\/it_toby_fox_in_legal_trouble\/","id":"d58k6d","body":"So for context, Toby Fox is an Indie game developer and the creator of the video game Undertale. All of the characters in the game talk through text, but also have unique \u201ctalking sounds\u201d, which consist of a super short sound byte played at the same rate that the letters pop on screen.\n\nWell it was just discovered that the sound byte for the character Sans was actually sampled from a voice line of Patrick Star, as seen in [this video.](https:\/\/youtu.be\/C9bylRf1kos)\n\nSo could he be sued for copyright infringement? I mean, the sound byte is pretty heavily featured in the game, however its like a tenth of a second long.\n\nI bring up this question also because Toby hasn\u2019t actually 100% confirmed that Sans\u2019 voice came from Patrick (but they\u2019re so similar, the fan base has accepted it), so I\u2019m suspecting he might actually be hiding the truth to keep himself out of trouble, considering this is his only popular game (and it\u2019s a REALLY popular game).","title":"It Toby Fox in legal trouble?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540509046,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rfcnz\/late_eviction_letter_and_condemning_of_the_house\/","id":"9rfcnz","body":"Hello Reddit, here's another fun mystery! (Not really, just another sketchy landlord). So recently some friends of mine have been renting a small house from a sketchy landlord (Spanky) near our college in Virginia. As things usually go, he's nice to them for a while, and is generally helpful when it comes to problems with the house. The house itself is not much to talk about, just a simple, single floor house. When they moved in there were a few problems with the flooring, i.e. missing floors, bare baseboards, and peeling laminate tiles. They tried to get it fixed, re-tiled a few floors themselves, put some wood sealant on the kitchen hardwood, and argued for a month to get something to cover up the areas with missing floor. I'll try not to get too far off track here... but a few things that were wrong with the house included:\n\n​\n\n\\- Broken windows\n\n\\- No doors in the house\n\n\\- Leaking ceiling\n\n\\- Bad appliances\n\n​\n\nSo going off of this they prepared for the worst and got a lawyer, but that's not the end of it. Hold on to your pants because this gets fun. They've had problems with him going into the house while they're not there, moving things around, and they think he may have taken things. Like eggs. Who the hell takes eggs? For that matter, who only takes one egg? Along with him entering the house without warning, he also likes to send his crackhead friend to \"fix things up\" and to mow the lawn, and as crackhead says, for free.\n\n​\n\nNow, the house has been falling apart, and within the past few days they've been feeling sick and have been coughing up black specks, and their cat SunChip has been wheezing. Spanky gets a \"state\" someone or other to test the house for molds and other growths, and find nothing. Wanting a second opinion my friend has someone from his fire\/ flood\/ damage workplace come over to run another test. Yup, you guessed it, black mold, and a few other beautiful things just to spice it up. They sent this off to the state people and tried to get Spanky to move his ass.\n\n​\n\nWinter is coming, yeah, go ahead, you can giggle at that reference. Mold is still there, and gas company comes to check the furnace and get them all nice and toasty warm so they don't freeze. Who would've thought that the rusty old iron box that they call a furnace is bad, in fact, almost all their appliances are bad or not working. Gas company reports it, house is inspected, and state comes to say it's condemned. Spanky doesn't like this, and sends an eviction notice for \"missing a rent payment and owing $100 for yard mowing.\" He sent the eviction notice with as a 5 day eviction. It arrived today. He \"mailed\" it 5 days ago. State has yet to produce the paperwork officially condemning the house, although it's expected by late tonight or tomorrow.\n\n​\n\nThey don't want to leave the house in fear that they'll be hit with breaking the lease early or blindsiding them with some other BS reasoning of why he's the victim.\n\n​\n\nNow onto the question that's been long coming. With all the rent receipts, text messages, and photos of the house showing how crap the house is, how do we best put his sorry ass back in the corner he is trying to crawl from, and how do we make sure he never tries this again?","title":"Late eviction letter and condemning of the house","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554560765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba4t1d\/what_are_the_roomhousing_requirements_for\/","id":"ba4t1d","body":"My 2 year old and I live in NJ. My ex (never married) moved to Brooklyn NY and filed a complaint seeking custody in Brooklyn. Our previous agreement was \u201cnesting\u201d where he visited with our daughter in my condo. \n\nHe is currently living with his girlfriend and her 9 year old daughter from a previous relationship. I do not know how many bedrooms their apartment has.\n\nWhat are the legal requirements for living space for overnight visitation? Someone told me it had to be a separate bedroom that is not a common living space like a living room. \n\nSince his girlfriend has a daughter and our child is a girl is it acceptable in the eyes of the law for them to share a room? I have hesitations about this because these kids are virtual strangers. They\u2019ve never met, and they aren\u2019t stepsisters. My ex and his new girlfriend had a breakup as recent as February and are back together and now living together. \n\nJurisdiction is NJ as our daughter lives here, and the court date will be here. ","title":"What are the room\/housing requirements for custody\/visitation in NY?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568564506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4mn04\/i_22m_took_a_suspicious_online_job_and_need_legal\/","id":"d4mn04","body":"Hello,\n\nIf anyone can help me, itd be really great because I cant find anything on this topic. \n\n2 weeks ago, I applied to a position on Indeed and the employer texted me back. I was excited because it was a position that was too good to be true. It was what I would make working full time as an intern but only 1\/5 of the time. \n\nSo heres the fuckup:\n\nI agreed and texted him I would start immediately and sent him my address. He had a check sent out that arrived on Thursday. The check is 5 weeks worth of pay. I was shocked as I thought he would be just sending my pay to advance but he said he wanted me to ship it to his \"supplier.\" Soon afterward, I finally realized I should have asked him to verify his identity. I guess he thought that I was trying to take his money by stalling because he finally called. \n\nI dont want to generalize but the accent of the speaker belonged to the opposite ethnicity of what his name would make people assume. I texted him after saying that Im not available to work anymore as everything was very suspicious and I didnt want to send out his packages when they could possibly be illegal things. He keeps insisting I resend the check to his supplier and take out my weekly pay. I really dont want him to message me anymore but hes constantly requesting it of me.\n\nMy questions are: \n\nWould it be illegal sending out that check to his \"supplier\" if he was involved in criminal activities?\n\nShould I just resend the check back to him? Could this possibly be illegal?\n\nIm really confused where to continue but he now knows my address as well because of my own stupidity and a few family members live here. He shipped it from 5 states away from me so I am not too worried but just want to be as cautious as possible.","title":"I (22M) Took a Suspicious Online Job and Need Legal Advice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1416008419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2mbzl4\/usa_dmca_followed_by_cease_and_decist\/","id":"2mbzl4","body":"I run a small few person gaming community and our \"tag\" happens to use the same three letter acronym as another (much larger) gaming community. Our names have none of the same words. Example, there's is A Cool Club, and ours is Advanced Coloring Clan.\n\n\nOur community runs a game server, and a teamspeak server, as well as a website. There have been multiple DMCA takedown requests over the past couple of months to our hosting provider, and even the host's upstreams; all of which have been decided in our favor.\n\n\nToday I received in my personal, and school email a cease and desist letter. Which they also state has been mailed to me via USPS, however the address that they stated it was sent to is a place that I haven't lived in for three years.\n\n\nI am not going to publicly post the letter, however [here](https:\/\/imgur.com\/wOBDVUg) is the censored part that I see as their \"justification\" if you will of why I am required by law to cease use of \"their\" acronym.\n\n\n**Additional Info:** I am located in Wisconsin, the other gaming organization is located in Arizona, and the law firm is located in California.","title":"[USA] DMCA, Followed by Cease and Decist","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541036366,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t57il\/commission_theft\/","id":"9t57il","body":"So in a nut shell here\u2019s the situation;\n\nI am in an outside field position Where we get a draw plus our commission plus a partial commission in store locations as well.\n\nThe workers in the store locations have been deleting sales people names off the invoices while ringing up the sale. This,in turn, does not give the sales people whose customers may choose to shop the store... they\u2019re entitled commission.\n\nThey blame it on IT they blame it on everybody but themselves but in reality the only way this can happen is if it\u2019s manually done in the store.\n\n\nBecause it is messing with peoples livelihoods, money and their paycheck, I am very curious about the liability of the company and this employee since the company knows it\u2019s going on and is not taking the steps to reprimand this employee or make any changes.\n\nSales people like myself in outside sales count on bonuses for certain sales these bonuses are also calculated through store sells so not only are we missing out on the commission but also possibly making our bonus numbers as well. In my industry it\u2019s called commission rape and it\u2019s awful \n\nCan somebody -anybody- tell me what ACTUAL laws are being broken here and what I can possibly do. I need this job I like this job and I enjoy this job.\n\n\nAny help or advice would be wonderful!\n\nTIA!\n\n\n\n","title":"Commission Theft?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542083952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wlvui\/grew_up_in_a_christian_school_strong_religious\/","id":"9wlvui","body":"So i grew up strong Christian in a small town and i learned everything according to \"The Christian timeline\" and now that im in college i feel like my whole world has turned upside down learning about evolution and climate change, etc... all for the first time and i hate to say it, but its causing me a lot of stress. Growing up with one taught \"fact\" then being told that everything i grew up learning is a lie, is alot to comprehend. This has all happened so recently and im expected to write up and present something that i don't believe in or even understand the foundations of. Its a 5 page report and a presentation, I know i can just simply \"do it\" and bs it, but every bit of information i find sounds false and almost cringy to me so i have no clue where to even begin. \n\nAnd i have tried taking to my professor about it and i think she saw it as maybe a joke? Or at least just didnt really say or do anything about it. She lives in a big city so the Christian timeline isnt really too common here. ","title":"Grew up in a Christian school, strong religious background and now in public school and im doing a project on evolution. Is there anything protecting me from doing a school project against my religion? Or at least a substitution?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554167447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8cdwh\/filing_a_small_claim_to_landowner_for_business\/","id":"b8cdwh","body":"In the summer of 2017, my father bought an old dental clinic and signed a contract to lease the landowner. We invested around 100k in renovation and equipments, starting to gain more patients. However, in May of 2018, the electricity was forcibly shut off due to the suite next to us busted for marijana. Edison told the landowner to change the electric layout in Suite A (our dental is suite B), but he extended the problem. As the problem worsens with the cutoff of water, we received a mail which reveals that he had not paid property tax for the building. The problem persists as of today. I think he is trying to foreclose the property as he realized that it worths less than what he anticipated. Not sure about the situation exactly. We have not open our dental clinic, and it has almost been a year. My dad resold the equipments to my friends for only 20k since we do not trust what will happen to the property. This is probably our best decision as in about January\/Febuary of this year, there were two burgaries back to back, destorying both suites and stole the residue electricity setup from the suite next to us and our old compressor\/laptop. Our employee had declared unemployed since the closure. We have lost more than 100k + the possible income from the year. Can we file a small claim to the landowner? (I know the maximum amount small claim can get is 10k, but we just want some compensation for our loss, not fighting years of court that will result from an unlimited court case. Also, we do not want to involve lawyer. My siblings are in dental school and another applying for medical school. We are trying to gain as much asset as I'm also going to college this year.)","title":"Filing a Small Claim to landowner for business.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570040002,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dce1en\/left_my_startup_on_bad_terms_theyre_now_about_to\/","id":"dce1en","body":"About a year ago I left the startup that I helped build from the ground up. Most of my shares have vested.\n\nI had nothing against the team or their mission, but I got an offer from another company that I couldn\u2019t refuse. I left on good terms with everyone but one person. We\u2019ll call him Frank. He was very upset that I was leaving the company and verbally abused me on my way out. I didn\u2019t care much because Frank was known to be a hot head. He was one rung under the CEO, but it didn\u2019t worry me because the CEO was supportive of my decision.\n\nFast forward to now and the old CEO, who I really liked, has stepped down and Frank has taken his place.\n\nFrank is now selling the company. I received notice of this and was told I need to sign some documents. There\u2019s documents are all massive and I feel way out of my element. Having left on not so great terms with Frank, I\u2019m a little leery of getting screwed.\n\nWho can I reach out to that would review these documents and advise me on what\u2019s best to do?  Is there a particular type of lawyer that handles these things? Do I have to sign these documents to get paid out? Am I being too paranoid?\n\n\nTLDR:\nLeft company on bad terms. I have shares and the company is selling. They\u2019re asking me to sign a bunch of documents that are way over my head. Who can I contact that will help review these docs?","title":"Left my startup on bad terms. They\u2019re now about to sell. I still have shares and don\u2019t want to get screwed.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446325315,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r0cjp\/catx_car_shipped_across_country_and_damaged\/","id":"3r0cjp","body":"Hello and thank you for taking the time to read my post. I'll keep it short.\n\nI recently moved from TX to CA and had my car shipped. During transit, the driver apparently hit a low-hanging branch and significant damage was done to my car (windshield busted, roof has a hole in it, etc). The driver wishes to bypass insurance and pay for repairs directly as his deductible is high. My insurance for this vehicle is liability-only so going thru my insurance is not an option.\n\nMy questions:\n\n1. What sort of risk to I expose myself to bypassing insurance? I worry about shoddy repairs, damage the shop misses, etc.\n\n2. How should the process work? Certified check cut in the amount of the estimate to my shop of choice? Any documentation I need?\n\n3. Any risk to me further down the road? For example, another accident that won't be covered because of \"prior damage\" or similar?\n\n\nGenerally looking for any other information about this kind of scenario and other things I should look out for. I do not get the impression of honesty from this driver -- when I first noticed the damage, he tried to claim it was like that when he picked it up. I've been recording all calls (w\/ 2 party consent) between him, myself, insurance, etc. I have sufficient proof to back up the damage claim.\n\nThanks for any advice you provide, please let me know if you need additional information. This is my first post to legaladvice, so please be kind if I've broken any rules.\n\n**EDIT: Fixed formatting","title":"[CA\/TX] Car shipped across country and damaged. Driver wants to bypass insurance claims process. What are my risks?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553955852,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7btwt\/found_a_torrent_with_cp_is_there_anyway_to_report\/","id":"b7btwt","body":"So, I was looking for Linux ISOs and found one torrent on a semi private tracker which conteins CP. I did not downloaded but it has some very explicit images on the torrent page. Is there any way to report this? Would I be implicated on some way or could I maintain my anonymity? ","title":"Found a torrent with CP, is there anyway to report it?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1503096677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ulfnn\/do_i_owe_my_brother_for_money_he_paid_out_of_his\/","id":"6ulfnn","body":"My dad died last year.  My brother and I were co-executors of his will, in which he gave us his house and his personal fortune.  Some of the money went into an executor account that my brother and I shared, which would be used to pay for my dad's final medical expenses\/taxes\/renovations on the house, and eventually be dissolved and split evenly between us.\n\nMy brother and I disagreed on whether or not to sell the house at first, my brother wanted to sell and I didn't, but eventually I conceded.  After that, we also initially disagreed on whether we should sell the house as-is (what I wanted), or to renovate it using the money from the shared executor account so that we could sell it for as much as possible (what he wanted).  Again, I eventually and begrudgingly agreed to do what he wanted.\n\nAfter that, my brother kind of steamrolled over me, having renovations and work done to the house and yard left and right, never once consulting me or asking for my consent, only occasionally letting me know what had already been done, even though half of the money he was spending was technically mine.  He spend tens of thousands on the house and I basically had no say in it.  I admit I should have been much, *much* more vocal and involved in the decision-making, but my grief and apathy about the money, as well as the fact that he lived in the house and I lived a couple hours away, allowed him to walk all over me.\n\nIt was pretty clear from the get-go that all my brother cared about was milking this situation for as much money as he could get.  My mom has been convinced he's been trying to get more than his fair share of the inheritance, and I'm starting to believe it myself.\n\nA few months ago, my brother came to me and said he wanted to dissolve the executor account, meaning we would each receive half of what was left.  Happily I agreed, hoping this would be another step towards not having to deal with him or the money anymore.  So we dissolved it and split it up.  I assumed this meant that renovations on the house would either stop, since we no longer had a shared pool of money, or that he would pay for remaining renovations out of his own pocket.  After all, he was the only one that wanted them, and none of them even had to be done in the first place.  Additionally, for a brief period of time, he was working on the house himself, and informed me that he would be paying himself $15\/hour out of our executor account for his work.  I've been told this is legal(?), but it just doesn't seem right to me.\n\nToday, however, he texted me saying that he feels that I should reimburse him for additional work he has had done on the house (paying out of his own pocket) since we dissolved the executor account, approximately $10,000.  I have only a general idea of the work he's had done on the house, have absolutely no idea exactly how much he spent both before and after the executor account was dissolved, and I'm not even sure he has a full accounting of what he's done\/how much he's spent.\n\nIs he entitled to this money from me?  We plan on selling the house and evenly splitting the profits.  I never explicitly agreed to any renovations done using our shared account.  I certainly never was consulted about or agreed to *anything* he had done using his own money, and I feel that he has no right to claim I need to reimburse him for that money.\n\n","title":"Do I owe my brother for money he paid out of his own pocket to renovate the house we inherited from our father? [Virginia]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553553338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5hjbp\/questions_on_sole_prop_living_and_working_in_ca\/","id":"b5hjbp","body":"Some questions on breaking out as a sole prop recruiter. I want to live in and work out of California but service clients in the New York market. What are the filing requirements around:\n\n​\n\n1. Living and working physically in CA but servicing clients and hiring in NY?\n2. I will do business as (DBA) \"XYZ\". Do I need to file DBA paperwork in CA, NY, or both?\n3. Taxes. I assume I'll have to pay quarterly estimated taxes, but what else? Do I need to pay CA and NY state taxes?\n\n​\n\nAny other wisdom appreciated.\n\n​\n\nThanks!","title":"Questions on Sole Prop, Living and Working in CA but Servicing NY","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569079495,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7bv8l\/how_to_legally_break_a_lease_with_a_nursery\/","id":"d7bv8l","body":"Hello all. My roommate bought her house from her parents a few years ago and inherited a contract that has been standing since 2007 to rent the back acre of our land to a plant nursery. She's been wanting to give them the boot for some time now due to the workers causing a ruckus and stealing our fruit from our trees. She got a certified letter today that there has been damage to the roots and they'll be having police patrol the property to keep people off, including us. She feels it's not worth it for the $200 a year they pay to rent it. We looked at the [contract](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/oudYi7j) and we're mostly wondering how to word this letter and what \"five year rollover\" means. Any help is appreciated, thank you!","title":"How to legally break a lease with a nursery company renting our property. (OH)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570223937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dddpl0\/highway_robbery\/","id":"dddpl0","body":"Had my truck towed after it was in an accident in rural Alberta to a small town impound storage lot and the rates they are charging are astronomical. Is there a limit to what can be charged?","title":"Highway robbery","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570826886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgl2f1\/my_parents_are_considering_getting_back_together\/","id":"dgl2f1","body":"Some backstory\n- my father (m48) has every mental illness in the book & in addition to that he was also physically & emotionally abusive towards my mom (f47) & I (f17), which then resulted in my mother becoming physically  & emotionally abusive towards me\n- my mother cheated in 2018 w coworkers from a restaurant we BOTH worked at (awkward)\n- dad found out & abuse became extreme\n- parents divorced in September 2018 \n- divorce got finalized back in June 2019\n\nSo now my mother is purchasing a house & we are in the stages of moving. Apparently my parents have been talking & are considering dating again. This means my father asked my mom if he could help us move our things into a storage unit, to which she said yes without consulting anyone else (myself, little sis [f12], & boyfriend [m22] live in the apartment). I found out over the phone with my mom saying \u201coh one last thing your dads on his way to help move.\u201d \n\nHe has also asked multiple times to sleep on our couch since he doesn\u2019t have the money for a hotel or airb&b. The only reason my mom said no is because I begged her to say no.  This is entire situation has been giving me extreme amounts of stress & anxiety. \n\nNow according to the divorce agreements, they settled their divorce through mediation, so no judge. It states I can see my father whenever I wish & they will split holidays. Ex: half of Xmas break I\u2019m with my mom, other half I\u2019m w my dad. & to my knowledge I don\u2019t believe there\u2019s any restraining order placed on either of them. \n\nAs I\u2019m typing this I kinda feel like there\u2019s nothing  illegal being done since he hasn\u2019t harmed us or anything of that sort, but I do feel like I\u2019m being forced to see him when I would prefer not to. Can I do anything legally abt this?\n\nI\u2019ve been very vocal with both of my parents abt my concerns & how I am uncomfortable but it seems they are blindsided by their toxic feelings for one another. I feel as if bringing something legal will be the only way to avoid this mess they are making.","title":"My parents are considering getting back together after a nasty divorce. My father is currently at my house & I don\u2019t know if this is even legal?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569205900,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d80e9d\/porting_hong_kong_97\/","id":"d80e9d","body":"Hi, I'm planning to port Hong Kong 97 to the Switch for free. Anyone know the legal implications of this? Happysoft LTD (the devs) seem non-existent and the game might not even have existed since there are no physical copies found. Even if these are working against me, the game still is unlicenced and illegal. Any help?","title":"Porting Hong Kong 97?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1445525430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ps2iw\/usa_il_mother_sues_father_for_back_child_support\/","id":"3ps2iw","body":"Names replaced with Mother (plaintiff), Father (defendant) and Son (me).\n\nMy mother sued my father for back child support.  \n\nShe alleged that an agreement was made by and between them at an earlier date to the following effect:  in mutual recognition that Father did not pay Mother child support consistently and in full, she would be permitted to claim me as a dependent on her taxes.  Father agreed to this.\n\nFast forward to sometime around 2010.  Father and Step-mother (both Mother and Father are remarried) claim me as a dependent on their taxes.  Mother is infuriated, files lawsuit for back child support.\n\nCourt issues Agreed Order on 4\/4\/2012, full text follows, bracketed comments are mine:\n\n> Agreed Order\n> \n> Cause coming on for hearing on all remaining issues, both parties present in person and by counsel, Court being advised in the premises, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:  \n> \n\n> (1)\tFather shall pay the sum of $20,000.00 as and for past child support.  Said $20,000.00 shall be broken down with $10,000.00 to Mother and $10,000.00 to Son  Said sum shall be paid at the rate of $250.00 per month until said $20,000.00 has been paid in full.  Upon payment of said $20,000.00, Father\u2019s child support is satisfied.\n\n> (2)\tSaid $250.00 per month shall be paid through a Notice to Withhold Income directed to his employer and paid pursuant to his payroll schedule.\n\n> (3)\tMother shall open an new bank account with their son Son [first name used here], and she shall deposit the sum of $125.00 per month into said bank account for Son\u2019s use.  Mother shall provide Father with a copy of the monthly bank account statements showing proof of said deposit. \n\n> \n> KAG 4\/4\/2012 [bottom of first page]\n> \n> [begin second page]\n\n> \n> (4)\tEach party shall pay their own attorney fees and costs in this matter.\n\n> (5)\tAll pending issues are resolved by entry of this Agreed Order.\n\n> \n> (Father\u2019s signature)\n> \n> (Mother\u2019s signature)\n> \n> Enter:  April 4, 2012\n> \n> (Judge\u2019s Signature)\n> \n\nThe day of the court decision, I received a text from my mother.  This was three phones ago, but I recall the following.  I was asked by Mother what the sum of my student loan debt was, because the judge wanted to know.  I logged into my loan servicer's website for the first time and saw the sum total was ~$36k.  I told her the exact number, also by text.  It's my assumption that the judge awarded me part of the money to ameliorate my student debt, but that's just an educated guess, and perhaps irrelevant anyway.\n\nI later received a phone call from Mother.  We had a conversation and she said that she wanted me to share the cost of the attorney's fees, because she had to pay them but I received part of the award.  I did not agree to this, either in conversation or in writing, at any point in time.  \n\nI then contacted the student legal counsel office at my university and met with him and one other person, I believe he was an intern.  I asked them for advice on how to handle this.  I had no idea what to do, but knew I needed help in examining my options.  He told me that the emotional and relational aspects of this matter were beyond his scope but he said that I did not legally owe any money to Mother.  \n\nMother and I, in examining the order, agreed that she would set up the child support payments to deposit into her bank account, and she would write me a monthly check for $125.00.  This has been the case since.  I did this because any account we would set up would be subject to checking fees, and I didn't want that to be the case.  I remind her toward the end of every month, and a check is either mailed to me or given to me when I come to visit, which I do about once a month.  This conforms with the spirit, but not the letter of the order, but was mutually agreed as a convenience for us both.\n\nSometime within the last year she asked when I would begin paying back the attorney's fees.  I reminded her that I never agreed to pay those fees, because I didn't want the lawsuit to happen in the first place (they were amicable toward one another before this, not so anymore).  She became very upset, and I let the matter rest (this was mostly by text message).  I contact the student legal counsel at my old university to ask him if he still had records about our meeting.  He did and remembered it.  \n\nMore recently I've begun reminding her by text and email to write and send the monthly check, since before I did so by voice and I suspect, but won't allege, that one month here or there was skipped because I forgot to remind her.  \n\nThe reason I bring this matter to your attention is that I was included in a conference call about them taking out a Parent PLUS loan to help my bother pay for college.  This was just a conversation to let us know, since neither my sister or I received aid from them to help pay for school.  She got off on a tangent, and remarked that in the case of Mother and step-father's deaths, we would owe whatever money we owed them to the estate, and any money coming from liquidation of assets or life insurance payouts would be discounted the amount of the money we owed them.  This was and is going to be true for my bother's Parent PLUS loan, which they will demand he pay back over time.  She also remarked that I still owed them a thousand dollars.  I was not on the phone when this conversation happened.  I declined the call because I was busy and later heard this in a four minute voicemail I received.  Thus I know that she still believes, expects, or wishes me to pay her $1,000 for part of the attorney fees she incurred in her lawsuit against my father.\n\nMy questions to you all:\n\nHow should I handle this?  Should I contact an attorney?  Should I set up a bank account with my mother to conform with both the spirit and the letter of the court order?  What is prudent to do?  What is fair?  What is right?\n\n","title":"[USA IL] Mother sues father for back child support, wins, demands I (her son) pay $1k for part of her attorney fees because judge awarded me half the money","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571765988,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlle2h\/76_in_a_50_speeding_ticket_craven_county_nc\/","id":"dlle2h","body":"I was pulled over at 5 am this morning for speeding. I called a local traffic lawyer and they said they may be able to get it down to \"improper equipment\" \/ 16 hrs community service. I'm military and have an IN license. My Command suggested using a military lawyer instead. I'm wondering how fucked I am right now as the cop said it's a class 3 misdemeanor. I only have one ticket for going through a stop sign when I was 16 back in Indiana. So my record is relatively clean. Any\/ all advice would be appreciated.","title":"76 in a 50 speeding ticket Craven County NC","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570467752,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/demarh\/is_it_considered_a_hit_and_run_if_the_car_drove\/","id":"demarh","body":"I hit a parked car in a garage, but didn't have a pen on me to leave a note. I went into a nearby office and wrote a note, but the car was gone by the time I came back. What do I do now?","title":"Is it considered a hit and run if the car drove away before I was able to come back with a note?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540353344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qwcuo\/student_financial_aid\/","id":"9qwcuo","body":"Okay so I am a student and I\u2019m getting scared by how much student loan debt I am racking up. The reason why my school won\u2019t give me any bit of financial aid is that my parents make $182,000 a year before taxes. The problem is that THEY aren\u2019t paying for the student loans, I AM. So I am just asking, could I hypothetically claim myself as my own and still live with them so I can technically have a salary of only around $10,000 before taxes ? What are disadvantages and advantages to this theory I might test? Thank you very much for your time.","title":"Student Financial Aid","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1505332234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zx29g\/tx_usa_car_awarded_to_exwife_in_final_decree_but\/","id":"6zx29g","body":"She is telling me that I'm still responsible for paying the $5500 that I would have paid towards the loan if she hadn't totaled the car and insurance paid off the loan. The final divorce decree states:\n\n\"Petitioner, Chromium26, shall pay... The balance due, including principal, interest, and all other charges, on the promissory note payable to [bank name], and given as part of the purchase price of  and secured by a lien on the [vehicle] awarded to Respondent.\"\n\nEdit 1: I feel like the situation is similar to if she had traded in the vehicle and the dealership paid off the loan with trade in value. I think I'm only responsible for paying the loan, and if there is no more loan, I'm off the hook for the rest.\n\nEdit 2: The insurance company is paying out $7900 for the total loss. The remaining loan balance is $5500.\n\nEdit 3: Thanks for all of the responses. I haven't heard anything more from my ex, but I did call the insurance company and verified that they would be paying the lienholder (bank) first, then distributing the remaining payout to the policyholder (my ex). BTW, I don't have all the details, but my ex said that she \"wasn't paying attention and ran a stop sign, hitting two cars.\" If push comes to shove, I will call my divorce lawyer, but I'm hesitant to call him right now because I already owe him $4500 that I'm having trouble paying. [side note: total legal fees for both parties in this divorce were around 40k (15k my lawyer, 25k her lawyer), took almost 2 years to complete, and all because she wanted more than a fair share of the 50k in assets. Also, I'm paying $25,650\/year in child support, so people saying that she is \"owed\" a new car, she gets enough to pay for a new car and then some.]","title":"(TX, USA) Car awarded to Ex-wife in final decree but I'm responsible for paying the balance of the loan. Insured in her name, now totaled. Do I have to pay her the residual balance of the loan since her insurance paid off the loan?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554313260,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b913pa\/nv_college_had_a_set_close_date_two_days_before\/","id":"b913pa","body":"I will start this off with a couple of things. Due to information about where I live in this, I am using a throwaway. Mobile user format apologies. Long time viewer, first time poster, yadda yadda. If state laws apply, I live in Las Vegas, Nevada.\nI've been a college student for the last two years. As of January 21st 2019, I found out through a Google news notification that my school was going to potentially close. While a quick search would make it very easy to find the exact school, I will censor it per sub rules.\n\nOn the front door of the school, there was a notice on the door that stated and I quote, \"NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the undersigned Assessor of the County of Clark, State of Nevada, hereby seizes the following described personal property of: [NAME OF SCHOOL], for failure to pay taxes and penalties which were duly assessed, levied and are now due and delinquent.\"\nWhen asked, teachers and staff said it was under control and the school was not going to close. It was weird but the school has had shocks like this before, we lost half our building in the past and just accepted it. We had been bought and sold to other companies and other things like that. It was pretty hush until one morning there was a meeting with a higher up. We were informed that we lost all the staff in the office besides a single person. I have a recording of this meeting if it becomes necessary. Now we're being told we want to create media uproar and save the school. This guy is telling us he's talking to the governor, and that we have someone living in an entirely different state called our federal reciever who has say in our school closing or not. Again we're informed everything is under control and the school can not close and interrupt classes. So we keep going. Our school does not transfer credits to other schools and we are told that from the beginning so we can not leave unless we want to waste money and time. We are told that if we switch to another school, we will have to pay the amount we owe even if it does close (no loan forgiveness). So we have to stay at the school until the day it closes (this detail is particularly important). Finally we are given a date of closing, March 31st 2019.\n\n\"The Commission has received notice from Dream Center Education Holdings of the intended closure of the [SCHOOL NAME] by March 31, 2019. \u00a0This will permit students to complete the current semester prior to the closure.\"\n\nDue to layoffs, there are only certain classes and they are scattered through random segments of the day. They began autopopulating student's schedules to fit as many students as possible in classes and they mostly only offered entry level classes, meaning people like myself who are in classes beyond that now no longer have full schedules. At this point a part time student, I take more hours at my job and start making plans for what happens when the school closes. I got into contact with a loan forgiveness lawyer, and was told that I should be available for the loan forgiveness as soon as the school closes and to get back in contact with her when it does.\nAs I'm instructed, I continue classes.\nWe had another scare, that the school was going to close sooner than the March 31st date the first week of March. Suddenly the protection we apparently had could have been for nothing because we suddenly had a new close date of March 8th on a Friday. They were going to hold a transfer fair that Thursday and Friday and were going to have recruiters from other schools come in and offer students their options. As soon as they situated the sudden close date, they just cancelled the fair by leaving a note on the door (I have a picture of this as well). At this point we are losing vending machines and no longer have a security guard. We are informed this is because they are cancelling contracts on these things because of the closure. Classes go on, but of course there is a mass hysteria with students and people are dropping out. I find another job and start transitioning to it, as they understand the situation. The end of the quarter is mostly uneventful and there is talk about the school becoming something else, but dropping the school's name. Students are told by the school higher up to start coming up with Ideas and logos for this, but stop when they realize they wouldn't be getting credit in class or paid (I've been told this is illegal, and have recordings of every time this guy opened his mouth). They have a scare about losing the school website because it is a mirrored version of the school that closed in Pittsburgh.\nIn real time, the last three weeks I've been working my new job and under the impression the school is done. I'm waiting for March 31st to call back the lawyer about the loan forgiveness but otherwise I thought that was the end.\n\nThat was when we got the email.\nAgain, our classes are autopopulated.\nThe school is suddenly staying open, and despite everything mentioned about the school becoming something else, they keep the current name. When asked, they said they don't know when the school name is going to change, only that it eventually will.\nI am being told they are the single and only [SCHOOL NAME] to stay open in the entire country, but I can not find if this is actually true.\nThis email is dated 9am in the morning March 29th. We are told classes start April 1st (again autopopulated, we had absolutely no say). Of course, the classes I was given are 6pm-10pm and fall right when I have work at my new job. We gave the number in the email a call, but were told that it was Friday and the lady we can talk to about scheduling would not be able to speak with us. I am told to try and email her using an email  on the website. We were never given the email and could not find it on their website.\nAgain the classes I was given do not even make me a full time student. Even if my new job understood I would not graduate for years after I was originally supposed to.\nI cannot take a semester off or it will add thousands to my tuition. I know this because I tried this early on, but decided against it.\n\nTL;DR: My school was to close March 31st. Got situated for the school to close March 31st. March 29th comes along and students were given three whole days to adjust to a suddenly open school, through email, with classes autopopulated.\n\nWhat the heck are my options? I know the loan forgiveness lawyer I talked to won't help me until the name changes or the school closes(?). Do I wait and hope the school name changes? Is it worth getting an actual lawyer? We were told many times to expect the school to close March 31st, this came completely out of nowhere. I did not sign up with the school to graduate under a different school with a degree that we don't even know will be accredited yet.","title":"NV college had a set close date. Two days before the date, students are sent an email that the school will stay open and that classes are autopopulated (part-time). School name to stay for now with plans to change, just eventually.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541447695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ugy66\/im_allegedly_being_accused_of_intent_to_defraud\/","id":"9ugy66","body":"Throwaway for obvious reasons.   \n\n\nAbout two months ago, I was reached out to by a user in response to a post I had made through r\/borrow in search of a personal loan. We exchanged hundreds of emails, and he described himself as a broker who connected people in search of private loans with private lenders.  \n\n\nAt the time, I ended up not going through with the transaction. A few weeks ago, however, I found myself in a similar situation with seemingly no recourse, and I reached out to him once again. Using a Square account he had me create, I sent an invoice to someone for $5,000. I was only in search of $1,000 for the loan. The invoice was fulfilled, and after verifying some account information with Square, the money deposited into my bank account. I kept my share and had a cashier's check made out to someone else (per the broker's instructions), which I deposited into a bank account via information he provided.\n\n​\n\nSince then, I've kept in contact with the broker, and we had even discussed another transaction. An invoice was sent, per his instructions, but never fulfilled. I didn't think anything of it, and went about my business.\n\n​\n\nDespite some misgivings about the whole thing on my end, everything seemed to be alright. That is, until this morning, when I received an email from Square saying that there was a dispute being filed against me for the initial $5,000 transaction. I don't have that money anymore, so I reached out to the email address I had on file for the lender explaining what was going on and asking what I could do to resolve the issue.   \n\n\nHere's the reply I got:  \n\n\n\" I don't know who you are and don't really care.\n\nThe  dispute will continue as will the Federal criminal complaint filed  against you and the person who said you worked for him. I am withholding  the name as per the of the Special Agent working the case. Eventually  they will come looking for you. So I suggest you get back what ever  money you paid out from that person, because you, him and the person who  tried to scam are seen purely as co conspirators in an organized scheme  to defraud, which could also carry a RICO charge which is a minimum of  30 years in Federal prison.\"  \n\n\nI had no idea any of this was going on, and I'm freaking out at the moment. I'm dealing with a lot in my personal life already, and this all is making me sick to my stomach.   \n\n\nWhat do I do? I've never been in a situation like this before. ","title":"I'm Allegedly Being Accused of Intent to Defraud. What do I do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539915252,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pflzo\/how_to_determine_if_im_still_under_investigation\/","id":"9pflzo","body":"About two months ago I was involved in a late night incident that resulted in me having to defend myself with a knife. I was never charged with anything but the detective told me he would get back to me and that there was still a lot of investigating to do. Now that it\u2019s been two months and I haven\u2019t heard anything, did he just forget to contact me? Would an investigation that had most or all evidence day one take this long?  How do I determine whether or not if anything will come of this. I know that the statute of limitations can last up to 5 years depending on the charges that they could bring forth.\nI live in Montana \nHere\u2019s what happened:\nI went downtown with a buddy, we both had a bit to drink but not a lot. Towards last call, I sat down to play poker in the back of the bar. Last call came and my buddy left as they were kicking people out of the bar for closing time. I was playing poker though and was allowed to stay as long as I wished. I probably stayed another 30 minutes until I lost the money I bought in with. After I was done I left out the back into a parking lot, and headed up a side street to get back onto a main street. As I was walking towards the side street a group of about 4-5 people (two of them girls of that matters)  were walking towards the same side street but in the opposite direction towards me. I was a little closer and got to it first. As I was walking up it one of the guys in the group started yelling insults at me from behind and across the side street. I dont remember what specifically either of us said but, I probably yelled some back. In any case he came across the street and started standing trying to stand very close and over to me while saying he was going to kick my ass. His friends stood by and did pretty much nothing other than lightly plead with him to stop. I stood my ground and told him to take a hike and get out my face. One of his friends got in between us which then set him off, he took off his shirt and started coming at me. I started backing away from him and his friends back towards the way I came as soon as his friend got in between us. While I was backing up I pulled out a pocket knife from my pocket. I don\u2019t usually carry one but, a friend from much earlier in the night had given me one so I could open a packaged item. Anyways, he continued to come at me as a backed up. He got to me and immediately started throwing punches and knocked me to the ground, I managed to get up and escape him from getting on top of me continuing to back up now towards the door I came out of in the parking lot. He knocked me down again and jumped on top of me throwing punches. I began to slash to get him off of me and he did so within a couple seconds of initially jumping on top. His friends were screaming and he backed off of me with a visible gash in his right arm that i saw. They ran around the corner and up the side street while I went back up the stairs into the bar. I went into the bathroom saw that I was covered in blood and called the police. While I was on the phone with dispatch and walking back out the bar police showed up detained me and I pointed them towards where everything happened. Then I was read my rights put in the back of the police car and taken to the police station. I was put into an interrogation room, they took photos of my bloody state. Then I waited for 4-5 hours before detectives came in and talked with me. I was the last of witnesses to be questioned plus it was pretty late at night so the detectives probably had to be called in. I waived my rights, and gave them my story. They asked a couple questions but, not very many, and thanked me for being honest afterwards. The male detective then said he would be in touch with me and that there was a lot of investigating still to do. He then had a police officer drive me home and have me change so he could take my clothes I was wearing as evidence. \nHaven\u2019t heard anything since.\nI was generally unscathed other than a couple bruises and sore spots.\n","title":"How to determine if I\u2019m still under investigation?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441652603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k0538\/ex_has_been_dodging_child_support_payment_for\/","id":"3k0538","body":"Ok this is going to be a bit of a long read, but would be INCREDIBLY helpful if someone could give some good advice. \n\nMy sister made the mistake of marrying an utter douchebag. After a few years of marriage and 2 kids, she left his abusive ass (not to mention the fact that he racked up HUGE credit card and other debt in her name...whatever. a real class act.) Not surprisingly, he has not followed through on any of his child support obligations. Fast-forward 12 years, and he any my sister are still fighting it out. \n\nAbout 2 months ago, he got called to a hearing by the child support (probation) court. My sister was not aware of this (the hearing was on wednesday, she got the summons two days later, on Friday.) When there he told the court that the matter was already in Family Court. Fine. My sister is happy that it is FINALLY (after years of arbitration) going to a real court because it seems quite open and shut. She got herself a lawyer and was looking forward to the court date. \n\nLess than a week before they are due to appear in court, she gets notice that the court has granted ex-husbands request for arbitration -- something that she was ADAMANTLY opposed to for many reasons. (The matter was to be turned over to a religious Jewish court, which, while the legal system will uphold their ruling, they probably wouldnt rule as strongly in my sisters favor and would push for negotiation. My ex-brother in law can also reject their ruling, thereby dragging this whole mess out longer.) \n\nMy sister then found out that her lawyer, against her wishes, wrote to the judge to agree to arbitration. Again, my sister was VERY clear that she did not want to go to arbitration. Her lawyer never informed her of this, and in fact has been ignoring her for the past week. \n\nSo my question to you, dear redditors, is many :) Seriously though, any advice at all would help my family a lot. \n\n1. Does a lawyer in the state of New Jersey have an obligation to see a case through to the end? As in, can this lawyer just opt out mid-case? What would that look like?\n\n2. What can my sister do in terms of fixing this huge mistake her lawyer made? Not only has she messed everything up in a huge way for my sister, she expressly went against her wishes, and is now ignoring my sister. Can she be held accountable for that, and if so, what should be done?\n\n3. Any advice about getting a judge to hear the case again? My sister really does not want to go to arbitration (to the Jewish system called a beit din) as her ex has proven to not follow through on their rulings. \n\n4. Are there any organizations that can offer her some real help? It is complicated and messy and unfortunately raising her kids with no financial help has left my sister without a whole lot of money to spend on legal fees. \n\nI really hope that this amazing community will provide some resources for us. Any and all advice is so so appreciated.","title":"ex has been dodging child support payment for years and the lawyer went behind back and agreed to something we NEVER agreed to - PLEASE HELP","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551722392,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axa43e\/nh_rules_on_landlordlady_entry_into_apartment\/","id":"axa43e","body":"Location: NH\nOver the last couple weeks I\u2019ve begun to suspect that my landlady has been coming into my apartment without notice while I\u2019m at work. I\u2019ve since confirmed someone has been into my apartment by using some tape across the door, which has been broken when I get back from work (currently working on getting a camera set up to be sure she\u2019s the one coming in.) \nI\u2019ve looked up NH laws on this and while she\u2019s definitely supposed to give me notice before entering my apartment, the wording in how much time beforehand is rather vague, just saying it should be \u201cadequate under the circumstances.\u201d \nCan anyone give me some idea of how long this might be? I imagine it would be different depending on the circumstance obviously but how about something simple like an inspection of the apartment? ","title":"NH rules on landlord\/lady entry into apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412959582,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ivayx\/had_a_disciplinary_at_work_today_another_decision\/","id":"2ivayx","body":"Background information: I work for a multi-national IT company as a service desk analyst. My location is Birmingham, England which is where my office is based. I've never had any disciplinary in my current job too (verbal or written).\n\nSo a few days ago I posted a status on Facebook about applying for a new job. A few colleagues\/ex colleagues commented on this. Someone commented and said that CompanyY we support are s***. I replied saying that \"CompanyX are the problem\". Basically my company outsource IT support to others which explains what was said.\n\nSo fast track to today and I had a disciplinary for breaching their \"Social Networking Policy\". I took a colleague in for support and defended myself.\n\nSome points I used to defend myself were;\n\n- The policy was only created in August and I've never signed anything for it, let alone seen it. (The creation date was on the policy)\n\n- My comment wasn't a direct insult about the company, it was more of a \"I'm unhappy where I'm working\" comment\n\n- I used the companies abbreviated title in my comment \"XXX\". I said this means that external people won't necessarily know what those letters mean.\n\n- My Facebook profile is private so external people won't be able to see the comment anyway.\n\nThen after a lengthy discussion back and forth, I went outside as HR discussed my outcome. When going back into the room they wanted to reconvene the following week.\n\nThey also said towards then end of the meeting that they can't dispute my work rate on the desk and their problem with me was my \"passion\" for the job. \n\n....Wait a minute, I thought the disciplinary was for breaching a social networking policy?!\n\nSo because they didn't make their decision there and then, this has got me wondering whether this is a good or a bad thing. \n\nSorry about the length of this, but I figured having detail is better. \n\nTL;DR - A disciplinary hearing I have had has been reconvened to next week for the result. Is this good or bad in people's experience?","title":"Had a disciplinary at work today, another \"decision\" meeting has been arranged for next week.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570573690,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df7ho7\/take_a_moped_to_school_1_day_no_valid_plate\/","id":"df7ho7","body":"So talking theoretical. Let\u2019s say a random kid in the state of Minnesota got his license and went to get a vintage moped transferred and found he was a month away from 17. So he had a plate from 1980 with 82 tabs and no way to get tabs for a month when cold and snow set in. What if the kid took his moped out on quiet side streets for the last nice day of the year? What\u2019s the worst punishment if he was caught? No plans on breaking the law, just curious.","title":"Take a moped to school 1 day no valid plate","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555089337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcg4cm\/weird_situation_in_the_middle_of_a_crimminal\/","id":"bcg4cm","body":"(Florida) (Statute Number is 784.03)\n\nI was recently arrested and let go on bail on a felony of aggravated batttery as I bit an individual while he was choking me in a fight. I was also charged with a normal battery for punching. I have a current attorney with years of experience and previous persecutor. He charged me 13K for this case and  told me he expected that it won't go to court, though if it does go to court, I would have to pay additional fees to him. He explained a lot, but now a week into this I find myself with some good news and bad news. \n\nIt turns out the victim doesn't want to press charges as he already spoke to the state attorney. My own attorney then let me know yesterday of all of this information and claims that the state has dropped the felony charge for now. That they are willing to drop the misdemeanor charge (battery) if I pay the full sum of 11K in restitution NOW (medical bills of the victim as they don't have insurance). While I knew and was always willing to pay the bills, I never knew the full amount or the process of paying back. Here is the bad news: my attorny proceeds to give me the bad news that I need to pay the full amount ASAP before the prehearing arrangement or the state will go to court against the normal battery as this is a once in a million chance type of opportunity. I proceed to tell him Im already struggling to pay him and I don't have a single dime left (it is true) to pay for 11K right away. I also ask him: why is it not possible to make a payment plan with the hospital and show my good faith of paying. He says he will see what he can do and that is that. \n\nI am now dumbfounded by this situation as I don't understand how much progress hes actually making himself. It seems that the state attorney made their own decision to drop the felony chage (probably since the evidence wasn't sufficient and they don't want a college student in prison for years) so I don't see this as his work. Now here are the questions:\n\n He charged me so much because it was a felony but now that it isn't a felony what? I paid 13K for a lawyer to give me info on how the state dropped a charge and how I need to pay 11K in fees to the hospital asap or else I go to court? Thats it? Can't the state see how broke my family is and how we are willing to pay just not the full amount all at once? I don't know what to do or what to say to my attorny, Im scared and my family is going through a crisis of anxiety attacks.","title":"Weird situation in the middle of a crimminal defense trail: HELP!","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553010478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2z0gv\/missed_court_date_for_ticket_what_do_i_do\/","id":"b2z0gv","body":"So I had a court date set for the 13th and I know you are supposed to pay 7 days before the court date or something like that and those numbers got jumbled in my head and I thought the court date was the 20th and I had to pay it by the 13th, well fast forward to today I was going to run to court real quick and pay it off well I checked the citation and the court date was the 13th. \n\nThat means I may have had a warrant for my arrest for 6 days. How can I find out for sure without putting myself in police custody? If I get pulled over and then arrested over this, I can't afford impound charges and I'll lose my job no doubt. Is there any way to get by this and just pay the ticket and not get a criminal record? Or should I turn myself in and see what happens? Or is there a site I can contact to find out for sure what's going on with this? ","title":"Missed court date for ticket? What do i do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442513804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lbxlc\/south_carolina_landlord_threatened_to_fine\/","id":"3lbxlc","body":"Im currently house in south Carolina and on the outside our house nailed up there was a huge sign that said \"For Rent\" and a phone number. Its really tacky and we have people constantly knocking on our door asking about renting the house which is aggravating.We assumed the landlord just forgot to take it down since we just started a 12 month lease so my roommate removed it. Today our landlord came over furious demanded we give him the sign back, which we did and he said he would fine us 100$ to put back up the sign. Does he have any right to fine us? The lease says nothing about this and we didnt do anything permanent to the house","title":"(South Carolina) Landlord threatened to fine tenants for removing a sign from house","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553006578,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2y8vh\/road_rage_assault_help_next_steps\/","id":"b2y8vh","body":"Yesterday, someone (we\u2019ll call her Jane) was assaulted on the road. The assailant cut Jane off then proceeded to get out of her car at the next light, walk up to Jane and slap her across the face through Jane\u2019s cracked window. All of this was caught on Jane\u2019s dash cam expect for the slap as it was out of frame (you can hear it though).\n\nJane immediately called 911 and waited for about 30 minutes for police to arrive but they never did. As it was a bad part of town, Jane requested they come to her home. They never did.\n\nThis is where we are: it\u2019s the next day and Jane has not given her statement. She has also not yet spoken with a lawyer.\n\nWhat we need help with is:\n- should Jane talk to a lawyer before giving her statement?\n- how does she go about finding a decent attorney?\n\nThank you!!!","title":"Road Rage Assault Help &Next Steps","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443848341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nba05\/landlord_has_owed_me_a_deposit_check_for_months\/","id":"3nba05","body":" I live in California and was renting a room in a house where the landlord lived. After I moved out, my landlord never contacted me about my deposit or any deductions until a few months later, way past the 21 day deadline. I was told I'd be getting the full deposit back, but in parts because he had spent my deposit and did not have the money. I was friends with this person so I said ok. He then proceeded to lie to me about mailing the check. (Long story, I only found out when I told him 3 weeks later that I didn't get anything. He told me he actually didn't mail it yet.) When I finally got it, he asked me to hold onto it for a month because he didn't have the money. I was eventually able to cash it and get a portion of the check back... but then I got the same treatment for the rest of the money. It's been around 10 months now since I moved out.\n\nI finally told him I would file a small claims court about it if I didn't get it soon and he now wants to charge me for random things. I read that if I didn't receive a list of deductions after 21 days, he can't charge me for anything. Is there a way he can go back and lie and say he did? I have all the messages that show proof that he planned on paying me the full amount, but I'm not sure what weight that holds in court. ","title":"Landlord has owed me a deposit check for months, now he wants to claim damage.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539092652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mp9g6\/paying_500_bucks_in_electricity\/","id":"9mp9g6","body":" On mobile, so formatting is gonna be poo.\n\nMy Gf and I live in a nice apartment complex, Its 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1300sqft and forced air.\nWe moved in about a year ago and it's mostly been ok.\nThen the winter came and drained our bank accounts. \nOur electric Bills skyrocketed from about 100 dollars to 500 dollars!! The apartment has terrible insulation. The windows in the rooms are single paned so we lose a lot of heat there, we shrink wrapped and covered the windows with blankets and foam to help insulate. The biggest issue is our single paned glass sliding doors. We have two of them in our living room that leads off onto our porch. We lose a TON of heat from these. We placed blankets, foam boards, articles of clothing, taped plastic weather tarping and eclipse curtains and we were still losing heat. We looked like hoarders from the outside!!Winter is coming again and nothing has been done to change those doors, even though we have brought our concerns several times. They even changed other tenants doors and kept telling us ours would come but never did. Legally what can I do? \nIt's insane for me to pay 500 bucks for a medium sized apartment. I'd understand a drafty house but this is crazy!  Can I make them pay for part of my electric Bill this winter and possibly last winter? \nThank you. \n\n","title":"Paying 500 bucks in electricity","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553796124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6m34d\/possible_fraud\/","id":"b6m34d","body":"Student from\/in Florida here. I was recently applying for FAFSA and I was denied any financial aid because of settlement money I have to my name from a personal injury case in 2017. I called to let the FAFSA folks know that that settlement money had been in my account for going on three semesters now, and I\u2019ve been receiving FAFSA this entire time. Mind you neither the amount of money in my possession nor any FAFSA policies that I am aware of have changed since I received the settlement. so what the individual from FAFSA suggested I do is withdraw that sum and keep the cash in a safe deposit box and reapply, and just put the money back in my account when the audit is complete. To my parents and I this sounds like fraud that I\u2019m being told to commit. Should I steer clear of this option and if so what avenues should I pursue to find out why there\u2019s been such a drastic change all of a sudden? Also if there is information in this question that is best removed please let me know immediately so I don\u2019t put myself or anyone else in harm. ","title":"Possible fraud?!","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552962267,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2rok7\/stopping_segregation_of_kids_with_allergies\/","id":"b2rok7","body":"My 6 year old niece lives in Oregon and has a nut allergy.\n\nThe school forces her to sit all by herself during lunch hour.  She can invite one friend but as you guys know, someday that particular friend may want to be able to eat with others as well and leave my niece which would then leave my niece devestated.\n\nCan a school really force kids to sit separate from other kids due to nut allergies?  Her allergies aren't so bad she can't be by nuts.  She just can't eat them.\n\nIf they can, any suggestions on how my sister can get my niece sitting at the other table?","title":"Stopping segregation of kids with allergies","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541737144,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vhcf0\/i_need_help_about_my_niece\/","id":"9vhcf0","body":"My sister wants custody of her daughter but she thinks she cannot get it since she is not the birth mother. They were together for a long time, and they planned out that one of them should get pregnant. well her EX said she would do it. Thus they had had the child. Now skip 4 years they break up, but are still close for the child's sake. They basically share custody of the child and live near each other. One will have the child for 4 days while my sister has the child for 3 days. The child is now 7 years old. She is getting in trouble in school. Her home life with her mother is deteriorating to the point she is openly hostile with her. She constantly says she hater her birth mother. She tells her birth mother horrible things, and now she is acting out physically such as trying to kick out the back seat windows of her car. The boyfriend of my sister's ex is abusing the kids physically and mentally. Like one time the mother was at work and he left my niece outside in the snow until she got home. \n\n​\n\nNow this past year and a half there have been incidents in school, like her bullying younger children, her cutting another kid's hair on the school bus which got her kicked off the school bus. Now she tried to have another kid attack another kid for her. Her birth mother wants to send her psychiatric hospital to get evaluated, but doesn't want to change the situation at home. My sister is concerned since the child was raised by both mothers. \n\nso here is my question:\n\nIs there anyway my sister can get full custody of the child?","title":"I need help about my niece","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569868574,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbg14n\/im_an_idiot_and_i_need_some_help_quick\/","id":"dbg14n","body":"I lost my speeding ticket that I got for going 75 in a 55 on my way back home (NYC) from Syracuse, NY.  I think the time for me to pay on time has passed and I'm kinda freaking out.  The worst part is I don't know what country I was in to look up the court (I was driving about 45min from Syracuse when I got the ticket.  How do I pay this ticket so I can move on with my life?","title":"I'm an Idiot and I Need Some Help Quick","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554563604,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba59xx\/lease_agreement\/","id":"ba59xx","body":"Me and 2 of my friends recently moved in to a new place, but only 2 of us signed the contract. Before moving in we agreed that me and one of my friends would move out June 1st since we are graduating and leaving the country, 2 other guys were supposed to move in with the one friend that is staying. Before moving in we let the management company know all of this. Now these 2 other guys that were supposed to move in might not be able to. Is it possible that we all just move out even if we have a one year contract? (That only 2\/3 of us signed) can we break the lease for no reason?  \n\n\n\nThis is in Windsor Ontario.","title":"Lease agreement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555618774,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beq89y\/does_cashing_a_check_thats_not_the_full_amount\/","id":"beq89y","body":"My landlord owes me over $800, he took expenses (which he will not produce a receipt for) and sent me a check for much less. He is withholding the rest, but I\u2019m curious if cashing what he\u2019s sent me would essentially be me consenting to this amount. \n\nThe landlord (of course) disagrees and has blocked my number. My lawyer says I have to take him to small claims court, and I maybe could even lose although I have the proof that\u2019s he\u2019s not supplied a receipt.\n\nI\u2019d love to cash to this partially supplied check of my owed deposit, but I\u2019m worried cashing it will be my consent to him legally keeping the rest of my money. \n\nI\u2019m in Illinois btw.","title":"Does cashing a check that\u2019s not the full amount validate someone withholding payment (i.e. a landlord who is not returning full deposit)?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569470457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9efgp\/friend_got_in_a_pretty_bad_wreck_with_a_dashcam\/","id":"d9efgp","body":"So long story short, me and a bunch of friends were out acting stupid in our cars the other night. One of the friends has a dashcam that is always rolling. After we were done fooling around we went back to our hangout spot and hung out for the next 4 hours. I left at about 230 a.m. and my buddy with the dashcam left at 330 a.m. Upon leaving my friend with the dashcam crashed into a tree and had to be taken to the hospital with some pretty bad injuries. Chances are the dashcam footage will be confiscated and reviewed to see what caused the accident.\n\nIf the police review the footage and happen to see the footage from earlier in the night (hours before the accident occured) where my buddies and I were acting stupid, can they use that footage to give us tickets?","title":"Friend got in a pretty bad wreck with a dashcam in his car. Dashcam possibly had footage of me doing stupid stuff way earlier in the night l. Can it be used against me?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508534198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77p52a\/guy_threatened_to_shoot_my_service_dog\/","id":"77p52a","body":"The incident:\n\n> A group of guys started playing dice against my apartment building wall. I haven't seen them until very recently and don't think they live on the block. I've seen drug deals take place in front of my house (which is also covered in cameras so that seems stupid). But I've never had an issue with anyone for the five months I've lived here. Until today. \n\n> So they're playing dice, and they often block the entryway to my apartment building so that I have a hard time leaving with my dog, or dogs, in toe as I take them for a walk or to pee. \n\n> When we come back, one of my dogs tries to go after the dice because he hasn't been worked or exercised enough (midterms, I've been in hospital a bit more often too).\n\n> The guys just explode, hooten and hollering, screaming \"hey, bitch, bitch, bitch.\"\n\n>I ignore them at first, then decide to turn around. My witty come back was, \"I live here, you don't\"\n\n>That's when one of them said, \"I'm gonna shoot your dog.\"\n\n>Called the cops, called my landlord, called my dad, called my therapist. It's all sorted now. I'm locked in my apartment trying to take deep breathes and stop shaking.\n\nSo, direct questions:\n\nHow do I send the stills and footage from my apartment's security camera's to the police and have them added to the case file? How the hell does that work?\n\nOne of the police officers kept asking me if the man who threatened my dog showed me a gun or reached for a gun - why? (He didn't)\n\nShould I record sound when I walk by the group from now on? Or should I hang back and call dispatch as I was instructed and wait for police to arrive before entering my apartment? It was unclear when the officers thought I should call dispatch to let them know the man who threatened me is standing outside my apartment.\n\nShould I try to get footage of other times I've walked past this group to show that they have always reacted negatively to me and my dogs?\n\nMore general questions:\n\nWhat's going to happen next? This is the first time I have called 911.\n\nJust... any advice? How do I protect myself? How do I prevent future harassment? Is there anything I can do, I'm concerned of retaliation?\n\nI'm in PA by the way\n\nEdit: Do want to add that my dog did not make contact with any person or dice despite the confrontation starting from about a foot away. So even though my dog did act out I think I had it pretty well under control.\n\nUpdate: Called police back like they said to because I saw him again. turns out the dice group is the same group that plays cards and listens to loud music next door. Or at least partly the same. ~~Completely irrationally~~ thought he was going to shoot my dog as I was with Storm at the time.\n\nPolice questioned them, and explained what they can and cannot do or say to me. At least I think they did, I didn't get close to the confrontation. The men started shouting and getting mad when the officers said they couldn't threaten me or my dog. I couldn't really hear what was being said other than \"muzzle\" and \"bite\" coming up a few times. It did make me realize that I have explained to some of these guys that my dog is a service dog and they have seen him with his vest and have seen me actively training him.\n\nAn officer also stayed back and explained how to add the footage to the case file and when I started to apologize for calling she cut me off and said I did the right thing, and told me in what instances I should call again. ","title":"Guy Threatened to Shoot My Service Dog","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1415052132,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2l76bz\/im_looking_for_a_privacy_policy_template_for_a\/","id":"2l76bz","body":"Hi there,\n\nI'm looking for a privacy policy template, specifically addressing data that is on computers customers bring in, that we do not share or use that data for our own purposes, etc. Is there some sort of template I can find some where? I'm having a really hard time googling, I only seem to find website privacy policies. \n\nI am located in Colorado, USA. ","title":"I'm looking for a privacy policy template for a tech repair shop [USA]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570232192,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddfhwg\/got_fired_from_my_job_at_a_public_school_can_i\/","id":"ddfhwg","body":"I worked as support staff (not a teacher) for a public school district in Florida. On Tuesday my boss sets a meeting under false pretenses, the meeting subject obviously was not \u201cwe\u2019re firing you\u201d, and then out of nowhere tells me that they are terminating my employment, effective immediately. \n\nI was given no reason for the termination at all.   My termination letter just states that \u201cper your employment agreement, we are termination your employment...\u201d. The employment agreement we are required to sign every year does have a section that states they they have the right to fire you with or without cause at any time. \n\nMy question is, could I do a FOIA request to request any of my boss\u2019s emails related to my termination as well as my full employment record?\n\nI\u2019d really like to know what kind of back door BS led to his decision to just fire me out of the blue. I had no disciplinary issues, my review from 3 months ago was rated as \u201chighly effective\u201d, and he never had any discussion with me prior to this about any issues with my performance, attitude, behavior, etc. \n\nOh, and to make thing even more shady, my boss also happens to be over the HR department as well as me and my department. \n\nI\u2019m just pissed right now and the school seems to have a history of using the language in the employment agreement to get rid of people management doesn\u2019t want to deal with anymore. \n\nLike I said, curious if anyone is familiar with Florida\u2019s sunshine law and if I might be able to do a public records request for this information. \n\nThanks.","title":"Got fired from my job at a public school. Can I use a public records request to find out why? (FL)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554581136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba8cau\/employer_claiming_me_as_an_independent_contractor\/","id":"ba8cau","body":"I am currently employed by a small indie two-location company. My two bosses aren\u2019t very clear cut. I just report to them, not sure who\u2019s the exact owner, or who is just a manager or such. When I was first hired, the boss who acts a bit more like Manager (M) had asked for my personal details, claiming he needed them to be able to do my tax withholds and other paperwork. Stupidly, I assumed that meant that I was having money withheld from my check and never checked. We never really signed any formal documents, but I never set my own pay, never set my own hours. None of us workers ever did. We often had to beg for days off and there were times I had to wait a few days for my paycheck. I work around 55 hours a week currently, and on occasion (such as the first two to three months) work 45 hours a week. Was never paid overtime. I was paid commission, and often had that threatened if things went \u201cmissing\u201d. We have proved that the computer software is faulty, yet they still blame us and threaten to withhold the amount \u201cstolen\u201d. They have cameras in the booth, so if they truly wanted to, they could have us arrested for the alleged \u201cstealing\u201d, yet checking the cameras for our innocence is out of the question. We also get no breaks as \u201cwe can eat whenever we want as long as there isn\u2019t any customers in the store\u201d, and we weren\u2019t compensated for gas when sent to the location that was about 25 miles away. Is there anything I can report them for? I have learned I owe around 620 for the taxes not withheld, and would love to see if I have any grounds of reporting them for something. Anything. I have no idea how to fix this tax situation, and so I\u2019m just grasping at straws to try and get just one bit of justice for myself and the other workers. \n\nSorry this turned into a rant, I\u2019m just so tired of all the yelling, the sudden backstabbing, and of this job in general. ","title":"Employer claiming me as an independent contractor, not paying overtime, and just a whole bunch of stuff","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445912189,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qd7n0\/can_exhusband_withhold_alimonychild_support_to\/","id":"3qd7n0","body":"Hello.  I live in New Mexico.  My divorce was recently finalized.  As part of the divorce decree, I got the car.  However I am supposed to refinance the car to remove my ex's name from it.  That can't happen until our house is sold since my debt to income ratio is too high.  \n\nMy ex-husband said that he is going to withhold the car payment from my alimony\/child support payments to pay for the car.  There is nothing stating he can do that in the divorce decree.  Is that something he can legally do?  If not, what can I do about it?","title":"Can ex-husband withhold alimony\/child support to pay bills?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553808454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6ol8b\/nj_department_of_labor_complaint_outcomes\/","id":"b6ol8b","body":"I have worked at this liquor store for 8 months. I am a dependable employee, wonderful with customers (they love me as much as I love them) and I recently made a mistake that cost the store $250. A guy was purchasing around $900 worth of liquor and wine a few weeks ago. All of the liquor was thrown into miscellaneous wine boxes. They were not labeled. My acting manager was shouting out what was in the cases to me and telling me what to ring up. He insists that he told me about one of the cases underneath like 10 bags of ice in the cart but I truly do not believe he did. The guy put one bottle from the case on the counter, so I rung up one, but there were 9. It was just simple human error, there was a cart full of stuff and a hand truck full and it was a very large purchase. My manager should have double checked that everything was rung up. He put all of the blame on me, said it was entirely my fault. On Monday, my regular manager informed me that the owner of the store told her to let me go for this incident. However, he said that if I cash my paychecks and give him the money for the merchandise the customer STOLE (he obviously hid the case underneath the ice), I could stay. I initially agreed to this. I know that by asking me to give them cash, they are getting around it being illegal to garnish my wages. \n\nAfter chatting with my professor who is a lawyer and trusted faculty at my college, I\u2019ve decided I\u2019m not paying because it was an honest mistake and the manager who was present at the time was responsible for making sure everything was accounted for before the guy walked out the door. \n\nI am walking into work tomorrow, and explaining very nicely that I have decided not to pay for the bottles, because it was an honest mistake and the manager present was also responsible for the mishap. I will say you can let me go or you can keep me but the ball is in your court. \n\nMy hope is to be fired so that collecting unemployment will be easier, as I already filed a complaint with the department of labor, and they can\u2019t say I was fired for misconduct because I didn\u2019t do anything maliciously, I made an honest mistake. \n\nRegardless I will not work there anymore, and I will quit if they don\u2019t let me go. It is my understanding that I can collect unemployment even if I quit if I was compelled to quit, which I was, which is evident in my complaint to DOL. \n\nShould I mention that I filed a complaint with department of labor tomorrow? \nWill I be able to collect unemployment? \n\nI have a temp job lined up, I just want the unemployment to be my backup plan if something goes wrong. \n\nI also wish to know what happens when I file a complaint with the department of labor. \n\nThank you if anyone can help ","title":"[NJ] Department of Labor complaint outcomes?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507764033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75sznn\/ak_straight_forward_security_deposit_question\/","id":"75sznn","body":"In Alaska, a landlord has 14 days from the time a lease ends to return a security deposit or an itemized list of deductions in lieu of the full deposit. I am 3 days from that time, and considering my previous landlord is an absolutely piece of shit, I am very confident there won't be a security deposit check sitting in my mailbox on the 14th.\n\nMy question is, since I get free legal counseling through my job, should I even bother sending him a certified letter quoting state statute and asking nicely for the deposit back, or should I just go straight to the lawyer option? The reason I hesitate to send a letter first is because I don't want to do anything that might muddle up the clear-cut expectations set forth in the statute.\n\nAs a side note, I took pictures of my leased space right before moving out and also gave my landlord notice of my intent not to renew the lease in *3 different ways* (letter, email, memo on the final rent check) to which he still tried to claim that he had no notice of my intent after texting him letting him know I had moved out. After I reminded him of my *3 notices* he acknowledged that I had in fact let him know...which brought me great satisfaction.","title":"[AK] Straight forward security deposit question.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539279413,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nc2u6\/getting_the_most_out_of_a_very_limiting_contract\/","id":"9nc2u6","body":"Hello, I began working for a startup company in the first week of September. To keep confidentially, I will not specify the kind of work I was doing, but I had a few yours of experience in a \\*related\\* field but only a bit over a few months doing what I was asked to do for this job.\n\nTurns out, however, that a higher-up was keeping a deal a secret (for a surprise, I guess?); he was setting up a company buyout of a smaller, similar company. A week after I was hired, they bought out this company, and a few weeks after, they had transferred two veteran workers. This week, the company told me they couldn't afford to keep me anymore.\n\nI really understand this. They are a startup and have to me shrewd with their money. I understand that it did not have to do with me lacking any competence. These two veteran workers are not only more experienced overall, but also had hands-on experience with EXACTLY what the company was trying to do; and they had been keeping up as a much smaller company before then.\n\nI am posting here because I was given a contract to sign. With it, I'm wondering if I can get the most out of this contract as possible while losing the least -- either by negotiating something more or not signing at all...\n\nThe contract is offering me one last payoff that equates to a little bit over a week of work. That's nice, but beyond that there's a ton of limitations; the biggest red flags for me are (1) prevention of me applying for employment insurance EVER (this section was left short and, therefore, vague, so it could be considered in this way), (2) prevention of me sharing my work with the company (I think I can walk around this by changing some nouns), and (3)  exemption of the company from taxes.\n\nThis job was sort of a big break for me, so in order to help me find another \"big break,\" I'm also considering asking the contract to include a section where they specify that my termination is not from the inability to follow through on responsibilities but because the company experienced unplanned financial limitations.\n\n​\n\nCan anyone give me any insight on this? Am I overthinking it? I part of me really wants to not sign it; despite the fact that I'd be turning down money, I just don't like contracts, as they could technically limit my actions for the rest of my life.\n\n​\n\nIt's also worth noting that the manager said they want to hire me as soon as they get more money. Can anyone with experience say whether or not that sounds like typical termination bullshit, and whatever he said would be thrown to the wind once this contract is signed?","title":"Getting the Most Out of a Very Limiting Contract: Got Terminated at a Company After a Little Over a Month For Company Financial Reasons","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552828667,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b252az\/do_i_have_to_use_my_full_legal_name_on_an\/","id":"b252az","body":"(Sorry if the flair is wrong, I really dont know much legal stuff at all)\n\nBasically I'm trans and closeted and I haven't legally changed my name. I'm looking at renting my first apartment but I don't know if I'm allowed to use my preferred name, and I can't ask my parents or any other more-knowledgeable adults than myself without outing myself.\n\nDoes a contract have to use your full legal name? Or can I use my preferred name\/nickname?","title":"Do I have to use my full legal name on an apartment lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444846061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3or2uw\/nc_custody_question_ex_did_not_answer_summons\/","id":"3or2uw","body":"I'm located in NC.  My ex was served with custody\/child support papers back in June.  I had a phone call with my lawyer a week ago and he said that my ex has not responded.  He was served.. we have the receipt from the postal office.  We have a current no contact order so I can't call him and ask him about it.  What exactly does it mean for me and how will it look when we do go to trial for custody\/child support?  My lawyer was very vague in his answer to this question as it was just a short phone call we had and he had to run into court.  We have to skip mediation because there is a history of domestic violence.  Thanks!","title":"[NC] Custody Question- -Ex did not answer summons","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570676498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfrwo4\/are_there_any_us_laws_restricting_how_much_notice\/","id":"dfrwo4","body":"Specifically, I live in TN and can\u2019t seem to find any federal or state laws saying it\u2019s required for an employer to give any notice of any schedule changes within a certain amount of time. \n\nAlthough it\u2019d be disrespectful, is it legal for a boss to change an employees schedule at any time (even less than 24 hours) with or without notice?","title":"Are there any US laws restricting how much notice employers have to give employees before changing their schedules?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553742147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6dmtz\/possible_title_9_violation_my_workplace_has\/","id":"b6dmtz","body":"I'm currently working in the state of NC at a private high school and I have been working with this co-worker who has been very disrespectful...actually harassing me all year. I am teaching a strength class for girls and my co-worker teaches the guys version of the class and all year he started with snarky comments that I just brushed off but he realised that didn't get my attention so he brought his class into this mess by talking trash about me to his class, talking trash about my class to my class and allowing them to disrespect me and not listen to me at all. At the end of the year before Christmas break, he started making comments about me and my class that started to hang on a little longer with my girls because it made them feel bad about the class or themselves. After returning, he held off for a little bit but went full force after he had to substitute one day when I was sick... telling my girls things that are not true at all about me and was very hurtful to me to hear about myself. My girls began to feel really uncomfortable around him because he started to make comments about them and then snarky comments about me and my class... these girls are underage. This class also allows me to use the weight room at any time I wish and have full access to the gym while I teach. This co worker of mine would like the weight room, we have yet to have it one time this school year for a class period!! He also wishes to take over the gym, in which I have full access to for my teaching because he has the weight room but he wishes to have both at the same time because \"he has a bigger class.\" I have been to the AD about this issue several times before and he has yet to even step in, speak to other teacher, or even talk to his class about the actions in which is going on...   \n\n\nIn the past month I have had three major incidents with this teacher! I will give details of two of them. \n\nIn February, I was teaching in the main gym when his boys came in the gym and would not listen to me at all and began to throw the football over my class while we are still in session. The boys did not listen to my directions at all and hit one of my girls. They still threw the football over  my class after being told not to throw the football over and over, they soon nailed my coffee and spilled it everywhere... when I got up to pick it up, I was nailed in the back of the head by the football... whether on purpose or not who knows... The students were supposed to be written up, I actually do not know if they actually were or not... \n\n​\n\nIn March,  about 2 weeks ago, I was in the main gym teaching and we were half way through class when the boys from the other class come banging on the door to be let into my class, I had locked the door. The other teacher let them in at which time I was very angry because what girls want to be in front of boys... I told them to leave until I was finished and they cussed and fussed. I went to the teacher who rolled his eyes and got very angry with me, cussed me and called me names under his breath as I left. I went back to my class, we heard yelling in the hallway to which the boys were yelling about me not letting them in to play while I was teaching in the gym! Common Sense!! I was very mad and upset, I ended class early and cleaned up. I went to my office while my class played the rest of the time in the gym. One of my girls came in and informed me that the other teacher was in the weight room talking so much trash about me and my class that my girls were not even allowed in the classroom, they forced themselves in there, after changing. Most of the trash talk was mostly harassment talk about me and my girls... \n\n​\n\nNow I have reached a point to which I have documented everything! Everything he has said, class has said, and my girls have heard around the school has been written down. These incidents are written down and dated. I myself, can no longer even do my job since returning from break. When I go to teach tomorrow, I have to inform the Assistant principal that I will be in the main gym for my class and if anything happens that I have to call him immediately... I also have talked to several people who have opened there mouth and offered a helping hand in talking to the higher ups if I need it... \n\n​\n\nNow overall I am not sure where this whole situation even sits... title 9, inequality, harassment, etc... I do know if it is not handled I will seek outside help but need some advice before hand... TIA ","title":"Possible Title 9 Violation... My Workplace has become unbearable...","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569904256,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbo353\/insurance_wont_cover_towing_yard_fees\/","id":"dbo353","body":"I got in an accident 9\/17\/2019 - just for reference my insurance is Geico, the other guy\u2019s was Travelers.\n\nThe other guy was at fault. I spoke to Travelers on 9\/18\/2019 and she said she couldn\u2019t get ahold of the guy so she wanted my side of it first. \n\n9\/24\/2019 rolls around and I call Travelers to follow up, the lady says that they still haven\u2019t gotten ahold of the guy. I called Geico and the woman said to get a police report of the accident and send it over.\n\nI call the police department and request records (which could take up to 10 business days and they wouldn\u2019t expedite it). \n\nToday (9\/30\/2019) I got a letter from Travelers saying that they are still trying to \u201cfind fault\u201d (they still haven\u2019t gotten ahold of him) and that if they accept liability, they won\u2019t pay for the towing yard fees to get my car out where it is being held and that I need to move the car to a yard without fees.\n\nI was under the impressions that since he was legally at fault an got the ticket and everything that Travelers would have to pay it as I can\u2019t afford the towing fees and it wasn\u2019t even my fault. \n\nAre they allowed to do this? Is there anybody I can contact or do I have to pay to get my car out  myself?","title":"Insurance won\u2019t cover towing yard fees?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540466574,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r9djj\/label_contract_for_a_song_need_advice_first_time\/","id":"9r9djj","body":"Hello. I\u2019m a musician, and i sent my song as a demo to a label. He sent me a contract to sign and i would like some advice on what i am getting into, as i am only 18 and have never done something like this. I would like to know if there is any catch or thing that i should be aware about (such as my rights as an artist or my song rights). \n\n[The contract](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/mgCqOyA)\n\nHope you can help me.\n\n","title":"Label Contract for a song, need advice, first time signing anything","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539310452,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ngbip\/please_help_advice_for_friend_being_evicted_with\/","id":"9ngbip","body":"My friend moved in with her mother and father in law to get out of abusive relationship. The step father never like her. Just recently he\u2019s tried to evict her. That was today. She was about 10 minutes late for court because she had to get the kid out the car and walk around back because of construction was being done in the front. He won by default and was given 24hrs to leave. He\u2019s been with holding her mail days before court and even put a stop to it. She discovered some important mail of hers today in his office that said return to sender. He\u2019s holder her mail. Is there anything she can do? Even to get him back. This guy is crazy and her mom is doing nothing to stop it.","title":"Please Help! Advice for friend being evicted with kid (NJ)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552333038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azxoz0\/trash_fine_at_apartment_complex_please_help\/","id":"azxoz0","body":"Me and my 2 roommates live in an apartment together in north Texas, and today we received a letter stating that we are in violation of our lease due to a maintenance member finding a pizza box with one of our names \"somewhere\". My roommate had taken out trash yesterday and even commented how full the dumpsters were, but managed to stuff it inside.\n\n​\n\nWe just called the front office to get clarity and she says that she has pictures of the pizza box, but cant determine its location because its too close up. We even asked her if it was possible that it could have fallen out later since the dumpster was so full, and she agreed saying \"it probably did\", but responded \"We can't prove what happened, we just have a picture of it on the ground.\"\n\n​\n\nWe even said that we've never left trash outside our door or beside the dumpster. She responds with \"well, are you sure?\" \n\n​\n\nShe also goes on to say that there's nothing we can do but pay the $25 fine because we cannot prove that we didn't just leave the pizza box on the ground. I'm extremely upset that I even have to deal with this and I don't know if I have any sort of angle to combat it. Is there anything I can do?\n\n​\n\nI appreciate anyone that reads this post, and will gladly answer any questions to fill in any gaps. I've even recored the phone call with the front office. Please help!","title":"Trash Fine at Apartment Complex. Please Help!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570128242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcv5nh\/ny_state_traffic_ticket_no_supporting_deposition\/","id":"dcv5nh","body":"Hi, could use some help with a traffic issue I\u2019m facing:\nI got a traffic ticket for speeding about two months ago in Upstate New York. I plead not guilty and requested a supporting deposition.\n\nIt\u2019s been over the 30 day limit and I haven\u2019t received the supporting deposition but did get a date for a pre-trial conference in November.\n\nIs there anything I can do to get the case thrown out without having to go in person to the pre-trial conference?\n\nThanks!","title":"NY State Traffic Ticket: No Supporting Deposition But Pre-Trial Conference","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568651661,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d535pc\/employer_is_giving_me_a_hard_time_for_dying_my\/","id":"d535pc","body":"Im a guy and I work for a very large company and I work with the public a lot of the time... about 2 years ago I lightened my hair while on a vacation... So I left work a brunette and came back ashy blond.\nI get stopped by one of the supervisors and she acknowledged the color change and then said I had to change it before next shift and I asked why? she couldn\u2019t give me a solid answer and said something about it not being natural and that my beard doesn\u2019t match. \nso I dyed it back to brown. \nI spoke with another supervisor and asked his take on it and he said he\u2019s not sure why but it\u2019s not allowed. Ok. \n\nSo I\u2019ve once again went on vacation and dyed my hair blonde and I\u2019m scheduled back to work in a few days.\nI looked over the uniform guideline and this is what it says for men\u2019s hairstyles \n\u201cHair must be a natural shade, well-kept, and professional.\nRoots must not be visible in a different color. Highlights must be blended and weaved throughout hair and not chunky in shape or style.\u201d\n\nI spoke to a friend who works as a supervisor in the uniform department and she said \u201cNatural in the uniform guideline doesn\u2019t mean natural for you. It just means occurring in nature. People are allowed to dye their hair lol\u201d\nI asked her about the beard not matching and she said there are no rules it has to match and there are plenty of people who have blond hair\/red beards or brunette with red beard or whatever. \n\nThere are women at work who have the worst dye jobs and don\u2019t get spoken to. Some have really really bad roots, some have shades of red or black\/blue that shouldn\u2019t be allowed but I get spoken to because it\u2019s not natural?\n\nI don\u2019t have any roots. It\u2019s a fresh dye job, basically all one shade of blonde and I want to keep up with it but I\u2019m afraid I\u2019m going to get spoken to. \nIf I\u2019m spoken to does this count as some sort of sexism or gender discrimination? \nBecause that\u2019s what it seems like to me?\n\nI have the uniform guideline one my phone and screenshots of the conversation with the uniform supervisor so can I just show them that and tell them to leave me alone or I\u2019ll lawyer up? Lol\nI know this is so ridiculous \n\nAny help or insight is greatly appreciated.","title":"Employer is giving me a hard time for dying my hair...","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569509193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9kmgs\/am_i_being_payed_the_correct_amount\/","id":"d9kmgs","body":"I work at a movie theatre where I make $7.25 an hour. My question is that my states(NV) minimum wage is $8.25 an hour. I am a minor but I am wondering if they can legally pay me a dollar less then state minimum.","title":"Am I being payed the correct amount?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568432246,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d404w2\/is_this_a_crime\/","id":"d404w2","body":"I\u2019m scared I may have committed a crime I\u2019m not sure. So basically I was on the internet. And I\u2019m in a really big discord group. And I clicked on a link by accident. And I joined a group. It was about a famous girl.She\u2019s a famous 17 year old. There were just Instagram pictures of here. And there were 126 people in there. But there was a column in the discord group called nudes but there was nothing there. Could I still get in trouble? There were any nudes and there were just her Instagram posts. I left the group immediately. And it\u2019s been scaring me.  I\u2019m also a minor.  If that group were to get taken down, would they invesigate me. And would I be charged? What do you guys think I should do? Should I delete my discord account?","title":"Is this a crime?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1441837219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kb2vw\/california_housemate_moved_out_but_left_behind\/","id":"3kb2vw","body":"Edit: First time posting on this subreddit. Mods, please let me know if I broke a guideline!\nThis may be too specific of a situation, but I'm just trying seeking as much legal help as I can. \n\nI live in Los Angeles, CA and I'm a university student. One of my housemates was in the process of moving out for what she made sound like a 2 month process. Back in August, she drafted up a contract saying that should would pay $20 per day in September up until the 4th for overextending her stay. I signed the contract, but I never returned a signed copy to her. She moved out of my apartment on the night of the 6th. She did not tell us the day she was going to move out until the day of. \n\nI paid for her share of the rent she said she would need (4 days worth) and the utilities that she had used for the month of August, as our contract had prescribed. Now she says she that she doesn't want to pay me the rent since she wasn't actually living here. Her sublease contract ended on August 31st, 9 days ago, but she still left behind some larger items, e.g. a desk, mattress, large rug, and a couch seat cushion. Unfortunately, one of my other housemates who did move out by the 31st had her deposit coupled with this one, and she had returned her deposit to her around the same time as well. \n\nThere are some civil codes in California that allow us to request a reasonable storage fee for the days she plans on keeping her things in our apartment post move-out after her sublease ended, and I requested a fee following the guidelines from the civil code. However, she refuses to pay the fee because I should have made it clear to her that she needed to pay a fee at least by September. The possessions she left behind are in the way of the new person who is moving in soon. \n\nShe also hasn't returned the key for our apartment. We've had our locks changed since. \n\nThis person also lacks knowledge of housing laws and standard move out procedures.\n\n1. Do I still have the right to request money for the days she's keeping her things in our apartment (the storage fee) after her lease ended, past the day she originally said she was going to move out on? (She was not in the apartment at all between mid August and September 6th.)\n\n2. Is it within legal means to ask for a storage fee for her items stored? \n\n3. What can I do if she refuses to pay? \n\n[Link](http:\/\/www.dca.ca.gov\/publications\/legal_guides\/lt-4.shtml) to civil codes I followed. Codes that I have cited for her are Civil Code section 1816, 1965 (a)(2), and 1965 (b)(2)\n\nIf any additional information is needed, or if these questions can't be answered by \/r\/legaladvice, please let me know. Thanks!\n\nEdit: This person is also giving us (the current tenants) conflicting information as to what she wants to do with the items she left behind. She's told me that she's having someone picking up her things for her within the next few days, but she still refuses to pay for a storage fee. She's told the new tenant taking her place that whatever she left behind can be considered the new tenant's and that she could toss it. The new tenant did not agree to this. ","title":"California: Housemate moved out, but left behind large items and won't pay for the storage of them","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570325814,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddwrqm\/father_in_law_home_purchase_situation\/","id":"ddwrqm","body":"Hi r\/LegalAdvise, \n\nI'm in a situation that I need some help\/guidance with in New Jersey. I guess this is a verbal contract situtation.\n\nMy wife and I were asked by my Father in Law (FiL) to move in and purchase their home. As they were retiring and moving and would rather us be here then sell the home.\n\nWe agreed to purchase the home at what was owed.\n\nFast forward 18 months. Life got the better of us. We've been paying the mortgage and bills, had a baby boy, and never got around to getting the house situated (actually buying the home).\n\nAround May Mother in Law (MiL) expressed a desire to come home early to help with the baby who was due in September. We said sure to her coming in August. MiL suprised us with a text message that she had booked a flight for June. \n\nOur baby was born September 1st. FiL showed up the same day. They've since moved back in with us and are currently looking for a place. \n\nHere's the rub, after a long summer with MiL and a rough couple of weeks with the newborn my wife finally said something to her Mother about them being loud (They've been living on the 2nd floor). FiL got in a fit and gave my wife shit and said \"This is my house...\" blah blah blah.\n\nI'm concerned he's going to try and pull some shit and we are going to be out the money we've put towards the house via repairs, small renovations (new carpet\/appliances), and expenses.\n\nThis has always been a concern of mine and I didn't think it could possibly end this way but here we are. \n\nIf FiL wants us out do we have any recourse in recouping our money, or are we just kind out of luck on this one?","title":"Father in Law Home Purchase Situation","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1542294959,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9xc1ca\/please_help_me\/","id":"9xc1ca","body":"Hello. I live in Ohio. I was in a domestic violence relationship for five years, married for almost 3. I left in an escape plan 12 days ago & have tried to go no contact since. I was a stay at home mother, 2 children, one being biologically his. \n\nI\u2019ve tried to contact legal aid & I needed $1.99 to pay for services & I don\u2019t even have that at the moment. However he did assist me in trying to connect me to a lawyer but when I said I do not have income at the moment, he in return hung up on me before I could even say another word. \n\nMy husband has been mentally & physically abusive to me. In the past he\u2019s punched me, shoved me, choked me, spit in my face, has smacked my head off a wall, drug me off a toilet, refrained me from leaving, threatened me, ect. \n\nI have no idea what to do, or who to help me. I\u2019m trying to keep my children safe. They are 6 and 3. When the lawyer hung up on me, I feel hopeless. I don\u2019t know where to go from here & everyone else wants 10,000 in legal fees, or whatever & I just don\u2019t have it. I did recently get a job and just finished my training yesterday & I start on Monday. \n\nCan someone please help me? I don\u2019t care to peruse legal charges against him, I just want a divorce & custody which I feel would be the fastest way to go about doing this. He has a job, & could easily retain a lawyer. \n\nThank you. ","title":"Please help me...","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569624191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da7rrc\/my_previous_employer_paid_me_a_whole_months\/","id":"da7rrc","body":"I left my company on the 2nd September and I owed them 2 days of paid holiday. Essentially I shouldn\u2019t have received a penny from them. However I just went to check my account and I noticed they have paid me for the whole of September.\n\nI wasn\u2019t going to spend this, so no need to say don\u2019t spend it. However, that being said, should I contact them or wait for them to contact me?\n\nIs there a timeframe where they need to ask me to pay this back, can they do a charge back to reclaim, do they need to contact me? What is the best course of action for me to take right now and is there a chance this slips under the radar? I am in a position to be able to give it all back straight away if they realise. Just wanting to know what I should do or expect?\n\nI\u2019m in the UK.\n\nThanks.","title":"My previous employer paid me a whole months salary by mistake. What should I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444963761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oxx1n\/single_mother_being_taken_to_small_claims_court\/","id":"3oxx1n","body":"[Preface] I am acting as a proxy for my best friend--she is in dire need for help but not familiar with this medium for advice.\n\nQuick facts: Had child at early age (16), has raised daughter without support from father for length of age; roughly 9 years.  Grandparents did help with babysitting but minimal to zero financial support.\n\nPut herself through school taking student loans, is currently a manager in training at a Dental office as a full time professional.\n\nCourt order requires father to pay for half of insurance and medical bills etc. To date not 1 payment for that has been received. Oregon Dept. Of Justice sends continual 'notification of withholding income' letters but father just quits job immediately after receiving notification, months pass and by the time DOJ finds out either a new case worker has been assigned or a new 'income withholding' letter is sent.\n\nThis has gone on for years--today currently at 24,000$ in child support backpay.\n\nIncident: 2013 a potential fracture meant x-rays and a visit for the daughter.  At the time the mother had no health insurance (currently for the last 1.5 years she does).\n\nShe has been served with notice to appear in small claims court for a 450$ bill with the health provider.\n\nThere is no freeloading here, she makes continual calls to DOJ constantly repeating the scenario and while case workers acknowledge this is happening by the time someone takes action the father has quit or a new case worker is assigned.\n\nCan any civilian file contempt of court? What services are out there for filing contempt of court?  DOJ has promised to do so over 2 months ago, no action to date.  How much is a reasonable attorney fee to do this?  Is it just a form?\n\nNow don't get me wrong she is starting to make decent money, but getting enough liquid cash for an attorney is out of the question.  Staying afloat with bills has buried someone that hasn't been given any help from the system.  Paying for health insurance now actively has not induced any new 'past due' claims.\n\nThe irony is she is the one going to court and not the father, an ex-heroin addict and former inmate for drug related crime.  There is no justiceporn here.","title":"Single mother, being taken to small claims court for medical claim. Father owes ~24,000 in child support for the last 6 years.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568559560,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4liut\/i_was_offered_equity_for_work_from_a_company\/","id":"d4liut","body":"I was offered a co-founder role for equity in a company based out of Iraq. I\u2019m based in Ohio. They have given me an option to convert my shares to cash once they get an investor. Part of my role would be investor outreach, so I have some control over them getting funded. \n\nDoes owning part of the company and negotiating with investors open me up to being liable for stuff the company might do?\n\nI\u2019m concerned about working for free and not being able to pursue any legal recourse since they are a foreign business. What would my options be is they don\u2019t hold up their end of the deal?\n\nAlso, do I need to file anything with a government agency?","title":"I was offered equity for work from a company based in another country.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570726365,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg0uod\/could_an_anonymous_threat_someone_made_come_back\/","id":"dg0uod","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice,\n\nI \u201cadmin\u201d a facebook page that essentially functions as an anonymous confession page for a university. I say \u201cadmin\u201d because I don\u2019t do anything. I\u2019m lazy, and the other admin does everything. I\u2019m an admin only by title. The other admin (Bob) does everything from approving submissions as posts, commenting on them, removing posts etc. I have the power to do this as well, but I don\u2019t. Sometimes I forget that I\u2019m even an admin. \n\nIt should also be noted that the submissions are anonymous to the admins as well. Anyways, on with the details.\n\nRecently, bob approved a post that essentially was a school shooting threat. He did so because it was seemingly innocuous. It included the word \u201chERo\u201d which we later found out was a reference to Elliot Roger. By the time this was figured out, local police were informed by one of the page\u2019s fans. No one was harmed but I think someone was arrested. Not sure. Police question bob and he tells me that he told them I had nothing to do with that submission (which is true)\nMy question is, will this come back on me at all? I don\u2019t think it will, but I just want to be aware.","title":"Could an anonymous threat someone made come back on me? (IL)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1408556379,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e3lp9\/apartment_landlord_intentionally_misled_us_on\/","id":"2e3lp9","body":"Hey all, I find myself in crappy situation. I live in Florida and signed a 7 month lease at the end of February for $816 a month. At the end of the lease is had small extra charges for Trash ($8), Pest ($2), and Service Fee ($5). This raised some flags and I asked what the charges were for. The assistant manager said not to worry, \"those charges are included in the original rent\". I asked again to make sure the extra $15 was a part of the $816, she said yes. At the end of the lease it also states the extra charges are a part of the original rent amount.\n\nFast forward to July, my roommate pays rent late and extra late fees build up. I go to the office and get a copy of all our charges and find out that they have been charging us the extra $15 each month. I bring the assistant manager the lease and show her where it states those charges were included in the rent. She steps out of the office and brings back a paper for a quote from February and it states that our rent is actually $831 the whole time.\n\nDo my roommate and I have a case? Is it even worth it to fight them over ~$90 and 3 months left on the lease?\n\nApartment complex:\nhttp:\/\/www.craneslandingapts.com\/","title":"Apartment landlord intentionally misled us on rent costs","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570639813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfjsqq\/can_i_drive_a_newly_bought_car_to_the_dmv_without\/","id":"dfjsqq","body":"I'm a college student buying a vehicle from a private seller that lives about 30mins away from my apartment. I'm going to pick it up on Monday around 5:00pm, but the DMVs will all be closed by then. It doesn't have any plates, not even temporary tags, and I can't take it to the DMV until the next day.\nIs it legal to drive my newly bought car to my apartment, then take it to the DMV the next day? Will I be fined if I'm pulled over?? I'll have a bill of sale confirming that I just purchased it.","title":"Can I drive a newly bought car to the DMV without any plates?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506445194,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72lql1\/kansas_ex_cheated_and_i_told_her_to_stay\/","id":"72lql1","body":"Who legally owns the furniture? It was a gift from her parents to us, and it just doesn\u2019t seem right that she can come back and steal the furniture I use. \n\nFlared family law because Idk what else it is. Sorry if I\u2019m not giving enough info just ask away. Thanks guys. \n\nI\u2019m in the process of changing the locks as well. Also I\u2019m trying to get her off the lease by proving I pay the whole rent myself. \n\n\nEDIT: thanks guys I\u2019m gonna let her get the stuff her parents got her, I can buy more stuff. I also won\u2019t be changing the locks. Thanks for all the sound help guys!","title":"[Kansas] ex cheated and I told her to stay somewhere else, she wants the furniture","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507192726,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74eo5g\/which_wife_would_be_legally_recognized_usny\/","id":"74eo5g","body":"My father married a woman in 1968 in NY however he failed to dissolve his prior marriage to my mother before doing so. In 1978, he tried to force my mother to sign divorce papers so he wouldn\u2019t go to jail and she refused to sign. However someone, probably the second wife, forged my mother\u2019s signature in order to have the divorce papers processed. And a second wedding ceremony to legalize his second marriage was never performed. I know that in the state of NY, common law marriages are not recognized. So is the second marriage actually legal in the state of NY? My father is terminally ill and there's a question of which wife would actually be  entitled to his large estate when he passes. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.","title":"Which wife would be legally recognized? (US\/NY)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1549922894,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aplpg0\/can_my_employer_oregon_usa_reduce_the_number_of\/","id":"aplpg0","body":"I'm a full-time salary employee in Oregon. The company I work at is a wholly owned subsidiary of a Canadian company. Im technically an employee of the Canadian company but everyone I work with is an employee of the US subsidiary. When I was hired I got 2 extra holidays than the subsidiary company.  They are now talking about taking those 2 days away from me. Is that legal? If they did this, would they they have to like move me to be an employee of the subsidiary? Does anyone have ideas on how I can fight this, like maybe ask for additional PTO days, etc. I appreciate any advice!","title":"Can my employer (Oregon, USA) reduce the number of paid holidays they observe?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446013858,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qj1uh\/being_taunted_into_a_fight_street_fight_legal\/","id":"3qj1uh","body":"Okay, say, some guy was calling you names and verbally abusing you and pushes you around while you were walking home and you got pissed off that you got into a fist fight with him, what sort of legal punishment would you get?\n\nOr it could be anywhere like, say some guy was taunting and bullying you in the workplace everyday and you got pissed one day and started a fist fight with him, what would the legal consequences of that be? \n\nI'm from Canada, BC, but I think the laws in the USA are generally the same about this sort of situation. ","title":"Being taunted into a fight (street fight), legal consequences? (CANADA, BC)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540854684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9siby0\/employer_is_forcing_a_998_hour_day_so_that_an\/","id":"9siby0","body":"My girlfriend works at an aerospace manufacturing facility and for the past few months they\u2019ve been forcing her department  (and only her department) to clock out one minute before 10 hours so that employees don\u2019t get a third break. Besides the fact that this is  obviously unethical, is there anything legally that can be done? My understanding of the law is that an employer can have you work any shift they want, even if it is one minute short of getting another break. Am I wrong?","title":"Employer is forcing a 9.98 Hour day so that an employee doesn\u2019t get a third break. [OR]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539798060,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p0uys\/husband_facing_possible_jail_time_for_child\/","id":"9p0uys","body":"Hello all. Just need some direction and advice on where to go from here regarding a child support case. \n\nI\u2019d like to start off by saying we just got the court date for child support for December so I\u2019m just trying to get as much information as I can as I\u2019d like to go prepared. Back pay is $3,100 \n\nI know we should really get a lawyer and not go in alone so we are looking into them and getting consultations.  We\u2019re making payments towards the backpay and going to try making bigger payments when we can to pay it off faster. \n\nWe\u2019re facing possible jail time but would like to avoid that as he\u2019s leaving for boot camp in January and having a baby in March. \n\nMy question is if we can somehow manage to pay off the backpay does that take jail possibility off the table? \n\nA lawyer will more than likely be the same or more of what the backpay is and in my mind it makes more sense to use all the money that goes towards a lawyer to just paying off the backpay. Of course I don\u2019t know how this works or how the courts work so I\u2019d just like to know if it\u2019s best to still get a lawyer and continue child support payments or use all the money to pay it off? \n\nI\u2019m just lost and want to be informed. Thank you for any help. We\u2019re also in Texas. ","title":"Husband facing possible jail time for child support.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504632914,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y9kur\/compulsory_overtime\/","id":"6y9kur","body":"I'm about to take a transfer to another state for my job but in the meantime they've switched me on paper to a different department. Only they didn't tell me they were doing this and i only found out because my timesheets were being approved by the boss in the new department all of a sudden. So I asked my (original) boss about it and he said that it was a temporary headcount move. Fine. I would have appreciated a heads up but whatever. Except now that means I have to actually physically work in that department which I'm not too excited about but it's just temporary so it's not really worth getting pissed about. Only in the new department the boss, whom I've never met or spoken with, is emailing me to come in on Monday. I have only ever worked tuesday-Saturday. So I said that to him and his response was \"oh well here we work Monday-Friday and OT every other weekend.\" Which translates to 12 days on and 2 days off. So I would only get 4 days off work in a month. Which is insane. Is that even legal? Can he do this? I was willing to let the first two things go but this is ridiculous. They did all of this without telling me and i only found out because I probed. Can I refuse anything that's happening here? \n\nEdit: this is in Georgia","title":"Compulsory overtime","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553903707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b74jv6\/are_my_hours_being_cut_illegally\/","id":"b74jv6","body":"Sorry that this is long or if it sounds dumb, I hope this is appropriate for this sub. This just happened and I need to vent a little. \n\nI work retail at a gift shop at a mall. I work 11am-7pm every Sunday. There is only one person who works at a time, so I am by myself for that 8 hour shift. We used to have two signs, one that said \u201cBe Back in 5 minutes\u201d and another that said \u201cBe Back in 20 minutes\u201d. I put up the 20 minute sign once every Sunday, to walk to the food court, get lunch and come back. Im gone about 10-15 minutes, only leaving once. I was told by my store manager that this was fine to do. About two weeks ago, I noticed that the 20 minute sign was missing. Figuring it had gotten misplaced, I made another one to use when I leave to get lunch. I walk into work today, and I bring up to my store manager why my Sunday schedule says 11-3 now for this coming Sunday instead of 11-7. He says that someone in the mall whom the owner of the company knows was taking a picture of the door closed with the sign up when I would leave to get lunch and sending it to the company owner. Manager says the owner now wants two 4 hour shifts instead of one 8 hour shift because he said \u201cshe apparently can\u2019t stay in the store for 8 hours so now it will be 4 hours\u201d, and then the store manager tells me today that the reason the 20 min sign got thrown away was because the owner didn\u2019t want them to be used anymore (after three weeks of me using the 20 minute sign I made on Sundays). This information was not communicated to me. So now my hours are being cut over a miscommunication. I would have started bringing lunch if I was told don\u2019t leave anymore, but I was told I was allowed to go and buy lunch. I\u2019m planning to address it again with my store manager, although he just told me that since it was an order by the owner it\u2019s \u201cout of his hands\u201d. Were my hours cut illegally, or is there a law that allows me a 10-15 minute break to walk to buy lunch during an 8 hour shift? ","title":"Are my hours being cut illegally?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539837107,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p5zam\/a_major_bed_bug_infestation_my_landlord_is\/","id":"9p5zam","body":"So my apartment has been infested with bed bugs for a while. I have personally gone through 3 couches, two mattresses, and plenty of bug bombs and bed bug spray in an effort to remove them however it\u2019s not my home that is the issue it is the entire complex. I\u2019ve informed the manager and maintenance multiple times ( at least 5) of this issue however they have not hired an exterminator to assess the situation. The maintenance spray once a month, but the bed bugs are inside the walls. What can I do? Are there people I can call to enforce them to follow the law? We live in Tennessee by the way. I\u2019m also not the only one to have brought up this issue in my complex manager and maintenance.","title":"A major bed bug infestation my landlord is ignoring. need advice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542161541,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wvpmf\/medical_marijuana_and_me\/","id":"9wvpmf","body":"I am using a throw-away for obvious reasons...\nI am a public school teacher in a state that just legalized medical marijuana.  I voted for it in hopes that federalism will eventually rule the rule day.  My husband is a truck driver, often crossing state lines particularly into states not allowing any use of marijuana.  He now wants to grow (newly permissible in our state) a few marijuana plants.  He does not, however, want to obtain a prescription for the marijuana because he would no longer be able to purchase firearms.  I told him no.  I am terrified of losing my job or him losing his job should be caught.  What is the legal issue here?  My school board has a policy against drug use and he could be randomly drug tested by the DOT.  Please help.","title":"Medical Marijuana and Me...","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551149362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auu122\/lease_already_signed_by_both_parties_but_landlord\/","id":"auu122","body":"So it\u2019s a complicated situation, I am in a different state and am signing a lease to move into an apartment in Minneapolis. I had gone through the process of applying and the apartment uses online signing software to sign the lease and addendums. \n\nEverything was dealt with and I had signed all of it, the landlord signed all of it and I have a copy of the lease agreement signed by both parties.\n\nStill a while away from moving it, but the apartment wants to change the lease to add a monthly pet fee into the total rent. It gets complicated when they send me a link to electronically sign an entirely new lease. The apartment company says they are unable to only have the addendum as a PDF to which I can sign and return to them, because of software limitations. They go on to say that there is a liability issue with sending me a pdf to sign because they can\u2019t verify I am actually the one signing it. So they are having me sign the addendums on the first day when I move in. \n\nIs it correct that the lease we both signed is the legally binging contract and we can\u2019t just \u201csign an entirely new lease\u201d. Especially since there is a clause in that lease which prevents changes to the agreement unless it is an addendum signed by both parties. I just feel weird signing a new lease when I already have one. Also is there any credence to them saying it is a liability to send a PDF of the addendums via email and me returning those. I even offered to get it notarized. \n\nIt just seems too complicated to make a simple addendum. \n\nThanks for any advice.   ","title":"Lease already signed by both parties but landlord wants to sign a completely new lease to make changes. (MN)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541313441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u1hkb\/question_about_verbal_slanderthreat\/","id":"9u1hkb","body":"Okay, I really don't know if this is the right place to be asking this but here it goes.\n\n\nSo, in my local area, there is a bowling area that is kind of a hub for local business, it's huge, bar, arcade etc etc. So, in the alley is a pizzeria, and a friend of mine works there, she's a few years out of high school. \n\n\nWell, one of the regulars there happens to be a coach of the local high school. And on at least one occasion (that we know of) he made a comment about my pizzeria friend that \"the Sorrento's* girl looks like she wants to be raped\"\n\n\nSo we've kind of kept it to ourselves for a bit, trying to figure out what we should do. But tonight, he happened to be put in a lane that was right in front of the pizzeria and he kept casting glances at my friend and it was making her *REALLY* uncomfortable.\n\n\nThe only advice I could give her was to get a restraining order against the guy. I'm no expert but I didn't think there was enough evidence for a police report or anything like that. \n\n\nSo apparently this was also brought to the attention of the manager of the alley and the manager was politely asked if the guy could somehow be put in lanes that weren't *directly in front* of the pizzeria, but she flat out refused. I understand the business aspect and I really don't expect them to do anything, but is there any legal advice on that front?\n\n\nThank you guys so much in advance. I don't know if this helps at all, but this is in Michigan that this is taking place. \n\n\n*Sorrento's is a local pizzeria, idk if there all over or whatever, I don't get out much. Sorry.","title":"Question about verbal Slander\/Threat","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571295788,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj2oyv\/unsigned_leases_binding_in_texas\/","id":"dj2oyv","body":"So I signed a lease with some \u201cfriends\u201d for a one year term of Aug 2019-20. We all signed but landlords never came to sign it. Been having problems with these roommates so I\u2019m thinking on bouncing but since the lease wasn\u2019t signed by the landlords is it binding? I would consider finding someone to overtake my portion but the landlords never freaking answer our texts. The water heater has been leaking for a week and the place is infested with roaches. Could the above be a reasonable way to legally break lease?","title":"Unsigned leases binding in Texas?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443893187,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nd1h5\/indiana_how_can_the_prosecutors_office_legally\/","id":"3nd1h5","body":"Disclaimer: This is my first Reddit post ever, so apologies in advance if I screw something up...\n\nMy questions: \n\n1. How can the Prosecutor's Office legally \u201cupcharge\u201d and\/or add extra charges in a case, if there is nothing in either the police report or the individual arrest report to justify the charges?\n\n2. What recourse, if any, does a person have in a situation like this?\n\nBackground: \n\nI am trying to advocate for a friend who is homeless, mentally ill, and presently in jail. Two of his three charges sounded plausible, but the third charge [35-44.1-3-1(b)(1)(B)\/F6: Resisting Law Enforcement\/Draws or Uses Deadly Weapon, inflicts bodily inj] did not sound like my friend at all. So, I requested the police and arrest reports to see at least some of what happened for myself.\n\nI found discrepancies between events described in the police and arrest reports and the actual charges filed and asked the police department about them. They told me that their case indicated that no weapon was used, no injury to any of their officers occurred, and that I should contact the Prosecutor's Office about their choice of charges.\n\nNaif that I am, I went to the Prosecutor\u2019s Office to see whether it was possible that a mistake had been made. The secretary on duty there essentially told me, \u201cWe get to decide what to charge someone with. Sometimes the police report will have more stuff in it, but we decide [to be more lenient.] And, sometimes there isn\u2019t as much in the police report, but we add charges.\u201d\n\nI've since learned that prosecutors routinely \u201cupcharge\u201d and\/or add extra charges, especially if it means they can change a misdemeanor into a felony, and that's just the way \u201cjustice\u201d works. \n\nBut manufacturing a weapon and an injury out of thin air? Can they do that? And is there anything at all that can be done in response?\n\nThanks in advance for any thoughts you may have.","title":"[Indiana] How can the Prosecutor's Office legally \u201cupcharge\u201d and\/or add extra charges in a case, if there is nothing in either the police report or the individual arrest report to justify the charges?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503330050,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v3ql2\/vehicle_damaged_by_rebar_left_by_apartment\/","id":"6v3ql2","body":"Saturday I was leaving my apartment and had been parked in a spot that had those concrete \"stoppers\". \n\nApparently it had been reinstalled and whoever installed it left rebar sticking up about three inches from the top of the concrete slab. \n\nI didn't see this rebar and when I went to pull out of the parking spot the rebar caught on my bumper and ripped my bumper off. \n\nI went to the front office and the leasing manager said she couldn't do anything about it and that I had to file a claim with my insurance. \n\nIs this correct procedure or should the complex be liable for neglect? \n\nI just don't want to pay for repair or deductible when it's the responsibility of the landlord to provide safe and adequate parking spots for tenants. \n\nThank you! ","title":"Vehicle damaged by rebar left by apartment complex - FL","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542025269,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wdki4\/i_payed_for_my_own_ticket_in_telehandler_driving\/","id":"9wdki4","body":"As above, I'm due getting my UK forklift ticket from red to blue, and the company have left it to the last second. So I chased it up and it's looking shakey. Nothing is confirmed. Do I have a legal leg to stand on?","title":"I payed for my own ticket in Telehandler driving then got a full time job. 2 years later im facing the renewal\/upgrade from trainee to qualified driver. Now its not so reassuring.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553014513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2ztud\/my_roommate_got_pneumonia\/","id":"b2ztud","body":"So I (20f) rented an apartment near my college campus last May. I lived there for the summer into the mid fall. Over the summer I noticed that some of my things were moldy. Considering the extreme humidity of upstate NY in the summer, I blamed myself for leaving things in the corner and not airing them out regularly. \nCome October, I noticed water running down the back of my closet. My clothes that were hanging were wet and some had mold and mildew. Five pairs of my shoes were ruined, as well as my backpack, my calculator, a couple shirts, and the dresser (owned by the landlord) was falling apart. I realized that there was a leak from the roof that went down into my closet, as well as a leak in my window causing a massive patch of mold on the wall. \nHaving worked in a real estate law office, I contacted my old boss and she helped excuse me from the lease. I was waking up in a damp bed every morning with a snot film covering the back of my throat. Once I moved out, I immediately was in better health and my belongings were moved to my friend\u2019s house. \nI had two roommates in my former apartment, both of which stayed after I moved out. One of them told me that her mattress was becoming moldy and that she got pneumonia. \nIs there something we can do to stop the landlord from continuously renting this space? \n(Keep in mind, we are broke college students just trying to find justice) ","title":"My roommate got pneumonia","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553524704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5bgvm\/renting_new_apartment_and_none_of_the_bedrooms\/","id":"b5bgvm","body":"I recently signed a 12-month lease for a new apartment and will be moving in June 1st. The apartment is in New York State (not NYC though) and consists of 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms as well as a kitchen and living room. I am concerned because none of the bedrooms, bathrooms, nor the kitchen have windows in them. This apartment is in a complex with multiple other apartments all in the same style. I am wondering how the complex is able to get away with no windows because as far as I know in New York State a legal bedroom is required to have a window. Furthermore, as my move-in date approaches I am starting to get worried about the potential fire hazard risk this poses as the only window in the entire apartment is fairly inaccessible to the rest of the apartment. My bedroom is directly above the kitchen as well, and if there were ever a potential fire in the kitchen I would be trapped upstairs with no windows or ventilation. At this point I don\u2019t know what I should do as when I asked the manager of the complex about the lack of windows they reassured me that the free TV provided in each room makes up for it. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated! ","title":"Renting new apartment and none of the bedrooms have windows","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408641283,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e72o1\/lost_contract_failure_to_issue_refund_lied_to_by\/","id":"2e72o1","body":"Hey legal advice, not sure if this is trivial or something I could build a case for, but I recently signed up with a local home security company called \"Protect Your Home.\" They are located in Sacramento. \n\nBasically, they are a local company that is authorized to sell ADT equipment. I signed up about two months ago and was sold the extra \"pulse subscription\" for an additional installation cost of $176 and a $5 monthly fee. I was promised by the technician installing the system that I would be issued a full refund for \"Pulse\" if I requested one within 3 months.\n\nI had a technician come over and uninstall the service and after a week with no indication of a refund I used the company's online chat support (this service is shit, I had to call as a new customer to get them to even check their support hotline or chat) and was told that they had no record of a technician coming out! I finally convinced them that there was an error, and was guaranteed the issue would be taken care of.\n\nFast forward another week, I call this time and am told that my newly signed contract that promises a full refund is \"up in the air.\" At this point its fairy obvious they are trying to annoy me out of my money, but I am persistent and make it clear this is an issue that needs to be resolved soon. I am put on with a manager who listens to me and types up an email over the phone to the \"department in charge of billing\" and told I would receive a phone call back within 48 hours regarding their decision.\n\nFast forward 3 days. I call the actual ADT customer support service and get a manager to listen in to a call between me and protect your home. There is a 30 minute hold before I am put on with an agent who tells me \"the refund was just put in this morning.\" I ask for verification and she can't provide me any so I ask to speak to a manager. At this point I ask for a release from contract, because this company has handled my concerns, time, and money in an unacceptable and extremely unprofessional manner. Once again, they are unable to solve any of these issues in real-time and an email is sent out with the promise of a call back within 3 days. \n\nIt has now been a week, I have not received a single call back or an indication of a refund being processed. I feel like they are allowed to lie and mislead me as long as they want, and there is nothing I can do because I am locked into a contract. I am getting desperate here, do you guys have any advice for me or is this a pretty common issue? ","title":"Lost Contract, Failure to issue Refund, Lied to by customer service agents and Managers","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569258507,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d89get\/nda\/","id":"d89get","body":"Hello, this takes place in New Hampshire. \n\nI am the owner of an LLC in NH. We are currently partnered with another NH based LLC, and do regular business. We are considering working with another company based in another state and want to know the best way to keep that partnership under wraps. A few of our customers do what the new company does, and we have no obligation to give them any business (our customers), but we want to make sure no information is shared about our new partnership with the out of state company. Would that be an NDA between all companies involved? Or is there another agreement that would be put into place to do business, but make sure no info is shared. \n\nTIA!","title":"NDA?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570416034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dedgae\/follow_up_to_previous\/","id":"dedgae","body":"I had a friend down on her luck so I let her stay a few days in my apartment, she was smoking marijuana and fighting with people in our driveway so I kicked her out and told her she was not welcome back, she left the premises to go to a women's shelter. 3 days later she snuck back in and trashed the carpet in the hallway in front if our stairwell, I currently have texts of her saying she did it including pictures of the damage. I informed my landlord that she did these things and they told me because it was my guest it was my problem. I didn't have time to argue so I told them I would do my best to clean it up. All that's left is hair dye but it's still noticeable so I brought the police to file a destruction of property report and they said that ultimately the landlord is the victim so it's up to them. Would they be right in coming after me still? She had left the premises, and was told she was not welcome. I would argue that she would no longer be a guest in this situation, but what should I do if the landlord still comes after me for the damages (the lease says damage by guests is the tenants responsibility). Is there any action I can take other than waiting? I wouldn't be able to pay the damages in between them giving me a fine and small claims court. If this was the case would you go after the tenant or the unwelcome guest?","title":"Follow up to previous","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555525358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beb6ja\/eviction_notice_has_wrong_address_on_it_and_was\/","id":"beb6ja","body":"Hi reddit, my current apartment complex was sold, and I was paying the previous landlord with labor, plus do not have a lease here (I\u2019ve been living here for free for a year now). The new landlord put a notice on my door with red tape, notifying me that I need to sign a lease for $700 a month rent and pay a $700 down security deposit, or move out by the first of the month however I noticed the street address, street name listed, and apartment is listed incorrectly. \nI have not met the new landlord yet and he has not contacted me in person or via phone, or any form of certified mail. Does this mean that the landlord has to restart the eviction process? And will this give me extra time to find a suitable place to live? If it helps I live in upstate New York. (I will not be staying here though as I can find larger apartment units for much cheaper in my area) \n\n:TLDR eviction notice has wrong address on it, and was never given to me in person or via certified mail; does this give me extra time to move?","title":"Eviction notice has wrong address on it and was never given to me in person, Will this give me extra time to relocate?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540483868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rbp0i\/or_was_assaulted_in_a_case_of_road_rage_recently\/","id":"9rbp0i","body":"Title is pretty self explanatory and so is username. I've already filed an incident report of what happened with officers. I gave then vehicle information, they took pictures of my face, and got my passengers information. I've been given a case # and was reccomend to file charges against the person responsible. I've never been in this situation before so am unsure what steps i should be taking or if i should even go through with it? \n","title":"(OR) Was assaulted in a case of road rage recently police reccomend i file charges against assaulter. Do I, and what steps do I take?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570725038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg0jag\/was_this_an_oral_contract_missouri_usa\/","id":"dg0jag","body":"Sorry if this is long, I\u2019m trying to explain as succinctly as possible. \n\nI\u2019m a truck driver at a company in Missouri, and I train students to get their CDL as well as preparing them to run a truck on their own. Technically, I\u2019m an independent contractor, and I get paid per trip revenue instead of by cents per mile since I lease a truck. If I don\u2019t hit a certain amount of revenue per week, I either go negative or break even, but training helps combat that.\n\nThe way the training program is set up, there are two \u201cphases.\u201d Phase One is where I help a student get their CDL. This phase doesn\u2019t pay as well as Phase Two because it takes about three weeks to complete Phase One of training, and one of those weeks is for the student to prepare for the CDL exam. On Phase Two, I have a student on my truck for 50,000 shared miles covered before they can upgrade to independently drive for the company or go as an independent contractor like I have. Once my student hits 50,000 miles, he upgrades to his own truck, and I pick up a new student for two-three weeks and run solo with a new student until they can get their CDL (Phase One) and run teams later (Phase Two).\n\n\nSkip this if you don\u2019t care how I get paid during training.\n(I have fixed and variable costs every week around $4,000 and when I train, I take home anywhere from $2,000 to $3,000+ a week before taxes during Phase Two depending on the trips we complete and how much each trip pays per mile. We do team driving and cover about 3,000-5,000 miles per week of training, so to complete 50,000 miles, it would take anywhere from 10-16 weeks. So $2,000-$3,000 a week for 10-16 weeks pays very well during Phase Two of training.)\n\nWith my new student, he wanted to go from refrigerated trailer transportation (for perishable items like food) to flatbed transportation (for bigger items on the back of a trailer with no roof). I do refrigeration transportation, so he would need to switch to a flatbed trainer halfway through his 50,000 mile mark to get the proper training for flatbed.\n\nEssentially, the two of us agreed on 30,000 miles on my truck and 20,000 miles on a flatbed trainer\u2019s truck. We then met with my boss, who works for said company, and all three of us agreed in person (an oral contract I\u2019m assuming) to my student staying on for 30,000 miles on my truck and 20,000 miles on a flatbed trainer\u2019s truck.\n\nFast forward to three days ago (only one week into Phase Two), and my student messages my boss and says he wants to go ahead and switch to flatbed. She agrees to it, but there aren\u2019t any flatbed trainer\u2019s available. So essentially, they both broke our oral contract for him to complete 30,000 miles with me and 20,000 miles with someone else. This puts a whole wrench in my plans because I planned on having a steady stream of income of $2,000-$3,000 a week for about 8 weeks with 30,000 miles. But now I will have to start over with a new student in Phase One. \n\nSo my long question is this: can I do anything about my boss breaking our oral contract in this matter? It puts me at a financial disadvantage if not. I worked three weeks to get his CDL, and usually the payoff is having a student for multiple weeks, but now I\u2019ll only have him for 2-3 weeks instead of 8-10 weeks. There are no previous written contracts between my student and I based on our training, so the oral contract is all we have.","title":"Was this an oral contract? (Missouri, USA)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571626266,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dku587\/getting_your_money_back_from_a_relative\/","id":"dku587","body":"A really good friend of mine is going through a bad situation, divorcing her husband who basically ruined her financially. To keep her husband from being able to get all her money, she gave some of her savings to her mom for \u201csafekeeping\u201d in her account. But the relationship between my friend and her mom has devolved and is dysfunctional, to say the least. My friend is afraid that when she asks for her money back, her mom may refuse. \n\nDoes my friend have any legal recourse? Could she sue? Would she have to provide proof that she intended for her mother to keep the money only for a short time? Is there anything she could do if her mom already spent it?","title":"Getting your money back from a relative","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555454309,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be08ol\/ants_in_va_hotel_room\/","id":"be08ol","body":"There is a small colony of ants in my hotel room in VA. I brought it up with the front desk in the morning and they said they would set traps. After a whole day there are no traps and there are more ants. What can I do? Should I demand a free night?","title":"Ants in VA Hotel Room","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551302028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aviimf\/indiana_transgender_bathroom_rights\/","id":"aviimf","body":"Do I have transgender bathroom rights in Indiana? Can I legally use the women restroom if my place of employment said no? \n\nI'm on hormone replacement therapy for MtF. I dress and behave female. I use my female name. \n\nI still have my legal name. No surgeries.\n\nThe answer is obvious for a completed transition but how about while transitioning?","title":"Indiana transgender bathroom rights?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570823191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgk8i5\/over_time_question\/","id":"dgk8i5","body":"Is overtime for a salaried employee the pay and a half or is the pay for working more than the 40 hour a week in general.","title":"Over time question","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569895662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbmdf5\/pa_wifes_coworker_was_fired_her_companyissued\/","id":"dbmdf5","body":"So this co-worker needed to communicate with clients, some of which strictly used Facebook messenger.  She used the company phone to communicate, but had logged into her Facebook account.\n\n    Once she was fired, the supervisor looked through the phone to update clients.  Supervisor looked into Facebook messages and read through some personal conversations with fired person  and other subordinates that revealed displeasure with the boss or workplace.\n\n  Other coworkers were called into her office to deal with things the boss is now aware of.  Coworkers were very confused knowing they did not share that information publicly.  They were able to put things together finding out the company phone was logged in on social media.  Is this a breach of privacy?\n\n   Hindsight, she should have had a work-specific Facebook account.  It's a small workplace and she was let go for not keeping client confidentiality.","title":"PA - Wife's co-worker was fired. Her company-issued phone was used to communicate with clients. That phone was used to go through fired worker's personal Facebook messages","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542044388,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wg3rn\/family_member_arrested_for_child_sex_abuse\/","id":"9wg3rn","body":"A month ago, a family member was arrested for child molestation (not his first conviction, unfortunately). He\u2019s currently in custody awaiting his preliminary hearing.\n\nMy grandma visits him every chance she can in jail\u2014they have a very close relationship, and he\u2019s a highly skilled manipulator. The charges he\u2019s facing have nothing to do with his laptop, so a warrant was never issued to search it, or collect it when he was arrested. Right now it\u2019s sitting at his apartment, like the rest of his belongings. He asked her to go to his apartment to collect his valuables \/ keep them safe while he is in jail. \n\nThe charges he\u2019s facing obviously make me highly suspicious there\u2019s something awful on his laptop. I\u2019m extremely concerned about my grandma having the laptop in her possession. The prosecutor in his case can\u2019t \/ won\u2019t issue a warrant to collect the laptop without evidence that there is child pornography. We\u2019ve tried to get them to collect it so it\u2019s in police custody and we don\u2019t have to worry about it. \n\nHe wasn\u2019t allowed to visit any social media sites or access the internet prior to the second charge\u2014part of the terms of his release as a registered sex offender when he was convicted of similar crimes in the past. I have since found out he was using my grandma\u2019s Facebook account, but I have zero evidence he was doing anything illegal, other than violating the terms of his release by using the Internet. I just think it\u2019s probable, based on his behavior, that there\u2019s something terrible on the laptop. \n\nSo, here\u2019s my legal question: if there were child pornography on the laptop, and my grandma had it in her possession, could she get in trouble, even if she were unaware? If another person used the laptop, could they also face criminal charges if it were later discovered? We live in a very rural area with not a terrible amount of digital media literacy, and I\u2019m so worried about her giving the laptop to someone in good charity because it\u2019s not getting used while he\u2019s in jail. No one else in my family seems to be as worried about this as I am, and don\u2019t seem to understand why having the laptop in their house, or even using it, could be opening themselves up to liability. Maybe I\u2019m over reacting, because again, I have nothing other than a suspicion, no evidence. \n\nOn a more personal level, it\u2019s maddening to not know whether it\u2019s on there, more maddening to feel like he could be getting away with another crime, and I wish there were some way for someone to search it legally so they police would take it into custody and get it out of our possession. \n\nWhat should we do?\n","title":"Family member arrested for child sex abuse, purchased a laptop prior to arrest, asked grandma to keep valuables at her house [MO]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553790799,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6kzmd\/roommate_wont_pay_me_rent\/","id":"b6kzmd","body":"I\u2019m [27M] currently living in a 3 bedroom duplex that I share with 2 roommates. Neither of them are on the lease because they\u2019re filling vacancies from two roommates that left. One roommate [28F] has not paid me rent (now $735) for two months. \n\nShe keeps saying she\u2019s out of town, or that she had to get her car fixed and then she\u2019ll pay me, and in the past couple weeks she says she has the money but can\u2019t find the time to go the bank and get cash to pay me. So I told her to use PayPal, and she says she sent the money to the wrong email on accident. \n\nShe says she cancelled the transaction and is waiting on them to refund her money (which should\u2019ve definitely happened by now). She barely communicates with me and keeps saying she\u2019ll check if it\u2019s been refunded and send he money, but then she doesn\u2019t respond. It\u2019ll be the first of the month soon, which means it\u2019ll be three months of rent she\u2019ll owe me. \n\nShe\u2019s almost never at the house, preferring to stay nights at her boyfriends place. She also has two cats that she leaves locked in her small room all day, and it makes the house smell like cat shit because she doesn\u2019t clean up after them. \n\nI want to kick her out, but I also need the money she owes. I am I screwed here? What are my options? I want to give her an ultimatum to pay me by Sunday or I\u2019m going to move all her stuff in the garage and find a new roommate, but then what can I do with the cats? ","title":"Roommate won\u2019t pay me rent.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555694666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf1s92\/i_canceled_5000_worth_of_warranties_on_a_car_loan\/","id":"bf1s92","body":"I though I read somewhere that if there\u2019s a significant change in the financial responsibilities of any of the parties in the contract, that should warrant a renegotiation. Am I just stupid?","title":"I canceled ~$5,000 worth of warranties on a car loan. Since the new principle is significantly less (based on how much I make) am I legally allowed to change in the month to month payments?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1506716930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73ai8q\/mn_tenant_hospitalized_cant_communicate_next_of\/","id":"73ai8q","body":"I work in property management in Minnesota. One of my tenants was hospitalized a few weeks ago and is not able to communicate with management. We had one incoherent phone call from her when she was first admitted asking us to let someone from her church in to feed her bird, but didn't give us any further information or contact numbers. I have been unable to talk to the resident since then, and her emergency contact (estranged daughter) has not returned any of my calls at all. I was informed that the resident was hospitalized about a week after the fact, and checked on her bird while delivering a package that arrived for the resident (luckily, she had signed an addendum to allow package delivery which was the only reason I was able to enter the unit). The bird was alive, but had no food at all. My manager called our corporate office to ask about this, and we were told that we were not allowed to feed the bird. The last time I entered the unit four days ago to deliver mail (but really to check on the bird), I noticed that no one had fed it and that it was extremely thin. Of course I found the bird seed and fed the bird, even though I had been told not to. I'm pretty sure that the bird would be dead by now if I hadn't, since it hadn't been fed for at least two weeks by this point. The resident's PCA had entered the unit a few times to give it water, but didn't refill the food dish because he's an idiot. I wasn't aware that he even had the resident's keys until I called his company, and we've reclaimed them. \n\nWe were informed today by the hospital social worker that the resident is going to be transferred to a nursing home, so I'm assuming she's not coming back to the unit. Disregarding that fact that I doubt she will be able to pay her rent that's due in a few days, I'm really concerned that her bird has been forgotten. I can't accept that my upper management would want me to let the thing starve to death while this is being straightened out. I also can't feed and take care of this tenant's bird for the foreseeable future while we figure out if she's going to be evicted or have her lease terminated due to health reasons. Can I call animal control or take the bird to a rescue? I doubt the resident is going to get better and come back, but if she does, what are the ramifications of moving her pet while she's gone? \n\nTL;DR: My tenant is in the hospital and probably isn't coming back. It's been two weeks. She has a parakeet and no one is taking care of it. What do I do with it in the meantime?","title":"(MN) Tenant hospitalized, can't communicate. Next of kin are not answering. Tenant has a pet parakeet and no one is feeding it - What can I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541353815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u5d88\/apartment_upgrade_left_my_apartment_a_wreck\/","id":"9u5d88","body":"​\n\nBackground:\n\nIn Michigan, with a large college student population and the complex is owned by a company that owns what seems like half the city. \n\nEx signed us up for the upgrade back when we resigned the lease. After splitting up with my ex, I've gone through the whole rigmarole of getting her removed from the lease, but forgot about the upgrade completely until I was notified that they wanted me to pick out the colors for the upgrade. I went into the office to see if there was a way to get out of the upgrade as I didn't really want it, but my ex did and she wasn't on the lease anymore. The employee I spoke with said she would have to talk to the management at the main headquarters. A couple days later I hear back from them and she told me they already submitted the order for the appliances and cabinets for my unit and that I was basically already locked into the upgrade. Fine... whatever, I can afford it and the unit could really use some upgrading.\n\n​\n\nThe \"upgrade\":\n\nThis week they began the upgrade on my unit, stating it would be completed in 2 days, which seemed rather quick to me, but I wasn't going to complain about that. The first night I get back from work the kitchen and bathroom are basically torn apart completely. The bathroom is functional but not complete, and the kitchen is unusable, which I was expecting since the office told me to bring in a receipt for dinner that night. \n\nAfter day 2, things are \"complete\", the bathroom is put back together and so is the kitchen, but there are some very obvious glaring issues. A large chunk of linoleum is missing in the kitchen (Picture #1), there's paint and plaster in multiple places on the carpet and linoleum (Camera wouldn't pick it up very well, but it's very clear in person), and the carpet and edge pieces aren't put back at all (Picture #2). The metal trim that hold the edge of the carpet down was ripped off on one side and just bent back on the other (Pictures #3 & #4). I got curious, so I poked around to see what else looked very questionable, and I found the wiring for the under-cabinet lighting looked like they just slapped it together and since it wasn't in view, no one would know (Picture #5). Almost all of the brand new outlets have dings or other marks. They somehow cracked the drywall near the electrical box which is on the other side of the wall. The bathroom is also missing a chunk of linoleum.\n\n​\n\nPictures: [https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/CushwK8](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/CushwK8) ","title":"Apartment Upgrade left my apartment a wreck","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570996171,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhfimh\/balance_went_to_collections_after_requesting\/","id":"dhfimh","body":"Hi, In June of this year I moved out of an apartment complex in Virginia. They later sent me an email with a balance of 344$ owed, with no itemized justification for the charge. I requested via email an itemized list, and called them and they stated it over the phone it was from cleaning and repairs with no other details. I never received any other communication from them. I looked up housing law in my city which stated from my understanding they have 60 days after I moved out to provide me details of the charges. Yesterday I received a call from collections for the balance, which naturally pissed me off because they never attempted to communicate with me themselves after the first email and my request for further information. I did not pay a security deposit. My question is- how do I go about contesting this? Small claims court? Is it even worth it? I\u2019m very frustrated for many reasons with this, and I don\u2019t want to give up without a fight. Please help!","title":"Balance went to collections after requesting itemized list","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551311767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avkal9\/cacannot_find_living_trust_documents_even_though\/","id":"avkal9","body":"I can't seem to find answers to what I think are my simple questions. \n\n​\n\nBackground. My father set up a living trust. Pretty sure it was done with one of those ez packets they used to sell before legal zoom existed. I see Two properties under a trust name \" Smith family trust\"(fake name for privacy). no other assets fall under the trust (pretty sure about this one). I cannot find any documents about the trust besides some copies of the quitclaim deed transferring ownership from my father to the trust.\n\n​\n\nAssuming i don't find the documents and they are lost, what happens (i really want to avoid probate)\n\n​\n\nDoes a copy of the trust stipulations get filed somewhere with the government? note i do not think there is a law firm my father used since i vaguely recall this trust being made when i was a kid and i threw out some of those \"make your own Trust\" packets , not the actual trust document i am sure of this.\n\n​\n\nwhat keeps me from just making up a simple document outlining simple transfer of trust assets to me, his son. In other words what makes a trust binding? does every document in a trust get notarized? filed with county? i want to avoid probate if at all possible i am his only son and certain he left me as beneficiary (mentions it to me)\n\n​\n\nI hope these questions make sense, in my head my questions are easy but google has no immediate clear answers and even a quick convo with some paralegals and people familiar with Trusts are confused when i ask questions like \"what makes it binding if i can't find the details\"\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nthanks in advance","title":"[CA]Cannot find living trust documents even though one exists","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569423793,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d94igd\/ex_husband_keeps_violating_our_separation\/","id":"d94igd","body":"I have been divorced for 5 years and have two children with whom we share 50\/50 custody. We have a separation\/custody agreement that we drafted during the separation and had it filed in court when the divorce was finalized. \n\nThere were several things in the agreement that he did not really agree with, but he didn't end up fighting them.\n\nNow, over the years, he has violated our agreement in multiple ways. They aren't major things, but they are things that matter for me. For example, just recently the children had a special event that I really wanted to attend, but he did not inform me about it so I missed it. This is a direct violation of verbiage in our agreement about parents being informed of and invited to events on noncustodial weeks. Also, he never tells me when the children are sick. I have found out about illnesses several times by getting a text from the pharmacy that my kid's prescription is ready for pickup. This is also a direct violation.\n\nAre there consequences to this behavior? What can i do about it to get him to adhere to the agreement that HE signed and was notarized and filed in court? It should be noted that he does not respect me at all, and when I call him out for these violations he doesn't even acknowledge it, much less apologize, so he knows he's in the wrong but doesn't care.","title":"Ex husband keeps violating our separation agreement","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554853898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbf7cx\/need_to_make_legal_contract\/","id":"bbf7cx","body":"I\u2019ve recently found that my girlfriend has been having an online relationship with someone else, and I\u2019m going to break up with her. Thing is, I\u2019ve bought her phone and laptop for her (months ago) and she\u2019s been paying me back monthly as agreed. You can see how this could cause an issue.\n\nWe\u2019re semi long distance due to me being at university, so I won\u2019t just be able to walk in and take the laptop to reclaim the \u00a31000 I\u2019m still owed, so I\u2019m wanting to make a contract.\n\n[This is what I\u2019ve come up with](https:\/\/1drv.ms\/w\/s!AkHgppy-9Mke4RXFTF2VDZyhAtS_) after reading some stuff online, but I wanted to ask for advice about wether this is good and would be legal. I\u2019m planning on having her sign it and then break up with her a few days later. \n\nWould this stand up if I needed to take action against her?","title":"Need to make legal contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1408716394,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ea0wh\/pursuing_security_deposit_kentucky\/","id":"2ea0wh","body":"I moved out of a house I was renting in Kentucky at the end of June, and I've not yet received my security deposit back from my landlord. She answered my call the first time (and lied about talking to my wife), and has since been avoiding my calls and not returning messages. Our lease states that the deposit is to be refunded within 30 days of the end of the lease. I'm about to send notice of my intent to file in small claims court, but I wanted to check on one thing first.\n\nThe clause about the security deposit has a piece that says the tenant must give 30 days written notice of intent to vacate. The lease had a specified termination date, so I overlooked the 30 days notice. Is this minor technicality going to keep me from getting my deposit back?\n\nIn case it's relevant, I sent my landlord an email in April asking to extend the termination date by 2 weeks. It doesn't contain any phrasing with the words \"intent to vacate\", but it makes it clear that I didn't intend to renew my lease.\n\nPS - All rent was paid in a timely fashion (including for the extra 2 weeks). They could have made a case for some nominal cleaning fees, but we're past that now.","title":"Pursuing security deposit (Kentucky)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507322818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74qge7\/possible_tresspassing\/","id":"74qge7","body":"I am in Ontario, Canada\n\nSo I went to my friends high school to say Hi. I am also in high school. I walked into his class and said hey and the teacher yelled at me to leave her class. So I leave her class. She then yells at me and says she will follow me to the office. I say nope I'll just leave so she follows me to the doors and yells at me for my name. She also blocks the door\n I tell her a fake name and walk out the doors. I then 5 minutes later walk into a different part of the school and say hi to some other friends after staying for 10 minutes I decide to leave. My friend then tells me about 30 minutes after the initial confrontation that she brought him to the office. Questioned him and also went on the cameras and took screenshots of me. My friend gave my fake name to the office and fake information about me. They told him they are doing an investigation. So my question is can I get in trouble considering I was never told to leave and my sole intention was saying hi to people because I used to go to that school but had transfered to another school so I hadn't seen them for a while. I also just walked through open doors to get in.","title":"Possible Tresspassing?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1443710284,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n3uyd\/leaving_the_country_with_unpaid_order\/","id":"3n3uyd","body":"I am in Florida and have an Order against my Ex for unpaid child support for over $20,000.  He was given 90 days to pay the lump sum and it is due in a couple of weeks.  He has not paid anything on the Order and I just found out that he is leaving the country 2 days before the deadline of the Order.  I've asked him multiple times if the Order will be paid prior to him leaving the country and his continued response has been \"I don't THINK it will be a problem\".\n\nWhat actions can I take to ensure he doesn't leave the country prior to paying the Ordered support?","title":"Leaving the country with unpaid Order","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569786295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db04n8\/ca_how_do_i_give_written_notice_of_moving_out\/","id":"db04n8","body":"I have a 1-year lease ending Oct. 31 and plan to move out. I realized I procrastinated here and want to give the standard 1-month of written notice. What is considered 1 month here? The day the letter was mailed out? If so, how is this verified? Alternatively, is it the day the letter is received? If so, then it's almost certainly going to take a few days through USPS. As a last resort I could always hand-deliver written notice but this would require me to go quite out of my way tomorrow.\n\nThanks for any answers.","title":"[CA] How do I give written notice of moving out \/ non-renewal of lease? Is it too late? Lease ends Oct. 31 and tomorrow is Sept. 30.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571509804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk7o2i\/got_into_an_accident_not_at_fault_attorney_coming\/","id":"dk7o2i","body":"Hi! This will be short. Also I'm on mobile.\n\nI was in an accident a couple nights ago that was not my fault. The other party admitted fault at the scene of the accident and didn't file a claim through their insurance.\n\nI opened claims on both my vehicle insurance and theirs.\n\nIn a couple hours, I have an attorney coming to me to talk about a settlement. I have whiplash and bruising on my sternum from my seatbelt.  I went to urgent Care and got x-rays done, there's nothing broken and no visible bruising on the outside but overall just lots of pain. They prescribed muscle relaxers.\nLastly, my vehicle has been \"totalled\" twice, and I repaired it on my own time and money twice. My vehicle is almost 30 years old with only 53K miles.\n\nMy main question is, is there anything I need to know before she arrives? Because I have no *extensive* injuries, should I just accept a settlement? \n\nI'm not at fault, there is no doubt about that. But is there anything I should or shouldn't say?","title":"Got into an accident, not at fault. Attorney coming to my house since I don't have a car","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1542253828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x7jft\/ca_speeding_ticket_55_on_a_35_street\/","id":"9x7jft","body":"Good Evening, \n\nThank you for taking the time to read this. I do appreciate any helpful advice. Again thank you!\n\nFrom what I understand anything above the speed limit is a speeding ticket. It just if the cop wants to give it to you he\/she can.\n\nIt was a cold, bright sunny day with blue skies and not a single cloud in sight. I was at an intersection at a red traffic light making a left turn. When it turned green, I turned left onto a single lane road and drove in a hurry. As I saw the cop at the top of the highest point of the hill next to the farthest left wooden pole. I slowed down, I was thinking to myself darn the cop must have seen me... I passed him and he did a U-turn. I looked at my speed driving 40 - 42 down a small incline, up a small incline, and a straight that may look evenly flat. I kept looking in the back rear-view mirror, watching what the cop would do. Little did I know, as I drove closer to work, the cop decides to beep boop and bop with its sirens. I was like F\\*\\*\\*....I pulled over. He asked why were you speeding, I explained I was late to work. He wrote me a ticket of 55 on a 35 speed limit 1 lane road. \n\n​\n\nNow its my words against his as I don't have any evidence to prove that I drove 42 on a 35 speed limit. I asked the locals about this particular police department most likely they'll be in court. One person was caught by the same cop however her story was the opposite of the intersection across from me. She was making a right turn to that same road. The cop was on the opposite side of the road before the intersection and did a u-turn to give her a ticket of going 58 on a 35. She fought it and won providing some type of proof that the cop was on the opposite road. \n\n​\n\n I'm wondering if there's hope to fight it out. Is it all right for the cop be on the opposite lane to catch you? Maybe I'm confusing it....Overall, I'm frustrated, I understand I'm at a fault I would take responsibility of visiting and reduce the fee + traffic school. I prefer to just fight it and null it all if I could but I'm not exactly sure how to go about it....first speeding ticket.\n\n​","title":"[CA] Speeding Ticket 55 on a 35 street.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569681157,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dagq8b\/do_i_have_a_workplace_harassment_claim\/","id":"dagq8b","body":"A few days ago at work, two of my superiors made jokes about PTSD in a meeting. I have a pattern of C-PTSD as diagnosed by my therapist, which I did not disclose to my employer prior to this incident. I left the room when the jokes were made because I was having flashbacks and was dissociating from my body, and attempting not to have a panic attack. I walked back into the meeting, asked everybody to please not make PTSD jokes (through tears) and then left. I got home and cried basically all night, and it retriggered a lot of trauma that I am still working through.\n\nThe next day I had a meeting with my employer, in which I explained in no uncertain terms that what happened in the meeting absolutely fit the requirements of workplace harassment based on our company code of conduct (which includes language about disparaging jokes made against protected categories). I was told by my supervisor that she cannot control what people say, and that it's not like she can \"make a list of what is going to trigger me.\" When I pressed that this was specific language prohibited by the code of conduct, she claimed that \"nobody can know which words we say will hurt each other\" and that it wasn't against the code, and said she was sure that I'd said things that had hurt people at work, too.\n\nI quit a few hours later because it was clear that nobody was going to make a substantive change. I felt that since she didn't do anything to ensure the harassment would not continue, and by stating she wasn't going to police what my coworkers said (implicitly suggesting she was going to continue to allow PTSD jokes) I did not feel safe continuing to go to work.\n\nI should mention that this occured just one working day after taking 2 months of leave for mental illness, and that my employer also told me she was \"hurt\" because \"they had already done so much for me.\"\n\nObviously she's completely lacking in empathy and was a jerk to me in our follow up meeting, but do I have a case here? There wasn't any substantive retaliation, but there was also no attempt made to ensure the harassment would stop (in fact, my employer gave all indications that she didn't think the behavior in question was wrong and that she would allow it to continue, and that the problem was my reaction to the harrassment instead).\n\nI feel like I don't have a case and I'm kind of SOL here, but I don't fully understand the law. This is in Colorado with a fortune 500 company. What are my options?","title":"Do I have A Workplace Harassment Claim?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569251702,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d87vs7\/my_university_lied_to_me_about_cancellation_fees\/","id":"d87vs7","body":"So first year college student here living in the dorms at the University of Kentucky and to be frank I can no longer justify spending 5k a semester for a room that is left empty the entire day and I still have to share the place with someone else. Now this is 100 percent my fault of course I walked into it saying I don\u2019t care I got the money which I \u201cdo\u201d. However, a few months before coming to the University I emailed a representative if I were to cancel the housing contract were there to be any fee\u2019s and they emailed me back saying no. Today I have heard that is not the case and it\u2019s some bullshit that they will charge 50 percent for cancelling in another email once I\u2019m here. Is there any action I can take I talked to the office in person and they said some people were improperly trained and gave false info but that\u2019s such a big fuck up on their part is it not? I will be happy to fill in any questions about this situation","title":"My university \u201clied\u201d to me about cancellation fee\u2019s (Ky)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540254722,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qjsbj\/noncompete_agreement_signed_for_md_entity\/","id":"9qjsbj","body":"Signed the employment agreement which has a 2 year non-compete agreement explicitly naming a competitor, which I\u2019m considering making a lateral move into. \n\nCaveat: The non compete was signed on an employment agreement with an old entity - the firm recently merged and is operating under a new holdings company. So, technically, I don\u2019t work for the entity I signed the agreement with anymore and I\u2019ve yet to sign a new non compete. \n","title":"Non-compete agreement signed for MD entity, enforceable in NY?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540486390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rc2mz\/first_traffic_violation_what_do_i_do\/","id":"9rc2mz","body":"Sorry, I know there are larger and more important problems to solve here but I just got my first traffic ticket today and I have no idea what to do. \n\nThis morning I rolled through a stop sign on my way to work. The officer was very nice about it, but he had it on camera and had to write me a ticket. He said I have the options of going to traffic school or going to court. He said that I can go to court, the judge will name the officers who are present. If he is there, I have the option to proceed. If I do, he will show the video and I will get fined. Although, my mother says that I can claim it ill be a financial burden in hopes that they\u2019ll lessen it (which is true, I just started a job fresh out of university). The officer told me that I have the option of not proceeding if he is there. If he isn\u2019t, he said the court just throws out the ticket? \n\nCan I get some confirmation on the advice that the officer gave me? Am I better off going to court, hoping if he doesn\u2019t show up or claiming financial burden if he is? Will this show up on my driving record? Or is it best to just pay for traffic school, in which case do I still pay the ticket? ","title":"First Traffic Violation... What do I do??","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445620334,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pxg0j\/filing_for_divorce_in_pennsylvania\/","id":"3pxg0j","body":"I live in Pennsylvania, and as far as I know, so does my \"wife.\"  We separated about this time in 2012, and in that time period I have lost track of where she lives.  I have no contact information for her whatsoever and have no idea where she could possibly be living.  I would really like to file divorce papers, but without knowing her address, I'm at a loss on where to begin since it is my understanding that I have to deliver to her an intent to divorce letter\/form.  So, can anyone help me out?","title":"Filing for Divorce in Pennsylvania","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568988534,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6vg0w\/reoccurring_harassment_on_my_daily_commute_to\/","id":"d6vg0w","body":"A little bit of context; I live in a pretty small town (1 square mile) really close to a bus station in a suburban area near a metropolitan area (1 hour 15 min away). I take the public transportation (bus) every morning and at night to get to my workplace. There is another stranger that has the same commute\/public transportation as me to get to the city.\n\nHere\u2019s the issue: this past year I have got into three conflicting interactions with this stranger. First time, on my way back home, I sat next to him on the bus. Our legs\/thighs accidentally touched each other in the bus seat a few time as the bus was moving, and that\u2019s when things escalated. He started cursing me out and calling me profanities (gay, bitch, etc.). I felt threatened and got away from the seat: ended up standing the whole commute to avoid sitting next to him.\n\nAfter a few months, on my way to work in the morning this time, I was waiting in the bus stop when the stranger came. He and I locked eyes and he started cursing at me again. But this time it got more serious, because he started threatening me. He stated that \u201che knows where I live\u201d (I live in an apartment close to the bus station), \u201ctold me to watch out for my family,\u201d \u201cstated that he is veteran and knows the police officers in this town,\u201d \u201cwill fuck me up\u201d, etc. I kept yelling, \"leave me alone and I will call the police\". In hindsight I should have called the police and walked away (wait for next bus?), but the bus ended up coming and we took different seats.\n\nNow, this week, I saw this guy again on my way back home from the commute. I didn\u2019t even try to make eye contact and he started going off and threatening me again. He continued to make the same threats as last time, and got close to me. I called the police as soon as possible, and told them my address in the metropolitan area; he backed off when I called the police but still way making threats from a bit far away. Again, the bus ended up coming, and we took the bus at different seats. I was looking at my surroundings during the bus ride fearing for my life.\n\nHowever, as soon as I got off the bus, this time I went to the police station in my town and told them my situation. Filed a report against him stating what happened. The police officer gave me advice to call the police and that he would be on the lookout near the bus station in the morning. The police officer said he can\u2019t do anything at this time because nothing has officially happened.\n\nNow, I feel scared to be in the same town as him. I don\u2019t know what I should do. First off, I don\u2019t know why he\u2019s harassing me and sees me as a target. I wear a suit every morning if that brings any additional context (not too many people do from what I seen). I just see no reason why this is happening other than that? Maybe I rubbed off the wrong way... I don\u2019t want any physical altercation but it keeps escalating.\n\nSecond, every time this happens and I call the police, I feel that by the time police officers arrive, he would have left the scene. I would like to get a restraining order or something. I really don\u2019t want any trouble and want to go on with my commute.\n\nThird, you could be stating that I could just take a different bus than him or find another way to get to my work. I could do that but that would be detrimental to my commute (add on extra hour potentially on top of my long commute). I could do that temporarily but don\u2019t think that\u2019s sustainable. I would like to avoid him but in this small town, I feel like I will end up seeing him sooner or later. Additionally, now I fear, at night or day, I would get attacked when I least expect it.\n\nWhat could I do? Should I move (I live with my parents so I will still end in the same town time to time) Should I get a lawyer? Should I go to the police station again? I just want to get on in with my life and not have to deal with this kind of stress.","title":"Reoccurring Harassment on my Daily Commute to Work. Feel threatened of my Life. What should I do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1550111750,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqevb3\/workers_compensation\/","id":"aqevb3","body":"I work at a small pizza company. So to get down, dirty and to the point, my boss is cheap. With that being said, my assistant manager, also my own blood (my darling sister dearest) stuck her arm in a 50 gallon dough mixer and broke it, ended up needing surgery, and is being rewarded with $21k. \n\nNote: she was also compensated while she was out of work for 5 weeks. This is on top of that.\n\nThe day before the Super Bowl I cut myself very badly. So deep I have nerve damage, had to go to the ER and ended up with 7 stitches. \n\nAs a company, we\u2019ve had a fair amount of claims in the past 16 months on our insurance plan. The owner of the company thinks that if we submit my hand we could potentially be canceled, which I totally understand.\n\nThe day after it happened, I came to work. Wasn\u2019t in the best mood but I had work that needed to be done since it was super bowl Sunday and we were a pizza place. \n\nNote: I\u2019m the district manager. Couldn\u2019t miss it.\n\nThe owner wants me to put it on my own insurance, which will make my rates go up. He only wants to pay my deductible. \n\nI don\u2019t even want to put it on my insurance, he won\u2019t pay me more to cover the difference in my rates, he underpays me in general. (But that\u2019s besides the point)\n\nI was just looking for some good ol\u2019 advice. I should be expecting the ER bill any day now.","title":"Workers compensation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445287842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pegn5\/wa_landlord_wants_tenants_to_pay_for_plumbing\/","id":"3pegn5","body":"Hi all. This is my first time posting here so I hope I'm doing this right.\n\n\nMy female friend lives in a house with other 5 other girls, so there are 6 girls in all. They have been living there since August I believe. This morning they had major issues with the plumbing (water not working, shit coming up the toilet and shower, etc.) so they called their landlord who brought a plumber to the house to inspect everything and figure out what the problem was. \n\n\nWhile I do not have any information about what sorts of things they have in writing, when the girls first moved in the landlord told them that if anything in the house broke or needed repairs he would pay to get it fixed. However, the plumber found that the pipes were clogged with flushed tampons, so the landlord is saying that this is the girls' fault and they will have to pay for repair costs, which will supposedly be north of $1000.\n\n\nAdmittedly, I'm a guy and I don't know the standard practice regarding flushing tampons, but after some googling it sounds like it's not an uncommon thing to do. I've also seen the house and it looks pretty new, so I would've assumed the plumbing would've been fairly new as well. For what it's worth, the landlord also never told the girls that they couldn't flush tampons. \n\n\nMy friend is going to talk to the landlord today and tell him that she refuses to pay for the repairs. I guess I'm just curious if my friend is screwed, or if this worth speaking to a lawyer over.\n\n\nThanks for any help! It's much appreciated. I apologize for the lack of details but I don't know too many specifics.","title":"[WA] Landlord wants tenants to pay for plumbing repairs due to flushed tampons","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445185064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p8ny6\/landlord_doesnt_want_my_husband_visiting_ct\/","id":"3p8ny6","body":"My contract states that \"If 2 persons stay in the room, $5 per a night shall be charged. If 2 persons stay in the room more than 10 days per a month, $100 per a month shall be charge. The fee shall be paid at next month payment.\"\nMy landlord lives in Korea, so I emailed him almost a month before my husband was coming to visit, letting him know that my husband was going to be staying with me and letting him know that I planned on paying him the $5 per night for his stay. \n\nI just received an email from my landlord saying that other residents have complained that my husband being here means that they will have to pay more in electricity. My landlord asked me to have my husband leave the next day. My husband is only in the room when I am there, and has barely seen any of the other residents. What can I do? ","title":"Landlord doesn't want my husband visiting (CT)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569609577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da4m24\/missing_wages\/","id":"da4m24","body":"So i left my company on aug. 20th so my last check shouldve been 48 hrs so idk why but i waited till next payday to pick up my check but when i called to pick up my last check they told me the check distributor or something wasnt there. So they told me to call on tuesday because labor day was on monday. So i called and they said not to worry about it that theyll send it through the mail. I said ok... called every 5 days from then on receiving the same excuse telling me they sent it already. Called september the 18th and finally the secretary told me \u201cill do anything i can to make sure you receive your check\u201d. Low and behold i get my check the 22nd and see that the mail was stamped with postal service date of them receiving on the 19th. Was real happy i finally got my check only to find out i got payed 28 hours. Called back and they said that i shouldve showed up to pick up my last check and they couldnt do anything about. I told them to check the cameras like they did last, this isnt the first time they fucked up my pay, and they said they like delete or dont save the recordings that its already been to long. Need help any advice will be good. \nTL;DR: I quit, wanted last check, took them a month to \u201csend\u201d it to me only to find out i got stiffed and didnt receive the pay for all the hours I worked.","title":"Missing wages","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552948110,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2p23j\/hr_department_refuses_to_pay_for_bills_that_are\/","id":"b2p23j","body":"I had a back injury and was out of work for about 6 months (injury occured at work). Upon returning they said my health insurance would reactivate after my first month working. It didnt. After emailing and complaining for over 2 1\/2 months i got the HR manager to give me a course of action to get my insurance reinstated.  I filled out the necessary forms CORRECTLY including the specific medical group and primary care physician that I was seeing.\n\nMy HR department miskeyed (flat out disregarded) my medical group and doctor when they signed me up.  I had to backpay insurance premiums for the 3 months I was working but because the wrong information was entered by HR all the premiums went to a different medical group and doctor coverage.  I had been seeing my own doctor the entire time for minor issues so all those visits got charged directly to me.\n\nIt wasnt until 6 months after I began work that I had a health complication and needed to see a specialist when I was notified by my doctor that I was not in the correct medical group and could not see a specialist through them because of billing discrepancies. When I re-signed up for my insurance I was sent 2 sets of insurance cards , one with my PREVIOUS (correct) medical group and PCP and one with a completely different medical group and PCP. Because I recieved the correct cards first I had no idea my information had changed.\n\nAfter finding this out I took the necessary steps to have my HR change me to the correct group\/doctor but I had already been seeing my doctor for about 6 months and all those charges are now billed directly to me.\n\nOh and BTW the doctor that they wrongly assigned me to wasnt even still practicing so I would need to find a new one and sign on as a new patient which would have taken a couple weeks before I would have been able to be seen for my health complication. My only other option was to go to urgent care or emergency room where they had no history of me or my medical needs.\n\nMy HR department is basically saying too bad not our problem, you had insurance thats all that matters.\n\nDo I have any recourse?\n\nI live in California","title":"HR department refuses to pay for bills that are the result of their mistakes.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552787285,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2047n\/pa_sentanced_to_20_months_in_federal_prison_where\/","id":"b2047n","body":"Was sentanced to 20 months in federal prison for a first time non violent drug offense. My lawyer claims I qualify for a camp and during sentancing the judge asked if there was a location preferred. My lawyer said FCI Fairton which the judge was fine with. Now I'm aware the judge doesn't make the final decision the BOP does and the judge only makes a recommendation.\n\nThe issue I'm having with this is FCI Fairton has a camp and a medium only. The medium actually is considered a high in disguise. How can I be sure the BOP is putting me in the camp? There's no way I should go to the medium at worst I'd be able to go to a low somewhere if I got denied a camp by the BOP. I'm scheduled to surrender in two weeks. Any input would be greatly appreciated. ","title":"(PA) Sentanced to 20 months in federal prison. Where will I go?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443112584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m7tvt\/is_it_possible_for_me_to_file_patenity_by_myself\/","id":"3m7tvt","body":"Heres some back ground. I live in tulsa Oklahoma and my now ex and i are separating we are not mairred and we have a child together my name is on his birth certificate as his father and he has my last name as well she wants to take the child out of state and i do not want that. All i know sp far is that i have to file for patenity or something like that so i can lock the case in tulsa and make it so the child cannot be taken out of state can i do this by myself.","title":"Is it possible for me to file patenity by myself","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506441557,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72lb4s\/colorado_received_a_speeding_ticket_in_trinidad\/","id":"72lb4s","body":"I was issued a summons for doing 108 in a 75 in Trinidad, Colorado. I currently live in Texas, but have a NY drivers license being that I just moved here. I will be changing over to a Texas license this week. I've had 2 previous speeding violations in the last 2 years, neither of them in Colorado. \n\nQuestions:\n\n1. Can I receive points on my Texas license for an infraction in Colorado?\n\n2. Is it absolutely necessary to get a Colorado based traffic attorney (may have butchered that name, sorry) to represent me at the hearing? (Asking because I don't have a lot of money, and am already expecting a pretty hefty fine at the least)\n\n3. Can I receive jail time for this? Is it likely?\n\n4. Is there any way that I can forgo having to drive back to Co. to appear in court?\n\n5. I had a conversation yesterday with a TX based attorney. He told me that if I apply for a TX license instead of transferring my NY to a TX, that my driving record will not follow me. Is there any validity to this?\n ","title":"[Colorado] Received a speeding ticket in Trinidad, Colorado.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568986588,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6v0z9\/how_much_notice_do_i_need_to_give_my_landlord_if\/","id":"d6v0z9","body":"For context I live in Nebraska.   \n\n\nI am trying to move out at the end of the month and my landlord is telling me I need to give 30 days formal written notice and am responsible for the rent payment on those days. However my lease agreement ran through 9\/1\/2019 and is now expired making me technically a month-to-month tenant because she has not put a new one in front of me. Is she correct that I am required to give her a month of notice even if there is no lease agreement between us? I have tried looking into what the law actually states on this and have had difficulty finding anything.","title":"How much notice do I need to give my landlord if my lease has expired? [NE]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551318114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avlbh4\/breaking_lease_without_repercussions\/","id":"avlbh4","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nI recently got a new job 60+ miles (1.5-2 hour drive) from the house I\u2019m currently renting. I have a 1-year lease that goes through the end of September, but I\u2019m looking to move closer to work ASAP to avoid the commute. I\u2019m located in California.\n\nI have 2 housemates that are also on the lease, and I know they can\u2019t afford the rent without me (I pay 1\/2 the rent for the garage and master suite).\n\nHere is the best reason I have for legally breaking lease: in October 2018 we reported to our landlord\/property manager that the central heat wasn\u2019t working.\n\nBefore breaking lease I will acquire legal counsel, but I want to get a general \u201cyou\u2019re good\u201d or \u201cno way\u201d. \n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Breaking Lease without repercussions?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554055442,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7qn4f\/would_nonmaliciously_hacking_my_teachers_computer\/","id":"b7qn4f","body":"I say non-malicious because it won't screw up her computer.\nShe's incredibly mean to me and one other student on \"redo your project\" levels.\nSo um...\nWould it be legal to get some r\/prorevenge by anonymously slipping a flashdrive through the door that when plugged in pulls up a P5-esque calling card that basically says she's a jerk, then shuts down the computer?\nI assume so, because she voluntarily plugged it in.\nAlso, if it's legal, what pseudonym do I use?","title":"Would non-maliciously hacking my teacher's computer be illegal","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539247874,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n86pw\/us_wa_is_my_employer_legally_required_to\/","id":"9n86pw","body":"Hello,\n\nI originally posted to \/r\/Advice, but decided to X-Post here because I think there is legality behind my situation that this subreddit is more knowledgeable on. I don't want to approach my boss until I am aware of whether or not I should be compensated.\n\n​\n\nI recently obtained a position at a start up. It is a job teaching kids how to code. The job is related to my major and I am hitting two birds with one stone by taking a self study course to earn credits while working this job. That part is awesome!\n\nHowever, after attending a paid training session, we were given curriculum material to study outside of work. I had a bad feeling about this and looked up federal labor laws. According to the Federal Standards Labor Act (FSLA), if training is voluntary, it may not have to be compensated.\n\nKeep in mind that this is an hourly job that pays slightly above minimum wage and not salary. The majority of employees are high school students who are most likely being employed for the first time. This is my 4th job (as I am 24) so I have been taking note on the matter with a rough idea about labor laws.\n\n**Then I received an email this evening that threatened to cancel shifts if we do not know the course material that we are teaching.** **The email made it apparent we are to go through the entire curriculum in our own time.**\n\nTo my understanding, this would correlate to the training outside of work being *involuntary*. Also, I believe it meets the requirements to be compensated based on [the Federal Labor Standard Act](https:\/\/www.employmentlawhandbook.com\/flsa\/fair-labor-standards-act-when-meeting-and-training-time-is-considered-hours-worked\/): \n\n    Training must be counted as hours worked unless it meets each of four requirements:  \n    - the attendance is outside the employee\u2019s regular working hours;  \n    - the attendance is in fact voluntary;  \n    - the meeting, seminar, lecture, or training is not directly related to the employee\u2019s job; and  \n    - the employee does not perform productive work while attending the meeting, seminar, lecture, or training       \n\nI also looked up [Washington's Department of Labor and Industries interpretation of the federal law.](https:\/\/www.employmentlawhandbook.com\/wage-and-hour-laws\/state-wage-and-hour-laws\/washington\/hours-worked\/#7) \n\n    According to the Department of Labor and Industries, employers must count time spent by employees at meetings, lecture, or training as hours worked if the employees believe or are led to believe that their present working conditions or continued employment would be adversely affected by not attending. Additionally, employers are not generally required to compensate employees for attending training programs mandated by state or federal regulation, but not by the employer.\n\n​\n\n1. Please confirm whether or not I should legally be compensated for time spent training myself on material we are required to know in order to work.\n2. How do you think I should approach my employer in an appropriate matter if I should be compensated? \n3. People who experienced similar circumstances, how did you handle this and what did you learn?\n\nThank you","title":"[US, WA] Is my employer legally required to compensate for training outside of work in this circumstance? X-Post","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554596522,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baart4\/pa_abusive_husband_being_difficult\/","id":"baart4","body":"I'm going to try my best to explain this. My husband and I have been separated since 9\/2018. He kept the two boys for me until mid 10\/2018 while I got my life together. However, we have been previously separated from 05\/2017-01\/2018 and 12\/2015-07\/2016. These separations were caused by abuse and neglect on his part. I forgave him, which was stupid of me. I even dropped the previous PFA I had on him because I believed he would change.\n\nSince the children have been in my custody again, I have offered for him to take the children for quality time with him several times. He usually says no. I have the children and care for them 95% of the time on my own. I have no problem with this at all. I have made the decisions for them practically since they've been born. (2015 and 2017) I am their primary care giver. Now, he hardly took them to spend time with them, the only time he would see them was if I were involved in some way, which I wasn't comfortable with.\n\nI had asked him with help getting a reliable vehicle to help transport myself and the boys. Not a problem if he had said no. However he agreed and we got a vehicle. The vehicle is in his name only. However, he did assure me that the vehicle was for me and the boys and even if we weren't going to get back together he wouldn't take the car away until I had my own vehicle. I have proof of him saying this.\n\nA few weeks later we had a domestic dispute where he severely harmed my wrist and the police wouldn't do anything. Since then we have not spoken. I currently have a pfa order on him. He also took the vehicle that he said he wouldn't take.\n\nI have no income. I've been living on my share of the tax return we received. I cannot afford a lawyer. He, however, does have a lawyer and is pushing me for a non-contested, no-fault divorce and 50-50 legal and physical custody. I tried working with his lawyer for me to have primary physical custody and shared legal custody. His lawyer tells me that PA prefers splitting custody 50-50. However, they want to do week by week rotations. I do not feel this is a good choice for the boys. The [2015] child is developmentally behind and will be 4 soon. I fear that the sudden uprooting could slow him down even further.\n\nI have filed for sole physical custody of both boys and have a court date set. Even with the PFA in place I have offered for him to take the children 3 separate times, all he has refused. He saw the children twice for a few hours when I had a mutual friend watching them for me, which I had offered for his lawyer to tell him this info. I've had the PFA in place for a month and he has refused 75% of my offers to see them. I believe he only wants 50\/50 custody to avoid child support.\n\nI have filed for support for myself and my children, I have filed for sole physical custody of the children, I have filed for TANF, I'm searching for a Pro Bono lawyer and I have a job interview Wednesday.\n\nWhat are my options on the divorce? I'm definitely not contesting it but I do not feel that it was a \"no fault\" divorce. I would at least like the vehicle back. How would I go about disagreeing to the \"no-fault\"?\n\nIs it true that PA prefers 50\/50 legal and physical custody? If so, does this mean that time has to be evenly split between us? I would highly prefer him to take the children on his days off, or if he has vacation time, etc. I have no problems with him seeing the children. However, I do have a problem with the children being bounced around constantly. Especially since he had no problem with me practically having physical custody of the children all of these months until now.\n\nI have contacted my local legal aid and they do not usually help with custody. If I have to go to court alone, I am going up against a lawyer with law school experience and a greater understanding of the laws than I do. I am in the process of finding a Pro Bono lawyer, but if I can't, what are some strategies I can use to help me with winning the sole physical custody or even primary physical custody? He is drinking every night now from what I understand. I don't want to put my children into that situation with an alcoholic father.\n\nAny advice will be beneficial. This account is a throwaway for identity reasons. However, I will be checking it because I have no idea what to do.\n\nThank you all.","title":"[PA] Abusive husband being difficult","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552915199,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2ink9\/problems_with_school\/","id":"b2ink9","body":"Kansas\n\nMy Daughter middle school has several detentions for being late. I then instructed my daughter to just leave after school and not to sit in detention. The school called me and said that I can not tell her to skip detention and if she continues that they \u201cthe staff\u201d would physically keep her from leaving. \n\nCan the school really physically keep her from leaving the building? If they do attempt what can I do ?\n","title":"Problems with school","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1508159055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76qbr7\/someone_that_i_dont_know_venmoed_me_200_and_said\/","id":"76qbr7","body":"Edit: my location is in Connecticut.\n\nAnotha edit: The scam subreddit said I should just ignore it.\n\nFinal edit: Venmo contacted me and the guy is getting his money back. Thanks for all the help. ","title":"Someone that I don\u2019t know Venmo\u2019ed me $200 and said \u201cVegas!!!\u201d in the description of what it was for. It was sent at 2 in the morning. I commented on it and asked if they meant to do it or not, but I\u2019m not sure what to do if they don\u2019t respond.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569458608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9c7kb\/us_ga_contract_law_for_an_apartment_rental\/","id":"d9c7kb","body":"I electronically signed my renewal contract for my apartment last evening. I received their signature on the contract by email at 9:15 am this morning. At 4pm today I found a new addendum put on my door requiring me to provide a \"personal representative\" with contact info for them to contact in case of my death, incapacitation or abandonment of the residence. This addendum also grants the property owner \"power of attorney coupled with an interest\" and it states they can take possession of my property without obtaining a court order.\n\nThere is already an extensive default clause in the signed contract, granting that I surrender possession upon non-payment.\n\nThis seems crazy to me. I assume this is not how contracts work and I'm not obligated to sign this new addendum after the fact. Can somebody let me know what my rights might be in Georgia?","title":"US: GA - Contract Law for an Apartment Rental","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539052529,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mld9q\/eli5_what_is_disparate_impact\/","id":"9mld9q","body":"And why don\u2019t more companies get accused of it for job descriptions? (When a job requires a degree even though it isn\u2019t necessary, doesn\u2019t that discriminate against protected classes)","title":"ELI5: What is disparate impact?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444270005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nx4lb\/wa_lease_multiple_leasing_agencies_and_security\/","id":"3nx4lb","body":"Just moved out of an apartment and we're having a few different issues regarding our security deposit. \nWhen we initially applied to move in we didn't have enough credit. At the time our apartment was owned by an investment company. We were told we could move in, they'd just increase the security deposit. We agreed, but all of us failed to realize that the security deposit amount was not changed in the lease (however I do still have all emails, and we have bank records stating we paid the agreed upon amount). \nAbout six months ago, our apartment building was sold to a different leasing agency. \nAbout a month ago we signed a new lease. We gave proper notice in writing (along with forwarding address), cleaned the hell out of it. Tried to schedule a walk-out inspection with the landlord, but he said it was unnecessary. He also informed us that he had no record of the amount we actually paid for our security deposit, and refused to acknowledge any emails or receipts. \nAfter numerous texts with our landlord requesting our deposit (all of which had incredibly rude replies, the last being \"I don't hear you bitching, so I assume you have your money\"), we received a check post-dated 18 days late. Not only was it late, it was also made out for a fraction of the amount stated in our lease, and there was no itemized list of what we were charged for. \n\nI realize it's only a few hundred dollars, but we're currently in a position where a few hundred dollars means quite a bit to us. So is this worth pursuing, or should I quit bitching and deposit the check? \n","title":"WA, Lease, multiple leasing agencies, and security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540728562,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s2p69\/need_some_advice_regarding_a_motorbike_fine\/","id":"9s2p69","body":"Hi guys, first time poster but long time lurker, wondering if you could help me.\n\nBackstory: I had a motorbike I bought, however the guy at the shop registered the bike with an incorrect surname, for the sake of it let's say my surname is Marcy, but the bike had been registered to Tracey.\n\nFast forward 6 months my bike gets stolen. It gets recovered with damage, I leave it off road but (important part) forget to SORN it, completely my fault and I happily hold my hands up.\n\nA bailiff turns up at my door last week as I had forgot about it, I had just finished a night shift and just got into bed when the door knocks. The bailiff proceeds to explain why he's here (was being very nice), as we are talking I explain to him that writ is for Tracey, not marcy therefore I'm not liable at that time.\n\nHere's the fuck up but granted I'll be honest when it's due, I told him the situation and said I'm happy to pay if they can give me some flexibility considering its Christmas. I was willing to make two minor payments now and December (70-75 each month) and then in January and Feb pay large amounts (200-250), the fine total is 600 odd. I'm not willing to pay large amounts at this time of year to a council organisation, they don't need the money and no one will have a shit Christmas if I don't pay them.\n\nI'm asking for legal advice as to how the bailiff and the company can go about getting the name changed on the writ? The bike was never registered to my correct name, my first name and address are correct but surname is totally different, how do they go about getting my name changed and can they legally enforce this against me?\n\n\nI'm happy to pay so I won't be trying to get out of this at all, if the company offered me flexibility id be more inclined to pay without, but the bailiff essentially told me he wants two installments before Christmas, 300 each, it's not happening.","title":"Need some advice regarding a motorbike fine.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505711196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70svwo\/child_injured_in_rental_property\/","id":"70svwo","body":"Wondering how to address this...\n\nI'm renting an apartment, and the closets are the huge awful mirrors with brass frames. Since moving in I've complained about them coming off of the rails, being difficult to open and close, but the property management told me that the apartments are old and I just need to be careful. \n\nTonight my kids were playing in their room and the door came off of the tracks and landed on both of them - they weren't opening the closet, just playing with Barbies on the floor. The mirrored door smashed, shattered everywhere. After being checked out, both kids are fine - a bruise on the face of my youngest and they're shaken up.\n\nI called a family member who mentioned that the landlord will likely charge me for the door repair. It didn't even cross my mind that this was a possibility! Is this something I could REALLY be stuck paying for, despite mentioning multiple times that it was a problem?\n\nFor an apartment that costs ~$2000\/month this shouldn't be an issue. But, it is. \n\nAny advice for dealing with the property manager tomorrow morning? I've been told different things by different people - just take off the closet doors and deal with it at move out, call an attorney, break the lease, try and repair it ourselves (everywhere I've checked doesn't even manufacture these old doors anymore). It's a total headache. \n\nETA: located in Portland, OR","title":"Child injured in rental property","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571173084,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diecbd\/custodychild_support_question\/","id":"diecbd","body":"My friend is in the National guard and only serves sporadically through out the year. His main gig is as a police office in Kansas. He just had a custody\/support hearing and his support was bumped up so high that he can't afford it. The payments were based on his last 4 months of employment, assuming that that is an accurate representation of his yearly earnings. When in fact it was much higher than normal due to his short deployment for the National Guard. Is there a path he can pursue to adjust this to more accurately reflect his real annual salary? Can you appeal child support? He and his family are not well off and their lawyer was sub-par. The mother of his kid is wanting him to give up custody so her new boyfriend can adopt the kid. He does not want to do that and was seeking a more equal custody arrangement.","title":"Custody\/Child support question","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444177163,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nrzyy\/ca_laid_down_my_bike_to_avoid_hitting_a_red_light\/","id":"3nrzyy","body":"I'm on my motorcycle waiting to turn left. Light goes green and I get going. Just as I begin the turn, an SUV comes through the intersection having run the red light. In order to avoid a collision, I lay the bike down (going <15mph). We exchange information, and then I call my insurance company only to get a harsh lesson in \"fault.\" Bike is mostly rideable, and I'm mostly uninjured (some pain in my left foot).\n\nI have eyewitnesses and GoPro video to back me up. Based upon this - http:\/\/www.all-about-car-accidents.com\/resources\/auto-accident\/fault-car-accidents\/can-you-be-sued-for-no-contact-motorcycle-acc - I get the feeling that I do have some legal options available to me. Would it be possible to avoid hiring a lawyer simply by making a 'threat' of legal action? If I have to get a lawyer, is that going to cost more than the value of my bike (blue book of about $6000) and possible medical fees (if it's more than just a knock to my foot).\n\nThanks for reading.","title":"(CA) Laid down my bike to avoid hitting a red light runner and insurance won't make a claim.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551855469,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axvxvy\/moving_out_of_apartment_due_to_health_safety\/","id":"axvxvy","body":"My wife and I rent out a upstairs unit of a quad plex and we are moving out of our apartment tomorrow.\n\nStory:\nWe have rented out the space for a year and a half and have had issues on multiple occasions of our across the hall and down stairs neighbors smoking in their units and the second hand smoke seeping into our apartment. We live in a non smoking quadplex and it is in our lease that smoking on the premises is a zero tolerance policy of the lease. It is important to note that due to my asthma, cigarette smoke causes damage to my lungs and health. The first time we reported it (across the hall neighbor) our landlord asked the tenant to stop after multiple emails complaining about it over several days and it finally stopped. Tenant was not evicted. \n\nFast forward to a month ago and over the course of several days we would come home to both cigarette smoke and weed smoke seeping in to our apartment. I even had to go to the doctor due to the smoke triggering my asthma.  We emailed the landlord and he sends out a email to all tenants telling them that if it is them, they need to stop. Over the next two days, our across the hall neighbor banged on our door and yelled at my wife accusing us of falsely accusing her of smoking and our downstairs neighbor blocking her on her way into our unit to tell her that she was wrong for emailing the landlord, he did not read the lease and did not know smoking was a violation (admitting to it), and telling her that she better tell him next time we have an issue or there will be a bigger one. Due to this and the lack of enforcement of the non smoking clause, we emailed our landlord asking if we can have a mutual agreement to end our lease. In response, he emails us to tell us that after we complained about smoking, the neighbors complained about our dogs being loud, which we pay an increase in rent and our landlord agreed to have on the premises, and that we need to sort out our issues with our neighbors ourselves. Also, if we wanted out of the lease, we would have to pay two months worth of rent, forfeit the security deposit, it would go on our rental history, and we would have to vacate immediately. I called BS and told him i would be happy to have my primary care physician contact him with the notes that show smoking causes my episode and reminded him that we pay for the right to have our pets. After discussing with spouse and family, we decided that since we have no physical proof of smoking, we could not get out of it. So I told him we would stay the remainder of the lease if he could guarantee that no more violations would occur and if they did, we would act if he did not. We did not receive a response. \n\nNow, over the weekend, we woke up to a beer bottle smashed over my car windshield, causing cracks. We filed a police report to have it on the record. Sunday night at 1 A.M., our downstairs neighbor begins blaring music and we have cigarette smoke seeping into our apartment again. I turn on the recording app on my phone and I go and asked him to please turn down his music and that we smelled the smoke again and ask that he please do so outside. He says that he doesn\u2019t complain about all of the noise our dogs make on the floor in the afternoon and that it\u2019s apartment and home and he will smoke inside if he wants to.  The recording clearly caught all of it. Side note: recording without knowledge is legal in TN. After I go back upstairs, our neighbor begins shouting at us through the floor, threatening myself and my wife with physical harm along with our pets. I emailed our landlord immediately informing him of everything that has transpired along with the police report from my car. Our good neighbor, who happens to be the landlords repair man, goes to his door and tells him to keep it down and also smells cigarette smoke. For the safety of my family and myself, we have been staying with my parents for the past two nights while beginning the process of moving our stuff out. Our landlord finally emailed us back Monday afternoon and only said that he would get back to me. \n\n\nWe have asked a lawyer for legal advice and now I\u2019m asking you: Do we have a case for constructive eviction? If not, is there anything that we can do to prevent our landlord from suing us for rent and damages? All email correspondence has been saved and documented. Voice recording of neighbor admitting to smoking has been saved as well. Smoking is a clear violation of our lease and I also feel like that our landlord is being slow to act in the case of a openly hostile tenant. We are moving out either way. No matter what, I will not put the safety of my family at risk while they debate on what to do. So what do I do? Thanks!\n\nIf you read all of this congratulations and thank you for your time. ","title":"Moving out of Apartment due to Health & Safety Concerns- TN USA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539632697,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9og28h\/black_mold_in_basment_apartment\/","id":"9og28h","body":"(Waterloo region, ontario) My gf is a couple months into her lease and is extremely unhappy. Needless to say the landlord is subpar; he failed to deliver on his promise to have the rooms professionally cleaned prior to move-ins (the unit itself and bedrooms were filthy when moving in and still had extra floor tiling and furniture that had to be moved by the tenants)  and is being generally unpleasant. While this is pretty typical of the area, and not cause for anything more than annoyance, we have recently discovered black mold behind the baseboards. My gf wants to move by end of term, but would be required to sublet. She is worried about finding someone willing to move in given the situation, is there anything that can be done to void the lease? Or any legal action that can be taken? Thanks!! ","title":"Black mold in basment apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568420798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3y4mn\/washington_state_usa_small_business_employer\/","id":"d3y4mn","body":"The tricky part about this situation is that where I work, we don\u2019t necessarily have normal shifts... it\u2019s a swim school so all we do is teach swimming lessons. Each lesson is 30 minutes and some days will be packed back to back with lessons for several hours in a row, while some other days will have random open lesson spots scattered around. \n\nExample: Saturday\u2019s I am scheduled to be available for lessons 9am to 4pm. I had to go into our scheduling program to block out a break for myself because after months of asking, I wasn\u2019t getting one. If I was given a break, it would be reopened and a last minute lesson would often be thrown in. The breaks I gave myself were recently taken away from me so I had to ask for them back. \n\nIt\u2019s not just me. We employ lots of high school kids and they aren\u2019t given breaks either. \n\nI\u2019ve been told that the standard rules for breaks and mealtimes don\u2019t apply to us because were considered a \u201cyear round spa\u201d. \n\nBefore I seek legal recourse, am I stuck? Do indoor year round spas have different rules than other businesses?","title":"(Washington State, USA) Small business employer doesn\u2019t give opp for breaks\/mealtimes, says that \u201cbreaks are per request\u201d only and not guaranteed.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507750640,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75rj3q\/evicting_roommate\/","id":"75rj3q","body":"hi. currently living with my sister in an apartment. the legal tenant (the actual leasee) is my brother (he lives in the same city). my sister and i have been living under this arrangement for a little over a year. \n\nshe has a toxic personality and routinely shouts and swears at me (sometimes just pure screeching). yesterday, she demanded that I pay off her credit card (over $700, including $150 in one month for coffee...) and swore and yelled before I left for work. I could go on and on but...I decided enough is enough.\n\nmy sister does have the option go back to parents home in nearby city. talked to my brother (legal tenant) and he agrees with me. I have also spoken with my mother and she is ready to receive my sister.\n\ni'm disabled and wheelchair bound. i am scared that she will use physical harm. though, i will try and communicate (again) with her tonight. after that, i have considered a restraining order. \n\nis there a simpler approach? \n\nedit: I currently reside in Ontario, Canada\n\nedit 2: Her name is NOT on the lease agreement.\n\nUpdate 1: Leaving work. Heading home. I will try to resolve this diplomatically and with dignity. Will update this thread in morning. Hopefully an eviction is not needed. She has ample incentive to return home. ","title":"evicting roommate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550733899,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/at0b19\/ny_employment_lawyer_went_mia_on_my_case\/","id":"at0b19","body":"So I sued a former employer, ironically a law firm which folded, for unpaid wages through an attorney I hired on contingency in 2014. There was a ruling (I think this term is correct?)  for the case around $14,000 which the employer (two attorneys) were to pay. One of the attorneys offered me $4000 which I accepted. The lawyer I retained took his 30%. \n\nThen the other partner of the firm, who is incredibly sketchy and evasive, and whom appears all the time on my social media, dating apps etc, but never did the right thing here, he never paid me a penny. He avoided my lawyer for months and then finally offered the same amount as the other guy- I said no, I want my $10,000. \n\nIn summer 2015 I got really ill (very depressed) and it seemed to make my attorney uncomfortable. Whatever it may be, he stopped responding to my calls, emails, texts. He ghosted me completely. \nI think this is unprofessional and a really asshole move. If you want to let go of my case, be an adult and send me a proper email. It seems unethical, an ongoing theme I have had with attorneys in this situation. \n\nWhat are my options for the $10,000 ? I never even knew if I could hire another lawyer to take on my case. It\u2019s not fair or right that my attorney disappeared on me. Do I have any options in terms of legally addressing his conduct too? It\u2019s quite appalling and not kind. \n\nThanks in advance!","title":"NY employment lawyer went MIA on my case","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554005063,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7jq1j\/divorceseparation_for_dui_fear\/","id":"b7jq1j","body":"My dad is an alcoholic. My mom fears he will get a dui. Surprised he hasn\u2019t yet. She has done everything she\u2019s can to help him but it\u2019s useless. She\u2019s planning to retire in a few years and doesn\u2019t want his problem to cause her to be unable to retire if he gets in trouble and she loses her savings. What does she do to remove herself from the situation?\nI guess the answer is divorce but I don\u2019t know if she will actually leave him because she thinks he will probably end up dead without her watching him\/he has nowhere else to go so can she legally separate or something like remove herself from any trouble he could get into?\nShe has no idea where to begin. She just let know about the situation tonight so I am trying to research. They\u2019ve been married 30+ years.\n\nAlso, my dad told he can\u2019t go to AA because they will alert his job and he\u2019ll be fired.. is that true? ","title":"Divorce\/separation for DUI fear","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1409892378,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fiw2l\/kicked_out_of_apartment_can_i_sue\/","id":"2fiw2l","body":"I signed a private contract to sublease a room in Davis, CA and moved in. The lessor knowingly misled me about subleases being legal in this community. When the community discovered my presence, they asked me to leave or sign a lease takeover. The lessor and I agreed that I would take on the lease and she signed the legal papers handing over the lease to me.  Instead of turning in the paperwork, she asked me to leave the apartment.  I wasted a lot of money and time arranging\/moving.  I have online communications and written documents proving her intent to give me the apartment and that she misled me.  Can I take any legal action against her (in a claims court) for damages?","title":"Kicked out of apartment - can I sue?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444417519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o4ul6\/oh_exhusband_lying_throughout_divorce\/","id":"3o4ul6","body":"A very close relative of mine (We'll call her Jane) is going through a divorce currently (husband was abusive, cheated, horrible person). Throughout this entire situation, he (we'll call him John) has been failing to do anything that has been ordered to him by the courts. The main trial is approaching this winter and John still hasn't completed the Discovery questions that were due last spring. The magistrate ordered him twice to do it, giving him a deadline twice. Each time, he still never completed the questions and received no punishment for it. Then, once things moved onto the pre-trial with the actual judge, the judge never brought it up as (of course) it turns out that the judge is retiring soon and wants to end the case ASAP, not caring about whether or not the Discovery was completed. The questions that he has answered have been very vague and some of them have just been downright lies. I'm worried that Jane is going to get screwed over in this situation as a result of John and his lawyer (Not even a divorce attorney. His lawyer is one of those ambulance chasers you see in the back of newspapers) giving misleading information that Jane is unfortunately unable to prove as false. John's mother died and he inherited a large amount of money. He also hasn't deposited any of his paychecks into his bank account. He's hiding his money somewhere and Jane has no way of proving that he's lying about how much money he has\/what he's done with it. He's basically trying to make it look like he has no money and doesn't want to give Jane a single penny because he claims to have no money when the reality is that he makes $100K+ a year + bonuses. For the record, Jane paid for the $300K house that they lived in for a decade, and John wants all of the money from the sale of said house. Why? Because he \"made a few payments\" on some of the bills for the house.\n\nOne of the main lies that he told was about his secret girlfriend and how much money he has spent on her. John goes on 5-6 vacations per year and Jane found out that John's secret girlfriend has been going with him on all of these trips. John also has been taking this girlfriend of his to lunch, and dinners at least weekly for the last few years. When asked to answer how much money he has spent on his girlfriend, he stated that he has never had a girlfriend and has never spent any money on her. We know with 100% certainty that this is a lie because Jane found photographs of them on vacation, texts, voicemails of them talking about dinners, etc etc. John deleted all of this off of his phone and Jane has no proof of this.\n\nThe other major lie he is telling pertains to a daughter of his that he had kept secret over the last couple decades. It turns out that he abandoned a woman who he had impregnated back in the 80's or 90's and that he secretly has a daughter. He admitted this to Jane many years ago before their marriage got bad i.e before Jane caught John cheating on her. When asked in the Discovery questions to state information about his daughter and how much financial aid he has been giving to the mother, he states that he has never had a daughter. Again, we all know that to be a lie but Jane doesn't know how to prove this. \n\nCould somebody point me in the right direction as to how to find out the name\/location of this daughter? I do believe that John's name is on the birth certificate. \n\nIs there any way to find deleted phone records i.e texts\/voicemails? Jane subpoena'd John's call records and it turns out that he has hour long conversations with this secret girlfriend every day for the last couple years.\n\nIs there any way to prove that money is being hidden?\n\nI'm very worried that Jane is going to get screwed over due to John's deceit and lies. Jane has spent the last 10 years staying at home predominantly, taking care of her children. She put all of her savings into that home and planned on having financial stability once the home was sold. But, right before her home sold, the divorce began. Now she has no money and is financially unstable while her husband has spent the last 10 years living in the home that she paid for, spending tens of thousands of dollars every year on vacations with random girlfriends, etc etc. It's not fair for Jane to have her life ruined because her husband was an abusive P.O.S who cheated on her. She doesn't deserve to lose everything when she did nothing wrong. That's why I'm trying to help her as much as possible as she can barely afford to speak with her attorney once a week. The judge (who like I said, could care less and is about to retire) wanted them to settle during the pre-trial for an absurdly small amount (something like 2 years alimony). I fear that unless Jane can prove John is lying, she is going to be screwed.\n\nI am unfamiliar with reddit and hope that I haven't broken any rules and that this is the right place to be posting this. Thank you all for any help!\n","title":"(OH) Ex-husband lying throughout divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569776372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daxu26\/sexual_assault_not_taken_seriously_ca\/","id":"daxu26","body":"I was sexually assaulted three years ago. The officer I spoke to told me it was not a crime because I did not say no, it was not violent, and due to, what I believe, was personal bias. \n\nThe rape was short and nonviolent because I complied and then escaped. The personal bias is based on the officer\u2019s comment about the perpetrator \u201cliving a neighborhood with good families, like cops\u201d. Perpetrator\u2019s father is a retired city FD and is well-known by local officials. I saved screenshots of my consent discussion with the perpetrator which highlighted my refusal to engage in the sex act he inflicted on me. I also have screenshots of the perpetrator apologizing for hurting me. He doesn\u2019t state rape or refer to it as such though.\n\nA week ago, I saw my state\u2019s law on rape. My assault fits the categories and I believe I am still within the statue of limitations. I want to push my report to be treated as a rape case. I am terrified that the perpetrator will hurt other women or patients because he works in healthcare. \n\nWhere do I go from here? \n\nThank you.","title":"Sexual assault not taken seriously [CA]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553633623,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5v4om\/im_marrying_my_fiancee_soon_but_dont_wanther_to\/","id":"b5v4om","body":"Texas. \n\nWe are getting married this summer. I own a house, dogs, 5 acres of land, car, and a ton of stuff. I'm a 100% disabled veteran and make 5k a month. She owns 1 car ans is an illegal immigrant. We will be starting the paperwork for her green card after marriage. She isn't marrying me for the citizenship, it's just a perk. \n\nBut I worked hard as fuck for what I have. I watched my sister go through a divorce and he took everything and she had to go through hell in the courts. I don't want to leave anything to chance. How do I keep absolutely all my stuff as just mine? Especially in case of my death I want everything going to my sister. My will is made out to my sister and my house has her on the deed as well in case of my death. \n\nI already am planning to not have her on my bank account. \n\nI love my fiancee but I'm a paranoid bastard. \n\nAlso, she's absolutely cool with this. She doesn't want my stuff. ","title":"I'm marrying my fiancee soon but dont wanther to have legal rights to any of my stuff. How?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1538877594,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m1miq\/workplace_privacy\/","id":"9m1miq","body":"Briefly I worked for the county and had to resign over medical issues. This was embarrassing\/disappointing to me, I left my coworkers abruptly\/high-and-dry, but I provided necessary physician\u2019s information and my resignation was quickly approved on the basis of medical necessity.\n\nDepressingly typically, some of the coworkers I left behind were pissed at my abrupt departure (it\u2019s hurtful when others take non-personal, necessary decisions about work personally). Probably because of this frustration, my former boss (who had access to the medical paperwork I submitted) called another administrator with a different branch (his friend) to complain about me, prompting that administrator (again, at a branch I never worked for) to use their confidentiality clearance to view my files. This administrator then discussed my medical information\/abrupt leave with another employee as material for gossip.\n\nThis administrator and the employee they gossiped with are people I have never met before.\n\nHow am I able to know this, then?\n\nMy best friend happens to work for that branch and confronted the workplace gossip.\n\nNow, I feel like, even if I wanted to go back to work for the county, I couldn\u2019t, because my personal information has been spread who-knows-how-far and may affect my ability to be rehired. Even if I were rehired, I\u2019d be so anxious people I\u2019ve never met\/potential new coworkers would know way more about me\/my personal life than I\u2019d ever hoped to disclose.\n\nDuring an already crappy time in my life, this whole misuse of confidentiality clearance and gossip has felt like being kicked while down. I have not been back to work anywhere yet.\n\nMy intent is to complain to Human Resources and seek punitive action against these employees. I don\u2019t want to get anyone fired and I don\u2019t want to sue. I do want others advice about how to best handle this situation, including legal advice if someone feels this would be best handled legally.\n\nThank you. I\u2019ve been intentionally vague about certain points but will answer any questions I can.","title":"Workplace privacy","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554229091,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8mux2\/nyc_landlord_eternally_stalling_on_following\/","id":"b8mux2","body":"We moved into our current Brooklyn apartment on October 1, 2018. We choose this unit because the landlord promised to build a wall \u201cwithin 6 weeks\u201d of us moving in to turn the two bedroom into a three bedroom. We had them put it in the lease as well. The lease stated that if they didn\u2019t build the additional wall by Jan 1, 2019 we could walk away from the lease without any penalty (namely, losing the deposit).\nIt\u2019s now April and they still haven\u2019t built the wall. When we ask them about it via email\/phone they typically say they just need a few more weeks or are just finishing up a project and can\u2019t quite start a new one yet. At this point it feels like it\u2019s never going to happen, but if there\u2019s anything I can do to push their hand to just get it done, that would be great. \nIs there any legal recourse we could take, especially considering it is in our lease?\nThanks, Reddit!","title":"NYC Landlord eternally stalling on following through on promised additional wall","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503494073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vivbq\/want_to_leave_and_start_my_own_consultancy\/","id":"6vivbq","body":"I've worked for the same uk company for 6 years nearly. \n\nIn such time I have picked up skills relating to our core software offering and progressed through from graduate to management.\n\nI've had several clients recently hint at paying me to do some consultancy work which is now really starting to tempt me as it's well over double my daily salary rate.\n\nThe predicament...In my contract, there is a clause which states:\n\n14.3 Once you or the Company has given notice to terminate your employment,\r\r(a) The Company shall be under no obligation to provide any work for you and may require you to perform only such duties as may be allocated to you; \r\r(b) You may not, without the prior written consent of the Company, contact or attempt to contact any client, customer, supplier, agent, professional adviser, broker or banker of the Company or any employee of the Company (except in respect of social contact);\n\nTo me, it doesn't read too well...\n\n- How watertight is this?\n- Could I incur legal damages?\n- What happens in a scenario that a client contacts me?\n- Is there anything else I should consider?\n\nObviously I would like to part ways amicably as I am consulting on my employers software, but if that is not possible I would still like to pursue this as an option.\n\nThanks in advance guys!\n\nD","title":"Want to leave and start my own consultancy...","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555323252,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdeanj\/miserable_custody_situation_mother_trying_to_keep\/","id":"bdeanj","body":"I will try to be as concise here as possible, in the hopes that I can reach the most people who can help. I can provide details whenever asked. We have video of almost the entire altercation. We would like to press charges or file for a restraining order, on top of filing a motion for contempt of the agreement. \n\n\n\nRecently, we were scheduled to have the child dropped off at 8:30 am. Per Rule 24, either parent is allowed 30 minutes to be late and still within the outlines of the agreement. BF calls the mother at 9:00 to find out if everything is ok, as this is a common occurrence when they are scheduled to drop off...she does not answer. Mother, child, mother\u2019s sister, and their mother live at the residence and are known to sleep in (mother is also a partier). BF and I drive out to the mother\u2019s residence to pick up the child rather than waste more of his parenting time waiting on them to respond, etc...as I\u2019ve said this is a common occurrence. Upon handing the child to my BF, he asked why he was not informed about what was going on with his child. Grandmother proceeds to cuss and yell. BF tells her that it is not her fault, but that the mother of the child is required to inform him of any changes to parenting time. Grandmother says she is going to rip me out of the car and beat mine and BF asses and approaches the car saying she wants the child back and attempting to grab her out of the car and from her father\u2019s hands. At this time, I get out of the car because this woman is pushing my BF and the child is crying. BF and I are at this point asking the grandmother to walk away and attempting to calm her down. In the midst of all of this, she pushed my boyfriend several times, and me once as she realized I was recording her and then ripped the phone from my hands and threw it to the ground. It goes on, but these are the details of the assault, both verbal and physical. \n\n\n\nBACKGROUND - My boyfriend has been in an ongoing custody battle with his ex over his almost 3yo daughter, about 2 years. She alleged things that were proven untrue, and he was put through the ringer as a result of this. We have a final agreement through the courts for a visitation schedule. Mother (and her designees) have great difficulty following the guidelines of the agreement due to lack of planning, communication, and responsibility it seems. We have long felt as though the child\u2019s grandmother is unfit to care for the child primarily while the mother is working.","title":"Miserable CUSTODY situation, mother trying to keep child from father. ANY advice would be immensely appreciated.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551453980,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw64d5\/sister_is_a_landlord_tenants_are_scumbags\/","id":"aw64d5","body":"Hi everyone.  \n\nMy sister and her husband own a house and have tenants there.  The lease is approaching its end and my sister is raising the rent a bit.  The tenants refuse to sign a new lease with a raised rent and said to her \u201cWhat are you going to do if we don\u2019t move out?\u201d  Basically shitty scumbag tenants.  \n\nThis is in Massachusetts.  I *think* the law here says that the tenants can effectively squat there for 6 months before my sister can forcibly remove them.  My sister would have to pay the mortgage on the house for 6 months and then they can go in there and have them removed.  \n\nAny options here other than that? \n\nThanks in advance.  ","title":"Sister is a landlord, tenants are scumbags.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443133678,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m9anp\/illinois_landlady_is_tearing_down_garage_after_it\/","id":"3m9anp","body":"I live in a two flat in Chicago with an alley garage. We pay an extra $75 a month (and this is in the lease) to park there.\n\nSomebody (likely construction vehicle) backed into the corner of the garage and knocked it off its foundation. We can still park in it, but the garage door no longer goes down. Landlady had it inspected and was advised to tear it down-- can't be fixed.\n\nShe's planning on tearing it down and paving over the old concrete pad so there will be 3 uncovered spaces (maybe 6 tandem spaces) instead of two in a garage.\n\nWe're pretty peeved because one of the reasons we moved into this unit was because of the garage.\n\nSo the questions are, do we need a new lease, and would it be reasonable to reduce the $75 parking fee in the new lease? By tearing the garage down, is she breaking the lease to the point where we can move elsewhere? (I don't think it would come to that, more like an excuse to move anyway)","title":"Illinois - Landlady is tearing down garage after it was damaged; not planning on rebuilding it. What to do with the lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503038823,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ug5az\/my29m_fiancee34f_and_i_are_splitting_up_question\/","id":"6ug5az","body":"Posted this to r\/relationships and someone suggested i try here. \n\nIllinois.\n\nWont go into too many details about the split itself (unless someone is curious, but no abuse or cheating or anything crazy like that) but we are splitting up after 5 years. We currently live together with our 2 children 3f and 2m. Lease is up in 2 weeks. Neither of us can afford our rent on our own so we are most likely going to have to move into our respective parents houses. She has always hated my family (again, will provide details if neccesary, but no they've never done anything weird or wrong with the babies or her) and is trying to tell me that she doesnt want our kids around them. Shes claiming that if i move in there until i get my own apartment, then i will not be allowed to have my children for any amount of time(i was assuming we would split the week up evenly as far as custody goes). My question is, does she have any grounds for this? If we split up can she dictate where i live and keep my children on my time? My parents house is not unsafe or dirty or anything so theres no legal reason on that front for her to say its not suitable for them short term. \n\nAlso just in general, how does this work when youre not married? I am willing to work with her on splitting time or helping with rides even (she does not have a license, 2 DUIs) but she is not always  as agreeable and i fear she may not concede to anything equal. If this is the case then how does custody work without a divorce lawyer and court involvement etc.?\n\n Im trying to keep calm but i cant think straight so please dont hesitate to ask for details if ive missed something. Any help is appreciated. \n\nAlso, ive never actually posted to reddit before. I just kind of use it as a news feed. So im sorry if i fudge responding or something. My reddiquette is not up to snuff. Also im sorry for not contributing until now. What a shitty first post.\n\nEdit: someone suggested a family lawyer which i will do. But i guess im just curious how this works as i assume custody is handled when filing for divorce but we are not married so idk how this process gets started.\n\n**TL;DR: fiancee claims i can not have my children for any time if i live with my parents (whom she hates) short term.","title":"My(29m) fiancee(34f) and I are splitting up. Question about custody since we are not married.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553700505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b65o7t\/rental_agreement_between_family_ga\/","id":"b65o7t","body":"Hi Legal Advice,\n\nI know my post is not very entertaining but I was hoping I could get some advice. My husband and I are having my brother in law and sister in law move in with us. I have created a lease but want to know if everything I have in it is legal or if there is anything I am missing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am in Ga.\n\nRental Agreement https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/2cGM1c9","title":"Rental agreement between family (Ga)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552622751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1a81c\/new_policy\/","id":"b1a81c","body":"I had been working at a company for 5yrs when I naturally started transitioning into Sales from Purchasing in early 2018.  My numbers were progressing and management saw promise in my development. I was excited about all of this because I knew it meant more professional growth and a higher paycheck.  However, 6 months into this transition my husband received an amazing job offer that involved us moving 2.5hrs away.  I became excited because I knew that two other sales reps lived 1.25-2.5hrs away from corporate and worked from home so I assumed that management would be okay with this.  When I told them of this job opportunity and the fact that we were seriously considering to relocate, I was informed that I would not have a job if we moved.  They said that I would miss out on learning more about the product (that I have been purchasing\/brokering for 5yrs).  This job requires me to have a phone and laptop to look up inventory and quote\/sell the product over the phone, chat and email. Management said that they were implementing a new policy that sales reps could not work remotely. I was informed that they were going to speak with those two remote reps and entice\/convince them to move back around the corporate office. Because I knew that my job opportunities were severely limited in the area we were moving to, I negotiated to go back to solely Purchasing so I could still make money.  This all happened in August and it\u2019s March now.  No one has spoken to these two remote sales reps at all about this new policy.  I feel like I am missing out on a big opportunity professionally and monetarily.  I enjoyed watching my numbers climb and proving my worth. \nShould I speak with my HR manager about this situation that took place to at least have it on record?  What would you do?","title":"New Policy","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540234013,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qgq2f\/will_i_get_my_deposit_back\/","id":"9qgq2f","body":"i\u2019m vacating my apartment in the next few months. pretty much since i moved in i dealt with ant infestations. roaches too but the focus is on the ants right now. on site pest control sprayed and nothing got better until months and months later when they finally decided to try a different approach, it took me showing them pictures and videos for them to finally believe that i even had a pest issue. it was a **nightmare** to say the least. i made and purchased my own bug spray that i used on the walls and near the ceiling where i couldn\u2019t reach because dozens and dozens of ants were constantly on my walls and ceilings. my apartments have flat paint and unfortunately the bug sprays have lightly stained the walls. they just look like streaks, like if there was a moisture problem. they aren\u2019t super noticeable and you really have to look to see them. they are close to the ceiling. i tried to gently wash them off and it helped some but i don\u2019t think they\u2019ll ever come off unless repainted. does this constitute as a reason for either not getting my deposit back or getting a deduction? or will they not care since they\u2019re just going to repaint anyway? i\u2019m really worried.","title":"will i get my deposit back?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507171272,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74d66q\/tx_late_on_rent_options_i_have\/","id":"74d66q","body":"Ok, so here's where's i'm at: I'm living in a apartment complex targeted at students. My rent was due on 3rd, and I payed it late, rent+late fee almost instantly(due 12:00PM, proof of payment email I received at 1:13PM). However I came home today at 9PM and found a notice of eviction, and of termination of my lease. I know that my complex is short on rooms, and is offering new signers rent as low as 550$\/month + bonus visa gift card for 330$, I am paying 650$\/month because I signed really early. My question is, since they initiated termination, can I let this lease terminate, and sign a new one at the lower rate; or better yet, force them to lower my rate? I bring this up because there is a clause on my lease stating that I can restate my lease if I speak with the business office and see whats what.\n\nAs I see it, they already have unfilled units, the last thing they want is to lose more income.\n","title":"[TX] Late on rent, options I have?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551826684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axrh1e\/property_management_company_sent_non_existent\/","id":"axrh1e","body":"I will preface this by saying we had 2 different lease terms with this complex\/property management company. We were always on good terms and maintained communication throughout to make sure we stayed current. We always paid on time and have documentation of doing so. Today I got a call from a collection company saying that I owed quite a bit of money some of which was unpaid rent, then late fees added on, and a carpet cleaning fee. This was from the first lease term which was a year. February 2018 we moved into a bigger apartment with them. The first month in the 2nd apartment there we even got a credit from our deposit from the first one because they said everything was good. This was documented within their system too. That is the same apartment we are now receiving collection calls about. We requested all the documentation for payments and credits and paperwork we ever gave them. I've never been through anything like this so any advice or recommendations for types of lawyers I need to reach out to would be appreciated. I found by researching they have done this to other tenants in the past. There was a couple class action lawsuits the most recent of which ended in Feb 2018. I will be sending a letter out tomorrow to the collection company for them to validate and prove that the debt is legitimate. I just dont know where to go from there. ","title":"Property management company sent non existent unpaid debt to collection company.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554237943,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8oob5\/concerned_mom\/","id":"b8oob5","body":"I\u2019ll try to type this out to the best of my ability, but there\u2019s a lot of information, and I\u2019m really stressed out at the moment (and on mobile). \n\nMy divorce was recently finalized, and already I\u2019ve had unforeseen issues with my coparent\/ex-husband. We have joint legal and physical custody of our kids. This has been a non issue for the most part, until his mom moved here. Ever since she moved here, he has been asking me to drop the kids off with her more and more. It\u2019s literally to the point where I\u2019m being harassed into dropping them off with her on almost every day he\u2019s scheduled to have them. I want to preface this next statement by saying that I don\u2019t have a personal problem with her as a person, but as a caretaker, I don\u2019t feel comfortable with her having my kids, because she leaves them outside alone or is otherwise unattentive. They are small children and don\u2019t know the dangers of walking into a street, which is my fear. I\u2019ve addressed this with my ex mil, but I\u2019m still nervous considering that there have been plenty of times questionable or downright neglectful behaviors have occurred. So, I\u2019ve actually contacted my lawyer about this, but they haven\u2019t gotten back to me, and I\u2019m getting even more nervous because I haven\u2019t received any legal advice on what to do in the meantime before I can get a right of first refusal petitioned. My question is, do I have to do what my ex is asking? He wants the kids to go with his mom when I could otherwise keep them, as early as 10am. I work evenings when I don\u2019t have the kids and can keep them more during the day than he can, as he works days. I just am at a loss of what I\u2019m supposed to do. I want my kids to have time with their grandparents but not during time that I could be spending with them. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m being unreasonable. Someone please help. Please be kind. My relationship was toxic and I\u2019ve started realizing the control and emotional abuse including gaslighting that I\u2019ve been through with my ex and it makes me feel very uncomfortable in interactions with him, and he knows this. ","title":"Concerned mom","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541618704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v2gic\/public_university_suspended_me_for_being_an\/","id":"9v2gic","body":"About one week ago my GF and I went to the university gym. We workout at the same gym 4-5 days a week for the last few weeks. We both are enrolled in classes granting us access to the gym. Her ID was lost and we showed up anyway. We asked about getting in and they wouldn't let her in because of no ID. She offered her university credentials in exchange, something that has worked in the past, but they were being rude about it. She ended up going in through the employee exit and they must have noticed her entering. I waited and entered \"LEGALLY\" by displaying my university ID. They let me in with intentions of catching my GF working out. I noticed employees, who are students as well, sneaking around us. As i noticed, we decided to leave within 5-10 minutes of getting there. We went to the front and we were stopped. The employee tired to trick us by offering a guest sign in, after I was already admitting to entering with her, ready for what was to happen. He tried to deceive again us by LYING about him getting us in for a workout, it felt unethical. We told the entire truth and were in and out within a few minutes, to which we were informed that we must meet with a building manager. At this point is felt over the top considering I personally did not trespass, and my GF is a student at the school. I met days later w the building manager who was very nice and truly understood that this is a relatively minor incident on the scale of things that go on at a university. She suspended me for a week and said that would be it...... Come today, we get emails from the school conduct board assigning what seems to be a hearing over this...Meanwhile students commit sexually crimes, cheat on exams, etc, and we are being called in for this!? I was planning on leaving to go home for Thanksgiving and now my plans are ruined. So my questions is: What should I know going into this? Can they even do anything considering I entered legally? and for my GF, What can they even do considering she is a student who pays for access to the gym and simply failed to provide access to her ID on one occasion.\n\n​\n\nP.S- she's a type 1 diabetic that relies on working out to keep her levels in order, that is why we entered regardless.","title":"Public university suspended me for being an accomplice to trespassing.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1538185383,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jssq7\/employer_hq_in_ca_ny_routinelyproudly_proclaims\/","id":"9jssq7","body":"I understand Affirmative Action and related legislation puts pressure on employers to give opportunities to minorities and women, and I'm not here to debate the merits of said legislation in one direction or another; I simply want to know whether it is *legal* for the company to declare that one's demographical information is a factor the company considers when making hiring\/promotion decisions at certain management levels and determining compensation. They partially tie hiring managers' performance to these metrics as well. Thanks in advance for your consideration.","title":"Employer (HQ in CA & NY) routinely\/proudly proclaims and documents their active discrimination against white males in their hiring, promotion, and compensation practices.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446558974,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rcosc\/ca_usa_wife_got_involved_in_a_hitandrun_due_to_a\/","id":"3rcosc","body":"Long story short, my wife has bipolar disorder, and takes non-addictive medications prescribed by a state psychiatrist. When on her meds, she is completely normal and it's impossible to tell she has a disorder. A few months ago, she got a peptic ulcer and spent several days in the hospital due to fluid loss from vomiting. Since she couldn't keep anything down, the ER doctor instructed her to stop taking other medications while receiving treatment and taking her ulcer medication. There was a few weeks period when she wasn't on her bipolar meds. Fast forward, she's driving to school at 6am or so, hits an old guy in another car, and freaks out because she's not on her meds, full blown panic attack episode. So she flees the scene, goes home to take the meds (despite the doctor's advice), and passes out. Her car gets towed from where she parked it up the street in a neighborhood. Later that night, she calls the police station and tells them what happened and they tell her to come in for an interview. She does, they give her a court date, send her away. I assumed at this point if she did anything *that* bad they would've at least detained her. Her insurance took care of the other guy and apparently there were no injuries.\n\nDoes she have a medical excuse for what happened? It's known that people on psych meds can't go off them cold turkey, but she was physically unable to take them and has hospital documentation of getting a camera stuck down her throat and several IV bags. She also has no priors, not even a speeding ticket, and uses her car primarily to attend college (which she has a high GPA at).\n\nSince then, her license has been suspended, and the court date is in a week or so. Any advice on what direction she should take to avoid a whopping fine\/jail time? Is probation expected? Is there any chance she'll get her license back? Since alcohol\/illegal drugs were not involved, will substance abuse testing be required? I ask because she occasionally uses marijuana for anxiety, which she is a CA medical patient for, but obviously had nothing to do with the accident. Sorry for all the questions. Thanks!","title":"(CA, USA) Wife got involved in a hit-and-run due to a medical condition.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540522192,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rgy4g\/neighbors_from_hell_apartment_complex_doesnt_care\/","id":"9rgy4g","body":"I'm not sure where else to post this?\n\nI've lived in this apartment complex for a year and a half now. When we moved in it was great, quiet place to live for the most part. This complex has had multiple management agencies since then.\n\nA little over a month ago some people moved in across from and below us. I can feel their music and doors slamming throughout the day and night. I've called the cops twice in a night (at 11pm and 1am) because that's all the office manager told me I could do. I talked to the cops that night (last Friday I think?) and they told me they don't know why she told me that, they're not sending reports everytime they're called. After that they just retaliated and were even louder. \n\nThe slamming things so hard our walls shake is a daily occurrence. No exaggeration. It's all day and night. \n\nI have a 5 month old. A five month old who can't sleep through all of this. None of us can. It's hell.\n\nWell tonight I heard a woman screaming in the apartment below mine. It really scared me because she sounded very distressed and it was extremely loud. The screaming continued loud enough for me to hear their words very clearly. This screaming was accompanied by slamming doors hard enough to shake things in my living room. Obviously I was scared for this woman and I called the police, they knocked and announced themselves four times and I don't think my neighbors ever answered the door.\n\nQue the extreme measures of retaliation happening. They went and slammed their bedroom door over and over and over for several minutes, started blaring music. It got quiet for a while and now they are slamming things so hard all throughout their apartment that a glass on my coffee table was rattling.\n\nI've researched the laws for Arkansas and it says our living conditions should provide \"peaceful enjoyment\" or something along those lines. It also states this in our lease.\n\nI don't want to live here anymore because I do not feel safe. I do not feel that I can safely remove myself and my child to stay the night elsewhere.\n\nHow can I break the lease? Can I? Is there any hope for this situation? The lease is up in May, we can't afford to just buy ourselves out of it. We really can't even afford to move but this is completely out of hand.\n\nI'm going to the office as soon as they open to beg them to take action.\n\nI don't want to hear that this is just a part of living in an apartment. I've lived in them for seven years, this is not okay.\n\nI'm at a loss. My anxiety is off the wall because of all the noise below me. Can someone give me any pointers about discussing the law and the lease stating that we're entitled to a quiet living environment and the cops disagree with the advice I was given. ","title":"Neighbors from hell, apartment complex doesn't care.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552621102,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b19z3i\/sold_my_prescription_adderall_narcotics_officers\/","id":"b19z3i","body":"Just like the title says, I got snitched on and narcs came to my dorm room. Did not search room, just asked me to show them all of my adderall. All the bottles are in my name, all empty except one that had about 7 in it. I did not sell often, just 3-4 here and there a couple times a month.  One officer went through my phone. Other asked for names of people I\u2019ve sold to and for how much. I obliged and was as honest and cooperative as possible. I gave them my THC pen after they asked if I had any paraphernalia. I was afraid they\u2019d search but they didn\u2019t. He said he will not charge me with the thc pen. He says an arrest will be the end of this road. I have no criminal history. I\u2019m a senior double major about to graduate.  Head narc guy gave me his number and name and said he will be in contact with me tomorrow. They left after an hour of questioning. \n\nWhat is going on? If they have evidence and I said I did sell it at one point why didn\u2019t they arrest me right then?\nAre they going to arrest me? \nWhat could be the reason of them wanting to call me? \nIs there any way out of this?","title":"Sold my prescription adderall. Narcotics officers came to my dorm but only questioned me. Did not make an arrest. Set up a time tomorrow for him to call me","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552003023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayjkfd\/need_some_advice_from_someone_who_knows_about_nhs\/","id":"ayjkfd","body":"I have been working for the NHS since 2004 and just had an enhanced disclosure done in December 2018. This is the first disclosure I have ever done since starting work in 2004.\nI committed a crime in 2014 because I was desperate for money as i recently split up from my partner and became a single parent to my boys while living on a part-time wage. I was off work with severe depression at the time of the crime and I was unable to provide any food for my kids. This resulted in me going into ASDA's, pretending to buy something so I could get a gift card to spend on food for my children. I done this twice in one week and on the second occasion I was arrested and charged with Fraud. It went to a small claims court then deferred for six months on good behaviour then when I returned the case was was admonished\nI did not disclose this to the NHS at the time because I genuinely didn't know that I had to and i wasn't made aware off any policies stating that i had to.\nThis has resulted in me having to go to a disciplinary hearing tomorrow I am very scared I lose my job because of a petty crime I committed when I was desperate and at my lowest point in life.\nIt came back on the disclosure after a risk assessment was carried out with a 'do not appoint' outcome. I am not in the Habit of breaking the law and it is the only offence that I have ever committed. I'm good at my job kind, friendly and courteous... \nI might lose my job tomorrow because I never told the NHS about this and now it has led to gross misconduct according to the policy and my manager. \nI was just wondering if anyone had some advice for me?\n\nThanks in advance\n","title":"Need Some Advice from someone who knows about NHS and disciplinary hearings","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552323092,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azvp10\/breaking_my_current_lease_legally\/","id":"azvp10","body":"Hello I am Ty (23M), I currently live in a 2 bedroom apartment with my best friend in Texas. We are 3 months in the lease and have it out for a year. \n\nMy grandmother (who lives in Arkansas) is starting to become elderly, sick, can\u2019t physically take care of her self. I\u2019m attempting to find a job up there and take care of her in any way necessary.\n\nMy question is if there\u2019s any possibilities of a legal lease break in this situation and how it would affect my roommate?","title":"Breaking my current lease (Legally)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539228351,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n6e0a\/some_asshole_keeps_dumping_trash_into_the_bed_of\/","id":"9n6e0a","body":"So long story short I\u2019m a college student living at an apartment complex not too far from school. I have a parking spot there and the area isn\u2019t too shady so I keep my truck there. This started about 2 weeks into the semester. It started with a cup or can but now it\u2019s gotten to the point these assholes(s) use my truck bed as a dumpster. The apartment complex doesn\u2019t have any cameras in that area so I\u2019m buying cameras and sticking them in my truck to try to catch who it is. Long story is there anything legally I can do to them. I don\u2019t care if I get money because I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything I could sue them on, i just want them to get the back hand of the law.","title":"Some asshole keeps dumping trash into the bed of my truck","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541550802,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uu8yr\/exlandlady_threatening_and_harassing_my_husband\/","id":"9uu8yr","body":"5 months ago, my husband and I rented a room we found on Craigslist in order to save up some money. We had a verbal and text communication agreement to rent the room on a month to month basis for a set amount which included utilities. We gave a $300 deposit (proof of deposit includes texts and a Western Union transfer) to cover damages in the event that we created any. It was a terrible experience with an extremely unstable woman who twice bullied us into paying $100 more than our agreed upon rent during those 5 months. She even showed up at my husband\u2019s place of employment to harass him. And after he asked her politely to leave, she sat watching him in the parking lot for an hour.\n\nAt the end of September, we decided enough was enough and that saving a few hundred bucks really wasn\u2019t worth our sanity, so we informed her that we would be moving out effective November 1. She became annoyed and tried desperately to get us to stay. When she realized her attempts weren\u2019t working, she suddenly began claiming that my husband and I (using a brand new window A\/C for 4 hours a day during July and August) singlehandedly caused her LADWP bill to reach $2000 (though she runs three of the rooms in her massive 5 bedroom home as AirBnBs which were filled all summer long and had portable or window A\/Cs of their own.) Instead of fighting her, I told her to just keep our deposit to cover whatever energy overages she felt we had caused. I knew we hadn\u2019t damaged anything, as did she, so that shut her up. \n\nWe moved into our own apartment November 1, as discussed, and by November 2 she began to harass us incessantly, 20-50 texts at a time to both mine and my husband\u2019s phones several times a day. She\u2019s now claiming we damaged her vanity which was already damaged upon our arrival which she pointed out herself. She is demanding that we give her money or she will \u201ccall ICE\u201d as she believes (because we are visibly Muslim; as in I wear hijab and abaya and my husband has a massive beard) that we are \u201cillegal immigrants.\u201d I am a born and raised 10th generation American citizen. My husband entered the country legally, but he is out of status, though we\u2019ve never spoken about this to her, around her, or in her home even. We are in the process of correcting his status but it is expensive and lengthy. \n\nPhew, I did my best to be concise and not long winded with background info. Apologies. \n\nAnyway, to our questions: \n\n1.) Should we file a police report? Or an order of protection? Could filing one or both cause harm for us due to my husband being out of status? \n\n2.) She doesn\u2019t know my husband\u2019s first or last name, only his middle (the name he goes by) and doesn\u2019t even know how to spell it correctly. But she does know where he works. If she were to call ICE, how likely is it that they would actually investigate? And if they did, since he LEGALLY entered the country, but is out of status, what would possible reproductions be? \n\nIf anyone has any Los Angeles recommendations for non-profit legal aid that deals with any of the above issues, that would also be wonderful. \n\nThank you for reading and for any advice you might have to offer us! \n\n","title":"Ex-landlady threatening and harassing my husband and I in an attempt to get money out of us. ICE, Trump, and other nonsense...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555193307,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcvw05\/ca_ive_been_in_two_auto_accidentsmishaps_in_the\/","id":"bcvw05","body":"A bit of a story, a lot has happened...\n\n​\n\nI drive a lowered Honda s2000 and the clutch was having some issues back in December. I used my AAA road-side to have it towed, but the tow truck driver caused some cosmetic damage to my front bumper when getting it off of the truck. This was due to him not having the proper tools to raise my car up that I had requested he bring when I made the AAA call. Here is that damage: [https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NgfCfGY.jpg](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NgfCfGY.jpg) \n\n​\n\nI contacted AAA in January and they got in contact with the tow company. The AAA field adjuster (We'll call him Mr. BS) who was reviewing my case initially stated they would prepare a check for the damages, and to submit an estimate for the repairs. He also requested that I consider having the tow company that caused the damages make the repairs to my car, as they are also a bodyshop and in the AAA network... \n\n​\n\nI told Mr. BS that there was a major conflict of interest there, because the company had caused the damages, and it wasn't the first time I've had a poor experience with that company. I let him know that I would rather have my own shop of choice do the repairs, which is my legal right in the state of California. I received a quote from the bodyshop I wanted, and sent it along to Mr. BS. \n\n​\n\nThen nothing...\n\n​\n\nI didn't hear back from him, so after 3 weeks of waiting I tried to get in contact via email and calls. I reached out to his manager, and she finally responded after countless voice messages. \n\nIn March, Mr. BS finally emailed me back and said that he would like to have a representative from the tow company come out with him to look at the damages.\n\n​\n\n**Then another accident.** \n\n​\n\nThat very same week, 2 days before AAA and the tow company they were going to come out to look at the damages, another driver in a large Ford Superduty truck merged into my driver's side fender which caused even more damage to my front bumper. We exchanged insurance, and the kid driving it told me it was a rental truck. The name on the policy didn't match the name on his license, so I got a copy of his driver's license, phone number, and the insurance policy he was using. Here is the damage he caused:  [https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/C5GZHTa.jpg](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/C5GZHTa.jpg) \n\n​\n\nSo AAA and the tow company rep came out and saw the new damages caused by the Ford driver, and I received an email stating that there is \"no way to confirm this prior damage resulted from actions by the tow driver. \" and have thus rejected my claim. \n\n​\n\nSo I went to the Ford policy holder's insurance and opened a claim letting them know what happened and sent photos. That insurance company came back and said the policy number was coming up as being cancelled, and wasn't active during the time of the accident, so they are not responsible for paying the damages caused by the Ford driver. This is despite the policy card showing it as being valid through 11\/2019...\n\n​\n\nTo throw fuel on the fire, I haven't been paying full-coverage, so my insurance won't go after either of these companies to get my car fixed, and they won't cover the costs. I have since upped my insurance coverage.\n\n​\n\nI just want to scream at this point. Two separate mishaps that have caused damage, neither of which were my fault. Estimated over $4000 to repair, and now I'm stuck holding the bill.  I am totally at a loss as to what to do here. \n\n​\n\nDo I keep going after AAA to repair what the tow company did? \n\n​\n\nDo I try to take the policy holder of the Ford rental truck to small claims court? (how do I even find this guy?)\n\n​\n\nDo I go after the driver of the Ford truck? \n\n​\n\nWould it be easier to just hire a lawyer to go after these two companies?\n\n​\n\nPlease let me know what you think, and thank you so much.","title":"[CA] I've been in two auto accidents\/mishaps in the past two months which have resulted in $4000+ damage to my car, all caused by the other parties. Their insurance companies have both denied my claims. My insurance won't go after them. What are my options?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553891879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b72dup\/if_i_call_elderly_protective_services_what\/","id":"b72dup","body":"Hi, I\u2019m a 20y\/o female living in Toronto, Ontario. \n\nMy grandmother is 80, and living with my ~40 year old aunt and my father in an apartment. She moved from her house 6 years ago and moved into this apartment 3 years ago. \n\nObviously a house full of possessions moved with her as well. Before I was working, I was coming over frequently to help her sort through her items, and found myself also cleaning her apartment and cleaning for my aunt as well. My father is rarely there, especially as he now has a serious girlfriend. \n\nMy grandmother can barely walk, she has breathing problems and sight\/hearing issues. She can\u2019t clean the place. \n\nMy aunt leaves food to rot, piles of dirty clothes that are attracting bed bugs, doesn\u2019t clean the cat litter, and feeds\/bathes my grandma the bare minimum. She doesn\u2019t work. She just lays on the couch or her bed, drinks, games and goes on facebook.  She frequently spend her whole ODB cheque on makeup or toys (children\u2019s toys) as well as part of my grandmother. Oh and alcohol. She constantly drinks. \n\nMy aunt has Borderline Personality Disorder, so whole I have compassion for her I can\u2019t let my grandmother live in filth because my aunt won\u2019t get help. \n\nI want to call someone to help but I don\u2019t want my grandma to go live in an assisted care home. \n\nIf this is the wrong place for this I\u2019m sorry I just don\u2019t know what to do anymore. I\u2019m moving in a few months and I will live too far to come help. ","title":"If I call Elderly Protective Services, what happens to my grandma?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570999381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhg9gt\/uk_my_housemate_is_trying_to_extort_me\/","id":"dhg9gt","body":"I share a two bedroom flat with one other person, and have been doing so since February of this year. Before moving in and co-signing the lease (the lease doesn\u2019t state our split, it\u2019s only for the full amount), we agreed to how we would split the rent and were both happy with our agreement. \n\nWe are now many months into our lease, and my flatmate is now saying they\u2019re unable to continue what they agreed to pay, and they want me to take on part of their rent. I don\u2019t make much money myself, but I offered to try to help. They asked for a certain amount, and when I said I didn\u2019t know if I could pay that much, but I\u2019d still figure out how much I could help, they began to threaten me. They threatened to go to the landlord if I didn\u2019t do as they said, they threatened to leave without notice and leave me alone with the flat. I was advised that what they are doing is extortion, and I don\u2019t really know what to do. They\u2019ve been bombarding me with very emotionally manipulative messages, claiming things like they\u2019re so tragically upset, they thought I was their friend, their life is so much harder than mine so I should just do this for them. I\u2019m so anxious in my own home.\n\nThe lease is in both of our names, so I have no power over if they stay or go, but at the same time if they can\u2019t pay rent that blame will fall on both of us as it\u2019s a joint lease. What should I do?","title":"[UK] My housemate is trying to extort me","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553958637,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7cb7m\/to_pay_or_not_to_pay_that_is_the_question\/","id":"b7cb7m","body":"Back story: As part of a recent divorce I was supposed to pay a small amount of spousal support once the house sale was final.  House took awhile to sell because of the condition and some other issues with the Ex, but it finally did sell. Once the closing date was set I ordered the movers to come in and pack my remaining stuff and load it into a moving container. Once the moving container arrived I went thru the contents and found A LOT of my stuff was missing. Things like $3K worth of tools and other items such as my children\u2019s Christmas ornaments. (Ex is not the kids mother). All in all it was more then $10K worth of stuff, which is well over the amount owed. \n\nThings to know: I was not allowed in the house since the separation and all items were in the house when I left. \n\nWhat to do. Advice?","title":"To pay or not to pay that is the question?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569472133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9epmy\/wi_grounds_for_eviction\/","id":"d9epmy","body":"John and I both have our names on the lease, Fred decided to sublease for three months to Fred. \n\nAfter three weeks, its been discovered that Fred is a heavy user on nicotine vaping and marijuana. I have a severe case of eczema  and asthma, in which has caused an allergic reaction to said substances. Therefore, I informed Fred to do his activities outside instead of his room. In addition, sent him a notification in which clearly stated that no smoking\/vaping is prohibited in the building, in which he agreed that he understood. I went to the leasing office to make sure there were rules in place, and the lady told me it must be done outside of the building. NOW, after being told all this, Fred still continues to do such activities in his room. According to the lease in which I signed there are rules set in place for smoking, fire hazard, disturbing odors, and  illegal substances. HOWEVER, I have never seen him physically see him partake in these activities. BUT I can smell and hear him partake in these activities. In addition, I have seen his drug paraphernalia. Would there be ground to evict him? In addition, I never signed an agreement to this sublease.","title":"[WI] Grounds for eviction?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541741727,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vhu34\/principal_shutting_down_some_bc_public_school\/","id":"9vhu34","body":"I currently attend a public secondary school of around 500 students in British Columbia, Canada. After several vaping-related incidents, the principal has decided to close some (2 male, 2 female) washrooms for an extended period of time. I thought it was odd that a principal was in a position to do that, because washrooms are a nesessary facility, and there should be regulation on number of washrooms and distance from classrooms. From the research I have done, the BC ministry of education policies do not seem to mention anything regarding washrooms. I have a hunch that the BC building code may have my answer, but it seems that you need to pay to access those documents. Besides, it's not like shutting down washrooms will magically make everyone stop vaping, but that's not the point.\n\nSo here's my question: is the principal against any standards by shutting down these washrooms?","title":"Principal shutting down some BC public school washrooms","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539125808,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mtz7c\/ca_tree_fell_on_tenants_vehicles_at_an_apartment\/","id":"9mtz7c","body":"First things first, asking on behalf of a family friend.  This is in the state of California.\n\nOn Saturday morning during a time of clear skies and no wind, a tree fell over primarily on top of two cars, including my friends, a tenant at an apartment complex and partially obscured a portion of the only entrance to and from the entire 100+ unit complex.  Her car is a total loss with the tree being roughly 30-40 feet tall before it toppled and the trunk being decent sized and the other car was partially trapped but was freed by its owners on Monday.   It appears the tree root systems only went half a foot or so into the soil, not much of the ground was disturbed.  She contacted her insurance company already but only had liability (Not the brightest thing, trust me).  \n\nThe landlord has yet to free her vehicle or make any effort to have the tree taken care of as of today (Tuesday).  Landscaping arrived on Monday and ignored it and the landlord isn't being communicative at all.  Other tenants cannot access half of the entrance way, which has been impeded by the fallen tree still resting on her vehicle.  What is worse, is her car at this point appears to have been broken into and due to the dangers of the tree on top of her vehicle, she cannot get in to salvage her belongings.  At most, landlord has stated act of god despite arborists last year citing that the wrong type of trees were planted in the complex (their roots are too shallow) and were in the process of removing several on the property last summer.  \n\nIs there typical codes (its in an unincorporated area), resources or laws to escalate mitigating her losses?  She's at the point she just wants to get the tree off her vehicle so it can be inspected.   Thank you for your time.","title":"(CA) Tree fell on tenants vehicles at an apartment complex","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551238170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av8kw3\/cutting_hours_due_to_age\/","id":"av8kw3","body":"{North Dakota} \nI have a part time job at a franchise pizza place and recently my hours have been cut. Not but an hour or two, cut in half! I used to work ~24 hrs\/ week, in the past 2 weeks I\u2019ll have worker ~18.5 hrs. To break it down I work 9 hrs this week and last week worked around 10 hrs. \nI talked to the scheduling manager and she said that even though there\u2019s only two of us, the other guy is getting more hours cause \u201che\u2019s older, and has bills to pay\u201d\nI understand that. Here\u2019s the thing I have bills to pay too: car, gas, savings for college. \nTo put it short: is this legal, can they cut my hours because someone else is older and they need more hours?","title":"Cutting hours due to age?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570570423,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df6or7\/subpoenad_to_testify\/","id":"df6or7","body":"Hello r\/legaladvice! Today I received a subpoena to testify in a case of State vs. Defendant's name. I have no idea what the charges are but I believe that it is related to a collision that happened a while back where I made a right turn and somebody (I presume to be the defendant) came from the other side and hit my car and another's while making a left turn. This resulted in minor damage to the front left bumper of my car. The driver of the vehicle left before we could exchange information and I was in shock and didn't know what to do so I called 911. The operator asked me for the driver's information and she told me to go to the police station and report what happened.\n\nI have never been subpoena'd before nor have I ever been in court, not even as a juror. I read online that it's a matter of just iterating what I recall from what happened but it also says that sometimes what you say can be used against you. I strongly believe that I had the right of way and am not at fault for the collision, yet I still feel anxious about the whole thing. Do I have any reason to worry? \n\nAny advice\/insight is appreciated.","title":"Subpoena'd to testify","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554268004,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8tsvu\/salaried_taking_fmla_told_40_hours_is_pt\/","id":"b8tsvu","body":"I work for a company where a 50 hour work week is pretty common. The last 6 months have been 60-70 weeks and have taken a toll on my health. I'm disabled (born with Cerebral Palsy) and I now need 4 hours a week to take care of medical things. My leave was approved I figured 2 days a week I would work 6 hours and take 2 hours of leave.\n\nMy manager stated since we typically work over 8 I could come back and work more the same day. I pushed back and he wanted to know the leave policy which states if a person were to have hours to meet a regular work day they cannot burn PTO on leave. He got really pissed I want to see the policy where is the document in writing. I show him and he says he interprets that I can work more as I'm salaried. But I stated what if I worked 40 hours and then took 4 hours of leave. He said if I could only work 40 then I'm PT. Keep in mind I have this in writing and in my offer letter it doesn't state 50 or 60 hours as standard.\n\nI told him I want to know HR stance on the policy not just his. Legally how does this look? My state is Florida if that matters.","title":"Salaried taking FMLA told 40 hours is PT","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409449686,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f1v7c\/was_this_contract_broken\/","id":"2f1v7c","body":"This is in Canada\n\n\nI signed a contract to sublet a place from September 1st to December 31st. Through text messaging, I was told that I could move in before September 1st, on August 29th. \n\n\nWhen I attempted to move it, it turns out the person currently there (who said I could move in) had her friends living there till September 1st and she was away in a beach somewhere barely answering calls or text messaging. When she does answer the call, she passes it off to someone else who has no clue what's going on.\n\n\nShe also said if the friend isn't moving out, she'll give me the much smaller room which I obviously don't want and didn't pay for.\n\nThe landlord was also very non-cooperative and said I had to deal with this issue myself.\n\nI'm honestly not too sure what I should do.\n\n**TLDR:** Basically I made a trip to my new place and can't move in even though she said I could. And she's also holding the deposit. Is this contract voidable? Could I cancel it and then sue her for the deposit if she keeps it? ","title":"Was this contract broken?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555458917,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be119y\/apartment_trying_to_charge_170_in_late_fees_for_a\/","id":"be119y","body":"To make a long story short, me and my three roommates live together. A little while after we moved in almost three years ago we got another animal (management knew about first one and was listed on lease contract.) At the time we had amazing management who said they would note it but not charge us. We didn't have any issues until our complex was sold to a new management company. We made sure to let the new management we had another animal and they told us they would put it on and start charging us the pet fee.\n\nNext month's rent rolled around and they hadn't added the fee on so we just let it keep going (we weren't going to call in and tell them to charge us.) It has been almost a year since then and we never got a charge except for this month.\n\nThey decided to add the fee on the second of the month, after we had already paid rent on the first, when it is due. Other than putting it on our online due (which we would not know unless we went on and looked, and why would we since we had just taken care of rent?). Today we got our first notice saying we owed the fee and 170 in late fees. This seems ridiculous to me. First the putting it on after we had paid rent for the month is very sketchy, not mentioning the fact that the letter claims they have tried contacting us multiple times and left multiple notes. There are four of us and nobody had gotten any calls or notifications, and I checked our mail again and there is nothing from them. Can they really slap on that many late fees withoit letting us know of any charge or do we have any leg to stand on?\n\nWe are located in Texas.","title":"Apartment trying to charge 170 in late fees for a fee they put on us without notifiying us","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570164696,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd2oep\/receptionist_w_invisible_ball_and_chain\/","id":"dd2oep","body":"I am currently the only medical receptionist at a really busy doctor\u2019s office. I hate it. I work over 13 hours a day, every day. There\u2019s no office manager, just me, so I literally do everything. I get treated like crap by the patients, to the point of getting yelled at as to why cant i just put the script through. Others treat me as if I\u2019m incompetent. Today, a lady refused the results i gave her on the phone, saying i don\u2019t know how to read. I begged the \u201cnurse\u201d to read her the same exact results, and the lady was so thankful. I NEVER get a break which is against the law, and I\u2019ve gotten yelled at by the doctor several times for leaving the desk to use the bathroom on several occasions. To limit the reprimanding, i don\u2019t drink or eat anything all day. It\u2019s now compromising my health. I handle about 250 incoming and over 100 outgoing calls every day. Most calls are the same patients calling over and over to yell at me for something the \u201cnurse\u201d didnt do. I say \u201cnurse\u201d because she is someone who was only trained in office with no background. She gets most of her info from me. I don\u2019t understand how she worked there before me. She is not certified in anything. I just graduated from a medical assistant program a couple months ago, and i was told upon hire that i would be trained for the back. The \u201cnurse\u201d does a crap job and NEVER calls patients\/doctors with answers or results. Her phone is always on Do not disturb. The poor patients wait for scripts for vital meds to be sent to the pharmacy for weeks. It\u2019s like im always in the twilight zone when the nurse and i communicate. Patients yell at me for it, and there\u2019s nothing i can do. Besides all of this, I see so much fraud going on within the office that i just want to hide. There are no insurance benefits AT ALL. The worst part is that i get paid the least in that office, i dont get paid on time EVER, i take in daily deposits of over $1000, and found out the provider has grossed over $500k, just this year as of 2 days ago. END VENT","title":"Receptionist w\/ invisible ball and chain","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445445656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pnipl\/il_is_there_a_limit_to_fines_that_your_landlord\/","id":"3pnipl","body":"My friend had a cat in a cat-friendly apartment. Only thing is, he didn't tell them. They charged him fines every day the entire lease. Instead of owing what the pet rent would have been, he owes thousands of dollars in fines. He was definitely in the wrong, but is there a limit to how much you can be fined?","title":"[IL] Is there a limit to fines that your landlord can charge?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571300456,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj3c5n\/rear_ended_1_yr_later_offered_only_4000\/","id":"dj3c5n","body":"So I'm going to explain the whole situation from start to finish.\n\nLast year on September 29th at a red light I was rear-ended. The guy said he would pay out of pocket and we switched insurance information And because we did that there was no police report taken.he jerked me around for a month before I finally said screw it and called his insurance company.\n\nTurns out they said there was a claim filed for a hit-and-run and the car was parked in New Jersey, I then contested that with the claims adjuster. she said she would look into it and get back to me. From there months I pass by and I kept calling to get an update and they would send letter saying they were still working on it. Roughly 3-4Months passed.\n\nThen after a month more passed I called the insurance company back and it turns out the claims adjuster had retired and they never transferred over the case to someone else. This new person took over the case and ended up speaking again to the other person's insurance and they change their story into the car was stolen.not a part I don't get is how the hell the insurance company Plymouth Rock even accepted a change of story.\n\nAfter almost a year the new adjuster finally offered to pay for the damages and they sent me a letter saying they would cover Anything up to the property damage limit of $10,000, I told her my car has been in storage for months and they tried to say it was safe to drive because they're third party adjusters said so. The rear tail light was broken and bumper was hanging off.\n\nFor a whole year I haven't driven my BMW 4 Series, it's been at a body shop friend of mine owns and sitting in collecting dust. The insurance company is offering $4,000 for the damage and nothing else and I have cold multiple lawyers but they all don't get involved with cases that don't involve personal injury.\n\nI did call insurance fraud of New Jersey and report The insurance claim the person filed and the insurance company for accepting the change of story which will be 8 weeks \ud83d\ude1f\n\nI'm pretty savvy when it comes to dealing with legal issues but I'm not sure where to go or who to speak to or what to do in this type of situation \n\nAny ideas?","title":"Rear ended & 1 Yr later offered only $4000","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553043435,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b35j6s\/my_father_died_2_years_ago_suddenly_without_a\/","id":"b35j6s","body":"Are my step mothers children the only ones entitled to their estate? They owned a home and about 5 acres of land. \nI\u2019ve never had any experience that required a lawyer and I\u2019m wondering if this is a situation where I would benefit from their legal advise. \n\nThis is in Washington state if that makes a difference. \n\nThanks in advance for any advice. ","title":"My father died 2 years ago suddenly without a will and my step-mother inherited everything. She passed without a will about a month ago. Do I have any right to his estate?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1447171490,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sab8s\/i_28m_wish_to_take_my_kids_to_a_wedding_out_of\/","id":"3sab8s","body":"Ok background. New York State\n\nI am recently divorced and have a set 50\/50 custody agreement with my ex. We both have joint custody with no residential parent assigned, therefore neither of us has primary custody. There is nothing in our custody agreement restricting taking our kids out of state. \n\nSituation: I am attending my daughters godmother wedding out of state and it falls on a weekend that I have custody of my kids (friday 9am til Monday 9am). Since this will not interfere with her custody time, can she restrict our kids from going with me?\n\nI originally wanted to just switch weekends but she refuse to agree with that and now she says that since I'll be out of town she is going to take the kids for my weekend as well. I countered with I'll take them with me and she flipped out. \n\nTl;dr; my ex refuses to let me take our kids out of state during my custody time and there is nothing in our agreement stating I cant. Does she have any legal grounds?\n\n*Update: I got a hold of my attorney and since there is no clause within our custody agreement restricting travel, I have full legal right to take my kids across state lines permitted it's within my custody time. Thanks reddit for sound advice. ","title":"I (28M) wish to take my kids to a wedding out of state and my ex (28F) says I cant.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539291525,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ndvks\/boring_question_how_do_i_wa_state_resident_go\/","id":"9ndvks","body":"All the information I can find on the internet is on whether to ignore it or how to fight it, etc etc. but I'm just going to pay up. The officer told me to take the ticket into my local DMV, but what I absolutely can't find any information on is what I need to bring to pay it. It's in CAD obviously, so I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience with this and could tell me if I need to bring the equivalent amount in CAD cash, or if the DMV will do the conversion for me and let me pay with a card or a check?   \n\n\nI don't want to wait through hours at the DMV only to be told I have to come back with Canadian money, and I don't want to go pull out nearly $400 CAD only to find out they'd rather take card or check.  \n\n\nTIA!","title":"Boring question- how do I (WA state resident) go about paying a traffic ticket received in BC, Canada?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541982204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w91sm\/employer_doesnt_provide_me_with_breaks\/","id":"9w91sm","body":"I work at a chain coffee shop in Minnesota and my employer doesn\u2019t give me breaks. My shifts are always 4+ hours but I never get time to sit down and truly get a break. I mostly work mornings where it\u2019s a constant rush so it\u2019s not like there\u2019s even down time where I get even an unofficial break. I\u2019m new and no one else says anything or takes breaks. Is this a potential company policy? I don\u2019t know what my next steps are, talking to my manager seems like a weird way to approach it since I\u2019ve worked a couple months now and haven\u2019t gotten a break. Any advice?","title":"Employer doesn\u2019t provide me with breaks","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553744484,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6dzni\/possible_discrimination_and_definite\/","id":"b6dzni","body":"I attend nursing school currently, and I\u2019ve had a few issues. It started off as a petty personality conflict, but I feel it\u2019s evolved to much more and I\u2019m not sure if I should seek legal help. If I should, I\u2019m not sure how to seek help. Any advice would be great.\n\nSo to start; the dean of nursing was having a bad day. I was contesting a make up day, as she wanted me to attend orientation I was sure I had gone to three quarters prior. I asked her for a moment of her time, in the lobby of the school. There were receptionists and other students present, all overheard the conversation. When I asked if I could ask her a question, she yelled at me, saying I had to attend. I told her I was aware, but I had a question. I said I had attended an informational session and was about to ask my question (did I miss more than the nursing orientation) and she cut me off. She called me a liar, said that she had witnesses who could make statements that I had left campus before (?) and that she would sooner kick me out of the nursing program than have a conversation with me. I was floored. The dean of admissions overheard the way she spoke to me and quickly ushered me to his office, where he answered my original questions and gave me the times for the make up nursing orientation that I had indeed missed.\n\nI attend the nursing orientation. The dean of nursing opened with a speech that I have recorded- stating there were students in attendance who were liars and cheats and didn\u2019t have the \u201cbackbone\u201d to attend nursing school. She said those students needed to pack their items and leave. Not sure if it was a general statement, but it did feel pointed. I decided to move on, get through the next few hours, and go home. \n\nToward the end of the session, the staff who were presenting in orientation were speaking about scrub orders. I am currently pregnant, so I raised my hand to ask about if maternity scrubs would be available. The dean of nursing said \u201cDon\u2019t go about squeezing 10lbs of potatoes in a 5lb bag.\u201d I was given no more information about the availability of maternity scrubs. I asked again what pregnant students should do, and was told to buy as many sets of $59 scrubs as I needed because no accommodations would be made for me. Okay. Possible discrimination? Probably not. Didn\u2019t appreciate the potato comment, still.\n\nHere\u2019s the meat and potatoes of this whole incident- the school recently changed from their own web hosted email to Office 365. We were told to email IT to get our log in information. I email my full name and student ID and I am sent the login information for someone with the exact same first name (not a common name), but different last name and ID number. I email back stating it was not my name or ID number, emailed my correct information again, and received a very quick response assuring me that it was the correct info and that information may appear incorrect because the school was \u201cin transition\u201d. I asked once more about the last name difference and was told \u201csend an email next month to request a last name change on your account.\u201d... so I logged in with the information given. They gave my actual email login to the other lady_MP, so we were both given the wrong login and told it was correct. I was able to see emails regarding lady_MP2.0\u2019s grades, financial statements, book orders and current classes. I was able to see their address, phone number, and full class schedule, and they were able to see mine. That was how I knew I certainly had the wrong login, even though I was assured it was correct. I immediately logged out, have not logged back in, nor do I plan to until I am given my correct information. I do not want to see lady_MP2.0\u2019s information and am hoping they are not interested in mine.\n\nWhat can I do about the fact that all of my personal and educational information was given to another? What can lady_MP2.0 and I both do? I am not upset with 2.0 at all, since she was assured just as I was that we were given the correct login information. I contacted using student services at the college, so student services is aware of the mix up but said \u201coh how funny! You have the same first name!\u201d and didn\u2019t seem concerned at all.\n\nTL;DR- My dean of nursing isn\u2019t my biggest fan, and the college gave my personal and education information to another student. What can I do, if anything? \n\nTIA.","title":"Possible discrimination and definite confidentiality breach","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554406519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9ha2j\/i_have_a_large_false_bill_in_collections\/","id":"b9ha2j","body":" \n\nI was a tenant is a rough location last year. The complex was very shady and was fairly dangerous, (There were four gang shootings in my fourteen months there, prostitutes and drug dealers also hung around) and therefore the staff and management changed every few months. I finally moved away when my lease was up. At the time, I paid my final bill and went on my way (This was September 2018). I received a rather aggressive bill a few weeks ago stating that I owe $2,414.00 originating from that apartment complex.\n\nMy first time calling them, a very young sounding woman pulled up my account and quickly said \"Oh, I'm going to need to call you back.\" and hung up before I was able to make a response. I was never called back. I called back again today, and spoke to manager, who informed me that the management has of course changed and that she has no record of previous tenants, nor does she have the ability to write off prior balances or contact the collections agency about my apparent bill. The collections agency of course isn't able to do much.\n\nWhat should I do? I don't have a spare $2,414 laying around, and if I did, I wouldn't just mindlessly pay it without knowing why I was being charged.","title":"I have a large false bill in collections","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539756215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ovz04\/nofault\/","id":"9ovz04","body":"So I got into this accident a few months ago in Tennessee. It was a private property I crashed into a car at an intersection called the police after that police said it was private property so He didn\u2019t cite anyone at fault. My only offense\/ticket was for the absence of insurance at that time of accident. Fast forward to 2 weeks I got a letter from Insurance company that I need to give them My info and everything. I just ignored it as I have asked for advices from friends here (I am a tourist btw) then fast forward 3 months I got a Subrogation letter that I need to pay $20,000 dollars for the damages and everything. I badly need advice since I dont want to leave the US with this thing in my head.\n\nThank you","title":"No-Fault","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568519174,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4fhra\/nc_boyfriend_died_in_my_home_with_no_will\/","id":"d4fhra","body":"My boyfriend died in my house over 30 days ago. I bought the house and furnishings before I met him, he moved in 13 years ago. We have no shared accounts since his credit had been poor. I was listed on his living will as the one to handle his death arrangements. I paid for his cremation. I have the death certificates, medical bill statements, checking statements, and funeral receipt. \n\nHis few belongings are in my home and his old car. I thought I was going to handle this as a small estate, but his only child, an adult son, now wants to manage the estate. There is not a lot of money in my bf\u2019s checking account, barely enough to pay for the cremation and medical bills. I don\u2019t know if or when I will be reimbursed for the funeral expenses. His son just wants his dad\u2019s old car. I have the title and keys. \n\n\nShould I hire an attorney to get the funeral expenses paid? What kind? What should I do if his son arrives on my doorstep and wants his fathers belongings..some could be sold to pay funeral and medical expenses, but legally I don\u2019t believe I can give the belongings without the estate being settled first.","title":"[NC] Boyfriend died in my home with no will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570478510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deoujx\/former_internet_friend_threatening_a_lawsuit_for\/","id":"deoujx","body":"I am in a Discord server and I saw one of my former friends, or someone else in his server (I dont remember if it was him or one of his friends) post the nudes of a girl we know and then delete them. Nobody else saw it happen. I mentioned it to him, and he told me that since she had posted them in another server years ago, that it was okay. She had deleted them and expressed that it was a mistake and that nobody should post them. \n\nI told a couple of our friends what he did, and I would say that a maximum of four people know about this. Nobody has any proof of what he did, and honestly, I don\u2019t think anybody cares, not even the girl. Here is where it gets to the point where I need legal advice. \n\nHe wants to sue me for slander and defamation. His argument is that he didn\u2019t do it, and that I have lied and slandered his good name. I know what I saw, but I don\u2019t have any proof since he deleted it and nobody else saw it. I don\u2019t have the money for an attorney, so I apologized and asked him to please not sue me. He wants to proceed with the lawsuit. I don\u2019t know if he has talked to any lawyers yet, or if anyone would even take the case. I just know that my stomach is in knots and I don\u2019t know what to do. \n\nHe doesn\u2019t even live in the same country as me. He lives in the United Kingdom, and I live in America. Niether of us are citizens of the other's country. I also have no assets to take as I am living with my parents and recovering from an already financially draining surgery. He has bragged to one of our mutual friends that he just wants to take any money I have left and make me be in debt to him. \n\nWould a lawyer even take this case?","title":"Former internet friend threatening a lawsuit for slander","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554790020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb4ebr\/immigrant_parents_want_to_kick_me_out_of_the\/","id":"bb4ebr","body":"Let me give you guys a little background.\n\nI am a 15 1\/2 year old Indian Kid, Born in India but raised in the USA and currently live in a Suburb in the Los Angeles area\n\n**Me and my parents have been on and off fighting for the past 2 years (I am going to turn 16 in June), as they are both strict, tiger parents as I am part of an Indian family.**  My Parents and I often argue over *little things* which I try to avoid. And I am sick and tired of there emotional abuse with me. They try and control every single thing I do which frankly speaking is sickening to me. I don't have a lock on my bedroom door. I have tried talking to them about this and they say that there is no \"privacy\" at times they'll even burst into my bathroom to check what I am doing. They embarrass me so much that I don't even talk to them and I ***hate*** them so much. I am scared to even invite over any school friends and rarely tell them about my friends. I just don't want them as they are all around toxic and hypocritesm **I'm an hard-working student but to there standards I am subpar and I am waste and I get lectured on how to become an \"Ideal Student\".** \n\nEx: **Why do you have a B in that AP class,** you aren't studying hard enough why are you wasting my time, i**f you wanted to be a waste of oxygen we shouldn't have to come to America.**  \n\nI have tried therapy before with them, at first they agreed with me and then later on as the therapist's asked them to change \"themselves\" and be more caring and more empathetic towards me there whole view point changed and they stopped. Only Justification was that \"they were being TOO SLOW\".  **I was APPALLED as therapy was actually helping me.**\n\n**I am going through a time of depression and extreme anxiety** as my parents said \"If you don't want to live the way we want you to then **you can leave at 16** and never look-back, which frankly speaking I am fine with but, I am living in the USA on a H-4 Visa, so please could anyone guide me on how to move from here on out thanks!\n\n(Sidenote - I don't have my ITIN, my Passport, or any other legal documents, My dad has an I-140 in hand and is on A H-1 Visa)","title":"Immigrant Parents want to Kick me out of the house, Immigrant Son at 16 with no green card what are my options","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542182649,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wy4wj\/am_i_responsible_for_the_tenantreplacements\/","id":"9wy4wj","body":"I have recently moved out from a shared apartment and have provided a replacement. I have also paid the rent, even though i wasn't staying from that month onwards, but that was because i was late to find the replacement. However, the replacement isn't acting very nice, and hasn't paid me back the rent. He's also asking for a 30 days notice to leave but he, in reality, has no intentions of leaving. Neither does he want to pay the rent.\n\nWhat should I do?\n\n​\n\nP.S. I'm in Canada.","title":"Am I responsible for the tenant-replacement's behavior\/actions after I have moved out?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571169268,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diddqd\/assault_victim_wondering_if_i_should_pursue_some\/","id":"diddqd","body":"So this past weekend while visiting a friend I was assaulted outside of a night club. Here are the details as I remember them of the assault: \n\nMy friends and I were at a night club to celebrate my friends 30th birthday. We had a great night and at 2am the club announced that it was closing and turned on the lights. I was with a large party of people and we were a bit scattered around the club so we did not all leave the venue at the same time. Me and one of my close friends were amongst the last to leave. As we were exiting I hear people screaming and I notice one of our acquaintances on the ground having his head repeatedly stomped on by a Hispanic male. Not thinking I rush to my friend push his attacker away and try to pick him up off of the ground. As I was picking him up his attacker hits me in the mouth with a gun. The gun goes off at the same time. Luckily I was not hit by the bullet, but unfortunately the gun knocked out and broke many of my teeth. I was pulled to safety into another bar and waited for an ambulance. I am now in the process of trying to get dental surgeries to fix my mouth but have been told that my insurance is not very good and won\u2019t cover all of the work needed. \n\nMany of my friends and family have I suggested I get a lawyer and seek some kind of compensation to help with the medical bills. Unfortunately I do not know if anyone is liable for this as it happened outside of the club. Can anyone provide some insight on this or if getting a lawyer could even help me?","title":"Assault victim wondering if I should pursue some sort of legal action","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553877192,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6zg1d\/ca_will_an_attempted_murder_charge_escalate_to_a\/","id":"b6zg1d","body":"We learnt about brain injuries in class today where after an attack on the head, death may occur after some weeks even if the victim still manages to survive. Hypothetically, if an attacker attacked the victim on the head with intent to kill, but the victim survived and called cops and the attacker was charged with attempted murder. If the victim died some weeks later due to complications arising from the injury, will the attacker be charged with murder? Will this happen automatically (i.e hospital will submit a notice to the court) or is it up to the victims lawyer to bring his death to the court?","title":"[CA] Will an attempted murder charge escalate to a murder charge if the victim dies after a few months due to the injuries","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539821554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p44ni\/seeing_so_much_in_wage_theft\/","id":"9p44ni","body":"Obligatory \"wrote this on my phone, sorry for formatting\" (unsure what it looks like for users on computers as I only use my phone, always looks fine to me). \n\nI've been working at my job in British Columbia (Canada), for.. 15 years now I believe; I've been told I should really look into the labour laws for here because people are sure there are issues with how things are. I generally work around 200 hours a month (we get paid monthly, so I have never looked into what my weekly hours are), our schedule changes 3 times a year basically (we have a schedule for the year, and a revised schedule for two months in winter and three months in summer). We don't do anything different for holidays, if we generally work Mondays, and Monday happens to be a holiday, same hours to work. There's no stat holiday pay, no overtime, or anything of that sort. When I started I was a teenager, and of course didn't fully comprehend that sort of thing as being probably mandatory for businesses, I just assumed that everything was appropriate. \n\nSo my questions would be. Is there reasons why stat pay and overtime wouldn't be needed, and is there a way I could then deal with it (if something indeed is being done that shouldn't be), without really letting the owners know it was me saying anything. ","title":"Seeing so much in wage theft...","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555560294,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beh7m6\/landlord_tricked_me_into_leaving_command_strips\/","id":"beh7m6","body":"So, i recently moved out of my apartment. When I went to talk to my landlord about moving out she asked if i have any nails in my walls and I said no, i used command strips so i didn\u2019t do any damage. She told me to leave them because they will take them off carefully as to not ruin the paint- I kind of thought it was fishy but whatever, I had already removed a few and no paint came off or anything so I just thought ill let her do it since i already told her they were there. Well today she called me and told me that they were deducting $180 from my deposit because when they took of the command strips it took paint with it... I have a very hard time believing this but I don\u2019t know what to do about it as they supposedly already repainted. I didn\u2019t really say anything about it because I was at work and in a hurry when she called me and just wanted to get the conversation over with, but now that I have had time to think about I realized that it\u2019s super fishy. What should I do?","title":"Landlord tricked me into leaving command strips and then claimed they caused damage","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408714442,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e9xvv\/need_advice_on_false_child_support_claims_in\/","id":"2e9xvv","body":"My husband divorced his ex-wife in 2009 and had a child support agreement in place for their two children. In 2009, however she signed a custody agreement giving full custody of one of the children to him. He continued to honor the child support agreement, until 2011. He was paying for both children, when in fact, we had one. \n\nLast year, she filed with the state of Virginia (which is where she lives now) that she had both children and she wanted back child support. They didn't investigate if whether or not she actually did have both children, and started garnishing wages. He makes less than her now, and we can barely make rent. \n\nWe filed an appeal with DSC and gave them the custody agreement and the fact that we've had one of the children for 4 years now. They stated that we had \"no appeal-able issue\". The original child divorce agreement is in the state of Georgia. (We're military so we move around a lot.) \n\nWe contacted lawyers and they're all understandably expensive. She's ruined our credit so we can't apply for a loan to get a lawyer. \n\nMy question is, what is the legality of her doing this? Could we counter sue her for what she's received so far? What is the legality of the state garnishing our wages, and what's the quickest way to get them to stop? ","title":"Need advice on false Child Support claims in Maryland.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1502914453,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u4rsz\/fake_id_question\/","id":"6u4rsz","body":"I have a family member that is buying and redistributing mass amounts of fake ids from various places in China to college students. He posts frequently on the fakeid subreddit, but other than that is relatively discrete. I'm not okay with this family member doing this kind of activity in the same household as me. I also recently found out that he got fake ids for a student that passed away at college last semester due to alcohol poisoning. It could have been from the alcohol he bought with the fake. If he does not stop this activity, how should I go about reporting him to the police? \n\nEdit: Tennessee\n\nAlso, should have mentioned I am trying to stay anonymous. ","title":"Fake ID question","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1416119726,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2mg57r\/is_it_legal_in_the_us_for_a_web_service_to_host\/","id":"2mg57r","body":"Concerning US Law: From what I understand, the laws surrounding Digital Rights Management (DRM), including eBooks sold with DRM, are specified by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.\n\nCorrect me if I am wrong, but from my vague understanding it is illegal to...\n\n* Strip DRM from DRM-protected data, including eBooks.\n* Create and distribute tools to subvert, or remove DRM from DRM-protected data, including eBooks.\n* Provide others with the instructions or knowledge to circumvent DRM from DRM-protected data, including eBooks.\n\nHowever, I haven't yet come across any details that specifically concern my current curiosity: How does the DMCA affect 3rd party web hosts that provide hosting for potential DMCA law breakers, where DRM-protected content is being hosted.\n\nI have numbered the questions to make it easy to specify any answers to the questions. I appreciate all serious answers. \n______\n\n# **QUESTIONS**\n\nFor the following questions, I am asking them as they would pertain to a WEB SERVICE, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Mega, or even a dedicated service that provides PRIVATE hosting for only eBooks:\n\n1. What is the liability for this WEB SERVICE for hosting user-uploaded **DRM-protected** eBooks?\n\n2. What is the liability for this WEB SERVICE for hosting user-uploaded **DRM-stripped** eBooks?\n * Example: User purchases and downloads Kindle eBook to their personal device. User then strips the DRM from said eBook and converts it to a DRM-free ePub. User then uploads this ePub file to the WEB SERVICE.\n\n3. What is the liability for this WEB SERVICE for hosting user-uploaded **DRM-stripped** eBooks **AND** allowing user to edit certain metadata WITHIN the uploaded eBook file (such as Cover Image, Author Details, Book Title, et cetera)?\n\n4. What is the liability for this WEB SERVICE for hosting user-uploaded **DRM-stripped** eBooks **AND** allowing user to edit certain metadata for the book, but associating this uploaded eBook with an separate metadata file, leaving the user-uploaded DRM-stripped eBook untouched on the service?","title":"Is it legal in the US for a web service to host user-uploaded eBooks that either have DRM or have had its DRM stripped by the uploading user?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539309992,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ng9gt\/i_am_trying_to_move_out_due_to_not_being_able_to\/","id":"9ng9gt","body":"There is one roommate \"B\" who I have been friends with for a long time. He has started to have a very rough time in his life, for about the last six months. During this time he has been incredibly insufferable and I cannot deal with it anymore. He has gotten fired from a job I gave him the same day I got it for him, and rubbed it in my face after I begged my boss to hire him back, he has got a dog without any prior discussion with any roommates. I have tried to leave the lease or sublease and spoke to each roommate individually first. Everyone agreed I should leave and the situation sucks. B is adamant about me having to stay, and my landlord says the decision has to be unanimous no matter what. I do not know if there is any way to circumvent this or not, and would like some advice on ways to leave either through subleasing or whatever else can be done. I can not afford to pay the remainder of the rent while moving out.","title":"I am trying to move out due to not being able to handle current roommates[Oklahoma]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554258360,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8sdh2\/arizona_my_child_needs_continued_trauma_therapy\/","id":"b8sdh2","body":"Backstory:  My 6y\/o had been sexually abused by her mother\u2019s husband.  He was recently convicted and sent away.  According to my ex-wife, our daughter was seeing a child trauma therapist and she was doing just fine.  All of this happened while they were overseas and I was stateside.\n\nToday:  I get a call from my child\u2019s therapist and things are not at all what my ex says.  My ex-wife stopped taking her to the sessions and when the therapist had them both together he said it was not good.  They both argued with each other like children, it was as if there was no parent figure.  The therapist also informed me that even after the trauma my ex-wife was constantly giving our daughter to babysitters so she could leave the house.  Currently my daughter is with me.  She\u2019s enrolled in school and thriving in a stable home.  I have joint legal custody but my ex-wife has the last say for medical and education.  My daughter needs continued therapy but I\u2019m positive my ex-wife won\u2019t allow it.  What can I do legally if my ex-wife won\u2019t allow the therapy?  I will also be contacting an attorney ASAP about this as well but I\u2019m hoping I could get a head start and advice here until tomorrow.  TIA.","title":"Arizona: My child needs continued trauma therapy but I\u2019m sure my ex-wife will say no.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553475552,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b54399\/my_girlfriends_abusive_father_is\/","id":"b54399","body":"While hanging out with my girlfriend a few days ago, she received a distressful call from her brother (B1) who had been staying home for spring break. Her parents had been arguing all week and in the end had physical altercations between the two. The resulting fight has ended the situation devolving into a divorce where it seems like the mother and all 4 of her kids will end up with nothing. He has started packing his bags to leave to NY and will try to settle this through his lawyer. From what I am aware of, he started giving my gf's mother (GFM) unfavorable conditions and is trying to force her to agree to these conditions. \n\nCurrently I am helping her write this post because currently she is being overwhelmed by the amount of things going on with her family. \n\nTo preface this and help explain the circumstances, her family comes from a very religious Islamic background (S.A. and Pakistan). From what she has told me her father:\n\n* On paper seems to have no money, but is able to pay for college tuition, $15,000 vacations, a nice house in the suburbs, and many more.\n* Emotionally, physically, and financially abusive towards those around him\n   * GFM has been manipulated many times via emotions and seems to not have a secure mentality regarding the father, there are times when she \"rebels\" but then eventually caves in\n* His homeopathic medicinal beliefs that are hurting GFM and B1\n   * GFM had a tumor but was manipulated into not removing it\n   * B1 had a chronic disease but was not allowed to take medication for it, he had to secretly sneak out and get it himself\n* Buying the house under GFM's name and purposely not paying mortgage bills to ruin her credit intentionally \n* The father tells his friend's to beat their wives and how to avoid paying child support\n* Currently, cut off everyone's phone plans\n\nI managed to convince my gf to contact relatives that are willing to help but through some beliefs many are trying to convince GFM to stay with the abusive father for the sake of kids. Some questions that would help:\n\n1. Aside from contacting a divorce lawyer, what are some steps that they could take to help ensure some financial stability?\n   1. There are two young kids under 18 and 2 under college at the time being.\n   2. GFM has never worked a job before in her life and has her credit ruined by the father\n   3. Is there any way to bring to light his shady financial practices to court?\n2. GF legitimately fears some form of physical\/financial retaliation from her father. What is legally possible to help them feel secure? \n3. Should police be involved even though there isn't evidence of physical abuse?\n\nI appreciate any advice given and will be willing to answer some questions. Thanks.","title":"My girlfriend's abusive father is","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445720259,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q2o7v\/roomate_moved_out_without_warning_signed_the\/","id":"3q2o7v","body":"I live in Indiana, so it's the 24th today and rent is due on the 1st, no exceptions, late fee of $25 per day up until the 7th, upon which eviction is filed by management. My roomate left, to move in with a girl he met a couple weeks ago who actually happens to live in the same apartment complex! On the other side of it however. I woke up this morning to find him in the process of leaving. None the less I have remained calm and let him move out, even though I did call him an asshole for not telling me, but those were the only words we had. I told him I would be contacting legal aid and to be expecting that. None the less because he's not actually a leaseholder (I am), but he did sign the lease as a \"resident\" and was given his own set of keys and relevant complex items (Clubhouse card, parking spot tag, etc). \n\nI'm already fully prepared to have to move out. It's just going to be hard considering I work two jobs and have ~2 weeks to figure something out. Luckily I do have steady income and I'm not much concerned about that, I just hope this doesn't ruin my renting history and prevent me from finding a decent place easily. Thanks for all the help guys. ","title":"Roomate moved out without warning, signed the lease as a \"resident\". Need advice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1413054144,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2iys1d\/unprovoked_assault_victim_uk\/","id":"2iys1d","body":"So the story to this one is that I was out two nights ago til the early morning. Leaving a club I noticed some drama occuring across the street and so my girlfriend and myself walked over to see what was happening. I came across a distressed individual who claimed to have been attacked, although in the club I witnessed and heard of the individual being very forward to girls, and getting hot headed at any denial. Upon the moment of meeting him he started to utter racial slurs about the girl whom had attacked him, to which I replied that he should not bring race into the situation and tried to calm him down.\n\nBy this point he had taken his shirt off, a sure sign he was looking for a fight, and so I walked over, grabbed his shirt and offered to walk him home and just asked him to calm down and leave it, but he was intent on shouting out his 'attacker'. I took it upon myself to speak to her, to which a friend of her advised me to calm my friend down as the 'attacker' was carrying a knife. I explained that I was a neutral party, looking to diffuse the situation, but the girl seemed to be in a frenzy, so I walked back over the guy. \n\nHe was still in a rage, but I tried to let him know of the severity of his actions upon hearing about the concealed weapon, to which he replied \"are you threatening me?\" (obviously the guy was a defensive kind of guy). I obviously replied that I was not, to which my girlfriend stepped in to try and help. When this happened, he started to say some derogatory and frankly sexist verbal abuse at her, and so I stepped in, as I was not going to allow this to happen. Being calm natured, I tried to approach this as an advice rather than threaten him, and told him he should \"never speak to any girl like that, especially not to my girlfriend, it's disgusting and completely disrespectful\", and the next bit is hazy, but I spoke to someone else for a few minutes and that's all I remember before I woke up in a pool of my own blood after he had hit me and broken my nose. \n\nI have swelling under my eyes, a broken nose and chipped tooth. The broken nose and swelling means I am A. not able to return to my place of work (a four star hotel where my boss has told me that until the swelling goes down it's not favourable for either parties I return) and B. have had to rearrange a second interview at a job I have been working for, and this could jeopardise the job for me. The chipped tooth is a pain for me which means I will have to see the dentist to get it looked at, costing me money that I am losing out on due to the swelling.\n\nI'm not sure what legal action to take against the attacker, I would like to see the guy get some comeuppance for his actions, but is there any financial settlement that I could charge against him? \n\ntl;dr - I try to do good to someone, (calmly) stand up for my girlfriend, get punched in the face, break my nose and lose out on my income.\n\nAny advice is greatly appreciated.","title":"Unprovoked Assault Victim (UK)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571463459,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djzkqv\/hit_and_run_injury_not_reported_but_feeling_hurt\/","id":"djzkqv","body":"I was involved with a hit and run going about (30 mph) a few hours ago. I made a police report and everything, but I told them that there were no injuries in the crash. It's now 3 hours after the hit and run and I have a massive headache and some back pain. Can I add my injuries to the report even though time has passed?","title":"Hit and run injury not reported but feeling hurt after","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554454445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9or2y\/us_hi_permit_driver_got_into_an_accident_and\/","id":"b9or2y","body":"I was in the car while my friend who has a permit unknowingly struck a parked vehicle, we believed we struck the curb and backed out and left. Although I wasn\u2019t driving, i was the only one in the car with an actual license, am i legally responsible? ","title":"[US, HI] permit driver got into an accident and drove away while I (licensed passenger) was in the card, could i have my license revoked?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508299831,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7747m5\/employer_paying_less_than_agreed\/","id":"7747m5","body":"I'm an undergraduate in New Jersey, and a few weeks after starting my tutoring job this year at my university, my employer changed the manner in which I am being paid.\n\nI signed a form that states \"ALL TUTORS ARE PAID 8 HOURS, unless told otherwise.\" However, a few weeks later, I received an email stating I would be paid for the exact number of hours worked. I had this same job for the past two years, and I was paid for 8 hours while only working 5 hours each week, and the department was fully aware of this. They hired me again without indicating things had changed until after I signed the form.\n\nI spoke with the person who sent the email, and she said that she was sorry I misinterpreted the statement \"ALL TUTORS ARE PAID 8 HOURS, unless told otherwise,\" and that it actually means that it is expected that people with my position will work at most 8 hours. I expected she would say that I am now being \"told otherwise,\" so the contract had not been violated, but that was not the case.\n\nIt seems like my university may have done something wrong, but I'm not sure. In particular:\n\n * The sheet I signed seems pretty informal, and it was clearly made by someone in the department just for this position. It's not some government form with a name. Does that mean it isn't legally binding?\n * If it is legally binding, does the phrase \"unless told otherwise\" mean that it has not been violated? It seems like the moral thing to do would probably be to tell me before starting to work, but maybe its still legal to do it afterwards. The department totally thinks that the sheet is being violated, but it's possible they're in the clear without realizing it.\n * Even if it is a binding contract and it has been violated, does that mean anything? Am I supposed to just quit and look for a job elsewhere, or is there something else I ought to do?\nThanks for the help.","title":"Employer Paying Less Than Agreed","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553396073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4rmrx\/management_changes_schedule_after_posted_and\/","id":"b4rmrx","body":"I work as a server at a restaurant in California and have the tendency to change our schedules last minute without explanation by taking employees shifts away after posting the weeks schedule. When asked why, they state hours need to be cut and the CEO doesn\u2019t want labor cost to be high. \n\nFor example, I was scheduled 5 days and opened my email to see my schedule was updated and now I\u2019m only working 2 days. Is this legal and fair to do to employees whenever they want? Not one employee is signed for guaranteed full time hours, but it seems fishy that they are able to change our schedules whenever they want, leaving us in a panic trying to figure out how to pay bills for the week. Is there any law that protects this or makes this not legally okay to do to employees? \n\nThanks so much in advance ","title":"Management changes schedule after posted, and takes 2-3 days away from everyone because of budget (CA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504029524,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wsz71\/fired_after_filing_wage_claim_nj\/","id":"6wsz71","body":"I've been employed at a small (abt 15 Ppl) company in NJ since 12\/2015. In July I filed a wage claim form with the dept of labor after my boss decided not to pay me for 3 days I was hospitalized. The reason he decided not to pay me was the company accountant claiming I was out of time. I'm very detailed in keeping track of my time off so I knew that wasn't true. Turns out they had me using vacation for about 5 days when I was actually at work. I have emails proving I was in the office on these days so I believed that I had reason to report the issue.  \n\nAnyway, I filed the claim and yesterday I received notification of the case by mail. When I spoke with the dept of labor last week they said the company was in process of being notified. I believe he was notified yesterday as he suddenly decided that my vacation records were correct and I was owed 7 days vacation. He then decided to terminate my employment with the company and pay me for my notice period rather than have me work it out. He didn't give any reason for the termination and I haven't signed anything. \n\n Since he has now paid me for my vacation time do I now need to withdraw the wage claim? Does this seem like a case of retaliation and is it worth pursuing?  \n\n\n\n\n","title":"Fired after filing wage claim. (NJ)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504798098,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ynx5f\/apartment_bought_by_new_group_what_are_my_rights\/","id":"6ynx5f","body":"Using a throwaway for privacy reasons.\n\nI am fresh out of college and my apartment was bought out by another housing group after I have just signed a one year long lease last month. This new group left a note on my door letting me know that rent will be increasing by 15% starting 11\/1\/2017. I want to know if they can do this or if I can fight this? My lease that I signed does state \u201cRental can be subject to an increase during the life of this lease not to exceed 15%\u201d. However, this is in relation to the previous owner and not the new one correct?\n\nThe lease doesn\u2019t have any statements on it letting me know what my rights are if the lease was transferred. Am I able to break out of the lease before 11\/1\/17 because of change of ownership? Or if I tried, would I be charged according to my lease statement? \n\nThere was community wi-fi that was provided by the previous landlord but was turned off when I came home last night. Is there any way I can force the new group to cover my internet? \n\nI live in Ohio if that helps for state by state laws. \n","title":"Apartment bought by new group. What are my rights as a tenant?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542039292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wfbx1\/in_trouble_for_satire\/","id":"9wfbx1","body":"I made a fake obituary about someone well known in my area, and photoshopped it to look like a screenshot from a respected news site. I think it was pretty obviously fake, but I posted it on my Snapchat story and a lot of people believed it. I took it down after less than an hour because of how much it blew up, and tried to start telling people it was fake immediately. The intent was to prove a point about how it\u2019s easy to fall for fake news and joke articles. I did not have permission from the person to make them the subject, which was a stupid choice. \n\nCan my school legally punish me for this? There is nothing about anything like it in our student handbook. Someone told me it could be defamation but I\u2019m almost positive it can\u2019t be. ","title":"In trouble for satire?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1504989790,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z43k3\/uncle_passed_away_crazy_exgirlfriend_is\/","id":"6z43k3","body":"So before I begin they ARE NOT common laws. We live in Ontario, Canada. So back story before my uncle became sick and passed away. Months before he got ill he broke up with her and she refused to leave his home. Told him several different dates that she would leave and she never did. He became sick, wrote a legal will and saying she is not entitled to anything. My mother became power of attorney during his illness and gave the ex( we will call her coocoo) 2 months to leave the house. Time ran out, coocoo refused to leave and made a story up about a \"new will\" and having lawyer. Our lawyer got into contact with coocoo's \"lawyer\" and coocoo's lawyer said they have no affiliation with coocoo. We had asked our lawyer to send her a letter requesting that she leave the house again because coocoo has no right to the house. Coocoo replied to our lawyer saying that coocoo wants 40,000$ to \"get back on their feet\". Just wondering what our next steps should be. \n\n[Edit for details] we have filed for probate already, worried that if we evicted she will contest the will and increase our lawyer and court fees","title":"Uncle passed away, crazy ex-girlfriend is requesting money to leave his house.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540782735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s9ivi\/property_management_wants_more_money_after\/","id":"9s9ivi","body":"(Seattle, WA) In short, after we moved out of our apartment on June 30th, our property manager sent my husband and I a letter stating that our total move out cost is $850 and our security deposit of $500 doesn't cover it. The reason for us moving out was because we're a military family, and my husband received orders to move out of state. We feel as though the property manager is taking advantage of a military family as well as extorting us for more money.\n\nItemized move out charge is as follows: \n$150 standard cleaning fee\n$350 additional pet cleaning fee (we have 1 cat) \n$200 re-painting fee (we never changed the paint color in the apartment and apart from the few nail holes and normal wear and tear, the walls were in good condition)\n$50 June utilities \nand $100 final 53 days of utilities.\n\nI've already sent a letter disputing some of the charges, and the manager replied by reducing the charge for re-painting by half. However, we still do not agree we should pay for painting at all. That is something that is covered by the standard cleaning fees as it was normal wear and tear. The manager also failed to address the extra June utility charge. Their explanation for the final 53 days charge is because \"The Third Party Billing system is generally 6-8 weeks in arrears before a utility bill is assigned to your account.\"\n\nI'm at a loss on if I can continue to fight this bill, or if we should just give in and pay it. Thank you for any advice.","title":"Property management wants more money after keeping our security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540769729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s7xhx\/belgium_girlfriends_sisters_stuck_in_turkey_with\/","id":"9s7xhx","body":"To run it down simply: I'm from Denmark, and live with my parents. My girlfriend lives in Beligum, with her grandparents. Her father and stepmother (her mother died when she was young), left to return to Turkey when her mother died, and he took her two little sisters with him, to Turkey. The father is abusive, and hits, yells at, etc., and they are generally in very poor condition. The father even pesters her about her paying their rent for him, since he doesn't have a job. My girlfriend wishes to remove herself from her abusive father, but she can't rest easy, knowing her sisters would still be with him. I also weighed the options of simply reporting the father, wherein the sisters would be sent to a public institution, but she is also not okay with that. The older of the younger sisters are 17, and the youngest is 12. She herself is 21. I am turning 18 in November.   \nSo my question is:  \nIs there any way, where we would be able to seperate the sisters from the father, preferably bringing them to Belgium somehow, or anywhere else that isn't Turkey? And of course, without forcing them to stay in a public institution. It's a selfish request, we feel like, but I've told her there exist people in way worse situations (who have taken legal action and made it too), and we are just having so much trouble wrapping our head around a tangible plan, that we can work towards. Is there any way she can get costudy of her sisters, and \"claim\" them?  \n**Any** ideas would be hugely appreciated.  \nThank you, in advance.","title":"Belgium Girlfriend's Sisters Stuck In Turkey With Abusive Father","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550532716,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/as3m0s\/work_hasnt_delivered_check_after_a_month\/","id":"as3m0s","body":"So i was cashing the check a month ago and the places scanner shredded the check. My work says they'll replace it minus 50$. Its now a month later and they keep saying they are working on it and its communication errors that are delaying it. My immediate boss has been the middle man between me and corporate but now he hasnt heard anything back in almost a week and they are basically ghosting him on the issue. \n\nIm getting really concerned as they have just recently cut hours and i went from 38+ a week to barely 10 now on a good week so im concerned they are going to try putting pressure to me in the hopes i quit and leave the check issue alone. is there anyone i can go to for help whether its the labor board or a lawyer? ","title":"Work hasnt delivered check after a month","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410467724,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g4yi0\/would_a_game_shutting_down_affect_its_eula_if_the\/","id":"2g4yi0","body":"I live in Florida and the EULA says it will be enforced under the laws of Texas.  The game shut down a few years ago from not being profitable.\n\nI'm looking into creating a private server by reverse engineering the game client's network interface.  The EULA specifically says you cannot reverse engineer the client or run a private server.  From what i understand reverse engineering is allowed under the DMCA but agreeing to an EULA waives that right.  I wouldn't make any money from this outside of donations.\n\nWould it change anything if i never played the game and only agreed to the EULA to install the client to reverse engineer it?\nIs there be anything i could do limit any possible damage from this like keeping my identity secret and having a friend who hasn't agreed to the EULA rent\/run the server or getting a LLC?","title":"Would a game shutting down affect its EULA if the publishing company is still operating? [FL\/TX]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540925828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sqwa3\/baby_momma_demands_to_see_son_but_her_younger\/","id":"9sqwa3","body":"I know they\u2019ll try and call the police and I know they\u2019ll try to take this to court, but my son just got over a upper respiratory infection that he got from their place and I don\u2019t feel that it would be safe.\n\nLast time I did this the judge said that I disobeyed the court order and that I shouldn\u2019t do it again, please tell me I\u2019m in the right\n\nIf this goes to court (I\u2019m certain that it will) what should I do?","title":"Baby momma demands to see son, but her younger sister has E. Coli, and her mom has a cold. They all live together, and the child is only 13 months.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554237449,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8okng\/rented_a_house_in_expensive_area_because_they\/","id":"b8okng","body":"Title pretty much says it all.  We live in California and rented a house at a higher cost for the school.  When I went to enroll my child I needed to enroll her I was told I can only do it on a specific day and she would be waitlisted and could possibly be sent to a different school.  \n\nIs it legal for the school to not accept a child in the home area for that school.  If it isn\u2019t than what kind of lawyer do I need to hire to ensure my child gets into her homeschool.\n\nThank you.","title":"Rented a house in expensive area because they were zoned for the better school. Now being told my child will be wait listed","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541171910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tl060\/what_should_i_consider_before_renting_out_my\/","id":"9tl060","body":"I bought my apartment about 5 years ago and have been living here alone ever since. Since buying the place, property value in my neighborhood has skyrocketed. I\u2019ve also gotten engaged and am planning to move in with my fianc\u00e9e. Seems like the perfect time to put my place up for rent!\n\nMy biggest worry is having tenants... When I found my place the people who lived here (tenants) had totally trashed it. The kitchen cupboard were hanging off the hinges, there were food stains on the wall and ceilings, burn marks in the carpets, etc. It took about $5k to get it decent again.\n\nI also have a garden that I\u2019ve taken great care of, and it being nice obviously increases the value of my apartment. But how do you ask\/expect a tenant to keep up the maintenance? What if they let everything die?\n\nMy fianc\u00e9e lives close by, but I don\u2019t want to be the type of landlord who\u2019s always popping by (I\u2019ve been on the tenant side of that and it\u2019s horrible).\n\nI\u2019m really stressed out about having strangers live here because I\u2019ve seen and heard of so many horror stories.\n\nWhen renting, are you legally allowed to put in specific clauses into the contract? I had a friend who signed a contract agreeing to look after the landlords cat for a slight discount on rent, so I assume so?\n\nIt just scares me so much because I\u2019ve put so much time and money into this place. \n\n\n\n","title":"What should I consider before renting out my apartment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441878372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kdkt2\/i_rent_a_room_in_a_house_and_the_landlord\/","id":"3kdkt2","body":"Hi everyone!\n\nI'm currently renting a room at a house, and the landlord (who doesn't live here) decided to rearrange the furniture of the common areas (kitchen and living room). He told me he was going to do it and I said I was against it. I went to my parents for the weekend and when I came back the sofa and the dining table were moved. The furniture is his.\n\nAlso, and that was the main reason he was in the house, he came here to fix the blinds in the rooms and he made a huge mess on my bed (seriously, my bed has a black square of dirt, dust and whatnot) and I haven't heard an apology from him (I'm going to call him in a few hours to see what he as to say).\n\nThe house is rented by the room (3 rooms total), and the landlord came to fix stuff because he managed to rent the remaining two rooms.\n\nAnother thing that is really getting into my nerves is that the guy comes over without prior warning. It was not frequent, but with the new tenants moving in, he started coming in more frequently to get things ready (cleaning the empty rooms, which gathered a lot of dust, and whatnot. I was alone for the better part of a year). Now, when he does come over, he knocks on the door and rings the bell several times and waits a good 15 seconds before coming in. However, I don't feel that this is adequate and according to a friend of mine who owns a real estate agency, he can't do it (unfortunately, he doesn't know which law prohibits him of that). I googled around and the only thing I could find was a law that stated that the landlord had the right to inspect the rented house (but it didn't state under which terms) and that, when a tenant wants to move out (and gives prior notice), the landlord has the right to show the house to potential tenants on the three months before the current tenant moves out. However, it also states that the landlord must agree with the tenant the times at which the visits will occur.\n\nI live in Portugal, so I don't know if someone will be able to help me out.\n\nThanks,","title":"I rent a room in a house and the landlord rearranged the furniture in the common areas. Can he do this without my consent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541782698,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vm4ik\/got_caught_stealing_at_walmart_and_idk_what_to_do\/","id":"9vm4ik","body":"So for starters I feel like crap for doing what I did and honestly I would take it back if I could but we know that can\u2019t happen. I went to a neighborhood market Wal-Mart to get groceries and i skip bagged my groceries at the self checkout (scanning one thing, but then putting other non-scanned items in the bag too). I had ever intention of paying for the $100 worth of groceries that I had scanned, but when I tried to pay, I stupidly tried to use the Walmart pay option with my phone and it had my boyfriend\u2019s employee discount card linked up. My card got declined and honestly I didn\u2019t have the money to pay for the groceries that I desperately needed, so I just left the store, groceries in tow. They have footage of me not scanning everything and walking out. They got my info because the screen on the register was still pulled up with my boyfriends discount info on it (I wasn\u2019t aware). They\u2019ve flagged his discount card and I\u2019m waiting to see if they are going to press charges... what can I expect? Like am I going to get arrested or fined? It\u2019s my first offense minus minor traffic tickets that were years ago. I\u2019m almost 23.. will my boyfriend face charges? He just got promoted.. help","title":"Got caught stealing at Walmart and idk what to do","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541435451,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uezx4\/landlord_channeling_washer_runoff_into_the_sump\/","id":"9uezx4","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice!\n\nSo title says it all. On top of that, the landlord has converted a utility room to a kitchen, but didn\u2019t wire it to be a kitchen so the breaker trips if I run more than one thing at a time. \n\nI\u2019m more concerned about the washer issue with winter around the corner and the possibility of the line freezing. I\u2019ve considered contacting the electric company to send someone out to see what\u2019s \u2018running my bill up\u2019 but per the city code, it\u2019s a misdemeanor for every day the owner has dumped chemicals into the groundwater (you can see the water bubbling up in the forest out back). I\u2019m also concerned about my liability as well. \n\nThere\u2019s a spot in the main sewer line for the washer to be connected, but for some reason he\u2019s refused to do it. So for a year, I\u2019ve had to hear the sump pump running AT LEAST once every two minutes. \n\nUnfortunately the house is in an ideal spot for me at the moment, and I can\u2019t move for another year. How would I go about sorting this out without it blowing up?\n\nThank you everyone!","title":"Landlord channeling washer runoff into the sump pit. Water drains out to city groundwater (VA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552631207,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1bevk\/i_left_my_husband_last_year_when_i_left_i_went_to\/","id":"b1bevk","body":"I have posted this on a throwaway for privacy issues and because frankly, it\u2019s too embarrassing to post on my main account. \n\nIn May of last year, I left my husband. He was becoming increasingly abusive and I\u2019m sorry to get into details but it\u2019s kind of relevant to the issue. He beat me within a few feet of our then two month old daughter. I called the police and he was in jail for a couple of days. \n\nWhile he was in jail, I moved out of the apartment we shared and got a restraining order. He would have fits of anger and punch holes throughout the walls. He ripped off the bathroom door as well. So I went to the apartment complex, showed them the police report, showed them pictures of the unit, and explained it all. They gave me a piece of paper to sign, stating that I was forfeiting my right to the deposit but I was also not going to be liable for the damages. Fair. Gone I was. \n\nA few weeks ago, I got a call from a collection agency. They stated the name of the management company and said they sent me to collections for the damages. About a week after that phone call, I got a letter in the mail stating I was responsible for $1800. \n\nI honestly thought it was some kind of scam until I noticed it was also on my credit report. \n\nSo, here are my questions. I have been stressing about this profusely since then and I just don\u2019t know what the fuck to do if I\u2019m being honest. I\u2019m on the younger side and that was my first ever time being on a lease so I\u2019m just really lost. \n\n1. Did that piece of paper I signed mean nothing? I still have it, but I don\u2019t know what good it will do me. \n\n2. Why did they go after me and not my husband? He is currently homeless, is it possible they couldn\u2019t find him and went after me instead? I have his phone number, would giving that to the collection agency do anything? \n\n3. This will probably sound like my dumbest question of all, but who do I even contact about this? Do I call the property management and see if they could do anything? The collection agency? I already tried disputing this off my credit report, to no avail. I am so worried about this because I\u2019ve never had anything negative on my report and I planned to purchase a home within the next 5-10 years.\n\n4. My deposit was $2500 and I agreed with the property management that it was rightfully theirs. So what are they even charging me for? \n\nPaying it is not an option. Principle aside, I am currently broke. I\u2019m in nursing school 40 hours a week and work 20. All my money goes towards rent, basic necessities for my kid, and groceries. I know this isn\u2019t great from a financial viewpoint, but that\u2019s not the point of this sub anyways and it\u2019ll be worth it once I graduate in November. \n\nI\u2019m sorry to get so emotional in this post. I am just so frustrated because I already tried to handle this almost a year ago. The worst part is, I can\u2019t even try to take this to court right now. I can\u2019t afford the lawyer and I explained my schedule up above, I am not even officially divorced yet because I have no time for court. \n\nThank you in advance. \n\n","title":"I left my husband last year. When I left, I went to our property management, explained damages he did and they gave me a piece of paper to sign saying I forfeited my right to the deposit but also would not be liable for the damages. I\u2019ve been contacted by a collection agency. Am I really liable?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503414632,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vbn4x\/undocumented_family_member_passed_away_he_left_a\/","id":"6vbn4x","body":"He left a small mobile home. It's in very bad shape. \n\nHe also left a bank account. \n\nHe left no will. \n\nI am his nephew and we lived in Florida. \n\nHis son traveled to see him before he passed away, he is the one who I feel is capable of claiming ownership, I am novice when it comes to these issues.\n\nAny advice is appreciate. And if more information is needed please let me know. \n\n","title":"Undocumented family member passed away. He left a home and a bank account. What can I do next?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505747065,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70vkr4\/can_my_friend_throw_my_personal_belongings_out\/","id":"70vkr4","body":"So my best friend ended up becoming my landlord the beginning of this year. The past lease holders were still living in her 2nd floor, one left to the army and the other stayed renting the room w\/o being on the lease, while another girl took over the lease. I rented a room through the leaseholder. I would give her the rent money and then she would give it to the landlord (my best friend).\n\nAugust the leaseholder broke the lease and the landlord allowed this. The leaseholder didn't have a security deposit and the landlord didn't want to cause problems for her since they were friends. The leaseholder didn't tell me anything, I found out through my landlords boyfriend. I tried talking to the leaseholder about it and she ignored me up until the day before she was leaving. She finally told me she was leaving the day after...no warning.\n\nI ended up being layed off that same day of her moving out. I was left with no roomates and a 3 bedroom apartment with no job. My landlord had me pay her for the 300 I owed for July and then for August I paid her another 300 because that's all I had left. The leaseholder had to pay 875 a month, which i could not afford after losing 3 roomates w\/o warning.\n\nI am now moving into my mothers in another state. I had to wait for my mom's weekend off to come up. Her weekend off is this one coming up. I told my friend (landlord) that I would be back Saturday to move everything. I explained the circumstances that I needed my mom to come up to CT so I could drive the uhaul and my mom could drive my car back to PA. She told me she wasn't trying to rush me and if she was she would have given me an eviction notice (we talked in facebook messenger) this past friday.\n\n\"If I was going to throw your shit out I've already done it and you would gotten an eviction notice. But I didn't. So there's that\"\n\nYesterday she messaged me: \"When are you coming back?\nI'm having people coming to  fix the ceiling upstairs and do the cleaning. I will have them throw your stuff out if you won't be back by the time they come\"\n\nShe didn't even include a time. But is this legal for her to just allow a leaseholder to take off on their agreement and then immediately drop the bill on me, saying that I owe her the full amount of the rent, when I had no lease with her at all. I told her as my friend I would pay her back in a few checks once I got a job in PA and she was okay with that on friday, then she flipped.\n\nTheres no way for me to go to CT and secure my items any day before saturday.\n\nAlso would it be illegal for my brother who lives in CT to go to the apartment without me there to check on my items?","title":"Can my \"friend\" throw my personal belongings out?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503529628,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vms9i\/usa_pa_landlord_wont_return_security_deposit\/","id":"6vms9i","body":"So we left our apartment last month. I shut off the electric on the 31st and we returned the keys a few weeks after that via mail and deposit. They sent us this letter claiming that they could not get in due to not receiving keys. We are expected to pay our deposit plus 650. \n\nWe have correspondence showing they have keys to perform maintenance. \nWe gave them notice of our move out. \nI shut off electric on the 31st. \nNo evidence of the repairs, damage, receipts, etc. \n\nIt seems like this negligence on their part. \n\nMy roommate is going to have a meeting with them requesting evidence, ask them about if they had a key, and why they didn't have electric on after we moved out. Should we instead seek a lawyer to send them a letter given our evidence? To me, they admit negligence in their letter saying they checked the property on August 14th vs our move out of the 31st. \n\n[letter](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/fSjGh)","title":"[USA, PA] Landlord won't return security deposit. Claims basement was damaged after move out due to sump pump not turned on because electric was off. Provides no evidence or receipts. Negligence on their part?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571269880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diy20r\/what_can_a_parent_do_with_a_childs_birth\/","id":"diy20r","body":"In particular, anything \\_harmful\\_? I'm (legal adult) aware it's a gateway to obtaining other forms of identification such as SSN and Passport, but doubt s\/he can do it with a birth certificate alone.\n\nI intend on changing my SSN once I move out, and cut any legal financial ties. My parent still has my birth certificate - and even if I take it, online info suggests s\/he can get a new one. This said, what harm can s\/he do to me, legally or otherwise? For example,\n\n\\- Blackmail\n\n\\- Contacting employer and \"denying permission\" to work there (happened somewhere)\n\n\\- Committing crimes in my name (e.g. online crimes by registering as me w\/ birth certificate as proof of identity)\n\nLastly, am I able to \"blacklist\" a person (e.g. parent) in agencies to deny access to information proactively?","title":"What can a parent do with a child's birth certificate? (US)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571279525,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dizz3k\/can_i_get_sued_for_defamation\/","id":"dizz3k","body":"*USA*\n\nI run a website where I warn people about unethical brands and explain why they should not support them. I back up everything with sources (some more official than others) but I am not directly involved in getting the facts and data to support my argument. Even if I am just relaying information found elsewhere I can still get sued? How can I still get my message about unethical companies out there without getting in legal trouble?","title":"Can I get sued for defamation?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569604286,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da3fj0\/what_is_the_law_in_va_for_unused_vacation_time\/","id":"da3fj0","body":"I worked in VA, Resident of MD. I was terminated for accumulating absences. I did a no call no show, not on purpose. I got 5 pts added on a 10 pt scale. \n\nI just wonder if they owe me those 43 hrs of vacation time I had accumulated and what is the best way to ask for it.","title":"What is the law in VA for unused vacation time when someone is terminated?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539712758,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oq2tr\/inspections\/","id":"9oq2tr","body":"Is it legal for low-income housing to inspect your apartment more than once a year. I was told when I signed my lease that they had yearly \"random\" inspections. I'm having my third within the next two days. I'm mean it's not like I've done anything to break my lease, I just have really bad anxiety and they give me panic attacks.","title":"Inspections","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568906505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6fk87\/director_refuses_to_pay_me_please_helpnyc_usa\/","id":"d6fk87","body":"Hello All,\n \nI work in film in New York City. I was hired to work on a project back in June as an Associate Producer, but due to an Assistant Director scamming and running off with a large chunk of the budget, I was offered his rate and role, as well as credits to my prior role. The offer and rate are offered in text message and contract. We recouped and filming happened in August.\n \nI was not on set due to a work(I work full time) project conflict, and she told me IN WRITING that this was fine, and we had someone take over for me on Shoot Days. I was there for one day, and to say it was chaos is an understatement. Lots of Screen Actors Guild and Child Labor Laws violated. I shut down set that day and asked to meet with her, but she left. She still shot on the last shoot day, but she cancelled my food orders and a multitude of extras ended up walking off set.\n \nSo, we agreed on 2400 USD for all my work, but she suddenly wanted to pay me 800. I have this all in writing. I stuck to a discount of 30%($1680 USD) when she kept insisting she had no money, and asked that we keep communication to email and text because she was blowing up my phone. Since then, she has ghosted me. I emailed her again my invoice and she straight up told me to take her to court. She is currently located in Boston so I am unsure if I can even serve her or take her to small claims court. She also didn\u2019t even take the paperwork with my rates and payment details, so I don\u2019t know if I can even use that as evidence.\n \nWhat are my rights in this? Can I even take her to small claims court? Any and all answers welcome. I am also willing to answer any questions people have. \n \nThank you.","title":"Director Refuses To Pay Me, Please Help[NYC, USA]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1444420680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o51v5\/waca_help_with_getting_online_payment_account\/","id":"3o51v5","body":"Happy Friday \/r\/Legaladvise.  \n\n**TL;DR account was locked because I didn't update my cc info, customer support told me to pound sand or contact legal in writing.  Are there any good sample letters out there for this situation?**\n\nI received an email this week from PayPal saying my account was \"limited\" due to violating terms of service and provided a reference number.  I suspected phishing and used a different device to log into my account and there was a message saying my credit card info was out of date and to call customer service.\n\nWhen I called customer service the representative was very hostile when I tried to get everything reset and told me that, \"we don't want your business anymore.\"  This very pleasant person refused to escalate and told me to write a letter to their legal department to get a \"very unlikely\" chance at getting my account back.  \nI'm in the process of obliging their request to take my business elsewhere.  However, I have some collectibles I'd like to put on eBay for the holidays and they are a major form of payment for eBay.  I looked around for sample letters online and wasn't able to find anything other than discovery letters, which I don't think is the right route to go at this time.  \n**Are there any good sample letters out there that I could use?**\n\nMore history if it helps at all:\nI origanlly opened the account in 2010 to pay for a thing on eBay and haven't really touched it since.  The credit card that I signed up with expired in 2012 and I didn't update that information.  I recieved one (1) email in 2012 reminding me that my credit card was about to expire and to update my information.  Earlier this week I got an email saying that my account was limited and to log in to correct the reason. I logged in and verified my account info and was informed that the cause was the incorrect expiration date on my still open credit card.  I contacted customer service and was told to eat a bag of something while pounding sand and to take my business elsewhere.  While I'd love to take my business elsewhere, I'd like to sell some stuff on eBay and more than likely will have to use my account to do so.","title":"[WA\/CA] Help with getting online payment account reinstated.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568999269,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6xx0j\/mi_landlord_threatening_immediate_eviction_for\/","id":"d6xx0j","body":"My roommate recently got an ESA cat. And has a letter from her therapist. Our landlord stated that the letter is unacceptabe and that we need to immediately get rid of it or we will be evicted. From my quick research, it is not legal to ignore a therapist's letter like that, but we have no money to fight it.","title":"(MI) Landlord threatening immediate eviction for roommate's ESA.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541252596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tu6ds\/how_to_painlessly_remember_your_passwords\/","id":"9tu6ds","body":"It is known that we as humans struggle with remembering and managing multiple complicated passwords, that are required to access different applications on a daily basis. To comply with the latest cybersecurity requirements for passwords should be at least 8 characters, mix of both upper and lower case letters, at least one number, at least one special character\u2019s (!@#$% etc.).\n\nFurthermore, it is preferable to change our password every 90 days, and of course, don\u2019t write it down, remember it instead. In theory, it sounds obvious to follow, in practice, is a complicated task to deal with.\n\nLet\u2019s look at an example that satisfy the above guidelines: **Ak8j\\_u\\^t@V7.**Obviously, it is difficult to remember that password, moreover, it would not be just one password to memorize, we need at least a few, taking into account the multiple login credentials an average person uses today.\n\nLooks awfully complicated and certainly difficult to memorize, the problem is that this so complicated for us password is not challenging at all for a computer with today\u2019s GPU calculating power to crack, with approximate 1000 guesses\/sec rate it **would need about 4 to 5 days.**\n\n**How adequately protected was our account with such complicated password?**\n\nIn comparison, if instead is used a simple to remember for us phrase or word combination, for an example: **Correct-house-battery-staple-1**\n\nHence, that example satisfies all requirements for creating a secure password to have upper, lower case letters, special character and number and in the same time noticeably effortless to remember the phrase, today\u2019s computer technology will require **at least 550 years to crack** that password!\n\nSo how is that plausible and why we make our lives too difficult by creating passwords that are implausible to memorize yet extremely simple for the computers to crack, instead to create passwords that are straightforward for us to memorize and truly time challenging for the computers to crack?\n\nIt is rather a simple process of mathematics that stay behind that are known as password entropy. The randomness of the components of the password is defining it difficult to crack, however different characters, numbers and others have different weight in that, as shown in the following table.\n\n[https:\/\/www.pleacher.com\/mp\/mlessons\/algebra\/entropy.html](https:\/\/www.pleacher.com\/mp\/mlessons\/algebra\/entropy.html)\n\n \n\nIn summary, the simple formula calculating password entropy is **E=log2(X)**where **E** is password entropy; **X** is **R** on a power of **L**, where **R** is a pool of characters we employ; **L** a number of characters in the password. **X** the number of plausible passwords, and **log2(X)** the number of bits of entropy.\n\nTo conclude, by just looking at the above ***Table 1***, it is obvious that if we just apply the presently required alphanumerical upper, lower case and special characters for creating a password, that would not compose our password as secure as when comparing it with a Diceware word list or English dictionary words in combination with special characters, upper, lower case and numbers, and if add an additional language for mixing the words in the phrase that would even get our password further secure.","title":"How To Painlessly Remember Your Passwords","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570987340,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhdhhc\/can_we_sue_a_nursing_care_facility_is_this_a\/","id":"dhdhhc","body":"A nursing care facility that my grandmother is in states that they will attempt to let the responsible party of a medical emergency regarding the resident. My grandmother has dementia and she broke her wrist at the facility and none of the nurses were aware and waited for two days until saying the responsible party that something was wrong with her wrist. My mother took her to the doctor and my grandmother broke her wrist and required surgery. Can we sue for negligence against the facility? Is this a breach of contract?","title":"Can we sue a nursing care facility? Is this a breach of contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555695996,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf21no\/orlando_fl_insurance_company_being_defrauded_by\/","id":"bf21no","body":"reddit legal advice\nMy friends mother works in Medicare\/Medicaid. There is a competitor that is essentially defrauding and stealing her customers. Most Medicare\/Medicaid information is public and you can usually see the clients of companies online and even their phone numbers. The defrauder is spoofing her phone number and calling them from her phone number, somehow pretending they are my friends moms company, and trying to get them to pass over information and steal them as a client. We can figure out who they are soon as we can see what \u201ccompany\u201d takes our clients.","title":"Orlando, FL. Insurance company being defrauded by competitor spoofing calls. What can we do?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569360938,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8tuif\/child_support_enforcement_go_through_attorney_or\/","id":"d8tuif","body":"I'm just wondering what the benefit is to choosing to file for child support through either of these options. I called CSE office and she just said it depends on what I'm looking for as to who would be doing the enforcement. I'm new to this - I didn't understand what she meant by that.\n\n\nDoesn't the state have to enforce it regardless? What is the benefit to choosing a lawyer over CSE or vice versa?","title":"Child Support Enforcement - Go through Attorney or State? (USA-Va)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555522536,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beamrz\/my_shitty_ex_wont_comply_with_divorce_decree\/","id":"beamrz","body":"I'm in NY. In my divorce I was awarded half of his two retirement accounts. This was in 2014. The actual wording in that section is \"A QDRO will be done a d the funds will be placed in a separate account for Mrs Acee. \" The divorce decree doesn't state who will do this. To me the account holder would have do this. My ex husband refuses to give me the accounts info so my QDRO guy can do it. I feel like he and his lawyer should have done it years ago. There was no deadline ordered. It's also ordered that he split the income tax he receives for our 3 children because I make less than 20k.\n\n\nWhat can I do? Can I take him back for the 5 years worth he didn't comply with the decree? And my biggest question is he has been accruing interest on my share for the past 5 years. Am I entitled to that interest?\n\nThank you for any advice","title":"My shitty ex wont comply with divorce decree","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447350183,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sk2ht\/ex_is_legally_required_to_make_car_payment_but_is\/","id":"3sk2ht","body":"Left husband two years ago, divorce was finalized a year after that. We had very few assets and divorce was incredibly simple. I got the car and he signed an agreement (drawn up by my lawyer and notarized) to make all the payments. It goes in my name when it's paid off. Both of our names are on the loan. \n\nHe's never made the payment on time and has often fallen incredibly behind, almost to the point of reposession. We are $4,000 underwater on this loan, with a balance of just under $10,000. I've taken over the payments with his promise of paying me \"at least half.\" I'm thinking this was dumb, but what recourse do I have? He has a crappy job and can't be trusted to keep up with this (obviously), and my credit is in the toilet because of it. If I took him to court, what could they do? He literally has no assets. Thanks for any replies, you guys (first Reddit post! I'm such a dang lurker).","title":"Ex is legally required to make car payment but is behind-NC","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554859972,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbg80x\/new_apartment_has_roach_infestation\/","id":"bbg80x","body":"Yesterday my girlfriend and I moved into a new apartment and noticed around 8pm roaches were crawling from behind appliances up the walls. Today we got management to bring out pest control and Terminix stated it would take 4 appointments of bug bombing where we'd need to remain out of the apartment for 3 hours each time. This would be okay if we did not have 2 cats with no where in town to take them. I talked with management and they said they'd need a day to figure out how to handle this. They offered to downgrade us to a studio but that's not acceptable as we just moved out of one and don't want to do it again. They do not have any available 1 bedroom units either. \n\nSo here are my questions. Before I attempt to break the lease and get my $4.5k back, what other options do I have? Do we have legal grounds to have them upgrade us to a 2 bedroom unit at the monthly cost of our current unit? Do they have to provide us with a hotel that can accommodate my 2 kitties while they take care of the issue? What rights do I have in this situation? Let's say they put us up in a hotel and have the pest control come in, are they required to have the unit cleaned after the bugs are killed as well?\n\nI should add, they've verified with our old complex management that we did not have an existing pest issue, making it their fault. They also claimed to have maintenance and cleaners in the unit throughout the previous week to moving.","title":"New Apartment has Roach Infestation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541119005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tf9q7\/upstairs_neighbors_flooded_my_apartment_with\/","id":"9tf9q7","body":"My upstairs neighbors have been flushing wet wipes down the toilet and this caused my apartment to flood twice with sewage.  After the first time, we had to relocate for a week in order for repairs to be made due to the extensive water damage.  On the night that we were supposed to move back in, they flooded it again.  The place is a hazardous dump.  We have everything documented, including the black mold that resulted from the water.  We have spent the last two weeks jumping from one Airbnb to the other.\n\nManagement knows that it is them because the line that they are clogging is only shared by us and them.  They have been spoken to twice by the building manager, and a notice went our to the entire building.  We are at our wits end, we have missed work and school.  We have a dog, so finding emergency Airbnb housing is neither easy nor cheap. \n\nWe sent two letters to management.  After the second one, they responded and called us to work something out.  We demanded that we be moved to a different apartment on another property that they manage since there are no vacancies in our building.  They refuse to do this, and haven't indicated that anything will be done about the neighbors.  The only two options we have been given are to apply for the apartment we want to move to, but our application will be given no priority.  Otherwise, they have offered to allow us to terminate our lease.\n\nWe applied for the other apartment, as well as a different one that is nearby and managed by an unaffiliated company.  We're waiting on the responses.  We haven't even found a place to sleep tonight since the airbnb we stayed at last night was booked for the next few days.","title":"Upstairs neighbors flooded my apartment with sewage...twice. Los Angeles","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570143283,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcyovo\/driving_mistake\/","id":"dcyovo","body":"To start, I live in Lincoln, Nebraska. Today, when picking up my little brother from daycare (we live like a quarter mile away from it, not even a 3 minute drive), he got really upset and wanted to sit in the front passenger seat, since it's a short drive, I figured, why not?\nI put child locks on, made sure the window was closed and all, seatbelt and had a hand holding him the entire 3 minute drive. A parent from the daycare got my license plate and called the police, so I really don't know what is going to happen. I know it wasn't smart, but didn't think it was a huge deal.  The car I drive is currently registered under my sister since I haven't gotten to the DMV to register it under my name, which I've set to do on the 17th when I have no school. What can happen and could my little brother be taken away? What's the actual worst, and best case scenario? And what could I do to make the best case scenario happen?","title":"Driving mistake","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444318235,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nze0c\/former_landlord_is_not_responding_to_calls_texts\/","id":"3nze0c","body":"I recently moved to Indiana, but I was living in Minnesota\u2014 from what I can gather, state law there gives landlords 3 weeks to either give you your security deposit back, or tell you what they're making deductions for.  Keys were turned over on August 30th, it's now October 8th.\n\nWhen my roommate and I contacted our landlord about our security deposit, he said that he wasn't sure if he'd be making deductions, or if so, how many.  He said that the apartment looked great, but that there was some wearing on the wooden floors that he was going to have to decide whether or not he wanted to replace.   \"Ok, fine,\" we said, and asked him to let us know.  \n\nWe asked him more about the security deposit, 5 times in total, and he continues to avoid saying whether or not we'll get it back, or if we do, if he's making any deductions, and for what.  The new tenants moved in on September 1st, so if he's planning on doing floor repairs, he would have to move them out before starting that.  \n\nI totally understand that tenants are responsible for paying for damage to the unit, and if he says the floors are damaged, OK.  But he's gone totally off the grid in terms of communicating with us about our security deposit, has not told us whether or not we'll get it back, and only vaguely implied that there may or may not be some damage that he may or may not be repairing.  \n\nIs he legally entitled to keep stringing us along like this, or is he just hoping we'll give up and leave our $650 with him without asking for specifics on deductions?\n\nThanks all for your help!\n\n\n\n","title":"Former landlord is not responding to calls, texts, or emails regarding our security deposit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568603340,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4ux55\/i_started_an_online_blog_a_couple_months_ago_that\/","id":"d4ux55","body":"We never hurt anyone or killed anyone or anything like that.  However some people that aren\u2019t me may have accrued several hundred thousands of dollars in fraudulent shit from various organizations.  From over 100 different companies. No one company would have gotten ripped off for more than $80,000.  If I create an online meth recovery blog and share some stories of fraudulent activity that occurred a couple of years ago could it be used against me? They wouldn\u2019t be able to prove anything unless they have recorded phone calls or video tapes right?  And even then, would it really be worth their money and time to hire lawyers to try to disprove it?\n\nPart of the appeal and the reason my blog has been successful is that it\u2019s authentic.  I want to keep it that way if I can.  The shit that was done can be linked to local news articles. I would love to link to these articles mostly to grab the attention of fellow addicts that aren\u2019t interested in a half assed bullshit story.  It gives my blog credibility.\n\nI would absolutely love to have the freedom to fill in the blanks on a news article that briefly touches on what may have been done.  What really worries me is that a friend of mine from this time is in jail waiting to go to court and they are trying to throw the book at him.  What if I mixed up some fiction like who actually did what.  Then once they see part of my story isn\u2019t true couldn\u2019t that void an argument for me to be taken seriously at all in the first place?  Couldn\u2019t I say I was just lying to try and attract more views on my site? That I\u2019m just a shallow attention seeker that made it all up?","title":"I started an online blog a couple months ago that now has over 80,000 views in Texas. Can I get in trouble for admitting old possibly fraudulent activity in an online blog?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541448140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uh0pl\/the_cause_of_wrongful_eviction_of_sibling\/","id":"9uh0pl","body":" \n\nRecently Homeless, something completely brand new to myself.  I was detained over a weekend, then released without charges filed in the middle of the week. This led to wanting to crash at a relatives, where my (half) sister rents half a room at our (maternal) Aunt's where I am not welcomed. Thanks for reading in advance and lending your advice into the situation.  \n\n\nKeep in my mind I am hoping to file for a wrongful eviction case in small claims, this is in California.\n\nThe room I was renting I could not go back to or retrieve any of my belongings-without police escort. For a move out & restraining order had been placed upon myself. I had only my phone gym attire and boots when I was placed in handcuffs. Thus when release that is all I had.  \n\n\nAfter being released, I made my way by transit the next morning to the City I live. Completely exhausted, hungry, (food is poison in there) & confused about my entire predicament. I was unsure of what to do in general. Luckily my younger sister (5 years younger) -I am 24- lives in the same city and area that I frequent. With very little in every regard, I asked for a favor to rest at my sister\u2019s residence, the second day being free. The first day was hectic, drinking all day with the local hobos, smoking with some dudes who chill in the same spot. I was almost stabbed and jumped. Not to mention I smoked some weed that was laced with I don't know what (Accidently). \n\nSo when I arrived early that morning to the duplex (second day after released), I was informed that my cousin (female) and Aunt would not be there. Allowing me to get some rest and eat a meal unnoticed. Apparently the cousin's class was canceled, do not know how true this was, (she is the same age as my sister btw) and against better judgment I entered the domicile by permission of my sister. I slept on the floor in the living room for a few hours. Then when they both left (my sister goes to a CC nearby) I ate leftovers and some bread. Luckily nothing was said to my aunt at that point in time. \n\nI had saw my mattress and desk were still in the garage where I had previously took dwelling for 2 years; I moved out April of this year- so the idea was to crash there until the gig was up. I left the back door to the garage unlocked and closed by a makeshift lever. The door easily opens. There is another door for entry via the house, which the laundry room occupies in between, that locks from that side. \n\nThe first night was a success, I hopped the wooden gate around midnight and snuck in through the backyard where there is a corridor that leads to the back door to the garage. The tricky part was waiting until everyone fell asleep; which my sister would give word about. To have the patience while I was dead tired, wanting to crash so bad was very frustrating.\n\nInitially I thought about asking my Aunt to allow myself to sleep there so that I could get back on my feet faster. However I thought against it since I presumed the bridge was burned.\n\nThe following night I thought I'd try sleeping outside to get a real taste in my near future. I could not get comfortable, no surprise there. Then the second attempt to sneak in on a Sunday night was a success. Same process. I was awaken by the noise of the cousin and aunt arguing about her late arrival (broke curfew) & the location where her\" friends\" dropped her off ( at a corner) when she usually arrives at the drive way, within the roundabout complex.\n\nMidnight was the ideal time to sneak in, but on the third attempt I hadn't received word from my sister. I was still delirious with massive sleep debt and low on patience. I suppose I made a mistake, for right when I entered the garage, my aunt opened the door to find me. She asked what was I thinking. She thought the worst at first, was I high or drunk? Interestingly enough. I was very much sober. I gave her my story in short, exhausted; I was about to have a nervous breakdown. I was making motions to leave, until she allowed to sleep there the night. The following morning, she offered to drive myself to a shelter she knows of in the next city over. I decline on the way and asked to be dropped off at a Mcdonalds, nearby. She made the effort to drive to the furthest McDonald's possible. I was still at the time only with my phone on me; with things to do; academic appeals & Hw to catch up on at school before a deadline. I went to a Walmart in the plaza over to buy a backpack and some essentials. Then went to the campus.\n\nApparently my cousin was still awake, interestingly enough since she works and supposedly studies. I don't know why she would be allowed to keep such a late sleeping schedule. Whatever.  \nThis is what my sister has told me, and that my aunt was scared to find out who was in the garage and not know what state they'd be in. Bullshit. I'm sure the cousin knew it was myself, and my aunt likes to be dramatic. So on and so forth. **My sister also told me that the aunt would be out of town during the upcoming weekend for a work conference.** So there was my last opportunity to sleep inside in a bed to catch up on much needed sleep. Also to make a feast with produce gained at a farmer's market that was giving it away. I was willing to wait.  \nNote; I had already exhausted all that I know to find a place to crash but to no avail.\n\nMy little sister received some heat from the aunt, but compared to the actions of her own daughter - sneaking in friends and boys to fuck in my opinion not that big of a deal. I am very grateful to what my sister has done at this point with regards to receiving her disc at the restaurant she works at as well. However in my delirious state I didn't see any other options, for the location of the residence was a convenient one in terms of public transport and distance to all that I frequent.  \n**The plan was to make a copy of my sister's key so I could gain entry into the house ( when nobody was there) while not having to hassle my sister, since she is preoccupied already. With her on board, easy peasy to follow through.**  \n I think all this backstory is essential as it leads up to the question at hand.\n\nI waited until noon Saturday, my sister unknowing the details of the Aunt's trip, I sought to execute the plan she had left already. When I entered the duplex, I had the feeling that the cousin was there in her mother's room, by the music being played. I left promptly and called my sister to return to the house. So in retrospect not leave the cousin in suspicion that I have a key. \n\nAfter a while she wasn't willing to leave her boyfriends while she rested at that point time. In my delirious state, I entered and unpacked. With the intent of taking a shower. I received a call and a text from my sister informing myself that the cousin knew I was there. So what I thought was her mom already gone, I had nothing to worry about. Unfortunately after my sister arrived to lend some school supplies that she no longer needed and that I did, then left, the aunt shows up. I was pissed. At my sister for not knowing the details of the aunt's travels so this could have been better planned. At the cousin for snitching. At the aunt for not being where I thought she was. **Finally at myself for not being smarter about it.**\n\nShe entered, I said hey, She asked why was there & where is her daughter was. Whatever. I said I was just taking a shower, and I don't know where she is. The aunt starts acting indignant about my lack of know where of her daughter. She threatens myself about having enough legal troubles at hand. For she claims that \"I was breaking in\" when I slept in the garage unnoticed. I told her my stuff is there -A mattress and desk- and that since my sister lives there, I am her guest. My sister had left at that point, so the aunt pointed that out. I left shortly thereafter, before I could she asked if I had a key. To which I denied. Wanting to go back after she actually left.\n\nI called my sister, told her what happen, what to say, not to return, and to wait until later that night. When presumably the aunt would leave. Lo and behold when we arrive later that night the l**ocks are changed and everything else locked shut.** I thought about going through the front window which was cracked open. Even in my delirious state, I saw that my sister could sleep at her boyfriends' (who lives with his parents in the same city) and myself found a low key spot to sleep in relative darkness and peace, so thought better of it.\n\nNote; The aunt did tell me sister, after finding myself the first time in the garage that night, that I was not allowed to return or enter. By fictitious reasoning, a made up story of wrongdoing.\n\nI want to make this up to my sister, for all that she has done, at the very least I know this is a wrongful eviction. I am aware that any sort of tenant must receive notice to vacate which includes various court docs, and not just on whim. I even went to the court house in the respecting department, and gave the skinny. The advice was to go to small claims. I just don't know if I have time nor energy to go back. With lining up interviews for jobs, and school work to catch up on. So I need another POV on this matter, something I am not seeing\/thinking of.  \nI told my sister when she returns to the residence to take pictures of her key not working, which is a bit difficult to ascertain that situation. To also take pictures of her belongings in her side of the room. To also take pictures of her mail, and leave it unopened.  \nPlease lend your advice, this is a difficult period of my life, I would like the duress of my sister's wrongful eviction to be compensated for. \n\n*TL;DR I'm recently turned transient, sought refuge at my sister's residence where she rents half a room from our Aunt since the beginning of August. Where I used to leave a couple of years then moved out -where belongings still remain- I snuck in a couple of nights until the aunt found out, as a guest (with permission) of my sisters . The aunt changed the locks after finding myself in the house again, She changed the locks the same day, without a key for my sister. Does my sister have a case for wrongful eviction?*","title":"The Cause of Wrongful Eviction of Sibling","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441732396,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k46vr\/issues_with_rent\/","id":"3k46vr","body":"I'm not sure if this is the correct subreddit for this post but I figured it was worth a shot.  I moved into my first apartment near St. Paul Minnesota a few months ago and everything started out great.  Last month I went to drop off my rent check at the office and since it was closed I put it in their drop box which I have never done before.  20 days later my check still was never processed so I called the office to ask what was going on.  They told me my check never went through so I needed to give them a new check. (I have a feeling they misplaced my check because I keep a close eye on my account and was positive there was more than enough money in my account even 20 days later.  I arrived at the office that day and they told me they would not accept a check (even though they specifically said to bring one in) so I could either bring a money order or cashiers check, then they finally mentioned there was a way to pay online.  That night I paid online and everything was fine.  Our rent is typically due on the 1st but I decided to pay rent early the next month to avoid anymore issues so I paid it on the 26th of last month.  Again I am positive there was more than enough money and I submitted it again online and it said the payment had gone through.  Now today, the 8th, I got an email from the rent office saying that I did not pay them enough money and they would only be able to accept money orders from me from this point on.  Is there anything I can do? I don't want this to look bad on my rental history since this is the first place my name was on the lease.  Every time there has been an issue they don't bring it up for weeks after the issue.  That seems unfair and I would obviously prefer to fix the issue immediately instead of having to pay late fees on top of rent and owing my next months so close to it.\n\nedit: added location","title":"issues with rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569135342,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7n053\/the_stairs_leading_to_our_condo_that_we_rent_are\/","id":"d7n053","body":"We have been living in this condo for 3 years. We enjoy the location and understand we pay a low cost of rent so we aren\u2019t expecting the place to be perfect but the foundation is showing obvious signs of destabilization (new cracks in the ceiling and walls, doors won\u2019t shut). The worst of it is the landing on the second story that leads the stairs. There are major cracks, cement cracking off? water damage, and rusting. \n\nIt is two condos to a set of stairs and the owner owns both condos. We demonstrated concern with the cracks on the stairs when we moved in and she mentioned the association was planning to fix the stairs.\n\n No work has been done until a few months ago after my boyfriend fell through a stair. He caught himself enough to not break anything but the response from the associations \u201cemergency hotline\u201d was hysterical. They told us to \u201chop over it\u201d and acted like it was no big deal. They finally came 1 month later and screwed in that stair and a few other ones, and painted over cracks. \n\nToday we were sitting outside and heard a huge crack so we ran inside. Among inspection the main crack had grown and new cracks emerged on the landing. The owner called the \u201cemergency hotline\u201d and left a message. We don\u2019t know when we will hear back from them. We left a note for our neighbor who wasn\u2019t home. \n\nI want to know our options as our safety is more compromised now (than the last time we dealt with stair issues). I don\u2019t expect to hear from the association anytime soon (just speculating from experience) and I want to make sure they actually fix the problem.","title":"The stairs leading to our condo that we rent are breaking. The landing in front of our door loudly cracked while sitting outside. My husband has already fallen through a stair.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554141370,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b860xg\/if_charges_were_dropped_is_it_on_the_record\/","id":"b860xg","body":"First-time poster, on mobile, I apologize for any formatting issues.\n\nI filed an assault complaint (in the US) but dropped it at the hearing (the was to decide if charges would be filed), with the understanding that if this person did anything to me in the future, the charges for this assault would be automatically filed as well. Basically giving a second chance\/get out of jail free card because it was what was best for my stepdaughter at the time and I did not want to deal with a year-long trial - my main goal was to not have to interact with this person again and to remain safe, which this allowed me to do.\n\nI also filed a police report. I am wondering, since charges were not officially filed, and he was not arrested, will there be a record of this incident? I did file paperwork at the court for the hearing, stating what happened, and I did file a police report.","title":"If charges were dropped, is it on the record?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569641609,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daax7x\/accidentally_ran_a_red_light_wants_to_plea_guilty\/","id":"daax7x","body":"So I (17 M) got pulled over for accidentally running a red light. Cop understood my situation but still wrote me a citation (failure to observe signal), and I am more than willing to pay it. However, on my ticket, he checked \u201ccourt appearance required\u201d and gave me a date. I just want to plea guilty and pay the ticket, is there any way to just pay the ticket and not go to court?","title":"Accidentally ran a red light, wants to plea guilty but court date required (NJ)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1410370215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g0tzs\/usa_new_jersey_loaned_money_to_and_had_an\/","id":"2g0tzs","body":"As the title says, we split after 2 years but I had loaned her $500 for a College tuition and she spendt around $1500 on a credit card, that i opened, that she was an authorized user on. I never got any of the money back, since we called it quits and at the time, didn't want to see or speak to her. This was about 5 years ago. \n\nWould this be considered for in Small Claims? I might be able to get into contact with her before pursuing legal action, but this is just in case. Thanks.","title":"[USA New Jersey] Loaned money to and had an Ex-Girlfriend as an authorized user on a store Credit Card. She never paid me back.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570510691,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deve0d\/got_screwed_over_by_a_dermatologist_need_help\/","id":"deve0d","body":"Hello, I am stuck in a situation where I believe I've gotten screwed over by a dermatologist in Portland, OR - USA.\n\nI visited a dermatologist in Portland, OR for a very minor skin condition I had about three months ago. I have looked up this dermatologist's office on my insurance's own website. On top of that on two counts (both on phone with the dermatologist and in their office) I double made sure that all services are covered 100%.\n\nThey assured me verbally all services are covered and at the time I never got charged for anything.\n\nThree months later, I receive a bill from their office just a bit shy of $500 and their reasoning on the bill for charges is \"Contractual Adjustments from Blue Cross\". Blue Cross is my former insurance.\n\nI have two questions:\n\n1. Is this legal? They just had contractual changes, why should I pay for it? That sounds like a \"them\" problem. And do I have any legal grounds to fight this or I am basically screwed over?\n2. What happens if I just don't pay? Are there any repercussions to not paying a bill like this? (e.g. credit damage)\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"Got screwed over by a dermatologist, need help","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446645284,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rhqeo\/ca_how_will_a_hospital_collect_on_my_parents_bill\/","id":"3rhqeo","body":"Mom passed away a few months ago.  She has an outstanding bill for an old hospital stay of around a thousand bucks.  I had my phone number down on her hospital intake form as her home number, but that is the extent of it; I'm not down as responsible for the bill and none of the letters or messages have mentioned me.  I do receive collection calls on my home answering machine which I have not answered.\n\nI am aware they can go after \"the estate.\"  But, what does that actually mean?\n\nI'm still ironing out the issues arising from her passing, I have to keep her \"estate\" funds fluid while I try to handle everything else, and on my list of to-do's, this bill is not high on my priority list.  How, exactly, does a hospital collect from a deceased person's \"estate?\"  \n\nIf they ding her credit, my first reaction is \"who cares?\"  But I am wondering what I am not seeing here.  \n\nThank you in advance for advice and perspective.  I'd love not to have to pay this bill at all... without going into too much detail, there's a disabled family member she leaves behind who is going to need every penny to keep going forward in life, and I'm trying to protect his assets.  Credit card companies have forgiven her debt entirely, but I called them myself.  I have not responded to calls about this.\n\nAgain, thank you for any advice.  I am the executor of the estate, but I am also managing a special needs trust into which a great deal of this \"estate\" will eventually be placed.\n\nEdit:  Mom's \"estate\" was in a trust.  Apologies if I'm conflating terms that don't mix, this is truly out of my realm of understanding.\n\n\n","title":"(CA) How will a hospital collect on my parent's bill after her death?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571255390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diuop1\/rough_childhood\/","id":"diuop1","body":"Sorry for the long post I don't know if all the information I'm providing is necessary but just in case I put it here.I need help. I'll explain my situation. I've never known my real dad he was deported before I was born. I was raised by my mom and step dad. My mom and step dad got a divorce I stayed with my step dad. He was the only financialy stable of the two. I graduated this may and turned 18 July 31st. My step dad has made it clear that he has no qualms about kicking me out over minor things. Today I forgot to start the washer he threatened to kick me out I don't even give attitude to him. He has anger issues so that plays into it. I have a job that pays minimum wage and isn't full time. I help out around the house I do chores and buy groceries. I do not have a driver's licence because he was didn't want me to and at the age I was I had no job to get the money myself. I live in Utah and the state requirements for a driver's licence if you're over 17 and younger than 19 is all I have to do is take driver's ed and get 12 hours in car Instruction with a licensed instructor. There's just one problem I live in a very rural community. There's no way I can take driver's ed my highschool said since I graduated I'm not allowed to take it there and if I took it online I still wouldn't get my 12 hours in car Instruction. The nearest dmv is 30 miles away and there's not a driver's ed car there. My step dad is about to kick me out and I have no where to go. There not even a homeless shelter within 60 miles of me. All my friends have moved away my relatives won't help me cause my dad told them not to. My mom told me if I got kicked out I can't live with her. I have a girlfriend but her family had to file for bankruptcy and can't afford to help me. I'm scared I have no vehicle I make minimum wage at a job that's not full time no other jobs here that pay more than that and no vehicle to go to the nearest city to work I'm about to be homeless. I suffer from undiagnosed seizure like symptoms. (I space out completely and colors explode in front of my eyes and when I come back to I have a migraine)  with no way to help treat them because when I was younger my step dad wouldn't take us to the clinic he just told us to drink more water. My brother fell off his bike and broke his color bone one time and the only reason my dad took him was because my mom threatened to divorce him if he didn't. \nThis sucks a lot. I don't know what to do if anyone could offer any legal or normal advice it would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the long post.\n\nTL:TR I'm about to be kicked out by my step dad and need to know my legal options","title":"Rough childhood","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553616639,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5rlvo\/the_company_i_work_for_is_taking_advantage_of\/","id":"b5rlvo","body":"I live in the UK and I am employed as apprentice. Within the contract it states all information about my salary and salary increases. The salary is supposed to increase periodically as long as targets which have been set by my manager have been met by myself. \n\nBefore my first salary increase I met more than one target meaning that the second increase target has already been met and should be processed. The same goes for all the other increases as I met all those targets. All targets have now been met. BUT!!! None of these salary increases were processed, I met all targets, waited until the salary increases (notice plural, as they missed more than one) were supposed to happen according to my contract but the salary increases had still not be put through. After months of going back and fourth between myself and my manager, my manager said the pay would be backdated and my salary should increase. Several months later!!! after my manager\u2019s statement. My pay finally increased to what it should be and I also received SOME of my backdated pay. I made this clear to my manager, not all the money was paid and he then took it to HR. After going back and fourth between myself, manager and HR for months. HR said the \u2018big bosses\u2019 have not authorised the other backdated pay and I will not be receiving it. They have not provided any solid reasons as to why this cannot be done and my manager states he is also confused as it is in my contract. \n\nI\u2019m stuck as I don\u2019t know what to do next.\n\nIf you\u2019d like to know anything more, please do ask!\n\nAny help would be appreciated. ","title":"The company I work for is taking advantage of apprentices","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1542155058,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wuucv\/clinic_operating_with_no_running_water\/","id":"9wuucv","body":"Minnesota\n\nThere's a section of a business disctrict in my town that's had a broken water main since Saturday. One of the places that has been and still is without water is a clinic. Providers (doctors) are still working without any running water in their building. Toilets don't work either so employees have to leave the facility and go up the block to use someone else's toilets. Is that legal?? ","title":"Clinic operating with no running water","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551036455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aubhff\/if_my_roommate_has_a_snake_and_the_landlord_finds\/","id":"aubhff","body":"In NC, USA. Both my roommate and I are on the lease. In the lease it says that there are certain prohibited pets and snakes are one of them.  It also has a limit on pets at 2, but she also brought a third cat. If the landlord finds out about these pets, would I also get evicted? I'm just not sure how vigilant I should be about hiding pets when we have maintenance or anything like that. ","title":"If my roommate has a snake and the landlord finds out, would I get evicted too?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569199243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7z4pi\/can_my_boyfriend_turn_in_paperwork_for_me\/","id":"d7z4pi","body":"I am trying to file a restraining order against my father. I am in California and I have all the paperwork and I can fill it out but I was wondering if I fill out everything can my boyfriend turn it in? I work from 8-5 and I can't make it to turn it in. I can take off and show up to a court hearing and such, bat can my boyfriend give the papers to the clerk? If not, what are my options? I can provide more information if needed.","title":"Can my boyfriend turn in paperwork for me?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554948987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbuopp\/first_time_getting_arrested_in_nj_and_ever_should\/","id":"bbuopp","body":"Before I start, I want to let you know that this was my first time ever getting arrested. While it was definitely an experience of its own (which I admit was something I\u2019ve always wanted to have), I plan on becoming a public school teacher and I can\u2019t afford to have this get on my record.\n\nI got two disorderly persons offenses for the possession and smoking of marijuana. I also received an indictable charge for the possession of 4.5 pills of unprescribed Adderalls. I didn\u2019t even realize I HAD the pills though because I thought I had lost them weeks ago. \n\nBecause I am a college student, this means money is a problem, but I am willing to do absolutely anything to get this off my record. My passion is to teach and I really don\u2019t want to have this hinder my potential as a future teacher, and hopefully even as a professor.\n\nSo...should I hire a CDA?\n\nThank you in advance!","title":"First time getting arrested in NJ (and ever) Should I get a Criminal Defense Attorney?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506464234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72nxd3\/lack_of_rights_in_my_fathers_estate_which_has\/","id":"72nxd3","body":"My father passed away unexpectedly back in late 2012. He lived in AL (I live in CO) and unfortunately he did not have a will and there were no family members living in the same state. As such, a county attorney took over as executor of his estate. \n\nSince then, I have received little, to no information about what is going on with the estate. This is only a small subset of the things that I have been through since they opened the estate. I immediately asked the attorney to not sell anything in my father's house because I wanted to go through it. About a week after that, I received a phone call saying that they had \"accidentally\" sold everything. Literally everything was gone, including family pictures. The only things they kept were his cars, which they placed with a random person. When I tried to pick up the cars from him, he told me that I owed him storage fees which rose every time that I spoke to him. After picking up the vehicles and paying the storage fees, he called me again and tried to tell me that I owed him more money. Whenever I have wanted information about the estate, I had to call the law office and leave a message everyday for about a month before I would receive a return call or email. \n\nI just sent them an email a month ago asking for an update because it had quite literally been one year and one month since I had gotten an update from them. Last year, I signed a letter of consent basically saying that they could start closing the estate. In that email from a year ago, I was told that they needed to sell the last vehicle that I didn't want and then would close the estate after that. The reply I just got from the attorney said they still haven't closed the estate and that the \"accounting has not changed\" since I signed the consent form and that \"they hope to have the executed Order soon.\"\n\nIt has been nearly 5 years since my father died and I am still dealing with this. I have three cars just sitting, because I cannot title them because the estate won't release the titles to me. I have lost an entire household of my father's possessions including family memorabilia that I cannot replace. I just want this process to end. Do I have any rights in all this or is there anything that I can do to get them to close the estate faster or am I just stuck dealing with it?","title":"Lack of rights in my father's estate which has been open for 5 years","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555428001,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdv5hc\/south_dakota_sil_wants_us_to_take_custody_of_her\/","id":"bdv5hc","body":"As the title says. My sister in law in South Dakota is going to be entering a treatment facility for approximately 30 days. She has requested that we take custody of her 1.5 y\/o daughter for the duration. \n\nMy wife and I live in Michigan and would be taking care of the child in Michigan. I understand that we would be held fiscally responsible for any medical care that the child requires, and would be required to make decisions in the best interest of the child. \n\nMy google-fu tells me that all we should need is a power of attorney drafted with an attorney verifying that my SIL is signing it of her own free will and sound mind. \n\nThe attorney I was referred to said in consultation that we would have to pay a $3k retainer and petition the court to have us take temporary custody. I simply can\u2019t afford that much, but I also want all my legal ducks in a row if we\u2019re taking care of this child in my home. \n\nIs the attorney I spoke with correct? Do I have any other options? Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.","title":"[South Dakota] SIL wants us to take custody of her daughter temporarily","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570916080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh19vu\/contractor_employer_deducting_processing_fee_from\/","id":"dh19vu","body":"I live in Virginia and was offered a job through a recruiter back in May. Took the job, fulfilled the contract, and got offered a permanent position by the company I was recruited for; which I took and started officially with them in September.  \nWhen I received my last paycheck from the recruiter, I did the math and found out I was underpaid $160 across the span of my employment.   \nThis comes after dealing with some very dodgy payroll practices and odd payments. Like the whole time I worked for them it was hard to figure out if I'd been paid enough. They would do things like overpay you and then send you a message that the extra hours would be taken out of your next paycheck, not to mention they paid through a money transfer with no payroll record or breakdowns of how they converted hours into payments.  \nIt was just hard to be sure of the math for me, so I waited til I was all done and just compared total hours I worked on timesheets vs total payments I received from the recruiter.\n\nSo I have been messaging the company for weeks, trying to be very patient and polite. I framed it as noticing a discrepancy and asking them to compare my records with their records and help me find what's wrong.\n\nFinally today I got the President of the recruiter company to acknowledge I had been underpaid and he send me the following:  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n\"We have checked as I mentioned in the first call with you we do charge some processing fees for every paycycle.. I will check if after those processing fee why we missed...it looks like one day we missed but I will double check and process it by next week..  \nAtleast you recognized that you got a job at \\[company\\]..Infact I personally talked to them and agreed to get you without having any referral fee..Typically we charge 10% fee and we had to forgo that fee as well for you..  \nAnyways I will check and let you process the remaining amount\u00a0\n\n(follow up email) 2:35 PM (2 hours ago)to me\n\nFrom the calculation we have charged\u00a0 $30 all together the processing fee...We will process the remaining $125 on Monday..  \n\\*\\*\\*  \nThe first call he's referring to is when I hounded them after the first paycheck was $5 short and I wanted to know why. At that time he was VERY apologetic and said it would be taken off. It never was.\n\nTL:DR  \nSo, my question, is it legal to charge a contractor for your payroll processes or other deductions without permission?  \nFrom my cursory research, I'm understanding it is legal for employers to deduct for things that benefit them as long as it doesn't bring the employees pay below minimum wage. Which would suck.  \nI'm glad to get some of what I'm owed, but I'd like to have the law on my side before I come back at him with the fact this fee was never mentioned anywhere in the contract I signed with them.  \nThanks for reading! Any info is welcome!","title":"Contractor - Employer deducting \"processing fee\" from paychecks","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504200476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x8b9v\/i_didnt_know_i_was_doing_anything_wrong_and_now_i\/","id":"6x8b9v","body":"hi, my name is bruno i am 21 from ann arbor michigan, I was driving home from meeting my dad at dinner because he is leaving town and on the way home there was a police car and a tow truck, the police car was blocking one of the two lanes i could use to go home, so i drove on the right of the police car with plenty of room, no cones or lights or anything in that lane and he gave me a ticket for a misdemeanor, i have never gotten a ticket before, he said you can't drive around a roadblock because it's dangerous to the tow truck worker and i didn't know it was blocked off and i didn't mean to cause any trouble, i was not drinking or smoking or anything i don't do that i just thought the lane was open. also i emailed the court and they said to call, when i called the court i gave them the ticket number and they said i have to be in the court on september 21st but on the ticket it says within 10 days.\n\nam i going to be in more trouble if i don't go in 10 days even though they said to go on september 21st? i don't want to be in anymore trouble","title":"I didn't know i was doing anything wrong and now i have my first ticket i don't know what to do","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540841664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sgewh\/husband_needs_to_get_his_license_reinstated\/","id":"9sgewh","body":"Context: My husband was pulled over for a missing headlight a few weeks ago. When the officer ran his license, he found out that my husband\u2019s license is suspended. Thankfully the police officer was very understanding and only wrote my husband a ticket, but now we\u2019re trying to go through the process of having it reinstated. \n\nSo today I called to find out why his license is suspended, and it turns out it\u2019s because of missed traffic ticket court date. The court date for the ticket occurred on Oct 16th of 2015, which explains why we didn\u2019t make it. My husbands father died of cancer on the 12th of Oct 2015, and I gave birth to our daughter two days later on the 14th. \n\nToday the clerk on the phone informed me that the ticket is a \u201ccourt-required ticket\u201d, so I asked her if there was any way around that since we no longer live in the state in which the ticket was obtained. Her response was basically this: My husband needs to \u2018write a letter to the judge\u2019 and ask him if he can \u2018set the fine\u2019 and \u2018recall the bench warrant\u2019 so he can pay the fine and get his license reinstated. \n\nI\u2019ve never done anything like this, so I have some questions. Which judge do I write this letter do? Will any of the judges in the \u2018city court\u2019 work? Does the letter need to be notarized? Do I need to use any special\/specific kind of stamping or letterhead? What kind of information do I need to include in this letter so that it is considered official and handled as such? Should I include my child\u2019s birth records and my father-in-laws death records so that the judge can see why we weren\u2019t able to make it to court? \n\nThank you in advance for any assistance! I\u2019m happy to offer any extra info that\u2019s needed so you can better assist me. ","title":"Husband needs to get his license reinstated, court\u2019s instructions confusing and unclear","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443495668,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3msc4o\/maare_all_of_these_facebook_privacy_post_actually\/","id":"3msc4o","body":"Do these post protect you against facebook using your photos? \n\nThis is one of the post: \n\n    As of September 27th , 2015 at 2:24pm Pacific standard time, I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and\/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement atleast once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. You MUST copy and paste\n\nThank you for any help you can provide. \n\nEDIT: Thank you everyone for the responses. This is what I thought, but someone I was talking said these post made a difference. Thank you again. ","title":"[MA]Are all of these facebook privacy post actually doing anything?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555359384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdkvw5\/what_if_i_know_that_my_divorce_is_fraudulent_yet\/","id":"bdkvw5","body":"I found out through a free legal consultation that my divorce was based on fraud. YET, because of the fraud I am unable to afford to ammendment the divorce. No one is willing to work with me on this situation and the more time that passes the harder it becomes. It has effected our children, my family and myself in major ways.\nMinnesota divorce, both still reside in MN.","title":"What if I know that my divorce is fraudulent, yet the fraud is keeping me from being able to afford to ammendment the divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569891956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dblkua\/my_sos_brother_has_requested_me_as_a_character\/","id":"dblkua","body":"Ive been with my SO for 2 years and her brother is in a custody battle with his ex, and has forced me to become a character witness in court, however, I don\u2019t really know anything about him, nor do I wish to be involved in the case at all as all I even know about him is how terrible of a person he is. Is there anything I can do at all about it? If I have to show up no matter what can I just decline to speak for him?","title":"My SOs brother has requested me as a character witness but I don\u2019t really know him","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554333657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b958ru\/progressive_is_blatantly_screwing_me_over\/","id":"b958ru","body":"Essentially, my wife was read-ended by someone a street over. It had snowed the day prior, and the police had issued a \"walk-in\" status for our town. The accident happened right down the street from our house, which coincidentally was maybe 50 yards from the owner of the other car's house... My wife let him pull into his driveway so he could let his 3 kids inside of their house.\n\nHe claimed to not be able to find his insurance card at that time. This is where we were incredibly naive, I get it. So, we got his phone number, had him text us, took pictures of the damage, his house, and his license plate. I texted him twice that night with no reply. He eventually got back to me apologizing for being busy and that he would get me his insurance. After a couple days of jerking me around, he forwarded me to his girlfriend, who we found out later is the policy owner. She demanded we get an estimate so they could handle it in person. We weren't comfortable with that, so after a couple days of no cooperation, we filed a police report. The police eventually had to go to their place and get their insurance information for us.\n\n​\n\nFast forward to Progressive. We filed a claim with them with the help of my State Farm agent. We gave them the case number and the texts between myself, the owner of the car, and his girlfriend. The text show them saying they'd get us their insurance info and asking for an estimate. Not to mention the police report documenting them giving the police their insurance for us. I would think this would be enough for admission of guilt... Now, here we are 30 days later and they have denied the claim on the basis that the \"policy holder is not cooperating.\" Essentially, the owner of the other car isn't returning their calls, so we're at fault by default... They've confirmed the phone numbers on both of the texts I sent match what they have on record for both of them.\n\nWhat exactly are our options here? I'd like to avoid bringing the other car owner to small claims court if I can avoid it.\n\nI appreciate any help. Thank you.","title":"Progressive is blatantly screwing me over","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447009963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s1bbu\/need_advice_for_friend_in_abusive_relationship\/","id":"3s1bbu","body":"My friend (who lives in Massachusetts) has told me that she is being physically abused by her partner (they are not married).  She also recently had a child with him.  I'm trying to convince her to talk to the police about the situation, but she is worried that she has insufficient evidence of the abuse and that he will distort the events in court.  I don't have her current address to call them myself and don't wish to betray her trust by doing so.  She has a few pictures of bruises he's given her, but he claims that they were self-inflicted.  She has some history of mental illness and self-harm.  She also is worried about being charged for hitting back in self defense.  I'm located a significant distance away, making it rather difficult to help, but she doesn't feel comfortable talking to anyone else about it.  I want to help her get out of the situation as soon as possible while allowing her full custody.  I'd prefer him to be in jail, but I'm mostly concerned about the safety of her and her child.  What would be the best course of action in this situation?","title":"Need advice for friend in abusive relationship","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507595653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75dgrf\/ny_lawyer_never_did_work_promised_last_year_i\/","id":"75dgrf","body":"1. I paid a lawyer to do work they never completed. We agreed that payment would be through a popular bitcoin site.\n1. I sent 2 bitcoin at the time worth $1000\n1. tl;dr Lawyer never did the work after multiple follow-ups.\n1. I asked for a refund this year.\n1. They said they forgot about me and will issue a refund of $1000.\n3. The 2 bitcoin is now worth $5000.\n\nShould I just accept the refund, or am I owed the original 2 bitcoin?\n\n*Obligatory changing details and using throwaway*\n\n\\* Edit, I appreciate everyone's comments. Sounds like I should accept the $ and get over the fact the lawyer sucks and bitcoin went up.\n","title":"[NY] Lawyer never did work promised last year, I paid in bitcoin and am asking for a refund","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568739147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5jq4c\/i_cant_find_a_concrete_answer_if_my_ca_cvc_22526a\/","id":"d5jq4c","body":"After spending 30 minutes trying to google it,  I keep getting conflicting answers and I\u2019m more worried than ever.\n\nIf it doesn\u2019t, I\u2019d just pay the fine and be done with it. If it does, my insurance goes through the roof. This is my first traffic ticket in the 3 years I\u2019ve been driving, so I don\u2019t know how to deal with it since there are so many scummy websites that will \u201cdeal with it for you\u201d","title":"I can\u2019t find a concrete answer if my ca cvc 22526a ticket will give me a point on my driver\u2019s listener","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570169533,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd3f0e\/neighbors_cigarette_smoke_seeps_into_my_shared\/","id":"dd3f0e","body":"I\u2019m the owner of the end unit on a 5 unit row of townhomes. I have a common wall with my immediate neighbors. The owners smoke in their garage with the garage door often closed and the smoke enters my house through drafty areas in the walls (1st and 2nd floors).\n\nI have not had conversation with my neighbors about it as I figured it might boil into something else. So, I asked the HOA if it violated any laws. They said \u201cNo\u201d, but they offered to speak to them anonymously. Afterward, they informed me that they got a \u201cnasty\u201d response, and that was the extent of the HOA intervention.\n\nPosting the builder\u2019s name and build date might violate the post rules, but I\u2019ll gladly provide if it helps me. \n\nI\u2019ve spent a few hundred dollars on materials trying to mitigate the smoke intrusion with very little improvement (sealed wall outlets, light fixtures, foam sealed areas under the staircase, etc). The smoke doesn\u2019t intrude the entryway doors or windows at all as long as they are closed. It\u2019s been strictly through the shared walls.\n\nI\u2019m concerned that the smoke is damaging my home not to mention my health.\n\nCan I do anything legally to prevent any damage to my home? \n\nTLDR: Their cigarette smoke seeps through drafty walls in my house. HOA and builder won\u2019t make it right. I\u2019ve spent a lot of money trying to mitigate it. Why can\u2019t they just vape? I live in an ashtray, this sucks.","title":"Neighbors cigarette smoke seeps into my shared townhome walls. HOA asked them to stop. Builder of townhome tells me it\u2019s my problem. (Oregon)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541084359,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ta5rm\/tn_woman_and_state_want_child_support_backpay_for\/","id":"9ta5rm","body":"Throwaway for obvious reasons. the main problem is that the woman gave birth in 1996.. I was born in 1998.. so unless I have time traveling sperm (hence my name) that\u2019s impossible. I went to my local court clerk and the woman said it\u2019s best to just pay despite me being literally non existent when it happened. I\u2019m obviously not paying. I showed her my student ID and everything. Although my bet is she didn\u2019t give a shit. \n\nI\u2019m in college so what\u2019s my best bet? Contact a lawyer? Is there any organization out there? She told me she found me through Facebook and wants \u201cher\u201d child support back. She has sent legitimate documents and I have called the people representing her and it is legit. ","title":"[TN] Woman and state want child support backpay for \u201cdonated sperm donation\u201d. There\u2019s one big problem","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503009482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6udn0y\/resigning_from_company_and_owed_some_sales\/","id":"6udn0y","body":"I am resigning from my job and want to know if I have any right to earned sales commissions. Leaving for a higher salary and decent signing bonus.\n\nThe company normally pays out commission at the end of the quarter. I sold a large contract in Q1 that has a client opt out clause, so instead of paying me the lump sum, they decided to pay me in installments. So I got credit up front of a ~$80k commission but am being paid 8 quarterly installments over the contract period. I still have ~$60k that I would earn should I stay and obviously want that money if I'm legally entitled to it. \n\nThe compensation plan docs do have a \"separation of service\" clause that states participants must be employed by the company on the date the commission is paid to receive any payout. Seems clear enough, but this document was never signed by the sales reps and since the money I'm owed is installments from a previously earned commission, I'm wondering if there is any legal ground to continue receiving these payments. \n\nColorado, USA \n\nThanks! And sorry if the flair should be under another topic. ","title":"Resigning from company and owed some sales commissions (Colorado)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554433760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9m3o7\/oklahoma_insurance_coverage\/","id":"b9m3o7","body":"I was ordered to pay half of the insurance premiums on our two kids that my ex pays. I am about to get coverage on my new family and kids which will allow me to put my kids on my insurance at no cost to me (additional to put them on with the other kids). I do not want to open this case up again. (Daughter will be 18 in January). Can I just go to the judge and request the garnishment be ended? I do not want any money from the ex for my insurance provided. Just don\u2019t want to keep paying her for it. (I\u2019m 90% sure she\u2019s not paying it anymore anyway, her husband gets free medical coverage according to my daughter due to his disability) \n\nI\u2019m just looking to end the garnishment of my wages for the insurance when I will be providing the insurance now at no cost to the ex.","title":"[Oklahoma] Insurance coverage","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447049143,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s3pcl\/being_sued_for_breach_of_contract_california\/","id":"3s3pcl","body":"I had surgery in Jan 2013 and Nov 2013 and got served papers last week by the surgical facility. They're suing for ~$60k for breach of contract because they're saying they didn't receive full payment. The insurance company sent the check to my mom as I'm still on her insurance, and she sent it to them which they are denying. We have a good amount of evidence in my favor, but isn't the fact that they're saying the breach was me never sending the check, when a check was never sent to me personally enough for them to lose? I haven't spoken with a lawyer yet, any advice for that or the whole process overall is welcome; I'm totally lost on all of this.","title":"Being sued for breach of contract (California)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1409938797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fkfoe\/probate_court_seeking_letters_of_administration\/","id":"2fkfoe","body":"I am located in California, and this case is assigned to LA superior court. I have a court date coming up on the 9th. I had some problems clearing the notes for the case. I hired someone to complete the paperwork and it looks like the notes are cleared. If there is anyone familiar with the probate process I want to know if youcould tell me what to expect at this next court date. \nBelow is a link to the case summary and a link to the case notes\nhttp:\/\/www.lasuperiorcourt.org\/ProbateNotes\/\nhttp:\/\/www.lasuperiorcourt.org\/civilcasesummarynet\/ui\/casesummary.aspx?","title":"Probate court: seeking letters of administration for deceased father's estate.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1503957735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wmse3\/landlord_charging_for_burglary_damage\/","id":"6wmse3","body":"Sorry in advance for the mobile formatting. \n\n\nI live in Texas. \n\n\nA few weeks ago, I interrupted a burglary in my apartment. They were running out the back door as I was walking in the front. The back door was kicked in, and they got me for around $3500 worth of property. There was a lot more they could have stolen, and now they knew exactly what we had in our house. \n\nWe found another apartment, we're getting the old one subleased. We moved everything of value and as much of everything else as we could before hurricane Harvey landed. \n\nWe went back yesterday to get the rest, and we found that the window to my bedroom had been broken. They took some bottles of shitty liquor I'd had for years, but that's about it. \n\n\nNow our landlord is telling us that we're liable for the door and window. The repairs were already completed by their own private contractors. My girlfriend just went in to tell them what a bunch of horse shit that is. The lady at the desk said there was nothing she could do. Gf asked to speak to someone higher up. \n\nThis asshat also said there was nothing he could do. She told him that the door was a piece of shit, the frame was rotted, and anyone could have kicked through it. He regaled her with a story about someone kicking through a steel door in a steel doorframe. He said since the frame was rotted, that he would split the repair bill with us. \n\nShe said we can't afford that, and he said we could just pay $10\/week until it's paid off. Does this smell like some bullshit to anyone else? There's no official invoice. They have insurance for these types of situations. \n\nSorry for the language. To say this entire situation has me heated would be a gross understatement. Any help would be appreciated.  ","title":"Landlord charging for burglary damage.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554743410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bawdhd\/juuling_n_the_school_bathroom\/","id":"bawdhd","body":"I'm not sure how to start this out, but here goes. I am a sophomore in a public high school in Illinois. My school has been doing rather... Underhanded things when it comes to punishment. My school has a low minority rating (about 5%), so most of the scapegoating is towards boys. \n\nRecently, there have been two occurrences, and I will go over them respectfully and as unbiased as possible. The first one was over a boy being suspected of Juuling, which resulted in him being searched and his locker, too, and the other is about the principal guarding the bathroom at lunch. \n\nThe Juuling accusation was false, with no evidence or anything. Just one kid accusing the other. The principal and vice principal went to get the kid from his current class period and asked him what he had on him, and the kid obviously had nothing. However, they did search him, asking him to take off his shoes and empty all his pockets. It was only the boy and the principal (male) in there at the time, and no phone calls had been made to his parents. \n\nSeveral weeks later, the boys bathroom was trashed. The toilet paper dispenser was broken open, as long as other damages that the admins claimed were over $1,500. Due to this, the principal has been guarding the boys bathroom doors during lunch, and only allowing two kids in at a time. Granted, my school is very small, maybe about 300 students in the High School.\n\nThere haven't really been any limitations on girls, whether they do things against the rules or not. Despite being a girl myself, I find it very unjust. I just wish there was something I could do for the guys here. The school has yet to be sued to date. I don't know what I should do, which I guess is why I'm here. \n\nThanks for the help in advance, and I really do hope you can help! I'll try my hardest to get something to happen.","title":"Juuling n the School Bathroom","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554848451,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbe8pq\/hitnrun_caught_on_cambut_damages_are_less_than_my\/","id":"bbe8pq","body":"Queens, New York City\n\nI come to my car parked on the street and find a big side swipe on my left bumper. I look up my dashcam and some old guy got in his car and hit me upon exit (we're parallel parked). My dashcam got footage and made out all but one letter on his license plate.\n\nNow I left the scene because I had a work meeting, but with footage and pictures I could probably report it later in the day right? My auto guy takes a look, and the repairs will be less than my deductible ($2500) so my insurance, Geico, won't help. He says if I find the policy on the other guy, I can file with them directly myself and hope they play ball.\n\nPolice come after and state that they can't provide the insurance of the car that hit me even with all the evidence (I'd have to file\/mail the report myself and MAYBE they'll give it). They say I should not file a claim because the repairs are minimal.\n\nHow do I file against this guy if I can't find his insurance company? Also my dashcam video records 30 minutes of footage into 1 minute. The footage shows a noticable half-second shake in the view at the moment the car swipes mine...but is that enough? Traces of his light-blue paints have streaks against my car's dark blue paint if that helps.","title":"Hit-n-Run caught on cam...but damages are less than my $2500 deductible","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539376674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nnvec\/illinois_custody_issue_what_can_i_dowhere_can_i\/","id":"9nnvec","body":"I'm having a hard time finding advice about this online so I decided to ask with a semi-anon account here on Reddit. CW for discussion of rape.\n\nBasically, I'm a father trying to get legal custody of my 4 year old son from his mother who is generally unstable and creating a toxic environment for him. I can provide more details if necessary but my main question is this: I was sexually assaulted by his mother. I was underage and she had tried to proposition me for sex several times and I had turned her down every time. Eventually, she plied me with alcohol and had sex with me even though I tried to resist. I struggled to be taken seriously by anyone I tried to report the assault to and I'm struggling to get accurate representation for my case even now because nobody took my claim seriously. It's been extremely traumatizing to me to have to go over this, justify it, and be laughed at for five years, but anyway.\n\nI have limited resources financially so I can't hire the best lawyer or anything like that, but I'm trying to find an organization or something that can represent me. My understanding of the law in my state is that a rape victim can deny visits to the rapist, but it seems to only apply to women and I don't want to try for a defense that isn't going to be taken seriously or that I can't even apply to myself. \n\nI'm looking for any advice about where I can go to get representation where I will be taken seriously and be able to state my case without feeling like people aren't taking my claim seriously. It's been an extremely difficult 4 years since his birth having to constantly relive the situation and feel like I'm not getting anywhere with legal representation and I just want to protect both me and my kid and have this all be over soon.\n\nDoes anyone know if there are any organizations that can help or represent me? Or what I can do, personally, to try to get this rolling?\n\nThanks. ","title":"Illinois Custody Issue: What Can I Do\/Where Can I Go For Help?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552424272,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0czue\/italian_legal_question\/","id":"b0czue","body":"so, I know this is a weird one. but please hear me out, it's important to me.\n\nis lolicon \/ virtual \/ drawn \/ pornography depicting minors illegal?\n\n(please, I'm not a pedophile, I didn't look for that stuff. And I'm being very serious here)\n\nrecently I was on a short trip to italy and while there visited a hentai website. on this site I came across some loli\/shota stuff. (minors drawn in manga style)\n\nsince I'm not really into that, I wasn't looking for them, but they just appeared, and grabbed my interest, so I clicked\/checked out a few. I didn't immediatly click them away.\n\nnow that I'm back home I realized that I didn't know if that was even legal back in Italy\n\nthis got me pretty worried, so I did some research on the matter\n\nI'm now a good 10-20 hours in . I'm a naturally worried person, so I've lost some serious sleep over it.\n\nand I haven't been able to find a conclusive answer\n\nIt would be weird to ask random italians to figure this out for me, but if you know anything or could translate something you have no idea how much you'd help me out.\n\nthe only thing I could find was an alteration to an existing law, made in 2006. so I doubt it's very relevant\n\nit says:\n\n1. Dopo l'articolo 600-*quater* del codice penale, come sostituito dall'articolo 3 della presente legge, e' inserito il seguente:\n\n\"Art. 600-*quater*.1. *(Pornografia virtuale)*. Le disposizioni di cui agli articoli 600-*ter* e 600-*quater* si applicano anche quando il materiale pornografico rappresenta immagini virtuali realizzate utilizzando immagini di minori degli anni diciotto o parti di esse, ma la pena e' diminuita di un terzo.\n\nPer immagini virtuali si intendono immagini realizzate con tecniche di elaborazione grafica non associate in tutto o in parte a situazioni reali, la cui qualit\u00e0 di rappresentazione fa apparire come vere situazioni non reali\".\n\nGoogle seems to think the last part says:\n\nVirtual images are images realized with graphic processing techniques not associated in whole or in part with real situations, whose quality of representation makes them look like real situations that are not real \".\n\nthe rest is unclear, but I have no idea what 'real situations that are not real' even means\n\nIf you've read all the way until here I already thank you for that\n\nAnd if you could spare a few minutes of your time to help me, I'd be eternally grateful","title":"Italian legal question.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568858157,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d67ae2\/posting_information_about_a_stylist\/","id":"d67ae2","body":"I had a hair appointment with a stylist and it was a mess. I got extensions and they fell out and she wouldn\u2019t fix. I tried contacting her to fix it but she blocked me. If I put up a post warning others is that sue able? I also plan on contacting the board of cosmetology.","title":"Posting information about a stylist?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540252382,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qjghj\/husband_threw_me_out_at_1am_in_the_weeknight_and\/","id":"9qjghj","body":"Location: Detroit, MI\n\n​\n\nhusband and i have been married 5 years, no kids, half acre in colorado, small (credit card claimed) business he owned prior to us. \n\nSometime in the week he got heated at me, shoved me aggressively into a door, yelled at the top of his lungs inches from my face, called me the \"skank whore that I am\". He threw my stuff down the stairs as it was already packed because we were supposed to leave for a vacay in the AM. He grabbed my phone, threw it - cracked it and broke the volume buttons. Refused to give it back initially and told me to go on foot because my car is in the shop getting repaired right now, the rental is under his name and he was using it to leave for vacay in the AM. The car is under my name, insurance is under his. He wasn't going to let me use his car either or consider driving me to a hotel of sorts. I walked out and had my laptop\/tablet with me. As i was downloading uber, he comes back out to give me my phone back and i proceed to call my gf to get me. \n\n​\n\nI was planning on leaving the state to stay elsewhere. As i expressed this with a rather insightful client of mine, she forewarned me about leaving because it could be considered abandonment - this is my question, is it wise to leave for my safety or stay in state?\n\n​\n\nI should also note, i have messages of him demanding the wedding rings back for him to pay the rent. ","title":"Husband threw me out at 1am in the weeknight and left out of state for a vacay the next morning. I would like to leave the state to stay with my parents.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442896129,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lwcr5\/possibly_getting_out_of_a_lease_and_getting\/","id":"3lwcr5","body":"So last spring, I signed a lease through a private housing corporation for a room in our new fraternity house. The house was previously school offices and a faculty residence, but needed some work to make it livable for a group of people (add a sprinkler system, add a few bathrooms and modify a few rooms, but nothing major structurally) However, apparently absolutely no work was done over the summer like it was supposed to and we were told we would be put up in university housing, but still pay the same rent. 4 of the most senior brothers would be allowed to live there and we could use it for meetings and gatherings, as well as we would be allow to store our furniture and other belongings in our rooms. However, the situation was gotten worse as we have not even been given keys to the house so we can access our belongings, and now they are trying to make us move all of our stuff out which is obviously not feasible at all. In addition, the university housing they put us up in is much smaller and costs less, but we still pay the same rent, and the plans for the renovations have yet to be even approved by the fire marshall and building inspector. The alumni and housing corp have been stonewalling us, and I feel it is in my best interest to break my lease and move elsewhere. Can I legally break my lease and get my security deposit back? From what I have read, I feel that they have failed to uphold their end of the lease where they provide the quarters I signed for and agreed to pay. I am trying to get a copy of the lease before I go see a lawyer for consultation, as my mother has it and she will fax it to me tomorrow. This is through a private housing corporation in WV.","title":"Possibly getting out of a lease and getting security deposit back.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550295764,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ar5um5\/is_it_possible_to_get_a_competency_hearing_on_a\/","id":"ar5um5","body":"Mother granted POA to daughter for herself and husband who is in late stage Alzheimer's. Daughter has long history of drug\/alcohol use, currently on bipolar meds and spent 5 years in psychiatric care. \n\nThere are three other siblings, all responsible and clean. How would you go about getting the POA away from the daughter?","title":"Is it possible to get a competency hearing on a person holding POA authority?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445704904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q1oj1\/louisiana_i_need_help_navigating_the_system_also\/","id":"3q1oj1","body":"My girlfriend violated her parole in January.  She was in jail for two months before being transferred to a work release program.  She was due to be released in September, on the condition she completed the 6 month program.  5 months into the program, she lost her job, and was sent back to jail.  According to her PO, her case had to be reviewed by the paroled board.  His recommendation is that she be released back into his custody\/supervision, but aside from that his hands were tied.  He said it usually takes around 30 days to receive a response from the parole board.  It's been 80+, and we have heard nothing.  According to the dockets\/decisions (I'm not sure how accurate they actually are.) posted online, not only have they not reviewed her case, her case is not even on their radar.  I've spoken to her PO several times, and his response is basically, \"As soon as I hear something, so will you.\"  I've also tried to contact the parole board, but basically just press the appropriate number to eventually be transferred to a voicemail.\n\nTo add to this, while she was in the work release program, she had a court date scheduled for the charges she received when she violated her parole.  She missed this court date because of a clerical error at the halfway house, so she has a warrant out, even though she was incarcerated at the time.  This means, when she is finally released, she will have a hold on her, and will just be transferred to yet another facility.\n\nMy question is, who should I be calling to get answers? I'm not familiar with the system, and I seem to be getting the runaround from the few people who have accidentally answered the phone instead of sending me to voicemail.","title":"Louisiana: I need help navigating the \"system\" (Also, wall of text warning)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552865079,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2bh6e\/house_broken_into_last_nightwant_out_of_the_lease\/","id":"b2bh6e","body":"My house was broken into last night presumably by our next door neighbor. My roommate and I found out last night that he\u2019s a known thief in the neighborhood and has broken into a lot of the houses on the block before. I feel super unsafe now. I was told that a way to get out of the lease is by telling my landlord I don\u2019t feel safe. My roommate doesn\u2019t mind staying(which bothers me about her mental state tbh...her reasoning is because \u201cshe has too much shit to pack\u201d) but I want out...the lease is up July 31st. I just need advice please on what to do. ","title":"House broken into last night...want out of the lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552611480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b18f9y\/ex_and_lawyer_agreed_to_push_back_court_date_and\/","id":"b18f9y","body":"Posting for a friend. \n\nBuddy is out of state working. ex wife wants to renegotiate custody, support. He\u2019s been representing himself. Ex is using a friend of hers who\u2019s a lawyer. \n\nHe was due to fly up but then all parties decided (text messaging through some legal app they have, and regular texts) to ask for the date to be pushed back. He cancels the flight. This morning exes lawyer says pushing back too far might be rejected, they agree on another set of dates that might work. \n\nBuddy gets out of work to find the case is settled. Lawyer didn\u2019t ask for a new date and negotiated whatever and he lost everything, ex got everything she wanted. \n\nI\u2019ve suggested he call the state bar tomorrow but what other options are available? Was he wrong for trusting the lawyer and his ex and he\u2019s SOL? Is this an ethics issue? \n\nThanks ","title":"Ex and lawyer agreed to push back court date and then went into court and got a judgment. (IL)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540217658,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qe71f\/to_do_or_not_to_do\/","id":"9qe71f","body":"I was a full time dept manager i stepped down now im a part time employee i work one day a week I have filed for partial unemployment now the company i work for scheduling me past my availability so will I get disqualified if i don't accept those hours.. I actually think they doing it to make me quit but im not quitting.iidk if I need to report what they doing this is actually my first time trying to get unemployment","title":"To do or not to do","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551129607,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auqizc\/landlord_charging_us_600_for_damages_not_done_by\/","id":"auqizc","body":"So last week we got a notice from our old apartment letting us know that we are owing them $600 in damages to the apartment. Now the 600 is supposedly for an alarm system that we never put up, damages to a lock on the balcony door that we repeatedly told them about and they failed to repair. Other damages that fine, we would cover for because I don\u2019t expect to go and claim that a stay of 8 years at an apartment is going to be flawless but on top of the $600, that would be covered by the security deposit, they\u2019re charging us a month of rent for the month of February. Our lease ended and our move date was feb 5th. \n\nBeyond this the manager is now threatening to evict us from our current apartment. Seems like the same company owns our new place and she has a say. \nIn any case I\u2019m looking for any legal help. Thank you in advance!","title":"Landlord charging us $600 for damages not done by us. [Virginia]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555294613,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdaqvw\/i_was_named_in_a_will_under_my_maiden_name_tx\/","id":"bdaqvw","body":"I\u2019ll have to go down to the bank and pick up the check when the estate is settled but in the will I was named under my maiden name. \n\nMy bank account is in my married name and I legally changed my name. \n\nWill I just need to show proof of who I am in the form of say a birth certificate and\/or a passport? Or is this going to turn into a huge mess? \n\nIf it\u2019s given to me in my maiden name will I be able to put it into my bank without a problem? I had opened that account long before I married so they do have records of my name in their system.","title":"I was named in a will under my maiden name (TX)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553379576,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4ozmb\/nba_player_lonzo_balls_business_partner_alan\/","id":"b4ozmb","body":"(The link to the ESPN article)[http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/26323950\/los-angeles-lakers-guard-lonzo-ball-severs-ties-big-baller-brand-co-owner-allegations-15-million-unaccounted-espn]\n\nMy questions are: \n* how could Ball protect his business assets after this? \n* Is there anyway for Ball to acquire Foster's stake without paying Foster for it? \n*Could Ball have been charged with a financial crime if this had not been discovered? \n*If you were Ball's lawyer, what advice would you give him to handle this situation?\n\n\nParts of the article are quoted down below.\n\n>Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball has severed ties with a co-founder of Big Baller Brand over concerns that the longtime family friend has a criminal past and also has not adequately accounted for the whereabouts of roughly $1.5 million from Ball's personal and business accounts.\n\n>Ball told ESPN that he believes that Alan Foster, a friend of Lonzo's father for almost a decade who owns 16.3 percent of Big Baller Brand, had \"used his access to my business and personal finances to enrich himself. As a result, I have decided to sever all ties with Alan, effective immediately.\" \n\n>According to documents and emails reviewed by ESPN, questions about Foster's business decisions and communication were first raised last fall to Lonzo and LaVar by Lonzo's financial adviser. That adviser, Humble Lukanga of Life Line Financial Group, alleged in an October email that Lonzo's personal taxes and Big Baller's taxes could not be completed on time due to an inability to account for the whereabouts of $1.5 million.\n\nSources close to the Ball family told ESPN that Lonzo expressed his concerns about Foster to his father several times over the past few months but deferred to LaVar to manage the situation.\n\n>It wasn't until this week, the same sources said, that LaVar fully reviewed the email warnings and documents from Lukanga, as he had been traveling overseas with his younger sons in the fall. The sources described LaVar as \"stunned\" when the emails and documents were read to him\n\n>In 2002, Foster was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of mail fraud and two counts of money laundering as part of a scheme that defrauded 70 investors of $4 million, according to federal court records obtained by ESPN. Foster was also ordered to pay $3.7 million in restitution to victims.\n\n>The same sources told ESPN that, last week, Lonzo's personal manager, Darren Moore, raised questions with Lonzo and Lukanga about a separate matter involving Foster -- taxes related to income from the Ball family's lucrative Facebook Watch reality series, \"Ball in the Family.\" Moore told ESPN that he had been unsuccessfully trying to determine -- through Foster -- whether expenses and revenues related to the series had been allocated properly by Foster\n\n>**According to incorporation documents filed in Wyoming obtained by ESPN, Lonzo owns 51 percent of Big Baller Brand, and his father, 16.4 percent. Lonzo's mother and Foster each own 16.3 percent. Though Lonzo said in a statement that he has severed all ties with Foster, it was unclear Friday how the business ties would be untangled.**\n\n>In an October email sent to Lonzo and his father under the subject line \"Urgent - $1.5 million Dollars Missing,\" Lukanga wrote that he had been unsuccessful in having Foster \"track down where $1.5 MILLION DOLLARS IN CASH HAS [gone].\" Lukanga wrote that he had repeatedly asked Foster about transactions totaling that amount, but Foster \"won't show any invoices or documentation of these expenses. He won't even give me the number to the vendors he says he paid. I'VE NEVER SEEN A COMPANY OPERATE BY WITHDRAWING MILLIONS IN CASH ... Only you and Alan can withdraw cash and I know you didn't take out $1.5 million dollars ... SO WHERE IS THE MONEY???\"\n\n>Lukanga attached two itemized reports to the email that he alleged showed unexplained cash withdrawals from Big Baller Brand and transactions between BBB and Foster's business, Marathon Consulting Inc. \"Over $1.5 million dollars has disappeared and he has wired over $474,000 to himself through Marathon Consulting (see attached report). So close to $2 million dollars has touched Alan's hands but $1.5 million of it has disappeared in cash and can't be tracked,\" Lukanga wrote.\n\n>The whereabouts of the $1.5 million remains unclear.\n\n>By late November, Lukanga no longer represented Lonzo, though he was rehired by Lonzo in recent days.\n\n>In addition to his work with Big Baller Brand and LaVar's Junior Basketball Association, a professional league for developing players, Foster appeared in almost every episode of \"Ball in the Family.\" He was often shown consulting with LaVar on decisions that affected the family or business. In one episode, Foster was shown trying to find out why players from JBA have had trouble collecting on their paychecks\n\n>According to two sources close to the family, over the past two years, the Lakers, too, expressed concerns to Foster over numerous customer complaints about Big Baller Brand made to the Better Business Bureau, which gave the company a failing grade in 2018. Last year, the bureau reported receiving 184 complaints over the past three years, mostly involving problems sending correct merchandise, shipping orders on time, and not providing information or responding to questions about delivery status.\n\n>The Federal Trade Commission has recorded about 200 complaints made against Big Baller Brand from April 2017 through mid-January, most of which are duplicates of those made to the Better Business Bureau. The FTC enforces federal laws pertaining to internet commerce, but FTC officials, citing policy, do not comment on whether the agency is investigating a company.\n\n\n","title":"NBA Player Lonzo Ball's Business Partner, Alan Foster has Been Suspected of Stealing 1.5 Million from the Athlete","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568662927,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d55gcm\/fights\/","id":"d55gcm","body":"How much trouble can a minor get for fighting another minor (out of schooo)?","title":"Fights?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553553105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5hhoj\/how_to_reprimand_an_attorney\/","id":"b5hhoj","body":"I live in Indiana, my mother is going through a rather terrible divorce right now and her attorney has been an absolute nightmare on top of it. He has Blatantly withheld information given to him by the other side\u2019s attorney and has not told it to my mother at all, to the point that some time sensitive information he filled out himself. He was moving offices for three weeks and NEVER returned a single phone call or email. In court a few weeks ago, He was cross examining him a witness and while he is standing at the front of the court room he is yelling to my mother, to find certain paperwork in his personal bags full of paperwork. Because she cannot find it, he starts screaming at her in front of everyone present. The judge has almost made up her mind already because of how the attorney has handled and looked at this situation. What can we do at this point? There is most likely only one court date left So getting a new attorney most likely would only be as damaging. Any advice, please,would help! ","title":"How to reprimand an attorney?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554237699,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8omif\/am_i_a_cyber_stalker\/","id":"b8omif","body":"VIrginia. My title is exactly my question but I\u2019ll add context to clarify. \n\nMy husband\u2019s friend met a girl online and the first time I met her she just seemed \u201coff\u201d. Within 30 minutes of meeting her she started to tell me about how she had been raped, her plethora of medical conditions and about how much money she has. I\u2019m always cautious when I let people into my life partially because I have extreme anxiety and also because I have small children.  I pay a monthly subscription to a person search service so I can order reports to show criminal records.  Once I learned this woman\u2019s real name I ordered a report on her which automatically pulled up her son who is currently serving time, she has several charges but they are all \u201cdisposed\u201d so I couldn\u2019t get details on them. My husband essentially told his friend that he doesn\u2019t want any association with her and not to contact us. That went well for a week. Then she randomly texted me telling me I was right asking what she should do. I told her the same thing I told her previously in the few times I met her. \u201cGet clean, get your shit together and then make a decision from there\u201d. She continued to text me and the texts got a little crazier with each one until she asked me about my job. I lost it. I told her in a lengthy text to never contact me again and blocked her. She had posted some really awful things on Facebook that I was concerned about the people she was writing them about. I sent the screenshots to those people just as a heads up. I blocked her on all forms of social media although I still use an alternate account to make sure she\u2019s not posting any threats against myself, my husband or our family. I have not messaged her nor do I have any intent to. By checking her profile from an alternate account is that considered cyber stalking?  ","title":"Am I a cyber stalker?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503793185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w96gh\/maine_local_police_officer_admitted_that_he\/","id":"6w96gh","body":"This afternoon my wife, baby, dog and I were driving down a winding two lane country road. No hurry, beautiful day, nice drive. The posted speed limit was 40mph. We were behind another vehicle and letting them set the pace. I've driven this stretch of road thousands of times over the past 20 years with no issues. Our speed felt in no way excessive. A police officer passes us heading the other direction. Again, nbd. Half a mile later I see blue lights in my rear view. I slowed and gave him room to pass thinking he would go around and be on his way. Nope. So the officer comes to the window and claims that I was doing 58 in a 40. There's simply no way I was going that fast. I was polite and professional. He goes to the cruiser and comes back with a ticket. Says, \"Because of your excellent driving record, I did you a favor and knocked it down to 49 in a 40 because 58 would have been a bigger fine.\" So here are the questions:\n\n1) Do I bite the bullet, mail in the $120 fine and be done with it?\n\n2) Do the radar guns in police cars retain a timestamped log of speed measurement as evidence?\n\n3) Do I file a FOIA for the dash audio (if it exists) and go to court, questioning the officer's veracity in pulling me over for one thing and writing a ticket for another in hopes of getting it thrown out?\n\nTL;DR: Officer pulled me over for 18 over (a lie), then wrote the ticket for 9 over because he was \"doing me a favor\".","title":"[Maine] Local police officer admitted that he falsified the speeding ticket.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555479521,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be46wy\/az_i_was_involved_in_a_hitandrun_ish\/","id":"be46wy","body":"I have the car\u2019s license plate and model.\n\nSorry for formatting, on Mobile.\n\nThis altercation occurred at a four-way traffic light. I was turning left on a solid green and the other car was turning right (on a solid green) into the same street from across the intersection. The street we were turning onto was a two lane road, I turned into the outer most lane and he took a wide birth turn attempting to get into the same lane as me (not the lane he was supposed to turn into) and hit my right rear door and bumper, leaving scratches and chipped paint.\n\nI was in the intersections first and turned into the correct lane, whereas he started his turn after I did and attempted to go into the outermost lane.\n\nAfter hitting me he sped off, I was forced to chase him down and I had a friend write down his license plate number and car model.\n\nDo I have a legal right to process this with a good chance of a court siding with me. (I have 3 witnesses)","title":"[AZ] I was involved in a Hit-and-Run ish","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541355384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u5m9k\/texting_and_driving_was_in_my_own_driveway\/","id":"9u5m9k","body":"Cop gave me a texting and driving ticket as I was coming out of my long driveway.....what is the legal statute on this?\n","title":"Texting and Driving [Was in my own driveway]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571702538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl9dvz\/if_start_a_business_without_knowledge_of_any\/","id":"dl9dvz","body":"I\u2019m 15 almost 16 and have an idea for a business related to landscaping. (It\u2019s a product, not a service) I made a small amount from another business and am losing interest in that and wanted to reinvest in another. I by no means plan to do this full time or into my future unless I get really lucky so I plan to minimize the risk\/cost. The product will probably cost at least 1,000 to devolop and I really don\u2019t want to have to spend another 500\/1000 on a patent check especially if only to find out there is one and the money goes down the drain. If I start it up, make say 500 dollars, and then get contacted and find out I violated a patent, do I just have to stop or will I have to pay more than I made from the product. (Can my family\/me get sued.) Also, if relevant, if I decide after making say 500 to do my own patent check and discover there is one, can I stop and avoid legal repercussions?","title":"If start a business without knowledge of any patents and there is one, what can happen to me as a minor.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1507234198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74illo\/nc_usa_i_dont_know_if_i_should_pursue_sexual\/","id":"74illo","body":"(NC, USA) I let a friend sleep on my couch after a night of drinking, went to bed, and woke up to him in my bed taking pictures of me in my underwear while also trying to remove them. \n\n(For a little context: I usually sleep in a sports bra, underwear, and sweatpants, and I put these on alone in my room with the doors closed while the man went to sleep on the couch. I probably got hot and took the sweatpants off in the middle of the night, leaving me in just my underwear, which didn't feel like a problem to me because I had known the man for a long time and felt he was a trusted friend.)\n\nI ran, called the cops and had them remove the man from my home, now the investigator is telling me I can file a warrant if I want them to investigate further.\n\nI'm just lost. The officer said that the offense is a misdemeanor (sexual assault, sexual exploitation), which I why I can pull out the warrant. Apparently citizens can file warrants themselves in North Carolina? What does this process entail? Should I try to get a lawyer before pulling out a warrant? Also, is there a reason the police did not attempt to obtain a search warrant for his phone once I reported my account?\n\nMy concerns were that the man had probably already deleted the pictures and it would become my word against his. I do have a witness who says I never said the man could stay with me, and when asked for his address, the man gave the witness my address. When I got out of the car at my house, the witness assumed we were at the man's house and I had asked him to stay before going to the bars. But when it comes to the actual event, it was just me and him. I ran before any further sexual assault occurred, so there isn't any physically damning evidence unless investigators can search his phone and potentially retrieve any deleted photos, which I don't even know is possible.\n\nShould I seek legal recourse? What is the likelihood that this will result in a conviction? His parents are wealthy attorneys and I'm nervous that his family is enough to clear him of any charges, but I get anxious when I think that he could exploit someone like this with no consequences. In a lot of ways, this feels like a case I can't win without those pictures, because then it comes down to my word against his. Is it worth the fight?\n\n","title":"[NC, USA] I don't know if I should pursue sexual assault charges","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571335723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dja7sv\/fired_because_of_my_mental_health_do_i_have_any\/","id":"dja7sv","body":"A few weeks ago I had a depressive episode and ended up going to a psychiatric emergency room to keep myself safe. I ended up being admitted to an eating disorder program nearby and informed my employer of everything that happened and let them know I wouldn\u2019t be able to work for at least a few weeks (keeping out the eating disorder bit and simply informing them that I was admitted to a PHP.) Yesterday I realized I\u2019d been removed from my job\u2019s groupchat and messaged my boss, just to be informed that I\u2019d been fired for not showing up to work! What can I do?","title":"Fired because of my mental health, do I have any recourse?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447183222,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sb5o7\/fl_hypothetical_event_of_showing_a_gun\/","id":"3sb5o7","body":"Just a quick hypothetical. If I were to say a snarky comment to someone (such as \"Oh, cool, I didn't know we could park there,\" when someone parks in a fire lane), and they said nothing, but showed me a gun on their person (like pulling a jacket back, revealing the holter), would that be considered some form of assault?\nWould my snarky comment have any possible ramifications?","title":"(FL) Hypothetical event of showing a gun.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540068792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pxoxd\/employer_is_failing_to_give_checks_on_time\/","id":"9pxoxd","body":"Hi reddit I'm usually a lurker but wanted to post on behalf of parents. They work in cleaning and are contracted to work in a gym in California. Their boss has been failing to give them their checks on time and is a little too demanding of them, expecting them to clean more than necessary and always failing to pay on the allotted date he said he would. What are their options to do something about this? ","title":"Employer is failing to give checks on time","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553198191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3v6ln\/how_to_request_visa_permits_for_thai_citizens_to\/","id":"b3v6ln","body":"I own a Thai restaurant in California and have some Thai people who want to come work for me here. How can I legally bring them here to work?","title":"How to request visa permits for Thai citizens to come work for me in California?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569872597,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbh1ro\/ms_my_boyfriends_32_boss_30sm_is_attempting_to\/","id":"dbh1ro","body":"I am writing this for my boyfriend who is not on Reddit.  About 2 months ago, my boyfriend met with a Orthopedic Doctor to discuss problems with his knee. After scans, it was determined that he would need outpatient surgery. He works at a small local restaurant (I'll mention here that he pays for insurance out of pocket). He discussed surgery and recovery with the owner of the business as well as the kitchen manager. They agreed that he would have surgery in late September, and he would be able to come back a week later on light duty until he was fully recovered. His doctor agreed that he would be physically able to return to light duty a week post-op. \n\nSurgery was last week and went well. He's still sore, but able to get around pretty well and is looking forward to having full mobility in the near future. Today his work schedule was published and he realized he is not on it. He called the kitchen manager, who told him that \"business has slowed down and we can't afford to pay you for light duty\". He called the owner, who reiterated that business is slow. After a heated discussion, the conversation is on pause until my boyfriend's follow-up appointment this Friday. \n\nThe truth of the matter is that he would have not had the surgery if he knew his job would be gone afterwards. He's been struggling with this knee pain for almost a year, and it was like pulling teeth for me to get him to go see a specialist. He has doctor's notes to back up his ability to work and clear him for surgery. We live in Mississippi, which is an \"employment at will\" state. My questions are this: Can he be fired even though he has medical notes to validate his leave? If he is fired, what are our options? If it is an unjust firing, should we consider taking the owner to court? If filing for unemployment is the route to go, what do we need to have ready so we can do that as soon as possible? \n\nTL;DR: Boyfriend had knee surgery after clearing it with work, is now potentially out of a job.\n\nThank you SO MUCH for any advice, this has been a huge punch to the gut. Getting ahead is impossible.","title":"[MS] My boyfriend's (32) boss (30s\/M) is attempting to \"let him go\" after surgery","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569611371,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da50i9\/nevada_employer_using_arrest_record_to_refuse_a\/","id":"da50i9","body":"Is there anything that I can do here? Some back story:\n\nI was accused (without evidence) of a crime I didn\u2019t commit. Da is pushing felony despite no evidence. Later the DA has dropped the felony and is now seeking a misdemeanor.\n\nMy employer told me that they could not offer me a permanent position due to my felony pending charge, despite an official legal statement saying the felony was dropped.\n\nIt\u2019s my understanding that Nevada has some protections in place to prevent things like this.\n\nI also do not recall giving my employer any permission to run a criminal background and I believe a signature is required to request arrest records.\n\nAny advice on this?","title":"Nevada - Employer using arrest record to refuse a job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539304763,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nfmj3\/looking_for_advice_on_ecommerce_businesses_that\/","id":"9nfmj3","body":"Everything is on the books, however I was wondering if there were certain regulations for the work space in an online business that set up in the employers home.  \n\nFor example if this work space was cramped, filled with cardboard boxes with only one set of stairs as an exit, could that be considered a fire hazard for the employees?\n\nPS. I wasn\u2019t sure if this supposed flaired under business law or labor law so if I\u2019m wrong, I\u2019m sorry in advance.","title":"Looking for advice on E-Commerce Businesses that are run from an employers home","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570043031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dceqwe\/question_about_becoming_legal_photographer\/","id":"dceqwe","body":"Hi all! I am looking to make my photography business \u201cofficial\u201d by taking the proper, legal steps, but I am at a point where I am quite lost. The name I have been going by is Nickname Lastname Photography (my nickname is a shortened version of my legal first name, like Bob from Bobby, and my legal last name, then just photography tagged onto that). My first question is whether or not I need to trademark my full business\u2019 name, since it includes technically not my legal first name? I\u2019m looking to file a DBA for now, and becoming an LLC as well, but I wasn\u2019t sure if I was going to be legally allowed to use that name. I looked it up in the TESS trademark search, but found no records, so I assumed it would be safe to use..\n\nOne more query: I have since realized that you need to have a separate business bank account, and since last year, I have not had such, and have been simply putting earnings into my general savings. Last year I just did simple small business tax filing through TurboTax to report my meager earnings, but this year I have significantly more, and realized I fudged up. So, I am not depositing my recent earnings until I get this new account, but for the other shoots throughout the year, should I just transfer the earnings from my savings into the new account once I get it?\n\nThank you all so much, and I hope this makes sense!","title":"Question About Becoming Legal Photographer","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553618625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5s0pg\/a_friend_of_mine_got_unreasonably_searched\/","id":"b5s0pg","body":"During aquatics PE today in school a friend of mine\u2019s backpack was searched by a school administrator without his knowledge while he was in the pool. They claim that 5 people said he was dealing drugs (he wasn\u2019t). We think that those claims are bs. They found paraphernalia and lost an important necklace that has a lot of monetary and sentimental value.  Was any if this illegal and can they sue?","title":"A friend of mine got unreasonably searched","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569453956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ba7t\/apartment_owners_wont_do_anything_about_bedbugs\/","id":"d9ba7t","body":"Ok so about a month ago me and my mother started noticing that we had a bed bug problem, my mother contacted the office and they said they would call pest control to get the situation straightened out. My mother went down there every week up to this day and they have not done anything at all about it. My mother had to throw away her bed and I\u2019m going to have to throw away my bed. I found around 20 bed bugs on my bed just now and flipped it over to find over 40 dead cockroaches under my bed. I frequently have issues with huge roaches crawling over men during the night same with bedbugs. Is there anything I can do? I am a 16 year old and it\u2019s effecting my disabled grandma as well. My mother had already contacted everyone. Any help would be appreciated sorry if some parts of it don\u2019t make sense I was writing this in a hurry and I am stressed out.","title":"Apartment owners won\u2019t do anything about bedbugs or other pests.(California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568998210,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6xo0o\/incompleteincorrect_gym_contract_filled_out\/","id":"d6xo0o","body":"About 4 months ago I wanted a cheaper gym membership. I went to EOS fitness and they took my account and routing number from chase bank because, and I quote:\n*\u201dwe take that instead of your chase debit card number so if there is never money in your account, we will not overdraw it and the balance will remain at $0\u201d* this is important later. After that, they said I should talk to the personal trainer manager and I said okay. Talked to the guy, and he told me the pricing and I signed a contract (the standard marketing ploy of, don\u2019t think, just make them sign, ya I fell for it) but then we got to the payment option. I didn\u2019t have enough money on my chase card and I felt embarrassed so I used another card (a Cash App card) because I knew it would not work, so when it did not work I told them \u201chey you know what I don\u2019t want to do this\u201d so I up and left. Well a few days later, I notice my account says -$80 and apparently they tried to charge me for the personal trainer. So I put two and two together, and they took my information from my gym membership, and changed the billing contract without my consent in order to authorize payments. I froze the account and the freeze ends October 5th. I have tried to end the contract multiple times but every person says \u201cwe see your signature and your billing information\u201d BUT I NEVER GAVE IT. They took it from another service I paid for and used that to just practically steal my money. I don\u2019t make enough (I\u2019m a student) to pay for this, and I forcefully closed my checking account so they could no longer charge it, but I don\u2019t want my credit score to get hit because of this, what do I do? Can I dispute it? Are they LEGALLY allowed to do what they did with my card information? I\u2019m just stuck so please help guys","title":"Incomplete\/incorrect gym contract filled out without my constant?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570783149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgc82h\/one_of_my_roommates_wants_to_kick_me_out\/","id":"dgc82h","body":"First off, we are all on the lease that I am not in violation of, so I know that they can\u2019t just kick me out because they want to. I live with a couple, and I spoke to one of them who said that it was just personal reasons and confirmed that I am not in violation of my lease but that the other wanted me to leave, and I informed them that as I was on the lease, they couldn\u2019t kick me out and only management can make that decision. \n\n Is there anything that they can do that can end up forcing me out and are there any precautions I can take?","title":"One of my roommates wants to kick me out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541621027,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v2tlj\/promised_security_deposit_2_months_later_we_still\/","id":"9v2tlj","body":"A bit of back story:\nMy husband(28) and I(23) moved into our first apartment just over a year ago. We were both working and making ends meet and not really stressed.  We are good tenants, we paid rent on time every month, we did not make complaints to management, we did not cause any issues and we kept to ourselves. \n\nUnfortunately at the end of our first year when are lease was up we could no longer afford to live there and let the company know we would be moving at the end of out 13th month and we would go on month to month until we left.  We paid them for the month of August and turned in our keys on August 30th.  Upon turning in our keys we asked about security deposit return and the manager stated \" I will do my walk-through this evening and send my findings to the main office and everything is in their hands.  We will be in touch if we need anything from you all\" and some kind words for our future.  \n\nFast forward about a week or two we get an email from the manager asking for a forwarding address for our Security deposit some we sent it to them. They emailed us that it would be in the mail and basically ended the email as if this was the last communication that would be required. \n\nAbout 30 days go by and both of us have received mail at our new address but have not received anything from the apartment company.  We emailed the manager voicing our concern, people steal mail that seems like money, parcels get stuck in transit and what have you and we didn't want someone attempting to cash the check.  He, again not having access to that information, tells us he will reach out to the main office for more information. About 2 weeks to by and no contact from the manager, so we reached out again.  The manager finally emails us back and said the main office put it in the mail on Friday October 26th. Where I am from city to city turn around for The United States Postal Service is 2-4 business day, we moved 15 minutes down the road. \n\nHere we are almost 2 weeks from the supposed day of being \"put in the mail\" and we still have not seen anything from them.  My husband thinks we need to keep playing nice and that will get us \"brownie points\" and faster service.  He keeps saying \" Give it time for transfers\" and \"Oh I forgot to drop it on Friday I'll do it Monday mail\" situations and \"things getting lost in transit\" and I feel it's time we kick it up a notch.  Michigan law states that it has to sent out no more then 30 days post vacancy. ","title":"Promised security deposit, 2 months later we still haven't seen it, Help?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568674122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d581v7\/va_i_think_my_roommates_so_has_stolen_stuff_from\/","id":"d581v7","body":"So, this is my first time feeling like I need to post on this sub, so please let me know if I\u2019m not doing anything by the book, and I\u2019ll be happy to fix it so I can get the best advice I can. \n\nIn July I moved in with my current roommate (24F). At the time we were working together with a third friend, named Josh. About a month into our lease, our friend josh runs into some hard times, and we both agree that he can stay for a few nights maximum.  During this initial period, Josh and my roommate started a relationship, and she decided without confirming with me to take him in until last week, when he finally got his own place. Now during this time period, he payed no rent and did nothing to help out around the house, leaving the kitchen and common areas a disaster. \nThe main issue I have is that during this time, there has been a few occasions where my stuff has gone missing and they have both brushed it aside and treated me like I have gone crazy. The second week he was staying with us, 160 dollars was missing from my dresser, where it was hidden underneath my socks (don\u2019t judge me!) now I was gone this weekend, and i come home this morning and I find that my Nintendo switch, the dock, and my two extra controllers have also gone missing. I asked both of them about it and they both said they hadn\u2019t moved it, and that I was being outrageous for asking them about it. \n\nI do not trust my roommate or Josh and am left in a less then ideal living situation. My other worry is that I keep my double bass in my bedroom, and I\u2019m now concerning that he will go after that because he is aware it is a professional instrument and is semi aware of its value. \n\nDo I have any legal standing to break my lease and find somewhere else to live? Do I have any legal standing to kick Josh out? Is there any way I can \u201cprove\u201d that he stole my stuff? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for listening \n\nTL,DR:\nRoommate invited her new BF to live with us, my stuff started disappearing. What do?","title":"(VA) I think my roommates SO has stolen stuff from me, what is my best course of action?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504816947,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ypzcj\/can_a_detective_do_this\/","id":"6ypzcj","body":"So I was sexually assaulted about a month ago. I reported the incident the day after it happened and the police officer was extremely understanding and helpful. He talked to the detectives and they said because they had other cases the would get back with me Monday. I go in and speak with the detective and it was incredibly upsetting he told me no jury would ever convict the person who assaulted me because I smoked weed and hung out with him. The only follow up on the case was a phone call to the guy who assaulted me about wether he wanted to come in and answer questions. The detective told me he'd follow up with me after the phone call but I never heard from him again. Is there another way to approach this so an actual investigation takes place? Should I get a restraining order? How difficult would that be? \nEdit: I'm in Indiana ","title":"Can a detective do this?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570686539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dftln0\/if_someone_can_please_dm_i_need_advice_on_a\/","id":"dftln0","body":"Please","title":"If someone can please dm I need advice on a situation.. please","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570926317,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh3chw\/undercover_cop_or_weird_man_looking_to_get_a_fix\/","id":"dh3chw","body":"Hello there, I work at a hotel in a downtown area.   \n\n\nI was checking in a man and he seemed nice with his wife. But when she walked away, he switched up his questions.  \n\n\n\"Where do you live, know any good bars, know any REAL good ones? Smoke pot? Drink alcohol are you sure you don't not ever no, I'm looking for a good place I'll pay for info?\"  \n\n\nI responded, no never and he pushed on so I responded, well you know kids in high school usually, but no. Trying to get him to have him imply I did, so he would stop it, even though I never have.  \n\n\nNow I'm curious if this is a strange man looking for a fix, or would these be questions an undercover cop would be asking to drug bust? He'll find the cleanest squarest guy around who denies any substances when offered.","title":"Undercover cop or weird man looking to get a fix, any pro tips?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568766157,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5prxr\/california_i_got_a_ticket_for_driving_with_an\/","id":"d5prxr","body":"I got pulled over while driving through the next county over. It turned out my driver's license had expired back in April,  and I hadn't noticed (how often do you look at your own license though?). The officer wrote me a ticket, and the next payday (about a week later) I went to the DMV and renewed it. \n\nYesterday I got a letter from the County DA, instructing me to go to the county courthouse within 72 hours of X date for \"booking and release\", and then to return on X date for court. Am I going to go to jail? I've never had so much as a parking ticket before, will that matter? I've also been in and out of the hospital since February, with extended stays in both the main hospital and county mental health following serious, nearly successful suicide attempts. Is that something I should mention in court? I'm so scared, I've barely stopped crying since I got the letter. \n\nI'm freaking out, should I be? I dont want to go to jail.","title":"[California] I got a ticket for driving with an expired license. Yesterday I got a letter saying I needed to appear at the county courthouse 2 hours away for \"booking\". Am I being arrested? I dont understand what's happening.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551633347,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aww1e6\/question_about_unemployment_benefits\/","id":"aww1e6","body":"I have a question about what constitutes being unemployed \u201cby no fault of your own.\u201d \n\nI have been at my current workplace since June 2017. I was hired on to do a specific job, and within a few months a major change in my job description occurred. The change is on par with being hired into a sales position but then your responsibilities shifting to managing a warehouse (no heavy lifting but different set of training\/expertise than sales would require). No additional compensation was offered, but the level of responsibility was MUCH higher (Director-level).\n\nThe eternal optimist, I thought I might enjoy learning how to do the new job and so I dove right in. I did both the original job I was hired for as well as the new job for about a year, before i finally got my boss to see it was too much for one person \u2014 so they took my original job and gave it to someone else. I\u2019ve been doing the \u201cnew\u201d job full-time for about a year. \n\nI was never trained to do this job (nor did I ever want to do this long term), and the responsibilities are extremely overwhelming. When discussing workload in the past, I have told my boss that there is easily enough work for two people full time, and their response is usually that I should work longer, extra hours. \n\nI\u2019m at my breaking point. There is no hope that they will hire another person. I have a health condition exacerbated by stress and need to leave this job behind in order to get back to a healthy place. \n\nMy question is: will I be eligible for unemployment? Or did I accept the job description change too eagerly and accept the circumstances for too long? I am in the state of Georgia. \n","title":"Question about unemployment benefits","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507487152,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/753ex2\/us_california_new_employer_is_requesting_copy_of\/","id":"753ex2","body":"I was recently offered a position at a hospital but the employer is requesting a copy of my W-2 from me to verify past employment.  During the application process at the new hospital, I selected \"do not contact employer\" due to the fact that I did not want to be treated unfavorably once word got out that I was seeking jobs elsewhere.\n  \nMy concern is that the new employer will use my past salary against me under the guise of employment verification.  I have been told  *over the phone* what my earnings will be but since I have yet to go in and sign anything, I'm afraid their HR will look at the W-2 and alter the offer.\n  \nSo my question is: do I have to comply with the request and if so, could I provide a redacted copy of my W-2?","title":"[US - California] New employer is requesting copy of last year's W-2","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568834142,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d62ngk\/improper_fmla_handling_delay_tactic\/","id":"d62ngk","body":"So, I've been with this company for about 2 years. About one year ago I had an injury where I broke both of my ankles and was off of work for.about 4 months followed by a pretty severe behavioral health issue accompanied by extreme vertigo.\n\nMy anti depressants quit working and basically did the opposite of what they were supposed to do and started making me faint as well. \n\nAll of this intensely medically documented. I go to mr Dr. And do what I need to do regularly.\n\nThe physician did a leave of absence for the behavior health and documented the vertigo issue as well letting them know it would require follow up.\n The full leave was approved, and was submitted to another intermittent leave rep for the appointments and follow up. I made it clear I'd need the claim filed for both and explained how there was going to be a delay in handling the psychologist assignment because of availability of physicians. But my ENT was ready and KNEW the paper work was coming. (I have minieres, or Cogans syndrome they need to run further tests)\n When I spoke to the next rep, she advised that she was handling the intermittent leave request for the behavioral health and not the hearing concern. It was never submitted by the other rep. But I would need to submit a request next time I was out for it which was coming up soon.  At this point she had proactively sent me the paperwork and I had passed it along to my ENT. And I let her know I was on a wait list for the behavioral health and it could be 6 months before I got assigned a physician in my area. I let her know I sent the paperwork to the ENT already.\n\n\nWell one week later, I have to miss for a Drs appointment. Literally one week. \n\nAnd they state that I have missed too much work to do an FMLA request for the hearing. As in, if I had submitted it or they had done the claim when I had asked I wouldnt be in this mess.\n\nAt this point my ent has completed the paperwork, but since they screwed up and never submitted the claim for the vertigo I'm without protection.\n\n\nNow here we are, I missed again... because were still trying to figure out my medications.\nAnd Im being faced with a meeting for corrective action on a health issue that is fully and completely documented by a physician who is saying I should be protected, but because someone was lazy and decided not to do their job I'm suffering., I'm now going to have her refill out the forms to accommodate this new request.\n\n\n I'm super frustrated, and I'm worried I'm going to get fired for something completely beyond my control. What should I do?\nOr am I screwed?\nI'm employed in Texas.","title":"Improper FMLA Handling\/ delay tactic","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551902747,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay38mq\/banking_fraud_account_got_hacked_savings_gone\/","id":"ay38mq","body":"I noticed this morning that 13,850.00 was removed from my savings account.\n\nLooks like it was used to pay to USAA Credit Card, through PayPal. They setup an account, and I did not notice the very small transactions PayPal\u2019s system does to verify the bank in my savings account a week ago. But today they took out the large sum. So I believe someone may be hacking my bank and has view at my savings transactions.\n\nI\u2019ve filed a claim with my Bank, are there any other steps to help me get my money back?\nAlso other steps to help secure myself in the future.\nDo I need to get police involved?\n\nNeed all the help I can get here, this was all my money saved so far (only 23).","title":"Banking Fraud? Account got hacked. Savings Gone!","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553280239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b48rjm\/landlord_entering_home_without_notice_or\/","id":"b48rjm","body":"I live with one roommate in a house we\u2019ve rented for the past 2 years. We are both (24F) and live in Idaho. In the last 2 months a new landlord has taken over, who I think actually owns the property (it was formerly overseen by a property management company). Since then he (or someone working for him) has entered the house twice without any notice, and yesterday I got out of the shower to find two men in the backyard jackhammering up our walkway. The first time they entered I was home asleep (I work late nights) and they were in my home trying to enter my room! I hadn\u2019t heard them knock. I sent an email (the new landlord has no phone) saying this was very unprofessional and we needed notice before they were allowed to enter our house. They apologized and said we would be notified if they were coming in again. \n\nWe were out of town last week and get a call that they were coming back to our home (which they had already entered without notice again) to finish installing the smoke detectors...why they didn\u2019t call before initially coming in to do that I don\u2019t know. \n\nThen yesterday I find the 2 men in the backyard. I sent another (pretty angry) email telling them this was illegal and we needed 24 hour notice if anyone was going to be on the property. He didn\u2019t seem to take it too seriously or apologize. I\u2019m wondering what our rights are here. I haven\u2019t been able to find much info on Idaho state law regarding this. If it happens again I would like to pursue legal action. As two young females living alone, it\u2019s frightening to wake up to people in your house or see men outside your window without notice. \n\nThanks ","title":"Landlord entering home without notice or permission. What are my options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540165647,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q8euw\/ridiculously_low_standard_college_want_money_back\/","id":"9q8euw","body":"Hello. First time posting.\n\n​\n\nI am a student at an HBCU completing courses through the Adult Degree Program. The program is supposed to be set up where I have 20 hours in-class time, and 20 hours in a Learning Team for each course, which is 5 weeks long. The in-class time is once a week. So far, the courses have been sub par. I have only had one professor who knew what she was talking about, but still, she let class out two hours early and never assigned group work aside from one presentation project (which did not take 20 hours to complete). \n\n​\n\nI was unhappy before, but most recently, I started a Financial Accounting course. The professor posted the syllabus to the online portal one day before class started. The syllabus is supposed to be posted more than a week prior to the course so that we have time to order a textbook since the school does not have a book store. So, with no textbook, I arrive to class. My other classmates all make it to class on time, and we sit there for 45 minutes, debating about leaving because the professor never shows up. We create a sign in sheet, each sign it, email it to a few people in the Adult Degree Program office, and then slide the original copy underneath the door to that office (it was closed). Then we leave.\n\n​\n\nNext day, we get this email:\n\n \"Class,\n\n I apologize to you, I did not realize I had a class last night.\u00a0To stay on schedule, please review the power point lecture and complete the homework for week 1:\n\n* Chapter 1: Discussion Questions (functions of accounting)\n* Chapter 2: Problem 2-2B. (effects of transactions on elements, organizing financial statements)\n* Chapter 3: Problem 3-4B (effects of transactions on accounts)\n\nIf you have any questions or need assistance with something prior to meeting next week, please email me and I will be glad to assist you.Looking forward to meeting you all next week. \"\n\n​\n\nI don't get it. Nobody has a textbook for one thing, and for another, how can the school mess up so bad that the professor does not know there is a class??? What am I paying for?\n\n​\n\nI need to leave before this place gets shut down. Needless to say, it is very easy to maintain a 4.0 grade average, but I feel like I am not learning very much and am worried that if the school is going to be shut down, I will lose all of my credit hours.\n\n​\n\nIs there a way that I can get my money back from this place? I am getting financial aid to pay for it, but have only gotten one disbursement. The Financial Aid worker is on maternity leave and therefore my other disbursement for this year is held up because for some reason my pell grant has not entered the system but my loans have. I'm trying to move out of state next year (July) and am transferring schools, so any money is going to help with this. I've been in this program since January 2018, if that helps with anything. I do know that other students also have grievances with the school as well. \n\n​\n\nThanks for reading. Any advice is appreciated.","title":"Ridiculously Low Standard College, Want Money Back, Need to Transfer","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539955684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pjt0i\/in_employer_forcing_me_to_work_outside_of_job\/","id":"9pjt0i","body":"Approximately 18 months ago when my IT Manager left the company, I absorbed all of their responsibilities. I did receive a small raise after complaining about no compensation about 3-4 months into it.  After successfully completing the budget planning and presentation I felt like I had actually earned a promotion in title to be representative of the work that was actually being performed (I have been titled as a Network\/Systems Admin since starting with the company over 2 years ago.  I brought this up before the beginning of the year to which I was told I still needed to prove myself. \n\nIn April, I brought it up again after having completed a huge majority of my planned projects for the year. My boss has drug their feet this entire time, even after going through exercises that we both agreed put me into a different job title in April. \n\nIs there any credibility to potential legal action for being forced to work outside of my job classification for this amount of time, or is the \u2018all other duties as assigned\u2019 clause vague enough to cover what my boss is doing?  Any thoughts to point me in the right direction would be helpful. Also, I can prove all of this. ","title":"(IN) Employer forcing me to work outside of job classification.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1444706523,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ojfv9\/owner_of_a_facebook_group_how_much_am_i_liable\/","id":"3ojfv9","body":"Hi guys,\n\nI'm in Arizona and run a Facebook group for a local game. People typically discuss the game and meet up, nothing usually too extreme.\n\nRecently, the community has gotten word that an individual who is allegedly responsible for stealing cards from a roommate is moving to our state. The people in the group have now started posting his full name as well as pictures of him -- this is in an effort to keep him away from game stores and ban him if possible. \n\nI understand that there is an effort in good faith to keep who they believe is a criminal away from game stores but at the same time, I'm not sure if the allegations are even true. Supposedly there was a police report filed in the state he was from but I have no way to prove this.\n\nSo this feels like it could escalate to some sort of defamation if this all ends up not being true and I'm wondering what kind of responsibility I would have as the owner of the group.\n\nThe question also just extends to defamation and the group in general, let's say a person goes around intentionally posting lies about a store or person, can I personally be held responsible if I don't delete the posts?","title":"Owner of a Facebook Group, how much am I liable for what people post? [AZ]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571036780,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhmzkl\/drunk_driver_crashed_into_my_neighbors_truck\/","id":"dhmzkl","body":"[PICTURES OF THE ACCIDENT](https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/ssOL3j8)\n\nI can post more pictures of whatever you guys ask for regarding the crash. Just let me know!\n\n​\n\nSo on Friday night at around 2:44 AM, a drunk driver was speeding through my neighborhood and hit my neighbors pick up truck that was parked across the street. Her car got stuck into the truck during impact and was revving as she attempted to back-out.  After a few seconds of pressing the gas while in reverse, she finally dislodged but arced and drove up my drive way, ran over some plants, hit the corner of my house and flew into my garage tearing the door off its rail and completely running into my 2018 Elantra GT (less than a year old) which pushed it almost completely sideways, which then pushed my folks 2018 Kona (a little over a month old) and damaging both cars. The Kona was pushed so hard that it crashed into a refrigerator that we have in the garage and was pinned between that and a support beam.\n\n​\n\nThe drunk drive then drove away, fleeing the scene. My sister saw everything happen and I saw everything after the initial crash into the pick up truck. I called the police after I saw her flee and the cops found her within 20 minutes on the street with her car broken down. She left behind tons of debris, really fucked up my neighbors truck, destroyed a corner of my house, the garage door and the garage door railing. My cars are messed up physically and both are making really weird noises after we pulled them out (had to call a tow truck the following day) and sound like something really is busted.\n\nMy question is, where do we go from here? The Police gave us the drivers information and insurance and I believe that our insurance would cover some stuff, but my father is really worried that it wont cover everything. We were told by a family friend that since both of our cars were less than a year old, we might be able to get replacements all together rather than just repairs. I'm not sure how long or how much the Home Owners Insurance will cover the houses damage (garage, exterior, fridge, etc.). \n\n​\n\nI would really just like some guidance on what happens next, what can I expect and what I have the right to ask for as for compensation and repairs.","title":"Drunk driver crashed into my neighbors truck, drove into my garage damaging both my new cars which are less than a year old and then attempted to drive away from the scene. What does my family do from here?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540488881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rcg37\/help_repost\/","id":"9rcg37","body":"I deleted my other post because I got so much hate. But, I\u2019m not now. Im in high school, I live in California and I\u2019ve been pregnant for roughly 6 months now. Unfortunately, my parents say that because I\u2019m approaching the third trimester, that it is too late for me to get an abortion. I\u2019ve accepted that I have to have the child now but I still have concerns. My friend told me there are programs that will pay for my college if  I have a child in high school. Because I need to pay for college and don\u2019t know if I can afford that with my child I would like to know if this is true, thanks.","title":"Help! [Repost]","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541987763,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w9q0h\/minor_car_accident_georgia\/","id":"9w9q0h","body":"So last night I very lightly backed into my roommate's car. There isn't any issues with any paint on his car, only minor abrasions on plastic parts of the car. Overall, the replacement cost for the damaged parts is roughly $400 without labor. I want to pay out of pocket for this minor accident. The owner of the car, my roommate's mother, only wants for this to go through insurance so that it is reported (has some vendetta against me). I want to avoid using my insurance to cover the repairs because the increase in rates will be more than the cost to fix the car in the first place. Am I legally required to pay through insurance or am I allowed to fix the car out of pocket against their wishes?","title":"Minor car accident Georgia","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1443474768,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mr0hf\/my_friends_mom_lost_custody_of_all_her_kids\/","id":"3mr0hf","body":"It's an extremely long story so I will just tell you the end result. We live in New York and my friend is 25.  He also has 2 younger siblings who were both sent to live with their fathers. The legal issue comes with his mentally handicapped sister, lets call her Sammy. She is 22 but has the mind of an 8 year old. She is the sweetest girl but requires constant care 24\/7. Today it was decided that she would move to Pennsylvania with her Aunt. The court tried her as an adult. Her dad is gone, no clue where and the mother has a restraining order. The only reason that the Aunt is  taking her in is because Sammy is receiving a huge sum of money from the sale of her grandmothers house. The aunt is just as bad as the mom. My friend is the only one in the family who is a decent human being. Hes too much of a mess to figure everything out because his family is all split up. I need advice on how to keep that money out of his dirty aunts hands and to make sure it all goes to helping Sammy live a happy life. I have no how this situation works. Any help is greatly appreciate and I can answer any more information that's needed. Thank you again so much.","title":"My friends mom lost custody of all her kids because she was smoking crack in the house and selling their medication. Help please!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555164537,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcqtvj\/ct_son_was_placed_in_and_alternative_school\/","id":"bcqtvj","body":"My son is 13 - he has ADHD, DMDD and \u201cunspecified trauma disorder\u201d.  He\u2019s been in therapy since the age of 8.  He\u2019s been hospitalized 3 times for mental health reasons however he\u2019s never been violent or threatening at all.  He\u2019s not into drugs, violence or criminal behavior at all.  He\u2019s smart, he always got very good grades and never had any issues at school other than 1 detention for late homework and the occasional problem with peers on the bus, which was always me reporting the other kids to the school for picking on him, which the school never did anything about.  Every time I called the school the parents of the kids called the police on my son.  It was a pattern.\n\nThe problems began many years ago when some kids in the neighborhood started picking on him and, despite my efforts of bringing the kids together through play (the parents were assholes about it so I didn\u2019t push), things just kinda snowballed from there.  The cops have been at our home several times due to the neighbors fearing his behavior - he made a scavenger hunt and the parents saw \u201ccryptic messages\u201d and took them as a \u201cthreat\u201d (he was 11, he drew a picture of skulls and bones and wrote the woes \u201cdead fish\u201d on one of the clues - innocent kid stuff).  The cops acted like he had ill intent and told him to be more careful about what he writes (total fucking bullshit).  Second time he told a joke at school about a meme bomb song playing his phone and a parent reported it to the school the next day and the school sent the police to our home claiming he made \u201cbomb threats\u201d (even though everyone who heard the joke, including the teacher, laughed).  He was forced to get an evaluation at the hospital and was released the same day.  Clearly he was being targeted and it was at that point that I hired a lawyer.\n\nUnfortunately we live 5 miles from Sandy Hook and I truly believe the police are targeting my son strictly based on his mental health struggles.....I have done everything his therapists, clinicians, doctors and social workers have recommended and I now truly regret being so transparent with the school and keeping them 100% in the loop of his struggles as I believe this would have never happened had they not known.  My son is not Adam Lanza and I would never, ever put a gun in his hands, like Lanza\u2019s mother did.\n\n**Please note that I am well aware that my son does not belong in main stream\/public school (mainly due to OTHERS\u2019 behavior towards him) but he certainly doesn\u2019t belong in the school he\u2019s in now.**\n\nAfter the last incident my son was removed from the main stream school (not expelled) and placed in an alternative school.  The attorney fought for a recommendation to a private school, which we got, however the private school rejected my son (I personally believe the schools are in cahoots due to specific wording they used when they denied my son, it is *very* fishy).  Per my request, our lawyer requested a second referral and the school denied the request and my lawyer basically gave up offering a refund for what\u2019s left of his retainer.  This did not sit well with me and I feel he could have and should have done more so I asked for the refund (not much from $6,000) and didn\u2019t bother requesting further services from him.\n\nThe problem is that the alternative school my son is in now is a high school for kids with drug and\/or behavioral issues.  My son is in the 8th grade and is the youngest of the school.  My son has never been violent nor has he ever taken a drugs (he despises drugs).  He is surrounded by kids who are fresh out of juvie or rehab and he is getting top education on drugs courtesy of his peers.  The first few weeks he attended were very hard on him and he was assaulted 3 times as well as having his phone stolen, his backpack was torn by another student and he was getting picked on severely.  There are fights and arrests and police k-9 searches every single day in school and due to his DMDD he is severely stressed out by it all and has fallen into a deep depression and is very, very angry with me.  There is no real curriculum at this school as he\u2019s learning things he already studied in middle school - he wants to learn, he wants an education and he\u2019s not getting one and he\u2019s very, very upset about it.\n\nIt takes every ounce of me to get him to school every day, he has become bitter and angry and when he gets home he locks himself in his bedroom and refuses to eat.  He\u2019s very, very depressed and I am unable to fix this.\n\nWhat can I do?  Do we have any recourse?  How do I get him out of this school?  It\u2019s a 2 year program and I am terrified that he\u2019ll do something drastic to get out of going or that he\u2019ll follow lead and pick up some behaviors of his peers.  Any advice on what I can do would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for reading.","title":"(CT) Son was placed in and alternative school because the school fears his mental health struggles (hospitalizations). Hired an attorney who got us the referral for private school but my son was denied and school refused to give another referral and the lawyer flaked. What now?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568816155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5yf2g\/wi_should_i_stop_payment\/","id":"d5yf2g","body":"4 years post settlement. 50\/50 joint legal and physical of 2 children ages 12 and 14. \n\nUnfortunately divorce was done pro se. In the agreement, I waived monthly child support payments from former spouse in exchange for language in the agreement that states former spouse will pay for, \"all child care expenses.\" \n\nThis generally worked well for the last four years until the expenses from the kids started getting higher and former spouse got re-married. Now, former spouse is refusing to compensate me for expenses related to supplies and clothing the kids needed for camp as well as supplies for school *unless* I pre-approve the purchase with former spouse because they believe I am spending too much or on things that the kids don't need. I disagree and point to the fact that in the settlement there is no language requiring me to get any form of pre-approval, only that they will pay for all expenses. The argument from former spouse and their attorney is former spouse is \"not an open checkbook\". \n\nThe total I have spent on supplies up to this point $1103.00. \n\nI could take former spouse to court for contempt, but my legal fees would easily exceed this amount. I have been considering instead the following solution. In the agreement, I also agree to pay former spouse back for some expenses in the sum of $175\/month. Since my ex owes me $1103.00 for expenses perfectly in line with the agreement, am I justified in ceasing payment of my$175\/mo until ex's debt to me is paid off? This would force the ex to take me to court for contempt at which point I could make my case for non payment of child expenses. Is this advisable\/legal?","title":"[WI] Should I stop payment?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550018832,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aq0lmp\/social_media_legal_advice\/","id":"aq0lmp","body":"My question is very short and straightforward. How legal is for a company to make you comment and interact with their social media channels? My contract doesn\u2019t mention anything about being obligated to post comments and engage with the company\u2019s social media channels but the threatening emails from the boss are very intimidating and I started wondering how far can a company go as far as making their employees use their personal accounts to interact with the company to make their posts look interesting and engaging? By the way, I work for a media company but I don\u2019t find their posts interesting and engaging. ","title":"Social Media Legal Advice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542036416,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wex9s\/am_i_allowed_to_carry_any_protection_at_work\/","id":"9wex9s","body":"My company told me I couldn\u2019t have any kind of protection at work. Little background I help run a technology store that sells $1000 merchandise, with lots of sought after electronics. Last month we got robbed 4 times, to the point where I\u2019m actually scared to work now. I\u2019m usually closing, and get stuck there at night. We close around 8, but here in California it\u2019s dark by 5, so now there\u2019s a bigger window for robbery considering they do it at night. I\u2019ve stated I don\u2019t feel safe. Most employees have made the same complaint since it\u2019s just two people working at night. (Robberies are usually multiple people.) With the holidays here and daylight savings time I\u2019m having anxiety attack\u2019s on the clock, now a nightmare, and I\u2019m super fearful to go into work. Is there anything I can do? I\u2019ve worked my way up the company already, and don\u2019t want to jump ship, I just want to work with piece of mind. Is there anything I can do? Maybe pepper spray? Or anything on laws stating we need security if there\u2019s a lot of robberies back to back?\n","title":"Am I allowed to carry any protection at work?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569196875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7yo2p\/threatened_to_be_reported_for_cp_by_a_troll\/","id":"d7yo2p","body":"About 1 week ago I asked on Reddit if I should report someone regarding an child porn situation where someone said they had it. Someone then randomly said I had child porn too, either to fuck with me or he was serious. I don\u2019t have anything of that sort. He sent me a PM threatening me. Idk what to do and my anxiety is jumping up. What should I do? I\u2019m afraid he will report me like he said he would even thought I didn\u2019t do anything.... located in Canada. Ontario.","title":"Threatened to be reported for CP by a troll?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552948140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2p2bg\/how_to_get_money_refund_on_a_reloadable_card\/","id":"b2p2bg","body":"So it's more and more evident the site was scam (details in my last post here).\n\nThey said they send it out today, I even messaged them when. Haven't heard anything all day. \n\nHow do I go about trying to get money back on a reloadable card? It's through Kroger store. Will they help us get the money back? Going to go there tomorrow and talk to them and see if we hear from the site 2salesaday.com. \n\nI feel like such an idiot and just want to fix this somehow. It's been a week since we placed the order. \n\nLocation: USA. ","title":"How to get money refund on a reloadable card?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444873818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oswsp\/hawaii_im_an_independent_contractor_and_my\/","id":"3oswsp","body":"Background: I'm an independent contractor who has worked for the same company for four years.\n\nOk so my employer recently began requiring everyone to track their time via an app called time doctor. We discovered that it really does track everything - even the apps and websites you visit while you're on the clock, and it takes screenshots periodically. Is this even legal? I checked a little bit and privacy laws seem to mostly talk about employees and don't say much about independent contractors. I perform the contracted work on my own machine, it isn't company owned at all. Can I refuse to use the app and point to some law about it?\n\nI'm concerned about it because it can capture sensitive information that I'm viewing, such as server or database passwords. And there's private conversations I could be having via Slack or any other messaging app. I'm a web developer by the way.","title":"[Hawaii] I'm an independent contractor and my employer recently began requiring use of a time tracking app that literally tracks everything","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551364901,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avru96\/ny_first_time_moving_have_some_questions_feel\/","id":"avru96","body":"So I'm basically moving in with some roommates. My scheduled move in day is 3\/1. However, I signed my lease on 2\/22 and I still haven't received my keys, so I haven't even taken measurements of my room so I can order my bed and what not. Also, I did have to pay a deposit (which I expected because of my credit) of last 2 months rent, this month and next. So I gave them 3 months rent in cashiers check day of signing, but the 4th payment they asked for me to Venmo to them the day before I went to go sign my lease. I'm wondering if this is like common practice or am I getting juked.\n\nI feel I basically paid for February yet I didn't have access to my apartment at all the remainder of the mont, they did say they were going to call me to wet up a day for me to get my keys and I haven't received anything since that day. Any advice?","title":"[NY] First time moving have some questions, feel like I'm getting played by my landlord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443545099,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3muown\/time_warner_cable_wont_resolve_a_billing_error\/","id":"3muown","body":"Hi, I am part of a group that runs a conference out of NYC and I am a resident of NY State. We needed a temporary internet connection and used Time Warner Cable for two business class lines. I cancelled the lines as soon as we were done with them but TWC took months to actually turn them off and now they are trying to bill me for months of service after I returned their routers and called to disconnect service. I have been dealing with this for six months and recently they've gotten a collection agnecy to start calling me. I'm trying to just get them to bill me for what I actually owe them but I can't seem to get it done and wondering if some sort of legal action would help resolve the situation quickly. Do I have any standing to claim damages here? I have phone logs but (stupidly) have not recorded any of my conversations.","title":"Time Warner Cable won't resolve a billing error for six months and have started sending collection agencies after me.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1445128860,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p6bds\/might_have_to_fight_hoa_over_fence_damage_mesa_az\/","id":"3p6bds","body":"Hello today I received a letter from my HOA asking me to replace my fence because it's falling down.  Back story-  I moved into my town house in 2004.  The community was ran by a management company and I contacted them about the flooding of the sprinklers in my patio area.  They informed me that the community sprinklers shouldn't be in my patio area and there should be a shut off box because they were my sprinklers.  I never found a box and no one ever came to fix it.  The wood rotted out because of the constant flooding and compromised the fence.  Now someone who lives in the community took over management.  I contacted him in 2013 and about the issue and the sprinklers in my patio area were covered a couple months ago in 2015.  I sent them a email explaining why I feel the HOA should replace my fence and sent pictures of the rotted wood and the flooding.  Even the sprinklers outside of my patio area flood by my fence.  Do I have any ground to stand on if they say they won't replace my fence and try to make me replace my fence that was damaged by the communities water system?","title":"Might have to fight HOA over fence damage. Mesa, AZ","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554563328,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba588d\/estate_agents_gaining_access_to_my_rented\/","id":"ba588d","body":"Hello.\n\nJust going to preface this by saying I know very little about housing\/tenancy laws but I'm sure that this is a breach of privacy in some way. Please advise me if you can as I'm not very knowledgeable in this area.\n\nSo a few months ago my Landlord decided to text me to say that he was going to be selling the house. So I did what any normal person would do and started to look for a new place. Never actually had an official letter of notice, just a text message. \n\nA couple of times, the estate agents have called me to arrange some viewings on the property which I've obliged to (I have a busy work life so I've had to ask them at the time of them asking to reschedule for other days\/times). Before any viewings took place I was asked by the estate agents if I was okay with them gaining access to the property while I wasn't there. I explicitly told them I was not okay with it.\n\nAt the second viewing, while I was at home expecting someone to turn up for the viewing, I heard what sounded like keys turning in the lock of the front door. My keys were currently in the door so obviously nobody could get in. I opened the door when the estate agent knocked and let them in to view the property with the prospective buyer. They came and went, no harm.\n\nCue to half an hour ago when I'm sat at home, unaware of any more viewings on the house. I hear a key turn in the lock, the front door opens and as I jump up to guard the entrance, there's a lady stood there saying she was here to view the property. I told her I wasn't expecting anybody to view the property today as the estate agents hadn't notified me of any viewings. She apologised and called her office to cancel the appointment.\n\nI've just called the estate agents who apologised but said they couldn't currently take any action as the person who scheduled the appointments wasn't working today. I also messaged my landlord and explained the situation to him. He has just responded with the following:\n\n\"Yes there has been 2 viewings im aware of no more. I have knowledge of the two for today and the other tuesday. Theres one booked in for Thursday at 2pm. I need the house gone so its probably best if you try and be out for the end of the month as i cant turn away the viewings as i need it gone asap. Sorry\"\n\nAs it stands, I'm only aware of one viewing which the estate agents arranged with me yesterday which is the one on Thursday at 2pm. I'm unaware of any other viewings that my landlord has informed me of.\n\nI can probably move out by the end of this month (getting the funds together to move out isn't particularly easy for me at the moment) but if I can't, what action can I take? Have I been wronged legally? Does the landlord have the say so to go over my head with regards to people viewing the property without my consent or knowledge? Do I HAVE to move out by the end of this month?\n\nThanks for any answers.","title":"Estate agents gaining access to my rented property (UK)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569340563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8p51l\/im_being_stalkedgirls_from_hostel_beside_home\/","id":"d8p51l","body":"can i take any legal actions\n\nthere's a gap between their hostels veranda and my home window\n\nthere're some gurls unnecessarily gathers around there and talk nasty about me which is quite audible \n\nim a male and i dont feel good at all about it","title":"im being stalked;girls from hostel beside home peeks at my home window 4th floor","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541519258,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9upf4u\/trying_to_get_out_of_a_horrible_marriage\/","id":"9upf4u","body":"Ok- This takes place in Florida: So I met\/fell in love then married this man I met through a mutual friend, he\u2019s from Argentina and looking for love and ultimately US citizenship.... This was back in Oct 2007. We go through the interview process with immigration and I find out (there) he was married before and that all of our papers, pictures, interview checks out, however they want proof that the first marriage was legitimate and real. I\u2019m blown away, first because he never told me that info and secondly how does one prove a legitimate relationship besides the obvious sharing bills, insurance etc. apparently they didn\u2019t add each other on insurance, all the bills were in her name, etc. basically looking like it was fraud because she fell out of love and ran off to New York which totally happens to US citizens and non. Nonetheless we were told his papers and green card would not be processed until some kind of proof was brought forward. We try to get a hold of her and surprise, surprise she\u2019s changed her number, we try to track her down and nothing, zero zilch. 2 years pass and I eventually find out he has a secret girlfriend that he had a child with and was pretty much using me to gain his US citizenship. We broke up, he said he would handle\/take care of the divorce and I never hear from him again. I\u2019m getting ready to move to California and I stop by the courthouse to get a copy of the divorce, he filed the papers but we were supposed to appear in court and everything got dropped so here I am still married and now living in a state where after 10 years the law is 50\/50 I\u2019m freaking out, I work hard for everything I have and now I might have to split what I busted my ass for, what can I do? Where do I even start? Any advice would be appreciated.\n\nLong story short: I married someone who was looking for citizenship and ultimately lied to me about who they were, looking to get a divorce even though I moved from the state where we got married and he is nowhere to be found.","title":"Trying to get out of a horrible marriage situation, I have no idea what to do, please help.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539729130,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9osj0a\/ma_what_can_i_do_to_legally_get_rid_of_my_mom\/","id":"9osj0a","body":"Hi guys. I hope this isn\u2019t a stupid question since I\u2019m running out of ideas.\n\nBackstory: I\u2019m 23F student living with my parents who are legally divorced but live together for financial reasons. The house is under both of their names but my mother doesn\u2019t pay for anything or work, so my father doesn\u2019t want to give her part of her share. I tried to convince him otherwise but he\u2019s pretty stubborn about keeping the house.\n\nMy mom used to physically abuse my dad and actually broke his hand before. This led to him filing a restraining order that was on file for a year or so? She\u2019s been in jail for a week (3x) for breaking rules and staying at the house anyways. \n\nFast forward to now: Their restraining order has been over for a while and now that my dad is seeing someone else, she\u2019s been extremely crazy and acting up. I think she has borderline personality disorder if that changes anything. \n\nI already tried to tell her my feelings and how she makes me feel suicidal and to please stop. But she doesn\u2019t change (not surprised). So now I have this uncontrollable anger anytime she starts a fight with my dad. \n\nI feel like calling a local cop won\u2019t fix anything.. is there anything I can look into? Maybe getting a restraining order on her myself? I can\u2019t save and move out right now because I\u2019m a nursing student. Any suggestions would be great. Sorry if this isn\u2019t the right subreddit.\n","title":"[MA] What can I do to legally get rid of my mom?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554325545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b93q2m\/what_might_happen\/","id":"b93q2m","body":"I recently did something really stupid. I am an 8th grade student(M) and I was walking down the hallway with my friends and they told me to jump up and touch the exit sign on the ceiling. I'm to short to reach it, so I jumped up and accidentally hit the sign so that it came off its base. I told the principal and he said that he would talk about it tomorrow. I did research on how much the damages are and it came to around 100 to 150 dollars. I want to know, if the school decides to, what charges they could press. I'm very scared. I've never damaged property before, and I've never vandalised. I've never been involved with the law.","title":"What might happen?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541709302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vdo7g\/crosspost_alberta_room_rental_moving_out_due_to\/","id":"9vdo7g","body":"[https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TenantHelp\/comments\/9vdkza\/alberta\\_room\\_rental\\_moving\\_out\\_due\\_to\\_constant\/](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TenantHelp\/comments\/9vdkza\/alberta_room_rental_moving_out_due_to_constant\/)\n\n​\n\nI just need to know what I should do to cover myself and make sure I get my deposit back. ","title":"Crosspost Alberta room rental moving out due to constant harassment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541527581,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uqpts\/im_homeless_and_the_apartment_i_applied_for_wont\/","id":"9uqpts","body":"So I applied for my first apartment in August.  It\u2019s brand new, has all the amenities my girlfriend and I want, and was really close to my work.  Our application got approved, put down the deposit and everything was dandy.  The leasing agent was quick and nice and everything was sorted out.  My apartment complex is being built but it *was* scheduled to be done by October 15th.  That\u2019s what they told me when I turned in the application.  We have a place to live until November 1st.  They told me on our move in date we would sign the lease.  Cool right? Well not really.  \n\nThey pushed our date back to November 15th.  That\u2019s pushing it with our living situation but we can make it work until then.  We had to email\/call our leasing agent and fight tooth and nail to hear any updates.  She suddenly didn\u2019t give a shit about us or keeping us in the loop at all.  So we email weekly.  There was zero communication on her end, everything I know I had to ask about.  We decided to mainly email so we could have a record of what was said. We emailed her yesterday to confirm next Wednesday was the move in date and the leasing agent said \u201cit\u2019s still scheduled to be done on December 1st but I\u2019m betting on mid December.\u201d  We had no knowledge of this prior, this is the first we\u2019ve heard about it being done in December. \n\nWe\u2019re going to be homeless.  We\u2019ve already been borderline homeless for a month living out of our cars and boxes.  If I would have known it would get pushed back this far I wouldn\u2019t have applied.  They told me October.  Now you\u2019re hoping for mid December, if that? They won\u2019t give the deposit back because of the application we signed and the terms associated with it.  I\u2019m currently trying to find some wiggle room.  I have a horrible feeling about this apartment complex, and they won\u2019t compensate me for this to help me find somewhere to live or even give my $300 deposit back.  \n\nMy girlfriend called my leasing agents boss hoping someone would be able to help at the corporate level.  The boss yelled at and interrupted my girlfriend before hearing the whole story saying there is nothing they could do since we signed the application.\n\nPersonally, I feel like they have violated the contract we had and I want to fight it until I can\u2019t or until I get that money back.  They told us multiple move in dates with confidence that influenced my decision.  I have the emails.  They aren\u2019t compensating me for these months without a home and they don\u2019t show any remorse at all.  They essentially told me to figure it out and they\u2019ll let me know when it\u2019s ready.  \n\nI feel manipulated, lied to, and like they\u2019re just trying to take my money.  No matter what happens my girlfriend and I are not signing that lease.  If I lose $300 it\u2019ll hurt but not as much as it potentially could if I live there.  There\u2019s a lot of shady things going on, and I don\u2019t trust them whatsoever.  I don\u2019t want to get charged for holes in the wall when I never hung anything up etc.  they seem like the kind to get every last penny and I\u2019ve heard horror stories before.  This has already been a terrible experience and I don\u2019t even live there. \n\nWe\u2019re currently looking for another place and I\u2019m hounding the apartment company for that deposit as we speak.  \n\nSo, Reddit, is there anything I can do? \n\nTL;DR\n\nApplied for an apartment and got approved.  I haven\u2019t signed a lease, only the application.  The complex isn\u2019t built and the date has been pushed back multiple times without us getting informed.  Move in date is going to be at least two months past when they originally told me it would be.  I\u2019m homeless right now and I\u2019m not sure how much longer because of this apartment complex.  They won\u2019t give me my deposit back or any compensation towards my living situation.  Am I shit out of luck? ","title":"I\u2019m homeless and the apartment I applied for won\u2019t give me my deposit or compensate me when it\u2019s their fault.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542133846,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wro56\/fpoa_screwed_up_and_because_of_that_gave_my\/","id":"9wro56","body":"My relative passed away almost two years ago and for about 6 years prior the FPOA took care of the finances.  I was her medical POA but I vaguely knew what was going on with her money situation because we were worried she would run out. \n\nFPOA took all of relative\u2019s money out of checking and moved it to an account at another bank where it got more interest. FPOA didn\u2019t check the beneficiaries on the account she moved it to, and when the relative died we were all surprised to learn the beneficiary of almost all of her life savings was the financial guy at the church, so all the money went to him and we assume it went to the church from there. I\u2019m not actually sure- maybe he kept it for all I know. \n\nMy FPOA did not mean to give the church over $200,00, but they were supposed to get about $25,000 through the will + whatever should have been in that first account before the FPOA decided to move it all over. \n\nNow the FPOA has done very little with the rest of the money, and it\u2019s about to come up on two years. My relative still has accounts in her name, despite being dead. I think she\u2019s sitting on it because she knows she still owes the church more money through the will process. She did make an account for the estate of my relative, but that\u2019s it. \n\nThree questions: 1) the money the church took is gone, right? 2) should I just let FPOA sit on my relative\u2019s accounts for all eternity? 3) should I stay out of this, or try to solve it? I\u2019m not even on the will so there\u2019s really nothing in it for me, but it\u2019s stressing my family out.\n","title":"FPOA screwed up, and because of that gave my relative\u2019s entire life savings to the church when she died. Church was meant to get a much smaller amount.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1503415288,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vbprh\/aggressive_driver_attempted_to_get_me_to_rear_end\/","id":"6vbprh","body":"Location: U.S., Pennsylvania.\n\nLast Thursday, I was travelling on the highway and a semi was in front of me traveling slightly below my speed (73), so I moved into the left lane and began to pass him steadily. A pickup truck came up behind me at excessive speed and tailgated me rather closely as I was steadily passing. I brake checked him, though it was probably not the best decision.\n\nAfter I passed the semi, the pickup passed me, moved into my lane without a turn signal, and braked hard in what I believe was an attempt to get me to rear end him. I did not rear end him. After this, he slowed down significantly, blocked my attempts to pass him by veering into the other lane without a turn signal, and began video taping the event with his phone out of his window.\n\nGiven that I followed him approximately 15-20 mph below the speed limit for a minute or two as he video taped, I then turned my turn signal on and passed him- though I realize this gave him my plate.\n\nUnfortunately, I do not have a dash cam to corroborate any of this story, but I have attempted to describe it as plainly and accurately as I can recall. I have no problem admitting when I've done something wrong and paying the fines, but I feel as if I did nothing wrong in this case (perhaps the brake check).\n\nIs it possible, somehow, that I could receive a citation based off of this fellow's video? Would appreciate your thoughts.","title":"Aggressive driver attempted to get me to rear end him, video taped the incident- could I get a citation?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568690151,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5b8wv\/what_are_my_free_speech_rights_as_a_us_government\/","id":"d5b8wv","body":"I'm interested in writing pretty pointed left wing stuff. Nothing related to my work of course. But far enough left to upset your average member of Congress.\n\nJob is not at all classified, miles away from anything foreign policy or war related. I understand due to the Hatch Act you can't advocate for\/against election of candidates on work time, no problem for me. I also have no problem never identifying myself with my agency or title outside of work or connecting my writing to it. I would prefer to write under my own name but could deal with a pseudonym if it seems like a big difference in safety. \n\nThis still seems like a risky proposition. \n\nSo what should I know? It seems like this is more complicated than \"you can do this, but not this\" aside from a few big ones, but what have been the lines drawn in past cases? I'm down to read cases\/long things that would be interesting.","title":"What are my free speech rights as a US government employee, specifically regarding political journalism and opinion writing?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539869937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p9ckh\/frustrated_with_the_lack_of_charges_after_a\/","id":"9p9ckh","body":"Not sure what my questions are exactly, just still in flailing frustrated \u2018what can I do\u2019 shock. Colorado Springs.\n\nI have ptsd. Ive had it for years, but recently I was freshly traumatized. On October 3rd, a lady pushed her way into a house I was cleaning while the tenant wasn\u2019t home, punched my shoulder when I raised my arms to block her in the entryway- I backed up and tried to hold a chair between us as she was pursuing me.. but I blacked out once she got both of her hands around my throat and strangled me in front of my three year old. \n\nI\u2019ve had ptsd from childhood trauma. Until last week I had not blacked out in five years. When I came to, she was screaming, defensively curled in the doorway. I saw a bleeding scratch on her face but no other marks. I put my hands up in the air, palms open and backed up. My son had run to a different part of the room for safety. I let her leave, screaming that I was a crazy bitch.\n\nShe was an employee of property management. She had been arguing with the tenant. I\u2019d never argued with her. I did deny her access to the house because she had an established history of not providing notice to enter, which she admitted to the police. I told her to call the police for escorted access to the unit (thinking I was calling her bluff) However, the day before she had given notice through email to the tenant (who wasn\u2019t aware). \n\nWether it\u2019s relevant or not, I\u2019m also dating the person whose house I was cleaning so I knew entirely of the tensions between THEM.\n\nI had friction marks and scratches on my neck. My neck, jaw and ear were bright red.  Yet the police said she was in worse condition because there was purple coloring on her face.  I didn\u2019t think bruises can turn purple within an hour. I know it took over an hour for my neck scratches to puff out and my throat to swell until I couldn\u2019t speak right or swallow without pain. What I do know, however is that she did sit in her car with her purse out of view for thirty minutes -which raises my suspicion.\n\nThe police didn\u2019t send me to the ER for my throat. They didn\u2019t suggest anything. I decided to go to urgent care for the pain. The staff freaked out and sent me to the ER for a cat scan of my throat and to be seen by a forensic nurse. I\u2019m fine. My throat still hurts over a week later, but I\u2019m ok. \n\nWhat\u2019s more is I found her on Instagram within two days after. She was posting selfies. No marks on her face. No swelling. I screenshot it all -but she\u2019s good with makeup and used heavy filters. The best screenshot I got was a still out of a video she took of herself sitting in the sun. Nothing wrong with her face. \n\nNo charges were pressed because the police said it was a he said she said situation due to no witnesses and they didn\u2019t want to choose sides. She says I jumped her after entering the unit. I say she forced her way in and strangled me. They sent the information to the da but said nothing would likely come of it. They seemed unsure of what to do. \n\nI am. Super. Deeply. Fucked up about this. This trauma has unearthed a lot of old trauma. I\u2019m having anxiety attacks now that floor me. Ones where my throat burns when nothing is touching it. I went to a walk in clinic, I\u2019m seeking long term counseling. \n\nI\u2019ve gone to the police station to request a copy of the report and the body worn cam footage. \n\nI don\u2019t have the money to afford a lawyer. Additionally, all of this happened in Colorado Springs and I\u2019m 9 days away from moving to Florida. \n\nI don\u2019t know what I can really do about this situation or if I could do anything about it from Florida.","title":"Frustrated with the lack of charges after a strangulation assault","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444577292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oc7jz\/florida_got_a_copyright_notice_from_ceg_tek_in\/","id":"3oc7jz","body":"Got a notice about \"Third World Amateurs in Indonesia\" which I thought must have been a creatively titled production company of some sort, but it turns out it's a porn. \n\nI have NEVER pirated porn so it 100% was not me. \n\nI think I've fallen victim to being an exit node for other people to spoof their IP through. Looking it up, I believe it was \"Tribler\", which I did not know made me an exit node until today. I did use Hola Unblocker to get past some geoblocks before and that was another exit node program. \n\nWhat should I do in regards to the CEG TEK copyright notice? There is no website or anything listed in the email from my ISP, just a \"case ID\".\n\nAnd how likely is this to damage me?\n\n**edit:** thanks for the replies, everyone!","title":"[Florida] Got a copyright notice from CEG TEK in regards to a porn title, but I've never pirated porn.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444156762,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nqmue\/austintx_can_i_be_charged_rent_for_a_room_not_to\/","id":"3nqmue","body":"Backstory time~ My bedroom ceiling had been leaking for well over a month with plenty of work orders placed and nothing being fixed. It got to the point the ceiling was water logged and there was mold growing. Someone removed the ceiling but again the ball was dropped and I was left with a hole in my ceiling for a month. ( I can get into actual dates if it matters). So after losing hope they would actually complete any repairs of the leak I contacted local tenant office and they adviced me two things - send them a certified letter stating that the repairs needed to begin within 7 days or I would either terminate my lease, or not pay etc and\/or I could call code enforcement and get them written up for having my ceiling exposed because it was against code. Not wanting to take it to the extreme unless needed I just sent the letter.\n\nHere is where my issue lies. I moved out of the apartment because of the mold and the open ceiling on SEPT 8th and did not move back until October 2nd when they finally patched (not painted just patched) the hole. I told them I wanted my rent deducted for the time that I was not able to live in my apartment, they said they could talk to me when repairs are 100% here we are today Oct 6th. My Rent is 1,265 and I personally pay $675, (I have a roommate). They are only offering to take $250 off my rent. I was out of my APT for 24 days, so my basic human math tells me that's worth $522.58 for that time. They said because it was only my bedroom effected they will only deduct 1\/2 of that. Ignoring the fact that I didn't even live there for that time, I mean am I suppose to sleep on the kitchen floor.....? Also with the ceiling being exposed and against city code can they even legally charge me to live in a place that would be against code. Which would be more than my $522.58 because the hole was there longer than 24 days.\n\nPlease feel free to ask me any details that could be important that I left out.","title":"[Austin,TX] Can I be charged rent for a room not to code?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555528664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bebtum\/extended_stay_america_is_kicking_me_out\/","id":"bebtum","body":"Hey, so I have never posted on this sub reddit before, so I apologize if this is the wrong sub. But the Extended Stay America I am staying at is kicking me out tomorrow and I want to know if they can legally do that. \n\nHere is my story- \n\nSo, at this Extended Stay America (ESA) if you commit to staying for a month, you pay by the week and you get a $100 discount each week. So instead of paying like $500 for a week, if you commit to 30 days, it's only $400 a week. And this is what my fiance and I decided to do while we still look for a permanent residence.\n\nToday, April 17,2019, I went to pay for another week earlier this morning, when I was told that I couldn't pay and I was on the DNR (DO Not rent) list. Now, I will be honest, my fiance and I were kicked out of the last extended stay america but that was because some dumb broad in the office over booked our room and for double the price we were paying. But, it was the end of our 30 days at that ESA so we just went to a different ESA. This one to be exact...  \n\nWe have only been here for a week and the lady in the office says \"I was informed last night by the night clerk that you are on the DNR list.\" \n\nI said \"What are you talking about? I havent stayed at any other ESA\"    ...Now this wasnt a 100% lie... At the last ESA it was in my fiance's name. It is in his name this time as well. But they didnt notice and rented to us anyway. Also my fiance is out of town for work at the moment. So the lady asked my name, I said my full legal name. \n\nShe said \"No that is not the name you gave me a few days ago\" \n\nNow. I am confused... \"Yes that is my full legal name. It's on my drivers license. \" \n\nShe then said \"well I will have to check with the night clerk again and I will let you know by tomorrow. But  be prepared to leave.\"\n\n​\n\nSo, my question for all of you is- is this legal? We signed a contract committing to 30 days. We have done nothing to deserve to be evicted. Also, the room is in my fiance's name. But my name is on there as another person who is staying in the room. But my name wasn't on the room at the last ESA... im just so confused.. .help!","title":"EXTENDED STAY AMERICA IS KICKING ME OUT!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570636905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfj3ri\/does_this_count_as_adultery\/","id":"dfj3ri","body":"I'm in Pennsylvania.  \n\n  \n\nI'm going through a divorce right now. Around 8 months ago I was separated from my ex husband. The relationship was already dead for around 3 years, no affection, me sleeping on the sofa (he let me sleep on the sofa with our new born while he took the bed, he hit me in his sleep so I couldn't have the baby around him) and him sleeping in the bed. So when I officially said things were over and I wanted a divorce we got a lawyer and got things rolling. Around the separation we both talked about seeing other people, we both agreed \"as long as we don't bring anyone home to stay over neither of us care\".  \n\n  \n\nAround a month later I got to talking to a guy here on Reddit. We talked via text for maybe 2 months before we started talking via video and we've got very, very close since then. The divorce isn't final yet but it's very close to over. He's sent me a few packages and one had his surname on it because we were joking about how I'd sound with his surname. My ex went through my things when I was out, (and destroyed and stole my property) found this and went crazy saying I'd taken another man's name and then he went even crazier when he found out I'd been talking to another guy online (he's been trying to find a woman so I don't see the issue). He says it's dangerous. I met my ex in person and he's turned out to check of 5 out of the 6 signs of a domestic abuser, he ran out daughter over while driving stoned, he left me and the children without food, gas, phone and internet for months trying to extort sex from me, saying if I don't get back with him he'll keep the money cut off. And he has.  \n\n  \n\nAnyway, one night talking on video this new guy we got a little heated and things got sexual. Little did I know that my ex literally had his ear to the door of my bedroom (we've agreed the bedroom is mine now, it's my private space while the basement and rest of the house are his. So now suddenly in court he's saying I've committed adultery because \"I masturbated with a guy on the internet\". I'm worried that this is technically true but the divorce isn't final, we hadn't even slept in the same bed for THREE YEARS, then after we both agreed to literally see people IN PERSON he freaks out over an online relationship? I haven't even met this new guy in person yet.  \n\n  \n\nMy ex hacked my gmail and has this new guy's details and for some reason was reading his name and address out during a support hearing and was going with the whole \"she committed adultery\" thing. They didn't give me a chance to respond and when they did his lawyer (I didn't have a lawyer because he cut all money off) lawyer interrupted me so I couldn't tell the judge how the relationship was long over.  \n\n  \n\nI'm not really concerned about support, I only wanted it for a few months while I find a job but I've found one, I don't want this man's money, I don't want any aspect of him in my life anymore but he's telling people I want to live off alimony forever. I luckily found a job two days ago though so the support stuff is irrelevant. However I'm worried that, because the divorce isn't final, they'll say I committed adultery because I spoke to a guy online long after we agreed to see other people. He's seeing women in real life or is trying to; I found condoms. So isn't he guilty of worse?  \n\n  \n\nI heard there's no concrete definition of adultery and they go case by case based on the facts of things. What do you all think based on this? I AM very close to this new guy and we'll be meeting soon, in 2 months but I met him LONG after the marriage was over spiritually and months after we agreed to see other people in person. He's acting like I divorced for no reason - I tried fixing it over and over and over but was told by his family (I have no family to help me or to talk to about personal things so I'd go to his family) to \"just let him take out his anger on you, don't take it seriously, he'll tire himself out\" when it came to him smashing things and verbally assaulting me because he had a bad day at work. (And I know people get biased during divorces, I'm not perfect, but this guy, he's like the perfect stereotype of an abuser. I didn't divorce him for no reason and I certainly didn't divorce him because I met someone new like he's implying.)  \n\n  \n\nWhat are your thoughts?","title":"Does this count as adultery?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549606301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aodneq\/should_i_be_getting_paid_for_the_time_it_takes_to\/","id":"aodneq","body":"St. Louis\/St. Charles, Missouri. \n\nI work for a company that sells Direct TV and works the cellphone kiosk in all the warehouse clubs in my city. \n\nWe have to be at the main office by 9am for meetings, to practice our selling pitch, and to get our club locations for the day if it\u2019s not been posted. We clock in on our phones running a time clock app, and clock out when we leave the office. \n\nWe usually leave around 10-1030ish so that we can be at our assignment by 11, the time that the kiosks open. Should we be getting paid for our driving time? We cant clock back in till 1055ish at the earliest. Even if it\u2019s a closer location we have to wait around till we can clock in. Many of the clubs are far spread from each other and it\u2019s not unusual to have to drive 30-45 minutes most days of the week. \n\nFor example I often work at a club in the northern areas of the county or across the Missouri River into the next county. It easily takes me 45 minutes to get home (I know I can\u2019t get paid for this but it\u2019s relevant to see how far we drive everyday). ","title":"Should I be getting paid for the time it takes to get from the main office to my assigned work location?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571759667,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dljvg3\/tennessee_usa_lease_signed_by_me_and_the\/","id":"dljvg3","body":"Hi Reddit. \n\nLocated in Chattanooga, Tennessee. \n\nJust like the title says, I signed a lease a couple weeks ago for an apartment that I moved into you on Friday. The lease was also signed by management and stated that I paid prorated rent for the rest of this month, a $150 processing fee, and a $150 security deposit. I pay this balance on Friday we get a money order, referencing the amounts due on my lease and welcome letter. \n\nI got an email today from the apartment complex stating they made an error when they drew up the lease and the welcome letter, and that I actually owe one months rent for my security deposit. \n\nI\u2019m wondering if the initial lease I signed is legally binding, and if I have to sign a new lease and pay the additional several hundred dollars for the new security deposit. Everything I\u2019ve read online basically says that if the original lease was signed by the complex as well, then it is the contract. \n\nThere is one part of my lease that states \u201c if this lease constitutes a renewal or revise lease, then you agree to pay to Landlord only the amount, if any, by which the security deposits shown in this lease exceed the amount of security deposits Landlord is already holding.\u201d This is the only thing I see that might be relevant. \n\nThanks in advance for your advice.","title":"[Tennessee, USA] Lease signed by me and the apartment complex. They say they made an error on my security deposit and want me to resign the lease and pay several hundred dollars more for my deposit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542228830,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x40cv\/utahpossible_hit_and_run_on_highway_to_my_car\/","id":"9x40cv","body":"Today I was driving home after taking my boyfriend lunch on the highway. The highway has intersections and the light was red, this was on a bridge where there weren't really any shoulder lanes. I was sitting in park with the other cars because the light was red. Admittedly I was daydreaming, but we were all parked waiting for the light to turn green, so I wasn't paying attention to the cars behind me. All of a sudden I feel a loud thump and my heart stops. I get really anxious and I look behind me, there is a car right behind me and it takes me a second but I finally connect that I have been hit. The light turns green and we're on a highway, so many thoughts are running through my head and I don't know what to do. So I pull further down the highway to find a shoulder, and the car behind me doesn't move. It is really badly damaged from running into me, his lights and bumper are hanging off. It looks pretty bad, so I start getting really worried about my car. I'm still paying off my car and even though it's a junker it upset me to think that someone not paying attention damaged it. Eventually the car pulls away from the scene of the accident but he doesn't follow me to find a shoulder, he just drives off.\n\n​\n\nI get his license plate, I memorized it until I get home. I took pictures of the damage that happened to my car, luckily it seems like there was just paint scraped on the corner of the bumper and a slight dent. Still, I don't think this was my fault. The damage seems minimal and I wasn't hurt. What should I do? I've never had this happen before. ","title":"[Utah]Possible Hit and Run on Highway (to my car), unsure what to do.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541424691,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9udi9w\/fighting_a_speeding_ticket_from_a_police_business\/","id":"9udi9w","body":"I received a speeding citation in New Holland, Ohio. They have been in quite a bit of legal trouble for several reasons and if you do a simple google search you can learn more. But this town has now become a speed trap and I, of course, got a speeding ticket here. I was going 51 in a 35 because I saw the sign at the last second. I read online that you can call the citing officer and ask to meet with them in person and try to reason with them. Apparently they can let you out of the ticket until the point you appear in court. I tried calling the police department but they told me I would not be able to meet with him, because \"that's our policy\" and \"that's just not how we do BUSINESS\".  I want to know if it is legal for them to refuse a meeting with an officer. Additionally, if anyone else has any legal advice that would be appreciated. My other option is to ask if I can participate in the \"remedial Driving Instruction Course in Ohio\" but am unsure if this only removes the points and if my insurance company will still see the ticket and raise my premium. ","title":"Fighting a speeding ticket from a police business","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553709941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b67io7\/az_recently_in_an_accident_car_may_be_totaled\/","id":"b67io7","body":"Last week I was in an accident where the other driver was 100% at fault. My car (2016 Hyundai Elantra) was smashed on the rear passenger side with all of the tires damaged and had to be towed away. I filed through her insurance company, and it is currently being looked at to be given an estimate for repairs. I called them and they said so far it was $7000 to repair it and they haven\u2019t even looked at the suspension yet. So, it\u2019s looking like it may be totaled, and I owe about $2000 more than the KBB value on my loan. I looked it up, and to be totaled in AZ, the repairs and salvage value just need to exceed the actual value of the car. I did have GAP insurance, but since it was my first car, I didn\u2019t know that it didn\u2019t transfer when I refinanced my loan. So, no GAP.\n\nMy question is, would I have any legal standing to sue the other driver for the difference in the amount the value and my loan, assuming that it is totaled? I\u2019m thinking about talking to a local attorney, but I don\u2019t know how to even find a good one. ","title":"[AZ] Recently in an accident, car may be totaled","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540152902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q6r1f\/my_grandfather_died_last_year_and_my_mom_is\/","id":"9q6r1f","body":"(I apologise for the formatting and spelling\/grammatical errors, I'm currently on mobile)\n\nMy family lives in Alabama and my grandfather's children and their guardian currently live in Florida.\n\nMy grandfather passed away from cancer back in August and if it wasn't for him, the children's mother would've lost custody of my aunt and uncle a long time ago (due to the mother's mental illness).  The babysitter offered to help out with the children, so we were pretty cool with the kids staying with the mom temporarily. My parents already have 7 biological children so we only wanted custody over my aunt and uncle immediately if things went south.\n\nSometime during the late spring, someone hired by the babysitter called the police on the mother and the mother flipped out on the officer (but I'm not quite sure on the details there), and as a result the mother lost custody and the children were put in state care. A short time after that, the babysitter was awarded temporary gaurdianship and apparently is now trying to adopt the children.\n\nIn the beginning, the babysitter was pretty supportive and only wanted what was best for the children. We both had the understanding that the situation was not going to be permanent. She's been unreliable in communication in regard to the children and we believe she's untrustworthy. \nThe babysitter now claims that my grandfather wanted her to care for the children, but that is such a lie. He signed a paper that stated that he wanted her to care for the children while he was up in Alabama for treatment. We have a notarized paper stating that ultimately, we were supposed to have the children if anything were to happen to my grandfather.\n\nMy mom's been so stressed about this lately and I want to do anything I can to help. We're a low-income family and may qualify for some type of assistance, if there is any. I'd appreciate any sort of advice that'd help us in our situation. \n","title":"My grandfather died last year and my mom is having trouble getting custody of her siblings from their former babysitter.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569301498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ijzd\/parents_divorcing\/","id":"d8ijzd","body":"My dad filed for a divorce recently. We live in Texas (Community law) but my mom wants to gift me a food truck that she\u2019s  recently purchased and built so I can start and run my own business. Would there be any problems if she were to change ownership of the food truck from her name to mine?","title":"Parents divorcing.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1441680976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k1p52\/va_mom_kicked_me_19_out_of_my_house_paying_rent\/","id":"3k1p52","body":"as stated in the title I'm 19 and still living at home. Yesterday my mother got mad about something and forced me to leave immediately. Not sure why she was angry and not wanting a confrontation I left. I'm paying $300\/mo to live at home (I work part time) but theres not really any lease. Can she legally kick me out in ~1.5 minutes?","title":"[VA] Mom kicked me (19) out of my house (paying rent) with no warning.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551594861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awrfzt\/raccoons_in_apartment_attic\/","id":"awrfzt","body":"So this happened last year. \n\nI lived in an apartment on the top floor and above me was an attic. For about six months of my 1 year lease I would hear raccoons bumping around during the night, about 3-4 nights out of a typically week. Obviously this was a nuisance and I am a light sleeper, so 3-4 times out of the week I would be woken out in the middle of the night, often during work days. \n\nI told my landlord about it, but the problem was that he lived in Texas and my apartment was in Ohio. He owned several other properties and maintained them himself along with one other person. Every weekend he would commute to Ohio to tend to his properties. \n\nYou see the raccoons were getting in from both the front and back ends of the house through holes in the roof that were visible from the ground. The first time I told him about the problem, he came through with a large metal cage to try and trap them. He left the cage up there for a week, checking every day. The only way to get through to the attic was through a trap door in the ceiling of my bedroom. So every day he carried a ladder three flights of stairs up to my apartment, set up shop in my bedroom, climbed into the attic to check the cage, and rinse and repeat, tracking little pieces of insulation fluff around my apartment. \n\nAfter a week or two he said he caught a raccoon and released it far from the premises. He said he couldn't see any holes from the attic, and didn't patch anything. \n\nWell a few months later the problem comes back. He doesn't come for about a week. He says he can't make it out here, and his contractor was sick or something. A week goes by, and he says he'll be back the following week. A month goes by and he doesn't come. At this point I was so sick of being woken up at night that I went up there myself and took a photo of a raccoon hanging out up there and sent it to him. He responded very quickly at this point and said he would swing by that weekend. \n\nSo he goes through the same routine of trying to capture the animal in a cage that he sets up there. \n\nAt another point, he also set up a smaller cage right outside my bedroom window where there was a ledge. Within a few hours a poor squirrel was caught up inside, and I told the landlord there was a squirrel caught there. Now mind you, this was outside on a roof practically in plain daylight - this wasn't even inside the attic. The landlord didn't come back until 5 days later, when of course the squirrel had already been long dead. I felt so bad for the squirrel, and it was upsetting to watch the thing be trapped to death for 5 days. \n\nAfter he picks up the squirrel and nothing from the attic, he finally decides to patch up the attic hole. But after he \"patches\" it, I still hear sounds coming from the attic. I keep telling the landlord that there are multiple entry ways but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. \n\nIt was very frustrating to live there. This was among other issues, such as at one point my refrigerator stopped working, and he couldn't order me a new one for about a week, and I had no place to store an entire refrigerator's worth of food at short notice for a week. At another time, both of the downstairs tenants were away on a trip and turned the heat off during a single digit cold winter spell, and the pipes froze. I was on my way out of the apartment because it was so cold when going past the basement door I could hear water gushing from a burst pipe. I called my landlord and he said I had to turn off the water. There was only one light bulb in that dark basement, and the water shutoff valve was all the way in the back in the dark. \n\nThere were several occasions where he would text me about needing to enter my apartment less than 24 hours notice in advance. Unfortunately my phone did this weird reset where half of our text messages during my stay there got deleted, so I don't have all the evidence of this. I did write down the dates all of these events transpired, however, while they were happening. \n\nI paid all of my rent on time, except for the last month. I moved out a few weeks before the last month was up, and he checked out the apartment and said everything looked good, there was no damage from my living there, and implied that I would get my deposit back. I was so sick of dealing with him at that point. So instead of paying the last month, just to get the same money back, I just didn't pay the last month, and never heard from him again. I moved out last April. \n\nIs there anything I can do about this at this point in time? It felt like it wasn't my home, because he had to keep checking traps every so often, and he tracked insulation around my apartment when he went up there. Could I potentially sue for emotional damages for living in such a place like this, with rodents in the attic and a squirrel trapped and dead outside my window for days? \n\nTl;dr lived in a crappy apartment with rodents in the attic and landlord took months to fix the issue","title":"Raccoons in apartment attic","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443947848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nfnqe\/imminent_divorce_because_of_verbal_abuse\/","id":"3nfnqe","body":"My husband has been verbally abusive for a very long time and I have finally decided to leave him, after many prior considerations.\n\nI have two small children - age 6, and age 4.  My 4 year old is my husband's biological child.  He signed an AOP at birth because we were not married at that time.\n\nHe is verbally abusive to both me and the children, although I am the main target.  From what I understand, in Arizona it is legal to record conversations if only one party (me) is aware of the recording.  I have multiple recordings of his verbal abuse, ranging from 2012 - 2014.  The last recording was over a year ago, and according to Arizona OOP laws it is no longer suitable to use for obtaining an OOP.  In these he threatens to kick me out of our home (I am on the lease) and destroy my property.\n\nI have no family here; they all live in another state.  I would like to stay here ideally so that my son can have a relationship with his father, but I have no support system.  I would like to keep my options open.  Since we are married, it is my understanding that he could petition the court to keep me residing here.  I feel helpless, as I have no support system.  \n\nThank you for reading this.  I feel very isolated and alone, and I appreciate your consideration.\n\n \n\n\n**My questions are:**  \n-  Is it legal for me to record these conversations\/threats?  \n-  Will the court allow me to leave if I say that I have no support system here, or will they tell me to deal with it?  \n-  If something else happens to make me feel unsafe and I were to abruptly move out of state without filing for divorce\/custody\/child support, could the court order me to return?  Or could I wait and file there?  ","title":"Imminent Divorce Because of Verbal Abuse - Potential Custody Relocation (AZ)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550596354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ascphw\/my_uncle_passed_away_and_verbally_left_a_condo_to\/","id":"ascphw","body":"Important info: The condo is in Hawaii, my mother and I live in Jersey. \n\n**\n\nMy Uncle (mothers brother who was never married and no kids) passed away in 2016. I was underage at the time and my mom and my uncle never got along. He verbally told several people (all of them willing to do anything they need to help me) and myself that he was leaving the apartment to my Auntie Susan (not blood related) but when I turned of age she would sign it over to me. \nAt first my Auntie agreed to sign over the condo to my mom right after his death. She postponed it so long that my mom eventually had to fly back home before getting it signed to her (the condo is in Hawaii where we grew up, but we now live in Jersey so it\u2019s hard to get there to coordinate things). My Auntie also told a lot of people that she was going to give it to me like my uncle asked her too. I have been of age for two years now but she was invading my calls and kept telling me she was working on it. \n\nI have fallen on hard times and would really like to live there. She is now 100% ignore all my calls and texts. \n\nIs there anything I can do to fight her on this? My uncle paid for this condo with the money my grandmother left him when she passed. My Auntie hasn\u2019t put any money into it or towards it (maybe condo fees but they could just be unpaid I\u2019m not sure) and as far as I know she is leaving a homeless drug user live there. \n\nTL;DR My uncle passed away and left a condo in my aunts name. He verbally told maybe people that it was meant for me, she also told many many people. These people are willing to help me in anyway possible. My Auntie is ignoring all my texts and calls.\n","title":"My Uncle passed away and verbally left a condo to me. My Auntie has the condo and refused to sign it to me or even speak to me. Is there anything I can do?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554161609,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8b8cu\/my_sister_hit_my_moms_car_and_now_denies_it\/","id":"b8b8cu","body":"Happened a few hours ago. I watched from the window as she side swiped my mother\u2019s car, causing it shake. I told her we had seen her hit the car, and we were calling the police. \n\nShe said she wanted to have it fixed immediately, and attempted to have us find an open car shop that would detail the car. We decided this was the best course of action as we did not want to get insurance companies involved. A few hours later, a family member she is close with contacted me saying that they are filling a police report to report a false accusation of her vehicle in an accident. \n\nThere is evident damage to the vehicle, minor but still damage and the car will need new paint and to be detailed. She also sent us a text saying if it will cost more then $500 we will have to go through insurance. \n\nWhat are my next steps from this point forward? ","title":"My sister hit my moms car and now denies it happened. I saw what happened from the window, and now she is being told by a family member not to pay.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555355554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdk3ic\/california_hit_and_run_in_rental_car_do_i_have\/","id":"bdk3ic","body":"Full story: I was driving a rental because I was involved in another accident in March. I\u2019m paying my $1K deductible for that accident already. I took my car to be fixed last week, and was driving a rental. On Thursday, I was hit from behind after coming to a sudden stop because the car in front of me braked suddenly for a stray dog. The car that hit me then fled the scene. I was unable to get the plate # or any other info about the driver. \n\nWhen I went to get my rental after taking my car to the shop, I was advised by my insurance company (AAA) to OPT OUT of the rental coverage at Hertz, because it was \u201cduplicate coverage\u201d. I took their word for it and did not buy the additional coverage. \n\nNow, because of the hit and run, I have to pay yet another $1K collision deductible to pay for the rental car that was damaged, because in CA uninsured motorist property damage coverage does not apply unless you have a plate # or ID of the driver. Had I paid the $11\/day for the Hertz insurance coverage, I would not have to pay my deductible because I\u2019d be 100% covered by the Hertz insurance. I feel I was deceived by AAA and not given all the info to make an informed decision as a consumer. \n\n<b>Do I have any way to fight having to pay my $1K deductible because I feel I was ill-advised by AAA to NOT get the Hertz coverage?<\/b>\n\nI\u2019m guessing I don\u2019t and that I should\u2019ve known better, but I just want to be sure there\u2019s nothing I can do about this. Thank you. \n\nTL;DR: I was hit and run in a rental in California and am being forced to pay my collision deductible, after being told to opt out of the rental car insurance by one of the AAA agents I spoke with. Rental coverage would\u2019ve cost me $11\/day and would\u2019ve covered any damage to the vehicle 100% so that I don\u2019t have to pay my deductible. I feel I was deceived\/not given all the info to make an informed decision. Do I have any grounds to file a complaint to try to avoid paying my deductible?","title":"California - Hit and run in rental car, do I have grounds to file a complaint that my insurance company advised me to opt out of rental coverage that would\u2019ve covered me 100%?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554432656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9lxii\/us_ca_can_i_do_anything_about_my_school_treating\/","id":"b9lxii","body":"Sorry in advance for formatting, I\u2019m on mobile.\n\nSo recently I was removed from my leadership class and stripped of my title of senior class President for:\nAn Instagram post where I voiced my opinion and the opinion of the students I was elected to serve that senior contracts need to be changed and aren\u2019t fair to students. The school saw this as being a being a bad leader and role model but I disagree because while I know the administration doesn\u2019t agree with what I said, but I was being a voice for my peers and leading by example. (It should be noted that our leadership contract also says \u201cyou have the right to voice opinions\u201d)\n\n&\n\nAttempting to change the music playlist at a dance. About 20 leadership students, including my self, attempted to change the music playlist for a dance because we felt the music was sub-par, the list was caught before the dance and our alternative playlist was never played. But in the end I was the only one who got any type of punishment.\n\nThe school is saying I do not meet their definition for \u201ca good role model\u201d and \u201ca good leader\u201d, but these terms are not defined anywhere in anything I signed to get into the class, but nevertheless I was still removed.\n\nSome things to note:\n\nOther students last year were caught drinking and vaping and were suspended for these acts. All 3 of the previously listed acts are specifically against our leadership code of ethics, but the 2 students who were caught remained in the class for the remainder of the last year and hold cabinet positions this year.\n\nSince my removal they have edited the Code of Ethics to include \u201cmust promote positive interactions between the administration and student body\u201d.\n\nThey never gave me or any other student any definitive to what a good leader or role model is, neither verbally or on paper.\n\nMy leadership constitution states \u201cyou have the right to voice opinions\u201d\n\nI feel the school is treating me unfairly due to the precedent they set last year, the fact no one else was punished, and the way I didn\u2019t directly break the leadership Code of Ethics, but still was removed, and potentially ruining my chances for colleges and I was wondering if anyone knew if I could do anything to dispute this claim.\n\n[here is the Instagram post](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/I3HsZ1k.jpg)","title":"[US, CA] can I do anything about my school treating me unfairly to my peers","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569629969,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da8vrv\/dismissed_tro_will_this_affect_my_hiring_in\/","id":"da8vrv","body":"Hi all! New to the subreddit. To sum this all up; had a messy breakup, tried to visit mutual friends, ex thought I was coming for her due to her paranoia and issued TRO and went into civil restraints once she was informed there was no case, all in NJ, USA. I\u2019ve signed off on that civilly and had to go through a gun forfeiture case which was dismissed before I even had the court date. \n\nMy question: Will this be holding me back at all or even denying me jobs within the law enforcement\/federal fields, and will I have to worry about purchasing firearms in the future? I\u2019ve nothing to feel bad about but I have some testing dates for police jobs soon and I\u2019m fairly certain it\u2019ll come up during interviews. Can these kinds of things be expunged? Are they worth it?","title":"Dismissed TRO: will this affect my hiring in law-enforcement\/federal positions?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1413538502,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ji4q1\/i_paid_for_my_domain_and_it_was_successfully\/","id":"2ji4q1","body":"Location: Netherlands\n\nHello all,\n\nI paid for a domain name and it was successfully registered\/asigned (I have the confirmation e-mail), but my domain name registrar later took it away from me.\n\nThe domain name is now in the possession of a premium domain name reseller, I believe their cheapest domains go for $10,000. \n\nAnd, even stranger; the domain name they took away from me, is linked to their main website. So when you type in that domain, you see their main website, but it is not a re-direction. All their other domain names are redirected to a ''make an offer'' page, but this one is not. This one is actually used. \n\nThe domain name has one of the new extensions: .press\nAs far as I know, there are no requirements to register a ''.press'' domain. The name of the domain is not a trademark either, just some letters. \n\nSo; are they allowed to do this? To take my money, register a domain, and then simply take it away?\n\nThey say that if I want it back, I need to provide proof or something (they don't mention what kind of proof, very vague). Which doesn't make sense since the domain is being sold by a premium domain name reseller.\n\nAre they allowed to do this? How do I know they didn't sell it to that domain name reseller behind my back?\n\n","title":"I paid for my domain, and it was successfully registered, but my registrar took it away and it is now in the possession of a premium domain name reseller.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540244194,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qiaf7\/what_to_tell_my_adjuster\/","id":"9qiaf7","body":"We used to have an architectural services firm and worked on a residential home with a contractor friend who I\u2019ll call Bill. The buyer of the house has had multiple problems and recently sued Bill\u2019s contracting company and a few other companies involved.\nBill has turned around and sued our firm saying his company has no fault in the matter. When we contacted Bill after receiving the suit he said something to the effect of \u201cthey are just trying to spread around the costs of the suit.\u201d\nThis sounds very fraudulent to me, especially as the lawsuit against us seems almost frivolous.\nShould I tell my insurance adjuster that Bill said this? We are not speaking with Bill any more after that phone call since it doesn\u2019t seem to be a good idea with the suit.\nLocation: MA","title":"What to tell my adjuster","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571613112,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkrj83\/is_there_any_way_to_get_our_landlord_to_stop\/","id":"dkrj83","body":"We just moved into our house on the first of October. \n\nWhen first got the lease, we missed the one line that said they can allow showings here. Well, 20 days into our home, and they're inviting strangers to parade through our home with no more than a 24 hour notice to us. \n\nI understand that it was on the lease, and it's our fault for missing it, but is there anything we can do? \n\nI dont feel particularly safe or comfortable here, knowing that their leasing agents, and maybe these strangers have our house code. It's a keypad lock, rather than a key. \nThere was no mention of this before we got the 24 hour notice email, and I'm just worried what might happen if none of us are home when they decide to do a showing.","title":"Is there any way to get our landlord to stop doing showings at the house we just moved into?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409436627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f1dnh\/need_advice_bought_used_car\/","id":"2f1dnh","body":"Here's my whole situation: \n\nI'm 18 and live in Phoenix, Arizona. \n\nhttps:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Cj6ANR0k0mW8r-15vTHDC3fG72DomnoF30BjOxyULl4\/edit?usp=sharing\n","title":"Need advice [Bought Used Car]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1447333399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sj2yj\/bought_tshirts_online_never_arrived_can_i_get_my\/","id":"3sj2yj","body":"I'm in Germany and I've ordered t-shirts and hoodies at unamee.com, a US company (I think?). It's been over 2 months now and I haven't seen any sign of either of my TWO orders.\n\nThey haven't replied to any of my emails or tweets, and I'm really pissed.\n\nThey have this part in their terms & conditions:\n\n>8.3. Once we pass the goods to our delivery services provider, we shall not bear or carry any risk of delay, damage or loss of the product in transit. If you would like to get the product by express mail, or would like to register or insure your order, you may do so at the time of ordering by choosing premium delivery services offered by our delivery services provider.\n\nAm I boned? If I ask Paypal to get me my money back, will I be in trouble?\n\n","title":"Bought t-shirts online, never arrived. Can I get my money back?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554087445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7wg6c\/a_car_hit_the_right_passenger_side_of_my_car_and\/","id":"b7wg6c","body":"Earlier today I picked up my mom from work and we were driving home. I came to the intersection and waited for the green light so I can make a left turn. As I was trying to get into the right lane, a car made a right on red turn but didn\u2019t stop to check if the intersection was clear so came right by my side and lightly hit the passenger door (left a 3,4 inch scratch mark). The car then swerved to the right and drove on the grass side since there was no road. I honked and asked the driver to stop but they ignored me and ran away. I quickly followed the car which had stopped at their villa gate. The driver was a 85 year old woman, who didn\u2019t speak english. The gatekeeper asked us to move our cars to the side at which point her daughter came. She translated back and forth and tells me that \u201cShe didn\u2019t know, she\u2019s 85 years old and she\u2019s sorry\u201d and tried to brush off the accident since my car wasn\u2019t that badly damaged. I just doesn\u2019t make sense at all how could anyone hit a car and drive away without knowing. If she\u2019s old and doesn\u2019t know rules and laws why is she driving a car in the first place? As far as evidences and proofs go, I only have a picture of her license plate taken at the time she was driving away. I\u2019m not sure whether they have cameras at the intersection where the whole thing happened. My car has a scratch on the right side and the paint kind of came off. I saw the old woman\u2019s car and her front left bumper also had scratches and the paint came off. However, I didn\u2019t take a picture. I was fuming at the time and couldn\u2019t make any clear decision so we only switched contact information and decided to get an estimate for the car damage, and call her with the amount so she pays. The daughter asked me not the call the cops. Should I have called the cops? Since I don\u2019t have a solid proof, what if she decide to deny the whole accident and refuse to pay for the damage? Not really concerned about the damage, but for the reckless driving of the old woman and the fact that she drove away.  What can I do in situations where there\u2019s no solid evidence? I have 2 eye witnesses but are they useful in times like this? ","title":"A car hit the right passenger side of my car and drove away. IL","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447034310,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s2w1i\/philly_unlawful_eviction\/","id":"3s2w1i","body":"Please do no comment to seek legal counsel.\n\nMy question is on actual monetary damages.\n\n**Note: Verbal lease agreement**\n\nSometime this year my landlord illegally evicted me from my former residence. I fell behind in a couple months rent. When I was visiting family, I got a message from someone else that is renting a room in the house, that the landlord changed the locks and was throwing my stuff out. There was neither a notice from the landlord for the eviction nor did he follow any city procedures for eviction.\n\nI also found out that he is not legally allowed to collect rent for the current property for not having the proper permits and licenses.\n\nThe current law in place for Philly for my situation is to call the police. They told me they could not do anything since it was a civil matter, (not true) [Police Bulletin for self-help eviction](http:\/\/www.phila.gov\/pac\/PDF\/CB3_Landlord-Tenant_Disputes.pdf) . So, I went to the police station and all they said I could do is file a police report which I did, since I could not prove I lived there. I did not change my ID over to PA.\n\nI sent a Letter of Demand to the landlord with no response.\n\nBesides the value of my personal property there, are there other damages I could sue for? Such as treble damages and such?\n\nThank you in advance for the help.","title":"Philly - Unlawful Eviction","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540235749,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qgzw1\/insurance_fraud_or_just_anxiety\/","id":"9qgzw1","body":"A little background information first. My wife is pregnant with our third child and is due in December. She suffers from anxiety and depression, which is usually controlled with medication, but during pregnancy she ceases their use for the safety of the child. She is currently having a very difficult time between her anxiety and the pregnancy hormones. As we prepare for our daughter's arrival, my wife began going through our life insurance policies in preparation for adding her as a contingent beneficiary. This is where the anxiety (I think) took over.\n\nWe applied for, and were given, additional life insurance policies earlier this year to supplement our work policies in the event that we leave our current positions. We both work for the same school district and have optional life insurance through the state in addition to other policies. While applying, my wife filled out the initial application and returned it to the agent who began processing it. She had answered all of the medical questions truthfully  and we had both undergone our physical exams. About a week after completing our initial paperwork and exams, my wife had a feeling she may be pregnant, so she took two at home pregnancy tests to confirm. Sure enough, both came back positive. A couple of weeks later we had to fill out an additional bit of paperwork for submission. Part of this paperwork asked if anything had changed medically since filling out the first paperwork. My wife had called the doctor to set up an appointment to get examined and confirm the pregnancy. This typically isn't for several weeks after taking a home pregnancy test, but my wife had some bleeding and they saw her at four weeks. The date of the doctor's visit and the day she filled out the second bit of insurance paperwork happened to fall on the same day. We met with the agent in the morning and had the doctor's visit that afternoon. My wife asked our agent if she needed to answer yes to the medical change question since she was potentially pregnant, but was told by the agent to answer no since it had yet to be confirmed by a doctor. \n\nFast forward to this week and my wife is gathering our insurance information to begin prepping for the baby's arrival and sees the dates on the insurance forms. Her anxiety kicks in and she starts to freak out because she answered \"no\" to the medical history question even though she knew she was pregnant, though technically she had yet to have it confirmed by a doctor. She is absolutely terrified that she has committed insurance fraud and will go to jail for it. I know this sounds silly and irrational, but if you've ever had experience with someone with severe anxiety, you know it can be very real to them. I have tried to assure her that it is fine, but she is ready to cancel the policy because she is afraid it will all come out when she goes to add our daughter as a beneficiary. \n\nMy question is will this be a problem when she goes to add her? I don't honestly think she is going to jail, but could it be a problem since she was \"technically\" pregnant when she answered no, even though a doctor had yet to confirm it? Would this be considered fraud and could she get in any type of trouble for it? I'm of the opinion that it is fine, but I'd like to be able to assure her that it is with some outside opinions. I'd ask my own attorney, and I may still, but I wanted to get some opinions before I had to fork out cash to tell me what I think I already know. Thanks for any help you can give me. ","title":"Insurance fraud, or just anxiety?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555117487,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcl89o\/can_a_lawyer_take_more_money_after_contract\/","id":"bcl89o","body":"If my lawyer was able to get 25,000 from an accident and we sign a contract saying they get 33 and a third but they were able to get us an additional um insurance for 75000 do they get money from that 75,000","title":"Can a lawyer take more money after contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1413936769,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jxyx5\/stunt_driving_charge_ontario_canada\/","id":"2jxyx5","body":"I'm not sure why I didn't think to post here before, so here's my story:\n\nA few weeks ago I was driving home from a friend's place (sober), and a few km from home, i made a left hand turn and gave the car enough gas for my wheels to spin, and fishtail a bit out of the corner. Immediately after I did this, lights go on behind me, as apparently an officer had puled onto the road i turned off of seconds before and saw me as I finished the turn.\n\nI was given a summons to appear in court for breaking Section 172(1) of the highway traffic act,\"Drive motor vehicle - perform stunt\/cause tire to lose traction\". The court date is this coming week.\n\nMy car was impounded, and license suspended for a week immediately. I've since gotten it back, and been driving like an absolute saint. \n\nI'm a 19yo college student, i've scheduled to take my full G road test this thursday. Full charge of the ticket is min. 2000$ fine, and 6 demerit points, which with my current g2 license, would mean a month license suspension.\n\nWhen the officer was finished writing the ticket, he seemed to have taken a liking to me, said that I should fight it in court, and be truthful about what happened, and that the charge will likely be reduced. He pointed out to me that my rear wheels had a slight camber, and the tread was low on them, which could have caused them to spin too easily.\n\nMy hope is now that I can take a plea bargain, and get some sort of reduced fine, because as I mentioned, as a college student who relies on my car to get to school, this would have a profound effect on my financial situation, and subsequently, my education. I'm hoping to be able to do so without a paralegal, as charges for them vary from 700-1000$, so if at all possible I hope to deal with the issue myself. I hope that you guys will be able to give me an idea of what I should\/shouldn't do at my court appearance (other than the obvious, be on time, look clean, be respectful etc.) that would result in me leaving with a lesser charge, and what possible charges I might see. Disclosure is not yet available, i'll be getting that at the court appearance. \n\nThanks for any help guys, this is my first real run in with any kind of legal issues, and I fear I'm in well over my head, so anything you can tell me about what's happening will be beneficial. ","title":"Stunt Driving Charge [Ontario, Canada]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444611515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oe9cv\/subleting_next_monthbut_he_wants_the_check\/","id":"3oe9cv","body":"Title pretty much sums it up. I'm signing a 6-month sublease tomorrow with a guy I've met once. The sublease starts on nov 1, but he wants the first and last tomorrow at the signing. That isn't a probably for me financially and he seems trustworthy, but it seems dumb to give that much money to a stranger without a way to make sure he'll follow through. What should I do\/ask from him?  \n \nI plan to:\n \n* Take a picture of his photo ID\n* Get a signed copy of the lease\n* Get a copy of the key (although he may have one)\n \nThanks in advance for advice\n \nEDIT: this is in NYC if that matters","title":"Subleting next month-but he wants the check tomorrow","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571552775,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkfzd0\/landlord_entered_apartment_with_absolutely_not\/","id":"dkfzd0","body":"Hello from Indiana.\nSo I currently rent an apartment right next to my college campus but it is not owned by the school. I was out of town for the weekend so this is according to my roommate who doesn't seem to care too much about the situation. \nSo my roommate left the apartment for about an hour and when he came back there was a note and some novel items left on our counter in our kitchen. The note was signed buy the office workers (Only about 4 people) so we know it was left by them. So the problem is that they most likely knocked, didn't hear a reply, and just used the master key (fob style key) to enter. I have looked over and over again in my emails, texts, and on my account with them. They gave no notice and I don't like people in my room when I'm not there. Not doing anything wrong, just don't like it. So what do I do here?\n\nAlso I signed my lease through their online process (not the best of ideas, I know) and as of about 2 months ago have not received a physical copy of my signed lease nor can I find it anywhere on my account. Is the best course of action just to ask for one?\n\nThanks \ud83e\udd19\ud83c\udffb","title":"Landlord entered apartment with absolutely not notice as well as a lease copy availability question.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445361523,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pikte\/wa_landlord_hired_paint_crew_paint_crew_damaged\/","id":"3pikte","body":"Last Monday, I left for work bright and early, 6am. When I left everything at our complex was normal. I got home that evening and saw a note posted on top of our mailboxes. I noticed one on a car too, but I never got one. The note read \"Ladies and Gentlemen\n\nWe will be painting the outside of the building this week. This involves pressure washing the building and painting. Our crew will start at 8am daily. Please keep in mind they will be on the decks.\n\nIf you have any questions please contact (Manager) at the (Management company) Office. (It included her number name and the company name)\"\n\nAs you'll see, nowhere in that note does it say how long, or what needs to be done. By the time I got home there was no one working on the building, but there were a pair of work pants on our second car (I didn't photograph this, because I was stupid.) Ladders left leaning up against the building, in the courtyard, and everything was wet and muddy. I headed to my unit, and discovered everything that we have on our front porch (pumpkins, potted plants, a table and a bench) were completely covered in paint specks and dirt. We had an amazon delivery and it was completely saturated and ruined. \n\nI e-mailed the manager that night, and expressed my feelings about coming home to find everything covered in dirt and chipped paint. She Emailed me back, the next day, saying she had no idea they were doing this, but that she's been assured that they gave us notice. \n\nNow, I've been a renter long enough to know that posting notices at 8am the day you're starting is not giving tenants \"Notice\" I also know that when my S\/O left at 8:45 they had already started but no one had posted any notes anywhere. Not one of us tenants got a phone call, letter or email regarding this.\n\nI asked the management company to clean up my belongings since their team got the dirty without giving me the opportunity to move them. She got extremely passive aggressive and told me that it was not her team, and she had no idea it was going to happen but since they posted a notice on \"all cars and doors\" (which did not happen) that she is not responsible for clean-up. The mentioned doing me a favor and stopping by to look at my items. Asked if I'd be home so she could look at the amazon delivery that was delivered. I did not have it anymore, as it literally fell apart when we went to pick it up, the medicine in it was 90% dissolved. We had a photo and sent her it but she felt this was not enough to warrant replacing it. \n\nI let that go, but insisted that they gently wipe down all the items on my porch, and repeated that if they give me proper notice and explain that I need to move my stuff, I'll happily re-locate it. \n\nShe didn't reply for a few hours, but got back to me at 5 that night and explained that she came by and felt nothing was very dirty. She said she did not wipe anything down because she felt it was unnecessary. I, outraged, sent her the photos again, of everything and all the dirt and mud, turns out my neighbor saw it while I was at work the next day and asked one of the crew members to clean it up, and he did. \n\nJust for reference, the shortest day I worked last week was 12 hours. So I was leaving and coming home in the dark. Tuesday when I got home I couldn't even see to park my car. They had taken down all the light fixtures. I couldn't see the stairs, or my front door. This lack of lighting continued, and still hasn't been remedied. \n\nI worked all weekend, we didn't have any more issues with the painters, and not once in any of our email exchanges did the manager tell me I'd need to clear off my front porch and back porch again. The note was incredibly vague, and in our email exchanges, I asked her point blank \"Do I need to move anything? Will they be painting my back deck?\" She never replied. \n\nSunday I returned home from an overnight work trip, to find I couldn't get on my back deck at all. They had moved my grill and all my belongings and shoved them against the door. I went outside and found one of the painters and asked him to move everything so I could get back there. He did. \n\nI went out there and started putting everything away and found:\n1) My bistro table and chairs are now covered in a \"dusting\" of paint. No longer teal, they look almost as if they are filthy. It's paint, you can't wipe or scrape it away.\n2) Nails, everywhere, I stepped on one and it went through my shoe. \n3) Our white outdoor lights (Sorta like christmas lights) that we use to light up the deck when grilling sat in the rain for 5 days, and are covered in paint. They do not work.\n4) We had one of those magnetic screen doors installed when we moved in (that I had purchased, the previous landlord installed) the painters had just ripped it off the doorway, it is completely un-usable now. \n5) my wreath is now painted the color of the building.\n6) beer cans everywhere, on the mailboxes, on my back deck, and even in neighbors yards. \n7)They broke our broom and threw away the other half\n8) They left rags, ladders, tape, plastic, knives, hammers and paint cans all over everyone's decks. \n--- I know they broke one of my neighbors tables, and got paint on their car, I also know that one of the neighbors witnessed them hitting someone's car, but those don't really matter to my story-- just giving you an idea of how poorly this was handled. \n\nI e-mailed our manager again, with photos, and a list of all the things that have now been damaged yesterday morning. I repeated that in our last exchange of emails she never answered whether or not we needed to move our stuff, and that I would have gladly done so. It's only been 24 hours and I haven't heard back yet. \n\nMy questions for the kind people of \/r\/legaladvice are:\n\n1) Do I need to send them all this via certified mail or is e-mail sufficient? \n\n2) How long do they have to take action and fix this situation?\n\n3) Do they need to replace everything, or what should I expect from them?\n\n4) What can she legally say\/deny? Can she deny fixing everything? Even though it was people their company hired, is this something I can expect from them or is this a situation for Renter's insurance? I was under the impression that my renters insurance would cover something if say there was a flood, fire, or natural disaster, that only then my renters insurance would kick in. Am I crazy for thinking this?\n\nThanks in advance!!\n","title":"(WA) Landlord hired paint crew, paint crew damaged items.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553323063,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4g0ij\/infestation\/","id":"b4g0ij","body":"Hello I moved into a property that was already infested with roaches. I relayed it to the landlord about 5months ago he came out and gave us some poison to put down. Now its march and its gotten worser so my question is can I terminate my lease or sub lease it? What our my options here? \n\nI live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin","title":"Infestation!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508361961,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/779t6d\/i_went_past_a_bus_when_it_had_it_yellow_me_on_and\/","id":"779t6d","body":"Hello, I was just pulled over this morning because I went past a bus with it\u2019s yellow lights on. I was going under 20 mph because I was just stopped at a stop sign and was entering the road which the bus was on. Since I was already halfway past the bus I continued. The moment I did a police cruiser was behind it pulled out and pulled me over. Said I would be receiving paperwork in the mail. I am in PA if that is important\n\nQUESTION: What type of punishment am I looking at? As well as how can I appeal it?\n\nEDIT:Wording","title":"I went past a bus when it had it yellow me on and I was pulled over.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571692070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl6zci\/im_trying_to_figure_out_whether_this_is_legal_or\/","id":"dl6zci","body":"So in September i left my college for personal reasons i was just a few days shy of a full refund, well i messed advisors to drop she told me if i drop today it\u2019ll only be $700 so i quickly got signatures from my instructors and finalized it, because i was told it was would around $700 which was fine, BUT then later about a month later they took forever to send a bill i emailed them NUMEROUS times where the bill is, and just the other day i got a email \u201cit\u2019s a little more than we expected you owe $1700\u201d that is $1,000 more than she put in my head when i left! If i knew it was that much i never would\u2019ve dropped i would\u2019ve finished with a D? is this even legal can this be used for a valid argument with the school?","title":"I\u2019m trying to figure out whether this is legal or could be used for a valid argument with my College.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570078635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcm8jx\/canada_bc_landlords_notice_of_reasonable_unit\/","id":"dcm8jx","body":"We just received a [Notice of Unit Acces](https:\/\/i.redd.it\/a4832ywgt8q31.jpg) from our landlord. This hardly seems legal and is in fact illegal in Canada, AB.\n\nIn BC it all seems to turn around what is deemed \"Reasonable\", a landlord allowing himself access 5 days a week for 8 hours per day does not seem reasonable.\n\nIn our notice of termination of the rental lease I already stated we have a rescue cat that can be difficult\/aggressive with strangers but we won't be able to move him out 2 weeks from now. They seem to have completely discarded this and not care at all.\n\nMy legal question therefor would be, what is \"reasonable\"?","title":"[Canada, BC] Landlord's Notice of \"Reasonable\" Unit Access for Mon-Fri, 9-5","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442391727,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l5bx6\/california_commercial_landlord_demanding_i\/","id":"3l5bx6","body":"I have 30 years of experience as a *residential* landlord, but this is my first time dealing with a commercial lease.\n\nTwo points of contention--here's the back-story:\nI moved into \"Suite A\" on Jan. 1, 2014.  Paperwork said lease expired Dec. 31, 2010.  (Yes, the lease term was for *negative* three years....)  \n\nIn August, 2014, I learned that \"Suite B\" in same building was going to be available that September.  I inquired about moving to that unit, which had a better layout for my office.  Landlord said okay, but that I needed to take possession \"as is\".   The place needed new flooring and paint--no problem, I installed laminate flooring and painted it (walls were filthy with many holes that needed filling)  \n\nThe prior tenant in \"Suite B\" had installed some built-in tables and an overhead storage rack;  landlord said I would need to remove them when I moved out.  No problem.\n\nLandlord said I could \"finish out the term of my existing lease\" in Suite B (he never caught the pre-dated termination error; I probably have e-mails saying that the original lease was a year, somewhat irrelevant except to demonstrate sloppiness on his part).  Lease was revised (with no time-travel requirements) to end Dec. 31, 2015.\n\nI moved from Suite A to Suite B in October last year (paid rent on BOTH suites for September and October).  I left Suite A in the condition it was in when I moved in--touched up paint on the walls, cleaned everything, etc.\n\nOn July 16 of this year, I signed a lease on an entirely different office that would allow me to consolidate my Suite B office with an \"outpost\" office.  Within six hours I notified the Suite B landlord that I would be moving out effective Sept. 8, 2015, and could he let me out of the lease early.  No, he would not--and since the lease would still be in effect, he told me he \"could not legally advertise for a new tenant\".\n\nI paid September's rent, and he has security deposit that covers another month.  Landlord put a listing for the unit on Craigslist on 9\/12\/15.  He is insisting that he will not release me from the lease until it expires on 12\/31 or he finds another tenant.\n\nSince I would have given him permission to advertise the place beginning July 16th (which was implicit in my notification that I would vacate by Sept. 8), and he chose *not* to advertise, it seems unfair that I should pay for time the space is vacant, since he could have been advertising it for almost two months by now.  It also seems he should be advertising more than just on Craigslist.  I **do not** intend to pay rent for October.\n\nWhen I vacated Suite B I removed the built-in items that the prior tenant left, as agreed.  Landlord now says I am responsible to remove surface-mounted electrical conduit and outlet boxes that were installed prior to my tenancy and that I was **never told about**.   I have no intention of hiring an electrician to remove this work.\n\n**Finally, the questions:**\n\n1.  What's the chance a judge or mediator would make me pay rent for November\/December?  (Security deposit covers October).  Maybe I was too easy a landlord, but if you have an empty unit, it's your fucking JOB to find a tenant for it.\n\n2.  Ditto for the electrical improvements that some prior tenant had made--they were never mentioned before I moved in.\n\nThanks for any thoughts.  I expect your first thoughts will be, \"pay the landlord the money, don't you have better things to do?\"  Trouble is, the electrical stuff could be significant.  And in some weird way I'm intrigued by the legal process--if it only costs me a trip to small claims court to get an education in commercial lease law, I may just be inclined to go that route.  Especially if I can avoid paying him for being lazy and obstinate.\n\nPS:  Landlord is a bit of a dick;  my last day there, one of the other building tenants said, \"well, I bet your not going to miss [Dick]!\" and talked for five minutes about how petty and unreasonable he is.  We agreed he could make all the tenants happier by selling the building.\n\nEdit:  format (if there are still two \"question #1\" I don't know why)","title":"[California] Commercial landlord demanding I restore unit to \"original\" condition, requiring me to remove features installed by prior tenants--list of such features has grown since I vacated; Landlord also wants me to pay rent through end of year, but is making only feeble efforts to re-rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552403046,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b08s12\/gas_company_charged_residents_for_supply_2_months\/","id":"b08s12","body":"I don\u2019t know if this is the right sub to post on, nevertheless. Sorry for the formatting I\u2019m on mobile. Based in PA.\n\n3 months ago a door to door salesman approached me and my roommates in our home and offered to supply natural gas through his company, claiming we will have cheaper expenses for the winter. That was an entirely false claim, we were paying double of what we were originally paying. Since I am the one paying for the natural gas, I called PGW, my provider and explained my situation and they assured me that I would have to cancel with the supplier. I called the supplier, canceled the supply to my house after a month of using it. The next billing cycle the supply charges were still left on my bill, doubling what I have to pay. I called pgw again to make sure I cancelled the contract with the supply company and they assured I did, and the charges would not come up on any other bill. The bill for this month came yesterday, and it still has the same charges as before. I plan on going to PGW to speak to a representative in person in a couple of days. I will have the cancellation code and email, and my bill. \n\nI\u2019m just wondering if there\u2019s something else I can do \/ bring with me so I can fix this issue.\n\nThank you! Have a great day!","title":"Gas company charged Residents for supply 2 months after cancellation.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541334640,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u2yzh\/at_the_stalemate\/","id":"9u2yzh","body":"I had been living with two friends, who turned total douches once I left. They stopped picking up my calls or coordinating the return of my deposit. It has been more than 6 months and I still haven't received my security deposit of 60,000. Whenever I call my tenant he speaks kindly and tells me he will see to it the very next day. I need that amount for college now and bam I don't have it. Please suggest a legal way as I do not have any advisor to connect to. And would it be wise to pursue a legal charge immediately? How do I proceed?","title":"At the Stalemate.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444756713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oly4f\/looking_to_interview_one_of_the_prisoners_set_for\/","id":"3oly4f","body":"The Justice Department is set to release about 6,000 inmates early from prison \u2014 the largest one-time release of federal prisoners \u2014 to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders who received harsh sentences over the past three decades. I would like to interview one of the prisoners who will be released and amy looking for help with connecting with someone.\n\nI am located in New York, NY.","title":"Looking to Interview One of the Prisoners Set for Early Release on Nov. 1","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1409280545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2evv3s\/indianadetective_asking_me_to_come_in_and_talk\/","id":"2evv3s","body":"I got a call from a detective asking me to come in and answer some questions about me driving around a neighborhood. The detective promised that it wouldnt take more than an hour and that I would be able to get to school and work on time the same day. \n\nI agreed to meet him, and then later decided not to, and called the detective back to let him know I wouldnt be coming in, then avoided his calls for a few days. Well I just got a call from someone I know involved in the law asking if I had exposed myself in public, and that I need to call this detective and get it taken care of. I ended up calling and setting a meeting for Saturday. \n\nAgain he reassured me that I would not be arrested, there was no warrant out for me. That I could leave at any time I wanted. And that it would be recorded via video recorder. \n\nNow the problem I have is that I dont remember doing any of these things, but its not entirely out of the realm of possibility that something could have happened. Ive been under an incredible amount of stress lately. Between losing both of my jobs at the same time, essentially being evicted and having to find a new place to live. Finding a new job and still not able to make all bill payments on-time etc. Im in a really bad situation. But I tend to have stress-induced panic attacks.. I have gaps in my memory where I know I was active but I have absolutely no memory of my actions. There are other episodes where everything seems incredibly fake and like Im not in-control of my body. (Im only explaining this because I feel like its relevant information, not trying to ask for a diagnosis or anything.. sorry)\n\nI also have a history, its juvenile but still is there. I have been charged twice with public indecency as a juvenile. The first time was something that didnt happen at all. But the second one happened on my school bus and I was masturbating. That was overturned because I was about to turn 18. \n\nIm not sure what to do, what I should say, what I shouldnt say. Should I explain the lapses in memory? The out of control? Should I just say I dont remember? What do I do from here?\n\nAlso, Im coming to you guys because, as I said earlier, I am poor as fuck, and cannot afford an attorney. \n\nEdit: I know im fucked up, and Ive wanted to get help but... Ive never been able to afford it. I dont know how to go about doing that. ","title":"[Indiana]Detective Asking me to come in and talk about suspicious driving around a neighborhood. Reason to believe I'm going to be charged with public indecency. I urgently need advice.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443370085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ml751\/surrogate_landlord_chopped_down_all_the_bushes_on\/","id":"3ml751","body":"I am a college student currently renting a house in a neighborhood close to campus, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is my second year in the house, and our landlord situation has been a little bit in flux. The owner of the house (the true landlord) lives a good distance away and I've never actually seen him or talked to him. Instead, his son (who was also a student) did all the work that the landlord is usually supposed to do - he was our contact for everything. That worked out just fine, we had no issues.\n\nThis school year, he went off to medical school in Michigan, and can no longer see us. Instead, he told us that the neighbor lady (whom is very peculiar, some might say 'crazy') would be handling any short-term stuff. Basically, she collects our rent checks every month and mails them to the landlord. \n\nIn the past, she has been known to us to do some seemingly irrational things, which has led me to call her crazy. We usually just let her talk through whatever crazy thing she is up to and let then let her go on her way. However, this last Friday, she hired someone to come cut down all the bushes on our property. No one was home at the time, and no one was told that this would be happening. She later said that the bushes needed to be trimmed. The bushes were quite large and definitely could have used some trimming, but she had them cut completely to the ground. All the cut branches and trimmings were left sprawled on the yard for us to deal with.\n\nWe texted the landlords' son about it, asking what was going on. He had no idea that this was being done and both him and his father had never told anyone to do any yard work for the house. I'm rather upset because the bushes were nice, and now the sticks and poorly cut stumps are very much an eyesore to the house that I've liked living in.\n\nI realize that my options are pretty limited as just a renter, but is there anything I can do to get these replaced? Or at least cleaned up?","title":"\"Surrogate\" landlord chopped down all the bushes on the property without notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507661699,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75j93e\/florida_are_these_requirements_for_buying_a_home\/","id":"75j93e","body":"I'm trying to sell my 2\/2 condo here in South Florida.  It was purchased at a price of 80K back in January of 2004.  I'm having difficulty selling the property and, according to my realtor, it's because of one reason and one reason only.\n\nThe community that I live in has a rule now that states you must have a 45K income and a 650 credit score to be able to purchase a property here.  I emailed the president of the community to inquire about this.  He forward my inquiry to the property manager who responded with this:\n\n\"On December 12, 2012 the Association\u2019s Declaration of Condominium Section XIV (A)(1) was amended to read as follows:\n \n\u201cFor the proposed sale or lease of a two-bedroom Apartment, evidence must be provided to the Association that the annual income of the purchaser(s) or tenant(s) is at least $45,000\u2026\u201d\n \nThere is no exceptions for cash purchases as the annual income requirement is to assure the Association of the owners ability to pay the Association\u2019s monthly maintenance and any other common expenses that the Association may incur.\"\n\nIt says 2012 but I'm fairly certain this rule wasn't enforced up until recently.  Furthermore, I was never notified of this change in 2012.  I tried selling my home a little over a year ago with two different realtors and neither one of them advised me of this.\n\nSo, was the association, board, or whoever supposed to notify me of this change?  More importantly, is this even legal?  When I moved to the community, it was a nice quiet place where 99% of the community was at least 50 years old and the HOA fees were just above $200 a month.  Now, this place is filled with people of all ages, the HOA fees are over $400, and safety has gone down hill to say the least.\n\nAs far as the requirement is concerned, wouldn't it be considered discriminatory?  I mean, people who are retired don't have an income of $45K.  And people with an income of $45K aren't looking for a $100K condo when they're getting approved for a $200K+ mortgage.\n\nFurthermore, if someone was paying in full for a property, a $45K requirement is way passed the 20X requirement that renters are usually held too.  My HOA fees are $408.  $408 a month x 20 is only $8160.  I don't know why they would require an income of $45K from someone who is buying the property outright.\n\nWho should I contact about this?","title":"[Florida] Are these requirements for buying a home legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551982677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayfrjc\/can_a_executor_go_against_a_right_to_residency_in\/","id":"ayfrjc","body":"So my situation is a bit in the gray area and involves my Mother's Last Will and Testament.. I apologize for how disorganized this may be, my situation is... chaotic you could say and there is no right order to list all the information I feel is needed to make a sensible decision.\n\nMy mother passed away March of 2018 and in her will she lists me as the executor of her estate. In my mother's will she has given my father \"Right of Residency\", to reside in the property rent free for as long as he chooses, till he passes, or moves out at which point  I am allowed to do anything with the co-op. At which point I can do with the co-op as I please.\n\nEver since she passed my father has been persisted in wanting to know how much money I was left, he has gone to the length of wanting to be placed on everyone of my accounts from the investment account I was given to the TDA and even my own personal checking accounts.\n\nI refuse to allow him onto anything, the reason being is that he has been persistent over all these months of trying to get me to pay for more and more so that he can \"save his money for when he goes\" so that he can leave his daughters from his previous marriage more money. One of which has been been living with us for close to six years and he has accepted he will take care of her for the rest of his life while trying to push that onto me.\n\nHe has been so persistent it has gotten to the point I have installed a camera in my own bedroom along with locking away all important documents that pertain to myself and my financials away. I have caught him on the camera numerous times, almost daily looking around, opening drawers, or reading papers to find out what I have so he can attempt to push more of the costs of his promises onto me so he can \"save more money\".\n\nI refuse to touch the money left to me by my mother to pay off a mortgage on the co-op he promised to pay. Especially while his daughter is still residing there. (I am not related to any of them, my mother was my only biological parent).\n\n​\n\nUltimately my question is am I legally obligated to financially take care of everything to let him stay there as the will says so? Or can I have him leave if he refuses to cooperate with me?\n\nThere is no liquid money in the estate, so if he refuses to cover the mortgage it will fall into foreclosure unless I pay it from my own pocket.\n\n​\n\nI am just so furious and aggravated with the current situation right now I have probably left out details so please, ask away and I will try to provide better details.\n\nThank you all for any advice..","title":"Can a executor go against a right to residency in a Last Will and Testamentary?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569757645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dau4ao\/apartment_repaving_lot_no_ada_parking_or\/","id":"dau4ao","body":"My apartments were purchased right when we were renewing our lease with previous owners.  The new owners waited until the last second to provide us with our renewal (7 days left out of the 30 they had).  Lots we should have paid more attention to, but here I am.\n\nThey have been \"improving\" the complex drastically.  Constant construction, has made the noise levels unbearable for days on end, they have not been maintaining the grounds (including to allow reported trash get strewn across the complex because the office was closed), dog waste left on the common walkways, sprinklers leaving standing water attracting huge upticks in mosquito and other pest population. The comman area fore pit was overgrown enough to be a fire hazard.\n\nNow... To top it all off they are redoing the asphalt with the only parking I can use (I'm a handicapped and disabled veteran and cannot carry my son, or even his diaper bag much more than 50ft most days).  I have requested information as what I am to do whilw the lot is being paved. They have told me to park a street up by 7am or be towed, and that I can return at 5pm.  I have nowhere to go and cannot make it from where they want me to park to my apartment. \n\nWhat are my options?\nI am in Colorado, USA.","title":"Apartment repaving lot, no ADA parking or reasonable access for a week.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551674700,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax32hq\/my_girlfriend_tried_to_trick_me_into_getting_her\/","id":"ax32hq","body":"I live in Texas. \n\nA mutual friend of my girlfriend [29F] and mine [23M] told me that my girlfriend has tried and plans to continue trying to trick me into getting her pregnant. This friend told me that she took out her IUD and has been poking holes into my condoms. I think she did it in person each time we used them because I checked my box of condoms and there aren't any holes, so I don't actually have a condom with a hole in it I can use as proof to her. Is this even legal? I'm furious and don't know if I can or should go to the police. She doesn't know I know yet. ","title":"My girlfriend tried to trick me into getting her pregnant.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553491350,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b56maq\/management_decides_to_take_our_kickbacks_is_that\/","id":"b56maq","body":"I wrote this on my phone. Sorry for the weird formatting. \n\nI am a concierge in Nevada. I also book timeshare tours as part of my duties. \n\nRecently our managers have had a sign a form saying that any Kickbacks or spiffs we get are to be picked up by the managers from the places that give them to us. They think that booking reservations for restaurants and activities get in the way of us booking tours for the company. \nThey have decided to keep all of the Kickbacks and spiffs and disperse it to us based on how many tours we book which could mean we won't get what is owed to us. \n\nIs this legal seeing as they technically have no right to it? Or is it possible they can do this because we are technically on the clock when booking these reservations?\n\nThank you for any advice!\n","title":"Management decides to take our kickbacks, is that legal? Concierge (NV)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1503795815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w9epv\/ca_i_got_written_up_at_work_for_calling_out_sick\/","id":"6w9epv","body":"So several months back, I was written up by my employer for not giving them enough time when calling out sick. \nI was under the impression that with the new CA Paid Sick Leave Law, I was protected from retaliation for calling out sick if I had sick hours to use.\n\nThe details of the situation:\n\n1. The day before calling out sick, I worked 2:00 - 10:30 PM, when I left work, I still felt okay, but was exhausted, I figured get to bed as soon as I get home, and I should be okay. \n\n2. The day I called out I was scheduled to start work at 5:30 AM (only 7 hours after my previous shift ended). When I woke up at 4:00 AM, I had no energy to do anything let alone keep my eyes open to make the 40 minute drive to work. I made the call to my employer at 4:30 AM telling him that I was out sick and would be using my CA Paid Leave Hours.\n\n3. Upon returning to work, I was told by my supervisor that I was being written up for not giving my employer enough of a notice (they have a policy that was in place before the new CA law was passed saying 2 hours notice is required when calling out sick) and that under the law all they were required to do, was pay me for the time, which they did.\n\n4. Regarding how much notice an employee must give their employer according to the new law: \"If the need [for sick leave] is unforeseeable, the employee need only give enough notice as soon as practical, as may occur in the case of unanticipated illness or a medical emergency.\"\n\n5. My company has a policy that if an employee is scheduled for a \"Clopen\" (closing then opening, or any shift with less than 10 hours in between) the employee must sign an acknowledgement form consenting to having such a short interval in between shifts, I never signed any such acknowledgement. \n\nI'm now looking to transfer to a location closer to where I live, but this write-up (my only one) is a blemish that hurts my chances of moving.\n\nDoes the write-up I received constitute retaliation?\n\nI can't afford legal representation, but I want to hold my employer accountable. Who do I need to contact to set my employer straight?  \n\nAny advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this wall of text. ","title":"[CA] I got written up at work for calling out sick, even though the law says I'm protected. What do I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569813168,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db5lqy\/wa_medicaid_estate_recovery\/","id":"db5lqy","body":"I am 57 and am currently using Medicaid benefits for my medical care - doctors visits, prescribed medication. \n\nI live in my own house. I have a daughter who takes care of me. I don\u2019t know what qualifies as \u201clong-term care services,\u201d but I am not planning to live in a nursing home or use use any home health services in the future.  \n\nDoes the estate recovery laws allow Washington state to recover the medical costs from my home after I die?\n\nWill transferring my home into a trust prevent this from happening? What is the best way to keep the estate out of probate?","title":"[WA] Medicaid Estate Recovery","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1506289348,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72817s\/did_my_girlfriend_get_terminated_unlawfully\/","id":"72817s","body":"This takes place in Rhode Island.\n\nAbout a month ago my girlfriend started working at a brand new beer hall style restaurant. Before the place started the owner was very enthusiastic about having her on despite her not being very knowledgeable about craft beers. He was just looking for good, reliable workers. \n\nFor about two weeks things were going well for her. One night she made a mistake and over poured a beer. The owner saw her do this and after that things completely changed. The owner went from being an approachable person to some one who wouldn't even look her in the eyes. A week goes by and she keeps telling me that she feels very uncomfortable, like all of a sudden the owner hates her. I told her that she was over thinking it. One Friday I dropped her off for her shift and only to get a call a few minutes later to come pick her up. The manager had told her that him and the owner felt she needed to be taken off the schedule and only come back on Sundays for \"retraining\". The manager said she had made many mistakes: the overpour and that food orders made on her computer had gone \"missing\". Before this had happened she had complained to me other employees would use her computer instead of using the computer they had been assigned for the night. She had no idea about any missing orders. She was also told that she was not \"passionate enough about beer\". \n\nShe was on time for every shift, stayed until let go and worked hard. She went to one Sunday retraining. Tonight she told them that she could not make it because our son is sick and she also told the manager that she felt uncomfortable with the way she was being treated. The managers response was that instead of going on that she should instead stop working there. In other words, your fired.\n\nLooking on yelp and review sites, the only complaints of missing food and mistakes were made by a male. It seems to me that intended to intimidate her into quitting. The other day there was an employee outting which she was not invited to.\n\nAlso the manager takes a significant cut out of the tip pool before it is divided, which to my knowledge is illegal.","title":"Did my girlfriend get terminated unlawfully?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571748935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlhje3\/me_can_i_with_a_learners_permit_drive_with\/","id":"dlhje3","body":"Basic criteria to drive with a Permit is that someone in the passenger seat is at least 20 years of age and has held a valid license for 2 years. I can confidently drive, and have met criteria for applying for a license but haven\u2019t yet.\n\nIf that passenger is over 21, allowing for use of alcohol or marijuana, can I drive them if they\u2019re intoxicated? What if they\u2019re under .08 BAC or it\u2019s been a couple hours since using marijuana?\n\nAre there any legal arguments I may have for preventing them from driving themselves or making sure they\u2019re okay and get home safely? This hasn\u2019t happened but some people have asked me to DD and I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019m allowed to. Thanks.","title":"[ME] Can I with a Learner\u2019s Permit drive with someone (21+) in passenger seat who is intoxicated?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541476592,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ul1v2\/confused\/","id":"9ul1v2","body":"A girl in the 8th grade sent nude photographs to two boys in my grade. Over 75 people witnessed him opening this since it was at an event where many kids were at, he did not save them since it was over Snapchat, however everyone knows about. Now the girl is claiming she didn\u2019t send them, and he sent them to her and the school isn\u2019t doing anything about it. What is going on!?","title":"Confused","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1508433975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77fy08\/kansas_need_help_finding_paperwork_to_fill_case\/","id":"77fy08","body":"Hello,\n\nFor the past 4 months I have been going through the process to get in state tuition in the state of Kansas. I filed original application and the appeal apon denial at Kansas State University where I am a student. During the appeal they showed gross negligence for the proceedings and materials they were supposed to be evaluating. Most notably the Registrar was the chairman of the appeals committee when Kansas Board of Regents Rules and Regulations 88-2-3(b) explicitly stats that should not be a member of the committee. \n\nFrom what I can tell the next step is to file a appeal to the Court of Appeals in Riley County and this is where I cannot figure out what to do. I cannot afford the legal fees to have someone representative myself in this case I have reached out to many attorneys.\n\nIf anyone can point me to the correct phone work to file, including having the 7 members of the committee notified I would like comments from them relating to discuss, I would be so thankful.\n\n\nThanks for any help.","title":"Kansas. Need help finding paperwork to fill case against Kansas State University.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539718624,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oqzuu\/employment_denial_for_medical_marijuana\/","id":"9oqzuu","body":"I\u2019m in Pennsylvania and will soon be undergoing a drug test for a position as a general manager. \n\nI\u2019m also a physician certified medical marijuana patient. \n\nI will, of course, test positive for marijuana and amphetamine (legitimate adderall prescription). \n\nIn the event that I\u2019m denied the position due to a positive drug test, will any legal remedies be available to me thereafter? ","title":"Employment denial for medical marijuana? (Pennsylvania)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571419112,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djqn28\/landlord_troubles_advice_please\/","id":"djqn28","body":"Hi there,\n\n(This is all based in London, U.K) \n\nSo, my girlfriend is having landlord troubles. \n\nFirstly, she moved in and they were renovating the shower, so didn\u2019t have a shower for a month. So they got in touch with the local council, and this is where the fun began.\n\nTurns out she doesn\u2019t have a license for the flat (it\u2019s above a shop). She also has a few other properties which she\u2019s been using fake names to rent, and doesn\u2019t have a license for any of them. All of the houses, included my girlfriends, aren\u2019t up to standard of living. \n\nShe also is trying TO STAY IN THE FLAT. They are legally tenants (there are 3 of them in the 3 bedroom flat) and she\u2019s been trying to stay on there sofa, which obviously they\u2019ve said no to.\n\nShe\u2019s (today) just let her self in, left her stuff in the flat, and then left for the evening. My girlfriend and co. then changed the locks, left her stuff outside. Her response was to change the locks back and is now saying she\u2019s \u2018staying for the weekend\u2019.\n\nSo my question is, as she\u2019s now in the flat, with the locks changed, what should they do? Call the police? The council advised her to change the locks and they were legally allowed to do so, and it would be breaking and entry if landlord changed them back...\n\nPlease ask if you need more details, this is a long story so obviously is hard to write all of this out in full detail!","title":"Landlord troubles - advice please?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541689462,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vaqbt\/leasing_office_is_charging_us_for_stained_carpet\/","id":"9vaqbt","body":"Apartment complex is set up as long buildings with separate patios for each apartment, and to enter the apartments you go in doors to basically a long hallway that's carpeted and the apartment doors are lined on both left and right sides going down the hallway. \n\nSo a few months ago I noticed someone had spilled something in the public use hallway by our apartment door. \n\nRight after paying this months rent we received a random charge of $133 with a document attached. Upon reviewing the document it was a picture of the stain OUTSIDE of our apartment, on the hallway carpet, and claiming it's a shampoo charge for \"soiled carpet.\"\n\nI searched through all of our lease documentation and it does not say anything about resident shall be held responsible for any damage outside of the rented apartment. \n\n​\n\nSo I'm seeking advice here on how to go about this, because simply put, we're not paying this. It wasn't our fault, it's in a public use hallway literally everyone who lives here is in the hallway doing whatever. And nothing in the lease that we signed says we will be legally held responsible for any damages done to the outside of their premises. Just because it's near our door does not make us the culprit and nor should we be charged an outrageous price for something we not only didn't do, but it's not even in our apartment. \n\n​\n\nAll help and advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm about done with this POS place. ","title":"Leasing office is charging us for stained carpet in a PUBLIC use area, outside of our apartment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555521866,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beai3s\/act_of_god_accident\/","id":"beai3s","body":"So I was parked at a park near my city. A branch fell and damaged my car. Broke my back window and bent the door frame a little. Is it possible that the department of parks and recreation will pay for the damage? Also heard a guy near me that said there was an animal that was eating the trees. He said beetle, but could also be termites.","title":"Act of God accident.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1441639824,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jzbzs\/i_would_like_help_clarifying_what_this_contract\/","id":"3jzbzs","body":"Below is the contract and I am puzzled by #3 and just exactly what they are saying they can do with the money in my dads estate.\n\n\nLEGACY PRIVATE TRUST\nTrusts \u2502 Estates \u2502 Agencies \u2502 Guardianships \u2502 Foundations \u2502 Tax and Accounting Services\nESTATE OF\nESTATE AGENCY ACCOUNT AGREEMENT\nThe objective of retaining your services is to attend to all administrative matters pertaining to the above Account. I\/We understand that the responsibility for making decisions with respect to the Account remains with me\/us and that decision-making cannot be delegated to you.\n\n\n\nInstructions\nYou will hold and manage the assets that I\/we may deliver to you, from time to time, pursuant to the following terms and conditions:\n\n\n\n1. Securities Safekeeping\nYou will maintain the assets of the Account with the same degree of protection afforded to your own securities. In your discretion, you may hold the estate assets in safekeeping in your own vaults, or with an authorized depository for securities, or any institution authorized to act as a custodian for securities, including any entity which is affiliated or associated with you, in bearer form, or registered in your name, or in the name of your agents or nominees. I\/We acknowledge that such securities may be represented in bulk certificates or records of deposit which include securities of the same class and nature held for other accounts in which you act in a fiduciary capacity, or otherwise. As required by the Trust and Loan Companies Act you shall keep the assets separate and apart from your corporate assets at all times.\n\n\n\n2. Collection and Disbursement of Income\nYou will account for the assets in the Account, and collect and account for the income received from them and deposit it to the credit of the Account and disburse, or retain such monies, from time to time, in accordance with my\/our written instructions.\n\n\n\n3. Proxies and Shareholder Information\nUnless I\/we instruct you to the contrary in writing, I\/we authorize you to complete and return any and all proxies you may receive as a registered holder of any security held from time to time in the Account, and not to forward to me\/us any shareholder mailings so\n\n\ufffcreceived. This direction shall be considered as effectively providing direction under The Canadian Securities Administrators' National Policy Statement No. 41.\n\n\n\n4. Interest on Credit Balances\nI\/We acknowledge and agree that cash balances in the Account will earn interest on the minimum daily balance calculated monthly, at such rates and subject to such conditions as you shall determine from time to time. Interest will be credited to the Account monthly. Cash balances in the Account may be deposited with you or with any entity which is affiliated or associated with you, and you shall not be accountable for any profit earned thereon.\n\n\n\n5. Disclosure of Conflict\nYou may deal, on your own behalf or on behalf of accounts you manage, with securities or other property of the same class and nature as those which, from time to time, you hold under the Agreement. You may use knowledge gained as my\/our agent, in other capacities without being liable in law or equity. You may place security transactions through the securities dealer of your choice, including any dealer associated or affiliated with you.\n\n\n\n6. Indemnity\nI\/We will indemnify you against any liabilities or claims which may be made against you where you have acted in good faith in reliance on my\/our instructions. In exercising any discretion conferred on you by the Agreement, you shall not be liable for any loss, damage or decline in value incurred by reason of your exercise of such discretion in good faith or from erroneous information provided to you by a third party.\n\n\n\n7. Access to Information\nI\/We authorize you to comply with any law, regulation or order now or hereinafter in effect which purports to impose a duty on you to take or refrain from taking any action in connection with the Account and any of the investments therein. In addition you are permitted to allow any duly authorized party to have access to and the right to examine and make copies of any records or documents connected with the Account.\n\n\n\n8. Notices\nI\/We will give you any notices, directions or instructions in writing and delivered personally or sent by ordinary mail, facsimile or electronic mail to the branch where the Account is administered. If I\/we send the notice, direction or instructions by personal delivery, ordinary mail or facsimile, the notice, direction or instructions shall be signed \ufffc\ufffc\ufffcby me\/us. You will give me\/us notice by ordinary mail sent to the last address for me\/us appearing in your records.\n\n\n\n9. Fees\nI\/We agree that the fees for the account will be directly charged to, and may be paid from, the Account without any further act or acknowledgement (whether written or verbal) by me\/us. You shall charge your fees and expenses for services to the Account in accordance with your attached fee schedule (Schedule \u201cA\u201d), in effect from time to time, or as may otherwise be agreed from time to time. Until paid, such fees and expenses shall constitute a charge against the Account.\n\n\n\n10. Taxes\nYou shall be entitled to withhold, pay or otherwise satisfy out of the Account any taxes owing in respect of the Account, or the investments, principal or interest, held in the Account, under the laws of Canada, or any province therein or under the laws of any other country having jurisdiction.\n\n\n\n11. Termination\nEither you or I\/we may terminate the Agreement at any time upon not less than thirty (30) days\u2019 written notice, and I\/we will remain responsible for all monies owing up to and including the expiration of the notice period. Subject to payment of any monies owing to you by me\/us, you shall be released from any further obligation or liability under the Agreement upon release, payment or delivery of the assets in the Account to me\/us, or to my\/our designated agent.\n12. Headings\nThe headings contained in the Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the interpretation of the Agreement.\n\n\n\n13. Governing Law\nThe Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the province of Ontario. In the event that I\/we do not reside in Canada on the date this Agreement is signed, the Agreement shall be governed by the law of the province in which your branch office administering the Account is located.\n\n\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\n14. Acknowledgement\nI\/We acknowledge that I\/we have read the Agreement, which includes the fee schedule and which constitutes my\/our complete Agreement with you, and I\/we hereby acknowledge receipt of a copy of same.\n\n\n\n15. Residence\nI\/We certify that I\/we reside in the Province of Ontario and will notify you of any change of residency without delay.\nDated at Toronto, Ontario this_____________________________.","title":"I would like help clarifying what this contract means. (Ontario, Canada)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570907935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgzkaj\/arizona_payroll_automatically_deducts_an_hour_of\/","id":"dgzkaj","body":"Been at this employer for 6 months and have been meticulously keeping track of my clock in\/outs  since June in order to be 100% certain that this is going on.  \n\n\nWhen I was originally hired, I was told by several other employees that on Saturday's \"we don't get a break\" because we typically leave an hour earlier than a normal weekday. This threw up a red flag in my head but because we did indeed get to leave early, I ended up only working 8 hours anyway and so figured there was not a problem. However, the past 3 months or so we have been short-staffed and this has caused me to work well over my 8 hour scheduled work day every day, sometimes with less than the allotted 1 hour lunch break. Looking at my clock-in\/out log that I keep, I can see that whenever I work over 8 hours without a break, saturday or not, that pay period will be \"short\" one hour of pay by my calculations.  \n\n\nIt is also worthwhile to note that we apparently do not have to clock out for our lunch break because of this automatic deduction - most of the hourly employees I see go on break never go to the timeclock except for arriving at work and leaving work. I do anyway so that I can log my time, but again, because of the \"rule\" for saturdays, or any day in which I was not able to take a break because of workload, I appear to be getting jilted out of pay that I earned. One such day I worked 8.03 hours, and it appears I was still deducted a lunch break hour on that pay period. Also, we do not get any paid breaks at all, FWIW.  \n\n\nMy questions are these:   \n\n\n\\-Is there any federal law regarding an employer being required to let employees have at least a 30 minute lunch break during an 8 hour shift or more? I'm almost certain there is a state law for this in my state, but I can't seem to find a cold, hard source, just hearsay online. I know there are exceptions (I used to work for the county government in a position where we did not receive a lunch break due to the nature of the job) but I was under the impression that government jobs were the only real exceptions.  \n\n\n\\-Is there any other statute or law regarding automatic deductions of this nature?  \n\n\n\\-Not taking a break on a day because of workload is my decision, but is it legal to name a day of the week as a day in which hourly employees \"don't get a break\"?  \n\n\n\\-Is there any course of action for me to go to HR and go through my worked hours logs to determine just how much pay I have missed out on, and to ask for this to be rectified? Or is that totally out of line? I have been dedicated to this job and now that I am certain I have not been receiving all the pay I have worked for, I feel very cheated. I want to cover my bases before I go into work and make the bold claim that I am being mistreated.  \n\n\nThank you for your time.","title":"[Arizona] Payroll automatically deducts an hour of the workday for lunchbreak, even though I didn't take one.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445521804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pru31\/i_am_in_the_early_stages_of_a_university_software\/","id":"3pru31","body":"I am a bit hazy on this, I am developing an app for finding music gigs hence I thought calling it Giggle would be suitable. However I know this name is [already in use](https:\/\/trademarks.justia.com\/858\/87\/giggle-85887696.html). Would I be allowed to use it?\n\nP.S. I am from Ireland.","title":"I am in the early stages of a university software project, the potential name for my app is already a trademark, can I use it?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568954905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6pwu0\/out_of_the_box_severance_packages\/","id":"d6pwu0","body":"I have a friend negotiating a severance package from his job and I have been coaching him on things to ask for and it got me thinking about outlandish items that could be or have been included in severance packages. Has anyone asked for HSA\u2019s to be maxed, more retirement, excellent reference letters, etc... what else can be reasonable to ask for?","title":"Out of the box severance packages","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505074873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zam6v\/co_is_a_property_owner_of_a_rental_property\/","id":"6zam6v","body":"I'm going to be sending a demand letter shortly to the woman who sublet my daughter and I a room at the property she lives and rents from the actual property owner. I had a no lease month to month rent with first last, and deposit by receipt. \n\nShe's going to elapse the 30 days to refund my last month rent and deposit, and as well as constructively evicting me on my last paid month renting from her. \n\nI'm wondering, is the property owner ultimately liable in any way for her actions? ","title":"[CO] Is a property owner of a rental property ultimately responsible for the actions of their tenant's liabilities for a sublet?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505253732,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zqans\/sister_is_getting_a_divorce_will_the_courts_favor\/","id":"6zqans","body":"My sister is getting a divorce. She suddenly left her husband of 4 years about a month ago and mediation is getting ugly.\n\nOur State law (Colorado) say it's usually a 50\/50 split. But it sounds like her husband is offering her less.\n\nShe claims that the courts will side with her because she is a woman and makes less income. Here's where my skepticism come in:\n\nHer husband made I'd say at least 90% of their income. They have no children and she hasn't had a stable job for around a year and a half by choice (she quit her job and didn't pursue anything from there). Beyond that, her social media shows her doing a bunch of social activities over that time frame. I feel like these things combined show her slacking off and could mean she'll lose in court. \n\nAm I wrong? Will the courts still see her side? If more information is needed, let me know; first time poster. ","title":"Sister is getting a divorce. Will the courts favor her if mediation fails?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549850757,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apbaz4\/nccharlotte_mom_was_performing_job_duties_doing\/","id":"apbaz4","body":"This happened about 3 weeks ago. As part of her job duties, my mom has to go into the men\u2019s locker through the bathroom to do locker inventory. When she does so she\u2019ll knock loudly on the men\u2019s bathroom door and ask if she can come in. If no response is given she goes in and repeats the process to get into the lockers. Same goes when coming out. \n\nOn 01\/29 (Tuesday) she was coming out of the men\u2019s locker into the bathroom and as usual announced herself, heard nothing and went in. To her surprise there was a man inside using the urinal. The man, instead of acting startled, proceeded to turn around and expose himself to her. She immediately ran out and went to her desk. \n\nWhile this happened, the company was undergoing some audits and the executive team was very busy. She decided that was not the best time to talk to them about it. She waited until 02\/01 (Friday) to let them know. Their response was very vague and they asked her to give them some time over the weekend to decide what the best course of action would be. \n\nThat following Monday she met with them and they proposed the following:\n\n1) from now on, every time she is to go to the bathroom\/locker she is to notify the finance\/hr manager and\/or the  company\u2019s COO so that they can stand guard outside the door while she\u2019s in. \n\n2) if anything else happened, no matter how small she is to notify them immediately. \n\nThis has left my mom feeling very bad and unsafe since option 1 seems unrealistic that they will hold their end of the deal; having so many responsibilities and the task at hand being so basic. And option 2 requiring for something else to happen for them to take action? \n\nShe is now left feeling very uncomfortable at work, having to bump into this person at break rooms, halls etc. And also feeling abused to an extent. \n\nFor this to have been resolved in a satisfactory manner, she would\u2019ve expected the firing of the other individual or at least severe actions taking against him. \n\nWhat are her options here? Can she demand that the person be fired? She\u2019s already getting her resume ready and considering moving jobs. Is that the best course? \n\nThanks in advance for the help! ","title":"NC\/Charlotte. Mom was performing job duties doing locker inventory and coworker exposed himself after she had announced loudly she was coming in. Employer has taken no actions.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569361578,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8tzgu\/usa_i_want_to_get_married_in_va_with_my_friend\/","id":"d8tzgu","body":"Pretty much the title. I\u2019ve been researching it, but I can\u2019t really understand what I\u2019m reading. \n\nI know for sure that Virginia doesn\u2019t recognize online ordinations, but that my friend can be a One-Time Civil Celebrant in accordance to the  [Code of Virginia \u00a7 20-25](https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/title20\/chapter2\/section20-25\/)\n\nHowever, that states they must be authorized in the circuit court of the county they are a resident of. Since friend lives in DC, can they get authorized there, or will this not be possible at all?","title":"[USA] I want to get married in VA, with my friend who lives in DC as the officiant. Is this possible?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442833978,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lsite\/va_brother_sentenced_to_weekend_jail_for_failure\/","id":"3lsite","body":"Just hoping for some answers as I'm really worried about my bro right now. He had two speeding tickets that he ignored and didn't show up to court for, these were 3-4 years ago. His license was suspended but he just dealt with that for a few years until this summer. He and his wife got pregnant and the baby was actually born just 3 weeks ago. My brother decided to turn himself in earlier this summer in an effort to fix all his mistakes and eventually get his license back for the sake of his soon to be new family.\n\nHe was blindsided at his original court date and was sentenced to 15 consecutive days of jail time, they were to take him right then and there (this was in July I think). His lawyer did not even tell him he may be looking at jail time so he had not made any arrangements with his job or anything. He appealed and had a new court date set for 9\/16, his Son's due date was at the end of August so this new development was upsetting as he was hoping to be done with this before his birth.\n\nHe got a new lawyer. Got the support of his boss who greatly values him as an employee and actually wrote a letter of some sort to the judge to express his wishes for my brother to have his sentence reduced to weekend jail so he could maintain his job and income to support his wife and new born child. His court date was last Wednesday and he was sentenced to 4 sessions of weekend jail  which would start on 9\/18, we were all pleased at this outcome and were looking forward to him getting it over and done with.\n\nThrough all of this sentencing and talking with his lawyer, no mentions of drug testing were ever brought up. To my knowledge, my brother was never told that having clean urine samples was a requirement of his sentencing. He had smoked one week prior to his Son's birth (4 weeks ago) but had quit since then.\n\nSo the worst happened this weekend, he reported to the jail on Friday, got urine tested sometime Saturday. It came back positive for Marijuana. He was put into Solitary and told he would have a new trial on Monday (today).\n\nMy brother has no other criminal history, nothing with drugs or alcohol or anything. He's only had these stupid traffic violations that he ignored 3 or 4 years ago bc well he was a lazy guy back then before he met his wife and started turning himself around.\n\nNow I fear his life is going to take a huge turn for the worse when all he was originally trying to do was make things better. I'm not sure if he'll get to keep his job, if he'll even be released from jail anytime soon....I guess I'm just looking for any info. I feel helpless, and my bro (older) has always been there for me in my moments of stupidity and it's hard to know that there's not much I can do for him now. Any advice would be great or just any info at all really. Even if you just tell me that he's screwed, at least I can begin to prepare for that reality.\n\nThank you.","title":"[VA] Brother sentenced to weekend jail for Failure to appear in court for traffic violations, urine tested positive for marijuana on hi first day there. Sent to solitary for entire weekend and being held until new trial today.....is he screwed?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551781119,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axjmlh\/multiple_personalities_disorder_and_australian_law\/","id":"axjmlh","body":"OK so I'm struggling. Basically planning to kill myself but hoping there's something the lawyer missed.\nI have mpd or DID as its now known. I have an alter who did some illegal things. Is there any sort of provision for this in the law?\n\nBeen told the case will still take years and I can't cope so I guess I hope there's something.","title":"Multiple personalities disorder and Australian law","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551896734,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay22al\/help_a_kid_touched_himself_at_my_school\/","id":"ay22al","body":"I don't know if this the right sub, but I was in the locker room dressing down for pe, and there was this one kid in the bathroom stalls in the locker room \"touching himself\", I saw a shawdow of it and heard noises, when I confronted him about it he said everyone has these urges, he was yelling when another kids confronted him. I wasn't the only one who saw. I have no idea what to do. I know it's illegal, but I just don't know what to do. Do I report him?","title":"Help a kid \"touched himself\" at my school","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540935854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sseue\/what_happens_if_i_ilegally_stream_in_germany\/","id":"9sseue","body":"I\u2019ve been told that if I use websites you don\u2019t pay for (tv shows for free), I\u2019ll receive an expensive fine for doing so. A german friend told me they use this website: https:\/\/bs.to to watch series and they never had any problem. Is there any chance I could face consequences for using it?  ","title":"What happens if I \u201c\u201d\u201dilegally\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d stream in germany?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552667358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1gyxg\/toxic_workplace_is_actually_toxic\/","id":"b1gyxg","body":"I work at a privately owned food business in Massachusetts, have been here about 4 years. We are a fairly small operation (about 25 employees) but semi-famous, have been on a bunch of cooking channels. The owner, \u201cRobert\u201d  is kind of a local celebrity. He's always been a bit eccentric, and cavalier towards food safety, but over the past year it has gotten really bad. \n\nThis past June, Robert put a bunch of drywall\/sheetrock in our main deck oven as a \u201cspace filler\u201d - he wanted to see how things would cook with less room in the decks. He figured that \u201csince sheetrock is heat resistant it would be fine.\u201d I did some quick basic research, sheetrock is indeed heat resistant, however it is not supposed to be exposed to heat for extending periods. When it is, particulate matter flakes off and can have adverse health effects. Explained this to Robert and asked him to remove the sheetrock. He agreed to, but didn't seem very concerned at all, and then didn't actually remove it. I talked to our general manager, \u201cDevin,\u201d and asked for his help talking to Robert; Devin said that he had no jurisdiction in the matter and was not going to get involved. I was totally floored by the apparent lack of concern regarding something genuinely harmful; the whole situation was very surreal. Sheetrock only got removed from the oven when I eventually called OSHA anonymously. \n\nSince then we've had other food safety issues. A strainer that Robert epoxyed back together, the epoxy was dissolving off in food use and creating an oily chemical residue. Deli wax paper (not heat-rated) used for cooking instead of parchment paper. Robert started making pretzels using lye--but not food-grade lye, lye packaged as \u201cdrain cleaner.\u201d \n\nThe current health issue is our can opener. We have one for the facility, an old hand-turn type mounted to the counter of my workstation. At the start of December I noticed it felt like the opener was sorta tearing at cans. Closer inspection, the opener was indeed tearing at cans and actually creating tiny, razor-sharp metal shards. I was obviously appalled, told Devin and Robert as well as my direct supervisor. For some reason I expected management to be equally concerned and fix the issue ASAP. It's been more than 3 months and it still hasn't been fixed, still have metal shards going in the food. Devin replaced the blade on the opener mid-January, however that didn't actually remedy the problem. Since then he's just been ignoring my requests to fix it. \n\nI've asked Devin and Robert for months now to fix this safety hazard, as well as talking to middle management in the company. I've asked them in person, asked them in text. This past Monday I decided that I needed to actually do something further, so I called the town health department. \n\nNow, I didn't expect too much as far as results, because our town health inspector is universally known as an incompetent drunkard, who has his position because his cousin is chief of police. He has ignored massive and obvious health violations on previous inspections. But I did expect that he would at least force the business to fix the problem. I guess I had expected too much, because he didn't. Devin apparently talked to him, told him the blade had been replaced and the can opener was no longer an issue, the health inspector didn't look into it any more than that. Even though, the day after his inspection when I came in, there are metal shards clearly visible on the can opener! \n\nSo, I don't know what to do now. The people in charge are clearly not going to fix this unless they are actually forced to. Calling the health department was my last resort, and it's had no effect. I could just get a different job, but that just removes me from the situation, still doesn't actually fix the issue. I don't think calling OSHA is an option as workers aren't being harmed by this. Do I have any other options to force them to address this? Are there other oversight agencies I could contact? Any other legal options? \n\nTLDR: slivers of metal from can opener are going into food at my workplace, the latest in a series of dangerous food safety issues. The business owner and general manager do not care at all and won't fix the problem. After months, I tried calling the town health department earlier this week. However the town inspector is either negligent or corrupt and did nothing. What legal options do I have to force some accountability for this?? \n\n\n\n","title":"Toxic workplace is actually toxic","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442543626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ldt9f\/tx_mold_in_apartment_management_inept_lawyer\/","id":"3ldt9f","body":"Here's some backstory first:  \n  \nMy wife has been sick on and off for the last year since we moved into this apartment complex. A month ago she went and had an allergy panel performed and found that she was highly allergic to mold.  Around the same time, we had issues with our AC unit and in the midst of getting the AC unit fixed, we discovered mold in the ductwork.  The maintenance person for the complex (not an independent contractor) did not do anything about the mold, but was able to fix the air conditioner.  After presenting the photos to the manager, she hired a contractor duct cleaner who performed a duct cleaning that was not the proper method for the material our ductwork is made of. The duct board was scraped and vacuumed with a piece of broom and in the process, the duct board was damaged. (The EPA recommends replacement or treatment with chemicals to mitigate the mold.)  The mold issue persists and a post-clean inspection with a camera still shows most of the mold untouched.  After talking with a lawyer friend about this, he pointed me to the tenants rights and advised I send a letter certified mail requesting formally that the leasing office fix the moldy ductwork.  \n  \nThe letter was sent and so far we have received little in response from the complex.  They sent someone out here to look at the damaged duct, however the cleaning company supervisor stated that the duct was not damaged despite the pictures showing the condition of the duct prior to and after cleaning showing significant portions of the ductboard missing.  \n  \nOur neighbor has had the same issue (far worse than us, their bedroom ducts have mold all the way up to the vent) and the leasing office had someone come in and spray paint the vents and ducts in an effort to cover it up however the spray paint ends a couple of feet into each duct with the black mold rampant at points beyond.  They asked me to take pics of their ductwork (since I bought an inspection camera anyways) so I did so.  I have pics from before and after their cleaning, and I have pics of our vents and ductwork from before and after cleaning as well. \n  \nOur only recourse so far has been to break lease (thankfully the leasing office is offering us to move without penalty) however this move is going to be expensive.  While we have managed to scrape together the money to secure deposits, we are wondering if we can take them to court over the fact that they are trying to cover it up. Our lawyer is not very responsive, he is rarely available to answer questions and I'm running out of resources.  \n  \nSo far, the only advice I've received from my lawyer friend is to present them the letter, see what they do, then move out as soon as possible. We won't be able to move until the end of October due to finances.\n  \nThe questions I have so far:  \n- Should we move first, then take them to court for the cost of the move\/deposits\/etc.. or can we sue them now?  \n- Should we get a mold analysis done from a lab? (I have secured two pieces of ductboard infested with mold that fell out of the ductwork during the cleaning)  \n- The concern is that the duct board should not be scraped to be cleaned as this releases fiberglass into the air. Is this also something that can be added to the suit?  \n- I've already sent them the tenant's request for repair, what's my next step?  \n- Is there something I'm missing, what else is there?  \n  \nThe idea is that I want to sue them for negligence and to cover the costs associated with the move (hiring movers, deposits, pro-rated rents, service cutovers, etc..).  I also want them to fix the problem so that the next poor soul that gets this unit won't have to suffer the same hell we have had to put up with for the last year.  \n  \nI greatly appreciate your suggestions, It will help tremendously on figuring out how we can afford this move and inform us of what we need to do next.","title":"[Tx] Mold in apartment, management inept - Lawyer doesn't make sense.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554775222,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb29x2\/a_website_error_with_doubling_a_coupon_resulted\/","id":"bb29x2","body":"It's from a reputable online seller, but the value of the goods is in the thousands. I received online confirmation that the order was received as well as delivery information.\n\nThe items should have been delivered today, though. I also never received an email from the company saying an error was made and that the order was canceled. \n\nDo I have the right to call and ask for the items? Or should I just assume they cancelled it and didn't tell me?","title":"A website error with doubling a coupon resulted in me getting items for free. (I have receipt showing free with coupon)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1408821567,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2edx97\/hiring_a_pet_sitter_while_we_are_out_of_the\/","id":"2edx97","body":"We are making an impromptu trip from the US to Australia as my husband's mother was only given 4-8 weeks to live. We are going back to say our goodbyes and let her see our daughter one last time. \n\nWe'll be gone around 3 weeks and so I am needing to hire a pet-sitter for our 16 year old, antisocial cat and our betta fish. Obviously, this person is going to have access to our home and I have also stated in my ad that children are welcome as I requested that the person stay approximately 30 minutes per day. Our cat is odd and needs \"people\" sounds but doesn't necessarily want to interact with anyone. \n\nI'm wondering what (if any) precautions I should take regarding the job. I have stated that a background check will be necessary. Should I make some sort of contract? If so, what do I include? \n\nWe rent a town home, if that is pertinent. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. If there is further information required, please let me know. I'm running flat-out today and may have left out something important. \n\nThanks so much!","title":"Hiring a pet sitter while we are out of the country - advice please.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570400066,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deaboh\/is_it_illegal_for_google_to_censor_infomation_us\/","id":"deaboh","body":"According to [this](https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Censorship_by_Google#cite_ref-1) Google must abide by  \"company policies, legal demands, or various government censorship laws.\" but isn't google a private company? if they wanted to censor everyone in the world talking about Cats, couldn't they? it's their own company, isn't this the same way with schools too? can't schools choose what speech is allowed on the compass because it's privately owned? so why do people say it's illegal for Google to censor certain youtube videos or political debates?","title":"is it illegal for Google to censor infomation? (US)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570952144,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh7i0o\/my_ex_said_we_were_required_to_let_the_judge\/","id":"dh7i0o","body":"State of California. Is this true?  On the first set of papers, he marked that each of us would be released if this responsibility.  No children. No common debt. \n\nWe were together when I went through school but I worked the majority of time. He lost his job and I got school loans to pay 100% of our bills and it was over $50,000 that I\u2019m also paying for 100%.  When I started working, I paid all my own bills, including my mom\u2019s and daughter\u2019s bills along with giving him 1,000 a month for bills. (Rent was $1,100). Even mt mom gave him money. He had her card and would overdraft it a lot. He did pay my health insurance for a while because he had me sign a paper to get off his insurance because he said it was too expensive. The only thing I can prove is that when I left, I found out that we were $10,000 behind on rent. I split it three ways making his dad 1\/3 responsible because he didn\u2019t work or pay bills for years. \n\nHe lies about everything. He even lied about having my social security card and my father\u2019s death certificate. He was an immigrant and when we met he was illegal because his visa ran out and his father had always been illegal.  I wouldn\u2019t put it past him to use\/sell this info. He opened a phone line under my account and they said I was there and used \n\nI haven\u2019t know what he makes in income because he\u2019s a bartender and I realize now he lied about that too.  I\u2019m sure I will show making a lot more than him because he can lie. \n\nNot important info:  I feel so stupid. I even woke up choking once and he was just lying beside me watching. You might thing I\u2019m really stupid for not leaving but he had me under his his power. He would beg me not to leave telling me how much he loved me every time I tried to leave. He was also very kind to me and brought me little gifts and nice things all the time.  I wasn\u2019t able to protect myself because I had undiscovered bipolar disorder at the time and was so easily manipulated. I did try to leave, i knew he was lying, but I guess I was afraid.","title":"My ex said we were required to let the judge decide if alimony should be paid or not since we\u2019ve been married 10+ years.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571590875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkmbvs\/ca_wa_company_is_threatening_to_fire_me_for\/","id":"dkmbvs","body":"I have a really unusual situation. Our company is headquartered in WA, but I live and run an outside sales team in CA. The company has three owners, one of which I report to directly, I will refer to him as Chad (not his real name, but fitting). About 6 months ago, Chad decided to hire his wife (I will refer to her as Becky, also not her real name, but also fitting) to recruit and manage a team of lead generators that support my sales team. I don't believe the position that Becky was hired for was posted publicly, and Becky does not have any relevant work experience to do this job. The employees that Becky hires work at retail locations and local events, and their job is to schedule appointments for the outside sales reps that report to me.\n\nChad and Becky decided that it would be a good idea for Becky to hire a \"Team of Models\". The idea to only hire young, pretty women for this role was mostly Chad's, but Becky thinks it's brilliant. Becky has repeatedly passed on well-qualified applicants strictly based on their sex and \/ or age. The most recent example was an African American man who had recently graduated college with a relevant degree, and who has recent experience doing the same role in the same industry with a different company while he was in college. Becky referred him to me, asking if I would consider hiring him directly to my team, and said that she, \"just can't see a man doing well in this position.\" I have tried to mention my concerns softly several times to both Becky and Chad, but it seems to fall on deaf ears. \n\nI finally decided put my concerns in writing to all three owners, because Chad is suddenly threatening to fire me for having a, \"negative attitude.\" After writing an email with my concerns about their hiring practices, I got a call from one of the other owners. He started by trying to intimidate me, and then shifted to offering me a small severance if I would agree to, \"leave amicably.\" I told him I would think about it. \n\nI then got a call from Chad. Chad asked if I wanted to work things out, and I said that I was open to it but that my trust is broken. He again offered me a small severance if I would agree to leave quietly, which I declined. He then told me that if I would write an email stating that my previous email was a \"misunderstanding\" that we can start with a \"clean slate\". He even had what sounded like a script that he wanted me to use to write the email. I told him that I needed some time to think about it. After thinking about it and consulting with my family, I'm definitely not writing that email. I would be lying to say that I do not believe that their hiring practices are discriminatory. If I write the email that he wants me to write, not only would I be lying to protect him, but I assume that he would then turn around fire me with cause. Chad says that if I don't write the email rescinding my previous email, that he will not be able to work with me anymore and will have to let me go. \n\nAs of now, I'm still employed, but it seems that could change at any moment. I am looking for the wisdom of this community for what my best options are from here. Thanks in advance for your advice!","title":"(CA \/ WA) Company is threatening to fire me for reporting Discrimination","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541188738,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tniw6\/i_was_arrested_and_paid_bail_for_traffic_warrant\/","id":"9tniw6","body":"Last night my boyfriend and I were pulled over for speeding by the police. They ran my ID and it turns out I had a warrant back from 2014 for running a red light and another ticket on top of that because I didn\u2019t go to court for it. \n\nSo the police told me that they would have to take me in to the station for it, and I was promptly handcuffed and put in the back of the cop car. They told my boyfriend that if we paid 500$ then I could get out the same night. So he told the officers he would be going to an atm and then come for me in the next 15 min.\n\nThe officer brought me to the station, took off my handcuffs, and didn\u2019t even bother putting me in a holding cell. After about 10 min he told me that my boyfriend had paid and I was free to go.\n\nThis is my first time ever being arrested, and I\u2019m just really confused because:\n-Officer told me that the 500$ I paid to get out would go towards my tickets, and that those two tickets are paid off now\n-Because I paid, now I have a court date to see a judge? Perhaps to see if I could avoid having these tickets on my driving record.\n\nMy questions:\nHow do I find out when this court date is? I wasn\u2019t given any forms or papers after I was released. Do I need to call the police station I was at? Or call the courthouse to find out? Will I get a letter in the mail?\nIf the 500$ went towards the tickets I had, do I still have to go to court? Will I have another warrant issued for me if I fail to appear again?\n\nThank you in advance for your answers.\n","title":"I was arrested and paid bail for traffic warrant, confused about what to do now. [Houston, TX]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570255101,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddjbb3\/treating_all_patients_with_dignity_not_just_the\/","id":"ddjbb3","body":"Sooo I got a new job two weeks ago on Monday.Hate the commute, but mostly love the rest of it.Back in a medical office setting, getting to do a flex on skills and knowledge that are UTTERLY USELESS outside the industry. I was feeling good.\n\nAnd then my boss was cartoonishly racist.\n\nA man came in who had a darker complexion, black hair, dark eyes, and a distinct accent, along with a 'clearly-not-English' name and some difficulties speaking and understanding the language. (I actually Googled the first name later, just for a sense of the etymology, and it's Sanskrit, so the gentleman is likely from the India\/Pakistan area...)Okay, cool, welcome to the US! Sorry some of the people are CRAZY.I, being new, made a mistake in the computer when it was time to pay for the day's services, so my boss took the gentleman's card and ran it. Once he'd left, my boss leaned over to me and mentioned softly that his name didn't match what was on the card.\\*MY\\* first thought was, \"oh, crap, are there legal implications here?!\"But then she continued- \"He probably just took it from his wife. You know these Middle-Eastern men; they hate their wives.\"\n\nOh.Oh you hilariously-white woman, you. (I am also white, but I'm not THAT WHITE.)WHY ARE YOU IN HEALTHCARE IF YOU CAN'T TREAT EVERY PATIENT WITH RESPECT?!Yes, compassion fatigue is a thing, but to look at a man with dark skin and say \"he probably mean-mugged his wife because nobody besides an Evil Arab would have that complexion\" AND TO SAY IT TO ME, IN OUR OFFICE, ON THE CLOCK means that she feels assured I'll agree with her.\n\nI'm gonna find another job.There was already a killer commute which was leaving me entirely too little time to run errands\/take care of my dog, and this just kind of cements that- even if I'm back in an industry I feel like I belong in- this is NOT the office for me.I don't necessarily want to burn the whole place to the ground (metaphorically); I've barely known the other employees for 2 weeks and I'm not sure if all of them are racist dirtbags.I don't want to ruin any livelihoods, but- at the very least- I want to teach them that there are consequences for mixing your racism and your family business.\n\nIs there a way to do that?Right now, all I can think of is delivering a professional-but-honest letter of resignation detailing my discomfort with their behavior, or (once I'm safely out) leaving an anonymous Yelp review. Or both!But I feel that, aside from burning some bridges, even the two combined wouldn't really change her mind\/behavior.\n\nCan the better-business bureau or medical-industry standards board be called in on this or SOMETHING?I realize that the burden of proof is going to be a nasty one, especially with HIPAA at play, but...I \\*know\\* this attitude will affect the standard of care in an office.All patients deserve dignity and consideration.Racism needs to stop being acceptable in our society.\n\nIf I only have one shot, how do I make it count?\n\nTL;DR- I work in healthcare, and the office manager\/doctor's step-sister conversationally decided that an Indian man was actually \"Middle-Eastern\" and that he stole money from his wife because \"\\[they\\] all hate their wives.\"Can I legally bring down enough scrutiny to make her change her behavior without just putting everyone out of a job? If so, HOW?","title":"Treating all patients with dignity, not just the white ones.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1445112921,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p5e3i\/how_do_i_protect_my_kids_from_my_exwife_their\/","id":"3p5e3i","body":"I have custody of my two kids from my first marriage.\n\nTheir mother is very unhealthy mentally and emotionally. She constantly has little patience to hear their gripes about life (they're both teenagers) and is constantly bad mouthing me, my current wife, my extended family and my step daughter who's much younger than my kids.\n\nHow can I limit her ability to speak to my kids in this way or limit their exposure to her?\n\nHow can I hold her accountable if I'm not able to record their conversations and go back to court every time she says something else that upsets my kids?\n\nDo I have any concrete legal options for this?\n\nThank you.","title":"How do I protect my kids from my ex-wife (their mother) ? [VA, USA]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542061928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wiy1y\/south_carolina_my_wife_got_fired_because_she\/","id":"9wiy1y","body":"Me and my wife work together. I was offered a general managers position that i discussed with her. Long story short. It leaked out to staff that i was being offered the position and i got fired for integrity purposes. Manager said he feels like he cant trust me. Wife also got fired and when she asked the manager why he said it was because she is married to me and he said i can fill her head with bad things about the company. Other than that on our write ups he put that we qre super hard workers. Punctual and reliable. Is there anything we can do?","title":"South carolina. My wife got fired because she knows me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540053695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pvl6v\/is_it_legal_to_work_someone_67_days_straight\/","id":"9pvl6v","body":"I\u2019m 19. I\u2019m a very hard worker and I love working. I started for a moving company and they love me.\nI\u2019m a good worker as I said. But they expect to much. I\u2019m all for working a Saturday every now and then. But they are constantly working me 6 days straight.\nIs it legal? \nI don\u2019t always reach the hours mark, but it\u2019s back breaking work, which I can handle I just have personal life and health to look after. There\u2019s nothing I can do on a Sunday either. ","title":"Is it legal to work someone 6\/7 days straight","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555073854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcd98e\/fl_my_close_friend_is_concerned_about_a_mosque\/","id":"bcd98e","body":"I think my really good friend has accidentally become associated with a radical Mosque. She is too scared to post herself on here. She goes to college in Florida and she has been having a hard time and has turned to Islam. This isn\u2019t the issue though. The issue is that the group she has become a part of is international students from Saudi Arabia who are pushing a concerning message. According to her, \u201cthey were talking how violence would redeem [her] in the eyes of Allah.\u201d She agrees they are seeming increasingly radicalized. \n\nI\u2019ve convinced her that she needs to get out and she agrees. She has no knowledge of an actual crime and doesn\u2019t support violence. What steps should she take to cover her own back? I told her to block all the phone numbers\/social media accounts and she\u2019s writing up a summary of what happened.","title":"[FL] My close friend is concerned about a Mosque she is now escaping having ties to terrorism. How can she cover her back?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569268675,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8byuq\/ca_am_i_a_tenant_or_a_lodger\/","id":"d8byuq","body":"Santa clara county, I rented a room in a house alongside the live-in landlord. I was the only renter there. We shared all common areas including the kitchen living room etc. my door did not have a lock on it. I rented monthly.  I was there for about 5 years, during that time the landlord lived there the entire time, I'm trying to establish whether or not i would fall under civil code 1946.5 as a single lodger, or whether or not I am a tenant. And what implications this may have about possession.","title":"[CA] Am I a tenant or a lodger?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553645272,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5xdvg\/landlord_hired_mover_to_come_into_our_house_when\/","id":"b5xdvg","body":"One more thing to add to the list of things I do not like:\n\nWe rent from one of my husbands colleagues in Indiana. Mostly it\u2019s been going fine, except for the fact that our landlord  keeps a lot of their things in our basement (I know we could technically kick it all to the curb but we love our house and want to maintain a positive relationship with our landlord).\n\nToday our landlord stops by to get an item from the basement and causally mentions that they have hired a mover that has been coming to our house when we aren\u2019t home for the last four months or so, unbeknownst to us,  and they\u2019ve moved and packed things in the basement! No thank you! \n\nThis creeps me out because we have noticed small weird things like a door open that wasn\u2019t before, something unplugged that once was, etc. We usually wrote it off as either us forgetting about it or thinking that the other spouse must have done it. Turns out, our landlord has given this person a key to our house \ud83d\ude43\n\nWe politely asked them to, you know, not do that, but we have no way of knowing if it stops or to enforce this agreement. I do not want to get nasty with our landlord (read: we love our house) but I feel so violated and now I\u2019m worried about vacating our house for such a long time. \n\nWhat do?!","title":"Landlord hired mover to come into our house when we aren\u2019t present","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553070275,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b39g6k\/how_does_chat_messages_work_in_court_what_is\/","id":"b39g6k","body":"My business partner got an investor into our business, but he mislead both the investor (lied about our company status, made it sound much bigger than it was), and lied to me regarding the investment (the actual amount was more than what was invested into the company).\n\nPrior to investing, I never spoke to the investor, but recently we connected and started joining the dots. He has sent me a number of chat message screenshots, which directly show him saying one thing to investor and another to me. How can something like this be used? Am I allowed to use it?","title":"How does chat messages work in court? What is hearsay and what if it\u2019s between 2 other parties","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555616688,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bepu8o\/false_claims_about_ddossing_toward_me\/","id":"bepu8o","body":"So i was playing a game on PlayStation when I ran into a group of very toxic individuals then after i had invited them to a party to talk to them and one had joined and we started talking\/arguing and then he left. I messaged his friend saying if he doesn't join back I'll boot him.(I cant do that) Get into a message exchange and his internet actually went out (from what he said at least i don't know if it did or not). Anyway he said he was contacting his ISP about and I'll attach messages so i don't have to explain it all. Basically i want to know if anything will happen. Messages: https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/HYEj8B5","title":"False claims about DDossing toward me.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568809904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5x31y\/texas_what_happens_when_you_submit_a_claim_to_osha\/","id":"d5x31y","body":"The place I\u2019m working at is ignoring so many health codes. I have been getting hurt in a regular basis, as many of my coworkers. Management seems to not care and says \u201cother people don\u2019t complain so why are you?\u201d Even though building morale is at an all time low, with constant injuries in the building and nonstop call-ins and new hires (as well as vets) quitting. \n\nI\u2019m curious if OSHA Is effective or if it\u2019ll be pointless? \n\nI also don\u2019t want my reputation at work to be ruined because of this but safety has become a massive issue. \n\nWould I need pictures? Or is description good enough? \n\nExamples of health violations: walkways are being blocked. We are supposed to have at least 3 feet of space but every day is a cluster now. We have 0 room to walk, causing many people to trip and fall and lose all visibility around them (things are tossed around and people get hit because they don\u2019t see each other). \n\nLots of sharp metal corners. A lot of the new equipment is falling apart and the mechanics barely have enough time to get around to it. Nobody ever gets warned about the dangers because management wants it quiet, so people are constantly running into sharp objects. \n\nWorkers are being pushed into continuing their work day without chances to refill water jugs, other than during our 15 minutes break. It becomes impossible to go to the restroom\/fill water because of the tight walkways and fact that we are rushed and have to stay in our work zones the entire time. When you ask supervisors to help you itnusually takes around an hour. (Keep in mind it\u2019s inside a concrete warehouse and it\u2019s Texas heat).","title":"(Texas) What happens when you submit a claim to OSHA?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553389092,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4qisg\/tn_my_friends_job_shorted_him_900_on_his_paycheck\/","id":"b4qisg","body":"Background: my friend works part-time for a privatized 24hr emergency healthcare company. Since my friend is part-time, they don't have a fixed schedule and instead comes in when the company needs help or has free shifts. Every time my friend works a shift for this company, they check with the scheduling manger to receive permission to work that specific shift. My friend  has emails prove this and the scheduling manger also verifies this information. \nThe reason I mention this is because This company has had an issue with employees clocking in when they aren't scheduled without checking with the schedule manager so they are taking measures to prevent this from continuing. \n\nSo to continue my story, When my friend asked the director if there was a way to fix the problem (since my friend now has $100> in their checking account) , the director basically said that my friend \"wasn't scheduled to work on those days\u201d and has not offered any way to fix the issue until the next paycheck (which is in a month) the director continues to say this despite being told several times by the scheduling manager via email that my friend was given the proper approval to work those shifts.\n\nIs there any recourse?","title":"(TN) My friends job shorted him $900 on his paycheck and instead of Retroactively adding that amount to his next monthly pay check, they removed a months worth of pay from his checking account which means he will have no money for an extra month. Is there any recourse?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1412625234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2iha8v\/florida_what_is_the_penalty_for_not_updating_the\/","id":"2iha8v","body":"Pretty simple, but I cannot find what the actual penalty is if I do not update it. I plan to do it, actually in two weeks, but for now, I am just wondering what the penalty is, and how would they even know? What would the ramifications be if I never change it?","title":"[Florida] What is the penalty for not updating the lien holder on my car loan?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541974249,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w80fb\/neighbors_and_their_guests_keep_parking_too_close\/","id":"9w80fb","body":"(I live in Dallas, TX. Couldn\u2019t find a lot of info on this so I decided to ask here.)\n\nI also included a drawing to explain what I mean more visually in case I explained it poorly: http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/r78fSSR\n\nMy neighbors have been having house parties the past few weeks just about every weekend. About 15-20 cars show up parked along both sides of our street and it\u2019s caused problems for me trying to leave home.\n\nThe cars are parked too close to the entrance of my driveway and they park across the entry of the driveway but on the opposite side of the road. I drive a pickup and I can\u2019t back out because there isn\u2019t enough space. There\u2019s hardly enough space to drive through the street because cars are parked on both sides. \n\nLast weekend we had to put up cones to stop cars from parking too close. The neighbors got pissed, banged on our door and demanded we move them because \u201cthe street belongs to everybody.\u201d \n\nWe told them that their guests park too close to our driveway and park across our driveway making it impossible to leave our house because our truck can\u2019t back out. Their reply was, \u201cThat\u2019s not our fault you have a truck it\u2019s yours.\u201d \n\n**I want to clarify:** they are not blocking our driveway, but the front\/back of their cars always end right where our driveway begins. \n\nIs this something I just have to live with and find ways around or is this illegal for them to do? I haven\u2019t been able to find concrete laws when it comes to this particular issue.","title":"Neighbors and their guests keep parking too close to our driveway and we can\u2019t leave. What can we do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554422603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9kaf6\/us_ga_ca_i_think_i_found_a_trust_account_in_my\/","id":"b9kaf6","body":"So I was looking through my family's locked filing cabinet for something completely unrelated, but I stumbled upon something with my name on it, so I gave it a quick once-over and I was a bit bothered. From what I gathered it's some sort of trust account\/monthly statement? Did some digging in the filing cabinet and I found multiple more that goes back, from what I see, to around 2007. Around when my dad died. Anyways, I'm 20 right now and I'm not exactly familiar with any legal stuff or financial info in general, so I was wondering what some of what I'm looking at means, particularly the account name, and what this could entail for the future or however trusts work. I've done some basic research and didn't come to any great conclusions so here I am.\n\n​\n\nThe account name goes along the lines of:\n\nThe <unknown name 1> Trust T\/W\n\nPer Court Order DTD <date\/1975>\n\nFBO <my name>\n\n<unknown name 2> & Bank\n\nAs Successor Co-Trustee\n\n​\n\nIt also listed a Relationship Manager, Trust Officer, and Investment manager. The paperwork itself looked sorta like a bank statement in some parts but also listed certain companies and shares? It doesn't appear to add to much but yeah. Any help, knowledge or suggestions would be helpful. Many thanks and sorry for the post format. <3","title":"[US, GA, CA] I think I found a trust account in my name?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1507686014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75luee\/can_my_landlord_make_me_sign_a_new_lease\/","id":"75luee","body":"I'm renting an apartment in Massachusetts and it used to belong to some guy, but he didn't pay his taxes I guess and the city took the building from him. This municipal agency took over management and made me sign a lease with them in March. They officially own the building now and want me to sign a NEW lease (I assume for another year). They said I if I didn't, they'd take it as much 30 day notice to vacate. Can they do that? I just re-read the lease and there's nothing in there about the lease terminating upon change of ownership. It said it was for one year. Why should I have to agree to ANOTHER year? I planned on moving when the lease was up. I don't like this neighborhood.","title":"Can my landlord make me sign a new lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553878039,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6zm31\/forced_to_take_non_required_non_ap_highschool\/","id":"b6zm31","body":"I am currently attending a public highschool in the bay area that is currently requiring me to take a homework assistance class despite the fact that I have not failed a class throughout my entire highschool career and am easily on Pace to meet the schools graduation requirements. I absolutely don't want to take this class and am worried they will attempt to push me into taking it next year. \n\nThe school I'm attending is currently ranked in the top 10 for average SAT scores by school in the bay area, but the school has gone to complete shit with my class size shrinking by nearly 25% since freshman year. I'm thinking the highschool may be tricking me into thinking I need this extra class to Garner extra tax dollars for the school, but I'm not sure if that's how it works, just a theory.\n\nIm fairly certain my school can't legally require me to take a homework assistance class when Im going to easily be able to graduate and would like to know what I should say (if anything) to get out of taking this bullshit class that most of my fellow passing peers aren't required to take. ","title":"Forced to take non required non AP highschool class","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570826686,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgl0x8\/how_do_i_get_adopted_out_of_a_cult_when_still_a\/","id":"dgl0x8","body":"Im in a rather shitty situation im a minor in a cult but ive been lucky enough to make great freinds over interwebs and one of my weller off friends has offered to take me in with his family until im able to legally live on my own, how do i make that happen?","title":"How do i get adopted out of a cult when still a minor?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569655087,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dacv0m\/tenant_vs_occupant_help_in_texas\/","id":"dacv0m","body":"My boyfriend and I rent a home from our landlord and we rent a room to an OCCUPANT. Due to her chronic filth and damage to property we will be in the hook for when she leaves, we have asked her to leave and granted her, today, verbal 60 notice to vacate which we are in the process of getting in writing. In short, she moved back into our fridge per the \u201caccess to common areas\u201d law. (We moved her a few months back to the spare garage fridge because she refused to throw away old food, stock piled her dishes for 3 weeks in it instead of washing her dishes and after we unplugged the dishwasher because we were constantly washing and putting away her dishes... so we took the bottle neck out of the equation). Our landlord at today\u2019s meeting made it clear we had to plug the dishwasher back in and provide a refrigerator to her in the common areas, so we have. She has moved her food back into our fridge (I am beyond livid about this). She doesn\u2019t wash her hands, clean up after herself, she\u2019s just disgusting... I am about to tell my landlord to shorten it to 30 days. We were trying to keep this amicable but when I got home tonight to find all her food back in our fridge I almost lost it. There is nothing wrong with the fridge in the garage. It works just fine. We told her we would have a mini fridge for her tomorrow. \n\nHere is my question- let\u2019s discuss storage. She couldn\u2019t go even 24 hours without peeing on territory. When it says access to common areas does that also mean storage? Do I have to allow her to A. Have her dishes in my kitchen cabinets and food in my pantry, \nB. Her coffee pot next to mine? \nC. Her gross trash can she doesn\u2019t empty next\nTo mine?\n\nCan I force her to keep all her stuff in her room?","title":"Tenant vs Occupant help in Texas","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446477137,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r7ufj\/need_some_advice_for_small_claims_court_in_the\/","id":"3r7ufj","body":"I am looking to collect a $370 deposit from a wedding rental service that failed to honor their contract.  The representative has repeatedly lied and given us the run around on a refund.  The initial balance was over $1k but we successfully did a credit card reversal on the final payment.\n\nI'd have been happy with a simple refund on the deposit, but now that it's clear that's not going to happen, I want to escalate this to small claims court.\n\nMy questions are the following:\n\n* The vendor is in Massachusetts but the service was a delivery to Maine.  What trouble should I expect because of this when filing in Maine?\n* I was considering on adding another $1000 onto the money sought.  This would be to cover all court costs, additional time and stress costs related to locating last minute accomodations due to the failed delivery, and the numerous hours and days that we've spent trying to obtain a refund.  Does this seem reasonable?\n* I have records of the invoice, numerous emails from the vendor leading up to the delivery and after the delivery.  I have records of every attempted phone call (closing in on hundreds at this point) and records of several complaints made to the BBB towards this business (my own and several others who the company screwed over as well).  Any advice on how to pull this all together?\n* Lastly, should I consider getting a lawyer for this or is small claims something the average person should be able to handle?\n\nThanks ahead of time for any help!","title":"Need some advice for Small Claims court in the state of Maine.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1415259329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2lge22\/corporate_veil_single_member_llc_vs_scorp_new\/","id":"2lge22","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice,\n\nI'm wondering if anyone might offer some clarity as to how personal liability is handled between a single member LLC vs. a single owner of an S-corp. (Not interested in tax treatment, strictly liability.)\n\nMy understanding is that an S-corp may not protect an owner from losing their shares in the corporation, while a (properly setup & maintained) LLC may grant some degree of protection through, for example, a charging order instead of a full \"seizure.\"\n\nBut aside from that, is one entity less prone to a \"piercing of the corporate veil,\" simply due to the type of incorporation (S corp vs single member LLC) - assuming the owner is a good corporate citizen; faithfully maintains all records and duties, best effort, etc.\n\nMost appreciated!","title":"Corporate Veil: Single Member LLC vs S-Corp (New York City)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1443355235,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mki6z\/getting_out_of_a_tenancy_agreement_because_of\/","id":"3mki6z","body":"I have a tenancy agreement with a flat of 6 people in total, however they have acted wilfully mean to me and are stopping me from entering the premises. They have said that they will act awfully to me if I return. I have this all screenshotted all of this and sent it to the landlord.\nHowever he's just sent me a message back practically ignoring all of that and instead has focussed on them not wanting a new flatmate. In previous emails he's stated that TyLettings could take legal action if the tenants behaviour forced me to leave.\nIn short, do I have a legal case for a contractual breach? I honestly cannot take living with these people, and from the sounds of it I might not even be able to get back to my house (And feel safe) anyway.\n\nThe landlord I'm with, TyLettings said this \"I do not doubt your reasoning for not wishing for main in the property. However, as a registered landlord, TyLettings has a legal obligation to ensure that all tenants can reside within the property in a peaceable fashion. Any activity by other tenants that might force another tenant out can be addressed in law (i.e. we can take those tenants to County Court for contractual breach)\"","title":"Getting out of a tenancy agreement because of contractual breach (Wales)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446564150,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rd0lr\/mn_question_about_a_renting_company_moving_me_out\/","id":"3rd0lr","body":"Last year I was renting in Minnesota.  45-ish days before my lease was up I went into the leasing office to give my notice of lease termination at the end of the contract.  They told me that They needed 60 days notice and that I'd have to stay on month to month for an additional month.  \n\nMy rent was taken out automatically on said additional month and paid to the company.  I had moved in with my SO and my apartment was unoccupied for a few weeks until I went to do my final last touches and cleaning when I found that they had rented my place already (the month I was paying for) and threw the remainder of my stuff out. (less than 1000 dollar worth of random stuff)  They refused to give me my whole security deposit and last month rent back (totaling about 1500).  They ultimately gave me 150 dollars total (checks which I still have and never cashed)  after charging cleaning fees, etc.\n\nThey never did a walk through and I never did the whole turn in your keys routine.\n\nMy question is 1. Is it too late to peruse legal actions.  Oct 2014 was the date.  2. Do I have a leg to stand on?","title":"MN. Question about a renting company moving me out half a month early even though I paid through the whole month.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569422193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d945v1\/does_a_receipt_from_a_3rd_party_vendor_such_as\/","id":"d945v1","body":"My payroll told me that since it\u2019s not a receipt from a government entity that it is invalid and i will be let go EOD, however the Department of Health only lists VitalCheck as a way to order your Birth Certificate our of county (excluding mail-in but that wouldn\u2019t work).\n\nThe Immigration website says this:\n\n\u201cThe \u201creceipt rule\u201d is designed to cover situations in which an employee is authorized to work at the time of initial hire or reverification, but he or she is not in possession of a document listed on the Lists of Acceptable Documents accompanying Form I-9 because the document is lost, stolen or damaged. Receipts showing that a person has applied for an initial grant of employment authorization or for renewal of employment authorization are not acceptable.\n\nYour employee may present a receipt in lieu of a document listed on Form I-9 to complete Section 2 or Section 3 of Form I-9. The receipt is valid for a temporary period. There are three different documents that qualify as receipts under the rule:\n\n        1.   A receipt for a replacement document when the document has been lost, stolen, or damaged. The receipt is valid for 90 days. In the case of reverification the receipt is valid until the date your employee\u2019s employment authorization expires.  At the end of the receipt validity period, the individual must present the replacement document to complete Form I-9.\u201d\n\nFrom another section:\n\n\n\u201cAn employee may present a receipt for the application of a birth certificate issued by a State, county, municipal authority or territory of the United States, if he\/she is not in possession of the actual document because it was lost, stolen or damaged. The receipt is valid for 90 days after which the employee must present a certified copy of the actual birth certificate. A receipt showing that a person has applied for an initial birth certificate is unacceptable.\u201d","title":"Does a receipt from a 3rd party vendor such as Vitalcheck for the purchase of a replacement birth certificate count for Section C of an I-9? (Burbank, CA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568999649,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6y09i\/department_of_health_and_human_services_nevada\/","id":"d6y09i","body":"Just got a not in the mail saying that every $550 I get in child support they will be taking $35 off. So, are they really now doing a $35 fee for child support? If so, this just doesn't make sense.","title":"Department of Health and Human Services (Nevada)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442162075,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ksrd2\/what_are_the_best_course_of_action_on_monetizing\/","id":"3ksrd2","body":"\nPurchased the domain name 5 years ago, the company has emerged as a leader in a segment of the mobile tech industry.\n\nWhat are some things I can pursue and what are things to watch out for?\n","title":"what are the best course of action on monetizing a legally owned .net domain name of a billion dollar software company.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1506248352,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/724bak\/ca_i_want_to_leave_my_relationship_but_my_fianc\u00e9\/","id":"724bak","body":"My fianc\u00e9 has a drinking problem on top of everything else. He always drinks 3 beers or more every night, and all the empty bottles and cans outside our house are his. I'm done fighting with him over this. He insults me and talks down to me and also threatens me telling me he'll get sole custody of our son by using my history of depression\/being on medication as signs I'm an unfit parent (I was off everything a couple months before I became pregnant, I rarely drink, and I'm the one who primarily takes care of our son since if my fianc\u00e9 is not working he's off drinking... can he even use that against me?). I haven't worked in a few years. I don't have much money saved. And I do admit I have pretty bad anxiety sometimes, but that never interferes with my being able to take care of my son. What I'm trying to get at is what are my legal rights since we're not married? What can I honestly do if I can't afford a lawyer or prove anything since there's no physical evidence of harm, and everyone else only sees the good side of him?","title":"[CA] I want to leave my relationship but my fianc\u00e9 threatens to get custody of our son if I ever leave him.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554758075,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baz9dz\/still_getting_bills_from_an_accident_that_was\/","id":"baz9dz","body":"So I was in a car accident about a year ago (April 15, 2018). I was hit by a drunk driver (of a stolen car) with minor injuries, and the billing went through the car owner's insurance (or so I thought). \n\nI thought everything was settled and paid for last year, and I've been getting what I thought were scam letters\/bills in the mail over the past 2 months related to my visit to the emergency room after the accident.\n\nI called my car insurance provider, USAA, who told me I still owe around $2,000 for the medical bills, even though I was told that Geico handled it and everything was settled.\n\nHow is this possible almost a year later?\nPlease help!\n\n(I can provide more information as needed.)","title":"Still getting bills from an accident that was almost a year ago???","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570219999,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddcszu\/my_mom_might_be_facing_2nd_degree_felony_help\/","id":"ddcszu","body":"My mom was driving home and there was a pop up stop sign for construction. There was a construction lady standing about two feet away from the stop sign and was vigorously pointing at the stop sign. My mom was going to stop anyways because it\u2019s a stop sign. So my mom stopped and waited a few seconds to see if any machines would pass her. When nothing did she made sure the roads were clear and went, well the construction lady punched the back of my moms car (no idea why) and my mom just drove home because she didn\u2019t want to fight with this lady, she was confused as to why this lady was being so aggressive. So she went home and about 45mins later a police officer shows up and says the construction lady is pressuring charges because my mom \u201chit her with her car\u201d and now she could be facing charges with a deadly weapon. And a second degree felony. Help please. My mom doesn\u2019t know what to do. They said a detective would come by later and talk to her but they didn\u2019t say when. My mom lives in Nederland, TX","title":"My mom might be facing 2nd degree felony? Help","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1414080169,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2k3t9w\/band_im_producing_have_been_scammed\/","id":"2k3t9w","body":"Hey guys, I'm a little bit lost in this situation and so are the band as they are very young\/inexperienced and have basically lost a lot of money.\n\nSo the story goes, the band were paying this guy, we'll call him 'Andy Ray'.\n\nHe claims to be a tour booker and agent, who could get the band some big tours in scandinavia and Europe. The band of course were excited, and paid the guy around 1000 GBP in total to 'book the tour' and get everything set up.\n\nSo after a few weeks I keep asking the band about said tour. They said they have no information, and the current tour was cancelled but he's got some other tour lined up for them. Okay, but it's pretty fishy. I did think this was a bit too good to be true. We were only working on their first single and the guy was namedropping some big bands.\n\nAnyway, it turns out the guy is a scammer, and has been doing this to loads of metal bands all over the world. As far as I know there was no written contract, and the band just basically handed over the money through some online service, without really thinking properly about it. Okay, not the smartest move.\n\nHowever, now a band member has found out 'Andy Ray' has used his card to purchase a printer . From this, the bank gave him the address. So we have his US residency address. Apparently he used to live in Sweden, scammed bands over there, went bankrupt and moved to the US. This has all been found out by this hidden facebook group where the bands are talking. Problem is, they are all young metal bands who couldn't organize a pissup in a brewery, but could potentially gather enough evidence to show his trend of scamming bands.\n\nThe problem is, all the bands are very young and impressionable. And i'm no law expert. I really just want to find out what the best course of action is for the band, not soley for sweet sweet justice (that would be nice) , but the safest way to make him pay the money back to the band with minimum fuss. Mainly because now their budget for PR is gone, which is much more important for the release of their upcoming EP. \n\nAlso, they are still on talking terms with 'Andy Ray' and he does not know about the facebook group, or that this band know what he is trying to pull.\n\nAny ideas? We're based in the UK, which may make it harder.\n\n\nThanks guys","title":"Band I'm producing have been scammed...","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571287661,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj1g7y\/sticky_notes_covering_car\/","id":"dj1g7y","body":"Ight so about 2 months ago I printed out a sheet of 130 pictures of the principles head and stuck them around the school. Sent the file to a bunch of mates who spread that file to almost everyone in the school who also printed it out, got in deep shit. Put on my record as harassment \n\nFast forward to today, was sitting in class and decided to see how much it was for custom sticky notes, 200 bucks for a fair wack so here's the question...\n\nIs it legal to cover a car in sticky notes that have a picture of the principle on them?\n\nWould I get into deep shit again?\n\nAsking for a friend ;)","title":"Sticky notes covering car","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540454320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r89i8\/landlord_forcing_me_to_pay_room_mates_fees\/","id":"9r89i8","body":"Hello, first post here.  I am a college student and rented an apartment near the college.  I have 3 roommates who i met when first moved in.  Back in September they racked up a fine of $540 for loud music, littering, disorderly conduct.  We have security here and they wrote my room mates a ticket(there names are on it), i was at class at the time and have an attendance record to prove i was there at the time.  Even though i have a solid alibi, my landlord is insisting we are charged as a unit so i currently have a $135 charge on my account with the complex.  No where in the lease i signed does it state that the security company can issue fines.  \nI have a meeting with my landlord tm, what can i say or do to get these charges dropped against me. ","title":"LandLord forcing me to pay room mates fees","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570127145,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcuwou\/just_ended_a_year_long_lease_but_the_landlord\/","id":"dcuwou","body":"My current landlord never terminated a year long lease and acording to Oregon bylaws I am shifting to a month to month tenancy. What rights do I have? Also do the terms in the now expired lease still apply?\n\nThank you for your time.","title":"Just ended a year long lease but the landlord never terminated","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443728550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n5373\/my_apartment_unit_flooded_with_sewage_ive_filed_a\/","id":"3n5373","body":"Is there any way I could get out of my lease on some grounds? When they moved my old unit furniture and boxes they tracked in feces and dirt and a couple days later they mopped the floor, but left the bathroom with grime from what I would assume was the previous tenant's. On top of all this the sink didn't have a working disposal. \n\nI have no idea what to do. ","title":"My apartment unit flooded with sewage. I've filed a claim for damaged stuff, but they moved me into a unit with bedbugs and roaches.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541203656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tpkqx\/found_out_friend_shoplifted_after_we_left_the\/","id":"9tpkqx","body":"I went to the mall with a friend and we went into Hot Topic. I'm an indecisive shopper so we hung around for a while looking at things. A few times the employees asked if they could help us and I said we were good. I ended up not buying anything.\n\nWhen we left I mention that I sometimes worry that I accidentally put something in my pocket without paying. Cue my friend saying she stole some pins.\n\nI tell her she shouldn't have done that and asked her to go back and either put the things back or pay. We go back and I look at the pins some more and get three out of guilt, and she says she put the pins she stole on a shelf since the pin area was crowded. \n\nLegally would I be held accountable even though I had no idea what she did until after we left? We're not minors which makes things worse. ","title":"Found out friend shoplifted after we left the store (NH)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503721157,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w3mrk\/ny_boss_wants_to_write_me_up_for_following_his\/","id":"6w3mrk","body":"So I'm a manager at a store. Where we have a Front of house (FOH) and back of house (BOH). One day I received a call in the morning from my boss who told me \" Listen do NOT have anyone in the BOH After 11:00 am no exceptions; I do not want to hear any Bullshit no one no reasons, no excuses\" \n\nSo I opened the store got everything ready for what we needed for the whole day, but we did not get to throw out the Paper boxes from the shipment into the Recycling Dumpster. But it was 11:00 so I did not send anyone to do it because he told me not to. \n\nHere's where the fun part starts, my boss's boss came in for a surprise inspection and is a neat freak. He did not like that there were boxes not thrown out down stairs as well as some other small organization problems of the BOH. \n\nWe are understaffed in the morning to save money so we usually do the organization during down time during the main shift but since I was told not to send anyone I did not send anyone. My boss wants to now write me up for not sending anyone to the BOH to clean up the boxes. Can he do this? What can I do to combat this? ","title":"[NY] Boss wants to write me up for following his orders. Legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570297445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddqikh\/threatened_termination_for_discussing_pay_central\/","id":"ddqikh","body":" Howdy!\n\n**Tl;Dr I asked for a raise and when I told my manager that we had all discussed our pay she threatened to fire me for it. I know that its illegal and a violation of the NLRA but what can I do about it?** *More info below.*\n\nI work at an apartment complex in central Texas. The complex is owned and managed by a company located in Indianapolis. The middle management of this company is abysmal to begin with on how they treat their employees. I'm talking blatant favoritism, threatening firing over simple missteps, and strong-arming employees into resigning for various things that would not warrant firing. \n\nThere is an unusually high employee turnover rate here and the company sought to fix that by hiring new people at a higher wage than they were paying current employees. Thing is, they didn\u2019t raise our pay to match the new, inexperienced employees that we were responsible for training. We eventually found out about it a few months later and we demanded they match our pay. When we brought it up, they said \u201cwe don\u2019t know where you heard that information but it\u2019s best that you don\u2019t discuss pay in the workplace.\u201d They ended up agreeing to matching our pay and we continued.\n\nFast forward a few months and every employee but me has put in their letter of resignation. They have been made offers to stay at a higher pay rate. For their own reasons they will not be taking them.\n\nWe have all discussed these offers with each other and they suggested that I demand an offer for myself. By the word of my coworkers, I put forth more effort and am more valuable to the company than anyone else as I have been here longest and am well versed in all tasks as well am responsible for obtaining the most leases for the company.\n\nWhen I brought all the above paragraph to my manager, she simply homed in on the aspect of us discussing our pay. She stopped me dead and said \u201cYou\u2019re discussing pay amongst yourselves? This is grounds for termination.\u201d I told her that was illegal, and she needs to take my request seriously. \n\n**My questions are these: I was just told I am at risk for being fired for talking to coworkers about pay. That is a violation of the NLRA. Given this company\u2019s history of disregarding employees interests, how can I protect myself? What can I do to bring this against the company? Is there a way to file a report against them for what they have already done\/if they continue with further action?**","title":"Threatened Termination For Discussing Pay [Central Texas]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571070752,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dht2do\/wisconsin_hr_outed_my_wife_after_encouraging_her\/","id":"dht2do","body":"Hi all,\n\nMy wife (who is an LPN) works third shift at an assisted living home. An employee there constantly works double shifts (they are a CNA) and in order to sustain that type of schedule, constantly sleeps during their shift and consistently leaves at 5am when they are scheduled to 6:30am, leaving my wife to try to make up for the slack. The employee also has bragged previously that they conceal carry, don't care about going to jail and would retaliate against anyone that tries to call them out for their lazy\/shady habits. This employee purposely ignores call lights for long periods of time during the night so when they finally go to answer it, they find the people who called are sleeping which then allows them to mark that they answered it without actually aiding the person. This leaves people soaking for long periods of time in their own urine, or worse, and is a major health issue for the residences. She has also lied on other employees who try to call her out by trying to falsely accuse them of actions that may jeopardize their license, which she successfully got an employee fired for already. Bottom line, horrible person. \n\nMy wife was encouraged by her supervisor to make an anonymous complaint regarding these actions in order to get the toxic employee out, which only after verifying their procedure for their complaint processes and being assured it would be anonymous, proceeded to go ahead and do. My wife and multiple other nurses all wrote statements and submitted it. HR, for some unknown reason, refused to get involved so the investigation was handed off to a supervisor\/manager who IMMEDIATELY outed my wife's name to the employee. My wife was contacted by co-workers stating that the employee was going way out of her way to trash talk my wife and tell everyone she could that my wife filed a complaint of pure lies against her. My wife kept records of all communications after she found out and also refused to come into work until HR could address the issue and assure her that she would be coming back to a safe environment. This is where it went really wrong.\n\nHR completely ignored her requests after this point. They went radio silent for over 5 days where her calls and emails asking them to meet with her and outline how the issue will be resolved were not addressed nor returned. She kept calling into work for her own protection and recorded the communications as proof that she both notified her supervisor of her absence and the reason why she was doing it. During these 5 days, reports from other co-workers in regards to the slanderous retaliation of the employee were flooding into my wife's phone. Finally, on Friday at 3pm, a mere hour before HR is gone for their weekend, my wife gets an email stating that she has \"no call no showed\" for a week. It goes on to then lightly mention that they have been made aware that my wife made a \"minor complaint\" and that she had to come in, mid week, at the most inconvenient time imaginable or it would be considered a voluntary resignation of her position by her. Between the scheduled meeting date and when she got the email, she was still scheduled to work 3 more days along side the employee in question, thus putting her safety at risk.\n\n​\n\nWhat are her options to fight this? I believe the issue stems from the CNAs being union but the nurses are not, so my theory is they may find it easier to screw over my wife instead of removing a seriously dangerous employee. Any help would be appreciated.","title":"Wisconsin - HR outed my wife after encouraging her to report a dangerous and potentially violent employee","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505230975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6znrqr\/does_transferring_to_a_new_apartment_and_signing\/","id":"6znrqr","body":"For a bit of background my ex husband and I separated last year. During this time I signed a lease and moved into the apartment on my own. He moved in with me but did not sign the lease and I am the only person on the lease as well as all the bills for the apartment. As of last week I've officially filed for divorce and am waiting for the 60 day waiting period to be up to complete the divorce. \n\nMy ex is aware that we are divorcing and is refusing to leave or to help pay for anything while he still lives here. He knows that I don't want to ruin my credit or be sued if I break this lease. \n\nI spoke with my apartment complex and the lease does not allow for subletting or buying myself out of the lease but I could transfer to a different apartment in the same complex. I've gone through the transfer process with this complex before and it terminates my current lease early and I sign a new lease for the new apartment. \n\nIf I transfer to a new apartment after the divorce is finalized would that terminate his residency in the apartment we currently share? I just want to make sure that if I do this he has no right to come with me. \n\nAlso how much notice do I have to give to him that I will be vacating the apartment and he needs to leave too? \n\n","title":"Does transferring to a new apartment and signing a new lease terminate my ex husband's residency [Texas].","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552534217,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0vgc2\/narcissist_abusive_ex\/","id":"b0vgc2","body":"My ex who is my sons father is an abusive narcissist, your 7 year told me that he was leaving the state this weekend, I have every reason to believe that my ex will lie\/not answer when I message him as he\u2019s done this before in the past. How do I catch him in this lie\/what are my legal options.","title":"Narcissist abusive Ex","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540847427,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9shatx\/what_does_this_letter_mean_in_lames_term_does_it\/","id":"9shatx","body":"[The letter I just recieved a week ago.](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NKyG79X.jpg )\n\nA quick summery of events that conspired to this.\n\nBack in August 2016 I got rear ended by a Silverado while I was at a full stop waiting on the light to turn green. The truck hit me going 30 mph. My grandmother and I got checked out and it turned out that she tore a ligament on her shoulder that was torn before and I have to 2 disks that are bulged and my become hernias in the future. \n\nWe finished therapy and a couple months later the pain came back. We went to get more therapy but our lawyer sent us a letter telling us that he will not cover the treatment because \u201cit might look bad for the case because a good amount of time has passed and they might question our injuries\u201d I called him angrily and explained that we are in pain and that we need more therapy for the pain but he declined once again.\n\nI kept calling once a month for update and I would get nothing.\n\nAugust 2017, a year later we received a letter stating that the insurance company that we are suing is not going to settle and we are going to go to court.\n\nDecember 2017 I decided to drive 2 1\/2 hours to his office where I scheduled a meeting with him. Just when I got into town, I get a call from his office saying that he canceled the meeting because \u201csomething came up\u201d. I got pissed and told his assistant that I just drove 3 hours to his office and I won\u2019t leave until I speak to him.  I went to his office and waited 2 hours before I got greeted by one of his assistance. I ordered them that I need my lawyer because he was the in charge of my case, but the wouldn\u2019t budge. I just decided to get some answers from the assistant than leave empty handed.\n\nShe explained to me that the case is going to discover mode and will be getting questioned very soon. \n\nFast forward to now, I\u2019ve called at least once a month for updates and I just received this letter. Can you guys help me understand what\u2019s going on? Is it possible to get another lawyer at this point or another option to move thing faster?\n\nThank you!","title":"What does this letter mean in lames term? Does it mean what I think it means, that he basically forgot about my case and just remembered about it till recently?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1443020398,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m2n9l\/landlord_claiming_we_are_responsible_for_fixing\/","id":"3m2n9l","body":"Hey guys, I recently moved into a house with University friends (in England), the tenancy started in July however we only moved in 2 weeks ago as term starts now. About 2 weeks after the tenancy started we discovered the electricity meter was broken and were informed by the landlord that we should contact a supplier when we move in and they would fix it.\n\nNow we moved in and tried to get it fixed, only to receive a large estimated bill from a supplier we have had no contact with. They have based the estimate on the previous tenants usage and say they cannot alter this as there is no reading to go by. The landlord is now saying that all bills are our responsibility and any charges are ours to deal with.\n\nIn the tenancy agreement it does say we are of course responsible for bills and any costs associated, but only during the tenancy. We feel it is unfair for us to pay such a large bill as the meter broke before we arrived and the landlord told us not to worry about it until we move in.\n\nThey are stating they will pay for the meter to be repaired but the bills are our responsibility. Looking back we should have got it fixed straight away, but we were unaware there was an account open with a supplier and stupidly took the word of the landlord.\n\nWhat can we do about this? They have said it is our fault and we should have set up an account with a supplier as soon as the tenancy started, but we did not know this was required and were not told anything about this at the start of the tenancy.\n\nTL;DR Moved into house 2 months after tenancy started, electricity meter was broken before tenancy began so due to the lack of reading a supplier is demanding we pay a large estimated usage bill. Landlord is saying they will pay to get meter fixed but any bills are our responsibility.","title":"Landlord claiming we are responsible for fixing electricity meter and costs incurred due to lack of reading.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570537815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deza3q\/restrictive_noncompete_agreement\/","id":"deza3q","body":"My friend, who trained as an interior designer, was supposed to start an internship at an architectural firm this week. After she was hired, the company sent her a highly restrictive confidentiality and noncompete agreement that stated she cannot work in design in the USA for 10 years after leaving their conpany. Is this normal procedure? Allowed? Looking for some advice on how to handle this.","title":"Restrictive non-compete agreement","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571705679,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dla2ed\/property_management_sent_an_invoice_for_damages\/","id":"dla2ed","body":"Bit of a long story, sorry in advance.\n\nI am currently renting an apartment in Los Angeles, CA with one other person. \n\nWhen my roommate and I moved in (December 2018), we initially didn\u2019t set up utilities (they were already turned on, we weren\u2019t sure if we needed to or not, we should have asked). \n\nOur property manager (PM) called us about 4 months after moving in and said we need to set up our own utilities. We did immediately.\n\nOur PM called us about 3 months later, saying we never set up utilities. We provided proof, and he dropped the matter. \n\nA month later, PM said we owed a utilities bill of about $600 dollars, and if we didn\u2019t pay it, our power would be turned off. We immediately asked for a copy of the bill, and said once we received a physical copy, we would pay it. \n\nWe never received a physical copy. We followed up with PM through email and texts, and never heard back from him. \n\nA month passes by, and we receive an email from our property management company with an attached invoice stating:\n\n\u201cDear Resident:\n\nEnclosed is a copy of a bill for work done in your unit.\n\nAs you will see on the enclosed invoice the damage was tenant caused.\n\nPlease remit payment immediately in the amount of $415.59 payable to PROPERTY MANAGEMENT.\n\nThank you for your prompt attention to this matter. \n\nSincerely,\n\nPROPERTY MANAGEMENT\u201d\n\nWe never had any work done, and we replied asking for a copy of the utilities bill again, and they haven\u2019t responded. It\u2019s been 2 weeks since we\u2019ve received this email. They\u2019ve added the bill amount to our online payment portal, combining it with our monthly rent total. \n\nWe\u2019re planning on moving out (December 2019).\n\nWhat do we do?","title":"Property management sent an invoice for \u201cdamages\u201d and won\u2019t show us the bill. What do I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569084181,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7cv50\/guy_hit_my_car_and_promised_to_pay_me_for_my\/","id":"d7cv50","body":"(New York) Continuing from the title, he told me to meet with his mechanic and get a quote for damages, which I did. I\u2019m not getting anywhere with this and I did not file a police report. I thought I\u2019d be nice and not go through insurance as the guy was coming out of church, but I\u2019m at my wits end here. \n\nIs it too late to file a police report? If so, can I just contact his insurance company?","title":"Guy hit my car and promised to pay me for my damages. After several texts and calls for a month, he continues to avoid me.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570641019,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfk34a\/location_nashville_tn\/","id":"dfk34a","body":"My boyfriend and I were leaving Nashville, TN Sunday. We were going 45 mph in wet conditions. No visible rain but the roads were slick on the interstate (440). Hence, the slow speeds. So we see a car pull into a construction lane on the left and weren\u2019t sure what was happening. We\u2019re slowing down as the traffic on Google maps says there is medium (orange) traffic ahead. So immediately after this car a couple cars ahead swerves off in the left lane that is closed off the car in front of us immediately stops. No slow down, just stops.\n\nTurns out, she was traveling too close to the car in front of them and rear-ended them. We tried to safely slow down to no avail since the roads were slick and we didn\u2019t want to risk spinning out and injuring more people. We rear end the car in front of us pretty bad. I was the passenger and personally felt as though we were at a safe distance, especially in wet conditions, but it\u2019s kind like \u201cthe damage doesn\u2019t lie\u201d you know?\n\nAnyway, the car behind us sees what happens and tries to avoid us but doesn\u2019t do a great job and rear ends us hard furthermore into the car in front of us. The 3 cars involved were 3 of 5 cars in the pile up, us being number 4, and we were all stated as driving improper distances to each respective car in front.\n\nThe either cars I\u2019m assuming are not liable in any way.\n\nWe\u2019re wondering since all three cars mentioned were totaled. How would insurance most likely handle this. Each person covers the car in front of them? Since we were rear-ended as well will my boyfriend receive compensation for his damages? I went to the hospital for a check-up since our airbags did deploy and I have whiplash and strains in my neck. Who is responsible for this? \n\nWe are not very knowledgeable of the process and would like some insight! Any and all advice will help.\n\nI\u2019ll attach the police report below.[Nashville 5-car pile-up](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/0YLzwwt)","title":"Location: Nashville, TN.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506792884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73g9bq\/abandoned_items_at_rental_property\/","id":"73g9bq","body":"Location: Alberta, Canada\n\nI am hoping to get a bit of advice here. To summarize the situation, a couple tenants(T+C) stole items from another woman(A), they fled Alberta and moved to BC. The landlord of T+C found the items abandoned in his rental property. T+C left thousands of dollars in damages to the home, and missed rent payments, Landlord listed the items for sale to recoup some of the losses he was eating from T+C living there. I purchased said items from the landlord. Are these items legally mine? Was there any issue with me buying them? Landlord did not know they were stolen but me and associates did. The items have zero information to specifically trace them to A's purchase, no bar codes or identification numbers, but its well known they are A's.\n\nAny advice here would be wonderful and I am thankful to all who help out. Thanks!  ","title":"Abandoned items at rental property?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540697458,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s0c0o\/any_liability_for_an_unsolicited_item\/","id":"9s0c0o","body":"No drugs or anything interesting, sorry to disappoint.\n\nAbout a month and a half ago I was fixing a computer for someone and determined it needed a new keyboard so I started looking for replacements. I found one seller with a good price but it was shipping from China so I wanted to check the shipping costs\/timeframe (hint, 1.25x the cost of the item and 4-8 weeks is not getting my money) so to do so I had to input my address. At no point did I click on anything that could be construed as me purchasing the item, just added to cart and opened the process of buying it. No payment details or anything. At this point I decided, way too expensive and slow, I\u2019m gonna but it off eBay for the same price and free 4 week shipping. About 2 weeks later the original keyboard shows up and I\u2019m getting emails from the seller asking that I pay for the keyboard. I decline, explain I no longer needed it and had not ordered it so I would not be paying for it. He then asked me to ship it back so I told him to just send me a shipping label and I\u2019d drop it in the mail the next day. He said no, the only way he\u2019d do it is if I pay to ship it and then he reimburses me later which I refused to do. I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019m well covered, I have an email from the seller saying it was shipped by mistake, anything I need to worry about? I\u2019m located in NC.","title":"Any liability for an unsolicited item?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568696253,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5c8yx\/can_i_hold_a_computer_charger_company_liable_for\/","id":"d5c8yx","body":"I ordered a MacBook charger refurbished from Macbookadapter and the next day I plugged in my computer.\n\nAfter about 10 seconds I heard the charger pop and my computer shut off.\n\n\nI sent it in for repairs and they claim it will be 600 dollars if I want my computer repaired. They say it needs a logic board and I\/o board.\n\n\nI contacted the charger company and they claimed that it wasn\u2019t possible and offered me a refund for the charger.\n\nDo I have anything here?","title":"Can I hold a computer charger company liable for damage to my computer due to a faulty refurbished charger?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1506180319,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71yvlf\/south_carolina_i_really_need_help_my_ex_got_a\/","id":"71yvlf","body":"\n\n","title":"[SOUTH CAROLINA] I really need help! My ex got a restraining order against me in January. On the restraining order they requested me to pay $1,000 in attorneys fees. What happens if I never pay this? How can they get the money? Can they put out a warrant for my arrest?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569604149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da3ed7\/car_dealership_claims_smoke_is_from_oil_change\/","id":"da3ed7","body":"(WA state) Hello everyone, kind of a weird one here today. Thanks for reading \ud83e\udd18\n\nYesterday, my (18)GF(this is a joint effort but for the sake of 2 loan applicants;) Co-signed with her mom for a loan of about $7300.\n\nI took Reddit\u2019s advice, went through our bank instead of the dealership, got a wicked interest rate (thanks soon to be mom in law <3) and thought we found a wicked deal. \n\nSo about 3 days ago we test drove this\n06 Subaru Legacy with 99k miles, for $7300 after taxes and whatnot, not to bad right?\n\nBut I did notice some oil dripping on the exhaust during test drive. Salesmen, financier, and mechanic tried to say it was from an oil change. I asked that they check it out anyway. \nNext day rolls around, we sign the papers at the bank because the dealer said they would fix it, and if it pursued to bring it back.  Now they could obviously just be trying to sell the car but I was sent there through my GF mom working with the owners spouse, so I don\u2019t think they want to do me dirty. \n\nBut the car is still leaking oil, me and my friend just got it off the lift and it\u2019s definitely not from an oil change, and it\u2019ll probably be the cam seal. \n\nThey needed GF\u2019s mom to sign but she was already on the other end of town so they just let us take the car. I am supposed to run back the papers signed by Gf\u2019s mom, these are like, all the papers the dealership actually needs for the registry and tabs and title and all that. The loan is already through and they picked up the check this morning. But I have the only copy\u2019s of all these papers.\n\nMy GF did sign an as-is, but they told us repeatedly to bring it back if it has issues. Because of the as is I know realistically they don\u2019t have to do anything, but because of being a fresh business and a lot of local buzz, I\u2019m sure they don\u2019t want to leave a bad mark so soon. \n\nWhat is my best approach with these forms specifically, should I keep them until they fix the car? Should I do something else? Am I being irrational about the whole situation? This is my first car loan experience as well.","title":"Car dealership claims smoke is from oil change, it\u2019s clearly not and I still have ALL the papers.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555376798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdnubr\/legality_of_selling_alcoholbased_herbal_tinctures\/","id":"bdnubr","body":"Hypothetically, if I created a business and sold herbal tinctures both online and in-person that contained grain alcohol still present through the extraction process, do my products have additional taxes\/regulations applied to them? This would be in Washington State. If so, how do I make sure I abide by these regulations? Thanks!","title":"Legality of selling alcohol-based herbal tinctures online - WA State","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551592150,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awr4d7\/tenant_not_on_lease_wants_security_deposit_back\/","id":"awr4d7","body":"So tenant has been staying in this house for 2 years, going on 3 in July this year.  He was on the lease for the first 2 then insisted to be excluded from this current last lease b\/c he wasn\u2019t planning to stay due to work.  The agreement was that he would give at least 30 days notice and he\u2019d find a replacement for the room. \n\nThen him and other tenant fought and now the aforementioned tenant wants to leave and get his security deposit back at the end of this month. \n\nWe are all broke college students and can not give him the portion of the rent until the end of the lease when our landlord disburses it.  What can I do here?\n\nHalp\n","title":"Tenant not on lease wants security deposit back ASAP - Bay Area, California","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570741219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg4gyd\/can_my_boss_legally_take_our_tips\/","id":"dg4gyd","body":"I work for a small pizza place inside of a gas station with four other people. We all make $8\/hr and have a small tip jar at the register. According to people who joined before I did, the owners used to empty the whole jar and divide it equally among the employees on payday. However, for the past little while, they seemed to have stopped this practice and we have no idea where the money goes. Obviously we\u2019re all pissed because they seem to be taking the tips for themselves. So my question is, is this legal? And if not, what actions can we take?","title":"Can my boss legally take our tips?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540103686,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q1i0n\/my_sister_is_under_my_phone_plan_her_phone_is\/","id":"9q1i0n","body":"Let\u2019s say I died, and she can\u2019t continue paying the phone bill nor the remainder on the account.\n\nWould they just accept the loss since it was under my name and I\u2019m dead? Would they unlock the phone for her to get her own service? ","title":"My sister is under my phone plan, her phone is leased (I got her the phone), I still owe about $500 on it. If I died, would they unlock the phone for her?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571741365,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlg65p\/im_not_sure_how_the_legal_system_can_help\/","id":"dlg65p","body":"This saturday night I (F18) stayed at my friend's dorm because he had a guest over who was also female.  He has 2 other roommates who are male and one of those roommates had a younger sibling over (M16).  \n\nWhile I was sleeping, this younger sibling started touching me and groping me. Running his hand under my shirt and grinding against me. I didnt know what to do and I laid there frozen in fear. \n\nI told his older brother yesterday and his (younger sibling's) excuse was \"you move around in your sleep.  I just pushed you to the side\"\n\nTheir entire family doesnt believe me and I dont know what to do. I called thier mom and she was a complete bitch. I want to report to the police, but my parents cant find out and the process is too stressful. \n\nI cant stop thinking about it, and I feel terrible that nothing can be done and he will walk away with no punishment. \n\nI really need help on what to do. \n\nI go to a public college if that helps and the younger sibling lives in a different state. Im in the state of washington.","title":"I'm not sure how the legal system can help","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554615053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bad8r9\/wa_wife_is_divorcing_me_and_taking_the_kids\/","id":"bad8r9","body":"My wife of 16 years has made it clear she is divorcing me even though I thought we were in love and I haven\u2019t done anything wrong. I have two children, boy age 7 and a girl age 14 and the divorce court is probably going to side with her. I can\u2019t lose my children they are my everything. Please help me I don\u2019t know what to do. \n\nFor those wondering, wife is divorcing me on grounds of domestic violence that happened a few months ago. I apologized profusely and so I don\u2019t know why she\u2019s making a big deal about it. It wasn\u2019t even a big deal for her to get upset over and now I\u2019m going to lose my kids over it. Please is there anyone out there that can help. Without my kids my life is meaningless. ","title":"[WA] wife is divorcing me and taking the kids.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445976145,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qgp2s\/cold_water_is_hot_hot_water_is_cold_now_the\/","id":"3qgp2s","body":"Water problem still has not been fixed.  Have you ever sat on a toilet filled with boiling water?  Maintenance comes in, plays with the shower thermostat (???), then leaves.  Repeat once a week when I remind the office that it's still not fixed.\n\nCame home last week to a notice that my water will soon be metered.  (?????)  Called the office, conveniently goes to voicemail, left multiple messages throughout the week.  None of my calls got returned.\n\nToday I went to the office in person to get a copy of my lease and any possibly relevant documents that I have signed for them.  Instead, they hand me some new papers to sign.  It's a new copy of my lease with pages 2-7 missing. (?!?!?!)\n\nObviously, I did NOT sign anything and demanded the documents I originally requested.  They did not seem happy about this at all, but gave them to me anyway.\n\nCall me stupid, but I didn't really look over the lease that carefully.  **The lease states that my rent is $879**, and also states that water, trash, gas, and pest control are **not paid by the landlord**.  Except uh... they kinda are, despite what the lease says.\n\nItemized rent breakdown attached to the lease is some garbage typed up in Microsoft Word and includes no mention anywhere that it's an addendum, but it definitely is an addendum, because I signed it.  Seriously? **The lease already had fields for these items** and you left them blank?  Now that I think about it, this seems fishy and gives the landlord wiggle room to retroactively change utility charges (which, except for electric, I pay to the landlord, not the respective utility companies) without modifying the lease documents.  Or does it?  I already have a copy of it, so good luck with that.\n\n\nItem | Amount\n----|------\nMarket Rent | $824.00\nNew Carpet | $25.00\nFloor Charge | $30.00\nDiscount | -$25.00\nWater | $46.00\nTrash | $6.00\nGas | $13.00\nPest Control | $3.00\n**Total** | **$922.00**\n\nI pay $922\/mo **to the landlord**.  I'm billed directly by Austin Energy for electric.\n\nIn my mind, metering my water effectively changes my rent.  This should not be able to happen at any time before a lease ends.  The office tells me repeatedly that this is a Good Thing™ and will lower my \"rent\".  *Right...*\n\nI should also mention that the leasing office is currently being audited.  Why the employees told me this, I have no idea.\n\nEdit: Here are some snippets of my lease terms that are relevant here\n\n> No rent increases or Lease changes are allowed before the initial Lease term ends, except for those allowed by special provisions in Par. 9, by a written addendum or amendment signed by you and us, or by reasonable changes of apartment rules allowed under Par. 19.\n\n---\n> If a utility is submetered or prorated by an allocation formula, we'll attach an addendum to this Lease in compliance with state-agency rules. If a utility is individually metered, it must be connected in your name and you must notify the provider of your move-out date so the meter can be timely read.","title":"Cold water is hot, hot water is cold. Now the landlord wants to change to metered utilities 2 months into my lease. [Austin, TX]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539095193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mplfd\/child_custody_father_trying_to_lawyer_up_or_have\/","id":"9mplfd","body":"So I have an 18 mo. Daughter with this guy. He called CPS on me because she\u2019s had a couple of diaper rashes when going with her dad on the days he is supposed to get her. They did the whole investigation and such and she\u2019s in good health and taken care of and such. So the case is closed now. But now supposedly he said he already put 7,000 down for a lawyer in order to get full custody of her and I don\u2019t have that kind of money for a lawyer but I\u2019ll be damned if I let him take her from me. She stays with my son\u2019s grandmother (she\u2019s not related to my daughter in any way but is kind enough to watch her without pay) while I\u2019m at work. She feeds her, takes her out, buys her stuff, she treats her like her own and loves her. But now my daughters dad wants me to put her in daycare because he thinks \u201cgrandmother\u201d isn\u2019t a good fit because my daughter went over this past weekend with another rash but was almost healed up. \nI just want to know is there anything I can do about him basically threatening me to get a lawyer or to put my child in day care because he doesn\u2019t like who I leave her with while I\u2019m at work? Is there anything that the Child support service can do about him trying to take her away? Or should I tell the CPS case worker about what he\u2019s trying to do even though she did a home visit with \u201cgrandmother\u201d and seen how she is towards my daughter and even told me personally that \u201cgrandmother\u201d did well?","title":"Child Custody: Father trying to lawyer up or have me put her in daycare (Texas)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447256709,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sezdt\/wi_would_this_be_considered_a_form_of_police\/","id":"3sezdt","body":"I'll try to keep this short. This was approx 5 years ago so I assume I no longer have a leg to stand on, but I am still curious.\n\nA few years ago I was living with a few friends. This particular weekend I had been out of town visiting family. I come back on Sunday night to hear that a different friend (not a roommate) had passed away from a drug\/alcohol related overdose. I find out from my roommate (Lets call him 'A') that he had given the deceased a pill earlier that day that may have contributed to the overdose. We realize in an hour or so that the cops will be coming, probably to arrest my roommate, and potentially ask me questions.\n\nThat night, cops come with a warrant, and take myself and two roommates into custody. A is taken in a separate vehicle and I never found out where he ended up. My other roommate (Lets call him 'B') and I are taken into two separate but adjacent holding cells. Once we are placed here B and I start talking, we can't believe we're being held, we both begin to discuss whether we had any sort of contraband in our rooms \/ the apartment that would get us in trouble, etc. After ten minutes of us discussing an officer says we are not allowed to communicate.\n\nThe same officer brings a radio, places it on a stool in between our cells, turns the radio to static, and blasts it on as loud as possible. B and I were submitted to this for over 5 hours, (11pm - 4am) with the only break when I was asked questions by detectives.\n\nMy question, was any of this legal? Was I allowed to be detained for no reason? (probably since I was released within 6 hours) Is it legal for them to blare static the way they did? \n\nthanks for reading and thanks in advance for any response\n\nTL;DR - Cops placed me in a holding cell and blared static over a radio into my cell.","title":"(WI) Would this be considered a form of police torture? Do I have any recourse?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539429204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nt0oh\/what_happens_if_you_have_to_shoot_or_kill\/","id":"9nt0oh","body":"I hope this is OK to ask here. \n\nDetails aren\u2019t relevant, but *my kind* isn\u2019t looked upon very kindly in the area I live, and I\u2019m a small guy. I\u2019m planning on getting my concealed carry permit because of this. What may be even scarier than the idea of getting attacked, though, is the ramifications of having a weapon to defend yourself. With great power comes great responsibility and whatnot. \n\nHow do you protect yourself & your rights as far as self defense goes? What does a \u201cvalid\u201d self defense case look like and what can the defender do to ensure that they can\u2019t be misconstrued as the aggressor? I\u2019ve seen a lot of nasty publicized court cases of alleged self defense, is this likely to happen if you\u2019re ACTUALLY defending yourself? Because i think would rather get kicked to death in an alley. \n\nthanks in advance. if this isn\u2019t the right place for this, tell me so I can delete it. ","title":"What happens if you have to shoot or kill somebody in self defense? What does a valid self defense case look like?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555528617,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bebthk\/mother_with_ra_sacrificed_her_joints_trying_to\/","id":"bebthk","body":"Mom got RA back when My sister was born around 21 years ago. She is an amazing mom and has more than done her fair share.\n\nShe started a lucrative business that at its peak earned more than 1 million a year. But unfortunately it is not doing well now and is in fact losing money.\n\nMy dad is now saying he wants to leave her after she sacrificed her health. He is a lazy bum that hasn\u2019t done anything to help out, including not doing dishes, etc. Our house is crumbling around us A.S. whenever we try to get people to do estimates, he refuses to leave the house so we can\u2019t get anything done. We haven\u2019t lived with heat or AC for years at this point.\n\nIn addition, he refused to give us the necessary papers and I do needed to file taxes. He also gets penalty after penalty costing in the hundreds of thousands. So even though we made a lot in the business, if they were to split up my mom wouldn\u2019t be left with enough to pay for her and my grandmas potential medical bills.\n\nHe has claimed that he would give everything to her, but when asked to put it in writing he refuses to do so.\n\nWhat can we do in order to protect my mom at this time. We are in CA if that helps.","title":"Mother with RA sacrificed her joints trying to run business. Useless father did nothing useful and now that business is not doing well wants to divorce. What advice should I give her?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568999988,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6y346\/my_landlord_sold_the_building_and_the_new_realty\/","id":"d6y346","body":"I have about 6 months left on my current lease, but the new owners are trying to increase rent by over $200. When I explained to them I couldn\u2019t afford it they explained I would have to pay to break the lease. What can I do? Is it legal for them to change my lease?","title":"My landlord sold the building and the new realty office won\u2019t honor our lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542053898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9whotc\/fl_water_damage_in_my_apartment\/","id":"9whotc","body":"My upstairs neighbor's a\/c unit flooded causing water to fall through the walls and create water damage. I called management and they sent someone over right away to stop the water from flowing into my apartment. The maintenance worker and management office verbally told me they would be sending a painter to paint over the water damage. I pointed out to the maintenance worker there was a soft spot where the wall and ceiling meet and the ceiling is hanging low. He said the painter would have to decide if repainting would fix it. A day later it happened again and told me it was going to be a while before they could get a painter out. I mentioned that mold could be an issue with the soft spot on the ceiling and he told me I'd need to wait for the painter to evaluate the damage.\n\nThree months later, no painter has shown up and management has not followed up with the situation. Am I within my rights to break the lease without paying them for breaking it before the 12 months is up? I question this because there's been no written communication between myself and management, only verbal agreements.","title":"[FL] Water Damage in My Apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442080156,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kopw8\/girlfriend_got_a_weird_message_from_an_airbnb\/","id":"3kopw8","body":"My girlfriend was traveling internationally over the summer with her brother and stayed at a few different countries all using Airbnb. This morning she got an Airbnb message about a placed she booked in Berlin saying that lawyers representing WVG median company is fining the Airbnb host for copyright infringement due to illegally \"sharing\" an episode of the Walking dead. The Host says due to the time and what comes up on the fine that it is without a doubt my girlfriends Brothers mac that was the culprit. The fine is about 1500 EUR. Her brother is saying to just ignore it because what can they do from Berlin, but my girlfriend doesn't want to do that and wants to figure out the best way of handling this. Obviously the airbnb is under her name and she's at fault so this may be an obvious one, but in terms of legal advice, what's the best way to handle this? I thought about asking for legal documentation, but it won't even be in english. Just never been in this situation and looking for a next move.\n\nWe're thinking of trying to get legal documentation, verifying the claim, then wiring him the money? But that sounds like that can also go bad. \n\nFor clarification, we're in the US. The message was received at 6am this morning and she was staying at this location July 16th.","title":"Girlfriend got a weird message from an Airbnb host in Berlin claiming a copyright infringement fine during her stay there. We live in Los Angeles, CA","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570038690,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcdqln\/is_this_standard_both_for_the_npo_and_for_my_msp\/","id":"dcdqln","body":"I have an issue I cant navigate. So we want to get our name out there more with NPOs so we are looking into volunteer work (owner is looking into it rather). Its not mandatory but I feel like its really wanted for us all to participate, but I dont like being registered with this church group that does it and their volunteer agreement seems overreaching; I dont know legalize well but I understand language. This doesnt sit well with me and my boss is like \"seems short and simple to me\"\n\nhttps:\/\/pasteboard.co\/IzXJPTs.png","title":"Is this standard? Both for the NPO and for my MSP?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553837530,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6tfr4\/tx_49w_is_not_getting_paid_the_correct_mileage\/","id":"b6tfr4","body":"I am asking for advice on behalf of someone, sorry for formatting I am on my mobile phone.\n\nAnyways this woman whom I will call Sam is working for a company that gives loans to people who are wanting to purchase furniture, however, when they don\u2019t pay it\u2019s the expected phone call of a debt collector.\n\nNow recently the company is making her drive to peoples homes with her own vehicle. No safety, no co workers with her and also not getting paid the proper mileage reimbursement \n\nSam has been worried about her safety in these situations due to numerous death threats upon confronting people (also no formal training )and traveling to generally unsafe areas alone, no protection and no tracking devices to ensure safety. Her work pays her regular wage (as an employee)and plus mileage compensation which she has stated that she is getting paid .47 cents per mile in Texas. Which a quick google search has stated that in TX mileage reimbursement has been raised up. \n\nWhen she talks to her supervisor stating that she does not feel safe making these trips required by them they just say oh don\u2019t go then or take someone with you from the furniture store. which isn\u2019t a part of their job nor have they had any experience in debt collecting and they decline because they don\u2019t feel safe going either. \nUpon stating that she does not feel safe doing the job and I can\u2019t force anyone to go they say it\u2019s okay but a few days later she gets written up for not visiting and collections debt. \nShe is also getting in trouble for not collecting the furniture. They tell her to go pick up a work van that is located at another location an hour and a half away and again has to find help by herself and can\u2019t lift anything heavy due to back issues.  Supervisor state \u201coh just ask someone\u201d (most of the work force are either elderly or women who aren\u2019t exactly capable of lifting and moving heavy furniture) They write her up for not collecting the furniture although 1-she has never signed off on any physical stating she is fit enough to lift heavy objects and neither have any of her co workers. 2- and not collecting the debt by visiting houses. \n\nSo basically they tell her to go to peoples houses remind them of debt that they owe which has resulted in death threats which is making Sam worry about her life. \n\nOther locations of the furniture store have debt collection teams but this location does not and Sam is expected to do this all by herself. \n\nThis is pretty recent she\u2019s been with this company for a while (years) and they had a team that would seize the furniture and do the house visits. Now they don\u2019t have the team anymore, and the house visits have been going on for a few months now. \n\n\n\nWhat I\u2019m asking is that is it legal for Sam to drive alone, with no protection (not even a tracking device or phone call follow up just show up to work the next day) \n\n Is it legal to even be put in this \u201cloop\u201d of \u201cgo do this, oh wait you\u2019re worried about your safety never mind we\u2019re just going to write you up later.\u201d \n\n\n\nTLDR: Workplace is making Sam go to houses to talk to people about paying debt \/ reminding them, with no formal training and underpaying her as well as no safety. If she mentions safety being an issue to her supervisors they just say oh it\u2019s okay and then write her up for not going. \n","title":"[TX] 49W is not getting paid the correct mileage reimbursement and also is expected to collect debt in potentially dangerous situations with no protection\/help.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553385061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4pvvk\/when_is_a_product_a_copy_of_another_product_and\/","id":"b4pvvk","body":"I found a product online which i really liked but it was to expenive for me. (It is a Racing wheel for a Sim Racing Wheelbase)\n\nI created now a model in CAD and took the Frontplate design but designed the shifters and cover by myself. (i based my design on the orignal prouct)\n\nSince i didnt find any copyright additions on the sellers side i am unsure about the leagal situation. \n\n  \nMy Question is: I am planning to to release the design files so other could make one and maybe sell the parts (since i can produce them.) Can i get in trouble for that?\n\nFirst and Second Picture are my desgin , the outher two are from the sellers webside : [https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/P4mOpTQ](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/P4mOpTQ)","title":"When is a product a copy of another product and can be sued?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1502894597,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u2he2\/landlord_stealing_electricity\/","id":"6u2he2","body":"I live in an apartment complex in Henderson, NV that has individual garages for tenants for an additional fee. I chose to have a garage. When i first moved into the apartment, i thought that the electric was on autopay, and missed a payment. The power got shut off to my unit, and i promptly got a call from the maintenance crew asking to come in my unit. They indicated that because my power went out, they could not open\/use their maintenance garage. It turns out that their garage is controlled by my circuit breaker (in my apartment). Based on my understanding, and after talking to a few electrical engineers, anything that is on my circuit breaker is also fed from my meter which means i am paying for it.\n\nI have contacted property management to request proof that I am not paying for their maintenance garage. They use this to charge their golf cart that they use to give tours as well as other things. I have not received any proof to date.\n\nWhat next steps should i take, and what could a lawyer do to help me in this situation?","title":"Landlord Stealing Electricity","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539907771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9peq8q\/can_a_landlord_evict_one_tenant_and_not_the\/","id":"9peq8q","body":"Our landlord wants to evict me for not paying rent. Back in June I released a house i was living in and manage to procure 3 new roommates to replace my  old roommates who didn\u2019t re sign. Before the new lease start date arrived, I moved out and couldn\u2019t find someone to take over my spot on the lease. Right now the 3 new roommates are living there and the landlord has found a new tenant to take my spot.  \n\nI\u2019ve been living in another house  and now the landlord is asking me for back rent for the past couple of months.  He said that he will file an eviction if I don\u2019t pay this amount. \n\nI want to know, since this is a joint lease, if he can evict just me and not the other tenants. Or does he have to evict all four of us on the lease?","title":"Can a landlord evict one tenant and not the others?TX","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539885934,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pbp52\/does_a_landlord_have_the_right_to_say_what_you\/","id":"9pbp52","body":"Yes, this is about the recent cannabis legalization. On the same day as legalization I received a letter on the door from landlord stating that no cannabis is to be smoked, or eaten in the building. As well no cannabis plants can be grown due to extra electricity usage( though we pay our own) and humidity. I can see the smoking and maybe even the growing-though to me the growing is same as having any other house plant . The part that really gets me is no eating. Do they have the right to dictate or enforce this legally?","title":"Does a landlord have the right to say what you can eat in your residence or what plants you can grow.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554166715,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8c8s9\/changing_custody_agreement_in_ohio\/","id":"b8c8s9","body":"First, let me start off with this is my only child, his father and I were not married, and I was awarded full custody after a long and extremely painful custody battle. Dad is supposed to pay $450\/month in support and provide insurance. He also gets to claim him every other year on taxes(ugh don\u2019t ask me why I offered this to him).\n\nHe hasn\u2019t paid support since September. Also hasn\u2019t had a job. I am at my absolute wits end with him. He constantly says he\u2019s going to help by putting money on our son\u2019s school lunch account(I make too much to qualify for any assistance), then doesn\u2019t, said I was getting his tax return, and I just found out that he cashed out his 401k back in November, so I highly doubt he\u2019ll even get anything back on his return.  \n\nI am 99% sure he\u2019s using drugs, I am not sure how he\u2019s paying his bills(still has the house we lived in together and a car), and I want to take him back to court. I do not think he should be able to claim our son on tax returns in the future, as he has made it abundantly clear that he only cares about himself and his pride, I want something done about the near $8,000 in back support he owes, but I don\u2019t want to alter visitation. \n\nHow would I go about altering the court order? \n\nLet me also add that he put me through absolute hell, for no reason, during the custody battle. Had his ex stalk the ever living shit out of me(I ended up getting a restraining order on her) and I continued to let him see his son whenever he wanted. This isn\u2019t some revenge tactic, this is something that makes me fear my child\u2019s safety, as I don\u2019t know where he is getting money from to pay for things. As far as I know, he\u2019s selling drugs.","title":"Changing custody agreement in Ohio","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555577427,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bej8md\/i_got_hit_by_a_car_but_i_dont_know_how_to_address\/","id":"bej8md","body":"Last night I decided to go for a walk at night in the rain, wearing all black clothing. I thought nothing of it wearing all black at night but it makes sense why I got hit by a car. What happened was; I was waiting for the walk sign to appear on the pedestrian lights, in which so I walked across the street on the crosswalk, when all of the sudden, a car brushed past me, their outside mirror hit me and fell off. I got a bruise on my hip area, slight pressure to my head and confusion.    \n\nThe driver said that she didn\u2019t see me, and that her right turn signal was on. I honestly don\u2019t know who is in the wrong here since I\u2019m wearing all black at night, crossing the street when the pedestrian sign told me it was safe to walk. I took a pic of her licence plate. Should I file a police report? If so, what happens next when I do so? \n\nI am located in Ontario Canada","title":"I got hit by a car but I don\u2019t know how to address the issue?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571278547,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dizs1p\/advice_wanted_for_dealing_with_hr\/","id":"dizs1p","body":"Hey, I\u2019m brand new to this sub. But I need some advice on how to proceed. So about year and a half ago I was sexually assaulted at a non sanctioned work event. My boss (not the person who did it) was there and behaving very unprofessionally in ways that would probably get them fired. A few months after the event I had to take personal time off because of this and other reasons,due to it affecting my mental health. My partner was the one in communication with my work as I was in no state to talk to them.  While informing my boss of the situation, my boss pressed for details and asked if it was because of sexual harassment (or something along those lines) and my partner reluctantly told them that there was a situation that had happened (keep in mind my partner had found out about this the day before they talked to my boss). After this, my partner and I were bombarded with calls from my boss, and HR. I was made to feel that if I didn\u2019t submit a statement, I would lose my job, even though I was not the one who disclosed this information and NEVER would have said anything on my own. So after about a month of pressure from them and basically being promised paid leave for the statement (verbally or through texts I no longer have, stupid mistake I know), I caved and sent a statement that was admittedly very raw and not professional because of my mental state. Once I sent that statement, I never heard a peep from HR. I never got the paid time off I was promised and I found out a few months later I was written up for being absent during the time I was supposed to get leave even though I had a doctors note. I have been passed up for many promotions and have been treated poorly after this even though I continue to have an extremely good track record at this company. Within the past few weeks, I was told by a supervisor that my name was brought up in a manager\u2019s meeting and that this situation was discussed in detail as an example of what employees to be careful of since they might be a \u201cliability\u201d and even expressed that he didn\u2019t believe me or didn\u2019t know what to believe. This was in front of management who wasn\u2019t there when this happened. Of course, I\u2019m outraged.  I want to know what I should email HR about this situation (it\u2019s a new HR person) and what if any legal actions I should take. My boss has been bullying employees and treating people terribly (and illegally at times) for the entire time they have been there.","title":"Advice Wanted for Dealing with HR","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571205428,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dikzoi\/canadian_looking_to_purchase_pre_existing\/","id":"dikzoi","body":"Hope it falls under business law.\n\nYoung Canadian here...\n\nEssentially I\u2019d like to purchase a super small business off someone, I believe item (brand) is trademarked or in process of being trademarked. \n\nHow can I legally purchase said business and possibly trademarked item from current owner?\n\nIs it easy to transfer over?\n\nCan the previous owner come back in any way shape or form down the road?\n\n\nJust looking at covering bases..\n\n\nThanks","title":"Canadian, looking to purchase pre existing business (small)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541357221,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u5wiu\/my_1_year_old_sons_mother_had_only_seen_our_child\/","id":"9u5wiu","body":"My son is about 18 months old and his mom I haven't been together since before he was born. She moved out about a month after he was born and originally we agreed to split custody 50\/50. The schedule was 4\/3 3\/4 with exchanges on Wednesday and Saturday or Sunday. Well starting in January that hasn't happened. She has refused to pick him up for weeks on end and then only has him overnight for one or two nights. I've been keeping track via screenshots and a calendar and so far I have had him 275 days out of the 308 days of this year so far. Back in June I filed for custody. Mediation didn't work. She wanted the paperwork to say 50\/50 but control school, medical and religion. Which didn't make much sense since she doesn't pay insurance and had only been to 2 doctor appointments since he has been born. She has also threatened to call the cops and try to charge my girlfriend with kidnapping because she demanded that I drop him off at her house even though she knew I was at work (same work schedule for over 2 years) and she threatened my mom saying the same thing if she ever watched our son. We have a hearing in December and the mom picked up our son last Wednesday. This is after not seeing him for 3 weeks straight and only seeing him a few days total a few weeks before that. When I asked to pick him up she told me no every day this week and told, over text message that she is withholding me from seeing my son until the judge says otherwise. She said I can only FaceTime him but she hangs up after less than 10 min. These are all recorded. I'm wondering if there is anything I can do for the next 30 days until the hearing. Should I continually ask to pick him up everyday? Should I ask her to meet me somewhere close to her house like a police station and ask her to meet me there? This is in Colorado. ","title":"My 1 year old son's mother had only seen our child 8 days of the past 4 months. Now she isnt giving him up.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554167031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8cayo\/nyc_rent_paid_in_full_lease_half_signed_no_keys\/","id":"b8cayo","body":"This is my first experience in the NYC rental market, and it's been an absolute shitshow.\n\nHere's a timeline of the situation:\n\n* Mar 6: Roommate and I get approved for apartment, get sent deal sheet, which lists March 15 move-in date with prorated rent for 2 weeks until April 1.\n* Mar 13: Planned lease signing with property manager. I get deposit check. Roommate is supposed to get check for full year's rent. I show up. I sign the lease, pay security deposit via cashier's check, and get building (but not apartment) keys. Roommate is almost mugged and has to skip signing to go to police station.\n* Mar 14: Roommate supposed to drop off rent check and sign lease. No show, apparently misunderstood email.\n* Mar 15: Roommate supposed to drop off rent check and sign lease, but has work emergency. No keys, no move-in. I leave town for spring break. Roommate promises to get my keys while I'm gone.\n* Mar 16-22: I'm hiking in the mountains, no cell service. Can't check in. Expected everything to be dealt with by now.\n* Mar 23: Back in town. Still no keys. Apparently there's been confusion with rent check. Bank won't issue cashier's check for such a large amount, even though roommate has funds. Bank wires money directly to management company.\n* Mar 25: Management company denies receiving money. Bank offers proof of successful wire transfer for full amount, including 2 weeks prorated rent. Property manager unavailable, apparently no one at management company able to continue in manager's stead.\n* Mar 26-29: Repeated attempts to contact property manager. Eventually told she's out of the office until April 1. Roommate gets lawyer involved. Lawyer contacts management company and talks to higher ups. We're told things are \"looking likely to resolve.\" I don't know lawyer. Roommate isn't paying lawyer. Unclear if lawyer is legitimate. We contact building super, who says he can't give keys until he has countersigned lease.\n* Apr 1: Roommate still hasn't signed lease, because management company won't send it to him. Roommate goes to management office. Property manager still not there. More messages and voicemails left. I call bank to verify if deposit check was cashed (it wasn't). \n\n​\n\nA few legal questions:\n\n1. Do we have any legal right to the keys\/occupancy, and if not, how can we get it?\n2. Once we eventually do get the keys and move in, do we have a right to insist on either being refunded the prorated rent or having the 2 weeks (or more, depending on how long it takes to get keys) added to the end of our lease?\n3. Roommate's lawyer says we have grounds for a fraud suit. Is this horseshit? If so, is there any legal pressure we can put on the management company so they'll give roommate lease to sign?\n\n(Also, I realize that roommate is being extraordinarily unreliable. He's always been responsible up until now, so I have no idea what's going on. Every time I ask him, he's confident everything's about to be resolved. I'm almost as agitated with him as I am with management company, but unless it's legal in nature, I'm not looking for advice on this front.)\n\n​\n\nThanks all, and I'm happy to provide more context if needed.","title":"[NYC] Rent paid in full, lease half signed, no keys, 17 days past \"move-in\" date","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444999881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ozg9m\/bc_canada_i_was_supposed_to_get_medical_benefits\/","id":"3ozg9m","body":"It wasn't until I got pink eye and went to a doctor that I realized that they had not yet put me on their plan. Do they owe me the equivalent of what they would have paid to the insurance company that first year? It took about four months after I brought it to their attention for them to finally get me on it.","title":"[BC, Canada] I was supposed to get medical benefits from my employer. It was in the contract I signed. Found out a year later I was not getting them.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1504663861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ycq2g\/what_are_the_key_elements_a_contract_needs_to_be\/","id":"6ycq2g","body":"I have done a little research and seen that in some states a contract only requires both parties to be in agreement of the terms, and there must be an exchange, or promise of exchange, of goods.\n\nThe reason I ask this is pretty dumb, but there is this guy on Facebook who has posted several times offering a $1000 reward to anyone who can pose a question about the Flat Earth that he can not answer. Well obviously he answers most questions with insults and memes, so do you think it would be possible to try to cash in on this guy's offer? Maybe take it to some sort of small claims court?","title":"What are the key elements a contract needs to be considered legally binding?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569609413,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da4kqj\/between_a_hard_place_and_another_hard_place\/","id":"da4kqj","body":"A former employer is accusing me of stealing something that I never even had. It took nearly 6 months for the police to get involved and another few months before somehow a warrant was issued with \u201cwritten statements\u201d being the sole evidence.\n\nI spent 10 hours in jail, a belly chain that linked my ankles and my arms to my chest was not removed until the last 10 minutes of my release.\n\nI retained an attorney prior to that to fight it, we later got the discovery and found literally NO evidence showing that I did anything illegal. The police wrote a statement saying that I was suspicious. Which doesn\u2019t correlate to any evidence supplied. \n\nThe DA is pushing for a conviction when there is no evidence and my attorney has been literally arguing it down. The issue is that the DA has a quota, I know because I worked for the DA for nearly a decade. It\u2019s ridiculous and hundreds if not thousands of people are likely innocent but forced into some kind of plea deal. If I hadn\u2019t been proactive in seeking counsel I would have been sitting in jail for several months. I would have lost everything. My attorney had to fight to get me released on OR.\n\nI have been working for an awesome company now for nearly a year and they offered me a promotion. I was unaware of the charge at the time so of course I applied and it takes about a month or so for everything to start. I was even offered the job and was supposed to start soon. However I get a call from HR going \u201cwe don\u2019t hire felons or those with criminal records\u201d so not only did I lose my promotion, but so am now at risk of losing my current job.\n\nWhat the hell can I do? My charge is going to be dismissed but it\u2019s going to take time. I was honest with my employer and HR even said it wouldn\u2019t be an issue. My state does have laws that protect from job discrimination such as denying a job solely because someone has a charge. Also I am not convicted and I won\u2019t be. I\u2019m about 45-50 days everything is expected to be dismissed.\n\nAdvice?","title":"Between a hard place and another hard place.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444775122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3on9a8\/rebuild_transmission_fails_after_multiple_returns\/","id":"3on9a8","body":"Hello I could use your legal advice. \n\nI am from the state of New Jersey\n\nOn November 20, 2014 I paid a transmission shop to rebuild the automatic transmission in my 2000 Subaru Impreza with 100,000 miles. The car had a manufacturer defect, which causes the car not to go into drive. It is problem on virtually every Subaru from that era and the fix is well known. It is called \u201cdelayed forward engagement.\u201d\n\nThe shop said that the rest of the transmission was in bad shape too and it needed to be rebuilt. They said that they worked on these all the time and I paid $1400 for the rebuild and an additional $400 for the timing belt, since it was due and I planned on keeping the car.  I am the type of person who does all scheduled maintenance. This included a 12-month, 12000 mile warrantee. \n\nLess then 24 hours after I had the transmission rebuilt, it would not go into gear and I nearly got hit after backing into traffic. I took it back and they claimed that it was fixed properly but \u201cthe computer was remembering that there was a problem and was replicating it.\u201d They claimed to then replace the transmission computer. \n\nLess then a month later it was back. In fact I brought it back at least 2 more times (I have to look at my paperwork). Each time they said they made adjustments. They did not want to give me paperwork for each visit but I insisted. \n\nEventually the car seemed to work for about 3 months. That was until this past week. The car stopped shifting and I had to abandon it. I brought the car to the shop with 10 days left on the warrantee (4 days ago).\n\nToday I called and they said that they needed my original paperwork. I brought it over and they said that it was going to take them a while. They couldn\u2019t tell me what is wrong with the transmission but they needed my paperwork to send to their warrantee company to get money back on the parts that failed but they need an inspector to come and see if I abused the transmission (I went less then 8000 miles). They said they lost their paperwork on my car. \n\nA few things: I don\u2019t think they actually rebuilt the transmission in the first place. Each time I drop the car off it takes them over a week. They don\u2019t call me when its done. I have to keep calling them. Each time they have the car, they have it for a week and I do not have another vehicle. I have to get rides to work and to the shop. \nI have not paid more then the original $1800. Each \u201cfix\u201d has been under the warrantee.  What work I can see, was done poorly. This includes fluids spilled over the hood and sides of the car\/engine compartment, missing bolts for the weather cover which was left to dangle and was dragging on the road, and the windshield washer tubing was removed and never put back. \n\nI really don\u2019t know what to do. Should I demand my money back? Can I? Should I take them to small claims court? Am I SOL? Please help!\n\nTLDR: Paid $1800 for Rebuilt transmission and scheduled maintenance. Transmission never worked correctly after rebuild failed again this week after several returns to the shop. Warrantee is expiring this week. Shop says they need to hold on to the car to get it inspected from parts insurance adjuster. What should I do?\n","title":"Rebuild transmission fails after multiple returns to shop. Warrantee expires this week!","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1538960134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mae73\/hit_by_car_3_years_ago_now_im_being_told_i_have\/","id":"9mae73","body":"I was hit by a car in a parking lot in Virginia. There was damage to both cars, but it was minor. It was the other driver\u2019s fault. We didn\u2019t call the cops. When I called my insurance company I realized my insurance had lapsed because of nonpayment. I wasn\u2019t too worried- I had it reinstated and went on my way, figuring that since it was her fault I was fine. Her insurance company reached out to me after the accident and I explained that it was her fault and never heard back from them. It\u2019s been 3 years and I just got a bill in the mail from a collection agency for around $1500. When I called to ask what it was for they said it was from that fender bender in the parking lot. I explained that it was the other drivers fault and that I had communicated that to the insurance company at the time of the accident. They told me that since I didn\u2019t have insurance that it was automatically my fault. Is that true or are they just trying to get me to pay? What recourse do I have? Thank you!","title":"Hit by car 3 years ago- now I\u2019m being told I have to pay because I didn\u2019t have insurance, even though it was the other driver\u2019s fault.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571390886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djl0bt\/boss_chews_me_out_for_letting_a_paying_customer\/","id":"djl0bt","body":"I currently work as a cashier at a relatively small gas station at California. I am one of three cashiers, along with a custodian, an owner and his son. My boss  technically owns the gas station but he owns a franchise meaning there is a cooperation he has to answer to. Unlike most gas station, we're not open 24 hours. I actually have the closing shifts, 4 days out of the week.\n\n\nEven though we're a relatively small station we do have quite a few customers coming in, several of them regulars. Recently, I had a regular come in and use the bathroom before making his purchase. Before he was about to finish, my boss was about head home when he recognized the man's bicycle. My boss then chewed me out, telling me that he wasn't allowed to use the bathroom. The reason he gave was because the man was homeless.\n\n\nNow it is understandable for small business owners not wanting none-customers coming in and use the bathroom. We even have a \"customers only\" sign on the bathroom door. However this man is that he is a customer, a regular even. Yet he told me he's not aloud, and that it's his rule.\u00a0\n\n\nWhen the man came out and was collecting his item to purchase, my boss started to chew him out. Telling him he's not allowed to use the bathroom again. My boss even made me tell him to his face. I did give him a wink, letting him know he can use it regardless. Of course my boss was telling him all this while he was paying for his items. Meaning my boss was being rude and disrespectful to a paying customer. I find this ironic since earlier that day my boss was lecturing me on being polite to customers after a mystery shopper report.\n\n\nObviously I don't like how he treats this regular customer, because of his living situation. I have already decided to call corporate, but here's where I need some advice.\u00a0\n\n\nI'm not sure if I want to make this call anonymously or not. I was there when it happened and chances are I'll be questioned. I'm not planning to lie about anything, if a couple representative asked me what happened that day I will give them the truth. And I already know my boss won't like that.\n\n\nI also want to know if he's wanted to do is technically illegal. From what I can gather, I was the only one letting the homeless man use the bathroom. Is my boss in the wrong for bending homeless man to use the bathroom, despite being a paying customer? Are the other cashiers complicit for not letting him use the bathroom? Am I protected under the California Whistleblower act if I bring this to corporate? Can, I along with the homeless man, report this to the police?\u00a0","title":"Boss chews me out for letting a paying customer use the bathroom and I'm going to call corprate on him","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553798351,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6mj9z\/my_nonsmoking_apartment_smells_like_cigarettes\/","id":"b6mj9z","body":"I live in a duplex. We (boyfriend and I) moved in on February 1. We were excited to find the place as it was listed ~$150 less than the going rate for a 2bd in my area. \n\nSince we moved in our downstairs neighbors have been smoking. It is clearly in my lease that this is a non-smoking apartment. Can one assume that if the upstairs unit of a duplex is non-smoking, the downstairs would be as well? I did. \n\nWe have mentioned the issue to our landlord numerous times. At first he seemed very concerned and also angry. He said \u201che was going over to talk to them about it right now\u201d which I know he did, because now our neighbors don\u2019t exactly love us. \n\nHowever nothing has changed. They still smoke. I keep mentioning it to landlord. The last text I sent him, he ignored entirely. \n\nThe weed smoke has made my bf nauseous. I hate the smell of cigarettes, what non-smoker doesn\u2019t? My bf smokes and the other day our apartment smelled so smoky that he opened all the windows, sprayed like an entire $5 can of room spray, and was honestly angry. I don\u2019t blame him. I feel like if I am paying for a non-smoking apartment that\u2019s what I should get. I bought new furniture moving in here, it is starting to smell of smoke. \n\nIs there anything I can do?","title":"My (non-smoking) apartment smells like cigarettes and weed 24\/7 (upstate NY)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569472940,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9euci\/should_i_report_this_to_the_police_and_if_so_how\/","id":"d9euci","body":"So I found this post while I was scrolling Reddit\n https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/mexicans\/comments\/chg9lv\/i_killed_a_mexican_and_i_dont_regret_it\/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share \n\nand I think this is something the police should definitely know about. I've never been in this situation before so if anyone actually knows how to file a report please tell me how or feel free to do it yourself.","title":"Should I report this to the police and if so how?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570326801,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddwyj5\/what_to_do_with_exroommates_belongings\/","id":"ddwyj5","body":"I own my house and have a room and closet full of ex-friend\/ex-roommates belongings. He hasn\u2019t lived or paid rent here since Oct 2017.  Upon him moving out we made an agreement In which I allowed him to store the remainder of his belongings here in his previous room in exchange for him acting as somewhat of a \u201cpersonal assistant\u201d and performing remedial tasks and errands a number of times per month. Until recently this was a beneficial arrangement for both of us. \n\nOver the past few years however, his life has spiraled more out of control, and I really no longer want to be involved with him. So that deal came to an end 6\/2019)  at which time I informed him that if he wanted to continue storing his stuff here he would need to pay me for storage, which he agreed to. He has worked as a GM at local \u201cbig name\u201d storage facilities and is well informed as to the costs and fees associated with renting a storage unit. We agreed upon a fair monthly rate, which he suggested, of $65 per month, (Nothing is written however, with only text messages to confirm). \n\nAt this time, since 7\/2019, he has only paid for 1 month. He is currently past due for 8\/2019, 9\/2019, and has now missed 10\/2019 as well. After being late in August we agreed upon late fees, per the model of one of his previous employers, at a rate of $20 on the 8th and 27th of each month, which he also suggested (after my complaints of his failure to pay). \n\nI now have a new roommate whom would like to use the room in question. I\u2019m not sure at this point when the old roommate will pay, let alone catch up given how behind he currently is and I need know what if any responsibility I have for his possessions given how long his stuff has been here. \nCan or sell his stuff to cover what he owes? Can I throw it all away to make room for a new roommate? \nPlease help! Thank you! \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc","title":"What to do with Ex-Roommates belongings.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569088542,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7dsmw\/texas_employer_recording_audio_without_employees\/","id":"d7dsmw","body":"I know that Texas is a one party consent state when it comes to audio recording, but I am finding conflicting information regarding recording audio of employees without their knowledge or consent. I have reason to suspect that my former employer has been doing so and I (nor anyone else) has given informed consent.","title":"Texas employer recording audio without employee's knowledge","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551889355,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay0n16\/ca_received_a_letter_regarding_the_lawful_rent\/","id":"ay0n16","body":"Received this [letter](https:\/\/imgur.com\/ZTXNmDw) in the mail. I am wondering if there is anything I can do about our current rent ($3000) since the lawful rent ceiling is cited as $2320.76. Maybe there are some loopholes that make this legal? Not sure if any of this information is relevant, but the unit is rented as a whole thing, not separate rooms, the letter says tenancy start date was June 2013 but we started June 2018, and I only have 3 months left on this lease so I\u2019m not sure if this is worth pursuing.\n\nThank you!","title":"[CA] Received a letter regarding the lawful rent ceiling of the place I am renting, the total amount we pay is substantially greater than the amount given","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539150274,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mwt3r\/i_cant_tell_if_this_guest_house_rental_process\/","id":"9mwt3r","body":"So I'm looking to apply for a guest house to rent in Southern California, and found one on Craigslist. It checked out and I was there in person with the owner and saw the space. A tenant is still there currently but will be moving out in conjunction with me moving in. Seemingly normal guy- if I gave him the benefit of the doubt, it seemed like he was just a laid-back owner renting a back house. Where I'm unsure of the legitimacy of his process is that he wants the first month and deposit in cash, won't be running a credit check, only needs a month or so of bank statements (I'm self employed), the application is much shorter than most apartment applications. I asked him why he needed cash, and he said that right now it's first-come-first-served as in whomever comes with the deposit and rent first will sign the lease paperwork with him that day. If I'm able to get him to do a cashier's check (I don't know why he wouldn't), what protections can I further take to ensure I don't get ripped off or that the tenant will move out and I'll actually get to move in? Thanks!\n\n​\n\ntl;dr - Trying to rent guest house and the landlord seems too lenient on application process and I want to legally protect myself ","title":"I can't tell if this guest house rental process from owner seems suspicious","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542151760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wueaw\/fired_from_job\/","id":"9wueaw","body":"I\u2019m needing opinions on what to do. I was recently fired from a job and I feel like upper management and HR didn\u2019t listen to any of my reasons. I really feel like I was wrongfully terminated and am needing opinions on the steps to take to get some conclusion. ","title":"Fired from job!","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504823178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yqmpv\/apartment_managers_threatening_fines_if_we\/","id":"6yqmpv","body":"It sounds shady, it sounds like they want damage to happen to the buildings. We are on the second story and would need a tall ladder to get anything up and they firmly stated they wouldn't help anyone with preparations. Is this something I should fight them over? We have renters insurance but would we be able to blame them for any damage to our belongings? I'm getting more worried by the moment as Irma is tracking to go right over us (East Coast FL) and we live in a smallish apartment currently with nothing over the windows and advice from our complex like, \"stay inside\" and \"close your blinds.\" Also I'm obviously sending them a note explaining this is why we won't be resigning our lease at the end of the year. ","title":"Apartment managers threatening fines if we protect windows from Hurricane Irma","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569459502,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9cdub\/hard_to_find_information_on_the_topic\/","id":"d9cdub","body":"So here is the Scenario....\n\n\nTwo parents get a divorce. 50\/50 split of custody and financial responsibilities. \n\nOne parent gets remarried and wants to put the children on step parents healthcare plan. \n\n1. Can they?\n2. Can they without the consent of other parent?","title":"Hard to find information on the topic!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570641312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfk5j5\/theyre_gonna_open_a_bar_in_the_apartment_below\/","id":"dfk5j5","body":"Hello, I'm not from the US, I live in Iceland, so I doubt I'll find any Icelandic legal advice here, but I'm looking for general help\/advice\/opinions. Any good recommandation from you guys would help me a lot.\n\nSo I've been living in a nice apartment for 18 months now, with a 12 months rental contract signed in June 2018 that I renewed in June 2019.  I'm on the second floor, above what was until recently a quiet hair salon. \n\nYesterday I bumped into my landlady who informed me that the hair salon has closed and will soon turn into a sports bar. I'm horrified that  a bar can open in a condo building without asking tenants their opinions, but I suppose that's how it is. \n\nNow I suppose I'll have to move out because realistically I doubt there's any chance I won't hear noise in my apartment which is literally the one above the soon-to-be-opened bar. The problem is that my contract says that if I wanna move out before the end of the contract I'll need a three months notice. And of course I don't see myself living above a bar for three months!! \n\nIs there anything I can do? Is there anything that says that of course the contract was made for a nice and quiet apartment and that I've never agreed to live above a bar and thus my contract is void or something? I mean, is there anything I can do to not live in a noisy environments for 3 months? I'm dumbfounded that this situation can happen. This is not what I signed up for!!! :(\n\nThank you guys for any help or nice words.","title":"They're gonna open a bar in the apartment below mine","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568494111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4at7t\/im_making_more_starting_out_than_my_coworkers\/","id":"d4at7t","body":"Throwaway account. So I recently started a new job, and soon found out that my coworkers, who\u2019ve been here for a while and doing the same work, are making less than me.\nIf I let them know can the company let me go for it if they find out?\nI just started a little over a week ago so I\u2019m still on a 3-month introductory period, idk if that would make any difference.","title":"I\u2019m making more starting out than my coworkers who\u2019ve been here a while","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571347748,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djd1zb\/my_husband_is_bringing_me_to_court_to_prevent_me\/","id":"djd1zb","body":"I've been granted two safety orders against my husband since 2017, the third was to be heard in July of this year but I dropped it because I wasn't informed of the court date until the day before (it had been adjourned from May), and I have four kids including a severely disabled 18 year old so finding sitters at short notice was tough.\n\nMy husband is taking me to court for loss of earnings and an application for an Isaac Wunder order which, here in Ireland, is designed to prevent someone from making repetitive vexatious actions. \n\nI will be representing myself in court on advice from a free legal aid advisory clinic, on the basis that Isaac Wunder orders pertain to civil law and not criminal law. Hopefully that will be that. But part of me is aware that the legal system is somewhat of a game, and that there may be loopholes or surprises I haven't considered.\n\nI'd be grateful for some insight on this, if not from an Irish point of view then perhaps from experience of similar orders that may exist in your country, to put my mind at ease?","title":"My husband is bringing me to court to prevent me from getting any more safety orders against him.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570821019,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgjrd3\/can_i_sue_a_former_employee_for_copying_my_terms\/","id":"dgjrd3","body":"-State is Utah\n\n\nLong story short: we had a manager at our business. She quit, completed her non-compete period (as far as we know) and started a business *identical* to ours. Same business model, using same software, going after same customers. I know none of that is illegal. \n\nWhere I think she crossed the legality border is in her terms and conditions (User Agreement). They are ours verbatim. These are not simple terms and we paid a lot of money for a lawyer to author them. They\u2019re very complex and deal with specific insurance, registration, certificate information. Ours have been published and enforced years longer than hers. She operates in the same jurisdiction and industry and outright copy+pasted our User Agreement. \n\nDo we have grounds to open a copyright infringement suit or are those a waste of time? Would a cease and desist notice be better? \n\nThank you in advance!","title":"Can I sue a former employee for copying my Terms and Conditions?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1507502397,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/754ya6\/florida_apartment_did_not_do_any_safety\/","id":"754ya6","body":"I live in one of those apts owned by a major corporation that has multiple properties in Florida. Before the hurricane, they did nothing to secure the building, would not allow us to shutter our windows and sliding glass doors nor did they do it, wouldn't give us any info on what material the building was made out of or if it's up to code etc. I reported this to my insurance agent and she advised me to report it to the state insurance board but to wait until after I move out so as not to risk retaliatory eviction. \nThis is par for the course for them, and there are other issues such as illegally overbilling for water usage (can't do anything about it until I move out as I don't want to risk retaliatory eviction and not getting the rental clearance from them when it's time to rent another place), the fact that they knew my apartment had a cockroach infestation before I moved in (that I'm still dealing with months later), and possible illegal entry by maintenance when I was not home and when I did not give permission (see my other post). \n\n\nAnyway, the shutter around my window bent during the hurricane and is now hanging halfway done. Every time there is even a little bit of wind (which is now every day and night) the part that is bent bangs against the wall to my bedroom. There are days and nights where it bangs continuously without break, waking me up and keeping me up. This is happening everyday for the past two weeks. I have asked management when they are going to fix it. When I email, they don't answer and when I go in person, they keep saying they will but won't give me a date or further details. The noise is really interfering with my sleep and I don't think I should have to deal with it anymore. \n\nWhat are my options? \nCan I deduct anything from my rent now (also because of cockroach infestation)? Can I hire someone to fix it and then deduct from my rent? Or is that a bad idea because my renters insurance doesn't cover the outside and I don't have the right? What can I do to make them make this repair so I am not woken up everyday by this banging? \n\nThank you ","title":"Florida: apartment did not do any safety precautions for hurricane. There was damage but they still have not fixed it and it is interfering with my reasonable enjoyment and ability to sleep. They will not answer requests to find out when it will be repaired, what are my options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507150117,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74b377\/good_kid_now_has_misdemeanor_for_standing_up_to_a\/","id":"74b377","body":"Posting for a friend. This is in Kansas. \n\nMy friend has a son, \"G\" who is 15 years old and in high school. \n\nG saw friend getting picked on. Instigator pushed G's friend and ripped glasses off of him. G stepped in and pushed the instigator. This happened in hallway. Instigator fell but no injuries. Parents of instigator complained and the county (or school? I'm not sure) pressed charges on G. \n\nG got out of school suspension and disorderly conduct misdemeanor charge, had to go to caseworker. DA is handling it on how to move forward.\nHis choices are youth court, diversion for 4-6 months, or its possible for DA to change charges to battery and G would be put on probation. \n\nG is a good kid. No drugs, no alcohol, has never been in trouble before. He was just standing up for his friend. Please help! My friend is at a loss for how to handle this! ","title":"Good kid now has misdemeanor for standing up to a bully (youth\/school)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1444116074,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3noh9c\/guest_kicked_out_from_rental_house\/","id":"3noh9c","body":"So I live in Qld Australia. My girlfriend lives with her 2 friends (a couple) who own the house together,  she pays rent to them and lives in home with them. Today myself and the female owner got into an argument (I asked her not to throw my brand new shoes in the dirt and she told me to leave and never come back, true story). She arrives home from work and I am still there, I only get 1-2 days a weeks to see my partner and I wasn't going to leave because I wasn't done yet. She starts screaming at the top of her lungs to leave and I was essentially kicked out and forbidden to return. \n\nCan she legally forbid me from returning even though I am an invited guest of one of the tenants?","title":"Guest kicked out from rental house.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553977228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7fjho\/tx_is_it_normal_to_have_to_notarize_a_form_when\/","id":"b7fjho","body":"Some background - I'm the primary lease holder on my current apartment. The lease is valid through 4\/16 this year. I intend to move out, and my roommate has already found another person to occupy my room. We contacted the leasing office to determine what we needed to do from here to presumably transfer the lease into my roommates name so that he could just renew it with a new roommate soon. The form they gave me to sign and get notarized caused us a bit of confusion, as it is titled \"Affidavit regarding permanent move-out or court order affecting spouse, co-resident, or occupant\". The wording on the form makes it seem like it's for an eviction, or some other event where the primary lease holder and any other occupants are being *forced* out, rather than just leaving when the term for the lease is up.\n\nI asked for clarification about this form to the leasing office in person the other day, and they affirmed that this was the proper set of steps to go through. \n\nMain questions - Should this be notarized and signed in my name (current primary lease holder) or in my roommates name (the soon-to-be primary holder)? Is this normal? Maybe I'm just a bit confused, but the leasing office has not been super helpful in clarifying, so I'm asking for a third opinion.\n\nThanks!! ","title":"(TX) Is it normal to have to notarize a form when moving out of an apartment upon completion of the term?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569438221,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d97vyr\/alaska_can_i_ask_for_travel_compensation\/","id":"d97vyr","body":"Question at the bottom, but for clarification - I'm working a 3 month project and there are 3 companies at play here. \n\nCompany A - a safety company who I have my W-2 and payroll through. \n\nCompany B - the contractor providing the labor for this job and the company I'm representing. \n\nCompany C - the company that holds the contract with the place we are working at.  \n\nI'm currently working a safety position through payroll company A. Company A supplied me to Company B, and Company B is contracted by Company C. \n\nThe issue here is, I don't live in the city. I'm 4 hours (160 miles) from home in another city. While I'm able to stay at my sister's guest room for a low rent price, I still travel home Friday and travel back in Monday morning. This is putting a shit ton of miles on my personal vehicle and with the weather turning to winter conditions very soon here, as well as our schedule looking at changing to either 12 hour shifts M-F or M-Sat, I feel that flying would be a much more efficient and safe option. However, flying would be about $200 a week. \n\nSo my question to you guys is this: am I allowed to ask for compensation or to have travel provided? I'm making about 500\/day now, but the travel is getting less safe to drive and the costs for that would wipe me half a day.","title":"[Alaska] Can I ask for travel compensation?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540390140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qzzu5\/pa_was_in_an_accident_about_a_month_ago_the_other\/","id":"9qzzu5","body":"I was in an accident about a month ago now. I rear-ended another vehicle. There was damage to the muffle that needed to be fixed. Since the damage was less than $300 over the deductible, it made more sense to pay out of pocket. The vehicle is owned by the county where I live, so we communicated through the county\u2019s insurance company. It was agreed that the repair would be completed and we would pay the shop directly by credit card. We spoke with the shop and they gave us a time-frame on the repairs. I just received an e-mail that the county has decided that they don\u2019t want us to pay the shop. They paid for the repair and are now demanding a check for the full amount. I do not have the full amount, which is why we agreed to pay the shop directly, so I could put it on a credit card. Does anyone have any advice? Thank you in advance.","title":"[PA] Was in an accident about a month ago. The other party is now refusing the agreed upon payment plan\/method.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1550594124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ascabi\/friends_boss_withholding_payment_until_she_leaves\/","id":"ascabi","body":"So I'm typing this for a friend who doesn't have a Reddit account. She is 16 years old and works for a Thai ice cream place that she just started a few weeks ago. This morning she sent me a screenshot of her boss asking her to leave a five star review before coming in to pick up her paycheck. Both of us are wondering if this is legal.\n\nOn top of that, the same boss is known for withholding tips from any employees who receive customer complaints for one month. One employee called him out on this saying it's illegal.\n\nWe tried asking around. Her stepdad said it's fine because the store does need positive reviews to stay in business but that sounds really bullshit. So what action can she take if any regarding her tips and paycheck? Like I said, she is a minor, so there may be some restrictions on her paycheck. That much is all I know.\n\nAny advice?","title":"Friend's boss withholding payment until she leaves a good review on store page and withholds tips from employees who receive customer complaints","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539744976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oupq2\/biometric_collection_in_high_school_nebraska\/","id":"9oupq2","body":"My school released an email saying they are going to implement a finger print scanner that you use to buy your lunch with. I do not want to be giving this information to the school due to irresponsible tendencies and because I feel a moral obligation not to. Do I HAVE to give them my fingerprints?","title":"Biometric collection in High School (Nebraska)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568590893,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4skrr\/dog_grooming_not_allowed_to_keep_tips\/","id":"d4skrr","body":"Hi! Location is Massachusetts. I work in into service industry at a big box pet store and was a dog bather for several months. I have now been sent to an academy over an hour away to learn to do haircuts. In my interviews I was told mileage would be compensated (driving 100+ miles a day to this academy) but a few days before I actually went they scrapped that and told me they wouldn't compensate me for mileage at all.\n\nI also learned I am not allowed to keep tips. A woman came in and asked for a nail trim for her dog. I took the dog in and she watched me do his nails. After, she tipped me $5 and thanked me. I was quickly informed I am not allowed to accept tips at this academy and had to give it to any of the established groomers or the boss. Is this legal?\n\nI could understand morally not accepting tips if they were actually taking time out of their day to teach me something but they are not. Besides, I have been doing baths, nail trims, anal glands, walk in services for months now and they did not teach me to do that so its morally screwed for them to greedily take my tips from that. The customer is tipping ME for my work.\n\nIf I was a customer and gave someone a tip, that tip is for that person doing the labor.. not anybody else. I would be pissed if someone else got to keep it. This mentality has made me question whether I should say \"oh, sorry, I can't accept that\" when they try to tip me but I'm sure the academy would find issue with that. Even if it is illegal I wont say anything and I will just suck it up but I'm just wondering. I have heard its illegal for managers to take tips from servers in restaurants but not sure what's true and what isnt, or what applies to what. Thank you.","title":"Dog Grooming... Not Allowed To Keep Tips?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550907824,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atsyd1\/seattle_got_fired_for_asking_for_bonus_to_be_paid\/","id":"atsyd1","body":"Gave notice to my company (tech start-up), last day was supposed to be 3\/1\/19. My compensation package (Negotiated and approved 1\/17\/18) included a $10K retention bonus to be paid 2\/15\/19- only conditions: I be a full-time employee on 2\/15\/19. On 2\/15, I inquired about this bonus, was scolded, shamed, told that I would be \"taking from other employees\" if I demanded I be paid this bonus. Result: On Monday 2\/18, was called and terminated effective immediately (I have fully recorded convo). Now, they are threatening to withhold my $10k bonus, my final wages and my benefits through the end of the month, unless I sign this agreement that promises I won't sue, won't tell anyone my termination reason, etc. Should I waive my rights, sign and just take the 10k, or should I go forward with this and proceed with a suit for unpaid wages, wrongful termination, emotional distress? \n\n\nI have documented proof that I am terminated for asking for my compensation.\nI have documented proof that I won't receive my comp unless I sign this agreement (basically turning my retention bonus into severance, which is not the same thing) \n\nBack in 2017, I had a sexual harassment situation at this same job. Reported it and let them know I felt unsafe because they told him I reported this, and I was the reason he was being fired (the oppressor was in finance, had my address and all my information) . CEO told me I have nothing to worry about, the guy will be fired immediately due to this. Found out weeks later the CEO lied - the guy was not fired, but asked in secrecy to work remote and not communicate with me. Just in case this helps my case in any way? ","title":"(Seattle) Got fired for asking for bonus to be paid. (Have proof). Now company still won\u2019t give me bonus unless I sign severance agreement. Can I sue for retaliatory termination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551654898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awzxl2\/am_i_insured_at_my_workplace\/","id":"awzxl2","body":"Hi, since some months I'm working in an marketing agency in Luxembourg.\n\nI got a belgium contract for 6 months. \n\nBut I work and live in Luxembourg. \n\nTwo weeks ago I had to take some days off because I had an operation to remove my wisdom teeths. \n\nI had two days off, and gave all the necessary paper from the doctor to HR that they can justify my absence. \n\nNow the weird part, I received the bills from the operation and asked HR where I need to send the bills of the operation to get back my money, the HR lady then told me that I need to pay it myself and that I'm not insured. \n\nShe told me thats completely normal in belgium\/ with a belgium contract. \n\nIs this a normal thing in belgium?\n\n\nI'm only 20, and never payed alot of attention to things like that until now, but I would love some advice! \n","title":"Am I Insured at my workplace?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1413570411,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jjega\/continuance_job_interview_tejas\/","id":"2jjega","body":"Would a court grant a continuance due to a job interview? Unemployed atm. It's a traffic ticket.TX","title":"Continuance, job interview? Tejas","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553141361,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3m20y\/about_to_get_my_license_suspended_any_way_to\/","id":"b3m20y","body":"So I have gotten 4 tickets the first one I did defensive driving school(less than 12 months ago), the second one I paid, the third one I paid, and I was going to pay the fourth one when the clerk informed me it would put my license at 8 points. Apparently all speeding tickets are worth 3 points and my latest ticket was worth 2. I didn't know that I thought a ticket was worth 1 point.\n\n I'm signing a lease Friday and I started a new job a few weeks ago, still in my probationary period... If my license is suspended I will lose my job.. will probably have to take a minimum wage job in walking distance just so I can pay rent and buy food. \n\nThis is a future I am desperately trying to avoid, so tomorrow I am going to see the judge and ask for leniency, but I don't really know what to say\/do... Was gonna basically say what I said here and say I'm going to be a better driver and suspending my license would ruin my life whereas giving me a break just one time (I have a clean record) would create a productive member of society.\n\n I'm worried he's just gonna say \"don't be a baby it's only 3 months\" and that's that. If that's the case I'm gonna try to fight it and pray the cop doesn't show but it's a state trooper so I think he will. I'm in Arizona any sort of suggestions as to what to say or any ideas on what to do are much appreciated.","title":"About to get my license suspended, any way to prevent this?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505531087,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70empn\/landlord_asked_us_to_lie_about_mold_to_appraiser\/","id":"70empn","body":"The title pretty much says it. Our landlord contacted us late last night saying she is having someone come out to appraise our condo for refinancing. First of all this is the first we have heard of this, and secondly she is having someone come out Monday so this is very short notice. Our bathroom floor has mold under the vinyl due to absolutely none of the floor being sealed. There is literally a half an inch of space between the flooring and the wall in the entire bathroom (the whole house, in fact). She asked us to hide the mold with a rug and not mention it to the appraiser. I am not comfortable with that. Not only does she ask us to do this, but then says we need to have the carpets cleaned (on our dime), and touch up any paint and have the place cleaned. None of this seems right to me. Do I have any rights here?","title":"Landlord asked us to lie about mold to appraiser (California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445818800,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q7rnx\/my_landlord_is_charging_me_for_an_unsafe_backyard\/","id":"3q7rnx","body":"I'm renting a unit with a private backyard in Brooklyn, NY. The backyard was filled with trash and broken glass when I first moved, much of which I cleaned myself, though the landlord promised to clean it for me. Even before it's fully clean, I went out into the backyard and found NEW broken glass scattered amongst the dirt and mulch (mulch I purchased). They are refusing to clean it and I've been paying rent for an unsafe and unusable backyard for months now. What can I do?\n\nI can't use the backyard in case anyone was to fall or have some glass go into their shoes. And I can't let my dog run around back there either. I'm essentially paying for unusable space.","title":"My landlord is charging me for an unsafe backyard, and isn't agreeing to help clean. What can I do? [NY]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504485323,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xwyng\/i_am_considering_splitting_from_my_husband\/","id":"6xwyng","body":"i am a mother that is dedicated to my 2 sons - ages 1 and 3. On the outside, we have a picture perfect life with money, nice jobs, and high goals for our boys. However, as I am getting to know my husbands family a bit more, I am learning that things are not what they seem.\n\nToday I learned that my husband has taken prescription narcotics supplied by his brothers. \nI have also come to learn that his 2 only brothers are extremely heavy unrepentant drug users. Under their degrees and white collar jobs, they sport a daily array of prescription neuro drugs, Valium, narcotics, cocaine, caffeine pills, opiate teas, cigarettes, booze, weed, benzo's and sleep aids. All of that - **everyday**\n\nTheir only 2 children (both under 19) are addicts and sport cocaine, cigarettes, and prescription drugs openly - with the encouragement of - and often supplied by the parents. Both are in their 40's and have chronic and end stage diseases.\n\nHis adopted father, whom came from a wealthy fortune 50 adoptive family, lived the last half of his life out of a garage where he smoked 4 packs a day and drank a 12 pack everyday until his untimely death.\n\nSome research has recently uncovered that the adopted father's- biological dad and brother - whom he never knew - died of drugs and alcohol related deaths in their mid 40's - they were heavy lifestyle users as well.\n\nI am shocked. I did not come from this type of background at all. I am terrified for my boys. Considering the genetic and now environmental components, I feel that an alcohol and drug free household and dogma is imperative to giving our children the best chance to lead clean lives. My husband disagrees and he drinks in front of the kids. On the fourth of July, my toddler son grabbed his beer bottle and drank the last few drops - I was horrified but my husband thought it was funny and even egged it on . I can see this not going anywhere good. \n\nIf it meant a clean household, I would split from my husband - but I can't prove any of this in court - not his previous drug habits, not addiction lives of his brothers (except one which is publicly documented).Not the lifestyle and situations of his fathers and forefathers... Without that context my concern makes no sense, what do i do ?","title":"I am considering splitting from my husband because he drinks alchohol [IL] - How would I explain this to a judge ?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570714336,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfy1z8\/i_paid_for_an_order_but_it_was_never_processed\/","id":"dfy1z8","body":"So i am not good at any of this. But, i ordered some clothes and after i paid it gave me an error. However, i still paid. I can see it in my bank account. The problem is; the app of the store keeps saying i need to confirm order and pay or it will delete the ordernumber and order itself.\n\nI already emailed them but i do not have any phonenumber from them. What can i do to get my money back\/get the order? I am a poor student who needed some shirts because i ran out of them. \n\nI need some help","title":"I paid for an order but it was never processed","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1503432839,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vdqhi\/i_subleased_over_the_summer_in_texas_without_a\/","id":"6vdqhi","body":"I subleased one room of a 2-br house over the summer from somebody we'll call Andy I found on a school forum. We agreed on a set amount of rent, $800, which I paid before moving in. Andy's original post mentioned that I would also pay utilities, but we didn't discuss them beforehand. The second bedroom was subleased by a different tenant, Bob, whose agreement with the other landlord Carol was that they would pay $1000 and no utilities. This led to the other tenant using excessive amounts of energy (e.g., leaving a.c. on during the day, lights on at night, etc.) which drove the utilities bill up to $600. \n\nNow, Andy and Carol are asking that I pay half the utilities. I think this is quite unfair, especially since I was gone half the summer and couldn't moderate the utility usage at all. I listed an amount I deemed more than fair. Do Andy and Carol have any ability to make me pay more?\n\nThanks for any input y'all. ","title":"I subleased over the summer in Texas without a contract of any kind. Landlord is asking me to pay fees, which I dispute. Can they do anything legally?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568592235,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4stu0\/help_my_chances_of_getting_macbook_repair_covered\/","id":"d4stu0","body":"Hi guys, \n\nMy clumsy self spilled some acetone on my MacBook around 2 weeks ago and sent it in to an Apple store to get looked at around 2 weeks ago. I originally just planned to pay for the damage repair out of pocket thinking that the damage was small (MacBook is still functional) and not knowing I had any other options. But after a few back and forth phone calls with the Apple technician, I was told this weekend that more parts are dysfunctional than originally anticipated and the current estimated cost for repair is only around 500 less than buying a new one and he suggested that I give up on it, unless I have purchase protection through my credit card since the damage incurred less than 90 days after purchase. \n\nAnnnnd... it turns out I do have this feature on my tangerine cash back cc, the cc I purchased my MacBook with. But there appears to be one problem, the fine print asks that I must contact them to set up a claim BEFORE I proceed with any action or repair with the item. So I am very afraid that they are going to reject my claim based on the fact that I already sent it into an Apple store (and I assume that\u2019s an action). I have asked Apple to hold up on doing anything until I get a hold of my cc insurance department (they only open on weekdays). \n\nDo you guys have any advise on what I should do or how should I phrase my situation to the insurer to improve my chances? \nAnd does anyone have experience dealing with the tangerine cc insurance department? I\u2019m asking this because my prior experiences with tangerine customer service had not been good...\n\nThanks to everyone to reading and\/or replying!\n\nPS: don\u2019t do your nails anywhere near your laptops and know the ins and outs of your cc features so you don\u2019t get into situations like mine \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d.","title":"Help! My chances of getting MacBook repair covered by credit card\u2019s 90 days purchase assurance protection?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571162801,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dibskp\/contracted_for_20_days_they_canceled_4_days_am_i\/","id":"dibskp","body":"Hello!\nI'm in Canada. \nI was contracted for 20 days of work, but then the show canceled 4 days of work with less than 24 hrs notice. \n\nThere are no cluases talking about cancelation etc in the contract. \n\nWhen they sent the final e transfer it was missing 4 days worth of pay. \n\nWhat are my options.","title":"Contracted for 20 days, they canceled 4 days. Am I still entitled to that pay?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551387049,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avw0zh\/do_we_have_a_case_against_our_exlandlord_for\/","id":"avw0zh","body":"Hi! So my husband and I moved out of a rental property in California about a month ago. We were the first tenants after the owner had renovated the house. While living there we treated the house as if it were our own (ex. no shoes on the carpet, no smoking, no food\/drinks that would stain on the carpet etc). When we moved out I had my husband fill all the holes in the walls from hanging  things, we hired someone to come professionally clean the house, and we replaced 3 sets of blinds. \nOur landlord is now trying to keep almost $1,000 of our security deposit because the person we hired to clean forgot to clean the inside on the kitchen drawers. He also had someone shampoo the carpets, and to touch up the paint(which we would have done but we couldn\u2019t match the color). There was no need to shampoo the carpets IMO as we never allowed shoes and there were no stains.  I also noticed that it wasn\u2019t until I had started asking him (almost at the end of the 21 days period) about when he was going to be returning our deposit, that he actually started receiving invoices for \u201cwork\u201d done to the house. \nI sent him a formal letter saying we don\u2019t accept those charges and unless he responds within 10 days we will be taking him to small claims court. Do I have a case against him? I was under the impression that the carpet and walls would have been normal wear and tear. \nWe also never did an initial walk through when we first moved in and were not given the opportunity to do a walkthrough when we gave our 30 day notice to see what needed to be done to the house. ","title":"Do we have a case against our ex-landlord for withholding part of our security deposit? (CA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568746741,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5lh7r\/cananda_ontario_auto_insurance_broker_neglected\/","id":"d5lh7r","body":"Age: 28\nInsurance company: Intact\nInsured for: 11yrs (Only Intact)\nPrior accidents (besides this one): 0\nCoverage: Full\nPremium prior to accident: $111\/month \n\nI got into my first accident in 11 years. Fortunately it wasn\u2019t bad, just your typical fender bender. The car was still perfectly drivable, nobody hurt, the air bags weren\u2019t deployed, and the cops weren\u2019t involved. With that said, I was 100% at fault.\n\nI called my insurance broker who I\u2019ve been dealing with for the past 4 years, only to find out that they retired the week prior. I was then transferred to her replacement. I reported the accident to my new broker only to find that I didn\u2019t have accident forgiveness (something I didn\u2019t know existed up until that point)\n\nDays later I sit down with my new broker to discuss why I didn\u2019t have accident forgiveness on my file and what can be done. She pulls out my old files, dating back to when I first signed on, looking for anything that says I refused the accident forgiveness add-on ($5\/month). Not a single piece of paper mentioned anything about accident forgiveness, even though the insurance company itself states it clearly on their website.\n\nShe then says that I qualified for it and that my previous broker (who\u2019s now retired) should\u2019ve added it. Days later I get a phone call from the owner of the insurance brokerage. She tells me my new premium will now be $208\/month. I demand that something be done before I submit a complaint to the Insurance Bureau of Canada. \n\nThe owner is now going to sit down with someone higher up at Intact to see what can be done. My question is: if my complain form results in nothing being done, do I have a case against my brokerage for negligence, if I pressure the legal rout?","title":"[Cananda, Ontario] Auto Insurance broker neglected to inform me about accident forgiveness.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571331526,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj98qg\/taxes_on_all_voip_applications\/","id":"dj98qg","body":"Today, the Lebanese government announced that they will be charging $0.2 per day whenever any VoIP application is used by someone if they are in Lebanon. Is this even legal? Can the government make profits from services provided for free by other companies? And doesn't that imply that the government will be invading people's privacy even more?","title":"Taxes on all VoIP applications","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540752176,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s5k1q\/can_employer_retroactively_add_benefits_as_wages\/","id":"9s5k1q","body":"My mom took position at company. Company paid for move and corporate apartment for months. Now they are claiming they can\u2019t claim those as expenses and are adding 32k to her base salary ( non contract ). Then took 25k for reimburse of the moving and lodging expenses. \n\nThis dramatically shifts her tax bracket and doesn\u2019t seem right. \n\nGeorgia. Previous state was va. \n\nCan they do this? Is this legit?","title":"Can employer retroactively add benefits as wages and deduct.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541161684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tjms4\/possible_discrimination_and_salary_confusion\/","id":"9tjms4","body":"So I did an internship with a company I prefer not to name - it's very big and very famous. They're very well known for diversity and they make a lot of noise about flexible working hours, working conditions and disability accommodations. This is all happening in the UK. \n\nI'm disabled, so I let them know that it would be helpful to have that flexibility. Upfront, everyone enthusiastically agreed and told me it wouldn't be any problem whatsoever. My line manager and I agreed that flexible working hours were fine. \n\nSkip to the very end of the internship. The various people we've been working with are reassuring us that it's basically impossible not to get a full time offer after doing an internship. We were told that last year someone didn't get an offer because they skipped work to play video games all day, and we'd have to do something that bad to get rejected. I also got great feedback on my project work, and was told I was the strongest intern technically and gave one of the best presentations. I had a final interview where my interviewer didn't bother asking me any interview questions, just discussed which divisions and projects I'd like to work on when I got the offer, which I took as a good sign. \n\nOn the last day after everyone's left, I have a feedback meeting with the person running the internship program. Suddenly he's bringing up concerns that because of my need for flexible working arrangements, I won't fit in or progress at the company. He says someone brought up concerns about the disability arrangements - the guy in question was the manager of my direct manager and we spoke about three times ever. I made some casual flippant joke and say obviously I'd like to be reassured but I understand he can't guarantee anything - at that point I was very confident and thought it was a done deal. He suddenly looks quite sad and says no, he really can't. After that he clams up and says he has to leave immediately. \n\nLater, all the other interns hear back about having received an offer. I don't get a phone call despite being contacted and told that all decisions had been made. The number I'm calling for info gets disconnected. Many weeks after everyone else heard about the decisions, after I repeatedly bugged my contacts at the company to follow it up, I hear that I've been rejected.\n\nOne person promises me feedback, as the company is well known for being willing to provide a lot of in depth feedback.... but everyone else I ask about this clams up. Either they're too disorganised to reply to emails or they've been told not to talk to me or tell me the reason I was rejected. \n\nI can't prove that I was discriminated against, but it feels really suspicious.\n\nAfter that final feedback meeting, I started paying more attention to some incidents that happened during the internship. Mostly people were supportive, but there was the occasional thing. Stuff like, I agree with one manager to arrive in the office at 9:30, he doesn't tell the other manager so the other manager shouts at me for not being there at 8:30 (after I'd told everyone about flexible working hours). Or the project I worked on where I was forced to take a desk on the other side of the building from the other people on my project, so I was kept out of the loop on everything, and they wouldn't let me move a chair over because the chairs I can comfortably use (due to back problems) are apparently too big so it'd make the floor manager angry. \n\nThere were some issues in the original interview process too - the company agreed to reasonable accommodations, then rejected me in the first round after forgetting to provide them. In that situation, I spoke to them and let them know that they hadn't made the requested accommodations, and they put me through to the second round. At the time I thought it was good of them to recognise that they fucked up and fix their mistake, now I'm wondering whether they actually fucked up.\n\nIn hindsight I wish I'd been much less open about being disabled - the original hiring process for the internship was set up so that HR knew about my disability, but the actual decision makers didn't, and I think that may have contributed to me getting the internship but not the job. I was stupid enough to trust that because the company marketed itself as diverse, it would be safe. \n\nOn top of that, I've now been emailed saying they overpaid my salary and they demand I repay them the money. I looked at the calculations they sent me and saw several deductions which I don't understand the reason for. By my calculations (ie without the unknown deductions), I've been overpaid by about \u00a3200. They're asking me to send them over \u00a31000, which would leave me severely underpaid. They refuse to explain the reason for the deductions.\n\nI'd be happy to send them the \u00a3200 that I've actually been overpaid, but I'm scared that sending them any money will \"acknowledge\" a debt somehow - I don't want to accidentally waive my right to contest the entire thing. It's a lot of money for an estranged student (it's about 1\/4 of my budget to live on for this year). \n\nI'm very scared that if I challenge any of this, I could end up on some kind of industry blacklist. I'm now in my third year of university and interviewing for jobs in this industry. It's hard enough to get one when most firms mainly hire through their internship programs, I don't want anyone to be able to find a court case on Google. I also don't actually want a job there after the way I was treated, but I really really wish there was a way I could put a dent in that shiny reputation, and I'd like them to leave me the hell alone about the money. \n","title":"Possible discrimination and salary confusion","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1412067222,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hvgxx\/paid_a_guy_to_make_a_custom_cooler_he_has_not\/","id":"2hvgxx","body":"I live in Houston, Tx and I paid a guy $300 to make a custom wooden icebox. I met him in person and paid him cash in advance (my first mistake). He asked if I wanted a receipt, and, like idiot who has faith in people I do not know, I said no (my second mistake).\n\n It's been a couple months and we did contact each other (via phone and text) for a while. He gave me false updates and promises that it would be ready soon. A few weeks ago he text me saying he was to recieve a check from his insurance and would return my money back. I've been waiting for him to give me my money back and have even tried calling and texting him again, but he refuses to answer. I have tried going to his house and no response. I did leave a note on his door and I do still have all our text messages that imply that I did in fact pay him in exchange for his service.\n\nIt seems like I have no other option that to file a lawsuit,but is it worth $300?\nWhat lawyer fees should I expect to pay?\n\nI've never done anything like this before so please forgive my ignorance. I'm not quite sure what questions I should ask, so please, any advice on anything I have failed to notice will be greatly appreciated.\n\nNote: A friend of mine actually told me about this guy and (my friend) served as our messenger when he agreed to do it for $300.","title":"Paid a guy to make a custom cooler. He has not made it and will not answer my calls\/ texts.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553897388,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b73ffy\/should_i_be_worried_about_being_falsely_accused\/","id":"b73ffy","body":"Some eye witnesses identified me as someone who broke into a car \/ house.  I didn\u2019t do this.  I was merely jogging around the neighborhood.\n\nHow worried should I be?  The bigger deal is I implicated myself in breaking a no contact order with my mom.  That I may get a deal with.  But as far as theft, some people think I did it and the cops seemed to think so.\n\nThey searched all my things and found nothing they said I should have, like checks, card.  I did have some other peoples things I\u2019ve randomly found in the past but nothing reportedly stolen that day.\n\nOlympia, WA","title":"Should I be worried about being falsely accused?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554393608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9ek91\/boss_listening_in_to_conversations\/","id":"b9ek91","body":"I work at a daycare in Oklahoma. The classrooms are separated into different rooms and each room has an intercom system. I grew suspicious that my bosses were listening in to my conversations since they would respond to complaints or problems I had with out me telling them. Then another employee told me she heard them listening in the other day. Is it legal to listen to your employees conversations without them knowing?","title":"Boss listening in to conversations","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542140727,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wsqxr\/i_took_out_a_loan_for_4_years_worth_of_school_but\/","id":"9wsqxr","body":"Was never given back any money nor do I know what the school used the rest of that money for. My family and I are trying to pay $60,000 for a semester that was only supposed to cost me around $14,000. Do I have a case or what?","title":"I took out a loan for 4 years worth of school but only went to school for 1 year.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571145226,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di7q4b\/agreements_terms_of_use_templates\/","id":"di7q4b","body":"Hi there!  I own my own small business and I currently have a couple of \"service agreements\" in place for clients to sign, and we also have software that I own but my developed made it.\n\n​\n\nIs there a place I can get free resources for templates of agreements\/software agreements\/terms of use for this kind of stuff?  Everywhere I look seems like it's only a PDF document and not a word doc that I can edit to make my own.\n\n  \nThanks","title":"Agreements \/ Terms of Use Templates?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1444710847,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ojo5l\/va_how_long_is_a_grand_larceny_investigation\/","id":"3ojo5l","body":"$400 theft. There are about 200 crimes committed everyday in the metro city area that yield convictions. I'm also white with no priors. Like a tool, I provided a signed confession to the company along with fiscal restitution. I know it varies wildly, but what's the soonest a warrant is likely to be issued? Wrigley Field ballpark estimate.","title":"[VA] How long is a grand larceny investigation likely to take?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570684269,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dft95c\/my_abusive_ex_has_5_active_warrants\/","id":"dft95c","body":"I want to help the cops find them. \n\nI have a protection order and they keep violating it. They already pled guilty to 3 of 6 violations and were released. The violations haven't stopped, and the police reports I've made has resulted in the warrants. They are filing the new violations as  felonies. I am being harassed and threatened. My kids Ida are terrified, I lost 3 babysitt\n\nI occasionally(right now) know exactly where they are and I would like to figure out some way to get the cops to show up there and arrest them. But they can't just go on my word. \n\nI was considering using an anonymous phone or txt app and placing a 911 call or text (in my area we can text 911) or doing so from a burner phone. Is there any other way?","title":"My abusive ex has 5 active warrants.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553229986,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b40smf\/landlord_refusing_to_hire_exterminator_for_wasp\/","id":"b40smf","body":"Not sure if this is the right place, and I\u2019m asking for my friend. She lives in a small, old house in a rural area. In the past two years, in the spring, the house has had a wasp infestation. It\u2019s really, really bad. There are multiple nests inside the walls. They are inside the house, too! Now it\u2019s spring and they\u2019re coming back. It\u2019s two different species of wasp in the house as well. \n\nThe landlord refuses to hire an exterminator because she says that they \u201cnever work\u201d. She just buys them the sticky strips to put all over their house. My friend has been stung multiple times. It\u2019s insane. The landlord even told her that her humming bird feeders were the problem because they were attracting the wasps. She\u2019s lived there for five years and the wasps only came two years ago, and didn\u2019t make it into the house until last year. \n\nThe rent is really cheap and she can\u2019t afford to live anywhere else at the moment, and she is on a month to month lease so she can get kicked out at any time, and she can\u2019t afford an exterminator. What are her options? ","title":"Landlord refusing to hire exterminator for wasp infestation?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503468961,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vh43g\/i_was_married_to_a_foreigner_for_just_over_5\/","id":"6vh43g","body":"I was hoping I could get some guidance here. I think it's safe to just do nothing but I want to be sure.\n\nI married a foreigner in Peru in 2010. Spouse was supposed to come here to USA but dragged feet. After 5 years of sending money each week (I was an idiot, I know) I divorced her here in the US in the state of Texas. She was aware and didn't object. She just asked that I help pay for her divorce in Peru since we would still be legally married there.\n\nReluctantly I sent her 500 dollars since I wanted the process to continue here. I eventually completed the divorce here and sent her a copy of the papers. She then said she needed more money because she spent the 500 divorce dollars on other things. I refused and told her I had already given her a free ride for over 4 years, paid for all the divorce stuff here, and even still sent her 500 dollars and a copy of the divorce papers here to help her get it done there. So no, she isn't getting another penny.\n\nNow 2 years after our divorce, she is contacting me again. She wants me to give her power of attorney \"So she can expedite the divorce proceedings there,\" as well as send her the divorce papers from our divorce here (again, which is expensive), as well as send her money because money is always nice. I told her that there is no chance I will do any of those things.\n\nNow she is texting me and emailing me almost daily, telling me how I need to do the above mentioned things or she is going to get with a lawyer and make me pay her.\n\nAs far as I know we are still legally married in Peru (which is where we got married) for 7 years 2 months. I got the divorce decree done 2 years and 1 month ago here in Texas, after having been married 5 years 1 month. The terms of the divorce basically state that we have no children and neither of us own any real property so nobody owes anybody.\n\n*So..*\n\nI'm pretty sure I can safely ignore her demands for money and power of attorney. Maybe I would have problems if I were to travel to Peru again (which I don't intend to), but it seems to me that if she tried to get alimony from Peru, the courts in Texas wouldn't allow it since we're divorced here, regardless of whether or not the Peruvian government honors that divorce. Am I looking at this correctly?\n\n*Thank you for your time if you've read this far. I just want to be sure I am really done with her.*\n\nEDIT: Just to reiterate, we do not have children.","title":"I was married to a foreigner for just over 5 years and got played. Divorced for 2 years, she is now demanding power of attorney and all sorts of craziness.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507495224,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/754951\/ma_workplace_retirement_investment_company\/","id":"754951","body":"Hello. I have been putting 8% + employer match into a 401k for a decade so I have enough in there that I am eligible to take out loans from it. Not a withdrawal or anything, just a few grand for big down-payments or whatever - maybe there is a name for this type of loan but IDK. I've done this 4 times, the last one being in May. I've only ever had one at a time and usually pay them off in a couple years.\n\nCompany A was the former manger of the 401k account and the loans. Paying back the loans to Company A was done in the form of a paycheck deduction of $x. Sometimes my paychecks were less than $x, because it's not a full time job and I'm not working there every week. Some weeks I'll have 80 hours and some weeks zero. But no matter what, Company A only took a maximum of $x. If there was less than $x, no payment was made and this was not a problem.\n\nLate this summer my workplace switched over to Company B for retirement stuff, and my loan got ported over to them. After taking a few weeks off, I worked a couple weeks and when the checks came in they were for zero dollars. Company B had stacked up weeks of \"missed payments\" and deducted them all at once. I called them, and after bouncing me back and forth to my company's HR dept they said whatever, I'm on the hook for $x every week and that's how it's going to be. \n\nThe original paperwork I got from company A has a repayment schedule like this:\n\nPayment 1: $x\n\nPayment 2: $x\n\nPayment 3: $x\n\nPayment n: $x\n\nWhenever there was a check with enough in it to cover $x, they would deduct it and move on to the next payment whenever the next check with enough to cover came in.\n\nNow it seems like Company B wants to be repaid like this:\n\nDue mm\/dd\/yyyy: $x\n\nDue mm\/dd\/yyyy: $x\n\nDue mm\/dd\/yyyy: $x\n\n\n...so in this new date-based way, entire checks are getting wiped out with \"overdue\" payments. In addition to that, I'm now getting \"loan management fees\" charged. It's less than ten bucks each, but it's still annoying because I didn't have those before.\n\nSo basically I'm wondering this: do I have any argument to make against company B? I did not choose to be moved over to this new company, my entire organization did. I took out the loan before the transition was announced, and signed with Company A because I was comfortable with the terms of the agreement. Now that's changed and their final reply to my many calls and questions to Company B was \"this is how it is now and we are owed so you will pay\". How can I be stuck in something I never agreed to? I guess I could just pay it back, but first I don't want to, and second I feel like it's not right.\n\nIf I called them and just said \"hey my wife took over my finances and has decided that we should only pay monthly, sorry I've decided on this and it cannot be argued against\" they would just laugh and send in the goons (I know that's a really stupid comparison but hopefully you get the idea of what I'm trying to say with it). \n\nThis got really long and I don't know if anyone is going to see this, so if anyone has a question just ask and I'll explain more clearly if I can.\n\nI live in CA, my physical workplace is in MA, and the company I work for is headquartered in NY.\n\nI have access to lawyers and if you are responding to this just assume legal fees are not an issue.\n\nApologies if I don't use the correct terms for anything, I hate to admit it but I know almost nothing about retirement stuff. I just set it  to auto-deduct years ago and forgot about it.","title":"[MA] Workplace retirement investment company changed, leading to changes in loan payment schedule, payment terms, and more fees.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1442248898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kxeye\/found_underage_porn_on_my_so_computer_need_legal\/","id":"3kxeye","body":"I found underage porn on my SO computer (two folders titled jailbait, with thousands of files in each folder). His internet history shows that he has been requesting pictures of 14-15 year old \"jailbait\" from websites where users upload material. I must confirm this, but it appears that he was requesting jailbait material (videos and pictures) from a webcam site. \n\nWe have a 2 month old daughter and are not legally married. My SO is on her birth certificate. We currently just moved to California, but I am going to take her to Colorado to be near my family. I do not want to be with him, but part of me still loves him and feels horrible at the thought of him not be able to find a job because of this or even serve prison time. My questions are:\n\nIf I confront him about this and get him to agree to relinquish his parental rights, could I be in trouble legally for not turning this over to the police? In which state and what type of paperwork would I need to submit to relinquish his rights? Is there anything else that I could be overlooking when it comes to child custody stuff? I really don't want him alone with our daughter when she gets to be that age.\n\n","title":"Found underage porn on my SO computer. Need legal advice on child custody.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554778301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb2rp6\/amending_a_birth_certificate_from_1988_for\/","id":"bb2rp6","body":"My husband was born in 1988, and his birth mother never put his birth father on the certificate. The father line is blank but his mom gave my husband her first ex husband's last name *who is not his bio dad* (first ex husband passed away years before my husband was concieved). She has been married and divorced 3 or 4 times since then so absolutely no one that he is related to carries his legal last name. We recently created a will for our kids and named his bio dad (along with his wife of 26 years) sole guardianship if anything were to happen to us. Do we need to have his birth certificate amended to put his biologocal father on there? If not, can this cause any problems, especially since he doesn't have his bio dad's last name? The birth certificate is from New York, but my husband as well as his dad both live in different states now if any of that matters. The will was created in Minnesota, but we are moving to California next month and will have to redo the will after we move.","title":"Amending a birth certificate from 1988 for purpose of a will.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568881993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6b4mb\/do_i_have_grounds_for_appeal\/","id":"d6b4mb","body":"So I just got handed a guilty verdict for assault with a weapon and uttering threats. I didn\u2019t testify on my lawyers advice (she said she was worried I would incriminate myself) but now that I\u2019ve sat through court and the like I heard so many lies, Mistruths, And I sat there with my mouth shut. I know everything I did was in self defence. Section 35 came up but apparently me grabbing a weapon to defend myself from a 200+ lb more than me guy in my house wasn\u2019t kosher. I need help. Maybe someone to email more in depth.","title":"Do I have grounds for appeal?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442418981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l6o6f\/water_damage_due_to_poor_maintenance_in_rented\/","id":"3l6o6f","body":"My mother lives in a rented apartment in an elderly community. Two days ago the water heater burst a pipe, resulting in massive flooding of her apartment and a lot of water damage. It was so bad that she had to move out of the apartment and into a hotel for going on 3 days now. As we were moving her out, I spoke with the maintenance guy who made the (joking?) statement along the lines of \"I'm the plumber for this place, but they don't give me enough money to take care of everything.\"\n\nThe cause of the burst pipe was, essentially, that the pipes were so old that they had rusted and failed due to the normal water pressure.\n\nMy opinion is that it is the responsibility of the property management to ensure that the water heater and similar equipment is properly maintained and that since they failed to do so then they should be responsible for paying for damages that resulted as well as the hotel expenses that my mother has incurred.\n\nWhat does the law say on this matter?","title":"Water Damage due to poor maintenance in Rented Apartment (NC)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552662249,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1g017\/repeated_denial_of_serving_jail_time\/","id":"b1g017","body":"My girlfriend was on probation for the last year and failed a drug test for thc. She was sentenced 9 days in jail for this back in December. She has had to report every month to serve this jail time, and every time they've turned her away because they were full. This is now going on the 4th time of her attempting to get this 9 days over and done with. This is really interfering with her life at this point; her job especially. As a cohabitating unit, we can't continue to live this way. This is taking place in Ashland, Ohio if that helps at all. She tried writing a letter to the judge but he denied all requests to modify anything. Is there anything we can do? How is this even legal? \n","title":"Repeated denial of serving jail time","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553294743,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4blx6\/ohious_child_support_medicaid\/","id":"b4blx6","body":"Twofold question.\n\nMy husband previously had 50\/50 visitation (NOT CUSTODY) of his two boys. He pays $600 a month in child support. \n\nCPS removed those children from the custodial parent (mother) and placed them in our home. Father has temporary custody, mother has 1 hour supervised visitation per week. We do not return to court to revisit this until Jan 2020. \n\nHe is still paying $600 a month in child support. The TC order did not stop child support payments. \n\nWe *need* that money for school tuition for one of the kids. Do we have any legal recourse? \n\nFurther, the children are receiving Medicaid through their mother. Because of this, our family does not qualify for Medicaid. If we re-applied as a family of 6 instead of 4 (counting his kids as opposed to not counting them) we qualify for a lot of help (which would negate the support issue, really) but we are unsure if we can count them as family members. \n\nAll obvious points of contact have left us with more questions than answers. ","title":"(OHIO)US - Child Support \/ Medicaid","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571453787,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djy2gp\/can_an_employer_mandate_that_employees_need_to\/","id":"djy2gp","body":"My family members work told them that that will need to start working 7-12 days in a row without any days off. They will be provided overtime however my family member is concern since they need a day off for mental and physical health.  It\u2019s warehouse type work if that helps .  \nAlso, this  notice came from their HR department .  Thanks!","title":"Can an employer mandate that employees need to work more than 7 consecutive days in a row? (NV)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553091933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3cnkp\/employer_threatening_to_cut_pay_if_training\/","id":"b3cnkp","body":"I'm currently working at a job where our employer is having us do an extra course training. We have to complete this training by March 31st and the employer promised to pay us 1.5 hours upon completion. However, my employer has said to those that don't finish before March 31st will have 1.5 hours deducted from their paycheck. Is this legal? In Canada by the way. ","title":"Employer threatening to cut pay if training course isnt completed","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554937289,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbspow\/youtube_has_been_overcharging_me_for_youtube\/","id":"bbspow","body":"Link to my post (with images) in r\/assholedesign [here](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/assholedesign\/comments\/bbsj35\/youtube_is_charging_me_1599_for_youtube_premium\/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app)\n\n\nSide Note: I know this doesn\u2019t seem like a great deal, but to a college student who pulls in a low wage, that money makes a real difference.\n\n\nI just found out that Youtube\u2019s standard pricing (and the pricing my GF has gotten) is $11.99\/mo for Youtube Premium. However, I have been charged $15.99\/mo for the exact same service, and I am understandably angry about this unequal fee.\n\nI plan to contact customer support, but I\u2019d feel better if I were armed with knowledge from this sub. At the absolute bare minimum, I want to be refunded the difference, but if there exists good cause for me to be compensated more, I will certainly take it. I can think of no good reason to be charged $3.00 more per month for the exact same service, and I already lack any respect for Youtube as a company anymore.\n\n\nWhat are my options? Where does this fall legally, and what can I expect from Youtube?","title":"Youtube has been overcharging me for Youtube Premium, and I want to know what my options are.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570134879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcwr1g\/officer_giving_out_false_information_missouri\/","id":"dcwr1g","body":"I was pulled over the other day for expired tags and the officer gave me a ticket for $100 for it. He told me if it was fixed within 30 days it would most likely drop to a small court fee of $10 or 15 dollars if I called the number on the ticket. I call and they tell me it can\u2019t be dropped down. The officer also misprinted on the ticket writing \u201che stated he did not know the vehicle was properly registered\u201d  which must be a typo. I\u2019m a college kid with little money so $100 is a lot. Do I just pay it or should I show up in court and explain to the judge what happened? Thanks for any advice","title":"Officer giving out false information (Missouri)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569495164,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9hyvc\/douchey_dude_at_the_laundry_mat\/","id":"d9hyvc","body":"San Jose, Ca\n\nI tapped this guys car with my key while opening the door for my partner. He was inside his car when it happened so it obviously sounded worse than what it was. He got out of his car and took a picture of my plates. My partner asked him why he took pictures and he said he was taking a selfie (worst excuse ever...)\nI understand that the worst hes gonna do is file an insurance claim.. but whats the absolute worst thing someone could do with someone elses plate numbers?","title":"Douchey dude at the laundry mat.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507152406,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74bck4\/trapped_in_a_trap_house\/","id":"74bck4","body":"Hey y'all first time posting\n\nHere's my ordeal. My girlfriend and I used a housing fb page for our university. And out of shear desperation we moved into a lease take over house. We paid the previous tenants of the lease who were moving out $500 each for their part of the deposit (which I was content about because the original deposit was $560). As well as the two of us moving in, two new tenants also moved in paying for a deposit the same way. The realtor for the house hasn't sent us any paperwork to sign regarding the lease and hasn't processed our applications. However rent is now due, but my girlfriend and I are skeptical about continuing to live here.  We walked in knowing the house was 420 friendly however one of the housemates is now partaking in stronger recreational activities, which is making him more aggressive. I have only been living here for a month and I can see the sudden change of character. The other housemates lack common sense and see nothing wrong with the situation of hardcore drugs. On top of that, to afford his lifestyle, he started to sell drugs out of the house.\n\nHow would I go about getting our deposit back as well as be able to move out of this living situation without any legal consequences. [CA]\n\nThank you in advance.","title":"Trapped in a trap house","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539928761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ph2e7\/connecticut_i_worked_59_hours_and_only_got_paid\/","id":"9ph2e7","body":"I\u2019m guessing because my employer doesn\u2019t want to pay me overtime, but that still makes me close to 20 hours short on pay regardless. How do I approach this? Obviously this is not legal. ","title":"(Connecticut) I worked 59 hours, and only got paid for 40.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447334548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sj4sg\/friends_ex_violating_divorce_agreement\/","id":"3sj4sg","body":"Just like it says above, when they separated they signed a document pertaining to the cystody of their son and the devision of debt. He's been refusing to give her, her son on her days and hasn't  made a payment on the credit card debt that was his responsibility for three years. When she most recently asked about picking up her son, he responded with 'if you come, bring a cop', which is not something she wants to put her son through. Bith she and her ex are low income. Thank you.","title":"Friend's ex violating divorce agreement","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507164877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74cl5d\/this_man_that_was_involved_in_a_collision_with_me\/","id":"74cl5d","body":"Location: KS, USA\n\nIn mid April of this year, this man and I was involved in a collision. The accident was my fault. The light turned green (but not a protected turn arrow), and without thinking, I turned, and he hit me and totaled my car.\n\nMy insurance company already paid for the damages to his car and his stitches he had to get. Now he's trying to milk a whopping $60,000 out of me. **My insurance only covers up to $50,000 (or somewhere around there, but I'm pretty sure it's $50k)**. Here's the thing though. He didn't even hit me that hard. He hit me going roughly 40 mph. It only left the corner of his front bumper messed up. When the ambulance came, he denied medical assistance. He only had a minor cut in his forehead which did require stitches. His airbag wasn't deployed, and I don't think there was anyone else in the car with him. This wreck happened right in front of a cop funny enough. He just told us to stay in the car and he'll handle it.\n\nSo that's all the info I have on him. He was in no way injured to require $60,000. That is just bullshit. And even if the insurance covers $50,000, I don't even have $10,000 to pay. I'm broke. What can I do in this situation? Should I get a lawyer and fight this? If so, how? How do I prove this guy doesn't need $60,000? How do I prove this guy who will magically have all these health conditions pop up out of nowhere (like a bad back\/aching legs, etc.) is just full of it? It's painfully obvious he is trying to milk money from me and the insurance company. This is why I freaking hate people.\n\nThat's currently where I'm at right now. The lawsuit hasn't been filed yet, I just heard word from my insurance company that he is planning on suing me and the insurance for $60k.\n\nAny tips and advice would be greatly appreciated guys.","title":"This man that was involved in a collision with me is trying to sue me and my insurance company for $60,000.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553569940,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5kkcy\/should_my_boyfriend_m26_go_through_suing_his_old\/","id":"b5kkcy","body":" (re-edit for clarity)\n\nFor some more context he left the company on the 13th of this month and had been going to urgent care during his time there. He went to the hospital ER a couple of days after he left the company due to some severe headaches. \n\nThat\u2019s when he\u2019s been told that he no longer has medical insurance. But the medical bills dated back when he was still in the company and should still be insured! \n\nHe\u2019s been having problems since late January and been getting a different diagnosis and different medications every doctors visit. But we still don\u2019t know what the problem is. He\u2019s been getting heart palpitations and pain everything he eats and I\u2019m getting worried for him. \n\nI advised him to get as much proof he has before getting a lawyer. (Money deposits, payroll) but that is all I can think about. We still don\u2019t know what exactly is wrong with him and it\u2019s very frustrating to see him still in pain. Any advice is welcomed thank you. ","title":"Should my boyfriend (m26) go through suing his old company for not giving him medical insurance he payed for?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570125849,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcultv\/landlord_hid_a_cockroach_infestation_from_us\/","id":"dcultv","body":"So to start off we are located in Ontario, Canada. Me and 3 other students rented out a place 20 minutes away from our university and we\u2019ve recently discovered a cockroach infestation couple weeks after we moved in. The house itself is detached but the basement area is closed off and rented to someone els (so 650$ rent x 4 people) which I think is a steal but it\u2019ll be relevant after. Anyways, my roommate constantly found cockroaches but didn\u2019t say anything for some reason until I found one and panicked, I texted my roommates and the landlord right away, I also texted the girl who lives in the basement (studio) and she mentioned that she has been having this problem for years and that he gave her paste to deal with it... she also has requested carpet replacement but he mentioned he didn\u2019t have enough funds to do anything. Anyways we got really pissed that he hid that from us before we signed the contract and he wants us to wait while \u201che finds the best approach to deal with\u201d he also tried to give us poison which we refused since we have a cat and it will be dangerous for her. I was wondering if he didn\u2019t disclose this at the beginning, is it a violation and what are my legal rights if I ever wanna cancel the contract and bring it to the landlord board! What are my options ?\n\nThanks","title":"Landlord hid a cockroach infestation from us ?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540327396,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qsxcb\/rental_deposit_and_pictures_wa_state\/","id":"9qsxcb","body":"Deposit: \n       I lease a room in an office building. I have been a tannate for 5 years. Originally I put down a deposit of $600. I paid rent on time every month. The building has changed owners a few times and the 3rd and most recent one plan on renovating the building in the near future. My lease is up at the end of November and I notified them that I will not be renewing the lease and asked about the deposit. They said that there wasn\u2019t any deposit transferred to them and it is up to me to contact the initial owner for the deposit. Do I have any rights here? I feel like it is their responsibility since they own the building but I am unsure of laws and my rights. \n\n\nShowings:  \n     They also said they will be doing showings of the office and asked about days they can show. I\u2019m alright with that and understand that people will want to see the space. \n\nPictures: \nThey informed me that they will be coming in to take pictures of my office to post in ads. I am uncomfortable with this. That office is my personal private office (I\u2019m a therapist). I don\u2019t think that it is fair for them to advertise using my personal business set up. Can they legally do this? I think they should use the pictures from the empty office from when I first moved in   I\u2019m at a loss of what to do. \n\nAny suggestions are greatly appreciated. \n\nTLDR: New landlord isn\u2019t giving me my original deposit back. ","title":"Rental deposit and pictures WA state","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571444209,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djwawf\/paintball_gun_laws\/","id":"djwawf","body":"Could someone educate me on paintball gun laws in California, please? My friend had her ex(a convicted felon) pull a paintball gun from his car and pointed at her face during an argument. He also pointed it at neighbor. Because of the chaos, it was reported to 911 as a gun, but later determined to be a paintball gun. \nThank you in advance.","title":"Paintball gun laws","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554092327,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7x80j\/tenants_who_are_getting_evicted_invited_more\/","id":"b7x80j","body":"Location is FL. My Grandfather is the owner of the apartment complex. We are at the point in this eviction where tomorrow (Mon 31st) we are going to have to start to file to get a court order of possession of the property so we can get a sheriff or Marshall over there to get them out. There was a 5 day eviction notice posted on the door last Monday.  (Had prior notices over this past month but this is the most recent)\nThere were originally 3 people on the lease. Their names were posted on the eviction notice. Over this past month, my husband and I have realized that those three people have invited others to live with them. We live right across from them in another unit in the complex. I\u2019m wondering what is going to happen with these random people they invited on their own to live with them when it comes time to really evict them? Will they also be made to leave? Or will we have to go through a whole other process to get these new people gone?\nTo me, this whole process has been ridiculous. We just want them out. \n\nToo add, I hate being narrow minded. So if someone is able to explain to me as to why these tenant laws lean towards protecting them completely and screwing the owner of the property over? That\u2019s most definitely what has happened here. \n\nBackstory: The original tenant (a very sweet old man who was friends with my grandfather) passed away and we gave his son who was living with him time to find somewhere else to go (he couldn\u2019t afford the rent, at all) but while we were giving him time to find a place, we allowed him to have another person live with him to help him out for a bit. It\u2019s been over 2 months and they have refused to leave and (obviously) haven\u2019t been paying anything for rent. Not that we expected them to do the latter. They expressed to us that they are homeless and have no where to go which is why I\u2019m sure they invited these others to live with them, I\u2019m sure they are paying them a little something for the room. \nMy husbands father is a lawyer (but he does mostly EP, transactions, and Probate) so he doesn\u2019t know this area of law too well. We\u2019ve been doing everything right and legal though because of him and who he hired to help us out. ","title":"Tenants who are getting evicted invited more people to live with them???","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539815943,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p3eut\/okay_i_am_still_considered_a_minor_and_my_parents\/","id":"9p3eut","body":"So, let me explain my situation, my father argues with my mother everyday due to her not doing something. My mother does everything, even take the trash to the dump. My mother argues with my dad due to him wasting all our money. All of it. So they are probably getting a divorce. I was wondering if I stayed with my mother will I keep the stuff they bought for me. On a side note my mother isn't allowed to work, so since my father doesn't even own our house (his brother does) Could his brother kick him out and let us stay.","title":"Okay, I am still considered a minor and my parents are probably going to get a divorce.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553970839,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7eebt\/company_was_bought_by_another_new_company_states\/","id":"b7eebt","body":"The company I work for was purchased by another company. The new company claims that they sent out a letter stating that I needed to reapply for health insurance with there company. I never received any letter stating this and my insurance has lapsed leaving me without any. When I called then they stated that they did send a letter to the address that have on file which is my address and when I told them that I never received any such letter there answer was well we sent it and now I have to wait for open enrollment which is not till January. I have a medical condition and without insurance I\u2019m unable to afford my medication. Is there anything i can do or am I screwed. I live in Ohio if that means anything  ","title":"Company was bought by another new company states they sent me a letter stating I needed to reapply for insurance I never received a letter what can I do","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551897107,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay24u7\/can_my_girlfriend_change_my_babies_last_name\/","id":"ay24u7","body":"Me and my girlfriend just had a baby on Monday (3\/4). She is 18 and living with her parents I am 19 and living on my own but in a different nearby city.\nWe decided on a name and for the baby to have my last name even though we aren't married yet.\nWhen her parents found out they flipped and started pressuring my gf to change it to theirs. I'm not sure why but ik that they don't like me. So my question is, can she change my babies last name without my consent? Or can she add her last name? Thanks in advance","title":"Can my girlfriend change my babies last name","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447025794,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s2d7m\/usage_of_tv_show_title_cardspromo\/","id":"3s2d7m","body":"I'm having a hard time finding information on whether I am allowed to use official promo images\/title cards or homemade screenshots to represent TV show reviews and searches on my website.\n\nEach show will have max 2 images on my site.\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated. I am in USA\/Arizona with my webserver located in Chicago, IL.\n\nAn example of how Wikipedia handles this situation (which doesn't make much sense to me):\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:South_Park.png","title":"Usage of TV Show title cards\/promo images\/screenshots on TV show review\/finder website.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1505173877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zjaik\/ms_wife_got_hurt_at_work_and_is_now_being\/","id":"6zjaik","body":"My wife works as a delivery driver for an auto parts store. A few weeks ago she was tasked with lifting and moving a stock order of 20 something rv batteries which are extremely heavy. During this she ended up throwing out her back from almost dropping a battery and catching it before it smashed her foot. She's been in pretty bad pain for the past week and ended up having to call in one day due to not being able to get out of bed. Today she asked a coworker to help her get up from a chair, said coworker pulled her up as hard as possible throwing her from the chair and reaggrivating and hurting her back far worse than it was originally. After this incident she went to her manager and told him what happened and discussed needing to go to the doctor. He told her that if she were to put in a workers comp claim to go to the doctor that there would be sever consequences for both her and the coworker. What are our options in dealing with this? And can she be punished for filing a workers comp claim?","title":"[MS] Wife got hurt at work and is now being threatened.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554352833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b98blm\/can_my_friends_take_pictures_and_record_me_when_i\/","id":"b98blm","body":"So whenever I\u2019m in school I\u2019m just doing whatever my friend just pulls out his phone and takes random weird pictures of me. I always tell him to stop but he says he\u2019s allowed to because it\u2019s a public area and it doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s kid on kid(were high schoolers) I don\u2019t think this is correct and it\u2019s super annoying and weird. Is he allowed to do this?","title":"Can my friends take pictures and record me when I don\u2019t consent?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552959915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2r9cb\/wa_university_miscounted_credits_claiming_i\/","id":"b2r9cb","body":"First off, I do not know if this is the appropriate subreddit for me to post in.\n\n​\n\nI graduated from a private University in Washington last summer. After being in contact with my advisor (to write my letter of recommendation) I went back to campus to get copies of my transcripts sent out along with notarized copies of my diploma to send out to different international grad schools. After paying for these to be sent out, I was on my way and started walking home. Around five minutes after I left, I received a call from an unknown number. I picked up and the was the office of the university I was just at. They informed me that I needed to come back to their office due to a mistake. When I came back there was the woman I had been working with and her supervisor there. They then informed me that despite walking at graduation I was six credits short of graduating. \n\n​\n\nThis was a huge surprise to me as not only was this never brought up to me before today, but I had finished \"all\" of my courses a quarter early and this was never brought to my attention. They then told me that they sent me an email explaining this to me earlier. I asked for a copy of the email and the brought one out for me. The email was sent three weeks after I had already walked at graduation. They then informed me that because I had not replied to their email or enrolled in any classes lately, I was no longer enrolled as a student. This means that my scholarships would not apply to tuition fees if I decided to enroll back at this University.\n\n​\n\nThe reason why I ended up six credits short was that upon review of my transcript from the first university I attended, my current university decided that there was a class I took at my first university that was too similar to a class I took at this university. They told me they could not count the class from the first university and that made me six credits short.\n\n​\n\nI do not know where to go from here. I do not want to have to pay full price to return to this university for one class that is needed fo me to graduate. They had my address and my phone number but choose to email me on my schools email account three weeks after I went through the graduation ceremony to inform me that I was one class short from graduating. I am confused to how my transfer credits not counting towards my graduation requirements were never brought up to me over my years at this university. Do I have any legal action towards the tuition that I will have to pay to attend part time for one quarter (around $12,000) or towards their lack of awareness making me wait a full calendar year before I can attend grad school?\n\n​","title":"[WA] University miscounted credits - claiming I actually did not graduate.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541438821,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ufiea\/preliminary_hearing_for_warrant_arrest\/","id":"9ufiea","body":"In the criminal justice system, the preliminary hearing is crucial for the judge to determine whether there is probable cause to believe that a) a crime was committed and b) if the defendant committed it. My question is, does the preliminary hearing take place if the defendant was arrested solely on his\/her warrant?","title":"Preliminary Hearing for warrant arrest","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507809939,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75wjb2\/ma_i_24f_work_at_a_hospital_put_in_my_6_weeks\/","id":"75wjb2","body":"I (24F) was injured in two car crashes about 3 years ago. I have some residual pain in my neck that often times flairs up and causes extreme migraines, shoulder pain, and radiating nerve pain down my arm. \n\nAbout a year ago I started a new job as an ultrasound tech at a Massachusetts hospital. I love what i do, but it hurts me when I have to scan significantly overweight patients. It hurts me so bad that I have often called out from work or had to leave work early because of the pain, sometimes leaving my coworkers with a long list of patients to scan. \n\nI decided I couldn't take the pain working on these adults so I am going back to school to get pediatric specialized to work on kids! \n\nI put in my 6 weeks notice about 4.5 weeks ago. They took it really well and understood. However, my neck has been BRUTAL these past two weeks and ive had to call out twice. Today they yelled at me and are becoming mad. Im wondering legally if I could just call today my last day and not return as it is not good for my health. The 24th is supposed to be my last day. Thanks for your help!\n\nTL;DR: I have neck pain from car crashes years ago. I work in a MA hospital as an ultrasound tech. The overweight patients hurt my neck so much ive had to call out from work several times. I put in my 6 weeks notice and am wondering legally if I can leave prior to that because I am in so much pain. ","title":"(MA) I (24F) work at a hospital, put in my 6 weeks notice, and want to leave prior to the date I originally gave them because I am in pain.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446275704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qxxit\/my_brother_is_strongly_considering_legally\/","id":"3qxxit","body":"Ill start by saying my knowledge of Australian law is incredibly limited.  My assumptions below are assumptions.  Feel free to school me, thats what Im here for.\n\n\nBackground: Our grandfather died several years ago and left a sizeable sum of money to both my brother and I directly (his only grandchildren) and to my father, who is retired and financially very comfortable.  My father decided that in addition to the 80k our grandfather left to each of us, he would add 170k for us both, making it 250k that we are each inheriting.\n\n\nThis is obviously a very substantial sum of money, and puts us in a position most 25-35 year olds can only dream of.  We live in Australia where housing affordability is an ever increasing issue, and is quite acute where we are specifically.  You cant buy a free standing house here for less than 400k.  Rapidly ascending house prices and record low interest rates means we we both decided that purchasing houses now would be the best use of the money, and our father is in full agreement there.  My brother and I have lived together for years in a rental, and his GF has been here for  about a month after her accommodation fell through (more on that below)\n\n\nMy issue is this: my brother has a habit of going head first, 100% full throttle into relationships and having them blowing up in his face spectacularly. For example, he bought his current GF a car within a month of dating.  Only a $1000 P.O.S, but still, who does that?  Anyway, his GF is european and staying here on a working visa.  She is not english so she doesnt get an easy visa.  Backpacker-type working visas in Australia have tight regulations on what work you can perform, and on work you HAVE to perform.  One of these is the requirement to perform agricultural work for X amount of time in X amount of years, I dont know the specifics.  She was working on a farm on the outskirts of the city but left (along with all the other backpacking coworkers) because the farmer was an old sleaze, and was sexually harassing one of the girls.  I dont know the specifics of that either, but she and her coworkers quit. This was reported to the authorities etc, but the outcome to that is apparently unlikely to change this issue: This has left her without sponsorship for her visa, and farms around here arent very close to the city, the one she was working for was rare in its proximity and produce, as most are 1-2 hours drive from our city and are dairy\\meat, and backpackers typically pick fruit etc, unskilled labor. Her working visa will expire in April 2016 without sponsorship.\n\n\nMy brother, in his aforementioned passion for committing 110% has been researching different visa types with her and he or they have landed upon a registered partnership\\intent to marry\\defacto registration as the easiest way to get her a different visa and allow her to stay and work.  My MASSIVE issue with this is that the law here puts civil partnerships\\defacto relationships on similar footing with marriage.  Division of assets, the whole deal.  Even iron clad pre-nuptuals are virtually useless under Australian law.  She is bringing no assets or money to the relationship.\n\n\nMy brother is being a total doormat and has her living with us (as her accommodation was with the farmer). The issue is her legal standing as a partner who is accustomed to a certain lifestyle is reinforced when she is living rent free with him.\n\n\nMy father is VERY non confrontational and the best I can do is hope he talks to my brother too. I know my father, I really dont think he will withdraw\\postpone his offer to pay 250k towards my brothers house no matter what I say. My mother was the backbone in dealing with my brother and would nip this in the bud, but sadly she has passed on.\n\n\nI am going to have my father put in writing to his lawyer that his 250k to me is a \"loan\", so that if in my own lifetime I find myself in a division of assets situation, I can say that 250k of my mortgage is a debt to my father, and not my money to give.  Thats the best I can hope for with my brother, too.\n\n\nAny advice you can give on the situation my brother is getting himself into would be helpful, maybe I can show this thread to him later.\n\n\n**tl;dr**: my brother is as good as marrying a girl hes known for 4 months when he is inheriting 250k that will not be protected at all in a break up.","title":"My brother is strongly considering legally registering his relationship with this gf of 4 months, and he is about to inherit 250k [Australia specific]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569533009,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9q6ov\/refuse_passports\/","id":"d9q6ov","body":"Can you refuse to sign passport for children so that your ex can\u2019t take your young kids abroad? \n\nNamely Indonesia.","title":"Refuse Passports","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570932867,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh4jy5\/will_my_dad_find_out_i_got_a_ticket_while_driving\/","id":"dh4jy5","body":"I got pulled over in my dad\u2019s car while going 79 in a 55.  The officer was really nice, but he did give me a ticket and said that he thinks I\u2019ll get traffic school.  \n\nWhat I\u2019m concerned about is that my dad will find out about the ticket because his insurance was the only one in the car. Will he find out since they ran his insurance and registration? Is there a way legally for him to avoid finding out?","title":"Will my dad find out I got a ticket while driving his car in TN?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507736594,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75pwc4\/need_advice_on_my_decision_to_charge_a_petty_thief\/","id":"75pwc4","body":"Sorry if I'm breaking any rules or messing up the format, but I'm doing my best to adhere to the rules here.\n\nLocation: Georgia. I live in an area where bicycle thieves run rampant. This is also an increasingly violent area, despite a strong presence of officers in the area. Several bicycles owned by my family members, including other outdoor recreational property such as skateboards and scooters have been stolen across the 7 years that I stayed here. The most recent theft was while I was working my shift. \n\nHowever, this time the thief (who was another worker at the warehouse who works through a temp. hiring agency) was seen stealing the bike by my manager AND was recorded by security cameras. Using this information, the thief was identified, called through his agency and warned that police were already called to the scene and he needs to return the bicycle or risk escalating the issue. Shortly after this, he returned with the bike. Now, the part we're all here for....\n\nWhen he arrived, I was asked if I wanted to press charges or not. After thinking it over for a few minutes, I decided that I would press charges, but now I am wondering if that was best? THis will be my 1st time going into the court system, and although I have very clear evidence against him, I'd like some opinions and advice on the following:\n\n* Does this seem worth the time? I said I would press charges because I wanted him to learn a hard lesson about theft and what the risks are, but to I've been told there will likely be court dates and other hoops to jump through to see this to the end.\n* Is the risk worth it? Like I said, this area is kinda rough. I don't much like the idea of getting jumped for putting this guy in the court system, so I don't know if my call was the right one in retrospect.\n* What should I expect? This is my first time doing any of this, so I'm a little lost as to where things go from here, and how quickly. The bicycle was only $120, so it's not a huge case or anything. But on the other hand, the evidence is absolute.\n\nThanks again for any advice and opinions!","title":"Need Advice on My Decision to Charge a \"Petty\" Thief","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568768907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5qc38\/if_a_meth_head_shows_up_on_a_property_im_renting\/","id":"d5qc38","body":"Would I get in legal trouble for defending myself or killing them in self defense?","title":"If a meth head shows up on a property I\u2019m renting and tries to attack me...","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570167616,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd34n7\/will_snooping_around_my_wifes_stuff_get_me_in\/","id":"dd34n7","body":"As the title suggests,  my wife recently confessed to having an affair and actually left me for that person.  Now I'm trying to get our divorce stuff started.  I was able to gain access to her accounts because she left them logged into my computers, and few others because she gave me the passwords a long time ago.  I was able to download a few screenshots and pictures with her and him.  I also was able to get her estimated location, by using the cell providers find my family feature.  Will i get in trouble for doing this?  I know there are such things as invasion of privacy.","title":"Will snooping around my wife's stuff get me in trouble, after she admitted to an affair","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553086237,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3bmda\/my_school_is_doing_anything_about_this_kid_and_is\/","id":"b3bmda","body":"Long story short, my girlfriend and other people have been being harassed by this kid for the past few weeks. We been following school guidelines and went to teachers and submitted reports about the kid and how he makes fun of mental disorders and disabilities. An example is how he was making fun of my girlfriend for her anxiety and her depression and says that \"she's just self diagnosing herself\"  even though she been going to the doctor's for her problems. The school has finally come back to us and said that none of the actions he done to my girlfriend or anyone else was not bullying. Can anyone help me see what to do??","title":"My school is doing anything about this kid and is saying the reports we made aren't bullying","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539641038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ohcmp\/poor_work_environment_and_health_issues\/","id":"9ohcmp","body":"I have been working at a machine shop for almost 11 months. While working there I have seen tons of things that would be huge violations at any other shop that care just a little about the people that work there. I live in Pennsylvania and I know I can get fired for no reason.\n\nSome examples would be the constant leaking roof cause mold and the scattering of buckets everywhere. Then there are buckets of stagnant water for days if not weeks. It isn't any one persons job to empty the water buckets either. My foreman seems not to care and they dont get emptied regularly. I have seen the drop ceiling fall because of new leaks or the titles just giving up. I've had to deburr parts with no safteys on a bench grinder and these parts are about .5 inches. The parts that we are currently deburring will cut into your fingers and make holes because we are told not to use tools to assist us in grabbing the small parts. The reason I have been given by my foreman and boss is that tools take too long to switch parts. We are given safety glasses but really no other PPE while working. We sometimes have to dip our parts I'm acid before they ship. I was given no real safety run down on anything. Just dont spill, get any on you or in you and try not to breath it. I do know what msds is and how to use it but ours is not up to date. All of the employees that are in the shop are always worried come pay day if our checks will clear. Our boss has given us pay checks and we are told not to cash them for a few days or a week while other employees are told to cash them right away. Also for 2 weeks he wrote us our checks at the end of the week and we couldn't cash them. The Monday after week 2 of not being able to cash our checks he shows up in a new to him car. He has done that a few times, write some sort of rubber check the come in with a new car or toys to rub in our face.\n\nMy boss also tends to hire his friends as well and they get treated better than anyone who was or is not his friend currently. We have the same job title but they dont have to do the same shit as some of the other employees. We are always told one thing and the complete opposite happens. We use to rotate people on deburr because it would kill your fingers and wrist but that has basically stopped when 2 new hires came on.\n\nI grew up in the metal trades and this is not normal. When you bring something up like a weird fungus growing on the walls, you get yelled at and made fun of for wanting a some what clean working environment by the owner of the company. I know the easiest thing to do is just go find a new job but I'm kind of stuck for the moment until I find something comparable in pay and hours. \n\nBut while I find a new job, is there anything I could do to get my boss's head out of his ass? Or What is the best way to report this while still being employed? I do have photos of just about everything and from what I'm told this is a company that wont fire you, they will torture you untill you quit. \n\nAny advice other than to find a new job would much appreciated.\n","title":"Poor work environment and health issues","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1549490590,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anw6pw\/oh_can_i_be_fired_for_not_going_to_work_at_a\/","id":"anw6pw","body":"I know working in an at will state I can be fired for almost any reason, I'm more concerned about if I'll have any legal recourse if I *am* fired.\n\nAbout 2 weeks ago I started working at [fast food restaurant]. I've stayed late repeatedly and picked up a few shifts and have been told they're pleased with my work\/work ethic. \n\nOn Saturday I had to call off an hour and a half before work (when I woke up) due to lower right abdominal pain. I went to the ER for possible appendicitis (CT scan was negative), got a note for work, and when I went in the next day (still in pain, waiting for imaging results from today so I still don't know the cause of abdominal pain) I apologized profusely and told them I would gladly cover a shift for anyone who had covered mine. I was also starting to develop a sore throat but I wasn't too worried about it. \n\nI worked Sun-Tues, progressively getting worse but not bad enough for a health code violation (temp was ~99.2F and coughing was weak\/infrequent). I also took initiative to bring in hand sanitizer and used it frequently (I'm a cashier) to be on the safe side. By Tuesday I had a pretty persistent cough and was called in for a 4hr shift on front register (our dining room stays extremely slow) so I came in. \n\nToday (Wed) I developed diarrhea. I called in to double check that I was scheduled to work tomorrow and when they said I was scheduled for morning I informed my manager that I wouldn't be able to come in cuz I had diarrhea. My manager told me to wait and see how I feel in the morning and I pointed out that diarrhea is supposed to be a mandatory 48hrs without symptoms. She snapped back with \"Ok thanks\" and hung up (they were busy so I don't take it too personally). \n\nNow I'm concerned about losing my job for upholding health code and wondering if I would have any recourse if I get fired (either reinstatement or unemployment, which I doubt because I've only been there 2 weeks). My managers and coworkers have seen my health decline over the last few days so it's not like they can say I'm lying\/faking. Is there anything I can\/should do to protect myself? I actually really like this job and don't want to lose it just because of poorly timed health issues and taking the health code\/safety seriously.","title":"(OH) Can I be fired for not going to work at a restaurant when I have diarrhea?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553797784,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6mfaj\/lease_clause_abuse\/","id":"b6mfaj","body":"Hi, first time posting here. I live in an apartment complex in Texas owned by a company. They've recently changed their policy on parking, and I'm trying to find out if that is justifiable based on their description in the agreement.\n\nThe issue is that I have five cars (all registered and in good appearance and functioning order, all driven regularly) and the apartment was well aware of that fact and had all the plates recorded, but now they have changed their parking policy to only allow two vehicles (1 per lessee; my fiance and I live together).\n\nWhen I signed the lease, the only section referring to parking was this [section](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/QYlcEpB). It doesn't state anything about how many cars we're allowed to have. I did not sign any other document since moving in.\n\nI'm currently looking for a lawyer to help translate this or bring some light to the situation but in the mean time I figured I would ask here. Thank you in advance.","title":"Lease clause abuse","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553720639,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b69qh5\/sca_and_fringe_benefits\/","id":"b69qh5","body":"My employer pays 4.27 an hour for SCA benefits as I am an hourly employee. I do not receive any insurance benefits from the company because I am retired and have Tricare for insurance.  The company stated that I would receive the money unspent for health and welfare in PTO at the end of the CY or if I quit or am terminated. \n\nI received a spreadsheet of data for how they reached the PTO compensation and there is a section for \"fringe benefits\" that has been deducted in the calculation. Further inspection shows that the 401k matching I receive from the company is a part of the fringe benefits and they are deducting it from my health and welfare allowance. \n\nIs this what is supposed to happen or are they supposed to pay me out the full amount? If so, why can they deduct the 401k match from my health and welfare allowance?\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"SCA and Fringe Benefits","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541797625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9voahr\/lost_hearing_in_an_ear_at_pep_rally\/","id":"9voahr","body":"I went to a school pep rally and my ear was blasted with music the entire hour that the rally had gone on for...  in the end I left with complete temporary deafness in both ears and had a permanent deafness in my right ear.\n\nCan I sue?\n\nI am 13 if that helps at all.\n\nTL;DR I lost all hearing in an ear at a pep rally ","title":"Lost hearing in an ear at pep rally","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1507071152,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/744331\/speeding_ticket_better_to_plead_not_guilty_or\/","id":"744331","body":"Title pretty much says it all, from Pennsylvania, got a ticket in upstate NY. 80 in a 65. No prior tickets or charges. I don't want the points, would it be better to plead not guilty and attend court or fill out the available \"Application for Reduction of Charges\" which is through the DA office of the county?","title":"Speeding ticket, better to plead not guilty or fill out a \"Application for Reduction of Charges\"?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554396167,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9f4lz\/depreciation_after_car_accident\/","id":"b9f4lz","body":"Location : Texas \n\nVehicle: 2017 Chevy Silverado 30k miles\n\nI was involved in a car accident where the other party was at fault, they will be handling repairs to the vehicle. I inquired about depreciation reimbursement due to the fact an accident will be reported on the car fax now (was planning on selling soon). Their insurance agent says I have to get an official assessment (about $200 my payment) after the vehicle is completely repaired and it will be a separate claim. Would like to know if this claim is even worth pursuing? Also, to see if the information he has given is correct. \n\nThanks in advanced!","title":"Depreciation after car accident.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541308681,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u144i\/hays_county_tx_my_wife_attempted_suicide_i_saved\/","id":"9u144i","body":"I'm remarried with sole-custody from a previous marriage. My current wife recently caught me having an affair, and needless to say I feel terrible about it. In December 2017 she woke me to show me her evidence. The interrogation grew intense and she attacked me. She assaulted me but ended up hurting herself. She came at me with a lead pipe, but I successfully defended myself with only a few scrapes and bruises. She is okay too but had visible markings that were all self-inflicted. She looked battered, but it was by her own hand. She slammed her head into walls and furniture, cut herself and even attempted her own life by using an electrical cord as a noose. She was serious about taking her own life. I left the house to cool off as I had done in previous fights, and I returned to her scraping her toes on the carpet as she lost consciousness. I ran to her and supported her weight while crying out to my mother who had arrived after I called for her to get me out of there. After my wife came to; she was quiet and calm. I knew her family was on the way so I left. \n\n   \n \n\nAfter I left my wife's anxiety flared back up. She called the police and told them that I didn't get violent with her at all in her written statement, a statement that she's shown me, but the police pursued the case and filed charges as if she told then I beat her. She even told the EMTs about attempting her own life and other ideas of self-harm. She was held against her will for psychological evaluation and treatment in a Crisis Stabilization Unit where she was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder. I visited her in the hospital the very next day. No one kicked me out or said I couldn't be there. The nurses saw that I clearly was not a threat. She was so afraid to be alone, and even though I had finals in that same week I stayed with her. I was called by the Sheriff's office and informed that I had a warrant for my arrest. A week later the police picked me up from our home and I was charged with 2 counts. 1 misdemeanor and 1 felony assault charge; impeding and airway. It's basically an attempted murder charge. The bail was set at $33,000. My parents believing in my innocence paid the $3,300 bond but could not afford an attorney for me. A public defender was appointed for the felony case but the county said that no attorney would be appointed for my misdemeanor. -- Question 1: Why am I not afforded an attorney for the misdemeanor? \n\nIn the initial court hearings, we've had two of them now, I was hoping to go with my wife as my star witness but the prosecutor would only reset the case because they didn't have time to interview my wife beforehand. My public defender hasn't done a thing. He hasn't even spoken to the prosecutor assigned to my case. I am innocent and need speedy justice. I have been turned down by every place I have applied to. I graduated from college in August, but can't find work anywhere. Law enforcement has nothing from my wife that states I assaulted her. In fact, they have the opposite. I also found out from a court administrator that I won't get a setting for trial for an extended period of time due to back-log. She even told me that people in jail have settings as far out as June, 2019. This has got to be unconstitutional. I cannot make a living and no one in Hays County Texas seems to care about the injustice their system has handed down to me. I have student loans that are going to need repayment starting in 3 months, but they have effectively taken my right to work away. \n\nI have never hit a woman. In fact, I am the one who has been abused and battered. With things were getting rocky earlier in the school year; I had moved my daughter into my parents house where she could have peace. I didn't like it but I don't want to throw my marriage away either. While I agree that some of what happened is my fault, because of cheating, I don't think that I deserve to be facing charges that I didn't commit and that will surely ruin my life and destroy everything that I have worked for. My wife agrees with me on this. \n\n   \n \n\nMy wife has been in contact with victim services and the arresting officer gave her his business card telling her to call if she remembered anything or if she needed anything. She called and emailed the officer stating that I didn't do any of what is accused of me, and that it would be unjust for me to be prosecuted for these charges, but the officer gives no response and refuses to call her back. My wife has also been in contact with Victim's Services. The office that is supposed to help victims find resources, get back on their feet and ensure their protection. The office set up a meeting after my wife expressed to them that they are doing more damage to her by pursuing these charges against me. In the meeting with victim services; the prosecutor had no intentions of getting the truth, but instead told my wife that he didn't believe her story of self-harm and said that he thought I was manipulating her to arrange the meeting and was coercing her to write the and call the officer. \n\nWe moved to Washington State because I had work lined up with the Social Security Office and the Internal Revenue Service. I was supposed to have my choice and after Texas' Legal System had been so unfair to me, we decided to leave Texas. My wife's credit is terrible and mine is okay, but with only her income and a pending felony on my record, housing is impossible to come by. We are both now homeless because I can't find work or be included on any housing applications, and with her bad renter's history she doesn't qualify on her own. She has a job with the United States Postal Service, a job that pays very well and allows for a lot of overtime. She works all the time but because of an episode of mania that occurred last December, an episode where I actually saved her life, I am being prosecuted for a violent crime I didn't commit and we are both homeless. The day-to-day is rough and all due to this case against me and no one, not even my court appointed attorney seems to have any sense of urgency. I called my attorney 3 times this last week and every time I call he tells me call back in a couple days. He did tell me that the prosecutor assigned to my case was a young guy looking to make a name for himself. I guess that means he will, without hesitation, pursue charges with absolutely no evidence. It's no wonder their courts are back-logged. They keep resetting the misdemeanor case where I am forced to represent myself, and I have yet to be indicted for the felony charge. \n\nSo these are my questions: \n\n1) Why do I not get an attorney for the Misdemeanor? I thought I was constitutionally guaranteed an attorney should I not be able to afford my own. \n\n2) Why is it that I cannot get my court appointed attorney to do anything? Can I sue him? He has been totally unprofessional and even laughed at me when I told him that my wife had an episode of mania. He wouldn't answer my phone calls for several weeks until I finally went back to the courthouse to ask about a different attorney. The courts just gave me his phone number, the same phone number that I had been calling. I told them it was the number I already had and so they called him while I was there in office. Surprisingly, he answered when they called, and probably only because he recognized the courthouses number. He still hasn't served the state with discovery and so I still have no idea what they could possibly be going off of to pursue these charges. All I have seen are written statements from my wife that clear my name. \n\n3) Can I sue the arresting officer? He doesn't answer my wife's calls or emails. He may have falsified documents to obtain an arrest warrant. \n\n4) Can Hays County be Sued? Their Criminal Justice Policy is unconstitutional and illegal. If their inmates are not seeing trial dates until June of 2019, then how long will I have to wait? \n\n5) Can I sue the Prosecutor? \n\n   \n \n\nI need Justice. How can I Re-coup damages? If I can sue any of these entities; where do I look for an attorney who will work Pro-bono? ","title":"Hays County, TX: My Wife Attempted Suicide; I Saved Her, and Now I Am Charged With Felony Assault!!","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571633467,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkvg02\/falsely_accused_and_bullying_in_the_work\/","id":"dkvg02","body":"Hello, I am seeking advice on this situation. I work in a small food chain place located in the southern U.S. I don\u2019t want to be to specific. Also, I don\u2019t want to share any names. \n\nThe problem started when a manager changed my schedule without my knowledge or approval. Which, I think can get you in a lot of trouble.  Not only that but, they decided to only schedule me for on two days. Usually, I have at least 4 days working and 3 days off. I am a college student with a phone bill and car note as well in charge of my own necessities. \n\nThey also like to pick on certain employees, one person even quit because of it. That person later came back but, is still being picked on. Not only that but, i feel like she has being picking on me as well.  I have also been accused of something I have but done. I have not received or signed any write ups for the time I\u2019ve been working there. The advice I got from others is to just let them fire me. I do my job right and I take it serious. That\u2019s just the work ethic that was instilled in me from a young age. \n\nWhen it comes to certain things, I don\u2019t know the proper people I should notify. When I ask questions, no one seems to know how to answer or help. So basically, what do I need to do to file a report for work place bullying and changing my hours without my consent. \n\nI also didn\u2019t know how I should tag this.","title":"Falsely accused and bullying in the work environment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538995623,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mdstd\/i_have_heart_problems_and_my_college_still\/","id":"9mdstd","body":"I have hypothalamic syndrome that causes heart pains and panic attacks at the same time as pains go down, I have all the documents about it, but my college still requires me to do everything other kids do at phys. ed.\n\nI'm currently sitting in the dressing room and I got screamed at for \"not attending the lessons\" when in reality they just mark me as if I wasn't on the lesson so that I won't \"whine\" about my heart problems\n\nIts kinda ironic considering that its a medical college\n\nAlso I'm in Russia","title":"I have heart problems and my college still requires me to do phys. ed.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554698426,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bapgvv\/executive_assistant_contract\/","id":"bapgvv","body":"My new boss has asked me to create a contract so that I can formally work for him. I'm fairly new at this, so I'd like to have all my bases covered for the contract. What do I need to make sure I have the best contract possible, and what format should I use to do it? I will be working for him in an executive assistant capacity, but it's fairly vague as to what I'll be doing other than helping him in his day to day business. Is there a simple template I can use? ","title":"Executive Assistant Contract","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409582618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f67g8\/speed_violation_36_over_the_speed_limit_91_on_a_55\/","id":"2f67g8","body":"This happened in Georgia.\n\nSo I just got a speeding ticket...my second one to be honest. My first ticket I paid off, I went 16 over the limit.\n\nI'm not sure what will happen to me this time around. Luckily, I had a job over the summer so I managed to pay it off, but I dropped the ball fucking hard this time. It was just a long, straight fucking highway 9 in the morning going back to campus. God damn it..\n\nWhat are the consequences for this traffic violation? I know it's reckless driving so...I'm aware the insane cost of the ticket and further consequences such as license probation and community service but I don't know how to go about doing all of this. \n\nAppreciate the help, and thankfully the officer was nice too. Although he made me take a breathalyzer test lol.\n\n\n","title":"Speed Violation: 36 over the speed limit. 91 on a 55","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542209228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x11iw\/my_university_just_had_an_armed_robbery_occur_on\/","id":"9x11iw","body":"I\u2019m not sure if this is the right place to post but I don\u2019t know where else to go. So, I go to a University in the U.S. This morning I received a text from the school that two men with firearms had just robbed one of the main building\u2019s ATMS. I thought since they had firearms the school would be on lock down or classes would be canceled because the suspects haven\u2019t been apprehended. But it\u2019s classes as usual which I find kind of odd. The school answered my text and said to just be \u201cvigilant.\u201d Shouldn\u2019t a university be in lock down when firearms are on campus? Especially because of all the shootings as of lately. Just wondering if my uni is handling it the right way. I don\u2019t know if I should go to class but we\u2019ll see. Just curious if this is how things like armed robberies are normally handled. Thanks for the info you guys may have. ","title":"My university just had an armed robbery occur on campus and I\u2019m not sure they\u2019re handling it the right way.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1444783958,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ontf9\/apartment_foreclosed_looks_like_building_will_be\/","id":"3ontf9","body":"So I'm trying to help my mom out of a situation without having to come up with the damage deposit myself. The situation is, the landlord gave the property back to the mortgage company. In all likelyhood, the building will be condemned. My mom has found a place to move to for October 31st. In good time, because they found out of control black mold this weekend in the basement while packing their things. But she is trying to get her damage deposit transferred. I told her to contact the rentalsman directly, however she reported back that it's now the mortgage company's responsibility to sign off on the transfer. The landlord won't do anything to help. There has been absolutely no damage to the apartment and she was told she can't directly contact the mortgage company. What can she do? I'll probably call the rentalsman myself soon. Nothing on their website has this particular scenario. Though I can't believe all the renters from this building are out their damage deposits because of foreclosure. It just doesn't seem fair t the renters. Could that happen?","title":"Apartment Foreclosed, looks like building will be condemned. Why can't I get the damage deposit transferred? [Canada]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569862244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbefo2\/constantly_receiving_death_threats_from_my\/","id":"dbefo2","body":"Hi. \n\nA couple days ago I was picking up my fianc\u00e9es kids from their dads house and he has a temper. I was talking to him and telling him how I felt about how he treated his kids. He was just being a sarcastic asshole the whole time. I ended up pushing him. Then he ended up beating the shit out of me in his front yard. He then told me if I ever touched him on his property again he will kill me. My fianc\u00e9 then broke up with me because I was too violent. Which made me proceed to go back to his house and attempt to fight him again and then get the shit beat out of me again and a gun pointed in my face by his wife. \n\nHe is now calling and texting me everyday telling me that he is going to find me and kill me for this. I live in Wisconsin. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s actually going to attempt to kill me. But I do think he is going to get physical again. What can I do here legally? They didn\u2019t call the police either time I went to his house. So if I call them I will probably go to jail for assault and maybe forced entry as his wife answered the door the second time and I forced myself by her to get to him inside. Or would I? Would his death threats over rule my assault? What can I do?","title":"Constantly receiving death threats from my ex-fianc\u00e9e ex.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446247135,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qwk70\/can_i_legally_refuse_to_serve_women_at_a_barclub\/","id":"3qwk70","body":"PLEASE DO NOT DERAIL AND TURN THIS POST INTO A SHITPOST ABOUT SEXISM OR PATRIARCHY.\n\nWisconsin, USA\n\nHypothetical question, I am thinking about my future, and wanted to get a sports bar\/ video game hangout club mix thing, as a safe social club for men to be men, but I want to know whether or not it is allowed for me to refuse to allow women into the establishment.\n\nThe reason I feel I would want this is because I believe men act more like themselves, when around other male friends, rather then trying to one up eachother to impress a female. \n\n\nAgain, please do not derail the thread, dont complain that you dont like this sort of thing, or that its sexist and misogynistic. Its merrily a basic framework thats inside my head.\n\nThanks ahead of time :)","title":"Can I legally refuse to serve women at a bar\/club?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554761406,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bazvok\/renters_insurance_charges\/","id":"bazvok","body":"hi all, this is probably a dumb question but that's why I'm the local collegiate idiot. \n\nTo sum it up, I lived at this apartment complex for a year, then renewed for the next year as they came under new management; sent the insurance policy updates to our family's agent to make sure I was still covered\/didn't have to pay for their default insurance policy after they charged me in what I thought was a momentary issue; and (true to idiocy) didn't think much of it until recently as charges from the apartment complex's insurance haven't stopped. (also a side note: where I live, apartments can require you to have insurance and mine defaults you to their policy if you don't have one, idk if that's universal but it applies here)\n\nThere have been some issues regarding what's covered in my policy, and a bit of a back-and-forth between multiple representatives concerning the actual wordage of the insurance policy; meanwhile, the charges on my account have accumulated. I've paid the rent and utility charges on time but left the specific insurance amount untouched, but now it's also accruing late fees. Recently, though, they said that the charges incurred for insurance while they don't have the verified policy on file would be owed.\n\nMy question is, can they demand I pay for their insurance charges if I show proof of (proper) insurance through the start of the lease? My understanding (read: hope) is that if I have proof I've had insurance, then the insurance payments to them are unnecessary\/void, and should be wiped clean; but there's a part of me thinking it's definitely\/probably not that easy due to them having it filed or not.\n\nIt's a bit long-winded so sorry if it's confusing, and also sorry if I'm using the term 'insurance' where I should use 'liability' or otherwise, but basically- once I show them approved insurance (which I \\*have\\*, it's just a matter of the right phrasing on the paper, which the agent's working on), can they still charge me for prior fees through them?","title":"Renter's Insurance Charges","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540933573,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ss2pp\/verbal_agreement_project_for_acquaintance_gone\/","id":"9ss2pp","body":"Long story; I do woodworking in my spare time. Friend of a friend wants me to do a \"River Table\" dining table. It's huge, something I haven't done before, so I offer to do it \"materials only\", not charging them for labor or marking anything up. After the first big pour (hours after), some of the epoxy leaked out. Big mess on the cement floor of their garage, which aside from the lost material isn't a big deal.   \n\n\nThat said, they want me to pay for the lost material. Out of pocket. There was nothing (more) I could've done to prevent it, and it's probably about $300 to maybe $500 max (if it is I probably mis-calculated how much I needed to begin with), and they want me to finish the table and come out of pocket however much I need to do so.   \n\n\nI really don't care if they hate me after this is over so I'm not worried about hurting feelings, but they're threatening with a lawsuit if I don't come forward and \"hold up my end of the bargain\".   \n\n\nWe're in Maryland if that matters at all.  \n\n\nA.) It's a verbal agreement with no witnesses  \nB.) No written trace of me ever saying I'd pay for anything or even the details of the agreement. \n\nC.) It would probably cost them more in attorney's fees to attempt a lawsuit than it would to just pay for the epoxy they need.   \n\n\nWhat are my options\/What should I do? ","title":"Verbal Agreement - Project for acquaintance gone wrong.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1503867012,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6weojl\/my_sons_father_living_with_other_woman_while_our\/","id":"6weojl","body":"Let me first start out by saying I have legal custody. I am wondering what I can do and if this constitutes me getting more custody. Or at least seeing my son more.\nMy son was living with his father and his stepmother. They have recently separated and my son is still living in the house. His father has moved out and refuses to speak to me or my family.  That, the no communication part has been going on for years. No communication. \n\nMy son is still there living with his step mother. \nMy son is now currently living with someone who has no legal ties to him. ?\n\nWe did have a court order but he refused to abide by it. Unless it helps him in some way.\n\n I live out of state now and i want to see my son more and need to know what to do. We have gone to court before in massachusetts. I am asking if I can file here in California and send it to Massachusetts then wait for the court date? Not really sure how that works.\n\nupdate- I found out today that my sons father is now moving in with another woman who has 3 children. He's still technically married. He told my son he's moving in there too.\n\nHe told my son not to tell me anything that was going on for fear I would take him to court.  My son has a phone that his father takes away from him when he's with my family. He also looks at his text messages so my son was afraid to text me to tell me what was going on. The fact my child has to hide our conversations breaks my heart. \n\nMy son says he is okay with the situation.  I am not. He says he wants to visit me but his father refuses to let him until he's 18. I don't think that's legal? My son is now 13 and I was also wondering if he can speak for himself in court if needed? I just want my son to be happy. I am just concerned with the living situation. I also just want to see him more and be more apart of his life. I go back home as much as I can to see him but I'd like him to see California. His father makes everything impossible and I don't want to start any drama I just want to see my son more and make sure he is happy. Please any advice will be helpful.","title":"MY SONS FATHER LIVING WITH OTHER WOMAN WHILE OUR SON IS WITH HIS EXWIFE","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445921238,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qdq6h\/my_16_year_old_niece_has_been_molested_since_she\/","id":"3qdq6h","body":"My wife recently found out that our 16 year old niece has been being molested by her step-father since she was in the 5th grade. He was reported once before, but incident and investigation was mis-handled and nothing came of the investigation. Her mother is currently ill, waiting on a kidney transplant and only has income from disability. Thus far, she seems more concerned with getting revenge on her husband for cheating on her than in her daughter's safety and well being. My wife and I feel that the only way to ensure the safety of our niece would be to file for guardianship of our niece, at least for as long as necessary; or until the husband moves out. The question we have is: I was convicted of robbery (pc 211.5(b) in 1994, paroled in 1995, and discharged my parole in 1996. Will this conviction prevent her\/us from bringing her into our home and caring for her? Any information on how we can get around this would be huge. The husband is a manipulative SOB, who karma will eventually get. We want our nice to be safe and not have to worry about this man hurting\/taking advantage of her again.\nMy niece lives in Santa Clara County, we live in Sacramento County.","title":"My 16 year old niece has been molested since she was 10. I have a felony on my record. Can my wife still be her guardian? Can she move in with us?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555466859,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be2d1m\/grandmothers_assets\/","id":"be2d1m","body":"(OH) My grandmother died at the end of 2012 and it has just recently come to light that my aunt is sitting on large sums of money from her death. All life Insurance polices were all divided amongstmy father and his siblings after funeral was paid off. However, my aunt was listed as secondary on several of Grandma\u2019s checking and savings accounts, some with check writing permission, others with not. We thought all the money was disbursed but my aunt has let it leak that she is sitting on, and possibly quite literally, cash from her death that she\u2019s \u201cattempting to hide\u201d as she also receives state\/federal aide. It\u2019s been states that she\u2019s set for the rest of her life, to whatever extent that means.\n\nWhat, if anything, could we do to get this money to my father and other sister? \n\nIn order to prove that it was Grandma\u2019s earnings, I\u2019m sure we\u2019d need bank statements but how do we even go about getting those? \n\nI should also note that my dad lives in another state. TIA!","title":"Grandmother's assets","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1409784657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fegda\/usanj_auto_impound_issue_how_to_minimize_my\/","id":"2fegda","body":"MFWTK - Somerset County, NJ. (not sure if flair should be parking or business law?) \n\nOwner left a car with a friend for repairs while owner was out of State for >4 weeks.    Friend is a recovering addict,  only working intermittently, renting space in a local repair shop.    \n\nMechanic finished the work, and had a crisis - checked himself back into rehab.   He left the car at the shop where he was renting space, and (not clear here) someone moved the car out of shop and on to local street. \n\nPolice towed car,  local regs require parking permit for certain streets. \n\nOwner didn't expect to collect car until he returned - extended stay for +2 weeks, leaving messages for mechanic.  Mechanic didn't acknowledge - he was in rehab with no cell phone;  did communicate as soon as he was able. \n\nPolice were less than helpful until I drove owner to local precinct to file car theft report.  The desk officer said no tickets were outstanding, but car was definitely towed for parking permit.  (no paperwork given)\n\nMy advice to owner was basically - \n\n   - you gave the car to friend, and he didn't prevent it from being parked illegally.    You might have a thin argument against mechanic.. but not likely to do much, especially since he is still in\/out of rehab. \n\n   - talk to tower\/storage yard.   Costs are accumulating, $150 + $35\/day x 31 days and counting... (over $1k already)    Car was totaled through insurance from hurricane damage 2 yrs ago, so book\/salvage value is probably $500-$1000.   Owner was obviously still using the car, even after the storm damage. \n\n   - If owner wants car back, offer a compromise to tower\/storage.  Owner is broke and unemployed - nothing for any lawsuit to take.   If the tower keeps the car, they need to get title from a court then auction the car.     Owner could offer $500-$600 or so in compromise - less than the total towing + storage,  but more than the auto is likely to bring in auction, especially after extra costs and time. \n\nDoes this sound right?   Flaws in my idea or better course of action for owner?   Any advice appreciated- thanks \/r\/legaladvice. \n","title":"USA-NJ Auto impound issue, how to minimize my expenses?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552445777,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0gwk0\/how_do_i_help_my_dad_file_for_custody_of_my\/","id":"b0gwk0","body":"My and my family live in Georgia.\n\n My parents relationship has never been good my moms always wanted a divorce but my dad has tried to make it work. My mom is emotionallly and verbally abusive but unfortunately thats not on record. Whst is on record is how 15 yrs ago my father was \"Physically abusive\" but he hasn't hit me since I was 7.\n\nRecently as of 3 days ago my mom came home one nightband told us to back our bags. I said I wasn't going since I'm 20 now. My mom left with both my siblings ( under the age of 18) before my father arrived home. \nToday we found out she withdrew a couple thousand from their joint account. She refuses to tell us where their staying and now has stopped answering calls.\n\nHow should my dad go about getting full custody of my siblings?\n\nIs mom even legally allowed to runaway with them?\n","title":"How do I help my dad file for custody of my younger siblings","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570490746,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dernai\/a_female_classmate_sent_nudes_to_a_male_classmate\/","id":"dernai","body":"Sorry if this is the wrong sub, I'm not really sure what to do.\n\nOne of my friends at my middle school received nudes from a female classmate (without asking, he just got them) and he asked me to consult legal advice about what he should do. Both of them are under 18 and have been good friends, and this was completely unwarranted. he wants to know if he can be arrested for having the pictures. Will he be arrested or get in any trouble for having the pictures? And is there any way to deal with this as to not ruin the female's reputation? I can get more information if needed.","title":"A female classmate sent nudes to a male classmate. What do I do? (California)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1505512487,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70d1we\/my_apartment_told_me_something_that_contradicts\/","id":"70d1we","body":"I have a voice mail from my apartments telling me I had to sign my notice to vacate by a certain date- Aug 15th- or I wouldn't get my deposit back. I signed Aug 11th and moved out Aug 28th . Now they won't give me my deposit or pet deposit back because I didn't give 30 days even though the apartments told me that if I signed it by Aug 15th I would still get my deposit. Is what they said legally binding?\n\nOklahoma city county, OK\n\nEdit: Tried to explain the situation better","title":"My apartment told me something that contradicts the lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508085765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76k0ub\/i_received_a_nevada_speeding_ticket_but_i_have_a\/","id":"76k0ub","body":"I've contacted the CA DMV, NV DMW, traffic schools, and the NV court for help with this and here is the information I've been given.  If the point gets to my CA license, it will stay there for 39 months and doing CA traffic school won't help to remove it.  My advice has been to get the ticket dismissed (I've been told to pay the fine and then ask the judge if I can do traffic school so the points don't get to my CA license).  But Nevada doesn't let me complete traffic school until the ticket has been processed otherwise traffic school will go towards removing the nonexistent points that I have.  I don't know exactly when the point would be transferred to my CA license so I'm worried that the point will get processed in NV and sent to CA before I can do the NV traffic school.  I live in CA so it's not feasible for me to go to my court date in NV to talk to the judge but I can't seem to get a straight answer from the court every time I call.  I really appreciate any help\/advice that anyone has, thank you!","title":"I received a Nevada speeding ticket but I have a California license; how do I avoid getting points on my CA license and my insurance increasing?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506467745,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72oa20\/michigan_being_falsely_accused_online_for\/","id":"72oa20","body":"I am going through a situation and would like some advice on what I should do.\nI am an amateur model. I had just recently started my modeling career in 2015. Through this I have met many people including a once good \"friend\". Together we have done many shoots and together have attempted to boost my modeling career and their photography career. Things just this year have gotten rocky. I am extremely active online in my personal accounts, but not so much on my modeling page and social media accounts. I have this friend added on all accounts. Everyone recently knows of the tension growing recently especially due to Charlottesville. I personally am not a super political person, we all have a general idea on a stance. I obliviously do not wanna get political on this post but I had shared my opinion against certain groups that have emerged as of recent. (Specifically Antifa.) I clearly only casually make reference if something of context is brought up through news and posts. Probably once every couple months. I don't wanna get into exact details about my stance but this friend immediately took to it that I was a racist and is claiming now I am a Nazi. I not once severely bashed on the group but I had offered criticism on their tactics and effectivness. I never said \"I hate these people!!! These people sux lol!!' Just because I do not agree with that group does NOT mean I agree with the other.(I am a person of color if that means anything.)\nThis friend was upset that i didn't agree with his political stance on this group he started to dissociate himself from me. That is fine and I understand. This was months ago.\nJust yesterday he asked me to no longer use any of his photos or mention his business in anything I do. I can agree with that too. They are his photos and that is his business. Later I discovered he had unfriended me and he had made a public post about me on his personal Facebook and his business one saying that I was an Alt-Righter and a White supremacist. The accusations are shocking because I never post super politically unless something happens that riles me up and it is always constructive criticism. (I literally just post pictures of my pets and memes. Honestly, I do not know how I can provide context of how I am. By no means am I insane with politics at all, literally 2% of my post are political but one riled him up when I spoke about this group.)\n\nHere are more of my questions specifically...\nIn the public posts he did not mention my name specifically but I feel he is clearly telling people who ask him on his posts. I have noticed his friends are unfriending me, losing followers, and I am starting to be removed from Facebook modeling groups all since this post yesterday. I just do not have proof of obliviously him specifically mentioning my name but I feel it through context.\nI honest to god have never said anything negative, racist, or bad.\n\nThis is his political opinion because I did not agree with him. but now he is making mention of me negatively and I can see it hurting my career.\n\nI am going to several events this coming month that he will be attending as well. I worry because of the tendencies some of these people get in these groups. His friends claim to be part of this group. I worry that I will be publicly attacked.\n\nCan I get general advice?\nIs there anything i can do to protect myself until when and if I take legal action.\n\nI am honestly sorry if this is my fault which it probably is.\n\nthank you.","title":"[Michigan] Being Falsely Accused Online for Something, Business Made a Post About Me, Putting My Career in Jeopardy. (Is this Defamation?)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570461020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dekr1m\/dc_am_a_federal_employee_working_with_a\/","id":"dekr1m","body":"I am a federal employee who manages several contracts in the United States. On one contract, a whistleblower came forward to me with allegations of possible misconduct by their employer. I arranged a call between the whistleblower and our OIG, and OIG is deciding whether to pursue the case. If they do, I will obviously be a witness, and if they don't it will be up to my agency how to proceed. I disclosed the basic facts of the case to my supervisor as well as that I used my personal email to communicate with the whistleblower, which is a fire-able offense, and if the investigation proceeds it also opens up my personal email to possible investigation.\n\nQuestions: \n\n1) At what point should I get a lawyer?\n\n2) My boss is upset that I didn't come straight to him when I heard about possible misconduct. Did I have any legal obligation to bring him in before going to the OIG, and is it permissible for him to ding me on my performance review for not making him aware of the issue?\n\n3) In future communications with the contractor who may be investigation I plan on recording all communications. Both parties are in one-party consent states. Are there any possible issues with this because I am a fed?","title":"[DC] Am a federal employee working with a non-federal whistleblower, what do I need to do to protect myself?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504293015,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xgqeg\/speeding_ticket_fight_or_pay_minnesota\/","id":"6xgqeg","body":"I was in a construction zone but didn't realize it.  The entire highway has the orange barrels, but it's a 6-or-so mile area, with the majority of it not actively being worked on.  I felt like I was primarily going with the speed of traffic, about 65 in what's normally a 60 zone, but due to the construction, it was dropped down to 50.  \n\nA State Trooper pulled me over, asked if I knew how fast I was going, and I replied 65.  He informed me that the construction zone was active and went back to his vehicle.  When he came back he thanked me for being honest and gave me this deal: \n  - 9 miles over (50 in a 59) \n  - reduced to a regular zone so I wouldn't have to worry about the additional fee associated with the construction zone. \n\nWhile I am grateful, I was also told that I should fight this to avoid it going on my record.  Is that something that I should fight since the trooper helped me out?","title":"Speeding ticket - fight or pay? (Minnesota)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539132178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9musc8\/can_you_get_in_trouble_for_using_a_games_name_and\/","id":"9musc8","body":"I am using Unity and want to create a game with items from another game.","title":"Can you get in trouble for using a Games name and items from a game, in a clicker game?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552172163,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az98e5\/can_a_parent_without_custody_of_me_make_medical\/","id":"az98e5","body":"So, I recently came out as transgender to my dad. He was accepting enough, but I didn't come out to my mom because her beliefs do not exactly line up with mine. In short, she's emotionally abusive and I'm worried it would get a lot worse.\n\nMy dad does not have custody of me, but I'm on his insurance and he brings me to appointments often. I was wondering if he can sign to let me start Hormone Replacement Therapy when I turn 16. ","title":"Can a parent without custody of me make medical decisions? GA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552996999,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2wkgb\/can_my_moms_exhusband_stop_us_from_moving_in_with\/","id":"b2wkgb","body":"My mom, my younger brother, and I live in Nebraska and are planning on moving out of an apartment and into a house with my mom's exhusband's mother (we'll call her Grandma from here for simplicity) in the same town.\n\nGrandma is getting to retirement age and her children live all across the country so we thought it would be nice to have her near my brother who is 11 and she will have people around to help her as she gets older. It's also a better option financially for all of us.\n\nMy mom's ex is very against this and is threatening to take my mom to court to stop us from moving in with grandma.\n\nMy mom and her ex have shared custody of my brother but her ex is in the army and sees him once a year for a week or less (this has been the case since they divorced in 2012).  My brother is 11 and autistic so he needs stability, which her ex cannot offer as he spends lots of time in the field as well as being deployed every few years.\n\nHe doesn't want physical custody of my brother but because they technically have joint custody we aren't sure if he can stop my mom from moving in with grandma. Can he take us to court and what are the odds he would be able to stop us from moving in with his mother?\n\n​","title":"Can my mom's exhusband stop us from moving in with his mother (NE\/USA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568922340,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6j86n\/do_i_have_grounds_for_wrongful_termination\/","id":"d6j86n","body":"I know this may get tricky, but I need some advice. I work(ed) for Target, in a small town in North Carolina. I was hired on as a seasonal employee in July, told the position was through September unless they kept me on, which every leader I had told me I\u2019d be staying. I was not placed on the schedule this week, was given my requested weekend off (this weekend) and was not placed on the schedule for next week. \n\n My team lead (basically a supervisor) told me I\u2019d be working this week, it\u2019s just because I\u2019m a seasonal employee in the system. He told me he\u2019d let me know. I never heard a peep from him or anyone. The last day I\u2019d worked was a week ago today, last Thursday and nobody said anything to me. I finally had it and called my HR this morning to ask what the deal was. HR was fresh out of orientation and informed me that they\u2019d \u201cforgotten\u201d to tell me over a week ago that my employment was up. They didn\u2019t have space for me but I was welcome back in the later months. \n\n I understand that Target is an at-will employer and can terminate me at any time, BUT they did not provide me a notice (they\u2019ve done this to two others) and now I am out of a job out of nowhere and had to beg for the answers myself. (It took 3 phone calls.) \n\nIs there anything that I can do? I also have reason to believe part of my termination stems from my back injury I had (not bad, just a strained ligament in my spine but I\u2019m good now) but that\u2019s just a speculation, perhaps.","title":"do i have grounds for wrongful termination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551988663,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aygx7v\/my_aunt_asked_me_to_be_the_executor_of_her_estate\/","id":"aygx7v","body":"I\u2019ll try to summarize this best I can. My aunt texted me today and said that her and her partner (grew up catholic, they will Never admit it, but the family just accepts it) are updating legal paperwork and should they both pass at the same time, if I would like to be the executor of the estate. She\u2019s one of the most financially responsible people I know and I have no doubt in my mind that she would have everything taken care of. On top of that, she\u2019s still pretty young. Is there any concerns I should have other than just accept having my name added to these documents?","title":"My Aunt asked me to be the executor of her estate.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1542255153,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x7pjk\/can_you_leave_someone_out_of_your_will_for\/","id":"9x7pjk","body":"My aunt(married my uncle who died in the 70s and she is now with a new man) might not have that much longer to live. In her will it says \"stuff\" is this legal\n\nIs it legal to only not give anything to someone if someone marries a \"non-white.\"\n       A My aunt will not give anything to her nieces which includes me and my cousins if they marry \"non-whites.\" Both are getting married to \"non-whites\" in spring. \n       B this does not apply to me since I'm not getting married to anyone since I'm a teenager\n","title":"Can you leave someone out of your will for marring a \"non-white\"","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553859515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6w755\/does_my_company_have_to_pay_my_pto_after_being\/","id":"b6w755","body":"I recently was terminated from my job. I revived my last paycheck today, but it was really small. A few weeks before I got terminated, I took a week vacation, paid. \n\nMy vacation hours were approved and everything before I was terminated. I did not know I was going to be terminated, or I would have worked.\n\nCan they deny my PTO when they accepted it already before I was terminated? When I was signing my termination paperwork, my PTO totals were low, showing that I used it in the past month. \n\nI was really relying on my last paycheck, but now I\u2019m not sure what to do if they can deny my PTO from a previously accepted vacation request.","title":"Does my company have to pay my PTO after being terminated? (Texas)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570723837,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg09bw\/how_do_i_know_if_this_is_an_oral_contract\/","id":"dg09bw","body":"Sorry if this is long, I\u2019m trying to explain as succinctly as possible. \n\nI\u2019m a truck driver at a company, and I train students to get their CDL as well as preparing them to run a truck on their own. Technically, I\u2019m an independent contractor, and I get paid per trip revenue instead of by cents per mile since I lease a truck. If I don\u2019t hit a certain amount of revenue per week, I either go negative or break even, but training helps combat that.\n\nThe way the training program is set up, there are two \u201cphases.\u201d Phase One is where I help a student get their CDL. This phase doesn\u2019t pay as well as Phase Two because it takes about three weeks to complete Phase One of training, and one of those weeks is for the student to prepare for the CDL exam. On Phase Two, I have a student on my truck for 50,000 shared miles covered before they can upgrade to independently drive for the company or go as an independent contractor like I have. Once my student hits 50,000 miles, he upgrades to his own truck, and I pick up a new student for two-three weeks and run solo with a new student until they can get their CDL (Phase One) and run teams later (Phase Two).\n\n\nSkip this if you don\u2019t care how I get paid during training.\n(I have fixed and variable costs every week around $4,000 and when I train, I take home anywhere from $2,000 to $3,000+ a week before taxes during Phase Two depending on the trips we complete and how much each trip pays per mile. We do team driving and cover about 3,000-5,000 miles per week of training, so to complete 50,000 miles, it would take anywhere from 10-16 weeks. So $2,000-$3,000 a week for 10-16 weeks pays very well during Phase Two of training.)\n\nWith my new student, he wanted to go from refrigerated trailer transportation (for perishable items like food) to flatbed transportation (for bigger items on the back of a trailer with no roof). I do refrigeration transportation, so he would need to switch to a flatbed trainer halfway through his 50,000 mile mark to get the proper training for flatbed.\n\nEssentially, the two of us agreed on 30,000 miles on my truck and 20,000 miles on a flatbed trainer\u2019s truck. We then met with my boss, who works for said company, and all three of us agreed in person (an oral contract I\u2019m assuming) to my student staying on for 30,000 miles on my truck and 20,000 miles on a flatbed trainer\u2019s truck.\n\nFast forward to three days ago (only one week into Phase Two), and my student messages my boss and says he wants to go ahead and switch to flatbed. She agrees to it, but there aren\u2019t any flatbed trainer\u2019s available. So essentially, they both broke our oral contract for him to complete 30,000 miles with me and 20,000 miles with someone else. This puts a whole wrench in my plans because I planned on having a steady stream of income of $2,000-$3,000 a week for about 8 weeks with 30,000 miles. But now I will have to start over with a new student as soon as he\u2019s gone. \n\nSo my long question is this: can I do anything about my boss breaking our oral contract in this matter? It puts me at a financial disadvantage if not. I worked really hard to get his CDL, and the payoff is having a student for weeks on the truck, but now I\u2019m only getting 3-4 weeks instead of our agreed 8-10 weeks. There are no previous written contracts between my student and I based on our training, so the oral contract is all we have.","title":"How do I know if this is an oral contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540438674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r6qx2\/tenant_who_took_over_my_lease_is_threatening_to\/","id":"9r6qx2","body":"About two months ago a new tenant did a lease take over on my apartment. At the time I did tell her I would pay her $140 a month until the lease was up, but I told her I requested she write up a contract so neither of us would get screwed. She never did and I didn\u2019t hear from her again after she signed on the lease with my old leasing office. Now all the sudden she\u2019s texting me asking for the entire lump sum of $1260 and threatening to go to the cops if I don\u2019t pay her immediately.  \n\nWhen she signed the lease it released me from any obligation to the apartment and she agreed to pay the full rent to them every month. \n\nCan she realistically do anything that would have legal consequences on my part? I\u2019m not trying to screw her, but I\u2019m a little annoyed that she\u2019s already threatening to go to the police and being aggressive when all I asked her for was a contract I could sign and she would sign and she didn\u2019t even do that. She doesn\u2019t have my new address and the only info she has on me or my name and phone number. ","title":"Tenant who took over my lease is threatening to go to the cops if I don\u2019t pay her money immediately? (FL)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1413935762,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jxx38\/va_reckless_due_to_speed_but_phone_number_on\/","id":"2jxx38","body":"About a month ago, I was stopped on I81-SB in a \"Highway Safety Corridor\" for Reckless Driving due to speed (83\/60). The State Trooper that pulled me over asked why I was traveling so fast and I told him that I was coming down the mountain side (which he was at the bottom of). What I didn't tell him is that I was also passing 18-wheelers, which he saw, one of which had been swerving earlier and it did make me nervous. Of course he gave me the ticket and I went on my way. The court location is a 3 hour drive from where I live and the phone number I'm supposed to call for \"any questions\" is written almost so I can't read it, and only leads me to a recorded message telling me how much pre-payable offenses are and how I can pay them. Is there anything I can do to have this reduced to a speeding charge or thrown out completely? I've already arranged to appear at court, but if I can build a case for it, I want one.","title":"[VA] Reckless Due to Speed, but phone number on ticket is useless","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552528000,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0ugxz\/small_biz_demands_reimbursement\/","id":"b0ugxz","body":"I recently put my 2 weeks in to a company because I could not put up with the BS at all. They terminated me the same day on Monday. They have send me the credit card charges demanding reimbursement for what they classify as personal expenses. \n\nWhen I was given the card in November, I personally picked it up at his house, and he just handed it to me and told me to treat it like it was my money and to spend respectfully. I was also not required to sign any paperwork regarding the terms of this card. \n\nI would say there are about $400 worth of truly personal expenses that I am willing to pay back. While they are asking for $1400. Other expenses are when i was traveling for the job, or EZpass tolls, or Friday night meals. They are now asking for the receipts. I let them know the rules to the card and they are still looking to take legal action. Am I technically required to pay anything back? \n\nThey never gave me stipulations on how I could spend. \n\nI also contacted American Express and they told me I am not obligated to pay for anything. I was willing to pay $400 to get them to leave me alone. I want to move on from this company and just paying them to leave me alone would be fine. But I\u2019m not willing to pay the full $1400....","title":"Small Biz Demands Reimbursement","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447277112,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sged9\/canada_spouse_wrote_letter_to_his_parents_that_in\/","id":"3sged9","body":"Spouse wrote that in his death I am liable to pay his parents x$. What is the legality of this. I had no idea this was even a thing and I never agreed to pay anything for it nor did I sign the contract, which was presented to me following his death. In addition, formal legal documents are in english in BC, Canada, as I was once told when I through a small claims court and that other languages(Excluding french) may not necessarily be considered adequate. Wanted to see if I could get some advice on this.\n\nEDIT: The province seems to be a point I need to clear up. But it is not Quebec but rather in BC.\n\nEDIT2: The document was written less than a year ago. The phrasing was that I pay x$ to his parents. It made no mention from his assets or not but we jointly own everything except his old truck low monetary value.","title":"Canada - Spouse wrote letter to his parents that in his death I shall pay x$ to them, legal bearing.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540663206,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rwb4g\/worked_1_workshift_at_a_3month_seasonal_position\/","id":"9rwb4g","body":"So, I had just only remembered that I worked one workshift at a restaurant, as a busser, beginning mid-May this year. I worked one single work-shift, from 12pm-7pm that day. \n\n​\n\nThe day afterwards I had gotten a job offer at something I liked more (a health-foods grocery store), and I immediately opted for that.\n\n​\n\nI tried to contact my manager by the restaurant's main phone, but got a receptionist who told me that she would call me back.\n\n​\n\nI never showed up for any more shifts, and I failed to notify her fully that I intended to leave, since I was so busy starting things up at the new workplace.\n\n​\n\nIt is over 5 months later, and I haven't seen any payment come in the mail. I should have noticed this a while ago, but I just forgot about it.\n\n​\n\nThe pay was minimum wage, and I imagine it'll be like $55 I'm getting. Still, I do want this if possible.\n\n​\n\nDoes the restaurant owe me that money, still? I did rather rudely quit without officiating a resignation, and I do feel awkward about that. I am in California, by the way. ","title":"Worked 1 workshift at a 3-month seasonal position in May, never got any money","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540245065,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qif0r\/life_alert\/","id":"9qif0r","body":"Recently my mom fell and we hastily decided to get a life alert system,  because of an emotionally charged decision.  Over the phone I agreed to three contract. I have NOT signed anything. Today the box arrived, we have NOT opened it yet as it says to call them before opening.  So I googled the number and saw so many reviews about the 3 year contract and how it\u2019s impossible to get out of it. Now I\u2019m having buyers remorse.  Help!! Can I get out of it???","title":"Life Alert","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571609613,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkqscg\/apartment_building_fire_no_alarms_or_sprinklers\/","id":"dkqscg","body":"Fire in my apartment building - not my unit but the unit downstairs & across the hall - no fire alarms or sprinklers went off in the entire building. Complete destruction of that unit & the one above. What should or could be done about the fact that the alarms & such didn\u2019t go off?! Any legal ramifications?! This could have been much worse had it been at night....","title":"Apartment Building Fire - No Alarms or Sprinklers went off","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540266796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qlb5i\/bought_a_house_2_years_ago_just_found_out_the_new\/","id":"9qlb5i","body":"More context: House was sold as having a brand spanking New energy efficient roof... all was fine and nice until it rained ant we got leaks all over the place :(  it wasn\u2019t until I had professional roofers come out and inspect it that they told me it was basically an illegal roof job (you can\u2019t install a roof over two or more layers of prior shingles) and had the seller actually got permits for the roof they would have had to take off the other 2 prior old layers before installing the new roof.  House is out of the purchase warranty timeframe so I\u2019ve got nothing there... am I totally SOL? The least amount of work that could be done to fix what\u2019s wrong with it to code is $10k and to replace the whole roof is $20k...  which is just a huge blow to our savings and emergency funds. As required in CA, we had a general inspector do a whole house inspection and he said the roof was installed on top of the old shingles but did not say it now has 3 layers... maybe he didn\u2019t catch that, not sure. But the seller knew for sure as they  had the roof replaced. \n\nAny help or advice is greatly appreciated! ","title":"Bought a house 2 years ago, just found out the new roof they put on is not to code and causing leaks throughout the house. Do I have any recourse? California","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569260777,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8a0ju\/apartment_complex_has_not_provided_a_lease_for_us\/","id":"d8a0ju","body":"In Bay Area of California. \n\nMy friend and I submitted our application to a pretty large apartment complex about a week and a half ago. This complex has hundreds of units and is managed by a large property management company. In the application, there was a clause that said if we were approved, we had 3 days to sign a lease. \n\nWe were notified that we were approved 9 days ago and we still have not received a lease to sign. We\u2019ve asked multiple times about it. In the meantime, our supposed move in date is quickly approaching. Without the security of the lease, we\u2019ve decided to withdraw our application and hold deposit on the unit. \n\nThe leasing agent says that we would lose our deposit because it\u2019s been over 3 days since our application was approved. However, the clause clearly states: \n\n\u201cIf you Fail to Sign Lease Contract After Approval. Unless we authorize otherwise in writing, you and all co-applicants must sign the Lease Contract within 3 days after we give you our approval in person or by telephone or within 5 days after we mail you our approval. You will be obligated to pay to us a charge of 1\/30th of the monthly rental value of the premises from the time the unit was withheld from the market if you fail to sign the Lease Contract after its approval. The amount will begin to be charged on the date this agreement is signed, and will end on q the date we put the unit back on the market q the date a replacement tenant begins paying rent for the premises reserved for you. We will keep this amount from the application deposit to satisfy this amount.\u201d\n\n\nTo me, I feel that since we were not given the option to ever sign the lease, they\u2019re keeping of our deposit is not justified. Any help or advice is appreciated.","title":"Apartment complex has not provided a lease for us to sign after our application","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569608480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da4d82\/is_it_illegal_for_my_mom_to_get_on_my_fb_and\/","id":"da4d82","body":"I haven\u2019t spoken to my mother since July 2nd. Loooong story short I was getting married July 6th, would\u2019ve been sooner but kept pushing it off to try to please my mom and see if my family would come, some would\u2019ve, but then my mom talked them out of it and no blood family came to my wedding. I did nothing wrong, I was a virgin until our wedding night. \n\nWell on my wedding day I noticed my mom deleted me off Facebook... I didn\u2019t want her having anyway to stalk me if she didn\u2019t wanna publicly be my friend, so I blocked her. I don\u2019t hate her, but I felt it was the best for me mentally. A month or two later I ended up being hurt because ever since I moved out at the end of February\/early March, none of my family was liking or commenting on ANYTHING I posted, but they would for each other.... I saw my sister made a Facebook post about her and mom are BEST FRIENDS now, but there was never a vibe like that when no one moved out of the house in my family yet... and now that I\u2019m gone the toxic ness in the households gone and I\u2019m out of the picture now and they\u2019re best friends??? \n\nMy mom called the cops on me when I went back to get a few of my clothes, cat and dog at the house.. (I moved out while they weren\u2019t home for a few weeks, cause I was scared too while they were there.. every time I mentioned moving out to my mom she\u2019d get in the most foul mood, which was so odd to me)\nAnd my boyfriend at the time (first and only boyfriend, now husband) was with me to get my stuff..\nWell my mom said it was illegal for me to do that so she called the cops.. I was like \u201cno, I\u2019m just getting MY STUFF, that is in the house I was just living in a few days ago!\u201d Plus I also had to get some cash I had in a safe for when I did move out, which she also demanded I DO NOT touch. It\u2019s 100%  mine so I did...\n\n\nI know my mom was on my accounts  because:\n1. My preachers wife said my mom printed off my conversation with her, (because my mom was trying to get my preacher fired for marrying us)...\n 2. I live in a different state now, and I saw my account was logged into my previous city I lived in, the other state, a few hours ago when I noticed it... she seemed to be on there a lot..., same with my email security settings...\n\nYes I have changed my password since on everything so she can\u2019t get on there anymore.. :)\n\nI more than likely won\u2019t do anything about it, unless she does it again somehow, but I will probably bring it up to my mom, if we ever communicate again... \n\nTLDR: I was curious if its actually illegal, for her to be on my FB account and email without my consent...? And screen shorting conversations with me to other people?","title":"Is it illegal for my mom to get on my FB and email accounts without my permission, and I don\u2019t live with her anymore?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553019978,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b30y1h\/i_got_sexually_assaulted_on_the_trainand_there\/","id":"b30y1h","body":"Long story short. This morning I got sexually assaulted on my commute this morning. There are CCTV cameras in the station and platform, but not on the actual train where it took place. \n\nIs there any point in giving a statement? I've been to police already today to give a description but they want me to give a statement tomorrow. Is there any point in taking the guy to court as well? Since there's no evidence he actually did it? It's just my word against his? ","title":"I got sexually assaulted on the train...and there was no CCTV","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553090793,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3cftm\/mn_how_to_handle_being_ripped_off_by_employer\/","id":"b3cftm","body":"I work for a small, family operated business, and just learned my favorite co-worker who we'll call Ted, has quit because terms of the employment agreement weren't being met.  It's a sales job, and for my co-worker, outside sales in particular.  Our boss, who is part owner of the business with his wife, agreed to reimburse Ted 55 cents per mile driven to meet customers around the Midwest, and was also supposed to enroll Ted in health insurance through the company over 6 months ago, which ultimately ended up becoming a $1600 penalty on taxes that Ted must pay as he was never enrolled.  I have very little knowledge on fully understanding how the legal process works, and in situations like this in particular.  Does Ted lawyer up and take the boss to court?  Is there any course of action he can take, and if so, what?  Any help is greatly appreciated.  If nothing comes of this, I would still like to learn about this sort of thing for the future.","title":"[MN] How to handle being ripped off by employer?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570307337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddstit\/how_to_stop_car_lot_customers_from_using_my_yard\/","id":"ddstit","body":"Central Ohio \nOur street only has 7 houses on it. At the main street end is a buy-here\/pay-here lot that is so stuffed with cars that they are leasing the empty gas station on the other side too.\n\nThey have so many cars that there is nowhere for their customers to park, so they park on the side of the alley behind the car lot until it gets full, then they park up and down our small street. Saturday is their busy day with the mist problems.\n\nSome of these people have no respect for property and park half on the street and half in our yards, damaging the grass... (No curb, just asphalt then immediately grass)\n\nOur street has no sidewalks and no easement until the pavement.\n\nI have already stopped people from parking in my driveway or using it as a turnaround by parking my pickup smack dab in the middle of the apron.\n\nThe owners already have existing zoning and code enforcement issues against them, so trying to talk to the owners is not going to solve anything.\n\nAny legal way to prevent parking on my lawn? Is putting signage at the lawn edge saying \"no parking\" legal? (Not implying no parking at all, just  a reminder to not park in the grass)\n\nDo I have any rights to have them towed at owner expense without signage?","title":"How to stop car lot customers from using my yard as a parking spot?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553352852,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4k0bk\/maryland_i_got_a_speeding_ticket_that_i_doubt_the\/","id":"b4k0bk","body":"    I normally take a lot of care to accept responsibility for my wrongdoings, but I want to see if it's reasonable to assume my innocence here and if it's worth the effort to fight in court. As background information, I am 20 years old and have no prior records with the law. I was driving through western Maryland from Central Maryland and was pulled over by a cop for going 88 in a 70. When he pulled me over, I was going 80 and I do recognize that it's a distinct possibility that the cop had been following me and clocked me a while back before I was actually pulled over. \n    However, immediately after I pulled back onto the highway, he pulled over another car that didn't seem to be speeding at all and that made me start to doubt the validity of my own charge. Is the likelihood of a false charge high enough for me to fight it in court? I would really like to avoid the hike on my insurance rates. Thank you for your help!","title":"[Maryland] I got a speeding ticket that I doubt the validity of","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540491825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rcvsp\/mother_of_my_nieces_and_nephew_is_using_her_kids\/","id":"9rcvsp","body":"Living in Illinois  \n\n\nThis may be a long read and I apologize in advance (TL;DR at bottom):  \n\n\nI came home from the Army expecting to go back to college and be a guy just continuing the rest of his life, but instead I became a mother. My brother met a girl at a place they both worked at and had a kid with her. By the time I came home from the service it was two days before that baby girl's birthday. My brother and the baby were living at my parent's house and the baby had already been living there for months.  \n\n\nThing is that mother had been in prison for **drug abuse** (heroin) and **forgery**, that's important, but got out of prison after having her 5th child. She lost custody of those 5 kids, and went on to have a 6th with a different guy. In fact, my niece was born violently shaking because the mother was using heroin while pregnant. My niece is her 7th kid.   \nSo anyway, I stayed at home that first year helping him raise her (we had her full time) while the mother lived somewhere else under a part time job collecting state benefits for the child. Benefits are fine, she messed up and could have lost custody the 7th kid somewhere around the time she got stabbed and her car stolen going to buy more heroin, but my brother didn't want to take the kid away from here and only pursued 50% custody, and she's been clean since. What he didn't know at the time was that they had 50% custody... but on paper she had the rights to have the kid way more hours a week so she gets benefits for that child (day care payments and such).  \n\n\nBenefits she let lapse over and over again on purpose because she was too lazy to reapply when something happened, or she was mad at my brother and was trying to force him to pay for everything the kid ever needed out of pocket. My brother applied for WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) because she not only wasn't using it, but let it lapse as well. When my brother got WIC she called him angry that \"he had taken her benefits\".  \nShe would also refuse to answer the door to accept her kid when my brother had to go to work. That got him fired from 2 jobs for being late or missing entire days over and over again.  \n\n\n\\\\-\\\\-\n\n​\n\n(I really am trying to make it short guys, I'm glossing over a lot of stuff here like CPS being called with her not showing up or answering the door and other attempts to get drugs, theft, the things she says on social media slandering my family, false claims of sexual abuse, not buying a crib or diapers or formula so we have to, etc. I'm trying to give background yet make it to the important bits at the end without hitting the character limit.)  \n\n\nSo anyway, I'm now living at home with him and my parents trying to help him raise the kid he has despite the mother's best efforts. She and my brother have a 2nd kid together (against my family's pleas) and he is born under withdrawal because she never bothered calling the doctor and getting anti-heroin medication switched to something safe for pregnancy (she was afraid of what the doctors would thing?)  \nTHEN THEY HAD A 3RD together. That's a 9th kid for her. My parent's have had enough and tells him he has to move out. He realizes what we've been warning him of for almost 2 years and gets a vasectomy. She's suppose to get fixed too, tells her family she did, but didn't.  \n\n\n\\--Last 6 or so months below--  \n\n\nSoon they are living together and she gets fired from her job. My brother starts putting in 60-70 plus hours a week to be the sole source of income. She has never actually raised children and is learning a lot the first time... except she refuses to change her ideas. Under her my niece stops sleeping through the night or going to bed on time or eating normal food or taking naps or listening without hysterical fits, etc.; my nephew was nearly a year old still sleeping in bed with her (it took one night of \\_my\\_ mother and I being at their house for him to learn to sleep in a crib, so I guess she couldn't be bothered?)  \n\n\nAnyway, she is watching the kids while he is working 5, 6, or 7 nights a week. He gets home at 2 or 3 in the morning then wakes up with the kids at 6:30-7:00 every day. Sometimes she stays and helps watch the kids, probably about half the time she leaves for the day and tells him she'll be back in time for him to go to work, so he ends up watching the kids during the day. He burned through about 50 hours of his allowed 100 hours off because she was always late showing back up for him to go to work. On the weeks he'd get weekends off she leaves the whole weekend.  \n\n\nKicker is, they fight a lot and she steals his keys, his wallet, and his prescriptions when she leaves. Sometimes she doesn't come back at all for a couple days. She steals that stuff telling him verbally and through text \"I'm gonna get you fired and take you for child support.\"   \n\n\nNow we dont have video of her taking those things, but only when she storms out of the house do they go missing and only when she comes back do they show up. We did watch her throw them under the dresser once and tell her 14 year old daughter to grab her \"mascara she dropped under the dresser\" and her daughter \"found the keys, next time you should look under the dresser\"... well we did. We moved the thing 3 times.  \nAs for the pills, we keep finding the empty pill bottle in her purse in her car so she's either consuming them or selling them or both.  \n\n\nAbout a month ago she and my brother had a fight. She got physically violent with shoving and hitting and choking and stormed out with his car keys, and his keys to the apartment. He called the cops and she left, AND FOR SOME REASON HE STILL LOVES HER AND DIDN'T PRESS CHARGES!? WHAT THE FUCK BRO!?  \n\n\nSo when she storms out she posts on facebook how she's fed up she's been watching the kids 5 days a week and he gets \"a break from the kids at work\", and how he's a 5% time father, he's a \"women beater\" and \"child abuser\". She's putting this on social media, telling her family and friends (her family is exactly like her, it's where I think she learned it?), telling her 5 children this (including the 14 year old and all the other kids she lost custody of already) and calling my brother this through text and over the phone.  \n\n\nContinue this trend through to last Friday. Last Friday they were drinking and talking. When the alcohol hit her she got violent. She hit him continuously, [tore his shirt off his body](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/r0qzpdm.jpg) (ironic, but apparently [more than once](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hKNGzCb.jpg) it's happened), stole his keys and wallet so he couldn't leave and continue screaming and hitting (which is when he called me for help),and smashed his [$700 glasses](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wj5Z2KS.png) off his face. That's when he lost it and started shoving her. Every time she came at him he shoved her back and he shoved hard. Hell he shoved her into a door and it cracked. He didn't physically hit her so she didn't have any marks (she says she did, but it kinda looked like a canker sore). Anyway he steps into the garage for a smoke to cool off, and she locks him out, pours water on all his bedding and in his boots, and then lets him in as she storms off driving away with a different kid of hers. (We should have called the cops for drunk driving with a kid in the car but it didn't even come to mind at the time. How stupid of us.)  \n\n\nSo my older brother and I arrive when she's already gone, and we are watching the kids and talking to him to find out what happened. We are urging him to call the police on her (but it never happens) and we are talking and he mentions thinking he had more money. Look through his electronic bank statement to find she has been writing herself checks and signing his name at the bottom and cashing them in at a bank a town over. (We live in Illinois if it helps) In the last 40 days it was a total of $300, and my brother went to the bank today before work to make sure it hasn't been happening the whole time they've been living together. The bank is gonna close his account and open him a new one when he goes back tomorrow. We've talked to the police twice now and they can't do anything unless MY BROTHER and only my brother presses charges... and he wont do it. He doesn't want her to also lose her 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th kids like the first 5. He also doesn't want to send her to jail and lose his job (we keep telling him as a family we will watch the kids if he presses charges).  \n\n\nShe is now filling out child support papers because \"she is a full time mom and he's a father 5% of the time\". She still only wants 50% custody of all the kids. She can't handle them. She doesn't know how, and she tries to get out of watching them any chance she gets. My brother told her if she doesn't want kids to give him full custody. She said \"fine take them\" then the next day talked to someone, realizes she can get child support, and is gonna take him for it. Hell, the niece I've talked about... even I have been in that kids' life more than her mother. I raised her for 1.5 years. I'm an uncle and that tiny human still calls me mommy.  \n\n\nI don't know what to do. I need advice. We need help.  \n\n\n\\\\-\\\\-  \n\n\n**TL;DR-** *Narcissistic mother of my Nieces and Nephew who's already been to prison for drugs and forgery has been stealing wallets, keys, prescription medication, and forging herself checks, as well as physical abuse (I have video of my brother's cuts and bruises) -defamation against my family and my brother also calling him a women beater and child abuser publicly and on social media. Doesn't actually want to raise her kids and pawns them off as much as possible even going so far as to drop the kids off in my parent's front lawn without telling anybody. Steals my brother's keys and wallet so he can't make it to work and gets fired (almost a third time now). Is trying to take my brother for child support because she watches the kids \"all the time and he gets a break and escapes to work). Brother doesn't want to send her to jail regardless.*","title":"Mother of my nieces and nephew is using her kids as leverage for everything from theft and child support to making my brother get fired from his job... please, I'm at my wit's end.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552507369,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0ql6w\/ex_has_exclusive_rights_to_house_but_moved_out\/","id":"b0ql6w","body":"In the divorce my ex was awarded exclusive rights to the house but was supposed to put it on the market by January 1st.  She hasn't and the house is now in foreclosure.  Instead she has moved out, told me that she has moved, and informed me that there was a key under the mat.  I smelled a set up so I asked her for permission to enter the house and remove anything that she had left to which she has said no.  My question is this: If she has moved out and left behind things that I could benefit from am I within my legal rights to go in and retrieve them or would that likely cause me trouble with the law if she were to try to file charges against me?  Would she even have any grounds to file charges?","title":"Ex has exclusive rights to house but moved out.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568660391,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d54txz\/claiming_money_from_a_court_blocked_account\/","id":"d54txz","body":"Hi everyone, about a year ago I was in a car accident and long story short the insurance company paid out a few thousand dollars to a court blocked Wells Fargo account. Now because I just turned 17, I won\u2019t be able to access any of these funds for just about another year, but I would very much like to have it now.\n\nI read that you need to fill out a couple forms, but then what? Do I actually have to go to court and hire a lawyer? I know this case is pretty mundane compared to a lot of the other ones on this sub, but I legitimately have no idea how to go about this.","title":"Claiming money from a court blocked account","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505730179,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70u3bs\/az_one_of_my_roommates_brought_a_dog_into_the\/","id":"70u3bs","body":"Alright, here goes nothing. \n\nOne of my roommates brought a dog into the house when we moved in and claimed it was potty trained so we kept it secret from management. It's not potty trained at all. He now has the dog as a \"emotional support\" dog and claims management knows, but now it's disgusting because there's dog poop everywhere outside our house and the dog pisses and poops on the carpets. Can management still evict him for the days he didn't have that certificate stating he was an emotional support dog? Like 4\/5 people that live in the house want the dog gone because it's disgusting. The dog lives in a 2' by 2' crate 23 hours a day. It constantly barks. It's shitting on the carpet and pissing on it. What can we do? Can management do anything?\n I'm taking as many videos and pictures as I can. It's unsanitary and fucking torture for that dog (i can hear him beat him pretty much nightly too). ","title":"[AZ] One of my roommates brought a dog into the house when we moved in and claimed it was potty trained so we kept it secret from management.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541446872,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ugtmt\/how_to_locateprove_someones_address_in_kentucky\/","id":"9ugtmt","body":"So, this is an international divorce case.\n\nI'm in Germany, he is in Kentucky. I know that he is living at his mom's and I know the address.\n\nBut I'm guessing he hasn't been answering the door, because so far, we're still waiting on proof of delivery.\nIf it keeps going like this, the whole process could go on for years. The only chance of moving forward with the divorce is to either have official confirmation of his location or several written proofs, that it was NOT possible to locate him.\n\nHow can I go about this? Which institutions can I get in touch with and how? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. ","title":"How to locate\/prove someone's address in Kentucky? International divorce.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555462328,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be1ltr\/child_is_missing_baseball_practice_because_of\/","id":"be1ltr","body":"Location-Michigan.\n\nMy step son (10) has baseball practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which are days that he goes to his moms for a few hours (practice time). My s\/o has majority custody and son lives with us. He just started baseball and has missed 3 out of the 4 practices they\u2019ve had because his mom was supposed to take him. He said she says they need family time and won\u2019t take him to practice. He knows he needs to practice and is frustrated. His practice usually starts at 6pm, she picks him up at 5:30pm. Can we take him to practice to make sure he goes? Or something we can do quickly so he doesn\u2019t keep missing practice? Thanks","title":"Child is missing baseball practice because of mother","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446389439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r31ey\/texas_being_sued_by_an_elderly_woman_who_fell_in\/","id":"3r31ey","body":"I am a service manager. Essentially the lowest manager on the totem pole of managers. There were 2 other managers on shift that day. Why am I concerned? I was served - The lady is going after walmart and me personally with accusations of negligence.  \n  \nAt the Automotive department there are car bays, inside the bay is a door and at that door is a heavy rubber coated rug. This is the door leading inside walmarts' auto center where the registers are. After viewing the video of the event, it appears she was doing something on a cell phone as tripped and hit her head, losing consciousness for a very short time.  \n  \nOf course the incident was reported, wrote up and sent through the proper channels to see if walmart would cover this woman's medical expenditures. Instead, the claim was denied and labled as \"uncontrollable circumstances\". Now the lady is going after Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart of texas and Jane Doe (me).  \n  \nAgain, i didnt see any of this happen. I was working in my office that day and cant see how it could possibly be my sole responsibility to fix this rug at all times. Aside from that there are a few more weird tidbits. On the served papers, my name is spelled completely wrong and my last name is listed as Doe. The gentleman who served me (plain clothes) had to ask several people to even find a person with a similar sounding name as mine.  Also, they have my position listed as 'assistant manager', this is wrong - im a service manager, which is below assistant manager.\n   \nIm just not sure where to go from here. Will Wal-Mart provide me with a lawyer? should i seek a lawyer myself? What should my defense be? Any information would be helpful at this point. If there are any other details you need from me, please ask.  \n  \nEdit: I will keep this post updated with the latest details.","title":"[Texas] Being sued by an elderly woman who fell in walmart for $1,000,000","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553261316,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b452sb\/what_is_the_legality_of_having_a_fist_fight_with\/","id":"b452sb","body":"If, hypothetically, two adults wrote out a contract in which they agreed to fight each other, would that be legal? Go under the assumption that there would be someone there to stop the fight if it got out of hand, and that the contract \"rules\" would state that purposely causing permanent damage was not allowed. Could the parties still be charges with assault and battery, or would it be legal due to the parties contractually consenting to the fight. Thank you!","title":"What is the legality of having a fist fight with someone over contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569468657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9e48m\/first_traffic_violations_need_advice\/","id":"d9e48m","body":" \n\nSo yesterday I received my first speeding ticket. I live in Arizona and was commuting from Phoenix to Tucson. I have just entered the city where the highway speed limit is 65. However, the speed limit from Phoenix to Tucson on the open road is 75. Anyways, I was in the left hand lane going around 75-80 mph, keeping constant flow with the traffic. My exit was in about six miles. Here's when the shizz hit the fan. Before my exit a cop merges onto the highway and merges into the far left lane (the lane i'm in.) I thought nothing of it since I was matching the speed of the driver in front of me and he was matching my speed for around two minutes. When the time came for me to start crossing lanes to get to the right side to exit I sped up to safely merge from lane to lane. It would be more dangerous to slow down, causing the car behind me (the officer) and all the other lanes to the right of me to brake. I speed up and change one lane, then cop switches over and turns on his lights. I panicked and thought there was an emergency so I quickly go back to the far left lane and decided that I would just get off at the next exit. I then notice he was pulling ME over. I thought it would be way too dangerous to cross over 5 lanes, and find the next exit to get pulled over at. I also didn't see a right shoulder across all of the traffic that I could stop in. I also didn't want the cop to think I was just ignoring him and running away. I decide to stop into the left shoulder. \n\nLong story short I have two citations. First is 28-701A.20 and second is 28-775A2\n\nI'm 20 years old and just got my driver's license about 3 months ago. This is my first ticket, first time getting pulled over, and 4th time commuting to Tucson from Phoenix. This will also be my first court appearance. I've spoken to my parents and they both said I should try to fight the ticket. I have no idea what im doing so any advice would help. Do I just go into the court and state my story? I'm really not sure what to do. I felt like I was being a safe driver and I was driving the same way as I did ever since my drivers test.","title":"First Traffic Violations. Need advice.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569281212,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ermf\/broken_bathtub_faucet_wouldnt_shut_off_now_we_owe\/","id":"d8ermf","body":"We've been in our current rental home for about 4 months. Our landlord uses a property management company. \n\nOne Sunday night while giving our daughter a bath, a mechanism randomly broke inside the bathtub faucet and we couldn't turn the faucet off. It was stuck on hot water. Husband shut off the water and tried to fix it, but could not, so first thing the next morning we contacted the property manager. She said she needed to contact a plumber through the home warranty info, so she said we should hear from someone the next day. Days go by, no one comes, and we're getting by with shutting the whole house water on when we needed it, off when we didn't. But anytime sometime needed the toilet, sink, shower, etc., we had to turn on the water and the tub was just running hot water. \n\nFrequent contact the with property manager kept telling us \"any day now,\" but the plumber didn't show up until the following Monday, after a week of shutting the water on and off and having the tub spewing hot water anytime we needed water.  Turns out the warranty people forgot to actually schedule a plumber. \n\nWe're a family of four, so we used the water quite a bit that week, but tried to conserve as much as possible. With an infant and toddler, we definitely had to use water pretty regularly. Our gas bill just came and it's 3 times what it should be since the hot water was stuck on. Our water bill is 4 times what it would normally be. This is a difference in almost $800 extra in utilities this month.\n\nDoes the landlord\/property management company have any responsibly for the overage in this situation? We were not able to call a plumber ourselves since repairs have to be done under the home warranty conditions. I would be fine with a few days, but a full week of the inconvenience of shutting the water on and off, plus paying almost $800 extra in utilities isn't sitting right with me as a renter. I understand things happen, but frankly, that's why we're not homeowners.\n\nWho pays the utility overages? Is there a way to suggest that it's not our fault and thus not our responsibility? Or are we SOL?","title":"Broken bathtub faucet wouldn't shut off, now we owe $$$ in water and gas bills","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443604560,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3my1ln\/replacing_outdoor_advertising\/","id":"3my1ln","body":"I've been reading quite a bit about people hacking into outdoor advertising spaces (billboards, tube posters, bus shelter ads etc.). I'm interested in the practice but am not too sure about its legal implications. It seems to me like it functions on a case-to-case basis. For instance: \u201cWe know someone who got caught and argued the defence of necessity. He went to court and presented psychological studies to show that outdoor advertising is harmful for people and that he was preventing a \u2018greater harm\u2019 from happening; magistrates had no choice but to find him not guilty.\u201d http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/media\/2015\/09\/how-special-patrol-group-are-encouraging-public-hack-advertising-space\n\nDoes anyone have any extra information\/thoughts on the legal contexts of this practice in the UK? Is it very different in other countries?","title":"Replacing outdoor advertising","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569419380,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d93jwu\/highway_construction_has_left_multiple_chips_in\/","id":"d93jwu","body":"Is there any way to get compensated? I\u2019m having trouble of finding a way to prove it. Essentially, we have extensive construction going on on the interstate which I use every day on my way to work (Wisconsin, US). \nIt just seems unfair that my property was damaged and I have no way to be compensated.","title":"Highway construction has left multiple chips in my windshield, but I have no proof.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553113455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3gxlv\/would_i_be_able_to_cancel_my_lease_and_have_a\/","id":"b3gxlv","body":"We would like to break our lease early. According to the lease we would have to give 60 days notice and two months rent. By giving our 60 days and the additional charges we would essentially be paying 4 months rent. \n\nWe\u2019ve had issue with management and that\u2019s why we would like to leave early. About 4 months into renting a maintenance man came into our apartment without notice and without announcement. I was at home changing for work. He said that he saw our personal ac unit and was going to take it. After telling him to leave I talked to management about the situation. They said they had no record of maintenance needing to be in our apartment or that anyone was to be in our area. Later in the day the said they told us that the know who did it but nothing came from it. When I asked what the apartments policies were for entering without notice in a non emergent situation they avoided my question. \n\nAlso our neighbors continually smoke cigarettes and weed in the breezeway or their apartments. The smoke is coming in through our dryer vent and causing problems with my asthma. The apartment complex has a  non smoking policy. After multiple attempts to get help from management we were told there was nothing they could do. My asthma and migraines have become severe due to living conditions. \n\nTL;DR \nwould like to get out of lease without having to pay the two month cancellation fee due to poor living conditions. Is it possible? ","title":"Would I be able to \u201ccancel\u201d my lease and have a clean breakaway? No extra fees for cancellation.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447102078,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s6ihj\/urgent_downloadable_or_online_simple_will_needed\/","id":"3s6ihj","body":"chicago, ","title":"URGENT: Downloadable or online simple WILL needed for GF for life threatening hospital surgery within next 48 hours PLEASE.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1503458934,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vgc0e\/demand_letter_for_mmo_account\/","id":"6vgc0e","body":"Hi All,\n\nA few years ago I played Lord of the Rings Online. I paid for a lifetime account with them for $200 with my brothers credit card as I did not have my own at the time. \n\nMy account was hacked years ago and I'm trying to gain access to it. The company says they won't disclose to me why the account was banned and said they any communication from me would be ignored. \n\nIs there anyway that a demand letter would have the release the account to me? Or refund the $200 to make me whole again, as the product promised is being withdrawn by the company? \n\nI have the original invoice\/receipt for the purchase. \n\nThe company in question is in MA. \n\nThank you for your time, if anyone can answer my questions! Greatly appreciated. ","title":"Demand Letter for MMO Account?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571329527,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj8rhr\/nj_missing_employee_and_the_outstanding_paycheck\/","id":"dj8rhr","body":"Over a year ago, one of our employees left to visit family in his home country. Before he left, he told us to hold his paycheck, rather than mail it because he was going to be gone for 2 weeks. We haven\u2019t heard from him since. Do we still have to hold his pay? If so for how many years?","title":"[NJ] Missing Employee and the outstanding paycheck.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540152644,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q6prf\/nh_family_member_is_incarcerated_exgirlfriend\/","id":"9q6prf","body":"My family member was arrested for violating a restraining order.  His ex-girlfriend got a restraining order and he moved out of the home he owned individually until he could legally evict her.  Through the grapevine he heard she had sold all his belongings and moved.  She also took one of his vehicles without his permission.  He stupidly went to the house.  She had clearly moved out but all of his belongings besides some small items were gone.  He called her.  She called the police.  He got arrested.  They are both alcoholics so it is difficult to get the whole story.  He is unable to report his items stolen from the county jail.  We have pictures of his items posted for sale on Craigslist with her contact information.  The police told us that only he could report the items and Jeep stolen.  He has a public defender who said since we already called the police he is not obligated to.  What are our options?  \n","title":"[NH] Family member is incarcerated. Ex-girlfriend stole vehicle and belongings then sold them. Police won\u2019t allow us to report them stolen.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541731570,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vgoqj\/havent_received_a_paycheck_since_i_started_working\/","id":"9vgoqj","body":"I started working on the 1st of October after going into an interview. I have just moved into this town and was very pleased to find a job so quickly as it was crucial for me to find one within the week because I would need money for rent. I started off with a schedule but quickly found out that it wasn\u2019t worth much and he would repeatedly tell me to work other buildings (cleaning business). The way I clocked in was through the building phone and after the building was clean I\u2019d clock out and walk to the next one (no car). The thing is though that since I was new and he didn\u2019t take the time to input my info into the automated clock in system I couldn\u2019t clock in and had to write my hours down. After the first pay period passed I asked what was holding up my check and he said that since I didn\u2019t clock in with the machine I\u2019d have to wait another 2 weeks to get my check. I thought maybe it would turn out okay since that\u2019s a couple days before rent is due. Those two weeks passed and I was getting more frustrated with not having any money, all I had was 20 dollars that I used for top ramen for the entire time I worked there. I asked another coworker and he said sometimes he doesn\u2019t pay for a whole month. I then called him to ask where my paycheck was and he said he would hand deliver it to me next time I go in. Great I get my big paycheck after working a whole month with a lot of extra hours put in, I\u2019ll finally get food. He gave me a check for about a fourth of what I worked and said that this was all the money owed to me. I was angry at him since the check wasn\u2019t even enough to pay rent with. I stopped going in because I don\u2019t want to keep working and not get paid for it, I felt so used. I devoted my time to find a job instead. He then calls me and says I have another check coming after I sent him and angry text about reporting him to BOLI (Oregon labor and industry). He said it would arrive on my normal pay period so I waited to receive it. It hasn\u2019t come in yet and rent was due a couple days ago. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m supposed to do am I just supposed to be homeless? I did everything I was supposed to do, I found a job and planned on starting to save to go to school but now I\u2019m facing homelessness and I haven\u2019t had a thing to eat in a week. Is there anything I can do to get my money?","title":"Haven\u2019t received a paycheck since I started working","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503622748,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vv8hg\/colorado_moved_to_us_from_canada_4_months_ago\/","id":"6vv8hg","body":"As title says, found out last week - have not agreed to anything yet. Company trying to reduce vacation from 3 to 2 weeks for all new new grad hires.\n\nIn the US on TN visa - would leave company immediately if still in Canada.  \n\nDo I have any options? Is there an external body this could be reported to? Coming from Canada I'm feeling a bit lost here.\n\nIf it matters, male with 3 years experience in my field, engineering.\n\nThank you!\n\ne: rewording","title":"[Colorado] Moved to US from Canada 4 months ago - company taking awake one week of Vacay from Contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568561695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4m09m\/my_step_daughter_14_wants_me_to_adopt_her\/","id":"d4m09m","body":"MN-\n\nMy husband was awarded sole legal and physical custody in 2014 following CPS investigation where neglect and emotional abuse was found. Bio mom was awarded supervised parenting time (a mediator, audio and visual recording) for three hours every other week as long as progress was being made. My step daughter decided in 2016 she didn't want to go, all therapists\/guardian ad litem etc agreed with the knowledge of she (sd) can start it up if she wants to.\n\nBio mom did not follow any of the conditions for the agreement (treatment, therapy, random UAs, clean UAs for 6 months etc)\n\nMy step daughters mother only tries to contact on her birthday every year. Otherwise she never tries to talk to my husband. She is currently in jail (for the last several months) and had two other children that CPS removed a year ago.\n\nA. Does this mean her rights were terminates with her other kids?\n\nB. Does this sound like me adopting her is possible?\n\nI'm trying to understand how it works in MN","title":"My step daughter (14) wants me to adopt her","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507625486,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75fryu\/can_the_mother_move_abroad_with_the_child_after\/","id":"75fryu","body":"So my sister was born and raised in Europe, but a few years ago she got an internship in a major firm in Atlanta for a year. While she was there, she met someone, and a bit before her permit to stay in the US expired, they got married so they could live together.\n\nThat happened last year. My sister has no family or friends there whatsoever and she is currently working at his company (a small startup), so she is completely dependent on him right now. A few months ago she got pregnant, but their relationship has started to dangerously deteriorate.\n\nIn case they eventually divorce, my sister will want to leave the US and come back to our country for support, otherwise she would be miserable, staying there all by herself, so far away from her family or her loved ones. She has no one there. \n\nThe thing is, will she be able to do that and take the kid with her? I know for sure that the father won't be happy about it. Would it be possible to settle it somehow? Like he could see the child during the summer holidays or something? Or is there a chance that she will be trapped there or lose custody?","title":"Can the mother move abroad with the child after the divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552706607,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1nz2t\/are_ceiling_fans_illegal_in_california_apartments\/","id":"b1nz2t","body":"Quick question: I was told by a leasing agent in North San Jose that the reason their apartment community doesn't have ceiling fans is that they are illegal in apartments or rentals in California due to the Earthquake hazard. However, I've seen plenty of apartments (including my current one!) that has ceiling fans. So, is this true? Is my current landlord breaking the law by installing ceiling fans in bedrooms? If not, is there a liability reason they wouldn't offer it? And can you point me to a good source to read up on this?","title":"Are Ceiling Fans Illegal in California Apartments?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538999600,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9me6ko\/ive_been_prelaid_off_from_a_large_company_just_a\/","id":"9me6ko","body":"On Thursday, I was called by my District Manager on my cell phone and was informed that I was being laid off. In order to continued getting paid through October and benefits through November, I have to work to a certain date that has yet to be given to me. (I haven't gone into work yet so perhaps it will be in an email at work. I'll update if needed.) Now for my questions I suppose.\n\n​\n\n1) How is a company legally able to lay me off but also tell me to keep working to an unspecified date if I want a severance package? It seems very .... use-y and abuse-y?\n\n​\n\n2) What is a severance package? I think I understand it. Is it essentially the above thing? Get pay and benefits through certain dates?\n\n​\n\n3) My boss said to keep an eye out for a the severance package e-mail. Is there anything I should be looking out for in said e-mail? Sketchy terms or conditions that companies try to sneak by with, etc.?\n\n​\n\n4) Are lay-offs something that can be fought? Like if I bring a good argument forward as to why I should not have been laid off, can it be cancelled? At this point I'm not sure if I would want to work for the company anymore, but I'm just curious.\n\n​\n\nTIA!!","title":"I've been 'pre'-laid off from a large company. Just a couple questions.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507822881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75xt73\/indiana_buy_llc_or_dissolve_and_start_over\/","id":"75xt73","body":"Main business is registered as an LLC Sole Proprietorship in the state of Indiana. There is a second business that is registered as a DBA which we also conduct business.\n\nFor the past few years, there have been three of us running the companies. The main business owner has been paying the two of us as contractors (1099). The main business owner wants to move on and has agreed to sell the business to us for $1.\n\nIdeally we would like to do the following for tax purposes and to limit liability:\n1. Register a new LLC General Partnership with the state (two of us will be 50\/50 owners).\n2. Dissolve the main LLC that was owned and operated by the previous owner.\n3. Register the newly created LLC with a DBA for each business.\n\nIs this a good idea? The easier solution is to simply buy the business and continue forward. It would be major hassle to setup new bank accounts etc. \n\nOur goal is to limit the liability and risk of someone coming after the old business for any reason.\n\n","title":"(Indiana) Buy LLC or dissolve and start over?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1550117260,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqfp8j\/az_boss_gives_50_cents_an_hour_rather_than_full\/","id":"aqfp8j","body":"I began working at a bakery about 8 months ago. I started at $10.25, went up to $11.50 (.25 extra after 3 months and 1 dollar more due to AZ minimum wage going up to $11). Basically we get minimum wage $11 and the $.50\/hr as a 'tip hourly' pay, its registered in our pay receipts. We can make $15-50 or so a shift but none of us see that extra money because she bumps up pay by .50-1.00 under the 'tip hourly pay'. Some workers have more in their hourly tip for working there longer. \n\nI've been trying to find any information on if this is considered legal since I'm sure she does pocket a good sum of our tips that customers believe we workers are getting. The hourly tip is very low in contrast to what we actually make, but we do at least get minimum wage unlike most tip-based workers. There's also the possibility the workers who get paid the most, who don't work that much, are getting their tip pay out of us other workers who do work more hours. The ones who get paid $11.50 right now are essentially pulling in the most tips but not seeing that return since it's going to the $13.50+ ($2.50\/tip hour pay) workers. I made $20+ in tips tonight but I'll only be getting $4 (8 hrs of .50 tips).\n\n I'd really like to know if this is possible to report somewhere, since I don't want the boss to keep pocketing off workers even if I left. ","title":"[AZ] Boss gives 50 cents an hour rather than full tips earned","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552354068,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b01qup\/is_what_i_did_illegal_should_i_take_this_persons\/","id":"b01qup","body":"Yes what I did was wrong, creepy, and weird; I\u2019m not proud of it. I don\u2019t need the moral judgement, I stopped what I was doing.\n\nSo about a year ago or so, I found a subreddit (and a couple others) where guys post pictures of girls they know that are hot. These are mostly just pictures taken from their public Instagram accounts. The point of the subreddit was to post what you \u201cgot off to\u201d, so it was a mixture of celebrities, porn, or hot girls you know as mentioned before. Well I foolishly got involved and posted girls I knew in real life (all around 19-21), posting various pictures from their social media. Some people would talk about them sexually and stuff like that, and for a lack of a better terms was a giant circle jerk. (Yes I told you I\u2019m not proud of this, just a dumb horny college student).\n\nI did this for a few months posting various pictures that the girls would upload until one day I get message on Reddit from someone that basically said \u201cI have a family lawyer, we have gone to the police and they are tracking down you\u2019re info, have fun in prison\u201d. I immediately deleted my account that I did this stuff on and just freaked the fuck out trying to figure out if I had done anything wrong in terms of the law, and as far as I can think, at most a copyright issue. However, this message seemed very authentic, and it got me worried that maybe one the pictures I took from Instagram was before one of them were 18 (I didn\u2019t Check the dates on the photos), and maybe the authorities took that into consideration? \n\nI\u2019m worried that I may have also came across something illegal on here, or used it in a post or something, idk my mind is racing. What I\u2019m sure is that I never was looking at any clear cut illegal content that anyone would see as CP. so based off this info, did I do anything illegal? ","title":"Is what I did illegal? Should I take this persons threat seriously?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555469758,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be2tud\/how_long_can_i_be_put_in_limbo_after_paying\/","id":"be2tud","body":"Hi, so I\u2019ve been trying to move into a new apartment, and I put down my $500 deposit, and they have completed the background check, and all the paperwork minus the actual leasing agreement itself. I have been calling for updates and they keep pushing it further and further back. I was initially told last week that by today they should have everything ready for me. Well after not hearing from them, I called and they now are telling me next week. This has been going on since the beginning of the month, and it\u2019s not like I can go try another apartment without the deposit I have sitting there right now. They have me sitting in limbo, all the while my current apartment lease ends in a week. This means I could have to get a storage locker for all my stuff as opposed to being able to move it from one apartment to the other, costing me more money that I shouldn\u2019t have if they didn\u2019t keep pushing it further back.\n\nIn short, my question is how long can they legally hold that deposit after I\u2019ve done everything without moving forward?","title":"How long can I be put in limbo after paying security deposit and background check","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551311416,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avk8er\/do_i_have_to_professionally_clean_my_rental\/","id":"avk8er","body":"My landlord (HI, USA, been renting since 11\/2017) wants me to pay for a professional carpet cleaner out of my deposit because \u201cthe carpet was new when you moved in.\u201d \n\nThis is true, the carpet was new but the carpets are NOT dirty outside of normal usage. No stains or anything, we don\u2019t even wear shoes in the house. There is nothing in my contract about a professional cleaning. Is she allowed to deduct from my deposit the amount of the professional carpet cleaning?\n\n I was planning on cleaning them with a carpet cleaning vacuum myself to be nice, really, because they\u2019re not dirty, but I don\u2019t want to have to pay for a professional! ","title":"Do I Have To Professionally Clean My Rental?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568902656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6eomy\/customer_cancels_credit_charges_and_ghosts_small\/","id":"d6eomy","body":"The company that I work for recently designed, sold, and shipped a product to a rather prominent private customer.  Several months later, a member from our sales team approached me to inform me that the customer had called their credit card company and cancelled the charges.  The customer never contacted us as to why they cancelled the charges, or if there were any issues with the product. \n\nSince then, we've sent multiple emails and phone calls to the customer regarding this issue, of which the customer hasn't responded to a single one of our communication attempts.  The owner of our company doesn't seem to know what we can do about this issue and has asked me to let it go.  Being the designer for this project, I can't help but feel like I've been personally taken advantage of, and find it hard to let this one drop.  What is to prevent customers from doing this in the future?\n\nWhat legal options do we have when this kind of scenario presents itself?  How do we prevent this from happening in the future?  How can we pursue proper payment, or reclaim the materials that haven't been returned to us?","title":"Customer cancels credit charges and ghosts small manufacturing company. Company seeking a resolution.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1414365757,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2kev6z\/washington_state_my_former_boss_underpaid_me_for\/","id":"2kev6z","body":"This past summer, I worked a summer job at a new dim sum restaurant. However, the restaurant opened much later than expected, so I was only able to work for a month before leaving for college. When the restaurant first opened, its whole computer system was down and then buggy for a few days, during which employee hours were not logged correctly (or at all). Luckily, I was only scheduled to work 4 hours of this period, and these 4 hours are the ones I were not paid for.\n\nOn my last day at work, I spoke to my boss about this, and at first, she argued with me about how she wouldn't change my hours because I had no proof that I had attended work those 4 hours, as the computers were down at the time. However, I reasoned with her and she relented, saying that she would change my hours later. I thanked her, then asked if I should contact her to remind her of our conversation and she gave me her email. When I emailed her later, I wrote about the math I did to arrive at my missing 4 hours and which days I worked, along with a picture of my paycheck stub and a supposedly meaningless receipt the computer printed out after I checked out on one of the days the computers were being buggy.\n\nMy mother has a friend who works at the Department of Labor and Industries, and she says that her friend works with employees\/employer disputes like mine. However, I'm hesitant to bring this up with my mother's friend because I'm not sure it's worth fighting over $37.28 (this is quite a bit of ramen...but I realize that it's basically nothing in the grand scheme of things, especially when I look at my tuition hahaha... :( ), it's been several months since August, and I don't actually have concrete proof of being underpaid other than the schedule of what days I was scheduled to work, my memory, that receipt, and my paycheck stub. I guess this is also kind of a pride thing, because it's embarrassing to think that I trusted her to change my hours on her own instead of getting her to actually change them in front of me like a coworker told me to, and then wasted time writing a lengthy email that was destined to be ignored. I would confront her myself, but I'm easily intimidated, even though I know i'm right about this.\n\nThank you for reading, any thoughts are greatly appreciated!","title":"[Washington state] My former boss underpaid me for August. It's a matter of <$50, but is there anything I should do about it anyway? [x-post from \/r\/advice]","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552848588,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b28h8n\/canv_denied_children_by_mother_with_custody\/","id":"b28h8n","body":"[CA\/NV] Denial of children even with custody agreement.\n\nI was just informed by my children's mother via text that they (9 and 6) have stated they do not want to return with me to NV. There is a custody agreement through the courts of CA which granted me custody of the kids in NV for this school year which ends in June. The kids have March off and have been with their mother visiting. Through lots of conversation and emotions I decided to not get cops involved at this moment, was that the right move? I also made it seem as if I was giving in to the kids but not their mother, but I want to hold their mother accountable, just not with cops.\n\nI have two questions. Is there a time constraint in holding her accountable to not giving me the kids? Also with me agreeing with the kids wishes does that null and void the agreement? I did it as to not force them out with a cop and destroy what relationship we do have. I'm hoping it was the right call. I'm trying to keep this as vague as possible as well.","title":"[CA\/NV] Denied children by mother with custody agreement.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504721997,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yhftn\/traffic_citation_question\/","id":"6yhftn","body":"Location: Louisiana, USA\n\nI received a traffic citation about a month ago. I was in a small fender bender, and the officer told me he was giving me a citation for following too closely. Today, I called the sheriff's office, and was told that the piece of paper I had been given was just a form for my insurance company - not a citation.\n\nI asked the clerk I spoke with to search for a citation, and gave him my full name. He didn't find any records under my name.\n\nDo I need to take any further action? I don't want to one day be arrested for not paying a ticket \/ failure to appear, but I don't really know what else to do.","title":"Traffic citation question","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571353076,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dje926\/questions_about_conflicts_of_interest_in_business\/","id":"dje926","body":" **Q:  Is it a conflict of interest if as an employee of a government  contractor I offer my services on my own time to the same agency my  company contracts with? What about if I work in the same field but  freelance for other agencies or organizations?**\n\nI'm pretty sure if I did some gig work teaching English that it wouldn't be a conflict of interest.\n\n**Q:  What if I worked for a company in a different industry but the same sector, would that be a conflict of interest with my full-time employer?**\n\nSorry  if this is a question with an obvious answer. I'm trying to do some  freelancing on my own time and am working to figure out some answers. I  don't want to run afoul of the regulations or laws. BTW, I'm in Virginia.\n\nI  hope my question made sense. To offer a further explanation, I work for  a company that does government contracting, mostly with one big state  agency. They sometimes pick up contracts with local governments like  cities. I've thought about going to this state agency and offering to  freelance for them using one specific skill I know how to do. I've also thought about going to companies that are not customers or competitors to do the same thing.\n\nI've  spent some time looking over the official policies at my company and  found the following information they state in various manuals. I have  combined and shortened the overall ideas presented into a couple points  for the sake of brevity (bold phrases are mine):\n\n* Employee must notify management of outside employment **if such employment will cause conflicts** while employed with the company.\n* A conflict of interest (or the appearance of such) should be avoided in all situations. Examples include **working for Company customers, suppliers, and other organizations** with whom the Company has dealings. Also includes engaging in a part-time activity for profit **in any field in which the Company is engaged**.\n\nNow, this is what my *company* says. I don't know if what they state in official policies is BS or not. **Q:  What is your understanding of conflicts of interest? To do this, do I  basically need to quit my full-time job to strike out on my own?**","title":"Questions about conflicts of interest in business","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552413454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0atzo\/curious_about_trusts\/","id":"b0atzo","body":"When my grandpa died he left me a trust and I have no idea what is in it because nobody has told me. Now I need some money to take care of debts how do I ask for the money? The trust is in the state of Texas and I live in Missouri and my aunt who I am very close with is the trustee. I know when she was a kid they took in this family friend who\u2019s dad died and he got around 100k that was willed to him and blew through it all so they don\u2019t want the same to happen with me but I don\u2019t even want a lot of the money just enough to repair my car because I\u2019ve been without it 3 months now and to get insured again so I can get back to work. ","title":"Curious about trusts","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1508263661,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/770e96\/when_to_involve_attorney_in_a_homeowners\/","id":"770e96","body":"Initiated claim 9\/4\/17 for water damage. Had inspection done on 9\/15\/17. Hail damage was noted. The only response from the insurance through today when I request an update has been that my claim is \"under review\". I have left several voicemails asking the in-house examiner to call me back to not avail. How long should I allow before getting an attorney involved? Thank you.  \n\nEdit: Houston, TX (initial claim for water damage was Hurricane Harvey-related)","title":"When to involve attorney in a homeowners insurance claim with unresponsive insurance company?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1550862562,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atlhzy\/as_a_successor_trustee_what_rights_do_i_have_to\/","id":"atlhzy","body":"My father passed away in 2000 and left his wife, my step-mother as his personal representative and trustee. He left 8 children, all with his first wife and my mom, as beneficiaries in waiting, and left me, his youngest son as successor trustee. My brother is under the impression that it\u2019s against the law to ask, and to even have the trust in writing, like the trust is her property. He compares it to going through someone\u2019s mail. I\u2019d like to know if that\u2019s true, without having to rack up attorney fees.\nI\u2019ll try my best to breakdown the trust so you understand, and answer questions as they come. Utah state laws apply.\nUpon the death of my father, his revocable trust was turned irrevocable and stepmom took over. Two trusts were created: a family trust and a marital trust. Financial allocation to each trust was made. I was 18yrs old when he passed, and his youngest child. The family trust was dissolved on the day I turned 26. I am 37 today. The marital trust will dissolve when the trustee, my stepmom dies. When she dies I become the trustee and my seven siblings and I will go from beneficiaries in waiting to beneficiaries. \nHere\u2019s the paragraph in the trust that explains accounting: \nPeriodic reports shall be rendered by the successor trustee to each beneficiary eligible to receive the current income, showing the assets then held as the principal of the trust estate, and all the receipts, disbursements and distributions during the period. Such reports shall be rendered not less frequently than annually. \nSo the burning question is, are we, the beneficiaries in waiting, eligible to receive the current income, etc?\nThank you for your help! ","title":"As a Successor Trustee, what rights do I have to my father\u2019s trust account records?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1446706097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rlmi0\/can_i_make_a_case_for_slander\/","id":"3rlmi0","body":"So I've recently posted about an ongoing problem I've been having with my university roommate over at \/r\/LetsNotMeet, and as of last night, I'm afraid I require legal advice. The post is [here](https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/r\/LetsNotMeet\/comments\/3ra3mv\/my_roommates_client\/) if anyone would like more backstory. We're in Colorado. \n\nBasically, my roommate has been doing legal sex shows over webcam for just over a month now. Besides kicking me out of the room that I too lay for, there aren't any legal hang ups with this alone (that I know of.)\n\nHowever, last night, things changed for the worse. She showed me texts she received from some rando saying that he has her Facebook and Instagram as well as her personal phone number and email, and on Thursday, (the day after I'm writing this) he's going to come to our campus and hand out fliers with naked photos of her alongside her name. Now, if you read the post from \/r\/LetsNotMeet, you'll understand why I don't care about this. \n\nHowever, the texts also said that I'm going to be on the flier as well, with his reasoning being that since I allow her to do this, I must be a whore as well. Needless to say, I don't do camming. I have never done camming and will never do camming. And yet apparently she talks enough about me during her shows for this person to know my major and that I have a new relationship (that maybe four people know about tops.)\n\nIf he actually has her Facebook, he can see that we're roommates, and find my Facebook in turn. \n\nAfter this happened, I demanded to spend the night in a saferoom, and I demanded to move rooms. I have a new roommate now for good measure. I demanded that campus PD is called, and the officer sent out told me that nothing could be done and I should have known what I was getting into when I \"started this business\" even after I told him that I was vehemently not \"in this business.\"\n\nYet if this person goes through and actually has my name and photo, shopped or otherwise, on these fliers, can I make a case for slander? Or at least harassment?\n\nThanks, everybody. ","title":"Can I Make a Case for Slander?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570677044,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfs09f\/nee_jerseycis_form_for_legal_name_change\/","id":"dfs09f","body":"So, I'm very confused at what to fill out on here and what not to fill. \n\nI know my Case type number is 151 b\/c that's a legal name change. And, I think I'm supposed to fill out the rest of the form but there's a small section at the top that says 'For Use by Clerk's Office Only' does that mean I dont fill it out? \n\nOr, is that referring to a legal clerk? I'm representing myself so, I dont think I have clerk.\n\n Also, what in the world do I put on the caption?","title":"Nee Jersey-CIS form for Legal Name Change","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443811526,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n9a6a\/can_i_legally_become_the_godparent_of_a_cat_wa\/","id":"3n9a6a","body":"Half serious, half joking.\n\nMy girlfriend and I have a very close friend with a cat that we all adore. The cat is very cute, if that's relevant to the story. Our friend has proclaimed us the cat's godparents, and we take care of the cat when she's out of town. Her birthday is coming up, and we think the perfect gift for our friend would be some kind of contract stating that we could continue to raise Czarina Elisabetta Von Stoutpaws in the manner she has been accustomed to in the event our friend was not able to care for her cat. Everyone involved here is financially secure, in good health, and living somewhere a cat could live, so it's more a gesture of friendship and affection than a necessity.\n\nHow would we do this? I feel like a notary has to be involved somehow, but I'm not sure how to even start.\n\n(yes, everyone involved in this is a lesbian. the gay ladies really do love their cats)  ","title":"Can I legally become the \"godparent\" of a cat? (WA)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553317898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4fb6q\/fl_landlord_wants_me_to_pay_300_in_pet_fees_for\/","id":"b4fb6q","body":"I\u2019ve had depression for 18 years and I felt that it was time to take control of it, so I decided to get help and also get an emotional support animal (dog). My landlord of almost two years finds out that I have a dog, and wants me to pay $300 in pet fee PLUS what the building association fee is asking for. I have a form provided by my doctor stating that my dog is an ESA. So, I would like to know, can they really charge me that much? And if so\/not, what should I do? \n\nThanks in advance ","title":"[FL] Landlord wants me to pay $300+ in pet fees for my Emotional Support Animal","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569004873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6z7r5\/parents_are_getting_divorced_and_my_mother_is\/","id":"d6z7r5","body":"So long story short, 30 years of marriage coming to an end, my mother hasn't worked in 25 years and is claiming that her lawyer told her not to enroll in school or pick up a job until the divorce is finalized because it will affect her \" expected future income \".\nThis sounds like BS to me that a lawyer told her not to get a job or go into school, because then the only money he's being paid would come directly from my dad ( my mother gets a monthly check from social security or w.e but she wastes it on excess groceries we don't end up using.. ).\n\nSo my question, is this sound legal advice? I'm 24 and not involved in law in the slightest, but the idea of a lawyer telling someone to leach off their spouse until the divorce is finalized sounds extremely sketchy ( if they actually gave her this advice... ).","title":"Parents are getting divorced, and my mother is claiming some weird legal advice supposedly from her lawyer..","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570053812,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dchdbg\/do_i_have_to_talk_to_my_abuser_from_overseas_if_i\/","id":"dchdbg","body":"Long story short: Stupidly got married to a European citizen in Ireland in 2016, he is from another European country, while I am an American citizen. We have been separated since the beginning of 2018. I have not spoken to him since August of that year. I am petrified of him because of his abusive ways and how he can keep coming back and leaving me whenever he wanted, and I've had enough. Went strict no contact and had money issues, so I couldn't think about a divorce until now. I am going to call the courthouse in Ireland tomorrow to see if he even finalized the divorce there, but in case he hasn't, can I file and finalize the divorce here in America, without having to say a word to him? I *really* don't want to speak to him!\n\nWe've only been married for a couple of years, no shared estates, no children, no property, nothing. I think a divorce can be done without lawyers involved because we don't really have much that keeps us together. I live in the state of Pennsylvania for the record. What are my legal options? I hope I'm not asking dumb questions, haha.","title":"Do I have to talk to my abuser from overseas if I want to divorce him?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571728935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlee37\/i_have_a_bit_of_an_odd_question\/","id":"dlee37","body":"My boyfriend drove my car down the road to royal farms one night while I was still asleep, I work night shifts so I have odd sleeping schedules. He doesn\u2019t have a license and usually doesn\u2019t drive unless he absolutely has to, I.e when he drove me to the ER a few months back. Anyway, he told me the cap had only passed him as he left the rofo parking lot and did not follow him on his way back to the house. He had already been in our driveway with the car off and his door open while he finished his cigarette when the office came barreling down our road, stopping just past our driveway when he saw my car. \n\nHe got out ran over to my boyfriend telling him to stay there and running back to his car were he backed up and pulled in behind him, flipping his lights on as he got out again. I don\u2019t remember the charges he was given but he has court after Christmas and I want to know if we can have them all dropped? Or if there\u2019s anything we can even do as the cop didn\u2019t actually stop him while he was driving? A lot of people that my boyfriend knows tell him it was an illegal stop, but I\u2019m not so sure.","title":"I have a bit of an odd question.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445577378,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pvd2n\/what_do_i_need_to_bring_with_me_to_cancel_a_gym\/","id":"3pvd2n","body":"I live in Toronto, Ontario. I signed up to a gym 9 days ago. I signed a 1 year contract, but now I want to cancel it, cause I've read that the gym owners are sleazy and have bad business practices. On the back of the contract it says I have 10 days to cancel the contract. It says I should hand deliver a notice to the gym management to cancel the contract. My question is do I make this notice or do they give me a form to fill out? If I have to make the notice, what do I write in it? Can you just give me an example of what to write in the notice? I feel like I'll only have one chance to give them the notice before they start to avoid me for the next two days, so that I can't cancel the contract. They've already lied to me and told me I have 30 days to cancel the contract, but when I read the contract it says I only have 10 days.","title":"What do I need to bring with me to cancel a gym contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540504115,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9reou0\/creating_a_mobile_application_with_undocumented\/","id":"9reou0","body":"Is it legal for me to create an app with api's that are not publicly documented? The app I am creating would retrieve data from api's that are not open to the public and \"3rd party systems are not authorized to use them\".\n\nIf I publish my app, can the company that owns and maintains the api's force me to take down that app?\n\nI will obviously give credit to the company and say I am not affiliated with them whatsoever.\n\nThis app would be on the apple app store and the google play store.\n\n​\n\nIf you need anymore info, leave a comment or pm me.\n\nThanks in advance for the help","title":"Creating a mobile application with undocumented api's","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540718045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s1xcz\/kick_out_free_loader\/","id":"9s1xcz","body":"My friend who we will call Ali, has a guy named Jon, who is her best friend from middle school, living in her mom\u2019s house. He\u2019s been there for over 3 months and has paid a total of $100 in rent. He is broke and entitled and only has a job because Ali, as the manager of her local electronics shop, has made it possible for Jon to work there. This guy is insane. He\u2019s mentally ill, delusional, and he refuses to acknowledge that he has any problem at all. He blames everyone but himself. It\u2019s a sad defense mechanism; he\u2019s had a hard life. But thing Ali recognizes is that by enabling him, she is hurting him. He has family in Texas he CAN live with, but doesn\u2019t want to (because of how easy Ali and her family have made life for him). He sleeps on the couch in their living room (which he\u2019s peed on btw). She\u2019s ready to kick him out. What are each of their rights in the situation? How can and should she go about this? What are some guidelines for an informal but legal contract that she can write up, to get him out within a certain amount of time? ","title":"Kick out free loader","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552900705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2ghdr\/my_uncle_wont_allow_my_mother_to_see_her_mother\/","id":"b2ghdr","body":"As said in the title, my uncle won't allow my mother to see her mother. I wanted to get some advice because this issue seems kind of complex and our family is at a loss as to what we can do. \n\nTo give you some back story, my grandmother (my mom's mom) is living with my uncle because she can no longer care for herself due to do her having dimenia. Its impossible to personally get in contact with her unless we called out uncle's house or cell phone to get a hold of her. My uncle won't allow myother to see her because of there issues\/fighting they've had in the past and I think he just doesn't want to see her. I also think he really just doesn't care to much as to importance for my grandmother to see her family. \n\nUnfortunately my uncle has power of attorney, and power of medical. We simply cannot stroll over to his house because his home is gated and we wouldnt just be able to knock on the door. Either way I think he would just call the cops. \n\nWhat can my family and I do as to regards being able to see her? Anything?","title":"My uncle won't allow my mother to see her mother","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1410458452,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g4ghg\/please_help_me_im_18_and_a_male_living_in\/","id":"2g4ghg","body":"So I'm 18 and I live in California. I just graduated high school, and as a result, the majority of my friends are minors. One of these friends is a girl and she is 16. We started texting a few days after I graduated, and things elevated, and I thought I fell in love. She fell for me, and things snowballed into sexting, but when I realized that it wouldn't work out, she flipped. She wanted to send me to jail and have my life ruined. I didn't want that so I lied to her and said I had feelings so she would calm down and not call the police or anything. It's been going on like this for months now, almost daily her getting mad and threatening me. Her uncle is a police officer and she has already called him to frisk other guys. I'm really scared. I tried to be reasonable and find a middle ground, but she won't settle. She's unstable and is ruining my life. I don't want to go to prison and be a sex offender because of this mistake and an unstable girl. When I try to talk things out to her she won't hear anything I say. Her entire reason for doing this is because I won't date her. Every argument boils down to me trying to make the situation better and avoid conflict, and her getting angry over me not wanting to date. When we were actually emotional together, we exchanged nudes, but when I tried to end it, she continued to send nudes and sexually suggestive pictures, even when I told her I didn't want them anymore. Please help, I'm so scared, I've been sick with anxiety for months now, and I'm so scared of what will happen. Any advice is welcome, and sorry for the bad format, I'm on mobile","title":"Please help me! I'm 18 and a male living in California. I'm in a horrible situation about sexting.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540618575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rryuk\/what_is_the_statue_of_limitations_for_petty_theft\/","id":"9rryuk","body":"My friend was accused of stealing she couldn\u2019t deal with the stress so she resigned with immediate effect and hasn\u2019t heard from employer since the incident in January or February of 2017. She is afraid that they will randomly continue criminal procedure. I\u2019m trying to tell her the statue is a year. It is a year right? ","title":"What is the statue of limitations for petty theft by an employee? In the state of California?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553889559,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b71xdh\/can_i_ask_a_judge_to_reduce_my_fine\/","id":"b71xdh","body":"I rear ended someone about a month ago and got a pricey ticket. I\u2019m a struggling college student and can\u2019t really afford the fine. Can I ask the judge to reduce it in traffic court? If so what must I say and do?","title":"Can I ask a judge to reduce my fine?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569274374,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8daae\/apartment_hid_the_lack_of_ac_in_building\/","id":"d8daae","body":"So I am a student in Texas, where it is known to get very hot in the summer months. I began my lease at an apartment before the semester began with 3 other guys. The apartment has several bedrooms and 2 bath. Half of the bedrooms have functioning A\/C, and half do not. This makes them very hot and I'm sure in the winter they will be very cold.\n\nNaturally, the apartment did not tell us about this beforehand. We had put in requests to get this fixed, as we assumed it was just a blocked filter or something. Today, I checked the status of the requests and saw they were all cancelled without explanation. So I sent an email describing this and asking to be directed to whomever I can speak to to escalate this issue. They emailed me back in a few hours and sent over a maintenance man.\n\nHe tells me that they know the A\/C is out on this side of the building and have made no attempt to fix it. I was frustrated by this of course, because they never stated that this would be a problem and when I toured the building, the unit I saw was well air conditioned. I asked the maintenance man to try to talk to them, or to send me all this in writing.\n\nDo I have any legal grounds here? I really just want A\/C. I'm tired of waking up overheated in the night.","title":"Apartment hid the lack of A\/C in building","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553646053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5xj6r\/rental_lease_for_1_year_and_6_months_in_they_try\/","id":"b5xj6r","body":"Last year (fall 2018) we signed a lease renewal for 1 year with a set price for rent. Lots of paper and signatures. Lease started this year(01\/01\/2019). Today I just got a note saying they noticed our rent compared to others and want to increase our rent in June of this year and make it month to month. How can they do this? Also I live in California.\n\nAlso another thing was mid January they fired the landlord lady and got a new one. New landlord asked us for a copy of our lease (apparently they lost it). Well luckily we have copies so gave them the copies and said we are good to go as normal per the lease and everything has been fine up til today when we got that note. Haven't had time to talk to her today but was wondering if this is normal or can they do this?","title":"Rental lease for 1 year and 6 months in they try to increase rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569603109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da35wr\/difficult_family_death_abroad\/","id":"da35wr","body":"Hi all,\n\nFirst, this account is a throwaway as many posts here are, and this is to help my mother more than me. Recently my mother learnt that her brother (my uncle) had passed away after a barbecue exploded. My Uncle's boyfriend had told us this, and that he has passed away after being taken into intensive care. However, a few factors have caused this to be an awkward situation. Firstly, there has not been a death certificate yet, nor contact from anyone else such as the police. Secondly, my Uncle and his boyfriend live in Bulgaria, and weren't citizens in Bulgaria. Thirdly, because of the second reason, my Uncle is in a private hospital and apparently raking up a lot of debt for my mother who is being asked to pay for everything. Fourthly, as hinted at in the third point, my mother is being asked to pay for everything, yet we have no money. And finally, my uncle and his boyfriend are huge liars and thieves who abandoned the UK after credit card fraud many years ago. Currently my Uncle's boyfriend has fled to Romania, as the police apparently beat him up for some reason to do with being gay. They lie consistently, and so it is going to be very hard to work through the web of lies he left behind him, if he is dead at all. \n\nWhat I wish to learn is how to best deal with this situation from authoritative sources. Who to contact, what steps to follow, and how to do this as cheaply as possible as we have about \u00a31,000 in savings. My family is a bit of a fuck up when it comes to money. \n\nSorry if this is poorly written, this is my first post here and this has all happened within the hour, so I am not in the right position to concisely relay this to you all. I would deeply appreciate any help and I will respond to every query or advice you may have to offer.","title":"Difficult family death abroad","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569445459,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d99kor\/where_to_provide_credit_for_third_party_supplied\/","id":"d99kor","body":" I am not sure if this is the right place to post, so please point me in the right direction if this isn't the place to post.\n\nI am building an Open Source Qt Application and I am going to be using some icons for some of the buttons. However, in the license for the applications it states: \"You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\"\n\nI am not really sure where I am supposed to place this credit. Is placing it in the readme file for the git repository good enough? Or do I need to place it within a drop down menu within the application itself? Like within Help or About? Or do I need to place it in both the git repository and the application itself?\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated. And again, if this is the wrong place to post, please point me in the right direction!","title":"Where to provide credit for third party supplied resources?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507346714,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74sl8m\/needs_of_the_company_meaning\/","id":"74sl8m","body":"Just wondered if there has ever been a case regarding what this truly means, and haven't been able to find anything.\n\nNon-important details below, but the reason I'm curious.\n\nThe reason I ask is the company I work for (which I genuinely like other than this issue) seems to use it very liberally to suit their own needs, at the expense of the employees. The contracts we sign specify for a given time what hours we will work, but our hours may change due to \"needs of the company.\"\n\nWhy it's bothering me is because of a couple instances. \n\n1: After taking a new position, I got asked (key word there, it was asked and not told at all) to take on some additional duties. I agreed, and assumed they'd work with me to make it where normal duties allow me to complete these new ones too, since it was important that it be done correctly. Something that honestly would have been an easy change. Well, they didn't and after a year of warning them it would bite us one day, it finally did last week. I immediately got in trouble to a point that I was highly irritated and desired to get off the duties due to them setting me up for failure. (Don't get me wrong. The mistake was my fault. I just feel, and other employees including a boss agree, that it was not helped by them) I was told I likely wouldn't be able to because of \"needs of the company.\" Nowhere in writing does it say these are my duties. And there are other people trained and capable of doing them. I do not feel it is a need.\n\n2: Another buddy once volunteered to help a guy out with some stuff, and did so. A year later that guy is stuck doing those things and can not get off of it no matter what. The dude's looking at pulling a 65+ hour week next week because he was asked to help with some other stuff (also very important, if not more so.) He was willing to help, and now they won't let him off the duties that he was just volunteering to help the other guy with because of \"needs of the company.\" Once again, there is nothing in writing saying those are his responsibilities, and they are others capable of doing them.\n\n3: Another guy is repeatedly told his duties are changing, and is expected to do pretty much everyone's job if someone is out. He's been at the company over a decade, never tried changing the area he works in, and yet has done so over 7 times because of \"needs of the company.\" At this point he doesn't even complain and let's it happen. I just feel like it's BS.\n\nSo I'm just curious is there is any precedent set on what \"need\" means legally, as I feel like they overextend it massively.  Definitely not gonna take it to court or anything, just would like to be educated on the subject and felt like surely it's been brought up before.\n\nEdit: Forgot location, mostly because I'm just curious about it all over the U.S. Tennessee I guess though if the state is needed.","title":"\"Needs of the company\" meaning.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569011303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d70nil\/signatories_on_a_third_party_agreement\/","id":"d70nil","body":"A management company \"hires\" an individual (Manager) to live within the confines of the property (apartment buildings). He receives reduced rent while being expected to answer to the tenants on the property in the case that something needs repairs. The management company acknowledges that he is NOT an employee of the management company, and gets no benefits from being \"employed\".\n\n(The management company does NOT own the apartment buildings)\n\nQUESTION: When typing the contract, do you need the signature of the newly hired individual (Manager) or is there some type of third party clause that states that the management company can sign FOR the individual?","title":"Signatories on a Third Party Agreement","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552199504,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azd1lw\/designing_shirts_using_imageswallpapers\/","id":"azd1lw","body":"Hey I have a question, I\u2019ve been creating designs and I\u2019ve been using images of NBA players. The images I\u2019ve been using have been under \u201cAttribution-ShareALike2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA2.0)\u201d\n\nFrom my knowledge I\u2019m safe to remix images under that and use them commercially.\n\nHowever, can I use other people\u2019s creations such as wallpapers or other people\u2019s edits, remix them and put them on my designs? \n","title":"Designing shirts using images\/wallpapers","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551890605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay0viy\/20_yr_old_losing_my_dads_house_over_4500_recieved\/","id":"ay0viy","body":"So my home is going through foreclosure, and we recently recieved a court summons due to that. From my understanding, I have to write a letter to a judge stating why they shouldn't let the bank take my house.\n\nAny advice on how to go about this? For a little background, I'm 20. My dad bought this house years ago, took out a loan on it, and somehow got $150 monthly mortage payments. Fast forward about 25 years later. My dad got sick. He had uncontrolled diabetes which I believe caused him some serious memory issues. He kept telling my mother and I that he was paying the bills. \n\nI heard him fighting with the bank one day, about how he owed money. He was behind on payments but they would NOT let him pay on the mortage until he could pay in full. I dont know how many months behind he was, but I'm assuming it was probably around $600+ which we could not afford to do. \n\nWe didn't realise how far behind he was on payments until he died of a heart attack weeks later. It was not the cost that put us behind, just his memory. We're $1500+ behind on payments, but they've stacked on $3000 in legal fees. They want my mom and I to pay the $4500 upfront. They denied our application for any mortage assistance, and will NOT let us pay in payments. We are about to lose our home for the price of a used toyota. \n\nPaying it is not an option. I make $10 an hour and my moms on disability. Her credit is bad, I have none, and nobody is willing to lend us the cash. Our last hope is somehow pleading to the courts to give us a chance. I just need some sort of advice as whay exactly I need to do right now to save my home.","title":"20 yr old losing my dad's house over $4500. Recieved a court summons, what do I even do from here?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570470135,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/demv9y\/ny_speeding_ticket_reduced_to_nonmoving\/","id":"demv9y","body":"Today I got my first speeding ticket, going 75 in a 55. I have never gotten a ticket before. I took the ticket and drove to the first attorney I could find. He was confident he could get it reduced to a couple parking tickets. \n\nIs this common? \n\nHe seemed like he did this fairly commonly, had me sign a waiver to allow him to represent me in court, kept my ticket, and said he would contact me when he received my court date, if I wanted to attend. This all seemed extremely streamlined and I'm not sure if this is good or bad.\n\nI'm very nervous and just looking for advice or experience from any attorneys or people who have had a ticket like this reduced. Thanks everyone.","title":"NY Speeding ticket reduced to non-moving","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554106829,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7zell\/can_i_be_charged_for_stalking\/","id":"b7zell","body":"I am under 18. I have msged this one person(also currently under 18) 4-5 times on seperate occasions through various social media sites over the course of the last 3-4 years. Each time the conversations last for at most 1 hour, she tells me to never msg her again and feels very unconfortable and unsafe during the conversation. She also blocks me on that account. I have never made any threats to her,only simply asking her to talk to me. We live in different cities in california. I have not interacted with her in real life during this time period.\n\nSo can I be charged for stalking?","title":"Can I be charged for stalking?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552426974,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0diui\/is_this_site_fake_i_already_ordered_something\/","id":"b0diui","body":"https:\/\/2salesaday.com\/\n\nI ordered a switch yesterday but I was looking over the site and then googled it and said it's located in Canada (but they could just be using a VPN)\n\nDoes it look like a scam? If it is how can I go about getting my money back? ","title":"Is this site fake? I already ordered something","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569460429,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ckdv\/wi_tenant_paid_rent_with_a_forged_check_and_the\/","id":"d9ckdv","body":"So, the sale of a rental property we owned was final on 9\/13\/2019.  The tenants in a unit there have always been as issue and always paid late.  It was a pain, but I got the late fee every month so there was some upside.  They generally paid around the 10th and in September they paid on the 11th.  This was known by the buyer and realtors that if I had collected rent I would pass on the prorated rent to the buyer and if not, they would collect after closing and give the proration back to me.  I collected the rent the 11th and we closed the 13th with me passing on 17\/30th of the rent to the new owner.\n\nFast forward to day and I get a letter from my bank with a note explaining the money order had a stopped payment applied.  After further investigation it seems that it wasn't initially made out to me, but somehow they found (stole) a money order for the same amount as their rent made out to someone who's company name has the same 3 letters as mine followed by the word management (e.g. it was made out to LMN Management and my company is LMNOP Management).\n\nI have already informed the police so they can investigate the check fraud, but my question is, what should I do to try and recoup my lost rent?  Is it the new owners responsibility to give me the tenants security deposit to makeup for the loss (assuming the tenants won't, which I cant imagine they will)?  Should I send a letter naming the tenants, their co-signer and the new property owner asking for reimbursement? Also, would the bank be culpable at all?\n\n​\n\nThanks for reading","title":"(WI) Tenant paid rent with a forged check and the issuing company stooped payment. It wasn't flagged by my bank until after I sold the property.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540528073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rhlpa\/youtube_account_with_earraping_fair_use\/","id":"9rhlpa","body":"I plan on making a YouTube channel that primarily focuses on earraping (Excessive bass boost) copyrighted music. This music will be distorted to the point where it is only used for memes, and I plan on making absolutely no monetary gain. Is there any way to escape copyright infringement by using Fair Use or anything similar to that? Thank you. (United States)","title":"YouTube account with earraping, fair Use?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570553197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df2mtf\/can_i_sue_my_school_uk\/","id":"df2mtf","body":"Throwaway for obvious reasons.\n\nBefore you downvote this to oblivion, please hear my petty and enraged ass out.\n\nBasically, as anyone who's gone through the UK university application system knows, you have to apply through UCAS, where you either register through a school or individually. If you do it through a school, they'll provide predicted grades and references whereas you would have to find a tutor to provide those if you do it individually.\n\nI am currently a secondary school leaver who's hoping to apply to Oxford for 2020 entry in addition to another university, the deadline of which is in exactly a week from this post (Oxford applicants have to do theirs 3 months before everyone else). \n\nI originally said that I was only applying to one of those unis that didn't require early entry, but I told the school I left this about 2 weeks ago that I would be doing so, and they didn't reply to that or any of the follow-up emails, so I assumed it was cool with them.\n\nBut come today, the asshole of a vice-principal\/headmaster, emails me today saying he refuses to process my application because \"3 weeks notice\" was not enough time to \"process my application\" (updating my reference, literally putting down predicted grades for my retakes). \n\nFirst, he stated it was because my grades do not meet the minimum requirement (plainly wrong, my predicted retake grades do meet them). After I pointed out he was wrong, he then shifted it to the \"time constraints\" excuse. Now we're waiting for the head's verdict and I feel like I've got the vice-head on the ropes since he knows he's in the wrong and is now trying to be placatingly polite, but I'm not holding my breath since this vice-head is notorious for being best friends with the headmaster.\n\nI'm just completely annoyed at the fact that they didn't even have the decency to tell me that the first time I emailed or in the first reply and that now my potential future is a casualty of their own poor management. Instead, they left it until this week after I had to email one of my old teachers to ask about it.\n\nr\/legaladvice, is there any grounds on which I could bring my old school to court? I'm just completely frustrated at this entire mess since yesterday, everything was going just fine.","title":"Can I sue my school? [UK]","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569084920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7d0sx\/hi_im_not_the_best_of_legal_things_and_i_dont\/","id":"d7d0sx","body":"Ok so when I was younger my parents split up and one of the reasons was money. So my dad used to do building and printing and there was a popcorn shop who wanted a canopy and my dad had made what they wanted three times and costed him around 10-20 thousand dollars and didn\u2019t take the exact model until the fourth time and they didn\u2019t pay him. Even though it was around 5 years ago and they shut down that location, they do have more locations I was wondering if there was anything I could do about it. Thanks for reading it though","title":"Hi, I\u2019m not the best of legal things and I don\u2019t have all of the facts but I was wondering if you could help me","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569646433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dabo16\/ca_driver_hit_me_when_they_illegally_merged_lanes\/","id":"dabo16","body":"So i was working. I drive a semi truck and was making a right turn. The guy who is accusing me of hitting him was trying to get into my lane and miscalculated their change and ended up hitting me i am assuming since i felt nothing. Anyway, i stop since hes waving me to stop. And he says i hit him. He asks me for my information and i give him my license and insurance and reg. I ask him for his and he says hes going to get it and gets in his car and takes off. Some time later i recieve a letter from the insurance i owe them money. I havent spoken to anyone. But this is bs. He was illegally merging. And i apparently damaged the area right behind the gas tank. Since thats where he messed up. What should i do. I have been driving for over 25 years and i know how to turn and distance gauging. This guy is scamming me good. Help","title":"CA driver hit me when they illegally merged lanes. I recieved insurance papers saying i owe over 6k","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446681527,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rk8q1\/my_17yr_old_brother_may_be_coming_up_to_ohio_to\/","id":"3rk8q1","body":"Hello all.\n\nMy little brother lives in Florida. He is currently staying with his grandma because my mom and his dad split up and everything went down hill. My mom is in and out of my life, into some bad stuff and can't get her head out of her ass. His dad has been in and out of some bad shit as well. Neither of them were able to house and take care of my brother so he stays with his dads mother. \n\nThe grandma hasn't been the most nurturing person, always obviously favoring other grandchildren for quite a while now. \n\nThis tiny town they live in is in the middle of nowhere and not a good place for teens. The only thing they have to do is get into trouble.\n\nMy brother has gotten into a little bit and missed some school. He was recently suspended for sticking up for himself (so he says) for a few days. \n\nHe's in a bad sitauation and all he wants to do is graduate and join the military after school. I feel so bad for him having to go through so much shit. \n\nHe told me he wants to come stay with me and graduate in Ohio. He wants to get away from all the bullshit. I talked to his dad and he is okay with it and thinks it might be good for him.\n\nI would love to have him here with me, but I need to know how to legally have him stay with me. Do I have to have custody of him? His dad was thinking he could have a Power of Attorney written up to allow me to put him into school and sign for anything that he would need. Is that possible?\n\nAlso, his dad has told me that he and his mother will be sending me money to cover expenses for my brother at least until my brother gets a job. Could I draw up a contract for something like that?\n\nI want this to be 100% legal and I don't want to get screened somehow. I know I will most likely need to see a lawyer, but it will be nice to kind of have a heads up on what I will need or how to go about doing this.\n\nI really appreciate any advice. Thank you. \n\n**TL;DR: Do I need custody of my brother for him to come live with me until he is 18 in 6 months? Or can his father give me a POA to put him in school and anything else he would need? Can I draw up a contract with his father agreeing to send me money on a monthly basis for my brothers expenses?","title":"My 17yr old brother may be coming up to Ohio to live with me so he can be in a better living situation to graduate next year... Need advice!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570701819,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfvsrp\/can_blizzard_actually_require_users_to_show_their\/","id":"dfvsrp","body":"How legal is it for Blizzard to ask users for ID verification to cancel their accounts when they didn\u2019t need ID to start their accounts?\n\nIt seems like Blizzard is doing this to stop the backlash from the Hearthstone event and bending to Chinese censorship. \n\nCan they do this? Is it legal?","title":"Can Blizzard actually require users to show their ID to cancel their accounts when they didn\u2019t need ID to start their accounts","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571661196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkzvam\/sold_my_car_to_a_classmate_classmate_never\/","id":"dkzvam","body":"Hi. Earlier this year I sold my car to who I thought was a friend. I sold the car for 500 dollars as the transmission was broke and the car was just in over all bad shape. None the less he wanted the engine out of it. I agreed and I gave him a bill of sales. However. I lost the one that I had. The car was never meant to he driven as it had no seats or anything. Fast forward 8 months later and I get a letter in the mail saying the car is impounded and there's a parking ticket. I tex4 my old classmate about it and he asks \"what car?\" So I tell him the integra? As I only sold him one car. To which he says \"what color?\" And I tell him red. He then says \"idk what you're talking about\". Fucking asshole knows exactly what's going on and is leaving the bill for me. I understand I fucked up by not turning in a release of liability but is there ANYTHING I can do? The tow yard wants 2000 dollars from me and the parking ticket is upwards of 300 dollars. I'm in the bay area of california. Is there anything I can do?","title":"Sold my car to a classmate. Classmate never registered the car in their name and parked the car illegally getting it towed","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541525115,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uqblh\/crappy_previous_apartment_complex_trying_to_slap\/","id":"9uqblh","body":"I STUPIDLY signed a lease at an absolute joke of an apartment complex. My first time ever living alone. They told me it was being \u201cfully cleaned and renovated\u201d so I couldn\u2019t see it. For WEEKS. Should have backed out right then, but I was homeless and desperate to get in anywhere. \n\nMove in day and you guessed it, the place is filthy. What looks like human hair and smashed food all over the carpet, one of the windows would fall right out of the wall when you touched in, the refrigerator and sink had loads of old food crumbs in them, it stunk of dog urine, the shower had hair on the walls, there was a giant hole in the living room wall, list goes on and on. \n\nI contacted them right away. They claimed they had the carpets shampooed and deodorized while I was at work a few days later \u2014 nope. They looked nor smelled any different. I had to complain about the hole in the wall multiple times before it was patched. They never fixed the window. \n\nI terminated my lease maybe a month later and took off. \n\nThis was in August. I just received a letter from the utility company saying I owe $80 for this months utilities. I called and said I don\u2019t live there and haven\u2019t in nearly three months. They said I \u201cdidn\u2019t move out promptly\u201d so I still need to pay it. \n\nThen, I received a letter yesterday from the apartment complex saying I owe $209 to them: $154 for water (again, I don\u2019t live there and there\u2019s not a chance i ran up a water bill to $154 when I did. I did receive a water bill for the month I lived there while I was still there and paid it) $20 for a dirty refrigerator, $20 for a dirty crisper drawer inside of the refrigerator and $15 for a dirty sink. \n\nI cleaned the apartment when I left. Nothing was wrong. They\u2019re also withholding my deposit because of this. \n\nI don\u2019t care about the deposit, to be honest. I just don\u2019t want to pay nearly $300 to a place I haven\u2019t lived in months when the place was trashed when I got there and I left it looking better when I left. \n\nAny way to combat this? ","title":"Crappy previous apartment complex trying to slap me with a $210 fine \u2014 utilities is doing it, too!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505295959,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ztj7o\/bank_transfer_from_company_being_struck_off_uk\/","id":"6ztj7o","body":"I recently sold about \u00a3500 worth of bitcoin to a seller of fairly high rep on the \"localbitcoins\" exchange. The sale went without a hitch and the money is now in my account via bank transfer.\n\nThe payment was made in the name of their company so naturally I did some digging on the Companies House website and discovered that they had voluntarily filed to be struck off from the register in August and have received their first gazette notice just a few days ago.\n\nIs the fact that the payment is filed under the name of this company cause for concern on my part?","title":"Bank Transfer From Company Being Struck Off (UK)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1408558479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e3psw\/california_a_guy_backs_into_my_car_is_small\/","id":"2e3psw","body":"While working for a ridesharing company (like sidecar or Lyft) a man backed into me at a stoplight. He had 1 passenger and I had 2. There was no damage to his car but about $1,500+ to mine. I let my passengers get another ride after getting their information. The other diver admitted fault at the scene but is now refusing it, saying I hit him. His passenger went with his version of the story and my passengers said that he hit me. \n\nwhile no dammage to his car he is now claiming that he is sore and had to go to a chiropractor. \n\nIf he goes through uninsured motorist I could be sued by his insurance company. My ridesharing company will cover this with their insurance but, if he puts marks on my record for bodily injury I could loose my job. \n\nI need to get my car fixed. Is it worth it for me to take the other driver to small claims court? And if I do what city do I have to file in? mine or the one where the accident happened?\n\nOther notes:\n\nI checked all of the shops in the area for video footage of the accident but could not find any.\n\nI also bought a dashcam incase something like this happens in the future.\n","title":"[California] A guy backs into my car. Is small claims worth it?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446322100,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r05cf\/ma_passing_on_the_left_on_single_lane_street\/","id":"3r05cf","body":"Situation: I am driving my vehicle down a street, single lane for each direction no passing area. As I am driving a vehicle behind me crosses over double yellow lines to pass me on my left. If I accelerate and do not let said person pass me or reenter my lane and we collide as they attempt to reenter who is at fault? Second question, if I were to attempt to box said person out and follow over the double yellow to prevent the pass who would be at fault for a collision? Edit:Thank you everyone for your responses! If I see someone passing on the left I should just let them go. Have a good day =]","title":"(MA) Passing on the left on single lane street?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555452244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdzv9c\/got_a_speeding_ticket_in_a_school_zone_in_va_but\/","id":"bdzv9c","body":"I was late for a meeting this morning and didn't realize I was driving in a school zone. Got a ticket saying that I was doing 42 in 25 mph zone. The prepayment fee is $66 dollars. I don't know if I should pay it or not. If I pay it I will saying I'm guilty, but what are the consequences of that? Will I have to pay more later and how many points will it add to my CA license and can I get rid of those points by going to traffic school? I am totally confused as to what to do.. This is the first ticket I have received..","title":"Got a speeding ticket in a school zone in VA but driver's license is from CA","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570109079,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcquz8\/septic_tank_overflow\/","id":"dcquz8","body":"So, roughly 11 days ago now, the water tank at my house got clogged with something and there were at least a dozen flushes of the toilet before anyone noticed. Greywater covered the entirety of the room it was in, took them hours to clean it all up. \n\nHere's where it gets good.... quite a bit of that water leaked underneath the floor itself and trailed over to my suite on the other side of the wall. The carpet had literal puddles underneath it that squished when I stepped on it one morning. So approximately  one fifth of my house had the cumulative toilet water of like a dozen people seeped underneath my suite, and their brilliant solution to get rid of the excess water they couldn't clean was to turn the floor heaters on max for 2 days and dry it off. I'm fairly certain that they didn't know it had seeped over into my area of the house but that doesn't change that my house has smelled like cooked urine and feces for going on 2 weeks now. I made a big deal about it Tuesday of last week (I noticed it Sunday of that same week) because after two days of sizzling off that greywater it smelled so bad I couldn't stand it. I very clearly informed them that toilet water had seeped underneath the house, into my room and part of the kitchen, and even showed them pictures of the brown stains left on my floor that have faded over time from my constant spraying of smelly chemicals....\n\nIt cant be healthy to live in a house where part of your floor has cooked off fecal residue underneath it. They said they would shampoo the carpet, which they still haven't done (I personally think the floor of my suite needs to be completely renovated at this point, the damage is too severe) the smell has tapered off a little bit since then but it's by no means acceptable. \n\nThings aren't great between me and the landlord but that's mostly a result of my extreme social anxiety and less to do with anything I have or haven't done. It's rare that I drink and don't do drugs of any kind. Don't have company over hardly ever. \n\nI guess what I'm asking is, can I withhold part of the rent and use that to pay for cleaning costs? I strongly think this falls under landlord duties but not 100% sure. \n\nTldr; water tank overflowed greywater and leaked under my carpet in the next room, landlord doesn't seem to care about fixing it","title":"Septic tank overflow","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568660205,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d54s5y\/client_im_contracted_to_wants_to_hire_me_after\/","id":"d54s5y","body":"I work for a company that contracts out, and the client I\u2019ve been at for about 3 years wants to hire me. They would honor my company\u2019s existing contract and then hire me upon its expiration. Part of my employee agreement states that converting to employment with a client is not permitted during my employment and for one year following the termination of the employee agreement.\n\nI\u2019ve seen mixed things about how variations of this sometimes go in the employee\u2019s favor, and I really want to work for this client, so I wanted to see if this might fall under that category.","title":"Client I\u2019m contracted to wants to hire me after current contract is up, my employment agreement forbids it for a year. Will this hold up? (Minnesota)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552173630,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az9gvg\/pa_classmate_stole_my_laptop_it_was_recovered\/","id":"az9gvg","body":"This happened 3 years ago, and seeing as how I chose at the time not to act (or rather, convinced my mom not to act, as I was 17 at the time) I would imagine there's no real way to act on it at this point. I'm asking more out of curiosity at this point than anything else.\n\nMy freshman year of college, I had my MacBook stolen from behind my back by a classmate. Thankfully, after using Find My Mac I was able to point the local police directly to the perp's house. He asked to talk after it was recovered, which I agreed to.\n\nHe stated in this discussion that he had the full intention of selling\/pawning off the laptop for money to buy his girlfriend a Valentine's Day gift. He was on track to graduate at the end of the semester, and said that I would be \"ruining his life\" by pressing charges and getting him convicted and expelled.\n\nAt the time, I was _extremely_ naive and forgiving and convinced my mom not to press charges on my behalf. I figured that the terror he felt upon being discovered was enough of a wakeup call for him. I believe the maximum consequences he faced were a probation from the school, and only because they were required to do _something_.\n\nBeing 3 years older and smarter, I realize that I should _not_ have let him off the hook for stealing a _fucking computer_ from a college student. My questions are:\n\n1. Is it truly too late to act on this, and would it be worth my time to do so? (I would imagine the answer is no.)\n2. If he _had_ been convicted at the time, what consequences would he likely have been facing, taking into account that...\n  - ...it was his first offense.\n  - ...he had wiped the hard drive, indicating that in addition to the initial theft, he was also possibly guilty of computer theft\/unlawful access\n  - ...the computer would, at the time, have been valued between $400 and $500 (which I think would make it a 1st-degree misdemeanor?)","title":"[PA] Classmate stole my laptop. It was recovered from his home with the hard drive wiped. I opted at the time not to press charges. If I hadn't made that decision, what sort of penalties could the thief have faced?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1549482885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anuqqy\/what_does_it_mean_nlrb_question\/","id":"anuqqy","body":"When an employer decides that they will force employees to sign a document that states they may not disclose or have conversations in relation to their wages...  \nDoes that violate the following? is it considered unfair labor practices? \n\nRIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES\n\n\u00a0Sec. 7. \\[\u00a7 157.\\] Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment as authorized in section 8(a)(3) \\[section 158(a)(3) of this title\\].  \n\n\nSec. 8. \\[\u00a7 158.\\] (a) \\[Unfair labor practices by employer\\] It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer--\n\n\u00a0(1) to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7 \\[section 157 of this title\\];","title":"What does it mean? (NLRB Question)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540454335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r89jk\/employer_intervention_on_suicide\/","id":"9r89jk","body":"First time poster in r\/legaladvice and just curious about how far a employer can take these events before going over boundaries.\n\n​\n\nI work in retail and my District Manager and General Manager have pulled me into a closed office to discuss the possibility of me being suicidal. The discussion started with them asking if I have ever had thoughts of suicide or openly discussed committing suicide. Which I said I have no plans of ending my life at anytime. The discussion further went into that many people love me and to think of my family and friends that will be affected. I further said that I don't feel either of you are qualified to question me about any thoughts I might have. The discussion then ended with being handed a pamphlet for our Employee Assistance Program that covers: Death, Suicide, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, and other topics. My District Manager then asked me to complete a written statement with signature and date recalling any events of suicide.\n\n​\n\nFirstly, I am not suicidal, so please leave out the tip line comments. Have I made jokes about wishing to be injured on the way to work to avoid having to attend my job, yes. I guarantee this is where the allegations have come from. Continuing I feel this is a form of retaliation after reporting my General Manager for stealing over $25k in payroll by not accounting for PTO and Sick Pay correctly in our systems.\n\n​\n\nReason for this post is what I should do about this statement my District Manager has asked me complete? I am actively seeking new employment to get out of retail see r\/TalesFromRetail for my reasoning to get out. No one in the company knows of my will to seek alternative employment.\n\n​\n\nThanks!","title":"Employer Intervention on Suicide","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555054437,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcatp0\/is_there_any_recourse_to_force_a_roommate_out\/","id":"bcatp0","body":"Hi everyone,\n\n​\n\nI never really thought I'd need to ask for advice here but here I am. I've sat here an hour debating whether or not to post this but damn it I need answers because I am at my wit's end with this overgrown man child making me miserable in my own damn house. Also, warning, holy long post batman.\n\n​\n\n**Location: NC, USA**\n\nI own my home and needed to rent out a room to help make ends meet. I've been incredibly lucky in that before this current roommate\/tenant I've never had any problems but this current one has been awful, to the point that I break down crying because of the stress his presence causes. I understand the general tenant\/landlord laws and rules (like how self help evictions are illegal) but want to know if there's any legal way to get him out of my house besides going through the long process of a 30 day eviction. He's made it incredibly uncomfortable and stressful being in my own home. It doesn't help that anytime we bring problems to his attention he gets defensive and starts demanding we lower his rent. \n\nEssentially he's a very entitled individual who fails at even the most basic of cleaning and is inconsiderate to others and their property. I am constantly having to clean my house after him, am constantly inconvenienced by his actions, and have become very stressed by his presence in my home to the point I'm not even sleeping well anymore. I'm doubting this would count as emotional distress so that's not the topic of this discussion.\n\n​\n\nKey Notes\n\n* He signed a roommate agreement that we believe he didn't bother to read due to him breaking it several times the first month (even within 4 days of moving in). Examples of specific agreement violations will be listed with the things down below.\n* The rent is $600\/month, utilities included (yes, we now realize this was stupid as he leaves his lights on all day even when he's not home despite being asked not to). A $400 deposit was paid day one and idk if it's important but none of this money has come from him, it's always been sent by his mother to my venmo.\n* We have cameras in the house that record audio and video. They are only in common areas and they were disclosed before the agreement was signed and the agreement has a section stipulating that by signing they agree to the use of those cameras in and outside of the house. One camera faces the laundry room, the other faces the kitchen, living room, and dining room with clear viewing access to all three of those rooms.\n* After going through two weeks of his BS we politely asked him to reconsider his stay in our home as we no longer felt comfortable, were unable to relax during the day due to his loud music, and are tired of cleaning up after him despite repeated warnings (on paper or through text) that he was essentially violating his agreement. He agreed via text (after calling the situation \"bs\" and demanding a rent reduction) to leave by the end of April but I feel things are getting worse and that he's doing subtle things vindictively to make these last (now 18 days) even more miserable for us. It's getting to be too much, LA, the silent hostility when he's in the same room as us and unfixed problems are stressing my husband and me out and affecting our working lives.\n* This month (April) he didn't pay the full rent amount at first. His mother sent $200 on April 3rd (late, it was due the 1st) and told us we could use the deposit to cover the rest. We told him absolutely not, that the deposit was our only safety net in case he damaged our property before leaving and the other $400 needed to be paid by April 5th. He called the situation bs (a common tact if you haven't noticed) but relented and paid $400 in cash on the 5th demanding to know that his $400 would be refunded when he moved out). I told him it would be, minus any damage he did to our home or property. This is also outlined in the agreement. (And just because we don't trust him now we did run a counterfeit pen over the cash just in case).\n\n​\n\nThe following are the core issues we have had to deal with constantly with him\n\n* Blasting music loud enough to be heard from all corners of the house several times throughout the first month, twice after 10pm\n   * We have a section in the agreement saying it should be relatively quiet in the house between 10pm & 8am\n* Using our cleaning supplies despite the agreement saying he needs to buy and use his own (we obviously never touch his things) and this has been addressed multiple times. There's been no evidence of him taking our food, just the cleaning supplies.\n* He doesn't clean the kitchen when he's done despite us always leaving it neat, tidy, and wiped down for him to use (the agreement has a section stating he is required to keep common areas he uses clean and tidy)\n   * Every time he cooks I have to go behind him and clean my damn kitchen because he refuses to and leaves grease and food all over my stove top, counter, dish washer, fridge, and anywhere else he touched with his grease covered hands.\n   * Several times now I have found (very obviously seen) chopped onions, spinach, protein powder, and dry oatmeal either on my floor or on my counter. There's no excuse why he doesn't wipe up or sweep up his messes.\n   * I have slipped in my kitchen because my wood floor was covered in grease from his cooking\n   * He leaves the sponge covered in food and filth and lets it sit like that rather then rinse it clean (not major but it's freaking gross and can attract pests)\n* Although we make room in our kitchen for the tenant\/roommate to store their own dishes and cooking items he did not bring any and instead uses ours. This wouldn't be a problem except he doesn't take care of our personal property.\n   * He has repeatedly misused them or treated them poorly\n   * he burns his food in my pans so badly that it's actually starting to ruin them and takes a lot of extreme effort to clean them, often times requiring some heavy duty scrubbing and multiple washes (which they never need when I or my husband use them because we take care of our pans)\n      * side note that when he's burning food in my pans it often causes the smoke alarm to go off and he refuses to go push the button to turn it off, instead leaving it to beep annoyingly until my husband or myself go do it for him.\n   * any dishes he hand washes are still covered in food grime or grease and he happily stores those disgusting dishes in the cabinets with clean dishes. I now have to double check any dish I try to use for fear it might be dirty. I actually pulled out my small pan one day and it very clearly still had cooked scrambled egg on it!\n   * before my husband put a stop to it he would leave dirty dishes in the sink for hours on end sometimes even for 2 days, like he expected us to clean them for him (we refused to do so)\n   * when we tried to tell him he needed to get his own dishes because we were unhappy with how unsanitary and how poorly he treated our personal property he bullied us until we gave in and dropped the matter.\n* When he does laundry he will leave his wet clothes in the washer for hours on end as well as leave his clothes in the dryer for hours on end despite being asked not to and he sent us a text that felt threatening but didn't use threatening language saying to \"not touch his clothes\". He has inconvenienced us several times now hogging **our** washer and dryer for literal hours with no indication to when those items will be free to use. For the record, we  remove our laundry promptly as not to inconvenience those staying in our home.\n* When asked to please clean the room and bathroom 24 hours in advance so we can show the room to perspective renters he texted the following \"I'm still staying through April, right?? You two should be ashamed of how you're treating me. I feel I deserve at least $100 off my rent for this bs. I literally just moved here\". We literally only asked him to clean the rented space so others could view it, just like our previous tenant did for **him** when **he** came to see it. He never does, btw, the room and bathroom are filthy every time.\n\nIt's not a terrible thing to be in your mid twenties, keep a clean and quiet home, and expect the same from a supposed adult tenant\/roommate, right? We have documented the dirty dishes and other issues with pictures on our phones and saved footage from our cameras. We also kept copies of every \"agreement violation\" letter we gave him, of which there are 3. Two addressing the two separate after hours noise violations and one regarding the dirty conditions he leaves our kitchen and dishes. When I wrote those up I intended them to just be warnings in the hopes he would change his crappy behavior, but nothing changed. Part of me wants to not make a big fuss and just endure these next 18 days in the hopes he leaves without trouble but he's making it so damn hard and I'm at my wit's end dealing with this crap. Every day in my house is awful, every day I'm cleaning after him, every day it's something with him!!\n\n​\n\n**Question 1**: Is there a way to legally get him out earlier or do we just have to suffer these next 18 days and pray he actually leaves on the 30th? \n\n**Question 2**: I have a feeling he may try to forcefully stay past April 30th and not pay rent as he's made no attempt to pack up his space. I know in NC if they refuse to pay rent you have to give them the 10 day no-rent-paid eviction notice, but if they're supposed to be out do you skip that and go to the 30 day eviction notice? We don't want his money, we refuse to deal with a third month of this BS and we did print out the text of him saying he will leave by end of April. \n\n**Question 3**: We have a roommate\/tenant lined up to start renting in May with the understanding he'll be gone by April 30th. If he decides to forcefully stay past April 30th, what legal recourse will there be for the tenant he's inconveniencing?\n\n​\n\n​\n\nAnd I have a feeling someone is going to ask this: if he signed an agreement and has seemingly violated it, why didn't you evict then and there? \n\nWhy?\n\n1. Because we desperately needed the rent money and my husband was afraid doing so would put us in a worse financial situation and he didn't want the guy to get enraged and do something crazy (like hurt me when hubby is at work and I'm home alone)\n2. Because I'm 25 and have never had to before so the thought of doing so was very daunting and I felt that these things at the time were too minor to have to possibly bring before a judge if need be. I'm not sure if the above issues are good enough (legally) for action, which is why I'm here asking for advice. \n3. Also, idk if it's too late to use those reasons for an eviction. So far this month loud music after 10 pm hasn't been an issue (loud music during the day still is) but the constant not cleaning of the kitchen and theft of our cleaning supplies is still a persistent issue.\n\nI will gladly include any section of the agreement if it's needed to review in regards to the specified issues (no personal info would be included).","title":"Is there any recourse to force a \"roommate\" out when they make your life miserable?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571158419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diapiz\/what_legal_action_can_be_taken_when_a_site_is\/","id":"diapiz","body":"Context: My little brother is a dj. He's good and has been hired for some big events, and is still growing. Last school year, he's been bullied a ton. Like a lot. There was one kid that was the worst. This school year has been pretty good for him so far.\n\nOn to the legal situation.\n\nMy parents found a site today with my brothers full name in it (as url). On the site are pictures of my brother while in school. These have been taken last school year. The site also contains an adress (which isn't ours) and his mobile phone number!\n\nUpon further inspection, there was also a location created in google maps, but it pointed to a Belgian place. This is where everything gets tricky. \n\nThe bully from last year moved to Belgium, so all arrows point towards him. He was a big suspect for my parents, my brother, and school either way.\n\nTonight my parents will be calling the police. I adviced them to get more into the legal aspect, but they are convinced the police will tell them everything they need to know.\n\nNow, if it turns out to be true that the site is made by this kid that moved to Belgium, what can we, in the Netherlands, do? I personally don't think the police can, or will do much, since it's international now. \n\nCan we sue? Can we do anything else besides getting the site removed? I'd love hearing advice, and if you need more info on the case, feel free to ask.","title":"What legal action can be taken when a site is made around my brother (The Netherlands)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553023709,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b31p05\/we_are_renters_and_have_a_continual_leak_beneath\/","id":"b31p05","body":"We live in Phoenix, Arizona. We have had this specific leak for a good year and a half, off and on. Every time I call it in we are asked to send pictures and then we are told to get under there and tighten the white pipe. I feel this is a bandaid and with our new lease coming up (we have not yet signed) I told the management company that we will not sign unless this is fixed. Should I also request for there to be a mold inspection? I will insert pictures of what looks like mold already. Our landlord is great but the management company really doesn\u2019t fix anything unless we pester them about it. I have 2 young children and really have no legal experience when it comes to tenant\/landlord laws.  \n\n[pictures ](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/afnrgS8)","title":"We are renters and have a continual leak beneath our sink. I have made numerous requests and each time we are told we just need to get under and tighten a pipe. It looks like we have mold now.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542258228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x836r\/wa_how_long_is_an_employer_legally_obligated_to\/","id":"9x836r","body":"Hi all. Long story short, I walked out of a job of mine coming up on two weeks ago this Sunday. The managers were being extremely unprofessional in how they handled a certain matter and I left. \n\nUnfortunately, shortly after this happened, some personal matters came up and I had to go to another state and have been here since. Last Thursday was payday. \n\nI'm not exactly on speaking terms with any of my employers still and have been planning to just drop by when I get back (within the next few days) and pick up my check. I'm just worried they're gonna be looking for reasons to start trouble and might've thrown it out already. Are employers legally obligated to hold on to the checks for a certain amount of time? ","title":"[WA] How long is an employer legally obligated to hold a check?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409499831,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f37h4\/reported_misinformation_to_police_under_stress\/","id":"2f37h4","body":"I had my property stolen when I fell asleep outside of a train station after missing my stop (on the last train of the night). I panicked and, when the station opened back up, I reported the crime with some false information. Within a day, I called the officer and asked them to toss the whole case.\n\nThey said that the case cannot be dropped, as it was submitted already, but that they will leave a note saying I've asked that it no longer be pursued. I then asked if this means they will spend no further resources on this investigation and they said yes.\n\nOnce asked if it could be dropped, they asked if I made it up. I repeated that the situation was stressful and I wanted it behind me - stolen stuff can be replaced - I'm concerned that they will still be suspicious of my reason and pursue the investigation to determine that the police report is false, even if they stop investigating the theft. Is this likely? Thousands of thefts a year. I hope they don't have the time to bother.","title":"Reported misinformation to police under stress, then asked officer to cancel report [CA]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1502810618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tust3\/dc_three_tenants_on_one_lease_now_monthtomonth_i\/","id":"6tust3","body":"I've been renting a row house with two roommates for the past few years. We all signed the same lease, which ended over a year ago, meaning we've been month-to-month since then.\n\nRecently, I got a new job and wanted to reduce my commute time. So, in keeping with the terms of the lease, I gave our landlord 60 days notice that I want to move out (at the end of August).\n\nThe landlord told me I would need to find a subletter and pay a $500 fee, as stipulated in the lease. I wasn't sure if this was true (as I was month-to-month), but had a friend who wanted to move in anyway, so I was happy to arrange that.\n\nAbout a week ago, however, the landlord notified my two roommates that she wants them to move out, as she will either be moving in herself or selling the place.\n\nNow, because she wants everyone out, my prospective subletter of course won't be moving in. But I've already signed a lease at another place and am moving out at the end of August.\n\nIf my roommates don't move out until the end of September, am I on the hook for paying September rent?","title":"[DC] Three tenants on one lease, now month-to-month. I want to move out, but our landlord threw us a curveball...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442607255,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lh4ii\/ctlandlord_claiming_1200_in_damages_25_months\/","id":"3lh4ii","body":"I had a 13 month lease in an apartment in Connecticut (I rented it with a good friend of mine, we were both named on the lease). This was in an apartment complex owned by a corporate entity and managed by a community manager, along with staff. The lease ended on June 30th, 2015.\n\nToday, September 18th, 2015, I received an email from the community manager with a bill claiming that I owe them nearly $1,200 for damages to the carpet. Furthermore, they state in the email \"If we do not hear from you within 5 business days, we will have no choice but to forward your account to collections.\"\n\nI have not received any prior notifications regarding any damages, nor have we received our security deposit back, and again no notification of why they did not return it (the security deposit was only $99 between the two of us, so I sort of just let it slide that they did not return our security deposit.).\n\nAccording to http:\/\/www.ct.gov\/dob\/cwp\/view.asp?a=2247&q=299050\n\n>    Landlords must return security deposits with interest or give tenants written notice of damages being claimed within thirty days of when tenants move. The only exception is if a tenant fails to provide a written forwarding address: landlords then need not return security deposits or provide a notice of damages until fifteen days after receipt of a forwarding address in writing.\n\n >  If a landlord does not return a security deposit with interest or provide a written notice of damages within these statutory time limits, the landlord may have to pay the tenant twice the amount of the security deposit. Tenants may pursue this remedy in court. For further information, see the section on options for resolving disputes.\n\n>   A landlord's written notice of damages must itemize the nature and amount of tenant damages, including any unpaid rent or utility payments, and must be accompanied by the balance, if any, of the tenant's security deposit not being claimed for damages plus interest.\n\nWe gave them both of our forwarding addresses towards the end of April when we gave them our required written 60-day notice that we were not going to continue renting at the end of the lease\n\nHere is where it gets slightly more convoluted. I moved out of the apartment on May 10th, 2015 and have not been there since (I gave my roommate all my keys and a postdated check made payable to the corporate owner to cover the last month's rent; my former roommate and I are on excellent terms and talk via phone fairly regularly). The carpets were clean and not damaged when I moved out. Yes, I realize it would have been smarter to have removed my name from the lease when I moved out.\n\nMy roommate moved out at the end of the lease, June 30th, 2015.  He says he moved out all his furniture and belongings, did an inspection with the staff and they said everything was fine, and he gave them they keys. I do not currently know if they gave him a written record of the inspection, I will be talking with him in detail tonight when he is home from work.\n\nI concede, I must consider the possibility that my roommate is not telling the full truth. Even if that is the case, it seems absurd that the community manager would make no effort to contact us as soon as possible, and not within the 30 day period as quoted above.\n\nI have not contacted the community manager just yet. I believe it's best to have a conversation with my former roommate (and r\/legaladvice) before doing so. \n\nWhere can I find the actual statutes that pertain to the quote above? Are there other laws that are pertinent to our situation?\n\nI can contact the community manager via phone or email. In which matter would it be better to do so, and what should be the content of my message?\n\nAny and all advice very much appreciated.\n\n\nOther concerns:\n\nCan they send this to collections on only 5 days notice?\n\nThey're only contacting me and asking me to pay, not my roommate.\n\nShould I also demand that they give us twice our security deposit back?\n\nEDIT: Formatting\n","title":"[CT]Landlord Claiming ~$1,200 in Damages, 2.5 Months After End of Lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445781483,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q5df4\/missing_certificate_of_occupancy_and_brokers_fee\/","id":"3q5df4","body":"I have been living in an apartment for a number of months that has no certificate of occupancy and has not had a number of necessary inspections. The landlord refuses to admit this and lies about it despite the fact that I have confronted him with evidence from the city. As far as I understand, without a certificate of occupancy the lease is an unenforceable contract. I am currently not paying rent (as per a verbal agreement with the property manager), but I am considering going after the broker for the substantial fee paid to him. \n\nThe broker called a few days before the scheduled move in date and informed me that I could not move because there was no C of O. He then told me that I could move in a week or so after that. The point of this is that he knew that there was no certificate of occupancy a few days before move in. I sent a demand letter explaining all of this, and the broker said that he will not return my fee unless I move out (which he does not want to put in writing)\n\nThe tricky part about this is that I want to stay in the apartment. I'm happy to start paying rent once the agreed upon services are provided (which is separate from the broker issue), but I feel as if I have damages against the broker. I spent the first couple of weeks without hot water or a shower, there still is no gas (so no stove, oven, or proper heating), and there have been a large number of other smaller issues. If I would have known about these issues I would have not moved into the apartment and I believe that the lack of a certificate of occupancy would have deterred me as well. \n\nAre my thoughts on damages accurate? Is it possible to pursue this without running a very serious risk of eviction?","title":"Missing Certificate of Occupancy and Broker's Fee in NYC","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540140783,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q521c\/rules_for_child_custodyvisitation_while_married\/","id":"9q521c","body":"My spouse is in the military and was caught for infidelity and doing drugs. The spouse is now getting kicked out with possible jail time. Spouse is in California, I moved to Texas. I have a signed memo that states the spouse is aware of our whereabouts. We have a child together and we made a Skyping schedule of 3 calls per week. Out of the blue the spouse wants to limit calls to once per week. The spouse is very inconsistent with the calls and there is never any warning if they aren\u2019t able to make the call. Even after asking for once per week the spouse did not call or text to see our child for over 10 days. The spouse asked to skype now but I don\u2019t feel inclined to answer because it does not seem fair to our child that he is not consistent. The spouse has also done drugs while on a Skype call with our child after which I decided to inform his leadership. \n\nAm I in the wrong for seemingly withholding access to our child? I have not filed for divorce yet due to residency requirements that I must fulfill. I intend to fight for full custody with supervised visitation but I fear that not responding to the spouse will be to my detriment.","title":"Rules for child custody\/visitation while married?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539817210,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p3krn\/i_need_advice_on_dealing_with_asus_computer\/","id":"9p3krn","body":"The computer isn't my personal property, it's my sisters, though with myself being a little more well versed in computers I am taking care of this process for her. It is extremely frustrating that we have to deal with this; we purchased the computer for my sister's schooling and it started malfunctioning 6 months in. It was finally turned in for an RMA a few months after that. Now, the computer is two months out of warranty and has been exhibiting the same issue since the repair, getting worse. Why didn't it get returned sooner? Summer school, and a replacement laptop was out of the question. I'm now fighting with ASUS trying to get them to admit that they didn't repair the computer properly, and they're squirming their way out of honoring the warranty. Now I understand \"technically\" it's out of warranty, but it's exhibiting the same issue as before, so it's the same problem... So they never REALLY fixed the computer. The facts to follow.... \n\n  \nThe facts: \n\n* The laptop was purchased from BestBuy Canada on July 28, 2017; ASUS Zenbook laptop. \\~$1000 CAD\n* Issue is computer shut down and couldn't find Windows, and booted to BIOS. Happend more and more frequently, usually fixed by a forced restart, then the computer quit all together and wouldn't fix itself.\n* The unit was RMA'd for an issue in February 2018\n* The laptop was returned with a single 'repair report' concluding that it was an SSD error. it was replaced. \n* Technician stated that if it happened again, we would receive a free replacement. (verbal)\n* The unit began malfunctioning again shortly after (\\~2 months) though not as bad at first, continued until submitted for second RMA Ocotber 9, 2018 \n* ASUS sends a $470 CAD invoice for repair of the computer; this time for a motherboard replacement. Gives a 4-business day window to pay, or have it shipped back at our expense. \n* ASUS technician Adds claim that there is a 90-day warranty on RMA'd product; we were never informed either verbally or on paper. \n* ASUS technician denies ever having said \"if it happens again we will give you a replacement free\"\n* ASUS Support listens to story, sides with technician and tries to de-escalate. (2 phone calls)\n* ASUS emails claiming there is nothing more we can do, and claims we had already agreed to do the repair and pay the repair cost minus the diagnostic fee. (not true at all)\n\nTell me, am I really SOL on this one? I figured since it was their faulty repair and having their technician say we would get a replacement would actually matter. That, and they claim to have told us about this 90-day warranty on RMA'd product, but hasn't provided any documentation. Their argument is \"can you prove our technicians repaired it incorrectly?\" .... well, yes. It's still broken. I'm still trying to find out of there's extra coverage through the purchasing credit card.   \n\n\nWhat do I do?? ","title":"I need advice on dealing with ASUS computer product support....","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1506305393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/729jzq\/is_there_any_chances_for_me_to_win_the_parking\/","id":"729jzq","body":"I'm from California, I've moved to this place since a year ago, since then I've been parking on this street, just like my other roommates and landlord, today I got two citation for parking 2am to 6am on the street (it was two because I didn't use my car for two days) and it turns out I'm the only one who got the ticket neither my roommates nor my landlord got one,  and in this street there isn't a sign that says no parking from 2am - 6am, but on the other street it does, so if I were to contest what are the chances? Thanks.","title":"Is there any chances for me to win the parking citation ?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554756072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bayuxa\/phone_call_recording\/","id":"bayuxa","body":"Recently, my mom and dad decided to get a divorce. My mom recorded some of the phone calls of my dad cursing at her. My mom, wrote out the entire conversation as evidence, do we have to censor out all the curse words?","title":"Phone call recording","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505925089,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71c9ex\/il_boss_threatens_my_employment_after_a_workplace\/","id":"71c9ex","body":"I work at a small manufacturing plant, about 25-35 people in the shop, and then the owner (my direct and only boss) in the office. I've have been at this job for about 15 months, and in that time I've gotten praise from the owner's accountants, insurance agents, IRS agents (we were randomly picked for a regional audit), managed to save him a large amount of money, and received two significant raises. I originally saw myself staying here for quite a while as I typically enjoy the work, but now I can't fathom staying here longer than necessary even if he tries offering me another raise or more vacatioWhen he hired me, he advertised the job as a part-time secretarial position for a factory. Even in the interview he claimed it was 15-25 hours a week, and when I asked what shift it was, he told me the shop is open from 7:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M., and that I could pick the start of my shift. I have a professional license in the medical field that I'm trying to keep current, so I let him know I could start between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. due to my classes. Initially everything was fine, but as the months went on he kept demanding that I start earlier and earlier along with work more hours, sometime up to 45+ hours a week. It was quickly apparent that this was more than just a secretary job: My tasks and responsibility include AR\/AP, invoicing, deposits, managing the shop, shipping and receiving documentation, daily management of the staff, time card, payroll, taxes, mail, essentially anything for the business. He has numerous properties in the area and I'm also helping manage those too.\n\nHe leaves early, by noon, every day to take care of his disabled adult son and run any errands he needs to do. Guess who's running the business and closing up shop when he leaves? The work can add up fast, and he likes to micro-manage to the extreme. He takes up a notch by yelling and screaming at everyone, talking over them, ignoring them, swearing, flying off the handle for no reason. I logically understand why he's like that, due to the stress of the business and taking care of his son. Yet, he makes working here overly stressful, especially since he does things incorrectly (the accounting, invoicing, records, ect), expects me to do them his incorrect way, and has been told by the IRS that he does them incorrectly. \n\nWhen I found out his son was disabled I let him know I was dealing with a mild form of the same disability (and that's why I miss work). I have other issues, but have not told him anything else as I'm uncomfortable doing so since there's no HR. This is a key issue to my situation:\n\nI tripped over a chunk of cinder block he uses as a doorstop at work on Aug 21st bruising and cutting open my face, breaking my dominant arm and dealing all sorts of soft tissue damage to my weaker knee. No one saw the fall (Boss had left for the day), and a courier had to call an ambulance for me. When I fell no one called him to let him know. The first he heard about the incident was when I called him from the hospital late that evening. I couldn't work for a week and when I started back up the first week was only half a day, and the following I tried to stay all day. I've had to leave early several times for doctors appointments and procedures for my knee. Each time I told him why, and he's asked multiple times if I'm having surgery. \n\nRight before I started working again, I told him I wasn't going to sue him, but I needed to get my hospital bills paid. He said that was more than fair. That all changed when his worker's comp insurance company called him: he told them I hadn't fallen at work. He followed that up by exploding at me, pissed that I filed a claim. He went off about claiming I told him I wasn't going to do that. I quickly corrected him by reminding him I said I wasn't going to get a lawyer and press a lawsuit.\n\nI missed Monday because I was running a fever and lost my voice. Whe spoke over the phone that morning and he said if I keep missing so much work he should hire someone else to cover the time or I needed to work full time and the hours that he wanted me to. I gave it some thought andtalked to him yesterday about it. When I brought up that it was a good idea to hire someone for 15 hours a week he immediate said no. That people don't want to work 3 hours a day and that I can work the hours he says or that he can hire someone else full time to do my job and I could \"leave.\"\n\nI didn't yell, but I told him if he wants to fire me or get rid of my over this, that it's inappropriate and illegal, and if he does I'll contest and fight the termination tooth and nail. I'm trying to work with him by relinquishing more of my hours so that he can find someone to work the hours he wants. He was not expecting that from me at all. He just went quiet and it was clear he realized he messed up. I'm way to stressed out and I can't work like this anymore. I'm pretty terrified of what he'll do or what he'll come up with next. \n\n**It's pretty clear I need to get out of the toxic environment and find employment somewhere else, but is there anything I should do to cover my ass? Should I consult a lawyer about what he tried to do yesterday? Would there be any benefit to that?  And what should I do to try to document what he's done and the environment I work in since it's only him and me in the office?**\n\n**TLDR**: I'm physically disabled and fell at work, boss-owner-man knows I'm disabled and tried to fire me because I missed work from the injury. How can I document this and should I get an attorney?","title":"[IL] Boss threatens my employment after a workplace injury. BONUS: I'm disabled","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555098748,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bci065\/friend_isnt_paying_on_personal_loan_is_it_worth\/","id":"bci065","body":"Backstory: A friend I work with (currently) used to need rides constantly to and from work which I usually gave them. One day we talked about getting her a car and she said if she could get a loan she would. I offered her a loan of $1500 dollars to buy a car, to be paid back over a year. I helped her find one, created a contract that was signed by both of us and a notary, and she bought the car- title in her name. After only two payments, she stopped paying (total of $300 dollars including two payments of $137.50; $125 of principle (x2) a $25 late fee (x1) and $12.50 of interest (x2) as we had agreed on. It has now been 6 months and she has stopped replying to any messaging. The car broke down (due to some electrical issue she says) and she sold it to a friend without even telling me. I fear talking to her about it at work because I don\u2019t want trouble with work. In the contract it states that she will pay lawyer fees if it comes to this but will I even get any of this money even after a legal process? Any help or input is much appreciated!\n\nTLDR: Loaned a friend $1500 and they paid $300 and then stopped paying. Is it worth getting a lawyer?","title":"Friend isn\u2019t paying on personal loan. Is it worth getting a lawyer?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554904245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbm97s\/escrow_surplus_reimbursement_after_divorce\/","id":"bbm97s","body":"Hello, \n\n​\n\nI'm in New York, and I'm wondering how to handle the escrow reimbursement check I was sent. My ex and I finalized our divorce in fall of last year, at which time our marital home was still on the market. In our divorce papers, we listed that as of the previous July, he would hold me harmless of mortgage payments on the property (I had moved out) and any deficit of the sale, since we knew there wasn't much equity. We also wrote that we agreed he would sell the property within 6 months, it took 9. He did pay a small deficit on the sale, of about 2k. Other than the details around the house sale, it was pretty basic language\/paperwork.\n\n​\n\nMy questions in regards to this escrow check, it's significant, but not significant enough to fight over in court, this was not specifically accounted for in our divorce paperwork, do we split it 50\/50? Another section of the paperwork goes into basically how we had already separated our assets, and that if there was any question about joint assets, whether actual or financial, they would stay with the party in possession of such asset. Which has me confused on this front - the check was sent to me, and is in my possession, does that make it mine? It'd fall under that joint asset category, since it has both of our names on the check I assume. Legally, what should I do here?","title":"Escrow Surplus Reimbursement after Divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568651791,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d536tc\/looking_for_advice_on_how_to_handle_someone_suing\/","id":"d536tc","body":"My wife was in a no fault accident. A guy t-boned her after apparently not seeing her. He left the scene but fortunately police found him. He wasn\u2019t insured but he gave the police false information saying he was. The case was open and shut as he was completely at fault. Our insurance company offered her a $5000 injury settlement which she accepted. Now our insurance company is going after him personally for it and he\u2019s decided to take her to small claims court in an attempt to get out of it. We are in Canada. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Reddit","title":"Looking for advice on how to handle someone suing my wife","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538944334,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m8h6n\/wi_employee_is_trying_to_claim_1_12_weeks_of_fmla\/","id":"9m8h6n","body":"I have an employee who had an old dog. The dog developed a medical condition caused by their age, and over the past month has been going steadily downhill. This has become a big topic in office gossip because said employee is very well liked by most people and vocal about her home life. She ran out of vacation time earlier in the year and was already warned not to take extra time off. Well, after putting her dog down she took a week and a half off without notifying anyone except of a work friend, who informed the rest of the office. She's claiming this can't be held against her because caring for a sick \"family member\" is covered under FMLA, and insists she can't be fired because she has paperwork in process. How do I deal with this?","title":"[WI] Employee is trying to claim 1 1\/2 weeks of FMLA because her dog died. Do I really have to honor this?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554750206,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baxp89\/getting_threats_of_violence_what_next\/","id":"baxp89","body":"This whole situation is baffling. I am a 33 year old dental resident at a community health clinic. Happily engaged and have about 2.5 months left there. \n\nA 22 year old female dental assistant started working there a few months ago. We residents all get along with staff and I noticed she\u2019s friends with the others so on fb , tired of seeing the suggestion for the past month, hit the \u201cwave icon\u201d. And that was that. The irony is I didn\u2019t even mean to hit that and wanted it taken back bc it\u2019s weird. No such luck. \n\n10 mins later an enraged bf or ex bf starts a barrage of threats about \u201cmessaging his gal\u201d. I calmly responded back to diffuse the situation. He then said he was coming to where i work to \u201cend me. \u201c. Convo is saved. \n\nTurns out he drives her to work every day and (I was off today on vacation) sure enough he was in the parking lot fighting with her. \n\nFirst step I\u2019m doing is contacting our security people. But where from there ?\nIs it a bunch of macho empty threats? Should I be concerned?\n\nThis kid is a sketchy dude. Unpredictable and nothing to lose. Also rumors that he has domestic abuse charges and may be a drug dealer. \n\nThis whole thing has me out of whack. I\u2019m too old to deal with this. Best course of action?","title":"Getting threats of violence. What next ?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445538602,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3psz6w\/in_us_employer_hasnt_withheld_any_of_my_taxable\/","id":"3psz6w","body":"I hired into a bar in Indiana in April. In the due course of my job, I am regularly tipped via credit card. When this happens, we note who specifically was tipped on the credit receipt and then take the tip out of the cash drawer. I had been working under the belief that the necessary taxes had been deducted from my weekly paycheck to address these tips. However, when I received my last paycheck it was for $0.00 because they had not been taking out said taxes and are now trying to make-up for the lack of deductions. If it matters, my hourly rate is $8 and I'm very part time. \n\n\nIs it legal for them to over-deduct my hourly wages in order to catch up on their failure to deduct my tips from the last several months? ","title":"[IN, US] Employer hasn't withheld any of my taxable tips since April, now deducting my hourly paychecks to compensate.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1506393038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72hfqe\/are_employers_allowed_to_deny_someone_being_hired\/","id":"72hfqe","body":"Today my girlfriend applied to where I work. I\u2019m wondering if i should tell my boss i\u2019m in a relationship with her or just withhold that information. Do I have to tell him about it?","title":"Are employers allowed to deny someone being hired based on your relationship status with them?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568602311,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4uqj6\/landlord_threatening_to_call_lawyer_to_enter_unit\/","id":"d4uqj6","body":"Landlord is proving himself to be an aggressive male, easily affronted. Just moved in to our unit. There were some issues with him prior to signing the lease where he tried to reneg verbal agreements multiple times which was a red flag. I emailed him thanking him for welcoming my bf and I into his home blah blah blah but could he he please advise regarding the washer smelling moldy and having thick brown liquid leaking from the front lip. He became very heated and agreed to have a professional take care of it after becoming defensive and angry in person. Then he called  back and said he would clean it himself and I wasn\u2019t qualified to say it smelled moldy. He then escalated and said he would come by in 48hrs if I didn\u2019t allow him to come by tonight. I told him since neither he or I could agree whether it was mold, I gave him a one hour window for a professional to show up tonight. He threatened legal action claiming I \u201ccouldn\u2019t stop him from entering his home if he gave 48hrs notice\u201d I told him I had no problem with him coming by, but I\u2019d prefer if a professional checked it out as well and offered to pay for it myself\/ He didn\u2019t show up. He has a huge ego, he\u2019s very condescending and rude. I don\u2019t care too much about the washer And I can  figure it myself given his dramatic reaction. Someone please clarify, though, whether a landlord can come over any time they feel with a  48hr heads up. I want as little to do with him as possible. Since moving in we\u2019ve found he\u2019s lied about the noise pollution level, agreement to patch holes in walls, and other neighbors have complained about how rude and \u201cyelly\u201d he was... as in this grown man regularly \u201cyelled\u201d at his adult neighbors. \n\nTLDR if I inadvertently pissed off my landlord, can he legally make my lease here hell by showing up every 48hrs without a reason as long as he provides notice? Living in Chicago","title":"Landlord threatening to call lawyer to enter unit for silly reason with 48hrs notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555195717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcwa9f\/in_michigan_does_an_attack_on_a_pregnant_womans\/","id":"bcwa9f","body":"Saw a news article on here about an attack on a pregnant woman. I was wondering how Michigan or maybe other states view this scenario.","title":"In Michigan, does an attack on a pregnant woman\u2019s stomach allow deadly force to be used to protect the woman and the unborn child?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445896600,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qc5q2\/nyc_apartment_dispute_between_roommates_over\/","id":"3qc5q2","body":"Hi there!\n\nThere's a bit of a complicated story here, I'll try to keep it short but I think most of the details are relevant.\n\nMy girlfriend and I leased a 3 bedroom apartment in OCT 2014 with an old friend [roommate A].  We are all on the lease.  We split the initial security deposit three ways.\n\n6 months in, roommate A, who was a recovering alcoholic fell way off the wagon, and basically self-destructed.  Quit\/got fired from his job, had no prospects, it was looking dire.  \n\nWe all three agreed that he should probably move out (in fact we proposed the idea to each other at the same time, we did not force him out at all).  \n\nIn a stroke of luck (or so we thought)  another old friend [roommate B] was hoping to relocate to the area, and so he and roommate A made a verbal agreement that he would \"take over\" his part of the lease.  They were clearly not trying to sublet, and never notified the landlord of the change.\n\n At this time, roommate B wrote roommate A a check for his portion of the security deposit.  Roommate A promptly cashed and spent this, as he had no source of income at the time.\n\nRoommate B is a terror.  Constant bickering, picking fights, never replacing things, etc etc.  Bad juju, we all start to resent each other.\n\nFast forward 6 weeks, and B tells us he is leaving, with 9 days notice until the next rent check is due.  He got a \"sweet deal\" somewhere else, and \"has no choice\".  \n\nAfter two weeks of intense arguing, fighting, and yelling, he leaves, and we somehow get him to pay for the following month.  He demanded that I pay him back for the deposit check that he gave to Roommate A, since I was \"taking over\".  I never received money from Roommate A at any time.\n\n After he left it continued and it got to the point that I had to file a police report on B for harassment after he threatened to use his keys (which he kept when he left) to come into the apartment when I was at work, trash the place, and harm my dogs.\n\nWe opted not to try to find another roommate (after those two, who can blame us?), and instead began paying for the entire rent of the apartment ourselves for the remainder of the lease.\n\nFor the last month's rent, we opted to pay only our original share of the rent, and have the landlord use roommate A's deposit for the balance.\n\nThe landlord at first was fine with this, but as of today roommate A is trying to claim his entire share of the deposit, and leave us liable for the balance of the last month's rent.  The landlord does not want to proceed until we have this sorted out, of course.\n\nI don't think he has any case here, but the more I learn about the law, tenancy law in particular, the more I realize you can inadvertantly screw yourself with seemingly innocuous actions.\n\nSo, \/r\/legaladvice ,  how screwed am I??\n\nedit:  I realized I forgot to mention that I never paid Roommate B for his \"deposit\", since in my eyes that was between him and Roommate A.  Both have been harassing me for weeks about \"returning\" this deposit that I never had.","title":"NYC apartment, dispute between roommates over security deposit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550154878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqkcua\/employer_shadowing_me_while_i_work\/","id":"aqkcua","body":"Not sure if this belongs here or not, but...\nI work as a Brand Ambassador for a marketing company. Our main contract is big tabacco. \nBasically I go from venue to venue every night and discuss the brand with qualified people and give them discounts on their next purchase. Since we are dealing with tabacco, there are ALOT of compliance guidelines we MUST follow.\n\nWell every once in a while, I notice a car following me around from venue to venue. I approached the vehicle last night, and it turned out to be my manager. He said he was \"shadowing\" me to make sure I was being compliant. However he never went inside any location either me, just basically stalked me the whole night. \n\nMy question is, is that legal? I do have company equipment on my persons that I am responsible for, however, I felt like I was being stalked last night. I do not like to be followed by anyone.\n\nJust trying to see if I can stop this from happening or if he is in his legal right to do that while I'm on the clock.\n\nThanks in advance. ","title":"Employer \"shadowing\" me while I work.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569455323,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9bk3q\/deceptive_business_practice_charge_against_an\/","id":"d9bk3q","body":"I own an industrial equipment repair shop in Texas that is registered as an LLC. My company is ran\/ worked by my family primarily my brother. We recently learned my brother has a criminal case against him for Deceptive Business practice filed by one of our customers.\u00a0\n\nSome background information about this customer. Customer dropped off his machine to get repairs and some upgraded gauges installed. We provided a total invoice price to the customer for approval to begin the work, which he approved. We performed the repairs and installed the upgrades to his machine, we then notified him the work was complete and requested payment be provided and machine pick up. It has been several months since the machine has been completed and he was notified. We have made several attempts over the past months (about 8 months) to contact him but all those attempts have been ignored.\n\nWe had a detective from the police depart come to our shop to get information for the case. Where we learned that the customer is claiming we stole his machine and refuse to return it to him. After explaining to the Detective the above information we showed him the machine was in our shop available for the customer to come pay the invoice and pick up. We then attempted to call the customer in front of the Detective to show that the calls from our company are ignored, which it was. After some more information the Detective determined that this case shouldnt have been charged and was going to relay the information and have it dismissed.\u00a0\n\nIt has now been about 3 months since the Detective spoke with us and the case is still open against my brother. He has an active warrant out for his arrest for this case. He has contacted the city who eventually transferred him to the Sheriff's department where we learned the case is still open against him and the only thing he can currently due is pay bond and wait for a court date and the County Attorney to rule on the case.\n\nWe have a couple of questions.\n1. Is this customer able to file Deceptive Business Practice against an employee of the company? Shouldn't it be against the company?\n2. How was the customer able to provide false information which lead to a criminal case against my brother? What actions can be taken against the customer for this?\n3. What steps can we take to have this case sped up and removed? What documentation do we need to provide? Any helpful information would be appreciated.\n\nTL;DR\nA customer has provided false information and filed a Deceptive Business Practice criminal case against an employee not the company  (LLC in Texas) Several attempts have been made to contact the customer and all have failed.","title":"Deceptive Business Practice charge against an employee. Texas","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569885350,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbk474\/did_my_ex_violate_our_no_contact_order\/","id":"dbk474","body":"This is Florida. So my ex got arrested for a few charges relating to destroying my property and preventing me from contacting police. He got released on bail and there is a no contact order. \n\nToday, his sister messaged me asking my new address so she could send a birthday gift for our son. I initially took that as innocent, and didn\u2019t feel like it was violating the no contact order. \n\nHowever, a couple hours later, he messaged my mom and brother on Facebook saying the exact same thing. That he didn\u2019t mean to do what he did, he\u2019s sorry, etc. He didn\u2019t specifically ask them to say anything to me but I feel like it\u2019s implied that he wanted that info to get back to me. I can give more info if needed. I already called the arresting officer to give him that info but he won\u2019t be back at work until tomorrow and I\u2019d just like to get some peace of mind until then.","title":"Did my ex violate our no contact order?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571764117,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlkx7c\/ny_forcing_myself_out_of_a_lease\/","id":"dlkx7c","body":"Hey,\n\n(This is in New York City)\n\nSo I\u2019m currently stuck on a 3-bed apartment with two racist and disgusting guys. I\u2019m trying to leave this place ASAP. However, our lease ends in July and don\u2019t think I can handle any more months with them. \n\nI spoke with my landlord and they told me that I can submit a Tenant Resignation Form, which basically it\u2019s a form that will kick me out of the lease. However, I would lose my security deposit but I wouldn\u2019t mind that. \n\nHOWEVER, they said I need my roommate\u2019s approval prior me officially and legally being removed from the lease. So in the form, I need both of them to sign and agree of my removal of the lease. \n\nWhat if they do NOT want to sign? What are my options? The thing is that I am also NOT responsible for finding a replacement. It would be up to them to find a 3rd roommate to fill my room. They will probably force me to find a replacement before signing, but I wouldn\u2019t want anyone to live with these two MOFOs (excuse me). \n\nShould that be the case, what can I do? Legally talking, can I be convicted or fined for forging their signatures? Otherwise, what are my options should they not sign the form? \n\nThanks","title":"[NY] Forcing myself out of a lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555271832,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd6u61\/is_a_site_like_whiitlightningcom_breaking_any\/","id":"bd6u61","body":"https:\/\/www.whiitelightning.com using the names of companies and images of characters and movie posters. Would you be allowed to post stuff like this to redbubble?","title":"Is a site like whiitlightning.com breaking any copyright laws? An","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551510822,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awf61e\/apartment_below_me_constantly_smokes_marijuana\/","id":"awf61e","body":"Hi there! I live on a third (top) story apartment in Washington state, and we moved in during the summer. Throughout the summer, our downstairs neighbors on the second floor smoked marijuana every day on their porch. I don\u2019t mind people living their lives, but the smoke would draft up into our air conditioners in the windows and fill our bedroom with that nasty stank. After leaning over our balcony to ask them to stop several times, as it\u2019s against our signed unit agreement to smoke weed on the property, we took it to apartment management.\n\nThey stopped smoking outside. Either because summer ended and it got freezing, or because the landlord talked to them. I don\u2019t know because the landlord never followed up with me or my wife. And now they smoke inside. For a while, it wasn\u2019t a noticeable problem. We both worked all day and spent our evenings out. But since becoming pregnant 4 months ago, my wife left work and we come home much earlier. 5-6 out of 7 nights of the week, our apartment reeks of weed and the smoke is so heavy it makes our eyes sting. It appears that they\u2019re smoking in their kitchen or bathroom, because their layout is the same as mine and those are the vents from which the smoke comes up. Closing the vents does not prevent the smoke from getting into my unit.\n\nThe smell and the smoke make my wife nauseous and gives her headaches. She\u2019s lost some weight from the nausea, and they often smoke weed overnight while she\u2019s sleeping, causing her to wake up with migraines and have a horrible day stuck in bed, where she has to smell the weed. To stop the cycle, she\u2019s been spending a lot of time at her mom\u2019s house and is never home. Which sucks, because I pay for her to be here.\n\nI have called management twice, and have left messages through their website twice. The first time I called the landlord vaguely said they\u2019d look into it, and I never heard back. The second time they said they would call the unit below, and never followed up. Both times I\u2019ve sent messages, I\u2019ve saved them in the notes section of my phone and have saved the confirmation emails sent to me that say they\u2019ve received my message and will get back to me- which, you guessed it, they never did get back to me.\n\nTonight I went downstairs and introduced myself to them. The neighbor was completely stoned. I had my phone recording in my pocket, and it picked up the conversation. I briefly explained the situation and asked them to move to the porch for the night. He was agreeable and repeated what I\u2019d said a few times, also admitting to smoking in the unit, but was very high and I\u2019m not sure he really understood.\n\nWe weren\u2019t originally going to try to move out because we still have five months on our lease agreement, but it\u2019s getting to that point. My questions are; is the recording I have count as evidence if this goes anywhere, and do we have any legal ground here against the management to break our lease agreement as they have not helped us with this issue despite knowing about the medical repercussions it\u2019s had on me and the baby? Breaking the lease would cost us about a month\u2019s rent. We can\u2019t afford that and a months rent anywhere we moved to. We don\u2019t currently have anyone we could stay with for that time, either. What should I do? I need advice. It\u2019s making my wife so miserable and sick all the time, and I\u2019m worried about our baby.","title":"Apartment below me constantly smokes marijuana against signed unit agreement, My wife is pregnant and it\u2019s making her sick. It\u2019s been seven months and management has done nothing.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569186465,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7wk5u\/please_help_me_to_figure_out_the_best_out_one_for\/","id":"d7wk5u","body":"Im a college student in Texas. First,  I will give some important background information that I think is needed to answer my question. \nIm a college student engaged to my college sweetheart (dating for 3 years). I was on birth control but I got pregnant which I knew was something that could still happen. Told fianc\u00e9 at first he was happy but then we started arguing more out of no where every week. Once he even pointed at my stomach and said \u201cthat thing shouldn\u2019t happen\u201d, implying I should abort and also just bringing up the topic of abortion many times. I told him that it\u2019s ok I\u2019ll go then and he doesn\u2019t have to worry about baby or me and he would reply with \u201cwhat?! You think I\u2019m going to be a deadbeat dad?!\u201d. I wasn\u2019t fully decided on not having an abortion, I was going to have my baby with or without him. Months pass by and he starts accepting it, even getting me on his job\u2019s insurance to take care of prenatal visits. \nFast forward, I had my baby 2 days ago. I was able to convince him to let have the baby in my hometown (my mom offered to help through recovery) where I have more support that is 3 hours away from his apartment.My fianc\u00e9 and my mom were with me, he went with me to my emergency c-section. Having my baby has made me realize that he\u2019s not the supportive partner I need rn or I want. He is really happy about the baby and keeps saying \u201cmy son\u201d which I am glad he does love him. \nNow for the question what can I do now to try to go our separate ways specifically concerning custody of the baby. I don\u2019t plan to get sole custody because I don\u2019t think I can . My main concern is that I\u2019m going to have to move back to my hometown, 3 hours away from his apartment. Am I even able to keep the baby that far from him according to the laws in Texas? Is there anything that I can do to help my case more?","title":"Please help me to figure out the best out one for my son","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1441827823,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kabs7\/the_web_domain_ive_registered_for_15_years_in_ca\/","id":"3kabs7","body":"I've paid to register the same domain name for over 15 years. This year, I was charged by the company for registration as usual, but without any warning, the domain seems to have been sold to a premium domain name reseller, and is now going for auction at $2K+. \n\nI doubt I have anything beyond credit card receipts and email invoices from years passed to prove my claim, am not really knowledgeable about this enough to know what rights to the domain I ever even actually had, if any, but this turn seems dirty & wrong. \n\nI'd be interested in pressing the matter legally, if I had a leg to stand on, and even coming out of pocket by a good amount, perhaps foolishly, because it's been a personal site of mine for so long. I bought it when I was 18, and learned HTML code to use it. The domain name is my unusual first birth name, given to me by an estranged mom. \n\nMy situation is almost exactly the same scenario as this post from about a year ago:\nhttps:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ji4q1\/i_paid_for_my_domain_and_it_was_successfully\/","title":"The web domain I've registered for 15+ years (in CA, USA) seems to have been sold out from under me, even though I paid for registration this year. Do I have any legal recourse?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1542200783,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wzxh9\/nc_a_man_threatened_my_girlfriend_24f_with_rape\/","id":"9wzxh9","body":"My gf posted a picture of her new haircut on Facebook and her dads neighbor kept commenting on it with suggestive inappropriate comments. I told him to stop or we would have problems. An argument ensued, and he started to antagonize me by saying things like \"Im going to f*ck (*gf's name*)\" and \"consider it done\".\n\nMy friend commented telling him to f off, and he responded by saying \"(*friends name*) im gunna find you and kill you\". \n\nI was at work when this happened and my Girlfriend calls me freaking out because shes home alone. I tell her to call the cops and I took screenshots of the conversation then rushed home. \n\nWe tell the sheriff's deputy what happened and showed him the screenshots. He basically dismisses it by saying the man could just claim his account was hacked and deny all of it. I ask about a restraining order and he says the most we could do is go to the court house and file for a no-contact order. \n\nI dont know much about law, but it seems like this is clearly a rape and murder threat to me. However, the officer basically told us to block him on facebook and there was little else we could do. They didn't go to his house to question him.\n\nIm not out to ruin his life or anything, but i would feel better if *something* was done about it. She visits her dad often and this man lives a stones throw from his house. Should i just let it go?","title":"(NC) A man threatened my Girlfriend (24F) with rape and my friend's (26M) life over facebook comments.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553477447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b54f6u\/atheist_teacher_question\/","id":"b54f6u","body":"If I keep a book from Richard Dawkins on my desk as a public school teacher, or have a picture of Christopher Hitchens on my wall, will I be fired? Genuine question...\n\n- Fyeris","title":"Atheist Teacher Question","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541114056,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9telrk\/suspended_licence_out_of_florida_but_live_and\/","id":"9telrk","body":"Title pretty much says it all. I bith live and work in Washington State but I had my license suspended years ago for unpaid court fines. It's gonna get cold and icy soon, and I ride a goped to work ( dont live far. 5 miles, but it'll be impossible to ride my goped in the snow ). Would it be feasible to try to get an occupational license to get to and from work? Or even possible? I owe 6k to get my license back, but being able to get a \" temporary \" license to drive to and from work would make life waaaaaaaay easier during the winter season while im paying off the counties I owe down south. If it is possible, how do igo about doing it?","title":"Suspended licence out of Florida but live and work in washington state. Looking at trying to get an occupational license.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554570518,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba6hrv\/pa_workplace_does_not_have_locks_on_bathroom\/","id":"ba6hrv","body":"I work as a CNA at a facility for intellectual and developmentally disabled residents. The particular building that I work in has four restrooms, two intended for residents and two intended for staff. The residents I work with are relatively high functioning and understand which restroom is theirs. \n\n\nThere is one resident that has sexual attractions to staff and has been caught multiple times masturbating to staff. They have taken a liking to me and lately has been walking into the bathroom after me. There's nothing I can really do to prevent this as the company will not put a lock on the staff bathrooms door. They will come in once I'm already in the middle of using the restroom and stare at me peeing as I'm pleading with them to please leave. Often times, while I would just sit there until they leave, thet often don't and I'm forced to stand up, further exposing myself, just so I cant pull my pants up and get out of the situation.\n\n\nThis puts me in a very uncomfortable position and, while I do document it, I worry that somehow this can fall back on me as my privates are exposed to a resident. I understand the concern from management that the residents might lock themselves in the bathroom but that's what keys are for. Can they legally keep me from having the privacy I deserve to use the restroom?","title":"[PA] Workplace does not have locks on bathroom doors, is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542223535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x37pr\/staten_island_new_york_2_different_parts_each\/","id":"9x37pr","body":"So someone told me this. And I'm not sure if this is real since I cannot find it. But hopefully others would be more experience than me. \n\nMy uncle rented his 1 bedroom apartment to a veteran program of some kind. Got a large portion of the full year up front. Tenant is supposed to pay another $150 monthly. But hasn't paid this month. And claims to be jobless. \nJohn (fake), is offering my uncle to move out if he would return the deposit back to him that was provided by the government. Plus 1-2k. Is that allow? \n\nAnd second. To counter this proposal from him. Someone said if john continues to not pay his portion of the rent for 3 consecutive months. My uncle can evict him entirely and legally AND find a new program person to join to get the same if not similar deal over again from the government without having the need to return the previous amount from john. Is this true and where to find this info? \n\nMy uncle rather keep the original deal if john can make his payments. Please help. ","title":"Staten Island New York. 2 different parts each with background info.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540420604,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r4hml\/progressive_rescinded_my_policy_8_days_after_my\/","id":"9r4hml","body":"I purchased a 2016 Chevrolet Malibu on 6\/11\/18 as well as progressive insurance, to leave the lot. I had just gotten pickpocketed so I had no cards on me just cash. I called my friend, who authorized me to use his card for the initial payment. The next week I changed the card information to my new card. Everything was fine and dandy until I spend the night at my friends house on 8\/1\/18 and a flash flood takes my car to the shitter. \n\nI call progressive to get towed and they're giving me a hard time, saying they can't find my policy. I get transferred to a supervisor who says he sees my policy and everything is fine but still no one will tow my car! I had to wait until 9am for the dealership to open so chevy roadside could tow me there. I make the claim, send over everything that's asked of me and wait.\n\nSuspiciously 8 days after my claim, Progressive decided my initial payment on 6\/11\/18 was fraudulent. Not once did they contact me, or my friend whose card it was, about it. Not once did they stop me from making additional payments on 7\/31\/18. \n\nYet nearly 2 months after my initial payment and 8 days after my car was in a flash flood and I had to make a claim there is suddenly a problem. I spoke with several people on 8\/1\/18 the day of the flood to try and get Progressive to tow my car. No one came so I had to wait until the morning for my Chevrolet dealership to open and tow the car.\n\nAfter filing the claim, I was bounced around from one agent to the next. Progressive was supposed to go check out my car on 8\/2\/18 but then called and switched to 8\/3\/18. On 8\/3\/18 the handler wasn\u2019t on site at the dealership, so the adjuster came in on 8\/6\/18. The shop got the okay from my agent to begin work on my car 8\/9\/18 yet Progressive customer service sent me a later saying I was never covered. After having numerous correspondences (letters, texts, voicemails, and recorded calls on progressives lines) saying I was always covered and there was never a lapse in coverage. \n\nFor the past few months, I've gone back and forth with Progressive who wouldn't do anything but say they can't change a rescinded policy.  Progressive has sent a letter on 8\/29\/18 stating that my coverage was denied due to an issue with my initial payment. I filed a complaint with the Department of Insurance and Financial Services last month and progressives response was once again that the payment was fraudulent. \n\nI've been without a car for months but still paying on this totaled car because it's financed, my belongings are still trapped in the trunk, and the car has been impounded from the dealership because the tow company left it in the parking lot while I was out of town for work. I want to sue because this is unbelievably shady but I have no money for a lawyer, and no family or friends able to help me. Even my friend who paid intially is being rude now because he's upset that I got upset with him about this whole ordeal. He says his bank never contacted him about this matter and that when he called to ask them about it they said they had no disputes reported.\n\n\n\nWhat should I do? Are there Pro bono lawyers in Michigan for cases like this?","title":"Progressive rescinded my policy 8 days after my claim. Says it\u2019s because of my \u201cfraudulent\u201d initial payment","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539049515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ml02z\/ne_staff_of_my_public_high_school_ignored_my_504\/","id":"9ml02z","body":"A quick warning - this is going to be a very long story. Refer to the title for a tl;dr as there's no other way to shorten this without cutting important details. Feel free to skip to the bolded section for my actual questions :)\n\nSome background info: I've had severe Crohn's disease since kindergarten. My entire education, k-12 (with the exception of 10th grade which will be explained later) was spent in the same (very small-town) school system, in which the high school building encompasses grades 7-12. A new principal, who had previously been the vice principal, took over during my 8th grade year. I graduated in the summer of 2017.\n\nTo make an incredibly long, incredibly tiring story as short as possible, my high school, particularly the principal, did the following:\n\n1. He did not inform me I was not getting credit for my (required) 8th grade gym class until the school year already ended and I received my report card mid-summer. Due to my disability and inability to participate in gym class, my gym teacher and I had always had a spoken agreement that he would only be grading me on written tests, not participation. However, when we took the health class and gym class finals, they completely skipped over me when handing out the gym final. The principal basically said too bad, you have to retake it or you can't graduate. We explained to him that because of my disability, I simply cannot participate in a gym class. Still too bad. My mom calls him, crying, trying to further explain the situation, and he still doesn't budge. My dad threatens legal action since a) I wasn't told I was failing until it was too late to do anything about it, b) I wasn't even given the gym final and c) I could not and would not ever be able to properly participate in a gym class due to my chronic illness. My dad emailed (I believe he still has all emails saved) asking for the school's policy on informing parents if a student was not going to get credit for a class needed to graduate, among other pertinent documents, and the principal did not comply and asked to simply meet with us to talk it out. My dad replied that once he was shown the policies\/documents, he would agree to a meeting, but \"there would be more than just you, me, my wife and my daughter present\", implying a lawyer or something similar. He immediately folded and gave me credit.\n2. After this we put a 504 plan into place to avoid anything similar happening again. The plan we used was specifically created for students with IBD by the CCFA and can be viewed [here](http:\/\/www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org\/resources\/template-section-504-plan.html). We did not alter it from this at all. During this time a teacher was bullying me for my disability (calling me a delinquent for having late work (which was protected under my 504), criticizing me for asking to go to the bathroom shortly after class started (again, protected in my 504, and I was not given the bathroom pass mentioned in the plan) and told me I should've went after lunch (I went anyway), called me out for getting \"special exceptions\" in front of the whole class, and eventually made me leave her study hall in tears and go home early. The principal was aware of this situation and MADE HER THE PLAN COORDINATOR FOR MY 504. We told him no way, and then he made HIMSELF the plan coordinator. The plan refers to the coordinator and the principal as two separate entities, so I don't think that's how it was supposed to work. At this point I had to be given anti-anxiety medication by my doctor due to the situation.\n3. My health continues to worsen and I continue missing quite a bit of school due to it. My 504 plan was ignored to the extent that it caused me, a previously A and B student, to fail the fall semester of my 9th grade year. The ignorance of points 11 and 12 in particular are what I believe caused this to happen. The work I was provided with was turned in and I got good grades (\"quality rather than quantity of the make-up work shall be emphasized\"). We again were not told of this until it was too late. I had no choice but to leave the school and begin online school through my state's college's high school program. I retook all failed classes, did my entire 10th grade year, and was caught up by the time 11th grade started. And, because I missed my friends and was becoming depressed from being home all day, I made a terrible decision. I went back to the public high school.\n4. My 504 was still in place. During my junior and senior years, I discovered my teachers hadn't been given copies of my 504 plan like they were supposed to and were seemingly unaware I had one. It makes me wonder if none of my 9th grade teachers knew either and that is part of why it wasn't followed. I was also dropped(?) from a class which was a required extracurricular credit without being told. I was sitting there and the teacher came up to me saying \"you know you don't have to come here anymore, right?\" and obviously I was like ...what? She said \"didn't \\[principal\\] tell you? You aren't in this class anymore.\" Nope. No he did not. Furthermore, I was consistently given Saturday school letters, signed by the principal, for work the teachers (who now thankfully had copies of my 504 and knew what they were doing) had already excused.  When I went to start applying to colleges, I discovered my GPA was ridiculously low, a 2.7 I believe, because they had left all the Fs from my fall semester of 9th grade on my transcript factored into my GPA even though it was due to their negligence and I had retaken the classes. The counselor took care of that fairly quickly once I brought it to her attention thankfully. It honestly just felt like one thing after another. I wasn't even told that I would for sure be graduating until the day before the ceremony, the morning of rehearsal. I can't even explain the relief once I was finally done with that place.\n5. That summer I left a negative but 100% truthful review on the school's Facebook page about my time there. That night I discovered they had disabled their reviews so none of them were visible anymore. I had my review typed up in my notes, so I screenshotted it and posted it to my Facebook page with an explanation of them disabling reviews. Maybe that was petty of me, but I was angry and didn't appreciate being silenced. Since the town is small, it gained quite a bit of attention, and the school eventually re-enabled their reviews and mine is back up. However, other people came forward about the principal and other staff mistreating their kids, siblings, or themselves.\n\nA couple days ago I got a message from a father of a student at this school who saw my review. His son has Crohn's as well, and is going through similar things (504 is being ignored, principal is calling him names, staff is bullying him, being reported to the state for missing school due to his sickness, etc). The father posted a negative review himself on the school's Facebook, and it was removed. Granted, it was fairly vague and he didn't explain his claim, but it was truthful. This is so, so troubling to me. I've already had an extremely hard time recovering from my experience there. I feel like I can't trust any of my college professors or college administration to treat me fairly, even though they've all been great and the DSS here is amazing. I feel like I can't trust my employers, or even my doctors at this point when it comes to my chronic illness. I still think about and get extremely upset over my experience there, and knowing he is still treating kids this way and was doing so before me as well makes me feel like I'll never be able to get over it as long as I know he's working there. This principal is a prominent, award-winning member of the Nebraska State Association of Secondary School Principals and \"advocate\" against bullying, yet he's bullying children himself. He told me he'd \"gone above and beyond for me\" during one of our last meetings while discussing my missed work which is so offensive and delusional it's comical. All 4 years were a such constant barrage of screw-ups and ignorance that it actually started feeling like personal attacks to me, even though I know now that sounds ridiculous.\n\n**So. That's the story. Really, that whole school is a mess and there are other shady stories I could tell, but now isn't the time. My legal questions are:**\n\n1. **Is a 504 plan a legally binding document? Were any laws broken by his negligence? If not, were any sort of state\/public school policies violated?**\n2. **Have any other laws or policies been broken? If so, what steps do I need to take?**\n3. **Has it been too long since this has occurred to pursue anything?**\n4. **If nothing has been broken or violated, or I've let too much time pass, is there any way this man can be reprimanded for his continued mistreatment of children and inability to do his job? If so, what steps do I need to take?**\n\nI wish I would've done more when it was happening to me, but I just wanted to graduate with as little drama as possible. Knowing he's done this to other kids before me and is continuing to after me is what's really disturbing me. One woman has had to receive therapy for her time spent at this school due to the staff (I think she's even been diagnosed with PTSD, but I can't say for sure). It's like he's on a power trip now that he's in a position of power and is taking it out on any kids who are not cookie-cutter (the people that shared their experiences with me were not just chronically ill, they were also LGBTQ+, didn't fit the \"small-town star athlete\" stereotype, or were from an otherwise unprivileged background). Even if it isn't that and I'm just taking it too personally, the level of negligence I've experienced and is still apparently going on seems really unacceptable. I just don't want anyone else to have to go through what I did, especially on top of a chronic illness. Thank you for taking the time to read this.\n\n​","title":"[NE] staff of my public high school ignored my 504 plan, bullied me for my disability, and are continuing to do so today to other students","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553647001,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5xpfx\/can_what_steps_should_i_take_to_ensure_my\/","id":"b5xpfx","body":"My apologies if this isn't appropriate to ask here, I really don't know where to look or ask.\n\n​\n\nI was sending work e-mails today when Outlook showed some unusual files showing up in my \"Recent Files\" list when attaching some documents to an e-mail. They included a scan of my passport, my employment contract, and a few other random things (they were inconsequential, like photos of a volleyball court with only strangers in it), When I right clicked on the files, they said \"Accessed: March 26, 4 minutes ago\" or something similar. Some of the files 'accessed' were locally stored and I am the only person with access to this computer.\n\n​\n\nI have a paid version of AVG and ran MalwareBytes and nothing was identified as a risk. It happened while I both had a VPN on and off (it was off initially by mistake, I turned it on immediately at the first red flag, and then later in the day more random files did the same thing despite the VPN being on). I have genuinely no idea if\/how my information may have been accessed, or if I should be worried about anything. I haven't clicked any phishing e-mails, opened anything suspicious, etc.\n\n​\n\nThere was NO credit card info, bank details or payment information in any files I saw pop up. Some of them were stored locally, others in OneDrive. Any locally stored versions have since been moved since they realistically should not have been there in the first place. The information would have included:\n\n\\- Anything on a Canadian passport\n\n\\- An old home address\n\n\\- New Zealand Inland Revenue Department (tax authority) number\n\n\\- Current employment contract\n\n\\- License plate of the car I owned while I was in New Zealand\n\n​\n\nBecause the data that was 'Accessed' includes personal identifying information, I would like to take appropriate steps to understand:\n\na) What - if any - steps I should take to make sure my identity is protected in the event I have been a target of identity theft\/fraud?\n\nb) Am I being overly paranoid here? Is there an innocent explanation for how this would happen?\n\n​\n\nNever had to deal with anything quite like this and certainly not an expert in cyber-security so any advice, even if it's just saying 'dude quit yer worrying', would be helpful. Thanks!","title":"[CAN] What steps should I take to ensure my identity is protected?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554071439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7tp8s\/on_behalf_of_my_friendhusband_cheated_and_kicked\/","id":"b7tp8s","body":"I\u2019m sure this type of post has been made many times, but I\u2019m desperate to give my friend some advice. We are in Texas. She and her husband have been together 13 years, common law marriage. They have four kids, one of whom is disabled (the oldest one). When he was born 12 years ago she quit working and has stayed home ever since raising the kids and taking care of the home. During that same time, he\u2019s done well for himself in his business.\n\nNow he\u2019s cheated on her and kicked her out of their house. The house is only under his name (owner). He told her to pack her shit and get out. I told her he can\u2019t legally do that but she\u2019s scared because he threatens her that he\u2019s going to keep the kids from her. He says he can win anything because he has the money and she has nothing. They have separate bank accounts. \n\nI told her she needs a lawyer but she\u2019s scared of his threats and says she can\u2019t afford one. I know he\u2019s keeping the kids because he would have to pay her a fortune in child support if she had them. She\u2019s been staying with friends and family and hotels. She comes over in the morning to get the kids ready for school\nAnd then leaves. He \u201clets\u201d her come over when he goes out with his girlfriend and makes her leave when they get back. \n\nWhat should she do at this point? I\u2019m so disappointed that my friend (he was my friend before she was) has turned out to be a total piece of shit. ","title":"On behalf of my friend-husband cheated and kicked her out with no money, threatening to take their kids, what should she do? (TX)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568686262,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5aivo\/paid_for_a_car_never_received_want_my_money_back\/","id":"d5aivo","body":"so, almost 2 weeks ago i was gonna buy a car, for $700. honda right whatever. but i remembered this kid i work with was talking about how he\u2019s a mechanic (he\u2019s 18 i\u2019m 19). so i ask him about what he thinks, if i should get the car or not. so he throws me a better offer of one of his cars just more money of course. so he shows me this acura and sold me a dream basically, he even said he\u2019d have it ready and delivered that same day. sweet i was thinking right !? so he wanted a 1k downpayment and i could pay overtime a total 2.5k . keep in mind. his parents, aunt, uncles brother, work at the same place we do, and i know where he lives, so i was very comfortable sending the money cause i\u2019m thinking this kid can\u2019t possibly be stupid enough to try something knowing what i know. anyways i sent the 1k, got my outfit ready after work, was so exited for a new car just to not get replied to from my many \u201cyo\u201ds. fast forward, 1 week later i\u2019m still waiting on the car, he quit the job, i\u2019m still there, and he said the mechanic fixing up the car will cut the 2.5k if i paid 600 more now rather than overtime (total $1.6k) so i\u2019d be a fool not to go for the deal (i would never give money like this so freely to anyone, i just did given the situation). so in total 1.6k i\u2019ve sent to this kid and with all this i\u2019ve realized what kind of person he is, just a big talk scum bag, here\u2019s an example, i brought up the idea that he\u2019s trying to steal from me and how i want my money back, what\u2019s he respond \u201ctf good with you like if I won\u2019t go over there and slam the money in your face tf\u201c so ya i was just trying to buy a car, now this kid wants issues and is threatening physical harm over trying to get the money i worked hard for back? i don\u2019t got time for that. i dont want the car after that cause i don\u2019t deal with people like that. i\u2019ve sent my bank information to him multiple times, told him to send my 1.6k and i really don\u2019t want to talk to this kid anymore, i just need my money now. so the options are: 1. talk more to the kid even though i feel i have enough. 2. Talk to his parents at work and explain it to them and see if they wanna do something about the situation 3. get in contact with the police and see how the dude likes a grand larceny on his record. \nand of course open to any suggestions which is why i\u2019m here, i don\u2019t want to\/don\u2019t know how to deal with this correctly and legally. please, open to any suggestions.","title":"Paid for a car. never received. want my money back.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1444242921,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nve8a\/sex_offender_charge_description_in_plain_english\/","id":"3nve8a","body":"I live in central California. I get alerts every time a sex offender moves within a certain distance of my house. We just got a new alert today that a sex offender moved just down the street. I have 3 young children so I always try to research the offense. I look up the definition of this offense but it's pretty muddy. Can someone please let me know, in plain English, what acts are involved in this offense. \"288(c) - (Prior Code) LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS ACTS WITH CHILD 14 OR 15 YEARS OLD.\" Thanks.","title":"Sex offender charge description in plain English.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447709586,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t2l4o\/ar_and_fl_stepparent_adoption\/","id":"3t2l4o","body":"I'll do my best to make this brief and informative.\n\n[Relevant background] My ex-husband and I had our daughter after just under two years of marriage- Living in FL at the time, we separated just after her first birthday- he moved into his mother's home, I moved into an apartment with our girl. During this time he did not provide any form of support save a small package of diapers every now and then. 13 months after our separation our divorce was finalized with a BS custody agreement in place. I asked for the bare minimum of child support (never filed for it, so he never paid) he in turn gave me blanket permission to do what was necessary for my daughter and I. After our divorce was final- with his permission and blessing, my daughter and I moved back to Arkansas to live with my parents and to get our lives restarted.\n\nOnce I moved to Arkansas, I never kept her from him, even going out of my way to accommodate visits back to Florida, or grandparent visits here.  Again during this time there was no child support paid, twice a year if I asked he'd send money for seasonal clothing. There was minimal phone\/text conversation about our daughter, 95% of the communication was instigated by me as I was trying to maintain a positive relationship.\n\n Fast forward 2 years; I met and married a wonderful man who loves my daughter as if she were his. I couldn't ask for a better situation. My spouse and I have added to our family. \n\n[Current situation]- My husband and daughter have expressed a desire for formally make him her father. Having the relationship with my ex-husband, I brought up the topic. He is fine with it, doesn't care at all really - sad though not expected. \n\nSince we never filed anything with the Florida courts about the move, I'm not sure where to go as far as pursuing the adoption here in Arkansas where we live. \n\nI would appreciate any advice I could get, I've tried googling... but the internet is full of information that I cannot make heads nor tails of. \n\nTL\/DR: Custody\/divorce in FL; wanting to pursue step-parent adoption in AR.","title":"[AR and FL] Step-parent adoption","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553043280,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b35i8x\/package_delivered_but_not_received\/","id":"b35i8x","body":"Location: Philadelphia, PA\n\nMy wife sold a $500 luxury item on eBay and shipped it USPS Priority Mail without signature to a local address. Lessons have been learned.\n\nThe buyers appear to be a real, affluent couple who live in a large townhouse in Center City Philly. Almost everyone in this area (Rittenhouse) lives in condos but they have a 4 floor townhouse with dedicated entrance. They claim it was not received.\n\nWe did a drive by tonight and happened by chance to observe a few things:\n\n- Local USPS employees told us they don\u2019t leave packages on doorsteps in this very busy area of the city\n- There is no foyer or place to leave packages out of sight. Worse, there is a raised entrance which leaves any package outside at head height.\n- There are many cameras, including the buyers house which has many cameras covering all angles.\n\nTwo questions:\n\n1) Is there any recourse against USPS beyond the $50 statutory given that leaving a package unattended in this area is reckless?\n2) What is the best way to proceed with the buyer? I am wonder whether to file a police report so we can get the video footage.\n\nAdvice very much appreciated, and yes I realize there are many ways she could have avoided this situation. As I said... lessons have been learned.","title":"Package Delivered but not received","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569702452,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dale07\/can_my_wife_sell_turquoise_from_my_mountain_also\/","id":"dale07","body":"I got into a one-sided contact. After my father died. This guy didn't hold up to his end of the bargain and I am working to get out of the contract now. He said that he would pay me so much a year, take me to go mine out product (which was supposed to happen by the end of 2018), and according to the website it looks like he is using my name and mining name to sell turquoise that DID NOT COME FROM MY MOUNTAIN! either that or he is out there mining without my permission. One of the agreements in the contract is that I won't sell and of the turquoise using my name or the name of my mines unless it was through him. ((Question is:: will my wife be able to sell turquoise in her name and be able to say where it came from??))\n\nLess","title":"Can my wife sell turquoise from my mountain? Also, might be using my name to sell turquoise that isn't from my mine.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1507885058,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/763jvw\/recently_separated_do_i_need_it_in_writing\/","id":"763jvw","body":"(UK citizen) \nAfter 5 years together and a bit over a year married me and my wife split, on relatively amicable terms. We've decided to go the 2 year separation approach to divorce but I seem to be getting mixed responses as to how to start the timer on the split. I've read that legal separation is its own separate process to divorce but others are saying I must first apply for a separation before I can start the process. If anyone has any similar experience or advice on this would be much appreciated. I'd hate to wait two years to find it didn't count for Jack.","title":"Recently separated, do I need it in writing?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570035153,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dccxka\/boyfriends_exwife_scheduled_wedding_to_uncledad\/","id":"dccxka","body":"BACKGROUND: My boyfriend of two years and his ex have joint custody of their 7 y\/o son. The ex has primary physical custody and my boyfriend currently has visitation for four days every two weeks, Thu PM - Mon AM. \n\nTHE ISSUE: She scheduled her wedding during his visitation weekend of Oct 26th and, in her usual fashion, demanded that he modify any existing plans\/swap weekends so she could have their son.  \n\nWe do an annual Halloween party that was already scheduled as of the notification date, and also have other legitimate plans for fall activities for the duration of the rest of the weekend.\n\nTHE APPROACH: Initially, she sent an email around Sept 1st demanding the change to the visitation schedule without explanation, and then followed up with the rationale about the wedding in the second week of September, advising my bf that \"this is not a discussion.\" \n\nHe responded with an echo of his original refusal, to which she countered with a drawn out guilt trip, reiterating her initial points and adding that the wedding venue is just a few minutes from our house. \n\nWe again declined to accommodate her request citing the current court-ordered visitation arrangement, and her consistent history of disregarding my boyfriend's time and value as an equal co-parent, which we have documented via email.\n\nA BIT OF COLOR: Within the last month, she scheduled a vacation during his time (without asking), that we ultimately readjusted our plans for to accommodate. She also pulled a similar stunt on Christmas morning last year, and consistently uses language in their email communications that implies that she has primary decision making authority when they have equal joint custody. \n\nICING ON THE CAKE: The groom is my boyfriend's brother that she had an affair with, which ended their marriage. So essentially, she's demanding that my S.O. give up his court-ordered visitation time so their son can be in his mother and Uncle's wedding, if that gives you an idea of her overall character.\n\nAt any rate, we received notice of a forthcoming subpoena for her Show Cause motion to dispute this matter.\n\nHER LEGAL ARGUMENT:\n\n- The wedding venue is 5 minutes away (it is), and it's unreasonable that we are not accommodating her request to at least attend the ceremony.\n\n- She asked politely (the third time) and gave us ample notice to make plans to accommodate her request. \n\n- We have him for the actual day of Halloween this year (a school night, Thursday).\n\nOUR PROPPSED LEGAL ARGUMENT:\n\n- The proximity of our house to the wedding venue is irrelevant. The five minute travel time she references doesn't account for the actual ceremony, reception, or coordination of an exchange on a day that is already anticipated to be very busy for both parties.  Delays and issues are very likely, especially considering she has a documented history of being late to exchange meet-ups, and any resultant issues will have a one-sided negative impact that only affects our household. \n\n-She was well aware of the visitation schedule when she scheduled her wedding, and thus knowingly created this problem. Her framing this as a problem we created is a thinly veiled manipulation tactic.\n\n- Per the current Visitation Agreement, my bf only gets to see his son for a total of 8 days out of a 31 day month. It is unreasonable that she scheduled the wedding on one of those 8 days.\n\n-Further to this, we provided almost two month's notice of our decline. This is ample notice to reschedule her wedding to a day that their son could attend. It was unnecessarily confrontational to create this conflict. \n\n- This is a continuation of a consistent pattern of bullying behavior she uses while co-parenting that has been documented via email. Allowing her to demand changes to the court ordered visitation schedule as she sees fit sets a dangerous precedent for any custody and visitation altercations in the future. \n\nLEGAL QUESTIONS: \n\n1.) Do we have ample grounds for refusal based on the situation? \n\n2.) Is the court going to care about her consistent confrontational behavior\/bullying co-parenting style or are they just going to consider the current situation at face value? \n\n3.) While litigating this matter, can we concurrently file an Amended Visitation Agreement to increase our visitation time to 50\/50 or will that have to be a separate matter? This was something we were literally planning to file this week, but we are now dealing with this development.","title":"Boyfriend's Ex-Wife Scheduled Wedding To UncleDad on His Vistiation Weekend","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555175751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcsrp3\/sc_my_friend_got_a_notice_from_his_landlord_about\/","id":"bcsrp3","body":"He received an email from the apartment complex in which they stated that they had received a complaint for a marijuana smell in his building. Apparently they narrowed it down to 2 specific apartments and are going to be sending police to \u201ccheck\u201d those first and see if they can pinpoint the source of the smell. As he\u2019s out of town, he\u2019s concerned that they might search his apartment while he\u2019s not there. Does the landlord have a right to allow to police into his unit? Is a smell probable cause to enter every apartment in the building? Will they simply wait until he returns and question him then? This is in the state of South Carolina, US. \n\nTLDR - Friend received notice of complaint about weed smell, will his unit be searched without his consent?","title":"[S.C.] My friend got a notice from his landlord about a weed smell. He\u2019s out of town, will they be able to search while he\u2019s gone?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541358284,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u624a\/i_have_read_through_my_high_schools_code_of\/","id":"9u624a","body":"Hi just for some background I attend a DCPS high school in Washington D.C. I have thoroughly read through my school's handbook and I think that some of the policies violate my constitutional rights. I will write the passages below. If its possible could you tell me whether or not constitutionally these are legal. Yes, I know rights are slightly less strong being that I am a minor but from what I have read from the ACLU they are still (if not slightly less) valid.  \nPassage One: (I believe this conflicts with the fourth amendment)  \n*A warrantless search of a student's personal possessions or articles may be conducted if there is a* ***Reasonable suspicion*** *the search is necessary to protect the health and\/or safety of students or staff to detect a violation of the school rules.*  \nI have an issue with this passage given its vagueness, does this mean that it is possible for the staff to search students phones. From what I have read I have seen there are further restrictions on phone searches but given the vagueness of the wording, I am unsure that this passage acknowledges these restrictions.  \nPassage Two: (I believe this conflicts with the first amendment)  \n*Students may be disciplined for off-campus behavior. Off-campus speech or action when it causes, or is likely to cause, a substantial disturbance or when it creates a threat of danger at the school will be addressed by the administration. Students can be disciplined for misbehavior occurring off school grounds if there is a connection between the school and the off-campus behavior.*  \nFirst off I believe this is an overextension of school authority and given the vagueness in the wording of this rule I think the administration could use this to discipline students where the school does not have jurisdiction to do so. I understand this is directed towards cyber-bullying and fights but I believe this could also lead to a limitation of students rights to free speech. This is because of the school's aforementioned strict hate speech rules. Also is it not true that a schools authority only extends a certain amount of distance away from school property so shouldn't this be mute if it is beyond that distance.  \nPassage Three:(my issue with this passage is also what I believe to be a violation of the first amendment)  \n*Students will use appropriate language and conduct in all forms of communication on social media. (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.)*  \nThis to me seems like a blatant violation of my first amendment right to freedom of expression and an overextension of the school's authority. This is because of the fact that it is completely and utterly vague in its description. Especially anything posted on social media could be in theory, considered communication. Also, this seems to be a violation of the freedom of expression considering that the school has rules which limit many forms of expression.\n\nplease inform me whether I have misconceptions on these regulations or that the school is behaving unconstitutionally. I am attempting to stay as informed as possible about the law and my rights and freedoms. If you want I can link the rules regarding and defining hate speech in an edit or a comment.  ","title":"I have read through my high school's code of conduct and I believe some of the rules violate my constitutional rights can anyone here check to see if this is correct and if these rules are legal?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540785408,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s9tsz\/trying_to_deposit_an_insurance_check_and_it_being\/","id":"9s9tsz","body":"So, my car got rear-ended and totaled. The title of the vehicle is under my cousins name (who lives in Houston), because it was a gift and I hadn\u2019t switched it to my name. The insurance company told me to send the check to her, only to find out she doesn\u2019t have a banking account. She tried depositing into her bf\u2019s account only to get a legal copy back. We told her to just cash it at the bank on the check but the closest Arvest bank is in Oklahoma. We suggested her bf add her to his account but they may not last long and he doesn\u2019t want to. She also refuses to open a bank account just to deposit this one check and never use it again. Any advice on what I should do next? Is it possible for the insurance company to write a new check under my name? Is there a place that can cash a legal copy of the check? PLEASE!","title":"Trying to deposit an insurance check and it being the most stressful and time consuming thing I\u2019ve ever done.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1442784218,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lq19x\/fl_just_a_scam_or_am_i_in_big_trouble\/","id":"3lq19x","body":"Im your regular college kid, semi recently got the dating app OkCupid, surprisingly worked out pretty well so far until today.\n\nI had been messaging a girl for like an hour and she asked for my number. So we texted for a big here and there over a couple of days and eventually it turned to sending a nude back and forth (literally one each, first sort of red flag). \n\nWell come this morning I wake up to a call from her number, except its a man claiming to be her father. He says that she was under age and that I had sent the nude to her and his wife some how (what??). I am of course mortified and tell him im so sorry and I certainly wont contact her again if that's the case. I explained that she had her profile clearly set as 18 and that at no time did she say otherwise.\n\nHe then says his wife\/him want to go to the police but he doesn't want to just ruin someone's life. He then says if I pay for his daughter's phone cancellation fee he will talk his wife out of going to the police. At that point I think its a scam tell him so and hang up.\n\nI then receive this text: http:\/\/imgur.com\/G51RVw9\n\nSo on one hand this sounds like a scam, but on the other it certainly has me freaked because what if it isn't.\n\nI guess I just wanted a few more sets of eyes on the situation.","title":"[FL] Just a scam or am I in big trouble?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551306105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avj9r2\/texas_retail_worker_fired_and_havent_received\/","id":"avj9r2","body":"\nI worked for a family owned small 3 store retail chain in Texas. It\u2019s been 24 days since I was fired, and I continue to hear \u201cwe\u2019ve had issue with payroll, we\u2019re sending it now\u201d and it\u2019s now my second time contacting them saying I haven\u2019t received. \n\nWhere do I go from here? I understand I\u2019m supposed to receive the check 6 days after being fired. But don\u2019t know how to advance from here. Any advice would greatly be appreciated. ","title":"Texas retail worker fired and haven\u2019t received Final paycheck","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441874792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kdfb0\/legality_of_facebook_pages_that_post_comments\/","id":"3kdfb0","body":"Hi guys,\n\nI don't know if you've ever came across these types of pages (I can't find one in english as an example), but there are pages which post stupid Facebook posts or tweets from random people. These pages, in particular those who satirize them, are always subject to legal threats and Facebook takedown notices.\n\nI was always curious as to their legal status. I'm not familiar with Facebook ToS, but as I understand it, if you post something to facebook and someone else reuses it, as comedy, shouldn't it be considered fair use?\n\nI did a quick search on the page but, as expected, there were a lot of results regarding profile pictures and stuff like that, and I couldn't find anything related to this.\n\nBest regards,\n","title":"Legality of Facebook pages that post comments from different individuals, as satire","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555029256,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc7cv7\/custody_of_child_that_grew_up_with_grandmother\/","id":"bc7cv7","body":"My female cousin (mexican living in mexico) had a daughter back when she was young and stupid. She never took care of her because I believe she went to prison and she was just immature and crazy. Kid grew up with my cousin's grandmother in the US. Cousin was deported after getting out of prison. Kid is now 5 or 6 years old and my cousin has her life together now, she has a partner and a stable job in Mexico. \n\nShe wants to have her kid back with her. I believe they did keep in touch over the years but that's about it, never visited because cousin is not allowed into the US anymore. \n\nHow will that be possible? I guess it is not just getting the child on a plane to Mexico... is it?\n\nOh, and the child's father is nowhere to be seen.","title":"Custody of child that grew up with grandmother","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555613318,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bep7g7\/sexually_oriented_ads_from_websites\/","id":"bep7g7","body":"A federal statute, 39 USC 3010, prohibits sending unwanted sexually oriented ads through the US mail. Is there any similar prohibition that applies to Web ad services?","title":"Sexually oriented ads from websites","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555639460,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/betumj\/rental_lease_listed_for_2_years_but_the_lease\/","id":"betumj","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nSo I have a lease that started back in July 2018 for this amazing townhome in Florida. However things have not been well with living arrangements. In the contract I\u2019ve realized the property managers have made a mistake. There multiple lines that state that this can only be a 1 year lease contract. One says (FOR A TERM NOT TO EXCEED ONE YEAR), another states \u201cThis is a lease for a term, not to exceed twelve months\u201d,  and \u201cbut the term of a renewal or extension together with the original lease Term may not exceed one year\u201d. The only thing that shows it\u2019s 2 years is the dates for July 2018 until July 2020. \n\nIf I talk to the property manager about the contract. Do I have grounds to convince him to modify the contract to July 2019?","title":"Rental lease listed for 2 years, but the lease agreement states 1 year.(FL)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504467382,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xv98d\/moved_into_new_apartment_previous_tenants_stole_a\/","id":"6xv98d","body":"[CA] - sorry first time posting.\n\nI was moving apartments with my housemates, and we were scheduled to move in on September 1st at 2:00 P.M. The apartment manager tells us some of the previous tenants haven't moved out and our apartment would not be ready until 4 or 5 P.M. and we were free to move stuff into our living room. For our inconvenience she gave us 1 days rent credit and credit for the month's parking.\n\nWe proceeded to move in, making multiple trips (we have small cars), and the previous tenants did not fully leave the apartment until 8:00 P.M, way longer than what we were told. As I was going through my stuff, I realized my computer monitor was gone. I searched every inch of the apartment and cars for it, but could not find it. My housemate's and I knew we brought the monitor upstairs, so this led to the conclusion that the monitor was stolen by the previous tenants as they were moving out. \n\nI emailed the apartment manager asking for compensation for the time the tenants were here and my only monitor I have for school. The manager replied and told me to contact the police, she could contact the previous tenants if I wanted to, and that another day's rent was compensated. I just got this email today and have not responded yet.\n\nThe rent compensation does not fully cover for my monitor and on top of that, the apartment couldn't be fully cleaned by the cleaning crew that comes in when tenants move out.\n\nHow should I respond to the email and what else can I do?\n\nThanks for any help!\n\nEdit: I have submitted a police report and I still believe the apartment management should be at fault and should compensate for my loss.","title":"Moved into new apartment, previous tenants stole a few of my belongings as they moved out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506633182,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7335ay\/texas_former_apartment_sent_my_balance_to\/","id":"7335ay","body":"My lease with an apartment ended on Dec 30th, 2016. I had a remaining balance, due to they way they bill water by 2 months behind, of about $113. I found out this amount was automatically sent to a collection agency on Jan 7th. The apartment have my phone number, email and new address on file, but made no attempt to notify me that I owed money. Was this legal?","title":"[Texas] Former apartment sent my balance to collector 7 days after my lease ended without notifying me that I owed money","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570281653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddn67v\/can_someone_be_fired_for_not_being_able_to_pass_a\/","id":"ddn67v","body":"Basically my job (School bus transportation company) is very short staffed. To combat this management has decided that all employees must get a commercial drivers license with the proper endorsements to drive schoolbuses. This includes people that have worked there for years and never had to drive because their job description when they were hired did not require them to drive. Examples are people that work in payroll, dispatchers, maintenance staff, etc. there are some people that are unable to get licenses because of medical conditions like diabetes, heart issues, sleep apnea and other things. These people are being threatened with termination because they are unable to receive a commercial drivers license and pass the necessary physicals to get the license in the first place. You would be getting the license on your own dime meaning you have to pay for all the permits, testing and everything else your self. The only thing they pay for is the doctor visit so you can get your DOT physical. Meaning you\u2019ll be paying for all these things for no reason because you can\u2019t pass the physical anyway so it\u2019s a waste of time and money that you will not be reimbursed for.\n\nMy question is basically can they fire you for not being able to pass a physical to get a license when it was never part of your job? I understand that job descriptions can change and most employment contracts say that they can change it anytime.","title":"Can someone be fired for not being able to pass a DOT physical when their job does not require a commercial license?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540218382,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qearm\/us_client_refusing_to_pay_us_agency\/","id":"9qearm","body":"We are a United Kingdom based social media agency.\n\nWe agreed to work with a US client to help them test their brand's traction on Instagram through an Influencer marketing campaign. The agreement was we would receive the first half of the budget to cover a content creation overhaul and then the second half of the budget near the end of the campaign + he saw some results (This figure was not defined as we don't commit to sales goals or guarantees). \n\nWe usually take the entire budget prior, however, the client didn\u2019t feel comfortable doing this so we chose to accommodate the situation, the client agreed and signed the contract. The remainder of the budget was $1500 USD.\n\nWe created content for the client and prepped the account prior to the campaign, covered all the costs, then we began the campaign. The campaign was near completion, however, it was underperforming and wasn\u2019t meeting some of our prior projections, the client informed us that he had seen some sales although not to the number he thought he\u2019d generate.\n\nWe requested the rest of the budget ($1500 USD) so that we could do one final push through paid advertising and a few other channels, however the client refused and stated its been a waste of his time and he can\u2019t justify paying the rest of the budget ( A percentage of which is going to the final part of marketing his products).\n\nThere was a lot of back and forth and he was adamant that he was not going to pay, however, we have evidence that although the campaign grossly underperformed, we were still able to generate him some sales. \n\nWe since ceased working on the campaign and are now seeking legal advice on our options.\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.","title":"US client refusing to pay us (agency)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554026941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7m7ig\/work_threatening_to_sack_me_because_im_not_always\/","id":"b7m7ig","body":"Hi, so basically I work in a retail store and have been there for the past 4 years. My manager recently changed two weeks ago. I work 5 shifts a week and 4\/5 of them I stay behind to help out other members of staff.\nHowever, the other day I don't work as much as I have family commitments. So yeah, this manager basically asked me if I couls stay an additional 3 hours, and I said \"no, I can't, sorry\". He then said \"you are on a flexible contract, not accepting this could lead to your dismissal\". I read through my contract and it clearly states that this company must give me 48 hours in advanced if they want me to do extra hours.\n\nI showed this to the manager and he said \"no you must give us 48 hours notice\" but it clearly states the company must give me the notice, (the manager is a moron). I plan to take this further with the union and for the company breaching my contract for not giving me the notice that is required. Is there anything I can do to save myself? This manager is giving me a very hard time. I even still have my availability that I wrote when I first joined and I work way out of them times. What do I do...:(","title":"Work threatening to sack me because I'm not always doing overtime, what are my options? [UK]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540433674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r65k6\/my_step_aunt_could_be_the_death_of_two_beautiful\/","id":"9r65k6","body":"TL:DR at the end. \n\n(LIving in TEXAS) She\u2019s a drug addict, she\u2019s a raging alcoholic, she\u2019s a psychopath and and a murderer. \n\nMy uncle met this woman after a first failed marriage. At first, everything seemed alright with her, but soon after marriage (which happened within six months of meeting her) they had their first child together. The next year the second was born. \n\nOver the years since they\u2019ve reached ages 6 and 7, there\u2019s been a multitude of ways that their mother has almost killed them just because she had a whole bars worth of alcohol in her system. One time in a drunken craze, she pushed one of them into the pool when she was only 4 years old. She managed to get out thanks to me having taught her how to swim, but had inhaled so much water that she vomited her guts up. Another time she drove the two of them to a far away park while highly intoxicated. She tells her children that they\u2019re ugly and that no one will ever want to be their friends and makes their lives a living hell, but they\u2019re still too young to be able to understand that their mom is abusive. When I say she drinks, I\u2019m talking every night, drinking until she\u2019s so knocked out that you would think she had died. Along with the drinking is the drug problem. She abuses my uncles pain medication and works at a hospital and has taken empty needles in order to suck out fluid from IV bags. She even used to drug her kids in order to get them to sleep for long periods of time. \n\nAnother big worry is that she has access to all of my uncles firearms and in another drunken craze had shot the family dog in the backyard for no reason other than it was barking. \n\nWhere is my uncle you ask? He works 12+ hour shifts and has chronic pains and is a diabetic. He\u2019s lucky he even makes it home to sleep in bed. I worry that one day he\u2019ll fall asleep at the wheel and kill himself. Because my step aunt has drained all of his money and her own, he is now in extreme debt.  He\u2019s even called the police on her 3 times for domestic violence since she was beating him up and locking the kids away. \n\nRecently he\u2019s finally decided to file for a divorce and upon telling her so, she locked herself in the house and closed all the windows and tried to kill herself. Now in the care of the hospital, it should be prime time for my uncle to act. Change the locks on the door, call the lawyers and everything but he just won\u2019t. I think he\u2019s having second thoughts or something, and the rest of my family never want to act when I tell them they should. They only use this as a means of gossip. \n\nMy question is, is there a way for me to call child services or something in order to get the children away from her? I don\u2019t want my uncle to lose custody because he really is a good dad and he\u2019s trying his best but he just needs the proper help and support. \nEvery time I\u2019ve mentioned it to the rest of my family, they all turn their heads at me and tell me that \u201cI\u2019ll ruin this family\u201d that \u201c no one will ever talk to me again and that Everything will be my fault\u201d. \n\nI know that what they\u2019re telling me is irrational, but I\u2019m wondering what options I have? She\u2019s a wild card and what if she holds the kids hostage or kills them even in order to manipulate my uncle? I\u2019m the one who has basically raised them and I just want them safe.  Why am I the only one who seems to have any common sense and care for these children???\n\nTL;DR: my crazy step aunt is suicidal and manipulative and I\u2019m scared that she\u2019ll try to harm her kids in order to avoid a divorce. \n\n\n\n","title":"My step aunt could be the death of two beautiful little girls and my uncle.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569442319,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d98uqm\/facility_manager_of_apartment_complex_verbally\/","id":"d98uqm","body":"I live in an apartment complex with my boyfriend and recently we contacted the property manager about some concerns. The facility manager had entered our home without notifying us (we didn't find out until later that it was an emergency) and then when he left, he left the door unlocked and some of our cash inside disappeared. After talking to the property manager, the facility manager thought we were accusing him of stealing the money and came by and cursed at and was very belittling to my boyfriend who was at home at the time. I contacted the property manager again and she said she would set up a meeting with everyone present as well as the landlords. I asked if there was someone else who could do our maintenance and she said we'd have to pay someone else if we wanted someone different. She also suggested that moving out was an option.\n\nI can't afford a contractor to do maintenance and I don't know what they plan to do at the meeting. I feel like they will just deny that anything happened or force us to either move out or continue to let the facility manager in the house for maintenance, and he'll be able to do anything he wants to us. I don't feel very safe with the facility manager around, but it seems like that's my only choice.\nWhat can I do?","title":"Facility Manager of apartment complex verbally abused tenant","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540255810,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qjxgw\/didnt_quit_and_didnt_get_fired\/","id":"9qjxgw","body":"Location; ON, Canada. \n\nI have been working at a restaurant for a little over two years as part time with the occasional full time hours during summer and holidays. \n\nDue to circumstances I had to find a second job in May since this one had cut my hours significantly and wouldn't let me move up to being a server thanks to a manager that doesn't like me because I wouldn't kiss her ass. They later on found out I had found a second job but had never talked about the topic to me and shortly after cut all my hours and haven't gotten any hours since. Just recently they had kicked me off of the scheduling app and the work group chat which basically meant I am not an employee anymore although I had never quit or been told I was fired, but had learned through a work friend that my manager had told everyone I had quit. \n\nIs there anyway I can build a case on this? I have other things to add that they have done that pretty much violates the ESA (no breaks, not giving us 3 hour pay when we haven't worked the full 3, wage theft and a few more I can name). Unfortunately I don't have any documents that I have on hand that I can prove this as we clock in hours electronically and I haven't kept my pay stubs. ","title":"Didn't quit and didn't get fired","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571373949,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djihs6\/landlord_is_demanding_rent_on_terminated_lease\/","id":"djihs6","body":"In a court case with landlord trying to get my money back for unsafe conditions. The house is not registered as a rental and is being illegally rented. They are counter claiming that I owe rent despite me giving written notice I was moving out (sent via certified mail twice, they never picked it up. based on AZ L\/T laws it is considered as given 5 days after sending regardless of if they pick it up). I drove by and there are 2 cars in the driveway and a full trash can. Someone is obviously living there. How could I prove this in small claims court?","title":"Landlord is demanding rent on terminated lease but someone else has moved in. small claims case (US-AZ)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444207993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nthm9\/tx_questions_about_divorce\/","id":"3nthm9","body":"Hello Reddit! just a quick overview, and then some questions. Sorry for the long post, and thank you in advance!!\n\nI am a Male in my early twenties, have been married for two years, no kids. We share an apartment which we have furnished. Our vehicles are independently owned. The only things that are under both our names should be the insurance (life, renters, car). For reasons, we have drifted apart and this is no longer a relationship and has turned more into us being roommates. \n\nI have been contemplating divorce and I am just curious on how this would work out, and how much it would run me dry. \n\nWould I need a lawyer? With some of the research I have done, I read I could possibly fill out paperwork and pay fees, so can I skip the middleman? \n\nWhat if she doesn't want a divorce? I have made up my mind, I am not happy and I know she is not happy. How much of an issue can this arise to?\n\nIf I initiate the divorce, do I have to pay her anything? \n\nOnce the process is started, how long does it usually take?\n\nBallpark wise, how much will this run me? \n\nThank you very much for any advice! Will edit with more questions as they arise, as I had more but can't seem to remember them at the time of writing this.","title":"(TX) Questions about Divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555272632,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd6ze7\/not_allowed_due_process_in_restraining_order\/","id":"bd6ze7","body":"My wife's ex petitioned the court to not allow me around his two children.  (I was arrested in Sept, 2017 for pushing my wife.  Though, no charges were ever filed against me.  I understand that what I did was wrong, I'm not looking for forgiveness. I've since began counseling and started taking medicine for combat related PTSD.  I'm a whole new me.)  Not a restraining order, on its own. But, part of the actual child custody order, not allowing me to be within the vicinity of my home or around his children.  This order has been in affect for 19 months and counting. I was never allowed to speak to the judge or allowed any other due process. This order has been severely detrimental to our household, as I have seven other children with my wife, that I'm allowed to be around. But, due to the order concerning the other two children, I can't live with my family. \n\nIs this a violation of my second amendment rights?","title":"Not allowed due process in \"restraining order.\"","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554053087,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7q6ca\/terminated_and_suffering_in_akron_ohio_do_i_have\/","id":"b7q6ca","body":"I was hired in Mid January.  I was working in Cincinnati and my current company paid for a couple of weeks in a hotel to help with relocation.  The role is for Collections Supervisor for a Midsized company with Net Profits of 66 million in 2018.  \nI was not told the position had a 90 day probation which they used as a no fault termination opportunity.\nAfter about 50 days one of my subordinates quit her job to move to Florida. She had been complaining for years about her lack of career growth.   She and one other worker have been complaining for years.  \nThe day prior to the girl quitting my boss was trying to talk me into leasing a house or apartment and was very encouraging about having nothing to worry about the 90 day probation.\nThey had a meeting yesterday with all the collectors then fired me.  The HR Director told me the reason they fired me was because of the complaints that have been going on for years beyond my start time and because the girl quit and they needed to blame someone.\nMy boss offered a letter of recognition.  The company is paying me an additional 4 weeks of pay after my end date and my boss said I was much better off.","title":"Terminated and suffering in Akron Ohio. Do I have a legitimate case for improper termination.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550248562,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqydcb\/sexually_harassment_at_work\/","id":"aqydcb","body":"So I am a manager at a caf\u00e9 and we just hired someone who has\n- said the n word audibly (I talked to her specifically about this after getting permission from my bosses who didn\u2019t do anything about it when they heard it themselves)\n- has made numerous sexual comments towards employees and has increasingly started to grab and grope them. (I have had numerous complaints made to me, all very blatant and no way to justify why she did it)\n\nI have told my boss yet she has done nothing and yesterday and employee had her breasts grabbed and came to me and said she felt like she couldn\u2019t say anything about it because nothing has been done about everything else that has happened. I talked to her about her language and her touching. My boss was actually in the room for the conversation and she was like \u201cah we all say it sometimes\u201d and proceeded to say it herself. Very unhappy with the lack luster talk that was given.  And now since the breast grabbing incident my boss said she talked to her and it wouldn\u2019t happen again. So here is my question. Is this grounds for firing? I do not feel safe working here anymore I have PTSD and a trigger for me is being grabbed without consent. Most people feel this way but I do not want to be put in a situation as such because I do not want to freak out. The problem is my boss IS HR. I have no one else who I can tell and have something be done. I am planning to leave but do not want to leave my other employees stuck with her because if I leave I do not believe they will tell her when they are being sexually harassed since they have only felt comfortable telling me because of the blatant disregard. What can I do? ","title":"sexually harassment at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441917768,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kgdh5\/united_states_producing_and_printing_gagmoney\/","id":"3kgdh5","body":"I'm going to produce some gag-money for someone. They'll be:\n\n* Less than 75% of the size of a dollar bill (Though may end up larger than 150%)\n\n* Will be one sided\n\n* Will *clearly* not be dollar bills (Seals removed, \"Five Dollars\" and \"Federal Reserve Note\" changed to something else, president changed to a different person)\n\nIs there anything I'm missing?","title":"United States - Producing and Printing \"Gag-Money.\"","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508383886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77bxtn\/our_landlord_is_lying_to_us_about_the_police\/","id":"77bxtn","body":"There are some relevant pieces of background information I will quickly address before getting to the most recent developments in this story. First of all, we live in an apartment, which we have occupied for ~5 years. Each year, when we renew our lease, we sign a contract as one might expect. A point made in this contract is that if the police are called on you, you will in most cases be given an eviction notice. Additionally, our buildings enforce \u201cquiet hours\u201d after 10pm. This is in the state of Missouri, if that\u2019s relevant at all. \n\nNow, in the five years we\u2019ve lived here, we haven\u2019t had any really bad neighbors (definitely nothing to contact law enforcement about) until recently. We have new couple living next door who routinely get in yelling matches, throw things against walls, and break furniture, usually in the early morning hours. We\u2019ve called the local police department ~10 times now for domestic disputes and noise disturbances. \n\nThe most recent of these calls was made a few days ago. After the call was placed, but before the cops arrived, the female left the apartment with a duffel bag. It was in the parking lot that she was confronted by the officers that were just arriving at the scene. There are two versions of the story after this point:\n\nThe side of the manager: The manager called my husband this morning to tell him that the police were suspicious that we were calling in false reports because when the police confronted the woman in the parking lot, she said that she was just getting home from work and that nothing had happened. She then went on to say that she would be calling other tenants in the building as witnesses to confirm our claims, as a sort of in-house investigation. \n\nThe side of the police: My husband called the police this evening to address this concern and ask if there were any other steps we could be taking to make our calls more credible. The officer cut him off though to tell us that when he confronted the woman in the parking lot, she didn\u2019t say that she was just getting home from work but that there had been an altercation and she was headed elsewhere for the night, since she didn\u2019t feel safe in her own apartment. \n\nAll comments are welcome, but my main frustrations are as follows:\n- we\u2019re continuously having to deal with a toxic living environment and noise disturbances with no end in sight \n- the building has broken contract, in that these people have not been asked to vacate \n- the landlord straight up lied to us about a legal issue \n\nWe plan on confronting the landlord tomorrow about the lies, but are there any legal steps that could be taken to alleviate any of my aforementioned concerns? Thank you all in advance. ","title":"Our landlord is lying to us about the police.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553209590,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3xelc\/mi_lawyer_contacted_me_saying_i_was_infringing_on\/","id":"b3xelc","body":"I'm a 19 year old college student in Michigan if this info is necessary.\n\n​\n\nSo how this started was a few months ago I uploaded my music to Spotify under a certain name. I'm not a musician by any means, and only uploaded the music because I thought it would be cool to see my music on Spotify and show all my friends how I'm on Spotify. A bit after I was up, I found another artist with the same name as me, but disregarded it because I didn't really care about my music career, and had no intention to even upload any music past what I already uploaded.\n\n​\n\nWell today I got an email from who I assume is an associate of the other artist saying my use of the name was unlawful, and I should change it. I complied, and said I would, and I contacted the people who put my music on Spotify and asked them to remove it, as well as changed my name everywhere so it wouldn't infringe of this. Getting my music removed takes a few days, and there's nothing I can do past what I've already done.\n\n​\n\nThe subject who emailed me said \"since you knew about his name but still uploaded your music anyway, we can press charges, but we won't\". I didn't even know about it before I uploaded my music, so I have no idea where he's even coming from. He's also made mention that I have 30 days before they press charges.\n\n​\n\nWhat ground do they actually have against me? I've complied with all their requests, and at this point it's just a matter of waiting until the system catches up and my music is pulled. What else am I supposed to do? I'm not trying to get sued.\n\n​\n\nIt's also worth mentioning that I couldn't find any records of a trademark on the name itself in his use. I did find a trademark for the name, but the trademark belongs to a company because it's the name of their app, so this guy doesn't even own the copyright for the name.\n\n​\n\nThanks.","title":"[MI] \"Lawyer\" contacted me saying I was infringing on copyright, what do I do?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1409328308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2exfjj\/i_dont_know_where_else_to_turn_im_a_wreck_and\/","id":"2exfjj","body":"Ok, so a few days ago I downloaded a torrent of \"teens\" from a public torrent site. I assumed it was 18-19 year olds and the title said \"non nude\" in it. When I looked at the files it seemed the teen were kinda young, but they were clothed. \n\nWhat I didn't know however that there was a \"nude\" folder. When I saw it I deleted the whole thing IMMEDIATELY I didn't look in the folder, so I'm not for sure it had anything illegal (could have been 18+). I didn't seed it and the torrent was about 6 years old.\n\nLike I said I deleted the files and wiped my hard drive 4 times, and installed a fresh version of my OS. But, I'm still really upset and scared. I didn't intentionally try to download porn (it wasn't even in that section). I'm so wrecked, I can't eat, sleep, enjoy anything, and I feel really sick. \n\nGuys, please tell me I'm overacting. Please. I don't know where else to turn. I feel smashing my hard drive and buying a new one.\n\nThanks for any advice.","title":"I don't know where else to turn, I'm a wreck and feel really ill. Please, please help me.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569950021,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbwihp\/ms_told_to_leave_a_public_parking_garage_and_not\/","id":"dbwihp","body":"Last night my boyfriend and I decided to drive to the top of a public parking garage that overlooks the river to enjoy the view of our city around sunset. This parking garage is 90% empty all of the time so we were not taking spots from customers of the downtown shops. There are some people that park there that live in apartments across the street, but the apartments do not own the garage. We parked, sat on the tailgate, and not even 1 minute later a cop shows up. She tells us that they've had car break ins and illegal activities here before. We were 3\/4 of a floor away from any cars. She was parked by the cars and could very clearly see that we were no where near them. We had nothing in our hands, no drugs, weapons, anything. We were only sitting and our hands were in clear view when she drove up. She ran our licenses and then told us to leave and remember what she said to not come back. She never even asked why we were there. My google search could not tell me if loitering is illegal in Mississippi, but even then the cop never mentioned that was why we couldn't be there (or any reason why we couldn't). Is it not legal for me to use a public parking area or was the cop out of line?","title":"[MS] Told to leave a public parking garage and not come back","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551919669,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay6f3n\/did_my_leasing_group_violate_my_privacy_as_a\/","id":"ay6f3n","body":"I would first like to apologize for any formatting issues or grammatical issues as I am pretty flustered atm. TL;DR at the end. I am located in Westwood, Los Angeles and rent an apartment that I share with 4 other roommates. Recently there have been many issues regarding the management team and myself that resulted in what I assume to be a pattern of retaliation\/harassment. The incident I have a question about happened this past Saturday. Any and all advice is appreciated and thank you ahead of time!\n\n​\n\nI live on the 3rdfloor of my building and when I realized that our laundry room was being used, I walked up to the 4thfloor and began doing laundry. Eventually the washing machine on my floor became available so I used both floors to get my laundry done as quick as possible. After a few times of going in-and-out of the rooms to check laundry\/remove delicates I saw a sign on the 4thfloor laundry room door saying something along the lines of \u201cWhoever stole my clothes from the dryer needs to return them\u201d and I stopped to take a picture to Snapchat with a caption along the lines of \u201cI didn\u2019t know that people actually did this\u201d and when I retuned to my apartment I told my roommates not to use that washer as someone was taking clothes. I did not make note of the times when this occurred because I was doing laundry in-between cleaning my apartment. I did not save the snapchat as I didn\u2019t realize I\u2019d need to for \u201cevidence\u201d went about my day without giving it further thought.\n\n​\n\nForward to Yesterday when I get an email from an agent of my building\u2019s leasing company that said: \n\n\u201cThis last Saturday, we received a report from one of our Ashton residents about an incident that occurred regarding the fourth floor laundry room. We went through the camera footage that we have within the building and it appears that you were involved in the reported incident.\u00a0\n\nI would like to hear directly from you about what occurred -- can you please email me back to explain your side of the story? I look forward to hearing from you today.\u201d\n\nI didn\u2019t realize that I was implicitly being accused of this theft so I responded with: \n\n\u201cCould you please explain to me what you mean? I used the 4th floor laundry room on Saturday to finish my laundry because someone was using the laundry room on the 3rd floor. Other than that, and taking a picture of a sign left on the door I have no idea what you are referencing.\u201d\n\n​\n\nHowever, once I called my dad and explained the situation he had another take on it in conjunction with the other incidents with this apartment leasing group and wrote up an email for me to send to them essentially telling them that I have no information and any continued communication would be considered harassment (because of the other incidents that can be explained if need be). They responded with an email telling me that my defensiveness was inappropriate and I needed to answer their questions. They also said that there was unexplainable behavior on my part from the footage they have of me that I needed to explain. After forwarding this email to my father he formulated another response that addressed most, not all, of the other harassment incidents along with quite a bit more that boiled down to telling them to call the police with their report if they feel the situation needs and not to contact me again and consider this a request to \u201ccease-and-desist\u201d. I thought this was the end of the issue until the individual or leasing group decided to contact the police, who I am more than willing to explain myself to. \n\n​\n\nThis morning I came back to the apartment to see a note that said \u201cTo the person who took all of my clothes by mistake (of course) in the 4thfloor dryer, Would you be so kind as to return them into the laundry room? You looked like a lovely person on the camera footage, I would hate to take this any further. Yours truly, (P.S. feel free to keep the underwear though)\u201d in the elevator and a note on the 3rdfloor laundry room that said something similar. After receiving my email telling them to stop contacting me and contact the proper authorities the employee sent video of me to the tenant accusing me of the theft. I have had personal experiences where the property manager gave me information about other tenants that seemed to be privileged. I am highly upset that not only am I falsely being accused, but now the leasing agency has sent my image out to another tenant without knowing that I did something and now I am scared that the tenant and the agency will continue retaliatory behavior. I have been trying to only be at the apartment with others and am genuinely afraid to come home from class if no one is at my apartment because the tenant threatened \u201ctaking this further\u201d. This could mean calling the police but because I suggested that this be handled by them already (because I did not do anything wrong), however I am inclined to think this means physical intimidation or harm.  \n\n​\n\nAfter consulting my therapist, she believed that it was pertinent to add that I am a clinically depressed individual. My issues stem from immense abuse by a parent where I never knew what I would be accused of taking or doing and reactions from the parent were harsh (I was told by said parent I had stolen something and if I didn\u2019t return it there would be consequences, this was a Thursday and when I came home on Friday from school said parent had packed a suitcase for me and literally the next day sent me to the East Coast to live with a relative as a punishment.). I am constantly hyperaware of using this as an excuse and do not like to use my depression as a crutch for events around me so it is hard to admit that these emails and accusations have affected me greatly. I received the first email during class and had to leave because I could no longer think straight. I headed back to my apartment after trying to calm down outside of my class and immediately shut down when I got to my apartment. This stress coupled with the stress of finals and the previous misbehavior by the agents of this leasing agency is literally debilitating to me. My stomach physically hurt after the email exchange between the employee and I.\n\n​\n\nI have printed out the email string between us and I am writing a cover letter to explain the situation that is being sent to the individual who seems to be the legal council for the leasing group\u2019s owner, I took pictures of the signs that were put up, and have even started gathering info for the other issues I believe to feed into the harassment I am receiving from this leasing group.\n\n​\n\nTL;DR: My leasing group accused me of stealing another tenants clothes. Because how ridiculous this was, I told them to not contact me about the issue as I have no information and suggested they contact the proper authorities, they continued to contact me AND sent footage of me specifically to the tenant without any official accusations against me. Now the tenant has left notes on my floor\u2019s laundry room and in the elevator threatening to \u201ctake this further\u201d. \n\nThese are my questions:\n\nDid they violate my privacy as a tenant by sending out the surveillance footage of me to the other tenant? \n\nIf they did what recourse is there?\n\nWould them sending the tenant the footage so they could confront me count towards this pattern of harassment?\n\nWhat can I do to protect myself from future retaliation? ","title":"Did my leasing group violate my privacy as a tenant?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568986836,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6v2u0\/security_deposit_issues_on_a_rental_condoboston_ma\/","id":"d6v2u0","body":"My roommates and I recently ended a lease on a condo in MA and are having issues getting back our full security deposit. TL; DR at the bottom, sorry for the book but this is a year and a half worth of abuse culminating in the final issue.\n\nBackground:  From day one of the rental the landlords were excessively challenging to work with and overly demanding of weird things, to the point where both my roommate and I have consulted lawyers through our free EAP programs at work. On both occasions we decided the fight wasn't worth it because these people are awful and would make our lives hell.  We moved in Feb 2017 with a short lease with the understanding we would renew in september for a Sept1 cycle and the rent would go up a predetermined and agreed upon amount.  We were their first ever tenants, so there were some misteps in the beginning, including not giving us account information for the security deposits until we requested it and never giving us a statement of condition of the apartment. We were optimistic and the place was in great shape and affordable so we didn't push back or really understand our rights at the time. After moving in, they demanded meetings to discuss \"tenancy issues\" where they came into our home with 15 minutes notice on a sunday morning to discuss one of the roommates dogs, demanded we maintain the boiler in the basement despite that not being included in the lease(first time we contacted a lawyer), among many other weird and troubling things. In april 2017 they moved out to rent out their unit, and handed over limited rule to a property management company(we also had issues with them, this has really been a nightmare). We all would have moved out in september but didn't have the money saved for a deposit on a new place, and only one of us left. We found a new roommate, but only after the owners threatened us with terminating the lease if we didn't(myself and the remaining roommate would have absolutely been able to pay for the third room, they did not even consider that option) New roommate paid 1st, last, security at the new rate and we were never informed that we'd have to pay the difference in September so we were surprised but not upset when we got a late payment notice for $400, the difference in the last months rent and security deposit. That number was for if the three of us had to all pay the difference, but only two of us did since new roommate paid at the new rate. I asked the property manager about it and he said the two of us should pay and the rest would balance out in the books. The new property manager went behind our backs and emailed new roommate, telling her it was some made up fee she had to pay, and she was concerned so she did. So at this point we've been harassed, made to do maintenance not in the first lease, and in the case of the new roommate overcharged. 9-10 months go by and I decided to not renew my end of the lease and move in with my partner. I inform them of my decision and my roommates decision to look for a third roommate, because despite all the issues the apartment, neighborhood, and price are all great, and as long as we kept contact to a minimum living there was fine. They rescinded their offer of renewal, forcing both of my roommates to begin looking for a new apartment(second time we contacted a lawyer) Finally the last month comes and we start getting late notices for rent because the owners never told the property managers we paid a last month. After two weeks of emails and phone conversations, and almost zero contact from the owner the issue was resolved. \n\nNow: At the end of the lease they requested that one of us come and do an apartment walk through with the property manager once everyone had moved out so any necessary repairs could be made. I offered since my new residence is much closer, and went to clean the place up one more time and make sure everything was good. At the time of the walkthrough, the property manager noted little drill holes in the ceiling of one room and a missing dimmer light switch cover(the little plastic piece that falls off easily) in a different room. Both of these issues were present when we moved in and even the property manager admitted he would consider them normal wear and tear but didn't know what the owner would say. Weeks go by, we don't hear from them about it so my roommate reaches out. They are deducting $380 to repair the two items listed, and they have not mentioned the interest from the bank account or the fact that they previously overcharged the new roommate at the beginning of the lease. Would it be worth our time and money to bring them to court over this? \n\n​\n\nTL;DR: Asshole abusive landlords are charging us almost $400 for tiny repairs that their own property manager said he would consider normal wear and tear. We are at our final straw with them and since we no longer fear repercussions from living in their property we are wondering if small claims court is the next logical step. \n\n​\n\nSorry for any confusing grammatical or spelling things, I'm kind of upset and overwhelmed at the entire situation right now. I'll try to answer any questions to the best of my ability","title":"Security deposit issues on a rental condo-Boston MA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542047903,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wgo5t\/ia_upstairs_neighbors_making_constant_noise_and\/","id":"9wgo5t","body":"Posting this with my friends permission\n\nMy friend lives in an apartment complex and since day one has had problems with her upstairs neighbors. I have also experienced this first hand. They constantly are banging and moving things around, very early in the morning (think 6 am) and late at night (think 1 am). The noise goes on for hours, and happens almost every single night. The noise also ranges from mild annoyance to shaking the actual paintings on her wall, again, almost every night. \n\nShe has called the police for a noise complaint 2 to 3 times, has talked to the apartment manager, AND has confronted them herself. \n\nThe police have confronted them have essentially told them to cut it out and the apartment manager told my friend to deal with it herself and \u201csolve it amicably\u201d.\n\nWhen confronted, the kids denied it and claimed they were just \u201cwalking around\u201d.\n\nThe noise genuinely sounds like they\u2019re bowling up there and moving around furniture, to the extent that my friend can clearly record the noise on her phone, and has done so multiple times.\n\nMy question is, what are her next steps? What she has done so far has done nothing and there hasn\u2019t been a change.  Are there other steps she can take?\n\nThank you for your help!","title":"[IA] Upstairs Neighbors making constant noise and apartment manager won\u2019t do anything about it","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539612996,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9od1xy\/mentally_ill_girl23_is_harassing_my_sister23\/","id":"9od1xy","body":"My sister has been getting stalked by a mentally ill girl that\u2019s obsessed with harassing her. She already has a restraining order against her, but that\u2019s just a piece of paper and it hasn\u2019t stopped her from making my sisters life miserable. She\u2019s popped my sisters tires, walks around my sisters apartment building, sends death threats to her and just recently threw a huge rock through my sister apartment window. She has a known history of  harassing and attacking other people. \n\nShe\u2019s called the cops multiple times and they all told her she needs hard evidence in order to put her away. She\u2019s tried taking her to court recently but they pushed the date back, and that\u2019s when she started to attack my sister again. It\u2019s at the point where my sister is afraid for her life as well as her sons life, especially after the last incident. She\u2019s living with me right now and refuses to go back to her apartment.\n\nI plan on trying to install security cameras in her apartment in case she comes around just to catch her on footage, but honestly this girl is becoming a serious threat and I don\u2019t want the worse to happen before she gets arrested. I just know if we can\u2019t put her away, my sister will have to leave everything behind here and move so she\u2019ll be safe.  \n\n","title":"Mentally ill girl(23) is harassing my sister(23)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570317492,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddv20t\/fl_question_about_legal_ownership_of_an_llc\/","id":"ddv20t","body":"Hi all. I am a college student and some time ago I was approached with an idea to develop an app. The idea sounded interesting and we are now nearing launch.\n\nThe LLC was formed in Florida and we have signed an operating agreement. My concern is that the only place my name exists is on the operating agreement. I have also given up my intellectual property by signing the agreement.\n\nI do not have much of a business background and googling this question did not provide any definitive answers.\n\nSo essentially, where must my name reside to legally have split ownership of the company? I wish to avoid being pushed out after a successful launch.\n\nThank you for any advice and resources.","title":"[FL] Question about legal ownership of an LLC","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553365049,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4mbpe\/how_can_my_sister_remove_her_husband_from_the_apt\/","id":"b4mbpe","body":"My sister has married a man child and is getting fed up. She wants him out and plans on filing for separation.  Both their names are currently on the lease but their lease is up next month. She plans on renewing but doesn't want his name on the lease. She wants to add our sister instead. \n\nMy sisters are currently paying for the Bills and rent while he contributes nothing..\n\n\nWhat can she do to remove this POS from her life legally?","title":"How can my sister remove her husband from the apt? [FL]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553229772,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b40rhf\/if_my_website_looks_like_instagram_am_i_going_to\/","id":"b40rhf","body":" \n\nHello,\n\nFirst off the site is not a photo sharing site.\n\n​\n\nI  have done designs for a new website, It looks very much like Instagram.  Circle logo, description box, the circles for the Insta stories, colours  are close, the header is similar and the way the images are in a row of  three.\n\nPlan and simple if you went to my site you would say it looks looks similar to Instagram, you would know it is not but still.\n\nThe functions are not like Instagram, the way my site works is not like Instagram. The business model is not like Instagram.\n\nThere  are only so many ways that you can put and logo description and images  on a page. The best looking way is one that looks like Instagram.\n\nI have tried changing to squares instead of circles and I always end up back at circles, they make the top part look clean.\n\nThree images in arrow could not have copyright on it, every page has this.\n\nBut what about the general layout can Instagram have  copyrights on that?\n\nI want to be original and different, but the fact is for a clean uncluttered site there is not much room to move.\n\nAny help appreciated.\n\nSydney, Australia","title":"If My Website Looks like Instagram. Am I going To Get In Trouble?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571321893,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj70um\/fender_bender_cop_says_not_my_fault_insurance\/","id":"dj70um","body":"Got into a wreck this morning. \n\nThere are 5 lanes. 2 turn left. 2 go forward. 1 goes forward to the interstate. THIS LIGHT IS ALWAYS GREEN! Other lights run like normal. I have only been in the far right lane (the one entering the highway). The lights to my left turn red and someone jumps out from a standstill in front of me and then slams on his brakes. I can\u2019t stop. \n\nHere\u2019s the kicker. Guy I hit says he looked at the wrong set of red lights and actually admits to pulling out in front of me! Cop says report will read that the other driver is at fault. \n\nNow, for the fun part. Insurance says that because I rear ended him, I\u2019m liable no matter what. I should\u2019ve maintained a proper distance. \n\nPlease help. What can I do?","title":"Fender bender. Cop says not my fault. Insurance wants me to pay","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1409869813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fhxdk\/landlord_struggling_to_make_significant_repairs\/","id":"2fhxdk","body":"I moved in about 20 days ago.  I still have not recieved keys to my mailbox and, my biggest complaint: one of my windows is missing.  I'm on the third floor so it's not a safety concern.  However we've had a few storms and rain definitely comes in during these.  It's a standard, vertically sliding window.  The bottom half is gone because it was broken and has yet to be replaced.  I've talked to, texted, and now filed a work order with the repairman but nothing seems to be getting done.  Do I have any recourse to encourage my landlord to get these things done faster?\n\nedit: forgot location even with red words reminding me.\nlocation - Wisconsin","title":"Landlord struggling to make significant repairs and provide keys to the mailbox.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553893147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b72mhp\/2_questions_about_how_cases_relating_to_parents\/","id":"b72mhp","body":"1. Are the children's wishes to stay with a certain parent taken into account when who gets custody is being decided? For example, if a child or children would like to stay with their mother rather than their father, would the mother automatically get custody or is there still a process to be done?\n2. Also, say that the father is being abusive, not physically so there isn't any physical or tangible proof of it, but they're verbally insulting and threatening the mother and child(ren), are the parents and children separated or do they have to stay together until the case is resolved?","title":"2 questions about how cases relating to parents getting custody over children are done.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570546085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df0z9t\/can_my_employer_take_back_a_tip_envelope_that_was\/","id":"df0z9t","body":"Long story short; I work with someone that has the same name as me. Last night my employer gave me a tip envelope with my name on it and today she is asking for it back becauase it was meant for the other person and not me. \n\nCan she do this? I\u2019ve already spent some of the money and won\u2019t be able to reimburse until I get another tip envelope or my check?","title":"Can my employer take back a tip envelope that was given to me?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539138224,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mvj9g\/question_about_driving_history_and_car_insurance\/","id":"9mvj9g","body":"May not be the best place to ask this, if not if you could please redirect me, thanks.\n\nIf I have gotten pulled over, ticketed and later placed under court supervision and\/or dropped, do I need to put that under the question \"Tickets in the last three years?\" if they have been dropped \/ surpassed court supervision?","title":"Question about Driving History and Car Insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1443423766,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mo7mw\/oh_pulled_over_not_arrested_told_to_expect_warrant\/","id":"3mo7mw","body":"Hi, I was pulled over with a girl in my car, driving from a cheap budget freeway exit no-tell motel toward a gas station just down the street to pick up something to drink and eat, the police officers suspected drugs and prostitution. I said that we met on craigslist but that we weren't doing anything illegal, that there was no offer of money exchange. They separated us and questioned us after frisking me. I had condoms in my pocket. I said the girl was just \"a friend\" but I didn't know her name, I said that her name was A, but A was actually her friend, who had introduced us. I said that she didn't ask me for anything more than \"just my pretty face\". She didn't know my name either.\n\nShe had no drugs on her. Neither of us had money on us. She told them that she wanted me to pay for the room, but that I'd given her nothing.\n\nThe cop also claimed that I was speeding going 75 in a 50 (lie). That cop claimed that the girl admitted that we were meeting for sex (lie). The cop claimed that the girl admitted to having drugs on her (lie)\n\nThey told us we were free to go after he searched my vehicle. He didn't ask if he could search (at first) but I had left my door wide open as I was getting out, so I guess that doesn't matter. We got drinks at the gas station. Then I dropped her off at the hotel and left.\n\nAs I was leaving the cop stopped me \"again\" and told me to stay away from the area, and that he was going to recommend to the DA to prosecute me for solicitation and that I should expect an arrest warrant to be filed for me by wednesday and to call someone (I think he said the city courthouse, but it might have been sheriff)\n\nSo my question is... If he is going to file charges against me, why wouldn't they have just arrested me then and there. Was he just lying yet again to get me to stay away? (He thinks I hadn't yet met her for sex, when the reality was we were just hanging out afterward).\n\nHell, I'm surprised that I didn't get a traffic ticket, I claimed to only do 55 AT MOST immediately after he said he thought I was doing 75, but usually just an officers \"thought\" that you were doing 75 in a 50 is enough for them to give you a ticket. Maybe he forgot about giving me the traffic ticket in his rush to file his paperwork getting me for solicitation?\n\nDoes the evidence they have actually have enough chance of getting a prosecutor to agree to charge me with that?","title":"[OH] Pulled over, not arrested, told to expect warrant","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1409525628,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f4chh\/trying_to_get_some_advice_for_a_friend_in_sd\/","id":"2f4chh","body":"I'm on my phone, so please excuse any mistakes. My friend has 2 children with her ex-husband and he doesn't pay support. In order to expedite the divorce, she agreed to not go for alimony or child support if he agreed to let her have full custody, and would help pay for clothes etc. Fast forward 5 years, he is having a child with his new wife and is now refusing to help with anything.\n\n\nMy main question is, since she originally waived support, can she sue him for it now that he is beginning to refuse to do the little he had been doing? She is in a very tough spot financially, and really needs the help. He is self-employed, but owns multiple cars and properties.","title":"Trying to get some advice for a friend in SD","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568775242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5rllx\/wa_promoted_to_an_exempt_role_i_believe_that_my\/","id":"d5rllx","body":"To start off, I live and work in Washington State. My company is a relatively new company and semi-understandably does not realize the laws that are in place around making an employee exempt from overtime. I do care a lot about this company and this isn't a how can I take legal action against them, it's more making sure that I'm protecting myself and getting the compensation deserved as well as making sure this company stays in line with the laws. It's a small company and I want to make sure everything is to the book.\n\nWhen I was hired, I worked in a helpdesk environment where I fielded questions from inter-company personnel as well as customer inquiries. I was paid a flat hourly rate when I first came on and was non-exempt. However, due to my learned skill-set over the years (programming, software implementation, etc) it was clear that I could be an asset in a big piece of the company. In April, I was approached with the opportunity of being in charge of implementing a piece of software to the entire company, integrating our helpdesk as well as our CRM tasks from scratch with no supervision and total autonomy on the project. Due to still having to fulfill the roles of my current helpdesk job, I was given unlimited overtime to make sure the project was completed, this includes programming, designing the implementation as well as documenting, creating maintenance schedules, etc. Of course, I knew this would not last forever and as such I was approached with a \"promotion\". This promotion made me an exempt-from-overtime employee and my pay was increased to $17\/hour, there was no option for if I can take this promotion, nor was there any official offer or agreement made. My job duties did not change and this was more an official title to what I've been doing over the last 6 months. \n\n​\n\n***This is where the advice comes in...***\n\nI'm going to list out the situations that have been raised with my specific question underneath: \n\n1. This promotion came mid-pay period, we are on a semi-monthly pay period (26 total paychecks over the year). During this pay period I had already worked a decent amount of overtime, when I asked how that would be handled my manager said \"We are backdating this to the beginning of the pay-period so you don't really get overtime anymore\"\n   1. Is this legal? According to all my searches it is not\n   2. If they do have to backpay me, do they have to do it at the $17\/hour raise or at my original $16\/hour?\n2. According to  [https:\/\/www.lni.wa.gov\/WorkplaceRights\/files\/policies\/esa96.pdf](https:\/\/www.lni.wa.gov\/WorkplaceRights\/files\/policies\/esa96.pdf) this seems very clear that based on my job duties I would be under \"Computer Professional\" which says I have to be paid at $27.63\/hour in order to be exempt, it also shows $455\/weekly salary which I don't totally understand.\n   1. Am I correct in my assumption of job duties?\n   2. In all my correspondence with my managers\/bosses I've been told that it's $17\/hour, however, on the actual job \"description\" form they handed me they put \"Salary\" at the top which was $17 \\* 2080. **But** on my actual paystub it shows 86.67@17 which makes me feel like I'm hourly still. \n      1. Do I still need to be paid the $27.63? Or is my \"salary\" enough? \n      2. When does the $455\/week come in to play when looking at hourly vs salaried? How is one allowed to be so drastically different?\n3. If they find that I am correct and they don't want to pay me $27.63, can they \"Demote\" me back to $16\/hour or would this be seen as retaliation\/discipline?\n4. How should I go from here? I plan on speaking with HR but I want to know of anything I should\/shouldn't say.\n\n​\n\nI believe that's everything, I'm sorry for the long read, I'll make sure to update with anything I remember after typing this. Any help with this is greatly appreciated.\n\n​\n\nThanks!","title":"[WA] \"Promoted\" to an exempt role, I believe that my \"new\" role does not follow L&I\/FLSA law","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504642009,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yalbu\/i_was_struck_by_a_city_vehicle_rented_through\/","id":"6yalbu","body":"I was struck on my way home from work on may 3rd, around 12 am in Chicago. We were at a 4 way stop in a residential neighborhood, so low traffic. I approached the intersection heading west while 3 cars lined up going southbound. The first on my right went and then it was my turn I'm almost certain the guy behind the first car just didn't see me because it was dark and the only lights I had on my bike were led wheel tire caps but if he looked both ways he would have definitely had seen me. \nSo he went while I was almost through the intersection and he struck me from the side my bike went under his car I went onto the hood and rolled off and hit the floor. It was a low speed hit so I just got some road rash from the fall nothing much more than that. The guy got out of the car and said \"oh my god don't worry the city will pay for this are you okay? That's what's most important, don't worry about your bike.\"  My bikes rims were bent to hell after he had to back the car up to get it out from underneath the car. There were no witnesses so no one to back up stories. The police came and on the police report it says no fault is able to be determined. \n\nFast forward to now I got a letter from enterprise that \"do to their investigation they believe I am the one at fault for the accident\" and saying I have to pay for a sagging door that happened do to the accident which I didn't even hit remotely close to do any damage to the vehicles door hinges. They are telling me if I do not pay then it will go to collections and jeopardize my credit. I'm not sure what to do so any advice would help immensely. ","title":"I was struck by a city vehicle rented through enterprise rental car while on my bike.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552672163,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1hx5o\/employment_drug_testing_australia\/","id":"b1hx5o","body":"Hi there,\n\nI was employed by my current employer with a preexisting injury, of which I take a strong opioid pain killer for, prescribed by a specialist.  I have always been transparent with my employer about the injury & treatment. \n\nI was recently sent for an assessment to determine my work capabilities, I have an admin position & was provided with the correct ergonomic furniture to assist with making work comfortable for me.  As part of this assessment I was asked to take a drug test of which I complied. \n\nMy employer has now requested that I submit to random drug tests to ensure I am not abusing my pain killers that I have a prescription for.  Where do I stand with this? Staff are not routinely screened for drugs & alcohol.\n\nThe pain killer is tapentadol, which I take as per my script & it also has a low rate of abuse. It does not affect my capabilities at work. \n\nThank you! ","title":"Employment Drug testing - Australia","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570716431,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfyihx\/duty_of_care_owed_to_adult_students_by_teachers\/","id":"dfyihx","body":"So I recently turned 18 and am curious about whether the duty of care owed by teachers to their students is more or less limited when it comes to adults. For what I have read, although not extensive reading, all articles, and pieces of legal advise aimed towards teachers and schools only really address students as children, which I am surprised by as I would expect that the level of duty of care owed to adult students would be less intensive. I imagine that adult students could essentially override some of the steps taken by teachers and schools to fulfill their duty of care. Like for instance, leaving school grounds during school hours is banned across all schools, even if it is just to go to your car parked on the street, but as an adult does it matter if I do this? I understand that I would be breaching my contract with the school and they would have grounds to expel me and such, but seeing how those rules are in place to fulfill a duty of care owed to mostly children, as an adult would the school still be liable if I exited the school without their knowledge and then was struck by a car or something? I don't necessarily need this advice to apply to a particular situation but rather am just curious and information on the topic is limited. \n\nI am in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. I have rather limited knowledge of duty of care and it's differences when applied to children or adults.","title":"Duty of care owed to adult students by teachers. QLD Australia.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568488308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d49kr0\/rear_ending_and_other_party_not_answering_calls\/","id":"d49kr0","body":"Hi guys. Long story short, i got read eneding and the driver didnt even show me a drivers license. Just a ID and insurance info.\n\nFast forward now and my insurance is stating that they are not returning phone calls and my be avioding the calls from there insurance. \n\nMy insurance sates they may be avoiding their calls, but they will go through the process of attempting to contact their insured.\n\u00a0\nAnything else i can do? I assume not, just to wait. \nThank you","title":"Rear ending and other party not answering calls from insurance.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555448535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdz609\/scammed_out_of_my_entire_life_in_a_real_estate\/","id":"bdz609","body":"I believe I've been scammed out of my entire life in a Real Estate Investment partnership and am desperate for help. \n\nHello everyone, I've never posted here before and am doing so out of desperation thinking that my life is destroyed now. \n\nSo how this started is I came across an real estate investing ad on Craigslist, nearly over a year and half ago at this point, advertising getting involved in real estate investments. The company checked out and so did the guys credentials. After a few discussions and meetings I felt comfortable enough to offer funds for investing. Several credit lines were taken out in my name with the intent that it would be paid back in full plus profits to be shared. Admittedly I was not well educated in this field so I didn't know how everything worked however everything seemed to go well in a sense of no red flags of being scammed. We would meet and go over business details. Below is the terms to this agreement. Should mention only I and not him had signed this, or at least that's what my copy shows. I was paid to do a presentation on his behalf to clients. Now fast forward to Summer 2018 and I'm getting all these calls from the banks and credit companies that nothing has been paid and the account balances are outstanding. He kept assuring me they would be paid and additional funds were being secured(sometimes with photos of emails of funds possibly being secured). Now some of these have gone into collections and I'm getting harassed day and night by these banks and collections. It's literally all I see on my phone. Every time there is a freak out he claims at the end of the month all will be paid and additionally claim to knows how to reverse the effect on my credit it has had. My credit was perfect before all of this and is now basically trashed. It's been a constant \"I will fix it, funds are being secured.\" Then at the end of the month nothing was paid. I feel like I'm completely at the mercy of this guy and want out so badly. The banks have taken out of my personal bank account(my bank and one credit line are the same entity) and I basically have no money or credit and I feel like my life has been ruined. I'm near suicidal about this whole thing. I'm crying daily and wish I never got involved with this person. Everyday I'm assured it will be fixed and that he is acquiring funds. Only to just be left sitting, getting constant collection calls and nothing is paid.  I don't know what to do and desperately am looking for advice because I basically feel like this guy took advantage of a young woman and has stolen my life, money and most of all my quality of life. When I asked for a summary or refer to the contract he claimed \"contracts are changed all the time.\" So I have no clue what he has spent any of this money on. Along with all of this he has mentioned in person and text several times how he wishes I was his and how he wants to be with me so badly. I feel like because I won't sleep with him he is keeping me in a position where I'm completely dependent and vulnerable. He assures me about these dream vacations we will go on once its all paid. Please I need direction and advice. This has stolen my life, my money. Its interfered with my relationships emotionally and I feel suicidal about it( description of how it all feels, not meant as an ultimatum to reddit to help me. Luv you redditors).\n\nThe parties to this agreement agree to carry on a joint venture for the following purpose: To secure business credit to be used for the aquisition and renovation of real estate that will be aquired by \"Business LLC.\" \n\n1. The term of this agreement shall be one year from the effective date. Either party has the right to terminate this agreement after 30 days of written notice to the other party.\n\n2. Each party will contribute the following cash, services, or property:\n\n\t\t\"my name\"        use of personal credit profile to secure business credit\n\n\t\t\"His LLC\"            buy and sell properties, manage renovation, securing hard money and private money financing, making all monthly payments, coaching and providing mentoring materials\n\n3. \"his LLC\" acknowledges that the business credit lines acquired due to \"my name\" will only be used for purposes outlined in this agreement and that business credit lines obtained will not show up on \"my name's\" personal credit profile.\n\n4. Decisions and day to day operations will be handled by \"his llc.\"\n\n5.\"his llc\" will handle all accounting, and provide a monthly summary of sales and profits.\t\n\n6. \"his llc\" will pay \"my name\" 10% of business credit raised upon us of funds.\t\n\n7. \"his LLC\" will give equity share to \"my name\" in the amount of the outstanding balance of the amount owed in business credit plus compensation to \"my name.'' The equity share will be eliminated once the outstanding balance is repaid in full and agreed compensation to\\[xyz company\\] is made in full.\n\n8. In the case of any disputes between parties, both parties agree to waive all rights to a court action or litigation, and instead to have them resovled by first attempting mediation administered by the American Arbitration Associaton. If a resolve can't be reached, both parties agree to then proceed with a binding arbitration also administered by the american arbitration association.  Both parties agree to set a date for a mediation and\/or binding arbitration hearing within 30 days of a formal request submitted by either party via fax, overnight courier, or process server. If either party must enforce its rights under this agreement, the prevailing party will be entitled to recover reasonable legal fees and costs, in addition to any other relief.","title":"Scammed out of my entire life in a Real Estate Investment partnership","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569257861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d89ag2\/my_neighbor_is_constantly_harassing_all_up_floor\/","id":"d89ag2","body":"I know the law is different from country to country, probably you don't know the law in Portugal but i hope you can help me.\n\nI have lived in a rented apartment for the past 1 year and a half, I can leave in 3 months or prolong the contract. My neighbor from bellow floor is constantly leaving notes under the door complaining about the noise and ringing the door bell. The noise complaint is even when i'm not home. She is not complaining only with me, but all the up floor. In the time I lived here I have seen 3 families just moving out because of her. Before I moved in, the landlord told me that the neighbor was always complaining about the noise, but i choose to stay because I always lived in apartments and I thought that I could handle her because I know i don't make noise. \n\nMy question is , can i press charges against her for harrasement or something like that? (if I choose to do this i could contact previous tenants it wouldn't be hard to get witnesse's). The justice in my country is very slow and probably would take like 8 years to solve this. I live with my gf and cat. I work at home and the noise clompaint is always about dragging chairs. She never called the cops.","title":"My neighbor is constantly harassing all up floor tenants","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570048403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcg2er\/what_is_the_procedure_for_getting_a_landlord_to\/","id":"dcg2er","body":"Asking so I can better advise my friend. This is in Florida (FL), in a large corporate apartment complex. \n\nMy friend has been having issues with mold. Before it looked like normal, run of the mill \"moisture in the drywall\" mold. She talked to the manager (I think that's the right term) when the mold first appeared. They told her to treat it with bleach and move on. They didn't send maintenance or anything to find the source of the water. \n\nToday it's very obviously now black mold. It's a decent sized mass as well. She went to the housing authority and they said they couldn't do anything. She hasn't heard back from management. Shes gone to the doctor because shes had weird symptoms lately (which she blew off as stress, coming down with something, or a flare of a previously known condition). Her doctor is currently fighting with her insurance to cover the testing needed to determine if its black mold poisoning or not. \n\nWhat else can she do? This is completely foreign territory to me. My knee jerk reaction was finding a lawyer to take her case on the contingency of a portion of winnings (we're both firmly in the camp of pay check to pay check or I'd fund a lawyer) and suing the pants off the complex. I dont think that's the most helpful though.","title":"What is the procedure for getting a landlord to deal with black mold?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505947260,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71eupf\/us_the_company_i_work_for_shaves_time_off_of_your\/","id":"71eupf","body":"Example: if I clock in at 9:00 AM and clock out at 4:59 PM I will only get paid from 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM. This is a rather large place with around 100 employees so on a daily basis they are shaving hours off of peoples time cards.\nIt's a known thing around here and it's just accepted that \"thats the way it is\" and people will wait around for a few minutes to clock out so they dont lose out on the extra few dollars.\nSo how illegal is this? What can I do about it? Has anyone else had an experience like this?\n\nedit* Pennsylvania","title":"(US) The company I work for shaves time off of your shift if you're not clocked out by every 15 mins of the hour from when you clocked in. Is this illegal? Should I do something?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571625823,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dku23v\/usage_of_sick_time_california\/","id":"dku23v","body":"Hello! My company claims we are only allowed 3 sick days a calendar year before we will receive punishment for calling out. I get migraines from time to time where I can barely stand up let alone work for 8 hours, so I\u2019ve used my 3 days for the year. However, I still technically have about 20 hours of sick time that I\u2019ve earned this year and haven\u2019t used. I have the flu now and I don\u2019t want to get in trouble at work but I also know I shouldn\u2019t be working, especially with food. Is it legal for them to give me punishment if I call out?","title":"Usage of sick time? [California]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1408578080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e4pit\/bad_insurance_company_so_i_consulted_with_a\/","id":"2e4pit","body":"In short, I'd like to know if this is worth perusing with an attorney. My wife was in an accident that was not her fault. The other driver is covered with a low end insurance company that has a bad reputation so we already know we are in for a hassle. We do not know the total cost of the EMS and ER bills which we are anticipating to be very expensive. My car is fully covered and I have gap insurance so I am not too worried about the property damage settlement since we will at least break even and not owe anything on the loan. I have never had to hire a lawyer so I am worried that I will be ripped off. So we had a consultation and he is willing to take our case. So do you all think it is a good move on our part to handle the property damages ourselves and let the attorney handle the medical expenses (including further treatment my wife will need). Any opinions are much appreciated.","title":"Bad insurance company! So I consulted with a lawyer about my wife's auto accident and I'd like to hear some other opinions. (TX)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447658725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3szvn4\/bought_a_used_textbook_and_it_was_missing_pages\/","id":"3szvn4","body":"Sorry I'm not quite sure if this is the right sub for this post, but I wanted to get ahead of the game in case things don't quite work out. I bought a used textbook from a refutable online textbook store at the beginning of the semester. It arrived and seemed to be in great condition. Recently I got to a part of the book, and it is missing 30 pages. I sent them an email addressing the problem (with picture evidence) and hopefully every thing turns out alright. I asked that they do whatever they can to resolve the problem, and I asked for an e-copy of the book while the issue was being resolved. I was just wondering if I am doing everything right. And that if for some reason they don't help me out what I can do to pressure them to resolve the problem. I'm in Arizona.","title":"Bought a used textbook, and it was missing pages.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554652918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bahqjy\/how_to_fill_out_a_paupers_affidavit_for_a_divorce\/","id":"bahqjy","body":"A friend of mine is filing for divorce in Georgia. They have been separated since July of 2018. She does not understand exactly what they are asking for in a certain section. Her specific question is this: \u201cIs the first line a total? And what\u2019s the last line? And what if I don\u2019t know his information?\u201d She\u2019s referring to the portion about assets (Section 4). She downloaded the document from the Southern Judicial Circuit website, so it\u2019s the correct form, she\u2019s just a little confused as to exactly what they are asking for. Unfortunately, I wasn\u2019t much help either. So here I am, Reddit. ","title":"How to fill out a Pauper\u2019s affidavit for a divorce in Georgia?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541684739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9va3ga\/uk_ive_been_on_6_successive_fixed_contracts_at\/","id":"9va3ga","body":"I think all of my contracts have had a period from September to July of the following year, and they have either provided me with a new contract or asked me to reapply for the position each year since Sept 2012.\n\nMy work is in a university in England, UK working with disabled students, and since the government cut Disability Support Allowance (DSA), I am under the impression the bulk or around half of the funding for my role has come from the university itself rather than external funding.\n\nIt's a zero hours, hourly paid, flexible role. It's referred to as 'sessional' in the contract. \n\nWork is usually limited to just during term time, but sometimes we are called in in August while out of contract (and through some payroll wrangling they somehow manage to pay us as usual). \n\n**I'm wondering how it would benefit me to be considered a member of staff and be on a permanent contract. I know I wouldn't have to reapply for my job every year, and perhaps they wouldn't be able to change the terms of my contract as easily.** \n\n**I'm also wondering on what grounds they could turn down my request, considering the Prevention of Favourable Treatment regulations.** \n\n​\n\nAdditional info:  \n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\nLast year's 2017-18 contract stated:\n\n>A sessional worker should assume that, unless the contrary is stated in writing, service  \n>  \n>commences at the start of the session to which this contract relates and terminates on the  \n>  \n>stated expiry date. No previous period of employment with Brunel University London  \n>  \n>therefore counts towards the calculation of continuous employment.  \n>  \n>**Appointment**  \n>  \n>The appointment is as a sessional worker to allow the University to meet its varying needs in  \n>  \n>supplementing its core staffing base and is primarily made viable through the availability of  \n>  \n>Disabled Students\u2019 Allowances from external funding bodies, and ring fenced internal  \n>  \n>funding. As such your working hours are not fixed, but are flexible according to the needs of  \n>  \n>the students. The post is not treated or designated by the University as a \u2018Member of Staff\u2019  \n>  \n>as defined in the University\u2019s Statutes.\n\nBut this year 2018-19 it simply says:\n\n>A support worker should assume that, unless the contrary is stated in writing, service  \n>  \n>commences at the start of the session to which this contract relates and terminates on the  \n>  \n>stated expiry date.  \n>  \n>**Appointment**  \n>  \n>This appointment as a support worker is to allow the University to meet its varying needs in  \n>  \n>supplementing its core staffing base and is primarily made viable through the availability of  \n>  \n>Disabled Students\u2019 Allowances from external funding bodies.\n\nThis seems like it has some significant differences in phrasing. \n\nThanks for your help\n\n​","title":"UK: I've been on 6 successive fixed contracts at work for 6 years, am I entitled to a permanent contract?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569705345,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dalzgu\/gfs_job_fell_through_and_the_landlord_is\/","id":"dalzgu","body":"I\u2019m sorry if this isn\u2019t formatted properly or is slightly confusing but I\u2019m feeling a little emotional and looking for some help. \n\nThis takes place in the UK, if you need more information it can be provided. \n\nMy GF is Chinese and recently got a job from a company offering her a T5 and then if she was a good worker a T2 Working Visa. It was terrible hours and not amazing pay but it would mean she could stay in the country and be with me while I attended university.\n\nWe packed up everything and moved up the country into an apartment that a girl who used to work at the same company said was good as she used to live there. It was a small apartment but that didn\u2019t matter too much to us as we\u2019d be able to live together. \n\nOnce we arrived, we unpacked our things and the landlord came down a few days later and got her to sign a contract for a fixed period of 52 weeks.\n\n(This next paragraph is a small rant about the annoying company)\n\nA couple weeks later, after being messed around a lot we find out that the company won\u2019t be sponsoring anyone in the company visas and that no one working there has a visa. Checking back they\u2019re still \u2018urgently hiring\u2019 for this position and interviewing people daily. This company was refusing to pay people for the first month of work and was making their employees work for 2 and a bit months before giving them their first pay check. It seems like they\u2019re praying on graduate students looking to stay in the country and making them do cheap advertising labour before telling them they won\u2019t be getting visas and rotating a new group of students in. They don\u2019t even let these employees sign a contract so they won\u2019t get paid.\n\nMy GF not wanting to waste her time any longer when she would be forced out of the county without a visa quits this company and starts to look for other positions.\n\nShe would like to move out of her current apartment and down with me but her landlord sat her down alone, bringing along his nephew to give her a \u2018shake down\u2019, and said she can\u2019t leave or \u2018the big bosses\u2019 are going to come down and sue her for the rent and how the lawyers will cost \u00a3255\/hour + VAT and we\u2019ll have to pay them when we lose, because that\u2019s how it works here.\n\nHe also mentioned in passing how he\u2019s a \u2018mob man\u2019, but I wasn\u2019t sure if he was being literal. \n\nHe also threatened that if we just left that he would chase her down, goto his Chinese contacts, and post her face and name in the paper humiliating her and find her and sue her. \n\nHe said if we find someone else to re-rent the apartment we can transfer over the contract to that person instead. We searched a lot and had a lot of showings and no one was interested. \n\nAfter being threatened and scared and having another person say no, my GF broke down in hysterics, after losing hope, crying. I immediately drove up to see her and we started talking about our options. \n\nWe could,\n1) Pay the rest of the tenancy\n2) Find someone to take over\n3) Ask the landlord for some kind of agreement\n4) Run away\n\nWe tried option 3) but the landlord was having none of it saying the \u2018big bosses\u2019 would never allow it. So we tried option 2) again. \n\nAfter a lot more searching and a lot of showings we found a girl who was interested. She only wanted to rent until January but was aware of how she would be signed up to the entirety of the remaining contract and if she couldn\u2019t find someone else to take over her contract then she would still be legally inclined to pay.\n\nWe brought her to meet the landlord and he was, I\u2019d say, slightly aggressive towards the new girl. Repeating over and over about the 48 weeks she\u2019d have to pay and only talking about how she could transfer her contract once while repeating over and over 48 weeks which understandably put the girl off.\n\nOnce the girl left with my GF he turned to me and reiterated his \u2018promise\u2019 about how the solicitors (who were primed and ready) would find my GF, humiliate her in China, and sue her her for a lot of money. \n\nMy GF\u2019s rent is \u00a3420\/month and she\u2019d only stayed 3 weeks before she let the landlord know about her situation.\n\nThere is no break clause in the 3-page contract but it does say after 14 days of no payment the landlord can goto court and reclaim the apartment.\n\nMy GF has been talking to some new Chinese friends and some Chinese landlords about her situation and they\u2019ve been telling her she can just run away because the landlord won\u2019t be able to find her with just her passport and my car license plate. \n\nI\u2019m know that\u2019s not the most ethical solution but we\u2019re both very poor and are barely able to pay this rent on my \u00a3480\/month salary while she doesn\u2019t have work. \n\nTLDR: My Chinese GF moved into a new apartment to start a new job with the promise of a visa. The job basically lied and won\u2019t offer anyone visas so my GF would like to break her tenancy agreement with her landlord of 3 weeks but the landlord threatened to sue her if she left and humiliate her in the papers in China because they can post pictures of faces and names","title":"Gf\u2019s job fell through and the landlord is threatening to humiliate her in the paper if she can\u2019t pay rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445278548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pdsoe\/worries_posting_a_youtube_video_being_critical_of\/","id":"3pdsoe","body":"Quick background, I live in WA state. \nI would like to voice my opinion about a company that has commercialized a hobby that I enjoy. I understand that a video would fall under Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech but I am smart enough to know it is not that simple. \n\nWhat would be considered Deformation of Character? \nAm I allowed to use their logo? Trademarks?\nAre there any words or phrases that I should avoid when talking about them? \nWhat would be considered crossing the line?\n\nI'm not going to curse or anything but would calling them a monopoly be considered harassment? \n\nThank you for your time. \n","title":"Worries posting a Youtube video being critical of a company?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542020142,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wd395\/my_workplace_emplyeed_my_boyfriends_abuser_xpost\/","id":"9wd395","body":"Hey guys,\n\nI was advised to share my story here, in a hopes you can help me. \nThank you for any input. \n\nSo this is a long story. But I will try and keep it as to the point as possible. \n\nIn 2015-2017 my boyfriend (M19, let's call him J, he works with me as well) dated a girl (let's call her S) who showed signs of having, issues. She was always very reserved and very awkward with our friend group. Behind closed doors she was abusive and manipulative. \n\nMy boyfriend broke up with her in the summer of 2017. We got together early this year after many years of friendship and I helped him get his first real job working weekends and after school at our local supermarket with me. \n\nAbout a fortnight ago, this girl, who has always made active attempts to continue to be involved in my boyfriends life (including making fake accounts on social media and messaging him, sending him suicide notes, contacting his parents etc) applied to work at our supermarket. J and I both immediately informed our HR Manager of the issues and briefly covered some of the things S had done. Including hitting him, me, making suicide threats, falsely accusing him of hitting her, and even having sex with him when he asked for her to stop (on one occasion she told him if he didn't have sex with her she would tell her parents he raped her, another occasion she attempted to have sex with his drunkenly passed out body) \n\nOur HR Manager told us that she was already offered the job and we would have to 'just be the bigger party and ignore her'. Now, every evening since, J has had panic attacks thinking of having to work with this girl. I'm scared he's becoming depressed again. He is scared to come to work now. \n\nWhat do I do to even begin to fix this? \n\nCan I do anything even? \n\nTLDR\nWorkplace has hired my boyfriends abusive ex and refuse to do anything about it. My boyfriend is now becoming so riddled with anxiety he cannot even face work. How do I start to fix this?","title":"My workplace emplyeed my boyfriends abuser. (X-post from r\/advice)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538718555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ljnfm\/relocation_into_a_failed_business\/","id":"9ljnfm","body":"Back in the beginning of May, me and my fianc\u00e9e were offered the chance to move from Southern Colorado to Northern Colorado to work with our company opening a new branch for our job. We have been here for about 2 months, and we were just notified by our CFO (wonderful person) that the business owner has run the business into the ground and is more than likely shutting down and filing bankruptcy soon. Aforementioned owner told us to go ahead and get a lease in the area (which we can afford with the paychecks from this company), but with no other job prospects in the area, it looks like we\u2019ll have to move back to where my original job was. My only concern is breaking the lease. Is there any legal recourse to get the owner to pay for the lease breakage as they had set a reasonable expectation that we would be alright, only for her to screw us?\n\nTL;DR Moved for job, got lease, business is about to go under, need to break lease, does the law allow us to get the owner to pay lease break?\n\nI\u2019m honestly expecting a big ol\u2019 UR FUKT, but doesn\u2019t hurt to ask.","title":"Relocation into a failed business?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506370261,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72f4az\/louisiana_drove_through_a_large_section_of\/","id":"72f4az","body":"It is a concrete sectional driveway. I could not see the damage partly because trees were casting shadows across it and as I was driving I reached over to get my coffee. I then hit the damaged area which bounced the front of my car into the air and slammed back down very hard. Reverberations started afterwards.\n\nMy question is whether I should go through with a claim on my insurance. I have already contacted the property manager and it may take him a few days to get back to me but I can't wait if he is going to drag his feet. I have also started the ball rolling on a claim but I am waiting on the adjuster to contact me at which point I was told I could stop the claim. Any other advice is welcome.  ","title":"[Louisiana] Drove through a large section of damaged driveway in a business parking lot.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539144189,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mw7j9\/la_no_break_at_5_hours_because_i_was_let_off_5\/","id":"9mw7j9","body":"So my girlfriend works for a chick-fil-a, and she just worked a 6pm-11pm shift. she was supposed to be given a break because it\u2019s a 5 hours shift, right? she wasn\u2019t given her break (or her employee meal) because they let her off at 10:55pm. i\u2019m no lawyer, but i\u2019m almost positive this isn\u2019t legal, but because i don\u2019t want to be wrong i\u2019m posting this here. yes, technically she didn\u2019t work 5 hours, but is it really okay for them to let her off 5 minutes early and them be completely fine? ","title":"[LA] No break at 5 hours because i was let off 5 minutes early","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569064846,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d79992\/me_and_my_grandfather_facing_evictionma\/","id":"d79992","body":"So I\u2019m not really sure where to start, I\u2019ve never done this before so my apologies if it comes out sloppy.\n\nThe Background Info\n\nMe and My 78 yr old Grandfather are facing eviction, he\u2019s lived in the apartment complex since 1976 and we\u2019ve always had a very mixed relationship with the management company due to family history. My grandpa got very sick some time ago and me having always lived with him ( he has had guardianship of me Since I was pretty much born.I\u2019m now 26 he is also my marital grandfather ) stepped and started caring for him as no one on either side of the family wanted to helped and still don\u2019t die to complex family issues. Unfortunately this lead to me dropping out of college and also leaving both my jobs so my income is pretty much minimal.\nRoughly 6-7 months back my grandfather had a serious medical emergency which lead to him being hospitalized, at that point my uncle who is very much scumbag stepped in and got conservator\/power of attorney over my grandfather and started using his income for his own personal gain. \nA large number of events took place in attempt to scare me off including my own family member trying to shoot me in the stomach with a firearm while my grandfather was away sick, my mental health started to breakdown which caused its own issues but during the time my grandfather was in the hospital rent got behind about three months and they defaulted him in court.(He is head of household and I am on the lease but the property manager left my name off the court documents so I could not speak for him or our situation) once they defaulted him I entered into a unofficial mediation with the lawyer and property manager. A paper agreement was written that stated I would remain in the unit and try to pay my grandfathers debt by paying double the amount of rent for 3 months to square the balance as well as remove my grandfather and another party from the lease. The agreement was written in a unfair way that was built for me to fail but I agreed because we would be forced out otherwise due to The judge defaulting my grandfather.(during this time my grands was hospitalized and then was taking to a local that wasn\u2019t disclosed to me for 3-4 months it was extremely nerve racking)\n\nThe agreement stated that I had to make those payments by July 28th which I did, I however failed to sign the new occupancy agreement by June 1st, the way the agreement was worded I was under the impression that I couldn\u2019t sign till the balance was paid, They confirmed this in a later court date that case got dismissed. \n\nDuring the time I was paying the balance there was a situation in which the Glass of a Fire Extinguisher was broken, I offered to pay for the damages but they are now trying to get me removed from the property as a whole stating that due to my mental health issues I\u2019m a danger to other tenants(my next door neighbors who harassed us and made false claims stating they felt unsafe around us it\u2019s unfortunately more a race issue then anything we never interacted with the family)\n\nI managed to get my grandfather back home recently but due to the decline of my mental health and lack of income we became behind rent again.\n\nI would like to note that I was always trying to get my grandfather home as he was in a elderly abuse situation and never intended for us to get behind on rent my uncle was just using his income for his own means. My uncle also cleared out his account at the beginning of this month before I got him removed as POA \n\nOur next court date is October 10th And is for non payment and tenancy, we would\nhave the money by the date but they still want us to leave and we have no where to go \n\nI\u2019m not sure what to do in this situation at all there\u2019s a lot more to this situation but I didn\u2019t want it to get to long \n\nThank You In Advance","title":"Me and My Grandfather Facing Eviction[MA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571763911,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlkvdz\/my_landlord_just_went_to_jail_for_a_felony_what\/","id":"dlkvdz","body":"My landlord owns my house and the houses next to me. We\u2019re all renting from him. He just got charged with an unrelated felony and is likely never going to be released. \n\nSo what happens to me? Am I required to move out? I didn\u2019t hear anything from him before he got taken in","title":"My landlord just went to jail for a felony. What happens to me now?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554405220,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9h0hj\/quitting_my_job_can_my_employer_cut_me_out_of\/","id":"b9h0hj","body":"I have tried to look this up as I\u2019m sure there are tons of posts regarding tips, but I couldn\u2019t find one regarding my specific \u201ctip jar\u201d question. \n\nI work at a restaurant in Southern CA that has a tip jar at the register where you pay for your food.  There is no \u201cserving\u201d involved, we call your name after your food has been made.\n\nI plan on sending my immediate resignation tomorrow for a multitude of reasons, but I want to make sure I\u2019m not going illegally lose out on what will probably be $45 in tips for the two week period. \n\nThe new owner has only been in the restaurant one week, and he\u2019s already breaking CA laws left and right.\n\nThings to note:\n\nOur previous boss used to completely cut people out of their final tips if they quit or were fired.  This always felt wrong, but I never actually looked up the legality of it. \n\nTips are broken up based on number of hours worked.  Each hour is assigned a monetary value based on the amount of tips collected.  Some people are getting $3 for working one shift, and others are getting $40+ working full time. \n\nTo my knowledge these tips are not taxed.  Simply collected, and then distributed on payday.  \n\n\n\n\nJust to clarify my question: \n\nCan my boss legally deny my portion of tips from the jar if I quit tomorrow?\n","title":"Quitting my job. Can my employer cut me out of tips for my final pay period?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568693026,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5bqz2\/eviction_on_my_record\/","id":"d5bqz2","body":"Hi Reddit, \n\n\nI am writing here for advice because I have no idea what to do. Any help is appreciated. I apologize in advance for the long read.\n\n\nI lived in Vegas at an apartment complex for roughly a year and a half with my mother. We were both on the lease so we were equally responsible for the rent. We always paid the rent on time and were responsible renters. However, the management changed three times while we were there and they had a lot of mix ups and sent us unknown bills and were generally just unprofessional and unorganized. The last straw was when some kids in the neighborhood threw rocks at our bedroom window and broke the glass. We called the police and got a report which we submitted to the office. They then sent us the bill to fix the window even though we had proof that we were not responsible. The office was extremely rude and did not offer any help as usual. We decided to move at this time as we could not stand the management any longer and paid a $1080 penalty to break the lease. We gave a 60 day notice to move out and agreed with the office that we will be leaving on the 7th of July. We paid the June rent in full and were prepared to pay for the week of July until the 7th. Come July, we received a bill for the whole month of July instead of a week like we agreed on. Upset, my mother paid for the week as they originally agreed and moved out. \nShe moved to Japan where she did not hear from the landlord and thought that her troubles were over. \n\n\nMeanwhile, the landlord filed a court order for an eviction against us. My mother was in Japan and did not hear of this. When she came back, she was notified by letter that she now has an eviction on her record. I did not receive such letter, but I assume I do too because we were on the lease together. She wanted to move back to America to be with me, but she cannot find any decent apartments that will take her because of her eviction record. She currently stays with me and my boyfriend in our one bedroom apartment, but it is a tight fit and we cannot live like this forever. \n\n\nWe don\u2019t know what to do. I think that this affected our credit scores too because I went from 780 to 720 between July and August. My mother does not have the money to buy a house so she only wants to rent. I was thinking that maybe we could get a lawyer to get our records erased, but I do not even know if that is possible and lawyers are probably expensive. I learned that even rooms for rent in privately owned houses do background checks nowadays so it is practically impossible to rent and build a good record. \n\n\nReddit, what do we do? We need help.","title":"Eviction on my record","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446313806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qzln9\/ny_odd_younger_sister_13_threatening_to_call_the\/","id":"3qzln9","body":"**This is long, please skip to TL;DR if you must. Really need advice!**\n\nI would like to preface this by saying that I live in NYC, my younger sister (13F) is officially diagnosed with **ADHD** and **Oppositional Defiant Disorder**, and although she is medicated for the ADHD, just living with her a nightmare. **I posted a thread on parenting [here](https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/r\/Parenting\/comments\/3i9z66\/help_my_13yearold_sister_is_using_apps_such_as\/), if you would like a little more background.** She is rebellious and manipulative to everyone but my mother, who doesn't discipline her at all. She is literally being suspended from school every week without consequence. Last week she assaulted (pushed) a teacher and I'm still surprised that they only served her an at-home suspension and didn't expel her or press charges. \n\n**I also want to say that although she is 13 and I am 23, she is not frail or small, and a good 2-3 inches taller\/bigger than I am, if that makes any difference.**\n\nAnyway, because of one of her incidents at school sometime this week, she was supposed to serve her detention today from 9AM to 2PM. My mother had been on an errand since before 9, so it was just her, my other sibling (19F) and myself in the apartment. I notice that it's getting later and later, and around 10:30-11, I realize that she is sitting on my mother's bed watching YouTube and eating a bag of Doritos. \n\nWe argue. It starts with me telling her to stop watching TV and get to school, and after she ignores me, insults me, tells me that she doesn't have to listen, ends with me taking her by the arm and trying to pull her into the hallway so that she could shower and get off to school.\n\n**I want to stress that I did not hit her or slap her, and while she did stumble, it was against the bed and only because she was kicking me and screaming like a toddler, trying her best not to move.** In the process, her shirtsleeve ripped, and now we're both yelling--she's now saying that I'm attacking her, and I'm saying that she needs to be in school and to stop acting like she's insane.\n\nAt this point I gave up trying to get her out of the room and stormed off into mine, but then she's yelling help, that I've attacked her, someone call the police--all at the top of her lungs. At some point my other sister (19F) gets involved, and I don't know what happened between them but it was probably something similar (her trying to remove her from my parents room, my sister resisting) and the next thing I know, my sister runs out the front door and into the hallway, **yelling for the neighbors to help because 'my sisters are attacking\/killing me'.**\n\nThe neighbors hear the ruckus and are, bless them, concerned. I remained calm and explained to them the situation, while she put on this huge show, sobbing on the floor and everything. I could tell that the neighbors were conflicted but in the end none of them could see what had happened and could only tell her that if the cops did come, she would be removed from the house and put into a stranger's home.\n\nWhen she realized they would not call the police, she insulted them, slammed the door in their faces, and stormed back off to my parent's room, vowing to call the police on me with my mother's cell phone as soon as she returned. My mother, of course, didn't let her, but now she's just gloating like 'haha, I didn't have to go to school and now the police are going to come and arrest your ass'.\n\nI want to know if I can be arrested for this, and what, if anything, I can do, short of leaving the home myself? I cannot move out for financial reasons, and am stuck here unless I win the lottery or my job promotes me to CEO or something. Do I need a lawyer? Will the police take her side? I'm at my wits end, what do I do? How can I explain to my mother that she needs help?\n\n**TL;DR: I tried to pull my sister by the arm from my parent's room, couldn't budge her because she is both taller and stronger than me, and in the process her shirt ripped. She's threatening to call the police for assault, what should I do?** ","title":"[NY] ODD younger sister (13) threatening to call the police on me (23F) for 'assault', advice needed.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553075967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3a4n3\/employer_wont_pay_documents_were_lost_nl\/","id":"b3a4n3","body":"TL;DR\nI didn't get paid correctly in a messy time for employer, during a switch in the company software used for paychecks documents were lost which I never received myself and now employer claims I didn't work for them in that period (august).\nMissing about \u20ac900.\nSimilar documents appear to be lost for my gf and we need the correct annual statements to file tax reports before may.. so we're in a hurry.\n\n--------\n\nI am an employee and student in The Netherlands. My employer is the second-largest mail company here.\n\nI used to work through an employment agency until july last year, then I was taken over by the company itself on 23-07 (it should have been 01-07 but they were too slow with processing the documents, a good indication of the mess at the main office).\n\nAnyway, like many companies, you get paid end of the next month what you earned the month before (example: I got july's pay end of august CORRECTLY). End of october comes around and because I worked all summer vacation I expected a big payout, instead I got about 14 hours worth of pay. (Missing about \u20ac900).\n\nI complain immediately to my supervisor who tells me that almost no-one was paid correctly (which was true). \n\nSeptember repeats this mistake with way too little being paid, I complain again and after this EVERYBODY who worked in payroll was fired.\n\nThis meant however that it would take even longer to get the payments right again. \n\nAround this time I sit down with my supervisor and together we compose an e-mail containing my correct hours (I never received paycheck statements with correct hours due to the software not working for me so this way I had something to fall back on, the correct hours were on his computer and now also e-mailed to main office).  Explaining all payment mistakes that were made, I see him sending the e-mail and am now confident he actually got things going.\n\nThere are a few more times I remind my supervisor face-to-face about the payments but always get reassured things will eventually get fixed.\n\nNovember comes 'round and I get my correct payment for september and october is paid correctly the first time around. Satisfied that the new employees are doing well I once more remind my supervisor that I do still need to get the biggest payment, the one from august. However the money I got now was reassuring enough to shut me up for a while and I waited to get paid.\n\nAll the while I'm going to school again at the same time and at this point I get really sucked into some big projects, I skip work and focus completely on school for a couple of months. (My supervisor understands and actually supports my choice because I don't have to make a certain amount of hours at work in my type of contract)\n\nHowever In this time I do keep sending messages to my supervisor and colleagues to keep reminding him and main office that I still need to get paid. My supervisor never messages me back, my colleagues do and promise to remind him.\n\nFebruary comes around and school isn't so overwhelming as before so I decide to return to work, just in time it seems because my contract would've ended in march. My supervisor is happy to see me and immediately re-upped my contract.\n\nI also immediately remind him I need to get paid for august, when I say this he seems absolutely SHOCKED. He did not know I still had not been paid. He even forgot I even had an issue in the first place. He asks my why I never tried contacting him. I did. I only have his work phone number which you can't rely on, so I start to feel at this point like it was my fault for not physically coming over regularly and demanding my money. (Which is how he explained he himself would have handled the situation).\n\nI figure he never got any of the reminders from either me or my colleagues and get a little stressed because I need to enter tax information before may this year. (Looking back he probably did get reminders but knowing him he forgets immediately)\n\nHe assured me this time the payments will get fixed.\n\nNext week he comes to me and tells me everything is already taken care of, with a half smile he explains to me calmly I got it all wrong: I wasn't working for the company in august yet. I was working through the employment agency, and I was either paid in full or I should really call them up.\n\nI explain what the ACTUAL situation is and he gets really confused but says he will come back to me.\nI don't trust him anymore at this point and feel like an idiot for ever trusting he had the best interest for me. I start e-mailing ALL the e-mail addresses I can find from main office explaining the whole situation to get a stir going and maybe speed them up.\n\nMost e-mails explain to me they don't have anything to do with payroll, however, two of them reply that they don't have any records of me working there before 23-08, and they only have 2 paychecks for the whole year on record.\n\nI send them an e-mail containing the bank statements from july, august, september, a document with my worked hours in august (I kept a record myself), the hours my gf worked, the payment my gf got for that same month (we worked the exact same hours and she was paid in full) and figured that now things would HAVE to get fixed.\n\nNo reply.\n\nI start e-mail bombing them with daily e-mails, this works as they reply once more with a 'sorry but you worked for the employment agency in that period, we have no records of you working here before 23-08 and as it happens the same goes for your girlfriend'. (My gf worked directly for them a few months before me even).\n\nI'm flabbergasted by this since we need to get correct annual statements for our tax returns we need to file before may this year, which is now about one month away.\n\nNobody in the company has actually received annual statements yet because of the mess at main office, this is actually illegal I believe so right now this is their main concern.\n\n-UPDATE- as I'm writing this I receive a company wide e-mail from Human Resources that says they fixed everyone's annual statements and they will give them today to the tax service and send them in e-mails later today to the employees.\nI doubt they're correct though because they are missing documents. -\n\nThey actually lost most of the correct documents (for me and my gf) when they switched around that time to a new paycheck software system (which never worked for me, couldn't log on to it or view my paychecks so I don't have them myself).\n\nI do have my contract which proves I started 23-07, and bank statements which show I was already paid before the time they claim I started working.\n\nI sent them everything proving my right and still they refuse to acknowledge anything other than what their records can tell them about me.\n\nWhat do I do?\n\nAlso for my girlfriend?\n\nWe both need correct annual statements and I really want my money from august.\n\nI'm a poor student (already about \u20ac20,000 in student loans) and have no money for legal representation.\n\nI tried to get a company to give me at least some advice for my next move but after explaining the whole situation in a chat with someone they say to me: 'Okay simple, you just need to get a legal insurance for \u20ac55,- a year and we will help you write a letter, it also involves discount might you need a lawyer!'\n\n\u20ac55 for a letter and a discount... Yeah.. I'm sure that will help.\n\nI'm lost, I don't know if there are many people on here concerning themselves with Dutch laws but I was hoping for some advice, any advice would help.\n\nThank you for reading through.","title":"Employer won't pay, documents were lost (NL)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1415545196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2lrj1e\/warranty_when_the_store_is_gone\/","id":"2lrj1e","body":"Hi! I have a simple question, but somehow can't find the answer online so I came here.\n\nI bought a processor few years back and it got broken recently. The processor is under warranty, but the local computer store in which I bought it is gone. Is, under these circuimstances, sending the processor directly to the company that made it (AMD) a viable warranty option and if so, are conditions different from traditional handling it through the middle-man (store)?\n\nThanks in advance for your answers.","title":"Warranty when the store is gone","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554376873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9bfyq\/stay_at_home_mom\/","id":"b9bfyq","body":"So I am a stay at home mom. I\u2019ve been married coming up on 3 years and have a two year old and a 1 year old. My husband refuses to get a divorce. What will the divorce process look like in this situation? Would pictures of holes in walls and piles of empty beer cans help my case for custody? There\u2019s no police report to go along with them. Would bring a stay at home mom hurt my chances of custody? What do I need to do to get my ducks in a row without him knowing? I\u2019m in Ohio. ","title":"Stay at home mom","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552572236,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b10pr9\/elevator_sensor_still_not_fixed\/","id":"b10pr9","body":"This is in cook county, IL. What is the requirement for elevator door sensors that detect obstructions? The elevator in our building has been busted for months and it has been reported several times. Legally, is there a requirement that elevators have working sensors? Again, it's been reported and I almost saw a dog killed when it refused to follow its owner.","title":"Elevator sensor still not fixed","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541539403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uskew\/mi_the_guardian_of_my_child_is_refusing_to_let_me\/","id":"9uskew","body":"Michigan\n\nRecently, myself and the Guardian of my child got into a pretty bad verbal fight. However, as a result of this, she is refusing to let me see my daughter.\n\nAt first, I contacted Friend of the Court, who stated that there was nothing they can do since there is a Guardianship in place, and that I needed to contact Probate.\n\nI sent emails to Probate court, but there responses have been very unhelpful. Stating that \"there is no visitation on file\" and that I need to \"work through the Guardian to schedule time.\" I even got a number for them, and left a voicemail. There response was to leave me a voicemail stating I have to email them, the same email I had already been emailing.\n\n  \nI can't work through the Guardian, and they won't let me know how I go about getting visitation on file.\n\nI just want to see my daughter. I've seen her every week she's been alive, and now it's been 6 weeks since I've seen her. And it feels like no one regarding the \"legal\" side of things is really trying to help me.\n\nWhat can I do? The legal system is failing me, and the more time that goes by, the more I can't see my daughter.\n\n1) Can I revoke her Guardianship status? If so, how?\n\n2) Can I get visitation on file? If so, how?\n\nIs this one of those situations where the system is set up to force me to fork over cash for a lawyer? I find that a little...wrong, but if that's what needs to be done, I guess I don't really have a choice.\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. \n\nHopefully this system becomes less difficult for men to navigate around. I'm sure if I was the mother, I would not be going through all these hoops.\n\n​","title":"[MI] The Guardian of my child is refusing to let me see my daughter","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1413553437,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jikwy\/let_go_from_my_job_before_my_first_day\/","id":"2jikwy","body":"I recently signed an employment contract for a new job after handing in my resignation at my current job. 2 weeks after signing the contract the new job contacted me and told me due to funding problems they would not be able to employ me. They offered to pay me a weeks pay, to cover the notice period in the contract, but have since ignored my emails.\n\nI'm not so concerned about the job but I could do with the money to cover job hunting time.\n\nHow should I proceed with this? Do I threaten legal action or continue to email them asking for the money?\n\nContext: London, United Kingdom","title":"Let go from my job before my first day","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539913893,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pfg7p\/my_school_is_endangering_our_lived\/","id":"9pfg7p","body":"Hi, I\u2019m a student at Bard College at Simon\u2019s Rock. (This is in Massachusetts) In our dorm there are several health and safety code regulation issues (expired fire extinguishers, non-operational smoke detectors, electrical problems, etc.). I\u2019m worried about this and I\u2019ve reported it to campus safety, but it\u2019s gone nowhere, they\u2019ve done nothing even given ample time. How do I report this\/who do I report it to? ","title":"My School is Endangering our Lived","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1506721964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73b19q\/collection_agency_sent_for_money_i_have_been\/","id":"73b19q","body":"(NEW JERSEY) I was in college last year and dropped out in the middle of the spring semester because I wasn\u2019t satisfied with the school I was going to. There was a payment plan worked out for the rest of the tuition for that semester (which sucked because I only attended for a couple weeks but that\u2019s life) and I\u2019ve been paying it back out of pocket physically going to the school\u2019s accounting department to pay. Months ago I kept receiving emails from the school saying that I wasn\u2019t paying the right amount and for two payments I was paying $40 under by accident but that was cleared up. Now I got an email saying that they\u2019ve sent my account to a collection agency and that I\u2019m responsible for any additional collection costs and that if legal action is perused I\u2019ll be responsible for any legal costs. I\u2019m worried and stressed over this whole situation and I don\u2019t want this to go to court. I have no idea what to do","title":"Collection agency sent for money I have been paying back","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539960866,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pkjy1\/encountering_asbestos_at_work\/","id":"9pkjy1","body":"I live and work in central Pennsylvania for a chimney repair outfit. I on average go in about 5-6 homes a day. Many of the homes we work in are very old and haven't been updated in years. No one at the company has been given training on asbestos. I have done my own research to help identify it to keep myself safe. However when I do encounter it at a job I dont know what my rights are. Can my employer force me to work around it if it's not to close to me? I have had my boss say before if it's not in the immediate area I'm working in I have to continue. Just looking for advice about whether or not I have to put up with this and any advice on what to do when its found. ","title":"Encountering asbestos at work.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555428425,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdv8lk\/cafriends_wife_got_a_lawyer_a_year_and_a_half\/","id":"bdv8lk","body":"This is kind of a long post so I apologize. \n\nFriend and this woman, we'll call Sally, mutually filed for divorce in January of 2018 after 9 years. They have one child, 16, who splits her time between parents. She's with Sally Sun-Wed, and Friend Thurs - Sat. There was no agreement for child support, however Friend was paying a couple hundred dollars for a few months after he had found some calculation for CA Child Support online. \n\nBoth make similar money, and Sally is a bartender at an incredibly popular bar in a tourist location. Tips are never reported on W-2s from what I've seen. According to friend, Sally makes $100 on a slow night and works Thurs-Sun. Friend has \"filed all her taxes for years\" and apparently always reported $500 for tips because he \"Didn't know the true amount.\" \n\nThere was a status hearing in October. Sally had not filed any of the paperwork she was supposed to, so another status hearing is scheduled for the 18th of April. \n\nFriend went to a free legal counsel workshop at the county courthouse on Monday the 15th, and made sure he had filed all necessary paperwork. \n\nSally still has not filed any paperwork as of this morning. \n\nLast night, Friend came home to a letter from an attorney Sally had hired recently. The letter demanded that Sally be put back on Friend's benefits (he was told by HR she couldn't be removed anyway until after the divorce finalized, so that never happened), and that he pay, \"The agreed upon $800 in child support.\" \n\nThe lawyer is a former deputy district attorney specializing in crimes against children (this is according to her LinkedIn and local news articles).\n\nFriend worries that he can't afford a lawyer, which is why neither had one in the first place. \n\nHe's also worried that Sally and Lawyer will not show up to the status hearing on the 18th, dragging it out another 6 months. He had planned on submitting paperwork claiming Sally had done nothing to move the divorce along (I believe he called it Defaulting), but if Sally nor her legal representation show, he may not be given the chance to speak. \n\nI know I may have left out any crucial details. Thank you for any assistance.","title":"[CA]Friend's wife got a lawyer a year and a half into divorce proceedings. What should he do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554054241,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7qenf\/does_cohabitation_while_divorce_is_pending_weigh\/","id":"b7qenf","body":"I have hired a private investigator to follow my STBX. My wife and I have been married for 4 years and separated for 1 year now while divorce still pending. My wife cheated on me for 4+ years now and still going. The main guy is a drug dealer in Downtown Dallas. There\u2019s another guy, but he is fairly new and is her co-worker. She is currently juggling both. She didn\u2019t get caught until 2016-2017. \n\nFiled for divorce. I take care of my grandparents, mom, brother, my ex-wife and 8 years old son. We have two cars under our name, but I am paying for my car and my mom is paying for the other. There\u2019s a paid off car that my ex drives but it is under my mom\u2019s name. It\u2019s really confusing but the car my mom is currently paying that is registered under my ex and my name. We did it due to my mom\u2019s bad credit. House under both wife and my name, but my mom and I pay for everything. Because my ex stopped wanting to pay in 2018.\n\nMY QUESTION IS:\nWhat is considered cohabitation? Does it have to be CONSECUTIVE of 30+ days or IN TOTAL of 30+ day?\n\nMy ex takes my son to her \u201cghetto boyfriend\u2019s\u201d place (she still deny him as her boyfriend) every week day and comes back at 12 AM on school days. From Friday to Sunday, she sleeps over at her boyfriend\u2019s place with my son. \n\n\nBasically, she sleeps in our house (where my whole family lives) on weekdays. Acts like nothing is wrong or abnormal. She sleeps at her boyfriend\u2019s on weekends. She been doing this since August of 2018. \n\nShe would always say she is with her girl friends. But obviously thats a lie.\n\nShe is fighting for full custody of our 8 years old son. Want both cars and house. Child support and alimony. She requested this in October 2018.\n\nIn 2018 alone, she was hospitalized for OD on stolen prescription pills. Child endangerment: drinking and driving with child in car. My son knows too much about what her boyfriend does. Child witness physical confrontations between her boyfriend and her. She wrecked the car and totaled it \u2014son was in the car. She was texting and driving. Exposing son to her boyfriend\u2019s brother who has chicken pox. Later my son got chicken pox...  Her boyfriend constantly messaging me about her being drunk and driving with my son. \n\nMy decree is 50\/50 custody. Child stays where he is currently at. I pay for all insurances for our son. School and extracurricular, I will cover. Legal notification when taking child out of the country. House and cars be mine. She gets a payout of $$$$. She gets contractual alimony for a year, if she doesn\u2019t cohabit-ate. (She begged for help because she only makes $2,000\/m so I agree to help her) \n\nShe said NO, she demands more money and more alimony and more custody \u2014BECAUSE SHE IS THE MOTHER!\n\nHer lawyer two weeks ago, told my lawyer that he is dropping her due to her irrational reasoning. Her lawyer knows she will lose in court and had been begging her to settle to my terms. Because she keeps throwing that \u201cMOTHERS HAVE MORE RIGHTS!!\u201d Her Lawyer told her that in Texas that is not true. She keeps arguing with him. Her lawyer asked where she got her information from, she said her Bolivian Uncle and Aunt told her this. Her lawyer soon filed to withdraw as her legal attorney. Now she is lawyer-less. \n\nShe still fighting to go to court and takes my son whenever she wants. If I want my son, I have to pick him up before she does. Run to the library until she leaves to her boyfriend\u2019s\u2014then come home and spend time together. On weekends, same thing. She comes randomly and if she sees him, well... he is gone. \n\n\nI\u2019m pursuing for full custody. Whatever happens to the house and cars, I do not care. I just want her out of our lives. Court is in August 2019. \n\nSome people told me to fight for custody now and finalize the divorce later. I am unsure.","title":"Does cohabitation while divorce is pending weigh much in court?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555202655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcxdp4\/will_i_lose_my_drivers_license\/","id":"bcxdp4","body":"I am 17 years old in the state of Washington and already have 1 citation on my record. I just obtained another one by talking on my phone. Will I get my license taken away? And if so, is there a possibility I could keep it? \n\n- I knew I wasn\u2019t allowed to text but I thought phone calls were ok","title":"Will I lose my drivers license?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570919883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh22i1\/i_just_found_out_today_that_i_have_a_lot_of\/","id":"dh22i1","body":"I suppose this is in a few states as I went to school in New York and Georgia, but I live in Georgia now.  My parents had my student loans, but I assumed that all my loans from New York were on my parents student loans, and they paid it all off so I have been paying them back slowly.  I looked into FAFSA every year to check if I had any student loans under my name, and there was nothing there.  We also contacted the Department of Education and they assured me that there were no student loans other than the parent plus loans.  I am also still in school for the time being and will be for another year or so.\n\nHowever, today I received in the mail from a collections company stating that I have unsubsidized loans from New York and Georgia, and I looked in FAFSA and it stated that I have both subsidized and unsubsidized loans that are just sitting there, with the unsubsidized of course incurring interest.  The problem is, I was not informed of these at all until just today and I was under the impression that I did not have anymore loans to pay off.  My parents received in the mail a notice about the student loans every 6 months until they paid them off, while I have not received anything whatsoever which annoys me as I could have paid them off a while ago and not have to worry about them now.\n\nSo, my question is are they required by law to inform me when I have a lot of student loans like that?  If so, what are my options?  If not, is there anything I can do regardless for taking a while to inform me especially since they had my mailing address this entire time, and the fact that interest have been incurring under my name?","title":"I just found out today that I have a lot of student loans that have been sitting around for roughly 2-5 years.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541105247,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tdc4g\/ordered_to_pay_child_support_every_other_week\/","id":"9tdc4g","body":"Live in Illinois.\n\nMy husband had court today for child support. He did an agreed upon custody change at the end of September and went from 50\/50 to every other weekend with two kids.\n\nThe judge ordered that he pay $886 every other week. In a regular month that would be fine, but in a month like November with three pay periods, he is going to end up paying $1329. That seems excessive and is nearly 50% of his net income for the month.\n\nWe have not received the judgement in the mail, but I wonder (well, I think) he should appeal the order based on that. I have never seen or known anyone who had to pay child support on a schedule like that either. \n\nShould he appeal? Should we get a lawyer to appeal? ","title":"Ordered to pay child support every other week?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553739659,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6d8g1\/can_a_school_legally_restrict_a_student_from\/","id":"b6d8g1","body":"Located in MI\n\nRecently a student at my high school was shot in Detroit, although we live about 40 minutes away from the city. The student is making a full recovery as he was only shot in the arm. The problem is however, is that he is no longer allowed to come to class. The school is making him take online classes and not letting him go to graduation or any sports. Im a 3rd party in this and am wondering if it is legal, or how long can they hold him from coming. They say he is a threat to the school while his parents are just saying he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some students are going to be holding a protest during school tomorrow, because they say that it is racial discrimination against the student.","title":"Can a school legally restrict a student from attending class due to a shooting?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571341188,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djbhi3\/hospital_entered_insurance_information_wrong\/","id":"djbhi3","body":"Missouri, USA\n\nI switched to a new hospital a couple years ago following employer insurance being switched. Found new in-network PCP and OB-GYN at this hospital and went to my first appointments with each approximately 6 months apart. As I was a new patient in each office, I went through the paperwork and presenting my insurance for each. \n\nIt's now been about 1.5 years, and I've had two appointments each with these doctors. According to the hospital, I owe several hundred dollars from the first two visits last year. I was never sent a statement or told I owe anything during or after these appointments. I paid co-pays per my insurance card, but never received account summaries or anything. I'm 24\/25 during this, so I was naive and assumed everything was ok as it's always been being on my parents insurance. However, I was told after the secomd\/third\/fourth appointments that I had balance due, but each time, the receptionist had me call internal billing, they reviewed the insurance information I provided again, and said the account would be escalated for review and to bill the insurance again\/properly.\n\nMy account was sent to collections earlier this year (again, I never received statements). I only found out because I signed up for the online portal after my recent appoint last month which allows you to access account and appointment information online. After multiple calls with the Customer Service of the hospital, along with my insurance, here's is how everything came about:\n\n- The hospital didn't enter the medical portion of my insurance card. They corrected this after the third appointment and said the previous balances would be billed to insurance. Feb 2019, before account was sent to collections.\n\n- Following discovery of collections and the previous issues had not been taken care of, I called my insurance three weeks ago, they said the balances from last year are out of time to be billed. They did call the hospital and collections on my behalf to discuss the issues and state I was not responsible and it is the fault of the hospital for error in insurance entry. No follow-up from hospital. \n\n- I made another call to the hospital this week to follow-up: they are taking the position that I did not provide the insurance information in a timely manner; the collections they send to does not report to credit agencies; they stalled the account sent to collections so they can bill the insurance and will provide the results of that to me. They said if insurance denies, I'll be responsible for the amount. \n\n- a statement was apparently sent in Jan 2019 stating balance owed. However, the PDF in the online portal shows my apt address was missing unit number which is why I likely never received it. No phone or email communication was attempted by the hospital. \n\nIs there any information I can request from the hospital to prove I did my due diligence in providing all necessary insurance information and this whole issue was instead entry-error?","title":"Hospital entered insurance information wrong","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553632642,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5uxbz\/would_it_be_breaking_confidentiality_if_i_dont\/","id":"b5uxbz","body":"I work in a law firm, and want advice regarding confidentiality. We are representing two clients of a very famous incident that involved over 20 people. Would it be breaking confidentiality if i mention to my husband that we are working on the **famous** case, despite me not naming names? \n\nIf yes, once the case and the firm representing the clients is made public, its obviously ok then right?\n\nPlease remove if this is not the right sub, apologies. ","title":"Would it be breaking confidentiality if I don't use any names?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555600126,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bemnlc\/roommate_has_failed_to_pay_his_month_rent_for_our\/","id":"bemnlc","body":"We are 7 college kids, and we were all planning on living in a house for our junior year of college. Our lease was supposed to be from June 2018 - May 2019.   One of our roommates however got removed from the school, so he did not pay his security deposit, and hasn\u2019t paid any rent since the lease has began. The real estate company claims that they have attempted to contact him, but he hasn\u2019t answered, while he says no one has tried to contact him. The leasing company employee also said that she doesn\u2019t want to take him to court because if she did all of our names would be in the report, and that it could look bad for us in the future we try to get a loan. They claim it\u2019s not a smart idea for them to take him to court. They said that if we paid his balance and then we took him to court, we would be almost guaranteed to win. We are not sure what to do about this.","title":"Roommate has failed to pay his month rent for our lease, lease his coming up and he owes about $9500, we are not sure what to do as the lease is over by next month.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553882167,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b70gaw\/daughters_mother_renewing_tenancy_agreement\/","id":"b70gaw","body":"\n\nHello people.\n\nI'll just go straight to the point.\n\nMy partner and I are parting ways. We have a kid together.\nWe rent a flat, I have a tenancy agreement where both of us have signed. I have been paying rent sometimes entirely. We have been in this property for a few years. She has on numerous occasions failed to bring up her part. I never minded that.\nWe live in the property for the sake of the kid since it's easier to look after her. Both of us are full timers.\nShe asked me to pay for her nursery lateness fines. I declined, I am never late to pick her up. \nShe demands me to move away immediately, claiming she has a newer tenancy agreement where I'm no longer part of (she showed me). I still pay rent and I have never been made aware of this. She threatens to kick all my posesions out of the property and call the police.\nI called the letting agency, the agent is a friend of hers. She denies knowing much about the whole thing but she does claim that I was never a tenant. \nI have a proper tenancy agreement signed by both of us, it couldn't be any clearer. \nShe has been seeking housing helps from council. She claims to have paid currents month full rent plus her arrears. New tenancy agreement states that she is the one paying rent. Older tenancy agreement doesn't state this and I have always paid from my account. \nI'm not ready to move and I'm seeing myself in the street. \nI can prove that I have always provided. I pay bills, groceries etc. \n\nAlso, she keeps saying that she will take the kid abroad (the kid is British, we live in the UK, neither of us are British but I'm EU and she's not) and she claims to haveall the powers to do so. \n\nWould someone be so kind to shade some insight into this? Anything I can do at all? \n\nThank you so much\n\n\n","title":"Daughter's mother renewing tenancy agreement without notice. Getting kicked out? I'm not a deadbeat.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555235958,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd1ad2\/california_house_fire_what_laws_describe_property\/","id":"bd1ad2","body":"Hello, I thank you in advance. It is a \"extended replacement policy\" , and I am going to have to turn in a \"proof of loss\". Insurance company adjustment is lowball from stem to stern, gross mischaracterization of damage, half the contents of house not listed, item categories  (ex.  w bottles of wine \/ 200 @ $8 each), the list goes on, some direct lies in statements of fact.\n\n​\n\n  I have talked with a \"bad faith\" law firm, and it seems like they want to avoid steering me in this early stage to avoid a defense of \"we entrapped the bad faith\"  ....... Great.   Large firm public adjuster told me if I use his contractor there will be no fee!..... Great  (illegal poss denial of whole claim)  Contractors recommend public adjusters..... Great\n\n​\n\nSo what is a valid way to determine a items replacement value?  Like a book for example (No longer being produced), The cost for a replacement that is not \"depreciated\" in any manner. Does that mean new?  They buy new towels and blenders, so new? right?    How does that figure relate to \"actual cah value\" (depreciated) ? Do books on shelfs have a shelf life? :P\n\nI need advice to determine structure \"replacement\" costs too. So solid info, general or specific is appreciated.  thnx","title":"California house fire - What laws describe property valuation?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540042899,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pu8aa\/mothers_funeral\/","id":"9pu8aa","body":"My mother is currently alive. She has had dementia for over 2 years now. She has 4 surviving children. I'm the youngest and live with her and provide a sitter for her when I go into the office. Otherwise, I'm the only one that takes care of her. I reached out to my 3 siblings about a year ago asking, no begging for help to pay the sitter. The eldest told me he'd just recently retired so he didn't have more than $50 a week to offer. The next one scolded me for not asking before and promised that not only would she give money she'd also come stay with our mom 1 Saturday a month so I could get some time alone. And the next one said he'd give me some money when he got his tax return. \n\nThe first one provided $50 for 8 weeks then stopped.  The next one gave me $100 for 3 months then stopped. Oh and she never gave me a free Saturday. And the last one avoided talking to me for 6 months and finally called crying that he knew he lied. \n\nSo. I'm still alone in this. My mom is 87. She's getting worse. The inevitable will happen. She'll pass away. She has a will that leaves me everything except her share of a small lot she owns with her siblings. Her will also stipulates the two eldest should get $100 each.  The share of the lot will go to her third surviving child. She has no funeral insurance. \n\nI'm fed up with my siblings. When she passes away, can I say \" You each promised to help me and you didn't.  I dealt with the cost of keeping her comfortable in life, so now you 3 deal with her in death\"? Would I be liable for any of her funeral cost?","title":"Mother's Funeral","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1443472184,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mqtvm\/ctnynj_need_help_with_info_about_forming_an_llc\/","id":"3mqtvm","body":"My mother passed away in CT a few months ago and my 2 brothers and I will be renting the house so we don't have to sell it, for now. We plan on renting for at least 1 year, if not 2.\n\nIt was advised that we form an LLC. If you are in the know and can give me some advice I would appreciate it. The reason for forming the LLC is to protect us in case the tenant wants to sue. (lets all assume that the house is in good shape, we will be good landlords and will be attentive to the tenant.)\n\n1. Does the LLC have to \"own\" the house?\n2. If the LLC owns the house that means we have to transfer ownership?\n3. If the LLC owns the house and the tenant decides to sue (for whatever reason) are me and my siblings \"safe\" from litigation?\n4. Can my siblings and I be sued if we don't own the house?\n\nI'm basically looking for basic information on what and LLC will do for us, and protect us from being sued personally.  I don't anticipate this happening. Just wanted some basic info.","title":"(CT\/NY\/NJ??) Need help with info about forming an LLC","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538759828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lo8sl\/hours_are_being_taken_from_me_for_a_forced_one\/","id":"9lo8sl","body":"I live in Michigan for starters, there is no law that requires a one hour lunch break to anyone over the age of 18, I am 20. I have recently switched jobs due to being flat rate and the work was not there when I needed it. \n\nI currently get paid $11 an hour (hourly), 16.5 an hour for overtime (11x1.5). Last week I didn\u2019t get to take a lunch (full one hour) for two days so I clocked out and went on break for 15 minutes for those two days. I just got my paystub and it says 40 hours, last week when clocking out on Friday I had 42.xx hours. Monday (of this week) I also didn\u2019t get to take a lunch at all and worked the full 8.75 hours and told my manager and he let the payroll department know so. When clocking in on Tuesday my hours were down to 7.75 and still have not been fixed. They took a full hour of labor away. \n\nThere is no rule in our policy about having to take a 1 hour lunch. My first day here the manager of payroll even verbally expressed this, she told me \u201cif you are not able to take a 1 hour lunch, clock out for 15 minutes. If you are unable to clock out for 15 minutes let your manager know so we don\u2019t deduct this from your paycheck.\u201d. I understand this (to some point) so people do not work a full 9 hour shift and end up taking a break and committing fraud, collecting overtime when they shouldn\u2019t etc. What I do not understand is how they are able to deduct 2 full hours from my paycheck (my guess is because they don\u2019t want to pay overtime) and are trying to use the excuse for one hour lunch breaks. \n\nI got a full binder of the papers I signed and have read through them one by one to see if there is a clause about the whole \u201cone hour lunch\u201d and there is not. So I have not signed a paper stating that I am to take a one hour lunch or it will be deducted (payroll manager made copies of ALL of the papers I signed). \n\nI do not know how to fix this besides threatening a lawsuit (even though I really don\u2019t want to over roughly $50) since this is technically fraud on their part and a felony for editing hours worked (if I am correct on this). \n\nSo this is what I am coming here for, some answers, advice etc. so this will either stop or I can prevent it from happening in the future. \n\n","title":"Hours are being taken from me for a \u201cforced\u201d one hour lunch.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571166902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dicsdf\/landlord_inaction_over_black_mold_ca\/","id":"dicsdf","body":"I live in a university town in SoCal and I\u2019m a first year student. I live in an off campus housing site and I\u2019ve discovered what seems to be black mold in the corners of my shower, sinks,shower head, drain, ceiling etc. It all looks very nasty and I went to the front desk and all she did was deny the fact it was black mold and once I told her about how I\u2019ve been getting sick because of it all she could conclude was \u201cthe flu is going around\u201d my roommates and I face stomach pains, memory loss, and migraines, all from this situation. They sent someone from matience up and he didn\u2019t even get rid of it, he painted over the black spots.\n\nWhat I would like to know: is there any sort of protection or do I have any sort of rights in this situation? I\u2019m concerned for the health of both myself and my roommates, and my health only seems to be getting worse. Thank you to any who respond.","title":"Landlord inaction over Black Mold (CA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555609145,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beoes7\/ex_and_i_share_custody_of_our_child_he_quit_his\/","id":"beoes7","body":"This isn't for me, it's for my GF.\n\nHer and her ex have 50\/50 custody over their 3 year old. They're currently going to hearings because my GF wants sole custody due to a number of issues not relevant to this question.\n\nAnywho, he quit his job a few months ago and is entirely supported by his girlfriend\/fiance (they've known each other for 2 months).\n\nToday during a hearing the court commissioner suggested he go after my GF for child support.\n\nAm I wrong or if he doesn't have the means to support the child, should be simply not get any placement whatsoever?\n\nThis nonsense is taking place in the state of Wisconsin.","title":"Ex and I share custody of our child. He quit his job and court commissioner suggested he apply for child support? WTF","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447126095,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s85hu\/oh_landlord_refuses_to_provide_adequate_heating\/","id":"3s85hu","body":"Currently I'm living in a rented home. It's quite old, and honestly is showing some wear, and as a result is rather leaky in terms of heat. \n\nTo top this off, our house is heated by a heat pump system clearly not designed to efficiently heat a home in the state of Ohio. \n\nThis of course really leaves us with one option, to use space heaters for the rooms that we are frequently in in order to prevent from freezing to death. Unfortunately, today I learned that the use of space heaters in our home is not allowed. So this leaves us with the option of trying to survive a winter with our house at a maximum of 55 degrees Fahrenheit, biting a massive heating bill and having the heat pump running constantly, or \"illegally\" using space heaters to keep things comfortable.\n\nI understand this rule is likely a CYA rule, but is it actually legal for a landlord to deprive their tenants of any form of affordable heating for the home they are renting? ","title":"[OH] Landlord refuses to provide adequate heating, bans use of personal heaters","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541632109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v4h1i\/what_are_my_rights_in_terms_of_monetizing_off_my\/","id":"9v4h1i","body":"Just to preface this post, my love for art has never been and will never be about money. \n\nHowever, I have bills to pay. \n\nSo the company I work for is a multi-billion dollar international company. They are currently having a company wide competition to see if any employees can create a logo using the companies \u201ccore values.\u201d This logo would then be printed on T-shirt\u2019s and given out to employees. However, I can also see this logo being used and recreated for other uses, potentially making the company more money if used in the right circumstance. I personally know someone on the committee that\u2019s going to decide which logo will be printed on the T-shirt\u2019s. I was told by this person that my rough sketch was the best that they have seen so far out of anything that had been submitted. \n\nIs there anyway that I can monetarily capitalize on this because they are going to be printing T-shirts for the entire company and using (potentially) my logo to display the companies values?  \n\nI have never taken any formal art classes, my love for art comes from drawing birds with my grandmother. Does anyone have any knowledge on trademarking or anything else I could do to possibly make a little money here? I have a LOT of student loans ","title":"What are my rights in terms of monetizing off my artwork if it\u2019s used by my employer on a large scale?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553261525,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b45413\/renters_living_next_to_my_renters_damaged_our\/","id":"b45413","body":"My renters believe the neighbors child, who lives next door to them set our fence on fire. The fence and possibly siding of the house will need to be replaced. The gas line had to be worked on as well, although I do not know the extent of the damages or repairs for that.\n\n**They do not have video evidence of them doing it**, however they have video evidence of this child doing other malicious activities over the past few months. This child has also been caught lighting a tree on fire earlier this month. These incidents have been document with the authorities and home owners associations.\n\nThe police and fire department were called and the police investigated this incident and have provided me a case number, however the parents took the child away before the officers were able to question him.\n\nPlease let me know if any of my assumptions are incorrect and if there are better courses of action I should be taking instead:\n\n* Because of the lack of physical evidence for the child committing this crime and him being unavailable for questioning it is unlikely they will identify him as the perpetrator despite his past offenses.\n* Because of this and the damage being predominately on my property, I will be responsible for either paying for it out of pocket or contacting my insurance company and filing a claim, unless the police report comes back conclusively that they were able to determine the fault lies with the child\/family next door (or someone else they can specifically identify).\n* I should still contact the property management company for the neighbors and alert them to the incident their renters were *allegedly* involved in and at least attempt to pressure them in filing a claim with their insurance to cover part or all of the damages.\n* Depending on the cost of the repairs it may not be worth it to contact my insurance company as there will be a deductible and they will raise my rates.\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Renters living next to my renters damaged our property.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570742208,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg4oyz\/tobacco_21_question\/","id":"dg4oyz","body":"Hello!\n\nI have several employees that use vape pens on their break that are 18, 19, or 20. Next week, my state will begin to enforce the \u201cTobacco 21\u201d law and my affected employees are not grandfathered in but do have a dependence on nicotine. They\u2019re all freaking out and I can only find articles about how fines are going to be $50-$100 if they\u2019re caught. \n\nAs their employer, I would imagine it\u2019s my legal responsibility to report them if they\u2019re caught vaping on the job but this situation really sucks. This is the first time a law has been passed that has directly impacted my employees like this and as a small business employer, I am unsure how I should handle this situation.","title":"Tobacco 21 Question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570745969,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg5jab\/ct_how_to_notify_landlord_of_bankruptcy_wout\/","id":"dg5jab","body":"Tl;dr what\u2019s the best\/proper way to notify landlord\u2019s lawyer of bankruptcy faster than the letter they\u2019ll receive?\n\n\u2014\u2014\u2014-\n\nI am filing chapter 7 (will deliver paperwork to court tomorrow, Tuesday if my printer doesn\u2019t want to work) but am in the process of being evicted. There has NOT been a judgement yet in the case. Bankruptcy was planned prior to eviction, I\u2019m just speeding things up. \n\nI know the landlord\u2019s lawyer will file a request to lift the stay, and it\u2019ll likely be granted...honestly I just need a bit more time (a few weeks, starting 2 new jobs next week) to get the funds together to cure my debt and place a deposit with the court for future rent. \n\nAnyways, I\u2019m doing this all without an attorney since I can\u2019t afford one and legal aid can\u2019t only give general advice. I\u2019m comfortable with the process in general. However, what\u2019s the proper way to get notice of bankruptcy to the lawyer? I know they\u2019ll get a notice in the mail, but I want them to get it faster...like same day. His address is the same as the property management office (not his actual office, just the one he uses for this case). \n\nDo I get something from the bankruptcy court that I can provide a copy of? Do I write a letter and bring it to the office? I effed up and own that fact, but now that I\u2019m getting stuff back together I want to remedy the situation and proceed properly. Thanks.","title":"[CT] How to notify landlord of bankruptcy w\/out attorney","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541571843,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uwz85\/been_paying_for_school_loans_for_almost_10_years\/","id":"9uwz85","body":"I started International Academy of Design & Technology nka Sanford-Brown in 2009 and withdrew from it in 2011 because one of the schools branches close to me shut down. The one in the city was impossible to commute to everyday after work. My mom and I took out about $25k in school loans thinking I would graduate. \n\nShortly after the merger of IADT and Sanford-Brown, the school completely shut down closing all of its campuses and online. My mom and I have still been making payments since we're afraid of falling into collections and our credit being diminished. I am currently a student at a community college. I read somewhere that if a school shuts down and you go somewhere else for a whole different degree path, that the loans can be stopped and even some of the money refunded. \n\nWe have no idea what to do. We tried filing out applications for the dept of edu TWICE but never heard a word or a letter from them. Please save us!!!","title":"Been paying for school loans for almost 10 years to a school that shut down after I withdrew. Any advice?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540085797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pzqaq\/how_can_i_legally_get_a_nigger_convicted_of_a\/","id":"9pzqaq","body":"Some dirty worthless nigger looked at me on the street like he was equal to me, a white man, obviously this cant happen so i need to put him in a prison with all of his degenerate nigger friends.","title":"How can i legally get a nigger convicted of a crime it didnt commit","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540433739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r65ue\/school_racism_and_bullying\/","id":"9r65ue","body":"Location USA\n\n\nI\u2019m going to be very vague so I apologize in advanced as I\u2019m posting this for my mother hence the throwaway.\n\nMy mother is attending a trade school to get a diploma. She has been in school now for I think 6 months and has 4 months left in class and 2 months I believe interning. I could tell something was wrong and she keeps coming home from school more upset each day so I asked her what was going on. Apparently her class is a majority a different race than she is and one of the students has been making comments out loud in class that my mother is a racist. (Which honestly is laughable as my mother raised me that everyone is equal. I won\u2019t go into anymore detail but in short she\u2019s not a racist). So she\u2019s told me that she\u2019s texted the teacher and let her know what\u2019s going on and even spoke to her directly about it (teacher is the majority race) and it sounded like she might switch mother classes. That didn\u2019t happen but instead tried to have a talk with the entire class and it basically summed up to some people might get more offended than others and didn\u2019t resolve the issue. Instead now other people in the class now think she\u2019s a snitch and are now saying semi racial things with possible intent similar to \u201ccatch me outside\u201d essentially. At this point it\u2019s been going on for weeks and she dreads even going to school for a program she was so excited to join just months ago. My mom is a \u201cbig girl\u201d and doesn\u2019t need me to protect her but I\u2019m wondering if nothing is being done if there is any recommendations that any of you could provide. I personally think suing the school because it\u2019s honestly disgusting and the teacher is made aware but I have no idea if that\u2019s even possible or is there other avenues we legally should be seeking? I\u2019ve recommended she talk with the dean first so will see how that goes. Sorry for the wall of text, I\u2019ll try and respond to any questions and edit this if they need to be added.","title":"School racism and bullying","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539841581,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p6fwk\/do_i_have_to_replace_flooring_in_entire_house\/","id":"9p6fwk","body":"I accidentally scratched the floor in a house I used to live in. I'm 100% willing to fix it, the only problem is my landlord didn't buy any extra when she had it installed and now it's been discontinued for 3 years. The landlord is now telling me that the only option is to replace the flooring in the entire house so that it would all match. This would cost me several thousand dollars as opposed to $300 to repair just the scratched area if I can find the discontinued flooring (which isn't likely) \n\nIs this a legal\/ seasonable request? ","title":"Do I have to replace flooring in entire house?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552961103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2rh3y\/al_wanting_to_drive_during_legal_curfew_hours\/","id":"b2rh3y","body":"As the title says, I am only 16 currently, turning 17 at the end of the month. However, my hobby of astrophotography requires the night sky. I\u2019ve always wanted to get a great picture of the Milky Way, and it\u2019s finally starting to rise early in the morning. Light pollution plagues my home skies, so I\u2019d like to drive about an hour and a half away for darker skies. The problem is that the GDL has a curfew for 16 year olds, from 12-6am. How convenient, right? There are [exceptions](https:\/\/www.alabamapublichealth.gov\/teendriving\/graduated-drivers-license.html) but my reasoning does not fit any of those. My question is: If I have parental consent, am I allowed to drive during legal curfew hours? Or would it be best just to have another weird trip with my dad who just wants to sleep? I do not see a reason why I cannot be on the roads at any time with my parents\u2019 permission, which I would fully have. I don\u2019t plan on getting pulled over, I just don\u2019t want 6 more months of a \u201crestricted\u201d license.\n\nTL;DR: Can I, a 16 year old, drive alone during curfew hours (12-6am) for photography, if I have parental permission?","title":"[AL] Wanting to drive during legal curfew hours (12-6am) to photograph the Milky Way(only visible around 3-5 am) but only 16, with Graduated Driver License.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553640609,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5wjdn\/ca_sf_refused_employment_bc_no_drivers_license\/","id":"b5wjdn","body":"I've been accepted for a job at UPS, but they can't complete my hire because they won't accept my identity documents. This has left me trying to get documents for two months now, and I have gotten no help from any of the government offices in this process. I have substantial documentation and proof of identity that are not accepted. \n\nI can\u2019t be employed, despite getting to the employment finish line several times at this point. I can\u2019t get healthcare. I can\u2019t rent anywhere officially (thank G-d I found a home outside). I can\u2019t interact with government services. Half the time I\u2019m refused even talking to organisations. I have a job on the table from UPS and just want to finish getting hired.\n\nThe single thing that would most improve my life right now is if I could become more documented. Among other things, I\u2019d then become instantly employable (I\u2019ve finished every other part of the employment process), and make more than enough money to live on (almost double my stripped-down budget,  even before overtime).\n\nRight now my life could be entirely transformed by just overcoming the administrative obstacles to getting a driver\u2019s license or equivalent. Even just having a person with legal or admin knowledge walk through the whole thing with me might fix this mess. I would assume it is \/possible\/ to become legible to the State - I just don\u2019t know \/how\/ and the State has zero willingness to help me do it.\n\n\u2014 \u2014 \u2014\n\nThe documents I have include, non-exhaustively, my birth certificate, my San Francisco City ID, my CCSF student ID, and my country of origin's social security card. All but the birth cert are photo IDs. I know my US SSN from memory and have a scan of my passport, but lack both physical articles.\n\nI can\u2019t get a driver\u2019s license, California state ID card, new SSN card, or any of the other normal person documents, because I\u2019m stuck in a catch-22 where my current documents can\u2019t get me further documents. I could get a replacement passport if I had $400, but can't until I have a job and income. I'm authorized to work in the US but lost my employment auth card, SSN card, and passport all together. I filed a police report for them but got no help.\n\nAll together my docs satisfy the written requirements of \/every\/ documentation request I\u2019ve encountered - including the ones for getting other documents. All of them describe the roles the documents need to fulfill, plus list example documents that are EXPLICITLY STATED as only examples of what works. (I-9 is the most relevant form, b\/c it's for getting a job.)\n\nEvery agent I have ever worked with has rejected my applications because they\u2019re only willing to use the example documents on their list, even when the lists say that this is not how they\u2019re to be used. The one useful thing I\u2019ve gotten from USCIS about this is learning that this is 100% illegal and I can sue them for it, but like, I \u201c\u201d\u201ccan\u201d\u201c\u201d do a lot of things, and empirically illegal denials of service are easy. I need work before I'll even have money for fighting my denial of work. My life is catch-22.\n\nMy birth certificate is not accepted because it\u2019s from outside the US. USCIS claims this is absurd because my birth certificate is in fucking English, but they\u2019re not going to \/do\/ anything about this. I have not been able to find any way of getting a certificate of my birth from inside the US. My San Francisco ID is just ignored by all agencies and businesses, even in SF, because it\u2019s new and scary and we fear change. All my other IDs are seen as similarly odd and, despite this being illegal under federal labor laws, they get tossed out without looking.\n\n\u2014 \u2014 \u2014\n\nIf anyone can help me deal with this, or has any suggestions on where to go or who to speak to to get this done, I\u2019d hugely appreciate it. If you know someone who might know what to do, please send them my info above. Half the problem is that no one I encounter seems to take this problem seriously, even though it is THE barrier to my being remunerative to society.\n\nIf anything, the fact of an able bodied and extremely eager to work person not being able to have any legal employment in this country is the part that pisses me off the most. The forced idleness of people who can, have, and want to work is wildly evil. Not only because it fucks up their life (and it really, \/really\/ does) but because society is deprived of productive activity. (Also, like, this is \/actually illegal\/, on top of being universal.)\n\nIf you can recommend good next steps, I'd greatly appreciate it. My goals are:\n1) Getting documentation that will be accepted for the I-9 hiring process, or\n2) Getting UPS or another employer to accept my existing documents (photo ID and birth cert are \/supposed\/ to work), or\n3) Otherwise acquiring stable employment.","title":"[CA] (SF) Refused Employment b\/c No Driver's License","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571111546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di28p3\/as_a_50_partner_can_i_make_descisions_without_the\/","id":"di28p3","body":"Hello all, so this is where I am at. I am a 50% owner of a company. The founder (the other 50%) holder of the company attempted suicide, left the company unofficially, and is no longer contributing anything to the company. He is asking for well over twice the companies value to be bought out (actually 2.8x what the company is worth). When I told him I personally could not afford it he threatened to take it out of the company account, which is about half what he is asking.  I moved 99% of the companies funds to my personal account trying to save the company. Without any cash on hand in the slow season we would go bankrupt within 2 months. I did try negotiating with him, clearly, it worked wonders.\n\n​\n\nWith him as (suddenly) my \"enemy\", what am I able to do without him to save the company.\n\n​\n\nI should also mention that we live in different states.","title":"As a 50% partner can I make descisions without the other party.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555531414,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/becchn\/help_sending_an_inappropriate_gif_on_whatsapps\/","id":"becchn","body":"Hi, sorry for my bad english but im italian.\nThat happened ad one of my friend and i want to help him.\nSooo, he sent an inappropriate GIF (pedophilia) on a group, because he was thinking that it would be funny. Obviusly he is against pedofily and he isnt a pedophile, but we were together and we laughed sooooo that was a mistake. One of the members has declared that he want to denounce the fact. \nAre there the details for a complaint? What is my friend risking? What can we do?\n\nReally really sorry for my bad english...","title":"Help: Sending an inappropriate gif on Whatsapp's group","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1504790257,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yn52u\/parents_might_be_hiding_my_inheritance_from_me\/","id":"6yn52u","body":"So I became aware of an inheritance my great uncle (cliche I know right?) left for me. not too long ago but my parents are being very suspicious about it.\n\nBasically they told me about an inheritance but didnt specify what it was or who from and a few months later I found a will on their desk that basically said \n\n\"To \/u\/InfiniteV and his brother, I leave my hotel for when they turn 25. Until then it will be held in trust by X\"  \n\nSo this makes sense and there's nothing wrong with this picture yet. So I questioned my parents about it more and they said that in the will it stated that my great uncle wanted it to be used for our education. This is where I start to get suspicious because it didn't say that anywhere on the will and my parents apparently sold the hotel and bought a holiday home with it which they recently sold for a huge profit. \n\nI'm currently paying my own school bills as well so I don't really think they're committed to the \"will\" if that part was true which by my eye, it's definitely not.\n\n\nAm I right in being suspicious here? will I receive something significant when I turn 25? My parents implied that there wouldnt be a lot left over and they refuse to show me any paperwork at all of anything, including the hotels name or location or how much it sold for. It's pretty frustrating considering that when I turn 25, it's going to be really difficult finding any information from years ago (I'm 20 now).\n\n","title":"Parents might be hiding my inheritance from me","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570326599,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddwx50\/ridiculous_child_porn_accused\/","id":"ddwx50","body":"So out acquaintance who always has had an issue with our friend wants to report our friend to the police saying he has child porn all because he thinks our friend is weird and was talking about saving peoples Instagram stories that are funny. Our friend asked if people knew he saved the Instagram pictures. \n\nOur acquaintance made the giant leap that he has something to hide and thinks it is child porn. How do I stop him from reporting our friend? Is there anything I can do? Will the cops do anything to him?  Live in Toronto for college but both my friend are in California for college.","title":"Ridiculous child porn accused.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568552369,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4k4gm\/uk_england_not_sure_if_twitch_tos_is_considered\/","id":"d4k4gm","body":"My simple question is.  \n\n\nWhat is considered the \"initial braodcast\" and what is considered \"Live\" as per the below **2.2**?  \n\n\nI would like to stream to multiple platforms at once. YouTube, Mixer, Facebook, Twitch.  \n\n\nI have been told I can't although I'm under the impression if I start my stream on YouTube first then Twitch the \"initial broadcast\" is YouTube and the Twitch broadcast is no longer \"Live\" as it's delayed. Additionally if I were to stream from a hard drive recording would that not consititute recorded content?  \n\n\n **2.2. Live Content Exclusivity**. Solely for any live audio-visual work you choose to provide to us as User Content (your \u201c**Live Twitch Content**\u201d), starting from beginning of the Initial Broadcast of any such Live Twitch Content, and continuing for a period of twenty-four (24) hours following the end of the Initial Broadcast of such Live Twitch Content (the \u201c**Exclusivity Period**\u201d), such Live Twitch Content is exclusive to Twitch (even as to you). During the Exclusivity Period of any Live Twitch Content, you will not, nor permit or authorize any third party to, broadcast, stream, distribute, exhibit and otherwise make available such Live Twitch Content in any manner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you have the right to make any Live Twitch Content available, during the Exclusivity Period, solely via the Twitch Services. After the Exclusivity Period of any Live Twitch Content, the license to such Live Twitch Content will become non-exclusive and you will have the right to broadcast, stream, distribute, exhibit and otherwise make available such Live Twitch Content in any manner and format desired by you. The \u201c**Initial Broadcast**\u201d means the initial broadcasting, streaming, distribution, or other exhibition of Live Twitch Content via the internet, whether such Live Twitch Content is broadcast on a real-time, live basis as the subject event is occurring or such Live Twitch Content has been prerecorded and is being initially broadcast for the first time via any manner or method of streaming.","title":"[UK] [England] Not Sure if Twitch ToS is Considered Contract Review Posting Rule 10","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539236206,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n773x\/not_being_paid_for_hours_ive_worked\/","id":"9n773x","body":"Need your expert advice .\n\nHaven\u2019t been paid for the time I was training on the job, and haven\u2019t been paid for my first day actually on the job while I wasn\u2019t in the ADP job system. I emailed my manager my hours afterwards, but still wasn\u2019t paid for the hours. \n\nI put it off, but now, 2 months later, I believe I may have been underpaid once again. Basically I worked 36 hours in two weeks and was only paid for 29 of them. The pay period is 2 weeks, and any time you work during them you get paid for on the dot biweekly on Thursday. Not sure how to add photos to this post, but I have them. \n\nI will of course email my manager about these issues, but I am curious, if these issues aren\u2019t resolved or they reoccur, could I sue my employer? Would it be worth it? \n\nThanks. ","title":"Not being paid for hours I\u2019ve worked","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551117335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auo2vz\/considering_smallclaims_court_new_hampshire\/","id":"auo2vz","body":"Hi all,\n\nI recently moved out of my apartment in NH because of my downstairs neighbor threatening and harassing me and my wife. Both the police and my landlord were called but neither were able to do much. My landlord initially agreed to break the lease and give us our security back because we were leaving over a safety concern. She has since changed her mind and said that we'll only get our security back if she can rent the apartment by March 1st and because we didn't give her 30 days notice. That's fair, but she has also admitted that previous tenants have been forced to leave because of the neighbor downstairs. I feel that her negligence in the matter should constitute us getting the security back. Our lease does NOT have anything stated about safety, and all of our conversations have been over the phone so nothing has been in writing. Should I try and take her to small claims or just cut my losses?","title":"Considering small-claims court (New Hampshire)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1410952500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gnex1\/offduty_police_officer_hit_my_car_refusing_to_pay\/","id":"2gnex1","body":"Hey guys,\n\nI'm writing this on a throwaway since I'm honestly scared for my safety from this police officer. For context, the incident occurred in NSW, Australia.\n\nI was driving three friends home from a dinner party I did at my place. The streets were almost deserted, as they usually are at night.\n\nDriving in the left lane, there was a car driving about 100m in front of me in the middle lane. The car braked and swerved into my lane, hitting my right side door, activating my ABS and pushing me into a tiny bus lane that popped up on the left (thank god, or would surely be dead).\n\nAfter getting out of the car and asking what the guy was doing, he said he received a call and wanted to answer it, so he was pulling over and didn't really look to check for other cars.\n\nWe smelled some alcohol, so we assume he had been drinking so I got a friend to call the police while I got the driver's details. Upon finding out we had called the police, he flipped out and said 'look at my outfit!'. To me, it looked like a mechanic's outfit, but apparently he was a police officer who had just finished work.\n\nHe makes a call and says in an extremely mate-y way '(nickname)-ey mate! Can you cancel the callout that was made to (location)?' Apparently it's policy that once a callout is made, the police have to come.\n\nFast forward 15 minutes and three police officers arrive. They work at the same police station as the guy who hit me. They have some chummy chat time and write down (what I was hoping) to be a fair report about the situation (silly me). One of my passengers was also a bit hurt and asked for an apology from the driver, only to be laughed at by the driver's friends.\n\nFast forward again and the driver has denied it happened and is refusing to pay for my repairs. The police report said a 'minor scratch' had occurred, but there's a huge dent in the side of my car and a big scratch to my side mirror.\n\nI want to report the guy and his friends for police misconduct and\/or get my money back for repairs.\n\nWhat to do?\n\nTL;DR - Off duty police officer hits my car, denied it happened, refuses to pay for my repairs. What to do?","title":"Off-duty police officer hit my car, refusing to pay","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570157576,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd1h1t\/what_are_my_rights_to_remain_anonymous_while\/","id":"dd1h1t","body":"I'm 99.9999% certain my grandmother is guilty of a crime she is being accused of. My family agrees, but the consensus is to not give her away because she is family and wouldn't last a day in prison.\n\nShe didn't murder anyone, just possibly close to a million in insurance fraud. I want to help because whilst nobody got hurt (this time) I am concerned about her mental health. \n\nThe information I have to give is only information that I would know. Even if I could somehow avoid a subpoena, if they revealed what information was given, everyone would know it was me and I would be the family narc. \n\nI'm just kinda panicking because the investigators have started calling people today. I'm assuming I'll be contacted soon, I'm pretty close to her, being her only grandson. I don't know what to say. I don't have time to get a lawyer, I can't afford it and the pro bono is backed up where I live (Wisconsin).\n\nIf I tell them I don't want my family to know, would they get in trouble for not answering questions correctly when they were interrogated?\n\nSorry guys I really don't know what to do...","title":"What are my rights to remain anonymous while answering an investigator's questions?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554500152,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9wzws\/moving_from_tn_to_indiana_withdrawing_from_public\/","id":"b9wzws","body":"As the title says, I am moving myself and my children from TN to IN. They are both enrolled in public school currently. When we move to IN, one of my children will be home schooled, while the other will attend the local public school.  From what I can tell, I need to submit an intent to home school form when I withdraw from TN. Of course we'll be keeping up with curriculum and attendance. From what I can tell, at the end of the school year I have to submit documentation to the Superintendent in TN. I found that part here: [https:\/\/hslda.org\/content\/hs101\/TN.aspx](https:\/\/hslda.org\/content\/hs101\/TN.aspx) under \"Maintain Attendance Records\" section.\n\nMy question is, since we are not staying in TN, is this still a requirement? I can't find answers from google. I imagine I'm not the only one who has done this, so surely there's an answer out there.\n\n[https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/education\/school-options\/home-schooling-in-tn.html](https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/education\/school-options\/home-schooling-in-tn.html)\n\nThank you for your help!\n\nLocations: Tennessee and Indiana","title":"Moving from TN to Indiana. Withdrawing from public school in TN and homeschooling in IN. What state do I follow?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1502980882,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uaeax\/former_employer_owes_me_10000_from_my_salary_and\/","id":"6uaeax","body":"I live in South Carolina and while in school I started working for a startup that offered me a great salary. I was to be paid twice a month, as per my contract. The owner of the startup admitted that the company did not have much money yet (should have thought of that as a red flag) but, because indie game development was my dream job, I let it slide for a while.\n\nThe amount that I was owed grew larger and larger but when asked about pay, he still mentioned that the company had little money. He was not without trying, though, as he had meetings weekly with potential clients and investors. Eventually we found a client interested in a product I was in the process of making and the CEO (supposedly) received a large amount in pre-orders. Even then, I never ended up seeing any of that money. When asked he would either try to dodge the topic or come up with an excuse later why it didn't go through.\n\nMy efforts with the Department of Labor were fruitless because of an exemption involving programming.\n\nWhat is my next step here?","title":"Former employer owes me $10,000 from my salary and DoL has an exception in programming that prevents them from pursuing. What is my next step?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569131565,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7mhmv\/apartment_flooded_from_unit_above_and_now_my_only\/","id":"d7mhmv","body":"(Hawaii) I rent a small one bedroom and one bathroom unit in Hawaii. My lease is set to expire at the end of November. About the middle of this month my unit was flooded from the unit above. The water damage was largely contained to the bathroom and none of my personal belongings were damaged only the unit itself. After the water damage, a restoration company provided by the building dried out the walls and bathroom. The restoration company had to remove drywall, my laundry closet door, and the floorboard side molding to ensure that the walls were properly dried out. \n\nImmediately after the water entered my unit I notified my landlord. My landlord provided contact information to plumbing company to generate an estimate. The plumbers come to my unit three days after the flooding and discover that due to the neglect of the owner to update the bathroom the entire bathroom needs to be gutted and redone. They discover that the metal pipes that run to my unit are so corroded and flimsy that when they touch them the rust flakes off and breaks away and that small leaks have developed that allow water to travel down to the unit below me. \n\nAfter the plumbing companies inspection, they inform the building and my landlord and tell me that I can no long use my only shower until the repairs are done. The estimate is approximately $9000 to fix the entire bathroom. \n\nAfter hearing that I can no longer shower in my own unit, I call my landlord about rent reduction and what the plan is moving forward. (I have had issues with him in the past with fixing the hot water and replacing an old fridge that failed multiple times). He says he \u201ccan\u2019t control other units\u201d and \u201cit is what it is\u201d and ignores my calls because I bother him to take action. \n\nHe now wants me to contact a handy-man to come over and fix the issues. This handy-man is not a certified plumber. I inform the building of the situation and contact my landlord that I want out of my lease at the end of September. \n\nI looked up the Hawaii laws regarding housing and I believe under the State of Hawaii Revised Statutes 521-65 which states \u201cIf continued occupancy is otherwise lawful, vacate any part of the premises rendered unusable by the fire or other casualty, in which case the tenant's liability for rent shall be no more than the fair rental value of that part of the premises which the tenant continues to use and occupy\" and that I can recoup part of my rent. I call my landlord and ask for some money back to help move my stuff out on such short notice and he scoffs at my request and hangs up on my and refuses to take my calls for the rest of the day. \n\nHe has since agreed to allow me to leave at the end of September and I signed and end of lease contact to get out early with no penalty. But now I\u2019m worried he is going to take damages from my security deposit and nickel and dime me because I clearly pissed him off when I asked for some of my September rent back. \n\nSo my question is, should I still push for getting money back for my rent or should I drop it and hope I get my full security deposit back?","title":"Apartment flooded from unit above and now my only bathroom is unusable and my landlord is slow to repair damages to my unit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442459184,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l98wi\/nyc_rented_a_furnished_apartment_10_days_in_woke\/","id":"3l98wi","body":"So I rented an apartment for 3 months as I search for a more permanent solution. When I moved in to the furnished room it looked pretty clean and basic. The mattress was old, but in a zipped bag that the landlord claimed was for hygiene purposes (\"We replace it when we get a new tenant\") The boxspring on the  side I could see looked pretty clean.\n\nI bought all new bedding and moved in on the 6th. Today I woke up with bites on my face and itchiness in my beard. When I shaved, I found a WHOLE bunch of additional bites under my beard. It has a splotchy series of red dots that move from my neck up to my forehead. Looks very much like bed bugs.\n\nI pulled my mattress back and saw that on the hidden side of the box spring there are black smudges all over that look like pictures I've seen of bed bugs. An exterminator I called confirmed that those splotches could not appear in 10 days if I had brought bed bugs, not to mention my last apartment was checked for bed bugs only a few weeks before I left it and it was clean.\n\nI just contacted my landlord to make her aware of the situation, but before I have a discussion with her I would appreciate it if someone could review my rights as a tenant with me. Since it was a furnished apartment do I have any ability to compel her to cover the cost of extermination? Not to mention, if the problem was there before I arrived then is she also responsible for the cost of cleaning my clothes\/bedding?\n\nThanks in advance for the advice.","title":"NYC - Rented a furnished apartment. 10 days in, woke up with bites consistent with bed bugs","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445536430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pstnf\/ca_landlords_construction_crew_using_my\/","id":"3pstnf","body":"My landlord has been performing construction on a neighboring tenant's unit for the past month.  Every day the construction crew has been plugging their equipment into my outdoor electrical socket - things like battery chargers, skil saws, air compressors, etc.  I don't know how much of an electricity bill this is raising, it might be negligible, but I don't think that I should have to cover that cost.  Any advice on how to proceed?\n\nEDIT:  Thanks for the replies!  This was exactly the advice I was looking for.","title":"[CA] Landlord's construction crew using my electricity.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540010144,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pr7ov\/does_the_trucking_industry_have_different\/","id":"9pr7ov","body":"My husband works for a national trucking company and gets paid hourly. He was told at hiring that the trucking industry has different allowances for overtime in that time and a half pay doesn't kick in until 50 hours weekly worked. \n\nI just found out that other regions of this trucking company pay out overtime after 40 hours worked per week (which is what I thought was federal law based on my previous white collar experience).\n\nDoes the trucking industry have different laws regarding overtime pay? Apparently the other regions are unionized and my husbands is not, but that shouldn't affect federal law, should it?\n\nThanks!","title":"Does the trucking industry have different overtime allowances for their hourly workers? (TN)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569253561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d88atw\/exempt_employee_and_timesheets\/","id":"d88atw","body":"I am an exempt, salaried employee who has been asked to fill out a detailed time sheet each week (e.g., 3 hours replying to emails, 2 hours research, 2 hours interviewing applicants, 30 minutes inventorying). \n\nAlso, they often say, \u201cas a salaried person, it\u2019s not one for one.\u201d However, when if I end up with 39 hours, they expect me to put in an hour PTO. It is not the same the other way around - so if I work 41 hours, they do not expect that I will leave an hour early that Friday.\n\nCan anyone tell me how much of this is legal? I\u2019ve tried googling but it seems that an employer can make exempt employees keep track of hours and work. What about the \u201cone-for-one\u201d thing? \n\nTIA","title":"Exempt employee and timesheets","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570938407,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh5ix1\/is_it_illegal_to_claim_a_public_road_as_a_private\/","id":"dh5ix1","body":"Hello, recently moved into a place with limited parking. I park right down the hill into a street that connects to mine (makes a t-crossing).\n\nCame home to a note left on my car stating that the street may look residential but is actually private. There was no sender information, looked liked a neighbor typed it up.\nThey threatened to tow my car and contact authorities if I keep parking here.\n\nI called the local pd, they confirmed it was not a private street and that I was allowed to park there.\n\nIs it illegal to claim a public road as a private (through the use of a note)? \n\nDoes this count as harassment? The note was tailored to me. \n\nThanks!","title":"Is it illegal to claim a public road as a private? [USA,CA]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444249666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nvv0l\/is_it_legal_to_accept_payments_for_paypal_for_the\/","id":"3nvv0l","body":"I have been offered a \"job\", I suppose, where I would collect money for customers buying things from a site, so that I could then send the money to the company. I would receive their payments via paypal, accept the money into my bank account, and then send it to the company, somehow. I would receive 5% of every sale, plus $1200 a month supposedly. \n\nThey need people to do this because they have a $350 limit on receiving funds in their country. I'm not sure how I am to send them the money other than paypal after I receive it, and I don't know why whatever method i use in that case couldn't just be used by customers.\n\nWhat they do, it seems, is buy things cheaply from eBay or other auction sites, then sell them at a profit on their own site. \n\nThis is where it gets a little weird and sketchy. I actually have been editing emails for them, making them sound like they are being written by English natives. The emails have contained those that congratulate customers on their purchase of things like \"violins\", \"old chairs\", and \"jewelry\". \n\nThe site they claim to be affiliated with mostly sells things tech related(see edit): televisions, smart phones, cameras, things like that. Typing things like \"violin\" or \"chair\" into the search bar just leads to music albums with those words in them. To be fair, I don't know what the dropdown menu says, so that could be an issue. Still, the company website does not seem to list things like this anywhere I can see.\n\nIs this some new scam? The site they say they are affiliated with is a legit site from Poland, but I'm not sure how to know whether or not they are actually affiliated with that company. The email address is simply a yandex address, which seems to be a general website in Europe. \n\nIn any case, would it be legal to accept and resend payments in this way, if it were even legitimate?\n\nThey have not asked for any personal information like bank account, SSN, or anything like that, if that helps.\n\nAny additional details desired, I will gladly provide. \n\n\nEdit: Looking into the page more, it seems it does sell more than just tech stuff, so I was wrong there. Still don't see any instruments, however. \n\nMy location is Denver, Colorado.\n","title":"Is it legal to accept payments for Paypal, for the purpose of sending it to a company in a foreign country that has limits on receiving money via Paypal?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568858021,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d679hi\/co_im_worried_some_of_my_rights_as_a_victim_are\/","id":"d679hi","body":"Hi all!\n\nBack in December 2018, I was mugged in Colorado; I was cornered in a Train Car, was told to give them everything that I had (My phone, wallet, and everything in my backpack, including the backpack itself) under threat of \"getting fucked up\" , then was made to get off the train and go to a Gas Station across the street to empty my Debit Card of all funds on it through the ATM in the store. I was then 'supervised' to get back to the main area of Downtown, where I was able to get off the train, and call 911 at a pharmacy right near one of the Downtown train stations. The men did not get off with me, and the Detective in the case was ultimately unable to find any information about the offenders, and the case eventually ran dry. A few weeks ago (On September 6th), I noticed one of the men who mugged me while riding on the train, and was able to contact 911 (I can guarantee it was the same person; there were multiple VERY identifying features). He was briefly taken into custody by Police Officers, but ultimately released under condition of an Ordering where he would be required to go to the Police Station for an Interview. The week following the incident (On September 9th), I was notified through an Automated System (VINE) that he was taken into Custody at \\[insert facility name here\\]. I was also notified on Monday that he was moved to a facility that is \"potentially less secure\" (without naming the facility to which he's been moved).   \nSince then, I have attempted to contact both the Detective, as well as Police Department's Victim Assistance Unit numerous times (3 calls to the detective, 4 to the VAU). None of my calls have been answered yet, nor have any of my Messages been replied to. The only institution I've been able to make contact with so far is the facility where he was originally held at (who weren't able to give any salient information beyond that I should contact the local VAU). I am attempting to find out\n\n1. Information on any Charges that have been filed, or if there is any determination that charges will not be filed.\n2. His current Institution of Incarceration.\n3. His current Predicted Release Date (or anything potentially resembling that).\n4. If there are any case matters that I may be able to give input on.\n\nIt looks like this information should be available to me under the statutes governing the Colorado Victim Rights Amendment (I am looking at C.R.S. \u00a7 24-4.1-108, as well as C.R.S. \u00a7 24-4.1-301,302, and 303. Under 24-4.1-108, I am going under the assumption that this is either \\[non-aggravated\\] Robbery, Second-Degree Kidnapping, or both). As a note that may be important, I was informed by one of the Police Officers on September 6th that the offender is a Juvenile (which is likely why I couldn't get any information from his original facility), however it looks like crimes committed by Juveniles are still protected under Colorado's VRA.\n\nAt this point, is there anything I'm able to do to try and receive this information? I feel like these 2 departments are the only ones who could potentially release any information to me, and if they're not responding, I'm not seeing how I may be able to even \\*get\\* this information. Any advice is greatly appreciated!","title":"(CO) I'm worried some of my rights as a victim are being violated. Is there anything I can do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553712092,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b67yug\/my_school_is_threatening_to_not_allow_my_friend\/","id":"b67yug","body":"Hello so at my public high school (CA) for senior year, one of my friends created a game that other public schools in our district play. The game is a senior only game that takes place outside of school so at no time is the game involved in school OR  during school hours. \n\nThe game has every senior who wants to play buy in for five dollars and there are rounds and every round each senior is assigned a target and they must \u201cassassinate\u201d their target by shooting them with a water gun. The rounds continue until there is only one person left and the last senior alive takes all the money that was utilized to buy in. \n\nThe school we attend has become aware of the game and they are going to investigate it and are currently saying they are not going to allow my friend to walk at graduation. I am confused and questioning if they can even do this. The only affiliation with the school that came with this game was that my friend created some documents that contained the rules with her school email. Please let me know if my public school can do this.","title":"My school is threatening to not allow my friend to walk at graduation","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569775171,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daxkcy\/wife_is_seeking_divorce_questions_about_child\/","id":"daxkcy","body":"My wife has decided that she wants a divorce, and I\u2019m not sure what to do next, as we have a 2 yr old. We\u2019ve spoken about staying in the same apartment complex, but I\u2019m not sure about that. She\u2019s of course going to want full custody, but she has several mental health issues, a legal record, and has been in in-patient rehab. I, on the other hand, do not have issues with any of those things. What should my next step be?","title":"Wife is seeking divorce; questions about child custody and pretty much everything else.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540264747,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ql2bg\/threatened_with_pfa_from_exgf_who_i_still_share_a\/","id":"9ql2bg","body":"I\u2019ll try to relay this as best as possible, and edit\/add if needed.\n\nMy ex and I are on a house lease, which ends next summer. We talked about me moving out, and she has been getting increasingly aggressive about it. Today she sent me an email saying I have until December first to move out, and if I do not agree she will file a PFA against me. I have several texts\/messages from her threatening to do whatever it takes to kick me out. What can I do to protect myself? It\u2019s me and my child and her and her kids. No verbal or physical abuse has happened, and I feel like this is temporary to just start an issue. I\u2019m really looking for help here because I personally do not have resources for a lawyer.\n\nAlso I did see other posts for PA, why is it so common here? Although nothing that seems to pertain to the issue I am going through.\n\nI would also mention that she was talking to the landlord about how to work this as well, and he probably gave her the idea, as he doesn\u2019t really care for me.  All rent has been paid on time, no issues there, he\u2019s just particular.","title":"Threatened with PFA from exGf who I still share a lease with. PA","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555182833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcu200\/ia_ex_made_claims_of_cheating_and_lying_which\/","id":"bcu200","body":"As the title states, my ex claimed she cheated on me, and then said she lied about cheating. She put me through emotional hell and even laughing when I cut myself due to her constantly saying how he was \u201cbetter than me\u201d. She knows I have severe depression and anxiety and I had just lost my grandpa a few weeks earlier, so I was not in the greatest of thought. My ex kept saying how she may take me back if I do this and that, along with her constantly saying that she hates me. She also threatened my other ex (baby mama who\u2019s in military), my daughter, and I. I have proof that she did all of this also. \n\nDo I have ANY legal basis of anything regarding the lying and claiming it\u2019s a joke when I cut and had to go to therapy for that? I know I have legality for harassment of the threats.","title":"(IA) - Ex made claims of cheating and lying which made me cut myself and go to therapy due to her lying - Now claims it was all an April Fools Joke","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570915798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh17qv\/canada_bc_owners_son_records_me_without_my\/","id":"dh17qv","body":"Hello,\n\nSince coming on as a manager with my company, a supervisor is very upset that she didn't get my position. I have done absolutely nothing wrong to her or mistreated her, even though she is making my life a living hell. To get to the point quickly, a lot of events have occurred, and i have documentated everything. The supervisor and owners son are very close and one day called me after finding out I gave shifts to a returning employee from maternity leave. The supervisor was aggressive and upset and accused me of not giving her the shifts. I explained to her what I did, and she said she has highest seniority and gets any shifts. This is a small business non union company and no documentation that she gets first choice of any shifts, and the employee coming back from maternity had hours coming to her. The supervisor said some things to get a rise out of me, but i kept my cool. The supervisor is also the cousin to the owner and ran to him and played the tape the son recorded with her without my consent or knowledge of being recorded. The owner called me and told me about, and i am really upset. The owner said it was last minute to record it, but i think they knew exactly what they were doing and trying to sabotage my job with what has been going on. No had has said sorry to me. That employee and i no longer communicate, but nothing else has been done. I have had major anxiety attacks and little sleep the past 3 months and fear my job. Is there anything i can do here?","title":"Canada, BC Owner's son records me without my consent then plays to owner (dad) to sabotage my job.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551808666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axo1z9\/my_boss_told_employees_a_personal_matter_that_i\/","id":"axo1z9","body":"*Any names used in this post are fake*\n\nMy grandmother passed away and I was taking my 3 days bereavement that my workplace allows. I have 2 superiors. One is just an office manager and the other is the admin asst.\/human resources. I work in a small business with 15 employees or less. I pulled each one of my superiors aside and asked them not to say anything to other employees, especially one that is very nosey, we will call her Beth. They both agreed that if anyone asked that they would say that it was a personal matter. \nSo I finally come back after being gone and just as I predicted would happen, Beth approached me and gave me condolences for my loss. \nLet me be very clear. I only said anything to my two bosses. I work in an office that is away from the public and no one else was around at the time I was asking them to keep matters private. One of them had to have said something to Beth. On top of it all when Beth was expressing her condolences she specifically said \u201cI know that I\u2019m not supposed to know this, but I\u2019m sorry to hear about your grandma\u201d. By her saying that she knew that she wasn\u2019t supposed to know I believe that was a dead giveaway that someone other than myself was talking about this personal matter. \n\nTo me, this is not workplace drama. I asked them to keep this private and they did not. I shouldn\u2019t have to say anything in the first place but I made it a point to. \n\nHere is the question:\nIs there anywhere that someone can recommend that I can report either my boss or the business and what grounds would I say that I\u2019d be reporting them on? This is not the first time this has happened to me at this workplace and I want to do something because it is not only happening to me but other employees as well. \nThank you for helping me. ","title":"My boss told employees a personal matter that I specifically asked her not to share with anyone.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568774834,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5riox\/is_toby_fox_in_legal_trouble\/","id":"d5riox","body":"For a backstory: Toby Fox is an indie game developer with his most popular game being Undertale (and it\u2019s a big game, like it was funded via a Kickstarter after garnering over $51k in funding). In the game, all characters talk through text, yet each of them also have their own talking \u201csound\u201d, which is just simply a very, very short sound byte played over and over again at certain \u201crhythms\u201d as text is popping up on screen.\n\nWell it was just discovered that Sans\u2019 voice byte was sampled from a line Patrick Star says in the episode Something Smells (I would link a video showing it, but apparently that\u2019s not allowed here?).\n\nMy question is, could Viacom sue Toby Fox for copyright infringement? I mean, Sans is a VERY popular character, and is actually one of the main antagonists in the game, however, the clip is literally like a tenth of a second long. I also ask this because Toby hasn\u2019t actually confirmed it was sampled from Patrick, and I suspected it\u2019s because he doesn\u2019t want to get himself into legal trouble. I mean like, the fan base has accepted that Patrick shares the voice of Sans, but I can imagine that a court probably won\u2019t unless Toby confesses it himself.","title":"Is Toby Fox In Legal Trouble?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554778501,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb2stj\/just_got_a_class_action_lawsuit_in_the_mail\/","id":"bb2stj","body":"So I\u2019m a 23 year old college grad, who decided to invest in some stocks when I graduated high school with the bare minimum amount on a investment website. Today I got a letter in the mail that I am entitled to share of the proceeds in the class action lawsuit settlement described.  Some of these procedures I have a question on. \na) If my original investment site no longer exists and I can\u2019t provide exact date proof of purchase of said stock would a monthly statement be fine? \nb) When they ask for \u201cNumber of shares of X stock rendered in exchange for shares of Y common stock in connection with the merger of Z company and X Company\u201d  does that mean I put X stock minus Y stock?","title":"Just got a class action lawsuit in the mail","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555693751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf1lph\/on_a_crossroad\/","id":"bf1lph","body":" light was green on a 35 mph road and traffic way moving but to my right this dude was running through the zebra dodging cars I saw him last minute did what I could to prevent the hit swerved to my left almost hitting   another car in the process  but he still managed to hit my right side mirror right after which I stopped to see in the back and left mirror but dude just kept running and crossing the rest of the way and didn't stop and I left not knowing what to do.","title":"On a crossroad","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554044160,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7oltn\/landlord_will_not_provide_separate_rent_receipts\/","id":"b7oltn","body":"My girlfriend and I moved in with some other friends renting one room in a 5 bedroom house. The lease was 1 year from May 1st 2018 - May 1st 2019. During this time we agreed with the landlord (one friends mother), to pay $700 a month all inclusive to share the bedroom from May 1st to January 1st. After this time period my GF left on exchange, and the rent was dropped to $640 per month as I was the sole occupant of the room. This payment structure is in the lease.\n\nThe issue is that she would not accept two payments from myself and my GF each with half of the monthly rent. So to circumvent this, my gf would transfer me money and I would send the lump sum to my landlord. When we asked for rent receipts to claim on our taxes she informed me that she would only provide one receipt. \n\nMy question is, do I have any reason to demand two receipts or am I screwed because of how we were forced to provide payment. As a sub question, can I create a receipt for my GF as a sublet (or something) for the amounts she paid me?\n\nIf further information is needed let me know. \n\nThank You. \n\n  ","title":"Landlord will not provide separate rent receipts for my GF and I (ONTARIO, Canada)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571666257,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl0xmx\/boss_not_paying_me\/","id":"dl0xmx","body":"High School student here, I worked at a local restaurant over the summer for a few weeks and my boss is not paying me.  He even denies he owes me. What could I do? My time sheet was at the restaurant where I assume it\u2019s been thrown away, I have no proof that I even worked those hours that he hasn\u2019t paid me for.","title":"Boss Not Paying Me","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554742335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baw5w5\/texas_common_law_or_not_buying_property\/","id":"baw5w5","body":"Hello, attorneys at law. How are you?\n\nI'm not so good...\n\nI am sorry this is so long, and that I'm on mobile. \n\nI don't want to leave the man I consider my husband. I do want to make sure I'm protected financially, as his disabled spouse or life partner or something. I feel very vulnerable. This is causing a lot of problems in our relationship. \n\nAfter 10 years of living as though we are married, sharing our finances, and planning to get married, as well as 5 years of referring to each other as husband and wife, he has told me he never, ever, wants to get married. He says does not believe in it anymore. (I still do!)\n\nUltimately I need to know how to protect myself financially in this situation, preferably without my \"husband\" and I having to get separate attorneys to negotiate contracts for us. \n\nI am poor. After 10 years, my \"husband,\" finally has a decent job where he can afford to live without me. He also comes from a family of attorneys. His father is a real estate attorney who does not like me. So, getting a contract is going to be a very difficult, stressful, and expensive process for me, whereas it would be simple for him.\n\nI just want to be protected as a 50% partner in life, the way any non-prenup wife would be in Texas. I feel quite literally entitled to it. I cannot believe this is the situation I am in...\n\nI've sacrificed a lot for him - time, money, opportunity, dignity - I've been a loyal and good wife. He has been a good husband in the last 5 years - he has really cared for me through the worst of my physical disability and resulting mental health problems. I have cared for him through his mental health problems, through years of him having little to no income, and through a temporary (9 months) physical disability.\n\nI have been with my \"husband,\" for 10 years. Almost 11. We have lived together since February 2010 (break in cohabitation 5\/12-12\/13) \n\nI became permanently disabled 4.5 years ago. (I was 4 work credits short for SSDI, but have private disability insurance that pays more than SSDI would. I have contributed a lot more financially in the last 5 years than he ever did in the first 5)\n\nHere's the common law part (soon followed by the property part):\n\nHe has been calling me his wife for at least 5.5 years. He is the one who initiated calling me his spouse.\n\nHis coworkers think he is married. He told me, and my family, that the only reason we have not been officially married the last few years is that it made more financial sense for us not to be married (it did - doesn't now though). He tells me often that he wants to spend the rest of his life with me. I do not know what he tells *his* friends and family in private. I attend his families weddings and funerals as though I were one of them though. My family also treats him like a son-in-law. \n\nAt my brothers wedding two years ago my \"husband\" told my Grandma, \"You'll have another one of these to go to soon,\" referring to our officially becoming married. \n\nWe got pregnant in 2013. That pregnancy caused my blood pressure and volume to rise enough to make a previously undiagnosed genetic disorder become further symptomatic, leading to my disabling condition (spinal cord and brain damage). I had an abortion early on, but it was too late to save my central nervous system. I kept working another 8 months, until I absolutely could not. \n\nBefore the abortion I told him that I wasn't going to go through this again with someone who I wasn't married to - I gave him a year to decide. Within 5 or 6 months he started calling me his wife. I was officially diagnosed with my disabling condition 11 months later. I would not have stayed if I did not consider us married. \n\nOur friends (at least the ones I brought to this relationship)  think of us as married. \n\nOn official forms though, neither of us has ever claimed to be married (nor have we filed taxes jointly). \n\nThere may be one exception. He was laid off from a job in 2015, a year after I became disabled. He requested assistance from an employee emergency fund to cover my health insurance, as his wife. He submitted my medical records to them. They would not have given that money to him for his girlfriend - only an iimmediate family member. I don't know that I have any way to prove he requested money from them in 2015. His banking records should show the money from them, but I don't know that the company still has the request to help his wife, or how I would obtain a copy of it. I believe he would have ZERO problems lying under oath if it came down to it.\n\nWe do not currently have joint accounts. \n\nWe have both paid rent and bills over the years. The first 5 years I had more money than he did, and we primarily lived off of that.  The last few years, he has paid the lions share, and I have paid the bills, my insurance, some food, and most of the things he charges to my credit cards. He is also an authorized user on almost all of my credit cards (his credit was terrible, and now it is good, only because he is authorized on my cards).\n\nRecently we looked at our finances and my eligibility for ACA coverage is going to end at the end of this year. Having ACA is what made being unmarried a fiscally sound choice. \n\nSo I said, \"Well this is exciting. We finally get to make it official!\"\n\nWhich is when he decided to tell me that he never, ever, wants to get married. At all. Ever. He says he no longer believes in marriage, but still wants to spend the rest of his life with me, and considers me his wife. WHAT?\n\nThe Property Part:\n\nThen, our landlord really put the pressure on by asking if we want to buy the house we rent. I looked at markets all over the country and found a way for us to buy a nice multifamily in an out of state market, where we could buy another multifamily home with a conventional loan a year later, and to build wealth through real estate. \n\nI don't think I want to move out of state or buy property with someone I'm not actually married to though (or at least have the Texas common law rules about property applied to us via contract). The state we want to move to and buy property in is not a common law state. \n\nHe wants to use his VA loan for the first property, with me as a co-owner on the mortgage and title. I know there are a few different options regarding how we divide ownership and what happens in the event of the death of the other party. Purchasing property this way costs us more money, as the VA loan will not cover my portion of the down payment (FHA rules for my portion) . I am still trying to learn all of this mortgage stuff. It's a complete ass ache. \n\nAnd that brings us to present.\n\nIt breaks my heart, but I may need to look for an attorney to write a contract that spells out financial protections for me in the event that we split up. If he won't do that, then I will need to find a divorce attorney soon... if I have a common law leg to stand on. If we are found to be common law married, how long would we be considered married? How do I go about finding a divorce attorney if I need one? How much should I expect to pay? What about an attorney to spell out our rights should we decide to move forward and buy property, in another state, as an unmarried couple? What kind of attorney would I need? How do I find a good one? What should I expect to pay?\n\nJust anything and everything you're willing to share would be greatly appreciated. I am feeling very lost.","title":"Texas: Common Law or not? Buying property, Protecting Ourselves Financially, and Unsettling Gray Areas for a Disabled \"spouse\"","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571141996,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di72wz\/my_girlfriend_hit_a_deer_and_didnt_report_it\/","id":"di72wz","body":"This morning at around 5 am my girlfriend was driving to practice when she hit a deer. She panicked and drove away. The damage is not major (she's still driving the car). She has Pennsylvania insurance and this happened in Virginia. What should she do?","title":"My girlfriend hit a deer and didn't report it","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570563976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df543j\/missourilandlord_entered_my_apartment_with_no\/","id":"df543j","body":"Gave my notice that I was leaving. Told me to be out by the 9th,she went in today with no prior contact to me and complained about the mess\/shit still there but I've still got time. Also have it in a text message that she entered the home and how long I had to leave l. Can she enter like that?","title":"Missouri-landlord entered my apartment with no notice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555689121,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf0ouz\/ending_abusive_relationship_and_eviction\/","id":"bf0ouz","body":"Good morning,\n\nI am really hoping someone can help me decide how to get out of this awful situation I have found myself in. I\u2019m going to try to keep this short to prevent loss of interest but include anything I think may be important. \n\nI like in KY in a house legally owned by a family member. About four years are my partner moved in. The relationship began with mental and emotional abuse, and last year strangling began, most recently happen in Feb of 2019. I\u2019ve been done with this relationship for well over a year and have tried to end it multiple times. He refuses to leave and says that I will have to evict him. He doesn\u2019t work and doesn\u2019t pay for anything, literally nothing. For reference I am 30 and he is 36. \n\nI have had a consultation with a lawyer where she explained to me that if I were to get an eviction that best case scenario it could be as little as six weeks, but there\u2019s also the possibility it could carry on for months. This alone isn\u2019t necessarily the problem, but this means one of two things- either I would have to stay there, which I don\u2019t believe I\u2019d be safe, or I could try to find somewhere to stay. The issues with finding somewhere to stay are that 1. I have a lot of cats, not many people would let me and my clowder stay with them. I cannot leave her there because he is extremely vindictive and I believe he would hurt them to get back at me. Also, there\u2019s no telling what kind of damage he could do to the house in the meantime. I know that I could try to sue him if there are damages, but as stated above he does not work. (He is able bodied but unwilling to find work). \n\nI know to most the obvious of choices is to leave and sue for any damages, but he had completely drained my savings over the years and I have a loan in my name that he was supposed to pay for, so I don\u2019t really have any extra money. \n\nIs there anything else I can do to get him out sooner? He doesn\u2019t pay any bills, am I obligated to leave the utilities on for him? Is there any way I could force him to pay for damages- he also owes me about $10k for different expenses I\u2019ve covered for him that he said he would pay me back for, is there any way to get that back since we never had any contracts? \n\nHe has also threatened to post very personal stuff online if I break up with him. Things that could potentially hurt my reputation. \n\nThank you in advance. If any further info is needed please let me know, I\u2019ve tried to include anything that could effect and advice. \n\nTL;DR    Need to find the fastest way to get abusive partner out of the house and possibly get back savings that was taken.  \n\n\nThis may be important, but I took photographs of my marks from the last attack in February.","title":"Ending abusive relationship and eviction","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507640604,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75gw4n\/california_landlord_deducting_cleaning_fees\/","id":"75gw4n","body":"Hi LegalAdvice ! I'm trying to help my girlfriend out here.\n\n#Short Backstory\n\nShe is moving out after staying in an apartment for a year with two roommates. She started living in this apartment about a year ago, in September. They managed to get \"two months free\" because apparently, roommate A knows the manager\/landlord (Not owner) of the building and she gave them a \"two months free\" type of deal.\n\nApparently, you cannot smoke there but her two roommates have been constantly smoking. My girlfriend works at night and comes home at 7am. Roommate B does not care whatsoever and blasts music all day long. I live in Canada, so I sometimes come visit my girlfriend. We do not even remotely interact with any of the roommates at all. Roommate A complained to manager\/landlord about me staying there for a couple weeks with my girlfriend. We were threatened to be thrown out if I stayed.\n\n______________________________________________________________\n#The Problems :\n\nThe point of this, is that my girlfriend is now moving out, and both roommates and manager\/landlord are giving her trouble.\n\nMy girlfriend gave her 30 days notice, and asked for her security deposit at the end of the month. Manager\/landlord told her that \"her security deposit was actually used as rent for the 2nd month\" (Even though the manager said that she was giving her two months free, and the 3rd month would be the beginning of the rent).\n\nThen, once my girlfriend informed the landlord that doing so was completely illegal, the landlord said that she needs to deduct a 200$ \"cleaning fee\" as well as a 130$ electricity bill. But there are two problems here. First, there is nothing to clean, only my girlfriend is moving out, and there are no stains on the carpet, no rips in the carpet, the bathroom is clean and so is the room. No odor of cigarettes, besides the living room because her roommates smoke there. The second problem is that the monthly electric bill is already paid for, yet, she insists on taking out 130$, even though the bill itself is nearly that amount, not even split in three.\n\n\nThe landlord was once again, informed that taking out these things without an actual good reason is illegal. Then, the manager replied \"You need to talk to your roommates about this problem\". \n\nMy girlfriend also had been requesting a copy of the lease that she apparently signed, even though she has never signed any lease, ever. The landlord insisted that she did and ignored the request. My girlfriend asked once again and was told that she is not on the lease, after insisting that she was.\n\nAfter these events, the landlord got frustrated to be caught in her lies and revoked my girlfriend's parking spot. She no longer has a parking spot.\n\nToday, the manager asked for her mail key, claiming that the new roommate that will replace her will need it at the end of October. That was this morning at 7am after she worked night shift, the manager was waiting. She was too tired to deal with it and gave it to her. \n\nThe landlord and roommates had told my girlfriend that they were also moving out at the end of October. Turns out that this was another lie from them.\n\nTo this day, they are still refusing to give her full deposit back, and claim that fees need to be taken out. The landlord acts unprofessional and keeps telling my girlfriend to \"deal with it with your roommates\".\n\n_______________________________________________________________\n#What we plan to do :\n\n- Attempt to contact \"Z&Z Real Estate\" to inform them of the illegal activities the building's landlord\/manager has been doing under their nose. (Two free first months, while telling the management company that no one lived there, the un-inspected elevator since Sep. 2016, the roommates smoking cigarettes, the attempt to take fees from the security deposit)\n\n- Contact California Tenants - California Department of Consumer Affairs \n\n#What measure or step should we take in order to get the security deposit back and have the law on our side ?\n\nThank you all in advance !\n\n__________________________________________________________\n\n#Here are quick helpful facts :\n\n- Location is Los Angeles, California\n\n- Landlord never made my girlfriend sign any lease\n\n- Landlord told the management company that the apartment was not inhabited during those two first months that she gave for free.\n\n- Landlord *still* required a security deposit even though she never made my girlfriend sign a lease.\n\n- On the 3rd month, landlord used the security deposit as a rent for the 2nd \"free month\", never informed my girlfriend until she asked for her security deposit.\n\n- The only paperwork my girlfriend has ever signed, was the application, with the 35$ application fee.\n\n- We know that the building's manager is not the owner and does a ***lot*** of shady things and pretty much does not do her job,\n\n- Claims that \"cleaning fees\" and electricity bill will be deducted from the security deposit, even though the room is in perfect condition, nothing is broken or smell like cigarette. (Roommates smoke, my girlfriend does not).\n\n- Roommates are \"in\" with the landlord. The reason why they were allowed two months of \"free rent\" is because roommate A makes false prescriptions for opioids for landlord, which my gilfriend figured out later.\n\n- Building's owner and management does not know about the \"free rent deal\". \n\n- Girlfriend pays rent with checks to \"Z&Z Real Estate\", then gives the check to the shady manager\/landlord\n\n- \"Z&Z Real Estate does not seem to give an actual phone number or contact information regarding the apartment building.\n\n- The building's elevator has not been inspected in over a year now. Which we will gladly inform the management company when we figure out their actual contact information.\n","title":"[California] Landlord deducting \"Cleaning Fees\" & Electricity bill from security deposit ? But nothing damaged ?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553547931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5gedo\/does_amazon_have_the_right_to_have_data_they\/","id":"b5gedo","body":"I ordered this morning an item, I am supposed to receive it tomorrow (at home) but my dad just got an email saying it will be shipped to his work place. I've never communicated the email adress of my father nor the adress of his work place to amazon. He don't even have an Amazon account. How tf could they know that and do they even have the right to ??? ","title":"Does Amazon have the right to have data they really shouldn't know ?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1445435755,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pmtc0\/where_to_go_from_here_breach_of_contract\/","id":"3pmtc0","body":"Throwaway since not sure if would be otherwise covered by NDA.\n\nBack in January I bought three tickets to an event (myself and two friends) from a reseller we found on a third party website. The reseller (in another state) cancelled the order the night before we were to leave and refunded the original money. (Turns out they were selling tickets they didn't have.) However, because we were flying across the country from Washington and already had paid for a hotel, parking pass, and airfare.\n\nWith the help of the third party (CEO of third party company), we were able to negotiate a settlement in exchange for not suing essentially. A contract detailing monthly payments and a paid in full by date were specified, and we received one payment (out of five).\n\nAfter about 6 weeks I email the ticket reseller to see what was up with the next check since it was specified monthly and I received a generic \"our business took a hit because of having to make deals with people over our business practices so we don't have money to pay you\" type thing. (I can dig it up if it would be useful.) I was advised to contact their lawyer who hasn't responded to my requests for email replies or phone calls. We're now past the \"pay in full by\" date.\n\nWhere should I go from here? It seems to my layman's perspective like a pretty clear breach of contract but I don't know who to talk to or even if I still have any recourse from here.\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Where to go from here (breach of contract)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568662667,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d55e4b\/should_i_use_legal_zoom_for_a_simple_will_and\/","id":"d55e4b","body":"My wife and I have a child on the way and we don't want to spend $2000 on this, legal zoom said they can do all this for $689. Does anyone have any experience with this?","title":"Should I use legal zoom for a simple will and trust with a real estate deed?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568400467,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3tpho\/bomb_threat_at_school\/","id":"d3tpho","body":"There was a bomb threat at my sisters high school the teachers knew and lied to the students saying it was a practice lock down drill , what pisses me off was if there had actually been a bomb the probably woulda lied and said the same damn thing which scares me since my siblings go there , is this right for them to lie ?","title":"Bomb threat at school","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570474918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/denzn0\/i_got_a_message_from_a_website_asking_if_they\/","id":"denzn0","body":"The site is apparently called BuzzVideos. \n\nI entertained the idea before giving them my email to contact me (a link to the screenshot of the email they sent will be at the bottom). They \"are contacting me to express interest in acquiring the rights to my video.\" It's, apparently, going to make me some money if I sign the contract they will send me (60% of the money made off the video would go to me).\n\nWhat's really bothering me is the email address. Gmail marked it as spam, and told me to basically stay cautious cause they couldn't verify that the email ([email name]@newadventures.pt) actually sent the letter.\n\nIs this a reputable source\/site? If everything on the contract seems fine and I sign it, but they end up scamming me, what would my legal options be? Would I be held liable for the scam? \n\nI mean, yeah, the video of my dog is absolutely adorable and I wish it would spread like wild fire so it could brighten people's days, and if I end up making money off of it, then that's just a plus for me, but I don't want to be scammed in the process.\n\nI'm 18. If I sign it, would the contract be legally binding, or would I have to be 21 to sign it?\n\nThanks in advance!\n\nScreenshot of the email: http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/MMYU8jn\n\nSorry if this doesn't belong here.","title":"I got a message from a website asking if they could have rights to a video of my adorable dog. [Louisiana]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1504194149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x7mtm\/louisiana_would_i_be_able_to_get_an_annulment\/","id":"6x7mtm","body":"So before anyone chastises me for this, I feel very ignorant and stupid for being where I am today. This is the lowest I've ever been in my life and I realize I dug this hole myself. \n\nSo, May 17th of this year I got married to my husband. The reason why we got married was because that same month, he was supposed to go into the military. I was, or felt, like I was completely in love with this man. I had been with him for three years and I deemed him to be the one. We're both incredibly young. He wanted me to be able to travel with him and receive spouse benefits while he was in the service. \n\nFlash forward to today. He still hasn't even ENLISTED in the military. He doesn't even have a job. I'm literally supporting us. I had to quit school to focus on work just so we didn't get kicked out of our apartment. He has no job and no responsibilities (his brother still pays his phone bill). It infuriates me because I have outgrown him and I'm so so tired of taking care of him like I'm his mom. I even managed to get him a few jobs, but he never stayed with any of them. After a long day of me working 9-5 every single day, I come home and see him laying up playing video games. It's gotten so bad that I've spiraled into this deep depression, and I find it incredibly hard to get out of bed most days. \n\nAnyways, I was wondering if I had grounds for an annulment? Would I have to find a lawyer and get a divorce even if my partner and I mutually agree on the divorce? We're incredibly poor, relying only on my paychecks, and I'm scared I won't be able to afford a lawyer. I'm completely in the dark here, but I'm ready to put this incredibly stupid decision behind me and move on with my life before it's been 50 years and 2 kids later with me either killing myself or developing an alcohol\/drug dependency. \n\nThank you. \n\ntl;dr: do i qualify for an annulment? do we need a lawyer if the divorce is mutual?","title":"[Louisiana] Would I be able to get an annulment?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539363102,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nly1w\/just_leased_a_2016_honda_fit_dealership_claimed\/","id":"9nly1w","body":"Hello, my girlfriend just leased a 2016 Honda Fit from a Subaru dealership. After a day and a half, we finally drove the car off the lot. She is on the lease, she has insurance through her grandpa, AAA. The dealership claimed that insurance through her grandpa would be way too expensive since her grandpa consigned her brother who had a car repoed. So they \"worked some magic\" and we were able to get the car. The car is in Her name, and her insurance is through her grandpa. Insurance company is now claiming we can't be insured through a third party if we are leasing the vehicle. I'm super confused how we got off the lot with insurance and now we need to buy another policy. Any help would be appreciated. We are in CA. ","title":"Just leased a 2016 Honda Fit, dealership claimed insurance was okay, but our insurance is saying we need our own policy","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552041867,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayowbi\/possible_nsfw_but_dint_see_flair_went_through\/","id":"ayowbi","body":"To make a short. Me and my wife and kids went down to visit my mother and I eventually showed my wife my old room. I ended up finding some of my flash drives the night we were packing and decided to take them with me to look back at them. \n\nWe got home and laughed at my old anime drawing from mspaint and mp3s. Well two of my flash drives had passwords on them and it took me a bit to remember them but eureka I did it. There were folders and word doc so I transferred them to my pc.\n\nWell I forget about it and here and behold I got a call from CPS saying that my wife and kids would have to leave. I start panicking and head home early from work to see what's going on. Not only is my wife and kids gone but my wife isnt picking up and I cant reach any of her family except her brother, which the only thing he said was I hope you die but with more words and emphasis on the die part.\n\nThat night I'm freaking out and I see a fb post from my wife's friend its photos of my pc but emojis or over it and its title that I have a hord of cp on my pc and telling people to share it.\n\nI immediately go to my pc and start searching turns out one of my folders had my sex tapes from 9th grade and nudes I had gotten from my then gf that I saved. What's worse is my face is them and I'm even in my school uniform but on the Facebook post my head was cropped out.\n\nSo I get on Facebook and start posting and telling them and people surprisingly started aiding with me. Like I have proof it's me I have proof I was 14 at the time. Everything seemed to be sorta looking up but i called CPS to clear up the misunderstanding and all i got was \" That does not change the fact you have underage porn videos on your pc even if its you\" I have no clue what to do. I dont have any money for a lawyer just need a finger in the right direction.\n\nTldr; went home to visit folks, found old flash drives and dragged all files to my pc and turned out some had my high school sex tapes on them and now under investigation with me not able to see wife and kids.","title":"Possible NSFW but dint see flair :Went through freshman flash drive and found my homemade videos now I'm being investigated for cp. What do I do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447359941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3skq7b\/bc_canada_roommate_moving_out_without_notice\/","id":"3skq7b","body":"My roommate and I are co-tenants on a year-long lease that is nine months in. She is now saying that she's looking to move out by the end of the month (under three weeks). The landlord has not been notified and I have received nothing in writing.\n\nUp until now we have each paid half the rent every month. My roommate assumes that I will pay the whole of the last three months of the lease myself, and that she is not responsible for rent from the time she doesn't live here.\n\nDo I have any legal recourse in this situation? I have searched online but all of the information I have found for British Columbia only covers disputes between landlords and tenants, not between co-tenants.","title":"BC, Canada - Roommate moving out without notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570288321,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddogeg\/ga_i_have_a_pretty_bad_leak_in_my_apartment_and\/","id":"ddogeg","body":"Hello all! First time poster here. I have. Pretty bad leak coming from my upstairs (assumed) bathroom. I have been trying to contact my apartment manager since it started the evening of 2\/10. It is now 5\/10 and I haven\u2019t heard back from her. The other people on the lease (boyfriend and roommate) have also been trying to contact her to no avail. We have reviewed the lease for an emergency maintenance number on top of checking the maintenance shop door, with no luck. While writing this she called me and said she is sending over a maintenance man, but should I pay rent before this is fixed? Can I get in legal trouble for that? I have no idea how to act upon this.","title":"[GA] I have a pretty bad leak in my apartment and management is unreachable","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569452295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9avqv\/copyright_or_fair_use\/","id":"d9avqv","body":"Thanks for clicking.  Hopefully, this is pretty straight forward.  There's non-profit that is having us create a video for them for an upcoming \"give back\" community event.  Last year they had over 15k people volunteering around their community.   \n This year, they'd like to create a marketing video to promote this event and would like to include the instrumental of a pop song, \"where is the love\" by the black-eyed peas.  I'm very ignorant about this and so I'm hoping you can help.  If we found a remixed instrumental, do we need a copyright license to use?  Or does this even matter?  They are hoping to have this video play on YouTube and their website.  TIA","title":"Copyright or Fair Use?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553788386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6khic\/parttime_working_contract_im_19_and_im_really\/","id":"b6khic","body":"Hello legal side of Reddit. I'm typing here because I'm so so scared. Basically I worked for a small part-time job at this food place. Before I got hired, during the \"interview\" they let me read a document that stated my hourly pay and some other criteria like commitment period, but i didn't get to take a photo of it. (As this is my first paying job, i didn't know i could take notes or record it down - keep this in mind for later).\n\nOk so fast forward, i got the job, i worked, i wasn't  happy there because the manager was really mean, she accused me of doing things i didnt do etc. i wanted to quit, but i was afraid that i would breach the contract thing that I read.  I remember my pay would get cut or whatever ( I don't mind this at all as i didn't work bc i needed the money). So i asked for the contract\/document.  Apparently, in my country, under the employement act, ok hold on I'll copy and paste this. \"From 1 April 2016, all employers must issue key employment terms (KETs) in writing to employees covered by the Employment Act.\" and one of the things that must be included is \"Basic salary.\nFor hourly, daily or piece-rated workers, employers should also indicate the\u00a0basic rate of pay\u00a0(e.g. $X per hour, day or piece).\"\n\nand i did see a document like that, but i did not get to keep it or take a photo of it.  so i asked the big boss about it and i asked her nicely if i could have a copy of that document that stated the pay. At first she didnt reply me. and I waited 3 days. she still didnt reply so I asked her again today. She replied very unprofessionally and said things like \"whatever you want to know about your pay, just ask me.  i dont want to sift through my office. \" and she said it in a more unprofessional and annoyed tone. I told her i wouldn't have asked if i had the contract but i was not allowed to take a photo of it.  She immediately retorted saying that even though i wasnt allowed to take a photo, i could take notes and i should have done that. (i didnt know i could at that time because i thought this info was private and confidential and thats why they didnt want me to take a pic of it). so she sort of implied that i had no right to ask. And quite frankly, i personally was very annoyed at that time because all i really just wanted to confirm things for myself and i had no intentions of trying to make life hard for her. So I sent her the screenshot from the website, and i just told her that i think that i had a right to have a physical\/written copy of the document. thats when shit went crazy. After that,  she sent me a really loooong message about how she's a lawyer and i shouldn't be playing the victim card and how she wouldn't short change me and whatever.  I'll paste her message here. \n\n\"All you had to do was ask instead of chasing me and low-key insinuating that we are trying to keep the contract away from you. I'm a lawyer and I don't need to be schooled on what is right and what is wrong, or to have you use MOM rules and guidelines against us because in the first place we have NO contract. What you signed was an application form, which is exactly what I said to you above. \n\nFurther, if you're so worried about your pay getting deducted, all I can say is, its in place so that you make sure that you can commit to what we ask, and don't join and make us waste our time if you can't commit. In fact, no one even mentioned that anything about cheating you of your pay so why are you so worried and kicking up such a big fuss (i swear, i really asked. if y'all want you can dm me for the screenshots of the actual convo and you can see my tone in which i really was being very polite and even worried I'd be troubling them) with Glenda ((my supervisor - name is changed for obvious reasons)) for? You pay will be calculated at whatever hours you worked for in March, based on the rate that I've already provided to you above. \n\nFinally, its not that you weren't allowed to take notes, you just weren't allowed to take a photo. I think there's a difference. \n\nThanks.\"\n\nand after sending that message, she blocked me. \nand she made it seem like i was the bad guy. and I swear, on this anonymous platform, that this message depicted me as something so horrible, that I honestly, from the beginning had no intention of doing. All i wanted was to see the physical document that I read about my pay which i think i had the right to see. But now she pulled strings and started saying thats like she's a lawyer and what not and blocked me and i didnt even have a chance to explain myself.  I still have a last shift on Sunday and  im so so scared. I'm sitting in a dark room because my parents said i started a war when i should have just sucked it up and took whatever pay they eventually gave me since money was not an issue.  But now im so confused because now shes saying we have no contract in the first place?  I'm scared.  Reddit did i do anything wrong? I'm really so so scared. \n","title":"Part-time working contract. I'm 19 and I'm really scared and I really need some help.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539305825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nfr4r\/my_leashed_dog_attacked_an_unleashed_dog_in_my\/","id":"9nfr4r","body":"Wasn\u2019t sure if this is correct flair as it is a multi part question... sorry if I\u2019m not correctly following any rules.\n\nBackground: \n\nI have an emotional support animal that meets all requirements by the Fair Housing Act. I have a letter from a licensed therapist. \n\nI rescued my dog as a recommendation from my therapist to deal with the PTSD of a prior assault. She recommended getting a dog that would make me feel protected. As fate had it, I found a beautiful pit bull that needed to be rescued as much as I did.  This was 7 years ago.\n\nI moved into an apartment complex under the understanding that all dogs must remain leashed unless in the small dog park on site. While my dog has no history of violence with other animals, it\u2019s been very clear that he does not like many of them and might have been aggressive if he had the chance.\n\nI\u2019ve spent the last 6 months living here avoiding all other animals. I always check before I walk him that no one else is outside, just as a precaution. \n\nMy name is also not on lease while they very much know and encouraged me to be there, due to a credit issue. I\u2019ve been cleared to be added to lease at this time but we haven\u2019t quite done that part. They know me and my about my dog.\n\nThe incident:\n\nAs normal, I checked no one was outside and went to walk my dog. I opened the front door and the neighbors dog was on my porch. My dog instantly grabbed her by the neck when I opened the door. I hadn\u2019t even stepped out of my house when it started. The whole fight happened on my porch.\n\nI instantly put my hands in my dogs mouth to prevent him from biting down as hard as he could because trying pry him off was making him grip tighter. This prevented a lot of damage to the other dog and I took most of the force. \n\nOnce we got them separated, my dog managed to pull himself off of his leash and out of the collar and went for round two grabbing her leg.\n\nThe other lady said it was all her fault for not leashing the dog and apologized 50 times. \n\n\nThe aftermath:\n\nHer dog had no puncture wounds on her neck, thank god. Her leg had two decent wounds. It wasn\u2019t dripping blood, but she was bleeding from both very mildly. Vet said she was fine.\n\n\nThe neighbor is now requesting that pay her vet bill of $500. And a separate neighbor not involved stated that he has reported me to animal control and the complex and won\u2019t rest till I\u2019m evicted.\n\n\nMy questions:\n\n1. Legally am I responsible for the vet bill?\n\n2. Is this grounds for eviction?\n\n3. What should I expect when contacted by animal control? \n\n\nThanks guys. I\u2019m not really sure what do now. I\u2019m heart broken at my dog was capable of harming another living creature. \n\n","title":"My leashed dog attacked an unleashed dog in my complex. (TX)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551659790,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax0qla\/city_is_los_angeles_landlord_just_gave_me_a\/","id":"ax0qla","body":"What are my options here? Did the landlord actually break a law, or is he protected since the notice is dated 2\/18?","title":"City is Los Angeles. Landlord just gave me a notice today (3\/3) that my rent will increase 3% starting 4\/1, when my lease expires. However they gave me less than 30 days notice, which I'm pretty sure is against LA rental laws. The notice was also dated 2\/18 and I just now received it.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570205610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd9i3i\/had_to_call_the_cops_on_my_downstairs_neighbors\/","id":"dd9i3i","body":"My boyfriend has been living in an apartment in a semi okay part of town but in a sketch area in the semi ok part of town. We\u2019re towards the end of a dead end street and it\u2019s a hub for homeless people. We\u2019ve had problems with our next door neighbor upstairs and our downstairs neighbor below us. \n\nOur next door neighbor, I\u2019m assuming, is running a crack den. He has visitors at all hours of the day and at this point I\u2019m really not even sure which one of them is the tenant. Oftentimes his friends will wake us up by banging on the front outside door incredibly menacingly and for up to 20 minutes until someone will let them in. He constantly stops us in the hallway and asks us for money. He\u2019ll even go so far as to wait on us getting home or leaving by listening for our door opening and then immediately popping his head out to harass us. Just the other day my boyfriend was walking his friend out to their car because everyone is afraid to leave alone bc of this guy and he stopped them then and pulled it his wallet and said to my boyfriend \u201cI bet you think I\u2019m broke. But I\u2019m not, look!\u201d And it was a stack of hundreds. Then he proceeded to ask my boyfriend for money???? \n\nDownstairs neighbor is a different story. He will watch for our cars outside and when he realizes we\u2019re home he\u2019ll come upstairs and knock on our door until we let him in. Constantly asks us for cigarettes and weed and I don\u2019t even smoke weed. Once we thought he was one of our friends knocking on the door so we opened and he asked to come in and proceeded to stay for two hours to spill the tea on his girlfriend downstairs and to tell us he has a \u201cshort temper\u201d. How comforting. In the past month the cops have been called on them twice. At one point there were 5 cop cars and the girl ended up leaving with duffle bags only to show up again the next day. \n\nLast night I got home at around 1:30 am and I heard them fighting. It got so loud and rambunctious that I could feel the floor of our apartment shaking. I heard him yelling and her crying and just felt my floor vibrating. I didn\u2019t know what to do, but I didn\u2019t want it to escalate because I have a fear that he has a gun and could either accidentally or purposely shoot us through the ceiling, so I called the non emergency number to report the incident. They immediately sent cops over and I watched them take the guy away in the cop car. \n\nAt this point I\u2019m just afraid they\u2019re going to know it was me that called the cops and I\u2019m terrified that when he gets out he\u2019s going to try to get revenge on us. I don\u2019t feel safe in this apartment complex. I\u2019m wondering we have any options as far as moving out or breaking the lease goes? Any ground to stand on as far as not having to bay a ton of fees? I don\u2019t think my boyfriend will move if it ends up being super expensive but at this point I don\u2019t even want to stay there any more and plan on moving back in with my parents. \n\nMemphis TN","title":"Had to call the cops on my downstairs neighbors. I\u2019m afraid.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554534551,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba1twe\/is_my_old_job_allowed_to_do_this_to_me\/","id":"ba1twe","body":"My old job offered uniform reimbursements. I turned in my receipts like how I\u2019ve always done and the week I was supposed to receive them they didn\u2019t have it ready and brushed me off and said it\u2019ll be ready the next paycheck. During the time I was waiting for the next paycheck I had PTO that was approved. When I finally got my next paycheck the reimbursement check wasn\u2019t ready for me again and was once again brushed off. I was tired of there bullshit so I quit that same day. Now fast forward two weeks my last check from them didn\u2019t have any of my PTO. If I can\u2019t receive my Reimbursement I\u2019m not too worried considering they probably won\u2019t sign it off to me now that I\u2019m no longer an employee but the PTO is what really boils my blood. It was approved. I have no proof anymore since I\u2019ve been take off the system that tracks time off request and can\u2019t log in and they don\u2019t give us copies of any of this.","title":"Is my old job allowed to do this to me?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505352157,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zz3ap\/united_statesminnesota_my_friend_may_have_been\/","id":"6zz3ap","body":"He is a 16 year old male. From what he has told me he was invited over to a females house, where they watched movies and cuddled, he says no alcohol was involved. He says that she gave him some weird tasting tea and shortly afterwards everything became a blur. He says that he remembers pushing her off and then driving home in clothes that were not his with stains on his underwear. He says he still feels sick(vomiting,shaking) 24 hours later. He says there is picture of him nude on his phone. He says that he is afraid that she's gonna say that he raped her. What are his legal options to remain out of a jail cell and potentially get the justice system to go after her?","title":"[United States,Minnesota] My friend may have been raped. What should he do.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507044445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74148t\/if_i_kick_my_18_year_old_son_out_of_the_house_is\/","id":"74148t","body":"My son has sent me letters saying he is going to come on 10\/7 to pick up his electronics, tv, and the rest of the clothes that I bought him. He said if I don\u2019t let him get the rest of his stuff, I\u2019m violating landlord-tenant laws. Is this true, do I have to let him have the stuff I bought for him? This is in California; Thanks. ","title":"If I kick my 18 year old son out of the house, is he entitled to keep the stuff I bought for him?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569360269,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8tp3d\/california_owner_is_selling_the_house_we_are\/","id":"d8tp3d","body":"I am renting a house in northern Los Angeles county, California. The lease ends 11\/30\/19, today 9\/24\/19 I received a \u201cNotice of termination of tenancy\u201d. The cover letter on the notice is dated 8\/15\/19 and it gives us until 9\/20\/19 to move out. The notice said they sent a certified letter through USPS and an agent would be in contact with us. No one has contacted us and I haven\u2019t received the letter. \n\nThe notice says \u201clocal law may require a minimum notice period that exceeds the time specified below.\u201d I am wondering what does the real estate law in California have to help us out. The notice delivery date is today 9\/24\/19 by the same agent who was supposed to be in contact with us but hasn\u2019t bothered getting a hold of us. I am going to call the leasing company in a bit but I wanted to go in with some knowledge if any. Thank you all!","title":"California: Owner is selling the house we are renting from a leasing company and they want us to move.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570918605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh1sy2\/uk_my_flatmate_is_trying_to_extort_me\/","id":"dh1sy2","body":"I share a two bedroom flat with one other person, and have been doing so since February of this year. Before moving in and co-signing the lease (the lease doesn\u2019t state our split, it\u2019s only for the full amount), we agreed to how we would split the rent and were both happy with our agreement. \n\nWe are now many months into our lease, and my flatmate is now saying they\u2019re unable to continue what they agreed to pay, and they want me to take on part of their rent. I don\u2019t make much money myself, but I offered to try to help. They asked for a certain amount, and when I said I didn\u2019t know if I could pay that much, but I\u2019d still figure out how much I could help, they began to threaten me. They threatened to go to the landlord if I didn\u2019t do as they said, they threatened to leave without notice and leave me alone with the flat. I was advised that what they are doing is extortion, and I don\u2019t really know what to do. They\u2019ve been bombarding me with very emotionally manipulative messages, claiming things like they\u2019re so tragically upset, they thought I was their friend, their life is so much harder than mine so I should just do this for them. I\u2019m so anxious in my own home.\n\nThe lease is in both of our names, so I have no power over if they stay or go, but at the same time if they can\u2019t pay rent that blame will fall on both of us as it\u2019s a joint lease. What should I do?","title":"[UK] My flatmate is trying to extort me","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539709794,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9opm8h\/claiming_approved_travel_expenses_when_i_traveled\/","id":"9opm8h","body":"I don't travel often for my job, but when I do, I am allowed to drive my own car, for an approved rate, based on a Google Maps route (not based on how far I actually drive, so if I have to detour for construction and Google doesn't know about it, I don't get reimbursed for the detour).  \n\n​\n\nWhat legal considerations\/ramifications would I have to worry about if I were to travel using a different method and pay the added costs out of pocket?\n\n​\n\nExample, I am training as a private pilot.  If I am scheduled for a meeting in another city, and I am approved to drive, would I have any legal concerns if instead I flew to the meeting and back, claimed the travel reimbursement that is calculated based on driving and pay the difference out of pocket? ","title":"Claiming Approved Travel Expenses, when I traveled in a more expensive way (and pay the diffrence out of pocket?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445111490,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p5azr\/question_about_the_illinois_state_government\/","id":"3p5azr","body":"Hello all, I was just reading the article in r\/news about how Illinois will not be paying out lottery winnings over the amount of 600 dollars until their budget crisis is resolved. To me this seems like they are holding money that these folks are legally entitled to, and that the winners whose money is being withheld would be in the right if they demanded interest on top of payment. I was hoping someone here could perhaps give me more information on this. If this is the wrong place to ask these questions please let me know. Link to the article: http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/families-outraged-illinois-fails-pay-210047539.html","title":"Question about the Illinois state government refusing to pay out lottery ticket winnings. I'm not involved, just curious.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554270739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8u5nf\/ticket_for_failure_to_provide_proof_of_insurance\/","id":"b8u5nf","body":"If I have proof of me having Insurance at the time of the incident is it possible for me to have the ticket removed?","title":"Ticket for failure to provide proof of insurance here in WA State.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506796890,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73gnoo\/quick_question_re_admissible_evidence_in_family\/","id":"73gnoo","body":"FL, USA\n\nThis isn't me, but a friend of mine was Baker Acted with possible postpartum psychosis a few days ago and her SO told me he's going through her facebook messages for evidence to use against her should she try to get full custody of their daughter. Is that admissible, if she didn't grant him permission? \n\nThanks!","title":"Quick question re: admissible evidence in family court","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554923346,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbq040\/tx_eviction_vs_trespass\/","id":"bbq040","body":"I got married to my wife November 2016. We we were dating for roughly 5 years before we got married. She is 20 years older than me, so her children are around my age. While we were dating her children had very little contact, they lived far away and were self sustaining. \n\nThe actual week before our wedding my wife's daughter separated from her husband and needed a place for her and her baby girl to stay. We had the room, and I'm not heartless, so we decided that they could come stay with us until she got back on her feet.\n\nNow she has another baby with another man, all four of them are living with us, and she is telling other family members that she has no plans of moving out.\n\nThe first year she moved in we did have a rental agreement, but that is far since expired and she no longer pays rent. None of them clean after themselves or the children, that is left for my wife and I to do.\n\nIf it was just my step daughter and her boyfriend I would call the cops and have them removed based on the trespass laws. But I don't have the heart to put the babies out on the street. I was thinking of using eviction laws to put some pressure on them, but I have minimal knowledge of these guidelines and processes. I can't continue to let them walk over my wife and myself. \n\nCan someone explain how eviction works in Texas? Is something that I can do myself or if I should contact a lawyer? As her rental agreement is expired does the eviction process even apply to my situation? Are there resourses out there to help her find a place\/make the rent that can refer her to?\nOf course, any other advice is welcomed. Thank you in advance.","title":"[TX] Eviction vs Trespass","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1417037891,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2nim6j\/employer_withholding_final_wages_and_charging_for\/","id":"2nim6j","body":"Hello \/r\/legaladvice :)\n\nI am a service engineer in the fire industry, residing in the UK.\n\nI am due to leave this employer soon, and when I do i'll be owed a four figure sum in back pay for overtime and expenses etc.\n\nA friend left this company a few months back, giving a full months notice and leaving on payday. He discovered that come this day, they simply didn't pay him, completely withholding his money until they had gone over his stock etc and deducted a cost for everything they decided was missing, with no proof or recourse given.\n\nI only have to give a weeks notice, saving myself from this fate somewhat, but i'll still be owed a substantial amount, which I cannot afford to lose to some bean counter with a grudge.\n\nIs this in any way legal? Surely the correct and legal way to go about it is to pay the member of staff their final amounts, then charge for any items afterwards?\n\nIf it isn't legal, does anyone know the specific clauses it would be violating?\n\nThank you all in advance :)","title":"Employer withholding final wages and 'charging' for missing stock","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446471843,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r7jes\/running_into_issues_with_a_gym\/","id":"3r7jes","body":"Worst decision of my life to get into a gym contract.\n\nI'm having issues with a gym that I can't find any information on, they're not even listed on google.\n\nAbout a year an a half ago i started a contract in NY. We had several issues with them, and we got out of our contract in June....or so we (me and my wife) thought.\n\nCome the beginning of October, we get calls from collections companies saying we owe money to this gym. Now, I followed the correct protocol and emailed where he said to mail my certified letter when I met the manager in person. Come August, the gym shuts down and moves under a new name. I get a call on my honeymoon in mid-august, they want money. I tell them I canceled the contract, and i sent a certified letter to prove it. She says, oh well text this number when you get back! Sketchy, I call her when I get back multiple times and she never picks up. I email her informing I will put block on my account if she didn't respond, and I provided the tracking number for the certified letter. Nothing. Luckily, my bank happened to give me a new card (for other reasons). I saved her email for proof though.\n\nI've emailed them recently asking for a copy of my contract, over a week ago, around the middle of October. Nothing! I can't even find the companies phone number on google, I found it once via the collection company but didn't write it down.\n\nI can't find my contract at all, I'm concerned that's going to bite me in the arse. What steps should I take in making sure the collection calls stop an I'm good and rid of them?","title":"Running into issues with a gym","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1538976746,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mc68r\/ky_eeoc_offering_mediation_servicequestions\/","id":"9mc68r","body":"I apologize for rambling. I\u2019ve tried hard to reign it in.....\n\nI\u2019ll start with:  I am currently on a medical leave of absence, with a condition that is worsened by stress. And because I have bipolar 1, bpd with ptsd, PTSD\/anxiety-driven insomnia, and agoraphobia....once I\u2019m off balance, it takes a lot of work to put Humpty Dumpty together again. My ADA requested leave was not granted but I was able to qualify under FMLA for continuous leave. \n\nSo....\nI submitted a complaint to the EEOC for my employer discriminating by turning down every accommodation request I made and then encouraging me to resign (I didn\u2019t accept). Accommodations that I requested included reduced hours, stepping down to a less skilled position, working from home, etc. at first they worked with me but, in the end, I was treated with less than dignity by my hr department, encouraged to resign my position because I did not want to switch to a labor position in our fulfillment department. After my complaint submission to EEOC, I got a call from them and did an interview regarding the entirety of the work situation. The interviewer then issued a charge, I signed it, and that was the last I heard. \n\nI received 2 letters in mail, next. 1 is a copy of the charge for my records. 1 is a letter informing me that I have the option to request mediation with my employer to settle the differences and move forward. The mediator would be unbiased and there would be no records taken during the mediation. Settlement would not be an admission of discrimination by my employer and everything would have to be agreed upon to complete the case.\n \nMy questions: \n\nIs there a benefit to using the mediation, besides expediting the process? What are the any drawbacks?\nWhat would be appropriate requests to make? Is compensation out of the question? I\u2019ve lost A LOT of time from work and am financially struggling majorly - not helping my psyche at all!\nShould I have a lawyer onboard going forward?\n\nThanks for any help you can offer. ","title":"(KY) EEOC offering mediation service.....questions ...?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538100130,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jiy2y\/can_a_small_family_business_ask_if_you_are_a\/","id":"9jiy2y","body":"So I work for a small family owned business that employees 3 full time employees( the owner and his children) and 2 part time employees(me and one other) during my interview he has me are you a Christian and do you have a problem with a Christian company? Is this legal?\n\nI understand that religion is a protected class but it\u2019s that question illegal? \n\nCalifornia ","title":"Can a Small Family business ask if you are a Christian?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503500146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vjhno\/family_drama_that_i_am_now_being_dragged_into\/","id":"6vjhno","body":"My sister just got out of really abusive relationship with her husband. They have a 10 month old. She filed charges against him for the abuse along with a protective order and temporary custody. A week later he charged her with felony malicious wounding with intent. She has court for this next month and has a lawyer. She was granted a restraining order in the mean time. Recently he was arrested for possession of heroine and marijuana. Once he got out of jail he went to a psych center because he threatened to kill himself. He saw a picture of my sister and their daughter in a cut out at a public place and I am holding their daughter into the cutout and he thinks it's another guy. My sister told me yesterday that he telling their mutual friend that I have been calling him and telling him that my sister is sleeping with someone else. She also told my sister that he was trying to bribe them with money to get my sisters new phone number. Overall it's a complete mess of a situation but now I am getting dragged into it. What should I expect or prepare for if he decides to try and prove that I have been contacting him even though I haven't in any way. \n\n\nLocation: United States. I don't want to get to specific either the state but it's in the southeast region. Edited: Virginia. \nThanks. ","title":"Family drama that I am now being dragged into","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554933662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbs0l0\/my_apartment_is_infested_with_cockroaches_and\/","id":"bbs0l0","body":"Location: Madison, WI.\nThrowaway. \n\nMe, my husband and our toddler started renting a 1 bedroom in October in a less than stellar apartment complex. I recently discovered a fair amount of roaches living behind the cabinets, and the landlord has been \"attempting\" to do something about it but they're still there. He ended up letting it slip that he was aware of the roaches when I signed my lease, which he did not disclose to me, but also that the city has been fining him because they are also aware this complex is infected and they are a code violation. There is ample evidence that he withheld this from us and that he was aware beforehand. I'm a clean person and having cockroaches living in my pantry is a very large *fuck no* from me. \n\nRecently also, a family of 5 (2 adults and 3 kids) moved into the apartment directly above mine... it's a one bedroom. They are constantly running around and waking up my daughter from her sleep **with her noise maker at full blast**. I don't think that they are allowed to have that many people occupying a 1 bedroom, but clearly my landlord breaks laws.\n\nI just want to move out and be done of this place, but I also want my secuirty deposit and not have to pay to break my lease. Do I have any ground here? I'm miserable. \n\nAny help is appreciated, thanks.","title":"My apartment is infested with cockroaches and there is a family of 5 living above me in a 1 bedroom. Can I break my lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506999417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73xqnp\/failed_a_driving_test_for_a_stupid_reason\/","id":"73xqnp","body":"What can I do to legally fix this: My car has an analog speedometer; that shows the speed to be faster than it really is & it also looks like you're going even faster from the passenger side because of the different angle. (I'm in New Zealand so it's right hand drive) It costed a lot of money to do the test so I'd prefer to not have to pay to retake it, so is there anything I am able to do?","title":"Failed a driving test for a stupid reason","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555099166,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bci2z8\/mice_problem_il\/","id":"bci2z8","body":"Is my landlord responsible for the mice problem in my place? I\u2019ve been here a total of one year and resigned my lease because I plan on saving for something better next year. My first lease started in March 2018. During the fall I noticed mice droppings in the place. When I went to pay rent I spoke to one of the leasing agents and was told there was nothing they could do and I should just set up traps. Okay? So I set up about 4 traps which 3 went off. The problem is mice still keep coming. My landlord sent someone to set up a radio in the basement because he saw rodents going inside and wanted to remove them before closing the areas off. The radio was left in the basement for two weeks and no one ever came back to do anything else. \n\nTwo weeks ago I had a vacation with my kids and deep cleaned the place beforehand. When we got back I noticed 3 areas were infested with mice poop. I took pics of all three for reference. I also just noticed that mice are raiding my kids dresser and pulled all their clothes out. My son left a container of peanut butter on my bed one night before I left for work and I came back to notice it had mice poop...there are mice crawling on my bed now. Yay..\n\nSo I email the other leasing agent, and again was told it was not their problem.\nI\u2019m not looking to move, because I am trying to save. But I can\u2019t save if I\u2019m spending money on cleaning, mouse traps, rewashing clothes, and replacing food that\u2019s been eaten by mice. \nWhat else can I do?","title":"Mice problem IL","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569469615,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9eab1\/residence_and_custody_va\/","id":"d9eab1","body":"Does one parent failing to establish a residence when they are financially able effect custody? STB Ex has 33k in savings, makes 125k per year and gets a monthly trust payout from his grandfathers estate (1250 per month) but will have moved a total of 4 times in 10 months. He\u2019s threatening to file for full custody.","title":"Residence and Custody - VA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571439179,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djv94t\/my_sister_currently_has_cancer_and_shes_not\/","id":"djv94t","body":"She\u2019s scared of dying and isn\u2019t thinking clearly is there anyway to place her kids in our custody until she gets better? Because her husband doesn\u2019t really care for her kids he\u2019s got his own and she\u2019s not really thinking about how her kids are","title":"My sister currently has cancer and she\u2019s not thinking about her kids her husband hasn\u2019t sent them to school because they have to help her and she\u2019s not listening to us tell her to take gov\u2019t aid for her and her kids. Can my family take her to court for child neglect and place them in our custody?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442775662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lpg4t\/trying_to_help_a_friend_escape_abusive_husbandwa\/","id":"3lpg4t","body":"So a friend from high school, who moved from Canada to the US has 4 young boys all from the same husband while they lived in WA. I'm getting details from her and trying to think of how to help when I found this subreddit. She had left him once because of how he had abused her, but returned for the kids. Then she caught him abusing one of the boys and left asap. Now she's in TN staying with friends and trying to figure out what to do. \n\nBasically she doesn't know what to do. She would like to bring her boys to Canada to at least regroup with her family but doesn't know how to start that process. Her husband has all of her identification (green cards, banking etc) so she is living on limited funds with 4 boys, keeping them in school and therapy for the abuse they've suffered.\n\nI know nothing of where to even begin to start to help her so I'm doing the best I can by asking you all for help.","title":"Trying to help a friend escape abusive husband(WA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551554295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awl78z\/manager_tried_to_cheat_with_me_spread_rumors_im\/","id":"awl78z","body":"TL;DR I'm asking for legal advice about NDA and slander.\n\nMy manager, whose wife is pregnant with their second child, came onto me multiple times. I didn't understand his persistence until I realized that my personal Gmail account had been hacked and accessed by people within the company. \n\nI know at minimum my boss had access to my web browsing history, and he also had access to my Google photos, and he had access to all my phone contacts. He was cyberstalking me and spreading my information to coworkers who would also harass me. I was also followed; I saw my managers car outside my work one day.\n\nThey were able to vouyer on everything I searched on my phone, because my phone browser was linked to my account.\n\nWhen I rejected him, he reported me to HR and began to use my photos and web history to spread rumors that I'm an escort and discredit me. \n\nI signed a NDA with the company in exchange for a couple month's severance. I no longer work at the company, but I have not yet received the money. \n\nSo I have 3 questions. \n\n1.) I have signed an agreement that includes an NDA, and forfeits my right to sue the company or anyone working at the company. Is this contract, including the NDA, valid if I have not yet received my severance pay in exchange for this agreement? It's been about a week since I signed and left.\n\n2.) I believe the photos were stolen and the rumors were spread not only to discredit me, but to also threaten me into silence. Nonetheless, I am afraid he may continue trying to stalk me, harass me to have sex with him, using these pictures and rumors to protect himself.\n\nI want to flush out this leverage now. Are there any legal ramifications if I told his wife that he tried to cheat with me?\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Manager tried to cheat with me; spread rumors I'm an escort.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552332519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azxlah\/asbestos_in_government_building\/","id":"azxlah","body":"I work in a government owned building in Louisiana and out of curiosity I looked up what asbestos looks like. I realised that asbestos is everywhere here. I have bumped into asbestos coated I beams while working and dusted it off many times. I was never warned that there was asbestos and our facility is OSHA free due to a loop hole. What do I do? Who do I contact? ...perhaps it just looks exactly like asbestos, in this very old building with hazards everywhere... ","title":"Asbestos in government building","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570682577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfsyvt\/can_i_really_even_do_anything\/","id":"dfsyvt","body":"On mobile, I\u2019ll do my best.  I\u2019m kind of scatter brained so I hope this makes sense. \n\nMy son (MS) turned 12 this year. His father (DB) has been mostly absent. \n\nLittle bit of backstory:\nFirst off, my friends and family have helped me raise MS. DB has always been very manipulative, emotionally and verbally abusive, and an overall shady person. Nine years ago when MS was 3, DB and I went to court to settle custody because DB\u2019s grandparents got a lawyer and forced him to do so. DB received visitation for every other weekend, some holidays, and a few weeks during the summer, it was pretty normal and fair. DB was also allowed to see MS basically whenever he asked as long as I approved. \n\nThe issue here is, DB never asked. DB never showed up. DB never picked MS up. Ever. Over nine years, DB never had MS stay at his house for the weekend or anything else our agreement had stated. \nDB would only visit MS at their grandparents when MS was visiting occasionally on the weekends. DB did not visit every time MS visited and when DB did visit, it was not for any substantial amount of time. I considered having DB\u2019s rights taken away for abandonment, but he had to be absent for six months and he ALWAYS seems to pop back in at just the right time and continues to pay his minimum amount of child support on time. \n\n\nAnd then:\nFour years ago I got a very demanding job. I told DB I needed his help as MS was his responsibility (not my family this time) as he has barely helped do anything else. So DB did help MS with transportation during this time. DB would pick MS up from the bus stop and bring him directly to my work where MS would stay with me. Very rarely when MS would ask, he would go to DB\u2019s house for a few hours, then return to my work before MS and I went home. DB did not offer for MS to come over, MS always asked. \nDB has basically been a shadow in the back of our minds until he decides to show up or he is literally a last resort person I call to help MS. MS is sometimes excited to see DB, sometimes he could care less. \n\nLast year I quit that job, DB\u2019s appearances have again dwindled until now. \n\nPresent time:\nDB recently started dating a new person. This person was previously a friend of mine and knew how DB was to me as an abuser and to MS as a father. Now that they are together, I believe she is pressuring DB to get MS on the weekends to \u201cmake him step up\u201d? Usually this would not be a problem. Whenever DB HAS asked to see MS, I have always allowed it unless we already had plans or MS simply did not want to go with DB at that time. \n\nThe issue now is DB has asked to see MS at the very last minute and would not stop arguing when I told him we already had plans and on top of that MS said he did not want to go to DB\u2019s anyway. So now after nine years DB brings up the custody papers and how it\u2019s HIS weekend. DB said he would file contempt of court against me for not letting him see MS last weekend, but like I said MS also said he would rather not go to DB\u2019s. \n\nAnd at the end of the day I\u2019m not sending my child anywhere he doesn\u2019t want to go, period. \n\nAgain DB has shown little to no interest in MS until he started dating my no longer friend recently and is now acting belligerent towards me when I denied him for asking last minute.\n\n So am I going to get in trouble for \u201cdenying\u201d him \u201chis\u201d weekend, even though his weekend has kind of never existed? Would it be good to get a lawyer now and taking him to court, even then would that help anything? Could he be granted less time officially or supervised? Both of them, DB and girlfriend could also potentially be proven unfit. \n\nWhere do I start? What do I do?","title":"Can I really even do anything?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446660551,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rirkg\/los_angeles_i_think_i_may_be_renting_an_illegal\/","id":"3rirkg","body":"I started renting a small, studio apartment in Los Angeles a few months ago and I suspect that it may be an illegal unit for the following reasons:\n\n* I pulled the permits for the property and there is no reference to the unit. \n* It's a converted garage with the garage door left on one exterior wall as a facade. If an inspector were to take a quick look, it would appear that it was just another garage. I've also been told that converted garages in this area almost never get permitted.\n* The unit does not have its own address or mail-box. My lease is actually for the address of the unit in front of it\n* The unit did not have a phone jack installed when I moved in.\n* A close friend who works in the property management industry called it a \"textbook\" example of how to hide an illegal unit\n\nWhat prompted me to come here is that recently the landlord accidentally forwarded me an email conversation between her and the owner. This revealed that they lied to me during the application process, claiming that there were additional applicants for the unit when I was the only one. This resulted in me having to pay for an extra month of rent while I was still in my old place. In addition, the unit is quite expensive for what it is, and keep finding examples of shoddy workmanship in the construction. To name a few of these issues, the unit doesn't appear to be properly insulated, the water heater is not properly housed, the sinks were not sealed around their edges, and the placement of electrical outlets are outright baffling. Suffice to say, I really feel like I'm getting hosed here.\n\nSo I'm wondering what my options are? Here is what I've been considering:\n\nA) Use the knowledge of the illegal unit to renegotiate the terms of the lease- I'm thinking 50% of the original rent, retroactively applied.\nB) Call the inspector and get out of the lease (in this scenario, would I be able to recoup rent I've already paid?)\n \nAre either of these advisable? What would you do in this situation? \n\nThanks!","title":"[Los Angeles] I think I may be renting an illegal (non-permitted) unit. What are my options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503635761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vwbd5\/finished_community_service_on_time_but_havent\/","id":"6vwbd5","body":"As the title says.\n\nFinished community service on time, mistakenly thought it got out into the system digitally and never got to turning in paperwork. Have all paperwork \n\nWhat to do?","title":"Finished community service on time but haven't turned it in, BENCH WARRANT out.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551728351,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axbbm5\/short_and_sweet_in_montana_usa_my_girlfriend_has\/","id":"axbbm5","body":"She found a replacement, but that doesn\u2019t void what her manager wanted if she couldn\u2019t. I\u2019d like to know for next time, this manager has tried pulling a couple shady things with her before. (No notice shift changes the day of, mandatory meetings she wasn\u2019t informed of, etc.)","title":"Short and sweet, in Montana USA, my girlfriend has been sick all weekend. She is still feeling sick today, and tried calling in sick to work. Her manager said she needed to find someone to cover her shift or she had to come in. She works as a server, is it legal to force a sick employee in?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1411801517,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hlkxm\/steps_to_take_for_suing_a_large_corporation\/","id":"2hlkxm","body":"Can someone please explain to me how to go about filing a lawsuit (I'm not sure which kind) against a corporation (like, say.... Apple?) for privacy concerns? After the U2 album being downloaded into our phones without our consent, I realized that this is just the beginning... Soon, phone companies, not just Apple, might be downloading content into our phones, and who's to say it will stay sporadic and not become a huge downpour of apps, albums, videos, etc.? This needs to stop before it becomes a problem, and I, personally, have issues with U2 in that their song \"God Pt. 2\" has some pretty rapey lyrics:\n\nDon't believe in forced entry\nDon't believe in rape\nBut every time she passes by\nWild thoughts escape.\n\nGross. This could be really triggering for some people and a lawsuit will, in my mind, eliminate this concern. Our phones are our personal property, and we shouldn't have to wake up in the morning with content that wasn't there the night before, that was downloaded without our consent, etc. This makes me feel like my phone is not mine, and my content is secondary to what Apple wants my phone to be, so they can promote whatever it is that they're promoting. \n\nI would like some help with what steps to take. I've never sued anyone before, and this is big... I know there's some holes in the thought process of everything, but I promise it will all come together once I spend some more time on it.\n\nEDIT: I live in San Diego","title":"Steps to take for suing a large corporation...","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1538421620,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kjeyi\/my_company_is_trying_to_get_me_to_leave_after_i\/","id":"9kjeyi","body":"I\u2019m M\/33\/UK\n\nI was diagnosed with ADHD Combined about 2 months ago after finding it difficult to listen and constantly forgetting things. I\u2019d had enough, since it has been around all my life. \n\nAt work (I\u2019m in IT for the emergency services so can be considered a safety role, as I have to make sure the network is always functioning and any mistake I make could potentially affect the effectiveness of an emergency service), my performance is on par with everyone else. All my mandatory performance reviews have been written up saying that my manager is \u2018happy with my performance\u2019. I\u2019ve worked here for 4 years. I\u2019ve never had a meeting because of poor performance. \n\nSince my diagnosis, I told my employer who then sent me for an Occupational Health assessment to see what reasonable workplace adjustments they need to make for me. All fine. \n\nHowever, since they have received that report, I\u2019ve been called into very last minute \u2018quick chats\u2019 with HR (like, \u201chave you got time now?\u201d) where they\u2019re saying they can\u2019t provide the kind of support I need. I\u2019d previously mentioned in a meeting what issues my ADHD caused me (because they asked) such as anxiety, inattentiveness and impulsiveness etc and got very upset during one such meeting just after my diagnosis when I was starting medication and the whole thing was getting on top of me (and they subsequently forced me to have a month off). \n\nThey\u2019re now saying that they can\u2019t provide the support I need and offered me a \u2018deal\u2019 (which, my sister tells me - a HR Director herself -  is basically just PILON - Payment In Lieu Of Notice. Not some lucrative deal). I have since rejected it and they keep pushing it, starting to feel like bullying me into it. Lots of scare mongering \u201cthe deal is off the table if you reject it\u201d, \u201cif you reject it and it goes down a more \u2018formal\u2019 route, we\u2019re worried you may not get as much\u201d etc. \n\nTwo other things they said, which were quite eye-opening were:\n\n\u201cif you reject it you\u2019ll HAVE to maintain performance and do your job as well as the rest of your team\u201d (plus other things of that nature) - I think they\u2019ve got that from me mentioning previously that I felt like I wasn\u2019t where I should be competence-wise. That was basically my anxiety talking, since all official and unofficial performance reviews have been pretty much glowing and one such review said I need more confidence because I\u2019m worrying too much about my level of competency. I think they\u2019re starting to venture into the \u201cyou\u2019re underperforming\u201d route. \n\n...and...\n\n\u201cThese adjustments we\u2019ve made are only temporary...\u201d. This was VERY eye-opening. Firstly, they haven\u2019t MADE any adjustments yet! Secondly, if they have\/are going to make workplace adjustments and they\u2019re temporary, they SHOULDN\u2019T be temporary, since it\u2019s not a temporary condition!\n\nI\u2019m just looking for advice really. If I\u2019m honest, I don\u2019t think I want to work there anymore, so I don\u2019t know whether to take the \u2018deal\u2019 (basically 2 months pay with maybe a grand on top - the two months is my statutory 2 months notice monies), hold out for a better deal (my reason for rejecting was that I wasn\u2019t comfortable with the amount since I don\u2019t know how long I could potentially be unemployed for, the truth) or just keep going and leave if it looks like they\u2019re going to fire me under some BS reason. \n\nIt seems to me like they don\u2019t want me working, because if I mess up and negatively effect an emergency service as a result of ADHD and they can\u2019t say they\u2019ve made reasonable adjustments, they\u2019ll get in the shit, but they can\u2019t fire me for having a disability, hence the deal. Hoping that I leave voluntarily. \n\nTL;DR - company starting to talk about performance (with no basis, as my performance has always been rated very well in mandatory performance reviews) and offering me a (really crappy) deal to leave immediately after being diagnosed with ADHD and saying they can\u2019t give me the support I need and any adjustments they do make will only be temporary. Need advice. \n\nThanks","title":"My company is trying to get me to leave after I was diagnosed with ADHD. What do I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541832965,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vscog\/us_when_is_it_considered_workplace_discrimination\/","id":"9vscog","body":"Was asked advice about this, but I don't know anything about it so I told them I'd ask around (which includes on here, yay!)\n\nFemale in her 40's, no college education. We'll call her Jane. 15 years at this company. She was given the opportunity to take job X when it opened, but with no raise in her pay despite increase in responsibilities. Jane declines. Male (late 40's\/50's I think, potentially an associates degree but definitely no bachelors) - let's call him John - takes up position making roughly 3x more. His previous position made that much and they didn't change his paygrade for the change. Position will be open again within a few years (unrelated) and company has made it clear if she fills it she will not make the same amount still. Is this really grounds for discrimination like she thinks or justifiable because his pay is a result of previous position?\n\nFor further detail, this became a problem because John is paid significantly more but struggles with the position despite several meetings and attempts to correct this. John has been in the position for over a year and is not completing work tasks on time, several months behind in some areas. Storage in the office had to be removed because he would hide work in there. His tasks are only largely completed when he goes on vacation and others are forced to pick up the work. When he is in the office others are often asked to pick up parts of his work. The previous people in the position have had no problem with the job or tasks and required no help, so this is not a problem with the job itself. Jane has done this job before with no problems when it was vacant and they were interviewing for it. The problem with being behind in this position or doing it incorrectly is that it has the potential for life threatening consequences mainly to clients due to the industry alongside millions of dollars of damage probably. (I know that sounds extreme, but I don't wish to name the industry). Jane is unsure what to do with this information but is worried the longer it goes on.","title":"[US] When is it Considered Workplace Discrimination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555502989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be70eo\/abusive_ex_getting_out_prison\/","id":"be70eo","body":"I have no where else to turn and have never posted on here so might as well. Just have some questions concerning my daughters biological father. \n\nTX\n\nI have been going through a nasty custody battle with my ex in laws for the last 3 years. The last court didn't end in my favor and I don't feel like my child is safe over there. My ex in laws were abusive to all of their kids, mentally and physically (in and out of prison, CPS problems, meth addiction, plenty of problems with the law, etc.) . I put up with a lot from them and their son as well. Their son ( my ex ) who is my daughters biological father (their son) has been in prison for the last four years of my daughters life (meth, burglary, GTA.) but will probably be getting out of prison in June (wrote me a letter after not talking for 4 years to let me know) . Since my daughter is currently living with his parents I'm terrified of him living in the same house as my baby fresh out of prison (he had a major meth problem and was abusive) . He waived his rights at the beginning of the custody battle, but at the last court hearing they didn't say anything about him, just that he waived his rights. So honestly I'm unsure if he's able to live with them as soon as he's out. I'm also scared he's going to come after me once he's out for moving on with my life. I'm currently engaged and expecting a baby with my amazing man, and I'm terrified of him finding me and trying to harm me. My daughter calls my fianc\u00e9 \"Dad\" so I'm scared shes going to slip up and call my fiance  \"Dad\" around my ex (bio dad)  and he snaps on her. She is only six so she really doesnt understand. It took me this long to feel safe, to be okay, and now I cant sleep because I have night terrors of what he will do to me and my family if he comes after me. My amazing parents have done nothing but support me and pay for all the attorney fees (10k) and I really don't want to ask them for anymore. My amazing fiance drives the 8 hours (round trip) to pick up my daughter every weekend and drop her off. Also since I just got put on child support but no longer working because I was put on bed rest because of this pregnancy he pays it. The two attorneys we have had have been awful and no help. I'm honestly so sick of all of this. I just want to feel safe.  My major concern is him being able to live with my daughter right out of prison. \n\nI'm sorry for the long post.","title":"Abusive ex getting out prison.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1538499040,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ksbs4\/im_hoping_this_is_the_right_flair_mom_hasnt\/","id":"9ksbs4","body":"My mother is a nurse for private practice. For the past 3 months, she\u2019s only been paid for one month and they docked her pay for two days she had to take off for my young sisters surgery. My mother was told the practice is having financial difficulties and basically can not afford to pay their employees. There are 5 employees\/ the doctor, her husband, my mother, the office manager, and one other person. She is salary and has been there a year as of yesterday. \nIs there anything she can do? \nIf there is any other info needed just let me know. This is a Virginia based office. ","title":"(I\u2019m hoping this is the right flair) Mom hasn\u2019t gotten paid for two months of work.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554255511,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8rwac\/friend_20_let_her_sister_15_driver_her_car_and\/","id":"b8rwac","body":"My friend has court tomorrow and doesn\u2019t know what to do. She doesn\u2019t have Reddit and I told her I would post here if anyone has any advice. She has a super clean record and is 20 this is what she said.\n\n\n\n\nMy sister who just turned 15 was driving my car back to the house and she barley tapped the car in front of her well a cop saw it happen and she was the only person in the car. So I ran from my friends to my car to talk to the cop. I got a citation for allowing an unlicensed minor drive my car and she got driving without a license and causing an accident. They cited her with allowing an unlicensed minor drive her vehicle. ","title":"Friend (20) let her sister (15) driver her car and she rear ended someone. (Ohio)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570905631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgz2lm\/my_security_coworker_got_fired_after_getting\/","id":"dgz2lm","body":"Texas State\n\nFirst off, the story is a little more complicated than just that. HR Head just hated her and was looking for a reason to fire her. Here's the groundwork: \n\nWe work overnight at a hotel. At the New Year, there was an announcement made that said coworker had won 500 dollars as a 'coworker of the year thing'. Coworker spent half on her duaghter and gave half to a family of another coworker that had been shot and killed. Then she gets a call to the HR office where they tell her that there has been a mistake, that she actually wasn't the coworker that was supposed to win adn she had to pay the money back immediately. Now as she spent the money because she was told it was hers, that was obviously a problem. She begged for time to get the money, which was refused. She asked to pay in installments which was refused. During all this, the head of HR is slamming her hand on the desk and screaming at her. Finally she scrapes enoug money together to pay them back for THEIR mistake, and brings a cashier check\/regular check to work. HR denies that method of payment stating that \"I don't know if that's real\" and takes the 500 out of her paycheck. THey immediately start looking for an opportunity to fire her. At meetings, the head of HR singles her out while applying fake sweetness and poses next to her in pictures for morale for the sole purpose of making her uncomfortable. \n\nFastforward 10 months later. \n\nWhen answering a noise complaint call, the coworker hears a guest screaming drunkenly at his wife in thier room and intercedes. THe drunk guest leaves with coworker escorting him out for the wife's safety. Guest then turns around and punches coworker in the face and screams that he's going to kill her. Coworker swings back but does not land, she's held back. She kicks out at him because he's drunk, he's assaulted her and he's threatening her life. Police do not arrive until after said guest has run away. \n\nFour days later she's summoned to a meeting where she is immediately fired. 5 years and HR refuses to let her use any paid time off to try and buy some time to find a new job. They force a resignation out of her and run her out. \n\n​\n\nI don't think she has a successful case to sue. I'm not asking for that. But we do have an integrity hotline and everything this HR head has done in this situation has felt shady and unethical, and I genuinely want to report her.. I know swinging back is probably what hurt said coworker but I sort of feel like allowances should be made when a guest is screaming he's going to murder you and then runs away before the police get there.","title":"My security coworker got fired after getting assaulted by a drunk guest","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568501879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4cf0x\/displaying_other_platforms_posts\/","id":"d4cf0x","body":"Hey guys,\n\nSo I am wondering about how legal it is to display information from a different platform to your own and make actions link back to the platform, so you see a post from Facebook somewhere else, you like it, and it likes it from your profile on Facebook, same goes for commenting etc.\n\n​\n\nAny advice is welcome! Will reply to questions!","title":"Displaying Other Platform's Posts","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568726217,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5gu9k\/tw_svu_mishandled_case\/","id":"d5gu9k","body":"I don\u2019t like talking about this subject and have never posted on a public forum before. I do know that because I was young, alone and traumatized that I didn\u2019t know the best way to advocate for myself. The SANE nurse, LVPD and the advocate I spoke to (not my original advocate, who is now gone) to help me all mishandled my case - things I learned years down the line after going to therapy and my ex pointing out key factors they either completely missed, were ignorant of or had directly told me they would not do that made zero sense. Completely failed and left him scratching his head as to how they were SVU. My kit was not tested until I followed up, which was hard for me given I\u2019ve been isolated and without familial support for pretty much most of my childhood and definitely all my adult life. It was clear they didn\u2019t want to do the paperwork.\n\nFrom what I was told, this case supposedly didn\u2019t go through because it went through the order of SVU then DA. For people who held a lot of power they missed a lot that could have helped. I don\u2019t care about anything other than the ability to sleep at night without nightmares. This has taken away the good part of a decade of my life, many times me wanting to just end it all. I don\u2019t want any discussion of my personal issues, just any help I can get in terms of the LVPD specifically. I tried to call the advocates for help but was prevented by a terrible one who shouted at me right on the second year after the assault. It\u2019s been tough for me to live life since, much less try to go back a third or fourth time to authorities who clearly cannot be bothered to do right.\n\nI\u2019m very tired and just want a real shot at justice. I want to know what the rest of my life could be like. Please.","title":"TW SVU mishandled case","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443123172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m8l12\/va_graduated_with_masters_of_teaching_this_may\/","id":"3m8l12","body":"I will try to be concise.  I would also like to preface this by asking if I am taking any risk by posting this information here.\n\nI graduated with a Master of Teaching degree this May which included applying for licensure in Virginia. While the license was pending, I was hired and given a contract in a Virginia school district.  I have been teaching since the beginning of the school year.\n\nRecently, I was told my license was no longer showing as pending or in progress.  Upon investigation, I discovered that my school never awarded me my Bachelor's degree despite meeting all of the requirements.  My school offered a special program where the Bachelor's and Master's can be worked on simultaneously, resulting in the two degrees being awarded at the same time.  However, unbeknownst to me, I was supposed to apply for the Bachelor's separately.  I applied for graduation from graduate school and was awarded the Master's with no issue, concern, or communication from my school.\n\nI am now being told by HR that I do not qualify for a teaching license and thus cannot teach.  They are threatening to reduce me to substitute teacher status, which I calculate to be a roughly 33% pay cut, plus the loss of all of my benefits and insurance.  My school is saying that the Bachelor's cannot be awarded until the end of this year, which has me looking at 3+ months of substitute status.\n\nI cannot live with that reduction in pay nor the loss of benefits.  Since I technically do not qualify for licensure (despite completing the teacher education program and other requirements), is this action within the rights of my school district?  I do have a signed contract stipulating my pay and benefits, so I was hoping someone with contract knowledge could shed some light on my options.  I could see the contract being automatically null and void, but I need to know for sure and do not trust HR to be on my side (especially in light of the hostile tone of communications thus far).\n\nAs of now, I am preparing to search for a new job as soon as they nullify my contract.\n\nThank you for your time.","title":"[VA] Graduated with Master's of Teaching this May, started teaching this August, now being told my licensure requirements have not been met - threatened with reduction to substitute status.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569114615,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7jnvc\/divorce_question_ca\/","id":"d7jnvc","body":"I\u2019ve been married for the past 5 years. I am at my breaking point. I have text messages of her being nasty. I might have videos of her screaming at me in their full context. I am the sole bread winner and frustrated with my living situation\n\n\n\n\nHow hard is it to divorce in the state of CA? \n\nI\u2019m the only one working, she does not. \n\nWhat do I need to be aware of?","title":"Divorce Question -CA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552832869,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b25oga\/legal_advice_sorry_for_the_length_and_its_just\/","id":"b25oga","body":"Hello all. \nI would like to know what my options are and what I can do to ensure my child does not end up alone in fathers care.\n\nI have a 6 month old baby who has been solely in my care since day one. I am no longer in a relationship with the father (we were never married, nor have we ever resided together- we ended our relationship shortly after our baby was born.) \nHe does not pay child support nor has he ever offered any financial support. \nHe comes over a few times a week to spend time with our baby.\nDuring his visits he is extremely chaotic and loud, and overly hyper or barely able to stay awake... he does not give any personal space to me nor the baby. He seems as though he expects us to entertain him. \nOur baby is very clingy to me \nShe will often whine and cry for me.\nHe apears to get very annoyed with this.  And has even gone so far as to pass her to me- throw his hands up in the air and walk away saying \"it only wants it's mommy....it only likes it's mommy\" yes he refered to the baby as \"it\"\n\nHe is very erratic. \nDuring his visits his behavour can go from one extreme to another. He can go from being very lethargic to overly hyper... he can sit there with both his legs shaking very badly  and you can feel the tension and the anger. It makes me feel very uneasy and insecure. \n\nHe does not use good judgment with the baby. \n\nAbout four times now, he has gone to pick her up in a way that can pop a shoulder out of place. \nWhen the baby was very little, he propped the baby up on a pillow and did not notice the baby falling  over until I saw and yelled at him.\n\nHe has propped her over a collapsable fabric box- I saw the box collapse and her fall with it. He yelled that he caught her With one hand under her back. My baby was an inch away from hitting the floor.\n\nHe can barely stay awake and he has fallen asleep with her on numerous occasions even though its not safe( he has constantly dropped his phone when he falls asleep- I cant let him drop the baby of he falls asleep)\n \nHe has now begun to spend 40-60% (varies) of his visit on his phone playing games.\nHe has even let her lay crying for a min -until i started to go get her....then he noticed. \n\nHe has a very awful temper and i am afraid he will go off on her or near her.\nWhen i was pregnant. We were in his car in my driveway- he lost his temper and started to scream and curse. After I left his car, he started screaming and cursing at the top of his lungs while banging his hands on his steering wheel. He then sped put of my driveway and down the street.\n\nAnother time he started to again curse and scream at the top of his lungs in a busy street...at himself. So he says.\n\nAnother time he aggressively threw our babies clothes because I was not getting the baby dressed yet. (I was breastfeeding  under a blanket doing skin to skin)\n\nI have had to tell him many times to keep his coffee cup away from the baby....\nInhave also heard my mother ask him to move his cup... He said \"oh yah. Dont want it to fall on the carpet.\" We were shocked ...we do not care if anything gets dirty...we do not want the baby to be hurt\n\nOne time I knocked over a mocha...it landed all over my legs and couch...i was happy it did not get the baby. He came along and started to clean up the couch...not once did he make sure I or the baby was ok. My mom asked me if it was burning. I said Yes. But at the same time we heard him from the washroom yell...\"no...just sticky\" and he washed his hands\n\nMy mother has also pointed out that he will poke the babies cheek if she chews on something he does not like..he will poke a baby in the face because shes doing something he does not agree with.\n\nHe is very manipulative and when i have voiced my concerns to him, he threatens to take me to court. \n\nHe is very immature, does not exercise good judgment, can be emotionally manipulative and emotionaly abusive...he has a horrible temper, does notbhave any empathy and is can be controlling\n\nI have many nasty texts saved from him. \n\nThank you for taking the time to read. I havr broken this post down into some of the most important points.\n\nI do not trust him alone with the baby. I can't even trust him with the baby when I am watching.\nI am scared to do or say something that will get him upset or angry incase he takes me to court (may seem silly because I have full faith in my ability as a mom) but-  what if he uses his charm and gets to have her alone in his care.\n\nThe courts are not always fair. I have seen situations before where it does not work in the best interest of the child and or mother.\n\n\nPlease, if anyone has advice.\nI want to ensure my baby is safe. \nThank you\n","title":"Legal advice. Sorry for the length (and its just some of what had gone one)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552971104,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2t37t\/tx_working_more_than_40_hours_no_overtime_pay\/","id":"b2t37t","body":"Hello all. I work at a small bank that is forcing everyone to come in on Saturday to work 4 hours. This will bring everyone fulltime (myself included) up to 44 hours this week as we normally only operate Monday through Friday.\n\nI didn't have a problem with it because the prospect of time and a half sweetened the pot for me... but today I learned from someone in middle management that no one will be recieving overtime pay for the extra few hours. Apparently because we're less than 50 employees strong, \"we are too small of a business for it to be required by law that we get time and a half.\"\n\nI immediately called bullshit but I know that there are exceptions to FLSA... And honestly I've been unable to find anything to back up this assertion that we're not legally owed anything more than standard pay rate even though it's over 40 hours work. I figured I should ask around here for some advice because even though I couldn't find any proof for their claim, that doesn't necessarily mean I'm right that they're just bullshitting us in an ostensibly illegal manner.\n\nI can answer any specifics about the situation as needed, thank you for any and all advice.","title":"[TX] Working more than 40 hours, no overtime pay","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568423079,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3yjvz\/michigan_is_it_possible_to_find_more_info_on_a\/","id":"d3yjvz","body":"I\u2019m honestly not sure if this is the right sub or flair (forgive me if it isn\u2019t), but I really need to find more info about a case, I have the screenshot of the record online but I would like to know more detail. Is there any place I could go online to search a criminal case record for more info?","title":"[MICHIGAN] Is it possible to find more info on a certain case if you have the case number?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570642231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfkdbt\/who_is_at_fault_for_a_5car_pile_up_what_is_our\/","id":"dfkdbt","body":"Location: Nashville, TN.\n\nMy boyfriend and I were leaving Nashville, TN Sunday. We were going 45 mph in wet conditions. No visible rain but the roads were slick on the interstate (440). Hence, the slow speeds. So we see a car pull into a construction lane on the left and weren\u2019t sure what was happening. We\u2019re slowing down as the traffic on Google maps says there is medium (orange) traffic ahead. So immediately after this car a couple cars ahead swerves off in the left lane that is closed off the car in front of us immediately stops. No slow down, just stops.\n\nTurns out, she was traveling too close to the car in front of them and rear-ended them. We tried to safely slow down to no avail since the roads were slick and we didn\u2019t want to risk spinning out and injuring more people. We rear end the car in front of us pretty bad. I was the passenger and personally felt as though we were at a safe distance, especially in wet conditions, but it\u2019s kind like \u201cthe damage doesn\u2019t lie\u201d you know?\n\nAnyway, the car behind us sees what happens and tries to avoid us but doesn\u2019t do a great job and rear ends us hard furthermore into the car in front of us. The 3 cars involved were 3 of 5 cars in the pile up, us being number 4, and we were all stated as driving improper distances to each respective car in front.\n\nThe either cars I\u2019m assuming are not liable in any way.\n\nWe\u2019re wondering since all three cars mentioned were totaled. How would insurance most likely handle this. Each person covers the car in front of them? Since we were rear-ended as well will my boyfriend receive compensation for his damages? I went to the hospital for a check-up since our airbags did deploy and I have whiplash and strains in my neck. Who is responsible for this? \n\nWe are not very knowledgeable of the process and would like some insight! Any and all advice will help.\n\nI\u2019ll attach the police report below.\n\n[Nashville 5-car pile-up](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/0YLzwwt)","title":"Who is at fault for a 5-car pile up? What is our fault being car 4\/5?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539657390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ojims\/cannot_find_replacement_tenant_phoenix_az_options\/","id":"9ojims","body":"My lease ends in February. $975\/mo plus pet rent and utilities. \n\nOn October 5 I tried calling my leasing office (I was out of state) to give notice to vacate because I received a job offer out of state. They said it needed to be in writing and would send me the form to sign, get notarized, and faxed back. They never sent this form despite me reaching out many times. So I was unable to get this done while out of town. \n\nFinally I got back to town and put in notice in person and filled out the form. Total owed is $1950 early termination fee and $1150 insufficient notice fee (they require 60 days and I only gave like 8) NOT including already paid rent for October. The insufficient notice fee is my rent for 52ish days. Even though I thought AZ law says they can\u2019t charge me rent if they collect rent from a new tenant (double dipping). Leasing office manager says \u201cit\u2019s not rent.\u201d Even though they use my rent to calculate it...\n\n\nI tried like hell to find someone to take over the lease over the last few days but no one has committed. I have a couple \u201cmaybe\u201d people who can\u2019t decide just yet. I have already paid rent through 10\/31. I am moving tomorrow (10\/16). I never fully submitted my notice to vacate but did discuss the fees and I decided to try my best to find someone to take over the lease instead to avoid the fees. Leasing office staff confirmed I\u2019d be off the hook if I found someone but I can\u2019t sublease. Has to be a lease takeover. \n\nNow that it looks like I won\u2019t have someone committed by tomorrow, what should\/can I do?\n\n1. Not turn in the keys yet, and continue to look for someone while out of state (I\u2019m moving to MN)? I could leave the keys under the mat for showing, or give them to a neighbor who wouldn\u2019t mind the occasional person dropping by for the keys. Said neighbors also hate the management here and one of them is retired and home all the time. If I chose this option would I just keep trying till the end of October and then end up having to pay a higher insufficient notice fee? I feel like it will be remotely harder to get rid of the apartment if I\u2019m not around. People get sketched out easily with all the housing scams going on. \n\n2. Turn the keys in tomorrow and offer them less than the $3100 and see if they will settle? I have a laundry list of things wrong with my unit and the community (tons of off leash dogs, one of which chased me and my dog down; issues getting emergency maintenance to take my broken A\/C seriously on multiple occasions in 120\u00b0 weather, community gates being left open all the time, overflowing dumpsters, the office not taking responsibility for their staffer who was supposed to send me the notice to vacate form but dodged my calls instead, downstairs neighbors who had rainwater coming through their ceiling fan for weeks). I wrote these concerns down in a letter I drafted, in which I offered to pay $500 cash, forfeit my $400 security deposit, and pointed out that they have my rent for October already and I\u2019ll be gone for half of it ($472 value!). Or if they do not want to settle for that then I\u2019ll pay them $50 a month (and I plan to, sometime down the line, unstated in the letter, offer a slightly larger lump sum to be done\u2014I just can\u2019t give them all my money right now. I have $3000 in my checking account and the rest of my cash is tied up). I\u2019m hoping with this option they will see my list of grievances and will worry about the their google or yelp reviews. The complex has fairly good reviews but management only recently changed, just this spring. I\u2019m reading their google reviews since I moved in and they are overwhelmingly negative. They had 4.2 stars when I moved in, over a couple hundred reviews. That has dropped down to 3.8 with many people saying the old management company was terrible. Management replies to all the negative reviews asking them to please contact management and even asked one person what they could do to \u201cchange those 3 stars to 5.\u201d Does this bode well for me getting my way if they see how pissed I am? I do not intend to straight up blackmail them.\n\n3. Just pay them all the money I have to satisfy their demands and walk away? This will put me behind on the home buying process in MN. Which means potentially an extra month in expensive temporary housing $1900\/mo for a furnished 1 bedroom condo that takes dogs). My down payment will be coming from a car I\u2019ll be selling as soon as I get up there (couldn\u2019t get the title in time, just paid it off), a sizeable signing bonus from my new employer, and my first couple paychecks. I need 1% ($2500-3000) to put down with my offer. My hope was to put in an offer as soon as I get to MN this weekend and close by the end of November.\n\n4. Leave a negative google review right now and see if that gets their attention? \n\nShould note this is a multistate corporate property management firm. I have no doubt they have lawyers. Do you think they\u2019d come after me for the money if I said I\u2019m only giving them X amount of dollars (see option 2) and they end up finding a tenant? The community is fairly large. I see moving trucks almost every day. I don\u2019t know how quickly they typically fill units. When I moved in there were 3 1-bedroom units to choose from. It wasn\u2019t a waitlist situation. But it was also June, not everyone\u2019s favorite time to move in Phoenix. Now that it\u2019s cooler maybe it will pick up. Front office told me their lease extension rates were 22%. Recent google reviews complain about the rent being jacked up. This may be the cause for all the moving trucks lol. Not sure. ","title":"Cannot find replacement tenant. Phoenix AZ - options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554757272,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baz3n7\/car_accident_on_suspended_license_no_other_driver\/","id":"baz3n7","body":"1 year ago, I had a seizure while driving. My license was suspended. I got cleared from a neurologist and gave him the DMV paperwork to sign. Never heard back from him after. \n\nLast weekend, I was driving my siblings car (we are on the same insurance), and I hit metal pipes from construction nearby.\nThe pipes completely destroyed the front of the bumper. I was going to call insurance to file a claim, but I realized my license might still be suspended. I never got a confirmation, which is my fault. I should have confirmed a year ago if the paperwork was filed. \n\nIf I call the insurance to file a claim, and my license was still suspended, what will happen?","title":"Car Accident on Suspended License, No Other Driver Involved CA","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508544795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77q6so\/ca_family_court_advice_for_increasing_time_spent\/","id":"77q6so","body":"Hello All, first off I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my post.  \n\nI have created a throwaway account because I have recently stumbled into some \u201cissues\u201d concerning my daughter and was hoping to get the best possible advice.\n\nIssues:  I recently attended family court for my daughter against her Mother who has decided that after 8 years of no court orders, that it is now time to have this \u201cin writing\u201d.  I went from spending every weekend with my daughter to every 1st, 3rd, & 5th weekend of the month and every Thursday.  My ultimate goal is to achieve a 2-2-5-5 custody and visitation schedule.  My second issue is when my daughter has events that she wants to attend, or mom planned, that conveniently fall on my weekends.  Am I in the wrong for denying events that fall on my days?\n\nBackstory: Over the past 8 years I have had the pleasure of spending every weekend with my daughter since there were no court orders inhibiting me from doing so.  Like stated above, I was served papers and attended court to \u201csettle\u201d the situation but I can\u2019t shake the feeling that I drew the short straw in all this.  I went from spending every weekend (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) of every month (effectively ~43% of the time) to a permanent once a week and every 1st, 3rd, & 5th weekend of the month (~25% of the time for 2018).  Along with losing time I was also slapped with child support, which was in Mom\u2019s favor now since I lost ~18% of my time with my Daughter.  Since I now spend less time with my daughter the amount of child support I need to pay I feel is too high and I want to fight to be able to earn more time with my daughter, and lower the amount of child support.  Mom is currently making more money than me and I find it frustrating that I have to pay her money now.  Today I was notified by Mom that my daughter has a friend that is going away and she made plans to take her without my knowledge and thus cutting into my time with my daughter.   I don\u2019t want to be the \u201cbad\u201d parent, but part of me wants to say no to having her picked up early to attend.  Lastly, Mom of child never seems to \u201ctrust\u201d me and shows up on days I pick up my Daughter from school \u201cjust in case\u201d, is this reportable?  It truly feels as if Mom wants to ensure that it is me picking up my Daughter and no one in my support group (Daughters Grandfather, Gf..Etc.)\n\nQuestions:\n\n\u2022\tWhat are my options in terms of current visitations, will it hurt me in the long run to deny events that are planned on my time?\n\n\u2022\tHow can I eventually gain more time with my daughter if the \u201ccase isn\u2019t closed\u201d and orders are temporary\n\n\u2022\tAny way to lower the child support since I have another family that I need to support.  \n\n\u2022\tWhen should\/shouldn\u2019t be documented to provide in court \n\n*Thank you for your feedback ahead of time I really appreciate the advice you all give and please let me know if additional information is needed.  \n\nEdit: it should be worth mentioning that Mom and I were never married and never lived together. ","title":"[CA] Family Court advice for increasing time spent with daughter.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570742722,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg4tc9\/do_glitches_in_software_and_video_games_fall\/","id":"dg4tc9","body":"So this is something I been wondering about for years now.   \n\n\nLike for example If someone took an image of MIssingno, (A glitch pokemon from the first pokemon games that was not intended by the creators and Nintendo doesn't acknowledge) and put that image on like a shirt or put the exact image of that glitch pokemon int their game, would they be breaking Nintendo and game freaks copyright over the pokemon series even though they don't acknowledge that glitch as being part of the series?\n\nOr if game or software internally puts the same glitch from another game into their game down to the same way of activating the glitch as a reference or easter egg?  \n\n\nMostly asking this out of curiosity more so than immediate legal need. I see people reference missingno and the Y2K a lot in pop culture and have had that question in the back of my head.","title":"Do Glitches in software and video games fall under the same copyright as the rest of the work even though they are unintentional and tends to be patched out of the work?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552721873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1pxs7\/offtheclock_work_hermiston_or\/","id":"b1pxs7","body":"My first look here. \n\nMy friend is a caregiver, working with the elderly. She is often forced to work after clocking off to \"finish her duties\" because they refuse to pay O\/T. \n\nI know there are some jobs that are exceptions to the rule, but I can't find a real list. And the company is very petty, so she needs to figure it out and come at it the right way so she doesn't end up unemployed.\n\nCan they force her to work off the clock? If not, what can she do about it?\n\nThank you for your time!","title":"Off-the-clock work, Hermiston, OR","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552542402,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0wm6j\/how_long_can_i_live_in_my_apartment_lobby_and\/","id":"b0wm6j","body":"My building has an area after you enter the front entrance where the mailboxes are and leads to the stairs up to the apartment floors. There's a comfy couch in the lobby and there's enough room for me to not be in the way of anyone.\n\nMy question is are there any laws that prohibit me to just hang out there for long periods at a time. And how far could I push this. Setup a monitor and bring my PlayStation and play games xD \n\nTake naps?\nBring my own big comfy chair and leave it there?\nThis lobby is probably 3x the size of my studio \n\nMy apartment in SF is a studio and is very small so sometimes its just nice to have a change of scenery ","title":"How long can I live in my apartment lobby and what would I be allowed to do there?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441832620,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kapxf\/does_grandpa_have_any_legal_standing_to_take_back\/","id":"3kapxf","body":"Last year, my parents-in-law divorced, and MIL moved in with us for a while. Since my husband and I were just starting out (We live in Oklahoma), her father, hence known as Grandpa (lives in California), gave us a thank-you gift of $25,000, on the conditions that $5000 automatically go to MIL (she was and still is unemployed, got nothing in divorce, Grandpa had even paid for lawyer) and the rest be used on a down payment on a house.\nWe shopped, picked out, and bought a house. The $20K wasn't quite all we needed for the down payment, but we made it work from our savings. Grandpa filled out a gift affidavit while we were going through the mortgage process.\n\nNow, 11 months later, MIL has moved back in with her parents in CA, and Grandpa is asking for us to pay him $1000\/month because he suddenly can't afford to pay for his wife to be in the nursing home. He has a net worth of over $6mil. \nWe're not really sure why he's asking this of us, but we told him that's not something that is possible. We barely live past paycheck to paycheck, I'm still in college, and now we have a house to maintain. \n\nDoes he have any legal way to try to collect this from us? He has never mentioned it being a loan until today, the word has always been gift. We have emails from this time last year, with the word gift in them. If we had known this was supposedly a loan, we would never had taken it. We only felt okay taking it as a gift, because we saw it as \"payment\" for taking full monetary responsibility for MIL for 7 months.\nAt what point do we contact a lawyer? We don't really have the money to get one, but he's known to sue people, even his own grandchildren.","title":"Does Grandpa have any legal standing to take back a large gift?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553457988,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b50u6o\/washington_landlord_wants_us_out_by_may_1st_how\/","id":"b50u6o","body":"Yesterday we got a letter in the mail, our landlord wants to sell the house we currently live in, so she wants us out by May 1st. We havent broken any terms on the lease, or missed any rent. We have been living in the house for a year, and only recently able to get her to come over with a lease to sign. From my understanding it was a two-year lease. She has not yet put the house on the market. From my understanding we are supposed to be given more time to move out, is this true? ","title":"WASHINGTON. Landlord wants us out by May 1st, how much notice am I supposed to be given?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554393360,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9eiaz\/out_of_pocket_outside_insurance_payment_goes_to\/","id":"b9eiaz","body":"Valet company dented my door. Got quotes to him, not sure what happens next. Does he send payment for repair to me or straight to one of the autobody shops i got a quote from?","title":"Out of pocket (outside insurance) payment goes to person or auto shop?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443352148,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mkem1\/enquiry_if_this_is_illegal_or_just_immoral_usa\/","id":"3mkem1","body":"Now this is more of an enquiry then anything else. \n\nA week or so ago, a famous youtuber attempted suicide resulting in iriversible brain damage and was some days later, had life support turned off. His friends and family where all affected and are taking their time to recover, luckily with all fans completely understanding. This is relevant\n\nBut my question is: Is RP another person legal, even if that person has passed? \n\nAs some days ago a twitter account had appeared, claiming to be \"Role Playing\" as the passed Youtuber, resulting in the fan base being affected, and possibly the friends and family of the passed Youtuber. I know that Identity thief to acquire attention of monitory gains is 100% illegal, but I don't know if its still illegal to role play another user just for attention. Some person are claiming that since they are not outright saying \"I am *Deceased Youtuber*\" its okay and the RP account seems to constantly delete its tweets and had changed its twitter name.\n\nThank you for your time regardless.","title":"Enquiry if this is illegal or just immoral (USA)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1549412824,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ankrcv\/ohio_coworker_threatened_my_lifespat_on_me_i_was\/","id":"ankrcv","body":"I was working as a temp through a staffing agency and my former coworker is full time at the company.\nBlue collar work. \nFriday my coworker and I were having our daily friendly (but coarse) banter that even management had partaken in. He snapped and went serious. He said he would stab me outside of work. He said it twice. Off camera, he spat on the back of my neck. (Convicted felon, knife scars all over) I went to management. They took my story and someone whom I thought was a witness. They took my coworkers story this Monday. HR did not believe I was in danger even after I told them that he continued to harass me throughout the work day Monday and that I did not feel safe working in the same area. \n\nI have a better than perfect record and multiple character witnesses describing me positively. \n\nI got a call today saying that the company requested that my employment be terminated.\n\nI've spoken with my managers and they cannot believe I was fired and my coworker was not. \n\nI already have another job lined up so I'm not worried about being fired, just about my coworker not having been fired as well. \n\nIs there any legal recourse, suit\/action I can take against the company I was placed at, temp agency, or am I SOL?\nIs filing a police report against my coworker a viable option?\n","title":"[Ohio] Coworker threatened my life\/spat on me. I was fired. He was not.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570480463,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/depbkb\/neighbor_sells_cars\/","id":"depbkb","body":"Hello, I was wondering if I could do something about my front neighbor. He sells cars from home; He has almost all street full with cars parked. He already got in an argument, with a neighbor next to me last week about the problem. Because we don't have where to park. we have three cars and two of them we have to park them like 5 houses away. I don't want to be a bad neighbor, but this is already pissing me off.","title":"Neighbor sells cars","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552449446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0hggu\/my_ex_landlord_is_making_life_hard\/","id":"b0hggu","body":"Plain and simple, I wasn't patient. I stayed 1 night in this apartment, the people I lived with were moving out in a short amount of time so I was in panic mode and found the cheapest listing on Facebook. Moved in, payed 550 for the month, stayed a night and within 2 days I was out of the apartment living in a lot better situation, nicer place, neighborhood, price, all of it. I explained I would like some rent money back as I only stayed 1 night (seriously, in and out in 2 days) there is no documentation of her saying that there would be no refund allowed through text, email, or rent invoice (I paid through the square app) do I have any rights to get any money back? Or am I completely screwed? Any help is appreciated","title":"My ex Landlord is making life hard.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445360925,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pij94\/al_prosecuting_the_dead\/","id":"3pij94","body":"A person close to me, let's call her Alice, was sexually abused as a child. Many years later she realized how the abuse had affected her. Thanks to no statute of limitations she was able to press charges. Her abuser was indicted, arrested, and arraigned. However, he died before the case was able to go to trial.\n\nI assume that since he is dead the case will not go to trial. My question is how will the case be disposed? He is on record as being charged but obviously not convicted. Alice was going to seek some financial restitution from the trial. The money wasn't an issue, but more symbolic as she was going to donate it to a charity group for abuse survivors. Any chance of suing the estate, or is that too unlikely without a criminal conviction? Is there a way to have him labelled as a sex offender posthumously? He had other victims, too. Some known, and possibly some that are not known. It would be nice for them to know that there was at least an attempt to bring him to justice. ","title":"[AL] Prosecuting the dead","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569443950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d99923\/ga_working_in_a_position_with_completely\/","id":"d99923","body":"Background: This is a state institution within Georgia, USA. I am outside of any probationary period and (supposedly) cannot be terminated without warning, even being in an at-will state due to this. \n\nI applied and was hired into a position in June 2018 that listed the main responsibilities of the position as processing background investigations, approving individuals for hire into the company, and all other tasks related to the hiring process within Human Resources. It was listed as a purely transactional position with little to no variance. This position is non-exempt, paid hourly, and my rate is $18.59\/hour. \n\nFrom August 2018 to present, I have been made to work exclusively in data analysis, integration configurations, acting system administrator, and also act as a liaison to leadership to present statistics regarding the processes within Human Resources. This change has come with no compensation increase and my job description still says I do backgrounds, when I have not done anything of the sort in over a year. Nothing in my job description mentions any of the work I currently do. \n\nThis change, originally, was willingly, as it was requested I transition into data management due to my skill set in this area; however, this was after a facilitated conversation with my original supervisor. I was instructed to apply for a position that matched these duties and responsibilities, which I did and it was approved; however, I was never officially 'hired' into this position nor was my job description changed. My compensation has also not been adjusted to these additional duties or responsibilities. \n\nAdditionally, I am constantly contacted by my supervisor's direct supervisor for reports and work outside of our standard 40-hour work week. I am instructed to report these hours; however, I have multiple documented instances of these requests being made when I am on scheduled, approved paid leave, which has now disrupted and ruined vacations. Most recently, I informed the supervisor that I was unavailable and was left on read, then not spoken to upon returning to work. I informed my actual supervisor of this, who said that I should not have been working and that individual who contacted me did not go to him; however, they are his direct supervisor. \n\nBetween the incorrect job duties, constant demands to work outside of my schedule even when on leave, and the general work I do each day, e.g., training, presenting, facilitating meetings, teaching, etc., it was suggested to me by an individual in our classifications area that I am in the incorrect position, thus I should demand to move. I presented data from comparable positions to my current work in our institution, as well as market data based on my duties that show I should be in an exempt position, with the average salary starting \\~48K\/year. This market data was validated by my supervisor. \n\nSeveral months ago, I expressed concern to this area, specifically doing a job that isn't what I was hired to do. Since then, my boss asked me to write what my job description should look like, which he approved of and planned to take higher up, as well as the aforementioned market data related to my area. It has now been months and after recent discussion, nothing will be changing nor will I be compensated. I am still expected to do the same work each day, which is increasing in workload and strain, as well as taking a significant toll on my mental health. Prior to coming into the job, I was finally off of any antidepressants or medications, but have since relapsed into severe depression and inability to eat due to stress. \n\nIn addition to this, I am being asked to assist in interviewing and hiring individuals into senior positions that I qualify for, which means I am not eligible nor allowed to even applied. \n\nIs this a valid case for an employment lawyer, and if so, what type of lawsuit is this? I assumed hostile work environment at first due to being asked for work constantly outside of my hours; however, I am more concerned with getting compensated for the duties I have been asked to do for over a year now. \n\nIf this is a valid case, what documentation is recommended to gather? I have been keeping logs of most things due to reporting my hours; however, if I am going in for a consultation, I want to make sure I am bringing as solid information as possible.","title":"[GA] Working in a position with completely different duties and responsibilities than applied for; denied promotion or transfer to appropriate position, as well as constantly being asked to work outside of schedule.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551855185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axvwlc\/broken_promises_payreviewswork_location\/","id":"axvwlc","body":"California.\n\nI work at a 5 year old \"start up\" in los Angeles. I've been with the company for almost 2 years. When I started I was told my compensation and verbally promised a raise after 90 days.\n\nShortly before the 90 days was up there was a company wide email that there would be no increases with reviews until we got oir next round of funding. After we got a small round of funding we were told that we still needed a bigger roubd of funding and all raises would be retroactive to Jan 1. Now a year later we've had multiple small rounds of funding with no increases and the company is loosing people every week, we're down to abpit 1\/4 of the size we were while replacing some peole with staff in our over seas offices.\n\nIn the last year ive been promoted 3 times and demoted once (in title not pay grade) when I was promoted back I initially refused due to lack pf compensation amd was told, well do it tell we find a replacement and was given no choice, the work was just put on me. \n\nNow after my second review where I was told I was doing an okay job, could do better, and I was lucky to even have the job. I was also informed that I had to be back in the office 5 days a week, after previously told I could work remotely since 90% of my team was either remote or pit of the office. It was painted as a requirement of my role, where as the person that replaced me and quit when I was demoted was fully remote and in a different state.\n\nAfter my review, my supervisor told HR that I had resigned and there wqs literal cheers and I was called a martyr. They were then told it was a joke and my boss was jeered for \"getting there hopes up\" \n\nThere is a huge discrepancy in my compensation and what others at my pay grade are making. I was told by HR I would get that level of compensation retroactively \"when funding came in\". HR has also said there is a salary increase and hiring freeze yet there is documentations of others getting pay increases for there promotions. \n\nI feel like the well is already poisoned and I'm just being tossed along tell they hire a replacement then demote me again with no increase or retroactive compensation. The new hires are disberging large non American and H1 workers since \"they cant quit and there not lazy Americans \" almost all of management is non American and finance \/ HR being the only American staff. (For the record American being citizens or nationalized citizens. ) upper management consists of all foreign nationals and foreign nationals seem to get the promotions if they are of the same ethnic groups. \n\nOther then TtaL what would LA suggest, what documentation should I gather? Do I have any hope of seeing that raise money? ","title":"Broken promises pay\/reviews\/work location","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554486495,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9ubld\/car_got_the_repo_treatment_i_have_a_question\/","id":"b9ubld","body":"fell behind on my Title loan payments, shame on me i know.\n\nI was saving up to catch up and secure my  loan but my car got towed. My license plates weren't on my car since i always take them off when i park in my complex ever since my tags got ripped off and they were stolen once and My vin# isn't visible so im not sure if that make it an illegal tow but anyways does the tow yard have the right to go into my car and take all of my possessions out? i asked them and they said \"we used the same tools that Triple A does to get into your car\". I live in Southern California in case anyone is wondering. again i know shame on me for falling behind payments but im curious ","title":"Car got the Repo treatment, i have a Question","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571760961,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlk6i9\/can_someone_begin_including_interest_on_a\/","id":"dlk6i9","body":"Hi, all- the nutshell for the beginning of this story is that I\u2019m working on paying back a loan from an ex. This isn\u2019t a dispute of if I owe the money- I already agreed to pay her back.\n\nI\u2019d been giving her $150 each month from December 2018 - June 2019. In June, I told her I might be moving from Los Angeles to Oregon, and I don\u2019t know what my money situation would be for the next couple of months. I was already paycheck-to-paycheck, so I was uncertain of what would happen.\n\nI know it wasn\u2019t wise to quit my job and move to a new state with no plan, but that\u2019s what happened. I moved into my mom\u2019s place, and have been having trouble finding a job.\n\nI\u2019m pretty behind on this loan, and texted my ex to let her know that I haven\u2019t found a job yet, that I\u2019m looking, and I was very clear that I wasn\u2019t avoiding her or purposefully dodging these payments.\n\nShe responded with the fact that she\u2019s \u201cconcerned about these delays\u201d and that if I can\u2019t pay in November that she\u2019ll have to \u201cbegin charging me interest.\u201d I was careful to let her know that I have no income and $65 in my bank account right now, and that it would be like trying to get blood from a stone. If I had the money, she would be the first to know because I want this all over with as soon as possible.\n\nMy question is- can she do that- Just begin adding interest in the middle of a loan?\n\nAny insight would be appreciated, and I can answer any questions\/provide more details if needed- thanks!","title":"Can someone begin including interest on a personal loan? (California\/Oregon)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552749631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1tjbk\/boss_is_withholding_my_last_paycheck\/","id":"b1tjbk","body":"For the past few months I have been trying to get my last paycheck from a job that I have over the summer back at home in NJ (I normally live in Boston where I attend college). In the past, my boss would hold onto it in the store and give it to me the next time I am in town. However when I returned in December he said that he mailed it to my house. I looked through all of the recent mail and my mother said she never saw the check arrive at our house.\n\nWhen I told him this he said he would cancel it through their payroll service and have the funds put on my next check. However he never did this while I was in town and also failed to set up direct deposit as I had tried to do for over a year to avoid having this be an issue in the future. I never saw that last summer check or the last check from my time there in December or January and he never communicated to me how I would be getting the money from those two pay periods even though I asked him multiple times.\n\nI was in town recently for a week and before I arrived and while I was in town I messaged him asking how I could get my money and he never replied. I stopped into the store and he was not around and no one knew when he would be around. I ended up leaving town again having absolutely no clue when I would get my check and it's been 6 months. It's not a huge amount of money but it's around $700 and I could really sue that, especially since I earned it.\n\nI should also add that right before this my mom stopped in to buy something and he saw her and spoke to her very briefly and told her he had found that check he said he mailed months ago in his apartment and that he would give it me if I came in town soon. So he basically admitted that he never mailed it and that he never even tried to cancel it and put the money on a new check. \n\nI was wondering if there is any way I could at least get a subpoena to get his attention and possibly get a settlement so I can finally have him acknowledge that I need to receive my money.","title":"Boss is withholding my last paycheck","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409017255,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2el4yf\/florida_tenant_signed_12_month_lease_they_have\/","id":"2el4yf","body":"Can I rent the unit upon their move-out or when their lease actually expires?  ","title":"[Florida] Tenant signed 12 month lease. They have agreed to paid through the lease, but will be vacating (turning in keys) the premises before lease expires due to job transfer.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539462963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nx16n\/a_proper_way_to_go_about_this_issue_at_my_place\/","id":"9nx16n","body":"I work in the Peoria County, of Illinois for a retail place. \n\nMy original Manager only had her job, because a guy from Chicago the supervisor had a sweet spot for her. When he was either let go, or fired I never heard which, she got sacked two days later.\n\nNow they had three people to pick from who would have made great Managers. All of them are senior members there with a lot of experience, tons of if not full availability, etc.\n\nThe new manager is this young, woman who hasn't even been there 90 days. A woman who as far as I can tell doesn't know how to do half the crap in there, nor does she have the availability needed for a Manager type position, and while I'm not 100% I'm thinking the new supervisor is \"sweet\" on her the same way the old one was for my Ex-Manager. He even sends her text, not like asking how the store is doing. I mean he just sends her texts.\n\nA lot of my co-workers are pretty peeved. One lady, in particular, I think deserved the promotion way more. She's been there longer, has open availability, busts her butt every day she's there and knows how to do everything.\n\nSome of my co-workers are threatening to quit over it, citing her lack of credentials.\n\nIs there a proper, legal way to go about this? I don't want to get the girl fired or anything, but I do agree that it's unfair, and honestly unethical that she seems to have only been handed the title because the supervisor has a crush on, or is possibly dating her.\n\n","title":"A proper way to go about this issue at my place of business (Peoria County, Illinois)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1504489546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xxbn8\/do_rules_not_written_on_the_lease_still_apply\/","id":"6xxbn8","body":"For the house I'm renting, if the landlord starts telling me rules about the house that are not written on the lease, do they still apply? \n\nE.x. no parties, no drinking, no guests\/no boyfriends","title":"Do rules not written on the lease still apply? (Ontario, Canada)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555605773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/benr6v\/letting_agents_have_lied_to_the_council_and_are\/","id":"benr6v","body":"I live in an 8 person student property in the UK, we rent the place off of a notoriously sketchy letting agency. From what I understand, the property doesn't comply with council rules regarding ample amounts of living space for the number of people.\n\nYesterday the building manager from the agency came to the house unnannounced and told my housemate that there was going to be a council inspection to see whether or not the property is compliant. To pass the inspection though, he said that they would have to remove all of my belongings and evidence that I live there, and for us to pretend that my bedroom is a living room. He is going to put sofas, a coffee table etc in there. He said he would then move it all back to normal later that afternoon once the inspection is done.\n\nAm I in any way obligated to let the agency remove my stuff to mislead the council?\n\nIf I don't play along then the agency will fail the inspection. They will then surely be forced by the council to permanently make my room a living room, leaving me homeless. At no point during our tenancy (8 months) were we made aware that my room was not supposed to be a bedroom. There has been a bed, desk etc in there from when we moved in. If I do play along I have to completely move out of my room for a day and lie to the council. \n\nIrrespective of that, should we have been informed that the house is under the minimum allowed living space threshold at the start of our tenancy? Do we have a chance at a rent reduction?\n\nHelp would be greatly appreciated as (conveniently for the agency) no legal advice is available during Easter Weekend and the inspection is due next week","title":"Letting agents have lied to the council and are now trying to remove all of my belongings from my room to pass a council inspection.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503297690,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v17u8\/al_is_this_a_legal_way_of_kicking_me_out\/","id":"6v17u8","body":"Okay, so for context, back in April, my buddy wanted me and my girlfriend to rent a home with him and his pregnant girlfriend. Before we moved, we talked about how me and my SO would not be there for only maybe 6 or 7 months or so, which is a good bit after their baby was to be born, and we understood that. Only a few days after moving in was it hinted at that we may would have to leave a bit earlier than that. It wasnt talked about much and was kind of a dismissive conversation. Both of us pay half and half on the bills. (($500 rent+ power+ water+ internet)\/2). He said he would take care of the entire deposit even though I offered to cover my half and he didnt ask me beforehand. I thought this was fine at the time because I knew this was not a permanent location for me and my SO. Anyways, fast forward to about the middle of June when he told me one night that me and Maegan need to try and find somewhere else to live because their baby is coming and they want the house to themselves and they need the third (our) bedroom for whatever purposes and such. I told him that I understand and that I would start to look, but there was no guarantee that we would be out of there by the date he gave me (August 31st) and that it MOST LIKELY WOULD NOT happen. He agreed and said he understood. Fast forward to about two days ago when he asked if we had started packing yet because its getting close to the date and he could give us maybe one or two more days after the day to leave but that was it. I told him that the 1-2 more days is laughable and I began telling him that we have every right to be there after that date, but that doesnt mean that we werent trying to get out of there. They proceeded to go off about how they own the house and they can do what they want to with it and that we are the subtenants and that they are the main tenants, even though all of the bills are (50-50) and we both deal with the landlord directly (to pay bills and such). They then threatened to move all of our shit out themselves and I told them that they had better not touch our shit. We eventually just began ignoring and avoiding each other but when I got up today, I found [this](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PtpbUI7.jpg) on the fridge. I was just wanting to know what rights I have as a tenant (with no contract or lease) and what parts of this can really be done. Thanks and feel free to ask any questions.","title":"[AL] Is this a legal way of kicking me out?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570805241,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgg7t6\/got_fired_for_taking_an_employees_well_being_more\/","id":"dgg7t6","body":"I was fired recently over closing the business down a couple hours before closing time. There was only two of us working at the time. Reason I did it was due to one of my employees injuring themselves on the job and could've seriously lost a hand. They were about to just quit and leave when I just decided that I was going to close up early since there was no traffic\/customers at all so that they didn't have to continuously hurt themselves working maintenance since it wasn't even their job. \n\nFast forward 4 days and suddenly I'm being terminated for closing early. They must have had their minds made up already because they had the termination paperwork on hand from a previous day when the printer and internet wasn't even working. I would've been the only person working alone in a 4-5 person job so it didn't make sense to keep it open if I couldn't run the business. \n\nIts been upsetting and I feel like I was targeted and terminated wrongfully over this when other people have done so much worse.","title":"Got fired for taking an employee's well being more seriously than the business","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507174155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74deze\/new_yorkchanged_the_password_and_email_to_a\/","id":"74deze","body":"Long story short, my friend was unable to pay for a server our group uses. He asked me if I could pay for it for a while and I said yes. So a couple months go by and he doesn't like a joke I made, which he took badly. So he said he was going to shut it down. I changed the password, since I had been paying it for a few months now, and he freaked out, saying that I am in big trouble now. So what trouble am I in?\n\n*Edit* The ex-friend came into the server and threatened me. As well as threatened me on facebook.","title":"[New York]Changed the password and email to a server I have been paying, ex-friend said that what I did was illegal. Is it?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570910464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh03b7\/nosey_landlord_california\/","id":"dh03b7","body":"So I have lived in a new house for a month and I found out the landlord is really nosey. To pay rent, they want us to let them know when they can come by and pick it up. They also want to check the air filter and pour some stuff treatment the toilet for the septic tank EVERY MONTH. The problem is. I think this a way to do a little inspection (with our invitation required to pay rent) every time. She peeked in our bedroom and saw we have our bed on a base, but without a bed frame on the floor. She said this was a violation because we have to have a frame (checked the lease, no such language). She also said I can\u2019t put my sponges on the windowsill in the kitchen. I explained I only put touch-dry ones up there to thoroughly dry in the sun so they don\u2019t get stinky. Anyways, is this a violation of the covenant of quiet enjoyment?","title":"Nosey Landlord - California","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539806120,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p218a\/im_planning_on_starting_a_marketplace_for_vendors\/","id":"9p218a","body":"The website will feature x amount of creators to sell, take commissions, or offer auctions of digital goods to interested buyers or commissioners. To help prevent fraud there are safeguards in place. For example let's say that Cindy wants to purchase a custom service for twenty five dollars from Jonathan. That transaction would be frozen in limbo and not accessible until Jonathan sent the file to Cindy. Now on the back-end I'll be able to track ALL elements of the transactions and than proceed to have the transaction sent to Jonathan's bank account\/Paypal. Alternatively if jonathan hasn't proceeded to provide an update past the expiration date and ignoring messages I'll be able to refund the buyer. \n\nIn a perfect world it would be ideal that both parties would be able to settle any issues without involvement from moderators or admins, but that won't always be the case. \n\nIs there anything that I should provide in the terms of service or FAQ? What other safeguards (if any) should I have in place? ","title":"I'm planning on starting a marketplace for vendors to sell digital goods. How can I ensure that I'm protected from potential lawsuits? Do I need to worry? (Online, US based)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551402765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avyo20\/black_mold_in_apartment_found_as_im_packing_up_to\/","id":"avyo20","body":"So I found black mold in the closet with the sub pump in it. All underneath a couple boxes back there. Now I have been having this unexplained chronic cough since the end of December. I also had a bag of clothes back there that were soaked and covered in mold. And the door to this room is in my bedroom and the bottom of the door is broken so this could have easily been sleeping into my bedroom this entire time. \nIn addition to this, the kitchen sink has been broken for at least 2 weeks now and never has hot water. There was a flood in here the other day from the apts upstairs and I also had water damage. About $70 worth of dirty laundry because it all got soaked and smelly. Also lost some other important papers. \nNow the reason I\u2019m having to move 3 months into my year long lease is because I have been so incredibly sick that I have to move back home and have my family take care of me. I am now very concerned about my health and am wondering what, legally, I can do. I want my security back for having to deal with this and to cover my medical expenses I have had!! \nThey are keeping my security deposit of $1,300 because I did not give them 30 days notice, and also asked for a \u201ccouple hundred dollars\u201d to cover and utilities I do not pay. I owe $130 on my utilities and they are checking the meter tomorrow for this past months. It\u2019s just electric and they had told me it would only cost $60 a month and it turned out to be twice as much each month. So they want me to give them more money in the case that I dont pay it. I mean at this point I\u2019m not paying shit and I want my money back, if not more. I feel like I\u2019m going to faint now that I actually touched it and feel like I can\u2019t breath and I can\u2019t stop coughing.\nI\u2019m heading to the hospital right now. My girlfriend is calling an ambulance for me as I can\u2019t even make it up the stairs and we have to rely on public transport.","title":"Black mold in apartment found as I\u2019m packing up to leave. I have had a very bad cough since December and still have it. They want more money from me, and are not giving me back my security. Is there something I can do to get that back?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554821737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb8wdj\/i_never_paid_my_deductible_because_the_other\/","id":"bb8wdj","body":" I\u2019ve never been in an accident, so I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s going on, I just don't want to get in trouble. If I'm in the wrong place I can remove the post.   \n\n\n7 months ago, a drunk driver hit my car parked in front of my house. They caught the person and the police gave me their insurance information.  \nLike I mentioned, I\u2019d never been in an accident, I\u2019m 25, no parents. So I called my insurance and gave them the other party\u2019s insurance and they said they would take care of it.  \n\n\nLater, I get a call back from my auditor, saying that the other person denied hitting me so I would have to pay my deductible. They way she worded it, I got the impression that they would automatically deduct it from the account set up for my payments, so I told her I was okay with it. She asked me a couple other questions and never brought up the deductible again.  \n\n\nThey never charged my account for the deductible, instead they charged my regular rate the next month. It was $20 more than normal but my auditor was impossible to get a hold of the entire time (I tried to a get a rental and never got an answer).  \n\n\nEventually after 3 months of this, I brought it up to my insurance agent. From what I could see, my totaled car was still on my insurance, although it had been declared a total loss.  \n\n\nHe looks into it, the insurance company acknowledges the mistake and gives me credit on my sister\u2019s car\u2019s policy through the next 5 months.  \n\n\nYesterday I got a check in the mail for the refund of the deductible I never paid. I double checked my finances and I\u2019m positive I didn\u2019t pay it. My sister's logic is that they charged me the deductible in payments and that I should keep the check. I feel like that doesn't make any sense because even if they did charge it in payments, it was credited back to the account?\n\n​\n\nI'm not sure if it matters but location is UT. My insurance company is based in KS however.","title":"I never paid my deductible because the other driver was at fault, received refund check 7 months later. What do I do?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1442077476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kok1y\/ga_someone_got_a_hold_of_my_friends_car_title_and\/","id":"3kok1y","body":"I was catching up with a friend recently and he was telling me about how he quit his previous job. What surprised me is he told me that before he left his boss stole his car. I asked how he could just steal his car. He said that his old boss went through my friend's desk at work and found his car title (probably shouldn't have kept it in his desk in the first place), forged my friend's signature, and filed the falsified paperwork with the DMV. I asked him what he's done so far. He said he went to the police and tried to report it as stolen, but they don't consider it stolen since it's currently in possession of the person whose name is on the title. He filed a police report anyways and got the number, but they can't press any charges since they don't have any evidence that a crime has been committed. It's just his word against his boss'. They told him to have the DMV handle it since they possess the documents. He went to the DMV and they said that they don't see anything wrong with the paper work. As far as the government is concerned his former boss now owns the car. That's all he's told me he's done so far. What other actions are available for him to take? I just can't believe that it's just that simple to steal a car leaving absolutely no legal recourse that can be taken. Could he contact his insurance company? I've never personally sold a car before, but after digging around it seems that to legally change ownership of a vehicle you would need signatures on not only a title but also a bill of sale and that at least the title would have to be notarized. Is that correct, and if so wouldn't that also implicate the notary or leave a paper trail with the notary? I also don't know if anyone at his former place of employment was a notary or not, but I guess it's not beyond the realm of possibility that he could have someone on staff who was a licensed notary who helped him forge the title. Is there any way he could have the title investigated for forgery? I know that T.V. doesn't always accurately portray the investigative process, but I figured maybe a forensics lab could prove that it's a forgery. I'm just livid at the fact that my friend's car was stolen and there doesn't seem anything he can do to get it back.","title":"[GA] Someone got a hold of my friend's car title and forged my friend's signature signing the car over to him.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541539561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9usl9y\/my_ex_was_picked_up_saturday_night_at_11pm_high\/","id":"9usl9y","body":"Long post, sorry about the format as I am on mobile.\n\nWhere to start? We are in Indianapolis, Marion County. He is an on\/off drug addict, usually pills and heroin. He received two neglect charges (one for each child) last September. He was drunk and driving my boys around, someone (thank god) saw him nodding off at a stop light and noticed my two boys in the backseat. They followed him and called the police. The plea deal he got dropped the neglect charges and he was sentenced with \u2018endangering a person under 18\u2019. \n\nHe was on probation starting this August with drug and alcohol monitoring. I filed a protection order back in May, but we went to court on October 24th and they dismissed the protection orders and granted him custody (Wednesday\u2019s and every other weekend). I was granted sole legal and primary physical custody. He had an attorney I did not. This past weekend was his first time having them in almost six months. His father (great guy, has always helped me with the boys when ex is using, always been incredibly supportive) picked them up at 6pm Friday. I received a call from IMPD Saturday night around 11pm stating he had been picked up, was drunk\/high and had the boys with him. He couldn\u2019t find his own house.\n\nHe is in jail. He has a history of drug abuse and being picked up\/public intox, possession of heroin and prescription pills, and now a history of child neglect. I assume the probation violation will be enough to put him in jail but at this point he\u2019s slipped through the system for years and I don\u2019t trust the courts to keep track of his indiscretions.\n\nI filed with CPS, I just want to make sure I\u2019m covering all my bases. I called a child advocacy place and applied for legal aid. What else can I do?","title":"My ex was picked up Saturday night at 11pm high and drunk, walking around with our two boys (3m, 6m) he could not find his own house. This was his first visitation in almost six months. He had them for approximately 27 hours. I\u2019m aiming for sole legal and physical custody. What can I do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570646792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dflfzk\/a_former_employer_accessed_a_personal_work_fb\/","id":"dflfzk","body":"I created a work personal FB profile for a company I worked for previously, using the company's initials and my first name, and used the work e-mail I was provided. I used this account to post photos, answer general information questions, post upcoming events, etc, on their company page. I had it set up to have to manually log in with my email and password each time I accessed the account.\n\nI left the company and that day changed the associated e-mail with it to personal one, so that I could have a chance to submit friend requests with some people I wished to keep in touch with on my own personal page. The work account had personal messages to people I was \"friends\" with and some of these messages did not shed a positive light on the company or management, by both parties. Some of them also discussed my former manager, who was treating me poorly. Most of them were out of frustration.\n\nAs life gets in the way sometimes, I logged into the account about two weeks later, downloaded all the information and deleted the account.  I took a look at all the information and I noted in the log in and log out section, that also shows the IP address of where the account was accessed, that the account was accessed on three separate occasions after I left the company. \n\nWhat sort of ramifications, if either party decided to pursue legal action, could each party be facing? If I decide to pursue legal action, what kind of attorney would be the most appropriate?\n\nThank you for your time.","title":"A former employer accessed a personal work FB account after I left the company. What might be the ramifications?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552454982,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0i979\/old_employer_sent_me_money_on_accident_and_is\/","id":"b0i979","body":"For reference, i live in Australia, QLD. So I quit working at my old job about 2 months ago now. I get a text from my employer that there had been a mistake with payrolls and I had accidentally been sent $360 dollars. Now normally I\u2019d be nice, but I was paid the bare minimum wage there and treated like absolute shit. I\u2019m wondering if I legally have to send it back? I\u2019m also under 18 if that helps, so can I even be sued? Probably morally wrong, but I won\u2019t send it back if I don\u2019t have to and I won\u2019t get in any legal trouble. \n\nThanks folks ","title":"Old employer sent me money on accident and is asking for it back","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539188430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n0xdj\/bank_has_overdrawn_our_mortgage_payment\/","id":"9n0xdj","body":"Hello folks. Hoping for some help. \n\nWe have a large mortgage with a small local bank, who actually owns our mortgage, since we are a safe risk financially speaking. We do not have a consumer account with this bank. We closed on the mortgage in August and the first payment was due on October 1. \n\nThe bank has no online portal or internet presence. Because of this, we were being asked to hand-deliver our mortgage check to the consumer branch of the bank who owns the mortgage once a month. This was a huge inconvenience for my family for a number of reasons. I visited the branch and arranged for an ACH withdrawal from our bank to their bank starting on October 1, and every first of the month thereafter. \n\nOn October 1, the bank that owns our mortgage withdrew TWO months worth of mortgage payments, which is a large sum. Assuming this was an error easily fixed, I visited the branch where the manager acknowledged the error and advised the payment would be reversed. This was 9 days ago now. I\u2019ve had back and forth calls with them and their mortgage department with no tangible results. We are approaching halfway through the month and they\u2019re certainly making interest off of this large mortgage payment. \n\nDo we have legal options? If so, what are they? What\u2019s the simplest way to resolve this?\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Bank has overdrawn our mortgage payment","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539198368,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n2fxd\/noncooperation_from_at_fault_driver\/","id":"9n2fxd","body":"Cross posted in r\/insurance \n\nI\u2019m guessing I\u2019ll need to get an attorney involved, but wanted to know what you all might think while I\u2019m doing that.\n\nAbout a month ago I was hit by a guy driving a repoed car.  I don\u2019t know why he was driving it, but from what his insurance is saying it sounds like they think he was joy riding, but he claims he was either driving it to the repo lot or the auction site, wasn\u2019t really clear about which.  They said they have most of the statements and paperwork, but there\u2019s some contract I guess they are looking for between the main repo company and this local company that I guess the work was contracted out to.  The told me today that they have a week to get it and then they get a notice and then after that they get a notice and then 30 more days and then they deny everything.\n\nMy brand new car was totaled in this incident and I was injured and the injuries may be lifelong.  I also had to pay out of pocket for a rental car, pay my deductible and now may suffer for the rest of my life.  I don\u2019t want to sue them directly cause I doubt that would do much good, but I just feel so lost right now.","title":"Non-cooperation from at fault driver","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555514284,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be90h5\/years_of_unpaid_traffic_tickets_help\/","id":"be90h5","body":"Let me start by saying this is in NC and spreads across 3 different counties. I'm 22 years old and have had many traffic tickets in the short time I had a license. They range from failure to stop at a stop sign, a fender bender, speeding, and driving without a DL. I can't remember exactly how many it is but I have at least 3 in one county and 2 in two different counties and the oldest one I can remember is from July 2015. I've been a dumb teenager and have been paying for it these past few years now. The main reason for not paying my tickets or showing up to court was lack of money and some ignorance in my part. One of the counties I had a ticket in I paid a lawyer to go for me cause I did have an arrest warrant for not showing up the first time. I paid that ticket and was informed months later the I had to pay court cost about a month ago but did not get the notification as I moved to a different address. \n\n​\n\nMy question is how can I figure out how many tickets I have without the chance of getting arrested? Can I just pay them and get a fine or is jail time an option at this point? None of the stop ever turned into an arrest but the last cop did ask if I was going to take care of the tickets.","title":"Years of unpaid traffic tickets. Help!","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570922264,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh2juv\/is_it_legal_to_help_a_friend_identify_someone_who\/","id":"dh2juv","body":"Hello,\n\nAs the title suggests, a friend of mine, we'll call her Mary, she keeps getting these unsolicited messages on her social media account. She's had this going on for months and because of the school policy, she cannot have anything done to this person because they have not threatened her so there is nothing that Instagram can release to any authorities. \n\nMary is also currently dealing with a lot of personal issues and has had something similar to this happen before so she didn't want to make a fuss of it because it was exhausting. So she dealt with it for several months hoping this evil-doer would stop or get bored and go away. Obviously, over the course of 2 months, this did not change and it did not end. \n\nSo, I decided to craft up one of those links that reveals an IP address and we had successfully got the IP address of the malicious actor. We did not release it to the public, nor release their information, but we were trying to figure out who it is. The telecom company that services the device the person is using has a policy for abuse but we didn't want to wait on them for any assistance.   \n\n\nWe both suspect the same person that may be responsible for this harassment so I decided to use an instagram profile I control to lure the said account into divulging their information in a sweepstakes on a website I control. The terms and conditions explicitly outline that the sweepstakes is not real and that no information will be saved for marketing purposes or financial gains. In addition, the information will not be sold to third-parties. I thought about doing this as a way for us to figure out who exactly is harassing Mary and so that we can actually go to the school police officer to have this stopped. \n\nThe only thing I'm worried about however, is that what I am doing may not be legal. Can anyone clarify this?","title":"Is it Legal To Help A Friend Identify Someone Who is Harrassing them Online through a Fake Sweepstakes?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569983300,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc425m\/landlord_wont_get_in_contact\/","id":"dc425m","body":"Our landlord is a lawyer herself, and will not cash rent checks until the end of the month to get a late fee from us, even though we took pictures and videos of us dropping off the checks in her mailbox. So, we started using Certified mail, and it worked for one month, now the previous months check hasn't been picked up and its scheduled to be returned to us this week. \nWhat do we do to avoid being charged a late fee? We have no way of contacting her, her voicemail is constantly full, or she will pick up the phone and then hang up. She doesn't respond to us at all. Should we try to contact her business office?","title":"Landlord won't get in contact.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542297443,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9xcefl\/did_my_school_hold_us_hostage\/","id":"9xcefl","body":"Hello! My high school has a capacity of 1000 and we have over 1500. Today, when we arrived, it was completely dark and there was no heat WiFi or power in general. They proceeded to usher us into the gym and locked the doors. They wouldn\u2019t let us out, wouldn\u2019t let us call our parental units, and we were stuck in there\u2014 yes, all 1500 of us\u2014 waiting for instruction. It was pitch black, cold, and we were all angry and freaking out. Did this count as hostage or kidnapping? Is there anything illegal about this in general? If you have them, links please. (: \nThank you. ","title":"Did my school hold us hostage?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554095223,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7xom0\/person_received_traumatic_brain_injury_can\/","id":"b7xom0","body":"Someone I know was involved in a serious motor vehicle accident. Debris from another vehicle struck their car. The vehicle cannot be located. They are trying to relearn how to do everything in rehab. Insurance only covers up to a few more weeks, maybe less depending on their \u201crating of progress\u201d over the next few days. This debilitation requires much more rehab. Do you think there is any recourse in insurance matters or even legal matters?","title":"Person received traumatic brain injury, can anything be done?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1507505139,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7557dz\/suspected_of_stalking_in_nebraska\/","id":"7557dz","body":"Hi,\n\nSo my very best friend of the opposite sex decided to break off contact with me and I get two cops at my door Friday night saying I am in trouble with both the school and have to appear in court Nov 7th.\n\nSo I had this really good friend I met about a year ago and we hung out every week for about 2 hours and stuff was great until she started texting me less and less, we never dated and in fact I have never dated anyone before, she claimed I made her uncomfortable and I sent her several texts and one letter and by several I mean like 5 after that date (September 12 2017).\n\nNow the university police which are like state troopers in Nebraska are saying I was \"Stalking\" her.  I am diagnosed as being autistic, General anxiety disorder, and major depressive disorder as well as social anxiety.\n\nI never intentionally tried to scare the girl and never threatened her I did leave an apology note at her dorm once before police got involved and I haven't followed the girl or gone back to her place even once since this happened.  Also we never dated and never even talked about sex and the only touching we ever did was the occasional hug.\n\nI have scheduled an appointment with my universities free legal aid service just as soon as they get to me in line but I know they can't help with student vs student troubles. Also being a student I have like 2000 dollars to my name so I can't really afford a lawyer.\n\nThe officers gave me something called a uniform citation and complaint form that has a court date on it and told me if I miss it I could be arrested (I don't plan on missing it obviously!)\n\nI would appreciate it if someone could tell me what to expect on my November 7th court appearance date and what is gonna happen to me on that date and also what my plan of action should be?  Thanks in advance!","title":"Suspected of stalking in Nebraska","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554306605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8zoi3\/a_friend_of_mine_16_got_a_girl_19_pregnant_when\/","id":"b8zoi3","body":"Located in Florida","title":"A friend of mine (16) got a girl (19) pregnant when he was drunk at a party. The girl wants to keep the baby despite saying he does not want to be involved. Ultrasounds have already been completed. His parents already know, what should be the next step? (FL)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442427071,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l782b\/water_damage_due_to_apartment_maintenance_request\/","id":"3l782b","body":"In Maricopa County of Mesa, Arizona.\n\nSo my wife, a friend and myself recently moved into a new apartment complex. Due to a last minute complication with carpeting, we ended up getting the floor model unit which had the garbage disposal disabled. We had correctly noted the garbage disposal on our move-in inspection sheet and thought they would take care of it at some point in the near future. It's not a ground breaking issue, so we didn't press the matter. \n\nAbout a month in, we went ahead and put in the official maintenance request and the apartment help had the disposal fixed the next business day. About 2 weeks went by and last Wed the 9th I realized that when we run the disposal, it leaks into the cabinet underneath the sink. Immediately putting in the maintenance request via apartment website and moving all the belongings out from under the sink, I noticed a small but obvious spot of water damage to the wood laminate in the cabinet. I have faith that the apartment complex will be reasonable about things, but you all know I can't rely on that.\n\nWho is at fault for the water damage? I am assuming that the apartment's own maintenance man being the one who \"repaired\" the garbage disposal in the first place is responsible because the leak is reasonably from his previous work. I also believe we have done what is expected of us by reporting it immediately upon knowing the problem existed. How can I document this in a way that would best protect my deposit?\n\nTL:DR Garbage disposal didn't work upon move in. Apartment maintenance fixed it, but it leaked for two weeks under our sink until noticed by resident and fixed again by said maintenance.","title":"Water damage due to apartment maintenance request.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446133080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qpraw\/question_on_my_noncompete_agreement_mn\/","id":"3qpraw","body":"I'm looking to change jobs, but I'm afraid that this contract will force me to leave the state in order to find relevant work.  I'm an engineer working in the medical device industry (biomedical engineer by profession).\n\n\nThere is a statement in my Non compete which seems to state that it is only violated if  the new job \"inherently require EMPLOYEE to reveal or use any of the Confidential Information and Trade Secrets\".  Is this vague enough that I could work for another medical device company if I'm not working with the same type of products?\n\n\n1.          RESTRICTIONS ON EMPLOYEE AND NON COMPETE PROVISIONS\n\n\n1.3       NO USE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, TRADE SECRETS, AND NON-COMPETE. While employed by *removed:employer* and for three (3) years after that employment ends, EMPLOYEE agrees not to enter into any employment competitive with *removed:employer* in which the complete fulfillment of the duties of the competitive employment would inherently require EMPLOYEE to reveal or use any of the Confidential Information and Trade Secrets of *removed:employer* learned or obtained by EMPLOYEE while employed by *removed:employer*. Competitors include but are not limited to *removed:list of 12 competitors*. All employees leaving the employment of *removed:employer* must identify the company, division, and position they will be assuming.","title":"Question on my non-compete agreement (MN)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1506227545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7235d4\/advice_on_my_choice_of_insurance_in_case_of\/","id":"7235d4","body":"**Location**: Vancouver, BC, Canada.\n\n**Me**: Canadian permanent resident, mid-twenties, female, non-smoker, no pre-existing conditions, no kids.\n\n**Existing coverage**: Standard Canadian Medical Service Plan (MSP).\n\nMy mom and her mom died of cancer, so I'd like to start screening for it annually. A relative who is a doctor suggested that before I start my screenings, I should get either disability insurance, or catastrophic\/critical illness insurance in case I screen positive.\n\nI've started my research and I'm lost and overwhelmed by the amount of options and thought somebody here might have suggestions on how to narrow down my search. I don't know how much I should insure for as a one time thing, and whether to get both kinds (disability\/critical) or not.\n\nWould be extremely grateful of any input. Thank you.","title":"Advice on my choice of insurance in case of cancer (Canada.)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539116838,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9msqdo\/disputing_towing_storage_fee\/","id":"9msqdo","body":"Long story short, my HOA towed my vehicle due to expired tags. Understandable, my bad. Thing is there are no signs indicating who did the towing. \n\nNobody notified me of it. The towing wasn\u2019t reported to local or state police either. An officer just happened to suggest checking a small towing company in the area before reporting my vehicle stolen.\n\n","title":"Disputing towing storage fee","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446609538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rg6nm\/voicemail_from_university_police_regarding\/","id":"3rg6nm","body":"Location: Washington, D.C.\n\nA police officer from a university's police department (i.e., campus police) left me a voicemail saying he'd like to speak with me urgently regarding an important matter.  I've never attended said university, but I've had casual sexual relationships with several students there.  On said police department's daily crime log, there was a report of harassment via phone whose date and location gives me cause to believe that a student I used to see had filed a harassment complaint due to a text I sent her that day.  The text was non-threatening, but she may have previously asked me to stop contacting her (I know, I should have listened.  I will never be contacting her again).  \n\nShould I return the police officer's call?  I'm afraid that if I speak to him, I might somehow incriminate myself.  However, if I don't call him, I'm terrified that they'd show up at my residence or workplace.  \n\nThanks for in advance for your much-appreciated help. ","title":"Voicemail from University Police Regarding Harassment [Washington, D.C.]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553222466,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3zn02\/ca_my_company_might_not_reimburse_me_for_a\/","id":"b3zn02","body":"I hope this is the right thread. I did two business trips a week apart and forgot to submit urgent 2nd trip\u2019s pre- approval.\nThey sent me and I pulled 60 hours and $2000+ of work-related expenses. I work at a large manufacturer and my boss was also there, so I have proof that it definitely wasn\u2019t a vacation. \nMy boss mentioned because it wasn\u2019t pre-approved, I might not get paid for the hours and\/or expenses.  \nIs this something I have to \u201ceat the cost of\u201d due to my mistake or is this an issue for court? ","title":"[CA] My company might not reimburse me for a business trip","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505346265,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zyjgr\/noncompete_i_never_signed\/","id":"6zyjgr","body":"I'm a cna in Colorado and I work for a home care company. Recently I received an invitation to apply to a hospice company that has better pay and benefits and I applied. I received a call from the hospice company saying my current job has a contract with me that says they can't hire me until 6 months after I quit my current job or they have to pay out my contract. I never signed a non compete with my work that applies to other companies only that I would not steal their individual clients. When I asked my boss about this I was told I could not see this contract and even though I didn't sign it I somehow agreed to it. It sounds like my work has this contract with multiple other companies across the city and won't tell me which ones. Since they never informed me of my inability to work for any other company do I have any legal recourse?","title":"Non-compete I never signed","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568586962,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4rrzm\/louisiana_ex_parte_vs_voluntary_transfer_of\/","id":"d4rrzm","body":"Check my post history if you are interested more of the background. \n\nTwo kids (8 & 10) have been living with us for the past month. We (myself, my SO, and kids' Dad) agreed the kids would stay with us for the entire school year, going home to Dad's house on weekends\/holidays\/any other non-school days. Dad signed provisional custody by mandate form and had it notarized to allow us to enroll the kids in our zone and make medical decisions. As the kids had not seen doctors, dentists, etc. in over four years, the first thing we did was schedule check-ups for them. The PCP gave them a clean bill of (physical) health and referred them to the in-house counselor to deal with trauma related behavioral problems.\n\nDuring the first visit with the counselor, the oldest said that Dad had (prior to their moving in with us) threatened to kill him and his younger brother while waving a weapon around in the air. The counselor reported this to DCFS, and they showed up this weekend to interview the kids. The oldest did not bring up the interview, and we did not ask him to divulge any details. The youngest told us the lady asked him if Dad tried to kill him and he told her yes. \n\nThe social worker told us the kids seemed very happy, well-adjusted, comfortable, and loved in our home. She seemed very pleased with our daily routine, extra-curricular activities, and methods of discipline. She said it was very clear the boys wanted to stay here with us and she could see why. \n\nThe problem--my SO has a criminal record as well as a previous record with DCFS due to drug addiction. She has been sober 2 years and a half years, has not been in any legal trouble in 2 and a half years, and has been working at the same job for the last 2 years. She completed a 30 day in-patient program and 1.5 years of after care. I have no criminal record (felony or misdemeanor), no prior record with DCFS, and no history of drug\/alcohol abuse. We can both pass hair, urine, or blood drug tests. We also do not drink (or smoke if that matters). However, because of my SO's record, we would most likely not be considered as a suitable placement for the kids. The social worker said she's not sure of the time frame, but she thinks it stays on record for 18 years. \n\nThe social worker recommended we file for Ex Parte custody Monday morning. She said if we have custody before the agency intervenes, the kids would not be removed from our home. Dad is panicking right now, so I believe he will do a voluntary transfer of custody. We don't have thousands of dollars on deck to hire a lawyer tomorrow morning, much less rush one to get something done. It seems to me like the voluntary transfer would be the easiest. Am I wrong? And if we file the voluntary transfer ourselves, I have several questions about specific parts.\n\n1) Mom's rights were terminated several years ago, so Dad is the sole custodian. Would Dad be the only petitioner?\n\n2) In Paragraph III, it asks for the name and address of legal custodian (the other parent) not joining in petition and reason why not. As Mom no longer has rights, do we list Mom here? If yes, how important is her address? No one has any clue where she is.\n\n3) The instructions say both parents must join the petition and certified copies of the children's birth certificates must be submitted as well. She is listed on the birth certificate. Should we also submit documentation showing her rights were terminated to support Dad being the only petitioner?\n\n4) Approximately how long before we can expect a judgement?\n\n5) Any other advice? Especially regarding the terms of the transfer?\n\nThe kids have spent over a year in foster care previously. We love them and can provide for them, and we just don't want them going back into a system that has failed the so many times when we are here with open arms.\n\nTL;DR Is ex parte custody better than a voluntary transfer? Which is faster? How do we go about filing on our own?","title":"[Louisiana] Ex Parte vs Voluntary Transfer of Custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553006014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2y52k\/work_colleague_stumbled_upon_emails_betweem\/","id":"b2y52k","body":"I work at a college as a receptionist - there are about 6 of us receptionists with a fixed rota.\n\nOur pay is \u00a38.75p\/hr - we all do the same amount of work.\n\nA colleague of mine, who is also my friend, found that the previous receptionist had left her e-mail logged in on the receptionist computer. My friend was nosey and breached privacy, reading through the emails between our colleague and our boss.\n\nOur colleague asked that she be paid \u00a310p\/hr rather than \u00a38.75p\/hr - with no discernable reason - and our boss said ok.\n\nSo we all do the same amount of work, however one of our colleagues is being paid significantly more for no reason other than the fact she has a closer relationship with our boss.\n\nHowever, we can't exactly flag this up as my friend had breached the privacy of our colleague by reading through her e-mails. My friend messaged me straight away about it - but we're not sure how to go about flagging this up as it is entirely unfair.","title":"Work colleague stumbled upon emails betweem another colleague of ours and our boss requesting an unfair pay rise.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541464725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ujftq\/broke_college_student\/","id":"9ujftq","body":"Hello I need your help.\n\n\nUnfortunately I reared ended the vehicle in front at a low grade speed (~5mph) about to make a right turn. It was our right of way ( the light was green) at a four way intersection, however, a pedestrian ran across the street, causing the vehicle in front to do an immediate stop. The accident occurred 10\/9\/18 around 7:30PM. To me, the damages looked superficial with paint scratches. We agreed to go through the cash process and today 11\/5\/18, I get a text message stating she was unable to go to the body shop to get an estimate yet and now complains of back pain. She said she\u2019s taking antibiotics and the pain is getting worse. She seems interested in monetary gains and I\u2019m worried, it will exceed my budget. \n\nWhat can I do in legal measures to ensure I pay what was solely necessary? Much appreciated \n\n","title":"Broke college student","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553634819,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5vdnk\/company_hired_me_on_as_a_salesmen_100_commission\/","id":"b5vdnk","body":"In started a company in a sales position which is 100% commission in the beginning of February. I started with 3 other sales reps, its a very small company and there wasn't a signed \"commission plan\". Everything has been verbal. 4%-13% depending on profitability. From the point where I started to sell I was crushing it and generated based on our well understood commission plan, about $22k in commission. The company was super happy, and constantly says how I am the real deal and boasts to other sales people how they can be like me, and informally offered me a promotion to make sure I don't leave. Every thing seems great... However with every paycheck its just a lump sum, no break down as to how much commission comes from what job, and it has never lined up with what I am tracking (I am a big numbers guy and figure out what my paychecks should be). \n\n​\n\nMy last paycheck was about $2,000 short of what it was supposed to be. I brought this up to their attention and voiced out that I was fairly upset about it and I was then attacked and basically thrown under the bus of \"we aren't even sure we want to keep you if your going to be like this\", which is convenient when they currently owe me around $20k in remaining commissions. On a job which I was anticipating $800 in commission from, I was paid $0 because their was a slight deviation. It was too my knowledge, and the sales team knowledge that with that deviation the commission still gets minimum of 4%, but their outlook was it gets $0. Many  other commissions are being significantly shortchanged, but I am never told about them. Upon bringing this up, it was discovered that the General manager who is calculating commissions, is and has been using a completely different commission structure then what our entire sales team has been expecting.  My trust has been lost in the company and I am now looking for alternatives but in the meantime I wanted to grab advice for you guys. \n\n​\n\nWhat authority or power do I have (if any) if commission plans are nothing in formal writing and signed? If they told us commissions will be one way, and they actually do it another way, am I SOL? I know if I quit\/get fired I am SOL on the $20k commission, as shady as that is, but am just curious where that comes from legally. They through out that \"your either in or out\" the day before they submit for next pay period, which I think was mighty convenient. \n\n​\n\nAny help, or advice for me in this situation?","title":"Company hired me on as a salesmen, 100% commission, but keeps significantly altering my pay without communication or data.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555168483,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcri0a\/tx_person_sped_through_a_yield_in_parking_lot\/","id":"bcri0a","body":"I\u2019m completely lost and don\u2019t know what to do. \n\nI had turned into a parking lot off of a main road. Before and during the turn, there was no car to my right (inside of the lot). About fifty feet into being in the right-of-way lane going about 5-10 MPH, I\u2019m struck perpendicularly from the front passenger\u2019s side. \n\nMy car was totaled while the other driver had the front driver side bumper cracked in. Having driven in this area omw to work for YEARS, I was aware that people often sped from one end of the parking lot to the other (roughly 800-900 feet) despite there being several breaks\/yields in the lot to keep people from doing just this. \n\nThere were unfortunately no security cameras in the lot, and despite it being a heavily trafficked area, no witness stopped to assist. \n\nAfter exchanging info, the driver said it wasn\u2019t his fault because he stopped at the yield. However given the extent of the damage, there is no way he stopped and then accelerated ....and likely was speeding through the parking lot intersection. The way the parking lot is set up, there are also speed bumps in the main right-of-way lane I was in. \n\nI\u2019ve seen accidents like this, and at most both drivers trade paint and have very minor dents.... and yet they maintained it wasn\u2019t his fault. \nPolice were called but would not take a statement because I was not severely injured. However when I explained the situation, he agreed that the other driver was at fault. \n\n\nFast forward a few weeks, I\u2019m still in physical therapy after having to get x-rays and an MRI from my head slamming into the window. Luckily, nothing was broken but I\u2019m left with all these medical bills and pain that affects my daily life (can\u2019t sit for too long, pain using my dominant hand\/arm, pain while walking). Never mind lost wages and missing work for half a month to deal with all of this. \n\nI had been working with a law office up until last week, who decided to no longer represent me because the other insurance company decided I was at fault for \u201cnot being careful enough\u201d and I\u2019m absolutely lost. \n\nMy insurance came back and said they are working on recovering my deductible as they found the other driver at fault so I\u2019m not really sure what all of this means at the end of the day. I was also reimbursed for loss but it had to go to paying off the rest of my car. \n\n\nDo I have a case? Will I even be able to sue for lost wages and damages? I\u2019m afraid of not being represented if the first lawyer decided it wasn\u2019t worth it. \n\n[diagram of parking lot](https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/6uqvyrs28j5g3l0\/Photo%20Apr%2013%2C%2010%2012%2030%20AM.jpg?dl=0)","title":"[TX] Person sped through a yield in parking lot, totaled my car and is trying to blame it on me\u2014 I\u2019m injured and they got off with a broken bumper.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554356454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b98tt1\/my_apartment_has_a_bee_problem\/","id":"b98tt1","body":"In my apartment I am constantly finding bees inside my house. At first they were very lethargic and only crawled, this is when it was much colder out, now the bees are crawling out of holes in the sides of my windows and flying around. This is had been happening for awhile and it\u2019s frequency is increasing. My landlord doesn\u2019t see this to be a problem or his problem at all. However I don\u2019t own this place and I\u2019m only renting. What all can I do to get him to take action to fix this?","title":"My apartment has a bee problem","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508512780,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77mrbg\/does_this_fall_under_warranty_of_habitability_new\/","id":"77mrbg","body":"So I live in a pretty run down apartment, it works for what I need it for, however there are very obvious problems with it. It recently changed owners and my current landlord, though is putting money into renovating the other half of the house, has done nothing for my half.\n\nFor example, about a month ago I contacted my landlord trying to negotiate a deal with fixing the place up. I have a hallway carpet thats pretty much covered in urine stains from previous tenants. I want to rip it up and put in a new one. It stinks, its unsightly and quite frankly I think it may be getting my cats sick, but the landlord refuses to cover the cost of material, because he's \"Over budget\" with the repairs he's putting into the other apartments in the same building.\n\nMy question is basically, does it fall under the \"Warrant of Habitability\" so that it's basically my right to have him come in and replace it because its an unsanitary condition in my living space?\n\"Under the warrant of habitability, tenants have the right to a livable, safe and sanitary apartment...\"\n\nAlso I should mention when I signed a new lease with him in JULY he told me he would be fixing my incredibly leaky kitchen sink (Which keeps causing mold growth) and be installing fire detectors, as for whatever reason the previous landlord just never did, and I've reminded my currently landlord several times asking when it would get done and nothing has been done yet.\n\nI plan on sending him a lengthy message detailing I know my rights and I want something done ASAP, but figured I'd get my ducks in a row before making an ass of myself.\nThanks.","title":"Does this fall under \u201c warranty of habitability\u201d? New York","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541866753,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vvivh\/uk_london_agency_wants_us_to_sign_a_tenant_terms\/","id":"9vvivh","body":"To all you UK lawyers out there, wondering if anyone has any advice on what I can or can not do or say?\nMy partner and I just moved into a room in a houseshare, renting through an agency. We signed a contract, paid our deposit and rent and moved in a week ago, but now the agent is asking us to sign a separate \"tenants terms and conditions\" which contradicts some parts of the original contract (eg saying we have to pay utility bills over a certain amount, whereas the contract says all bills are included).\nThis is ridiculous, right? Does anyone know if we have legal grounds to refuse signing the extra terms and conditions? Or at least getting them to change the wording to match what's in the contract?\nI don't expect it'll get to a point where any of the differences in the new \"Terms and Conditions\" are violated, but I still don't want to sign it. ","title":"(UK - London) Agency wants us to sign a 'Tenant Terms and Conditions' for a share house my partner and I are renting a room in. We had already signed a contract and have been living in the place for a week now.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444886856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3otlzd\/x_is_not_responsible_if_are_these_enforceable\/","id":"3otlzd","body":"How can someone just say that they aren't responsible and magically they aren't anymore?\n\nThe following is an excerpt from an email sent out by my apartment complex, which is currently undertaking a painting project.\n\n\"Q: What if my personal belongings are too big or I am unable to move the items inside during the painting process?\n\nA: If personal items are left out during the scheduled work, our painting vendor will have to move your items away from where they will be working and will cover your items in plastic to help prevent paint over-spray. We highly discourage any items being left outside due to potential paint damage or damage from moving the items. Please be reminded <complex> and\/or <painting company> are not responsible if items left on your patio\/balcony are damaged or go missing during the exterior painting process.\"\n\nI'd say its pretty clear that if you damage my stuff, you are responsible. Just because you said you aren't doesn't meant that you aren't. How far off am I?\n\nLocation: California, USA\n\n","title":"\"X is not responsible if...\" Are these enforceable?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506461000,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72nkpj\/owner_using_rentedout_residence_as_personal\/","id":"72nkpj","body":"[CO, USA] So I moved into a nice home that I rented from a realty company in town, and after moving in a find a locked room that doesn't open for any of my keys. I call my rental agency, and they seem to know nothing about and promptly schedule a locksmith to come and open the door. \n\nAfter the locksmith get the door open, we find it's a room filled with storage containers, tools, family photos, etc. \n\nI contact the rental agency, and they said they'd reach out to the owners, and get back to me. I don't want to cost anyone their lifetime of mementos, but I'd like that room empty so I can use it myself. \n\nWhat are my options here? My lease had no stipulations for anything, and I signed to rent this entire property. Do they forfeit ownership because they leased the property to another party with no stipulations? Can they break our lease and deny me access to that room, even though I signed for this whole property and square footage? Both of those sound a bit radical. \n\nI'm just trying to see how I should best proceed. As of now I'm waiting to hear back from the rental agency which should be contacting the owners. I told them when I contacted them after the locksmith left that I wanted to use that room, and would not be okay with the owners using it for storage since there was no stipulations in our lease that we wouldn't have access to part of the property, and the rental agency seemed friendly about it, but it was just some receptionist, so I would doubt she gets the final say. \n\nI'm just trying to be prepared for whatever comes. Hopefully the owners will come get (or send movers for) their belongings with no hassle, but what if that isn't the case? What are my legal options? \n\nThanks to everyone for your time. ","title":"Owner using rented-out residence as personal storage.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570259074,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddjup2\/new_flatmate_who_replaced_me_still_owes_me_money\/","id":"ddjup2","body":"So I'm a twentysomething student who lives in New Zealand, and earlier this year I moved out of my first student flat. Due to some underhanded bullshit from my former flatmates, they decided to force me to leave so their friend they knew could move in instead. The head tenant actually waited until he left on extended holiday to notify me over the group chat. Fun times. Point being, I was within the minimum time frame in which I'd be allowed a refund of my bond payment. The new roommate agreed that he'd get me the money as soon as he got payed from work. I made sure he had my bank account details and set up a message thing on both his phone and his Facebook.\n\nFast forward a couple of months, no payment. I nag both him and the head tenant every other week and they reply that they'll get around to it but nothing happens. Eventually I snap and get the landlord involved, who quickly pulls the guy's head out of his own arse. HOWEVER, he ends up paying me $200, meaning he still owes me something close to $150. His excuse was that he had a bad BMX bike accident and needed to pay some unexpected hospital bills. So I said sure, why not, and waited.\n\nFast forward to last week. Seeing that there's still been no payment, I try pinging his Facebook. There's no reply. I check with the head tenant; the guy's moved out a couple of weeks ago and isn't answering his phone. I ask him if he can try getting in touch for me, he audibly shrugs and says it's not his problem. I ring up the landlord and ask for him to get ahold of him, but the landlord says that as he is no longer a tenant in the property he's not his responsibility anymore, and therefore won't do anything.\n\nSo what do I do. Should I get law enforcement involved, or maybe the tribunal. I'm so sick and tired of all this pissing around and just want it to all be over so I can get on with it. At the same time, tho, I need that money to help with my own issues.","title":"New flatmate who replaced me still owes me money, but vanished off the grid. Landlord and former flatmates are refusing to seek him out. Do I get the police involved or?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552410723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0aapg\/15000_past_due_back_child_support_struggling_to\/","id":"b0aapg","body":"My mother has had temporary custody of my oldest daughter since 2015 (since I was 17.) Since then my mother has gone up to the court and begged them to make me pay child support. My mother makes well over 90k a year and takes many vacations and pays for literally nothing due to the fact her parents are rich and have supported her since the day she was born until now. \nMy child support has gone up over the years from a do able cost to a thousand dollars a month. I am being told I am going to be held in contempt of court in June for not being able to afford payments. \nI can not live with no money and no help from my child\u2019s father. \nMy mother is currently in the process of adopting my oldest daughter but is refusing to tell the court she doesn\u2019t need the back child support from me. \nI make $12.00 a hour and roughly 350 a check. I am also only 21 years old. \nEvery time I file a motion to get the child support lowered the judge raises it and tells me too bad so sad looks like you\u2019re going to have to walk to work and your daughter will have to go without diapers. Literally I\u2019m not shitting you that\u2019s what she told me. \nI\u2019m contemplating on just ending it all now and giving my child to my family. I can no longer take the stress of jail time, a felony and or prison time hanging over my head constantly, along with my own mother running me up for my money. Money that I do not even have!!!!! I am beyond stressed out. I\u2019ve stopped eating and barley get out of bed. It\u2019s been this way for years. I just had emergency surgery and have a fuck ton of hospital bills and doctors bills to pay that are well over 4 thousand dollars. I am really at a loss. I just need some advice. ","title":"$15,000 past due back child support. Struggling to care for the child I have and the court expects me to pay $1,000 a month and some and I physically cannot pay them. They are threatening jail time and a felony.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541698086,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vbzoe\/it_seems_like_my_coworker_is_getting_fucked_out\/","id":"9vbzoe","body":"So I have a co-worker which I will refer to as CW. Almost 2 weeks ago CW fell off of a ladder at work and hurt their knee. The ladder is very top heavy and others have fallen off of it before. Nothing has really been done to make the ladder more safe. \n\nSo CW was in severe pain and our Saftey department decided they should send her to the ER. But no ambulance was called. They called CW a cab that took them to the hospital. \n\nWhen CW got to the hospital the staff said that CW's knee was really swollen and that they would schedule and MRI and sent CW back to work on restrictions. \n\nI believe the following Tuesday no MRI had been Scheduled. CW asked the safety department about workers comp had given the go ahead and the manager of safety said that no workers comp claim had been filed and CW would have to wait until one had been scheduled. \n\nSo CW waited from Oct 26 until yesterday (Nov 7) to get an MRI. CW got the results but the MRI place said that they would not give CW the results because that's what the doctor was supposed to do. \n\nSo finally the doctor today told CW that their MCL was torn and they would refer CW to a surgeon and that CW would have to go back to work. \n\nThis is a really long one. \n\nI'm just trying to help a coworker out because this seems very wrong to me. \n\n\n","title":"It seems like my coworker is getting fucked out of workers comp. Missouri.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569774647,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daxfyz\/disputing_a_speeding_ticket\/","id":"daxfyz","body":"I received a speeding ticket yesterday for going 81 in a 60 construction zone, resulting in a 276$ citation that is due in November (happened in WI, which is out of state, appearing in court would be difficult for me). Unfortunately, I just graduated from college and currently 276$ is more than my last paycheck and I hope to be able to fight this ticket based off some things from the interaction I had with the police officer. The interaction overall was quick and amiable, but I had a gut feeling that I was targeted and cited for a higher speed since end of the month quotas and what not. \n\nAt the end of my interaction with the police officer, I asked him if he had the speedometer reading on my car. He told me that he \u201coriginally had me at 77, but paced me at 81\u201d. I also explained to him how I sped up shortly because a car in front of me had slammed the brakes on me and I was trying to pass him, and the officer responded with \u201cwell maybe he was brake checking you because you were going so fast\u201d. \n\nI was wondering if I had a case to write in a written plea to, at the very least, decrease my violation\u2019s severity based off the fact that the cop has lasered me at 77 but still cited me for 81 (I believe there are different fine levels for 15-19 mph over and 20-24 mph over). I know this is a far stretch too, but would I be able to maybe get the citation dismissed if I wrote in my plea how there is a discrepancy in the cops story and his judgement should be brought into question, especially when he practically endorsed brake checking? Should I appear in court, write the plea letter, or should I just pay the fine? Any help would be much appreciated!","title":"Disputing a speeding ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571405799,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djnmab\/minnesota_resident_signed_nocompete_and_want_to\/","id":"djnmab","body":"Almost 4 years ago, I signed a \"no-compete\" that essentially states that if I voluntarily leave my current employer, I cannot work in the same field\/position in our service area for 3 years. \n\nSeveral contractual policies have been changed without a new contract, ie: raising department overhead, removing pay on certain products sold, adding more and more responsibility without any pay raise.  \n\nThe big problem that I have is that every 3 months, we get paid a quarterly commission check. These checks are based on about 300k of sales and in order to be paid on this, I have to maintain a certain gross margin on each job. The person who is in charge of putting all these jobs onto one page, is a moron. He has been at it for about a year now and each time he screws it all up. My spreadsheets go from showing that I won't get paid more than a couple thousand, to 15-20k after finding his mistakes. I believe he does this intentionally, as him and I don't get along. The other 3 salesman don't seem to have as much of an issue but do seem to have problems with the spreadsheets and their contents. At this point, I just received my 3rd quarter spreadsheet and want to put my fist through a wall. I do not have the time or energy to dig through 150 projects and dissect each and every nut and bolt to make sure they are supposed to be charged to my job. I want to leave this hell-hole but I am afraid that I cannot find another job in this feild. As someone who learned a trade instead of going to college, I am kind fucked. \n\nWhat options do I have to nullify this no-compete that doesn't involve me ruining my reputation and getting fired?","title":"Minnesota resident, Signed no-compete and want to leave current job for similar job.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508267488,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/770unw\/do_other_drivers_hand_motions_have_an_affect_on\/","id":"770unw","body":"At a stop sign the person with right-of-way sometimes motions for me to go before it's my turn. It makes me very nervous turning in front of them thinking they could change their mind, crash into me, and I would be at fault for jumping ahead of my turn. \n\nIf a driver waves me forward does that legally waive their right-of-way? \n\nIn most cases my dashcam would be able to show whether they really waved or not. If it varies by state, I'm asking about Pennsylvania. Thank you. ","title":"Do other drivers' hand motions have an affect on Right-of-way?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570538940,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dezhmp\/wa_state_how_do_i_know_my_divorce_is_finalized\/","id":"dezhmp","body":"Long story short: \n\n- I moved to Washington state to marry my boyfriend.  We lived together for 2 years and were married for 7 months.  He was the one bringing in income. \n\n- I moved home to California after the divorce.  We signed the papers together and turned them in before I left at the end of June.  \n\nQuestion: How can I confirm the divorce is finalized? Is there paperwork I should expect? Since it's been over the 90 day waiting period I'm wondering how to go scout seeing what the status is. \n\nEmails and phone calls have not been much help so far. Any input would be appreciated.","title":"[WA State] How do I know my divorce is finalized?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1409089047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eo056\/wondering_in_which_state_i_should_contact_an\/","id":"2eo056","body":"I signed an employment contract with a consulting company in Virginia, but I am currently working on a contract with an employer in PA.  The contract seems legit, but I have some concerns that I would like addressed and I am not sure which state to contact a lawyer in.  Any advice is greatly appreciated.","title":"Wondering in which state I should contact an employment lawyer for advice. Working in PA, contract signed in VA.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1502813063,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tv2qm\/in_landlord_dragging_their_feet_in_returning\/","id":"6tv2qm","body":"My wife and I moved out of the property on June 28.  From what I've been able to find, Indiana gives 45 days for security deposits to be returned.  For us 45 days ended on Aug. 12.\n\nI called the complex twice yesterday (14th) first call was in the morning and the person who answered said she would have to talk to the assistant manager and I would get a call back later in the day.  The second call was ten minutes before their office closed (they didn't call back) this time the assistant manager picked up and she basically said she couldn't do anything and to call corporate.\n\nToday I called corporate they didn't know what was taking so long but the issue would be put at the \"top of the list with high priority\" but that I still wouldn't get the check for another week or so.  \n\nCorporate did agree that they had forfeited their right to deduct money from the deposit because they missed the deadline, and they did confirm that they have the correct forwarding address by reading it to me.  \n\nI'm hoping this fixes the situation but I know someone else who has moved out who is having even more issues with this company than we are and it's causing me to not trust them.  So my question is if push comes to shove, what are my options.\n\n","title":"(IN) Landlord dragging their feet in returning security deposit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569257708,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8994q\/can_i_sue_a_big_name_company_for_false_ingredient\/","id":"d8994q","body":"Was just curious on the legal procedure, if any, needed to sue a big name company who claimed their product contains a specific ingredient , but when checking the ingredients list it wasn't listed? Thank you in advance","title":"Can I sue a big name company for false ingredient advertising?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555635322,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bet70w\/ar_cant_update_divorce_papers\/","id":"bet70w","body":"My ex agreed to sign the divorce papers if I change it from sexual abuse (which is true and what I originally filed as) to adultery so it won\u2019t look as bad for him. At this point, after several months, I\u2019ll take what I can get. I went up to the county clerk this morning and told her about the situation and what page I would like to update if I could. She then said that it\u2019s free to change it but she won\u2019t tell me how because it would be considered legal advice. I am self represented without a lawyer.\nHow can I update the cause for divorce part? They said I can do it and that I won\u2019t have to pay for it but wont tell me how. I\u2019m guessing I need to submit something in writing but I\u2019m not sure if there is a specific format and what info would I need?","title":"[AR] Can\u2019t update divorce papers","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568704050,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5def3\/car_got_stolen_recovered_in_another_state\/","id":"d5def3","body":"my car was stolen in california 17 days ago and was recovered during a high speed pursuit in arizona, just got a letter in the mail from the mohave county attorneys office listing me as a victim in the crime with a restitution form attached, does this mean my car was totaled? in this 6 page letter there\u2019s not a single thing that even mentions my car, just me being a victim. if they didnt recover my car by this friday the 20th of september it would have been considered a total loss by my insurance and i would have then received compensation. \n\nso does this restitution form replace my insurance claim or is this just for the items that were inside of the vehicle?","title":"car got stolen, recovered in another state","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552596106,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b15hww\/landlord_wants_to_keep_my_security_deposit\/","id":"b15hww","body":"Hi everyone \n\nSo I recently moved out of my small office I have been renting since the beginning of 2015. Before I moved in, the place was a mess. There were logos and paintings all over the walls from the previous business. I painted over everything myself and had the place looking 10x better. Now 4 years later, the landlord wants to keep my security deposit because there\u2019s small holes in the walls. There is a decent amount of them but The holes are just from small nails or screws that held up my shelving and stuff I used for my business. Landlord says the lease says that the walls are to be patched smooth with no holes. I just reread my lease and I do not see anywhere that it states that. It does say reasonable wear and tear is ok. Would this be considered reasonable wear and tear? Landlord said I can go in and patch the holes up myself if I wanted to instead of losing my deposit but am I required to do that considering the place looks a lot better than it did when I moved in? She also asked me to paint, which I refused since I painted over all the logos when I moved in and if I didn\u2019t she would\u2019ve had to do it anyway for the next tenant. Here are some pics of the lease. Please give me reasons to tell her to F off! \n\nhttps:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/HUZcBXO\n","title":"Landlord wants to keep my security deposit because there\u2019s holes in the wall","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447429098,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3so6nu\/i_27_m_am_cutting_almost_all_ties_from_my_past\/","id":"3so6nu","body":"I've slowly started going through some of the motions, planning and observing the digital behaviour I still currently have. I'm learning how to live in ways that separate my day-to-day life from leaving \"trails\" that may allow obsessive, abusive or toxic people from my family and past to intrude in my life.\n\n\nI am currently retraining my thinking, way of living and way I conduct myself to better facilitate this. I have been trying to cut ties with my family and everyone from my past since I was 18. Members of my family or their affiliates have intentionally abused me into going into \"modeling\", which was simply their means of dumping me off into human trafficking at a very young age. It amounted to slavery because I wasn't being paid, was forced to do it and access to abusing me was traded around or \"paid\" for by various means.\n\n\nI became so used to these abusive ties that I did not fully understand what I had been brainwashed\/conditioned to do, used as entertainment for like a piece of property and was part of for so long.\n\n\nI was never allowed to make friends with people who were outside of my family and abusive affiliates who could teach me how to stop them from using me and holding me in this abuse because they benefited from it. \n\n\nI am figuring out what needs to be done to get things in my life in order as best as reasonably possible without directly dealing with anything that is part of the abusive human trafficking ties that members of my family facilitated or directly \"dealt\" in by figuratively and literally enacting as my human trafficker\/trader despite the blood relation to me some of them had. My father has also admitted to committing fraud and forging my signature, for example.\n\n\nThis is why I am collecting as many tips and information as possible from other people who may have changed their name and relocated in order to fully remove themselves from abusive relationships and dynamics on this level. Thank you for your time and any advice offered to help a person remove themselves from this as safely, reasonably and un-dramatically as possible.\n\n\n\nTL;DR [27 M] [Canada] I am looking for advice and tips from people who have completely removed themselves from an abusive past with family and\/or abusive people they affiliate with, and tips for how they went about it.","title":"I [27 M] am cutting almost all ties from my past and leaving a life of family abuse and labour\/skin trade. Compiling a list of how to best go about it.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552436223,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0fauw\/divorce_from_mia_and_abusive_spouse\/","id":"b0fauw","body":"Is it possible to file and get a divorce from a spouse that has been MIA for 7 years and is abusive without having to contact or interact with them?","title":"Divorce from MIA and abusive spouse","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507218386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74gt5u\/marylandtennessee_if_i_plead_guilty_and_pay_a\/","id":"74gt5u","body":"I live in Maryland, and I was recently sent a fine in the mail from the last time I drove to Tennessee. It's a speed camera ticket for going 56 in a 45 (sudden highway speed limit drop that I didn't notice).  \n\n\nThe fine itself is only $50 + minor processing fees, but I was wondering if not contesting the ticket and just paying means that I will receive points on my license in MD, and possibly see increased insurance rates as a result. ","title":"(Maryland\/Tennessee) If I plead guilty and pay a speed camera fine in TN, will I get points on my license in MD?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551919251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay6clh\/wrongful_termination_toronto_canada\/","id":"ay6clh","body":"Hello everyone, I have just been fired by my employer without any explanation. Can anyone give me any give me any legal advice? I appreciate anything.","title":"Wrongful termination (Toronto, Canada)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504149700,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x4ekr\/co_can_a_60_day_notice_be_required_on_a\/","id":"6x4ekr","body":"My one year lease expired over a year ago, and both the landlord and I expressed interest to have me stay.  I have been happily living there since, but now I'd like to move out.   \n\nThere is a clause in the lease that states \"at the end of this lease agreement, this lease will continue in full force and effect on a month to month basis unless tenant or landlord provides written notice to the other party at least 60 days before the end of the term\".\n\nAdditionally, there is an addendum that says \"tenant agrees to pay the landlord an early moveout fee of XXX dollars to cover Landlord's expenses in having to re-rent the premises.  To implement this option, tenant must submit advanced written notice  at least 60 days before termination. Tenant agrees to pay this charge whether or not the Landlord is successful in re-renting the leased premises.\"\n\nHow much notice do I need to provide to avoid paying an early move out fee? 30 days (since it is month to month) or 60 days (based on the addendum)?","title":"[CO] Can a 60 day notice be required on a month-to-month lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570056719,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dci0yx\/buying_and_selling_roms_and_emulators\/","id":"dci0yx","body":"I've been doing some research on what the laws say about buying and selling emulators and ROMs. So far I've only found laws that talk about downloading them yourself. Is it still illegal to buy and sell devices that run emulators and ROMs even if your not the one downloading and putting these files on the system? \n\nFor example the x6 gaming Consell \n\n[https:\/\/ca.dhgate.com\/product\/pmp-x6-handheld-game-console-screen-for-psp\/484589459.html?f=bm%7cGMC%7cpla%7c1660931651%7c62956754854%7c484589459%7cpla-296557785071%7c108016001%7cCA%7cphone\\_gate%7cc%7c2%7c&utm\\_source=pla&utm\\_medium=GMC&utm\\_campaign=phone\\_gate&utm\\_term=484589459&gclid=CjwKCAjwldHsBRAoEiwAd0JybVb3FgHM5nGeD8ozO8rQsxMCBx8RbQRImxP9T5-WtBqL1gc2wbevyRoCrloQAvD\\_BwE](https:\/\/ca.dhgate.com\/product\/pmp-x6-handheld-game-console-screen-for-psp\/484589459.html?f=bm%7cGMC%7cpla%7c1660931651%7c62956754854%7c484589459%7cpla-296557785071%7c108016001%7cCA%7cphone_gate%7cc%7c2%7c&utm_source=pla&utm_medium=GMC&utm_campaign=phone_gate&utm_term=484589459&gclid=CjwKCAjwldHsBRAoEiwAd0JybVb3FgHM5nGeD8ozO8rQsxMCBx8RbQRImxP9T5-WtBqL1gc2wbevyRoCrloQAvD_BwE)","title":"Buying and Selling ROMs and emulators","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554610726,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bacqa3\/va_have_i_seriously_messed_up_to_the_point_my_son\/","id":"bacqa3","body":"This will most likely be extremely long and I'm using my phone to type this so I am sincerely sorry for the format.\n\nBackground: The father moved from VA to WI in 2013. Our son was only a few months old the time he left. His reason to leave was to be able to find a better job. Okay, that's fine. A few months of him being away he didn't find a job. I started a bartending and waitressing job to take care of our child and myself. After a while I asked for a divorce. And I filed for custody. He came down from will go to court and we went through mediation. I backed down and I agreed to split everything 50\/50. That was finalized in 2014. He had also promised that he was moving back to VA because he had found a job here. And he did move back July 2014 although he did have a job he didn't have a place to live. He was homeless, living out of his car. We met up a few times so that he could spend some time with our son. Around September time frame he started to pull away and stopped meeting up to visit our son. He would cancel many times stated that he needed to work or he didn't feel good. I later found out that he cancelled so that he could spend time with his girlfriend. I couldn't get in touch with him. Asked many people to help. He just refused to contact me. \n\n2016: I filed through the courts again. He had not seen our son for 2 years. Had no clue where he was so I had to send the paperwork to WI [where his mom lives] He didn't show up to the first court date so the judge granted me temporary sole custody and continued it to give him another chance to show up. Which he showed up to that one. And I found out that he had secretly moved back to WI They gave me primary physical custody and shared joint legal between the father and I. The father then went to file for visitation. We got visitation schedule settled [final order 2017]. Which this part is extremely important for my legal question so I will write it word for word. \n\nAs it states: \"Father is going to have a Thanksgiving break in 2017 and Easter break and 2018. Dad will have summer of 2018 from July 1st to the 31st. Going to forward, dad will have Christmas in all even years and Thanksgiving and Easter in all odd years. In addition, after summer of 2018, parties will split summer evenly with Father having first half of Summer and mom having second half (parties can alternate if they choose).\"\n\nSummer of 2018: All visitation was going okay. I asked the father if he could help me get our son school supplies considering he started his first day of kindergarten in September. Mind you I had NEVER asked for help with our son before. Never asked for money. Nothing. His response to my question was \"I will only do what is required of me to do by law\" I was absolutely baffled at this point. \n\nSeptember 2018: I filed for child support. I would also like to add that I tried to speak to him about helping more financially. I had given him 3 opinions. 1: We can talk about a price. He tried to low ball it and say $50 a month. 2: To send our son a care package. No cost limit. No stipulations. Just make sure their are more useful things (for example, clothes, shoes, learning books) and maybe 1 or 2 toys. He declined that. 3: we go to court and have the judge decide. The 3rd opinion he had a conniption fit. Stating that if I dared take child support to court that I wouldn't like the outcome. And that I would HAVE to pay half of transportation costs. Mind you transportation cost was never talked about in court when we went for visitation.\n\nDecember 2018: He finally got the paperwork stating that I filed child support against him. Mind you he was supposed to have our son for Christmas. 2 weeks before our son was supposed to get on the plane he sent me the plane ticket (mind you I already told him that I completely disagree on our son going on an airplane by himself considering he's only 5 years old. He told me that if he's paying for transportation then it's his way or I need to pay). The ticket he sent was only a one way ticket. I asked him about it and it took him 2 days to respond. His response was that since I filed child support out on him that he is refusing to buy the plane ticket back. Mind you these tickets cost $400 and then add the $150 unaccompanied minor fee. Also, we must add the fact that our son was supposed to come home January 1st, 2019 and go back to school January 2nd. Ticket prices are ridiculous on New year's day. I was looking at close to $800-$1,000. And close to Christmas where I have 2 other children (not his) and a ton of family to buy Christmas for. I would also like to add our first court date for child support wasn't until January 6th, 2019. So he wasn't even paying child support yet. I told him that I am unable to afford the ticket back for the 1st on January. But, I was willing to buy one for December 28th instead. He had a conniption fit about that. Stating that he already spent well over $2,000 on all the activities\/hotel cost for the Christmas get away that he had planned and he will only agree to drive our son to the airport January 1st. And if I wanted to have him back on December 28th that I had to pay him back the 2k he already spent. I told him that if we can't agree on this then I won't be putting our son on the plane at all because I won't have our son stuck in WI and miss school. He then proceeded to threaten to have me locked up for contempt of court. And have the police come and collect me on December 23rd so I can spent Christmas in jail. He also stated that I was going to lose custody of all my children including the two that he is not entitled to. I then tried to reason with him again stating IF I dropped child support would he send him back. At that point he stated that he doesn't have the funds to send him back that time but if I dropped child support we can talk about it next time. I decided against dropping child support and I didn't send our son on the plane. \n\nJanuary (child support case) : He didn't show up but he sent a letter in the mail stating that he didn't get the appropriate amount of time to let his job know he needed to take off work. It got continued to March 27th. \n\nOur son's medical: Our son has been having a lot of medical problems. And needed to have surgery as per doctors recommendation. I told the father and he told me that he needed all of our sons medical records and needed me to contact the doctors to send them to him, that the doctors needed to personally write a letter stating that our son needed this surgery and why, and that he refused to allow our son to go through surgery until his demands are met. Mind you, his father has stated before that he didn't want to know about the common\/basic doctors appointment so I didn't let him know anything that was happening because he didn't want to know. So, I can understand him being scared. But he told me that if I got our son the surgery that he would once again throw me in jail, strip all of my rights to all 3 of my children, and I would be criminally charged with child neglect and child abuse. He received the surgery anyhow.\n\nMarch 27th child support case: The amount of child support was settled. He didn't show up but his lawyer did. Apparently he had just retained this lawyer, less than a week before court. They tried to ask for a continuous again but I decided. It went infront of the judge. The judge had asked why and the lawyer admitted that he doesn't know anything about this case because he was just retained and that he is going to file some paperwork for a show cause and amendment of visitation. I know the show cause is because I didn't allow our son on the plane for Christmas and the visitation is so that he can have me pay for half of transportation. They also have to do a change of venue because our son and I live in a different city now the. The court order. \n\nLegal question: Will I be thrown in jail? Can I have my rights to all 3 of my children taken away from me for this? Any advice\/comments would be extremely helpful. \n\nSide note: I did speak to legal aid but they won't represent me in court. Stating I can handle this myself. \n\nSo sorry for being so long! Thank you for sticking with me of you read everything. I love my children and I never want to keep them away from fathers. ","title":"[Va] Have i seriously messed up to the point my son is going to be taken away from me?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444754564,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3olsrj\/class_action_against_paypal\/","id":"3olsrj","body":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/personalfinance\/comments\/2yrt81\/i_see_your_psn_problem_i_raise_you_my_case_where\/\n\nI just read this guy's story and mine sounds awfully familiar. Paypal is still not doing anything about the well known chargeback fraud scheme.\n\nA couple of months ago I sold a pair of rare sneakers to a person in montreal. The person received the item 6 days later. I have written proof from the postal office, plus the online tracking record.\n\n86 days later, the person files an \"unauthorized transaction\" claim and paypal immediately refunds the money out of my account, without any notice. Unfortunately I had a balance of 2000 USD on my Paypal account and they just took it leaving me in the red with 200 something. I lost the money and the sneakers.\n\nI then contacted Paypal by phone twice. And they hung up on me. I kid you not. They simply didn't care. \n\nI then went on to vent my frustration by email. Their response was they could do nothing about it. It's the credit card companies call and I would need to calm down or else they would ignore my case.\n\nI was absolutey dumbfounded by the way they handled this matter and how they treated me.\n\nI now filed a report with Montreal police regarding the fraudulent buyer and have a lawyer in Singapore, Paypals headquarters, looking into the matter.\n\nI'm also looking for other victims of this scheme to file a class action lawsuit against Paypal. Paypal is ruthlessly taking advantage of their \"monopolistic\" position. I am located in Switzerland. \n","title":"Class Action against Paypal?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568913154,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6h40w\/limited_company_is_being_shut_down_due_to\/","id":"d6h40w","body":"Today, I have received emails from unknown sources called \"compare the umbrella\" providing me with details which I never knew I had shared with the company\/business\/broker which has contacted me. \nIt is something quite dodgy and I'm not sure if it's a scam or if it is legit.\nIt basically is a threat for me to shut down my Ltd company due to the IR35 April 2020 laws. This means  that I will have a weekly tax of up to 25% of earnings.\n\nCan someone provide me with more details about this?","title":"Limited Company is being shut down due to someone's email \"compare the umbrella\" claiming something about IR35 law.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553193074,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3u4rx\/should_i_hire_a_lawyer_for_not_at_fault_case\/","id":"b3u4rx","body":"About 4 months ago there was an accident involving a semi truck driver who got rear ended while parked on the side of the road. The trailer was completely destroyed. The police officer reported it was 100% the other driver's fault.\n\nThe truck owner got everything settled down with the faulty driver's insurance, by getting brand new trailer and getting reimbursed for everything he lost. \n\nComing back to the driver of the truck, he wasn't able to work for some time, he's been having back issues and getting treated from a  chiropractic. He missed about 6 trips, thus 6 paychecks. The insurance agent said once he finished getting treatment and is back to work, they can get all the medical records and other information, then pay for everything. I've never dealt with an insurance claim or anything like that, neither the driver. I promised to help with it as much as I could to help with finding information and advice.\n\nMy question is, should he hire a lawyer? How likely that the insurance company will pay for everything the driver lost, plus the bills? I had a conversation with a law firm representative and the gentleman said most of the time the insurance agents pay very little if a claimer is working by themselves, especially without any knowledge of rights and laws. Considering it was 100% the other guy's fault, wouldn't this fact make it easier to get paid fairly? The law firm wants 1\/3 of whatever they can win, plus flat fees, is that the better way to go?\n\nState of residency of the driver: Washington.\nThe accident happened in Oklahoma. I believe the other driver is also from there.\nThe insurance company is Sentry.\n\nThank you.","title":"Should I hire a lawyer for 'not at fault' case?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552073934,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayuckf\/help_with_leaving_current_job_canada\/","id":"ayuckf","body":"I have been at my current employer for 5 years. This past Xmas I had a couple weeks off and the day before I was suppose to go back I had a severe panic attack and couldn\u2019t sleep. saw my doctor and she gave me a note for some time off and upped my medications.\n\nFlashback to Oct 2018: I was offered a job and accepted, pending opening sometime this April. \nCurrent employer DOES know about the new job (they confronted me one day and asked if I was leaving)\n\nI\u2019m currently on E.I (paid by the government) for my sick leave, (my doctor knows about the new job and is happy to give me time off until I start there).\n\nI\u2019m not sure what to do about quitting. I need to keep being paid by E.I until I start new job.\nCan I tell E.I about my plans?\nWill they help me once they know what my plans are?\nWill I get into trouble for this?","title":"Help with leaving current job (Canada)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568827244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6109r\/neighbors_eviction_ma_usa\/","id":"d6109r","body":"This past month new tenants have moved in an apartment above me and I was notified that it should be 4 tenants in a 2 bedroom apartment. It turns out there there are 4-5 adults and atleast 8 school children (some younger). Normally I wouldn\u2019t have an issue with this, even if there is some noise, as expected with children but I live with my adult parents that are almost elderly and they deserve to have peace and quiet after their hard days work(I am aware of the tenant right to quiet enjoyment)\n\nWe have complained to the landlord and he has issued an eviction notice via a constable to them. I have been recording the incidents as well showing numerous people leaving and entering the home on a day to day basis. I also needed to bring my parents to a hotel to let them relax from all of the noise. I\u2019m very hestitant to get the police involved due to the age of my parents and number of people in the apartment.\n\nIs the landlord liable for the break in peace thats been caused by these new tenants? If the landlord is unable to evict these tenants in 30 days would it be wise to sue my landlord especially if we decide to move (which would cost my family money)?","title":"Neighbors Eviction (MA, USA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555102119,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcin5u\/okusa_landlord_withholding_deposit_to_pay_for\/","id":"bcin5u","body":"Hello, I couldn\u2019t find any previous answers to my specific questions so I thought I\u2019d ask here! Thanks in advance.\n\nI\u2019ll try to keep this brief and to the point. My husband and I lived at a property for around 2.5 years in Oklahoma. The initial deposit was $1445, and $256 was returned to me. The charges are below, separated into charges I agree with and charges I do not agree with:\n\n**Charges I agree with:**\n\n$45 \u2014 one time mow (*even though this was in January where all the grass was already cut and dead*)\n\n$120 \u2014 repair drywall (*there were two small holes that were our fault from doorknobs hitting it*)\n\n$225 \u2014 general interior cleaning\n\n**Charges I do not agree with:**\n\n$175 \u2014 general carpet cleaning (*is this something the tenant pays for? It seems like this should be done regardless?*)\n\n$75 \u2014 pull weeds and grass from 2 flower beds and add mulch, and remove large overgrown bush from in front of walkway (*upon moving in, there was NO mulch in the neglected flower bed, and all bushes were overgrown. We trimmed them regularly. The removal of a bush that was already there especially shouldn\u2019t be our responsibility, right?*)\n\n$199 \u2014 install light bulbs throughout, clean paint splatter from wall, replace missing door stop at entryway, replace missing valences above windows, clean grates and change filters (*my biggest issues are these charges. Are lightbulbs to be provided by the tenant? There was no door stop OR any window valences upon moving in, these are both blatant lies. Cleaning grates seems like it should be included in the general interior cleaning?*)\n\n$350 \u2014 refresh paint throughout (*is it the tenants responsibility to pay for the home to be repainted?*)\n\nThe cost of living in Oklahoma is pretty low compared to other places, so these charges seem inflated as well.\n\nPlease someone shed some light on my concerns and let me know if these are all valid according to law. My lease shows nothing regarding these items being charged following termination of the lease. If needed, I can upload screenshots of the lease (with some redactions for privacy of course). I\u2019ve rented 4 different places in Oklahoma and have never had any issues like this before. \n\nMy husband is in the military and will talk to the attorney on base for advice, but I wanted to make sure it wasn\u2019t a waste of time first.\n\nThank you for the help. Please let me know if you need more information.","title":"[OK-USA] Landlord withholding deposit to pay for things that weren\u2019t done before I moved into the home.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441430638,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jpnj4\/simple_quesiton_about_guilt_by_association\/","id":"3jpnj4","body":"So, say there are two people shoplifting from a store expensive stuff with two other people who just are associated with them and walk in with them yet they don't shoplift but they are in a different part of the store. The shoplifter gets caught and turns in the names will the people who didn't do anything but be there with them punished for guilt by association?\n\n\nLocation is inn illinois btw","title":"simple quesiton about guilt by association","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1409940856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fkjev\/caaz_got_a_speeding_ticket_i_didnt_complete\/","id":"2fkjev","body":"I was granted the option to take traffic school, and I submitted a request for an extension, but my request went unanswered. The traffic school website said I must complete traffic school 7 days before my court date, but when I tried to submit it, the system said the court had a 10 day policy, so I was too late.\n\nNow my only option seems to be just to pay the fine, but I'm wondering if I can appear in court and request traffic school and an extension.","title":"[CA\/AZ] Got a speeding ticket. I didn't complete traffic school before the cut-off. Can I request an extension and\/or traffic school if I appear in court?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553538713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5eg6c\/trademark_common_law_question_did_i_accidentally\/","id":"b5eg6c","body":"I started a business using a name that isn't trademarked and hasn't been used by the general public. \n\n​\n\nHowever, recently my campaign has been going well and caught the attention of a local blog that just so happened to use the same name for a **giveaway**. They do a giveaway maybe once per quarter as far as I can tell.\n\n​\n\nThey were somewhat passive aggressive a few days in a post saying, \"Can't believe we've been doing these giveaways for 4+ years #XYZ.\" Clearly they recently saw my business come into play and seem a bit bothered that my idea is similar to their giveaway and I have the same name.\n\n​\n\nMy concern is that if they were to take me to court for stealing their name they could win because they used it before me due to common law.\n\n​\n\nHowever, digging more into the laws of trademarks, I realized that because they post so randomly and do not sell product (rather give away), this may fall under \"sham transactions,\" which would therefore keep me in the clear.\n\n​\n\nDoes anyone have any knowledge on this? I'm probably being paranoid, but I wanted to get a bit of clarification. Located in TX.","title":"Trademark - Common Law Question - Did I accidentally steal a name?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1504331866,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xk48y\/lost_my_brother_to_a_motor_vehicle_accident_what\/","id":"6xk48y","body":"A few weeks ago (August 10th) my brother and his girlfriend got into a motorcycle accident which resulted in his death and severe injuries to his girlfriend (she'll be alright). The District Attorney is charging the driver of the SUV which killed my brother with Vehicular Homicide (misdemeanor). From what I've heard, the driver took an illegal U-Turn on a two-lane highway (the SUV was in the right lane and my brother was in the left lane) and cut off my brother, resulting in the accident. The police called and said that the driver is requesting a magistrate hearing since it's a misdemeanor charge. \n\nWhat exactly should my family and I expect from all of this? Should we hire a lawyer? Will we have to appear for court? \n\nThanks","title":"Lost my brother to a motor vehicle accident. What should I be expecting? (MA)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508131344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76oet6\/i_have_an_online_credit_repair_business_do_i_need\/","id":"76oet6","body":"I am starting an online credit repair business. I am not selling any physical materials, it's a purely service-oriented business.\n\nThe majority of states have laws governing \"Credit Service Organizations\" (credit repair companies) and require businesses to have a surety bond ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 depending on the state. These bonds are very expensive, the yearly premiums are typically 1% - 3% of total value of the bond. \n\nMy company is an LLC which is incorporated in Delaware but my physical location is in California. My clients will be from all over the U.S.\n\nMy main question is, will I need to register a surety bond in all 50 states or can I just register a bond in the state I am registered in (or have a physical location in)? Alternatively, can I write my client contracts in a way that says any legal dispute\/arbitration\/litigation must take place under Delaware\/California laws? This could mean the difference between me spending ~$1,000 vs ~$30,000 a year on bond premiums.","title":"I have an online credit repair business. Do I need a surety bond for every state I have clients in or just my own state?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570586496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfabps\/non_compete_clause_in_florida_contract\/","id":"dfabps","body":"If my new employer wants me to sign a noncompete clause saying I can\u2019t work in the same field for two years after being fired or resigning , can they restrict me completely from actually doing this?\nI.e . Real estate photography, can they me sue or come after me for working for another company or doing my own , even if I\u2019m not necessarily using specific techniques they use?","title":"Non compete clause in florida contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552445741,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0gwdk\/not_sure_if_my_former_employer_was_duping_me_out\/","id":"b0gwdk","body":"i used to work at this restaurant as a busser\/food runner for about a year before quitting. i realized that my tip was being split with the dishwasher in order for him to get a decent paycheck (the owners paying him and i $6.36 an hour **+ busser tip)** does anyone know what kind of lawyer i can reach out? i live in the state of connecticut and someone told me that it's illegal for the FOH to share tips with BOH staff. Thank you!","title":"not sure if my former employer was duping me out of tip money, someone help","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1415481745,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2lpfq6\/lease_to_buy_contract_on_home_faulty\/","id":"2lpfq6","body":"So a friend of mine has a contract set up for a home. She was leasing to buy, her contract is up in 2016. Anyways, the owner wants her to buy it now, problem is, on the contract is reads 5 acres, when she only had 4 acres. She was trying to sell the lot next door to take a chunk off the loan she needs but the bank is refusing her saying she is 25k over the actual value of the house. The owner wont budge even though he charged her for 5 acres. So the only option she has is to find a lawyer or get out the house. She loved the house and doesn't want to lose it but the owner is being a real a-hole to her. Wont even listen or nothing. Even refusing meetings with the banker. What can she do?","title":"Lease To Buy Contract On Home Faulty..??","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1538587085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9l36uo\/check_not_cleared_after_termination\/","id":"9l36uo","body":"Long story short I was dismissed yesterday, I went to cash both checks today and Chase bank told me the funds won\u2019t be available til 10\/5.\n\nHe mentioned something about positive pay and that I needed to contact HR to resolve the issue. This has never happened before so I\u2019m unsure why I have to wait 2 days to have access to money when they let me go? The check issued was a Chase bank check and I deposited it into my Chase account. \n\nIs there some kind of legal action I can take if they don\u2019t make the funds available immediately?\n\n","title":"Check not cleared after Termination","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569436415,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d97gdy\/someones_harassing_me_with_fake_phone_numbers\/","id":"d97gdy","body":"For the last few weeks, random numbers keep calling me but it\u2019s been the same person every time. My guess is they are using an app to generate fake numbers, calling me from different area codes.\n\nThe person is a male that sounds roughly between the ages of 25-40. I am a 23F and cannot recognize the voice at all nor do I have any idea of who it could be. My close friend has a decent amount of followers on Instagram we are always posting pics together or commenting on each other\u2019s posts. All I can imagine is that he Googled me and found my number online.\n\nThey started by calling me once a week and would just breathe super heavily into the phone until I hung up. It then progressed to this person whispering perverted things such as \u201cI wanna fuck your tits\u201d or \u201cI want your body right now\u201d and other things of this nature. I keep hanging up immediately after I realize it\u2019s this person. Now they keep calling during the late hours of the night, the middle of the day, basically whenever and too frequently.\n\nI have no idea what to do and I am so creeped out. I started carrying mace with me and am constantly looking over my shoulder. I called the police and they said there\u2019s nothing they can do in this situation.\n\nIs there a way to track down this person? Do you think this has the possibility of escalating where he would find my address?","title":"Someone\u2019s harassing me with fake phone numbers using an app and the police say they can\u2019t help me...","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1508459275,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77iloq\/usa_ca_landlord_charging_huge_fine_for_dumping_in\/","id":"77iloq","body":"After a dresser fell apart when moving about my apartment I took the pieces down to the trash area and placed it in the bins. I could fit everything in the bins except for the drawers which I left next to the bins very neatly. A couple days later I got an invoice emailed to me charging me $600 for dumping in the trash area. Is that legal for my landlord to charge me such a high price for disposing of my trash where I pay (included in my rent) for it to be picked up? Looking back on it I know it was a stupid thing to do I just want to see if there's anyway I could avoid the fee. I've asked my landlord twice to reduce or appeal the fee but she won't budge. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.","title":"[USA - CA] Landlord charging huge fine for dumping in trash area.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571045033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dho4kg\/how_to_evaluate_attorneys_when_in_jail_after_an\/","id":"dho4kg","body":"I've previously carefully selected civil attorneys based upon their specific expertise and reputation by doing online searches, asking friends\/colleagues, speaking with the attorneys and calling references.  \n\nI'm a bit of a legal hypochondriac and feeling that I could get falsely arrested at any time for crimes that I wasn't related to.  My perception of this risk gets increased with the #MeToo and various hacking\/cyber crimes bills, also I look like a lot of people that might be shady.  \n\nI don't want to waste any attorney's time now as it could be years before I get heat on me or it could never happen.  \n\nSo when I'm arrested, don't want my friends\/family\/colleagues or other attorneys to know and want to make bail asap in NY... how does one find a qualified or specialized criminal defense attorney when in jail with limited access to resources and privileges?  It seems like any attorney would have you in a tight spot in negotiating fees and rates.  \n\nThanks in advance for your assistance.","title":"How to evaluate attorneys when in jail after an arrest? (NY)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551912338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay545j\/how_can_i_ensure_a_will_is_properly_executed\/","id":"ay545j","body":"My mom recently committed suicide. She made plenty of money, had two houses, a life insurance policy and I was recently told by my step dad, she also had a will to which he is the executor.\n\nDo I have any rights to know if the will and her belongings are properly taken care of? Or does he, as her husband, take charge of it all?\n\nI'm asking because he's very irresponsible with money and she's been supporting him for the past 20 years. I need some sort of comfort in knowing her things will be taken care of properly.","title":"How can I ensure a will is properly executed?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569220841,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d82sxz\/dad_kicked_me_out_of_house\/","id":"d82sxz","body":"I'm 18. I don't currently work so I can't help with rent. Dad and I had an argument and I left the house to catch some air. Keys are left inside. I come back and text my sister to open. She says she can't because my dad told her not to. In his words \"let him stay outside.\" Is this legal or illegal  and what's the best way to go about this?","title":"Dad kicked me out of house","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570340007,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddz4zp\/i_dont_know_if_i_can_or_should_put_it_here\/","id":"ddz4zp","body":"Okay. If this is in violation, I'll remove it.\n\nMy Texas friend got into trouble when he downloaded a large file of adult content. That unknown to him had child content on it. It was a adult file sharing website. \n\nMy other friend said that if he had went to the police about it he would had been fine. But he did not, he is now on probation and on a special list. \n\nI've never heard of reporting to the police. I've heard of reporting it to the website. \n\nMy question: if he did report it to the police, would he be okay? Also how does one do that? Also how do you prove your innocence?","title":"I don't know if I can or should put it here.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540338776,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9quizs\/uk_paternity_leave_my_job_role_has_become_fluid\/","id":"9quizs","body":"Bit of backstory to start off with;\n\nI work in a retail\/healthcare store in the UK. I was hired as a Store Manager Designate (SMD) which is a Store Manager who operates initially without a Store of their own, but when a position becomes available the 'pool' of candidates (2 in my region) are called on to step up to the vacant position. In the mean time, my permanent position would be Assistant manager of a select store to work out of.\n\nMy wife gave birth to our daughter on May 2nd and I subsequently took 2 weeks paternity leave plus 2 days annual leave. On the second day of my leave I received a text message from a colleague asking me to come into work to discuss with the area manager where I would be working, as the store I was operating out of no longer needed the extra cover I was providing. After meeting with him, it turns out a Store had become available and I could step up to a Store Manager level in my own shop.\n\nFast forward to the end of August where another meeting is called by the same area manager. During this meeting he tells me that the position isn't permanent and if I wanted it I would have to apply for it on the company careers page and interview for it. I told him how unhappy I was with this as it wasn't how it was sold to me upon joining the company a year ago. He said he would do what he could to help, but I should look at a back up plan for if I fail to beat the other candidates.\n\nNow: I have been made fully mobile across our region (SW England) and am expected to visit a different store every day with a brief of \"getting the stores up to speed for the new year\". My official position is somewhat undefined, I am introduced as a mobile trainer to the stores I visit which on the company flowchart is a step under assistant manager in progression. The work involves auditing the store on behalf of the area manager, creating an action plan and emailing my findings to him. I'm not happy with this arrangement as the travel-1000 miles a week, means I often leave very early in the day and get home a lot later than I ever did in my base stores.\n\nMy wife is suffering from PPD and sometimes finds it difficult with my daughter being a sole carer for her up to 14 hours a day. I have taken a couple of 'Parental days' to try and help, but I've noticed on my pay slip that these have been allocated as sick days and I need to attend an attendance meeting.\n\nThe work itself can be very slow, to the point of boredom as I have no say in which stores I get sent to, and as such I often find myself as a fifth wheel on either, very busy or very quiet days. \n\nDoes this set up smell like constructive dismissal to anyone? Or at the very least can I put in a grievance on the grounds of the job role changing particularly whilst I was away on paternity leave or during my short tenure in the promoted role?","title":"UK: Paternity leave, my job role has become 'fluid' since returning to work.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569673893,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dafdom\/sole_member_llc_pro_se\/","id":"dafdom","body":"What Supreme Court law\/ruling would prevent a sole member LLC from representing themselves pro se on an arbitration docket? State of Illinois. \n\nContext: I\u2019m being compelled to hire an attorney for what should be a small claims case that is currently in arbitration. The opposing attorney cited a Supreme Court ruling, the judge agreed (judge is close friends with the opposing party\u2019s counsel) and will only allow me to argue the portion of the suit brought against me individually. I was given 14 days to hire an attorney .\n\nI\u2019m under the impression this ruling does not apply to sole member LLCs.","title":"Sole member LLC - Pro Se?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540908780,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9so90c\/wisconsin_if_a_step_parent_is_accused_of_sexual\/","id":"9so90c","body":"He is a law enforcement officer in the community and his wife is apparently not leaving him... Does the child he\u2019s accused of sexually assaulting have to stay in the home? Is he allowed to be around other kids? \n\n[charges can be found here ](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/FtxonBZ)\n\nAlso, will they be more lenient with him because he\u2019s an officer? ","title":"[Wisconsin] If a step parent is accused of sexual assault and charges are filed (there\u2019s a trial scheduled in the Spring), is the accused allowed to be around children?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1412746959,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2imwn0\/do_class_action_lawsuits_ever_expire_what_happens\/","id":"2imwn0","body":"My basic (and possibly inaccurate) understanding of class action lawsuits in the U.S.A. is that a large company is sued for an issue that has negatively impacted customers who purchased a product or service, and are required to pay a lump sum of money from which affected consumers can claim a ration until the money runs out. When reading about the recent Red Bull settlement, I wondered what would happen if people didn't use up all $13m due to the relatively low reward of $10 each.\n\nIf, hypothetically, not enough people made claims, what would happen to the money? Does it sit forever in some bank account until it is inevitably used up, or is there a limited time-frame in which people can make claims? In the case of the latter, where does the money go? Back to Red Bull? Or to Benjamin Careathers who filed the lawsuit? The government?\n\nOr do I just have a completely inaccurate understanding of class action lawsuits that renders this question moot somehow?\n\nSorry if this is subreddit is only meant for personal legal advice rather than general questions; I didn't know where else I would ask.","title":"Do class action lawsuits ever expire? What happens to the money when they do?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568877620,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6ajq5\/my_company_is_forcing_us_to_pay_for_our_schedules\/","id":"d6ajq5","body":"Tldr: the title\n\nSo recently at my workplace our higher ups had the amazing idea of switching from a physical schedule to a digital one, sounded amazing. We didn't have to physically be at work to receive the schedules, when it went up we all saw it and the plethora of other advantages to that system. \n\nWell, turns out the app they're making us get costs $3 and they have no plans to reimburse the near 100 employee work force when we buy the app either, our other option is to not get our schedules and get fired.\n\nI have so many moral problems with this let alone the legality of it all. Pay-gating free informatiom such as our schedule which has always been free, then completely disregarding the fact most of us make minimum wage or live paycheck to paycheck, when there are hundreds of free altermatives out there, and straight up denying to compensate for the cost. Like I get it's 3 dollars but it's not about the money it's the concept. Not to mention this is the \" #1 paid app\" on the play store, and we're just feeding into this multi million dollar conglomerate who is undeserving of our money because our managers were too ignorant to look past the first search result to \" scheduling app \" on Google.\n\nThis is also coming from a company where %99 of the employees are part time and no one has any benefits, can they do this? Is there vital information I'm leaving out? Would I be in the wrong teaching everyone to pirate it? This is completely absurd and like I said I get that it's cheap but that's not the point. I shouldn't have to put my hard earned money back into my place of work because they're too lazy to financially compensate it's workers when were a multi million dollar company, and the money is going towards something completely useless.","title":"My company is forcing us to pay for our schedules","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570286981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddo63a\/debt_collectors_about_a_hospital_bill_from_3\/","id":"ddo63a","body":"I have a chronic illness and therefore require hospitalizations if they appear to be serious. Around three years ago, I needed to go to the ER at the hospital close to my college campus. All was well and I was discharged with the Bill's being sent to my insurance.\n\nHowever, since 2018 I have been called three times about a debt from a bill I never recieved and my insurance company paid it off completely before this when the bill was sent. The problem is the hospital doctors and the ER doctors are from two different companies. The Hospital doctors work were hired by the hospital, while the ER doctors are a third party. According to them I owe this third party doctor over a thousand dollars. I have never been sent a bill from any of these physicians billing departments and I have kept the any of the bills I have received. \n\nThis happened last year, when a collection agency called me and I asked to resend the copy of the bill to me. The 1st  person I talked to said they can't but the 2nd said okay. I got it and submitted it to my insurance and the 2016 bill was already paid by my insurance in 2016! So the account was closed.\n\nAgain I am called by a collection agency about a bill from 2016. And I looked at my past bills and claims and my insurance already paid for the date. My insurance says when I was admitted and when I was billed and if it was processed. All yes from my records. My question is should I call the hospital (I am) and see if they have any more surprise bills and get information about the doctor companies they use and see if they have any other bills? And I am going to tell my insurance if they have any other bills. But I think there is fraud. The statements from my insurance says that it is paid and they also have when the check was written and copies of the check number. It is really stressful and annoying to deal with debt Collectors and it is not good for me especially when my illness is triggered by stress. Should I file a complaint when it comes back that I\/my insurance paid the bill and who do I complain to the ER group or hospital?","title":"Debt Collectors about a Hospital Bill from 3 years ago, but I never seen the original bill.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1447546341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3su9jn\/my_aunt_stole_power_of_attorney_from_my_uncle_and\/","id":"3su9jn","body":"First of all I live in Washington State. I\u2019m sorry this story is so long. I\u2019m not sure how much of this really is relevant but it all feels relevant to me so here goes.\n\nMy grandmother who lived alone had started to deteriorate mentally and physically over the past few years. My mother, who is the youngest of her 4 siblings, had been helping take care of her part time. Originally it was just to help my grandma be less lonely after the death of my grandfather almost 6 years ago. Back then my grandma\u2019s health was still fairly good; however since then she has started to develop the early stages of some form of dementia, although she has never been formally tested.\n\nAt first my mother would come by at least 1 weekend a month, then 2 weekends a month and finally over the past few years it was every weekend. Over this time my grandmother started becoming less and less active and more and more forgetful. My grandmother would always pay for my mother\u2019s gas expenses (we live about 40 miles away so gas was always an issue), when they would go shopping together my grandmother would also pay for the groceries for both households as well as give my mother some money to pay her back for her help. At the early years of this my grandmother would accompany my mother on their outings, however as she got worse she would not feel like going out and would stay at home letting my mother use her debit card to do the errands including grocery shopping, picking up my grandmother\u2019s medicines, and paying on my grandmother\u2019s bills. My grandmother had let my mother hold on to her debit card which my mother sometimes used throughout the week to pay for groceries for both us and my grandmother throughout the week.\n\nAs my grandmother became less active she would neglect house work pushing more and more onto my mother. My mother would get paid around two to three hundred dollars for three days of work. My uncle, who was the eldest child of my grandmother and grandfather, who we would later find out was the power of attorney written in their will, was in charge of my grandmother\u2019s finances that my mother didn\u2019t take care of and kept track of all money coming out of my grandmother\u2019s accounts and questioning my mother about any large amounts of money coming out. My grandmother would always give my mother her payments in check which my grandmother would always sign herself.\n\nDuring weekdays my grandmother would be alone for the most part. My uncle would visit her weekly and take her to doctor appointments. My aunts, the second and third children (I will refer to the second eldest as \u201cAunt A\u201d and third eldest as \u201cAunt B\u201d), would visit less than once a month. When no one was around my grandmother would normally talk to my mother on the phone at least once every day for up to 2 hours. \n\nThen a little over half a year ago my grandmother suffered a fall when no one else was there and had to be hospitalized. This is when we found out my uncle was power of attorney as stated in the will. She was in the hospital for about a week and was then moved into a rehab\/nursing home. During the time she was there the communication between my mother and her siblings started getting worse and worse. At first they were all on good terms with each other,  trying to work together for my grandmother\u2019s best interest.\n\nAt first things were about the same. We would visit my grandmother in the home about once a week and my grandmother would call my mother almost every day. We set it up with my uncle, who now as POA was in full control of my grandmother\u2019s finances, to go to my grandma\u2019s house and still do the normal house work and get some money. My mother also stopped using my grandma\u2019s debit card. My mother and uncle wanted to try having my grandmother live at home with either someone in the family or some other at home care giver living with her. My aunts wanted her to go into a full time home. This is where the conflict started. \n\nDuring my mother\u2019s visits she discussed the normal topics with my grandmother. Mostly involving how we were doing at home, how things at my grandma\u2019s house were, how their pets were doing. Nothing out of the ordinary for them. My mother would normally stay until my grandmother would fall asleep, if she didn\u2019t my grandmother would often get upset and have a hard time falling asleep. This often meant my mother would stay past visiting hours, however none of the employees ever said anything to my mother about this.\n\nMy grandmother often would get upset when she was alone and would call my mother. Many of the things that caused her to get upset were when she remembered about my mother and how bad our living situation is. My mother would normally calm her down, reassuring her that we were doing fine. However after one such episode my grandmother started worrying about us again right after getting off the phone with my mother causing her to have a panic attack. This episode prompted my uncle to permanently take away my grandmother\u2019s cell phone, essentially cutting her off from the outside world. He blamed my mother for causing my grandmother\u2019s attack, saying she brought up the topic that got my grandmother upset, even though it was my grandmother that brought it up. He also got after my mother for staying at the home after hours. He then more or less said that if she didn\u2019t stop visiting after hours she would be forbidden form seeing my grandmother. Unknown to us at the time my uncle was discussing matters with Aunt A and she was the one that brought him to this way of thinking.\n\nAbout a month and a half after my grandmother entered the rehab\/nursing home her insurance said they would no longer cover her stay at that home as she had recovered from her fall (according to them). This was much sooner than anyone had expected as we had yet to set up a long care plan for her. So my mother and her siblings held an emergency meeting to decide what to do. They decided on putting her in a care home for a short time. My uncle had intended on still having someone live at home with my grandmother and this current situation would only be temporary. In this time my mother was able to explain to my uncle what had happened and how everything was just a big misunderstanding because everyone didn\u2019t have all the information, and their relationship improved.\n\nHowever my grandmother still did not get her phone back. My mother started visiting my grandmother less as it was getting hard for us to visit as often with how far the place she was staying was from our home and my grandmother was no longer able to give us gas money. Because of this my grandmother started getting lonely and started confiding in Aunt A as she was the one visiting her most now. Aunt A started getting more involved with my grandmother\u2019s living situation. Her and my uncle often discussed the future plans and she started taking my grandmother to the doctors, my mother was left out of all of this.\n\nThen two months after my grandmother was in this current home, the reason why Aunt A was being so helpful was revealed. My uncle went to my grandmother\u2019s bank to take some money out of the account to pay of my grandmother\u2019s house utilities bills. He found the account completely cleared out. We came to learn that in the two months my grandmother had been in this house Aunt A had convinced my grandmother that her other children didn\u2019t care for her, they were abusing her finances, and got her to sign the paperwork making Aunt A power of attorney.\n\nMy mother and my uncle planned on having a meeting with them, Aunt A, and my grandmother. However when we arrived, my aunt had brought a lawyer. It was revealed that my aunt had looked into my grandmother\u2019s finances over the past 5 years and had documents showing every withdrawal to my mother and that my mother had made. This included the money my grandmother had given my mother but also included money taken out to pay for my grandmother\u2019s bills, medicines, and living expenses. Note my grandmother is a very giving person and would often give people money when they needed it. This included all of her children so all of them had gotten large financial gifts from my grandmother over the years.\n\nAnyways the lawyer claimed that any money my mother had taken out was fraud. My grandmother instantly responded that this wasn\u2019t true and said any money my mother got from her was a gift. However this fell on deaf ears. Although not stated outright, bringing all of this information out now implies my aunt would sue for fraud if any of us tried to challenge her. During all of this my grandmother brings up that she should just live with my mother and us, not fully comprehending the situation and thinking all the commotion is from how much her staying in the current place is. The idea of her moving in with us was one we had never discussed with her and was one she came up with on her own.\n\nAfter this my mother stopped visiting my grandmother for a while. Mostly so she wouldn\u2019t have to see any of her siblings as they had all wronged her in some way. Aunt A who had accused my mother of something she hadn\u2019t done and then holding it over her head, Aunt B for being on Aunt A\u2019s side this whole time, and my uncle for falling for Aunt A\u2019s ploy.\n\nAfter three weeks Aunt B texted my mother and got mad at her for taking so much money and now not visiting my grandmother anymore. So my mother started visiting my grandmother again. She would try to visit at least once every week, always on days and at times her siblings wouldn\u2019t be there. During these visits my grandmother would bring up her living with us, to which my mother would say that wasn\u2019t possible. During my mother\u2019s last visit my grandmother\u2019s sister and her children were also there. The idea of my grandmother moving in with us was again brought up by her and somehow this got conveyed to Aunt A. After my mother left my grandmother suffered another panic attack like before. After this Aunt A texted my mother a few days later saying we were all forbidden from seeing my grandmother anymore.\n\nDuring this whole ordeal Aunt A has been unwilling to listen to our side of the story. Ignoring the phone whenever we call her and the few times we have seen her in person refusing to listen or believe anything we say. She has also implanted the idea my mother is a thief and all-around terrible person to the staff at the home making my mother feel uncomfortable and unwanted when she would visit. With all of this scheming, backstabbing, badmouthing, and unwillingness to listen to reason Aunt A seems mentally unstable and we are worried she will cause an early death to my grandmother because of all of this unneeded stress. My mother just wants my grandmother to be able to live the rest of her life happy and to be able to continue their old relationship, neither of which is possible currently. It would be best if the POA could be returned to my uncle, as he was much more reasonable and willing to listen to reason. Does my aunt actually have a strong fraud case against me mother? Is there any kind of legal action we can take to remove my aunt as power of attorney or are we backed into a corner?","title":"My aunt stole power of attorney from my uncle and now she\u2019s abusing this power to control my grandma\u2019s life.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444853871,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ormv9\/how_to_handle_identity_theft_by_family_member_nc\/","id":"3ormv9","body":"Hi, I would appreciate any advice.  My niece recently found that she had credit cards in her name totaling over $70,000.  She opened a police report and through some investigating found that her mother had done this.\n\nHer mother then made her feel guilty about what she (my niece) would be doing to their family by pressing charges.  I strongly suspect that  her mother threatened her as well (not in a physical way necessarily, but probably threatened suicide, etc. , because my niece was so out of frame this morning that she called the police and had the report closed.\n\nThe investigator told her that she could not change her mind from a criminal perspective on this, and it could only be handled in a civil court from here on.  I think my niece was in such an emotional state that she didn't think through the consequences of closing the report. I don't think she can't repair her credit without that police report.  Can the case truly not be opened again?  Is it possible the county would pursue charges without her pressing charges?  \n\nFor reference, NC = North Carolina, USA.","title":"How to handle identity theft by family member (NC)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541539948,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9usnd4\/youll_get_a_ticket_in_the_mail\/","id":"9usnd4","body":"While parked with my hazards on to go vote, a traffic guard asked me which car was mine and that I would get a ticket in the mail for being illegally parked. He floated about how much the ticket would cost me. He then pulled into the spot where I had been parked and stayed parked there. What is the likelihood that he will actually honor this verbal reprimand by reporting me later, and could I get it dismissed if I have photos of his car parked in that spot?","title":"\u201cYou\u2019ll get a ticket in the mail\u201d","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504757387,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ykwro\/narrowly_avoided_serious_accident_due_to_wheel\/","id":"6ykwro","body":"The wheel luckily did not hit any other car or person or cause damage, and luckily we did not roll over and managed to end up safely on the side of the road. That being said there are a TON of potential situations where we could have died or seriously injured ourselves or someone else. \n\nLess than 24 hours prior to the incident both front axels were replaced to prepare for a road trip from Los Angeles area to Arizona\/Utah area. The underlying suspicion is that the lug nuts were not tightened or properly torqued before leaving the shop. Now there is mechanical and cosmetic damage to the car (cosmetic- where the tire well is the metal is bent and when you open the driver side door it doesn't open fully). I have an existing claim open with my insurance for a fender bender last week where I was planing to get the damage fixed Monday. So this makes it complicated as well. Have not contacted insurance yet. \n\nHave spoken the shop who fixed the axels yesterday and they are willing to pay for damages if it was their fault. We are out of town and couldn't make it to our destination so I am being charged for a hotel tonight I am not at, and had to find new accommodation for tonight near where our car is at this current shop waiting to be fixed tomorrow. PLEASE what would you do? ","title":"Narrowly avoided serious accident due to wheel separation-24 hours prior replaced both front axels and deem the shop likely at fault-how to proceed","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443060853,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m5cym\/michigan_landlord_withheld_34_of_the_deposit_upon\/","id":"3m5cym","body":"-My brother and his friends moved out of their house in Ann Arbor upon graduation and all moved across the country to travel\/start new jobs. They haven't had a lot of time to deal with this stuff. \n\n-Roughly 3\/4 of the deposit has been withheld, citing to numerous unreasonable and costly deductions.\n\n-They did not know that, within their lease agreement, there is a provision that requires them to dispute any deductions from their deposit within 7 days of receiving the notice of damages. \n\n-However, Michigan tenant-landlord law requires that the notice of damages provided to the tenant include this language: *\u201cYou must respond to this notice by mail within 7 days after receipt of same, otherwise you will forfeit the amount claimed for damages.\u201d* (554.609). The itemized notice of damages that they received did not do so.\n\n-Further, failure by the landlord to comply with the notice of damages requirement within 30 days of the termination of occupancy obligates him to remit to the tenant the entire deposit (554.610)\n\n-Before we found the aforementioned statutes, my brother had offered that they get back roughly 1\/3 of the deducted amount (landlord refused). Afterwards, he proposed that they get back most of it.\n\n-The landlord is now claiming that she has consulted her attorney and she has been advised that noncompliance with the notice of damages requirement only means that they \u201cneed to open discussions about resolving the charges\u201d. Additionally, she claims that the earlier and lower offer means that a court will not award a higher amount, not least because they would consider it extortion. \n\n**-Is she pulling shit out of her ass? Is there any Michigan case law that interprets a plainly written noncompliance penalty statute to be as lenient as she claims? Since she refused my brother\u2019s previous lower offer, would that earlier offer carry any weight in a court? Would a court consider *citing the law* as \u201cextortion\u201d?**\n\nEDIT: for a bit more clarity\n","title":"(Michigan) Landlord withheld 3\/4 of the deposit upon move out. The notice of damages was defective, but she refuses to remit what we're statutorily entitled to as a result.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570345812,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddzwau\/accused_of_throwing_boxes_down_the_garbage_shoot\/","id":"ddzwau","body":"Help! I\u2019ve lived in my building for 5 years now. My apartment leasing company sent me a letter stating I threw boxes down the garbage shoot and are adding 500 dollars to my next rent check per the lease agreement I\u2019ve signed. The only thing is, I didn\u2019t do it. We have a trash room and I ALWAYS recycle. Someone else must have thrown the boxes down and they have my name on it. There are no cameras in the trash room. Can they really have grounds to fine me on something they have no proof on other than my name being on the boxes?","title":"Accused of throwing boxes down the garbage shoot.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541050550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t6smg\/were_moving_out\/","id":"9t6smg","body":"Location: Sunnyvale, CA\n\nRecently, my family and I decided to move out of our rented duplex of 10+ years to a quieter neighborhood. The thing is, according to my parents, when we moved in, we didn\u2019t pay a security deposit. Instead, in lieu of paying a security deposit, the landlord and my parents agreed that my dad would fix a bunch of things in the house (i.e. replacing carpet with hardwood floor, installing new kitchen cabinets, replacing bathroom vinyls with tile, etc.). My dad works as a general contractor, so he did this himself. No extra hires, just him. So that\u2019s what we did. My dad showed me email exchanges between him and the landlord discussing these (for whatever that\u2019s worth).\n\nWe lived in peace for the next couple of years. If something went wrong in the house (like one of our toilets broke a few years ago, my dad contacted the landlord, received the okay to buy a new toilet and sent her the receipt for toilet and labor), my dad would let the landlord know, landlord would okay the repair and ask for the receipts, my dad makes the repairs, we receive compensation, done. All discussion regarding these repairs are in my dad\u2019s email since that\u2019s the only way we ever really contacted her. \n\nThen, about two years ago, we received notification from our landlord letting us know that she hired a property manager. Let\u2019s call him Mr. A. He sends us a letter in the mail informing us of who he is. He also let us know that as he is taking over, he\u2019ll be providing extra services (like gardening, any necessary repairs, basically things my dad had been doing the entire time we\u2019ve been here). \n\nSo going back to the whole moving out thing, we already informed Mr. A that we\u2019ll be moving out (followed the 30-day courtesy notice, no lease to \u201cbreak\u201d since we apparently have a month to month agreement or whatever that\u2019s called). We agreed on a move-out date with Mr. A and a move-in date with our new prospective property manager, let\u2019s call him Mr. B. Our move-out date is late November and move-in date is next week. We have approximately two weeks or so between the dates, which works for us because it gives us time to move our stuff out and into the new place and clean our current place before we officially move out. \n\nThe thing is, my parents and I have this sneaking suspicion that Mr. A doesn\u2019t know that we didn\u2019t pay a security deposit and that instead, we made different arrangements with the landlord. We\u2019re not sure if the landlord told Mr. A at all, but we also don\u2019t want to be the ones to break the news to him. My parents think, and I have to agree, that it should be the landlord\u2019s responsibility to inform him, that she should have told him this when she first hired him. We think he doesn\u2019t know because he mentioned something about a security deposit in a conversation not too long ago. \n\nAnother thing, he\u2019s been a bit pushy about coming in to do an inspection of the property before we move out, which is fair to do the inspection but not fair to be so pushy about it. No one is home for a good portion of the day since my parents and I work and my sibling is in school. We don\u2019t want to give him free access to the inside of our home. It feels wrong, but I\u2019m not sure if legally we\u2019d be in the right if we keep denying him entry. I haven\u2019t checked local laws (we\u2019re in Sunnyvale, CA) on this. \n\nSo basically, just want to know:\n1. How do we tell him that we didn\u2019t pay the security deposit and that instead, we made a different arrangement with the landlord when we first moved in? Should we contact the landlord and request that she inform him herself? Or is it on us to let him know?\n2. Regardless of whether or not we paid the deposit, I know we\u2019ll likely be charged if repairs need to be made. If this is the case, is there a limit as to how much they can charge us for aforementioned repairs?\n3. How soon before we move out is the landlord\/property manager allowed to come into our home to do their inspection? Can we ask them to come in for the inspection on the move-out day?\n4. During the inspection, are we allowed to ask him not to take pictures if it isn\u2019t strictly related to needing to make repairs after we move out?\n\nThe last question is more for me than my parents because I personally can\u2019t get behind someone who is essentially a stranger taking photos of our items in our home unless it is (and he can 100% guarantee) that these photos will only be used for repair purposes only. It\u2019s not that I have anything to hide, I am just generally distrusting of strangers. \n\nThank you for making it this far! I know this was long, but my parents have tasked me to handle communication with Mr. A and Mr. B and this is the first time I\u2019ve ever had to extensively deal with anything like this. It\u2019s been a stressful few weeks dealing with them and my parents, so any help\/advice would be appreciated. \n\nThanks again! ","title":"We\u2019re moving out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552774513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1y25v\/i_didnt_pay_a_ticket_and_im_freaking_out_right_now\/","id":"b1y25v","body":"[VA, Prince William County] I got a ticket for not having my vehicle inspection renewed and today I looked at the ticket and I realized my court date was today and I didn\u2019t pay the fine and I\u2019m freaking out because I missed my court date when I could have just paid it so long ago. I\u2019ve heard so many people tell me that missing a court date means jail time or worse. \n\nWhat is going to happen to me? What can I do about it? How badly did I fuck up? How bad am I fucked?\n\nI\u2019m sorry for any typos I\u2019m literally shaking right now ","title":"I didn\u2019t pay a ticket and I\u2019m freaking out right now","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569158740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7qdss\/tx_7_years_ago_as_an_18_year_old_i_had_an_online\/","id":"d7qdss","body":"Obviously since I've matured I would not ever do something like that again. Id hate to end up in a federal prison like Jared Fogle or Austin Jones. I worry about it every day. What should I do?","title":"[TX] 7 years ago as an 18 year old I had an online relationship witha 15 year old. We just to video chat, text and talk a lot and say I love you etc. We never met and I never sent her nudes and she never sent nudes. I'm afriad this will come back to me and ruin My career. What do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552969781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2sw59\/contractor_covered_a_leak_in_our_2nd_floor\/","id":"b2sw59","body":"We had a contractor come by in January (which is during winter) to fix a leak above our front room window. Now that it's starting to warm up and rain, water has started to leak from the same exact spot. It's stated in the contract that it was covered. When I called the contractor he said he will come by the same day and \"call us back\". It's been a few days and after calling him several times he has not answered or returned the call. What should I do? ","title":"Contractor covered a leak in our 2nd floor apartment and guaranteed us a 1 year warranty on the leak and now won't answer\/return our calls to fix the leak.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569555196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9uqu5\/tn_roommate_left_with_zero_notice_says_they_will\/","id":"d9uqu5","body":"We are currently in a month to month lease after our 12 month lease ran out. Roommate up and leaves yesterday when we weren\u2019t home. Says he will not be paying rent. \n\nLandlord says we have to make up for the rent and that she doesn\u2019t care our roommate didn\u2019t give a notice. Me and my other roommate are going to pay our fair share the 1st of October and also turn in our 30 day notice to be out by the end of October. \n\nSo my question is, should we just pay our share and turn in 30 day notice. Or should we pay the full rent turn in the 30 day notice then take him to small claims court? The landlord currently has a full months rent deposit, can she withhold the full amount if we don\u2019t pay his share? \n\nSorry for and weird formatting I\u2019m on mobile. \n\nThanks for any advice","title":"(TN) Roommate left with zero notice, says they will not be paying rent. Landlord says she doesn\u2019t care","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555683051,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bezjds\/model_asking_for_her_photos_to_be_removed_from\/","id":"bezjds","body":"I don\u2019t feel like this is really a court issue, but I\u2019m not sure where else to ask. \nLast year I did a photo shoot with a model, and it was implied nudity. It was a very tasteful shoot but she is nude and her buttocks is exposed in the images. She has various images \u201cpainted\u201d onto her body with a movie projector. \nAnyways, a year later she\u2019s telling me that she no longer consents to me having those images up because she\u2019s \u201cfound God\u201d\nI\u2019ve gotten great feedback about the images and worked hard to take edit them. I don\u2019t want to take them down, but also don\u2019t want there to be any issues. What do I do?\nShe did sign a release form.","title":"Model asking for her photos to be removed from social media","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570621271,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dffswu\/driving_school_is_trying_to_scam_me_for_beeing\/","id":"dffswu","body":"Hello, first of all i am from portugal and i'm going to a school to get a drivers license. I sign a contract in the beggining saying that i had the right to get 32H\/500km of practice (on the road). But my lessons only last about 45 min (i will only get 32 lessons so that equals to less than the hours i have the right to have and if i want to get more i need to pay), to make things worst, my instructer is always late about 3-5min and so i have even less time \"on the wheel\". Taking this into consideration, the other day i was late about 3 min (and still needed to wait for my instructer) and when i started the class they made me sign a form that said i was late about 4 min, keep in mind that it wasn't the first time i was a minute l or two late, i tought it was strange but still sign it. Now ,about a few weeks later, they are trying to make me buy a hole new class (cost 22.5\u20ac and its for 1h) when in the contract says that i only need to buy the time i was late (so about 4 min worth of classes) and i dont even get 32H like im suppose to get in the first place ( due to only getting 45 min per class that is suppose to be 1h). What can i do to not buy the class\/fight this?\n\nPs: sorry for any mistake","title":"Driving school is trying to scam me for beeing late 4 min","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539128389,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mub9k\/can_my_employer_force_me_to_purchase_a_firearm_wa\/","id":"9mub9k","body":"I work for an armed guard company in Washington state. Up until now they provided firearms for us for free to use on the job. They set up a new policy in which we need to use a personal weapon for work. Most of us don\u2019t own a personal weapon. They said we can either buy one on our own, they\u2019ll loan us money for one, or we can purchase one of their used ones at a lower rate. \n\nMy question is whether or not they can now require us to essentially pay them money to use the guns we have been using, or if this is against the law. \n\nThanks!","title":"Can my employer force me to purchase a firearm? [WA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444333707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o0fze\/can_an_inheritor_of_property_put_the_property_in\/","id":"3o0fze","body":"in Illinois","title":"Can an inheritor of property put the property in his name and sell it even though 2 other people also own it?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571670093,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl1sbe\/local_car_meet_requires_donations_to_enter_is_not\/","id":"dl1sbe","body":"This is all public information so I will not be redacting names of the companies.\n\nCars and Coffee Central Florida started charging a $1 minimum donation in order to display a vehicle at their monthly event. They state that they donate the money to Nemour\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital.\n\nI cannot find them as a registered corporation in Florida or as a non profit on the IRS website.\n\nIs what they\u2019re doing illegal since you have to be registered in one way or another to collect donations for the sake of protecting the public?","title":"Local car meet requires donations to enter, is not registered as corporation or non profit","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542061632,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wiwfj\/ca_owners_stopped_payroll_since_i_am_in_talks_to\/","id":"9wiwfj","body":"\\[CA\\] Throwaway account. Currently in process of buying the business I was working for. We came to an agreement on terms on September 25th. I then left on a 3 week business trip, during that time they were suppose to have their lawyer write the buy\/sell agreement. They sent a bunch of excuses and just got the agreement (With a huge load of mistakes) on October 25th. The contract was supposed to be signed by October 31st as we start our recruiting on November 1st. However, the owners sent the contract so late so that they can get some more money into the business (I am buying assets not their entire business) before I took it over.\n\nMeanwhile they stopped payroll on October 31st. They did not inform me until November 5th and when they did they simply informed me that they stopped payroll and that I was not going to get paid. \n\nI asked what happens if our deal falls through and they said that I can send in a contractor invoice for any work that I did from November. Then they said that in case that the deal goes through any work that I currently do will not be paid as it benefits me when I take over the business. I have sent an email asking for an explanation (Wanted to have it written) but owners called me so as to not have anything written. \n\nNot sure what I should do. I have been answering some emails since they are crucial to the business once I takeover. However now I have an email regarding a harassment issue that the owners want me to answer. I will not answer them and was thinking on sending them an email telling them so. I have reached out to my lawyers but since it is a holiday I do not think they will answer me in time today. \n\nWhat should I do regarding the payroll issue first and secondly the ongoing emails?","title":"[CA] Owners stopped payroll since I am in talks to buy business","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571606001,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkpyzq\/bill_for_a_streaming_site_i_havent_used\/","id":"dkpyzq","body":"So, my brother and I (we're swiss) wanted to watch Pearl Harbor since he needed to write a summary about it for school.\n\nSince we didn't have the movie and didn't find it on Netflix, we said fuck it and went to online streams.\n\nMany sites didn't work until we found one that did. But they required an account for using fullscreen.\n\nI thought \"Well, I'll just use a wrong username and my trash email.\" Then they asked for a mobile phone number and I googled fake numbers since I was too tired to search for a new site at this point. Then they required to open an SMS they sent to... the fake number which obviously doesn't work. So I quit the process.\n\nI searched for a new site which took some time but we could watch the movie succesfully.\n\nToday I got an email saying \"Your free trial of our service has ended and thus we renewed your subscription for one year. A payment of 395\u20ac is due in 3 days.\"\n\nI think I should ignore it, because:\n\n1.) I never made an account. I left the site before that happened.\n\n2.) Is a 3-day payment with automatic subscription even legal even if it's supposedly written in the terms of service?\n\n3.) Would a streaming site with questionable legal status really ask authorities for the real adress like they said when they only have an IP adress?\n\n4.) They gave the \"supposed coordinates of my device\" and that wasn't at all where I live.\n\n5.) A big \"pay now Button\" and an ominous link to \"cancel something\" in an email seem really unprofessional.\n\nMy question is: Could they after all still charge me with 395\u20ac through some loophole I don't know?\n\nIn some way I am kinda scared that a bill might be coming.","title":"Bill for a streaming site I haven't used.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555060725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcbgxs\/va_does_my_soon_to_be_former_landlord_have_the\/","id":"bcbgxs","body":"Long story short, my bf and I were living together, we broke up and now we're breaking our lease 2 months early to move out. \nMy landlord said if he can find renters before we move out there won't be any repercussions for breaking the lease. What he didn't tell us is that he's now trying to sell it, not rent it. Last week I came home to find a lockbox on my front porch and a stranger inside my home, no landlord around. She said she was there for a showing of the house which I had no knowledge of. I told her I wasn't aware of her being there. She was very apologetic, put the key back in the lockbox and was on her way out. \nShe came back during the show times I told her were scheduled for the next day, showed the house to her client, left her business card and left. \nMy landlord came by later that day, I told her she came by and he took her card with him. He asked about showing the house during the week and I said anytime after I get home from work at 530pm would be fine. (I don't trust him in my home and to supervise after what I had just encountered the previous day)\nI then received an email a couple of days later from my landlord asking me to reimburse him $1300 that he paid for the realtor that I \"evicted\" from the house. He essential blames me for her not returning any of his phone calls or messages. He also said something about me limiting show times and that I requested him to find a way to reduce the consequences of breaking the lease (which I never requested). He basically made it sound like he was doing us a favor and I cost him $1300.\nI defended myself and told him I would not reimburse him.\nAll of our conversations regarding the lease and us moving out is through email.\nNow he is asking for my work name and address and my new forwarding address.\nI move out tomorrow and my ex will be moving out next month. \nI told him if he needs a forwarding address for the security deposit then he can have my ex's address when he gets one. I don't see the point in him having both of our forwarding address? Or even my work address since I move out tomorrow.\nDoes he have a right to know?\nWe think he might try to sue us (me) for the $1,300.\nOur landlord is also a patent attorney, has been known to cause issues with his tenants (according to our neighbors), and has tried to accuse us for issues with his house in the past that had nothing to do with us. We aren't expecting to get our $2400 deposit back because of the kind of guy he is.\nAlso, I'm under the impression he can't find our signed lease because I've been asking for it for the past few months with no success.\n\nAny advice or information is appreciated. Sorry it got a bit lengthy there.","title":"[VA] Does my soon to be former landlord have the right to know my new job information?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552509275,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0qz5e\/selling_clone_counterfeit_phones_without\/","id":"b0qz5e","body":"I sell phones that are reverse engineered from samsung they basically work the same except for sublte differences in the Operating system. On my ads i dont call it by its original brand name and i use the name of the company who makes these phones and i sell them way below the average market price of the real version as so people don't get the wrong idea. But recently after someone bought one they called me back a week later saying they're gonna call the police for selling them I explained to them these are clone phones and that I never tried to represent them as samsung products and that they should have read my ad more carefully. Could I get charged?","title":"Selling clone (counterfeit) phones without misrepresenting them could i still end up in trouble","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571349214,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djddv0\/last_will_has_a_bizarre_provision_in_it_and_a\/","id":"djddv0","body":"My grandmother recently passed, and her last will has basically left the family in shambles. \n\nThe issue is in regard to real property located in Texas. Grandma passed away in California (predeceased by her husband), the same place where her last will was notarized. She has 5 living children, none of which reside in the Texas property. \n\nAccording to her last will, the Texas property shall pass to the current occupant (another family member but not one of her children) IF they jump through Hoops \"A\", \"B\", and \"C\".  Without being specific, these 'hoops' are just ridiculous demands regarding their lifestyle that grandma included as a final FU. No one expected the occupant to comply with these hoops, and they have flat out said they won't do it. \n\nThis has caused a lot of angry phonecalls and text messages, with some family thinking the property should be sold and split between the 5 children, but others think the family member occupying the property should inherit it without any debate. \n\nOne of her children is now claiming to have an older will that we must use, because grandma couldn't possibly have been in her right mind when she signed the new will. That person has already lawyered up and wrote some pretty nasty stuff on facebook. They also refuse to share the old will with anyone else. \n\nNow everyone is saying things like \"*Well I talked to my friend who's a lawyer and she said blah blah blah*.\" It's getting out of hand, and things may be about to get even more complicated.\n\nMy grandmother may have filed a grant deed to **me**. Now, I am 99% certain she had never EVER intended the property to be mine. However, I am named after her and our names are very very similar. For some bizarre reason, she filed a grant deed from her herself to her \"living estate\", then from her \"living estate\" to herself again but she spelled her name wrong and instead put my name. We do not know why she did this, but it seems pretty clear she could have put the occupant's name and deliberately didn't. \n\nThis whole situation is a big mess and I just want it to be over. My parents have urged me to talk to an estate planning attorney, but I do not live in TX so I'm not sure going to a local one would help. So I figured I'd ask here first.\n\nI guess my question is, how will this go down given the facts? Who the hell is going to end up with this house?","title":"Last will has a bizarre provision in it AND a grant deed was filed to the wrong person! [TX]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571354703,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djem6j\/car_insurance_fraud\/","id":"djem6j","body":"I live in California, I got into an accident a while back where the other driver\u2019s insurance claimed that he was at fault, so they said they will do an estimate and mail me a check so I can take it to be repaired.  However, my insurance is saying that all I have to pay is a $600 deductible and they will take care of it.  Is it fraud or illegal in any way to use the money from the check I\u2019m getting from the other person\u2019s insurance to pay my deductible and then keep what is left over?","title":"Car insurance fraud?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570927450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh3k62\/can_someone_who_is_not_on_the_lease_evict_someone\/","id":"dh3k62","body":"Hi, so my sister has been staying here for almoat 3 months now, she's only paid half the rent and bills for only one out if the 3 months, she's causing issues with my mother and me and so my mother has been forced to get a restraining order on her for her to move out because she is not willing to leave and the police have said if she's paid half of the rent she is an established resident at our home and therefore is allowed to stay despite everything.\n\nThe reason i am posting here, is because my sister is now threatening to evict my mom, she said the police have told her she is able to do that, so my question is do any of you guys know if that is an actual possibility? I looked it up and it said that co-tenants usually cannot evict each other even if one of the tenants has violated an agreement, I've been told by a friend that she can't do that, but my sister is insisting that the cops told her she is able to do that, me and my mother have been living here both on the lease for 15 years now, so i really do find it very confusing and improbable that someone can just come and pay half the rent and half of some of the bills and just have every right to evict someone who's been here for years and years, especially when they aren't on the lease. So let me know what it is or what it isn't, because i am very stressed as to what will happen.","title":"Can someone who is not on the lease evict someone who is?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569512063,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9l98i\/poor_property_management_resulting_in_extensive\/","id":"d9l98i","body":"My mother owns several rental properties where she used to live in Colorado. We live in North Carolina now. \n\nOne of the tenants has been the property manager for around 12 years, collecting rent, making repairs etc. my mother is older and just didn\u2019t want to deal with it and trusted this person. I believe they have a contract of some sort, though have not seen it.\n\nAny repairs that needed to be made, the cost was deducted from the property managers rent since she didn\u2019t have access to my mothers bank account.\nThe property manager, let\u2019s call her C, works as a book keeper or something and keeps a detailed ledger using quick books of everything spent. \n\nThere were gaps in her rent for 8 months once when she had to replace a furnace, the numbers seem sketchy to say the least. She would hire her husband as a handyman to do repairs on the properties. Very shoddy work and usually bandaid fixed.  Other tenants say they did the work and C still took credit and charged for repairs.\n\nThere was a broken window that she billed $800 to repair. Just the glass was replaced.\n\nDoor knob replacement was billed out around $200 I think... \nMany examples of questionable \u201cdeductions\u201d from her rent.\n\nMy mother is selling the houses and doesn\u2019t want to deal with any of it. I have POA and am selling the house C lives in. I have fired her as PM and have received all the ledgers.  She moved out and the house is now under contract.\n\nThe inspection revealed a lot, nearly $25,000 in PREVENTABLE damages. Most notably a leaking shower that caused damage to the exterior wall. Full bathroom remodel because the floor was sagging and tiles were moldy with grout missing. $15,000 for bathroom remodel.  Mold on interior walls in rooms adjacent to the bathroom. Cracked stem wall foundation directly below the bathroom. Structural engineer suggests it was due to the leak. $10,000 to repair the stem wall.  \n\nSeveral smaller issues like the irrigation not working, active termites (C was aware of the termites and did nothing) dead trees, textured ceiling peeling off etc.\nSidewalk against the house settled and is causing drainage to flow toward the house on the other side of the building, no foundation issues there though. Down spouts for gutters do not direct water away from the house... cracked and broken concrete...\n\nA house that valued around $250k we had to sell for around $200k because of the neglect.\n\nI\u2019m not worried about the trees or the textured ceilings or irrigation or concrete around the house... those are common wear and expected to some extent. \n\nBut by neglecting the leaking shower for so long, my mother is out at least $25,000\n\nI would like to pursue legal action, but I have questions:\n1) what kind of lawyer would I need?\n2) do I have a case?\n3) would it be worth my time and energy? They aren\u2019t wealthy and I doubt they could cut me a check for $25,000\n4) Am I failing to consider anything?\n\nThank you for any advise you could bestow","title":"Poor property management resulting in extensive property damage.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408777047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ecl3g\/mould_in_rented_apartment\/","id":"2ecl3g","body":"I recently moved into a basement apartment. Everything about it is great, good price, I get along with the landlord, etc. \n\nI noticed upon moving in that there was a musty smell. I ignored it for a while, but it grew stronger and eventually got into my clothing. I figured out it was coming from a sump pump and, after doing some research, was concerned it might be sewage gas. I contacted the landlord, who determined it was actually an issue of stagnant water and mould from moisture (the pump doesn't drain into the sewer, so that wasn't the problem). On one of the doors, there was a small patch of dark mould, which he cleaned. He also performed some basic maintenance on the pump to clean it out and flush the water. \n\nThe smell has been reduced, but is still present. Furthermore, I've developed a cough for the past two weeks, as well as slight asthma. I've been doing some research and have been reading about the health risks of mould, which my cough and asthma could easily be from. I've also been reading that mould can be hidden behind drywall, so there's no easy way for me to determine the extent of the problem.\n\nI know that the apartment did have a problem with a burst water pipe a month before I moved in, which also could contribute to mould problems. \n\nI'm signed to a 1-year lease and am 2 months in at this point. I'm wondering what my options are at this point. Right now, I'm thinking about asking the landlord to bring in someone to test the air for mould. What I'm concerned about is having to wait for an extended period of time to get this sorted out during which I'm breathing in contaminated air. \n\nOn the other hand, I don't know if its worth it to try to break my lease or whether this would even constitute appropriate grounds for doing so.   \n\nI live in Ontario, Canada. \n\n","title":"Mould in rented apartment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568884170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6bezw\/i_was_falsely_made_into_a_victim_of_domestic\/","id":"d6bezw","body":"My SO and I were initially arguing he won't back off and I exploded emotionally crying.  I left the car and kicked it. A woman saw it reported to the police. According to the report she saw us fighting even thou she was a block away and couldn't see or would hear us arguing. Police picked me up I was already crying. They won't take my answers that we just play the licenses plate game so I was pressured to agree with them and I had to make up a story since it seemed they wouldn't let me go and try to make it not seem so bad because there's only bruises from my arms and a little on my back.   For example I said he would never harm my daughter they pressured me and I agreed under context if he's hitting me so he could hurt someone else like her, I gave a quietly I guess so kind of response.\n\n​\n\nLong story short another thing came up journalist used it as a source. Some of things were not true I initially denied everything but I felt trapped and they said I couldn't leave until they get answers. I gave them my first response. They denied it until I made an elebrate story. They know I have ADHD also I may potentially have another co-morbid disorder since I shut down at stressful situations and have intrusive thoughts. The District Attorney dropped the case not enough evidence. What can I do in this situation? Also on top of that one of the officers stole a phone from me because I exchanged it for my personal phone I just reported to Internal Affairs waiting for the email back as well.","title":"I was falsely made into a victim of domestic violence against my own will [Ca]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569889044,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbkxmg\/coworker_changes_her_employees_timecards_wisconsin\/","id":"dbkxmg","body":"Just found out today that a coworker changes his employees timecard punches (docking pay) when they don\u2019t \u201cwork fast enough\u201d or \u201ctake too long. Apparently these people never noticed this (admittedly those that have Ben docked aren\u2019t the best employees). \n\nThere had been an organizational change, so she no longer supervised these people.\n\n1) I\u2019m guessing what she did is illegal?\n2) Is this a fireable offense? \n3) What, if anything, can\/should be done about the docked time (pay)? Is there something we can or should do, retroactively for them?","title":"Coworker changes her employees timecards (Wisconsin)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551729106,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axbh4d\/im_getting_charged_with_grand_theft_700_wanted_to\/","id":"axbh4d","body":"Back in 2017 I work for Macy\u2019s, Got interrogated by Macy\u2019s LP and I confessed everything. At first I got charged with petty theft since they only found $40 on my person. I went to court for the petty theft and did my diversion program. A few months later I get stop by police and they told me I had a warrant for my arrest, found out that it\u2019s for the $700 amount (Grand Theft) got bale and got a lawyer, told me he can try and fight it as double jeopardy, now fast forward he\u2019s telling me they are not budging on anything not even the diversion program because I took it already. Now he\u2019s telling me they want to put me in probation. \n\nI\u2019m lost in these laws, is there anything this lawyer can do to maybe lower my charge? BTW I\u2019m paying Macy\u2019s back as we speak. Thanks in advance!!","title":"I\u2019m getting charged with Grand Theft ($700) wanted to know if my lawyers doing the best he can for me","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541889751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vymmd\/how_do_i_get_out_of_seeing_my_father_tldr_at\/","id":"9vymmd","body":"         Every other weekend me and my two siblings (twins) go to my fathers house. Now keep in mind I'm 14 and the twins are 10. We all hate going there because he left our mom for this women. She has caused our family a lot of pain. For the first 7 months of the divorce he lied to us about who he was dating. \n \n   There has been times where he has taken us back home to our moms, screamed at us, let his girlfriend call us pigs,and the girlfriend is always putting us down. After 1 month of know who his girlfriend was he decided to move in with her.\n   \n    The house is small. I share a room with my brother, my sister shares a room with a complete stranger to her (girlfriends youngest) and her oldest gets her own room. \n\n    Me and my siblings are as said before put down,yelled at, and after we all get home our mom gets to hear us fight and cry about the weekend. This puts a toll on our mother. \n\nBut to the legal stuff. Me and my siblings want to not go there anymore. Whether its him out of our life completely or just a day we don't want to spend the weekend at his house. It feels like we live with strangers.\n\n\nHow do we go about not going to his house anymore.\n\n\n\nTl; dr:\nEdgy teen wrote post about how his dad sucks and he has twin siblings how can he get out of seeing his dad every other weekend.\n\n    ","title":"How do i get out of seeing my father. Tldr at bottom","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571413015,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djp7sy\/bought_two_things_from_home_depot_sold_one_online\/","id":"djp7sy","body":"Posting for a friend...\n\n\"Hi ... , I was wondering if I could get some opinions on whether I'm in the wrong on a (online) transaction?\n\nNames changed for privacy.\n\nTwo months ago I purchased two Rubbermaid Sheds from Home Depot for $1500 each. I let them sit a few weeks, but then realized I didn't have enough space in my yard to setup both. Too much time had passed to return one of the sheds to Home Depot, so I put one up for sale for $1000obo (online). A guy named Doug offered me $900, and I figured I'd take it even though it's $600 less than I paid. At the time I still hadn't setup either shed, so it was sold still new in the box. \n\nHowever, there was a problem at Home Depot:\n\neach shed ships in two boxes\n\nwhen I bought two sheds, there should have been two boxes for each shed (four boxes total)\n\nHome Depot made a mistake and only gave me two boxes. They thought two boxes = two sheds. So the one box of shed parts that I sold Doug was only half a shed\n\nWhen Doug went to setup his shed he found he was missing half the pieces and called to let me know. I went back to Home Depot, asked them what happened, and they confirmed they made an honest mistake giving me the parts for one shed instead of two. They didn't have any more of that type of shed in stock at that store, and refunded the cost of the second shed since it was their mistake. \n\nSince I was able to get a refund, I don't have a second shed to sell anymore so I told Doug I'll correct the mistake by refunding him back his $900 and take back the parts. Just like a store would do. However, Doug's now refusing to give back the shed parts, and is demanding I give him the other box of parts. It's not my fault what happened since Home Depot told me that all the parts were in one box. \n\nHowever, he's now threatening to sue me in small claims court if I don't give him the other box of parts. \n\nI figure I should just let him sue and go to court. The judge will see I'm trying to correct the mistake and throw out the case. I'll give him his $900 and get my parts back. \nDo you think I have a good chance in (lqocal) Small Claims Court? If I do give him the rest of the parts now, I'll have to go buy a new shed and I'll be out $600.\n\nThanks in advance! \"","title":"Bought two things from Home Depot, sold one online, and then discovered the things were missing parts. Home Depot made good with me, but secondary buyer threatening to sue.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551404460,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avyxx2\/ia_renter_right_to_change_locks\/","id":"avyxx2","body":"Do renters have the right to change locks of a property? Considering if they give me a copy and I didn't include any provisions in the lease requiring my permission first?","title":"IA - renter right to change locks?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1411669970,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hgc0s\/san_francisco_ca_1099_employee_just_let_go_with\/","id":"2hgc0s","body":"Hello,\n\nI worked as a 1099 contractor for 10 months for a company that is based out of San Francisco, CA. \n\nMy boss just called me and informed me that they decided they \"no longer needed my services\" because they were changing directions and \"moving customer support to Florida\"\nHe blatantly told me he knew my contract required a 10 days written notice of termination, but said that today would be my last day, and basically seemed \"oh well\" about the whole thing. I guess they are cutting me my final check, etc. and I am no longer working for them.\n\nHere's the verbage in my contract:\n\"4.\tTerm and Termination.  Consultant shall serve as a consultant to the Company for a period commencing on November 1, 2013 and terminating on the earlier of (a) the date Consultant completes the provision of the Services to the Company under this Agreement, or (b) the date Consultant shall have been paid the maximum amount of consulting fees as provided in Exhibit B hereto.\nNotwithstanding the above, either party may terminate this Agreement at any time upon 10 business days\u2019 written notice.  In the event of such termination, Consultant shall be paid for any portion of the Services that have been performed prior to the termination.\nShould either party default in the performance of this Agreement or materially breach any of its obligations under this Agreement, including but not limited to Consultant\u2019s obligations under the Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement between the Company and Consultant referenced below, the non-breaching party may terminate this Agreement immediately if the breaching party fails to cure the breach within 5 business days after having received written notice by the non-breaching party of the breach or default.\"\n\nIs this basically an \"oh well\" kind of situation, like the way he made it seem, or, can I go after them? \nAs a side note, this company has been a complete freakin joke to work for. I wouldn't be surprised that this is wrong. \n\nThanks for the help.","title":"San Francisco, CA. 1099 Employee, just let go with no warning.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555687134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf0ayx\/us_citizen_il_divorcing_spouse_out_of_country\/","id":"bf0ayx","body":"Contested VS Uncontested \n\nMy spouse is not living in the United States; we are not on good terms. We have no assets to divide, no children literally nothing.  (He lives in the EU)\n\nHe said he moved out of his parents house but won\u2019t give me the address to serve him. (Which I know is a lie.) He doesn\u2019t want a divorce because he wants a adjustment of status and; is the type of person to make things difficult just because. \n\nI am wondering if I file uncontested can he contest it in any way? Considering the circumstances, we don\u2019t need an agreement because we have no terms to agree on?\n\nShould I just file a contested divorce just Incase he refuses to sign it?","title":"US citizen (IL) Divorcing spouse out of country.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442960243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lzqor\/simplistic_question_here_what_would_proof_of\/","id":"3lzqor","body":"I live in Georgia. I will be moving out of the house and in with a friend in January after I turn 18, and creating a bank account at about the same time. I visited a local bank today and the teller told me that to open a bank account, I would need some proof of residence. Seeing as I will not be moving into an apartment and rather in with a friend\/her parents, it seems as if I will need to write up some form of formal agreement in which I pay rent (unless becoming a dependent is an option, but as I will be living with two different friends in the span of time before I leave for college I doubt that it's a very feasible plan). What sort of contract would they be referring to? Would I need to see a professional to have it written up between my friend's family and myself? I'm assuming I would need to pay some sort of rent and am entirely prepared for that, but is there a minimum amount of money that needs to be paid - there is a cap on the amount of money I will be able to pay, naturally. Also, how would this affect taxes?\n\nWhat I really need is for someone to clarify the specifics of the situation some. If I am entirely wrong in these assumptions or if there is a large piece of information I am missing, it would be a tremendous help if you could mention it. Thank you for your assistance!","title":"Simplistic question here: what would proof of residence agreement entail if I am moving out of my parents' house and in with a friend?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441647086,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jzsfq\/mn_estate_questions\/","id":"3jzsfq","body":"My father in law passed away recently without a leaving a will. As far as we know he had an outstanding debt of 40k from shortselling his house and possibly other debts. And very little assets (his new house barely has equity in it).\nHis legitimate children are now busy dividing up his possession that have sentimental values to them (clothes, knick knacks, books, no jewelries).\nI read that the creditors could after you for doing this. But the reasoning being is that those items are of sentimental values and that they don't worth much to begin with.\nBut I'm still concerned.\n\nMy questions (for now at least):\n1. Should we consult a lawyer on this?\n2. Can one of the children appoint him\/herself as the admin or executor of the estate without the court having to do so?\n3. Will we have to go through probate considering there's very little asset (that we know of)? Is there a cheaper alternative for this?\n4. We found 3k of cash that was quickly being divided up between the children. Will they be liable of that if there's never a record of the cash?\n5. Should they hold off on dividing up any items until we know for sure whether that's okay or not? (this might be too late, but I ask anyway)\n6. What if there's not enough cash in his bank account to cover utility and other routine bills? What would happen next?\n\nThank you! \n","title":"MN: Estate questions","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555602676,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ben5im\/my_mom49f_let_my_sister28f_and_my_sisters\/","id":"ben5im","body":"They have been here since January early this year and I want them out. At first everything was fine. But it\u2019s been too long and they\u2019re using this place like a hotel. Her husband let his brother stay here for a few days. Her husband comes and goes whenever he wants. He messaged me in the middle of the night on Facebook to leave the door open for him. That places a hazard as anyone would be able to come in during that period. My girlfriend(19F) and I would always hear him yelling at my sister and belittling her. He claims she belittles him. I don\u2019t care. It\u2019s their own issues, we don\u2019t want them. We want them out. I confronted him one day about him yelling at my sister and he got defensive and started yelling at me. He threatened me too saying that he wouldn\u2019t mind having someone waiting for me at night after I get off from my job to jump me. I believe I have a recording of him saying that as well as recordings of him yelling at my sister; however, my brother stated that I can\u2019t use them because I didn\u2019t let my sister\u2019s husband know that I\u2019m recording him, according to California law. I\u2019m able to if it\u2019s on \u201cmy\u201d property right? Not local? He even yells at my sisters daughter(10?F) from her previous marriage. Today, I was knocking on the bathroom door to get him to rush so my girlfriend can wash her face and get ready for school. He was showering and not too happy to being rushed, so he had a whole spiel about being unhappy, generally putting everyone on a bad mood. I knocked on the door but my gf said she was the one knocking when he asked who the fuck was knocking. He responded with, oh why didn\u2019t you just say it was you. She went into the bathroom and started complaining soon after she closed the door stating that, \u201cain\u2019t nobody gonna play me like a hoe ass n-... treating me like a kid.\u201d I\u2019m overhearing this and I\u2019m just, wtf. Dude really. Literally not the first time he started issues with my family. Back in 2014 he had issues with my other sister(31F) and my brother(30M). I even think another sister(25F) too, wouldn\u2019t doubt it. Now he\u2019s starting issues with me too. I told my mom not to accept any rent from them but when I got home yesterday, I see we got new couches. I asked my sister who\u2019s they were and she said her husbands coworker gave them to him. We still have the old ones outside and I read that gifts can be used as a form of rent, so I was thinking of dumping their couch outside and putting ours back. I also gave them a two weeks notice to leave. Their last day is on the 18th but I know her husband will put up a fight. Back when he argued with me and threatened me, he said that since they pay rent, we\u2019re the ones required to provide them a key. Fuck that. They\u2019re not on the tenant form that we have with our landlords and he literally said that he would get the police involved. Which is why I want legal help. Otherwise I would leave all their shit in a uHaul truck outside. Ready for them to leave. \nFurthermore, the last place they lived, countryside on a private property and they got a trailer in exchange for farm work and minimal rent, they got evicted because her husband cheated the owner of fraud. He basically punched in times that he didn\u2019t work. The owner found out and evicted them. Which to no surprise the husband put up a fight and caused an immature scene. Now they\u2019re holed up at our apartment. They also brought fleas from their trailer, I know this for a fact because when I babysat their dog, I would get fleas jumping on me when I went to their home. \n\nTLDR: my sister and her husband have issues with my whole family and are overstaying their welcome so I want them out.","title":"My mom(49F) let my sister(28F) and my sister\u2019s husband(45?M) and their daughter(4month) stay at our apartment. I(21M) want them out. Legal help please.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539223497,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n5tbn\/my_teacher_took_the_supplies_my_partner_and_i\/","id":"9n5tbn","body":"(I'm on mobile so I apologize for the bad paragraphing, and the fact that this is a bit rambling) \nBasically as the title says, in my physics class the teacher had us patner up, and build Rube Goldberg machines as a \"fun beginning of the year project\". She said we had to have our machines out of the class by the end of the week we presented. Friday after we present cones, and when we get to class she has a sub, and our machine is nowhere to be seen. The sub didn't know where it was, but allowed us to search for it in the room. We still couldn't find it, so we headed home and assumed that if we explained things to her on Monday she would understand. We were wrong. Instead, she told ud that if we didn't stay after school and clean her room for her she would throw it away. This wouldn't normally be an issue, but the teacher wanted our machines to be \"themed around us\", so we were supposed to use things we were currently involved in, (a football player might have his machine kick a ball for example) and items that either represented, or were from our past. Because of this, both of us foolishly had things that actually mattered to us as part of the project. We both talked to our parents, and the principle. Our parents understood an talked to the principle and teacher with us, but the principle didn't want to get involved, and our teacher refused to even meet and talk this out. Having no other options, we both stayed after and cleaned her room. (afterwards she decided that didn't take long enough, and mad us clean the hallway too) She gave us our stuff back afterwards, but I'm wondering if there's anything I could do about this. Other kids are mentioning that stuff like this happened to them, and the administration still won't even reprimand the teacher.","title":"My teacher took the supplies my partner and I brought for a project in her class, and only agreed to return them if we stayed after and cleaned her room for her (IN)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568737828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5jfeg\/oregon_new_building_owner_is_harassing_us_because\/","id":"d5jfeg","body":"This douche runs his own insurance business and recently bought the building we shared with the old owner. He said he \u201cwasn\u2019t going to kick us out\u201d, besides the fact we have a lease signed for the next few years, but a couple weeks in and he\u2019s already trying to push us out and harassing us nonstop. It\u2019s mostly petty shit but he pretends to be so nice and friendly until you park in \u201cHIS SPOT\u201d and he has an accusatory talk with one of my coworkers. Claims she was parking in his spot \u201cfacetiously\u201d...?\n\nOur tiny employee lot has now doubled the amount of cars parking there and it\u2019s a huge pain trying to turn bigger cars around. He was clearly upset he had to take a less convenient spot and experience what we have been dealing with.\n\nSo yesterday, that same coworker went to throw some trash away and he\u2019s out there with a measuring tape and starts accusing her of backing into his building. He asked if she did it and she didn\u2019t so she says \u201cNo\u201d, and he immediately starts going off claiming \u201cYes, you did. I measured the marks, the measurements match your car\u201d.. She again repeated that she hadn\u2019t hit any part of this building but he\u2019s not having any of it, clearly trying to scam her insurance it seems like to me. He conveniently forgot she had been parking away from the building all last week and he obviously has no proof because she wasn\u2019t anywhere near that area. Another coworker remembers hearing a crunch sound and car horn going off from one of his employees out there as they were leaving for the day when he says it happened anyway. \n\nShould she be worried about this at all? With him being in insurance himself if makes us worry he might know a few tricks and she\u2019ll be on the hook for this crap. He\u2019s obviously a very dishonest and selfish guy so it is completely within his character to pull some shady scam like this. Also their work fridge is stacked pull of beer  which seems like it would be unethical considering they have a lot of personal and private information but that might be wishful thinking on our part.\n\nSorry if I rambled but is there any recourse here? Better Business Bureau? Any insurance licensing agency that maybe should be made aware of this guy trying to get others on the hook to scam their insurance? If he had just asked that\u2019d be one thing but he was playing bad cop really trying to railroad her for something she didn\u2019t do and was getting irate when she stood her ground so that seems to speak to how he conducts business in general.\n\nThanks guys.","title":"Oregon: new building owner is harassing us because we aren\u2019t moving out quick enough? have a 3 year lease","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570911345,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh09yu\/tx_biological_father_rapedmolested_me_from_811yo\/","id":"dh09yu","body":"**Throwaway account to preserve anonmity. Excuse formatting. I'm a 20 year old female residing in Texas. LONG post. TLDR at bottom.**\n\nI was raped\/molested by my biological father since I was 8-11yo. My house was raided 8\/2010 due to a friend of his with dementia outting my father about child pornography. The friend may have forgotten that was why they were friends, but it ended up with the police at my house searching for it due to the suspicision of my father. They took computers as evidence. The police separated family members, and held me in my father's bedroom (parents didn't sleep in the same room) I suppose until they were finished searching. One thing led to another, and I assume I gave subtle signs to the detective something was amiss. I, 11 at the time, was taken in for questioning.\n\nI told them about the rape, molestation, threats. Omitted the demonic information due to fear, anxiety, and exhaustion (took place in the evening). My father was obsessive with black magic witchcraft crap, made his ouija board, bought rare books, etc.\n\nHe essentially was questioned himself, said he had only did those things because I \"was seeing an older man already\" or something of the sort, untrue. I told my mother what had happened and received a very blank, expressionless reaction. Didn't read much into it being 11. Moving forward my mother 100% supported my father financially, legally, etc. Prior to physically going to court 4\/2012, I was made out to see my father, have supervised social interaction with him, etc. My mom paid for seperate housing for him, basically his livelihood\/welfare. Grooming took place during this time as well. Being told to say in court that things happened to a lesser degree than originally stated, that my father was a good man and supported us, \"took us on vacations, bought me gifts\" in hopes to ensure a soft sentencing or even probation rather than the minimum 25 years. Quite frankly my mom was a narcissist, my mental health was declining (suicide attempts, skipping school, acting out, drug addiction), at the point I was 13 and my life was crumbling. My mom's whole purpose of wanting to minimize his sentence was money driven to support us kids (her words), otherwise she wouldn't have been as adamant. She has since divorced him. After years, we've rebuilt a relationship.\n\nI started therapy, finally, this year in janurary. Now have a psychologist and psychiatrist to deal with issues related to the trauma. Diagnosed with bipolar 2, anxiety, and ocd. I've come a long way in my mental health, career, and personal life. I've reclaimed my sobriety. After having a downhill battle with pills, had smoked marijuana chronically for 8 years to repress emotions. No longer do any drugs of any kind.\n\n**His one and only charge was aggravated sexual assault of a child. He received a sentence of 10 years. Projected release date 3\/2022, up for parole 3\/2020.**\n\n**I fear him walking free. I fear him tormenting my life, making his threats come true. Without defaming my mother do I even have a case? Can I do anything in civil or criminal court? What can I do to protect myself? Could I potentially gain monetary compensation for trauma?**\n\nadditional information: 1. My mother has told me she went to court for him to testify against his ex girlfriend which claimed he sexually abused her children and made them watch during sexaul acts. He got off easy by just being honorably discharged by the navy. 2. She also told me she bailed him out of jail $5000 for accidentally forgetting to wipe a computer clean of child porno before donating to a church. 3. Also stated that my now deceased grandmother (his mom) had told her while she was pregnant with me to watch out for him because he did sexual stuff with his sisters and so did his dad. This information all occured before me being born. You may, just as I, question why she stayed, she says for the kids. 4. His attorney fell off the grid and is no longer practicing law.\n\n***tldr: Father raped me 8-11yo. Groomed by mom\/dad and helped him only receive 10 years for aggravated sexual assault of a child (minimum 25years). He's up for parole 3\/2020 and projected for release 3\/2022. Without defaming my mother, is there anything I can do in civil or crimical court to either give him more time, gain monetary compensation for trauma, or in order to protect myself?***","title":"(TX) Biological father raped\/molested me from 8-11yo due to be released 2022","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554767975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb129o\/best_friend_18_had_no_insurance_and_bad\/","id":"bb129o","body":"Just got news today that my best friend had rear ended someone on saturday. She said she was going max 10mph since she had already started slowing for the stop sign. \n\nA car in front of her slammed on their brakes and she didn\u2019t react fast enough to slam on hers (she drives an SUV, crashed into a sedan). She said there was a small dent on the other car (Friend has no bumper). \n\nAs soon as the accident happened, another car rolled up and started taking pictures and the woman stepped out of her car only to tell my friend that she wasn\u2019t gonna deal with her and promptly called the police. She also complained about back pain from the 10mph collision which i know is BS from my own experiences. \n\nThe cop wrote friend a citation and a court date and stated that if she doesn\u2019t have insurance and registration by April 24th, then she will have a warrant put out for her arrest.\n\nWhat does this mean for her? What even is a warrant for arrest, and will they arrest her at the court hearing? Is there any way to fight this?","title":"Best friend [18] had no insurance and bad registration and rear ended someone, but it was very obviously a set up. Any advice for her before her court date?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551208360,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av38xk\/texas_apartment_says_lease_renewal_rate_is\/","id":"av38xk","body":"My apartment landlord sent me a lease renewal offer with a specific monthly rate. I discussed it with leasing office staff twice and then indicated verbally and then in writing that I wanted to accept the offer.\n\nToday they reached out to say that the rate they offered me was incorrect because of \"a spreadsheet error\" and that they'll be sending out a new offer rate in the next day or so.\n\nWas that offer binding? Can they walk it back at will after I've already indicated that I wanted to accept it?","title":"[Texas] Apartment says Lease Renewal rate is incorrect and is trying to backtrack for higher rate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554828061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bba5o3\/my_gf_20_and_her_roommate_are_former_best_friends\/","id":"bba5o3","body":"So, for a little bit of back story there weren\u2019t any problems between the two until about 3 months ago when my (M23) girlfriend (F20) started to see each other more often. I\u2019d be over at their apartment for most of the day and night and would stay over often. I still live with my family but she\u2019s insisted on several occasions that she hates not having me around. So, her former best friend (F21) began having issues with how often I was over. It got to the point where she began saying nasty things to my GF about her and I. Anyways, my GF has been contemplating just leaving and living with her family and paying for rent for the remaining months at the apartment without being there. I\u2019ve suggested speaking with the landlord in general, I\u2019ve also suggested asking about subletting to one of the other friend\u2019s friends. She\u2019s very frustrated and emotional and has no idea what she should do and what courses of action to take. She no longer feels comfortable in the home and just needs a painless way out. Any chances I could get some solid advice on this matter, if any?","title":"My GF (20) and her roommate are former best friends and moved in together. Now neither want to live together but the lease isn\u2019t up for another 5 months. What should she do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550160971,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqleec\/promotional_position_revoked_due_to_personal\/","id":"aqleec","body":"I work for a before\/after school program in MN. I was hired on as a child care worker and then was offered a position as a Sub Site. Eventually I was transferred to a different site and my Sub Site position was taken away because they had an existing SS but I still had the clock in code for SS. Few months go by and the SS position opens up due to the original SS becoming Site Lead. \n\nI have essentially \"filled\" the position until someone could permanently takeover. Eventually someone took the position but was gone after a week. \n\nNow, here's what's frustrating. The coordinator has made it clear that she holds alot of disdain towards me. She makes the desicions on whether I get the position or not. But she has told my Site coordinator that she will never hire me for a higher position despite four of my coworkers, all of which have higher positions than I, put in recommendations for me to obtain the position. \n\nMy site lead was out sick today, so that's where sub site comes into play, but because I'm not \"qualified\" I wasn't going to take the responsibility of site lead. I then come to find out that disdained coordinator told site coordinator that I can \"fill in\" today. \n\nSo I'm not qualified to have the position but I'm qualified to \"fill in\"? I've been \"filling in\" since last year, without the sub site pay. I've tried to set up a meeting with HR but I've gotten the runaround. I just don't know what to do at this point. I love my job and the kids I work with but i don't feel like an asset to the company and just a \"spot filler\". What can I do?","title":"\"Promotional Position\" revoked due to personal disdain from upper management","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552927123,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2kvxu\/georgia_the_business_i_work_for_just_passed_some\/","id":"b2kvxu","body":"Its titled \"Business name Workers Policy\"\n\n\"\"\"\n\nAs an independent contractor or an employee of Business, while carrying out the tasks assigned, you must act in a professional manner and \nremember the patrons are to be treated in a manner as to not offend. The customer will be treated as if they are always in rhe right with very few exceptions. \nYou must dress in a modest attire with the following not allowed: No open shoes. No shari pants above \nLhe top of the knee, No low cut shirts, tops, or dresses. No dresses or skirts above the top of the knee. and no clothing with offensive or vulgar writing, designs or pictures. No photography is allowed inside the theaters, behind the sales counter, storage areas, or restrooms by an employee or independent contractor without pemiission from management. Photos may be made in the lobby or outside the theater only. \n\nThere are to be no postings in any social media of what takes place inside the theater or about \n\nThere are to be no postings in any social media of what takes place inside the theater or about \nAnyone that is employed or carrying out duties at Business.\n\nThere is to be no venting on social media if you feel you may have been wronged by someone \nperforming their duties or by the management. (These issues must be talked about in private and a \nsolution reached to resolve any issue.)  \n\nThis business is unique in and of itself and therefore has its own way of operation of day to day \nbusiness. No employee or independent contractor may communicate in any manner of how this \nbusiness is run. or about any of any of its equipment or employees, or allow anyone access to its \nequipment or discuss any portion of the day to day business with anyone outside the employment of Business without written approval by Business.  \nViolation of this paragraph will result in immediate release from employment and Business will view this as a criminal act against Business, and Business will seek from employee or independent contractor in a court of law, monetary damages from any information that said employee or independent contractor may have inadvertently or intentionally done, said, or gave to anyone outside the employment of Business, that would cause loss to Business by such actions.\n\nBy signing this document I agree to abide by this policy. \n\n\"\"\"\n\nI work at a normal movie theater, the owners run literally everything, and I feel like this is a shallow threat.\n\n","title":"[Georgia] the business I work for just passed some contracts?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555467636,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be2hrg\/friends_posted_pictures_and_videos_of_jokes_and\/","id":"be2hrg","body":"So as the titles says, my friend (insert name) found the password of his Chinese teacher and posted stuff of my other friend (insert name) with his shirt up which was a joke, a fake video of him having an autism attack which was a joke, a picture of me which I deleted but, there is nothing I think \"wrong\" about it. He sent it to my discord group of the email and the password and other people posted other things as well. This happened two days ago and today, the tech support and the Chinese teacher changed the password but, somehow my friend still has the account open. As well as him still having the account open, the Chinese teacher said that if the posts went a little bit farther, it could have been illegal. I don't want to be caught in this and I want to avoid it as much as possible. All I've said was brought up the Code of Conduct we have about what he could get in trouble with, told them to stop and why and asked the person why he won't stop and the limits of what they will post. What should I do?","title":"Friends posted pictures and videos of jokes and people in my school after finding the password of the teacher. What can I do to make sure I don't get caught in this?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540473131,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ra60j\/downstairs_neighborslandlords_trying_to_blame\/","id":"9ra60j","body":"I'm a little concerned about where things might lead. My landlords are, while very annoying, easy to work with because they are pretty hands off when it comes to us. But lately they have vmbeen having massive screaming fights anywhere from 11pm-4am. I don't know how much longer my partner and I can handle it. We live in Maine just to give some information.\n\nLast night one happened and an anonymous noise complaint was filed. My city uses an electronic filing system that doubles as a bit of a public forum, so other's in the area can see the complaint and comment on it. Not long after the complaint was filed, another user, who I'm very certain is my downstairs landlord, commented that it was me yelling at my television playing online games. This is not true. I was in bed when I got the nearby noise complaint notification and are typically in bed when their fights happen. \n\nI do not want this to escalate, but I have a couple concerns now. Firstly, I m concerned my landlords will believe the complaint was filed by myself and will retaliate. While the situation is shitty, the apartment is currently our only option. I fear eviction. Can I be evicted for no reason other than, \"we want you to leave\"? Can they kick us out of the apartment for no real reason at all? Our lease is unfortunately month to month now.\n\nSecondly, I am worried if there is another complaint I will be fined or get a visit from the police due to my landlords legitimately lying and blaming the noise on me. Should I be trying to record the fights when they occur? How can I protect myself in this situation?","title":"Downstairs neighbors\/landlords trying to blame their late night screaming matches on my fiance and I","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445303470,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pfhxs\/ca_usa_boyfriends_apartment_was_completely\/","id":"3pfhxs","body":"Hi there, \/r\/legaladvice. \n\nToday my boyfriend awoke to the sound of a roofing crew doing maintenance at 7am. He was not informed of this work at all. \n\nSoon he began to notice debris falling between the slots in the ceiling. (It's made out of planks, basically.) Black, gritty stuff that seems like small chunks of asphalt began to pour into every room. His bed, desk, sink, dishes, couch, electronics, bathtub, floors, kitchen, appliances, and toilet were all absolutely covered.\n\nThe building is quite old, and we are concerned about asbestos. \n\nShortly after noticing the debris pouring in, he went out to speak to the roofing workers. When he informed them of the issue, their response was \"just cover your things with a tarp.\"\n\nWe have taken extensive pictures, but we don't know who to give them to. (I can share a few here, if it's allowed.) The roofing company will be back tomorrow and the next day. We have not been able to contact the landlord. \n\nWhat can we do in this situation? Besides it being a potential health hazard, it's also incredibly inconsiderate and a huge hassle to have to clean. \n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.","title":"[CA, USA] Boyfriend's apartment was completely covered in debris (and who knows what else) due to a roofing company's work.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570843799,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgohjd\/dad_has_been_secretly_using_meth_for_years_hes\/","id":"dgohjd","body":"My dad went to the hospital last Friday for a throat abscess. Before going he was also hallucinating and unable to talk. Doctors performed the procedure fine, however when my dad woke up he was still hallucinating, confused, and violent. He attacked nurses and got to the point where they had to put him in restraints.\n\nDoctors didn\u2019t know what was wrong with him or why he was acting this way. They later took a CAT scan of his brain which ruled out a tumor or any other problem like that. So, they put him on an alcohol withdrawal regimen and questioned my mom about his drug use.\n\nNeedless to say this was a big surprise. I know this barely means anything but we have a good life. A good home in a good neighborhood with a good family. No one thought he was on drugs. He was often kinda dumb and got confused sometimes but we thought it was either nothing or he was having signs of early dementia.\n\nHowever, while this was surprising, he does have a past history of drug and alcohol abuse. From the time he was a teenager until ten years ago; when my mom forced him to go to rehab after he, while under the influence, attacked her when she was pregnant with my little brother (10). \n\nAfter looking into it more, all his symptoms including the way he was acting before the abscess, align with meth. Other nurses brought up the possibility of meth as well, however they wont say definitively.\n\nMy mom went through his room but couldn\u2019t find anything except for a used (empty) drug kit and $1000. We don\u2019t know where or how he got this money or why he was keeping it secret.\n\nYesterday and today his mental state was improving and a couple of hours ago we got a call that he was discharged. He isn\u2019t ready to be discharged however, he\u2019s still confused and talking strangely. (complaining there\u2019s asbestos flying from the ceiling fan, that they set up a wall in his hospital room, etc.) \n\nIt\u2019s also important to note that he doesn\u2019t have medical insurance. He lost his job making 90k+ 2 years ago, and has since worked part time making minimum wage. My mom now makes more than him (still not much) and is the only one supporting our family, with occasional help from his mom.\n\nSo, as i\u2019m typing this, his mom is driving to the hospital to pick him up and take him in for the night with my uncle. We aren\u2019t sure when he will come back to the house, but it will be soon so what are our options? \n\nIf he tries to go get his fix, my mom will stop him and it will more than likely escalate to him attacking her. If she brings up the meth, he will more than likely attack her, but how can\u2019t you bring it up? He\u2019s already upset he won\u2019t be at home tonight. What should she do? Is there anyway to keep him from coming back? Is divorce an option? My mom is saying it\u2019s not an option because of how much it will cost her to pay him out. She says we would have to sell our house.","title":"Dad has been secretly using meth for years. He\u2019s about to ccome home from hospital, don\u2019t know what to do when he comes back (DELAWARE)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569667266,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daefmi\/could_my_ex_escape_or_is_he_really_trapped\/","id":"daefmi","body":"I honestly do this for closure and to stop hoping. Several months ago, i was dating an older guy. I already knew him and his (ex) girlfriend and even went to their house several times. Now his partner is a really toxic person (don\u2019t ask, just believe me) and an abusive person who physically abused him and almost made him lose an eye. I started dating him when he told me that he didn\u2019t had sex with her for more than 5 years since she told him that she would report him as a rapist when she wouldn\u2019t get her way (don\u2019t ask, just believe). He said that he isn\u2019t been in love with her anymore for more than 5 years and that he just stayed for the kids since he didn\u2019t had anything to live for anymore. He didn\u2019t expected to fall in love anymore in the future and thought that his partner wouldn\u2019t get any crazier. He wanted to stay until he was done paying for the house than get himself an apartment. Also they both share a car. He was stupid enough to sign a contract that he didn\u2019t even read where stated that the car would be on her name and that he was in charge of paying for it. They decided to each pay the half of it. When i dated him, i still had bunch of questions and didn\u2019t believed that he could actually be trapped. We aren\u2019t Americans so our system couldn\u2019t be that fucked up (take it as a joke lol). I just want some legal advice. To sum things up. \n\n- Bought a house with his partner. Partner already payed her half, he has 3 more years until he paid it off\n\n- Bought a car together ON HER NAME and told me \nHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING IT (don\u2019t know if that exists tho). She already payed her half, he has to pay for it for a couple of more months. She\u2019ll call the cops on him if he drives the car without her permission \n\n- Partner refuses to pay half for their kids their school. He said that he has to pay fully for it now\n\n- Has to pay for his daughter since her mother doesn\u2019t want to spend any more money on her\n\n- His partner and he aren\u2019t married. Never were. \n\n- They don\u2019t share a bank account \n\nThis is what he told me. His daughter also told me about this and i believe him for 99% cause we\u2019re never a 100% sure. \n\nIs he financially really trapped or was i just being a naive dumb ass? \n\nI don\u2019t want to have a relationship with him anymore. I just want to have answers on my questions","title":"Could my ex escape or is he really trapped?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571139872,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di6piw\/threaten_to_court_for_negative_feedback_ebay\/","id":"di6piw","body":"Hi!\nFirst ever post on reddit but need some answers.\nI bought a motherboard, which arrived dead (about 10-15 bent pins on the socket, refused to install win10, just bluescreened when booting from usb or existing install on ssd).\nI decided to just leave negative feedback since I can not be arsed about the loss of a motherboard.\nNow I have been threatened to court for leaving negative feedback, saying he wants 10% of the trading value (3132 euros) if I dont delete my feedback within 3 days.\nHere's the message:\n\n\"Dear David,\nI would like to pre inform you, that if your negative feedback is not removed within the next 3 days till the 18.10.2019 12:00. I am going to bring in at the responsible European court for Commercial matters in Austria ( Bezirksgericht f\u00fcr Handelssachen Wien) a legal action regarding Regulation (EC) No 1896\/2006 for 10% of the trading amount of this account at the time of negative feedback, which is 3.132 Euro. Furthermore I want to add that through the circumstances that there was no communication before acting, your position there will be weak. Rest is up to you. Best Regards, xxxx\"\n\nWhat should I do?","title":"Threaten to court for negative feedback Ebay","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1442681113,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lkohe\/can_my_husband_create_a_postnuptial_agreement\/","id":"3lkohe","body":"**edit:** Thanks for the diversity of opinion, running the gamut from \"He's cheating \/ divorce him first \/ hire a private investigator\" to \"this is a reasonable business decision.\" I may show my husband this thread depending how our future conversations go. Regardless, if he wants to move forward with this, I will insist that we have his and hers attorneys.\n\n----\nAfter my husband and I got married, he started a business. It is very profitable. Last night he dropped a bomb on me and said that he wants a postnuptial agreement to ensure that in the event of divorce, I don't get half the company.\n\nI told him I will sign anything he wants, but I am just wondering if he can even write a legally enforceable contract that says that I'm not entitled to his company. He swears that if we had signed a prenup before we got married (which I had agreed to do then, but we never got around to it, and didn't really have any assets to protect back then) that we wouldn't need to go through this now. \n\nI guess I'm skeptical that you can write a prenup or a postnup that cuts your spouse out of things that are earned during the marriage.\n\nMaybe you can, I don't know anything about the law, but hopefully you all can explain it to me.\n\nWe live in California. I can answer any other relevant questions too.","title":"Can my husband create a postnuptial agreement ensuring that I don't any of his business?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1442593498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lg6q1\/ga_problems_with_my_apartment_can_i_get_out_of\/","id":"3lg6q1","body":"I signed a 12 month lease for an apartment at the beginning of the year. Last Saturday at around 2 AM someone broke in through a window, assaulted my girlfriend, and stole some things. We contacted the police and have a police report. Obviously, after this we do not feel safe staying at the location and are in the process of moving. Would this be grounds to terminate the lease without penalty?\n\nAlso: The AC is broken and periodically floods the kitchen. There is a mold problem in one of the closets.\n","title":"[GA] Problems with my apartment, can I get out of the lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569055582,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d782d7\/carpool_ticket_dismissal\/","id":"d782d7","body":"Before you guys go crazy on me and start calling me a shit bag hear me out. Yes I got a ticket for being in the carpool lane however the normal route that I take has a carpool lane where it states \u201cAll vehicle access allowed for 1\/4th of a mile\u201d implying that it is okay for you to be in there if you are only one person. I was driving during heavy traffic hours and I originally wasn\u2019t even in the carpool lane until some ass hat decided it was cool to merge over without checking his blind spots forcing me to evade him by moving into the carpool lane. When I was in the carpool lane I was in the area where it was allowed and I was trying to find a way to merge back into the other lane as I know that 1\/4th of a mile is coming up and I need to merge because I don\u2019t belong there. But because it was heavy traffic it was very difficult to find an opening where it was safe so my right blinker was on entirely until I found an opening where it was safe which was literally like 300 feet past the \u201call vehicle access zone\u201d  and then CHP pulls me over and issues me a ticket. \n\nI don\u2019t know what to do should I fight this in court? Or should I just pay the violation. It was never my intent to be in the carpool lane as I only did it to evade for safety.","title":"Carpool Ticket Dismissal","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538365053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kcxcw\/ga_employer_possible_unpaid_oncall_time\/","id":"9kcxcw","body":"My employer requires us to be on call 4 days a month. We can pick the days but we have a minimum to sign up for and if the employee isn't in attendance when the sigh up happens they are assigned. During that time we have to be able to answer the phone or call back within 15 minutes and be within 30 minutes of any of our 12 facilities. If we're not able to come in or don't answer then we are written up and our bonuses are docked. I'm in college now and work as a manager so I'm the one that has to call people in but in the past I was the one being called in. This company almost exclusively hires highschoolers so minors.\n\nI'm curious if they are required to pay us for this time.","title":"[GA] Employer possible unpaid oncall time","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552162652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az7lnz\/my_company_put_me_on_a_performance_improvement\/","id":"az7lnz","body":"I work for a small company (70 people) in the healthcare industry in California. I\u2019ve been there for 18 months. The company has \u201cunlimited PTO\u201d as a benefit.\n\nI broke my collarbone in late April 2018 while on a work trip and was told to manage conservatively (\u201csling it for three weeks\u201d). I tried to work for the first week, but typing and driving to work were painful, so when I finally saw an ortho the following week (now May), he told me to take the next two weeks off to heal. The letter provided to my company stated injury incurred in April, so I was put on retroactive leave totaling three weeks.\n\nSix months later (mid November), my collarbone failed to heal correctly, so I was sent to an orthopedic oncologist where I was told that surgery and a biopsy would be necessary. I scheduled the surgery for two weeks later, informed my employer of the necessity, assigned my projects to other people within the company, and then took six weeks to recover. I was told that I was barred from performing any work while on leave.\n\nI provided a letter to HR the day before I was supposed to return to work, but the letter specified that I was not able to lift more than three pounds with my left arm. I work a desk job, which rarely requires heavy lifting, but HR denied my request to return to work with that limitation in place, citing that my job description notes \u201coccasional lifting of 10-20lbs\u201d.\n\nThe following day, I got an x-ray and my doctor gave me the all-clear to return to work without restrictions. I returned to work a day later, on January 11.\n\nIn the morning of January 11, I sat with my boss to go over the status of projects that I had left behind, and nothing had been done. Every single project I\u2019d handed off had stagnated, so I was going to have to play catch up. One of the items was a company goal (a percentage of annual bonus relied on meeting the goal), so the whole company suffered from this.\n\nWe discussed priorities and I started working as directed. At 2pm the same day, I was called into a meeting with HR and my boss, presented with a performance improvement plan that included new items due the following week (not mentioned earlier by my boss) as well as a lot of other items that could not be completed in the timelines provided. I protested, presented my case, and was able to adjust the PIP to more reasonable (but still very illogical) terms. I signed it, and started working on the new items, pushing to meet the deadlines.\n\nAs the weeks progressed, my boss became the bottleneck for project completion: not reviewing things, not responding to updates I sent him in email, etc. I wrote an email to him and HR with this information, and we set a meeting to discuss.\n\nDuring the meeting, I was told by HR to \u201cescalate\u201d when this happens. My boss reports to the CEO, so when I asked if she means for me to go over his head and talk to the CEO, they said \u201cno\u201d without providing any more clarity. They verbally penalized me for not fulfilling my PIP, but didn\u2019t put anything in writing.\n\nMy annual performance review, dated December 31, 2018 was presented to me on February 21, 2019. The comments mostly echoed those on the PIP related to missed deadlines, but my boss specifically called out \u201cunplanned time off for personal reasons\u201d as being disrespectful to my coworkers and leaving other departments \u201chelpless\u201d. Overall, my review was \u201cneeds improvement\u201d with no raise and a small bonus. Needless to say, I was pissed, so in the comment section, I wrote \u201cthis review penalizes me for not performing tasks while on protected leave\u201d, I signed it and turned it in. \n\nIt\u2019s pretty clear that the company is positioning to fire me. I\u2019m looking for another job, but I\u2019ve already had financial damages (low bonus), and am now paranoid every day that some stupid thing is going to come up that they can use as justification to fire me. \n\nIs there anything I can do to protect myself? If I leave, can I sue?","title":"My company put me on a Performance Improvement Plan because I missed deadlines while on Medical Leave, then gave me a poor performance review a few weeks later citing \u201cpersonal time off\u201d as a problem","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553380204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4p3bl\/stepsister_wants_my_dad_to_disown_me_18f_his\/","id":"b4p3bl","body":"My step sister just called me randomly from my dad\u2019s phone and said that she\u2019s going to make my dad sign a document stating that I\u2019m not his kid and that I\u2019m just another quote on quote \u201cspermcell\u201d. She also went on to block my number on his phone and well as his Facebook. I have no way of contacting him now. \n\n\nBackground: I was born in America but now I live in a foreign country with my mum (mum is not an US citizen but I am). I am a bit sad and confused as to why? My dad is also sort of soft minded and may possibly look into signing this document. I do not want to fight him in court for anything but my step sister is afraid that I will. \n\n\nWhat are my rights ?  How can this affect me ? Can my dad actually legally disown me ? ","title":"Step-sister wants my dad to disown me (18F), his first born.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571369175,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djhlqz\/might_be_investigated_by_the_police_dont_know\/","id":"djhlqz","body":"Pls give advice\n\nToday I was in class and I found what looked like a bottle in the corner right where I normally sit, thinking it was a bottle of alcohol I picked it up to look at it. After a few seconds I realised it was a vape and then the kids who sat behind me. let's call them John and Harry. Tell me to give it to them, in a clearly panicked way. I asked why but someone I don't know who, I wasn't paying attention took the vape and but it in his bag we talk about it for I bit and I do my work. I didn't rat them out though. Later at the end of the lesson while leaving a senior walks into the class and asks the teacher if she'd seen his keys and vape. \n\nFast forward end of the day John tells me in class that if anybody asks about the vape just say nothing. At this point I'm pretty worried and can't stop thinking about it. A few minutes later our dean walls in and asks a girl who sat with John and Harry to come outside. After she walked back in I over hear something about the police and investigations. At this point I can't stop thinking about the vape.\n\nFast forward end of class I ask John about it he tells me about what's happening. Basically the vape was worth over $200 and basically the police are investigating the whole thing and can question the entire class, he also tells me that Harry put the vape back apparently and not to say anything if asked. Just say that I didn't see it or I saw it and didn't know what it was. He then leaves.\n\nNow what I'm worried about is the fact that I sit right beside where the vape was and if I said I didn't know what happened than that wouldn't make any sense cause I sit about a metre from where it was. I don't know whether I should lie if questioned or rat out Harry. But if I lie, if they test for finger prints mine will be on it and I also sit next to where the vape was. And if I snitch on them than most people will hate me.\n\nTldr -found a vape in class gave it to two kids and now there's going to be a police investogation\n\nPls help I have no idea what to do and I'm honestly scared.","title":"Might be investigated by the police. Dont know what to do. Pls help","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1447706344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t2cyl\/passing_a_stopped_school_bus\/","id":"3t2cyl","body":"My daughter received a citation for \"Unlawful Passing of School Bus - First Offense\" in Polk County, IA. This is a mandatory court appearance. She was issued the citation at home by a Sheriff's Deputy. The bus driver reported the incident. The bus was equipped with video cameras. We have not seen the video or had more than a glance at the still images that were part of the record the Deputy had with him. My daughter is adamant that the bus continued to roll toward her with the amber lights on and only deployed the stop arm as her car and the bus were alongside each other.\nMy questions are:\n*Can we obtain the still and video images prior to the court date?\n*If yes, from whom?\n*Will any of that matter, or does traffic court come with such a presumption of guilt that she's better off to just take the expensive fine, suspension of driving privileges (at least potentially), and continued driving restrictions on her license and be glad it isn't worse?","title":"Passing a Stopped School Bus","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539755735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ovx64\/can_i_adopt_my_stepdaughter_after_divorce_has\/","id":"9ovx64","body":"Hello and thanks for your time.  I have been married 6 years and a parent to my teenage stepdaughter for 8.  I live in California.  Getting divorced, papers just filed days ago by my spouse.  \n\nI am going to have 50\/50 custody of her the same as my other kids (others are not step) which are from my soon to be ex.  Honestly the teenager will go where she wants but I\u2019m staying in the family house with her room etc and she sees me as one of her dads and will maybe spend more than 50% with me.  I also want to insure her and be responsible for her as a parent beyond the finalization of the divorce.  So I want to adopt her.\n\nI\u2019ve discussed it with my spouse, she is on board.  I discussed it with my stepdaughter and she is on board.  I still need to talk to her dad, who is not really involved except seeing her every couple weeks or sometimes months.  He doesn\u2019t support her financially whatsoever, so I don\u2019t think he will have a problem with it once I lay it out and explain my intentions.  I get along with him fine, have helped him out many times.  \n\nMy question is, is it too late for me to do this?  Or do I have until the divorce is final (6 months or so from now)?  Please help me reddit!!!!","title":"Can I adopt my stepdaughter after divorce has been filed? Please help!! Good cause!!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541982989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w95gi\/police_took_my_minor_son_and_questioned_him_alone\/","id":"9w95gi","body":"This happened last week, he's only 11. At around 10AM my son was taken out of class by the schools resource officer and lead to the main office where 4 other officers were waiting for him.\n\nThey then patted him down, and took him (not handcuffed) to the police station and began looking though his phone, emails, messages, everything. The biggest issue is NO ONE CALLED US. Not the school, not the police no one. We got a text from a friend of his who had our number asking us if he was still coming over after school since he left class early and had not come back yet (this was at 1PM).\n\nWe called the school who only told us to call the police department as this wasn't a school issue anymore. We start freaking out wondering where our son is or what happened to him, my husband who's more level headed just tracked his iPhone and seen where he was and we headed there.\n\nWe got there at maybe 1:15PM and were completely stonewalled. No one told us anything except he's being investigated for a planned school shooting. Which is just insane, he doesn't do anything crazy and talks to us pretty openly about everything. He spends his time at school, with friends building forts or playing Nerf guns (this is important later).\n\nWe continued to demand to see our son, and called a friend of ours who works for the state as a social worker. She wasn't able to get down there or figure anything out until about 6:30PM and finally after she started calling people did they release him at 7PM. They did not let us speak to our son or see him this entire time.\n\nWe get him home and get tells us everything, apparently him and his friend were talking about their \"guns\". Nerf guns, and what they were going to go hunt after school when they came back to our house for the night and dinner. They never spoke about shooting people or schools or anything, they were going to hunt \"Creepers\" from their Minecraft game. They painted some boxes green and what not and set them up around the yard and house and do this pretty regularly.\n\nWhen they finally let him go some guy in a suit says \"sorry, we received a credible report about a planned school shooting from a teacher and had to act. We've concluded he was talking about a video game with his friend and he's free to go\" that's not verbatim but it's pretty much what he said.\n\nThey kept offering him McDonald's, giving him soda and candy etc if he just told them where the guns were or to draw out the plans and who was involved. They asked him if we drink, if we have any pills in our medicine cabinet we take and then sleep or \"do weird things\" after taking or smoking etc. They kept going through his phone and asking him \"where is this picture taken\" or \"who was there\" like wtf they questioned him for 9 hours, entirely invaded his and our privacy on the phone and didn't let us see or talk to him.\n\nThe school is refusing to talk to us at all other than they graciously said he is okay to come back to school once they finish speaking to the police, maybe. We can't get answers if he is suspended or if he can even goto school and the police department keeps telling us \"the issue is closed\" and hangup. What the hell do we do?","title":"Police took my minor son and questioned him alone for 9 hours and didnt allow us to see him or speak to him","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539104041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mqvqo\/issues_with_landlord_in_denver_co\/","id":"9mqvqo","body":"Last Thursday one of the two boilers in my apartment building blew and now we have no hot water and no heat.   \nWhen speaking to the office manager she stated she smelled gas at 5.30p,. at 5.45pm i asked a neighbor if they smelled it. They said yes and the manager told them if anyone smelled it again, to let her know. So we called her, she called a maintenance sup over, who wandered around for 15 min before anyone called. I the office manager why she didn't call earlier and she stated it was because it went away, then turned it on me telling me \"If its such a big deal why didn't you call\" my reply was  that I was walking my dog, phoneless and I informed you.   \nNow its been 6 days without hot water or heat, the news came and did a small story, 3 of us spoke to them (there are also rumors that those of us that talked to them will get eviction notices)\n\nMy main question is, is there a way to report her for not calling about the gas sooner? 30 minutes is a lifetime when you're breathing in that stuff, and with the threat of an explosion (i mean it did blow, the guy next door has some minimal damage, but no one wants to speak up for fear of retaliation from the management)\n\nIs there anything we can do?  \n","title":"Issues with landlord in Denver CO","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541848032,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vti4r\/need_opinion_on_a_child_support_offer_oh_court\/","id":"9vti4r","body":"Hi! Need your opinion on an offer from my ex re: child support.\n\nI filed 1.5+ years ago for child support, we have court on Tuesday if we can\u2019t come to an agreement prior to then. Child support order will be in Ohio.\n\nOffer is somewhat reasonable in that it reflects all months since I filed for support, but $100 for some months, $500 for other months reflecting his periods of unemployment and employment at the time. I might be able to live with that part of it\u2014-given his initial offer [given thru his lawyer he paid for \ud83d\ude44] was $50\/month, which is the absolute state minimum.\n\nThe other issue is I submitted $10,000+ of medical bills from labor and delivery to be reimbursed by him\u2014-in his offer he offered $1,300 towards all those expenses, which I find laughable. To date he literally has spent $0 toward his child.\n\nSecond issue is ex miraculously called into custody mediation after literally zero contact prior from him regarding our almost-2-year-old kid and he seems genuinely interested in having a relationship with her. We both agreed on me having full legal\/physical custody of our daughter and him having a stepped-up visitation plan. They\u2019ve already FaceTimed once, doing it again tomorrow. Relationship with them will have to be long distance for the foreseeable future. I DO want them to have a relationship, though I\u2019m skeptical to how involved he will be over the long term given his track record so far with her and his other child who he has zero contact with. \n\nAlso: custody and support are handled in different states, so there is no overlapping legal jurisdiction between them. \n\nMy question is do I accept the offer from my ex in hopes of that setting a good tone between us and hopefully that further encouraging him wanting to have a relationship with our kid... \n\nOr do I counter offer [was contemplating asking him to cover 50% of the medical, so say $5,000] OR go to court and I don\u2019t think I\u2019d end up worse than his offer with the court deciding... though that would probably cost me at least $1,000+ more in legal fees...\n\nI\u2019ve already paid a $1,000 retainer to my lawyer... I\u2019m not sure getting an extra $5,000 or so over and above his latest offer is worth it when you calculate additional legal fees? I\u2019m also contemplating child support being sporadic, as he\u2019s also unemployed again. \ud83d\ude44 There\u2019s also the issue once I\u2019m back to work full time and have $1,000\/month in child care costs I may take him back for an increase and that\u2019s just more legal fees...\n\nHe has a lawyer because his fianc\u00e9e [the one he left me for and got engaged to while I was pregnant and didn\u2019t have the self respect or common decency to at least be honest with me about, and instead completely gaslit me during the entire process... you could even say he\u2019s still doing it since he hasn\u2019t even mentioned to me yet he\u2019s engaged or that he\u2019s been playing dad to her kid since BEFORE our daughter was born...]\n\nI\u2019m mixed on his... I appreciate his current efforts with seeming to care about our kid [for all two weeks of it...], but I also realize his track record prior to that completely sucks and giving him the benefit of the doubt because of two weeks of doing what he should have been doing the whole time anyway is frankly naive...\n\nThoughts? Suggestions? I\u2019m open to all perspectives! TIA! <3","title":"Need opinion on a Child Support offer [OH] ... court next week...","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554165134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8bxwh\/rear_ended_was_an_idiot_and_believed_a_stranger\/","id":"b8bxwh","body":"Hey there, throw away for obvious reasons. I was driving a rental van which was rented by the company I was working for. I made a sudden stop, and the short school bus behind me hit their blind spot mirror into the back of my van from the other lane (right mirror into the back left of the van). She pulled up and I asked what she wanted to do. She told me that she could just fix her mirror and that there was no damage to my vehicle so I drove away. There is a dent in the back left door, however it is small. Also worth noting I never left my lane, her mirror came into my lane. I also have a photo of the number for the bus, like printed on the side, but no LP or Bus Operator info. I realize I should have had her pull over, but hindsight or no, I\u2019m just wondering legally if I should be concerned. ","title":"Rear ended, was an idiot and believed a stranger","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445444605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pnfuu\/query_about_paternal_rights_and_divorce_wa\/","id":"3pnfuu","body":"My gf is going through her divorce with her soon to be ex husband. They have a child together but he has been essentially absent (maybe seen their child 5 times in the last 18 months). \n\nHe has not provided any financial help. \n\nHis name is not on the birth certificate. \n\nHe is trying to get custody. Or at least some custody. \n\nHe has shown bad character traits. \n\nI want to adopt this child and start my life with my Gf and her child, this involves moving state. So we need sole custody. This child is also at a point of calling me dad so there is that too. \n\nWhat are our best ways of getting sole custody? Are there any tips\/tricks or loopholes with the birth certificate thing? As in can I adopt which gives me legal rights to the child? \n\nAny help on how to get this toxic guy out of our life is appreciated. ","title":"Query about paternal rights and divorce. WA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540785463,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s9u09\/pleaded_not_guilty_for_driving_under_suspended\/","id":"9s9u09","body":"Days after my license expired I got into not at fault accident and got a ticket for driving under suspended license. I renewed my license the next day. I pleaded not guilty when I went to court and new court date had been rescheduled.  What should I do now? IL USA","title":"Pleaded not guilty for driving under suspended license in court. USA","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569850820,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbbpmv\/speeding_ticket_after_i_had_just_tried_to_merge\/","id":"dbbpmv","body":"Got a speeding ticket. Officer said I was going 57  in a 40. I could literally see the sign that said 55 mph coming up. My lane was running out and no one would let me merge so I had to speed up and go to the front of the line in the left lane. Officer clocked me right after that and pulled me over. Asked for all of my information of course and then after I gave him everything he asked for my passengers ID who is half Kuwaiti and half Filipino (very dark skinned). He had no reason at all to do that. \nHe said it wasn\u2019t reckless driving but gave me a citation. I didn\u2019t try to explain myself because I did not want to escalate the situation.\n\nI have never been pulled over before this happened, never given a warning and never given a ticket.\n\nDo I have any chance of contesting this in court or should I just suck it up and pay it?","title":"Speeding ticket after I had just tried to merge into the fast lane (my lane ran out) and cop asked for my passengers ID who looks African American","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1415122728,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2la2ay\/little_bed_and_breakfast_owner_beig_suit_spain\/","id":"2la2ay","body":"Hello. My mum started a bed and breakfast a few years ago as a new project and she was very happy about it. So are his costumers who have rated the hotel with an average mark over 9.4\n\nAnyway not all customers have been pleased with their time there. One of them got robed (we rent and individual house with more privacy and some thieves got in and take clients laptops our tv and some staff.\n\nMy mom offer them not to pay for the rent as compensation and she also help them with all the police stuff.\n\nToday, a few moths later we are beig suit and they are asking for 3500\u20ac as compensation.\n\nMy mother is devastated because of the money issue and the behavior of the people.\n\nFor what she told me part of the problem for us is that my mum close the window that they left open when she came in to clean. So the blame is on her even she did it to try to prevent anything from happening. (Thieves broke the lock to came in).\n\n * If this case get to a court room, could we win?\n * If not. There is any chance of substract the already given compensation of the amount required?\n * What any other info you could need to answer?\n * Is there any chance that the fact of accept the first compensation exclude you for asking for another one?\n\n**TLDR:** if you try to compensate a client and after accept this he sue you and ask for moneym can you substract the first amout of the one asked. Read the other questions if you want.","title":"Little bed and breakfast owner beig suit (spain).","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554311954,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b90ttu\/texas_was_passing_in_far_left_lane_on_highway_and\/","id":"b90ttu","body":"I had just merged from the tollway onto the highway. Due to traffic conditions I could not safely switch from the far left lane to a middle lane. I looked behind me and saw a Nissan rapidly closing. I looked to my right to see if I could move lanes to get out the way but there was a large Mercedes work van right next to me. I looked forward along the road and saw I had a significant amount of cushion between myself and the next vehicle. I accelerated to pass in front of the van so I could safely change into the lane next to me. The only reason I did this was because the Nissan's rate of speed and the cushion around my vehicle made me feel unsafe. I also felt that braking to slow down and merge behind the van might have caused an accident due to the speed of the Nissan so I felt I had to accelerate. As soon as I was able to get over I immediately began decelerating. However the officer clocked me using a \"DSR\" radar unit. I was going 84 in a 70. There is dash-cam footage available I could request to help corroborate my claim. I intend to represent myself in court becasue I can't afford an attorney or this ticket.\n\n​\n\nAny advice on what I should do? Is there any benefit in making my case to the judge? Admittedly I was speeding but it wasn't for the sake of speeding. ","title":"TEXAS: Was passing in far left lane on highway and got a ticket.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443501544,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3msnhi\/fatherinlaw_to_become_a_tenant_in_duplex_what\/","id":"3msnhi","body":"My wife and I are purchasing a duplex unit, and have invited my father in law to live on one side, and us in the other.\n\nHe will pay us a heavily subsidized rent, and be able to spend more time with the grandkids and also live in San Diego (he loves it here). We get to look after him as he gets older in years, so it's a win-win for all of us.\n\nEveryone in the family is completely on board with the plan except for one of his daughters who has a bit of a mean streak and is a miffed at the situation (she would rather he live with her in Texas, but he doesn't want to).\n\nI suggested to my wife that it might be wise to put a simple lease agreement in place with dad, but she outright rejected the notion as being embarrassing and unnecessary.\n\nWhat liability could we incur by not having anything in writing regarding his tenancy, and could my sister-in-law eventually lay claim to a portion of our family house or property through us not establishing an agreement?","title":"Father-in-law to become a tenant in duplex. What kind of liability am I exposed to if there is no lease? [California]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507214882,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74gf8j\/texas_medical_company_i_didnt_authorize_appealing\/","id":"74gf8j","body":"Earlier this year I had spine surgery.  Leading up to the surgery I was very clear with the doctors that everything needed to be in network as I don't have any out of network coverage.  I was assured that everything was.\n\nRecently I received a packet in the mail from my insurance saying that one of my claims was denied.  The company that did the intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring was out of network and my insurance refused their $43k claim.  Let's call this company Company B.\n\nI called my insurance about it and I was told that Company B has already appealed the denial on my behalf.  Apparently this is second time they've appealed this denial.  I was told that if the claim is denied again, Company B will probably send me the bill.  $43k is a little out of my price range.\n\nHere's the thing though, I never gave Company B permission to do the IONM.  The packet they sent me included all the signed documents from the day of the surgery.  Company B is not on any of them.  I did however sign off on Company A, who I was assured was in network, to do the IONM.  I don't know how Company B got involved.  As far as I can tell, other than being in the same field, there is no connection between companies A and B.\n\nSo my question is, what do I do if\/when Company B bills me?  Is this something that I can reasonably fight?  How do I go about it?","title":"[Texas] Medical company I didn't authorize appealing denied claim","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552718302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1pito\/caadmittedly_intoxicated_tattoo_artist_fell\/","id":"b1pito","body":"I just left a local tattoo shop (greater LA area), an artist I trusted and who was working on a forearm sleeve tattoo (this was our fourth total session and all others have been great) kept going into the bathroom and coming back looking pretty rough. I asked him if he was feeling all right and he said he was okay, just had a long day. I know he had taken a few hits of weed before, but he wasn't visibly affected I have known him for a couple years. I trusted him and I figured him to be sober and either depressed or coming down with an illness. Towards the end of our session he started tattooing a little outside of our area but he insisted he was just doing the clouds. Right after that he got really heavy-handed and went from my forearm to close to my armpit. Very concerned, I made eye contact with him and I saw his eyes close and his head nod forward. At that point i got up, started filming, got several minutes of him being oblivious, ripping several pairs of gloves trying to put them on, knocking over a water bottle, mumbling etc. I asked him \"be honest with me, are you tired or faded?\" and he answered \"both.\" I went back and saw empty beer cans as well that were clearly his. Pictures of my arm illustrate a clearly botched tattoo, video shows him intoxicated, as I'm sure the security footage at the shop will, his preteen daughter was the only other person there and I asked her to call her mom to pick her up.\n\n​\n\nMy question is: what is my best recourse? I'm mortified and embarrassed and most of all furious. Embarrassed that I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I left without paying and called he local police (mainly for a welfare check on the daughter, it seemed like this wasn't her first time seeing her dad like this) and they told me that there wasn't much to go on criminally, they said that if they allow drinking at the shop it's not criminal. I'm at a loss at what to do. PI lawyer up or talk to the owners of the shop first? I'm sure they carry insurance. I just want it fixed without coming out of my pocket. ","title":"(CA)Admittedly intoxicated tattoo artist fell asleep twice during a tattoo and began tattooing random marks before I stopped him. Recourse?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1503333049,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v42yy\/my_friend_totaled_my_car\/","id":"6v42yy","body":"So back in November of last year my friends car broke down. I was going to be sent to training for a couple months so I told him that so long as he had insurance on MY car in HIS name I would allow him to use it while I was gone. \n\nHe sends me a photo (which I no longer have) of my car, vin #, etc on HIS insurance card. So I let him drive my car. \n\nTwo weeks go by and I get a text at 330am while I'm at training, that he had wrecked the car. I wasn't too concerned as I was certain he had insurance on the car. Well long story short that \"insurance\" he had on my brand new 2016 model car, was liability. And no, I didn't pay cash for the car.  I also let my insurance fall off as it was time to renew, and I was going to be gone for a couple months so I figured I would save ~600 dollars. \n\nSo here I am coming up on a year since all this has happened. Credit is trashed, thanks to having to pay cash for a new car and no longer being able to afford my old car. I'm tired of driving lemons\/secondhand cars, and I want to be back in a car similar to my old one. \n\nI guess my question is really, all things considered, do I have a good leg to stand on in a case like this, what should I do? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. \n\nEdit: I live in central Arkansas. ","title":"My \"Friend\" Totaled My Car!","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446475796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r7rdi\/is_it_100_legal_to_interview_a_wanted_person\/","id":"3r7rdi","body":"So I have seen some TV shows that show fugitives or suspects on the loose being interviewed. This goes for both American and Finnish (my country) television.\n\nOut of curiosity, doesn't the production team etc. have a legal obligation to report the wanted person to the authorities?","title":"Is it 100% legal to interview a wanted person?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1408869872,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2efkn0\/do_florida_citizens_have_the_right_to_observe\/","id":"2efkn0","body":"i was on facebook when [this video](http:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/local-news\/2014\/08\/roy-sherman-arrest-full-length-dashcam-video) popped up on my feed. basically, an officer is arresting someone with autism for some kind of traffic violation, severity unknown, and their father shows up on scene to inform the officer that their son has autism.\n\ndoes the father have a legal basis for observing the officer's actions? the officer in question tells him to leave the scene, and the father refuses to cooperate. does either party have any legal basis for doing so? the officer then tells the father that he is under arrest, and the father refuses again saying \"there are no charges\".\n\nall of this continues until another officer arrives on scene, and the father is tazed and arrested. i'm not really concerned with either the morality of the situation, or taking sides; i'd simply like factual knowledge of how legally justified both parties were with their actions.\n\nbasically:\n\n1. do citizens have a right to observe police action?\n\n2. if an officer's demands are unlawful, does a citizen have the right to refuse them?\n\nbonus question: if the officer did not have any legal basis to arrest the father, then attempted to subdue the father by force, would the father have any legal right to physically defend himself from the officer? if the officer is aiming the tazer? if the officer has fired the tazer and missed?","title":"do florida citizens have the right to observe police action? (x-post from r\/askleo)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554152235,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b88wh5\/divorcepotential_custody_battle_across_state_lines\/","id":"b88wh5","body":"2 years ago my sister went to school and fell in love with who she thought would be the love of her life in Texas. They had a little girl right away and is about to give birth to another girl. The guy is extremely emotionally abusive and I suspect physically abusive (even though she denies it).\n\n​\n\nHe has accepted a job offer in Utah, which is actually closer to where her family lives. They'll be moving in 2 months. \n\n​\n\nWe're encouraging her to pack up and leave while he's at work. She's afraid of leaving him while they're in Texas though because she is under the impression that she will have to remain in the same state as her husband after the divorce for custody purposes. Ultimately she doesn't want to live in Texas nor Utah and would rather come home to family. Utah would allow her to drive to visit family whereas Texas wont. \n\n​\n\nUltimately the question is: when my sister leaves her husband, will she have to remain in the same state as him?","title":"Divorce\/Potential custody Battle across state lines.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554770384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb1h6t\/texas_tenantlandlord_law\/","id":"bb1h6t","body":"Hello-I just moved in to a new apartment a month ago. It\u2019s a duplex. The landlord contacted me to inform me they were coming to do an inspection, and they kindly gave me a weeks notice. I let them know I would be at work for half of the time they sent as the appointment window, and asked if it would be possible for them to come when I was home, as I have a dog who is not crate trained. I work 13 hours a day and she is very anxious so I can\u2019t crate her when I\u2019m gone for the day. Long story short we had a back and forth where I offered three other times, including an entire week I would be gone for vacation. They were incredibly inflexible and stated if they come during the allotted window and my dog is there they will charge me $100 and reschedule, presumably starting this entire process over again as Infinitum. \n\nHere is my question-they are within their rights on the lease to come in when they give me notice. However, there is nowhere in the lease that stipulates my dog has to be restrained if they come in. In addition, it clearly states they can only charge a fee to reschedule if I agree to the appointment and then don\u2019t let them in. When I pointed this out they referred me to the section of the lease explaining the eviction process and told me they would proceed with that if I don\u2019t pay the fee. Do I have any options here?? I work 6 days a week, 13+ hours a day, and if they\u2019re this inflexible I\u2019m sure this will be an issue in the future.","title":"Texas tenant\/landlord law","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568745596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5l7oi\/dental_insurance_refusing_to_pay_remainder_of_a\/","id":"d5l7oi","body":"I started a new job 2\/2018 and got new dental insurance. Part of their plan covered half the cost of orthodontic procedures. I got invisalign in July of 2018 and paid my portion of the bill shortly after.\n\nFast forward to 6\/2019, I was laid off as part of my company shedding a significant amount of salary. Shortly after I received a bill from my Dentist for the remainder of my insurance companies part of the invisalign bill. Apparently they had been making payments quarterly and will not pay the remainder balance as I no longer have them as a dental insurance provider. \n\nIs this even allowed? I finished with invisalign on 2\/2019 and paid for everything I owed out of pocket. It's also not like I voluntarily changed jobs or insurance providers... I was laid off. It's $800, which wont leave me broke but is a good amount of cash. I'm hoping someone can provide some sort of advice on what my options are.","title":"Dental Insurance refusing to pay remainder of a bill","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569966796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc0isn\/mother_is_dying_what_to_expect\/","id":"dc0isn","body":"I am in Wyoming.  All other interested parties are in South Carolina.  Other interested parties would be my sister and two half sisters.  The half sisters may be minors.  \n\nMy mother will likely not make it through the night.  She has liver failure, as well as numerous other issues.  She is unconscious.  My sister signed a dnr today.  I am perfectly fine with this as I haven\u2019t spoken with my mother in over 20 years.  She kept contact with her, although I don\u2019t know how much.  \n\nMy questions are mostly what to expect after her death.  I am well aware, and have made my sister aware, that all her debt, whatever it may be, will die with her.  I know not to agree to pay anything and to refer them to the executor of her estate.  But what happens if I, the oldest child, refuse to be the executor?  I really don\u2019t want the hassle.  I assume it would then fall to my sister.  What would happen if she refuses as well?  Could the minor children be made executors?  Or would it then fall to the state?  I am the best candidate but would rather not do it.  It is highly likely she died with little or no assets and probably had debt.  This is purely speculation on my part based on the lifestyle she chose.\n\nMy sister is working on what to do with the minor children.  She is attempting to contact the fathers.","title":"Mother is dying, what to expect","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541297396,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tzygs\/fleeing_and_eluding_question\/","id":"9tzygs","body":"i have often wondered this and can\u2019t find a straight answer on google - what happens if you successfully elude the police in a vehicle chase?\n\ndid they not read the vehicle tag and will simply show up at your house later looking for the car and driver? i\u2019m sure there are some that are stupid enough to just drive home after eluding them - wouldn\u2019t they just be waiting? ","title":"fleeing and eluding - question","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503592185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vs08y\/ohio_minimum_wage_comcerns\/","id":"6vs08y","body":"From Jan 1, 2017 the Ohio minimum wage increased from $8.10\/hr to $8.15\/hr for companies making more than ~$300,000 a year.\n\nI'm a shift leader at a franchised fast food restaurant and just found out most of the workers are getting paid $8.10 an hr and even the new hires are being brought in under $8.10 an hr. Our Payroll is done by the franchise which is in control of many restaurants so I'm pretty sure the $300,000 requirement is met.\n\nSo for the past 34 weeks our employees have been getting shorted on their wages at only $8.10 an hr even the tipped employees are only getting back paid up to 8.10 if they don't make enough tips under the 30$ weekly tips requirement.\n\nOur state's wage complaint system is set up as a personal procedure so I'm not exactly sure how to proceed with the complaints. Would every employee have to file a complaint seperately? Or is there another system we could go through?\n\nFortunately I make more than the minimum wage in Ohio as a Shift leader and 3 year get here at the restaurant, but this means I can't file a complaint on my own or I would. I can't stand to see this sort of systematic wage theft and would like to help my fellow coworkers out. Any advice would be great.\n\n-Thanks in advance!","title":"Ohio: Minimum Wage Comcerns","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553007041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2ybzz\/my_ex_found_out_im_a_sex_worker\/","id":"b2ybzz","body":"Providence RI USA\n\nHi all, I am using a throwaway account to post this. I am currently going through a divorce and after my husband left me I decided to start doing sex work. It has been great and affords me more time with my kids (10&4). I live in Providence, Rhode Island. \n\nI have full custody of my boys, which was originally agreed to by my husband because it was the best thing for the kids, seeing as he was moving in with his new girlfriend. Well, she dumped him and now he\u2019s bitter and doesn\u2019t want to pay child support. \n\nI got a phone call from my lawyer yesterday saying that his lawyer filed an emergency motion with the judge trying to take the kids away from me because I was a sex worker. I don\u2019t know how much he knows, it\u2019s possible that he just found out about the camming I have done. My lawyer argued that I should have my say too so there\u2019s a hearing on Friday. Until that time I cannot have any unrelated males in my home, including my male nanny. \n\nMy question is this: I am meeting with my lawyer today at 11 and I don\u2019t know whether I should tell him the truth or not...should I try to argue that yes I am a sex worker AND a good mother of deny the whole thing? ","title":"My Ex Found Out I\u2019m A Sex Worker","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447179214,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sav5m\/az_child_custody_concerns\/","id":"3sav5m","body":"I have a 5 year old daughter with my ex husband. She has never lived with him beyond when she was 4 months old and he left. At the most she would spend 6 days a month with him. There was a lot of domestic violence and he scared me into never testifying against him and ignoring subpoenas to court. \n\nHe has continued to harass me and my family verbally since he left. I now have an order of protection against him.\n\nI recently filed for a child support reassessment, as retaliation to this he has filed for mediation and wants more custody. In response I filed saying I do not want to attend mediation due to his threats and demands because I do not believe it would be productive.\n\nHe has always bullied me into not following the court order and giving him everything he wants when he wants it. He refuses to pay for any part of preschool or extracurricular activities.\n\nHis constant threat is that he is going to take 50% custody of our child and there is nothing I can do to stop it. This is now getting more severe and he is sending me emails saying that my daughter is afraid of me and writing emails saying I have had conversations with him and agreed to things that I never agreed to. I believe he is trying to create a false paper trail.\n\nI have a court date next month for the reassessment of child support but what can I expect from the custody situation? I am very concerned.","title":"(AZ) Child custody concerns","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551400493,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avyatn\/il_third_time_heat_went_out_in_rental_home_can_we\/","id":"avyatn","body":"Hello. \n\nI\u2019m in Illinois. We like in an older home and this is the third time the heat went out this winter. It is 62 degree in the house. It went out last night but we didn\u2019t notice till morning. Then in the morning we were all out of the house within 30 minutes with our various schedules. Before we left the house we turn the heat up to 83 to hopefully get it to kick back on by the time we get home. Got home around 5 with everyone else and it still wasn\u2019t working. Texted landlord and he basically said his guy is tied up with other service calls tonight and won\u2019t be out till 730am tomorrow. He tried to basically shift blame to us and say that we should of called in the morning and to basically turn the stove on. Well we thought it would fix itself as it\u2019s done before so I called as soon as I got back home. \n\nIf I grab a hotel room for the night can I get him to pay for it since it\u2019s way too cold to sleep here. ","title":"IL - third time heat went out in rental home. Can we be reimbursed with hotel cost?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568765318,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5pljq\/paid_administrative_leave_should_i_be_looking_for\/","id":"d5pljq","body":"Throw away account\n\nWork in a hospital in MN, was told that I needed to go on PAL until further notice.  Apparently there was a patient complaint. I have no idea what the allegation could be about at all. I am not a union employee. \n\nMy supervisor isn't saying much and just telling me to keep quiet.  I love my job but there is an opening at a hospital really close to me. What are my options and should I be looking for a new job?","title":"Paid Administrative leave, should I be looking for a new job?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539802534,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p1il3\/homeowners_insurance_claim\/","id":"9p1il3","body":"There was mold discovered in my basement after some demo work due to a separate issue involving a failed sum pump.  The mold couldn\u2019t have been caused by the water from the failed sum pump due to the location.  The damage from this issue was extensive but insurance agreed to cover most of the repairs.\n\nThe contractor that discovered the mold suggests that I contact my homeowners insurance  and start another claim since they feel they should cover this damage. The contractor believes the root cause of the mold is due to a leaking pipe in my bathroom located directly above where the mold was found.  \n\nI have looked over my policy and it seems clear that this sort of issue would not be covered but the wording used seems ambiguous.  Assuming the worst the issue could easily cost 15k to fix.  \n\nI am wondering if this is a situation where I should seek legal help or is this a battle I will have to fight and most likely lose only my own.  \n\nAny help would be greatly appreciated.  I am able to afford the repairs but I obviously want them to be covered.  I spoke with my insurance company and they said it would not be covered but I can file a claim.  ","title":"Homeowners insurance claim","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554224064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8lsa2\/my_mothers_exboyfriend_has_parked_at_my_paid\/","id":"b8lsa2","body":"This is in Sweden fyi. My mother split with her boyfriend some months ago and he moved out. He is currently(as far as we know) in Iraq and we can\u2019t reach him to talk about the parking situation. How do I go about getting his car moved out the way so I can park there? (I got my driver\u2019s license yesterday so this was discovered and became an issue just now) \n\nMy mother is also scared of him and fears that he will take some kind of revenge on her if we tow it. What can i do to prevent this? (He has been abusive in the past but it hasn\u2019t been reported due to me being so young to not understand and my mom being scared) ","title":"My mothers ex-boyfriend has parked at my paid parking spot and I\u2019m not sure how to go about this","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569287317,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8g0ak\/backed_into_someone_no_visible_damage_driver_i\/","id":"d8g0ak","body":"I checked for something similar to my dilemma in here but couldn't find it. \n\nI backed into someone this morning. \n\nWe were both very polite, pulled over and inspected each others cars. There was zero damage on either car and she said she didn't need my insurance information but that she would take my phone number just in case. I took photos of the zero damage to protect myself. \n\nShe is now asking me for my insurance after the fact because her car is messaging her about sensors. \n\nAm I obligated to give her my insurance information after she declined to take it at the time of the collision? What are the ways this could possibly play out? \n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Backed into someone, no visible damage, driver I hit declined to exchange information but is now asking for it","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541711996,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ve2fu\/my_workplace_recently_installed_cameras_without\/","id":"9ve2fu","body":"This week camera have been installed at my workplace as we have not had any previously. This came as a surprise to some people working here as we were never officially informed that they were being installed and anyone who did find out, only discovered it through word of mouth.\n\nWe also never were asked to sign any forms stating we are comfortable with being recorded at work nor are there any signs posted at our business stating that there are cameras present.\n\nWhat I'm curious to know is, is this al legal or did our CEO make some workplace violations?","title":"My workplace recently installed cameras without informing people nor obtaining consent. Is this legal?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554145748,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8759g\/payroll_error_resulting_in_no_paycheck\/","id":"b8759g","body":"I just started a new job and was supposed to get my first direct deposit on Friday. The check did not come through. I looked into the problem and found that I missed a digit on my account number on the direct deposit form. Oops! Totally my fault I brought the problem to the attention of my employer and corrected the form. They are now making me wait until the money is returned to their account before they pay me-she said she doesn\u2019t know how long it will take. Is this legal?","title":"Payroll error resulting in no paycheck!","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540623354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rsctb\/idaho_landlord_returns_security_deposit_late_and\/","id":"9rsctb","body":"First off, I\u2019m on mobile so I\u2019m sorry if anything looks off!\n\nLocation: Idaho \n\nMy wife and I moved out of our apartment on September 01, 2018. This apartment was an absolute nightmare. When we moved in it was dirty and unmaintained. Not to mention, I\u2019ve never personally met the landlord, only spoken to her through text. This was the only way she could be contacted and literally took weeks to respond simple questions. \n\nOur deposit was $400 with $150 not being refundable. While living in this apartment my wife was being treated for depression and her doctors recommended a pet and wrote up an official ESA notice for our apartment.  The owners of the apartment made us sign an agreement acknowledging that they could not legally require us to pay a pet deposit or pay additional rent but, they could obligate us to pay a refundable $50 each month Into what they claimed an interest bearing escrow account. I was told by some others that this was fishy and they couldn\u2019t charge us but my wife was in really bad shape so we just played along knowing we would get the money back. \n\nSo here comes the problem. In our lease and the ESA pet agreement form it states that we would receive our deposits back within six weeks after moving out. On October 23, 2018, over seven weeks after moving out I had not received our deposit back so I sent the landlord a text. She later responded by apologizing and saying that the owner had a mix up and would get the check in the mail right away. \n\nOn October 26, 2018, we received the check from who I believe was the owner using a P.O. Box out of state. The envelope only contained a check for $371 dated 10\/24\/2018 but no itemized deductions for the money taken. \n\nWe should have received $500 In total, $250 from the initial deposit subtracting the non refundable $150 and $250 for the ESA fee charged each month from April 2018 to August 2018. \n\nThe memo on the check states $171.00 for security refund and $200 ESA refund (no interested added and missing $50) \n\nNow, we left this place in way better shape than we received it. I patched all the holes, cleaned all the grease off the walls and even had the carpet stretched. \n\nAfter looking up their reviews we quickly noticed that we were not the only ones who experienced problems with our deposit and the landlord. \n\nMy question is what would be my best course of action? I haven\u2019t deposited the check just yet because I feel we\u2019re being cheated out of a good chunk of our deposit. I was reading up on Idaho law and saw that the landlord is required to return the deposit within 21 days or otherwise stated in the lease as well as provide a list of itemized deductions. I also looked into ESA law and it seems they violated  these laws as well for requiring we make these payments to this escrow account. \n\nShould I send a letter of demand and or take this to small claims court or just suck it up and take the loss? \n\n","title":"Idaho landlord returns security deposit late and did not supply an itemized deduction list.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1416202141,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2mj9b3\/looking_for_a_better_understanding_of_gambling\/","id":"2mj9b3","body":"I'm an avid player of daily fantasy sports, I believe it's a game of skill, but 5 states (Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Washington, and Quebec, Canada) still classify it as a game of chance. I contacted one of the industry leaders, Draftkings, asking why were those restrictions in place? What's the legislation in those states that supersedes the UIGEA of 2006? I wasn't able to to get a real answer out of them, they just repeated what their FAQ section states.\n\nFurthermore, it would appear that players in those states are prohibited from playing in freeroll contests (completely free to play, cash prizes still payed out to winners). If the player isn't risking anything anything of monetary value, what's the issue there?\n\nFinally, why can your traditional betting sites (5dimes for example), operate and accept players from all 50 states, despite sports betting laws being legal in just a handful of states? And how does a site like that differ from a site like Draftkings in the 5 states mentioned above?\n\nI live in NY, so I'm not personally affected by these restrictions, but I'd like to have a stronger understanding of the subject. I want to see the industry grow, I want to have a voice to help make change happen, and being educated on this would help me go a long way to make my own contributions to the fantasy movement.","title":"Looking for a better understanding of gambling laws, specifically in 5 states","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555550161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/befn4s\/i_am_a_listed_beneficiary_in_a_will_how_do_i\/","id":"befn4s","body":"I recently discovered that I am a beneficiary of a Will. Now while I don't care for money, I want to know what, if anything I need to do.\n\nI contacted the probate court in my area and they've emailed me forms on becoming a temporary admin etc. All I want is to know if I'll be able to obtain a copy of the document.\n\nI just want my loved one's wishes respected and the executor is not holding up to what was agreed upon verbally nor what I already know of in writing.\n\nThanks for any and all help in advance!","title":"I am a listed beneficiary in a will. How do I obtain a copy if the executor of the estate has not filed documents after the death?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569312440,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8k37b\/ex_claims_to_have_no_bank_accounts_but_pays_for\/","id":"d8k37b","body":"GA, USA. \n\nIn discovery documents, my ex claims to have no bank accounts or assets but constantly sends me receipts for child care (for example: medical bills I owe 50% of) that says it has been paid for with a debit card. \n\nShe is engaged and might be using her fianc\u00e9\u2019s card. However I have received 15-20 receipts with this card on it for my child\u2019s bills. When I ask how who\u2019s card it is, she won\u2019t answer. \n\nIs this something we could file a motion to compel for to prove if she\u2019s hiding assets? Or subpoena? I don\u2019t have a bank name. \n\nOr would this have to be something brought up in a deposition?","title":"Ex claims to have no bank accounts but pays for everything with a debit card?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550634921,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asjlli\/if_my_grandpa_doesnt_have_a_will_does_his_house\/","id":"asjlli","body":"I should start by saying that this is a bit odd for me to talk about because my family is usually very private about death and I do not believe my Grandpa has a will. \nMy grandmother and grandfather were divorced but they both owned part of a house in the Bay Area, California. When my grandma passed on she left her half of the house to my dad. My grandpa and his girlfriend (I believe they have been together for 10-12 years at this point) asked my dad to give them half of the house so my grandpa would own the entire house.  They intended on fixing up the home and making it fairly nice but my grandpa had a stroke and he hasn\u2019t been the same since. \n\nSince the stroke he has gotten more and more sick and I fear that he may pass soon. His girlfriend is significantly younger and likely to live longer than him but she is also not in great health. She lives in the house with him and if he passes I assume the house would go to her? To me that\u2019s fine but my concern would be that when she dies she\u2019ll leave it to her children. My dad\/family aren\u2019t close with his girlfriend and there is a bit of a rift between us and her. I don\u2019t want my family home to change families and go to people we haven\u2019t even met. Is there a way to stop that from happening? Or would we be entitled to the home when my grandpa passes? \n\nTL;DR My grandpa doesn\u2019t have a will and has had a girlfriend for 10+ years in California (not a common law state). He is getting very sick and I\u2019m just not sure of what will happen to his house when he passes and if it will go to his girlfriend and primary caretaker or his son\/grandchildren. ","title":"If my grandpa doesn\u2019t have a will does his house go to his blood family or his girlfriend?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1443501112,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3msmqo\/md_apt_claims_i_owe_them_a_13th_months_rent_but\/","id":"3msmqo","body":"**What was said verbally:** I told them when I first toured in June 2014 that I would only be in town for a year due to work, and that I would be moving in at the beginning of August 2014 and likely leaving at the end of July 2015.\n\n**What the rental agreement states:** \"Owner rents to Resident the Apartment for a term beginning on the 2nd day of August 2014, and ending on the last day of August 2015, at the rent of $9,588 per year, payable in equal monthly installments of $799 on the first day of each month in advance, without notice, deduction, set off or demand, plus a pro-rata rental at the time of move-in (if applicable).\"\n\n*Fast forward to June 2015*...I receive a letter stating that, in September 2015, my rent will be increasing to $820\/month, and that if I will be moving out before then to send a written notice to the rental office.\n\nI send this written notice stating that I will be moving out at the end of July 2015 and that July's rent will be **the final rent that I pay**. I receive no dispute\/objection from the rental office for the rest of my stay about me moving out or the last rent I would be paying.\n\n*Fast forward to September 15, 2015*...I've moved to TX for work, and I receive a letter stating: \"You vacated the apartment prior to the expiration of your rental agreement. As we were unable to re-rent the apartment before the expiration of your lease...[you have] the following charges:...\" and it lists out charges including August 2015 rent and late fees (among others) totaling $1,004.77. The letter states I have 30 days to pay or lawyers will get involved and my credit could be affected.\n\n**September 16, 2015:** I called the office and was told to submit a dispute over email, which I did.\n\n**September 28, 2015:** I receive a response in the mail stating: \"Please be advised that the 12 monthly installments begin the first full month after your move-in date which would be September 01, 2014. The total amount of $9,588 was due for September 01, 2014 through August 31, 2015.\"\n\nThis final letter says that the rent I owed was for September-August, yet my rental agreement is from August 2014-August 2015 and I paid August 2014's rent in full when I moved in. They seem to be contradicting themselves with this letter.\n\n**Question:** Do I have an argument to fight this? I received this notice well after I informed them of my move-out; it seems convenient for them to strong-arm me for $1000 after I move half-way across the country.","title":"[MD] Apt claims I owe them a 13th month's rent, but did not dispute when I provided written notice that I would pay for\/move out after 12 months","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551056608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auezwm\/brother_assaulted_over_tenancy_issues_in_nd_how\/","id":"auezwm","body":"I wasn\u2019t sure which flair to add, as this sort of dips into criminal issues as well, but here we go.\n\nSo my brother lives in the basement of his friends house. He\u2019s been there for well over a year now because he has poor rental history and his friend agreed to take 300 cash a month. There was no contract written or anything like that, but eventually his friend ended up telling him he has until March 1st to move out on February 18th due his \u201croom not being clean\u201d. \n\nFast forward to tonight, his \u201cfriend\u201d came down and stated \u201cYou\u2019ve made my house smell like s***, so have a taste of your own medicine.\u201d (Irrelevant note, but his room was not any cause of \u201csmells\u201d, as they smoke in the house as well as have rotting food and trash around the house and have even threatened eviction in order to have my brother clean the house) And sprayed my brother in the eyes, neck, shoulder, and back with bear mace. It also ended up all over some of his belongings. \n\nMy brother went to the hospital to have his eyes flushed and talked with an officer about the incident, but he doesn\u2019t really have anywhere to go until he finds out about an apartment this week. \n\nOur questions are:\n\nHow do we go about safely removing his belongings from the house?\n\nWhat kind of evidence of damaged items and things should he be on the look out for when he does go to to retrieve them?\n\nIs it legal for his \u201cfriend\u201d to throw any of his belongings out in the snow, seeing as how my brother has technically paid his rent for the month?\n\n\nIt should be noted that my brother is diagnosed with Aspergers and can be easily manipulated. It might not even be relevant, but it is the reason why he has stayed there for so long, because his \u201cfriend\u201d has taken advantage of him and his money before and then made him believe they were friends.","title":"Brother assaulted over tenancy issues in ND, how do we safely proceed?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505958609,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71fz7x\/divorce_waca\/","id":"71fz7x","body":"My cousin has been married for 20 years to the same woman. Over that time she has cheated on him (that we know of) around 4 times. We suspect one (maybe 2) of the kids may not be his. He loves all his kids regardless but now wants a divorce. His wife is a horrible immoral person with no regard for anyone but herself and has fully told him if he leaves her she will take 80% and ask for all their assets. They have two houses one each in a different state (she asked him to buy the second one a year ago and said they would all move there but now says she doesn't want him to live in the new house).\nOne child is 14 one is 18 and the eldest is 20.\nWhat are his options?\nHe was the main breadwinner (she also worked but kept all her own money for herself in another bank account). He has a salaried job and owns his own business on the side he just started. What can he do that will be the least damaging? He prefers to keep all his children but said he would like for them to choose the best option for them and support their decision. Their mom obviously wants them and said it was so she can make child support.\nHe really is a great guy and loves his family. He tried everything but she seems more interested in money and living the single life.\nAny ideas?","title":"Divorce - WA\/CA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570665972,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfpt3m\/change_of_address_or_responsible_party_business\/","id":"dfpt3m","body":"Hi, my business changed locations and I want to notify the IRS and also because my payroll company is having issues because we have not actually changed the address. On this form #8 says New responsible party's name and I don't want to change this, but I'm fine just putting down my own info. Do I need to put something in this box if I don't want to make a change? Also, should I put my business' information into the box or mine if I have to fill it in?\n\n​\n\nThanks!","title":"Change of Address or Responsible Party \u2014 Business - Form 8822-B","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1417551386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2o2tra\/florida_the_best_way_to_present_agreement_in_email\/","id":"2o2tra","body":"I recently was part of a startup company and things went sour between myself and the other partner. He thought he would be able to kick me out of the company without buying me out but he was wrong. We talked a month ago about our settlement terms that I had my lawyers draw up. I want to send it to him in an email and say something like:\n\n\"Attached you will find the release agreement based on our conversation on (date). Please send back signed within 10 business days. If it isn't signed by (date) my lawyers will take the next action and we will bring this to court\"\n\nCan someone help me with the wording of the email I will send so I don't sound too demanding and is 10 days enough time for someones lawyer to review a 3 page release agreement?","title":"[Florida] The best way to present agreement in email","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1441745057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k51zo\/can_a_judge_force_me_to_move_to_another_county\/","id":"3k51zo","body":"In 2013 I was sentenced to a 4 do 2 in prison, followed by drug court. I caught this case in a county that I do not live in, and have no desire to be in. When I was originally sentenced the sentencing order said that I may transfer the DC to my home county. I called my home county and they said they do not take transfers. I reported this to the drug court judge and she is ordering me to move to a halfway house in this town. I have a good job where I live, stable housing, transportation, and a good support network.\n\nIn addition to making me move to do this drug court, I do not get any of the benefits of it upon completion! I will still have a felony on my record.\n\nI am in Indiana by the way. [Here](http:\/\/codes.lp.findlaw.com\/incode\/12\/23\/14.5) are the state statutes regarding drug court and [here](http:\/\/jpo.wrlc.org\/bitstream\/handle\/11204\/489\/4605.pdf?sequence=1) is the specific county's DC handbook for where I would have to do it.\n\nThank You!!","title":"Can a judge force me to move to another county for probation?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570226107,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dde6sv\/got_reckless_driving_for_going_81_in_a_70_in\/","id":"dde6sv","body":"I wasn't doing anything besides driving down the interstate. I didnt realize I was crusing at 81 and got pulled over. The stop only lasted about 10 minutes. He asked me why I was speeding and I told him I was going to a gig. Then came back with what I thought was a ticket. I didnt think anything of it and put it in my glove box. Took a look at it today (back in Florida) and am shocked! I dont want to have to go back up there to go to court. \nCan I write a letter to the judge?\n\nThank you for the help","title":"Got RECKLESS driving for going 81 in a 70 in Virginia. I live in Florida and I dont understand why I didnt just get a regular speeding ticket. What is my best plan of action ? PLEASE HELP!","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553622118,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5sq5s\/mo_first_time_homeowner_submitted_an_insurance\/","id":"b5sq5s","body":"First time homeowner. Last summer not too long after moving in, a vehicle hit my front porch area causing damage to the concrete patio, concrete stairs, and railing. The insurance adjuster said about 1,500 to repair the damage to the concrete and put up a new railing. However, I had two separate local concrete companies come out and they both said they don't do patch jobs because the patched concrete will crack and the work won't last a few years down the road. They both suggested ripping everything out and rebuilding it all for about 25k. I forwarded the detailed estimates to the insurance company, and after their adjusters reviewed the details on the price difference, they approved and sent me money.\n\n​\n\nNow, the damages are very superficial and I don't really care too much about them personally. It was my understanding that the money was mine to spend how I want (though now I have no idea). So, I spent the money (not on repairs). However, I got a letter from my insurance provider that they are \"hereby requesting an update\" on when the repairs are going to be completed and when they can come out to inspect them.\n\n​\n\nSo, here are my questions:\n\n1. What are the potential outcomes for this?\n2. Could I possibly be required to return part or all of the money?\n3. If I had someone do the patch job for a cheaper price instead of the full rip out\/rebuild, could that satisfy any requests from the insurance or my lender if they demand the work be done?\n4. If I did do the cheaper patch job, could I possibly be required to return the difference?\n5. Are there any other negative consequences that I'm not aware of that I should think about?","title":"[MO] First time homeowner, submitted an insurance claim and spent the money","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446608545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rg4kk\/being_taken_to_court_over_power_of_attorney\/","id":"3rg4kk","body":"Hi,\n\nI live in Ontario, Canada. I'm being taken to Court over the validity of my Power of Attorney for a loved one and it is being alleged that I am not properly managing that loved ones finances. However, the court papers that were sent have my name spelled wrong in it, my loved ones name spelled wrong in it (both of which were incorrectly spelled multiple times), and the supposed court date is March of 2015, which was last year...Does this mean the document is completely void?","title":"Being Taken to Court over Power of Attorney","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570780581,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgbvog\/father_left_no_will_his_family_took_everything\/","id":"dgbvog","body":"Hi Legal Advice, first of all I should state: my father died about 6 years ago, however I was only 13 at the time. His side of the family hated me, mainly because I was his bastard child and they hated my mom. When he died, he left no will, nothing. And only recently I found out what happened to everything. His sister took all his savings in order to pay for \"damages\" to his truck, and also took his truck. I got absolutely nothing directly from my father, until recently. He left me a large amount of money (life insurance policy.) But that is just extra information, I don't know if that can help me. But I really miss my father and at this point I have nothing to remind me of him. Is there any way I still have a case after over half a decade?","title":"Father left no will, his family took everything.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570495681,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/desmp9\/md_kids_keep_damaging_my_personal_property_on\/","id":"desmp9","body":"Sorry for the long post, but I am at my wits end and don't know what to do. My partner and I have been living in our apartment for about two years now. Earlier this year we received  a large amount of new residents to this complex, and with them their kids. These groups of kids (around the ages of 5 to 14) will not stay off of our porch or out of our building in the complex (they are not from this building or know any kids in this building) and are highly destructive. \n\nThey have stolen the fire extinguisher, decorations from our porch (lights and such), furniture and cigarettes (including cigarette buts off of the ground); they leave large amounts of trash inside and outside our building; and they destroy property including holiday props, furniture, and the doors (the glass in the main front door was broken, and our front porch door has also been broken). \n\nWe have tried everything from talking to the kids themselves (they will get off of the porch for a minute until they start up again); talking to their parents (which results in nothing); calling the police and meeting them in person (they have claimed they cannot do anything); and talking with our apartment complex about the issues (they give us false promises but have done nothing at all). \n\nWe don't know what else to do, I can't keep living like this. I come home from work everyday to kids on my porch, screaming and fighting each other, I never get any peace or quiet, my wife gets so damn sad from seeing her decorations stolen or broken. I don't want to do anything violent or extreme, I just want to be able to live at my own place. Is this any reason to break my apartment lease? Is there anything I can do or am I forced to have to live with this problem?","title":"[MD] Kids keep damaging my personal property on porch","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568846402,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d64u8v\/total_loss_insurance_claim\/","id":"d64u8v","body":"So I got rear ended and filed a claim, it\u2019s most likely going to be a total loss. Considering my car isn\u2019t worth nearly as much as it will take to get fixed. What are my options here? Any advice at this point in my situation?","title":"Total loss insurance claim","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539006525,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mezys\/my_university_is_taking_hundreds_in_course_fees\/","id":"9mezys","body":"I've seen course fees on my account for years. I'm a senior and I'm taking residential classes this semester with one left.\n\nI've seen on my account that I have $50.00 in course fees for each course I'm in. I asked my professor why we have fees and one said \"if you want to design a package made of concrete, you need to go to Lowe's and buy a bad of concrete\". Another professor explained that they do not implement these fees, and do not know what the money goes toward. I went to Registrar and they told me to go to student accounts, student accounts told me to go to billing, billing told me to go to Registrar. Speaking with a supervisor, she told me that the dean of the college is responsible for the charges, and he can explain why the charges are on the account\n\nI spoke with him and he is giving me the run around. He said he's going to email his people and get back with me. It's been two weeks. \n\nThe issue here is that every student in my college is being charged hundreds in course fees with for seemingly no reason. One class specifically is raking in $800.00 extra dollars in course fees that the department doesn't even see. Professors beg for money for tablets, materials, etc, and allegedly, get denied consistently.\n\nHelp? \n\nThank you all\n\n","title":"My university is taking hundreds in course fees and cannot tell me why.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553907793,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b758ci\/is_it_illegal_to_lie_about_who_the_father_is\/","id":"b758ci","body":"Long story short... My ex and I broke up when I was 8 weeks pregnant. My daughter is now 3 months old. He isn\u2019t a healthy enough individual to be around. I told him if he can be 6 months sober I will open communication. \nHe is now questioning if the child is even his.\n\nJust out of curiosity, would it be illegal to lie to him and say she is not his? ","title":"Is it illegal to lie about who the father is?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554832441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbb1wf\/what_happens_if_i_get_truancy\/","id":"bbb1wf","body":"Im 13 and live in minnesota, a teacher said 20 absences is truancy and the last time it was updated it was at 19, what will happen if i miss another day and get truancy? I suffer from migraines a lot and easily get sick and that doesnt help it. Any help?","title":"What happens if I get truancy?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540409148,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r2tf2\/can_i_sue_my_high_school_for_verbally_promised\/","id":"9r2tf2","body":"*sorry for the bad spelling and grammar you are about to experience*\n\nI go to a charter school k-12 in Utah and I joined a leadership class in 7th grade that was for kids that went there sense kindergarten.\n\nWhen me and the other kids in the joined the class we where told that we would get iPads (I believe they said we would be able to keep them) and later in the year or even the year after that we were told that we would get a $2,000 \u201ccash scholarship\u201d when we graduate from that school that we could essentially use on anything, I believe that the teacher of the class was high up in the school board.\n\nLater in 8th grade year that teacher\/director left with little to no notice; I\u2019m in my 12th grade year and don\u2019t believe I will get this promised $2,000 (mostly because I don\u2019t believe the year older then us that also got promised $2,000 didn\u2019t get the money)\n\nCan I sue or even take any legal action?","title":"Can I sue my high school for verbally promised money \u201ccash scholarship\u201d","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568941069,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6nb0l\/can_my_landlord_tell_me_to_start_making_rent\/","id":"d6nb0l","body":"Can my landlord tell me to start making rent payments using Zillow through text between leases if my apartment is in Wisconsin?\n\n\\- I signed a new lease in July\/August for a year's rent on a property.\n\n\\- I have paid via a check sent from my bank each month during my time at this location( 11+ years ) I don't believe forms of payment were ever specified on the leases( but will be getting my lease out of my bank box tomorrow to check ).\n\n\\- About an hour ago I received texts from my landlord stating the property owner is going to start \"doing on line rent payments\" through an online company called \\[redacted\\] that has a \"good reputation\" and asked me to provide an e-mail address.\n\n\\- Searching \\[redacted\\] with an online search engine lead me to some stories involving renters and home-owners getting calls and e-mails from flippers and realtors trying to buy, sell, and sale jobs and has made me not want to use this method to pay bills( even if I have relocate from the property ).\n\n\\- I live in Neenah, Wi.","title":"Can my landlord tell me to start making rent payments using a third-party website through text between leases if my apartment is in Wisconsin?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569253111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8875p\/do_i_need_to_worry_about_my_company_firing_me_if\/","id":"d8875p","body":"I\u2019ll start from the end and then explain in greater detail for those interested...\n\nThe man who has been sexually harassing me and at least 3 other women basically received \u201ca talking to\u201d after this investigation, and is now being promoted to to the head of our branch.\n\nThis of course makes me angry for many reasons, but I really want to know if it would be safe for to seek legal help or if I can just cause of the way they handled the case. Do I need to worry that I\u2019ll be fired for doing so? Or that I\u2019ll be putting myself on the company\u2019s radar? \n\nSo here\u2019s the back story-this is looong...\n\nThis man had only made comments to me, whenever he was walking behind me, and very specifically only walking behind me. I\u2019m going to try and explain this the best I can, he would say \u201cohh, momma\u201d to me but it was breathy and he almost moaned when he says it. It was very obviously in the same nature as a cat call and he sounded very lustfull. Due to the nature of my workplace I didn\u2019t feel I could come forward with this to anyone. It almost always feels very hostile there and I was worried id be fired for doing so. (Because last time people complained to HR about a minor issue they made several people very angry and those people have been actively trying to fire or replace them since.) \n\nI mentioned that I felt uncomfortable bringing issues to my superiors in our employee reviews at the beginning of the year, it wasn\u2019t followed up on though. \n\nSo back in August I accidentally let it slip to my direct supervisor (DS) that this other man (well call him John), had been making these comments. He immediately got concerned and asked me to elaborate. I told him how uncomfortable it made me and the nature of the comments and everything and then a few days later he decided to tell our current branch supervisor who also became very angry. He spoke with me and I agreed that it was time to fill out an official report. \n\nThis itself was a mortifying experience for me. I was terrified and became physically ill with fear and anxiety and for the first few days I felt guilty for bringing such chaos upon the office. I\u2019m a heavily empathetic person, which has played into a few feelings through all of this. But these feelings went away after learning that I wasn\u2019t the only one.\n\nA few days after making my report I found out that not only had he made the same comments under the same circumstances to two other women who no longer work there, there was one woman who he actually came up behind, he rested his head on her shoulder and whispered in her ear \u201csmile\u201d. That comment sounds innocent enough but he had no business coming up close enough behind her to do anything like that. \n\nEveryone in the office has heard him make the \u201coh momma\u201d comments, they just didn\u2019t know the reason. And I also know how creepy and unsettling he sounds when he says \u201csmile\u201d because he\u2019s leaned over to me as I was walking by and said it to me. I can only imagine having him whisper it into my ear. He also like to \u201cadjust himself\u201d in women\u2019s doorways. \n\nThe other two women spoke with our supervisor years ago when it happened to them and his response was \u201coh that\u2019s just John being John\u201d. He has already agreed that we can bring that up and he will take whatever fall he needs to because of his actions at that time. \n\nSo, I understood that me being the one who filed could not speak on behalf of the other women Involved. I told them what they told me and HR said they\u2019d speak to them but they never did. I told them that I understand they didn\u2019t file my report but my report is against John. John is under investigation, not me. They need to speak to anyone involved because John is involved. \n\nThe investigation slugged on until about three weeks ago, in that time we also got a new branch supervisor and the original one lost all say so in the case (team is forcing him to retire). This new guy is also very buddy buddy with John outside of the office. HR told me they decided it was inappropriate behavior, not sexual harassment, and that John would receive a council session from that same new supervisor(mark). HR then followed up with me two weeks ago to see how I was doing, I told them I still felt very uncomfortable and that I could no longer even go to the copy room without him staring at me as I did because his office is right across from it. I very honestly feel trapped and I told them that. He\u2019s also become very loud and obnoxious since their decisions been made. Humming and singing and banging on walls and yelling and walking around the office on conference calls and standing in our doorways just staring. \n\nIt was the HR director I spoke with, and she told me they would speak with the other women but she never did and now it\u2019s closed. He got a slap on the wrist. \n\nOh, and a promotion. \n\nMark lives in California, so John will be the in house acting branch supervisor. This horrible, perverted man has been given the highest position in the office. \n\n\nSo I think my next step is to fill out an EEOC, correct? Should these other women fill out separate reports with HR and have us have to wait another month and a half for their investigations? \n\nIs there actually anything we can do? Can i seek legal help if I\u2019m unsatisfied with the way my company has handled this? \n\nDo I need to worry about losing my job if I do?\n\nI can not and do not believe that I should have to work with or for a man who very obviously Can not control himself. Especially him being the way that he is, this new power is going to make him impossible. \n\nHe\u2019s been spoken to about inappropriate behavior in the office before, and it\u2019s made no difference. He knows he got away with it, and while he may not have made those comments again recently (which, anyone would know better than to do when under investigation) he\u2019s been much worse in other ways. I have no doubt that he will continue or get worse. \n\nI also want to quit, but I\u2019m not sure that would be a good idea.\n\nI\u2019m sorry if this is poorly constructed, hopefully it makes sense and I didn\u2019t forget anything. \n\nThank you so much to anyone who read all the way through.","title":"Do I need to worry about my company firing me if I seek legal council\/action for a sexual harassment case?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541475852,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uky0q\/power_of_attorney_and_will_issues_with_grandma\/","id":"9uky0q","body":"My grandma is 94 and lives in Texas. She is illiterate and does not drive. She lives with my grandpa (who is not in great health) and has one lazy, worthless son (my dad). Grandma said she has my younger brother who lives 3 hours away)  as her power of attorney. However, he will not reply to any texts\/calls about the issue and refuses to show me any paperwork. Dad is a violent, abusive, man child and we have not spoken in over ten years. He refuses to acknowledge  my presence in a room type of behavior. She got her paperwork in order with her son and a lawyer a few years ago. I moved to texas to help care for her a year ago. I take her to doctor appointments and take care of any needs. My grandma recently was told she has a large spot on her lung which might be cancer. She\u2019s, understandably, nervous and scared. She has decided to go ahead with biopsies which come with great risks. I\u2019m trying to find out what I can do to help her. She doesn\u2019t know who her lawyer is and if she did would I be able to get info? \nHer will is done as well but I don\u2019t have a copy and am unable to get one from my sibling. Should I hire a translator and go to the attorney? She has expressed concern bc my brother is not close enough to help and he\u2019s very hard to communicate with bc he\u2019s \u201cso busy\u201d. Then my dad refuses to talk to me and doesn\u2019t understand the medical issues. He\u2019s the \u201ckeep her alive at any cost!\u201d type.  But my grandma doesn\u2019t want to be resuscitated should anything go wrong. She doesn\u2019t want to live in pain and on a machine. I want to respect her wishes and be her advocate \nI\u2019m not sure if there\u2019s anything I can do? Or how to go about becoming her power of attorney. She\u2019s of sound mind and currently has no other issues other than the spots.  Any help or guidance is appreciated. ","title":"Power of attorney and will issues with grandma","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1549434904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ano0cu\/how_long_to_report_being_miscategorized_1099\/","id":"ano0cu","body":"This was in California. I recently realized that my job that I left in 2015 miscategorized me (and multiple other \u201cemployees\u201d) as an independent contractor when by all standards we should have been full time employees. I worked there for three years. This practice went on for several years before, during, and after my employment with the organization. I have already paid the relevant taxes, and now realize I\u2019ve overpaid taxes due to their shitty\/illegal business practices. \n\nMy legal question: Is there anything to be done now? I am still in touch with many of my former coworkers, all of whom I am certain would be willing to back up any claim(s) we might have. \n\nTbh I am fine with not getting compensated, but I don\u2019t want this to happen to others. I\u2019ve attempted to google the situation but I was unable to find whether there is any kind of statute of limitations for this kind of issue. I appreciate any advice.  \n\n","title":"How long to report being miscategorized 1099?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554779884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb30og\/local_police_sent_me_a_service_bill_7_months_later\/","id":"bb30og","body":"7 months ago I got into my first car accident as late at night I backed up into a parked car that was on the street. No injuries, and nothing serious. Being a decent person and not wanting someone driving away if they hit me, I contacted the city police and filed a report. The police station is literally 200 feet from where it happened, right down the street. After filing a police report and taking my insurance they gave me a $200 ticket for hitting another vehicle on a \u201cpublic street\u201d. So whatever I paid it off and moved on.\n\n7 months later I get a note in the mail as they charged me nearly $600 for their \u201cservice\u201d. Excuse me? What do I pay taxes for? \nFirstly, they charged me for two police cars, when one showed up to the scene (small town) costing over $300, then an administration overhead expense of $180, on top of the two police officers at the scene for another $40 each. Seriously, none of my friends or family have ever heard or seen this before. \n\nAnd me being a 23 year old making an effort in paying back my student loans, so $600 is almost an entire paycheck. I\u2019m livid and don\u2019t know if they can actually do this. Don\u2019t know where to go from here or to even pay it. Going to talk to my insurance agent soon to see if they can fill me in. \n\nIf anybody can give some insight that would be much appreciated. My parents and relatives have all been in accidents before, but were never charged a \u201cservice\u201d fee months after. Was I not supposed to notify the police that I hit another vehicle....? Unbelievable.","title":"Local police sent me a \u201cservice\u201d bill 7 months later.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555273399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd748x\/not_allowed_due_process_in_restraining_order\/","id":"bd748x","body":"My wife's ex petitioned the court to not allow me around his two children.  (I was arrested in Sept, 2017 for pushing my wife.  Though, no charges were ever filed against me.  I understand that what I did was wrong, I'm not looking for forgiveness. I've since began counseling and started taking medicine for combat related PTSD.  I'm a whole new me.)  Not a restraining order, on its own. But, part of the actual child custody order, not allowing me to be within the vicinity of my home or around his children.  This order has been in affect for 19 months and counting. I was never allowed to speak to the judge or allowed any other due process. This order has been severely detrimental to our household, as I have seven other children with my wife, that I'm allowed to be around. But, due to the order concerning the other two children, I can't live with my family. \n\nIs this a violation of my constitutional rights?  We're located in Oklahoma.","title":"Not allowed due process in \"restraining order.\"","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571421323,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djr69d\/landlord_didnt_properly_repair_electric_before\/","id":"djr69d","body":"Alright me and my wife moved in about a week ago. While setting up cable the cable guy got shocked and found out the electric was bad in the master bedroom. This issue fried my computer, which was around 1100 dollars, and our 400 dollar tv. We brought an electrician in and found out the whole room needs rewired and there were multiple code violations with the room. Apparently they didn\u2019t bring an inspector out after they paid to get the electric done and the person did it poorly. They then told the electrician NOT to tell us about the violations and basically said if we called an inspector we wouldn\u2019t have a place to live after we found out. \n\nIs the landlord responsible for the damage to our property? And if an inspector comes out they have to pay for us to have somewhere to live until the house is brought back up to code correct? Me and my wife are fully prepared to get a lawyer but I want some other opinions first thank you. \n\nThe place is in Burke county North Carolina for reference.","title":"Landlord didn\u2019t properly repair electric before renting house to us. Caused multiple damage to tv and computer and found code violations [North Carolina]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540826886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9se2m2\/roommate_hit_his_bf_in_the_apartment_can_i_kick\/","id":"9se2m2","body":"I have a four-br apt in NYC and rent out the other three rooms to roommates. There's me, two gay guys and a girl. Let's call them Bob, Jerry and Charlene. I'm not there as much so my other roommates have I guess kind of bonded without me. I'm allowed to rent these rooms out to roommates from the landlord, but it's up to me to do it all so I just kind of made my own subleases using templates from online that they all signed for a year lease each.\n\nOne day I was there in the kitchen area and Bob and Jerry and Bob's bf Wilbur come back from going out to bars and were all pretty buzzed\/drunk. Bob is also a big guy, bigger than all the rest of us, about 6'4\" and very stocky, probably 250 or 300 pounds. Well even though they came in happy enough all the sudden Bob and Wilbur started arguing and in an instant out of nowhere Bob smacked his bf Wilbur across the face and grabbed him by the neck with one hand and held him off the floor against a wall for a second, almost like something out of a movie.  I was horrified and screamed and Bob let him down and then all three of them immediately downplayed the incident, not only Bob but also Wilbur and my other roommate Jerry. They were laughing it off!\n\nThen, I think they must've been worried about my reaction because I'm pretty sure they went to the other roommate Charlene afterwards and totally downplayed the incident and made out like I might exaggerate it or lie about it or something, which I'm assuming she bought because when I brought what he did up with her she was totally dismissive about it and was trying to act like it wasn't a big deal and act like I was probably exaggerating.\n\nThe thing is, can I kick him out now? I think all my roommates realise I'm considering this though I haven't said anything and they are all against it and now I can just feel this aura of negativity and resentment in the apt not against the abuser Bob but against ME! But mostly, I just don't feel comfortable living with Bob any more and honestly wish I'd called the police on him that night. I feel like if he could snap like that all the sudden on his bf he could just as easily on any of us including me and I don't feel safe or comfortable there with him now. However, I'm not too up on tenancy laws but I know in NYC they are extremely strict and I have a feeling (in fact I'm almost sure that) if I try to kick him out he's the type that will try to fight it tooth and nail, and our two other roommates will support him, and the sublease I had him sign doesn't say anything about me being able to break the sublease for this type of thing (since obviously I never thought about this type of thing when preparing it).","title":"Roommate hit his bf in the apartment, can I kick him out? NYC","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541188079,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tnfam\/can_i_sue_for_a_transcript\/","id":"9tnfam","body":"Hi! I have a problem with a former educational institution of mine. I began one of their programs and wasn't able to finish due to a medical issue that prevented me from completing the program. Now, 2 years later, I'm significantly healed and trying to get my transcript from them to start fresh at a different school. They're withholding it from me until I pay them $8,000! (which is obviously ridiculous!) Is there any way I can take legal action against them in order to receive my transcript? Any knowledge or advice on this topic is appreciated.","title":"Can I sue for a transcript?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1410213358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fujgi\/custody_advice_needed_ontario_canada\/","id":"2fujgi","body":"My Ex has had a past of drinking and prescription drug abuse.   Ex has had multiple suicide attempts in the past.  Spent many weeks in a psych ward.  I had interim custody for over a year and then 60% for two years and ongoing today. \n\nEx has been sober and incident free for about 2 years now.     \n\nWe have 60\/40 custody agreement as per recommendation from the Office of the Children's Lawyer and their full investigation.   I get the child 60%. \n\nAfter 2 years of sobriety Ex now wants custody 50\/50.   Are the recommendations from the Children's lawyer considered final?  What is the chance we could see it going to 50\/50?  How will a judge see this?\n\nI know you'll need more info so ask away and I can answer them best as I can.  ","title":"Custody advice needed - ONTARIO - Canada","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570070331,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcktdt\/ontario_rent_increase_and_repair_guidelines\/","id":"dcktdt","body":"**Rent increase**\n\nI moved to this new place and signed 6 month lease last year in Dec.'18 and after it got over, since May'19 living month-to-month at the same place. In Dec.'19 for new 1 yr lease (current place) landlord increasing rent almost 4% and saying new leases signed after Nov.'18 doesn't pertain to Ontario rent increase guidelines. I called landlord & tenant board and they say I can go month-to-month which will pertain to 2020 guidelines of 2.2% increase and landlord can't force me to sign new lease or evict me. Is this information correct and my landlord still insisting over 3% increase? What are my options except finding a new place? \n\n**Repair**\n\nIn last 10 months, fridge stopped working thrice. Landlord says because I don't clean behind it dust builds up, overheats the coil. Being a clean freak, I keep my place so clean & tidy that you can eat off the floor. Fridge is in a tight place and not on the rollers. I'm afraid it can cause damage to walls\/floor or even to the fridge while rolling it out. I never heard in rental places that you are supposed to do that and this frequently never ever. Am I liable to pay next time or what are my options?","title":"Ontario rent increase and repair guidelines","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539638154,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ogx99\/my_daughters7f_father_cheated_on_his_new_family\/","id":"9ogx99","body":"My daughters father got in a relationship 4 years ago with a woman who also has a 7 year old daughter. He has my daughter call her mom despite it being in our agreement not to. Also calls her daughter her sister. \n\nWe have 50\/50 custody with my daughter in my school district. She goes there 3 weekends a month and every Wednesday with pick up and drop off at school. \n\nThis weekend he calls to tell me he cheated on his girlfriend and they are no longer together and he\u2019s staying in a hotel.  That he wants to give me every other weekend now with my daughter. \n\nI texted her asking if she was ok and she wanted to talk to me ASAP. I called her and she told me she has been wanting to talk for a long time but he had threatened her. \n\nLong story short she told me he cheated on her with a dozen women( no surprise there. He cheated on me and his previous relationships) she said he is a sex addict in and out of therapy. That he threatened and attempted suicide. That she is extremely concerned for my daughters wellbeing in his presence and will do anything to help me get her away from him. And that she is putting her daughter in therapy to help her because she is having a very hard time with everything that\u2019s happened. \n\nToday he tells me they are working it out that it was all lies and that my daughter will be fine and nothing is to be changed with custody. \n\nMy question is how do I go about bringing this to court and changing custody? I have a court appointed lawyer and he doesn\u2019t put any effort into my cases. Ive emailed him and he still hasn\u2019t gotten back to me. We have an upcoming court date because he hasn\u2019t been bringing her to her soccer games on the weekend and he is consistently late bringing her to school. ","title":"My daughters(7F) father cheated on his new family","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539109842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mrq51\/my_so_is_being_told_her_money_to_replace_a\/","id":"9mrq51","body":"My SO was working at a daycare which is now shut down and being investigated by SCP. She was very poorly trained and was very aware of the many rules being broken as she is a early childhood education major. Her second day being allowed to over seen a room of kids by herself she took child's phone and set it out of reach to be returned before the child left, unbeknownst to her the child had be picked up by the parents without getting the phone. Now that the daycare is shut down the phone can't be found and the parents want a replacement, her manager is telling her she's taking it out of her two weeks of pay she hasn't received yet. What grounds does her employer have and is this legal?","title":"My SO is being told her money to replace a missing phone at a day care will be taken out of her pay, is this legal?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541828965,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vs050\/can_i_make_a_cop_follow_me\/","id":"9vs050","body":"A cop flashed his lights for me to pull over and I slowed down and turned on my hazard lights. I was not about to pull over on an empty road at night so I had him tail me to a gas station less than a mile away. He proceeds to fuss at me and he didn\u2019t have any grounds to pull me over besides my not having a license plate on the new car. Am I not allowed to have an officer tail me without it being considered evasion?","title":"Can I make a cop follow me?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442438539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l80sk\/apartment_community_trying_to_extort_500_from_my\/","id":"3l80sk","body":"Basic info: I am a resident of Fairfax County, VA, USA, which is where the apartment was located. I have excellent credit, solid financial standing, and am not bothered by this going to court.\n\n==\n\nMy family and I lived in upscale apartment community for about 20 months. We terminated our lease amicably, paid all required termination fees, etc., and moved out. Prior to moving out, we had a preliminary inspection of the apartment, during which the inspector told us he saw no problems and foresaw no charges. We received documentation of $0 in expected move out fees.\n\nRoughly a month after we moved out, we received a bill that covered our last month's water \/ sewer and trash fees plus a $500+ fee for replacing the carpet in the apartment. I promptly paid the water \/ sewer and trash fees and instigated a dispute for the carpet.\n\nThe carpet was three plus years old and had served for at least one other set of tenants. We did not destroy or stain the carpet. As is to be expected, the high-traffic areas showed crushing, but there was nothing that obviously necessitated the replacement of the carpet in the unit.\n\nToday, their in-house collections department contacted me by phone to say that they would be happy to process my payment and that the dispute had been found in their favor. I requested further information, but they said, essentially, \"our internal investigators reviewed their work, and they were right all along, so you owe us this money.\" When pressed, they refused to offer any further justification or additional information, would provide no evidence, etc. and simply stated that we are on the hook for the cash.\n\nWe have moved to a home that we bought and have no plans to return to apartment living, most especially with this group. The whole scenario feels to me as if they're simply using our departure as a means to offset the cost of replacing the carpet in the unit. The only information they provided was that \"carpet lasts an average of five years, so we charge people whose carpet doesn't last that long.\" Clearly, they aren't giving credit to people whose carpet lasts longer, and I doubt they're offering to enter apartments every five years for a refresh.\n\nAs I mentioned above, this is clearly a civil case, and I'm not concerned about it going to court. I'd be perfectly happy to represent myself in this scenario and lay it out before a judge. If I'm compelled to pay legally, of course I would, but I feel like I'm being strong-armed into handing over cash that I don't really owe.\n\nThe leasing company has threatened to turn our account over to a third party collections agency if we don't remit the full amount by 2015-09-23, but that doesn't really concern me either. I've never defaulted on a bill, never paid late, have no credit card debt, no history of delinquency, etc. Affording the $500 isn't a problem at all, I'm just not keen to pay it after I handed them nearly $4,000 in early termination fees and didn't destroy the carpet.\n\nWhat are my options, here? My only real concern is a ding on my credit score. I'm tempted to launch an all-out nuclear offense against them on Yelp!, Google, etc., and see if being a squeaky wheel would do anything to help.\n\nAny advice appreciated. Thanks!","title":"Apartment community trying to extort $500+ from my family.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503196868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6utcia\/renting_with_a_craigslist_roommate_ri_us\/","id":"6utcia","body":"Im planning on renting with a Craigslist roommate. Met him once but still worried about him paying rent. I can carry rent all by myself each month if needed, so I can ensure the landlord continues to get paid each month, what kind of contract, and how formal does the language need to be to have something legally binding that says essentially \"roommate will pay X in rent each month or GTFO\/I can sue for back rent\" I'm only a roommate, not the landlord, so would a contract like this allow me to evict him without the landlords approval? How formal does the language need to be (the more casual the language is the less freaked the guy will be) also does email without a written signature count?\n\nEdit: to be clear I'm signing a lease with him. I am not the owner or sole Tennant on the lease. The landlord also bans subletting without their approval in the lease so that's not an option","title":"Renting with a Craigslist roommate [RI US]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553849452,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6uu1p\/i_just_got_pulled_over_and_was_driving_without\/","id":"b6uu1p","body":"I was recently pulled over, because my license plate light wasn't on. I was able to get the license plate light ticket as a warning but i was ticketed with driving without proof of insurance. \n\nI am 26 years old and this is my first offense of ever having to drive without insurance. I was going to get my car insured next week at the beginning  of april to avoid paying for march since it was a short time but i was pulled over. I am suppose to leave the state by the 16th of april and I'm  terrified of losing my license and registration. I can pay the fine of 500 but i was hoping to be reduced.\n\nWhat should i Expect to happen to me? I was just hoping of a reduced fine, If i show i buy my insurance before the court appearance and since its my first offense they can be lenient.\n\nI'm scared and terrified because I'm suppose to start my new job in Yellowstone and i was planning to bring my car but i was too late to get insurance before me getting pulled over.","title":"I just got pulled over and was driving without insurance. What should I do? (Illinois)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503877608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wfocy\/fl_working_for_a_new_startup_have_not_been_paid\/","id":"6wfocy","body":"Hello everyone!\n\nThe situation:\nI am a recent college graduate (May). Finances have never been easy and my student loans savings (smart right?) ran out in July. Thankfully, I was able to secure employment in July and started a new job as a software engineer at a local start-up. They wanted me to move in to the company house\/office. I was fairly uneasy about it, things were moving too quickly for me as I had not begun working yet. However, I had little choice, under their pressure I felt the only thing I could say was \"I don't trust you,\" which is a poor way to start a job you desperately need. There was more sketchiness, like a probation period in which I will work 40 hours\/week and make $1000 a month. If you do the math, that is below federal minimum wage. But I am salaried. I ended up moving in, hoping that it would make life easier by saving money for rent (they offered free rent at a $1000 value, a luxury I already had living with my parents before (glamorous, I know, but not slavery)) and time on the commute. With no money, there was little choice.\n\nThe problem:\nThe company has never bothered asking for my payroll information. It has been over a month now since I was hired. My contract (which I am open to share if anyone is interested in helping) states that I should be paid every second and fourth Friday of the month. On the second Friday of August I inquired about my paycheck and was told to sit tight that the company was just working out my payroll information and that some delay is normal. I've worked other jobs before, I know that can be true. The second pay period passed and I asked again about my pay to which they replied they would collect my payroll information for direct deposit on September 1st. In this time I saw another employee (a fraternity brother of the CEO) get hired and they got the direct deposit information immediately when they did the rest of the paperwork, but mine still hasn't been collected? There is another employee in the exact same situation as me. Neither of us have been paid for four weeks of work and our payroll information has not been collected. I wonder how long they would have let us work without pay if I had not been asking about it.\n\nThis seems to me to be a flagrant break of the contract that I signed. I have bills, car insurance, phone, food, etc. I can't continue going hungry and asking friends for loans much longer (as a full-time employee!). Additionally, there have been other violations of the contract or illegal actions by the company. For example, my contract said I started on August 1st (a Tuesday), but they made me start on July 31st (the Monday before). On half of the weeks I worked more than the 40 hours that my contract states. They lied (in the contract!) about the benefits package they said they were offering me, I later found out those are the benefits they hope to one day offer, though that was not how it was presented when I was being hired. Perhaps the largest issue though is that the CEO is an engineer for another company and is having me and the other employee do his work for him. He is regularly giving us proprietary information\/technology from the company in which he is just an employee of. This surely must violate his NDA.\n\nNow I am in the office house, watched all the time, always made to feel guilty for not working. I know I need to leave, I am applying to other jobs, but I don't have them yet and I still have no money to be unemployed again. I'm worried about the other employee too, she said her savings ran out this week.","title":"[FL] Working for a new startup, have not been paid. It has been two pay cycles since I was hired and they have not mentioned when I will be paid.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540390045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qzzby\/declaring_an_undeclared_children_in_the_us\/","id":"9qzzby","body":"Hi, my dad is a US Citizen through marriage with another US Citizen. My dad never declared that he has 3 children. I am almost 30 years old and I really would like to know if there\u2019s a chance that he can still petition us.\n\nMy dad said that he spoke to a lawyer years ago that he can declare us when he becomes a citizen. Then when he talk to the lawyer again, he said that my dad could get into trouble if he tries to declare\/petition us.\n\nI just really want our family to be complete. I am almost 30 but I have only seen him four times :(","title":"Declaring an undeclared children in the US","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552591744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b14ls9\/lyft_drivers_being_forced_to_take_service_animals\/","id":"b14ls9","body":"So I sometimes drive for Lyft which has been fun and a pretty decent second income. This morning I received a text message from them stating, \u201cYou must accept riders with service animals. There is no exception for allergies or religious objection!\u201d. Other than the exclamation point it is word for word. \n\nNow I love animals and don\u2019t mind either way. I\u2019ve even let riders in the car with small dogs even though we aren\u2019t supposed to, but this has me wondering.  Can they force people to comply? Or, are they setting themselves up for some pretty hefty lawsuits in the near future?\n\nSeems kind of crazy to force someone who is allergic to dogs to take a passenger with a dog. Worst case scenario the drivers eyes swell up and can\u2019t see the road. Can Lyft do this?","title":"Lyft drivers being forced to take service animals no matter of religious beliefs or allergic reactions.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503724066,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w3twq\/md_usa_help_with_a_speeding_ticket\/","id":"6w3twq","body":"Hi guys, so this is the situation.\n\nI got a speeding ticket about 45 minutes ago for doing 62 in a 30. Now I was indeed going fast in the area and i admit to it. The fine is $420 with 3 points. Now this is what Im doing. I was not speeding intentionally. I had no intention to speed but the thing is that i am not familiar with the area. I was following my GPS and i have only even come near this part of town maybe once before. It was a PERFECT, and i mean PERFECT straightaway on a back road. The road was reasonably wide so i automatically assumed the limit was around 50 and did not think i was doing anything wrong. Also i am a fairly new driver. I am 19 and have gotten my full license so im no longer on a provisional, as of a few months. I have never had any traffic related incident ever. No speeding, parking, or light signal ticket at all. I am generally a safe driver which makes me even more upset that this happened. \n\nI have 3 options: 1) Pay the $420 and accept 3 points. 2) Admit to it and go to court for a chance to waive it. 3) A full blown trial. Now there is no reason this deserves a full blown trial. Also, being a college student, $420 is alot of money. That is something....huh. 4.2.0.......... Now my question is, what are the odds that they will accept my story and waive everything. I am going to say that i always drive safely. Have never had any sort of violation and explain the circumstances like i did above. If you guys need any details, dont hesitate to ask.\n\nThanks in advance. : )","title":"[MD, USA] Help with a speeding ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539236883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n79f2\/ive_been_over_paid_at_my_job\/","id":"9n79f2","body":"Hi, so my boss figured out they were accidentally over paying me for a few months (more specifically, the software they were using to pay me made a mistake).\n\nAre they legally required to ask me for the money back? I'm curious if this has happened to anyone else in this sub. Let me know!\n\n","title":"I've been over paid at my job...","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555135805,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcnmkw\/tenant_in_warehouse_space_i_sublet_a_studio_in\/","id":"bcnmkw","body":"Hi, \n\nI have recently gotten sublet a studio that my\nFriend rents. We\u2019ve been told there is no noise restriction by the land lord and even bands practice here. He\u2019s only still here cuz he works for the landlord.\n\ntonight he screamed through the floor that he would kill us among other scary things because we play music loudly. We started to play music again 15 minutes later and he freaked out again, saying he\u2019d kill us for the second time. This man also has parties til 7am 3-4 days a week, most likely drunk\/on drugs too. Also play music all through the night too.. confusing. \n\nHe also started having people over less than 5 minutes after the second freak out and is now partying and playing music.\n\nwhat can I do here ?","title":"Tenant in warehouse space I sublet a studio in threatened to harm me and my friends. Works for landlord\/has substance issues","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555603160,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ben8we\/management_group_towed_my_car_from_my_garage_is\/","id":"ben8we","body":"Location: Minneapolis, MN\n\nI live in a condo and it has a underground garage. This morning my roommate told me that all the car (including mine) parking in the garage was towed, and I was surprised because it\u2019s my private property and there is NO notice in the building of when\/why are we supposed to move the car. \n\nI then checked my email and I did see two emails saying there will be a cleaning of drain line in the garage, but I did not see it beforehand.  \n\nIs that OK to do so????Just tow my car from my owned spot without carefully notifying to me???There is NO posters or other kinds of notice at all in the building! Just two emails which even automatically been archived to \u201cupdates\u201d thanks to Gmail.\n\nSorry for being emotional right now. Please give me some advice, can I ask the towing fee back from the management group?","title":"Management Group towed my car from MY garage, is this ok??","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569053804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d77uuu\/highly_educated_mba_investment_banker_stole_my_1k\/","id":"d77uuu","body":"To start, I was room hunting in San Francisco. \n\nFound a place that I liked and the person who\u2019s transferring her lease went to a reputable MBA program (top 3), in the same industry with me and has mutual friends with me. I found out she told me incomplete info \/ wrong info after transferring her $1k deposit on Venmo. I backed out of the contract the second day after paying her the deposit and she\u2019s since not returning my emails \/ messages. \n\nIn case you are curious what the wrong info is: She told me her roommate A hasn\u2019t decided on renewing the lease (the main reason I\u2019m moving in is because of her roommate- who has similar background with her and shares even more common friends with me) when her roommate told her she was not renewing long time ago\n\nThis is kinda ridiculous.. given how small the investment banking industry is and we might be working together on same deals etc. On top of that, all my best friends went to \/ go to the same MBA program with her and I just need to go to some of their events to meet her classmates. She\u2019s both highly educated & making a good living. I don\u2019t get it why she does this. \n\nContacted Venmo earlier but it\u2019s not able to reverse the transaction. Any other suggestions? Think the financial threshold is too low to file a police report... \n\nI also don\u2019t have that many mutual friends with her - one of them is my coworker that I worked for on one project and I\u2019m not very close to.","title":"Highly educated MBA \/ investment banker stole my $1k deposit. What should I do????","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554156873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8a3gd\/former_place_of_work_using_spotify_illegally\/","id":"b8a3gd","body":"Throwaway because reasons, on mobile, yada yada yada.\n\nI was fired recently from a locally owned family-based business in my town. I was in charge of the music there and already had a Spotify Premium account set up for me to use. I've heard of Spotify offering a subscription strictly for businesses to avoid licensure problems but I'm positive they aren't using that.\n\nCan they get into legal trouble for this? How can I let the proper people know this is going on?","title":"Former Place of Work Using Spotify Illegally?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553384812,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4pugm\/what_should_i_know_when_considering_suing_my\/","id":"b4pugm","body":"In Georgia, USA. \n\nI don\u2019t know whether or not to consider suing for discrimination. I was wondering if doing so would impact my ability to be hired in the future.  I figure *legally* it shouldn\u2019t affect my ability to be hired, but I\u2019m also talking about \u201cwell, let\u2019s just say Beedle doesn\u2019t have enough experience and let them know they\u2019re not going on to round 2 interviews.\u201d I would also like to know more about the financial and time commitments I would need to make to do so. Also, what would my intended goal be in doing so? I don\u2019t know if I want to do something as drastic as suing my employer. Could it cause all my coworkers to lose their jobs? Would it mean that they would just be told in an official way, \u201cstop it!\u201d Would it mean I would be helping my coworkers and the future employees of the company? Why should I or shouldn\u2019t I sue? \n\nThe story: \n\nMy boss (white male, mid 30s) has said and done some things that have made me (Asian, mid 20s) extremely uncomfortable. He has made jokes about my race (think pulling his eyes sideways during a meeting to make a joke about me not being able to see properly), talked about sex with his wife openly, told very vulgar stories at work, and even smoked weed in front of me and a coworker while on a lunch break (in GA). I recently put in a complaint about the way he treats me to HR, referencing only two incidences of many, all of which I have written down and timestamped as soon as they occur. \n\nThe following day I was put on a 30-day probation for a number of things (I admittedly am late by about 5 minutes probably once a week, and have issues with keeping my time sheet organized because I\u2019m just jumble-brained, and these things were mentioned in the probation), but the first and most prominent issue in the official memo about my probation was that I was \u201cplaying the victim.\u201d He then mentioned the issues I talked about to HR, but turned them around so it sounded like I was the one making the racial jokes in front of everyone, not him. \n\nI have been cataloguing everything he has said in a note on my phone with the dates and situations ever since he started these jokes. It\u2019s really, really long. I have witnesses listed, as well. ","title":"What should I know when considering suing my employer for racial discrimination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570134674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcwp4y\/former_employer_challenging_ui_benefits_after_ive\/","id":"dcwp4y","body":"I left my job in July after a new hire threatened me and the work environment became uncomfortable. I was approved for UI Brnegits because of the harassment. My former employer is now, months later, challenging those benefits. I have emails that document the situation that led to my departure. I'm worried that if my former employer brings in witnesses that will 100% undoubtedly side with them, I'll be forced to pay back the benefits I collected while they weren't challenging the decision. How should I proceed?","title":"Former employer challenging UI benefits after I've begun collecting","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540858814,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9siw1q\/what_can_we_expect_at_a_hearing_final_resolution\/","id":"9siw1q","body":"Here\u2019s details about the case: the father has had their two kids, 6 & 9, for four years. The mother has not as much as spoken to the kids in four years, after CPS took them from her care and placed them in the father\u2019s care a few months after their divorce. The child support order never got changed and the father has been paying child support every month to the mother even though he has had their kids. The mother has been spending the child support. The father has an attorney, the mother does not. The father wants to change child support orders and eventually get her rights taken away since she has no relationship with the kids at this point - the youngest does it even know who she is. The mother has no showed every other structured, court ordered attempt at resolution. The father has been compliant with all court orders and ask documentation, witnesses, etc to attest to his care of the children this whole time, money taken from him, etc. ","title":"What can we expect at a \u201cHearing - Final Resolution Conference\u201d?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568916450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6hv8h\/traffic_ticket\/","id":"d6hv8h","body":"I am a student at in Atlanta, but am from Savannah, GA. I was caught speeding 12 mph over the speed limit in a school zone while working my summer job. The fee is $300+ (three hundred thirteen dollars!), but no points on my record.  I have a court date in about a week, but I am in Atlanta and the cost of gas to and from Savannah is about 100 dollars with my garbage car. This is the first offense, as I've never had any kind of traffic violation in 4 years of driving. I've heard about hiring a traffic lawyer to represent me in court, but online I can only find that being beneficial for points cases. I only have about 500 dollars to my name and have no income, and that money is what I'm supposed to live off of for the rest of the semester. Should I go to court, keep trying to hire a lawyer in savannah (most lawyers I've contacted told me they won't take a case like this), or just pay the fee?","title":"Traffic Ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541364611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u6z6j\/300_speeding_ticket_for_going_20_over\/","id":"9u6z6j","body":"I got a $300 speeding for going 85 in a 65 zone and I do not have the money to pay. I have 30 days to decide if I want to pay the fine, request a waiver hearing, or go to trial. I have never gotten a speeding ticket before, I might have gotten a red light ticket but it is my parents car so they can't have known it was me driving. I also have gotten a ticket when I rear-ended someone a few years ago and they called the cops. I have been doing reading about what to do and most people say if you aren't going to pay the fine that you should go to trial in case the officer doesn't show up. If it matters, the officer was a state trooper and this was on i-95. The only reason I was going so fast was because my parents and brothers were all gone from home and my cat was apparently missing so I wanted to get back to find him. I mainly want to know if the judge would allow me to do community service instead, if the officer does show up.","title":"$300 speeding ticket for going 20 over","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1408553147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e3feo\/gave_a_friend_a_ride_to_walmart_and_he_shoplifted\/","id":"2e3feo","body":"I gave a friend a ride to Wal-Mart. I went to the electronics because I'm a huge nerd and looked at the Computers as well as the Televisions. I then went to the magazine section because I couldn't find my friend. I then see him walking to the back of the store from the Customer Service desk, he tells me he's going to pick out a laptop from electronics to replace to desktop he just \"returned\". Since I am a computer technician by trade, he asks for my advice on which laptop is the best. I give him some advice he and he decides on a certain HP model. I then tell him I'm going outside to smoke a cigarette and wait for him to get done shopping. As I'm about to leave, I am detained by two uniformed police officers and they are watching live surveillance footage of my friend doing the exchange at the customer service desk.  Once my friend gets done, they detain him and bring him into the same room as myself. I learn that he took a desktop computer from the shelf, took it up to Customer Service in an effort to make it look like a legitimate return. I had no prior knowledge to this, and only spoke to my friend about the laptop cause he knew my extensive knowledge of Windows PCs. Before we went to the store, he asked for a ride so he could \"Go pick up some things\" Apparently he told the police that we conspired to perform this crime before arriving at the store, therefor they arrested me and charged me with conspiracy. I was booked into City Jail, but released on an OR bond due to the arresting officer messing up the Criminal Complaint filed against me. I was told that he simply put \"conspiracy\" and not \"conspiracy to shoplift over $500\". The judge explained it was like charging someone with rape but not specifying the victim. I have a preliminary hearing in September and I am going to go talk to a Public Defender tomorrow. I was wondering if there is anyone out that could give me some advice on how to go about this whole thing? My location is the State of New Mexico.","title":"Gave a friend a ride to Wal-Mart, and he shoplifted. He told the police I conspired with him to perform the crime even though I never touched any merchandise.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570712679,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfxq1e\/looking_to_operate_a_small_apparel_business_out\/","id":"dfxq1e","body":"I'm starting my own apparel company based out of Australia and the name I've come up with is pretty similar to Puma.\n\nNow I'm worried that if I file a for an ABN (Australian Business Number)  and for trademarks and licensing for this name I'll be sent a cease and desist from Puma \n\nThe name I picked has cultural significance, is tradional indigenous language and I wouldn't be operating outside of Australia which I believe would be sufficient grounds to conduct business but I'd like advice, please help","title":"Looking to operate a small apparel business out of Australia, worried I might get flagged by big company. Please help","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555529787,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bec1fc\/hoping_for_a_solution_to_a_tough_family_and\/","id":"bec1fc","body":"So heres a little background info on my current situation.I recently purchased a used vehicle that cost $2500 and I took out a $4000 loan to cover it and have a bit of a cushion in case anything went wrong that i could not see as it is an older vehicle, a 1998 jeep cherokee. My vehicle before this purchase is a 2014 Mazda 3, altogether for the mazda I had a $16,000 loan and it is about halfway paid off right now. My intentions are to sell the mazda.\n\nI have let my parents use my Mazda because they havent had a reliable vehicle and figured they could use it until I can sell it. A few months passed and my mom lost her license and my dad was unable to drive because of recent heart surgery. During this time I had said to my parents that if they need a ride to not take my car because my mom had no license.\n\nWell, a few weeks ago my mom hit a deer while driving the mazda. (Just for reiteration, she currently does not have a license and they only have liability for the vehicle they own that is not running)\nBoth my parents are out of work (mom is working on getting disability and dad is out due to the recent surgery) and they generally have very little money because of the life choices they make even when working. Because of this I ended up saying I hit the deer in order to have my insurance cover it and paying my $500 deductible to get the mazda fixed in the hopes of still selling it.\n\nI picked up my car from the garage last thursday and my mom calls me Saturday saying she hit another deer in my car. (The car was supposed to stay parked in their driveway as it was the only place I can store it for now). So now my car is once again in need of repairs.\n\nI'm wondering what actions I should take and how to go about handling this situation to come out somewhat positively. Also I apologize if some things seem confusing or arent addressed properly. There is a lot to this story and I wanted to give the most steamlined version I could.","title":"Hoping for a solution to a tough family and financial matter.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569254019,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d88em4\/i_am_being_cyberstalkedharassed_and_my_local_law\/","id":"d88em4","body":"I already have evidence of repeated visits to my social media through the use of  a traffic tracker and the person\u2019s IP addresses as well, what else do I need?","title":"I am being cyberstalked\/harassed, and my local law enforcement won\u2019t listen to my story. How do I build a more convincing case?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568443048,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d41qg7\/backing_out_of_a_lease_before_all_cosigners_have\/","id":"d41qg7","body":"My housemates and I signed a lease to a house we were renting a few months ago, and the property managers explicitly stated that we would not be able to rent the place until all cosigners had signed. Before all cosigners *did* sign, we found a better place that fit our budget and asked the prop managers to terminate our agreement. We gave them 30+ days notice and they told us we were responsible for paying the security deposit + rent until they could find new tenants.\n\nThat didn't sound right, so we asked one of our housemate's uncles (an attorney) to check out the situation and speak on our behalf. Their arguments are:\n\n\\- Despite not having all cosigners signed, one cosigner did sign (out of 5) and they still had all our signatures  \n\\- Prior to having our lawyer intervene, one of our girls emailed back that she understood we were responsible for rent until new tenants are found\n\nWe feel incredibly shitty for putting the property managers & homeowners through this, but medical issues with one of our housemates + family problems hit our budget hard. Would it be worth taking them to a small claims court, or would we lose?","title":"Backing out of a lease before all cosigners have signed?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539222814,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n5q8s\/im_receiving_severe_punishment_from_my_school_for\/","id":"9n5q8s","body":"I\u2019m a high school student in the US.\n\nSo yesterday, I was attacked by another student during lunch.  The kid didn\u2019t like that I was wearing a Bernie Sanders shirt, and threw a very bad punch.  (Keep in mind, I\u2019m 6\u20193\u201d, 190 pounds, and this kid is 5\u201910\u201d and 140 pounds soaking wet).  I was standing in line waiting to get lunch, and I see the kid swing once and he\u2019s calling me a \u201cfuckin communist\u201d and preparing to swing at me again again, so I defend myself.  I jab his face, then hit him in the stomach and he\u2019s not fighting back.  I didn\u2019t escalate the situation, I acted in self defense, and I didn\u2019t initiate.  The kid would have, at the very least, broken my nose if I didn\u2019t act, so I figured I was in the clear.  A teacher comes and breaks us up, and I get brought down to the office and sent home.\n\nFast forward to today, and 10 minutes into first block, I get called down to the office.  The School Resource Officer is there, and he gives me a lecture about \u201cpromoting peace\u201d and \u201cturning the other cheek\u201d, I sit there and look like I\u2019m paying attention, then he drops a bombshell on me:\n\nThe school has a zero tolerance policy for violence, and I received a three day suspension and a note on my disciplinary record about the incident.   Keep in mind I\u2019m a straight A student, never had a detention in my life, and I have beef with nobody at my school.  Is there anything I can do to contest this?\n\nTl;dr: I was attacked at school over a Bernie Sanders shirt, then got suspended for defending myself","title":"I\u2019m receiving severe punishment from my school for defending myself","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539539908,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o4t6w\/interpretingtranslation_at_a_car_crash_laws_for\/","id":"9o4t6w","body":"My brother got into a crash last night with a non english speaker, the police officer also did not speak english so the guy who hit my brother had his friend (driving in the car behind him), who does not speak fluent spanish, and knows \u201cenough\u201d translated for him to the police officer. What are virginias laws for situations like this, or was his friend allowed to translate.?","title":"Interpreting\/translation at a car crash laws for Virginia?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542166198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wwble\/uscali_company_requiring_salariedexempt_employees\/","id":"9wwble","body":"Situation: I work for a manufacturing company that has decided not to run the production lines on Dec 31st. My manager told me I either had to use PTO or take the day unpaid.\n\n​\n\nQuestion: If the company is only requiring the salaried production employees to do this, while allowing salaried office workers the day off paid, is this legal?\n\n​","title":"[US-Cali] Company requiring Salaried\/Exempt employees to use PTO on Dec 31st","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507242210,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74jgi2\/ireland_my_father_stole_my_mail_sent_from_my_bank\/","id":"74jgi2","body":"I live in Cork City, Ireland. Long story short, I was raised by an archetypal Irish, alcoholic father, who for some reason still won't move out of my mothers house. I recently opened a new bank account, but because I had only just moved into a new apartment, I didn't have any proof of address other than my very old driving license. The address on my driving license happened to be my mothers home address (where my father still resides). It is this address that my bank sent my new debit card, and two days later, the accompanying PIN number.\n\nLast Friday, the 29th of September 2017, the debit card should have arrived by mail, but it did not. Well, that's not entirely accurate, the bank confirmed that it was mailed and should have arrived last Friday. On Tuesday, the 3rd of October 2017 (two days ago), the accompanying PIN number arrived by post, two working days after the debit card, as planned. Luckily, one of my elder sisters was in the house early Tuesday and she intercepted the PIN number mail on my behalf, so my father only stole my debit card, but I still want him criminally charged.\n\nIs there potential to bring criminal charges against him, and if so, what kind of proof do I need, and how do I attain such proof?\n\n(My thoughts so far)... At first, I remembered that story that if you enter your PIN number backwards at an ATM, that this would alert the police, so I was going to photoshop a new, fake PIN number which would be my real PIN number in reverse and mail it to myself, with the intention that he would steal that mail and enter my PIN backwards at an ATM, thus alerting the authorities. Unfortunately, however, this reverse PIN thing is an urban legend.\n\nMy mother said she will consider allowing the police permission to enter her home in order to search for my debit card among my fathers possessions, in his wallet for example (if possible).\n\nI will be meeting a police sergeant in the next couple of days to inquire how best to prove that my father stole my debit card sent by mail, however I thought I would come here too, to see if the fine people of Reddit could offer me any advice on the legalities, or any advice on how best to honey pot my father to acquire the much needed proof.\n\nAnd yes, I DO want him criminally charged if possible, he has been disowned by the whole family after he attempted to sell my mothers house out from underneath her, there is no sentimentality to consider here, be as cruel and canny as you can be in your advice.\n\nThanks in advance. ","title":"(Ireland) My father stole my mail sent from my bank, civil or criminal, how to attain solid proof.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506386856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72guip\/virginia_usa_as_a_reseller_to_what_degree_am_i\/","id":"72guip","body":"Hello all,\n\nI am the president of a student organization at a state university, and my organization is considering working with a small merchandise company to resell their products and retain some of the profit as fundraising for our club.\n\nWe will be mostly reselling shirts, and my concern stems from the fact that all of their T-shirts are unique artist's impressions of characters from existing media. To be clear, they are not using branded or copyrighted imagery, but are instead drawing and designing the shirts themselves. However, their designs are based on existing and well-known characters. I have not spoken with the company in detail about their operation, but I am assuming they have full copyright permission where necessary.\n\nRegardless of that, I am coming here today to understand to what degree I would be liable, as a reseller of their products, if it turns out that they violated copyright in some way, and are then sued for it.\n\nMy gut feeling (as someone with no legal knowledge, lol) was to put a clause in the contract we would agree to, stating that their company guarantees that all their designs are fully legal for sale, that way if this turns out to not be the case, I can point to that clause and therefore avoid being held partially liable. But first off, I have no idea if that would even work, and second, an associate of mine pointed out that insisting on that clause could indicate I do not trust the company, which would not be a good way to start a relationship with them.\n\nAny advice you have on this would be appreciated.","title":"[Virginia, USA] As a reseller, to what degree am I liable for copyright infringement from the manufacturer?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553622525,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5st5i\/legal_protections_of_institutional_work_study\/","id":"b5st5i","body":"I used to work as a designer for my university in the office of student life. The last couple weeks all of the \"real\" employees have been acting weird and assigning us less and less projects (I work in a team of other designers, along with a second team that handles social media). A couple days ago, after my last shift, THE DAY BEFORE SPRING BREAK STARTED, I got an email from my boss.\n\n​\n\n\"Today, I am emailing you that the Student Life Office has had to make some difficult choices based on our budget. We have had to cut a majority of our programming for the rest of the semester and unfortunately it also includes hours for our work study positions beginning Monday, March 25\"\n\n​\n\nBasically, I'm out of a job for this semester.\n\n​\n\nShe continued to say I would be welcomed back to the position next semester if that was what I wanted. The choice to cut our hours happened at a meeting that started halfway through my last shift, (before spring break) and ended well after it. \n\n​\n\nThe thing that throws me off is that the people of the office are always very pleasant to work with. They never did anything that implied that anything like this would happen. I want to keep a good relationship with my university and coworkers, but I also want to figure what the fuck is going on.\n\n​\n\nHere's my question: **What can I do?** I never had to sign a contract for the school. The rights of students are unclear on their website. To my understanding, this is NOT a federal work study job, so I assume the regulations are not as strong. I want my job back. I want my other work-studies, who are less well off than I am, to not worry about buying groceries.","title":"Legal Protections of Institutional Work Study Students","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570727090,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg114e\/parent_using_scholarship_money\/","id":"dg114e","body":"This isn\u2019t about me, this is about my friend that lives in Florida (I\u2019m in California). She\u2019s an animation major and has to pay subscriptions for Adobe Cloud and ToonBoom Harmony. She gets a $2000 scholarship every semester that her (manipulative) mother doesn\u2019t allow her to touch. She kept saying her mom keeps telling her she \u201cneeds to save it\u201d but then she told me that her mother keeps using her scholarship money to pay for bills and on herself. Her mom never pays her back\n\nI\u2019m new to this subreddit so please let me know if I did something wrong. And also please let me know in how I can help out my friend\n\nFor more context, this conversation came to be cuz my friend only has $20 in her bank account and was so fearful about transferring money from her scholarship into her bank account","title":"Parent using scholarship money","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570370688,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de3nld\/nj_parking_ticket_given_in_error_has_wrong\/","id":"de3nld","body":"Throwaway account.\n\nBut basically, as the title states, I was given a parking ticket in Newark outside the Rutgers\/NJIT campus, though I had paid on the ParkMobile app.\n\nI intended to fight the ticket, however, due to time constraints, was unable to, and had to pay the fine (as I was driving my dad's car, and did not want him to have a warrant out for his arrest).\n\nI went to pay the ticket and it would not show up online, and the deadline passed (yesterday) - looking over it today, I realised why: not only was the ticket given recklessly, but also the number plate was wrong, and no defendant was listed.\n\nDO I have to pay this ticket? Will they find out who the car is registered to, and issue a warrant? Given the fact that the ticket was given to me within the time I had paid for AND that the licence plate was wrong, what are my chances of fighting the ticket in arguably the most corrupt court in New Jersey?","title":"[NJ] Parking ticket given in error, has wrong licence plate number. Fight or pay?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541608875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v0zj6\/apartment_lease_ends_tomorrow_but_leasing_manager\/","id":"9v0zj6","body":"So I moved into my first ever apartment last year and it\u2019s been great no complaints.\n\n\nAbout a month ago I got a lease renewal paper work to renew my lease for another year, but there was an error on the paper work and I told the leasing staff, who then said they would redo the paper work and I would get a new lease later. I have been calling for the past 3 weeks and every time I get the same answer that the lease is still processing and that I should be receiving it \u201csoon.\u201d Finally, on Friday I was told that I had to call specifically on Monday to speak with the Manager.\n\nSo on Monday I call and speak with the manager and she informs me that I would be getting the lease  tomorrow (Tuesday).\nTuesday comes and all day I never received my lease. So Today Wednesday the 7th I call and they tell me that it is still processing...\n\nI inform them that my lease ends tomorrow (the 8th) and what am I supposed to do without a lease renewal? And they say that if the error is on their part that they will take responsibility but I should get it \u201csoon\u201d.\n\nMy husband doesn\u2019t seem to worry as much as me and says that there is nothing we can do until the manager gives us the lease renewal, but being the worrywart I am, I keep feeling that they will ultimately deny us and leave us with no place to live unexpectedly even though we gave them enough time to and notice to renew our lease. ","title":"Apartment lease ends tomorrow but leasing manager keeps saying we will get a lease renewal \u201csoon\u201d without specifying when?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443840764,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3naxvz\/payment_in_lieu_of_notice_not_paid_do_i_have_any\/","id":"3naxvz","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice,\n\n**Edit - I initially wrote this wrong and it made the situation sound like something that it wasn't, so I rewrote it below, sorry guys.**\n\nI recently took up employment with a company in Hong Kong, and signed a contract with them that is governed under HK law. Shortly after commencing employment, the company terminated the contract and sent me a \"Termination Notice.\" By signing it, I declare that I was terminated on a given date for no specified reason and that, according to my contract, I am not entitled to any advance notice or wages in lieu of notice.\n\nHowever, this is not what my contract says. What my contract *does* say is that, if the contract is terminated without a reason, the company must give either a certain amount of advance notice or a certain percentage of my annual salary in lieu of notice.\n\nMy question is - do I have something worth pursuing here?","title":"\"Payment in lieu of notice\" not paid. Do I have any options?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541721529,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vfegp\/interrogated_without_miranda_warnings_now_i_have\/","id":"9vfegp","body":"I made a previous post about a sexual assault that happened to me about a month ago. \nWhen I was originally questioned by the investigator it was in an interrogation room, and at that point I hadn\u2019t decided whether or not to pursue charges. The detective ended up talking me into pursuing charges because she said the evidence was so strong. After she questioned the other 2 involved, she called me back in for a second questioning. At that point I thought she was still on my side, but by the end of the interview I realized she had taken the side of the other 2, one of whom actually raped me. The second time I was questioned she read me the Miranda warnings, so I should have suspected from that but I didn\u2019t. \nAnyways, now she has pressed charges against me for false report of a crime, and giving false statements. My question is, if the Miranda warnings were not read to me during the first questioning, can what I said in that be used against me? I also wasn\u2019t read them yesterday when I was arrested, but I wasn\u2019t questioned at all either.  I\u2019ve gotten an attorney and I meet with him Monday, I was just curious. \nAlso, as she was walking me to the back to be booked, she \u201crecommended\u201d me plea first offender because she said it would never go on my record. \nI\u2019m not so much worried about the reporting a false crime, because I know I definitely didn\u2019t falsely report a crime, but I am concerned about the false statements. I know in my first interview I was in shock from it all, because it was the next day, and I was in denial that my friend had a part of it and was trying to protect her, so that\u2019s why I know I have some differences in my first interview vs my second one. \nI hope I made some sense. I\u2019m trying to explain the best I can and keep it somewhat short. I\u2019m so upset that I was raped, yet somehow I was the one who ended up in a jail cell yesterday. I completely understand now why people don\u2019t report when they are raped. ","title":"Interrogated without Miranda warnings. Now I have a felony charge of false statements, and misdemeanor of false report of a crime. GA","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446492634,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r8zbm\/phone_company_changing_my_contract_uk\/","id":"3r8zbm","body":"So today I received a letter from my phone company (Three) saying that my old plan is being phased out and I would have to choose a new one.\n\nMy current plan includes:\n\n600 minutes\n\nUnlimited texts\n\nUnlimited internet and tethering.\n\nI travel a lot due to work and so I use quite a lot of internet a month and use my phone to tether so the unlimited internet and tethering is nice and the main reason I had the contract.\n\nThe letter says they will be 'upgrading' me to a plan that has:\n\n600 minutes\n\nUnlimited texts\n\n8gb Internet tethering \n\nI'm going to end up going way over this every month and it's not even an upgrade at all.\n\nSo my question is are they allowed to do this or can I tell them I don't wish to change and keep my current contract?","title":"Phone company changing my contract. (uk)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552788213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b209dl\/hypothetical_online_hookup\/","id":"b209dl","body":"Backstory, I was using tinder and saw a girl from my high school who is totally underage but her profile says she\u2019s over 18.\n\nSo my question is, if someone over 18 hooked up with a minor who claimed to be over 18 who would go to jail. I understand there could be statutory rape charges but couldn\u2019t there also be rape charges on the minor. I know there is rape by deception. Would the gender of the minor and adult matter? Or is this simply just a legal gray area.\n\nSo the concise legal question. If a minor intentionally pretended to be over 18 to hookup with an adult, what crimes have been committed and who is responsible?","title":"Hypothetical Online Hookup","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505133573,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zf4av\/50_off_subscription_ad_showing_up_in_title_emails\/","id":"6zf4av","body":"I work on a streaming platform called Twitch. The platform has a promotion running right now that is for 50% off subscriptions for any new subscriber to a channel.\n\nWhat is happening is many streamers on the platform are advertising this on their channel titles as \"50% off subscription\" (anything streamer puts in title also is sent via email to their follower base)\n\nIsn't this FALSE ADVERTISING due to them leaving out its for new subscribers only?","title":"50% off subscription AD showing up in Title, Emails - but its really only for new subs. False Advertising? (CA)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1505366772,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7009vf\/louisiana_i_got_into_a_car_wreck_today_totally\/","id":"7009vf","body":"Basically I was driving up on an intersection and she waited until I was about 50-70 feet away before trying to turn left. She just didn't see me. I hit her at about 30mph even after slamming on my breaks, which kinda shoved her into an innocent petrol truck waiting at the intersection. I had the right of way, was going the speed limit, and had my eyes on the road. My front end is busted up and her car is likely totaled. But everyone walked away unscathed, besides maybe some soreness tomorrow. \n\nI think she was only like 18 or 19 and was really calm and nice about the whole thing. And astonishingly honest. Admitted fault and everything. Cried a good bit. I was already having a bad day tho, and to see my first car (lovingly deemed Ellie) possibly totaled didn't make it better. She apologized a few times but I didn't say anything for fear of it coming out wrong. So I'm sitting here feeling bad about that, wanting to just let her know that there's no hard feelings and it was just a human mistake I easily could've made too. \n\nHowever, I hesitate to do so because maybe that can be used against me in the insurance battle? I don't know. I just want to make sure there's no legal consequences before doing so. ","title":"[Louisiana] I got into a car wreck today, totally the other driver's fault. She's young and was nice and pretty shook up, pretty sure it was her first accident. I have her number because insurance stuff. Is there any reason to not send her a text to basically say \"no hard feelings?\"","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540359325,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qwz5h\/us_ca_am_i_being_harassedretaliated_against_at\/","id":"9qwz5h","body":"TL;DR: My company policy allows me to interview for internal transfer positions, but my manager told me if I do, they will not give me the score I am looking for on my next annual review. Is this harassment and\/or retaliation? If so, would it be a good idea to find a lawyer to help me before I go to HR?\n\n​\n\nBackground: I work at a large company in a California office. One of our company's policies is to allow internal transfers to other positions as long as you are qualified, have a certain amount of time in your current position, and are in otherwise good standing. For the past few months, I have been unhappy with my position and have been looking for another internally. I really like my company and would prefer not to leave it, though parts of any large company are problematic, and unfortunately I think I'm in one right now -- I just want to get out of it.\n\n​\n\nStart of issue: I found another position internally I was very excited about. As part of the process, I was required to inform my manager before I was allowed to interview for the other position. I have been through this process previously at this company without issue. This time, my manager was obviously unhappy with this judging by their body language and tone of voice, but of course told me that they supported me and would like me to keep them up to date. They were very concerned with timing of me leaving so as not to affect any work within my current organization. After a few rounds of interviews, the recruiter for the position informed me that I was not a good fit according to the team, but that they had some more positions opening up in the department shortly that they would like me to look at, as they thought I would be a better fit for one of them. I stupidly told my manager (not verbally, with documentation) that I didn't get the position **and that the recruiter wanted me to look at more soon.**\n\n​\n\nCrux of the issue: About a week after informing my manager of this, we had one of our regular private meetings to discuss priorities, roadblocks, etc. At the very end of this meeting, they wanted to discuss the internal transfer situation. They said that they felt like I had \"one foot out the door already\" and that they \"really need \\[me\\] here 100%\". They clearly stated that if I were to pursue any further internal transfer opportunities that there was \"no way \\[I\\] could get \\[scores I am looking for\\] on \\[my\\] next performance review\". This was verbal, though I did take notes of it immediately after getting back to my desk.\n\n​\n\nMy view: I feel this is a retaliatory threat. My manager knows what my goals are for my next performance review and clearly indicated that if I inform them I am interviewing for another internal transfer, I will not meet those goals, no matter what I do. This isn't really a problem if I interview for another transfer and actually get it, but if I don't I'm really screwed. Also, there are definitely things that my manager could do to knock me out of the good standing required for internal transfer with a little bit of effort on their part. I now feel like I'm stuck in a hostile environment where I have no opportunity to be successful to the degree I aim to be.","title":"(US, CA) Am I being harassed\/retaliated against at work? If so, should I find independent representation before going to HR?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409333527,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2exoyl\/16m_trying_to_get_emancipated_york_pa\/","id":"2exoyl","body":"Hello, and good day. I am currently 16 years of age, living in York County of Pennsylvania, and in quite a predicament. My parents, who are divorced, have made it very clear that they will not allow me to live in either household. My father has said that he would gladly emancipate me, and my mother has agreed to this also. I would like to know if I have a chance of being emancipated, and if I could also have a legally binding contract to have them financially support me until I can live on my own two feet. Any advice on what to do from here would be greatly appreciated, as I am unsure of what to do next. Thank you for your time. Also, throwaway for identity protection, as I am inclined to believe that the laws of Pennsylvania for emancipation are specific to county. \n\nEDIT(copied and edited from a comment below): My parents are not letting me reside in either household for the fact that they are convinced that because I have dealt with mental health issues in the past, that I am a threat to every member in either household. But in reality, I am a teenager who is dealing with a lot of stress and hormones. The reason I want emancipation is because they are also trying to force me into a treatment facility that's program lasts for roughly 6 to 9 months. I do not need this treatment, but they are convinced that I do because I \"get angry and emotional a lot.\" My father has threatened verbally to harm me while having a very aggressive demeanor. Because it was verbal though, and I wasn't recording our conversation, because I had no reason to believe that I would need to, it is his word versus my word. My father and I have gotten into physical confrontations in the past that started when he would hit me first. No authorities had ever been notified of it, as my parents both agreed that it would be \"catastrophic to the households.\" So, I'm stuck in a situation where they are trying everything in their power to send me to a facility for 6 months so that I do not have to be dealt with by them. I don't have any family in the area, and none of my friends could support me because they don't want to be intruding on such a delicate situation.","title":"16M trying to get emancipated - York PA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552520266,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0t4fn\/what_can_i_expect_in_mediation_with_insurance\/","id":"b0t4fn","body":"Hope this is the right place to post. Will try and keep it short. I am in Ontario, Canada. I had taken short term disability leave (4 wks total) and did have my benefits approved by employers insurance company\/benefits. Back to work for two weeks and was laid off. While I still  had coverage under above insurance I was denied STD and then LTD even though symptoms worsened ... Doctor put me off work a week after being laid off. I won't go into health stuff but is seems to be one thing after another.\nQuestion: Going into mediation next week with insurance company and my lawyer. I understand the procedure but am wondering what I should expect from Insurance company? Anyone been where I am? What were your results? (For the record: Canadian and Ontario government disability programs and benefits see me as fully disabled at this point.)\n","title":"What can I expect in mediation with insurance company?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568749546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5m4je\/landlord_charging_3000_dollars_for_no_move_out\/","id":"d5m4je","body":"So I just moved out of an apartment I got for an internship this summer in Denver colorado, a 3-month lease. In the lease it states that I need to give a 60-day notice of move out before the actual day, or I would be charged 60 days of rent. When I moved in I specifically told the front office what day we would be moving out as we were just there for the summer, however, it was only verbal, not written. We then forgot about the notice, however, the apartment did not send any emails that we not only forgot to give a notice but also that we were getting a larger and larger charge against us. I did eventually go in about a week before we moved out so that I could ask if there was anything we needed to do, and I filled out the written form that day. My question is do we have an argument to get that charge removed, since we gave a verbal warning of our moveout date, for a three-month lease, and the landlord did not give any notification other than the fine print in the lease agreement that we would be charged this amount?","title":"Landlord charging 3000 dollars for no move out notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571393024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djlbdk\/new_contract_for_same_company_includes_new\/","id":"djlbdk","body":"I recently finished my apprenticeship and have signed a contract for the same company. The new contract states: \u201cThe first 12 months of your employment will be a probationary period.\u201d \n\nEven though I have worked for the company for 2 years, is this probationary period now in effect?","title":"New Contract for same company includes new probationary period","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1445882751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qb57u\/minneapolis_mn_friend_male_vacating_physically\/","id":"3qb57u","body":"Very lengthy post ahead. For convenience I have posted the TL;DR here as well as at the end of the post. \n\n*edit* seems like we don't need the massive wall of text. Can fill in details if needed. Keeping the TL;DR.\n\nTl;DR. We staged an intervention for a friend in an emotionally and physically abusive relationship. He broke it off, she took it terribly, and her friends and family have (in our opinion) been harassing us and (perhaps) engaging in ambiguous physical intimidation. They cohabit, but she is not on the lease and has not been actively paying rent. Struggling to engage or understand the legal measures we might take to protect my friend.\n\nThank you","title":"[Minneapolis MN] Friend [Male] vacating physically and emotionally abusive relationship, tenant law, campaign of intimidation and harassment by her friends and family.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442052948,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3knes5\/how_do_i_avoid_losing_my_child_to_a_hostile\/","id":"3knes5","body":"My partner took me to court over custody of our 4 year old daughter claiming sexual abuse and neglectful parenting and requested a move away to Ohio. My lawyer convinced me to agree to her demand for 24\/7 nanny supervision and more money in child support to avoid a hearing so that I wouldn't run the risk of losing the established 50-50 custody during the evaluation. As soon as I signed the agreement, my partner started to do everything in her power to limit my access to my daughter and she was separated from me for about a month until I found a nanny who could work with the schedule.\n\nDuring this time, my partner was aggressive, reported me to DCFS, refused to let me see or speak to my daughter during her visitation, threatened to call the police on me for visiting my daughter at school, tried to exclude me from school events, got into fights with the nanny in front of my daughter, tried to get the nanny removed, lied about her care of my daughter, and did everything in her power to portray me as an unfit parent and get my child taken away from me. She even told DCFS that one of her primary 'family goals' was to limit the time, access and influence I have on our daughter.\n\nWhile I was cleared of the sexual abuse\/neglect allegations, the evaluator said in his report that if he was forced to make a decision on the move away request, that he would 'reluctantly' choose my partner over me. He made this decision based almost entirely on our parenting styles, saying that my partner provided more structure and better boundaries. It is clear from the report that he believes it would be best for my daughter if she stayed and we shared custody, but he completely ignored many of the behaviors I documented and chose instead to focus almost exclusively on our respective parenting skills to make his recommendations.\n\nAt this point I'm not sure what to do. Is this case over because of the evaluator's recommendation or do I still have a chance for a judge to deny her move away request based on her behavior and stated desire to remove me from my daughter's life?","title":"How do I avoid losing my child to a hostile mother? Questionable custody evaluation in CA.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553960438,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7clpq\/incredibly_intrusive_character_witness\/","id":"b7clpq","body":" \n\nI've recently started a new restaurant job in the beachfront town I live in in New Jersey. With the season picking up for the summer the ABC (Alcohol & Beverage Commission) stopped in to make sure all new hires had ABC cards (i.e. were registered\/allowed to serve alcohol by the township police.) The application was obscenely long, scrutinizing and expensive in comparison to other townships that I've worked that require this sort of thing and it included two parts that really concerned me. \n\n​\n\nFirst was the list of questions that I needed two character witnesses to answer which seemed to range from needlessly intrusive to outright discriminatory\n\n  \nThey are as follows (I've starred the one's that seem especially questionable to me):  \n\n\n\\-Has the applicant ever been convicted of a crime or disorderly persons Offense?\n\n\\-Is the applicant an alcoholic?\n\n\\- Is the applicant a habitual drunk? \\*\\*\\* \n\n\\-Is the applicant a narcotics user?\n\n\\-Does the applicant suffer from any physical defect or illness? \\*\\*\\*\n\nHas the applicant ever been confined to a mental institution? \\*\\*\\*\n\n\\-Has the Applicant ever committed an act of domestic violence?\n\n\\-Has the applicant ever been a member of any organization which advocates the overthrow of the U.S. or the Sated of New Jersey? (Their typo not mine)\\*\\*\\*\n\n\\-Is there any reason why the above person should NOT be issued an ABC Permit?\n\n\\------------------------------------------\n\nThe second part of the application that bothers me is the \"release form\" I need to sign and have notarized which reads:\n\n​\n\n\"I AUTHORIZE the ------- police department to investigate my background. They may have unlimited access to any information including but not limited to a criminal history check\"\n\n​\n\nWhy should I have to submit to an unlimited police investigation in order to wait tables? Can I opt-out? Have you guys seen anything like this before?  It seems really over-reaching and unnecessary to me and makes me want to find a job somewhere in a different town. \n\n​\n\nI have to have the application submitted within 30 days. Any advice is greatly appreciated!  \n   \n","title":"Incredibly Intrusive \"Character witness\" Questioning and Signing Away of Rights needed in order to Serve Alcohol in my Town","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568421572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3y9xh\/is_it_illegal_for_someone_to_listen_to_a_phone\/","id":"d3y9xh","body":"Yesterday I was talking to a buddy about private information that he agreed to keep private. I later found out that he had me on speaker the entire time while his friend was listening too. I had no idea his friend was there. Could I charge him for this?","title":"Is it illegal for someone to listen to a phone call without you knowing? (MN)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569459292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ccdz\/am_i_technically_a_tenant\/","id":"d9ccdz","body":"I live in my cousins house renting a room, I pay 500 a month but never signed a lease of any kind. Today her husband (a drug addict) came home and began screaming violently at me for parking too far the the right in their driveway. This is the first incident that I've been involved in, but not the first he has started. I fully plan to move out of here as soon as I can, but itll take a few weeks and I'm worried about showing up to find all my belongings in bags on the lawn. Am I entitled to a 30 day notice?","title":"Am I technically a tenant?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551849775,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axv6f5\/apartment_transfer_fee\/","id":"axv6f5","body":"So my husband and I have been first on the list in my complex to move to a two bedroom as we have a child now. We\u2019ve lived here for six years and our lease is coming to an end on March 30th. They emailed us and said a two bedroom will become available in June. Today we get the paperwork to fill out and one of them is us signing an agreement to pay a $300 transfer fee. This just sounded very costly considering the amount as a new resident to move in does not even cost this much. I live in Bergen County New Jersey which I know is very expensive though. \n       They also want us to pay a new security deposit (1 months rent-possibly an extra half a month depending on credit) on top of the $300 fee and then in June once they inspect our 1 bedroom apartment will get the old one back. When we moved from a one bedroom to another one bedroom a few years back in this same complex  because of an updated kitchen they did not make us pay this and they also let us roll over our security deposit. \n     Living at this complex for six years I just feel that were being taken advantage of greatly but we before we pay any of this I wanted to check on this. ","title":"Apartment transfer fee?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541287384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tyqvg\/i_believe_my_high_school_may_be_taking_advantage\/","id":"9tyqvg","body":"I\u2019m currently in 10th grade (sophomore) at a public high school in Southern California. Ive started noticing this ever since I started attending this school in my freshman year. During class, the children with special needs will be out on campus with buckets picking up trash, cleaning tables, and\/or emptying trash cans. I witness this almost daily while walking to the restroom during class. They are rarely outside during passing period or lunch. \n\nI\u2019ve never questioned any teachers or counselors about this. Our school has a history with malpractice (primarily sexual misconduct towards minors on campus), so I wouldn\u2019t want to tip anybody off to this and have it covered up, with no real action being taken towards fixing this.\n\nFrom what I\u2019ve seen, this appears to border on exploiting children with disabilities for free labor. What would be the legality of this situation?","title":"I believe my high school may be taking advantage of children with special needs","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553890958,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b727bc\/my_former_boss_is_hurting_my_job_search_possible\/","id":"b727bc","body":"Hi, I was fired for not being a \"cultural fit\" for my company by the company's vice president. At the time of my firing, I asked the VP to expound on why I had failed to \"fit\" despite good job performance. The VP said that legally she didn't have to tell me anything, because the company is located in a right to work state. She gave me my last check and told me she would answer no more questions. I was then brusquely escorted from the building by two police officers who were waiting for me outside the meeting room door. The experience was totally traumatizing, and led me to seek mental health services.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nMonths later, my next employer said the VP was badmouthing me. The employer said they had taken me on as a risk, and now regretted their decision. They gave me a chance to resign before I could be fired again, so I resigned. I called the VP and asked her what she said to my new employer that caused them to let me go, and if I could get a copy of my employee file. She said legally she didn't have to tell me anything or release any information in my file. I think my previous employer is still hurting my job search, though the VP has since left the company. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nWhat can I do? \ufeffCan I or should I subpoena my employee file? I gained a lot of valuable experience in both positions, but I'm scared to list them on my resume. In recent job interviews, recruiters have caught on that I'm not telling the whole story of my work history, and lying by omission has cost me dearly. But I still don't know the whole story as to why I was fired, and it's hard to put a positive spin on the situation when asked about it. What should I say in a job interview about my firing and subsequent resignation?","title":"My former boss is hurting my job search. Possible slander?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568735219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5iunp\/ma_need_a_demand_letter_written_are_generic\/","id":"d5iunp","body":"Hi there, I don't know if this breaks any of the rules and sorry if it does! My original post is linked [here...](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/cw6joq\/ma_got_forced_onto_unpaid_leave_at_my_job_after\/)\n\nI'm a 24 y\/o female with a Traumatic Brain Injury. Was fired from my job last week after 4 weeks of unpaid leave after a 5th concussion. My employer did a bunch of illegal stuff that went against the ADA. I spoke to an attorney with the Disability Law Center here in Boston and he gave me great advice. Now I need to move forward and have a demand letter written, but unfortunately, all the lawyers he gave me access to are charging upwards of $300-$1,000. I saw there are some generic websites that perform the service for a flat rate..are these safe to use? or should I find a way to pay a private attorney?\n\nthanks!","title":"[MA] Need a Demand Letter written -- are generic websites a waste of my time\/safe to use?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539655517,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oj9yi\/dealing_with_a_stalkers\/","id":"9oj9yi","body":"I posted about this on a smartphone support sub, I'll try to give more info:\n\nAbout 6 months ago I had a classmate, and I had a crush on him, I said so and he rejected me. He had my social media and I looked him up and found his dad who had pictures of him on hia facebook account. I sent him a message after reading some facebook posts that looked like they were about my classmate, it seemed like he had been really happy about a girl and I was hoping it was me. I was having a hard time, was coming out of health problems, and I was juat venting on a lot of stuff. I kwpt looking at his facebook looking for posts about my classmate, it seemed like they had been reading my own posts since hia dad was writing about the same things I was pretty frequently. I was gettign a lot of unwanted messages, friend requests and such from strangers too. I got messages and messages from people, and even aomeone with my aunt's name, who looking bacl I don't even think was my aunt but thia guy pretending to be her. Apparently they decided to contact my family and also stalk me around my daily life, I started seeing weird people and people would just randomly mentin peraonal interests of mine out of nowhere, way too often. These are pwople who didn't even know me, and at my job a young girl just randomly interrupted me to say something with a very peraonal context from when I was young. I got extremely anxious and had to quit my job because I was so scared, I thought I would have to quit school or my job, so I quit my job. Then it kept going at school too. Keep in mind one of the things I was venting about, and that I had only detailed to my close family and friends, was about my mental health and how I had psychosis based around people following me and harassing me. Obviously I thought this muat be my psychosis again. Except it has nothing to do with thw themes of my psychosis, this was obviously some people trying to play me a joke I thought, except it kept going. Then my computer files started randomly changing, my phone too. My phone randomly does tasks that I never requested, and that are not default for any of my apps. They aren't glitches either. I knew this could happen with my computer if someone could access it remotely, but not my phone. Obviously I'm freaking out. I don't know if my phone is broken, and I literally can't trust or feel okay around anyone. I know someone has acces to my computer at least, and my computer files and anything I access with it. Also my phone files like contacts, voicemail, texts, and archives. It looks like whoever this is also has access to everything I've gone through on my computer, so my bank account, social security, and my age birthplace address, etc. \n\n\nI am terrified, I don't know what these people are capable of or what they want. I don't know where to start, I just want some help on how to deal with this. I've also had phone calls, emails, even when I go to any forum or chat room, there is someone just letting me know they're watching me and that I can't do anything... They just veing up personal things from my life and also from my family and friends. I don't know who to go to or what to do. I am serioulsy co sidering leaving school and going inpatient, I think that if I don't I might hurt myself, and Im afraid someoen is just gonna round me up and hurt me... I never have peace of mind even in my house. I don't wven k ow how or who would do this, or if this is the right place to write this, I juat need help to find out how can someone access my computer and find me. I can change my number and anything I need, I just don't want this to happen again.","title":"Dealing with (a) stalker(s)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446032795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qjrea\/texas_questions_about_paternity_rights\/","id":"3qjrea","body":"I've been in a relationship with my GF for about 2 years. She has a son whose father is not a part of the picture. From what I understand, her relationship with the father was abusive and she left him before either of them knew she was pregnant. She has done her best to keep the son a secret from him, fearing further abuse to her and her son.\n\nWhat rights does the father have simply by being the biological father of the son? How does this change if he has a violent criminal record? \n\nEdit: Would there be any restrictions to his custody rights if he has a criminal record? If father wants to forfeit his rights as a biological father, what does that entail (if that is even possible)?\n\nEdit 2: Words","title":"Texas; Questions about paternity rights","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503338977,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v4s0s\/ca_landlord_gave_me_6_weeks_notice_to_move_on_the\/","id":"6v4s0s","body":"I have a place I can move to on the 1st of sept, but he's saying i have to pay rent all the way through the entire 6 weeks, is that right?","title":"[CA] Landlord gave me 6 weeks notice to move on the 15th, If I move out sooner am I liable to pay rent through the entire 6 weeks if I move sooner?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540835061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sfcwf\/question_about_labor_codes_in_new_brunswick_canada\/","id":"9sfcwf","body":"Hello,\n\nI am a salaried employee for company in NB Canada in the IT field. In reviewing my paystubs, I noticed  that I am paid for a total of 75 hours bi-weekly, which seemed odd because I would have expected it to be 80 (I.E 40 hours a week).\n\nBased on my schedule, I work a total of 9 hours on weekdays (start to finish, including my lunch) but my understanding is we are not paid for our lunches, so that would effectively make it 8 hours worked each day.\n\nSo to me, 9hrs - 1hr lunch = 8hrs daily, but if my paystubs indicate 75 hours (I.E. 7.5 hrs per day). I guess the question is why the 30 minute shortfall each day?\n\nI have colleagues who work 30 minutes shorter than I do (because apparently they are \u2018grandfathered\u2019 to keep their previously agreed-upon hours when our company was acquired). They also said they get 75hrs listed on their paystubs just like I do - but to me this 7.5 hrs per day figure would make sense in their case since they leave a half hour earlier than I do.\n\nThat all being said above (about grandfathering), I do remember when I was hired that the company stated to me the regular hours for new hires going forward would be 8:30AM to 5:30PM, myself included (if that is relevant).\n\nSo I guess my questions are:\n\n1) How exactly does the NB labor code work for official breaks \/ lunch breaks in terms of what the company can or cannot withhold in terms of pay? In other words, is my assumption that a company does not need to pay for my 1hr lunch period valid?\n\n2) Since I am a salaried employee, does the \u2018time worked\u2019 portion on my paystub not necessarily matter? Or in other words, could it be assumed that hours on a paystub are irrelevant as long as my payout amount is reflective of my agreed upon annual salary? (if that makes sense).\n\nThanks so much for any insight you can provide!","title":"Question about Labor Codes in New Brunswick, Canada","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445548012,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ptmnh\/inheritance_from_a_relative_that_i_dont_know\/","id":"3ptmnh","body":"I live in the United States. The other day I received an email informing me that I was the inherit a lump sum from a relative that I don't know. The first email is short so I'll just copy and paste it here.\n\n> I am an attorney at law my contacting you is in\nconnection to the fund worth USD7.5 Million, left behind by my Late\nclient Mr. Numburz's relative,I seek your consent to present you to the\nbank as the next of kin and beneficiary to the unclaimed fund kindly\ncontact me via \n\nI responded saying that I don't know if this is real and that I will try to help if I can. He then responded with this email, http:\/\/imgur.com\/hr2uXwi. If the link does not work let me know. He asked for my full name, full address, nationality, occupation, age, and phone number. \n\nI just wanted to know if this is obviously a scam or if I should get a lawyer or something.\n\nEdit: I'm sorry for my ineptitude, it's just 7.5 million dollars isn't a joke and it's not like I this happens to me a lot. I already figured it was a scam because I'm not the oldest person in my family, so why would I be contacted first. I just wanted to make sure that is all, thank you.","title":"Inheritance from a \"relative\" that I don't know.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1503849937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wcyoa\/left_my_job_employer_is_refusing_to_pay_out\/","id":"6wcyoa","body":"I was warned about this by a trusted coworker because they have done this to people before. This is over around 1,100 after tax dollars. I got my final paycheck last week and my unused vacation time was not payed out. I called HR for an explanation and they said they were \"under no obligation to pay out unused vacation time.\" This is false, it very clearly states in the employee resignation policy that unused vacation time will be payed out if an employee leaves in good standing. I was an employee in good standing. What options do I have? I have limited resources and don't have the means to go up against a multi million dollar company. \n\nUpdate: I live in upstate NY, not NYC. \n\nUpdate2: Thank you for your help everybody! I think I've found the office i'm supposed to go to get a claim filed. I'm going to go there and get the process started.","title":"Left my job, employer is refusing to pay out benefit time I'm entitled to, what are my options?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571608349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkqi5m\/tenant_is_using_rental_home_as_her_own_airbnb\/","id":"dkqi5m","body":"My mother owns a rental home in downtown El Paso, Texas and she recently signed a contract with the tenant strictly stating that no subleases were allowed. However, since my mom lives in Colorado, she did not realize that the tenant was actually subleasing the rental home on multiple websites such as Vrbo and AirBnb, among others. We now know the tenant has already subleased the home when my mom went to go visit El Paso for maintenance check, and saw the airbnb guests leave the house for checkout. The tenant does not know that we are aware of this breach of contract. My question is, how should my mother and I handle this situation? Should we go to an attorney, and if so, what kind of attorney should we look for?  Should we contact the tenant and immediately terminate the contract, or should we contact the rental companies such as Airbnb to let them handle the situation. My mom and I are fairly new to the landlord business, so any advice is appreciated, thank you.","title":"Tenant is using rental home as her own AirBnb business.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569975160,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc2eor\/need_to_know_how_to_handle_pressure_from_manager\/","id":"dc2eor","body":"I had a medically necessary upper extremity surgery this year.  I have a physical job for which HR prefers I be full duty before returning to work.  I informed my manager and HR of the need for surgery several months prior to my date of surgery, and have kept them fully informed as appropriate with all updates from the doc. \nLately, I have gotten several calls and texts from my manager asking about when I can return to work, and that he really needs me to come back since they are so busy.  I have repeatedly told him that per HR I am to send whatever the doc says at my next follow up to HR for review, and they will determine if it is acceptable.  I had a follow up with the doc today and received the ok to return to work with restrictions, and sent it to HR for review.  Prior to this appointment, my manager informed me he would speak to HR to \u201cmake sure\u201d they accepted my restrictions.  HR also confirmed my manager had talked to them about that.  I have kept everything very by the book on my part.\nMy manager has also told me several times that since I\u2019m not at work, everyone else is getting burned out and they really need me to come back.  I don\u2019t know how to handle this, because I gave them ample time to plan by letting them know of my surgery months in advance, and I also work in a field where my manager and other staff have an advanced knowledge of the surgery I had, so the recovery time should not be a surprise.  Also, it is my manager\u2019s responsibility to find coverage for any employees who are off.  \nPending HR accepts my restrictions, I will be going back to work tomorrow.  From what my manager has said I am concerned that I will be asked to work outside of my restrictions because of how busy we are, and need to know how to protect myself.  I have felt pressured during most of this process and don\u2019t know what to do.  Any advice appreciated.","title":"Need to know how to handle pressure from manager upon returning to work with restrictions after surgery (in the US, personal, not work comp).","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555036760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc8kb1\/car_paid_off_title_not_received_in_the_mail_now\/","id":"bc8kb1","body":"I moved to Arizona about 2 years ago. I registered my car in AZ(originally bought via loan from kia finance in CA). I paid it off last year and was told I'd receive my title in the mail from the CA DMV. I never received my title or any forms saying I paid off my loan. I went to the AZ DMV and they said I would need to figure it out through the CA DMV. How do I go about getting my title? I've been really dragging my feet about it because I have another car but I want to get rid of the old car. Thanks in advance.","title":"Car paid off, title not received in the mail, now live in different state","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555558255,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/begwyi\/landlord_showing_bad_apartment\/","id":"begwyi","body":"Hey there reddit, my roommates and I are grad students living in an apartment in Albany NY, and we have had a LOT of issues. Since the first day we moved in we had horrible leak issues. Not like pot and pan leak issues but our living room temporarily becomes a pond issues. It has since spread to the kitchen and bathroom too (pot and pan sized). I have no doubt in my mind that the drywall is starting to form mold. I also know for a fact that the unfinished basement has a ton of mold in it. We really aren\u2019t supposed to be down there, but there was a horrible stink and one of us decided to make sure it wasn\u2019t something decomposing. We were promised the leak would be fixed and it never was. He would send a few people every so often and they would nail something into the roof and leave. The leak would be fixed for a day or two but always came back worse and now in multiple spots. I should also mention that the floor caves in in a lot of spots, to the point that the wood flooring comes apart and you actually dip down about an inch. This occurs everywhere throughout the apartment. It feels like we are going to fall through in roughly half the square footage of our apartment. Add in a mice problem that was apparent from our first night here and we have had a crappy experience to say the least.\n\nWe always gave our landlord the benefit of the doubt, because he sent people to try to fix it. But now our lease is coming to an end by May 30th and to our surprise, the landlord wants to show this place to other people! We are getting out so I don\u2019t particularly care what happens to this place, but I don\u2019t want the next people to have to deal with this shit. Is there anything we can do? Thanks y\u2019all :)","title":"Landlord showing bad apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442373751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l4m21\/girlfriend_got_assaulted_by_her_sister_both_of_us\/","id":"3l4m21","body":"My girlfriend was at her parents' house dropping off Advil for her mother because her foot was bothering her. While there, there was a heated argument between my girlfriend and her sister. It got physical and my girlfriend got chocked and punched multiple times. Her sister constantly verbally abuses everyone in her family and my gf has had it. She apparently called the cops but she's too upset to tell me the details. Her mother witnessed the encounter and said she will lie to keep her sister out of jail and her other sister said she went too far by calling the cops. What can we do to exact legal charges? I'm worried that everyone who witnessed it is going to lie for the defense of my gf's sister despite her engaging in the physical confrontation. \n\nEdit: Location is Beaver county Pennsylvania. ","title":"Girlfriend got assaulted by her sister, both of us want to press charges. What do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568684285,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5a4t8\/my_boss_hired_his_landlord_to_join_our_management\/","id":"d5a4t8","body":"USA\n\nI work as a manager for a movie theater corporation. each location has a team of managers, headed by a general manager (let's call him GM). recently GM hired a man (let's call him L) to join our management team who has no prior experience working at a theater - which is already breaking some policies, since we can't hire managers who aren't trained and experienced in all employee positions.\n\nL is attached to GM at the hip. they take restroom breaks together, usually commute together, and will only make lunch plans with each other. L only works shifts if GM is also working. obviously it isn't illegal to have friends at work, but this provides a little bit of context for what's coming next:\n\nGM rents a basement apartment for his small family. the basement is in a house located pretty close to work. he pays rent to the person who owns the house and lives upstairs.\n\nwe recently found out that L is the person living upstairs. GM pays L rent every month in exchange for living in his basement. this has the whole team convinced that the only reason why L got this job is because GM is his tenant - if he wasn't, he would have never been considered for the position, since he doesn't even begin to qualify.\n\nis this illegal? can a man legally hire his own landlord for no reason other than the circumstances of their relationship? that seems corrupt to us, but I guess it might not to the law.","title":"my boss hired his landlord to join our management team. the man has no experience or qualifications. is this illegal, based on the nature of their relationship?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540837654,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sfsqs\/userra_question\/","id":"9sfsqs","body":"Spouse was told, no, by the place that she applied for because it's questionable how long she would be there due to my military service. \n\nI understand USERRA applies to service members but is there anything that helps my spouse in this situation?\n\n\n\"Because you're military is the reason why they said they won't hire me because with that lifestyle there's no guaranteed timeframe for me to be there\"\n\nShe said this was over the phone and I suggested that she obtain this in writing from them. \n\nI'm in the guard and don't plan on moving out of state (WI).","title":"USERRA Question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443890061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ncv0d\/can_i_really_be_sued_oregon\/","id":"3ncv0d","body":"Recently there has been a string of vandalisms in my area. Before you ask, no I do not know anything about them as I just got back into town a week ago. Well, after one of these vandalisms happened, my mother was sitting on the couch watching TV and she saw a white SUV pull up outside our house and the passenger got out, ran over and looked inside of my truck and took pictures of the plates and ran off.\n\nI immediately called the police due to the fact that is my truck and I dearly don't want anything to happen to my vehicle. Upon getting in contact with an officer, I inform him and give him a description of the truck. He says that truck matches the same description as one that has been reported in the area that vandalisms happen. The cop inqures if I know anything about that and I tell him no because I literally just bought the truck a few days prior and I just got back into town so its impossible for me to be related to that because its been going on longer than I've been back in town.\n\nFast forward a few days and I discover (through friends still in high-school) that a car that was vandalized belongs to this spoiled rich kid and hes bragging about how he's going to press charges on me and sue me and shit.\n\nNow, in my state, I commonly deal with vandalism due to my line of work (security guard) so I know the laws on vandalism pretty well. In the state of Oregon, Vandalism would be punished as \"Criminal Mischief\" and to pretty much make an CM charge stick, you need to either catch the person in the act or have serious probable cause that the person caused the damage.\n\nNow, I know I'm innocent since I literally didn't do anything besides drive a truck that matches the description but to be fair this truck (tundra) is one of the most common trucks on the road. I just don't want to have to go through the hassle of proving innocence and dealing with court and all that shit just because this snobbish kid is being a vigilante. \n\nDoes he really have any legal ground to press charges on me or sue me for damages even though I've never met this kid in my life?","title":"Can I really be sued? [Oregon]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446328543,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r0jlb\/i_am_already_speaking_with_a_lawyer_but_dont_like\/","id":"3r0jlb","body":"My mother passed away in October of last year. In her will I was named as her personal representative and am also her only heir.  She lived in and the will was filed in Maricopa County, Arizona. She owns a home worth about $75,000 and owes $40,000 on it.  She also owes about $40,000 on credit cards. The way I calculate it, if the house sells for $75K after closing costs, commissions, and the balance of the loan she would have about $25K left.  Of that, about 10K would go to me for payments I have made on it and repairs needed to make it sellable. That would leave about $15K for the credit card companies.  However, my understanding is that if I kept the house and assumed the loan, I would have to pay the credit card companies in full, the entire $40K.  That doesn\u2019t make sense. Is that accurate?  Isn\u2019t there a way to prove that the credit card companies are really only entitled to 15K and pay them that amount to keep the house?  If it is accurate, please help me understand why I am penalized $25K to keep her house, but if I sell it, I get my 10K in expenses out before the credit cards get their reduced amount","title":"I am already speaking with a lawyer, but don't like him very much, and simply don't understand. can someone explain this to me please?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553482991,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b55cn0\/jurisdiction\/","id":"b55cn0","body":"Sheriff pulled me over and cited me for a moving violating in a different city and county. Not only is the sheriff from the adjacent county but the violation occurred in the adjacent county. According to the ticket I have to appear in court in a county in which the allegation was not committed. Does this make any difference? ","title":"Jurisdiction","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539136759,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mvcpp\/what_steps_would_one_have_to_go_through_to_get_a\/","id":"9mvcpp","body":"I am a farmer. The current \u201ctrade war\u201d has completely destroyed my industry, prices are in an extreme downward spiral and there is huge amounts of price gouging by grain elevators(basis) that is designed literally to steal the \u201cbail out\u201d from the farmers. Now after talking to my chemical distributors the costs of literally every chemical is scheduled to almost double because of all of them being produced in China. Odds are a huge portion of farmers will no longer be able to cash flow any crops to a profitable level and probably file bankruptcy. I\u2019m wondering if there is anyway we can defend ourselves via litigation.","title":"What steps would one have to go through to get a class action suit filed against the US government?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571089750,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhxpug\/oh_how_important_is_it_to_have_civil_liability\/","id":"dhxpug","body":"I\u2019m looking at CCW shield insurance and I like their plan. Only problem is that there\u2019s no civil liability coverage unless I double my monthly payment.\n\nCivil liability coverage only covers if I\u2019m sued in civil court and lose. How likely is that to happen assuming I\u2019m a responsible carrier and wouldn\u2019t commit a bad shoot?\n\nShould I pay the extra money for civil liability coverage or is that unnecessary?","title":"[OH] How important is it to have civil liability coverage in a concealed carry insurance plan?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569613567,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da5hy4\/landlord_sold_apartment_while_i_was_away_new\/","id":"da5hy4","body":"I went away for three months for work. I paid up my rent prior to leaving and cleaned up my room. My roommate stayed and still lives there. While I was away, the building was sold to a new company.\n\n​\n\nI came back and asked for my deposit back, they told me they don't have record of the deposit and that it can't be released as a result. They do have my roommates deposit on file though. My former landlord doesn't have the record either.\n\n​\n\nI have the receipts. What can I do to move this along?","title":"Landlord sold apartment while I was away, new owners have no record of my deposit, how can I get that back? [Illinois]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502997387,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ucart\/ca_ticketed_for_moving_violation_for_being_on\/","id":"6ucart","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice,\n\nToday I was stopped at a red light behind around 4 or 5 other cars, meanwhile the train crossing sign was down so it was an extended stop. During this time I pulled out my phone to look up an equalizer setting I saw on another subreddit and was fiddling with my car stereo at the same time to copy the setting.  \n\nA cop pulled up right next to me and saw this and I was promptly pulled over.  \n\nI actually didn't know that a driver couldn't be on a phone while the car was stopped, but I know now and I am OK with that citation because I was in the wrong. So not arguing that.  \n\nHowever, the officer wrote down that I was travelling at 35mph on the ticket, when I was definitely stopped.  \n\nMy worry here is this sort of violation would be more expensive\/potentially add a point to my record vs. if he actually put down 0mph which is the truth. Should I fight this? Do I have a case? Or does that 35mph not make a difference?  \n\nP.S that equalizer setting wasn't even good :(","title":"(CA) Ticketed for moving violation for being on cell phone while stopped; cop put down that I was going 35mph","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508410048,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77dlxa\/seeking_help_for_an_exhibiting_a_firearm_charge\/","id":"77dlxa","body":"Any information on exhibiting a firearm (charge 417 PC) with no prior criminal record for violent crime?\n\nCurious, my fellow redditors, anyone have any knowledge on the outcome of public defender vs. lawyer for such a charge? \n\n\n ","title":"Seeking help for an \"exhibiting a firearm\" charge in CA. Please help.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552443969,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0gmf2\/what_are_the_rulesguidelines_on_employees_using\/","id":"b0gmf2","body":"Idk if this is the right place to post this question. \n..but going to give it a shot\n\n\nLet me put out some facts & background to give more insight. First off, I work in NC not sure if that would make any difference or not. About the job: I work in a food processing plant & we are literally covered in protection. A smock, arm covers that go above our elbows, heavy plastic arm guards, 4 pairs of gloves & a apron. Theres more, but head coverings do not have to be taken off to use the restroom. It takes about 3 minutes while walking towards the restroom from my department to get all of this off before I can even use the restroom. Then I use the restroom... then I must put everything back on, before I can get back on the line. I was told I only had 5 minutes to use the bathroom or I couldn't go. So what am I supposed to do? Walk to the restroom while taking off all my stuff, get to the restroom & turn around just to put it all back on WITHOUT using the restroom & STILL be late?? \n\n\nTLDR Can an employer tell you that you can only go to restroom unless you're back in 5 min when it takes 6 min combined to take off\/put on PPE?","title":"What are the \"rules\"\/guidelines on employees using the restroom ESP females??","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507641073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75gxs7\/virginia_ive_lived_in_my_rental_unit_for_two\/","id":"75gxs7","body":"I, along with two other guys, are renting a house from a landlord. For almost two years, she's been neglecting her administrative responsibilities of property management (lease, security deposit, etc), but she's always been responsive to our maintenance requests.\n\nAnyways, during those two years, guys would move out and new guys would move in with or without her knowledge (she didn't have a problem with it since we are reliable and pay every month). So for us guys, it's always been understood that living here is month-to-month with no security deposit. I also decided to move in this house with the understanding that it is, in fact, month-to-month and wouldn't require a security deposit. Because of this month-to-month arrangement, we all have different timelines for when we will move out of the house (I am in three months, and one of my roommates is in four months). Now, she is \"catching up\" on these responsibilities and is asking for a security deposit and for us to sign a 12 month lease this month. \n\nAm I required to sign a 12 month lease and pay a security deposit when (1) I moved here with the understanding of month-to-month and $0 security deposit (albeit with my roommates; not the landlord) and (2) I am moving in three months? Do I have any rights to have my three month timeline honored?","title":"[Virginia] - I've lived in my rental unit for two years without a lease in place. Now, the landlord wants us to sign a 12 month lease. Am I required to sign it to stay here?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447114630,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s7ecd\/michigan_can_i_sue_my_landlord_for_returning_my\/","id":"3s7ecd","body":"My lease ended on the 30th of September. October 16th the landlord told me my apartment was in great condition and he was able to turn it quickly. I sent a demand letter on the 2nd threatening to sue if my deposit wasn't returned.  He returned my deposit on the 6th. The envelop was post marked November 3rd.\nCan I sue my landlord double for returning my security deposit late? How likely would it be that I would win?","title":"[Michigan] Can I sue my landlord for returning my deposit late?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554971818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbxgin\/my_neighbors_are_using_the_previous_tenants_name\/","id":"bbxgin","body":"The neighbors next door are using the previous tenants name to buy things and have them shipped to them under that name. (we have warned the previous tenant) they seem downright flippant about what they are doing and told me when I confronted them to get the package for the previous tenant that the person doing it was just paranoid and it wasn't a big deal. I know this is a form of mail fraud but he seemed positive that what he was doing was fine. What do I do and what is going to happen?","title":"My neighbors are using the previous tenants name to buy and receive mail.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569635835,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da9xtk\/electric_shutoff_for_8_hrs_instead_of_35\/","id":"da9xtk","body":"Hello! I was notified my apartment managers would be turning off our power temporarily. The official notice said it would be a 3-5 hr shutoff. The company doing the renovation has now had the power off for nearly 10 hours and will likely take an hour or two longer. \n\nMy fridge hasn't been opened, but there are perishables in there that probably won't survive the full 12 potential hours of no electricity. (I have read from several sources that contents usually stay cold up to 6 hours if you don't open the doors)\n\nI cant afford to replace a full refrigerator (we are a 3 person household plus cat who only eats wet food, so it's not insignificant) \n\nIf my food goes off, is my landlord liable to reimburse me for the lost food since the outage lasted much longer than planned? \n\nI do not have any family or friends in town who would have been able to take some of the food, so I really didnt have the ability to borrow fridge space for this, not to mention I've been told by the contractor 3 times  in the extra hours that the power would be back on \"soon\".","title":"Electric shutoff for 8 hrs instead of 3-5","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555442208,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdxxzr\/horrific_living_conditions\/","id":"bdxxzr","body":"The fastest rundown of this scenario. What is the statue of limitations? Do I have a case?  This happened in 2016-2017.\n\n\nThis is a VERY LONG story, that requires a backstory etc, but long story as short as possible: \n\nPartner and me were homeless due to circumstances that were not our fault and someone knew a guy who had apts. \n\nThe apartment was not in livable condition. It had open sewage under the kitchen sink, a rat infestation  which later got so bad they would crawl on me in my sleep (very traumatizing)  roach infestation, mold everywhere, the rats would chew and urinate on everything. I had a 2 yr old daughter as well. \n\nWe were supposed to move in, clean the place up with materiald provider by the LL. Since my partner is a mechanical engineer and master carpenter, it was supposed to be a mutually beneficial arrangement. We didn't have to pay rent and he didn't have to pay someone to fix it up. \n\nWell, that didn't happen. We didn't even know about the rats until after we moved in. Once we got in, the LL changed the whole thing and said he didnt have money for materials. \n\nWe were stuck. We didn't have a car or a way to move so we rode it out. Halfway through us being there, he started demanding rent. So we paid $200\/mo for an apartment that was considered not livable. \n\nThen came the bedbug infestation from the bums that lived upstairs. \n\nI was pregnant. I went into labor. When a dr saw my daughter's face she called CPS. We had to deal with CPS and not being allowed to go back to our apt. So, we stayed with an aquanitance. \n\nWhile we were out there, within two weeks our car was totaled and we lost it bc we didnt own it basically. \n\n\nAnd then, the LL called and said we had to move out because (i cant rememebr the reason)\nHe threatened to evict us even tho we never signed anything. He accused my partner of being on drugs when I brought up the condition of the place and that he went back on tbe original deal. He threatened me with his money and said no judge would rule in my favor. I didnt have the money to fight him as he is a very rich man. So. I agreed to move out. Told him we would be out by a certain day. \n\n\nWhen we went to get our stuff a week before the agreed day everything in our apt was gone just about. The neighbors said they thought we moved out already and saw him taking our stuff. \nHe took everything. He took things that I can't replace. He even stole the insoles out of shoes and my sex toys wtf?!?\n\n\nWe ended up, through fate or whatever meeting someone and it turns out that her husband used to work with him and they said they cut ties because he stole $21k worth of tool from her hubby. So this is his m.o. He has multiple apts and is doing this kind of stuff to others as well. \n\n\nCan I take him to court and win? I want him to not be allowed to own any more properties, and I want compensation for all of it. I am mentally traumatized from living in such horrific conditions. If I even see a roach I have a panic attack and I live in the country now. \n\n\nHelp?? What can I do? I don't have a lot of money, but if I ever do I want him to have to account and pay for what he's done because money is his god and it's the only way to get through to him. \n\nOh, I also have photos of the conditons. The dead rats in the walls, the sewage, we didnt have hot water in winter or heat for over 3 months bc there was a broken pipe in the wall of the decrepid apartment and he tried to get us to pay for it which we refused so he didnt fix it for three months! 3 months no hot water in the middle of winter in a bathroom that has huge open chunks to the outside. Smh. \n\n\nAdvice? Help? This is in East Texas. Btw. \n\n\nThank you in advance for any suggestions or guidance!","title":"Horrific living conditions","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542245704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x6h2g\/disability_dad_delivery_driving_dilemma\/","id":"9x6h2g","body":"I\u2019m going to (attempt to) keep this short because I\u2019m on mobile.  \n\nMy father was diagnosed with an almost exclusively fatal brain condition years ago but beat the odds and survived.  Great!  However he didn\u2019t get out unscathed.  He now has significant cognitive problems, including (rare) seizures, virtually no consequence based reasoning, chronic lying, and compromised decision making and anger processing issues.  \n\nThis sounds oddly specific I know, but the reason I mention this is because if you meet him on the street, you wouldn\u2019t know except for a speech impediment.  But I\u2019ve seen him attempt to drive 20 minutes down the street to a grocery store and get lost for 8 hours driving hundreds of miles between states and not understand how he got lost.  He even has an iPhone with gps capabilities but couldn\u2019t use it.  He constantly falls for telephone\/email scams and I\u2019ve had to intervene several times to get him out of trouble.  \n\nSo getting to the point.  He has been living in my brothers house with my brother and I and is getting disability and social security but he is bored (I don\u2019t blame him for that, all he chooses to do is watch Netflix).  He wants a job.  I encouraged him to try the local grocery store, rite aid, etc.  Mostly jobs that he couldn\u2019t get into much trouble with.  \n\nInstead he applies for, and is very close to getting, a job driving for UPS.  He did not disclose his disability, or the meds he takes, or his history with seizures etc.  he says he\u2019s passed his driving test and is heading for final training out of town tomorrow.  I\u2019ve seen the uniforms they gave him, so he\u2019s telling the truth.  \n\nI have many questions, but to try and articulate a few: What kind of liability is he opening up by lying by omission about his condition?  I\u2019ve tried to strongly tell him that he\u2019s making a bad decision- is he opening the rest of the family up to liability?  Is anyone familiar with the UPS hiring process that could shed light on the last training phase as it concerns to weeding out people like him?  Is there anything I should\/could do to intervene in this process?  I have good reason to doubt his driving abilities and am not sure how he got past the test.  \n\nAs happens, my attempts to keep the post short failed.  State is CT.  Thanks in advance.  ","title":"Disability dad delivery driving dilemma","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552245977,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azjah2\/pa_does_anyone_know_if_there_is_a_minimum_amount\/","id":"azjah2","body":"I am employed at a small food service job and we have not yet received our schedule for tomorrow. Is this legal?","title":"(PA) Does anyone know if there is a minimum amount of time in advance an employer needs to post a schedule?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1411403876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2h518o\/buena_park_ca_temporary_neighbor_was_asked_to_do\/","id":"2h518o","body":"Orginal post http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gvhdo\/buena_park_ca_temporary_neighbor_was_asked_to_do\/\n\nI have gone to the police about him bathing my son. The first person that I talked to at the front counter took my statement first and she made me feel like I was at fault that the man was bathing him. The police listened to what I had to say and said he will look into the John's history but since he did not actually commit a crime, there is nothing they can do and gave me a case number just in case anything related to the case does happen.\n\nThis morning, John, tried to subpoena my ex (not sure why since my ex doesn't live there) for not paying. My ex said he won't accept the subpoena and I was told John is going to subpoena my father. The house is under my mom's name technically and I am renting from her. We don't really have a rental agreement because she's my mother and I'm her daughter and we just never did that. Anyways, he is going to subpoena my father and quite honestly that makes me nervous. My dad is Mr. nice guy. He will be the one standing in small claims court. So what now? How can I be the one to defend the situation?\n\nJohn has been making all negotiations through me. But when it comes time to collect money he keeps trying to go through my dad but he is serving the documents on his own. Is that even legal in the state of California? \n\nI never told John I wasn't going to pay him. I have text messages between me and him and I never said I wasn't going to pay. Because of his shadiness, I wanted to print out a document of my own before handing him any money. Now I'm not sure whether I should let him take me to small claims court (I'm afraid I'm going to lose honestly and have to pay him money that he scammed me on) or give him the document and show him my attempt to pay the minimal amount ($150 since my friend was going to charge that much and he said he could do the job for less). So some questions for you law savvy redditors: \n\n1) Bathing my son doesn't seem relevant to the situation but can I use that in small claims to help my case?\n\n2)Should I still show him my document I planned on giving him before I paid him any money even though he now has plans to take me to court?\n\n3)Is it legal for him to subpoena his own documents to the other party?\n\n4)Because most of the \"negotiation\" and communication was made between John and I, but the house is under my parents' name, shouldn't the documents be served to me? \n\n5) If he serves his own subpoena, is it still legit?\n\nI forgot some of the questions I had but if anyone does have an advice for my situation I would gladly appreciate. I just need to know the best way to go about this that will obviously help me and my dad because I know my dad is going to want to cave in and give him the money than to stand up for what's right. \n\nTL;DR: bad neighbor is now trying to subpoena my dad but the agreements were made between the neighbor and I not the neighbor and my dad. ","title":"[Buena Park, CA] Temporary neighbor was asked to do two installations, ended up doing more without permission and is now threatening me Part 2.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569525118,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9oar2\/realty_company_ignoring_leak\/","id":"d9oar2","body":"(Arizona) \nMy husband and I started renting a 2 bd with a yard at the beginning of the year. Its part of a duplex and the property manager (owners mom) said that later in the year, a realty company would be buying the property.\n\nThe realty company eventually bought the property and left a note with info saying they were taking over the lease and to contact them about any repairs. \n\nThey put in a new ac wall unit (old one was incorrectly installed by the old owner), recaulked the shower for us (it had mold around the old caulking when we moved in). \n\nBut the new wall unit was installed incorrectly, the wall has a lip so its slid forward and it\u2019s leaking condensation all down the wall. They\u2019ve sent an ac company out 3 times. Each time they tell me what I already know, and say something like \u201cWe need to reinstall it and reinforce it, we\u2019ll talk to the realty company and they\u2019ll let you know when\u201d \n\nBut no one calls. its been a month and a half of it leaking, the wall is damaged by all the water, it\u2019s soft in some spots and the paint is bubbled all over. the wall unit also installed above our Gas stove, I keep the power cord unplugged because Im scared of the water doing something to the outlet or starting a fire or something. When I told them about that, both the ac company and realty company told me nothing would happen so it wasn\u2019t a big deal that the outlet was getting soaked. Every time time I\u2019ve called, they send the same ac company out to tell me the same thing. \n\nI\u2019m not sure what to do, I\u2019m really scared about mold or electrical issues because we have a child a little over one year old. Yesterday they sent someone to install motion activated lights and to pick up drug needles around the property but the man they sent said they haven\u2019t told him anything about the leak and water damage and he had no clue. He told me to call them again but no one answered yesterday. \n\nI don\u2019t have the money to break my lease, pay for the repairs myself or stay somewhere else. I think Im really looking for any options I have to force them to fix the leak and water damage. \n\nSidenote: we pay on time every month, its a year lease that is up in march and we don\u2019t plan on asking for another year lease. Our connected neighbor actually has an ac \/ roof leak, they moved in the same month we did and the realty company has also been ignoring them. Their leak has lasted since march. Also none of the units have fire detectors and they ignored us about that too. They keep saying they\u2019ll \u201cput in the work order\u201d and we never hear anything back.","title":"realty company ignoring leak","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412415589,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2i9kfs\/caught_for_shoplifting_court_date_set_but_im\/","id":"2i9kfs","body":"I got caught for shoplifting at Kohl's in California. LP recovered all items, I signed the thing saying I'm banned for 2 years, and something else saying I'll receive a civil demand. Police came and processed me at their station, gave me a court date and released me. It is a misdemeanor violation; the combining total was $417 (jewelry - though I don't agree with this total. I think it was closer to half that, but I don't think that matters).\n\nThis is my first offense - my record is completely clean otherwise. I was polite, respectful, and cooperative the entire time. \n\nQuestion is - My court date is in about a month, but I leave the country in a week and will be gone ~4 years. I plan to ignore the civil demand letter when that comes in, but what do I do about my court date? The officer mentioned I can get an extension, but I assume they won't extend it 4 years. \n\nI can't really afford an attorney, but is this a situation where I need one to appear on my behalf? Can I call the court to explain my situation, without jeopardizing my move out of country?\n\nPut in my situation, and in lieu of hiring an attorney, what would you do? (I know - \"dont steal in the first place\". Got it.)\n\nAny advice is incredibly appreciated.  \n\nEdit to add that I absolutely cannot postpone my move due to several personal circumstances, which I don't want to add as  they would lead to identifiable information. Also want to add that I realize I could just leave the country and deal with the consequences, but I really don't want to go this route. I'd like to do the responsible thing and deal with it now.","title":"Caught for shoplifting - court date set - but I'm leaving the country. Advice?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444924424,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ovcgd\/sending_out_paystubs_via_email_instead_of_snail\/","id":"3ovcgd","body":"Quick background: Mechanical construction company, employee about 30 people, currently everyone gets direct deposits, then sending out a paystub via snailmail (takes forever)\n\n\nSo, I am wondering if it is legal for me to start sending out all of our paystubs via email?  I was thinking that I would include a letter with their next paystub I send out, letting them know we are switching to email; asking for a good email address to send it to.  We do have a computer in the office for any of our employees to use.\n\nWhat about the employees that still want them in the mail?\n\nThanks!","title":"Sending out paystubs via e-mail, instead of snail mail. Minneapolis, MN","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552424537,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0d1o1\/apartment_complex_is_forcing_me_to_accept_smart\/","id":"b0d1o1","body":"I live in Atlanta Georgia at a small apartment complex. They have been nothing more than mediocre for the nearly two years I've lived here. Things like ignoring maintenance requests, even when there's running water pouring onto the floor. Ignoring complaints about mold etc. Basically it's a crap property and they do not care about anything aside from looking good enough to get you in the door. The property is run by a company called AimCo.\n\n​\n\nSo a couple weeks ago they send out notice \"Notice of entry\" That they would be installing smart home devices in all of the units. Including but not limited to, a smart thermostat, a smart hub of some sort, and smart locks.  For one, this would be an annoyance at best, since I already have all the smart home stuff I want.  My concern is that they are forcing me to get a smart lock. They are unable to tell me what model or company makes it, and I am unable to do my own investigation as to the security of this lock. But in my experience if you depend on your wifi for security, it isn't secure.  \n\n\nSo basically within the next 3 weeks my door will have a smart lock, against my will, and they are giving me no way to refuse this. So basically I called today, complained, and told them I was putting in my 60 day notice.  \n\n\nMy question is.. do I have any legal grounds to leave sooner without notice? given that I fear for my safety and the safety of my stuff? I am already on month to month so I don't even know if they can legally do anything if I just leave asap?","title":"Apartment complex is forcing me to accept smart home devices, including smark door locks. What can I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569108804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7idix\/my_sister_and_her_baby_daddy\/","id":"d7idix","body":"Sorry, guys I'm a mobile user, but I do proofread before sending messages and posts, so there shouldn't be too many errors. \n\nOkay, so it's not a divorce, but it's a custody thing, so I  don't know which tag I should have actually used.\n\nI will refer to the father as Dick (because that's what he is, not what he has) and my sister as Poppy.\n\nMy sister has two kids with her ex. Both decided on sharing custody without getting legal involved, however Dick decided that since Poppy is finally getting her shit together, he's going to try to stop her. Dick has been threatening to take Poppy to court to get \"primary custodial parental,\" -literally his words- rights over the kids. His reasoning is that he has more time to spend with them since he's only working 3 days a week. However, he constantly takes him to his moms to be babysat by her. \n\nPoppy is finally in school to try to get in the medical field and she has managed to find a part time job that she can do while the kids are sleeping. They would be with me at night since she'll be home before I leave for work. So because of this Dick is saying that she needs to give up work or school because the court will take his side otherwise. \n\nDick is very smart about how he talks to her. Most of his threats are made verbally, however he has sent her text messages that make him sound, I dont know how to explain it. And I can't give examples because I don't know if he's on reddit. \n\nPoppy's best friend and I are always telling her to screen shot everything. I know that not everything will be usable, but maybe something in those messages can be used against him? \n\nAlso, Poppy has many many many many MANY photos of the kids with bumps, bruises, horrifying rashes and more. \n\nAny chance with this small bit of information, would any one know what we should expect to happen? What kind of evidence should we have in case he does try to take her to court?","title":"My sister and her baby daddy","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569187178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7wpqi\/can_i_temporarily_live_at_a_friends_house_if_cps\/","id":"d7wpqi","body":"I was wondering if I could legally do this. My relatives live pretty far away and I want to stay at my school. I have friends where I live here. I don\u2019t want to go into a foster care system because that sounds like a nightmare. I have a family that\u2019s willing to take me I just need to know if I\u2019m legally allowed to do that.","title":"Can I temporarily live at a friends house if CPS takes me away from my family.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553047348,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3672f\/bc_canada_can_my_parents_simply_kick_me_out_of\/","id":"b3672f","body":"I am a 22 year old university student, and have always been told that if I attend my local university, I am allowed to live at home for free. I am doing exactly this, and I am in my third year of university and hopefully graduating next year. I really wish I didn\u2019t have to live here, but rent in this town is so expensive, I thought it would be smart to just suck it up and live with my parents. I have recently got a very high paying part time job (commission based, I average ~$25 per hour), my father has access to my bank accounts so they know what I am paid, and have started demanding $100 a month to contribute, which I agreed to. \n\nMy relationship with my family has always been complicated. My father can be quite emotionally abusive and my mother never does anything about it. They love throwing it in my face that \u201cyou are a guest here\u201d, \u201cwe can kick you out at any time we decide\u201d, \u201cif you do this, all of your stuff will be outside when you get home and your phone won\u2019t work to unlock the door\u201d, etc. They constantly barge into my room (without knocking), say that my possessions (such as my MacBook, which I paid for with my own money) are their property because they are in their house, and threaten to break said valuable possessions if they so choose. They say these things if I am going to see my boyfriend, if I\u2019m going to school late, or if we have a disagreement. \n\nI do not ever drink, I used to smoke weed which is legal here and I have never smoked or been under the influence of marijuana in my parents house (I have quit it all together), and I am not loud. The latest that I ever come home from school is about 23:00. \n\nI just want to know if I have any sort of legal rights here. I really don\u2019t think it is legal for them to constantly threaten me living here, especially by saying that if I do something, all of my belongings will be outside unprotected and without notice and that they can break my things that I personally have paid for. I just really want to know what rights if any, that I have, because this is extremely stressful for me. \n\nThank you. ","title":"[BC, Canada] Can my parents simply kick me out of their house?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568744223,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5kw9f\/teenage_son_being_sued_for_fender_bender_case\/","id":"d5kw9f","body":"My son (19) was 17 when he was involved in a minor accident. He rear ended someone who slowed for some railroad tracks and an intersection. They slowed once, they began to proceed through the tracks, then stopped again and he hit them at about 12mph. (10-15 mph I\u2019d say). Six months later we find out he\u2019s being sued for max policy ($100K), plus punitive damages. We are now 14 months post accident, and this past weekend my other son (passenger) was just now deposed for the case. I\u2019m told the Doctor who treated the plaintiff will be deposed Jan 2021. (Chiropractor....not a neurosurgeon in high demand with a busy schedule) My son who was driving, is now unable to do anything out of high school as he has an active legal case pending. He wants to enlist in the military but is forced to wait till this pans out, and so my question is...at what point is my son\u2019s right to due process infringed upon? There are obviously a few other details I\u2019ve kept out in the interest of brevity, but wondering if I am just way off base here? Thank you!!","title":"Teenage son being sued for fender bender, case ongoing over a year later. At what point is due process an issue? Countersuit?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554334127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b95blh\/ripped_off_my_unlicensed_contractor_legal_recourse\/","id":"b95blh","body":"Last year I hired a 35 year old contractor to help remodel the downstairs of our house. He was doing well but seemed to have an emotional snap when I asked him to start submitting time sheets. He said I was suspicious of him & said, \u201cyou turn me in to the CCB contractors board - I\u2019ll turn you in to the county for not having permits for the work done so far. When I fired him he had sent me an email that he\u2019d pay back the $8,000 on account.\n\nWhen I asked him to return the money within a week, or I\u2019d go to the sheriff-he got mad & said he would keep the money as his severance and to ensure I remained silent.\n\nSo- this is not only stealing but coercion to remain quiet. Felonies. \n\nNeed advice. Should I contact the county re the unpermitted work and tear it out if necessary & start over, and go to the police? Or keep quiet & hire others to finish work?\n\nThe remodel is 75% done so it would be costly whatever I do. And this contractor could file an anonymous complaint and turn us in for the unpermitted work.\n\nAnything a lawyer can do? Or any advise on next steps?\n\nThanks in advance ","title":"Ripped off my unlicensed contractor- legal recourse?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569894515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbm4rw\/tx_i_was_pulled_over_for_speeding_in_a_school\/","id":"dbm4rw","body":"I was pulled over for going 35 in a school zone. When the officer asked if I knew why I was pulled over I said I had no clue. He explained I was in a school zone. I have been taking my daughter to the same school for 5 years and always take the road I was pulled over on, which had a limit of 30.\n\nAfter taking my info the officer came back and said it wasn't a school zone and he would only ticket me for the 35 in a 30. I wasn't going 35 but didn't argue. \n\nHe then gave me the ticket and drove away. I started reading the ticket which said 35 in a 30 in a school zone. The fine was 240 or so so I started freaking out then I got a knock on my window. The officer was there and when I rolled down he said \"Just wanted to make sure you were clear, you weren't in a school zone\". I said yes sir and he drove off. \n\nTomorrow I have a pretrial and not sure what to expect. I wasn't going 30 and I feel the ticket was a mistake on many levels. Any advice for the pretrial are appreciated.","title":"(TX) I was pulled over for speeding in a school zone. It wasn't a school zone.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508444920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77h3kv\/using_other_brandscompetitors_on_websitein\/","id":"77h3kv","body":"I own a factory here and manufacture products for other brands\/companies.  I am planning to launch my own products (my own brand) to sell online.\n\nWill I be able to use the brands who I have manufactured for in the past\/currently in my online advertisements\/website without legal recourse?\n\nFor example: factory manufactures cars for Toyota, Honda, Ford, etc., designs their own line of cars called NEWCARS, creates a website that says 'you can trust us, we own our on factory, we have a factory that has manufactured for companies such as Toyota\/Honda\/etc., buy NEWCARS'","title":"Using Other Brands\/Competitors on Website\/in Advertisement [CA]","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552061746,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ays0se\/how_do_i_file_a_complaint_about_an_fbi_special\/","id":"ays0se","body":"I Would like to figure out a way to file a complain with her supervisors so they review the work he\/she is doing.","title":"How do I file a complaint about an FBI special agent?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1549937387,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apo332\/tn_a_house_was_left_to_me_in_a_will_but_some\/","id":"apo332","body":"Hi there. This is my first post on Reddit, so bear with me here. I\u2019m not sure what information needs to be given to get an answer, but will reply if necessary. \n\nAfter a recent passing of a close family member, it was discovered in the Last Will and Testament that they had left the \u201chouse and all property inside...\u201d to me. \n\nI am not the executor on the will, nor was I at the law office when the exec was talking to them (I will be there Wednesday when they go). I was curious to the probate laws (after doing A LOT of research) and asked the exec questions about the house going into probate . The exec told me that the house will not have to go into probate. When I later asked about a vehicle that was also left in the will (to another family member) the exec (who is married to the person receiving the vehicle) stated they did not want it going into probate and would just get a title for it. The exec then stated they did not want the house tied up in probate for years if someone were to contest it. \n\nAfter asking many questions and the exec contradicting themselves an unfathomable amount of times, I decided to come here. The house and automobile are the only two things in the will. I know that both will have to go into probate but the exec has said that the lawyer could \u201ctie up most the loose ends without going into probate\u201d and that has confused me. I am trying to make sure the exec is well informed by the lawyer and not being misinformed or manipulated in any way.  \n\nSo here\u2019s my question. Will the house and automobile both have to go into probate? If we decide to not go into probate with them, what will happen and how can we gain ownership of what was left to us? \n\nAgain, I\u2019m sorry if I left out any information and I will gladly answer any questions pertaining to this matter. Thank you in advance for your help. ","title":"[TN] A house was left to me in a will, but some questions about probate.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1507133136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7494qt\/need_advice_on_breaking_a_lease_early_hopefully\/","id":"7494qt","body":"Okay, I'm in Fort Lauderdale Florida. \n\nSo we moved into this apartment in February. Three weeks after we moved in, the plumbing backed up and flooded the house, and it took nine hours to get it fixed. No one answered the apartment's emergency maintenance line when we called repeatedly, so we had to call an outside plumber. Because of that, we had to pay out of pocket and were not reimbursed. A few weeks after that, our air conditioning broke. I don't know if it's actually a law, but a friend of mine who does construction occasionally mentioned to me that in Florida, it's legally mandated that apartments\/houses\/whatever must have working air conditioning or else it's deemed uninhabitable. It's been six months since our AC broke and we're using a portable AC unit that is destroying our electric bill and caused it to triple, going from $110 to over $300 per month. Two weeks ago, the plumbing issues started up again, and over the next week and a half, we called the emergency maintenance line repeatedly every day. Every time a plumber came out, they would tell us that it was our fault and we'd have to pay out of pocket before they even started working. By the time they finished snaking the pipes, they'd tell us that it couldn't possibly be our fault with the amount of stuff they were pulling out of the pipes. The other day, the plumbing *really* backed up, and we ended up with \"the big one\", as it were, and the house flooded again, and we spent fourteen hours bucketing what I calculated to be almost 1000 gallons of water in back flow out of our apartment. Myself and my roommates are students at a private art school, and we had so many things that were integral to our final portfolios destroyed in the flood. We've documented everything as well with time and date stamped photographs and videos.\n\nIn all of this, our landlady refuses to answer when we call her. We've had people outside the apartment call on our behalf, and she always answers immediately (probably because she didn't recognise the number), but never even responds to us when we call or text.\n\nNow, my question is, is there any possibility we can break the lease and potentially get our money back for the months that we paid to live in unsanitary and (due to the AC and what my construction friend told me) potentially uninhabitable conditions?","title":"Need advice on breaking a lease early (hopefully getting rent returned to us in the process?)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539411257,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nro0k\/tx_server_wages_questions\/","id":"9nro0k","body":"TL;DR - Server getting screwed over on pay. Details & numbers below.\n\nQuestions on pay for servers in Texas. I started a job with a restaurant that just opened recently. I worked about 40 hours in training over 10 days before they opened. Then about 50 hours as a server the next week. First paycheck showed I had 91 hours @ 2.15 an hour. $550 in tips. I was told I\u2019d get minimum wage for training, but the paycheck only showed 2.15. They owner said, sorry, that\u2019s correct. Tips would be put on my paycheck. They gave me a $97 paycheck & a handwritten check from the restaurant account for $491, saying they took 10% out for tipshare for bussers, foodrunners & hostess. (There were several days when there was no support staff and the servers did everything. Who are we tipping out to?) I have kept detailed notes on hours, training, etc. It all looks shady. What do I do next? Who do I report this to and is there any chance of getting paid for what I reasonably can justify I\u2019ve been shorted? Advice appreciated.","title":"TX, server wages questions","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1414039308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2k2hi0\/trademark_help\/","id":"2k2hi0","body":"I am from Las Cruces, New Mexico. Recently, OSU has filed a law suit against New Mexico State University because of the use of the \"Pistol Pete\" mascot. OSU has been using the mascot for 80 years. NMSU began using a slightly modified version of the mascot in 1973. However, in 1990, OSU filed for a trademark of the mascot. NMSU claims to have paid royalties for the use of \"Pistol Pete\" in the years following the trademark, however they stopped after revising the mascot in 2005 to make it look more realistic and differentiate from OSU. In the past week, however, the original mascot has appeared on a pennant being sold in the NMSU bookstore.\n\nDoes OSU have any legal basis to sue NMSU despite the fact that NMSU began using the image prior to OSU filing a Trademark? http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_26777253\/oklahoma-state-sues-nmsu-over-pistol-packing-mascot Here is an article on the lawsuit that might help clear up any questions.\n\nTl;DR: Can you sue over a trademark on an infringement from before filing for the trademark.\n\nEdit: The mascot change was in 2006, not 2005.","title":"Trademark help","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554235433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8o5on\/a_new_apartment_manager_entered_my_apartment\/","id":"b8o5on","body":"Hello Reddit. This is the first time something like this has happened, and the first time I\u2019ve been to this subreddit, please excuse my formatting. Also, this happened in California. \n\nThis morning around 9am, I was waken up by a soft knock on the door. It was not loud, and didn\u2019t sound urgent, and I had just woken up and needed to put on pants and put my dog away to go open the door. While I was doing those things, I heard multiple attempts of trying to unlock my front door. I rushed to the front door (still no pants), to see a woman standing there with keys trying to unlock my door. I said \u201cUH one second\u201d very loudly, went back to the bedroom, heard my door open and close, put on pants, and rushed outside to confront her. \n\nShe said \u201cOh hi, I\u2019m (her name), I am the new manager here at the office. I was checking to see the vacancy of this apartment, this is correct (referring to her clipboard). Now, I am very panicked and groggy at this moment. I haven\u2019t had time to think of really anything about what\u2019s going on, so I just said. \u201cOh, sorry, I just woke up.\u201d And she said \u201cI know I was trying to be quiet, I\u2019m so sorry I woke you. If you need anything let me know, nice meeting you.\u201d And she left. \n\nNow that I\u2019m awake and not in a panic, this doesn\u2019t settle right with me. I also ran into my neighbors a few minutes and asked if \u201cthe new manager\u201d came to check on their apartment this morning. They said they were home all morning and no one came by. \n\nI\u2019m, at the least, very alarmed and uneasy about this. This was quite a scary experience as a young girl, hearing someone attempting a break in, not knowing what is going on. Let alone I think this is illegal to enter my apartment without a notice first? If she is the \u201cnew manager\u201d who would I bring this up with? What should I do about this? Any advice? ","title":"A \u201cnew apartment manager\u201d entered my apartment without my consent.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553989728,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7hko3\/american_airlines_conditions_of_carriage\/","id":"b7hko3","body":"I made a post a few days ago, but I\u2019m still looking for clarification.\n\nAmerican Airlines has terms in their CoC I would like clarification, here:\n\n\u201cBe at the gate 30 minutes prior to departure.\n\nIf you\u2019re not, we may reassign your seat to another passenger.\n\nThe doors close 10 minutes before departure and you will not be allowed to board once the doors close.\u201d\n\nDoes that mean at 30 minutes prior to departure they can void your entire reservation? Or does that mean they can simply reassign your seat...\n\nAA claims that by arriving at the gate 30 minutes before or later voids theirs contract with the passenger, and therefore under no additional obligation for carriage. \n\nThis seems wrong, considering the only other rules about boarding is here:\n\n\u201cAA RULE 0087 for Denied Boarding (C)(2):\n\n(D)ALL OTHER PASSENGERS ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS. HOWEVER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 60(F) (RESERVATIONS), ALL PASSENGERS MUST PRESENT THEMSELVES AT THE LOADING GATE, FOR BOARDING AT LEAST TEN MINUTES BEFORE SCHEDULED DEPARTURE.\u201d\n\nThanks for your help!","title":"American Airlines Conditions of Carriage","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539790233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ozoaf\/az_allegedly_have_partial_ownership_in_a_house\/","id":"9ozoaf","body":"Some background:\n\nMy grandmother had dementia in her last years. Somehow my oldest uncle and his wife managed to convince her that it would be a really good idea to give them $50k against the house to start up a terrible Christian daycare. More on this later.\n\nWhen my grandmother passed away in 2007 I really had no idea how to assert any inheritance rights. Most of the inheritance funds were used to pay off the $50k mortgage. I allegedly received partial ownership of my childhood home and some money, but my uncle (the youngest son) borrowed $11k of it and sent me about $10k to move out. (Never got fully paid back for the $11k but I was in Alaska at the time and had no way to get it in writing. Stupid. Live and learn.) Fast forward several years and I return from bouncing around states trying to make a living, looking to save up for college. \n\nHere's where it gets squirrely. The house I allegedly have part ownership of was barred to me when I was close to being homeless. The daycare startup mentioned at the beginning went out of business (of course), and then the oldest uncle and his wife moved in instead. Thankfully I have a much more stable financial situation now and am attending college for my bachelor's.\n\nRight before I cut off all contact with these family members for continuing abuse even after I moved beyond their immediate influence, I had asked about selling my partial ownership of the house. I was denied this, citing that the house needed \"a lot of repair\" and my youngest uncle had no money. I think that my name is actually nowhere on the paperwork for the house and I was lied to for years, but I do not want this to come back to bite me in the ass later down the road due to having my name listed anywhere on it. (Like, having to cough up property taxes or anything like that in case the oldest son screws up again.) \n\nI could use some advice in where to go, if I need to get a lawyer involved (which to be honest, I should because these people are still highly negative and abusive) and how to best go about getting this information and hopefully some kind of closure. But they are still family, so I'm hoping there's some kind of alternative.","title":"AZ: Allegedly have partial ownership in a house, being shut out of all decisions regarding said house, no contact with other owners (family)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1508261998,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77074z\/wa_how_to_legally_kick_out_23_year_old_son\/","id":"77074z","body":"I'm posting this on behalf of my mom. From my research, I do not think my brother can be considered a tenant, but that still doesn't really tell me what is within my mother's right to do.\n\n1. My mom owns the home. My brother does not pay rent, nor has he ever contributed to utilities or taken care of the home in any way.\n\n2. He's probably involved in drug activity, but we're awaiting pee results.\n\n3. My mom gave him formal notice through oral contract that he'd need to find a new place to live on the 11th by the end of the month.\n\n4. Some stuff [EDIT: He was high and started threatening my mom, then when she said she was calling the police, he left voluntarily] happened and the police got involved. They say they cannot arrest him for trespassing because he legally lives there (his license says) and he receives mail there. They told my mom that she can start eviction proceedings but that it would take 3-4 months, which is very upsetting because it's her home. \n\n5. I told her that she should file a Domestic Violence Order of Protection as a first step. [EDIT: He will often throw dishes or food on the ground or at the walls, slam doors (he broke the front door recently), and he will bang his fist on the counter or the glass of the stove top. He has threatened to commit violence against both of us before.]\n\nSo is there anything more my mom can do to speed this up? Thanks!\n\n[Another Edit: I super appreciate everyone's help! After sharing these things with my mom, she has filed an order in which he can't be within 500ft of the house, can only contact her through text unless it gets abusive, and must return the house key. The last step is having a third party serve him the papers.]","title":"[WA] How to legally kick out 23 year old son","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541115776,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9teu1h\/i_think_that_i_was_discriminated_by_federal\/","id":"9teu1h","body":"This sub wont let me post my story for whatever reason, nothing against the rules, and other subreddits keep deleting it. \n\nI am overqualified for the job that I applied and was emailed back asking if I still wanted it. They said interview would be a formality. When they found out that I am Eastern European by origin they said they dont have position available just yet and how they would let me know. I found out (by having to email and later call them) that they hired a highschool under qualified person (job position requires bachelors degree and work experience) that was a relative to the supervisor. They told me they had to hire her because of the \u201cratio\u201d. How do I go about this?","title":"I think that I was discriminated by federal employer based of my country of origin.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446254548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qwzla\/tx_can_i_do_anything_to_stop_my_grandmothers\/","id":"3qwzla","body":"Howdy, folks. A bit new to the posting scene of Reddit, so excuse if the formatting is bad.  \n  \nAnyway, my grandmother passed away not long ago from cancer. She was in a bit of a bind a couple years back, and so she put her daughter - my aunt - as the owner of the house deed (hope I'm saying that right). As far to my knowledge, she didn't leave anything in her will about who gets her home.   \nThere's some immature, bad blood amongst that side of my family between my grandmother's kids, unfortunately. There was another silly argument, and now my aunt is threatening to sell the house and keep the money, which my dad and uncle don't want as the house means more to them than just trying to make money off it.  \n  \nWhen my grandma passed, I was worried about this situation as well. Mostly because I practically grew up in that house myself as a child, so it means a lot to me, too. At first, my dad had told me that if my aunt tried to sell, him and my uncle could stop her, leading me to believe that my grandma left the home to all three of them. However, earlier this week he was really worried about her threat to sell, so I'm afraid my aunt has full ownership of the house because of the situation my grandma was in before she passed.  \n  \nI'm pretty sure I know the answer, since I'm almost certain now that my aunt has full ownership of the house, but is there anything we can do to stop her at all? \nOr is it pretty much game over for my grandma's house?  \n  \nThanks in advance, y'all.","title":"[TX] Can I do anything to stop my grandmother's house from being sold?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551475754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw9yud\/possibly_getting_fired_soon\/","id":"aw9yud","body":"Sorry for any formatting issues. I'm on mobile.\n\nI may need legal advice soon. I work in retail at a big box stores with a somewhat strict attendance policy. Our Max amount of points is 5 and I'm sitting at 4.5 due to being sick for a week. \n\nMy son (10m old) fell off of our bed while I was at work and my wife called me frantic. I immediately told my supervisor that I had to leave to take my son to the emergency room. I then spoke to an assistant store manager and told them the same. \n\nI'm planning on getting all the paperwork from the hospital to give to my manager. Would I have any legal repercussions if they were to fire me over this? \n\nThank you for reading, and I appreciate any advice.","title":"Possibly getting fired soon","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443122249,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m8in7\/bc_can_noncustodial_parent_fighting_custodial\/","id":"3m8in7","body":"Hello r\/legaladvice,\n\n \n\nI was hoping something with experience in family court could help me.\nI'm in British Columbia, Canada.\nI have a friend who is the custodial parent of a 5 year old and a 1 year old.\nShe recently enrolled her 5 year old in French Immersion school for kindergarten.\n\n \n\nHer ex-fiance and his family are now threatening to take her to family court because they don't agree with my friend's decision to put her daughter in a French Immersion program. They're also upset that the ex-fiance is not listed as a contact with the school.\n\n \n\n*Some background if it helps:\nMy friend has had a protective order against him and his family in the past for making threats (ex. the ex told my friend's brother that he was going to burn her house down with her in it, he told their 5 year old he was going to find her a new mommy and they'd all run off together).\nHe has court-ordered courses to deal with his alcohol addiction that he fails to attend. He is also incredibly behind in child support payments and owes my friend over 6K.\nIn spite of my friend providing the court with proof of all of this, family court keeps giving the ex-fiance more and more parental rights (from supervised weekend visits with an approved supervisor, to supervised weekend visits with his enabling parents as a supervisor, to them now just granting him overnight visits with the girls). Also, the ex lives in another city, about an hour away and doesn't have a valid driver's license.*\n\n \n\nMy friend is low income and has the best lawyer that she can afford right now (imo, they seem somewhat ineffective, but my opinion isn't really relevant anyways), but I was hoping someone would be able to help me answer the following questions:\n\n \n\n**1) Generally speaking, does a non-custodial parent have the right to veto the custodial parent's choice of school?**\n\nand\n\n**2) Could my friend be in trouble for not listing the ex as a contact with the school?**\n\n \n\nThank you for your help.\n\n**Update**\nMy friend's daughter's father took my friend back to family court over the matter (he is a guardian). The court ruled that being enrolled in a French immersion program isn't a good reason to pull their daughter out of that school, so she gets to stay-- which is great because she's already made a bunch of friends there. :) ","title":"[BC, Can] Non-custodial parent fighting custodial parent over where their 5 year old should go to school (and many other things)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570814605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgibrm\/tn_divorce_and_child_relocation\/","id":"dgibrm","body":"I\u2019m looking down the barrel of divorce in Tennessee. Have kids ages 7-12 and I\u2019m concerned that my wife (who is requesting the divorce) has plans to relocate kids to another state (back towards family and her new boyfriend) following divorce. We will likely end with 50\/50 custody, but I\u2019m concerned about whether the courts will allow a relocation. Does it make a difference whether the divorce is filed on grounds of fault or not. I\u2019m inclined to let the divorce proceed smoothly, but don\u2019t want to open up possibility of my kids being moved away.","title":"[TN] divorce and child relocation","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541748675,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vihps\/started_business_with_bf_i_paid_for_everything\/","id":"9vihps","body":"I opened a barbershop 6 months ago with my then bf. I stupidly fronted all the costs, used all my savings, about 30k. Now we\u2019ve had an ugly breakup and he won\u2019t leave the business to me or buy me out. I can\u2019t handle this anymore. What can I do? I don\u2019t have any money to hire a lawyer. \n\nWe are an equal LLP in Washington state. We don\u2019t have any employees, just both of us doing hair. We are leasing a space that\u2019s a live\/work space, so it\u2019s a Barbershop with a loft above it that has a living space. We both used to live in the loft, I moved out months ago and he was suppose to but hasn\u2019t. I suggested working opposite days, he won\u2019t agree to that either. I feel like my hands are tied, all my money is in this place. He has terrible credit and can\u2019t get a loan he says. He\u2019s irresponsible, doesn\u2019t pay bills, so I don\u2019t trust him to do an owner carry loan. \n\nHe also has a dog our landlord does not know about that is ruining the new flooring. Both of our names are on the lease which is up in April.\n\nI\u2019ve asked him to look for a new business partner that could buy me out but he doesn\u2019t want to do that either.\n\nI\u2019m so miserable and resentful. I hate coming into work, where he lives. Any advice on my options? I\u2019m ready to walk, but then I\u2019d lose a lot of money, he\u2019d get his dream barbershop handed to him and I don\u2019t trust him to pay the bills and take care of things that my name is still on.","title":"Started Business with bf, I paid for everything, now we broke up and he won\u2019t leave or pay me back","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553545758,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5fy0p\/boston_ma_landlord_said_were_violating_lease\/","id":"b5fy0p","body":"My roommates and I have been living in the same apartment for 2 1\/2 years now. Our lease is up in 5 months, and we don't plan on staying here. Our landlord doesn't usually come to the building often, but has been lately because she is selling the building. \n\n​\n\nShe came over last week to glue back the loose tiles in our bathroom. Knowing she's a neat freak, we make sure to clean and tidy the apartment up the best we can before she comes over. This time was no different, but after her visit she texted us complaining about how dirty the whole apartment was and that we she hire a cleaning lady if we can't do it ourselves. This is the first time since we've moved in that this has been an issue, but the room was in the same condition it usually is when she comes over.\n\n​\n\nShe came back a couple days later to do grouting. I was in the apartment this time. As soon as she walked in she started complaining about how dirty it was and asked me if we ever cleaned our rooms growing up (me and both my roommates are in our 20s). When I asked her specifically what she wanted cleaned, she said everything. \n\n​\n\nHere are some specifics she listed:\n\n* The donation box in front of our bookshelf shouldn't be out.\n* There was stuff on our tables (our dining room table has a basket and some jars, our living room table has remotes and a laptop charger)\n* There's a brown ring around a burner on our stove (it's rust)  \nA kitchen shelf we bought ourselves is disorganized\n* There were some dishes in the sink\n* The ceiling fans need to be dusted off\n* The floor mat in our bathroom is constantly wet which is why the tiles were loose (neither is true)  \nStop leaving the bathroom door closed because it builds up moisture (we never did)\n\n​\n\nThese were the specifics that my landlord thought violated our lease. However, all our lease says about cleanliness is **\"The Lessee shall maintain the leased premises in a clean condition.\"** Are the specifics listed enough to consider this a lease violation? In the case it is and we she wants to take action, could we get taken to court and evicted for this?","title":"(Boston, MA) Landlord said we're violating lease because we're not keeping our apartment clean","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502775458,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ts9zi\/guest_overstayed_their_welcome_and_betrayed_us\/","id":"6ts9zi","body":"This is really hard to write about. The last several days have been really tough. I've never posted here before so I don't know how to write all this but I guess I should just start with what happened.\n\nA while back a friend of mine and my wife's was having a tough time and we let him and his girlfriend move in temporarily until they could find their own place. We were thinking about a year or so. Things were good, but after a while by accident I stumbled on something that changed everything. I found some messages this friend had sent my wife and discovered that he was harassing her to leave me for him. I confronted my wife about it and found out it had been going on since he moved in. She said she was too embarrassed and ashamed to show me them and she was trying to find a way to stop it herself.\n\nNow you need to know a bit about my wife. She was the victim of child abuse for around 6 years by her father. It was really bad and she's diagnosed with PTSD from it. Her father is currently in prison because of what he did. She also has Aspergers which makes it hard for her to deal with social situations. And even more she's disabled with Ehlers-Danlos, a connective tissue disorder, that confines her to a wheelchair outside of the house. We have three children and she's so weakened from her disorder she doesn't even have the strength to carry one of our babies who's grown a lot in a year.\n\nI have no blame for her at all. She was trapped and bullied into a horrible social situation and was trying to find a way out. What I'm angry at is this friend, who we let into our home, that took advantage of her. My wife is the sweetest lady you will ever meet and doesn't have a harsh word for anyone. He took advantage of the most vulnerable of the vulnerable. He drove a wedge between our family. He hurt us all immensely and I don't want him in our home anymore. \n\nSo the facts are we live in Texas and we're the only tenants on the lease. My father is the owner renting-to-own to us. After they moved in we had them added to the list of people allowed to stay, but that's it. They never signed anything and my father has assured that only me and my wife are the lease holders. But these people have been living with us for a little more than a month, which my googling tells me gives them some rights. Beyond that I can't make much sense of what I'm finding. I think I have to give them some kind of eviction notice but the process for that and how long that has to be I've found conflicting info on. \n\nI want to begin the healing process with me and my wife. And we can't begin that until he's gone and out of our life. I told them I want them to move out but they refuse to leave. Even better they said that me, my wife, and our three children should move out. \n\nPlease if anyone can help I need it. Thank you.\n","title":"Guest overstayed their welcome and betrayed us","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539841316,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p6ewg\/texas_vehicle_towing\/","id":"9p6ewg","body":"Hello I just visited my friend at his apartment. I was inside for 2 hours before my car was towed. I parked in a unlabeled non covered spot and I had no reason to believe it was restricted as there are no signs in the area. My friend informed me after the fact the his lease states visitors should park in a designated area... i make French fries for a living and would rather not spend half my paycheck on towing.  What are my options? Thanks in advance :)","title":"Texas vehicle towing","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505089059,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zbynb\/ny_does_it_matter_what_kind_of_divorce_i_get_or\/","id":"6zbynb","body":"My wife had an affair, so we're getting divorced. We don't have any joint bank accounts or share any property or anything really. The divorce in theory should be as simple as legally ending the marriage. We've decided and both agree to get a divorce, and she printed out the paperwork. When she did I noticed two things that bothered me. The first is that she is the plaintiff, I'm the defendant. The other is that of the reasons NY allows divorce she chose \"irreparable breakdown in relationship\" rather than infidelity.\n\nI feel like I should be the plaintiff, being that it was originally my choice to end this, and I also feel like it should be noted that we're getting divorced because of her infidelity, and for no other reason.\n\nLegally though, does any of this matter? Will it ever come up later down the road? I dont want anything from her and she doesn't want anything from me, I just want to end the marriage.\n\nThanks.","title":"[NY] Does it matter what kind of divorce I get or whether or not I'm the plaintiff or defendant?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539484985,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nzj7g\/my_roommate_replaced_me_at_work_and_no_one\/","id":"9nzj7g","body":"I work from home. The pay is decent, but the trade off is that I never qualify for vacation days, sick days, or any other benefits. I had a situation where I couldn't get out of work, but I really needed to. My roommate, who is a close friend and currently unemployed, has seen what I do. I trained him how to do my job so that he could pretend to be me for a few hours. No one noticed. We did it again; he did a great job. It's been about 4 or 5 times by now... He replaced me for an entire day with no issues.\n\n​\n\nI have been offered a job at another company with better pay and benefits. I told my current employer that the second job won't really interfere, but in all likelihood I don't think I could hold down both jobs. My roommate still doesn't have a job. He can do mine really well and he is happy with the pay. I want him to permanently pretend to be me. What's the worst that could happen? I was going to quit anyway, so I don't care about losing the job if I'm caught. \n\n​\n\nI'm pretty confident at this point that we could pull it off without anyone ever finding out. However, the downside is that if we are ever caught, it would be utterly impossible to claim innocence or ignorance. I want to know about potential legal repercussions.\n\n​\n\nMy questions are:\n\n1) Is it against the law for my roommate to do my job without my employer's knowledge? (criminal penalties)\n\n2) Would my employer have grounds for a civil lawsuit? \n\n​\n\nKindly source your responses. Thank you in advance for your advice!\n\n​\n\nOther details: \n\n\\- A license is not required for my position\n\n\\- My roommate has the degree, but not the company experience to obtain my position on his own","title":"My roommate replaced me at work and no one noticed. Is this legal? (PA)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539810979,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p2ql1\/our_landlord_is_requesting_everyone_in_our\/","id":"9p2ql1","body":"Before you ask why not: we have an older building with double pane windows. That means that in our window with the A\/C unit, there's a gap that allows bugs to fly in. We did a good job sealing it, but removing the A\/C unit means removing the seal we created and that's a huge pain for us.\n\nThe building is also insisting that they want us to do this because our building's heating sensors will get bad readings if we have units letting air in. However, our problem is usually that there isn't ENOUGH heat. Supposedly the radiators kick on when the temp drops below 55, but when it's 56 degrees that's cold enough anyway. Obviously closing the window will keep us a little warmer, but I'd much prefer to have their sensor think it's cold than warm.\n\nNothing in our lease covers any of this. It was an email request. Frankly I'd be OK with it if I had a building where I could determine when I get heat and when I don't, but as you can imagine, the \"sensor\" system for our building's boiler means our radiators don't kick on nearly enough in the fall or spring, when it's cold enough to want some heat but not cold enough for their stupid sensors to turn on the radiators.","title":"Our landlord is requesting everyone in our building remove our A\/C units from the windows this winter. Are we obligated to oblige them?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542079136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wlawq\/in_can_my_public_schools_board_say_the_lords\/","id":"9wlawq","body":"The school board always starts with the pledge of allegiance and follows with the Lord\u2019s Prayer. Everyone in attendance follows suit. I\u2019m a teacher in the school system and not a Christian. I never say anything. It always makes me feel terribly awkward and it seems like a big violation of the separation of church and state. Is prayer in this setting illegal?","title":"[IN] Can my public school\u2019s board say the Lord\u2019s Prayer before every school board meeting?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1505425973,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/705hcn\/tx_how_to_process_an_eviction_of_an_atwill_tenant\/","id":"705hcn","body":"I have been doing more reading to help my dad ([previous thread](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7047a8\/tx_squatters_rights_and_domestic_disputes_dads\/)) evict his now-ex-girlfriend from the house he lives in. There is no lease. She has never paid rent, it was not part of an oral agreement. But he has agreed to start an eviction process to cover his rear if she drags her feet.\n\nEverything I read for evicting an at-will tenant seems to still imply that the at-will tenant is paying rent through an oral agreement, and the tenant must be 30 days late paying. They don't have one.\n\nI believe he needs to provide her with a \"Notice of Quit\" - demanding her to leave in 7 (?) days. I can't find information on how many days it should be, everything I find says \"7 or 30 days\" with no qualifiers... But he is drafting one now. Does this need to be \"served\" by another party? What forms should he have filled out and ready to file with, well, whoever it is he needs to file it with? Justice of the peace I think?\n\nTexas, Collin County, JP #4","title":"[TX] How to process an eviction of an at-will tenant that has no rent payment agreement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539794191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p09xb\/friend_wrote_a_bunch_of_illegal_stuff_a_friend\/","id":"9p09xb","body":"So this friend in a larger friend group wrote down everything they did each day and it contains a lot of illegal doings ranging from drug possession and other things with it, child pornography, and a bunch of other felonies and misdemeanors. The friend wrote this in the same notebook that they took math notes in, and when they turned it to the teacher, she flipped to the wrong page and found all of the things that friend group allegedly did. The school now has the notebook and a few parents have already been notified. \n\nWhat possibly consequences can the person who wrote in the notebook face?\n\nWhat possible consequences could the people in the friend group face?\n\nWhat should the friend group do\/say if they are questioned about this?","title":"Friend wrote a bunch of illegal stuff a friend group did in a notebook and the school read everything in it.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1442110292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kqjar\/family_lawyers_and_those_experienced_with_the\/","id":"3kqjar","body":"To make a super long and drawn out story as short as possible here is the situation.\n\nEx-wife and I have been divorced for about 4-5 years now. Have one daughter, now 7. Up until last October we had a week on week off visitation per our divorce agreement and then she quit her job (long history of being unstable at work) and since then I have had my daughter solely and support her 100%.\n\nEx only saw her sporadically since then until around March when she started seeing her on the weekends and was stable with a place to live and work with her then fiance(now split) and then it surfaced that my credit had been the victim of fraud. A few weeks later she admitted it was her and that she has had a meth addiction for at least a month at that point so I took the kid and told her she needs to get her act together and that she can see her daughter with me present until further notice.\n\nPolice reports were filed, credit is fixed, sadly nothing came of the reports in terms of her being arrested or anything of that nature.\nSince about April when the ex-wife and her fiance split she has been essentially couch surfing around the downtown area here (Reno,NV) and has been arrested on at least two occasions.\n\nIt was looking like I had a serious case going to get full custody in the courts and then within the past month she decided to skip town and now lives somewhere in California although the exact location is unknown as she was in San Jose and said she was heading further south towards the San Diego area talking about getting grants to go to Special FX school and all that nonsense.\n\nShe calls maybe once a week to talk to our daughter and I allow it mainly because my daughter wants to talk to her mother, but then after about 20 minutes the phone call is over anyways.\n\nI just got paid today and have been calling around to get pricing on consultations with family lawyers in the area. I am merely trying to get as much information as I can before dropping the $200\/hr. rate to speak to a lawyer here in town.\n\nWhat are my options?","title":"Family lawyers and those experienced with the process of acquiring full rights to the child\/ren. What are my options as a single father?(Reno,NV)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554517407,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9zr8b\/i_think_i_got_scammed_by_my_job\/","id":"b9zr8b","body":"Hey, I'm new to Reddit and this subreddit. I'm in a bit of a problem regarding my previous job and it's quite a long story.\n\nI was desperate for a new job and have been applying for coffee shop jobs on Indeed since those are becoming more in demand where I live. In the interview, I was sold the idea of being a barista while being cross-trained in other FOH tasks as well. The manager who interviewed me told me that the pay is $12\/hr plus the opportunity for tips.  Later on the day of the interview, I was called back and asked to come in the next day for a 4-hr \"shadow\" shift to see if things \"seem like a fit\" he said. It sort of made sense at the time, since he explained how you're all working for tips so it benefits to see if you work well with the employees. All I needed to do was wear a white collared shirt and dark pants. Sure, of course, I agreed to this considering how desperate I was. The next day rolls around and I start that \"shift\" and was given an apron as a uniform and was shown some of the ropes of how to make food, some drinks and so forth. After the shift, which I thought went well, I am asked to come back later that day for onboarding. The orientation process included a training packet, the usual W-4 and I9 paperwork along with an agreement of some personal hygiene acknowledgment contract that I signed. I never signed a contract for employment that I could ever recall and was never sent or shown the coffee shop's handbook or policy guidelines. I assumed they would email those. None of these documents were forwarded to me and I do not have any papers from the employment contract. I usually keep these things on hand as I like to cover my bases for this exact predicament, ironically. But desperation clouded my logic. \n\nI worked there for less than 2 weeks. I know, exceeding short. But this place was notably poorly managed and understaffed and felt like I shouldn't be treated this badly. I was explained to have a barista job but I was all over the stations. I let it slide since I was being trained. The 5-day training packet was never finished and I was never actually trained. I wanted to be a barista but I wasn't being trained. I landed another interview (thankfully) and said goodbye to this job. I emailed the owner (since it's a small company) and she asked me to return the uniform once I picked up my check on Friday. Time to pick up my check and I am dumbfounded with the wage. It was $10 and not the orally explained $12.  I am also not sure if the 4-hour \"shadow shift \"was even considered since I wasn't officially registered\/onboarded yet. \n\nNow, I am not sure if I even have a solid case against them here. I don't have any contracts of the wage promised except an oral explanation from the interview, which I don't think can be considered an oral contract, no electronic or physical contracts or paperwork from the company and **I don't even have an offer letter\/email.** Is there any legal action to take? I am waiting for a response from the owner via email to explain the wage differences and fear they will stick with the $10\/hr since I don't have any paperwork stating the promised $12\/hr. Anything will help.","title":"I think I got scammed by my job","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551507437,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aweqzr\/issues_with_roommates_the_leasing_agent_told_us\/","id":"aweqzr","body":"My partner and I signed a lease with another couple in August 2018 (Los Angeles, CA). Things went south within a few months and the property management company agreed to allow a future sublessor to take over our portion of the lease. They instructed us to send written consent and include our move-out-date in the letter. \n\nWe were within a week of the move-out date and our roommates had not found a sublessor. Things were growing extremely hostile and our roommates proposed (in email and text) take over the rent in full if we agreed to move out. They even wrote in the text message that we were \"released of all liability. We asked them to take over the lease via the agency, but they didn't want to. This did not sit well with us so my husband went to the leasing agency to inquire if anything could be done. At this point in time we were also considering filing a civil harassment lawsuit against our roommates and we wanted to inform the property management company of our intent to do so. To our surprise, the manager told him that we could move out and that they would send us confirmation of our names being removed from the lease once the move out process was complete. We were hesitant to believe her, it seemed to good to be true, so he sent an email recapping their discussion. **The manager reconfirmed via email that we would be taken off the lease once we were moved out.** \n\nWe agreed to move out and our roommates agreed to take over the rent. A week later we were fully moved out and our roommates gave us back the security deposit in full. We immediately notified the leasing agency in writing per their instructions. Photos our of empty room were even included in the notification. \n\nThe next day, another representative from the leasing agency emails us saying that the information the other manager gave us was not accurate and that we were still on the lease. Our roommates paid the rent on their own in full last month, but now it's March and the rent isn't paid. \n\nWe're not sure what the next step should be. Not paying two rents is preferred, but we do not want to jeopardize our credit. What type of lawyer should we be looking for? Is this a civil lawsuit with the roommate or should we be looking for a landlord tenant lawyer? \n\n​","title":"Issues with roommates. The leasing agent told us via email that they would send us confirmation of being taken off the lease after move out. We moved out. Another manager is stating that we're still on the lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542171312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wwxfa\/question_regarding_child_support_australia\/","id":"9wwxfa","body":"Hey there, my partner is currently finalizing a divorce and with that comes child support issues.\n\nHis son, Dean, is 11 and spends most of the time with his mother - they live about 20 minutes away from us. We see him every second weekend. The mother does not have a job and hasn\u2019t worked since Dean was born. She has no legitimate reason for not working (no disability etc.), she became a stay at home mum when Dean was born and just never stopped that.\n\nMy partner is a manager and gets paid quite well so his child support payments to her are astronomical which is fairly expected - however it is getting really difficult as the payments go up and up every month. He now gives her over $1000 a month for Dean.\n\nI am wondering how it is possible that she get away with not working while my partner has to pay for everything? We assume she is on a single parents benefit and maybe rent assistance, but it is painful knowing that almost all of that child support is actually helping her live rather than being used for Dean. No 11 year old boy coats $250+ a week to raise. He goes to a public school and my partner also pays for a lot of his clothing and AFL registration \/ events.\n\nIt\u2019s just frustrating as she seems to be getting away with doing nothing while more and more money goes straight in to her pocket. She has no interest in working and has made that clear for the last 11 years. Just wondering if we have any legal rights here?\n\nFor some extra details the divorce is still underway but they have been separated for around 4 years, my partner stayed for Dean during that time. Also I am pregnant and due in April. We haven\u2019t informed child support of that yet, not sure if it even makes a difference. We live in Queensland, Australia.\n\nI want to clarify that my partner has no problem paying child support - he doesn\u2019t want to get out of it and honestly if this is just the way the system works, so be it. We just don\u2019t want to keep forking out all this money for her if she should be working and putting in for Dean too.\n\nThanks so much in advance.","title":"Question regarding child support (Australia)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505829475,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7134qx\/am_i_actually_responsible_for_paying_comcast\/","id":"7134qx","body":"About a month ago we stopped having working internet in our apartment. I went and bought a new router\/modem but that was not the problem. I called Comcast and had them run every diagnostic test they could, but it always came back to my router not picking up a signal. They couldn't help so I had to schedule an appointment for a technician to come out. All work that was done by the technician was outside of our apartment. I believe they installed new wires and a new splitter. Now I have a charge on my account for the service. Is it still my responsibility to pay it since the problem occurred outside of my apartment. Would that fall on the landlord? Thanks for your help.","title":"Am I actually responsible for paying Comcast repair fee? (pennsylvania)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555535856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bed62a\/my_ex_took_it_upon_herself_to_create_a_post_on_a\/","id":"bed62a","body":"Im pretty desperate to receive some insight on this matter. My ex created a Post on a website that specializes in allowing people to tell their story in order to gather sympathy and money from both family and strangers. Allow me to solidify my position on this. I would absolutely encourage people to do what they believe is best for themselves and their family, even if it means attempting to seek financial assistance from outside sources. What I have a problem with is accusing someone falsely and maliciously - dragging their name through the mud. I firmly believe that there\u2019s always two sides to a story and for the most part, we all have varying levels of instability. I would rather not like to get into detail  and meticulously break down as to what was said about me that is wildly inaccurate. What kind of legal recourse, if any, would I have in this matter? She\u2019s managed to vilify me well enough to where friends and family on both sides are beginning to perceive me in a negative sense. I currently have temporary, primary custody until an October hearing where a final decision on custody will be made. For additional context, I was put in a position as a concerned parent where I felt like I needed to protect my rights, legally. I also needed to take the appropriate measures in order to assure that my daughter was removed from a bad situation, hence, why they awarded me temporary, primary custody. I would also add that I\u2019ve not caused any harm to either my daughter\u2019s well-being or her mother in any physical way. Any help would be gladly appreciated, cheers!","title":"My ex took it upon herself to create a post on a popular fundraising website and said some pretty slanderous things about me.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571188056,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dihppo\/suing_for_a_restraining_order\/","id":"dihppo","body":"The mother of my daughter alleged several crimes of domestic violence against me. She was issued a 180 day restraining order against me last year (October 8 2018). We had a family court hearing 9\/30\/2019 and the judge ruled I am not a threat to my daughter and I may keep her one week per month. The mother lives out of state, filled an emergency protective order on me and the behalf of my daughter (while I have her) October 4th 2019 and doesn\u2019t get to me until October 11th 2019. My hearing is tomorrow morning October 16th 2019. The police showed up and made me give my daughter back to the mothers family...\nI cannot go so I had to hire an out-of-state attorney to represent me on this matter. Everything she is alleging has already been addressed in Court 9\/30\/2019. Can I sue her for a false restraining order for costs to hire my attorney?","title":"Suing for a Restraining order","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1441929625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kh5za\/va_tenancy_question\/","id":"3kh5za","body":"I subleased to someone who moved in and lived with me and a friend but now they have disappeared leaving some things behind (I message them on Facebook but they do not respond even though it shows that they have read my message). I included in the sublease that if they did not pay rent they had to move out all belongings within seven days. day one of the seven days begins tomorrow. Essentially if he does not pay up I plan on switching the locks out on the 17th and obviously terminating his residency because he has not kept up his side of the contract; on top of this I plan to keep\/sell anything of his left in the residence by the 17th. I will be calling and talking to an attorney to further go over this but wanted to also ask on here. Please feel free to ask about more details. Is there anyway that he can get around or fight this? what should I expect? I also have his deposit. He is also late on 2 utilities now.","title":"[VA] Tenancy Question:","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552680442,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1jjgd\/ohio_i_got_my_learners_driving_permit_in\/","id":"b1jjgd","body":"As an internship for community college, I decided to apply for a job on a groundskeeping crew at the local zoo. However, while I\u2019ve heard their policy on employees not having full drivers licenses became lax enough that I might be able to be eligible, I don\u2019t know if that will change somehow once I turn 21. \n\nWhat happens when I turn 21? Do I have to update my permit or something? What problems could be posed by not having a full driving license until several months after turning 21?","title":"[Ohio] I got my learner\u2019s driving permit in September of last year. I turn 21 in July of this year, but I won\u2019t be able to take a full driving license test until this coming September. Does this affect my ability to get a seasonal job as a groundskeeper?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540771679,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s86m7\/my_aunt_is_married_to_an_affluent_man_who_was\/","id":"9s86m7","body":"They\u2019ve been married for 10 years and this is in Delaware. They are both in military and she has been nursing him through aggressive cancer for the last 5 years. He is a lawyer so I am worried this olive branch could have strings we aren\u2019t aware if. Thanks in advance. ","title":"My aunt is married to an affluent man who was cheating on her with two different women. They are separated and about to start divorce process. He has offered her his Porsche to sell for some quick cash for living expenses. Can this come back to hurt her later on?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568576717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4pfq2\/do_i_have_grounds_for_a_workplace_harassment_suit\/","id":"d4pfq2","body":"I feel a manager of mine has been verbally harassing me for months. Not name calling or anything. Just a general disregard for mutual respect and an incredibly negative attitude followed by rude remarks. \n\nThis has happened since the day I met him, when I was three days away from giving birth. I brushed it off as them being new and trying to establish dominance in their new supervisory role. I went on maternity leave and tried to not let our first interaction leave an impression. \n\nBut since I\u2019ve been back, about 2.5 months now, it seems my first impression was right. He is constantly yelling at me for little things, making rude snarky remarks and just making my work life miserable in general. \n\nI\u2019ve talked to other supervisors about it as well as the director of HR and nothing has come of it. \n\nToday, the situation escalated and I, unfortunately, reacted negatively and stormed out. I came back after calming down to speak to a manager about the situation but they weren\u2019t here today. \n\nAs advice from another manager, I went ahead and took the rest of the day off to decompress. \n\nI\u2019m terrified of being fired. But his constant barraging of disrespect has severely effected me to the point I\u2019m considering a harassment suit. \n\nBut do I have grounds? And how would I begin to start a suit?\n\nThanks redditors","title":"Do I have grounds for a \u201cworkplace harassment\u201d suit. [OR, USA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553216773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3yoww\/wa_manager_has_made_blatantly_racist_comments\/","id":"b3yoww","body":"Hi, I'm a fast-food worker in WA. I work at a Jack in the Box in a college town, and my manager (M)  has made many disparaging comments about black folks around myself and a black coworker(D). My coworker has been here for over a year and says he is used to the comments, but keeps them in mind in case he decides something needs to be done. \n\nI have a few examples, but here's one: a black customer came into our lobby to complain that I charged him for an order that was voided, so he wasn't actually charged but the charge was pending until it went away. M immediately met him with an aggressive tone and escalated the situation to cursing and insults from the customer. \n\nAfter that interaction she approached me and D and said, \"I should've known he'd be trouble as soon as he came in. Those people always are.\" Then she looks at D, laughing, and says, \"Your people! I'm surprised you've lasted so long. Most of you don't last more than a month.\" \n\nD responded, \"Come on M, you know most of us aren't like that, 99% of black folks are good people\" \n\nM literally says, \"It's the other way around, you're the 1% D, the rest are all trouble.\" \n\nThat's just one example of the things she's said and I've only been here a month and some change. D probably has loads of stories like that and I can't imagine how many black people have been fired because of her bias. We don't have any recording or hard evidence unfortunately. What should be done? Or what are D's options? Obviously I'm not the victim of discrimination here, but it doesn't seem like D is looking into it currently and I'm curious about the situation. \n\nThanks for any help. \n\nTL;DR: My manager is racist toward black people and my coworker has dealt with it for a while and we\/I are curious about what could\/should be done. We don't have any recorded evidence of said comments but we have multiple instances of this behavior. \n\n","title":"(WA) Manager has made blatantly racist comments to\/around coworker. What can be done?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539732806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ot0q2\/medical_concerns_mean_i_dont_want_to_be_around\/","id":"9ot0q2","body":"Hi all, first time poster. I have a theoretical question about workplaces and flu shots.\n\nI work for a state government somewhere in the western US, in an office building with \\~400 other people in it. There are \\~30 people in my suite that I routinely see. I have a few medical conditions and, while I\u2019m not severe enough to be called immunocompromised, my immune system\u2019s strength goes up and down with the status of those conditions. My HR is aware of these conditions since I have a service dog who alerts to sudden changes in those conditions. My coworkers have largely been great about having him around, overall we all get along.\n\nHowever, recently I\u2019ve learned that many of my coworkers (think >\u00bc of the suite) are adamantly opposed to flu shots. They refuse to get them, believe they don\u2019t protect you anyway, the whole 9 yards.\n\nI\u2019ve had the flu many times since being diagnosed - especially since I need routine doctor appts & bloodwork, and just going to those offices exposes you to demographics more biased towards the ill. So I\u2019m also likely exposed to more sick people than my anti-vaxxer coworkers. Last year alone I had the flu twice, both Strain A and B, and missed almost 3 weeks of work (using up all my sick time and some of my- very limited- vacation time.) It was highly unpleasant and obviously I\u2019d like to avoid a repeat.\n\nMy question is whether I can reasonably ask to not work face-to face with coworkers who refuse to get a flu shot. My doctor wrote me a note saying I should \u201cavoid contact\u201d with non-vaccinated people, but they leave the interpretation up to workplaces unless it\u2019s a highly immunocompromised person. My work might interpret it as just \u201cminimizing time\u201d with those coworkers.\n\nObviously, I\u2019d be polite about asking, and I have no delusions about forcing anybody to get a shot they don\u2019t want to. However, I\u2019m a scientist, my mom\u2019s a doctor, and I feel it\u2019s important to recognize the validity of medical evidence and not pretend otherwise.  Our office has phones, email, etc, so I\u2019m assuming anybody who I couldn\u2019t work face-to-face with could communicate another way.  I\u2019m well aware that I\u2019ll still be exposed to a certain risk of flu, like anybody else, but I\u2019d just like to cut down on that as much as possible.\n\nI haven\u2019t acted on this yet, and am not sure that acting on it would be a good idea. I\u2019m not sure what I might be getting into. Mostly I\u2019m just wondering if I could be penalized for this request since it might \u201cimpact my performance\u201d. I\u2019m applying for a raise in about a month and our state HR is notorious for denying it based on the tiniest of reasons.\n\nThanks ahead of time for your thoughts!","title":"Medical concerns mean I don't want to be around coworkers who don't have the flu shot (United States)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570106401,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcqbl0\/falsely_accused_of_a_home_invasion\/","id":"dcqbl0","body":"Hello. I live in Flint, Michigan, and I was recently accused of a Home invasion, and put into custody of city lockup for three consecutive days, and before my release the charges were dropped down to unlawful entry.\n\nSo there I was walking down the street going to my friends house, when all of the sudden two people in a black dodge avenger, a black male, and a female pulled up behind me slowly creeping, so I motioned for then to pull around me as i moved over, they never did, so I turned the corner and they kept following behind me, then proceeded to come up next to me and ask me: \"were you the one that broke into our house?\" To that, I responded \"no. Why would I break into someone elses house when I'm living in a motel right now and my house has no water or power\" and the whole time they were on the phone and they kept pestering me so I kept walking forward, they then proceeded to skirt off and whipped around the corner to the right, so I proceeded to go left (which was my original direction of intention) I kept walking for about 500 feet when I was nearly toward my friends house they drove up on me fast this time, this time there were three of them so they jumped out their car and pointed at me and said \"it was you\" and started running after me so I ran for my life screaming rape (I know I know) and these neighbors of my friend came out of their house and at this point I was hysterical so I asked them if they had a phone i could use to call my mom and 911, by this time they got back in their car and said to us: \"we'll be back\" they proceeded to invite me inside to shelter cover from the threat that those people made against me.  The nice lady let me call my mom to come get me, and she called the cops for me about the threat and accusation those folks made against me. About ten to fifteen minutes later the police arrivs at their door. They asked for me, I went out there, the cop said \"put your hands behind your back youre under arrest for home invasion\" and I started balling my eyes out. I literallt felt like my life was being taken from be before my very eyes. They took me to the city lockup, booked me, and put me away for three days for a crime I did not commit based off word of mouth of false accusations. Mind you, the cop never read my miranda rights to me. What is upur best legal advice for this crime I did not commit? I have jury trial on the 17th of this month.","title":"Falsely Accused of a home invasion","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446442011,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r6e07\/fl_33009_how_do_i_hold_a_comcast_agent_to_his_word\/","id":"3r6e07","body":"Basically, Comcast's website says there's a 300 GB cap in my area, after dealing with a sales agent he said he is 200% percent sure there will be no cap with a deal. He said his supervisor approved the deal. How do hold them to it (in the case of a overcharge fee)?\n\nEdit; After calling today, the Sales Rep told me that he and his supervisor confirmed that my area is not capped. My zip code however is on the list of capped areas. Is he blatantly lying to me?","title":"(FL, 33009) How do I hold a comcast agent to his word.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570865783,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgrzuj\/possible_ebay_lawsuit\/","id":"dgrzuj","body":"I had an eBay listing taken down because it didn\u2019t follow ebay policy. \n\nAfter arguing with 2 supervisors, it has been proved my listing did follow ebay policy, as well as United States Code for my specific item. They also stated they will not ask to reinstate my posting and recommended me to not list it again or I will face a ban..... even though my listing never violated policy. \n\nAn hour later, I had 4 back-to-back refunds which was immediately deducted from my PayPal. \n\nOdd thing is, those items were literally mailed out this morning. \n\nI called eBay and talked to yet another supervisor who told me that I \u201cvoluntarily refunded the money and they can\u2019t do anything about it.\u201d She said I had to literally approve the refund that the buyer manually initiated. \n\nYeah fucking right. Why would i voluntarily refund the money when I just mailed the items out the same day? \n\nI messaged each buyer and ask why and if they initiated a refund. Every one of them were confused and said \u201cno, I did not\u201d. Basically they were wanting to know wtf is going on. One of the return reasons were \u201cworthless items\u201d....the buyer was appalled when I asked him about it. \n\nSomething is going on. \n\nI call eBay back and speak with a resolution team. He looks into it, reads the messages between the buyers and I and says \u201cthis is odd, the refunds were voluntary so we can\u2019t do anything, but I will send this information of the buyers stating they didn\u2019t initiate a refund to my superiors. We can\u2019t do anything for you since you voluntarily refunded the items.\u201d \n\nWhat the fuck.... I sound crazy just telling this story... \n\nI have a suspicion the first two guys I spoke with about removing my post has something to do with it. We had an hour long heated argument.\n\nWhat should I do? Does this sound like a possible lawsuit?","title":"Possible eBay lawsuit","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570128636,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcv8vo\/possibility_of_losing_my_job_to_be_home_with_my\/","id":"dcv8vo","body":"Hopefully I\u2019m posting this in the right place. As the title states, I\u2019m facing being \u201clet go\u201d from my job in Colorado while my mother undergoes brain surgery at home in Missouri. I\u2019ve been with my current employer for 2 months, but we\u2019ve  found out a few weeks ago that my mom has cancer, and we just found out LAST WEEK that it\u2019s spread to her brain and there\u2019s several tumors. I had requested last week off when I first started (before discovery of cancer) and was granted my week. She undergoes her brain surgery tomorrow to remove only one of the tumors before they can begin chemo and radiation.\n\nI\u2019ve been in touch with my supervisor and HR as soon as the discovery of the cancer was made and before the knowledge of the tumors. I was told I would not be able to be granted FML considering I haven\u2019t been employed with them for 12 months. However, HR told me they could grant me one month of leave. Now they\u2019re saying that to get that one month of leave I would need to be employed for 6 months but they\u2019re going to try to push it through\u2014no guarantees. \n\nI\u2019m the only one making arrangements for my mother and I was made power of attorney a couple of days ago. I have filled out and faxed my request for my one month leave but I\u2019ve yet to hear anything. \n\nWhat is there, if anything, that I could do to ensure that I don\u2019t lose my job? I don\u2019t think that this is fair and my situation is obviously something that I can\u2019t control. Any insight helps.","title":"Possibility of losing my job to be home with my mother during brain surgery","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568901565,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6eful\/apartment_complex_wont_fix_ac_florida\/","id":"d6eful","body":"I\u2019m posting on behalf of my best friend who doesn\u2019t use social media or reddit. This takes place in Hillsborough County, Florida.\n\nHer AC unit has been having issues since June, they said it was a freon leak. They sent people out to fix it, it would work for a few days and then break again. Now putting more freon in it doesn\u2019t help at all. They gave them portable window units for the two bedrooms, which helps a little bit, but the rest of the apartment in unlivable and most nights they leave to sleep elsewhere. The portable units are also loud and they have safety concerns over being unable to close and lock their windows as a result.\n\nMost nights their apartment is 83 or 84 degrees inside.\n\nThey also have a toddler who has been breaking out in heat rash and is starting to have respiratory problems as a result.\n\nThey were told a separate company would be sent out to fix it on 9\/11. It is a week later and it hasn\u2019t happened. Her SO went to the office to get more information, the worker said he has none and has no control over the situation, when he asked to speak with the manager they guy laughed in his face. \n\nFrom what I understand, this is definitely illegal. What we aren\u2019t sure of, is what to do to force them to fix it. Some options we\u2019ve read about are withholding rent\/being able the break the lease. I\u2019ve also been told she should call the state building inspector or threaten to. She does not necessarily want to break the lease and move if possible. What is the best course of action to get them to fix it once and for all?","title":"Apartment complex won\u2019t fix AC - Florida","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553730596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6bp0n\/i_landed_in_a_house_with_a_shady_landlord_after\/","id":"b6bp0n","body":"Hi, all. \n\nFor context with this question, I live in a college town, so housing wasn't plentiful when my ex assaulted me. In order to escape him, I had to settle for what I could get. As it turns out, what I could get seemed like a pretty good deal; the previous tenant was offering two month's advance rent as an incentive to get someone on the lease and get her son off it.\n\nUnfortunately, what I didn't realize is that this house had a lot of problems. \n\nThe heater is so messed up that my utilities in the winter were $400 a month. There is no air conditioning, and two of the rooms are locked up, so it's impossible for me to do any kind of preventative weather stripping (believe me, I tried). This was actually an improvement over what it was like for the last tenant; I received word from the municipal energy company that the winter utilities for my house were close to $600 a month. I had to freeze my ass off the entire winter to get a heating bill that was under $500. \n\nThe leasing company I rent from forced me to pay an extra $80 for an emotional support animal, which is illegal as fuck. They also allow a bunch of pothead party animals to live next to me without any kind of consequences or anything like that. This past year, they put a bunch of fireworks in a pair of shoes and exploded them on the street. \n\nThey regularly go into my house without giving me notice. The secretary claims she did give me notice, but I highly doubt that's true.\n\nAs such, I have secured another place to live. I'm now looking for someone to take over my lease, but a lot of them specifically ask about the heating bill and the AC. I may be many things, but I am not shady about the kind of stuff that could ruin someone's life. It's looking like I may have to choose between paying rent for a place I'm not living in (which I can't afford) or defaulting on the rent, which would lead to me being evicted. My third choice is to break the lease legally, but I have no idea how to do that. \n\nCan you tell me how to do that, y'all? ","title":"I landed in a house with a shady landlord after escaping domestic violence. What can I do to get out of this lease? Is my plan a good one, or should I rethink? (VA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541657257,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v7jz3\/relentless_bullying_school_doing_nothing\/","id":"9v7jz3","body":"Location: PA\n\nMy younger sister has been struggling with depression lately and has been seeking help, but can\u2019t seem to catch a break. I\u2019m completely across the country and can\u2019t physically help, so I\u2019m hoping to at least try to get some advice that I may be able to give to her \/ my family. \n\nMy younger sister is a senior in high school. This past year, she was diagnosed with depression and has been at the doctors frequently trying to initially diagnose and now treat it. It\u2019s gotten progressively worse as time has gone on, and she\u2019s doing everything she can to keep from having to be hospitalized for it. But between other students, teachers, and the school itself, things are only continuing to go downhill. \n\nStudents: She\u2019s been bullied pretty heavily for years now; dropping hotdogs down her shirt, social media posts \/ rumors about her, told to go kill herself, etc. Her house was egged this year (they live down a random ass dirt road, wasn\u2019t by coincidence). She\u2019s gone to the school countless times and they rarely do anything if at all. Just a few days ago, a couple of kids started texting her telling her to kill herself and that her and her best friend should go back to the psych ward and strings of other comments. She went to the guidance counselor and then spoke to the principal and was told that if they did anything else that then they\u2019d look into it. Today, the one made a comment about how it\u2019s good she didn\u2019t say anything to anyone because \u201csnitches get stitches\u201d, presumably meaning they weren\u2019t even spoken to. My parents ended up yelling at her for not blocking them from texting her sooner. \n\nTeachers: Due to the process of being diagnosed, changing doses, treatments, etc, she\u2019s missed a good bit of school (all doctors excused). One teachers has been just awful about it, even though she does all the work she\u2019s supposed to. She consistently makes comments about how convenient it is that she was absent. How she must have a doctor that will just wrote her a note whenever she wants one, so on and so forth. \n\nSchool: She\u2019s has problems with kids for several years now, and the school never does anything about it. She\u2019s worried they won\u2019t do anything about it this time either, or that if she got police involved nothing would come of it, as one of the kid\u2019s dad is a cop. Her friend has had to get an RFA against one of the kids because of his harassment. It\u2019s ridiculous. A kid killed himself when I was in school there years ago and they cared about bullying for about two weeks and called it a day. \n\nWhat can she do? What kind of recourse does she have? Can she go to the police over this even though it\u2019s mostly cyber bullying type stuff? Would going over the head of the principal be worth it? The school won\u2019t help her. It\u2019s at the point she\u2019s ready to be pulled from school, but she graduates in January. Frankly, I don\u2019t know if she can \u201cjust deal with it\u201d too then. She\u2019s called me crying countless times the last few weeks. I told her to try to get a teacher there I knew and got along with well to help her out with it all but I don\u2019t know if anything will come of it. Any advice is greatly appreciated. ","title":"Relentless Bullying - School Doing Nothing","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570052935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dch63m\/noncompete_agreement_and_stealing_work_from_the_va\/","id":"dch63m","body":"My bf has a company I work for as well. We sell medical equipment to the VA hospital in DC. His cousins are contractors for him but we never had them sign a contract or anything. \n\nOne of his cousins started his own company and works for other medical rquipment conpanies. The thing is if he can get paid better for one job he decides which company to bring it to. The workers at the VA just give him the job, don't specify which company then when it come times to get paid he tells them which company he works for to give the money to. \n\nHe never worked in this industry before and my bf who is the owner trained him on everything he knows.\n\nHow the VA gives out work is mostly bribery (you give them cash or ake hem out and they give you jobs). I feel like this is clearly a violation because he decides which company he gives the work to, he started his own company while working for us, and he bribes them to get more work. \n\nIs there anything we might be able to do even though we never signed a contract. It was pretty ingormal since everyone is family. We gave him an updated terms of employment that included one basically saying if you continue to work here these are our new terms and it had a non-compete claus in it. \n\nIt feels like they all used my bf since he had money and work then back stabbed him even though they are all family.","title":"Non-compete agreement and stealing work from the VA","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1446929652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rxgsq\/nj_help_to_avoid_deadbeat_beneficiaries_that_will\/","id":"3rxgsq","body":"I recently came into a large inheritance that's spread into numerous banks, and when combined with my savings, will need a financial advisor (major corporation as Fidelity) and a trust & will for naming beneficiaries.\n\nI have investments in two corporations, mine & inheritance, and have started to make plans to condense them into one, and have realized that there's a huge problem concerning beneficiaries. I have only one relative that I'm in contact with, and he's in his late 70's. Additionally, he's always been irresponsible, has no common sense, etc. \nHe would clearly \"blow\" the entire amount quickly.\n\nI have one friend who thinks and lives as I do, and I would like to name him as beneficiary, but can't unless a trust or other means can prevent his sister and her daughter from access upon his death. He has two sisters and one has never been responsible for her own life. There's nothing wrong with her, this is her choice. She lived with their mother until the mother's death, and now lives in my friend's basement, and will for life. Additionally, she got pregnant and this daughter also lives there and has the same mindset. She's probably around 20 now. She routinely gives money to the church instead of paying for her own place to live or give my friend rent. She would make a large gift to her church and blow the rest on handouts to anyone with a sob story. She would respond as the lottery winners who are broke after a year.\n\nAccording to Google, there's ways to name a beneficiary and then on the person's death have any remaining funds go to someone else. This is usually done in family situations to protect grandkids, etc. This is what I need to do before condensing investments, as bringing what's in one company to another, to have a large investment in one company as an IRA. The friend is already named as beneficiary for the IRA in the company that the investments will end up in, and will get much larger after adding another bank's investments, so protection needs to be added first. \n\nIn addition to the IRA needing to be protected, the trust needs to have the usual purpose for the rest of the assets, as explained above. After my death, all assets going to one person and after that person's death, the remaining assets go to someone else of my choosing (or charity), NOT to be split to that person's heirs.\n\nIs what I want possible?\n\nThanks for any HELP!!!","title":"(NJ) Help to avoid deadbeat beneficiaries that will \"BLOW\" an inheritance combined with savings from a lifetime of hard work","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554824166,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb9dd8\/school_has_banned_student_from_using_bathrooms\/","id":"bb9dd8","body":"About a week ago our school closed down all but 3 bathrooms (in a school of approximately 2000 students) due to student shoving toilet paper down the toilets and causing them to break.  While this was an inconvenience it didn't really matter until yesterday. Yesterday our school closed all the bathrooms due to I think people continuing to shove toilet paper down them and blocking the pipes. This is quite unfair to the rest of the students that due to the wrong doing of a handful of students that no one gets access to the bathrooms at all.  \n\n\nMy question is, is this legal? Does the school have the right to deny us the use of the bathroom? The school is a private school and not a public school.  \n\n\nThanks","title":"School has banned student from using bathrooms.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539472795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ny8nh\/ohio_a_misdemeanor_in_domestic_violence_and\/","id":"9ny8nh","body":"Have i lost my right to own a firearm? My attorney did not make this clear in the proceedings up to my plea agreement and since i was not instructed by my judge not to, i am unaware of my rights. i work in the firearms industry and the situation is bizarre to me. I have a Firearm that while not used in the alleged crime, was confiscated. The plaintiff has since admitted fault for her drug fueled rampage, where i wound up catching the charge of a felony and pleaded down. i want my life back. i want to know my rights and restrictions.","title":"[OHIO] A Misdemeanor In Domestic Violence And Firearms Rights.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568936316,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6mc5r\/my_11_daughter_wants_to_change_her_last_name_to\/","id":"d6mc5r","body":"So my daughter is 11 now and her bio dad has never really been in her life, he was on drugs really bad and was abusive. She knows who he is, his name and what he has done. We werent married. He has seen her maybe a handful of times since I left him. I gave him the option many times to talk with her and still be in her life. First starting out with phone calls and making sure he was clean and that he wouldnt come in and out of her life. But there has been 1 phone call and 1 video chat and 1 xmas gift. I left him when she was 2. He signed over his rights to her when she has 3. I was wondering how I could get her name changed since she is still a child. She doesnt want his last name and this was all her idea but I cant say that it hasn't crossed my mind. I live in georgia and I'm kinda confused on the laws or if I can just go and change it with no problems.","title":"My 11 daughter wants to change her last name to my last name!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569936115,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbtbct\/sec_large_trader_registration_requirement_legal\/","id":"dbtbct","body":" I like to Stock day trade and scalp in large amounts but my profits are still small as I am still learning.\n\nI  did however, with the amount of scalping I do, get flagged by my brokerage stating I should register with the SEC as a \"Large Trader\" via  SEC Form 13H.\n\nIs this a requirement? and does this incur a penalty if I do not register? (I'd prefer not to register if I am able, since my brokerage firm says it  should not affect my account whether I do or not).\n\nOpen to any suggestions. Thank you.","title":"SEC \"Large Trader\" registration requirement - legal penalty for not doing so?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570876087,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgteel\/twin_and_i_are_moving_in_6_months_and_littlest\/","id":"dgteel","body":"I\u2019m in USA, Ohio. I\u2019m putting real ages in hope and fear that it will not come back to bite me.\n\nMy brother and I (18 and 21) are leaving to move to our own place in 6 months (the plan, anyway). Problem is our parents (46M and 42F) can\u2019t really parent that well. Mom is bedridden and Dad is working 10-14 hour shifts 5-6 days a week. Littlest brother is 11 years old. \n\nWhen my brother and I leave, 12yo is going to have to fend for himself and my mom (and put up with dad). I\u2019m trying to figure out options so he can be cared for properly. We do have grandparents in the area, but they are super non-confrontational and most likely would not take 11yo in due to the home being \u201cgood enough\u201d. \n\nI made a post on r\/relationshipadvice , and I detailed bits about why I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll be safe here. Dad is constantly tired, angry, or not even home and my mom can\u2019t get out of bed for more than an hour or two most days. 11yo is homeschooled through an online academy (OHVA) I have basically raised him since he was born due to my mom being so ill, so I guess he\u2019s more like a son than brother? Idk, I\u2019m still really young. The apartment is constantly messy, my parents are horders and there is mold and bug carcasses and dust everywhere. Bro and I do our best to keep walkways cleared, toss away rotten food, and clean so there\u2019s less health hazards, but as soon as we stop for a few hours it\u2019s all back to square one.\n\nAnyway, I need help figuring out options. As things are right now, my bro and I would maybe be able to financially support 11yo (aside from the fact Twin gets easily annoyed by 11yo tween antics). I\u2019m scared about calling CPS due to them most likely not being able to do anything and the fallout around it. I have no idea what to do, I want my littlest brother to be okay, grow up healthy and happy, but this place is so gross and drains life that we\u2019re all sick constantly.\n\nAre there any programs I can apply for? Any info I can look up to help? Support groups? Is CPS my best option at this point?\n\nMy mom is legally disabled but my parents make too much to be able to get gov assistance, just so that is out of the way.\n\nThank you.","title":"Twin and I are moving in 6 months and littlest brother needs cared for","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539278197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nbw9a\/car_insurance_help\/","id":"9nbw9a","body":"Here's the skinny: my stepfather, my sis, my mom, and me are living with my brother and his wife and child. This morning my brother hit the back of my stepdad's truck, busted the tail-light. Brother's own tail-light got fucked, his bumper, and the trunk is bent in. I believe they are both fully covered. My stepdad is definitely filing an insurance claim. What can my brother expect, like insurance rates wise, etc? \n\n(I should also mention the insurance is in my sister in law's and her father's name.)","title":"Car insurance help?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542214809,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x1vl2\/college_student_19m_dealing_with_a_female_stalker\/","id":"9x1vl2","body":"I\u2019m a college student in upstate New York and my life is slowly going to hell as a result of stalking. I broke up with a fellow student, who I had only dated for about 8 months, about a month ago. We broke up on a Thursday morning, and then Sunday morning at 2am the police came and detained me over a false kidnapping tip. After the tip was proven to be false, I saw the student in school on Tuesday with no explanation. \n\nI attempted, at the advice of a therapist, to reach out and try to understand the situation. After my attempts to mediate the situation, with help from the school, were refused, I decided to lay low and document everything. I have not had any direct contact with this person in four weeks, and as a result they are now stalking me through campus.\n\nThe student follows me all over campus; coming by my residence, waiting outside my classroom, bothering authority figures like my athletics coaches with phone calls for me because I\u2019ve since blocked her number, and generally trying to approach me in public.\n\nFour incident reports have been filed, by myself and also an anonymous person who I believe to be one of my mutual friends, to the school about the stalking behavior. However all of my attempts to get a restraining order through title IX or the campus judicial system have failed or been delayed. I am losing friends and losing positions in student organizations because everyone is fed up with dealing with my problem. In addition, mutual friends that have reached out on my behalf to ask her to leave me alone have been rebuked.\n\nIs this the point where I try to get an Order of Protection?","title":"College student (19M) dealing with a female stalker","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1542236692,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x58si\/i_did_7_years_but_plead_guilty_for_only_four\/","id":"9x58si","body":"Like the title says I spent 7 years in a county jail and at the end took a plea just to get the hell out of there. The county I was in is so corrupt I just want to know if I can expose them. They have already been on the news for money scandals. It\u2019s a very small town.\nI just have the worst luck. \nPaid a lawyer $50,000 and he ended up going crazy and I got only $10,000 back from the state bar. ","title":"I did 7 years but plead guilty for only four","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505508558,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70cnst\/employer_will_lower_wages_if_we_quit_without_two\/","id":"70cnst","body":"I work in Florida. I know I'm an at-will state and they can fire me at any time for any reason and visa-versa for resignation.  \nToday, a memo was handed out stating that we must give two weeks notice before resigning, in writing. If we don't, or if we give notice but leave before our two weeks is up, they will reduce our last paycheck to minimum wage. We were told to sign it with a witness, and have the witness sign and date it. I did not sign it. When I brought it to my supervisor and told him this is extremely unethical, he just kept telling me \"You have to sign it, you have to sign it.\"\n\nIs this legal, both requiring me to give notice for an at-will state, and lowering me to minimum wage?? I feel like that should be wage theft for hours I already worked. I checked our current employee handbook, and it says nothing about a wage penalty, this is obviously a new addition that the owner just decided on. We were also not required to sign our current handbook at all. What should I do?","title":"Employer will lower wages if we quit without two weeks notice.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539557036,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o74uj\/what_can_a_college_public_safety_officer_at_a\/","id":"9o74uj","body":"This is a very general question and really any information would be helpful. Can they search and seize when you are on the property? Can they detain you? Can you simply walk away from them without direct legal repercussions?","title":"What can a college public safety officer at a private university do in CT?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1414695109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2kt2tp\/sold_my_business_and_equipment_buyer_has_not\/","id":"2kt2tp","body":"Hello Reddit.\n\nA few months ago I sold my business as is. In the contract it says I was selling the equipment to him for 20k. He has paid me 11k and has now decided that since the business isn't going well for him he is closing and not going to pay us the rest.\n\nI told him that he can't do that. If he can't pay us the rest he can give us back equipment to make up for what he owes us. (Which I think is fair.) However, he disagrees and blames us for his bad business.\n\nNow, I ran and fine tuned the business for 3 years. By the end of the 3 years I had at least tripled my monthly revenue and when he took over it was double that.\n\nAfter he started complaining about the business I went to visit. Nothing was ready to be served. (Sandwich shop) No ingredients were in the plastic bins, no meat was sliced, veggies, nothing. If I had a setup like that there was no way I could make sandwiches for customers efficiently. We have received complaints and have even witnessed them take over 10 minutes to make a sandwich and a smoothie. Point is, they run the business terribly. \n\n(Rant below. Important info above.)\n\nI can go on about how they make meatball sandwiches and leave the ingredients in the can and pull out the can when they make sandwiches allowing customers to see their nasty canned ingredients. Or how they decided to invest all their money in painting and remodeling when it was perfectly fine. Or how they HAVE to buy an expensive meat slicer instead of cutting the meat by hand which I did for 3 years and had absolutely no complaints. I had an average of 4.5-5 stars on Yelp.\n\nI will admit I got lucky in selling the business at a good time. The landlord sold the complex and is tearing it down in a year to make condos. I honestly had no clue this was going to happen. I told him to sue the landlord because we had all talked and the landlord could have told him that before he let him buy it from us. Right? So that's not my fault.\n\nSecond, he always complains about plumbing and heater issues that we absolutely never ever had! I told him to ask my employees and customers. We never had a plumbing problem whatsoever.\n\nThis entire ordeal has been a mess. He complains to my family about EVERYTHING.\n\nTL; DR: Dude buys my business and equipment. Is terrible at running business. Blames failure on me and doesn't want to pay what he owes me. I believe that since he's not going to finish paying what he owes me he doesn't own what I sold him. He violated the contract. Am I correct in thinking this?\n\nHe has made it very clear he is not going to pay me. He's acting very immature. Saying not to contact him and that he's not reading my messages.\n\nHow can I go about dealing with this?\n\nAlso, if I go in and take what belongs to me, am I legally protected since he has made it clear he is not going to pay me?\n\nI mean if you don't finish paying off your car and refuse to finish paying it someone will come and take it away right?\n\nThanks\n\nLocation: Cupertino, CA","title":"Sold my business and equipment. Buyer has not finished paying off what he owes me. Says he will not pay me the rest and to leave him alone. Can I take some equipment back to cover what he owes me?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1413000261,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ix4re\/have_i_found_a_loop_hole_in_this_city_ordinance\/","id":"2ix4re","body":"I was told that changing engine oil on the street was against city ordinance. (I live in Chicago, Il) I looked up [The Ordinance](http:\/\/www.amlegal.com\/nxt\/gateway.dll\/Illinois\/chicago_il\/title10streetspublicwaysparksairportsand\/chapter10-28structuresonandunderpublicwa?f=templates$fn=default.htm$3.0$vid=amlegal:chicago_il) Its under 10-8-525. Could i say that the oil change is an emergency and get away with doing oil changes on the street? Obviously I would be careful not to spill and keep the area clean of spills and hazards.","title":"Have i found a loop hole in this city ordinance?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443910022,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ne12s\/former_roommate_stallingrefusing_to_pay_rent_and\/","id":"3ne12s","body":"I am located in Virginia. Last year (Aug '14-Jul '15), myself and three other girls all rented from a rental company \"XYZ\". All of our names were on a joint lease. Myself and Girl \"A\" had been on the lease the year prior (Aug '13-Jul '14) with two different girls.  When we signed the lease in 2013, there was a $400 security deposit that we each paid $100 of. When we renewed the lease in 2014, two new girls (Girl B and Girl C) came and replaced the two from 2013. Since \"XYZ\" would not refund the collective $400 security deposit until the end of the lease in July 2015, I paid $100 to each of the girls who were leaving and the two girls who took their place did not pay a security deposit. We all agreed that at the end of the year when we got the deposit back, I would get $300 ($100 of it being mine, and $200 to pay off the previous girls) and Girl A would get $100.\n\nFast forward to during the year and we frequently have problems with Girl C. She is late with turning in her rent, we are 99% sure she stole a previous roomate's wii, we suspect she might be stealing another roomate's mail and she left an old queen size mattress out on the patio for months after being demanded countless times by XYZ to remove it. By the end of the lease we are glad to be rid of her. \n\nIn August 2015, a month after the lease, we received a letter from \"XYZ\" detailing that we owed the company $225. The bill was itemized into a $25 repair for the apartment and $550 plus late fees for Girl C who had not paid her last month of rent. The $400 deposit had been used to pay for a portion of the rent that Girl C still owed. The letter said we had until October 3rd to pay it. \n\nI immediately contacted Girl C and told her I would pay for the $25 repair but she needed to take responsibility for the rent. She agreed to pay the $225 and pay $300 to me and $100 to Girl A by October 3rd (while also reminding us of the fact it wasn't due until then). A few days ago I receive an email from the online rent payment portal saying her $225 was declined and to please contact the bank. Girl C said she contacted the bank and contacted \"XYZ\" and \"XYZ\" said it was a problem on their end, there really wasn't a \"real\" deadline for the payment and they would extend it for 2 more weeks while they tried to figure out why her electronic payment wasn't going through. Meanwhile, she hasn't paid me or Girl A our deposits back. I offered for her to venmo (we used this to pay our communal bills) me and I would drop off a check to \"XYZ\" since I live within walking distance while she now lives 2 hours away. I'm almost certain she does not have the money and is trying to stall so I contact \"XYZ\" to confirm that she had been in contact with them. I only contacted them an hour ago and it's the weekend so I must wait.\n\nI'm posting this on legaladvice because I'd like to know if anyone has ever had to deal with a similar situation, what kind of action I can take, would it even be worth going to small claims, etc. I suppose if she is telling the truth about being in contact with \"XYZ\" then all I can do is wait right now but I am beyond frustrated with the fact that this is likely destroying me and Girl A's and Girl B's credit scores and we can never use XYZ as a reference for future renting background checks.","title":"Former roommate stalling\/refusing to pay rent and deposit that was owed in July.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555476626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be3t7m\/slipped_on_ice_outside_my_apartment_broke_my_leg\/","id":"be3t7m","body":"Early in March I slipped on ice outside of my apartment and spiral fractured both bones in my lower left leg. The ice was in the driveway of the apartment, was not salted or treated in any way, and I was not intoxicated, high, or impaired in any way. I went to the emergency room in an ambulance, got my leg put into a temporary splint, transferred to another hospital, and had an x-fix (a metal frame on the outside of my leg) installed. I was in the hospital a total of three days.\n\nAfter a couple weeks of the frame, I went back for surgery on my leg, where they installed pins and all that internally. During this time my doctor told me I was not allowed to put weight on my leg for at least three months, and I recently learned I\u2019ll likely have physical therapy after recovering enough.\n\nWhen this happened, our landlord told us that they would handle everything, that \u201cthis is why we have insurance.\u201d Fast forward to the present, and their insurance is denying liability, saying that they can\u2019t control the weather. I have health insurance that is covering some of the costs, but I\u2019ll likely still be paying at least $10,000 in medical bills, if not more.\n\nIs there anything legally I can do here? It seems to me like this should be an easy case of \u201cwe screwed up, we\u2019ll take care of it.\u201d I\u2019ve never had to deal with anything like this before (I\u2019ve never even broken a bone before!), so forgive my ignorance.\n\nTL;DR: Slipped on ice and broke my leg in the driveway of my apartment complex, apartment insurance won\u2019t accept liability.","title":"Slipped on ice outside my apartment, broke my leg, apartment insurance says it isn\u2019t their fault.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570751163,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg6nj0\/regularly_driving_with_no_insurance_what\/","id":"dg6nj0","body":"I\u2019ll keep this brief because I just need to know the facts. \n\nMy job is pizza delivery and a couple months ago my insurance lapsed because I was in between jobs. Not wanting or even being able to fork out the money to just pay the higher rate I\u2019ve now been driving insurance free during this time. Not a big deal if I could minimize my driving time but obviously it\u2019s a regular part of my job now. \n\nThe \u201ccatch\u201d is that I actually leave for job corps sometime in the next few months which is why I have this job at all to begin with. I wanted to bank up as much savings before I left. \n\nLet\u2019s say I get into an accident that isn\u2019t my fault, which would be the most common scenario to happen between now and when I leave since I\u2019m a very good driver and I don\u2019t speed or anything like that. What exactly would happen? License suspension or would I still be at fault or liable since I\u2019m not insured or what? \n\nObviously I really can\u2019t afford to throw this opportunity away so if the repercussions are bad enough I can make something happen so that I don\u2019t drive.","title":"Regularly driving with no insurance, what repercussions could I face? [WA]","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554911935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbnotn\/partner_wrongly_issued_a_ticket_for_running_a_red\/","id":"bbnotn","body":"So, my partner was pulled over by a motorcycle cop in November at a light a block away from his house. It was the day before Thanksgiving and there were cops out everywhere, probably looking for out of towners to ticket. When the cop pulled my partner over he even told him he assumed he was a rich college student in town for the holiday. My partner has lived in his neighborhood for 17+ years. \n\nHe did not run a red light. It was very clearly yellow, and he even brought a video to court today showing that the line was so far away from the light that the cop literally could not have seen what he claimed happened from where he was parked. \n\nMy partner has never been pulled over in his life and is the safest driver I know. He has been the victim of 4+ hit and runs by old people in the past two years and wasn\u2019t able to do anything about it. They just got away with it, and his insurance went up even though the company paid for $0 in damages.\n\nWhen he went to court to finally fight it today they found him guilty without clear reason. The judge spoke over him and would not let him explain himself. Now he has to pay $250 (we don\u2019t have the money for it rn either) and gets points on his license for something he did not do and for something there is absolutely no proof that he did.\n\nIs there anything we can do at this point? The judge and the cop have been assholes throughout this whole process and it seems like there is nothing we can do. It\u2019s incredibly unfair, especially to someone who drives for a living and has never been pulled over in his life.","title":"Partner wrongly issued a ticket for running a red light the day before Thanksgiving 2018","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553093066,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3cv80\/grandparents_law_of_alabama\/","id":"b3cv80","body":"Not getting divorced or anything but I hate his father and stepmother. They abandoned him when he was 13 and now that we have a child they want to force themselves into her life, even calling child protective services because we didn\u2019t want to live with them. (Both of us were minors when we had her). I\u2019ve filed police reports on them for theft and tried to get a restraining order for emotional abuse and I was worried that they would try and kidnap my baby if given the chance, but if they try and go to court do would they get visitation? We are currently in a different state but will be moving back there soon. \n(We are married now btw)","title":"Grandparents law of Alabama","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554596072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baapkz\/domestic_assault_and_battery_really_what_is_my\/","id":"baapkz","body":"First off I have a Lawyer, but he is not talkative but he gets results. I am being charged a misdemeanor in Domestic Assault and Battery.\n\nTo start my Ex-wife and I have always had some martial issues. It has gotten physical before. I have slapped her and she has tried to strangle me but I would never cause issues since we have a son together. Well one day after a fight I\u2019m very upset and ask to be left alone and I go to a different room. A few minutes later she comes in with my love journal (a book of a lot of sentimental value she gave me while we were dating) and begin to tear our pages and yell at me. I totally messed up and emotionally snapped. I slapped her and tried to take the journal. She grabbed my arm and her nails dug in until my arm was bleeding from her nails. I gave up on the journal and just wanted her to let me go. She wouldn\u2019t and I not wanting to slap her again I bit her arm so she would let go of me. It was not a hard bite only enough to let go of me. She was yelling at me and calling me a worthless father. I was getting angry and pushed her against the wall with my hand on her throat but I was not squeezing only holding her in place. and said very violent things to her in my anger. I let her go and she ran off. Later that night I was arrested. My son was asleep the whole time thankfully. \n\nSo what is going to happen to me? Am I going to be in jail for a year and just lose a lot of my rights? Can I ever get this expunged? I had a military officer career in mind can I still join?","title":"Domestic Assault and Battery. Really what is my likely outcome?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553795337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6lxcf\/old_roommates_sued_landlord_frim_previous\/","id":"b6lxcf","body":"Long and short:\nI stated that he is not fit to be a landlord and added statements of support to my old roommates claims.\nI haven't slandered him but he is a fairly unstable and money hungry person. Could he potentially sue me for saying he is not fit to be a landlord??","title":"Old roommates sued landlord frim previous apartment-he counter sued and I wrote a statement in support of my old roomates. If he doesn't agree w\/ what I stated can he sue me?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541297159,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tzxf0\/ca_someone_left_anal_lube_in_my_personal_box_at\/","id":"9tzxf0","body":"Posting from a throwaway account. Some background on me: I\u2019m a mid 20\u2019s gay man working in a medical facility and office in California. As title says, human grade \u201cenhanced sensation\u201d anal lube was left in my box where other papers and miscellaneous items are stored on my 2 days off. The cubby boxes are located in a common area of my workplace that is monitored by 24 hour camera surveillance. I came back to find the lube front and center in my box. Several coworkers made comments to me showing their concern for this. \n\nI escalated the situation to my manager, explaining to her that this was extremely unprofessional and I felt targeted. She promised to partner with HR and enforce sexual harassment protocols, she informed me that this would be considered discrimination and that the company has zero tolerance for such behavior. After a week, I received a follow up email from my manager stating that she was unable to discern who was responsible based on the camera footage alone, even though it\u2019s incredibly easy to see everyone who visits the boxes. My manager also used very \u201ctoned down\u201d verbiage like \u201cpractical joke\u201d. This to me is unacceptable and I feel like the situation is being swept under the rug. \n\nI\u2019m at a loss for words and feel like my manager is trying to simply make this situation go away by shrugging and saying she can\u2019t do anything about it. What are my next steps? \n","title":"[CA] Someone left anal lube in my personal box at work. The area where the boxes are located is in a common area for all employees and has a camera pointed directly at them","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553179372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3rc3m\/i_have_close_to_5000_in_traffic_court_fines_with\/","id":"b3rc3m","body":"Is it worth it to hire an attorney and reopen the cases? Or should I start saving money to pay this massive fine. Tickets are for insurance violation, speeding, registration violation, number plate violation and seatbelt","title":"I have close to $5000 in traffic court fines with the case all be closed out because I didn\u2019t show to court.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542217325,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x29nt\/can_i_use_a_seperate_personal_bank_account_for\/","id":"9x29nt","body":"I recently opened an S-Corp, and I'm 16. I asked Wells Fargo if they can do that for me with my dad acting as the treasurer, and they said that they can't open a business account, but they can instead open a separate checking account for me. Would that be legal, and how would taxing work in that case? Any other implications? Live in NJ, Incorporated in WY","title":"Can I use a seperate personal bank account for S-Corp?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571661809,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkzzng\/tenant_is_creating_a_hostile_work_environment\/","id":"dkzzng","body":"I sublet an office in my office building and have had to start the eviction process due to him always paying rent late. I had been only politely reminding him to pay on time up until last month, when I firmly told him that paying late was a problem. At this point he became verbally (via text and email) aggressive, litigious, and querulous and has progressively become more so. This month he was late again and I gave him the 3 day pay or quit notice, which he paid in the allowed time. I have a notice to quit for repeat violation prepared for next month if he is late. \n\nNow he makes aggressive and querulous complaints about almost anything that I do at the office. This weekend is was because I turned off one light (of the four that were on) in the common areas, and I was accused of interfering with his business and threatening the safety of his clients. I feel really uncomfortable working and having my clients around him.\n\nDo I have any rights as a landlord to ask him to leave for creating a hostile work environment?\n\nIn Colorado","title":"Tenant is creating a hostile work environment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571681097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl4d9w\/mediation_agreement_broken_go_back_to_court\/","id":"dl4d9w","body":"Had a court ordered custody agreement in place. Went to mediation to amend it. The other parent is no longer abiding by and police can't enforce the mediated agreement since it wasn't signed by a judge. Does this mean we go back to the previous court agreement? Or are we SOL until we go to court again?","title":"Mediation agreement broken, go back to court ordered agreement?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551620359,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awu2vt\/commission_only_sales\/","id":"awu2vt","body":"I have a start-up that is looking to bring in some extra sales help.  Right now we don't have much cash flow, and as a result can't hire anyone... My co-founder and I have been working this in our spare time and operating at a loss while trying to get up and running.\n\nWe have found a sales guy that is interested, likes the product, etc... And best of all is willing to work for commission only for 2-3 months to see if he thinks there is a market and can do some sales... Idea is to use this as a trial where either side can part ways if it isn't working.  If it does work he would get equity, commission, and maybe some pay.\n\nMy question:. Is it legal (in Texas) to have a commission only position?  Or would he need to be an independent sales contractor?  (Something like a travelling salesman?)\n\nAdvice appreciated!\n","title":"Commission only sales?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1411756698,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hju0r\/california_i_have_a_speeding_ticket_that_is_due\/","id":"2hju0r","body":"So basically what happened is that I got a speeding ticket and then requested an extension, saving up enough money for the ticket, which was about $350. For payment, I have two options on the LA superior court website:\n\n>1. Traffic School Payment - The amount due is $431.00 plus a e-Public Access service fee* of $10.00 will be added to this amount. The traffic school due date will be 12\/01\/2014.\n\n>2. Full Payment to Close Your Citation - The amount due is $367 plus a e-Public Access service fee* of $10.00 will be added to this amount.\n\nIf I choose option 2, does that completely cancel my right to go to traffic school? It says above that I don't need to complete traffic school until December, and I heard that you always have a few months to complete it. \n\nSo if I don't have enough money to pay for option 1 right now, can I just choose option 2 and then go to traffic school next month when I can afford it, so I don't get a point on my driving record? \n\nAnd why do I have to pay the court extra in option 1 for traffic school if traffic school already costs money?. Does choosing option 2 completely remove my right to go to traffic school?\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"(California) I have a speeding ticket that is due in a couple of days, and there are two options to pick from online, I can't get a hold of anyone to explain to me what happens if I picket a certain option.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571400563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djmkmi\/how_can_i_increase_my_salary\/","id":"djmkmi","body":"So for context I am a 15 year old student working in Australia Victoria. I work at a family owned pizza shop and it\u2019s not a franchise like dominos or Pizza Hut. I\u2019m also not sure if I am a part time or casual worker but I work Monday-Wednesday and sometimes on a Sunday.\n\nCurrently I am earning $10 per hour on weekdays, weekends and public holidays. Now I\u2019m not familiar with the law to a high degree but I\u2019m fairly certain you should get paid more when working on weekends and\/or public holidays.\n\nI am not even sure if the way I\u2019m being paid is legal as they just transfer the money on Thursday and no one has asked for a tax file number or anything. I feel like my pay right now is absolute shit but until I find a new place to work I\u2019m stuck there for the time being.\n\nIs there a way I can show my boss that I should be earning more money or get more money?\n\nAnd a follow up question is, is the way I\u2019m being payed legal and following standard paying methods?","title":"How can I increase my salary?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555441656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdxu14\/murder_question\/","id":"bdxu14","body":"**ATTENTION I HAVE NOT KILLED ANYBODY.**\n\n​\n\nquestion if person A were to kill person B but then person A revived person B would person A be convicted of murder?","title":"murder question","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540867895,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sk1vs\/insurance_retroactively_canceled_our_policy_now\/","id":"9sk1vs","body":"I got a phone call from my child\u2019s former pediatrician telling us that our old insurance retroactively canceled our insurance policy causing us to owe them money. \n\nAccording to the doctor the insurance canceled our policy as of the 22nd of May 2017, and our last appointment was May 23rd 2017. \n\nMy husband left the company he worked for that provided the insurance May 19th. We paid for insurance out of pocket each week. It was his understanding (we will check for confirmation) the money that gets taken out of his paycheck on Friday pays for the following week. When he left we were told the coverage was good until the end of the month. \n\nI was also told by my OB when I was still pregnant and was going to be without insurance for 30 days (a different switch) that insurance companies had to provide coverage for up to 30 days after the initial loss.  Is this accurate, or was it a special circumstance because I was pregnant? \n\nIs the insurance company just trying to fuck us, hoping we don\u2019t notice, or is this legit. This was literally the worst insurance company I\u2019ve ever been with, they paid for virtually nothing EXCEPT the well baby visits\/shots... so of course that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to get back. ","title":"Insurance retroactively canceled our policy, now we\u2019re being charged for Dr. visit.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552115006,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az0tlp\/next_of_kin_issues\/","id":"az0tlp","body":"In 2015, I was in the military (active duty but within a 30 min drive from my home city), my father passed in due to alcoholism. I obviously should have been notified as his next of kin when he was in the hospital but his brother (who i haven\u2019t had a good relationship with since) decided to take over all issues pertaining to kinship. My question is, as my father\u2019s (should of been) legal next of kin, can I sue my uncle for cremating him without my permission? I did receive all his ashes but that\u2019s not necessarily how he or I wanted his body disposed of (for lack of a better term). Do I have any recourse or am I SOL?","title":"Next of kin issues?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445929990,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qe3eh\/unknowingly_bought_fraudulently_purchased_tickets\/","id":"3qe3eh","body":"Hello r\/legaladvice, \n\nThis one is going to be a doozy, so I'll start from the beginning. My mailing address is in NY state, but I've been living in China for almost 4 years. In June 2015, Through friends, I heard about this girl who was looking for people who were traveling soon in order to book their tickets. She said her fiance worked for a bank in a high-up expat position, and received more gratuities (points and vouchers) than they could use. She also had some canceled flight credits, and since the summer was coming up, she was looking for somebody who wanted to book plane tickets through her using her points and vouchers. To book tickets, she asked that I paid for half of the economy price of any ticket and the cash portion of any subsequent upgrades. It seemed legitimate, and I booked a round trip first-class flight home valued at $15,xxx, and also a round trip flight from NY to Atlanta valued at $700. I paid about 1600 (1100+470 for the upgrade) and 300 for the two flights, respectively, and the first I paid in cash at her home in China, and the second was paid via an ATM deposit. Now before anybody says the first class flight should've been a major red flag, for 470USD and about 30k in points, you can upgrade a flight to first-class, and I paid the cash portion of that. All of these purchases were paid for within China, and the woman is a Turkish national. To recap, I purchased almost 16,000USD in plane tickets through a woman claiming to trade her points and gratuities for cash, and flew all of the flights successfully. \n\nI know of only 2 other people who had flown through her, one was my roommate, and one was his brother. They'd all flown successfully as well, with flights that had also been valued at around 15-20,000USD.\n\nAbout a month later after flying, in mid-September, I was added into a chat group on a Chinese instant messaging app called wechat called \"scammed by (that turkish woman),\" by my roommate's brother. There were almost 150 people in it, and I quickly realized that almost all of them had heard about the deal through a friend, and every single person had flown flights. The reason it was called scammed by (that turkish woman) was because many of the people who had booked flights past September had had their flights canceled and were told to contact (that airline). In an offhand estimate, within that wechat group there was close to half a million dollars in flights based on ticketing values. \n\nI attempted to log into my (that airline)'s frequent flier miles account, but it was locked out and I was instructed to call their fraud center. Unable to reach them by phone and using skype without a call back number, I left a message requesting they email me in an attempt to get more information. Here was the exchange:\n\nDear Mr. reddit user:\n\n \n\nYour Miles account is temporarily closed due as we have discovered at least two trips taken by you were paid with a credit card which was not authorized for use.\n\n \n\nTrip details as follows:\n\n \n\nsomewhere in NY-Atlanta-Somewhere in NY 8AUG2015-10AUG2015\n\nHong Kong-Somewhere in NY-Hong Kong 30JUL2015-15AUG2015\n\n \n\nCan you please provide details as to where and how you purchased this ticket?\n\n \n\nBest Regards,\n\nchief fraud investigator\n\n ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n\n\nHello chief fraud investigator, \n\nI myself never actually purchased the tickets, the booking and payment was done by a mutual friend of classmates here in China. She had recently canceled flights for herself, and didn't want to lose the money she had spent on them. I was already planning to fly home to visit friends and family, and she offered to use her flight credits to book me these tickets at a discount. I paid the money to her directly in cash for the Hong Kong flight, and via an atm deposit for the Atlanta flight. \n\nI hope this isn't a serious problem. Is it against policy because the card she used isn't in my name? Is my account information secure?\n\nSincerely,\n\nRedditor\n\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n\nDear Mr. Reddit user:\n \nCan provide the name of your friend and any documentation supporting the transactions?  \n \nThe security of your account should be OK, unless you provided the third party access to your account.  If so, I would recommend changing your PIN, password and security questions if it re-opened.\n \nIn order to re-open the account, (airline) will require payment in the amount of $15,321.70 USD for the flights taken by you.\n \nThe credit card used to purchase your ticket was not authorized for your use.  (that airline) has closed your account, as this action violates Rule 2 of the Rules for the Miles Program-specifically: \u201c..any conduct detrimental to the interests of (that airline), any fraudulent activity or attempted fraudulent activity, or any misrepresentation of any information furnished to (that airline) or its affiliates by any member, or anyone else acting on the member's behalf, may result in the termination by (that airline) of such member's membership, the loss or cancellation of accrued mileage, certificates, awards or benefits, or both, or the loss of other Program benefits. Terminated members shall not be eligible to participate in any aspect of the Program, and members whose accounts have been terminated shall not be eligible to enroll with new accounts.\u201d\n \nPlease remit your payment to:\n(that airline) \n\nFeel free to contact me with any questions.\nRegards,\nchief fraud investigator\n\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n\n\nHello chief fraud investigator,\n\nI'm sorry but I'm really not understanding what's going on here. Are you saying she was involved in fraud? And that I had a part? I can gather what information I have. \n\n \n\nFor the matter of reopening my account, I really will not be able to pay that amount. What other solutions are there to regain access?\nRegards Redditor\n\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n\nDear Mr. Redditor:\nTo recap, the credit card used to purchase the tickets you traveled on was not authorized for use.  At this point, (that airline) has not been paid for your travel.\nYour Miles account can only be opened if you remit payment for the travel you have taken.\nRegards,\nChief fraud investigator\n\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n\nHenceforth I have decided not to provide the communique until it has been looked over by a lawyer, and no word has been received from (that airline) since. Many of that group of people have filed police reports against this woman, and I've yet to do that as I'm not sure how or with what agency to file an American police report from within China. \n\nLet me clarify, I had absolutely no idea fraud was taking place, or any idea of the magnitude of people booking flights with her... If I had, I wouldn't have participated. I know plenty of people on amazing expat packages and major international companies having cooperation programs with major airlines for their employees is totally normal. It made sense, and it never crossed my mind anything shady was taking place.\n\nIn the last 2 weeks, multiple people have received nastier emails than the ones above, stating that they would have lawsuits pursued against them, as well as being blocked from flying with (that airline) due to their Carrier contract. I have yet to receive this type of email, my roommate hasn't even received any form of contact, and to my knowledge I haven't received anything at my mailing address. \n\nI desperately need advice on what the potential consequences are of this situation, and how I can work to get ahead of it. I'm worries it's only a matter of time before I get a nastier letter as well. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I hope I was clear enough. If there are any clarifications needed, please ask. Thank you again!\n\nEdited to take out company information","title":"Unknowingly bought fraudulently purchased tickets from a money launderer and completed the flight. Currently being threatened by United Airlines for the repayment of the tickets, and need advice on how to proceed","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571266127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dix940\/california_exs_job_is_loosing_child_support\/","id":"dix940","body":"My ex was refusing to pay child support, so I had request a modification for our order. He was 6 grand in arrears. During court, they set up a garnishmentment for his wages, and increased our child support order by almost $100 and also said he is required to provide our daughters insurance. The judge was not happy with him at all. His parenting time was also set to 0, as it has been 7 months since he has even seen,spoken, or supported our kids. Unfortunately our 1 year old doesn't know who he is at all. He is employed through Cal fire conservation Corps. His job responded to the garnishment sent out at the last possible minute, than when they claimed they finally did send out a check, it was \"lost\" in the mail, and they to reissue a new one. Took 3 weeks longer to finally get one payment. This month, I just called to see where my payment was, as it was supposed to be here a couple of days ago. Child support told me the check his job sent in was a bad check, they tried to cash it and it would not go through. Now I have to wait even longer why child support contacts his employer. They also told me they have suggested to his employer to be electronically send in payments, they refuse and said they will only send them in the mail.  I'm at a loss her, and I don't know what to do anymore. I do However think my ex is friends with someone in his payroll department. How can a company like Cal Fire, loose checks and than send out back checks as well? I need help.","title":"California. Ex's job is \"loosing\" child support checks to be sent to me, and also writing bad checks to child support agency on money owed to me. What can I do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447497789,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3srpbz\/gym_didnt_cancel_my_membership_from_a_year_ago\/","id":"3srpbz","body":"Hey, any help would be appreciated. I'm based in London (UK)\n\nI signed up to a gym in 2014, cancelled it in august\/september 2014 and went back to university. The gym didn't cancel my membership and was taking money since then, i know i should have noticed it sooner than now but didn't receive my statements. \n\nI don't have the cancellation form i signed as they didn't give me a copy and currently they can't locate it.\n\nMy email i signed up with recieved a 'contract' saying i was signing up to a new \u00a390 a month contract (i don't use this email bar spam), however this was 2 weeks before i was leaving for university.\n\n2 days after this email i sent them an email, which i got no reply, telling them i had signed the cancellation form and i was going back to university, was there a way to downgrade my package for the final month as i wouldn't be using it.\n\nI am ringing them again on monday to find out what they've found and what they'll do.\n\nI'd like to know if the evidence i have is enough, and what my best course of action is.\n\nAny help is appreciated and i know i was stupid not noticing earlier. \n\nAlso to add another gym i cancelled whilst at university didn't cancel either...they both used the same banking company. ","title":"Gym didn't cancel my membership from a year ago","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552521870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0tevf\/husband_hid_our_collection_from_me_pending_our\/","id":"b0tevf","body":"Hello, I\u2019m 30, female and been married for close to three years now. No children. Residing in SC. \n\nThe marriage fell apart because of irreconcilable differences. We just fell apart, fell\nOut of love. He suffered a massive death in the family and has never been the same. I set up marriage counseling appointments and he would never go. \n\nI told him I wanted a divorce but I haven\u2019t started filing yet because I\u2019m not sure I have the money just yet to do that as I am putting myself through nursing school. We have no pre-nup and shared a joint bank account before we were even married. \n\nWe collected comics, vintage toys... ext. I come to find out one day, when I got home from a trip that he cleared the house of the collection - left the stuff that was obviously mine. This means thousands of vintage toys and comic books. \n\nHe said he was afraid I was going to sell it, which I explicitly said I would never do. EVER. He won\u2019t tell me where our collection is... all he says it\u2019s that it\u2019s safe. But it\u2019s ours. We obtained it in the marriage, this is community property, is it not? \n\nI\u2019m at a loss here because I want to understand why he did this. The whole reason thinking I would sell it is not true. I wouldn\u2019t.\n\nWhen I asked him about it, he said it was all technically his because it was paid for with his money... but it was a joint bank account. That doesn\u2019t sound right. \n\nWhat are my options here? Should I start filing sooner than later and just liquidate this collection? Because everything that I\u2019ve researched says our property obtained within the marriage is 50\/50. \n\nI\u2019m not looking to be vindictive. Im trying to understand what my moves are when I speak to a lawyer. I don\u2019t want to set myself up to look stupid. \n\nWould I be able to appraise the collection and have him buy me out of my 50%? So he can keep it? I know how much those things mean to him. \n\nThank you in advance. \n","title":"Husband hid our collection from me pending our divorce.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571345842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djcm93\/ga_school_staff_steal_from_kids\/","id":"djcm93","body":"\\[Georgia\\] So to begin this I am in High School and have pretty good grades, all A's. Well, that is not the point. I sell snacks at school (yes I know what you are going to say that the school can force rules and stuff, loco parentis and all that. But hear me out) Every single teacher is ok with the fact that I sell, some of them are even proud and encourage me to do stuff like this. But this is not the point either.\n\n​\n\nSo this morning they **checked everyone's bag**. Which took too long probably **at least 20 minutes (In cold weather)**. They checked me and said that I wouldn't get my bag back, and they told me to get it at the end of the day. As they said I went and got my bag at the end of the day. They gave the bag back and said **not to sell again.** **(Which I can see why but I don't even do it for the money I do it to get more knowledge in business since I want to go with that route)**. And they said that if I bring the bag again they would take the bag and not give it back. **When I left I felt that the bag was lighter, and immediately knew that they had stolen from me (which had happened in the past with a person that works for me). Since I keep a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. (That I try to update every single time I sell, for this reason.) I found out that they stole 14 dollars worth of candy, and you can add 5 to 6 dollars worth of candy that they stole from me in the past.**\n\n​\n\nOk Now with the story being said my questions are the following: \n\n1. If I decide to sell again and they take my bag, can my parents go and get it? (I'm pretty sure they can but just making sure).\n2. If I sell and they take my bag can they eat all the candy that is in there?\n3. Can I take this case to the Board of education in my county?\n4. Can I publicly shame the school for having unethical behavior like stealing snacks from a student?\n5. If I publicly shame the school for this can they take legal actions, and what kind of legal actions can they take?\n6. Would I get expelled if I keep selling?  \n7. **(The following Question is not a legal question but is an opinion question)** The Last question if I ask for permission to sell given the reasons I put above do you think they would grant the permission?\n\n​\n\nThank you for your time, and sorry for asking questions that can easily be figured out.","title":"[GA] School staff STEAL from kids","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554690459,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baoatk\/health_insurance_provider_is_terminating_patients\/","id":"baoatk","body":"The insurance company definitely knew of the scheduled surgery. The patient is an 80 year old who really needs this surgery and this insurance company has been giving her issues for over a year now over this surgery trying to find ways not to cover it. They were also going to make her go out of state for the surgery. AN 80 YEAR OLD, in poor health, traveling out of state for a surgery. Is there anything she can do legally about this or fight them in some way? And with her being elderly she\u2019s not tech savvy so I wanted to take it upon myself to find out bc I\u2019m so angry this is happening to her and the evil stuff insurance companies get away with. ","title":"Health insurance provider is terminating patients coverage after patient paid for coverage and was due to have surgery. The insurance provider is claiming her coverage was terminated of March 31st and she was scheduled for surgery the following week.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555053245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcap00\/wa_can_i_legally_be_considered_a_housing\/","id":"bcap00","body":"My friend is going to be signing onto a lease with another friend and needs to give rental history. They moved away from the area and then back again this August, and due to various reasons have had to couch surf until now.\n\nI\u2019m offering to be a housing reference for that period of time. They have not consistently lived with me, but I was wondering if it\u2019d be illegal or unwise to say that they\u2019ve been staying with me for that period of time. I don\u2019t plan on making claims of being a landlord or accepting payment, just saying that they\u2019ve stayed here.\n\nIf it is legally sound to do so and I list my current address would it be likely for them to try to contact the apartment complex that comes up when my address is Googled? (Even if I\u2019d only be claiming they stayed with me as a guest at the address and not that I subleted.)\n\nJust to be clear I am not looking to subvert or break the law, I just want to make sure that this would be considered legal.\n\nThanks!","title":"[WA] Can I legally be considered a housing reference for a friend?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554833995,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbbd0q\/marriage_do_i_need_a_prenup\/","id":"bbbd0q","body":"I\u2019m getting married in 2 months and I want to make sure that I\u2019m being financially responsible. Do I need a prenuptial agreement if I have approximately 45,000 dollars between an IRA and 401k and future spouse has 0? Or if I can demonstrate with records of assets obtained before marriage is that enough to protect me in case of separation? I believe I can just not contribute to that IRA account anymore to keep it separate but not sure how that would work for my 401k. Is your premarital portfolio growth also protected? I would just like legal advice and not relationship advice. Thanks for the help. We live in Ohio.","title":"Marriage, do I need a prenup?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554816343,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb7wzi\/starting_a_new_job_can_i_be_fired_during_a\/","id":"bb7wzi","body":"I\u2019m starting a new job and I haven\u2019t told them I\u2019m pregnant yet. I planned on finding out if there was a probationary period and if there was avoiding disclosing that information until after said probationary period if at all possible to prevent being fired for any said reason. \n\n\nI\u2019m in Iowa and my friends mother said she thought that pregnant women were a \u2018protected class\u2019 and wouldn\u2019t be fired without a lot of proof of the specific reason they were firing you. Is that true? \n\n\nShould I be worried about disclosing this information during a probationary period and being fired for \u2018another reason\u2019?","title":"Starting a new job: can I be fired during a probationary period while pregnant?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553816598,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6q5sk\/can_a_landlord_legally_choose_to_only_rent_to\/","id":"b6q5sk","body":"I know there are various laws regarding fair housing and housing discrimination which make this a complicated issue. But I'm wondering if it is legal for a landlord to rent exclusively to specific groups, such as students or senior citizens. For example, if someone owned a property near a college campus, would it be legal to rent to only students?\n\nThis question came up in the context of a discussion about Facebook being sued for discrimination because their advertising platform allows people to target their ad to specific demographics. ","title":"Can a landlord legally choose to only rent to certain groups of people?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569436103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d97du1\/friends_dog_attacked_another_dog_at_onpremises\/","id":"d97du1","body":"ILLINOIS\/CHICAGO - Two female friends live in a condo building. Both live together because they have abusive ex boyfriends with restraining orders against them and other larger cases still pending. Friend A has a large dog let's call BIGDUDE. BIGDUDE is an officially registered ESA. They also had a friend's dog PUPPYGUY. Friend B is the roommate. \n\nA few weeks ago, Friend B took BIGDUDE and PUPPYGUY to the condo's on-premises dog run. Bigdude was on a leash. BIGDUDE lives with several kittens and regularly hangs out with small dogs. Is at the dog run regularly. Never had an issue. Friend B noticed an owner and a small poofy dog POOFY and went to the other side of the dog run. Strangely, unlike every dog run ever, this one doesn't separate large and small dogs. Just has huge signs everywhere that say, \"use at your own risk\".\n\nFriend B says that as they were unleashing PUPPYGUY, POOFY came at big dog and he yanked the leash. Friend B yanked the leash back. Owner of POOFY did nothing. POOFY came right back over and BIGDUDE bit POOFY. Friend B pulled BIGDUDE off and said that other owner did nothing. Then once separated, owner came over and swore profusely at Friend B for several minutes. He grabbed his dog and left. \n\nA day or two later, Friend A was walking past the concierge and they asked Friend A for contact information about the dog incident. No vet bills were mentioned and the concierge didn't seem to be concerned at all. Friend A declined to give contact information because the owner seemed extremely threatening. \n\nThis morning the building sent an email saying that their legal team needed BIDDUDE removed from the building immediately. They said that this was the only option because Friend A had refused to pay for vet bills and refused to provide contact information. This will effectively force Friend A to move and will force Friend B to move because they cannot afford the rent on their own. \n\nFriend A has no issue paying the vet bills. The question is basically, do they have any ability to mitigate the forced removal of BIGDUDE and\/or what are good next moves or responses to this?","title":"Friends' dog attacked another dog at on-premises dog park. Condo is threatening them.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552610932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b18c02\/daycare_not_monitoring_my_child_appropriately\/","id":"b18c02","body":"Hi Reddit. First post ever, because I need advice.\n\n​\n\nMy son (2) recently had a minor, outpatient surgery. He is recovering fine, but today for the second time we noticed he had pulled the surgical glue off of his incision while at daycare. This could lead to infection. The really concerning part is that before we dropped him off, a few days after the surgery, we explained clearly that when he goes potty he needs to be monitored, as that is the most likely time for him to pick at the wound. Two days into recovery, and he did just that. We noticed, rushed him to the clinic, and had the wound re-sealed. Today, about a week later, it happened again. \n\n​\n\nI know they aren't medical staff, but they should at least have a basic understanding of wound care from first aid, and infection control is something that is taught in just about every care industry AFAIK. Also, common sense. If someone says \"Hey, my kid will pick at his wound if you don't watch him\" that should clue you in to watch him a little more closely. Honestly, he is usually the most independent kids there, according to them, so its not like we are asking for special treatment all the time. Just, watch him when he pulls his pants down so he doesn't bleed everywhere or get other kids germs in his still healing incision!\n\n​\n\nWe have already sent a (scathing) email to the director, but what, if anything, should we be doing now? Is there some sort of legal action we should take? If it helps, we are in NC. Tagging as school related because it seems appropriate.","title":"Daycare not monitoring my child appropriately.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569378958,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8x6mk\/i_live_next_to_a_catdog_food_plant_and_the_smell\/","id":"d8x6mk","body":"I just moved into an apartment in Northern Arizona. There is a cat\/dog food plant nearby and nearly every other night there is a pungently disgusting smell outside. I went online to do some research and the smell was addressed before 2016 and was estimated to be resolved by 2018. The smell is very much still here. I can't open my windows or doors because once the smell gets in it is difficult to sleep.\n\nWhat actions can I take to make sure this issue is being resolved?\n\nShould I contact my city officials? If so what office should I call?\n\nP.S. I am a student so I am only home in the afternoon. I have decided to keep a log sheet of dates and times of how often the pet food smell shows up and how severe it is.","title":"I live next to a cat\/dog food plant and the smell is so bad i can't go out side.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1445383519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pk7w7\/florida_us_showing_boxing_matches_without_a\/","id":"3pk7w7","body":"Hmm.... so this is the situation.\n\nThere is this restaurant that has shown a fight without a proper license. The contract owner of the TV provider it is coming from did not know of this. Now they are being sued along with the bar owner, and the person who hosted the event at the bar.\n\nWhat we are trying to figure out is if the contract owner will be in trouble as they did not know about this happening.\n\nPlease any help or input is appreciated :\/\n\nIf you need anymore details feel free to comment, or inbox, and ask for any info you may need.\n\nEdit: If another flair is more appropriate let me know","title":"Florida, US. Showing boxing matches without a license.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569533140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9q7v7\/dfw_tx_contact_of_mine_is_a_divorced_mother_who\/","id":"d9q7v7","body":"Apparently the father is supposed to have them every few weeks and is supposed to contribute so much money but always has slippery excuses when confronted.\n\nApparently she has tried to speak to him about this on multiple occasions to no avail.\n\nI have zero experience in this realm so any advice is appreciated.\n\nIf you have a local contact you can send my way to refer to her I would appreciate that.\n\nThanks for the assist!","title":"(DFW, Tx) Contact of mine is a divorced mother who needs legal guidance in regard to the custody\/child support legalities after the divorce.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570404472,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deb88k\/nearby_apartment_complex_is_telling_people_to\/","id":"deb88k","body":"The title basically says it all. A nearby apartment complex was recently partially completed, and ever since people started moving into it, there has been a significant increase in the amount of cars parking on our street. It\u2019s really frustrating, and I recently found out that the apartment complex doesn\u2019t have enough parking for its residents, and has been telling the tenants to park in our neighborhood. Is this legal? Is there anything I can do about this? There\u2019s currently another building under construction over there, and I\u2019m worried that the problem is only going to get worse once it\u2019s completed as I haven\u2019t seen any space set aside for another parking lot.","title":"Nearby apartment complex is telling people to park in our neighborhood. (Utah)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1410195743,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ftlyd\/not_sure_where_to_serve_my_landlord_for_texas\/","id":"2ftlyd","body":"Austin, TX - My ex-landlord refused to return my deposit at the end of my lease a couple months ago (which otherwise concluded normally). Nor did he provide any kind of damage itemization--instead, his insane justification is that his management company charged him too much in fees and \"used up your deposit.\"\n\nI'm attempting to file a small claims case myself, but I'm unsure where the papers should be served. [TX prop code 92.003](http:\/\/codes.lp.findlaw.com\/txstatutes\/PR\/8\/92\/A\/92.003) states:\n\n    (b) If written notice of the name and business street address of the company that \n    manages the dwelling has been given to the tenant, the management company is \n    the owner's sole agent for service of process.\n\nThe management company's name and address *was* given to me--it's on the lease paperwork. However, the landlord also fired the management company immediately after the end of the lease--so are they still his agent for service of process? Or not?\n\nI know the landlord's local residential address, but I'm reluctant to have him served there as he only resides there a couple weeks out of the year--the rest of the year he spends out of the country. I expect serving him at his \"home\" would be problematic.\n\nI'd prefer to serve him at the management company, but if they no longer manage the property, I don't know if 92.003b still applies (the word \"manages\" indicates present tense to me). Any ideas about how to interpret that would be helpful.\n","title":"Not sure where to serve my landlord for Texas small claims deposit recovery.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1549870323,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apdw4d\/alberta_canada_being_fired_from_a_volunteer\/","id":"apdw4d","body":"This volunteer position is a paid by Honorarium Position which makes your employer the Town of (Town Name)\n\nThey have set up standard operating guidelines for discipline up to and including dismissal.\n\nIf someone was unjustly terminated from this position and this termination didnt follow their own guidelines for dismissal. Who in Alberta Canada deals with this being it's a \"Volunteer Position\" \nLabor Board ? ","title":"(Alberta Canada) Being Fired from a Volunteer Position unjustly.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570818577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgj7cu\/nc_auto_loan_cobuyer_and_not_coborrower\/","id":"dgj7cu","body":"I guess this falls under contracts... so my partner bought a car 6 months ago and had her cousin co-sign for the loan. Apparently in North Carolina this makes the cousin the co-owner of the vehicle. First of all, is this true?\nSecond- this cousin said my partner needed to refinance the car in October. Well my partner just got an email from said cousin saying she hired a lawyer and is going to exercise her rights as the co-owner and take possession of the vehicle or have it re-possessed. Note that the loan payment has never been late and that the registration and insurance are in my partners name. See email below: \n\n\u201cAs a signed CO-BUYER (not co-signer) of the vehicle I am asking to exercise my EQUAL rights to the vehicle and request possession of the vehicle. I am open to discussion removing my self from the vehicles title by you taking full possession of the vehicle through refinancing. Otherwise, should you refuse my right as a co-buyer of our shared vehicle you will have left me no choice but to sue for the vehicle and or request the lender to reposes the vehicle (I have also already contact Carmax to inform them of the potential request of prepossessing and received the documents needed). While this may negative impact both credit scores, again you have left me with no alternative but to contact an attorney to assist in resolving this matter.\n\n As long a I am a Co-Buyer of the vehicle, (I'm not not co-signer) I have have equal rights to the vehicle and it is my right to know where the vehicle is as well. I have requested a copy of the title, registration and proof of insurance through the DMV. If this information is not up to date, including the address of where the vehicle is kept I will be reporting it as a stolen car as I have no way to locate our shared vehicle.\u201d\n\nSo my question is, is this even possible?? We are having a hard time finding a lender who will refinance a loan that is only 6 months old...\nThanks for any and all advice in this matter!!","title":"NC- auto loan; co-BUYER and not co-BORROWER???","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541810640,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vq041\/kicking_a_roommate_out_with_no_written_contract_wa\/","id":"9vq041","body":"Throwaway because, yeah...\n\n​\n\nBackstory:\n\n​\n\nI am a recovering alcoholic and I decided (with the help of my sponsor and treatment counselor) that it would be best I not live alone while in early recovery. I got out of inpatient treatment in early August. Since I didn't know anyone actively looking for a place to live, I decided to turn to craigslist to find a roommate who was also in recovery. I found a good candidate pretty quickly and we agreed on a price and the terms and shook on it, no contract (bad idea, I've learned my lesson). I vetted him by calling his sponsor and his employer.\n\n​\n\nTerms of him staying here were that he remain sober, be active in his recovery (have a sponsor, go to meetings, etc), and not bring alcohol or drugs into the house under any circumstances. August and September went great, we had no issues and got along well, often going to AA meetings together. In October he had a short relapse. Because he came clean to me without me finding out in an awkward way, and he seemed serious about getting back on track, I let it slide, but told him it would be his last chance. He seemed very grateful and we moved past it. He immediately jumped back in to regularly attending meetings and meeting with his sponsor again.\n\n​\n\nLast week he had another relapse, going on a 3-day bender, not showing up for his job, barely leaving his room. After a couple days of this I suspected what was going on and called him out on it. He was very inebriated Saturday night and I took him to the hospital as he claimed to have had a seizure. In the hospital he was very distraught and apologetic, saying he needed help and wanted to back to inpatient treatment. I told him if that's what he wanted to do, he could leave his stuff at my house and he would have a room waiting for him when he got out. I left the next day for a business trip, with his assurance that he would check himself in before I got back on Thursday.\n\n​\n\nHe didn't check himself in, and immediately went back to drinking. Spent all week at my house on another bender. He wasn't answering his phone, or showing up to work (I called his employer), so I started suspecting something bad may have happened. Arrested, or worse, dead. So I called a wellness check in on him and the police told me they found him at home very drunk. He again was claiming that he had a seizure or thought he was about to, so they called an ambulance to take him to the hospital again. Upon finding this out, I called him before returning home on Thursday and told him he needed to leave. At first he seemed to understand and was very apologetic again, and begging me to let him stay. I held my ground and told him no.\n\n​\n\nNow I'm back home, and he's still here and hasn't made an effort to even start packing. Claiming by law I have to give him 30 days. My question is - is this the case even when we had no formal agreement? I have a long term lease on the house, and only my name is on the lease. What rights does he have? What rights do I have? The only thing that was ever written down was the original craigslist ad and which I clearly stated a 0-tolerance policy for drugs and alcohol in the house, and the requirement to remain sober and be active in recovery. It also clearly stated the consequences for breaking that agreement would be getting kicked out. I also have a witness that was with us at the hospital Saturday night, when I told him he could stay only if he completes treatment, and him agreeing to that.\n\n​\n\ntldr; I want to kick out my roommate who violated our agreement that there be no drugs or alcohol in the house. WE don't have a written contract of any kind. Only my name is on the lease. This is in King County, WA State ","title":"Kicking a Roommate Out with No Written Contract [WA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568602175,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4upnb\/im_in_colorado_i_am_filling_out_new_hire\/","id":"d4upnb","body":"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/fvjKkTP","title":"I'm in Colorado. I am filling out new hire paperwork and I come across this page. I want to know if this is legal? Or am I misunderstanding it? Seems like they want to take $600 from me if I don't last 6 months?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569788030,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db0izy\/copyrights\/","id":"db0izy","body":"\nI want to make a game that will be non-profit (I will sell it for free) and rely on music. I'm new to this whole asking permission thing but I am granted permission to use the music as long as my game is non profit. If I start a Kickstarter to fund the game and give players the option to donate (This won't be forced, only if they feel like it) will this still remain as a  non profit piece of media while adhering to the wishes of content creators? In other words, is this legal?","title":"Copyrights","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539394642,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nq3e0\/can_i_refuse_to_work_when_owed_an_outstanding\/","id":"9nq3e0","body":"So at my current employer I worked from 7\/31\/18-8\/9\/18 out of town and was promised a rate of .52 cents a mile. I did 74 miles a day for 10 consecutive days, other workers who have attended the same training have already received the pay owed to them. I've contacted HR but have been unable to reach anyone, I've contacted my DM and the regional vp of my district. I have gotten no info from any of them and it's been several weeks since I first addressed the issue and have followed up twice a week since 8\/25.\nSo my question is this.\nAm I able to not show up to work and avoid getting in trouble or getting fired due to owed mileage payments that exceed $200? Can somebody possibly give me an explanation of what I could and or should do from this point?","title":"Can i refuse to work when owed an outstanding payment for mileage?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554206411,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8ia3v\/va_is_it_illegal_for_my_employer_to_grant_ada\/","id":"b8ia3v","body":"I work for a non-profit organization in Virginia that operates a 24\/7 hotline and a couple of shelters. As I've learned, VA does not require employers to grant any breaks for employees over the age of 16. My role is to answer the hotline whenever it rings, so I don't get breaks unless someone can cover the hotline for me. In December, I filed an ADA accommodations request with my employer to get a 30 minute, uninterrupted lunch break to help with my type-1 diabetes. HR granted it, but after the 3 month initial period, we reviewed it and I provided feedback that there have been a lot of times where client crises, hotline calls, and short-staffing have forced me to work through my lunches. I was told by HR that sometimes I'll just need to \"step up and be a team player\" when those occasions arise. In my initial meeting, I was very open to not being able to have lunches on days when the rest of the organization was off (i.e. holidays and weather-related closure), but it seems as though I'm now having to work through lunches whenever my organization wants me to. I was a little annoyed by this response, but the memo sent to me to sign and upset and confused me more.\n\nThe statement that confuses reads as follows:\n\n>This accommodation should be reasonable and not result in undue hardship on the organization. Should a situation arise where coverage is not available, \\[your supervisor\\] will make the determination that the lunch will not be provided on that day. It is expected that you remain in communication with your supervisor to ensure your health is paramount.\n\nIf I understand correctly, they're asking me to ask my supervisor every day if I can have my lunch break. I don't necessarily think this is a reasonable accommodation. I can't tell if this is legal or not, and I'm seeking advice as to whether this statement negates the granted accommodations (30 minute uninterrupted lunch break) under the ADA. Thank you so much!\n\n​","title":"(VA) Is it illegal for my employer to grant ADA accommodations then negate themselves within their own memo?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569893322,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dblvlb\/just_started_a_job_2_weeks_ago_at_a_private\/","id":"dblvlb","body":"Pretty much the title. It says the only reasons for leaving is a spouse getting a job and needing to relocate, a death or major illness in the family, or a devastating event that makes me unable to work. What do I do? I can\u2019t turn down this new job, it\u2019s literally life changing. Can they sue me?","title":"Just started a job 2 weeks ago at a private school, and was just offered my dream job elsewhere. I have to take it, but I signed a contract that states we can\u2019t treat it like a stopgap for a new job, and that if breached would possibly be treated as a breach of contract. What are my options?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568685137,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5aaya\/co_break_times_at_work\/","id":"d5aaya","body":"So, I work for a company called Argus that staffs events in Colorado - like pepsi center, dicks sporting goods park, etc. \n\nIf I ever forget to bring my own lunch and I want to get a meal ticket however, I have to wait in the lines for food just like anyone else (actually typing this while in line for food at the Carrie Underwood concert) and it eats a lot into break time. I've decided to not start counting my break until I sit down in the break room because otherwise I wouldn't really get to even eat at some events. \n\nFor instance, at pepsi center, if I start off across the building I have to walk all the way over to check in, grab a meal ticket, go upstairs, wait in line, get my food, and take it all the way back to the break room. \n\nSometimes my supervisors will be annoyed at me for taking such a long break, but the way I see it I'm not taking a long break I'm taking a long time to start my regular break because I work in a big building. \n\nI haven't actually gotten in any trouble like write ups or anything but I want to know if I'm legally in the clear or if travel time in a situation like this counts as break time.","title":"[CO] Break times at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539732647,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oszyz\/rear_ended_another_car_im_at_fault\/","id":"9oszyz","body":"I was going at speed limit but I didn\u2019t break in time with the long line of traffic in front of me and rear ended a car. Luckily nobody was hurt but my car was totaled. (Airbags went off) Other car had damage but they were able to drive away. I was at fault so I\u2019ll be doing my driving school to take care of my ticket. My question is what happens from here with my car insurance? I just got off the phone with Progressive to file a claim but didn\u2019t get much information. \n\nA little more info; I was leasing the car and still owed 10k. Looking through my policy info it says \u201cloan\/lease payoff: no coverage\u201d \u201ccollision \u201c500 deductible\u201d and \u201ccomprehensive: 500 deductible\u201d however I had full coverage insurance. Just wondering at what expenses I\u2019m  possibly looking at. ","title":"Rear ended another car; I\u2019m at fault","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541384440,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u9luo\/ex_bf_abusing_the_system_and_keeping_me_broke_and\/","id":"9u9luo","body":"Posting for my friend's account to help preserve privacy. This is her story:\n\nI was with my abusive ex for 14 years. He was my first boyfriend, and i was too naive and wanted to believe things would get better, even while he was meeting girls from Craigslist while I was delivering our first child. I filed for divorce 2 years ago and we have been legally divorced for one. I supported our family nearly the whole time, even taking out 20k in extra student loans while in college to keep up finances during that time. He wouldn't allow me to work, so I did what i could.\n Fast forward to the divorce: he quits his job and goes on full disability (he was diagnosed with legitimate MS 2 months after divorce was filed) and tells me he's doing it because he will never have to give me a dime. I find out that he refinanced the auto loans and took $5k in cash out from them. I end up agreeing to take his vehicle with the loan because he cannot pay, and give him my car (that's fully paid for). He moved in with his mother because we sold the house, but she is married to a man who just got out of prison on a 15 year bid for raping his own daughters, and that man has moved his former cell mate into the house with them. I fought like hell to keep our children (both under 6 yo) from spending overnights in that house, pretty much letting everything else go his way as long as that condition was met. \nSo the verdict went like this: I owe the full 48k in student loans for myself, i owe $9,500 on the car loan, and I am ordered to pay him $200 in spousal support each month. He was ordered to pay me $8k for the loans etc, and no child support can be had as he is on disability. He was ordered to pay half the medical and other expenses for the children. \nAt first, we talked and he agreed that because I accepted all the other financial burdens, and because he was not going to pay me his financial burdens owed to me, I could just 'reduce' the amount he owed me by the $200\/mo x the 36 months it was ordered for. That went pretty well for a bit, but he has not paid for any of his obligations for the children's needs at all, zero. I have not made even a request about this, because I wish to not open that fight up. \nThe children tell me that he does not feed them when they are with him, they get a bag of chips and the iPad and are left to their own means. He is now bed ridden, so he cannot physically care for the children nor protect them from the pedophiles that live in that house. This isn't much out of the ordinary for his level of care for them, but it drives my worries to the extreme. \nI ended up paying $20k for legal council through the divorce, and I have not paid on my student loans because i literally do not have the means. I now am required to only pay $5 monthly for that so it helps but I am never going to be able to get ahead there, it doesn't even cover the interest. \nMy ex brings in about $6k a month in disability and his pension, and uses most of the money to keep me in court, calling me to tell me he will continue to use every penny to make my life hell until i decide to get back with him. \nMy job downsized and it left me without full time employment and benefits, although I still am employed in a 'casual' postition, working for others and on days when more staff is needed. This brings in about 20% of the salary my full time position did.\nI have been representing myself in court for the last 5 months, and I thought it was over finally. 2 days ago, I got a letter from the court saying that he filed for me not paying the $200 a month he had verbally agreed to take out of what he owes me. He refused to ever sign anything about it, but for awhile he seemed genuine and I hoped he would keep his word. I am being called on for 'contempt' for not paying him the $200 monthly.\n\n------ so with all this known, what avenues do i have? He owes thousands of dollars just for the children's medical bills which i have covered 100%. He claims that since he is on disability he is legally protected from any financial costs involved in the orders of the court for me and the children's needs. I understand the $ awarded to me in the divorce is unobtainable, but what about the money for the children's medical and school costs he was required to pay? I don't understand how he can be awarded partial custody when he cannot even take care of himself and does not do anything for the children while they are there- including hygeine and meals on many days (his mom often buys them candy or fast food while they are there, but when she doesn't they don't get fed and come home literally begging for food). \nAm i totally screwed on getting the money for the children's medical bills? Is there any legal way of resolving the money I'm ordered to pay him by deducting it from the money he is ordered to pay me? \nHe calls with threats enough to get a restraining order but if I would do that there would be little chance of the children seeing him, and even though it makes my life hell I don't want to take that from them. I just want to be done. I'm broken, I'm broke financially, and I'm on so many psych meds just to not break down... I want this to end. Thank you in advance for reading this, any helpful input is highly appreciated.","title":"Ex bf abusing the system and keeping me broke and in court","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552831354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b25g20\/breeder_wanting_more_money_for_costs_she_never\/","id":"b25g20","body":"My friend got a puppy through a breeder. Breeder says she will already be in an area and asks friend if she would like to meet her there to pick up said puppy. My friend arrives to meeting place at breeder\u2019s requested time. Breeder shows up 4 hours late. A day later the breeder is requesting $150 shipping fee that she did not state she was expecting. \n\nIn the contract, it says that the buyer is responsible for shipping costs. Is it really a \u2018shipping cost\u2019 if the breeder stated word for word, she would be in the area already and invited my friend to come pick up the puppy? \n\nThanks ","title":"Breeder wanting more money for costs she never stated were required.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569878499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbiivt\/insurance_check\/","id":"dbiivt","body":"So I have a lot of hail damage on my car. About $5000 worth. It\u2019s not totaled and I still owe about $8000. \nI have two questions:\n1) my insurance company wrote a check for their estimate out to me, my husband, and a car collision place. How does one cash this check?\n2) can I use the money to pay down my car debt and not get the hail damage fixed?","title":"Insurance check","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541191326,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tnwnj\/trying_to_evict_someone_who_isnt_on_a_lease\/","id":"9tnwnj","body":"So my aunt is going through a bad breakup. Her ex has mental health issues and is being very clingy and refuses to leave. She's given him two weeks to move out, and keeps giving additional time because she felt bad for him. Today was moving day but he told her now that she cannot legally throw him out because of his rights. He told her if she wants him out she can take him to court.\n\nWhat are his rights in this instance? He's not on her lease. She pays all the bills. She's very worried. What can she do? ","title":"Trying to evict someone who isn't on a lease...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552916603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2ivxx\/wa_multiple_issues_regarding_compensation_from_my\/","id":"b2ivxx","body":"This is gonna be a long one. Very long one. Strap in. Looking for general advice on how to pick a lawyer for these issues, if I even should, or where I should go for each of the problems. This is in Washington state, much of it relating to workman\u2019s compensation, and employment law.  Washington employment is at-will. Here we go.\n\n\nI was injured at work last November. I had been lifting heavy bags of pet food and stocking grocery bag boxes all morning. My job title is cashier. I had been working on scanning orders right before break. I took my bucket of \u201cgo backs\u201d toward customer service. As I was going back, I felt an immediate stabbing pain in my lower back and shooting down my leg.\n\n\nI\u2019m no fool, I immediately reported this to my manager. I requested medical treatment, you don\u2019t screw with back injuries. After being forced to walk back and forth across the store signing and grabbing forms, they finally let me go and get attention.\n\n\nI went to the ER (it was Saturday). They diagnosed me with sciatica pain and a lower back strain. They ordered some pain medication, and muscle relaxants. They also ordered light duty for one week.\n\n\nI went back to work later that day to finish the final paperwork. They found a light duty assignment for me. Door greeting. Most boring soul crushing thing they could have put me on while I was healing.\n\n\nDuring that week, I had had a night where I was throwing up and having severe diarrhea. It may have been a stomach bug or relating to my IBS. I was still sick in the morning, and didn\u2019t have any  food left in me. I had to take my medication if there was any chance I was gonna make it to work, as I was in a lot of pain. I ended up getting really dizzy and nauseous as the medicine kicked in. I called into work. This attendance gave me my last \u201cpoint\u201d. I thought I was in the clear because the absence was directly related to my injury. I wasn\u2019t called and fired. I thought I was good.\n\n\nSlightly important, we\u2019re entering December at this point. I was planning to move to Idaho for school, and had an approved Leave of Absence so I could transfer to the Walmart in Idaho once there was an opening and I was finished moving.\n\n\nI followed up with a local care clinic after the one week light duty. I was feeling a lot better, I had been doing nothing but standing around and faking smiles to customers and pretending to care about checking receipts. I was still having pain lifting anything heavy or bending over, so I was prescribed a one week trial of full duty. Queue the rapid downhill.\n\n\nI was called in to speak with my direct manager to discuss my absences. Every absence including the one I discussed earlier was given proper notice and through the proper channels. As I had known, I met the minimum to be eligible for termination. I discussed with my manager about the absence, and how it was related to the work injury. She asked if I had any PTO, and I checked the system and it said I did. We filled out a form and I went on my way.\n\n\nBack to the full duty trial. Pain was coming back quick. Pain shooting down my leg anything anything remotely heavy came down the belt, or if I had to bend over or walk for a while. I made note of this to bring up at my follow up. I wasn\u2019t gonna be able to take this much longer. \n\n\nA day or two later, the timeline is kinda fuzzy, One if the assistant managers came up to me on self check out and told me we were going to see the manager. Even though I knew the way, I was literally escorted all the way to the door. \n\n\nI was fired. They said I couldn\u2019t use my PTO I had accrued because I was a new hire and hadn\u2019t been there for 3 months. Those 3 months were in a few days. They made me turn in my stuff and escorted me out.\n\n\nHere I was, in severe pain, out of a job, low on money before moving out to school. I immediately filed for unemployment, even though I knew I wasn\u2019t going to be able to collect for a while even if they approved it, which was unlikely due to the termination status. I\u2019m an honest guy. There was no way someone was gonna hire me for only two weeks while I\u2019m injured.\n\n\nGoing off the general time line for this segment. A while passed and I won unemployment benefits. As expected, my employer said I was fired because I often missed work. (4 in a 3 month period). The Washington unemployment office found that I was not in misconduct because \u201cthe final absence was excusable\u201d. I haven\u2019t claimed any benefits up to this point. (March 2019). I was intending to collect after surgery (more on that later) and when I was able to work. Just recently, I got a notice in the mail, my previous employer is appealing my benefits. The hearing was only a few days away. It conflicted with an IME with workers comp (also more on that later) and I requested a postponement. The hearing is now March 25th. I got set up with the Washington Unemployment Law project, and they are representing me. A huge load off my shoulder. My first question, which isn\u2019t critical but I\u2019m curious about, what case do I have here? Is there a chance we can win this? I\u2019m still awaiting attorney assignment. Any specific information I should share with him? Can I talk myself during the hearing? I\u2019ll share how that went down in an update post in the near future, most likely less than 3 weeks from now.\n\n\nBack to the days immediately following unemployment. This post is getting insanely long so I\u2019ll try to be as brief as possible. \n\n\nI followed up with my physician at workers care. I explained my situation and he recommended physical therapy, because no imaging like an MRI could be done until failed physical therapy. I had to wait nearly a month until I moved to Idaho for school. I began physical therapy. 12 visits over 6 weeks. I kept every appointment. At one point I was referred to an urgent care for a steroid pack to help with inflammation. I was undergoing therapy for a suspected herniated disk. After the medication wore off, the pain got immediately worse, and I left therapy hurting more than I went in every day I had an appointment. I stuck to it and finished it out.\n\n\nWe\u2019re now in March. The urgent community care is now considered my primary care physician and follow ups for workers compared related things. An x-Ray was ordered since I had failed physical therapy. Radiologist found nothing. An MRI was requested, I had to wait a few weeks for the approval from my claim adjuster. It was approved. I was also sent verified delivery mail about an Independent Medical Evaluation (IME), this was last Saturday. I argued with my claims adjuster, explaining I really didn\u2019t want to drive home during school, having to travel 26 hours with a day of rest in between. I asked for flight arrangements, and I said I would stay with my family back home. She agreed, much to my dismay. But whatever.\n\n\nBefore I went to that appointment, I had the MRI done locally first. I was walking home from the MRI and it had been already reviewed (uh oh) and sent to my primary care in my college town. He said it was bad, and he recommended immediate consultation with a neurosurgeon in Idaho falls. I got a call for that, and went the very next day. (Turn around on all of that was insanely quick, only possible for severe abnormalities.) I had a large disk herniation causing severe spinal stenosis. The neurosurgeon noticed decreased feeling and reactivity in my affected leg. Neurosurgeon recommended surgery. I signed the forms, got it scheduled, it\u2019s in workman\u2019s comp\u2019s ball-court now.\n\n\nI called my workman\u2019s come adjuster with the news. She looked over the chart notes and report of the MRI. I asked if the IME was still necessary, and she said yeah. I begrudgingly awaiting the date and got the travel arrangements figured out. Flying with the back injury was extremely painful and I had a lot of pain carrying luggage. I got back from that today.\n\n\nAt the IME, the doctor and his staff weren\u2019t even supposed to tell me the evaluation of my injury. I brought all of my chart notes x-ray and MRI. He definitely broke protocol after examining me. The doctors appt was only 15 minutes long including looking at my records. He specifically said I need surgery, to my face. I can\u2019t believe how much my adjuster spent for the examination, and the cost of flying me, the doctor, and his two staff out to my hometown.  None of us were living there at the time of the appt.\n\n\nWhile I was gone, I received a check in the mail for under $700. It was from Claim management INC - [old employers name]. I haven\u2019t deposited the check and won\u2019t be until I have full information. It came with no information except my claim identification numbers for workman\u2019s comp. They might be trying to pre-maturely settle or something. \n\n\nThat brings me all up to the present. Thanks for sticking with it. My main questions are:\n\n\nShould I be receiving compensation from workman\u2019s comp above and beyond just paying my medical bills? Such as disability due to severe injury, or time loss? Why was this check that came for me? Time to lawyer up or am I okay this far?\n\n\nFor unemployment recapping from earlier: What chance do I have of winning this case? Is this a last ditch effort to appeal or should I be worried and not plan on the income after surgery. \n\n\nAnd finally, taking all of the above into consideration, should I consider suing for wrongful termination? I know this is really hard to prove in Washington, but do I have enough evidence to prove that they fired me over workman\u2019s comp, knowing that I was starting to hurt again.\n\n\nThanks in advance for your responses, and for taking the time to read this freakishly long post.","title":"[WA] Multiple issues regarding compensation from my previous employer.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442292962,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l07ks\/we_found_bedbugs_in_our_apartment_now_we_are\/","id":"3l07ks","body":"Ok. I never post to reddit so excuse any formatting errors. Also, sorry if this is a jumbled mess.. It's late and I am exhausted.\nHusband and I (newly pregnant at the time) moved into our apartment around this time last year.  \nNo bedbugs until early May this year. I found one on our mattress and called the office only to be told that I was probably mistaken. They couldn't do anything until I caught a few in a ziplock bag.  \nA few weeks go by. No more bugs to be found and I finally have my baby on the 15th. \nGet home on the 18th and the first night home my newborn and I have numerous bites on our legs and arms. Awesome.  \nWe are lucky and catch a few in a bag the very next morning and bring the bag to the office. They send an exterminator out to the apartment and treat the place while we stay at our in-law's.  \nGet back and everything seems fine. The office tells us **they didn't find any bugs**. Uh. Okay. They seem to be gone regardless so I wasn't going to argue.  \nTwo weeks go by and the exterminators come to do a check up on the place. Husband and I overhear one telling the other to double check under two of our chairs in our living room because they had found nests in the floorboards where the carpet and wall meets.\nI would like to note that not only was all of our furniture bought new after we moved into this place, but my husband and I are total recluses. Especially during my pregnancy. Any time we had away from work was spent exclusively watching TV in our bedroom. And we had NO guests over.  We never used these chairs. They were almost more for decoration that actual use.\nI confirm what I heard from the exterminator and he told me that he could not be 100% sure, but it seemed these bugs were not brought in by us.  \nFine. Whatever. They leave and we hear nothing else from the office. No notice or call concerning the issue for almost two months.  \nThat is, until we are hit with a $100 late fee. Well, we have never paid rent late so we called the office and they inform us that they were charging us $500 for the pest control, and we hadn't paid it, so there was now another $100 on top of that. Of course if we paid them by September 30th they would be kind enough to wave the $100 late fee.\n\nWe were obviously pretty upset over this. There was never anything that said we were being charged for this service. I have read the lease over and over and NOWHERE does it say we are responsible for pest control. In fact it says that any pest control will be covered by the apartment. When we touched on that they told us bedbugs were different and counted as damage to the property. \nWe called the company which came out to do the extermination and were told that not only did the exterminator confirm that he did not think we were at fault, but they had an extensive history with this apartment complex and they had been treating **5 out of 6 units in our building alone since before April**.  \n Again, we did not even have this problem until May.\nWhen I ask how they can charge late fees on a sum of money we were never given a 'pay by' date they dance around the issue and just say \"Well are you going to pay it, or not?\". \nWhen we ask why we are being charged for bedbugs that are obviously not our fault they tell us that \"Bedbugs do not just happen. They have to be brought in by the tenant, therefore we are responsible for the damage done to the property. There are no other apartments in the complex that have issues with bedbugs\".\nMy husband has gotten the run around multiple times on the phone with the (extremely condescending) woman that runs the office. Any time he tries to ask a legitimate question concerning these fees he is spoken over and mocked. The last few phone calls have ended with her hanging up on him.\nNow, we have received a notice that the last two months of rent are delinquent and every 8 days we acquire another $50 in late fees.  \nAs I said, we pay rent on time every month. By check. Specifically stating \"Rent for -lot number here-\".  \nWe called the office again today and they told us that any monies taken went to charges for the pest control, so technically we never actually paid rent at all and still owed it.  \nI don't understand how one day we are told to pay fees for the extermination by Sep. 30th (which we actually have her saying on a message, saved on my husband's phone), then another day told money has already been taken from our rent payment, so now it's not that we owe for the extermination.. but the rent itself.  \n\nI think that is everything... I hope that wasn't too bad of a jumbled mess. Right now this 'Delinquent rent' crap is totally messing up our credit and we couldn't get another apartment if we wanted to.  \nSo, Reddit.. are we totally screwed here?","title":"We found bedbugs in our apartment. Now we are being charged almost $800 in late rent fees and the office hangs up every time we try to call [MO]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541621482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v2w7q\/my_spouse_is_being_prosecuted_by_the_state_for\/","id":"9v2w7q","body":"To begin with, I live in New Mexico. So back in September my spouse and I had an argument and she assaulted me. We were both intoxicated. The police were called and I chose not to press charges. I was told she was placed in protective custody and it is unclear to me whether she was mirandized. \n\nRegardless, the state is proceeding with prosecution. In the meantime, her conditions of release don't allow her to return home or have any contact with me. I am a step-parent to her three children and I work full time. Needless to say this has been very difficult to juggle without her help.\n\nI went to the District Attorney's office and spoke with a paralegal about this, and asked for the conditions of release to be lifted and for the charges to be dropped on the basis that I don't feel there is a persistant threat to myself as the victim, that this is the first time this has happened, she has no prior criminal record, and that a new anxiety medication she was taking may have been a factor. I was able to get this on the record before the case was filed. They told me they would call me, and so far I have heard nothing. As I understand it she has not been able to speak to her public defender yet, and the court date is in two weeks. \n\nSo my question is this: have I done everything I can do? I just want this nightmare to be over and my wife to be home so we can get our lives back on track. Thank you all.","title":"My spouse is being prosecuted by the state for battery even though I am not pressing charges.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445712170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q25qo\/landlady_issues_england_uk_landlord_wont_give_me\/","id":"3q25qo","body":"Hey all, \n\nI rented a flat for \u00a3450 a month (with a deposit of \u00a3450) and kept the flat for about 18 months. Then the ceiling fell through. It had been leaking for a while and I had phoned the landlady multiple times asking for her to get someone to look at it and she did, ONCE, and when it started again the flat filled up with mould and was constantly damp, triggering my asthma. I phoned Environmental Health who put a Hazard Notice on the flat but she still wouldn't do anything. \n\nI ended up handing in my notice (I phoned her and left a voicemail, I don't have an address) and by going into the Letting Agents to let them know I was leaving. They said it was all alright, so I packed up my stuff and left. I left a large wardrobe, a smaller wardrobe (already there when I moved in), a sofa (also there when I moved in) and a glass table (also already there when I moved in),  and I phoned her to make sure it was alright, she said it was fine. Everything was going smoothly.\n\nI left, and a week later phoned to ask her about having my deposit back. I'd left the flat in good order, as good as it could get with mould everywhere. She said it was fine, I could have my deposit back. She let me know she had tenants already moved in and they were pleased with the condition of the place. \n\nTwo days later she called me to let me know that she wanted half my deposit for \"loss of rent\" because I \"didn't give her notice\", and she had some of my post that she would only give to me if I gave her a letter saying she could have half my deposit. \n\nI, obviously, said no. I couldn't understand how she was banging on about loss of rent when I'd given her the months notice and she had people moved in less than a week after I left. She then told me that she had received no notice, that I had left furniture in the place (Which she had okayed, and most of it was hers anyway) and she wanted me to pay for its removal. \n\nI said no, again, and she ended up yelling at me and then my step-mother saying I \"better hope I could afford to pay court fees\". I can't, but I wasn't going to tell her that. She never gave me any details about her, apart from her phone number which she changes once a month, and I didn't receive any information about where my deposit is held or any reference numbers, and without the reference it's difficult to open a dispute. \n\nI've now received a letter from a claim court in which she says she didn't receive notice, I had left the place in a state, and she gives her address as a company address. So.. not her address. \n\nNow very little of our communication has been done through writing. Actually, none of it. She states in the court letter that she \"doesn't read texts or listen to voicemails\", but if she's a landlord surely she should? \n\nNow she clearly got my notice because she managed to get tenants within a few weeks. I'm getting hugely stressed out by this, I have bad depression and anxiety anyway and it's getting worse by this, do I have a counter-claim here? I have the tenancy agreement which has all her furniture listed in the inventory part so I can prove that much is true. \n\nBut unless the Letting Agents wants to get involved, I can't prove I gave my notice in, and I didn't take pictures of the flat how I left it. I did take pictures of the mould growing on the clothes in the wardrobe due to the damp but nothing else. \n\nWould I win if I counterclaimed? Please help. \n\nThank you.","title":"Landlady issues, England, UK. Landlord won't give me my deposit back despite agreeing to?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551373697,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avtgow\/quit_my_job_in_california_how_do_i_ask_for_my\/","id":"avtgow","body":"Hello! I quit my job due to a hostile work environment and need to know the exact verbiage to ask for my vacation pay. It\u2019s accrued separately from PTO and a former employees don\u2019t receive it unless they ask. Is there any verbiage I should specifically use when speaking to Hr?","title":"Quit my job in CALIFORNIA- how do I ask for my vacation to be paid out!","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446785515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rq5la\/mi_potentially_criminal_child_neglect_andor\/","id":"3rq5la","body":"I have a family member who has been in a four year battle with an Ex regarding custody of their son. Over those four years, child protective services has been called numerous (I believe seven) times 'anonymously.' Based on the details of the reports, it's fairly obvious it's the ex--or someone the ex saw (like a doctor, teacher, or other mandatory reporter). \n\n\nNone of the investigations have yielded any substantiating evidence to support the claims. Several people interviewed have drawn doubts about the child's statements--suggesting the child was being coached on what to say. Others have suggested the Ex may have potential mental problems, but as of yet no psychological evaluation has been performed.\n\n\nAfter the last allegation, CPS once again found no substantiating evidence of abuse or neglect, but my family member had enough and told the lawyer to file papers for full custody. \n\n\nAfter that, the Ex filed again with CPS that my family member is abusing the son and daughter (only the son is the Ex's and allegations only ever involved the son) with the usual fantastical claims. \n\n\nAfter going to court, my family member was told by the judge, prosecutor, and defending attorney that they don't think the charges are going to go anywhere, but they want to 'err on the side of caution' and informed him he cannot be living within the household of the son or daughter until the investigation is complete.\n\n\nSo now this family member is living with me in the short term.\n\n\nI, and others around me, believe the allegations are being made not in the interest of the son or daughter, but in malice towards the family member.\n\n\n1. Is there any way we can prove the intent is malicious? We want these blatantly false allegations to stop.\n\n2. Should my family member hire a criminal defense attorney now, or wait until formally served? Currently my family member is using a 'family lawyer' recommended by an advocacy organization.\n\n3. Should we hire an investigator on behalf of the family member to \"prove innocence?\" Malicious intent of the Ex?\n\n4. What else can we do to get out of this? It appears neither the courts nor CPS nor local Michigan LEOs are doing anything against the Ex for what members of those organizations think is 'bullshit' according to one deputy sheriff. \n\n\nAny advice would be appreciated. Stories of success in similar matters would be encouraging. Having the law weaponized against you indirectly by way of family is stressing me out, I can't imagine what my family member must be going through.\n\n\nThanks!","title":"[MI] Potentially criminal child neglect and\\or sexual abuse charges thanks to escalated child-custody battle.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1549891502,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apg87g\/company_refuses_to_deliver_internship_certificate\/","id":"apg87g","body":"Hello everyone, first time poster here and I hope I can get some insights into my situation. Thanks in advance.\n\nIn 2016, I interned at a Fortune 500 company\u2019s branch in France. The internship went smoothly with me getting an excellent grade and several recommendations (this is relevant since, in France, an intern who performed poorly or caused an incident during his internship is denied an internship certificate). I asked the company for an internship certificate, not only for future employment reasons but also for any administrative\/legal procedure that may arise (I\u2019m based in France and the legislative processes here can be quite hairy). Since the company didn\u2019t produce my certificate following my first request, I didn\u2019t think much of it (especially since I was busy with my master\u2019s thesis and job hunting).\n\nFast forward two years later, I\u2019ve started an administrative procedure for which I needed to produce all proofs of employment since I first arrived in France. Since I was missing that certificate (I contacted HR again last year for it and no response), I reached out to my internship manager who filed a request for it. After following through with her, I learned that they outsourced all base HR processes to another country and it\u2019s going to take a while. It\u2019s now been two weeks and still no news.\n\nI researched the issue and it turns out that companies are legally obligated to deliver to students their internship certificate following its completion. Since they haven\u2019t honored this matter, I\u2019m torn between waiting a bit more or taking the matter to the French labor court.\n\nMy question is: given the aforementioned issue, should I rush to take the company to court? I\u2019ve drafted an email to my internship manager mentioning this point but I\u2019m rather hesitant to send it lest I ruin my relationship with her and the company.\n\nThanks.","title":"Company refuses to deliver internship certificate despite chasing them for over 2 years","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568550133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4jqwh\/california_exempt_salary_employee_here_do_i_have\/","id":"d4jqwh","body":"I work for a trucking company as basically a dispatcher. We have other administrative duties. This job is very high intensity and often times I do not even get to eat lunch.\nWe work 12.5 hour shifts with 4 days on and 3 days off. However in most cases our shifts turn into 13-14 hours because we have so much work left to do after shift change. There aren\u2019t many slow days but when there are slow days, we don\u2019t get to leave early (which is the assumed benefit to being a salary employee in most cases).\nWe work in a very small office, about 20ft by 20ft with no air circulation or ventilation, just an old moldy wall mounted air conditioning unit and no windows. \n\nI probably put in 53-55 hours in 4 days.\nWe are not provided our own work space and share out stations with approximately 14 other people in total between all shifts.\n\nI\u2019m not sure if we are being treated fairly by the labor law standards because it feels wrong how they\u2019ve isolated us in this office.\n\nDo we have a case against our company here? We have put in multiple requests for private work stations, more office space, actual lunch breaks, and even a cleaner AC unit. We were told that if we don\u2019t like it, then leave.\nIs this legal?","title":"California exempt Salary employee here, do I have a case?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555103407,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcivp9\/if_a_man_is_not_present_to_sign_a_birth\/","id":"bcivp9","body":"The \u201cfather\u201d of my good friends child was not present during her pregnancy, labor or more recently the child\u2019s life. He did not sign the birth certificate. Does he have any rights?","title":"If a man is not present to sign a birth certificate in the state of Pennsylvania does he have any rights to the child?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541815150,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vqj12\/girlfriend_was_fired_out_of_the_blue_by_her\/","id":"9vqj12","body":"So to preface, we're both currently college students and are basically living paycheck to paycheck. So the little money we can get in the limited hours of work we can each get in while we try to keep up with our busy class schedules.\n\nAnyways, when I dropped her off at work I went to get gas and when I got back into the car after pumping, she was calling me saying that they had just fired her, but what she was saying didn't make a lot of sense. \n\nShe went into work on Tuesday (the time she was scheduled to work) and for some reason she was off the schedule and they claimed she had requested the day off months in advance, which she had no recollection of. She just accepted the free day off, and walked off without really thinking much of it.\n\nThe next day, she knew she had never been scheduled for, but after the surprise the day before, she called in to work to see if she was still scheduled for Thursday, which she remembered having been scheduled for. They told her that they changed the schedule around and moved her to Friday evening. We took the surprise day off to celebrate my birthday with my family and she was happy to have that opportunity.\n\nWhat caught us by surprise most of all though, is the fact that when she came into work at the time they said she had been moved to. When she showed up, they claimed to have attempted to call her dozens of times on Wednesday because of a shift in the schedule that was requiring her to come in on Wednesday.\n\nThe thing is, she didn't have a single missed call from them. Also, she didn't receive any mention of this when she came in the day before their supposed attempt to call her in. Furthermore, they didn't say anything about it when she called them that day. Do we have any options in this scenario, or are we just kind of out of luck?","title":"Girlfriend was fired out of the blue by her employer with flimsy reasoning and no prior notice, is there anything we can do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541198348,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9towhl\/landlord_threatening_to_kick_everyone_out_if_one\/","id":"9towhl","body":"TL;DR Landlord threatening to evict everyone if my neighbor continues to smoke.\n\nFor context, the apartment building I live in is run by the city (we live in Michigan) and there\u2019s 3 apartments. My friends live on one side of us and an older lady lives on the other.\n\nRecently, we\u2019ve been having trouble with the older lady smoking cigarettes and we (my friends in the other apartment and my boyfriend and I) agreed to finally bring it up to the landlord (let\u2019s call her Carol). Yesterday, when I dropped off my rent check, I mentioned to the girl who works for Carol (Carol wasn\u2019t in her office) that my neighbor has been smoking in her apartment and the smell is wafting into ours and it\u2019s bothering us. She said she\u2019ll mention it to Carol. I leave and assume that\u2019s the end of it but here\u2019s where everything goes to shit.\n\nI get a call from my friend next door who decided to bring up the smoking to Carol as well, telling me that Carol was saying it was my boyfriend and I who are smoking because there is no possible way they could smell smoke that bad from the older lady\u2019s apartment and it had to be us because we live directly next door to them. Yada yada. I suppose that makes sense but I really didn\u2019t like that she accused us like that.\n\nSo I decided to talk to Carol and bring up the smoking again. I said something along of \u201chey, not sure if anyone told you about what I said yesterday but our neighbor is smoking and it bothers us\u201d. She went on a tangent about how she has zero tolerance for smoking and then told me everyone will be getting a warning letter on their door today.\n\nThe letter says that if the smoking doesn\u2019t stop she will go to the \u201ccity\u2019s lawyer\u201d and have everyone evicted. \n\nMy question is, can she kick anyone out without proof?\n\nFurthermore, if my neighbor continues to smoke, and talking to her doesn\u2019t change anything, is there anywhere else we can go to get this situation handled?\n\nI would really appreciate any and all advice you guys have. Thanks so much!\n","title":"Landlord threatening to kick EVERYONE out if one person continues to smoke??","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444005734,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nilwc\/need_advice_on_potential_theft_from_my_work\/","id":"3nilwc","body":"Location: Dallas, TX, USA\n\nI am a 17 year old working at Spirit Halloween. We sell costumes from a movie called \"Descendants\" and they're really popular. In fact, they sell on eBay for more that double what we sell them for. So, I bought one from the store I work at, then went to another store and purchased two more. There is a 2 costume limit per customer per store, but I did not buy more than 2 at either location. I DID NOT use my employee discount at either location, however, I did use a \"friends and family\" coupon that was available today for people who know associates. I was planning to put them up on eBay, but I never got the chance. After visiting the second store and going home, I got a call from my district manager. (I'm just a sales associate) He told me to return all 3 costumes, and that what I had done was somehow theft due to a rule in the employee handbook that I digitally signed. I returned all 3 costumes to avoid any trouble, and I kept my job. However, my district manager also said that I could still be charged with theft, and that he would try to prevent that since I returned everything, but it could still happen. \n\nMy questions: How is this theft? I paid for the items fair and square, how is it anyone's business what I do with them after that?\n\nCan I really be bound to that handbook since I'm not 18?\n\nAny other advice is appreciated.","title":"Need advice on potential theft from my work","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541849654,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vtmwa\/evicting_our_landlord\/","id":"9vtmwa","body":"Nov 4, wife went in for some thing for the baby, but they had her stay because high risk pregnancy thing. On Nov 5 at 8pm we spawned a boy but couldn't take it back home till the 8th, to my surprise I had more money than usual and this time I had an extra human. Went to collect our mail and a 3 day notice was in there, it was 4:30 on the 8th and office was still opened  so I ran and made out a check but management decided  to not accept our rent and has avoided all type of communication with us.. we got served last night, I'm freken out because only I could prevent a forest fire! And I think we're gonna end up homeless. How can I evict my 4 year landlord that has had different management that always claim Im a dope dealer, I asked them for is batteries for my smoke detectors and they said they have to replace the whole system but that was last year and the chirp is so annoying I unplugged them, they come in my unit with out notice and snap photos I know because some girl that help previous manager told me and showed me. I asked if she could forward the pics to my email and she disappeared. I can't afford to move out so I need landlord to just go. I'm not looking to hire anyone just some.legal advice.. oh yeah I'm not excited of the little being yet because I can't support my self how am I gonna support him. I'm at a distance from motivation, or semi lazy. I'm about to delete the whole thing if I don't post now.. ","title":"Evicting our landlord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442890890,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lw2w7\/dealership_messed_up_car_price_wants_me_to_resign\/","id":"3lw2w7","body":"I'll try to keep this short...\n\nAfter much back and forth and issues with my bank, I finally settled on a car. I was already approved for financing, so it wasn't a spot sale. The car seemed cheaper than I was expecting when I went into financing so I asked the guy if he was sure that's the right price. He confirmed then we added in the extras like GAP\/warranty.\n\nA week later, they call and say there's a problem with the bank and need me to resign. After asking what the issue was since I was already approved, the manager says they messed up and put the price of the previous car I looked at (diff of $2500). They offered me a rate reduction of around 1% or so.\n\nI told him if they'd give a $1000 concession, I'd call it good. I'd take some of their mistake, as did the bank and the dealership would as well. That seemed fair to me as it's spread out among three parties. They've refused and tried to make an emotional plea and asked me to come talk face to face (we've been discussing via email). \n\nBasically, I have the purchase agreement and bill of sale which they drafted that lays out full amounts and specific financing. They mentioned they need to get this done before financing expires.\n\nCan a dealership hold a signed agreement and cause financing to be pulled to force me to resign or walk? Can they force me to resign or take my trade in back? They already have my old vehicle on their lot for sale. I'm worried about refusing to sign at this point (after they refused my counter) and getting either sued or the current car repossessed. ","title":"Dealership messed up car price - wants me to resign (TX)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1410296064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fxxss\/can_my_school_legally_force_me_to_get_out_of_my\/","id":"2fxxss","body":"I am currently in high school in Louisiana. My school has a student parking lot to allow students with their own means of transportation to drive themselves to school. Students who are dropped off by their parents or the bus are required to go to the \"commons area\" inside the school in the morning before the bell. The administration, however, requires students who drive to school to go to the commons area as soon as they get to the parking lot, no matter how early. Many of the students, including myself, usually disregard this rule and like to stay in their cars before going to class. This is usually not a problem except sometimes there is a monitor in the parking lot who will literally come to your car and tell you to get out and go inside. This happened today and was threatened with a referral the next time it happened. What I want to know is, do they have the right to legally do this? Do I have the right to say no?\n\nEdit: Thanks for all the quick responses! I guess I'll just have to deal with it ;D","title":"Can my school legally force me to get out of my car?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1410072449,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fpa4u\/questions_about_getting_pulled_over_by_police_in\/","id":"2fpa4u","body":"Please forgive me for being ignorant, but that is why I am on here and asking these questions (involving traffic stops). I have searched the internet for these answers, but I was faced with information containing many legal terms that went over my head or websites that \"instruct\" people how to deal with the police.\n\n- Is it ever appropriate to ask \"Am I being detained, or am I free to go?\" \n\n- Are police allowed to search my car without consent? \n\n- If I get pulled over and an officer asks to search my car (and I know I do not have anything illegal), what is the best general response?\n","title":"Questions about getting pulled over by police in California","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446767690,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rp30b\/ex_business_partner_gained_access_to_my_personal\/","id":"3rp30b","body":"Brief backstory is, started a business with 2 friends. I was CEO, built the company from idea to millions, he is unstable mentally, and we tried to separate as partners, offered him buyout, he went Manic (he is bipolar) and stole the company from me and other partner on technicality, that we didn't have shareholder agreement (I know, I know, we were stupid as hell) and first year's taxes were filed as him 100% share holder (made for faster access to certain products requiring background checks for each owner back to back, so we did it for speed. We were all close friends, handshake made sense. Yes. Stupid. Yes I know, I've dealt with my reality thank you!). He is off his rocker again, and wants to gather evidence I take it, that he said I was embezzling (I wasn't, but you can't talk sense to crazy.) He won't leave me alone. He got access to my iCloud account (I got unknown browser access email) He then tried to access my amazon account (They sent me multiple password reset requests). He thought he could reset password and access my email quickly. He called them, posing as me but couldn't verify all security questions. (I moved since we were in business, he didn't know my new address). I need this guy to go away. I need to have leverage on him in the event that he goes complete nuts, and tries to keep harassing me and defaming my name with these BS allegations. If I have proof that he did this with IP addresses, it will give me some leverage. He also is headed for BK, from what I hear, and it seems he is looking to drag me down with him. He is blaming me for all his woes.\n\n1. Any advice in general is appreciated here.\n2.  Apple and Amazon don't seem to want to give me the IP addresses of those who accessed MY accounts. Unless there is a subpoena. Don't see that happening in 30 day window that Apple claims to keep those records per their privacy statement.\nHow can I do that?\n3. I lost everything, my emergency funds have been depleted over the last 7 months of me trying to launch a new business\/find work. I have a wife and child, so can't afford legal work right away.\n\nTIA.","title":"Ex Business Partner gained access to my personal Email accounts, and called Amazon posing as me to try to access accounts - Can I Subpoena IP addresses to press charges? - California, USA","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444326008,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nzwwj\/georgia_us_can_insurance_company_convert_my\/","id":"3nzwwj","body":"Edit: I currently have full possession of both the vehicle and the title. \n\n(Georgia, US) A young lady ran into the rear end corner of my parked bus. Her insurance wants to declare it a total loss even though my vehicle is in excellent running condition and has only cosmetic damage. It also has only 36k miles and they compared it to vehicles with 120k-250k+ miles. The repair estimate is $2,200 and comparable vehicles sell for in between $10k and $20k, depending on the condition.\n\nFor obvious reasons, I dispute their valuation, and let them know it verbally and in writing.\n\nMy question is; can they turn my 'clean title' into a 'salvage title' before an independent appraiser comes and looks at the vehicle due to my objection of their valuation?\n","title":"(Georgia, US) Can insurance company convert my vehicle title into a \"salvage title\" while Im in the process of disputing their claim that it's a 'total loss'? (Xpost r\/legal)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554696802,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bap8o2\/sublessee_wont_honor_sublet_agreement\/","id":"bap8o2","body":"About a month ago, I was looking to sublet my apartment because I had found a new job in a different state. A man who works for one of the political parties in the United States contacted me on Craigslist and after some discussion agreed to take over the lease of my apartment. I offered several times for him to take a look at the apartment but he was busy and assured by that he would take it. \nSince I had to leave, I couldn't personally ensure that he signed the lease for the apartment and I asked my leasing office to give him the keys after he signed the lease. \nA few days after I leave, he takes the key without signing the lease and tells me that he had no intention of living there because of a smoky smell in the apartment. I lived in the same place for a few months before and I can guarantee that there was no smoky smell. \nHe now refuses to sign the lease and wants me to find a different person for the apartment. Since I already moved to a different state, It's very hard for me to find someone to take over. \nI have all our conversations in messages and also have him agreeing to take over the lease. What options do I have? Who would I talk to about this?","title":"Sublessee won't honor sublet agreement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570943277,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh6bay\/could_i_be_held_liable_if_my_friend_gets_into_a\/","id":"dh6bay","body":"My friend, 21F, recently got a driving permit, so she needs another licensed adult in the car when she drives. I, 20F, have been licensed since I was 16 and I have no marks on my record other than a parking ticket. \n\nSo my question is, if I\u2019m the licensed adult in the car when she\u2019s driving, could I be held liable if she causes an accident or violates a traffic law? Checking online it says that the supervisor must sit within reach to control the vehicle if necessary, so does that imply liability on my part if something does happen? \n\nShe will be driving her mom\u2019s car.","title":"Could I be held liable if my friend gets into a car accident while I am supervising? [CA]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571773440,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dln8ca\/california_landlord_attempted_a_false_eviction\/","id":"dln8ca","body":"A couple of months ago, I was late paying rent because of some unfortunate circumstances. After sending a message to the landlord\u2019s about when to expect payment, catching up on the behind rent, and resuming payment of current rent... they sued me and attempted eviction by claiming I never paid and that they had given 3-day notice(they hadn\u2019t).\n\nI filed a response to defend against the eviction and showed proof of the payment they received. Finally today I found out the landlord filed to dismiss the case. However the last few weeks have been a living nightmare for me, trying to figure out how to handle this without being able to afford an attorney and fearing I\u2019ll come home from each hard day of work to find an eviction notice on my door.\n\nCan I pursue any damages for their false claims and filing of an eviction action? Or at least can I recover my expenses from serving them with my response? It\u2019s certainly not the attorney\u2019s fault and it seems they moved to dismiss the case once my facts came to light. But the landlord\/management outright lied and caused me a lot of stress. I\u2019m relieved at the news of dismissal today but upset it happened.\n\nReally appreciate any advice, thanks for reading!","title":"(California) Landlord attempted a false eviction - any damages I can pursue?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540149021,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q66yq\/friends_mom_isnt_giving_her_the_child_support\/","id":"9q66yq","body":"So a friend of mine (18 female) lives with her mother, and has lived with her mother since her parents split. Her father has been paying child support, but the mother has been spending that money solely on herself and my friend has seen none of the money, nor any sort of benefit. My parents aren\u2019t split so I have no idea how any of this works. Does my friend have any legal recourse to get some of that money? Or can her mother just keep squandering it. We believe it\u2019s currently being spent on drugs. ","title":"Friends mom isn\u2019t giving her the child support money she is owed (Canada)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542140416,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wsp9m\/is_there_a_minimally_painful_way_to_go_after_my\/","id":"9wsp9m","body":"I live in Seattle, moved here at the end of August and had a room lined up to rent when I arrived. We had a month-to-month, mostly verbal agreement. I gave her $100 via Venmo to hold the room for me and a money order for 1st+last when I arrived. Two weeks later she verbally attacked me and cussed me out over an extremely minor issue, at which point I realized she's actually a narcissist and all around awful person. Two weeks after THAT (Sep 28th), she left me a 4-page, handwritten note detailing all the unacceptable things I had done and giving me 20 days notice. I was gone by October 4th. By the 20th she was already kicking out the other guy who had just moved in right before I left, and I later found a complaint made to the city about 2 other evictions she had made this summer.   \n\n\nAt the time I was handling a new job, living on my own for the first time and had no energy whatsoever to confront this extremely unpleasant person over \\~$600. Now that I'm in a stable position I'm wondering -- what reasonable action could I take in this situation? I'd like to get some money back, and I'd also like to somehow report her highly unethical renting practices to the city and the actual owner of the house (who I never met). Her ads on Craigslist are also very much a misrepresentation of the truth.   \n\n\nObviously there's more to the story but I don't want to clutter up this post with too many details. Thank you so much for any input!!","title":"Is there a minimally painful way to go after my horrible former landlady for money owed?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446090629,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qnqct\/ca_roommate_left_with_no_notice_and_left_me_with\/","id":"3qnqct","body":"As the title states, I am in California and my roommate basically hit a low about 6 months into our year lease. He was able to get by and pay it until month 11 where I had to let him borrow $700.\n\n I think I messed up by not getting this in writing, but we had an agreement that I would take his PS4 and bike if he didn't pay by 10\/25. Well, not only did he not pay me, but I came home from work to find out that he moved all his stuff out and now won't answer my phone calls. I am left with the $700 he owes me, $1,000 for his portion of the rent this month, and probably around $500 for utilities, water and cable. \n\nThe worst part is that he doesn't have income. He lost his job in about month 6 or 7. I know I need to get past this last month and sue him. The problem is how can I sue someone for around $3k or more and they have no income? I spoke to his mom and basically the parents aren't going to be involved. I am not sure where to go from here and my lease ends on 10\/31. Any help is appreciated. \n\nI am pretty distraught over this as it literally happened over night. I spoke to the corporate office and basically was told that I could just not pay my last month and they will get the bill. Once they get the bill I can pay my half and they would then take the remaining out of the deposit ($400) and then they would contact me to settle. The thing is I want to sue my roommate. I dont know how that is even possible when he has no income and won't be working for minimum 6+ months. ","title":"[CA] Roommate left with no notice and left me with last months rent and hundreds in utilities.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553788098,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6kfcv\/community_manager_at_apartment_complex\/","id":"b6kfcv","body":"Hey all, so these past two weeks, my community manager at my apartment complex has been continually coming after me for small lease violations, while many others have the same issue in plain sight of the leasing office. We have never gotten along well with the community manager, and believe she is trying to find ways to end our lease. What can I do?","title":"Community manager at apartment complex continually coming after me for small lease violations.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539972699,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pmdog\/parked_car_hitandrun_by_disabled_person\/","id":"9pmdog","body":"I was parked right in front of my apartment complex a couple days ago, and no one was parked next to me. \nThe morning after, I saw a deep scratch and dent on my left passenger door handle, and whatever car to my left was gone already. The parking to my left was a disabled parking spot, but I only see one car parking in that disabled parking spot all the time. \nI checked out the usual car later that night and saw scratches on his right passenger door that matches with the dent and scratches on my side. \nShould I call my insurance for a hit-and-run or try and confront the person? ","title":"Parked car hit-and-run by disabled person","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570792135,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgdlnf\/am_i_entitled_to_my_bonus\/","id":"dgdlnf","body":"Hi everyone. For context I live in Michigan. I recently left my job as of October 3rd, however the pay is bi-weekly and I received my last pay check today. At my previous job each week you could work extra to gain a $200 weekly bonus that is paid out the first pay date of the following month. So I should have received my bonus pay today but have not. Is there any ground for me to stand on for this? Ultimately it's only about $400 I'm loosing out on but I want to know if I'm legally entitled to my bonuses since I put in the required work for them or if I'm shit out of luck. Thank you so much for your help.","title":"Am I entitled to my bonus?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570774173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgaxa1\/my_landlord_is_crazy_and_i_want_to_move_out\/","id":"dgaxa1","body":"      Hello guys. I am a student in Southern California, and I\u2019m 2 months into a 12 month lease for a room in Irvine. When first checking out the house, everything seemed fine, and the landlord seemed nice. Well that all changed as soon as I moved in, and I realized that my landlord was a landlord from hell. She would be nice one minute, and the next minute she would be in my face yelling at me for the smallest things. For example, there were ants crawling in the backyard, and she yelled at me for not cleaning up the ants in the freaking BACKYARD. \n\n      I found out that she\u2019s been going into my room while I am at school, and I don\u2019t feel comfortable with her going into my room, and I don\u2019t feel comfortable with her around in general. I fear that if I am forced to stay in the home, I might slip back into depression as I had just slowly started to get myself out of my mental state. \n\n      I spoke with the landlord and she told me that in order to get out of the lease, I need to either pay the full amount of rent for the 12 months, or find a replacement for the room in which she would have to approve of. I feel like it will be almost impossible to find a replacement aswell because she doesn\u2019t allow guys to rent out her room, and she\u2019s very picky when it comes to who she chooses to rent her room out to. \n\n      Is there anyway I can legally get out of this lease, without having to pay the whole amount of the lease? Also, if I just leave without paying anymore rent, before the contract is up, what kind of things can she do to me? Another fact I want to add that I feel is important is that her son is a lawyer. \n\n      Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am extremely desperate. Thank you all!","title":"My landlord is crazy and I want to move out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443393985,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mmofx\/friend_is_being_blackmailed_by_her_exboyfriend\/","id":"3mmofx","body":"I have a friend who for the sake of this post we'll call April. \n\nAt the moment she is just getting out of a relationship with a guy who cheated on her with 3 other women. Both her and her Ex are 18 and live in Mississippi currently. \n\nThe heart of the issue is that while they were together they had sex which she consented to but he had video taped it which she was not told about and didn't know about until today. He is threatening to post it publicly and send it to people in the college in an attempt to get revenge.\n\nWhat I am looking to find out is what legal action can be taken if he does post or share the video in accordance to the laws of the state of Mississippi and even if he doesn't send it if the fact that she had not consented to the taping could be a felony in it's own right. \n\nIf I need to add more information that I have forgotten please let me know I just need to help her.","title":"Friend is being blackmailed by her ex-boyfriend with revenge porn.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507303778,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74ocoq\/co_do_i_need_to_get_a_divorce_common_law_marriage\/","id":"74ocoq","body":"I recently had a child with my boyfriend of two years. Since there is a lot to submit during this, I have realized his mother filed our taxes together saying \"married\". I never agreed to marry my boyfriend, and we do not consider ourselves husband and wife. We do live together. \n\nHowever, from what I understand common law marriage has a few factors. The only being our 2016 taxes are filed together. His mom said everything was fine and I didn't know much about how to file anyways so she did it for us.  Our son carries his last name. \n\nI want to protect myself and my son in any scenario. My boyfriend thinks it's no big deal, but to me it is because I never agreed to be married and legal bound to him. To me, marriage is a huge deal legally speaking and I never wanted to do that without full understanding of what it means. He filed bankruptcy and I am not sure if that effects me either. \n\nMy boyfriends mom also filed taxes for her other son with an ex fianc\u00e9. Is he going to try to get a marriage license for his new wife and discover he is already married?!\nHow should I file this years taxes? Do I need to hire a lawyer to get a divorce?? We are still together but like I said, I do NOT want to be married to him. \n","title":"[CO] Do I need to get a divorce? Common Law Marriage.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445619904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pxex6\/us_ny_renters_insurance_predicament\/","id":"3pxex6","body":"Hey all,\n\nUsing a throwaway just because.\n\nI just recently moved to NY less than a month ago and two days ago my apartment got broken into. Most likely it was kids because they just took the video game systems, games, accessories, but left things like TVs, tablets, phones, etc. In total, the itemized sheet the police had me fill out totaled around $2000.\n\nWe have renter's insurance, but the insurance company wants receipts for absolutely everything listed which I'm running into a problem with. Best Buy only goes back so far, and credit card statements just show a dollar amount and the vendor. Also there\u2019s a question of depreciation where the insurance company will take off some amount because of what they think the market rate is now.\n\n1) Is it normal for insurance companies to request and only cover items you can prove you owned with a receipt?\n\n2) Is the fact that I try to be rather thrifty with purchasing my games\/electronics going to hurt me? (Example: One day sale on a game put it at $40, where now to repurchase it would be $60. Receipt will obviously reflect the price I bought it for.)\n\n3) Am I out of luck as far as things I can\u2019t prove I owned with a receipt? Any other options?\n\n4) Is it worth my time to search for the \u201ccurrent price\u201d of each item myself and providing it with a time stamp? I imagine they have some sort of system they look things up in.\n\nI\u2019ve tried to do some searching around but this being the first claim I\u2019ve actually had to file I\u2019m a little clueless.\n\nThanks in advance!\n","title":"[US, NY] Renter's Insurance Predicament","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506153170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71x1k8\/arizona_rearended_car_totaled_back_injury_other\/","id":"71x1k8","body":"Hello,    \nI was stopped behind someone on the highway and a teenager rear ended me. I saw it in my rear view mirror, it appeared he didn't even bother to try to stop but accelerated straight into me. He hit me a second time after his air bag deployed which pushed me into the car in front of me. I received a back injury that's been documented and am receiving therapy for. His insurance insisted they would cover the expenses, but my insurance totalled my fully paid for car and only gave me a little over $5000 for my 2011 car with 91k miles. I can't afford a car payment, I'm worried about medical bills. What should I do? ","title":"[Arizona] Rear-ended, car totaled, back injury, other insurance admitted fault, what's my best course of action?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541671055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v8qoe\/dont_have_registration_card_or_insurance_card\/","id":"9v8qoe","body":"Hi reddit. So I have been driving my dad\u2019s old car to school as I commute. I\u2019m a rather new driver at 21. I was in a minor fender bender recently and I didn\u2019t have proof of insurance, but my dad emailed it to the cop later so apparently that worked out. My question is: I don\u2019t believe my dad left proof of insurance or registration in the car when he gave it to me to drive. I\u2019m really concerned about this,  but I don\u2019t think I can get new copies of either because they\u2019re not under my name. What is the penalty for driving without these cards even though I know the car is both registered and insured? I live in Ohio. ","title":"Don\u2019t have registration card or insurance card.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553901020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7433e\/can_you_sue_on_data_breach\/","id":"b7433e","body":"I've been running some data scrapes on emails that I regularly use. I've noticed how many of these companies have lost my credentials from passwords to investments. I would like to know if there is anything legally I do for the lack of security and failure to inform. ","title":"Can you sue on data breach?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553095814,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ddxx\/lease_ending_due_to_renovations_will_we_get\/","id":"b3ddxx","body":"So our lease won't be renewed when it ends may 31st, and the reason that our rental company cited was that we have been here for two years; so they want to totally redo the unit. They said this is standard for them, and that every two years they end leases to renovate, put new carpets in, etc. suspiciously, our neighbors who have been in their units less time than us got the same notice, and the same answer, but with different time periods cited. \n\nAnyway, I am nine months pregnant, and we need to move before the baby gets here, so we asked if they would let us out of our lease a month early, since they want to renovate it anyway. They denied us early leave and said that we would have to pay to break the lease. So we will be moving and paying double rent for a month. Yay, not stressful at all. \n\nMy question is-- I've heard from previous tenants that they are the kind of company that will nickel and dime you as much as possible to not give you any of your security deposit back-- but since they are already citing that they want to completely redo the unit, replace the carpets, and multiple other things, do they have the legal right to keep our deposit? \n\nWe have kept the apartment nearly the same as when we moved in, except that a previous roommate did have an animal that damaged carpet in two places. That roommate didn't live with us long and didn't cover the damages. What are the laws regarding deposits when the reasons cited for a lease ending are \"renovations?\"\n\nThanks ","title":"Lease ending due to renovations, will we get deposit back?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447150496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s99sf\/mi_hypothetical_inheritance_and_estate_law\/","id":"3s99sf","body":"This was a shower hypothetical that came to me the other day and I thought maybe someone here might be able to ponder it.  It's a bit elaborate but I think (hope?) makes for an interesting thought exercise. \n\n\nLet's say you are a 70 year old individual with no surviving spouse, you have had a rather decent upper-middle-class life and have a house worth around $1 million which is owned outright and a $2 million in savings.  You have a couple cars, lets say one modern sedan worth $30k and a classic muscle car worth $80k.  You have five credit cards each with limits of about $100k and obnoxiously good credit.  You have essentially no debt other than monthly recurring costs which are paid out of interest from my savings.\n\n\nYou have two kids who are also doing well for themselves and have their own homes and families (i.e. they don't particularly care what happens to the \"family house\").\n\n\nOne day you go to the doctor and find out you have late stage terminal cancer and by some miracle of medicine they can say you will definitely die in six months +\/- 2 weeks.  After going through the seven stages of grief you accept your fate and decide three things.\n\n\nFirst, you will have an epic six months and that you will attempt to enjoy the time you have left by blowing as much money as you can.\n\n\nSecond, you want to give your kids as much money as you possibly can.  The only material goods they want are the classic muscle car and some memorabilia such as pictures and the like.\n\n\nThird, you want to screw over as many large institutions as possible as a final middle finger to the Corpocracy that America has become.\n\n\nSo, how do you go about this?  Can it be done other than going the boring route of estate tax exemption?  Can you manage to ensure that you go out of this world with an insane amount of debt AND somehow pass on essentially the entire net worth you currently have to the kids?  Is it possible you could contrive a way to pass on MORE by somehow leveraging your good credit?\n\n\nExtra Credit Question: If you were an evil\/mad genius how might you plan further ahead than six months if you knew with some fair amount of accuracy when you were going to die?\n\n\nNote: I am aware this can be done shockingly easily illegally, but I am curious about perfectly legal ways of doing it. Where your kids could be swimming in cash while the estate is absolutely, hilariously, insolvent.\n\n\nAlso, if this whole thread is against the spirit of the subreddit I apologize!\n\nEdit: Changed from first person to second because this is all hypothetical.","title":"(MI, Hypothetical) Inheritance and Estate Law","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1508337038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/776wt2\/ma_fresh_out_of_college_trying_to_get_a_job_but\/","id":"776wt2","body":"Hi all! I am a recent college graduate, and have been trying to pull together the courage to look for jobs. \n\nThe main thing that's been holding me back is my medical conditions. I'm pretty much held together by duct tape at this point (or it feels like it haha). \n\nI have Type 1 Diabetes that has been hard to keep under control, I have a painful stomach condition (functional dyspepsia) as a result of nerve damage from the T1D. I was hospitalized every semester of college, and it took me an additional year to finish. On *top* of that... I have diagnosed bipolar disorder\/depression and general anxiety, and was just yesterday diagnosed with mild scoliosis (so now I have to start seeing a chiropractor). \n\n**I'm afraid that no employer will hire me, for a number of reasons:**\n\n-I get sick a *lot*, of course unpredictably\n\n-I require a lot of doctors appointments\/therapy etc. and since they're all different doctors, I end up having about 1 or 2 appointments a week, on irregular days\/times\n\n-I use marijuana for pain management for my stomach condition. I'm working on getting a medical card (at the recommendation of my doctor), but I'm still afraid that even with the card, employers will still have the right to list it as an \"illicit substance\" on a drug test. \n\nWhat can I do? If I provide documentation for everything (hospitalizations\/appointments\/etc.) will I have legal protection under MA state law? \n\nI feel so discouraged, all my peers are getting \"real\" jobs while I feel like my only hope is to get a job geared towards part-timers. ","title":"[MA] Fresh out of college, trying to get a job but I'm afraid to because of my medical conditions","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571312979,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj59a5\/wondering_if_i_can_break_my_lease_due_to_leaking\/","id":"dj59a5","body":"I live in Massachusetts and rent an apartment where we renewed our lease recently (lease is from September 2019-August 2020.) Last year, our ceiling leaked quite badly. I was actually sitting on the couch and all of a sudden, a rush of water came out of the ceiling through the smoke detector. It then continued to leak in a straight line almost all the way across the ceiling of our living room. This was last fall, it seemed to get fixed albeit slowly. Boyfriend and I shrugged it off, shit happens. This morning around 2am, we hear the smoke detector go off and sure enough, there\u2019s water leaking through the smoke detector. This time was worse than last, it was leaking in multiple different spots: two lines of leaking in the ceiling and even down the walls in two different areas. Looking closer towards where the top of the ceiling meets the wall, it looks like poor spackling around much of the wall and other slight water stains. Also, when we took the smoke detector out to get it to stop beeping, we noticed some visible mold in the ceiling. We\u2019ve both kind of had it with this property management company and landlord, and are wondering if this is enough grounds to break a lease. Thanks very much in advance to anyone that reads this and has input!!","title":"Wondering if I can break my lease due to leaking from ceiling (MA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538999887,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9me7la\/landlord_refuses_to_repair_washing_machine\/","id":"9me7la","body":"I live in a rented flat in the UK and our washing machine has recently broken. \n\nOur contract states that he will \"keep in repair and proper working order all mechanical and electrical items belonging to the Landlord and forming parts of the Fixtures and Fittings.\"\n\nOur property is managed in 3 different layers, where the Landlord owns the building, but it is looked after by an estate agents that leases out repairs and other such complaints to another company. We have contacted the latter two several times about this issue (as we don't have the Landlord's number) but they always give us the same answer: \"The washing machine was purchased by the previous tenants and we thought it would be nice to leave it for you, but as we did not provide it, it isn't covered by your tenancy agreement.\"\n\nIt was nice of them to leave it for us, but as we didn't buy it and it was there for us when we moved in, does that not mean that they provided it for us? Or does the wording of the agreement with \"belonging to the Landlord\" cover him in this situation?\n\nThanks.","title":"Landlord refuses to repair washing machine because \"it's not his\"","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571260273,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/divvq1\/rolling_stop_at_1_am_during_rain\/","id":"divvq1","body":"My friend and I were visiting his girlfriend at work for her lunch break during her night shift. Since it was raining and I was unfamiliar with the area he offered to drive. We took my car, he was the driver and I was in the passenger seat.\n\nWe got off the highway at an exit, and stopped at a traffic light. There we were pulled over by a police officer. We pulled into a nearby lot. The officer cited my friend for 316.123(2)(a), \u201cRAN STOP SIGN. ROLLED THROUGH STOP SIGN. STATED HE DID NOT SEE IT.\u201d\n\nThe last part is in regards to my friend asking what stop sign.\n\nThere is only one stop sign before the traffic light. It is the stop sign at the end of the exit ramp\/street. The ramp merges with a one way street, opening to two lanes before the sign. You can go left in one and straight or right in the other. There is a sign on the left and right side. Both are in clear view on approach with no obstructions. (There is a parking lot on the right adjacent to the street. I believe the officer was parked there.)\n\nThere were few cars on the road and none near us when we approached the sign. As it was raining and late, my friend and I both believe he stopped at the sign properly and did not do a rolling stop.\n\nMy friend wants to contest the ticket. Is there any platform he can use in his defense or will it just be his word against the officers? Does the officer have to provide evidence such as dash cam footage, or does their world suffice? \n\nI saw online that sometimes the officers don\u2019t show up to hearings. I also saw something stating you can request the police station for the location of where the officer was positioned. Would this be useful at all?\n\nAlso the officer noted but did not cite him on his address not being up to date. Is it possible for that to come up later during the hearing even if he takes care of it now?\n\nThank you for any assistance.","title":"Rolling stop at 1 AM during rain","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443644768,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n0gs7\/colorado_landlord_towed_my_car_without_proper\/","id":"3n0gs7","body":"On Friday at 5:00PM an email was sent out to all the residents of my apartment building informing us that vehicles without parking passes would be towed beginning on Monday, September 29th (the 29th was Tuesday...not sure if that's important). I incorrectly assumed that my parking pass was fine but apparently it had expired at the beginning of the month. I went out of town on Monday night and when I got home Tuesday morning my car was gone. It had been towed and I owed $209 to get it out of the tow company's lot. \n\nI got my car from the lot, came home, and looked at my lease. The relevant section states:\n\n> Tenant agrees that any abandoned, unlicensed, derelict, inoperable and\/or wrongfully parked vehicleparked on the Premises may be towed off the Premises by Landlord or Landlord\u2019s hired agent at the vehicle owner\u2019s or Tenant\u2019s expense **after posting a 24-hour notice in a conspicuous place on the vehicle indicating Landlord\u2019s intent to tow said vehicle**. Vehicles must be parked on improved surfaces in legal spaces. Tenant further agrees not to store and\/or park any trailer, camper, boat or other similar recreational item on the Premises without the prior written consent of Landlord. Tenant agrees not to store and\/or park any commercial or public vehicle under any circumstances. Parking and\/or bike permits may be mandatory.\n\nAlthough an email was sent on Friday a 24-hour notice was NEVER placed on my vehicle. When I explained this to my landlord he told me that the email was more than enough notice and that I was \"arguing technicalities\". He promised me a judge would be more interested in intent than the actual wording of our legal agreement. \n\nIs he correct in assuming this? If I take him to small claims court am I going to be laughed out of the building?\n\nThanks! ","title":"[COLORADO] Landlord towed my car without proper notice according to the lease. He says a small claims judge will care more about intent than legal language.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541875084,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vwob2\/life_training_on_the_job\/","id":"9vwob2","body":"My daughter (20) picked up a second job in upstate NY and has been \u201ctraining\u201d 4x per week, 9 hour shifts with breaks for 4 weeks to take over a job for someone who is retiring. No paperwork done. Boss\/owner said he would start her at $480\/week salary. After 4 weeks he gave her $100 cash, said she agreed to $25\/day while she trained. She wants the job and to be put on the books. She was expecting a paycheck. What recourse does she have for lost wages and moving forward with this employee?","title":"Life training on the job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541229931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ts9js\/my_former_boss_manipulated_me_into_working_for\/","id":"9ts9js","body":"Hello all, I\u2019m trying to see if I have a legal leg to stand on, and if it would even be worth the risk. \n\nI worked for a very small advertising agency after graduating college for about three years. One year ago the business was having some financial problems, and our bi-weekly paychecks started coming a few days late, sometimes up to a month. This pissed many people off so turnover was high and the number of employees went from ~12 to 3, including the owner\/CEO and myself. I am pretty good at managing and saving money, so I always waited it out and didn\u2019t need to jump ship for financial reasons. I liked my job and coworkers so I wanted to stay. \n\nI realize now that these are major red flags and I should have done something, but I admittedly was very na\u00efve and he had always caught up with payments to this point, so I believed him when he constantly assured that my backpay was right around the corner. Eventually, I ended up going a period of 5 months without a single paycheck. My boss would do things like say they got lost in the mail, or he was having trouble with the payroll company, and even straight up giving me paper checks that bounced every time I tried to deposit (I still have three that he didn\u2019t collect and say he would direct deposit them instead).\n\nAfter 5 months I was really feeling the results of not being paid, so I quit to get by on freelancing (I\u2019m a designer) while looking for a new job. It has been a month since, and I text him about once a week asking when I\u2019ll be paid. He keeps saying the money is still not there. \n\nDetails: \nThe amount he owes me is over $10,000. \nHis business is they type where it\u2019s not an LLC and the business bank account is the same as his personal account. (This conversation was years ago so forgive me if that sounds wrong, but it was along those lines)\nHe still occupies a ~$5000 rent large, beautiful office. When I quit he was trying to get out of the 5 year lease. \nHis wife has a high paying job. \nHe spends $30,000 a year on private school for his kids. \nHis house is in foreclosure. (I learned this when he tried to make me feel bad for asking for my money last week)\nHe still has one remaining employee who also hasn\u2019t been paid in months. \n\nMy questions:\nIf he obviously has no money, what would be the point of seeking legal action to get money? I can\u2019t really afford that right now, and I\u2019m afraid that it will piss him off so bad that he won\u2019t pay me anything unless he is legally forced to. Is there anything I can do?\n\nI know I am an idiot for letting it get this far, but he hired me right out of college and we actually got pretty close with it being a small company of designers. He just has a very manipulating personality that made me believe everything he said. I have maintained my composure and haven\u2019t thrown insults or anything of the sort. Like I said above, once I do anything he doesn\u2019t like I\u2019m afraid he will clam up and make things way more difficult. \n\nI did a small freelance project for an attorney a few years ago, so I can reach out to him and ask for a favor\/good deal. I just don\u2019t even know how to approach the situation and once I reach out to the attorney I need to know what I\u2019m talking about. ","title":"My former boss manipulated me into working for free for +5 months. He is still running his business but claims there is no money to process even one paycheck out of the $10,000 he owes me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540964537,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sw0s2\/best_approach_to_avoid_a_paternity_suit\/","id":"9sw0s2","body":"Location: Virginia \/ Kentucky\n\nSituation: When my wife and I met, she lived in Kentucky, and I lived in Virginia.  At the time she lived with her ex, who is a registered sex offender.  She and I were friends over social media.  She decided that she needed to be away from him because he had become emotionally and physically abusive, and I offered to let her stay in my spare room until she could find a path forward.  Within a month of her coming here, we became more than friends, and she got pregnant pretty quickly after that.  We got married, courthouse style.  Not glamorous I know, but that's 7 years ago and we are still together and happier than most couples seem to be.  Our child was born at 37 weeks, which is about 3 weeks short of normal.  Any obstetrician can tell you with certainty that there is no way her ex is my child's father. It is close though, and a stupid \/ malicious person could look at the birth date and try to make something of it, since it is only about 4-6 weeks from possible based on when she left there.  The ex has been in and out of prison a couple times since, but recently the grapevine tells us that he is trying to get his life back in order.  My concern is that he might make a claim for paternity and get a judge to grant him temporary custody somehow. I can't allow an abusive sex offender near my baby. Is this possible or am I just being silly?  Is there anything we can do to premptively deter or outright prevent this from happening?  We considered getting a paternity test done just so we had the results handy, but I've heard there are different testing requirements for courts and we weren't sure what we needed exactly.\n","title":"Best approach to avoid a paternity suit?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570215926,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddbufv\/any_grounds_for_a_lawsuit_after_a_coworker\/","id":"ddbufv","body":"I work for company XYZ. During a casual conversation with a coworker of the opposite sex,  and another male coworker, the female coworker flashed me her genetalia as soon as the third male coworker looked down at his phone. I think it may have taken place on CCTV in the back hallways of comoany XYZ workplace, on the clock. What are my next moves?","title":"Any grounds for a lawsuit after a coworker flashed me their genetalia?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553886802,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b71dqk\/property_owner_refuses_to_acknowledge_we_rented\/","id":"b71dqk","body":"Hello!\n\nWhile in college I had to move out of the dorms for medical reason, I had found a place to rent via craigslist. They did not want a lease agreement but we were able to sign one, the property owner(A)'s brother(B) also lived there. We signed the lease with B's name on it, paid him rent, and paid him the security deposit. We tried sending a registered letter to the home but it was returned. I was able to find more information about A and recently sent a letter explaining the situation. She responded that this was the \"first time\" she had heard anything about this. I have text exchanges between my fiance and B stating to contact A due to her being the property owner\/landlord and a copy of the lease agreement. I also still have the email exchange between myself and A from the craigslist post.\n\n​\n\nI know they are in violation of Montana code, section 70-25-203 says that now you cannot withhold any of the security deposit for damages and cleaning charges. \n\n​\n\nCan I legally pursue A in small claims court due to her being the property owner? I would attempt to pursue B but he has moved out of state thus no longer able to go through small claims. I also have moved out of state to Oregon and no longer live in Montana, if I am able to pursue A, can I also sue for travel expenses and lost wages? Should I contact an attorney and if so, should it be a Montana attorney or an Oregon attorney?\n\n​\n\nThank you for your time!\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Property owner refuses to acknowledge we rented, will not return security deposit. [Bozeman, MT]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570042983,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dceqgo\/getting_pet_insurance_for_puppy_that_may_have\/","id":"dceqgo","body":"So my partner adopted a puppy about two and a half weeks ago (the puppy is a little over ten weeks currently) and the day before yesterday he started having diarrhea. He\u2019s a little pitbull baby. My partner has been meaning to get pet insurance but hadn\u2019t gotten around to it but this morning the puppy had a bit of blood in his stool. My partner\u2019s sister had an experience with parvo in her puppy while at his house about six months ago or so, which means there could technically still be parvo poop in the backyard that the puppy currently plays in. Since my partner has had experience watching a puppy with parvo he knew it was important to go to the vet immediately after seeing the bloody stool so he\u2019s made an appointment for 2pm today. Since he doesn\u2019t currently have a diagnosis for the puppy and doesn\u2019t know for sure what it is, would he be able to get insurance coverage as long as he applies before the vet appointment? Is it already too late? \n\nP.s. sorry if this is a bit scattered, I\u2019m just really stressed out and worried about our baby. Let me know if you need any clarification. Also! This is in the Bay Area of California","title":"Getting pet insurance for puppy that may have parvo","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1443810367,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n97i4\/anytime_fitnessabc_financial_issue_alexandria\/","id":"3n97i4","body":"Hi everyone, hope i can get some advice on my situation. in march 2015 i visited an anytime fitness. i signed up but before i did i talked to the guy about how i am only hear for 6 months. he said its okay and that if i live 7 or more miles away when i move back i will be fine to cancel. (never mentioned cancellation fee or anything). He told me he would write it on my contract. Fast forward to july. I called several times to cancel my account and left messages and got nothing. In august i finally got a hold of them and filed the correct paperwork 9\/1\/15. On 9\/4\/15 i was billed for that month, which i disputed with PNC. PNC just let me know today that they could not dispute it because of it being within 3 days of the payment date. Today i have a pending charged for october from anytime fitness. I called ABC financial today and they told me they couldnt honor my cancellation request (after receiving nothing from them for a month). My address is 7.2 miles away and they say its an 8 mile radius to be able to cancel contract. so now i am stuck. PNC told me to dispute this charge and to change my card number. What is my next step? I was swindled into signing a contract. I am on a tight budget with living in alexandria, virginia alone and paying a high rent price and student loans. any help would be great. thanks again i look forward to reading the responses.","title":"Anytime Fitness\/ABC financial issue (Alexandria, Virginia)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1445028796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p1czw\/llc_a_service_based_app\/","id":"3p1czw","body":"Hello! I have been racking my brain trying to find something online that relates to my situation. For starters I have no money to ask any legal advice or tax advice to anyone local. I currently reside in Chicago, IL.\n\nI know right? Then how can I start a business if I can't even afford the advice? Well... I'm tired of worrying about rent so I'm trying to do as much as possible on my own through research and trying to save on fee's as much as possible.\n\nI am currently developing an app, nothing like Facebook, but almost as large of a project as Facebook. It will primarily act as a service\/social platform for a certain demographic that is large enough for me to deem profitable. Whether you think I can accomplish this is neither here nor there.\n\nMy question: If it's a mobile app and provides a virtual service that has many free and paid features (Paid features being the form of profit as well as ads or contracts with specific companies) What state should I LLC if I am the only one running the company at first? I will be hiring developers, and they will be signing Work-for-hire and NDA forms if that matters. \n\nMy reason for asking is because at this point I really can't afford the time\/money to save up for the fee's and would prefer to LLC in a much cheeper state (Nevada, Delaware, or Wyoming). \n\nBe it, it's my personal opinion and risk that I am willing to take, but in order to secure credit\/loans in the name of my company to finally have the capitol to get it up and running. So that is the primary reason for LLC'ing as well as the liability protection. \n","title":"LLC a Service based app?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539016829,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mgi5e\/motion_to_enforce_jod_or_some_other_motion\/","id":"9mgi5e","body":"My ex husband is not following most of the items on our judgment of divorce. He Hasn't paid off the $20,000 tax bill he had and we filed jointly so the IRS is taking my tax returns. He assumed the debt and I gave up the house so I didn't leave with that that hanging over my head. He was ordered to fix some items immediately but after 6 floods I fixed them, I have flood nightmares lol. Rain gives me anxiety attacks. That was weeks of lost wages and money spent. I am supposed to do move out by the 31st of October but just days before signing on the rental of my new home , the owner rescinded after approving me although the rental sign is still up. So I am frantically looking for a new place  but I need an extension. He is living with his mom and I have no family in the state. He is also not paying as agreed and although he fought for 5050 parenting time, my overnights are at 89% and they  are with me even more during the day. There are also substance and abuse issues. He choked his son (CPS was called). I have to call the police every time he comes to the house without permission because he won't stop coming by.\n\nToday I am filing a motion to change parenting time to reflect two years of being the 89% parent. But do I file a motion to enforce the JOD  and how do I get an extension to stay here longer? Do I file to have the JOD rewritten? I am so clueless. Thank you!","title":"Motion to Enforce JOD or some other motion?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541560784,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uvm6d\/mom_is_dying_ive_been_made_power_of_attorney\/","id":"9uvm6d","body":"My mom has been given about six months left to live due to her cancer progression. She has been deteriorating quickly, and I think the prognosis may even be a little generous.\n\nThis past weekend, we set up her will, and I was appointed power of attorney. I'm a struggling college student, with a very poor understanding of what power of attorney even means. The whole explanation and signing process was barely half an hour, and all I took away from it was I can basically sign anything financially\/legally binding as if I were my mother. They also informed me I would be responsible for executing her will (she doesn't have enough assets to set up an estate, as her car is her most valuable possession), sending documentation to her medical\/student\/vehicle loans, and handling her bank accounts.\n\n\nI'll also be responsible for everything for her funeral, as I'm basically the only person she has. I've been trying to research as much as possible into that, as well, and everything is very overwhelming. Who knew it was so expensive to put someone in a box in the ground.\n\n\nSo, any and all advice surrounding power of attorney, what I need to make sure to do\/expect, as well as any other pointers for going through this process would be greatly appreciated! \n\n\nTL;DR mom is dying of cancer, I've been made power of attorney. As a broke ass college kid, I don't know the best way to handle all of this \n","title":"Mom is dying, I've been made power of attorney","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1408723250,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eacgl\/can_my_school_remotely_install_a_monitoring\/","id":"2eacgl","body":"Recently I moved to a new school, and in their IT Acceptable Use policy it listed (from memory):\n\n> You give agree to allow the ICT team to remotely install programs, control your computer and execute commands regardless of the network you're on, and understand that this software may send information back to the team which includes: web activity, emails, IM and other messages, periodic screenshots, key inputs. This information may be stored for as long as is deemed necessary.\n\nI assumed that it was just a 'threat', however on connecting to the network I noticed a large number of requests attempting to install software remotely. Being technically inclined my computer was secure enough that nothing could be installed, however I decided to let one in, then quarantine it and analyze what it was collecting\/sending:\n\n**Collecting:**\n\n* All keyboard input (including password input)\n* All mouse clicks\n* Cookies from Firefox, Chrome and Safari\n* Web history from Firefox, Chrome and Safari\n* Modifications to the users home directory\n\nAll of this information was sent to a remote server over HTTP, so totally insecure. \n\nTo me, while technically allowed by their Acceptable Use policy, I can't believe that what they're doing is legal. Any information? At the moment I'm storing everything in the cloud (Google Drive for Business, \u00a375 a year for unlimited storage. Google are welcome to all my money and data), and at school I'm using a Ubuntu Live USB (so every time I turn on my computer it's like it's fresh out the box).\n\nLocation: England","title":"Can my school remotely install a monitoring program?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570328975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddxcx8\/defense_lawyers_of_reddit_how_do_you_defend\/","id":"ddxcx8","body":"So I 100% believe that everyone is entitled to an attorney no matter what, but how do you deal if you know your client is guilty? Isn\u2019t it a problem if you basically have to lie for your client? Also just emotionally: say you have to defend a murderer, and they admit to you that they did it, but you still have to claim that they didn\u2019t? How do you deal with that?","title":"Defense lawyers of reddit: how do you defend someone if you know for sure they are guilty?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569992787,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc5po9\/demotion\/","id":"dc5po9","body":"Friend needs help. His manager wants to demote him for what seems like some unreasonable reasons.  He explained to me that his boss is upset at the fact that my friend does not want to do any work related things during his days off. For example: his boss expects him to answer customers calls when the employee at the location seems to take longer than usual (he takes his work phone home), he also expects him to deal with any issues the employee\/customers have during his days off. He also got upset about him not doing his job requirements list but when my friend asked him about the list prior to this issue he was given a list and has been doing everything put on that list. When my friend mentioned this to him he was told by the boss that there are alot more things that had to be done that weren't listed and that friend should've just tried harder to work on doing those things not on the list and that friend should've asked him on what had to be done because he shouldn't have to look for him (my friend) and tell him about the new things added to the list. My friend told him that he asked him and was given that first list that why didn't he tell him about the other things. He also told my friend that he was looking for someone that could be able to do his job. My friend has been doing his job as manager as well as doing quite a bit of the boss's job while still having to help his crew with the actual physical job. My friend admits that his one flaw is that due to heavy traffic he arrives 5 to 10 minutes late most days even when leaving 1 to 1 1\/2 hours before his scheduled shift but he does always stay longer as well as covers shift when the employees call off or call that they will be late. As well as he doesn't answer his work phone on his days off but he does answer his coworkers when they call him on his personal phone and when there is an issue with a customer that the employee cannot handle we will help them. He just doesn't feel like he should answer every customer that calls his work phone on his day off. (To explain, all the employees have their own phones but they all have the same company number, so when a customer calls, everyone receives the call).  Well finally his boss gave him an ultimatum. My friend either demotes himself to a regular employee or if he chooses to stay as manager his boss will present the time stamps of the few times he was late as well as how he disagrees with my friend not doing the things on the list he was never aware of as well as not proving he can do his boss's job as well as his. Should my friend just admit to the boss's boss of his lateness but offer proof that he actually has done everything he was asked to do and show the praises both customers and employees have said about him? Or should he just accept the demotion?","title":"Demotion?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569575282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9xqkg\/my_companys_payroll_messed_up_what_should_i_do\/","id":"d9xqkg","body":"So I just checked my bank, and I was payed 1600 three times instead of one, I obviously want to keep the money, but I obviously want to tell them about it, can they ask for it back? Its a big company its not like a mom and pop corner store where I can just write a check back? Whats your legal advise Redditor\u2019s","title":"My company\u2019s payroll messed up, what should I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539200216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n2q1g\/husbands_aunt_died_and_the_car_title_was_never\/","id":"9n2q1g","body":"I\u2019m in Ohio.\n\nMy husbands Aunt died a year ago and ever since then her van has been sitting in our backyard. She did not have an estate and I don\u2019t even think there was a formal will. \n\nShe was married at the time of her passing but he is in prison and will remain in prison for at least a decade I think. The car was never formally put into his name.\n\nWhen it all went down the van was passed around (without changing titles) from a couple different people and ultimately ended up in our backyard where it just sits. Obviously it would be illegal to drive it, we don\u2019t have the title and there is no insurance on it.\n\nWe\u2019d really like to get it off our property. But, we\u2019re also trying to buy a house and it\u2019d be nice to sell it for some cash or even just use it to drive and sell our other car. \n\nI\u2019m not really sure how to proceed. We had one lawyer tell us we needed to get an estate up for it but that was pricy. \n\nWould something like a lost title work or are we just in legal limbo?\n\n","title":"Husbands Aunt died and the car title was never transferred but sits in our backyard. What can we do to get it in our name?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568912330,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6gwt1\/do_i_have_a_case_for_wrongful_termination_wa\/","id":"d6gwt1","body":"WA- I worked at a small company for two weeks. The whole two weeks they didn't have time to train me even though I repeatedly asked them to. Because I didn't want to sit there and do nothing, I just quietly sat at my desk and did my best to train myself. (Side note: they hired me to take over duties for a woman that is going on maternity leave in October, so training was supposed to be important) During this time, my team and my manager completely ignored me, and at least in my eyes excluded me from meetings etc. On Tuesday, I see my team all go to a meeting with out me and come out 45 mins later. I go home, and get a call saying that they decided that day to fire me.\nWhen I asked why, they claimed that I didn't do anything they assigned me to do (which they didn't assign me anything) and that I seemed like I was \"sad and didn't want to be there\". \nHere is where I think I might have a case. I have a neurological problem and diagnosed depression. None of this was discussed with onboarding. And my manager never pulled me aside to ask about how I was feeling or whatever and do an action plan with HR when my medical problems became an issue. They just fired me because I was sad, which I cannot help. \nSo basically, I think I they fired me for medical issues and without giving me a chance to discuss them or create a plan.\nDo I have a case worth talking to an employment attorney about?","title":"Do I have a case for wrongful termination? [WA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553114357,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3h4eg\/business_breaks_laws_left_and_right\/","id":"b3h4eg","body":"I just left a place of employment that we can refer to as \u201cLawn Care Company\u201d. The owner of 2 businesses seemingly doesn\u2019t have business licenses for either. I left on pretty bad circumstances, I had a falling out with the owner that was a result of him not liking me. I don\u2019t want to let him continue the intake and dismissal of employees based on his favor or lack there of, of them. About an hour ago, I returned to the office to pick up my 2nd to last check and he refused to give it to me, stating that I hadn\u2019t returned my uniforms. The agreement we had last week was that I would pick up my 2nd to last check and then give him my uniforms on the day I was supposed to get my last check. He decided that he\u2019d change his mind and say that he needed the uniforms before he\u2019d give me any of the money I am owed. I refused to leave(probably not the smartest decision), so he called the cops and claimed that I was trespassing at that point. On my way out, I spoke to the cops and let them know that I have no bad intentions and simply wanted the money that I worked for. No charges were pressed and there\u2019s an agreement stating that I\u2019ll come tomorrow morning with my uniforms to pick up that check. This guy is crooked and had me spreading fertilizer starting a month ago. As far as I know, that\u2019s too early in the season for that type of business to occur, but he\u2019s greedy and just wants as much money as he can get. \n\nMy goal here is to find a way to put an end to his exploit of employees and unsound business practices. I\u2019ve read a little about anonymously filing complaints, but I\u2019m worried that somehow it\u2019ll get me in trouble. I\u2019m starting school in the fall and can\u2019t afford to have any delays by going to court or having to follow up. Is there any way that I can out him for his practice?","title":"Business Breaks Laws Left and Right","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1410408980,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g2p73\/ca_dba_and_general_liability_insurance_question\/","id":"2g2p73","body":"california.\n\nlets say my name is John Rob Smith. I want to start a photography company called \"JR Smith Photos.\" it is my understanding that under CA law, since that name contains my surname, I do NOT have to file a fictitious name \/ register my business name anywhere.\n\n\nI also want to get general liability insurance. The insurance company asks for my business name. It says \" for sole proprietors, use your name or \"DBA business name\" if you have a registered DBA BUSIness name\"\n\nwhat should I put as my business name on the insurance form? \"DBA JR Smith Photo\".? (Even though its not a \"registered\" name?)\n\nthanks","title":"CA - DBA and general liability insurance question","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553130581,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3k8gh\/a_kid_was_searched_at_school_and_was_suspended\/","id":"b3k8gh","body":"A kid was at school today and was randomly searched without warning or without any probable cause. They had no hard evidence on this kid (camera footage, etc.) and everything was based on rumors spread. He was caught with a vape, however they did not tell him his rights and continued to search through all of his stuff even though he told them not to. Are they allowed to do this legally? \n\nHe was suspended for an entire semester and what he did was extremely stupid, but I believe the school was also in the wrong. They did not tell him his rights, nor did they have his consent to search his stuff. There were no authorities involved in the search either. The principal simply kept the kid in his office while another teacher watched him and guarded the door. The principal than went through his gym locker and searched through everything.\n\nLike I said, I know what he did was extremely stupid and I'm not defending him, but can schools legally do this?\n\nThanks","title":"A kid was searched at school and was suspended for a semester because of a vape","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1538782479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lrfv5\/sd_usa_being_paid_overtime_after_80_hours_in_a\/","id":"9lrfv5","body":"Hi!\n\n​\n\nI am working maintenance at an apartment complex in South Dakota and I noticed on my paycheck they have been paying OT after 80 hours in a bi-weekly pay period. I have worked here for around 6 months now and I have had multiple paychecks with weeks over 40 hours. Is this legal in the state of South Dakota? I have done some research and know there is no OT provisions in the state of South Dakota, however OT is provisioned by FLSA, and to my knowledge I am not an exempt worker. There are other posts on here about the same issue, but I did not see any that pertained to South Dakota.","title":"[SD, USA] Being paid overtime after 80 hours in a bi-weekly period, not 40 in one week.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540015506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9prq4q\/michigan_can_a_roommate_keep_last_months_rent\/","id":"9prq4q","body":"I am currently living in an apartment with a roommate in the state of Michigan, my name is not on the lease, we have all the payments schedule hand written dated and signed by both of us. When I moved in I paid first and last months rent, and have it document on a sheet of paper for which we both signed. I have been up to date on rent and even ahead a little. I have paid for the month of November in full. Due to issues with my roommate and him inviting his kid to come live with him, (the kid is 13 years old and very loud and disturbing), I plan to move out and be fully gone by October 31st at the very latest. My question is, am I entitled to either November's rent, and or the \"last months rent\" that I paid up front when moving in, since I will not be living on the property during November at all, and I am current on the rent? I asked my roommate and he told me I was SOL and that I shouldn't have paid ahead of time. Do I have any recourse civilly or legally if all I have is handwritten, signed papers saying what I have paid and When? Please advise me on if I have any options, as this is $1,200 that I stand to lose if I let it be.","title":"Michigan can a roommate keep last months rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541956153,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w5fpx\/ex_telling_children_not_to_listen_to_me_to_kill\/","id":"9w5fpx","body":"In Florida. So I walked in on my children talking to their father the other day. My youngest son kept saying \"fuck them,\" and \"fuck that!\" I walked into the room to see what he was so excited about. Some backstory. We have around 4 or 5 small furry animals. Two of them died last week as a result of my middle child and eldests actions(2 separate events.)  I could hear him saying how those animals are gross and it is good they are dead that the kids should kill the rest of them. He did not know I was listening to the phone call. \n\nThen while talking to our middle son he asked what the youngest was getting in trouble for(saying fuck repeatedly.) He said \"oh fuck her you guys don't have to listen to her!\" \n\nI know a little bit about parental alienation. Does this count? Can I tell my ex he can only talk to them on a recorded line? I plan on sending him a text to stop telling them these things. But it is fucking ridiculous this man has made my life ridiculously stressful. What other actions can I take? Should I not say anything to him and catch him telling the children this?  \n\nTldr; ex husband telling children not listen to me and applauding them killing our pets. What action or recourse do I have? ","title":"Ex telling children not to listen to me; to kill our family pets","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443573579,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mwlho\/how_to_protect_myself_from_false_assault\/","id":"3mwlho","body":"Over a year ago my then-girlfriend relapsed into alcoholism and as I was moving out of our newly shared apartment, she reported a false story of domestic violence to the police. Long story short, the case was dismissed with court orders that I never contact her again (not a problem, we were already long-broken-up).\n\nI have recently reached out to the old landlord to retrieve the deposit I paid towards that apartment. In no way have I contacted the ex-girlfriend. I fear that she will make up another story of me threatening and\/or assaulting her in order to get me arrested and stop me from receiving my apartment deposit, because she is most likely still living in the old apartment under that same deposit.\n\nPer city police policy, any accusation of domestic violence must result in an arrest. I no longer live with, date, or have any contact whatsoever with this woman. Can she get me thrown in jail (again) for revenge? What will happen if she calls the police and says I waved a knife in her face on her front door or something outlandish in an attempt to put me in jail?\n\nI live with my current girlfriend and I enabled google location services to track my location at all times. Is there anything that help prove that I have no contact with this woman? What can I do if police arrest me in the near future?\n\nThanks for the help.","title":"How to protect myself from false assault allegations? (TX)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443563034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mvxw1\/mi_no_security_deposit_old_landlord_sent_letter\/","id":"3mvxw1","body":"I moved out of an apartment 7\/31\/2015. I received a letter today (9\/29), postmarked 8\/19 and later 9\/14 because delivery failed.\n\nI had two roommates.\n\nThe letter says that they are requesting $842 to repair frayed carpet underneath doorways from my cat, who became anxious when the doors were closed.\n\nThey claim this damage is \"in excess of normal wear and tear\". However, I paid a monthly \"pet fee\" to the landlord, which I assume was assessed because they assumed pets would cause damage to the apartment they would want to fix.\n\nAdditionally, I had no security deposit whatsoever.\n\nThe letter says I must respond within 7 days if I dispute the charges. Of course, having received it today, more than a month after it was postmarked, that deadline would appear to be passed.\n\nI have a few questions:\n\n1. Does the Michigan Landlord-Tenant Relationship Act or any other landlord\/tenant law allow them to charge me for things outside of the security deposit?\n2. Does the fact that they charged a pet fee imply that damage was expected, so to say it's \"in excess of normal wear and tear\" isn't true?\n3. What should my next steps be?\n\nThank you.","title":"[MI] No security deposit, old landlord sent letter asking for $842 in damages","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554196762,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8guy5\/assaulted_and_going_to_court_battery_instead_of\/","id":"b8guy5","body":"I was assaulted 3 months ago in a nightclub, unprovoked.\nAt the time, the offender was arrested but due to a lack of evidence, released pending investigation.\nThey are now happy to set a court date for battery as they have downgraded it from ABH.\n\nI suffered about 10 punches to my head resulting in bruising, cut skin, loss of consciousness and post concussion syndrome that is still ongoing.\n\nThe event has lost me money in being unable to attend work and is affecting my application to join the Royal Navy, and my studies.\n\nAs a student, I have no idea how these things work and don\u2019t know what to do.\n\nDoes my situation sound like battery or ABH? How should I go about constructing my case against the defendant? I have no free time to do this or money to pay for someone else to do it ","title":"Assaulted and going to court, battery instead of ABH.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1550934464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atwcyx\/over_paid_on_check\/","id":"atwcyx","body":"I work at a pool store and I\u2019m also a student so I am only able to work 2 days a week and my normal paycheck is 70$ a week but this week i  received 214$ on my check.  Now our checks our hand written and they wayyy over paid me.  should I just be quite and not say anything or tell my boss.   What legal repercussions will I face if they did accidentally over pay me and I say nothing? ","title":"Over paid on check\ud83d\udcb8","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503345781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v5mxu\/alberta_car_rental_company_overclaiming_for\/","id":"6v5mxu","body":"Hi there. I was involved in a minor accident in my Budget rental car. I was driving at no more than 8 km\/h (5 mp\/h) as I exited a driveway to the street. Because it was foggy and there were no street lights I didn't see the edge of the driveway and one wheel dipped down into a grassy incline. There was visible damage to the very bottom portion of the front fiberglass below the car bumper. \n\nBudget sent the car for repairs and today I received an invoice. The invoice is dated for several weeks ago and demands I contact them prior to early last week or they'll charge my credit card automatically. \n\nOddly enough, the invoice says that not only did they replace the front lower bumper, they also repaired it and repainted it as well. However, I am prepared to pay for all of this work.\n\nBut they're also charging for replacement of the radiator and turbo intercooler. It's simply not possible that these were damaged from the minor accident. I've worked on engines enough to know this. Apart from anything else, I drove the car for about 3,000 km (over 1,800 miles) back home with no engine trouble whatsoever. \n\nIs there anything I can do, other than bend over and pay up? ","title":"[Alberta] Car Rental Company Over-Claiming For Accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552345846,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b00a7n\/illinois_probate_filing_when_not_all_heirs_names\/","id":"b00a7n","body":"I need to file probate for my fathers estate in the state of Illinois.  My understanding is that we need to notify all persons that would be heirs in the absence of a will that there will be a hearing.   My brother is deceased as is his son.  The son (my nephew) had 5 children.  Unfortunately we do not know the names of the children and they may have been adopted into other families some years ago.   \n\nMy question is: can we file for probate with the kids listed as John\/Jane Doe's? We would, of course, continue the effort to contact the children.  The lawyer we have engaged for this effort hasn't given us a clear answer on this.  Time for a new lawyer? \n\n​\n\nThanks.  ","title":"Illinois probate filing when not all heirs names and addresses are known","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1444880694,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3otb4j\/help_me_interpret_this_bit_of_the_orc\/","id":"3otb4j","body":"[ORC 2932.12](http:\/\/codes.ohio.gov\/orc\/2923.12) has that bit about not possessing a deadly weapon aside from a firearm.\n\n[ORC 2932.11]( http:\/\/codes.ohio.gov\/orc\/2923.11) expands on what a deadly weapon is.\n\n \nNow I'm primarily interested in ascertaining the legality of a collapsible baton being carried openly or concealed. I've found conflicting information on the legality of it the more I look, and it seems to all point back to this section of the ORC, and how different people interpret it. \n\nI can see how a baton could be interpreted as a deadly weapon, since when it is used in an aggravated manner, targeting the head, neck, and torso a great deal of permanent damage can be inflicted and death is very possible. However the way that baton use is trained very specifically states to *avoid* such strikes in favor for striking to extremities that will produce pain compliance, but not permanent grave injury.\n\nThoughts?","title":"Help me interpret this bit of the ORC...","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1502781435,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tsn3n\/apartment_infested_with_bed_bugs\/","id":"6tsn3n","body":"Hello, I live in Texas & use the Dallas Housing Authority. Recently, my neighbors moved, and since then, my apartment has been infested with bed bugs. I've already taken pictures of the bites and the bed bugs walking around. How do I convince the landlord to pay for removal if he\/she refuses? Will I be stuck paying for exermination? Thank you!\n\n[Edit] I checked in with the landlord, they told me that the treatment would be $130 and if the infestion spread to the other units I would be held responsible. Can they do that?\n\n[Edit] Reached an agreement with the Landlord, I will only be responsible for a portion of the exermination payment.","title":"Apartment infested with bed bugs.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552188260,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azblue\/update_mi_boss_wont_pay_after_i_keft_my_job\/","id":"azblue","body":"Original Post: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arxpqm\/mi_old_boss_is_withholding_last_paychecks_until_i\/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share\n\nSo I would like to thank everyone that gave me advice on how to help. It helped ease my mind greatly. Now, on to the details!\n\nFollowing what everyone suggested, I went to LARA (Licensing and Regulatory Affairs) and reported my old place of employment for not paying me around a month worth of checks after I left. I tried one last time to get my money from my old boss. When I asked him why he wouldn't give it to me he said and quote \"You fucked me over, now I'm going to fuck you over.\"\n\nThat royally pissed me off. I felt hopeless when I read that. Knowing someone intentionally was hurting my personal funds because I left his company. A shame. But that's when I found out I was still apart of their email system.\n\nNow I know this sounds bad, but they kept payroll on the email and I was looking to see if they were even planning in paying even though LARA was just about to begin investigating.\n\nThis is when I heard from the IRS saying I was misclassified as a sub contractor when I was really supposed to be a W-2 employee. I found my records in the email and sure enough, I signed a W-2 when I started.\n\nEssentially the investigation ended up concluding and my old boss has to pay LARA back along with some hefty fines. His shop is actually set to close in a matter of weeks. Karma is a bitch.\n\nThank you all again!","title":"[Update] MI Boss won't pay after I keft my job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446831478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rsc9w\/uk_recieved_unfair_parking_fine_2_years_ago_after\/","id":"3rsc9w","body":"Hi guys\n\n2 years ago I  moved into my uni accomdation and bought a parking ticket. I then saw a inspector putting a fine on my car, so i ran out and showed my ticket on the dashboard of the car (still valid for 45 mins) but was told i was getting a ticket regardless. I still have photo proof of my valid ticket, next to the fine that had been issued. \n\n\nMonths pass and I get many different letters saying how the debt as been passed on and then how im offered a reduced fee etc.. so I take the internets advice and ignore them all\n\n\nWe are now at the present day and ive recieved a letter the same as this...\n\nhttp:\/\/forums.pepipoo.com\/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=35558\n\nSaying that ive got to pay or risk a court date and a will struggle to get credit. I appreciate this is not massive compared to many posts here, but im very worried and unsure how to proceed! I'm 22 and low on money so i cant afford the fine, let alone solicitors and fees and what not!\n\nPlease help me! Thanks so much ","title":"(UK) Recieved unfair parking fine 2 years ago, after many threatening letters a County court letter has come through - HELP!","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538526907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kwb0m\/should_i_contact_a_lawyer_since_i_am_filing_a\/","id":"9kwb0m","body":"I don't want to go into too many details, so long story short... I am in the process of filing an official grievance against my manager with HR, but I'm afraid of being fired. I know retaliation is illegal, but I work in an at-will state, so technically my employer doesn't need to have a reason to fire me. I'm wondering if I should contact a lawyer to protect myself? \n\nI really don't want this to escalate to the point of me being fired, but I cannot bite my tongue on this issue. However, my company is sneaky and I've been told by multiple people not to trust HR. I have solid, factual evidence that proves I am telling the truth and my manager is lying. What legal standing do I have here? ","title":"Should I contact a lawyer since I am filing a grievance against my manager?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445867672,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qa359\/being_evicted_and_only_have_a_verbal_rental\/","id":"3qa359","body":"So, I came home from work this morning to a three-page letter taped to my door, explaining a bunch of issues that my current room-mates (who themselves are renting this house from a landlord, though I was assured that this arrangement was okay... I don't know how true that is, but it's the information that I have) had with me, and giving me until the 31st to leave (5 days, as of the 26th). A majority of their reasons are unfounded, but I have no idea what to do. If more information is needed, I will do what I can. I'm in South Dakota, since that will probably be useful.","title":"Being evicted and only have a verbal rental agreement. Need help fast","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441512382,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jtmz3\/ny_i_am_a_college_student_who_rented_an_apartment\/","id":"3jtmz3","body":"Hey everyone, first time posting on here. I am going to try to make this as short as possible.\n\nI was looking for apartments in the summer for the school year and met a recent college grad. He's a realtor and he told me about this property that had multiple apartments.\n\nI went to the apartments and they were being worked on. I had asked the realtor if they would be done by July 31st (when my old apt lease ended) He had confirmed that they would be cleaned and furnished by then. He had also said that I would be able to move my stuff out of my old apartment on the 30th. (I have text logs with him confirming that I can move in on the 30th)\n\nWhen I got there on the 30th the apartment was not open. I called the landlord a few times and he finally responded. I met him for the first time at the apt on the 30th and he told me and confirmed that the apartment wouldnt be done till Tuesday (august 4th). I reluctantly agreed to that\n\nMy landlord did not respond at all on the fourth. When I went to the apartment on the fifth there were some contractors who said that the apartment would not be done for some time. Obviously I was furious that both my landlord and the realtor had told me that I would be getting my keys on a certain date and that it did not happen. \n\nOn August 14th my landlord called and told me that the apartment was fully done and to call NYSEG to turn on my gas and water. When I called NYSEG they said they never received any inspection papers and even when they would receive the papers it takes a week or so to turn the power on. This meant that at earliest I would get power by August 28th.\n\nI finally got my keys on Tuesday August 18th (19 days after the contract stated I could move in and 19 days after when I was promised the keys). While I was at the apartment I noticed none of the furnishings in the lease were at the apartment and promptly told my landlord. He said it was no problem and it would be there.\n\nUnfortunately on the 21st of August I tried entering my apartment for the first time and found that the keys the Landlord gave me did not open the door. This was remedied when the landlord told me the copy he gave me was slightly off and I had to stick the key \"1\/16th of an inch out\"\n\nI was finally able to get into the apartment on the 27th of August. 28 days after I was legally supposed to get in. When I get there I see that a small coffee table, a couch, and a kitchen table with no chairs are the only furnishings in there. The bed frame was hollow and as soon as I sat on the bed it fell down through it onto the floor. The oven and stove were not new at all, it was a gas oven that required a match to light it and half the stove tops did not even work. There was no power to the apartment and he had jumped a few rooms with a extension cord. After that weekend on Monday the 31st I contacted the landlord and told him I was terminating the lease as it stated in a clause in the lease because of his multiple breaches on the lease. \n\nHOWEVER, he is refusing to give me the money (first, last and deposit) of $1950 back to me. I contacted a lawyer and they said they would require a $1500 retainer for the case and I am a poor college student who cannot afford that. I have already moved out to another apartment with a landlord who I know, I need to get my money back from the old landlord but he is refusing to give it back. \nWhat are my legal avenues and what can I do to just get my money back and have this lease terminated?\n\nTL;DR:\n-sign student housing apartment July 31st start\n\n-get told then that I will get key tomorrow\n\n-this continues for almost 3 weeks\n\n-finally get key, wrong key\n\n-finally get in,no power or furnishings as stated in lease\n\n-tell landlord I am terminating the lease\n\n-he refuses to give me back my money\n\n-looked up small claims, He lives 3 hours away from me in another county\n\n-wut do\n\nsorry for the long read. thanks\n","title":"(NY) I am a college student who rented an apartment (student housing) from a landlord. I want to terminate the lease as stated in one of the sections due to the multiple violations from landlord. I called my landlord and he refuses to give me the money back.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445108881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p55b1\/online_teeshirt_company_telling_my_im_a_fraud\/","id":"3p55b1","body":"I just bought some shirts from an online tee-shirt website but after I proceeded to buy them, it told me that it rejected my card and that I'm a fraud. It said they have contacted the authorities, my bank account, and the card owner (me). I made sure that I didn't miss type anything. It also said that they want to press charges.\n\nI checked my bank account and the order went through right now it's pending, but that's normal when you buy something online. I got an email that let me know that I spent $100+ on something (I put that in case someone ever steals my card).\n\nI don't have any viruses or anything and I plan on contacting them Monday.\nShould I be worried? I just wanted some damn pokemon shirts.\n\nI live in Chicago since it wants to know my location.\n\nhttp:\/\/m.imgur.com\/7CMLJU1\nHere's what it told me. ","title":"Online Tee-shirt company telling my I'm a Fraud","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555627397,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bertfo\/apartment_complex_charging_for_holding_package\/","id":"bertfo","body":"Just got an email from my leasing office (copies below):\n\n\u201cIf you order a Prime Pantry box or other large items, you will have 24 hours to pick up these packages. If you do not pick them up within 24 hours, these packages will be brought to your apartment and set outside the front door and you will incur a $10\/box delivery charge. This charge may increase with repeat offenses.\u201d\n\nIs this legal? Since none of this was written on the lease, and having a front office to sign packages is one of their major selling points.\n\nAlso, sometimes packages just get delivered to each individual door and not the front office. So if the office doesn\u2019t want to take it, they can just deny it and the carrier will just bring it to the exact room for free.\n\nI understand where they are coming from, since sometimes packages are pretty big, and people might leave it there a day or two before picking it up. But also think that they\u2019re just trying to exploit the tenants with this opportunity.\n\nJust want to hear some opinions on this.","title":"Apartment complex charging $ for holding package - legal or not?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571063886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhrg8s\/20_uk_identity_fraud\/","id":"dhrg8s","body":"(TLDR at bottom for short explanation.) \n\n***Backstory***  \nLast year I was living with a family friend, renting a room in her house. During the time I was there she lied to me, my family, her family and to everyone around her that she had cancer. She used this as leverage against me to play on my heart strings and get me to go above and beyond in favors for her.\n\nThis ex-family friend has previous convictions of credit card fraud.\n\n***Post relationship (November 2018)***  \nOnce I, and other people in her circle, had put it together that it was a lie and nothing added up I quickly moved out of her house being on bad terms with her.\n\n***Initial lead (From December 2018)***  \n(To put in chronological order) I had my wallet containing; debit card stolen and drivers license, I do believe it was *not* this (ex-family friend). Which was what I went on to give 2 out of 3 companies as the reason the credit had been taken out without my consent. I did not report either as stolen as I thought it to be a lost cause to get them back, however I did cancel my card through my bank at discovery of it being stolen and later purchase a new drivers license about 6 months later.\n\n***Initial discovery of fraud (February 2019)***  \nI was handed letters from her daughter (who I worked with) addressed to me at my previous address (exfamily friends address). It was the first from 1 of 3 companies asking me to make payments for stuff I haven't purchase. I gave them the reason that my drivers license has been stolen and must of got my details from there.  \nI was not told or knew who had taken out with credit at this time.\n\n***2 of 3 cases closed (March 2019)***  \nTo the best of my knowledge (these companies as rubbish at keeping me in the loop) 2 of the 3 companies have stopped casing me for this money and have close the accounts with the debts on.  \nI have not received letters since and have called 1 to confirmed its closed.  \nAt this point I was not aware of who had opened these accounts, what items had been ordered and where the items were sent to I was just relieved I wasn't being asked for money I didn't spend.\n\n***Initial discovery of the suspect (July 2019)***  \n***More irrelevant backstory***  \nAt this point her(ex-family friend) daughter is my girlfriend, I see her mother often but we know we're not on good terms and don't speak on it.\n\nI receive a phone call from the third (what I believe to be final company) requesting I make payments. I explain the whole previous situation with my license being stolen. He then asks me if I'm requesting that this account be investigated for fraud. He tells me that while the account used my payment details for the credit agreement the account making the order was in (ex-family friends) name, email, phone number and address.  \nthis is where my heart sank. A woman who had lied through her teeth so much I feel like I have to leave the place I call home had gone behind my back and now done this to me and caused me all this aggravation.\n\n***Where its at right now (October 2019)***  \nRight now the third company has looked into it and do not believe my case to be fraud, however after some back and fourth they are holding the account and awaiting me to provide further evidence.\n\n***What I'm looking to achieve through legal recourse.***  \nI would like to press charges for the crimes this woman has committed against me. However I really have no clue where to start. Do I have a case? Do I get a lawyer? How do I get a lawyer? What kind of lawyer would be best for this case? Will it cost me? What charges would she be looking at?\n\nTLDR-\n\nTo put a long story short.\n\nA (ex)family friend, whom I used to live with, used all the personal information she knows about me to take credit out in my name currently totaling over \u00a3500.\n\nThrough one debt collector agency, contracted by the original creditor, I have discovered it was her fraudulently taking this credit out in my name. While their investigation continues I would like to take legal action against this woman for the crimes she has committed.\n\nUnfortunately I have no clue where to start or what would be the best course of action for me to take and what charges I could press against her.\n\n(also unsure on the appropriate flair)","title":"20 \u2502UK \u2502Identity Fraud.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1442851028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lth06\/are_there_any_legal_implications_to_forming_an\/","id":"3lth06","body":"Residents in a luxury high-rise apartment have had consistent problems with some aspects of how the community is managed. They have banded together and formed a 70-person Facebook group that they now use to strategize for how to get management to handle things; they also maintain a resident issues log that tracks how often and through which media things have been reported to management.\n\nAre there any legal implications to doing this? It sounds a lot like a residents association but we aren't sure whether that's a real legal distinction here and if what we are doing gives us any particular rights or responsibilities.\n\nWe are also thinking about approaching management with a proposal to create a more formal residents association that takes on some responsibilities for things like organizing social events, aggregating resident issues to help prioritize and share with management, etc. Are there any further legal considerations we should think about before doing this?\n\nWe're aware that procedures do exist for incorporating associations like this into a non-profit, but we aren't planning on having any finances or taking \"official\" action, so we'd like to avoid going this route and keep it somewhat informal. Just want to be sure we aren't opening any legal cans of worms.\n\nThank you!","title":"Are there any legal implications to forming an organized resident collective in an apartment building? [TX]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541547148,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9utqi6\/the_ceiling_in_my_housing_occasionally_leaks\/","id":"9utqi6","body":"Occasionally the ceiling will leak. I\u2019m on the bottom floor and the maintenance guy came out to inspect the top floors above me and they couldn\u2019t find any sort of water damage. They said they couldn\u2019t do anything unless they see the water dripping. There\u2019s a blue under layer to the ceiling that\u2019s exposed and frankly the room just smells sort of odd. Do I really have to wait for it to leak again for them to do something about it? I have videos of the ceiling leaking.","title":"The ceiling in my housing occasionally leaks.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541163150,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tjt1j\/inhome_surveillance_louisiana_united_states\/","id":"9tjt1j","body":"Hello everyone! My mother is asking me to set up surveillance inside of her home; she is terminally ill and believes when she passes that our family will attempt to loot the house when I am not there. Sadly, I am inclined to agree.\n\nI did a brief search on what the laws were regarding recording in Louisiana, and [I found this page](https:\/\/www.rcfp.org\/reporters-recording-guide\/state-state-guide\/louisiana). I wanted to make sure I was interpreting it correctly, and if you folks knew of any other pitfalls I might need to consider.\n\n* It seems that in-home **video recording** would be allowed as long as it wasn't for a \"lewd or lascivious purpose,\" which this use satisfies.\n* However, **audio recording** is kind of iffy. It seems to me that, should we have a snooper in the house, I would not be able to record their audio, because they do not consent.\n\nSo the takeaway from this is that I would have to capture silent video. Which is fine, but should there be a break-in it would be nice to have possible audio confirmation of the thief's identity.\n\nThanks for any help you can give!","title":"In-home surveillance [Louisiana, United States]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1409710543,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fbi3m\/maleme_charged_with_alleged_sexual_assault_and\/","id":"2fbi3m","body":"First and foremost, the relationship was completely consensual (if the legal age wasn't taken into account). We're both very much in love with each other for months already, but parents would not accept it-especially after finding out we had sexual intercourse (she initiated-and repeatedly tried to tell the officers so). \n\n\nSo, father confiscated the condom and called the police. I've just been released a few hours ago (on condition of not contacting said GF and such)\n\nI pretty much said \"legal aid advised me not to say anything\" when the detective asked questions pertaining to the case. In no way did I exploit, assault or rape her. But I still feel lost. \n\n\nI know many people believe I deserve to rot in hell for having sex with a minor, but for those who really understands that love is a very sharp double-edged sword, what should I do?\n\n\nEdit: I recently turned 24, I am\/have been\/will be contacting several lawyers in the area tomorrow. In the mean time, is there anything I should do, prepare for, or make peace with?\n\nI am almost exclusively hoping* for no criminal record-no matter how much fine\/community service\/etc I am required to do. I am well educated but in the healthcare sector. Is it possible?\n","title":"(Male-me) Charged with alleged sexual assault and sexual interference (Toronto). GF (15-turning 16 in 2 months)'s family called police. Lost!","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569286033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8fr42\/california_los_angeles_a_car_hasnt_move_in_front\/","id":"d8fr42","body":"My parent\u2019s house is near apartments so the parking spaces gets pretty crowded past 5pm. One thing my parents noticed which they told me is this honda car that hasnt moved for more than 2 months in front of their house. It is a pain for them because whenever they wanted to take out the garbage bins during monday so the waste management can pick them up at tuesday morning, theres barely any space. They would end up placing the bins in the driveway. One time i visited i tried putting a flyer in the cars windshield. A week later and its still there and hasnt move. Also the car is under the tree which makes it a good spot. My mom told me she would see someone was sitting beside the car in the curb once or twice a week but shes not sure if its his car. \n\nToday i visited them and i saw that there are no spaces to place the trash bins. I had to move them out and back in again just so i could park inside. I decided enough is enough so i called [LADOT](https:\/\/ladot.lacity.org\/how-do-i\/how-do-i-report-blocked-driveway-or-other-parking-violations) parking enforcement and reported a abandoned car. I never really called this number but they told me they will take care of it. \n\nIf it get ticketed\/towed, would it say something like \u201creported by front house\u201d? Or something like that?\n\nIm afraid that the guy who owned the car will retaliate and do something with my parent\u2019s property and their dogs. \n\nMaybe i should\u2019ve installed them security camera first. I only thought about it recently but never got the time to set one up for them. \n\nWhat else could have i done? Any other advice?","title":"[California, Los Angeles] a car hasnt move in front of my parent\u2019s house for 2 months+ did i do the right thing of calling the local traffic dispatch center?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1549904436,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apia4a\/have_not_been_paid_by_employer_for_a_month\/","id":"apia4a","body":"Posting for a friend. She started a new job January 14th of this year. It was a commission based position, with supposed bonuses from goals that ended up being impossible to meet. She drove long distances without compensation, and even had to stay in hotels and share beds with other employers - I\u2019m assuming because the company wouldn\u2019t pay for additional room. Needless to say they haven\u2019t paid her yet. She contacts them and they say \u201coh well it cleared\u201d when it obviously hasn\u2019t. We\u2019re in Florida, where there are no pay day requirements. At what point can we threaten to report them to the DOL if they don\u2019t pay up? I want her to do it immediately as a month is approaching. Like most companies I bet they will pay her, and other employees they are doing this to, rather quickly. TIA","title":"Have not been paid by employer for a month","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569036357,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d75eyn\/my_grandparents_died_and_we_find_out_they_are_7\/","id":"d75eyn","body":"( I do not know anything about properties or legalities involving trusts or wills or anything like that, I'm only 18 and barely have a clue about everything so I'm sorry if I did not explain anything right. I will do my best to answer any questions based on what I know. )\n\n My grandparents died 2018, leaving 3 properties behind. She's caught up on taxes for one, but is over 7 years behind on the other two. Me and my younger brother are living in one, but were planning on moving into the other one that's closer in town. We got a letter from the tax collector or something and it says that we have to pay the money owed, or the county can sell the properties. The letter also says we can try to make payments for it in either September, November, or October. We cannot afford the one we live in currently as it's over 23,000$. Can we pay for the other one that's only 9,000$ ? We don't even have that much money. I don't have a job right now, I'm 4 months pregnant and I'm freaking out if they'll take the houses because then we'll have nowhere to live. Is there any way they'll let us do a payment plan, like to catch up on the taxes? Or do we have to pay the full amount at once? I don't know what to do. I feel physically sick from this stress and I'm just ready to breakdown. My older sister was supposed to be in charge of this, we were supposed to figure this stuff out together but she isn't answering my calls and I have a feeling she's going to flake out on me and say she's not going to do anything, the one house that's caught up goes to her so obviously why should she care about what's gonna happen to the other houses when she's all set. I don't know who to call or where to start. I'm sorry if I didn't really explain this in a clear way or like the best way, my head's all over the place and im desperate for answers. I'll try and answer any extra questions in the comments.","title":"My grandparents died and we find out they are 7 years behind on property taxes. We might be homeless now?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554508256,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9yefk\/trying_to_get_an_estate_back_for_a_minor\/","id":"b9yefk","body":"This is kind of hard to explain but I will try to keep it short.\nMy niece's biological father passed away and she is under 18. He died suddenly so there was no will. His half-sister has already closed out his bank accounts and got his final work check by using his death certificate.  She also has possession of all his belongings (an older car, clothes, electronics, etc). \nMy niece was his only child and he was divorced from my sister in law and never remarried. He lived in California at the time of his death.\n\nIs there anything my sister in law can do to get his property\/money for my niece or is she just out of luck because she was working at getting legal documents to be her daughter's guardian to then file for to be the executor of his estate and took too long?","title":"Trying to get an estate back for a minor","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569053637,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d77u7l\/i_need_to_save_my_little_sister\/","id":"d77u7l","body":"Shes only 6 years old or so but I know shes going through Hell. My mom and her boyfriend are bad people. My mom is an alcoholic who I've had to call the police on in my childhood many many times. And her boyfriend is physically abused by my mom but is in some kind of Stockholm Syndrome esque situation. \n\nLast month I got a call from my little sister, reaching out to me to talk. My mom took the phone ans drunkenly called her a brat to make her leave the room and proceeded to tell me how I'm much better than my little sister. At some point she mentioned how my sister has no friends at school because a little boy molested her in her own home. I'm so outraged and I know how my little sister feels. I cant do this I cant just let this happen to someone else.\n\nI live out of state but I'm 8 hours away and ready to make the trip. What do I need to call CPS and insure that I'm taking her home with me? Should I ask the police station that I used to call on my mom as a child for records? \n\nPlease help. I cant let her spend another month in that shithole.\n\nTLDR my little sister lives in an abusive household how can I make 100% sure that she is taken out and goes home with me as soon as possible","title":"I need to save my little sister","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568500879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4c7ry\/i_need_help_with_a_speeding_ticket\/","id":"d4c7ry","body":"I was speeding and i know i shouldn\u2019t have been. The ticket is pretty hefty but as a college student i don\u2019t have enough money to pay for it. I\u2019m pretty sure the officer wasn\u2019t using a radar. And tips?","title":"I need help with a speeding ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570462569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/del3s1\/spousal_support_worth_it_to_get_representation\/","id":"del3s1","body":"Hi! Not sure if it\u2019s worth it for me to seek representation or if I\u2019m just wasting the little bit of money I\u2019ve saved. We went separate ways with our belongings and I leased a different car to get his name off my last one. He has some savings that I didn\u2019t know about that the military set aside for him while he was serving, he cannot access it unless I sign a waiver (obviously not going to sign anything until I find out if this is worth getting a lawyer) No house.  No kids. No major assets but a huge wage difference. He\u2019s got like 10k of debt and I have 4K.\n\nHe makes 110k a year before bonuses. I make 40k. I dropped out of college to start working full time because we needed the extra income, meanwhile I never got to finish my degree. I could use some help with rent as I cannot afford to live in CA by myself, but I started my career here and don\u2019t want to leave. I just don\u2019t want to be scammed by a bad lawyer taking advantage of me. Is it worth it for me to seek representation?","title":"Spousal support. Worth it to get representation?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571358386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djfdgt\/would_this_be_grounds_to_breach_lease\/","id":"djfdgt","body":"I (19y\/o male) recieved a call from the management company that I lease my apartment from (with 3 roommates) and was informed that they opened my mail. I get mail sent to their building a couple blocks away from my apartment because that's the protocal I was told to follow. They admitted to opening the FedEx priority envelope that was addressed to me. I need any excuse to break this lease with no negative impact on my end what are my options?","title":"Would This Be Grounds To Breach Lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541015746,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t29ga\/landlord_changed_ownership_should_i_be_worried\/","id":"9t29ga","body":"I just received a notice on my front door of my apartment complex that reads as follows:\n\n​\n\n>Dear resident, this is to advise you that effective immediately, 'property name' has been sold to; \n\n​\n\n>'property name' ATR LLC  \n>  \n>'property name' GJS LLC  \n>  \n>'property name' TSI LLC, as tenants-in-common (collectively, 'New Owner')  \n>  \n>All future payments and other charges due under your lease, including the rent payment due (tomorrow), should be paid to 'New Owner' and delivered to rental office. Your security deposit has been transferred to 'New Owner' and 'New Owner' will be responsible for its return to you pursuant to the terms of your lease agreement.\n\n​\n\nThis has me worried as the names of the 'new owner' LLC are still the same as the previous owner, is this just a business tactic to keep things simple? There was absolutely no warning or notice that the property was for sale or that the property ownership would change hands. As of this morning, they disabled the ability to pay rent online through their website. Rent is due tomorrow and they've given everyone BARELY 24 hours notice that they can not pay online and must pay with personal\/cashiers check or money order. No exceptions.\n\n​\n\nFor some background:\n\nState of Oregon\n\nFixed-term lease, townhouse\n\nThis is the only reference in my lease that mentions change of ownership that i don't understand:\n\n>SUBORDINATION: This rental agreement is subordinated to any present or future mortgages on the real estate upon which the Apartment is situated. The foregoing subordination provision shall be self0operative and no further instrument of subordination shall be require; provided however, that an confirmation of such subordination, resident hereby agrees, upon the request of landlord, to execute and deliver any instrument of subordination or confirmation of subordination required by landlord. In the event of a foreclosure under any mortgage or deed of trust affecting the apartment, the holder of the note secured by the mortgage or deed of trust, or the purchase at such foreclosure sale, shall have the option to recognize this rental agreement, in which event this rental agreement shall continue in full force and effect and resident shall attorney to the new landlord and landlord hereunder.\n\n***MY QUESTION***\n\nCan they, the day before rent is due, change ownership and disable the 'normal' way of paying online and forcing people to procure a personal\/cashiers check or money order? I'm NAL but I'm sure it is legal, even if it is really shady and sh!t business practice.\n\nDoes this leave me open for my lease to be terminated by the new owner for any reason? I still have 8 months left on the lease\n\nWhat should i prepare myself for and what rights do i have? How can i protect myself in this situation?","title":"Landlord \"changed\" ownership, should i be worried?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553018780,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b30pgf\/wrongful_termination_retaliation_claim_advice\/","id":"b30pgf","body":"TLDR; Partner was fired from his job with no warning, and feels it was retaliation for going to HR about a hostile work environment. Questions at the bottom.\n\n​\n\nHello,\n\nI am asking for my partner(P) about this.\n\nYesterday (3\/18\/2019), he was fired from his employer of two years. The reason for his termination was for \"insubordination\" and \"refusal to follow instructions\". To preface, he has never once been written up or verbally talked to about any disciplinary actions, at all. His records is completely clean. Without any warnings, he was called into his managers office with HR, and told he was to be terminated immediately. When he ask why, they stated they were not legal obligated to give a reason, and in this case they were not.\n\nWe know Idaho is a \"Work at Will\" state, and you can be terminated for no reason at all. Something to mention though, is for around 90% of his worked hours (he is non-exempt), he has been working on a project for the company at their LA headquarters since November 2018. While there, he has been praised multiple times by both middle and senior management for his work ethic, and attitude taking on new projects. He has never once said no to, or complained about, anything they ask him to do.\n\nWhile working in LA, he had the opportunity to discuss some issues he felt needed to be addressed about the Idaho office with HR. He felt there was a hostile work environment between the managers (2 males; M1 and M2) and the rest of the employees. M2 verbally harassed a female employee in front of the office, to the point it reduced her to tears. Being soft spoken, she did not want to cause any further issues. When P told the HR Director of this, she immediately began to take action against M2, leading to a written warning. M2 was not the immediate supervisor for P, or the female coworker. He also wanted to let HR know that he felt his manager, M1, needed some more training, as he was promoted into a position he know nothing about, and P was the one who had to train him on his job. M1 was also talk to about this. HR also talked to all the Idaho employees about their feeling in the work environment.\n\nWhile back home and working from the Idaho office for a week, M1 ask P into his office, and told him how disappointed he was with P, and that everything he talks about with corporate will get back to him(M1). Feeling a little threatened by this, P said he understood and ask to go back to work.\n\nAll of this took place about a month ago. Skip to yesterday, P found out the HR Director who was protecting him resigned last week (She felt the company has a toxic view favoring managers, and looking the other way), and he was now fired without warning.\n\n​\n\nMy questions are:\n\n1. In the state of Idaho, would he have a pretty strong retaliation case against the company? The HR Director said she would provide a written statement about all these events, and he has many co-workers who will provide statements on his behalf.\n2. If he cannot make a case in Idaho, can he make a case in California, given he has spent a majority of his working time in the past 5 months there?","title":"Wrongful Termination (retaliation) Claim Advice (Idaho)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540868615,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sk4zq\/how_can_i_see_my_brother\/","id":"9sk4zq","body":"Hi all. I'm a 17 year old guy living in Indiana. My mom divorced my dad (who I have lived with for a year or so, since December 2017) in 2008. She remarried a man in 2010 and gave birth to my brother, who is now 8. In December 2017, when I still lived with my mom, she and her now ex-husband got into a very bad fight (he is an abusive alcoholic) and she attempted suicide. My dad took custody. Just a little background info. Throughout the next 8-9 months, I saw my brother biweekly, which was nice. But, in September\/early October, my mom got arrested for DUI and then evaded police, jumped out a window, and broke her spine. \n\nI haven't talked to my mother since late September just to give myself the space I need to recuperate from the past year. I tried to call my brother to see if he was okay only to find out his dad blocked my number from his phone. I have no way to contact my brother. I cannot contact his father because not only am I blocked from his phone, but everytime I see him\/hear about him I have a panic attack and cannot function. I miss my baby brother so much, I haven't seen him since September and I just want to see my brother. His dad has full custody afaik. I would talk to his dad but he is the worst person I've ever met and legit would deny any contact with him despite me never doing anything to him. Is there any way I can see my brother using legal right or anything? I'm not very good with laws. I just miss my brother and I want to see him\/talk to him. Any advice is appreciated.","title":"How can I see my brother?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1538349787,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kb2hp\/employer_cheated_me_out_of_hours_shady_moving\/","id":"9kb2hp","body":"I'm sorry if this is long, but this really frustrates me.\n\nI recently worked for a moving company Aug 18-31st. \n\n Boss calls me Aug 16, \"hey can you start tomorrow?\" No interview, no meeting, never even spoke to the guy. I could not work that day so I volunteered to start on the 18th. \n I show up Saturday morning at 7am, he shakes my hand then proceeds to give directions to everyone but me, then takes a phone call and walks off. I'm standing like an idiot until another employee tells me to grab a dolley and load some furniture with him. Sure, no prob. Rest of the day goes alright, end at 12:30. \n I work Monday (20th) for 14 hours, no breaks. Much shittier day than Sat but I was happy to be working. No communication from boss. \n\n He calls me Monday night saying no work until further notice as business is slow. \n\n No phone call and it's now Aug 27 and I phone him asking when I can work. He says \"I guess you can work Aug 30-31 if I WANT to\" (no shit I want to work...)\n\n At this point I have signed NO papers or tax forms, I have no idea what my hours are as there are no timesheets and no idea how he even pays us. \nI do work the 2 days for 14 and 13 hours with NO breaks. \n I ask when Im getting paid. He says \"Oh, we get paid bi-monthly and you wont get paid until Sept 15th\" (had to borrow money for rent cause of this) \n Pissed, I wait until Sept 15th only to find he shorted me over 10 hours. Apparently we get a 30min unpaid break every 5 hours that I never once got. Also we only get paid once we arrive at the customers house, even though we were cleaning trucks at 7am at the shop before driving to the customers house. The timer stops once we leave the house even though we were driving the truck back to the shop. \n NONE of this was mentioned ever to me. I was calculating my hours from when I arrived at the shop to when I got back.\n\n10 hours doesn't seem like a lot but it's about 250.00 and that's a lot of money to me. Especially since I had to borrow money to pay rent because of his negligence. \n\nShould I talk to employment standards? They have about a 6 month wait time and that's a long time for a 250.00 complaint... \n\nAnything I can do??\n","title":"Employer cheated me out of hours. Shady moving company.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442593969,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lg7xb\/bremerton_wa_my_partner_is_charged_with_a\/","id":"3lg7xb","body":"Background of event from mid-April: My partner was pulling into our apartment's parking lot and hit a neighbour's bumper with the side of her car. She didn't notice any damage at the time, but a witness saw the event and called the police. About a week later a police officer showed up, told her about the incident and shortly after the neighbour came by. \n\nThey exchanged insurance information, with the neighbour saying that the only reason she cared was because the car was on a lease. \n\nFast-forward to mid-August and she received an arraignment notice and literally nothing else. My work EAP got us in touch with a lawyer who is offering $1200 for pre-trial work and $5000 for any trial costs. He also estimates that the fine for a first-time offender is $900 and that this isn't something she would go to jail over. \n\nI'm not sure whether there's anything useful we can pick up before discovery and the John Oliver segment on Publlic Defenders has me nervous about that option, even though we would qualify for that service locally.\n\nUnfortunately, my partner didn't let me know about this until last week, and the arraignment hearing is on the 23rd. How can we best weigh our options?","title":"[Bremerton, WA] My partner is charged with a unattended hit-and-run and I don't think we have enough info to decide how to plea.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568750320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5mb57\/california_labor_laws_and_volunteers\/","id":"d5mb57","body":"Sorry if Business Law is the wrong flair, I\u2019m a little ignorant to where this would specifically belong. Also omitting company name to not screw over a chance to do this, as would be an amazing networking opportunity for me and am curious more than anything, rather than looking to be paid or get anyone in any trouble. \n\nI was given an opportunity to be a \u201cvolunteer\u201d brand ambassador for a company\/business at a local convention. Very expensive convention, with LOTS of foot traffic. Four days of work, roughly 9-10 am to 7-9 pm. Lodging and travel not included,  dinner is included however. Not specified if that was a one-time thing or every night. Breaks were not specified at the time of application, nor we\u2019re working hours. For that I\u2019m going off of the conventions open floor hours. Afterwards we would receive a \u201cgift pack\u201d with the normal wearables (hat, shirt, etc) and a roughly $300 piece of merchandise. \n\nI did a little research and under CA labor laws, specifically code section 1720.4 states that a volunteer would work freely without coercion, to a civic, humanitarian, or charitable purpose to be considered a volunteer. To legally volunteer, an individual must offer their services to a public agency, or non-profit organization. Businesses may *not* legally utilize volunteers. \n\nI was taken to a link on the company\u2019s website, where it explicitly says volunteers, and anything I would receive, aside from \u201cdinner on us\u201d would be a \u201cgift pack\u201d. \n\nIs this illegal or am I not understanding the labor laws correctly?","title":"California labor laws and volunteers.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571661839,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkzzv6\/ontario_canada_can_landlord_or_original_tenant\/","id":"dkzzv6","body":"So I subletted a room for the school term, and initially my cat was supposed to stay at home with my family. So I didn\u2019t mention a cat living on the premises when I subletted the place. However, it\u2019s becoming hard living apart because my cat and I are very attached, so I want to bring him to live with me. (I\u2019ve done it before but the sublet agreement then said pets are allowed.) \n\nAre there any legal consequences that can arise from this? There are no \u201cno pets\u201d clauses in my sublet agreement with the original tenant and from what I know, landlords can\u2019t discriminate against pet owners. I know if the pet causes excessive odour, noise etc., then the landlord has grounds to evict but I don\u2019t think that\u2019ll be an issue with my cat. \n\nOn that note, in the future do I need to disclose that there will be a pet living on the premises prior to renting? I was talking to somebody and they said that even though they\u2019re not supposed to discriminate, landlords will just find a different renter without telling you the actual reason. \n\nThanks for the advice!","title":"Ontario, Canada: can landlord or original tenant evict me if I have a pet?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508564060,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77roji\/punched_in_the_face_as_a_minor_unprovoked\/","id":"77roji","body":"So I was walking with my friends and this guy walks up to me and punches me in the face, <1 inch from my temple. I think he was trying to kill me or at the very least knock me out. I reported to police. What kind of charges can I press if he is found and how long can he go to jail for? Im in NY state.","title":"Punched in the face as a minor unprovoked","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443706762,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n3ne6\/am_i_within_my_rights_to_withhold_rent_for_lack\/","id":"3n3ne6","body":"My girlfriend and I recently moved into an apartment. We've been here for about 2 months now. When we first moved in we were given a form to fill out with any issues we felt needed to be addressed by maintenance. We filled this form out and handed it in within a week. The form included things like knobs missing for the faucets and thermostats (which are marked with electrical warnings), the water heater giving out after 15 mins, darkness of the outdoor entrance area, etc.\n\nWell the only thing they've come to \"fix\" was the water heater which is still not working properly and this was only after I had called them to complain one night that I had no hot water and needed to shower since I had just gotten out of the gym. We've contacted them at least 5 times over the phone since then (the actual maintenance office is located in NJ which is out of the state so we can't actually go there in person to ask for immediate maintenance). I've gone to the apartment office about this and both the office and maintenance keep saying that they are backed up and they will get to it.\n\nIt's been over 5 weeks since they've come to attempt to \"fix\" anything and I'm wondering if we would be legally correct in withholding rent until they come and fix these things? If not, what can we do to get some leverage in getting them to address these things?","title":"Am I within my rights to withhold rent for lack of apartment maintenance?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570323673,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddwctr\/roommates_opened_our_bedroom_door_is_this\/","id":"ddwctr","body":"TL;DR: My fiance and I are in the process of moving out of our rental that we have with another couple. I caught them on camera (from inside our room). Is this something we may be able to hold against them legally?\n\nLong Version:\n\nMy fiance and I are living with another couple in a rental house. We signed the one year lease in February, but we do not feel comfortable living there with them anymore. Long story short, they try to argue with us about every little thing and are extremely controlling over the household. Over the past month, we have packed up about 90% of our things and have moved them into our bedroom, and have been pretty much just going to and from our room when we leave for work, and we never use any other part of the house.\n\nWe are signing the lease to a new place for us on Monday, and over the past few days, have been staying with a friend. Because of fear they would go through our things while we were gone, we purchased and set up a camera in our room, that records the door, so that it can see who comes and goes, without seeing out of the door. \nWe are trying our best to get out of the lease, but our only options at this point are to find new roommates for them, or to make an agreement with them, vacate the property, and pay them some rent every month.\n\nToday I caught them opening the door to our room, I'm assuming to check and see if we were there, and then closing it. Is this enough to help us get out of the lease? Is there anything illegal about opening our door without permission?\nAlso, if we do come to an agreement to vacate and pay them some rent, what are things that could help us in an argument over how much we pay? They say if that happens, they expect our full portion of rent that we have been paying, while there is nothing in the lease, nor any written agreement between us, that states our portions of rent. Rent for the house is $1250, we have been paying $650, and they have been paying $600. \n\nAny help in this situation would be amazing. While we can manage to pay both rents, if we work a lot of overtime, it will be very hard financially to do this. \nAlso, the landlord is aware of the situation.","title":"Roommates opened our bedroom door, is this considered entering our room without permission? (MO, USA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555468309,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be2los\/ga_moved_out_now_landlord_wont_return_security\/","id":"be2los","body":"As the title says. We moved out, cleaned the whole house, and even went as far as to repaint any small nicks or stains on the wall. The carpet was not new when we moved in and as such is stained. We have no prior documentation that the carpet was not stained, and the owner said it was a year old when we moved in. Which is a lie, but again we have no proof. \n\nWhat do you think we could do to get our deposit back?","title":"[GA] Moved out now landlord won\u2019t return security deposit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504697927,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yf2x4\/de_sister_in_law_is_100_raising_her_sisters_kid\/","id":"6yf2x4","body":"It turned out way longer then I was expecting, here's a TL;DR of my questions since I am not sure what's relevant or not.\n\n----\n\n\nSince she is raising another persons child 24\/7 with guardianship for 3 years shouldn't the child support be coming to her?\n\n\nIs there any way to keep biomom from blackmailing my SIL about taking away my nephew?  \n\n\nIs there something she should apply for other then temporary guardianship after 3 years? \n\nShe worries if she files for adoption the notice will remind biodad he has a kid and he will somehow take custody. I told her a convicted child molester doesn't have a chance in hell but it would be nice to have that confirmed.\n\n\nWhen biomom has another baby in a few weeks, is there anything legally that can be done to break the cycle of her taking the states money while leaving Gmom\/SIL to pay\/do for everything for the kid?\n\n-----\n\n\nJust a bit of quick clarification this is about my brothers ex wife. She is far more of a sister then he is a brother, but it is a bit of a mouthful so I'll refer to her as SIL. Her sister is biomom. I consider both of biomoms sons(and another on the way) my nephews and refer to them as such.\n\n---\n\nBiomom has a 12 yo kid who lives full time with his dad now as biomom never fought for custody and should never have it anyways. Her mother and my SIL raised him until about 7 while biomom disappeared for months on end, leaving them to pay for everything and take care of everything. The one exception being coming home for photo ops to post on facebook. Around 7 the dad finally cared to get custody- which biomom didn't bother to show up to court for, so Gmom and SIL were powerless to keep him. Biomom than proceeded to regularly extort her mother and sister for money if they wanted her to go pick him up for visitation.\n\nMight not be relevant legally but I want you to understand this woman has never been a mother despite whats come out of her cooch. When my nephew was 8 I came over once to have him tell me biomom was kicked out of the house for stealing his xbox, ipad, nintendo ds(all bought by my SIL\/Gmom) and all games so she could buy drugs. She originally told him she was taking them away as a punishment.\n\n\nWell about 5 years ago she got knocked up again, new guy who disappeared before the baby was born. Once again, she left raising the kid mostly to her mom and sister while she went out and partied, occasionally coming back home for a week or two here and there and playing mom before finding a new BF and leaving again. \n\nMy nephew calls my SIL mommy and biomom something else.\n\nHe came out addicted to drugs he had to take baby methadone for for the first 6 months of his life. In addition due to all the shit she was taking while pregnant, he needed a whole bunch of physical therapy- she was too lazy to take him so once again my SIL stepped up and took him to physical therapy and did all the exercises with him that his biomom couldn't be bothered to do.\n\n\n\nWhen her second son was about a year old she was being kicked out of the house again for drugs and to go to rehab again, through a bit of cajoling and bribing biomoms mother and sister persuaded her to sign papers of temporary guardianship so my SIL could sign him up for day care and things.\n\n\nSo... SIL got temporary guardianship of her sisters son 3 years ago when he was 1 year old.(he's 4 now) Her sister was going back to rehab again. His bio dad met him once and had no interest in him, and has since been in jail for child molestation. \n\nAfter bio mom got out of rehab, she decided to go partying and never took him back. He lives with SIL, is taken to the hospital and she pays for his food\/clothes\/daycare and all other financial costs associated with him. He gets medicade because she can't put him on her plan, but she gets no further help for him and supports him and her 5yo daughter.(my brother pays some child support on his daughter)\n\n\nHe is being raised as a sibling to my niece and they see each other as brother and sister.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nNow I was talking on the phone with her earlier, and she was upset because her sister(biomom) was telling her about the 1500 she just got in child support from biodad. Talking about all the things she is going to buy with it, oh and she *might* give some to SIL for the kid as well.\n\nI found this odd and questioned further, and apparently this isn't the first time, there was also a lump of back child support of 2000 a bit ago as well that biomom claimed she lost the card for but turns out to have spent.\n\n\nI feel that that's not right, that since SIL is the one raising my nephew alongside my niece any support should be going to her.\n\n\nSIL is also afraid if she demands the money in anyway, SIL might use threats of taking my nephew away. Not that she would take care of him, but because she has always used her children as bargaining chips and a way to get others to take care of her. \n\n\nMy SIL would also like to formally adopt my nephew, so he can have the same last name as my niece. \n\n\nBiomom is scheduled to be induced on a third baby with no in the picture daddy, so maybe she won't fight it, but can anyone tell me if my SIL has a chance if she does?","title":"[DE] Sister in law is 100% raising her sisters kid, found out her sister(biomom) has been getting and keeping child support for the kid she isn't raising","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504569579,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y47e7\/child_support_question_uncontested_divorce_in_ga\/","id":"6y47e7","body":"Names changed.\n\nIn an uncontested divorce, Tom & Lisa make the same amount of income. Tom is in the military and Lisa owns her own business. They will share joint legal and physical custody of their one minor child. Tom will pay health insurance for the child. They have an amount agreed upon for child support (let's say 250\/ month) and the \"standard\" for lack of a better term for their income is 689. Can the courts change the amount of child support that has already been agreed upon during the divorce proceedings? ","title":"Child Support Question- Uncontested Divorce in GA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445836935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q8t50\/nyc_landlord_wont_allow_me_to_take_out_lease\/","id":"3q8t50","body":"I moved into an apartment in a not-so-great area of Park Slope this past June with my friend, who had been living there for a year at the time. This place originally seemed like a steal- one room went for $400\/mo, which is insanely cheap even in less developed areas of Park Slope(average rent for a one-room is $950). From June to September, I would give my friend half the rent and she would pay our landlord directly, so he and I never spoke. My friend moved out last month, so when he came to collect rent for this month I asked him about putting my name on the lease, and removing my friend from it. He tried to avoid my question at first, but after some pressing he revealed that my friend had *never* took out a lease, and neither had most of the other tenants in the building since only one tenant per floor officially has a lease- there are only 3 documented residents in the building, but about 15 people actually live there. He told me to keep quiet about this arrangement since it \"wasn't legal\" and left it at that. There are some other issues with the building- no fire alarms(the alarm in my room was ripped out before I moved in), shoddy locks, etc. I've heard some damning things about the landlord from other residents- he'll jack up rent on a moment's notice, he's physically threatened tenants, he'll jimmy the locks on their door open, etc.\n\nI don't like the shady business going on, but since it's the middle of the semester and finances are tight, I really have no other choice but to stay. My question is, am I violating any laws by staying in the building without a lease? Also, who do I contact about my landlord's activity?","title":"[NYC] Landlord won't allow me to take out lease, blatantly said housing agreement I'm in is illegal. Unsure of how to approach","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571430680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djte3t\/student_rights_and_such\/","id":"djte3t","body":"My school claims that we gave up out rights when we entered the premises. I go to a private school. Can they actually search me without a warrant? I know they can search if they think there is a weapon or controlled substance, but I have seen teachers smoking behind the school (I know that's illegal). \nAnd can they confiscate my phone and then keep it until I pay a $10 fine? If they take it, can I force them to sign a liability paper?\nI know they can take it, but I thought they had to give it back at the end of the day.\n\nAlso, I just turned 18. Someone told me that when you turn 18, contracts you sign as a minor become null and void. Is that true?\nI live in Kansas\nI know they already break other laws,such as monthly for drill and the 3 tornado drill requirements in K.S.A. 2007 Supp.  \u00a731- 133(a)(5), (8). \nThey also have times where they have decorations made or paper and a stuff all around the hallways, a huge fire hazard, which is surprising they still do, because last month someone had a seizure and needed an ambulance.\n\nAny advice?","title":"Student rights and such","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553104004,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3f0sw\/ontario_my_employer_changed_my_lunch_break_from\/","id":"b3f0sw","body":"I work in a retail store but because I'm in the back warehouse and constantly moving heavy objects, I am not a 'retail worker' but a labourer. When I first transferred departments the men all got one hour lunches so I was one of the first non manager females to get an hour lunch. I love it. I can shop,nap, and read during my lunch. I am aware I lose 30minutes of pay but the workout in the back kills my energy and I need a nap to vitalize myself for the last half of work.\n\nOther labourers choose either a 30minute or hour lunch. \n\nBut now all of a sudden when I break for lunch it tells me I have 30minutes instead of an hour. I cannot find anything online to assist me so I was hoping someone can help me.\n\nI've had this hour lunch for almost three years and now it's a problem?\n","title":"[ONTARIO] My employer changed my lunch break from an hour unpaid to 30 minites unpaid without informing me first. I am a labourer at my field of work and was offered one hour breaks when I first transfered.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1408725248,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eag1q\/scotland_uk_legal_forms_of_self_and_home_defense\/","id":"2eag1q","body":"Edit: closest flair i could find was criminal law.\n\nI've heard opposing opinions from different area's law enforcement and wanted to know if anyone can quote any written law on what is legal for self defense (outside of the home). I always have my house keys on me and have them for the purpose of obviously getting into my house, but if i was to get jumped I have always wondered if it's legal to use them in self defense, I've been told I myself could actually get charged with assault, even if it was in self defense. is this true?\n\nAlso for home defense, what is considered legal but still effective? I live in an area that has been having quite a few break ins. And since I'm in scotland we don't have any sort of castle doctrine over here (as far as I know.) \n\nUsually I wouldn't be as worried about self defense for myself but I've just recently got a new place with my partner, so we spend a lot of time together and I want to know my rights on how far I can go to ensure she is safe. \n\nOnce again, advice is greatly appreciated but I'd particularly love it to be sourced.","title":"[Scotland, UK] Legal forms of self and home defense?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554336012,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b95ne1\/how_to_get_out_of_a_lease_early_with_hostile\/","id":"b95ne1","body":" \n\nHello-\n\nLong time lurker, first time poster ever to reddit here.\n\nI'm in need of a bit of advice and have been mulling over posting this here but I fear I'm at my last straw on the whole matter and I'm desperate to get out before the months end. Im a 22yr Female, with two cats.\n\n***TL;DR*** *at the very bottom!*\n\nThe environment between me and my two roommates (now ex-friend and his boyfriend) has become quiet tense and hostile and its beginning to affect my health both mentally and physically. The stress is overwhelming for me and I just really want out.\n\nHowever every option I try to look at (Or even talked about) has been shot down in one way or another. I cannot up and leave as my name is on the lease, I cannot get someone to replace me as they dont like\/trust strangers and don't seem to want to let anyone else that isn't someone they know or a friend to replace me (I hardly know anyone here on top of that too even in their circle of people), I cannot buy my way out as I'm on disability with no other income.\n\nI've been told if I try to leave I will be pursued by the boyfriend despite my offering to continue to pay a debt I owe faster by my leaving even if it cuts what I have left in money to nothing (The debt in question happened three months in where my SSI got cut to 300 which caused a short panic and was fixed quickly but since then it seems like it keeps growing and I'm never catching up even after them fixing it I gave him an extra 150 to make up for the mistake)\n\nThe one that is now an ex-friend I have known since I was 14 or so, we had been long time best friends and I lived with them temporarily before 2 years prior before I went back to my home state (He helped me out of a bad situation in a different state with someone else). I assumed everything would be fine coming back as a permanent fixture and I'd be doing him a solid back helping him out of the shit place they were stuck at (Last apartment they were in that I helped them move into before I returned, as they moved to Atlanta for his boyfriends studies, I stayed with them at both places) and I'd be getting that fresh start I needed with the added bonus of me not being able to live alone and afford a place on my own. I was very wrong.\n\nEverything went from calm and chill like before to very stressful and what I can only call drama filled after moving into here. Lots of things happened and to be truthful me and his boyfriend get along great it's him that has caused most of these issues and I'm quite frankly done at this point. He's started fights between me, his boyfriend and himself doing the \"he says she says\" crap dance during the worst time of year for me (I.e. December), he's bothered my ill mother trying to get her involved (She has cancer and isn't in the best health overall) and \"set me straight\", sent me messages that are hostile and manipulative making me question myself then insisted that i'm being manipulative and causing issues in his relationship.\n\nHe's blamed me for a car he cannot afford despite three people (Myself, his boyfriend and mine) telling him its a bad idea to buy it because he clearly can't afford the payments for it (Which he put his father's credit in risk for also), Telling me I'm neglecting my cats by not being here (I'd spend a week or two with my boyfriend at his place as its become very stressful being here and I can't easily bring them with me as I have to uber to a train station then take it all the way to the second to last stop then hop a bus and then walk the rest of the to get to his place which as you know will stress a cat out easily) but I'd always ask\/let him know if he could make sure they have water and food and clean litter and he was fine with it before, He's trying to blame his relationship problems on me which are in no way my fault (Doesn't listen to his boyfriend or talk to him like an adult, is slobby, leaves shit on all the time, have to nag him to do basic shit he agreed to), If he doesn't get his way in an argument will threaten to kill himself or say \"Oh well might as well kill myself\" but then proceeds to blame me for doing that very same thing which I have never done (I do have depression but I have never threatened my life over something so little and I won't lie saying I've never wanted to end it but that is beside the point here), He's tried denying my boyfriend coming over (Both before I signed the lease to the new place and after I did a few months in) on the grounds his boyfriend \"didn't like him\" and \"said he cant come over\" despite me talking to him about it and denying he said that, at one point they wanted me to sign some agreement they made as this ex-friend\u2019s counselor said it was \u201ca good idea\u201d and lot of what was on there felt more like demands and was very restrictive which of course I informed my boyfriend and he rushed over to help set things straight (He\u2019s been my saving grace through most of this) but of course one of the major changes my boyfriend had suggested during this is that ex-friend pitch in rent-wise as me and his boyfriend paid half on rent and utilities and it wasn't exactly fair as he didn't contribute too much at that point (aside from buying their food only, bringing his boyfriend to school and the very occasional rides and cat related stuff as I've been struggling to even afford that at the time and wasn't told it was a problem till later).\n\nI have cleaned after him and at one point he was paying me to do so as I needed the money but then got uppity at me about never wanting to clean anything without being paid (They weren't my messes and I only cleaned the cat boxes at the time when my cats were allowed to roam the apartment freely), My cats are forced to stay in my side of the apartment now as one seems to go back and forth with one of theirs which understandable and was okay as he is skittish and likes to hide and is fine being in one room however eventually my second one had to be also strictly kept in here as he was clawing at the bed (They left their bedroom door open despite it being a quick stopper) and I get that but he HATES being kept in one room as I previously had to live like that with him for a YEAR so it's been hell for him, He busted my door to my hallway open (My side is kinda like a small apartment having his own doored in hallway) when I locked it with my new door knob (This was before the cats were \"grounded\" in my room) because I didn't want him letting himself in anymore (Was during decembers lovely events) and then proceeded to tell me i'm paying for it and how dare I put a doorknob on the door without giving him a key (Boyfriend both fixed the door frame and had extra key) and blamed doing so on the furnace, which they never use, being off (Apparently gas was off which is odd as his boyfriend is VERY good about paying bills on time) and it being in my hallway along with the fuse box gave him the right to break my door down I guess (thankfully dropped the \"you made me do this now your paying\" part).\n\nHe has a habit of making a mess of the kitchen in general and I + his boyfriend have cleaned and organized it so much to the point we're both fed up and just ignore it to the best of our abilities,  he\u2019d also get me to get places I needed to be as we live in a very middle of nowhere like area and I can't get anywhere without a car (can't drive and don't know how to) but then started to complain which made me ask even more rarely and only if he was heading out which of course was short lived and if it weren't for the fact there was a store nearby I could walk to I would be majorly fucked right now in terms of access to anything, Before I even moved down here though he promised my mother he would help me find  and get to doctors I needed and even change my ID over to here which he never did and the only thing he had done was make sure my disability checks were for here and through a recent hostile text proceeded to blame me for not being able to handle my responsibilities despite promising to help me to my mother (Something I wasn't even made aware of until she told me at a later date after these problems started).\n\nI'm sorry if this is super long and I've probably missed a few things but I've condensed this as much as I humanly can at this moment.\n\n**TL;DR** Moved in with best friend, best friend turned into worst nightmare, and I'm stuck in a lease with him. How do I get out?","title":"How to get out of a lease early with hostile housing situation?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540265649,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ql6bv\/a_sticky_restaurant_situation\/","id":"9ql6bv","body":"Hello All,\n\nLong time lurker, first time poster.\n\nHere's a situation my friend is going through now. It's kind of complex so I'm not sure how many people will actually know what the options are\n\n  \nSituation:\n\nA few years back, my friend and his partner signed a X year commercial lease and started renovations on what would be a restaurant. They were the money men, they acquired somebody with restaurant experience to manage and handle the day to day operations of the restaurant.\n\nThe liquor license was acquired by the principle investor, thus, his name is the principle on the license; however, the corporation who the license is addressed to. \n\nA few years after opening, the investors discovered that there was a large amount of sales tax overdue from day to day restaurant sales. The current manager was fired and replaced with two aspiring new managers.   The deal was that these would keep full revenue; however, they need to continue making payments in accordance with the payment plan on the overdue sales tax liabilities. \n\nAn important note to keep in mind, the lease is under the investors corporation, not the management. There is a clear deviation between management and the investors corporation. \n\nThere was no signed agreement.  Yes, I know this was a huge mistake.\n\nHere's a situation my friend is going through now. It's kind of complex so I'm not sure how many people will actually know what the options are. \n\nHere we are 18 months into cooperation with the new management. Now management takes the liquor license home with them at night and claims the investors have no connection to the business anymore. Forget the fact that the liquor license belongs to the original investors, the lease was signed by the original investors as well. Management is operating under a different name than stated on the liquor license; however, they must think that their continued payments toward the tax liability have somehow led to a transfer of business ownership?\n\nI guess technically the investors can just go in there and shut the operations down; however, the current management has served both investors with orders not to contact or come to the property. \n\n​\n\nI know this is very confusing, and may not make much sense; however, I can use any advice whatsoever if you can make any sense of this. \n\nFor practical purposes, assume all occurs under NYS law and reg. ","title":"A Sticky Restaurant Situation","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569779471,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dayjn0\/how_to_get_money_out_of_trust_for_mortgage\/","id":"dayjn0","body":"My grandfather set up a trust and named 3 out of 4 of his children each as trustees and 25% beneficiaries. 5 of his grandchildren, including me, were named as 5% beneficiaries. The trust served as a life estate for my step-grandmother that passed away last year, and beneficiaries were not allowed to take distributions before she passed away.\n\nI have not yet reached age to receive the principal or income from the trust, but the trust allows the trustees the discretion to disburse money for a home or business before turning of age.\n\nAlthough the trustees are within their rights to deny me funding for a home, the trustees have previously given themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans that have yet to be paid back. This occured when my step-grandmother was still alive.\n\nI have serious concerns about the management of the trust, and honestly would not be surprised if I receive nothing by time I am entitled to the money. We have had an ongoing lawsuit started by my late father concerning these issues, but it seems like we haven't gotten anywhere since it started 5 years ago.\n\nThe trustees will neither say yes or no to my request for funding, I feel like they are just giving me the run-around.\n\nIf anyone has advice, it would be greatly appreciated.","title":"How to get Money out of Trust for Mortgage","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505152439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zh1sb\/friend_with_back_injury_told_not_to_lift_more\/","id":"6zh1sb","body":"Location: US \/ Massachusetts\n\nMy friend has a back injury (obtained while not working). She just saw a doctor and was told she could return to work tomorrow and only do \"Light\" lifting, defined as under 10 lbs. She routinely needs to lift and restrain household pets, many times exceeding 50 lbs. She's working at an office where she has currently given two weeks notice.\n\nI am telling her to show up tomorrow and refuse to lift anything over 10 lbs. With her condition and doctor's note, I feel like she has the reason and backing to refuse this. However, the doctor (and owner) of the office is .. not kind. He barely acknowledges her existence, he's inconsiderate .. I'll avoid all the bad words I could be using but you get the picture. Tomorrow, she will show up and be the only assistance the owner has. He will expect her to be able to lift heavy things. And I think she will try it.\n\nI don't want her to injure herself further and I don't think she should have to. If it means the owner has to lift the animals himself, so be it. I think she should flat out refuse.\n\nBut given that she has given her two weeks notice, I think the owner might be inclined to turn around and say \"Ok, you can't perform your job duties, you can just leave\". I feel like he can't tell her to do that, not because of an injury anyway.\n\nAny thoughts on this?\n\nEdit: Put \"Employment Law\" as the flair .. figured it was more to the point than \"Personal Injury\" even though it really is both.","title":"Friend with back injury told not to lift more than 10 lbs (with Dr's Note). Can she be fired for refusing to lift more than 10 lbs on the job?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569139673,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7nkkn\/fltraffic_laws_when_turning_left_at_an\/","id":"d7nkkn","body":"When my father was teaching me how to drive, he said that you should never enter an intersection unless you can (reasonably assume that you can) fully clear it. I've adopted this, but I frequently see people doing what my dad called, \"Blocking the box,\" i.e. entering the intersection at a green light, and waiting for a chance to proceed, usually when the light turns red and oncoming traffic stops.\n\nI've always thought that this was just a bad habit of poor drivers (like running Stop signs and not signaling) but now I'm curious if it's actually a rule or a law. I checked the Florida driver's handbook and it didn't mention anything about this specifically, but I saw a couple of Youtube videos that show you the \"proper\" way to turn left (blocking the box).\n\nIt kinda seems like common sense to me, as you wouldn't go straight if traffic was backed up even if you have the green light, since you'd end up stopped in the intersection when it goes red.\n\nI frequently see incidents that are almost accidents from someone properly crossing straight on an amber light, with the left-turner deciding to go anyway because now their light is red and they want to get out of the intersection as soon as possible.\n\nThis is, of course, regarding intersections without a protected left turn arrow.","title":"(FL)(Traffic Laws) When turning left at an intersection, are you permitted to enter the intersection without being able to fully clear it before the light turns red?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552582967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b12tcz\/can_an_employer_take_breaks_out_of_your_paycheck\/","id":"b12tcz","body":"I work regular 8hr and 12hr shifts. On my 8hr shifts, there's a 30minute break deducted even though I don't get to take that break. On my 12hr shifts, it's an hour break taken out. I know that employers can legally take the break time out of your paycheck, but I don't get why that's legal when I can't actually take that break. \n\nI work in assisted living and there's only 2 people that work the 2nd shift. We have 40+ people to take care of and two people can hardly handle that, much less just one for 30minutes. \n\nSince I'm working through that time period, I'd prefer to get the money if that's possible. \n\nAlso, I repeatedly work over 80 hours, even with the breaks taken out, every 2 weeks and I have yet to see overtime on my paychecks. If I have any, what are my options? ","title":"Can an employer take breaks out of your paycheck?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570218183,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddcdfr\/gfs_father_makes_sexist_comments_wont_allow_gf\/","id":"ddcdfr","body":"(Sorry for the formatting I\u2019m in mobile) \n\nThe location is Ohio so go off on that. \n\nSo my Girlfriend\u2019s Father and Mother May be getting a divorce. The father is physically abusive and sometimes will hit his children, he is also an alcoholic under the definition the website called USLegal.com. The most recent case of him trying of being physically abusive is him trying to hit the son with my GF defending the Brother with it ending with a brawl between my GF and the Father. Another case of this is the father, while under the influence of alcohol, threw something (I do not know the specific object) at my GF and bruised her ribs causing her pain for almost 4 days afterwards. He has been arrested before for other things besides this and has been classified by the state as psychiatrically unstable.\n\nHe also will stop the mother and my GF from going to a Catholic Church and not allow them to express their religious values. He will also make sure the GF and mother are treated without any rights and consider women inferior to men. \n\nIf there is anything you can tell me to help them, please I\u2019m just trying to help my GF out of this terrible situation. She deserves better than this.","title":"GF\u2019s Father makes sexist comments, won\u2019t allow GF and mother to go to their Church (Catholic), and is Physically abusive. What are the legal repercussions of all this?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503582519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vqyjw\/my_mother_was_ticketed_for_illegally_parking_but\/","id":"6vqyjw","body":"This is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. \n\nWhere we live you have to pay for a monthly permit to park on the streets. My mother has already done this, yet this morning we found out that she's recieved a ticket for parking where she did.\nIt isn't because of the spot where she's parking as that's where she's been parking for the past month. \n\nI heard that things like this are common because the person who tickets has to meet a quota, so they ticket random people to meet the quota by the end of the month, and sure enough, every other car had a ticket. \n\nCan my mom do anything to fight this?\n\nEdit: I've told my mom all of these things and she plans on calling them up and working things out. Thanks to everyone who provided help.","title":"My mother was ticketed for illegally parking, but the problem is that she was parking legally.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553719563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b69ibb\/losing_disabled_parking_spot_we_got_for_our_mum\/","id":"b69ibb","body":"We got a disabled parking spot for my mother when she was going through treatment for lung cancer. The spot is for my dad as my mum didn\u2019t drive. She passed 4 months ago and my dad kept using the spot. Today someone came to our door and said they can no longer park there as they are not disabled. They are coming in one month burn off the ground markings so anyone can park there. I understand that we are not disabled and therefore do not need the spot, however parking in our area is terrible and I think my dad is still struggling with what\u2019s happened to worry about parking. Do I have any chance of keeping the disabled spot or at least delaying the removal of it?\nPs I live in Scotland. ","title":"Losing disabled parking spot we got for our mum who passed 4 months ago.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570281923,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddn82r\/unfair_court_ruling_mi\/","id":"ddn82r","body":"First for some bantery context;  \nI was extremely poor at the time of the incident, and could not afford insurance for my vehicle, and had gotten ticketed for it. Due to my inability to afford anything besides gas and food, the ticket eventually went into warrant status. When I got pulled over because of a plate-running, I was placed in the county jail for a night (due to a warrant meaning your license is suspended), until my girlfriend was able to get ahold of a bondsman.  \n\nWhen I went before the judge, she sentenced me to an extremely intense probation, with randomized testing, despite the fact I've never had a drug or alcohol problem. This has only worsened my situation, as every bit of it that I miss due to having to take Lyft everywhere and my funds draining more and more, brings me closer to the 90 days she threatened me with.  \n\nI wish to either appeal this ruling or file a complaint for misconduct, but I'm not sure which would be correct, or how to even begin the process. Google has offered little to no help.  \nAny tips and assistance would be more valuable than you can imagine.","title":"Unfair Court Ruling (MI)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551942468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay9tz7\/nh_employer_reduced_pay_without_notice\/","id":"ay9tz7","body":"A little over a year ago my boss approached me and explained that there is a mistake in my pay. I work for a manufacturing plant and to my knowledge I am the only employee that he approached. He stated that for 2 full years there has been a mistake in my pay and I have been making 50 cents more than I should have. He said he won't make me pay it back, but they are immediately going to reduce my pay. He then handed me a paper check (up until then I had been getting direct deposit) and the check from the prior weeks' hours were on there with my new reduced pay rate. They said it was a mistake on HR's part and I should've never been given the extra 50 cents. \nDoes anyone know if this is legal? My pay wasn't docked for performance or major mistakes or even because the company was going under... it was just merely a mistake on their behalf. I also found out that the first shift supervisor (I am a third shift supervisor) is making 10 cents more than me.. and she was hired 2 years after me AND there is supposed to be a 50 cent shift differential according to the handbook. It appears to me like there are 2 legalities here, the reduction in pay without notice and promised shift differential that hasn't been awarded. Am I correct? ","title":"NH Employer reduced pay without notice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568421216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3y7hl\/washington_state_is_it_legal_for_a_job\/","id":"d3y7hl","body":"I was at a job interview today and the interviewer began asking me questions that had no relevance to the position I was applying for such as my socioeconomic status growing up and if my parents had completed college. I\u2019m just wondering if a line of questioning like that is even legal? It struck me as incredibly odd and unprofessional overall.","title":"[Washington State] Is it legal for a job interviewer to ask parent\u2019s education level?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445885460,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qbcbv\/becoming_guardian_of_my_nephew_mo\/","id":"3qbcbv","body":"Throwaway\n\nMy nephew is 3 years old. I am a 22 (almost 23) year old male who will be graduating with a degree in elementary education in April and will (hopefully) have a job in my field at that time.\n\nAt the moment, my parents are my nephew's legal guardians. My dad is sick with Parkinson's and my mom says that they don't have enough energy to keep up with him and that she can't take care of both of them.\n\nHis parents - My sister had him when she was 18. She is bipolar and is regularly off of her meds. She goes to court on the 30th for drug charges and neither my parents, nor anybody in my family knows what she does for a job (she used to be a stripper, we think it may be along the same lines, or she has a sugar daddy, one of the two). She has been in a mental institution multiple times, and has attempted suicide a couple of times as well. His dad is \"in a band\", in the past he did drugs (may possible still be doing drugs). However, now he is apparently getting his pre-reqs for Athletic Training (doubt he could pass a drug test for a job) and has a job. His dad and I do not get along at all.\n\nMy parents have had guardianship of him since he was 9 months old I believe.\n\nI live roughly 4-5 hours north of my parents while I'm attending college. My mom doesn't believe that his dad (nor do I believe his mom) would sign off on guardianship papers for me to become his guardian.\n\nWhat does the process look like? How can I go about the process and have a greater chance of becoming the guardian of my nephew? Would they both need to sign off for me to become guardian or since they signed off for my parents, would only they need to sign off? What are the chances that I become guardian?\n\nMy parents and I believe that the best place for him would be with me, but my sister and his dad would most likely object to him living so far away. So I'm foreseeing them throwing every roadblock possible in my way.\n\n\nTL;DR: Attempting to become guardian of my nephew. His parents probably won't stand for it. How can I go about this process?\n\n\n**EDIT** Not sure which flair to add. So I just went with custody.","title":"Becoming guardian of my nephew (MO)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570419134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dee08d\/hedge_fund\/","id":"dee08d","body":"Sooo.. this kind of unusual from what I have seen around. But everyone around here seems so nice, so might as well give it a try!\n\nSo I am thinking about starting a hedge fund or an investment fund, but wondering what are the requirements \/ degrees of education needed. \n\nLike what forms do I need... etc. If anyone could give their advice on essentially what would be needed to start up would be great!!\n\n-Thanks!","title":"Hedge Fund","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551672229,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax2p6s\/our_landlord_doesnt_want_to_renew_a_lease_with\/","id":"ax2p6s","body":"Hi everyone!\n\nMy boyfriend and I (21F + 21M) are currently living in a 2B2B house with a guy (35M) who has been pretty terrible. He has harassed me (sexually and verbally) multiple times and has made us feel very unsafe. \n\nWe have been communicative with our Landlord about this, who has been really sympathetic and worried for us. Roommate had told landlord that he is graduating and leaving in June (his lease doesn\u2019t end until August 14th). We have found a friend to take over the room next year and they will be signing the lease in May.\n\nHowever, roommate has stopped going to class and is getting set back for graduation. Landlord is very worried that he won\u2019t want to leave the house due to this, and the landlord doesn\u2019t know if he can just make him leave. I was researching this and learned the landlord can choose not to renew the lease for any reason they choose to disclose or not disclose, as long as they give 60 days written notice (since roommate has lived here more than 2 years).\n\nIs there anything we should be worried about? What should be our course if he decides not to leave? Does the new lease for our new roommate override the current roommates stay in the house?","title":"Our landlord doesn\u2019t want to renew a lease with our Housemate. Landlord is worried about the process going awry. (State is California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554672998,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/balg8r\/update_what_type_of_lawyer_should_i_contact_to\/","id":"balg8r","body":"I posted about my issue [HERE](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba7155\/our_apartment_flooded_because_maintenance_failed\/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) , and it looks like I may have to go the route of contacting a lawyer. I am not trying to ask for a specific lawyer as a recommendation or anything else that would break the rules, I just would like some help in figuring out what kind of lawyer to contact. From what I have seen, it looks like I need a Landlord Tenant Lawyer, but I am not sure specifically. I'll copy and paste the situation below so that you all know what I'm talking about:\n\n​\n\n\"We live in an apartment in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Last week, our washing machine had a rather large leak and we contacted maintenance to fix it. Someone came by and said they fixed it but left us with the task of cleaning up the huge spill which took over three hours. Last night we came home from an art class and nearly the entire apartment was flooded. Not just a little leak either, but 90% of all carpeting was soaked to the point of being able to splash in it. Wooden furniture has been sitting in soaking wet carpeting and it has already ruined parts of our bed frame, dressers, and storage containers. The bottom moulding along the tile kitchen floor became extremely warped and started to crumble. We discovered this around 8 pm last night (a Friday night) and they sent one maintenance man with a shop vac and two fans to try to clean it up. It got up a lot of the standing water, but the carpeting is still so soaked that it splashes when you walk across it. They left and said \"sorry, the carpet cleaners can't come until Monday. You'll need to talk to us then.\".\n\n​\n\nThe next day, they called me and said that a carpeting company was coming that morning to fix it. Instead of replacing the carpeting, they used a slightly better machine to suck up water through the carpet (a carpet cleaner used typically for dirty carpet) and they added 11 commercial sized fans and two professional dehumidifiers. Aside from our things and furniture being piled up on the only dry parts of the carpet and the tile, the apartment is unlivable even without the fans and dehumidifiers. The machines are so loud that it is breaking 100 decibels of sound (85 is enough to damage hearing, and we already had to sleep with the initial two fans last night). They are not replacing the carpeting or any of my furniture that was damaged. They are also not replacing the washing machine or carpeting and just \"fixed it\" again. We just want somewhere to stay in the meantime, if nothing else, or to transfer to a different unit.\n\n​\n\nWhen we went to the apartment office they essentially tried to make it sound like it was our fault and asked if we overloaded the washer (it was barely 1\/4 full of clothing). This was also the first time we had used the washing machine since the first leak that they \"repaired\". They said that they couldn't get anyone to help us move any furniture around and tried to back out of responsibility as much as possible. The carpet cleaning company also instructed us to turn the heat up to 90 degrees Fahrenheit and said it should take 3-4 days to fully dry with the heat turned up, fans, and dehumidifiers. This apartment is entirely unlivable and the apartment complex has done next to nothing to help us fix this issue. We have nowhere to sleep for the next few nights and our property is damaged due to their negligence in fixing the washing machine when we reported the initial problem.\n\n​\n\nWe have seen the apartment office manager berating her employees and other tenants in the past (we have lived here over 3 years) and she seems very difficult to work with. We do not have renters insurance (I know, big mistake) but luckily not a ton of our stuff was damaged, and that is not our concern. Any advice on what to do from here in order to get to a livable situation would be greatly appreciated. All we want is a safe place to stay and for this problem to get resolved. I know Arkansas has some of the worst laws for renters, so I'm rather worried about the outcome. We are also worried about how crazy the electricity bill will be and would like to be reimbursed for that, not to mention how we are having to pay full rent for a month that we couldn't use our apartment.\n\n​\n\nHere are some photos and videos of all the damage and the current setup (sorry about the rushed video, IMGUR has a 30 second limit): [https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/1dRqQYV](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/1dRqQYV)\n\n​\n\nUPDATE: I went to go speak with the apartment manager and she told me she had no power to give us a hotel room for the next few days. She also said that we would be responsible for the full rent and the electricity bill even though the apartment is unlivable for about a full week this month. She got angry with me because earlier today I told her employee that I wasn't excited to speak with her because we witnessed her berating an employee and cussing about a year and a half ago while we were in the office renewing our lease. We believe that the situation was over double charging someone for a deposit, but my girlfriend and I remember it clearly. I told her that I was documenting everything just in case legal action was necessary and she flipped out and said that if we contacted a lawyer she couldn't talk to us anymore (I get that but come on, I never said I contacted a lawyer). I tried to explain to her how the apartment is too loud that it's damaging our hearing and all of the other horrible conditions and she essentially just said sorry we can't do anything. This is insane.\"","title":"UPDATE: What type of lawyer should I contact to pursue this matter?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442964645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m00e8\/ca_how_can_i_evict_this_terrible_person\/","id":"3m00e8","body":"So about two years ago I left college to come back home due to several reasons that I won\u2019t get into here, and my family wasn\u2019t too thrilled. My mom and dad drove up to bring me and my things back from eight hours away, but said that I couldn\u2019t live with them because I\u2019m an adult and should learn to live on my own. My grandma and grandpa meanwhile, owned a house that they hadn\u2019t lived in ever since they moved a few years prior and offered to let me stay there. I didn\u2019t like the idea at first, but then it stared growing on me. They place was run down but was otherwise pretty nice. I have a younger brother who still lived with my parents but had just graduated high school and was 18. They were ready to get rid of him too because \u201cYou\u2019re all adults, you need to get a job and be self sufficient\u201d, so they had him move in over here with me. No rental agreements were ever signed and no rent is being paid. Fast forward a few months and my brother tries to get this girl to move in with him. She and him were friends in high school, but he had a crush on her and she wasn\u2019t the least bit interested in him, but her parents kicked her out because she was using drugs and sleeping around with many guys, so she was kissing up to my brother to try and get my grandparents to either let her stay with him, or kick me out and let the two of them stay there together by themselves. They said no several times, but he was having her hide out in his room and kept saying \u201cShe\u2019ll be out within the week\u201d for two months before my grandpa, who was always so calm and never got into conflicts, told her that she needed to get out. She turned into a total bitch and was screaming at him. He was dying of cancer at this time, and she was aware of that because she had said before that she wanted to try and get friendly with my grandma so that once my grandpa was dead she could try and convince my grandma to let her stay there. I called her a cunt for what she did and she told her in and out of prison dad who tried to fight me in a church parking lot, but that\u2019s a story for another time. Eventually my brother had a key made for her, but she moved out not long after. She didn\u2019t ever give the key back so we needed to change the locks. When we did, my grandma (Who now after my grandpa\u2019s passing is the sole owner of the property) said that she didn\u2019t want my brother to have a key because he had handed out copies before, so now only me and her have keys. Since we couldn\u2019t deny him entry, she said that we would let him in whenever he wanted, he just had to call us and we would grant him entry. Of course, he never does this and instead sneaks around to the back of the house and picks the lock instead. My brother and grandma are not on good terms at all, with my brother and mom taking up for each other (Because my mom doesn\u2019t want him kicked out because he\u2019ll be back over with her) and my grandma and me are seen as the aggressors and it\u2019s caused a divide between the two \u201csides\u201d. This post isn\u2019t about that though, as all of us are fine with not speaking to the other side and don\u2019t mind it. The only problem is that my grandma doesn\u2019t want my brother still in the house. He\u2019s possibly doing drugs and smoking (Both pot and regular cigarettes, as well as burning incenses and oils) inside the house and the place is always filled with a nauseating smoke. A few times when he wasn\u2019t at the house, I\u2019d gone into the room (because he had left several large boxes of stuff my parents had moved out of their house in the living room and I was moving it into his room) and the floor was just completely covered in garbage, most of it partially empty food containers. Both times I did that, I took pictures documenting the state of the room and showed my grandma. She made him clean it up, and he did, but then would let it get back to just as messy as it was before. There are a lot of other smaller things that he does, like taking the little beeping alarm that I had attached to the door off because his ex-fiance didn\u2019t like it and generally being an asshole towards me and my grandma, trying to fight me several times because I told my grandma about his room, damaging things around the house to try and piss me and my grandma off because he was mad at us (Including hammering a screwdriver into my bedroom doors lock, causing the door to stick in the locked position and forcing me to break the door facing to get into the room, which was a costly repair that he didn\u2019t pay for) and then what he did two nights ago. I was out in the shed at about two in the morning because I couldn\u2019t sleep and was working on a new lock for the back gate (someone had stolen my lawn mower, it\u2019s assumed that it could be my brother as there were several, more valuable items right by it that were left untouched, but I had two lawn mowers and possibly he thought I wouldn\u2019t have been as likely to miss it or report it as stolen) when I heard a noise outside. I tried to open the door and it was promptly pushed back in my face. My brother hadn\u2019t been at the house for about two weeks (He\u2019s often not over here anymore) so I thought it was a burglar. I heard the person outside close the clasp and put the lock through it, but the only key for the shed was in my pocket. I heard the person walk away, so I called my mom and she confirmed that my brother was mad at her and so he was staying with me that night. She called him and told him to let me out. \u201cSo he\u2019s stuck in there, that\u2019s not my problem\u201d I could hear him tell my mom as I listened to their conversation through the door. She must have warned him that it was false imprisonment and he could be in trouble because I heard him say, \u201cSo you\u2019re telling me that because I locked somebody in a small area it\u2019s illegal and I can be arrested and locked in a small area? That makes zero sense.\u201d  and then \u201cLocking him in the shed is better than me beating him up though\u201d Finally after about ten minutes of him being a smart ass, I heard him pick open the lock and remove it. I walked out without realizing I was still holding the crow bar in my hand still, and was met by my brother right in my face \u201cWhat\u2019s that for? What are you going to do with that?\u201d And then a bunch of crap about \u201cWhy don\u2019t you go cry to your nana again, or did you try and she realized she\u2019s powerless against me? I\u2019m not even supposed to be in here, and yet here I am while your stuck out in the shed\u201d And he went back inside the house with a friend that he had over. About five minutes later my mom called me and said that it was my fault because he said I had tried to get into his room (I hadn\u2019t, the other two times I was in there were at least six months ago and I hadn\u2019t tried since). He ended up destroying his door lock trying to keep me out of it, and so the next morning when he left, I went into his room and saw that the floor was covered with garbage and dirty dishes and rotting food. most of the rotting food was covered in bugs that looked like fleas. There were also a ton of alcohol bottles, (He\u2019s not 21 yet, but I am). I took pictures documenting everything. The locking me in the shed was the last straw and now my grandma wants to evict my brother, but she can\u2019t spend a lot of money on a lawyer and is too elderly for a long court battle. There was never a rental agreement or any rent ever paid, it could be argued that he\u2019s damaging property with all the smoke and rotting food\/ bugs, plus his hostile treatment towards me and unpredictable nature, and he has given out copies of the key. So my question is, how can we have him evicted that won\u2019t cost much and won\u2019t require much, if any, trips to court?\n\nTL;DR: My brother is a terrible person and now my grandma wants to evict him after a million second chances, but she can't spend too much and doesn't want to make many, if any trips to court. ","title":"(CA) How Can I Evict This Terrible Person?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541204219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tpnhr\/if_my_mom_smokes_pot_and_i_go_to_the_er_about\/","id":"9tpnhr","body":"I don't know if my mom has a green card or medical card for sure, but she did mention it one time. I don't show signs of abuse so there wouldn't be any reason to start an investigation, but I just wanna be sure befor going forward. If you have been updated with my posts, I'm going to the ER tomorrow *unless* my mother smoking pot will essentially take her away.","title":"If my mom smokes pot and I go to the ER about suicide, will CPS take me away?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540310397,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qqbnh\/being_sued_after_two_years_from_an_accident_no\/","id":"9qqbnh","body":"As the title says, I'm being sued for an accident that happened back in 2016. I was at partial fault in the accident and to my recollection everything was taken care of with insurance. I learned today from my insurance company that I'm being sued. I haven't been officially served yet and that's probably because I moved recently so they might still be trying to track us down. Anyways, I'm young adult who just finished college and have a good amount of student loan debt. Needless to say that I'm scared and I don't know what to do. Any advice would be helpful because I don't even know where to start. Thanks.","title":"Being sued after two years from an accident. No idea what to do and scared.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551968457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayd3m9\/legal_online_girl_turns_out_to_be_catfish_using\/","id":"ayd3m9","body":"Just as the title says. I (20) initiated contact with a girl who claimed to be 18 and then 19 through the period of a week, while I thought this was odd I assumed she just had a birthday. \nTo make herself believable she used a picture of a girl holding a piece of paper and a name. I found out later this was photoshopped.\n\nAfter I initiated contact we exchanged social media to where I saw the same pictures of that girl confirming it was her. I flirt with her, again assuming she is 19. She sends me explicit videos and asks for some in return, I foolishly oblige. But later on she sends me a picture that seem off, an underwear picture having a birthday balloon in the background with \u201c16\u201d on it. I ask her why the balloon has 16 on it and she just says it\u2019s an old picture. Obviously I know this is wrong and discontinue sharing pictures at this point.\n\nThis is where it gets weirder she asks to meet me and I pretend to consider the proposal but make an excuse, feeling very suspicious. At this point I\u2019m assuming she wants to know my address for some sort of scam, kidnap, murder, or even arrest me. This is where I discontinue the chat deleting all my explicit messages.\n\nA day later I still feel very suspicious so I ask her to delete all her messages in the chat log and she cooperates. I go to look at her Instagram to find that it\u2019s filled with completely new pictures of another girl that she\u2019s claiming to be? This entire situation was very weird and I only intended to communicate with somebody who\u2019s 19 and am unsure who I actually communicated with. \n\nDid anything illegal happen here? As far as I know the only underage picture that was sent was the one in underwear?","title":"Legal Online Girl Turns Out To Be Catfish Using Potentially Illegal Pics","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570470308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/demwo1\/what_claim_might_my_fiance_have_to_back_paid\/","id":"demwo1","body":"We live in NY, he lives in NJ. The forms were filled out prior to the divorce and listed her bank account as he didn't have one, because no income. A sizeable sum was deposited by Social Security in his name (his name is not on the account), presumably for back paid disability. She moved the money into another account to hold. She has 3 children from him and only has ever received the bare minimum ($50) a month from him in child support. She also was the sole provider for him for all of 5 years of marriage. Do we have a claim to the sum? Procedurally, how should one proceed?","title":"What claim might my fiance have to back paid social security disability for her ex mistakenly deposited into her bank account?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554928743,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbr284\/found_out_i_was_listed_as_an_heir_on_a_small\/","id":"bbr284","body":"I am looking for some help on looking into this. The County Clerk mentioned I am listed as an Heir on a Small Estate Affidavit from a family member. They said I had to call the lawyer who handled the case, but since it was filed back in 2012 and another update in 2014, I am not having success contacting them. \n\nQuestion(s)  : Do I have to go through that same lawyer? Can I use any lawyer for this, or do I need a lawyer? Is there a way to find out if money is owed to me, etc ?","title":"Found out I was listed as an heir on a Small Estate Affidavit","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554779583,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb2yz1\/doctors_notes_and_unexcused_absences_from_work\/","id":"bb2yz1","body":"CA, Sacramento County\n\nHello all, first ever post to this thread.\n\nSo I fell ill overnight and went into work anyway. While I was there I got progressively worse. I ended up taking 800 mg ibuprofen because I felt like I had a fever as well as lightheadedness and symptoms of food poisoning (won't go into detail but I'm sure you all know what I mean). I ended up leaving after lunch.\n\nI go directly to an urgent care facility ( I do not have an established GP) and paid $115 to be seen and told that I should stay home because I have a viral infection.\n\nI immediately texted my director (I am a teacher at a private preschool) a photo of the doctors note, along with an explanation (which I believe was more than I ever needed to share with the director) and stating I will not be in tomorrow.\n\nShe kept asking me what my symptoms are and I refused to go into detail because I have the right to keep such personal details to myself. She comes back with a text stating that even though I have a doctor's note, it will still be counted as an unexcused absence.\n\nOf course I did not argue with my director over text but what is the legality of her decision? Are doctors notes able to hold up? I'm not looking to sue but I am very upset that she is deciding on my absence from work tomorrow is unexcused. I spent a lot of money I don't have to see a doctor for that note and its like I should have never even done so. \n\nI was thinking about speaking with her on Wednesday when I return, and if nothing was resolved, to go to her superior. I am relatively new at this company (hired Jan 15th), and sometimes I feel they play me as the new girl and get away with things they wouldn't with older employees.\n\nI think its fucked up if I say so with no filter.. I would love some feedback. \n\nThank you.","title":"Doctors notes and unexcused absences from work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571466029,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djzxyq\/wasnt_allowed_graduation_after_completion_of_high\/","id":"djzxyq","body":"Here's the context:\n\nI'm 21 and live in Oregon, but have lived in SoCal for most of my life.\n\nI kind of bombed freshman year in high school, save for a couple of classes. Mainly because of homework.\n\nAs a result I was transferred to a continuation school, where we sort of cram classes together in order to help students catch up on class credits.\n\nWhile I was there, I managed to pass the California High School Exit Exams and PE test you need to take in order to graduate.\n\nI completed all my pre-\/Algebra classes, and they gave me the option to take Financial Algebra for my Geometry credits. I did.\n\nSo, my sophomore and junior years fly by without a worry, and I transfer schools once more, this time to a charter school.\n\nHere, I manage to complete my remaining classes in the span of a couple months.\n\nUpon completion of all my necessary classes and exit exams, they tell me I'm going to graduate a semester early.\n\nI'm excited.\n\nAbout a month before my graduation, they tell me I don't have any Geometry credits at all, and I won't be graduating early as planned.\n\nI check my credits on our school website, and it tells me I have like 36\/20 algebra credits and 0\/10 geometry credits.\n\nI spoke with the counsellor, principal, administrators, and even went so far as to contact officials in the school board.\n\nThe response I got was essentially \"Not my problem\" and so I was essentially forced to leave school.\n\nNo diploma. No money to pay for a GED, yet not qualified for any special programs to help pay.\n\nEssentially I'm screwed.","title":"Wasn't Allowed Graduation After Completion of High School","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541709579,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vdppc\/no_running_water_does_the_landlord_have_to_pay\/","id":"9vdppc","body":"My family of six rents a single family home in Illinois. The well pump died on Tuesday evening and we have been without water. Is our landlord obligated to put us up in temporary accommodations until the home has water? ","title":"No running water - does the landlord have to pay for a hotel?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553397587,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4rv2k\/cat_trapped_in_car_with_windchill_below_freezing\/","id":"b4rv2k","body":"Situation is ongoing. Currently there is a car parked in the visitor section of my housing complex. The car has been parked for at least 4 hours with a cat inside. Police have been called multiple times but are unable to breach the car. They are also unable to bring the cat to animal control from what they have told me. The cat has food and water, with the window cracked just enough for a finger to barely fit through. I understand that the owner has left food and water, but the cat seems to be showing signs of distress with incredibly loud meowing and pawing the windows of the car. With windchill, we've been below freezing for over 2 hours and the owner still has not gotten the cat out of the car. I live in South Eastern Connecticut. Is there any course of action I can take in order to bring the cat to safety? ","title":"Cat trapped in car (with windchill below freezing)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569516603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9mb9v\/fathers_rights_in_custody_battle\/","id":"d9mb9v","body":"Help! I hope this isn\u2019t a repeat thread but I am new to Reddit and need a community to help walk me through what my family is about to fall into.\n\nI am married to a wonderful man with 4 beautiful, older children. Oldest is 19, youngest is 11. His ex wife, unfortunately, is an extremely controlling, unkind, verbally and emotionally manipulative and abusive woman and she has only progressively gotten worse as time as passed. She isn\u2019t doing well but we are and this is a BIG problem for her. \n\nYears ago, my oldest (while still in highschool) was having a very hard time with her. She ended up physically beating him and he let her because she was threatening to send him to jail if he fought back. He had a slight concussion, split lip, and swollen cheeks from being punched. We notified the local authorities and opened a case but it was dismissed due to lack of witnesses. He continued to live with us for the rest of his childhood, became a healthy and well adjusted human, and now has a budding career in our armed forces. We continued to pay her child support for him through it all because my husband didn\u2019t want to rock the boat but she didn\u2019t see him for years. \n\nFast forward to now. Our middle and youngest children are really struggling living with her now. We have documentation of MANY very emotionally manipulative and abusive things she has said and done on a regular basis. She speaks horribly about us and we stick to the hard and fast rule of not bad mouthing mom. I even try to teach the kids empathy and healthy boundaries. The children are very close to my husband and I and confide that they are very unhappy there and don\u2019t want to live with her full time but they are TERRIFIED their mother won\u2019t love them anymore if they ask to live with us. So we decided to get them into counseling to give them better tools and to get a second pair of eyes on the situation. The counselor, after 3 visits, is extremely concerned about the well being of the kids staying with their mother and wants us to start the proceedings to adjust the custody agreement.\nMy husband is a the kind of guy who tries to be peaceful at every turn. He takes a lot of crap from his ex to keep things safe for the kids. Two weeks ago she found out I was throwing a birthday party for our youngest and absolutely lost her mind on us. She punished my youngest and I think it was the straw that broke the camels back for her. \nYesterday, she served us with papers to get more child support from us. We are making more money than when the evaluation first happened but so is she. However. She is close with her boss and I could easily see her trying to hide what she is actually making. \nWe really want to take her back for more custody or, at least an adjustment to the parenting plan that allows the kids the choice to be where they want. We wouldn\u2019t even want money from her if they were with us full time. \nMy husband is terrified to try this as in Utah it\u2019s a very mom biased system and courts don\u2019t seem to care about the level of mental abuse kids are in as long as they are physically safe. At least, that\u2019s my husbands perspective. Please help me, what are our rights? What is the likelihood she would get more custody? How should we go about protecting ourselves and the kids?  She plays dirty so I expect anything could come from her side.  Thank you so much for any help you can give me and for commenting on my first thread!","title":"Fathers rights in custody battle","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570593673,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfbobs\/executor_delaying_distribution_fafsa_to_their\/","id":"dfbobs","body":"California\n\nThe executor of my parent's estate \\*seems\\* to be delaying distribution to their own advantage vis-a-vis FAFSA reporting. House has sold and all is liquidated. \n\nTrust was written in the early 80s and stated 1\/2 payout now and 1\/2 payout 5 years later (interest payments from principle until then). Later payout could be overridden for educational need, buying a first house or \"need\". Three of four kids are in their 60s.  All have houses and as much education as they desire. Executor is the youngest and their oldest child is now college age (doing gap year). \n\nI have not received a complete payout of the first half.  I want an early payout of the complete sum (see delaying teensie pension and social security plus I don't trust some twit investing my future money). I suspect the executor is delaying the first payout because of their kid's FAFSA application. I'm fairly pissed as we paid for our sole child's complete tuition\/living expenses much to the detriment of our retirement savings and their spouse earns a huge income (sheltered as \"business expenses\").\n\nBefore I spend a ton of money on an attorney, I'd like to know if there is anyway I can force the executor to be reasonable (definitely need a payout in 2019). Executor bleats about \"parents wishes\". Trust has a good two pages about \"you don't get jack shit\" if you contest it.\n\nExecutor has an attorney.","title":"Executor delaying distribution - FAFSA? (to their advantage) plus other issues","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554678825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bamgs4\/landlord_is_trying_to_keep_security_deposit_to\/","id":"bamgs4","body":"Our landlord (West Virginia) claims we broke our microwave but the latch is worn out because it\u2019s an older microwave. And our oven\u2019s control panel stopped working and needed replaced. We were told that we broke it but if you look up the oven model it is a VERY common problem. It\u2019s not like I punched the oven or took a hammer to the microwave latch. Both my roommate and I have talked to him on multiple occasions and he still thinks we have to pay. We both paid $850 so it\u2019s not like a small amount I can easily dismiss. \n\nThe lease says \u201creasonable wear and tear is expected...and agrees to pay for damages due to willful negligence.\u201d Am I wrong to assume that this is normal wear and tear? We had no control over these damages and they are very common issues. They are trying to sell the building so it seems like they don\u2019t want to put in any more money into the building. I have had personal property get water damaged due to their \u201cnegligence\u201d including; rented text books that I have to buy since they were damaged, my mattress, sheets, pillows, a comforter, and a night stand. So I think we are even. But anyway, do I have fight here? Should I waste my time fighting this? Am I wrong and we should have to pay? \n","title":"Landlord is trying to keep security deposit to \u201cpay to replace the appliances that we broke\u201d but it is normal wear and tear.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569468073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9e0l5\/inheritance_theft\/","id":"d9e0l5","body":"I\u2019ll try to sum this up the best way I can because I\u2019ve told the story countless times.\n\nMy uncle passed away 5 months ago and I just recently was notified by one of my cousins. He possessed 53 properties and numerous jumbo accounts which I researched and it was found to be passed over on death to his girlfriend \/ representative of his estate. Public records show each of those properties to become hers and the documents were signed and notarized one month prior to his death and a will was made 6 days prior to his passing. Knowing my uncle well enough he would\u2019ve had a will made already. Although there was a bit of sibling rivalry, he had 5 sisters which he was on good terms with a few of them. I know that while he was dying of cancer he wouldn\u2019t have the only person in his will being his girlfriend while he has numerous sisters who 3 were left one single IRA account to be split between the 3. I\u2019ve talked with a probate attorney and was told he would need more evidence like a prior will to be able to move forward with the case but I need advice on how to proceed from here. I was told attorney fees could reach upward of $40,000 which I personally don\u2019t possess currently and my aunts ( the remaining sisters) don\u2019t want to assist me in pursuing what is rightfully our families. The properties and money she has taken possession of was meant to be passed down for generations within our family and she has stolen it all.\n\nThanks in advance for all the help that anyone can provide.","title":"Inheritance theft","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570376344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de4tv3\/landlord_in_oregon_taking_things_out_of_security\/","id":"de4tv3","body":"Hi there. Sorry in advance for length. My fianc\u00e9 and I moved into the basement of a split level home last year. Another tenant lived upstairs and the landlady lived nearby. We had multiple issues from the beginning that were never addressed although we were promised verbally that they would be, including only having one mode of egress (the front door), and fleas, which the landlord bombed for one day before we moved in, as we found out later.\n\nUpon moving out, She took from our pet deposit $400 for professionally cleaning the vents \u201cbecause future tenants may be allergic\u201d. This was not something that we agreed to doing, or were informed that we would have to do. There is also, and has been, a cat living in what is, again, the same house in the upper level. It is my landlady\u2019s cat. She also charged us for seeding the grass in the yard, which she did without giving us notice or allowing us to say yes or no (she texted us at 8pm asking if it would be okay. We said no, we needed to discuss further, but at 8am there were workers tearing up the yard.) We were tasked with watering it four times a day in summer, and when we said that we would not be able to make this commitment, she said \u201cthat\u2019s fine, my husband will come and water\u201d. That is completely unacceptable, because we do not want our landlords on our premises without any notice. She did agree to refund us the excess water charges that we were paying, although not the work we were doing. However, she did not refund us this in our deposit. The grass was still patchy, BUT IT WAS WHEN WE MOVED IN, too. We made every effort to keep it alive, but we felt that her expectations and fees were really unreasonable.\n\nWe texted her after getting our deposit back and pointed out that she had neglected to refund us that money, and she replied \u201cI\u2019m glad you got in touch. I am dealing with a flea problem and the bill is $412. When can I expect to have it?\u201d This was over a month after we moved out.\n\nThe ceilings were 6 foot two. We had one mode of egress. She had a clause in her lease that, although we were month-to-month, if we left prior to 12 months of residency, she would take our entire security deposit. I feel like we now have a black mark on our rental record no matter what because of her, even though we have always been great tenants. She is asking for $1200 back of our $3450 security deposit, including this flea issue that again she refused to address while we lived there. Am I supposed to take her to court? Tell her that her fees are unreasonable and we aren\u2019t paying for fleas we didn\u2019t cause on top of them, and wait for her to take us to court?\n\nTl;dr: my renting experience for the past year was a nightmare of dubious legality\/morality, and despite bending over backwards to accommodate her, the landlady is asking for $1200 back of our $3500 deposit. About $1100 of those things are for things we did not discuss\/agree to (vent cleaning) or issues caused by previous tenants (fleas, dead grass). Do we have any recourse? Can she even ask this stuff of us? What do I need to do to prepare in the event this goes to small claims?","title":"Landlord in Oregon taking things out of security deposit that seem unreasonable, and now asking for more after we\u2019ve moved out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408460441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2dzk6p\/i_believe_my_architect_is_in_collusion_with_a\/","id":"2dzk6p","body":"We recently hired an architect to design some renovations and an extension. The design process was completed and it came time to put the designs out to tender for local builders.\n\nThis involved writing up a specification. As part of the spec, \u00a320k contingency was included along with 'sacrificial' items which could be removed at a later date to lower cost. In the version of the specification that the builder's received, \"The Tender Package\" these sacrificial items would not be identified.\n\nInitially, we were looking at sending The Tender Package to 4 builders. The architect suggested some of these, including Building Firm A. Now, no response was received from Building Firm B, so they were never included in the tender. It was the architect's responsibility to contact Building Firm B. So Building Firms A, C and D all received the tender package (we believe). However, Building Firm C was unable to provide their form of tender and a final number by the deadline. This left just Firms A and D.\n\nFirm A's offer was the lowest but their numbers did not conform to the form of tender. Firm D's offer was higher but conformed to the form of tender.\n\nThis made us suspicious. Both the offers were out of our budget and Firm A's offer appears not to include the \u00a320k contingency we placed into the specification. This lead us to believe that the architect had told Firm A what items in the specification (including the contingency) were not necessary, allowing Firm A to place a much lower bid but without the ability to cut cost.\n\nThis sort of collusion is against the rules of the tender process and I believe falls under Fraud. \n\nBecause the architects are on a % of the build price, a higher build cost is beneficial to them.\n\nAnother thing we are checking now is if building firm B ever actually got an invitation to the tender process from the architect. If this was not the case then it is extremely suggestive of an unfair tender process. \n\nSo reddit, what is the next step for us? I feel like we are being scammed but it is extremely difficult to prove.\n\nI'm happy to answer any questions.","title":"I believe my architect is in collusion with a building firm to commit fraud. What is the next step? [UK]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555102460,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcipeg\/tn_property_management_company_is_refusing_to\/","id":"bcipeg","body":"I have been searching for a new townhome to rent. Over a month ago I found a newly listed townhome for rent with a two car garage. This is perfect since I enjoy working on my cars. Within a week my application was approved and a deposit was requested. I gladly obliged since we were highly considering this property. I patiently waited to hear back from the property management company. \n\nFast forward to yesterday, we were finally given access to the property for a tour\u2014the previous tenants were in the process of being evicted which is why it took so long before we were allowed onto the premises. Unfortunately, the previous tenants trashed the entire townhome. New flooring is required and the worst part is that the previous tenants were heavy smokers. Even if the property is ozone treated, I would have to endure the lingering smoke odors. I am sensitive to smoke and can no longer consider renting this property. \n\nI reached out to the property management company to inquire about getting the security deposit refunded. They replied saying that if a lease agreement has not been signed and the applicant decides to cancel, the security deposit shall be used to pay a cancellation fee equal to the amount of the security deposit. They claim that the security deposit is used to secure the property and that this was quoted at the bottom of an email after my application was approved.\n\nHow is it possible for them to use the security deposit to pay a cancellation fee? Shouldn\u2019t they have called it a holding fee instead? Do I have a chance of winning a case in small claims court for not receiving my security deposit? Will I be able to collect treble damages?\n\nThank you for any and all help!\n\nTL;DR: property management company won\u2019t return security deposit after I back out from signing lease. Instead they are using it to pay a cancellation fee. What are my options?","title":"[TN] Property management company is refusing to refund a security deposit and is using it to pay a cancellation fee. what now?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569262594,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8agpr\/sublessor_demanding_we_pay_their_security_deposit\/","id":"d8agpr","body":"So 2 friends and I subleased from some college students over the summer, and it turned out that the security deposit was HUGE. The sublessors expected us to pay for it. \n\nHere\u2019s the agreement we signed with the sublessors: https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/6cpD3B5\n\nAre we legally obligated to pay based on point #7? Or is it their responsibility? If they take this to small claims do we have any ground to stand on?","title":"Sublessor demanding we pay their security deposit (USA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569340374,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8p3c3\/posting_for_a_friend\/","id":"d8p3c3","body":"Hello, my friend doesn\u2019t use reddit so I\u2019m posting this to help them. Having issues with a contract being fulfilled. \n\nWe hired someone to repaint and fix our rental property. The contract states that the work would be finished in 6 days unless snags come up.  Nothing major has popped up but it has been 3 weeks and they're still not done yet. The work that they have completed is average to say the least. Our tenants are supposed to start moving their stuff in tomorrow and they keep coming up with excuses. We've paid them about 60% of the contract and it's been a very frustrating 3 weeks trying to get everything done. It's made me not even want to pay them the rest of the contract anymore. Is there anything we can do legally?","title":"Posting for a friend","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571017904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhjw3s\/floridapublic_school_rents_out_theater_to_local\/","id":"dhjw3s","body":"Hi, I'm a sophomore at my local high-school (the school is public, not religious or private), and I occasionally help with the theater department during things like set constructions and such, and my sister and parents are heavily involved in the theater and choir departments. For the most part it's rather fun, but as the title suggest, the school rents out my school's theater and some classrooms to a local church that my school's principal goes to.\n\nThe church demands that the theater and choir departments maintain the theater and classrooms be kept to their standards, then leaves them trashed. They've even left stands containing pamphlets with religious materials in the theater lobby (I have a photo of a stand). Whenever a student tries to say anything to the administration of the school, the student is suspended for it.\n\nIs there anything I can do? Is this even illegal?\n\n​\n\nThank you in advance for any help on the issue.","title":"(FLORIDA)Public School Rents Out Theater to Local Church and Suspends Anyone Who Voices Complaints","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571446366,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djwpzb\/new_business\/","id":"djwpzb","body":"I currently live in Tennessee and want to start an online business in Florida. How do I go about getting a business address and registered Agent address?","title":"New business","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555688055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf0hd0\/alabama_how_can_i_become_approved_to_supervise\/","id":"bf0hd0","body":"Basically the title. One of my employees is a CASA advocate and in addition to that is supervising visits for a friend of one of her kids. I didn\u2019t realize that was a service done outside of DHR and just found out that it\u2019s something parents usually have to pay for. Depending on the process and what it entails, I might want to become one and offer my services for free. I\u2019ve been looking for something to volunteer with anyways and based on how she\u2019s described things it seems flexible scheduling wise.\n\nI\u2019m a mental health clinician working with kids if that affects the process. I\u2019ve already passed background checks with DHR, the ALEA, and drug testing. I\u2019ve also got mandated reporter training that\u2019s good until next year.\n\nSo, yeah. My employee is approved through her CASA training, but are there other ways to become approved for visitation supervision without becoming a full CASA volunteer? I don\u2019t think I have the ability to commit to that right now.","title":"Alabama. How can I become approved to supervise DHR visits that require 3rd party supervision?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571331804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj9b5c\/when_the_trustee_is_a_bank\/","id":"dj9b5c","body":"Trust fund is a complete shit show thanks to thieving relatives. Talked to 6-7 different attorneys whom all agree we need help and seem interested, until they find out the trustee is a bank. (Small, local bank - it\u2019s not Wells Fargo) Then it\u2019s \u201cdon\u2019t call us, we\u2019ll call you\u201d.  We have cash now, it\u2019s not even like they\u2019d be working strictly on contingency, but we can\u2019t seem to get a New Mexico attorney to touch it. It\u2019s tearing me apart watching these bastards steal to their hearts content, more just about the principle and their arrogance about the whole deal.  Mostly wanting to vent, but if anyone has any ideas, I\u2019m all ears.","title":"When the trustee is a bank...","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1444752661,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3olo4r\/lafayette_louisiana_is_there_a_specific_type_of\/","id":"3olo4r","body":"I have a long term significant other (nearly 14 years now), but we are not married. It is likely that we may never marry. However, I want him to have my power of attorney. Specifically, my medical power of attorney, as I have run into some medical problems.\n\nas I understand it, my parents, by default, have my medical power of attorney. I know there are different types of lawyers, like criminal or civil or family law attorneys, but I don't know which type I should see about changing who gets the final say about my life should I not be conscious to make a decision myself.\n\nAny other help or trivia about end-of-life care would be welcome. I know that is a vague request, but I believe that I am too young (28) here for a do-not-resuscitate order. I do have a living will on file at my hospital, and with my doctors, but I do not know if this is enough.","title":"Lafayette, Louisiana. Is there a specific type of lawyer I should see about changing my default power of attorney?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1504824927,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yqszj\/do_i_need_an_indemnity_clause_to_hire_an\/","id":"6yqszj","body":"Hi!\n\nBackground: I live in New York, have a single-member LLC in Florida. I'm hiring my first independent contractor. I used a standard agreement from docracy.com and modified it slightly.\n\nIssue: he asked for some changes. Two are fine but one I'm not sure of. He wants me to completely remove the indemnity clause which states that the Company, its agents, etc. aren't liable for damages, losses, legal fees, etc. resulting from the services in the agreement.\n\nIs that safe to remove? Should I ask for specific modifications instead? Any other words of advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Do I need an indemnity clause to hire an independent contractor?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552769760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1x85s\/roach_infestation_in_texas_apartment\/","id":"b1x85s","body":"I posted before but I think it got lost or maybe I did something wrong. But anyways, I\u2019ve had a roach problem in my apartment for 3 months now and they\u2019ve just sprayed around 6 times (which I pay for in my rent and have to request) but they keep coming back. I went up to the office to demand getting out of my lease since this is a health risk and they said they would do a \u201cclean out\u201d (and give me proper notice before they do) which involves me moving everything out of my cabinets and taking my cats out of the apartment. They gave me the notice at 8pm the night before and I had to get up at 5am the next day so I asked them not to do it so I could prepare. I caught the pest guy and he said he would do it the next week. So I prepared and they never came. The office also said they never offered me a \u201cclean out\u201d because they didn\u2019t see a problem. I am seeing 2-4 roaches A DAY. How do I get out of this lease without them just blowing me off again? ","title":"Roach Infestation in Texas Apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542241572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x5xmp\/trying_to_get_divorced_22f_living_in_sc_very_long\/","id":"9x5xmp","body":"I'll start from the beginning. I was with this guy off and on from age 15-20 and right before my 20th birthday we got married. It was an awful decision as he slowly showed me during the almost 2 years we were married that he didn't change at all. He became more and more controlling and aggressive each day. It eventually escalated to him throwing a fork at my face, knife throwing style and barely missing because I jumped out of the way all because I had been sick and hadn't done the dishes. He didn't want me working even after I finished college to become a veterinarians assistant, he wanted a girl he could call wife and keep around for keeping up the house and on standby for sex. I did small jobs and would volunteer at dog rescues to just get me out of the house as the guy worked all the time and was almost never home. In the few months leading up to the fork throwing incident I had developed a routine of visiting my friends for parties about once a week where we would drink and play board games and such, we were a very close group. Some nights I would go even if my husband told me I couldn't simply because he said I couldn't. I just needed the time away from him and with other people that cared about me. After the fork throwing incident, I was done. I decided shortly after having a panic attack and calling my best friend that I needed to leave. It wasn't that simple though. We owned a home together, a cat, rabbit, and dog together, he was paying all of my bills. I owned a lot of things that simply wouldn't fit in my car in one trip and my family and friends lived an hour away. I came up with a plan, as stupid as this may sound, to stay for a few weeks longer to try to make my husband see that he had a problem so that maybe I could leave peacefully. This didn't work, obviously. I'm going to be completely honest in this post and tell you about a guy that I had been close and flirting with leading up to leaving my husband. He was one of the friends in group that I hung out with about once a week and we had been casually flirty with each other in the months leading up to my husband becoming the abusive and controlling guy that he was in the end. Nothing came of it though until after I had decided to leave my husband, but was still living with him. We had a party one night and it was way too late and I had been drinking so I stayed. The guy and I shared a bed that was empty at the place of the party, but nothing sexual happened we didn't even touch each other while sleeping. The next morning we both woke up early af, both being cursed with waking up early after a night of drinking and I told him everything. After telling him everything, he said he liked me but didn't want to be with a married woman and I agreed that I wasn't a cheater. We continued talking as friends for a while, occasionally flirting but nothing serious. Not even a week after the fork throwing incident, the husband and I were talking and I brought up that he threw a fork at my face and it wasn't okay. He immediately got defensive and a little aggressive. Luckily, all that happened was him grabbing my arm and yelling at me then storming out of the house and leaving. I called my best friend immediately after he left and explained what had just happened and she convinced me to pack up as much as I could quickly and leave, so I did. I packed up as much of the necessities and clothes that I could in a short amount of time and threw them all in my car, hugged my dog and put him in his kennel, and left. I drove so fast and was crying so hard that I'm surprised I made it to my best friends house. The guy didn't try to reach me until 5 hours after I had left. He called multiple times which I didn't answer and then we had a text discussion about how we were over and I wasn't coming back. I agreed to meet my husband for the rest of my belongings a few days later and went up with 3 of my friends to collect the rest of my clothes and stuff. When I arrived there, his mother was there and he would not allow either of my friends in the house to help me gather my things. He was aggressive and stood over me the entire time I threw things into trash bags and tried to get out of there asap. He wouldn't let his mother help me carry my things to the car either. Because he stood over me the whole time, I let my guard down once and he took my debit card and insurance cards from my wallet (we had a joint checking account and I am under his insurance from work). He also took my phone, which he also paid for technically because he wouldn't allow me to work. He refused to give me back my phone but did allow me to deactivate\/reset it and back things up into Google drive since that phone had a lot of my personal information on it. Before I left he asked me if there was someone else and I said no. He asked if there was anything else I needed and I said my ukulele, which he then grabbed and threw at me. I picked it up off the ground and got out as fast as I could. I cried the entire drive home and my friend had to drive I was so shook up. Me and the friend I mentioned earlier started a fwb type thing that night as I was sad and just needed to be held. I lived with my friend for the upcoming weeks and slept on a mattress in the floor of their living room. A mattress on the floor of a living room was more ideal to me than a bed in my house with the man I married. I realized slowly that he still had a lot of my clothes and a lot of my belongings. He forced me to sign a paper saying that my name would be taken off of our bank account in order to get the rest of my belongings and when we met at the bank to turn in the forms and get the rest of my belongings, he had moved all of the money to a different bank account so that I could get nothing before I took my name off. The house was in his name only so no way I could get a portion of that either. He cut off all the bills he paid for me and stopped communications all together. He wants to live separately for a year and then apply for divorce. The last I've heard from him was months ago and even then it was through his mother,  in this short conversation she told me that our dog was doing well but that my pet rabbit had \"passed peacefully in his sleep\" when he was only 4 (average life span for the breed is 8-10 yrs) and had no health issues prior. I have been separate from my husband since July 3rd of this year. I've been dating the fwb guy since July 15th of this year and our 4 month anniversary is tomorrow, which i can see looks bad because I'm technically still married, but we just clicked. I want to be divorced so that I can move on with my life. I want to be able to change my last name back to my maiden name without a hefty fine. Going around with his last name attached to everything is just plain embarrassing and a constant reminder of it all. I can't afford an attorney as it's been hard to find a job and I was left with no money after leaving him. What can I do about any of this? Any opinions or advice is appreciated. Just typing this up gave me chills and I hope none of you have to ever go through something like this. ","title":"Trying to get divorced, 22F, living in SC. Very long post","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555552858,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beg2wi\/canadian_quebec_legal_advice_landlord_selling_our\/","id":"beg2wi","body":"Longtime lurker, first time poster, please forgive me if this belongs in a different subreddit.\n\nMy husband and I have been living in our current place for just under two years. Our lease is set to renew July 1st. In March of this year, our landlord texted us and asked if we would like to renew our lease on July 1st or if we\u2019d be interested in buying the property. We told him Yes, we\u2019d be renewing our lease and that we\u2019d be prepared to purchase the property in August of this year if we could agree on price.\n\nOn April 1st, our Landlord informed us that if he didn\u2019t receive an offer from us to buy the property by April 12th, that he would be putting the house up for sale. We were unable to get the financing together in that time frame and he has now put the house up for sale.\n\nSome questions I have: If he sells the house before June 30th, are we required to move out by the end of this lease? Does him asking us in March about renewing the lease and us agreeing to it automatically transfer those same terms to the new buyer? \n\nI have already looked at the laws on the Regie\u2019s website and Educaloi and it isn\u2019t really clear to me what to expect in terms of a landlord selling a property this close to the end of a fixed term lease even though we\u2019ve already stated we\u2019d be renewing. To further stress me out, on the real estate listing it says the \u201cDelay of occupancy expected is 90 days\u201d. \n\nAny help is much appreciated, I tried calling the Regie as well, but the person I got on the phone only spoke French, and while I can understand French pretty well, she couldn\u2019t understand my English. \n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Canadian (Quebec) legal advice - Landlord selling our house. What are our rights?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554985656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbz9ro\/coughing_neighbor\/","id":"bbz9ro","body":"Pennsylvania \nWe (fianc\u00e9e and I) live in a 1br apartment that's part of a 24 unit building. At night time, the neighbor behind us coughs all night. These aren't regular coughs either. It sounds like he's throwing up at times or he's excessively trying to clear his throat. We keep thinking he's just got a cold but now it's been 2 months. Fianc\u00e9e can't sleep at all. We turn our AC window unit on, she wears ears plugs, and she has a personal fan on her night stand. We're not sure what to do. He obviously can't control it. We're thinking of leaving a note, contacting management, or calling the guy an ambulance but we're not sure how any of those will be received. Should we even bother with the options above? Any better options?","title":"Coughing neighbor","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552326134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azwagq\/wv_question_on_probate_and_the_paying_of_creditors\/","id":"azwagq","body":"My dad passed away Feb 22nd. He only had his name on two things, the house and the bank account. He had no will either.\n\nRegarding the house, my name was also on the deed with rights of suvivorship.\n\nThe bank account we held jointly also because once my mom passed away I had to take over paying the bills and handling the money. I eventually had to get durable power of attorney and then full guardianship over him. I realize that these powers are now gone since he has died.\n\nI am told that both of these things do not fall under probatable assets in this state and that I do not have to go through probate of his estate because there isn't one.\n\nMy question centers on how to pay creditors and medical expenses that will arise in the next few months. If there is no estate then there is no money to distribute. There is so little in the bank account for him that two small medical bills <$2000 would zero out the account. So, how do I handle the bills that come in? Do I provide them with a copy of the death certificate and say that his estate was non-existent and that there is no money with which to pay these bills? Do I need something official from a lawyer explaining that there is no estate to attempt to get payment from?\n\nThank you for your answers, all this stuff is kind of hard to deal with right now. I just want to do the right and legal thing.","title":"[WV] Question on probate and the paying of creditors","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555024024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc6hwr\/tn_landlord_refusing_to_replace_broken_fridge\/","id":"bc6hwr","body":"Signed a 12 month lease last May. I can't afford to move due to poverty (paycheck to paycheck worker atm), so I'll probably end up renewing my lease.\n\n\n\nNoticed our fridge was leaking and defrosting a couple weeks after moving in. We reported the issue and the property sent a maintenance man that week. He used a portable hair dryer to \"defrost\" what he claimed was \"frozen water\" and told us to keep the setting on \"1\", which we did. The fridge worked fine for a couple of days before it started leaking again.\n\n\n\nWe reported the issue again and both the property manager and the maintenance man showed up. They used the portable hair dryer technique again and re-iterated that we needed to keep the setting to \"1\", which we had. The leaking continued.\n\n\nWe put up with it for a couple of months before reporting it yet again. This time the property manager and his boss showed up, measured the fridge, and assured us that they would replace it.\nA week went by and I called to check on out new refrigerator. The receptionist told me it would be arriving by the end of next week.\n\n\nAnother week went by and nothing. So I called again, inquiring about the issue. This time we were told they \"weren't sure if they had the money\" to replace our broken refrigerator. I told them that they better have the money because that's what I am paying them for and the secretary told me they would take care of it.\n\n\n\nMonths went by. We reported minor issues and they were all cleared up. We mentioned the fridge each time and it was ignored. Fast forward to now... The refridgerator stopped working last night. It runs, but nothing cold comes out. We reported the issue AGAIN and were given \"I'll let maintenance know\". What do we do if they give us the run around again?\n\n\n\nTLDR; Fridge broken. Landlord knows. Promised to replace, but has ignored our complaints so far. Fridge now not working. What do?","title":"TN - Landlord refusing to replace broken fridge. Need help!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1413409393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jcwfi\/company_got_bought_out_now_seeking_unemployment\/","id":"2jcwfi","body":"Okay so hello everyone, my name is Kyle.\nI live and work in santa clara, CA. The bay area. \nNow on to the issue..\n\nSo for about 1.5 years I have worked at a Nissan dealership on stevens creek which is owned by the dealer group \"sonic automotive\" but as of Oct 7th my company was bought out by a different dealer group, \"Premier\". Okay so now heres the real problem, i know when applying for unemployment they base it off how much you made last quarter but now that i work for a new company i havnt even been here longer than 2 weeks. Im just confused on how i put down to collect the unemployment money from? sonic or premier is the question....\n\nAny type of advice will be greatly appricated.. my last day at Premier is on Oct 24. I was not fired or layed off i am quiting for personal reasons, mainly to finish school. ","title":"company got bought out, now seeking unemployment.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552927309,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2kx9u\/is_it_normal_to_have_to_buy_items_that_were_left\/","id":"b2kx9u","body":"My daughters grandfather passed away last year. She has been advised that she and 3 other grandchild will be receiving the inheritance. She was told by the attorney handling everything that if she was wanting anything from the house that had sentimental value she would need to purchase it. What I\u2019m wondering is what happens to the items that are not purchased. If she didn\u2019t purchase anything from the house wouldn\u2019t it all be considered part of the inheritance and split up anyway. I\u2019m just wondering how that works. We are in Illinois, if that makes a difference. ","title":"Is it normal to have to buy items that were left in an inheritance if you are one of the heirs?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505107545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zdgbz\/alimony_question\/","id":"6zdgbz","body":"I live in Southern California first off. This may or may not be a simple yes\/no but my current boyfriend's (of five years to give you an idea of the time frame) baby mom is saying she is going to sue him for alimony. He filed for divorce a little over a year into the marriage and they separated before then. She was also unfaithful during the time they were together (the reason for the separation). At the time, he was only receiving SSI income. The divorce still isn't final because someone won't sign the papers, so I'm wondering if this will have any bearing on the fact that they're still technically \"married\".  My question is, CAN she really go after him for alimony, and if she does, does the length of the time of marriage still count all these years without signed divorce papers? And if she does go after him, I was reading about \"post marital\" income which doesn't count after the fact. Since he was only on SSI he's not eligible for alimony... I think. I'm not sure where to go for this and worse case scenario we need to hire a lawyer we will but I was wondering if anyone here could give me some advice or guidance. Thanks in advance.","title":"Alimony Question","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553359855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4lbqf\/hit_by_a_second_student_while_in_third_trimester\/","id":"b4lbqf","body":"Hello all. \n\nI have cross posted this in r\/teachers and r\/babybumps for the record. \n\nI am trying to write this as professionally as I can but I am pretty shaken up. \nI\u2019ve posted before but I deleted the posts because of fear of retaliation. \n\nBasically, I teach elementary school and I teach general ed self contained in north Texas. I do NOT teach inclusion, but general Ed. \n\nEarlier this year I had an incredibly violent student in my classroom who hit me all the time. (WHILE I was pregnant and admin KNEW I might add) \nI would always write the student up but was intimidated by my principal and AP who would tell me things like \u201cwell what are YOU doing in the classroom to set said student off, etc\u201d and even went as far as to send out an email to all of the staff of the individual teachers write up numbers, because mine was a lot more than everyone else\u2019s. They also brought this up in a staff meeting to have everyone address the issues putting me on the spot to explain what I was lacking in student management. \n\nIt was heartbreaking. \n\nAs the child\u2019s behavior escalated, I asked my admin to remove him from my classroom and was met with laughter like it was a joke. So I ended up going above their heads to HR with all of my evidence in order to remove him from my room, with a doctors note. \n\nFollowing this, I was met with a growth improvement plan, forced to have four after school meetings per week with academic team, and made to turn in my guided reading binder weekly. I never received any feedback and to be honest these meetings were pointless because I was already doing everything I needed to do. It was just hard to teach a class with an incredibly violent and disruptive student. Ironically enough AS SOON AS the kid left.. my students improved DRASTICALLY and actual learning took place. \n\nWhen asked why I was on this plan they said was to \u201chelp me facilitate student growth,\u201d but we all know that this was just a plan to get me to either quit or be let go. Which is what happened. \n\nThe week before spring break I went into HR to discuss a transfer and the HR representative told me that my principal had \u201csufficient evidence\u201d to non renew my contract. Since this is my third year, in Texas, that could ruin my whole career. They basically told me I\u2019d be blacklisted for a year and my principal would be \u201cincredibly honest\u201d about my performance for the year, etc. \n\nTo me and my family, this felt like pregnancy discrimination from the beginning, but now in protecting my son from harm I am also facing retaliation. I am a member of a teaching organization in Texas (not a union but similar,) and a lawyer helped me essentially negotiate my way into resigning with a letter of recommendation from my principal to make sure he would not talk crap about me when someone called him. It was the hardest thing I\u2019ve ever dealt with but in the end I decided everything happens for a reason. That is, until yesterday...\n\nI am in my third trimester and very visibly showing. I have been pregnant essentially all year, and the kids have known since December that I\u2019m pregnant. \n\nYesterday, a student in my class who has been showing increasing signs of aggression since about February, punched me in the stomach when I wrote them up. Punched me in the stomach and said, \u201cI hate you and your baby!!\u201d This was around noon but no one came to relieve me until dismissal, when I went to the hospital. My OB said if I ever get hit to go straight there and they\u2019ll have to monitor my son and make sure everything is okay. They hooked me up to fetal monitors and did a BPP. Everything looks okay. I was discharged last night and told just to count kicks but that I am going to be sore and now I\u2019m at more of a risk for preterm labor. I am beside myself. \n\nAs of right now, baby is doing a lot better than I am doing. I\u2019m a mess. I don\u2019t want to go back to work. This is now TWO students who have hit me while pregnant. I am being blamed for these things because of lack of classroom management, but I cannot control a child who is aggressive and acts out. It\u2019s not my job to be a punching bag. It\u2019s not my job to have to get in the way to protect students from being hit while I\u2019m also carrying a baby inside me as well. It\u2019s my job to teach. I\u2019m not a shield. I don\u2019t know what to do. I\u2019m having anxiety attacks but I need to money because my husband is in school. I need insurance because we\u2019re about to have a baby. I don\u2019t know what to do. I want to leave and just have them pay out my contract. This can\u2019t be normal or okay. It can\u2019t. I don\u2019t know what to do. This has been the worst school year of my life. ","title":"Hit by a second student while in third trimester","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554312352,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b90ws3\/in_whats_the_difference_between_temporary\/","id":"b90ws3","body":" [IN] Just wondering the difference between temporary guardianship and temporary custody. I am in a position where there is a 3rd unrelated party caring for my daughter right now. They have essentially shut me out except court ordered time together and FaceTime calls. No info on appointments, well being, etc. no \u201ccoparenting\u201d which was the deal when I put her in their care voluntarily. Trying to find out what my right are so to speak. My lawyer is unresponsive and I want to just research things on my own so I can know what to ask my lawyers to do. We are trying to move the custody\/guardianship to my parents, actual blood relatives. Praying this happens and trying to find all examples of poor communication\/aggressive or passive aggressive behavior\/lack of cooperation\/etc. any advice or thoughts? Happy to expand as best I can. ","title":"[IN] What\u2019s the difference between temporary guardianship vs. temporary custody?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1416172965,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2mhwst\/my_reddit_post_is_being_turned_in_to_hits_for\/","id":"2mhwst","body":"I started a thread over a year ago that has gained attention from multiple sources. Most recently today The Daily Mail Online UK published this: http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2836369\/Family-unearth-amazing-vintage-shoe-store-locked-decades-inheriting-old-building-footwear-perfect-condition-albeit-little-dusty.html  \n\nI'm mostly concerned about my pictures, the story they've created has been from my comments, even as accurate or inaccurate it might be.\n\nI'm aware I shared the information of the store and the pictures through a public medium, but is there any recourse for me to prevent future use of my pictures and or even gain monetary compensation for my story? I'm assuming it's too late since it is all on Reddit and Imgur.  \n\nEdit: the original thread - http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pics\/comments\/1k2n2j\/my_grandparents_own_an_old_building_wed_heard\/","title":"My Reddit post is being turned in to hits for other websites, but more importantly my pictures are being used without my permission.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1413562662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jj0hq\/is_being_unable_to_afford_to_pay_your_traffic\/","id":"2jj0hq","body":"I have a court date coming up and I was wondering if they would honor being poor when asking for a continuance \/ postponing.  If not, what are some viable reasons for continuance? \nTX","title":"Is being unable to afford to pay your traffic ticket a viable reason for post posing the court date?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541908927,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w0uzt\/business_account_put_overdrafted_by_ex\/","id":"9w0uzt","body":"I live in WA state. \n\nMy ex-spouse and I separated in June 2018. Shortly afterward I legally transferred our small business over to him. At the time it was a general partnership. The general partnership was terminated prior to June 30 and transferred into a sole proprietorship under my ex's name.\n\nOne thing I failed to do was to promptly remove my name from the business account at our local credit union. :\/\n\nLast week we went to the credit union to remove my name from the account, however they would not allow me to do so because he had overdrafted the account $200+. I explained that we had separated in June (when the account was positive) and we were going through divorce. They said I was still liable for the amount...\n\nWhat are my legal options in terms of absolving myself of this debt which he accrued after our date of separation. \n\nOur court date for final dissolution of our marriage it set for Dec 7th. \n\nThank you for the advice!","title":"Business Account Put Overdrafted by Ex. #","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1508334144,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/776lwv\/mi_a_friends_employer_is_making_him_work_12_hours\/","id":"776lwv","body":"A friend of mine currently works about 80+ hours a week and his employer only pays for 40 hours (salaried). He is legally exempt from overtime pay and in Michigan, employers are allowed to work you however long they want as long as it isn't discrimination. At least, based on what I saw on Google this is true.\n\nHowever, I've heard that the overtime exemption only covers up to 60 hours. **Edit: I was told this by a coworker**. Is this true? Would it be worth his time to file a complaint with the Department of Labor or is this completely legal?","title":"[MI] A friend's employer is making him work 12 hours a day seven days a week and is only paying him for 40","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1413979265,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jzh47\/uk_sales_of_goods_act_1979_denied_refund\/","id":"2jzh47","body":"Hello, hoping someone can clarify this for me as it seems absurd. I've ordered a product from UK retailer (keyboard, not that it matters). After around 3\/4 months it had a fault (lighting related). I went through the correct channels to RMA the product.\n\nOnce I received it back it still had some of the existing issues and was clear it wasn't tested post being 'fixed'. I've now asked for a refund and I've been told the following information:\n\n> Under the Sales of Goods act 1979 you would only be entitled to a repair or replacement from the manufacturer, we would need the item to be faulty 6 times for the same fault before we could look at issuing a refund for the item.\n\nIs this correct, six times seems like madness and I can't find a specific numerical value anywhere in this act to back this up.","title":"[UK] Sales of Goods act 1979 Denied Refund","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1542199513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wzs1p\/landlord_did_not_follow_due_process_of_eviction\/","id":"9wzs1p","body":"Last Tuesday, I came home to a WITHOUT CURE eviction notice on my doorstep. Inside it was detailed that I had 7 days without cure to vacate the premises, because my boyfriend was living with me. His application to add his name onto my lease was denied because of his credit score. We both moved to our current city from a super small town a couple hours away.\n\nWe got our shit together, found a new place, and moved out all within the prescribed 7 days.  Two days ago I went into the apartment complex office to schedule the move out inspection. I was met with the community manager who was confused and didn't know what I was talking about. She then drops the bomb that it was a \"typo\". \n\nA fucking typo.\n\nI never received a warning letter or with cure notice. Yesterday, when I went to drop off the keys, the community manager again starts telling me that because I'm breaking the lease I have to pay penalties, and continue to pay for every month they can't find someone to rent it. Oh! But before they can rent it, they have to renovate it, and there's 3 other apartments they have renovate. Essentially, they're trying to milk another $6,000 out of me.\n\nDo I have the grounds to defend myself if they try to file a lawsuit against me if I refuse to pay?\n\nTLDR; apartment community manager sent me a without cure eviction notice as a \"typo\", now is trying to get me to pay $6,000+ in fines because of her inability to proof read.","title":"Landlord did not follow due process of eviction","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570576415,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df84n7\/md_is_my_employer_legally_allowed_to_audio_record\/","id":"df84n7","body":"I work in a retail position at a locally-owned small business. My employer recently distributed a handbook of store policies and employee guidelines. It states that employees should be aware of security cameras located throughout the store and in the back room(s). (Note- There are currently no cameras in the back rooms- back rooms being stock rooms, and offices- there are no \u201ccommon\u201d or \u201cbreak\u201d rooms) There are currently ONLY cameras on the sales floor. It states that these cameras will be recording video AND audio. \nIs my employer legally allowed to be recording audio of employees? Employer has asked all employees to initial and sign the handbook and return to employer. I\u2019m assuming this would be considered \u201cconsent\u201d if any legal action were to be taken. \nMany of my fellow employees have expressed concerns about this. Thanks in advance for any input!","title":"[MD] Is my employer legally allowed to audio record employees?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443224309,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mefym\/someone_i_threatening_legal_action_against_the\/","id":"3mefym","body":"Bought 4 domains of a popular person who use post gone wild and other nude pics here on Reddit. She got some what big and now wants her own website. I originally bought the domains so I could make her a website back in May. She declined my offer and I have kept them ever since. But now she or the person she wants to make her website for her wants them. He has threatened legal action twice. But I think he is bluffing. So what are my legal options to keep my domains with out getting them taken away from me. Also yes I have a website up hosting my own content on one of the domains. Nothing related to the nude poster.\n\nHope someone can help!","title":"Someone I threatening legal action against the domains I own","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540075300,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pyiu6\/can_i_file_a_police_report_on_him\/","id":"9pyiu6","body":"My friend has been hitting my internet offline non-stop for no reason. After I cut him off he continues to do it. He doesn\u2019t stop. What can I do?","title":"Can I file a police report on him?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541008672,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t16h5\/someone_stopped_paying_their_utility_bill_in_my\/","id":"9t16h5","body":"My friend used to live in an apartment with his partner as Tenant-At-Will. The utility bill was in his name; however, he broke up with his partner and moved out the apartment almost three years ago. \n\nYesterday, his old neighbor texted him saying that the utility company had stopped by his old apartment because of some unpaid utility bills. Neither he or his partner can remember if they cancelled the account and neither of them have lived there since they broke up (three years ago). He\u2018s afraid that if the account is somehow still in his name, then he\u2019ll have to pay for these peoples unpaid bills.\n\nWhat can he do to get ahead of this issue?\n\nNOTE: Neither the utility or the previous landlord has reached out to him about this. He doesn\u2019t have his old agreement with his old landlord or his old account information. His old apartment (and his current one) is in Massachusetts.","title":"Someone stopped paying their utility bill in my friends old apartment and apparently the bill might still be in his name.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444605758,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3odxwu\/ny_girlfriends_underage_sister_sending_me_nude\/","id":"3odxwu","body":"Tl;dr Girlfriend's 15 year old sister is obsessed with me and texted me pictures of herself naked, totally unasked for. What do I do?\n\nMe and my girlfriend have been together for about 6 months now, and she's great. Because of ~reasons~, she came into custody of her younger sister, who is 15. The younger sister from the beginning has been pretty obsessed with me. At first I thought it was just that I was acting like a big brother\/father surrogate for her, then it was \"ok she has a crush on me thats cute\", but when I tried to explain that I was perfectly happy dating her sister and she was way too young for me, I guess she saw me as playing hard to get.\n\nAfter a couple months of just regular flirting, she stepped up her attempts. She would \"forget\" to close her door when she was changing, would \"accidentally\" walk in on me and her sister, and other stuff to the point where I started avoiding the house. I tried to talk to my girlfriend about it and to see if she could get through to her sister, but for one reason or another didn't take it seriously. \n\nCut to last night, where I get a text message from her, open it up and see that she has texted me several nude photos. I've been kinda freaking out and my first instinct was basically smash my phone, change my number and make it very clear to her and my girlfriend how not cool this is. However, what if she gets my new number and does it again? \n\nI don't want to ruin this girl's life, and I'd prefer not breaking up with my girlfriend (which is what I would need to do to effectively sever contact with the younger sister), but I also don't want to be charged with possession of child porn, and i definitely dont want her to be able to use it against me.\n\nSo, what do I do?","title":"[NY] Girlfriend's underage sister sending me nude pictures","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551754241,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axg2wl\/what_are_my_rights\/","id":"axg2wl","body":"I live in a 3 family (3 floor) townhouse in Brooklyn. The landlord lives in the basement and my family and I live on the top floor. Today at 8am they started a complete gutting of the middle floor to start renovating. They did not seal the spaces between the apartments correctly and all of the dust come into my ENTIRE apartment. Like visibly thick in the air like an active construction site. I've been in the construction field for about 10 years so I don't want to sound like I'm exaggerating, I'm talking actual dust. Anyone who knows the field knows the type of very fine dust I'm talking about. Very very fine dust that gets into every single book and cranny, inside the closed cabinets on every single dish and cup. Ingrained in every fabric from clothes to beds and the couch and carpets. I can not even imagine what the landlord can do to fix it, it's going to be impossible to get everything clean. What do I do with this situation? Do I have any legal rights? Renters insurance? The contractors insurance? I'm really at a loss with this. Any advice is appreciated. TIA","title":"What are my rights?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541733886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vgyx8\/overbearing_landlord_during_bed_bug_extermination\/","id":"9vgyx8","body":"We have been dealing with bed bugs since September. Our last treatment was done a couple of weeks ago, and we have not seen any knock on wood, so hopefully they are gone, but we are keeping an eye out. However, since the process began, we feel our landlord has been overstepping boundaries that has made us uncomfortable. She has repeatedly tried to enforce rules on us that are not on our lease, such as setting a cleaning schedule (we keep reasonably clean but not to her standards) or telling my roommate shes required to get new litter boxes for her cats (she thought they would pee outside of the litter boxes, she has no evidence that they were doing this). We've been tolerating this and just smiling and nodding when she talks to us, hoping she would calm down after the process was done, but she is still bothering us. I know she cannot enforce these rules, but my roommates have not wanted to upset her in case she chooses not to let us renew our lease in April. I, however, would rather deal with the stress of finding a new apartment than let someone treat me poorly, but that's beside the point.\n\nMonday she gave us notice that she was coming over to vacuum (she feels our vacuum isnt good enough for her standards, so she has been coming over before and after every treatment to vacuum) and apply a powder, I believe diameceous earth?, around the house. That's all fine. However, inside of our sealed bags and boxes (we were required to pack all our things up in sealed containers) we just found this powder. I know the bed bug company was not treating these, which means our landlord opened our things and poured powder over all of our stuff without permission. \n\nThis might seem like a petty hill to die on, as we have no proof she did anything but open the boxes to apply powder and she very well could have not sorted through them or looked at anything inside, but we value our privacy greatly and this feels like a last straw after two months of boundary violations that I cannot deal with anymore. \n\nMy question is, would this count as regular maintenance as this could be considered a treatment for the bed bugs (that the exterminator stated before she did this he saw no evidence of, by the way), or are we in the right to tell her she cannot open our boxes full of our private possessions and dump things inside of them? ","title":"Overbearing landlord during bed bug extermination (VA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541033006,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t4rl7\/police_arent_helping_what_to_do_next\/","id":"9t4rl7","body":"Was dropping off my child to their mothers she wanted to start talking about court stuff which always ends in a fight which it did again. I tried getting in my car and leaving in which she blocked me from closing my door and ended up smacking me as I was sitting in my driver seat. I rose my voice as well in the argument and am not trying to seem perfectly innocent in this however I did not lay a hand on her nor threaten her. As I said I was sitting when she smacked me. I went to the police station filed a report and  haven\u2019t heard anything since Monday today she made a comment about the situation as if it was a joke. I know her family has friends who are part of the department and I feel like this is not being taken seriously. She has given me multiple black eyes in the past, caused me to get staples in my head and gave me a concussion, as well as left scars from nails on my face. I did not report those stupidly but this last one was to far. What can I do to make sure this is enforced I told the officer I want to press charges and I feel like just because I\u2019m the guy they are not doing a single thing about it. Please help me. This happened in Illinois.","title":"Police aren\u2019t helping. What to do next?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570482178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/depq9p\/first_ticket_ever_wanting_to_know_how_to_handle\/","id":"depq9p","body":"I got a speeding ticket in Mississippi and have decided to attend my court day rather than pay the fine. \nThe fine had to be paid either online or in person, and the online payment came with a hefty fee. That being said, I\u2019ve decided to go to traffic court. \n\nId like to ask for a reduced fine or reduced points to my license, but I\u2019m not sure how to do so. \n\nI\u2019ve also noticed that the year of my car is input incorrectly on my ticket, however I\u2019m not sure how much good mentioning that will honestly do me. \n\nAny advice on how to approach the traffic court tomorrow would be appreciated. \n\n\nTLDR; got ticket, going to traffic court, want to request a reduced fine.","title":"First ticket ever, wanting to know how to handle court appearance.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553288456,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4aear\/so_im_aware_that_you_can_be_charged_for_driving\/","id":"b4aear","body":"If you drive without a license, (already a crime) but you have a clear photo of your valid license on your phone and it is with you, is it still technically a crime, or have no laws been broken yet in the US? (Or even anywhere else)","title":"So, I\u2019m aware that you can be charged for driving without a (valid) license, but what about a license that\u2019s on your phone on your person?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568851295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d65wdu\/kicking_out_roommate_in_california\/","id":"d65wdu","body":"Hi \u2014 quick backstory is that we allowed a friend to stay in our extra bedroom for the last 5 months for free, all we asked was that they pay their share of the utilities which they have done no problem. \n\nFound out in July that we are expecting our first child, tried for years but it never worked so it came as quite a surprise. At first we thought we could make it work without kicking out the roomie, but as things progress, we\u2019ve realized it won\u2019t work. I run my own business and work from home so I need a private office space. In our 3 bedroom home, that\u2019s one room, baby has another, and then my husband and I would be in the other. To try and make it work with the roommate, I would have to forgo an office space and that seems silly when we have the 3 bedrooms. So we decided to ask our roommate to plan to leave by February, which we felt was really fair given that they\u2019re not paying rent and I\u2019m due in March. \n\nWell, their reaction has been the opposite of fair or rational. Everyone is entitled to their feelings but he\u2019s taken it to the point of emotional blackmail \/ guilt tripping, and now it\u2019s feeling like a very unhealthy situation for both my husband and I. Our original offer for 5 months would be fine if they had handled this respectfully, but that hasn\u2019t been the case. \n\nWe\u2019ve decided to give him some space and time, but if within the next week or two, we\u2019re still getting the same silent treatment \/ awkwardness, we feel it\u2019s our right to ask him to leave much sooner. \n\nI\u2019m wondering what our rights are here. We own our home. We never agreed upon a specific amount of time he\u2019d be staying here so we\u2019re not in violation of any kind of agreement there, and we haven\u2019t put anything in writing about the 5 months either. \n\nWould we have to serve him an official eviction notice? Involve police?\n\nAppreciate kind advice or suggestions.","title":"Kicking out roommate in California","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539539979,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o4tis\/hoping_someone_can_help_my_elderly_parents_are\/","id":"9o4tis","body":"Desperately need advice. There are a few moving parts to this, but I will try and keep it concise:\n\nMy successful sister got  married to a \"nice guy\" a while ago. He turned out to be an asshole; he would be mister nice guy in public but a passive aggressive dickhead at home.\n\nThey had a daughter. About two years later the he up and leaves for another woman and files for divorce\n\nHe had a good lawyer, my sister's was useless. All she got was custody and a pittance of child support.\n\nMy sister and her daughter then moved back in with my parents who are elderly. The plan was for her to stay there while she got back on her feet.\n\nThat was about 5 years ago. \n\nMy sister, who was in a great career before leaving to have the child, now works a deadend job.\n\nThe daughter, who is now around 10, is a absolutely horrible, spoiled brat. She learned at a young age that all she needs to do is raise hell to get whatever she wants. If she wants something, she better get it or she will scream like she is being murdered and kick and punch. My parent's house is filled to the brim with toys that were all appeasements.\n\nAs of now, my sister doesn't seem to have any ambition of moving out. Along with that ,she seems helpless \/useless with managing the child. She is bringing the child to  see a councillor but that only helps so much.\n\nIn the meantime, every night there is some blow out with this kid. My parents do their best to be accommodating, but the kid throws such a temper tantrum over the slightest things that it is unbearable. I worry each time one of them will drop dead with a heart attack. She also bullies both my parents who are so loving to her.\n\nThe ex husband is out of the picture. He married the woman he was cheating on my sister with and has had some children with her. I can understand my sister not pushing for him to take the daughter for visits like when they first got divorced. When they did do this, he would always pull some passive aggressive stuff to get a fight going.\n\nMy sister seems to want to spend less time with her daughter as well. She will make sure the kid is showered and dressed for school, but other than that she comes home from work and goes to bed super early. My mother winds up doing everything else. My sister also goes out on the weekends leaving her kid with my parents.\n\nThe advice I need: my parents want my sister and her kid to move out. My sister can't afford it because she works a dead-end job. I also feel that my sister doesn't want to move out because the kid is so horrible to deal with. My parents gave her an ultimatum. When the time came and nothing changed, she said \"I guess we will live in the streets.\" She now uses that whenever my parents threaten that they will kick her out. As much as the child is a selfish and bratty, my parents would never want to put her and my sister in a situation where anything bad would happen to them.\n\n So what happens is a cycle of my parents getting driven to the limit by the daily bs, they tell my sister they can't take it anymore, my sister says \" I guess we will live on the streets then\" my parents back off and the cycle repeats itself.\n\nI hope someone knows what I can do","title":"Hoping someone can help - my elderly parents are being bullied","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553645525,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5xfph\/possible_violation_of_fmla_and_a_definite\/","id":"b5xfph","body":"Throwaway because my situation is specific. I had brain surgery last year. I was out on a short term LOA for 5.5 weeks. Before I left I had multiple meetings with HR, some on a recorded line, that said I would be paid 100% of my performance bonus. \n\nLow and behold they docked me for 2 out of 3 months of the quarter when it paid out. Despite being gone less than 6 weeks.\n\nMy compensation contract states that as long as the last day of my leave falls before the 15th of the month, I will be given credit for my bonus of that month. I didn't know this going in, I was originally going off what I was told in my meetings. \n\nMy last day of leave was the 14th of the month but the 15th fell on a weekend so my company is refusing to pay. I worked for 2 weeks + 2 days so more than half of the month. \n\nTo top that off my coworker took a paternity leave from the 13th-31st of the exact same month and was paid out 100% of that month. I believe this violates FMLA?\n\nI don't know what to do from here. Do I lawyer up? Is there anyone I can complain to? My manager already tried to escalate as far as he can. He is now recommending I go above his head but I am sure their response will be the same. \n\n\nTL;DR: My very large, publicly known, company is refusing to pay for my performance bonus due to my approved short term disability leave despite my contract stating otherwise and a co-worker receiving his full bonus for the same time period. What do I do from here?\n","title":"Possible violation of FMLA and a definite violation of my compensation contract. What do I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505232108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6znwec\/tennessee_fired_and_then_sent_a_bill_for\/","id":"6znwec","body":"Long story short, I was terminated from my job at a major insurance company. \nBackstory: My husband(30) had cancer earlier this year and as a result I had to use 88 hours of paid time off. I was told by my manager that I had 96 to use for the year, so it wasn't an issue at all. \nI was terminated at the end of last month and just received a letter in the mail stating that there was a payroll overpayment for overused paid time off. They said that if I do not repay the total amount which is $570, they will be required by the IRS to reflect the amount of overpayment on my current W-2. The letter also states that it will be my responsibility to collect the taxes relating to the repayment from the IRS.\nWhat does this even mean for me? Am I seriously obligated to pay this back? It feels like a major fucking slap on the face. I got fired for something that was completely out of my hands and lost my husbands health insurance coverage in the middle of his treatment. \n\nIt was the most humiliating and awful experience. I just don't even know what to do. I can not afford to repay this at all.\nAny advice would help. Thanks! ","title":"[Tennessee] Fired and then sent a bill for overpayment of PTO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552052097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayqbre\/where_do_i_go_now_ontario\/","id":"ayqbre","body":"I had a horrible anxiety attack at work monday, covered my tables asked for help did what i could to control myself untill I could ground myself....once I had all my customers covered I took 15min to myself to calm down...as usual it worked i stayed in the back for a few setting plates helping the other girls, getting desserts, running food ect,  checked on my tables.\n    Meanwhile, my manager called someone else in took all my section away forced it on the other server in the section and sent me home.  Said he could because he said he would pay me for 3hrs.   When I stated I was fine and would like to begin new tables.  Management responded that \"obviously you are not ok to be here.  Go home\"\n\nNow the anxiety attack was caused by a confrontation with said manager which was witnessed as was my anxiety attack.\n\nNo what I know legally here in Ontario he cant do that but ive hit a wall on where to go.   Anyone able to head me in the right direction?? \nAnything is helpful Thank You!","title":"Where do I go now? Ontario","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446612079,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rgbqz\/how_do_i_find_if_a_charactertitle_is_copyrighted\/","id":"3rgbqz","body":"Hi, I am in **Southern California**, and I am thinking of selling some t-shirts online. Problem is, there's a character from a famous movie in the design. How do I find out if his name (or even appearance, I guess) is off-limits?\n\nHow do I proceed to obtain the rights once I find out?","title":"How do I find if a character\/title is copyrighted or trademarked?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1503504914,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vk15m\/how_to_learn_about_unemployment_from_the_companys\/","id":"6vk15m","body":"A company I'm working for is looking to hire some new for sales - $15 an hour to make calls.  However, its a somewhat difficult market to understand so it may take a few people to find someone that will fit.  What are the rules about employment in Colorado?  In the hiring contract, do we need to outline that we may let them go in a couple weeks?  If we let them go, can they immediately begin taking unemployment?  Will our unemployment taxes\/rates go up?  We'd prefer to hire internally, but there are so many legal aspects which seem ridiculous.  Our last resort is probably a temp agency.  Can someone point us towards a good resource for this so that we can learn what will actually happen if\/when we let someone go?","title":"How to learn about unemployment from the company's point of view in Colorado","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552437759,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0fksh\/ca_someone_has_been_hacking_my_wifes_phone_and\/","id":"b0fksh","body":"Before some of you think I\u2019m crazy or that this is fake please hear me out \n\nUsing a throwaway account for obvious reasons \n\nMy wife and I both have iPhones. For the longest time, maybe almost two years, my wife would notice small issues with her phone. Nothing out of ordinary to alert us, just minor things.\n\nFor example, she would notice photos she had deleted would reappear a few days later. This happened once every blue moon until finally my wife got annoyed by it and called Apple support\n\nApple told us it\u2019s most likely a technical glitch and to just re-delete said photos. \n\nOver a few months, it kept happening so we called Apple again. They suggested we turn on what they call \u201cTwo-factor\u201d authentication for extra security  \n\nThen a few days later, something curious happened. She got a message on her phone that said something like \u201cSign in requested\u201d from somewhere hours away in California \n\nWe called Apple once again and a senior person confirmed that this message only comes up if a new device tries to sign into the account. He also confirmed that if someone had her login, they could pretty much see all the pictures she took on her phone. \n\nThen it hit us. My wife and I are both military and constantly go weeks away from each other, so to keep the spark she constantly will take compromising photos for me. The pictures that would reappear after deletion were always the revealing ones. Apple confirmed in order for someone to save the original picture from iCloud.com they would need to restore it. \n\nWe are both disgusted with this and want to know if it\u2019s worth it to try and take legal action of whoever took the photos \n\nTl;dr: someone somehow had my wife\u2019s iCloud password and most likely had been stealing her photos. We want to know if it\u2019s worth it taking legal action or just securing her account, hope the photos don\u2019t get leaked anywhere and go on with our lives.\n\nThank you \n","title":"[CA] Someone has been hacking my wife\u2019s phone and likely stealing her compromising photos for who knows how long","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570496778,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/desuq7\/florida_my_employer_is_threatening_to_reduce_my\/","id":"desuq7","body":"To start, I do work and live in Florida. I have reviewed the FLSA guidelines and, based on that criteria, I am definitely not exempt from overtime pay.\n\nSo, I started this new position a couple of months ago at $600 a week salary for a 40-hour workweek (including lunches). I am the only person in my position and my workload is variable. Long story short, I am in the position where I am behind on my work of no fault of my own. I take minimal breaks, work through lunch, and work a few extra hours. (Which, I am starting to realize is not the best for my mental health.) However, I was not getting paid overtime. I don't even know if my employer was keepimg track of my hours.\n\nBecause of Rosh Hashana (a Jewish holiday), I missed two days of work and got more backed up. My employer asked\/demanded that I work overtime to \"make up\" for the time I missed. I said I would put in extra hours as long as I am paid for my work. He is of the firm belief that me being on salary means I am exempt from overtime pay. Furthermore, he said that because I took two days off for a religious holiday (that I was paid for), I \"owe him\" that many hours on the next pay week. I tried to explain to him all the ways he was wrong and that he can either pay me overtime (which I know he can afford to do) or hire someone else. He countered saying that he will NEVER pay an employee overtime, and that if I don't work without overtime pay, he will switch me to hourly, enforce a mandatory lunch on me (and only me in the whole office of 15+ people) to reduce my hours, and hire someone else.   \n\n\nHere are my questions:  \n1. Does changing my pay scheme and capping my hours if I don't go along with him count as retaliation in any legally meaningful way?\n\n2. Can my employer count it against me for taking off religious holidays?   \n3. Is there any way to solve this dispute without bringing in a lawyer or the courts? \/ Can my employer fire me or reduce my pay for bringing in a lawyer or bringing a case against them for unpaid hours?  \n4. What is the best way to record the conversations in a way that would constitute evidence if I needed to deal with a lawyer? Does a conversation in a side room with the door wide open count as a \"public place\" I can legally record in under Florida law?","title":"[Florida] My employer is threatening to reduce my pay unless I work unpaid overtime","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554323909,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b93don\/if_i_leave_my_job_after_a_paid_leave_of_absence\/","id":"b93don","body":"I am planning on leaving my employer for 2 months for a military leave of absence. I am taking a paid leave of absence that my employer offers. If I decide not to come back, do I have to pay them the salary they paid me for my leave of absence?","title":"If I leave my job after a paid leave of absence, do I have to pay them back for the paid absence?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1413836902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jti5y\/iso_legal_professional_to_answer_basic_interview\/","id":"2jti5y","body":"Hello hello! Not sure if I'm posting in the right area, redirection is welcome, I'm usually a lurker\u2026 But I was supposed to do an interview with a legal professional (preferably someone involved in employment law, but I will be glad to change up the topic of my paper at this point!) My scheduled interview got cancelled, and I have been unable to get through to anyone new! I am an Ohio State Student, and this interview is for a school research paper where I am looking to get an inside look at being a legal professional. If you are able to answer the following I would greatly appreciate it!\n\nFirstly a quick introduction of yourself, what is your role in the world of legal professionalism? (If you are able to inbox me your reference information so I could cite your interview would be perfect)\n\nTell me about your career path, how did you arrive at this job? What education\/experience was necessary?\n\nCan you describe a bit about your day-to-day operations?\n\nWhat laws-cases-etc. do you work with the most?\n\nWhich skills do you think are most important for your position? What are some good characteristics to possess?\n\nWhy did you choose the area of law you practice?\n\n\nWhat do you find most fulfilling about your career? What do you find most exciting, and most challenging?\n\nWhat do you or your organization look for in hiring new employees? And what do you value most in your employees?\n\nHow do you balance your career and personal life in this type of job?\n\nWhat do you foresee as possible emerging issues in your area of law?\n\nThank you in advance for anyone willing to help contribute!","title":"ISO Legal Professional to Answer Basic Interview Questions","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552005619,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayk0cr\/ca_estranged_grandparent_passed_away_and\/","id":"ayk0cr","body":"In January (I don't know the date) I found out from my mom that her father passed away. Without getting into detail, I haven't had contact with my moms side of the family in probably 20 years, nor has my mom. \n\nAnyhow, she was contacted by another relative (henceforth: middle man) saying I was named in a trust, and that I need to provide my phone number and physical address so that the executor (my moms brother, drug addict when I knew him) can get in touch. \n\nI was hesitant to provide him where I live (part of the reason we aren't in touch is because of a drug-fueled break-in to my family home) so instead gave \"middle man\" my email and phone number. \n\nI have not heard anything since that time, and am wondering if there is somebody I can reach out to, or a way I can verify what's being said (i.e. is there actually a trust I am named in)?\n\nI only have contact with my mom, who only has contact with \"middle man\"","title":"CA - Estranged grandparent passed away and apparently named me as a beneficiary, I have not been contacted","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1442961237,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lzsxt\/can_contracts_contain_currently_illegal_clauses\/","id":"3lzsxt","body":"I don't really have a situation, I just want to learn if this is legal.  \nSo, let's say I, an American citizen, want to give some money to a friend, because I am dying of cancer, hypothetically. I want to give him 50k dollars, but I am worried that he will just go and buy marijuana with it. So I set up a contract where he will receive the 50k in twenty years, but must buy and consume one pound of cocaine with the money.  \nNow, this is all fine and dandy, except that cocaine is illegal, currently. I know that you can use a severance clause to ensure that the contract will be executed to whatever degree is legal at the time, but I'm not an expert on any of this, so I would really like some more advice on whether this would be enough.  \nSo, can I create a contract that is legally binding in the meanwhile, even if it may or may not be legally binding when it reaches that point?","title":"Can contracts contain currently illegal clauses, in hope that the clauses will be legal by the time the contract comes to the point of the illegal element?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508021229,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76fbv5\/employer_keeps_finding_reasons_not_to_give_me_my\/","id":"76fbv5","body":"*I live in NH US, I get paid hourly, and we have to enter our time cards online. We also get paid biweekly.*\nMy manager keeps denying my card and telling me I have to wait until next pay period to get paid. The first time it was because on one of the days I put I worked from 12pm to 12pm instead of 12pm to 12am. He sent me an email saying to make the correction by noon on Friday of that week, or I wouldn\u2019t get paid until the next pay cycle. He sent me that email at 8am of that Friday morning when I was working, so I didn\u2019t see it and didn\u2019t get paid for that week (we can\u2019t use phones or computers while working). I asked him about it and he said the card would be paid in my next check, which was TWO WEEKS later. Then when I was filling in my next time card, I put the previous cards hours under \u201cretro hours\u201d (like I was supposed to), and submitted it to him. Again, he sent me an email that Friday at 8am saying fix it before noon, because apparently he was going to approve them as two separate cards. Again, I was working so I didn\u2019t see the email until later on. I went to talk to him about why he didn\u2019t at least approve the previous cycles time card and he said  \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to approve one without the other\u201d. So at this point it had been four weeks since I had been paid. Now before last  Friday I had made sure everything was done. Then again he sends me another 8am email, saying to fix it by noon or I won\u2019t get paid this cycle. This time he said that he can only approve the current and the previous cycles card, so I had to put the first one in this cards retro hours. Again, as he knew I was at work, and since I didn\u2019t make the correction, I didn\u2019t get paid yet again. Now it\u2019s been SIX WEEKS since I have gotten paid and at the very least I won\u2019t get paid until two weeks from now. I called HR and all they told me was my manager was following policy. Is this legal? Do I have any rights here? I can\u2019t afford to loose this job, but I can\u2019t afford to not get paid. I\u2019ve already had to max out my credit card just to cover bills these last 6 weeks, and I have no idea how I\u2019m going to get through the next two. ","title":"Employer keeps finding reasons not to give me my pay!","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442367322,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l48p2\/texas_vacant_charges_in_my_first_utility_bill_do\/","id":"3l48p2","body":"I moved into my new apartment a month ago and I just got my first Utility bill from Conservice. I'm being charged quite a hefty amount for \"Vacant Electric\" and \"Vacant Service fees\". I do not understand why I have to pay for this since I just moved in, have my own contract with an electrical company and provided the electrical service account info to my apartment complex management since the first day. Can the management company make me pay for this?","title":"[Texas] \"Vacant charges\" in my first utility bill. Do I have to pay for this?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539227587,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n6av2\/notice_to_appear_for_violating_probation_fl\/","id":"9n6av2","body":"This is my first time posting to the thread, and my mind is about to go crazy if I don\u2019t get some idea of what is going on. \n\nI have been on probation since 12\/2017 and I am about to complete this in 12\/2018. Everything thus far with the dialogue with my probation officer has been fine \u2014 just complete all the tasks at hand. These include the county costs, 80 hours of community service, impact panel, DUI course, probation costs, and a drug and alcohol course. \n\nSo far I have completed the impact panel, probation cost, drug\/alcohol cost, and am enrolled to take the DUI school. Today, I discover that I have a Notice to Appear stating I have violated my probation for the aforementioned listed above. \n\nThe affidavit was in fact submitted only a few days after my monthly visit, after stating my progress thus far. \n\nAny ideas? I\u2019m totally lost on this. ","title":"Notice to Appear For Violating Probation (FL)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446414865,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r4qe9\/iowa_is_there_any_path_to_getting_my_195_stop\/","id":"3r4qe9","body":"First off, I have absolute zero experience with courts.  I've interacted with the police just a handful of times in my life and have never seen the inside of a court room let alone spoken to a judge. I'm 22 years old.\n\nYesterday, a cop wrote me a ticket for failing to obey a stop sign.  The total fines come to $195.  That's a lot of money for me right now.  My mom just recently passed away from cancer.  Due to that, I lost my business and savings.  My dad is barely afloat, financially and emotionally.  On top of all that, we're both scraping by to put my brother through college.\n\nThe stop sign is in a VERY rural area, literally farmland.  It was 11:40PM.  We're in Iowa so it's all flat, visibility was perfect and it was beyond obvious that no cars were coming from either direction.  So I did what many of us do, a bit of a rolling stop.  I did not blow through the sign.  I was not on a joy ride or anything.  I just didn't come to a \"full stop\", which I know is illegal based on the letter of the law.\n\n$200 plus the hike I'm going to see in my insurance seems incredibly unjust for this stop sign violation.\n\nMy real question isn't whether or not I can contest this.  I guess I am technically in violation because my vehicle did not come to a \"complete\" stop.  However, is the fine on the citation set in stone or is there anything I can do to reduce the fine in anyway?\n\nThanks.","title":"(Iowa) Is there any path to getting my $195 stop sign violation reduced?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568418618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3xplo\/nytreble_damages_in_small_claims_court\/","id":"d3xplo","body":"NY law states that a creditor can seek treble damages on a debtor if the debtor has 3 or more outstanding judgements on file, including the creditor\u2019s judgement.\n\nIs there a statute of limitations against the amount of time a judgement has been outstanding? For example, if the creditor motions for Treble Damages on a case litigated in 2019, can a case from 2011 (still with outstanding judgement) be referenced to satisfy the requirements for Treble Damages?\n\nAdditionally, do all 3 (or more) cases need to be of a similar nature? For example, if the creditor is motioning for Treble Damages on a case dealing with employee negligence, can a case related to state taxes (still with outstanding judgement) be referenced to satisfy the requirements for Treble Damages?","title":"[NY]Treble Damages in Small Claims Court","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540937622,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sso7i\/ga_my_brother_was_expelled_from_school_for\/","id":"9sso7i","body":"Last week at school a boy stabbed my brother with a pencil and his mother called the principal saying my brother threatened to attack the school, which isn't true. This may have been a way of just saving his own ass but I\u2019m asking if there\u2019s  anything we can do or do we just accept this? It sucks because nothing was done about the boy who stabbed my brother and the principal just listened to everything the other boy said. There\u2019s a video of the boy calling my brother a school shooter for no reason.  There are other kids who all say they heard my brother say this which is why I\u2019m  not sure if there*'*s anything that we can do. My brother was planning on joining the military after high school so we*'r*e afraid this will affect that.   Any advice is appreciated.","title":"[GA] My brother was expelled from school for something he didn't say\/do","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1542223016,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x34y5\/my_employer_has_been_paying_me_late_since_july_i\/","id":"9x34y5","body":"Hello,\n\nI work two positions for a school district who gets payed monthly \n\nJune\/July- I worked for these two months but missed a week. I did not get payed for june in July, and then again for July in august. In this position, I had always filled out a daily sign in and never a time sheet. When I confronted payroll, I was blamed for not filling a time sheet and then it turned out they only had one for June and none for july. My speculation is that time sheets were handed out to the staff when I as absent, but the person who handled payroll at the site never gave me one. I WAS PAID ON AUGUST 15TH WHEN PAYDAY IS 10TH.\n\nAugust- I started a leave of absence on the 23rd, after starting on the 16th. It was after not being paid in october, did payroll realized that they did not pay me 3 days for in August. THESE 3 DAYS IN AUGUST came in OCTOBER.\n\nSeptember- I believe that this was the only in which I was actually paid on time\n\nOctober- As I write this, I still have not been paid for october. This month, I, was not the only one who was not paid.\n\n\nMy question: I have already contacted the union...What steps do I take and how possible is it, that I recieve financial compensation from this?  I've waited almost a week every month for a delayed payment. ","title":"My employer has been paying me late since July. I have been struggling financially and am behind on bills. (California)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554174254,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8dlw5\/nj_handicap_ticket_issued_due_to_expired_placard\/","id":"b8dlw5","body":"I am 25 years old and suffer from post op complications from an earlier pelvic surgery to remove a cancer tumor. It is harder for me to walk for extended times, so I usually need a place to rest in order to feel comfortable (usually 40-60 mins of standing and moving around will start to cause discomfort in that region). I also have the urge to urinate frequently. (My groin bloats on one side and will cause massive discomfort should that be allowed to persist for long enough.)\n\nI was out shopping one day with my mother and we used my expired placard. When we returned to the car, I saw a ticket had been issued, stating the placard had expired in 2014. There is a court hearing for the tenth.\n\nI am wondering: should we just pay whatever amount the judge wants? Or should I start a renewal process for my placard? Should I start the renewal process, what is involved with renewing an expired placard from that many years ago?\n\nAdditionally, should worse come to worst, would a payment plan be an option for even a minimum fine of $250?\n\nNote: I collect SSI for anxiety and depression, in addition to my physical disability, if this matters.","title":"[NJ] Handicap ticket issued due to expired placard","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551803786,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axn464\/land_lord_avoiding_calls_about_backed_up_septic\/","id":"axn464","body":"I've been teaching out to my land Lord via text and phone calls. My septic tank had been backed up since Friday of last week. I figured he would reach out at the start of the week, I called him again yesterday and he still has not responded. I don't have the funds to pay to get this issue resolved as I just paid rent early might I add, and he had no problem answering then. Meanwhile me my wife and one year old are stuck in an apartment with backed up septic tank water in the shower and toilet. It's getting to be a huge hassle. ","title":"Land Lord avoiding calls about backed up septic tank.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539003723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mencd\/no_gas_in_apt_bldg_5_months_no_discountabatement\/","id":"9mencd","body":"I\u2019ve got to be missing something and seeking advice.  As of June 8th my friends apt Bldg has been without gas utilities. Apparently Con Edison shutdown its services after discovering badly or illegally installed piping.  The Mgmt company brought in plumbers to resolve bottom line that Bldg has been without cooking gas for 5months. My friend contacted Mgmt company and asked for something to be taken of the rent since he can\u2019t use his kitchen. He got flat out shot down.  He\u2019s considering  taking Co to housing court to address because he\u2019s paid rent except for September & now October because of principle at this point. Thoughts & suggestions? ","title":"No Gas in apt Bldg 5 months! No discount\/abatement to rent.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570996020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhfhda\/not_sure_if_this_fits_but_is_it_legal_to_buy_a\/","id":"dhfhda","body":"Looking to hang one up in my apartment as a decoration but I'm just not sure what the law is on purchasing one and where to buy it (as in would I get it from a legal government site or something or is Ebay fine). This would be for New York (not the city).","title":"Not sure if this fits but, is it legal to buy a road sign? And if so where?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568591529,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4sp7c\/hit_fire_hydrant_and_moved_off_the_road_to_avoid\/","id":"d4sp7c","body":"I was driving home last night, the road was slippery and my car hydroplaned into a fire hydrant. I pulled off the road to get out of the way of cars since there were no street lights around. A cop car came up a few minutes later and gave me a ticket for a hit and run. What are my options? I have no prior infractions on my license. Thanks in advance. NY State btw.","title":"Hit fire hydrant and moved off the road to avoid other cars and got a hit and run ticket, what are my options?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553618944,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5s2zo\/trying_to_take_a_few_days_to_figure_out_how_to\/","id":"b5s2zo","body":"I seem to remember hearing once of a case where a parent took their kids away for a few days and the other parent got them charged with kidnapping. Do I need to worry about anything like this? Is there anything I should take with me while I'm figuring things out? Any other advice would be appreciated.","title":"Trying to take a few days to figure out how to proceed in divorce. If i take my kid with me to stay with my parents for a week (a few states away), will my ex be able to do anything negative?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571338792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djax2s\/school_taking_away_phones_in_romania\/","id":"djax2s","body":"Due to our teachers not confiscating mobile devices when they're in use during class for some reason, they made a new rule so that at the beginning of the program, each student's mobile phone is taken away, and then returned to them at the end of the program.\n\nAs far as I know, our law here states that students are not to use mobile devices during class hours without the teacher's permission. That's all fair and good, but the teachers argue that break times would also be considered \"class hours\", thing which I'm not entirely sure about.\n\nRegardless of that, I don't really think that just confiscating everybody's phone is justified, even if they're not allowed to use it. I personally don't use my phone at all, but I still don't think that what they're doing is okay.","title":"School taking away phones in Romania","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554915418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbodt4\/am_i_actually_overtime_exempt\/","id":"bbodt4","body":"I just started a new job at one of those fancy movie theatre\/restaurant places as a server. During orientation I was told that they place no limits on how many shifts I pick up because as of a US Federal law making movie theatre workers exempt from overtime. \n\nAre they actually telling the truth? I\u2019ve been screwed over by not receiving overtime pay in other jobs, and I\u2019d rather not make the same mistake again.","title":"Am I actually overtime exempt?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551213464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av48n8\/work_is_making_all_employees_except_people\/","id":"av48n8","body":"As the title says we are being forced to park at a YMCA parking lot that is a mile and a half away and will be providing shuttle service. It only applies to employees that are scheduled after 7am. I estimate that this will add an extra half hour to my commute time (it takes affect tomorrow) and am wondering if they are obligated to compensate us for this time? And also are they allowed to discriminate for scheduled start time? This is in California.","title":"Work is making all employees (except people starting before 7am) park a mile and a half away during construction.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541283241,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ty83v\/how_to_deal_with_a_daughter_who_wont_contribute\/","id":"9ty83v","body":"A friend of mine has a daughter 23 and a younger 10 year old child. She is struggling to make ends meet. She has limited income due to her being medically retired from her field and has been this way since her son was born and she receives Section 8 housing from the city. Her daughter has come of age and has started working making decent money. The issue is she doesn\u2019t want to help her Mother out financially. The rent for her home went up a few hundred dollars due to the daughters income. The daughter is also on her car insurance which costs a fortune a month that daughter is also not contributing anything.\n\nShe went into her daughters room looking for something and found a piece of paper about how much money she has in the bank (which is about $6700) and what she plans on doing with it and How much she is giving her \u201cgirlfriend\u201d that she is dating for her new apartment. None of which included anything about helping her Mother which is selfish.\n\nThey got into a big argument about her not contributing weeks before, My question is what should she do in this situation? She doesn\u2019t want to just kick her out but something has got to give???","title":"How to deal with a daughter who won\u2019t contribute to the household expenses?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1410533507,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g7do0\/tennessee_i_work_for_a_small_company_5_employees\/","id":"2g7do0","body":"I live in Tennessee. I have a feeling that my boss (who has many friends in the private investigation field) has something installed on my personal smartphone. The main reason I think this is because I have noticed that any time I get a text while we are both at work his phone will get a notification EXACTLY the same time as mine does, every time. Couple this with the fact that in conversation he has brought up subjects that my wife and I had discussed via text only hours before (which I would chalk up to coincidence without the simultaneous notifications).\n\nI could probably do a factory reset or even purchase a new phone to get rid of anything that may be on it. However, I fear that if I do that it will only be a matter of time before he just puts whatever it is right back on. Is there anywhere I can take my phone and have it checked out for malware and possibly determine who is on the receiving end of my information so I could have them charged?\n\n**TL;DR - I think my boss has hacked my personal Android phone. Is there a law enforcement office or private company I can have check my phone? I want to know if something is on it and who put it there.**\n\nI only recently found this sub and everyone here seems so nice and helpful. You are wonderful people!","title":"[Tennessee] I work for a small company (<5 employees) and I think my boss has some type of malware or virus installed on my personal (non-work) phone.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1409782474,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fecnl\/college_student_forced_to_pay_2_months_extra_rent\/","id":"2fecnl","body":"Hi all, \n\nMy friend and I both moved to Massachusetts in January for an internship that ended in August. We made it clear to the leasing specialist that we would be moving out on August 15th, due to our internships ending and school starting back up at the end of August. Our lease was for January to August, 8 months. \n\nWe found out right before we were about to move out that because we did not submit 60-day notice of intent to vacate the apartment, we must forfeit our damage deposit and pay 2 months rent (through October). We were not aware of this due to not reading through the lease (admittedly, this rule is stated on the front page of the lease), and we figured that because they knew for a FACT that we would not be renewing our lease from our previous conversations, these conversations would serve as sufficient notice of our date of departure.\n\nAt this time, my roommate and I are debating going to small claims court to argue that our conversations prior to signing the lease should have been sufficient notice of our intent to vacate the apartment, or paying the 2 months extra rent. How would our case stand up in small claims court? If there is a decent chance we could win, is the cost of retaining a lawyer worth the risk of not winning? \n\nI really appreciate any advice you guys have.\n\nSome extra details that might make a difference....  Our leasing specialist took our email saying we were moving out (sent the day before we moved) as sufficient notice of departure. This leads me to believe that the purpose of this requirement to provide notice of departure is more to rip people off rather than to receive notice of departure.","title":"College student forced to pay 2 months extra rent due to not reading the fine print (Massachusetts)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443268489,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mgesm\/al_i_signed_a_lease_before_i_was_of_legal_age_is\/","id":"3mgesm","body":"I signed onto a lease a few months ago with a few other roommates. Shortly after, tensions ran extremely high and I made the choice to move out. I was in no way wronged by the landlord, so I know there's no way out by that route. However, while looking up any solutions, I found out that in the state of Alabama you have to be 19 to sign any legally binding contract. I am 19 now, but at the time I signed the lease I was 18. Does that mean the lease isn't valid, because at the time of signing I wasn't legally allowed to enter it? If that's not true, is there any other way out?","title":"[AL] I signed a lease before I was of legal age, is it binding?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569528432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9p2ut\/fl_rat_infestation_that_the_building_and_landlord\/","id":"d9p2ut","body":"\nHey guys, I\u2019m writing this post at my boyfriend\u2019s house because I refuse to go back to my apartment. There is currently a rat infestation and the building management is stating that their only job is to set traps on the fifth floor. I spoke to my landlord about securing the unit and filling up the holes that the rats have created and he says that that is the building management\u2019s responsibility. Currently I have trapped 5 rats in glue traps and snap traps. I only go to pick up clothes and I run out. Do I have grounds to break my lease and get my deposit back? Is my landlord liable for anything? \n\nMy lease states that I\u2019m in charge of pest control but this is an infestation in the building. \n\nAlso, the reason I know it\u2019s the whole fifth floor and not just my apartment that is infested is because the building manager told me herself that I am no the only one of the 5th floor that has complained. I believe this started because there was a fire on the sixth floor and they have to pull out a lot of dry wall on the fifth floor because of water damage. (I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s relevant or not). \n\nThank you in advance for all of your help!!!\n\nEdit; I called my renters insurance and they do not cover such cases.\n\nEdit 2; I also have a stove top that he didn\u2019t fix for a year. That is his responsibility on the lease.","title":"[FL] rat infestation that the building and landlord don\u2019t want to pay for resolution","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540195089,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qbopy\/can_the_school_get_involved_in_events_that\/","id":"9qbopy","body":"A girl at my school got involved in a fight outside of school grounds and police got involved (girl she fought attends a different school) and the school is threatening to expel anyone who witnessed the fight and was wearing the school uniform? Can they do this? \n\n","title":"Can the school get involved in events that occurred outside school grounds?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571101996,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di0dja\/someone_at_my_school_stole_3_dollars_from_me\/","id":"di0dja","body":"Today at my school I was playing a game (Clash Of Clans) on my phone. A classmate comes up to me so I put my phone down to talk to her. She reaches for my phone and picks it up saying \"Ooh what game is that.\" And proceeds to click on a tower in game and upgrade it. However I did not a enough \"Elixir\" ( A form of in game currency) and clicks on the option to buy the needed elixir with gems (another form of in game currency). I hear an upgrade sound in my headphones, so I take back my phone and find where I had once had 251 gems waiting to be spent, has been reduced to just 51. Now gems are very hard to come by. They are the main form of micro transaction in game. Technically she did not steal money from me as gems are not legal tender and I did not have to pay to buy them. But the cost of re obtaining those gems would be around 3 dollars. What do I do? She says she will pay, but other classmates who witnessed this said she wont. I am only 12, and understand taking any form of legal action is going pretty far. But absolutely would not threaten to do so if I have any legal standing.","title":"Someone at my school stole 3 dollars from me.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554774529,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb25x8\/my_birth_father_is_stalking_me\/","id":"bb25x8","body":"Sorry about the length I kinda needed to just let a lot off my chest I suppose. \n\nBrief history:\nI\u2019m a 20 year old woman living in Michigan. I was adopted at birth and it was an open adoption for my birth mother, closed for my birth father. He was not allowed to have any information about me regarding my full name, where I lived, or anything like that. My adopted father put down some ground rules for my birth fathers visitation rights (he had to keep a steady job, not get in any legal trouble, stop doing drugs, pretty standard stuff.) and he was fine for about two years (mostly because my adopted parents were incredibly lenient) but then he had a warrant out for his arrest in Michigan and had to move out of state. I have not seen him in person since our last visit when I was like two. I don\u2019t remember him at all. \n\nFlash forward to the year I turned 18, I reached out to him on Facebook. I created a different Facebook account that didn\u2019t have my last name or where I lived or any of my friends or family. It was just a completely blank profile. \nHe immediately got super obsessive. Which is hard to do because he was already posting statuses about me pretty regularly (once or twice a week). \n\nAfter we started speaking, he started to post every few days something directed at me. He\u2019d send multiple messages in a row (anywhere from 15-60) and would guilt me so bad when I didn\u2019t respond immediately. when I got nervous and stopped responding all together, it became multiple statuses a day saying what a bad child I was and how I was so mean to him and I was a drug addicted compulsive liar and a lot of other excessively mean things. \n\nHe told me he would rape and murder my ex boyfriend for hitting me. He told me he had connections to the Mafia. Once I told him I no longer wanted any contact, he moved to the city I live in because I was stupid and gave him my real phone number and he tracked the area code. He now lives in the homeless shelter less than 8 miles from my home. \n\nHe then found out where I work from a picture that I posted in my work shirt. Luckily, I don\u2019t work at any locations listed on google, so when he called all the stores listed on google and asked to speak to me, he was told I wasn\u2019t an employee. I told him I had a second job, but I was careful and told him I worked at a \u201clocal Italian restaurant\u201d. Then he told me I was a liar because he called every Italian restaurant in and around the city I live and I don\u2019t work there. \n\nI got scared and called the police and they came and I filed a report and they called him to tell him to leave me alone, and he posted on Facebook taunting me about how he wasn\u2019t going to get in any trouble because I was the one in the wrong and I was lying and I was a disgusting person and police don\u2019t call from blocked numbers. \n\nI then went to the police department and told them I wanted to file for a ppo. I was told a ppo would solve nothing because if he came near me, it would just cause a hearing and he\u2019d get a slap on the wrist and they\u2019d let him go. Then he would bother me again and it would be another hearing. The woman I spoke to told me he would never get arrested there would just be a hearing and he\u2019d be let go. \n\nMy best friend, who monitors my birth fathers Facebook to relay any information I could use against him, sent me [these screenshots](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/Ykh6jRp) (the order is from last picture to first sorry) \nYellow highlighted is untrue information he\u2019s putting out in public attached to my first and middle name and birth date. \nRed highlighted is why he\u2019s doing this. He\u2019s super mentally ill. Like, it\u2019s really bad. I\u2019m sure you can probably tell. He\u2019s trying all of this to manipulate me into meeting him. \n\nI\u2019m incredibly concerned that someone will bump into me that is friends with him and will tell him where I am. What can I do to stop him? Is what I was told about the ppo correct? I\u2019ve contacted multiple officers and everyone has told me different things and I\u2019m not sure what to do. I went to a police station today and was told I *could* get a ppo safely and my father would be put in jail the first time it was broken. I was told I could also have him put into a psychiatric hospital but I feel like that isn\u2019t the most ethical thing especially since he could still call me all the time. What steps should I take moving forward?\n\nTldr my dad is stalking me and I don\u2019t know how to stop it. Weve never met and had minimal contact and he\u2019s obsessed and I\u2019m frightened for my wellbeing.","title":"My birth father is stalking me","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445433459,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pmobs\/advice_needed_on_bogus_apartment_charge_after\/","id":"3pmobs","body":"Mostly, I'm just looking to make sure I'm doing the right things and following the correct steps to rectify our situation.  Sorry in advance for the novel.  And also sorry if this is being posted in the wrong forum...\n\nLast month, my husband and I closed on a condo and moved out of our apartment.  We had previously lived in this apartment complex in Northern Virginia for 5 years: 3 years in one unit with our friend, and 2 years in another unit just the two of us.  Living there was not terrible and the only complaints we ever had were about inconsiderate neighbors.  \n\nThey gave us our 90 day notice to either renew or notify them of move-out back in June, with a note that if we renewed, our rent would increase an additional $275\/month (Virginia has no rent control laws).  The thing is, we are required to give them a 60 day notice if we are leaving, which really only left us with 30 days to find something else.  We were fortunate to be able to buy something under such a short timeline, despite having been wholly unprepared to buy a home this year.  But I digress.\n\nOur move-out instructions told us to leave our apartment in \"broom clean\" condition.  We were good tenants and took very good care of our unit, and after move out, we thoroughly scrubbed the place down for extra measure.  We left everything in impeccable condition.\n\nThey are trying to charge us for a stove cleaning fee and a carpet cleaning fee, totaling $190.  The assistant property manager, whom contacted me via email to give our final move-out bill, told me (when I questioned this) that she never personally walked the unit, but instead relied on her maintenance manager to do so.  He sent her three pictures:  the only one in question is the inside of the oven, because it features two grease stains, which I noted in our move-in paperwork were already there.  I also noted the carpets were in used but good condition with only minor marks throughout the unit when we moved in.  I have a copy of this paper.  The other two pictures show the top of the stove and the carpets in perfectly clean condition.  I had a phone conversation with the assistant property manager where I did flat out tell her we would not be paying for those items to be cleaned and only paying our final utilities.  \n\nAt the assistant property manager's request, I sent the pictures WE took of the unit on the day we handed in our keys on 9\/28.  I have not heard back from her since that phone call, despite 4 more email attempts, 2 phone calls and 1 in-person visit to reach her to resolve this, with a follow-up to the property manager as well (who also has ignored my email).  During the in-person visit to their complex office, I also wrote out a check for our final utilities bill and was assured by the office manager there that the assistant property manager would be reaching out to me when she used my check to reconcile our account with them.  That was on 10\/6.  \n\nAt this point, I am preparing to go print the photos and send them a certified letter with a notice that I will be filing on 11\/3 in Small Claims to contest the amount they say we owe if they don't respond to me.  I don't WANT to go to the courthouse, because who does?  So I'm still trying to resolve it the friendlier way.\n\nI have a copy of our move-out instructions, a copy of our move-in paperwork documenting the condition of the apartment, as well as multiple copies of our lease and addendums.  Nowhere does it say we are responsible for carpet cleaning at the whim of the property company.  I have pictures my husband took on his phone.  And I've drafted a certified letter to print and send tomorrow (I gave them until yesterday at COB to respond to my emails).  \n\nMy question is, have I followed the right steps and is there anything I've forgotten or that you would do to resolve this?  ","title":"Advice needed on bogus apartment charge after move-out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541123219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tftcq\/question_about_a_business_license\/","id":"9tftcq","body":" A friend and I want to open a PC repair shop at some point. I been looking at the start up needs. I didn't see a business license category that matched that kind of business on pittsburgh's page. Is one needed or needed in Alleghany at all? ","title":"Question about a business license.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570676651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfrxrv\/what_is_stopping_me_from_making_an_automated_app\/","id":"dfrxrv","body":"Recently I've been toying around with the idea of making an app, and I had an idea. What if I made an app, that I had constantly running on some device, and the app just played ads 24\/7, clicking on all of them. For 30 second ads, It could go through 178,000 ads a day, and just from some Google searches, it seems that mobile apps get about 10 cents to a dollar per click. Which comes out to more than $17,000 a day.\n\nBut surely there has to he some legal issue or problem with that, right? Otherwise everyone would be doing it. It seems too good to be true, so it must be. What problems would I encounter if I actually tried to do this?","title":"What is stopping me from making an automated app that hosts and clicks on ads automatically?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568413629,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3wobi\/i_have_a_client_trying_to_breach_the_rules_of_5he\/","id":"d3wobi","body":"I'm working with a client who wants me to take pictures of a family reunion that they're hosting. The\u00a0contract originally called for me to receive a 100% deposit of my asking fee once the contract was signed. we both signed the contract and it seems he's changed how he wants to do things. The original agreement for the transaction was $500 payed to me in full immediately after signing the contract. what my client now wants to do is to send me $2,759 from which I will take $2,159 and write a cashier's check to the caterers of the event. he says this is because the caterers only accept cash or check and he can't write a cashier's check from his credit card. once I send the $2,159 I would be left with $600 which was more than my original asking price. is what he wants to do illegal? if I went through with this would I be taking the risk of breaking the contract and being sued? is there a common scam tactic that he may be using here? We both signed the contract so if he dropped out and decided not to pay me at all would I be able to take legal action against him?what would you do in my situation?","title":"I have a client trying to breach the rules of 5he contract we've both signed.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540691960,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rzrx3\/i_need_to_get_a_divorce_for_my_sanity\/","id":"9rzrx3","body":"I\u2019m a 38 year old female in TN and I have 2 daughters ages 16 & 13. My husband wants a divorce, and so do I, but he keeps threatening me with our kids. He says that I\u2019ll never see them and that their primary residence will be with him. He\u2019s a convicted felon in the state of TX due to DUI\u2019s. Also I have Fibromyalgia and haven\u2019t been able to work in several years which leaves me no way of paying for said divorce. Any advice or information you can give me is much appreciated. Thank you! ","title":"I need to get a divorce for my sanity","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553743661,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6dvbj\/how_do_i_stop_my_family_from_looking_through_my\/","id":"b6dvbj","body":"This isn't a cry for help or anything, I'm not thinking of suicide, I had a near death experience earlier this week and it's better late than never to write this. How would I go about right now preparing to stop my family from looking from my journals if I ever died?\nI should clarify, I don't mind if anyone else reads my journals, but my family's always been really judgmental and it's my worst fear for them to look at my drawings and it's the last image I'd ever want anyone to have if an accident ever happened. My family explicitly said multiple times in the past that they would only look through my things if I died and I wouldn't be worrying about it otherwise. It's selfish, but I know my family and it's keeping me up at night.\n\nI'm underage and a really dumb teenager, is there anyway to go about this? Is there any way to ensure that nobody(besides law officials) looks through my journals that doesn't require trusting my family? Is there anything I can do right now? ","title":"How do I stop my family from looking through my journals if I die unexpectedly?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1506927009,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73r8ie\/ca_fix_it_ticket_for_passenger_side_break_light\/","id":"73r8ie","body":"So I have a 1992 carolla, it got banged up back in April and my assembly light was broken. My actual break light worked but I used brake light tape to have it street legal, in July I get stopped in Chino because the officer says my light isn't working, I take him to my trunk and say \"the light works\" he sees it but says it's not mounted correctly and gives me a fix it ticket, my court date is August 9th. \n\n\nI try to fix it but I have to replace my assembly and to replace that I have to replace the trunk which will run me $800 minimum including labor, I call the county court house and get my date pushed back to October 9th. So what I do is I call the U Pick U Save junkers and tell them I want them to pick up my car because I have a fix it ticket and can't repair it. \n\nThey do it, pay me $125 dollars and the title goes over to them and I have a bill of sale and my receipt. I then call the chino pd and tell them what's going on and they tell me since they can't inspect the vehicle that I need to go before a judge. \n\nI then call the San bernadino court house and the clerk schedules my day with the judge on October 10th. That's one day after my citation expires. I have a copy of my bill of sale and receipt and my explanation as to why I sold it, I don't have a job and  don't have the budget for the car to get fixed. \n\nShould I be worried about the citation expiring a day earlier or anything at all?","title":"[CA] Fix it ticket for passenger side break light","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552797312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b21jon\/emotional_support_kitty_al\/","id":"b21jon","body":"So ever since I was a child I had always been depressed and angry. I know exactly why that is due to self reflection and having to be my own therapist at times along with talking to friends. My parents never believed in the whole \"depression is an actual mental problem that can destroy your life\". They're the kind that just pray it away so I never got any help. Flash forward to now, I am a broke af college student that only makes $8\/hr so i can't afford therapy. I am trying to go to a therapist at school but i have to wait a few weeks. \nI have not been professionally diagnosed with depression but I have been told I have the signs. I want to get diagnosed and maybe some medication if my school can even prescribe that. But now onto the question.\n\nI have noticed that having a pet keeps me calm, happy and I don't stress as much. I am not looking for a service animal, I know I don't need one. I just need an emotional support animal. My apartment does not allow pets unless they are emotional support or service dogs. If I bring in my cat from old home can I keep her? If they ask for paperwork or anything proving that I need her what should I ask my therapist for? Is there even paperwork for such a thing? I don't want to seem like those people who fake it just to have a pet around. I want to do this the right way so I don't get in trouble and I have my ducks in a row.\n\nThank you! ","title":"Emotional Support Kitty (AL)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1549633364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aogmd1\/never_got_my_last_direct_deposit_my_manager\/","id":"aogmd1","body":"I put in my 2 weeks at my job but only finished about a week of it due to my new job needing me urgently. So my manager was pretty angry about it. I never received my direct deposit but I figured since it\u2019s my last paycheck it could be coming as a check in the mail\/they could have it. I texted and called my manager but she refuses to answer my calls or texts and it says the texts are delivering. I asked my old coworkers that are still working there and they all said they have been communicating with her through texts and calls with the same number and she has been replying. It has been over a week now since I was supposed to get paid and have been texting her. I am going to try and call the front desk, but I live 40 minutes away and do not want to drive all the way there and beg for my check. When can I take legal action? Do I first have to go in person and try and get it or what?","title":"Never got my last direct deposit & my manager refuses to communicate with me","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553960856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7co5c\/i_lost_my_check_told_my_employer_and_never_heard\/","id":"b7co5c","body":"This was a while ago and I just need to know what I could have done. I work in retail and her checks weekly, I lost my check looked everywhere, I asked my boss what could I do. She told me to they would cancel, and give me another one. I kept asking, nothing ever came from it. Can I still do anything about it.","title":"I lost my check, told my employer and never heard back.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571145233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di7q5r\/creating_and_enforcing_a_will\/","id":"di7q5r","body":"Hello,\n\nI am currently an aging expat outside of the USA. Each month I transfer and deposit money into my US bank account. In the event of my death, I would like this money to be given to my brother. How do I go about setting up a document to enforce this desire legally and can I do it without having to enter into the United States. Is there anything that could nullify the enforcement of the will such as me living in a foreign country when establishing it or if my death is declared a suicide.\n\nThank you all","title":"Creating and enforcing a Will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571073549,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhtr4e\/is_it_legal_to_force_kids_to_show_up_to_school\/","id":"dhtr4e","body":"A college in Tennessee has been out of power for weeks now. First in the heat (80+ degrees) and now in the winter (43 degrees). They say if the kids leave class (it\u2019s a phd program) that they will fail them. Is this even legal? There isn\u2019t any power and it\u2019s freezing inside","title":"Is it legal to force kids to show up to school with no power?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1508283114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/772l5r\/how_are_wages_calculated_for_child_support_ca\/","id":"772l5r","body":"To complicate matters, I live in California, and she lives in Iowa.\n\nI got papers for child support from her lawyer and the wages they say I\u2019m making is way off from what I figure. They are taking my weekly wage and multiplying that by 52, but I\u2019m figuring it based on pay periods. So I take my hourly pay, multiply by 80 to get one pay period, then double that for one month. Then I multiply that by 12 to get a year. The difference is almost a months pay.\n\nAre they doing it the long way just to screw me over? What can I do to fight how much I\u2019m having to pay? They are asking for literally half of my check. I can\u2019t afford that and still help my father who I\u2019m living with.\n\nAny helpful advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"How are wages calculated for child support? [CA]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541552581,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uuhm1\/using_cousins_address_to_go_to_school\/","id":"9uuhm1","body":"My current address is out of my school district and I don\u2019t wanna move schools is it legal to use my cousins home address to continue attending my school?  ","title":"Using cousins address to go to school.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571257276,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/div56q\/pay_decreased\/","id":"div56q","body":"Today I was told in human resources at my job that for now the last four years working at Walmart in my position at toys that apparently I've been coded incorrectly and that my job code was Sporting Goods","title":"Pay decreased","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539464957,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nxa54\/i_was_arrested_for_having_my_sisters_dl_in_my\/","id":"9nxa54","body":"Soo I was being an idiot and stole a $10 charger from X store .. cop happened to be at the front of the store when the sensor went off and immediately grabbed my backpack although I had just paid for one other item (I know dumb)\nAnd took the charger out and handcuffs me right away but statues in TX are (50-250) to be arrested so I'm getting a ticket while handcuffed and I had my sis DL from her leaving it at my house the night before n we were just about to meet up so I could give it to her.. anyways cop pulls her DL out my BP and I was frantic and he says her last name (different dad's) and I said it back as a question and then he said I was pretending to be my sister when he was writing the ticket.. even though I gave my full social after he said her last name so charged me with a felony B, for having her DL, this just recently happened.. wondering what I could do? Help? ","title":"I was arrested for having my sister's DL in my backpack","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541630327,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v47to\/is_my_boss_allowed_to_forbid_us_from_making\/","id":"9v47to","body":"In ohio though not sure it matters.\n\nMy district manager made all of his managers sign a paper saying we wouldn't go to his boss or HR without talking to him first because it wasn't fair to him.\n\nThis guy is very problematic, He told my employee she should wear different clothes (without any examples and IMO her clothes are completely acceptable) because \"even though I am a married man I sometimes look twice.\" I didn't hear the comment but as her boss I called HR right away and they told me I can only make a complaint if I witnessed the incident. \n\nHe screams at one manager so much she called HR and was forwarded to a three way call with the DM and his boss where she was forced to apologize. Her first performance review since then was a very personal attack on her character.\n\nIm documenting all abusive emails and recording our conference calls but I have no idea what to do with it.\n\nMy top priority is keeping my employees safe but I've never worked anywhere that HR wouldn't help.\n\nI guess my question other than leaving (Im looking for something new)  is there anything I should be doing in case I'm retaliated against?","title":"Is my boss allowed to forbid us from making complaints about him?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555333508,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdfqtc\/can_coppa_fine_you_from_an_esrb_submission\/","id":"bdfqtc","body":"So, let's start from the beginning.\n\nA. ESRB has NO age restriction policy on signing up as a developer \\[They should know, not all game devs nowadays are above 18!\\]\n\nB. I am under 18 \\[13\\], and was submitting a game for review. I got hit by 2 COPPA risks:\n\n​\n\n>*In the U.S., when engaging users on the Internet or via mobile applications, special protections are provided to children under 13 via the* [*Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)*](http:\/\/www.esrb.org\/privacy\/faq.aspx#12)*. Improper collection of personal information from children under 13 under COPPA may result in fines of up to $16,000 per collection. ESRB Privacy Certified is sanctioned by the Federal Trade Commission as a COPPA Safe Harbor and can help you avoid such fines. Even if your website or app is not marketed to children under 13, you are still required to comply with COPPA. ESRB Privacy Certified can ensure your compliance with COPPA regardless of your target audience. If your website or app is marketed to children outside of the U.S., the laws vary based on country or territory; ESRB Privacy Certified can assist with your compliance in these countries as well.*\n\n​\n\n>*Under COPPA, operators of internet services are responsible for the data collection of third parties including analytic firms, ad networks, and others. ESRB Privacy Certified can help you ensure that third parties are adhering to required data collection practices on your behalf.* \n\n​\n\nWhat do I do? :(","title":"Can COPPA fine you from an ESRB submission?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540838204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sfvqw\/im_the_victim_of_a_stabbing_does_me_going_or_not\/","id":"9sfvqw","body":"On the 30th of September I was the victim of a stabbing I was stabbed twice and The court date is for tomorrow, and it\u2019s 45 miles away from me and I have absolutely no way of getting there. Anyways I have not received a subpoena so I\u2019m assuming I don\u2019t have to go to court. I\u2019m just curious if me not going will effect the results? And he\u2019s getting charged with PC 245(a)(1) reads: \"Any person who commits an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm. Also he was on probation when the incident occurred. Thank you for any help! And sorry for my vocab I know it\u2019s sloppy ","title":"I\u2019m the victim of a stabbing does me going or not to the court hearing effect the decision?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540437055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r6k8g\/donating_sperm_to_friends\/","id":"9r6k8g","body":"So I\u2019m going to donate sperm to some awesome lesbian friends of mine. \n\nWe\u2019re going to meet with a lawyer and sign some paperwork so make sure everything is on the up and up. (It\u2019s their baby not mine\/I\u2019m not on the hook for anything). We\u2019re also going to have it medically supervised. Apparently that\u2019s a requirement to do the whole thing legally. \n\nAny questions o should be asking the lawyer when we meet next week?\n\nThis is in Ohio. ","title":"Donating sperm to friends","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571359422,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djfl1t\/what_can_i_do_legally\/","id":"djfl1t","body":"My father is emotionally, verbally, and sometimes physically abusive. I ran away from home, I am 18(M) and want to retrieve all of the possessions I have been forced to work for over the past 4 years, i.e (motorcycle, computer, clothing, etc) but I know if\/when I do go back he will continue the abuse, how do I claim my belongings and still stay out of the house?","title":"What can I do legally?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569708677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/damn1k\/who_would_be_at_fault_in_this_instance_qld_au\/","id":"damn1k","body":"OK, so near me is [this intersection](http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/joCkjkZ)\n\nThis is a mock-up, street names changed.\n\nAlso, right hand drive, left hand traffic country. \n\nSo, according to maps, Fake Street has a turn in it, the car park has a stop sign on its exit.\n\nNow about 20% of people that continue straight into the car park indicate left to enter, the rest do not.\n\nHowever, about 80% of people that continue on fake street will indicate right, despite, by my reading of the road rules, this is a right hand bend in a road, and by the markings (the crudely drawn dotted line at the bend on the left hand side) indicate that the car park is, in fact, a segregated road from fake street.\n\nSo therefore, continuing around to the right on fake street does not require indication (so I do not, as a road does not require indication to turn a corner)\n\nHowever, I have had a few near misses by taking the right hand bend to continue onto fake street where people have pulled out of the stop sign and nearly collided with me.\n\nNow, maybe my interpretation of a continuing road around a bend is wrong, but if there was an accident, and I was not indicating right, would I be in the wrong? Or would the person pulling out if the stop sign?\n\nI also am among the small percentage that indicates left to enter the car park.","title":"Who would be at fault in this instance? (QLD, AU)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554795777,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb53yt\/need_advice_reinstate_suspended_license_mn\/","id":"bb53yt","body":"Hello! I am writing a post for the first time to hopefully avoid a complete panic attack.\n\nCurrent situation: recently move to MN from TX. Engaged, purchased home, getting married in a few weeks and needless to say life is overwhelming right now. In the midst of this I got a ticket (non moving violation) for not switching over my Driver License from TX to MN within 30 days. Found the ticket while going through wedding organization and realized I had not paid it. NOW PAID IN FULL (late fee plus ticket).\n\nTricky part: As I was checking out to pay I noticed because of late payment my Drivers License was suspended. \ud83e\udd22\n\nOutstanding Questions: How do I reinstate my license? Is paying the fine enough? Should I contact a lawyer to get this cleaned up so I do not have any hiccups with my upcoming marriage license?\n\nPs yes, have googled. I have not found anything concrete other than \u201cpay fine\u201d and get reinstated. \ud83d\ude29","title":"NEED ADVICE: reinstate suspended license MN","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442380841,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l4wng\/maryland_divorce_questions_from_a_husband_alimony\/","id":"3l4wng","body":"-I'm currently separated from my wife and we're about to move forward with the separation agreement.  She has come to me with what she expects\/wants from our separation\/divorce, and I'm coming here to get a general impression of whether her expectations are reasonable or if I should chance this issue in court or through a mediator (want to avoid that if it's likely they'll give her what she expects, or more, to avoid hassle and wasted money). Having said that, I will be seeking guidance from a lawyer within the next couple weeks, but would like to get some input of recent Divorce trends from some legal professionals working in Maryland.  \n\n\n*I'm including most of the details that I think would be relevant, but I'm not a lawyer and obviously don't know exactly which details are needed.  However, I'm not looking for exact advice down to the dollar and want to keep this anonymous, so I'm not including super specific details.  If you need to know more to provide input, please let me know.\n\n\n-Background Details:\n\n* Divorcing due to voluntary reasons (no drama or foul play from either party; completely amicable)\n* Married 8+ years\n* Both around 30 yrs old\n* No kids (or kids on the way)\n* Each have a car (mine in my name $20k - $9k left to pay, hers in both names $33k - $20k left to pay)\n* Own a home (purchased for $300k in both names - put about $20k in renovations and improvements - probably has $30-50k in equity due to renovations and improvements) -- mortgage is about $1700\/month\n* My income - ~$85k \n* Her income - ~$25k\n* Two dogs (acquired while married)\n* She's finishing her degree, probably another 1.5 years (depending on how many classes she can take around her full time job).  After which, she should (hopefully) be able to get a better paying job.\n* I moved out when we separated and am currently renting a room in a friend's house for about $800\/month.\n\n\n-Her wants\/expectations:\n\n* Keep her car\n* Keep\/Own the house and 90% of the furnishings, to include any equity (I forfeit any rights and ownership of the house)\n* Keep the dogs (I travel a lot so we agree that's best for them)\n* Receive $2k a month in alimony \"until she can make enough money to support herself\".\n\n\n-My issues:\n\n* The first of two things I have anxiety about is the $2k a month.\nI'm not sure if that's a reasonable amount.  \n\n* The second, and main, issue I have is the forfeiture of the house (not really the furniture though).\n\n\n-My questions: \n\n* Is $2k\/month a reasonable amount to pay in alimony (from a legal\/mediator perspective) for our circumstance? \n* What are reasonable qualifiers for termination of the $2k\/month alimony? \n* Is her request for complete ownership of the house and it's value reasonable?  (It seems insane to even have to ask, but I think one of her friends convinced her that she's entitled to it, and I just don't know what the state awards to spouses in these situations).  If not, what would be common, fair terms to put in our Sep Agreement?\n* Is it common practice that she is entitled to continue living in our house?  IOTW, is there a reason I can't make an argument for keeping the house and her moving out?\n* Do these terms seem fair and similar to what a judge or mediator would decide, poor for me in comparison to what would likely be awarded in court, or great for me relative to court awardings?\n\n\n-My intention is not to stiff her, but I don't want to get screwed by agreeing to crazy terms and be legally obligated and indebted to her.  I'd rather come to fair terms with her personally (without lawyers going for the balls) that will assist her in getting on with her life comfortably until she graduates and is able to support herself with her own income.  \n\n\nThanks","title":"[Maryland] Divorce Questions from a Husband -- Alimony and Asset Division","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542250823,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x75fs\/leaving_job_at_university_discussion_of_managers\/","id":"9x75fs","body":"I am leaving a post at a California University. \n\nDuring my tenure, I came to know of a number of actions on the part of my manager that involve apparent fraud. Some of these I partially witnessed, some through heresay. \n\nI would like to let the University's oversight officer know, basically, that the University should know its own management better to protect itself and its students from fraud. At the same time, I don't want to expose myself to defamation liability (would avoid statements of fact) or get entangled in anything. \n\nIs this kind of reporting protected in any way, or is it dangerous from the standpoint of personal liability to say anything? ","title":"Leaving job at University, discussion of manager's actions lead to defamation exposure?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570504709,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deudxm\/so_theres_this_girl_at_my_school\/","id":"deudxm","body":"So I'm I high rn  school at the moment and these this girl that constantly hits me calls me retarded and moron and will hit me. Which will leave bruises and marks when so dose I Constantly tell her to knock that shit off and stop. She always replies will your not going to hit a girl are you and calls me retarded. I'm a gay 15 male. Last week she hit me real hard and I stabed her with a pencil she stopped for the day and shut up. Today she came to me a said if I ever hit her agian I will sue. And then continued her normal actions like hitting a calling me names. And I'm afraid of even liking at her so she don't do anything accuse me of sexual assault. Dose she even have anything against me or do I just brush is off. Plz help she's a SJW and I thinks going to pull a d sexual assault on me\nHelp","title":"So theres this girl at my school","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552983043,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2upho\/do_i_have_any_kind_of_case_against_my_last\/","id":"b2upho","body":"Okay, I\u2019ll be as blunt as possible as to make this as short as possible. Preface- I know I fucked up in the first place, but I believe my employer messed up as well.\n\nI worked at this store for about 2 years. In the last few weeks in which I worked there, I did not have a cellphone that was working- so I had to use Facebook on the work computer to message my Boyfriend (Since he picks me up from work and such) to get updates from him as to where and when he would get me from work. \nI would only be on FB for MAX 1-2 mins at a time, just enough to send a message finding out where he is or his ETA. One night, I guess I had forgotten to log out. Well- two or three days after forgetting, I came into work and was immediately fired. My store manager had told me that my supervisor, her, and two other of my coworkers had ALL gone through and read every message I had. Especially the ones between me and my BF.. She had even printed out certain private messages and compiled them into a word document, in which she tried to highlight and read aloud in front of me while firing me.\nI was told the reason I was being fired was because; 1) My manager did not like that I has complained\/vented about certain coworkers and their faults\/flaws to my boyfriend. and 2) Because there were messages sent between us that hinted\/\u201cproved\u201d to my manager that I have been using certain drugs recreationally.\n\nShe never gave me a drug test- she simply told me \u201cI wont waste my time. Just go home because youre fired\u201d \n\nSince then, Ive lost all income, my housing, everything. Im living in my car right now and have suffered greatly (along with MAJOR embarrassment from my manager showing and talking about those messages with everybody whom i work with.) emotionally due to all of this..\n\nEveryone I talk to about this says that this was wrongful termination.. But I am unsure.\n\nSo, my question is- Do I have a case at all? Did they have the right to see that i was still logged in, manually go to my messages, and go thru each individual messages that I had sent to people? And Show\/print out said messages to other coworkers? ","title":"Do I have \/ANY\/ kind of case against my last employer for the way they terminated me? CA\/USA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445721063,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q2q2r\/ma_large_holes_in_bathroom_wall_absentee\/","id":"3q2q2r","body":"So, this is pretty close to \"not my circus, not my monkeys\" for me at this point because I'm moving out next month. I'm mostly asking for my roommates' benefit.\n\nSo, the building we live in is three floors, each floor is its own condo unit. We rent the unit on the second floor from the owner of that unit. I have never met this guy. He's pretty hands off. Generally only one roommate (the one who has lived here longest) ever has any kind of contact with him, although the other roommate has spoken to him over the phone once or twice.\n\nI guess there was some kind of leak into the unit downstairs, so a month or so ago a plumber came over to fix it. Whatever the leaky part was, he apparently didn't know where it was at first, so there are two holes each in two different walls. On the correct wall, the holes are pretty sizeable. The largest one is probably about three feet high. On the incorrect wall, they're smaller, but still pretty big. It's an old building with lath-and-plaster walls and the plumber had to cut through lots of laths to get at the leaky part. I'm guessing it would be a fairly easy fix for someone who knows what they're doing, but I don't know what I'm doing, so I can't be sure.\n\nThe holes have been there for around a month, maybe longer. They're in the bathroom, so there is a lot of moisture in the air. My roommate talked to the landlord a day or two after the plumber was here to ask what the plan was. He was told that the plumber would be back to fix it, and that nobody had to be here to let him in because he has a key. I'm pretty sure the plumber having a key is quite illegal, but it hasn't affected us because obviously the guy hasn't come back. I also don't know if it makes any sense to have the plumber come back, given that the actual plumbing is done and all we need fixed are the walls. I don't know if my roommate has talked to the LL again since then.\n\nSo--what are our\/their rights here? What are the magic words to make the landlord take action about this? There has been a small hole in the bathroom ceiling since I moved in a year ago that has also not been fixed, so it doesn't seem like taking care of his property is a priority for this guy. Although when I first moved in it was dripping water and now it isn't, so who knows.\n\nI feel bad for my roommates because they need to find a new person to fill my room and having gaping holes in the bathroom probably isn't going to help entice people to want to live here.","title":"[MA] Large holes in bathroom wall, absentee landlord--what can we do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442329068,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l1rph\/can_a_father_sue_for_kidnapping_mom_decides_do_to\/","id":"3l1rph","body":"A friend of mine is having dificulties with her husband (Physical abuse on her not the child).\n\nShe's putting up with that for about a year now and she is ready to move out. We offered to help her out and let her stay at our house until she gets on her feet.\n\nHer main concern his that we thinks that her husband can sue her for Kidnapping if she leaves the house with her 2 year old daughter.\n\n* We are both located in Alameda County, CA\n* She is a French citizen with a green card she got as her spouse. (Main reason no divorce has been filed, since it has been less than 2 years)\n* She has police report and doctor documents proving the physical abuse.\n\nThanks for any advice.\n\nEdit: County","title":"Can a father sue for Kidnapping mom decides do to leave the house with the kids?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553859015,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6w4eo\/can_i_refuse_a_school_drug_test\/","id":"b6w4eo","body":"I am not currently in any extracurricular or athletics and I am a senior in highschool. My school will be having dogs walking around campus sniffing our cars and will search our vehicles if the dogs hit on drugs which I understand is reasonable suspicion or whatever. But if they don\u2019t find drugs in my vehicle and ask me to pee in a cup do I have the right to refuse it? ","title":"Can I refuse a school drug test?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571512584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk8a5w\/rm_are_being_dicks\/","id":"dk8a5w","body":"I am unsure as to the legality of what RM have done, and that's why I'm here.\n\nSo  in South Lanarkshire, in Scotland (unsure about rest of UK for what happens), all the school computers are managed by the same organisation - in our case, RM. They control the internet access and block inappropriate sites within schools.\n\nThey also have some sort of agreement with microsoft so that we all have microsoft accounts for school use only, and this enables us to download and use the entire microsoft office suite at home for free.\n\nThere is one problem with this though - they take control of the privacy tab in the computer-wide settings app without getting the consent of the user first. You just open up an office app, and it tells you \"The privacy settings on your device have been updated\". So I go to check my privacy settings, and sure enough, there is a message saying that some options are controlled or hidden by my organisation. ON MY HOME COMPUTER.\n\nAs said before, I am unsure whether this is legal or not, as it is my computer but my parents are the ones who signed the internet access documents. I would go into the proper legal system about this as well if I was old enough, but at this time, I am under the legal age to go into this system (16 in Scotland).\n\nWhat should I do if at all?","title":"RM Are Being Dicks","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1441668607,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k10dt\/landlord_is_charging_3200_in_unfair_damages_after\/","id":"3k10dt","body":"This is a post for a friend, living in Mississippi. He and his wife moved out of a furnished apartment last month and now have received a $3200 for damages including replacement of furniture, replacement for counter top and stove and cleaning. I've personally visited the house when the moved out and I know the furniture does not have any damage worth total replacement. In fact my friends took pictures of the entire house (as memories) and these pictures show the house is very much intact and the charges are unfair. The landlord and the manager have two pictures as proof of damages. These 2 pictures show a burn mark on a dining table and a dirt on a stove top. Neither of which are worth replacement. And they do not have any pictures of any other furniture in the house. Even after repeated discussion, they refuse to show more proof or reconsider the charges. I need to add that the landlord also decided to not refund a $250 security deposit they had paid. Now they are threatening to go to collections. The deadline for payment is in a week. \n\nWhat is the right thing to do here? Should they just pay? Or go to small claims court or approach a lawyer? Or is the onus on the landlord to collect the money and should they just ignore all further requests for money and consider that the $250 deposit is not worth retrieving? (They are not worried about the $250. They just don't want to pay the $3200.)\n\nTLDR: Mississippi landlord is asking for $3200 in unfair furniture replacement charges. We have picture proof to show furniture is intact. Deadline to pay is in a week..","title":"Landlord is charging $3200 in (unfair) damages after I move out and is threatening to go to a collection agency. What do I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554494138,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9vumo\/tennessee_committed_one_case_of_theft_in_my\/","id":"b9vumo","body":"My university has a gym in which there were a string of thefts from the locker room. My dumbass finally broke down and gave into temptation to finally get money by going into the lockers. The thing is: the campus police actually set up a sting; I was recorded as going into the locker and taking money out of this guy\u2019s wallet. I admitted to it the following morning and the officer in question said he\u2019s going to bring it up with the Dean of Students for my university. I have made a mistake and want to learn from it so that this doesn\u2019t happen once more.\n\nHowever, since there have been other thefts going on and since I\u2019m the only one who\u2019s been caught (to my knowledge), what should I expect to happen?","title":"[Tennessee] committed one case of theft in my university\u2019s locker room. Was recorded due to a sting the campus police were doing.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570208513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dda5cp\/what_legal_consequences_could_i_have_faced_if_i\/","id":"dda5cp","body":"I already plead guilty and paid all fines now. Now I\u2019m just waiting to get the super speeder fine to be mailed to me by the state of Georgia. A lot of family & friends have told me I was crazy for spending so much money on the ticket($1175 not including super speeder fine)  and that I should\u2019ve just not paid.I\u2019m just going to call it a lesson learned but I\u2019m still curious.","title":"What legal consequences could I have faced if I decided to not pay an out of state(GA) traffic ticket? I live in NY.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554917374,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbos9z\/birthmom_rights\/","id":"bbos9z","body":"Almost 8 years ago, I chose to give my baby up for adoption. (Semi Open adoption) I signed a lot of paperwork at the time. I do not have any copies of that paperwork. But there was an agreement\/contract that was signed saying that for the first 6 years, they are to send pictures\/letter twice a year. Then once a year after that until the child turns 18. \nI only signed paperwork in Tennessee. But the agency is in Kansas, and the adoptive family is in another state. \nWhat I want to know is: if the family stops sending those pictures and letters, do I have any options for making sure I get them? Keeping in mind the only contact I have is through the agency, and not with the family directly. I\u2019ve never spoken with the child. I\u2019ve only written the child and family a couple letters.","title":"Birthmom rights","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569272791,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8cxh4\/landlord_entered_our_house_without_notice_and\/","id":"d8cxh4","body":"I'm gona apologize for grammar upfront because this just happened today and I'm freaking out. \nEarlier today both I and my bf received an email from our landlord stating that when they did an inspection on Wednesday (which we never received advanced notice this was happening) they found multiple issues around the house that we need to have fixed. One of those issues is \"water damage\" on a linoleum floor in a spare room where we keep reptiles. There is no damage to the floor, but this is what has me the most worried. \nSome slight backstory with this landlord: we just recently had our 6 month lease with them expire. I requested we sign another 6 month lease, which they agreed to. However when they emailed the new lease agreement it was for only 1 month but with the full 6 months total rent to be due. I emailed them back asking for it to be fixed and never heard from them again till today about the inspection. I had emailed them 2 more times with reminders about the lease but didnt get anything back. There was never a discussion about a month to month basis after our lease expired. \nMy thought right now is to use the money for rent to put down for another place (as I'm assuming they will fight to keep our deposit anyway) and since we aren't on any lease or signed paperwork I'm not sure what would happen to us. I have saved the emails from them and have over 80 pictures of dated previous damages to the home.","title":"Landlord entered our house without notice and \"found\" some things that need fixing at our expense.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442943335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lyle6\/stuck_in_apartment_with_cheating_girlfriend\/","id":"3lyle6","body":"Hello, kinda title.\n\nI can't get out of my lease, it is over in January 31st. If I just pack up and leave, what can happen? Will it just go to collections like everything else or will I be expecting jail? I really need out of this place, any information would be amazing.\n\nEdit im located in Arizona, US","title":"Stuck in apartment with cheating girlfriend...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540701465,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s0pm1\/need_custody_advice\/","id":"9s0pm1","body":"So my girlfriend has recently turned 19 and her parents have had 50\/50 custody of her for the past 8+ years. Her father remarried and recently the stepmother crossed the line, causing me and my gf to question whether she would continue going to that house every other week. She is very sad and depressed, some might even say she\u2019s oppressed by her stepmother and I want her out of that house. If anyone can give us advice I would greatly appreciate it. ","title":"Need custody advice","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552175319,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az9qdg\/do_i_have_a_case_supervisor_calls_me_fat_and\/","id":"az9qdg","body":"My husband wants me to seek out a employment attorney but do I have a case? It\u2019s long I\u2019m sorry \n\nBackground: I work for a religious university in California. I started as a temp and now have been there four years. I work in a kitchen. \n\nWhen I started it was and continues to be a extremely hostile work environment (but it pays okay and has medical). The prominent ethnicity in the kitchen was filipino. Other then the young woman (20-30s) we all did the same job and work separate from everyone else. \n\n my supervisor would tell us young\u201d women that we were build like men and could do all the heavy lifting. One example being 2 of us young women were set to work a all day event alone with no supervisors. We had to move 3000 bottles of water from the basement kitchen to the delivery truck then to the event. We could hardly push the pallet jack. Then load it onto a truck with no experience. The pallet jack fell of and we have to carry the cases of water. The elevator broke due to the weight of the pallet.\n\nThe supervisor would\/ does tell me and other we need to be on a diet or to not eat things so we can be sexy like her. When i started there I was unmarried. The supervisor would tell me you have to lose weight to get a husband. \n\nAt one point my supervisor got mad that the young woman got a long and we were all sent to separate work stations and told we were not allowed to speak. But everyone else was allowed to talk. She would time our bathroom breaks and we were not allowed to go if someone else was in the bathroom. Because she didn\u2019t want us \u201changing out\u201d \n\nLunch break we were encouraged to clock out and continue working. Supervisor makes a point to show everyone that she clocks out but keeps working. I did that because it was strongly discouraged to take a lunch or a ten min break let along 2. Most days were 10-14 hour days. If you tried to go home after 8 you would be in trouble the next day.  \n\nI have over 14 burns on one arm due to having no proper oven mitts and the oven being 6 inches off the ground it\u2019s hard to get in and out of. It\u2019s like playing the game operation every time you reach in and hope you don\u2019t get burnt. I have my hand sliced open but was not allowed to go to the doctor. I have spilt boiling wanted on my arm and shoulder. I was then made fun of by a different supervisor for getting injured. \n\nThe director of my department has expressed that we are not to go to HR or we will be fired. He makes sexual comments about people\u2019s butts, blow job jokes, and boob reference. When he talks to you he gives you massages. Very inappropriate. Our director will tell everyone but the person he wants to fire that he was going to fire them. As well as when students tour our kitchen he will tell them how horrible of employees we are that we never show up to work and don\u2019t do our jobs as we all stand there. \n\nWe must arrive 10 min early off the clock to be in uniform. \n\nIn my recent evaluation I was told that the university evaluation system is 1-5 but our director said we are all average and are to be graded 1-3 i got a 2 on attendance because I called out 2 times in 4 years for being bedridden sick. So I didn\u2019t qualify for a raise. \n\nAs of recently since I got married my supervisor would tell me don\u2019t take birth control you\u2019ll never get pregnant. So I take it later in the day so she won\u2019t see. She well tell me why aren\u2019t you pregnant it\u2019s because your fat you need to lose weight to have a baby. Everyone has a baby but you. This is a daily thing. To the point where my husband has noticed how depressed I\u2019ve been over it. \n\nSo advice other then find another job (I\u2019m working on it) would be appreciated. \n\n\n","title":"Do I have a case? Supervisor calls me fat and tells me I won\u2019t ever have a baby.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504447755,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xtbwu\/in_what_is_reasonable_notice\/","id":"6xtbwu","body":"I received a subpoena at 2330 last night for a deposition in 3 days. Indiana Trial Rule 30(b)(1) states:\n \"A party desiring to take the deposition of any person upon oral examination shall give reasonable notice in writing to every other party to the action. \"\n\nIs 3 days, one being a holiday, considered \"reasonable notice\"?","title":"[IN] What is \"reasonable notice\"?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553448177,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4yuvc\/sister_just_moved_needs_help\/","id":"b4yuvc","body":"So a few months ago (back in January) my older sister and her wife moved out of a senior living trailer,with my one year old nephew and 90 year old grandmother with terminal dementia. The place they moved into needs a lot of work the landlord did a half ass job fixing the place and pained the day before they moved in. Everything was okay until a few days ago,my sister got a letter in the mail saying that she had to take the beware of dog sign out of the window (the dog is an emotional support German shepherd) among other things. So what gets me is since they moved from a handicap accessible place to well one that\u2019s not grandma has fallen countless times (we manage to catch her), but the landlord refuses to put any handicap things in the house stating that \u201cgrandma will die soon anyways\u201d  it\u2019s to the point where my sister wants to move again which I know will definitely kill grandma. What should they do? They don\u2019t have any money for a lawyer since they are working on getting my niece and nephew back (that\u2019s a different issue entirely) I\u2019m just worried for all of them ","title":"Sister just moved needs help","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555342381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdhcho\/being_summoned_to_civil_court_for_13k_after\/","id":"bdhcho","body":"Hey reddit! Posting on behalf of a friend of mine who doesn't have reddit but is looking for some answers.\n\nShe just received a summons to civil court for $13k. She was evicted and broke her lease back in Oct 2015 - life took a turn for the worse and she couldn't pay rent for a few months. The building management is now coming for that year's Nov\/Dec\/Jan rent (what would have remained on her lease) plus eviction charges and any legal fees they may incur. Neither of us have any idea how she might proceed or what to expect of the upcoming process. I'm trying to help calm her down by at least getting her some answers\/tangible next steps.\n\nDoes she need to find a lawyer for this summons?\n\nWill she be forced to pay it all back at once or is it possible to get on payment plans for something like this?\n\nIs there any chance any of it would be forgiven?\n\nShe's also telling me the cost they're holding her on the hook for is the full unsubsidized cost of the apartment, but her monthly rent was actually half of what's in this summons. What's the best way to address that?","title":"Being summoned to civil court for $13k after breaking lease (NYC)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555367353,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdm7hh\/sistersinlaw_needs_help_getting_her_kid_back\/","id":"bdm7hh","body":"Two years ago my sister-in-law Alice (not her real name) decided to go off the deep end and stop taking all her medication for her mental illnesses and self medicate. She also left her husband of 7 years for a real winner who would verbally abuse her and the kids. When he started doing this she turned to her babies fathers to take her children 10 and 5. The father Jerry (not his real name)of the 10 year old has temporary full physical custody and half legal custody with reasonable parenting time. The father John (not his real name) of the 5 year old has the same. Alice has now  has been sober and on all her medications for the last 7 months and working to get better. She has talked to her manipulative ex once since she left him and now everyone thinks she is going back to him, in their defense she did say she loves him and misses him and hates everyone for not letting her be with him. She has been asking Jerry if she can see her child and he says he doesn\u2019t feel comfortable letting her see him. She is asking to come to his house and see the child with him and his wife there. This has now been going on for weeks. She does not have a job to buy a lawyer to go to court, so we are wondering how do we go about going to court to get parenting time and legal documentation that she is aloud to see her child. Would she have to go to the court house or through the county? She lives in Minnesota. \n\nTLDR: sister-in-law messed up and lost her kids and now would like visitation with them. \n\nEdit formatting on mobile.","title":"Sisters-in-law needs help getting her kid back.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570631091,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfhrp0\/courtesy_bike_uk\/","id":"dfhrp0","body":"I\u2019ve been in an accident that wasn\u2019t my fault I\u2019ve two bikes on one policy I\u2019m riding a curtesy bike now as my bike was written off and my insurance runs out in one day off I don\u2019t renew my policy am I still insured for the loan bike","title":"Courtesy bike. (U.K.)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555079973,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcebfn\/i_need_help_finding_the_names_of_the_documents_i\/","id":"bcebfn","body":"I\u2019m looking to get an individual\u2019s criminal record pertaining to one certain crime. I don\u2019t reside in Arizona, and need to have this information mailed to me.\n\nHowever, I\u2019m having trouble finding the specific names of the documents I require.\n\nThe case is related to a sex offender with multiple probation violations, and I want to know everything that happened from the day police were involved to present day. Police reports, court notes, motions filed, agreed probation terms, violation reports, etc.\n\nPublic records wants the specific names of the documents, which I don\u2019t know. What specifically should I request in order to get the full picture?","title":"I need help finding the names of the documents I need to file a public records request - Maricopa County, Arizona","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569570764,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9x4vy\/employer_withholding_pay\/","id":"d9x4vy","body":"Hi, I recently left a position due to chronic issues with incredibly late pay (sometimes over a week late on a weekly schedule.) other employees have confided in me that this is a regular occurrence. Additionally my employer and I had a verbal contract for reimbursement of travel funds which I have yet to ever be reimbursed a cent for. Upon quitting I still have not received my paycheck from the week prior to my leaving and when I attempted to contact the business owner I get no response. Do I have any legal recourse? What\u2019re the first steps I should take?\n\nThanks LA <3","title":"Employer withholding pay","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571253417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diu75a\/statute_of_limitations_on_child_abuse_in_tx\/","id":"diu75a","body":"I'm from Texas in the US, so I'm aware there is no statute of limitations on child abuse- but I was curious to know if there would happen to be any exclusions from this law- Specifically for school districts.?\n\nI suffered some pretty heavy physical and phsycological abuse during my Elementary school years, and it's come to light in more recent years that most- if not all- of the school staff had been informed of this abuse, and all willingly chose not to report the teacher responsible to the authorities. \n\nI have, since the memories have returned to me, atttempted to get ahold of my disciplinary records- but been stone walled by the school.\n\nAnd, this brings a second question; can the district, legally, deny me access to my own personal school records? I've been told that they dispose of disciplinary records after a set ammount of years, but something tells me they still have mine, and I would need them should I take my case to court.","title":"Statute of Limitations on Child abuse in TX","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551907893,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay496l\/can_apartment_management_search_my_apartment_when\/","id":"ay496l","body":"The management for my apartment sent out an email today stating that they would be doing searches starting next week to see if any residents have unauthorized pets. I went in and asked if I could be notified when they will be entering my apartment and they said no.\n\nI don't have any unauthorized pets, but my issue is that I'm not comfortable having people nose around my apartment. I understand that they're trying to catch people off guard so they are less likely to be sneaky about having any unauthorized pets, but I am really uncomfortable about having to worry about my possessions.\n\nIs this legal in Florida?","title":"Can apartment management search my apartment when I am not home without my consent? (FL)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553743198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6dsrq\/mother_was_assaulted_when_i_was_a_kid_i_wanna\/","id":"b6dsrq","body":"I\u2019m sorry if I spell anything wrong or if I have bad grammar, English is my third language.\n\nLong backstory Sorry. When I was around 5 or 6 my Mom was assaulted by a woman who my dad had an affair with, (I didn\u2019t know anything about this until I was 16, All I remembered was that my mom got punched and her hair dragged by some woman) This woman knocked on our door when me and my dad were at home watching tv, I remember a lot of this day even though it was about 11 years ago. I opened the door and she told me to get my Mom and I told her she wasn\u2019t home, when my dad got to the door he told me to go to my room and I did. Shortly after I hear my dad yelling at her and telling her to leave. I run to back to the door and the woman is still just sitting on the stairs and not leaving. My mom gets home about 2 minutes after this. My mom sees the woman and they start yelling, the woman points at me and starts cussing but I can\u2019t remember much of what she said, then she hits my mom, so my dad went down and stopped her they held her against the wall while my neighbors were calling the cops and I was just crying. She gets away from my mom and dad but the cops get to her and she only gets 400$ fine...\n\nA week ago when we were moving I found some documents and everything about this was there. Basically my dad cheated on my Mom about 2 years before the incident, she took him back but I read that the woman had been threatening my mom a little before she came to our  apartment and she had been stalking me and my Mom and threatening to hurt me. \n\nWhat she did to my mom affected me a lot throughout my whole life, In the text it said that I was over protective of my mom after this and that I even was violent and Idk what it\u2019s called but basically I developed anger issues and I was scared of women who had the same name as the woman. \n\nIdk if what I said here was necessary for what I\u2019m about to ask but, what can I do? How do I find this woman? I only know her first name and what city she might live in. In my opinion a 400$ fine for stalking, threatening someone and assaulting someone is stupid and it\u2019s not justice at all. Is there anything that I can do?\n\nBasically what I\u2019m asking is if I can somehow get her prison time for what she did?\n\nIf I\u2019m in the wrong sub please tell me I\u2019m pretty new to Reddit. I live in Sweden so the laws might be different.","title":"Mother was assaulted when I was a kid, I wanna know who the person is.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539456995,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nw90b\/ontario_handheld_device_ticket\/","id":"9nw90b","body":"Hi Everyone,\n\nThis is my very post on Reddit and hoping someone can help me out with this ticket. I am trying to figure out if I am guilty of this ticket or not. \n\n​\n\nI work at a whole sale distribution company, where we do deliveries to other companies. I finished work and was talking to my girlfriend while i was getting into my car. I placed the phone on the center console of my Honda Civic with speaker mode on and started to drive (Please note, the phone was placed on a stationary area so it would not move while i drive, also the phone is visible to me so I do not need to readjust my driving position). My call got disconnected with my girlfriend and she tried calling me back. I was waiting at a Red traffic light and went ahead to swipe okay on my phone to answer the call (I did not pick up the phone or anything, just touched the screen to answer the call). A few seconds later, a police officer walks to my car and asks what I was doing. I said I am talking to my girlfriend and he asked me to pull over. I got issued a handheld device ticket. \n\n​\n\nThe police report indicated the following in his report: I was holding my phone, was on a phone call and was looking down in my car. I do admit i was looking down because my phone was there and my girlfriend was calling me but I DID NOT pick up my phone physically from the console.  I had the phone placed on the center console of my car the entire time. I hired a paralegal to help me fight this ticket and he got a offer to reduce the ticket to 2 points and $300 instead of 3 points and $490. \n\n​\n\nBelow is a link with pictures to where I had my phone placed through the entire trip, also what are the odds of me winning even though the police officer lied in his report saying I was holding it. \n\nr\/https:\/\/www.motology.co.uk\/products\/accessories-for-honda-civic-2012-2014-4dr-sedan-abs-water-cup-holder-decoration-cover-trims-1pcs\/\n\n​\n\nDid I do something illegal? What are my odds of winning the trial? Should I take the second offer I received? My lawyer recommends me taking the second offer but I don't know if he is just saying that so he can just end the case. What happens if I take the second offer? Will it still state as handheld device ticket? \n\n​\n\nAny help is appreciated. ","title":"Ontario Handheld device Ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569600213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da2hqf\/failure_to_appear_for_traffic_ticket_from_2014\/","id":"da2hqf","body":"I currently have a suspended NC license and I\u2019m going through the process of cleaning up my past from previous issues resulting from psychosis. I pulled my driving record and found that I have a charge of driving without headlights in NC and a failure to appear in court for said ticket. I have checked and I do not have a warrant for my arrest and I have an option to either contact a lawyer in the county that the ticket was issued in or pay off the ticket, and the FTA and plead guilty for the said offenses. My question is, in pleading guilty for the offenses will my license still be revoked for an additional amount of time or would I be good to get my license back. \n\nThanks for the help.","title":"Failure to Appear for traffic ticket from 2014","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554951533,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbv330\/i_am_a_master_tenant_in_nyc_i_want_to_evict\/","id":"bbv330","body":"Dear Reddit, \n\nI recently found out my problematic roommate is not on the lease and never sent in any identification or paperwork to property management.  (I must emphasize property management did not come after us for this information despite having his contact information and being well aware of his presence). We signed a lease for the past year but he was never officially approved so my old room mates who are not living here anymore are still on the lease and were not given tenant surrender forms.  This is property management\u2019s beef, not mine.  I still have contact with these previous room mates and we are on great terms and they understand what is happening. \n\nMy other room mate is moving out because he has made her uncomfortable.  He\u2019s broken mutually agreed upon rules between the three of us concerning guests and nudity and has blocked us on his phone when we bring up grievances and boundaries.   The room mate moving out has seen his dick in the kitchen, the dress code issue was discussed our very first meeting (we are both women btw). He\u2019s stolen food, etc.  There are plenty of problems going on with him.  I feel wildly uncomfortable being stonewalled by someone not on the lease and I can\u2019t tolerate it.\n\nI need to know what is the best process for evicting him with a holdover in NYC.  Can I write an unofficial note to him asking him to leave before serving him papers?  Would it be considered a threat to ask him to leave or else I would serve him with papers?  Nobody wants to go to court but he needs a push.. Also what relation can the server be to me?  I am aware that I cannot give him these papers directly.  I don\u2019t know anyone who knows him.  He is also quite avoidant and sneaks in at night after we\u2019ve gone to bed.  Does the time matter when we serve him?  Can we lie to get him to open his door so we can have someone else unrelated hand him the papers? (I mean unrelated as in not involved in the conflict).\n\nI\u2019m trying to figure out the first steps of this process.  I figure I should text him about me wanting him out because he avoids me face-to-face, I\u2019ve written a sample of what I want to send him but I\u2019m not sure if he can use it against me:\n\n\n\u201c*******, I\u2019m asking you to consider leaving within 30 days.  You are not on the lease, I am, and I hold the power legally in this situation.  I don\u2019t want to go to court but I absolutely will.\n\nWe\u2019ve tried to talk to you. You continue to break rules, you don\u2019t communicate with us when we are civil, and you\u2019ve made us feel unsafe on multiple occasions ignoring boundaries we\u2019ve tried to set.  I do not want you in this apartment anymore.  You\u2019ve proven that you cannot handle living with other adults and upholding mutual agreements in a shared living situation.\u201d\n\nWhat do you think? Any input is appreciated.","title":"I am a master tenant in NYC, I want to evict roommate not on the lease, how do I proceed?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552616159,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b196qu\/thailand_landlord_wants_to_kick_me_out_and_break\/","id":"b196qu","body":"Hello!\n\n​\n\nSorry, long story incoming. Questions at the end.\n\n​\n\nI stay in Thailand right now and I renewed a 1-year lease in November 2018. I have been staying here, in the same room (same landlord) since November 2017. I walked into this condominium complex in November 2017, asked them if they have an available room in one of their buildings then someone from the complex (staff, not the owner) showed me this room where I'm staying now. I said okay, I like this room, and told them that I'd come back a week later to move in and sign the contract with the owner. A week later the owner showed up with a Thai-English contract and a witness came by (from the condominium complex). We were all happy, signed everything, paid the 2-month deposit and the first rent. In November 2018 we renewed the same contract. The landlord doesn't speak English at all. I don't speak that much Thai either. \n\nWhen we renewed the lease in November 2018, I told him that it's been a while since the air conditioner was cleaned. I asked him if he's going to pay for the cleaning service or not. He said he won't because I stay here and I use it. He just ignored the fact that the two aircon units are not mine, and they are major electrical appliances. Finally, I didn't have the aircon units cleaned at that time, I just didn't bother.\n\nAfter a while one of the aircons stopped blowing cold air, so I just kept using the other one, it was enough for me. For a while it was fine, and let's get to the story now:\n\nTwo days ago, I told the maintenance here in the condominium complex that I want someone to clean the aircons in my room. I was aware of the price and I would have paid for this by myself (980 THB), it's just cleaning. Yesterday two workers from the condominium complex came to my room and cleaned the two units. All good so far. And the problem starts here. I told them (while we were in the room) that one of the aircons doesn't blow cold air anymore. He said he'll take a look. The outside generator doesn't turn on, probably that's why there was no cold air coming. So after the checked the problem, he silently (without telling me this will cost me more) left the room and came back with something that he replaced outside in the unit, and it's all working well now. Then he told me this would be 3800 THB. I was like what? Nobody told me nor informed me that it would cost this much. They didn't even ask me if I was willing to pay for this extra. I just requested cleaning in the first place, and they didn't tell me that they need to repair it, or ask me if I want it to be repaired for some extra money. I was aware of the cleaning price of 980 THB, and I'd have happily paid for that + tip. \n\n​\n\nNow the important part:\n\nWe called the landlord to tell him that we got the two units cleaned and one of them repaired by the condominium complex maintenance people (not just a random outsider). He got angry and said why we didn't tell him before. (I mentioned it earlier, but didn't specifically tell him recently) On the phone, we told him that it's not in the contract that I have to tell him before I have something (major electrical appliance) repaired in the room. Secondly, the contract does say that the landlord must pay for major electrical appliances such as aircon (this is exactly in the contract). \n\nAfter that he hung up the call and I, unfortunately, paid the workers 3800 THB, instead of going down to the management to talk about this. I was stupid enough to pay them, yes. I transferred the money to the condominium complex' bank account so I have a receipt of this transaction.\n\nWe went downstairs, said goodbye to the workers, and called the landlord again. We told him again that it's not in the contract that I have to inform him about repairing the aircon units if they randomly break (not my fault). And we also told him that he must pay for it, as the contract says. Then he got angry again and told me to move out next month and he'd give back the deposit. I said no, because we have a 1-year contract and it doesn't say that the landlord can kick me out without any reason. I didn't do anything wrong, didn't break the rules.\n\n​\n\nAfter I finish writing this, I'll go down to the management and ask them to call the landlord and inform him about the contract and what's in the contract. Then we will see if the management is on my side or not. Update later.\n\n​\n\nNote: I'm a foreigner, not a Thai person. I signed the contract.\n\n​\n\nWhat are my chances in this case? \n\nCan the landlord just kick me out and break the lease without any reason (in Thailand)?\n\nDoes he have to pay for the repair + cleaning costs of the aircon units? \n\nAm I wrong in this case?\n\n​\n\nNote: We're in Thailand, so the laws sometimes don't apply here. It's not worth getting a lawyer because Thai laws support Thai people, and not foreigners. So it would be a waste of money and energy. I just wonder why we had to sign a contract if he thinks he can just randomly kick me out any time before the lease ends.\n\n​\n\nThank you for reading my post and I look forward to your kind answers.","title":"[Thailand] Landlord wants to kick me out and break the lease before it ends.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568740818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5k3o8\/can_roommate_get_evicted_for_changing_lock\/","id":"d5k3o8","body":"I live in a house with 3 other women. There is a front door entry and back door entry which we are all supposed to have access to. The back door entry is in one roommates bedroom. She changed the lock on the back entry door so now only she has a key to that door. We told the landlord who said she must change the lock back, but it\u2019s been several days and she still has not. We gave our landlord her contact information so he can reach out to her personally. If she refuses to change the lock even after the landlord personally told her to, can he legally evict her?","title":"Can roommate get evicted for changing lock?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569977483,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc2vob\/ex_landlord_harassment_wa\/","id":"dc2vob","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice\n\nWe just moved out of a place.  We had it professionally cleaned and the lawn maintenance done (which was above and beyond the rental agreement).  Now the landlord is harassing us via text over:\n\n1. Falsely accusing us that someone else moved in\n2. Falsely accusing us of not paying for professional carpet cleaning\n3. Has been texting me angry that we had the gas turned off when we left (like, wanted us to pay for extra weeks after we left???)\n4. Falsely accusing us for entering the premises after our lease was up.\n\n\nShe is a ridiculous tyrant, and we have been very to the point in our communications \u2014 we asked her to deduct whatever for the carpet cleaning and attach a receipt.  She won\u2019t stop berating us now though.\n\nWhat words should I use? \u201cPlease stop harassing me?\u201d \n\nI\u2019m honestly afraid she\u2019s not going to return our deposit now.  I think she has 21 days, but do we have options at that point that we don\u2019t have now? Is she just allowed to keep texting me and making my life hell?","title":"Ex Landlord Harassment (WA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446579515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3re5yt\/traffic_citation_not_entered_into_courts_system\/","id":"3re5yt","body":"My fiance and I each recieved a ticket from a University of Minnesota (In Minneapolis, Hennipen County, Minnesota) police officer in the month of August (From 1 traffic stop).\n\n\n It has now been over 60 days and the tickets have not been entered in the court's systems. I have been checking multiple times in person in the past 2 months and there is absolutely no record of either citation. We fully planned on contesting both tickets.\n\n\n Part of me wants to just let it go and hope it never gets entered so we have 0 chance on getting those on our records\/ having to pay fines and so we do not have to take time off of work for court.\nI know the alternative is to keep on checking week to week for it to get entered. I just don't want to poke the bear in case it fell through the cracks.\n\n\n\nWhat should I do? Is there some sort of statute of limitations in Hennipen County\/Minnesota or in other jurisdictions for tickets being entered into the system? Should I just bring it to the PDs attention and get the ball rolling?\nThanks everyone!","title":"Traffic Citation Not Entered into Court's System After 60 Days.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1410361294,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g0dl7\/california_is_there_a_faster_way_to_evict_my\/","id":"2g0dl7","body":"My 31 yr old sister is a drug addict and I'm (only) assuming a dealer as well. She's been arrested several times for possession and intent to sell. I don't care about her anymore or what she does with life but she lives with my parents still, and so do I. The biggest problem is that she brings all her dirty business and people here to the house and I'm sick of it. My son lives in this house and the rest of my family does not associate with her at all but my parents are too afraid to kick her out. \n\n\nThe police were once called at our house during a dispute between my mother and my sister. They informed us that they unfortunately cannot unwillingly remove her from the home because she is a legal resident and we have to go through the full eviction process. She knows this process very well due to the fact that years ago she worked for an evictions office for about 3 years.\n\nI want to know, seeing as my son resides here, is there some type of expedited eviction I can assist my parents with? Maybe some type of breach of contract concerning the safety of my son?? \n\nI am constantly fighting off all these drug addict people from our house and I can't stand it anymore. They come at all hours of the day, bothering the neighbors and scaring my son. Any help would be much appreciated. ","title":"California: Is there a faster way to evict my sister from my parent's house?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555443829,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdy9aa\/family_issues_what_am_i_allowed_to_do_in_case_of\/","id":"bdy9aa","body":"Hey all,\n\n​\n\nTo clarify, I am a 14 year old male living in Washington State\n\n​\n\nMy parents have been having some pretty severe marital trouble for the past couple months, having semi-nightly screaming matches about problems with alcohol, lying, cheating, excessive spending of money to name a few problems.\n\nMy mother has been verbally abusive towards me and I have a many recordings of such things, as well as witnesses to her calling me a lazy, fat, stupid kid who is good for nothing and a waste of money and time, as well as occasionally calling me a potential abuser of both her and my sister (which really hurt me personally because I love my sister very much and would never even dream of hurting her). Many of these things she says while inebriated.\n\nShe has also kicked me and my dad out of the house while drunk and threatened my dad with divorce. My dad (who I consider to be pretty much a model parent, in the past working two to support my family) has been very reasonable through this whole thing, encouraging, but not forcing, my mom to leave the house and take a break anytime she is angry and\/or drunk\n\n​\n\nIf, (and it seems that it might be likely,) a divorce is filed, would I able to influence the decision of custody in any way with the recordings and presentation of abusive statements?\n\n​\n\nThanks for any advice\n\n​\n\nNote: My mother has acknowledged some of the things she has said to me with other people present and also gave consent to all of the recordings","title":"Family issues, what am I allowed to do in case of divorce [WA, USA]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542082293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wlovh\/landlord_wont_return_full_security_deposit_due_to\/","id":"9wlovh","body":"In August of 2017, I moved into a house with 5 housemates. 4 of us were college seniors and friends, and 1 worked in retail. This housemate had lived in the house for a few years, but the 4 of us were new tenants. This house has been rented by college students for the last 5ish years, and the landlord is a local guy. We were all on the same lease. We paid a security deposit of $2,600 ($520 each) for damages and\/or unpaid rent\/utilities. This is in Multnomah County, specifically Portland. \n\nThe 4 of us college students moved out after graduation (May\/June), while the other housemate stayed in the house. She was really irresponsible and a source of near-constant conflict, and moved out in September. We never got the security deposit back and recently contacted our landlord. He replied that we had lost $1180 due to unpaid rent from the troublemaking housemate, who apparently had not paid rent for the last two months that she lived in the house. Because we all signed the lease together, are we all responsible for this tenant's unpaid rent? I reread the lease attempting to discern otherwise but it seems that we may be. I'm not familiar enough with real estate law to make any concrete judgements, so any help is really appreciated. At any rate, it's absolutely a lesson is knowing and trusting people before signing a lease together.  \n\nTLDR; signed a lease with 4 other people, one housemate stopped paying her rent for 2 months before moving out and we all lost that money from our security deposits. Are we all responsible for this one housemate's unpaid rent since we signed the lease together? Lesson learned: trust your housemates. Damn. ","title":"Landlord won't return full security deposit due to 1 housemate's unpaid rent [OR]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541720896,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vfbiu\/hospital_bill_2_years_later_after_payments_have\/","id":"9vfbiu","body":"So I tripped out of my car and broke my hand back in the summer of 2016 and had to have surgery on my wrist, I was under my dads insurance and they said everything would be taken care of. A year later we get a bill for a little over a grand and after much discussion with insurance companies and such we relented and paid the money. Today, more than two years later I get another bill from the hospital for the same surgery asking for $3400. What are my options here? It doesn\u2019t seem right that they\u2019re charging me again and so long after the accident. ","title":"Hospital bill 2 years later after payments have already been made","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570557333,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df3lh9\/colorado_if_my_roommate_signed_a_new_addendum\/","id":"df3lh9","body":"I made a previous post in relation to this that was solved. But now I can\u2019t find any answers at all to this question.\n\nMy landlord is adding a new addendum mid-lease for a valet trash service that is $25 a month. I\u2019m fuming about it and have no intention of using this service. It isn\u2019t legal to add a new addendum without approval of all parties. \n\nMy roommate is easily pressured and said she felt legally obligated to sign it. I  have not yet signed the new addendum. Both of us have our names and signatures on the main lease. Are we now bound to use and pay for this service or does it require both of our signatures? If it fully requires all parties then I was going to decline the addendum.","title":"Colorado: if my roommate signed a new addendum being added onto a pre-established lease, are we now obligated to what she signed for?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570756139,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg7ozr\/lost_wages_claim_without_injuries\/","id":"dg7ozr","body":"A man ran into my parked car a few days ago and damaged my vehicle. I was not in the car and therefore not injured but I use my car for work and am  losing income because of this. Can I ask his insurance company to compensate me for lost wages?","title":"Lost Wages Claim without injuries.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555024999,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc6nvy\/icbc_always_trying_something\/","id":"bc6nvy","body":"Had a small fender bender completely not my fault 100% other driver has been established. The car drives fine still has a dent in rear door and a very small crumple in the space behind the door and to the tire. About 2 inch space. The estimate exceeds the value of the car 6083 dollars. So we want to keep the car and take the payout. If she owes rev canada a debt do they take the debt off that settment. I belive they can on the injury portion but in in question about making my car whole again. Only vought it cause it was mint and knew the history as it was my mothers. And legal advice be greatly appreciated. Had tmsome teoubles setting up reddit but glad im a memeber now. Any ?s regarding fixing cars or renovations and carpentry work id be glad to help. Cheers","title":"Icbc always trying something","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553070680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b39htb\/several_work_place_policies_leave_me_feeling\/","id":"b39htb","body":"i work at a fairly busy cafe in a touristy part of the city. the owner is an older man who has ran this place for about 20 years. \n\nfor reference, i am in the city of san francisco and the business i work for is exceptionally small...less than 10 employees. \n\nthe issues:\n- there are no mandated breaks (10 mins for every 2 hrs or 30 min lunch breaks). the shop gets quite busy and we are expected to eat\/break when business is slow. we are also expected to take our breaks in the shop in case it gets busy so that we can cut early to help. there are never more than 2 employees working and it frequently gets too busy for one person to handle alone. i have worked multiple 8hr shifts where i have not been able to take any break at all due to the sheer volume of people that come in and our bosses policy where if there is more than one person in line we must stop our break to help so that no one has to wait. \n\n-i\u2019ve been told that we get paid for the entire shift instead of the shift minus the 30 minute lunch break but i admittedly have not done the math myself to confirm that. will do the math with my next paycheck. confused because i was under the impression that not having employees take a lunch break was a big violation. \n\n-when we do break and the owner comes in he often comments on how we are not working which has the tendency to guilt us into taking shorter breaks \/ into putting off us off breaks at all until he leaves the store. \n\n-there is no set pay day though we do get paid twice monthly. i\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s odd but this is the first job i\u2019ve had where paychecks seem to come anywhere from the 2nd\/16th to the 5th\/19th. not having a set day and not knowing when to expect to be paid can be unnecessarily stressful and make paying bills\/money managing a bit more difficult. \n\n-i am aware the city has a paid sick leave ordinance that as far as i am aware of extends to all employees. there isn\u2019t any info regarding this ordinance in the shop and i have recently noticed my paychecks do not state the amount of paid sick leave hours that have been accrued. \n\n-when i asked the manager of the store about the process for using the sick leave hours she told me she was not sure and that i\u2019d have to ask the owner about that myself which seems like a weird response. \n\n-i was really sick recently and didn\u2019t think of using paid sick leave until i realized how short my last paycheck which sparked a bit of deeper though about how my boss treats me and how i get a bit of a shady feeling about it all. \n\nall in all, am i right in feeling like i\u2019ve been put in an unfair position? if my boss is taking advantage of his employees what could i do about it? i\u2019ve had some bad bosses but this one feel exceptionally bad and i\u2019m honestly tired of letting bosses intimidate me into inaction and complacency. ","title":"several work place policies leave me feeling taken advantage of\/wondering if my boss is breaking the law","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568649219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d52lf3\/ford_class_action_lawsuit\/","id":"d52lf3","body":"There is or was I guess a class action lawsuit against the Ford corporation for defects in their computer controlled transmission. I myself have experienced this and even had a car accident as a result. However, when I filed the claim for my insurance they said they are aware of the defects but basically coded it as a failure to stop and the accident was labeled my fault. I took my car to two separate ford dealerships in which they told me it was normal for the car to experience this and inspected my car and found no issues. I got 1 diagnostic report for this. I submitted my claim and I guess it was overturned now I had to resubmit the claim in which the law firm associated with the class action sent a contract over to me. Its a bit confusing to understand both sections for attorneys fees. \n\nDoes this mean I wont have to pay attorneys fees out of pocket? Im 24 living paycheck to paycheck, so Its not like I can afford to just trade it in or buy new, not even sure what the rewards will be IF any. I wonder if I should even go through thr trouble.\n\nAny help is appreciated! Link to document; http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/EccvyLk","title":"Ford Class action lawsuit","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570371958,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de3wqa\/is_it_legal_to_lie_on_a_r\u00e9sum\u00e9\/","id":"de3wqa","body":"Hi, I\u2019m 18 and I\u2019m from Australia and incredibly desperate for a job. I have almost 3 years experience in customer service and have been trying to get a job for an entire year now full time. I\u2019m unable to afford accomodation to go to university and it\u2019s too far for me to go without living in a student dorm. (Okay sob story out the way).\n\nI\u2019m super desperate for a job and everything I come across that\u2019s \u201centry level\u201d always has strings attached and I\u2019m never an enticing enough applicant. It\u2019s been a year of this and I\u2019m done I\u2019m done I\u2019m done. Maybe I\u2019ve seen \u201cCatch Me If You Can\u201d one too many times but I really want this super easy, read a script to people call centre job that requires experience. My friend I went to school with for 12 years agreed he\u2019d pose as an old manager if I put him on my r\u00e9sum\u00e9 as having work experience at an existing big phone company. \n\nI doubt they\u2019d call the company directly as it would take a billion years to find someone who actually knew this kid who affectively \u201cinterned over the summer\u201d and either take it as face value or call my friend as my \u201cboss\u201d for a reference. What I wanna know is like how illegal illegal is this if I get caught? Cause three square meals a day doesn\u2019t sound so bad but I sortta wanna visit NYC one day so yeah. Don\u2019t wanna get too too in trouble. \nThanks. \n\nAlso, I don\u2019t care about the morality of it as I know this a job anybody could do and wouldn\u2019t put my friend in this position if I wasn\u2019t certain, thought he doesn\u2019t care he\u2019s a mad lad. Thanks.","title":"Is it legal to lie on a r\u00e9sum\u00e9","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508278600,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7724i2\/was_i_unfairly_terminated\/","id":"7724i2","body":"While employed full time in April 2017 (hired in October 2016), I experienced a mental breakdown (was diagnosed with bipolar II in 2009) that resulted in me needing time off work to change\/adjust my medication. I provided Human Resources with every copay receipt of my office visits and off-work orders from my psychiatrist (spanning April-August), but was terminated in August without notice.\nAre employers allowed to terminate employees under these circumstances, and without communication?\n\nSince termination, I have lost my health insurance, and therefore, my bipolar disorder is going untreated. I\u2019m having a hard time bouncing back, and I\u2019m not sure where to go from here.\n\nThank you in advance for any advice or suggestions; it\u2019s greatly appreciated!\n\nEDIT: located in Southern California","title":"Was I unfairly terminated?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507568523,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75aggq\/california_eviction_advice\/","id":"75aggq","body":"My family and I are trying to evict this other family of parasitic scum out of our house. \nWe did all the legal shit to evict them, though when it came to the 30th day (yesterday) the civic departure said we called after hours and could help, then told us to call this morning at 8 am and now they won't help us because they said the civil department is closed (their website says it's open) and all other people that could help us are helping with the local fires that are raging around our area. \n\nWhy can't I get help removing these degenerates from my home? Do I really have to wait till tomorrow to get them out of my house?\n\nDisclosure \nThese people have lots of little criminal records. One of them has an assault charge with a $5000 warrant out on them. The other has had to go to court probably 5 time in the last year for driving with a suspended license or while under the influence or without a registered car and so on. ","title":"[ California] Eviction Advice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541479894,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ulg4f\/property_management_removed_the_fire\/","id":"9ulg4f","body":"I live in an apartment complex in Austin, TX and a few weeks back I received notice that the annual fire bottle inspections would be happening in the days following. This is my third lease in this building since 2016 so I know how it used to go - they would simply put a new tag on the bottle or issue a new one same day.\n\nThis time I came home to the bottle missing. I contacted leasing a few days later and they admitted that whoever they hired to do the recertification removed bottles from numerous apartments without replacement. I was told they would be back in a few days.\n\nA week later, there was still no bottle, so I go back to leasing and it\u2019s the same general story and I\u2019m told if I really need an extinguisher there\u2019s one outside of my unit by some elevators or something.\n\nStill no bottle today. This has to be a fire code violation, right? I don\u2019t even know who to call to report them since they clearly don\u2019t care.","title":"Property management removed the fire extinguishers from multiple units including my unit three weeks ago. I have complained numerous times and they still haven\u2019t replaced them. (TX)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444421804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o54g5\/landlord_is_withholding_240_of_my_deposit_for\/","id":"3o54g5","body":"Location: PA\n\nMy old landlord is taking $240 out of my security deposit for a broken piece of trim on the dishwasher that came with the unit. I called the repair shop that he claimed did the work and they had no record of it. I looked up the dishwasher to get a repair price and found that there was a recall on it. Is broken trim normal wear and tear on a 17 year old dishwasher? Does depreciation matter at all?\n\n","title":"Landlord is withholding $240 of my deposit for cosmetic damage to a 17 year old dishwasher.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570906971,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgzcyd\/chances_my_traffic_ticket_gets_dismissed\/","id":"dgzcyd","body":"Charges are speeding (10 over) and running a stop sign. Occurred on February 9th, 2019. I just received a letter from the court saying that I have to go on November 5th. This is in North Carolina. My driving record is relatively clean. I received a reckless driving misdemeanor charge in 2016 but I think that disappears from my record soon. I also received a traffic ticket in 2018 but that got dismissed.","title":"Chances my traffic ticket gets dismissed?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503419805,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vc83j\/car_was_broken_into_along_with_14_other_cars\/","id":"6vc83j","body":"I live in an Apartment Complex. Last night around midnight, there were individuals that not only broke into my car and looted, but they did the same to 14 other cars in my complex. Police were here this morning to have us give statements and to help the investigation if we could.\n\nWe have had an increase in crime at least in my area that I am aware of. My area is not known for violence or any of that sort. It's quiet. Months ago my Complex was hit in a similar run months ago such as last night. Thieves would enter and again, they would break and loot into cars. However this time, they would steal one of the cars and transfer the loot they stole from other cars into the car that was stolen. That is the only history of break ins that I am aware of. \n\nMy complex has been a nightmare about this issue. We have gates that only residential's that can come through with the use of a remote. Our gate is always out of service, as a result it is always wide open to where anybody can get in. It was wide open last night. We also have side doors into the area with a keypad. Everybody knows the code to get into the keypad, it hasn't been changed in years. I have spoken to the main office and at first they said they are not sure on how to change the gate code for the side doors, then they changed it to they have not had time to do it. We have security cameras, but they only watch over a few select parts of the complex. Even then, it is not enough to identify the people that broke in. This is very frustrating to myself and among others, since they spend money on new pool equipment, golf carts for showcasing the complex, and new appliances inside our homes. I noticed while giving statements this morning to police, no apartment officials were outside and looking at the damage. They were in front of the main office, just looking at all 15 of us including myself. They do not notify residents of these happenings, we are left in the dark completely. \n\nNormally I would move and find another place to live. But being tight on a budget and not having the most money coming in, I have no room to operate in. Is there anything legally I can do to get compensation of some sort? I have to pay a deductible of $500 for the damages. \n\ntl;dr: Apartment complex broken into, 15 cars including mine were broken into and looted. We have next to no security keeping us safe. Complex officials keeps us in the dark and does nothing. Rather spend money on appliances rather than keep us safe. What can I do?\n\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Car was broken into along with 14 other cars. Apartment Complex has had a history and refuses to act upon it. [TX, USA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552117835,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az155s\/friend_is_facing_assault_charges_and_awaiting\/","id":"az155s","body":"Friend has never had any previous records until this massive offense and has no plans of seeing father until hopefully once court decisions are final and hopefully he is acquitted. It\u2019s just sad and I couldn\u2019t imagine being in that position so I\u2019m looking to see if there is any record of what would be done is this situation before I give false hope and he asks for to be laughed at. ","title":"Friend is facing assault charges and awaiting trial so obviously he is restricted to state. His father is dying in Mexico and doesn\u2019t have much longer to live.Is there anyway he could request to visit even if accompanied somehow?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506884623,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73nkbd\/georgia_does_a_landlord_have_to_notify_a_tenant\/","id":"73nkbd","body":"Hi everyone! \n\nI currently rent a room in a house in Atlanta, GA. My landlord and I had discussed extending my lease multiple times through February (it ends on October 31). I emailed him a few days ago to see if could put it in writing and now he \"isn't sure\" if he wants to extend or not. My lease only specifies that I have to give 30 days notice if I do not plan to renew, it doesn't say anything about the landlord. Is he required to give me notice? Or must I be out by the end of the lease? ","title":"(Georgia) Does a landlord have to notify a tenant that he doesn't plan to renew the lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445867024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qa1rm\/still_on_arkansas_private_option_insurance_a_year\/","id":"3qa1rm","body":"Context: in lieu of standard Medicaid expansion, Arkansas implemented a \"private option\" system where federal Medicaid funds pay for private insurance for those with current incomes near or below the poverty level. No premium, no deductible, no co-pay: pretty sweet.\n\nEarly last year I qualified for this insurance because I was unemployed for a while and the system only considers current income, not assets or past income. When I enrolled, I received a letter stating \"all income changes must be reported to your Medicaid caseworker within 10 days\" with a space for contact information that was completely blank.  If I actually have a \"caseworker\" I've never spoken to them and have no idea who they are.\n\nI went back to work last November, earning well above the income limit for this program.  Before I even received my first paycheck I started making calls trying to figure out how to report my income change so they could (presumably) remove me from the program.\n\nThe first thing I tried was calling the state Medicaid office, and after several attempts and more than 4 cumulative hours on hold, I reached someone who gave me the number for the \"private option\" call center.\n\nI was never able to get through to the \"private option\" call center after about 20 attempts -- it wouldn't even put me on hold, it would essentially just play a recording saying \"our system is overloaded, please call again later\" and then drop the call.  Always.\n\nI called my county Medicaid office and got right through to somebody who told me to mail or fax them the standard Medicaid income change form, which I'd already found online but I didn't think it was right because it predated the new program.\n\nFollowing the county office's instructions, I mailed the form & paystub to them as soon as I got my first paycheck.\n\nNot receiving any kind of acknowledgement that they'd received it, every two weeks when I got another paycheck I'd either mail or fax them an updated form + cumulative stack of paystubs.\n\nAfter a few months with no response or acknowledgement, I started saving the confirmation pages from the fax machine so I'd have some proof I was actually sending them this stuff; I always started saving copies of the forms themselves.\n\nAfter six months, starting to worry that I could end up sued or in jail or something for insurance fraud, I sent the income change form + about 15 paystubs to the county office by certified mail so I'd have a signature proving they've received it.   I included a cover letter asking them to please acknowledge receipt.  I received a call from a lady who sounded confused and said she couldn't find me in the system.  I explained that I was on the \"private option\" program and she said they didn't really deal with that and that she'd forward my paperwork to the relevant department, but that they were so backlogged they probably wouldn't be able to look at it.\n\nA couple months ago, there was extensive news coverage of Arkansas sending income verification requests to people on this program and kicking them off if they didn't respond within 10 days.  I received nothing.  Those who responded at all apparently stayed on the program, regardless of what they responded with, because they couldn't handle actually reviewing the responses.  So I wonder if they didn't send me anything because I was already flagged as \"responded\".  I'm not sure, but that's the best explanation I can come up with.\n\nAlso, no, I don't believe I can cancel the insurance myself through the insurance company. Technically it's not my account, it's the state's account, I'm just the covered party.\n\nI kind of gave up after that; it feels like I've done my due diligence here and shouldn't be obligated to waste a whole lot more time on this, but I have questions:\n\n1. Keeping in mind that I have fax confirmation pages & a certified mail signature proving that I at least attempted to report my income changes, is there any chance I could be arrested for collecting benefits I'm not legally entitled to?\n\n2.  Is there any chance I could end up having to pay back the state for the money they spent on premiums?  Could they sue me?\n\n3. If there any chance I could end up having to pay back for all the medical services I've received since going back to work? I've been using the insurance pretty extensively: allergy shots, mental health care for the first time ever, physical exam, multiple prescriptions including a new drug with no available generic (normally $300\/month), all at no cost to me.  So if I end up having to re-pay it's going to be devastating.\n\n4. Even if I can't cancel the insurance, would it be safer to just stop using it & buy my own insurance?  I'm not sure that would even work, I don't think you can freely choose which of two active insurance policies to use, you have to let the two insurance companies know about the other coverage so they can split the coverage somehow, right?\n\nThanks for any insight.","title":"Still on Arkansas \"private option\" insurance a year after going back to work","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1502914778,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u4t2k\/co_landlordmanagement_company_hasnt_returned\/","id":"6u4t2k","body":"2 months back, I broke my lease as we purchased a house. We paid the lease-break fee out of pocket and did a final walk through with the management company's local representative who cleared us to receive the full $650 of our security deposit back. A month goes by - No check. I call the property and they say they have on record of me being eligible to receive the full amount back, but that they have 60 days as per my lease. \n\nI re-read my lease and it's confusing compared to CO Law:\n\nMy lease states:\n>Owner agrees within the **maximum period\npermitted by law or sixty (60) days, whichever period is shorter**, after termination of this Lease, or surrender and acceptance\nof the Premises whichever occurs last, to mail to Resident at Resident\u2019s last known address a written statement listing the full\nand specific reasons for all charges against the Security Deposit (\u201cMove-Out Statement\u201d) together with a refund of the\nbalance, if any, of the Security Deposit to Resident.\n\nCO Law states:\n>A landlord shall, **within one month after the termination of a lease or surrender and acceptance of the premises, whichever occurs last, return to the tenant the full security deposit deposited with the landlord by the tenant, unless the lease agreement specifies a longer period of time, but not to exceed sixty days**. \n\nAnyways, I figure that they do actually have 60 days and not the standard 30. Long story short, it's now day 60 and no check still. \n\nWhen I was on the phone a month back, the property management representative said if for some reason I didn't get it, to give them a call.\n\nCO Law also dictates:\n>**The willful retention of a security deposit in violation of this section shall render a landlord liable for treble the amount** of that portion of the security deposit wrongfully withheld from the tenant, together with reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs; except that the tenant has the obligation to give notice to the landlord of his intention to file legal proceedings a minimum of seven days prior to filing said action.\n\nThe question is, what do I do? It appears they could owe me $650x3 (treble the amount) now, but the only way I could request \/ require that is through filing, of which if they pay up within those 7 days, they then still only owe me the original $650? Or does the amount become a bargaining chip, where since I need to give them 7 days, state that since they broke law, I'd be willing to take, say $1000 instead of the $650 and surrender all rights for further litigation and if they don't agree that I will then file?","title":"[CO] Landlord\/Management Company hasn't returned security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571421411,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djr6ym\/starting_a_strip_club_serious\/","id":"djr6ym","body":"Hi, I'm curious what it would take to start a strip club (I'm in Florida, FYI). \n\nAsking for a friend.","title":"Starting A Strip Club (Serious)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571703314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl9k18\/crazy_job_cancelation\/","id":"dl9k18","body":"I had a job offer to work for a DOD contract an old \u201cfriend\u201d was the project manager on. It required a special investigation to start. I passed the investigation and received the start date.\n\nTwo weeks before starting, my current employer finds out I have the investigation completed and makes me an offer about 30% over my friend\u2019s. I contact my friend and tell him how crazy what just happened was. He tells me I used him and he shouldn\u2019t have trusted me. Says the onboarding and investigation are all canceled.\n\nCurrent employer confirms, it\u2019s toast.\n\nI wasn\u2019t even going to take the second offer, or try to get a raise. I just thought it was crazy and told what I thought was a friend. Then old boy raged on me and tried to destroy me.\n\nI\u2019m in a right to work state. Is there anything I can do? My contract runs out in two weeks.","title":"Crazy job cancelation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570983481,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhcnf7\/did_my_landlord_do_anything_that_can_end_the\/","id":"dhcnf7","body":"I signed a years lease to a slumlord. There's been a lot of little things but nothing extremely unmanageable, just scummy and unprofessional. However, he didn't disclose before leasing that the place was also for sale and that people would be coming to inspect and view the place....frequently. We had someone come over 2-3 times last month and just got another text saying someone is coming over again tomorrow. In the lease he stated that he has the right to come in unannounced. He said over the phone he would always give notice, and he has (thank god) but is that actually an illegal clause in the lease? Would that invalidate the whole thing? Is the constant visits in any way breaching my right to quiet enjoyment? I can't take this on top of everything else I'm dealing with in this place and would really appreciate any advice.","title":"Did my landlord do anything that can end the lease? (Nevada)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502990105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ubgck\/wa_state_my_boss_is_gaslighting_me_what_can_i_do\/","id":"6ubgck","body":"While I am home from college for the summer, I am working as a seasonal maintenance worker for a local parks district. At first, I meshed well with my coworkers and got along great with the other seasonal employees. However, it seems the atmosphere has changed and one of my bosses has begun to antagonize me.\n\nMy job is to work closing shifts, and a great deal of trust is put on my shoulders because of this. I am responsible for making sure all of the trucks, gates and equipment are locked up before I leave at park closing. Since I am the only one working the late night shift, I try to be as thorough as possible. I make checklists, and stick to a procedure so NOTHING gets missed.\n\nI started noticing patterns of gaslighting behavior a few weeks ago. Conversations between us started to become awkward and have recently shifted to almost hostile. Frequently, when I show up to work, they will tell me I forgot to do something, or lock a certain gate or whatnot. It's basic stuff-- stuff that I'm usually almost positive I didn't forget to do. Usually this is in private, and I make sure to triple check what I \"missed\" before I leave. I haven't thought much of it until yesterday.\n\nYesterday was the biggest \"mistake\" I've made so far. I entered the break room at the start of my shift and could already feel the hostility from my boss. Without much of a choice, I sat down at the table and he began to confront and humiliate me in front of my other coworkers.\n\nAccording to him, I didn't lock any of the trucks after putting them away AND I left all of the keys on the seat when I locked up last Thursday. I was confused at first and very apologetic. He kept asking me questions like \"why are you here?\" and \"why did you show up to work today?\". It seemed to be as if he was trying to establish himself as dominant over me, and doing this purely as a humiliation tactic rather than a way to fix the problem. I was halfway expecting him to fire me on the spot. After I apologized profusely, he told me I'd be out of a job if it happened again, seemed to drop it and moved on with what he was doing.\n\nAfter this, I walked out of the break room for a smoke so I could get away from the hostile environment and think about what the actual fuck just went down. Here's what seemed off to me:\n\n1. I am VERY thorough with locking up. Security at this place is no joke. We've had break-ins before, and have lost a lot of valuable equipment (not since I have worked there). There's a protocol I have to follow. As I said before, I make checklists for all of this. I have pretty bad ADHD, and so I have trained myself to be very good at following checklists to the letter as a way to manage this. The likelihood of me forgetting to lock a tool shed? Pretty slim. Of me forgetting to lock ALL of the trucks? That shit just doesn't happen.\n\n2. He's bringing this up A WEEK after the fact. I saw him on the Friday when he supposedly found all of the trucks unlocked, and had a relatively normal conversation when I came in. He was even a little more friendly then he usually is to me. I didn't hear a word about something you'd think would be brought up as soon as possible. Not even a word about it from any of my other coworkers. Why did he choose NOW to bring this up?\n\n3. Why is he doing this? I have a few theories, and I don't want to end up on r\/iamverysmart , but I'm studying a difficult field of engineering and am a future officer in the US Military. He knows this. We've had conversations about it. My boss has never gone to college, and will likely never move out of their hometown. I'm good at math, and so I occasionally try to be helpful and correct simple math errors they make. I'm good at working on cars and small engines, and so I've repaired a few of the things that were broken around the shop. I have the utmost respect for the level of care they put in their work and so I'm trying to use their example and be as helpful as possible, but it seems like I might just be coming off as an ass. That, or they might be intimidated by me or the fact that I have a future outside of being a maintenance worker? I don't know.\n\nStarting yesterday, I've begun taking a few extra precautions:\n\n- I am now taking pictures of everything I do during my job and backing them up in a secure place.\n\n- Any conversations between me and my employers regarding workplace discipline will now be recorded as a voice memo.\n\n- I am going to double print any receipts from purchases I make from the company credit cards. One for them (as per protocol) and one for my own records.\n\nAt least now I can call them on their BS if they do this again. My question is: if they confront me about something like this again, what kind of actions am I able to take? What are my rights as an employee in this position? If I am fired for something I \"forgot\" to do, but I have pictorial evidence suggesting otherwise, who do I report this to?","title":"WA State | My Boss is Gaslighting me. What can I Do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539894484,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pcxxw\/my_mom_tricked_me_when_i_was_a_kid_to_give_my\/","id":"9pcxxw","body":"Hello, so when I was born until I reached age 10 I was given savings bonds varying in final growth price, but amounting in total to around $18,000. When I was 12 my divorced mother told my brother and I that if we didn\u2019t sign all of our bonds over to her we would have to move out of the house we were currently living in, meaning new school, new friends, new lifestyle. My brother instantly complied, but I hesitated and my mother then threatened to ground me and home school me, so I reluctantly complied. She is a very heavy alcoholic and has significant health problems brought forth by her drinking, causing her to stop working, and eventually forcing us to move to a new city regardless. I find out many years later that all of the \u201cChild Support Payments\u201d she received from my father were spent fueling her drinking problem, I was only bought one pair of shoes in 5 years, and the money she had taken from our bonds to \u201csave\u201d the house all went not only to her drinking, but what I am now finding out to be gambling. Is there any legal action I can take? ","title":"My Mom tricked me when I was a kid to give my life savings to her, and now it\u2019s all gone.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541116129,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tevpk\/caught_stealing_from_my_job\/","id":"9tevpk","body":"I work at a grocery store and just tonight I got caught stealing food for break. When they asked me which register I bought the food at I told them straight up that I stole it and I had to write out a written statement that I stole and how long (Since June). I'm freaking out right now and I told my mom immediately when I got home.  \n\n\nI am currently suspended until further notice, and they say they are going to have me questioned by loss prevention. \n\n​\n\nAnd before anybody tells me:\n\nI know it was dumb. I feel like a moron. So many people warned me not to do it and here I am doing it anyway. I feel like shit. I don't know what to do and I have no right to ask anybody for help since it's my own mistake. My hands are shaking while typing this and I just lost 1 and a half years of work experience, so it's almost like I didn't work anywhere at all. I feel like a complete idiot and it's because I am. \n\n​\n\nIf anyone is reading this thinking stealing is ok, or that you won't get caught, I can assure you it isn't worth it and you should definitely break the habit while you're ahead.\n\n​\n\nBack to the main topic: What should I do? Was it a mistake to write down and sign the paper saying what I did? I'm so scared and I have such a bad pit in my stomach. I am such a moron for thinking I wouldn't get caught. ","title":"Caught stealing from my job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571784199,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlpw0o\/ok_moms_manager_is_possibly_violating_labor_laws\/","id":"dlpw0o","body":"This work related issue at my Mom's new agency has been an issue for almost a month now and it's been progressing down a much worse path even since she first started working there:\n\nFor context","title":"[OK] Mom's manager is possibly violating labor laws","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570054512,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dchj40\/would_i_know_if_i_hitscrapped_a_parked_car\/","id":"dchj40","body":"So I\u2019m beyond sick. \nI\u2019m talking about head feels like it got ran over by a truck sick. I had to go to work (because I do not get paid sick days and I need money to live). I drive to different locations for my job and as I left the first location I decided to get a cup of tea at one of the shops in the city. I went to parallel park and I lined it up wrong, in order to fix it I had to back out then pull in again. I have a back up camera and I am pretty good at parallel parking. The only issue is I have a cracked fender liner so when I turn the wheels scrap against it creating a noise. I got out to go get my tea and I noticed the black car behind me has scrapes on its front bumper. I looked at my white car and there is no damage or scrape marks to my car. In my head I start to panic thinking oh my god did I hit the car and I start to think that maybe I did it...if I had scraped the car there would be markings on my car correct? There is absolutely no indications what so ever that my vehicle touched that car. Would I know if I have done it?","title":"Would I know if I hit\/scrapped a parked car?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539958471,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pk78g\/ca_im_20_years_old_and_i_have_court_date_coming\/","id":"9pk78g","body":"i\u2019m freaking out and i don\u2019t know what to expect and this whole thing has caused me a lot of anxiety and guilt. i just want to know what i should expect in terms of everything i guess. i\u2019ve never even been to a court before. what do i wear, what should i say, what do i need to bring, what is going to happen? any and all advice would be more than appreciated. ","title":"[CA] i\u2019m 20 years old and i have court date coming up for an arraignment about a petty theft of under $50 first offense","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553226267,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b408mc\/mental_health_mistreatment_and_postal_service\/","id":"b408mc","body":"(On mobile, apologies for formatting)\n*TL:DR - in the title*\n\nLong story short, on 2\/28 got pulled over for burnt out license plate light (didn\u2019t know it existed tbh) and got:\n\nDRIVING W\/O LICENSE - It expired JAN 31; never received paperwork with new camera card due to postal service wrongly diverting our mail to family in another state for months\n\nOPERATING VEHICLE W\/O VALID INSPECTION - was due by last day of JANUARY, but our vehicle needed extensive work on the exhaust system and it wouldn\u2019t pass inspection until that was completed; we relied on family to do it since we live paycheck to paycheck and don\u2019t have the $ the mechanic quoted.\n\nDRIVING UNREGISTERED VEHICLE - the registration expired in JULY, but again I was unaware due to post office issue mentioned above.\n\nVEHICLE REGISTRATION SUSPENDED - so apparently our car insurance lapsed in APRIL; I had our premium on auto pay, but my bank card was replaced and I was an idiot and didn\u2019t think about the fact that the payment was connected to my *card* and not just the bank account. Because of the insurance cancelation, we were sent paperwork on a required 3 month vehicle suspension or a $500 fine (I am going by what my insurance agency told me as we never got the papers, so I obviously never sent in my plates or paid the fine.)\n\nThings to consider:\n\nFor over a year I had undiagnosed serotonin syndrome due to improper medication prescribed for mental health issues. I stopped taking the incorrect medication 4 months ago. everything pretty much had gone to shit, including our finances because I\u2019ve managed those since my husband had a stroke at 26 (a decade ago) and I have really bad ADD (see below). \n\nI have been the sole driver for our household since my husband voluntarily relinquished his license after his stroke (vision impairment). However, the vehicle title (and therefore, Registration) is in his name because we acquired it shortly before the stroke, but the insurance has been in my name since I became the only driver. Just received a summons for HIM for OPERATING VEHICLE WITHOUT REQ\u2019D FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (driving without registration) \u2014 except I was given a summons for that already. Why would they give him one when he can\u2019t even operate the damn car?\n\nWe homeschool, so the kids have co-op classes and other activities I need to drive for. I work outside the home to supplement my husband\u2019s income (and we still live paycheck to paycheck). My husband still has medical issues that require regular doctor visits, tests, etc. We need our vehicle - and I need to be able to drive it. (In other words, I can\u2019t lose my totally clean and responsible driving capability due to this putting points on my license)\n\nI have severe ADD that was not only being treated improperly, but was worsened by the serotonin syndrome (which seriously fucked up my cognitive function) giving me time\/memory lapses and debilitating confusion. After repeated difficulties in seeing my psychiatrist, I finally have an appointment set for this coming Tuesday to hopefully try a new medication. \n\nOur mail was forwarded to family members who moved out of state (they forwarded ALL the extended family\u2019s mail, instead of just the couple\/child who moved) so I didn\u2019t get any of it. \n\nI am desperately working at improving my mental health. I am 9 weeks into a dialectical behavioral therapy course that is helping with my emotional dysregulation\/BPD. I have gotten accountability partners to help me as I *slowly* replace a lifetime of damaging habits with healthy ones. I have fought through all of my mental issues to keep my current job. And then I get hit with this. \n\nI know it\u2019s my fault. I\u2019m not deferring blame or making excuses. I\u2019m just overwhelmed with the repercussions of being wrongly medicated. (And still pissed at the douchebag cop who was speeding in a snowstorm and then slammed on his brakes to pull me over, put my husband against a squad car and searched him, then patted me down, and impounded the van because he couldn\u2019t get ahold of the insurance company at 11:30p. Left us at the local Waffle House despite us explaining we had our 14yo son watching his 8yo sister. Oh and the jerk literally sheared the screws holding on our license plate when he ripped it off to send to the state DMV., so we had to get them drilled out to put on the new license plate.) \n\nThe options given in the summons are pleading guilty and paying the fines (close to $1200) or pleading not guilty and paying $50 collateral for each ticket to have a trial. We don\u2019t have the $250. It cost us $375 just to get the car out of impound (after having to pay for an extended weekend of holding because the incident happened late Thursday night), plus getting everything renewed\/reinstated set us back over $600. We are *beyond broke*. \n\nOh, and to make matters worse, I discovered the 5th summons we just received a few days ago was for my husband who is out of the country for three weeks - so he can\u2019t appear before the magistrate or sign any papers. \n\nI absolutely took what happened seriously and had everything fixed\/reinstated within 48 hours of the incident (except for the inspection, which was within 24 hours of getting it out of impound.) \n\nExactly how screwed am I?? ","title":"Mental health mistreatment and postal service screwups contribute to 5 traffic violations at once, incurring fines I cannot pay \u2014 going to magistrate in the morning. Any advice?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571628442,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkuk7o\/in_need_of_advice_from_a_lawyer\/","id":"dkuk7o","body":"So my gf and I just broke up recently and I went over to get my stuff that I had left there, and as I was walking away she told me \"eat shit and die\" to which I replied \"I hope your anxiety kills you.\" after this I was walking home and one of her friends messaged me threatening to fuck me up \"if I ever threatened her again.\" i defended myself saying that I'd \"rip her to shreds if she ever tried.\" \n\nafterwards she \"called me out\" and so did her friend calling me toxic blah blah, and a different friend of hers messaged me saying I can get in legal trouble because of what I said to her friend.\n\nI just need clarification, as I feel as though I'm not in the wrong here, as to what, if any, trouble I could get in. thanks all, appreciate the help in advance!","title":"In need of advice from a lawyer","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540525677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rhccu\/received_20000_in_a_possible_multi_million_dollar\/","id":"9rhccu","body":"So sort of a weird situation and I feel pretty bad writing this because I feel sort of greedy. I was helping a neighbor in the final years of his life. At the end of the road he shared with me his will that he had included me on it. He said he was sorry that he had to include his two other old friends on it, but that they would be pissed if he didn\u2019t. He said \u201cdon\u2019t worry you\u2019re going to be taken care of\u201d my friend  was very old in his 90s and we shared some good times together in his final years. \n\nHis family had turned his back on him, tried to put him in a old folks home and labeled him a crazy to get his money early. He was always very upset about this and often told me \u201cif they had just waited till I died they would have gotten everything.\u201d He absolutely didn\u2019t want any money to go to his family. They betrayed him and it took a long time for him to let go of the grudge against him. The only people that took care of him was me, some of my family when I had work, and his financial advisor. \n\nSo, it was a little weird to get a letter in the mail a year later stating that there would be a trust issued to me at $20,000. Don\u2019t get my wrong. If I had gotten nothing it would have been fine...but it just felt a little weird. I saw the will and the other two beneficiaries. I\u2019m not sure where it all went though haha.  To be honest, he literally owned oil derricks in the 1950s and had been investing his whole life, he had diamonds all over his home antiques worth thousands. It was also just an even number, so my thoughts are is that he just decided to give me an even 20k and call it a day. Which is great! But something feels so fishy. \n\nI guess it would just be sad if his fam got anything as he was so opposed to this. He HATED them. He kept the funeral from them. If my will was fucked with I would have been pretty pissed and I know he would be too. I want to make sure it was all done legit. \n\nI was his second power of attorney at the end of it all. \n\n Does this sound normal? \n\nTLDR: was 1 of 3 beneficiaries in a very large and complicated estate that took 1 year to sort out. Might have been worth multiple millions of dollars and received $20,000. This weird? \n\n","title":"Received $20,000 in a possible multi million dollar estate from a friend who passed away.... 1\/3 beneficiaries and something feels a little fishy to be honest...took year to sort. Is this common?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1443588180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mxesb\/typo_in_apartment_lease_expiration_date\/","id":"3mxesb","body":"My girlfriend and I moved to Seattle, WA in May and had arranged to sign a five-month lease in the apartment where we're currently living. We signed an apartment hold form which stated the lease expiration would be 9\/30\/2015 (as well as rental price, hold fees, etc.). This form was signed by my girlfriend and me, and was cosigned by the leasing agent. We also have email conversations offering us a five-month lease.\n\nWhen we signed the lease, we didn't notice a typo stating the lease expiration is 9\/30\/2016 instead of 9\/30\/2015 (dumb, I know, but we had just driven across the country for five days).\n\nThe leasing office is now saying there's no way to correct this, and the best they can do is to renegotiate our lease term and expiration date to something shorter than one year from now. If we have to move out before the end of the lease, we will have to buy out the remaining months; we would be refunded the remaining months should anyone else move in. That could end up costing us a lot of money.\n\nIs the hold form essentially useless from a legal standpoint, or is my landlord just being obstinate?","title":"Typo in apartment lease expiration date.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569611979,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da55g1\/what_age_do_i_have_to_be_to_choose_which_parent_i\/","id":"da55g1","body":"As the title says I want to know the age in Ireland that I can choose the parent I want to live with\n\nIf its any help no my parents were not married and they are split up","title":"What age do I have to be to choose which parent I want to live with","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551417195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw0yiu\/unsure_of_how_this_works\/","id":"aw0yiu","body":"My children have inherited a potentially large trust after the death of a paternal family member. I\u2019m not quite sure how exactly trusts work and I have concerns about how things are proceeding. Specifically, a family member who I do not trust with my children\u2019s inheritance, who to my knowledge is not the trustee (will requires written notice of trustee change), setting up my children\u2019s trust accounts...","title":"Unsure of how this works","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1504825907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yqweh\/virginia_falsely_accused_of_stealing_money_lost\/","id":"6yqweh","body":"I have been fired from my employer in the state of Virginia. I worked for a Police Department. They have falsely accused me of stealing money. \n\nTwo people had access to the money -- the Chief of Police and myself. The money is locked in a safe in the administrative side of the department. There is no security camera in the administrative side of the building. \n\nThe money is counted quarterly. As of July 1, all of the money was there. Between July 1 and a few weeks ago when I was fired,  I was gone for about 3 weeks. Anything could have happened during that time. \n\nIn the past, I had been reprimanded once before for forgetting to lock the safe. \n\nWhen they started the internal investigation, they called me in for an interview. I had an anxiety attack. The first 45 minutes of the interview I was adamant about not taking the money. I didn't do it, so I told them I didn't. The entire time, I was told \"I don't believe you,\" \"I think you did it,\" \"If you arent honest with me, it's going to be so much worse,\" etc. I was on the verge of another anxiety attack so I provided a false confession because that's what they wanted to hear. I made up a story that could be easily disproved so I could get out of there. As soon as I did, they were incredibly friendly with me.\n\nThe next day I went back to discuss the situation with them and I apologized for being dishonest the day before. I was advised that my confession was not false. It was.\n\nI asked for a copy of the internal investigation. There was no investigation done. The investigation essentially stated \"she admitted she did it and thus I recommend disciplinary action be taken.\" \n\nCriminal investigation is still ongoing. I didn't do this, though. No one believes me.\n\nI have no criminal history. I have no history of trouble through any of my educational career. I don't even have a speeding ticket on my record.\n\nI have applied for unemployment and they are fighting that, too. \n\nI don't want my name to have a stigma. Especially for something I didn't do.\n\nWhat advice can you offer me? ","title":"VIRGINIA: Falsely accused of stealing money -- lost my job, criminal investigation ongoing","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1550297834,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ar63pr\/suspended_from_work_for_possible_harassment\/","id":"ar63pr","body":"A little history on my situation:\n\nA couple of years ago I was arrested for a sex crime. It was a (whichever is the lowest degree) felony, which I pleaded down to a misdemeanor, with probation and sex offender treatment. Let\u2019s just say there are certain places you shouldn\u2019t hook up with your girl, and leave it at that.\n\nI lost my job, my home, my friends (most of whom didn\u2019t know what happened and assume in some kind of predator) and every ounce of integrity I had. \n\nThings were looking dark, and it was about a year before I was able to find a job. I was hired to a new place late last year, and made sure to have it on file in both my cover letter and vocally during my interview with the manager, asst, manager, and store manager at the time, that I was in the particular situation I was in.\n\nA year into my employment, with no notes in my file, exemplary work performance reviews, and a very good track record of advancement. I poured every ounce of my experience, talent, and business skills into this position. I reached high, didn\u2019t let anyone down, and did my job better than anyone there before me. I was even promoted two weeks ago.\n\nLast week, I\u2019m pulled into the office, told I\u2019m being investigated for harassment, and told I\u2019m being put on suspension with pay pending an investigation. No details, no questions, just out.\n\nI asked a work friend of mine if she knew what was going on, and she said someone had been spreading an article posted by my local news outlet about my initial arrest. The article was packed with things they got completely wrong, including the charges, and false information on my background and the details of the case. I\u2019ve tried contacting them multiple times to take the story down or at least get the info right and they refuse each time. \n\nHer claim, while disturbing, didn\u2019t sound like the story my manager gave me. Someone seeing a news story about me didn\u2019t exactly sound like harassment. She additionally said it seemed like someone got pissed off about something I said or did and must have wanted to try and dig up dirt on me to get me fired.\n\nSo I guess what my concern is, why put me on leave WITH pay for a week, what are my rights, and if I\u2019m fired, is that even something I\u2019d need to sue over? They might try to buy me off, which again...seems really shady. \n\nI\u2019m also wondering what the law would say about someone intentionally defaming me at work, and if it counts that a person on the clock spreading this stuff is acting as a representative of the company, and if the company is now liable for slander?\n\nI guess most of all I\u2019m at my wits end and have no idea what I\u2019m going to do. If they keep me on, people now know who\u2019s business it was not. I really can\u2019t imagine going through this again, and I was doing extremely well. \n\nAny advice is appreciated.","title":"Suspended from work for possible harassment. Coworkers now sharing personal details concerning the matter ruining my reputation. Lot to unpack here.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570554538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df2y5v\/changing_speed_limit_on_a_road\/","id":"df2y5v","body":"Where do I start? I want to get the speed limit lowered on a road where my dog was killed. There have been many dogs killed on this road and there are a lot of kids as well who live on it. Do I go to my city hall?","title":"Changing speed limit on a road","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552586335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b13ikh\/unknown_renewal_of_contract\/","id":"b13ikh","body":"Background: I\u2019ve modeled for around 2 years, and it\u2019s come time for me to quit. I have had serious health issues in the past, and the methods to lose weight that my agent has recommended would put me at risk to spiral into illness again. \n\nI am trying to quit, however they renewed my contract last December.  I found out from someone in the office that coming in to the agency to take digitals (pictures in simple clothes and a bikini with no makeup, usually posted on your online profile to show clients what you actually look like) means that I\u2019ve renewed my contract for another year.  I was not aware of this.  Is there a way to get out of it to quit ASAP?","title":"Unknown renewal of contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1446476519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r7syp\/i_want_to_fire_my_partner_but_we_dont_have_a\/","id":"3r7syp","body":"I started a company last year, and set up an LLC with my partner. We didn't sign any formal operating agreement, and most of our set up was made with verbal agreements (we were good friends...).  There is one formal document signed when setting up our company bank account, that says that I own 60% of the company, and he owns 40%. We initially agreed to a 50\/50 split on revenue, assuming we both work the same amount of time on the company. We both put in $3,000 to the company initially for set up.\n\nI quit my job, and dedicated 40 hours a week to starting this business, while doing some contract work on the side for income. Over a year later, my partner still has not quit his job, has produced poor quality work, and continues to put in about 10 hours a week. He's took 3 weeks off to get married, which I covered. \n\nI wrote up an operating agreement that changed the rev share to 80\/20 (consider I work 4x his time), so long as he continued to work full-time elsewhere, as well as other things that should've been in place from the start. He refused to sign it. When I met with her about it he got upset, made a scene, and stormed out. \n\nI no longer want to work with him. I've heard different advice from many different people about what I legally can and can't do. Any advice on how to get rid of him while preferably leaving my company in tact? I know I could dissolve the LLC, but I'd rather not, considering the cost it took to set it up. I just want him gone from the company! Any advice?\n\nEdit: I am in North Carolina, USA","title":"I want to fire my partner, but we don't have a signed operating agreement (LLC)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1538274639,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9k2pxz\/if_kmartsears_file_bankruptcy_can_they_still\/","id":"9k2pxz","body":"I was sent a \"settlement offer letter\" that's said if you don't pay xx +yy to us in connection to a civil claim. There is a file number and pin number.\n\nWhat exactly does that mean? Are they simply an lawyer company that is trying to make easy money or what? \n\nThe total amount including fees is less than 600$. The fee is more than double what the company wants to pay in restitution. ","title":"If kmart\/sears file bankruptcy can they still collect restitution?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503439201,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vefip\/landlord_not_giving_deposit_back_or_having_contact\/","id":"6vefip","body":"I sent out a deposit demand letter and still no response, does anyone know the next step? \nI'm so frustrated.  Orlando Florida ","title":"Landlord not giving deposit back or having contact.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541157666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tj511\/minor_car_accident_how_do_i_prove_nofault_to\/","id":"9tj511","body":"Hello, this took place in Massachusetts.\n\nSo yesterday I got into a minor accident. I was not at fault, but the responding officer said that the insurances might find us 50\/50 at fault because the other car was parked, not moving. The back seat passenger opened his door into traffic as I was passing them, they were parked on the side of the road (legally). The road is narrow af and I was not texting or distracted in any way, I didn\u2019t even have the radio on lol\n\nThere are 3 things I think will help my case for no-fault:\n1. The road is narrow and there was no way for me to give more space between our cars without crossing the double-yellow lines, and there was a line of traffic on that side. \n2. I was already passing when they opened the door. They hit the side of my headlight, but not the front of it, so they did not have the door open BEFORE I passed.\n3. They were parked fairly far from the curb. This one you can see plainly in one photo, but may be moot because you can\u2019t tell if it\u2019s more than 1 foot from the curb.\n\nIs this enough, do y\u2019all think? Are there any details the insurance might ask for that I\u2019m forgetting, or questions they\u2019ll ask that I haven\u2019t answered? I need to try very hard because I have a $1000 deductible and I need to try to waive it, or have the other drivers insurance pay for the repairs. Yes, I should have a rainy-day fund for incidents like this, but I don\u2019t, so I don\u2019t need any comments on that.\n\n[Photos](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/tdM8Z17) here. Mine is the light blue Elantra (the bird shit really ties it together, don\u2019t you think?), theirs is the grey Altima. ","title":"Minor car accident, how do I prove no-fault to insurance?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570352023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de0qyh\/i_was_bored_and_started_googling_stuff\/","id":"de0qyh","body":"I got on the topic of drug cartel, then eventually hitmen, and wondered \u201chm how would you become a hitman\u201d and went through a huge spiral of how people do that shit etc.\n\nMy question is : is it illegal to be gathering information like this, and if so should I be worried?","title":"I was bored and started googling stuff","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541720204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vf8b1\/landlord_is_threatening_to_kick_me_out_and\/","id":"9vf8b1","body":"First of all I want to apologise for bad spelling\/ formatting errors. I'm at work and I'm having a panic attack.\n\nI live in Iowa.\n\nI just moved into a new apartment on Oct 14th. My lease states that there is to be no pets unless written consent from the land lord, I was unaware until the day I signed the lease. The landlord asked to see my roommates dog because she is a German Shepard and about 80lbs, so I didn't think there would be an issue with having a declawed and neutered, <20lb cat. \nWhen my landlord found out that I had a cat he informed us that it was a one pet policy on our lease. When I found out I went online to register him as an emotional support animal at https:\/\/www.emotionalpetsupport.com\/ I filled everything out, got the prescription letter and sent it to the apartment manager, who informed me that they need me to sign a release of my medical records from the doctor that prescribed the ESA letter. \nI informed my roommate that I emailed the manager the letter and he told me that the land lord was threatening to kick us out and call the cops.\nI know there are a lot of suspicious sites when it comes to ESA's, but everything looked official when I looked into that site. \nI don't know what to do. I'm having a horrible panic attack right now.\nI can provide copies of the lease\/letter\/ medical release request that they want me to sign if needed.\nAny help at all would be tremendously appreciated. Thank you.","title":"Landlord is threatening to kick me out and requesting medical records for my emotional support animal.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554162642,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8bfzx\/minor_car_accideny\/","id":"b8bfzx","body":"We live in Florida and my son who is 17 was driving his car (hand me down registered in my name) he is not yet on our insurance and he rear ended the car into someone else's while I was in the passengers seat. Will the insurance cover it since he is not on the policy?it went in the police reports as him being the driver.also will his license be suspended for being at fault during a crash ( we said there was malfunctioning brakes so  the police didn't give him a ticket)  what should we do as of now.","title":"Minor car accideny","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541976218,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w8a4k\/worked_at_job_for_3_years_was_never_officially\/","id":"9w8a4k","body":"The title is basically a TLDR, but to expand on things, I worked at (chain food service place) since I was 17. I\u2019ve always been part time, as I\u2019m also a student, but things were getting ridiculous with their scheduling so I got a second job that is now my main job. \n\nHowever, I still worked at the first job but only one day a week and occasionally when a coworker needed coverage. I am curious if I can file for unemployment, as they merely just stopped scheduling me for a month straight now without any reason given, notice of termination, or me quitting. While my current\/second job is much better paying, I kept my first job because it was weekly payment instead of biweekly and still gave me some cash per week. \n\nMy manager has done this exact thing to many other employees during my 3 years there and has only officially fired maybe a single person instead of just no longer scheduling them because, and I quote, \u201cI don\u2019t want these people to be able to collect unemployment from us.\u201d\n\nI\u2019m sorry if this comes across really stupid, I\u2019m not well versed in this type of thing and I was curious if I could get anything out of this or if it\u2019s not even worth pursuing anything. It\u2019s not a HUGE loss, but it is unfortunate as any sort of extra income is beneficial to a student like me. \n\nThank you!","title":"Worked at job for 3 years, was never officially fired nor did I ever quit, yet I\u2019m no longer being scheduled. I do have another job, but can I get anything out of this? (New Jersey)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551945563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aya6yo\/household_agent_wont_allow_me_to_speak_to_the\/","id":"aya6yo","body":"Hello, I am currently renting a room in California (if that\u2019s relevant) under the supervision of our household\u2019s main tenant. \n\nHowever, something about this lease seems off.\n\nWell, for one, people seem to be able to opt out of this 13-month \u201ccontract\u201d whenever they want. We\u2019ve literally gone through 3 different roommates in the past 2 months and another is moving out this month. \n\nEvery attempt I make at contacting the landlord is intercepted and shot down by the agent of the household; AKA: the main tenant. Just last night, I called my agent on the phone to ask for the landlord\u2019s contact info. because I wanted to ask him for his permission to move some of my things into a storage space in our garage. I even asked her how she was doing and she responded that she was doing fine. After hearing what I was calling about, she suddenly was feeling \u201cextremely nauseous\u201d. \n\nInterestingly enough, since I\u2019ve moved in, I have never had the chance to contact him personally or enter a phone call with him directly alongside the agent. I\u2019ve never even gotten to meet him before. It seems as though any time I bring this matter up, the agent finds some way to squirm out of giving me what I want and I\u2019m beginning to feel like I\u2019m being played like a fool. \n\nApparently, the landlord wants all questions and concerns to be communicated to him only through the agent. It is now my suspicion that the agent of this household is purposely withholding his contact information for some other unknown reason. \n\nWhat are my rights as a tenant with regards to having a direct communication line with the landlord? Am I within my rights to request this information? Or am I to assume that the agent is acting accordingly and that I\u2019m just being paranoid? \n\nOr do I have reason to be suspicious? I\u2019m unfamiliar with California\u2019s real estate laws so any advice you guys could give would help. Thanks. ","title":"Household Agent won\u2019t allow me to speak to the landlord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553100142,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3e98g\/texas_is_there_anything_i_can_do_regarding_an\/","id":"b3e98g","body":"TLDR: Had a job interview, dude blatantly asked a bunch of the stuff you can\u2019t ask. How do I rat him out?\n\nHi r\/legaladvice, google hasn\u2019t really turned up anything but legal word salad so I\u2019m hoping someone can point me in the right direction. \n\nI got out of a job interview for a receptionist position with an outpatient surgery center and the interviewer asked several questions that both directly and indirectly violate EEOC rules. Having been a manager with hiring duties I\u2019m pretty familiar with what you can and can\u2019t ask in an interview, so these stuck out to me. \n\nDirect questions asked:\n\n * Do you have any children or are you planning on having any?\n * Are you generally healthy? Do you have any kind of chronic problems or medical conditions?\n * What age are you?\n\nIndirect questions asked (I know these may be stretching it, but they were super oddball questions for a job interview):\n\n * Do you have a roommate or live with anyone, now or in the future? (Fishing for marital or relationship status)\n * Any planned extended absences in the future? (Potentially fishing for signs of FMLA\/maternity leave)\n\nMy question is, is there anything I can do to report them for this without accepting the job? Everything I\u2019m reading is about how to file a charge against a current employer but there\u2019s nothing about an interviewer\/potential or future employer. \n\nThanks!","title":"[Texas] Is there anything I can do regarding an EEOC violation in a job interview?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553956558,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7bydi\/i_found_a_torrent_with_cp_is_there_anyway_to\/","id":"b7bydi","body":"So, I was looking for Linux ISOs and found one torrent on a semi private russian tracker which conteins CP. I did not downloaded but it has some very explicit images on the torrent page. Is there any way to report this? Would I be liable in anyway o could I maintain my anonymity? ","title":"I found a torrent with CP, is there anyway to report it?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1442108547,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kqfxk\/received_letter_notifying_of_rent_increase_with\/","id":"3kqfxk","body":"I came home from work yesterday and found a letter under my door with my ex's name on it [WHICH WAS NOT IN AN ENVELOPE - it was just a piece of paper] notifying of a rent increase. He and I used to live together, but we broke up and he moved out over a year ago. When he moved out, we sent an email to the landlord (our primary method of communication as he is extremely difficult to reach over phone and is never in his office), and the landlord confirmed receipt of the email.\n\nI lost my rental agreement somehow, and when I asked my landlord for a copy, he did not have it either, so I signed a new one. This one has only my name on it, and I signed it last week. The rent stated on this agreement is 990.\n\nI received a similar letter about rent increase some time ago (fall 2014 - I will be referring to these as 'old letter' which has my name on it, and 'new letter', which has ex's name on it), and when I compared the two letters, the date of rent increase was the same - January 2015. Yet the date of signing from the landlord on both is very close, September 2015 and August 2015. The landlord must have made a mistake in the previous letter that has my name on it, so I am wondering if he came across this new letter in his documents and just dropped it off at the apartment.\n\nHowever, complicating the issue, the new letter has different amounts on it, an increase of 19.50 to 994.50, whereas the old letter has an increase of 12.00 to 990.00. I am not sure what to make of it. As per the old letter, I have been paying 990 and have receipts to back it up.\n\nWhat is going on here, when I talk to my landlord what should I have in mind to protect myself?\n\nLocation: Ontario, Canada","title":"Received letter notifying of rent increase with my ex's name on it, he has not lived here for over a year","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569859776,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbdtwi\/i_cant_pay_my_rent_this_month_what_can_my\/","id":"dbdtwi","body":"I can\u2019t afford rent this month. I have a a couple hundred that I can give my landlord but that\u2019s it. Can she evicted me?","title":"I can\u2019t pay my rent this month. What can my landlords do. Ontario, Canada","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570718217,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfyx4g\/was_speeding_30_mph_over_the_limit_have_to_appear\/","id":"dfyx4g","body":"This is my first offense of any kind, I was going 85 in a 55 by mistake. I'm 18 years old. In my state, you can't pay that, you have to show up in court.\n\nI'm not afraid of the consequences, as I know I'll have to pay a fine or maybe take driving classes, but I'm afraid because I don't know what to do. What do I say, what do I do, and how can I increase my chances getting a lesser punishment?\n\nAny advice is appreciated!","title":"Was speeding 30 mph over the limit, have to appear in court, what do I do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505773828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70ykoa\/north_carolinaarrested_on_an_assault_charge\/","id":"70ykoa","body":"I obviously have not seen or spoken with him since I was arrested because I have no desire to break the terms of my bond. However, he is pushing me (through mutual friends) to move all of my stuff out of the house or he is going to throw it out. I don't have a place to put it yet.  Do I have any rights as a tenant? Or do I lose those due to the protective order.","title":"North Carolina--Arrested on an assault charge against my boyfriend, condition of bond is a protective order, I live with him","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555050138,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcabyf\/i_want_to_teach_people_how_to_not_get_boned\/","id":"bcabyf","body":"I sold cars in Oklahoma for a little over 3 years. Before that I was a universal banker for another 3 years. I am sure that there are some things that I may not be able to disclose, what that could be I am not certain. I have tried doing some google searches as to what kind of attorney I should consult to find out this information, I have not had any luck. There are so many things, and ways that dealerships utilize to absolute bleed people dry. They can legally sell you the vehicle for whatever you are willing to pay, or as much as your credit will allow. I was adept at selling cars, and not maximizing profit. I always had an issue with taking someone for everything they were worth. Now I would like to do what I can to make sure that it doesn't happen to other people. There are some instances that I still think about what I had done. I can never make it right to those individuals, but I can keep it from happening to others. I also would like to set up or negotiate car deals for people ahead of time. Essentially nailing down the details, I.E. price of vehicle that is buying bought, amount given for trade, and so on. I would not be dealing with their socials, or incomes. One of the most important things I will convey in the \"classes\" is securing their own financing, or to pay in cash. I essentially would only contact the dealerships by phone\/email on their behalf. They would go alone without me to close the deal. Again, I would need to know what kind of attorney to consult for the legality of these things I wish to do. I appreciate anytime, and responses.","title":"I want to teach people how to not get boned buying cars, and possibly work car deals out in advance for people. What type of Attorney should I consult beforehand? I live in Oklahoma","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540741706,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s44d2\/first_time_living_with_roommates\/","id":"9s44d2","body":"My son will be moving in with two other roommates for the first time in his life next month. What are some items that MUST be put down in writing between the three of them before they take on this adventure? They\u2019ve already signed the 12 month lease.  ","title":"First time living with roommates","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551301779,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avigvp\/sublandlord_refusing_to_repair_commercial_unit\/","id":"avigvp","body":"Missouri \n\nI sublease a commercial unit and pay rent to my landlady who then pays the actual landlord. In our contract, my landlady wrote she would cover the cost of repairs to the unit not caused by tenant fault. When we did our unit walkthrough I noted the toilet was leaking from the tank and a week after signing the contract I let her know the furnace had stopped working. During the walkthrough my landlady said she would buy us a new toilet if it couldn\u2019t be repaired, but hasn\u2019t done that yet. We\u2019ve let her know two times the toilet still leaks but she said she had it repaired and it should be fine. I sent photo and video evidence of the toilet and she didn\u2019t respond. \n\nThe furnace was initially fixed by the landlady, per our contract, but the same problem started up again last week (it\u2019s a super old furnace). I texted her to let her know we had no heat in the unit (which is not awesome for a yoga studio) and asked her if I had permission to call her preferred HVAC company. She didn\u2019t respond. I followed up 36 hours later and she responded and said \u201cI\u2019m going to have to review the terms of our contract. I can no longer be responsible for fixing the things you\u2019ve broken in the studio.\u201d  I reminded her neither issue was due to my breaking anything, that they were both malfunctioning when I moved in and I was operating according to the terms of our contract. \n\nShe got angry and said she didn\u2019t want to be my landlady anymore because she can\u2019t be responsible for this unit, and that she wanted to transfer the lease solely to me so I\u2019d have to deal with it. I reminded her she told me before Christmas she was going to set up a meeting between me, her landlord, and herself to arrange that and she said \u201cyes\u201d. I asked her what we needed to do to move forward with repairs and she stopped texting back. \n\nAt this point I can\u2019t hold classes  because the unit is cold, and my landlady is unresponsive. I\u2019m not sure how to proceed.  Since March 1st is in two days, do I pay rent anyway?  Do I go over her head and meet with the property landlord?  Do I just hire a repairman and bill it to her?  Or is this a \u201chire a lawyer\u201d situation and I shouldn\u2019t be doing anything else? \n\nThanks for your help.  ","title":"Sub-landlord refusing to repair commercial unit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541962650,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w6dep\/ok_denied_for_promotion_due_to_a_temporary_injury\/","id":"9w6dep","body":"Hi, long time lurker here. Throwaway for obvious reasons. Let\u2019s get to it!\n\nThe situation:\nI\u2019m a college student that works for my university in OK. Within my workplace, there are several jobs that are set aside for students. I\u2019m currently a Student Employee (SE) that applied for the higher up Student Supervisor (SS) position. All SEs are paid the same wage and SSs are paid $1 more per hour. I\u2019ve busted my ass for months to get this higher job and have become an invaluable employee. Other SEs come to me with problems that occur on shift and questions about policy, etc. There are also several stations that SEs are assigned to at the beginning of each shift. One of them is Lead, which entails an SE or SS being in charge of the other stations and SEs. Management has said for the last couple of months that they would be putting SEs in the Lead position to develop their leadership skills for the upcoming promotions. \n\nEverything was going fine until I injured my back a few weeks ago. Per policy, I supplied a doctor\u2019s note stating my limitations and when I would return to full duty. Because of the injury, I could not be in the Lead position. Even though I\u2019ve been on restriction, I\u2019m still ending up doing SS duties by managing people and completing tasks that are not hindered by my injury. Last week, management recently announced the new SSs. Lo and behold, I was not one of them. When I asked one of the managers why I was not selected, I was told that it was only because of my back injury and that she absolutely knew I could do the job. She then joked that I need to \u201cstop having monkey sex\u201d. To add insult to injury, the person hired for SS on my shifts has only been working at our location for 3 months and does not do the job as well as I do. However, she is a very pretty white girl who is sweet, meaning she doesn\u2019t have the balls to manage people when they aren\u2019t doing their jobs.\n\nRelevant Details:\nI injured my back outside of work, so there is no issue of workers\u2019 comp (right?). Since I have been on restriction, various managers have tried to place me in stations that would require me to use my back. I\u2019ve had to argue with a couple to be correctly placed. This decision will hold for at least 5 months until next semester when they hire again. 2 other SEs were also passed up and should have gotten the promotion, both of whom are minorities (black and Asian) and were told that they would be promoted back in August. The reasons given for their lack of promotion are flimsy. By that I mean that the Asian one was denied because he missed one shift, yet he has worked here for the past year. The black one was denied because he is too \u201cmouthy\u201d, which is an outright lie. I\u2019m a black female and had issues with a past manager being racist, so hearing the word \u201cmonkey\u201d being used in reference to me is upsetting, even in a joking context. 4 out of 5 of the newly promoted SSs are white, though at least half of the SEs are minorities. Management has said that they have the right to expand our job duties as they see fit because our job description supposedly entails X, Y, Z, and \u201cwhatever else is asked\u201d of us. By the university\u2019s definition, I qualify as someone with a disability (temporarily). The university is a public one, meaning they receive federal and state assistance.\n\nMy questions: \nCan management refuse me the promotion on the basis of a temporary injury? Are they allowed to add whatever they want to our job duties and essentially make SEs work as SSs? Would this situation seem like enough for a racial discrimination case? Do laws like the Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disabilities Act apply here?","title":"[OK] Denied for promotion due to a temporary injury. Do I have a discrimination case?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570242275,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddhbqp\/tickets_on_a_truck_i_sold_3_years_ago\/","id":"ddhbqp","body":"I recently got two tickets in the mail from the city is San Antonio TX. \nBoth are on a truck I sold about 3 years ago, apparently the person that now owns it keeps renewing the registration under my name and never changed the title to his name. \n\nI was able to contact the new owner by contacting the person I sold it to, at first the new owner promised he would pay the tickets if I sighed over a new copy of the title because he lost the one that came with the truck. But now he stopped responding my calls or messages.\n\nThe truck is still legally mine, there was no bill of sell just a sighed title that is now lost according to him. What options do I have? to #1 get him to pay the tickets and #2 make sure he transfers the truck to his name. \n\n(Family has given some crazy ideas like report it stolen or get a tow company to pick it up) but Im not sure that is legal lol","title":"Tickets on a truck I sold 3 years ago...","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1416147464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2mgsjt\/is_it_possible_to_enter_a_contract_with_a_company\/","id":"2mgsjt","body":"I don't have much reliance on the judicial systems of countries in Africa\/Middle East. I fear either i won't be able to protect my rights or i will be at great disadvantage if i were to be sued. \n\nOn the other hand, i have been doing business in US\/EU and feel more confident here.\n\nIs it possible that the contract I sign with the Company (which has presence in both US and EU) be subjected to the laws of US\/EU rather than Africa\/Middle East.\n\nThe contract is a partnership agreement to \"agree to work together as partners in a specified geographical region in Africa & Middle East and not to engage in similar business with anyone else, bypassing the partner, in the specified region\".\n\nEdit: TX,US and Dublin, Ireland (EU)","title":"Is it possible to enter a contract with a company in US (or UK) to work in another country in Africa or Middle East. [Location: US and\/or EU]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541391400,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uag2s\/underage_transport_of_alcohol_and_speeding_in\/","id":"9uag2s","body":"Hello,\n\nI am a nearly 19 y\/o girl in Illinois and got pulled over last night for the first time in my life. I had been going about 75 on the highway (which didn't seem much different than everyone else) but I didn't slow down as we entered a construction zone with a speed limit of about 45. I didn't even realize it was a work zone because there was no visible construction being done anywhere near there. \n\nHowever, I was also the designated driver for four other people going to a party. I had not taken a sip of alcohol but they had alcohol with them. I got charged with speeding and transport of alcohol but I'm not sure what the judge will actually fine me with. My ticket says the method of release is $2,000 for both charges, which doesn't seem right, especially considering that my friends got $120 approximate court fine for the same charge. \n\nI was mainly wondering what kind of fee would I expect to pay on my court date, and whether there is a way I can find that information online or by call? Also, do I have to pay the fine the day of the court date, or do they tell me the charge and I can send it in the mail sometime afterwards?\n\nI am absolutely terrified of these charges because I've never had any run-ins with the law before. I'd appreciate any insight into this, thank you.","title":"Underage Transport of Alcohol and Speeding in Construction Zone. Please help","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571177646,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diffwn\/usatx_what_is_the_process_for_preventing_cars\/","id":"diffwn","body":"At my apartment complex the sidewalk doesn't have anything preventing a cars tires from going all the way to the sidewalk. So a lot of the time cars and trucks will drive until their wheels touch the sidewalk, blocking half or sometimes all of the sidewalk.\n\nMy girlfriend is in a wheelchair, and has to use the sidewalk to get from the handicapped parking spot to the door. Sometimes we have trucks that park like this: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/mildlyinfuriating\/comments\/8mb8hj\/when_truck_owners_park_like_this\/\nOr a van that has a large engine bay park all the way across the sidewalk. Obviously it's impossible to use the sidewalk like that. \n\nWe have left notes on Windows, which worked for a while, but eventually the people who do park like that end up parking the same way again. We've also talked to the leasing office. The leasing office tells me to just knock on everyone's door until I find out who's parking like that. I'd rather not do that, because usually it's night time when people are home and parking that way. Which is also difficult to report because the leasing office is no longer open past 5.\n\nMy question is, who do I contact and what should I ask for? Can I call the police? I'm not sure the non emergency line is available after a certain time in my city (Corpus Christi) Do I complain to the ADA? I don't want to end up not being able to renew my lease because we're always asking for stuff to be done. Like a handicapped spot, or an actual ramp or help making the actual apartment accessible. They've been great with that. I just don't want my girlfriend falling out of her chair because we have to go through the grass.","title":"[USA-TX] What is the process for preventing cars from parking over sidewalk in my apartment complex?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552753179,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1u5tw\/update_new_questions_nefl_poisoning\/","id":"b1u5tw","body":"Hi. Thank you for the advice so far. This being a \"tough crowd\" has absolutely aided my ability to proceed thus far. There are police and legal updates and new info below, and a couple new questions.\n\nMy posts here have been about a multi-jurisdictional crime that I was not anticipated to survive in later 2018 and I ask about some of the particular details as I encounter them. \n\nIn January, I had filed a domestic abuse protection order when the ex came in my town 3x between December & January trying to find me when he caught wind my health condition had done a massive turnaround for the better. Because the poisoning was included on the document as one reason for wanting a protection order, it briefly became an attempted murder investigation. I vaguely remember talking to a police officer that called me regarding the poisoning back in January. I was still extremely sick and not remotely clear headed, despite beginning to improve. Being about 80lbs, staying conscious was hard. Fast forward to now and I still really struggle to talk about it. Profoundly. That's another huge reason I really appreciate this group. (I obtained a referral from my doctor for a speech pathologist last week, in an effort to expedite the ability to communicate and proceed forward with this and life.) \n\nI spoke with the investigating detective last week (NE), for the first coherent time, and was updated. \n\nPrior to the update, there were\/are 4 poisoned drink powders in police custody in NE. My ex mailed me those from FL. Detectives could confirm that the drink powders were, indeed, shipped to me in FL. No one argued that, it was as straight forward as detectives checking my Amazon order history with addresses and my ex confirmed via phone to the detective that he shipped items to me in NE from FL \"in good faith.\"\n\nThere is also 1 poisoned bottle of specific liquor in police custody as well, that my ex brought to me in NE. (Two people consumed that liquor. I'd like to ask about that on a separate post.)\n\nThose 5 consumables, drink powders and liquor, have been laboratory toxicology tested by an accredited lab and each result is signed off by forensic toxicologist. The 5 items are poisoned with the same chemicals I was poisoned with (including arsenic, lithium, and mercury). In this case, no one is debating whether or not the items are tainted or whether or not I was poisoned. \n\nMy ex was served the protection order on January 24 in FL. FL applied red law and also took his firearms. From my understanding, the judge in NE signed off on that and the FL county sheriff enforced the additional law, if this wouldn't right, please do correct me, my advocate attorney did not know about that at all.) The ex contested the DAPO, acted as his own attorney, submitted over 30 pages of \"motions\" to the court, and filed a complaint against the judge. On the morning of the of court date, the ex called numerous times, left the judge 9 \"delusional\" (bailiff's word) voicemails, and claimed a conspiracy. Court was early and he did not show up, so the DAPO stays in place. I did get to avoid the public charade this thing is anticipated to be, for a bit longer, due to this, thankfully. \n\nThe 30+ pages the ex submitted to the court include a lot of information that police initially tried to ascertain from me about how I eat and drink. In the documents, he admits to mailing me numerous health supplements. That is in response to the included toxicology reports with the protection order that I was told would be redacted when served to him. Because the lab results were not actually redacted, he was able to see all 5 of them. (He had been seeing my medical results and labs for months, as I initially did not understand it was him and thought we were trying to save me together, so that part is a nonissue.) However, the exact manufacturer\/flavor\/etc., is not on the copies he received. \n\nIn the ex's \"motions\" to the court, he is trying to defend himself against attempted murder, as my advocate attorney said, not any other aspects of the protection order.\n\nIn doing this, he tries to defend against the 5 toxicology reports for tainted items. He completely misinterpreted 1 of the reports; the liquid result. He believed it was my family member's blood (again, the copy he got is somewhat ambiguously source listed). Thus, he made a claim that the liquid result he thinks is blood is evidence showing said family member handled materials that were poisoned and is therefore my poisoner. \n\nHe also states, matter-of-factly, which liquor types he brought to the house (listed by address) in NE. \n\nOf the three liquors he listed on his \"motions\" to the court, one liquor is the laboratory tested, poisoned liquor in police custody. \n\nWhen I read what he submitted to court, I figured it would be important to tell the detective because the NE tested tainted items came two ways - mail from him in FL to NE and direct human delivery from him while in NE.\n\nWhen I called the detective, she seemed surprised. She told me that the investigation shifted to the manufacturer of the drink powders because all 4 were poisoned. She also stated that \"some of the drink powder probably got into the liquor.\" Hence why it was poisoned. She also stated that the liquor had been handled by numerous people, so anyone could have poisoned it. (It actually hadn't been, at all, no one lives at that house other than me and I lived in in FL.) When I tried to tell her I had found some other things when looking through cell phones (there are 10 months' of voice clips, messenger messages, texts, videos, voicemails, emails, etc., and we've only processed some of them still), she did agree to meet with me and go over it. She also literally sounds brainwashed into believing his charm. And I can totally relate to that, which is why I'm so lost on how to proceed.\n\nOne of the glaring details but also most confusing or misunderstood to law enforcement is that I lived with this man from Feb-Aug of 2018 in FL, became sicker and sicker and thus more reliant on him for everything I consumed, and my first of many lab tests that showed I had been poisoned in a way that had to have been chronic. To have detectable blood arsenic and 150x high value of lithium, one would die if that were acutely administered. It had to have been building up in me, and by every obvious account, it had been. \n\n\nMy blood tests were done the day after I flew back to NE, circling the drain, and after being taken to the ER from my doctor's office the morning after I got in. Very straight forward, my body had already starting the dying process by the time we found out. My doctor tearfully told me they will keep trying and keep reaching out to specialists to see what else they can do. She advised my medical professional family member to take me to a private lab and get a blood test as well, because those uphold in court better. There are private lab and hospital lab results from the day after I returned to NE that match.\n\nI relied on this man 100%, especially the last few months in FL, when I was so much sicker, for every bit of my (mostly powder + water) sustenance. I couldn't drive anymore my sight had gone so much. \nI understand that the initial brunt of my poisoning happened in FL, but that it was determined to be poison by NE. And it made no sense to anyone, for months, in NE and getting treatment, why I continued to both stay alive and have very staggeringly high values of compounds in my system that shouldn't be anymore. That's why and when items linked to this person were tested, and why items brought to me both ways from him were tested.\n\nMy question now pertains to following through on your advice to get an attorney. \n\nI certainly need to obtain legal counsel. In what direction might you folks suggest I go? The poisoning occurred between moves in FL as well, and in 2 different counties. The DAPO was served in an additional 3rd county in FL where he moved in November (and where he moved my stuff). \n\nIf NE law enforcement thinks it's the manufacturer of drink powders I didn't receive until October and I had been being poisoned as early as February 2018, would it be relevant to talk to FL law enforcement, next? Or a FL attorney? What information will be useful to an attorney?\n\nThanks in advance. \n\nTLDR;\n\nI got poisoned in 2 states in 2018. There is a lot of biological and some physical evidence. No one is seemingly piecing the different bits together. I have a hard time figuring this out because I'm still majorly recovering. I appreciate any advice, even the harsh kind, because it prepares me for what's upcoming. \n\nWhat type of information should I present to an attorney, and what type of attorney should I seek?","title":"(Update & new questions) NE\/FL Poisoning","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540839972,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sg5jk\/employer_requiring_employees_to_put_their_own\/","id":"9sg5jk","body":"This is in Texas. \n\nI work part time in a restaurant as a hostess and sometimes to go. It started with them requiring the bartenders to fill their own bank. There is only 2 of them and they were okay with it. Seems strange to me. \n\nNow they have told those of us who work togo that we are required to bring in our own change. So he gives me a $100 \"bank\" to make change out of but now expects me to bring my own coins.  Honestly I'm just annoyed about it because I don't really carry coins. \n\nBut it also seems like it may not be legal? Any insight would be appreciated. ","title":"Employer requiring employees to put their own money in register","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447633691,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3syjyu\/canada_quebec_landlord_suing_for_roommates_missed\/","id":"3syjyu","body":"Hey. I've been a lurker for a long time. I never thought I would need to make a post, but in the coming days I'm hoping to meet with a lawyer. Until then, any advice or opinions would be appreciated.\n\n\nIn 2013 I signed a 15 month lease with 3 other people. It was our first lease, we were all 18\/19 years old, and our parents who live in other provinces\/countries cosigned by fax. \n\n\nIn December, one roommate (Edith) decided she would move back to America and sublet her room. Without any written agreement, her room was taken up by a guy named Tom. My understanding is that he would send etransfers to Edith every month because Edith had provided the landlord with postdated cheques at the start of the lease. \n\n\nThe last months of the lease, May and June of 2014, Tom did not make these payments to Edith and Edith did not notice until mid June when the landlord attempted to cash both May and June's rent at the same time and they bounced. When I asked Tom about the rent, he fumbled with a reply and began actively avoiding me. Within the next couple of days, he packed all of his bags and moved back to Ottawa with his parents. I was not able to have a proper conversation with him about the rent. \n\n\nIn August we received an Amendement from the R\u00e9gie as well as an email from the landlord instructing us to produce the $900 in unpaid rent and $120 in legal fees. After a week of back and forth between the roommates, the landlord, and Tom's mother, Tom agreed to pay the landlord. From that we believed the problem was over, and the last communication we had with the landlord was in September 2014.\n\n\nTom has said since that his payments to the landlord bounced in December at the same time. This was what he told Edith today.\n\n\nWe each today received and avis notifying us of a hearing in December for the reclamation of the unpaid rent. I have no idea what to do. Of everybody involved, only I and one other roommate still live in Montreal although we were not in contact until today. Although I paid my quarter of the rent in full and on time without missing a payment or ever being late, I feel as if the butt of the responsibility to produce this sum is largely on me and the other roommate. I have no idea where to go from here. Edith, the roommate who was responsible for Tom, currently lives in California and as far as I understand, is not ever returning to Quebec.\n\n\nThanks for reading! I'm sorry if this is hard to follow. I would also like to add that I'm a student ","title":"[Canada Quebec] Landlord suing for roommate's missed rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555199893,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcwysd\/question_about_trademarked_words_and_office\/","id":"bcwysd","body":"I'm getting into starting a personal commercial business and a word I was wanting to use on merchandise is apparently filed as trademarked and live but has a \"NON-FINAL OFFICE ACTION ISSUED - CLARIFICATION NEEDED\" listed on it as well, and from what I read online it seemed like it said the application for said trademark under this kind of action could be dropped if they applicant doesn't get back with them before the deadline?  Not sure if I'm getting that right though, since I'm new to this and it's confusing.  The applicant has until the 26th of this month to get back with them, so I'm waiting to see what happens in the meantime.\n\n​\n\nSo my question is, is it still trademarked and could I get punished for it if I hypothetically used it (I'm not going to though unless something happens and it's back to 100% public use legally), even if it's under this non-final office action thing?  And if the applicant doesn't respond back to it, does the trademark drop or how does it work?  Thanks!","title":"Question about trademarked words and office actions (not sure what to flair it as)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551297071,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avhkm6\/company_offers_student_loan_repayment_to_certain\/","id":"avhkm6","body":"My company started offering a large student loan repayment plan this year primarily to attract new hires to areas where they have had trouble retaining employees. I'm not eligible without moving. Is it legal to offer a benefit like this to some locations and not others for the same wage class and type of salaried worker? From what I've seen with Nvidia and other large companies the benefit to repay loans gets offered company wide like health insurance not as a bonus for working in a certain area. ","title":"Company offers student loan repayment to certain locations but not others inside the same state and general area.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571675662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl33jq\/californias_law_states_landlord_has_21_days_to\/","id":"dl33jq","body":"Everything that I\u2019ve researched seems to say that it\u2019s 21 calendar days, however my landlord is saying they have 21 business days to give the deposit back. (We moved out on Sept. 30th and the landlord is saying that they have until October 30th as 10\/14 was a holiday). I was assuming that we would have our deposit today. Do I really have to wait a whole extra week?","title":"California\u2019s law states landlord has 21 days to return deposit. I\u2019m stumped as to wether or not it is business days or calendar days.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552573110,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b10vc2\/sisters_landlord_has_dogs_that_bark_for_hours_put\/","id":"b10vc2","body":"This post pertains to landlord\/tenant laws, renting laws in Ontario, Canada, as well as possibly contract law.\n\n​\n\nSo I'll try and explain this the best I can as it's happening to my little sister at the moment and she calls me crying her eyes out because she has no idea what to do. (TLDR at the bottom)\n\n\\---\n\nIt's quite a long story so I'm going to try and point form\/summarize it:\n\n​\n\n\\- Sister rents a house in which she lives with her landlord & 3 other roomates + landlords dogs\n\n\\- Landlord disclosed that she had dogs + there was occasional barking (no big deal, we have dogs at home)\n\n\\- After a few months the dogs started waking up in the early hours of the morning barking consistently for periods of over 20+ minutes at a time.\n\n\\- Sisters first complaint was end of October, landlord said she would try and figure something out\n\n\\- Since then sister has complained on about 5 separate occasions all with promises of trying to find a solution, but nothing ever happens.\n\n\\- She now wakes up in the mornings crying as her sleep is interrupted every single night.\n\n\\- Finally, she wrote a letter to her landlord outlining all the times she's complained, how nothing has come out of it, and that she wants to break the lease or she will have to submit a formal complaint to the Landlord Tenant Board.\n\n\\- Landlord scoffs at her telling her her lease is not \"subject to tenants enjoyment\" and backtracks, claiming her dogs don't even bark as much as my sister is saying they do (my sister is home more than the landlord).\n\n\\- Sister shows her the landlord tenant act section which outlines \"excessive noise\" being an issue.\n\n\\- Landlord accuses my sister of wanting to break her lease early to get a \"summer sublet\" thus a rent discount.\n\n\\- Landlord also discloses that she installed a camera in the living room pointed at the dogs crate to watch the dogs to see if they bark. She claims she's checked it \"7 times a day\" and they are rarely barking\n\n\\- Sister freaks out and says she did not have permission from any tenants to put a camera in the common area and record them and to stop use immediately\n\n\\- Landlord claims that \"the corner of the living room isn't a common area\" and my sister is \"making stuff up because she's not actually recording\"\n\n\\- Sister says it's still a violation of privacy because it has the ability to record. \n\n\\- Landlord continuously accuses my sister of making stuff up under the ruse that she is trying to scam her or something.\n\n\\- Sister finally calls LTB and tries to submit formal complaint. She is notified that the lease agreement she signed is actually the wrong agreement and doesn't apply if the landlord also lives in the house (shares a kitchen, bathroom etc)\n\n\\- LTB told her she needs to get legal advise because she still signed the lease and now it's getting into contract law?\n\n\\- Sister is a student and is getting some pro bono advice today but cannot afford a lawyer.\n\n​\n\nOh and it might be helpful to note that at the start of the lease the landlord offered my sister a \"discount on rent\" if she didn't take tax receipts, so my sister thinks shes actually collecting all this rent and committing tax evasion, which is so frustrating considering she could be scamming the government yet is accusing my sister of trying to scam her.\n\n​\n\nHer landlord is basically trying to convince her that she has no rights to reasonable enjoyment as a tenant. She just wants to know her rights and ultimately the best way to go about getting out of this extremely shitty living situation. \n\n​\n\n\\---\n\nTLDR: Sister is renting a room in a house. Landlord lives there and has 3 dogs that bark for over 20 mins at a time early in the mornings. She complained about it multiple times over the course of 4 months and the landlord didn't do anything about it. She then told the landlord if she wouldn't let her out of the lease early or find a solution to the barking she would have to file a formal complaint. She said no. Landlord then told her she installed a camera to \"watch the dogs\" without anyone else consent in the living room. Landlord claims \"the corner of the living room isn't a common area\". Sister then found out landlord made her sign the wrong agreement and now Landlord tenant board can't help her, asked her to seek legal advice.) She is at her wits and and it's a highly tense situation now and I just want to try and help her as best as I can.","title":"Sister's landlord has dogs that bark for hours, put cameras in living room without telling anyone. She's trying to get out of her lease. Landlord Tenant Board says the landlord made her sign the wrong lease so she needs to seek legal advice.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1502819180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tvsme\/i_believe_that_an_aunt_is_keeping_inheritance\/","id":"6tvsme","body":"Last month sometime, there was a court hearing to determine what was to be done with money left in an account by our late grandmother amounting to around $30,000. The hearing process was initiated by the aforementioned aunt, and it was determined that the aunt her brother were to get 10,000 each, and since there was a third biological daughter(my MIL) that died before my grandmother (in law?), her share was to be split between her three adopted kids (My wife, and her two siblings). \n\nSomeone related to the aunt told my father in-law(still alive, but not related to the deceased by blood) that the aunt had received payment and was told to distribute it accordingly within 3-5 days. This was several weeks ago. The relative also mentioned that the aunt had put the money in a trust fund to gain interest and has no intention of distributing it. \n\nWe have already contacted the aunt's lawyer asking what was going on, but haven't heard back yet. Is this something where we can contact the court directly and tell them what's happening, or is this something where we have to get our own lawyer involved and file a lawsuit?\n\nP.S. My wife is 23, my SIL is 20, and my BIL who is 16 is constantly in and out of juvi for drug and mental problems. So i'd understand keeping the money from the BIL, but the other two are of age and responsible so there shouldn't be an issue. ","title":"I believe that an Aunt is keeping Inheritance money from my wife(23) and I(22), and my two sibling in-laws. (MO)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1414092028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2k4gcb\/ca_i_rearended_someone_on_the_freeway_that_cut_me\/","id":"2k4gcb","body":"I haven't been able to put all the details together as I bumped my head in the accident, but here are the initial claims:\n\n* Other party (a woman with a passenger and a dog) was driving 55mph in the fast lane.\n* I rear-ended her after a very brief (1-2 seconds) of braking. I was likely traveling around 70mph when I began braking.\n* I believe she had pulled in front of me ~100 feet in front of the scene of the accident, but I really don't know where the car came from... I didn't see it (likely a reason for this being my fault?)\n* I feel like I had been driving reasonably; not tip-top vigilance, but at least not texting while driving. Perhaps I had been looking in the rear-view mirror when she pulled in front of me.\n\nMy current course of action is to do various calculations to try to determine the amount of time I would have had to make evasive maneuvers. I'm going to try to put numbers together that somehow illustrate that I could not have reasonably reacted in time.\n\nAre my attempts futile? I understand that rear-ending someone when they are fully established in the freeway will very likely return as my fault, but I'd like to try where I can.\n\nThanks for your time.","title":"[CA] I rear-ended someone on the freeway that cut me off. Who is responsible?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538835577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lw9us\/fiance_getting_pay_docked_for_part_of_the_time\/","id":"9lw9us","body":"We are in MO and my fiance is an aftercare supervisor at a Catholic grade school, who assists as an aide to get to 40 hours a week.\n\nOne of the other aides somehow found out what she makes, which was about $5 more than the other aides, and went to the principal.  The principal's idea to remedy the situation was to dock my fiances pay for 3 hours out of the day while she was doing aide work, and she would get her normal pay while she fulfilled her duties as aftercare supervisor.\n\nShe got served papers on Friday showing a title change for Instructional Aide for .4 FTE, and Supervisor for .4 FTE, with a note saying she is \"Active Full Time\".  She was asked to sign and return dated 10\/01 (the effective date of the change) when she didn't get the papers until 10\/05.  Is there anything we can, or should, do?  She is already actively searching for a new job because of this fiasco.\n\nThis is MO","title":"Fiance getting pay docked for part of the time she works (MO)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541627378,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v3s9m\/today_me_and_my_high_school_classmates_fucked_up\/","id":"9v3s9m","body":"Ok so, I'm in my senior year of high school with one of my classes being dental assisting. We have these programs called internships, where a student can go into an actual dental clinic and shadow. In my class, there's this shy humble guy who's known to be picked on by many others. He interns at a dental clinic near our school and he told our class the story of how he overheard his superiors talking trash about him. After hearing this, my classmates got livid and started to write comments on their google page. The clinic's stars dropped as most of us submitted our reviews. There was one problem though, we used our school emails instead of our alts. So you would see a bad 1 star review created by an account with a \\[STUDENT\\] handle. We laughed it off as we turned their 5 star review into a 2.1 star. Days passed until we all get pulled in to the Dean's office and punished with an RPC. The deans told us that they are looking to sue\/press charges. I don't know much about law, but are there any possible ways we could defend ourselves? ","title":"Today, me and my high school classmates fucked up by messing with a dental clinic. Any advice?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1409273275,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2evjip\/federalallegedly_shoplifting_no_priors_denied\/","id":"2evjip","body":"Details- Spouse of active duty soldier. On a Texas military installation. Civilian. Accused of shoplifting at post exchange. Military police involvement as well as civilian police that work on the post. Late 20's, no criminal history. \n\n\nSo I was accused of shoplifting. Loss prevention told me to come with them and police were on the way. \n\n\nCivilian officer arrives, cusses at me and tells me I have \"One chance\".\nHaving never been in legal trouble before and obviously detained, (I wasn't allowed to use restroom) I asked for a lawyer while being questioned by the loss prevention, military police, and civilian officer.\n\n\nCivilian officer tells me I'm playing fucking games, grabs me and cuffs me. He left several bruises on my arms and the cuffs bruised and welted both wrists. (Still visible after a couple of days) I repeatedly asked for a lawyer. When it became apparent that I wouldn't get one I decided to remain silent. Once I tried that, the officer started telling me how I was going to fuck up my husband's career.\n\n\nHe had a box on the paper that he could check, saying I was \"uncooperative\" and how if he checked it, my husband's chain of command would punish him worse than if I just cooperated. At that point I felt blackmailed. All my stuff was searched through- never consented. \n\n\nSo eventually after a lot of time, I'm taken to military police station. Strip searched, then about 7 hours later I'm finally read my rights. I wouldn't agree to waive rights, and wanted a lawyer present. Then after booking, I guess? I was released. No bail, just walked out the door.\n\n\nSO, while I'm waiting for a court summons in the mail I want to know if my rights were violated and if getting a civilian attorney will be worth the money. Any advice helpful. ","title":"[Federal]Allegedly shoplifting, no priors, denied lawyer, and coerced? when trying to remain silent. Possible excessive force.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551235089,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av82cf\/ca_will_and_trust_made_while_parents_were_married\/","id":"av82cf","body":"No major assets were acquired during his new marriage. \nWhat happens now? \nWhat is she entitled to? What can I expect?","title":"[CA] Will and trust made while parents were married naming me as beneficiary. Parents divorced in 2015, and dad remarried three years ago. What now?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1507601752,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75e1cr\/oregon_what_constitutes_notice_to_enter_dwelling\/","id":"75e1cr","body":"I'm trying to keep this brief and get quickly to the core of the question. If y'all need more informaton on the situation leading to this question, I'd be happy to provide it. \n\nI'm a tenant leasing a house from a property manager (PM).  We have spent several months trying to get the PM to perform work to repair damages that occurred just before we moved in.  The PM finally had a company come out to do the repairs a few days ago... but they ended up walking out on the job after trying for several hours to get ahold of the PM to authorize the repairs. This is consistent with the behavior I have experienced from the PM.\n\nToday, the PM tells me that he will have someone come out this week to do the work and says that he or his assistant will be here to let them in to do the work.  I told him that I want to be here and to please give me 24 hours notice.  He tells me that \"that is silly\" (yes, really, he told me I'm being silly for wanting to be in the house at the time) and asks me what I'm worried about. I tell him that it is my right to be here for the repairs and that I need 24 hours notice of a day and time for the repair. **He tells me that he just gave me notice**.  I responded that I do not believe that constitutes notice and that notice requires a day and time.\n\nGoogle tells me that he has to give 24 hours notice, but I can't find a definition of any minimum standard for \"notice\". It seems unreasonable that \"sometime this week\" is sufficient.  Is it?  Is there a definition of what does (or does not) constitute notice to enter the dwelling?  I do not trust this person and do not want him alone in my house. Help!","title":"[Oregon] what constitutes notice to enter dwelling by a Property Manager","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539109847,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mrq6g\/how_to_transfer_ceo_position_of_power_to_another\/","id":"9mrq6g","body":"So my friend and I started a company together and my credit and background is better than his, so now he wants to transfer CEO position to me for that reason especially on federal forms. How can we do this ?","title":"How to transfer CEO position of power to another person?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505487480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70ad4b\/new_apartment_infestation_nightmare\/","id":"70ad4b","body":"Buffalo, NY - I rented an apartment that was supposed to begin on September 1st. I go to college here so I needed to be here for classes. After paying security deposit and first month\u2019s rent I signed the lease on August 31st and was given the keys and arrived to the apartment to find that the old tenant had not moved out and had replaced the deadbolt with one they only had the key to. So much for the part of the lease saying they\u2019d changed the locks. I informed management and they told me the tenant would be out the next morning. I went over at 6:30 the following evening and found filthy conditions, their furniture, and three cats left behind. At this point, I called management but they were \u201cunavailable\u201d due to the Labor Day weekend. So I was left with nothing. By Monday they\u2019d informed me my move-in date would be changed to the 5th and I\u2019d be prorated for days I couldn\u2019t live there while they changed locks and cleaned. Well turns out, it wasn\u2019t \u201cready\u201d until the 7th when I finally could move in. They agreed to prorate those days, and also paid for three nights at a hotel. \nIf the story ended here it wouldn\u2019t be so much an issue anymore. However, I was told the apartment would have holes in walls fixed, painted, and various other things fixed. This has not happened. The cleaning crew did a shoddy job at best, leaving rotted wood chips in the window sills, mold around the tub, and actually sealing hair into the silicone around the tub. The worst part of all of this is that now I have discovered a flea infestation no doubt from the previous tenant\u2019s filthy lifestyle. I talked to a resident above me and they also have fleas. I informed the landlord of this on Tuesday the 12th but they can\u2019t get an exterminator here until the 18th. I\u2019ve been trying to kill them myself but I can only get rid of them for 12 hrs or so. I didn\u2019t sign up for any of this. At this point the place disgusts me - I haven\u2019t been able to move much in because I don\u2019t want to get fleas in everything. I have no confidence in the competence of the people running this operation - PLEASE tell me I have grounds to break my lease. The actual manager is out of the country until this weekend so I haven\u2019t been able to get ahold of them. Any help is much appreciated - I am absolutely desperate at this point. Thanks. \n\nForgot to mention that this is a year lease, not m2m. ","title":"New apartment infestation nightmare","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551998722,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayit0c\/check_cashing_place_is_saying_my_employer_put_a\/","id":"ayit0c","body":"Didn't know what flair, so I chose employment since it covers my payroll checks.\nBoston, Massachusetts is where this occured. I started cashing my checks at a check cashing place after getting signed out of my online banking and being too lazy to go to the bank to reset it. Fast forward a few weeks, I get a call from that place saying that my employer put holds on three checks that cashed over a week ago and they got sent back from their bank. I come into work and my boss who handles payroll knows absolutely nothing about it. Check cashing guy says I have to pay him back plus interest. I am a HS student working part time to save up.  What do I do? Some of my coworkers are saying they might be trying to scam me. The check guy says my employer is lying and I should sue them. Can anyone advise me?","title":"Check cashing place is saying my employer put a hold on my checks that I had already cashed and now I owe the check cashing place + interest. Employer knows nothing about it.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552590617,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b14djq\/how_can_i_get_my_grandfathers_drivers_license\/","id":"b14djq","body":"Okay so my grandfather has no business driving anymore. He recently got pulled over for swerving, has been in and out of the hospital and is usally medicated. He can barely walk straight and i am afraid he will kill someone.\n\nThe only problem is he does not like me, and he will not listen to me or anyone when they say he needs to stop driving. Im not sure how to go about getting it revoked though\n\nI live in VA usa. ","title":"How can i get my grandfathers drivers license revoked? [Virginia]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554812919,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb7cbr\/made_an_app_with_same_name_and_similar_concept_as\/","id":"bb7cbr","body":"Hello,\n\n​\n\nTitle says it all really. I unknowingly created an app that has the same name as someone else, and although they are different in many ways, they are also similar in other ways. We are developing our app in Canada, and their's is being developed in Slovakia. \n\nOur app is set to drop in May and we've been working hard on it for a year, so it caught me by surprise and bummed me out a bit to find out the news regarding the other app.\n\nI have trademarks and copyrights for my app, but I'm not sure how those protect me. \n\nWill I face legal troubles in the future for releasing an app with the same name as someone in another country with a similar concept?\n\n​\n\nCheers!","title":"Made an App With Same Name and Similar Concept as Someone Else","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554407403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9hgfs\/can_my_employer_take_money_from_my_paycheck_to\/","id":"b9hgfs","body":"My employer requires everyone to be CPR certified. My boss is the instructor. We have to pay for the training, it comes from our checks. We also do not get paid for being at our workplace for this training, it is after hours. \n\nCan my employer require me to pay? \nAre they allowed to not pay me for time spent training? \n\nIf I contact LARA or whomever handles these things, do I have to speak up to my boss or do they handle it for me so I can remain anonymous? \n\nThank you. ","title":"Can my employer take money from my paycheck to pay for a CPR training? Michigan.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550795083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atanuv\/sign_on_bonus_repayment\/","id":"atanuv","body":"I am located in TN, USA. I accepted a sign-on bonus in exchange for agreeing to work for my employer for two years. I have been there six months, and I want to leave. \n\nFirst, the offer letter I have stated I have been hired and accepted an offer to join a particular department. That is not the department they ended up putting me in.  They are similar departments, but there is one key difference that I said in recruitment is not something I am willing to do.  Does this matter at all in terms of repayment since they, in a sense, violated their own contract? \n\nSecond, the offer letter states the bonus has to be repaid if I \u201cvoluntary terminate employment.\u201d Does that mean that I don\u2019t have to repay it if I\u2019m fired? \n\nAlso, if I do have to repay it, do I repay the amount they paid or the amount I received? Almost half went to taxes. \n\nLastly, in the state of TN, can they garnish my last paycheck as payment toward the bonus, or do they have to take me to court and get a judgement for that? ","title":"Sign on bonus repayment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541815374,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vqk1j\/should_i_sign_and_pay_for_my_visit_wife_and_son\/","id":"9vqk1j","body":"I am posting here to seeking the experience with rent not project by Local act which have a shared bathroom or kitchen with landlord.\n\nThe story was I have a rent room in a apartment shared with landlord.\nWe were signing the standard Ontario rental agreement for a 1 year fixed term .\nWhen I told my landlord I have my visit family , she asked me to sign a \nINDEMNIFICATION AND WAIVER  and pay additional per night based fee for additional overnight guest .\nThe term is not in my contract and not in the Act .\nI do research the tenant act at Ontario, but my case is a exempt from this act protection .(although we are using the standard rental agreement from Ontario)\nWhich if I have a shared bathroom\/kitchen with landlord, I will not apply to this Act.\nThe landlord chasing me the money and  signing the doc.She is really annoying me.\n\nPls share your insights about my case , shall I pay and sign ? \n\n\n Thanks \n\n\n\n\n\nGuest(s) assume(s)s all responsibility, risk and liability for all activities of Guest(s), invitees, subGuests, or licensees, directly or indirectly conducted in connection with this Agreement, including environmental and hazardous substance risks and liabilities, whether occurring during or after the term of this Agreement. Guest(s) agrees to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law to indemnify and save harmless the landlord from and against all claims, demands, judgments, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) which may arise by reason of injury, emotional distress, or death to any person, or damage to any property, which may have arisen or be alleged to have arisen in connection with negligence of the Guest(s); or which may arise or be alleged to have arisen as a result of a dangerous condition of or on the premises, unless the condition had not become more dangerous as a result of the Guest\u2019s activities. This indemnification shall survive the termination of the Agreement. Guest(s) expressly waives any and all claims of whatever nature, for any and all loss or damage sustained from any cause whatever, prior, during, or subsequent to the occupancy of the premises, by reason of any defect, deficiency, failure, or impairment of the premises, including, but not limited to the water supply system, heating system, wires leading to or inside the premises, gas, electric, or telephone systems, automatic sprinkler systems or from any other source whatsoever. The landlord is not liable or responsible for any financial loss incurred by the Guest(s) due to unforeseen, extenuating or reasonably uncontrollable events, which cause failure of any or all of the facilities to operate or function during the period of this Contract.  \n\nThis agreement applies to the premises and all associated property owned and operated by the condominium where the premises is located.\n\n\n\n","title":"Should I sign and pay for my visit wife and son ? Toronto case","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540920508,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sq2k7\/occupational_health_assessment_and_protected\/","id":"9sq2k7","body":"I\u2019m an LNA and recently accepted a job at a big academic medical center that is a major employer around here. They have had some sketchy issues around disability in the past but with more public scrutiny and new management I thought I\u2019d give it a shot. I was offered a job on a unit that has historically been less politicized than the main hospital, is very lowkey and fairly isolated from huge changes. I liked my interview experience and the boss and coworkers all seemed great and excited to have me come (plus made some comments implying they\u2019re smart and adaptive around disability issues, which was encouraging!). However, to finalize the offer and start work I still had to go through the larger system\u2014HR, occupational health, get parking stickers and a badge from security, do an orientation, etc. Maybe seemed bureaucratic and obnoxious but doable\u2014everyone has to go through it, what\u2019s the big yank if the final job is good? So I started the process. Everything went smoothly until I reached occupational health. They had me fill out an extensive questionnaire and then come in for a drug test, and (so I assumed) maybe some sort of interview, medical exam, maybe updated vaccinations etc. All of which I\u2019d be fine with. I got there and did the drug test with no problems, got led into a back room with the nurse who was supposed to do the rest of it. She had my questionnaire and started in on going over it\u2014which is the part I\u2019m asking about. I have GAD and PTSD. The real, honest to goodness, officially diagnosed, non-Tumblr variety. (NOT \u201cfun\u201d or trendy, at ALL! Would gladly be rid of it!) Documented extensively and well managed with medication and therapy. I was involved with vocational rehabilitation in the past and was aware of ADA rules and protected questions, but wasn\u2019t on it enough yesterday to deal with this situation. Anyway. The occupational health nurse noticed the PTSD disclosure and asked me \u201cwhat happened\u201d. I asked if I needed to answer, said it was well managed and I didn\u2019t feel comfortable sharing all the gory details of I didn\u2019t need to. She said if I didn\u2019t disclose I\u2019d be fired. I already disclosed! In person and on that form. I\u2019d said I had that diagnosis but it has been well managed for years and I am safe to work. I have had other LNA positions before and never any issues in job settings or any licensing issues. She pushed and basically said I needed to answer all her questions or it wouldn\u2019t go further. Fair enough\u2014if they had been the two I\u2019m aware are OK to ask, such as what the disability is and if it impacts work. No, much more. She asked me to describe triggers, then what happened, then kept pushing. My PTSD stems from pretty horrific, graphic child abuse, bad enough the state got involved and I was adopted. Beaten, tortured, starved, tied up, etc. I panic when feeling trapped. Basically stuff I don\u2019t talk about in casual conversation and triggers that are obscure enough to not be a public or day to day issue, TL;DR none of her business and upsetting to recall. Kept pushing with, \u201cBUT WHAT HAPPENED?\u201d and when I mentioned adoption asked where my birth parents (the abusers) ended up, when I was pressured into mentioning the specifics of the abuse she asked, \u201ctied up with WHAT? And in a closet...REALLY?\u201d It seemed more like rubbernecking or \u201coh cool, gross!\u201d than, say, need to know or concern\u2014 unprofessional and crude. By then I was crying and totally useless. She was scribbling all of this down on the back of my form and when I was asking her to stop kept claiming it was to \u201chelp\u201d me. Then suddenly decided it was over and told me I couldn\u2019t continue the appointment (exam, shots, whatever \u201cnormal\u201d goes on in OH I assume?), couldn\u2019t go get my parking stickers\/badge etc, until I got a doctor\u2019s letter. Sent me out feeling totally embarrassed and unsafe. My doctor is great and already going to bat for me. I still have the job offer and am slated to start in December. I\u2019m just horrified by how this went, concerned by the level of detail, and would like clarification on what is appropriate or legal according to the ADA and employment law, and where the boundaries are. Of course I\u2019m bothered but would like facts to inform my response. What can I pursue as some sort of complaint? And how could I better handle this in the future? TIA!","title":"Occupational health assessment and protected questions\/ADA violation? (Mental illness disclosure handled badly, I live in VT, job is in NH)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409273806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2evkeb\/need_a_little_help_determining_my_rights_as_a\/","id":"2evkeb","body":"Hi guys, So basically my situation is thus: I'm subletting a (fully furnished) room in Boston right now, and my lease terminates on Sunday. The original lease is between management and the guy I'm subletting from, who immediately subbed the other three rooms in the house, one to his sister. he moved out of state midway through the year and I took on the space, pretty standard. However, He showed up on sunday to prepare the apartment for turnover and has been crashing on the couch since. He's also done this a couple of times in the past (shorter durations, weekend trips) to take care of personal business- one time going so far as to throw a small pre-wedding get together at the apartment, without informing us, and i found this out when i stepped out the shower and had to walk through a group (10-15 people) of complete strangers i didn't expect to have in my apartment.\n\nNow, I'm fine with him coming in and out to take care of shit, I understand that. However I was under the impression that when you sublet an entire residence you don't get to stay over when you feel like it. Who's in the right? \n\nMy second issue is that when he showed up on sunday the first thing he did was clean the kitchen and bathroom (both were in bad shape i must admit, which is why i never use the kitchen), and then on monday he informed me that he would be deducting from the security deposit for it. Seeing as the lease was not terminated yet I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have that right, is this correct?\n\nFinally, my lease prohibits occupancy of my apartment for 24 hours after smoking. Ignoring the fact that this would be a pretty hard thing to prove, is this even a legal clause in a lease? I can see it being illegal because who are you to tell me what i can and cant do off the property, but i can also see it being legal because it's a sublease, because i signed it, and because there's legitimacy to the idea that regular smokers track unpleasant odors into the space. to be fair i don't smoke and am only curious because it's a strange clause to me.\n\n\nphew. sorry for the novel, I'm somewhat distressed by the situation. Any input you can provide will be great, at least i'll have some answers. Thanks guys!\n\n\n","title":"Need a little help determining my rights as a subletter in Boston, anybody have any info?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539055004,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mlnpd\/being_sued_for_carbus_accident_need_to_know_what\/","id":"9mlnpd","body":"Help. I'm 28 and have no experience being a Defendant, would really like advice as to what to expect or how I should handle things, so I don't completely freak out. Accident happened when I was 26, driving a rental car abroad in British Columbia. I live in NYC.  \n\n\nReceived a letter from lawyers representing me, because I had purchased insurance on the rental car so they are providing Insurance Corporation of British Columbia \/ representing Budget Rent A Car and myself..  \n\n\nThings I dont understand\/ am worried about:\n\n\\-It says I may have to attend meetings\/court (I am 4000 miles away)\n\n\\-how much am I about to pay? I have  no money. It doesnt tell me what my policy limits are and i also have no idea what the likelihood is of having to pay over that.\n\n\\-If the accident details would matter: it was a slightly ambiguous accident in which I was in some ways at fault but it was also just a dangerous situation apart from myself  \nAt a perpedicular 4-way intersection (+ shape) there were slip turns on each corner. The light was red to go straight but I took a slip lane right turn, not pausing much to yield as I did not see any traffic coming. I was fine, until I took a sharp\/sudden right turn  -- a bus had been directly close behind me, and crashed into the back of my car. I think the bus was going to 70+ mph, within limit but so fast that I wouldn't have seen it coming when I quickly scanned the road in front of me, it would have been coming from far to the left. I think should have been more looked back\/yielded\/something to have been more aware of what was happening behind me. \n\n​\n\n The bus driver is now suing me, there were a few other people on the bus, though I haven't heard from them...yet.\n\nHelp, what do I need to do now? Feel like throwing up because I have no idea how to deal - unfamiliar unknown territory. I just feel like I am in deep trouble. Thank you.","title":"Being sued for car\/bus accident -- need to know what to","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540425765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r55re\/awful_property_management\/","id":"9r55re","body":"I rent a condominium complex that\u2019s fully furnished with washer and dryer in unit. My washing machine stopped draining and would not spin 3 weeks ago. I called the emergency line and put in a maintenance request form. After a week someone finally came to drain the disgusting water out of it after I called the emergency line 3 times that night. They said it would be fixed by Monday (this was Thursday). Monday came and I\u2019ve heard nothing. Called and find out they still haven\u2019t found a replacement unit. Another week and they finally have one and install it. This was yesterday. Came home and tried it and it does not work! The washer will not spin or fill up. I\u2019m furious. It has been 3 weeks without having a washing machine having to spend money at the Laundromat. Am I able to demand a brand new one? Withhold rent? I feel so stuck. ","title":"Awful Property Management","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570056914,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dci2k6\/massachusetts_got_into_a_traffic_in_incident_and\/","id":"dci2k6","body":"I was in an incident where I was cut off suddenly resulting in a t-bone. I asked the officer very clear and plain if I was in the wrong or if I was in a lane (the other driver didn't bother to look at oncoming traffic because they weren't aware there was another lane). The officer told me that I was indeed in a lane and that the other driver was at fault. He failed to write a report and won't answer any calls and the other insurance company is trying to put me at fault because the line markings are painted a little weird in my city. How do I proceed? Any help gratefully appreciated!!","title":"(Massachusetts) Got into a traffic in incident and the responding officer wont return my insurance companies calls to clear me","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554160064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8awgm\/mous_my_21f_boyfriend_23m_told_me_a\/","id":"b8awgm","body":"Hi all, I'm in a bit of a pickle and I'd like to see what I can do to help those in the local LGBT community avoid coming into contact with this person. I tried posting to r\/relationship_advice but I believe it's better if I post it here, as what is going on is potentially illegal.\n\nThe coworker, we shall call him T, had befriended my boyfriend while they had worked together. T is a promiscuous, bisexual man (nothing wrong with that). My bf told me numerous stories about his Grindr hookups as well as his self-proscribed \"nymphomania\". Terry no longer works with my bf and new information about him is coming to light.\n\nHe has recently been tested and is HIV+ and is very active in the local LGBT community. He does not use protection while he has sex with these people. He asked another coworker of my boyfriend, S, if she could be the surrogate mother to he and his bf's child. The catch? Terry would impregnate Suzie, thus potentially giving her HIV.\n\nI don't know if T tells the people he has sex with that he is HIV+.\n\nIs there anything I can do to help prevent this? This, in my opinion, is evil, and I want to make sure he isn't going around trying to infect people due to his ignorance and desire to have sex.","title":"[MO-US] My [21\/F] boyfriend [23\/M] told me a coworker\/ex-friend [20\/F] of his has HIV and is having unprotected sex with others. What can I do to prevent this?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541007975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t12lo\/fined_76_for_being_in_a_private_parking_space_for\/","id":"9t12lo","body":"Seattle, Washington. There is a car park for a building with businesses suites in a suburb of Seattle. Ten of those spots (along the east side) are free for patrons of the suites, the rest are private parking. I parked in one of the private parking spots at 12:51p (I know because I looked at my watch to see how long it would be for one of the businesses to open). I went downstairs to another suite and noticed signs that said only certain numbered parking spaces were free for the business (something like spaces 21-27). I realized my mistake and went to move my car. To my surprise, I had a fine from the private company on my windshield printed at 12:53p for not displaying a receipt on my dashboard. I was literally in that space for two minutes; if the person writing the fines had come five minutes earlier or later I wouldn't have been fined. I spoke to two representatives with the company that said because I hadn't paid for those two minutes afterwards (I was in a bit of a panic because the fine was for $76,and after moving my car didn't think to pay for the two minutes I had spent in the private space) and didn't know that paying for the time afterwards on that day would be necessary for them to cancel the fine. They did give me a discount to $41, but I find it absolutely absurd that leaving my car by accident in a private space (which was 30 feet from the free spaces) for two minutes should cost me so much money (they said the two ways to waive the fine were to have paid afterwards for the parking or if I had a medical emergency that required me to leave the car without paying). I just find it so stupid that by random chance the parking enforcer walked by in that two minute period and gave me a fine. Just to be clear, this is a \"Notice that I parked on private property without displaying a valid pass or sufficient valid dispenser tickets\" with the breakdown of the offenses being \"Failure to Display Valid Receipt, Clear Dash, and nO PAYMENT no recIEPT(sic)\". Does anyone know if there is any law\/policy in Seattle that could reduce the fine to something reasonable or make them overturn it all together? I know it's not that much money, but it's kind of the principle of the thing. Like when I got fined for parking on the street in the city because I didn't have my tabs displayed when I was literally on my way to go pick up my tabs (I had the registration in the car, but apparently that doesn't matter if I don't have the little stickers on).\n\n​\n\nSorry this is so long and kind of dumb, but it really upset me.","title":"Fined $76 for being in a private parking space for two minutes by mistake","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554053762,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7qb77\/boss_is_signing_on_my_behalf_on_my_days_off\/","id":"b7qb77","body":"I work for a security company that sub contracts for a top tier airline. \nMy boss(company owner) and the supervisors tend to clock people on and sign the papers on their behalf when they are short on staff to avoid getting in trouble with the airline.\nI was rostered on Wednesday but I had uni that day so I pulled out, when I came to work on Sunday I found the supervisor\u2019s signature next to my name that I worked for 7 hours that day, I didn\u2019t think much of it but I took a photo just in case.\nLong story short, my supervisor hates me for no reason, fucked me up for being 5 minutes late ( I admit I should have called), well I lost my job today for being 5 minutes late, no notice nothing, they just didn\u2019t send me a roster for next week.\nI\u2019m glad I took that photo evidence of what they have been doing, and I have proof that I wasn\u2019t working on that specific day, what can I do with my evidence?\n(This is in NSW, Australia)","title":"Boss is signing on my behalf on my days off","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445102048,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p4pz6\/ontario_canada_landlord_is_charging_13_on_rent_if\/","id":"3p4pz6","body":"[Original link here.](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m2oiy\/ontario_canada_landlord_is_charging_13_on_rent_if\/)\n\nAfter doing some research and reading, I talked to my landlord about why he is charging me 13% on rent if I want a receipt. In the discussion, neither of us explicitly said that because rent is tax-exempt, it cannot be taxed (I should have explicitly said this and confronted him, but I did not). \n\nHe essentially beat around the bush and avoided answering the question directly. The answer that he gave me was that if he gives us a receipt, he must claim the rent as income, thus it will be taxed, and if it will be taxed by the government, then he will pass that tax onto us. I did not record this discussion, although it would have been a good idea... \n\nThe next month of rent is due soon (the 25th of October for November's rent). What should I do? I paid $2500 + 13% when I signed the lease, and got receipts ($400 for a pro-rated rent for September, $2100 for October and last month). The receipt says \"This is to acknowledge receiving a rental sum of $1,100\/- plus taxes from Mr (my name) and Mr (my roommate's name) for the month of ________.\" It is signed by me, my roommate, my landlord, and my landlord's wife. \n\nI'm kind of lost as to what I should do as November's rent approaches. How can I get back the 13% on $2500 I already paid? How should I pay November's rent (cash? cheque?)? I know I could escalate this and approach the [LTB](http:\/\/www.sjto.gov.on.ca\/ltb\/) or even the [CRA](http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/gncy\/nvstgtns\/lds\/faq-eng.html#q1), but I'd rather keep good relations with my landlord as I still have 11 months left on the lease.\n\nIf you have any questions to clarify things please ask. ","title":"[Ontario, Canada] Landlord is charging 13% on rent if I want a receipt. Is this legal? (Update)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551390063,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avwgpp\/my_sublessor_blocked_me_on_facebook_and_ran_away\/","id":"avwgpp","body":"I was looking for a place to live for a senior year of college and found a nice room. This is in California. I wasn\u2019t able to visit the place and had to make the agreement online. I contacted the person who was subleasing the room and asked for pictures and everything looked good. The person told me I could pay rent to a current resident that lived in the house and pay her the deposit. There was no official lease agreement and I did not sign any paperwork. I ended up paying rent to the person that lived in the house. I don\u2019t have any issues with that and it has been 7 months since I moved in. The problem is I am not on the lease and I don\u2019t know how to get my deposit back.\n\nThe sublessor blocked me on Facebook and took my deposit. I\u2019m not sure what to do because the deposit was a couple thousand of dollars. I have all of our conversations on Facebook and all of the payments that I sent to the sublessor. I would like to know how can I get my deposit back, since I am not on the lease and none of current residents knew about the deposit transaction that happened between me and the sublessor. ","title":"My sublessor blocked me on Facebook and ran away with my deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541176447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tlosi\/friend_got_denied_for_an_internal_job_because\/","id":"9tlosi","body":"As the title suggests, there is a sticky situation brewing here. My friend, let's call her Sharon, is in sales and wants to make a move to marketing. She gets wind of a job, posted internally, that is only 7 days old. Sharon is qualified, minus a marketing background, but since sales is so closely related at this company (important for later) she has a good chance at the role and even has the person leaving the position refer her.\n\n​\n\nSidestep for a second. Sharon's boss, call him Jeff, is one of the people any new marketer must interview with for a position since this particular marketing team is focused on the lead generation for sales. So Jeff and his peers must interview and approve anyone applying to the position. \n\n​\n\nStill sidestep'n: Hiring manager, let's call her Ally, talks to Sharon and agrees shed be a great fit since she knows the company well and sales and marketing are related so all she will have to do is learn the marketing specific tools the company uses.\n\n​\n\nDone sidestep'n. \n\n​\n\nTimeline: \n\nSharon talks to person leaving role, gets recommendation to Ally. \n\nAlly and Sharon have a great talk\n\nSharon tell Jeff she is interested in role and he immediately gives tons of excuses why she shouldn't\/can't move to marketing. \"You need to close more deals before you can move\", \"You would get a pay decrease\" (come to find out is the exact opposite, Sharon would get a small raise), \"You need to mentor with me and marketing for at least six months to a year in order to qualify\" (also false information, since Ally agreed she would be a good fit) - many more BS excuses including personality attacks agains Sharon....Jeff really sucks as a manager and person (as you can probably already tell)\n\n​\n\nAlly goes silent, not returning emails or phone calls from Sharon\n\nAlly finally responds with, \"Sorry we found someone more qualified, but I can mentor you for when a new job opens up\" - thats nice, but no guarantee on when, and Sharon cant take much more of Jeff.\n\n​\n\nFast forward a couple weeks to today. Sharon just told me that Jeff announced Ally will be hiring Jeff's wife to the marketing position. Granted Jeff's wife has many years experience (15+), this seems odd. Especially since the job only required 2-3 years experience and would certainly be a pay cut for Jeff's wife (unless he \"fixed\" that too).\n\nKeep in mind Jeff and Jeff's wife will now be working closely. Jeff has say in where marketing gets to spend money (\"oh, I like my wife's marketing plan better, lets use hers and see how it goes\" could definitely be something Jeff can say to influence budget)\n\n​\n\nSharon said she recalls Jeff speaking with Ally way before the position officially opened to the rest of the company. All of Sharon's peers, also dislike Jeff, are now weirded out since everyone will feel pressured into taking Jeff's wife's marketing advice even if they don't like it.\n\n​\n\nSorry for the long rant. I've been helping Sharon, but now it seems like there is something that she should, at a minimum, speak to HR about. Is there anything here Sharon should be aware of? Anything Sharon can legally do? Or am I just seeing through angry glasses since Jeff is an awful person?\n\n​\n\nTLDR: Friend's manager blocked her from moving to an internal position so he could get his wife hired to the company","title":"Friend got denied for an internal job because friend's manager wanted to recommend his wife","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553486586,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b55x0e\/help_in_understanding_pest_addendum_for_apartments\/","id":"b55x0e","body":"First of all, I started noticing cockroaches in my apartment. I've kept my place really clean, and they have started showing up during the winter. I am positive they are coming from neighboring apartments, as I've seen through windows how other residents live. But I am worried just by notifying them  I've been seeing them I will be responsible for paying for it according to the lease below. I've lived here for over two years, and they have only showed up the past couple months, where I immediately kill them and clean everything.\n\nTrying to understand this addendum would be greatly appreciated!\n\n​\n\nIt is acknowledged that most pest problems result from the actions of residents and that such problems often cannot be detected by Owner. Resident acknowledges and warrants that any and all furnishings, clothing, food items, and other materials that are brought into the premises or upon Owner\u2019s property are free from any type of pest infestation including but not limited to bed bugs, mice, and cockroaches. Resident warrants and represents that none of the items brought onto Owner\u2019s property or within the premises have been exposed to such pests and that all such items have been inspected by Resident. Resident agrees that during its tenancy, it will warrant to Owner that no infested items will be brought into the premises or on Owner\u2019s property.\n\nResident agrees that it will be responsible for all costs relating to removal, extermination, control, cleanup, and management of pests which are either brought in by Resident, its guests, occupants, or others (intentionally or not). Resident further agrees to be responsible for all costs relating to removal, extermination, control, cleanup, and management of pests which exist or whose existence is supported by the actions or inactions of Resident, particularly issues relating to cleanliness of the premises. Pests include but are not limited to cockroaches, bed bugs, mice, ants, and moths.\n\nResident agrees to assist in enforcement of this provision by reporting to management any violations. Resident agrees to notify Owner immediately of any infestation of any pests within the premises. With prior written approval of Owner, Resident may hire any licensed and bonded pest control\/extermination company to remedy. Owner may require that Resident utilize the services of certain pest control companies. All costs related to resolution of any pest problem shall be the responsibility of Resident. In the event it is necessary for Owner to obtain pest control for another unit, a whole building, or the entire community, Resident agrees that it will pay its pro-rata share of the costs relating to such pest control regardless of the source of the pest problem.\n\nIt is agreed and acknowledged that a pest problem may spread to other units. Failure to Resident to notify Owner and take appropriate action may result in additional units becoming infested. All costs relating to resolution any pest infestation that is caused or exacerbated by Resident shall be paid by Resident. These costs include but are not limited to actual costs of pest control\/extermination, loss of rents, replacement of infested\/damaged materials, and any such other costs as may be incurred. Violation of this provision is grounds for eviction. Resident agrees that it shall hold harmless Owner from any and all damages relating to pests within the premises; extermination, control or cleanup of pests; damages to personal property from pests; and any and all other damages relating to pests, regardless of their source.","title":"Help in understanding pest addendum for apartments","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550988880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/au56ez\/landlord_wants_rent_he_never_mentioned_demanding\/","id":"au56ez","body":"[Text I got from my landlord](https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/pIgnwEV)\n\nBefore I got this text today, I hadn't heard from my landlord in about a month. The issue mentioned is 50 owed from January (I gave him the check, he didn't mention anything after that, but it was never cashed.) And 450 from this month, February. Again, he didn't say a word about it until today, but the check I gave him was never cashed.\n\nI have no lease, and the \"boarding agreement\" he's referencing has no mention of payment, only rules like \"no loud noises after 10pm.\"\n\nMy main question is, in the state of Kansas, is it legal to give a tenant a 12 hour notice of eviction? With no prior notice?","title":"Landlord wants rent he never mentioned, demanding payment in 12 hours","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551914218,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay5h36\/not_your_average_eviction\/","id":"ay5h36","body":"So today I got served for about 10,000$ in unpaid rent from Oct. 2018 to March 2019 by my landlord. My landlord was also my employer from 2014 until January this year with my husband working and me getting paid for it, before that he was paying my husband cash to avoid him having to pay taxes. Every winter for the past 13 years we are always in the hole and pay him back when we get our taxes but because he has sold properties, there isn't enough work which means he has less hours and less money to pay rent or even live off. He is also suing me for a sewer and oil bill that I did not receive and did not use my last week of pay to cover the rent like we discussed nor did he pay me for that week. I also use my truck for his business affairs and he refused to help with repairs especially when he would overload my truck with concrete and didn't ask for permission. He would call me to a job and just start loading it up. It got out of hand and my husband should have put his foot down, I realize that and so does he. When my husband asked for a raise and said if not he has to quit, he was threatened saying that if he went to work for anyone else, he would have him fired because \"he knows everybody\". I was there. I heard them screaming at each other. We gave him notice we would be moving by this March and he reduced our rent to 1,000$ so he didn't have to make any repairs I previously requested on the house and now this.  I am now  also working with an attorney for suing him for the disabilities of my child due to lead poisoning under his negligence to disclose to us that there is lead on our property and my other child becoming poisoned by lead due to him allowing a neighbor to run a AAA business illegally out of our neighboring home that he owns who stored batteries with which the residue got tracked in and on our door. I have proof. He has no knowledge of this yet. I just need some advice on how to proceed because my mind is mush right now. Can I bring this up on our court date? \n\n\nSucky boss and landlord, eviction, need advice","title":"Not Your Average Eviction","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446973006,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rzm43\/what_are_the_requirements_for_a_notice_to_appear\/","id":"3rzm43","body":"I tried researching this online and read the wiki here, but I wasn't sure about how to proceed:\n\n**Background:**\n\nToday (11\/7\/15), I checked my mailbox and found a notice from my local municipal court postmarked 11\/4\/15 stating that I had failed to appear in court on a traffic citation on 10\/6\/15. Since I didn't appear in court, a default judgement was rendered against me. The original traffic violation was 8\/26\/15 (Disobey Traffic Control Device). I have until 12\/3\/15 to start making payments or else it'll be turned over to a collection's agency. As far as the documentation goes, it looks all legit and not a scam (all the addresses and phone numbers check out as official contacts for my city's municipal court).\n\nI double-checked the last several months worth of mail (i'm a bit of a packrat) and I didn't find anything from the city addressed to me notifying me of the initial infraction, the requirement to appear in court, or anything of the like. I'm certain I would have noticed something important as a court appearance appearing in my mail.\n\n**Questions:**\n\n1) What are the requirements for a notification to appear in court? The only relevant statute I could find relating to this was ORS 419B.824.  I may be barking up the wrong tree on this but: \n> (4) Service by mail must be made by mailing a true copy of the summons and a true copy of the petition to the person to be served by first class mail and another true copy of the petition and another true copy of the summons by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, or by express mail. **Service by mail is not complete unless the person to be served signs a receipt for the mail.** Service by mail is complete on the date that the person to be served signs a receipt for the mail.\n\nI haven't signed for any mail, neither has my roommate. No one has personally handed me any summons either.\n\n2) The fine I'm being asked to pay is ~$1000. If I were to fight this, this is too complicated of a situation for me to represent myself so I'd have to find an attorney. Considering I've already had a default judgement rendered against me, is it going to be worth the time\/money to fight this?\n\nI'm going to be contacting an attorney for some advice as well, but I would like some general opinion\/advice so I know what I'm getting into.","title":"What are the requirements for a notice to appear in court? (Oregon)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507255700,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74kp7y\/us_multiple_states_foreign_employer_pays_us\/","id":"74kp7y","body":"I work for the US entity of a company based in another country (they operate as a full legal entity in the US and I am a full time employee of the US organization). When I initially joined the organization I signed an employment contract with the following text, as did several other US employees:\n\n> Salary: Your initial salary will be $XXX per annum, less deductions required by law paid in accordance with COMPANY policy and procedures. Your normal working hours are 40 hours per week. Your salary will be paid at a semi-monthly rate on the 15th and the last business day of each month.\n\nDue to using a separate organization (a typical outsource company for employee benefits, salary payments, etc.)  we are always paid late. They transfer funds on the 15th and last business day of the month to the outsourced organization, which then takes several days to process before we actually see payment. Most recently we should have been paid on the 29th of September, but weren't paid until today, the 5th of October. This has been happening for as long as I have been employed by them. I requested that they transfer funds early so we could always be paid on time as we are salaried employees and they refused.\n\nIn addition the late payments were not disclosed until several days after we had signed the contracts and they treated this as a \"by the way\" type of issue and showed minimal concern. It was never brought up or discussed that payment to employees wouldn't be on the dates agreed upon in the employment contract.\n\nDo I have any actual recourse in this situation as it seems like a breach of the employment contract, or am I just SOL?\n\nThanks for your assistance.","title":"[US - multiple states] Foreign Employer pays US entity employees later than agreed upon date in employment contract","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552678031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1j2un\/former_close_friend_is_using_threat_of_having_me\/","id":"b1j2un","body":"Hello, so this one is kind of a doozy so please read it through before commenting. I have this person that I used to be extremely close friends with. They were very supporting and caring. I have been in a weird place the last few months and about a month ago I did something unhealthy, with which they are currently threatening to go to the police over and have me arrested. Now, normally I'd throw my hands up and move on. I'm not trying to be their friend, nor do I even wish to communicate with them at all. But almost every day I find out they're going around doing things to antagonize and get to me that is currently affecting my personal life and my academic life in college. This growing hostility is causing me a lot of stress and I currently feel very trapped because if I say or do anything then they threaten to have me arrested. So before I go on I will give a brief bit of info about me, a timeline of what happened, and my concerns at the moment.\n\nI am a 20 year old male living in South Carolina. About seven months ago I began using kratom to take the edge off anxiety and depression. I have never done anything to put another in harms way, nor have I ever threatened to do so. In november I began abusing my prescription medicine and OD'd twice. I had to spend a week in a rehabilitation program as well after the second time. Since then I've worked hard on cleaning up, though I have the occasional slip up. But for the most part have remained clean. A problem I currently have is with insomnia, so I take sleeping meds to help. But sometimes I don't end up falling asleep and actually end up just acting completely out of character. This in and of itself has caused me problems and is at the root of what happened that my friend is threatening police action over. \n\nSo moving to what happened. On the night of February 14th I was very anxious, close to a panic attack, and opted to sleep early in the night (around 8 or so). So I took a single pill of ambien. Unfortunately I entered one of those states where I wasn't mentally there. So here is a timeline of what happened:\n\n* Took ambien around 8 or so that night. My anxiety and panic level continued to increase after doing so. At some point I ended up having a beer in my room. \n* As I continued to feel very anxious and depressed, my mind became fixated on reaching my friend for comfort. \n* At some point I began to walk to my friends place as the ambien and alcohol began to mix.\n* I reached their place and simply walked in. The door was unlocked.\n* My friend was in another room, but I still wasn't mentally there. I continued to walk into the living room before I heard my friend scared that they heard someone. This is the moment I started snapping back and realized what I had done. \n* I wasn't mentally there still, but I also had rising anxiety. So I opted to walk and crouch behind their bathtub. Shortly thereafter they found me and yelled at me. I returned home after that. \n\nAll of this took place in just a few minutes. I was not lingering around in their home for an extended time, I did not break anything or manipulate a lock. \n\nNow let me interject to say I'm not defending what I did. I want that very clear. On drugs or not, I have a lot I need to work through. I currently see three different licensed therapists and work daily to improving my mental health. That remains my number one goal right now. Being friends with this person is not of importance, nor do I even wish to communicate with them. I simply want this sense of entrapment gone.\n\nMy current problem remains that they have found it fun to antagonize and cause drama left and right since then. It is getting overwhelming and I want it so desperately to stop. I want to move on with my life. I want to learn and identify the mental health problems I face and to grow. But when I'm loosing more friends, or being unable to attend class due to the things they are doing, it is becoming difficult. \n\nI want to have some plan in place in case they do go to the police. I feel like the circumstances of the situation aren't cut and dry. Can they legally hold this over my head? Should I contact the local police station and inquire information about the situation and how to move forward? If police do become involved (either through me or them) what will likely happen and will I face jail time? \n\n​\n\nThanks in Advance!","title":"Former close friend is using threat of having me arrested to control me and cause drama, how can I combat?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551800992,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axmkts\/fmla_only_available_after_sick_leave_is_exhausted\/","id":"axmkts","body":"I contacted HR asking about FMLA, I have multiple medical appointments each week (chiropractor), let them know I had an MRI, etc.\n\nI was told I have to run out of sick time or have a treatment plan before filing for FMLA.  Verbal from HR.\n\nSo now I'm confused.  Several years ago at this very same employer they insisted I fill out the paperwork for a herniated cervical disc.  \n\nNow I have two herniated lumbar discs and they're reluctant to give me the paperwork.  \n\nWhat should I do?  Nothing?  I didn't overuse or abuse it before, so I'm really confused why they're not providing the paperwork.","title":"FMLA; only available after sick leave is exhausted or a treatment plan is in place","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508390475,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77cg1w\/shareholders_agreement_starting_a_business_with\/","id":"77cg1w","body":"Hey everyone.\n\nI just started a business with a 3 friends.\n\nI'm aware that partnerships are complicated, so I was wondering if anyone has any advice\/suggestions related to what clausules should we be aware of in order to minimize risks of misunderstandings in the future.\n\nThanks a lot!","title":"[Shareholder's Agreement] Starting a Business with friends - main clausules to be aware of","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555611572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beovi7\/someone_is_using_my_21f_identity_and_pictures_to\/","id":"beovi7","body":"I'm a first time poster so I apologize if I start to ramble. \n\nAs a bit of background this started happening to me about 4 years ago around the start my senior year of high school. I had recently broken up with my boyfriend of about two years. Lets call him \"L.\" I began dating someone new and my new boyfriend, we'll call him \"E,\" started getting messages from an unknown number saying all sort of things about me, saying that I was going to break up with him or I didn't love him, things like that. I thought the messages were coming from my ex boyfriend L, because he was the jealous type and while we were dating he would use fake numbers to try to catch me doing something I shouldn't have been doing, (This is important to note once I go over the rest of the facts).\n\nOnce I stopped dating E, he stopped receiving these weird messages. A few months later, I got a DM on Instagram from a guy who was in one of my classes and I had never talked to before. Basically to sum up what he told me, he thought he had been in communication with me for months. He told me that someone was using my name and asking to hook up with him\/ go on dates with him. I told him to send me the number of the person he was talking with, I tried searching the number but didn't recognize it. \n\nAfter learning this from this guy, I began coming across several accounts of other guys from my high school experiencing the same thing. These guys would either get messages from a phone number or a kik account all saying that they were me. In total, 14 different guys from my high school all got messages from a random account saying that they were me.\n\nFast forward a few month, and I am in college. I had a tinder account that I was using for about 3 months but then deleted. Shortly after I deleted the Tinder account though, more guys were messaging my from my high school that were saying that they saw me on Tinder. I am POSITIVE that the account they were seeing was not me because I deleted my original account. \n\nI found out in the middle of my freshman year of college that the fake accounts had inappropriate pictures of me and were sending them to the guys.  I have never seen the pictures myself, but I remember (and I'm not proud of this) sending a picture to L around the same time. \n\nOne thing to note is that whenever I tried to search the number attached to the accounts, it always comes back as a non fixed number meaning that it is associated with a Skype or Google account. \n\nI am now in my junior year of college and this is STILL happening to me. Every single person who is getting messaged is someone from my high school with the exception of one guy, and here is where this shit gets real. \n\nI dated one guy starting the later part of my freshman year, \"C\" who is from Florida. He doesn't live in my home state and never has. He got messaged by a person saying that their name is \"Taylor\" and that they have pictures of me. When I searched the number that was messaging C, IT CAME BACK AS E'S NUMBER.  \n\nI have reason to believe that E is the person who is responsible for every single thing in this post, but besides knowing that his number is the one who messaged C, I have no concrete proof.\n\nHere's what I need to know: \n\n1. Is this a punishable offense?\n2. How do I go about gathering evidence, when I am not directly the one who is getting messaged by the accounts?\n3. Who can I contact when I feel that I have enough evidence? \n\nAny advice helps, I have been dealing with this for so long, thank you.","title":"Someone is using my (21F) identity and pictures to catfish other men (Michigan)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1503993022,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wpr94\/kicked_out_of_college_for_jokes_in_private_group\/","id":"6wpr94","body":"Basically, I and about 10 other friends had this group chat where we would send explicit jokes. Somebody added this girl, and at first, we were weary but she told us that she thought we were cool kids and insisted that she stays in the group chat. Turns out, the whole time she was documenting everything we said and caught us at a bad time with a very immature joke we were telling. She took these screenshots to the dean of the University (private university), and I and two other kids ended up getting kicked out. Should I hire a lawyer? I'm either looking to get back in the university or get some kind of compensation. I was also not told my rights as a student, such as the fact that I would have 3 days to appeal this decision. The dean failed to tell me that. Isn't this decision going against my First Amendment? Thanks for any advice!\n\nEdit: The University is in New York and is a private institution. ","title":"Kicked Out Of College For Jokes In Private Group Chat...Should I Hire A Lawyer?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568934918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6m1lo\/landlord_agreed_to_a_certain_rent_every_month_and\/","id":"d6m1lo","body":"So to clarify, I\u2019m currently a Tenant At-Will in a basement apartment in PA. My landlord agreed in April, June, August, and September that we would do a formal lease, but after being moved in for a month, he has decided that it\u2019s not financially or legally sound for him to do so, unless he begins charging utilities and raising rent to cover his costs. I cannot afford any more rent, and that is why I chose this place over others in the area, but now I feel that I\u2019m not protected as a tenant without a written lease. I\u2019m in college, and I can\u2019t move out on 30 days notice if there\u2019s trouble, because there would be nowhere reasonable to go. My main concerns are\n\u2022Habitability\n\u2022Cost\n\u2022Privacy\n\u2022Reliability (Eviction)\nWhat would be my best option at this point, and can we form some sort of rules\/protections without creating a formal lease?","title":"Landlord agreed to a certain rent every month, and said we would sign lease after move in. Now he\u2019s undecided (PA, USA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441466790,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jr3cj\/can_one_person_by_themselves_commit_conspiracy_in\/","id":"3jr3cj","body":"I'm in an argument with an acquaintance. My understanding is that NY is a unilateral conspiracy state, and as such only cares about the defendant's subjective belief regarding the formation of an agreement to commit a crime, such that the mental states of anyone else does not matter - I could commit conspiracy by forming an agreement to burn down a building with an undercover cop, who then arrests me when I buy a can of gas. The question is whether a second person is actually necessary, or if because it is a subjective test, I could be guilty of conspiracy if I am mistakenly under the impression that I have an agreement with someone that is in fact not a person. Ignoring, for the moment, any mental defect defenses:\n\nLet's say I believe my stuffed animal is animate, and I agree with him that we are to burn down a building. He will bring the lighter, and I will bring the gas. I go out and buy the gas (or take whatever overt act you choose). Have I committed conspiracy to commit arson?\n\nI point to cases like [People v. Schwimmer](http:\/\/www.leagle.com\/decision\/197815766AD2d91_1147\/PEOPLE%20v.%20SCHWIMMER ). Particularly relevant is:\n>The requisite intent is to join with others to commit a substantive crime. If an individual believes he has so joined, it is sufficient to establish complicity, regardless [66 A.D.2d 96] of the actual fact of agreement. Such mistake of fact certainly does not relieve the individual of criminal liability (Penal Law, \u00a7 15.20). If the individual defendant misapprehends the true intent of the other persons with whom he sought to join, it may have an adverse effect on the successful accomplishment of committing the underlying crime, but it does not detract from the culpable mental state of the defendant.\n\nMy acquaintance points to the [Penal Code](http:\/\/ypdcrime.com\/penal.law\/article105.htm), and the common law definition of conspiracy as an agreement between two or more people.\n\nWho's right? Can you form a conspiracy by yourself in NY?","title":"Can one person, by themselves, commit conspiracy in NY?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569974226,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc27d0\/i_was_offered_money_for_a_review\/","id":"dc27d0","body":"My doctor\u2019s office is offering $10 gift cards for reviews on Facebook and Google. I know this happens all the time. People get incentives for positive reviews on products, and I read the reviews and end up buying garbage. But this is a medical facility and this has to be at least unethical. Are there any laws against this? I\u2019m switching doctors because this place is a disaster. The older Facebook reviews are really bad, but in the last week, there are many new reviews....all positive. I know that it\u2019s because people are getting paid. I\u2019m sure laws vary by state, but what about federal laws? This is in NC.","title":"I was offered money for a review","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540966983,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sw8kd\/exemployee_fired_and_denied_unemployment_after\/","id":"9sw8kd","body":"I run a small business in Washington state, and had to fire a part time employee after finding they had falsified their time card. They had been over paid- more than once, more than I could call a mistake (20+ hours total). This ex employee filed for unemployment. I turned in pages of evidence- witnesses, time cards, summary of the events, how many hours were stolen. Unemployment ruled in my favor and denied the employee unemployment citing their blatant lack of regard for our rights and the dishonesty. They will have to pay back the unemployment already issued. \n\nThis ex employee is completely in the wrong, but has decided to appeal the decision. Will I have to go to court if they have no evidence to appeal with? I cannot imagine what they could present to argue for an appeal, maybe that I am somehow discriminating against them (we are both part of the LGBTQ community). Any accusations would be unfounded and untrue. They claimed unemployment was due to lack of work. \n\n       In the meantime they\u2019re telling anyone who will listen that I\u2019m falsely accusing them. I had no intentions to fire this employee until the time card issue came up (I was in the process of cutting back hours during our slow season, but nobody was losing a job). I have remained quiet, trying to be professional, but it\u2019s hard when they\u2019re now trying to drag me\/my business in addition to wasting more of my time. \n\nWill they need to present some evidence to move forward with an appeal? I\u2019ll of course appear if requested, but can they be denied appeal? It seems like a huge waste of the courts time and mine if this person has no evidence proving they did not falsify the record. Do I have any recourse if they continue posting things accusing me of lying\/calling for a boycott? I imagine if\/when the appeal is denied they\u2019ll be ready to ramp up the efforts (to spite us and encourage others to financially support them?). \n\nThank you for any insight! \n\n","title":"ExEmployee fired and denied unemployment after misconduct, they are appealing, should I be worried?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443481974,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mrhox\/louisiana_my_fridge_broke_and_my_landlord\/","id":"3mrhox","body":"Hey there! I live in New Orleans, LA. My fridge broke on Friday and my landlord just dropped off the new fridge while I was at work. It is significantly smaller than my old fridge. It doesn't even have a deli drawer. It is also making A LOT of noise. More noise. It's buzzing and pulsating. What can I do?","title":"Louisiana: My fridge broke and my landlord replaced it with a much smaller fridge that sounds like it is going to break.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552581845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b12kyr\/brother_possibly_getting_expelled_perm\/","id":"b12kyr","body":"Sooo... I never expected to actually posting on here. I could really use some help right now so here goes.\n\nI would like to say a couple of this before the actual story. I am 20 years old and my brother is 18 years old and we life in TheNetherlands. My parents are in the USA right now they took their flight a couple hours ago.\n\nSo my brother texted me today and told me something had happened at school. Apperently my brother and some other people from his class have this whatsapp group, which is used to message eachother incase some people did not know. \n\nYesterday they were talkig about this teacher that act weird and that they are suspecting of being a pedophile (they explained me why) and tbh they could be right, but that is not the thing I am most worries about now since there is no proof or evidence. Another classmate told them that this teacher is really good and she does not want to lose him as a teacher.\n\nMy brothers msg that got him in trouble goes: \u201cwell (name of the girl classmate) I would love to have a 35 years old pedo teacher at my school!\u201d Teachers name was not in the message at all.\n\nPeople got mad at the girl that came up for the teacher and trashtalked her A LITTLE bit (not bullying involved. Mind you these are 16-18 years old arguing with eachother.\n\nSomeone send a mail to the school with all the screenshots of the conversation. My brother got send to the principle who does not like my brother at all.\n\nHe yells at my brother and tells him he is expelled and gotta leave the school for now. He also tells him that he has to come in tomarrow in the morning to talk AND they will try to expell him forever AND they will also take my brother to court for that one message.\n\nThe actual teacher, accused of being a pedophile does not want to take him to court.\n\nAre they just allowed to do that? What about the other kids ACTUALLY calling him a pedophile? \n\nI also do not want to get my parents involved since it might be a bluff and I want them to enjoy their well deserved vacation.\n\nSorry for any spelling\/gramar mistakes I made.\nAnd thanks alot for those reading or replying.\n\nLove you all!\n\n","title":"Brother possibly getting expelled (perm)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551803670,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axn3dd\/need_to_move_out_of_my_apartment\/","id":"axn3dd","body":"Long story short I want to move out of my apartment. I signed a lease with my friend and both of our names are on there but he wants to stay. Can I have someone else take over my end of the lease? What are my options?","title":"Need to move out of my apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540248733,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qiykl\/question_about_legality_of_a_website\/","id":"9qiykl","body":"Hello all and thank you kindly for your time.  I was searching google today and was looking for dirty adult video chats.  I found one, Afreechat.com , and when I began chatting on it I was banned in about 10 minutes.  A popup came up with a warning that I have been banned for 30 days (it had a pic of my junk) and said that I could pay $9.99 to speed the process up and go back to chatting immediately.  Should I worry and pay or just go about my day?\n\n​\n\nThank you","title":"Question about legality of a website","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553530428,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5cmft\/what_should_i_do_about_the_4_cars_parked_in_my\/","id":"b5cmft","body":"**Location:** Bay Area, California\n\n-\n\nThere are 4 cars that have been parked in my dead end street for the past 5 months. This makes it very hard for the other tenants to find public parking in an already limited \u20181 parking space per apartment\u2019 rule.\n\n-\n\nAs you can see in my horrible sketch\n\n* the red swirls around the street are the apartments\n\n* the gaps are the private parking lot entrances\n\n* the 4 blue circles are the non-moving cars in public parking\n\n* the 2 red circles are douchebags in public parking\n\n-\n\nParking gets so bad that a car or two park right next to the blue circle inside the dead end (black circle) and leave it there overnight until the morning before they get in trouble.\n\n-\n\nThe 4 cars are:\n\n* two old, beat-up, rusty \u201cwork\u201d trucks\n\n* an old muscle car that\u2019s more rustier than the pick-up trucks and seems to have the front windshield broken or cracked, since the owner leaves a tarp in front of it with a brick holding it in place so rain doesn\u2019t get in\n\n* an old minivan (thats the one inside the dead end)\n\n-\n\nThe 2 douchebags I talked about earlier are a pair that park a Toyota Solara next to an entrance (black circle) with only a Honda Civic (green circle)\u2014that\u2019s also been there a week now\u2014behind it.\n\n-\n\nThe Toyota owner either\n\n1) pulls back, close enough, so no one can fit between the Toyota and the Honda\n\n2) pulls forward so their friend\/wife\/whatever can fit between the Toyota and Honda (the extra black circle). This has been going on for the past 5 days.\n\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nWhat are my options here? This is a growing pain and management doesn\u2019t seem to car since it\u2019s public parking. I have a picture of the minivan from January but I\u2019m sure you can tell anyways that none of these cars have moved in half a year. Who do I contact? What evidence do I need?","title":"What should I do about the 4 cars parked in my cul-de-sac since November and the two assholes that save parking for friends!?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553098773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3dz8m\/lease\/","id":"b3dz8m","body":"Hello, I'm new to the subreddit but a problem has recently happen and I'm not sure if legal help will be required, first. I own a small company in South Carolina and I have a renting lease of two years with the owner of land which I'm renting, sometime around this week the landlord has sold his property to a new owner. My lease has just this year enter it's second year but what I been wondering is if my old lease with the old owner had been terminated? My second worry is that the old owner previously around a month ago reevaluate his land which to my knowledge increased the value by around 1 mil or near to it. So my main questions are. \n1. Can the new landowner ignore my previous lease agreement?\n2. If the previous lease is void can he charge me a lot more for the land I'm currently using?\n3. Is there some time limit to what he can enforce on me? \nAnd lastly.\nAre my previous verbal agreements void as well? \n(Previous owner and me verbally agreed to me having two roll off containers for the price of one)\nThat's all, sorry if miss something or if didn't explain much, ask anything else if needed, and thank you all for listening to me ","title":"Lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539484920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nziyr\/i_live_in_public_housing_they_want_to_do_surprise\/","id":"9nziyr","body":"Obviously they are going to. Let's get past that.\n\nMy housing authority wants to come in and tear out my sink to repair the wall behind the cabnets. I was given notice today (10\/13) AFTER 5pm and they are expected all week 10\/15-26. If they find no repairs they say sorry for any inconvenience. Is this legal for them to be able to do this? \n\nI don't feel like this is exactly right and moreso an excuse to invade my apartment. My neighbor on the end of the building didn't receive this notice, but two other apartments behind mine do. (It's a long two story building), one of which is empty and they already know about that.\n\nWhat can I do?","title":"I live in public housing, they want to do \"surprise\" repairs, can they do this?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540212207,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qdh0b\/i_was_searching_porn_on_duckduckgo_and_came\/","id":"9qdh0b","body":"Should I? What would happen? \nI honestly don't know what to say, I'm, quite shocked and disgusted.","title":"I was searching porn on duckduckgo and came across a link with illegal images. How can I report this anonymously?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539621990,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oedmz\/incorrectly_submitting_a_business_license\/","id":"9oedmz","body":"Hey guys,\nI just submitted an application for a sales and use tax license for my sole proprietorship in Maryland, and, after I submitted it, realized that I may have incorrectly entered my SSN. I cannot view or edit the application. What should I do?","title":"Incorrectly submitting a business license.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553174940,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3qj87\/school_liaison_is_violating_students_privacy\/","id":"b3qj87","body":"So to start off, as many of you know, juuls and 50 nic have been plaguing our youth recently. Our school has taken measures to expose the students who vape in the bathroom by doing hourly checks for people in the bathroom. They have taken it a step further by opening the stalls on students who are using them without knocking. To make matters worse, many of these door don\u2019t have locks so they can just push them open. A few months back this happened to me and I emailed my principle on the subject and nothing so far has come of it. He continues to open stalls on students and I am wondering what I can do to stop this. The principle seems to have done nothing and this is clearly an invasion of privacy but I\u2019m not sure who I can go to next to stop it. Any help would be appreciated.","title":"School liaison is violating students privacy","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571685293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl5d53\/screwed_by_car_insurance_company\/","id":"dl5d53","body":"I'm currently 19 and recently got financing for a used car, and my step father co-signed with me. \n\nBefore purchasing the vehicle, we made sure that insurance would be affordable through our families provider before purchasing the vehicle, we sat down with a woman at a local office and it was all squared away, paying 115 a month myself for the insurance.\n\nUnfortunately, as of last week, the woman figured out that she had made a mistake, and corrected it without telling us. Upon my parents going in person to pay their portion of the insurance for a month, they were notified of the increase from 115 all the way to 310 a month for my portion of the insurance. \n\nThe owner of the local office apologized and admitted their mistake, but told us nothing can be done.\n\nThe problem now is that I am going to school full time, and working 4 days a week in order to keep up with the car payment, insurance, savings for next semester, etc. which I now cannot afford because of the mistake made by the agency. \n\nWhat can I do legally?","title":"Screwed by car insurance company","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1447279857,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sgl7z\/my_fiances_employer_in_wi_is_forcing_them_to_sign\/","id":"3sgl7z","body":"This can't be legal can it?  Here is a picture of the contract they're forcing them to sign http:\/\/imgur.com\/iMvgq4D Thanks in advance to any help given!","title":"My Fiances employer in WI is forcing them to sign this contract and will withhold pay until they do.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551901197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay2xmx\/can_i_transcribe_audio_recordings_myself\/","id":"ay2xmx","body":"Hey guys! I hope this question hasn\u2019t been asked 1,000 times, So I\u2019ll keep it short and sweet.\n\nI\u2019m gearing up to petition for a change to my parenting plan here in Tennessee. \n\nI have audio files pouring out of my ears.\n\nI\u2019d like to transcribe them for the judge to read along as the are played out loud in court when they are presented.\n\nI\u2019m told they don\u2019t NEED to be transcribed for this instance, but I\u2019d like them to be.\n\n\nQuestion: Do my Audio files need to be transcribed by a service and notarized, or can I transcribe them myself in this instance?\n\nThanks,\n\n-Frantic Dad\n\n\n","title":"Can I transcribe audio recordings myself?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1408827062,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ee5ga\/brother_was_arrested_charges_include_unlawful\/","id":"2ee5ga","body":"To preface I know my brother is an idiot and I'm sure he's aware of it too atm.\n\nMy brother has an ex-girlfriend whose relationship was never the most stable and got really bad after they broke up. So of course my brother still stays in contact with her. \nFriday morning she texts him and asks him to come over to her house. Like an idiot he does and get's there after work at 4:30pm. \n\nShe let's him into the house and of course they start arguing again again. He throws a few things on floor (not at her). They shout at each other. He leaves and she shuts the door. He turns around and comes back in (he said door might have been locked but the latch pops open pretty easily without deadbolt. He does have a key she gave him) and hugs are saying he still loved her. Apparently he hugged hard enough to leave a bruise. He then leaves again.\n\n11pm that night police show up to his house and arrest him. She apparently called the police sometime in the 6 hours he had left. He is charged with Unlawful entry to a residence, Simple criminal damage to property and Simple battery.\n\nI went and posted bond for him today, but need to know the next steps to take.\n\n* Apply for a public defender. Neither of us can afford a lawyer. How does he do this?\n* Copies of text message inviting him over. Do we contact ATT and have them send it or can we print those from his phone?\n* Documenting everything that was done and said Friday as near as he can remember.\n* He didn't say much to police about what happened beyond that he hugged her, not hit her, and he was invited inside. I assume he should keep not talking the police.\n*  He has a no contact order. But could I talk to her and not get him in trouble?\n* She still has stuff at his house that she has been refusing to come get. We're going to move it to my garage tonight. Should I tell her to come get her stuff or just leave it be for now?\n\n\n\nAny help would be greatly appreciated. What else should we be doing? What should we be doing differently?","title":"Brother was arrested; charges include unlawful entry, simply battery (Louisiana)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570692665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfuiyu\/working_for_a_non_profit_and_opening_a_business\/","id":"dfuiyu","body":"Hello. I work for a non-profit in Lincoln County, Nebraska. Being the business that it is I also live on site in housing owned under the business, as do all of our employees. Basically I'm not paying property taxes, ect, but I'm still paying income taxes and such. \n\nI had semi annual review today with my supervisor and had brought up that I was considering doing photography to help supplement my income.  He said I should talk to our director first, as another employee was wanting to to some small scale construction type work and was asked to stop by our director. The reason being is that  a certain elected county official doesn't like us as we are a larger business that's tax free, and might take issue with is living in a tax free situation but running a 'secondary business' from it. As far as I can tell, there were no actual issues, just a 'hey this guy doesn't like us already, let's not make it worse' type of situation. If that makes any sense\n\nWould there actually be any laws violated if I were to start the business and receive income? (which would be reported properly obviously)","title":"Working for a non profit and opening a business","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568494165,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4atmz\/divorce_in_nc\/","id":"d4atmz","body":"Where can I get free legal aid for divorce in Western North Carolina? My husband wants a divorce. I was a stay at home mom to our four kids up until three years ago. I work as an aid in a library so I barely make enough to cover our rent. I have a BS degree, but it\u2019s not in anything specialized so very hard to make reasonable money. He is the main bread winner. I know we legally have to be separated a year in NC and they expect you to work out custody during that time if possible. But I can\u2019t afford two rents let alone living expenses on my own.","title":"Divorce in NC","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570911944,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh0ejp\/nyc_former_employer_didnt_provide_me_with_major\/","id":"dh0ejp","body":"Question is for benefits and ERISA experts: \n\nI\u2019m currently on COBRA and have major health issues that require both in network and out of network benefits on my previous plan. I was terminated from my job in April and had reached my max out of pocket enabling me to see out of network providers that I would never be able to afford otherwise. I was also close to my in-network max out of pocket and would have free prescriptions and no co-pays through the rest of the year. \n\nPlan contract renewal was July 1st but they operated on a calendar year so my deductible was supposed to renew on Jan. 1st. \n\nAfter July 1st I noticed that my out of network claims (about $4200 - and providers were waiting for payments) were taking a long time to process. I reached out to my old HR benefits manager mid-August to find out was going on. She assured me these were back end maintenance issues to the plan and there were no plan changes. \n\nI was then reimbursed at 100% for July and August, so I thought everything was fine as the plan was on calendar year - until  I noticed yesterday that my deductibles were set to back to zero on September 1 and the provider visits were not being paid in full leaving me with the bill for about $2000 in doctors visit for September and early October. \n\nI called the benefits manager who Im pretty sure was lying as she stuttered through her explanation. She said that a decision to move to a contract year had been made after we spoke - which must have been late August  (and after the renewal date) thus shortening the deductible year. \n\nSo plan changes were made after she assured me there were no changes. She claimed that they didn\u2019t notify anyone bc not enough people used out of network benefits and there was no deductible for in-network (it is amazing insurance-the only reason I stayed at the job). \n\nThis is a fully insured plan and there\u2019s  a lot of conflicting language out there about  ERISA and the ACA rules. I know I need a lawyer, but it seems the plan year effective dates (which is required to be noted on the summary plan description) must be disclosed to all qualified beneficiaries 60 days prior to the change. Am I wrong or does this count as a material modification that requires notice? And does violating ERISA make the severance agreement null and void? \n\nWhether people use their benefits or not I believe deductibles being reset to zero mid-year is something the average employee should know about. Once you reach max out of pocket expenses become really manageable and it\u2019s a huge benefit. \n\nI emailed my current address to the benefits manager in April and again in August, so nothing was lost in the mail. I also contacted my insurance carrier and my COBRA servicer who were floored this happened. \n\nI unknowingly paid for bills bc this wasn\u2019t disclosed to me.  I presently can\u2019t afford to pay these in full and this will undoubtedly interrupt service with providers. If I had known I would have made alternative plans and worked with my providers. \n\nIn addition, the benefits manager didn\u2019t disclose to me that my pension plan had changed servicers - I found out when I check my account and the balance was zero. This caused huge delays for me. She also didn\u2019t notify me of my premium increase and forgot to enroll me in my vision plan that I had been paying premiums on. \n\nAgain, I know I probably need a lawyer and have been waiting for EBSA to return my call. Not sure what I should do but I need that money reimbursed ASAP. \nI need to pay my providers. \n\nI could also just go to the global head of HR - I just don\u2019t know if this should be handled through a different channel. The company was pretty horrible to me and that\u2019s another post, so I don\u2019t feel good about it. \n\nThanks in advance.","title":"NYC - Former employer didn\u2019t provide me with major health plan update. I\u2019m in poor health and unknowingly paid for expensive health services that weren\u2019t fully covered.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447474172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sqtu7\/need_help_property_manager_is_a_mental_and\/","id":"3sqtu7","body":"Here goes so a little over two years ago I was desperate to get out of my bad roommate situation and decided to take the plunge and move in with my girlfriend. Unfortunately we were both financially straped since we were both college students at the time and only working part time so needless to say we were limited in our choices, well we moved checked out this apartment but noticed there was alot of little crap missing such as knobs for door handles, damaged cabinets etc and alot of little minor stuff well the property management well call them watson told me they would fix that stuff after i moved in (i know this is my fault for believing them). Sure enough they never fixed it any of this stuff, and apparently it was because the owner was a slumlord who never wanted to fix this stuff because he was planning to sell it. Well he sold it and have since been through 3 property management companies within these two years. I graduated recently and found better employment and am moving into a house. Well I put in my notice here at my apartment and wanted to clarify with the new property management regarding the previous damage and the lady was very combative saying that im liable for any of the damage and if it enough i will be getting a bill from them as well as not getting my deposit back. Her argument is because i should have had written down the damage with the previous property management company, which I find as a feasible excuse but this current property management also does not have any proof of what the apartment looked like prior or current because they never did a walkthrough. What can I do ? I was really planning on getting my deposit back.","title":"Need help, property manager is a mental and threatening not to give back my deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505872574,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/717ww8\/can_i_still_report_a_rape_8_years_later_what_will\/","id":"717ww8","body":"I don't know what details I should add. ","title":"Can I still report a rape 8 years later? What will happen if I just go to the police and tell them? (Atlanta, Ga)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442529195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lczkm\/ct_housemate_wants_my_girlfriend_out_shes_not_the\/","id":"3lczkm","body":"I moved into a room at a friend's house several years ago. There was no signed lease or any formal paperwork, rent is on a month-to-month basis. I sign my rent checks to her father, who doesn't live in the house. As far as i'm concerned, he is the landlord. \n\nI recently got a girlfriend and she has been sleeping over most every night. She still lives with her parents, and we're not allowed to sleep together at her house, so we go to my room.\n\nApparently my friend has developed an irrational hatred towards my girlfriend. She seems to have it in her head that my girlfriend is going to \"steal\" her boyfriend and basically turn her whole world upside down. I know for a fact that this isn't true, I've never had a more solid and loving relationship in my entire life. My girlfriend has done nothing illegal. Long story short, she is forbidding my girlfriend from entering the house, and has even threatened to call the cops if she steps onto the property.\n\nCan she do this? The agreement I made was with her father, who's name is on the checks I write every month. To the best of my knowledge, he's the sole owner of the house. He said nothing about how often guests can stay with me, and frankly, I don't think he cares if my girlfriend stays with me every night.\n\nWe're searching for a new place to live, and my girlfriend has been staying away from the house for the time being. I just want to know if my so-called \"friend\" has any grounds to keep my girlfriend out of the house. Any advice is helpful, thanks!","title":"[CT] Housemate wants my girlfriend out. She's not the landlord. Is this possible?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568581602,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4qk81\/when_can_a_police_officer_legally_take_your\/","id":"d4qk81","body":"I was driving home and a police officer followed me into my neighborhood and asked me to step out of my car after I arrived at my house. He proceeded to tell me that he ran my plates and found that the car was uninsured. I was confused as to why he felt the need to run my plate because I hadn't done anything illegal but I just assumed he was doing \"his job.\" The car belongs to my mother so I went in the house and explained the situation to her so she could speak to the officer. The officer insisted to her and to me that the car was not insured so he had to take the plate off the car. My mom then showed the officer proof of current and valid insurance but the officer still said he had to take the license plate. He then said that because the insurance had lapsed in the past, (approximately 6 months prior to that day) he had to give me a ticket and take the license plate off of the car. He justified taking the plate by informing us that there was some incurred insurance fee that hadn't been paid and for that reason he HAD to take it.\n\nLater my family told me he should not have taken the license plate because my mom had proof of valid insurance. Was what the officer did justified and legal? If not, what should we do?","title":"When can a police officer legally take your license plate?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539446895,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nuvbg\/employer_makes_employee_evaluations_public_to\/","id":"9nuvbg","body":"I work at a movie theater. Every month the theater hires a secret shopper to come in and write a review of every employee they interact with. They write down the name, if the employee was friendly, gave correct change, etc. \n\nWhether the evaluation was good or bad, it gets hung up on the bulletin board for the whole month for everyone to see. \n\nI\u2019m not sure if this is legal, especially if it\u2019s a negative review. \n\nThis month, it was me who was evaluated. I did everything up to their standards besides one thing. They mentioned that in the review. My employer highlighted only the negative part, and wrote something along the lines of \u201cdo better than this\u201d on the front page. Basically using me as an example of what not to do for all employees. I don\u2019t know about illegal, but definitely embarrassing and not ethical. \n\nIf it is illegal, what should I do about it?\n","title":"Employer Makes Employee Evaluations Public to Coworkers","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570631453,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfhuey\/how_long_should_i_wait_to_call_a_lawyer_back_to\/","id":"dfhuey","body":"I spoke with a lawyer over the phone around 9am Tuesday regarding a traffic ticket. He gave me a short rundown of what he was confident he could get it reduced to. I said this sounded good and I\u2019d like to work with him. He then gave me his rate and told me I could either text him a picture of my ticket, or drop it off at his office with his secretary. \n\nI wasn\u2019t far so I decided to just take my check and ticket to his office. His secretary seemed to have no idea what she was doing and didn\u2019t even ask for my phone number until I offered it, but the lawyer wasn\u2019t there so I decided to just leave everything with her. I asked when he would get in contact and she said \u201cWhen he reviews your case.\u201d \n\nHe has excellent reviews online, hundreds of reviews on multiple sites, all 5 stars. In that respect, I feel reassured that he must be pretty organized in calling people back because nobody has complained. \n\nI would still just like to touch base with him regarding what will happen next (speeding ticket, he said the judge would accept mail and that we wouldn\u2019t have to go to court.. not sure what that really meant either?) How long should I wait to call him to make sure she actually gave him my case?","title":"How long should I wait to call a lawyer back to check in?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553306532,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4dlb2\/rlegaladvice_teacher_is_an_overall_rude_person\/","id":"b4dlb2","body":"I am in 7th grade and I have a teacher (i'll call her ms.B) .  EVERYBODY hates ms.B, not a single person in my grade will tell you ms.B is a good person, even the teachers pets.  she will sit or stand where ever is nearest and most people in her classes will tell you they have heard \"f\\*\\*\\*\" once or twice and the same with \"s\\*\\*t.\" The worst part is how she will say \"some people did not do so well on this test\" she then puts emphasis on people and stares at a couple kids making it obvious who it was.  Some other things she does is when we will start one math concept we do a problem on it and if you get a question wrong in the following 30-50 question worksheet she will yell at you embarrassing you in front of the class.  I don't know if this is allowed but if there is any chance i can get rid of this teacher for at least one day I will gladly take it.  If their is a chance to get her fired *any* and i mean any student will take that chance even if it can get you suspended for a week tops.","title":"r\/legaladvice Teacher is an overall rude person.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554732250,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bau6w1\/fl_final_update_to_my_violent_neighbor\/","id":"bau6w1","body":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/an6q28\/fl_neighbor_is_doing_weird_things_that_are\/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share\n\nThis is my original post and I have a second update after that.\n\n\nAfter spending a few weeks living with my friend I decided to move back into the house I bought and paid for. After a few weeks it was quiet until last week on Monday I heard the back sliding glass door break and someone coming in. I immediately grabbed my glock and investigated and I see my neighbor coming in and shouting incoherent stuff. I order them to go back the way they came and the guy takes another step toward me. I then shoot him and he falls to the ground. I noticed he dropped his weapon and he is reaching for it so I walk up to him and order him to stop again. He starts to throw glass at me so I shoot him again at point blank. I then call the police and explain the situation. \n\nI was in the police station for 5 hours giving interviews and eventually released. \n\nI was then notified by the family that I killed someone with a mental incapacity and that I should have called the police first. After explaining the situation and the subsequent events they insisted that I should have called the police because he had a mental incapacity. I told them I am not a babysitter. I should be expecting a wrongful death suit shortly. \n\nThis is my final update, I am in the process of repairing and selling my house. I don't want to live here anymore and the police just brushed off my last encounters with that man. This has all been backwards for me. How did law enforcement drop the ball on this? This has seriously rattled my faith in law enforcement. I have to go to counseling now. Thanks for all the advice on here, even the personal messages. \n\n","title":"[FL] Final update to my violent neighbor","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570734972,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg2yhy\/found_an_expensive_item_help\/","id":"dg2yhy","body":"So my friend found an expensive watch $350 while going down the street. (In the tin and had a price tag attached) it\u2019s most likely stolen but the finder wants to sell it... I told him it\u2019s probably a bad idea but honestly I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s illegal or not. I\u2019m not experienced in law and this may sound like a stupid question to some but I\u2019m not sure. Any help would be appreciated.","title":"Found an Expensive item, help?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551921448,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay6pn3\/mom_gave_a_blank_signed_check_to_an_employee_to\/","id":"ay6pn3","body":"So my mom owns a small business and banks with wells fargo. She gave an employee a blank check that was signed because she had to leave before the vendor got there. The employee made the check out for $1500 and made it to cash, quitting the job immediately after. Is there anything my mom can do to press charges or get her money back?","title":"Mom gave a blank signed check to an employee to pay a bill with. The employee made it to cash and took the money","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540159623,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q7nhj\/uk_my_stepmother_died_suddenly_my_father_her\/","id":"9q7nhj","body":"Hey guys,\n\nI've created this throwaway just so I'm not identified etc. I hope you're able to point me in the right direction.\n\nSo last week I was advised by my father, my Step-mother had passed away. This woman was the only mother I had and it has hit me harder than I could have imagined.\n\nAnyway - my father only found out due to a letter sent to him from the bank to advise they were sorry to hear of her passing. Thinking this was a cruel joke he tried to contact her but had no response, tried to contact the hospital but they would not release information (despite confirming my father is still listed as her next of kin) and eventually found out via his solicitor, the woman I saw as my mother was dead and her funeral had already taken place.\n\nFor some background, my father and step-mother were separated but still saw each other every so often and maintained a kind of friendship where possible - they were never divorced and still legally married.\n\nMy question is - under UK law, are we able to sue for the enormous distress caused by her family? Specifically as they have done the following:\n\n* Not advised of her ill health\n* Not advised of her passing\n* Not advised of the funeral arrangements\n* Emptied the home my father and step-mother co-owned, of all contents (my father lives separately and I personally consider this theft but I'm not sure)\n\nHe has been left with no death certificate, ashes or idea of where to turn. I'm trying to help as much as I can and figured you kind people would know more than me.\n\nThank you.","title":"[UK] My step-mother died suddenly. My father (her legal husband) and I were not informed of her passing and she was cremated last week.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1549545367,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ao3ma7\/lunch_breaks_at_my_call_center\/","id":"ao3ma7","body":"I work at a call center in Tennessee for an 8-hour shift. Tennessee is required to give a 30 minute lunch break to all employees working over 6 hours. \nI have been getting write ups for taking 4-5 minutes to log into my computer and pull all of my systems up after I get back from lunch.\nSo I will clock out at 11:00 AM. Clock back in at 11:30 AM, and pull up my systems and will be logged back into my phone at 11:34 AM. \nThe company used to have a 9 minute policy for you to be allowed to pull up your systems since they are very slow. \nNow they are stating it is any minute after your 30minute lunch. This would mean I would have to come back from my lunch 4-5 minutes early and pull up my systems while off the clock so I can clock in the same time I log into my phone.\nDoes this seem legal? Or should I talk to my HR department or someone else about this policy?","title":"Lunch Breaks at my Call Center","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568991969,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6w7u0\/wrecked_a_company_vehicle\/","id":"d6w7u0","body":"I\u2019m posting for a friend. This is Missouri. \n\n(Also, sorry if my flair is incorrect, I wasn\u2019t sure.)\n\nMy friend\/coworker bought a vehicle from our company for $1,000 in June.\n\nThey could not get him the title for 3-4 months and in the meantime wanted him to use the truck as normal but under the company insurance. \n\nMy friend let his brother drive the truck a couple weeks after purchase and the brother wrecked it, totaled it. $10,000 in damages to the other vehicle.\n\nMy friend repeatedly asked the company what to do and they would only say to play it by ear. \n\nHe has now turned in his notice to the company and they have just emailed him saying that he owes them $2500 for the deductible. They say he must pay it in 30 days and are saying it was against company policy to let his brother drive it even though he\u2019d purchased it in full. The deductible is only to pay for the other vehicles damage and the company refuses to file a claim for the damages to his truck.\n\nIs this legal?\n\nHe doesn\u2019t have this kind of money. If they\u2019d told him this months ago, he could\u2019ve prepared. They waited till his last day of work to tell him this.","title":"Wrecked A Company Vehicle","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504496177,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xxvfq\/unemployment_appeal_question_pennsylvania\/","id":"6xxvfq","body":"Hi all, my better half works as an adjunct professor at two local colleges in Pennsylvania \n\nOver the summer she was offered courses at both of them, and accepted the course at higher paying institution.  \n\nTwo days before the class was scheduled to run she found out that was cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.   Neither of us had every applied for unemployment before, but she decided to do so as this was her only income over the summer.   Her application was accepted and she received unemployment benefits during the summer until the start of the fall semester.  \n\nWe've recently received a notification that the college is appealing the unemployment award.   We will contest the appeal (if that is proper term), but we aren't sure what to expect.  If anyone has some information or advice that would be greatly appreciated.  \n\nI'm not sure if these are relevant but possibly:\n\n* All the adjunct contracts include the possibility of the course being cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.\n* She turned down the other college on the assumption that the other course would run but there is no guarantee.  \n* She was not notified that the class was cancelled until 2-3 days before the first class.\n* She has worked for this college for a number of year (4-5) and this was her first unemployment claim.\n\nThanks much!\n\n\n","title":"Unemployment appeal question (Pennsylvania)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443411667,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mnodp\/how_screwed_are_they\/","id":"3mnodp","body":"US, Florida. Found out a friend was arrested recently and is in jail awaiting trial, no bond.\nHe was arrested on two Failure to Appear charges.\nThese came from a driving with suspended license knowingly 2nd offense, with a resisting officer without violence charge. He posted cash bail on both. He has a record from what I found out, was arrested several times on different charges, idk if he was convicted of anything in the past though.  Not looking for advice really, just a concerned friend wondering what could happen. Throwaway account describes what I want to tell him right now if I could ","title":"How screwed are they?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551131945,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auqzbr\/odd_stuff_going_on_at_work\/","id":"auqzbr","body":"I work in a small company that is minority-owned (owned by a black man) that deals with remediation. I, along with my sister who works there, are the only non-blacks (we are Spanish\/Italian American). \n\n​\n\nWe subcontract a lot of our labor out to other companies and we in turn are contracted by larger companies or state-related agencies.\n\nI have been working for about 7 months now, 40 hours a week. Somethings I found a bit odd about the workplace but here are a few things that raised my concern in the past month:\n\n​\n\n1. My coworker comes to me saying my boss wants me to train her on the type of billing we do, when I wasn't formally trained and it is highly detailed. I am working on 4 different projects with different PMs. She mentions it every meeting and the one lady who kind of showed me how to do it (keep in mind that I have learned on the job and am still learning based on the complexities of the project) was fired right after I caught up on the basics of it. My billing and invoicing duties were also taken to her, and she got hired 2.5 months ago. I am paranoid that he wants me to train her before he fires me. \n\n​\n\n2. I have done some significant amount of work for the PM's and other subcontractor's we hire without extra compensation. I don't want to complain and nag, but I did the same work that that they in turn charge my boss for doing. He makes me do stuff for the sake of time and to speed projects up and collect money, and sometimes that means bypassing the PM. I don't feel qualified to do that and plus, that makes info get out of sync. He doesn't even let me go to the meetings that are related to this, while everyone else has been at one. All I do is sit and type and log info for 8 hours a day. I don't have health insurance offered as well while everyone else in office does. \n\n​\n\n3. During a meeting this week, I was assigned to take notes. Well, that was how I was presented by my boss (the same owner), \"official note taker\" while no one acknowledged my presence. It was a meeting with a state official about agricultural related expansion, and one of the ladies there, she works as a some sort of rep. for a African Americans  (I'm not really sure exactly, I don't want to disclose any info) mentioned this:\n\n​\n\n\"So how are we going to get people out in the field, we can bring a lot to communities, especially rural black-owned farmland into this business opportunity, but you know I'm too pretty now to be out in the field, you know, who gon' work the fields? What about Hispanics?\"\n\nShe said this to the older official. When I left to lunch the next week. They came back for another meeting and she was talking really loudly on the phone in my office with her laptop without acknowledging by presence when I came back. I gestured lightly (not impolite at all) and mouthed I need to make a phone call and she gave me a look and got up and left. There was a completely empty office next to her.\n\n​\n\nI felt like for someone that works with government and political related matters that was really kind of messed up... She also mentioned a lot of politically charged things that had no place in a business meeting.\n\nAdditionally, my sister who works in office as HR, was made to sign some sheet this week. It said she was absent to work. She was for 5 days while she drove him to in-patient chemotherapy at the hospital and sending an email to a subcontractor to his personal email (which he used frequently while with us) but not on purpose. She almost got fired for the latter, and he got cut off. Anyway, he made my coworker in the first scenario write up a letter and make my sister sign it with compliance for work. It said she would be terminated for further absences. I think its messy to have a coworker write that to another coworker when we all work in-house. I found this kind of discouraging and awkward, and maybe even unprofessional. My sister is the HR person, she should have known about this first or have been trained to know about these types of compliance forms. Is this all made-up baloney?\n\n​\n\nSo, r\/legaladvice am I being overtly-sensitive or are there more serious issues at hand? Thanks.","title":"Odd stuff going on at work...","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446253547,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qwxlg\/traffic_ticket_not_appearing_in_the_system\/","id":"3qwxlg","body":"Basically I got a speeding ticket from a speed trap. I accelerated so I could merge into a lane(offramp) and a cop was waiting right after the merge with his radar. He wrote me a ticket and I only have 30 days to pay it. The problem is that the damned ticket isn't in the system and it's been two weeks. What should I do? I literally can't take time off of work to get to the courthouse.\n\nI live in Jacksonville, Florida.","title":"Traffic ticket not appearing in the system.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505934452,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71ddf8\/los_angeles_county_orange_county_california_a\/","id":"71ddf8","body":"Hi, everyone.    \n    \nI'm asking this question for a friend. She owns a small cleaning company. She and a client agreed to a cleaning fee of 260 dollars paid half upfront and half after performance. The client paid the 130 dollar upfront fee but is refusing to pay the second 130 dollars.    \n    \nThere's documentation on the agreed upon amount by E-mail. My friend is stating that the collections companies that she's dealing with won't take any collections under 500 dollars.    \n    \nWhat are her options? She's pretty much resigned to not getting the 130 dollars (unless the customer can be convinced it's in their interest to do so, I think). It's not enough money to hire an attorney over, but she doesn't want to simply let this go. Is it possible to send this to collections, ding the customer's credit, or something else?    \n    \nThank you.    \n    \nPS: The customer hasn't complained about the service, so my friend hasn't had the chance to correct anything. The customer simply stopped returning any correspondence.","title":"[Los Angeles County, Orange County; California] A customer skipped out on paying the second half of the fee.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553044125,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b35nh1\/wa_getting_a_fair_settlement_from_workers\/","id":"b35nh1","body":"I was injured November 24th. Fired December 7th.\n\n\nI had gotten one week light duty. Had an absence during that week due to reaction to pain medication after being sick the night before. I was fired over a week after that absence.\n\n\nAfter many doctors appts and physical therapy, I finally got diagnosed with a large herniated disk causing spinal stenosis.\n\n\nSurgery for the condition is awaiting approval from my adjuster. I just got a check in mail for time loss, but it was less than $700 and only covered about a month, from feb. to March.\n\n\nWhy am I not being compensated from 14 days after the injury to now? I haven\u2019t been released to full work yet.\n\n\n\n\n","title":"[WA] getting a fair settlement from workers compensation.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554943880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbtupf\/michigan_how_can_i_get_custody_of_my_grandchild\/","id":"bbtupf","body":"I would like either custody of my grandson, or some kind of legal status that would allow my grandson to continue to live in my home. The end result that I want is to allow my grandson to finish school and live in the same house until he finishes high school.\n\nBoth parents will not consent to giving up rights to their child. My son likes claiming him on his taxes for the money. The mother actually wants her son back after all these years, so she\u2019ll never consent to an adoption. I would like to get custody of him, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s possible or how to go about it.\n\nMy grandson has lived in my home for 15 years (in June). His mother lives over 300 miles away (same state, Michigan). If the mother gets custody of my grandson it would not only break my heart, but it would be terrible for my grandson. He\u2019s lived here his entire life. He\u2019s made friends, he\u2019s doing well in school, he plays basketball\/track, he\u2019s doing excellent. To rip him out of this to live away in a foreign part of the state would be awful.\n\nRight now, the father has 60% physical custody. The mother has visitation rights. My grandson has lived in the same house (mine) and under my care for his entire life.\n\nMe\/grandson\/son all live together, so everything has worked out in the best interest of my grandson. The problem is that my son will be moving out in the near future, and he won\u2019t take his own child with him (very terrible, I still can\u2019t believe it). My fear is that the mother will find out, and will be able to get full custody of him.\n\nIs it possible for me to take custody of our grandchild, against the wishes of the biological parents? I just want my grandson to finish school in a stable environment. He\u2019s doing so well. It would destroy us to have him leave. \n\nDo I have any recourse?","title":"[Michigan] How can I get custody of my grandchild when both parents won\u2019t let me adopt him?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555224022,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd04jp\/me_30f_and_my_child_4m_are_desperately_trying_to\/","id":"bd04jp","body":"I don't know if this is the right sub but we need help. The social services department website I tried to email is apparently down (it suggested I try again later and you bet your ass I will) and I don't even know what our options are. Does anyone know what the first steps might be for us? We have no friends or family in the state to house or protect us right now. Are there any resources in California you know of (*please please* send links) because we are absolutely in need of it!\n\nHe's cut us off from everyone but his own family and encouraged me to quit my job, start school and become completely reliant upon him, but we need to go it's only getting worse. He slapped my son today and my son went into what I can only describe as a PTSD induced screaming and subsequent shutdown, and all I can do is hold him and keep him with me as much as possible to minimize his time alone with his dad. We need recommendations please, or directions to a more appropriate forum. Thank you so much for helping us get free of this madness","title":"Me (30f) and my child (4m) are desperately trying to separate from his (37m) father who is verbally and mentally abusive to us both. Where can we go, who do I call??","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541519361,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9upfog\/holdingoperating_companies_and_foreign\/","id":"9upfog","body":"If I own a holding company that is registered in Delaware and an operating company in New Jersey that conducts business within the state, does my holding company need foreign qualification since it owns the assets of the company in New Jersey ?","title":"Holding\/operating companies and foreign qualification","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539056388,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mltfx\/tn_hypothetical_legality_of_pedestrians_in_bike\/","id":"9mltfx","body":"I\u2019ve recently learned that in some areas it is illegal for pedestrians to occupy the bike lanes, which has made me think about a neighborhood I stayed in temporarily. It had bike lanes on most of the roads, but no sidewalks. You had lawn and then bike lane, then road.\n\nIf there is no sidewalk, where should a pedestrian be walking? Should they walk on the grass of the private property, or occupy the bike lane? Are there legal ramifications of walking on lawns when no sidewalk is provided?","title":"[TN] [Hypothetical] Legality of pedestrians in bike lane if there are no sidewalks","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570127812,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcv26p\/fl_parents_signed_renewal_for_lease_but_then_made\/","id":"dcv26p","body":"(Sorry for formatting this is from my phone) \nMy husband and I are college students, that being said my parents decided to rent a large house and offer us our own space so we could save up money before graduating. We signed the lease with them, but our understanding at the time was that we were not tenants, just occupants. Recently, my family was struck with financial hardships, and they made us promptly move out thinking they were going to have to move back to our hometown. Now they are still living there, but could possibly get evicted depending on how this month goes. We also found out that if they get evicted it will affect us because we are tenants as well. My mother signed the lease renewal and we never signed it, so are we legally stuck to the lease? We have tried to talk the landlord into letting us leave the lease, but they won\u2019t budge. \n\nSeriously any help is greatly appreciated because I really don\u2019t want to have the burden of having an eviction on my record, and not be able to ever find a place to live post-graduation.","title":"[FL] Parents signed renewal for lease but then made my husband and I leave.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569617163,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da6alm\/seeking_to_terminate_lease_on_short_notice_due_to\/","id":"da6alm","body":"5 months into this lease in Palmer Alaska, our kitchen faucet started to rust through the spout walls. This has lead to minor water damage to the kitchen. We haven't used the water for anything other than showers for me and my wife seeing as there has been heavy road construction right next to the appartment since we moved in (it is well water). We have been going to friends and families house to bathe our 7 month old daughter and have been buying jugs of water for drinking and mixing formula. The water itself has a foul odor, the drains emit a nauseating smell and our landlords response was to \"run the water for a while\" to alleviate the smell. My wife has been sick frequently since moving in, not sure if it's from us washing dishes with this water. I fill a pot and bring it to a boil to fill the sink. \n\nWe have mentioned a foul odor coming from the heating ducts as well with no solution provided or effort to remedy the smell made. \n\nThe buildings were built in the 70s and the kitchen is carpeted which raises another sanitation concern seeing as it clearly hasn't been replaced in years. \n\nMy wife is in the Air National Guard and got orders for training out of state for 13 weeks, we are seeking to terminate lease but with the short amount of time between the issuance of the orders and departure date, the landlord is demanding we pay this coming months rent in full and wait a few weeks for him to issue the refund of pro rated rent as well as the security deposit. \n\nSo my questions are:\n\nHas the landlord failed to meet habitability standards or upkeep any of their obligations as landlord?\n\nIs there any legal ground for us to refuse to pay this coming months rent? (He was notified 5 days ago so it does fall short of a 30 day notice by a stretch)\n\nIs our best option to suck it up and potentially not have enough to secure a roof over our head after moving?","title":"Seeking to terminate lease on short notice due to sanitation concerns","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503203843,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6utviq\/can_my_dad_sell_the_house_before_he_gets_divorced\/","id":"6utviq","body":"The house isn't on my mom's name it's under my dad's name and we just had a pretty big argument and I am pretty sure they are gonna divorce is there something my dad could do like sell the house without my mom's knowledge to screw her over? we are living in Texas by the way.","title":"Can my dad sell the house before he gets divorced to screw over my mom?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569799124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db2wg8\/my_dad_is_manipulative_and_verbally_abusive_what\/","id":"db2wg8","body":"My Dad's verbally abusive to all of my family, I don't know what I can do. Background information, I'm a 15yr old female with an 11yr old brother, my Dad targets all of us. How do I inform people of this. I was thinking of going to my school, would that be a good start. I have a witness of his behaviour among other evidence.","title":"My Dad is manipulative and verbally abusive what can I do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552961424,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2rj8e\/ms_childcare_cost_help\/","id":"b2rj8e","body":"My ex (F) and I have a 7 year old together. We have been split up since son was 4 months old. We have joint custody. He pays child support and we half child care. We have got along well enough for the past 7 years.\n\nRecently, F was let go from his job. Minimum wage, part time work. Since then, he is claiming his childcare costs (25% time) is double what I pay for 75% of the time. Until this point he has claimed zero child care costs.\n\nDo I have any options to avoid paying him $600 a month? I met with 3 attorneys and they all said the receipts are enough proof of the costs, and there's nothing I can do. ","title":"[MS] Childcare Cost Help","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1409013821,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ekz8g\/i_have_a_attempted_csc_ii_person_under_13_can_i\/","id":"2ekz8g","body":"i only want 1 pistol, not a whole armory. i live in michigan. i read that felons cant but that it also said that something about people that served more than a year, i only served 50 days. also can i get a CPL?","title":"i have a attempted CSC II (person under 13). can i own a gun?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571758784,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dljnr6\/is_a_university_allowed_to_treat_students\/","id":"dljnr6","body":"So we always have pracitcal training sessions in the end of our semesters. Normally we have lectures, practical training a preparation time for the exams and then finally the exams. So know they made 3 groups of us and made 3 different schedules. So in 6 weeks we have 4 weeks of practical training. So know they made these 3 groups and 1 group has the first 2 weeks free and has practical training up until the week before exams whereas the other two groups have 2-4(christmas holidays in between) weeks free on a piece to prepare for exams. Their argumentation is that everyone gets the same amount of time for preparation but the situation is clearly no fair as the preparation right befor the exams has a different weighting than the studying over a month before with training in between. Are they allowed to treat us differently in that case?","title":"Is a university allowed to treat students differently before official exams?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570565653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df5ift\/employment_contract_but_boss_messes_up_my_pay\/","id":"df5ift","body":"I\u2019m in Massachusetts. So I signed a Contract this June saying I\u2019d work for my employer for 2 years in exchange for training. If I leave early I have to pay her x amount for the amount of training I received but this number goes down over time. \n\nWe are only paid monthly and for the past three months she\u2019s under payed me, not paid me at all or gave me my check more than a week late. Is there a way I could get out of this contract without having to pay her?","title":"Employment contract but boss messes up my pay every month.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541687542,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vagx3\/late_paycheck\/","id":"9vagx3","body":"My gf started a new job almost two months ago and has yet to set up direct deposit, they have been mailing her checks to our apt on the 1st and 15th and first three checks were right on time. Her last paycheck never showed up and still hasn't. Her manager keeps saying it was a mistake should be here today, that has been every day for over a week now. I know she should set up direct deposit and she will do that before the next check, but in the meantime what can she do about her situation?","title":"Late paycheck","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442263864,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kyhej\/i_have_just_payed_my_deposit_and_the_first_months\/","id":"3kyhej","body":"Is this a viable option or should I cut my losses and look for another flat? I am the lead tenant and therefore I paid it from my account directly to the estate agent after my flatmate sent me his share of the deposit. We have not yet signed the lease but I am planning to go ahead with this alone and find another tenant to share the rent with. If I do lose the flat, what money might I have to return to my flatmate and what money, if any, will I receive back from the agency?\n\n(Scotland, UK)","title":"I have just payed my deposit and the first month's rent. Now a flatmate of mine has dropped out. I want to still keep the flat but will have to sign the lease on my own and later find a replacement flatmate. Do I legally owe the deposit to my flatmate?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503019000,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uek9t\/va_being_scheduled_12_days_in_a_row_at_work_call\/","id":"6uek9t","body":"I'll just start out by saying the company I work for is an absolute mess. There are several things I'm concerned about.\n\nI work 10am-6pm Monday-Friday. Call lasts from the end of my shift until 8am the next morning. They have me working call every day of the week. Now, the part that I get lost at. I also do call every other weekend, which is 24 hours both Saturday and Sunday. I get paid $1 for every hour I'm on call then my regular pay if I get called out (which is a lot). Do these weekend call days count as work days? If they do then they are working me 12 days in a row, no days off. So, I'm getting killed here because I have 12 day streaks with a total of 10 hours off the clock. I've asked for even one day off during those periods and got denied. Are they legally allowed to do this? \n\nAnother thing, unrelated but still an issue with the company. We are a large company and we have employees working separate 'areas' in the state. Each 'area' has an ~70 mile radius. So, we are supposed to have at lest 2 employees working each area. I was hired for one area, and was working alone. Then, both workers from the neighboring area quit. For 4 months they've had\/have me working *both* areas *alone*. Then I obviously can't meet my appointment deadlines because I have to drive so far in between cases. Which I then get in trouble for not meeting them. Are they allowed to make me work both areas like this? I never even really agreed to it. (I also cover both of these areas for call).","title":"[VA] Being scheduled 12 days in a row at work, call every night. Some gray areas, making me wonder if it is legal.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540514135,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rfyv9\/does_the_school_system_i_teach_for_have_access_to\/","id":"9rfyv9","body":"I am a teacher in an elementary school in CT.\n\nA few weeks ago, our school principal sent out an email to remind teachers never to use student names in emails, even teacher to teacher, because if a legal issue were to ever arise, any emails sent from our school addresses that contain the child\u2019s name could be pulled up and used. \n\nThen, she added the following line:\n\nThis applies to text messages you send on your personal cellphones as well.\n\nMy question is: is this legal? Just because I am a school employee, would my personal text messages ever be able to be pulled up as \u201cevidence\u201d if necessary? For example, would a text conversation I had with another teacher in my building about a student or parent issue (both on our own personal devices) ever be used against me?\n\nThanks! \n","title":"Does the school system I teach for have access to my personal texts?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553885890,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7174z\/just_put_in_two_weeks_notice_owed_a_paid_vacation\/","id":"b7174z","body":"At my workplace, if you work enough days then you earn a paid vacation for one week. Yesterday, I put in my two weeks notice to that job and made it clear that I wanted my paid vacation I\u2019d accumulated. I have not heard a response back yet and I\u2019m afraid they won\u2019t give it to me. Is this something worth fighting for? Can I take this to corporate if they refuse? ","title":"Just put in two weeks notice, owed a paid vacation.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506024444,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71lucp\/ma_sole_beneficiary_of_someones_life_insurance\/","id":"71lucp","body":"In a weird turn of events, a family friend I barely knew listed me as his sole beneficiary. \n\nHe passed recently, in hospice after a lengthy illness.\n\nMy mother has been speculating that all the money was \"probably\" used up to pay for his care, and I haven't heard anything re: a payout because it's likely all gone.\n\n\"Probably\" and \"likely\" aren't exactly good enough for me. Is there a way for me to verify this? Should someone have contacted me, or is it on me to contact someone? I have no idea what protocol is for this sort of thing. TIA for any advice! ","title":"MA: Sole beneficiary of someone's life insurance","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570432742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deg2ny\/niece_in_danger\/","id":"deg2ny","body":"There's a lot to unpack, but I'll try to make it as concise as possible. For obvious reasons, this is a throwaway account and all the names are fake.\n\nMy niece, we'll call her Evangeline, is 10. She is legally a ward of the state in the care of her great-grandmother (Granny) after being removed from her mother's care. Her mother (my sister-in-law. She'll be Lauren) was living with an abusive drug addict and was likely using herself.\n\nDuring her time with Granny, Evangeline struggled with emotional and developmental issues. These were made worse whenever her mother was around, and during the holidays and her birthday. My fiance and I stepped in to help, and she has come very far.\n\nSince then, Lauren has cleaned up (mostly), and moved in with Granny and my father-in-law (Jack). Her living there does NOT violate the court order. However, Lauren having Evangeline unsupervised IS against the court order.\n\nEvangeline has told me about several times she has been alone with her mother. Not only at the house, but also on shopping trips and even a party. The party concerns me the most, since Evangeline told me that it was a party at one of Lauren's friends' houses, and there were no other kids there. I also know that Lauren tends to drink and smoke pot when she's with these friends, and Evangeline was likely in the room. Whay really worries me is that either Lauren or one of the friends drove her and Evangeline home that night. And yes, Granny and Jack were aware of the party.\n\nNow, this is enough to note that Evangeline shouldn't be where she is, but I have other concerns that should be noted as well: I've noticed that the cups and water bottles Evangeline uses at Granny's aren't cleaned properly, and some even have mold. It was actually a struggle for me to find something that was safe for her to use. Granny can't match clothes to save her life, despite working as a manager at a popular clothing retailer for 20+ years before her recent retirement. Granny also does not let Evangeline pick her own outfits. Evangeline has told me that the kids at school make fun of the way she dresses. Granny has no patience (as I've seen very often), and Evangeline has said that she doesn't listen or talk with her. Granny is stubborn, and often belittles the things that Evangeline likes, especially when it comes to things she considers to be \"unholy\" (Tim Burton films, Harry Potter, and Gravity Falls to name a few). And, finally, Evangeline doesn't eat much at Granny's, since she doesn't really make kid-friendly food. Evangeline isn't particularly picky and eats plenty at our house.\n\nBut, the most terrifying concern I have is that Evangeline may have been molested by one of her babysitters (Ted). The reason I think this is because Lauren told me a story about one time when Evangeline was in bed with her and was having a nightmare. She woke up screaming \"NO, TED!! NO!!!\" Lauren thought it was funny and has shown no signs of being the least bit suspicious. To me, it raised a huge red flag. I tried asking Evangeline what she was dreaming about when it happened, but she clammed up. I've only met Ted and his wife a few times, so I can't really attest to any character traits. They took Evangeline on a weekend vacation to the beach with them and their kids in July, and when I found out, it really scared me. (If anyone has advice on how to ask Evangeline about Ted, I would really really appreciate it.)\n\nSo Evangeline isn't safe and isn't happy where she is. My fiance (Michael) and I are getting married soon, and want to try to adopt Evangeline. We know it's going to drive a wedge between us and Granny, Jack, and especially Lauren, but something has to happen. We would like Lauren to still be able to see her 2 times a week and on holidays and her birthday, but we're not sure how she'd take that. She does love Evangeline so much, but she's not a responsible parent. Granny just doesn't have the ability to care for a child at her age, especially one with Evangeline's issues.\n\nPart of the reason it's so complicated is that Michael and I live with my mother-in-law (Judy). Judy is 2nd intervener for Evangeline, and her and Lauren do NOT get along at all. Lauren detests her mother, and refuses to even see or speak to her.\n\nAnother reason things are complicated is that I am physically disabled. It doesn't prevent me from doing things to care for a child Evangeline's age (cooking, running a bath, first aid), but I am prone to falls. I also cannot work, and am on Federal Disability. I'm not sure how this would affect our chances.\n\nEvangeline would also have to change schools, but would remain close enough to visit her friends.\n\nBut on the optimistic side, Michael and I are young. We've been helping with Evangeline for years, and she's always so much more relaxed with us. She uses communication skills, understands when we have to punish her or say no, and feels safe talking to us about pretty much anything. We're not perfect, but we try our best to be a positive force in her life. We only want to do what's best. Also, we do have a bedroom for her.\n\nThis is in Maryland in the US.\n\nI don't know what other information you may need, but feel free to ask in a comment or DM if you have any questions.\n\nThank you.","title":"Niece in Danger.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552944292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2ob78\/dad_was_injured_in_accident_didnt_get_settlement\/","id":"b2ob78","body":"I\u2019m not super law-savvy, so forgive me if I don\u2019t use a correct term or something.  This is a question more for my dad, as it seems he\u2019s kind of been screwed by his lawyer.  Somewhat long, TLDR; at bottom.\n\nSo in June of 2015, my dad was driving a truck with a trailer for a friend on a busy freeway.  A woman was driving her car in the lane next to him and her tire blew out, causing her to swerve into him.  Neither of them were severely injured - they both cooperated with police and left not in ambulances.  Obviously it was determined that the accident was not my dad\u2019s fault.\n\nA little backstory - my dad has had back problems before.  About 15 years prior to this accident, he was told by a surgeon that he should get surgery to fuse some of the disks in his spine.  He declined, because it wasn\u2019t causing him much pain and he was still very active and didn\u2019t want to risk a mistake during surgery\/deal with recovery. \n\nIt became apparent soon after that the accident had severely aggravated his back.  He got in touch with his attorney and ended up having a triple fusion surgery. From what I understand, his insurance was the highest amount at $200,000, so his attorney went that direction to get my dad\u2019s surgery covered, plus suffering and whatnot.  My dad waited 3.5 years for arbitration to be set.  The entire time, his attorney told him that they would get the full amount of $200,000 and that would more than cover his surgery and leave him with a lot of money leftover.  \n\nFinally, arbitration took place in December of 2018.  His attorney went into it super lax, while the insurance\u2019s attorney came with a \u2018doctor\u2019 that disputed all my dad\u2019s injuries and basically said nothing was caused by the accident and it was all pre-existing.  But, from everything we\u2019ve read, if the accident made a pre-existing injury worse when it otherwise would have been manageable, he is still entitled to compensation.  Mind you, this was no simple surgery.  He was out for 5.5 hours and can no longer do a LOT of the things he used to do before the accident.  \n\nSo, after all of that, my dad ended up with barely $19,000.  He really feels that his attorney dropped the ball by acting like they had it in the bag, and not preparing properly.  But, he was told that arbitration is a \u2018final\u2019 decision.  Is there anything he can do about this?  I know it\u2019s a stretch but it really was such a surprise shitty ending to such a long struggle.\n\nTLDR; Dad was injured in an auto accident that wasn\u2019t his fault and had to have a major spinal surgery on a pre-existing injury that was otherwise manageable for 15+ years.  Arbitration happened and his attorney thought they\u2019d get a much bigger amount and didn\u2019t even try.  Dad gets a fraction of the amount his attorney assured him he\u2019d get and wants to know if there\u2019s anything else he can do?","title":"Dad was injured in accident, didn\u2019t get settlement amount he should have (OR)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505765273,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70xm8f\/bought_a_used_car_2_months_ago_dealer_wont_give\/","id":"70xm8f","body":"Like the tittle says I bought the car begining of August and the Check has already cleared, but the dealer won't give me the title and when I call to ask about it they give me the run around what can I do to get my title? I bought the car in Virginia but I live in Maryland. Thanks for any advice.","title":"Bought a used car 2 months ago dealer won't give me the tittle","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446394881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r3d2k\/kentucky_partnerships_in_an_llc\/","id":"3r3d2k","body":"In an LLC Partnership my husband is part of, an original contract states he is 25% owner with 3 other men. Each had 25%. The contract also stated a majority would rule. One of the men was forced out and a new contract was signed stating 33% for each partner and the new contract states that there must be a unanimous decision made for any changes. One of the partners, Roy, is experiencing issues at home and wants to give his share to Damon. My husband has explained that this is not allowed, that if someone were to give up shares, it has to be split, thus making Damon and my husband 50\/50 partners. Roy has also said he would like to come back at some point. Damon is stating the original contract is still good, basically saying he can take the shares. The new contract states it must be offered to all owners. Doesn't the new contract make the old contract null and void? ","title":"(Kentucky) Partnerships in an LLC?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554060391,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7rlmr\/accused_of_homophobia_unsure_if_i_need_to_take\/","id":"b7rlmr","body":"Hey everyone,\n\nI run an organization at a University I'm in. There were two members I honestly did not get along with too well because\n\nA. They weren't doing their job or communicating which meant I had to do it last minute and \n\nB. A lot of women in the group said they were constantly uncomfortable around them which added strain onto me on how to deal with it. There was too much \"He-said, She-said\" which I could only recommend documenting any future circumcstances. One of these males is straight, and the other is gay.\n\nSo fast forward to my issue,\n\nI recently had several individuals in the organization let me know there was word being spread around that I was signaling out the second individual because he is gay, and that I am homophobic. \n\nThe twist? This person is completely unaware that I am also gay. While I completely understand gay people can be homophobic, I've personally faced the discrimination and prejudice against LGBT individuals. I would be one of the last people to hate someone because they are gay. Also I've been told this is a person that has a pattern of accusing any issue he has as being discrimination towards minorities, so I feel like this could easily spiral into dangerous territory.\n\nHow should I approach this? I've personally used services related to hate speech\/crime, so I feel like this could have consequences if only one story is being shared or reported. I do not want this to impact my education\/life.","title":"Accused of homophobia, unsure if I need to take any legal precautions?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555048136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bca3i9\/causa_is_it_legal_for_a_school_officer_to_insult\/","id":"bca3i9","body":"I was pulled out of class and the school\u2019s officer was yelling at me telling me how selfish I am, that I ruined my ex\u2019s bf family (his family kicked him out), he won\u2019t be graduating because of me, and threaten to arrest me if she sees me with him or hears of me again.  Also is it legal for a school officer to let me out early of school without my parents\u2019 knowledge?","title":"[CA,USA] Is it legal for a school officer to insult me?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553323962,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4g4oe\/how_can_i_go_about_terminating_a_contract_and\/","id":"b4g4oe","body":"I'm a filmmaker who recently hired a location scout as an independent contractor, however, shortly after signing the contract and giving him the first half of his payment, I noted several things about his character I was uncomfortable with and I've decided I no longer want to be in business with this individual. He has yet to formally start his job, so I'd like to know how I can best go about reversing this situation. In the Terms of Agreement, there's a section that contains this:\n\n​\n\n*\"In the event that either Party wishes to terminate this Agreement, that Party will be required to provide at least 30 days\u2019 notice to the other Party.\"*","title":"How can I go about terminating a contract and getting my initial payment back?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552015559,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayljz6\/recourse_for_unpaid_wages_illinois\/","id":"ayljz6","body":"I'm wondering if there is a way as an employee to file a complaint against a business so that if the business goes bankrupt the employee can get unpaid wages. I'm interested in US law generally, but specifically the state of Illinois. I know there is a complaint\/hearing process, but I wonder if a worker can place kind of a \"lien\" type instrument against a business, which would help get a bankruptcy judge to consider the worker's wages as debts owed.\n\nI hope that makes sense.","title":"Recourse for unpaid wages (Illinois)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571152783,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di9di9\/employer_taking_away_part_of_pay_with_no_written\/","id":"di9di9","body":"I work at a car dealership in Kansas. I\u2019m a commissioned salesperson. Part of my commission is in the form of \u201cspiffs\u201d-every Saturday, we get cash for customers that financed with us, bought extended warranties, gap insurance, etc. throughout the week (yes, that\u2019s why we sigh when you say you\u2019ll write a check). The only thing that we get on our commission check is the commission from the car itself, everything else is in the spiffs. \nThe dealership isn\u2019t doing well and hasn\u2019t been since we got a new GM. Our monthly sales are now 40% of what they were this time last year. The new GM gave us all a manifest list of past customers and said he was going to track our phone calls and emails and if we don\u2019t call\/email a certain number per day, we wouldn\u2019t get our spiffs. He also sits back in his office and listens to the phone calls to decide which ones \u201ccount\u201d towards our number. In my opinion, that\u2019s the job of our internet department-calling people from a list isnt in my job description, and harassing people who have already bought a car isn\u2019t working, it\u2019s just pissing them off. \nI\u2019m trying to figure out if he can take away our pay like that without any written notice. When we started we all signed a paper agreeing to the pay plan, and it didn\u2019t mention anything about spiffs being taken away suddenly. \nI\u2019m obviously looking for another job, but in the meantime, can he do that? Obviously the office phones are all recorded and I know that. But can he suddenly implement a rule, likely to cover his own ass because he\u2019s running the dealership to the ground, and take away a major part of our pay? These weekly spiffs can pay anywhere from $10-$700+. A lot of times we make more from the spiffs than we do from the actual commission check.","title":"Employer taking away part of pay with no written notice.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542105427,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wnzqs\/did_not_take_a_picture_after_an_accident\/","id":"9wnzqs","body":"Back in September I got in a small car accident that was my fault (I bumped into someone\u2019s car at about 8 mph). There was no damage on the guy I hit, but my car\u2019s bumper shifted down a little. The guy took pictures of both our cars and we exchanged insurance cards. However I did not take a picture of my car and his which was a big mistake. \n\nLast week my insurance contacted me letting me know that the guy I hit claimed the accident to his insurance. He claimed he had soft tissue back injuries and hired a lawyer also who emailed my insurance company. \n\nMy insurance is skeptical because of the conditions of the accident and also because he claimed it 2 months after the accident. Mh insurance is asking for pictures of the accident which I do not have. \n\nNow my question is, how do I go about this without pictures of both cars? Do I hire a lawyer to defend myself, or just let the insurance company take care of it?","title":"Did not take a picture after an accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570485662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deqjgx\/my_mom_paid_for_my_gym_membership_for_4_years\/","id":"deqjgx","body":"About 4 years ago I went to Golds Gym and signed up and worked out frequently. Of course I signed a contract and then moved to college thinking I cancelled it. I honestly can\u2019t say I cancelled the contract or forgot, but I do remember thinking about it and taking some form of action (it\u2019s unlike me to just completely forget about it). My mom was okay with me setting this up on her credit card and that\u2019s how it was being paid for. Fast forward 4 years my mom texts me today and asks about a recurring charge on her card from \u201cgenesis health club\u201d. Some time between then and now the gym was bought out but my contract somehow never was cancelled (again I have no records of doing this but remember trying to cancel and thinking I was okay 4 years ago) \n\nI know this sub likes to stay on topic with help and I\u2019d really appreciate that. There are a laundry list of reasons why my mom paid this without ever noticing it and I\u2019m really pissed about it as this was a lot of money wasted. \n\nAll I have done is call and request to cancel. I knew they\u2019d ask me to come there and told them I\u2019m not in the state anymore. They said they will email me the contract with cancellation instructions. \n\nAnything I can do here? I estimate between $3000-$5000 of an inactive subscription while the store changed names and was not usable for a time. \n\nThank you","title":"My mom paid for my gym membership for 4 years while it was inactive and bought out by a different company","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541719879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vf6t9\/how_to_handle_a_teacher_physically_assaulting_a\/","id":"9vf6t9","body":"I attended a very poorly run private high school, the teachers had no credentials or formal training, the staff constantly harassed students and it was an overall bad environment. In fact it was so bad, they wouldn\u2019t let me graduate. When I transferred to this school from a public school they told me my credits would transfer as well, but during my senior year they changed their graduation requirements and I was told that I\u2019d have to take extra classes from a different institution to make up for my \u201cmissing credits\u201d but that\u2019s neither here nor there. \n\nThere was a small frail dorky 9th grade boy with Aspergers in a mixed grade PE class, the other students couldn\u2019t stand him. The teacher always seemed really insecure, couldn\u2019t handle criticism, went on constant power trips and always seemed to be bullying or laughing at the students, but this was different. During sports and games the teacher would play with the students and every opportunity he had he would push, kick and slam down the kid. He also encouraged the bigger older boys to do the same. The PE teacher doubled as the history class and would relentlessly taunt and humiliate the boy, when he contributed anything the teacher would tell him to shut up or that nobody cared. \n\nObviously the kid was devastated and broke down in front of the school. \n\nThere is video and photographic evidence of this abuse that other students have recorded and it\u2019s not just this one student or teacher. The teachers falsely accused this other kid of threatening to shoot up the school and expelled him. This is a small school, the entire high school has maybe 30 kids and I know for a fact that kid did not make any threats even close to that. My younger sister has told me that this abuse continues to occur even going as far as to torture kids that identify as lgbtq. \n\nI am worried for my sister and angry at the school, is there anything I can do? ","title":"How to handle a teacher physically assaulting a child with Aspergers?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569627493,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da8f0c\/arizona_my_neighbor_passed_away_and_unfortunately\/","id":"da8f0c","body":"I've live next door to this man for 12 years. When my daughter was sick he was nice and got her gift cards. Well today we did a welfare check after not seeing him for a couple days and he was found in his bed. When asking the police they said they would try to find family if not the state will do a state burial which is kind of shitty service. Is there anything i can do to make sure he gets a good service?","title":"Arizona- my neighbor passed away and unfortunately has no family no children. So it seems like the state is going to handle everything. Is there anything i can do to assure he gets a good service and handle his assets?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551456487,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw6kyv\/unemployment_while_traveling\/","id":"aw6kyv","body":"Hey everyone, I work at a tax preparation office and I have a rehire date for the winter before the 2019 tax season starts. So I do not have any requirements to apply for jobs because the lay off is for economic reasons. After my tax season is over I have another job lined up for the summer. \n\nBut after the summer is over I am planning on visiting India for about a month before coming back to the States to return for work. After I finish my summer job, if I file for unemployment  in my home state, would it be rescinded because I am out of the country or would this be acceptable? \n\nI know that unemployment was started as a stimulus for the country after the depression and part of the consideration for application of UI is to keep the money spent within the US, but I'm having difficulty finding a direct answer to wether this is doable or not. Thanks","title":"Unemployment while traveling","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553038498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b34nbq\/fl_a_local_deli_owner_and_former_employer_is\/","id":"b34nbq","body":"[Florida]\n\nHi r\/legaladvice, \n\nI used to work at a local deli 2 years ago, while working there I wanted to work to improve on its cleanliness, condition, and sales strategies. The owner, a cool older guy, wanted it to be his way cause it was easy. And i don\u2019t blame him, his margins were good and his take home at the end of the year was really good for being semi retired (he works every day as well)! I haven\u2019t worked there in some time but I recently recognized it was for sale on a website even though major details were withheld. \n\nI emailed the broker for more info and he emailed me back with and NDA and general data sheet with financials, summary\u2019s, rent, etc. i sent back the signed NDA and he sent me back a 22 page more in-depth summary including steps if id like to proceed with a purchase or offer. \n\nMe and my best friend and business partner who has a restaurant management degree, want to see if he would like to do an Owner Financed deal (20% down, over a term with 7-11% interest). Rather then trying for a business loan through the SBA. \n\nShould i hire a lawyer or how would i continue with a LOI (Letter of Intent)?","title":"(FL) A local Deli Owner (and former employer) is selling the business. We would like to work out an Owner Financed deal, but how?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541218888,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9trbsl\/will_i_get_a_point_on_my_license_for\/","id":"9trbsl","body":"I got a traffic ticket for riding a BIRD scooter on a dismount zone in UCLA. I paid the ticket and I'm so ready forget about it but... Will this add a point to my license? The vehicle code was 21113 a and that number is not listed on the official dmv website for violations... I can't find ANYTHING on google about how much it costs, or even if it adds a point... But I know for sure it is a legit vehicle code... Its just relatively new... Like a few years maybe close to 7 at most? ","title":"Will i get a point on my license for this?(California)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554305979,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8zjqo\/can_i_get_a_cpl_license_if_i_was_charge_with\/","id":"b8zjqo","body":"[michigan] Was charge with drug possession and I was charged for a misdemeanor and 6 month probation, about 2 years ago. Could I still get a CPL license? ","title":"Can I get a cpl license if i was charge with misdemeanor","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541566514,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uwd8l\/is_there_any_type_of_insurance_i_can_sign_up_for\/","id":"9uwd8l","body":"I lost my very young son a few days ago to cancer.  My insurance won't cover him I've tried my butt off and I could not add him until it was too late. Is there any legal help or programs to help bury a very young boy? I've been a follower of Reddit anonymous but now I need advice. I was a single father. Due to being out of work so much to be with him and paying for as much as I could to cover hospital and care bills I'm broke. I don't have family who is able. I was given down donations via a local church but tom is the day I have to figure it out. I'm stuck in a hard place , no-one wants to bury their child nor should. I'm not too good with insurance but is there any I could use now .idk . I need 900 more to cover everything  . Thanks for any advice or legal words you can give me .","title":"Is there any type of insurance I can sign up for to help bury my child?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569906083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dboego\/can_i_create_an_irreversible_agreement\/","id":"dboego","body":"A former employer wants me to sign an agreement (that would turn out bad for me). I do however socialize with her. I\u2019m afraid that she\u2019ll make me sign it while i\u2019m intoxicated or something. Is there a way to protect myself from this happening? Would signing a document I (or my lawyer) wrote stating that no signature is valid relating to this person without a notary? Is it not legally enforceable to sign a document while intoxicated? Etc.","title":"Can I create an irreversible agreement?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552675828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1imys\/stolen_work_trucks\/","id":"b1imys","body":"So my boss at my new job took some work trucks (3)\nTo a close repair shop for some work. Its been over a month now and guy who owns shop his phone is off.\n\nNo power at building and locked gate. 1 work truck locked up in yard and other 2 locked in building?\n\nWhat should we do??","title":"Stolen work trucks??","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539626845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9of5a7\/moving_into_a_new_3bd_apt_with_two_friends_on_the\/","id":"9of5a7","body":"Hello all,\n\nI have not signed the lease yet, which is why am I asking here. I'm worried that the responsibility of rent and any agreements\/rules on the lease will fall back on me dependent on my roommates actions. Is this the case? Is it reasonable to have my roommates also listed as tenants instead of occupants on the lease? Alternatively if they stay as occupants is there anything I can make them sign so they are responsible for their portion of rent if they are unable to meet it? I do not expect them to not pay but I want to be legally covered here. Thank you all in advance for your advice :)","title":"Moving into a new 3bd apt with two friends. On the lease I am the tenant and my roommates are only occupants. What are the legal implications of this?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447074692,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s4o26\/uk_legality_of_rounding_employee_shifts\/","id":"3s4o26","body":"I have a job which involves making software for employees to sign in and out of work. I've recently been asked to implement logic which rounds shifts like so: every day, the start of the first shift will be rounded up to the next nearest 15 minutes, and the end of the last shift will be rounded down to the previous nearest 15 minutes.\n\nSo, both shifts will be rounded in a way which will lower hours worked, it will never be rounded in a way favourable to the employee.\n\nThis is in England.\n\nI just want to make sure that this is legal and that my employer knows about the legality of this. If you know about this, please provide a link to some reliable legal documentation so that I can know for sure and prove that this either is or is not legal.","title":"(UK) Legality of Rounding Employee Shifts","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571359928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djfosz\/my_cyber_stalker_got_my_adress\/","id":"djfosz","body":"he has my adress he knows my identity what do i do? how can i keep myself safe?","title":"my cyber stalker got my adress","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445369909,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pj83b\/tx_remove_child_support\/","id":"3pj83b","body":"Ex-wife and I have a 5 year old together, she recently moved 2 hors away from the city and will be moving a bit further sometime next year. Recently she brought up that she would like to remove my child support, I spoke with Tx AG and they said it can be done but we would have to go back to court, the guy I spoke with also said I don't need a lawyer and can represent myself. \n\nMy questions: How do I begin the paperwork and waht are the costs I'm looking at? Also if we go through with this can she later put me back on Child Support?","title":"(Tx) Remove Child Support","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551918827,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay6a32\/mi_assistance_with_michigan_tenant_rights\/","id":"ay6a32","body":"My fianc\u00e9 and I moved out of our old home on 3\/1. We did the final walk through with J (landlord), we turned in our keys, and we were told we had until 3\/8 (Friday) to remove our personal possessions and 3\/29 to pay off the utilities. \n\nFianc\u00e9 went to the house today to clean out the garage, and saw his Prius was missing. When I initially asked J where the car was taken, he said that police had identified it as abandoned and towed it. False. I called the local PD, and the 3rd party tow lot they use for abandoned vehicles, and neither place had the car. After we informed him of our findings, he wouldn\u2019t respond to it; instead, he had brought up the money owed to him for repairing water damage to the house\u2014the bathroom had flooded while we were out of town and we are being held responsible for cleaning fees and supplies. \n\nOn Sunday night, J has apparently reported my fianc\u00e9\u2019s Prius as abandoned *himself* and had it towed. He told police he had tried to contact us several times about moving the vehicle. Both of these claims are also false. The car was in the driveway (flat off-brand tires and expired tags because we couldn\u2019t afford either expense while also living there, but definitely not abandoned), and he had never once mentioned the car to us. \n\nHe refuses to even split the cost of the towing, that he falsely reported, until he gets his money. \n\nWe\u2019re at a loss, and at our wits\u2019 end. There wasn\u2019t an official police report, so nothing can be legally done about false information. We could go to small claims court, but I\u2019m not sure the cost of the tow fee would be worth it. \n\nWe currently owe him $1477 for water damage repairs and the water bill, but paying him for that and paying to get our car back before the fees surpass the value of the car is...I don\u2019t know the correct way to describe it. We are exhausted, fed up, and very, very angry. \n\nAny advice on how to proceed would be most appreciated. \n\nThank you \ud83d\udc9a","title":"[MI] Assistance with Michigan Tenant Rights: Ex-landlord and final cost issues","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444091345,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nn7yh\/online_company_holding_my_money_until_i_provide\/","id":"3nn7yh","body":"Some short info to start:\n\nI'm 18. (Feb. 22, 1997)\nI live in the United States.\n\nThere's this online competitive game called Counter Strike: Global Offensive. In this game, there are weapon skins. These skins are worth real life money, but are given value by the community, depending on supply, demand and rarity. (So really they're worth nothing, just a bunch of pixels on a screen).\n\nThere's a popular website for trading\/purchasing these skins called OPSkins. In a recent policy update, this website is requiring that users provide photo ID (with proof of residency) and another form of proof of residency, like a bank statement, utility bill, etc.\n\nI'm 18, as I've said, but I don't have a permit or a license. My mother submitted her ID for me to use (giving me permission to purchase things off of this website). She even sent funds to my paypal to purchase things.\n\nNow, I've tried to spend $100 (from my Paypal) and they are now holding my money until I show them my ID saying that they don't allow parents ID's to be on record for their children... But I'm 18! I just have no ID. They say since the name on my Paypal isn't matching the ID on record they have the right to just hold the money. They won't refund it.\n\nThey say if I charge back on Paypal they will open a case for fraud. What can I do? Are they just going to keep my money forever?\n\nHere is a link to their TOS: https:\/\/opskins.com\/tos.html","title":"Online company holding my money until I provide images of my ID.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553382243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4pffq\/how_consistently_do_you_have_to_be_scheduled\/","id":"b4pffq","body":"I have been scheduled 40 hours at H-E-B consistently every week since before the holidays started towards the end of last year until currently and I\u2019m still considered part-time. I have not been offered full-time or insurance. Earlier today I asked our HR rep if I\u2019m consistently scheduled would I receive full-time status and she said it doesn\u2019t work that way and that I have to be requested by department manager to be full-time, which seems largely based on preference. I\u2019ve been here overall for around 6 months. \n\nIs it required after a certain point in time if this keeps up that they must offer full-time?","title":"How consistently do you have to be scheduled full-time hours until you are actually considered full-time in Texas?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541104101,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9td5u5\/house_robbery_insurance_claim\/","id":"9td5u5","body":"This might be a stupid question. \n\nLet's say for instance, my house was robbed. They stole cash, jewelry, electronic gadgets, other valuables, etc. If I was able to produce proof of purchase for those items that were stolen, and my insurance covered the cost of stolen items, and the damage that was done during the robbery. Would I be legally obligated to use the insurance money for said stolen things? Would it be fraud if I were to pocket the sum of money or use it for towards something else? Would I have to prove to my insurance company what I did with the money? ","title":"House Robbery Insurance Claim","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1550010890,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apz9vv\/overtime_laws_for_fulltime_employees_on_overseas\/","id":"apz9vv","body":"First time posting, so I apologize if flair and formatting is wrong. I have a sinking suspicion that while this is morally shitty it's entirely legal but I don't know where to look.\n\nOur boss told us about an overseas client event 2 weeks beforehand. The client hosts a 4 day event and our team was tasked with documenting. Then 2 days before we go, we get the event itinerary from the client and our boss tells us to expect 14 hr days.\n\nCut to the actual event and we're averaging 16 hrs a day, non-stop, with literally one, 1 hour break on 2 of the 4 days. I have this documented on a time tracker (Toggl) and work files dated from those hous.\n\nWe get back to the states and I ask HR about overtime comp to which I'm told the boss deemed the trip \"optional\" so no overtime would be given. The \"optional\" part seems semantic since there is no one else on the team who could do the jobs we were sent to do and contracted for. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the client contract stipulating what would be delivered, but in more clear terms I'm the only photographer\/videographer on our team, meaning no one else could have been sent to complete the (assumed) terms of the client contract.\n\nI'm already looking for a different job, but is there anything I can come prepared with when I go talk to my boss in terms of honoring overtime or compensation? Thank you.","title":"Overtime laws for full-time employees on overseas work trip? Florida, USA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552936402,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2mqvg\/us_wy_gfs_employer_is_threating_all_employees\/","id":"b2mqvg","body":"For the last four months (minus one week for Memorial Day) my GF's employer has had all employees working 48 hrs\/wk due to the workload they have. They say they have no idea when it will end. The most hours my GF can work in a day is 11 and is allowed a 30-60 minute lunch each shift. \n\nWhen I met her for lunch today, she told me that her boss threatened everyone with mandatory weekends if they can't get enough work completed. I've tried looking through both state and federal laws for anything about continuous 7-day work weeks and I'm not quite sure if this is legal or not, so any info would be appreciated. I'll add whatever info I can to help clarify things.","title":"[U.S., Wy] GF's employer is threating all employees with mandatory Sat and Sun","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570675600,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfrqoi\/speeding_ticket_and_court_fees\/","id":"dfrqoi","body":"I got a speeding ticket like two months ago and my court date is coming up in a few weeks, so i figured I\u2019d go online and pay it to save a trip all the way across town. Got online and the website said my ticket was $70.50, then said my court fees are $98.50, making it a grand total of $169. My question is, why do i have to pay court fees to pay a ticket online? The fees are more than the ticket itself, which makes it ridiculous and way more than i expected to have to pay. Plan on calling in the morning to actually talk to someone there, but thought I\u2019d see what you guys had to say in the meantime.","title":"Speeding ticket and court fees","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570052611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dch3cd\/arizona_lawyers_of_reddit_child_support\/","id":"dch3cd","body":"Hey there lawyers! Looking for some advice. I'm a dad and pay child support for my two kiddos, since the first time their mother and I filed the child support agreement through the State Gov. They have been taking it out automatically from my paycheck through my employer. Well I'm now changing employers and want to know how I can go about switching that so there's no lapse in child support or anything like that.\n\nAny advice is appreciated!","title":"Arizona Lawyers of Reddit: Child support","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554786586,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb3ylo\/roommate_wont_move_out_lease_ending\/","id":"bb3ylo","body":"Hi Reddit, \n\nI'm in a weird position with my subletting roommate, and I hope you can help. \n\nI signed a lease with the Owner of my condo unit about a year ago. The unit has 2 bedrooms, and I only needed 1. The lease also specified that I could sub-lease with the Owner's approval. \n\nA month after that I found a roommate and we signed a Roommate Agreement. I informed the Owner and everything was approved. \n\nI recently decided to move out, and informed my Landlord. My fixed term lease ends May 1st, however I only informed the Owner I was leaving on the first week of April, which means that my lease would convert to month-to-month, requiring 30 days notice, meaning it terminates at the end of the following month (end of May).\n\nI was able to convince the Landlord to let me leave on the first week of May, with a pro-rated payment for the month. Landlord signed a End-of-Lease Agreement\n\nEverything looks good, however my Roommate is unhappy, and does not want to leave until the end of the legally required notice period, May 31. I already offered a cash-for-keys type deal, however he turned it down. \n\n**TL;DR:**\n\nRoommate not on lease, but signed Roommate agreement. I ended lease with shortened notice period (with Landlords approval). Roommate is unhappy and will not move out when I do. \n\n​\n\nAt this point I have the following questions:\n\n\\- If my roommate does not move out:\n\n\\- Am I liable\/responsible for my part of the rent for the rest of May\n\n\\- Can my landlord withhold my deposit?\n\n\\- Can my landlord sue me for any reason?\n\n\\- Can\/should I evict my Sub-leasing roommate?\n\n\\- Can my roommate sue me for the shortened notice period?\n\n\\- If my roommate has missed payments and only did a partial payment for this month, does that change anything?\n\nLocation: B.C., Canada","title":"Roommate won't move out, lease ending.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569154216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7pl0p\/court_ordered_custody_questions\/","id":"d7pl0p","body":"2 years ago my mom won my custody from a court battle against my father but it has conspired that my father is better fit parenting me and my mother understands the circumstances and agrees my father can have my custody back on the other hand my dad says that it was a court order for my mom to have my custody but my mom thinks opposite that she can just release my custody and away I go back to my old life with my old friends. both parents agree that I should live with my father but my dad thinks there are more steps to getting my custody because of the court order and idk if that is right because my mom would just sign me off.\n\n(or he is just trying to look nice while refusing my custody which I told him I would rather he just give me an answer instead of trying to save face)\n\nI reside in NYC and my father resides in NJ for context (court order is from the court of NJ)\n\nif it helps my parents are on their 3rd Court fight and are going to court on Friday and which my father says he will bring up my custody.","title":"Court Ordered Custody Questions?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569187875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7wv2g\/my_married_tenants_are_getting_a_separation_what\/","id":"d7wv2g","body":"I have a house that I am currently renting to my sister. We have a lease that expired recently so her and her husband are now on month to month. They will be getting legally separated soon and she has asked me to rewrite the lease to exclude him. she doesn't want him in the house and thinks that by excluding him from the lease it'll help her get him to move out. Is rewriting and signing a new lease the best course of action here?","title":"My married tenants are getting a separation. What to do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551219665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av5fcf\/aunt_is_bring_shady_with_property_and_belongings\/","id":"av5fcf","body":"Wisconsin \n\nIn november my grandma passed away and her property was given to me, my aunt (we will call her AA), and my great aunt (we will call her BB) through a quit claim deed. I'll also add they are both from different states. My grandpa still lives in the house but was never put on the deed. We all agreed that it was best to let him stay in the house until he either passes or decides to move. \n\nAA had been staying with my grandpa to help him with insurances and other paperwork I'm not sure of (she is currently in her home state for reasons unknown to me). Shortly after my grandmother died AA started locking the doors (they used to never be locked) both AA and BB have keys, i do not. She also started to rearrange the house and put things such as furniture and my grandmas belongings into storage without telling me, I do not know where storage is.\n\nMy grandpa doesn't like that she has been doing this, he cant find where things used to be. He also has bad hearing and can't hear most of what is said. According to his daughter (we will call her GD) he feels that if he says anything he won't have a place to live. GD will be staying there with him for a month while AA is still away.\n\nToday I found out my grandmas car was taken to a shop for repairs which AA told my grandpa she would pay for it. AA has not paid it and my grandpa paid $750 for the repairs. The car was also put into AA's name when my grandpa thought it would be put into his aswell but was not. \n\nWhen GD found out she asked why and AA said it was in the will. Later on said there was no will to GD (I dont remember what event caused AA to say there was no will). GD asked BB if there was a will and there is not. I also have not seen a will.\n\nBB is only on the deed because my grandmother owed her 11k. It is not in writing but was a verbal agreement to make sure she got her money back. \n\nBB is refinancing the equity loan into her name (I'm unsure why, I was also kept in the dark about this). I received this letter from them and I'm not sure if I should sign it because it looks like one of them just typed it up. \n\nBoth the censored quit claim deed and letter http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/0hlcM57\n\nThis all seems very sketchy to my and that my grandpa is being used. I personally don't care if I get any of the money from the house but to do all these things behind my back and remove belongings of my grandpa's recently passed wife sickens me.\n\nHow can I stop her from using him and keeping me in the dark?","title":"Aunt is bring shady with property and belongings of passed grandmother","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445561916,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pui7n\/domain_name_legal_stance_serious_uk\/","id":"3pui7n","body":"If someone owned the domain (Not this exact one, but you get the idea) www.oxford.university, And they used the website for porn for example. Would the university have any legal stance against the owner? What if they offered to take it down in exchange for money? Could they get sued for Extortion? ","title":"Domain Name Legal Stance [Serious UK]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1445393352,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pkuom\/security_deposit_case_won_some_extra_questions\/","id":"3pkuom","body":"I recently found a lawyer and I filed with his help a case against my landlord (MA, USA) to get my security deposit back.  The reason I wanted a lawyer was because\n\n1.  The landlord is a pain to deal with and super old and I didnt want to mess this up.  I also thought (incorrectly) that the landlord would have to have a lawyer because the house is owned by an LLC\n2.  I was charged a 'guest fee' every month that was bogus for having friends over and for not wanting to have housemates.  The house was in a great area, cheap rent and had more than 1 bedroom and I wanted to live alone.  It was cheaper to stay there then to find a 1 bedroom.  Total bogus fee paid:  $300\n3.  The house was run down and the landlord wanted me to pay for the roof leaking when Boston was hit with a bunch of snow\/ice in Feb and caused everyones roofs to get heavy.  I could have and should have gotten an inspection done on the place.\n4.  I moved out on Feb 15 and agreed with the people taking over the lease that they would pay for 1\/2 of Feb.  They were going to reimburse me for 1\/2 of Feb and instead the landlord decided to get involved and took 10 days to approve the new tenants (he did no official testing during this time) and the landlord returned 4 days of rent to me instead.  Money lost:  $733\n5.  My lease had white out in the important areas and was whited-out by the landlord post my signature.  The end date was wrong by 1 year and ended before it even began.\n6.  On a paper, separate from the lease, with no references to it from the lease or signature, there is an addendum to the lease that states that all the appliances are the tenant's responsibility. While I was there, the refrigerator, the dishwasher and washing machine and dryer, that were all there in place before I moved in died.  They were all super old.  I replaced them all with great modern machines.  I was an idiot for not realizing that I could have made the landlord at least replace the fridge.  I got the new tenants to pay a small fraction of what it cost me.  \n7.  I never got the security deposit back from the landlord at all:  $2200\n\nDue to the weird non-legit lease I was on, the guest fee and all the other factors, I hired a local lawyer.  The lawyer saw my case as open and shut and delayed filing for 3 months.  He finally replied and said he was so embarrassed by his tardiness that he didnt want to respond.  He decided to keep the case simple and just go after the security deposit, not the guest fee or the 10 days of rent or the appliances or the run-downess of the place.  Of course, once we filed, after waiting another 6 weeks, we had our day in small claims court and we won.  Landlord claimed he returned the deposit 32 days after I moved out but that is already late and actually he never sent a check.\n  \nI just got the check for the security deposit (x3 for treble damages), most of the lawyers fees and the filing fee.  The court made a mistake on the interest and i lost about $100 in that mistake.  I end up paying out of pocket, about $400 to the lawyer that were not covered in the settlement. \n  \nIn total I paid, \n\n * $733 for 10 days of rent that i shouldnt have\n * $300 bogus guest fee\n * $400 to the lawyer\n * $100 in interest due to the court mistake\n  \nTOTAL  $1533 + appliances\n  \n  \nI won $4400 from the case but after you subtract what I lost, how much did I really gain?  Part of the reason I went with a lawyer was for them to take all this on and I feel a bit silly now having used a lawyer for the little we did take on.  \n  \nLesson learned for the future for sure.  Is there any part of what I lost that I can recover?  What if I passed a motion for mistake the court made?  If I tell the lawyer to do it, i will not make any money. Any other mistakes that you can see as what I should have or have not done?","title":"Security Deposit Case Won, some extra questions","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409366954,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ez5at\/uk_my_niece_has_run_away_to_her_fathers\/","id":"2ez5at","body":"She was under guardianship of her grandmother and has run away to her fathers who her mother and grandmother have been told not to have any contact with her father by the Social services however she had secretly met him (on Wednesday)  and has up to Friday 7pm been round her fathers. We have contacted the Police and Social Services but the Police cant do anything until the Social services give a court order but they are not doing anything as it is the weekend, My Niece is 14 and has been living with her grandmother since the age of four, We suspect the farther is molester but we do not know for certain but it may have been hinted by the Social service, My questions are \n\n\n-Who do we call \n-What can we expect\n-What are the legal ramifications \n-just some more information on what we can do as we at a loss of what to do  \n\nWe have tried to directly contact the father but have only been given verbal abuse \n\nPlease, Any help would be much appreciated as we are now getting desperate ","title":"(UK) My Niece has run away to her fathers","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507209118,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74fuf2\/rigeneral_usa_can_employers_base_hiring_on\/","id":"74fuf2","body":"Basically I'm asking about the legality of \"work study only\" jobs on university campuses. At my university, there are many students who can't find employment on campus because they don't get federal work study aid. At the same time, there are a lot of vacant positions on campus because they're are not enough work study students to fill them. Since work study is connected to your family's income, isn't this akin to saying \"for lower\/lower middle class students only?\" Why are they allowed to do this? ","title":"[RI\/General USA] Can employers base hiring on socioeconomic status?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446581270,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3reato\/got_a_ticket_for_parking_in_a_handicapped_spot_nj\/","id":"3reato","body":"I got a ticket for parking in a handicapped spot in NJ.  I believe the statute is 39:4-138o. I am not denying my guilt. It was an honest mistake. It was dark, I didn't see the sign marking the spot, and I was in a rush so I jumped out of my car and ran into my apartment. The next morning when I got up there was a ticket and a nasty note on my car.  This type of ticket also requires a court appearance. Unfortunately, I cannot just pay a fine online as with most parking tickets so I have to take a day off from school or work (lost income).\n\nI noticed on the ticket my last name was spelled wrong. The officer mixed up 'i\" and 'e.'  Also my license plate number was also wrong. They replaced a '1' with an 'L.'  I checked online and the license plate error is also present there. Though my name is spelled right online. Everything else on the ticket was correct as far as I can tell. My SO said that ticket has to be thrown out and I should fight the ticket because of these errors. However, by fighting the ticket I believe I risk having to pay court costs in addition to the cost of the ticket.  The ticket will likely be a $250 fine.  What should I do? I am in graduate school so $250 is a lot of money especially when living off of loans. Imagine $250 at 6.8% interest over 5-10 years.  I also have to let the court know 7 days ahead of time if I plan to plead 'not guilty.'  I don't want to look like a fool in court especially considering the nature of the crime.  \n","title":"Got a Ticket for Parking in a Handicapped Spot NJ","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447170315,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sa8db\/accidentally_sold_cigarettes_to_a_minor\/","id":"3sa8db","body":"I work at a gas station. Last night I sold cigarettes to girl that I had ID'd about a month ago. Her ID said that she was old enough to buy some. Later in the night her mom came by and told me that I had sold that to a 17 years old girl... she asked for a refund because otherwise she would call the governement on me. I gave her a refund but I am a little unsure of what could happen if she did decide to call the governement on me?. I live in Canada.","title":"Accidentally sold cigarettes to a minor?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570913321,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh0oud\/work_consistently_schedules_me_to_work_40_hours\/","id":"dh0oud","body":"I'm a 19 year-old guy working at a large grocery store chain in the northeast of US. I've been working since 2017 when I was just a student and could only work a few hours a week. I'm now at a higher position in the company and as a result I've been scheduled to work 40 hours a week. When I ask about becoming a full-time employee for benefits and other perks they say that they don't give full-time status to people working in my position. I also don't get holiday pay, vacation time, or sick time, meaning when I need to take a day off, i lose that day of pay. I really like my job and the people here so i don't want to leave, but I also don't want to be taken advantage of. I believe I have a good work ethic and I'm a reliable employee and I've seen people who work less than me get more. Is there anything I can do to either get full-time status or at least paid more than the people I'm supervising?","title":"Work consistently schedules me to work 40 hours or more but still considers me part-time","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539682526,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9om15h\/gdpr_does_it_force_a_company_to_hand_over_a_list\/","id":"9om15h","body":"So I am rather curious how my data is shared\/sold among companies. Would a company when asked be required to give me a list of all parties who they gave acces to my data.\n\nIf so how would I best contact a company about this. (Assuming a large multinational)","title":"GDPR: Does it force a company to hand over a list of all parties a users data has been given to?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568863640,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d68byd\/is_it_legal_for_my_former_employer_to_still_have\/","id":"d68byd","body":"I quit my job at a motel back in June. This month, in September, my former coworker (FC) texts me and asks me if I still remember my login info because my former manager wants to have the new girl use that account until they make her one. I told him I don\u2019t remember the password to begin with, but I don\u2019t want anything done under my name anyway. If things are being done in my name, I want to be paid for it. \nMy former manager didn\u2019t like this, and my coworker thinks they are going to call customer service to reset the password. \nI asked my FC to double check when he goes in that they didn\u2019t use my info, and I would sue if they did. \nHe asked on what grounds could I sue. \nIs this illegal of my former job to do, and could I sue?","title":"Is it legal for my former employer to still have my employee information on file? Can I sue if they allow other employees to use it?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552618446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b19k2f\/moks_my_bank_changed_my_address_without_my\/","id":"b19k2f","body":"Hi, sorry for the formatting, mobile. Also throwaway because I suspect fraud is involved.\n\n\nSo I'll just jump right in. I opened an account with a local bank during high school and soon after, I went through them for a small consumer loan for a car. Then I went to college pretty far away and everything went to hell. \n\nEssentially, I have always had a small problem with my mother stealing from me, especially if money is within her reach. When I left for college, I changed my address with the bank so that they would send my statements there rather than to my mom house. In the 4 years I was away, the bank authorized changes to my account and transactions that I didnt authorize. On two occasions they changed my address to my mother's without written notice from me and on a handful of occasions transferred money from my account to my mother's. \n\nObviously after graduating I distanced myself from my mom and while I was last in town I went in to change my address to my new home and I explicitly stated that no changes are to be made on my account unless I am there IN PERSON to change it and that under no circumstances are funds to be transferred from my account to ANY of my family's accounts. \n\nI know you're wondering why I didnt just change banks but it's because of the car loan I mentioned in the beginning. It was at a really great interest rate and there were incentives to have autopay set up with one of their checking accounts. I thought that if I gave clear instructions that it wouldn't be an issue.\n\nWell, I guess someone didnt get the memo. Now, over a year later, I've just received notice that my accounts have had their addresses updated to my mother's home address (did you see this coming?). \n\nMy question is, should I seek legal counsel? I was very clear with them and told them on multiple occasions that 'someone' was committing fraud in my name to change my account info and make transfers. My guess is that its tax season and someone was hoping to find out when I got my tax return and for how much, but regardless I cannot let my statements fall into the wrong hands. One statement would inform the receiver where I work and I cannot allow them to use that information to reach me and possibly fuck with my career. \n\nPlease, someone help me. I dont know what to do. ","title":"[MO\/KS] My bank changed my address without my consent AGAIN","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551622915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awudyp\/my_sisters_part_time_employer_baited_and_tricked\/","id":"awudyp","body":"Earlier this year, my sister\u2019s part time employer (major pet store) baited her into getting fired by not giving her any work for over a month. \n\nMy sister, who is somewhat antisocial, neglected to confront her boss about the lack of work, and when she finally asked why she wasn\u2019t working, her boss told her that she waited too long and there wasn\u2019t any point in keeping her. \n\nCould we have some sort of case or is this common practice among part time jobs?\n\nWe live in KS, if it matters. ","title":"My sister\u2019s part time employer baited and tricked her into getting fired.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504209030,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x9aab\/does_a_dismissed_eviction_go_on_your_public\/","id":"6x9aab","body":"When an eviction already occurred but was dismissed by the court, because the defendants paid the balance before the damages hearing, how is it reported? Is it on both public\/credit reports as a dismissed eviction or is it just completely removed from both? \n\nAlso, for my specific situation in Bloomington, Indiana, the eviction was already filed and it occurred. It has not been reported on my credit report though because there is still a damages hearing. The landlord is telling me  we can pay the balance and the eviction (that already happened in court) will be removed. ","title":"Does a dismissed eviction go on your public record, your credit report, or both?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554583447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba8qdu\/nv_my_girlfriend_got_into_a_car_accident_no\/","id":"ba8qdu","body":"Nevada. \n\n​\n\nMy girlfriend used my car to drive to school because she was late. She isn't on my insurance nor has a license or learner's permit. She got into an accident when she was heading back home. I offered to pay out of pocket to repair the other person's car. He initially agreed but today he called me saying that he went ahead and called the insurance company. What can I do do minimize expenses on my end? I don't want her to get in trouble. My friend told me that the penalty for driving with no license is $10,000. I cannot afford that. ","title":"[NV] My girlfriend got into a car accident. No license","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553892067,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b72f68\/accidentally_passed_stopped_school_buss\/","id":"b72f68","body":"On my way home from class today, I was on a major road and accidentally passed a school bus that was stopped with their stop sign out. I believe what happened was that the bus was on the other side of the road, right by a road off to the left that angles forward that many people turn off onto. I must have not been paying attention and thought the bus was waiting to turn or waiting for others to turn, and I kept going in my lane. \n\nWhen I passed the bus they gave a honk, and when I looked in my rearview mirror, I realized the stop sign was out and immediately felt really bad. I was not pulled over and honestly don\u2019t think there was enough time for my plates to have been recorded, however I read some school busses do have cameras to record plates. This is in Pennsylvania by the way.\n\nI am not used to school busses stopping on this major road and just made a big mistake. I have never had an incident like this before, and most likely never will again now that I made this mistake. Does anybody know the chances of being cited for this? (Not that it make it any better). How often do school busses have cameras in PA? I know the punishments for this are severe.\n\nThanks ","title":"Accidentally passed stopped school buss","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540783952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s9o0a\/pleaded_not_guilty_for_driving_under_suspended\/","id":"9s9o0a","body":"Days after my license expired I got into not at fault accident and got a ticket for driving under suspended license. I renewed my license the next day. I pleaded not guilty when I went to court and new court date had been rescheduled.  What should I do now?","title":"Pleaded not guilty for driving under suspended license in court.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1502932812,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u6nt6\/roommate_is_violating_rules_on_lease_agreement_am\/","id":"6u6nt6","body":"Shortened question at the bottom.\n\nThe only thing in our lease agreement in all caps and bolded is, \"DO NOT SMOKE INSIDE THE HOUSE.\"\n\nSince this is a legally binding contract, I take it seriously. One of my roommates, however, doesn't care. He can't take the extra effort to walk out the back door to smoke and is now being aggravatingly difficult about things. I've confronted him many times but he's immature and too prideful and ignorant to take it seriously. His parents pay his rent, but I don't want to involve them (we've been friends since basically birth). I am going to tell him, smoke in the house one more time and I call the landlord. So my question is as follows:\n\nIf I call the landlord to get ahead of this, to explain that the roommate is breaking the lease, (so if it's later found out that he is, we don't all go down for it. there are four of us in total) am I protected? Since I called first and reported it, can be still break my lease and leave me homeless? If not, is there a way I can assure protection for myself and my other housemates that don't violate this rule?\n\nThank you!\n(I'm in Michigan, US)","title":"Roommate is violating rules on lease agreement. Am I protected?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541557009,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uv30l\/tx_recording_feedback_without_informing_the_other\/","id":"9uv30l","body":"To keep this simple, I am in ROTC and may be getting dropped due to problems with the commander. (I am filing title IX and IG complaints to help protect myself) I am wondering if I am able to secretly record a feedback session with the officer (not law enforcement) that is partaking in trying to remove me. They are currently trying to isolate me from having witnesses present at the meeting and I am afraid he will try to get me to sign stuff that will look unfavorably on me. (Obviously I will not sign if it is not true)\n\nThe officer I am meeting with has a history of telling cadets one thing, one on one, but when in front of the commander he will lie and say that he never said that. \n\nIn short am I able to record myself in Texas without him knowing and is it any different that it is with military personnelle?","title":"[TX] Recording feedback without informing the other person","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541957963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w5pem\/assets_frozen_judged_father_without_a_paternity\/","id":"9w5pem","body":"A little back story.  We met underage outside a bar in Hollywood.  We were riding freight trains, racking up warrants and committing petty crimes, and drinking like fish.  One day she becomes pregnant and wont take \u201cit would be irresponsible for us to keep this\u201d for an answer.  We break up, naturally she goes and gets state assistance in Los Angeles county.  Fast forward a bit and i have now recieved notices from Los Angeles County AND Kansas requesting large sums of money for child support.  When i requested a paternity test they cited an earlier case when the child was taken from her then given back after 6 months of skipping drug tests, where they made a case about my alleged history with heroin (ive tried a few things here and there but have no history with heroin whatsoever) and judged me father while i had never set foot in a courtroom.\n\nI have since been working for years to turn my life around, i have been gainfully employed by the same company for 2 years straight and im trying to start school for the bazillionth time in spring. \n\nI have not been paying because i repeatedly requested a paternity test, and it is also illegal to my knowledge for multiple cases to be active against a person at a time.  My old car broke and i have since had to get a new vehicle with higher payments and higher insurance and i have not applied for a modification, but then today my funds were frozen in all accounts.  I dont know if they took it or just denied me access, but how am i supposed to pay a lawyer with no money?  Feeling overwhelmed and i dont even know where the kid is, shes been bouncing from state to state with him.   ","title":"Assets frozen, judged father without a paternity test, two states are attacking me for child support simultaneously HELP","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442099842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kpynp\/first_time_moving_out_and_i_have_a_problem\/","id":"3kpynp","body":"location: B.C, New Westminster Canada\n\nHello reddit, I've just moved out of my house and found a room on September 3rd but I didn't sign any contract of any sort. I was just told to pay rent on the 1st day of every month and that was that. Some things came up and I wanted to move out because I didn't like the place so much. I put in a security deposit to make sure my spot wasn't taken since this was long distance. I gave my 30 day notice on September 10th but my roommate that handles all of the rent said I can have the security deposit back if I stay til the 15th of October. There was no written\/signed documents since I was very new to this. Not sure what to do at the moment as I would have liked to leave early. Any advice would be very much appreciated.","title":"First time moving out and I have a problem","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539181618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mzxkx\/is_it_legal_for_a_company_to_withhold_a_paycheck\/","id":"9mzxkx","body":"A few months ago, I got hired at a well known pizza place. On my first shift, co-workers went into the bathroom and fucked. They were a supervisor and the manager. They came out during a rush, and after the rush, they yelled at all of us for not being efficient in making pizza. \n\nThat's when I thought, yep I'm not coming back. So I finished my shift, went home, and never went back. \n\nI should note that this was back in June. But they haven't sent me any money. I gave them my address so I know they could mail it. \n\nI know it won't be very much money, but I still earned it. And as a broke soon to be college student, any penny helps.","title":"Is it legal for a company to withhold a paycheck if you suddenly stop going to work?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553986485,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7h2k6\/telephonic_court_hearing\/","id":"b7h2k6","body":"So, I (37m) was suppose to be on a telephonic court hearing yesterday in regards to my oldest son's mom taking full and complete custody of him(14m). I was contacted the day before by the judge's clerk to inform me that the request for a telephonic hearding had been approved and the time frame in which I should expect the phone call from them for the hearing. At 15 minutes after the hearing was suppose to start I still had not received a phone call. I started to call all the numbers I had and eventually got ahold of someone that sent the judge's clerk an email about calling me with my phone number so I could be present for the hearing. I never got the phone call from the court that I was told I would get, but I got a text from my son's mom saying that everything was done and she was mailing me the paperwork for me to sign.\n\nNow that I have explained the situation I have some questions: 1) Should I have been called by the court so I could be present telephonically for the hearing? 2) Can I file a complaint? 3) What was the purpose of me going through the process to get approved for a telephonic hearding if they didn't allow me to be present telephonically for the hearing? ","title":"Telephonic court hearing","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540146354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q5to5\/can_i_be_denied_a_job_for_taking_prescription\/","id":"9q5to5","body":"I\u2019ve just excepted my dream union job for a large private company in Illinois and I have to take a drug test. My concern is I have dealt with ADD for the last five years and I\u2019m prescribed adderall, which will show up on a drug test. I can not take the medicine and pass the test but then I\u2019d have to worry about it later on.\n\nDo I share my condition with the physician or do I keep it secret? \n\nCan they deny my employment because I take adderall? ","title":"Can I be denied a job for taking prescription drugs I\u2019m prescribed to?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570939214,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh5nuq\/court_case_petition_for_writ_of_restitution\/","id":"dh5nuq","body":"First time poster here with little to no experience in this department.\u00a0\n\n\nThis is all happening in New Mexico. So a family member was served papers to appear in court. The family member chose to withhold rent because the landlord refused to fix an unsafe electrical problem.\n\n\nThe electrical problem caused the metal fence around the house to generate a painful shock anytime it was touched. In addition to the fence causing shocks, the running water was also causing painful shocks. Before this was highlighted as happening two children under 10, a 1 year old, and a 3 month pregnant woman we're shocked (The pregnant woman has been experiencing complications since this event, though there's now way to determine if this is the cause). The family member was informed that they may not perform repairs. After eight months of complaining the water heater failed and leaked water throughout the house. Due to this, the landlord took action three days after and had the water heater fixed. The maintenance personnel identified the source of the electrical issue during water heater replacement and rectified the problem. This was three months and since then the family member has been paying rent regularly and saving extra money to pay for the withheld months of rent.\n\n\nTLDR, Family kept getting shocked. Landlord sat around and didn't do anything when told. Rent was withheld for awhile. Got fixed only because the maintenance guy saw the problem. Now they are taking the family to court for \"petition for writ of restitution\" as well as pushing an eviction if the money isn't paid by the 21st of this month.\n\n\nI was hoping that someone might have an idea of what this means, how to possibly defend against it, really anything helps.\u00a0\n\n\nThanks for any help received in advance. I'll give whatever info is needed if it helps!","title":"Court Case: Petition for Writ of Restitution","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504929067,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yzoc6\/minor_parking_lot_accident_owner_shows_up_to_my\/","id":"6yzoc6","body":"On Tuesday I was backing out of a parking spot when another car driving adjacent to me stopped abruptly behind my spot while I was moving, and I bumped into the back of their car. We stopped for a minute exchanged contact info., and assessed the damage. The only damage to their car appeared to be a small dent on the bumper just above the rear left tire, and on my car there was a small scratch on my back right bumper. We both agreed that it was not a big deal and decided to leave. Four days later the owner shows up to my house saying that they don't want to file an insurance claim, and they want me to pay out of pocket the cost to get their car fixed. I assume the fault will fall on me because they were stopped as I was still moving, but if they don't want to deal with insurance should I pay out of pocket for their damages? Can they sue me if I refuse to pay? This happened in North Carolina, United States.","title":"Minor parking lot accident, owner shows up to my house days later saying they don't want to file a claim, and want me to pay out of pocket.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1445532556,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3psjy6\/is_a_landlord_required_to_give_all_tenants_a_24\/","id":"3psjy6","body":"So the primary question here is stated above i'll get into more detail below. My landlord notified my roommate that he was coming over the next day and I was never told by him or my roommate that this plan was in place, there are four of us living here and neither me or my girlfriend were informed at all. The roommate was also the one who let him into the house. The only form of contact I received was a voice message 10 minutes prior to him showing up.\n\n\nSo if a Landlord only notifies one tenant out of four that he is coming to the property is it still legal? Or is the fact that the 1 roommate willingly let him enter cause it to be legal?\n\n\nHere's the full story\n\n\n\nThere are currently four of us residing here Myself, my girlfriend, a friend, and his girlfriend. A few days ago a close friend of my girlfriend and I was kicked out of her sister's house where she was living, we will call this friend Jane for clarity. So we grabbed Jane's stuff that was at her Sister's (A bed and dresser was mostly all she had) and brought it to our place. The 2 current roommates of our's, we will call them Bonnie and Clyde, were not okay with moving Jane in, despite having a spare bedroom in the house. We did give them fair notice that this was happening and at the time they were okay with it (they thought 5 people living there would be too crowded as opposed to 4). I offered to sign over our lease to Bonnie and Clyde so my girlfriend and I could move out and get a place with Jane, however they do not have enough income to afford this place just the two of them. Myself, My girlfriend, and Jane though, could easily afford the place so I offered Clyde to sign over their lease to me and they could move out then. They agreed to this.\n\n\nThe following day Bonnie apologized to me for the argument (There was a lot of yelling on her part) and that they wanted to stay. I told her it was fine and that I still needed to talk to the landlord tomorrow anyways to get approval for Jane to move in. That was the end of the conversation.\n\n\n\nSo when tomorrow comes I'm woken up by my landlord being here, apparently Bonnie let him in. He was here to check out some doors we had brought to his attention not shutting properly a week or two ago. Bonnie said that he had contacted her yesterday to say he was coming today and she had simply forgot to tell us of this. So when he gets inside and sees Jane's furniture he is upset I assume because he thinks we were going to move her in without consulting him and tells her she has to be out in 3 days.\n\n\n\nSo was the Landlord entering without me having any idea an issue to my lease? I would really just like to move out at this point, the landlord has been fine but the roommates have been tyrannous. Any and all help is appreciated, even if it's not what I want to hear I'd just like to get a better understanding of my situation. Thanks a bunch Reddit.\n\n      \nEdit: formatting, and the location is New York State","title":"Is a landlord required to give all tenants a 24 hour notice before entering the property?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505772927,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70yhbe\/wisconsin_husband_secretly_sold_his_land_and_now\/","id":"70yhbe","body":"My husband owed land before we got married. Recently I found out he sold 40 acres and hid the money in an account in his name only. I had asked him if he sold the land and he lied and told me no. I found out about the secret bank account by accidentally opening his mail thinking it was our joint statement. I confronted him and he told me he hadn't sold the land and the money was left to him by his deceased father before we married. Continued to deny selling the land. \nI did a search in public records and there's a \"deed warranty\" from him to his friend earlier this year. \nSo I think he did sell the land. \nNow I'm leaving him (not only for this reason). Since he owned that land before we married I know in WI it would stay his in a divorce. But since he sold it during the marriage, does that make the money joint income or does the money stay his? I have practically nothing to my name and just want enough to move across country to live with my family. We have no children together. Please help me, I can't afford a lawyer. ","title":"Wisconsin - husband secretly sold his land and now has a private bank account. Am I entitled to any of it?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555093893,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bch1xz\/entire_side_of_my_new_car_got_scratched_while\/","id":"bch1xz","body":"So my school outsources parking because there aren\u2019t enough spaces for all of the students\u2019 cars. They have a service which links students with homeowners living around the school who are willing to rent out their driveways and garages for student parking. \n\nI\u2019ve been parking in a family\u2019s garage right across the street from the school for 1.5 years now with no problem. However, last month I got a new Range Rover Velar for my birthday and yesterday came back to it all scraped on the side. There are markings on the mirror and the body of the car, as well as above the wheel wells.  \n\nI also noticed that my seat position was moved, which is weird because nobody except me has ever driven this car. We (myself and the other parkers) are required to leave our keys in a lockbox in the garage in case the homeowner needs to back them out for some reason. It seems fairly obvious that the owners took it out for a joyride and scraped my car, given that nobody else has access to the lockbox.\n\nI texted them asking if they had used my car and they claimed they never had. When I sent them a picture of the damage they told me that it must have been there before I parked in the morning, which I know not to be true. \n\nMy parents told me not to make a big deal out of it and to just get it fixed and find a new spot to park in for next year, but I feel like this family should be held responsible for \u2018stealing\u2019 my car. \n\nWhat are my options?","title":"Entire side of my new car got scratched while inside a garage, owners are refusing to admit fault","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551718322,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax9a1c\/subletting_advice\/","id":"ax9a1c","body":"I\u2019m moving to Chicago and living away from home for the first time and am subletting from a student until the end of the summer.\n\nThey\u2019re asking for the last month\u2019s rent in advance as a sort of security deposit, which I can definitely do, and the rent is easily within my budget range, which is great. It seems to me that it\u2019ll be an informal arrangement, where I\u2019ll venmo my share month to month to the other roommates.\n\nThey seem like decent and trustworthy people, but I\u2019m apprehensive about just forking over hundreds of dollars without first seeing some sort of written agreement. Would it be okay to ask to see the lease I\u2019ll be responsible for, or at least some kind of written agreement?\nI don\u2019t want them to think I\u2019m suspicious or a hard sell, but I want to protect myself against losing savings I\u2019ve worked hard to earn.\n\nAny help\/insight is appreciated :))","title":"Subletting advice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540793041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sakmc\/ddosed_by_internet_stranger_and_being_threatened\/","id":"9sakmc","body":"(On mobile, sorry for formatting)\n\nAs my title states I am currently under a DDoS attack by a user on Xbox. \n\nHe\u2019s currently threatening me to send him a voice chat of me moaning or he won\u2019t stop knocking me offline. \n\nI\u2019ve filed a report with ic3 but I am genuinely afraid for my safety. What are my options other than ic3? Or should I just let them do their work?","title":"Ddos\u2019ed by internet stranger and being threatened by him to moan. (Las Vegas, NV)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540415861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r3thz\/pto_requests_changing_my_employment_status\/","id":"9r3thz","body":"I work full time, I put in a request for five days paid time off spread out across a three month span.\n\nEmployer let me know in very vague terms today that because of these PTO requests I may not qualify as a full time employee anymore and could be considered part time due to the weeks with PTO requests  falling under 30 hours.\n\nThis is a problem because if my employment status changes from full to part time then I no longer qualify for health insurance.\n\nSeems kind of unethical to me as I now feel like I have to choose between using my PTO balance before it expires or keeping my health insurance.\n\nDo I have to choose one or the other?","title":"PTO Requests Changing my Employment Status?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570487173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deqvwz\/arizona_i_found_a_gun_in_the_apartment_im_moving\/","id":"deqvwz","body":"Sorry for the throwaway account, obviously dont want firearm related stuff in my name.\n\nI recently moved from one unit to another and the previous tenant left some belongings, claiming **he had spare keys and would come pick them up later**. The Property Manager changed the locks and gave me the keys. Now, **I work at the apartment building** and I'm the one cleaning the unit before I move in so I dont have to pay the transfer fee. While moving things I saw what I thought looked like a gun bag and took a peek to find a handgun. I'm unsure of what the best course of action is in my unique situation.\n\nSide question: If I report it to the police and it is never claimed or linked to any crimes, what are the odds I get to add it to *my* gun safe someday?","title":"[Arizona] I found a gun in the apartment I'm moving into. Do I tell my Property Manager or call the Police?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542239279,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x5m1w\/maryland_labor_law_independent_contractor_vs\/","id":"9x5m1w","body":"My significant other works for a small soap\/bath goods manufacturing and sales business in Montgomery County Maryland. She works approximately 35+ hours a week. She was hired directly by the owner as an \"independent contractor\". For a variety of reasons, I believe her employer is taking advantage of her and ignoring Maryland labor law.  \n\n\nAccording to [Maryland's own labor site](https:\/\/www.dllr.state.md.us\/labor\/wagepay\/wpfactors.shtml) the differences between an independent contractor and an employee are the following (emphasis and numbering mine):  \n\n\n \"Although many factors are considered, and no one factor by itself is controlling, the following basic principles often apply in determining whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor:\n\n* **Generally, the employer\/employee relationship exists when the person for whom services are performed has the right to control and direct the individual who performs the services, not only as to the result to be accomplished by the work, but also as to the details and means by which that result is accomplished.** **That is, an employee, and not an independent contractor, is subject to the will and control of the employer not just as to \"what\" shall be done, but \"how\" it shall be done.****^(1)**  \n \n* The right to discharge is also an important factor indicating that the person possessing that right is an employer, and the person subject to it is an employee. Other factors of an employer-employee relationship are the furnishing of tools, materials and a place to work to the individual who performs the services.  \n \n* **Independent contractors are persons who are in business for themselves. Their business is usually different from the business of the person for whom the work is performed.****^(2)**  \n \n* Generally, those who follow an independent trade, business, or profession, in which they offer their services to the public, and who may be in a position to suffer financial loss rather than a guaranteed wage, are independent contractors and not employees. Persons involved in certain professions and occupations are often conducting business as independent contractors. These include physicians, lawyers, dentists, veterinarians, construction contractors and subcontractors, certified public accountants, etc. However, many persons with these occupations work for firms, associations, institutions, leasing companies or organizations and, in those cases, may be employees and not independent contractors.\"\n\n​\n\n^(1) My S\/O works just like any employee for her employer. She is given a schedule, tasks and orders from the owner. \n\n​\n\n^(2) My S\/O does not own her own business. She doesn't provide input or expertise that is different from the business of the person for whom the work is performed.\n\n​\n\nIn my mind, this makes my S\/O an employee. I know this could have tax implications. Would a change from contractor to employee change anything about her compensation? Would the employer be required to provide benefits? Would my S\/O be reimbursed for protective gear she purchased explicitly for work (the owner doesn't provide any safety training or protective gear, but that's a different can of worms)?  \n\n\nThanks for any input!","title":"Maryland Labor Law: Independent Contractor vs Employee","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554483915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9tslg\/ontario_possible_to_get_full_custody_in_a_motion\/","id":"b9tslg","body":"Ive already been made the primary parent, and my ex is showing signs that she may be suffering from dementia. Her most recent lawyer #4 just won a motion to have herself removed from the record. She has refused my reasonable offers to settle, is making false claims of violence and abuse to receive a bursary to pay rent. Is claiming to be allergic to the sun while in court but is fine out of court. She has no lawyer now and is completely incapable of representing herself, \n\nI\u2019m wondering how bad her behaviour has to get before I can get permanent primary parent or full custody ruling as a motion. Or do we have to go to trial and suffer through a completely amateur hour shitshow? ","title":"(Ontario) Possible to get full custody in a motion?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504825537,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yqv4a\/abandoned_cats_and_renovations_in_a_rental\/","id":"6yqv4a","body":"Hey everyone, this post is about my mom. I'll try and keep it brief. I don't have as many details as I'd like because she's a pathological liar, changes her story constantly and is basically a hoarder but I'll share as much as possible too. \n\nMy mom rented a house with the intention of buying it later on (rent to own). This was about 9 years ago. Since she figured she was going to buy it, she provided a down payment of $30k and started renovating stuff. Then the landlord decided he didn't want to sell that year, or the year after, or the year after that. This went on for 9 years until he decided to give her 30 days to vacate so he could sell it. We are in Denver, property prices have gone through the roof over 9 years. \n\nSo she has moved and left behind half finished renovations. She combined 2 bedrooms into one big bedroom, the basement was a cesspool of cat and dog pee and poop, as is the backyard. She has cats she never fixed so they just continued having babies so now the yard and the walls have feral cats and kittens roaming, you can't get close to them to catch them. \n\nShe says she is going to sue to get her down payment back, my sister is telling her she can face criminal charges for abandoning 6 domestic cats plus however many feral ones there are, plus all of the renovations she was halfway through. Basically I'm just curious if the criminal charges thing is true, and if he can keep her down payment since she did so much damage to the house over 9 years. This isn't Even the first time, she destroys every house she rents, and she hasn't been sued in the past. Thank you. ","title":"Abandoned cats and renovations in a rental","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507164204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74civc\/texas_employer_requiring_home_bedbug_inspection\/","id":"74civc","body":"Hey LegalAdvice,\n\nI work in Texas at an office building that's had a small outbreak of bedbugs over the past month and a half. It's nothing too serious right now, only a handful have been found. But we all know how fast and serious a bedbug infestation can become. Management has tried to rectify the problem by spraying the entire building down twice now, but it seems as though one of the employees is bringing them into the building from their own home. \n\nMy employer is now \"requiring\" each of it\u2019s employees to have a home inspection of their household and then they have to submit the results to our HR department. The inspection can be handled by a company of our choosing, and we've been assured that the results will remain confidential. I've tried multiple times to find out what they mean by this \"required\" inspection and can't get any answer about what kind of ramifications or consequences there may be if we refuse this inspection.\n\nI understand the need to maintain a safe working environment, but I also value my privacy and don't believe I should be forced into some inspection of my household. What, if any, actions can my employer take against me if I refuse this home inspection? And what are my rights as an employee regarding this matter?\n\nHere's an e-mail chain detailing the back and forth I had with upper management. This has been copy\/pasted and redacted for obvious reasons:\n\n\n\n>**MANAGER**: Employees are required to email HR with proof of their pest control service and its results by Friday, October 13th. Please email the results to ---- all information and the results will be kept confidential.\n\n>**ME**: A few of us here in the office were wondering what would\/will happen if we refuse to allow a pest control inspection done on our homes? Will there be any kind of ramifications for refusing such an inspection? \n\n>**MANAGER**: This service is required to make sure we are providing a safe and clean environment for all employees. We appreciate everyone\u2019s compliance to this matter. \n\n>**ME**: Thank you very much for your reply. I understand that this service is required, but what are the consequences if we, as employees, do not comply? Will refusal to allow an inspection lead to termination or other possible discipline? \n\n>**MANAGER**: Compliance is required!! ","title":"[Texas] Employer \u201cRequiring\u201d Home Bedbug Inspection","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553439124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4x5ke\/got_a_new_job_in_a_city_an_hour_away_and_am\/","id":"b4x5ke","body":"One apartment is in Lansing, MI, the other is in East Lansing, MI. I subleased the Lansing apartment for unrelated reasons, sublease is through this April. The lease for the apartment I live in now is through July. \n\nI got a new job for the summer an hour away that starts at the end of May, so I\u2019m living in corporate housing near the new job starting May 25th.  How can I get out of the two leases in the Lansing area\/what are my options here?","title":"Got a new job in a city an hour away and am responsible for two leases in the area I live in now.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568492740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4aiqt\/what_can_i_do_when_looking_for_a_place_to_rent_in\/","id":"d4aiqt","body":"Hi, not sure if this belongs in this subreddit, but it's as the title says. I'm 20 years old, male, living with my parents in Richmond, VA. Looking for a room there, but I have heard horror stories of people being scammed when it comes to renting. I just want to know if there are any red flags, what to avoid, and what to do\/not do.","title":"What can I do when looking for a place to rent in the city to know when I am being scammed, and to keep myself safe from potential predators?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541893046,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vz1qq\/i_got_a_witness_subpoena_for_a_fender_bender_that\/","id":"9vz1qq","body":"A big taxi service driver crashed into me at a red light last month. The whole situation was crazy, the accident wasn't that bad. Both cars were just scratched up, but the company has some serious intimidation tactics and tried to pay me off (they are their own insuance company) and told me to not call the police and gave me a 25 minute lecture as to why calling the police will only hurt me. They gave me a buisness card for \"they guy with a fat check book\" in place of an insuance card. The police officer verified they were covered but to not call them direct. They called me the next day but I didn't answer. \n\nI called the police anyway and had a police report filed. But never followed through with my insurance because I've been out of state on buisness trips for the past month. \n\nToday I got a Witness Subpoena in the mail that says \"State of FL vs Taxi drive who hit me.\" It says it is an infraction hearing. What is this? What is expected of me? Do I need a lawyer? Should I call my insuance now or is it too late? ","title":"I got a witness Subpoena for a fender bender that happened a month ago. What does this mean?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444097372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nnkw6\/ca_changing_a_trust_in_short_time\/","id":"3nnkw6","body":"My friend's dad has a trust that is fully legal and has been setup for many years.  In this trust he is leaving everything, a decent sum, to my friend - my friend will be the sole executor of the estate.\n\nMy friend is going through a divorce and my friend's dad was asking if the soon to be ex would receive any money from the estate.  Nothing exists in the divorce paper work as far as future payments or alimony so as long as the divorce is final before my friend's dad dies, the ex would get nothing (we are assuming this is correct).\n\nHowever, as a strange turn of events, my friend's dad, who is usually healthy, has been in hosp for the last week.  A situation that requires monitoring but is not labeled as serious.  \n\nWith my friend's dad being in hosp, is there any type of form\/paper work\/contract that can be executed immediately to exclude the future ex immediately should my friend's dad die from the illness before the divorce is final?  He definitely expressed that he didn't want the ex to benefit from the estate.  The trust and my friend's dad are in CA.","title":"[CA] - Changing a trust in short time","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1444657566,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3og8tn\/ob_changed_the_payment_plan_on_our_contract_after\/","id":"3og8tn","body":"Location: Virginia\n\nIn August of this year my wife and I signed a contract with her OB. In the contract was a payment plan with them which showed that we would start paying them $550 a month for four months starting in April. This made perfect sense to us because the OB does not charge you or the insurance company for the doctor visits until the baby is delivered, which is going to happen in March\/April.\n\nYou can imagine our surprise when this month we got a bill from the OB for $550. When asked why we were being charged in October for something we didn't agree to pay for until April they sent us photocopy of the contract that we signed and the months of April-July were crossed out in pencil and over them were written Oct-Jan. \n\nWe did not agree to this and they are refusing to comply with the original contract. They even admit that they made this mistake. Do they have an obligation to the contract we signed? Do we have some legal room to make them charge us in April-July instead? Also, because we faxed the contract back to them, we have the original contract that was signed with the unaltered dates. ","title":"OB changed the payment plan on our contract after we signed it","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570052446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dch1w3\/i_found_the_people_that_hit_my_car_and_theyre\/","id":"dch1w3","body":"My car got scratched up last week and yesterday I noticed that the house I was parked in front of has cameras (everyone parks on the street here and there was no space in front of my own house).\n\nI asked my neighbor if he'd be willing to check the camera and he responded letting me know he thinks he knows who did it. He gave a pretty vague explanation about how he saw people unloading their truck or something close to my car. He didn't seem to want to tall much more after that so I gave him my number. \n\nToday he called and gave me a woman's first name (K) and number. I got a quote for the car at a \"new customer discount\" of $350. Our conversation:\n\nme: Hey K, my name is anxietyinHD. I'm just messaging about the damage to my car. I was hoping you'd be willing to pay for the repair costs. I got a quote of $350 but we can go through insurance if that's easier. \n\nK: Hi anxietyinHD, I sent the text and he said he will pay $300 but he can't meet you until Saturday. \n\nme: It's okay if it takes him a while, but it's important that the full damage is paid for. $300 is too low unless you know a trustworthy mechanic that'll do it for that price. \n\nK: He said he will be there on Saturday at 10 am. \n\nHow do I proceed moving forward? I only have their number and I don't think that's enough to go to the police with.","title":"I found the people that hit my car and they're trying to underpay.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570552711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df2itj\/what_recourse_do_i_have\/","id":"df2itj","body":"I live in Tennessee and hired a contractor to do some remodeling in my basement and garage. The overall cost of the project is to be about $37,000.  I have already paid close to $30,000.  And nothing is finished!  Nothing is even close to being finished.  The \u201cproject\u201d started before June and is maybe 10-15% done.  Every single deadline the contractor has stated has come and gone with nothing accomplished.  How can I fire this guy without losing all my money?  About half the money has supposedly gone to my materials and he supposedly has all of those. As a bit of additional information, I am have communicating with him mostly long distance as I have been out of state working and expecting to have this complete before I get back.","title":"What recourse do I have?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553549423,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5gpzg\/my_landlord_took_more_than_half_my_security\/","id":"b5gpzg","body":"I rented an apartment for one year. $1200 a month and $1200 security deposit when I signed the lease. I moved out in the beginning of February and after two months of asking when I would get the deposit back, she finally just mailed me a check for $500.\nShe did not include any receipts just a list on loose leaf paper \u201c$300 partial painting (I left one small chip in the bedroom) $100 for furniture repair (I think is fair) and $300 for steam cleaning the carpets, couch and ottomans\u201d \n\nI did not do $700 worth of \u201cdamage\u201d to that apartment. For the first 8 months I slept there maybe once a week. I did not have any pets or smoke inside. I cleaned everything when I left. I broke no dishes or appliances. My lease specifically states the tenant is not responsible for normal wear and tare due to elements. \n\nIs what she doing illegal? How do I go about getting my fair share? ","title":"My landlord took more than half my security deposit for \u201ccleaning and partial painting\u201d","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445916314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qdghs\/negotiating_psa_advise_please_pa\/","id":"3qdghs","body":"\nMy Story: \n\nMarried 13 years, 4 kids, own a home. Me the earner, STBX is a homemaker moving into an earning position (ATm wrapping up school and starting to work.) Homemaker entire marriage. STBX.. extended adulty, over 2 years. I figured it out, STBX moved out, filed for divorce. Live in PA.\n\n1.5 years later, we have been maintaining a word of mouth agreement, share the custody no problems 50\/50, I pay weekly child support\/alimony no problems. Time to hammer out the 2 assets and be done.\n\nThe home has some complications around it. We have a mortgage, a HELOC, a tax lien (township) and, my relatives are owed monies from the deal originally made to acquire the house. (I can be more specific through PM.) The monies\/deal owed to the relatives are not memorialized. the home was appraised recently as I was going to RiFi in order to pay the township taxes. \n\nThe sticking point is that my SBTX is trying to claim that there are no monies owed to my relatives and the equity needs to be split. STBX is asking for a 60\/40 split on all assets. If the debt to family is not calculated, there is some cash in the equity if the debt is calculated there is none. A RiFi will cover the tax lien and leave less than 5K in cash.\n\nAlso I have been overpaying for the entire separation in regards to child support. The real payment amount is significantly lower.\nSTBX wants the 60% of the value less the family owed monies and 60% of the IRA. I have no cash to pay out on the house to STBX either way the amount is calculated.\n\nWe sat down, and my offer was, take the entire IRA(the 40% of the IRA that is mine is slightly lower than the amount owed to STBX from the house split up, using the real numbers) , continue the elevated payment for another 8 months, then reduce payment to the real CS amount and a small amount on top for alimony. Alimony continues for another year and then reduces to CS only.\n\nThis was rejected and 60% of the adjusted appraised value of the home was demanded (rejecting the validity of the monies owed to my family) and a reevaluation of the health insurance I provide and a recalculation on my yearly earnings.\n\nSo I am thinking I should stop paying my mortgage, plan on moving in with relatives, (a home with enough room for all 5 of us) and start banking the cash, Immediately reduce the payment to CS only, fight the alimony and not pay untill order to, reject the 60\/40, demand 50\/50, draw out the house sale as long as possible, MY relatives home is free and clear no mortgage, so I would only have living expenses, basically no mortgage or rent payment. I could potentially save very well for the next 2-5 years VERY well with no mortgage payment.\n\nI don't want to lose my home but I can bear living with my family for a bit if it means I can build a savings. I feel as though I have been more than generous considering the adultery, and the many years of lying, manipulating I endured. Also it really stings to have the debt to my family treated as I was scamming her.My family has completely set us up as far as real estate and the liquid we needed over the years to make it happen. The marriage has benefited greatly from that. And to be accused of trying pull a scam (non memorialized deal with my family) is really sickening.\n\nI will try to respond as best I can feel free to PM or comment, ask if you need better details please and thank you!!!","title":"Negotiating PSA advise please, PA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508395746,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77cs2y\/my_ex_employer_is_asking_me_to_sign_some_documents\/","id":"77cs2y","body":"Hello, I\u2019m noob to any legal situation, but a little backstory.\n\nI worked as an IT Assistant for the last 2 and a half years for an international Consulate and I resigned like a month ago, now I\u2019m just waiting to get my compensation.\n\nJust yesterday received a call from HR telling me that I have to sign some documentation regarding my insurance, I already sign the termination letter the day I left and took all my stuff.\n\nHere is my question am I obligated to sign any other document aside from the confirmation that I received my compensation?\n\nThanks for any advice provided.\n\nEdit:\nLocation: California United States ","title":"My Ex employer is asking me to sign some documents","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551227786,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av6v31\/airbnb_host_demanding_payment_after_spending\/","id":"av6v31","body":"Back Story: I booked an Airbnb rental in California last month to go skiing with a group of friends. The rental was paid in full at the time of booking through a management company (the host, in this case) that I will not identify. Fast forward to the day before check-in and there's a storm warning for the entire region; I receive an email from the host stating a full refund has been authorized should we choose to cancel. This is where the issues begin. \n\nI call Airbnb to alter my reservation (by direction of the host) to postpone the check-in date by one day (Thursday to Friday) to avoid the snow storm. There's some issue with the system so they're unable to change the reservation right then and there, but confirm the alteration is approved and they will coordinate with the host to have it changed. I receive an email confirming the alternate check-in date.\n\nWe arrive on Friday morning and unpack our stuff. Within 5 minutes of our arrival, the toilet begins to overflow; we initially thought it was from one of the guys using it, but after 2-3 hours of using a plunger (and the guy going out into town and buying an auger), we call the host to get a plumber. The host claims our reservation was cancelled and that we shouldn't be in the house - she claims we should have received an email with the cancellation notice. Attempts to get a plumber sent despite the situation fail, so we are left with no help on its way. \n\n\\*Side note\\* I end up walking into town to get WiFi (no signal in the mountain city - all calls were made from friend's phones), and sure enough, the host sent a cancellation notice (complete with a full refund) approximately an hour after I received the original confirmation of the alternate check-in date from Airbnb. I hadn't checked my email after seeing the original email.\n\nWithin an hour of the plumber conversation, there is a man knocking on our door. He claims he rented the cabin for the weekend after seeing it open up the previous evening. We immediately call the host to resolve this issue; we're told to wait for a callback after they make an emergency call to their headquarters and Airbnb, but we never receive a callback. The only \"follow-up\" from the host is a new request for an arbitrary amount of money sitting in my inbox later that evening. The other renter sat in his car in the driveway for approximately three hours before leaving (I do not know if the host called him). During this time, sewage is now regurgitating up both the toilet and shower, while our group is taking turns bailing sewage into a trash can and dumping it in the back yard. Everyone is forced to urinate outside, and drive to a local fast food restaurant to defecate.\n\nThe next morning (Saturday, day #2), we manage to get the host to agree to send a plumber to the rental. One of the group members agrees to wait for the plumber while we ski. The plumber ends up taking five hours to arrive, at which point my friend leaves, works on the pipes for 6-7 hours, tracks his muddy boots through most of the house, then leaves without informing anyone in the group whether or not the facilities are functional (they weren't). We continue to take turns bailing the sewage out of the shower that evening, determining the kitchen sink is exacerbating the issue. We now have no running water in the entire house.\n\nWe wake up early Sunday morning and pack our things, cleaning the kitchen and common areas to the best of our abilities. When the drive out of California is over, I immediately contact the host to address the topic of payment since the original amount we paid had already been refunded.\n\nAs it stands, the company's stance is that since I used the rental for two nights, I owe the going rate for two nights. It's worth noting they originally tried to increase the price per night by \\~30%, and only changed it to the original rate paid when I pointed it out. I made it clear to the host this entire trip should be comp'd since the experience was utterly atrocious and downright hazardous to our health. I have not received a response from the host in the past 48 hours. I contacted Airbnb to see if they could authorize an option to not pay the host, but they have been equally unhelpful in this process.\n\nI fear if I do not pay the host, they will send it to some type of collections agency and it will affect my credit or worse. What are my options at this point? Should I seek legal representation?","title":"Airbnb host demanding payment after spending weekend in sewage","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508173062,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76rujp\/ohio_landlord_billing_me_beyond_the_lawful_30\/","id":"76rujp","body":"[here](http:\/\/codes.ohio.gov\/orc\/5321) is the landlord tenant laws for ohio for reference. \n\nSo I  posted here pretty panicked previously and I think my post didn't make much sense to people, and it was a Friday afternoon around 6 when traffic probably wasn't very high for the page. \n\nAnyways the important details:\n\nMy previous landlord has billed me for $505.00 for various things but it has come more than 30 days after the termination of my lease. The bill is postmarked on October 11 and I have the land lord on record saying my lease was terminated August 8. I also have backup proof of this in the form of a picture of the notice with the attached meta data saying i am right outside the office door. Furthermore I only ever gave them my parents address as my forwarding address on the letter of intent to vacate my apt in 30 days. This makes me 110% certain they revived the letter and my lease was terminated on August 8, 2017.  \n\nI was reading through the laws and i found this: R.C. \u00a7 5321.16\n\n5321.16 Procedures for security deposits.\n(A) Any security deposit in excess of fifty dollars or one month's periodic rent, whichever is greater, shall bear interest on the excess at the rate of five per cent per annum if the tenant remains in possession of the premises for six months or more, and shall be computed and paid annually by the landlord to the tenant.\n\n(B) Upon termination of the rental agreement any property or money held by the landlord as a security deposit may be applied to the payment of past due rent and to the payment of the amount of damages that the landlord has suffered by reason of the tenant's noncompliance with section 5321.05 of the Revised Code or the rental agreement. Any deduction from the security deposit shall be itemized and identified by the landlord in a written notice delivered to the tenant together with the amount due, within thirty days after termination of the rental agreement and delivery of possession. The tenant shall provide the landlord in writing with a forwarding address or new address to which the written notice and amount due from the landlord may be sent. If the tenant fails to provide the landlord with the forwarding or new address as required, the tenant shall not be entitled to damages or attorneys fees under division (C) of this section.\n\n(C) If the landlord fails to comply with division (B) of this section, the tenant may recover the property and money due him, together with damages in an amount equal to the amount wrongfully withheld, and reasonable attorneys fees.\n\nAm I correct in understanding that I do not know them anything because this bill came more than 30 days after the termination of my lease?  I know it makes me an asshole for trying to avoid paying them but I really cannot afford how much they are asking for especially with student loan repayment coming up soon. ","title":"[Ohio] Landlord billing me beyond the lawful 30 days (I think)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555379513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdoajc\/ok_can_an_exspouse_still_benefit_from_a_last_will\/","id":"bdoajc","body":"I\u2019m asking for my wife. \n\nBasically she was named in a will with 4 other people. The thing is, the deceased\u2019s ex-spouse was named in the will as the trustee of two separate trusts. The will states that when the ex spouse dies the rest of the second trust goes to my wife and the other 4 individuals. \n\nThe will was drafted over 20 years ago when they were married. Not sure how long it\u2019s been since they divorced.  They have since remarried and was one of the care givers before she passed.  \n\nMy question is whether or not the will stands as is. i believe the ex spouse has submitted a petition to be the executor of the will. This is in Oklahoma and I found this:\n\nR.L.1910, \u00a7 8370.  \n\n\u00a784114.  Divorce or annulment as revoking will.\n\nA.  If, after making a will, the testator is divorced, all provisions in such will in favor of the testator's spouse so divorced are thereby revoked.  Annulment of the testator's marriage shall have the same effect as a divorce.  In the event of either divorce or annulment, the testator's former spouse shall be treated for all purposes under the will as having predeceased the testator. Provided, however, this section shall not apply if the decree of divorce or of annulment is vacated or if the testator remarries his former spouse, or following said divorce or annulment, executes a new will or codicil which is not revoked or held invalid.\n\nB.  This section shall apply to any will of a decedent dying on or after November 1, 1987.\n\nhttps:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/oklahoma\/2006\/os84.html\n\nIs this an accurate source? What should my wife and the others do?\n\nThank you for reading.","title":"[OK] Can an ex-spouse still benefit from a last will and testament?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540332232,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qtmtj\/texas_changed_jobs_to_one_with_less_pay_after_i\/","id":"9qtmtj","body":"I know this is pretty long and dry but I had to anonymize it as much as possible.\n \nI work at a talent agency. I was hired for [Gig A]. I appeared in a nightly \u2018event\u2019 (9\/28-10\/21) with 2 events on 10\/28. I signed a contract doing [Job A] for $100 per event for a total of $2,400. I was told that the opening day would pay $200 because there were 2 events.\n\nI was told I was being moved to [Job B] about a week before rehearsals for [Gig A] began. I agreed to do [Job B] because as far as I knew, I was still getting paid the [Job A] rate. **Even though [Job A] is a skill position, I was never told the [Job B] rate was different.**\n \nAfter a few weeks of [Gig A] they hired me for [Gig B] doing [Job A]. [Gig B] conflicted with 1 night of [Gig A] so I was replaced for 1 night at [Gig A] while I performed at [Gig B].\n \nThe talent coordinator told me I would be docked \u201cone night\u201d from [Gig A] and paid $100 for [Gig B]. They originally were going to not change the payment at all (leave the Gig A pay the same and not be paid for Gig B) but for accounting separation they had to make a separate contract for [Gig B]. All this reinforced the idea that both gigs paid the same rate. I took the swap because it was closer to my house and the commute was less driving for what **I thought** was the same pay.\n \nOn the one day I called out sick (food poisoning)from [Gig A] I was replaced and docked \u201cone day\u201d.\n \nI got one check for $1,050.00 halfway through [Gig A] and another for $675.00 on the last day. I didn\u2019t raise a fuss at the time.\n \nThe day after I received my second check I called the talent coordinator company and they said that the pay difference was because [Job B] was $75 a day. I told them I signed a contract for 100 and was never told anything about a pay cut or being paid differently. The coordinator reiterated that [Job B] paid less and said that the owner would call me back. I didn\u2019t push the issue because I didn\u2019t really know how to politely request money they felt they didn\u2019t owe me.\n \nReddit, what are my options here? I can post some of the legalese from the contract but it all seems very boiler plate. I don\u2019t want to post the whole contract but if you tell me which clauses to look for I can post those\n \nTLDR: Company changed me to a lesser paying job after I had signed a contract, hasn\u2019t officially refused to pay me yet but is leaning that way. Is there any way to politely but firmly request the money they legally owe me? Do they actually owe me this money?","title":"[Texas] Changed jobs to one with less pay after I signed a contract? Looking for a polite way to request the money I\u2019m owed.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570661697,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfox8o\/within_intersection_ticket\/","id":"dfox8o","body":"So I got a parking ticket last night at around 11Pm, this was put on around 30-40 mins after I have just came home from school. I feel that this kind of ticket is a bit broad and is mostly based on how the person feels rather than if I am breaking the law or not. [Here\u2019s my parking ](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ouqSnIr), do you think this justifies the ticket? I think it\u2019s a bit ridiculous, especially since it\u2019s only parked there for the night and moved again early in the morning.","title":"\u201cWithin Intersection\u201d ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1549421744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anm56e\/number_of_workers_required_on_shift_in_fast_food\/","id":"anm56e","body":"Kind of a simple question but I've looked around online and can't find an answer, is there a law or laws that specify the number of workers that need to be on a shift (specifically in fast food?)\n\nIf it helps, the backstory is that I normally work closing shifts with at least two other people, but today the owner of the local franchise told the third person not to show up for work. To be clear, they are a great worker and they arent being fired nor have there been any problems recently, the owner just decided that we haven't been busy enough to require a third on shift, even though that would mean that myself and my coworker would have to run the entire restaurant by ourselves when the other is on break, if we even have time to go on break.\n\nTo make another point, I know that by the time i got to work, the store had already made double the amount it would have taken to pay all the workers today if they worked their full shifts. So i don't think that not making any profit is any excuse.\n\nLastly, the amount of workers we have right now is generally considered to be a skeleton crew, but the owner keeps taking shifts away from workers who need them, while telling the two people who do close the store (normally sending home the third 2 hours before close anyway) that they need to have the entire store clean and ready to open again within a half hour of closing.\n\nTL:DR - Boss is purposefully cutting hours for almost all workers and running a skeleton crew (despite there being more than enough workers), to the point where workers cannot take their breaks because of how busy it is. Is it legal to allow this to happen even once, let alone multiple times?","title":"Number of workers required on shift in fast food industry (WA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503715707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w37vo\/restraining_order_based_on_trying_to_get_me\/","id":"6w37vo","body":"Jurisdiction: Oregon\n\nMy ex tried to get me arrested. She said she would accept service in a custody dispute, then when I arrived she tried to snatch the papers from my hand after refusing to sign for service. I did NOT let go of my papers and a tug of war ensued. I won, but she stole them from my car later. I at no point put hands on her though.\n\nAfter stealing the papers from my car, she runs away and calls the cops and I believe told them I assaulted her. Fortunately, I videotaped the whole thing showing the lunged for the papers. (I know it's illegal to do that, but if I'm going to go to jail, let it be for something I did! Anyhow, the cops didn't seem to care.)\n\nAlso there was security footage from a nearby building which I believe one of the officers watched. No crime, they went away.\n\nHowever, now I'm afraid to be around her because asking the state to arrest me based on her word is scary!\n\nRelevant statutes:\n\nORS 107.718 in relevant part\n>Upon a showing that the petitioner has been the victim of abuse committed by the respondent within 180 days preceding the filing of the petition, that there is an imminent danger of further abuse to the petitioner and that the respondent represents a credible threat to the physical safety of the petitioner or the petitioner\u2019s child, the court shall\n\nand definitions ORS 107.705\n\n>(1) \"Abuse\" means the occurrence of one or more of the following acts between family or household members:\n>>(a) Attempting to cause or intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury.\n>>(b) Intentionally, knowingly or recklessly placing another in fear of imminent bodily injury.\n>>(c) Causing another to engage in involuntary sexual relations by force or threat of force.\n\nMy question: can I file a restraining order based on this encounter? We are not living together (and haven't for over a year), and while I physically feel threatened, I am not sure it rises to \"injury,\" though I think it should!","title":"Restraining order based on trying to get me arrested?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553992552,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7hzut\/case_dismissed_and_court_costs_ordered_waived_and\/","id":"b7hzut","body":"Partner received a letter in the mail from Nebraska county court.  I believe it was from a traffic violation during a road trip at least a year ago.  We do not live in Nebraska, we are in Michigan. \n\nLetter states:\n\u201cIn accordance with progression standards, this case is over six months old. Therefore, Court hereby dismisses this case and orders the court costs to be waived and claimed.\u201d\n\nWhat exactly does this mean?  Is the case\/matter completely gone now?  Is there any way this could come back to haunt them down the road?\n\nThank you for any help!","title":"Case Dismissed and court costs ordered waived and claimed?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445215984,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pamgt\/ca_a_friend_was_staying_at_our_house_for_a_few\/","id":"3pamgt","body":"One of our friends needed a place to stay for a while until she got back on her feet. We agreed on $200 a month for utilities with no contract or deposit. After 2 weeks here, we decided she needs to find a new place and now she is threatening a lawsuit if we kick her out before her 30 days notice is up. Does she have a case against us?","title":"[CA] A friend was staying at our house for a few weeks, are we legally renting to her?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552337791,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azyo00\/i_16_am_trying_to_move_in_with_my_father_does\/","id":"azyo00","body":"Very long story short, my mother is abusive and I'm trying to escape by moving in with my father. Mother has full custody rights. Do I need her permission to go live with him? Or since I'm 16 can I just go? I live in Michigan.","title":"I (16) am trying to move in with my father, does mother have to give her permission?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569603591,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da39ov\/im_missing_16_hours_worth_of_pay_since_last_week\/","id":"da39ov","body":"My boss has known about my missing pay since last pay day (I'm payed weekly). This week rolls around and I'm still missing the 16 hours, and on top of that, my hourly pay rate has dropped a whole dollar. \n\nI called him yesterday and he says he doesn't know what happened and he's trying to figure it out. \n\nI am missing hundreds of dollars I worked for and expected over a week ago. I have already exhausted all of my work contacts. Managers, HR, etc. \n\nI'm just curious what steps should I take to ensure I get the proper amount of money I worked for? And is it possible for me to be compensated for having to wait so long for the money I should've had by now?","title":"I'm missing 16 hours worth of pay since last week and this week my hourly pay mysteriously dropped $1","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554937052,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbso55\/california_summary_dissolution\/","id":"bbso55","body":"Hey r\/legaladvice!\n\nI'm kinda stuck. Husband and I broke up back in September, on good terms, and I volunteered to prepare paperwork for a summary dissolution (we qualified). \n\nAbout mid-February, I finally have the paperwork ready and mail it off to him to look over and fix before I make a \"final draft\" and file locally. In CA, 2 months of recent pay check stubs from both parties are required.\n\nLo and behold, he admits that he can't provide stubs because he was let go mid-January and had been collecting unemployment.\n\nHe started a new job on April 1, but I'd prefer not to wait until June to file.\n\nIs it best to wait, or is there another, quicker option around this?\n\nPS- called around to a few local attorneys, I can't be seen for just a consultation until July.","title":"[California] summary dissolution","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568988904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6vj0r\/paid_time_off_with_my_employer_is_set_up_in_an\/","id":"d6vj0r","body":"Very long but it\u2019s very complicated.\n\nMy employer gives 14 days of paid time off per year. However, any sick days must be used as PTO. So your vacation days can burn up fast if you get a bad cold. This PTO supposedly \u201cresets\u201d on the anniversary of your hire date.\n\nI am protected through FMLA. When I need a day off for these reasons, I am supposed to use PTO if I have any available. If I am out of PTO, I can cite FMLA and be granted an excused unpaid day off (intermittent leave). This happened this past spring before my PTO could reset.\n\nA few weeks into my \u201creset\u201d date, my HR department told me I am not allowed to take PTO until July because the \u201creset\u201d date is not a hard reset, but I begin to accrue PTO. They stated that using FMLA threw my PTO into a negative balance and it will take until July for it to reset. \n\nSo it comes to July and I take a half day to go to a concert. Turns out it had not been \u201cbrought to zero yet\u201d even though they told me that half day would be fine and it got pushed back again to October somehow. They did not let me know this until after I had booked a non refundable vacation in September. I fought them to still get to go on my vacation. We settled on me going, however it would be approved unpaid time off.\n\nNow that I\u2019ve returned from the vacation, they told me this has set back my \u201cbrought to zero\u201d date to November.\n\nI feel like I am unfairly paying for being on FMLA. Can they seriously deny normal days off to someone who may intermittently need them for medical reasons? Can they keep pushing back the date I can start PTO again? None of this sounds right to me.","title":"Paid Time Off with my employer is set up in an insanely complicated way and I also feel it is conflicting with FMLA laws.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570200293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd8bd3\/switching_insurance_a_month_after_a_car_accident\/","id":"dd8bd3","body":"So I was involved in a car accident on 9\/11 where my car ended up being totaled and I hit another vehicle, I was the only person transported in an ambulance and besides a skin tear and dislocated shoulder, I was fine. Naturally my insurance basically doubled and if I don\u2019t use \u201cSnapshot\u201d from Progressive it will go even higher, the insurance guy also did say my rate might actually increase while using it (higher than it would be without it) if I drive too many miles, break suddenly, etc. If I don\u2019t use it my insurance would increase by another $50 at least, on top of it already doubling.\n\nI bought a new (used) car and at the dealership they were able to find me an insurance rate with Allstate that is almost $100 less a month. It\u2019s my understanding that the current insurance company will pay for the remaining balance on my lease and all my medical bills from the crash (I offered to use my own health insurance but they said their the primary insurance in this case and my insurance company could go after them if I used my health insurance first).\n\nMy current insurance called me yesterday to let me know that the passenger in the other vehicle has hired an attorney and is telling me this is most likely an ambulance chaser who just wants it quick payout, it gave me a lot of anxiety but he assured me that these almost never go to court but if they did, they would provide the lawyer. He also said this whole process can take from a few months to two years.\n\nI explained this to the people at the insurance company I was about to switch over to, because I didn\u2019t think it was a good idea now to drop my current insurance and piss them off, now with all this other legal stuff going on. The company I was going to switch to assured me that my current company would be responsible for anything that happened while I had a policy with them and that I have nothing to worry about. \n\nBasically, I just want to know if I should switch to the newer, cheaper insurance with all the exact same coverage or if I should stick with my current way more expensive insurance (that will also track my driving) so I don\u2019t piss them off during this whole legal process?","title":"Switching insurance a month after a car accident, will I be in trouble if the passenger in the other car attempts to sue me?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1549665422,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aom0e2\/ohio_here_its_going_to_cost_me_250_to_retrieve\/","id":"aom0e2","body":"My daughter passed away on October 12th in an automobile accident.  She was 18, in her senior year of high school and living with me.  She worked at Wendy's, whose employees pay gets put on Skylight debit cards.  My daughter has $523 and change on her card.\n\nI called Skylight One and talked with a rep who said I needed to send them the following items:  \n\nCopy of death certificate, court document showing I'm her residential parent (she was still a financial obligation according to Ohio law), proof of her and my residence and my ID.\n\nI specifically asked if this info would be enough without having to open an estate through probate court.  He said \"yes\".  I emailed all the info he requested, only to receive mail from them stating that I needed to open an estate.  I called them again and they told me there's nothing they can do because it's federal law.\n\nI'm paying $3,000 on my daughter's left over debt on her totalled vehicle.  This $523 would help with that.  Yes, she had insurance.  It had a salvage title which the credit union did finance but insurance did not completely cover as a result... in hindsight, my horrible decision but I never dreamt this would happen.\n\nIs there any other way to claim my daughter's funds without having to pay $250 to probate and open an estate... all for just $523?","title":"Ohio here. It's going to cost me $250 to retrieve $523 from my deceased daughter's Skylight One debit card account.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554750997,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baxuu6\/being_blackmailed_to_have_my_15k_youtube_channel\/","id":"baxuu6","body":"I am a fairly big YouTuber with over 15000 subscribers and over a million views in total. Last friday I received an email from YouTube telling me that 3 of my videos were taken down and that I had received a copyright strike. Clearly I was surprised and thought that maybe it had been a mistake. I contacted the claimant via email in hopes of solving the situation nice and easy. He explained why he had taken down my videos. I had no clue as for why or how it would be even possible for someone else to take them down for other than the original owners of the songs I've used in my videos. Who already do happen to receive the revenue generated from those videos. (I make edits). Well I asked him to show me exactly what content of his I had used and he showed me a clip and gave me a timestamp to it. It was a transition effect that can be created with various different effects and plugins. He claimed that this \"effect\" was owned by him and is now asking me to pay for a license for it. The so called license costs $10. Meanwhile the real plugins the effect can be created with costs hundreds of dollars. Now he's blackmailing me into paying him before he gives me two more strikes and I'll have my channel taken down. I'd like to remind you that this specific effect is used by many many video vloggers and editors as a transition effect. \n\n​\n\nI asked him to provide me the name of the effect and the plugins that it can be created with. Which he failed to do, he just said that it was \"private and has no name\". Now he keeps telling me to pay up or I'll have my channel down. \n\nI contacted YouTube's Partner Support as I am a verified partner and therefore am eligible for support. They told me to submit a counter-notification or wait it out. Why would I wait it out when this could just happen at any given time again? Submitting a counter-notification would have it just be denied BY THE CLAIMANT who intentionally is trying to get me to pay up. Submitting one is meant to be used in cases where the takedown has happened accidentally. Not in cases where the claimant is intentionally trying to take down my channel with fraudulent legal requests!","title":"Being blackmailed to have my 15K YouTube channel taken down.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571172123,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/die3kq\/att_has_refused_to_correct_their_mistake_on_a\/","id":"die3kq","body":"We have internet and phone through ATT, in which is direct tv is the provider.  While at Costco, a direct tv representative was there and signed us up for a better tv package, or so we thought. It has ended up being a nightmare trying to Correct the problem. After being on hold for over 10+ hours total and given the runaround by different departments, we decided it\u2019s not worth the struggle and we want to just cancel everything. Upon contacting the cancellation department,  we were once again promised the situation was taken care of, and that we would be contacted by a supervisor to discount our monthly bill for the hassle. \nNo call. \nWe contact them back, and the cancelation department gives us the same runaround and puts me on never-ending hold. This cannot be legal. Can anyone please help me? I\u2019m so stressed out about this and I genuinely don\u2019t know what the fuck to do.","title":"ATT has refused to correct their mistake on a bill that I am being charged for monthly. After making 7 seperate phone calls they refuse to cancel my account or correct the bill. Can I take legal action?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568526115,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4gjsw\/landlordtenant_disposessory_help\/","id":"d4gjsw","body":"This is a rather long statement from my mother about an issue we are having with a disposessory, it's being posted on my account because she doesn't have a Reddit page. This was typed quickly so there are typos (sorry), and there is a TL;DR at the bottom. There are going to be some edits made once my mother gets all the information for the codes and laws that shouldn't have allowed the disposessory to get this far.\n\nIn March of 2018, my fiancee signed a year lease to rent a three bedroom, two bath mobile home. He was the only tenant listed in the lease agreement, but he informed the landlord that my daughter and I would likely be moving in as well. We moved in the first week. The landlord's home is next door to ours, so he was aware of our presence. The subject of adding us to the lease was broached off handedly a couple of times, but the landlord basically said it didn't matter to him an was up to my boyfriend. We were never formally added to the lease. Around September my bf began working with the landlord in a \r\nproperty maintenance\/management position. He was even granted power of attorney in October to complete the purchase of a property and to facilitate the needs of our landlord's other tenants while the landlord was out of town for a month. The house that was purchased at this point needed substantial renovation\/remodeling as it had been struck by lightning the previous April. My boyfriend was in charge of this project, as well as ensuing the upkeep of the other properties. From October to the end of\rMay he worked 50-60 hours a week. To record labor and expenses, our landlord created a spreadsheet that included property identifiers, labor force identifies that included individual rates of pay. Each sheet\r\nrepresented a calendar month, and tables contained therein converted time cards into charts that detailed the month's expense at each property, as well as tallying and tracking amounts earned by workers, amounts paid out and amounts still owed. This spreadsheet was uploaded and maintained on Google Drive so that my boyfriend could show work done in the form of labor hours, and request payment for those hours. He did develop an agreement in that he only took payment for half of the hours he worked, putting the other time towards the payment of rent. Once the monthly obligation was met, he took full pay for the hours worked until the end of that month. Our original lease expired at the end of March, but there was a clause included that basically said that if neither party gave notice to end the agreement, then tenancy would continue on a month to month basis, under the same terms as the original lease, until someone gave notice to terminate. I will interject here, though I will be listing various issues at the end. The lease agreement states that once the lease term becomes month to month, either party can give a 30 day notice of intent to teminate. Georgia classifies this type of relationship as \r\na tenancy at will, holding that tenant and landlord are still bound by the original agreement, though \r\neach month represents a new and total lease term. State code additionally orders that a landlord is required to give notice 60 days in advance. We hadn't thought of leaving, but when the working relationship between our landlord and my bf began to deteriorate in May, the tenancy aspect became strained as well. We were having some issues in our relationship and argued a lot, which our landlord only witnessed in the stress he saw in my bf, culminating in his resigning from his responsibilities to our landlord in June. Though he only worked about two weeks out of that month, there were enough hours to cover the full rent for July. The landlord acknowledged this in a text, but said that, since the working relationship no longer existed, he expected us to start tendering rent on August 1. He also indicated that he intended to withhold the equivalent value of 30 labor hours until my bf completed the kitchen at the house that was purchased in October. Prior to this, payment came every week in the amount of the labor hours done that week. The specific number of hours was derived from an estimate my bf gave when asked how long it would take to complete the project, though he had worked nearly \r\nthree times that many building custom cabinet doors, drawers and cabinetry faschia. On July 21, my boyfriend was pulled over by local law enforcement for allegedly breaking the state's code regulating the display a vehicle's tag. I asked my neighbor (who was also a tenant of our landlord) if she'd take me\rto where he was, in case he needed a ride or if he was arrested inexplicably. We arrived to find his car on the side of the road with two officers searching it. When I asked where he was, I was informed that he was in the back of a squad car and was being transported to the jail for booking. I then asked if I was\rable to retrieve his personal possessions. One of the officers said that I could, though he then loudly proclaimed that they had already found the drugs that had been in his work bag. I had no idea what he was talking about, but as the possible legal repercussions popped into my head, and sadly realized that he likely would not be coming home that night, even though his parents were at that moment waiting for him at the jail to pick him up, or whatever else was needed. I also became aware that my neighbor had heard this exchange with the officer and seemed to be formulating her own conclusion. Back home later that night, my bf's mom informed me that they had not been able to see him or talk to him, and that he was being detained pending the issuance of a warrant and subsequent appearance before a judge to determine if bond could be posted. Earlier in the evening, my bf had texted me to let me know he'd been pulled over. When I asked him why, he responded that it involved his tag. When I didn't hear anything else from him, I had my daughter go next door to see if our neighbor could give me a ride, and I also messaged our landlord and asked if he'd been working at the same property as my bf, and if so, if he'd be willing to go check on him to see if everything was ok. It was some time later that he told me he was close by, but at this point I already knew he had been taken in and his parents were waiting for him, since this was still before they were informed about the warrant and court appearance. Our landlord asked me to keep him informed. It was roughly thirty six hours or so later when I learned that bond had been granted in the amount of $30,000. I immediately texted our landlord to ask if he'd be willing to cover that amount in the form of a property bond, that being the option that required the least\ramount of cash immediately. Though they were no longer working together, they had become as friendly as two men that both carried lifetimes worth of baggage would allow themselves to be. As such, I figured he would at least have the knowledge and trust that would quiet any uncertainties about \r\nthe advisedness of such an investment. His response surprised me, both by it's brevity, and the lack of any explanation as to why he would not do it. I didn't dwell on his reticence, instead making another request, this time by asking him if he would give me the $300 owed to my bf that he was holding. He reiterated that he would pay those funds out only when the kitchen was completed, and that even given the project's conclusion, he would not be tendering the funds directly to my bf, and instead would be applying the amount to rent for the month of August. He said this on July 25th. The contents of the message, combined with a prior one sent to my bf, basically indicated that he was expecting rent for the month of August, inferring our continued tenancy for that month and beyond, since he had not stated otherwise. Just slightly more than 24hrs later, I heard a knock, and went to the front door, only to discover a local constable serving us with notice regarding dispossessory proceedings initiated by our landlord. Again, this notice was served barely a day after a relatively clear text that indicated we would be his tenants for at least another month. Fast forward to Friday, September 13, at approximately 5pm, when my bf discovered that we had been served a judgment from the magistrate court in the tack and form style. I'll only briefly mention the contents of the judgment for the moment, and will give further \r\ndetails after I summarize the issue at hand. I'll also include a slew of information, with the various legalities (or illegalities, as the case may be) that we have faced thus far. The most recent order was delivered this afternoon, after the court's operating hours, though we did try calling in case there was someone hanging around late. Sadly, no such luck. The order, delivered on Friday the 13th, stated that the defendant (my bf), and all others, were to vacate our current residence, and do so no later than 5pm on September 15.\n\n\r\nTL;DR I need advice. I need direction. I have researched numerous issues as they have become pertinent to my situation. I've looked up current state code, examined the uniform rules of the courts, and I've even poured over a number of judge's benchbooks, items that were created to literally give the judge a paint by number road map to the world, or at least the cases that come before him in court. I still possess a slightly naive, romantic belief I the justness of our country. I still believe that our judicial system, though overworked and underpaid, is the thing that can help us get through to the next big stage in our nation's history. Sadly, even armed with that belief, I type this out while looking down on a\r\njudge's order that states that I have to leave the house I've lived in for the last eighteen months, and that\rI have to be out by 5pm... On a Sunday. \r\nI greatly appreciate any advice or assistance offered. The linked folder contains redacted copies of documents pertaining to our court proceedings. If there is additional information you believe would help simplify the chaos, please don't hesitate to ask. Maybe we can find some way to keep the wolf from knocking on the door this afternoon.\n\n[This is the link to the dedacted files](https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1VE3wLjQ4QaZt2GN8Ln4cVa7haMhnvUw6)","title":"Landlord\/Tenant Disposessory help","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569126083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7lnhj\/130mph_in_a_25_zone_penalty\/","id":"d7lnhj","body":"(WI)\n\nA 17 y\/o friend of mine was just arrested for going about 130mph on a pretty rural road, but he was actually caught up to and stopped in a 25 zone that he was going the appropriate speed in. The police officer was short in saying that he was going 105 over and quickly arrested him.\n\nHe has now been detained for about 12 hours and will likely be there overnight. His father is a police officer in the neighboring municipality. He has a clean record apart from this.\n\nConsidering he had two of his friends (both also minors) in the car with him at the time of the incident, what\u2019s likely to happen fines\/jail time wise? I assume his license will be suspended or revoked, but speeding in WI is never a felony or misdemeanor in and of itself, so I\u2019m not sure.","title":"130mph in a 25 zone penalty?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539225308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n61a5\/whose_fault_is_it\/","id":"9n61a5","body":"I recently got into a minor car crash and I'm not sure whose fault it is. The situation was that I was backing up in a parking lot when I hit my friends car door. The way they set it up was they drove perpendicular to my car to trap me in with two cars at my sides. I backed up without looking because I expected these two cars to block my view and so I was going out to get a better view of the street behind me. My friend expected me to see him and not back out because he was wanting to talk to me. Insurance got involved and I thought it was my fault because I backed into him, but I'm unsure. ","title":"Whose fault is it?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539325523,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nhvng\/question_on_changing_vehicle_registration_from\/","id":"9nhvng","body":"So I am confused on how this process goes and I can\u2019t get a good answer anywhere and am hoping you all can help me out. \n\nI am currently deployed in the military. I return back to America at the end of this month. The vehicle I purchased a year ago was purchased in California. I am from Arkansas. My insurance costs about 200 dollars a month once I remove the storage discount upon returning to America. I get out of the military in December where I will be moving back to Arkansas. My question is this:\n\nAm I able to change the registration to my home back in Arkansas in order to get a lower insurance cost until I get out in order to save money or do I need to wait until I actually separate and move back to Arkansas? For both of these scenarios, what does that process look like i.e can it be done online, which DMV do I need to go to, which forms do I need. \n\nI feel like since I\u2019m stationed in California with the military I am able to change my registration now because I am from Arkansas.  Could be wrong of course. \n\nIf anyone knows the answer to these questions please let me know in the comments it is stressing the hell out of me ","title":"Question on changing vehicle registration from California to Arkansas","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570139224,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcxrym\/car_accident_nd\/","id":"dcxrym","body":"I got into a car accident on the night of Oct. 1. Long story short i was completely cut off and the other driver was at fault. I already have everything done on my end; filed a claim, copy of police report, etc.... The body shop that i hauled the car to says they need the claim number of the person at fault in order to do anything further. my job involves alot of driving so every day i dont have a vehicle is money lost. How long does the other driver legally have to file a claim?","title":"Car Accident ND","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568995041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6wxlm\/butler_co_ohio_im_a_renter_in_an_apartment\/","id":"d6wxlm","body":"I'm in Butler county Ohio. I rent from a complex who's owners are a company out in California. Here lately I've been noticing that the apartment manager and apartment maintenance man are rarely on site. More often than not when I go to the office on site the door is locked and the light is out. They even gone as far to remove the office hours that used to be posted. \n\nToday I woke up to the sound of water leaking from the apartment above me. I quickly put buckets down and called the office. I got the answering machine. The machine gave me an emergency number to call in case of emergencies. I called it and it took over an hour to get a maintenance man to the apartment above mine to stop the leak. My carpet, clothes, and other items got soaked in the meantime. \n\nAccording to the maintenance guy the apartment manager will be sending out a cleaning crew to clean up the mess in my apartment at their expense. As of now I'm not noticing any major damage to anything I own other than some clothes got soaked and I'll have to clean them. I did have a few boxes of collectables get wet but the damage seems to be mostly to the boxes themselves. \n\nSo my question is. As a renter do I have any legal argument that there should be a manager and maintenance man on site every day?  The fact it took an hour to get get a maintenance guy while it rained  in my apartment seems unacceptable. The fact that I pay more rent now than I did when we had a manager and maintenance man on site makes it seems I should have at least the same level of dependability from the people who run this place.","title":"Butler co Ohio. I'm a renter in an apartment complex. I need advice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541826609,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vrrrf\/one_of_my_cars_got_stolen_and_i_got_a_court_date\/","id":"9vrrrf","body":"I'll try to keep things brief and to the point:  \nI bought a car a few months ago, hoping to use it for app based work, such as DoorDash, but then I got a mechanic to look at the car for me. He says that it runs okay, but it needed a lot of repairs, and that I basically overpaid. I thought \"well, given this car is rather old (it's a 96 Pontiac), I'm not gonna get much money out of it. I'd rather take it to a junkyard.\" So I took the car off of the insurance policy, surrendered the plates to my state's DMV, and was gonna take it to the junkyard the next day. I didn't realize that night, that I left the car unlocked. I woke up the next morning to call someone who could help me take it to the junker when I went to the parking lot and saw it wasn't there. I was shocked, initially, but then I thought \"it's more trouble than it's worth to actually report the car as stolen and get it back.\"\n\n​\n\nA couple of months later, AKA, just a couple of days ago, I get a legal notice from my city's municipal court, telling me I have to come in on the 20th to talk about fictitious plates. Apparently, they had sent me a notice a couple of weeks ago to show up, but I never got it, so now this is an appointment I can't miss. What do I do in this situation?","title":"One of my cars got stolen and I got a court date for fictitious plates.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554395375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9eyft\/employer_listed_milage_payout_under_taxable\/","id":"b9eyft","body":"Oregon USA \/\/ \nI looked over my paystub for the direct deposit for tomorrow and noticed my employer listed my usual untaxed milage (listed as Expense Reimbursement) as taxable \"Incentive Pay\". I basically just lost $200. Is this legal? I worked 40.5 hours this week and was expecting a little extra, not less. Any information would be helpful, thank you.","title":"Employer listed milage payout under taxable income, what can I do to point this out to them and correct it?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539918142,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pfxyh\/kentucky_30_minute_unpaid_lunch\/","id":"9pfxyh","body":"Work in a hospital as a cna and we have been told that while on lunch, we arent able to leave the premises because that isn't enough time to get food and back to the hospital. Another hospital in the area is right beside a park and their employees are allowed to leave to walk the park, etc. \n\nI didnt see anything on the labor laws poster, just that while on lunch, we are free of any work obligation. They also informed us that in the event of a code blue and whatnot, we can be made to stop our lunch break to assist. \n\nAre they allowed to do any of this?\n\nThank you for your time. ","title":"[Kentucky] 30 minute unpaid lunch","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508571265,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77s3q4\/ut_trying_to_get_an_annulment_from_a_marriage_i\/","id":"77s3q4","body":"Hey, yes, I'm dumb. Let's get that out of the way with. \n\nI met my partner online and we had a wonderful connection. Everything seemed perfect, and we were doing great. Less than a year into us dating, we planned to get engaged when he came over to visit me for the first time [from the UK]. What started out as a joke of us eloping very quickly became reality and we were married in a judge's backyard with no knowledge of our families to this date. \n\ninstantly, things changed. My partner shifted into a completely different person [at times, multiple different people] and did a full 180. He told me about hearing voices, how they said he had to die, and how I was planning to hurt him. For the next one week stay, he would lash out violently at multiple occasions. \n\nI had absolutely no idea he was so severely mentally ill to the point of violence, self mutilation, & emotional\/verbal abuse. If I had been aware, I decidedly would not have married him. Since then he has deteriorated further and further into his illness; having seizures, complete memory blackouts, full on hallucinations, not being able to hold a steady job, on one occasion almost breaking my arm by bending it behind my back in a rage attack. Most of it comes down to blaming me and telling me it's my fault he's sick and feels that way. \n\nWe were married approximately 3 years ago. Is there any, any chance that I could get an annulment from him? My hope is based on fraud[due to him withholding information on how sick he was and how it makes him prone to violent outbursts] Sorry if this is too wordy or incomprehensible, things are hard. He will admit to withholding the nature of his condition from me if asked.  Thank you for your time\n\n[edit that doesnt really matter]: I just want to make it clear I have spent the last 3 years exhausting every opportunity to try and get him help and medication. Every med seemed to spike side effects harder than imaginable. Talking therapy proved unresponsive. I do not blame him for being ill, none of these things were his fault, I just don't want to keep being hurt and not have this part of my life haunting me forever\n\n[edit that DOES really matter, but making this post even more annoyingly long]: thank you so much to everyone who has taken the time to say such sweet and wonderful things to me, legal advice or no. I very much love him and he's my best friend, but I know it needs to happen or he will probably kill me one day.\nthank you for encouraging me when I've lost my only line of support. thank you for telling me you made it through something similar and even though it hurt it was for the best and ended up being no big deal. thank you for telling me the right person won't care that I messed up so bad. \nthank you all so, so much. <3","title":"[UT] Trying to get an annulment from a marriage I got into at 18 years old, hidden from my parents, to a man I was unaware was severely mentally ill","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541263289,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tvjxi\/not_fit_for_trial_now_what\/","id":"9tvjxi","body":"I\u2019m on mobile, sorry if the formatting is weird. \n\nEarlier in the year my grandpa was arrested for murder. He had a stroke a few years ago and used meth for 35 years. He basically has early dementia and meth psychosis. The person he killed was on his property and stole from him. \n\nHe was in county jail for about six months and during this time he was too confused to do any sort of visitation. He was sent to the state mental hospital for a two month evaluation and they just finished the evaluation. \n\nThe state is suggesting to drop the charges because he is not fit for trial; he is very confused and can\u2019t even dress himself. They called to inform us they are sending him back to the county jail and likely the county will drop the charges and SEND HIM OUT THE FRONT DOOR. He obviously needs care! Why is this okay? We don\u2019t know what to do. \n\nHis home is in foreclosure and is unlivable. He needs 24 hour care. \n\n","title":"Not fit for trial\u2014 now what??","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553707870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6732t\/wa_my_landlord_is_being_unnecessarily_persistent\/","id":"b6732t","body":"This whole thing is a mess and I want it to eeeeeend. \n\nMy roommates and I are moving out at the end of the month to escape these less-than-ideal living conditions. \n\nSome very important information to know is that we are not legally under a lease (landlord never picked it up). \n\nA couple of months ago, we received a notice from Seattle Public Utilities notifying us of a possible leak. We let our landlord know and nothing was done about it. We received a $1500 utility bill for the most recent billing cycle, which I think is unreasonable, especially since our landlord had plenty of time to have repairs done. \n\nYesterday, my landlord barged into the house without notice while I was home (which is a separate issue) demanding a check for the bill. I outlined all the reasons my roommates and I felt it was not our responsibility. He then claimed that he came by and watched the water meter with one of my roommates to disprove our claims, but my roommate definitely did not participate in this. Regardless, there is no written record of my landlord ever coming by to conduct this water meter check. \n\nThe invoice also included a number of late fees, but since we typically reimburse him for the utilities that are under his name, we have no idea what we owe until he tells us and this means that he is the one making the late initial payments. \n\nI\u2019m writing this on mobile so I apologize for my lack of detail\u2014and I\u2019m happy to expand further\u2014 but how do I proceed with my landlord? Do I have tenants rights in this scenario? How does not being under a legal lease impact my roommates and me? \n\nThere are a number of other weird things about this house, like how the garage roof is days away from collapse and he\u2019s failed to do anything about it, and how this man only communicates via text message. I just don\u2019t feel comfortable giving him any more of my money since it feels like past utility payments have gone nowhere. ","title":"[WA] My landlord is being unnecessarily persistent regarding a utilities bill that my roommates and I should not have to pay (amongst other things)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541188702,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tnipf\/is_my_employer_violating_california_meal_break\/","id":"9tnipf","body":"I work a minimum wage job (making pizzas for a popular chain) in which two days a week, I am scheduled for a \u201csplit shift\u201d : I work from 8:30am-12pm, then come back that same day and work 2pm-8:30pm. I don\u2019t take a break during the first shift obviously, but my employer is telling me that because I take two hours between 12 and 2, that I am not entitled to any meal break during my second shift, despite it being 6.5 consecutive hours. This doesn\u2019t seem to make sense to me, but I could be wrong... just want confirmation one way or the other. ","title":"Is my employer violating California meal break requirements?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541600239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uzs96\/rejected_tenancy_because_of_a_zero_hour_contract\/","id":"9uzs96","body":"My friend is on a zero hour contract with work and is attempting to move into a flat but after being told by the estate agent that his type of employment would not cause any issues as he could just present pay slips for the last 6 months to prove income.  After paying a \u00a3250 admin fee, viewing the flat and obviously showing interest he has now received an email telling him that the zero hour contract will cause issues and that he now needs a guarantor.  Any advice would be of great assistance \nMany thanks all","title":"Rejected tenancy because of a zero hour contract","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539991358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pp39n\/my_cousin_owes_me_3000_now_she_is_going_back_on\/","id":"9pp39n","body":"Iv contacted a lawyer for a letter of recommendation and tried giving it to her today at our grandmas, she walked out as soon as I asked her to go over the dates and payment but I knew she will be back to read it as her son is staying there. Iv got texts from her phone and Facebook about how she will pay me back. I found out she's  ack to doing drugs again so I'm calling the board of nursing to file stuff against her. I just feel lost this took a big dent in my wallet to help her and now I'm the bad guy because she doesn't wanna pay back. What do I do? ","title":"My cousin owes me 3000$ now she is going back on her verbal agreement to pay up.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1538354038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kbldw\/help_im_being_cheated_im_fighting_with_everything\/","id":"9kbldw","body":"Hello everyone,  \n**First off, I apologize greatly about this essay I'm writing. It's very long.** But, I wanted to get out every single thing I could in detail about this particular situation so that if anyone has any advice, you are making it with a well informed viewpoint.\n\n  \nI was recently fired from an awful job call center. (the reviews for this place speaks for themselves and speak it harshly). I'm also in an \"At Will\" State so keep this in mind please.  It's a job that treats it's employees (only the call center employees) like second class replaceable grunts. Non call center employees are treated pretty well.  \n\n\nThey have a policy about call avoidance and they stated in unemployment hearing, that I avoided calls. They further try to back this up by \"Auditing\" my calls for a very small short amount of time and that time alone. And I have an idea on why.  \n\n\nI worked at this job for almost 3 years with no problems or any indication of this. A clean record of obeying and good conduct. A month before firing me, I was put on a PIP plan. The plan itself was useless as the only thing I required was being told what to do in a particular situation that this call center wanted me to do. So, I did that, and the scores, that were good for almost 3 years, went back to where they were, 95% and up.  \nThe problem here is they have a Zero Tolerance Policy. If this employer would bring the issues to the attention of the employees to work on them, then this would all be avoided. Every critique in my tenor at this job given to me, once I'm aware of what the supervisor wants, I made it happen. But on this one, instead of coaching, discussion or letting me know anything is wrong, they just got rid of me, despite my track record. No warnings, for gods sake at least just write me up if you have a vendetta it would be my first one ever in my entire employment history. So if they fail to teach you valuable information, well...it sucks to be you. That's a crappy anti employee policy. And yet they can't figure out why their employees despise and don't trust them. I remember being asked what would help get employees to come to work. one of my recommendations is to treat them better, and not run them into the dirt. The response I got was, \"They wouldn't go for that\", again, part of the problem and part of the reason I'm even in this situation.   \n\n\nZero Tolerance Policy, limited means of information gathering, Incomplete training and faulty equipment don't mix.\n\nI was accused of call avoidance on a recording, and the HR rep during the hearing ran with it.  \n\n\n**Technical issues**  \n\n\nThis call center uses very dated technology.Ironic because this call center offers technology based products. Old Dell Computers Dated on their plates being from 2010-2013, Callmasters III from the early 1990s. Employees very often have to use codes for technical difficulties, computers freezing and the like. By often I mean daily. It's probably being used as I type this out. I've gotten unresponsive jacks, and headsets held together by office tape, coming apart as soon as I put it on my head. I've even submitted in employee surveys that this is a big problem.  I've had higher ups, come and view whichever station I'm at and they were met with frozen screens, (that were screenshooted by said agents), that were viewed by supervisors.  Jacks tested by higher up agents, confirming they have stopped working sometimes. I've had screens go blank and not show if anyone is on the other line. Computers blue screened and just sitting for weeks on end. It's a running joke that the equipment is either hand me down, or bought from Goodwill. It's that old and that bad. I've also mentioned I've had issues from time to time with the release, mute, and transfer buttons.  \n\n\nSomething worth noting: While I can't confirm it's directly related, the product reviews from customers for the software they offer are more often than not, all negative. 1 stars out of 5 and plenty of complaints.  They offer back end software support so the complaints go to the banks and not the company offering poorly made technology.   \n\n\nRelevance: because it falls in line with the type of technology they provide their agents. Not acting in the companies own best interest by using out of date equipment and offering poorly made software to the public.  \n\n\n  \n**The Employers Evidence provided:**  \n\n\n**For the Auditing calls**  \n\n\nThey stated that I did not hang up on \"Ghost\" calls at the right time. No one has educated me during any point in my employment that I hang up on them immediately. I was instructed that \"You treat all calls the same\" and you give the script that allows them time to answer the phone.   \n\n\nSo I'm arguing on multiple fronts.\n\n* **The main call** they allege I avoided a call stating that I avoided one for 7 minutes (the longest) In the recording it only has me saying my name and that's it, it's like I cut out completely. The supervisor that pushed all this did not play the entire recording for me. So I don't know what happens beyond this first part. I have no idea if anything else was even stated, or attempted to be stated in the call, nothing to show that I didn't noticed the call was not gone or anything. Only a portion of the call to go on. less than 1 minutes worth of me hearing it. And it sounds like I just stop all together, Like I gave up on speaking. Which sounds nothing like the almost 3 years worth of being on the job doing the same task.   \n\n\n**The following was added AFTER, the first denial.(No hearing officer involved)**  \n\n\n* **They mentioned that** after some calls have been completed, (we are not allowed to hang up) They stated that on a few that I did not hang up immediately Averaging an additional 2 minutes) If I don't hear or see that they are still there, I have no way of knowing to even do anything about it.  \n\n* **They also mentioned that**, on Calls where no one was there, I didn't hang up fast enough. I literally took a minute. and I read the script every single time for hanging up. They also said treat every call the same, and to state the **entire script so you won't get marked for call avoidance**. They even have scripts for **ONLY** 3 situations; abusive callers, ones that won't hang up and ghost calls(NOTHING, on that sheet is about hanging up immediately). and I read the caller hang up script when audio permits me to know someone else is on the other line every single time). I've been reading that script for ghost calls since I started working. Not one supervisor, lead, trainer or anyone taught me otherwise. Which can be found in all the thousands of calls  I've taken since the beginning.  And all of the sudden Just at random, I'm being told, \"hey everything you've been doing has been wrong despite us not fixing it in the first place). This I feel was added in just as potential ammunition. Because after all the grading over all this time, something should have been said or picked up on long, long long ago, if you were doing your job and not setting employees up for failure. This easily was added in to help make their case against me. It was sent to me a day before the hearing.\n\nThis all happened with the (1) call, the (5) 2 minutes added total to the entire session calls and the  (6) Ghost calls. out of 1700. for the audited time frame.  \n\n\nEvidence used Approx:  \n1 call that was recorded for 7 minutes  \n5 that resulted because the caller did not hang up and I was unable to determine they did not hang up (at max 2minutes and 30 seconds without being able to determine if anyone is there.  \n6 I was trained to treat all calls the same and give the entire script for(including a sheet handed out to all employees reinforcing this fact).**(The script is designed to make sure the call does not go on the short call list** as I was instructed and was stated in emails and repeated by senior agents and employees)  \n\n\n  \n\n\nSo 1 call sparked this whole debacle, 11 calls in total out of 1700  for the time frame Are being used to keep from paying what they owe, 6 of them resulted from incomplete training (incomplete training has been mentioned in job reviews) 5 of them resulted from the caller not hanging up, and 1 I suspect resulted from faulty equipment. If I am incapable of knowing something is malfunctioning. I have no way of being able to report it or know of it.   \n\n\n**They added Training modules** to evidence but these training modules, HIPPA, Anti Corruption, Management Awareness, Harassment and Discrimination, Anti Bribery, and New hire training. New hire training modules has nothing as of before I was terminated, about the desired procedures for ghost calls(aside from the procedure presented being to treat all calls the same. They literally just printed them all off with no look at what is inside any of these modules that would be remotely relevant. One referring to the hand book, but the handbook has nothing relevant to how I was fired. Nothing on technical issues, being unaware someone has hung up, or hanging up immediately on ghost calls. **I want to ask the information in these modules to be presented for relevance.**  \n\n\nI was involuntarily moved from one department to another, since then I have had a total of 4 supervisors due to the anti employee nature of this businesses call center. If I wasn't moved I'd probably still have my mediocre job.\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_  \n\n\n\"The supervisor reviewed the claimant's calls and discovered he had avoided calls on twelve occasions. The claimant was discharged for avoiding calls\"  \n\n\n​\n\nThis is what they cite as far as the policy they are latching onto:  \n\n\n\"Call avoidance\"  \n\"Avoiding calls is as serious as disconnecting prematurely or hanging up on a caller, and likewise will result in immediate termination of employment. The primary ---------, mission is the handling of customer calls. Avoiding calls is tantamount to stealing from the business.  \n\n\nExamples of Call avoidance:  \nAllowing a call to \"ring through\" without answering  \nRemaining silent when a call \"pops\" in, giving the caller the impression the call was disconnected or misrouted.  \nAbandoning your station while connected to\/skilled in a call queue.   \nAny behavior which results in your inability to answer a call when you are expected to do so.\"  \n\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n  \nI'm aware they will legally, try to latch onto the \"Any behavior\/inability\" last portion of the Avoidance mention because it's so vague it can cover a lot similar to using misconduct to deny benefits. But it mentions nothing about malfunctioning equipment, incomplete training, or any of the issues I dealt with.  \n\n\nThey neglected to mention any previous performance records, scores etc, as I am sure it would hurt their case.\n\nThis is all the information they have presented. They presented it written only.  \n\n\nThe ghost calls can be proven by simply going back as far as possible to show that I was never, NEVER  trained to hang up immediately on ghost calls. The fact that they threw that in for good measure makes my blood boil. It's an outright sleazy way to hurt me when you set me up for failure in the first place. The supervisor in the hearing admitted he did not know, but the hearing officer accepted it as fact anyways. If it was such a problem you had years to correct it.  \n\n\n​\n\n​\n\n**Helping**  \n\n\nI was a senior agent at the time, and due to being on the later shift. Meaning the leads and higher up ages are gone by now.  I would help newer employees while handling my own calls as they would ask me questions while dealing with my own calls.. I stated that one of the possibilities, I could have been helping another agent and if the equipment does not let me know visually or audibly it's not disconnected, I have no way of knowing. It's hard to recall what happened when you take upwards of hundreds of calls a week. And going by only audio, is not indicative of what actually happened. There are no witnesses, that can confirm anything visually, its all done through audio. I'm pretty sure its much harder to get the truth through audio alone. This audio recorded does not even sound complete. Instead it sounds like it just stops receiving my voice. Something I stated in my hearing. IF I hear and get the notification someone is on the line, I interact with them as I am suppose to, including hanging up when finished.  \n\n\n**But a couple things:**   \n\n\n1. I have it in an email before that,  actually very recent in relation of that call, that a headset and a Jack I've used before malfunctioned and calls came to me without me even being able to register they came in.  I checked it with another employee, got it replaced. Another instance where I've had to replace a jack because it was becoming unusable going in and out.   \n\n\nRelevance: I've done what I could do when aware of system issues, Reported it, and replaced items as I could.  \n\n\n2. For the calls I treated them all the same as I expect to be graded at random and I have a painful anxiety about being listened to. So I try to do everything the same way every time. The way I was taught.  \n\n\nRelevance: Related to all the calls especially the ghost calls where I was taught to treat them all the same.  \n\n\n3. During the First hearing, the employer tried to link, the PIP(Performance Improvement Plan) to the call avoidance, or so what was stated in my disapproval letter for benefits. I've read in Lawyer papers in unemployment hearings employers will put employees on plans and set them up to fail. It's definitely worth mentioning. In my years at this job I've never gotten a PIP, I've never had any indication of one, Always had good scores, but particularly after multiple years of good performance..all of it on file I might add, but now I am on a PIP, right before getting fired for something  completely unrelated to the PIP, that sounds fishy right?  \n\n\nRelevance: It explains why I wasn't able to give my full statements. The PIP was not mentioned in the beginning. The PIP was part of a removal plan. And History should give an idea of what to expect.  \n\n\n4. They did not want to bring up my record with the company as an indicator of what the real truth is. They know the record would show I did everything they said to do, when they said to do it.  \n\n\nRelevance: I think History tells us what to expect with high probability what to expect from something or someone.  \n\n\n5. **I've been cheated before by the same employer:** The supervisor even admitted that I was cheated by their flawed system. This situation regarding mandatory overtime and giving it to someone else.  Their system didn't allow it to be approved even though all channels were followed and agreed upon. But because their system was\/is flawed, I still was punished when even though it went through. The supervisor mentioned admitted completely, that yes, that system is flawed. He had no other choice but to say it. After that he supposedly sent out an email clarifying the procedure in a different light. I was cheated but I accepted it.  \n\n\nRelevance: Admitting your system has anti employee elements to it.\n\n  \n**Denied**  \n\n\nI was denied benefits for the first request , and denied by the hearing officer. The officer did not receive the customer reviews and employee reviews to help understand the company may not be as reputable and looks for ways to get rid of employees(high turnover). Due to error on the workforce centers part. The hearing officer also did not allow me to give a final statement I prepared as well and did not allow me to ask specific questions. I believe would uncover how flawed their decision is. This was possibly done to make sure the hearing stays under one hour as at the end we were close to the one hour mark. I've read that's one thing hearing officers do to hit their total number of cases in a day. What really grinds my gears here is, if I really wanted to avoid calls, wouldn't I just hit a particular code and go help other agents and take my headset off too?  Go to the bathroom, make up some random nonsense to get off the phone? If you want to avoid calls there are easy ways to accomplish this. There are other agents there that have done so frequently. There is something anger inducing to know ways you could cheat the system but you've been honest the whole time and get hurt for it. You do your work and follow the rules then you're told to get lost. The crappy part of the American Dream.  \n\n\nPeople say call centers have high turnovers but if this call center treated people better, that wouldn't be the case. We've had managers leave, because the job is bad with them specifically saying they want better jobs, employees quitting or be fired for things they weren't trained to do. some people quit shortly after training is completed because this job treats its call center representatives poorly. The job itself is not a bad job, not even worth call avoiding, but what makes it bad is it's policies toward it's call center employees. Those outside of the call center are treated better and not as disposable pawns. When you have an employee, email the entire center, managers, supervisors, and all the higher ups about why he's quitting. Before walking out the door, you have a problem with your company. It's inescapable.  \n\n\nI have tried to get Legal Aid, but the legal services organization I reached out too, told me they won't help since I didn't come to them earlier (If I knew they existed I definitely would have). No one at any center or anything informed me this was even an option.  \n\n\n  \nI don't know what to do. I can't just allow them to cheat yet another person. This is the same company that fired a lady while she was distraught over her husband passing, just because she forgot her phone was in her pocket. The same job that was getting ready to fire another lady after she lost her father, because she passed out at her desk from being up all night because of it. All of it completely unnecessary. Supervisors admit it off the record because they like others, are afraid to bite the hand that feeds them. It's a job that prefers quantity over quality without giving them all the information they need in order to succeed. The same job that will still have you come in when there is raw ice outside on the ground and you will be punished if you don't. **You are replaceable, you do not matter.**  \n\n\nMany times you will overhear employees going over calls with the phrase\" I was not taught to do this, or that\" and I can attest to my own experience of this being true and always shaking my head because I knew more often than not, it was true. More so because even the trainer is not informed of this.  **This fact is also mentioned in a review for this company.**  \n\n\nI need those benefits as I look for another job  just as well as I don't want this scumbag of an employer to get away with cheating me like they have so many others. Their employee reviews online say it all.  \n**Why I mention the above**  \n\n\nI mention it because on the call avoidance issue, I've mentioned that it's likely that one of the reasons   \n\n\nI mention the helping issue because I have had their faulty equipment act up while I was on the phone, while also helping another representative before. And that can add minutes to a call.\n\n  \nIt's hard to pinpoint what exactly happened because they operate as a fast food joint, quantity of calls over quality. I treat every call as the same because even with their busted equipment, I expect to be graded and have them listen to them at random.  \n\n\nIn the recording in question it only has me stating my name and that's it in the only part I was allowed to hear. Something that, in my almost 3 years of being employed have never done. Otherwise it would have if anything, been brought up long ago, years ago. I have no motives for what I am accused of doing. I have high anxiety which further pushes me to make sure I do everything I am suppose to do. It's stupid that this company thinks that I would purposely, while making it through their Unnecessary Performance Improvement Plan, that I would try to damage my own ability to survive? I have hopes, dreams, aspirations, people I want to help, I have bills, I like food. This whole thing stinks and doesn't smell right at all. Even as an outside observer, given someones track record, performance reviews all being good to great, and the like, It does not add up. Before then I was even offered at one point a chance to advance, but turned it down because I felt someone else would do it better). I'm not interested in coming off as a victim or holy or anything I just want my case to be realized as, given what little evidence is presented by my former employer, does not add up to what has happened in the past.  The past is a good indicator of what is expected in the future, and the accusations do not add up at all. Do you expect someone to do their job and do it well, then all of the sudden just have a complete disregard for it randomly after a PIP is instated? It's like going to a burger shop for years on end that just randomly decides they are going to sell Chinese food out of no where.  \n\n\n​\n\n  \n**The biggest problems to me**  \n\n\nThe biggest problems for me is, since we were and they are still, not allowed to use pen, paper, pencils, notes, cell phones, or anything for recording purposes, I have no way of collecting evidence other than the few emails I've sent to managers, and messages placed in skype group calls. (Which I'm sure have long been erased).\n\n  \nI understand that the legal issue is the burden of proof.  But this employer sets it up to where you have little to no way to defend yourself. It's a jacked up situation. Only the employees genuinely know that this call center cheats it's employees.   \n\n\nEmployees are unlikely to bite the hand that feeds them scraps. so getting more testimony is difficult.   \n\n\nI need access to my evaluation records and coaching to prove my history of outstanding conduct.  \n\n\nI need access to the emails that prove when I was aware something was wrong, I let the employer know.  \n\n\nI need access to prove their hang up scripts do not indicate what to do for ghost calls that you are suppose to hang up on immediately.  \n\n\nI need access to prove their technology does not always work. along with witnesses that can attest to this and will without fear of some kind of retaliation.  \n\n\nI need to be able to ask the questions that will get this employer to admit their system is flawed.  \n\n\nI'm sure what I heard and saw was different than what they only heard. There are no witnesses so they can only go off audio, and that audio is recorded and played on severely dated equipment. Equipment prone to freezing, and messing up resulting in needing to restart them entirely.  \n\n\nI wish I could get employees still there to come forward and tell of their technical issues, and of their training issues. I feel like if they would and the employees weren't afraid to bite the hand that feeds them scraps (we are underpaid by $2-$3 on the national average for the job and its duties), then this would be long done.  \n\n\n**Is there any advice on fighting this** particular evil? **Types of questions to ask during the next hearing?** It appears as this call center screws it's employees preemptively so they don't have to pay what they owe. It's a pretty dire situation.  I don't want to let this company with reviews attesting to it's crummy nature and cheapness, get away with this. Going from denying benefits from only one call to, \"Misconduct during a PIP means you should be denied\" from the hearing is....scummy. Willfully leaving out the improvement during the PIP that shouldn't even have happened in the first place because of improper training!  \n\n\n**Is there any particular evidence that I need or can collect given** the circumstances, a **certain way to argue the points**, or anything that can be done to prove my termination was a wrongful, and misguided one? I've been studying unemployment since this all started and **I can't figure out what I should say in an appeal letter and during the board of review hearing.** It's a genuine crap feeling to know you are being railroaded outright cheated, set up to fail, and aren't given any means to protect yourself.  \n\n\nI'm sick to hell of the way the system works. I'm fortunate that this situation isn't as bad as others who say.... are convicted and put away for years for evidence that incorrectly gave accounts of what happened, but  this whole, \"You're small and insignificant, so I can screw you in any way I want, and if its wrong unjust or unfair?...well....sucks to be you, should have been born higher up on the totem pole\". is too much to accept. I'm genuinely worn out from it.  \n\n\nI'm poor, tired, stressed, and outraged, but I'll still fight. I've been fighting all my life to get somewhere, become successful so I can make a difference. Help others, do right by my parents, be free have some peace of mind.. I followed all of their rules even the ones people said are moronic ones, and now my ability to survive is being threatened as a result? No sir. I want to fight back. I want justice as I am sure anyone else would given these facts.  \n\n\nThank you so much for reading all of this, I can't, can't, can't... thank you enough. I need all the help I can get.  \n\n\n​\n\n​","title":"HELP. I'm being cheated. I'm fighting with everything I have, but I don't know what to do.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569462176,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9cwon\/a_broad_noncompete\/","id":"d9cwon","body":"I'm leaving things vague in case my ex-coworkers on reddit read this.\n\nI recently left a job because the company was no longer going to provide \"Service A\" that I worked on while employed there. I was given the option to stay performing \"Service B\" at an entry level, or leave and take a severance. I had no interest in Service B and loved doing Service A, so I took the severance. The clients for Service A went to the company's sister company (located in the same town), and they did not want me to work for the sister company. I worked my hardest to help the transition. Tried to train and document every drop of knowledge about the clients and their products. I even still take calls to answer questions of any kind (above and beyond what I said I would do in the severance agreement). The employees at the sister company are not well equipped to handle Service A, despite my best efforts.\n\nSo for a little while I tried getting a job doing Service A, but there are no companies in a reasonable distance that provide Service A using the products I'm familiar with. They use a different product to provide Service A, and it's wildly different from my own experience (this is a tech field). I'm looking at 2+ hour drives. So I thought that I might try to start my own business providing Service A. I'm good at it, and I think I could help people.\n\nI checked my severance agreement just in case, and the non-compete portion says that I'm released except for \"current customers\". It follows up with a repeat of that phrasing in a later section that also mentioned I'm released from the non-compete except for current customers. The agreement is with the company. There is no mention of the sister company except in a clause that says I won't say disparaging things about the company, or the owner, the owner's other companies, or the employees of any of the owner's companies. Which I had no intention of doing because they are rad folks. In fact, I intended on hiring the sister company for Service C because they are literally the best in the area.\n\nI had no intention of going after any customer that I was aware of that had obtained Service A from the company. And I know the whole list because I was literally the only person that worked on Service A for the last 2 years working there. I had been with the company for almost 7 years total. I've seen and worked on a lot of customers.\n\nThe sister company is not owned by the company I worked for. They are not a subsidiary or anything. They are separate companies owned by the same person.\n\nI've been setting everything up. Doing paperwork, figuring out pricing, all that fun stuff. I learn that the local town is in need of Service A. I reach out and get a meeting set up. I get a call later that day from the owner. Someone there let him know that I started a company and that I'm going to quote the project. Apparently, the sister company provided Service A to the town years ago. I was not aware of this (though I knew that the sister company did Service C for the town). The owner's reasoning is that every customer of all of his companies are covered as a \"current customer\".\n\nI knew that I would be competing against the sister company at some point. I had no intentions of saying anything negative about any competitor because I think that's bad form. I just want to say why I'm awesome, and give them a quote. I just don't think the non-compete is that broad. It literally says ( with \"The Company\" defined as the company I worked for): The Company will release you from any non-competition provisions except for current customers.  \n\n\nWhat are your thoughts, reddit?","title":"A Broad Non-Compete","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1504487114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xx4bx\/pa_employer_not_offering_maternity_leave_after\/","id":"6xx4bx","body":"Posting this for a friend. We will call her Mary.\n\nMary started working for XYZ Inc over 6 years ago. XYZ is a small company with 22 people working at Mary's office. About a year ago Mary got engaged and started thinking about her future at XYZ and eventually needing maternity leave.  XYZ has no maternity leave policy in place. Mary then casually mentioned to her manager, Steve, possibly needing some kind of arrangement. Steve assured her despite their not being a policy in place, they would work out some kind of leave for her. This was all verbal, no written communication.\n\nFast forward to now, Mary is getting married next month and will immediately after be trying to get pregnant. She sat Steve down last week to seriously ask what her options were and he basically said \"maternity leave isn't an option here\" and that Mary's job was easy and she was easily replaceable so why would the company arrange anything for her.\n\nUnsure if there are any options for her but Mary describes the recent conversation as very degrading. Curious if this is violating any laws or if there are legal actions Mary could take to protect her job or get some kind of paid leave.\n\n","title":"[PA] Employer not offering maternity leave after verbally agreeing","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541203070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tpi95\/my_boss_is_changing_my_shifts_without_warning\/","id":"9tpi95","body":"Uk based btw. \nMy boss is changing my midweek shifts without warning. I am contracted to 12 hours on a weekend however I am given shifts during the week too. My boss keeps changing them without notice, I take photos of my rota and write it down whenever I receive them, twice this week I have either turned up to work and then been told I wasn\u2019t expected in until later or been called while at home to be told I was supposed to be in work despite not being timetabled for it. \n\nI am just wondering if this is legal or not? I was told it is illegal to change shifts without notice once posted, however I don\u2019t really trust her legal advice. \n\nI would also like to point out I am still within probation period as it is still a new job so there is still a chance I could be let go with no real warning. \n\nAny details I am missing? \n\nThanks Reddit","title":"My boss is changing my shifts without warning.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554391098,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9e0wr\/parents_getting_divorced_father_is_alcoholic\/","id":"b9e0wr","body":"Guys, sorry for my english i live in eu and im just studying. \n\nI am M(16) my mother is F(53) father M(53)\n\n\nMy father hasnt had a proper job  for 7y, he worked sometimes at  constructions but it was allways temporary. He is drinking ever since he got fired from job 7 years ago.  Then he got hearth attack at 50. He wasnt alive for cca 13 min a his brain was damaged.  He didnt get invalid pension.  Ever since his hearth attack he is forgeting things etc.. \n\nLast night my father threatened my mother that he will kill her because she ist buying him medicine for his backpain. Which is entirely not true is is buying him those painlillers he just doesnt take them. So i called cops.  They took him away to psychologist faculty in hospital. \n\nMy mother is finally going to get a lawyer.  If they sell the house they split it 50\/50 cca 45k for my mom. \n\nBut the problem is we cant afford a mortage cause she is too old and wouldnt  be able to pay it off. \n\nI would like to know if there is any way to get more money from my father. ","title":"Parents getting divorced father is alcoholic","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507050396,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/741sl2\/is_it_legal_for_this_to_happen_in_the_us_usa\/","id":"741sl2","body":"Situation: I'm currently living in a college dorm with two other people. One of my roommates like to masturbate in the room and doesn't mind doing it while we're in there. We have already gone through the required channels on campus to prevent such situations but it hasn't changed much. \n\nIs it legal in the US for this to occur (without consent of course)? Taking into account that he is 16(I got placed into this dorm randomly), is he breaking any laws and if he is which ones?\nThanks for helping me out.","title":"Is it legal for this to happen in the US? [USA, Maryland]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553347647,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4j5lq\/my_exemployer_wont_give_me_my_last_paycheck_or\/","id":"b4j5lq","body":"So I was working at the same place for over ten years, as an \u201cindependent contractor\u201d (more on that later). After all of that time being mistreated and used up, with no raises and the constant threat of being fired, I finally decided I\u2019m worth more than that, and I left. I know, I should have a LONG time ago, but I was going through a lot and the idea of not having any I come at all was scary, and he knew that. \n\nI gave my two week notice, and he informed me that my \u201ccontract that I signed when I started\u201d (which I don\u2019t remember, but he makes things up as he goes and he knew how much of a mess I had been emotionally after my divorce she\u2019s suicide attempt, and that I pretty much always do as I\u2019m told), I had to give him two MONTHS notice. Ok. Fine. I worked until exactly the date that would be two month (it was over the holidays so there were a lot of days I wasn\u2019t working, but my last day was two months to the date that I gave my notice). He got on me the same day that I need to finish the worm quickly and get it processed as people were waiting on it. I did so. \n\nSix weeks later I still hadn\u2019t gotten a paycheck.\n\nI should pause here and explain that for the past year or so, checks regularly care weeks late, and anytime I said anything, he would tell me it\u2019s the mail. I even flat out caught him lying in two back to back emails that he had put it in the mailbox on two totally different dates. \n\nOh yeah, he also hasn\u2019t sent me my 1099 so I can\u2019t do my taxes. \n\nI emailed him, and he said to me that things are messed up because of my \u201cshort notice,\u201d and they were in bad shape, but that it would be in the mail by the end of the week. \n\nOf course it was my fault. \n\nNow it\u2019s almost April (the work I did for him that I wasn\u2019t paid for had ended January 18th), and still nothing. Any emails are ignored, and he\u2019s blocked my number. I\u2019m out about $500 and still can\u2019t do my taxes because o do t have the paperwork and he won\u2019t send it to me. \n\nShould I lawyer up? Or is there somewhere I can file a complaint? I don\u2019t want to spend more on a lawyer than I would getting the money, but now as I\u2019m doing research, I\u2019ve had a few people tell me that he has been illegally classifying me as an independent contractor all of these years and I should have been an employee. \n\nI\u2019m completely lost and don\u2019t know what to do. Not only am I put money and going to fall behind on my taxes (even more so than I already have over the years, thanks to his \u201cindependent contractor shenanigans\u201d), have over ten years of employment history that I can\u2019t use because he won\u2019t give me a reference, and I\u2019m all around screwed. Please, if anybody has any advice and can help, I would greatly appreciate it. \n\nThanks in advance","title":"My ex-employer won\u2019t give me my last paycheck OR tax paperwork, and may have been misclassifying me as an independent contractor. I have no idea where to begin or what to do...","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1412566467,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2iezxo\/legal_for_restaurant_owners_to_receive_tips_if\/","id":"2iezxo","body":"Hi,\n\nI was wondering if it's legal for restaurant owners to receive tips if the restaurant is a partnership.  Both owners do work as waiters at the restaurant and receive a monthly income + tips.  I have heard that it is okay if they are paid as an employee, but some say owners should never receive tips.\n\nWhich is true?\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Legal for restaurant owners to receive tips if restaurant is a partnership? (Bay Area, California)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554150435,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b88eay\/no_ticket_for_light_rail_cops_decided_to_make_it\/","id":"b88eay","body":"Background, In New Jersey, lightrail at Hoboken terminal. Me, 20, and 3 other guy friends 19,19,18. All colleges students. It was this past Saturday at 12:30 AM coming back from the movies. During the interaction the cops said that their captain just added a new no tolerance policy and had to give tickets, however instead of giving us the ticket version which would have been a clear ticket with a 74$ charge they instead asked each other what to do as a joke laughed it off and gave us all a complaint to meet in court instead. This escalated the charge to a Felony, added that we must appear in court, and took away the ability to just pay it off that night and be over with it. \n\nOther information from one of the moms calling we were told that the prosecutor should drop this beforehand but still very worried since if they don\u2019t we must all plead not guilty, and be prosecuted to a jury, which though we are all college students with clean records I still rather know if there is anything I can say or do to be down with this easier and not have this on my record for a 3$ ticket we didn\u2019t have time to buy. ","title":"No ticket for light rail, cops decided to make it a felony charge instead of simple 74$ ticket","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554243412,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8prz8\/facing_eviction_and_things_seem_sketchy\/","id":"b8prz8","body":"I'll try to explain things as best as I can, but I may not have all the details. My family's apartment is in my mom's name, and she's handling most of this.\n\nWe live in a low income apartment complex, where are rent is based off the household income. My mom worked for a few months around the end of last year. She informed our apartment managers that she was working the same day she got the job. Three months went by, our rent did not go up like we expected it to. My mom lost her job. *Then* the rent went up. With no other source of income, we had no way to pay it. My mom talked to the apartment managers and agreed to pay the amount once her tax return came in.\n\nAbout a month, month and a half passed. Her tax return didn't come in. Around the 28th or 29th, my mom received a packet of papers, it says it's a notice of a lawsuit to evict my family. It says we have to pay $1500 by the 4th. My mom called the IRS the next morning to figure out what was taking so long for her money to come in, and it turns out her boss did something incorrectly, and the process for my mom to get her money hadn't even begun yet.\n\nMy mom also says that she never received a three day pay or vacate. Yesterday, when she told the apartment managers that, the older manager, who is pretty great, told my mom that she would check and make sure that we'd been given one - but hasn't been able to come up with anything that shows that yet. The newer manager, who seems to be a lot less friendly,  became hostile and threatening when my mom asked to see proof.\n\nSomething just seems strange. Is there anything we can do? Our friendlier apartment manager said that our best bet is to just go to court after the 4th and tell our side of things, but from what I've said, is it likely that the judge will take our side, or the managers? \n\nI don't want my family to lose our home. We've been here seven years. Me and my sister's boyfriends both live in the apartment right next to ours, and our manager said if we get evicted we can't even come onto the property.","title":"Facing eviction, and things seem sketchy..","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554146043,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8785f\/ca_self_employed_minor_permithour_requirements\/","id":"b8785f","body":"I am 15 (important for labor law) looking to take a job in the production aspect of the entertainment industry (running sound equipment - it\u2019s non hazardous). I know from CA Labor Code that there are different hour requirements for those involved in the entertainment industry (by definition, I render a \u201cservice\u201d in a production, so I fit under the definition). In page four of the CA Child Labor Law Pamphlet it says, \u201cMinors who are self-employed do not require permits\u201d. My question is if I start an LLC and self-employ myself, and consequentially am not required to get a permit, am I still subject to the hour requirements?","title":"CA Self Employed Minor Permit\/Hour requirements","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553801155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6n40n\/dental_insurance_downgrading_coverage\/","id":"b6n40n","body":"Maryland here.\n\nIn January I went for a check up and needed some work done, nothing major just some fillings and cleaning .\n\nA quote was given to me and my out of pocket was $25, there was to be 3 appointments for the work and on the final one I get to the counter and was told \"your insurance downgraded your coverage and will be billing you for around $500+\"\n\nNone of this was communicated to me at any previous appointments, only after all the work was done.\n\nApparently they don't cover white fillings only amalgam and they saw the cleaning as non preventative ( it absolutely was due to bleeding gums And signs of disease).\n\nI'm extremely upset , but I don't know what to do about it .","title":"Dental insurance downgrading coverage","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505581313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70i02a\/roommate_is_trying_to_move_her_cat_in_while_it\/","id":"70i02a","body":"I found my roommate after she reached out to a post about me and my pets looking for a place. She has two cats, and agreed to keep them at her boyfriends apartment. I also told her about my cat\u2019s health problems due to stress from other cats, this was all before we signed the lease. Shortly after, she decided her cat is going to move in without my permission. She tried to introduce them once without telling me, and my cat got a wound on his lip from an auto immune disease caused by stress. We tried again, and now he has a wound like it on his paw. My cat was on our apartment application but I just learned that they forgot to include him on the lease but they know he\u2019s here, she\u2019s now threatening me that when they ask us to sign to add him she will only sign if she can add her cat. I have all of this in proof through messages, is there anything I can do for her to stop bringing her cat? \nMadison, WI","title":"Roommate is trying to move her cat in while it affecting my cats health and we have an agreement over text she wouldn\u2019t have her cat here.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447098880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s6a7x\/im_inheriting_110th_of_a_12_ownership_of_a\/","id":"3s6a7x","body":"My grandfather's brother is widely regarded (by family and his business partners) as disreputable and self-serving in business practices, and has tried to take financial advantage of several family members in the past. My grandfather was a silent partner, and there is no shareholder's agreement.  A few of the inheritors want to sell their parts of the company (each part is worth about $50,000).  My grandfather was getting about $2000 a month pay out for his part of the company. I would love some advice on what to do.  Do we form a company?  Do we just set up an account? Any advice?  We have a lawyer as one of the executors, but all the information I'm getting is filtered through family and I'd love some other perspectives.","title":"I'm inheriting 1\/10th of a 1\/2 ownership of a holding company that owns 1\/4 of a large commercial building. The other 1\/2 is owned by my grandfather's brother, and they were not on good terms. This is in Ontario, Canada. There was no shareholder's agreement.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552942082,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2nv9f\/cosmetology_school_and_labor_laws\/","id":"b2nv9f","body":"Hey there!  This is my first post so I'm sorry if I've done anything wrong.\n\nSo I'm going to cosmetology school. On Saturdays for evening students and all week for morning students we work two shifts, totaling 7.5-8 hours with a half hour lunch break and no other breaks.\n\nI was wondering if this is legal. The school says that it is because it's a school and not a business, but I just want to confirm. I did my best to look it up myself, but I've never been good at knowing exactly how to word a google search to find what I want. \n\nThank you for your time!","title":"Cosmetology school and labor laws","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568957802,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6qdv8\/workplace_discrimination_because_im_childless\/","id":"d6qdv8","body":"So, I work for a company that sells cellphones. I\u2019m 21 years old and I don\u2019t have any kids. About a month ago one of my coworkers was let go, leaving us pretty short staffed. My two coworkers (one being my manager) both have kids. So last month I was put on all closing shifts, which sucks, but I understand that someone has to do it. My coworker worked two opening shifts a week on days we worked together, because I always closed. My manager was on all opening shifts. Towards the end of the month my manager began telling me she needed me to work so many closing shifts because her and my coworker have to be there for their children. Today rolls around and I ask about October\u2019s schedule because I want off on Halloween, if I can, as it\u2019s my favorite holiday. She says that she\u2019s already scheduled me for closing on Halloween, because I don\u2019t have kids, and being that we close at 8:30pm I\u2019ll have time to still attend late young adult parties. Can I complain to anyone or do anything about her continuously giving me the short end of the stick for being childless? Also, my coworker is not an issue here. She has given me one of her opening shifts this past week because she felt so bad about me having to close all of my shifts this past month. I\u2019d honestly be fine working sucky shifts just because I have to every now and then, but being told this is just a thing because I don\u2019t have a child seems very unfair to me.","title":"Workplace discrimination because I\u2019m childless","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550085663,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqab1d\/ma_weird_and_potentially_illegal_job_application\/","id":"aqab1d","body":"Hey LA,\n\nI just recently completed a job application for a small business (less than 10 employees) and the app had a few questions on it that I think might be illegal.\n\nThe first question, right after my name, was for relationship and marital status. AFAIK this question isn\u2019t illegal to ask per se, but it is illegal to discriminate based on the answer. I am in a same-sex relationship and didn\u2019t want to out myself or reveal anything, so I just wrote \u201csingle\u201d even though I\u2019m not.\n\nThe app then asked several questions about any criminal history, and whether or not I\u2019ve ever used narcotic drugs outside of what has been legally prescribed by a doctor. I\u2019m honestly not sure if this is legal to ask. According to [mass.gov](https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/massachusetts-law-about-hiring-employees) it\u2019s illegal to ask for an employer to \u201crequest on its initial written application form criminal record information, unless very specific conditions apply.\u201d Does anyone know what these conditions are? I\u2019ve never used any narcotic drugs, so I just wrote \u201cno\u201d for the app.\n\nThe next question asked what I was paid at my previous jobs. Again according to mass,gov, \u201cemployers may not ask about wage or salary history until after an offer of employment with compensation has been made.\u201d The manager did not officially offer me any position before asking these questions, and certainly did not offer me a salary estimate.\n\nIf these questions really are illegal to ask, is there anyone that I can report this to? Is there any legal action I can take from here? Any advice is appreciated.\n","title":"[MA] Weird and Potentially Illegal Job Application Questions, Need Advice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570648051,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dflqok\/technically_an_employee_but_havent_done_anything\/","id":"dflqok","body":"Sometime earlier this year I signed an NDA and W4 for company X to start doing work for them on the side. I have no issues with either of these things, but I have a few questions. I also want to add that I haven't been paid anything and haven't completed work for company X. \n\n​\n\n(1) Is the W4 useless if I haven't gotten paid? \n\n(2) Does that employer get any tax information outside of the context of their business by my W4 being active? \n\n(3) When I submit a letter of resignation will that terminate the status of the W4? \n\n(4) If the W-4 status is terminated, the only binding link to the company is the NDA, correct?\n\n​\n\nThanks","title":"Technically an employee, but haven't done anything except for signed NDA and w4","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539230750,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n6nf9\/online_service_canceled_in_light_of_recent_paypal\/","id":"9n6nf9","body":"Hey, \n\n​\n\nThanks in advance!\n\n​\n\nAnyways I recently purchased an online service by the name of ForceCop which is a service(bot) that automates a process that helps you buy items off of supremenewyork's website. After 7 trials the service did not work once, it's not that the service didn't checkout fast enough it is that the service simply would not carry out it's function and would not even take me to checkout. I was unable to get any items because the service didn't fulfill its purchase promises mentioned in the website. \n\n​\n\nI filed a claim with paypal saying that the service didn't work and was anxiously waiting a response when I signed onto the bot in order to get ready for tomorrow mornings drop. When logging onto the service on my phone I was met with the message \"no valid license.\" They disabled my account due to the claim I submitted to paypal requesting a full refund on behalf of the dysfunctional service. \n\n​\n\nMy main concern is that if the refund never went through shouldn't I have access to the product? How can I get access to the product in light of this situation and what can I do with paypal now that my claim has been escalated?\n\n​\n\nSorry if this seems dumb I just thought I could get some help or someone can explain to me why they can deactivate my account in light of the claim.\n\n​\n\nthanks so much\n\n​\n\nTDLR: bought service, didn't work, submitted paypal claim and escalated, service canceled my subscription, refund hasn't gone through yet and paypal has yet to respond. Should I have access to the product or no?","title":"Online Service Canceled in light of recent paypal claim that has not been followed through with","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555455516,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be0g3c\/ga_i_got_2_traffic_tickets_in_one_stop_one_for\/","id":"be0g3c","body":"An HOV Lane is a lane that is designated for cars with two or more passengers, I was caught driving in this lane by myself, and also crossing a double white line trying to get out of it.  So I was cited two times.  My court date is on Thursday and I don\u2019t have the money to pay for these tickets, what can I do or what are my options?","title":"[GA] I got 2 traffic tickets in one stop. One for being in the HOV lane, and one for improper lane change. Here is the deal,","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538202027,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9judx6\/ptsd_and_fmla\/","id":"9judx6","body":"I have PTSD that has been exacerbated by a hostile work environment due disability discrimination from another condition . I had planned to resign from my job because the internal HR investigation has taken so long with no advocate or support and my boss has increased in retaliatory behavior and my mental and physical health has detonated so much that I am taking 4 times my usual dose of medication for one condition that is worsened by stress  and have had frequent panic attacks, flashbacks, and crying spells.\n\nI filed a complaint the same day as my internal HR complaint and the MO Human Rights Commission's notice of complaint\/investigation was supposed to deliver in 30 days or fewer it has not making everything worse. \n\nI saw my therapist yesterday and she strongly suggested I go on FMLA leave immediately because she was concerned I wouldn't  be able to endure two weeks notice or even another minute at work in my current condition. \n\nI filed the paperwork and my provider's with central HR this morning. Confirmed receipt this afternoon. At 6pm I got notice from HR that my complaint case has been closed and no discrimination was not substantiated in spite of a mountain of documentation to prove otherwise. I also find the timing highly suspicious. \n\nI am afraid they will try to deny my FMLA request. I know PTSD is protected by the ADA. I have been an employee for a decade and never have taken FMLA previously. My employer has more than 10k employees. \n\nCan they fire me because I filed a request or refuse it? ","title":"PTSD and FMLA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541628798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v3zs2\/need_some_clarification_please\/","id":"9v3zs2","body":"This coming January, will be three years when I was in an accident at my old job. I was employed by a TV provider and was a technician, and I was driving a company van on my way to an appointment when it happened.\n\nLong story short, cops said the accident was my fault and I won't go into too much detail unless in case need to know to better answer my question... but this past February, a lawyer called me out of the blue, representing my old employer and apparently me, claiming the other person involved in the accident is suing.\n\nLawyer claims I'm not being sued personally, I'm just involved in the case as I'm the driver. We have yet to sit down and do what I believe she refers to as a disposition. This is still on going, and I have gone months without hearing anything until today, again out of the blue, she calls me trying to set up a good time to go over this. And prepare me for the the other parties lawyers questioning.\n\nQuestion is, why is this dragging on - and why am I even being brought into this. I get I was driving and I was claimed to be \"at fault\" but I was on the clock...in a company vehicle doing my job and theyre responsible for their employees and those vehicles. I'm not the only one in the history of cable guys to get into an accident, and do not get why I  being brought into this. ","title":"Need some clarification, please.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570122086,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dctqjm\/ny_my_sisters_husband_is_a_pedophile\/","id":"dctqjm","body":"Last night, my brother in law was arrested for soliciting a minor. He's already admitted to it and the police and FBI found a lot of evidence, so this isn't a question of proving innocence or anything like that. My sister's life just ended. They've been married for 3 years, own a house together, and she's 7 months pregnant with his baby. She's going to file for divorce, but:\n\n1. What can she do to further protect herself from the ramifications of this?\n\n2. What can she do to protect herself and her child?\n\nThanks for your help, reddit.","title":"[NY] My sister's husband is a pedophile","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506299180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/728zr5\/supervisor_says_i_wont_get_paid_for_my_hours_at\/","id":"728zr5","body":"This is in Virginia. \n\nI worked a part-time college job on my campus for about month. I realized after working these few weeks the job was too demanding and was interfering with my grades so I decided it was best for me to quit. \n\nFor the resignation process (stated in the work manual) it is required for us to first, speak with our supervisor in person, then send in a resignation email. I spoke with my supervisor about quitting, She was extremely upset, and asked me why I was quitting. I was very honest with her, but she continued to convince me to stay while also belittling me for being focused on my grades. Eventually she removed any future hours I had from the system and said to send in the resignation email. That's all she said I needed to do.  I submitted my resignation email as soon as I left the meeting.\n\nFirst I must mention: it was required that all of us student employees when reporting for work, to clock in\/clock out digitally and also submit a manual timesheet with the same hours (on certain dates of the month at a later time). I worked a few hours since the last pay period and submitted these digitally. However, recently I contracted a bacterial infection. I went to the doctor and was told to not attend class\/work, stay home for a week and rest (I have a written excuse from the doctor). Unfortunately, I was sick on the date the timesheet was due and did not submit it on time. \n\nI just received an email today (Sunday) at 5:30pm from my supervisor's assistant stating that if I don't submit my timesheet by 8am (she specifically said no LATER than 8am), I will not get paid. I'm still not able to go in tomorrow as I am still sick (doctor wrote on the excuse to stay home for 1 week).  It's also worth mentioning the building I work at closes at 5pm everyday and doesn't open until 8am. \n\nI'm confused as to why the assistant decided to email me during closed hours and also made it impossible for me to submit the timesheet since the building is closed. She didn't contact me on the weekdays at all (I quit on Tuesday). I also haven't heard anything from my supervisor. I emailed the assistant back asking if I could submit it later, and she said tomorrow by 8am is the only time. \n\nAdvice? \n","title":"Supervisor says I won't get paid for my hours at all?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551452107,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw5sd9\/what_counts_as_a_written_writeup_ny\/","id":"aw5sd9","body":"I was just let go yesterday, and the termination letter given to me said that I had received disciplinary write-ups. I have never received anything in writing about me specifically. I have only ever received emails that my supervisor sent to everyone as a general reminder of company policy (a copy of which is attached to the letter, including recipients). I'm applying for unemployment and am pretty sure this would affect eligibility. \n\nDo general emails count as a disciplinary write-up for a specific person? If not, what are my options for disputing this part of the termination letter when filing for unemployment?","title":"What counts as a written write-up [NY]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569770409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dawhn6\/employer_refuses_to_provide_commission_structure\/","id":"dawhn6","body":"As the title states, I am hitting road blocks in trying to determine exactly how I am being paid.  \nI am a commission sales person for a major US furniture company where Rooms are ready To Go.  I\u2019ve been with the company for nearly 10 months and at no point in time, starting with the interview process up through today, has anyone at any level of the organization been able to provide me with an official commission structure.  In fact, I have been told on multiple occasions, that \u201cyou\u2019ll never get that.\u201d\nAfter a particularly slow month, I took the time to track my sales down to the item and calculate how much I am getting paid vs what they tell us (verbally, never in writing) we are getting paid and there is definitely a discrepancy.  It could be because I am doing it wrong or forgetting something, but I\u2019ve been doing commission sales for a few years and I\u2019m fairly sure I\u2019m doing it right.\nBecause they flat out refuse to provide an official pay structure, I am unable to prove that I haven\u2019t been getting paid what I have earned.\nWhat if any recourse might I have?","title":"Employer refuses to provide commission structure despite multiple requests.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539973947,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pmkgi\/can_my_supervusor_give_a_write_up_with_out_any\/","id":"9pmkgi","body":"My Co-worker just informed me that my supervisor wants to give out write ups without any warnings.\n\nIs that legal? Isnt there supposed to be some kind of warning before hand thats supposed to be signed off?\n\nInfo: i work at a charter school as a custodian. Im working an at-will job. Im in california. More specifically in LA. Our school follows LAUSD (Los Angeles United School District)","title":"Can my supervusor give a write up with out any written or verbal warning?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554947741,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbuhgj\/parentstudent_contract\/","id":"bbuhgj","body":"My parents want me to sign a parent student contract before they pay for some of my college, and I wanted someone to take a look at it. It basically outlines some behaviors and baselines they want to see, and I think a few points are a little unfair. He also got an attorney to make it legally binding so I wanted to have it reviewed to make sure I\u2019m not getting screwed over. \n\nI can send a scanned PDF of the contract of needed.","title":"Parent-Student Contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571243748,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dirukp\/while_driving_a_guy_on_a_bike_hit_my_friends_car\/","id":"dirukp","body":"My friend was driving in upstate NY and a guy on a bike came across and ran into the side of her car. She stopped and got out to see if he was ok. He got up and hopped back onto his bike and didn\u2019t say a word to her and just booked it. She was late for work and didn\u2019t see any damage to her car other than a small scratch that didn\u2019t concern her. \n\nFast forward a few weeks and she gets a letter from a lawyer representing this guy and asking her to file a no fault claim on her insurance. \n\nMy question is what should she do?  \n\nMy first thought is that by replying or acknowledging the lawyer she is admitting to being involved in this and it could be more than just a no fault claim ie if he tries to say that he was physically injured or other. She was very clear that he came into her lane and struck the side of her car. She should have called the police anyway and just had them file a report that the guy took off on his bike leaving the scene of an accident. \n\nShe is getting a lawyer I was just looking to see what you all had to say? I appreciate the input very much.","title":"While driving a guy on a bike hit my friends car","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571105108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di0zcz\/my_wife_reported_illegal_material_on_a_usb_stick\/","id":"di0zcz","body":"This is in New Jesery.\n\nTLDR; My wife found a usb stick she used had child pornography on it. She reported it in hope that the crimes could be investigated. Me and my wife live together and are happily married. 7 months later I was arrested at my office for knowingly being in possession of child pornongraphy. NJS 2C:24-4(B) (5) (II)\n\nCan this situation be resolved if my wife writes a formal statement, describing the events of her using  the device, finding the material, and reporting it? \n\nThe long info;\n\nIn the beginning of the year is when the incident happened. My wife had found a usb stick a long time ago in while she was working at a popular coffee place. I built her a computer and have a box full of leftover computer parts etc that she just threw it into. \n\nOne day my wife took the usb stick and starts downloading things to it from her phone. Sometime in the future, she looks through the usb stick to look at pictures she put on it. While she was looking through she found files which contained illegal material, specifically child pornography.\n\nMy wife suffers from sever mental disorders (PTSD, Massive Depression Disorder, Extrememe Bi-Polar Disorder, etc). When she found those images she did the right thing and immediately reported this to the police. She gave them consent to take a harddrive we use to store movies and TV shows and a custom gaming computer I built for her. \n\nThe entire time while she was going through sever anxiety and panic attacks the police forced her to look through the images on her phone again, and then began to tell her that it has to be me, and that they aren't legally allowed to give advice but \"if I were you I would do this etc.\" Basicslly the police did not care for her but spent most of their time trying to get her to say that this is my fault. They simply picked me based on the fact that I am the only Male that lived in the house.\n\nThat day they convinced her to get a restraining order against me. This all happened when I was at work and heard about it when I got home and was kicked out of my house. When I talked to my wife about what happened I reassured her she did the right thing about reporting it. She said she never thought it was me just everyone making her crazy. She dropped the restraining order the next day.\n\nFor days the detective working the case was calling and harassing my wife to make another statement. The statement she gave was that she found is on the usb and that the entire day was a blurry and she suffers from mental disorders and doesn't remember anything. She in no way implicated me in any of this.\n\nMe and my wife live in a single family home with my mother as well. 7 months later I got arrested where I work. I was released the next day with charges brought against me.\n\nEver since then my wife has been suffering from extreme anxiety and depression. She has suffered abuse as a child and when she saw those things she just wanted to report it so they could try and get help to the children. She thought they would investigate the evidence of crimes, instead they arrested her husband. She has been racked with guilt and has attempted twice since then.\n\nI dont know what I can do to help her. Everyone says to not talk to the police so she and i never did. Would a formal statement to the court be enough for them to drop charges against me being that she is the main witness and the only one who was ever in possession of the evidence? I have no idea how she will handle this when court dates start to come around. She wants to explain what happened and try to make it better but doesn't know how.\n\nThis kind of behaviour from law enforcement has turned her trust away from the system. She reported illegal material to the authorities who then instead of investigating the crimes, turn around and try to blame her husband. She is now terrified of police and sirens and due to her previous mental instability has severe anxiety attacks when she hears or sees them. She was let go from her job because she couldn't handle just functioning day to day. \n\nThe only thing I thought could be possible would be if she wrote a statement explaining what happened, explaining her intentions in reporting the material, and explaining how she was treated\/influenced by the law enforcement who responded. Would this do anything in this situation? Also would letters of character witnesses for me be beneficial? Someone recommended that I get people I know who reputable to write statements about my character.","title":"My wife reported illegal material on a USB stick and without warning I was arrested 7 months later.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569521867,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9njfa\/university_parking_violation_mo\/","id":"d9njfa","body":"Hey guys, I just wanted to reach out with some questions. \n\nToday when I parked on campus, I paid my meter fees like I do on a daily basis and proceeded on to class. I did keep the receipt with time stamps. When I returned to my vehicle, I saw that I had been served with a parking violation even though there were still 20 minutes in my allowance. I sent an email with the picture of my receipt and ticket as a part of an appeal process and I also reached out to the parking and transportation office with no answer. However, to me, this isn\u2019t about the ticket. The parking monitor on this side of campus is notorious for doing things like this often, so my biggest question is can I take any legal action for something like this? I\u2019m sure I can get my $2 I paid in meter fees back but I\u2019m just curious if there\u2019s anything worth going for here.","title":"University Parking Violation [MO]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569072371,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7agq2\/its_a_long_story\/","id":"d7agq2","body":"I need to rant\nSo I worked at this place for literally less than a week and was let go for 2 reasons. \n1. I was unable to make a sale of a cable\/internet bundle because the areas they serviced were small af\n2. I couldn't relocate to Houston in a week ( like seriously wtf??) \nSo I started the 29th of August and with a pay period gap of 2 weeks I would've gotten my check on the 13th of this month for the week I worked there (\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude2d)\nWell it is now the 21st and I still have yet to get this check. \nI've been in contact with the CEO ( btw is a condescending asshole ) and was told last Friday he would direct deposit(dd) it into my bank account. Cool right?? Well yeah that didnt happened so I waited till monday evening to text him just incase the weekend fucked up the dd. He texted me back Tuesday saying he would have a physical check for me to pick up on Friday (yesterday) at an office of another branch of this weird company structure (think of the tv show the office branch kind of system). Okay annoying but whatever. So I text him Thursday evening asking for the address and a good time to come swing by. Hear nothing till I text him in the morning asking for the address and a time again and he says he put my check on dd. I ask whats going on because I was told I'd get paid last Friday through dd and then had to reach out again to be told it'd be a physical check only to find oit the day of that it was being dd ( still hasn't shown up yet btw and I even called my bank to see if there was a pending deposit on my account , there isn't) so I ask for confirmation that my dd was put through on his end. Motherfucker tries to tell me he did me a FAVOR BY PUTTING IT ON DD\nHere comes the rant lol\nPaying me the money I'm owed for working this stupid ass job isn't doing me a favor its the LAW. Money which as of rn on Saturday 8 days after I was initially supposed to be paid I have yet to receive! I have to go food shopping but can't afford it because I'm waiting on this check to come through.\nI sent this dumbass 2 texts ( same text just copy and pasted and hour apart ) asking if he maybe put a wrong number for my account number in or something because my bank confirmed I have nothing trying to deposit into my account. \nCurrently I'm waiting for a reasonable hour to ask him to \"cancel\" this dd and just let me come pick up a physical check so I can actually get the money I'm owed without wondering wtf is going on with the dd \ud83d\ude12\ud83d\ude12\ud83d\ude12\ud83d\ude12\nYall.... if you get stopped by people at walmarts for spectrum or att with stupid little ipads turn and run. This company is fucking bullshit and its CEO is a complete jerk who talks to people however he wants because he has \" half a million in his bank account and this and that blah blah blah all within 6 years\" <--- why he told me that idk it was really weird to be told how much money someone has like that lol\nAnyways the company moved to Houston so yall look out \ud83d\ude02\nAlso if yall have any advise please share it below because I'm literally at my wits end \ud83d\ude02\n(This all takes place in Texas btw in case that helps with any laws. Sorry for typos I'm really irritated rn )","title":"Its a long story... \ud83d\ude44","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571103321,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di0mzh\/fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree\/","id":"di0mzh","body":"If a crime was recorded by an illegal CCTV camera in a public bathroom would that evidence fall under fruit of the poisonous tree?","title":"Fruit of the poisonous tree.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541722713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vfk77\/someone_stole_my_water_bottle_hydro_flask\/","id":"9vfk77","body":"I am a high school student and I was in my class and I had left my water bottle on my desk. Soon came lunch and I left without my water bottle. I have a class in that same room after lunch and when I came back it wasn\u2019t there. I checked with the teacher, lost and found, my classmates, and posted it on social media. Soon I got a response that they heard someone took it and \u201cdestroyed\u201d it. What can happen to them if they get caught? My school does have cameras, there are two entrances to this classroom and one of them is not shown by the cameras.","title":"Someone stole my water bottle (hydro flask)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571330623,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj90xk\/tx_current_employer_contacting_future_employer\/","id":"dj90xk","body":"Hello all,\n\nRecently my entire office was fed up with the poor management and treatment from the company we all work at. We were pushed over the edge and each individually decided to look for new jobs. We work in a very niche field and a company down the street was hiring a large number of people in our field and we all ended up accepting offers from the same company. I am still at the old job but I have already given my two weeks notice.\n\nThe new company did not approach us with the positions, we each individually applied on our own accord and received offers. Today, I found out my current boss approached the company we are all going to move to and accused them of poaching his entire office since now he is SOL without anyone to do any work. \n\nThe new office informed him that they were unaware that they had hired the entire office but that we had each approached the company, and not the other way around. My question is, I fully believe my reputation has been damaged at the new company before I have even started (because they will think we just all abandoned the other job because we don\u2019t want to burn a bridge and tell our managers that they are horrible and the reason why everyone left) and I\u2019m not sure if there is anything saying what he did was illegal in contacting our future employer?\n\nThank you for y\u2019all\u2019s input.","title":"(TX) Current employer contacting future employer","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503312383,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v24bh\/landlord_woes_leaky_ceiling_and_other_things\/","id":"6v24bh","body":"So I moved into my first apartment in May in CT. This was a recently \"renovated\" home with three units. Within the first week I noticed a leak coming through my ceiling. I immediately notified the landlord and he came by within a few days, cut a couple holes in my ceiling to diagnose the source and then left. Since then I have buckets under the holes, inconvenient but what else to do. Anyways, this was back in May, I've contacted the landlord multiple times about it and every time it's \"I'll be by next week\", and he never shows. \n\nAlso, there's no heat in the house... at all. We have hot water but none of us have been too concerned about heat just yet as it's been summer. All of the tenants in the house have spoken to him about installing the new heater, but same story as above.\n\nNot nearly as important but when we(all tenants) moved in May we were told he would be installing a washer and dryer in the basement for common use. This is still not done but also not promised in the lease so, I think we have no points to argue there.\n\nI just really want my leak fixed and I want to make sure I will have heat come fall. What can I do besides pester my landlord. Is anything he is doing illegal? ","title":"Landlord woes - leaky ceiling and other things","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1410410930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g2rt8\/advise_requested_for_3day_notice_to_perform\/","id":"2g2rt8","body":"I received a notice on my door this evening saying i had 3 days notice to perform conditions or quit. The condition is I am violating a line within my lease agreement that says i need to pay my apartment utility bill (energy, sewer, trash, water). \n\nI have been residing in my apartment for 2.5 years and had auto-pay setup with the company (NWP) providing the service. At the back of my 3-day notice was a paper bill showing that my auto-pay was cancelled and my bill hasnt been paid since January 2013 and that I owe $1210. \n\nI immediately panicked and paid off 20% of my bill as it is completely impossible for me to pay this bill off completely in the next 3 days.  I have never had issues with paying my bills and have lived in the complex for 2.5 years with never any payment issues. I always figure if there is an issue, i would be called, my service shut off, or i would receive a letter? I realize its my fault for never having checked, but 1.5 years and im just now getting notification of my failure to pay? \n\nAlso, having logged in to my account, i can see that my landlord had been notified since September 2013 about this issue and i was never contacted. \n\nFurthermore, i just signed a new lease agreement with my apartment complex, as it is under new ownership which is effective starting September 1st. I submitted the signed copy of the lease to my property manager on August 30th and since then i haven't received a copy of my new lease. \n\n\nI am willing to enter into a payment plan with NWP to get this $1210 paid off in a timely fashion. I am 100% certain i can have it paid by the end of the year, if not earlier, just not in the next 3 days. \n\nI am wondering what i can do to try and get my landlord to be understanding of this situation? What advise do you have (other than to find a way to pay it off in 3 days...this is literally impossible for me right now). \n\nThank you!","title":"Advise requested for 3-day notice to perform conditions or quit - Northern California","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553366004,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4miej\/just_found_out_my_room_is_illegal_city_inspector\/","id":"b4miej","body":"So I am renting a room out in nyc. My main tenant hasn't been truthful to any of us 7 tenants in the house. We recently found out about the first inspection which happened monday. However, the tenant did not tell any of us until 3 days later. She also sent a text of the letter. I used that info to contact the quality of life department and here is what I (and what my tenant who is also living in one of the rooms did not tell me).\n\nI found out that the first inspection could not be done because a man (I asked but I wasn't told it was) denied entry. The 2nd inspection happened friday and I took off of work to be there because I was highly suspicious of my roommate\/tenant. In short, she was telling the city inspector a bunch of BS about taking one of the old tenants upstairs was taken to court by my tenant roommate. Apparently it got ugly and this is the reason the inspection began because he made a report about the house.\n\nNow the house, according to the quality of health city department, was originally a single family home. He had told me that the house had been illegally divided into several rooms with several people. It originally had 3 rooms and 2 bathrooms. My room and 1 other roommate's room used to be the living room. There is only 1 entrance and exit. The exit to outside is in my other roommate's room which is where the boiler is.\n\nI can't say what's wrong with upstairs but the main issue the city had with the house was that it was illegally converted. They couldn't finish the investigation because 1 of the rooms was locked and the roommate wasn't there. So they are coming back on monday.\n\nI have enough of a savings to avoid a homeless shelter. I've been wanting to leave the city some time and I got my temporary practice permit for nursing in Washington state (been thinking about going there some time to enjoy no income taxes and to go somewhere else where I can be car free for a bit) yesterday so I thought about doing an airbnb for another several weeks to save money befor leaving.\n\nWhat would be my best course of action? I am off tomorrow and Monday. Should I go ahead and pack up my stuff? I have no furniture and a small amount of possessions. I don't think it would be in my best benefit to find another room and do 6 months leases. But I also need to update my resume as well. And I don't think it'll take long for me to find another homecare agency wherever I decide to go.\n\nIs there any benefit to me going to legal aid? I have also withheld rent until I found out the results Monday. I spent hours researching this and apparently in this case I don't have to pay rent since the room is illegal. And also my roommate tenant seems to eager to take 2 of the roommates to court so quickly. 1 of them it's simply because he didn't want to move out when she wanted him to.\n\nI also do not have family to support me. I have a good friend in ca who has offerred to let me stay with her but I have no California nursing license or a car and I don't want to live off of her.\n\nAdvice?","title":"Just found out my room is illegal. City inspector is coming back a third time Monday. What do I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570416918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dedlyu\/extortion_by_landlord\/","id":"dedlyu","body":"I'm living in BC, Canada in a house with 3 units on a shared electrical meter. I'm moving out in a month. \n\nMy landlord received an electrical bill, supposedly higher than in previous years and claims, that it is my consumption that has increased it. \n\nThe next renter is a person I have recommended (we had a good relationship with landlord up till this moment). \n\nThe landlord has sent me an email with the following line:\n\n<...> *your friend wants the place. She would prefer to pay $1400 a month than $1500. We have to charge $1500, to make up for the extra Hydro* *expense* \\[BC Hydro - local electrical utility\\]*. She will still take it for $1500. But, if you choose to pay us the $650 (we can show you the extra bill) I am happy to give it to her for $1400. Just a possibility if you want to help her out.* \n\nContractually I'm not obligated to pay for the utilities, however I'm more concerned about the tone that the communications have taken, as I've received several other emails requesting lump sums under various excuses. \n\nDoes this qualify as extortion? \n\nThank you!","title":"Extortion by landlord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571128587,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di4x6s\/how_likely_am_i_to_go_to_jail\/","id":"di4x6s","body":"Positing in someone else\u2019s POV:\n\nMy girlfriend and I are both 18 we have lived together since April. We both take medications for mental health because she deals with anxiety and I deal with depression. I have a history of suicidal attempts and have been hospitalized. (This is all information needed).\n\nThis is what happened. October 13th, we wake up and forgot to take our medications. Both of us haven\u2019t been consistent with them which impacts are emotions greatly. We started arguing about insecurity issues. I left the apartment to get space and she followed me. I eventually went back to the apartment to talk to her but she was screaming at me so I locked myself in the bathroom. She thought that I was trying to kill myself so she tried to break down the door. I opened it and she proceeded to yell at me so I grabbed our car keys which have pepper spray chained onto them and sprayed her in the face with it. I don\u2019t know what came over me and I regret this deeply. She was in a lot of pain and told me to call an ambulance so I did and calmly explained what happened. The police came and questioned us and both of our stories were consistent. My girlfriend said she did not want to press charges and the police arrested me anyways. I was released on a 5,000 bail that same night.  My arraignment is November 3, 2019. The bails bondsmen said that I\u2019m lucky that I\u2019m only getting charged with a misdemeanor which means the most jail time I can do is a year. This is in California. I\u2019m in college right now and I know this will ruin my life. Any advice would be very appreciated.","title":"How likely am I to go to jail.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554297501,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8xuda\/child_abuse_case_from_10_years_ago_still\/","id":"b8xuda","body":"So long story short I recently found out my gf had sex (willingly at the time) when she was 13 with a 24 year old (yes this was her first time). This 24 year old was a cousin of one of her cousins (so no blood relation) and she states they wanted to get married. She never told anyone except me and I suggested she should have reported it years ago because this is child abuse but she didn\u2019t because of fears of repercussions from her family who may think she was lying and it would divide the family, so it was covered up for years. Now I have a sore spot with child abuse so clearly it hit a string with me and we decided to seek local groups who can possibly help with contacting the appropriate personnel and reporting the incident but in the meantime I was wondering if there is any legal advice on here, we have a few questions:\n\nIs this even possible to pursue now years later? It will be her word against his\n\nShe currently lives in IL and this happened in TX, can this even be reported in IL? And how could we report in a different state, I assume we have to travel back to Texas to file a report?\n\nIs there anything she should do from here on out to help facilitate the process, or is she best off to go to a local sexual abuse center and get advice and options there?\n\nWill this go to court, and if so will my gf be responsible for lawyer and court fees?","title":"Child abuse case from 10+ years ago, still reportable or futile at this point? [USA, Texas]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552167926,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az8iph\/my_aunt_is_suing_my_boss_is_there_anything_i\/","id":"az8iph","body":"I\u2019m in Illinois. I work in an HOA and my Aunt is suing one of the members of the Board of Directors. While I do not report directly to this person, they are still above me. My Aunt and this board member were good friends and I knew my boss very well before she was even seated on the board. Basically, my boss defaulted on a loan that my Aunt gave her which resulted in the lawsuit.\n\nAnyway, should I just let things play out, or should I request that my boss recuse herself from anything having to do with my employment? I do have a family friend who is an employment attorney that can give them a stern phone call or letter. Like I said, I do not report directly to her, but with her on the Board, she can still have an impact on my employment whether if it comes to raises, termination, etc. What should I do?","title":"My Aunt is suing my boss. Is there anything I should go to protect my employment?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506893539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73ogzr\/il_i_got_tboned_at_a_4_way_stop_other_driver_at\/","id":"73ogzr","body":"I was involved in an auto accident last week and want to make sure I'm fully informed of my rights, and that I'm not leaving anything on the table. \n\n1. If offered, what's an acceptable total loss? Anything between KBB and NADA values.\n2. Should that include taxes, tags, fees, etc that I would have to pay again?\n3. Due to collision and airbags deployed, is there any recourse for lowered resale value, if\/when it is repaired? \n4. Should SF pay for my Dr. appointment? I had just seen my primary physician 3 months prior for annual physical. Dr said I'm fine, and I feel fine as well. No other tests needed. \n5.  Anything else I'm missing?\n\nThe other driver admitted fault at the scene, and later to his insurance company (State Farm). He blew through a 4-way stop, and hit the passenger side of my car going 40+ MPH. Both our vehicles had to be towed. Police took statement from both of us, but I didn't receive a copy of the police report, just a Illinois Motorist Report. The following morning, I called my insurance company (Allstate) and they said to call State Farm and start the claim there, if one hadn't been already. And to call them back if I had any issues with SF. \n\nI called State Farm, gave them info of the accident, they called me back within an hour, stating the other driver admitted fault, and they would work with me either a) repairing my vehicle or b) declaring it a total loss. I've already taken everything out of the car, and they will be evaluating the damages early this week to determine if it's a total loss or not. My vehicle is a 2014 Kia Cadenza, $17K left on loan, purchased 6 months ago for $21K. With all options and current mileage, KBB lists dealer price at $20.6K, and NADA at $20.9. \n\n\nAny advice would be wonderful. Please let me know if I'm leaving out any helpful information. \n\n[edit] - State Farm got me a rental for the duration of the repair, and\/or 7 days after total loss is declared. \n\nThanks! \n","title":"(IL) I got t-boned at a 4 way stop. Other driver at fault, want to make sure I know my rights.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446087624,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qnk8s\/us_a_question_of_online_gambling\/","id":"3qnk8s","body":"(United States)\n\nSay we have a stream on twitch.tv (thus, international) that offers various gambling games (using fake money of course), but we introduce a paid currency to do things other than participate in the game itself (to change the secondary color of your name, etc.). Tokens can also be randomly earned (very rare) chance during a specific event on our stream, one at a time, to one random participator. This paid currency has an exchange rate of $1 USD = 1 token, and there is **no way** to exchange the tokens back into USD, and there never will be.\n\nNow, I understand there are plenty of laws regarding actual money gambling, but I believed before that those laws only regarded **actual money itself** being bet on something, or substitute currency that can be exchanged back, which ours cannot be. Are there any legal problems with the gambling of the exchange currency (tokens)? If so, which laws?","title":"[US] A question of online gambling","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553503406,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b582sm\/stop_and_identify_statute_in_georgia\/","id":"b582sm","body":"Just curious about the specifics when it comes to identifying yourself to the police. I know during traffic stops you always have to show ID, but what about terry stops? Reading the statute I'm understanding it as you do NOT have to identify unless you are being arrested, not detained.\n\nIf you are placed under reasonable suspicion, and detained, do you have to identify yourself to police? I know the statute applies differently for loitering\/prowling.\n\nThis question isn't personally related to me, I'm literally just curios because I saw someone at work get arrested tonight. An off duty cop saw a civilian he recognized that had a warrant, told an on duty cop and the on duty cop had him identify and was then arrested because he did have a warrant. Could he have declined to identify?","title":"Stop and Identify Statute in Georgia","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445486470,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pqaox\/pawill_the_cops_come_calling_about_distribution\/","id":"3pqaox","body":"About 5 years ago I sold some weed. Not a lot, not regular but I did. A then friend knew I did this. Last week I hung out (yes, just hung out, nothing else) with a female friend of his. He has a major crush on this chick. He's now saying he's going to call the cops (claims he has text messages that prove I did this) if - well I don't know really: wants me to get the girl to apologize for hanging out with me and \"disrespecting\" him I think. Says if I don't, he'll go to the cops. I know if he does to keep my mouth shut and ask for a lawyer, but does this sound like something they would be interested in?\n\nI was stupid and I've cleaned up my act now and I can't actually do anything he wants me to do.\n","title":"(PA)will the cops come calling about distribution?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555674612,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bey7ns\/breaking_a_lease\/","id":"bey7ns","body":"I'm curious if this counts as breaking a lease. I have not discussed this with my landlord yet, and I'm curious of the possible backlash I could have. Thanks for the advice now!!\n\nI'm moving across the country for a life-changing job offer. I'm planning on moving when I still have two months left on my lease. To be clear, I intend to move out, deeply clean, and to pay the last two months rent even though I won't be there. I planned on mailing the keys back to them a few days before my lease actually ends.\n\nI'm staying with family when I move for this new job and won't be getting a new lease until long (approx 5-6 months) after my current lease is done. Will I be charged for breaking a lease? I can't find any info on this that actually pertains to this situation. I intend to pay the last two months. Is it really such a problem?\n\nTL:DR; moving across country. Though I intend to pay out the rest of my lease, is leaving early breaking it?","title":"Breaking a Lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541577450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uxj5q\/harrassment_from_upstairs_neighbors_and_false\/","id":"9uxj5q","body":"I live in Ontario Canada.\nUsing a throwaway as my main account can easily be identified. \n\nI'm looking for advice. I've been living in a main floor unit since September 2017. Rent paid to date and no issues with my landlord, in fact landlord is fine. \n\nHowever ever since I've lived here I've had nothing but problems with the upstairs tenants. The first half of my lease I was out of town during the week for work and my brother would come over and feed the cat and make sure my place was ok. Therefore I was almost *never* home.\n\nThis is  where it gets problenatic. My landlord confronted me and told me the tenants upstairs were \"concerned\"  that I was a \"prostitute\" because a strange man came to the house for a short period of time and left a few times during the week. Umm.... Wtf.\nFirst of all I wasn't home and second of all, who I have over and how often is zero of their business. Also uh no. This is really bothering me as even though it isn't true, I have a strong reputation with my career in this city and a rumour like that could be devestating. The woman of the couple does not work and seems she has nothing better to do than create stories. Any time someone comes over, my friends ask why there is a woman starring out the window and its creepy. \n\nMultiple times a week the tenants upstairs will bang around all hours of the night. I have put music on at 7:30 on a Saturday night just loud enough so I could hear it while I get ready and she's complained. She's even turned off my washing machine in the basement because it's \"too loud\" which has nothing to do with me. At all.\n\nI am so sick of living here. Obviously I'm planning on moving in the new year but in the meantime I am extremely embarassed to bring any guest including my own family over. My girlfriend who has been staying noticed that even when she watches tv they bang around. \n\nI've told my landlord of all the incidences and that I am very unsatisfied with my home. He keeps says I am a laid back person and he's surprised they complain about me and I've even offered to give them my number so they can text me. I am very reasonable even after the shitty accusation because I just don't want drama in my home. He said they are long term tenants so I feel he's not telling them to stop because they are a guaranteed cheque meanwhile this place has had tenants in and out (from what he's told me....wonder why).\n\nWhat can I do without causing unnecessary issues? I just want a place where I am comfortable in my own home. \n\n","title":"Harrassment from upstairs neighbors and false accusations that can damage my career","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540411219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r34ue\/ma_if_i_sublet_my_room_and_there_is_an_eviction\/","id":"9r34ue","body":"I signed a lease for September 2018 - August 2019 in Boston\/Cambridge area. I like the apartment but due to my roommate's behavior and lease violations, I would like to move and live by myself.\n\nIdeally, I'd like to break my lease, but am aware it is very difficult. Otherwise I will just sublet.\n\nMy questions are:\n\n* will I have trouble signing on to a lease if my name is already on one lease?\n\n* my roommates have violated our lease before, and I'm worried they may do it again (I have already discussed with them and have little reason to believe they will stop). If I sublet my room while they continue to violate the lease, and they eventually get served an eviction notice, how does that affect me? Do I also have an eviction on my record? \n\n* am I obligated to report lease violation to my management company? I want to leave with as little drama or liability as possible. \n\n* what are my other options?","title":"[MA] If I sublet my room and there is an eviction, how am I affected?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412723797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ilvod\/what_are_examples_of_american_criminal_law\/","id":"2ilvod","body":"I'm writing an essay about a child abuse case and what principles would be implicated, and I have no idea where to start. I can't tell if I should start by discussing mens rea, recklessness, or something else entirely. Any help would be hugely appreciated","title":"What are examples of American criminal law principles? I'm writing an undergrad essay and feel lost","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1409926147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fju9z\/help_with_terrible_telecom_company_us\/","id":"2fju9z","body":"[Colorado - USA]\n\nWe have a small non-profit business. Our location is right in the middle of a town of 150,000+ people and a major university on the corner of a major intersection. And yet, somehow, our internet service options are horrendous. Right now, the top speed we can get is 1.5 Mbps. We are technically paying for 3 Mbps, though our ISP openly admits that we'll never get more than 1.5.\n\nOk, that's the situation. Here's my question. The FCC is cracking down on ISPs for slow speeds and poor infrastructure. Right now the FCC defines \"broadband\" as being >=  4 Mbps (though I've heard that may be changed to 10 soon). Since we have a DSL connection, but we're not getting anything close to what the FCC considers broadband, do we have any legal recourse to somehow force our ISP into doing something to increase our speeds?\n\nMany thanks in advance.","title":"Help with terrible telecom company. [US]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569949388,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbwcu4\/guy_comes_up_to_me_in_school_and_punched_me\/","id":"dbwcu4","body":"(United States, Piedmont Oklahoma) I have an iPhone XR and I was walking to my other class today and this guy comes up to me and punches me and my phone fell and the glass back is shattered. One of the principals saw it happened and said they can't do anything about it because it's personal property even though he punched me. This guy should have to pay the $400 it costs to replace it right?","title":"Guy comes up to me in school and punched me pretty hard and my phone falls and the back gets shattered","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551907347,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay455n\/cops_want_to_talk_to_me_about_me_about_a_crime\/","id":"ay455n","body":"I forwarded my attourney's office number so he could organize a \"talk\" where I could have my attourney present.\n\nThis douchebag proceeded to leave a message on their answering machine calling it \"suspicious\" I was already lawyering up. The lady called me to say she hadn't called back yet but said that to me.\n\nAm I doing this this right by getting the lawyer or am I just incriminating myself? Is wanting my fifth and sixth amendment suspiciou","title":"Cops want to talk to me about me about a crime that occurred five years ago where my name came up","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569594999,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da1bf6\/va_cops_keep_following_our_newly_registered\/","id":"da1bf6","body":"So, I know that when you move permanent residences, you\u2019re required to change your license over to the state that you now reside in. However, my boyfriend is from Pennsylvania, has his permanent address there, and is only in Virginia for college. He pays out-of-state tuition because he is not a Virginia resident. I, however, am a Virginia resident.\n\nThe cops around here seem to have a problem with him holding a Pennsylvania license and having non-VA plates- they continuously follow our cars non-Virginia plates (literally every single time we take them out one or two sheriffs will follow us, but my Virginia-registered car is never followed), and we\u2019ve been pulled over by three cops at once before because they don\u2019t understand why we\u2019d have a non-Virginia plate and considered it sketchy (told us that it looked like our vehicle had been stolen, even though when they ran the VIN nothing suspicious came up, and the car itself is registered and insured). They will even call backup when we get pulled over, despite the fact that nothing suspicious has occurred. Nothing ever comes of these interactions, because we aren\u2019t breaking any laws, but it\u2019s uncomfortable that cops will literally pull off if they\u2019re in front of us just to get behind us and follow the car.\n\nAnytime they\u2019ve pulled us over, they tell my boyfriend that he has to change his license over to a Virginia license since he plans on staying here for more than thirty days. This seems odd to me. No one I know who attends college here from out-of-state has had to change their license over (a college of over 35,000 students, mind you). The DMV always asks for a permanent residence, which for him is in Pennsylvania. He\u2019s registered to vote there and, again, pays out-of-state tuition. Further, he does not live in Virginia in the summers and isn\u2019t here to work, just for college. \n\nI\u2019m a little confused as to whether what the cops are saying is true. If it is, does that means students attending an out-of-state college would have to register a new license at the DMV with their dorm address? That doesn\u2019t seem like it would make sense, since that clearly isn\u2019t a permanent residence.\n\nFurther, I am concerned that they are trying to get him to switch his license over so that they have more jurisdiction over him and our cars. They\u2019ve said in the past that since it\u2019s out-of-state, they can\u2019t comment on inspection or his license, and I\u2019m worried they\u2019d seek to punish him if he did happen to have a Virginia license. He\u2019s had his license wrongfully suspended in the state of Virginia before (which the courts and DMV both admitted to), but he still had to pay reinstatement fees... even though nothing happened. He\u2019s also been told that he has to hand over his Virginia license before (for the supposed suspension), even though he doesn\u2019t have one. The cops\/courts did not believe that he did not have one, and required we go to the DMV and get proof that he didn\u2019t. After we provided proof, it basically dropped. \n\nBut now they seem very intent on getting him to switch over to a Virginia license, and I\u2019m worried that they\u2019ll just reinstate that undeserved suspension (he basically had a moving violation that got dropped- not lowered or pled down, entirely dropped- but they suspended it anyway, and we had to fight with the courts to prove that there was no sentence given that would have caused his license to be suspended).\n\nSo, my question is: does he have to change his license to a Virginia license in order to attend college here from out-of-state, despite paying out-of-state tuition? And is there any recourse we can take in regards to the police continuously following our cars? Two sheriffs followed us from the highway to our house once at 2am, which was very unnerving. They just sat outside it once he parked and eventually drove away.","title":"[VA] Cops keep following our newly registered, out-of-state car and debating the legality of my boyfriend\u2019s out-of-state license.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555466826,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be2ctx\/divorce_agrements_and_abuse_post_finalization\/","id":"be2ctx","body":"My mom and dad divorced back in roughly Valentine's 2011\/2012. They signed a divorce agreement and had it finalized. But through the years my dad has become more and more hostile, ( marginally ) physically and emotionally abusive towards my mom. Demanding his part of the money he was promised in the agreement.\n\nMy question is, can the divorce agreement get changed due to this, barring him from anything he was promised?\n\n Me, my sister, and brother in law have all been witnesses to his abuse since we live here still. All three of us have been targets for the emotional abuse as well. All of which is that of screaming, demeaning, put downs, and threats.","title":"Divorce agrements and abuse post finalization","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447099893,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s6cx2\/at_fault_in_car_accident_and_need_to_pay_16k_to\/","id":"3s6cx2","body":"I only had $5k liability coverage. I am currently 18, and live in NJ with my parents. Can they sue me? Should I declare bankruptcy if they do? I was driving my own car, not my parents' car, and the insurance company of the other driver is asking for $16,000.","title":"At fault in car accident and need to pay $16k to other party. I do not have this money. What are my options?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570322598,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddw58c\/about_to_complete_probation_and_receive\/","id":"ddw58c","body":"Location: Wisconsin \n\nAbout: 2 low class felony charges. At sentencing was sentenced to probation and if terms of probation were followed I am granted expungement of said charges. \n\nI do not have other charges besides the ones in question.","title":"About to complete probation and receive expungement on 2 felony charges. With expungement are my firearm rights restored","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570649613,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfm3wm\/my_family_and_i_got_screwed_by_a_conman_what_can\/","id":"dfm3wm","body":"We met a man who was an author, and he was determined to follow George Romero\u2019s style of filmmaking to bring his book to life.\n\nSo a friend of mine who had been speaking with him for a while told me he was legit, so I signed on to help shoot this movie, from there my wife, best friend, and everyone in my household had a hand in this movie at one time or another.\n\nAfter signing contracts, he made our life a living hell. \nFor 6 months he played sides with others working for him, just to make them fight.\nHe had us up til 4am with screaming matches.\nWherein he would tell one group of people one thing, and tell the others another thing and watch them fight.\n\nBeing the owner of the company I expected that he would be somewhat honorable.I filed numerous complaints against people fighting and threats of violence against me and my family. (Which we later found out was because of him)\n\nAfter everything was said and done with the movie, he kept browbeating us, telling us we weren\u2019t doing enough and that if we don\u2019t go out into the sweltering heat and try to drum up business, that the movie was done, contracts were canceled and that we would not be paid.\n\nIt even came down at one point to him telling us that if we tried to go to work or church, that we would be fired.\nAt this point we had been taking him on his word for 3 months and had bought props and costumes and gave him lodging, so he owes us money for that, and we still haven\u2019t been paid for the money he\u2019s made off the movie this far... what can we do against him?","title":"My family and I got screwed by a conman, what can I do?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541293894,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tzjbv\/workplace_harassment_filed_police_report_told\/","id":"9tzjbv","body":"Nebraska\n\nI was, as I believe, sexually assaulted at work. I have had previous issues with this coworker before where he insisted on me coming to his house, following me around to talk to me instead of doing his job, and figuring which unit in the hospital I was working on (still no idea how he'd fine that out) and go patient room to patient room to find me.\n\nSpecific incident: male coworker said hello as I was about to go into a patient's room. I said hello back and in what felt like an instant he grabbed me for a hug and kisses my cheek. I pulled back and he held me tighter, arms pinned so I couldn't push him away, and tried to kiss me on the mouth. I tried to lean back away from his advances but he held me so tightly I couldn't push him away. Managed to jerk my body back hard enough to get away, almost fell backwards. He then asked me for my number as if nothing wrong had happened. Immediately reported this, my employer has been on top of the situation and supportive.\n\nFiled a police report that night after work in the station. It took three days for my report to make it to the sexual assault Dept and I had to call multiple times before a detective finally called back. She told me that what happened didn't count as sexual assault or any kind of assault. Said the most that could be done was file for a harassment order and I'd \"possibly\" get one approved (I'd already applied the day after the incident but they told me it would take a week before the judge would look at it).\n\nSo here I am, no protection order yet, with this guy having shown that he has the gall to stalk me at work even, and police are telling me that I wasn't technically assaulted. I feel so helpless and like nobody is taking this seriously, like I'm being laughed at or something. I feel vulnerable and don't want to go back to work, ever.\n\nThe wording in the NE statute that defines assault is iffy, I feel like the wording could be interpreted to fit in my favor but idk. I'm so lost and idk what to do. And the police are 0 help.\n","title":"Workplace harassment, filed police report, told incident doesnt qualify as assault under state laws","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569007573,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6ztsb\/geico_car_insurance_question_about_a_claim\/","id":"d6ztsb","body":"Hello long story short, I had a claim with Allstate for hail damage and they cut me a check for 2,400.\nI fixed my car in shop and I payed them with cash. \n\nNow a hail storm hit my car again and I submitted the claim with Geico. I have a video of the hail hitting my car and photos of that hail storm, Geico is saying that because I don\u2019t have propf of the repairs from my orevious hail damage they can only pay me $150 totally stupid. \n \nI took it to Geico Adjuster and he is saying damage looks different from previous claim. \n\nI have video when the hail was hitting my car. \n\nNow an insurance specialist is saying that they are going to pay me $150. \n\nWhat do you guys recommend to do?","title":"Geico car insurance question about a claim.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539626962,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9of5yp\/can_my_landlord_charge_me_so_much_for_cancelling\/","id":"9of5yp","body":"Okay so to keep this short. \n\nI signed a lease for a room I was supposed to live in this current school year. I ended up not going to this school so I broke my lease. BEFORE I ever lived there. I have never even stepped foot in the building.\n\nThey said I needed to find someone to take my lease over or they were going to bill me for the whole year even if I can't live there. As in they wouldn't give me a key or access to it, but I would have to pay rent for as long as there wasn't a new tenant in my spot. Fine. Ok. I find a new tenant and now I have to pay one months rent to switch over the lease.\n\n?????? \n\nYes, I signed a lease prior to living there. Has the lease started yet ? Even when this was all done months before the lease says anyone was allowed to live there? The reasons listed for this cost are, cleaning to make room for the new tenant and the time it takes them in the office to switch over the lease.  They did the switch on the phone with me in less than a half-hour. And they obviously wouldn't have to hire any extra cleaning. So why can they take my security deposit and a months rent?\n\nSo now the real problem. Their bookkeeper is ridiculous. He didn't answer my THREE emails about this payment until months had passed. Beginning of October he answers finally. He said he was doing me a favor of not sending me to collections all this time but now I have 4 days to get them the money. \n\nSo now, I mailed the check even though I feel like I shouldn't have had to pay anything in the first place (need your help on that). This should all be done with, but it's been a more than a week since when they should have received the check. I have no idea if they have it, and the bookkeeper of course isn't answering emails. I don't want them to take money out of my bank months later as I really don't have the money for this in the first place. I don't want to go through what could happen if my bills took out of my account first and the check bounces. But it's the 15th of October, so I have two weeks for them to settle this before it's going to get so messy. \n\nWhat are my options here? I feel really scammed and I don't want them to ruin my credit on a place I NEVER LIVED IN. Okay thanks in advance and I'm sorry for the length. ","title":"Can my landlord charge me so much for cancelling a lease before I was supposed to live there? Even if I found a replacement tenant? [Philly]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571276023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diza2m\/totaled_someones_car_in_traffic_that_was_on_their\/","id":"diza2m","body":" TL;DR:  Rear-ended someone using their phone when they slammed on the breaks resulting in me slamming my truck into them and totaled their car despite the cushion.  Am I still at fault?  \n\n​\n\n​\n\nHello all I need some advice from the community,\n\nI'm kinda freaking out right now. I got in an accident on the freeway today rear-ending someone that came to a sudden halt when they realized how close they were to the slowed traffic whilst they were distracted. I believe they were distracted by the accident to our right shoulder and the fact that were on a phone call. I had what seemed like the proper cushion distance but couldn't stop as fast due to the fact I drive a truck with armor and is at least 2000-2500 Lbs more compared to their honda CRX. Once the collision happened I drove by into the shoulder and noticed they were in a phone call still even after everything. I'm positive I totaled their car. \n\nThey're claiming that they were only going about 5 mph in the report when we were matched speeds.  I called my insurance company immediately and got their info and took pics and made sure nobody was hurt without claiming fault. When the officer arrived I let him know about the phone and the sudden hard brake. The cop wrote me a ticket for following too closely as well, which I understand is standard procedure. \n\nI had my eyes ahead and did my best to mitigate this whole thing. I'm not trying to work this in any way or get money I just don't want to get sued or pay an exuberant amount of money considering I'm barely making it by due to my move straight out the military. I have decent coverage 25k liability, 15k personal, and 30k property and a 500 deductible. \n\nDoes this make me at fault?  Is there anyway to prove they were in fact distracted? Am I possibly gonna end up paying a bunch of bills for this? Does anyone have any experience with this? Thank you in advanced to anyone who has any input. \n\n​\n\n​\n\n TL;DR:  Rear-ended someone using their phone when they slammed on the breaks resulting in me slamming into them and totaled their car despite the cushion.  Am I still at fault?","title":"Totaled someone's car in traffic that was on their phone am I at-fault?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504629566,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y96zz\/school_kicked_me_out_and_threatening_other\/","id":"6y96zz","body":"Utah, a small technical college dismissed me for \"violation of the code of conduct\" for damage done to a wall I unintentionally did during a panic attack. Last Wednesday I was given no warning, was dismissed with no chance to give my side of the story or defend myself and my actions at all. I was told I could file a grievance form and MAYBE get back in. \n\nToday another student told me that the academic dean that dismissed me told my class that any questioning of her decisions or attempt to help me regain standing with the college would result in their dismissal as well. She also basically told my instructor that if she said anything in the dismissal meeting she would be fired as well. (I should mention this dean who is fairly new to the college is changing EVERYTHING and my program director and the students feel as if she is detrimental to our learning environment) \n\nI have not been back in to visit with the Campus President or the dean, as the long weekend came directly afterwards. \n\nThey dismissed me (who until now has had a PERFECT record- I'm never even late to class) but let the other students that were verbally harassing me and my instructor stay with no more than a warning, even though they routinely break policy. \n\nDo I have ANY legal standing in this? I have it documented that I do suffer from anxiety and panic attacks, I have complained about the other students behavior to my program director and the dean multiple times, have perfect grades, and am employed by a highly reputable healthcare company here.  I can share other pertinent details if necessary, but I feel as if I am being treated unfairly and being made an example of by a woman on a power trip. \n\n","title":"School kicked me out and threatening other students the same if they try to help me...","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554394616,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9esiu\/using_hacking_tools_in_my_hacking_game\/","id":"b9esiu","body":"I am making a hacking game. I would like to make in very similar to real life hacking. Would I get into trouble if I named the tools after the main ones? Like Nmap, Metasploit, etc?\n\n​\n\nI am guessing I would, but I just wanted to make sure I can't.","title":"Using hacking tools in my hacking game","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505067094,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z9trj\/toronto_onman_says_hes_someone_important_who_can\/","id":"6z9trj","body":"The Incident:\nI was heading into a parking spot at Cherry Beach and a large, Caucasian man ran into the parking spot and said \"I'm holding this for my wife.\" His wife was bringing her car around from the other side of the parking lot. So, we get into an argument. He ends up throwing racial insults at me and proceeded to say that \"You don't know who I am; I can make a lot of trouble for you. If you knew who I was you'd be scared right now.\"\n\nHis wife was yelling at me from her car the whole time as well. Bystanders stepped in and told the man he was in the wrong and needed to leave. \n\nSoon another parking spot opened up nearby and his wife just went and parked there. As the man left, he said some more racial slurs.\n\nI finished my parking and went into the dog park. After a couple of minutes I headed back towards the parking lot because I was afraid the man would do something to my car. As I approached the parking lot, I saw him hurriedly run back into his car. And he rolled down his window, as his wife was reversing out of their parking spot, and yelled at me, \"I'm gonna ruin you buddy. You better hope that you don't get pulled over in the next 3 - 6 months.\" And his wife sped off.\n\nA bystander who had witnessed the entire incident from beginning to end gave me his contact info. He told me that the man in question took pictures of my car license plate and VIN. \n\nI became scared that this man might actually be someone in an authoritative position that could harass and ruin my life. I went to file a police report and the officer at the station said there was just not enough to actually file a report. He advised me to make a detailed note of the incident for my own records and just incase something does happen in the near future. But, at the moment, there was nothing he could do about it.\n\nI'm still scared. I'm not sure what to do. I've been going to Cherry Beach regularly for years and this is the first time I've seen this man and this is the first time something like this has happened to me. I take his threat seriously. He seemed like an intelligent, well-established person - not a crazy person.\n\nIs there anything else I should do in this situation? Please advise.\n\n***\n\n**Update 1:** I feel better about the situation for now. I guess I'll wait to see what happens. If he does do something, I will be hopefully able to find out his identity and file a complaint with whatever organisation he works for, as well as, an official police report. Thanks to everyone for their advice and help.\n\n**Update 2:** After some time to think about the incident, I do think that nothing else will happen. I feel a lot better about it after reading all the comments and advice here. It was definitely a moment of stupidity on my part as well to get heated over something as silly as a parking spot. Next time I will just let the person have it - it's just not worth the trouble.\n\n***\n\nEdit 1: grammar\n\nEdit 2: I did not get the man in question's name or any other personal info; I also forgot to take pictures of his car\/license plate.\n\nEdit 3: What kind of position would allow a person to harrass someone based off of knowing a person's license plate? I don't think he was an officer, but you never know. Perhaps someone working at the DMV??? Any thoughts on this would be appreciated as well.","title":"[Toronto, ON]Man says he's someone important who can and will ruin my life.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540593725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rpdwn\/employer_cited_new_california_law_for_why_i_will\/","id":"9rpdwn","body":" \n\nHi all, hopefully this is in the correct sub, but will gladly post elsewhere if there are any recommendations...\n\nI am a salaried employee who mentioned to my boss that I need to come in on Saturday to get some more work done. He said he wanted to pay me for coming in on a Saturday, which I thought was odd because I have worked Saturdays in the past.\n\nI asked why pay me now and he said that we in the office will be moving from a salaried to an hourly wage in January - he didn't want me to have to work a Saturday in 2018 and not get paid for it when I will be getting paid for Saturday hours in 2019. Nice of him... right?\n\nI was definitely shocked by this. He told me it's a new California law that is forcing this change.\n\nSo here are my questions:\n\n1. What the heck is this law that is now 'requiring' me to be an hourly employee in California (I work as an admin in Financial Planning)\n2. Is this law something I can refuse? I mean, I was hired with the understanding that I would be paid salary. As far as I'm concerned, if this change happens, I'm no longer working the position I agreed to take\n3. Finally, I have an agreement with my employer that they are paying for my Kaplan courses to become a CFP, however if I leave my position, I will need to re-pay the cost of the course. I have not yet completed the courses, but if my pay gets changed from salary to hourly, would I still be held responsible for the cost of these courses?\n\nI started this job maybe 3-4 months ago, and I feel like this is a total bait and switch on me. This is not what I want, this is not what we agreed on. There has been no mention of what my new hourly rate will be either. But he did say that he will send people home if they need to work OT, so I (among other reasons) am highly skeptical that my hourly wage will end up matching or being greater than my salary on an annual basis.\n\nAny help is so greatly appreciated!!!","title":"Employer cited new California law for why I will be moved from salary to hourly: what's this law? Can I refuse?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540498247,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rdu0c\/my_sister_got_hurt_at_work_a_few_days_ago_after\/","id":"9rdu0c","body":"As title states, she has only been employed there for basically 3ish weeks. She cleans hotel rooms for a very small hotel in the (also very small) town she lives in. While cleaning a room a few days ago, she was startled by a spider and ran from it causing her to trip in the parking lot and hurt her arm (on the clock on the property) After going to the doctor, they told her she bruised her bone (? Still not sure what that means) and that she couldn\u2019t return to work until the following Thursday (today).\n\nThe doctor called her the next day (two days ago) and said after taking another look at the X-ray, it looked like she fractured her arm. When she contacted her employer, they said they would only pay $300\/$700(not sure exact number) medical bills. She hasn\u2019t heard from them at all so she returned to work today to find she\u2019s already been replaced (they only employee one house keeper at a time). She wasn\u2019t given any notice and isn\u2019t sure what to do. \n\n\nIt\u2019s a really unfortunate situation because she desperately needs a job so does she have any ground here? It\u2019s in Mississippi if that matters. ","title":"My sister got hurt at work a few days ago after working there for only a couple of weeks. Employer won\u2019t pay for medical bills and has already replaced her without telling her.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554237441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8okl8\/high_school_diploma_because_of_lost_book\/","id":"b8okl8","body":"The title makes it sounds justified but hear me out. I graduated 3 years ago, I have never received my Diploma because a book was never returned. The books work where every book is assigned a number and then every student signs the book and they keep a log of who has what book. It was a science book that I left in my locker. Assuming it was fine to leave it in there for it be found since it had my name in it and they should have that logged. That didn't happen and this is where it gets shady, they don't know which book was mine. They don't know if the book is truly lost or if its still being used in the school. They directly told me they don't have the logs of which students had what book anymore. Should I dispute this because their record system is inadequate or should I just pay the $170? I would love to fight this because it sounds like they are in the wrong here, I wanted to ask you guys if you think they are in the wrong before I go in there hot and toasty on Friday.","title":"High School Diploma Because of \"Lost\" book","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570827242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgl5ce\/what_can_i_do_about_a_job_i_quit_where_not_only\/","id":"dgl5ce","body":"My now previous employer made a lot of promises in the 9 months I worked for them. They said I would get full time most of the time I did not. They told me I would get peer review and raises at 3 6 and 12 months and I did not. They have exponentially increased my duties and never gave me a raise, one day I called off work because I was having such bad PTSD attacks I couldn\u2019t go to sleep. The next shift I had I had someone in upper management and a couple employees make \u201cI just wanna go home I\u2019m SOOOO tired\u201d or similar jokes around me. I also never told the upper management that I wanted my personal medical business to be public knowledge or told him it was okay to tell other people. What can I do?","title":"What can I do about a job I quit where not only did upper management make jokes about my PTSD but also made promises to me they did not keep","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542176286,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wxi0q\/professors_trying_to_force_me_out_of_programmake\/","id":"9wxi0q","body":"This is going to be a long one. Some background:  \n\n\nI am a student in my mid 20s who transferred from a community college into a top school for the degree I am pursuing.  \nI am the only \"older\" student, as well as the only transfer in my program. This makes me an unusual case.\n\n​\n\nIn order to take junior-level courses at my uni, one needs to take a long and involved exam to ensure they have learned everything they need to for the first two years. Last year, I was not notified of this exam, probably because I was a transfer and independent, so (I'm guessing) that I transferred in the classes where they discuss it with the students. This exam is only held in May.\n\nOver the summer, I emailed the dean and essentially begged him to let me take it before school started because I had not heard about it. I did not want to take a year off due to a technicality, as my SO and moved to this state only so that I could pursue my degree at this school. He agreed. \n\nAn unintended side effect of this is that I made the department head and my advisor look bad, as they had not made me aware of this in the entire year I was there (despite me stating in the email that I was an unusual case and it was nobody's fault). They tried to convince the dean (via group email) that they had been trying to offer me private tutoring to prepare me for it over the summer, which I declined (a giant lie; none of that happened, which is infuriating to me.) Nonetheless, I shrugged it off like a grown-up probably should do, and went in to gather the required materials from them for the test, to prepare myself.\n\n​\n\nThe day of the test, it turns out they only gave me 1 out of 7 parts of what I needed so there's no way for me to complete the exam. I was forced into an impromptu chat with the two of them. I'm positive they were planning on having an extremely nasty yelling session at me, but in preparation for that I brought my SO with me. They were still extremely angry-sounding, but they definitely dialed it back due to having a large 30 year old man sitting next to me watching the whole thing.  \n\n\nWhich again, I let it all go, even though I probably shouldn't have. I told them I would take the one class this year that I could still register for so that we could all just get a fresh start next year. I've been doing that this semester. However, another problem has now arisen;\n\n  \nThe person teaching my class, (not either of them, but one of the other bigwigs there who buddies up with them) seems to be screwing with my grades now. We recently had a test where we specifically were told not to write complete sentences (it's written on the test itself). Every one of my answers was correct, and I received a failing grade because I \"should have spent more time on it.\" I asked her if she wanted complete sentences, she said no. I asked her for a specific example of what that would look like and she became flustered and could not provide me with one. Essentially, she's just fucking with me. She also sent a formal notice to the department head and advisor (see a pattern here?) that I am failing the only class I'm taking...\n\n​\n\nIt's clear that they are either trying to force me out, or at least screwing with my education enough for this to border on being a legal issue. I would deeply appreciate advice on what legal action I can take at this point, especially as this does not seem to be the last of it.\n\n​\n\nThank you.  \n\n\n  \n","title":"Professors trying to force me out of program\/make it impossible for me to go to school because I accidentally made them look bad?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1505372229,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/700mle\/california_apartment_were_leasing_has_prior\/","id":"700mle","body":"Hello. This is a precautionary post on my part in case this continues, and I'm hopeful to gain some insight into this issue. To be concise, the apartment we just started leasing (9\/5) has damages (please correct me if there is a better term) that we discovered upon moving into.\n\nWhat I'm calling damages:\n\n1) 2 of 4 stove burners do not function\n\n2) Significant rust found in medicine cabinet\n\n3) Cracked\/breaking toilet seat\n\nThe apartment is still livable, but they are annoying hindrances. The repair for these features are covered in the lease as the responsibility of the management. They were brought to the attention of the management verbally the following day and again earlier this week with just a \"we're working on it.\"\n\nI understand a replacement toilet seat might take some time to ship in, and that, it being the start of the leasing year, maintenance has a lot on their plate.\n\nWhat I'm concerned with is the fact that these damages were present upon move in. These should have been caught had management\/maintenance checked out the unit after the previous tenants moved out (and potentially deducted a portion of their safety deposit to fix the damages; I don't know why the previous tenants didn't have the issues resolved). There was a 5-day delay from the point that the previous lease ended and ours started, for which our rent was prorated.\n\nShould I casually wait it out and just remind management? Or should I, as one of my housemates wants, seek some sort of compensation, should this persist? The lease we signed was not for a unit with damaged features.\n\nThank you in advance.","title":"[California] Apartment we're leasing has prior damages, management slow to respond","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553617805,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5ruqa\/is_it_animal_abuse_to_wet_willy_my_cat\/","id":"b5ruqa","body":"Hello, longtime lurker.\n\nMy cats are sometimes very annoying and I like to annoy them back. Is it animal abuse to give them a wet willy? If so, what liability would I be opening myself up to? I\u2019m trying to decide if it\u2019s worth it, outside of the mass amounts of scratches I\u2019d more than likely receive.\n\nLocation is California ","title":"Is it animal abuse to \u201cwet willy\u201d my cat?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554236854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8og9g\/sold_my_car_its_being_resold_and_now_theres_an\/","id":"b8og9g","body":"WA state\n\n\n\nTL;DR - I sold a car to a girl who is now reselling about 2 weeks later. Both her and the new buyer keep pestering me about the title and transferring ownership. I\u2019m confused and getting worried.\n\n\n\nI bought my very first car in February, but I wasn\u2019t told about all of the issues it had when I bought it. I was slowly fixing it on my own time until someone hit me and did a lot of damage to the car. That was dealt with quickly and efficiently, and I sold the car to a girl on March 17th because it turned into a bigger project than I could afford. I disclosed everything to her, but she did not disclose everything to this new buyer.\n\nCan that come back on me with lemon laws??\n\n\n\nI did a bill of sale for her, and did a report of sale from my states DOL website. That day and did everything I thought I was supposed to according to the WA DOL\/DMV website.\n\n\nShe told me she got a title for it, and in the ads she was posting on Facebook she said she had the title in hand. But she didn\u2019t. Or shes lying right now so she can save the money she made from the sale (sold for $200 less than I sold it to her, so if she registers it right now she wouldn\u2019t be making any money due to the fees and taxes).\n\n\nNow, this chick is messaging me frantically saying I have to sign a release of interest form for my car. The man she sold it to is also messaging me and requested to meet today to sign a release of interest on the car because the girl \u201ccouldn\u2019t register it without me there.\u201d So now, they are trying to bypass her registering the car and then transferring it to him, and having me sell it straight to him.\n\n\nI have not signed anything. He also flaked on us meeting today. I have saved every single message and I made sure to not do calls, only text just in case. Probably won\u2019t help but still.\n\n\nSpeaking with my sister (who spoke with her coworkers), she said:\n\n\u201cOk I asked (coworkers) who have both done this before. You already reported it as sold so now it\u2019s hers. Coworker said she had someone who didn\u2019t register it and when they would get tickets you just send them bill of sale. It\u2019s legally (girl)\u2019s car.\u201d\n\n\n\nI don\u2019t know I just want to make sure I\u2019m in the clear.\n\n\nCan this car come back on me in any way?\n\nWhat do I need to do to make sure it\u2019s not registered to me anymore?\n\nDo I need to sign the Release of interest form?\n\nDoes the girl I sold it to have to go register the car in her name? Can she?\n\n\nPlease help. This is a bundle of stress I don\u2019t need in my life.","title":"Sold my car, it\u2019s being resold and now there\u2019s an issue. Both the person I sold to and this new buyer are messaging me telling me I need to sign a Release of Interest on the car??? Please help WA state","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540333224,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qtr2l\/i_think_my_housemate_isnt_paying_tax_can_that_get\/","id":"9qtr2l","body":"I'm currently a student in Glasgow, Scotland (so am tax exempt) and I'm living with two friends. I own the property but they live here to make things a little easier financially. One of them is also a student but the other isn't (they currently have a part time job). I don't think my friend who is working pays his tax. Can this get me in trouble as I own the place and live here? \n\nThanks in advance ","title":"I think my housemate isn't paying tax. Can that get me in trouble.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442941267,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lyg3a\/im_pretty_sure_my_bfs_brother_is_going_to_try_to\/","id":"3lyg3a","body":"Hey I'm in Alberta Canada, a few weeks ago my bf and his brother got in an all out brawl.  His brother deliberately said things to provoke him and was actually the one to throw the first punch. My bf lost control and threw a rock at him, missed and hit the passenger side truck window.  His brother was going to press charges but I convinced him not to if we paid to have the window replaced.  \nSo far we have paid him a little over half and are going ot pay the remainder at the end of the month when my bf gets paid.\nThing is he used to be our room-mate and still has one of the landlord issued keys.  IF they don't get that key back when we move they will charge us to change the locks.  He has agreed in writing to return the key (in the mail) in exchange for the remainder of the payment for the window.  If he does not return the key Im only going to pay him 50$ of the remainder 100 left for the window, until he returns the key.  I know that he will try to press charges again at this pint even though the window will have been more than 3\/4 paid at that point.  He has also been publicly slandering both myself and my bf on his public profile page and we have been sent screenshots of and have them for proof.\nCan he press charges if he has agreed in writing to return the key for the remaining 100$ if I only give him 50$ of it until I receive the key? and if he does, can I show the RCMP the screenshots of him agreeing to it and  slandering us and will it effect the outcome","title":"Im pretty sure my bfs brother is going to try to press assault charges even though damages are in the process of being paid, can he do this?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554882095,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbj9xe\/trigger_warning_chronic_child_sexual_abuse_how_do\/","id":"bbj9xe","body":"[Oklahoma, USA] My apologies if I didn't select the correct \"flair.\" \n\nTL;DR - I was raped and molested by my uncle chronically for 7 years. My family covered it up to protect their reputation, no police report was filed, nothing happened to the perpetrator. That was about 15 years ago. My therapist has implied that I can \"report him\" whenever I am ready. I want to do that because I fear he may possess child pornography and may also be sexually abusing other young children in my family. How do I \"report\" him? Can the police do anything if he possesses child porn? Would a lawyer even take me seriously? How do I find an attorney to help me with this and how much money should i expect to invest in something like this? He is a danger to society and needs to be imprisoned. \n\n--\n\nMy uncle molested and raped me from infancy until I was seven years old. I fear he may possess child pornography. I also have reason to believe he is sexually abusing other young children in my family. My family did not protect me and they won't protect the children he is hurting. They will only protect the rapist's parent's reputations, because they are a wealthy Christian family in a small town. I fear if I don't take action, he will hurt more children. It happened in the past and I don't know how I can prove that he molested and raped me. Do I need to find an attorney?","title":"[Trigger Warning: chronic child sexual abuse] How do I report being raped & molested to police?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541984244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w9aso\/paying_for_no_plan\/","id":"9w9aso","body":"I work for a nationwide company and my health insurance with them has been a battle. I was not able to enroll when they said I would be able to, end up just having to them a email of which plans I wanted to enroll in (I still have that email) two weeks past the original date, and my pay has been deducted since then. Four or five weeks later I received a medical card which I thought covered all the plans. I went to pick up a non-emergency prescription which they wanted a prescription card. Come back to work find out there is a prescription card, dental, and eye care plans cards. I contact HR asking how to get my prescription card thinking all of these other cards are on their way but slow. HR recommends calling for a replacement since I \u201cshould have\u201d received one. I call this weekend and the company has no record I am enrolled. I will contact HR on Monday but if I am not enrolled in the plans which I have been paying into what should I do? It should been noted that this company has over a thousand employees and 3 HR staff to cover them so I have to do most of the legwork. ","title":"Paying for no plan","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446835878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rsne7\/are_traffic_signs_in_parking_lots_enforceable\/","id":"3rsne7","body":"I've always wondered this.  Am I actually *required* to obey stop signs, yield signs, etc. if they're in a private businesses parking lot?  ","title":"Are traffic signs in parking lots enforceable anywhere\/NJ?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569977795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc2xz2\/4_car_accident_gets_blamed_on_my_mother\/","id":"dc2xz2","body":"My mom was driving me home from play rehearsal today. We were talking about my grades and problematic classes. When the world slowed down and a white box truck hit us. \n\nWhen it hit we skidded and hit a red car then my mom's car and the red car hit a blue car in front of us. We made sure everyone was fine but my mom's car had a lot of damage. The red car also had a lot of damage. The blue car got a minor dent and the box truck was of course practically untouched. \n\nWhile we were waiting for the cops to make a report the box truck driver told the other drivers that mom was speeding and came out of nowhere. It may seem biased but I know my mother and I know that she feels guilty after accidentally passing a stop sign on an empty street let alone speeding especially with me in the car. I'm seventeen and I hope to get my license soon, so she has been vigilant about being a good example and answering my questions. \n\nThe other two drivers didn't see anything and believed him. They started asking questions like \u201dWhy would she do that?\u201d and \u201dThere are kids in the car!\u201d I have only two questions. Will the insurance agree? And do they have a case if they take this to small claims?\n\nWe can't afford any of this and I'm terrified. The buildings around us were a gas station (the side of the building) a church (the front but they have a massive yard) and a school (I don't think they were close enough for security camera footage) I wrote down the license plate number of the box truck and we live in Massachusetts.","title":"4 car accident gets blamed on my mother.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569650260,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dac7oq\/boyfriend_pulled_over_and_havent_heard_from_him\/","id":"dac7oq","body":"My boyfriend and I were on the phone when he got pulled over about 1.5 hours ago. His phone was fully charged. Since he got pulled over, I have not heard from him, and his phone is going straight to voicemail. Is there anything I can do to help him or figure out what happened?\n\nConcerns:\n\n1) Being on the phone while driving is illegal in GA. However, it\u2019s a $50 ticket, not really an arrestable offense. Side note, I had no idea he was driving while we were talking, or I would have told him to get off the phone. \n\n2) He is driving my car which is registered under my name. He is not on the registration or insurance. \n\n3) He is currently awaiting trial on a misdemeanor LEO interference charge. Therefore the cops in our town probably dislike him if he\u2019s recognized. \n\n4) I am in Chicago and he is in Georgia. I can\u2019t get to GA anytime soon, and I have no way of knowing what\u2019s going on unless I can somehow reach the police and ask them. \n\nWhat can I do right now? Just sit tight and wait?","title":"Boyfriend pulled over and haven\u2019t heard from him since [Georgia]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446831147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rsbg0\/florida_us_relative_may_have_committed_burglary\/","id":"3rsbg0","body":"Initially my relative (cousin) came into my home invited, but I later clearly and repeatedly revoked permission after she started an argument with me. My understanding is that in Florida it is a burglary and not mere trespass if a person enters and remains in a dwelling after permission is revoked and commits a crime while inside. She committed several crimes, including disturbing the peace of my home, which she admitted to the police, and implied threats which may constitute assault, but are unfortunately hard to prove.\n\nMy first question is: Is my understanding of the law accurate, or am I misunderstanding something?\n\nMy second question is: What can I do about the police not acting on this? The police were called for the incident, but would not charge her with even trespassing. In the interest of full disclosure, they did charge me with a crime for this incident, but the charge was dropped. If it's relevant to disclose, I'll disclose it.\n\nThird and final question: If it helps, it is not the first time she has done something of this nature. Not to me, but somebody else. Failing any legal solutions, how would I obtain an injunction against her to prevent any further trespass or contact, assuming this is possible? She is a dangerous individual that I want nothing more to do with.","title":"(Florida, US) Relative may have committed burglary after refusing to leave my home. Police did nothing.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569549428,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9tok0\/rv_dealer_wants_1500_more_after_we_signed_a\/","id":"d9tok0","body":"We special ordered a new travel trailer from a local RV dealer. All negotiations were done over email as I am a push over in person. We went to pick up our camper from them tonight, and give them the trade in as we were leaving it was the first time they saw the trade in and they pointed out that it is not the model they thought it was. To be fair it is not the model in the signed contract, I left it there and they are going to rewrite the contract but at 1500 more I\u2019m not interested. Do I have any legal standing to say I\u2019m not paying more since they took my camper all ready. To be clear I do not have possession of either camper now as they have both on their lot.","title":"RV dealer wants $1500 more after we signed a contract.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539886129,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pbq61\/fired_from_major_retailer_for_objecting_to\/","id":"9pbq61","body":"Title captures most of it but just to expand - my GFs son was employed by a major retail chain as a part-time associate. He applied for and was hired for the electronics department. \n\nAfter a few weeks, they started asking him to work with the unloading crew by taking items off the nightly shipment truck and placing them on pallets. He obliged for the first few times, assuming they needed temporary help. \n\nFast forward a few months and they were asking him about 3\/4 days he worked to do this type of thing. A night of unloading would be just that - a full shift of manual labor. \n\nHe spoke up to an assistant manager and said something like \"I do not wish to continue doing this type of work - it is not what I was hired to do\". The assistant manager told the manager and the manager said to \"just fire him\" \n\nI don't know if this is legal but it certainly doesn't seem like it should be - essentially hiring someone for A and expecting them to do B\n\nHe also has a documented disability - chrons disease - and this type of work is not comfortable with his condition. The employer may not have been aware of such a condition. It didn't get it the way of his electronics position so I see why he wouldn't want to mention it. Things are different with physical labor. But they didn't give him much of a chance to convey this as with the first words of discontent he was fired.. \n\nAny information is appreciated - thank you \n\n\n\n","title":"Fired from major retailer for objecting to perform duties outside of the scope of the job offer","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568410645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3w0xr\/looking_at_jail_time_in_missouri\/","id":"d3w0xr","body":"MO question. Clean criminal record. Charged with three Felony 2nd degree assault charges ranging over a 3-6 month span. Victim has restraining order. Class D felony in Mo. likelihood of serving time?","title":"Looking at Jail Time in Missouri","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539888901,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pc4uy\/apartment_building_bought_by_nonprofit_in\/","id":"9pc4uy","body":"Please advise. I have a lease until April 30th 2019. My building was bought and the new owner called me and told me I have 30 days to move out\n\n1. I know it is not a scam my landlord told me that someone bought the building 1 hour before the new owner called me.\n2. My old landlord told me my lease would still go through until April 2019","title":"Apartment building bought by non-profit in Philadelphia, got a call saying I have 30 days to move out but my lease is until April 30th 2019","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539283177,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ncmu7\/california_i_am_a_male_dominatrix_is_this\/","id":"9ncmu7","body":"Alright so often men pay me to humiliate them verbally, physically (wrestle them, choking punching slapping) making them lick my shoes, feet, socks. My question is, is this prostitution? I never touch their genitals  or let them kiss me, or touch my genitalia \n\nMoney is obviously exchanged ","title":"(California) I am a Male dominatrix, is this prostitution?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445580935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pvivg\/custody_confusion_my_regular_custody_swap_is\/","id":"3pvivg","body":"Hi guys! \n\nI will preface this to say I have emailed a local lawyer about the situation, but I am a healthy mix of antsy\/curious\/confused & unable to sleep, that I decided to come to Reddit in the hopes of getting some perspective or even some answers. \n\n\nPlayers: Me- Brenda, daughter- Bea, Daughter's father - Beau\n\n\nStatus Quo: Beau and I share Bea. We had a custody plan worked out when Bea was in preschool, and we did not use it for the 3 years following. We got along, and saw no need. \n\n\nAs of this year, custody got weird and contentious and we enacted our old agreement. We have mediation and a new court date on the books. Until that mediation, for going on several months now, we have been very very consistently following our old plan. In the entirety of this time, roughly ~240 swaps, we have followed the same formula. One parent texts the other an hour or so before the swap and confirms who will be doing the travel. (we live less than a mile apart) Every single swap has been at our home(s) with the exception of doing two swaps at Bea's school. Every single swap has been between Beau and Me with the noted exception of him handing our daughter to my husband while I was upstairs waiting. \n\n\nOnto my confusion\/the current issues. \n\n\nI texted Beau today to ask him about sharing the cost of a weekend event, since I have our daughter Saturday and he has her Sunday. I didn't hear back and the money was due asap, so I rang him after school got out. He answered and said \"unfortunately he will not be able to bring our daughter to the event as he will be unavailable\". I then offered to take our daughter to the event, and he could pick her up when he was available. He said maybe, and that he would call back. He called back and said unfortunately that wouldn't work since his sister was going to collect her from me and that another time didn't work for her. I then got confused and asked why the sister would be collecting her from me. The custody has never been between anyone else, and in our agreement it says \"with parent 1, except for when with parent 2\". I had a lightbulb moment and asked if he was out of town\/travelling and that is why he missed an important meeting, why our daughter couldn't attend the event Sunday, and why someone else was do due the swap. I offered to keep our daughter all day, and to drop her off at the sisters house in the evening at bedtime. Thanked him profusely for the option and hung up. \n\n\nI then found out he is out of the country!!! \n\n\nI went to bed, happy with the sudden extra time with our daughter, but couldn't fall asleep once I realized that:\n\n\n1) He gave me no notice that someone else would be picking our daughter up, and apparently caring for her while he was out of the country. \n\n\n2) He only told me he was out of town once I realized it, and did not see fit to tell me he was out of the country. \n\n\n3) I have no knowledge of his return date, or who will be caring for our daughter in the interim. \n\n\nWhere do I stand? Can I keep our daughter until he is back in person to collect her? Do I have to drive her 40 minutes away (into another county) from her school and home and leave her with someone that is NOT the other parent? \n\n\nI am not sure legally, where I stand here. Our agreement (reached via court mediation, and filed with the court) states this: \n\n\n*  Parent 1 and Parent 2 share joint legal and physical custody\n*  child is to be with parent 1, unless she is with parent 2\n*  X schedule to follow\n\nWhere do I stand? What are my rights? Halp! \n\n**TL;DR** Supposed to swap custody per usual, but without informing me he was out of the country, my daughter's father wants me to drop her off with his family until he comes home. No return date given. :(","title":"Custody Confusion: My regular custody swap is coming up, other parent is out of the country. (USA, California)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570590655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfb4nz\/utah_do_i_reply_to_affirmative_defenses_made_in\/","id":"dfb4nz","body":"I, *pro se*, filed a Motion for an Order to Show Cause against my Ex-Husband (*pro se*, and is an attorney \\[eyeroll\\]). His Response admits in two paragraphs that we've \"communicated about our children\", denies everything else 21 paragraphs, and *then makes one false claim*. *Then he has an \"Affirmative Defenses\"* section tacked onto the end and a \"Prayer for Relief.\"\n\nFrom what I've read of our state law that applies to the county I live in, [(Motion Practice Before Court Commissioners)](https:\/\/www.utcourts.gov\/resources\/rules\/urcp\/urcp101.html), it says *\"The contents of the reply must be limited to rebuttal of new matters raised in the response to the motion.\"*\n\nI read this in two ways:\n\n1. I can only reply to the *one false claim* he made in his response.\n2. I can reply to the *one false claim* he made in his response PLUS, reply to the *Affirmative Defenses* he made.\n\n**I would really appreciate help to know if I should reply to his Affirmative Defenses (which are all not true \\[eyeroll\\]). My Reply is due by EOB on Thursday, 10\/8\/2019 (45 hours from now).** I've tried to do tons of research on my own but am coming up empty handed and confused. There are so many more details I have left out, hoping what I've provided is enough information to get a solid answer. *Please see his Affirmative Defenses listed below.*\n\n# Thank you so much reddit community!\n\n>\"SECOND DEFENSE \u2013 AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES  \n>  \n>Respondent alleges the following affirmative defenses:  \n>  \n>The Court lacks jurisdiction over the subject matter of Petitioner\u2019s Order to Show Cause.  \n>  \n>The Court lacks jurisdiction over Respondent.  \n>  \n>The Court is not the proper venue for the claims and allegations contained in Petitioner\u2019s Order to Show Cause.  \n>  \n>The process in this matter was insufficient.  \n>  \n>The service of process in this matter was insufficient.  \n>  \n>Petitioner\u2019s Order to Show Cause fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted by the Court.  \n>  \n>Petitioner\u2019s claims are barred to the extent that the doctrines of latches, waiver, estoppel, accord and satisfaction, or unclean hands apply to this matter.  \n>  \n>Respondent reserves all other applicable affirmative defenses that are not yet known or pleaded. \"","title":"[UTAH] Do I Reply to Affirmative Defenses made in Response to a Motion for an Order to Show Cause?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1502893239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u2cbu\/boston_ma_nazis_will_be_marching_in_my\/","id":"6u2cbu","body":"In the past, the KKK or neo-NAZIs would come to my city and there'd be 4 scared-looking white-supremacists and 10,000 anti-protesters telling them to piss off.  This year I'm not convinced it will be like that.  \n\nI'm going to be part of the counter-protest.  And some of my friends will be there with me.\n\nI want to know more about the laws regarding assault, battery, threats of violence, etc.\n\nAt what point do I have the right to fight back physically.  What if it is my girlfriend being accosted, at what point can I legally step in and physically defend her?  What if it is a stranger?\n\nIf a protester spits on you, do you have any legal recourse other than washing it off?\n\nI know this is a bit of an unusual post.  But these are unusual times.\n\nThank you in advance for any advice you can offer.\n\n**edit** This thread was originally locked.  I spoke with a mod who was kind enough to reverse their decision.  And I agreed to keep the politics to a minimum here on out and focus only on legal issues.","title":"[Boston, MA] NAZIs will be marching in my neighborhood Saturday. Looking for advice on right to self-defense, or protecting others, etc.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551621993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awu9ja\/breaking_a_sublease_nj\/","id":"awu9ja","body":"Greetings Everyone,\n\nSo I am a recent grad that recently moved from philly to Jersey City for a job in Manhattan.\n\nIn order to find housing I utilized a start-up named Bedly. I found a place and signed a sub lease has a starting date of 2\/28 and an end date of 8\/31.\n\nWell I moved in yesterday and this place has been a nightmare. \n\nFirst the keys didn\u2019t work so I had to call Bedly and have the \u201coperations lead\u201d Uber another set of keys while I waited for 3 hours in the stairwell after driving 2+ hours from philly to nyc to pick up the keys and then to JC to discover they didn\u2019t work.\n\nSecond, there\u2019s a problem with the deadbolt on the door. It won\u2019t turn and I only found out last night after leaving the apartment with my new set of keys that were Uber\u2019d to me. So I ended up having to call a locksmith and pay out of my pocket to fix the deadbolt and spent a couple more hours in the stairwell with more of my belongings as I was trying to move in.\n\nThird, there is no smoke detector or carbon monoxide detector in the unit. \n\nFourth, there is a roommate who is a very cordial person but smokes cigars in the unit so the entire unit stinks like cigar smoke.\n\nAs you can tell I\u2019m not real thrilled with the experience and I\u2019m looking to find a way out. \n\nSpecifically in my sublease it says that I would be responsible for any leftover balance if in fact I choose to terminate the sublease early. This would be about $6300.\n\nDo I have any options or did I screw myself?\n\nI was thinking about moving out and opening a new account (so they can\u2019t auto withdrawal future rent) after calling the credit card company and disputing the charge regarding the move in related fees. But I feel this may effect my credit. \n\nThanks everyone for your help.\n\n\n\n","title":"Breaking a Sublease (NJ)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446607399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rg22j\/colorado_can_i_sell_a_famous_style_necklace_if_i\/","id":"3rg22j","body":"my friend gave me a Tiffany replica necklace for my birthday, but I don't like necklaces so I'm looking to sell it. I'm not trying to mislead anyone, I just don't want it and I'm saving money for college. if I don't use the brand name in the listing and don't show the engraving in the photo can I sell it? \n\nI'm assuming it's illegal, but she showed me the website where she got it and that is how they sold it so I'm wondering if not showing the brand name makes it alright. ","title":"[Colorado] Can I sell a famous style necklace if I don't try to pass it off as real?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569901361,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbnjz4\/blackmoldbedbugs_all_in_2_weeks_and_if_thats_not\/","id":"dbnjz4","body":"Hey friends, \n\nBecause of the following situation I am, with out a residence, living in hotels for the week. Recently my realtor let me stay in an empty extra apartment. All of my stuff is in storage again and I\u2019m losing sleep and work over this....\n\nAnd I\u2019m scared  I may never get my money back, or only a measly portion...\n\nAnd granted with recently starting a new job (while being 27 and broke) \n\nAnd recently moved to from NJ to S.FL...\n\nAnd with an account dwindling down to zero...\n\nThis 4K they are holding from me is practically all I have left until my next paycheck (so long as I\u2019m not fired for being unable to preform during all of this).\n\n\n\u2014 \u2014 \u2014 \nSo here\u2019s the situation in short:\n\u2014 \u2014 \u2014\n\n\nBlack mold found. Condo unlivable. Owner won\u2019t fix and we agreed to terminate the lease. I still have the keys. They have the money. How Do I get my money back.\n\nAnd what would you do if you were me?\n\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nPinned in comment is what I could find in the lease in regards to termination of lease and refunding money:\n\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\nHere\u2019s the full story:\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nPrivate owner. In HOA community. South Flordia.\n\nIn about 2 weeks, I moved into the apartment, found bedbugs [got exterminated], then found black mold all through out the kitchen and in a bathroom... Now this isn\u2019t connected. And yeah newb mistake. took me a while to figure out where the smell was coming from, but in my defense the house was filthy when moving in so I was assured it was just stuffy from not being lived in for a month.. \n\nAnyways, I got a mold inspector to come in for a free assessment. Estimate report came back and turned out to be around 6k to take everything and clean it up.\n\nSent report to the owner.\n\nThe owner and her grandson have been stubborn and basically believe I am to blame or want me to adimt fault so they can wash there hands. They say stuff like, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like that when you moved in\u201d... but they are from NYC... and apparently haven\u2019t been to the apartment in years from what everyone is telling me (hoa, realtor, and even their local relative).\n\nWhen I told the grandmother (owner\/landlord) what the estimate was, she said, \u201cI can\u2019t do this anymore, I\u2019m not fixing it\u201d. \n\nSo we agreed (over the phone) that I\u2019d move out and she\u2019d give me back my money.\n\nTold the grandson (through text) that I had the keys, and we could exchange the keys for the check through their real east agent. \n\nThen, I sent by certified mail a letter which states the agreement we made. The request for returned funds. And the logistical info we went over (keys for check by way of realtor).\n\nAt this point, I\u2019m skeptical but think I\u2019m going to get my First, Last and security = $4,050. \u2014 which doesn\u2019t even being to cover the expensive s of moving in and out in 2 weeks.\n\nBut, here\u2019s where the trouble begins...\n\nThe grandson is the main person I talk and correspond through email as the grandma\/owner is 85 yr, supposedly recently sick (but she\u2019s old so year), and getting some work on her foot. \n\nThe grandson told me they only got like $2k and said, \u201cI don\u2019t know where the rest of the money went but I\u2019m not going to give you 4K if I don\u2019t have proof\u201d.\n\nI\u2019m thinking : Like what?! How do you think I got the keys????\n\nBut, he persists and I send him copies of the check and the escrow stub (totals the first, last and security).\n\nHe\u2019s saying \u201cmy grandmother received less than 2k. If the differences turns out to be commission we are going to split that\u201d.\n\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nWhat would you do if you were me, and how would you get the money back?","title":"BlackMold.BedBugs all in 2 weeks. And if that\u2019s not enough, the unreasonable owner is holding my money hostage. #ApproachingBroke","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506544125,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72v2xh\/have_questions_regarding_an_unusually_messy\/","id":"72v2xh","body":"So this is going to be a long post...\n\nLast year my aunt died. she had a will which called for her estate to be passed to my father and his brother, both of which are deceased, this would lead to the estate passing to my brother and I, as well as my 2 cousins. About 6 months ago my brother and I received a call from my last living aunt's son, lets call him David. David advised us that the estate had already passed through 2 lawyers, both didn't act on the estate in a timely manner and racked up bills and fees for basically doing nothing. David advised the best course of action would be for us to make his wife, lets call her Laura, in charge of the estate. That way she would have the authority to expedite everything and assist us in splitting up the ~$80k between the 4 cousins that would be getting something (myself, brother, cousin X and cousin Y). I was reluctant to do this as the reasoning behind this idea wasn't sound but after hearing my paperwork was the only one they were waiting on (both cousins advised me they sent theirs as well as my brother) I signed it and sent it over. I was also advised there was a seller lined up for the home (where all the money was coming from) and we needed to act fast. Shortly after sending the paperwork the \"sale of the house fell through\".\n\n\nWords can not express how stupid I feel, working in sales and falling for the \"limited time only\" trick. It's quite literally one of the oldest tricks in the book and I got suckered. \n\n\nA few months go by with limited contact from David. My brother was texting him every now and then and received a \"I'll call you when there's something to update you with\" response. \n\nWe finally hear from David last week. Hes advising my brother that Laura has been stealing from his business. He tells me that Laura's daughter attacked him and the police were called and he was arrested but charges were dropped as he was the one attacked. He advised hes filing for divorce and that Laura is facing charges for stealing from his business and he can't disclose whats going on because its an active investigation. I try telling him hes able to disclose whats going on if he just advises me that she \"allegedly\" did X, Y, and Z. He refuses and still cites the fact that he could be sued for slander. We go in circles about how that isn't how it works but in the end I get no info. He advises me that she has 60 days from the close (9\/15) of the home sale to distribute the funds before she can be charged with anything. \n\nI pretty much know the money is gone.. What can I do to at least make sure justice is served?\n\nTL;DR: signed my estate over because stupid and now its pretty much gone, want vengeance. ","title":"Have questions regarding an unusually messy estate [IN]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1444844935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oqzwj\/3rd_party_liability_in_auto_accident\/","id":"3oqzwj","body":"I am a Canadian that was vacationing in California in September, 2014, driving up to a Yosemite National Park in a rental vehicle along with my 2 American friends where I ran off the road at low speed after being blinded by the sun momentarily, and went on a steep decline into a ditch, stopped by a tree. 2 of us walked away relatively unscathed, but the other sustained substantial bodily injuries, to which she was out of work for 3 weeks - and has since been making a steady recovery.\n\n+ I was the driver, at fault in a single car collision, but it was an accident, there was no intentional attempt to crash the car, or any illegal or criminal motives. There were no drugs or substance abuse involved.\n+ All property damage was covered through damage waiver with rental company.\n+ I had 3rd Party Liability of $1M CAD through my auto insurance (So roughly $750K USD based on current FX).\n\nThe injured individual secured an attorney to manage her medical expenses as they were quite substantial. Her attorney has not been communicative with exchanging any information to my Auto Insurance provider regarding her medical expenses (other than a ballpark of $250K USD in April of all medical expenses to date, which has me somewhat worried as it's been a year since the accident occurred, and no further update).\n\nMy question is, is the onus on her attorney to disclose the medical expenses to my insurance provider, or is my insurance provider privy to her medical expenses to date, and potential long term medical expense needs? I am concerned that my 3rd Party Liability limit may be insufficient, and\/or the potential that my Auto Insurance may not be doing the proper diligence to see through a sound settlement. How do I know if my Auto Insurance is acting in bad faith on my behalf? And if she ends up suing me in court, what are my options? I've been told by my Auto Insurance provider that if they cannot settle and if I am taken to court, they would hire and pay for my lawyer. Is this typical? \n\nThanks for the advice\/suggestions\/comments!\n\nTLDR: At fault in a single-car collision. One of the injured passengers has lawyered up. I have 3rd party liability insurance, but not sure if it will cover all expenses. Her attorney and my insurance provider have not been exchanging information. Would like to know how to get to some sort of settlement consensus earlier rather than later as to avoid a lawsuit against me.","title":"3rd Party Liability in Auto Accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1441817158,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k9i0a\/uk_abandoning_a_tenancy\/","id":"3k9i0a","body":"Hey!\n\nI've been renting a room in a 16 person house since April. Around that time a fellow housemate who is doing a Masters had his door broken down by the landlord. It was an impromptu visit with no notice so legally my flatmate didn't have to let the landlord in. The landlord then proceeded to kick his door down and assault my housemate. Someone heard the commotion and rushed to helped him. They ended up sitting on him and the police came and arrested him. I have the criminal reference number for this incident. \n\nCurrently this is going through the legal system and his brother is looking after the property. I just don't feel right living here at all and feel quite unsafe. Is this grounds for me to abandon my tenancy or will I be taken to small claims court? Subsequently I've asked him to fix the fridge in the kitchen twice and it still hasn't been touched in 2 months. \n\nThanks in Advance!","title":"(U.K) Abandoning a Tenancy","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569522133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9nlny\/voter_registration_question\/","id":"d9nlny","body":"Is the jail time or fine for making a mistake on the registration form or lying? Cuz a $5000 fine and\/or 4 years in jail is kinda dumb for a mistake. I am 18 and this is my first election voting in and I stress abt everything. I tripled check what I wrote but I\u2019m still scared that I made a mistake.","title":"Voter registration question","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445274937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pdjj2\/calling_the_sentencing_court_to_get_more_details\/","id":"3pdjj2","body":"I'm in the state of VA and recently discovered a friend\/co-worker of my boyfriend's is a registered sex offender. He comes over sometimes and I'm now totally disgusted by this.  I know how to search court records and the ones I found for this case were pretty bare. Aside from dates and charges, there aren't any descriptions or plaintiff's statements. I assume this is because she's a minor? \n\nAnyway, I found out he plead guilty to aggravated sexual battery of a minor (under 13) when he was like 24. He's also considered to be \"violent\" per the VA sex offender registry. Piecing everything together, it seems he threatened the victim with weapon if she didn't sexually give into him (sexual battery definition + being listed as violent on the sex offender registry). While there is no excuse whatsoever and I am thoroughly disgusted, I kind of want to know how dangerous he really is. Am I allowed to call the sentencing court and ask for information regarding this case? No names or any identifiers, just what exactly he did? \n\nI want to sever ties immediately but my boyfriend works with him and that's hard to do. ","title":"Calling the sentencing court to get more details on a case?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444759302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3om4pj\/my_new_lease_states_a_washerdryer_is_included_in\/","id":"3om4pj","body":"I just rented an apartment in Texas.  The complex is brand new and no one has lived in my unit before.  I looked at a model unit before signing my lease, but didn't see my actual unit until after lease signing (my bad, I know).  I noticed there wasn't a washer\/dryer in the unit and wrote it down on my \"damages\" pre-move checklist so it was recorded.\n\nThe apartment manager said because the units are brand new, they are waiting on a shipment to put washer\/dryers in the last few apartments.  I said fine, because I was flying home and they had a week to deal with it before I actually moved in.\n\nWeek later, still no washer\/dryer.  The manager said they're still on delivery but couldn't give me a specific date.  I asked if we can take the set out of an empty unit (or even their model unit!)  She said that wasn't fair because then they would have to \"carry them all the way across the courtyard.\"  Ooookay.\n\nSo now she's promising me by this weekend, probably.  They keeping posting ads to a local rental facebook page that states \"full size washer\/dryer in every unit!\" and it is making my blood boil every time I see it.  This manager was all friendly and smiles getting me into my lease, but now she's abrasive and seems to be avoiding me.  These are advertised as high end units, and I'm paying quite a bit of money to live here.  \n\nIf this situation continues, do I have any legal recourse?  The Texas tenant handbooks don't have anything really related to this.  I'm not trying to break my lease or anything, but I'm just getting frustrated.  ","title":"My new lease states a washer\/dryer is included in the unit. There isn't a set in the unit and my complex seems to be dragging their feet about it","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553881738,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b70d2i\/harrassment_in_the_form_of_litigation_threats\/","id":"b70d2i","body":"(Oregon) Since mid November I've been receiving various types of threats\/ verbal abuse from a former woman that I used to nanny for. I have asked numerous times for her to leave me alone and have filed two police reports regarding the telephonic harassment that she has sent my way. The officer that took the report advised that I send her a text requesting no contact unless it's through her lawyer. \n\nI hear nothing for 5 weeks and then all of a sudden I get two letters (certified mail) in the course of a few days from some lawyer that's located in NYC. The letter is basically nonsense with a demand for money within 10 days with yet another threat of litigation through a local civil attorney if the demands are not met within the time frame. \n\nI plan on meeting with an officer when I get off work to report the letters that she's sent me through this out of state law firm. The non emergency dispatcher agreed that the letters look like she's attempting to harass me through a 3rd party. \n\nAll of this has caused me a great deal of anxiety and has greatly inconvenienced me. What recourse do I have against this person? \n\nFor what it's worth, she is trying to sue me for breach of contract. I made a verbal agreement that I would give her a month's notice before quitting should anything come up. She became emotionally abusive throughout my time working for her and sent an angry text saying that I was not a good fit for her family. I took that as her firing me and told her to take care and good luck. I have all of this saved for documentation. She is suing me for the cost of her vacation that she did not take because she didn't have a nanny, claiming I quit and also for the cost of a vehicle that she gifted me. The car is in my name. It was a gift and she changed the terms of the gift after she signed it over. Everything was verbal and there are no paper contracts whatsoever. \n\nI just want this to be done. I'm tired of losing sleep and I'm depressed. ","title":"Harrassment in the form of litigation threats from former employer","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569547506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9tbba\/mo_breaking_a_lease_in_missouri\/","id":"d9tbba","body":"Hi,\n\nI accepted a new job offer and want to break my lease to move. I'm on a recently renewed year long lease that started in August 2019 and runs through July 31st 2020. My landlord offers a way to break the lease with a $500 lease break fee and a written lease termination request. It also requires me to continue paying rent and utilities until the property is re-rented or lease termination date is reached. It also requires me to allow the lessor to show the premises between 10am and 8pm. \n\nHowever, my landlord has raised the rent on the property from 925 to 1100 for new applicants starting on Nov 1. Is this something that can be done? I was under the impression that the rent had to stay what it was for the duration of the original lease. Reading, I see that Missouri doesn't have a requirement for landlords to mitigate damages unless they intend to use the security deposit. Am I on the hook paying monthly rent if they cant find a tenant? Do I just continue to pay rent like normal, or do I just pay up until my landlord finds a lessee at the end? Preferably I'd like to just pay a flat fee of 2 or 3 months rent and move on with my life but it doesn't seem like an option.\n\nThanks for any advice.","title":"[MO] Breaking a lease in Missouri","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539702437,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oogt1\/mom_was_sexuall_harassed_at_work_a_month_or_so\/","id":"9oogt1","body":"[IN] I\u2019m not entirely sure about the flair. Basically this guy roger (supposed ex DEA) used to be flirtatious with my mom. He\u2019d buy her gift and go all out like they had just started dating. She constantly told him to stop. She even went to the boss\/owner of the company to get it to stop. \n\nIt did for a while. \n\nAbout a month or so ago, roger walks into my moms office (payroll) and said something along the lines of little kid giggling and then saying \u201cthat shirt gives me a real stiffy\u201d and then proceeded to walk out the office to my grandma and say how much that shirt gave him a stiffy. \n\nBasically everyone but the owner said something to this guy. But prompted my mom to file a complaint against him. Was suppose to because apparently the owner is suppose to report this to the police department? Not entirely sure about that, but the owner has effectively killed the complaint by keeping it in limbo. Is their any legal recourse? This guy bothered my mom for months buying her gifts when she said not to and the Owner knew about this. \n\nShe\u2019s fed up with this job because she was told she\u2019d be given a promotion (I feel like this was after the harassment) but the got taken by this other woman who purposely went out of her way to talk the owner out of the promotion. \n\nShe\u2019s fed up with the no progress on the sexual harassment complaint she filed. This boss has done some sketch things before like for several years he required overtime but didn\u2019t pay anyone, any over time. (I know this bit is illegal because previous lawyer asked my mom to please go after him for this violation.) \n\nSo is there anything that can be done? The owner is purposely preventing a sexual Harassment complaint from going through because the accused is his personal friend. \n\n","title":"Mom was sexuall harassed at work a month or so ago, and nothing has come over her complaint to the boss","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571581459,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkk98s\/fault_fandango_co_usa\/","id":"dkk98s","body":"Hi! Got into an accident where an unocupied car was obstructing the lefthand lane of a major roadway (I70). Driver was standing out in the median at the time of the collision and I was unable to switch into right lane due to another driver maintaining that position. \n\nMy insurance closed my claim (Progressive customer service is pathetic btw) without even speaking to me and found me at fault, shelling out over 6K for this chick's car. I do not even have my copies of citations and police reports while I wait for central records to process.\n\nI am being told there is no way to fix this, as I hit an unocupied vehicle (cited for obstruction of roadway PER officer on scene). I don't know much about insurance as it pertains to deciding \"fault\" but I understand it might not be good for my premium in the future. \n\nSo two questions: (1) Will being at fault here in the eyes of insurance really be a big deal? (2) Is there a way to get my claim reconsidered after I get my records? I'm getting conflicting answers from the various agents that bother to call me back. Thanks in advance for any advice!","title":"\"Fault\" Fandango (CO USA)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504722873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yhj7i\/tx_probate_recovery_hospital_says_it_didnt_send\/","id":"6yhj7i","body":"**TL;DR:**  My husband went to the ER and died of a heart attack 2.5 hrs later.  I have received a $60,000 debt collection letter from a company representing hospital.  Yet, hospital billing and its legal department say they did not send anything to collections (I had insurer put us all on a conference call to confirm).  Maximum out-of-pocket is $10,000.   \n\n**Questions:**  Do I contact or ignore the collection agency? If contacting, how best to do this?  Phone or mail?\n\n* Husband had insurance.  Insurance info was given at admittance.\n* Hospital is in-network.\n* ER admittance did not seek pre-authorization.\n* Insurer has rejected some claims, paid others.\n* Hospital is filing appeal and asking for retro-authorization.  \n* Insurer tells me retro-auth will happen. Hospital says it is not billing me yet until these snafus are settled.\n* My total cost cannot exceed $10,000, which I am able to pay, so this post is not about money.  It's about being scared to death of collections.\n* I called insurer about the collections letter and she conferenced in the hospital billing dept.  I read aloud the collections letter.  Billing got very quiet and said she need to speak to Legal.  She returned saying that the estate is in good standing, the letter was a scam, that the hospital had not turned this account over to collections - \"do not send them any money!\".\n* Yet, the company seems 100% legit on line.  All the details check out: address, phone number, fax number, authorizing agent, notary.\n* Seems risky to ignore the letter.\n\nEDIT:  Company wants two of the following due to HIPAA: last 4 digits of husband's SSN, date of birth, address.  Am concerned about sending this in a Debt Validation Letter.  Must I?\n\n\n","title":"(TX) Probate Recovery. Hospital says it didn't send account to collections, to ignore. That doesn't sound like a good idea.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541633447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v4nub\/atwill_it_contractor_wanting_to_convert_to_fte\/","id":"9v4nub","body":"^(Ohio.)\n\n​\n\nMy contact with the IT staffing firm says I\u2019m an \u201cat will\u201d employee and employment can be terminated at any time, for any reason, by either of us.\n\n​\n\nI received an offer from the company I\u2019m contracting for but apparently if I convert to an FTE before 6 months, the IT firm is entitled to a 10% fee from the company. There\u2019s nothing that says I have to stay 6 months in my employment agreement with the IT firm. I\u2019m trying to convince the IT firm to waive this 10% fee so I don\u2019t have to wait but they are a pain in the ass and not cooperating. Would I be able to show this to the company hiring me and just \u201cquit\u201d the staffing firm? Or would they still get the 10% fee.","title":"\u201cAt-will\u201d IT contractor wanting to convert to FTE before 6 months","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505310507,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zumzb\/ny_lease_waives_right_to_reasonable_notice\/","id":"6zumzb","body":"My landlord says I initialed on my lease agreeing that they can show my apartment during business hours. (I do not have my lease in front of me, so cannot provide exact verbage right now) Does this waive their requirement to give reasonable notice before entering my apartment? ","title":"(NY) Lease Waives Right to Reasonable Notice?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555171393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcs03a\/toxic_work_environment_if_i_quit_my_husband_could\/","id":"bcs03a","body":"My husband has terminal cancer.  I work full time for insurance to cover him.  \nLately my work environment due to a abusive manger has become toxic.   We\u2019ve gone to management and it\u2019s become worse.  I want to look for another job.  But I worry that if I leave for another job my husband will be without care for 3 months.  He has regular chemo that\u2019s very expensive.  Also he\u2019s type 1 diabetic.  \nMedicare won\u2019t kick in for several months.  \nWhat are my options?","title":"Toxic work environment, If I quit my husband could die.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1550230017,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqvned\/california_my_grandma_left_no_will\/","id":"aqvned","body":"Quick rundown:\n\nMy grandma died 4 years ago. \n\nShe had no will. \n\n2 living kids (one being my father)\n\nHer and my father were always in contact and stuff and we visited often since she lived down the street. \n\nThe other son and my grandma has no contact whatsoever for the past 10-15 years or so. \n\nHas a bank account with thousands of dollars\n\nWe\u2019ve been living in her house for the past few years and obviously maintaining it and such\n\nNot sure if the other son know of her passing \n\nCan my dad claim everything since the other son had no contact and made no effort to contact or visit her? What needs to happen in order to get full control of her assets (other than the other son dying or whatever)?\n\n","title":"California \/ My grandma left no will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540340161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qupeg\/i_got_laid_off_on_monday_from_a_100billion\/","id":"9qupeg","body":"They said they were \u201celiminating my territory.\u201d I\u2019ve been told by my manager I\u2019m the highest paid person, in past conversations. I turn 65 next week. They\u2019ve offered me 30 weeks severance. I have countered with 52 weeks because \u201cwhere am I going to find a job at 65?  Thoughts? I live in New Mexico ","title":"I got laid off on Monday from a $100billion company. Been with them 10 years, exemplary employee.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541543909,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ut9h4\/sexual_harassment_at_work\/","id":"9ut9h4","body":"This is all word of mouth information from my girlfriend. She is hesitant to do anything because the harasser\u2019s family owns the private company. She has made a complaint to HR but apparently they are tip toeing the situation due to his family. I have tried to continually remind her that she potentially can have legal ground to stand on, but she still is worried about getting fired. He continues to either sexually harass her or talk down to her when she turns him down and her overall happiness has deteriorated as a result. Whenever i ask if her coworkers stand up for her, she doesn\u2019t directly answer the question. I\u2019ve recommended that if she doesn\u2019t want to pursue legal action, then she should keep her eyes out for new employer opportunities, but she is continually upset about her present situation. I believe her complaint to HR was over the phone and they delivered the news to the boss as an anonymous complaint. I was under the impression that she needs to make it known to the boss that the actions are unwelcome, and if he continues to do these actions, then it is sexual harassment. What is needed to constitute sexual harassment (any evidence such as phone recording - audio\/visual)?","title":"Sexual harassment at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506477811,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72p8nn\/is_it_legal_for_employers_to_rescind_job_offer\/","id":"72p8nn","body":"I just got a job offer as an international student studying on F-1 visa. Note that I have 3 years of work authorization from STEM OPT. However, I was worried that my employers might rescind the job offer once they know that I have a non-permanen work authorization. They did not ask me whether or not I am an international student during the interview, but I answered all the job application questions truthfully:\n\n> Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?\n>\n> Yes  (OPT)\n\n> Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment status? (e.g. H-1B visa)\n>\n> Yes (My work authorization is only for 3 years)\n \nSince I already got a written job offer from them, is it even legal for my employer to rescind the offer just because I am an international student and I gave them a 1-year EAD from OPT (can be extended up to 3 years) instead of US Passport when I filled my I-9? \n\nFrom my understanding, it is illegal to do so based on this  [Right to Work poster.](https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/USCIS\/Verification\/E-Verify\/E-Verify_Native_Documents\/OSC_Right_to_Work_Poster.pdf). However, if it's illegal, then why are employers legally allowed to ask the question: \"Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment status? (e.g. H-1B visa)\"","title":"Is it legal for employers to rescind job offer because of my immigration status?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570039653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcdyky\/apartment_inspections_without_a_specified_date\/","id":"dcdyky","body":"My apartment complex generally sends an email and post notices on our door before any type of inspection. Today I got the email notifying me that they will be doing inspections but instead of a date they will be coming in I was told that they will be performing inspections for an entire week and that it could be any time between 9 and 6 for that week. My question is whether or not this is legal in the state of Oklahoma. I know they must give a 24 hour notice but am unsure of whether or not they are required to give a date. To be clear I\u2019m not so much concerned with them coming into my apartment because I have anything to hide, but it\u2019s more the point of having to make arrangements for my dog and cat who can\u2019t be out during the inspections and I\u2019m not crazy about the idea of having to pay a kennel for an entire week because they can\u2019t tell me when my apartment will be entered. Any help would be greatly appreciated","title":"Apartment inspections without a specified date","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571788474,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlquod\/tn_web_hosts_client_or_clients_continue_to_send\/","id":"dlquod","body":"Hello everyone, I need help on handling this issue about continuous unwanted spam. My website has received a high volume of spam most likely from a single individual and I reported this spam to the web host's abuse department. This web host is in the United States. The abuse department has ignored me for over three weeks and the spam continues to build. \n\nI first contacted the abuse department from their online form and was ignored. Then, I called them and was told to use a different email in my report which is very unreasonable. There is nothing offensive about my email. It's my website's name which is about E-rated (family friendly) video games. I called again to speak to someone else who provided the email for the abuse department. However, I was ignored again and the spamming continues.\n\nThe web host has been notified three times which is very reasonable. I also provided the IP Addresses to the web host. My actions have reported the spam and demanded the spamming to stop. \n\nWhat legal actions can I take? May I or an attorney subpoena the web host to reveal information on this client or clients who refuses to stop sending spam?  What type of lawyer handles cases about spam? I know some companies have been sued for spamming, but I don't know what type of lawyer practices that area of law.\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"[TN] Web Host's Client or Clients Continue to Send Spam After I Reported Abusive Behavior","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507821586,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75xo87\/ontario_canada_i_was_terminated_by_my_employer\/","id":"75xo87","body":"A week ago I received the unfortunate news that I am being terminated from my job. I've been at the company for 6 years, am a low-middle manager, and am 37 years old, and work in an industry where there are similar companies in my area but not a lot of jobs for someone with my experience and skills. I have spoken to a lawyer and am generally familiar with the type of termination pay at play here, but wanted to get a sense of others' opinions to see if they are in line with what I've been told.\n\n\nBasically, since I'm younger and low-middle management, I've been told 5-7 months is about all I'd be looking at. Currently, my bosses have offered me 6 weeks' notice wherein I'm still to work in the office and perform my regular duties, 6 weeks' termination pay with my benefits package still intact, and 6 weeks' additional pay (salary only, not including benefits). I work in an industry that's pretty low-paying, so my sense is that I'm not looking at a windfall here no matter how we cut it, but want to have all my ducks in a row to maximize what I can get out of them.\n\n\nI made a counter offer to their original proposal and asked for 10 months. I took into consideration the Bardal Factors, the fact that they registered me for a conference and research trip in 6 weeks that I will obviously now not be able to attend, the loss of profit share, which will be paid out after I leave, and the potential difficulty I'll have finding appropriate work. Of course I came in on the high end, hoping that with a counter offer we'd meet somewhere around 5-6 months.\n\n\nHowever they refuse to make any further counter offer. Instead they asked me to go out for a coffee with them to \"hear me out and see where my head is at\"... I went with the plan to listen to them and stick to my guns... which I did, but unfortunately when it was clear I wasn't going to budge they devolved into basically attacking my work over the last 6 years, saying I didn't do a good enough job, and telling me I don't have the skills to move up at the company, and that my role is support and admin and anyone can do it. It was pretty hurtful and considering I'm still expected to come into the office everyday it's made things even more awkward than they were already.\n\nSo with that bit of background, I'm hoping to get some guidance on how much I should continue to push back, what is a reasonable termination package I should fight for, and if in the end since we're not talking a huge sum of money here, if I should just take what they've offered and be done with it all. I'm also not sure if their latest tactic of attacking me helps my case at all or is irrelevant. I also want to prepare myself as when we left it yesterday they were going to speak to their lawyer and come back to me - it may be with a reasonable counter offer or (more likely) they'll stick to their guns and let me make the next move. I just need to get a sense of what that next move is...","title":"[Ontario, Canada] I was terminated by my employer and need advice about negotiation an appropriate termination package","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571593844,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkn0eo\/distributing_recorded_scientific_papers\/","id":"dkn0eo","body":"I bought a text to speech program I use to listen to journal articles rather than read them. Would it be legal for me to save the audio files and distribute them to others or to post them on a video sharing platform like youtube or bitchute?\n\nWould the legality be different for articles I find freely online compared to those I have to request through my university?\n\nWhat are the legal ramifications if I distribute without the right to?","title":"Distributing recorded scientific papers","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1409770779,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fdqs2\/us_family_is_passing_away_soon_trying_to_make\/","id":"2fdqs2","body":"(Oregon)\n\nI am asking on behalf of my boyfriend, so I can get a better understanding of this situation if issues do arise. I share a house with my boyfriend and one of his relatives, lets call the relative B. Unfortunately, B has been diagnosed as terminal and doesn't have much longer with us. They fought cancer in the past, and drafted up a will during that time, after which they beat it, and here we are today a few years later in the same boat. \n\nThe will obviously doesn't concern me, and I could care less about what's in it, I'm more concerned with B's family than I am with anything. It's my understanding the will says \"The house and *everything* within it\" all go to my boyfriend, in legal terms. \n\nB has three other brothers and sisters, a couple of them have keys to the house because of a family business they all ran together. What I'm *personally* worried about, is people swooping in here on B's death and laying claim to anything in the house. B's family is full of really nice people, but I have no idea what they'll turn into when they're grief-stricken. \n\nWe're all modest people and don't own much. About the only thing of value I can really think of is a medium flat-screen TV. To be honest I'm more worried with them wanting to haul off furniture like chairs and stuff. \n\nMy boyfriend and I are both broke as hell, so what would be a good way of avoiding this situation, if it happens? The first thing that comes to mind is changing the locks on the house after B's passing. But is there anything else we can do to avoid conflict? What should we do if some angry relative shows up and lays claim to a dishware set or something?\n\nThanks in advance! ","title":"[US] Family is passing away soon, trying to make sure we're not caught up in a legal tornado with the will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539220025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n5e9h\/question_about_wording_on_a_document\/","id":"9n5e9h","body":"So the document reads:\n\n\u201cIt is ordered that (redacted) shall have possession of the children every other Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m., said possession to be exercised within a therapeutic setting as agreed upon between Petitioner and (redacted) for a period of six (6) months, and attended only by (redacted) and the children subject of this suit.\n\nIt is further ordered that (redacted) shall not have possession of or access to the children in any other setting until such time as proof of the completion of the six (6) months of therapeutic visits are presented to counsel for Petitioner and the court, or by further order of the court.\u201d\n\nSo the part I have a question about is the \u201cpresented to counsel for petitioner and the court\u201d if the person completes their 6 months of therapeutic visits can the documentation be emailed to counsel and then presented to the court without both parties present? Also, would this just give them free reign to the children until their are new orders in place?","title":"Question about wording on a document","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569272935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8cyk9\/i_need_advice_about_lost_wages_in_a_car_accident\/","id":"d8cyk9","body":"So I should start by mentioning I\u2019m in Southern California, LA county. In mid-July, a guy trying to run from a cop did a sharp turn and side-swiped my parked car. I wasn\u2019t in the car, I was in my house, and my car was parked on the street in front of my house. The sheriff chasing him saw everything. \n\nThe guy then proceeded to ditch the car, the sheriff impounded it, and then the sheriff notified me of what happened and filed a police report for me. So there\u2019s no question whatsoever that the guy was at fault. I later learned from a detective that he was arrested and he had a court date on the 11th of this month. \n\nHere\u2019s the issue. My insurance company did an estimate and it\u2019s gonna take a minimum of 11 days to fix my car. The problem there is that I\u2019m an Uber driver, and without my car I\u2019m not making money. I\u2019ve been working with it cause it\u2019s still driveable and the damage is minimal but the 11 days is because a lot of the body has to be replaced and painted \n\nI wanted to get lost wages from the guy\u2019s insurance company, but I just found out today that the guy\u2019s mom was the policy holder and he was actually taken off the policy recently, so they\u2019re not responsible. I\u2019m pretty sure the guy is in jail at this point. Is it worth it to try and go for lost wages at this point, and if so, how do I go about it? \n\nMy brother also made the point that if the guy\u2019s mom didn\u2019t report the car stolen, then she let him use it knowing he\u2019s uninsured and she\u2019s responsible so I can go after her instead. Is that true, and if so, how do I go about that? Any help and guidance would be appreciated. I make like a minimum of $100 a day so I kinda don\u2019t wanna let go of a possible $1000+ check","title":"I need advice about lost wages in a car accident against an uninsured driver.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507323707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74qjy1\/college_housing_company_trying_to_collect_on\/","id":"74qjy1","body":"(Location: Oklahoma, United States)\n\nI recently graduated and moved out of my college neighborhood community. I have had a terrible experience with this company as they are absolutely after every dime the can get from college students. Lose a silicone guest wristband? $25. Lose the half-broken gate remote? $50. Trash bag not completely in **tiny** 15 gallon valet (sounds fancy, but they failed to take our trash more often than not) trash bin? $15.\n\nI know you have to crack down on college students to prevent any rowdiness, but they were money-grabbing at every corner with this fee and that fee. To me, their actions are predatory towards college students who are irresponsible and not willing to dispute charges.\n\nCurrently, they are trying to claim $380 from each of us (3 roommates). Here's the breakdown: https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/4GmoAFm.png\n\nFirstly I find it odd that the $80 bedroom cleaning fee was applied to all 3 of our individual bedrooms. The lease already had a $35 \"Restorative Fee\" to cover carpet cleaning which was separately billed, and I made sure to clean the bathroom (shower, sink, toilet, counter) and not leave anything behind in the bedroom.\n\nSecondly, the full paint I don't understand because there was nothing more than regular wear and tear.\n\nThe company is now threatening to transfer the collection agency, which I'm not sure what that all entails, tbh. Please let me know if I am out-of-line and these charges are justified or if I am in the right and can somehow get out of these charges.","title":"College housing company trying to collect on exorbitant move-out fees.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539955655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pjswq\/oh_forced_to_sign_noncompete_to_keep_my_job_after\/","id":"9pjswq","body":"I am a tier-3 customer-facing help desk employee for a tech support company, to simplify my job. I'm privy to some high-level specifics and fixes regarding the devices we support.\n\nIn 2016 my employer was acquired by an Ohio-based company, primarily for the purposes of getting our customer base and our high-level employees (such as myself). A condition of employment with this new company after the acquisition was that we sign a non-compete agreement, barring us from working for any competitor or any company that provides similar services in the United States or Canada for a period of 18 months. We were told to sign the NCA or we wouldn't have a job anymore, and I've never worked under an NCA prior to this. The NCA states that any disputes will be governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, but I currently work from home well outside of Ohio state lines in Maine.\n\nI now have a recruiter vetting me for a position identical to the one I have now, with more career potential and starting at nearly double my current salary. \n\nTechnically, changing jobs as described would be a violation of my NCA but I've been told (by non-lawyers) a few things are in my favor here:\n\n* Since the NCA is too broad in scope and would prevent me from making a living in my industry, it would be considered unenforceable\n* Since I was already working and was forced to sign this NCA to keep my job, that may invalidate parts of the NCA as well (to be specific though, from a technical and legal standpoint during the acquisition I was seamlessly \"terminated\" from the old company and \"hired\" by the new company)\n\nIf I change jobs to a similar company and role, can this non-compete hold any water if this company decides to sue and take me to court?","title":"[OH] Forced to sign non-compete to keep my job after a buy-out, but I want to change jobs now","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444403534,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o3xrc\/il_visitation_times_for_child_being_delayed_every\/","id":"3o3xrc","body":"Deleted update on this Thread. to make it easier to read. update [here](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o8692\/update_il_visitation_times_for_child_being\/)\n\n******Thank you all for you advice. I will update this tonight when i get home or tomorrow. You all have calmed me down a lot.*****\n\nMy ex wife never has my daughter ready to go at the time my parenting time starts (6:30) Friday to Sunday @ 6:00. If I tell her i need her ready she tells me its too bad and \"I am the mother so I know whats best\"\nA little backs story. She fled the State with my daughter when she was 8 days old and refused to let me see my daughter for 4 months. I had to go to court and get her ordered back to my State to allow me to see daughter. So I have a lot of anger towards her, But i have never shown it. Its getting to the point where I feel I need to blow up on her. But i know that will do nothing.\n\nShe also berates me in font of my daughter every few months or so, if i dont do exactly what she wants.\n\nWhen I arrive to get my daughter, she is either.\n\nA. Eating\n\nB. Taking a bath\n\nC. Or my Ex is just talking about nothing that has to do with my daughters well being, and taking her time getting my daughter ready to go.\n\nI will arrive at 6:30 and my daughter will run to me and give me a big hug. so as far as my child is concerned its time to go. But I cant just leave. Her mother will take her to the bed room and get her dressed in clothes that I HAVE to bring because she has accused me of getting clothes dirty.\nThis is how it plays out.\nI have tried in the past to pick her up and ask if she is ready to go, she will say yes and get excited to go to dads place. But then her mother butts in and says we need to pray and get dressed.\nIf she is taking a bath I will have to wait for her to get dressed and call her grandmother. (because she needs to hear the words of Jesus. I do not believe in that and i don't like how its cuts into my time with my daughter) Now I know for a fact my daughter does not give 2 shits about praying. She is 2.\n\nIf she is eating i have to wait for her to finish and then get cleaned up and dressed and prayed with.\n\nThe kicker is that my Ex shows up around 5:30 every Sunday and expects to just show up and leave.\n\n\ntl:dr\nI dont know how to deal with a woman who is still a child mentally and expects me to follow her every whim.\nim sorry for the bad formatting, im not good and getting thoughts down on paper.\n\nEdit: I forgot to add that I am slowly paying off my Lawyer and cant just take her back to court. I can not afford it at this time.\n\nEdit2: Thank you for all your responses. they have been very helpful. I will say every time i interact with my Ex i get very nervous and get very stressed out.\n\nEDIT3: i forgot to mention that she calls and texts me 1-4 times a day when i have her. Always checking up on her and just bothering me.","title":"[IL] Visitation times for child being delayed every time I pick child up.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442933422,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lxx4n\/uksky_taking_money_out_of_my_account_without\/","id":"3lxx4n","body":"My sister joined sky 3 months ago, and I offered to pay the setup fee over the phone since she did not have a bank account sorted yet. When I was paying I specifically said that this is for a one of payment and they wont keep my details, and they said yes.\n\nI was checking my statements today and noticed they took nearly \u00a3200 this month (My sister stopped paying her bill, another story completely) and they took it upon themselves to use my card to pay it off. I rang them up and they said since it was the last card used on the account they used it, and its in their polices and refused to pay me back and advised I get it of her.\n\nI rang my credit card and reported it as fraudulent, and that I did not agree to it. They have terminated my card temporarily and are sending me a new one, and they amount is being refunded. However are Sky going to be ok with this? Will they come after me at all?","title":"[UK]Sky taking money out of my account without permission","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568679377,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d595h3\/can_a_company_get_in_trouble_for_bias_for\/","id":"d595h3","body":"I currently work for a company part time in position X. I applied and interviewed for position Y that would be full time and shift my schedule. This would also switch who is above me. I did not get the job which sucks. \n\nBut I got interviewed by current supervisor (above position X), not the new one (the one above position Y). Not only that, I found out by my current supervisor that is also the one who chose the person to get hired. \n\nMy supervisor is the one who would directly lose out on my transfering. When I questioned why I did not get the position, he told me I scored on the interview lower (I am assuming he was one the one who scored it but I could be wrong). \n\nMy question is is there anything legal wrong what happened here? To me, it's clear bias against me getting the job. \n\n(I do have a feeling another reason I did not get the job is it has some physical requirements and I am a women. I do meet those requirements pretty easily. I also know they will never openly admit it.)","title":"Can a company get in trouble for bias for internal interview?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444570964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3obvp2\/dealing_with_a_shady_landlord_who_isnt_holding_up\/","id":"3obvp2","body":"I currently live in Tampa Florida and am planning on moving to Colorado to be with my long distance boyfriend in 4 weeks. \n\nPart of this move involved me getting out of my lease early, so I contacted my landlord and the following events have transpired.\n\nMy original plan was to get out of my lease in the beginning of November, living in the house until I move. I offered to have the house professionally cleaned and landscaped before I left. My landlord wanted to meet with me in the house and talk about it person where he presented a alternate plan: I would get out of the house by October 10th (yesterday), he would give me back my deposit, and he also offered to buy my furniture in the home for the price of $870. He wants to move his son and his sons soon to be wife into the house on that day. \n\nThis plan was so perfect, I was planning on selling almost all of my furniture and moving just what I could fit into my car anyway, so this really solved all my problems except that I wouldn't have a place to live for about a month. My parents were fine with me moving back in for a little bit, they joked about all the errands I could run for them. \n\nFast forward to yesterday, I am moved out, I meet the landlord at the house and he tells me He's going to mail me my check for the deposit and to purchase the furniture. This morning I received a strongly worded email from him, complaining about the condition of the house, listing off a bunch of items and basically saying that he's not giving me back my deposit, and he's not sure if the value of my \"used items\" is going to cover the \"damages\".\n\nI have in my emails with him, him declining my offer to have the house professionally cleaned, him declining my offer to have the landscaping done, him declining my offer to make a few small repairs. \n\nThere is no major damage to the house whatsoever, he is complaining about holes in walls from hanging artwork, scratches in doors, very normal wear and tear things that I would have taken care of if I had more than 4 weeks to vacate the property. \n\nTLDR: I agreed to move out early so he could use the house for his son, we agreed that the house would be left in it's current condition (which he witnessed and agreed to) and he offered to buy my furniture, now the time has come for him to pay up and he is trying to screw me. \n\nOne interesting note is that I didn't sign anything releasing myself from the lease. He gave me a signed document saying that he is releasing me from the lease, but I didn't agree to anything in writing. Could I simply email him and tell him I am moving back in? As far as I can see I still hold a completely valid lease on that property. Obviously I don't want to move back in, but I need my money back from this joker, and that seems like the only leverage I have short of taking him to small claims court.  ","title":"Dealing with a shady landlord who isn't holding up his end of our agreement for me to move out early.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554347060,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b97h2r\/oktx\/","id":"b97h2r","body":"Posting for a friend. Friend lives in TX. His brother was living in OK and just passed at age 30. Friend doesn\u2019t really know where to start and I\u2019m trying to help. \n\nDeceased brother owned a house, purchased in the last couple of months for around $44k. Had a 2008 Honda Civic he owned outright. Not a lot of money in accounts (maybe around $1000) Friend doesn\u2019t know all brother had but knows it\u2019s not a lot. Brother had a couple of roommates living with him but it\u2019s doubtful there was any kind of official lease\/contract. Brother was a Navy veteran (honorably discharged) so they are getting into contact with the VA. \n\nWe\u2019re just looking for direction since we aren\u2019t familiar with OK tenant law\/probate. \n\n1. If the brother had no official lease with his renters, what does friend need to do legally? He realizes they still might be legal tenants and wants to do things by the book. (Assuming roommates will need some time to find new lodging)\n\n2. How does probate start? Should friend get an estate lawyer in OK or TX? It doesn\u2019t look like brother had a will they can find. Not sure if his assets are large enough for probate court? \n\n3. Other than personal items should Friend be aware of removing brothers items\/money from his house? \n\nAnything else we are glaringly missing? Friend is going to contact VA about transporting the body home and burial. \n\nThank you ","title":"(OK\/TX)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1542143664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wt7al\/live_and_work_in_california_i_work_at_a_retail\/","id":"9wt7al","body":"Posting from a throw away account to avoid my name being recognized. This may have been posted here before. Like I said I work in retail and right when the store closes, the only two non-emergency exits are locked. An hour later when most employees are clocking out, managers go unlock the door to let people out, then lock it back up. Sometimes when everyone clocks out we have to wait 10-15 minutes for a manger to come up front to let us out. Even when we page the whole store for any key holder to come to the front, it can still take 10 minutes for someone to get there. \n\nI know the emergency exists are always able to be used in case of an emergency, but they are not extremely close to the front and I could see a way that something like a fire could keep us from getting to another exit. In training we are told that those two exits are to be used for emergency if we are closest to the front. It seems like such a safety issue so I\u2019m wondering how they are able to do this. ","title":"Live and work in California. I work at a retail store and once the store closes, the managers have to lock to door to keep customers from coming in.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571609161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkqoum\/my_dad_was_married_for_3_months_then_died_what_do\/","id":"dkqoum","body":"My dad passed away early September with no will. He apparently (didnt mention it to us) married a girl he knew for 6 months and was married for 3 months. My Aunt and the wife (let's call her Jill) excluded my brother and I from the funeral and now my dads things. All my brother and I want are a few things to remember him by. But My aunt and Jill think I have no claim to anything. Legally what am I entitled to? How do I fight this? I dont care about ruining my relationship with my aunt because the last thing she said to me was to F*** off.","title":"My dad was married for 3 months then died. What do I have a right to? California","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1410257190,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fw7jf\/parental_custody_rights_when_both_parents_are_in\/","id":"2fw7jf","body":"Hi, r\/legaladvice. This is actually a hypothetical question, so I hope I'm posting in the right place. I'm working on a piece of fiction and have little understanding of how child custody laws (particularly in California) work. I was hoping somebody could help me out.\n\nSay, for example, the parents of four children -- three minors and one adult -- are both sent to prison. \n\n1. What happens to the custody of their children? Do they completely lose it? Could the adult sibling of the four take custody of one or multiple siblings? Could a different family member at the same time take custody of the remaining children? How would this process work?\n\n2. Say one of the imprisoned parents is released from prison. Could they, then, take back their children? How would this process work?\n\nThank you very much in advance for any responses!\n\n","title":"Parental custody rights when both parents are in prison","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540722918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s29rb\/my_friend_was_framed_for_theft_after_discovering\/","id":"9s29rb","body":"My friend, (I\u2019ll call her Jade) discovered her boss (we\u2019ll call her Cherry) was embezzling money and falsifying time sheets at a federal facility, so she attempted to report it to Cherry\u2019s supervisor. Since Cherry and Dill are super close, they retaliated against her (in violation of the No Fear Act) and set her up for a theft she never committed with the help of a police officer who tampered with evidence and conspired with Cherry. My friend is now convicted with felonies that have ruined her employment and housing options, and is awaiting sentencing. Time is running out and I know she doesn\u2019t deserve this. I\u2019ve been looking up everything I can to help her, but most of my friends don\u2019t know anything about law, and my googling hasn\u2019t gotten me much help.\n\nWhat kind of lawyer do I talk to? What can I do to stop them from going to prison for something they didn\u2019t do? How do I help them? They\u2019ve been talking about suicide because she\u2019d rather be dead than have their kids pushed out on the street. I\u2019m seriously worried. ","title":"My friend was framed for theft after discovering her boss was embezzling money","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568831143,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d61xjc\/no_sick_pay_hours\/","id":"d61xjc","body":"My sister works retail and today she was scheduled to work a 3 hour shift. She didn\u2019t want to go in so she decided to use some of her sick pay hours for this shift so she could get it off but they told her she needed a minimum of 4 hours in order for it to count as sick pay. When she wanted to talk to her boss and confirm this her HR rep hung up on her. \n\nI find this ridiculous, personally. Her company has done some very asinine things to her in the past (such as making workers try and dance for their holiday bonus checks) and I want to help her.  \n\nAny advice would really help! Thank you in advance!","title":"No sick pay hours??","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410967956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2go1eo\/llc_business_question\/","id":"2go1eo","body":"Hi!  I'm not sure if someone here would be able to help me, but I have a question about whether I need to form an LLC or not.  \n\nI'm located in Oregon.  There's 5 different small businesses that are all working together to produce an event.  We will be sponsoring a charity, so any money that we bring in from the event will be going right back out.  Currently, we have a paypal account set up to take payments and send money.\n\nFor tax purposes, do we need to form an LLC for this arrangement, or would we be fine just operating under our own individual businesses in the joint venture?\n\nThanks.  :)","title":"LLC business question","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569353157,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8s1uf\/august_22_2019_property_management_company_ends\/","id":"d8s1uf","body":"Hello all, I will try to be as throughout as I possibly can in this post since I sincerely need the help and any advice on how to move forward is much appreciated. I tried to find if something like this has been posted before, but I did not see anything, apologies if something like this has already been addressed.\n\nSan Jose, California. \n\nMy lease with a property management company started February 2019. I signed a year long lease, however the 22 of August I was notified that the owner of the house did not renew the lease with the property management company, and thus my lease was terminated. They gave me 30 days, and so I arranged to be out by September 21 (this past weekend). \n\nTo clarify: the lease between the property management and the owner of the house ends in October, but they gave me 30 days to vacate. \n\n**Complication #1**\n\nI have three other roommates in this home. We all moved in at different times but for the most part our leases differ dramatically. For one, my lease did not mention that the property would be up for renewal in October, when their leases did have that mentioned. That section of my lease was left blank. My first argument is; had I had known that the property would be up for renewal in October I would not have signed. Since they left this very important piece of information out of my lease, is it possible to hold either the property management company or the owner of the house liable to **A)** fraudulent lease? (since I am not getting the year long lease I signed up for) **B)** Wrongful termination? (since I did nothing to end the lease) **C)** moving expenses? (Since I was not anticipating moving twice in one year)\n\n**Compilation #2**\n\nI moved out this past weekend. About three weeks ago, I emailed my contacts at the property management company and they acknowledged my move out date. Please note: They did not ask I do anything to \u201cfinalize the move out\u201d at the time of me informing them I would be out in the 30 day period they gave me. Last night I received an email from the property management saying that I owe $703.00 for prorated rent for the month of October AND I needed to go online and submit a request for move out that **1)** was never asked of me to do before, **2)** Only allows for me to select October as a move out day, and **3)** Will not let me submit the request without writing \u201cI decided to end the lease because..\u201d . \n\nThis, I am completely blown away by. Is this even legal? My lease ended this past weekend and I vacated the premises in a timely manner. Why are they now emailing me with new requirements? They broke the lease, and are making me pay for October. Can they do that? How do I defend myself? \n\n**Complication #3**\n\nThey do not have a phone number for me to call. They only have one way to contact the property management and it is by email. I have to submit a request through the online proital and someone will email me back. Well, they have refused to answer emails and they will take weeks to respond to a request. After receiving the email from them saying I owe money, I emailed every person I could who works for the property management and asked for some clarification. No one has emailed me back. Is not having a phone number even legal? This is a very serious situation and they are practically unreachable. \n\nSome general questions I have are: \n\n* Who is more legally responsible for this situation, the management company or the homeowner? \n* Is my lease considered fraudulent to begin with since they kept the day the contract would expire from me?\n* They gave me a 30 day notice but at the same time they are demanding I pay for the month of October, which is well past 30 days. Can I sue them if they charge me? What grounds would I sue them for? \n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated since I don\u2019t know what to do. They are being so unreasonable and I\u2019m sure I will have to take them to court. \n\nTL;DR : I wonder if the property management company I rented from gave me a fraudulent lease and if so how do I move forward? They gave 30 days to vacate and I left on time, yet they are still charging me for the month of October, two months after the 30 day notice. How is this legal?","title":"August 22, 2019 Property management company ends lease and gives 30 days notice. After the 30 days and after I vacate the premises ( September 21, 2019) , I get an email saying I owe $703.00 for the following months (October) prorated rent.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570494023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/desav4\/oh_wifes_employer_over_paid_during_maternity\/","id":"desav4","body":"Employer claims she was over $~8000 over her 3 month maternity leave. They want it paid back in 2 lump sums. We just had a kid and while we have some money it would destroy our savings entirely. My wife had contacted HR at least once a week regarding change of work status as she was returning to work under PRN status. During all the back and fourth no one noticed she wasn\u2019t being paid correctly until now, 4 months since starting her leave. Some of these conversations dealt directly with her hourly wage and eligibility for benefits upon her return. \n\nIs there a timeframe they have to reclaim overpaid salary? They want us to send them checks which seems a bit off to me. Is there a maximum they can withhold?","title":"[OH] Wife\u2019s employer over paid during maternity leave. Wants us to pay it back in lump sum.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554161194,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8b58j\/sole_custody_in_nc\/","id":"b8b58j","body":"What steps do I need to take to file for sole custody for my son?\n\nIt is just my 2 year old son and I. The father is not on the birth certificate or involved. Will the court go on a hunt trying to track the father down before I can file? What will I be dealing with and what should I expect? \nThe reason I would like to file is because I am worried that the father will come up out of the woodwork in 5 years and want custody. \n\nI am in NC and the father is in GA. ","title":"Sole Custody in NC","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507256005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74kq6t\/legality_of_a_video_doorbell_md\/","id":"74kq6t","body":"I was thinking of getting a video doorbell but because the proximity to me neighbor thought I might not be able to install one?\n\nBasically I live in an apartment complex where my neighbor and mine doors face directly towards each other. This means if I stood in my doorway and they had their door open I could see directly into their living room. \n\nWith this being said would their be a legal issue of me having a video doorbell that since it is motion activated would record them entering their apartment?\n\nIn the end even if legal I would simply talk to them about it as I could see anyone having a reasonable problem with this.\n\n","title":"Legality of a video doorbell? [MD]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542029205,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wdzpr\/no_parking_fire_lane_signs_and_laws\/","id":"9wdzpr","body":"Hello. I was wondering what are the general laws for fire lanes? Do the curbs need to be marked? Does the pavement need to be marked? Does the no parking fire lane sign need to have arrows for which side it applies to? If it has no arrows, does it only apply to one side? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you! ","title":"No parking fire lane signs and laws","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569339877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ozhp\/pet_ownership_when_moving_out_please_give_advice\/","id":"d8ozhp","body":"Not a divorce. Simply dating. I live with my boyfriend. But im planning on leaving him. Hes mentally and emotionally abusive. In the first couple months of our relationship, i really wanted a dog. I found one that he loved also. We went down to adoption center and adopted him. The paperwork is ONLY in my name, not his. He did pay the fee for it, but as far as im aware, its not documented. We adopted him in Michigan. We got his shots and first vet checkup there, this was also in my name only and was paid by me.\nWe live in Arizona now. Our dog got injured (someone broke our window, he sliced his paw when we werent home). I currently have a over $700 vet bill on my credit for him for this. My name is on the paperwork. My bf is put as a co-owner. But i have the bill, and i can prove im the only one making payments on this bill.\nWe both take care of him pretty equally. We both take him out. Both feed him and water him. Both buy toys and such. My bf did majority of money wise for a few months when i wasnt employed (he didnt want me to be employed. Once he changed his mind, i got a job). I AM employed now. And my $700 bill im 99% sure weighs out any money he ever spent on our dog. \n\nI plan on leaving very soon. Im scared he will try to withhold our dog from me. Would i be within my rights to call the cops if he does? Or what?","title":"Pet Ownership when moving out! Please, give advice!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553728121,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6b8y0\/can_my_job_fire_me_even_with_a_doctors_note\/","id":"b6b8y0","body":"So this is in Arizona, USA. I recently cut my eye open and barely have any vision in one eye. It will get better but I'm supposed to avoid harsh light, and use eye drops and keep my eye covered. I've been to three different doctors and gotten three different notes telling me I can't go to work for three days. My job is telling me that I'm in training and I'm absolutely not allowed to miss any time, or I will be fired. I gave HR the documentation and they told me they don't accept doctors notes and to be at work tomorrow (today was my day off). Can my work fire me with a doctor's note?","title":"Can my job fire me even with a doctor's note?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551730282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axbpq9\/is_my_employment_contract_still_binding_if\/","id":"axbpq9","body":"I signed an employment contract with a company that included a signing bonus and retention requirement. While my contract is with the company, the writing states \u201cwe are pleased to extend to you our offer to join XYZ., a ABC Holdings Corporation Company,\u201d\n\nThe holding company has went through bankruptcy and is transferring all of its assets to another temporary holding company. Seeing how my contract includes the details that XYZ is owned by ABC and now it no longer will be, does that invalidate my contract? We were told that the transfer to the company will be seamless and not require any additional paperwork on our end but that we can resign before it is effective if that\u2019s what we wish. \n\nMy main question is: if I were to resign following the transition, would I still be breaking the retention agreement and be forced to pay back my signing bonus?","title":"Is my employment contract still binding if transferred to another holding company? -Ohio","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1413092740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2j09xd\/questions_about_speeding_ticketca\/","id":"2j09xd","body":"I was pulled over for speeding of the freeway. Highway Patrol was on the shoulder, I tried to slow down. I continued to slow down to speed limit and went from 1st lane to 3rd or 4th. Lights came on when I was going speed limit.\n\nDoes it matter that he clocked me at a speed(seemed correct for when I passed him), but pulled me over if I was doing speed limit?\n\nExtra Info\n\n- <18 Male\n- Southern CA\n- Almost late for SAT( I was incredibly nervous, did end up missing test)\n- First ticket\n\nCan answer more questions if needed. \n\nEDIT:\n\nShould I try to fight the ticket?\n\nShould I try http:\/\/www.ticketbust.com\/ ?\n\nTicket said speed exceeding 65(Clocked @ 83).\n\n","title":"Questions About Speeding Ticket[CA]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508461280,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77is75\/help_with_wrongful_termination\/","id":"77is75","body":"So I have a friend (no seriously it isn't me; I'm not working yet) who went to Walmart a couple weeks ago with a mutual friend. The mutual friend was shopping and doing her thing. My friend had to go use the ladies' room. They both finished shopping and left. My friend was the driver. Come to find out the mutual friend had shoplifted some things so my friend turned the car around and made her take the stolen items back. When they got back to Walmart the cops were waiting and took them both to jail for I'm assuming a few days (friend didn't tell me how long their stint was).\n\nNow my friend's workplace fired both of them. I can understand the mutual but not my friend. She had no knowledge of the mutual shoplifting while they were there especially not since she had to use the restroom. Does my friend have a case for wrongful termination or no? My friend has never shoplifted in her life and has no reason to being she has a goo paying job and lives in a modestly-priced area. She told me she's already begun looking for another job but I told her she should fight it. Her ex husband is a cop as well so she has the connections to have the jail stint removed from her record. She also has FOP tags as well. Any help would be appreciated. ","title":"Help with wrongful termination","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569354403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8sc6l\/nc_i_was_towed_in_the_parking_lot_of_a_apartment\/","id":"d8sc6l","body":"I already payed but as the title says, they possibly have a sign in the front of parking lot, but no signs in front of the spaces. I'm assuming they didn't have any signs at all, but my friend is checking for me. What can I do about this?","title":"(NC) I was towed in the parking lot of a apartment complex without any warning becouse I didn't have a pass. They didn't have any signs preventing me from parking there. Could I get them to pay the fee to get my Jeep back?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555481755,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be4gw9\/are_the_cookies_statements_on_website_standard_or\/","id":"be4gw9","body":"About to launch my software company website (CA based company, deleware C-Corp for reference if that matters).\n\n​\n\nHave gone through MSA's, privacy policies, terms of service, agreements, with whip cream and a cherry on top of all, ha.\n\n​\n\nThe question here, are the general 'we use cookies' legal agreements standard?  I'd really like to just have a standard doc right now.","title":"Are the cookies statements on website standard or do I need legal to put them together?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568931322,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6l9af\/ca_coworkers_get_paid_full_40_hours_for_only\/","id":"d6l9af","body":"Not only that they are forcing us too help out other positions jobs that pay way more with no bonus or anything. On top of that I was warned I was gonna get fired for hitting a certain amount of points while they blatantly ignored that policy for someone else.","title":"[CA] Coworkers get paid full 40 hours for only working 30 while we are forced to work the full 40. Is this right?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540242736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qi2kg\/is_it_legal_for_my_employer_to_defer_wages_until\/","id":"9qi2kg","body":"Located in Ohio, USA.\n\nA little background: Im not necessarily happy at the company, but the pay is really good for the job title I have. Ive discussed some of my grievances with a coworker and said that I wanted to hopefully find something else by January. \n\nToday I was told by my boss during my employee review that I would be receiving an hourly pay raise starting today. However, he told me that the additional funds that I earn from the raise (that starts today) will not be given to me until January 2019. I kind of had a feeling that the coworker tipped my boss off and holding my earned funds is their way of keeping me from quitting, at least for now. Is this even legal? Theyd be holding my earned wages for months for no reason and Im worried about how I will file taxes for the wages in 2018. ","title":"Is it legal for my employer to defer wages until next year?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540672245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rxh1x\/car_and_bike_damaged_in_paid_residential_parking\/","id":"9rxh1x","body":"Hi Reddit. I live in an apartment building with paid underground parking\u2014$100\/month is the rate.\n\nAnyway, my Harley and my car have been been struck in this parking garage in the last year. My car was just struck this past week. When my bike was damaged, I contacted the management office, asking them if they could check the cameras. This is when it became known to me that they have very minimal camera coverage in the garage and there was no footage I could use. Anyway, now that my car has been hit, I\u2019m assuming they won\u2019t be able to offer any footage again. \n\nI pay for this garage monthly. It is a residents only garage so I know the perp lives in my building. Is there something I can do here? I feel helpless accepting the fact that I just have to eat these costs.\n\nThanks","title":"Car and Bike Damaged in paid residential parking garage","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569179243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7uxh9\/got_punched_in_the_face_last_night_badly_that\/","id":"d7uxh9","body":"Last night, I was attending a wedding at a functional hall and there were a lot of people there. About 11PM, I went outside to cool off since it was too hot inside and also use my phone. 3 guys came up to me saying I was touching one their girlfriends, which I didn\u2019t. They mistakenly me for someone else, then one guy punched me once on the right side of my face. I was knocked on the ground and I think I might have lost consciousness for a good minute or more I couldn\u2019t remember. They walked back inside the hall and when I got up there were blood everywhere on my face, my shirt. My house is nearby so I walked home(10mins) to get change and come back trying to find those 3 guys. I didn\u2019t want to make a scene and walked back inside with blood everywhere ruining the wedding (I realized I should have gone after them right away or call 911 right away but I was panicking and in shock because I just got punch in the face doing nothing wrong at all). When I came back, almost everyone have left and there was no sight of those 3 guys that punched me. \n\nI called 911 when I came back and saw that everyone have left. When the police arrived, I asked them to check the surveillances to see those guys faces that punched me. There are cameras inside and outside this functional hall, but it\u2019s not recording the hard drive was full the owner said. The cameras are there just for show. It meant shit! The cops told me they\u2019re not obligated to record anything.\n\nI went to the ER and I got facial contusion and maxillary facial fracture. I got insurance through my employer but it\u2019s HDHP so I know I\u2019m going to pay quite a lot out of my pockets for this medical bill. What can I do in this situation when it\u2019s not my fault at all?","title":"Got punched in the face last night badly that landed me in ER. What can I do? (MA)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553970149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7e9w1\/please_help\/","id":"b7e9w1","body":"Hello there, please excuse any grammatical mistakes for English is not my mother tongue.\n9 years ago my father set up a company, but died 2 years later. Before dieing he gave the power of attorney to my cousin who was unemployed atm(we still have shares as it is my father's property) . fast forward to 2 years later, my mom receives a call from the bank asking whether she has given authorization for loans, which she did not. Worried about the financial situation of our company she asks him about the financial records. Which he has continued to not give till-date. However when we further investigated, All the transactions related to company were happening through his personal account(all profits, payments, capital amount had been transferred to his personal account). We now Want to remove him, but my step brother refuses to. Due to the fact that his rent and everyday expenses are handled by our company (even though he has a job). My shares equal to approximately 14.25% and my mom's equal to 19.5%\nThe sponsor who is on our side has 51%.\nWhat do I do. \n","title":"PLEASE HELP!!!","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1508324231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/775suu\/pa_can_students_use_the_name_of_their_high_school\/","id":"775suu","body":"Nobody likes our coach\u2019s design for a jacket we were planning on ordering. We tried to tell him that and ask if we could design them ourselves, but he\u2019s a \u201cmy way or the highway\u201d type of guy. We (the players) don\u2019t want to spend money on these jackets since the design sucks.\n\nAre we legally allowed to band together and order our gear on our own, without our coach\u2019s permission? The jacket would have our school name on it but it\u2019s very generic (think Eastern or Northern High School). It\u2019s a public school, and only people on the team would be allowed to buy one.\n\n\n\n","title":"[PA] Can students use the name of their high school on merchandise without permission?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570808819,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgh145\/my_granpa_passed_away_and_had_a_will_but_my_dads\/","id":"dgh145","body":"Let's start off with saying I'd rather have my grandpa here than a penny of his money, but when my mom died when I was younger my dad gave us a little bit of money but we later found out that he had gotten WAY more. So now my grandpa passed away a few days ago and they're already talkin about what was in his bank account but I'm almost positive I won't see any of it because I'm not getting along with my family. But I know he had a will and my family saying that he didn't. I wish I didn't have to worry about my family being Liars but what can you do. If he had a will would it be with an outside party, or somethig that's locked in case somewhere in the house? I just want to make sure things are handled the way he had wished for it to be done .","title":"My granpa passed away and had a will but my dad's saying he didnt","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1508103711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76lxgh\/executor_of_biodads_will_died_now_encountering\/","id":"76lxgh","body":"I'll try to make this simple although it is a little complex. \n\nSo my BioDad died in June 2015. He had tried to make a will and leave the estate to me and my two minor half brothers. He named a family friend of his the executor before he died. Unfortunately, the Will was found to be illegitimate. The executor proceeded to spend lots of money on attorneys and despite the offer of free help and easier ways of documentation, declined my offer of documenting for free on Google Cloud to spend money on an employee of his to type what we documented by hand. So he incurred an insane cost that was completely unnecessary and was looking for ways to recoup his losses. \n\nEventually he decided he could \"charge\" me and my brothers for the personal affects. When that didn't go over well and he received a cease and desist from their mother, he claimed he couldn't just give us anything because a Medicaid lawyer said he wasn't allowed to give anything up as Medicaid would take it. Later I found out in our state (CO) Medicaid is not entitled to anything as long as a minor was involved. \n\nFinally, everything was settled and my BioDad's sister (my aunt), my two half brothers, and I all got to choose what we wanted. We agreed to let Executor attempt to sell a Stamp collection that was passed down in the family and a coin collection to recoup his costs as long as we got more sentimental personal affects. \n\nUnfortunately neither the Stamp nor the Coin collection were appraised at a decent value, and the Executor decided to give the Stamp collection to my aunt while trying to find a better buyer for the coin collection. \n\nAnd then he suddenly died in 2016. He never married his partner because they agreed they wanted most of the estate to go to his children from a previous marriage. The executrix of his will is his oldest daughter. \n\nThe partner was left with the executor's condo to live in, 50 items of her choice, and an IRA account with both 1,500 in her name and 600 for my BioDad's legacy project that was donated by a church memorial event to publish his music. This was explicitly in the will. \n\nSuddenly, the Stamp Collection, the Coin Collection, the IRA account, and a copy of one of my BioDad's musical recordings is MIA. \n\nThe partner has asked for the stamp collection as one of the 50 items and asked for the IRA account money and musical recording back. The executrix has refused and quit responding to messages. \n\nWe made one last ditch effort with a formal letter asking for the stamp collection for my aunt, conceding the coin collection as reimbursement for her dad's executor expenses, and stated while we have no interest in suing my aunt and I may look into an attorney if we receive nothing.\n\nThe executrix has not responded and is apparently refusing to allow the partner to live in the condo, has refused to communicate re: IRA accounts, and we are concerned about what her interest in the musical recordings might be whether she feels entitled to publish it in her dad's name for money. \n\nSo a few things, what can the partner of the former executor of my biodad's will do, what can my aunt and I do if anything, and if this lady tries to publish my BioDad's music, which was explicitly copyright of my BioDad and only entrusted to either myself, the executor, or his partner to republish, what actions can I take? ","title":"Executor of BioDad's Will died, now encountering problems with his Executrix","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553487579,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b562jo\/how_do_i_report_illegal_online_content_to_the\/","id":"b562jo","body":"Alright, I am American, and long story short, I stumbled upon a website with illegal content hosted on it. My initial thought was to message the people who host the site. They closed the case with no reply. I figured out the website is hosted in Sweden, but as an American who only speaks English, I don't know how to contact the police in Sweden. Does anybody know what steps I should take?","title":"How do I report illegal online content to the Swedish police?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570131482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcvx26\/medical_care_without_my_consent\/","id":"dcvx26","body":"My daughter lives in Texas with her father, she is 10. But our divorce was in VA. He\u2019s military and since remarried. He has majority physical custody, but we have joint legal, including requiring both parents consent for medical treatment. My daughter recently told me her stepmother is taking her to a Dietician as she\u2019s a little thicker than she should be, but definitely not fat. Neither her Father or stepmother have said anything to me about this, or even attempted to have a discussion about this issue. Ever. If she\u2019s being taken for medical care without my consent or discussion, or her stepmother is maintaining she\u2019s the biological mother in order to get her seen - Do I have any recourse or options for holding them accountable? I\u2019m trying to build a case to get her back with me. When he got his orders to move to TX, her going with him was what was best for her, but that\u2019s no longer the case. I will talk to him as my first option, but I want to know where I would stand if I need to implement a plan B. As far as wanting my daughter to come back to VA to live with me, he\u2019s not the kind to go quietly about this - he\u2019s still very bitter about the end of our marriage.","title":"Medical care without my consent","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554220568,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8l13x\/my_work_is_threatening_furlough_days_in_the\/","id":"b8l13x","body":"Located in CT.\n\nThe hospital I work at is warning us about future furlough days due to overstaffing. They have recently signed under contract a new tech that will be starting in a week or two. My boss says that they didn\u2019t realize that the department is now \u201cover staffed\u201d with the new hire. She says they can\u2019t rescind the offer and is saying we will have to be furloughed as needed in the future. \n\nCan they do this? \nWe are full time-hourly technicians. \nI will try to answer any questions or info I missed. Thanks. ","title":"My work is threatening furlough days in the future due to overstaffing at the same time as they are hiring a new employee (CT)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568855197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d66p08\/can_you_get_kicked_out_of_apartments_for_having_a\/","id":"d66p08","body":"Not sure if management has right to kick a tenant out for it in an apartment complex. Management keeps changing and they always say they need paperwork for it? It get confusing. \n\n Can a new apartment complex management do such a thing?","title":"Can you get kicked out of apartments for having a support animal in California?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570059878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dciq4k\/need_passport_but_cant_fill_all_info_us\/","id":"dciq4k","body":"I\u2019m hoping this is the right place to ask but I recently began the process to get a passport and while filling out the paperwork it asks for my parents information, getting my mothers information was no issue but with my father I have cut all communication with him and don\u2019t know basic information about him due to a rough past. Is that information vital to the process? Will I be stuck not getting the passport or having to find him? Thank you in advance for any helpful advice.","title":"Need passport but can\u2019t fill all info [US]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568754894,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5ncn9\/car_dealership_is_trying_to_change_contract\/","id":"d5ncn9","body":"This is my first time posting in this sub, on mobile, and I am in need of some advice. It\u2019s long, bare with me. \n\n I (23F) am stationed in Maryland. I\u2019m in the military. July 4th a bought a used car from a Honda dealership in Virginia and my mother was the co signer. She used capital one to finance the $6K car and put me on as well. I paid $500 down payment and they took $500 off for military service. They came back with 14% APR, and $167 a month payments. Me and my mother have been in contact with this dealership for 3 1\/2 months. I\u2019ve had to go back twice to get my tags replaced due to them expiring. And waiting for my license plates etc. Most of the time they are unresponsive and don\u2019t return emails or phone calls. \n\nThe finance personnel messaged me July 15th saying that I should be receiving a package in the mail shortly with information on the car and payments etc. I received nothing. July 17th comes and he messaged me that he hasn\u2019t received my mother\u2019s paystubs yet, my mother sent them, he checks his email, and boom there they are. July 30th I message finance guy and tell him \u201cHey Finance! Sorry to bug you, but I still haven\u2019t received anything in the mail in order to make payments, and was wondering if my plates by chance are in?\u201d NO response from him. \n\nFast forward to August 23rd, he asks me to send him my LES and proof of residence telling me that he didn\u2019t submit our information in time, and this was time sensitive. I was out of the country and told him I would send it Thursday. He also messaged my mom asking for all of her information again. This is what I said to him: \n\n\u201cI will be sending it today. You needed to let us know what documents were needed 2 months ago. Not scrambling the last minute because you all messed up. This is NOT okay. It is not okay that you all are putting us in this position because you didn\u2019t get what was needed when we signed for the car. Tell us what documents you need, and please submit them. My mother sent you her information and it\u2019s ridiculous that you didn\u2019t submit them when you were supposed to and it\u2019s \u201ctoo old\u201d now. Please let us know what else needs to be submitted. Thank you.\u201d Again, no response from him. \n\nHe then proceeds to tell my mother that the time ran out, the documents weren\u2019t submitted in time and she needed to submit another request to finance through capital one, not only hitting her credit again, but mine as well. \n\nMy mother gets a phone call today, and is told that now I have two options, either I give more money as a down payment and my payments go up to $180 with a higher APR, or I give no more money and my APR goes up to 22%. And if I decline both, then I must surrender the car. We were told today, and also told we only had today to decide or else bring the car in today. This is THEIR mess up, not ours. They are the ones who didn\u2019t submit paperwork on time, or tell us what\u2019s needed. My mother asked for the agreement in writing and they have yet to send it and are ignoring our calls. I believe they are trying to swindle us. And corner us into making a decision. I read our contract and it states\n \u201c(ii) any changes to this contract must be in writing and signed. No oral changes are binding\u201d. \n\nIf you\u2019ve gotten this far, thank you for reading. I really need advice because I am in the process of moving, and I\u2019m in training and this is now more stress. Please advise.","title":"Car dealership is trying to change contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1412826080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2iq8lt\/eastern_nc_girlfriend_found_some_filled_out_voter\/","id":"2iq8lt","body":"My girlfriend took part in a voter registration drive,  went to the board of elections with several boxes of completed registration forms, and thought she brought all of them to the office that day. She didn't notice until today that she had another box in her car with maybe 20 forms, filled out in early September. Now she's worried that bringing them to the BOE will get her in trouble, though she is still doing so tomorrow (deadline is Friday). Please advise on what to expect or how to explain what happened here to make it clear that this was unintentional? Will that even be necessary? No idea what will happen with this.","title":"Eastern NC, girlfriend found some filled out voter registration forms in her house from a registration drive about a month ago. Is she in trouble?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570103070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcppib\/hit_and_run\/","id":"dcppib","body":"Long story short I was at a stop sign. Across the two way main road was another stop sign. I wanted to make a left on the main road so I stopped and looked both ways but failed to look straight ahead when turning left. A silver car was crossing the over the main and I braked as soon as I saw the car but I felt my car grazed theirs when I initially moved, it sounded like lightly rubbing two aluminum cans together. \nI quickly checked to see if they were pulling over but they weren\u2019t so I also left the scene. After coming home I checked my car and saw little to no scratches or bumps. \nI do feel responsible and would like to come foreword and help as much as I can but without stopping at that moment I have no car type or license plate just the color. What should I do?","title":"Hit and run?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443819743,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n9t7n\/protective_orders_and_social_media\/","id":"3n9t7n","body":"ETA: We are in Texas.\n\n\nI posted previously about the mutual protective order that my dad and stepmother have on each other. As far as the previous post goes my dads lawyer said that the text was a private message sent to a third party and even if he was arrested it wouldn't hold up in court. My question then is as far as Facebook goes, what constitutes a violation of the protective order? My stepmother is making public posts and directing them at my dad without mentioning him by name or referring to him as her husband but they seem threatening. In one she is addressing him but instead of saying his name she says \"dear sir!\" His lawyer asked if I could monitor her Facebook and let them know is she said anything that would violate the order but didn't really give me much information on what to look for. Any help is appreciated.\n\n\n[Previous Post](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mnpat\/possible_violation_of_protection_order\/)","title":"Protective orders and social media","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570985820,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhd5e9\/trying_to_help_my_single_mother_friend_25f_find\/","id":"dhd5e9","body":"Location: Connecticut \n\nI\u2019m NAL, my friend is a single mother with a 3 year old child and is on the fence about trying to collect child support. She\u2019s told me she\u2019s tried \u201cabout three or four times\u201d (whatever that means) but nothing ever comes from it, and she \u201cdoesn\u2019t want to start a conflict\u201d. \n\nAfter some back and forth arguing where I stressed that \u201cchild support isn\u2019t money meant for you, the government sees it as money that is there for the child\u201d (which I think is true but once again NAL) she\u2019s agreed to look into it. She acknowledged that she hadn\u2019t used an actual lawyer any of the times before. She\u2019s got a bachelors in education so she\u2019s not stupid (currently working as a bartender because she says the money is better than teaching) but is \u201cworried about putting a bunch of time and effort into it for nothing\u201d. Which is why I told her to get a lawyer and let them put in the time and energy since that\u2019s what they do. \n\nBasically, I\u2019d like to know what sort of legal assistance could be available to a single mother in CT, what type of lawyer she would need, how long could the process take and what would it be like, and what sort of penalties could happen if the father refuses to pay up? Thanks for any help.","title":"Trying to help my single mother friend (25F) find out her options for collecting child support.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554924158,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbq5yb\/california_called_in_sick_earlier_this_week_great\/","id":"bbq5yb","body":"I work in pest control which is usually a 8-5ish Monday-Friday. We have a couple dozen techs in this company (I am one of them), two bosses who sometimes pick up on work when we get behind because of cancellations, call ins and whatever reason. Anyway, this month we are a bit behind. I do not know why we are behind or how it happened, I usually just go to work then go home.\n\nLast Thursday I started getting sick, but I knew we are a bit behind and just muscled through it, felt worse Friday but worked too. I felt pretty bad on Saturday so I texted one of my two bosses and told him I probably won\u2019t be able to work Monday, giving him a few days notice so he can change routes around. He made me feel a bit guilty and told me to see how I felt Sunday cause we\u2019re behind and can\u2019t afford to take days off. So on Sunday I told him I can\u2019t work Monday.\n\nOn Monday I started feeling better so I told him I\u2019ll be able to work on Tuesday. Tuesday comes along and my mom woke me up telling me my great grandmother passes away last night. And told me the funeral is on Friday so I have to take that day off. I texted my boss and told him. Then today he reply\u2019s to my text saying sorry then immediately asks if I can work Saturday. We don\u2019t normally work Saturday but sometimes they ask for volunteers. But when he asked me I felt like he\u2019s punishing me for being sick and going to a funeral and says I have to work Saturday. I told him I cannot and he asks if I can work the next Saturday. I told him I\u2019m not sure.\n\nI know it\u2019s not a huge legal thing but can he do that? Make me work Saturdays because of me calling in for personal reasons?","title":"[California] Called in sick earlier this week, great grandmother passed away and had to take a day off. Now week is trying to make me work of Saturday","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446510391,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ra9wg\/one_of_my_clients_owes_me_money_and_im_the_only\/","id":"3ra9wg","body":"I worked with an entertainment company (as specific as I can be without potentially having my client guessed) as a contractor two years ago and had a handshake agreement for 2 payments-- one before the event, one after the event. I setup all social media accounts and never received my after-the-event payment, though just today I received an email asking for admin access to the social media accounts.\n\nI may have an email somewhere out there stating my after-the-event payment amount, though not 100%. I've worked with them on other projects since that they've paid me, so I just wrote off that second payment in my mind since I was getting other steady work, though now work has dropped off with them and they're requesting the access that I am the sole holder. Can I retain sole access until I'm paid?\n\nThis is all happening in Illinois (where my business entity is located) though I'm not sure if their entity is registered elsewhere, being that the investor for the event is a lawyer.","title":"One of my clients owes me money and I'm the only administrator on their Facebook page. They're requesting admin access to the page, can I hold sole access until I'm paid?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571700867,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl90d4\/told_to_call_911_for_mental_health_crisis_now\/","id":"dl90d4","body":"The doctor discontinued my husband risperidone believing he was not bipolar he made numerous attempts to get help before losing all touches with reality. I called 911 and ask for transport to the hospital they have audio of him making threats while in the state because he believed he was in danger.  He\u2019s back on his meds and back to baseline but now being charged with felony intimidation. We hired a lawyer I\u2019m just curious what the chances are getting this thrown out? He did everything his doctor told him and unfortunately it resulted in this.  I feel like it was an unfair charge when we were seeking help and he tried to get admitted twice prior that because he wasn\u2019t suicidal they didn\u2019t. Now or suffering financially as well as his reputation and his job or on the line.","title":"Told to call 911 for mental health crisis now being charged with a crime!","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446314793,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qznxf\/is_it_legal_to_drive_a_taxi_cab_around_town\/","id":"3qznxf","body":"As in, drive the car around but not pick up customers or offer any sort of service.\n\nI'm looking to shoot a short film which partly takes place in a taxi. We found a good one on craigslist and I'm wondering if it's legal to use for production. We also have no permits, this is a zero budget film.\n\nThank you!","title":"Is it legal to drive a taxi cab around town without a license? (Los Angeles)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540144312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q5joo\/traffic_stop_need_help\/","id":"9q5joo","body":"So I was in a car with 3 adults and 2 minors. One person decided to stick their hand out of the window and stick up the middle finger at a bus. (stupid, i know). This was at a red light, and the driver was slowing down. \n\nWe were all pulled over, the driver got a ticket for \u201cImpeding Traffic\/Driving to Slow\u201d, completely unrelated to the middle finger. Also, it is \u201cDriving to Slow\u201d on the ticket, instead of \u201cDriving too Slow\u201d. Is this enough to dismiss the case?\n\nMy question is, could the driver plead not guilty as it was a red light? This is in Texas, & driver is 18. ","title":"Traffic Stop. Need help","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569162001,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7r0y9\/is_it_possible_to_void_lease_over_extremely\/","id":"d7r0y9","body":"(TN) My wife and I have been renting a town home for around 3 years now. This property has changed management (companies) twice in that time and the actual property manager over the premises has changed no less than 6 times in that amount of time.  We entered our third lease last December and shortly thereafter attended an out of town wedding. While we were out a vacant unit next to us was leased and the new tenant moved in.\n\nAs far back as January I began to have to call the police over domestic disturbances due to these neighbors and since then have called 7 times this year. This does not account for all instances of these disturbances however.  When the occurrences began I notified the property manager of the issue. Between the hours of 10 pm and 4 am they will argue, curse, scream and hit\/kick\/beat on doors, walls, cabinets and floors with an amount of force great enough to make my office monitor teeter-totter on my desk. It is loud enough that I can hear it while reading wearing noise cancelling headphones and loud enough to hear over the audio from a movie being played over a surround sound theater system. \n\nThe management was told of the occurrences up to the first three at which time she advised that she would contact regional management to address the issues stating that it violates the quite hours policies. I was told they would be issued some form of paperwork stating that this continuing would lead to a termination of their lease and subsequent eviction. For approximately 4 weeks prior they were mostly quiet.  Closing in on the present time it has been 9 months since this all began. I spoke with the assistant property manager regarding this 3 times from late July into early August since there is currently no property manager on-site. The previous manager I spoke to is no longer at this facility though it is my understanding she is still the manager for this property. \n\nI took time off of work to travel between two police service centers to obtain copies of the reports made from me having to call the police and received records of 5 calls and 3 written reports regarding the matter. I submitted these to the apartment assistant manager back in August. Her stance changed from needing the reports in order to evict them, to needing the reports to threaten eviction when I submitted them. Since this point in time there has been no decrease in the severity nor frequency of the disturbances. \n\nAt this point in time My wife and I are distressed. I have never retaliated with banging on the walls or confrontation but the tension is immeasurably high to share a wall and parking area with residents you have had to frequently call law enforcement over. I have suggested (if the management was truly concerned with the best interest for both parties) that they allow us to terminate our lease without penalty provided that we give a 45 day written notice to vacate to no avail. \n\nDo I have any legal option to either force them to evict our neighbors, or void our lease so that we can move? We currently have approx 5 months left in our lease and the violence next door still continues at the frequency of roughly 3 to 4 nights a week. It is my concern given my neighbors proclivity to violence that there is an immediate threat to the safety of our property (vehicles) and ourselves given the hostility present.","title":"Is it possible to void lease over extremely violent, argumentative neighbors?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540461359,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r8unx\/bed_bugs_in_lowincome_apartment_building_minnesota\/","id":"9r8unx","body":"Hello everyone. Apologies first if this post is a little bit discombobulated, I'm running on no sleep and posting from my phone.\n\n I live in a low-income apartment building in Minnesota. According to pest control, a neighbor of mine acquired a pretty major bed bug infestation and eventually it spread to my unit. I've been getting rashes for a few months but I've never had bed bugs before so I didn't think much of it until the building was swarmed with pest control a few days following yearly government inspection.\n\nThere is an addendum in my lease which states that tenants are responsible for pest control. I've spoken to several lawyers through hotline and legal aid, they've all told me that this addendum is not enforceable and illegal in regards to Minnesota law. They have told me to contact them if they try to charge me and that we'll take it from there. I will. \n\nI am furious. Allow me to vent a little in my sleepless stupor; feel free to skip this paragraph. Living with bed bugs is a nightmare. Do you know how bed bugs survive? I didn't, until a couple of weeks ago, when my life was shifted upside down by these vampiric little fucks. First of all, they eat your blood. You can argue that some pests are attracted to certain environments because a person is irresponsible; cockroaches might not stick around if you don't leave food out, for example. Bed bugs are different. You can't not have blood. They can go over a year without a blood meal, so leaving them to starve for a week isn't going to work. That means that if one person in a building has them, everyone potentially has them. They are resistant to pesticides and getting rid of them is notoriously difficult, even under the premise that the tenant isn't responsible for monetary cost. As I mentioned, this building is low-income. I haven't met a single neighbor that isn't either: an immigrant (ESL), single parent, disabled or elderly. No one who lives here can afford extermination and I doubt most of them know their rights. How in the world do they expect an entire apartment building to cooperate in an extermination of an extremely difficult pest when half of them are probably terrified of reprocussion? Furthermore, how much quicker could this have been resolved if the addendum were something sensible that doesn't punish people who are already disadvantaged? I have read sensible addendums that state a tenant must inform management if they suspect bugs; that they must cooperate with extermination; that their landlord isn't responsible for furniture that must be thrown away. All of this makes sense to me. It doesn't make sense to me to try and expect people to pay for something that they literally can't. Either they put food in their kids mouths or they pay to exterminate bugs that they probably didn't bring in the first place, God, it seems like a sure fire way to ensure the entire building becomes infested. The woman who I suspect brought them in (not sure) very obviously has some sort of mental disability and I doubt she even understands the full extent of the situation. \n\nAlright. Sorry. Anyway, obviously, here I am. Pissed and tired. I didn't bring the bugs in (obviously) and I told management within days of figuring out I had them. My infestation is pretty minor, if you can call a bed bug infestation minor. I'm absolutely going to speak with a lawyer if they try to bill me, I'm more or less just asking what to expect. I literally cannot afford to pay them. Eviction? My lease is up in 5 months. Court? How is this likely to pan out and how much more stress am I in for?\n\nThank you.\n\nTl;dr: low income apartment building has bed bug infestation and potentially expects tenants to pay, which is illegal according to several lawyers I spoke to. ","title":"Bed bugs in low-income apartment building (Minnesota)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506883760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73nh3i\/ive_searched_online_trying_to_find_what_papers_i\/","id":"73nh3i","body":"Edit: Divorce is through riverside county in California. ","title":"I've searched online trying to find what papers I should have received had my husband actually served me divorce papers. Would I have been sent the papers he filed with the court that had the stamp and case number? Thank you guys for your help.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551140594,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ausk2j\/after_moving_out_of_a_uniquely_decent_and_yet\/","id":"ausk2j","body":"Firstly I am not an adult yet, so keep that in mind before typing advice (I will have no authority and ultimately not be making legal decisions). \n\nThe situation is pretty complicated, and we already have a lawyer but the situation is so bullshit I\u2019d just like some tips: \n\nSo my mom and I moved to New York last year to be in the US where my Dad would be frequenting after a business deal he struck. We are Chinese. I can speak English fluently since I grew up in Vancouver. My mom cannot.\n\nWhen looking for an apartment we found this open penthouse. It\u2019s where we lived for 8 months. \n\nThe landlord of the building himself used to live in that very unit with his family. \n\nMy mom being the kind person she was did not want to replace some really old furniture he has such as the curtains in question. \n\nI am not told but he MAKES my mom buy Umbrella Insurance Co.\u2019s Property Insurance before he would let my mom sign the contract for the rent. We were in urgent need of a place to live since school was starting soon and it was actually the apartment with the best overall conditions. She went the fuck with it but in the back of her mind I knew she was already preparing to deal with some bullshit later. She\u2019s not stupid. \n\nNow fast forward a year shit happened of course, the old ass sunburned curtain was ripped because simply trying to open them was too much force for them to stay intact.\n\nWe are being sued by the landlord and it is clear that the real estate agent was trying to set us up for this as well. \n\nUnfortunately the insurance company can\u2019t cover the fucking curtain, why? Because it\u2019s part of the apartment and the apartment is technically the landlords.\n\nFUCKING BULLSHIT\n\n","title":"After moving out of a uniquely decent and yet extremely shitty rented home in NYC and into our own apartment, our previous landlord is being a total cunt by charging my mom (who can\u2019t speak English well) for damaging old silk curtains that insurance he forced us to purchase was supposed to cover.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502908484,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u4305\/aunt_emptying_joint_account_of_deceased\/","id":"6u4305","body":"Throwaway because duh.\nLTRFTP;\n\nLong story, so stay with me if you can. US Resident.\n\nMy family owned a big cattle farm for decades, and it was always said that that would be my dad's inheritance (I now know that saying it, even in front of witnesses doesn't make it so) and the rest of the family assets would go to his two remaining siblings. My father lived and worked on this farm for nearly 30 years, maintaining and doing upgrades, working cattle, putting up hay, etc the whole time, all while also managing the other family business. My grandpa maintained that he preferred the farm would continue to stay in the farm forever, and made me promise not to ever sell it after I inherited it. I promised to oblige him. **It is important to note here that I also have business interests separate from my grandpa and dad's farm on this property.**\n\nFast forward a bit.\n\nMy grandfather was (told to us by aunt #1) diagnosed with dementia. He now required 24 hour care from aunt #1 and #2, with my dad subbing in as he could between the farm and other job. We are familiar with dementia due to other family members going through it, we do see the early signs of alzheimer's. Whether or not his state was to the point of round the clock care was debatable, but he did definitely need to be checked in on every day or two, and it was also a good opportunity to spend some time with him before it was too late.\n\nFast forward a bit.\n\nMy aunt #1 informs me that he can no longer pay his medical bills (!!! his liquid assets should have had him set for life, flag #1) and that they are discussing the idea of selling the farm. No fucking way, I say. I ask to see the financials and basically his personal monthly assets & liabilities. I offer to pay for his medical\/living expenses until end of life and we can carry those expenses to my own equity in the estate down the line. My aunt declines. She tells me she has an accountant that does that, and that I have no clue what I am doing. Ok. I tell her that I have no interest in seeing the farm in another family's hands, and that I will buy the farm under market value (roughly 70%). She agrees that if I can come up with $X, the farm will be sold to me.\n\nI start meeting with different farm agencies to see what my options are regarding farm loans. It wasn't going to be hard to get a loan to cover the farm, considering it was generating income already and I had collateral to secure it personally.\n\nIn the midst of these talks, I am notified by a family friend that the farm is soon to be sold to a third party. I immediately contact my lawyer and file an injunction on any sale and to get my easement on paper. (I'm stupid for not already doing this, I trusted family when I flagshipped my business here originally 8 years ago) It was a verbal agreement between my grandfather and me at that point. My part of the case not important to the story, I'm just giving context to why the property is lis pendens.\n\nThe rumors are true, a wealthy 3rd party assessed the farm and is buying the farm cash (as there is no way he could get a mortgage with it otherwise).\n\nLong fast forward, takes them a year to answer interrogatories.\n\nGrandpa admits to suffering from dementia the exact month the sale is signed. Grandpa admits no one is enacting POA.\n\nWe contest the sale as best we can, and freeze the assets EXCEPT for what is necessary for his living arrangements (Medicine, food, etc.) until the case is finalized.\n\nWe attempt to set a date for depositions over and over and over with delays, and my grandpa is eventually entered into a nursing home. He dies roughly two months later at a weight of 70lbs.\n\nTwo months pass, no probate is filed. We go to file for the probate to begin, to see if any new will has been created since the last one we have a copy of, and to get the process going.\n\nHad a meeting with my lawyer today. Their lawyer is basically telling us the estate is empty of assets (house title ToD, bank account was apparently joint with aunt #1).\n\nI know I am fucked, but is there anything I can do at this point? I am extremely suspicious of elder abuse\/neglect at this point from my aunts, as well as potential money skimming over a longer period of time to create the original problem that \"forced\" the farm sale to be rammed through, even with my grandfather's dementia.\n\nTLDR; FUCK.","title":"Aunt emptying joint account of deceased grandfather","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568775878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5rpw8\/example_of_excessive_use_of_force_by_police_canada\/","id":"d5rpw8","body":"It\u2019s obviously a complicated situation, but I\u2019ll try to confine my story to just the example I\u2019m asking about. Without going too far into the background, I was arrested this morning at a roadside stop in my car. I complied with the officers, and did everything that asked me to do. I was cooperative, compliant, and submissive. When the officer was handcuffing me, he tightened my right wrist so tight I started screaming in pain. I was in tremendous pain, my hand was starting to become numb, and I pleaded with him to loosen the restraint. Not only did he ignore me, but he mocked me. Saying things like \u201cIt\u2019s not that tight\u201d, and telling me to shut up. Even though I was screaming in pain, I did not resist him guiding me to the back of the cruiser. When he sat me down in the seat, I was still yelling in agony, as the pain had only gotten worse. He told me to be quite, and when I wasn\u2019t, he punched me in the right side of my face. Specifically, my right jaw. I was absolutely stunned. I had my hands handcuffed behind my back, begging for him to lessen the pressure on my hand, and he punches me full force threw the open door, for absolutely no reason. Sufficed to say, I immediately stop. I was absolutely terrified of him after that point. Past that point is a bit of a blur, but I was completely docile, even though my right hand was still in pain.\n\nWith the circumstances as I\u2019ve described them, is this an example of excessive force?","title":"Example of excessive use of force by police? (Canada)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540144559,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q5ky5\/university_conducted_healthsafety_inspections_a\/","id":"9q5ky5","body":"P.S.: Sorry for wall of text, I\u2019m in mobile. This is in Virginia by the way.\n\nLast night (Oct. 20th), my university conducted health and safety inspections throughout my building, despite signs and postings everywhere in the building stating they would take place Oct. 21st through Oct. 25th.\n\nDuring the inspection, which I had walked in on while it was happening, they smelled marijuana in my room and called campus police. The police agreed that it smelled like weed, giving them probable cause to search my side of my room. \n\nAt first I told them I didn\u2019t have anything in the room, because I had forgotten that I had some paraphernalia stored away (which I haven\u2019t used all year). They found the paraphernalia, as well as a THC oil cartridge in my pocket that I had admitted to having before they searched me. After the search of the room and myself, I was put in handcuffs and taken the patrol car and eventually to an adult detention center (I\u2019m 19). \n\nI was completely sober the entire time, and I do not remember either of them reading me my miranda rights. The officer that eventually booked me asked if the other officer had read me them, and I told him that I don\u2019t remember him doing so, and the officer gave me no response. He never read me my miranda rights either. Both officers notified me at the beginning of all this that their body cameras were recording the whole thing. \n\nSo now, I\u2019m being charged with felony possession of controlled substance for the THC oil cartridge. On top of that, I will most likely be fined by the school and have a conduct hearing in the future for separate violations in my room.\n\nI have court later this week. My family is working on hiring an attorney and what not to plan for the court date. \n\nI\u2019m asking for advice on how to go about talking to the school about inspecting my room\/building a day before they said they would (which I would think would be some sort of violation on their part) as well as what I should talk to my attorney about this week, although I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll tell me everything I need to do.\n\nOne last thing; I\u2019m taking responsibility for my actions and I know that if I had not smoked weed or anything like that in the first place this never would have happened, but I can\u2019t help but think that if the school hadn\u2019t inspected my room before they said they would, this never would\u2019ve happened either.","title":"University conducted Health\/Safety Inspections a day earlier than announced; this led to my arrest.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570241334,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddh5wq\/am_i_in_trouble\/","id":"ddh5wq","body":"I overtook someone who was going slow in an unmarked neighborhood road and he video taped my car (which is illegal to use your phone while driving and impeded traffic while doing so) can I legally get in trouble?","title":"Am I in trouble","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539877014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9paczy\/landlord_not_fulfilling_maintenance_requests\/","id":"9paczy","body":"As the title suggests, my current landlord has not been fulfilling maintenance requests. The one particular standout is the washer\/dryer unit which has either been totally broken or worked in limited capacity for about 3 months. In our lease it states that a washer dryer unit is provided with the house. We\u2019ve called, emailed, and submitted multiple requests online. Note: I live in Minneapolis. Any advice on how to handle this? Is there any recourse for us as tenants?","title":"Landlord Not Fulfilling Maintenance Requests","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569971927,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc1pdk\/california_us_government_housing_gross_neglegence\/","id":"dc1pdk","body":"Hello and good day. My family and I live in government low income housing in California. A few years ago (2016 I believe), a tree in the front of the house fell on our housing. Our apartments are Stand Alone Complexes that are not attached to each other, therefore the tree ended up falling on just our home and cracking the inside ceiling of my room. That got fixed a whopping 1.5 years later. Then, in 2018, another tree at the back of our house fell on our home. Not as bad as the first one, but to say I have PTSD of trees near our home is an understatement. I strongly believe it's the fact that they stopped keeping grass around these homes, so they ripped out the grass and  threw wood chips to replace the grass. There's always fungi and mushrooms and mold that end up thriving during the wet season because of the wood chips. The first and second tree both had mold in the inside. I saw before they carried the trees away. I regretfully did not document or photograph my observations. We moved to this apartment in 2010 or 2011, and the tree in the back and front were both very young and healthy. It's only when they threw these woodchips on that things went wrong.\n\nNOW another tree in the front of our home that is between us and our neighbors is falling apart. First it broke apart at the roots, leaving a sizable hole. I called yesterday about it. Upon inspection today, there is a BIG vertical chunk of it gone at least 3 feet from the roots. I called again and made it clear I NEED something done ASAP or else there will be hell. With the second tree that fell on our house, I absolutely brought it to the intention of our property manager, months prior to the tree falling. They told me that they need quotes and something about bidding to get the tree removed. They told me that again with this tree. The exact same thing.\n\nLet me make it clear that if that tree falls on our home or the neighbor's (heaven forbid the neighbor's as they have kids; we don't), I'm going to raise hell, DEMAND to speak to the higher ups, and demand something be done about all this or else I'm sueing for gross neglegence. \n\nWhat I want to know is: would I have a legitimate neglegence case on my hands should that tree fall on either our home or the neighbors? What if it does fall but doesn't fall on either home?","title":"California, US - Government Housing Gross Neglegence - Do I Have A Potential Case?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504188355,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x725t\/us_is_it_legal_to_scam_an_insurance_company\/","id":"6x725t","body":"[missouri] I was in an accident last week and had my car towed. Now not being in the right mind frame or having any experience with having a car towed (20y\/o), I used the guys that showed up without me calling. Well it turns out that they billed me $760 for a 9 mile tow and then a $50 a day for storage. My insurance through my parents was able to cover $300 for a tow. My mother paid up front and to then get reimbursed. So when she paid it was only about $610 for the tow and they dropped the storage fees. How is something like this legal? If it is not should I get in contact with a lawyer?","title":"[US] Is it legal to scam an insurance company?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551573091,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awog06\/painter_that_was_hired_by_my_apartment_complex\/","id":"awog06","body":"Last Saturday, I called my apartment complex about a leak in my roof that had started during the heavy rains in east TN. They were quick to answer the phone but very slow to send someone out. Monday evening, a full two days later, they sent someone out to stop the leak and repair our roof. No big deal because we were able to keep towels down as they instructed so nothing was water damaged.\n\nThe problem was that they sent a contractor out to repaint our ceiling and all he did was spray a single layer of spray paint over it. It looks extremely unprofessional and he didn\u2019t place a tarp down and as a result there is a thin layer of spray paint on EVERYTHING in our bedroom: clothes, carpet, desk roller mat, computer keyboard and mouse, the computer tower, all my books, and the furniture itself. \n\nI called the office and they said it wasn\u2019t their problem because it was an outside contractor who did it. The apartment complex called the contractor and they sent the painter back out with a supervisor who looked around, took my number and told me someone would be in contact. Five days later and I still haven\u2019t heard anything and the apartment complex says they don\u2019t have anything to do with it because it was the contractor. \n\nWhat are my options? I figure that with everything that will have to be replaced it is around $750-$1000 easy and that\u2019s not even including the furniture because I don\u2019t know how much it would cost to replace that. I have renters insurance but I doubt they cover incompetence by contractors. \n\nThanks everyone for your help.","title":"Painter that was hired by my apartment complex got spray paint all over the items in my bedroom and isn\u2019t eager to do anything about it. What are my options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541100892,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tco4t\/someone_damaged_my_car_while_i_was_parked_i_have\/","id":"9tco4t","body":"Is there anyway that I can prove to my insurance if it wasn\u2019t my fault?","title":"Someone damaged my car while i was parked, I have no idea who it was since they left.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1507679004,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75l5h5\/nc_subbing_work_to_a_business_that_i_partially_own\/","id":"75l5h5","body":"I've been looking everywhere for the legalities surrounding conflict of interest with private businesses and am coming up blank. Here's my situation: I work full time at business A, which provides a service for both private and public contracts. Business B provides a tool to enhance the work of business A. In other words, by utilizing business B, both companies have made a considerable sum of money. Because of my knowledge of the industry of business A, business B wants to bring me on as a partner. I fully intend to continue working at business A and work at company B on the side... but now I'd be issuing out work\/contracts to a company I partially own (despite by full time company still profiting). It's a perfectly symbiotic relationship between the two companies, but I'm straddling a line between the two. I'm assuming the only way to keep things on the up and up would be to completely quit my full time job and move over to being an owner\/employee of company B. Is it legal to continue to be employed at A while owning B, or am I legally required to quit A or disclose my ownership of B? ","title":"(NC) Subbing work to a business that I partially own.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1410206862,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fu79r\/cop_fishing_for_a_dui_in_pa\/","id":"2fu79r","body":"Hey reddit first time poster here.  I found myself in a little traffic incident a few weeks ago and was hoping you guys could help.  So I was driving home at midnight on a Saturday after a concert.  A light ahead of me turns yellow and I don't have time to stop so I go through.  Cop pulls me over and tells me I went through a red light, and asks me if I had anything to drink that night.  I say I had a beer at 5:30 with dinner.  He makes me perform a field sobriety test, which I pass without a problem.  After the test he says that he wouldn't have pulled me over if I hadn't been honking my horn at a previous intersection (which I didn't do), and he also says to tell my friends who were ahead of me not to do it either (it was just a random car that happened to be ahead of me).  I say I wasn't honking my horn, and that the car just happened to be in front of me.  He mumbles something under his breath and says okay get back in your car.  He still gives me a ticket.\n So my question is what can I say to the judge at the trial?  Can I use the fact that he said he wouldn't have pulled e over if he hadn't thought that I was behaving drunkenly?  For context I am a college student, the incident occurred in an almost completely deserted retail area in the suburbs, and I was driving under the speed limit.\nThanks in advance for any responses ","title":"Cop Fishing For a DUI (in PA)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541655878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v7eyc\/is_it_necessary_to_change_my_car_registration\/","id":"9v7eyc","body":"So I'm moving from my home state of Texas to Kansas City, Missouri for work, and wondering whether I should update my license and car registration? Technically the car is owned by my dad and all the registration, insurance, and title information is under his name with our Texas address. The registration sticker is good until June 2019. My license also doesn't expire for another 3 years, and I'm a little attached to my TX license so I'd like to keep it as long as possible. I'm also worried about not having my plates match my license if I decide to switch over to a MO license. \n\nI don't really plan on living in Missouri for the rest of my life, and want to move back to Texas within 3-5 years. Is it worth it or even necessary to change my license and car registration if it's technically not even under my name? My main question is about the legality of the car registration since I'll be operating the vehicle out of state while it's registered and insured under my dad's name.","title":"Is it necessary to change my car registration from TX to MO?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554448054,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9o0en\/was_treated_awfully_in_a_workplace_do_to_my_eoe\/","id":"b9o0en","body":"So first off I work with kids at an after school program, one of this biggest things is when you\u2019re sick you NEED to stay home to avoid the kids getting sick. And I (now know but didn\u2019t at the time) have EoE a condition where I have an access of Eosinophils in throat causing me to have hyper allergic reactions that cause me to vomit a lot get have pain all over, basically get sick. \n\nA few months ago I got sick thought nothing of it and took the day off for it no big deal. But I started getting awfully sick more and more often. I had no idea what was going on, I went to doctors and got several tests. I was NOT in control of my body and it was terrible. \n\nPretty soon though I started being treated pretty bad in the work place for it. The days I was in it started as very snide comments from my boss and other co workers about me being lazy and faking it (whatever that doesn\u2019t matter). Then they started making me do all the grunt work while others sat around (plenty of work for 3 people). When I had to leave early for appts or because I was about VOMIT EVERYWHERE I was told to stay and clean some more but still clocked out at my time. My boss appointed her self as my personal doctor telling me what I can and can\u2019t eat in the workplace (we often had lunches there before work started). I was even told sometimes when I needed to go to the bathroom to puke, \u201cyou don\u2019t have go.\u201d There was a point I was vomiting bile and blood in a trashcan in front of them and was scolded and told that it\u2019s not okay to be sick here when they were the ones to tell me \u201cyou need to show up more this is ridiculous\u201d. It was either stay home sick and get ridiculed publicly by my boss or go to work sick and get ridiculed by my boss publicly. I was outcast, ridiculed by my boss and all coworkers, my personal life at work was controlled, not a good place when I\u2019m sick and already mentally drained from what\u2019s going on. So eventually I was fed up and took medical leave, which bring me here. \n\nI don\u2019t know what I should do here. Is this something that I can take up or is it something I should just suck it up and quit with. Problem is if I do that I know my co workers and boss will turn all this on to someone else which I would hate to see. \n\nIf anyone one needs more details or something I\u2019d gladly answer. I just need help on what to do. \n\n","title":"Was treated awfully in a workplace do to my EoE. What should I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504450075,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xtj02\/motion_for_new_trial_in_texas\/","id":"6xtj02","body":"Hi, I really don't do much with Reddit, so please forgive me if I commit any faux pas, and tell me what I did wrong and I will gladly correct.\n\nI live in Texas. Was divorced more than a decade ago in another state. Case was later transferred to Texas. The ex-spouse now lives in Texas as well. In the original divorce in the other state, I was pro se and agreed to spousal maintenance of x amount per month, via wage garnishment, that would end only if one of us died or she remarried, which she has not.\n\nMany years later, in Texas I tried to modify or terminate the spousal maintenance. I failed a couple of times. Ordered to pay past due support plus reinstate the wage garnishment from current employer. For the past year I had an attorney of my own for the first time, but he basically lost.\n\nHowever, after that most recent judgment that went again in the ex-spouse's favor, the ex-spouse had a change of heart. She contacted me and asked me if a proposal that I had floated to her a year ago was still on the table. I told her it was. She fired her attorney (who refused to entertain the proposal), and she and I signed a notarized agreement. This agreement basically says that I pay a much-reduced amount via wage garnishment for a finite period of time. If I pay on time for the full amount of time, then at the end of that period the obligation ceases, including the past due amount and any future amount.\n\nWe went before the judge pro se, he reviewed the paperwork and asked some questions. He wanted to make sure the ex understood what she was agreeing to, and she told him she did. He made sure she wasn't coerced; she told him she wasn't. He then signed the order. I had a pending appeal in the Court of Appeals which I then dropped that same day. That was earlier this summer.\n\nYesterday, I received a notice of hearing on a Motion For New Trial from the judge, for 10 days from yesterday. I never received the actual Motion. So I don't have a Motion, or any supporting Affidavit. I have no idea what her reasoning is for wanting a new trial. Buyer's remorse, perhaps.\n\nAnyway, my questions relate to time limits and grounds for bringing a Motion For New Trial. First, isn't that Motion one that the adversely-affected party would bring? She actually won a judgment - got everything she asked for - but then of her own free will entered into a separate agreement, and the judge signed an Order Modifying Spousal Maintenance in acceptance of that agreement. So is she entitled to a new trial?\n\nAnd what about time limits for bringing this motion. According to my research into Rule 329b of the Texas rules of civil procedure, you have 30 days from a signed judgment to bring a Motion for New Trial. I think she filed her motion outside that window (although it will be after the labor day holiday before I can go to the courthouse and check the file date on the motion, since I never got the motion). So wouldn't it be true that the trial court no longer has plenary power to grant a motion for new trial?\n\nI am not an attorney. Just a pro se litigant. I thank you in advance for any advice you can give.","title":"Motion For New Trial in Texas","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445454313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3po5iv\/horse_lease_terms\/","id":"3po5iv","body":"Hi Everyone,\n\nI am in Northern California and am just about to lease my horse to a girl and her family. This is my first time leasing my own horse, so I collected bits an pieces of what I found online and came up with a contract. \n\nI sent the contract to them, and the next day the father emailed me back with edits he made to the contract: one of them being the termination rights. I had included in the contract this line: \"The Lessor has the right to terminate the Lease at any time should the agreements in this contract be breached; Lessee has the option to return the horse to Lessor prior to the end of the Lease term, provided however, there is a 30-day notice and all Lease fees hereunder are fully paid up and current through the time the horse is returned to Lessor.\" \n\nThe reason I chose not to include myself being required to give 30-day notice to the Lessee, is solely upon the fact of the restrictions\/rules for riding my horse, I listed, being breached. The horse is in a very specific training program and there are some rules I explicitly wrote in the contract because of this.\n\nI figure the lease guidelines that include a live animal of some sort is different when comparing to something like the lease\/renting guidelines of a house, as the animal is not a factor in which their daily life would *immediately* and drastically change upon the end of the contract. \n\nAm I okay to have the right to end the Lease at any time, under the sole circumstances of the restrictions I made being breached? If not, am I allowed to have a shorter notice, say, something like two weeks? \n\nThanks!","title":"Horse Lease Terms","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568924739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6jrxs\/subrogation\/","id":"d6jrxs","body":"My wife recently got a subrogation letter from an company on behalf of the insurance company of the other person wanting subrogation from an accident 3yrs ago but the amount and time frame they want the settlement by keeps fluctuating and it's just really strange to me as I've never dealt with this situation before. I'm just trying my best to help and figure this out, any advice?  (We live in Florida if that makes any difference)","title":"Subrogation","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1507834669,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75z5dw\/timetable_to_file_a_small_claims_suit\/","id":"75z5dw","body":"(NV) My wife and I bought a house and are remodeling. After getting 4 bids for new cabinets, we went with the medium priced option. Our contractor sent over a contract, with half down to order materials, etc.    \n\nHe set an install date, and we cut a check for 50% of the price to get the ball rolling.   \n\nNext day we get a call from a check cashing place (super red flag) about the check, asking if we did in fact write it, what it was for etc. I tell them, yes, they are doing out cabinets, it\u2019s fine.   \n\nFast forward to install date, about a month later, no word from the guy. No samples, no proof of any work getting done. After a week of tried to get ahold of them, I finally get a call that their shop had to move, and they are way behind now. But we are next up. They set another install date, and then invoice us for 25%  more, because \u201cthe labor was more than they calculated\u201d and they need it to finish.    \n\nBy now my wife is livid, as am I.  It seems pretty cut and dry that we are getting the run around, and they are just looking for more $. I told them straight up, no more money until it\u2019s installed, and now no contact again.   \n\nI have all the signed contracts, emails, correspondence, etc.    \n\nCan I file a small claims now?","title":"Timetable to file a small claims suit?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551122972,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aup7c0\/missing_paycheck\/","id":"aup7c0","body":"I started a new job February 4th and my first pay day was supposed to be last Friday(Feb 22). The Monday that I started my new job I also moved. Due to some system problems on both my company, and a third party company's side, pretty much everything I needed to have access to, I was locked out of. My company has a third party company handle clocking in and out, payroll, and benefits. Your default email for this site is hard locked into being your company email. My company email doesn't work or doesnt exist (it hasn't been properly explained to me), either way it is not something I have access to. They finally got it to where I can clock myself in and out, but anything else I try to do such as setting up direct deposit, enrolling in benefits, or editing my information, it requires me to verify via my non existent work email. For the last 2 weeks my personal managers and my hiring hr have been fighting with our own company and the third party company to get this all fixed *before* pay went out, but it didnt happen in time and my direct deposit wasn't in the system until this morning. No one knows where my money is. The little feedback we've gotten from the 3rd party company was that it *might* have been mailed out the Wednesday prior to pay day. I have been told that canceling the check and re-issuing pay either through check or deposit either isn't an option or they won't do it.\n\nI have 2 major problems. Rent is due this Friday, and the address that they have on file (due to my inability to change it) is my dad's house. My dad has a history of stealing family checks and cashing them, and has actually stolen cash from me recently which is part of why I moved. My management team has been working hard to help me get my pay, and honestly have gotten angrier over my situation than I have. If the worst case scenario happens and I don't receive pay do I have any legal course of action that will result in me getting my pay in time to not get evicted. My apartment complex has a very short grace period and zero tolerance-no excuses for anytime after that.","title":"Missing Paycheck","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541115050,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9teqhx\/i_think_that_ive_been_discriminated_by_a_federal\/","id":"9teqhx","body":"More below.","title":"I think that I\u2019ve been discriminated by a federal employer based of my country of origin! Need advice.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552698652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1mrn0\/emotional_neglect_of_a_child\/","id":"b1mrn0","body":"TL;DR Washington :9yro Son says his mother has no time for him, makes him sit at the table for hours on end and generally ignores him. He can\u2019t get help with home work and gets yelled at for struggling. Is this a case for emotional neglect? \n\nHey guys. I\u2019m wondering if anyone has any advice for me here. I\u2019ve been separated from my sons mom for about 7 years, divorced for 4 and remarried for that same 4. We have a 50\/50 arrangement and for the most part t works. \n\nMy son loves his mom and I\u2019m sure she loves him. But every week he comes him depressed. He is struggles in school. Not because he\u2019s unintelligent but because he seems to always be preoccupied\/stressed out.  \n\nToday we were walking home from school and he was crying. He asked if he had to go to moms again. I told him there are rules and that mom gets to see him.  He said \u201cbut I don\u2019t like it there!\u201d So I asked him to tell me why.  (I don\u2019t usually pry because I want him to always know I support his relationship with his mom. And I don\u2019t want him to ever feel like he\u2019s selling her out. Even if I loath her with a great deal of my existence) \n\nBawling he said to me, \u201cI\u2019m always alone. Nobody has time for me. Nobody will help me with my homework and so I just sit at the table all day. I never get to play unless it\u2019s a weekend and we have company. I don\u2019t get to have any of my friends over except William and (mom and stepdad) are always to busy to spend any time with me.  Stepdad yells at me and momma and momma cries a lot. I just go in the other room but if I\u2019m at the table I have to stay while they fight. Can\u2019t you tell mom I don\u2019t want to go?\u201d \n\nI called my lawyer it he said it would be an uphill battle that I most likely wouldn\u2019t win. Is there anything I can do to help my boy.  I don\u2019t want to take him from his mom but every attempt I have made to help involve her always seems to just end up with lip service and then finger pointing. \n\nDo you guys have any advice for this distressed dad?","title":"Emotional neglect of a child.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571049610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhos9v\/is_drawing_child_porn_art_illegal\/","id":"dhos9v","body":"So there was an artist that had exposed to had drown child porn in the past. I won't go into the detail, but it had me wondering. Is it illegal to draw child porn art?\n\nIf you are asking yes it is full on sex, not the ones used for posture drawing. The artist is from the US.","title":"Is drawing child porn art illegal?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551380517,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avusgv\/unreasonable_landlord_reaction_to_tree_roots\/","id":"avusgv","body":"I\u2019ve been in my rental unit for almost 7 years. It\u2019s a duplex\/two flat, I live on the 1st floor and my landlord uses the 2nd floor apartment as an office. Over the course of my time here the main sewer line has backed up causing a flood in my basement several times. I live in the Midwest where tree roots growing into old clay pipes in the plumbing system is a common problem. Early on when this happened I talked to my landlord and he explained that I could not flush anything other than TP - no feminine products, no \u201cflushable\u201d wipes, etc. Since then I began purchasing either the little diaper waste bags or dog poop pickup bags and using them for any feminine products or wipes and throwing them in the waste basket. I have been EXTREMELY diligent about this considering that I\u2019m the one who suffers when raw sewer water backs up into the basement. Recently it happened again but this was by far the worst. I had approximately 4\u201d-5\u201d of water covering the entire basement floor. I could hear water running somewhere but couldn\u2019t identify where it was coming from. When the plumber finally came out, he pulled a wad of tangled tree roots out. He also said there was water running somewhere in the building. Turns out the toilet was left running in the 2nd floor\/Landlord\u2019s office. I could also see one tampon and maybe one or two wipes of some kind. Again, the 2nd floor office often has visitors or employees there. I received notice from his PM (property management company) that I was being charged for the plumbing bill. I spoke to my landlord (owner of the property) directly and he said the clog was my fault because it was my hair that caused the clog. I have short chin length hair. The PM forwarded me a copy of the plumbing invoice where it clearly states the issue was \u201ctree roots and clear water\u201d. \n\nIn my logical mind when the tree roots grow to a point that they are taking over the drain they are going catch lots of things that would normally pass through like hair. It is completely inevitable that some hair is going to go through the plumbing. When the drain is overwhelmed by a constant flow of water and already compromised because of the overgrown tree roots there is going to be a backup. I don\u2019t understand how he figures this is my fault????\n\nAny advice?? He refuses to discuss this issue with me and I truly do not feel responsible. ","title":"Unreasonable landlord reaction to tree roots clogging sewer line","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539204909,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n3fhw\/just_filed_for_primary_placement\/","id":"9n3fhw","body":"My husband and I just filed for Primary Placement of his son.\n\nWe\u2019re wondering however what the time frame is in which his sons mother will be served with the papers and what those papers would possibly look like.\nOur lawyer said a sheriff will be the one to serve her also.\n\nThis concerns my husband a little as depending on how \u201cserious\u201d the letter (and way it\u2019s delivered) looks, may affect how his sons mother reacts to this whole process.\n\nHe thinks a letter stating \u201cYOU HAVE BEEN SUMMONED PLEASE ATTEND OR RISK ARREST\u201d will come across really *offensive* I guess is the word and it could affect how often he will see his son while this whole process is going on. We\u2019re hoping things will be settled in mediation but who knows what may happen.\n\nAnyway, I guess this isn\u2019t so much \u201clegal advice\u201d as a question about what the process, (letters included) will look like.. how they will be worded and how they will be served.\n\nAny input welcome, especially from those who have been through it before on both ends.","title":"Just filed for Primary Placement...","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446749781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rnv1l\/could_face_court_order_for_sending_nudes_to_16\/","id":"3rnv1l","body":"I'm 18, male and live in Massachusetts. Was on the dating app Tinder a couple of weeks ago and met a girl who was 16. Her parents are divorced so she partially lives in New Hampshire and partially in Maine. We would text and FaceTime regularly and often make sexual jokes with each other. Once I made sure she was okay with it I sent her naked snapchats of myself on multiple occasions. We had plans of meeting up eventually. She got in trouble for something and had her phone taken away so we weren't able to contact each other for around a week. This morning she messaged me from a new Facebook account telling me her parents read all of our conversations and I would be facing a court order from them. I told her I'd done nothing wrong and she said they were gonna try and get me for sending sexually explicit material to a minor. What's gonna happen to me? Will I most likely be charged? I have no criminal record at all. Will I be labeled as a sex offender? Lose my job and get expelled from college? Help, please.","title":"Could face court order for sending nudes to 16 year old (I'm 18)[MA]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541880741,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vxg40\/my_landlord_filed_for_bankruptcy_a_month_ago_she\/","id":"9vxg40","body":"My landlord gave me a verbal assurance that I could live at the house rent free until the bank takes over or the house is sold. She indicated that she could no longer take care of the property therefore did not want to charge me rent. My one year lease ended in October and am now month to month. \n\n1. Is this legal?\n\n2. Could she come after me for the money later?\n\n3. Could the bank or courts come after me for money? \n\n4. If I\u2019m not paying rent and she\u2019s not going to take care of the property, am I still protected by landlord tenant laws or am I considered a squatter? \n\nThanks! ","title":"My landlord filed for bankruptcy a month ago. She said I could live here rent free. How do I protect myself financially? [VA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553007518,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2yf6s\/can_i_get_fired_for_taking_time_off_for_my_newborn\/","id":"b2yf6s","body":"I was told I could be approved for up to 14 days unpaid leave, after that it would be considered a \"leave of absence.\" I elected to take an extra week, which brings the total to 11 days off. I was also told multiple times to \"take as much time as you need.\" \n\nThey've called me twice in the last two days wanting me to come in to help them. Today I told them I would, but it would take an hour. I also told my boss in a text that I didn't appreciate them calling me in on my days off. He then called me and acted pissy and told me \"Just take your days off, I'll figure something out, I'll see you when you come back next week.\" He was acting like a child, so I said alright, and then hung up. \n\nWhat gets me curious is the way he said it, that he'll \"see me next week\". It seemed aggressive. I'm worried he'll try to reprimand me for taking all this time off. I'm also a super anxious guy, so I'm naturally over thinking things I'm sure. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks.","title":"Can I get fired for taking time off for my newborn?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539918694,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pg082\/facing_roommate_harassment_is_there_a_level_at\/","id":"9pg082","body":"Throwaway to protect identities. I'm living with two nightmare co-tenants, alias' Tom and Gina, and I\"m wondering if the level of harassment I'm facing reaches a liability of the quiet enjoyment clause in my lease - and what I can do to get out of it if it does.  This is in NYC. Will provide borough if it makes a difference. \n\nThere are five tenants total, including myself, Tom and Gina, and two others who also want out of the lease at this point. We are all on a single, market-rate lease. Tom and Gina are a couple and live at the far end of the floor. We have been living together 4 months, and in just the last few weeks things have reached a boiling point. \n\nPotentially related to the lease, Tom and Gina are causing these problems:\n\n\\-Constant high-volume yelling up and down the apartment, including sometimes as late as 2 am. It continues in spite of many requests to keep the noise down. \n\n\\-Refusal to pay bills. It's over a week late and they stated they have no intention of paying.  They had been splitting the bill 1\/5 each, covering 2\/5 of the bill as a couple. \n\n\\-Outright hostility and threats for physical violence. I've been threatened with physical violence for asking for utility money, for not keeping something clean to their unreasonable standard, and for daring to ask if they were having financial issues. (spoiler, they were late on rent this month) This is beginning to feel like an unsafe situation. \n\n​\n\nThe rest of us have informed the Landlord and he's stated his intention to meet with both groups. We found out through him that the couple was three weeks late on rent, so we don't have much faith things are going to get better.\n\n​\n\nSo, what can I do? \n\nI assume I have to give him a reasonable amount of time to rectify the situation. \n\nThe clause in our lease states he will guarantee quiet enjoyment, and I think I read there may be some NY state laws do as well. Could this type of behavior and, potentially, the landlords failure to rectify the situation reach a level where we can say it was sufficiently violated?\n\nCould the warrant of habitability come into play here?\n\nIs there a way we could break this lease? \n\n​\n\nThanks for your help LegalAdvice!","title":"Facing roommate harassment. Is there a level at which it could affect 'Quiet Enjoyment' ? [NYC]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553619935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5safs\/kcmo_is_it_legal_to_be_evicted_with_less_than_3\/","id":"b5safs","body":"So for a little background. My girlfriend and I lived in a apartment building that was turned into a AIR BnB. She works for the company as the only on-site employee who is a housekeeper by day, but also will be called throughout the night for any issues with other guests. She is paid a flat rate of $80 daily, however $30 is taken from that pay daily for rent. She works there 7 days a week with normal hours 7AM to 3PM.\n\nSo yesterday my girlfriend and her boss had an argument and she was fired on the spot and told she needed to vacate the premises Immediately. She said she understood the employment termination but requested to have until this Friday(5 days) to move all of her belongs from the apartment and find a new place to live. Her boss said absolutely not, that he would give her until 6pm (4 hpurs) to get all of her property or the police would be called for trespassing. By now she is very upset and I had a meeting I had to attend doelr my job so I needed to leave. Her and I share a car, so with the threat of her boss calling police I didn't think it would be a good idea to leave her there. I had her come with me and told her we would handle it when my meeting was over.\n\nWhen we returned at roughly 8PM all of our property had been removed from the room and the locks had been changed. My question is with her being an employee does she have no tenants rights including proper written notice to vacate?  There was no lease agreement between the landlord\/boss and us. As far as the job was concerned she was paid cash daily with no taxes\/benefits or anything of that nature if that makes any difference in this matter. Thanks f9r any advice and sorry for all the typos as I'm on mobile\n\n","title":"(KCMO) is it legal to be evicted with less than 3 hour notice if you are also an employee of the company you live at?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445359222,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3piesj\/il_singledwelling_tenant_laws_exlandlord_who_wont\/","id":"3piesj","body":"Hello, r\/legaladvice \u2013 \n\nI have a landlord\/tenant issue I hope you can help me with.\n\nMy family rented a house in suburban Chicago for over a year. My husband and daughter, two dogs and two cats. We had two landlords \u2013 one an older gentleman with limited English (Mario) whom we dealt with on a day-to-day basis because he lived in the area and owned the property behind us, and the other a middle-aged gentleman not related to Mario whom we really only interacted with for things like signing the lease or repairs(Luigi).\n\nOur lease was up in the spring, and despite repeated requests for a new lease, Luigi never made the trip over to our house with it, nor did he mail it. I actually ran into him some place random and he said that it had been \u201csitting on his desk\u201d for a while. We continued paying rent, and towards the end of summer we found a new place to live starting in the fall. I provided a letter to Mario (because I had never been given Luigi\u2019s address) stating when we would be moving out, and what our new address would be. No problems there. \n\nThe problem comes in regarding our security deposit. Shortly after we move out, I get a text from Luigi detailing a whole list of items he is deducting costs for, and asking for our new address (even though it was in the aforementioned letter). I have an issue with some of the items on the list, such as charging $350 to paint two bedrooms, which a) I don\u2019t believe could cost that much and b) he shouldn\u2019t be charging me for as painting is generally considered normal wear and tear. Also $300 to clean an oven, sweep floors and eliminate \u201cdog and cat odor\u201d (even though there are no porous surfaces to hold said odor \u2013 everything is tile and hardwood, no curtains). I do acknowledge that the oven should have been cleaned and floors swept, but $300 is ridiculous, and if asked I would have come over to clean them. \n\nRegardless - my first issue here is that I cannot find any Illinois tenant laws regarding single-dwelling units. Everything is for Chicago specifically, or mentioning 5+ units.\n\nMy second issue is that Luigi refuses to provide me an email address or his mailing address. Neither of these were listed in the lease. After several requests, he responded saying that he had to \u201cdelete his email\u201d, but that I can call or text. However, I want things to be in writing and text is not the appropriate medium. He then said I could mail it to our old address, but I do not want to do that, as he never goes there (see above where we never received a new lease months after our first one ended). I also do not want to mail to Mario\u2019s house, as he does not speak\/read English well and is not ideal to communicate with on \u201cofficial\u201d topics (and Luigi would not get it for a while anyway). I did find what I believe to be Luigi\u2019s address online (I know the general area he lives in and am reasonably sure it\u2019s him). What are my options here?\n\nNote that we did not have a walk-through at move-in or move-out, nor do I have pictures, which I know was not good. However, I just want to know how to find tenant laws so I know what he can and cannot charge us for, and also what I should do about his refusal to provide me email\/mailing address.\n\nTL;DR \u2013 not sure of non-Chicago IL tenant laws for single dwelling, and what to do about former landlord who refuses to provide email or mailing address for deposit dispute.\n","title":"(IL) single-dwelling tenant laws, ex-landlord who won\u2019t communicate in writing","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555201593,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcx80k\/employee_theft_responsibility\/","id":"bcx80k","body":"Hi,\n    Throwaway for reasons.\n    Location Alabama\n\n\nSorry for formatting I'm on mobile. Also sorry if it seems all over the place as I'm pretty upset. \n\nI work for a company that has franchised a larger company. I was recently put in charge of this store. There was  a hefty a mount of employee theft going on before I took over and this was not something that was told to me before hand. Since my time here (3-4 months) this store has lost ~500 dollars or so. I do daily shift changes and till counts before I leave so I know it's happening after I leave. This week alone it's been upwards of 200 dollars.\n\nNow here's the thing, any missing money comes out of my bonus pay. I've hit a bonus every time I've been eligible for one. At the first site of an issue I went to review my cameras only to find they are non functional. Since my 2nd week I've been asking to have them repaired or have 1 installed pointing at the counter and till. The one that is currently up is non functional because it only operates on the 2.4ghz frequency for our wireless router. Outs operates in the 5ghz frequency, so it's just a matter of them giving me the password to enable it. My request has been denied on multiple occasions by my direct supervisor. He's been up my ass about this missing money because obviously it looks bad for the franchise. The actual franchise isn't losing the money because it's being taken from my bonus pay, however my supervisor says if I'm losing it he's losing it. I feel like he is lying because then they would be double deducting the money and that doesn't seem right to me. It's at the point I'm about to spend my own money to put a camera system in because I obviously have a thief and I'm tired of losing my hard earned money to some thief. I'm afraid to go above my supervisor for fear of retaliation.\n\n\nMy question is, even though my money is being deducted from me, I'm getting reamed for it each time it happenes. Even though I've put in the request and my supervisor continues to deny it should I actually be liable? I've thought about buying my own camera system, but I feel like I'm on the fence of losing my job over this. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Employee theft responsibility","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555538670,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bedp6r\/nyc_unauthorized_roommate\/","id":"bedp6r","body":"I'm about to sign a lease in a 3BR apartment with 2 other tenants. A friend of mine is asking if they can live with me without being on the lease and from what I understand, this is illegal. Am I right about this or is there something else to consider? Should I ask the landlord if I'm allowed to have another roommate living with me in the room, or will that leave a bad impression on me?","title":"[NYC] Unauthorized roommate?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571250140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ditej4\/can_my_landlord_deny_my_emotional_support_dog\/","id":"ditej4","body":"Location: Iowa \n\nHello, I currently am in the process of getting a ES Dog. However, I am worried my landlord could fight it. I read that there are a few exceptions for ESA\u2019s but I can\u2019t figure out if where I currently rent is one of them. \n\nI live in a 5 bedroom house that has another 4 bedroom house attached to the back. My landlord has a few set ups like these and even more normal houses. I would say he has more then 10 properties in total. He does have a website showing all his properties.\n\nHe is a nice guy but the lease says NO PETS!!! And is underlined. He has been lenient with some animals such as a tortoise, cat, and reptiles. I\u2019m worried he can fight it even if I have a letter from my doctor. I plan to give him the letter and show him the dog I would get is well-trained. (Dog is older and is housebroken\/ knows commands) so he wouldn\u2019t tear up the house. I\u2019ve been talking to my doctor for a while now about getting a dog but I just didn\u2019t find one that was right for me until recently. (I knew I couldn\u2019t handle a puppy) \n\nSo, can my landlord decline my emotional support dog? What is the best way to tell him? \n\nApologies for grammar and that I\u2019m on mobile","title":"Can my landlord deny my Emotional support dog?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505364117,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7003bw\/ca_us_500_bike_was_stolen_from_school_property\/","id":"7003bw","body":"I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm broke and thought doing so would just cost me more cash than solely getting my bike back\n\nOfficer (dw, called with non-emergency number) said he couldn't give me advice, and wouldn't say what most people do for something this expensive\n\nI think I still have a chance to change my mind as this happened hours ago, and he gave me his card to contact for the future, what's your take?","title":"(CA, US) $500 bike was stolen from school property, officer asked if I wanted to press charges if found \"As in going to court\". I know nothing about legal stuff, and just wanted my bike back. Should I have said yes?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569222989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d833lz\/psychotic_father_england\/","id":"d833lz","body":"My dad has been in and out of prison since he was 15. He\u2019s now like 45 (ish) and he\u2019s only got worse than ever. He used to smash the house up a lot when we were kids, often hit us with whatever was in his hands, he once bit my mums nose so hard that she was lucky she didn\u2019t loose it. Eventually they broke up and he got remarried and the same crap happened with that wife, (beatings, smashed up house, slashed tyres etc) until they split up as well. His most recent partner however has endured the worst as they\u2019re not even married. She\u2019s the mum of my adorable 14 month sister and she\u2019s lovely. Her and my dad started arguing after the fact she almost died during childbirth while he was locked up. The arguments got increasingly worse and worse until she ended it with him. He got a new girlfriend as he always does, except this girlfriend has already been in the family. She was my brothers partner, they had a baby together and my brother had a mental breakdown after finding out the baby wasn\u2019t his but someone else\u2019s. Obviously my brother called it off with her, only to walk into my dads flat assuming it was empty, and seeing them having sex together. My dad tried to kill him - grabbed 2 knives and went to stab him in the chest - my brother however is a boxer so luckily blocked it and was only stabbed in the hand. My dad then went on to attack his latest ex, holding the knifes to her head until she managed to duck out of there with only a few minor cuts. Now the worse thing is that my dad has got away with this. Everyone refused to give a statement. I do have some footage of him recording himself on his phone illegally driving as he doesn\u2019t have a license. I really want to send this to the police so that he can be prosecuted even if just for a little while, but I don\u2019t want it to get back to me and end up the wrong end of my dad. He knows everyone so someone will tell him no matter how secretive I am about it. What do I do?","title":"Psychotic father (England)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552593607,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b14zmr\/hiring_friends_who_are_underage_and_overseas\/","id":"b14zmr","body":"**TL;DR** I want to hire 3 friends as independent contractors, they're all under 18 and work in three different countries than me (I'm in the US, they're Netherlands, France, Australia). Should I pay a lawyer to draft these documents (and get advice about the legality of it all) or should I just write them based on templates I've seen online? I'm looking for any way to continue working with them on this project, even if it means starting all this over from scratch. But I need advice on if what I'm doing is even possible, or if I'm just completely going about this the wrong way. \n\n\nAlso as for the subreddit and this post, I'm not sure whether this falls under Business, employment, or contracts, and I live in the USA (NC)\n\n\n**Behind the story**:\n\nI own a Discord (chat application) bot, and last year we started making enough money that it needed to become a business, not just a hobby that pays for coffee. It's a massive codebase, so I have three friends helping with it. I paid them a % of all the income last year, and last week I officially registered as a business. I've called 6 different local law firms that say they do \"business law\", and all of them said this is something they don't work with. Legalzoom also doesn't have any lawyers for international law, so now I'm just writing the stuff myself unless I find a lawyer before next month.\n\n\nThe dirty details that make this so complicated are where it's at. First, under the the advice of a lawyer I registered as an LLC. They told me independent contractor as employees would be fine as long as I properly distinguish them as NOT members of the LLC. That being said, I'd like to keep the deal we had with the project. I pay all of them 10% of the profit after expenses right now, which the lawyer then told me I may be able to keep that and tell them I'm paying them \"per job\" rather than hourly. Again they're all under 18, in other countries, and doing online work from home. Any advice about how to approach this going forward would be great, especially advice about whether I should craft my own stuff in addition to existing contracts, or just continue my search for a lawyer.\n\n\nWhen it's all said and done, I really just want to know the legality of hiring these three, because I'm not sure I can\/want to continue this without them.\n","title":"Hiring friends who are underage and overseas","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570904795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgyw2j\/after_a_second_minor_flood_caused_by_the\/","id":"dgyw2j","body":"Shortly after coming home from a walk with my dog, the fire alarms in my apartment (and the whole building) started going off.\n\nLong story short, the sprinkler system went off in a different unit and caused minor flooding in the hallway and all of the storage units on our floor.\n\nI know renters insurance (which I do have) is meant to help with this stuff, but this has happened before. The first time there was much more water.\n\nIf this is\/was an existing or recurring issue, isn't it the responsibility of the property owner\/leasing office to ensure it doesn't happen again? And for that matter, their responsibility to make things right if and when it does happen again? Is it their responsibility to drain the water out of my storage unit? \n\nAny advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.","title":"After a second minor flood caused by the sprinkler system, is damage to my property in a storage unit my responsibility (renters insurance) or the apartment\/leasing company?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554163831,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8bol8\/can_my_fiancee_legally_put_that_if_i_am_to_fall\/","id":"b8bol8","body":"To be entirely fair, this is somewhat of a shitpost but it's April 1st so why not? \n\nWe were sitting here discussing Male birth control and prenuptial agreements. Is a clause in a prenup stating that he is not liable for any offspring legally binding or even allowed? ","title":"Can my fiancee legally put that if I am to fall pregnant and keep the child, that he is not liable for any sort of child support or involvement?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554327107,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b940yy\/employer_withholding_my_final_paycheck_until_i\/","id":"b940yy","body":"OP's state: Washington State\nEmployer: Vancouver, BC, Canada\n\nI recently held a contract with a start-up located in Vancouver BC for just under a year. My contact ended on the last day in March and I had no desire to renew. I gave no formal notice, never said goodbye or spoke to anyone during my last day. (Fair to say it was easy to do; I work from). I did my work. My contact lapsed and I left quietly.\n\nI sent the company my final invoice as usual and with every expectation it would be paid out as normal (usually the company paid within 3 business days of issuing my invoice). This last billing cycle took a turn I wasn't expecting.  First they were late. No big deal (yet). Using my invoice software I resent the invoice with some typical late notice language. I also tacked on a late fee. This was sent on the late hours on April 1st. The CEO emailed me back quickly to inform me he will \"pay this invoice only once [he's] heard from [me]\". Blown away. Thinking, what in the fook did I just read?? It feels like he's holding my final pay as hostage until I give him some kind of exit interview (he'd like to know what they did wrong so they can course correct or if not that he'd like for me to tell him I got another contact\/job. I don't think he has any legal obligation or right to know or habe those answers in order to pay me. In my mind my invoicing him should be sufficient for \"hearing from me.\" \n\nAlso the company has had (and continues to have) access to the product I delivered for which I'm attempting to bill for (final bill). I considered revoking access but by now they've got what they needed to build from so I feel it's a bit pointless to do so now. \n\nI've not emailed the CEO back. I hope to find some guidance here. I have no clue what my next steps should  be.  I have no clue if this is legal or what nuances I need to been aware of given that they're in Canada and I'm in the U.S. I do know that I don't want to communicate with these ppl (e.g. doing an exit interview which would\/could about snowball into drama), or, if I have to with him how I can keep the convo focused on invoice payment only. \n\nAny help, advice or insight would be hugely appreciated. I'm also sorry if this is wrong sub - you all were the first I  thought about for help. \n\nThanks so much everyone","title":"Employer withholding my final paycheck until I talk to them","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540951692,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sula9\/can_a_job_deny_prenatal_dr_visits\/","id":"9sula9","body":"My sister works at a really large chain supermarket that claims to have always low prices. She\u2019s also about 25 weeks pregnant. Her regular OBGYN visits have been getting denied and she\u2019s getting \u201cpoints\u201d or infractions against her for missing work. My question is:\n1) is this legal? And \n2) what steps does she need to take to prevent future dr visits from getting denied. ","title":"Can a job deny prenatal dr visits?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571253073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diu3yj\/apartment_complex_parking_issues\/","id":"diu3yj","body":"Hi, I wasn't sure where else to ask this, but here goes. I've been living at my apartment for about two years now. Consistently, we've had issues with the parking. My partner and I both recall being told by the lease officer that if we had to park in the fire lane, we might be ticketed but we wouldn't be towed as long as our sticker is visible (we do not have any record of this sadly only our memories). The sticker itself was expensive and that's just to be able to park within the gate without being towed.\n\nLast year, my partner came home from work to find that every single parking spot in the complex had been taken, and there were already other cars in the fire lane, so he parked there as well as it was his only option. There is a store across the street but parking there overnight will result in being towed. Come back to now and last night my partner got home much later than usual, to find there was no parking once again. He had no option than to park in the fire lane again, and this morning he woke up to find he had been towed. As I was driving him to work, we called the leasing office and spoke with the supervisor. She told us that the only way to \"secure a parking spot\" was to pay for one. We have already paid for the sticker to be able to park, now they want us to pay even more to park?\n\nWe asked her what we should do if there is no parking and her response was that because our building is near the four bedroom apt building, we should try to park on the opposite side of the complex. After explaining to her there is absolutely zero parking, she doubled down on parking on the opposite side. We asked if she would compensate the tow fee, and she declined saying everyone gets towed from the fire lane. This is absolutely not true. I have personlly been blocked in by people parking there as late as 2 pm, when they had been there the night before. My partner was towed between 2am and 9am. I have also seen someone with a trailer take up five parking spaces at once past 9pm (i have a photo of this), which is when they start towing. \n\nMy partner and I usually get off work early enough that this is not an issue, but we really aren't sure where the hell we're supposed to park when there's not a single spot AND we've paid for the right to park there. I'm 100% sure they are selling more parking stickers than there are spaces. I've tried to contact the company that owns the complex multiple times today only to be sent to voicemail, forced back to the main menu, and sat on an unprompted hold (i assume, it was ringing and then there was a beep and then silence for five minutes while i was still in the call) trying to get in touch with them. I finally filled out the form on the website explaining that I would like to be contacted asap and that's where I am now. We will be picking up my partners car later tonight, but we are both very fed up and we just re-signed our lease so we can't leave without paying the rest of the lease off. If anyone can tell me what I can do to improve this situation, that would be great. I will be taking pictures and videos of the parking lot from now on when it is full for evidence. I am in the state of Georgia as well if that helps.","title":"Apartment Complex Parking Issues","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446737169,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rmys1\/fl_friend_wants_us_to_live_in_a_house_they\/","id":"3rmys1","body":"Background: Girlfriend's friend's grandma died recently and left them a house. Friend is currently locked into a lease until Oct. next year and it's too expensive to break, so they're offering to let us live in the house rent free in order to keep it maintained and protected from squatters.\n\nWhat should I do in order to protect us on the off chance they decide to go full ass-hat?\n\n","title":"[FL] Friend wants us to live in a house they inherited until they can move in","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569102863,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7gynd\/is_their_a_best_pratice_for_reporting_a_driver\/","id":"d7gynd","body":"[Minnesota since the location not said what I put in the title wasn\u2019t enough]Just about half an hour ago I was driving home from errands when I stopped to allow a child to use a painted crosswalk (no traffic lights or stop signs) to cross from the side of the street I was on to the other side. A car going the other way stops to and the kid began to cross. Just then I see a silver flash and realize a car had decided to swerve around my right and continued to drive at full speed.\n\nI'm sure everyone else who was there saw the kid's life flash before their eyes, but the driver screeched to a stop with what I estimate was less than a foot of distance. Said driver honked his horn and then continued driving. After the kid crossed I continued on and drove a bit faster than I should have to catch up with the driver. Before he turned off at an intersection I was going to go straight at, I was able to jot down his license plate number.\n\nI'm not 100% certain what to do with the plate number. Aside from failing to yield to a pedestrian I'm not sure if he actually broke any laws. But the driver acted extremely recklessly and if he'd hit the kid at the speed he was originally going I doubt the child would have survived. Since no-one was actually physically injured and nothing was damaged it's obviously not a 911 situation. My city's police department does have an online police report form and a non-emergency number, but I'm not sure if to pursue that, because I (perhaps wrongly) think this is less of a \"have the driver arrested and have me have to testify in court\" and more of a \"have a police officer visit him and put the fear of God in him so he thinks twice about swerving around people again.\"","title":"Is their a best pratice for reporting a driver who *almost* hit a child? [USA-MN]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568957421,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6qbjs\/grandmothers_estate\/","id":"d6qbjs","body":"Back in June of 2018 my grandmother passed away,  and in october same year, her husband, my grandfather passed as well. They had 2 kids but 1 (my aunt) passed away in 2011. Before my grandmother passed she had a friend (who was her POA for medical stuff.) Hire a lawyer and organize a will, but the lawyer only had my grandmother sign it so it's being classed as an unsigned will, my dad is the only living heir to the inheritance but the lawyer says that my aunts 2 kids are also entitled to a portion of it as well. Now idk if saying that it's the usual kind of situation where her kids came out of the woodwork and never came to see them when they were dying helps but it's true, my dad was with them 24\/7 during their final days and he has gotten nothing in 14 months, but my cousin moved right in with her family to my grandparents newer home they had. My dad also paid for their funeral and countless other living expenditures. \n\nSorry if that sounded like a rant I would just like some answers, cheers to anyone that has advice to share.","title":"Grandmothers estate","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1443714889,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n45px\/consumer_advice_needed_uk_based\/","id":"3n45px","body":"I am in a bit of a problematic position in that I have purchased a motherboard from Box.co.uk and the item has arrived faulty.\n\nThere are 2 issues that are on the board, firstly, there are a small number of pins bent out of shape on the CPU holder, secondly, the RAM slots on the board do not recognise any RAM.\n\nThrough testing the RAM I know that the issue is not there.\n\nI have taken this back to Box.co.uk who have told me that I have done this damage to the motherboard and therefore my warranty is void.\n\nObviously, I have not done the damage, and would simply like the item replacing, however Box.co.uk have flatly refused to do this.\n\nWhat can I do in this situation? The item is faulty and the retailer will not accept that it arrived that way!","title":"Consumer Advice needed! UK based","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540726362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s2ism\/landlord_deducted_300_euro_from_caution_deposit\/","id":"9s2ism","body":"Hi,\n\n​\n\nI moved to Berlin a few months back and took an apartment online( wunderflats) for a couple of months. I have since, moved out from the flat but the landlord had deducted 300 Euro from the Caution( Deposit) out of a 2500 Euro Caution deposit. As per her, I did not leave the house clean enough. I understand different people have different ideas on cleanliness, so there may be differences in what one believes is clean. Also the contract had an additional 80 Euro \"Final Cleaning fee\", which the landlord could have deducted.\n\nI have reported this to the online portal, but they are just saying that they are unable to contact her, and they find her behaviour unusual.\n\nAlso the landlord is actually a tenant and she had sublet her flat to me. \n\nI believe that in a city like Berlin where the tenant market is very difficult, a tenant should not become a market participant. By becoming a participant, a tenant artificially reduces the supply of apartments, hence driving up prices. Also since now there is a new party( \" Tenant\") in the market, that party would want an additional share of revenue. This also drives the prices up for the tenant.\n\nFrom the Legal community I ask two questions:\n\n1. What should I do? If I need to report this to \"some\" authority? Which authority it is? And how do I report?\n2. I also want to write to the relevant \"Regulator\", if one exists and explain them my opinions. I believe nothing will come out of it, but I want to let my point of view know.\n\nThanks,","title":"Landlord deducted 300 Euro from Caution Deposit, Berlin.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445658795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pzs05\/neighbor_came_back_from_prison\/","id":"3pzs05","body":"I have this crazy neighbor. I won't go in details but he is a dangerous person. Always drunk and high on hard drugs. He as repeatedly threaten me and other tenants but always so indirectly that you can't really make a complaint to the police. He went to prison for 5 months for stealing cars. My landlord said she wouldn't allow him back in the apartment once he got back and this made me feel much better as my mom lives right above him in the same building and he would go knock at her door for ridiculous reasons trying to intimidate her with crazy stories about him.\n\nNow the 5 months is over and I had the bad surprise of seeing him again as he knocked at my door at 11 pm, drunk, as he admitted and probably high to explain that he's back and how \"cowardly\" his friend was to snitch on him. Probably trying to intimidate me.\n\nAnyways is there something I can do to have him kicked out of the building? He is a constant stress to me. He doesn't work so he's here all the time and knows excatly when I'm gone and when my mom is alone. I think the landlord didn't want to kick him out because she also felt threatened by him. He hasn't paid his rent for 6 months now and has no job.\n\nI live in Quebec, Canada.\n\nTD;DR: As a tenant, can you have someone kicked out of his apartment because he went to prison and don't pay the bills?","title":"Neighbor came back from prison","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540312771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qqpgo\/usa_ohio_no_tank_for_natural_gas_heat_in_rented\/","id":"9qqpgo","body":"Hey all, we live in a mobile home, rented from the park. It\u2019s an older unit. My girlfriend moved in last year, and I followed behind. I\u2019m going to look over the lease when I\u2019m home, but our heat is natural gas. There\u2019s no tank outside. I can\u2019t seem to find much info online about requirements for heating in ohio on rental properties. \n\nIs there anything I can do? We have pets and it\u2019s very very cold when it drops below 40\u00b0. We have space heaters but they run the bill up like mad. ","title":"USA OHIO - No tank for natural gas heat in rented mobile home","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412881193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2is8jg\/cant_renew_drivers_license_due_to_very_old\/","id":"2is8jg","body":"TX Driver's License can't be renewed due to 9 year old unpaid traffic tickets. Any options other than coughing up the money? I don't recall the tickets in question but they are from the city I lived in at that time. Due to their age are there any ways to challenge them or would it be better just to pay them?","title":"Can't renew driver's license due to very old tickets. Any options?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538851064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lybrd\/i_was_asked_to_work_off_the_clock_or\/","id":"9lybrd","body":"Throwaway for anonymity.\n\nI work at a preschool. I am a full time lead teacher. Yesterday after clocking out I stayed in my classroom to decorate for the new month (spooktober). The bitchy assistant director (BAD) ran into me at one point.\nBAD: Are you off the clock?\nMe: Yes. \nBAD: Is your classroom clean?\n(Note: Sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming are not something I am normally asked to do)\nMe: Everything except vacuuming.\nBAD: Then go clean your room.\nMe: But I'm clocked out?\nBAD: \/\/shrugs\/\/\nMe: No. I will not clean my room while I am clocked out. If you would like, I can go clock in, vacuum, and then clock back out.\nBAD, now glaring at me: I'll be talking to [Boss] about this. Go home.\nI later heard her lying about it to another employee, saying I was clocked in and refused to clean my classroom and left. I immediately sent an email to my boss explaining what happened and that it made me uncomfortable, but that I am always willing to work when I'm being lawfully paid.\nWhat I'm wondering is... What should I expect? Will BAD get in trouble? What should I do if they try to disicpline me? What if they don't take it seriously and do it again?\nThank you for the help ","title":"I was asked to work off the clock [OR]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553854380,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6vgbz\/uk_former_company_told_me_i_would_receive_a_bonus\/","id":"b6vgbz","body":"I resigned from my former company in Dec 2018 and finished my last day in mid Jan. I had asked HR in early Jan weather I would receive the (company) performance related bonus that is usually paid in March and I was told I would.\n\nThe bonus is based on the last calendar year which I worked in it's entirety.\n\nMarch has come along and I haven't recieved anything. Now the same HR person when questioned has said I don't receive it.\n\n\nBackground. The company's sales are in the order of the tens of billions of US dollars a year and the bonus I would have received would have been no more than \u00a33k.\nThis is probably one for r\/latestagecapitalism. \n\n","title":"[UK] Former company told me I would receive a bonus and now they are telling me I won't.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553186508,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3srpw\/an_unknown_eviction_notice_is_in_me_and_my\/","id":"b3srpw","body":"My best friend and I are looking to move back in together again since he has broken up with his fianc\u00e9. We recently went to a realtor office to look for a place. We found a great apartment but are unable to get it because we both have an eviction from a place we lived at in 2017. We did not get evicted from this property though. We had a 1 year lease and paid our rent in full. We owe them no money in fact they still owe us our security deposit from back then. \n\nWe had no notice of eviction. We were not told they are evicting us. We live in Massachusetts. They just put it on our record months after we left. What can we do to get it off our names? We need to be able to move in 10 days or he\u2019ll have to get rid of his car to live at his grandparents house.\n\nIf more info is needed please ask. ","title":"An unknown eviction notice is in me and my roommates name what do I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555154241,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcphur\/bedbug_and_cockroach_infestation\/","id":"bcphur","body":"So I live in a place that takes advantage of the poor and I want to check if my demands are within the rights of pest control. I work for a well loved furniture store and it's one of my dream jobs so my job is on the line to get the infestation taken care of. The last time they tried to get rid of the bedbugs they just sprayed a few apartments and the bugs moved right back in. The bites are getting so bad that people are starting to notice. The roaches are causing me horrible asthma attacks, I haven't needed to suck down an inhaler like this in years. Imagine what it's doing to my neighbors little baby. They have strict laundry hours so anyone with a job can't use the facilities. I've been hand washing my laundry and hanging it to dry for the last 8 months. With a bedbug problem no one is going to get a chance to aid in the elimination process by washing their clothes. \n\nAre my demands reasonable? Here's the letter I typed up to the manager.\n\nThis will be your only warning before you are reported to the Aurora Department of Health and Safety. Failure to comply within 3 weeks time from 4\/13\/2019 will result in legal action being taken against you.\u00a0\n\n\nYour previous methods of bed bug control did nothing to stop the problem, only delay it and diminish major population. The infestation has spread once again and this time you are to use more permanent methods of elimination. None of these half attempts.\u00a0\n\nFurthermore the cockroach problem is causing severe health issues to residents including respiratory irritation and asthma attacks. This problem must also be taken care of in a building wide fumigation.\u00a0\n\n\nMethods of elimination must include shutting down the building for a few days and tenting it for controlled fumigation. The residents must be given a means to clean their clothes without bars due to the negligence of your previous attempts to be rid of the bed bug problem, meaning either unlocking the laundry facilities to be free to use by even the most impoverished of residents or providing funds to pay for cleaning clothes. The facilities must be opened during off hours for two weeks to give everyone a chance to clean their clothes. These demands are well within our legal rights as tenants. Your duty as landlords are to our well being and doing everything it takes to get rid of pests. This is part of it. You allowed bed bugs to get out of control by failing to fumigate the entire building.\n\n\nIn accordance with the law you are to provide suitable accommodations to residents while you are fumigating, including the resident animals, the full process takes from 2 days to 2 weeks for total fumigation. The residents are to be set up with a living space paid for by Cherry Ridge Apartments while chemicals are present, including the animals.\u00a0\n\n\nAgain, failure to comply will result in legal action being taken against you. This is your only warning. This email has been saved, the sent copy has been screenshot, and a physical copy is printed. Upon the event if reporting the DoH&S will be sent the screenshot, the email, and a physical copy of the email as well as as a lawyer for review. The media will also be contacted and this business will be shut down.\u00a0\n\n\nYour pest problem is out of control and by law you are required to be pest free. You are currently breaking the law by allowing cockroaches and bedbugs while remaining knowledgeable about the existing problem due to the many negative reviews you have recently received and responded to, refusing to take precautions and action unless someone addresses you personally. This is your personalized warning and the final one you will be getting.\n\n\nOnce this problem is taken care of the building is to remain pest free with routine pest prevention including but not exclusively spraying the perimeter with bug poison and installation of traps as needed.\u00a0\n\n\nLooking forward to being able to breathe and sleep,\n\n\nThe residents of Cherry Ridge Apartments","title":"Bedbug and cockroach infestation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553800641,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6n08s\/roommate_gave_notice_today_that_he_would_be\/","id":"b6n08s","body":"Two of my roommates can't seem to get along so one (let's call him R1) wants to move out before the lease is up. I don't mind him moving out but we have 8 months left on a 1 year lease. R1 knows there will be legal and financial obligations to his desicion as I have told him. However, I'm worried that he still may cut and run. \n\nWhat can I do to ensure that I am not held financially responsible for his decision? \n\nWhat are my options and what should be my first course of action?","title":"Roommate gave notice today that he would be moving out before the lease is up. (Colorado)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571019830,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhk8qd\/exgirlfriend_driving_car_in_my_name\/","id":"dhk8qd","body":"When I was in a relationship with my girlfriend, I bought a vehicle (2016 Honda CR-V) from a dealership - in my name - and let her drive it. She had just started a job, and would not be able to get the car herself.\n\nNote: She does have insurance covered for her and myself.\n\nI want her to be able to drive the car still, but I would like to get a legal document detailing the following (and anything else I am missing), if it will aid the police, etc, if she decides not to give me the vehicle payment monthly on the 1st.\n\n* Payment to me at the first of each month\n* If\/when payment is not given, then it is mandatory to return the vehicle, with both fob keys, to the owner, by the 3rd of the month at the owner\u2019s house\n* Any damage done to the vehicle has to be restored or compensation be given to the owner after an inspection is done on the vehicle for damage other than wear and tear\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Ex-girlfriend driving car in my name ...","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1411675044,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hgltn\/if_i_ran_my_own_to_catch_a_predator_style_sting\/","id":"2hgltn","body":"This is purely hypothetical i'm not going to try this just wondering what the legality of this is.","title":"If I ran my own to catch a predator style sting operation would I get in trouble? UK","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539317586,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nh4ee\/blocking_driveway_parking_ticket\/","id":"9nh4ee","body":"I just received a parking ticket for blocking someone's driveway. \ud83d\ude29\n\nWould anyone be able to tell me if I am truly in the wrong here? My bumper wasn't even as far as where the curb flattens out. Apologies for the blurriness of a couple of the images.\n\n[https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/Y0kLztq](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/Y0kLztq)\n\nIf it's reasonable to contest this, is there anything in particular I should say?\n\nMany thanks for the help.","title":"\"Blocking Driveway\" Parking Ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541906312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w0l3l\/north_carolina_totaled_a_loaner_car_from_a_dealer\/","id":"9w0l3l","body":"I bought a car from a dealer about an hour away. Test drive was fine but in the drive home I noticed some missing and sputtering. I took it can to them the following Tuesday morning and they gave me a loaner Toyota Corolla. They gave me the \"Demonstration Permit for Use of a Dealer Plate\" form, but A) it had the correct plate number, but listed the Make and VIN of the car I bought, not the Corolla and B) they didn't make me sign it although it does have my name and address on it. So they work on my car Tuesday and call me Wednesday to say that it's ready. \n\nAfter work I'm driving down the highway to return the loaner and pick up my car. I'm passing a guy who's talking on his phone and not paying attention. He starts to drift into my lane when I'm even with his back door. I lay on the horn, but he keeps coming and bumps me off of the road. I slide down about a 15 feet tall hill, through a ditch, up another 5 foot hill, and nail a pine tree head on. Airbags deploy, car shuts off, I'm shaken up, but able to get out and away from the car. I call 911 and the State Patrol comes out. The other driver thankfully comes back but he's on the other side of the highway so my only exchange with him is yelling, \"You could have killed me you asshole! You didn't even see me!\" They take statements from both of us and EMS checks me out. I've got some pain in my neck and right calf but nothing life threatening and I refuse transport. The trooper gives me the exchange of information form, a wrecker comes and takes away the Corolla, and another trooper gives me a ride to the next exit where my brother in law picks me up so we can continue on to the dealer to still pick up my car so I have something to drive to work the next day.\n\nAt the dealer I give them the pictures I have and they copy the driver information sheet. I pick up my car and head home. The next morning I'm in some pain so I call my boss then head to urgent care. They do some x rays on my neck and back but they feel that everything is just soft tissue damage. I get some muscle relaxers and pain killers and a note off work for Thurs and Friday. \n\nFriday morning I call my insurance company to let them know what happened because I'm not sure who is responsible for what. My agent asks about the dealer plate form and I tell her all the details about it. She says that since I didn't sign it, I never actually took fill possession of the car so my insurance isn't responsible. She calls the dealer to talk it over with them. Not 5 minutes later the sales guy that I bought the car from calls back and asks if I'm ok and all then seems pretty adamant that I sign that form and send it to him. He even wanted me to bring him the original ASAP. I told him I'd see what I could do. Then I called my agent again who seemed pretty miffed that they would try to get me to sign it. It's sitting on my counter, unsigned.\n\nHere are my questions, who is responsible for the car and damages? I would assume the other driver but the police report isn't available yet so I'm not totally sure he was cited or what story he told them. \n\nWho will cover the medical bills? \n\nWould you recommend getting a personal injury lawyer and how do a find a good one other than their TV commercials? \nThank you!","title":"(North Carolina) Totaled a loaner car from a dealer when I was run off the road. Dealer face me, but didn't make me sign a permit to use the dealer tag.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551725736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axasm5\/nys_employer_refuses_to_reimburse_for_gas_milage\/","id":"axasm5","body":"Long time LA lurker, but ran into an issue with my newest employer that I thought this community would be able to assist with.  \n\n\nI've recently started a new position as a marketing specialist at a NY firm, the job is a dream as far as clients I get to work with, schedule flexibility, and co-workers; I love it here.  \n\n\nThat being said, I brought up the issue of milage from one of my most recent meetings that was 1hr + away from our main office, and when speaking to my employer I was told that we would not be compensated for gas or anything related to our travel unless it was a major event and even then we would have to discuss terms.  \n\n\nMy understanding of NY law was that employees cannot be required to use their own resources for tasks necessary to doing job itself.   \n\n\nAm I wrong here for believing this isn't a cost I should be shouldering? I'm only using one tank of gas a week (outside of travel to and from my home), but that adds up and is taking away from what is already a fairly low rate of pay for the work I am doing.  \n\n\nThis isn't something I'm looking to pursue legal action on (at least for now), I believe my employer would be open to changing policy to comply with actual law, but is feigning ignorance about this topic and will not budge unless I am able to show him cited information proving otherwise. ","title":"[NYS] Employer refuses to reimburse for gas milage on required company travel","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507759870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75skey\/canada_bc_yellowpages_is_trying_to_scam_me\/","id":"75skey","body":"Yellowpages has \"trapped\" me in a verbal contract. Apparently they called me and I \"agreed\" to a contract over the phone about a year ago, even though I didnt understand what they were trying to pitch me.\n\nThey send me a presumably untampered recording of our conversation. The sales rep said that i would be charged 50$ a month, and i said i want to think about it first. He told me that he would \"push it through the system\" and i could decide if i wanted it on a later date, and i said ok.\n\nWhat i didnt know is that they took this as me agreeing to the contract.\n\nThis is the real yellowpages im dealing with because i called yellow pages canada's toll free number and they confirmed i had a contact.\n\nHow do i get out of this? I have heard that a verbal contract cannot exceed 500$, is that true in B.C?","title":"[Canada B.C] yellowpages is trying to scam me","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443655100,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n15xi\/security_deposit_received_past_due_date\/","id":"3n15xi","body":"Brighton, Massachusetts \n\nHello everyone,\n\nMy friends and I recently received our security deposit back from our landlords. Unfortunately, they made far more deductions than we anticipated. We were preparing to dispute specific deductions, but we realized that we received the security deposit 3 days after the deadline (September 26th). I've gleaned a couple of legal websites and found that if our landlords fail to return our security deposit on time, we have a legal claim to the full amount. However, the packaging shows that it was mailed on September 24th, two days before the deadline. \n\nDo we have a case? Thanks in advance.","title":"Security deposit received past due date","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569184477,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7w4j9\/is_it_too_late_to_report_a_hit_and_run\/","id":"d7w4j9","body":"I\u2019m going to try to explain this as best I could but right now I\u2019m angry at myself \n\nBackground I go to a community college \n\nThis weekend my parent notice couple scratch mark with paint coming off the car on my lower bottom of the car. They ask how I got this and I say I don\u2019t know then I remember around last week I was at the stop sign at the parking area and I hear a sound coming from back of the car. I didn\u2019t do anything because I had my music on full blast and didn\u2019t pay attention to it. I could have been hit while I was park there. I ask my parent if I should report it to campus security since they handle hit and run stuff. My parent says no because it also my fault since I fled the scene and it to late. \nAny idea what to do?","title":"Is it too late to report a hit and run","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569198206,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7yxlw\/phrasing_for_this\/","id":"d7yxlw","body":"Located NJ, seeking legal name change. \n\nI'm filling out my forms currently and uh, I dont know what to put for my reason of seeking legal name change. \n\nI mean, my legitimate reason is that I hate my initials, hate the person I was named after and I dont want my mom to ever have the ability to find me (my birth last name is very unique and thus easy to find in seconds).\n\nWould it be better to write: Cumbersome birth name or Do not like family\/birth name.\n\nI'm really confused as to what to do.\n\nHelp with phrasing please?","title":"Phrasing for this?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445983342,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qh8jp\/used_car_came_with_restricted_ford_mykey_not\/","id":"3qh8jp","body":"I just bought a used Ford C-Max from indep. dealer in MA. It only came with one key, though i tried to barter with them. After buying and driving, a day later on the highway I find *I cannot go past 80mph.*\n\nApparently I have a restricted key fob, which requires an admin key to reset. The restricted key limits radio volume, top speed, \"buckle up\" speed restrictions, and more.\n\nCalled the dealer, they said they can't do anything about it. I know I can pay for a new key at a Ford dealer and reset the current one, but shouldn't the used car dealer pay for it? They sold me a car that has limits on it. It's not like the transmission blew after a month, it's that I have options that I cannot use. Like selling me a pizza with the crust in a lockbox i then have to pay extra to open.\n\n**tl;dr Who pays for the pizza crust\/ key fob, the dealer or me?**","title":"Used car came with restricted Ford MyKey, not admin. Should dealer pay, or me?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571677362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl3hv9\/apartment_is_charging_me_for_damages_to_the\/","id":"dl3hv9","body":"  \n\nA little background information.\n\nMy younger brother and I moved into an apartment on June 20th, 2019. Since then, there haven\u2019t been any major issues with the new place, except for a shower head that wouldn\u2019t stop flowing.\n\nAnyways, over this past weekend my younger brother and I went back home (about an hour and a half traveling distance) to go hunting for the weekend. We both left on Thursday afternoon (October 17th, 2019) since we both had classes in the afternoon and wanted to leave right after our classes. However, I went back to the apartment to grab some stuff from my bedroom that I previously forgot. I went to the restroom and everything was fine.\n\nYesterday (October 20th, 2019) I come back from spending a quality weekend with my parents and younger brother hunting. Right away when opening the door to the apartment there was this strong stench throughout the entire apartment. I put my bags down and try to locate the smell. Brothers room? Nope. Living room? Not that either. I proceed to my room and sort of notice the smell is stronger in there. I step into the really small hallway connecting my bedroom to my bathroom and notice the carpet floor is wet. A couple of steps later the carpet is drenched, and then I proceed to open my bathroom door. There is literal shit and water everywhere, the stench is unbelievable. I look into the bathroom and notice my toilet is clogged to the brim. I back out and ponder what to do. The leasing office closes at 4pm and it was 4:35pm by now, so I try anyways. No answer from the leasing office, I hang up. My younger brother comes in five minutes later and I tell him what happened, he asks if I called the office, I told him I did and there was no answer. For some reason I thought the Henri app (a social network for the residents) would have an emergency contact information I could call or notify but there was none to be found. I should mention that around 4:45pm I submitted a work order.\n\nIt\u2019s now 7:30pm and my younger brother and I are trying our best to clean the shit. The smell is awful and don\u2019t really clean that much up, except for filling a bucket and dumping it. By this time we decide to go to a hotel for the night as the smell is still strong throughout the entire apartment. As we\u2019re about to leave the downstairs neighbor knocks on our door. I get out of the vehicle and talk to her. Apparently from her words she smelled an awful smell around 2:30am that morning (October 20th, 2019), and around the same time we tried to clean some of it up (7:30pm) there was a leakage. I tell her we were gone all weekend and what happened to the bathroom and proceed to profusely apologize to her. She says don\u2019t worry about it, it\u2019s not your fault it\u2019s the apartments.\n\nAround 8pm that night I get a call from someone and proceeds to tell me the downstairs neighbor reported a leakage from above. This is probably the emergency contact person. He tells me that no one was at our apartment and wanted to know if he could have permission to enter, I tell him \u201cyes\u201d and don\u2019t hear from him for the rest of the night.\n\nThis morning (October 21st, 2019) we go to the leasing office and surprisingly it\u2019s open. We go to the desk and ask about our submitted work order for our apartment. We\u2019re in for a surprise. The guy who wanted permission to enter, walks up to my brother and I, and berates up for leaving the mess and not cleaning it up and not calling the emergency contact. My brother tells him what is the emergency contact and he says to call the leasing office and eventually a prompt will follow where it\u2019ll list the emergency contact. We didn\u2019t know that. At this point, he\u2019s still berating us and proceeds to tell us that they\u2019re going to replace the carpet in the small hallway, and replace the wood planks in the bathroom. Then after all this he says, that they\u2019re going to charge us because we came back at 4:30pm and he wasn\u2019t contacted until 8pm to clean the mess, because the downstairs neighbor complained about a leakage.\n\nI talked to a friend of mine and she suggested that I contact the city we\u2019re currently living in or a lawyer to see if we have any rights of what to do.\n\nSo, should I contact a lawyer? Do I have any rights in this matter?","title":"Apartment is charging me for damages to the bathroom done by a clogged up toilet.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540543215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9riz17\/email_from_hacker\/","id":"9riz17","body":"I got an email from a hacker. They sent my my own password for something - they did not tell me for what account, and it was a password that I use, but it's an old one. They then said they would leak all my information and give similar threats unless I pay a ransom. Another member of my family has also reported this on their email and they implied that changing my password was futile. I am going to look into a password storing app, so they are hopefully more secure. In the meantime, though, what should I do?","title":"Email from hacker","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569600337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da2itv\/okdog_adoption_demanding_i_return_both_dogs_i_got\/","id":"da2itv","body":"I emailed the adoption place because I wanted to return one of the dogs I got from them. I\u2019m not sure if the reason why matters but he just doesn\u2019t fit in with our family and the other one does. The lady I communicated with demanded that I bring both dogs to her. I told her that I was not returning the dog we wanted to keep and she said \u201cWe will be contacting our attorney. You need to return the dogs by the end of day tomorrow.\u201d  I replied with \u201cI\u2019ll wait to hear from your attorney. I\u2019m not returning the dogs to you without a court order. Your failure to comprehend what I stated in my prior emails should not be adequate to repossess the dogs as they are being provided proper food, water, shelter and veterinary care including required vaccinations and heart worm preventative plus flea and tick preventive.\u201d \n\nI\u2019m just wondering if they have anything to stand on or if I should just not worry about it. \n\n\nHere is the text from their adoption contract.\n\n\n1) I will give the dog proper food, water, and shelter at all times and veterinary treatment when necessary, including required yearly vaccinations and heartworm prevention. My treatment will behumane and loving for the dogs entire life. I agree to be legally and financially responsible\nhenceforth.\n\n\n2) I will not sell or give the animal to any person, company, organization, pound, or animal shelter.\n\n\n3) Proper training and companionship will be provided.\n\n\n4) Pet will wear an I. D tag with my phone number or address AT ALL TIMES. I will keep the dog on a leash when I take it out of confined areas.\n\n\n5) If, AT ANY TIME, you can no longer care for the pet, you will contact us immediately and the petwill be returned to agency. Refunds are not given after 14 days.\n\n\n6) I understand that agency may make follow-up visits at mutually convenient times to see if conditions above are being met. If I fail to comply with agency requirements, agency\nreserves the right to repossess the dog.","title":"[OK]Dog adoption demanding I return both dogs I got from them.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554244165,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8px4i\/what_is_the_cheapest_way_to_pay_for_a_noncriminal\/","id":"b8px4i","body":"I received a citation today for driving in the HOV lane without a passenger between 4pm and 6pm. I always have a passenger with me so I had completely forgotten about that law, so I guess it is my fault.\n\nI was given three options: pay, take a driving improvement course, or appeal to court. I don't think going to court would work since I did forget the law but I also don't want to get points on my license for this. I've never received any kind of ticket or citation before so this completely new to me.\n\nWhat I'm confused about is that the option fro driving course mentions that I'd pay the penalty as well as a court fee, which I read can be up to $125 (the ticket was $166). Does this mean that I'd be paying $291 + $30 for the driving course instead of $166, or would taking the course decrease the penalty? I really don't want to pay $300 since I don't make a lot of money, but straight up paying the ticket seems to be worse in the long run. The resources offered by the dmv don't mention price or any changes to price so I came here for help. I live in Florida if that helps. ","title":"What is the cheapest way to pay for a non-criminal infraction?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568592247,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4stwj\/if_i_work_a_shift_then_quit_afterwards_is_the\/","id":"d4stwj","body":"My boss makes all of us work an extra shift for our pay the day before, this seems illegal as I worked for the money.  I live in Queensland Australia","title":"If I work a shift then quit afterwards, is the work place still required to pay me for the shift I worked?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554330953,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b94r3m\/former_neighbor_is_giving_me_her_cat_what_do_i\/","id":"b94r3m","body":"This is happening tonight without notice so any help asap is helpful!\n\nMy neighbor is giving me her cat. The cat seems to be from a friend of her\u2019s cat that had kittens, so I don\u2019t think it was through an adoption agency. She said the cat has had shots. \n\nWhat documentation do I need as part of this change of custody? If she doesn\u2019t have any papers, should I use a pet custody template from the internet? \n\nThe cat is from another state\/neighbor moved and now lives in another state, but I live in MD and that\u2019s where the exchange is taking place. \nThanks! ","title":"(Former) Neighbor is giving me her cat. What do I need from her? (MD)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539639219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oh30g\/my_apartment_complex_broke_our_lease_agreement_i\/","id":"9oh30g","body":"So I actually made a previous post about this complex [here](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lfpss\/old_apt_management_is_saying_our_pet_deposit_was\/) where I basically rant about the over arching issue I'm having, which is them trying to get us to pay for carpet replacement that we really shouldn't have to pay for. However, what brings me to writing this post was, as I was looking through our lease agreement (trying to see if they specify our Pet Deposit as a \"Pet Fee\" or not) I noticed an instance where THEY may have violated the lease. Allow me to explain:\n\nBack in December of last year, Management upped our rent by about 3-6 dollars (I can't remember the exact amount right now, it was enough to notice, but not enough to be upset about). At the time it didn't mean anything to me, and their reasoning was it was for added cable benefits (the complex has a contract with Spectrum to be the sole providers for internet and tv available for tenants. Furthermore, the cabling to include these \"benefits\" resulted in our apt. being flooded, but that's a separate story). However reading through the lease just now, I came across paragraph 16, which states:  \n\n​\n\n\"No rent increases or lease changes are allowed before the initial lease term ends, except for those allowed by special provisions in paragraph 9, by a written addendum or amendment signed by you and us, or by reasonable changes of apartment rules allowed under paragraph 19.\"\n\n(paragraph 19 is mostly about consequences of violating rules such as \"no glass containers in pool area\")\n\nPar. 9 states\n\n\"  The following or attached special provisions and any addenda or written rules furnished to you at or before signing will become a part of this lease and will supersede any conflicting provisions of this printed lease form.\"\n\n​\n\nAlso worth noting, jump to Par. 33.1 to read \n\n\" Representatives authority; waivers; notice. Our representatives (including management personnel, employees, and agents) have no authority to waive, amend, or terminate this lease or any part of it unless it in writing, and no authority to make promises, representations, or agreements that impose security duties or other obligations on us or our representatives, unless in writing. \"\n\n​\n\nI'm currently hunting down all my old bills and confirmations of payments (they have a break down of the total payment and could show the increase in rent), but considering we never signed anything regarding a increase in rent, and since its not a utility like water or electricity that can fluctuate month by month, is there any validity in this finding? Did my complex break our lease? And can I use this as a bargaining chip to not pay for that stupid carpet?","title":"My Apartment complex broke our lease agreement... I think. I'm looking for possible verification.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552783203,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1zgx9\/job_giving_less_than_5_hours_off_between_long\/","id":"b1zgx9","body":"My husband clocked in to work at about 7:00 am this morning. He won't be home until about 11:00 pm (over 16 hours). They just informed him that he needs to be on the road at 4:00 am tomorrow. \n\n5 hours off of work between shifts? That seems really wrong to me, but is it illegal? I have been searching labor laws online and cannot seem to find anything. We are in Colorado, U.S. ","title":"Job giving less than 5 hours off between long work shifts?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552687492,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1kv4o\/is_it_illegal_for_an_employer_to_fire_someone_for\/","id":"b1kv4o","body":"So, I began working for a construction company in Texas about a month and a half ago. After my first 2 weeks, I sustained an injury that's kept me out of work for going on three weeks now. I attend my regular doctor visits as scheduled and I keep the company updated regularly. However, lately, the tone of the employer and fellow associates has been real tense with me and im afraid they're planning on firing me. Can they do this? ","title":"Is it illegal for an employer to fire someone for an injury sustained on the job?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554909992,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbnbjc\/maine_custody_issues_before_divorce_proceedings\/","id":"bbnbjc","body":"Throwaway account for obvious reasons. Trying to be brief but it isn't my strong suit. I have way more details if there are questions..?\n\n In the past my stbxh has thrown things at me while I was attempting to evade his screaming fit and holding our then 7mo. He pulled me down by my hair when I was pregnant with our second, accusing me of cheating bc my hair smelled like shampoo. He has endangered our second by picking him up while he was heavily intoxicated to lure me back into his screaming at me. I never made reports for these in fear of retaliation.\n\nHe left us (thank god) at the beginning of February, days after his OUI. Kids are now 2yo and 7mo who is still breastfeeding. He is on the lease, I am currently not. The divorce papers I was served have his new address, he doesn't claim to actually reside here.\n\nSince leaving, he has asked to see the kids only once and he no showed and no replied. That was two weekends ago, 3\/30.\n\nOn 4\/2 he came unannounced to pick up some of his things that I had left on the front porch.\n\nHe came unannounced again on this past Sunday, 4\/7, while I and the kids were out. I have screenshots from my security cameras of him peering through the front door like a creep. That made me feel extremely uncomfortable so I called the local pd for advice and they suggested (but \"can't give legal advice\") a temporary protection order, advised I did not have to answer the door if I felt unsafe, and offered to send an officer to keep the peace if he came to get more of his things.\n\nHe came again Sunday afternoon, again unannounced. Said he wanted to get his fish. Told him kids were asleep. He didn't want to wait so I said I wouldn't be opening the door without an officer. I let him call pd. They stayed while he got his fish and then he \"visited\" the kids at the neighbors. He spent 40min here. There was zero communication, he walked away carrying 2yo multiple times. I gave space but followed at a distance.\n\nI have repeated my offer over 10 times in the past 2 months. I will welcome him to visit the kids here any time *with prior notice*. He's living a mile away, and with his history of abuse, alcoholism, and anger issues, this is more than fair until we get a parenting plan set through the court in my opinion.\n\n He has texted me 6 times since Sunday repeating some form of \"I have 50 50 custody until court determines otherwise, I'm taking my kids this weekend, I'm entitled, my rights, etc\" Am I not also within my parental rights to not allow my children to be put in an unsafe situation? He is demanding, not requesting, our 7mo for \"about an hour\" and 2yo ALL DAY until dinner (which he doesn't even know what time that is anymore) on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThis is not the first time he has harassed me with texts and phone calls, this is an escalating pattern the way I see it. 2 weeks after he left, he called 4x and texted 3x within one hour that I was out of the house. He did the same thing when we were together too, very controlling.\n\nI am allowing visitation (I have also offered to make myself scarce here so we don't have to interact with each other) but I cannot allow him to just take them. \n\n Am I within my rights to restrict visitation in this way? How could this affect custody in the divorce hearing? (This would be one of the only things he could potentially use against me so I am very concerned about it) Are his unannounced visits and texts threatening to take the kids enough for a temporary protection order in Maine?","title":"[Maine] custody issues before divorce proceedings with abusive ex, go for TPO or no?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552658360,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1faej\/pa_ticket_has_not_been_put_in_the_system_almost\/","id":"b1faej","body":"I received a parking ticket for parking within 20 feet of an intersection.   I paid it online and the status has been changed to pending with a note saying \u201cticket has not been put in the computer yet.\u201d  However, I received this ticket on March 3rd.  I paid it today, March 15th (life of being a broke teen who only works weekends) and I am concerned whether I used the wrong service to pay or if the ticket actually hasn\u2019t been put in yet.  The court I am supposed to pay is the Pittsburgh Municipal Court 05-0-03 and that\u2019s what I have paid it to on the website.  I assume I paid it the correct way and it just wasn\u2019t put in yet.  Because it\u2019s been almost two weeks after the fact does that mean it will likely not be put in and I will be refunded the money?  Or does it mean that once it is put in the money will go through?  Or does it mean that I still have an unpaid ticket and I will be facing penalties toward that.  Any advice is helpful, thank you!","title":"[PA] Ticket has not been put in the system almost two weeks after the fact. Did I pay wrong or will I face punishment?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553664337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b60h38\/ia\/","id":"b60h38","body":"My daughter is a med manager at an agency that cares for disabled adults. She has worked there for going on 2 years. She is a strong advocate for all her clients. She has over 14 years experience. She became aware of a situation where a blind, wheel chair bound individual was being kept in a room by himself all day, everyday at a day program run by an RN.   My daughter was told it is because he \u201c has behaviors\u201d. He has been found with soiled clothes and undergarments. When my daughter questioned the RN, she was told by the RN that she has 50 years of nursing, not to question her. \nMy daughter took this individual to a routine doctor appointment and mentioned the situation to his doctor. Since that day, DHS was called to investigate. She believes that the doctor called. DHS. Since then, my daughter has been continually singled out by this nurse and harassed what what can only be called petty things. The company is now telling my daughter that she can no longer go to this day center for any reason, even though part of her job requires her to, for medication reasons. They are also not allowing her to go to this individuals house. She was \u201cverbally\u201d warned today for what are petty reasons. Things like wearing sandals one day to work. This nurse has a huge ego, and has it out for my daughter now. The management for some reason is taking the side of this nurse. \nThere have been other calls to DHS to this agency in the past, not having to do with my daughter.\nWhen my daughter asked why she was not allowed at this day program or this clients house anymore, she was told it was because DHS was called. \nThere are many instances where other workers at this day program are being asked to sign off on there being \u201c19\u201d pills left, when there are really only 14. This nurse is either stealing medications, or over medicating people. \nThere are many other instances of situations. \nThe owner of this company, also owns all the houses that all the disabled adults live in. \nDecisions are being made that is NOT in the best interest if these people. \nMy daughter knows that they are now going to try to get rid of her. She needs to consult a lawyer to protect herself. Where does she turn? What type of lawyer does she consult with? ","title":"[IA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569084699,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7cz5s\/piracy_as_a_predicate_offense\/","id":"d7cz5s","body":"Hello everybody, I need the following info: were there any real (proven) cases of piracy as a predicate offense? Where and when did that happen?","title":"Piracy as a predicate offense","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1442553248,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3leaf2\/husband_was_just_arrested_for_assault_supposed_to\/","id":"3leaf2","body":"[EDIT: throwaway for obvious reasons. i'm a contributor and mod on other subs, and would really appreciate any advice.]\n\nmy husband and i were arguing on the way home tonight. things got heated, i got upset, he got physical, and he pulled over. a bystander called the police and told an officer that my husband had struck me. the officers arrested my husband (who has two prior convictions for domestic assault - not against me) and he was taken away. despite my saying that nothing happened, the officers said that massachusetts law requires them to make the arrest because there was a witness. i was given the car keys and told to go home. the officers told me that he would have bond set in six hours (630AM) or he would go to court at 8AM. they said that because six hours was so close to when court would be, a magistrate probably would not come out then, and that i should just meet him at court at 8AM. \n\ni have resources for domestic abuse and plan to extricate myself. i am simply looking to get out of this as inexpensively as possible and not add anything to my husband's record so that he can move forward as well. so my questions are:\n\nshould i go to the police department to post bond at 630? or should i wait until 8AM when he goes to court? they said he should be released on his own recognizance at court in the morning and that would obviously be less expensive than me posting bond at 630 (that is, even if a magistrate were to show up at 630). \n\nif he is released without us having to post bail at 8AM, what happens then? does he go back to court? do we need an attorney? i am not pressing charges. i just want to gather my things and go, and have us both move on without going into debt over this. \n\nEDIT 2: The police officer I spoke with said that bail wouldn't be posted because there is a mandatory hold for domestic assault of 6 hours. By the time he would be given bail, it would be time for court. She said that he will be at court at 9AM with a public defender and the police who arrested him said it was likely that he would be released then. If he is convicted, is this a misdemeanor? Felony? He has two misdemeanor assault charges from over five years ago. Is this something someone would go to jail for?","title":"Husband was just arrested for assault. Supposed to go to court at 8AM or I can bail him out at 630AM. What do I do? [boston, ma]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551986830,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aygkkw\/i_was_just_charged_for_my_roommates_rent_who\/","id":"aygkkw","body":"Long story short, I\u2019m a full-time student and had an apartment with one of my \u201cfriends\u201d last month.\n\nOne night I woke up to him trying to strangle me in my sleep. He had a weapon on him as well and has 5 different charges, one being attempted murder.\n\nThe rent was $1750. To pay, we had to log in online and pay separately. I had a recurring automatic payment. He did not. \n\nI had to pay for the month of march even though my lease ended on the 1st due to the situation. He is on the lease for one more month.\n\nToday I went to get gas and it said insufficient funds. I looked at my account and it said I was charged the $1750. I freaked out. I called the leasing office and they said there\u2019s nothing they can do because he had to log in and confirm the payment while I had automatic payments set up. Since the computer couldn\u2019t pull from his account since he didn\u2019t confirm it, it charged my automatic account the whole $1750.\n\nI can\u2019t afford this whatsoever since I just lost my job as well. My life is a huge shtshow right now and it\u2019s not getting any better, just straight downhill.\n\nI called the bank and told them the whole story. They told me they\u2019d put in a billing dispute but my father told me that doesn\u2019t mean jack sht.\n\nI got a restraining order on my roommate so I can\u2019t talk to him even if I wanted to, and even then he wouldn\u2019t pay for the life of him. \n\nSomeone please help.","title":"I was just charged for my roommate\u2019s rent who tried to kill me in my sleep, what can I do??","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538759578,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lo7eu\/hostile_work_environment\/","id":"9lo7eu","body":"In Colorado, my current employer is very hostile, intimidating, and is quick to anger. She back lashes, ignores, interrupts, goes against her word, and changes her mind and it's our fault.\n\nWe travel to accounts for work, only pays us for the time we are there, not the time it takes to drive to other accounts (not from home or to home, but to and from accounts.) I'm assuming this is illegal and we are all entitled to backpay with a wage hearing. We also have no breaks or lunches, just drive time. If this is wrong, I'd like to know.\n\nI'm a Manager and my General Manager just quit yesterday, filing for a hostile work environment unemployment.\n\nFrom my hostile boss' own words, she called me explaining what happened. The gist of it is, boss installed secret camera in our office. Recorded general manager venting and bitching about boss to another Manager after our meeting. Boss comes back, confronts her, GM quit on the spot.\n\nI should obviously seek another job. But my questions are:\n\n1. With very well documentation, should I file for back wages?\n2. Since my GM is filing hostile work environment for unemployment, would it help us both if I did too instead of just quitting? ","title":"Hostile Work Environment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569609889,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da4ok0\/sc_accidentally_large_paycheck\/","id":"da4ok0","body":"My parents job just had a huge accident where they gave everyone 3x their regular paycheck. A lot of people quit\/missed work today to cash the check and close their accounts. Can their company ask for the money back or take it back by force? Or will they have to just take this loss?","title":"[SC] accidentally large paycheck","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443227911,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3menh5\/ca_hi_i_have_a_question_about_a_will_and_a_surety\/","id":"3menh5","body":"Howdy.  I was hoping someone could help me out with this situation.  Basically, my grandfather passed away, and now the one in charge of his will is petitioning the court that all of the money doesn't go to a Surety Bond, calling it an unnecessary expense to the Trust.  He is in charge of the will, in charge of the medical side, and has durable power of attorney.  \n\nMy question is, if he gets the approval, could he in theory take all the money and run, or will he still be bound to the will and have to distribute the will assets like they are supposed to?","title":"CA- Hi. I have a question about a Will, and a Surety Bond.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554484582,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9txff\/pa_ex_commits_minor_insurance_fraud_buys_drugs\/","id":"b9txff","body":"Disclaimer: I made mistakes and made stupid decisions based on feelings. Just getting that out of the way...I\u2019m also angry and scared right now so I\u2019m totally in a defensive, go for the throat mode right now. \n\nMy ex is going after child support and custody of our 20 month old. She still breast feeds. \n\nLong story shortish, ex and I separated about 6 months ago. She moved out (proof on Venmo). We\u2019ve been doing a pseudo 50\/50 custody based on our own deal. (Very chaotic but works for us)\n\nNow she\u2019s trying to change it so she has primary custody because \u201cshe\u2019s her mother and still breast feeds\u201d. I\u2019m now getting a lawyer and thinking about things I can potentially have \u201cup my sleeve\u201d so to speak. \n\nFirst things first, I have text message evidence of her buying a bunch of mushrooms. The baby was with her at the time, but that\u2019s not in the messages. Problem is she asked if I wanted some. I didn\u2019t say yes, but I did ask how much. \n\nAlso, as an NP she could be making more than me, but she\u2019s working on a private practice and making next to nothing. She has a masters while I have my bachelors (which is the same as her bachelors), but I\u2019m almost making double by getting a regular job in our field. Does this qualify her for food stamps and child support? Even though she has the potential to be making more than me but chooses not to? \n\nAnother thing, she\u2019s opened a private practice family doc clinic with another Nurse Practitioner and a backup hospital. Getting off the ground there was some fishy insurance things going on and I\u2019m considering leaving an anonymous tip with the AG for investigating. (She asked another NP to bill Medicaid for her patients because she didn\u2019t have credentials with Medicaid at the time, then take a percentage) \n\nI rent a great house, have a stable job with benefits (for the baby and her...by the way)...But last year I had a mental breakdown with a suicide attempt with a gun and mental health hospitalization for three days. I\u2019m going to therapy and trying to find a prescription that works with me. No problems since \n\nShe doesn\u2019t have stable housing, works a night shift a week and sometimes has to leave in the middle of the night for work. \n\nIf I\u2019m an asshole, please tell me. I just don\u2019t want to be away from this miracle child anymore than I have to be. I\u2019m home 4 days a week and do nothing else besides work and take care of the baby  ","title":"(PA) Ex commits minor insurance fraud, buys drugs, and makes substantially less then they\u2019re capable\/willing to make. Going after child support based on her income and fact that she\u2019s using food stamps.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539321580,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nhivx\/employer_wont_pay_me\/","id":"9nhivx","body":"I quit my job because my employer became violent in the workplace (punching office equipment at the slightest minor inconvenience) and my employer has not paid me my final check. He told me when it would be deposited and when the day came, I wasn\u2019t paid. This has been going on for a week and the employer keeps changing the date. When I said I would contact the Department of Labor to file a complaint for wage theft if I don\u2019t get paid, my (now former) employer sent a laughing emoji (how adult). \n\nWhat can I do? ","title":"Employer won\u2019t pay me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553357087,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4kske\/charging_for_data_services_please_advise\/","id":"b4kske","body":"I've been asked by a local (Kansas) politician to take a look at some voter data and condense it into a walklist and mailing list for an upcoming election. How exactly should I go about charging for this? I'd like to not be screwed over by any tax or campaign finance or whatever laws later down the line.\n\n​\n\nRelated:\n\n​\n\nIf I charge for this service and other politicians approach me, am I obligated to provide the service again?\n\n​\n\nIf other politicians approach me and I continue to provide the service, do I have to do anything different (from what I need to do for just this one time) to cover my ass?","title":"Charging for data services, please advise.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553198301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3v7e8\/checkbook_stolen_by_exroommate_wrote_fraudulent\/","id":"b3v7e8","body":"Hi Legal Advice. Hopefully this will be fairly brief. My roommates and I managed to kick out some dude we made the mistake of letting live with us for about 3 months. He didn't pay any rent at all which was annoying but whatever he's gone and we split his burden evenly. One of my roommates took the day off to follow him to his new apartment to make sure he wouldn't come back.\n\nToday I checked my bank statement and noticed my bank account was about $1,500 short. I checked my mobile banking, and someone had cashed a check for $1500. I had never met this person before. I looked them up on Facebook and lo and behold, we had a mutual Facebook friend which was the scummy roommate. I showed her profile to my other roommate, who identified her as a woman who helped the roommate into his new apartment. I also recognized the handwriting as my scummy ex roommates handwriting. I am not sure if they are in cahoots, but I am damn near positive he wrote this check. He only could have access to my checkbook by breaking into my room, since I never use my checkbook and kept it in my desk at all times. However, I watched him break into his own door when he accidentally locked himself out, so I know he could do it to my door too.\n\nI filed a police report and informed my bank, so I do have this set in motion. Luckily I know exactly who he is living with, and where. The bank asked me if i thought I would be pressing charges. I would like to, but would I have to hire a lawyer to press charges about this? Or would the DA have this covered? I've never had to press charges against someone criminally.\n\nSecond question, could the bank that cashed this obviously fraudulent check be held culpable for any sort of damages? Both the police and my bank remarked without me asking there was no way they should have accepted the check. It was not signed and was for over $1000, and I was never contacted to ensure that the check was legitimate. Just seems extremely negligent to me. I'm supposed to be putting down money for an apartment this week, and I won't have access to all of my funds. I also had to leave work suddenly today and miss out on hours in order to get this right. And this is just the beginning. I could potentially lose quite a bit because of this bank's oversight. \n\nIf anyone has experience with these types of situations I would really appreciate some help. I have no idea what to expect next and the police and bank didn't have many answers :(","title":"Checkbook stolen by ex-roommate, wrote fraudulent check that was cashed [MA]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504795003,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ynlbq\/my_boss_asked_me_not_to_punch_in_but_required_me\/","id":"6ynlbq","body":"I was scheduled for a 4 hour shift of which I was asked to not punch in for the first 2 hours. I finally punched in, worked for an hour and was asked to punch out again but not leave. I'm in Wisconsin and can't find much but I'm not really sure what I should even be googling.\n\nWhat are my options? Can I just go home? Can I argue that I'm scheduled and should be able to punch or get some kind of pay for sitting around?\n\nEDIT: [I found this](https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/code\/admin_code\/dwd\/270_279\/272\/12) which seems to indicate that time 'waiting' when not at home but required to be on the premise is not considered on call and would require compensation. But even still, what are my options for trying to get backpay for time wasted waiting already or to assert myself into clocking in or going home if it happens again?","title":"My boss asked me not to punch in but required me to be on the property, punch in for an hour, punch out, and see if they needed me later. Can they do this?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553455863,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b50dy7\/apartment_surety_sent_amount_for_damages_to\/","id":"b50dy7","body":"Didn\u2019t get much feedback on my previous post so trying again with this one. \n\nIf you don\u2019t want to read any further than my question is can this surety still get money from us for damages if the first notice we received was not from them but from collections and it was over 40 days after move out? Then photos and report were not sent until over 100 days after disputing debt through collection agency. \nI am basing this off of NRS 118A.242. Can someone with more knowledge with this let me know if I am misinterpreting this? \n\nFor anyone who would like more details on this situation here is a summary: \n\n\u2022 Moved out of apartment in November, apartment was thoroughly cleaned by us and the only damage that we caused (1 broken door) was paid for by money order before handing over keys. Requested someone walk thru apartment, office person declined and stated that some manager will walk through and send us an itemized report of any damages to new address which we provided. \n\n\u2022 48 days later I receive letter from collections asking to pay amount that I don\u2019t know anything about. Went to leasing office since they didn\u2019t answer phone and was told that damages were 2 doors and a fridge, but could provide no photos upon request at the time. (One was the door we paid for, another is a door that we were told is fine and was already painted over but I took a photo upon move in anyway, and the third was the fridge stating they needed to replace the whole thing it because of a hole which I never saw and stupidly took no photos of because it looked fine when I cleaned it and this was my first apartment.) \n\n\u2022 I wrote a letter disputing damages basically stating that the doors were not my problem, we paid for one and we didn\u2019t have anything to do with the other one. I requested the full report and also proof if they attempted to send us anything with in 30 days, such as post-dated undelivered letter or something. \n\n\u2022 Over 100 days after move out I finally receive itemized report with photos of everything via whatever the surety submitted to the collection agency. \n\nI want to continue to fight them because neither of the doors should even be part of this situation, and the fridge they sent me a photo of was dirty and had a hole in the freezer. I spent hours cleaning everything including the fridge and there was no hole or stains when I left it but I have no photo evidence to prove otherwise in terms of the fridge.\n\nWill them sending me no itemized report in 30 days somehow save me or am I screwed? What is the best way to respond to this and who should I respond to? Someone told me I should negotiate with the collection agency but I just want to know if that\u2019s truly the best option here.\n\nAny feedback is greatly appreciated! ","title":"Apartment surety sent amount for damages to collections without sending me itemized report and outside of 30 day window. Need advice on best way to respond - Las Vegas","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505507734,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70ckje\/nh_police_officer_told_me_to_register_my_car\/","id":"70ckje","body":"I was pulled over by a police officer in early January for driving an unregistered vehicle. (Registration expired 12\/31) I understand he had a reason to pull me over, I know I was in the wrong. I was given a ticket and told that if I got my car registered as soon as possible and brought my registration into the PD the ticket would be waived. I got my car registered the next day (or the day after, I don't remember) and brought my registration in to prove that I did so. The ticket was then taken from my possession and I was told that I was all set. In March, my insurance premium went up $360 and I didn't know why. On Friday, June 30th, I recieved a letter from the state of New Hampshire department of safety division of motor vehicles that stated that I defaulted on a court summons and that my license, privilege to drive, and registration would be suspended indefinitely on July 20th if I did not pay the fine or clear the default. It turns out that the officer did not waive the ticket even though it was physically taken from me. I contacted the PD and got into contact with the officer that issued the ticket. The officer then told me he would never do that and that I misunderstood him. He told me what he really told me to do was to plead not guilty and we would settle it in court. He never told me to do this, I just believe he got in trouble and is just trying to cover his self. Now what I was told to do was to have him fax the DMV and tell them to waive the fine but what he did was fax the DMV and ask for an extension on the summons so that I could plead not guilty and we would go to court. Unfortunately I still have to pay for the defaulted summons, is there any thing I can do to fix this situation?","title":"[NH] Police officer told me to register my car within a few days and provide him proof and he would \"get rid\" of my ticket.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570206098,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd9m4i\/san_antonio_texas_apartment_water_leak\/","id":"dd9m4i","body":"Hey everyone, so here's the story, I went on vacation #Disney for 5 days. When I left, I turned off all electronics and I set my thermostat to 'off' to save energy. It had been set to 80 degrees on cool mode the previous day so it was basically already off, this was just so that it didn't turn on while I was gone. Got back from Disney and as soon as I walked in there was a very distinct mold\/mildew smell. I immediately turned my lights back on and started looking. There was a bubble in my ceiling right above my couch and my couch was soaking wet. I immediately moved my couch out of the way and put a bucket down to catch any additional water. It was midnight when I got home so I had to wait until the next day to call anyone. Tried submitting a work order online but the website was down. Turns out they changed management while I was away and took down the site to 'update' it.\n\n​\n\nI did notice that I was not feeling well when I woke up, watery eyes, sore and scratchy throat, congestion. Took a shower like normal and went to work not feeling great all day.   \n\n\nThe next day I got out of work early and went to the office to speak with someone. The manager called the maintenance guy and he met me at my apartment. I let him in and he went straight to the AC unit and said the issue was probably a dirty air filter. He pulled out the one that was in there and it looked clean (they are the cheap type that you can see through) he replaced it and put a larger bucket under the bubble and said that he would come back the next day to investigate.  \n\n\nNow, I'm no dummy, I know that an air filter is an unlikely culprit for an AC leak. I have the blower unit in the center of the apartment and the condenser is outside. I can't fathom a situation where the AC drainage would go up and over the ceiling without a pump, plus my AC was off so there shouldn't have been any water drainage but that's just my opinion. I'm not an HVAC guy.  \n\n\nI stayed in the apartment another night and woke up again feeling even worse than I did the first night, got some allergy meds from Walgreens on my way to work and that helped. They still haven't opened up the ceiling at this point and I can't get my couch out of my apartment because it's heavy and I live alone. I stayed in the apartment until Thursday and at that point I couldn't take it anymore. Called my parents and asked if I could stay a couple of days until I got my apartment sorted out. I called the apartment complex a couple of minutes ago and reexplained the situation to a different manager (I guess there are more than one?) and straight out asked if I can be moved to another apartment as the one I am in is making me sick. She replied with \"Well sir, mold doesn't grow that fast.\" My reply was, \"I don't know when the leak started and I was on vacation for 5 days where my apartment was dark and the AC was off the entire time, so at this point it's been about 2 weeks.\" She said she'd get maintenance out to look at the leak again but didn't answer about changing apartments. I'm preemptively posting to get some feedback on what I should be doing in the event they don't fix the issue or I continue to get sick while staying in the apartment.","title":"San Antonio Texas Apartment water leak","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541774538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vkyuj\/emlployer_withholding_pay_for_not_clocking_in\/","id":"9vkyuj","body":"I am a manager for a valet company in Indianapolis, IN. I'm a salary employee, I have an issue with forgetting to clock-in on some days. My question is. Can my pay legally be deducted for this? I work about 45 hours a week on site and have to bring work home sometimes. I'm basically on call to come in when they need as well. I just received my first paycheck for this month and it was significantly less than normal. The other day the manager above me told me that if I don't clock in I won't get paid. I didn't think he was serious because I still worked and was still on site. As well he seemed to say it with humor instead of any seriousness. I did some research and the FLSA stated that employees have a right to be paid for hours worked, even if no clock-in\/out if present. What are my next steps? What other info can I bring to the table regarding legally being payed for my hours worked?","title":"Emlployer withholding pay for not clocking in.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570277905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddmiu9\/should_i_enforce_a_restraining_order_on_my\/","id":"ddmiu9","body":"To give context for years they have bullied and harassed me for several things. This has caused onset trauma and depression as well as anxiety. My partner is 16 weeks pregnant and I do not wish to allow any of them near her or my kid when it is born. She was also mentally abusive to my partner when she stayed for a short while, with them. Is a restraining order something I could legaly enforce. I am 21 years old and J am male, my partner is 18 and is female. Also alongside this what other legal advice could you recommend?","title":"Should I enforce a restraining order on my mentally abusive and manipulative mom and step dad.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540932228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9srvg4\/question_about_shady_shit_at_my_job\/","id":"9srvg4","body":"Sorry if this does not belong here or is a stupid question. \nI have been wondering if something going on at my work is actually legal. \n\nI work in customer service and when a customer emails in their account is given a score 1-10 based on how big of a spender they are (scores 9 and 10 are big spenders). \n\nAll support team member used to answer all scores but now they have designated 2 people to answer these tickets specifically. \nI was told by one of these \u201cspecial\u201d people that one of our bosses is secretly giving them Starbucks gift cards and stuff under the table for handling these big spender tickets. \nFor a few months now I have been moved over to a different part of the support team where I am also handling scores 9 and 10 but I am not getting any special gift cards or anything at all. Is this allowed? ","title":"Question about shady shit at my job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570212355,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddb0u3\/can_an_officer_give_me_a_ticket_because_someone\/","id":"ddb0u3","body":"Saskatchewan, Canada\n\nSo I got called into the office at school to speak the resource officer. In the first week of school I apparently cut someone off when leaving my school parking lot. She said that she won't give me a ticket because the lady doesn't wanna push charges. Can the officer even give me a ticket with no actual proof?","title":"Can an officer give me a ticket because someone reported my plate?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542122612,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wpydq\/can_i_go_on_unemployment_while_im_on_furlough_for\/","id":"9wpydq","body":"Apparently personalfinance was not the subreddit I was supposed to be in :) \n\n​\n\nAt the end of November the mandatory furlough kicks in via my agency for working as a contractor for 2 years at a company. My supervisor did in fact tell me he will bring me back and I do have a return date. So my question is if this circumstance constitutes my eligibility for unemployment for the month of December since it's really out of my control. I'm in the United States by the way. ","title":"Can I go on unemployment while I'm on furlough for the month of December?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1504457511,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xu90i\/being_sent_to_collections_although_i_subleased_my\/","id":"6xu90i","body":"[Florida] I'll make the story short as possible and to the point.\n\nI found a mutual friend to take over my lease at a townhomes, contract of $529 a month for 12 months. We filled out sublease paperwork, and he signed his own lease. Figuring that he signed the lease he should now be financially responsible.\n\nHowever the leasing office has contacted me by email that August rent hasn't been paid $529+$60 for move in so $589) and by tomorrow I'll be sent to collections. They insist that I'm still responsible for those dues. The thing is, he has NOT moved in yet, he is having \"financial trouble\" and is actually sleeping on the couch in that apartment (just not the bedroom yet). \n\nWhat can I do so I'm not stuck with this lease? I already have my own lease to take care of, and since he signed his shouldn't he be legally liable? Anything helps please! I don't know much about this stuff (college student)","title":"Being sent to collections although I subleased my place?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553736073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6cmzv\/im_applying_for_college_tx\/","id":"b6cmzv","body":"I don't know if this is the right place to ask but I'm doing my FAFSA (student aid) I can only provide info about my father. He's on social security and receives a monthly income, he has been for as long as I could remember. However I'm getting questions about his taxes in 2017 and his wages from working in 2017. \n\nI put he wasn't going to file since he can't really file for what's already coming from the government..(?) \n\nWould I change it to he already filed for tax returns and for his wages would i put his monthly income?","title":"Im applying for college (TX)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1507648031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75hn24\/my_girlfriend_was_hit_and_is_being_requested_in\/","id":"75hn24","body":"My girlfriend had the right away and was going through an intersection during a green light. An older lady was in an opposing lane to the right on a red right light. The older lady took a right turn in red as my girlfriend was going forward through the green light. \n\nThe turn was very wide and sideswiped my girlfriends car. Now the passenger door is not working properly. \n\nNo one was charged by the police, but the fault is of the older lady. \n\nFast forward two weeks and my girlfriend is being summoned to court by the older lady\u2019s insurance company.\n\nWhat should we do? ","title":"My girlfriend was hit and is being requested in court in Jan.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570236532,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddgbyz\/dealing_with_car_insurance\/","id":"ddgbyz","body":"Basically I was involved in a minor accident where I was changing lanes from right to left and the driver behind me accelerated and hit my mirror trying to not let me merge. He suffered a scrape on the side of his car and my mirror is broke. The police who arrived on the scene didn\u2019t give us any paperwork. \n\nIt\u2019s cheap to replace a mirror on my own so I was going to just do that without filing a claim, so my rates wouldn\u2019t increase. I submitted an accident report to the police shortly after the accident. \n\nRecently I received mail from the other parties insurance company asking me to fill out what looks like to be their own accident form. I am fairly certain he claims I am at fault. \nHow should I proceed? Do I need to get my insurance involved now? Never in a car accident before so not sure how things normally go looking for any advice! \nThank you!","title":"Dealing with car insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539630810,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ofrme\/californiacan_i_give_a_2_weeks_notice\/","id":"9ofrme","body":"I have been employed at my current job for a few years now. I am about to change but re-reading my contract I noticed the termination clause states that I have to give a 1 month notice, and so does the company. \n\nThis is the wording:\n\n> While we look forward to a long and profitable relationship,should you decide to accept our offer, termination of employment can be effected by either party giving a 1-month notice (30 days) in writing and without having to assign any reason hereto.  \nNotice will not be provided where there is just cause for your dismissal, which includes but is not limited to the following: malfeasance, substance abuse, incapacitation, insubordination, breach of trust, non-performance of duties under normal standards. Your legal right to notice or pay in lieu is governed by this provision, rather than the common law. Further, your participation in any stock option or benefit program is not to be regarded as assuring you of continuing employment for any particular period of time   \n  \n\nIt doesn't say anywhere in my contract that my employment is \"at-will\".\n\nAm I required to stay in this job 1 more month or can I simply give my 2 week notice? \n\nThank you in advance.","title":"[California]Can I give a 2 weeks notice?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539281719,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ncezy\/rental_management_company_will_not_let_me_off\/","id":"9ncezy","body":"So I live in the Bay Area and I am trying to move in with my wife. My old living situation was with a house-mate and we were splitting the place. We were recently informed that the owner is selling the building. Around the same time I contact the Apartment Management Company (AMC) and tell them I want to know what the process is for getting off the lease. Within this email I stated that I (my name), wanted to give my 30 days written notice (It is a month-month contract), at address (where I lived) and tried to sound as legally professional as possible.  \n\n\nThey come back and tell me, \"The building is in contract to sale, so unfortunately we are contractually not allowed to make any changes in occupancy.\" \n\nWhen I asked for the contact information of the new owner or management company they responded, \"The new owners or managers will reach out to introduce themselves closer to the time.\u00a0 We don\u2019t even know who they are because they use a broker\"  \n\n\nThis was a month ago and they are still in the limbo of the sale. There is no new owner yet and they are still demanding we send our rent to BAA. I feel they are pretty much trapping me into continuing to pay them ($1350 for me personally) while I will no longer be living there. What can I do to get my name off this lease?   \n","title":"Rental Management Company Will Not Let Me Off Lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539830476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p57qx\/divorce_drama_emergency_motion_to_possessor_rights\/","id":"9p57qx","body":"The ex is to assume the tax debt that was $19,000 2 years ago, and there were other miscellaneous relief. He hasn't done any of those things and I am due to move out of the house October 31st. The tax debt is affecting me in such a way that the minute I buy a house it will become a lien, and any real property that I own will be taken. Including the tax refund they have already been taken. I had a land contract all set  and the deal fell through  just days before getting the keys and now I have no other place lined up. My plan was get settled in my new place and then enforce the judgment so this lien would not affect any property ownership credit reports or background checks for employment going forward. He is not being very empathetic and is giving me a whole extra 2 weeks to move 18 years of my life and our son out of this house because ee is finding it hard to date while he lives at his mothers house and she won't let him decorate his 10 by 10 room. He's not a fan of it yellow color. Yes he really said these things.  \n\nObviously he has restricted my ability to move along on my own accord and is being very difficult. I am looking to file a stay of some kind while I proceed on the enforcement and show cause.\n\n**I'd love some pro tips....**\n\nAlso, he was supposed to have 50\/50 parenting time but has only taken 14% of overnights for the past 2 years. Daytime hours are completely different I had them about 90% of the time. Turns out from the Michigan child support calculator that he could only anywhere from $7000 to $8000 in back child support. I filed a motion to adjust child support and adjust parenting time to reflect the current schedule and that is due to be heard November 15th.\n\n​\n\nThanks!","title":"Divorce drama - emergency motion to possessor rights?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542146785,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wtofd\/infestation\/","id":"9wtofd","body":"Hey reddit, throwaway here. I plan on moving soon and want some advice. For reference, I live in Colorado, USA.\n\nSo I am planning on moving soon. My current place has few ammenities but a great price and an even more wonderful landlord. I'm in no rush, I just want to move to be within walking distance to work so I can help save the environment by driving less.\n\nI had a bad experience in the past with being stuck with an extermination bill, and threatened with eviction if I didn't pay. That was 4 years ago, I was broke and naive so I didn't fight. It was traumatizing, and I won't do it again.\n\nWorse comes to worse, I move in and an infestation later starts or becomes noticed by me. What standard would I be held to in court to prove that I was not the cause?\n\nExample: how do I prove my \"living conditions\" did not cause a roach infestation? Do I have to take periodic timestamped evidence of the condition of my apartment just in case?\n\nOther Example: Can I use a pest detecting dog to prove my previous home, work, friends houses, and other places I frequent are free of bedbugs? Or will I have to also use a witness (neighbor) stating that they had issues with bedbugs before I moved in?\n\nAlternatively, can I have an apsrtment inspected for pests by a professional before signing a lease?","title":"Infestation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570061500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcj227\/legal_advice_for_wrongful_termination_in_florida\/","id":"dcj227","body":"I know that Florida is an at-will state and employers need no reason to terminate an employee. But say an employee was seeking legal council for sexual harassment against said company and  got fired from the company before filing charges against them, What action can be done at that point? \n\nAlso if there is multiple employees stepping forward with harassment accusations and only some were fired how would that effect the harassment case going forward?","title":"Legal advice for wrongful termination in Florida?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569109274,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7ihih\/neighbor_has_ignored_police_warnings_and_taken\/","id":"d7ihih","body":"I've posted here about this before, but over the past 4 months I've been dealing with a neighbor that plays very bass heavy music directly on my bedroom wall. For a TLDR, talked to her, talked to landlord, talked to police all multiple times. Last night unfortunately went above as she moved her speakers on to my wall and played music from 11:30 PM to 4 AM, causing me to have a panic attack because I couldn't go to sleep and the police, who I had called 4 times, had yet to arrive. \n\nWhen they did arrive they knocked on the door for a few minutes and never got an answer. The problem is they could barely hear the music from outside, but in my room it was clear and they could understand my issue, but they can't do anything if it isn't a public nuisance according to a Sheriff. I eventually had to stay in a hotel because it wasn't possible even with headphones to sleep in my room, and the couch was taken by a friend of my roommate. \n\nI let the landlord know and I hope to find a solution there, but where else do I go with this if my landlord can't get them to stop the music? It's clear what the neighbor is doing but they are avoiding being a public nuisance so legally I can't call the police on them. I'm extremely distressed over this.","title":"Neighbor has ignored police warnings and taken steps to avoid illegality","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538860188,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lzkvp\/tx_issue_with_director_at_work_supervisor_told_me\/","id":"9lzkvp","body":"Last week a director that isn\u2019t over me or even linked to my department came in and started telling me how to do my job and saying the way I was doing it was wrong. She wouldn\u2019t listen to anything I said. All while yelling at me and staring down at me. This cause me to have a very severe panic attack and made this week very uncomfortable to work since she was around all the time. All week she basically bossed me around. I spoke with my supervisor and told him I intended to speak with HR about the incident. He told me not to because it wouldn\u2019t end well for me. Stating basically that they would retaliate against me. I\u2019ve considered contacting the EEOC over this issue. ","title":"(TX) Issue with director at work. Supervisor told me not to report it to HR.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569849497,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbbfi3\/want_to_switch_departments\/","id":"dbbfi3","body":"I want to pursue an interest in another department at my company. I spoke to my boss about it and he did not take it well. He wants to talk to me today in person. I have no idea how to proceed with this. In my eyes, I am not quitting, I want to stay in the company and expand my career. I do not think he sees it that way. My question is, can they fire me or would that be wrongful termination that they fired me after I told them about a transfer?","title":"Want to switch departments","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554651845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bahjpz\/old_friend_has_cp_at_school\/","id":"bahjpz","body":"So one of my not-so-close friends was on a pedophile group on kik and was sent a bunch of child porn. He keeps sending the link to the drive to people at our school. I don\u2019t want to face legal ramifications if he were to send it to me. So what should I do? I don\u2019t have the link and even if I did I wouldn\u2019t send it to anyone. Also I want to avoid getting my phone confiscated by the police and much as possible. ","title":"Old Friend has CP at school","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541314045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u1j3t\/ca_employer_trying_to_misclassify_minor_intern_as\/","id":"9u1j3t","body":"I was hired as an intern by a startup, signed a contract that explicitly states I am an intern. They did not complete a W-2, verify my eligibility for employment, or do ANY paperwork of any sort. (I know, I should've known better but I thought it was less extensive since it was only an internship). I only realized this was all wrong when as soon as I asked for the stipend that I signed for, they changed their mind. Literally the day before they were calling me an intern in emails then within 12 hours of me asking for the stipend I had an angry email from one of their friends who is an attorney saying that I'm an independent contractor.\n\n1. Can a minor legally be classified as an independent contractor? \n\n2.  I am 16, but exempt from child labor laws because I have a high school diploma. I did not need a work permit, but is there anything that should've been filed specific to employing someone under 18?\n\n3. Where do I report the violations to? It seems like DoL and IRS. Other than wage violations and misclassifications are there any other problems here? Anywhere else specific for CA? \n\n4. How do I report the misclassification to the IRS when they are now just flat out refusing to pay me? I don't have any paychecks to show, so do I need to wait until a settlement?\n\n5. Are there any other codes they violated here besides Cal. Labor Code \u00a7 2753? \n\nSorry for all the questions, but I still am confused on reporting. Thanks.\n\n​","title":"(CA) Employer trying to misclassify minor intern as an independent contractor.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569465212,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9dhnc\/if_i_legally_signed_a_document_agreeing_for\/","id":"d9dhnc","body":"If I created a legally binding contract, in the instance I was finally ready to let go of life, but cannot do it myself as a healthy adult in the US, could I sign it with someone else who is willing to do it, waiving them of any and all responsibilities of my blood on their hands?","title":"If I legally signed a document, agreeing for someone to take my life for me, and relinquishing them of all responsibility, would it be legal? [OH]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571662331,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl03go\/how_do_i_make_a_case_for_a_change_in_time_sharing\/","id":"dl03go","body":"My ex husband and I have had a parenting schedule of 50\/50 split for our daughter since we divorced when she was four. We have had a few modifications since then, but always remained with a 50\/50 split. He has been living with a woman for the past 5 years, (my daughter is 10) and they had a child a little over 3 years ago. They are engaged, but not married. For quite a while, since their child was born, my daughter has been expressing frustration in the way that her - for lack of a better term - stepmother has been treating her. This has prompted me to get her into therapy, as she has been having a hard time coping with her feelings.\u00a0\n\nAbout a year ago, we did a family therapy session in which her stepmother had mentioned that she \u201cchecked out\u201d of her relationship with my daughter, calling her manipulative and dishonest. Since then several instances of neglect have occurred as well as what I would consider emotional abuse. For example, my daughter contracted a bad stomach virus from them and when she didn\u2019t make it to the bathroom and vomited in the hallway, she was yelled at and forced by her stepmother to clean it up right away. There were several instances in which she wasn\u2019t fed breakfast, which I was alerted to because for a time I had paid for a driver take her to school from his house on his days. This is all documented via a court recommended site called Our Family Wizard.\u00a0\n\nAnyway, things have been deteriorating over the last 3-6 months. Her stepmother barely speaks to her when she is in the home, and she has been acting out and becoming depressed. Her teachers pulled myself and her father into a conference last Friday to address what they saw as my daughter appearing sad and withdrawn. My ex-husband and I sat down Saturday and he came up with the idea the she should stay with me every week, with him seeing her every other weekend. I agreed to this as I\u2019ve believed she needed to be out of that home a long time ago. I\u2019m relieved that he has agreed to this new schedule, but we still have the old modification paperwork and I feel like he could change his mind at any point. He also admitted that he started going to AA meetings in August, which is a step in the right direction but also shows how toxic that environment has been.\n\n\u00a0The therapist is very concerned about her home environment at dads, but we haven\u2019t been able to get the stepmother to agree to come in. I don\u2019t want to rock the boat too much, but I also don\u2019t like this only being a verbal agreement. I don\u2019t believe he would agree to modifying the parenting agreement at this point. Is there anything that I can do proactively so that if I do have to go to court down the road to make this more permanent - assuming things don\u2019t change with his living situation - I can make a better case that being with me the majority of the time is in her best interest?\u00a0","title":"How do I make a case for a change in time sharing? [Florida]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1502833500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6txfzy\/hit_and_run_in_school_parking_lot_us\/","id":"6txfzy","body":"Today I was the subject of a hit and run in my high school parking lot. When I got out of school, I noticed that my front bumper had been damaged and had white paint that rubbed off on the spot the car had hit it. What is the best way for me to handle this? Can I ask for the school to pay for it? (There is a parking contract that says they aren't liable for damage, but they haven't collected it yet). Should I file a report with the police? There are a few security cameras in the area, but I do not know if they are real cameras or just shells. (California, USA)","title":"Hit and run in school parking lot (US)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1412730116,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2im6ob\/uk_can_the_police_search_my_flat_without_my\/","id":"2im6ob","body":"(Context) So I'm a UK resident, currently living in student accommodation.\nSomeone has damaged the communal areas outside my flat (the communal area shared by 6 other flats). We've just had a visit from our security team informing us the police will be round tomorrow, in order to investigate the damage.\nMy question is this: are the police allowed to search my flat without my actual consent? They have to go through two lockable doors in order to get to my actual room within the flat, which gives me reason to think they can't actually search my room, as they have no reason to believe I was involved (one of my flat mates, who has his own separate, lockable room was seen on CCTV around the place where the incident took place, at that time).\nI realise this is slightly legal, but I just wanted to test the waters. I will take all advice with a pinch of salt, and I shan't rely on this council solely, so don't feel under pressure.\nThank you for your time.","title":"(UK) Can the police search my flat without my consent?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554234326,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8nxlx\/at_what_point_if_at_all_does_a_new_spouses_income\/","id":"b8nxlx","body":"\nNorth Carolina, USA. \n\nMy ex has primary custody of our child but we have joint legal. Most likely going back to court soon for contempt and modification on both ends. \n\nShe refuses to work and labels herself as a full time \u201chomemaker\u201d.  In previous discovery documents, she claims to have no bank accounts, assets, etc and is leaching off the system for food stamps (illegally). \nHer new fianc\u00e9, who she has lived with for 2 years, makes 60k+ a year and owns a business. \n\nNow, I know that spouse income does not typically count towards child support calculation, but I have heard in some situations that it MAY factor in on different terms (such as deviations). My understanding is that the child\u2019s lifestyle should be equal with both parents.\n\nMy ex claims to have no income, but carries around her fianc\u00e9s debit card and uses it to pay for all of our daughters expenses and more. We have proof of this in medical, dental, tuition bills that she has shown me. Her name isn\u2019t supposedly on the card, but she uses it for everything. \n\nThe monthly expenses for our child\u2019s private school tuition, sports, etc is WELL above the amount of child support I send every month, which means that someone is paying the difference for her. If this is on a monthly basis as the same amount, wouldn\u2019t it technically be considered a cash gift to her? And couldn\u2019t we use that in court as income that she is receiving? I feel we should have access to her fianc\u00e9s bank statements if he is giving her money every month. He is also claiming my child on his taxes. \n\nPlease clarify for me! Any advice is appreciated. ","title":"At what point, if at all, does a new spouse\u2019s income matter? Should I bring this up in court?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568411370,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3w6f9\/la_do_you_have_a_right_two_your_last_weeks_of_work\/","id":"d3w6f9","body":"So me and my GF are planning on moving out of state for her job. She got a new job that she wants to start in mid November and they agreed. Currently I do not have a job where we are going but we don\u2019t want to pay rent for two places so she is going to move first then I\u2019ll move at the end of November. Since I don\u2019t have a job I was trying to figure out the best time to give my notice. If I tell them I am leaving can I be dismissed on the spot without pay? Is there any protection for me once I turn in my notice? \n\nI read the company handbook and there is no mention of anything besides that all employment is \u201cAt Will\u201d\n\nWhat would the best way to proceed to make sure I can give them notice without getting dismissed early without pay?\n\nAlso I am non union and worked as a production supervisor.","title":"[LA] Do you have a right two your last weeks of work?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540400496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r1i2a\/tn_keeping_kids_from_dad_but_with_mom_until_court\/","id":"9r1i2a","body":"Davidson County, Tennessee.\n\nSo my friend was never married to the father of her children and they are no longer together. They currently split time with kids at about 50\/50. The father is verbally abusive, slapped one kid across the face and told the kid not to tell anyone or they would get in more trouble, has marijuana at his home, has no food (only candy) at his home, and various other bad things. These reports of bad things I\u2019ve heard come straight from the kids\u2019 mouths. The plan is to go to court and try and get full custody, but my friend is currently saving to get a lawyer. I\u2019ve read not allowing visits during separation can hurt the chances of getting custody in court. \n\nIs there a way to get full custody NOW without hurting her chances of full custody down the line?\nShould we call the police? CPS? Also are there any legal aid societies that could help?\n\nThanks!","title":"(TN) Keeping kids from Dad, but with Mom until Court","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551386303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avvvra\/living_will_possible_custody_agreement_between_2\/","id":"avvvra","body":"Is it possible to give one family primary physical custody, and give the other legal visitation rights (summers, holidays, etc)? Also, will it allow the person with visitation rights be the next person in line in case anything happens with the first? How enforceable is this? \n\nTrying to make sure our kids see both sides of our family, if something was ever to happen to us. ","title":"Living will- possible custody agreement between 2 different families?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569863993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbev5r\/do_i_need_a_lawyer_for_a_civil_traffic_summons\/","id":"dbev5r","body":"I received a summons for a civil traffic order to show cause. The court is saying I did not finish my online traffic school on time but I completed it on the date required and service sent in the paperwork late. The court is also saying I did not put in the correct expiration date. If I go in without a lawyer will be hit me with multiple fights? Any help is welcomed and appreciated. Thank you.","title":"Do I need a lawyer for a civil traffic summons?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1441727104,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k3top\/dad_died_15_years_ago_stepmom_selling_the_house\/","id":"3k3top","body":"My dad died in February of 2014 and to my knowledge there was no will. My step-mother claims there is and that everything was left to her. I called the county's probate office and they said \"No will has been submitted to this office\". She claimed his life insurance policy (250,000), selling the house for $410,000+, and gets monthly checks because my dad was in the military and had survivors benefits. She has told me that there was a will and that he gave everything to her (me and my father had a close relationship by the way). I read that in FL, if there is no will children get half the estate and spouse gets the other half. My father also had land in Texas (where I currently live).\n\nSo, question(s):\n\n1.If I called the probate office and there was nothing on file, does that mean the will was never submitted or that there truly was no will?\n\n2. Do the children truly get half the house?\n\n3. If so, how do we go about getting our portion?\n\n4. How does the land in TX work out?\n\nI am contacting a lawyer today but just want to be prepared for anything. I also have a real estate lawyer lined up in FL if need be. Any help or suggestion or comments will be appreciated!\n\nThanks!","title":"Dad died 1.5 years ago, Step-mom selling the house. No will to knowledge. What can children do? In Florida and possibly Texas.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568648790,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d52hlk\/state_farm_is_refusing_to_renew_my_home_insurance\/","id":"d52hlk","body":"I had two small claims in the past two years. One was for $5000 and another was for only $1000. I was never advised and told that these claims could end my policy and make my rates skyrocket. I feel so wronged and now I can\u2019t find insurance for a reasonable price. I was paying $1200 per year from before and now I can\u2019t find anything for under $5000. \nI already tried to appeal the decision at State Farm, but was rejected. I don\u2019t know if this even belongs in legal advice. Any help or advice is appreciated.","title":"State Farm is refusing to renew my home insurance because I had two small claims in the past two years. Now I can\u2019t find insurance for less than 4x what I was paying from before.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568423888,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3yp8x\/california_usa_familys_restaurant_robbed_hunch_on\/","id":"d3yp8x","body":"As the title says, my family's restaurant was robbed at (practically) gunpoint.\n\nTo briefly summarize, a man walked in to the restaurant completely covering his face from our cameras' views, and took all the money in the register after threatening the employees with a gun. While our location in the city is not the best, we had never had this happen before, and our neighboring shops\/businesses have never had such a random attack happen to them as well. In addition, when the man came in to the restaurant, he did not run in or seem nervous whatsoever. All he did was slowly walk in, took the money after brandishing his gun, then slowly walked out. It felt almost as if though this robbery was planned well beforehand. In addition, he somehow knew exactly where to look in order to shield his face from our four cameras in the dining room\/register area, therefore meaning he had to have known the interior layout beforehand.\n\nOf course, I am trying not to start any type of \"witch hunt,\" but my family and I have a feeling we know how this happened. I know this might sound like bad scapegoating, but we believe there could be a possibility that a new hire might have had a hand in it. Reasons being:\n\n* It was only her second day, and this is the first time we have ever had an issue such as this (possible scapegoating again, I am aware)\n* After reviewing our cameras, there were many instances where she glances at them on her first day, consistently\n* The event occurred 15 minutes before our scheduled closing time, on the dot, on a night that is typically busy but just so happened to have been going extremely slow, and with only one customer inside\n* After reviewing the event, the man comes in and gently steps her to the side asking her to open the register, when she claims she is not sure how, the man proceeds to roughly shove a different employee to the register and speaks in a much harsher manner, demanding again that the register be opened\n* Once the police arrived, many had felt shook up and tried their best at answering questions, however she seemed aloof and was texting on her phone the whole time while being questioned\n* Once police left, many were trying to explain to my family and I what happened, but she simply grabbed the tips left in the tip jar and approached us asking if she was good to go and walked out, as if though it was the end of a regular day\n\nAgain, I admit that all this may be stemming from paranoia, but my family and I can't help shake this feeling that she could have had something to do with this. Again, we don't want to blow this out of proportion so we obviously have not approached or said anything about our suspicions to anyone, seeing as how we may easily be in the wrong. My overall question, then, is this: is there anything we can do, seeing as how we have no hard-proof evidence? Our cameras could not see his face, and the police naturally claim there is nothing they can do from here. Besides of course trying our best to increase our cameras' visibility and improve alarming systems, are we just basically out of luck here and should just try to move forward?\n\nP.S. she naturally quit and claimed she can no longer come in (understandable). She claims that the event gave her too much stress and is suffering from anxiety due to it. Would this be something we should be worried about as well?","title":"[California, USA] Family's restaurant robbed, hunch on how it happened, what would be best action going forward?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551403311,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avyrbl\/company_writing_their_policy_to_side_step_fmla\/","id":"avyrbl","body":"A company of 100+ employees has rewritten their policy so that employees can be denied FMLA, even though an employee would otherwise qualify.  The policy change was written to say that if the employee\u2019s \u201cwork site\u201d has less than 50 employees with 75 miles, they don\u2019t have to grant FMLA.  This company is divided into 3 locations, each in a different US state.  Assuming that by \u201cwork sites\u201d they are referring to the three divisions of the company, the two smaller divisions each have fewer than 50 employees and therefore they can deny FMLA to those employees based on their own policy.  Does this policy change comply with FMLA legislation? ","title":"Company writing their policy to side step FMLA requirement.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553036558,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b34ac7\/i_was_asked_to_invest_in_a_company_that_hasnt\/","id":"b34ac7","body":"The details: a CBD extract business is in the works in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is very outdated and far behind when it comes to legalization so to be able to open a legal business in the early stages of legalization would be very profitable.\nI was hand picked out of a useful team of people from a couple different states. We all have completely different skills from different colleges. \nInvesting cash into this business is the part where I need advice. Here's some facts already... 1) They claim that if I invest 5 grand now, that I will receive 12 grand back within 18 months. \n2) They say there will be a contract written up of some sort explaining my first point. They say I'll start seeing money returned back to me within 6 months. \n3) They plan to have the business started in May\n4) We've only met once so far and I said I needed more info and concrete evidence that they think this place will succeed before I give them my money.\n5) My exact role in everything is still up for debate. I bring a lot to the table and I have a full time job and go to college at the moment. So I told them I'd rather just invest without being an employee. I plan on asking if they want me to be part owner or what yet.\n\nIs there any more advice or info anyone can give me to make sure this goes smoothly? Or what other questions should I ask them? \nThank you all :)","title":"I was asked to invest in a company that hasnt started yet. Any advice to make sure I do things right?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539277374,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nbrrv\/is_it_legal_for_a_company_to_force_employees_to\/","id":"9nbrrv","body":"Our company just announced that on December 24th we will be shutting down. There will be no work, and the building will be closed for the 24th and the 25th (Christmas). We have been told we will have to use one of our PTO days. I get 15 days to use in a year and hate to lose one of those days. Is this allowed? I worked to accrue that time and it is not my choice to miss that day. This is in Connecticut. Thanks!","title":"Is it legal for a company to force employees to use PTO?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551836988,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axt73q\/hidden_camera_in_public_area\/","id":"axt73q","body":"My first time posting on Reddit here. Need some legal advice on the legality of hidden video surveillance in a public area.\n\nSo first things first, I live in Texas, I'm one of three tenants renting a room in a house. About two weeks ago, my roommate let's call her Sarah, decided to buy security cameras and mounted them under the roof lip. I confronted her about it, and asked if the rest of the tenants could get access to the video surveillance, she first told me no because they're her property. I had no problem with that, offered that we could all pitch in for the money she spent on it to gain access. After some arguing, Sarah told me they were dummy cameras. In our argument I specifically asked if there was any real cameras in our house, and she said no and we left it there.\n\nSkip to yesterday, when I was cleaning the house, I found a camera pointing right at the walkway to our front door hidden in a brown paper bag with holes on it. I unplugged it, and contacted my landlord but haven't gotten a response from him yet.\n\nThe whole situation just makes me feel really uncomfortable, or at least the way Sarah handled the whole thing. I specifically asked if there was any real cameras in the house, but she lied. If I didn't find it I wouldn't be aware of it at all. The feeling of under hidden surveillance where I live is just troublesome.\n\nI'm all for security, If Sarah told me and other tenants beforehand or offered access to the surveillance, I wouldn't have any problem with it.\n\nSo is it illegal in Texas to have a hidden camera in a public area without telling anyone? If not what should I do?","title":"Hidden Camera in public area","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409101754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eolg9\/alberta_social_club_bylaws_for_a_government_office\/","id":"2eolg9","body":"Alberta, Canada:\nA few years ago we formed a Social Club in my office. This club is a not for profit that operates with funds from our Canteen sales, pop bottle returns and \"jeans friday\". The money made then goes into an account which funds wedding and baby gifts. It also is used for bereavement and hospital gifts. We have been operating very well the last few years without issue; however, our office Management has caused us to have to reconsider the wording on our bylaws. \n\nAs mentioned we are a Government office. A couple of years ago the office kitchen was in need of dish soap. The management told the Social Club that if we wanted soap for the office, we would need to purchase it out of the club funds. This was a small item, and though the executive of the Social club wasn't happy about it, bought soap from the funds. \n\nUnfortunately, this has started a slippery slope we now have a larger issue with. We have a Keurig coffee machine that has just quit. Rather than replace the machine, Management has stated that perhaps the social club could purchase the replacement. When the fridge went initially they came to executive to purchase a new one(we held our ground on that one).\n\nWe know that as a government office we have to justify any purchases done for the office, but I believe if the public knew management bought dish soap for our kitchen they would understand the need. \n\nWhat we need help with is how to write into our bylaws something that can stipulate that funds can not be used for office supplies? Or that Management can't demand funds from the social club for it's own use? \n\nAny wording advice you can give would be great. \n\nedit: Bot didn't like Alberta as location. ","title":"[Alberta] Social Club Bylaws for a Government Office","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554938482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbsxhv\/school_fight_parents_want_to_sue\/","id":"bbsxhv","body":"**A bit of context** \\- I'm 13 years old in middle school in the state of Texas. I'm the one who punched the kid\n\nThis happened at the high school that I and the other person have a class at in the morning.\n\n​\n\nSo I was sitting with my friends talking about video games or some shit and the topic of the test we're about to take comes up. This other kid who we were talking to, Jacob (not his actual name) says \"Oh I'm gonna pass this test because I know German (its a German test) unlike Kevin (not my actual name) because Kevin's stupid and doesn't know German.\" I already had a bad morning and I really didn't like this kid. So after he says this I got pissed off and punched him in the face and told him to shut up. That was that. He didn't fight back or even say anything for a while after he just kinda sat there. I had been telling this kid that I didn't like him and for him to leave me alone but he wouldn't listen and kept doing things like calling me stupid (mostly teasing but it annoyed me) Anyway, after the test I talk to my other friend behind me and eventually Jacob joins in on the conversation. He didn't seem mad or anything and nothing really came of it until I got home. \n\nWhen I got home (it was a Friday) my parents confronted me and told me his parents called the school and were super upset, my mom told me later that Jacob's parents wanted to sue us. Now when I first heard this I thought there was no way this would go through at all. I got 3 days of in-school suspension and didn't hear about it again until Wednesday (today) I learn when I get home that my parents had a meeting with an officer that comes to the school like twice a week about what was happening. They say they're trying to pursue it and I could get either a class A or C misdemeanor. They told me that the officer would pull me out of class tomorrow and ask me about it as well as ask Jacob and some other people who witnessed it. My dad also told me that if they end up winning it and I do get the misdemeanor they could use that to sue us. I learned all of this probably like an hour ago by the way and I'm still somewhat confused and angry. My mom told me not to worry but I'm just a bit scared lol. Anyway, this is all I can think to write, I'm going to write up what all happened Friday in as much detail as I can and give that to the officer tomorrow\n\n**Extra info:** \n\nJacob is older than me but shorter and a bit chubbier\n\nThe two friends sitting next to me were in view of a camera but Jacob and I just so happened to be in a blind spot when I punched him.\n\nI'm not a very muscular person but it was a pretty good punch and Jacob has a pretty bad bruise on his cheek.\n\nPretty much everyone who's asked me about it has been on my side about it (I'm not sure if this is important at all)\n\nOn Monday when the Vice Principal gave me in school suspension she had me write a brief summary on what happened and I'm gonna ask for that tomorrow\n\nJacob wasn't even mad at me and was telling jokes to me in Science class today and being friendly to me, I'm not sure he even knows his parents are trying to sue, I don't blame Jacob for any of this.\n\nSorry if this doesn't make any sense I'm a pretty bad writer, feel free to ask any questions.\n\n​\n\n**So I just spoke to my mom.** My mom called a friend who is an attorney (I'm pretty sure) and he and another friend said they were nervous with me talking to the officer and that I may say something that contradicts my story since I'm nervous but me and my parents think it would be suspicious if I don't wanna talk to the cop. So, I think what I'll do is write the letter explaining everything and then basically just follow the letter by word when he asks me questions and if he starts interrogating me or something I'll something along the lines of \"I don't feel comfortable talking about this anymore without my parents.\"","title":"School fight - parents want to sue","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554556466,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba46fs\/fl_violent_neighbor_turned_out_to_have_mental\/","id":"ba46fs","body":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/an6q28\/fl_neighbor_is_doing_weird_things_that_are\/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share\n\nThis is my original post and I have a second update after that.\n\n\nAfter spending a few weeks living with my friend I decided to move back into the house I bought and paid for. After a few weeks it was quiet until last week on Monday I heard the back sliding glass door break and someone coming in. I immediately grabbed my glock and investigated and I see my neighbor coming in and shouting incoherent stuff. I order them to go back the way they came and the guy takes another step toward me. I then shoot him and he falls to the ground. I noticed he dropped his weapon and he is reaching for it so I walk up to him and order him to stop again. He starts to throw glass at me so I shoot him again at point blank. I then call the police and explain the situation. \n\nI was in the police station for 5 hours giving interviews and eventually released. \n\nI was then notified by the family that I killed someone with a mental incapacity and that I should have called the police first. After explaining the situation and the subsequent events they insisted that I should have called the police because he had a mental incapacity. I told them I am not a babysitter. I should be expecting a wrongful death suit shortly. \n\nThis is my final update, I am in the process of repairing and selling my house. I don't want to live here anymore and the police just brushed off my last encounters with that man. This has all been backwards for me. How did law enforcement drop the ball on this? This has seriously rattled my faith in law enforcement. I have to go to counseling now. Thanks for all the advice on here, even the personal messages. \n\n","title":"[FL] Violent neighbor turned out to have mental issues, after breaking into my house with a gun. Final update","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553713042,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b685rc\/nc_employee_on_administrative_leave_and_company\/","id":"b685rc","body":"If a private company places a person on administrative leave, but says they plan on suing the individual for mismanagement, why would they continue to pay the individual a salary even after hiring lawyers? Is this a legal strategy? They want the individual, who is(\/was) very high up in the company, to sign a non-compete agreement. But I don\u2019t get why they\u2019re still paying this person a salary. \n\nThe alleged mismanagement is above board and on the books, and the CEO had access to it. It boils down to a disagreement about expenses. I\u2019m not sure how much legal recourse is available to the CEO when he always had access to the books\/seeing where money was spent.  \n\nMore info: I know administrative leave usually refers to public institutions like schools and police officers, but that's effectively the situation.  ","title":"[NC] Employee on \"administrative leave\" and company has threatened to sue","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551747767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axezji\/help\/","id":"axezji","body":"Is it legal for the grandkids of my landlord to just walk into my family's apartment and act like anything is fair game? Because she keeps doing it and it's quite annoying. ","title":"Help","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552237533,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azhq5z\/nl_need_to_pay_back_more_wage_than_expected\/","id":"azhq5z","body":"Hi all,\n\nI live in the Netherlands and I hope one of you can help me with an issue I have with my previous employer. Last year September, I resigned and informed (mail and personal) my boss about my decision and had a transition period of 2.5 months.\n\nGot paid a couple of days before my last day so I figured my extras are paid in December. I receive my wage in December and noticed it was too much. I called HR and asked for my payslip because I wanted to figure out what happened. Later that day I received a call from one of the heads saying they didn't let HR know I resigned and I probably received too much wage. I saved all the excess wage so no problem there. \n\nSo this week I received a letter saying I indeed received too much, but the amount I need to pay back is in my opinion too much. I get some extras like holiday pay, 13th month, but also that week that ended my contract earlier make the total amount difficult to calculate. What can I do about this? I think that if I call the office they'll just justify that it's right and that's it and if I ask a professional legal advisor I am probably paying more for that service than the difference I won't have to pay back. \n\nAlso, I've spend time in investigating all this and receiving the calls. Can I also charge them for this time, since it's their fault?\n\nMany thanks in advance. ","title":"[NL] Need to pay back more wage than expected","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569272854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8cxxw\/job_says_give_them_money_from_paycheck_back_or\/","id":"d8cxxw","body":"I\u2019m an 18 year old server at a restaurant in Virginia. When I was hired (4 weeks ago) I had 3 training shifts where i earned 7.25 an hour but did not keep the tips that i got from tables. After the 3 training shifts I was supposed to go down to ~$2.15 an hour but keep my tips(which would put me much above the $7.25). Fast forward 2 weeks (where at I am working about 15-20 hours a week) and my paycheck has a catch, it\u2019s ~$300 instead of the chump change check. I hand it back to the boss (the owner of the restaurant) and he\u2019s says \u201coh well, Merry Christmas, I\u2019ll get it switched so your next one will be correct.\u201d I\u2019m pretty happy because a little bit of extra money in my pocket always helps. Fast toward 2 weeks to today and i go to get my check and my manager (the owners mom) says that i won\u2019t be getting any paychecks until November (to offset what i was supposed to get) or i could give her cash back of what wasn\u2019t supposed to be on it. I just said i\u2019d wait until the beginning of November because the check doesn\u2019t mean much and tips is where the money is. But the point of this post is just because i\u2019m kinda confused how this is a thing and it seems sketch\n\nobligatory i\u2019m on mobile so formatting is a clunky read","title":"Job says give them money from paycheck back or not get one until November","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568780713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5skv9\/fired_wont_get_last_paycheck_for_seven_days\/","id":"d5skv9","body":"In Missouri Dep. of Labor it states: \u2018Employers are required to pay a discharged employee all wages due at the time of dismissal. If not paid at that time, the employee should contact his or her former employer by certified mail return receipt requested, requesting wages that are due. The employer has seven days to respond to the written request. If the employer does not pay the wages due within the seven days, it will be liable for additional wages to the employee until he or she is finally paid for up to sixty days.\u2019 \n\nSo my former boss said I have to ask for my paycheck then she will get it to me in 6-7 days.. She says it\u2019s state law, but if I am reading this right, she should of had my pay the day of dismissal or the day after at least..","title":"Fired won\u2019t get last paycheck for seven days..","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570500132,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deti7m\/i_worked_for_a_week_at_a_restaurant_and_resigned\/","id":"deti7m","body":"I did not sign a contract, and only worked a few hours that week.\n\nI have not been paid for my week of work, the reason being is that I did not sign a contract. Are they legally allowed to withhold my pay due to no contract being signed?","title":"I worked for a week at a restaurant, and resigned due to bad management. I never was paid, and the argument for that is that I never signed a contract.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441619178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jyfgq\/advice_about_custody_and_a_manipulative_abusive\/","id":"3jyfgq","body":"Dear Redditors \n\nI have finally decided to go through with divorcing my husband. We have been married for a little over five years and during those five years he had become increasingly vulgar, violent and controlling. I always thought I could help him change and was determined to make our marriage work. We have a son together who is now a year old. My husband has repeatedly threatened to take my son away from me if I left and threatened to make my life a living hell and to start slandering me to the public. In a very recent incident he had threatened to kill me if I kept our son away from him while I was staying apart from him for our safety.  \n\nI have tried to get my husband to seek therapy and he eventually agreed but would make minimal effort. After just three or four sessions, he decided to use the money for the sessions elsewhere. He does not see anything wrong with his behaviour and always blames me for his temper and outbursts. He happens to also be a very comfortable liar as well as a well known \u201cupstanding citizen\u201d  to the community because he hides behind being very religious. He belongs to the Hare Krishna Iskcon group. I was under false impressions of this religion when I first met and married my husband. I was not religious myself but accepting of his religion and happy to live and let live but it turns out he didn't share the same sentiments. He has continuously tried to force me to join his group to the point that he'd get aggressive. He threatens that no one will believe me if I tell them about the abuse because he's a holy person and known in the community as a spiritual being.\n\nThe mindset he has (which also comes from his religious teachings) is that women are less intelligent than men and that they should be controlled. He is now also trying to get our son into this religion and freaks out when the baby is asleep and cannot go with him to one of their events or prayers. He is also furious that I refuse to attend his religious events and that our son is dependent on breastmilk \u2013 he wants our son off the breastmilk so that he can have \u201cfull control\u201d over him and so that he can freely recruit our son into his religion without me having any say in it. He thinks of me as a teat for our son to get fed through and acts like I'm disposable after we wean our son off the breastmilk. \n\nHe does not show any regard for my sons feelings or for my feelings and never stops fighting, shouting, swearing and even hitting me in the presence of our son no matter how many times I have told him not to. This is affecting our child to a point were he has trouble sleeping after these fights and has gotten very upset and scared during them. I have come from an abusive home where my father was abusive to my mother and to my siblings and I and I cannot allow my son to go though that too. Even if the violence is directed at the wife \u2013 the kids inevitably get involved to some degree and I know that our son will be affected as my husband is unable to control himself.  My husband hasn't physically harmed our son yet but I feel that it might progress to physical abuse towards my son in the future. I have seen my husband drag across the floor, slap and give unreasonable punishments against his younger sisters. He'd justify it by saying he was disciplining them. How long before he starts \u201cdisciplining\u201d our son? He recently pushed our toddlers face and told him he won't have a choice in anything until he is 21 when our son refused to allow my husband to carry him. \n\nThere are many many things that he has done that are not the actions of someone that is emotionally and psychologically stable. I wrote up an eight page statement for a protection order entailing the details of his abuse. I could've written a lot more. He does not know that I am divorcing him. My son and I are currently staying with my sister. He is not happy about that and is struggling to keep his cool. He's even tried to seperate me from family members who he knows will lend me support if I leave him. The only thing stopping him from acting out is this interim protection order. If he breaks the terms of the protection order, he will be arrested. I have saught advice from  social workers and my first appointment with my lawyer is scheduled for tomorrow. I will be represented by Legal Aid in South Africa \u2013 which is free and unfortunately, I cannot afford a better legal team. I have video footage of the recent incident when he threatened my family and I and he became verbally abusive and very aggressive.  He was aware that my sister was recording him. What he isn't aware of is that the nanny cam that was installed when I was living with him is still activated. I was able to access it and see what was going on. He slandered me and made up a lot of lies and also made me look like a crazy person to his family members. They devised a plan for my husband to play nice with me to coax me into cancelling the protection order and then afterward to divorce me.  \n\nMy fear is that he will go play the good guy in court and even get his religious buddies to stand as character witnesses. I am afraid that should my husband have a legal say with regards to my sons future, that he will attempt to brainwash him with his religion and harm him in other ways too. He will especially be unreasonable and abusive if our son isn't enjoying being a part of his religion. My husband wants to control us and if given the chance, he will. I have not prevented him from seeing our son so far because I felt that with the interim protection order in place that we are safe for now and I wasn't sure of the legal repercussions of keeping him away from his child. We are married in community of property and do not own any major assets together. He can keep all the furniture and stuff. I just want to get away from him with my son and live a free and peaceful life. \n\nWould I be able to use any of the nanny cam footage even off the record? I want the judge to view it to see what my husbands actual character is like. I also have phone call recordings of my recent phone conversations with him where he pretends to be in love with me in order to manipulate me.  \n\nI am unemployed but will be working from home to be with my son. That was the plan all along and my husband is aware of that as we made the decision together yet he made everyone believe that I was just using him for his \u201cmoney\u201d. \n\nI also know that he didn't like it when I was employed - his behaviour went from bad to worse because he felt he lost some control over me. How will my unemployment affect my custody? What can I do to get sole custody of our son? Please believe me when I say I only want sole custody because I know how manipulative and abusive my husband is and I know that giving him any legal rights to our son is going to be terrible for our sons future. It isn't out of spite and I will always allow my son to decide for himself when it comes to bonding with his father. I am not looking to bad mouth my husband to our child and I only want what's best for him. What do you think? Do I have a chance at winning sole custody? What is the best thing to do for our son right now? \n\n\nTL;DR; My crazy, abusive, religious husband wants to recruit my son and I into his religious group at any cost. He's been physically, emtionally and verbally abusive toward me and is now trying to control our son. His need to control and restrict us is creeepy and I just want to get my son away from him for his own safety. I'm going to divorce him but I'm afraid that my husband will still be granted shared custody of our son because he hides behind the reputation he built up in his religious community. I'm scared. I don't want anything from him \u2013 I just want to get away and keep my son safe. I don't mind my son having a religion but he should choose this for himself and not be controlled to the crazy extent that my husband tries to exercise. Please share thoughts, opinions, and advice with me! I cannot let him destroy my sons life and I am done letting him abuse me!\n\n\n","title":"Advice about custody and a manipulative, abusive husband (South Africa)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570551575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df29db\/i_wore_a_retired_us_bdu_to_school_today\/","id":"df29db","body":"Hello all this is part of a bet i did today and i also have an airsoft game after school a kid came up to me and was arguing with me about why i am soppousedly not allowed to wear a BDU and even said that it was illegal and that it was stolen valor \nI was neither in a current issue uniform nor saying that I am in the United States military or affiliated with it in anyway i do not have the flag on my shoulder and do not have my name on the uniform the nameplate does say U.S. ARMY but i am not saying that I am part of the U.S. Army this is in missouri","title":"I wore a retired U.S. BDU to school today","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1507252679,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74kfrd\/usca_gave_notice_to_landlord_old_roommate_wont\/","id":"74kfrd","body":"So, I'm in a pickle.\n\nSeveral months ago I went apartment shopping with a person I met on Craigslist. This woman had poor credit but claimed to be working and had ability to pay rent. I found an apartment complex and applied using only my information, and was approved to live there. I then collected a third of the deposit from her and a third of the first month's rent, and we both moved in.\n\nHere's where things get really bad. She didn't actually keep working and stopped paying anything after the first month. I was looking for a house and found a nice one, got a mortgage, and moved away, but she claimed that she couldn't find anyone to sign onto the lease with her in my place. As a result I gave notice to management and told her I had to turn the keys in in two months.\n\nAll in all, she hasn't paid me anything since May.\n\nSince I told her that she would have to leave, she has claimed that she will sue me. Does she have grounds to sue me to live in an apartment I don't own in exchange for money she didn't pay?\n\nShe hasn't paid a dime since May and in addition never paid a single utility bill.\n","title":"[US-CA] Gave notice to landlord. Old Roommate won't leave apartment, threatens to sue, wasn't on lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554442154,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9n9td\/ex_took_son_how\/","id":"b9n9td","body":"The father somehow managed to convince the FL courts that she no longer has shared custody. I am not the father, but this is consuming 100% of ourselves. I love her I am not leaving her we've been together for years.\nI've witnessed this prick (has money) lie to the courts etc and paint her as an unfit mother, when in reality he doesn't want to pay child support. \n It's all about money for him, he knows if he has the child x days, then he can negotiate for no child support.  He parks the kid in front of his PS4, we take the boy everywhere and never do the TV thing. This news is from the boy.\nHe's a salesman and could probably be a politician, very slick.\nHis ultimate goal is to eliminate her from the child's life, (12yo). The boy knows what's going on.\nWe can't afford a lawyer.\nThey have a 50\/50 timeshare, the child made the schedule, yet the father ignores it. Police won't do anything, they say it's a civil matter. It's gotten so bad that she can't see her son at all and it's crushing her, cries and talks about it every minute. \n He calls the police if she goes to his house, police say take it to court and leave his property or be trespassed.\n The school thinks she's nutty, she tries to pick him up, see him at lunch, like any mother would and instead they call the police and him! It makes no sense to me. I've seen all the court documents, it's a 50\/50 time shared custody, yet he won't let her in, and has somehow had her 50% revoked! \nIt's very bad. She only wants 50% time, yet he wants 110%. \nShe is a bartender, he has a white collar sales career and is apparently very good.\nThis is Pinellas county, FL.\nI don't know what to do, I want to help her. She is selling her house to get a lawyer it's that bad. Please any advice.","title":"Ex took son, How?!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554941975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbtjcc\/my_girlfriend_is_being_evicted_for_a_lease\/","id":"bbtjcc","body":" My girlfriend recently adopted 2 Queensland Heeler puppies, and her living arrangment has a list of dogs that aren't allowed (they aren't on that list btw, and one of the previous people living there had a Queensland Heeler for 8-9 months, she has had these dogs for 2 weeks.) and now she is receiving a form of compliance I think its called? she is receiving 3 of them, and she if she doesn't comply she is getting an eviction notice, is there anything she can do? she doesn't have anywhere to let these dogs stay temporarily, and she's just turned 18 and doesn't want an eviction notice on her record this early.","title":"My girlfriend is being evicted for a lease violation that she didn't even know existed","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555346178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdi5gi\/uncles_divorce_in_california\/","id":"bdi5gi","body":"Hello reddit! So I\u2019m posting this on behalf of my uncle. He does have a lawyer. He also makes sure to document everything. But my uncle is a bit of an idiot. \n\nSo my uncle (let\u2019s call him B)  is married, and has 3 children with my aunt (let\u2019s call her R) In November of last year, his soon to be ex wife took off up to Oregon and left him. He decided to divorce her. No luck trying to serve her. I went out to visit my family last week, and my uncle enlisted my help with serving her. \n\nThe plan was that he was supposed to meet her in Northern California and give her their youngest. All 3 of their children were supposed to spend a couple weeks with her, which the kids didn\u2019t like the idea of, especially the youngest because he loves his brothers and doesn\u2019t want to be separated from them. However, she wanted the youngest a couple days beforehand (Alarm bells ringing anyone, why ask for only one instead of all 3 at once??). He asked me to drive him up there, where we\u2019d meet with a process server and get her served. On the way up, he talked to his attorney on the phone and confirmed that if all else fails, I would be able to serve R. Lawyer also told B that he can\u2019t give their youngest to R, that she has to sign a paper that essentially stated \u201cI\u2019m taking the youngest on this date and returning him on this date.\u201d Also informed B that R has to wait 24hours before she can take the child due to CA law. \n\nWe get up there. We meet with the process server. We arrange the plan. R gets served. R then asks for the youngest, and is told that she can\u2019t get him right away. She flips out. Chases after us. We lose her. He calls her and explains why, gets her to calm down, after she claims she\u2019s gonna drive back down to central California and get their youngest child whether he likes it or not. \n\nNow B has been married before. Never had kids with previous wife. Divorce went easy. He\u2019s trying to do the same thing with R, except R is crazy, and there are kids involved. He claims they agreed that he\u2019d get full custody but she has legal custody once the divorce gets finalized. \n\nSo. Crazy day. Got her served. B gave R their youngest despite his sister (my other aunt, call her L) and his brother (my dad) telling him it\u2019s a dumbass idea. Few days later, we find out from B that R took to the hospital and is claiming that the youngest had valley fever???? B calls hospital and they say it\u2019s scarlet fever. So now the other two can\u2019t go up to R since the youngest is contagious, and R now has the youngest one to herself. We suspect that was her plan, because she doesn\u2019t really like the other two as much. \n\nWhat can my uncle do, aside from continuing to document everything and keep his lawyer updated, because my family strongly suspects that R is gonna do whatever she can to screw him over and gain custody of, at minimum, the youngest one if not all 3. We believe she\u2019s trying to set a case against B for child abuse, which is the furthest thing from the truth because B loves with my grandmother, she helps care for the children, and L also helps care for them. They are not abused by any means. \nTYIA.","title":"Uncles divorce in California","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569094665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7f59q\/oh_is_it_safe_to_make_a_public_post_about_an\/","id":"d7f59q","body":"  \n\nLocation: Ohio   \n\n\nI very recently escaped a situation with my abusive ex-partner in which I had to have 2 police officers monitor me while I gathered the most important of my possessions before leaving for good and ceasing all contact. In the events leading up to this, I left the state for a few days to put some distance between us while I sorted out what my next steps would be. While I was away, he went absolutely crazy and was constantly blowing up my phone, spamming me with text, voicemails, etc. When it was clear that I was not interested in speaking to him, I blocked his number. Then I began receiving bizarre messages of concern from my immediate family and friends from all over, all stating that they received a lengthy message from my ex who was stating that I was \u201cghosting him\u201d and that he was worried because I was \u201cmissing.\u201d Because I am not completely sure who he messaged from my personal and professional network, I am concerned that this may hurt future professional prospects due to the nature of my work. He later hacked into my Facebook and attempted to hack various other social accounts as well, all of which he admitted to in an email he sent me.   \n \n\nMy question is, how do I go about protecting my professional integrity? I want to make a Facebook post letting my friends and colleagues all aware that I am indeed safe and not missing and ignore any further messages from my ex regarding me or my life. I plan on pursuing a restraining order, but I fear that if I make this Facebook post for my friends that it will hurt my chances of successfully obtaining a restraining order even though I am now in a different state now. What do I do? Please help me. Thanks in advance, Reddit.","title":"[OH] Is it safe to make a public post about an abusive ex before getting a restraining order?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551844742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axufi9\/1_week_rent_upfront_without_a_contract_only_by\/","id":"axufi9","body":"Hey guys, I hope you can help me out. I'm backpacking in Australia and want to stay in Sydney for 4 months. My gf and I were looking for a flat and had multiple inspections. We found a place we liked and visited the place. The landlord wasn't there but his gf showed us around. Reason for that was, that the landlord used her account on Gumtree to post his ad but she thought I texted her for one of her ads. So long story short we loved the place and he said via text message we can have the room. He sent us a message: \"Please transfer 1 week rent so I can hold the room for you\". Now I'm not sure what to do.. I told him that  I'm still awaiting a currency transfer, to buy us some time because we have another inspection today and then want to decide between the 2. Is it safe to transfer the money to his account without any contract ? He said the rest (bond\/contract\/deposit) will be handled in Monday when we move in. \n\n\nThis is my first post here I hope I didn't make any mistakes if so I'm sorry.","title":"1 week rent upfront without a contract only by text message.. Safe? (Australia, NSW)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539054981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mlnmg\/passive_smoking_and_emphysema\/","id":"9mlnmg","body":"Australia - Family member just diagnosed with emphysema never smoked a cigarette in her life...\n\n Did work in a workplace where smoking was common and this period has been attributed to her developing the condition. \n\nIs there any recourse to be had from the employer for not providing safe working environment?\n\nNB at the time she worked there it was not illegal to smoke inside workplaces","title":"Passive Smoking and emphysema","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568665071,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d55zup\/upon_move_out_i_think_my_landlord_took_an\/","id":"d55zup","body":"In Florida. I recently moved out of a townhouse after living there for 3 years. I was charged a $250 cleaning fee upon move out. \n\nThis is concerning because I spent several hours over the course of a long weekend cleaning the inside. I have video evidence of the condition of the property showing that it was in fact cleaned to the best of my ability. On top of that, the house was not cleaned when I moved in (this was documented in 2016 on a form provided by the landlord). \n\nI talked to my landlord and their answer was pretty much \u201cwe are legally allowed to take money for cleaning from your deposit.\u201d Do I need to accept this and move on?","title":"Upon move out, I think my landlord took an unreasonable amount from my deposit. Do I have options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442352627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l3cjk\/pennsylvaniaus_wanna_repair_computers_on_the_side\/","id":"3l3cjk","body":"I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but here it goes. To make some extra money on the side I wanted to start repairing people's computers. I can do a pretty good amount of stuff, but I'm worried that if something happened then I would be liable and have to pay a bunch of money to the person. Is there something I should use or do to help the problem or should I just stay away from that. Thanks!","title":"[Pennsylvania,US] Wanna repair computers on the side, what should I be careful of?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553686401,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b63cxj\/landlord_wont_fix_anything_unless_parents_move\/","id":"b63cxj","body":"Posting here cause someone had similar experience with bugs. \n\nMy parents have roach issues and some major health concerns that they need to get fixed right away(like mold). There was also water leakage from the tap into the tub and my parents submitted form but no answer. Superintendent came for inspection(which happens often and they know the condition my parents live in) and were super mad the water was leaking and they werent told? The landlord refuses to fix anything in the apartment and gets angry (sometimes even swears at my parents). My parents have submitted forms after forms with nothing being fixed. They have said if you want things to be fixed, you need to move to another apartment in the same building which of course has higher rent. Is that legal for them to do? \n\nCurrently they are paying approximately $1350 they want them to move to another apartment for $1800+ for the same 2 bedrooms but with everything fixed. Also they keep increasing the rent price every couple months and it's gonna reach $1400 this Apr with nothing fixed. My parents don't have renters insurance and  are not making too much money to move out. \n\nIs there something I can do to help them? If I call the health department will they ask my parents to move out? I would like to fix this asap because they also have a cat and he licks and rubs on mold sometimes :(\n\nBtw they're live in the GTA! Any advice is appreciated. \n\nThank you! ","title":"Landlord won't fix anything unless parents move","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541033055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t4rsx\/did_i_just_steal_from_amazon_and_rockstar\/","id":"9t4rsx","body":"For Those who don\u2019t know, Rockstar is a gaming developing company that has made titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption\n\nSorry goes like this. I ordered Red Dead Redemption 2 (video game) from Amazon. I\u2019m in class, anxiously waiting to get home to the mailbox and pick it up, as it says it has been delivered. Unfortunately for me, it is not. I wait a couple for hours, still not there. I presume it has been lost, so I email customer support. Gotta admit, Amazon is one of the best at customer service. So I email them and say they lost my package, I would like a refund. Sure enough in 2 hours, I get a full refund. Happy about that.\n\nNext day, I find out the mailman fucked up and put the package in the wrong mailbox. My neighbor knows me well, and trusts me when I say the game is mine. He hands it to me. \n\nI just got the game for free and fleeced Amazon AND Rockstar. If they ever find out I have possession of the game, could I get in serious trouble? Or is there simply nothing Amazon could have done, and it\u2019s an honor system, so I\u2019m free to go?","title":"Did I just steal from Amazon AND Rockstar?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569081528,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7caiv\/grandmother_requires_too_much_care_east_texas\/","id":"d7caiv","body":"At first some background info:\n\n* I am 30 years old\n* My Grandmother (paternal) owns the property\/crummy a$$ trailer I was raised in\n* As of now I am currently Executor of the Estate\n* I gives ZERO f\\*\\*ks about this \"house\" \\[trailer\\] or property even 3 acres btw.\n* Grandma is CLEARLY displaying signs of Senility and\/or Dementia\n* She needs Oxygen therapy\n* She has some people (hospice I think) who come out to her roughly twice a week\n* My (deadbeat) Dad who has been out of my life since basically birth has since been \\[MOSTLY\\] caring for her. \\[by 'since' I mean when my Grandfather (paternal) passed.\\]\n* I am currently working a (crappy) cashiering job at a Chevron convenience store, problem for me is I'm lucky if I see about 90% of my take home pay...<\\_<'\n\nOkay, now for the dilemma. My Father is an abusive a$$hole and a very OLD WAY type of thinker. Plus he grew up f\\*\\*\\*ing HARD mostly because of my Grandfather. A lot of crap will set him off and possibly result in me getting a beating threat. Thankfully he's not the type to take the first swing.\n\nAnyway He's been at the place for about 21 months now (holy f\\*\\*k I didn't think he'd make six out in this craphole boonie a$$ POS place. \\[granted I am subtracting the total time he's spent back in his precious Big D he seems to love so much <\\_<\\]\n\nBottom line, He \\[my Father\\] has so far been my **OLD** granny's primary caregiver and he's pretty good at it. (until recently when Mother Nature has apparently taken Memaw to Lala Land...) So, he's done this SO much just hanging here with me and Granny paying the bills and (mostly) buying the food using a combo of his \\[source unknown 99% certain legal\\] money and her money.\n\nWhich so far has worked out well for me because I have ACTUALLY managed to save up currently $850 in my \\[checking\\] account. And truth be told I have a vehicle that has needed some work so it's amazing I've managed to get this far!\n\n**NOW--** here is the plot twist: He's sick of her and wants to put her in a home in a nearby town (to sort of teach her a lesson on who's taking best care of her) BUT!! That's not gonna work on someone with Dementia! She doesn't know one day to the next! The day we come to get she'll be thinking it's the first day she got put in!\n\nI mean! what's gonna happen? I'm not choosing Elder Care as my career path (HECK NO!) I've spent most of my life gaming (yeah gaming where there's no good internet around <\\_<) As much as I hear gamedev is a crummy passion-only field \\[problem I'm Caucasian and I love Nintendo so GL with that\\] However it IS what I REALLY want to do with my life! I dropped out of HS because of bullying (I would've shot-up the place if I had access to the guns) Still I did get a GED!\n\nSee where this is going!? She'll HAVE to be left in there! HOW THE F\\*\\*K Do I afford this!? I'll give up the house and property if I have to! I mean I don't want it...I'll stay with my friends or be homeless! seriously! almost anywhere has better internet access!\n\nOh, and this is glorious my wonderful dad believes he has Power of Attorney (which I guess he does) and believes that supersedes my EoE! Dunno and don't really care about that one. I mean wtf do I do? I hate saying but Granny can't pass on soon enough... help me out here PLEASE!\n\ntl:dr; I live at a crummy place with an annoyingly OLD granny that neither me or my father want to care for and we're going to stick her in a home permanently. Need info on how the eff! That could be payed for with her requiring oxygen and other meds. Also, I'm 30 and don't have nearly the savings I should at this point in my life and would LOVE not to be penniless at all!\n\n# THANKS REDDIT!!","title":"Grandmother requires too much care [East Texas]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1408605778,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e5t07\/need_help_recovering_cost_after_determination_of\/","id":"2e5t07","body":"My car was totaled after being hit(T-bone) by a fast(60+) moving (drunk) driver end of April in Houston Texas. Ambulance took me to the nearby medical center for help. No major injury other than busted sinus and pain in the jaw and limited jaw movement was found and my whole body was bruised. Limited jaw movement led me to see a dentist. My own auto insurance paid for my car less the deductible within a couple of weeks and refused to pursue recovery of medical and other property damages on my behalf as I was not covered for medical through my auto insurance.\n\n* After the liability was determined, my auto insurance company recovered the deductible amount and sent me the check. As soon as the liability was determined the other party insurance company sent me a \u201cFinal Notice\u201d that the claim will be closed within 10 days due to lack of interest. Now it is my time to collect money so I can pay my medical bills resulting from the accident and cost of my broken prescription glasses, cell phone and a cab trip from the medical center to my home. I took another cab trip to the impound lot to see my car. The other party insurance company is asking for my medical records and receipts for the cab ride and pictures of the phone.\n \n*  After such a high impact accident I had little senses to collect all these records.  Whatever bills I received from the medical center as well as Dentist\u2019s office, do not seem not suffice. I am suspecting it will take forever before I can give them sufficient documentation After a quick google search, I found out the other party insurance company is the one of the worst one\u2019s out there. A small mom and pop insurance company I had not heard of before. I am refraining to mention the name of the company to avoid further legal trouble. While I am running the risk of ruining my credit as well a financial burden due to the accident. \n\nI really need to recover the money. What legal option do I have to address this issue? I have been told to complain to TDI but I am not sure whether it will simply prolong the matter or there is a real chance of getting help?\n\n*The total expenses ~15K. No pain and suffering calculated*","title":"Need help recovering cost after determination of auto accident Liability in Houston Texas","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571357126,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djf42t\/disclosing_previous_wages_for_an_apprenticeship\/","id":"djf42t","body":"Hello all,\n\nDo I need to\/should I list my previous wages on the application I am filling out? This application is for an electrician apprenticeship and I believe that the \"previous wages\" request is contrary to AB-168. I am in the US going to be working in Los Angeles, CA. \n\nIf there are any other details that I am missing I'm more than willing to provide them.","title":"Disclosing Previous Wages for an Apprenticeship","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568741806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5kbvg\/being_penalized_for_military_obligations\/","id":"d5kbvg","body":"Okay so im a reservist in the state of PA. I have drill one weekend a month and im protected under the government in order to not get penalized for going to drill. I gave my job (big sporting goods company) all the dates I have drill when i applied months ago and I'm also supposed to request off on the system. This last drill I didn't get the chance to request off and I'm 1 point away from getting fired because it wasn't in the system. I ended up going from 2 points to 8 (3 points for each drill day) so another point would lead to termination and I was told if I'm 1 minute late I'll get terminated. My question is is this legal and if I happen to be one day late will this be proper grounds to sue the company for firing me because of my obligations since that was a big effect on my accumulation of points? Keep in mind the points get refreshed every 6 months so I can't be even 1 minute late for another 4 months. What are all of your thoughts on this?","title":"Being Penalized for military obligations","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443292435,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mhqyq\/il_i_leased_a_property_that_was_advertised_as\/","id":"3mhqyq","body":"Like the title says, earlier this month I moved into a new house that was advertised on Zillow as having a hot tub under the \"amenities\" section of the listing. When we met with the real estate agent, he explained that he was unsure as to the status of the hot tub, but that he was under the impression that it needed maintenance and was currently nonfunctional. \n\nBecause we were in a rush to move (old lease was expiring on a different house), and because it honestly wasn't that big of a deal to us at the time, we signed the lease and decided we could work out the details later on down the road. \n\nWell, fast-forward almost a month, and it turns out that yes, the hot tub does need maintenance to make it work. So, as I begin exploring repairmen, who is responsible for paying for the fixes? Are we responsible because we signed the lease knowing it wasn't currently working, or is the landlord, because he explicitly advertised it as having a hot tub as one of the features? Sorry if this is a stupid question. Also, the lease is generic and makes no mention of the hot tub. ","title":"[IL] I leased a property that was advertised as having a hot tub, was told beforehand that it needed repairs, now we want to get it fixed so it's usable. Who is responsible for paying for the repairs?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570770646,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgad5o\/usa_ny_i_got_stiffed_on_my_paycheck_how_do_i\/","id":"dgad5o","body":"Due to some law changes locally, my job has been hit with hard times. Long story short is the business is preparing for major losses and spending at the same time. There are some super shady practices that people just brush under the rug. We don't get breaks of any kind unless we ask, and we get a single 15 minute unpaid break if we do. I feel like they've been skimming my checks for awhile, keeping me at below 40 hours a week even though I work that much or more. I work for a smaller business as a retail worker. We make 1% commission and my check was under 200 as gross pay even though I made appx. 25k. What are my options? How can I approach this?","title":"[USA] [NY] I got stiffed on my paycheck, how do I handle this?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553139635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ls98\/someone_hit_my_parked_car_and_ran\/","id":"b3ls98","body":"Hello. I went on a holiday trip to Miami. There's some bad luck over my head recently. I am on a trip to east coast Florida. Yesterday my car was hit at a gas station and today it was hit as well. I parked it at Miami Beach. When I returned to my car I've seen a note under the wiperblades saying that my car was hit by a speeding new Corvette and they ran away. I called police but Officer just made a report about \"hit and run\" and said that there is nothing more they can do and the best thing is to drive home and repair the car myself. I am sure there were cameras on the street or nearby stores but the Officer told us that he can't get the footage. I also made a report to my insurance company however I would have to pay deductible and it could affect my rates. Theres also a decreased car value because of this damage\/painting. I think my axles are damaged and I dont know if it's safe to drive back 6h home with this car. There are some side paint and wheel damages. Not sure if I should get a rest today and try to get back home tomorrow.\n\nWhat is the best thing that I can do?\nHow can I get the footage?\n","title":"Someone hit my parked car and ran.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443718437,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n4een\/us_no_particular_state_but_can_use_ca_ny_il_or_tx\/","id":"3n4een","body":"If you have to assign a particular state to this post maybe use California, New York, Illinois, or Texas as examples?\n---\nI was on a \/r\/news post about police being exposed as lying about their behavior with video evidence being revealed.\n\nImagine the scenario where the police accuse the defendant of a crime but they know the defendant didn't do it... I suggested not revealing the video evidence showing the police are lying until after police testify under oath, but a redditor said that in many cases the defense must show the prosecution the video evidence during discovery, and the prosecutors might leak the info to the police so they'll testify differently in court (so they won't perjure themselves)\n\nIs there a way for defense lawyers to check if prosecutors are leaking to the police? Are there certain canary in the gold mine techniques?","title":"[US, no particular state but can use CA, NY, IL, or TX] Do defense attorneys have ways to check if prosecutors leak info to police (if police are plaintiffs)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554314456,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b91coy\/if_it_came_down_to_it_how_would_i_legally_kick\/","id":"b91coy","body":"So i bought a house last year and needed roommates to help cover the mortgage and utilities. \nTwo friends, who happen to be a couple, expressed interest in moving in, we'll call them J and S.\n\nWe talked a bit about it, didn't generate any legally binding documents, and then a few days later, J contacted me on messenger to iron out the rent and other details, and we agreed on X amount+groceries, a literal steal for where this house is located. \n\nFast forward 7 months.... X amount is being paid, but no groceries leaves me having to pay out of pocket for food and basic house necessities. Also, S has decided to bring in a storage unit worth of personal belongings and store them in the garage, cutting down on parking space, as well as  taking up space in my personal spare bedroom. I'm not a complete a-hole, so i can brush most of this off.\n\nRecently, however, utility prices have been increasing, and with 3 people using things like gas and water, i'm starting to struggle to stay above water. I talked briefly to J while we were both about to leave for work, since i originally made the deal with J, about needing to talk about stuff when we have time. My intention was to suggest an increase in rent due to summer coming, so we can all be comfortable, but not miss payments. J then messaged S, S took it upon themselves to tell me that any \"talks\" have to go through S, period.\n\nWe've settled on having a talk today after work, but knowing how S is, i am not anticipating a civil conversation. I don't want to kick them out, but S's attitude may be the breaking point here. \n\nIf it came to kicking them out, if there was no signed agreement, how would i do it legally and more or less painlessly for all involved parties? \n\nState of Residence is Nevada, Clark County.","title":"If it came down to it, how would i legally kick someone out?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539664294,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9okbkj\/wifes_paramore_is_messy_she_forgot_to_delete_the\/","id":"9okbkj","body":"I recently owned two iPhones , one of which my STBX wife used.  When we upgrade, we always pass down our former phones to the kids.  My thriteen yo daughter probably saw her first dick pic. I'm heated beyond belief.  Am I able to sue the man that sent the picture (s) since I owned the phone. ","title":"Wife's paramore is messy. She forgot to delete the penis pics before my daughter saw them.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568797232,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5v05u\/could_this_contract_be_exorcised\/","id":"d5v05u","body":"I imagine this will get removed, but I came across an ad on Instagram. I won\u2019t disclose the name of the company or the offer here in compliance with rule 5, but if you want to know shoot me a PM. \n\nSo the offer is you get a \u2018free\u2019 sample of this product in exchange for selling your eternal soul. Obviously, I thought \u201chaha, very funny, let\u2019s see what that\u2019s about.\u201d But the contract is actually... kinda watertight? Here\u2019s the meat of it (I only made edits for privacy):\n\n>The Seller hereby sells, transfers, conveys, >assigns and delivers to the Purchaser, its >successors and assigns, to have and to hold >forever, all right, title and interest in, to and >under the Eternal Soul.\n>The Seller hereby covenants and agrees that it >will, at the request of the Purchaser and >without further consideration, execute and >deliver such other instruments of sale, >transfer, conveyance and assignment, and >take such actions as the Purchaser may >reasonably request to more effectively >transfer, convey and assign to the Purchaser, >and to confirm the Purchaser\u2019s rights to, title >in and ownership of, the Eternal Soul and to >place the Purchaser in actual possession and >operating control of the Eternal Soul.\n>The Seller hereby irrevocably constitutes and >appoints the Purchaser, its successors and >assigns, as the Seller\u2019s true and lawful >attorney, with full power of substitution, in its >name or otherwise, and on behalf of the Seller, >or for its own use, to claim, demand, collect >and receive at any time and from time to time >the Eternal Soul, and to prosecute the same at >law or in equity and, upon discharge thereof, to >complete, execute and deliver any and all >necessary instruments of satisfaction and >release.\n>The Seller, by its execution of this Bill of Sale, >and the Purchaser, by its acceptance of this >Bill of Sale, each hereby acknowledges and >agrees that this document shall be legally >binding and commit the Eternal Soul to >Purchaser to the ends of the earth and for the >rest of time (including, without limitation, any >applicable afterlife, reincarnation or similar >post-mortal existence).\n>IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Seller and the >Purchaser have caused this instrument to be >duly executed under seal as of and on the date >first above written.\n\nClearly, I know this is just a humorous marketing scheme. My question is could the Seller actually exercise this contract, e. g. claiming power of attorney, rights to an estate, or my firstborn child?\n\n^p.s. I know how to spell exercised^","title":"Could this contract be exorcised?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443811235,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n99hb\/ma_paid_in_full_for_car_insurance_premium\/","id":"3n99hb","body":"EDIT: My insurance agent was a bit flustered when I called and mixed up the details. It was a speeding ticket from 2014 that appeared, not the accident from 2010. I guess my question stands, but on much shakier grounds.\n\nI signed up for my auto insurance policy in December of last year. In the paperwork they sent me, they list the number of points on my license as 4. They assessed me an annual premium of $X, which I paid in one lump sum.\n\nSeveral months later, they charged me roughly an additional $X\/2. When I inquired about it, they told me that a motor vehicle accident had appeared on my record and brought me up to 6 points. The accident in question occurred in 2010. My two questions are:\n\n1. Is it believable that an accident from 2010 could have been missing when they first requested my record, and then added later on? I assume these things are usually done in a more timely manner.\n\n2. Is the insurance company entitled to charge me extra after accepting my initial payment? I am not disputing the inclusion of the accident on my record - in fact, I specifically mentioned it in my application for insurance - but I am wondering if their cashing of my original check constituted a binding agreement on their part.\n\nObviously, if they're within their rights to charge the extra sum, I will pay it without giving them further trouble.","title":"MA - paid in full for car insurance; premium increased after several months?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570780800,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgbwqq\/michigan_my_wife_keeps_getting_pulled_over_by\/","id":"dgbwqq","body":"Hello r\/legaladvice, this is my first time posting.\n\nI'm going to preface this by saying that my wife has never been in trouble with the law before(but her step-dad has) and my only offence was for not wearing a seat-belt in a front passenger seat(ticket was paid the day after).\n\n\nMy wife drives me to work in a car that we share with her mom and step-dad(the car is legally in their ownership, but we split costs, and the parents actually have another car that they normally use instead of this one anyways)\n\nWhen we first started using that car, my wife was pulled over 3 times in as many weeks. The reason given for the first time, was that the license plate lights were not bright enough, but they also made a point to ask if we had any weapons or drugs in the car, to which we answered no, because we didnt.\nAfter a little back and forth, and then some time with all of our IDs in their cruiser, we were let go with \"a warning\".\n\nThe second time was a different day the next week(after we had replaced the lights for the licences plate with some spiffy LEDs) because we had pulled into a parking lot so I could scrape some ice off of our windshield (we were having freezing rain, and it locked our wipers up)\nWe were pulled over less then 2 minutes after we left, and the reason this time was because we \"looked suspicious and they wanted to make sure that we weren't breaking into the (nearby) liquor store\"\nLet off with a \"warning\" again about preparing before we start driving, after checking our ids for around 10 minutes.\n\nThe third time, the end of the week after the parking lot incident:\nWe were stopped while we were on our way home from my work.\nThey asked again if we had weapons or drugs in the car, (we didn't) and then they asked who owned the car, and why we were out so late (on our way home from my job, where I from 6pm to 3am) and some other questions i dont quite remember.\nThey then let us go, telling us we were pulled over because our license plate lights were... too bright!\n\n\n\n\nFast forward through a few months with no more happenings of this:\nWe were pulled over once more around 3am going home from my work, and they didnt even give a reason to stop us, instead straight up saying that they were looking for drugs and weapons. They then asked if they could search our car. My wife told them they could(against my protest as they had no warrant or probable cause) bland they found nothing.\nIds checked for a lengthy amount of time, and we were let go.\n\n\nA few weeks after that(yesterday) my wife was pulled over ONCE AGAIN after dropping me off at work. I wasn't there for this one to occur, but what she told me was this:\nThey asked the usual any weapons\/drugs in the car, she told them no. They then asked if she was sure, she said yes. They THEN asked her if she had no drugs at all, even marijuana(which is legal to possess in michigan by this point) which she said no, as she had none.\nThen then proceeded to ask her if she has ever been in trouble with the law before, and if she's ever been arrested.\n\nThey said the reason for pulling her over was that she had a dream catcher hanging from the rear-view mirror, and she didn't use her turn signal when merging(at a point where the road goes down to 2 lanes, from 4)\nShe was let go with another warning.\nWe've since removed the dream catcher.\n\n\nI believe that our car is being targeted because it's (technically) owned by her step-father who (in the past, but not anytime recently) has been charged with possession of drugs(marijuana) and owning a firearm that was not registered to him(a hunting rifle purchased from a family friend, it was quickly registered and legalized after that)\n\nIs there anything I can do to make this kind of thing stop? It feels like harrasment, and I fear that one day they are going to \"find a reason\" to do something to me or my wife.","title":"[Michigan] My wife keeps getting pulled over by state police.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504702548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yfg08\/aus_business_is_seemingly_holding_my_balance\/","id":"6yfg08","body":"Hi, this is my first post here so please bear with me.\n\nI will preface this by stating that I am an Australian resident.\n\nI recently made a purchase from online video game retailer G2A, but since decided to request a refund. As the purchase was a preorder and I had not yet received the product, this complied with their policies regarding refunds. It might be important to note that I made the purchase with Bitcoin. At my request, they performed the refund for the exact amount paid. The only issue is, they refunded me in Euros and it was added to my G2A account balance! This seemed to be okay, as I had the option to withdraw the money to Bitcoin anyway. This option was only available, however, after verifying my identity. \n\nAnother important point is that I am a minor. \n\nThe G2A terms of service regarding this state that \"The User hereby confirms that he or she is at least eighteen (18) years old (or has reached another age which in light of his or her domestic law entitles the User to conclude legally binding agreements)\", and as I am a resident of the Australian Capital Territory, my contracts as a minor are voidable. They are still valid, however, so my understanding is that I can still conclude them. \n\nThis is where the issue begins. Because I comply with the terms of service, you would think that I would be able to verify my identity. This proved to be impossible, as there was no option for my birth year. Am I correct in saying that if I were to lie about my birth year I would be committing fraud?\n\nThe business is operating out of Hong Kong.\n\nWhat are my options here? How can I receive my money? Paypal withdrawals are not an option either as 1). Paypal is not available for minors and 2). The option simply doesn't work, and gives me an error.\n\nI will appreciate any and all help given, as I'm afraid I won't be able to access my money.\n\nNot sure what to flair this, as it fits into many categories.","title":"[AUS] Business is seemingly holding my balance hostage, whether intentional or not.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541623809,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v38xp\/landlord_overcharging_me_for_electricity\/","id":"9v38xp","body":"Hi All,\n\nI currently live in the UK and am renting an studio apartment in a converted house. \nThe building has one electricity supply which is paid for by the landlord. \nIn each of our flats in the building there is a pre-pay meter which is topped up with coins. The landlord then collects these coins and uses this money to pay the whole house electricity bill.\nThe meter I have in my room currently charges me 15.4p\/kWh which seems rather a lot. \nIs it possible that the landlord is looking to make a profit of his tennants? I hear this is illegal? What could I do?\n\nWould love to hear any advice! Thanks in advance! \n\nCharles Barker","title":"Landlord over-charging me for electricity?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551187332,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auzege\/want_to_quit_my_job\/","id":"auzege","body":"I was wondering if i can quit my part time job today but I was told by my sister that I\u2019m supposed to leave a 2 weeks notice? I don\u2019t want to work there, my mental health is so low when I\u2019m working there. ","title":"Want to quit my job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554230728,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8n71j\/florida_tobacco_store_looking_to_buy_inventory\/","id":"b8n71j","body":"The small LLC I work at was recently purchased by someone who wants to fix the place up and also cut spending where we can. They're also fairly inexperienced with owning a business, this is their first shot at it. We were previously buying our inventory ( loose tobacco, filters and accessories) for resale through a local distributor but we found other distributors online from out of state that were considerably less expensive, about half the price. We brought this up to the local distributor who says they will price match any legitimate distributor but when we showed them the prices for the one out of state they said that they aren't charging the appropriate sales tax and that if we go through them we could get into some serious trouble for not paying appropriate taxes by going through them. \n\nI've looked around online but can't find much information about this specifically so can anybody point me in the correct direction or give me some relevant information that I can pass on to the new owner? Thanks!\n\nI wasn't sure what to flair this as, tax law or business law. If it's wrong let me know and I'll change it. ","title":"[Florida] Tobacco store looking to buy inventory from cheaper distributor who happens to be out of state, local distributor is saying it potentially violates tax laws.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553471713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b53f4s\/i_nees_help_with_my_travel_insurance\/","id":"b53f4s","body":"My girlfriend at the time and I were planing a grad trip to cuba. We broke up and and I cancelled the trip. When I was signing up for the trip I made sure to sign up for Insurance with refund protection, When I tried to contact the insurance company they said I had to contact the travel company but the travel company says I need to contact the insurance company. I know this isnt a big issue or anything but I need the money back and dont know what to do anymore.","title":"I nees help with my travel insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541883269,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vxs63\/what_exactly_counts_as_a_physical_presence_in_new\/","id":"9vxs63","body":"I opened an S-Corp registered with Wyoming, and I live in NJ. The company is software based, and will do its sales on the internet. Currently, the company's mailing address is in New Jersey, and we will have employees who will work from home, remotely. Here are my questions:\nDo we need to register as foreign in the states where the employees live? (That being NJ)\nDoes the company mailing count as physical presence?\nIf we get a \"virtual office\" and mailing address in Wyoming, can we avoid the physical presence and not register as foreign, and pay 0 corp. tax?\n","title":"What exactly counts as a \"physical presence\" in New Jersey?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569454170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9bbtd\/the_house_my_roommates_and_i_rent_has_a_mold\/","id":"d9bbtd","body":"First off me and my three roommates rent a home in North Carolina and have recently discovered that certain parts of our home have mold spore counts that are unsafe and unlivable. \n\nWe found this out thru one of my roommates dad who is a home inspector tested the air quality. Obviously we will have to confirm these tests thru a third party that has no relation to us but now we\u2019re wondering what to do going forward pertaining to our land lord. \n\nIn our lease it states that the home owner is not held responsible for any \u2018damages\u2019 to property but that we as tenants are not allowed to construct or fix anything in or on the property without permission of the land lord. \n\nHowever, I feel that our land lord has neglected the house and failed to perform basic testing to ensure the quality and safety of the home. Since we moved in about 14 months ago she has not come by the house in the past 12 months to do any basic maintenance. \n\nI love the house that we live in and would like to continue living here but obviously our safety comes first. We\u2019re going to consult with a lawyer tomorrow, but I figured I would consider the advice of the wise world of reddit. So any and all responses are greatly appreciated.","title":"The house my roommates and I rent has a mold spore count of over 82,000","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442873447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lv0ni\/previous_landlord_refuses_to_cooperate_help_please\/","id":"3lv0ni","body":"Hi Everyone! This is my first time posting, I'm sorry if the formatting is off. I am located in California, Bay Area specifically.\n\nI really need help with a previous landlord issue. I had a month by month lease with my previous landlord however she never took care of any landlord issues. Any time we would complain she would tell myself and my roommates to move out if we didn't like the house. I lived there for 3 years. \n\n\nI ended up moving out with one of my fellow roommates and she has returned only part of my $500 deposit. What she deducted were for things that were in the common areas, not the room I was renting. Such as the couch needed cleaning. But she didn't even own the couch, a previous roommate left that for us. Also she hired someone to clean the kitchen and supposedly paid them $150 and deducted that from my deposit. Which she did without telling anyone and giving us a chance to clean it ourselves. \n\n\n Also she charged us for a missing smoke detector, which really upsets me because that is definitely a landlord responsibility. She has also deducted for other things that were in the common area that previous roommates were at fault for but she did not charge them for those things. She has provided no receipts or proof of any charges, just a list of how much she deducted and the cost of each item but according to my roommate that still lives at the old house she has not replaced anything or shown her any receipts as well. \n\n\nAccording to some government websites I have found that under California civil codes she needs to provide receipts when deducting from a deposit. However I have sent her emails requesting them and citing the government websites but she has ignored them. What would be the best course of action?? Also unfortunately I have lost my original lease agreement and I don't have proof of my deposit other than I know that I paid $500 as a deposit and that was a requirement to move in. Please help reddit! I know I should have kept my lease agreement and a proof of deposit but I am hoping that the emails that she sent in regards to the return of part of my deposit would suffice? \n\n","title":"Previous landlord refuses to cooperate, help please!!!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540828605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sebj4\/uk_do_i_have_to_tell_my_employer_about_my\/","id":"9sebj4","body":"I am sorry if I used the wrong flair, I must admit I\u2019m 18 and have never used this sub before. \n\nAnyhow I do not have health insurance with my employer, however there is a scheme in which if I were to pass away while employed by them a chided beneficiary would receive a years salary. \n\nBased on this, and other general U.K. law regarding health and employment, do I need to tell them about my recent diagnosis of bulimia nervosa?","title":"[uk] Do I have to tell my employer about my diagnosed eating disorder?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444574457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oc1xb\/i_hired_a_freelancer_and_paid_him_30_upfront_he\/","id":"3oc1xb","body":"I paid a freelancer 30% upfront for the work which was \u00a365 and I was told he will do it in two days. I got him to sign a contract. It has now been a week and I have heard nothing from him. I have sent numerous amounts of emails, messages and every time I try and call him he does not answer the phone or he cancels it.\nI posted this job on \/r\/forhire where he contacted me. He gave me his website, social media platforms and portfolios. It all looked legit.\nAm I able to do anything here or will I have to accept it and learn from it?","title":"I hired a freelancer and paid him 30% upfront. He now he has stopped all communication with me and has not completed any work. (UK)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552123648,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az1rdd\/dad_at_the_end_of_his_rope_and_in_need_some\/","id":"az1rdd","body":"Okay long story short, I was married 8 years and we divorced and now with my unique work schedule I have my kids Tuesday afternoon to Friday night. She works part time and I work full time. She now makes more than I do just off of my income alone on top of me having to work overtime, just to be able to make it. I can\u2019t save or prepare for anything in case of an emergency. I find out that my grandmother on social security makes more money than I do. I was told to take a loan out and fight this but I just don\u2019t know what my odds are of even coming out on top. Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you in advance!","title":"Dad at the end of his rope and in need some advice in what I can do, Please!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507124472,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74876j\/contesting_security_deposit_fees\/","id":"74876j","body":"Hi guys. I recently got fucked on my security deposit return. Long story short, my landlord provided a dumpster in our driveway for large trash items and plenty of people from the street were throwing  their mattresses and furniture into it. I mentioned this to two friends who needed to throw out two small things and told them to just throw it in there. The landlord caught them and associated them with me and charged me 350$ for the dumpster. Is there any good way to go about contesting this? Thanks for the help. \n\nEdit: located in Boston, Massachusetts ","title":"Contesting Security Deposit fees","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447508832,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ss326\/england_scraped_someones_car_in_a_supermarket_car\/","id":"3ss326","body":"I was just wondering what the person in question should do in this situation, and what they can expect from the English court system. \n\nThe person in question was clearly in the wrong and everything was caught on CCTV.","title":"England: Scraped someone's car in a supermarket car park, and then drove off. Being prosecuted for Careless Driving, and Failing to Stop.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569087758,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7dmry\/in_need_of_options_terribly_unhealthy\/","id":"d7dmry","body":"Hello all. I am a minor (16yo) who lives in Michigan and I am in need of options. My father and I have had a very unhealthy relationship for several years now. I live with him and my brother. He treats me as some sort of pawn. Its almost like he gets off on the fact that he can control my life. I need to move out. For years now he treats me like a maid and I believe he has been borderline verbally abusive. He is not mentally stable and my situation has been getting progressively worse. The problem is, I live in a small town and it is very important to me to be able to stay here. My boyfriend of many years is here, as well as all of my friends. I am excelling at school. I am the president of the Student Council, involved in many more clubs, and it is very important to me to maintain my 4.0. If I were to leave this town, all of these things would obviously fall apart and it would be detrimental to my future. I have no other family here. I do have the option (given by my father because he knows I won't take it) to move to a different town and live with family. As said before, I do not consider that to be an option. My question is: are there any possible ways for me to move out (without his permission) and to live in the stable home of either my best friend of many years, my boyfriend's house, or even a school staff member's house, legally? I have looked into emancipation but I am unsure of the chances of that actually being granted to me. I understand that it is rarely pulled off. If possible I would like opinions on that as well. As stated before, my situation is getting progressively worse and has made maintaining my relationship and school life (he has been keeping me from going, I can't drive yet to bring myself) very difficult to maintain, and these things are of the upmost importance to me and my happiness. \n\nThank you so much for ANY advice or help! I'm getting desperate.","title":"In need of options! Terribly unhealthy relationship with father, but he won't let me leave.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552760598,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1vhpm\/mi_guest_in_house_that_i_dont_want_there_but\/","id":"b1vhpm","body":"So simply put, my roommate has a boyfriend that I have a few problems with. He thinks I took something of his, despite no evidence for that happening. I've moved passed it, but he holds firm in that I took what is his, and there's bad blood there. \n\nI don't seek to remove him now, but if does get to the point of where he's violent, I want to make sure that he can't just come back at the invite of my roommate, who has remained neutral in the argument. \n\nSorry if the situation is confusing, writing this on three hours of sleep. Job is a killer.","title":"(MI) Guest in house that I don't want there, but another roommate allows in. What do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554678886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bamh5j\/babys_first_will_i_want_to_donate_my_future\/","id":"bamh5j","body":"I hope I flavored properly!\n\nHello legal advice!\n\nI\u2019m 26 years old and I have a retirement fund of my own. 60,000k approximately in student loans. No car payments. No children or spouse. \n\nI have always wanted to donate my body to a body farm. There is one close to my home state and I have all of the prerequisite paperwork. \n\nMy only issue is my family trying to stop me. They\u2019re against this. My question is this: how much does a living (if I die first, parent, or a non-married parter [maybe married soon]) in this process?\n\nCan I get this iron clad? I don\u2019t want good corpse to go to waste.  ","title":"Baby\u2019s first will? I want to donate my future corpse to a farm.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571266293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dixaet\/lied_about_rearend\/","id":"dixaet","body":"I was in stop & go traffic during morning rush hour in California. I was at a stop, about to go, when I felt a bump & heard an odd noise. I realized I had been hit. I immediately put on my blinker to pull over.\nThe driver behind me drove past me, looking over & shrugging as she passed.  I motioned to her like what are you doing?? Pull over! When she didn\u2019t, I followed her, taking pictures of her license plate. I think when she realized she couldn\u2019t just drive off & saw me taking the pics, she pulled over.\nShe came over right away to my car & said sorry, she didn\u2019t know if she had hit me or not. She said she thought it was her brakes she felt. I said she did hit me & we went to check out my bumper. Nothing major, but definitely some scratches and chipped paint. She asked if I saw damage & I pointed it out. She said it looked like it had been there already. At this point, rather than argue, I just said it was my husband\u2019s car & I would involve him. I then asked her to exchange insurance information. She agreed & gave me her DL & auto insurance info and we both took pictures of the cars. She kept asking me what other damage I saw and I said I was going to talk to my husband because it\u2019s his car. \nI filed a claim with her insurance company & they sent me to their body shop for an estimate that came out to $500. Now they\u2019ve called me to say the claim was denied because the insured said she never hit me. Additionally, her bumper measurements don\u2019t correspond to the damage on my bumper, i.e. the way it sticks out would have stopped her car from damaging mine. Oh, really! \nIf anything, I\u2019m more irked she tried to flee and then is now lying saying she didn\u2019t hit me at all. I asked her insurance adjuster why she stopped then & gave me her info if she never hit me and they said because I had waved her over & they couldn\u2019t answer for her beyond that.\nMy insurance won\u2019t pay for the damage & fight on my behalf unless it\u2019s over my deductible, which, of course, is $500. I think my only option is small claims. Do you think this is going to be hard to fight in court, especially since she\u2019s saying she never hit me? Thanks.","title":"Lied About RearEnd","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570556551,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df3f0m\/can_i_sue_my_mother_for_wrongful_termination_or\/","id":"df3f0m","body":"(I\u2019ll use fake names)\nPsycho = my mom\nVictor = Psycho\u2019s now ex boyfriend\nDouche = Psycho\u2019s neighbor, who she\u2019s having an affair with\n\nMy mom is physically disabled and she needs people to get her out of bed, feed her, bathe etc\nMy stepdad (really good man) took care of her for most of my life, but he died a little over a year ago.\n\nI used to manage a retail store and make decent money, but my mom couldn\u2019t find anyone who would stay around to help her. (She is very abusive, vindictive, pathological liar)\n\nI quit my job to work for her and took a large pay cut to do so.\n\nShe has been cheating on her boyfriend (Victor) with her neighbor (Douche), and Victor found out on his own. Victor packed and broke up with her the other day, he also revealed to me that Psycho and Douche made a fake CPS report (saying my wife and I abuse our kids, and that we broke my 7 months old arm. Which is a complete lie, he\u2019s never broke anything and has never been hurt or injured)\n\nShe blamed me for her boyfriend finding out, immediately fired me, and is now harassing us and making up stories to our landlord to try and get us  kicked out because she\u2019s spiteful. \n\nIn the meantime she\u2019s threatening us and gloating over messages.\n\nCan I sue for wrongful termination and\/or harassment?","title":"Can I sue my \u201cmother\u201d for wrongful termination or harassment?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508087015,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76k5lc\/sister_25_locked_out_of_mothers_house_on_a_daily\/","id":"76k5lc","body":"I'm going to try to make this post concise, since its a long story. My sister-on-law (we'll call her C) moved back into her moms house after being diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 25. It hasn't been easy, but the whole family has been supportive except for her mom. For backstory, we have guardianship of their 15 year old sister since their mom is a bad parent. Because we have two kids, we aren't able to take C in, although she was living with us before her condition became severe.  \n\nSo we found out that C is not allowed to have a key to the house, and that she needs to wait for someone to get home, or sometimes wake up from naps, to let her in. Last week, C made a new key, and when her mom found out, the mom, mom's boyfriend, and grandpa (who all live there) began yelling and eventually restraining C to get the key. C defended herself, and her mom called the cops and had her admitted to the hospital for psychiatric care. C was hit by a cane, has scratch marks, and had hair pulled out, but mom claims that \"C is sick and you can't trust anything she says.\" Also, C did fight back (biting \/scratching against 3 larger people) so the cops believed the mom. \n\nWhat we want to know is what protections we have for C. She doesn't pay rent, but she would technically be a tenant or liscensee, correct? She should have access to the household and her room. She certainly is not in the position to press a lawsuit. \n\nShe has had a hard time with her condition, although her mom accidentally admitted that they attacked C first. They have called the cops on C for so many minor things, and twisted their stories so that C seems more unstable than she is. We want to protect C, but she has nowhere else to go, and it seems impossible to get the cop's support. We wont get the police involved unless mom tries pressing charges on C, in which case we'll make sure that its known that C was attacked first. \n\nThanks in advance. ","title":"Sister (25) locked out of mothers house on a daily basis, attacked for making a key (CA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553638767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5w6cy\/nda\/","id":"b5w6cy","body":"Is a NDA only valid if a lawyer is involved? Or is any NDA I take off the internet valid?\n\nCANADA","title":"NDA","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541702343,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vcmqm\/military_member_from_ca_lost_license_in_md\/","id":"9vcmqm","body":"I recently lost my CA license and since I live in MD, I am unable to travel to CA just to get a replacement license. What steps will I need to take to get a MD license. I am able to go to CA in about 2 months which at that time I can get a new license. I know its not legal to have two license but I would rather have my CA license than keep my MD if I can even get one. I cannot afford to not be able to drive for 2 months so what would be the best steps to take?","title":"Military member from CA lost license in MD.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569994151,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc5x6k\/was_involved_in_my_first_minor_car_accident_as\/","id":"dc5x6k","body":"As the title states I was in a minor car accident while exiting a shopping center with me being at fault. My vision was obstructed by two shipping trucks that were parked on my right side and I needed to make it into the opposite lane across me past broken yellow lines to go left. I waited for a while before I ended up rolling the dice and decided to proceed with my decision. Unfortunately this ended with a  minor collision where as I was entering the lane across from where I originally was, the top right of my vehicle made contact with another vehicle that was driving where I intended to enter. It was minor, the front right of my vehicle essentially scraped along their side of the vehicle. This being my very first accident, I was very nervous and a mess. Thankfully no one was hurt, I took a picture of where the two shipping trucks where parked. Another mistake I made was that the only picture I took of their vehicle was from the side I scraped (I wasn't composed and my anxiety was through the roof. Again this was my first accident.) So I didn't take pictures of their plates, but did get their insurance and phone number. Now here's where my questions come in\n\n* I'm not under the insurance, however my father is and we have the same first and last name. Although I don't think doing something like saying that my father was behind the wheel would be the correct thing to do. So I don't think this would lead to anything good. Any advice on this part of the matter? \n\n* I have a permit, but I'm not sure if this would be of any help. Again any advice on this part?\n\n* We proposed to the driver that we pay out of pocket for the repair of the damaged vehicle since I'm not under the insurance, but they declined because they weren't sure if they would want to do that, since there's no guarantee for them. Which I agree it is understandable and I see it from their perspective. Do you think perhaps contacting them again to see if they might have changed their mind would be an option or?\n\n* Finally any other advice or comments on this as I'm not familiar with this sort of thing and would appreciate it.","title":"Was involved in my first minor car accident as the driver without insurance. In CA","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506611248,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/730oh6\/md_complained_about_inappropriate_email_from\/","id":"730oh6","body":"I am a contractor for a semi-government organization.\nLast week one the employees of the organization send an email calling one of my female coworkers a name that I interpreted as sexual banter. I reported it to my employer and the client. (I was copied on the email, I am female as well).\nMy employer called me today and told me the employee who sent the email \"has been here forever and that is just the way he is\". Now they want to meet with me on Tuesday for a 90 minute review of my work load and position.\nAny advice would be appreciated.","title":"[MD] Complained about inappropriate email from client. Now my employer (contractor) want to do a 90 minutes review of my position","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503777943,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w7s7b\/sister_wants_a_divorce_abusive_brother_inlaw\/","id":"6w7s7b","body":"Sister has no income of her own, BIL will fight tooth and nail in court for custody of their kids(sister had 2 from previous relationship, they have 1 together) we're working on gathering as much evidence of his abuse as possible, and starting the eviction process( he lives in a residence on our property). We're in Oregon. Any advice is appreciated.","title":"Sister wants a divorce, abusive brother in-law refuses. options?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555527935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beborh\/can_someone_please_break_this_down_into_something\/","id":"beborh","body":"\"If accepted, I agree to abide by the policies of the school and authorize the use of my likeness, appearance, performance, voice, name, and student projects in connection with the operation and promotion of the school. I acknowledge that names, products, services, logos, and concepts may be service marks, trademarks, patents, registered service marks, or registered trademarks of Full Sail, LLC and may not be used in any way without the express written consent of Full Sail LLC. I have read the school catalog and understand its contents and requirements. I also understand that Full Sail reserves the right to withdraw subjects, courses and programs if registration falls below the required number, and to change faculty and staff without prior notice to students. I hereby grant Full Sail permission to make any necessary inquiries. I voluntarily and knowingly authorize any formal school, government agency, employer, person, firm, corporation, and\/or its officers, employees, and agents to comply with such a request from Full Sail or its agents. The information I have provided is complete and accurate to the best of my knowledge. I agree to abide by all rules and regulations of Full Sail. Furthermore, by signing this applicatin, the applicant gives Full Sail University permission to request transcripts on his\/her behalf from a third party digital transcript ordering service. This service is provided free of charge to applicants.\n\n​\n\nBy submitting this form, I provide my signature giving consent to Full Sail university and its partners (RMCAD and LA Firm school) to contact me by telephone (including text, autodilated and prerecorded messages) at the number I have provided and\/or contact me via email to recieve information about Full Sail's offerings. I understand that this consent is not required in order to enroll and I can revoke this consent at any time using any reasonable means. Msg & data rates may apply. I agree to Full Sail University's terms & conditions and privacy policy.\"\n\n​\n\nOne thing that I thought was weird was where it said \"the consent is not required to enroll\" but it wont let me continue the application if I do not give this consent.\n\n​\n\nSo, yeah is this something I should be worried about or not? And what does it all mean?","title":"Can someone please break this down into something easier to understand. I'm applying to Full Sail University for music production and I just wanted to know if this is something I should be worried about","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1409264241,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ev4gs\/what_would_be_the_legal_consequence_of_killing_a\/","id":"2ev4gs","body":"The semi-recent videos of gamers on live streams getting \"swatted\" by police has had me thinking... \n\nHypothetically, if a swat team, police, etc. entered your home, and in the confusion, you killed an officer (without getting yourself killed) what would the legal ramifications be? Assuming that you are innocent and the police had been wrongfully called of course.\n\nI live in Ohio, but I was wondering how this would play out in other areas as well.\n\nEDIT:  \n\nThank you to everyone who answered. ","title":"What would be the legal consequence of killing a police officer in self defense?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540485573,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rby7y\/michigan_family_member_uses_years_of\/","id":"9rby7y","body":"To clarify, this matter has (mostly) already been settled without ending up in court. At this point I am just curious about what happened and am seeking to enrich my understanding and knowledge of this type of law. My current understanding is very limited.\n\nMy grandfather died in 2011, leaving he and his wife\u2019s combined assets to my dad and his sister. A trust was established and my aunt was appointed as fiduciary. The largest assets that passed through the trust were my grandparents\u2019 home and a vacation home that our entire family shared. \n\nGrandparents\u2019 permanent home was sold in 2014. Vacation home was sold in 2018. However, between 2011 and 2017, my aunt paid taxes for the vacation property. This allowed us to enjoy the house for a few more years. My parents moved into the vacation home in 2017 after they experienced a foreclosure. They assumed expenses of the vacation home until it sold in 2018. \n\nI will try to avoid explaining much of the obligatory family drama\/anger and boil this down: essentially, my aunt asked that she be reimbursed (from the trust) for the years she paid taxes on the property. Since she paid taxes from 2011-2017, this (along with several other random expenses she had detailed) tallied up to many thousands of dollars. This, obviously, left considerably less for my dad to receive. Of course, this incited a row between my dad and my aunt. Perhaps more to \u201cmake a point,\u201d my dad explained to her the many thousands of dollars he had put into the house through the years (he built the property in 1968). Her response was simply \u201cshow me the receipts.\u201d \n\nEventually, this was settled without the intervention of lawyers. My dad ended up with a much smaller portion of the money, having caved to his sister\u2019s demands, but he believes that pacifying her was the easier and ultimately cheaper route. \n\nAt this point, I am left wondering about the legal framework of what happened. It is my (limited) understanding that a fiduciary can be \u201creimbursed\u201d for expenses pertaining to the business of the trust itself. If she wanted to continue paying taxes on the vacation home, allowing us all to use it for several more years, it was totally her prerogative, and she\u2019d have to simply take the loss when it came to dividing up the money from its sale. Am I in the right ballpark here? Happy to provide more detail if needed! ","title":"[Michigan] Family member uses years of miscellaneous expenses to claim larger portion of estate","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555024862,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc6n0i\/when_a_pipe_bursts_in_an_apartment_complex\/","id":"bc6n0i","body":"I\u2019m posting this on behalf of my mom, who doesn\u2019t internet and who doesn\u2019t speak english as a first language. \n\nMy mom is a medical professional living in Wisconsin. Her apartment building recently had a burst pipe. Initially the apartment office told her to bring receipts for the ruined textbooks she replaced and they would reimburse her but when she did, they demanded pictures of the ruined textbooks she already threw away. She has a meeting with the apartment manager to discuss it tomorrow. \n\nMy mom isn\u2019t asking them to pay for the ruined furniture or the ruined iPad, and she knows that the emotionally valuable personal effects that got ruined don\u2019t technically have monetary value, so though she\u2019s sad about those things she\u2019s not including it in her costs. \n\nThe only things she\u2019s asking them to pay for are the textbooks, her hotel stay while the apartment was uninhabitable, and some makeup that got ruined. She took pictures of the damage and of the pile of ruined stuff but she didn\u2019t separate out each book for a picture nor did she get their offer to reimburse her (I think up to about 600 dollars) in writing.\n\nThis is complicated by the fact that my mom doesn\u2019t have rental insurance. Her lease does not state that this is required, only \u201cstrongly recommended.\u201d If she had known they were not going to pay for her damaged items, she would have spaced these purchases out little by little as she could afford them. \n\nShe\u2019s going in to speak with the apartment manager soon, who already treated her very rudely when my mom came to her with receipts. My mom doesn\u2019t want to make a big fuss, but she is curious what they are obligated to pay for. Any advice?","title":"When a pipe bursts in an apartment complex (Wisconsin) what are the apartment manager\u2019s obligations to a tenant whose property was damaged but didn\u2019t have (optional) renter\u2019s insurance?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542113713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wot8f\/wv_estate_attorney_did_not_provide_paparrwork\/","id":"9wot8f","body":"Good morning, LegalAdvice, a question about an experience with an estate attorney.\n\nIn short, the estate attorney was to provide a number of real property heirs with quitclaim paperwork, so that we could assign our interests to one other heir.\n\nEstate attorney states, in email, that they will provide us the necessary paperwork so that associated costs would be paid out of estate.\n\nAttorney never provides said paperwork to any of the heirs, and at the executors urging, attempted to force sale.  That attempt was quickly quashed by another heirs attorney.\n\nAre the estate attorneys actions and inaction reportable to the bar and, if so, are there policies or whatnot that can be referenced in such a complaint?","title":"WV - Estate attorney did not provide paparrwork then tried to force sale of property","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569968891,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc10n9\/should_i_hire_my_own_probate_attorney\/","id":"dc10n9","body":"Today we visited the estate attorney my uncle hired to handle my grandfathers estate. Things did not go well to say the least. \n\nMy mother currently lives in the home of the deceased (she has since 1957) and is an adult with autism. My grandparents took care of her, me and my sister until they passed. The other 4 siblings are not on the spectrum, live elsewhere and own their homes. I am also married now and live on my own, as does my older sister. We recently became my Mom\u2019s Financial POAs since she is now parentless. Her disability check covers the monthly bills for the home. \n\nMy uncle has offered to buy out the other siblings and allow my mother to continue living in the house for x amount of money a month with the stipulation me and my sister can never inherit the house because he does not like us. This upsets my mother beyond belief as my grandma wanted her then her girls to have the house. Unfortunately grandpa died the day we were going to draw a will leaving no directions on how to handle the estate. \n\nWe all have a very strained unhappy relationship as far as my uncles and aunts go. I couldn\u2019t imagine my mother not being emotionally abused by her siblings if they were to become her landlord. We asked about a sort of forever lease but they isn\u2019t not an option so there would also be no way to stop my uncle from selling the home and leaving my mother homeless. It\u2019s a rural home and any change would be determinate to my mother. \n\nHer siblings told us if we do not agree to sale the home to my uncle, the four siblings will sell the house (even if my Mom disagrees) and there is nothing we can do. She will lose her childhood home and only get 1\/5 of the purchase price. \n\nIt has been my understanding that a judge will make the decision since there is 5 heirs and no will? \n\nIf I hire a lawyer for my mother can she fight to inherit the house or are the only options to sale and split the value? \n\nDoes anyone have any other cases where a dependent child is left without a will? Do I just have to hire a probate lawyer and step aside? I have found a lawyer to take our case for a retainment of $1000... would it be best bite the bullet and fight for my Mom?","title":"Should I hire my own probate attorney?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553987147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7h6fo\/telephonic_hearing_el_paso_tx\/","id":"b7h6fo","body":"So, I (37m) am currently in El Paso, Tx and was suppose to be on a telephonic court hearing yesterday with the state of Washington in regards to my oldest son's mom taking full and complete custody of him(14m). I was contacted the day before by the judge's clerk to inform me that the request for a telephonic hearding had been approved and the time frame in which I should expect the phone call from them for the hearing. At 15 minutes after the hearing was suppose to start I still had not received a phone call. I started to call all the numbers I had and eventually got ahold of someone that sent the judge's clerk an email about calling me with my phone number so I could be present for the hearing. I never got the phone call from the court that I was told I would get, but I got a text from my son's mom saying that everything was done and she was mailing me the paperwork for me to sign.\n\nNow that I have explained the situation I have some questions: 1) Should I have been called by the court so I could be present telephonically for the hearing? 2) Can I file a complaint? 3) What was the purpose of me going through the process to get approved for a telephonic hearding if they didn't allow me to be present telephonically for the hearing?","title":"Telephonic Hearing (El Paso, Tx)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549493489,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anwqeg\/do_my_parents_have_to_consent_to_me_getting\/","id":"anwqeg","body":"Hello, I'm a 15 year old boy that lives in Tampa, Florida. I currently am a freshman in high school. For about eight months I've been asking my parents if I could get employed at either a near McDonald's or Senior Home. My parents have been telling me no and that I need to focus on school. My grades are around the middle \"C\" range. I want to get a job because my parents never allow me to out with friends or anyone, anywhere, and of course a little bit of pocket money would be nice. I am found doing absolutely nothing when I get home from school and on the weekends. (Yes, I literally sit in a swivel chair in my room all day without anyone to talk to, anything to do, and no electronic devices.) I want to do something with my life because I feel that it is terribly boring. I want to go to the two locations and apply, but I fear that they will need parent consent and other items such as my SSN, passport, or birth certificate. Is there any way I am able to obtain these from another source, and am I legally allowed to be employed without any parental consent? Any suggestions? Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!","title":"Do my parents have to consent to me getting employed at 15?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568622679,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4xsw7\/shipping_company_in_spain_sent_us_an_invoice\/","id":"d4xsw7","body":"1. We used a cubic metre squared online checker for all our boxes sent (we have the dimensions for all the boxes\n2. Company loaded the boxes onto the delivery truck\n3. Arrived at shipping location\n4. Said they had an extra box. We checked. They double checked. Realised they were incorrect and had the correct number\n5. We pay the invoice at the agreed volume and dimensions (they have access to full list of box dimensions and weight)\n6. They send the shipment\n7. Shipment arrives in Dubai customs, we pay inspection fees and VAT\n8. Goods delivered to our door\n9. Receive notification that shipped volume was actually double and will send another invoice\n10. Posted issue to the good people of Reddit for help\n\nAny advice on where to start here? \n\nMy thoughts are to double check our calculations of the box dimensions \/ volume - then ask how they got to their calculation. Also to check with Dubai customs if they have a record of volume received.\n\nAlso, where do we stand on companies delivering a service, then notifying us it cost more and passing on the invoice without us being aware of this beforehand?\n\nThanks for any advice! :)","title":"Shipping company in Spain sent us an invoice after delivering goods to Dubai. We paid. They since have said that the volume of goods we had was double what we specified and are sending another invoice, which will add another payment.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555036084,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc8gl2\/help_with_trademark_and_refusal_for_possibility\/","id":"bc8gl2","body":"Hi. Today I received a response for a trademark for the name of my company. Unfortunately I was refused due to the fact that there is another company with a similar name. \n\nNote this is not the same name. The name is two parts and we share the first word and the word scope and scoop for the second part. However we are in a similar space \n\nI\u2019m particularly concerned due to the costs of the .com website that I have already purchased.\n\nIs there any way to go about dealing with this? \nHow could I have known ahead of time\/avoided?\nAnd did I go in the wrong order by grabbing my site before trademark? \n\nThanks so much for your help!!","title":"Help with trademark and refusal for \u201cpossibility for confusion\u201d","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1504218652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xacfl\/texas_usa_claiming_dependent\/","id":"6xacfl","body":"Never married. I reside in Texas but him in Indiana. But my question; Can a non-custodial parent claim their child on their taxes when they haven't even met them? It has been court ordered the day he started paying child support a year and a half ago but he has made 0 effort to be in my child's life. I have proof he could have visited but bailed. Even texts admitting he regretted it but going back to the same pattern of not caring. He also still owes over 1k in back pay. If I fight this, do I have a good chance of winning? ","title":"Texas, USA. Claiming Dependent.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569098024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7fw8h\/do_i_have_a_pay_equity_case\/","id":"d7fw8h","body":"I\u2019ll try to be short: so I work at a university and while employed there upper management basically made up a position for an existing part time employee who has had prior affiliations with the university either way they rejected others who wanted the job because they claimed the other applicants wanted too much money ... when they filled the job with the person they wanted... that person came in at the same salary level and job classification as myself and here we are 6 months later and this person has gotten a $10000 pay raise more than than what another current employee they turned away wanted. I researched the ethics and university policy and I think I have a case. There are other factors at play because I do not feel this person is doing anything that is significantly more important than mine... in fact I\u2019m finding myself doing a good majority of the job this person is responsible for... for example they asked me to pull an excel spreadsheet  because they didn\u2019t know how to do it. This person is  an underwhelming hire but was a safe hire. I spoke to my direct supervisor and he told me not to get my hopes up on a raise... and that I was paid equally to others in the office...I told him equity and merit are completely different... I have not heard anything from him in 3 months. He has not given me any special projects and he is standoffish towards me and is not a very good leader... one last piece is that there are 4 black women and 4 white women in the office and coincidently the 4 black women myself included get paid on average $7000 less than our white counter parts... I\u2019m working to get a meeting with HR ... any advice on how to prepare? Should I even bother?","title":"Do I have a pay equity case?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552933569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2m6on\/ex_parked_my_car_in_handicapped_spot\/","id":"b2m6on","body":"My ex boyfriend parked my car (because he was using it while I was on vacation) in a handicapped parking spot and got me a $450 ticket and then broke up with me that night. He said he would pay for it, but since he\u2019s not my boyfriend anymore I\u2019m afraid he\u2019ll change his mind, which would really screw me. He was in Washington when they ticketed my car. He has the physical ticket but I took pictures just in case. Any help would be much appreciated","title":"Ex parked my car in handicapped spot","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444810874,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3op5qg\/england_a_sublet_tenant_m50_is_really_aggressive\/","id":"3op5qg","body":"So, my family rents this 5 bedroom penthouse in the UK- and has done for the past 5 years.Very high rent. We all lived here as a family of 4 plus my uncle is registered on here too. Our family friend came over to visit us 3 years back and offered money for his stay, and that was the initial sublet. The house itself is not social housing, our landlord owns few restaurants around this place- its a private property of his and its rented through an agency. Since my family moved a lot back and forth between Germany and here because of business they decided to just move back altogether, however I have university here so I ended up staying on my own and have done for the past 3 years. Initially I just had few close family friends staying with me to help me out keep this house financially, but since they had their own lives to attend to and moved for work etc so I began to rent 2 rooms just to help me out with the rent. I've never had any problems, and I'm fairly sure the agency\/landlord knows I'm subletting. Like originally I pretended my family still lives here but for the past 2 years on every house inspection we just don't mention it and it's fairly obvious as the agency changed all the contacts on to me not them- they just never mention it because I suppose I am a good reliable renter and there have never been problems so I think my landlord doesnt mind\/or he is actually oblivious to the subletting. So from that aspect, my parents are probably breaking a point on the contract with the agency, but is this actually really illegal\/do I have to worry about it because before now I haven't even thought about that aspect before I was just quietly living my life. \n\nSo that's background out of the way, this tenant I have: he moved into a room on his own and lived like that since February he has had few hiccups rent wise but since he paid it all back and has been a great room-mate for 99% of the time, sometimes he had his ex wife stay with him for a month or two as she came here to work briefly but recently he has had a mum and a daughter stay with him. They personally have a lot of financial troubles at home along with abuse etc so thats why they came over here to earn some money and get away from it and he gave them 'a helping hand' by letting them stay in his room which easily fits 3 people. They're not crammed in there it's a really massive room with its own bathroom etc. \nA week back he was complaining about a pot in the kitchen being left in the wrong place and he got into confrontation with my other roomie and he hit him multiple times out of nowhere. On that day I told him to move out as its unacceptable and I gave him a week, he started to threaten me that hes going to call police on me and my living situation and he will 'end me' etc etc. This is really shocking as 90% of the times hes the loveliest man but he snaps at people and gets really violent. Yesterday he hit the woman he is currently sharing the room with and pulled her hair and verbally harassed her, we were all shaken and too scared to call police.Its the morning now and I have to decide what to do, I have not yet asked him to move out for the second time as I think history will repeat itself. Plus i dont know if I'm going to be in trouble myself over this house if he does call me out on it himself. I feel like he wont ever move out as he keeps blackmailing me and using me as I'm young female that doesn't do or want anything malicious or cause a scene but I cannot take this any more.How do I get rid of him I've never had any troubles with my previous roomies. If I get kicked out of this house I have nowhere to live and my family is 2000 miles away. I dont know how to confront him for him to move out and what my rights are\/ how serious is it that I have sublet a room. Please help and give me advice. Thank you ","title":"England. A sublet tenant [M50] is really aggressive and attacked 2 people, when told to move out he threatens\/blackmails police on me [F22] and simply wont leave my house.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542245500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x6g39\/i_recently_hit_a_car_while_parking_at_my_workplace\/","id":"9x6g39","body":"I recently hit a car while parking at my workplace. I only left a small scratch but I of course left a note explaining the situation along with my number. About 3 weeks go by and I get a call from the car owner and she informs me that I either owe her $650 or I can go through my insurance. I feel $650 is no where  near the amount pf damage i have done. I know that $650 is not an insane amount of money but I'm only 17 and that would be every penny I have. I'm kind of freaking out and I need some help. Should I just pay the $650 or go through the insurance. Pictures of the scratch are here, http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/CWuBfPL \n\nThank you for any advie","title":"I recently hit a car while parking at my workplace.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571698955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl8ked\/tesla_is_not_acknowledging_an_obvious_major\/","id":"dl8ked","body":"The car is rated for 310 miles of range, and it is currently at 260 at a full charge. That\u2019s a 16% drop in 20k miles. Normally, assuming no defects, it should be around 2-3% of degradation.\n\nI have confirmed this with multiple 3rd party apps that aggregate the entire fleet\u2019s data and I am literally at the bottom 0% (literally no one in the fleet is worse than me).\n\nThe tricky part is that when you buy Tesla\u2019s vehicles, their contract states that their warranty covers it if the battery is degraded below 70% (aka 30% degradation) within 120k miles. It is pretty obvious they put that in there to avoid having to ever replace anything. Realistically, it would take ~500k miles of driving before a battery would reach that point. But I am over here with 16% in merely 20k miles.\n\nIs there anything I can do? There is an obvious defect to my car, especially when compared to the fleet, and the degradation has effectively removed the $9000 I paid for the longer range. The dollar amount seems too small to go to any court or arbitration. Is there any other alternatives I have? What I want out of this is for them to either fix the issue (replace battery) or refund me of the cost I paid for the longer range upgrade ($9000).\n\nLegal info:\n\n-Legally resident of Colorado, car registered in Colorado\n\n-Physically living in Texas, and can legally move my residence and car registration to Texas if it\u2019ll help my case\n\n-Car bought in early October of 2018\n\n-I did not opt out of an Arbitration Clause\n\nSuggestions?","title":"Tesla is not acknowledging an obvious major defect, but the defect is technically \u201cwithin specs\u201d, is there anything I can do?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568410393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3vyxw\/need_some_assistanceguidance_please\/","id":"d3vyxw","body":"Trying to keep it short and sweet:\n\nMy daughter was molested. The person that did it has been taken into custody and we have a pretrial date set for next week. It was already continued once. We have been told we do not need to be at the pretrial. My question is this: if I go to this hearing, is there anything I could be able to do to help move this process along? Even if it may not get a verdit but to just at least keep it from being continued again? This is in the state of TN. Any advice\/assistance is appreciated. Thank you everyone in advance.","title":"Need some assistance\/guidance please.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553269589,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b46mmh\/workmans_comp_claim_sent_to_collections\/","id":"b46mmh","body":"Back in July I took a second job at a well known chain restaurant. This restaurant offers free bread and when I was cutting some for a table I made the mistake of slicing nearly through my finger. Nbd, six stitches later and a little loss in feeling but no worries. So weeks pass and I start getting calls and letters stating I owe over $600 for this insistent for ER related expenses. The general manager told me several times to explain this to the collectors (I would call and speak with her, I don\u2019t think I have this in writing) and all would be paid for. This went on for 6+ months. Then I get a letter from collections, exactly what I was trying to avoid. I again contact the general manager of the restaurant and she forwards and email from OVER A MONTH AGO from the workman\u2019s comp. coordinator explaining what needs to be done....if I would have received this email in a timely manner it would never have gone to collections. They are still paying the bill but do I have any grounds for anything here? This will effect my credit, will it not?","title":"Workmans Comp. Claim Sent to Collections","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568591627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4spvl\/employment_law_question_louisiana\/","id":"d4spvl","body":"Hey all, I had a quick question about employment law in Louisiana. I\u2019ll try to keep this concise, but sorry for mobile formatting ahead of time.\n\nA little background:\nI\u2019ve had to work out of town this weekend. On Saturday, I drive my personal vehicle to work then took my personal vehicle from my place of work to where I was spending the day 90 minutes away. My boss allotted me $60 in gas money for the round trip. On Sunday, I drove my personal vehicle to work then took a company car to the same location as the day prior and then returned that evening.\n\nThis brings us to my question. Am I entitled to any hourly compensation for my time traveled this weekend (approximately 6 hours across two days)?\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Employment Law Question (Louisiana)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554773290,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb1ykh\/should_i_asked_to_remove_a_restrictive_covenant\/","id":"bb1ykh","body":"Covenant below:\n\n​\n\n> **6.** **Restrictive Covenant** \\- In consideration of the terms of employment and the efforts and costs incurred by ......, you agree you shall not solicit Client or engage in a like or similar profession or occupation at Client's facility or any other facility at which you are directed to or actually perform services under this agreement, either directly or indirectly, for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days following the termination of your employment under the terms of this agreement, unless specific written authorization has been obtained from .........\u00a0 You agree that any violation of this provision will result in you paying to ............ an amount equal to four hundred (400) hours at the hourly rate as stated in 4(a) above as compensation for ................. efforts and costs incurred in connection with your employment hereunder. \n\n​\n\nI am filling out paperwork for a contract to hire position. The contract period is expected to last 3 months. The paragraph above is pretty awful, and would seem to prevent me from pursuing similar work, even if I don't like the position that I would be contracting for.\n\n​\n\nThis makes me really uncomfortable. They are an \"at-will\" employer, but won't let me leave at will if I don't like the position? \n\n​\n\nIs this enforceable? Is it worth asking them to change their employment contract?","title":"Should I asked to remove a \"restrictive covenant\" from a contract position? Or not accept the position?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1412787582,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2iobu8\/minnesota_is_a_child_of_a_property_owner_also\/","id":"2iobu8","body":"According to [chapter 609 section 605](https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/statutes\/?id=609.605) of the Minnesota 2013 statutes it is a misdemeanor for a person to return to property within 1 year of being told to leave without consent of the legal possessor. Does the legal possessor include the children of the actual property owner?\n\nEdit: To offer some context. My friends backyard is the general hangout spot for stoners, who are allowed there, before school. The backyard just has a fence between it and the school but there is a dense tree line that guards the backyard from view. Today a school employee followed a kid into the backyard. My friend who's backyard it was told them to leave and they said no. Then my friend called his father who spoke to them and made them leave.\n","title":"[Minnesota] Is a child of a property owner also considered a legal possessor?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555611567,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beovh0\/got_a_red_light_camera_flash_last_night\/","id":"beovh0","body":"So this was at 2 in the morning last night (give or take), \nI was driving through an intersection that had a red light camera but my light was green and I still got a flash. \n\nI might have been driving like 35MPH in like a 30 but that\u2019s beside the point. \n\nLong story short: \nDrove through a green light and still got a flash from the camera. \n\nWhat does that mean?","title":"Got a red light camera flash last night","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541085873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tae1o\/flmy_friend_told_me_the_restaurant_they_work_at\/","id":"9tae1o","body":"My Friend works at a small chain of restaurants in FL. He says that if a health inspector were to watch the security footage they would be shut down. I don't know if he wants to report it but I think it should be reported. The thinf is he needs the job at least for the short term. Should I try and convince them to report it. Who do we contact to report this. if they decide they don't want to report it how do I send in an anonymous tip without getting them unemployed. What information should we document before reporting to both make sure the report is successful and to protect my friend from being fired for whistle blowing.","title":"[FL]My Friend told me the restaurant they work at is violating health codes, how should they handle thus","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553169862,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ppma\/wife_is_a_nurse_may_have_gotten_cdiff_from_a\/","id":"b3ppma","body":"So my wife is a Registered Nurse that works in the PICU (pediatric intensive care unit). She worked last night and just called me on her way home. She says she was frustrated with the hospital because her kid has C-Diff (an infection of the colon cause by spores, is actually really serious). They tested this kid at 5 pm and her shift didn\u2019t begin until 7 pm. They already had the results at the beginning of her shift but no one ever called to tell her until 5 am (so 10 hours into her shift) and she had been taking care of this kid all night. The doctor on this shift told her not to worry because it only really will affect people with weak immune systems, but my wife takes humira (an immune system suppressant because she has arthritis). The hospital knows she has arthritis and takes humira because she has told them and she reminded the doctor of this and the doctor told her to go get anti-microbial soap and wipes and take a shower. \n\nIf my wife gets sick and gets C-Diff would she be able to sue the hospital, her employer? ","title":"Wife is a nurse, may have gotten C-diff from a patient because the hospitals lab didn\u2019t call and tell her this patient had C-diff","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444765527,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3omks3\/mould_problem_in_rented_flat_landlord_responsible\/","id":"3omks3","body":"We've had a big mould problem since moving into a flat just over a year ago. The landlord has been cooperative in some ways and immediately provided two dehumidifiers and some cleaning materials (I did the cleaning) when I contacted them about it. \n\nA few weeks ago a mould inspector came round and assessed the flat, I was supposed to get a copy of his report a week after but the landlord says they're looking through it more closely to see if they can work out exactly what needs to be done. The guy mentioned new windows, a bigger dehumidifier and a few other things when he was looking around. He also said the dehumidifier should be used daily and that under no circumstances should clothes be dried inside. The landlord has since provided a tumble dryer.\n\nUnfortunately a lot of our clothes got mouldy, including some suits and dresses that we've had to get dry cleaned. We're looking at a bill of around \u00a3300. I have two questions:\n\n1. Is the landlord liable for the dry cleaning bill? In our contract it states that the landlord's content insurance doesn't cover our belongings, so that isn't an option.\n\n2. Can we get the landlord to contribute towards the increased electricity bill that's a result of being asked to use the dehumidifier and dryer?\n\nWe weren't made aware of any precautions we should take when we moved in. The landlord has mentioned since I raised the issue that there has been a problem with mould in the past, but the flat had been newly painted before we moved in and nothing was mentioned about it. We have a shared garden with no clothesline and none of the other residents dry their clothes outside.","title":"Mould problem in rented flat, landlord responsible for damage to personal property? (UK)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506218326,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/722g9k\/bay_area_ca_i_am_getting_married_in_40_days_i\/","id":"722g9k","body":"So here is some basic info.\n\nI am 33, Male. I have a decent job in Bay Area, California and earn ~200k\/year. I have about 775K in total assets (Including all the cash, investment and {house value - house mortgage} ). I live in Bay area, CA as well.\n\nMy fiance earns 60K\/year now. She is gonna be a doctor in two years so she will be earning about 260k\/year after two years. She has a total of about 10K in savings with a lot of loans to payback to her parents (lets say 100K in loan to her parents). She lives in Nevada currently and plans to move to CA after two years.\n\nWe are planning to get married in India in November. But since hearing many advice here in PF and through friends, I am highly inclined to get a prenup to secure my assets just in case. \n\n* Can someone provide me how should I start about this? \n* How to search for a good lawyer? \n* If I am getting married in India, can I still get prenup in the US?\n* Since I live in CA and she lives in NV, are there any limitations on which state we can get prenup? Are there any pros\/cons on getting prenup in any different state? \n* Also, if we are having wedding ceremony in India. Do I still need to register marriage in the US? I prefer to register in the US since we both plan of living here. What is the difference no registering the marriage and applying for marriage license? I also found online \"You must marry in California. You can marry in a county other than where you receive the license, but it must still be in California.\" Does that mean that I can't have the ceremony outside CA if I want to register it in CA?\n* Any other insights that I need to know before doing this? Any suggestions\/recommendations?","title":"[Bay Area, CA] I am getting married in 40 days. I need help on getting a prenup which I know nothing about.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569746434,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dasmsl\/molested_by_father_as_a_child\/","id":"dasmsl","body":"Here's a bit of back story.\n\nThis happened in the early 2000s. I grew up in a religious household (cult basically). Had a lot of trouble and was extremely depressed through my teenage years. About 3 years ago I had a pretty bad breakdown and had flashbacks of some events that happened through my childhood that I had not recalled for a long time. One of which was participating in sexual activities with my biological father pretty regularly over a period of about 2 years. along with some other traumatic events that happened in my early life. Father was physically abusive in general blowing it off as 'discipline'. Eventually I reported this to the Elders of the congregation. He got a slap on the wrist and nothing happened ever again. Was never reported to the police. Was pretty fucked up about it and forgot about it until the flashback.\n\nI'm currently located in Canada. I know for sure my father has a criminal record in the USA. He's mentioned it before and said it was drug trafficking before he got religious. My father has never attempted to come to the US with me and my mother. He said he could get a pardon but it's too difficult.\n\nEvery time I went to the US with my mother, she reminded me to tell the border patrol officer that I was her actual son. The most recent crossing I was pulled into a room and questioned personally by an officer. I don't recall the specific questions, but it for sure had to do with my parents. At this point I hadn't remembered anything about the situation with my father.\n\nI confronted my mother in the past few years after I came out to them as gay and left their home to live on my own. I told her that I thought I was touched by someone as a kid, she barely thought anything of it.\n\nI have no idea what I can do legally, as there's literally no proof of this happening. I don't want to put my mother in a bad position, I really care about her and want the best for her. They're still happily married and living a good life. My biggest issue is that he's a high up in the religion and extremely trusted by everyone in the church. (We moved a few years after my report to the elders so the current church he is in has no idea as far as I know.)\n\nFirst step I think I should take is to find out my father's criminal background. I checked some websites and his name never popped up. His record was at least from 30+ years ago. Who could I contact in the US to find his record?\n\nIf anyone has other suggestions, would be much appreciated.","title":"Molested by father as a child.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541556932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uv2m4\/misdemeanor_theft_layton_city_utah_code_766412\/","id":"9uv2m4","body":"My daughter was charged with misdemeanor theft. Her kitten went missing a few nights ago, she was out looking for it, and heard it crying, she saw it was in a neighbors backyard, she ran over to him, realized he was in a trap and panicked. She tried opening the cage, but it was dark and she could not figure it out, so she grabbed the cage with her kitten in it, and ran out of the yard and back home. \n\nShe is fearful of these neighbors because of 2 separate incidences in 2015. The 1st was them firing shotguns up into the trees, which we called the police about, and the 2nd was them harassing her for posting about it on her Facebook account. The police did not pursue anything against them back them, we dropped it to prevent possible further retaliation at the time.\n\nSo, based on circumstances would the odds of prosecution be high for her? She is 18, has no record, no tickets, she has a job, and attends a local community college (not sure if relevant)\n\nThey got the trap back the next day, it was damaged, but not by her, my husband damaged it accidentally when transporting it.","title":"Misdemeanor theft Layton City Utah code 76-6-412","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503614917,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vuiah\/wi_statute_of_limitations_on_molestation\/","id":"6vuiah","body":"Hello all, throwaway for obvious reasons.\n\nBack in 2011 I received a call from the local middle school's police liaison officer, asking me to come in. He would not say over the phone what it was about.  I came and he said that a student told her guidance counselor that when she was 6, I had molested her.  The student was the daughter of a family friend. I explained that it couldn't be true and he let me go.  The next day, he called and asked if I would be willing to take a polygraph test. I declined because I already knew that they were inadmissible in court and I had nothing to gain by doing so.  I told my parents what was happening and they secured an attorney for me just in case.\n\nI had never heard back from the officer or district attorney or anybody about it. I assumed they noticed the inconsistencies in her story and decided not to bother continuing an investigation.\n\nHer parents maintained that I was guilty, however. I ran into another mutual friend one day and chatted about general stuff, never bringing up the accusing family.  A few days later, my mother received a threatening letter from the accusing mother stating that if I ever talk to their friends again, she will tell them \"everything I did\".\n\nThe attorney had said that the daughter has the opportunity to reopen the case up to a certain number of years after she turns 18.  I cannot remember how many years it was.  I've since moved to a different city to reduce the risk of running into them in public (grocery shopping or whatever).\n\nMy main question is,  in Wisconsin, how many years after she turns 18 does she have to reopen the case? Essentially, how long until I can breathe a sigh of relief that they aren't going to try and ruin my life over something I hadn't done?  \n\nThanks for any insight.","title":"[WI] Statute of limitations on molestation allegations?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553543687,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5fi6m\/wa_my_school_is_using_scare_tactics_to_force_me\/","id":"b5fi6m","body":"The attendence coordinator spoke to me about my poor attendence recently and she used obvious scare tactics and lied to me to improve my attendence.\n\nShe said that you cannot drop out of high school at 16, she said that you cannot period. Which is false but I went along with it because I wasnt in the mood for it. She also claimed I was \"hiding behind my parents\" and that \"my attendence would improve no matter the solution\"\n\nI've been feeling really sick recently which is why my attendence was poor, and I went and she basically cornered my legal guardian and according to her \"tried to get her to talk\"\n\nAny advice is truly appreciated.","title":"[WA] My school is using scare tactics to force me to go to school, advice?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568948332,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6oqsz\/landlord_claims_my_coworker_hasnt_paid_rent_in_3\/","id":"d6oqsz","body":"Kansas, we know that in our area they have to give 30 days notice for it to be legal but she\u2019s afraid they are going to change the locks anyways and cause her to be late to work, etc. She paid in money orders and didn\u2019t keep the receipt because she has lived there for 3 years and never had an issue. They said she has 3 days to give them 3 months rent or they are changing the locks that 3rd day. \n\nThe only thing I could think of is to try to see if they will refund\/ cancel the money order by having them look it up with the limited info we have and she is going to do that and just take the $30 hit per money order but that is going to take 6-8 weeks before they respond back with a refund or the answer of the money order being cashed. \n\nIs there anything else she can do? she currently doesn\u2019t have proof she paid it cause she doesn\u2019t have the money order receipt. She can borrow money to pay the amount they want in the 3 days, but she\u2019s upset cause it\u2019s their fault they lost it\/feels it\u2019s shady that it\u2019s possible they cashed it but can\u2019t know for sure (for at least 6-8 weeks). Should she pay them the amount?","title":"Landlord claims my coworker hasn\u2019t paid rent in 3 months, threatening to evict\/change the locks in 3 days.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570648144,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dflrgl\/splitting_from_fianc\u00e9_5_month_old_involved\/","id":"dflrgl","body":"My fianc\u00e9 and I have a 5 month old daughter. We live in Pennsylvania. The split is due to my finding out he is a porn addict and will not stop or seek help. Do I have any leg to stand on in court? I know he will try and battle me for custody.","title":"Splitting from fianc\u00e9- 5 month old involved","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447662245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t009g\/ca_my_close_friends_are_telling_me_i_should_find\/","id":"3t009g","body":"Hi, I'm 28\/f working at a major car dealership in Southern California. I've been here for less than a year. After 3 months, I became top sales. \n\n\n     It's a very weird work environment. The weirdest I've ever been in. I've always wanted to do something with cars, I love cars. I love driving. I get to drive every kind of car there is at my job and I get to drive brand new cars everyday. It's fun. The sales part is fun too, I like it. Negotiating with people, you'd be surprised how often a car sale is not made because I give someone a super low price and then they try to get the price lower and it genuinely cant go lower so they leave expecting me to follow them and Im just like OK, gtfo if you think $400 a\/mo is too much for a $60,000 car. Whatever, I'm getting off topic. \n\n\nAside from the receptionist, I am the only woman who works there. There are about 80 or 90 men and then me and the receptionists. Managers, Salesmen, porters, finance managers, service advisors, technicians, detail guys, carwash guys... 80 or 90 men. Then me. More than half of the men have asked me out on a date. More than half of the men have told me (and continue to tell me) they want to fuck me. Many of the men have said I'm probably a slut for working there. Many of the men have described how they would fuck me. They touch me when they can, in a way that bothers me and then they get angry and say I'm cold if I tell to stop or leave me alone or get the fuck away. They try to touch my shoulder or my arm, my hands. I get poked. \n\n\n     \nOne other salesman was obsessed with me. We were friends and worked at the same desk from march to june... and then he professed his undying love for me and told me i was the one (I'd never even kissed this guy... nor did I ever tell him I liked him or that I wanted to be with him) he kept sending me text messages like 4 paragraphs long about how he was going to win me and make me fall for him. I never responded. When it kept happening, I told him not to put this pressure on me. He took a month off work, changed his name (no joke) and now he pretends I don't exist. If he walks down the hall and sees me, he literally turns and runs. He's been that way since July. \n\n\n(I will be honest, part of me is flattered for all of this, I've never gotten so much attention from men before)\n\n     And now the big part:\n\nIn June my boss 40\/m started to flirt with me. He's very charming, he's the best salesman I've ever met. Not only is he my boss, he runs the dealership. He's also adorable and fit. I flirted back and we started dating. This is where my best friend was telling me was the biggest problem, that if we were flirting, my boss should have stopped and should have not gone out with me. We dated until October. Both of us were starting to see how bad an idea it was. He couldn't hide his favoritism and affection and I couldn't trust him- we didn't tell anyone, and if no one knew in my mind there was no one to keep him accountable or faithful. For all I know, he could be fucking the receptionist (there is nothing to suggest this, just a for instance) So, in October we awkwardly ended it. \nThen my sales dropped by 75%. And this month, too. 75% It's unexplainable. He was not giving me all my sales, I got them myself. Now whenever I have a deal, one of the managers in his pocket get involved and it falls apart. \n\nI'm torn because I still like him. But now I feel like I need to leave my job. Its weird there. \n\nMy best friend is saying everything that's happened to me at the dealership is wrong and I should sue. I think he's being overprotective. I don't get how there is a case. Obviously, I would want to settle out of court. And the owners of the dealership own several other luxury dealerships so they're loaded and there's no way they dont have lawyers on retainer for shit like this anyway... \n\nWhat should I do? Is it worth thinking about? WTF is going on in my life?","title":"[CA] My close friends are telling me I should find a sexual harassment lawyer but I don't think there's a point...","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571031922,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhm9lg\/im_worried_about_people_posting_underaged_nudity\/","id":"dhm9lg","body":"Me and a friend are looking to make an app for high schoolers (we are high schoolers ourselves) where they can join their schools community on the app and post anything anonymously. However, I\u2019m worried that people will expose others nudes and other inappropriate photos of their peers (which at this age is considered ch1ld p0rn). \n\nHow should I handle this? What will be enough to cover my ass so I don\u2019t have to go to court one day over something? \n\nMaybe : Make a terms of service and add a feature so people can report the posts? \n\nI would program some sort of system to scan the photos and videos that are posted but I\u2019m also worried that the system would give false positives. Plus I\u2019m not even sure how to program something like that.","title":"I\u2019m worried about people posting underaged nudity on my site\/app","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553538952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5ehe5\/ca_what_to_do_about_not_being_given_breaks_work\/","id":"b5ehe5","body":"This is not for me but rather for my boyfriend. He works at McDonalds and they\u2019ve been scheduling him for full shifts. This means that per California law he\u2019s is supposed to get 2 paid 10-minute breaks and a lunch (45 mins) break. However, it\u2019s been twice now that he\u2019s not been given his 10 minute breaks. Either one of them. He\u2019s told managers on the floor that he needs breaks and they let the gm know (if she\u2019s there). The first time it happened, he let both the managers and the gm know that he hadn\u2019t gotten any of his 10 min breaks. He gave reasonable notification yet they did not give him his breaks until 7 minutes before his shift was over. The gm berated him and told him to let her know that he needed them. Which he had done but they didnt do shit about it. The second time it happened was this past weekend. He let them know that he hadn\u2019t gotten his breaks and they did nothing. They were understaffed but the gm gave everybody else their 10 minute breaks and she even went on her lunch. She even asked him if he needed any of his breaks to which he said that he needed both. Despite this,  he was still not given the breaks. He did not, in both occasions, relinquish his 10 min breaks. \n\nIs there anything he can do about it? Or is there anybody to whom he can address this issue with? \nShould he contact corporate or HR? ","title":"[CA] what to do about not being given breaks @ work?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1413069770,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2izgho\/unsupervised_probation_for_juveniles\/","id":"2izgho","body":"I recently had a conversation with a friend in which she told me of an incident from  her teen years where she was accused of battery and had to go to juvenile court. The girl who made the complaint and her parents failed to show, so the judge dismissed the case. However, she placed my friend on unsupervised probation. My question is how can a judge sentence someone to probation if they were never proven guilty? That just seems strange. This incident took place in Louisiana.","title":"Unsupervised probation for juveniles","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553817659,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6qcrp\/leaking_information_in_game\/","id":"b6qcrp","body":"Before you read this I apologize for any formmated stuff and all the other stuff because of my phone and whatnot. \n\nAlso, if this isn't the right sub, or I've made a mistake anywhere else like the flair, please don't hesitate to point it out. I appreciate the help. Thanks. \n\nI'm also from the UK and I'm British. Do with that what you will but it may prove to be useful insight into this situation and the people involved. \n\nSo this probably doesn't come as a surprise to anyone but I've recently had someone start posting in the games I'm in my home phone number, and on other occasions, someone else in a lobby seemingly able to find out my home address and whatnot. \n\nThese people are friends of some other people I have played CSGO with in the past. \n\nNow this isn't exactly uncommon from these people because they are pretty much cunts towards me every time I join their discord. I don't care that they make fun of me or my life, but as I am currently not living alone, I don't want anyone else to be effected by these people, regardless of this being some stupid joke or am actual problem that could get worse. \n\nI've checked as much stuff as I can through my available social network accounts and I can't seem to find out how they are getting ahold of this information. Especially as I don't recall giving this out to them and I know they aren't accociated with anyone else I talk to. \n\nWhat can I do? Since it's Steam and Valve, I doubt id get anywhere there. I've been recording as much as I can but even then it's very little info as the majority of the time I don't record the stuff they are saying out of forgetfulness, and the fact that I'm currently in the process of redoing my entire PC. So software and such isn't set up yet. \n\nI don't have the funds or the evidence to just go to court one day and bring this up and I'm sure that valve will be of no use in this case. I can block and unfriend these people but I'm just not wanting this to continue. \n\nHowever being who I am, and especially being who these people are, I can't just make threats that are empty because they would never take me seriously and most of them seem to think this behaviour is the only form of entertainment in whatever life they have. ","title":"Leaking information in game.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541313626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u1i15\/my_father_took_all_of_my_money_and_claims_he\/","id":"9u1i15","body":"*I didn't know what flair to use, if the one I chose is wrong my apologies, I will change it. Also sorry for the novel below, TL;DR at the bottom.* \n\n​\n\nI'm sorry for this being so long, I've rewritten this three times now trying to avoid adding certain details but they're just unavoidable. So, third time's the charm:\n\n​\n\nI am a minor in the entertainment industry. While certainly not a J Law or Swift, I am in the public eye. I still live with my family (in America). Recently (I don't want to say how recent), I've found success, and am now making more money than my parents combined. This doesn't sit well with them. They aren't poor but also aren't rich, I would consider us an \"Upper Middle Class\" family not counting my income.  As time has gone on and I've found more success and as such made more money, they have become increasingly bitter about it. Last week my father stopped just being bitter.\n\n​\n\nMy father created my bank accounts when I was young. He's my parent so I never saw any reason to not trust him, until now. Five days ago my father closed my accounts and transferred all of my money to himself. I told him that was illegal but he said he's my legal guardian and has the right to decide if I'm mature enough to handle my own money or not. He told me my recent purchase of a new three thousand dollar TV (which was for the family living room) was proof I wasn't capable of being responsible with that amount of money, and so he was going to watch over it for me until I was of age. My mother is, if not complicit, in denial. She refuses to talk with me about it and tells me I don't know what I'm talking about.\n\n​\n\nSince my father took the money, he's been getting a lot of nice things, including a very expensive new watch, a new couch set for his space, and as of this morning a new, fairly expensive car, and I know he didn't have enough on his own for any of those. I don't know about the watch or car but I found a copy of the delivery slip that said \"No returns or refunds\" which he had signed. It was $15,000 alone.\n\n​\n\nI know the best course of action is to get the police involved but there are two problems with that. For one, while not *critical,* having this known to the public would do a lot more harm. I know that may seem ridiculous but if at all possible I want to keep this from getting out there, which is why I'm on Reddit anonymously. Grasping at straws, I know.\n\n​\n\nThe problem that's a lot more pressing, is that anyone who could side with me won't. We have a family lawyer who I've been acquainted with and have the contact information for, but they're a family friend with my parents and I've never personally needed their services so I can't see them helping me against my parents. Especially considering I now have nothing to pay them with. I do have a manager, and they were the first person I called. We met at their office four days ago and without actually saying it, they told me in painfully clear terms that if I wanted any more of a career I would accept that my father has only my best interests at heart, and would drop it. I am NOT accusing my manager of anything to be clear here, but there's no denying they have no interest in helping me, whatever their reasons may be. \n\n​\n\nThe only person helping me is my close friend who's my age, but all they can do is help me think up a solution. It was their suggestion to come here though, because we have no idea what the best course of action is.\n\n​\n\nThere's another major hitch, that being while i *should* have more money coming in next week, it would have been transferred straight to my bank account. Seeing as that doesn't exist anymore I have no idea if I'll even be able to get any of that money. I tried asking my manager about this but was given a \"don't you worry about that dear,\" type of response and nothing more.\n\n​\n\nAm I screwed?","title":"My father took all of my money and claims he legally can manage it for me because I'm a minor. In addition, he's spending it on himself.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505590608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70iwhq\/wifes_boss_hasnt_paid_her_in_over_a_year_most\/","id":"70iwhq","body":"So my wife has been with this education company for about 4 years. In August 2016, we moved to a new state, and the boss at the old company wanted to take it as an opportunity to expand operations here. The original idea was for my wife to form her own LLC that would essentially operate as a franchise, kicking back a portion of profits to the parent company in exchange for curriculum and admin support. This was supposed to be a 20hr\/week venture, with my wife working 10hrs teaching and 10 hrs admin per week. Additional work was supposed to be handled by the parent company.\n\nThe reality of the situation is that most weeks have been 50+hours of work, including teaching, training, hiring, admin work, parent support, advertising\/marketing, and more. Most of those hours have been off the clock, since my wife was only allowed to clock in for admin work that she did that was directly for the parent company's home operation location (which were working hours that she picked up in order to have some cash flow at all.) She was not allowed to clock in for hours put toward work in our new state at \"her\" part of the company. She has repeatedly asked about when she would get paid for her work, with vague responses and runarounds. She never signed any paperwork making her an exempt employee and never had control of company finances. Schools and parents paid the parent company directly.\n\nHere's the rub... my wife never signed anything relating to the pay structure. Now that my wife is finally leaving, the boss is finally is offering to cut her all the profits without taking a cut. Which sounds great, except he still has yet to actually give her a number, and hasn't even paid from contracts completed in 2016. He wants her to agree to compensation before showing her the final number. On one hand, it sounds generous that he wants to not take a cut of the profits, (probably around $10k before taxes, but still waiting on the company's Profit & Loss sheets for final numbers - yes, even from 2016). On the other hand, The fact that the compensation is being negotiated after the fact and the thought of being paid less than $200\/wk for my wife's 50+hr work weeks (when she never was a true owner of the company with all the benefits therein) doesn't sit right with me. My wife is leaning toward just taking the payment to get it over with, but I am worried that she has been wronged and undervalued. Even at minumum wage here, 50 hrs\/wk should payout over $26K\/year. At the standard hourly pay at the company, ($15\/hr) she would have earned just under $43k.\n\nWhat do you think we should do? Should we agree and take the payout that her boss offered for now? Should we pursue some sort of legal action? On one hand, we didn't really expect much of a profit in the first year of the venture, but we did expect that my wife would be in control of the financial operations or at least receive timely compensation. My wife feels that she should take the payout because the agreement was always supposed to be based on profits, but I can't help but feel that we've been taken advantage of from the start. She also wants to try to maintain relationship with her old boss. Is there some middle ground option I'm not seeing between taking whatever he decides to give her and dragging the Department of Labor into the situation? \n\n*edit: current location is Hawaii","title":"Wife's boss hasn't paid her in over a year, most weeks worked overtime, wants to pay her unspecified profits now that she's quit","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568905339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6fa2s\/company_fired_all_salaried_workers_at_the_end_of\/","id":"d6fa2s","body":"As of today, I no longer work at a crop dusting service in Arkansas, I've worked there for two years, and I've been salaried this year. I took a low salary of 25k on the promise that I would be paid throughout the winter for all of the hours I put in at work (7 days a week, 6 days of 12 hour shifts) . I didn't sign any contracts or anything, it was all a verbal agreement nobody has signed any before, honestly I didn't think about it.\n\nFast forward to now, things are all but dead, we did like maybe 2 jobs a week. The company is a co-op with a board of farmers, and they came in today and as a part of \"cost saving\" they fired all of the ground crew members, 3 of the 6 people that work there. I turned down hourly pay because they told me I would be able to get a second job in October as I wouldn't be needed but once a week, also its a normal thing in agriculture to do. I feel cheated out of my salary, I worked over 80 hours a week for the good part of May, June, and July and I won't see any of that money. Should I contact a lawyer? Is what they did illegal at all? I got a feeling I'm just kinda screwed.","title":"Company fired all salaried workers at the end of the busy season in Arkansas","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570156861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd1c9x\/landlord_didnt_tell_me_about_a_pet_in_the\/","id":"dd1c9x","body":"Hi, \n\nI recently moved into a new apartment that has 4 bedrooms and I\u2019m occupying the last one. The three other roommates have lived here longer than me. When the landlord showed me the place, he didn\u2019t mention that any of the roommates had pets and after I signed the lease and moved in, I discovered that a roommate has a cat. The landlord knows so it\u2019s nothing sneaky on her part, but I am allergic to cats and the landlord never mentioned it. Is there any grounds for breaking the lease since he didn\u2019t disclose that information to me upfront?  \n\nThanks!","title":"Landlord didn\u2019t tell me about a pet in the apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571664168,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl0hjx\/i_dont_want_to_go_to_my_fathers_house\/","id":"dl0hjx","body":"My parents are divorced, and the custody arrangement is basically 1\/2 of my time with my mom and 1\/2 of my time with my dad. I don\u2019t really feel comfortable, nor safe, going to my dads house. He keeps trying to pick me up from school, but I refuse to get in his car. He has mental issues, (PSTD, schizotypal personality disorder, depression, anxiety, etc.) and I fear going to his house because he has a bunch of medicine. My mother is going to court to get me appointed a guardian ad litem, and the judge is going to say whether or not my dad is able to be a responsible parent. Am I legally required to go to his house if the judge says so? If it helps: I\u2019m 14 and I live in South Carolina.","title":"I don\u2019t want to go to my fathers house.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554346202,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b97c6z\/consignment_store_closed_due_to_bankruptcy_and\/","id":"b97c6z","body":"BACKGROUND:\n\n​\n\nA consignment store closed down and the owners refused to pay the remaining balance to us and kept the inventory with him. He is claiming the LLC has no money to pay back  and many of the inventories  was stolen.   \n\nThe consignment store takes a 20% cut for each sale and the 80% is suppose to goes back to us. The owner claim, in order keep the business float, he used the 80% to keep the business float.   \n\nNo contract was signed as it was a simple \"trust\" or in this case, a verbal contract\". Going after the LLC is pointless, can we go after the owner?","title":"consignment store closed due to bankruptcy and refuse to pay remaining balance and inventory","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1504740041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yjc9p\/toronto_ontario_indefinite_renovations_are\/","id":"6yjc9p","body":"**Question:**\n\nIs there a way to convince my management company to:\n\n1) book me a quiet suite in another building to work from until construction is finished ***or***\n\n2) get them to reimburse me for renting a coworking space?\n\nI think I'm SOL, but I'm open to alternative legal suggestions or solutions.\n\nThank you in advance!\n\n**Background:**\n\n* We rent a unit in a high rise in Toronto, ON.\n\n* We are not interested in relocating.\n\n* I work remotely from home and commuting is not an option.\n\n* The building management has been renovating every unit as tenants move out and construction is indefinite *(I guess until we are the last tenants living in an unrenovated suite).*\n\n* They issue a notice before the start of each renovation that basically says: \u201cExpect loud noise M-F, 8:30 am-6:00 pm, intermittently for 4-6 weeks\u201d *(See screenshots below)*\n\n* There are approx 10-12 ongoing per month and it has been going on for 1+ year *(2+ years if you include other projects, but I understand that some upkeep construction is necessary for the betterment of all residents like redoing windows and balconies)*.\n\n* Some days are silent, some are so loud I can barely hear my phone ring, depending on how close the unit is to mine.\n\n* I have rented a part-time coworking space in the past and my company has paid for this, but I think that is unreasonable as they are already reimbursing me for expenses related to working from home.\n\n* Both my independent work and conference calls\/meetings are frequently interrupted because I can't predict what days to expect interference from construction noise.\n\n* While they offer a \u201cQuiet Suite\u201d in another building in our complex, use of their board room, or use of the free wifi in common areas, their board room\/common areas are not private enough to be a viable option and the Quiet Suites must be booked in advance and are normally not available last minute. \n\n**Screenshots:**\n\n[The standard notice.](https:\/\/imgur.com\/2QGe3e7)\n\n[My attempt at keeping track of all the renovations.](https:\/\/imgur.com\/dAUcvYW)\n\n**EDIT:** Some clarification of the background details:\n\n* It should also be noted that my husband and I can barely hear each other talk when they are demolishing walls and jackhammering concrete. I don't see how that's reasonable even if I didn't work from home, but only really get truly irritated when it affects one of our jobs (me working from home, or him trying to sleep after shift work).\n\n* We are not interested in relocation because it does not make sense financially (approx +$4-5k a year for a similar unit in a similar location) plus moving costs. Yay Toronto!","title":"[Toronto, Ontario] Indefinite renovations are interfering with my ability to work from home (ongoing 1+ years). Can I ask management to pay for a coworking space\/rental office?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539884907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pbjnm\/will_question_please_help\/","id":"9pbjnm","body":"So long Story short, my father left my mother (after 43 years of marriage) and got with another woman 5 years ago. Said women was married before and took all of her ex-husbands money and left nothing for his 2 adult children.\n\nNow my dad and her just re-did their wills down in Florida where they have a second home. For some reason, if my Dad dies first it all goes to her, then, when she does her fortune goes between myself and a niece on her side. They are not married but she is his sole beneficiary if he dies first.\n\nI told him she will 100% change her will the minute he dies leaving me with nothing. He says no (because he\u2019s blinded) that they talked about it. Not sure why she would give me any of her substantial money as we have never even talked and she knows I am no fan of hers. \n\nWhat\u2019s to stop her from changing her will to not include me at all when my dad is gone??? Is there anything I can do at all to make sure this doesn\u2019t happen??","title":"Will Question, please help.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1409241846,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2etzg5\/potential_online_gambling\/","id":"2etzg5","body":"Location: Kansas, USA\n\nI work as a web developer for a small firm in Kansas. We recently developed a site for a client which had the following characteristics:\n\n- Fantasy sports gaming site\n- Organizations, targeted at but explicitly not limited to non-profits, create an account on the site. They create fantasy sports tournaments, and charge users a \"donation\" to play in the fantasy sports game\n- The entirety of the \"donation\" does not go to the organization. The majority of it does, but a portion goes to the owners of the site who are a for-profit company.\n- Users who sign up and play in these fantasy sports tournaments have the chance to win a prize, which include both items and cash, if their fantasy sports team performs well.\n- The game functions like any other fantasy sports league: users sign up, pay a \"donation\", and choose from a pool of players to create their own fantasy team.\n- Apparently, this client has never consulted with a lawyer about this business. \n- Apparently, the business I work for also never consulted with a lawyer about this client.\n- The servers this is hosted on are shared servers, and in our host's acceptable use policy it says the following: \"Conducting any gambling activity in violation of any required licenses, codes of practice, or necessary technical standards required under the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction in which your site is hosted or accessed; or\nAny action that is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to us\"\n\nI've been thinking all along that this is illegal online gambling, but I've had multiple people tell me it's fine because the money from \"donations\" is mostly going towards these organizations which are mostly charities and that it exists in a \"gray area\".\n\nI've been warning other people in our company that we need to protect ourselves because our host could just decide to shut down our whole hosting account if this client gets into legal trouble as we'd be in violation of the AUP. [Fantasy sports games have even been getting some heat from the KS Gaming Commission lately](http:\/\/www.krgc.ks.gov\/index.php\/racing-gaming-law\/illegal-gambling\/faq-s#football).\n\nSo, tldr: is this online gambling? Does it matter that they choose to call it \"donations\"? If we're in jeopardy here, what can I tell my boss to convince him that we need to lawyer up?\n\nThank you - I'll try to answer any questions if I haven't provided enough information.","title":"Potential Online Gambling","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539791919,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ozxb6\/traffic_violation_dash_cam_review\/","id":"9ozxb6","body":"Is there a Lawyer\/Attorney that practices in traffic violations that would be willing to take a look at some Dash Cam footage and tell me my odds of winning pleading not guilty in court? I have no legal experience or money to hire a lawyer. ","title":"Traffic Violation Dash Cam review","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1502770463,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6trwz2\/signing_my_first_lease_can_someone_breakdown_this\/","id":"6trwz2","body":"\"SEVERABILITY: If any part or parts of this Lease shall be held\nunenforceable for any reason, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. If any provision of this Lease is deemed invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, and if limiting such provision would make the provision valid, then such provision shall be deemed to be construed as so limited.\"\n\nalso\n\n\"CUMULATIVE RIGHTS: Landlord\u2019s and Tenant\u2019s rights under this Lease are cumulative, and shall not be construed as exclusive of each other unless otherwise required by law.\"\n\nThis is in DC, USA\n\nThanks a lot! Excited for my next step in life (:","title":"Signing my first lease - can someone breakdown this clause for me?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409681950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fa3lz\/nurse_in_mn_for_private_company_being_paid_190hr\/","id":"2fa3lz","body":"A nurse for a local private surgical company recently discovered that she was being paid $1.90\/hr less than the agreed upon rate. The company is claiming that she is not entitled to that back pay because they are a private company, and are not required to follow MN Department of Labor laws (of which I am not familiar). If the nurses contract says she is owed $xx.xx per hour, and subsequently is not paid that amount, what legal ground does she have for claiming that pay difference for hours already worked?","title":"Nurse in MN for private company being paid $1.90\/hr less than agreed upon rate.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1542119914,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wpl1w\/need_advice_on_holding_a_check\/","id":"9wpl1w","body":"Brand new here, so here we go. \n\nI work at a small mom and pop bakery with four employees including myself, and my coworker of a few months (let\u2019s call her Sarah) just didn\u2019t show up for her shift one day. I helped them out and they didn\u2019t hear back from her for 3-4 days.\n\nWhen Sarah did contact the store, she sent a message saying that she\u2019s sorry she didn\u2019t show up and the reason she\u2019s been MIA is because of some adverse reaction to her liver medication and immediately said she quit. No one here at the store has seen her since November 3rd. \n\nDuring the lost days, the owner stopped by her house to check on her and had her paycheck with him, but no one answered the door.\n\nOn Friday after hours Sarah messaged the owner and asked if her mom can pick up her check. The wiener responds with \u201cThat\u2019s fine. The check will be ready on Tuesday\u201d (due to her leaving we had to scramble for help and we\u2019re slammed all weekend and we\u2019re closed on Mondays.)\n\nSo on Sunday, 30 minutes before we close, her mom drops in and demands the check. It\u2019s not in the building, and the owner said they\u2019d have it for her on Tuesday, like they said in the message. Then the mother starts threatening legal action because they\u2019re holding the check and storms off.\n\nIt\u2019s ready today (Tuesday) but I\u2019m curious if they have a leg to stand on. The mother is the only one who threatened action, not the employee.","title":"Need advice on holding a check","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553461680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b51kp5\/would_the_application_of_antitrust_law_on_modern\/","id":"b51kp5","body":"I am *brand-new* to the idea of anti-trust laws and their application. It only very seriously came to my attention this week with politicians claiming bipartisan support for applying it to several tech giants. So, I am wondering if someone here could help me understand if it would it be accurate to say that if Big Tech companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, Uber, etc. were found to be violating anti-trust laws today, that to be effective (depending on the kind of remediation that was found to be effective for an individual case) in a situation where a company was limited to no longer purchasing new companies, that the sentence might also need to include a partnership and monetary gain\/influence clause stating that they could not benefit more than a certain amount of money\u2014or their partner a certain amount of money\u2014in order to benefit from the products or services that said partner might bring the giant in lieu of having to actually innovate anything themselves? It seems to me, as a complete and utter layperson on this topic, like that would be an essential portion of what a sentence in today\u2019s world of partnerships and lack of partnering oversight, considering how technically the two companies could themselves create a similar trust to create the same type of monopoly with the tech giant that acquiring the company might do? But maybe I misunderstand?","title":"Would the Application of Anti-Trust Law on Modern Tech Giants Need to Include Partnership Clauses to be Effective?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540517512,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rgdjq\/my_so_15f_was_touched_by_her_stepdad_and_had_no\/","id":"9rgdjq","body":"Her real mother has done nothing against her stepfather, even though he sexually abused her. I believe she has had a minor police investigation, but as far as I know CPS where not involved and her stepdad is off Scott free. Along with being disgusting to her, he has as mentioned before touched her against her will.\nIs it possible her mother is covering up to keep him out of legal trouble? And why would he not have any legal actions for sexually abusing his 15 yo step daughter. Something doesn\u2019t seem right in all this. And I do know she is telling the truth, and I can tell it is affecting her mood and how she acts.\nIs there anything I can do to protect her from her stepdad if the accusations are true? She says she wants to run away and I need to get something to change soon.","title":"My SO, 15F was touched by her stepdad, and had no actions against his him.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542299392,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9xcp0f\/my_18f_girlfriend_revealed_she_was_sexually_and\/","id":"9xcp0f","body":"NY        \n     \nIf you guys know another sub this should go point me there.    \n     \nShe's just a wreck but she's really good at repressing it. She's never told anyone but me, she feels intense pressure from her family (Islamic family related a bit, not sure how much that culture aspect plays into it). I thought it was just sexual abuse but she told me last night after breaking down that he threatened her and that's why she won't tell anyone. She doesn't feel safe. If she waits she won't be able to prosecute the guy. I don't know what to do, she has 4 years to go to counseling at college without her family knowing (a big worry for her), but if she waits too long to call the cops she will never get this guy charged for this. The SOL is 5 years, either it just passed or it's about to, I can't get concrete dates since she has panic attacks whenever I try to get her to talk.             \n        \nShe absolutely freezes up every time I try to bring it up, but she's clearly struggling with intrusive thoughts, nightmares, it's always in the back of her head always. I want to just never bring it up ever again, since that's what she wants to do and what she plans to do, but she's clearly getting worse and needs to handle this. She just can't face it.     \n      \nI got her to text the anonymous sexual assault line thing but she only did it once and she said it made her feel worse and that's why she won't get help.         \n        \nCan she charge the guy anonymously? I don't think there's a chance in hell she can testify as she is right now. I don't know what to do. We submitted an FBI online tip, but the coach isn't teaching anymore and maybe doesn't have any other victims.         \n      \n**TL;DR girlfriend won't get help and the 5 year SOL is either about to pass or already did. What should I do?**","title":"My [18f] girlfriend revealed she was sexually and physically abused by her coach in middle\/high school. The Statute of limitations is about to pass or has just passed. She freezes up and can't cope, is refusing counseling, I don't know what to do.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1408942608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ei6hm\/catotaled_car_hit_with_negligent_driving_charges\/","id":"2ei6hm","body":"California\n\nLike the title says, I totaled my car after working an early shift at work and dozing off at the wheel for a couple of unfortunate seconds. The only other charge on my driving record is a suspended license for an unpaid ticket I received for going straight on a right-turn-only lane but could not afford to pay off due to being a student. \n\nThe only thing that worries me about tomorrow's court date is that the officer found a capsule of my friend's medical marijuana inside the wreck. I was never tested for any drugs in my system after the accident, and the officer simply told me to dispose of it in front of him (i stomped it on the ground) so I don't know if this will come up or not, and was wondering what I could have prepared in case it is brought up. The drugs belonged to a friend of mine, a legitimate patient that I did a favor, but he forgot his stuff in my car, sadly.","title":"[CA]Totaled car, hit with negligent driving charges and suspended license, court tomorrow, & some questions","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555475320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be3msl\/ks_one_of_my_peers_threatened_to_physically_harm\/","id":"be3msl","body":"Around 2 hours ago, I was talking with some buddies of mine in our football group chat. After talking for a while, we got onto the topic of girls, as high school students do. One of my \"buddies\" (I don't consider him to be my friend) started going off on me out of the blue. He called me a man-ho, and said that I flirt with a lot of girls. I said \"there's nothing wrong with playing the field.\" After a little while longer, I had gotten fed up and decided to shut the kid up. I said \"I don't know why you're getting onto me about being a ho, I can make a long list of people your mom slept with in high school.\" I know this to be true because of my father. After that remark, he threatened to beat the shit out of me, to which I said, \"go ahead, I'll take every punch you got\" knowing that if that were to happen, I could sue him for potentially everything he has. Except, I don't know if that's true, seeing as though I'm unsure if the Cyber bullying laws in my country. Please keep in mind that I did NOT use any derogatory terms when talking to the guy, I never once used the word, ho, whore, or anything related to describe him or his mother. I'm simply wondering about the Cyber bullying laws in my state, and was wondering if I could have any backlash from what I said, from a legal standpoint\n\nThanks!","title":"[KS] One of my peers threatened to physically harm me, but, I somewhat instigated the situation. Pleqse help me figure out where I fall in sight of the law.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1502816603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tvhtn\/ma_questions_about_receiving_a_notice_to_quit\/","id":"6tvhtn","body":"I'm dealing with an issue with my landlord right now.  And while I hope I can get everything worked out, I also want to be prepared for any outcome.\n\nIf we can't resolve the issue, as I'm on a month-to-month tenancy, I know he has to issue a 30-day Notice to Quit.  I also know that he has to be careful about when he issues his notice, as not allowing enough time will invalidate the notice.\n\nFrom the MassLegalHelp website:\nhttp:\/\/www.masslegalhelp.org\/receiving-proper-notice\n>Example: If your rent is due monthly on the first of the month, and your landlord states in the notice that she wants to terminate your tenancy by September 1, you must receive the notice to quit in writing on or before August 1. If you do not receive the notice until August 2, it is invalid and you cannot be evicted based on it.\n\nWhat I'm wondering is what counts as me \"receiving\" the notice?  To give an example more specific to me...\n\nSay my landlord dates the notice for August 30th and sends it certified mail.  I get home the evening of September 1st and find a notice in my mailbox that I've got a certified letter requiring signature waiting for me at the post office.  But by the time I've gotten home the post office is already closed.  So I then stop by the post office on the way home on September 2nd and sign for the letter.  I open the letter and find that the notice states that my tenancy ends on October 1st (the next rent-due date).\n\nWhat I'm wondering is which of the following cases apply.\n\n**Case 1**: The date of the notice counts as the date \"received\" (I doubt this is the case, but I want to make sure), so it's valid.\n\n**Case 2**: The date that I knew the letter was waiting for me at the post office counts as the date \"received\".  Since that's September 1st, the notice is still valid.\n\n**Case 3**: The date that the letter is physically in my possession counts as the date \"received\".  As that's September 2nd, which is less than 30 days from October 1st, the notice is invalid.\n\nA related question.... If Case 3 applies, and the notice I receive isn't valid for October 1st termination of tenancy, does it automatically \"roll-over\" and become valid for November 1st?  Or does my landlord have to issue a new notice?","title":"[MA] Questions about \"receiving\" a notice to quit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441768017,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k6no9\/california_18_year_old_friends_dating_a_16_year\/","id":"3k6no9","body":"So, my best friend's dating a 16 year old. They've had sex and actually got caught by the police in a public place (the girl lied to the officer and said she was 17. He let them go). This girl is from a bad part of town, my friend is really wealthy. I don't want to see her turn around and go to the police if she thinks she's gonna get a payday out of him and his family. Plus I don't want to see him go to prison. \n\nWould the DA prosecute him? It freaks me out cause I had two friends that had sex together at 16 and the dude went to jail for rape (until he was acquitted). \n\nEdit: Also, he moved to AZ and plans to move her out here this next semester. I'm not sure how legal that is either. Anyone know if I could get a cop in on this and possibly scare him, just so he knows the risk is real? ","title":"[California] 18 year old friend's dating a 16 year old female. Can he go to prison?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569116085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7jxm8\/recieving_money_to_get_a_woman_pregnant\/","id":"d7jxm8","body":"I have recieved an offer by a (f) 41 who is in love with me (m) 22. An offer of 1 one million dollars USD (1,000,000) to get her pregnant. I have offered her an anonymous sperm donation to her for a smaller sum hower she wants it to be natural. I understand this is a horrible thing to do to ask for money for sperm donation especially natural as it will be my child too, but I will get the the point. I have offered a straight transaction of a higher sum in case she says I have to raise the child, so instead of collateral I will simply accept the money, paying child support might be a must but I am willing to. I am left in huge debt due to the passing away of my mother and will happily use the money to support the child, I simply do not want any accosiation in seeing the child at the moment because I would not like accosiation with her, and most importantly I do not want to become attatched to the child, she agreed. That I do not she would also not want me to have accosiation with the child. I simply cannot raise a child at my age, and do not have any interest in raising the child with this woman. I would like it to be a \"natural sperm donation with collateral\" she is completely against sperm donation and would like it to be natural. She really wants twins as they run in my family and and my genes are what she is looking for. I requested 2 million USD if she has twins. The transaction would be from her very wealthy parents that are willing to do it. Is such a thing humane? possible? I stated that I would not sleep with her until after a discussion with a good lawer that would state in writing I am taking the transaction with all the terms I stated above and then I will proceed to sleep with her constantly until she becomes pregnant. paying child support would not be an issue as I study business and will recieve help to turn that milliion to multimillions, I plan to transfer funds all around to my father, and brother and potentially leave money for a rainy day in a secured account even cash in secured banks so that I will not be left with a while I have to raise with her and no money.\n\nIs there a special lawer to see that can do this?\n\nis This legal?\n\nIs this Humane?\n\nPlease no bashing, I am in a desperate situation and I live alone in debt in Israel.","title":"Recieving Money to get a woman pregnant","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540175949,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q9n12\/paid_someone_1500_to_record_some_songs_and_for_me\/","id":"9q9n12","body":"So I work with a small group of people outside of my main company and we pretty much buy music from smaller artists and distribute it on iTunes and Spotify and collect the royalties. Usually we have a contract but this time we didn't.\n\nI contacted an artist by text to purchase some songs (3) for $500 each and I paid the money and I have texts of him saying that he would get the songs done. Fast forward to today and he missed the deadline and stopped contacting me, essentially running off with the money I paid him. He ended up recording the songs and likely will be distributing them on his own with beats I own the rights to, which I will file legal action against that of he does distribute.\n\nWould like some legal advice to help get my money back or at least those songs. I live in FL and he lives in IL.","title":"Paid someone $1500 to record some songs and for me to distribute it, they ran off with the money","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446677036,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rjy49\/mn_court_takes_2_months_to_enter_ticket_citation\/","id":"3rjy49","body":"Hi all. This is real petty, but $300 is $300. I had a parking ticket for parking in a handicapped zone (low lighting, sign was faded, this was a \"handicapped unloading zone.\") Dumb mistake on my part I guess, should have been more attentive, \n\nOn my citation it read that it would be entered to an online payment system within 10 days. I checked for over a month, it was never there, so I thought it had been dropped. \n\nToday I recieved a late notice in the mail, saying that I now owe $5 more for not paying on time. I called into the court office, they told me this ticket was entered on Sept 30th. The ticket was issued on July 28th. Is it worth it to go to the courthouse and talk to a lawyer \/ someone to dispute this? \n\nThe parking ticket was issued in Hennepin county while I was visiting the twin cities, that may be different than other counties.  \n\nThanks!","title":"MN; Court takes 2 months to enter ticket, Citation said 10 days- Can I get out of this $300 ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541628242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v3wu1\/nv_today_me_and_my_classmates_fucked_up_by\/","id":"9v3wu1","body":"Ok so, I'm in my senior year of high school with one of my classes being dental assisting. We have these programs called internships, where a student can go into an actual dental clinic and shadow. In my class, there's this shy humble guy who's known to be picked on by many others. He interns at a dental clinic near our school and he told our class the story of how he overheard his superiors talking trash about him. After hearing this, my classmates got livid and started to write comments on their google page. The clinic's stars dropped as most of us submitted our reviews. There was one problem though, we used our school emails instead of our alts. So you would see a bad 1 star review created by an account with a \\[STUDENT\\] handle. We laughed it off as we turned their 5 star review into a 2.1 star. Days passed until we all get pulled in to the Dean's office and punished with an RPC. The deans told us that they are looking to sue\/press charges. What can we do to defend ourselves, not one of us knows that much about law. ","title":"[NV] Today, me and my classmates fucked up by messing with a dental clinic.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555547339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bef6jy\/what_are_maines_self_defense_laws_for_an_unarmed\/","id":"bef6jy","body":"I'm curious if it is a stand your ground like law or something else. I've tried googling it but couldn't find a solid answer and was just left more confused.","title":"What are Maine's self defense laws for an unarmed intruder in your home\/property?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553555660,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5hzt6\/turo_rental_owner_claims_we_did_damage_to_vehicle\/","id":"b5hzt6","body":"My wife and I just returned from a trip over the weekend in which we rented a vehicle from Turo for 4 days. Instead of the normal procedure of taking all the photos in the app, the owner of the car drove us from the airport to the car. We did a walkaround at 11:30pm and determined with the owner it was good to go with no major visible issues. 4 days later we return the car at 1:30pm at which point the owner walks the car, has my wife sign paperwork that states it is issue free and drives us to the airport in the same car we just returned. He drops us off and we head inside the airport and he drives away in that rental vehicle. \n\nNow, almost 24 hours later, photos are posted with a time stamp that indicate they were taken nearly a full day after return that show bumper scratches low on the passenger side. They are highly visible from a low viewing angle, but only slightly visible from a higher viewing angle (Chevy Camaro, so it has a low stance). The owner has filed a claim against my wife and has said our options are Turo\u2019s insurance process or our own personal insurance and has been very curt on text after two pleasant in-person meetings.\n\nTo me, the photos taken A FULL DAY after drop off, along with us walking it with the owner and signing off on the car, AND with the owner NOT following normal Turo procedure of taking pictures at drop off are the red flags for me. I don\u2019t want my wife to be out any money or see an insurance increase if this wasn\u2019t our fault (we drove very cautiously and don\u2019t believe we are responsible for those scratches).\n\nDo we have a leg to stand on here? Thanks for any advice in advance!","title":"Turo rental owner claims we did damage to vehicle AFTER we met with the owner and we signed that the vehicle was good to go.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570507871,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deuxyc\/tenant_is_attempting_to_sublet_their_room_however\/","id":"deuxyc","body":"Posting for a friend (aka landlord). They currently have a tenant who wants to leave their rental. The lease agreement is until February 2020. The tenant put an ad on Zillow claiming that they were the owner attempting to sublet. The lease agreement, however, very clearly states that subletting is prohibited. Tenant has also been very adamant in their emails implying that they will not be paying for the remainder of the lease and pushing the landlord to allow subleasing. I advised that they get in contact with Zillow ASAP to remove the listing, but are there any other precautions that should be taken?","title":"Tenant is attempting to sublet their room, however it is not in their lease (CA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441682572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k1sdx\/arizona_i_received_a_criminal_speeding_citation\/","id":"3k1sdx","body":"I have never received a criminal citation before, this would be the first. I have no tickets on my record, the last speeding ticket was over 5 years ago and I cleared it by going to traffic school. I have no idea what to expect. I read online that the court may be able to assign me to go to traffic school but I'm not sure if thats true. Also, my friend told me to not go and just call the court to pay the fee but there isn't a fee associated on the citation that the cop gave me; also, I'm not going to be stupid and skip a court date which would lead to a warrant for my arrest. \nI was clocked by radar go 47mph in a 25mph at night. I honestly wasn't paying attention to the speed limit, since the majority of the streets here are 45mph. I'm prepared to pay any fee\/go to traffic school seeing as I was technically breaking the law. Any advice or a rundown of what will happen on the court day is much appreciated. Also, I am a teacher, and am seriously worried that this is going to affect my job. Thank you for the advice!","title":"(Arizona) I received a criminal speeding citation and was told I had to go to court. What should I expect or prepare before hand?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552958407,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2qzl0\/copyright_claim_abuse\/","id":"b2qzl0","body":"TLDR; Is there any law or ruling preventing abuse of copyright such that would allow a class to file an action against companies who repeatedly make unsubstantiated claims against content creators for *subsequent* works? \n\nLong form:\n\nI consume a lot of internet content specifically Youtube but recently troll companies have been filing copyright claims against users denying them a living. I've dealt with a lot of patent trolls in my work and this strikes me as a similar problem. The actions taken by governments usually provide avenues to fight patent trolls but I don't know of any way to fight harassment of this type.  \n\nI need to know if there is an option out there or if I need to make one","title":"Copyright Claim Abuse","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569683293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dah6dy\/new_york_dad_died_without_a_will_mom_is_trying_to\/","id":"dah6dy","body":"My mom and dad bought the house \u201ctogether\u201d (she didn\u2019t work and didn\u2019t actually pay for any of it) and were both on the deed. I assume now she is the only one on the deed, as he has been gone for 3 years.\n\nThere are 7 of us kids who all want the home to stay in the family. She originally was going to sign it over to us, but then she got remarried and decided she wanted to sell for profit despite our protests. I\u2019ve looked into state law a little bit and it seems like since our dad died intestate we might be entitled to a portion of his estate. We have thus far received nothing and assumed everything just went to her and she didn\u2019t share with us. Does this count for what would I guess be half a house? Is there any way to stop her from selling the house by going to court?\n\nSide note: he was an old toy collector so there is a lot of valuable stuff in the basement of the house as well, probably thousands worth, that we currently don\u2019t have access to. Not sure if\/how that would play into this either.","title":"(New York) Dad died without a will, mom is trying to sell the family home against all 7 kids wishes. We didn\u2019t inherit anything. Is this legal?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552619749,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b19rk5\/full_custody_abandonment_adoption\/","id":"b19rk5","body":"This case is in Massachusetts.\n\nLong story short, I have a permanent restraining order from my previous spouse which protects my child (below the age of 10) and I from contact with previous spouse. Domestic violence situation with other things involved with the child. I was granted full physical and legal custody. Spouse was given the option of 1 hour of visitation rights per month supervised as well as the potential to increase length of visitation if spouse shows effort and is in good legal standing. Judge also awarded spouse with the ability to write one personal letter to son per month.\n\nThis was 3-4 years ago. Spouse has not made any attempts to contact my lawyer or Massachusetts court to arrange visitation, and spouse has not written a single letter to the child.\n\nHowever, the department of revenue relinquishes payments form spouses paycheck for child support. I believe they did this because they thought spouse would not provide child support willingly. But I am uncertain if that matters.\n\nI would like to know if my current partner (we're married) can adopt the child.\n\nI understand I need to hire a lawyer specifically for this, but I would like to know what to expect in general with these types of abandonment adoption issues before I go and \"Stir the pot.\" Mostly, I want to know if child support is enough to say that spouse has not legally abandoned the child.\n\nThank you.\n\n​\n\n(throw away account for obvious reasons)","title":"Full custody, abandonment, adoption?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570326086,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddwtlo\/landlord_burns_incense_in_his_lower_apartment_im\/","id":"ddwtlo","body":"Hello R\/legaladvice. \nI live in Ontario Canada and I just moved into a new apartment.\nI am extremely scent sensitive and whenever the chemical scents are around me I have hives and it feels like my skin is on fire. If the scent is really bad, it gives me a migraine. \nWhen asking my landlord not to burn it and explaining my situation his response was \"it's just one stick of incense\" and \"I don't burn it often.\"\nIs there anything I can do?","title":"Landlord Burns Incense in his lower apartment. I'm living above and allergic to scents.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553147034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3mvcs\/usain_legality_of_having_private_text_messages\/","id":"b3mvcs","body":"Long story short my wife and sister in law\u2019s relationship is complicated and my SIL is a terrible person. Right now my wife discovered that her sister had posted private text message conversations between her and my wife about her seeing a therapist and is his these message among others to slander her on Facebook to friends and family. Aside from all the family drama that usually accompanies this is there any legal repercussions to my my SIL doing this? Even if it\u2019s just filling a police report or a civil court matter? Is that something that can be pursued or threatened? There\u2019s obviously a lot I\u2019m leaving out but yes it\u2019s gotten this bad. ","title":"[USA-IN] Legality of having private text messages posted to social media revealing medial history for purpose of slander?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551030580,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auae6j\/leaving_moneys_to_brother_that_reverts_upon_his\/","id":"auae6j","body":"My spouse and I are updating our wills. When we both die, we would like a sum to be left to my brother. \n\nIdeally, we'd like a certain percentage to be distributed to him yearly. But upon his death, whatever remains should go to charity and not his shitty heirs. \n\nWe're meeting with an attorney, but I didn't know if this type of arrangement was possible. And if so what terms to use to describe it.\n\nMany thanks.","title":"Leaving moneys to brother, that reverts upon his death (CT\/USA)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539720781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9orbk6\/landlord_billing_us_220_and_i_want_to_know_my\/","id":"9orbk6","body":"So about 8 months ago we got new downstairs neighbors. The ones before them became good friends, so we were sad to see them go. We've never had any issues with the downstairs neighbors ever, so about 2 months ago when they knocked on our door to let us know they noticed wet, bubbling and peeling paint, was the first time I'd ever spoken to them,\n\nThe husband came upstairs to let me know they had noticed some damp, bubbling paint on their dog when the dog brushed against a wall in the laundry room, and upon further inspection, noticed more puckering and dampness on the wall and came to let us know there was a leak.\n\nI went into my laundry room and noticed a small amount of water in the drain pan that the complex had installed as a failsafe for leaks and floods due to washing machine issues. It was maybe 1\/8\" deep, in a 2\" deep drain pan. I was able to easily mop up the small amount of spillover (we had done a huge load of towels the day before on extra large with an extra rinse and spin), and never noticed ANY other water spillage or any water on the floor in the laundry room, or hallway adjacent to the laundry room. Our washer was maybe 8-10 years old, so we needed a new one eventually, but never had any issues with leaks in the entire time we owned the washer. I googled this issue and found it to be quite common and the exact reason for the installation of a drain pan.\n\nOnce we removed the old washer from the drain pan, we saw the reason for the 1\/8\" of water. The drain that sits in the center of the drain pan, sat 1\" above the pan, meaning that ANY amount of water less than 1\" could not drain and would SIT until at least 1\" if water would fill the pan and allow a small amount of drainage.\n\nI also noticed that there was a small hairline crack in the drain pan where it was installed, and that the hole cut out of the pan to allow the installation of the drain had never been caulked or sealed, effectively negating their fail safe. The drain pan had a small hole cut in the center and then been forced down the threaded pvc pipe drain to \"lock\" it in place. \n\nTalking to several plumbing professionals I quickly understood that the drain pan had been installed improperly, thus negating the purpose for it. \n\nToday I came home to a $220 bill on my front door for the repairs to the wall downstairs as well as a repainting fee. It was an invoice from the outside company they hired to \"fix\" the issue downstairs, without ever coming up to see if the drain pan was installed properly, or to fix said drain pan, and then passed off onto us to pay.\n\nWhile I understand that $220 isn't a huge bill, I do not believe that the burden to pay the whole fee lies on us alone. Especially since the actual issue was never fixed and the drain pan is STILL cracked, not caulked and still unsealed, so any amount of water that goes through the drain pan in the future will be an issue AGAIN. \n\nNo idea how long that slow leak was going on as our old neighbors never saw it and there was a \"walk thru\" done between tenants and no one noticed any warped or wrinkled paint, and again, I've NEVER SEEN any leaks, spills, floods or water, except that small amount in the pan.\n\nWe've since purchased a new washer so we aren't experiencing any leaks or spills currently, but the real issue was NOT repaired. \n\nAny legal advice is helpful, even if it's \"sorry lady, you're stuck paying the $220\", but I feel like maybe we have a little bit more rights than that... \n\nThanks in advance.\n\n(I hope I've not left anything out, but let me know if you have additional questions, and YES I have photo evidence of the drain etc)","title":"Landlord billing us $220 and I want to know my rights.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444783303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ons06\/judicial_process_class_plea_bargain_simulation_us\/","id":"3ons06","body":"Hello,\n\nI am a pre-law student and am currently enrolled in a judicial process class. We have a plea bargain\/trial simulation coming up and I wanted to see if I could get any advice on how to go about my process. I am playing the role of the prosecutor; I will provide the details of my case.\n\nCharge: \nFelony possession of controlled substance\n\tPossession  of more than 5 grams of a controlled substance, including (but not limited to) cocaine, crack, meth, heroin, marijuana without evidence of  intent to distribute or sell to others.\n\tPunishment: 1 to 20 years in prison.\n*Note: I can lower his punishment to a misdemeanor which carries a 30 day to 1 year sentence. \n\nPolice Report:\nOn February 4th, 2007, at 10:45 p.m., on Dickson Street, a red 1976 Maverick was heading eastbound with a nonfunctioning taillight.  I pulled the Maverick over near the intersection of College Avenue and Dickson Street (eastbound) to inform the driver of the malfunction.  As I approached the driver\u2019s side window, I noticed the driver of the car attempting to stuff what appeared to be a shoebox into the car\u2019s glove box.  Fearing for my safety (and thinking the shoebox could contain a weapon), I drew my weapon and instructed the driver to step out of the car.  The driver set the shoebox on the passenger-side seat and stepped out of the car on the driver\u2019s side.  I then radioed for back up and searched the contents of the box.  The search revealed a yellow powdery substance, apparently powder methanphetomine.  \nI placed the driver of the car into custody in the back of my patrol car.  The driver of the Maverick produced an Missabama driver\u2019s license for Ruel Ellis of 1712 Grand Street in Cooked County and an automobile registration showing the car registered to Robert Douglas Oram of Cooked County.  The car and the contents of the shoebox were impounded.\nAt the station, the contents of the powder substance were weighed.  The powder weighed 25 grams.  Ellis was charged with possession of a Class I controlled substance and was placed in Cooked County  lock-up pending bond.\n\nProsecutor Notes:\nRuel Ellis: male, black, 31 years old, married, 6.1 feet, 220 pounds.\nDave Cougar has been on the police force for 8 years. In that time he has gained a reputation of hardliner, leading to two complaints of excessive police force in 2000 and 2003. You are reluctant to put him on the stand because of his reputation of using any means to achieve the wished for outcome. Both Ellis\u2019 and Oram\u2019s fingerprints were found on the shoebox.\n\nEllis has no prior convictions, though the owner of the car, his brother in law Robert Douglas Oram was convicted of possession of cocaine two years ago and received a 3 years probated sentence.  There are no other arrests or convictions on his record.   \nBail was set at $100,000. Ellis has not signed a property bond and remains in jail.\n\nThank you for any help you can provide. I have, what I believe is, a pretty solid plea bargain in place. I am determining on whether to go to a suspended sentence with probation or to attempt to maintain a prison sentence. I still estimate a semi-easy defense that might refuse the bargain. My grade is penalized if the case goes to trial. \n\nThanks.","title":"Judicial Process Class Plea Bargain Simulation (U.S.)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444247950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nvqm7\/parents_are_divorcing_one_side_has_sent_a\/","id":"3nvqm7","body":"I'm in North Carolina","title":"Parents are divorcing. One side has sent a certified letter summoning me to testify. Am I legally obligated to pick it up at the post office?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445126683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p676g\/am_i_sol_for_subleasing_damages_nyc\/","id":"3p676g","body":"I formerly lived with roommates, and subleased over the summer to one of their friends.  The roommate told me that a subletter's agreement was not necessary, as her friend wouldn't cause damage\/would pay for anything that happened.  I still felt uncomfortable, so I had the friend (she lives in Puerto Rico) send the following statement via email:\n\n\"I, XXXXX, acknowledge that I will be using XXXXXX's furniture from June 1 to August 3. I hereby agree to pay to replace any furniture that is damaged while in my possession.\"\n\nOf course furniture was damaged, although mostly paint chipping -- basically enough to prevent my getting a good deal when I resell.  What I care more about is the $70 worth of items missing -- a lamp and a bunch of hangers, mostly. \n\nDo I have any recourse to legally request reimbursement for replacing these items? The subletter hasn't responded to my requests, so I'd like to request reimbursement from the ex-roommate.  Am I just SOL?","title":"Am I SOL for subleasing damages? (NYC)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553908473,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b75c9a\/employees_paying_for_customers_order\/","id":"b75c9a","body":"Chicago, Illinois\nTrying to give as much context without rambling on. And trying to remain neutral about the situation.\n\n\nThe restaurant I work at is one that has varying amounts of walk in, dine in, and delivery. This issue involves the delivery side.\n\n\nWhen we have an order for delivery, we prepare the order and send it out using a third party delivery service. As with any orders, sometimes mistakes are made and when they happen, we do our best to accommodate the customer. \n\n\nTonight we had a delivery go out and a bit later the customer called us. The issue was that about $4 worth of side sauce was missing when they received their food (order was just under $66 total)\n\n\nSince the customer said my offer of a refund for the missing sauce wasn\u2019t worth it and that they didn\u2019t want the food at all anymore because of the missing sauce, I offered to call my manager to see if we could offer the customer anything else. \n\n\nMy manager told me to refund the customers entire order and that the three of us who are working tonight would have to tell the owners ourselves what happened and that we would have to pay for the order ourselves (so about $22 each). This is likely going to be all that we make tonight in tips. \n\n\nMy question is simply, can they make us pay this? There have been mistakes on orders before that did not have this punishment so this isn\u2019t anything that we have dealt with before.\n\nThank you\n","title":"Employees paying for customers order","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570732093,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg2870\/i_got_three_voicemails_from_different_numbers\/","id":"dg2870","body":"They all said,\n\u201cActivities to get more information about this case file and arrest warrant from federal database to speak with agent press one for further information\u2026\u201d\nWhat is this? Why? I\u2019m just a minor?","title":"I got three voicemails from different numbers.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552913103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2iaj1\/i_am_the_victim_of_a_major_crime_and_the_defense\/","id":"b2iaj1","body":"It's been 2.5 years since the crime and I didn't catch the misquote while on the stand and have been kicking myself since. The defense also spent most of the time trying to confuse the jury rather than bring facts. My question is, is this something that is reviewable\/actionable by the state bar or anything like that?","title":"I am the victim of a major crime and the defense intentionally misquoted my statement to make me look bad.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539816479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p3he2\/with_cannabis_now_being_legal_to_carry_and\/","id":"9p3he2","body":"So cannabis is now legal in canada for reacreational use. Ive been looking up the new laws and i saw that some police forces (calgary, RCMP etc.) aren't allowing their employee's to consume cannabis while off duty. The RCMP isnt allowing their employees to consume cannabis up to 28 days before they have to clock into work and the calgary police isnt allowing their employees to consume cannabis at all. So my questions are \n1- is that even legal? Can your employer tell you what you can and cant do while off duty (with the exeption of illegal activity).\n2- is there any limit on what they can make off limits to their off-duty employee's?\n","title":"With cannabis now being legal to carry and consume in canada ive got a few questions about cannabis use while off duty.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542134310,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wrqp4\/porn_sites_tos_vs_actual_practice_interpretation\/","id":"9wrqp4","body":"Hello all!\n\nMany porn websites (I mean mainstream ones like Clips4Sale, Pornhub, ManyVids,...; not shady ones) prohibit those users that sell there from uploading certain content, but some of that content seems to be tolerated anyway.\n\nExamples: One website prohibits using the term \"brutal\" in its title or depicting any such thing, but there are thousands of videos on the platform, that use that word in their title and certainly show it too. (Duh...) There are many other terms in their list that are prohibited in theory, but in practice seem to be at least tolerated. And there are other terms that seem to be handled more seriously and are indeed banned from the site in practice as well. (Serious stuff like paedophilia, actual necrophilia \\[not zombies or vampires though\\], and so on...)\n\nFrom another site's TOS:  \"That the following acts, actual and\/or simulated, are prohibited under  these TOS and are forbidden in connection with the Broadcast of Content  Broadcast by UPLOADER and shall not be present in any of the Content  Broadcast by UPLOADER at any time: \\[...\\]  (iii) actual or simulated presentation or representation of any kind in  violation of these TOS, including any Content violating the Platform  Rules, such as, but not limited to, illegal or unsafe activities;  bestiality; fisting; urination\/defecation (golden\/brown showers or  enemas); incest; necrophilia; torture; extreme violence; physical  injury; rape; genital mutilation; genital insertion of objects or  devices other than therapeutic sex aids, such as dildos, vibrators,  etc.; sleeping on camera; performing while intoxicated; any presentation  or representation of illegal drugs; \\[...\\]\" BUT \"peeing\", for example, is one of their officially accepted - and hugely popular - categories, which leaves no doubt that they aren't merely turning a blind eye to the existence of that content on their site.\n\nA third one theoretically prohibits videos featuring any sort of weapons, including but not limited to knives, but their \"penectomy\" fantasy section sure features a lot of knives. ;-)\n\nSo, how do I interpret this situation? \n\nIs it like those disclaimers on websites and articles about how what they just said isn't medical advice, despite them just having given readers medical advice? Which would mean that one can ignore the theory - within reason, of course - and look to the practice to figure out what's actually allowed.\n\nThank you all in advance!","title":"Porn sites' TOS vs. actual practice - interpretation","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571323150,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj7awe\/my_apartment_building_flaunts_its_soundproof\/","id":"dj7awe","body":"Thanks for taking the time to check this out.\n\nSo my wife and I moved into our apartment around 3 months ago. It's a beautiful building and the day-to-day staff are all friendly and eager to help. The building proudly touts its soundproofing technology to encourage potential tenants to check it out as many are probably turned off due to the fact that it sits next to a railway (I have no issues with the muffled train noise, I had realistic expectations and did not expect the train to be completely silent).\n\nIn their marketing material, social media, and during our tours with the leasing agent, they stress how important sleep is and how quiet the apartments are and how we wouldn't hear our neighbors, etc. My wife and I are both quiet people; we were looking for a quiet sanctuary and less of an entertaining space. I work a 9 to 5 and she works nights as a nurse. So the idea that our sleep is something that wouldn't be compromised was a big selling point for us.\n\nUnfortunately, not long after moving in we noticed that there are some some younger tenants next door with whom our bedroom shares a wall. Most days they are fine, and I have no issue when they are loud during normal waking hours. But there have been numerous occasions now where it's been after midnight, they are talking pretty loudly to the point of screaming (I'm also old enough that the sound of a ping pong ball hitting and bouncing on the floor is unmistakable to me at this point).\n\nMy wife even urged me to let the first incident slide in hopes that it was a one off event.\n\nThere's a specific clause in the lease agreement that states that loud noises\/activities are not permitted between a certain time (IIRC 10pm-6am, I'll have to refer to the agreement). I've taken a couple of videos, and we've sent several complaints via email to the leasing agent regarding the noise, and that they are in violation of the agreement. They said they would contact the tenants, but I'm sucking down my 3rd coffee of the day before 11am as I write this out because I was kept up again due to their noise (they had someone over yelling\/shouting\/socializing\/partying on a Wednesday night).\n\nNow clearly, those tenants don't really care about the complaints they've been receiving from the management, as they're showing no signs of stopping. I don't want to believe they're intentionally being inconsiderate but there hasn't been any attempt to resolve the situation on their part. It also seems that management is gun shy about taking any significant action against tenants.\n\nBased on my video evidence, terms in the lease agreement, their own advertising and marketing material  \u2014  is there any legal recourse? \n\nFalse advertising? \n\nMaybe a request for reduction in rent due to  a reduction in services (the aforementioned soundproofing technology)? \n\nI would rather not have to go down this path but we're barely into our lease and I don't know that this is something we're just willing to accept.","title":"My apartment building flaunts its soundproof walls, but I'm losing sleep over loud neighbors.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540605875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rqr10\/lower_apartment_is_very_noisy\/","id":"9rqr10","body":"I\u2019m sorry if this is the wrong place to post, so correct me if I\u2019m wrong!\n\nSo my boyfriend [19,M] and I [18,F] moved into an apartment back in May of this year and we love it. For some context, it was built in the 1940s and is close to both of our works, and is the perfect size for us (plus it has the old retro charm still).  Other notes: we usually go to bed around 10, which hasn\u2019t previously been a problem for us and we\u2019ve rarely even seen much less heard other people. Also, we rent through an agency, who represents the owner of the condo. All units are individually owned but there is an HOA who keeps up the place. \n\nThe old lady downstairs moved out around June, and the guy who owns the condo decided to renovate it. The renovation went on for about 2 months, and was slightly hindered by Hurricane Florence. \n\nSo, about three or four weeks ago, a family (father, mother and a daughter around 2 or 3) moved in. This apartment complex was labeled as \u201c50+\u201d and had more of an older crowd and less of a college and family feel, which is perfect for us since we prefer to stay in and watch tv or cook dinner. Since they moved in, they have only caused a ruckus. One of their first nights they were up late putting together furniture but they were slamming doors and drawers and hammering away until around 11:30pm, when we had to go downstairs to tell them to stop since we were trying to go to bed. They were annoyed but they finally quieted down. \n\nAround 7 or 8pm, the father slams his door shut to go outside for a smoke break and then slams both the entry door and his apartment door shut. So in total it\u2019s around 4 slams per smoke break. It\u2019s easy enough to deal with and it\u2019s usually when we\u2019re still awake. \n\nFast forward to a few days ago, and they\u2019ve just bought a tv and have finally officially settled in. We were trying to watch tv (at a low volume to be courteous to our next-door neighbor) and we hear this low rumbling. It starts becoming annoying and so we pause the TV to try and figure out where  this noise is coming from. It\u2019s under us. We wait about an hour, to see if they were home (it\u2019s about 8:30pm now) since there was not a car outside. We hear the guy go outside for a smoke break, the noise stops. When he slams the doors back inside and turns the TV up louder, we stomp 3x on the floor as a signal \u201cquiet down\u201d. They guy IMMEDIATELY throws open his door and runs upstairs and bangs as much as he can on our door. We open the door and our noses are immediately assured by a strong weed odor. He then procedes to yell at us \u201cARE YOU MAKING ALL OF THAT RACKET?\u201d So we say, \u201cYes, you were being loud again, we were trying to avoid an angry conversation by stomping 3x on the floor. Will you turn your TV down so we can hear ours?\u201d He got even angrier and yelled at us again, something like \u201cWELL I WORK A LOT AND MY TV IS NOT EVEN THAT LOUD, YOU GUYS ARE BEING FUCKING RUDE.\u201d So of course we closed the door, and he went outside to take another smoke break.\n\nSo now for the past few days all we hear is a kid running and slamming things, and while we wouldn\u2019t mind it, it\u2019s until late (9 to 10pm when we try to sleep). \n\nMy main concerns are:\n(1) a very noisy neighbor who is very rude and whom I am a bit scared of because he isn\u2019t a big guy but looks pretty rough around the edges\n(2) it\u2019s a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment building, so in out building there are 3 doors. The 1st and 3rd door are for the 1 bed 1 bath, and the middle door is for 2 bed 1 bath. I looked up the laws and in my state (NC), and it stipulates either (A) 2 people per bedroom- excluding those under 1 years of age or (B) 70 square feet per person per bedroom. Our bedrooms are (estimated) 14x14 (which is 196 when you would need a 210 sq ft bedroom for 3 people.)\n(3) The drug use. We moved into this building complex because it\u2019s supposed to be a quiet, wealthy neighborhood, with older people. I didn\u2019t expect to walk into my kitchen and have the window open and have random whiffs of weed, when I just want a sandwich. Of course I have no solid proof, but for gods sake, there\u2019s a child down there. (And before you harass me, I\u2019m OK with legalization but not if you\u2019re using it in close quarters with other people) \n\nI\u2019m just not sure what to do as I don\u2019t want to start a feud with them, and I don\u2019t think I need to bring the police in. I\u2019ve contacted my leasing agent but haven\u2019t heard from her in a few days. Unfortunately I don\u2019t know how to contact the owner below us.\n\nSo thank y\u2019all for listening to this semi-rant, I apologize for formatting as I\u2019m on my mobile. ","title":"Lower Apartment is Very Noisy","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540215757,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qdxd8\/boss_refuses_to_make_reasonable_accommodations\/","id":"9qdxd8","body":"in a meeting the other day, I mention that one of our cashiers, who has a physical disability (MD) has been having a little trouble getting around, and that I didn\u2019t see why she couldn\u2019t get a stool to use at the register, with a doctor note if need be. My boss immediately says that \u201cshe was hired for a standing position, if she can\u2019t do it then she needs to find another position\u201d. Woah. I demurred, but isn\u2019t that an ADA accommodation violation? Now, to my knowledge, the cashier hasn\u2019t *asked* officially for an accommodation, but we\u2019d talked about it. \n\nit\u2019s not unheard of for cashiers (in general, not at our business however) to sit while at the register, much less to allow someone with a disability to, to allow them to do their job with minimal adjustments. I\u2019ve got a meeting with my director (bosses boss) today about something else, but I feel this is something worth mentioning to him too. ","title":"Boss refuses to make reasonable accommodations for cashier","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538503792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kt1wg\/former_employer_threatening_to_sue_for_damage_on\/","id":"9kt1wg","body":"This fits under multiple flairs but let\u2019s get right into it.\n\nI live in Canada , specifically in the Wasaga Beach area.\n\nI started a job almost exactly a month ago, as a cook, after 2 weeks the restaurant was closed and we were relocating which I was informed about, at that point I was given the option to either lose my job for a month or do physical labour, to which I agreed to for money\u2019s sake.\n\nDuring the original move the UHaul truck broke down and we started filling a pickup truck with the remainder of the restaurant items including but not limited to, water softener devices, an 80\u201d TV , and a freezer. \n\nAfter a 13 hour work day of tearing apart and moving a kitchen we get to the final items, at which point I said the tv should be moved back inside the restaurant and picked up separately, my idea was ignored by the 3 owners and we proceeded to load it in, after I put cloths and rags across the tv to try and keep it from taking any damage, I mentioned that we did not have any tie downs for the final load (left in uhaul) at which point one of the owners tied string around the end of the truck as a fastener.\n\nDuring the transportation a water softener device fell over and damaged the TV beyond use, and i am being blamed for it. Despite having 0 moving experience and being hired as a cook.\n\nMy former boss has now told me that he is with holding my pay and is threatening to sue me for the full amount of the TV, to which I do not have because of the lack of pay.\n\nI\u2019m going about the legal actions through the labour board of Ontario for the pay withholds, but I\u2019m curious as to whether he is actually able to do any sort of legal action against me. ","title":"Former employer threatening to sue for damage on television","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553287570,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4a888\/my_friend_18f_is_being_sued_for_money_she_doesnt\/","id":"b4a888","body":"My best friend, we\u2019ll call her R, recently got into a 5 car collision that she caused. Basically she wasn\u2019t paying attention, going about 25-35 mph, and rear ended an SUV in front of her, which in turn caused a domino effect rear ending 3 other vehicles. R\u2019s car was totaled, the car ahead of her got bumper damage and something amiss with the break line, and the woman in it already had her arm in a sling so she went to the hospital. The woman was totally fine..but medical bills are expense. R\u2019s insurance basically covered that first car\u2019s damage and hospital bills, but not the other 3. The other 3 only suffered cosmetic damages like scratches and dents, etc.\n\nR just called me freaking out because she\u2019s being sued by the 3 other vehicle owners through her insurance company. Her family is extremely poor, as is she (we\u2019re college students). She works a waitressing job which is enough to pay her car insurance and car payment every month but not much else. She fully takes responsibility for the accident, but she\u2019s terrified of what\u2019s going to happen to her as a result of this one mistake. I let her vent and tried to reassure her that it can\u2019t be too bad seeing as the damages they\u2019re suing for are minor cosmetic things, but truthfully I have no idea. \n\nSo.. I came here to seek some advice for her on the situation and get any information I can on how things will proceed. She\u2019ll be going with the public defender since, as I mentioned before, her and her family are broke. Any and all insight is welcome.\n","title":"My friend (18f) is being sued for money she doesn\u2019t have after a 5 car collision.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554386756,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9d4w6\/i_got_fired_for_having_to_spend_3_days_in_the\/","id":"b9d4w6","body":"I have a great record at my job and have never received any formal or informal sanctions, etc. I informed my boss before my shift was supposed to start on Monday that I needed to go to the hospital, and informed them the following day that I would still be in hospital. \n\nOnce I got out after three days, I asked if I would still be coming into work on Friday and told the boss I would explain (and could provide proof of) the hospital visit on Friday when I was scheduled to work next. Boss responded \u201cI\u2019ve replaced you, it\u2019s not working out.\u201d\n\nThis is in Michigan. Is this legal? I\u2019ve been at this place of employment for approximately 6 months, full time for the past 3 months. Any advice appreciated - thanks. ","title":"I got fired for having to spend 3 days in the hospital this week. Is this grounds for a lawsuit? (MI)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552814939,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b23hye\/can_a_company_fire_you_for_taking_your_employees\/","id":"b23hye","body":"Location: Providence RI","title":"Can a company fire you for taking your employees to a strip club after hours on a work trip?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570728621,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg1ehz\/is_a_porta_potty_acceptable\/","id":"dg1ehz","body":"Let me start by saying this is about my husband. I\u2019m the type of person that would have my pitchfork ready he is more of the wait and see type. I\u2019m hear to see if I\u2019m over reacting or if he is not reacting enough.\n\nAlmost three weeks ago today, our very good dog had an accident where she ran into my husband and broke his ankle. He had surgery a week later. Come to realize the news station he works for is not handicap accessible whatsoever. There are stairs to get into and leave work and the floor he works on doesn\u2019t have a bathroom so it\u2019s stairs to the bathroom as well. Aside from making him work the day of and day after the ankle was broken and medically diagnosed, they decided a good answer to their \u201cbeing grandfathered in for not having handicap accessible building\u201d  would be to bring in a giant portable toilet and put it in the studio. Not only did he fall getting into the porta potty that is massive but it\u2019s unbelievably embarrassing to have to go to the bathroom right where all of your colleagues have to work and go on air. In my head lawyers should have been called already because this a terrible solution to fix my husbands problem, and it\u2019s not a solution for future injuries or handicap employees. It\u2019s very very hard for me to believe after all these years that every capable handicap employee was given a fair chance when applying to work in this place. I worked in the same place for five years and never even realized I never once saw a person who was handicap working there. My husband wants to wait until he is healed to talk to them and maybe a lawyer. He\u2019s one that is very easily swayed with \u201coh we tried our best\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s just the way things are\u201d from his management and that makes me all the more furious because this is not about him anymore it\u2019s about all the handicap people they turn away because they don\u2019t want to bring a porta potty into the studio for indefinite. Are they right in saying they are grandfathered into the ADA rules that in 2010 said no more grandfathered buildings? Is he right to wait to talk to lawyers? Am I just being salty at a place I hate?\n\nPicture of porta potty\n\nhttps:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/bSeROEH","title":"Is a porta potty acceptable?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409093569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eo7tw\/rear_ended_someone_6_months_ago_claiming_200k1mil\/","id":"2eo7tw","body":"While taking a left turn around 6 months ago a lady pulled in at the last second and I rear ended her. We were going less than 5 mph due to a yield directly after the turn. No damage to her truck and I actually only hit her hitch so there is just a hole in my bumper. She called 911 but declined to go on the ambulance. \n\nShe is now asking for 200k-1mil due to \"severe mental and physical damage.\" I just got served with court papers. Insurance company is trying to get it adjusted. If they are unable to pay, will I be pretty much screwed since rear ending someone is always that persons fault? Is there no protection against people who try and ask for obscene amounts of money for an extremely minor accident? This situation is really stressing me out and any sort of advice would be appreciated.\n\n(first post on reddit, sorry if shit)\n\n","title":"Rear Ended someone 6 months ago. claiming 200k-1mil in damages. Texas.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446755114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ro90q\/partners_fiance_is_trying_to_force_her_to_sell\/","id":"3ro90q","body":"**Edit - Forgot to mention, this is in the UK.**\n\nMy partner's sister needs some help. She recently discovered her fianc\u00e9e was cheating on her in all sorts of different ways (long story, he's turned out to be a real nasty piece of work). They bought a flat together last year, she has been paying the rent and bills while he's been paying for their car and food. Both their names are on the paperwork.\n\nHis super rich parents have been trying to force her to first sell the flat to him, and now that she's refused they're going to a solicitor to legally force her to sell it on their terms. Oh, and they intend to give her as little money as they possibly can. He's already been through their flat and stolen all of their shared cash savings, 50% of which is hers, and her parents are refusing to give it back.\n\nShe can't afford any lawyers or anything like that, and has no idea what her options are.\n\nAlso, they bought custom wedding rings together and have been paying it off monthly. Only his name is on the paperwork, and she quite rightly doesn't think she should have to pay for the rest, given everything he's now done (and is doing) to her. Will she legally have to pay anything, given that only his name is on the paperwork?","title":"Partner's fiance is trying to force her to sell their home to him","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553900059,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b73wpc\/taking_over_payments_for_a_boat_contract\/","id":"b73wpc","body":"Hello folks,\n\nI have a friend who wants to pass on a boat he is financing, he no longer wants to keep it or continue making payments. I am willing to continue making the monthly payments and keep the boat. However, I would have to refinance the boat with the bank in order to do so. Is there any other legal way we can achieve this without refinancing with the bank? We are willing to sign legal documents or a contract that states that I will make payments and upon completing the payments the boat will be mine. If you have experience with this please let me know, thanks in advance. ","title":"Taking over payments for a boat, contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1504924631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yzchu\/paid_a_copyright_troll_notice_looking_for_advice\/","id":"6yzchu","body":"So, I got a notice in the mail from Rightscorp, forwarded to me by my ISP. I figured this was it, they caught me, I'm done. So I followed what they said to do and paid a measily $20 fine for my wrong-doing. 10 minutes later they call me and say I have a bunch more that need to be paid (~$250) worth.  \n\n\nSo, this puts me into a difficult position. They have all my personal information, including debit card info, know where I live and even have my phone number. Now the question is, how I react to my ignorance. Do I just ignore all the notices, emails and phone calls they send? Or do I try to work out a settlement?  \n\n\nI have reached out to a couple attorneys already for a free consultation and have gotten some feedback on what they would do. I'm just a little skeptical on pricing and total costs of hiring an attorney. I was quoted at $1000 and a little less than that for the attorneys I spoke to. Is this reasonable? Or am I getting price-gouged here? What do you think the fee would be just for hiring an attorney to facilitate a settlement would be?  \n\nI know we're not allowed to give recommendations to specific law firms, but is there a specific type of attorney I should be looking for that specializes in settlements; dealing with copyright trolls? \n\nAlso, if I do hire an attorney, does that attorney need to be in my state or can they be from anywhere?  \n\n\nLocation: US\/NH\n\nThank you in advance! ","title":"Paid a Copyright Troll Notice. Looking for Advice","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571624583,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkttlj\/what_should_i_discuss_during_consultation\/","id":"dkttlj","body":"Just wanting to start getting realistic when I see a divorce attorney for consultation. I plan on divorcing my husband of 5 years (together for 8) within 6 months due to multiple times he has cheated (proof of all times cheated with me). No kids but we are doing a debt consolidation and in the middle of paying all that off and my car that is in both of our names but is a \u201cgift\u201d to me several years ago that is paid off. \nHe has always made great money as a welder working outside of the state while I was at home working jobs making just above minimum wage due to helping my parents with my disabled brother. So I have almost always relied on his help for essentials. \nHe has cheated on me twice this year (if you don\u2019t count the dating profile he made two years ago that I found with the other stuff from the beginning of the year). First towards the beginning of the year and the second time three days before our fifth year anniversary. I have all of the proof in a separate email that he doesn\u2019t know about. \nHe has opened credit cards in my name without me knowing and maxxed it out. Then wouldn\u2019t pay it. But I don\u2019t have proof that he was the one who did it because he applied for them online. That\u2019s what the debt consolidation was for. \nI\u2019m about to take a job that makes twice what I used to so that should help me out. I have a separate bank account from way before we met each other that he has never even deposited in, let alone made joint. But I want to make sure that I have my other ducks in a row before I get a uhaul and get my stuff. \nI will be \u201clawyer shopping\u201d later this month and want to use my \u201cfree consultation\u201d wisely. I know I have one time to talk to them and after that it costs money. So what should I bring to the consultation? What should I bring up that would be relevant to the divorce? How low are my odds of getting alimony even for a year? What should I ask them? What should I see as a red flag for a lawyer? How many lawyers should I talk to before picking one? What other advice do you have for me??\n\nTL\/DR: divorcing cheating husband after 5 years of marriage. No kids but lots of debt. Need advice on lawyers when I look for some within the next couple of weeks.","title":"What should I discuss during consultation","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570819828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgjhc4\/statute_of_limitations_about_to_expire_on_car\/","id":"dgjhc4","body":"Almost 2 years ago, a man hit me in the middle of an intersection totaling my car. He admitted guilt for the accident. My insurance cut me a check for my car and I financed a new one. Throughout the 2 years I\u2019ve gotten messages from his insurance saying they\u2019re just waiting on the final lien from my insurance (which was Medicaid at the time). I had minor injuries. Severe bruising from seatbelt and knee bruising due to knee airbag going off. So essentially, the only bills they needed to worry about was from the ER that day. TODAY Erie insurance (his insurance) emailed to say SOL was almost up and if I wanted a settlement for pain and suffering I needed a lawyer to fight for it. I haven\u2019t been in an accident before so I\u2019m lost on the whole thing. What the hell do I do? She said I\u2019d only get about 1k in settlement and tbh I cannot afford a lawyer at all. Is it worth it? Do I just let it go? What are the consequences FOR ME if I don\u2019t hire a lawyer and just give up on the money","title":"Statute of limitations about to expire on car accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568611974,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4wc40\/need_help_dealing_with_my_family_and_my_business\/","id":"d4wc40","body":"I'm not sure where to begin. I need advice on how to proceed involving my father, who is in prison, and the business I now own, but he is one of the 2 co founders of the business. Also involved in this mess is my younger sister, who lives with me because of my father and stepmother. \n\nSo I'll start with the business. About 12 years ago, my father started a business with another guy, we can call him James. About 5ish years ago, my father sold his half of the business to Jeff so that his wife, my stepmother, could not get access to it if\/when they divorce. My father and stepmother got heavily into meth, which led to my stepmother abusing my sister, while my father did little to nothing to stop it. My sister moved in with me about 3 years ago. \n\nSo back in April of this year, James was getting to the point of refusing to deal with my father. At this point my father was heavily involved with meth, and had been on the run from the police for about a year and a half. Also at this point I was basically doing my dads job within the business. The business is a tree service, James did all the estimates, and my dad (which eventually was just me when he was heavy into the drugs) was supposed to lead the crews on the actual job site and oversee everything that actually happens.\n\nSo James wanted out. He gave me the option of taking over the business as the 100% sole owner, all I would have to pay is the taxes so Jeff could transfer everything into my name.  I initially said no, but I foolishly let me father talk me into changing my mind. Within a few days, my father got arrested for driving, got a bunch of charges, including driving without a license, possession, and evading capture from when he was on the run. So I was left with this business I didnt want, and I only accepted because convinced me he would be right there and help. \n\nThis business has been failing for years. Ever since he has been in jail, he has been constantly calling, or getting my stepmother to call and demand money for this or that. At first I did whatever I could to help him, but the past month or so I have not. I literally did not have money to even keep my electricity turned on, or buy groceries at some points. I told them this, they refused to believe me, and just stepped up on the constant harassment. \n\nLast week I got too drunk and had a complete mental breakdown in front of my Fiancee and my 9 month old son. I couldn't take it anymore. My Fiancee decided to take matters into her own hands, and reached out to both James, and my godmother (who practically raised us after our mom died, and used to be heavily involved with the business doing book keeping and taxes and other things, until she got sick and tired of my father and step mother). James and my godmother have been helping me deal with my mental health, as well as get out of this business.\n\nThe only way I can get out of this business, is to sell off the equipment. There's 2 reasons for this. 1 is that I have this business and about 15 company vehicles in my name, and I wont be able to get any financial assistance while I own these things. The 2nd reason, is our business is located on a rental property. The land lords want us out, and I dont blame them, because I have been heavily behind on rent for awhile, and dodging their phone calls. I have to get off of their property within the next 30 days (I found this out today) or I am evicted and have nowhere for any of this equipment\/company property to go. \n\nSo today me and James met with a guy, and sold 2 vehicles. This alone has been able to let me catch up on rent on the business property, as well as my own house, and get groceries and other things. The past few weeks we have literally been taking cans back, and counting change to buy dinner every night for our daughter (6) and my sister. \n\nSo I am sorry for the long back story, but I feel it was essential to the whole story. This leads to the reason I made this post. A few hours ago (about 1030PM), my stepmother and her cousin showed up and began pounding on my door. They had my father, who is still in prison, on the phone and they were demanding to be let in. I called the police. I have been trying to keep this business going for the past 6 months, so my father would have something when he gets out. After what happened tonight I am done. My Fiancee is afraid, my sister is afraid, my daughter is afraid, and I am afraid. I'm sure they will come back. They are meth heads and they feel entitled to the money from this business. \n\nThe police advised I call a lawyer, and I will be doing that first thing tomorrow morning. But I dont know what kind of lawyer. I want to protect myself and my family from these psychopaths, and I want out of this business. I also want to obtain guardianship over my sister. She has lived with me for 3 years, and I have never pursued this before, because my father receives a social security check every month for my sister, because of our mother's death, and he has threatened me in the past if I try to take this money from him. I always decided it wasn't worth the drama. I have been able to provide for everyone in my house, and I know he is struggling (100% because of his meth issue.) \n\nI dont know if I need 2 lawyers, one for this business and one for my sister, or just one. I dont know what kind of lawyer I need. Any insight or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.","title":"Need help dealing with my family and my business.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539726608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9os6cn\/a_customer_owes_me_money_idk_if_i_can_go_against\/","id":"9os6cn","body":"\n\n\n\n\nSo I did a big mistake, I didn\u2019t let the customer to sign the contract when we got to work.\nI have a small business, usually my work with customers is pretty chill and I only take a prepayment from them, we meet at the appointment day and get the work done, after this I get paid. So they usually don\u2019t have the chance not to pay me.\n\nWell, there was one guy, very sympathetic, came to my shop personally, made an appointment, left the prepayment and went. \n\nIn the night before the appointment he wrote me that his car broke and he has no money, he led me to make him a deal that he pays 2 weeks after (I HAVE ALL CHATS SAFED!). Next week he even brought his girlfriend to my shop, we did the work and she payed, so had no doubt about these two. \n\nIt\u2019s now over 6 months...\nHe ignores all emails, social media and calls, but I got a good friend whom he owned money for a service too (like 300\u20ac) but he got the money out of him cuz he got his address (wich I didn\u2019t). I started to send letters last week and post on his social media accounts that he owes me a big load of money (700\u20ac)\nHe answered me that all filed charges against him would be worthless because I acquired his address through a 3\u2019rd face wich is basically illegal by the German law\nI am at vacation now so I have no time to find a lawyer for it and I\u2019m just curious, is it true? \nHe spoke something about \u00a728 BDSG\n\nI live in Germany ","title":"A customer owes me money, idk if I can go against him in court because I fucked up big","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552668496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1h6xz\/rented_living_space_is_flooding_and_management_is\/","id":"b1h6xz","body":"Two days ago, my basement apartment began flooding because of the melting snow and heavy rain combo. We reported it immediately to our landlord, who said okay, \u201cI\u2019ll address the issue\u201d tomorrow (this occurred in the late evening). \n\nThe next day (yesterday), the flooding got worse. My girlfriend\u2019s father was coming from two hours away to get us a ShopVac and dehumidifier. At this point, there has been no further contact from our landlord in terms of a solution\/temporary fix. My girlfriend called the main management office and had to leave a message. \n\nMy girlfriend, her father, and I spent all day moving\/packing away items. Luckily nothing was damaged because we began moving things right away. Still no response from management or our landlord. At this point, the landlord has called in a ShopVac and dehumidifier. For use in their own unit. My girlfriend\u2019s father has now spoken with the landlord and received the management\u2019s personal cell number.\n\nAfter calling the manager\u2019s office phone several times with no answer, he finally resorted to calling her personal phone. Her response was \u201chow did you get this number,\u201d \u201cI wasn\u2019t aware of this issue.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t call me again.\u201d During the call, my girlfriend\u2019s father mentioned condemning the building because of the mold that would surely grow as a result of the lack of action.\n\nWe continued working, now coming up on half the day spent on this issue. My girlfriend\u2019s father called the landlord again to tell them that the management is refusing to respond. A little while later, I passed the landlord in the hallway and she asked to speak with him. I heard her say \u201cDon\u2019t talk to us about condemning this building, that\u2019s our business, not yours.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019ve been calling us all day and I don\u2019t want you bothering us anymore. This happened last time too.\u201d (I should add that this is the second time the apartment has flooded in less than 6 months). \u201cWe can\u2019t give them another space because they can still live in there.\u201d\n\nI will close this rant by stating that the landlord claimed that our apartment was still livable despite the fact that *she has not even bothered to check for herself*.\n\nToday, the day after the above-mentioned fiasco, the apartment smells like must and damp carpet. We have ShopVac-ed all affected areas many times, have had fans running since we originally reported the issue, and have had two dehumidifiers running as well. My father came out and helped us pack away our things in his truck and rent a hotel room to share with us. Wouldn\u2019t you say this is worth breaking lease without punishment? Did I mention that this is all happening during midterms week at university?\nI\u2019m exhausted, send help.","title":"Rented living space is flooding, and management is actively avoiding the issue.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553197342,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3v0gz\/former_student_of_the_art_institute_needs_help\/","id":"b3v0gz","body":"I attended the art institute Minnesota in 2003-2004. I took time off and worked in Los Angeles for a while. After I had my first child I left LA and moved to Seattle. I decided to finish my graphic design bachelor's but the school closed down before I could graduate. When I was applying to go back to school administration told me I would graduate while knowing the whole time the school would be closed the following year. I paid off all my loans from 2002-2003. I was paying my loans from 2018-2019 while attending school. I have no degree, no recent jobs in this field. All I have is all these credits that wont transfer and I want a refund on the money I paid towards this school. I honestly feel like they stole from me. I worked so hard and have nothing to show for it. I believe I deserve my money back. I need to know how to go about getting my loan payments refunded. I found this site: [https:\/\/www.forgetstudentloandebt.com\/student-loan-relief-programs\/federal-student-loan-relief\/federal-forgiveness-programs\/art-institute-student-loan-forgiveness\/#BDAR](https:\/\/www.forgetstudentloandebt.com\/student-loan-relief-programs\/federal-student-loan-relief\/federal-forgiveness-programs\/art-institute-student-loan-forgiveness\/#BDAR) which is a \" Guide to Art Institute Lawsuits, Loan Forgiveness & Debt Discharges.\"  Trying to decide if I need to file The Borrower\u2019s Defense Against  Repayment Program or The Closed School Student Loan Discharge Program. How should I go about getting my money back from The Art Institute? \n\n# ","title":"Former student of the Art Institute needs help with loan refunds","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540509739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rffrv\/is_it_legal_to_fly_a_flag_on_the_back_of_your\/","id":"9rffrv","body":"As a joke, I have a flag that says Saturdays are for the boys. I wanna fly it just driving around with my buddies every so often. Is this legal? I haven\u2019t found anything saying it isn\u2019t I just wanted to double check. Thank you. ","title":"Is it legal to fly a flag on the back of your truck in Mi?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508513473,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77mu3j\/hotelier_opened_my_mail_twice\/","id":"77mu3j","body":"I'm staying at a large chain hotel in Nebraska.  I ordered some things from Amazon to be sent here.  The things I ordered were embarrassing adult things.  The address on the box said \"Home 2\" because that's what I put in the Amazon address as a label for the new address entry.  \n\nI didn't know that \"Home 2\" would be on the box instead of my name.  But the address on the box was \"### Street ###\", the second set of numbers being the room number.  I told the front desk the day before my package was supposed to arrive that I was going to be receiving one tomorrow and the next day.\n\nWhen I went to collect my package the next day they said they were sorry but they opened it.  That's all they said.  Then the guy gave me the package while all three of the front desk stood silently trying not to make eye contact.  The lack of eye contact makes me think everybody knows what was in the package.\n\nThe next day I got a call from the hotel.  My second package had come in but they said it was opened when they got it.  I'm not sure I can believe that and it's more likely that they opened that one as well.\n\nIs there anything I can do about this?  I didn't take any immediate action because honestly I'm mostly just ashamed and embarrassed.  I figured I wouldn't have any recourse anyhow because what could possibly be punishment?\n\nThanks for your answers and suggestions.","title":"Hotelier opened my mail, twice.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571286510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj19f9\/landlord_wont_replace_faulty_appliance_location\/","id":"dj19f9","body":"Sunday: My apartment was flooded by my faulty dryer. When I first noticed the water I assumed I had caused it to overflow so I yanked my blanket out (blanket was dry) except for the part that touched the 6 inches of water that never drained. After yanking the blanket out the flooding did not stop so I took several panicked videos of what was happening. No water was flowing into the drum of the washer. I called the emergency after hours phone and got no answer. Partner and I turned off the water and cleaned up all the standing water. A little while after my partner left, I noticed my cats were playing near the washer and it made me nervous. There was no standing water near me and I wasn't wet at all. When I unplugged the washer I got an electrical shock so bad that I couldn't let go and I pissed myself. I thought I was going to die. I fell backwards and the plug was yanked out of the outlet. I contacted them about these issues. \n\nMonday: Maintenance guy comes. Refuses to watch the videos I took or listen to what I have to say. Implies I'm a dumb blonde (I'm working on a 2nd degree in aerospace engineering), insults me a bunch, and tells me it's my fault that the washer overflowed and that I got electrocuted because there was water around (there wasn't-I have video proof). Tells me that the property manager was in Vegas and no one answered the emergency phone on the weekends. Tells me that I have to manually spin and drain the washer for it to work (most of the settings on the washer don't actually work).\n\nToday: Get a dismissive email from property manager that also blames me. I send back an email detailing EVERYTHING that happened. Buy rubber gloves to unplug my washer. \n\n​\n\nI have a lawyer on retainer but I really don't want to have to sue or threaten them with legal action, but I really want this washer out of my apartment. Can I legally remove it? Could I just put it in the parking lot or the property manager's office?","title":"Landlord Won't Replace Faulty Appliance Location: King Count WA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570038038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcdld7\/paternity_fraud_california_father_learns_that\/","id":"dcdld7","body":"Acronym: MOC = Mother of Child\n\nA family member of mine recently took a DNA test after having suspicions regarding paternity and learned that his 2-year old daughter is not biologically related to him. We would appreciate any legal advice and knowledge before speaking with our attorney.\n\nBackground:\n- Father (23 yrs old) and MOC (21 yrs old) are separated, never married. \n- Father and MOC both share joint physical custody of child, where child alternates from one parent to another every week. Parents live in different cities (an hour away from each other).\n- Biological father of child hasn\u2019t made effort to contact or reach out. Unsure of who biological father may be since MOC won\u2019t cooperate.\n- Father has financially supported and bonded with child since the day she was born. He would like to remain her father and continue to see her. \n- MOC is currently pregnant with another man\u2019s child, jobless, and lives with her family.\n- Father\u2019s name is on daughter\u2019s birth certificate.\n- Father\u2019s daughter will be turning three in a couple weeks.\n\nQuestions and Concerns:\n- Does the MOC have leverage in gaining primary\/full custody since DNA results show that the father isn\u2019t biologically related to their daughter?\n- Does she have the power to take the daughter away from the father?\n- Can the MOC demand child support payments from father that is sharing joint physical custody with daughter?\n- Will the joint physical custody even remain despite the DNA results?\n- Would the daughter\u2019s biological father have the ability to take her away if he wanted custody? (If he were to show up in the future)\n\nThe father of child wants to remain her parent\/legal guardian with joint physical custody and visitation rights (if viable). He would like to gain a firm understanding of what needs to be done\/accomplished in order to keep his joint physical custody and prevent the MOC from demanding money and preventing him from seeing his daughter. This would help him be prepared for his meeting with the attorney.\n\nThank you for reading and would gladly appreciate any advice. My family member\u2019s daughter has become an integral part of our life and we would be heartbroken to see her taken away. She will always be a part of our family, despite what the DNA results say.","title":"Paternity Fraud (California) - Father learns that 2-year old daughter is not biologically related through DNA test.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1538935196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m73to\/evicting_jobless_room_mate_who_is_stealing_from_me\/","id":"9m73to","body":"My room mate and I have been renting from a luxury complex in the city for over two years. He quit his job in he last couple months and has been coming up short on rent and I\u2019ve been covering until he is slowly paying me back after borrowing money.\n\nI unofficially moved my sister in to split rent and he now sleeps on the couch.  I offered him a flat rate rent to help him catch up til he gets on his feet.  He sits on his ass playing video games all day and drinks packs of beer nightly and smokes. We didnt know where the money for this is coming from, until I found all my rolls of change in my change jar in my bedroom missing. My sister said she saw him buying cigarettes in dimes and quarters and joked with him, having no idea what actually happened.\n\nHe and I are the only ones on the lease and we have 9 more months to go.  He is claiming he is too sick to work (he\u2019s a veteran with nerve damage, but is doing absolutely nothing to better his situation including reaching out for disability, veteran based jobs, or food stamps) but he certainly has no problem walking to the gas station to buy his cigs and beer in my change. \n\nSo now he owes me flat rate rent plus I told him he owes me $100 from the money taken from my jar bc it was a years worth accumulated change that I never touch.\n\nDo I have any legal recourse or do I have to suck it up until the lease is up?","title":"Evicting jobless room mate who is stealing from me?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569579802,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ye6s\/accidentally_called_the_cops_while_having_rough\/","id":"d9ye6s","body":"Tonight we were having sex in my car with lots of roughness and role play. I dialed the cops by accident (had my phone on airplane mode and didnt realize the call would go through) and my boyfriend freaked out and hung up on them. I tried to convince him to let me call them back but  he panicked and they showed up to where we were (a private property) \n\nI tried explaining to them that it was an accidental call that I didnt mean to make and that the things I said were part of the role play but they didn't believe me. They took pictures of my face (a little bruised but definitely not the worst it's been) and took him to jail for battery and family violence.\n\nNow I feel terrible and I'm not sure what to do or even if I could do anything. Does anyone have any advice?","title":"Accidentally called the cops while having rough s*x with boyfriend and he was arrested","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540928681,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9srbub\/my_mom_passed_away_5_years_ago_family_refuses_to\/","id":"9srbub","body":"When I was 17 my mom died from cancer, after her passing my family and I packed up her entire estate and put it into a climate controlled storage unit. With the exception of a few items that my grandma, aunt, and close friends of my mom took, I don't remember what they were exactly however I know some of it was expensive jewelry. My family all expressed verbally several several times that the belongings in this unit are mine. (However keep in mind over these last 5 years they keep asking about a egg incubator in the unit to which I've done research on and it's a Antique Des Moines egg incubator which is thousands of dollars.) \n\nI've never seen the will from her but my grandma told me that I was left some money but I'll be given it once I'm older and more mature. Which is understandable it isn't smart for a 17 year old to have that much money I wasn't prepared. A few years later, I'm 19 and go visit a friend in England and I asked for money. My grandma said she would take it from what my mom left me, I got $1,000. At 21, I ask for the money to move out and she tells me its in a trust to be opened at a certain date, now 23 she tells me the money will go to my aunt once either my grandma or grandpa die, Then my aunt gets to distribute the money. \n\nThe past year or so I've been pushed by all members to sell stuff in the unit but during this year I had a falling out with my family and they're no longer on good terms with me. The past week or so I've been selling stuff from Facebook and one of my grandmas friends told her I was doing it and now they're trying to stop me from doing it. They changed the pass-code to get past the gate to the storage and when I went in to ask the worker about it; he told me I have to speak with my grandma. I've been unemployed for over a month now from being fired for having to take care of my girlfriend and she had to quit her job because she was to sick (whole different story). I'm on food stamps, unemployment but it's not enough and this was helping me get out of a financial hole. \n\nWhat can I do?","title":"My mom passed away 5 years ago, family refuses to show me the will or give me anything they say I've been left, story always changes","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552262053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azm95g\/what_would_happen_if_i_get_robbed_and_then_i\/","id":"azm95g","body":"When I say chase him I mean like a few steps, close distance. And after the theft just happened","title":"What would happen if I get robbed and then I chase the thief and kill him?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447697404,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t1pwh\/prosecutor_not_providing_usable_dash_cam\/","id":"3t1pwh","body":"MISSOURI\n\nI was stopped on June 22nd, shortly after being passed by a white sedan.  I was nearly passed by a black truck that then returned BEHIND me, and we saw the red and blue lights.  Cruise control set to 55, trooper says I was doing 75.  I believe it was not possible for his moving RADAR system to determine, reliably, the speed of any of those three vehicles because they were too close together; AND I believe I was the slowest moving car of the trio.\n\nI believe the dash cam will show all of this in court.  I made a discovery request, and received a single .AV file, not playable.  I contacted the highway patrol, they say \"We send over (Send, not sent; as in \"It's our typical practice\", not \"We definitely did this\") 23 files which include a viewer\".  Details about this viewer were given and I can't find anything online that works.\n\nProsecuting Attorney says \"we never got that\", and insists all I get is the one unplayable, unusable file.  Side note: While the troopers office has been very polite and helpful (to the extent they claim they can for a 'case that is not yet adjudicated'), the P.A.'s office has been terse, rude and accusatory.  I've been painfully polite, apologetic and thankful.  \n\nI do intend to ask the trooper questions, regarding those cars.  And intend to introduce pages from the manual of the moving RADAR system that show that it can't reliably determine speed from vehicles traveling that close together.  However, the video evidence will solidify that (He claims to have never seen the other vehicles, another issue), AND should be able to show my ACTUAL speed using the same VASCAR technique troopers in this state themselves use.\n\nAny recourse?  Thoughts?  Can I ask the court to demand or compel the prosecutor to provide usable video?  Can I ask the court to dismiss this case because the state is not cooperating in Ernest with the discovery process?","title":"Prosecutor Not providing usable dash cam","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443242858,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mfg9h\/letting_it_go_your_security_deposit_tx\/","id":"3mfg9h","body":"This post is part legal advice, part sanity check.\n\n \n\n\n**tdlr;** My landlord withheld a small amount from my security deposit, I believe unjustly. It's not rationally worth it to contest it, but I'm having trouble letting it go mentally.\n\n \n\n\n**Legal questions:**\n \n\n\n* Is it okay to deduct a cleaning fee from a security deposit if all the cleaning complaints seem to be normal wear and tear? (ex: dusty blinds, dust on the top of the fridge). \n* Is there a clear precedent anywhere for what is \"normal wear and tear\"? I see general guidelines on websites such as nolo.com as well as my local tenants council, but nothing that addresses cleaning standards well.\n* Is failing to return a deposit within 30 days (as required in Texas) enough to void any deductions? Or to prove bad faith for damages in small claims court?\n \n\n\n**Sanity questions:**  \n\n* It costs about as much to file in small claims court as I would get back, and it's not rationally worth my time, but I'm having trouble letting go of the perceived injustice of the issue. It would be valuable to stay on good terms with the landlord in terms of future rental references, and I'm afraid contesting the deposit would jeopardize that. The landlord has been fine otherwise but is a bit stingy. I need your help letting this go; tell me it's not worth it to pursue? This is so much more benign than what many tenants experience, I feel silly about it. \n\n \n\n**My sob story:**\n\nRented a place with a roommate (took over the exiting roommate's room mid-lease). Place had been continuously occupied for years with no turnover. Was obviously dirty and in disrepair. Landlord did walk-through with exiting roommate and was laid back, found no problems. I made some improvements personally, filled out a room condition form, took photos, and paid a deposit. \n\n \n\nMy roommate and I moved out a couple years later (after giving required notice and providing forwarding addresses), we cleaned the place up very nicely (dusted the baseboards and everything - was much cleaner than when I moved in), and I expected to get the full deposit back. Met for final walk-through a few days after surrendering the property, the landlord could find nothing at fault except dust on the blinds. Landlord suggested this might require a deep cleaning fee of $50 (landlord had actually decided to move back into the house after we left and was planning to get paint and new floors) but said let's wait and see. I fill out the condition form indicating how clean I left it but failed to get photos. I do have a receipt proving the lawn was mowed.  \n\n \n\n\nOver 30 days pass, and security deposit is not returned. I remind landlord, who complains that since moving in, more things appear to be dirty (minor complaints like the top of the fridge is dusty, smudge marks on cabinet shelves, lawn not kept up to an unnamed standard, etc.) and that a $80 cleaning fee would be deducted. When I actually get the deposit returned, $90 has been deducted. No receipt for services, just a list of dirty items. As an FYI, there was no language in the lease regarding cleaning standards or make ready fees that might cover this. \n\n \n\n**Here is the only relevant Texas code I can find:**\n\n \n\n\u00a792.103 Obligation to Refund\n a) Except as provided by Section 92.107, the landlord shall refund a security deposit to the tenant on or before the 30th day after the date the tenant surrenders the premises.\n(b) A requirement that a tenant give advance notice of surrender as a condition for refunding the security deposit is effective only if the requirement is underlined or is printed in conspicuous bold print in the lease.\n(c) The tenant's claim to the security deposit takes priority over the claim of any creditor of the landlord including a trustee in bankruptcy.\n\n \n\n\u00a792.107 Tenant's Forwarding Address\n(a) The landlord is not obligated to return a tenant's security deposit or give the tenant a written description of damages and charges until the tenant gives the landlord a written statement of the tenant's forwarding address for the purpose of refunding the security deposit.\n(b) The tenant does not forfeit the right to a refund of the security deposit or the right to receive a description of damages and charges merely for failing to give a forwarding address to the landlord.\n\n \n\n\u00a792.109 Liability of Landlord\n(a) A landlord who in bad faith retains a security deposit in violation of this subchapter is liable for an amount equal to the sum of $100, three times the portion of the deposit wrongfully withheld, and the tenant\u2019s reasonable attorney\u2019s fees in a suit to recover the deposit.\n(b) A landlord who in bad faith does not provide a written description and itemized list of damages and charges in violation of this subchapter:\n(1) forfeits the right to withhold any portion of the security deposit or to bring suit against the tenant for damages to the premises; and\n(2) is liable for the tenant's reasonable attorney's fees in a suit to recover the deposit.\n(c) In an action brought by a tenant under this subchapter, the landlord has the burden of proving that the retention of any portion of the security deposit was reasonable.\n(d) A landlord who fails either to return a security deposit or to provide a written description and itemization of deductions on or before the 30th day after the day the tenant surrenders possession is presumed to have acted in bad faith.\n\n\n \n\n**tdlr;** My landlord withheld a small amount from my security deposit, I believe unjustly. It's not worth it to contest it, but I'm having trouble letting it go mentally.","title":"Letting It Go: Your Security Deposit [TX]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555012853,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc4f1d\/nevadalandlord_at_apartment_complex_says_we_had\/","id":"bc4f1d","body":"So some more context: our quality of life has been horrible ever since our neighbor found a boyfriend and all they do is scream at each other, slam doors so hard our entire apartment shakes, and they leave trash all over the area where we have to walk.\n\nThey let their dog stay off the lease, shit and piss all over the walkway (they have a designated animal park in the complex), and they leave the dog outside for hours at a time in the cold while it barks until I go out and ring their doorbell a hundred times.\n\nThey dumped paint outside and made it look like shit, and put their trash in the walkway, doesn\u2019t matter what it is, water coolers, the desk they painted, huge bags of open trash, and they leave it there for weeks.\n\nI\u2019ve complained so many times to these people about it and all I ever hear is \u201cWe\u2019ll handling it.\u201d\n\nIt\u2019s been two years since our complaints started and the neighbors only get worse as time goes by.\n\nSo we started looking for another place, determined to maybe stay here 6 more months while we found the perfect place but the situation is so bad we\u2019re jumping the gun and leaving. The rent at the new place is higher than we wanted but neither of us can sleep, we\u2019re so stressed out, this is just hell for us.\n\nBut the landlord went from a 30 day notice to 60 days and is now demanding we pay two months rent when we leave and they will keep our deposit.\n\nIs there anyway to tell them we wont pay and move out in those 30 days with a notice, and not be legally screwed?\n\nI can add any more info is this isn\u2019t enough.","title":"[Nevada]Landlord at apartment complex says we had to give 60 days before even looking into moving but never fixed issues we complained about for years, can we skip having to pay an extra month?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446135677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qpy8h\/big_company_threatening_to_sue_my_company_for\/","id":"3qpy8h","body":"I received a C&D from a big company (household name) recently, telling me to stop scraping factual, non-copyrightable information from their site. I have been assured that they *will* file suit if their C&D is not observed; the attorneys I've spoken with said many companies are bluffing when they send out C&Ds, but that this one never bluffs. They always sue.\n\nTheir letter accuses me of everything under the sun, including disrupting the normal operations of their services, which is absurd. I have a real, semi-prominent attorney in this field that has sent the company a proposal for a corrective license. They are still sitting on it, and haven't said yes or no yet.\n\nI'm wondering if there's anything I can do if I never hear back or if they say no. I understand that law applied to scraping is a grey area that will probably ultimately go in the scraper's favor when the content is non-copyrighted or the copyright is owned by the user, but it will require someone to litigate these issues, which will cost millions of dollars (and yes, I'm familiar with other scraping cases that have already transpired). We're just a small company and can't afford anything close to that. In fact, we could barely afford representation through the initial phases of the negotiation process.\n\nSince I can't afford a lawyer to actually fight the charges, I'm wondering if I can register my company in a jurisdiction more friendly to internet companies, and continue operations that way while I still personally live in the United States (I *could* hypothetically move to such a place myself, but it's a long shot as to whether it's worth the money I was generating from the business to do so).\n\nI really don't know how corporate jurisdiction operates, but I'm trying to find a way to continue my company's service without the company's approval and without incurring literally millions of dollars in legal fees (yes, this company *will* spend millions of dollars on legal fees for this case; there's no such thing as \"too expensive\" to them).\n\nI've asked 2 different lawyers about this, and neither of them wanted to answer. They said it would take tens of thousands of dollars for them to give an answer.\n\nIf I could get into as \"lawsuit-proof\" of a jurisdiction as possible, that would be ideal. I want to make it nearly impossible for this company to get to me. I know this is a long shot but it seems like the only option. Am I just SOL here?","title":"Big company threatening to sue my company for scraping non-copyrightable data from their site. Can I incorporate in an international jurisdiction to avoid liability? [FL]","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539835361,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p5s3z\/is_it_legal_to_rent_out_four_separate_rooms_in_a\/","id":"9p5s3z","body":"Asking because this is my current living situation.  I work nights and don't trust one of the stranger who moved in literally next door to my room.\n\nWhat can I do to insure the security of my belongings other than move?  I love this place :(","title":"Is it legal to rent out four separate rooms in a shared house but only put a lock on 3 stating that one acts as the fire escape?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444465431,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o76vp\/co_friend_has_a_tenant_not_on_the_lease_acting\/","id":"3o76vp","body":"So my friend is basically renting a home in Denver. She has two co-tenants with her, she is the only one on the lease. Basically she gets roommates off Craigslist or w\/e and just does month to month rent. Not how I'd do it but besides the point. She moved a tenant in (her landlord knows she does this is and is ok with it) and he was fine at first then a few weeks in he started acting really insane. He urinated in the corner of his room twice and has been having hallucinations. He also was seen by the other tenant disposing of needles and he called the police. The police have been to the house a few times for disturbances but nothing concrete. My friend is 100% that he's using meth and probably insane, but has no concrete evidence at all. She wants him removed. He did pay his first months rent. Is he(insane person) required to be given notice of eviction? He's not on the lease but I believe legally he's a tenant and he gets those rights. Also, if he is evicted or agrees to leave (it hasn't been decided the course of action yet) is he entitled to his rent back or a pro-rated amount? Since he's not technically on any paperwork it's a little muddy as to what the next course of action is, possibly get a lawyer to draw up and eviction notice? Thanks for any responses!","title":"[CO] Friend Has a Tenant not on the lease. Acting crazy and she wants him removed from the home. Persue Legal action or can she force him out without notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502836624,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6txs3x\/workplace_retaliation\/","id":"6txs3x","body":"I work in the food service industry in MO. One day when I came into work and was opening, I noticed a hot holding piece of equipment had been left on overnight with food in it. When I brought this up with my manager, he told me to serve some of the food and discard the rest. I told them that I didn't feel comfortable serving the food, and then he threatened to fire me for insubordination. I reluctantly served the food. At the end of the day, I was written up for \"being argumentative\" and was instructed to never argue or second guess him, or he wouldn't hesitate to fire me on the spot.\n\nI did some research after the incident and I believe my actions were considered protected under the Food Safety Modernization Act. I thought the food may have been unsafe for consumption. I spoke up about it and was reprimanded.\n\nCan anybody shed anymore light on the situation? I'm in the process of seeking legal advice now.\n\nThanks","title":"Workplace Retaliation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571702142,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl9apc\/fmla_as_it_applies_to_taking_care_of_my_kids\/","id":"dl9apc","body":"Hello, just looking for any kind of advice as I\u2019m getting really anxious about my situation. My girlfriend of 10+ years is in the hospital and I don\u2019t know when she\u2019s getting out. She is a stay at home mom and takes care of our kids while I go to work. We don\u2019t have a good support system so since she\u2019s been in the hospital I\u2019ve had to stay at home and take care of our kids. Am I covered by FMLA for this or can my employer fire me for missing time? I cannot afford a babysitter so I\u2019m thinking I\u2019m going to have to raid my 401k and get a smaller\/cheaper place to be able to afford a babysitter but just don\u2019t know what to do. Any help\/advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.","title":"FMLA as it applies to taking care of my kids while their mother (my girlfriend) is in the hospital","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507603772,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75e7yu\/would_an_officer_have_to_stick_to_his_word_in\/","id":"75e7yu","body":"I recently received a ticket for failure to wear a seatbelt. I was riding in a friends Jeep Wrangler, with the top and windows off, and not only did I not have a seatbelt, I was holding onto the roll cage and hanging out the side of the car. The officer that pulled us over and issued tickets to me and one other passenger said he would write the tickets as any other seatbelt ticket and wouldn\u2019t mention that we were hanging out the side of the car, which he claimed could get the driver reckless driving. Since I am 17, I can\u2019t just pay my ticket and am required to appear in court with my legal guardian. Does the officer have to stick to his story of a regular seat belt violation, or can he change things in court to get us in more trouble?\n\nTLDR: cop said he would make things easier on me when writing ticket, does he have to follow through in court or can he tell the real story?\n\nEdit: removed dumb question about wanting to mess with judge to \u201chave fun\u201d ","title":"Would an officer have to stick to his word in Illinois Traffic Court?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571652952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkyeej\/friend_being_manipulated_in_a_divorce\/","id":"dkyeej","body":"Divorce proceedings in Oklahoma\n\nAlright so the whole situation is messed up but boils down fairly easily.  Friend of mine has been in a terrible marriage for many years to a man who is verbally and emotionally abusive, and manipulated her to get his way.  He threatens suicide any time she\u2019s brought up divorce, or threatens that if they DID divorce he\u2019d get 100% custody because 6 or so years ago she had a one night fling with a rando.  \n\nNow she\u2019s finally set on actually getting a divorce, but he\u2019s locked down their finances and she can\u2019t afford a lawyer.  They just had a huge blowup fight where he was yelling at her and then physically took her phone from her so he could yell at her more.  He\u2019s pushed her to the point that she\u2019s pretty much willing to sign any divorce papers just to get it over with.  Which is the problem.  He\u2019s already said he\u2019s putting language in the papers in order to control who the kids can be around even during when the kids are with her.  She said she\u2019s willing to sign that, just to get things over with.  Those of us trying to help her have tried to explain he\u2019s just trying to exert more control that extends past the divorce.  Here\u2019s my questions:\n\n1. What can she do if he\u2019s locked their finances down and can\u2019t afford a lawyer because of it?  Are there ways of making him pay all the costs and fees?\n\n2. If these friends of hers aren\u2019t criminals or somesuch, can be really decree who the kids can be around during the mother\u2019s custodial time?  Or is that something a judge will throw out?\n\n3. he keeps telling her he\u2019s getting 100% because of the fling so many years ago.  Nothing I\u2019ve found comes even close to that.","title":"Friend being manipulated in a divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571614542,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkrub3\/stuck_in_lease_extension\/","id":"dkrub3","body":"So I\u2019m a tenant in NYC who just purchased a new place with my wife. The process was arduous and took 6 weeks longer than our original lease. I discussed options with my landlord, and he said we needed to sign for an additional year but gave us a rider that would allow us to terminate one month late. At the time, we had cleared our interview with the co-op and expected to close one week into the new month. What we didn\u2019t anticipate was the seller holding off until the very last day our offer was good for before closing. The one month extension we were given is now essentially worthless, but I recognize the situation.\n\nThe landlord will not give any additional months saying it is more difficult to rent after October and the only way out of the lease is if someone else begins renting. I get his view and it seems fair. We have made ample efforts to ensure the apartment is presentable and needs almost no work done to transition over.\n\nLast year when we got into this apartment, the broker claimed that the landlord would work with us if we were planning to buy and arrange month to month, but don\u2019t expect to see it in the lease contract (yeah... I feel stupid for missing the red flag). When I looked online, I only saw the apartment listed on one property app and nowhere else. Last month I also checked and saw it on multiple locations, meaning some were deliberately taken down. We feel the broker isn\u2019t making enough effort to bring new people in and want to help, but we aren\u2019t allowed to list anywhere.\n\nIt wouldn\u2019t make sense for the broker to not help since he isn\u2019t making money off of sitting on it, but he is very close with this landlord, and something feels off. We have done everything we can to make a seamless transition, but the landlord doesn\u2019t mind since he is getting paid regardless.\n\nHow can I better educate myself on this subject and is there anything obvious I\u2019m missing?","title":"Stuck in Lease Extension","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446681096,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rk7p9\/my_dad_just_got_an_invoice_for_810_in_tolls\/","id":"3rk7p9","body":"hey there, not sure this is the best place, but i'm not sure what to do.\n\nmy car what his while in the shop (the irony is not lost on me) so i got a rental through the insurance company. i had the car from 8\/25-9\/11. i returned it, got my car back, and thought all was fine.\n\nwell today (11\/4) my dad received an invoice for $810 in toll across Delaware and Jersey, i'm assuming its the turnpike or something. but its for the rental car. the very same one i had in Richmond VA the entire duration of my rental. \n\ni went to the rental company, told the manager there must be some mistake. he seemed sympathetic (i guess), told me it was an issue with the toll company PlatePass i think. \n\nwhat do i do to get rid of this fine? is this fraud? could the rental company be guilty? \n\nim in the process of getting time stamps from work, and attendance from my professor to prove i was here during that time period.","title":"my dad just got an invoice for $810 in tolls through Jersey on a rental car that we had in VA the whole time","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1417909267,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2oi3mv\/paraphrasing_a_book\/","id":"2oi3mv","body":"\"Monthly spend about RMB 50 to RMB 100 ($10-20 USD) to buy books. Because you don\u2019t have a lot of money, you should pay attention to learning. When you buy the books, read them carefully and learn the lessons and strategies that is being taught in the book. Each book, after reading them, put them into your own language to tell the stories. Sharing with others can improve your credibility and enhance the affinity.\" - Li Ka-Shing\n\nI'm in California and starting in January, I want to start doing this. I want to purchase a book a month on different topics (real estate, cooking, etc). I was going to start a blog to teach others what I've learned from the book. Would it be legal for me to put the content of the book in my own words on the blog while at the same time give credit to the author and the book? I would also provide a link to places like Amazon or some book store where others may go to purchase the book themselves. I do not see an issue with putting the books in my own words while giving credit to the author but I have friends who said that it could be seen as me giving valuable knowledge away for free. I want to run it by this subreddit to see what everyone thinks. Thank you!\n\nEdit: Updated location","title":"Paraphrasing a Book","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1444165181,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nr8e9\/cellular_company_promised_me_something_admitted\/","id":"3nr8e9","body":"I had an unlimited data plan. They offered me a father's day deal. I could drop down to 6 gigs a month and get a new phone for the same monthly price. It sounded great. I received my phone but they dropped me to two gigs. I have called 4-5 times about the issue and am currently waiting on a response from a manager. They say they cannot fix my data. So are offering me a discount for 6 months, even though the deal was a 2 year plan. The cancellation fee is over 300 dollars. They acknowledge their \"mistake\" but are \"unable\" to fix it. I say it was bait and switch. If I took this to small claims court what could I expect?\n\nPhoenix area","title":"Cellular company promised me something, admitted mistake, and refuses to fix it. What can I expect in small claims?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551825229,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axr7og\/my_ex_is_moving_out_of_state_and_wants_5050\/","id":"axr7og","body":"My ex and I split when my daughter was a newborn and I learned he had cheated on me with several women during the course of my pregnancy. My saving grace is that we were never married. He is on the birth certificate but we have never gone to court so I don\u2019t believe he actual has custody rights; I just allow him to watch her in my apartment 2 nights a week while I\u2019m working. I have never taken him to court so there is no custody agreement or child support. \n\nHe has just sprung it on me that he is quitting his job and opening a bar in Brooklyn. He is moving from NJ to Brooklyn and now wants to have her half the week instead of watching her in my apartment, which I understand, but this seems like a big change to happen immediately. \n\nHe is a pathological liar and I have no way of knowing where she will be or who will be watching her while he\u2019s working. He often lies to me and says he is bringing our daughter to visit his parents and then takes her to a bar. In a perfect world I believe 50\/50 custody is a great precedent but I am not currently comfortable with this arrangement as I don\u2019t know who will be watching her. I work overnights so I can be home with her during the day and it seems strange to send her to live with her dad half the week so she can be left with random babysitters and friends while he works.  \n\nIt also is annoying to me to have to share custody over state lines. It\u2019s an awful commute into the city and he is the one that is choosing to move there. \n\nIf he takes me to court should I be prepared for a judge to grant his request? I would be more comfortable with him starting with one or two overnights a week until she is more comfortable as she has never lived anywhere but with me and doesn\u2019t spend a great deal of time with him right now, and I want to see where he is living and know that she will be safe. (She is currently only with him about 5 waking hours a week.)","title":"My ex is moving out of state and wants 50\/50 custody of our 2 year old. (NJ to NY)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551237587,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av8hgb\/former_employer_is_demanding_that_i_return_to\/","id":"av8hgb","body":"Up until the end of January I worked in a certain store in Virginia for hourly pay. Direct deposits are usually sent out on the 3rd or 4th of the month for the previous month's pay. My last day of work was in the end of January, and my employer cancelled my direct deposit, and sent me an email demanding that I come in to the store to get my paycheck. I responded that I have been very busy and that would take a while, and I asked for the check to be mailed to my home, I even offered to reimburse for postage. My former employer still insists that I come in to get my check. My question: Are they allowed to require me to come into the store for my last check? Or am I afforded the right of the check being mailed to me since I'm so busy with school and my new job. ","title":"Former employer is demanding that I return to store in person for last months pay.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539704089,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oopxk\/my_employer_sent_out_sensitive_details_in_an\/","id":"9oopxk","body":"My employer just sent an email to the entire company with everyone's health insurance information, everyone's dependents, what plan they picked, if they put their spouse\/partner on, what can I do about this, I am a private person and did not want everyone at my work to know I put my partner on my plan, or that I even had someone, that information is personal, and the CFO seems to not care, and say it is not a big deal, I am upset about this. Maybe I can't do anything maybe I can but is there something I can say to them that would protect my privacy so they take it seriously?","title":"My employer sent out sensitive details in an email to every single employee","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538432835,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kl1h7\/is_it_illegal_to_discuss_an_employee_termination\/","id":"9kl1h7","body":"Long story short - at my work, there may have been an occurrence of management discussing firing an employee by weening off his hours weekly until he quits. Is this discussion with a customer illegal? And no, this isn't me, it's a friend of mine, and there have been no real offenses or warnings, even discussions, with said employee.\n\n​\n\nI feel that this is illegal but trying to locate a specific law is impossible.\n\n​\n\nThanks all!","title":"Is it illegal to discuss an employee termination with a customer?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551908957,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay4gqn\/tx_divorce_discovery_question_about_detailed\/","id":"ay4gqn","body":"There is no legal separation in Texas but I have been dating someone who is going through an extended divorce. There has been plenty of physical separation and the relationship is totally dead except for legally. Due to this, legally it is an adulterous relationship. \n\nDuring the discovery phase this persons ex has requested a question to be answered with details such as anyone they have had any sexual contact with while married, their names, time of day it happened, location, etc. Answering this fully would mean my full name and address would be included which seems rather unnecessary and given the ex was abusive I\u2019d rather they not know who I am. \n\nI understand that the fact that there was a sexual relationship is relevant as it is technically adultery even though from a common sense perspective it is wildly different from what we consider cheating. The law is still the law. Does this mean that all those details have to be answered though? ","title":"[TX] Divorce discovery question about detailed sexual history, is this required to answer?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505782083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70zene\/bad_faithunfair_claims_handling_for_workers_comp\/","id":"70zene","body":"I was injured in April, and had to leave my job, because of my injury. The claims adjuster has been very difficult, almost impossible to reach and very unprofessional. She denied my case before ever sending me a medical release form, I had to get my HR rep to basically be the go-between, because this adjuster never answered my phone calls or returned my calls when I left voicemails. It was through my HR rep that I was able to badger the adjuster into eventually emailing me the release forms. This has still not been resolved and it is Sept 18th. The adjusters newest issue is that the doctor forgot to add the word \"in\" to his sentence about revisiting the issue of when I can return to work back in May. The whole rest of the paragraph talks about how I can not return to work yet, but the doctor is hopeful for the future. According to her then, I must have returned to normal duty work in May because he forgot to put the work \"in\" in the sentence. All the papers I got from the doctor say I can not return to normal duty. So I am wondering, is it legal for her to drag this out? she said she would need clarification from the doctor, so I gave her his number. That was Sept 8th, and I have not heard a word from her. I don't mind taking legal action at this point because I am mentally exhausted from all the stress she is putting me through, but I want to make sure this is not normal before I dive in to the next step. I have plenty more details if needed, just didn't want this post to be too long. Any advice would be most appreciated! [EDIT] on Aug 29 they did accept my claim, the unresolved issue as of Sept 18th is how much they owe me in lost wages. ","title":"Bad Faith\/Unfair claims handling for workers comp case ? (Arizona US)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552665559,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1gmc0\/husband_missed_his_court_fine_pay_deadline_what\/","id":"b1gmc0","body":"Last month my husband was in court for driving on a suspended license. He didn\u2019t know he had missed a payment on a ticket and they had suspended it. So he went to court and they just told him to pay in next 30 days. Well that was 3 days ago. We tried to go online and pay it, but when we search for case nothing pops up. He wants to go down there and pay, but he has just started a new job and can\u2019t make it until Monday. We can pay today. What is the worst case scenario here? We are in Massachusetts. ","title":"Husband missed his court fine pay deadline, what happens if we pay it late?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568396728,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3suis\/does_delivery_time_count_as_working_time\/","id":"d3suis","body":"I tried to do the research myself but I'm not getting a definite answer, so I come here. I work at a mom and pop pharmacy in California and I'm also a delivery driver. I work all day at the pharmacy (usually 9 - 6 ish or 11 - 6 ish) then go do deliveries after (from 6 - 7 to 8 ish). Does that delivery time go towards my working time. This is very important as it might mean I'm getting cheated at my paycheck and overtime. I get paid 13 an hour if that helps.","title":"Does delivery time count as working time","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569110482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7irj6\/unfinished_and_unsafe_deck\/","id":"d7irj6","body":"This will be long. \n\nMy husband and I live in Colorado in a fourplex on the second floor. We\u2019ve been here since October 2018. December of 2018, we were told the landlords were going to be hiring someone to redo our deck and the adjoining deck of our neighbor. The man redoing our deck told us it would be roughly two weeks although that was never in writing. Fast forward to today, it\u2019s been almost a year and our deck is still not finished. It is usable now but we are still missing parts of the railing and the wood they used has started to warp. One of the support beams is very clearly bent and cracked and there are many other spots that have similar issues. I have emailed the property managers multiple times and only heard back once regarding when someone would come by to work on the deck. \n\nIt turns out the landlords were using a family friend to redo our deck so we have no idea if he is a professional or not. The last time I emailed the property managers, the landlord came out with her family (daughter, husband, and two grandchildren around 5 or 6) and they began working on the neighbors conjoining deck. So now we have a family that are clearly not professionals working on these decks and to top it off, they cut the cable wires of the building in the process. \n\nI\u2019m fairly certain they will try to increase my rent when we discuss renewing our lease due to having this \u201cnew deck\u201d and I want to know if I have any rights as a tenant to refuse or take them to court for their clear lack of safety for their tenants. My husband and I love this place aside from the deck and I don\u2019t want to have to move because rent here is already ridiculous and I feel that if we refuse to pay more, it\u2019ll be very easy for them to find someone else to take this place.","title":"Unfinished and unsafe deck","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569532548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9q2pq\/i_swear_my_ex_is_trying_to_get_me_to_sign_custody\/","id":"d9q2pq","body":"When I divorced my ex he convinced me to split the 2 kids and have 50\/50 custody.  A few years down the road, I'm remarried with 2 more kids from my military husband. We are out of our original state (because military family life) and the child I have physical custody of is not doing well in public school. I told our kid if he doesn't improve it's going to result in homeschooling. I mention to the ex about my plan (he knows I've been struggling with our kid's behavior at school and enjoys casually throwing in the idea \"oh well if he's not behaving with you he can come live with me\") and he's suddenly giving me gripe. I've switched his schools a few times now and he had never showed concern or interest in what kind of school it is or how well it's doing. Now he's insisting to know every detail about my possible switch to homeschool like the curriculum and extracurricular activities like Im not a functioning adult that can figure this out. I tell him the online course that I'm wanting to use because other mil wives use it in our community and it would be easier for me to join in and have support. This isn't good enough for him and he wants a more elaborate plan sent before he can see if he \"approves\". Meanwhile, I'm just trying to raise 3 kids and avoid getting the one school age child expelled. It's 2019, teachers can't be smacking kids upside the head and tell them to get their crap together, hell, even just grabbing them by the arm and dragging them out of class is frowned upon. The school has tried various friendly approaches to get him do work or listen and he's choosing to play under the desks saying \"No, I don't want to do that.\" Yeah, the kid is aware that the teachers won't be mean and this is still elementary school. I told him that homeschooling would be temporary until our kid is matured enough to try again because he's seriously acting a fool. I'm consistently packing up babies to go remove him from class, the principals office, etc. this isn't working out for us. I'm now very turned off at this 50 50 stuff because the ex is trying to butt into this decision which could ultimately make me lose parent authority in front of our kid. Our kids aren't dumb and know how to exploit loopholes and if they realize they can avoid changes by begging daddy, I'll never be taken seriously. If I ended up switching our kid to homeschool without his 100% approval what's the worst to happen?","title":"I swear my ex is trying to get me to sign custody over or setting me up to lose custody.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443364918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mkwtb\/pa_landlord_suing_me_for_roommates_unpaid_rent\/","id":"3mkwtb","body":"My lease ended in August and a new roommate moved in. I never signed a new lease, but continued paying rent. Yesterday I recieved a court order on my door claiming that I owe security deposit and two months rents. I find out that my roommate never paid his security deposit or rent. After that he goes to sign lease, but I don't sign it because the landlord is taking legal action against me and I want to get out of there asap. \n\nCan I be held legally accountable for my roommate's unpaid rent and security deposit?\n\nGiven that I haven't signed any lease renewal am I free to leave this apartment and terrible roommate situation?","title":"[PA] Landlord suing me for roommate's unpaid rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540224651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qf95c\/ny_is_self_inflicted_arson_legal_if_the_person\/","id":"9qf95c","body":"I\u2019m not planning to burn anything down. \n\nBut I\u2019m curious, if someone had a workshop they wanted to get rid of, could they burn it down without legal consequences? This is if the person doesn\u2019t seek any profit from the arson, uses it as destruction of their own property.\n\nThis question brought to you by season 3 of Daredevil","title":"[NY] Is self inflicted arson legal if the person doesn\u2019t try to claim insurance?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552838270,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b26ko6\/girlfriend_has_influenza_strep_and_a_possibilty\/","id":"b26ko6","body":"So my girlfriend got sick and as the title says above, a whole lot worse than expected. She's a caretaker for people with disabilities which requires her to take care of them at their homes for long shifts. She went to the emergency ER this morning when she got diagnosed and some prescriptions. She was given a note saying that she can't work. Her boss basically has blown it off as her problem and no other employees will cover her. I don't think she meets the requirements in our state (Ohio) quite yet for FMLA so I'm here kind of desperate for options for her. She can barely move and I dont think its wise for her to take care of people when she's extremely contangious with something like the flu with strep on top of it. Are there any legal options she can take so she can recover?","title":"Girlfriend has Influenza, strep, and a possibilty of bronchitis. Has a doctor's note saying she can't work, but nobody will help her. (Not sure what flair to put for this).","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569692534,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daj71z\/texas_someone_else_hits_me_other_party_completely\/","id":"daj71z","body":"How is this fair and justice? My quote specifically got bumped up after they said explicitly that they found a report of my no-fault accident.","title":"[TEXAS] Someone else hits me, other party completely at fault, with witness; but my insurance rate goes up 30%","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1412241529,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2i2r8o\/as_a_sole_proprieter_considering_a_business\/","id":"2i2r8o","body":"Location: Southern California, USA\n\nI have several thousand hours personally invested into developing a software product.  Until recently I had anticipated that I was going to be the sole owner, salesperson, customer service agent, marketing guy, etc.  A friend (and successful business owner himself) has expressed interest in being involved and has left it open as to how much involvement I would be comfortable with.  The possibilities range from me licensing my software to him up to forming a partnership to market this software and possibly expanding to a few different offerings in the industry.\n\nInitially I was skeptical about a partnership.  I've put a lot of time and effort into designing and developing my product and I would like to make sure that any partnership deal takes this into account.  That said, if a partner can bring experience, connections, sales\/marketing knowledge, and some capital investment to get things moving, there's a great chance that we could sell at least twice what I could sell alone -- thereby making the partnership completely worthwhile.\n\nI suppose I'm looking for any advice in this scenario.  I'm still trying to decide what sort of deal would be considered \"fair\" and am curious what my options are in terms of retaining ownership of my product.  I would like the ability to fall back on my initial plan and sell the product myself in the event that the partnership doesn't work out.\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"As a sole proprieter considering a business partnership, what are my options for retaining ownership of my product in the event that things don't work out?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1507610540,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75esl5\/odd_situation_with_tech_support\/","id":"75esl5","body":"Brazil, balneario camboriu\n\n\u25cfMy pc stopped working, HDD died\n\n\u25cfI went to a tech support for consultation \n\n\u25cfHe message me to tell how much is going to cost\n\n\u25cfI say no cause the price is way too high for this kind of service so I say I don't have the money and is not really worth it since I want to buy a new pc\n\n\u25cfAfter work I go to the tech support to get my pc back\n\n\u25cfConsultations are free so he give my pc back and don't charge me \n\n\u25cfI get home and try to turn my pc on\n\n\u25cfIt works perfectly, he changed the HD and installed a new windows\n\nWhat should I do? I'm feeling guilty af but at the same time I'm kind of angry that he tried to charge way more than he should for the service. What can he do to me if I decide not to tell him what hapenned? Should I wait for him to talk to me? I have the whatsapp messages proving that I told him I didn't want the service.\n\n","title":"Odd situation with tech support","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571450033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djxfa9\/prepaid_maintenance_for_subaru_crosstrek\/","id":"djxfa9","body":"Hi, just wanted to ask for some legal advice. Purchased a new vehicle. Can I cancel the prepaid maintenance I purchased? It\u2019s only been a day.  I signed a contract stating there is no cooling off period unless you obtain a contract cancellation option. I didn\u2019t purchase that and wasn\u2019t offered it. I don\u2019t want to cancel purchase. Only the maintenance. Thank you for your time.","title":"Prepaid maintenance for Subaru crosstrek, California","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508592408,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77tcjy\/pa_dcnr_ranger_a_jerkoff_for_no_reason_question\/","id":"77tcjy","body":"I was stopped by a DCNR ranger for fishing in the wilderness of eastern PA. I had my license and 5 year fish tag and everything. Nothing illegal on me, no drugs, alcohol, illegal hunting\/fishing traps, etc. \n\nRight off the bat, the guy calls me stupid because when he rolled up I said \"Hey, I never see you guys back here, how ya doing?\" and he called me stupid and said \"not to say that shit to [him]\" whatever that means. He took my fishing license and drivers license and backed up down the trail so I could barely see him. He came back and was continuing to be a dickhead for no reason, harassing my about the way I had my license \"displayed.\" (On my backpack, pinned to the front right sleeve)\n\nHe told me I am in the system now and I am \"on record\" (his words, not mine) and then drove away. I didn't break any laws, I did nothing illegal, but now I am \"on record\"\n\nDoes anyone know what this means? Am I in trouble somehow? Is there a way I can make a complaint about the officer? ","title":"[PA] DCNR Ranger a jerkoff for no reason, question about what happened.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446691121,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rku5m\/suing_a_nonprofit_drum_corps\/","id":"3rku5m","body":"\nI\u2019m looking to see if anyone might have any valuable information on this subject because, while I\u2019m aware that taking legal action on a drum corps isn\u2019t fun for anyone,  I was done very wrong over the 2015 tour. I also am not able to give the location of the corps as it could be identified by that alone as there are not many drum corps in the US. \n\nFor those that don\u2019t know what drum corps is, it\u2019s tough to explain, but the typical drum corps is a non-profit youth organization that is essentially a professional marching band. Staff and students (members) move in to a location together, typically in late May, for a period of 2 to 3 weeks. During this time, commonly known as \u201cspring training,\u201d the members learn their marching show. After spring training, the entire corps loads all of their equipment onto a semi-truck and live on tour busses. They are fed via a mobile kitchen that is built into a semi-truck trailer. The corps then travels at night and rehearses and competes at contests during the day. The living\/working situation is an all day-every day type of environment. \n\nI was contracted as a staff member for a drum corps that participated in the 2015 Drum Corps International tour. I was sent a staff contract specifying the dates to expect compensation, as well as a W-9 tax form and a direct deposit form. I turned in all of the paperwork on time to the corps as well as a voided check. \n\nHalf way through the summer, the rest of the staff had been paid at least twice and I had not received any compensation in my bank account. So I emailed the corps operations director to which I was told they\u2019d \u201clook into it.\u201d An entire week later rolled by (during the summer) and I had heard nothing back. I decided to ask the caption head about the situation, to which I was informed that my position was thought to be an intern position on the caption heads\u2019 part, therefore there was no room left in that particular captions budget because the caption head thought I had been taken care of by the administration prior to the caption head being put in charge of that particular budget. (I know that was a little long winded, hopefully it made sense.)\n\nI also need to add that I had not worked out an exact amount of compensation with the corps. I wasn\u2019t expecting much money, but I was expecting something as they had led me to believe I\u2019d be receiving some amount via direct deposit. This is where I\u2019m stuck trying to figure out if I have some kind of angle here. \n\n\nThe compensation portion of the contract I was given reads as follows:\n\n\u201c(Blank) hires our staff as independent contract labor. This\nmeans that your taxes are not deducted from your paycheck. You are responsible for the payment of your own employment taxes. (Blank) provides each staff member with a Form 1099 at the end of the calendar year for all monies earned during that calendar year. Further, all income is reported to the Internal Revenue\nService, as required by law. (Blank) pays through Direct Deposit. You have the option of having the funds deposited directly into a checking or savings account.\n(Blank) compensates once a month on the 15th of each\nmonth or, when the 15th falls on a weekend or holiday, the next business day during that month. There may be the occasional time when the pay date is extended a day or two past the 15th. If this occurs, substantial notice is provided.\n(Blank) will not compensate any staff member that has not\nturned in the proper paperwork, which is included in this staff handbook packet. These 4 forms include the direct deposit form, the W-9 form, as well as a voided check or a deposit authorization form from your bank, signed by authorized bank personnel.\nThe Executive Director, upon discussion with either the individual staff member or the appropriate caption head, will determine the schedule of your payments for payroll. Any questions concerning the amounts or schedule of payments should be directed initially to the appropriate caption head, and then to the Executive Director.\n(Blank) does not compensate in full until the contract period has been satisfied. If it has been determined by the Program Coordinator and the Executive Director that a contract has not been fulfilled, the compensation is pro-rated to reflect the actual time worked. If it has been determined that a contracted staff person has been compensated in excess of pro-rated funds, then the staff person is responsible for reimbursement to (Blank).\u201d\n\n\nIt also doesn\u2019t make much sense that they would outline payment dates then say that the payment schedule has to be discussed with the executive director. \n\n\nI was with the drum corps until mid-June, where I left early because of non-payment. I am aware that it is some months later, but it\u2019s been really bugging me lately that a situation like that happened to someone, especially someone that spent multiple summers as a marching member of that group. \n\nWhen I informed the administration that I was planning on leaving early, they made no attempt whatsoever to try and work it out with me. All I got was the \"we're sorry to hear you're leaving\" response. \n\nI\u2019m hoping someone will be able to either inform me of some possible action or let me know if I\u2019m grasping at straws. ","title":"Suing a non-profit drum corps?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570149877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd00ms\/failure_of_fine_transfer_australia\/","id":"dd00ms","body":"I committed a speeding traffic offense in my brothers car, so the fine came under my brother. He filled out the statutory declaration form stating it was me and since then thinking the fine was over and done with but he checked yesterday and saw the fine has gone through under his name. We called service NSW and she stated that he put in my sisters email for some reason, and they have sent a email to her saying the form was wrong and need\u2019s to be re-done. It\u2019s been close to 3 months since then and we weren\u2019t aware of the situation. What can we do at this point? The service NSW lady also said something about an annulment application and taking it to court.","title":"Failure of fine transfer AUSTRALIA","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539737600,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9otmzn\/recommendation_for_estate_and_trust_attorney_in\/","id":"9otmzn","body":"Need to establish a will for my assets. Anyone got recommendation for estate and trust attorney in San Francisco Bay Area? Experience working with foreign nationals preferred. Thanks a lot! ","title":"Recommendation for estate and trust attorney in Bay Area, CA?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554784627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb3pa3\/caught_with_ashtray_in_on_campus_apartment\/","id":"bb3pa3","body":"hi all\n\nA fire inspector came to my on campus apartment today and cited me for a fire safety violation: specifically evidence of smoking. My roommate and I burn incense in an ash tray which was full of ash, and her tapestry happened to be haphazardly hanging from the wall and draped over the smoke detector. \nWe weren\u2019t smoking in the room but our case may be forwarded to student conduct anyways. Any advice ?","title":"caught with ashtray in on campus apartment","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540951260,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9suj9u\/riskaverse_way_to_remove_legal_bullies_from_our\/","id":"9suj9u","body":"I work for a small-ish California-based social forum, and one of its sections allows users to post job offers and for others to accept them. For instance: \"Need programmer to create some mod tools for our Minecraft server\". The section is informal in the sense that there's no legalese you need to go through to use it, but users who are hiring out others will often put up legal contracts that anyone will need to sign to work for them, so there is some amount of professionalism.\n\nUnfortunately, we have had an increasing number of bad apples that maliciously exploit other users, only giving a vague description of the job and then requiring the user to work 60+ hours a week, refusing to pay them unless they allow the scope of the project to bubble up, or any sort of other shady behavior. Sometimes these are even companies (usually LLCs) rather than individuals, and they have actually used their legal weight to bully other users who don't have that sort of experience or the pockets to enter a drawn out legal battle.\n\nThis is not cool, and we want to deal with these users. In an ideal world we would want to do stuff like require job scopes to be unambiguous or otherwise be removed, expectations\/contracts (sans payment\/personal\/confidential info) to be posted up front, and be able to remove anyone who we determine to be a bad apple. Despite this, it's hard for us to put these into objective rules since \"don't scam\" or similar is up to interpretation. We predict if we start removing threads or users based on our own interpretation, some of these legal bullies will sue us for damages -- we don't have the resources to fight these. \n\nIs there a risk-averse way to deal with these users? Obviously anyone can sue for anything, but if we remove a thread or user for something clearly against our ToS, we have the high ground and it's not as enticing to sue us. ","title":"Risk-averse way to remove legal bullies from our community?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569569892,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9x0pg\/can_i_be_charged_with_more_at_my_first_hearing\/","id":"d9x0pg","body":"So I got my paper with all my charges on it and their all traffic misdemeanors but I was wondering how likely it is that the cops who arrested me would bring up more charges at my first court hearing if they found more evidence while I\u2019ve been waiting for traffic court?","title":"Can I be charged with more at my first hearing after already receiving a paper with my charges?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571373334,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djie19\/breaking_a_lease\/","id":"djie19","body":"So currently I rent an apartment in Wisconsin and for the entire time I've been here it's been almost impossible to get anything fixed. In the last year there has been 2 fires. Both filled the hallways with smoke. Now the first time, someone pulled the fire alarm and it didn't go off so he had to go to a second one that worked. The second time, none of the fire alarms went off. The second fire was inside someone else's apartment and no alarms went off in there apartment either. Now my question is what would be enough to legally break the lease? Someone said that the building could be considered unsafe and I can legally break it. But I also don't want to have to pay rent for the rest of my lease if I leave. I'm unsure of the laws pertaining to this in the state of Wisconsin.","title":"Breaking a lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444495531,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o8g0b\/boss_threatening_to_take_legal_action_against_me\/","id":"3o8g0b","body":"Kentucky.\n\nI began work for him in late April this year.  It is a small company that barely runs at its best.\n\nImportant points:\n\n\u2022I've signed nothing regarding any company computer policy. Not one paper.\n\n\u2022I was hired as a service technician for the company product. I took the role as IT technician as well, but no title was officially given, no changes to pay, or agreements to future changes of pay, ever took place.\n\n\u2022My boss is the owner and top-level admin of every account associated with the company and has full administrative rights to make any changes without the need for anyone else.\n\n\u2022At no time have I ever directly received any formal write-ups or warnings, verbal or otherwise.\n\n\u2022Edit: **As an IT professional I can say without a doubt that he has no possible way to prove his accusations, especially because they are 100% false.**\n\nI will tell this chronologically:\n\nMy boss (company owner) was out of town on business.\n\nI gave him a 2-week notice via email, cc'd to my personal email. \n\nThursday, fourth to last day of my 2-week notice period: \u2013 an employee (receptionist) incited a work confrontation with me. She and her mother are the only two employees with keys to the company. Her mother usually shows up later around noon. She (receptionist) laughed and told me I couldn't \u201cdo shit\u201d about work the next day because she decided she wasn't coming in (laughing that I will lose my pay for that day). A few hours later, I saw her asking our shipping employee to scan her computer because she's having \"stuff on her computer\". Why didn't she ask me? She is aware that I take care of computer needs, and the shipping guy is not savvy at all. Previously, I'd done all the work on her computer and there was no malicious software, ever.\nShe continued to talk shit about me the entire day, very loudly in the presence of other employees, so that I would hear it. I degraded her appearance (that\u2019s all). She threated to \u201cget her brothers\u201d in retaliation. My boss (company owner) was completely unaware of her unilateral decision to keep the company doors locked the next day.\n\nI emailed my boss that night detailing what had happened at work with full disclosure from my personal email.\n\nFriday, fourth to last day of my 2-week notice period: I don\u2019t bother going to work because I know that the receptionist is going to do exactly what she said, which is not come, keeping me from making my pay, and laughing about it like that\u2019s some kind of hilarious joke. I call the company phone a few times from multiple phones and did not get an answer, confirming my belief. I text my boss and ask if he\u2019s read his email, he says no because he doesn\u2019t have access to his email (but he has data on phone, he has hotspot on phone, email, he has laptop with him, Wi-Fi everywhere).\n\nMonday, third to last day of my 2-week notice period: I wake up feeling sick and text him that I can\u2019t make it in. I receive texts back telling me they do not need me anymore, and to not come back for the remaining 2 days. He says I will face legal action for putting Trojans on the receptionist\u2019s computer, and for messing with the company time clock machine (it is not even possible to alter time clocks on this machine, that is the whole point of the machine). I tell him through text, vehemently, that he is being utterly ridiculous and that his accusations are incorrect. I offer to buy him lunch so we can talk.\n\nTuesday, second to last day of 2-week notice period: He texts me back and agrees to have lunch with me the following day (Wednesday).\n\nWednesday, last day of 2-week notice period: We text and meet for lunch around noon. We were at impasse about my work performance. I told him I didn't put Trojans on company computers, and that I still have some personal belongings at the company. And that I would let him have my old router I installed there as a personal favor. We agreed that I could come get my belongings on Saturday and that I would make sure he has all current passwords to company accounts and computers (which as I\u2019ve said, he owns all accounts has all admin rights, and does not need me to make changes). He told me he truly believed I am a good guy, and if I ever wanted to come back he would hire me. We shook hands as we parted ways.\n\nThis morning (Saturday) I texted him asking when to meet at the company.  He texts back telling me not to come to the company (roughly translated through his broken English), and to send him passwords, and that if I do not I will face legal action. At this point I do not know why he is threatening legal action again, after we\u2019ve had lunch to talk it out! He says if I want my belongings I\u2019ll have to ask the court.\n\nThe texting ended with my repeatedly asking when he\u2019s going to give me my shit.\n\nTL:DR So, for quick iteration, he\u2019s asking me to do company-related work, after essentially telling me I\u2019m fired. And then AFTER that, threatening to sue me. I have signed no papers of ANY kind regarding my work there, or regarding company computers. And he has complete ownership and administrative rights to every account and computer at the company.\n\nDoes he really have a case?\n","title":"Boss threatening to take legal action against me for putting trojans on company computers, which is a totally frivolous claim.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1410353191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g01a3\/a_large_canadian_company_is_going_bankrupt_and\/","id":"2g01a3","body":"I've supplied products to a Canadian based company. They are a large daily deal site. Long story short, overdue payments kept stacking up, and I've just found this:\n\nXXX filed a Notice of Intention to Make a Proposal (the \"NOI\"), pursuant to Section 50.4 (1) of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and MNP Ltd. was appointed as trustee\n\nDoes this essentially mean we now have no chance of being paid? Their website is still up and running and they are still sending us fresh orders. I run an Australian company so unsure if there is any protection there. All orders were delivered correctly and on time - they just paid us a fraction of what is due when it was due and nothing in the last two weeks.\n\nI spoke to one lawyer [before the filing] who said they can garnish money in their account if we knew the details, but required a $10k retainer. \n\nAny business law advice for Canada would be appreciated.","title":"A large Canadian company is going bankrupt and owes me ~$30K, do I have any recourse","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540154553,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q6z9i\/caught_mom_young_daughter_shoplifting_should_i\/","id":"9q6z9i","body":"I work at a larger retail chain in Massachusetts. Around last week we had a mix-up involving a bunch of clothes that were put on hold and accidentally got put back on the floor (it was a whole thing). The woman came back the next day, and it turned out that she put the clothes on hold so her ex husband could come in later and buy them for their daughter (who looked around 10-11 years old) as per their child support agreement. The lady finds all the clothes again, puts them on hold, and leaves. \n2 days ago, she comes back with her daughter and long-story-short, we find out she was shoplifting WITH HER PRETEEN DAUGHTER. There\u2019s not much any of us can do unless she comes back and tries again, but we have her on camera and my managers are aware of what happened. The ex husband hasn\u2019t come back to buy the clothes she put on hold yet, but should be in any day now. \nOn the one hand, I really don\u2019t want to get involved, but on the other hand I think the father has the right to know his daughter is being encouraged to steal. I think shoplifting in front of\/with your kid is considered endangering the welfare of a child, and the fact that part of their child support agreement has the father physically coming in and buying clothes suggests that the mother wasn\u2019t using the money for her daughter to begin with. However, I\u2019m worried if I tell the father then the kid will end up in a worse situation that I have no idea about. I\u2019m also worried if I tell, the ex wife will complain to my managers and have me fired, and I don\u2019t want to loose my job. Basically what I\u2019m asking is:\n1) Should I tell the father that his ex wife is having her daughter shoplift with her?\n2) Can I get fired from my job for telling him? ","title":"Caught mom & young daughter shoplifting, should I tell the father\/ex-husband?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539139102,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mvmzr\/can_i_demand_to_read_my_fathers_will\/","id":"9mvmzr","body":"Using a throw-away because.\n\nWe are a southern Ontario family. I am the oldest of three sons, all adults. My father passed away 20 months ago. He told me before he passed that his house's value would be divided equally among his three sons, and that he had money set aside for us to help with future mortgage down payments and general support.\n\nHowever we have received nothing thus far. My mother has been in full control of all assets and hasn't given any support to her sons. She promised to help me get a vehicle as inheritance but later reneged without explanation and refused to discuss it. At first I thought it was because she had barely enough to get by, but now I suspect my mother inherited a sizable estate from my father's life insurance\/pension and has been spending it on herself. I've confirmed she has been spending large amount of money on her lavish personal lifestyle and left her sons to struggle financially.\n\nI don't know the contents of my father's Will since my mother has refused to show it to me or to my brothers, and has avoided my requests to read it. I'd like to know if I can demand to read it, and\/or if she is obligated legally to show it to me. I'd also like to know if I can make any kind of claim for inheritance as the eldest son.\n\nIn addition, my mother is planning to re-marry very soon. She has stated she intends to move out and give the house to my youngest brother. My mother openly plays favourites with her children, spoiling the youngest and hurting the others. There are many good reasons I should get the house instead (kids, work, etc.) and I have expressed my interest in renting it from her for a fair price. She admitted we are better suited for it, but counter-offered (her words) with a $20,000 mortgage down-payment gift instead. She wasn't clear about whether this is truly a gift, but its her way of stopping me from claiming ownership of the house. She has made financial promises to me in the past but later reneged and ignored me, so I don't trust her offer. My question though is, if I accept her offer and take the money, can it prevent me from receiving a greater share later on? Is she able to make adjustments to the will?","title":"Can I demand to read my father's will?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554230896,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8n893\/charged_5000_for_a_repair_at_my_business\/","id":"b8n893","body":"Hi all,\n\nI am a medium sized business owner in NJ and I am in manufacturing. To keep things short, I make products that need routing and CNC. Recently a machine I have had for about 5 years now, broke unexpectedly. The machine is a special machine that can only be fixed by the mechanic who is trained and employed by said CNC company. I called the company and they have sent out a mechanic, charging me around $500 an hour for his \"specialized\" help as well as his travel time compensation.\n\n​\n\nIt has been two days now, so far the mechanic has not found any issues, he just sits there and has been looking for the cause of the fault for 2 days... about 7-8 hours a day. No progress has been made, I have even called the CNC company to complain but they simply told me that \"The machine is specialized, has over 100k components and the repair can take the mechanic as long as he needs.\" I don't know what to do anymore, Its going on to day 3 now and soon my bill will be over $10k for just looking at my machine. Is there anything I can even do? I need the machine fixed but after 6+ days it will be just better to buy a new machine for $50,000, which would really, really suck.","title":"Charged $5000 for a repair at my business","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554532582,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba1mbg\/not_very_serious_but_is_pirating_legal_in_canada\/","id":"ba1mbg","body":"as far as I've herd its legal as long as it is not being sold or profited from.\n\n\nsorry for wasting your time i know you have better stuff to do here","title":"Not very serious but is pirating legal in Canada (Ontario)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569841856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db9yqk\/mi_probate_claiming_retirement_funds_without\/","id":"db9yqk","body":"My MIL passed in January and my wife is the only heir. She recently received Personal Representative (Executor) status and we contacted the 401(k) provider regarding MIL\u2019s account.\n\nWe created an EIN for the estate and just received the check for the balance the account, made out to \u201cThe Estate of MIL\u201d.\n\nWe\u2018ve already paid all the debts and taxes (except of course the income tax on the retirement distribution).\n\nMy question in this: Must we create an Estate account to hold the funds, or as PR can my wife sign the check over to herself and deposit it directly into our own account?\n\nIt seems like creating the account is an unnecessary step if all she\u2019ll be doing with the account is then transferring the money to our account and then closing it, but we don\u2019t want to step on any legal toes.","title":"[MI] Probate - Claiming Retirement funds without Estate Account?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1508290443,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/773c5s\/az_breaking_apartment_lease\/","id":"773c5s","body":"Hi all. So we used to pay for a parking spot on our lease, and the complex decided to change the parking rules and no longer allow people to pay for a spot. We were given the same spot for free, but the parking situation is now impossible. It was a free for all before the change, except the few reserved spots that people paid for. Now you can only park in uncovered spots and your 1 reserved spot. We have 4 cars, and there are not nearly enough spots to accommodate the number of tenants. There were no spots left by 5pm.\n\nCan we do anything to break the lease without paying the penalty due to the change in removing the paid parking spot? Common sense would have me believe that if they changed the lease, we should have the ability to back out, but I know nothing about this. Thanks.","title":"AZ - Breaking Apartment Lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447179556,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3saw17\/100_at_fault_for_car_accident_now_insurance\/","id":"3saw17","body":"Livermore California is where this happened. I was found 100% at fault for an accident. My steering wheel failed during a merge, and my car went over the median and was hit by oncoming traffic. Both cars were totalled, but it was 100% my fault due to the oncoming traffic.\n\nI got a letter from their lawyer asking my maximum policy limits, and I did so because my insurance company asked me too. Now the insurance company will only cover $5,000 of the accident and the other insurance company is chasing after me for 11,000 dollars.\n\nThey asked for a check in full, and I called them and told them straight up I don't have it, but could do a payment plan. The only option they gave me were 2 checks for 5k a month, which I also don't have.\n\nThey told me the case will be moved to the litigation department and hung up once I told them that wouldn't work either. Do I need an attorney at this point? I'm broke as hell, and not 100% clear on what action I should be taking.\n\nI'm also unclear what they would do if I can't pay. It's not like they can take money that I don't have. I could do 100$ a month but they were unwilling to do that. So what now?\n\nTL;DR What should I be doing now that the opposing insurance company refuses to deal with me? What does an Insurance Litigation department do?","title":"100% At Fault for Car Accident, now Insurance Company has my case moving to \"litigation department\"","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540178771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q9z4h\/lesbian_wife_becomes_father\/","id":"9q9z4h","body":"In Minnesota, same sex marriage is legal. We also have a law that says that the husband of a wife that has a baby is legally presumed to be the father. If one of the lesbian partners in a same sex marriage gets pregnant, is her female spouse legally presumed to be the father? Would she be stuck with child support? ","title":"Lesbian wife becomes father.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570455870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dejmqi\/landlord_threatening_to_ban_dogs\/","id":"dejmqi","body":"Having yet another issue with my super.  \n\n​\n\nSome backstory: For the several months my super has been group texting all the tenants, claiming some have not been picking up after their dogs and occasionally threatening to ban dogs from the premise.  To me it seemed like more of an empty threat than anything.  Apparently, today she found some more dog excrement and is now saying that dogs will not be allowed on the premises effective January 1st.\n\n​\n\nNow, here's the problem that I'm worried about.  Normally I wouldn't think it is an issue, as there is no language in the lease that implies she can revoke my pet privileges.  However, I noticed in my lease that in the section where it talks about what pets are allowed in the apartment, dogs were never added, despite being agreed on verbally (I know, I should have read it more carefully).  My question is, what power does she now have to say I can't have my pet?  I have documentation showing that I paid for a pet deposit and text messages between my super and I talking about the dog, so she can't claim that she didn't know.  Am I still screwed because it's technically not in the lease and if this becomes an issue, is this grounds to evict me?\n\n​\n\nThanks for any advice given.","title":"Landlord Threatening to Ban Dogs","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569866970,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbfmaq\/my_boyfriends_car_was_illegally_towed_and_were\/","id":"dbfmaq","body":"We live in Alaska and are pet sitting for a month at a condo. My boyfriend was parked in guest parking with no clear sign indicating it was a reserved spot. We woke up yesterday and his car was gone. We were not given any warning or anything and thought it had been stolen. We called the non-emergency police number and they told us it had been towed but that they had not authorized it. We called the towing company and they were closed but told us we had been towed for \u201cbeing parked unsafely\u201d we knew this was not true because we were parked in the spot normally. The next day we called to see who authorized it and they said it was the property manager but won\u2019t give us their name, they also have changed the reasoning to say we were parked in a residential parking spot even tho there were no signs indicating it was reserved. Now they want us to pay $230 to get it back (which is more than half of my pay check). We\u2019re about to go in and pay the fine but we\u2019re not sure if we should take this to small claims court or if it will even be worth it. We\u2019re going to ask the towing company for any pictures they took and what indicated that we were parked in a reserved spot (since their were no signs)","title":"My boyfriends car was illegally towed and we\u2019re not sure what to do","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570838238,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgnfmc\/apartment_charging_us_500_for_replacing_the\/","id":"dgnfmc","body":"So my wife and I recently moved out of our apartment at the end of last month. Prior to leaving we deep cleaned our apartment, which included a deep clean of our carpet since we have a dog. We figured there would still be something for the apartment complex to ding us on, but for almost 2 weeks worth of deep cleaning before leaving we figured we'd get something back. Come today we received a bill for over $500 from our apartment complex for damages they had to repair. They claim that, among other things, they had to replace the carpet due to pet stains in the carpet. Of course we dont have any photos of the apartment carpet before we left, but like I said we did hire a professional carpet cleaner and looked afterwards and didnt see any stains. My wife and I arent professional cleaners or anything, I cant say if the guy we hired did the greatest job or not, but it wasnt as if our dog peed all over the carpet. The only stains on that carpet were from the couple of times our dog got into the trash, and he never spilled anything liquid onto it. I cant imagine that it was any different than any other dog owner and I cant think of anything else we could have done to prevent this other than just not having a dog, but the apartment complex advertises their pet friendliness. I'm honestly not sure if they're doing anything wrong or if theres anything we can do, this is the first apartment I've ever lived in and I just need some advice before I go and pay them.\n\nI should add that the only accidents our dog had were in our bedroom, and they're not replacing that carpet at all.","title":"Apartment charging us $500+ for replacing the carpet in the front room. Can we do anything about it?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540327744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qsz9w\/can_a_professor_require_i_attend_out_of_class\/","id":"9qsz9w","body":"I don\u2019t know if this belongs here since I\u2019m not really looking to pursue any kind of action I\u2019m just curious. \n\nI\u2019m taking ENTP this semester and signed up for the block from 11:30 - 12:45 on Monday\/Wednesday. I am taking other classes as well Monday to Thursday with Monday being my busiest (class from 11:30 - 7:00). My problem is that my ENTP professor is requiring out of class events for a grade. This is already annoying as I feel it\u2019s unfair to require student\u2019s time outside class but it feels particularly unfair to me as both the events are happening on a Monday around 2-7pm. I can\u2019t go. \n\nThe first event was 2 weeks ago and I let him know in advance about my class obligations and he said ok. Fast forward to this past class he announced that if you didn\u2019t go you won\u2019t get the points but it\u2019s not a big deal cause it\u2019s a small part of your grade. I was kind of miffed but whatever. Then he announced the next event that\u2019s happening in about two weeks as well as an extra credit opportunity that may help those who missed the last event. But it\u2019s on a Monday basically the same time as the previous meaning, once again, I can\u2019t go. So now not only will I be missing the potential points to make up for last time but I\u2019ll be losing points again. \n\nIs this common practice? Is this something he can do? This isn\u2019t the same as homework assignments or studying that classes usually require to be done outside of class. I can schedule that around my obligations and I am in control. This is him scheduling my time for me outside class without regard for my personal obligations. I chose that class time because it fit into my other classes and I made a commitment to those other classes in April during the registration period which was way before he released any kind of syllabus or before the events listed had released their times. He is not offering any kind of \u201cexcused absence\u201d or \u201cschool event\u201d note which I would need as my classes on Monday have strict attendance policies. \n\nI just want to know if a professor is allowed to require time outside class for a grade and still dock points for those who miss (and let him know beforehand) due to pre existing obligations. \n\nI go to a public university in TX if that\u2019s important. \n","title":"Can a professor require I attend out of class events for a grade and dock points when I miss due to conflicts with other classes that I can\u2019t skip?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1538546174,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kyi6n\/the_managing_director_of_my_place_of_work_shouted\/","id":"9kyi6n","body":"Hi all. First time poster here. Something of a lurker for a while. \n\nI'll try and keep this as succinct as possible, and apologies if this isn't quite the right place for it but it's currently 6.20am in the UK and this has pretty much kept me up all night and i'm genuinely curious as to what can be done about it because his behaviour makes me sick.\n\nSo for a bit of background whilst trying to be as vague as possible. I work for a small contract publisher in London. Our team is very small and we have to work hard to get everything done. Often long days. I'll often go through weeks of working 50-60 hours just to hit deadlines. Due to this nature i'm fortunate to be trusted to work from home a lot. Something the MD has never really liked the idea of. \n\nI can't sit here and tell you that the state of my mental health is all because of work. Frankly work has been the least of my concerns with it. Being a creative i've always channelled all my negative energy in to my work and it produces often positive results. It's only been recently where it's started to decline faster where it's began to affect me in terms of trouble sleeping, becoming easily irritable and sometimes losing focus, to name but a few issues. My direct line manager, we'll call him Chris, has always been incredibly understanding of this with me and has always gone out of his way to make things work for me when I needed him to. I've been in and out of group therapy and one-to-one therapy all year. And we've had perfectly fine arrangements with me working from home on these days so I can simply go out to the sessions as and when I need to. The office has always known these days in the internal calendar clearly stating '@eidur\\_ Doctors appointment'. Since January\/February it's only been Chris to know what's going on with me. Which has been fine, because he's the only one at work who really needs to know (the one 'HR' girl also knew in short-form).\n\nSo basically up until the past couple of weeks i've been managing work fine as a whole but i've recently started new anti-depressants. Being told that things will get worse before they get better. And boy did they. To the point where I actually had to bite the bullet and take time off work by orders of the doctor. Something very unlike me, the last time off I had was for a festival in July and I basically needed a holiday from that. I'm not work-shy in the slightest. If there's a lot on I revel in it, i'm just a glutton for being busy with it. I take pride. I really didn't want to be signed off for the longest time but if I didn't do it now I was afraid of what might happen to me health wise.\n\nWith that, yesterday I get my note from my GP. I go to work, inform my main colleague I work directly with the most, we'll call him Jon. He's understanding. I then tell our 'HR' girl, Lucy. I talk to her about sick pay and stuff and lieu days to take back. Then I call my line manager Chris (he wasn't in the office that day) to explain the situation. Something I was terribly nervous about because we're in a bit of a busy period and I hate to leave them in the lurch like I have needed to. Chris, as always, was incredibly understanding and helpful. Telling me not to worry about it, he'll sort cover etc etc. I felt relaxed. \n\nShortly after I hung up the phone to Chris, I return to my desk. The sick note said from that day so I didn't have to be in work but I wanted to tie up my loose ends before getting away that day. Whilst sat there after a few minutes I hear Jon say to me in shock 'that's disgusting'. I wasn't paying attention at all but Jon took me out to the hallway to explain what he, and the rest of the office has just heard. \n\n\"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S STRESSED AND DEPRESSED?! HE\"S NEVER IN THE OFFICE TO BE STRESSED ABOUT ANYTHING!\"\n\nChris had phoned the MD, call him Wes, to ask for freelance budget to cover my absence. And that was his reaction.  \nAt this point it seems i'm literally the only person in the office who didn't hear it. But I can see everybody looking in to Wes' office in shock. I have texts from colleagues asking if he's shouting about me. I'm absolutely raging with embarrassment at this point. I have to go outside to calm down.\n\nI don't mind about people knowing in the office. One of the things i've been going out of my way to do since on this new medication is actually tell people what's going on with me. Because i've hidden it for so long. \n\nBut that needs to be on my terms. And Wes has just stolen that away from me.   \n\n\nEdit: At this point it's worth pointing out that last Christmas, Wes had a near-fatal stroke, which we as a company had to go to great lengths to conceal that information in respect to his family etc. \n\nIn summary, yeah. I'm disgusted with his behaviour. Honestly, I don't think there's anything that can really be done. But after losing a lot of sleep on this issue tonight. I wanted to ask this sub as i've seen some wonderful things come from you guys. Before I left the office yesterday I did email my disgust to Lucy, because I refused to sit idly by and let that happen. It soon became apparent that Wes didn't realise I was in the office at that moment (like that matters), and also he began apologising the the people in the office after I left. I have received no such contact from him other than an email from Lucy saying Wes is 'being supportive, and wishes to sit down with me when I return' \n\n​\n\n​\n\nApologies if any of this seems like rambling, I am VERY tired. nad feel free to ask further questions if they are productive questions.","title":"The Managing Director of my place of work shouted out my mental health problems for the whole office to hear without any regard for my privacy","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540326276,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qsrar\/attorney_refuses_to_represent_me_in_superior\/","id":"9qsrar","body":"Is it true that in Superior Court only the DA represents the plaintiff? It's a criminal case and my attorney says they can't represent me in Superior Court. Is this true? The defendant can use their attorney but I can't use mine?\n\nLocation: NC","title":"Attorney Refuses to Represent Me in Superior Court (I am the Plaintiff)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570408072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/debx0a\/not_updating_address_with_dmv_in_pa\/","id":"debx0a","body":"Hello,\n\n​\n\nI'll cut right to the chase, what are the legalities of \\*not\\* updating your address with the DMV\/Vehicle Registration? Really not sure how much longer i'll be at my new apartment, maybe another few months but i hear changing your address is a pain in the ass. Not a process i want to have to go through multiple times in a few month time span.... unless i absolutely have to. My address \\*is\\* current with my vehicle insurance company. \n\n​\n\nI live in Pennsylvania. \n\n​\n\nThanks!","title":"Not updating address with DMV in [PA] ?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541975668,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w87fi\/formally_accused_of_discrimination_at_work\/","id":"9w87fi","body":"I am a 60 year old white anesthesiologist (\u201cother Hispanic\u201d since my mother was Brazilian) who works as faculty FOR a major university and AT one of the largest hospitals in NYC.  (Makes this accusation even more complicated to resolve, as it involves 2 major institutions).\n\nA female African American radiology technician (R) , has reported me to the university HR Employee Relations for being racist\/\/\/ charging me with racial discrimination.\n\nInitially working with R in the radiology department I found her to be a poor communicator and generally rude and not a congenial member of the team. There were always conflicts that resulted from delays, improper setups, and improper positioning, all of which delayed and frustrated the radiologists and the anesthesia team (MD and a CRNA). For anesthesia we were overcharging for our services because of her lack of competence.\nShe would often tell you to move all your equipment to the other side of the room and then be incorrect. Generally what she stated was incorrect information so she lost credibility.\n\nWhen I spoke to her supervisor S about these concerns I was told he knew there were problems. That she had over 20 years experience in the radiology department, yet no experience in this very different area. He said he was encouraging her to be more confident. That she was been trained.\n\nThen one day in June she exceeded her authority when she told the CRNA to stop the propofol infusion that was being used to sedate the patient. Only a physician would normally make a request to change the medication so the CRNA thought she was a physician. At this point her interference was unacceptable and I went to her boss\u2019 boss O who was appropriately shocked and said that this was \u201cserious\u201d and that he would \u201cbe certain to correct this problem so it doesn\u2019t happen again\u201d.\n\nBecause we rotate Crnas through the department I felt compelled to warn them about  R as she showed no improvement.  \nR was unreliable, so we found a way to work around her. For anesthesia the problem that her supervisors failed to correct was solved... we expected unpleasantness and delays but there were no clinical issues for us as long as I reminded staff that she was not reliable.\n\nShe continued working and there seemed to be no change in her competency level. The radiologists became increasing distraught at breaks in sterile technique and improper equipment setups that were patient safety issues and delays. They complained to S and O and asked for her termination. They came to me a few weeks ago and asked me to join them in writing emails to document her incompetency and I told them that it was not in my purview because she no longer was a problem for anesthesia.\n\nMy chairman and two top faculty administration physicians called me to a meeting over 2 weeks ago to tell me that HR would be handling this situation. I have yet to see the actual specifics of the complaint. Apparently within the next week or two there will be a formal meeting with top administrators from both institutions and I will be told the charges. Apparently I get to tell my side and have witnesses chosen as does R.\n\nWhen I asked about having an attorney present I was told it\u2019s \u201cnot allowed\u201d.\n\nQuestions:\nDo I have the right to an attorney?\nShall I tell about the radiologists trying to get her fired for incompetence?\nShe is incompetent and hiding behind false accusations of racial discrimination... yes my behavior was not ideal yet the lack of resolution by her supervisors forced me to handle it in the best way I knew how. \nShall I try to reconstruct approximate dates and incidents or is the above adequate? I really can only get within a week or so..  and I\u2019m only sure what days I was there. \nIs there anyway to insure they do a thorough investigation?\nIs she culpable for wrongly accusing me of being racist. I am so well liked and have several close friends at work that are African Americans so no problem getting witnesses.\nI did treat her in an unprofessional manner and I wish the problem had been corrected so I wouldn\u2019t feel a need to make that choice.\nThank you !","title":"Formally accused of discrimination at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569859833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbdue0\/workplace_sexual_harassment_helpunited_states\/","id":"dbdue0","body":"I have been sexually harassed at work. I work in United States\n\nProblem is I do not have any evidence.\n\nAny suggestions about how I file complaints?\n\nI am thinking about labor law lawyer first, then EEOC, then talk to supervisor and HR.\n\nThank you!","title":"Workplace sexual harassment help[United States]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505163723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ziafz\/mn_would_this_count_as_rape_by_deception\/","id":"6ziafz","body":"Trigger warning for sexual violence and some explicit language\n\nHi legaladvice,\n\nI met this guy on an online dating site a few months ago. I always research guys before meeting them. When I asked for his full name, he got really defensive. I looked him up and sure enough, he had a criminal charge against him for sexual assault. I asked him about it, saying I no longer wanted to speak with him because rape is a pretty big deal... he said they were false accusations and if I'd done better research I would have seen that the charges were later dropped. Apparently the woman had pressed charges against him, but later she dropped them because he was about to lose custody of his kid and she felt guilty for causing him so much trouble. I believed him.\n\nWe slept together a few weeks later. He was very rough and violent with me. I started bleeding and crying. He threatened to leave, saying if I didn't trust or respect him then why was he here? Naturally I started crying more. I felt like I had to have sex with him or he'd leave, so I did.\n\nThe next day, he texted me asking if everything was consensual and did I have an okay time. I said yes. He said good, but then he went on to say he no longer wanted to speak with me. He said me crying was a huge turn-off and that he felt pressured into having sex. He said he didn't really want sex and would have rather just hung out. \n\nI thought this was interesting considering the previous night he was lounging around on my bed with his pants unzipped, asked me to give him oral, grabbing me and flipping me into different sex positions - nothing about his body language ever indicated non-consent. \n\nBut I apologized for hurting him and we agreed to go our separate ways. I felt so guilty. I told this story to a friend later. She recognized the name and told me this guy is really bad news. He has a history of messing with women psychologically for fun. Furthermore, the sexual assault charge against him was 100% real. He lied about it so I'd sleep with him. Is this rape by deception? Is there anything I can do about it now besides just get therapy? I've been having a lot of emotional and physical problems lately due to this and I feel kind of stuck.","title":"[MN] Would this count as rape by deception?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539092236,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mp7iq\/speeding_ticket_without_a_license_ohio\/","id":"9mp7iq","body":"I was coming home from work and wasn't paying attention and got pulled over for going 40 in a school zone. I don't have a license yet, only my temps. The cop said he only cited me for speeding. I have the option to appear in court or waiver it and just pay the fine online. I'll also point out that my record is totally clean.\n\nMy boyfriend says what I should do is get my license as soon as possible, before the court date, and attend. Try to get the points knocked off or the fine knocked off, especially considering I don't have the money right now. Me, having social anxiety and feeling completely embarrassed about the whole situation (though grateful to the cop for not getting me about the license) would much rather pay online to avoid talking to a judge with other people around. I'm also worried that the judge may see that I didn't have my license and I would potentially get into more trouble.\n\nI've been wanting to get it but with working 3rd shift, sharing a car with my boyfriend while on totally different schedules and having a limited window of time to actually take the test its been rather difficult.\n\nSo I ask: will trying to get my license beforehand help or will they see that I didn't have it when pulled over? What do you think will benefit me most? Will this hurt my chances of getting my license?","title":"Speeding ticket without a license (Ohio)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446460308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r72mu\/uk_exgirlfriend_sent_video_snapchat_of_her_with\/","id":"3r72mu","body":"Last week, my girlfriend (20) and I (22) broke up mutually after a 2 year relationship. She's moving away for education, while I am not, as I have a job I love and we decided not to do the long distance thing.\n  \n\nI thought it ended well until, over the weekend, I received a 5 second snapchat video of her, quite clearly having sex with another guy while smiling into the camera, and moaning. \nI didn't and still don't understand where this came from, but I guess she wanted to make me feel jealous. It worked. I was so annoyed with her that I quickly took a screenshot of the video footage to share it online\/via mobile phone with friends and anyone else who wanted to look at it. We both share some of the same friends and I have her family's phone numbers etc., so I had it in my mind to show them her true colours and what a bitch she was being.\n\n\nI didn't. I decided against it and deleted the screenshot as it made me feel sick to even look at. But I came VERY close to doing it. \n\n\nI'm just wondering what the legal ramifications would have been for doing this, as I didn't ask for, or take the video myself? I just received it out of spite.\n\nTL;DR: My Ex-Girlfriend sent a video of her having sex with another guy a week after we broke up to piss me off. What, if anything, would have happened to me if I shared it? I'm curious.","title":"[UK] Ex-Girlfriend Sent Video Snapchat of Her with Another Guy","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507242061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74jfzc\/nyc_landlord_unresponsive_about_deposit_what_are\/","id":"74jfzc","body":"I recently moved to a new state from New York, and did not receive deposit at my final walkthrough. Since then I have reached out to her regarding my deposit a few different ways, no luck. I am beginning to gather information for a small claims suit, if it comes to that. I have the dated letters\/e-mails\/texts of me notifying my move (30 day notice as per lease requirements). I also my lease.\n\nI know that I must also send a certified letter to her asking for prompt return of deposit, and believe I can also request information about the bank where the deposit is held (not sure if that's relevant)\nI have a few questions:\n\nI am unsure of her actual home address. She always had me drop the check off at my own address in a drop box. In retrospect I see why it's important to know the home or business address of your landlord. Is there a way I can find that out after the fact since she is unresponsive? Or can I just sent the certified letter to my old address where she supposedly lives\/recieves mail sometimes.\n\nCan I sue for travel expenses since I am out of state and will have to return to NY for the purpose of the small claims suit? What about time missed at work while I deal with this?\n\nIn New York you have a \"reasonable timeframe\" to return deposit, but she is completely unresponsive. Can her lack of communication be construed as unreasonable? Does she have a duty to communicate about the timeframe? I would like to move ahead with further actions without giving her a month to prove it was \"unreasonable\" unless I have no other choice.","title":"[NYC] Landlord Unresponsive about Deposit - what are my next steps?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443645177,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n0ht4\/landlord_keep_charging_random_fees_is_that_legal\/","id":"3n0ht4","body":"I live in an apartment managed by Greystar.\n\nIn the lease, it says the tenant shall pay for the rent and fees. But it **doesn't specify what kind of fees and at what amount**. The lease further said that late payment of rent would result in a $200 fine, and another $20\/day fine. \n\nThe landlord has been charging a lot of things almost at a whim, and demands it to be paid along with the rent, if not, they don't take the rent, and just racking up the late rent fee. \n\n-- $500 for my husband to move in with me. Even though I rent an apartment, not one room in a house, and I pay my own utilities and everything. \n\n\n-- $200 for towing my car, even though I've been parking at the same spot for 10 months.\n\n\n-- $50 for picking up my package late, even though I was on a business trip overseas.\n\n-- previously $30 for transferring the electric bill to my name, even though I called the utility, who told me the transfer fee would appear in my bill, and the apartment management would not be charged anything --- **the utility said they haven't charged the apartment management for this for 9 years!!!**\n\n\nAnd many many more for small odds and end things.\n\nNone of these is listed clearly in the lease! They just say we'll charge this much for this. If you don't pay it with rent, we won't accept your rent, and then we'll charge you more for late-rent fee (which is in the lease). \n\nThey run the place like a mafia. There's no transparent pricing. They demand whatever amount they want for whatever thing they make up. Is that even legal? What should I do? Thank you!\n\n\nThe lesson here is: NEVER MOVE INTO A PLACE MANAGED BY GREYSTAR.","title":"Landlord keep charging random fees, is that legal? [Jefferson County, CO]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506376760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72fu41\/richmond_county_georgia_employer_ignored_flsa\/","id":"72fu41","body":"Hello everyone,\n[Previous post here](https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y1zru\/richmond_county_ga_business_failure_to_pay\/?ref=share&ref_source=link)  \n\n**Timeline of Events**  \n\n* 11 August 2017 \u2013 SO quit salon\n* 15 August 2017 \u2013 SO picked up penultimate paycheck from salon\n* 21 August 2017 \u2013 SO's final paycheck date\n* 21-24 August 2017 \u2013 SO's final paycheck should have arrived\n* 29 August 2017 \u2013 SO contacted Department of Labor Wage and Hourly Division\n* 01 September 2017 \u2013 Employer mailed final paycheck to wrong address\n* 12 September 2017 \u2013 SO contacted Department of Labor Wage and Hourly Division again\n* 14 September 2017 \u2013 SO (and I) filed small claims magistrate court suit against employer\n* 23 September 2017 \u2013 Employer mailed letter with original postmarked envelope, paycheck, and letter about wrong address\n* 25 September 2017 \u2013 SO received letter with paycheck and 01 September postmarked envelope  \n  \n  \nMy SO worked at a beauty salon for about one month during which time she had to attend two unpaid mandatory meetings, was sent to two \"optional\" product training classes (specific to the product used by the salon which functions differently than normal products and thus required additional training) 2.5 hours away on two separate days that she had off, and did not receive her final paycheck in a reasonable amount of time. My SO quit the salon on 11 August 2017 and should have received her final paycheck on 21 August 2017 plus two or three days for mailing time. We called a worker at the Department of Labor Wage and Hourly Division on 29 August 2017 who said she would contact the salon and to call back on 12 September 2017 if we still hadn't heard anything.  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Wage and Hourly Division worker called two or three times but was diverted to the receptionist each time and unable to speak with the salon owner. Two weeks later still having not received anything from the salon, my SO called the Wage and Hourly Division on 12 September 2017 as the worker advised and she said we were free to file a lawsuit for the unpaid wages. On 14 September 2017, we still had not received anything from the salon and filed a small claims suit with the local magistrate court for the final paycheck plus the unpaid wages for training and meetings plus liquidated damages and fees totaling ~$700. On 25 September 2017, we finally received a letter postmarked 23 September 2017 in the mail from the salon which included the final paycheck for $136.42 which was dated 21 August 2017. Inside of the envelope, there was also another envelope postmarked 1 September 2017 but to the wrong address along with a letter stating:  \n  \n  \n  \n>To whom it can[sic] concern,  \n>On 9\/22\/2017, An African American women[sic] with long braided hair, and glasses came in to the salon and dropped off an envelope that was mailed to her address. She said that she lived in the same area as the person the envelope was mailed to, but brought us the envelope instead. She said she thought it was her paycheck but opened it and realized it was not, so she attempted to re seal the envelope with the check enclosed. I was not able to get her name.  \n> Sincerely,  \n> [Secretary's Name and Signature]  \n> [Employer's Name and Signature]  \n  \n  \nMy question is, what happens with the small claims court suit that we filed? It cost ~$80 to file and there's still the issue of the training and mandatory meetings that the employer did not pay. Subtracting the liquidated damages for the final paycheck and that final paycheck, there are still $427.16 remaining for what we requested in the lawsuit. If we decide to accept the check, do we have to do something to drop the lawsuit or does it drop on its own? Do we have to accept that the employer withheld the paycheck for 11 days after it should have been sent (after the Wage and Hourly Division called her) and accept the erroneous address it was sent to? Should we contact the employer and ask her to recoup our filing costs? Does accepting the final paycheck constitute some kind of settlement? We would appreciate any advice. Thank you!  \n  \n  \n**Statement of Claim filed in Magistrate Court**  \n  \n>The above-named Defendant(s) [salon name] is\/are subject to the jurisdiction of this court and reside(s) at [address], Richmond County, Georgia. Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff in the amount of $714.98.  \n>The Plaintiff's claim against the Defendant is based upon the following:  \n>Unpaid final paycheck between 07-10AUG2017 (27.1 hours), mandatory work meetings on 12JUL2017 from 9:30-10:45 am (1.25 hours) and 02AUG2017 from 10:00 AM-12:58 PM (2.96 hours), work related training and travel time outside the local area to Columbia, SC on 30JUL2017 from 10:00 AM-2:00 PM with 2 hours travel time (6 hours) and to Atlanta, GA on 06AUG2017 from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM with 5 hours travel time (12 hours) for a total of 49.31 unpaid hours coming to $357.49 before taxes. Requesting liquidated damages in the amount of $357.49 for continued bad faith regarding FLSA provisions despite notice given by plaintiff on 11AUG2017 and by the Federal Department of Labor Wage and Hourly Division. Wherefore, Plaintiff demands judgment against the Defendant for the sum of $714.98 plus costs.","title":"[Richmond County, Georgia] Employer ignored FLSA provisions, sent final paycheck to wrong address, then sent it to new address after receiving lawsuit","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445641312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pyti2\/bc_friend_got_hit_by_a_car_in_his_complex_while\/","id":"3pyti2","body":"My friend cleaned out his garage and tried to move his car from the visitor parking accross the complex to his garage. His day insurance expired yesterday. He was backing down the complex road and a man backing out from another visitor spot backed right into the side of my friend's car. The other driver said we didn't need to involve the police and they're going to meet tomorrow to discuss what to do. What should my friend be prepared for?","title":"[B.C.] Friend got hit by a car in his complex while trying to park his uninsured car.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1410301125,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fy73w\/texas_apartment_complex_changing_water_metering\/","id":"2fy73w","body":"Currently, I have sub-metered water bills, meaning I pay for what I use, and only what I use. My apartment complex has stated that they want me to sign a water addendum that will allow them to use allocated billing (adding up all the water used, and then dividing it equally among the residents).\n\nAs a big proponent for \"what's mine is mine, what's yours is yours\" I do not like this. Sub-metered water is one of the reasons I chose this complex over others. I've lived here over 2 years now and in that time, the apartment has changed management companies.\n\nIn an email, the apartment manager cited the need to move to allocated water because some of the water meters have been going out and they have been replacing them at their expense. She said any further replacements of water meters would need to be passed on to the tenants to pay for if they don't move to allocated billing.\n\nSo my questions are as follows:\n\n* Does the apartment complex have the authority to charge tenants for utility equipment repairs & replacements such as described above? To clarify, there is nothing in the lease that I've seen that would imply they have this authority.\n* What recourse does the apartment complex have if I refuse to sign the addendum? Are there any consequences for me?\n* Are there any other options I have here other than my current binary decision: to sign or not to sign? Or anything I may be missing here?\n* Are there any down sides to me refusing to sign it?\n\nMy lease doesn't end until next summer, and I expect that even if I am able to evade the addendum right now, I would need to sign it if I choose to stay here by renewing the lease.","title":"[Texas] Apartment complex changing water metering in middle of lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570672769,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfr78t\/father_was_pulled_over_by_a_potentially_racist\/","id":"dfr78t","body":"So my father is a painter and him and his friend who is also a painter (both Mexican) were working in a higher end neighborhood like big houses and stuff high end. On his way back a cop stopped him and he said that the cop asked him for his license and got visibly mad once he saw my dad actually had one. Anyway the cop gave him a ticket for going 50 in a 35 speed limit area but my dad says there was no way he going that fast and was going 30-35.  The ticket is something like $120. So umm what my dad do. If this is important I am 15 so I can\u2019t really help my dad in this situation being that I am a minor any help on what we should do is great thanks","title":"Father was pulled over by a potentially racist cop WISCONSIN","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540238410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qhfgq\/uk_england_letting_agent_never_amended_deposit\/","id":"9qhfgq","body":"My girlfriend is in a shared house, where three of them rent it as a whole. The initial deposit was put in its entirety in the name of a girl who has since moved out. The girl that moved in paid an admin fee to the letting agent to transfer the deposit into her name. \n\nFast forward a year.\n\nThey\u2019re now all moving out. My girlfriend was just checking over details with the girl who moved in so she had all the relevant details for when they need to claim the deposit back, only to discover the new girl doesn't have any of the details. She no longer has contact with the girl that has moved out. The letting agent is saying it's not their problem and that the girls have to sort it out amongst themselves. The Deposit Protection Scheme are saying it's not their problem and the letting agent need to sort it.\n\nIt sounds to me very much like the agent needs to deal with this.\n\nI know if a deposit isn't registered with a protection scheme you can sue the landlord\/agent for the deposit + damages. How about in this case? What can they do to force either the agent or the DPS to do something about it?\n\nMany thanks in advance.","title":"[UK, England] Letting agent never amended deposit when someone left","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541127280,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tgbzr\/inclusive_school_abuse_problems_il\/","id":"9tgbzr","body":"Disclaimer: I am not the person of who I'll be discussing in this post, but rather my mother who is a teacher's aide at an elementary school that does Kindergarten through 2nd grade. I am a 15 year old who is concerned for the students and for my mother specifically.\n\n​\n\nOur school district has always been dirt poor and has shut down multiple schools. Their solution is splitting up the grades among schools that are remaining. The school in interest here is, as mentioned, K-2. My mother started working there as an aide this year and has come home crying multiple times because of the kids at schools. The school started the inclusion of everyone policy, which includes every student who was formerly kept in a separate room because of their disability or repetitive behavior issues.\n\nOne of these kids drops the f-word every minute in class near other children and has anger issues, and many many more of them are hitters, runners (dashing from the building and having to be chased back), and all-around terrible troublemakers. These kids will hit the teachers, the principal, and of course, my mom and all the other aides. The other aides are useless in her opinion in calming down the children when they are easily angered by who knows what, and most aides just try to coddle the kid and brings the kid into a separate room where he gets to play with slime for example.\n\nMy mom frequently goes to the principal with concerns on behalf of all the other children attempting to learn, and on behalf of the staff. The principal (who I've known forever and is a very nice person) will attempt to not let the situation escalate to the superintendent. Before just about a month ago, the superintendent forbid suspensions of the kids who hit others and teachers because of their known behavioral issues. The superintendent says that they need to be included and not isolated, even though they are disrupting the other children's learning environment. Even after the superintendent allowed suspensions, they get suspended for a week maximum and then what? They come back and repeat the same behavior with no change, and the parents do not care at all. None of the peers of these students come home to tell their parents anything, so the board has heard no complaints nor do they care about the complaints. The school doesn't have a specific area for the behavioral kids, nor will we have one so its almost a forced inclusion anyway.\n\nMy mother loves the children there who attempt to learn and is friends with all of them, and she won't leave her job just because of the bunch of behavioral kids. I know this will sound selfish of me and possibly rude to the kids who have these behavior problems but are attempting to learn, but is there anything else that my mother can do about this with the school or anything? I have very legal knowledge and I know it's not a direct legal question, but this is the only place I could think of that could lead to the right path.\n\n​\n\n**Tldr;** K-2 school where my mom works at an aide started including behavioral kids in the regular classes, and won't move them anywhere or punish them in any useful way. My mom is hit and cursed out daily by some of these kids and the school nor the superintendent will do anything about it.","title":"Inclusive School Abuse Problems (IL)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568854614,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d66kow\/apparently_using_pepe_as_an_emoji_created\/","id":"d66kow","body":"Throw away for obvious reasons.\nAlso never posted before just lurked and commented \n\n full time, still in prohibition (3-4) months due to new job in sector\n\nI work for a big tech company and we have a chat system called Slack. On this you can upload your own custom emojis. \n\n>downloaded a bunch of packages with twitch emotes\n>get Pepe because it\u2019s funny and love the meme\n\nTwo months later get called into a meeting, starts off standard one to one, then goes into \u201cdo you know what Pepe is\u201d\n\nLong story short, someone reported it and said I was promoting white supremacy and alt right\n\nLiterally shell shocked, don\u2019t know how to react. Here I am a heterosexual white male, pretty dangerous when I\u2019m being called out for things I have no actual intention of being. Raised in a open family with lgbt family members in rural London I\u2019ve never been called racist or promoting anti lgbt ways\n\n>Legit only like the Pepe meme cause he\u2019s an ugly green frog.\n>fucking Pepe \n\nInterview continues, just sat there and shocked about it all. Start to cry because think I\u2019m going to be fired for a fucking Pepe emoji. \n>Fuck.jpg\n\nInterview concludes and they say they don\u2019t think I did it intentionally but because someone reported it they have to take it seriously. \nNo clue what to do. I work at a pretty good job and super sociable. Instantly noticed I\u2019m not talking and have been crying. \n>Anxiety and panic attack kicks in.\nPure shit show. But finish day of work and go home.\n\nTLDR: Pepe emoji in Slack, never used but intention was there, had Pepe in my name (unicorn Pepe, ironically because big lgbt supporter)\nCalled white extremist and promoting alt right.\n\n\nSo people of Reddit. Is there anything I can do?\nI\u2019m not introverted but I\u2019m also bad with things like that, did I fuck up not defending myself other then being shocked.\n\nMental health isn\u2019t great either. But working till my days off on the weekend.","title":"Apparently using Pepe as an emoji created recorded discussion with potential to be let go due to being referred to as white supremacy on the internet - which was not the purpose. Is there anything I can do about this?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539859191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p831t\/company_ghosting_us_but_threatening_to_send_bill\/","id":"9p831t","body":"Hello! I am looking for some advice about a situation we have with our old leasing company.\n\nMy husband and I lived in an apartment for several years. We just purchased a house in August and our lease ended August 31st. We asked in June how they would like to be notified that we are ending our lease. They asked us to fill out a form and email it back which we did. Our lease says 60 days notice, which we  gave.\n\nA week after we moved out, we received a bill in the mail for $2400 for failure to notify them of our intent to vacate.\n\nIt\u2019s been a month and a half now. I have been emailing and calling their offices (local in Maryland and their corporate office in Arizona) every day trying to get someone to acknowledge that this bill is a mistake. We have gotten several emails and letters from them that our balance is \u201cpast due\u201d and that it will be sent to collections, which seem like automated responses. Their phone number goes to an answering service.\n\nI finally contacted them thru the form for people interested in getting info on apartments on their website, and someone emailed me back!.... except they didn\u2019t acknowledge any of my questions about the bill. They just sent me a copy of it as is.\n\nWe live about 40 mins from their office now, but my husband and I both do shift work and haven\u2019t been able to get there while they are open yet.\n\nMy question is, what happens if they do send this to collections? Would it make sense to send them a reply by certified mail?","title":"Company ghosting us but threatening to send bill to collections (MD)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551832060,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axsebs\/prenup_getting_married_in_november_live_in_ca\/","id":"axsebs","body":"Born, raised and currently live in CA, fianc\u00e9 as well. M34 assets of $300k+ with a condo bought at $650k currently valued about $850k. Fianc\u00e9 has zero assets. \n\nDoing okay financially, but no major inheritance coming my way so not sure I have enough to go through the legal and emotional path of creating and having her sign a prenup especially knowing that any good lawyer can poke holes in any legal binding contract. \n\nSince I bought my place alone four years go, before meeting my finance, my dad also recommended getting an appraisal of my property to know its current value before the wedding. Then having my finance sign a document that in the event of a divorce she would be granted half of the current appraisal and the appraisal at the time divorce instead of the full value of the property.  \n\nWould such a document make sense and actually hold up?\n\nWould it be worth in know my situation to bother with a prenup?\n\n ","title":"[Prenup] Getting married in November (Live in CA) should I have my fianc\u00e9 sign a prenup?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446602861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rfrl4\/sacramento_ca_eviction_questions\/","id":"3rfrl4","body":"So about 7 years ago my parents rented a house in Sacramento from a property management. They received a letter back then from the home owners saying they were firing the property management company and that my parents needed to move out within 30 days because they (the home owners) wanted to move in. \n\nI have a few questions, could that letter have been an eviction notice even though the rental agreement was through the PM and not the home owners?\n\nThe PM doesn't have any records of an eviction against my parents, but my mom is applying for an apartment and it shows as one.\n\nWhat options does she have, if any? She wants to get the eviction removed, if possible, so she can rent an apartment. \n\nShe doesn't have the letter anymore, so there's no way for me to see what it says.\n\nEDIT: I want to add that they did move out within those 30 days and were never given any other paperwork. In fact the property management moved my parents into another one of their rentals.  \n\nMy mom said that her lease was to be up in 30 days, and the paperwork said they needed to be out at the end of the lease","title":"[Sacramento, CA] eviction questions","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568855252,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d66pen\/pa_there_is_a_space_left_in_two_family_grave\/","id":"d66pen","body":"Both happen to be great and 2nd-great grandparents both on my fathers side but different sets of families (Schweikart and Oswald) \n\nMy great grandparents daughter (my grandma) was buried with her husband in the same cemetery as her parents and brother. One plot was supposedly purchased for her by her parents. It was never used as she was buried elsewhere. \n\nThe second one is with my 2nd-great grandparents and their children who also married but seem to be buried with them regardless and spouses included. This is the type with them buried on top of one another I believe. They probably could have bought a family tomb honestly but oh well. Anyway there is still room for one more last I looked at the tombstone. \n\nIn both cases I was wondering who has a right to be buried there? I\u2019m not aware of the plot being given back to the cemetery at any time and I do the family Genealogy. If there was a paper anywhere I would have found it probably.","title":"(PA) There is a space left in two family grave plots. Who owns them now or can use them?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551850175,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axv8gz\/tx_company_buyout_causes_lapse_in_insurance_and\/","id":"axv8gz","body":"Okay two things. \nThe day I decided to put in my two weeks, it\u2019s announced that the company will be bought from the previous owners to a finance company who\u2019s acquiring other clinics in the area. \nMy last day is the 9th, I stayed because I wanted to leave on good faith. I should have left immediately. \nThe sale went through on the 1st, that\u2019s when the previous owner cut our insurance. I wasn\u2019t offered insurance with the new company until the 3rd and because I thought I was still insured... because no one had told us otherwise... I declined because I only had until the end of the week. \nThe reason why I thought I was insured is because I had paid my premiums, i thought there was a grace period of you paying your premiums and leaving a company. \n\nThere isn\u2019t. \nI wasn\u2019t told that I wasn\u2019t insured. \n\nI wake up this morning thinking that I\u2019m dying. ER visit, morphine x2 and a ct scan later... it\u2019s a 3mm kidney stone that\u2019ll pass in the next few days. \n\nI\u2019m incredibly upset but I\u2019m more upset that I assumed I was covered. I feel like an idiot but I don\u2019t know if I can do or say anything and who would care!? \n\nIf I had been told you\u2019re not insured, I would have accepted the insurance from the new company. I am not one to take chances. I\u2019ve had insurance my whole adult life and this is the biggest health issue event I\u2019ve ever had and that\u2019s when I find out this is the fucking week I don\u2019t have insurance. \n\nIs there any fault here? Is it all mine? Is there anything I can do? ","title":"TX Company buyout causes lapse in insurance, and that\u2019s when I decided to have a kidney stone","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568578038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4pqnx\/being_accused_of_stealing_refusal_to_check\/","id":"d4pqnx","body":"So my fianc\u00e9 (C) and I work at a well know burger chain in KS, and lately the managers (MS) (one in particular is known to be a bully) has been pulling C into the office and accusing him of stealing customers food and eating it as well as going behind the bar to make themselves various treats. It is an absolute fact that C has not been doing this but they still accuse C. Today C was once again called upon for stealing and whenever C tells them to check the cameras they refuse, saying it was from a well known source. Recently I was in trouble with MS due to the bully one failing to approve or acknowledge my schedule change despite another manager doing so. They are coming up with reasons to write us up but have refused to acknowledge any proof of innocence. I fear that he will be fired soon, followed by me. What can I do?","title":"Being accused of stealing, refusal to check cameras (KS)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540443861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r7b19\/school_forcing_students_to_pay\/","id":"9r7b19","body":"To start off. Sorry for the formatting, I\u2019m on mobile. Don\u2019t know how to start, so I guess I\u2019ll just jump in. \n\nRecently I was informed that I had to pay an activity pass to get into sports games, or to do extracurricular activities. I would be completely fine with this if I wanted to do such things. \n\nA little background for what I\u2019m about to say. My instructor forces us to come to all football, basketball, and volleyball games to sing the national anthem. If you don\u2019t show, you fail. Pretty simple. \n\nI was told when I went into a game to sing and then leave, that I couldn\u2019t complete my grade, and that I couldn\u2019t sing due to me not paying the school money to get in. \n\nI was wondering if it is legal for an institution to force students to pay a ($125) fee to complete a class. The expense isn\u2019t covered in any information about the class. Mind you this is a high-school in Montana. So I don\u2019t know if that changes anything. I just want to pass and not give money while I\u2019m forced to be at the location they try to make me pay to get into. \n\nTl;dr My school is forcing students to pay to get a grade. ","title":"School forcing students to pay","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554735189,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bauqwo\/car_was_towed_from_my_apartment_complex_lot_while\/","id":"bauqwo","body":"Last night me and 2 other cars parked along a curb in front of my apartment. There was no parking left even after searching for over 10 min. \n\nThere was no \u201cno parking\u201d signs anywhere near the curb and the curb isn\u2019t a fire lane (the curb isn\u2019t yellow or marked in any way) \n\nCars park there on a nightly basis because of the minimal parking and this is the first time I\u2019ve heard of anyone getting towed. \n\nI looked at the lease which is attached below, and where I parked doesn\u2019t fit under any point. \n\nhttps:\/\/i.imgur.com\/P1Fh1uo.jpg\n\nThe tow company wants 125$ which I don\u2019t have....\n\nIs there anything I can do to fight this? ","title":"Car was towed from my apartment complex lot while not violating any rules.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568773221,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5r7hf\/being_bullied_and_harassed_dont_know_what_to_do\/","id":"d5r7hf","body":"Posting for a Friend:\n\nI\u2019m a partner at a [insert major corporation](afraid to post my location in case of retaliation as that happens to me often).  I have currently moved a more than 2 hour bus ride away and have been denied a transfer - I am a 2+ year partner with zero write-ups and always get there early.  I have been bullied in front of customers.  I was recently diagnosed with major depression and gave my SM a 7+ day notice of a doctor appointment (have done longer notices in the past) and have accrued over 120 hours of Protected Sick Time and PTO that she will not allow me to use as well as telling me I cannot go unless I find someone to cover my shift, that wasn\u2019t made yet when I told her\/gave notice and with the schedule she made I would only have to now leave an hour early and has threatened retaliation.\n\nThis is a normal happening. Little things like cheating with votes on the Partner of the Quarter so I\u2019ve never received it and stuff like my manager always brings in birthday cakes and makes signs for other employees, new or old, every single one and I was purposely left off of the board and never received recognition. One time an ASM put me on register and screamed at me in front of customers to stay right there for the rest of my shift \u201cthat I was annoying her\u201d and had to stand there for multiple hours without moving. One day i almost got hit my a car taking the trash out and my hand got slammed into the dumpster and I wasn\u2019t able to leave nor was it followed up on, i passed kidney stones at work and couldn\u2019t leave for the hospital until after my shift, and I have had major hand injuries that were never reported. \n\nI would like to add I absolutely love my job and love what I do, just my \u201cteam\u201d makes me so miserable and I leave most days crying. \n\n\u2014\u2014\u2014-\n\nWould this be basis for legal recourse? He refuses to quit as he pays child support and needs the healthcare and they are aware of this so they use that as well.","title":"Being bullied and harassed... don\u2019t know what to do.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571320155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj6nmf\/kentucky_i_hit_an_illegally_parked_car\/","id":"dj6nmf","body":"This morning I was heading to my classes and sideswiped a car. I feel awful about it, but thankfully my car took most of the damage. When I got out to look I realized that the other driver had parked in a place marked to not park in (it had the yellow stripes). \n\nI took pictures and left a note with my contact info. I\u2019m wondering if I\u2019m going to 100% at fault with the insurance company or if it will be divided since Kentucky is a comparative state.","title":"Kentucky: I hit an illegally parked car","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553281116,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b48xxf\/my_uncles_girlfriend_is_stealing_money_from_my\/","id":"b48xxf","body":"So a bit of background, my uncle (51) lives with my grandparents (76 & 77) who are both retired. They own their home and receive social security.  My uncle\u2019s girlfriend (47) and mother of their child (4) has been a cancer in my grandparents lives for the past 10 years. My grandparents are essentially raising the child because girlfriend is rarely at home and uncle is a deadbeat. My uncle can no longer work because his girlfriend was spending so much of his money he couldn\u2019t pay for insulin, and he lost part of his foot due to diabetes. Girlfriend has never had a job and is an alcoholic. She spent time in jail a couple years ago for choking my grandmother during an argument.  She also has a history of domestic abuse toward my uncle and has been in and out of jail for various crimes. \n\n\nI was recently made aware that girlfriend has been stealing blank checks from my grandparents, writing them to herself and signing my grandfather\u2019s name. This has evidently been going on for about a year. My grandparents are hesitant to press charges because of the child. My mom and aunt are working on convincing them and pursuing legal action.  \n\n\nAny advice on how I can help with this process, and what needs to be done to get this woman out of our lives would be greatly appreciated. ","title":"My uncle\u2019s girlfriend is stealing money from my grandparents (USA)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445369526,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pj72x\/advice_request_photo_evidence_for_assault_victim\/","id":"3pj72x","body":"Wake County, NC.  District Court in Raleigh.\n\nMy wife was the victim of assault.  The defendant was arrested as a result of pressing charges.  The charge is \"Assault on a Female\".  \n\nWe went to District Court yesterday since my wife received a subpeona.  I have photos of her injuries (5) that I took with my Samsung Galaxy S5.  I believe I took them the next morning, but I should be able to verify that with EXIF data in the files.\n\nMy wife explained the events to the ADA and stated we have pictures of the injuries.  Interestingly, the ADA decided to try the case that day even in the absence of the arresting officer.  Ultimately, the court ran out of time and a continuance was issued.  Next court date is Nov 10.\n\nQuestions:\n\n1) The ADA said to print out the pictures and bring them next time.  Do I just go to kinkos and print them?  Recommended size of the picture?  E.g. do I print it on a 5\"x7\" size, size of a piece of paper, bigger?\n\n2) Should I provide the digital picture files, and\/or a printout of the EXIF data?  Not sure if the time the photos were taken is relevant, or if proof of the date of photograph would be necessary.  In the absence of that proof, I would testify under oath when I took them.\n\nThank you for reading this.  The defendant is clearly willing to go to trial.  He has attempted to get us to drop charges, and I believe he thinks there is no wrongdoing.  My wife and I are not interested in civil action, we're not vindictive, and we believe in the legal system.  \n\n**edit:** added criminal law flair","title":"Advice Request: Photo Evidence for Assault Victim","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1409766462,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fdisk\/download_of_the_leaks\/","id":"2fdisk","body":"What is the chance that the FBI will be chasing down the people who have downloaded the albums from mega and or other sights?(California)\n\n\nEdit: Thanks","title":"Download of the Leaks","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539715740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oqjt1\/me_and_my_friends_accidentally_gave_our_college\/","id":"9oqjt1","body":"Here in Elmer, New Jersey, I have a college professor who is very religious. She even claims to have seen a legitimate exorcism before and I knew that I had to take advantage of this in the spirit of Halloween.\n\nI got with a couple of friends of mine and we decided to pull a prank in the middle of class. One of my friends snuck around to the front of the class where the lightswitches were and he began to flicker the lights on and off. While they were temporarily off, my other friend layed down at the front of the class in front of the professor and started wriggling around on the ground, going into fake convulsions and spitting at the mouth. His performance was made the more believable due to him putting on contact lenses that made his eyes completely bloodshot and he also sprayed some whip cream around the edges of his mouth to feign foaming at mouth.\n\nI began my part by wearing a priest Halloween costume and I came running down to my \"possessed\" friend and started shouting \"The power of Christ compels you!\" I held a bible in one hand and was spraying him with fake holy water held in the other. The lights were flickering on and off while I screamed at my friend faking his possession and my professor began screaming and ran out of the classroom, just as we intended. Waiting outside in the hallway was another friend in a Devil mask and he jumped out at our professor, which is where things got bad.\n\nThe professor had collapsed and was clutching her left arm. We shut down the prank completely and another professor showed up and called an ambulance. We were held in the Dean's office and everyone involved in the prank was dismissed, basically meaning suspended, and just today I found out that the professor is going to be OK, but she's going to take legal action against me and my friends for causing her heart attack. Can she legally do that? What can I do as far as preparing a defense and pleading my case? What can legally happen to me?","title":"Me and my friends accidentally gave our college professor a heart attack and now she's threatening legal action against us.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552343406,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azztc5\/my_bestfruend_may_go_to_jail_for_something_years\/","id":"azztc5","body":"Hello me and my friend Braxton live in Missouri. Here's the story. He is now 22 years old. When he was 18. He told a 14 year old that he would like to do things. This may sound creepy. But she didn't deny. She told him they can if \"he puts a ring on it\" so they talked. He eventually realized wait. I'm 18. She's 14. I need to stop this nonsense I'm not trying to get in trouble. That was 4 years ago. He's talked to her every now and then she's mad at him for being an ass. And won't shut up about what they \"talked about\" 4 years ago. He is scared even after 4 years of that mistake. She's gonna press charges NOW from something as long as 4 years back. but he's now getting married. He has a wonderful new fiance. And I don't want to see him go to jail for stuff like that. He was 18 and she was 14. But he regrets it. He never touched her. Or kissed. Maybe hugged. What's the statue of limitations on this? After 4 years can she just get up one day and decide to press charges out of anger?","title":"My bestfruend may go to jail for something years ago","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555417746,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdtcrt\/if_i_had_a_site_with_an_answer_key_for_what_my\/","id":"bdtcrt","body":"Title explains most of the problem. Do I have any legal obligation to shut it down? United States\/Indiana","title":"If I had a site with an answer key for what my class is currently doing, Do I have any Legal Obligation to shut it down if so requested by a teacher?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571690809,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl6o6c\/can_a_teacher_force_students_to_delete_a_group\/","id":"dl6o6c","body":"My theater group chat was discovered by our theater director today and she told us that we all have to remove ourselves from it and delete it. Is she allowed to do this?","title":"Can a teacher force students to delete a group chat?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539283714,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ncpt7\/should_i_blow_the_whistle_x_post_from_depression\/","id":"9ncpt7","body":"I'll keep this brief for my safety, I work in a climate controlled lab and my assistant suffered from severe heart issues. One day during our routine work cycle management directed me to ask my assistant to clean our facilities air filtration system. Which we didn't have adequate supplies to clean, so they gave him a paper respiratory some shitty tools. He took the tools and went along with cleaning, soon it was brought to my direct attention that he was pulling black mold from the unit. I had him cease the work on the unit and informed management, they sent him back to continue. Next day he comes in, ill with respiratory problems and complaining of chest pain. I petitioned to send him home early to seek medical care, and they put him into another part of the facility to work for several days. About a week goes past and he is now in the hospital with sepsis. A month or so goes past.... His heart became infected originating from his lungs. All but now I feel as if I caused his death under orders. Management has turned a blind eye to this for the most part. I want to blow the whistle, I want to say look what happened, look at what we caused. And it's not the only problem existing in the facility, there are deeper and darker secrets that lie within. But I can't bring myself at the cost of my job, my reputation and my own well being. But I can't live with the fact that what I forced him to do brought his untimely demise.","title":"Should I blow the whistle? X post from \/depression (due to psychological trauma) US, NJ","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551409994,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avztso\/destructive_and_abusive_roomate\/","id":"avztso","body":"So early May of last year (18')I moved in with someone I knew from high school to relocate to a better school. He was one of the \"stoners\" or at least hung out with them during high school. He had one of his \"stoner\" friends as a roommate but kicked him out when I was looking to move in as he was smoking weed and drinking in the apartment (we are only 19 so both are illegal). He promised he was cleaning up his act (no smoking or drinking \/ partying) and stuck to it till about august. Late may he decided he wanted a puppy and got one. With this new puppy being left alone for hours a day while we both worked and him not potty training it like he said he would the dog began to pee and poop all over the apartment including on my bed and floor. I am super passive aggressive when it comes to stuff like this so I bought an expensive steam \/ carpet cleaner to \"clean up after the dog and past roommates stains\" he agreed to pay me back half, but never did. Fine i thought as if he was actually ever going to use it. he never did, i was cleaning up after his dog. I went back home for break and realized how bad the apartment stunk after being gone for a week as I must have grown used to the awful feces smell along with all the garbage and rotting food he has been hoarding. The puppy \"does its business\" on a plastic like tray with fake grass which stinks if he doesn't clean it every other day or so. He used to clean it and then i would have to remind him. now hes ignoring me for cleaning anything (garbage, dogs waste, clothes, dishes) I even made him agree to terms on cleaning for both of use where we owed each other $20 for each forgotten cleaning, which he broke the first day and wouldn't pay up. I also came back from break to realize that the entire counter in the kitchen was full of various alcohol. I was told this was a one time occurrence only to find out that he is an aggressive and physical drunk a few days later when his friends were over and messed with his computer. I was in my room and he called me out and started punching and hitting me blaming me while his friends tried to break it up telling him it was them not me, he didn't believe me and still continued till i shoved him away and his friends held him back. I was almost tempted at that point to leave on the spot and find somewhere else to leave but thought it would be a one time thing. At the time I was working as a paid intern of sorts through the company's college program and didn't have the money to pay two rents at once plus my new expensive car payment. I then found out that I was getting hired full time and finally had the money to leave this dangerous situation as he almost hit me again when I asked about what we are doing after the lease is up in august of 19'. I said i'm fine staying with him as long as he actually cleans up after himself, he got incredibly pissed off and was approaching me trying to corner me. I then started shopping around at other places till I found a new place that I can move into (literally the day I signed onto my new position) and got out without saying a word. His parents are divorced but pay his rent even though according to him he makes $80k\/yr selling cars at a kia dealership. I called his mom to tell her my issues and she basically claimed she didn't know and refused to talk to him about it (likely fearing his aggressive tendencies). I then had some buddies come over and we managed to move all of my stuff before he came home from work which thankfully worked as he flipped out over snap chat when he found out why I moved and claimed I was stealing my own towels from the kitchen. I tried contacting the landlord regarding this and he said he would check out the apartment on Thursday. He never showed. I then contacted him saying \"hey hes too hostile and refuses to clean so I can even try to find another tenant to take my place\". He then said he would be out the following Tuesday which he lied to me on a call saying he went over and the place was immaculate and smelled fresh, Which was BS because I checked in the next day and it was exactly how it was when i left it. I then contacted his dad who was cosigned on the lease who claimed that he hasn't heard anything and then as i started to text him pictures and explain everything hes doing he said he had heard some things from his mom who has been over there more frequently. I asked if he would sign me off the lease as i fear for my own safety with this lunatic and its literally a health hazard with all of the rotting molding food and feces that have been soaking into the floor for the past few months (not to mention the fruit fly infestation). I also stated that due to me not feeling safe in my own place and needing to go back for my mail and other things, that i can technically file for an restraining order against him or an order for protection against him that would according to the landlord break the lease without much penalty against me. I even offered to have him break the lease early for the $300 fee and we are just liable for rent for a couple months till they find new tenants. He said that he would think about it and get back to me the next day. its been 3 days and he is ignoring my texts and phone calls. What can i do here? I cannot live or even find a new tenant to live there nonetheless if i was on good terms with him who would want to live there with someone who literally cannot walk in their room with garbage bags and literally dog feces the floor. Can I sue for the remaining rent or go after the management company as the apartment was per the pictures I sent \"a violation of the lease\" and uninhabitable and them refusing to do anything about it. I dont want to just stop paying as it will destroy my and my parents perfect credit who are cosigned on my half as well, and it doesn't seem fair to be paying for a place i cannot use and that he is now taking over my half. \n\nAny advise would be seriously appreciated. \n\nI will upload pics tomorrow when i get internet installed as Verizon LTE is apparently too slow to upload lol. ","title":"Destructive and Abusive roomate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504447148,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xt9uz\/landlord_didnt_deliver_us_an_itemized_statement\/","id":"6xt9uz","body":"On May 29th, my roommates and I moved out of our six unit apartment. According to The Illinois Security Deposit Return Act, a landlord may not keep any part of a security deposit unless he or she has, within 30 days from the date the tenant vacates a property, delivered an itemized statement of damages containing estimated or actual costs, including receipts to the tenant. If such a letter is not delivered within 30 days, the landlord must return the entire security deposit to the tenant within 45 days from the date the tenant vacates a property.\n\nAfter a couple days from when we moved out, I asked about the status of our security deposit to see if there was any progress. The landlord told us that according to Chicago Code, he has 45 days from the end of the lease to return the deposit with an itemized list if necessary per the city of Chicago code. This text exchange occurred Jun 11th\n\nThrough the course of June and half of July, I attempted to contact him multiple times by text, email, and phone call to see if any progress was made. All of those attempts were met with silence. On July 16th, he picked up one of my calls and told me he was going to send the itemized statement in an email the next morning. Next morning comes and I haven't received an email from him. I wrote an email to him on July 19th notifying that he is breaking The Illinois Security Deposit Return Act since it had been 50 days from when we moved out of the apartment. \n\nNext morning I receive an email from him only containing the itemized statement. The statement includes a cleaning service and a garbage removal service that totals near $500. The statement mentions that bills for each of these services are attached but this is not the case, there are no bills to be found. Just a statement containing a list of deductions. Lastly, the statement was dated June 1, 2017 and we retrieved it July 20th, passing the 30-45 day timeframe. \n\nA long chain of emails occurred disputing the charges. We cleaned the apartment the most that we can and sent him the emails from my roommate addressing the cleanliness of the kitchen all the way back in August of 2016, in which she never retrieve a reply. To this day we have not seen the bills for any of these services. \n\nI have asked him multiple times if he attempted to mail the list of deductions and he replied that he had attempted to, but when I ask for an address of where he mailed the statement to he has, up to this point, never answered my question. We don't know if there was actually an attempt from him to mail one of us the statement even though I attempted to contact him numerous times from when we moved out to when we actually got the statement attached to an email on July 29th. \n\nMy question; does he have any legal justification to be withholding our security deposit even when we retrieve the statement five days after the threshold and does this fact give us a justification to pursue legal action in the form of small claims court?\n\nI would appreciate any advice and Ill be willing to answer questions. Thanks\n\nedit: the statement does not reveal any damages","title":"Landlord didn't deliver us an itemized statement in 45 days and he still holds security deposit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553879030,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6ztbv\/my_workplace_not_pay_my_full_salary\/","id":"b6ztbv","body":"Hi, I live in Malaysia so I don\u2019t know if the law in my country will be same as others.\nMy salary is basic + night shift allowance.\nSo far I haven\u2019t received night allowance for 3 month. My company is an outsourcing company and their main office is far from my current workplace so I\u2019m under agent if to say. I love current workplace and it\u2019s great here. But the HR agent is terrible, I have emailed them many times and they still not reply. I even cc\u2019ed the boss of HR and she just cc\u2019ed the HR agent and tell them to sort my problem. I just want to quit this job but the notice period is 3 month. Should I threat them to quit if they don\u2019t pay my allowance? Or should I tell my boss and ask he if he can contact my company? ","title":"My workplace not pay my full salary","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409154146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eqezi\/kid_napping_running_away_legal\/","id":"2eqezi","body":"I'm 17. I live in Texas,  I've lived there for years. I lived with my mom there. I came to Virginia to VISIT my dad. I was supposed to go back before school started, but now he doesn't want to send me back. My mom moved to a different state while I was gone. So when I go back to Texas I will be living with my Aunt. My mom approves me living in TX with my aunt. My dad doesn't. My dad doesn't even know me I've lived with my mom my whole life. All my belongings are in Texas, my job I've had for over a year. The school I've gone to for 3 years. \nIs it legal for me to get a plane ticket back to TX w\/o my dad knowing? Or is that considered running away? \nMy mom wants me to go back to Texas (although she doesn't live there momentarily), I want to go back. Is this considered kidnapping? \nIf I leave w\/o him knowing, what's the worst he can do? He cannot force me to come back? \nThe college I've been trying to get into is in Texas & my dad is just ruining my future & education. \nOther information:\n*I am 17, but turning 18 in January. \n*My parents haven't been together in 13 years, but they never got a divorce. They both technically have custody. But I've always lived with my mom. ","title":"Kid napping? Running away? Legal?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447215547,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sda0u\/complications_regarding_a_contracting_company\/","id":"3sda0u","body":"**Location - Toronto**\n\n\nHey everyone,\n\nMy situation has become a very muddy.  I currently have an AC\/Heating contracting company installing units into my townhome.  Townhomes have strict regulations about keeping the exterior walls undamaged.  Normally the AC\/Heating unit runs pipes outside and have the piping run from outside through a hole into the unit inside.  Because of the holes I can't have it done outside.  The company said they can do it inside, have the pipes run through the window and then pipes inside up the floors, tight to the corners along the wall and into the units.  They mentioned there might be a need to cover them up as they don't look very pleasant but it's not that noticeable... \n\nNow they drilled 1 giant hole in my basement going out and on my 2nd floor as well.  When confronted they said we had no conversation took place in regards to using the window as an entrance for the pipes and no holes to the exterior wall.  Now I'm in a struggling of a he said she said battle.  There is no contract that we signed for this work or anything.  All they have is our 1000$ down payment and we have all their machines and pipes sitting in our home.  \n\nI have tried to converse with the sales rep but he's been very unprofessional so far.  Showing up late to our meeting, no compromise, telling me how I WOULD have done this if it's not this way, and telling me that being a professional doesn't matter at all as it doesn't change how it can be done as he kept asking me HOW I would have done it.\n\nI'm lost on what to do, I choose a big company in hopes that they would be very professional but that certainly is not the case... so I really need some advice on what to do.\n\nTL;DR:  Me and a company had an oral agreement on how no damage can be done to my exterior wall as I live in a townhome. We have no contract written up. Company is now saying no such conversation took place and now has holes in my exterior walls.  I stopped all renovation and now such in a he said she said battle.","title":"Complications regarding a contracting company that won't fill it's end of an oral agreement","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1442116554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kquo8\/ontario_canada_fight_over_power_of_attorney\/","id":"3kquo8","body":"Long story short, \n\nGrandma had a stroke 2 years back, but has had a doctor determine that she is able to make her own decisions. Daughter A has cared for and treated for grandma since the stroke and recently acquired POA after Grandma's husband and Daughter B have become increasingly threatening and abusive.\n\nDaughter A leaves on a trip, comes back to find out Daughter B and Grandpa have essentially gained POA somehow. There is some question though as to whether or not Grandma fully understood what she was signing. Daughter A is worried that Daughter B and Grandpa will only use this as a way to put grandma in an old age home. \n\nIs there anything we can do? \n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated. ","title":"[Ontario, Canada] Fight over Power of Attorney","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505193192,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zky93\/excio_of_healthcare_startup_contracts_self_to\/","id":"6zky93","body":"I started my career in Healthcare IT. The company I worked for was purchased by United Health Group. CEO\/Owner retires works in golf swing.\n\nThe C-Level staff was cut from UHG, and no non-compete was signed; so we formed a company that rivaled UHG. I join the startup as a co-founder and CIO.\n\n\n2 years in, we\u2019re in the negative; I\u2019m pushed out of my already sporadic salary so I go FTE in technology working at an investment firm, and do contracting work on the side when asked.\n\nFast forward to 2016, my old CEO who sold to UHG calls me and asked me to contract for him. I say sure!\n- buy separate computer to keep contracting work separate\n- no longer CIO at startup\n- still have email to startup\n- buy 2nd computer for contracting work\n- still shareholder at start up\n-  I have zero non-compete signed anywhere\n- no shared technology whatsoever between startup and contract work\n- I\u2019ve made zero day-to-day decisions for startup for 2 years\n\n\nStartUp CEO is mad and demands me (feels threatening) to answer employment questions about me contracting by this Friday. Startup CEO emails my boss who I contract for and demands employment records with a Friday timeline. [Litigation Posture?]\n\nI Respond to the angry startup CEO as I have nothing to hide and feel confident no breach has been made.\n\nHey Angry Startup CEO,\n\nI have done some independent contracting work for [new company] but never when I was an officer of [startup].\n\nI\u2019ll be calling in the morning further discuss this concern.\n\nu\/springer7217 \n\n\nHave I missed anything that could lead to a lawsuit? Or is everything based off of hurt feelings?","title":"Ex-CIO of healthcare startup; contracts self to successful startups. Old startup may want to sue?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539670822,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9okyy3\/landlord_claims_they_cant_legally_add_a_sixth\/","id":"9okyy3","body":"For starters, I live in Cincinnati, Ohio with 5 other guys on a college campus. We are leasing a 6 bedroom house from a large leasing company that is admittedly a bit of a dump, but that\u2019s how many houses around campus are. I was out of country when the house was toured, but the house was shown to us with 6 distinct bedrooms, two full baths, a living room and kitchen. Because the housing market is competitive, one of the tenants E-signed the lease and put the deposit down immediately, with the company letting us know we would all individually be added to the lease upon August 1 move in. When all 6 of us went in to sign the lease and pick up keys, the housing company told us we were only allowed to have 5 people on the lease by law but gave us a wink and 2 extra keys and parking passes. For the first two months we\u2019ve split the rent 5 ways on the website, and had the 6th tenant Venmo each of us the difference in rent. Now the 6th tenant is tardy on his payment to us and it\u2019s becoming an issue. What are our options, is there really an occupancy limit on a house? I\u2019m scared that the person who\u2019s not on the lease could theoretically screw us by just never paying us back. We\u2019re all friends and assumed this payment agreement wouldn\u2019t be an issue but it\u2019s already beginning to be. Easiest course of action would be to just add him to the lease so rent isn\u2019t being coordinated through the group.\n\nAdditional question: the house is old, and practically falling apart. We\u2019ve already contacted the leasing company about roaches in the basement (which is disgusting and always has been) and they said they\u2019d \u201cget back to us\u201d which was two full weeks ago. We requested they fix the faucets in one of the bathrooms which just led to them knocking all the plaster under the sink off. The house also has 2 pipe radiators, but majority of the radiators don\u2019t have valves with a knob and this can\u2019t be turned off. Does a landlord have to provide a means of regulating the heat in an apartment (I.e. getting us a knob for the radiators instead of covering it with electrical tape)? Also one of my roommates seems to think that if we make upgrades to the house (installing TRVs) the land lord needs to compensate us for that, is this true? \n\nThanks in advance for any and all advice ","title":"Landlord claims they can\u2019t legally add a sixth tenant to lease but will look the other way","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552671259,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1hqpm\/need_help_with_an_unpaid_speeding_ticket\/","id":"b1hqpm","body":"So a while back my wife was driving my car and she isn\u2019t on the insurance. She gets pulled over for going 70 on the highway (we all know that story) and is written a speeding ticket for $300. Her mom initially said she would pay it. She procrastinated, never did it. It\u2019s been at least 6 months since that ticket, and we never went to get it taken care of and i\u2019m worrying about it now. She needs it handled for a number of reasons. What can i expect? We live in texas.  What\u2019s the least consequential route here? I have no idea what her current ticket status is but i would imagine there\u2019s a warrant for her arrest at this point. ","title":"Need help with an unpaid speeding ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445565928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3puqzh\/update_akmtil_accused_of_abusing_my_kids_cant_see\/","id":"3puqzh","body":"*WARNING: No legal question in this post - just an update!*\n\nSo, I've been involved in a Kafkaesque nightmare for the last few months.  But things have come to a head - and the end is near.\n\nHere's the original post (posted in late May of this year): https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3aelay\/akmtil_accused_of_abusing_my_kids_cant_see_them\/\n\n*[TL;dr]  Ex denied me my visitation with the children. I learned that there is an open case involving me with AK OCS. No one there will tell me what I have been accused of.  IL CPS says no file opened on me.  MT CPS says no open case there either. Summer visitation fast approaching. Lawyer on vacation*\n\nA lot has happened since I posted this in late spring.  Just as some of you in that thread suggested - my lawyer filed an expedited motion to enforce visitation.  My ex filed a response.  She said that our oldest son had accused me of sexual abuse.  It had supposedly came to light while she was giving him a bath, having a discussion about good touches and bad touches (he is 7).\n\nShe further stated that she had reported it to the AK OCS, and they had verified the abuse charges and they were investigating and there would also be possible law enforcement involvement as well.  She also said that OCS told her that she could lose custody if she allowed me visitation - by endangering the children.  She also reported in her affidavit that she has been trying to get in touch with the caseworker & she wouldn't return her calls.  She included with her motion a letter from an organization affiliated with the OCS that conducted the interview with our child, verifying that there was an ongoing investigation.\n\nShe also filed a motion asking for full physical and legal custody of our children.\n\nI then filed a reply, rebutting her allegation, and also asking for custody of our kids. \n\nThe Judge ruled within a week.  She granted my motion for an expedited hearing on enforcing my summer visitation.   And she set the date for the hearing at the beginning of October!!!  The judge also ordered a Custody Investigator to interview my son & ordered the OCS caseworker to appear at the hearing.\n\nSo, my ex cancelled my spring visitation - and the court effectively cancelled my summer visitation.  I was frustrated beyond belief, but relieved that I would get some answers.\n\nMy lawyer filed a motion to have the OCS records released, and they verified that I was being accused of sexually abusing my son over a long period of time.  It was absurd - but I was scared.  It's surprisingly hard to prove that you *didn't* do something. \n\nMy ex started to play games with my video chats with our kids.  She would schedule and cancel over and over again.  3 weeks at a time would pass without me talking to the kids.  She then informed me that she wouldn't be enrolling our oldest into school - she was going to home school him.  We had been fighting over home schooling since she told me she was moving to AK.  I even put a stipulation in our Parenting Plan that the children would attend public school.\n\nSo, another motion was filed to order her to return our son to public school.  The judge granted my motion.  The report from the Custody Investigator was also released at this time.  The report mentioned nothing about sexual abuse, but was focused on how sad my son was that his \"mean mom\" wouldn't let him talk to me.  It talked about how I was my son's favorite family member & mentioned how he teared up when he said his biggest goal in life was to see his father again.\n\nBut the time the hearing rolled around at the beginning of this month - I had still heard nothing from the AK OCS or any other state's CPS, or any law enforcement!   \n\nAt the hearing I had a Psychologist testify for me.  He had conducted an \"Abel Assessment\" on me, and found that my sexual profile was in line with the typical male -and he found that I had no propensity for sexual attraction to prepubescents.  \n\nMy ex had a psychologist that our son was seeing testify for her.  The psych said that our son had an anxiety disorder.  My ex's lawyer asked the psych a lot of questions about if homeschooling would be good for our son's psyche, but never asked the psychologist one question about sexual abuse.  The psychologist did mention that my son did talk a lot about how much he missed me.\n\nThen the OCS caseworker was called to the stand.  Before our lawyers questioned her - the judge said that she had some questions for the caseworker.  The first question she asked was - \"If the abuse was reported in January - why didn't you interview the child until April?\"   The caseworker said that her work load was high.\n\nThen the judge asked if the OCS had finally reached a conclusion.  The OCS worker said \"Yes - we are closing the case and I am about to write up the report.  We have found that the allegations are **substantiated**\"\n\nMy jaw dropped.  The Judge then asked \"Are you telling me that you are ruling that these allegations are substantiated -  yet the father has never been interviewed?  He has made himself available for months - and no one has contacted him.\"\n\nThe caseworker explained to the judge that since the abuse happened in another state - they could not interview me.  But that they found our son to be credible.\n\nThe judge asked \"What about law enforcement?  Why couldn't they interview the father?\"\n\nThe caseworker then told the judge that they had referred the allegations to the sheriff's office in the county we lived in MT - and she hadn't heard back from them.   She said she was still waiting to hear back from them before closing the case.\n\n\"But you just told me that you had already closed the case.  Didn't you???\"\n\n\"uh-uh-uh, yes your honor\" the caseworker stammered.\n\nAt this point, there was a Perry Mason moment, where my ex's lawyer stood up and said, \"In the spirit of openness your honor, we must tell the court that my client received a letter from the MT County Attorney's office saying that they had reviewed the case and had decided that there was not enough probable cause for an indictment, and they were closing the case\"\n\nThat surprised me and my lawyer.  I had no idea that there was an investigation going on in MT.  Apparently, it did not progress far enough for me to even be interviewed.  \n\nWe  also learned that there was a video interview of my son done by the OCS.  The judge ended the hearing by saying she wanted to watch the video before ruling.  She granted me unsupervised visitation with my kids for 6 hours for the next two days, while I was in AK.  I had to keep them in a public place and stay within a 5 mile radius of where the mother dropped them off with me.  She stressed that I could *not* take them back to my hotel.\n\nThe next week - I got a letter from the AK OCS saying that they were closing my case, with the allegations ruled **NOT Substantiated**, and there would be no further action.  This report was dated the day after the hearing.  So they basically reversed themselves within 24 hours after tangling with the judge.\n\nI also got a copy of the letter from the MT County Attorney's office (my ex said she \"lost\" the letter, so she couldn't present it in court.  I got a copy of the letter - it was dated 17 days before the hearing)\n\nWell, the next hearing has been postponed until mid-November, exactly 5 days before my Thanksgiving visitation.  My lawyer has decided to file a motion, waiving any argument at the next hearing - asking for the judge to rule on the evidence as presented.  Our argument is that the only reason that the judge wants to watch the video is because the OCS was saying the allegation were substantiated.  Now that they have reversed themselves - there is no reason to have her watch the video.\n\nSo - no legal questions here.  I just know that this sub loves updates.  I don't think my ex has a chance of getting full custody.  I'd say I have a 25% chance - and there is a 75% chance that the judge will keep the current order in place (I get the kids for 8 weeks in the summer + 3 weeks during the school year).\n\nWe weren't able to prove that my ex acted maliciously, and she presented her testimony so she appeared as a sincerely concerned mother who just wanted to have the OCS see if this was possibly true.  So I don't think that the judge will be punitive concerning her at all.\n\nI'm hoping for the best.  If the judge keeps the current parenting plan in place - I've got a plan that will really shake things up. Moving to AK & asking for 50\/50 custody!\n ","title":"[UPDATE] (AK)(MT)(IL): Accused of abusing my kids. Can't see them, no-one will tell me what I am being accused of - can't defend myself.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570146388,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dczbwz\/wv_can_i_get_out_of_this_lease\/","id":"dczbwz","body":"I moved into an apartment in August of this year. My lease is from August 1st- July 25 of 2020. My next door neighbor and I have both had issues with the upstairs neighbor constantly being loud. They have a dog who barks and howls at all hours of the night. Weve brought it up with our landlord and she said she wont evict them because they\u2019ve been leasing with her for years. I have classes every day and I\u2019ve had to miss classes because I\u2019ve gotten absolutely no sleep the night before. They play loud music, the tv is on high at all times of the night, people are always going in and out and stomping. I can\u2019t handle this much longer. Its taking a toll on my health because I get barely any sleep. Is there any possible way for me to get out of my lease without having to pay rent for the rest of the lease?? I dont have the money to pay all of that up front.. i dont know what I can do..","title":"[WV] Can I Get Out of This Lease??","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447716703,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t32jv\/minnesota_i_cannot_sue_for_the_return_of_my\/","id":"3t32jv","body":"My former landlord brazenly stole my entire security deposit. The case would be open and shut if I could actually bring them to court, but I can't, because it seems that you need the physical address of the landlord to sue for your security deposit back, and I don't have it; they only ever provided me with their PO box.\n\nThey have expertly hidden their real address from the internet. Google-fu doesn't work at all.\n\nI also tried bringing the \"Exhibit 5-2b\" form, which invokes [39 CFR 265.6(d)(5)(ii)](https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/cfr\/text\/39\/265.6) and is even [offered directly by usps.gov](https:\/\/about.usps.com\/who-we-are\/foia\/coa-or-boxholder-form.rtf), to the correct post office to get them to give me the physical address of the PO box. The clerk refused to even look at it, and he kept repeating his claim that the only person who can get a PO box's real address is a police officer with a warrant, no exceptions. I pointed out that 39 CFR 265.6(d)(5)(ii) says otherwise and that I am entitled to receive the real address because I am acting as a pro se party for prospective litigation, but he still refused to help.\n\nWhat should I do?","title":"(Minnesota) I cannot sue for the return of my security deposit because I don't have the former landlord's real physical address; only their PO box.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550714047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asx4e2\/reduced_pay_and_benefits_revoked_after_arrest\/","id":"asx4e2","body":"So my friend has a suspended license and got pulled over after running a stop sign. His license has been suspended on and off for years because of child support stuff. Anyway the police officer got him for a felony because it was his third time being booked for it. Police officer didn\u2019t read him his Miranda rights and booked him for 24hrs. He is the manager at a hotel and the guy above him took him off salary, put him hourly, and cut pay by about 1\/3. He has 6 kids and he is also revoking his health insurance and all benefits. I\u2019m not saying he was right for driving without a license but can his employer legally do this? Thanks!","title":"Reduced pay and benefits revoked after arrest","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540412436,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r3blt\/or_would_i_be_under_any_legal_trouble_if_i_were\/","id":"9r3blt","body":"I can't seem to find a clear answer on the internet, thanks!","title":"[OR] Would I be under any legal trouble if I were to record people in a public area? Or inside a school?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569246455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d86rj2\/mississippilandlord_entering_my_place_of\/","id":"d86rj2","body":"My landlord has entered my home on at least two occasions without my permission or 24 hours notice. To fix things that we requested him to fix. Our contract states that they must give us 24 hours notice for inspection but doesn't say anything about repairs. I have set up cameras to get video evidence and to see if he is only fixing the issues or if he is snooping. Is he legally allowed to enter our home without consent or 24 hours notice?","title":"[Mississippi]Landlord entering my place of residence without consent or notice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554419504,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9jrkh\/getting_ez_pass_invoices_for_my_license_plate\/","id":"b9jrkh","body":"A few months ago, I received an invoice from EZ Pass Pay by Plate Massachusetts toll enforcement. There were several timestamps of my license plate going through tolls all around 11pm several days in a row. About 35$ in charges. I meant to make a call, and I forgot. That's on me.\n\nNow I received another one. This time with a couple late charges (my fault), and a ton more instances of me going through this toll.  It's always the same toll, and it's always around 11pm-1am. I 100% am not ever driving at that hour, and this toll is almost 2 hours from my home. \n\nI looked up the appeal form on the letter, and and simply has a paragraph spot to enter any supporting documentation and reasons to consider the appeal. \n\nI have no idea what I can put in this that makes any kind of case besides \"wasn't me\". The old shaggy song won't cut it I'm sure, but I'm at almost 200$ worth of tolls. Originally I was gonna just pay the 35$ invoice and move on, but they keep coming. What can I do?","title":"Getting EZ pass invoices for my license plate that are not me. [MA]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571597745,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dknyn5\/im_curious_about_the_actions_we_could_have_taken\/","id":"dknyn5","body":"I'm curious about the actions we could have taken against a 5th grader.\n\nIn 5th grade, (3-4 years ago), a fellow 5th grader threatened to r\\*pe me and threatened others.\n\nHe called me deamening nicknames, touched my torso and hips, and threatened to r\\*pe me, explaining how he was going to do it. He told multiple people he was going to slit their throats, brought a knife to school once, lied to teachers about it and more.\n\nThis happened near the end of school, over a one month period.\n\nMy parents and I took no legal actions against him, not knowing we could. What legal action could we have taken? What would happen to the kid if those actions were taken?","title":"I'm curious about the actions we could have taken against a 5th grader.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1506447719,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72m174\/can_i_sue_roommate_for_video_surveillance_without\/","id":"72m174","body":"Is there any legal action I can take to have him remove the  video surveillance cameras that he installed in the living room without my consent and without asking for the landlord\u2019s approval? \n\nHe spies on me, he\u2019s always checking if I\u2019m eating his food (he has told me so many times that he saw me eating that banana, or that apple[he always eats my veggie cans and beans but I never say anything because I\u2019m not that picky]) and have questioned me about \u201cthat person I brought home on monday\u201d when nobody was home and has a count of how many people I\u2019ve come home with when he\u2019s not even here. \n\nPlease help, this is so suffocation. \nThis is in California. OC. \n","title":"Can I sue roommate for video surveillance without my consent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502913764,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u4oy6\/ca_is_nonpatio_items_a_legal_defined_term\/","id":"6u4oy6","body":"For background, we live in an apartment where another management company has taken over recently. We live in San Diego county.\n\nThey posted a notice on our door stating they're doing patio\/balcony inspections, stating we're only allowed to have 1-2 patio chairs and\/or a small table and less than a handful of well-maintained plants on the balcony. Later stating only electric grills, no trash or recyclables, no hanging of items, no bikes, scooters, toys or other personal belongings, no couched, treadmill or furniture and no hanging items from the building. This notice states that they will be citing any residents whose patio\/balcony's do not comply with the rules and regulations which are set forth within your lease agreement.\n\nWe just moved in with tenants that have been here since 2014 and our lease states \"resident agreed to maintain a clean and neat appearance of the balcony, patio and front door area of premises. Resident is responsible for cleaning these areas. Hanging clothes, storage of personal property, and non-patio items are not permitted in these areas at any time. Garbage cans, barbeques, brooms, mops or other similar articles must be kept out of sight. Only window coverings authorized by Owner\/Agent are allowed. Please do not hang anything on the shrubbery, fences, railings, exterior walls, inside or outside of the windows or elsewhere on the exterior of the building.\"\n\nCurrently, we have a toddler trampoline, a couple foldable chairs, a small table, a small freezer and our recyclables on our balcony. Are these things going against our lease and can they cite us for it?\n\nEdit: for clarification, our LEASE states the trash\/recyclables must be kept out of sight, not that they are prohibited. These containers are hidden behind our a\/c unit so you cannot see them unless you're on our balcony.","title":"[CA] Is \"non-patio items\" a legal defined term?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541692247,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vb4ib\/is_it_legal_to_require_my_employees_to_vote_in\/","id":"9vb4ib","body":"This is probably a stupid question, but is it legal to require my employees to vote in the general elections? I don't think I can legally have any repercussions for them not doing it, but is it legal to provide some sort of an incentive for them to vote? Not voting for a specific thing, just creating an incentive for them to do their part and hopefully foster a habit out of it.  \n\n\nThanks,","title":"Is it legal to require my employees to vote in the US?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568440392,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d41cyw\/what_length_of_stay_constitutes_cohabitation\/","id":"d41cyw","body":"My ex claimed permanent disability at the time of our divorce (though, I have email evidence that she volunteers...not sure if that is worth paying into a vocational trainer?) \n\nBorderline disorder, and she was in a motorcycle accident in year 7 of our 12 year marriage 12 years ago. (She wrecked on a motorcycle she bought with my money while with people she was cheating on me with, racked up 70k in debt and totally screwed me for the rest of my life in the eyes of the court).\n\nI was ordered to pay 2k in alimony, and I have for 12 years.  I\u2019m trying to move forward with my life and having a helluva time with it.\n\nSo, I\u2019ve been paying for her cell phone and she is aware that I have talk\/text logs.  I have suspicion that she is living with someone she dated right before me, who\u2019s parents bought the house he\/possibly they, are in, since she has me paper mail all checks to her parents house, and refuses any online transfers. She has no online presence of any kind. \n\nI want to hire a PI, and I have a referral for a good one.  However, it\u2019s very expensive to keep them on.  \n\nMy question is, how many days would I need to prove that she is staying in that house, for this to be at all admissible in court as cohabitation?\n\nWhat additional evidence would I need?","title":"What length of stay constitutes cohabitation? (California)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445010256,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p02xc\/i_cant_remember_what_happened_that_night_texas\/","id":"3p02xc","body":"My \"friend\" and I had a night of drinking at my house. I was apparently assaulted. I took my prescription pills that night and had at least two glasses of vodka. I woke up the next day with a couple welts on my head and a busted lip. They were arrested that night and I have to go to court at the end of this year. \n\nI don't remember what happened that night. I have no memory of being assaulted or seeing\/talking to police. Everyone tells me to write down what happened so I don't forget but I don't remember it in the first place. What do I do? I don't know who to talk to about it and I'm really scared that I'll be in trouble for not knowing.","title":"I can't remember what happened that night Texas","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446650697,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ri2bi\/assistance_with_setting_a_conviction_aside_in\/","id":"3ri2bi","body":"Hi Reddit, I need your advice. About 3.5 years ago when I was still in college I made the regrettable mistake of shoplifting and getting a misdemeanor. I did not fight with anyone, they walked me to a back room, talked to me and I willingly admitting to it since they saw me. When the police officer arrived I was compliant and arrested however not placed in handcuffs. \n\nSince then I've always felt doomed to this conviction but I've moved forward and have stayed out of trouble, except for 2 speeding tickets since then. I've been applying in the healthcare field and luckily the only thing that has stopped me so far is just me getting past the interview. I don't want this conviction to hold me back entirely so I've been looking into getting this conviction set aside since Arizona does not offer expungement. My questions to you are:\n\n- Should I hire a lawyer to do this?\n- If I do this on my own and I do not get the set aside motion granted, can I do this again through a lawyer?\n- Any other advice you can give me or any thoughts I should keep in mind as I go through this process?\n","title":"Assistance with setting a conviction aside in Arizona. Should I hire a lawyer or do this on my own?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443910828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ne2rq\/my_housing_agent_wants_to_deduct_a_cleaning_fee\/","id":"3ne2rq","body":"I recently just moved out of my flat which was handled by a housing agent. My deposit is held onto by an organisation called Deposit Protection Service in the UK. I requested for a full refund only for the proposal to be rejected by the agent, in which they then proposed a 70GBP deduction from the deposit for cleaning. Although I understand that owners\/agents can and will do that if you leave the place in a mess. But I feel it's unfair for me because of the following:\n\n1) My tenancy agreement did not state any mandatory cleaning charges upon end of tenancy.\n\n2) I was given a cleaning checklist when I signed my agreement and again by email when I was approaching the end of my tenancy, which basically means I have to clean up before I leave the place. And that I did.\n\n3) IMPORTANT: A cleaner was sent to clean the whole apartment while I was away for 2 days. This happened 1 week PRIOR to my end of tenancy. No notice were given, so I assumed this would be under the owner\/agent's tab. Also, coming 1 week before I move out basically meant I couldnt clean the place even if I wanted to.\n\n4) They were suppose to do an exit inspection with me but they didnt and mentioned that I could just leave the keys at their office and they will check AFTER I've moved out. \n\n5) Last but tiny point, when I moved in, my room and apartment was NOT professionally cleaned. There were 2 tenants already living in the other 2 rooms and the tenant from the room I moved in just moved out the day before, hence no cleaning was done too. So, why should I have to foot the cleaning for the next tenant? I felt that they too did collect a similar fee from the previous tenants but didnt actually carry out the job.\n\n\nI felt it was very unfair to me and the amount that they are asking for is pretty significant to me. Any advice or do I have to concede and pay?\n\nTenancy agreement extract: http:\/\/imgur.com\/FdP9UqW","title":"My housing agent wants to deduct a cleaning fee from my deposit which I feel is unfair. I'm from the UK.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553099235,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3e2l2\/to_use_my_home_address_virtual_mailbox_or\/","id":"b3e2l2","body":"Forming my business that is a tourism company. I wanted to start my LLC but do not have a physical business address. I do not plan on using my apartments address and I was thinking of using my parents address who live 30minutes outside the city in the suburbs. I currently get mail there and visit once  a week. I\u2019m wondering if I should do this to keep cost low or just get a registered agent to use as a physical address.\n\nI looked into UPS boxes here in my city and they are over $150 for 3 months $500 for the year +","title":"To use my Home Address, virtual mailbox or registered agent for LLC location?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1507159304,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74c1u4\/two_tenants_are_fighting_what_should_i_do_on_ca\/","id":"74c1u4","body":"These two tenants have never gotten along and today they had a rather large dispute. One of the tenants has been calling me all day telling me I need to resolve this or else he will sue me for not providing \"quite enjoyment\". Apparently they are fighting because one of the tenants verbally insulted the other tenants wife.\n\nWhen the tenant calls I repeatedly tell him, \"if you have an issue, call the police, I am just the landlord\". Nowhere in the lease mentions anything about \"quite enjoyment\" so Im not sure if he has a case or what.  \n\nSo should I just ignore their calls or get involved somehow?","title":"Two tenants are fighting, what should I do? [ON, CA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555176503,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcswh0\/co_can_i_sublease_my_room_without_my_roommates\/","id":"bcswh0","body":"This really is a long story but I\u2019ll try and keep it as short as possible. Basically, I signed a lease back in August to live in a house with 4 other girls. We got along well, and everything was great up until January came around. All of a sudden they started to get more annoyed, repeatedly told me that I make them uncomfortable when I\u2019m emotional, told me I make them uncomfortable when I\u2019m in my room a lot, etc. I lived with a bunch of college seniors, so they loved to be social and partying while I don\u2019t care for that. \n\nFast forward 2 months and I\u2019ve decided to move out. Things were really really tense around the house and it was putting me in a horrible spot mentally. I\u2019d constantly be extremely anxious as to not push their buttons and to even be in my own house. Needless to say, my roommates were not happy. They initially thought I was going to force them to pay the extra rent, but I said I was going to find a sublet. Now they keep repeatedly pushing me because they say they need to approve of the new person or else I can\u2019t do it. My landlord knows I\u2019m finding a sublet and doesn\u2019t care, and has repeatedly told us all he doesn\u2019t want to be involved in our drama. \n\nI\u2019ve finally found a girl who is extremely chill who I know my roommates would like, however they are making this extremely difficult for me. I texted them all saying I found someone and no one responded for days, while this girl is adamant about starting to move her stuff in (even though she won\u2019t officially live there until May). I don\u2019t know if my roommates have any legal standings to say no I can not. I have been trying to make this as easy as possible for everyone involved, but my roommates are honestly just making it about themselves because they don\u2019t want me to \u201cruin their senior year\u201d whatever that means.  I can\u2019t afford the rent in 2 places, and I\u2019m scared this new sublet is going to find another place to live since my roommates are taking so long.\n\nWhat happens if I just go ahead and give her the room and key? I don\u2019t want to be a douchebag but I\u2019ve tried to be kind and courteous throughout the whole process and they\u2019re not really working with me.","title":"[CO] Can I sublease my room without my roommate\u2019s permission?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541542472,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ut1dz\/applying_for_a_job_with_an_ex_customer_company\/","id":"9ut1dz","body":"I work for a service company, and in every contract that our customers sign with our company there is a clause saying that either company is not allowed to hire an employee from the other company for a period of 3 years after then end of the contract.\n\nI\u2019m looking at a job position with one of our ex customers, and we had a contract with them that ended less than 3 years ago. \n\nWill I or the ex customer company in any legal troubles if they make me an offer?\n\nMy company is in NJ and the customer is in CA.","title":"Applying for a job with an ex customer company","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442960329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lzqve\/micahi_security_deposit_not_returned\/","id":"3lzqve","body":"**Background:**\n\nIn late 2013 I took a work transfer from CA (Sacramento area) to Michigan (Van Buren County).  \n\nI found a house on craigslist, everything seemed great.  The owner lived in Hawaii (he had moved out of MI but kept the house as a rental).  His brother (who lived locally) showed me the property, we did the lease over emailed PDFs, I sent him a cashier's check for the $1000 security deposit.  It was a 1 year lease, but my job kept extending and so we agreed, over email, to go month to month. \n\nI want to point out that during this time I was an excellent tenant - I always paid rent on time, I informed him by email of issues with the house (peeling paint, etc) and I even did a few repairs for him that he offered to hire someone to do.\n\nWhen I moved out (back to CA, Bay Area this time) he visited the house and emailed me that \"everything looked good\" and he would return the deposit when he got home.  This was in April 2015.\n\nA few weeks later I emailed him to say \"Hey, have you had a chance to send me the deposit?  My address again is ---\" and he replied that he had been travelling and he had not sent it but would shortly.\n\nI let things slide longer than I should (obviously) but in June I emailed again.  No reply.  I emailed in July.  No reply.  I called him three times in the last two weeks (September 2015) and he has not picked up.\n\nI'm done at this point.  I emailed him today basically saying I was surprised by all this, I hoped it was an oversight on his part, went through the history (dates he and I emailed and dates I called) and told him that I was hoping he would contact me and work it out, but that if I hadn't heard from him by 10\/6\/15 (2 weeks) I would be forced to take legal action.\n\nI get the sense he won't get back to me, so I want to be ready to drop a court filing in the mail 10\/7\/15.\n\n**So, my questions are:**\n\n1. Is there anything I should do that I haven't done?  Is contact by email enough or should I send him the same thing in the last email by certified mail or something?  I want to make sure I'm on the best possible legal standing.\n\n2. Where the heck do I file this thing?  I thought MI, but when I looked at the form it needs a MI notary to notarize it.  I'm not taking a $400 flight to get $1000 back.  I lived in CA when i signed the lease and sent the deposit (lease has my CA address on, etc).\n\n3. How much can I sue for?  I only *need* my $1000, but I'm so frustrated with this whole thing, time wasted when I'm working 60+ hours\/week), oppurtunity cost of the money, etc I'm inclined to go after the max amount I can.  It looked like some states allow double or triple the amount - do these apply for me?\n\n4. Can I include emails as evidence (or whatever the equivalent in small claims court is)?  I don't know how I'd prove any of my story without them.\n\n5. Is it worth getting a lawyer?  This seems like it should be something I can do myself, but obviously the geography alone complicates things.  How much would a lawyer charge for this?  Can I make my old landlord pay legal fees if I do use a lawyer?\n\nThanks in advance to anyone who helps me out!  I really appreciate it.  I feel like I can figure out the nuts and bolts once i have a plan but I don't have the big picture to know where to start. ","title":"[MI\/CA?\/HI?] Security Deposit Not Returned","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570541933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df039q\/hardly_ever_given_breaks_by_employer\/","id":"df039q","body":"I work in California as a cook and as seems to be typical among restaurants, 10min breaks and lunch breaks are few and far in between if ever allowed. This normally occurs because we dont have proper staff. I'm treated like a salaried employee in that I'm constantly being communicated to by different people about work when I'm off the clock, I had to come in to lock up the doors on my day off(off the clock), but I'm paid hourly and given OT. Most days I dont get to clock off for a lunch break or a 10min break within my shift, it's usually at the end of my shift when I'm ready to go home though most of the time I just clock off and go home. Do I have a case here? What can I do?","title":"Hardly Ever Given Breaks by Employer","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550981327,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/au45tw\/could_we_be_charged_with_nuisanceharassment_our\/","id":"au45tw","body":"Hi! Long time lurker and second time poster (I think haha). Some quick background info; I\u2019m a married female, 20 years old, and I live in an upstairs apartment with my husband and 10 month old son. \nHere\u2019s the situation! We\u2019ve been having problems with our downstairs neighbors for almost two years now and I think crap is about to hit the fan. Our apartment is very old with super creaky carpeted floors and thin walls, so anyone living in a downstairs apartment can hear any movement from the upstairs tenant. Because of this, when we walk around, our neighbor loses her mind and claims we\u2019re stomping on the floor and harassing them. They do have two children as well. The husband leaves us alone, but it\u2019s the woman who\u2019s been extremely aggressive with us for the past two years. She\u2019s screamed and cursed at us when we\u2019re leaving our apartment, called the cops on us past 10 pm at least 7 times (they did nothing each time because we weren\u2019t in the wrong, the floors just really suck), she\u2019s verbally harassed our guests, slams her front door each time she leaves, and she always comes outside to glare at us when we leave our apartment. It\u2019s an extremely volatile situation that\u2019s escalatedand it\u2019s given me so much anxiety that it\u2019s hard to sleep. We have video evidence of her harassment and time stamped logs of her aggressive behavior. Even this evening, from 6 pm to 8 pm, she was hitting our ceiling because she heard my son crawling around on the floor. It wasn\u2019t even late at night!!! Yesterday, she threatened to either, call the cops and file a harassment complaint on us or even to press charges against us and take us to court. Can either of these options actually happen? Do they have any base for a claim or charge? What can I do? Please help!!!","title":"Could we be charged with Nuisance\/Harassment, our downstairs neighbors are crazy and they\u2019re making our lives hell. Please help!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447082232,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s53cd\/how_to_securely_trade_items_via_mail_with_someone\/","id":"3s53cd","body":"Location: New York\n\nHey guys, this is probably a very minor question, but I collect trading cards, and I've been trying to establish a trade with someone online via mail. Because he is more established (more references) on the website we are setting up the trade on, the rules state that I must ship my items first and once he receives the cards he is then to send his part of the deal. Obviously this can go wrong for me, so I wanted to know if there is some way I can securely trade these items via the mail. I've heard people saying you can file mail fraud against someone in cases like this, but what can I do to ensure I am protected legally in this?","title":"How to securely trade items via mail with someone?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568537472,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4i10i\/ma_need_to_pay_an_old_ez_pass_bill_but_i_have_no\/","id":"d4i10i","body":"This is about my husband technically. \n\nAbout 3 years ago we lived in the boston area and my husband had to take The Pike to work. The bill grew to about $750 (that we last knew of). \n\nWe moved several times and eventually stopped receiving bills from EZ Pass. I did transfer our address before every move but maybe things got lost. Additionally, the vehicle that accrued the bill, is no longer registered or in our possession. It needed too much work and was scrapped. \n\nWe went to the dmv last year to register a vehicle and they said he would have to pay the EZ Pass bill before renewing his license (due in 2020). The DMV told us the only way to pay would be to go to Boston City Hall. We no longer live in the Boston area so getting there is an all-day thing. \n\nThe EZ Pass website has an invoice search but no records are found when searching my husband's name or the vehicle's plate number. \n\nHow do we pay this bill?","title":"[MA] Need to pay an old EZ Pass bill but I have no idea how to.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554908644,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbn267\/i_was_backing_up_and_hit_a_car_they_drive_off_and\/","id":"bbn267","body":"Earlier today I was slowly backing out of a parking space and a car that I could not see was behind me and I accidentally hit it. As I was getting out of my car I see the lady and she drives off but I was able to get a shot of her license plate number. What can I do to get this sorted out?","title":"I was backing up and hit a car, they drive off and leave","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541517542,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9up66c\/a_travel_organisation_written_off_300_of_my_moms\/","id":"9up66c","body":"Living in Germany.\n\nNobody in the family bought something for 300\u20ac. Espacially not some kind if vacation trip. Someone just took the money identifying as a travel organisation. Is there a way to get the money back? ","title":"A \"travel organisation\" written off 300\u20ac of my moms bank account","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554518160,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9zuy7\/question_regarding_an_under_the_table_job_ontario\/","id":"b9zuy7","body":"This place I use to work for paid me via cheque and sometimes etransfer. Each time I was paid I was never taxed on the amount.  I'm aware I need to report that income on my own. My old boss is claiming time fraud and wants one of my pay cheques back. Apparently he kept records of all the times hes paid me via cheque. I left on bad terms because I had to chase him down for my pay every 2 weeks. So my questions are;\n\n1. Was a technically an employee? I never signed any employment docs and was being paid under the table.\n\n2. Am I legally required to pay him back? His claims are 100% false but the proof is on my old company phone which I dont have since I quit.\n\n3. Hes threatening legal action if I dont pay him back. Not sure what my rights are as an employee since I technically wasn't on the books. \n\n4. Does he have any legal grounds to actually take me to court?","title":"Question regarding an under the table job (Ontario Canada)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506412135,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72ivev\/ohio_nonprofit_college_radio_and_newspaper_studio\/","id":"72ivev","body":"I am a member of my college radio and newspaper and a constant issue is that we have a lack of funds constantly. Insert broke college student joke here.\n\nWhen I went to our director they explained that having a fund raiser or other way to gain funds through online traffic would be to one consuming since we are a nonprofit and would have to constantly track the budget and where it goes. \n\nAlso she said something about us not legally allowed to do advertising since we are a d3 school over the radio. And we can't do anything through either the online news because as a non profit we are not allowed to do that. \n\nSo is there anyway for us to raise money. Since it seems that, we can't run ads and we can't do a fund raiser. \n\nIf someone could help me with this then it would be greatly appreciated ","title":"[Ohio] Non-Profit College radio and newspaper studio wanting to raise funds","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554313271,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b913s2\/speeding_tickets_in_different_counties\/","id":"b913s2","body":"About a month ago, I was pulled over for speeding and plead guilty with defensive driving in my county where I live. Yesterday, I was pulled over again for speeding in a different county where I work. Would I be able to plead guilty with defensive driving again since it's in a different county?\n\nI'm in Texas","title":"Speeding tickets in different counties","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553041242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b355mk\/fl_tradeshow_display_collapsed_and_my_small\/","id":"b355mk","body":"My small business was invited to a large consumer event under a national store chain brand to display a new concept that involves big acrylic tubes full of inventory on a steel base. Image how you see jelly beans sold but for a different product and field. \n\nWe planned and paid to have this custom display built for this exact project, and the guidelines were very specific and exact. The fabricators built this display from scratch and 8 foot tall by 12\u201d wide acrylic tubes to hold products to sell as a dispenser. \n\nWe spent $15,000 on the display, $5,000 on expense travel and employee labor, and $60,000 on custom inventory and product packaging for the show.\n\nWe were projected to sell $240,000 in this 3 day show. \n\nOn Saturday an hour into the day, there\u2019s about 1,000 people in this vendors booth and people crowded around the display when one of our large tubes 8 feet tall and 3 feet suspended cracked and fell and all the products inside crashed down onto the show.\n\nTwo more broke and fell and we quickly cleared the whole display and no one was injured but the vendor shut us down (obviously) and now we have no display, all the custom inventory, expenses and zero sales and a damaging embarrassment to our brand and this national chain who may drop our products from their store.\n\nThe acrylic tubes failed and broke. Are these fabricators liable? \n\n","title":"(FL) Tradeshow Display collapsed and my small business has now lost $50,000 invested into the project and caused massive brand damage","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505792854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/710evi\/if_im_going_month_to_month_since_move_out_date\/","id":"710evi","body":"Reason I asked is original lease said no pets but now I want a dog. The owner of the property is out of state, and although he would never know, I want to make sure I don't break the law.\n\nEdit: bot wants me to tell y'all I'm in St. Louis, Missouri.","title":"If I'm going month to month (since move out date expired and there was a clause saying I could stay month to month after lease ends ,but I'll need thirty days notice), am I still under the rules of my original lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554925214,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbqdea\/az_noncompete_pharma_advice\/","id":"bbqdea","body":"On my first day as a part-time intern for a start-up drug development company, I was asked to sign a confidentiality and non-compete agreement. Is the following standard or do I risk strongly limiting my future employment options? I am currently applying to full-time opportunities with Pharma companies, and worry about the geographic scope section and the cannot engage in activities involved with the treatment or prevention of cancer. Specifics are below:\n\n\"Generally. As a material inducement to the Company to enter into this Employment Agreement and to pay Employee the agreed upon compensation and provide other benefits, Employee may not, during Employee\u2019s employment with the Company and for the **one-year period** after Employee ceases to be employed by the Company: \n\n(a) directly or indirectly own, enter into, engage or assist (either individually or as an officer, director, partner, or co-venturer) in any business engaged in activities relating to the design, commercial development, or manufacture of drugs directed to the treatment or prevention of cancer (collectively, the \u201cRestricted Business\u201d).\n\nGeographic Scope. Insofar as the scope of the Company\u2019s business is expected to be international, and that the Company competes with its competitors on an international level, the foregoing restrictions apply broadly. The geographic scope of the foregoing covenant is Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States of America. If a court of competent jurisdiction should determine the foregoing scope is too broad to be enforced, then the geographic scope will be the broadest scope permissible in the following sequential order of geographic regions to arrive at a geographic scope that a court of competent jurisdiction determines is reasonable in light of the Company\u2019s circumstances and competitive situation: (1) the United States of America; (2) Arizona, California, New York, New Jersey; and (3) Arizona.","title":"(AZ) Non-compete pharma advice","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541959255,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w5waa\/why_didnt_the_cops_do_anything_about_my\/","id":"9w5waa","body":"Hello r\/legaladvice, I'll try and keep this as short as possible. Back when I lived in Rockhampton, QLD, Australia (2016) I lived in a duplex unit and one day had a neighbour move in on the other side at 3am making the a lot of noise banging on everything and yelling at the top of his lungs. This woke me up so I walked to the kitchen to make a midnight snack and my neighbour was furious at the noise I made walking from one side of my unit to the other so he started banging on the wall between our house threatening to kill me for  making noise.\n\nI naturally called the cops on him and the cops immidiately told me they're not going to do anything but to call them back if it escalates. A few moments later my neighbour was banging on my door still threatening to kill me trying to break the glass window next to it then he hopped in my backyard and started banging on my back door after trying to open it (it was locked). So I called the cops again and they finally came after around to my house about 15 minutes later with my neighbour still doing it.\n\nThey talked to my neighbour and escorted him back to his unit then they talked to me and told me it was my fault for making noise at 3am and that since my doors were locked \"it wasn't a legitimate threat of violence\" and therefore they weren't going to press charges. Anyway after the night from hell was over my neighbour learnt the cops weren't going to do anything about him and was very vocal about that fact so he did the same thing ALMOST EVERY SINGLE NIGHT FOR A YEAR STRAIGHT it became the same routine of him trying to break into my house threatening to kill me and the cops blaming me for it because I was \"making too much noise\" despite the fact that I was not making noise.\n\nDuring the day my neighbour would yell things at me through the wall or when ever I walked outside and once again the cops told me they weren't going to do anyhing about it. It finally ended when I bought a 32\" sword off of eBay and as he was banging on my door one night I swung it right open and he seen my sword and started begging for his life as I chased him out of my yard. The cops were called and only arrested him because after trying to break into my house to kill me he was later caught red handed trying to break into the shop next door. He then later moved out and I never heard from him again.\n\nWith all of that being said my question is why did the Police not doing anything about it? I still get kept up at night thinking about someone trying to break into my house to kill me and how the cops refuse to do anything about for over a year. I'm starting to think I may have some sort of PTSD from it and was wondering what legal action (if any) I could seek?","title":"Why didn't the cops do anything about my neighbour's multiple attempts to murder me\/house invasion? Is it too late to seek legal action?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571711629,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlbch1\/pressing_charges_on_abusive_exfiance\/","id":"dlbch1","body":"Hi, sorry if this is not the right place to post. Please redirect me if so.\n\nI want to press charges on my abusive ex. I don't have any pictures of my past injuries, nor were the police ever involved in an incident. If I don't have concrete proof that he beat me over the years, do I even have a chance at pressing charges? I understand that this could be a he said-she said type deal. Please let me know if this is not possible or if I have any other options. This is Atlanta, GA.\n\nThank you all so much","title":"Pressing charges on abusive ex-fiance","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441727025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k3thd\/ma_is_my_landlord_required_to_address_a_rodent\/","id":"3k3thd","body":"I have a quick question about the phrasing of a piece of housing law in MA I'm hoping someone can address. Mass.gov states that [landlords must address rodent infestations *if there are two or more apartments in the building*](http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/ocabr\/consumer-rights-and-resources\/housing\/tenant-and-landlord\/tenant-rights.html). I'm not clear on legal meaning of unit \/ apartment \/ domicile etc, but my situation is an entire house that was leased out to four tenants who each signed the lease individually. Would that constitute four \"apartments\" legally, meaning it would be the landlord's obligation to address infestations, or is the entire house an \"apartment\" with four distinct legal tenants?\n\nThank you!","title":"[MA] Is my landlord required to address a rodent infestation?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505937620,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71dqva\/someone_put_the_wrong_number_on_a_website_for_a\/","id":"71dqva","body":"Hi guys, this is probably a lot less of an issue than what's usually posted around here. It's not a huge problem, but it is a problem and it is a huge annoyance and it keeps getting worse and I don't know what to do about it.\n\nHere's the rundown of my issue: some dude half a century older than me made a profile on a dating site called mate1. It looks like the equivalent of a popup ad, it just needs the weird sounds and it would be perfect. Since he made the profile, I have been contacted non-stop by some of the most unhelpful people on the planet who do nothing more than insist I am this sugar daddy they are looking to contact and that I'm not someone else, because my profile said so. One girl even went as far as to send me nudes of herself... fucking gross.\n\nThis has been happening for the past week. I thought it would have stopped by now but it hasn't. After the first ten messages, I went to contact their customer service about the problem. My word for word message to them with his information redacted (mods, please inform me if I am allowed to put his username, because if someone can track this guy down and get him to remove my phone number that would absolutely make my day) and the reply back I received. https:\/\/pastebin.com\/Anheijaa If anyone cannot access pastebin, feel free to comment here and I'll give you the text, just don't want to flood the post with more text. TLDR of the emails, I told them my number was getting harassed, they said my email wasn't being used (wtf?) and closed the ticket immediately.\n\nI would also like to note I'm technically a minor, and I won't deny the fact I'm not innocent, but if that stops people from repeatedly and endlessly harassing me then that would be awesome.\n\nTL;DR: some guy on a sketchy dating site used my phone number and now a bunch of dim-witted girls won't stop spamming me with gross pictures and really rude texts insisting that I have to be their sugar daddy, and customer service won't even read my message properly. What do I do?\n\nQuick edit: I live in Ohio, the number is a Michigan number. I'm assuming the guy is from Michigan but I don't know for certain.","title":"Someone put the wrong number on a website for a dating profile. It's my number. What can I do to remove it?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1550338033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aravsc\/missouri_i_couldnt_come_in_to_work_yesterday_due\/","id":"aravsc","body":"Hi! I work at a local movie theater, yesterday I was scheduled at 6pm to work but by the time it was 3pm the roads were covered in snow. I thought I was going to be able to get to work but my parents advised me to not do it. So I gave my boss ample time to find someone else to cover my shift if need be (spoiler alert: Everyone got sent home early anyway) and called in to tell her I can't get out of my driveway and I can't tell the difference between my yard and main road.\n\n\nShe then began yelling at me, telling me generic responses like \"So?\", \"you were scheduled at 6 and you knew it was going to snow\", \"this is your fault\", then \"I'll see you at 6\" before hanging up on me. That happened at 3pm.\n\n\nI then decided to wait closer to 5pm, when I'm supposed to be heading out, as I live 30mins away in a countryside town that rarely gets snowplows. When the road conditions actually got worse I called again. It was literally the same conversation, but this time she actually encouraged another employee to drive all the way out to my house to come pick me up, she was willing to give him my address and everything, which puts us both in danger. My mom tried talking to her but that resulted in a yelling match because my boss refused to listen, who then demanded that my mom hand the phone back to me, when she did I heard my boss yelling at an employee to just \"hang the damn thing up\". She's been really aggressive since.\n\n\nNow I'm getting texts from friends that were lucky enough to live close by the theater and worked that day that she's going to write me up today, I work again at 6 and the roads are finally cleared.\n\n\nI think she's legally allowed to fire me for no specific reason, I have to re-read on that. But if she does write me up for this, is there anything I can do? I can't find any number or email for HR, I'm going to look around the break room when I get in there today, but I'm not exactly sure where to go with this. I feel like the safety of my job is done for, she's already targeted me for other little things like how bad my immune system is, so I get sick easily, and made fun of me for it amongst other things like my social anxiety. I'm trying to apply to other places but have had no luck with getting calls back.\n\nAnother thing is my friends had said that the roads around there were also covered, there were reports on Facebook about car crashes because of this weather and some highways were being shut down. When I spoke to some of my other managers, even the assistant to my boss, they all said what I did was good, praised me for warning them ahead of time, and to not worry too much about losing my job because they'll back me up.\n\n\nI feel like I'm just completely screwed and don't know what to do or where to turn.\n\nTL;DR - I called in to my minimum wage part time job to tell them that the roads are too dangerous for my car and I can't make it, I was yelled at that I need to come in to work anyway, which would be putting my life at risk. Now I'm being told I'll be wrote up for this, and more than likely lose my job.","title":"Missouri, I couldn't come in to work yesterday due to icy road conditions. I'm being wrote up today because of it.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569582638,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9yujt\/documenting_and_then_leaving_a_job\/","id":"d9yujt","body":"I left my job. I reported a sexual harassment and some hostility from my supervisor that morning to have documentation of why I left before I handed in my work property. I\u2019m afraid that my boss may try to sue me because I submitted a report of the actions that may have gotten the supervisor fired. Can the former supervisor do that?","title":"Documenting and then leaving a job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552083392,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayw43x\/coworker_is_being_denied_health_insurance\/","id":"ayw43x","body":"This is in NV for reference.\n\nA coworker of mine recently reached the end of her probationary period at work and is eligible to receive the health insurance that is given to everyone in our position. She works full time.\n\nEveryone else in our position went through the same procedure of receiving a notice via mail that the were eligible to enroll and directing us to the proper online portal. Hers never came and when she asked HR they informed her that the policy had changed a few months after she was hired with notices sent out, requiring her to come to the main office and fill out paperwork in person. When she contacted corporate HR she was told that the best she could do is file an appeal because she missed a deadline.\n\nIs there anything she has on her side?\n\n\n\nTLDR: CoWorker didn't receive insurance because of a \"policy change\" that has only affected her in our position   & the new HR person didn't do her job.","title":"Coworker is being denied health insurance","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571025689,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhl9xo\/if_you_chose_to_not_get_married_but_want_the\/","id":"dhl9xo","body":"I have been with my partner for 5 years and we mutually decided we don\u2019t want to get married. There are certain circumstances which concern me, say I die in a car accident or something and someone needs to identify the body but I have no family around. What type of contacts or agreements are available? I live in Louisiana for reference","title":"If you chose to not get married but want the similar benefits, what are your options?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1444050013,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nkjkt\/harassment_via_fire_dept_escalated_threatened\/","id":"3nkjkt","body":"Follow up to [this post](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3niffk\/dental_office_being_harassed_by_residential\/)\n\nTurns out this may be an attempt to kill our lease.\n\nWe got an email from the landlord \n>I understand you met with [name], the Managing Agent of the Coop.  I am made aware that there is improper storage of these chemicals in your facility.  You must attain proper storage for these chemicals.\n\n>The Fire Department has been to the building several time.  Any fees that the building will be charged, will be charged to your account as additional rent.  Furthermore, the Resident is putting us on notice that she is getting very ill from this smell.    She is unable to live in her apartment.   Any medical bills that are incurred will also be charged back to you as additional rent.    The Resident has also informed us that she will continue to call all city agencies and report this.   You will be responsible for all charges that may be incurred because of this. \n\n\n>If the smell continues, we will forward your account to our attorney to proceed with eviction proceedings.\n\nThis email was sent to us on Friday (we are closed that day and I'm off Saturday) so the fire department has been getting calls about us before we found out the day they actually broke in.\n\nWe don't even know who this mystery tenant may be since there are 3 tenants directly above us and they have yet to give us a name. \n\nAs it is now my dad is going to the office to show that we keep our X-ray developer and fixer in their sealed bottles until their use, as well as explain that the \"vat of chemical\" they keep referencing is a plastic container filled with water to clean our X-ray developer. The fire department reported the plastic container as improper storage without confirming that it contained chemicals.\n\nEdit: got rid of name from email\n\nEdit 2: Added bit about the fire department and the \"vat\"\n\nUpdate: Looks like the landlord is taking a crazy seriously.\n\nWe asked the super to come in to talk to us about the email since he's aware of things in the building.\nApparently the tenant called the all sorts of organizations (we're talking Hazmat and the like) and all of them found nothing. The Hazmat raid freaked out the entire building since they wound up going door to door. All the other tenants are saying that they smell nothing, so all the landlord has on us is this woman's word.\n\nThe super actually advised add a lawyer to our contacts list, so if they persist we can hand them their ass.\n\nEdit 3: Dad's visiting the landlord now with the info we got from the super. I'll up date if things look all clear and will make a new post if things are still going on. \n\nEdit 4: Only got the guy who manages co-ops. We're gonna try for the rental person in a few hours.\n\nEnd of day update: \n\nSo the one in charge of rentals was in a meeting today (go figure) and requested we set an appointment, so things will probably be in limbo until then. \n\nWe're gonna hold off on any action until we get that appointment, but it looks like we're gonna go with the fire marshal option that \/u\/Fire_Man suggested if the calls continue.\n\nThanks for the bit about labeling the container, it'll take the edge off of those calls if they happen.\n\nI'll update this post if things look smooth, and make a new one if something major happens.\n\nThanks everyone.\n\nPS: Since I'm still getting suggestions about the smell I'm going to sum up what we've learned since I first posted. I personally think there is no smell. The guy that came on Thursday was EPA he came in talked to us while he was scanning and concluded the air quality as \"less than background\", his words not mine. He explained it as cleaner in the office than it is outside. Hazmat came in overnight and pretty much raided the building and found nothing. Since the tenants were probably freaked out by the raid, we asked the super if any of the tenants said anything about a smell and so far our buddy is the only one who says they smell anything.\n\nAFAIK, if there is a smell at all, it could be anything from the boiler being flushed to the super's cat farting.","title":"Harassment via Fire Dept. escalated. Threatened with rent increase to cover fees and potential eviction. [NYC]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506303214,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/729cum\/18_yo_pulled_over_with_a_speeding_ticket\/","id":"729cum","body":"Couple hours ago I just got pulled over for going 50 in a 35...  15 over. Located in California btw... Anyways I'm totally clueless as what to do as this is my first ticket ever.. I was taking my friends manual car and was going uphill, coasting at 40 mph ish and I stepped on the gas too much and it jumped to 50.. (2015 Subaru WRX)\n\nWhat would be the BEST option available for me money wise ? \n- My friend told me to just ignore the court date, and go to driving school and lessen the fee to pay it off.\n\n- Or to fight the case and try and win.. \n\n- What can I do to avoid it from my record as well?\n\nAny advice helps. Thank you! ","title":"18 y\/o pulled over with a speeding ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554248206,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8qn8k\/i_need_help_and_quickly\/","id":"b8qn8k","body":"My younger autistic brother is going through issues at school and is so afraid to go to class and even tell the teacher he wet his pants (he\u2019s only five btw). My question is in Texas schools is it illegal for me or my mom to put a recorder inside of his pocket without the teacher knowing to find out if any wrong doing is being committed we have talked to the school already and they are not helping in the slightest we need to know what is going on so is it legal?","title":"I need help and quickly","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553961357,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7cr19\/can_i_opt_out_intrusive_character_witness\/","id":"b7cr19","body":"I've recently started a new restaurant job in a beachfront town in New Jersey. With the season picking up for the summer the ABC (Alcohol & Beverage Commission) stopped in to make sure all new hires had ABC cards (i.e. were registered\/allowed to serve alcohol by the township police.) The application was obscenely long, scrutinizing and expensive in comparison to other townships that I've worked that require this sort of thing and it included two parts that really concerned me.\n\nFirst was the list of questions that I needed two character witnesses to answer which seemed to range from needlessly intrusive to outright discriminatory\n\nThey are as follows (I've starred the one's that seem especially questionable to me):\n\n\\-Has the applicant ever been convicted of a crime or disorderly persons Offense?\n\n\\-Is the applicant an alcoholic?\n\n\\- Is the applicant a habitual drunk? \\*\\*\\*\n\n\\-Is the applicant a narcotics user?\n\n\\-Does the applicant suffer from any physical defect or illness? \\*\\*\\*\n\nHas the applicant ever been confined to a mental institution? \\*\\*\\*\n\n\\-Has the Applicant ever committed an act of domestic violence?\n\n\\-Has the applicant ever been a member of any organization which advocates the overthrow of the U.S. or the Sated of New Jersey? (Their typo not mine)\\*\\*\\*\n\n\\-Is there any reason why the above person should NOT be issued an ABC Permit?\n\n\\------------------------------------------\n\nThe second part of the application that bothers me is the \"release form\" I need to sign and have notarized which reads:\n\n\"I AUTHORIZE the ------- police department to investigate my background. They may have unlimited access to any information including but not limited to a criminal history check\"\n\nWhy should I have to submit to an unlimited police investigation in order to wait tables? Have you guys seen anything like this before? It seems really over-reaching and unnecessary to me and makes me want to find a job somewhere in a different town.\n\n​\n\nI'm supposed to have the application submitted within 30 days and would like to know, Can I opt out of this request or does the PD have the right to demand this of me?\n\n​","title":"Can I opt out? Intrusive \"Character witness\" Questioning and Signing Away of Rights needed in order to Serve Alcohol in my Town.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555452436,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdzwl6\/cps_has_been_contacted_every_week_for_a_month\/","id":"bdzwl6","body":"In AZ\n\nMy ex has been neglecting our son, and it's to the point that my son (2) says he doesn't want to go over there anymore, and wants to stay at my house (this has never been an issue before). My son comes home with rashes (due to being fed dairy when his father knows that he can't have dairy (per 2 doctors)), open sores on his bottom, as well as chaffing in the diaper area, vomits only while at his father's house (from dairy), as well as bruises this most recent visit.\n\nI have been reporting neglect to CPS for probably over a month, and nothing has happened. My ex and I have a mediation agreement (never married, never went to court) for custody and visitation, and the agreement says that we need to attempt mediation before doing anything through the court.\n\nI don't have a ton of money. But I need help. Going to his dad's house is hurting my son (physically and emotionally) more than it's helping him. Should I hold out hope that CPS will do something, or should I contact an attorney? Something needs to change.\n\nSide note, my ex is also about 3-5 months behind on child support, and just lost his job due to not showing up for his shifts... Is there anything I can do about this?","title":"CPS has been contacted every week for a month. Nothing is happening","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539149375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mwq71\/found_out_my_landlord_isnt_even_a_tenant\/","id":"9mwq71","body":"My girlfriend and I signed a year long lease and have been living in an apartment for around 5 months now. Supposedly, our roommate\/landlord has been subletting the room to us, but today I found out from the apartment manager that not only does the apartment not allow sublets, but the apartment is in someone else's name who had lived in the room I am staying in before I moved in. Also, the apartment is in a college town and only does month to month leases. \n\nAfter talking with the apartment manager she basically said that she is going to post a 3 day notice for everyone currently living in the apartment to sign a new lease, or move out. This is good news for me because my landlord is kind of shady (for example, he has threatened my security deposit over utilities that I had already paid, also tried to charge my girlfriend and I $100 for a parking pass that the apartment complex gives out for free), and I just figured that I will not sign the new lease and move out in 3 days. I am just worried that I will still be responsible for paying rent for the 7 months remaining on the illegal sublease, and\/or that I will never see my security deposit again. If anyone has any insight on this issue or any other advice, I appreciate it. ","title":"Found Out My \"Landlord\" Isn't Even a Tenant. [California]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507504205,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7554al\/fl_townhouse_rental_urine_soaked_carpet_at_move\/","id":"7554al","body":"Hi All,\n\nI just signed a lease at a townhouse in South Florida. Very nice place upon our visit, signed the papers right away for my pregnant wife, toddler, and myself to move in. Had a move in date of one week later. \n\nFast forward one week, I pick up the keys and drive to the townhouse. On arrival, I notice the entire house smells like dog urine. The first floor is all tile. The second floor and stairs are all carpet. I conducted an inspection and found that every room had anywhere from 2-6 square feet of carpet that felt rough on contact. Smelled my hands and realized I had just rubbed them in pee. \n\nWhen we first toured the property before signing the lease, it was apparent it had just been steam cleaned. The carpet was still damp from it. You also seen the grain in the carpet, like it had just been done. There was also a scented candle burning in both of the upstairs bathrooms. \n\nI notified the leasing agency right away, as well as documented it on my initial inspection form. I followed up with an email the same day asking when it would be replaced. They said they would have it steam cleaned, but I told them I doubt that would fix it because it soaks through to the pad and into the pores in the concrete. They agreed and said they would replace it. \n\nIt has now been two weeks since that initial notification. I have followed up with phone calls and even conducted an on site inspection with one of their agents to confirm they understand the extent. They keep giving me reassurances but no action. They\u2019re claim is that carpet companies are behind schedule do to the hurricane over one month ago. I\u2019m in construction, and none of my carpet subs have had scheduling issues. \n\nWhat do I do? The lease doesn\u2019t clearly outline how to handle this sort of incident because it isn\u2019t an emergency case, like if a water heater busted. But I have been paying rent for just over two weeks now. My pregnant wife starts dry heaving the second she walks in and smells it. Any advice would be appreciated. \n\n","title":"(FL) Townhouse Rental Urine Soaked Carpet at Move In - Landlord Won\u2019t Address","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447523097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ssunm\/pennsylvania_what_is_the_best_way_for_me_to\/","id":"3ssunm","body":"I am working on a project with a few other people and I had to write computer code for a big part of the project. How can I protect myself so if I ever leave the group or anything, they can't use the code?","title":"[Pennsylvania] What is the best way for me to protect a computer code I've written for a team I'm working with?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568914446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6hery\/im_moving_out_friday_but_need_to_get_my_things\/","id":"d6hery","body":"I don't know whether this is the best subreddit to post this, but I don't know where else to ask. \n\nI'm 19F from South Carolina, and I've decided to move away from my toxic mother. I'm leaving tomorrow (Friday, 09\/20) for my dad's home an hour away (my parents are divorced). I'll only be bringing some clothes, some beauty products, and all my electronics. I'm planning go return Sunday (09\/22) to get the rest of what is mine and my dog (I bought her and pay all her vet and grooming bills). I am planning to return with my dad since he has a pickup we can put my stuff on, at least the boxes. \n\nI'm worried my mother will be uncooperative and will start arguments with me and my dad. I want to call 911 and ask them if I could have an officer outside of my house to provide assistance if needed, especially when getting my dog. I'm also worried my mother will get physical as she is highly explosive and has threatened violence before. \n\nIf I were to call for police assistance\/supervising, would I pay any fines or get in trouble? I'm really lost and I really don't want to get hurt, or have my dad or dog injured because of my mom. Thank you so much for any tips!","title":"I'm Moving Out Friday But Need To Get My Things Sunday","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569030694,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d74gji\/charity_program_directors_and_supervisors_using\/","id":"d74gji","body":"TL;DR: My bosses at a non-profit drug rehab are massively discounting donated items to furnish halfway houses they own.\n\n​\n\nI work for an international religious charity, let's call it The Redemption Navy. Over the past year several members of management have been taking donated goods or selling them to themselves at extreme discounts. For background: The Church runs a rehab program. The 'beneficiaries' live and work at the facility, sorting donations, picking up donations, stocking and working in stores.\n\nThe managers in question are the General Supervisor, who has administrative control over both the stores and rehab program; the Program Director who operates the rehab program in tandem with the Supervisor, the Intake Coordinator who admits participants, the Warehouse Supervisor who oversees donations and sorting, and the Store Manager of the largest and most profitable store in our county. For years, donated goods were occasionally sold at discount to graduates of the program moving into new housing. \n\nThe last few years, this has turned into the best donated items never being processed. They're taken from the trucks to storage areas and sold to employees, family members of employees, and friends at massive discount and occasionally given for free. My personal objections begin here, but what happened over the past year bothers me.\n\nAll five of the managers mentioned own halfway houses. The General Supervisor and Program own one home (they claim it's operated by a friend, but all titles, utilities, and registrations are in the Director's name), the Manager and Warehouse Supervisor own another, and the Intake Coordinator operates a third. They have been putting aside dozens of pieces of furniture, electronics, decorations, mattresses, and other furnishings for these houses. I'm an Assistant Manager in the store, and by my estimate they have acquired approximately $4,000 to $5,000 worth of inventory. To my knowledge they paid, combined, approximately $1200. \n\nThese managers are responsible for determining who enters the program, where they work, the requirements for completion, any punishments (including removal), and verification and recommendations for those who are court-ordered. Four of the five also have the ability to hire and fire employees. They have direct and daily access to the program participants and are heavily involved involved in day-to-day affairs.\n\nThere is a Church appointed Administrator who, ostensibly, oversees everyone and everything. This is his final assignment before retirement, and he himself was punished for stealing a donated hot tub for his home in the past. He is hands-off. The Human Resources department is a single woman who also benefits from these discounts.\n\n​\n\nThis is all incredibly disheartening. Nearly everyone employed here knows what goes on but either don't care enough to speak, or benefit from it. I don't plan on working here long-term, but I went through the program and I work there for now. Knowing that customers are correct when they say we \"keep the good stuff\" is disappointing to me. Seeing a $5,000 sectional sofa or a $3,000 patio set sold for peanuts so my boss can make money on the side or furnish his grandma's beach house is shameful. \n\n​\n\nSorry for the long read, but what is the right thing to do here? I have an enormous moral problem with this, but I may be making a mountain of a molehill. I don't participate in any of this but I've made my feelings known. Is this an issue worth bringing to higher organizational authorities? Will they *do* anything? Where else could I go?","title":"Charity program directors and supervisors using donations for personal gain?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570501907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/detuxe\/im_suing_my_employer_for_harrassment_now_they\/","id":"detuxe","body":"At the beginning of this year, a couple of my coworkers said some very transphobic and homophobic things to me and sexually harrassed me. I reported it to my employer and HR and it was handled very badly, so I transferred to a different location.\n\nNow it's been months later and my new manager wants to promote me to a management position in my department. I am still suing. Should I take the job? \n\n(Also, I have 2 lawyers working in conjunction on my case. I haven't spoken with them in a while but everytime I ask them for an update, they say they are just waiting on my employers response. Its been a couple of months since the last update, is this normal?)","title":"I'm suing my employer for harrassment. Now they want to promote me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551246454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av9v2z\/what_does_this_letter_from_the_dssedd_mean\/","id":"av9v2z","body":"Hello. My employer received a letter from the Department of Social Services\/Employment Development Department regarding the fact that the wages they have down for me were different than whatever I reported from 2015-2016. The letter was requesting my wages for that time period from my employer.  \n  \nI only got my job in October 2016. Prior to that, I had a bit of a lengthy time being unemployed, but wasn\u2019t collecting unemployment. I was, however, on Food Stamps.  \n  \nWhat does this letter mean? Am I in some kind of trouble? It freaked me out. I have no idea what it could be for or why it was sent. My employer told me they would just send the info they were requesting and that is all I know. Thanks in advance. ","title":"What does this letter from the DSS\/EDD mean?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554393117,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9egds\/gambling_and_betting_laws_sc_usa_plus_online\/","id":"b9egds","body":"I know that games of chance may be illegal, but what about games of skill?\n\n​\n\nMy idea is an eSports league that includes gambling on big-events and matches. Now, I'm asking because I don't know exactly how other eSports teams work, but this is how I want MY eSports team to work. \n\n​\n\nPlayers don't put down anything out of pocket. Instead, once they become an official team member by proving themselves, The team itself will put money towards that player (think of it like a base pay like a business). Then as they get higher on the rankings, they will be required place that money down into the big-events. One vs the other and the winner gets the biggest or all of the payout plus other things.\n\n​\n\nSo think of it like an actual business \/ an organized gaming league. Note that this is online, so players could be from anyway as long as they meet the team's requirements. It's just that it will be started in SC. Is my idea okay or is it illegal? ","title":"Gambling and betting laws. [SC, USA] PLUS Online","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539382369,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9noot1\/mother_has_neglected_to_file_2016_taxes_so_i\/","id":"9noot1","body":"I'm a 19 year old living in California. As the title says I've been unable to receive financial aid from my school this year because my mother never filed her 2016 year taxes. I told her at the very beginning of 2018 that I would need her to do that by July, however even till now she's yet to do it. The rules say that I cannot file as an independent unless I meet a number of circumstances, the easiest being to be 24 (or being married). But, obviously, I would hate to postpone my education for 5 years. Is there any course I can take to get any help. Or should I simply drop out and wait. This happened in my first year of College (she filed earlier, though) and it's happening again. This time, though, it's almost too late. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.","title":"Mother has neglected to file 2016 taxes so I cannot receive financial aid for college.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1445357287,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pi9th\/nebraska_housing_lease_question\/","id":"3pi9th","body":"We have currently lived in our duplex for 4.5 years. Each year we have signed a lease for another year after ours expired. But each year we have to remind the landlord to send us a new lease. In 2014 we signed a 1 year lease from July - July and never received a copy of our lease after every had signed. Our lease expired in July and we still have not signed a lease to renew. We plan on moving, so we have not reminded them about it. When we do find a place to move to, we will give our 30 days as usual. On the lease in the previous years, it stated we cannot move during the fall\/winter seasons as it is harder for them to find new tennants. But since we are not in a lease, can they keep our deposit over previous leases? Once the lease is up, is it completely up?","title":"Nebraska housing lease question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444351798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o1koe\/can_an_employer_dock_pay_for_fixing_my_time_sheet\/","id":"3o1koe","body":"I show up to work on time and work properly but sometimes forget to clock in. If I, or anyone in the company, forget to clock in and they have to fix your time sheet for that day they dock you 5 dollars per day. So given a 5 day work week they just docked 25 dollars from my pay because I didn't clock in (it's weird the way we clock in and I consistently forget, I'll admit.)\n\nIf you need more info to help please let me know.","title":"Can an employer dock pay for fixing my time sheet? (Arkansas)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542170012,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wws2j\/court_supervision_and_moving\/","id":"9wws2j","body":"I'm currently going through a domestic battery case (filed against me) and I'm coming up to what I hope is my last court date. I've got 3 possibilities here; dismissal, drop to battery and get court supervision or a straight up conviction. My questions is if they give me court supervision, which is likely at this point if it's not dismissed, is it likely that the court would allow me to finish it out of state? I live in IL and I'm trying to move to AZ asap.","title":"Court supervision and moving","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554440753,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9n362\/is_it_possible_this_story_is_realz_or_was_i\/","id":"b9n362","body":"Some guy a few years ago told me that his da set up a company, $1 milion into debt AS THE COMPANY, and then took the money to buy a lambo and a mansion and paid a homeless guy 10k so that he could \"sell\" the guy the company (with the debt). So now a homeless guy is around $1m in debt but obviously doesn't give a single one because even if they put him in prison, it would be a 1 up for him, as opposed to living in the streets.","title":"Is it possible this story is realz or was I bamboozled?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569283728,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8fa4f\/can_an_employer_charge_me_for_a_check_i_lost\/","id":"d8fa4f","body":"So I lost a check a while back, told her the date I lost it in person back then, and then went to college. It\u2019s been over a month and she still hasn\u2019t sent it so I asked her about it. I don\u2019t remember the exact pay period the check was from since it\u2019s been so long, and she is saying that she will make me pay the 30$\/hr she is paying a book keeper to find my missing check. Is this legal in the state of PA?","title":"Can an employer charge me for a check I lost?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542134969,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wrug0\/albertacanada_i_want_to_make_an_indie_game_that\/","id":"9wrug0","body":"So,I had an idea for a 2d RPG that has things from other games in it,like music or some items. Does this fall under Fair Use?","title":"[Alberta,Canada] I want to make an indie game that has references and items from other video games in it. I think it might fall under Fair Use but I want help with this.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569339876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ozh9\/i_won_a_case_against_the_leasing_off_about_6\/","id":"d8ozh9","body":"When I first moved in, the leasing office never shut off the electricity.  It was in the leasing office name I guess. They said it was only supposed to be on while they showed it and then shit off for me to get my own. \n\nWell they never shut it off and when they found out it had racked a bunch of late fees. They didn\u2019t say anything too me just ended up adding it to my rent. I refused to pay it. That\u2019s on them for not shutting it off.  \n\nWe went to court. They wanted $4,000. Judge ruled in my favor. I didn\u2019t have to pay them anything. It was their fault. \n\nNow I\u2019ve moved out. They already kept my security deposit, which was $1500 and now they sent me an email saying I owe them $3k for \u201cdamages\u201d. \n\nI think this is them trying to get their money that they lost from before. If I go to court could a judge see that\u2019s all this is? How do I prove I didn\u2019t cause any damages. The house wasn\u2019t even kept up while I was there. They didn\u2019t make any repairs and everything that they are claiming is damage is normal wear and tear.","title":"I won a case against the leasing off about 6 months ago. Now I\u2019m moving out and they are trying to charge me $3,000 for damages and I think it\u2019s for retribution (PA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504586674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y5rjx\/sd_what_is_the_difference_between_a_subpoena_and\/","id":"6y5rjx","body":"Hi, I have received a notice of taking deposition. It was for a DUI I called the police on about 1 year ago. So I got a letter from the Sheriff's office saying I had papers. I stop down and sure enough I have a notice of taking deposition from a local law firm. I know some people who work in the legal system and they have never heard to a deposition in a criminal case. So they reach out to the States Attorney (who have no idea about this whole thing) and I am told by them I do not need to attend the deposition. I was told I need to wait until I get a subpoena with a check attached for witness fees. Defense (who are the ones that issued the notice) say I need to attend. It is at their law office. Any help as what the difference is and what I can or cannot do?","title":"(SD) What is the difference between a subpoena and Notice of Taking Deposition?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551849711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axv63r\/wife_gets_reprimand_letter_from_employer_due_to\/","id":"axv63r","body":"Hi Everyone, thanks for taking the time and helping us with interpreting what this means. One thing that\u2019s clear is that my wife will be seeking employment elsewhere but things got weird and I\u2019m not sure exactly what to make of it.\n\n The dynamic - My wife\u2019s current boss was in an equal position as my wife for the first year and a half that they worked together, they never liked each other and to the fault of both of them- would air it out to other employees. When the old manager left this person moved up as the new boss and it\u2019s been less than ideal since, and not just for my wife but the whole staff. It was clear that the moment this person became the boss, that the working environment was going to be painful. \n\nA few nights ago we were expecting snow and not a trivial amount, my wife\u2019s commute to work can be as long as 40 minutes. A mass text was sent to all employees from management saying that no matter the amount of snow- work is open for business on time.\n\nMy wife went to vent her criticisms in another chat with someone else. She mistakenly sent said criticism to the group chat of her work instead of that person. The language was clean and the message was making fun of how stubborn her bosses are for keeping the doors open while not considering the safety of their employees, they are not an emergency hospital.\n\nMortified, she owned up to it, explained that it was a mistake to send it to that chat and that she should have brought her concerns directly to management. \n\nThe next day she is brought in for a meeting and her boss reamed her out, they seem to think she was sending it to a co-worker and not an unrelated individual, they can\u2019t prove it but insist that my wife is a liar and is covering up for another employee. \n\nI\u2019m going to type out the letter she received and is being asked to sign, verbatim.I will redact anything that would give away who it is and where she works. \n\n\n*** Management expressed the following:\nSending texts to other employees which show overt disrespect to hospital management is unacceptable. Such a text occurred on the evening of **** in the form of a group text which inadvertently included hospital management. False excuses - as happened after this text (claim that text was meant for a family member, which was clearly not true) are also unacceptable.\n\nHospital management and associate doctors feel that \u201cwife\u2019s name\u201d speaks\/acts in a disrespectful way on an intermittent, yet too frequent basis. This may take the form of tone of voice, delaying following instructions, or creating conditions which make others look bad.\n\nNote: Recent tardiness has been an issue again, which was originally discussed in a meeting on 4\/25\/2018. This problem was re-addressed in a meeting between management and \u201cwife\u2019s name\u201d\n\nOur overall goal is to create and maintain productive, and respectful relationships with and between all employees. The above behaviors make this impossible and this letter constitutes the 2nd warning related to these behaviors. ***\n\nThere\u2019s a lot in here that bothers me:\n\npartly because I\u2019m her husband and that\u2019s natural, but also because I don\u2019t know the person they are describing and flatly accusing of things she didn\u2019t do, for example:\n\nThe accusation of delayed instructions is ridiculous, it\u2019s in reference to a file my wife sent that was missing certain notes, an honest mistake interpreted as treasonous activity.\n\nShe had one meeting about a year ago about being late, that was corrected. \n\nShe never had a meeting about her behavior before this one. \n\nShe has her flaws, she gets wrapped in drama easier than she\u2019d like to admit. Having a female dominated workplace probably makes for some interesting personality clashes. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s wrong or abnormal to want to vent about your work or your boss, wether you like them or not. \n\nShe\u2019s a workhorse, been there a long time and has seen people come and go, she\u2019s entrusted with a lot around there and it\u2019s all based on merit. \n\nCan they demand that employees not criticize management on their own time with non-company phones? That jumped out to me  as trying to control the behavior of employees personal lives and attempting to crush dissent. \n\nThis doesn\u2019t look like a typical write-up but an attempt to trash someone\u2019s character written by someone with clear bias, not HR. The boss told her that she was HR despite there being evidence that the company does indeed have an HR department. \n\nThere\u2019s never been a path to redemption, they assume the worst of their employees and hold whatever mistakes on permanent record to be used at a time of their choosing. She\u2019s not signing this letter as it\u2019s her position that the grain of truth doesn\u2019t validate the majority of the false statements made. She feels empowered now to move on and put this place behind her. \n\nDoes anyone find that  this situation has been handled unethically? Or perhaps unlawfully? \n\nIt\u2019s all a mess but we\u2019re looking forward to moving on and to continue to learn and grow from this. My advice to her is not to sign anything, especially that.\n\nThanks again reddit\n\n\n\n","title":"Wife gets reprimand letter from employer due to after-hours whoops text. Called a liar and accused of sabotage.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541575410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uxccx\/my_roommate_stole_1000_from_my_old_workplace_and\/","id":"9uxccx","body":"Long story short, someone I used to work with needed a room and I needed a roommate. \n\nIt\u2019s been known she\u2019s had financial issues but I got her a job at my work place and she was doing good making stable money and paying back what she owed me to front her for rent. (Mistake #1 on my part).\n\nShe currently owes me around $1,300 for unpaid rent and I no longer work at her employment. Friday night she stole money and Saturday she paid me $400 in cash of what she owes for rent (not even her monthly expenses). \n\nSunday the cops show up at the place while I wasn\u2019t there, she denied it, she even had them search her room and her possessions, and fast forward to when my old manager today calls me and asks me to talk to her. Apparently the company is trying to make a deal to have her forfeit her last paycheck of $1,000 to cover what she stole. \n\nShe finally admitted it to me but is still reluctant to face her irresponsibility and say she\u2019ll go in to sign the paper.\n\nMy real question is what do I need to look out for for my involvement? Currently I have $400 minus about $80 I\u2019ve spent of the cash she\u2019s stolen sitting in my room. I  was going to pay rent with that as I can\u2019t cover it all by myself, but right now I\u2019m not doing anything with it. I do not want to spend any cash including paying rent of money that I currently know is stolen. (The $80 was when I was still oblivious to the situation).\n\nMy questions are, how do I proceed if she pleads guilty and signs the deal the company made? That money is free to be mine right? As she paid for it out of her last paycheck.\n\nIf she\u2019s arrested tomorrow, then how do I proceed? I just simply don\u2019t want to be stuck in a situation where it could look like I was somehow in on this situation. ","title":"My roommate stole $1,000 from my old workplace and her current workplace.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446236952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qvvzu\/veteran_with_child_custody_issue_me_mo_him_tx\/","id":"3qvvzu","body":"Sorry this ended up so long.\n\nI created a throwaway because I'm paranoid. You'll need some background to understand the special situation.\n\nMy ex husband turned abusive a year into our marriage. He tried to kill me and was close to succeeding. Ofcourse I left him. This was the fall of 2010. Since then I've gone from homeless to graduating college with a great degree and awesome job all while raising our daughter alone.\n\nHe lives in Texas and I live in Missouri now. He hasn't seen our daughter in over 3 years. We have joint custody of our daughter and his child support is always on time. I couldn't afford a lawyer during the divorce so I represented my self and didn't push for sole custody. He chooses not to be in her life so it's never been an issue until now.\nMy 30th birthday is coming so my mom was going to take my daughter and I on a short cruise after Christmas to the Bahamas. My daughter's passport has expired so she needs a new one. Both parents have to be present or sign a consent form. He is refusing to sign it.\n\nThe vacation is being nixed now because of this. I need advice or just a sounding board. I'm pretty sure I have no choice but to go back to court for sole custody. I've known this needed to happen but I'm scared. I am 50% disabled through the VA for PTSD so I'm scared that I might loose her if I start something. I haven't been in trouble with the law or anything like that my any means but I am on medication for my PTSD and I do have weekly mental health appointments. \n\nAdding: I did not press charges when he hurt me because I was a weak person at the time. There was a police report and pictures but it all happened in Germany. I had friends who witnessed some of it but they are all over the US an none that could come to my city to testify. ","title":"Veteran with child custody issue. Me (MO) Him (TX)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539797020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p0p8b\/question_regarding_an_accident\/","id":"9p0p8b","body":"I was in an accident a month or two ago where the other driver was tailgating me, swerved into the left lane I was currently turning into, and slammed my car twice pushing me back into the middle lane.\n\nWe both pulled over into a parking lot and called the State Troopers. Once the Trooper arrived on scene (took 2 hours) he asked the other driver what happened, looked at me and asked what happened, as I explained he walked off, looked at my car for a brief second, took my license info and my Fianc\u00e9's  then went back to his car. \n\nLooking at the damage to both cars it's clearly evident that I was the one who was purposely hit, for Christ's sake the other drivers tire marks show the hit at the point of impact along my driver's side fender and along my door.  To cause my Fender to crinkle in like that he'd have to angle his tires to hit me and the tire marks on the door shows it as well. \nThe only damage to this fuck heads car was a few scratches. Meanwhile I lost my mirror and my driver's side of the car is all fucked.\n\n\nMoments later he comes back and gives the other driver my insurance information and a \"have a good day\" then turns to me and my Fianc\u00e9 and issues me a citation for an \"improper lane change\". I then tried to explain to him what happened but he cut me off again and told me it's my responsibility as a driver to make sure the lane was clear. I told him I was already in the lane and he was quick to say \"It was his lane\" with a sly grin on his face.\n\nLooking at the Citation in the remarks section he listed the other driver as a witness to the accident as opposed to my Fianc\u00e9. \n\nTo recap:\n\n- He only listened to the other driver and didn't give me the opportunity to explain things from my side.\n- He completely disregarded my Fianc\u00e9 except for asking for her ID.\n-He took a quick glance at my car and walked off\n-He essentially took the word of one driver and disregarded me, probably because I'm on the younger side, I don't know. \n\nI feel as if I was treated unfairly in the whole scenario, he was too quick to place me at fault without even hearing from me. My insurance company also found me at fault because they went off of his report.\n\nWould I have a fighting chance in winning or would I be fighting a losing battle?\n\nThank you!\n\n~F","title":"Question regarding an accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551478988,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awaj75\/ia_i_think_my_landlord_may_be_charging_me_extra\/","id":"awaj75","body":"My two roommates and I own an apartment in the state of Iowa, and this place seemingly isn\u2019t managed very well. Along with that, this is in a college town so I have an irking suspicion they are trying to milk the tenants thinking they don\u2019t care enough to check up on it.  \n\nAnyways... I have been late on my rent the past couple months due to working a pretty low paying job and always being *just* a step behind with my paychecks. Understandably, I\u2019ve accrued late fees, which I have no problem paying considering I was late on my rent. However, along with the $100 late fees I\u2019ve been receiving $40 \u201c3 day notice\u201d fees, which aren\u2019t shown on the lease. Today I met with their office and they explained how some fees aren\u2019t listen on the lease and I would have to reference the Iowa Rental Law, which I complied with and said I would look up. After looking through the [Iowa Rental Laws](https:\/\/www.legis.iowa.gov\/docs\/Legis_Guide\/2013\/LGLSL004.PDF#page5), as far as I can tell, there is no inclusion of these spontaneous fees and a google search found no one in a similar position. \n\nHopefully someone can help me out whether I\u2019m misguided or not because the uncertainty of this $40 is a pretty big stress for someone working full time and still living paycheck-to-paycheck, especially when we are trying to re-sign for the upcoming year before someone sweeps the unit from under us, as the landlord said there is nothing they can do to help us secure the lease if someone tries to claim it before us. Thanks for reading...\n\nTL:DR; Landlord in Iowa is charging fees *certainly* not on the lease, and from what I can tell not included in Iowa Rental Law.","title":"[IA] I think my landlord may be charging me extra fees sneakily","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553903606,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b74j7t\/laid_off_because_of_budget_cut\/","id":"b74j7t","body":"Hey guys, so management at work has been laying off workers because of \"budget cuts\". I might be next, don't know. But what do I need to know in case it happens? And also so I can let some of my colleagues know. I'm in the silicon valley (San Jose, CA)","title":"Laid off because of Budget Cut","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539914181,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pfhf8\/candidate_using_government_systems_for_campaigning\/","id":"9pfhf8","body":"I work for a medium-size local government, and have a .gov email address.\n\nA local candidate for city council is sending out campaign emails to all city employees via the .gov email address.\n\nIs this legal?","title":"Candidate using government systems for campaigning?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570878273,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgtpuv\/ne_fire_alarm_in_apartment_building_has_been\/","id":"dgtpuv","body":"Hey guys. \n\n\nI live in a medium sized apartment building with 11 floors. I moved in here in May, it\u2019s not in a great neighborhood but I liked the management and it was in my budget. However, about two months ago, the building was abruptly sold to a company out of Florida that apparently buys run down properties to flip. \n\n\nI could go on forever about all the bullshit going on here, from telling us dogs can\u2019t pee in the grass to pressuring us to pay rent months early so they have money for renovations, but right now the issue is the fire alarm. \n\n\nIt\u2019s one of those systems where there\u2019s a speaker in every apartment and it\u2019s on a constant loud loop of \u201cmay I have your attention please, the fire alarm in this building has been activated. Please cease operations immediately. Make your way to the nearest fire exit. Do not use the elevators. BEEP BEEP BEEP\u201d and it\u2019s been going on for a couple hours now. \n\n\nWe evacuated at first (with two scared dogs and a terrified cat) but fire trucks came and said we were cleared to go inside while they try to contact our management to turn off the alarm. \n\n\nLong story short, there\u2019s no way to contact them. Turns out the \u201cemergency maintenance\u201d number they gave us is the same as the general office number. I\u2019ve also called police non emergency who said a sprinkler head was broken and that neither them or the alarm company can get ahold of anyone from management. Tried calling the headquarters of the management company, directly to voice mail and I can\u2019t find any sort of emergency number on any website. \n\nTL;DR fire alarm is driving me insane going off for hours in the middle of the night, also revealing our management is entirely impossible to contact in an emergency. What do?","title":"[NE] fire alarm in apartment building has been going off for hours.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569335277,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8nykx\/va_spouse_admission_of_emotional_abuse\/","id":"d8nykx","body":"I found an email (from my husband to me) that states explicitly that he has bullied me to shield him from his parents\u2019 wrath and that it caused me serious mental distress and hospitalization. What can I do with this information and how can it help me when he inevitably tries to take me down after I file for divorce? He goes event by event and says what they did, what he didn\u2019t do, how he lied and bullied me, and how he caused my mental health to worsen with that behavior. I found another email that states that he wouldn\u2019t let his parents be alone with our children and in the same email says that they have always been terrible towards me. Again he states that he does not act because he puts himself first. Do I actually have anything helpful here, as he\u2019s constantly threatening to file for full custody based on my mental health? I\u2019ve maintained care of my children the entire time (SAHM, he left at the beginning of the summer) and have never abused nor neglected them. Is this enough to show a pattern of creating a mentally\/emotionally unsafe environment for me and the kids?","title":"VA - Spouse admission of emotional abuse","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445018104,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p0mer\/nc_tenant_eviction_filings\/","id":"3p0mer","body":"Due to my laziness, I ended up late to pay my rent in Charlotte in an apartment. They would not accept checks since the payment is late. This was on 10\/6.  \n\n\nI received a letter in the mail on 10\/8 stating I had 5 days from the date the letter was sent (10\/6) to pay my base rent ($940) plus a 5% late fee or they would file for eviction. \n\nWhen I went to pay that total, the agent told me the money order has to include the water and other fees for it to be accepted, which the letter did not state. This was on 10\/10\n\nI shelved it until I had time to go get new money orders and when I checked what I owed they added a fee for NC ATTORNEY for $55 and a COURT COST fee of $156.  \n\nI was researching the NC tenant-landlord laws to see if this was just and came across two statutes that, in my interpretation, states these fees are illegal.  \n\n[42-46](http:\/\/www.ncga.state.nc.us\/enactedlegislation\/statutes\/html\/bysection\/chapter_42\/gs_42-46.html)   \n\nThis states that a Complaint-Filing Fee can only be 5% of the base rent, but they applied a $156 fee.  \n\n\n[42-3](http:\/\/www.ncleg.net\/EnactedLegislation\/Statutes\/HTML\/BySection\/Chapter_42\/GS_42-3.html)  \n\nThis states that the tenant has 10 days to pay AFTER the landlord issues a demand for the late rent. They filed with the court on 10\/13.   \n\n\nI understand this is my fault and I have no problem paying what I owe, but I do have a problem with being taken for more. I approached the property manager with the issue and she stated she would not talk to me about it before she talked to her lawyer and was very rude in general. I probably would have just sucked it up and paid the full amount then, but she was so rude it irked me to pursue this.  \n\nShe called me back 20 minutes later and told me that their lawyer stated that the demand for late rent was on the 1st of the month because that is when it is due, not when they sent a letter saying my rent was late. He also said that the $156 is what it costs to file the court papers and isn't the same thing as a complaint-filing fee.  \n \nIt's not a lot of money, but money is also tight.  \n\nAre the fees legitimate? Should I just drop it and pay what they say I now owe? If the fees are exaggerated, is there any recourse?  \n\n\nI appreciate your thoughts.\n","title":"NC Tenant Eviction Filings","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553083497,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3b6di\/uk_landlord_increasing_security_deposit_after\/","id":"b3b6di","body":"I\u2019m an international student here in London, and about a week ago me and my other 3 friends (who are all international students as well) agreed to rent a 4 bedroom apartment to move in this September. The monthly rent is \u00a32800 and we are all sponsored students by companies in our home country.\n\nInitially, the landlord had asked us for a 1 month holding deposit (to be paid by the end of the week) and also a security deposit equal to 2 months rent (\u00a35600). \n\nAt the time, the landlord knew we were international students as she had asked us beforehand during the house viewing.\n\nHowever, after we had paid for the holding deposit, the landlord had decided to increase our security deposit to \u00a38400 (three months rent) as we were international students and \u201cit would be hard for her to sue our sponsors\u201d if we declined to pay rent. \n\nAny previous housing agencies never had a problem with this as we had provided them with our financial affidavits that ensured we were able to pay rent on time.\n\nAs we are international sponsored students, the increase in security deposit will be a big burden for us as we mostly rely on allowances from our sponsors for our daily expenses. Paying the increased fee means that we will have to also borrow extra money from our families ( which is also worrying as most of our families are not that well off)\n\nThus, I\u2019d like to know is there any way we can obtain our holding deposit back, as she said that if we can\u2019t pay she\u2019s waiting for another group on their response. This whole ordeal has made us want to find a new place instead:\/ And is it legal for her to suddenly increase security deposit costs? There isn\u2019t any written contract yet but we have exchanged emails that clearly state that  the security deposit required is only \u00a35600 (the original amount). \n\nBtw, even if we pay the increased security deposits, do most landlords usually return it after we move out? We\u2019re all kinda worried on paying a large amount of money that we most probably won\u2019t get back.\n\ntldr; landlord increased security deposits because we were international students, but she knew beforehand. We had paid holding deposits. Is there any way to claim it back?\n\n\n\n\n\n","title":"(UK) Landlord increasing security deposit after paying for holding deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552497767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0omau\/argersinger_vs_hamlin\/","id":"b0omau","body":"Argersinger v. Hamlin, 407 U.S. 25 (1972), is a United States Supreme Court decision holding that the accused cannot be subjected to actual imprisonment unless provided with counsel. \n\nBy pleading the fifth during an arrest and also stating refusal of assistance of any counsel regarding everything.....what are the implications for the subject being arrested?\n\nGenerally speaking let\u2019s say a person is arrested for suspicion of DUI, refuses any tests and says nothing except the refusal of any assistance of counsel, would a judge be inclined to release this person.","title":"Argersinger vs Hamlin","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569159209,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7qgub\/setting_up_a_freelance_business_is_sole_trading\/","id":"d7qgub","body":"*tl;dr: starting a freelance business and leaning towards setting up as a sole trader; is this the right approach?*\n\nHi LegalAdvice! First time poster here, I hope you don't mind my reaching out for some advice.\n\nI'm looking at starting up my own freelance business as a content writer (just me, working for a secondary income - I have full time employment also - to help improve website copy, write articles, etc.), and was wondering which is a better business model, generally.   \nSome specifics;\n\nI imagine I won't be earning more than around \u00a33000-\u00a34000 a year, so this'll act as a secondary income not a full-time position (unless I get really popular, I suppose!). This is probably a generous estimate of earnings, too. \n\nThe business will have really small overheads; a domain, a few standing subscriptions for tools\/services and the occasional purchase of tech (eg. upgrading to a better laptop or newer software). Otherwise, it's all just me and my laptop, working from my own living room. Perhaps some social media marketing costs included in this, but again likely minimal for now.\n\nI intend to work with small businesses and individuals, as these are easier to target as a new business. \n\nWhat would y'all as legal representatives or generally people better clued up than myself recommend as a stronger\/more beneficial business model? I've done some reading into it and am leaning towards the sole trader route based on the low projected income and very minimal risk of needing to liquidise\/avoid debt, which seems to be the key benefit mentioned with limited companies. Before I take the plunge, I'm just keen to get some insight!\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"Setting up a freelance business; is sole trading or limited company structure more beneficial?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554921999,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbpqbz\/tampa_clearwater_fl_auto_accident_in_december\/","id":"bbpqbz","body":"\nSo in Dec 2018 on my way home from work the car in front of me slammed on its breaks. I just happened to be looked to switch lanes at the time and checking my blind spot instead of looking ahead of me so when I looked back I didn\u2019t have time to stop. I hit the car and then the car behind me hit me. Three car pile up. No one seemed injured at the time. No ambulances called to the scene. Just the cops and a tow truck to tow the last car which was a total loss. I could drive my car home but later my insurance declared it a total loss, as well. Now the person in the first car is claiming an injury. A lunar annular year with extrusion. The charges to date are within what our auto policy covers, but they lawyered up and is claiming a potential lifelong issue with care costing several thousand a year and well over $100k over ever their expected lifetime. The affidavit we were sent to sign by our auto insurance company is asking to prove that we do not have sufficient assets to satisfy any judicial judgement. I feel very uncomfortable just filling out all of this info and sending it back without knowing what this could lead to. My husband did some research and it\u2019s not very clear. Potentially if they came after our bank we could lose our house? We don\u2019t own it outright... we have a mortgage, but our finances are great to begin with. We are like any other family just trying to make ends meet. Any advice would be appreciated. \n\nThanks!","title":"Tampa \/ Clearwater, FL - Auto accident in December ruled as shared responsibility by insurance and (I think) by police. Now received an affidavit to sign from other party\u2019s lawyer asking about all of our assets because of an injury","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568879187,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6argl\/consequences_of_filing_a_false_police_report\/","id":"d6argl","body":"Hello. I have been the biggest piece of shit my whole life and it\u2019s time for me to face the consequences. I filed a false police report against my sons dad that I\u2019ve been putting through hell for 5+ years. He had an arrest warrant against him and ended up turning him myself in. He pleaded not guilty and his friends bailed him out of jail. I lied to the police and told them he ripped my sweater and I didn\u2019t think they would take it in their own hands and charge him but they did because I\u2019ve called so many times. I made a mistake and I just want to fix it. I am in Las Vegas, NV if that helps. What will I be facing by confessing I filed a false report and it was a lie. He has court in November. It\u2019s a domestic battery 1st charge. What is the consequences of my actions so I can prepare myself and my son if I have to do time. I need advice on how to fix this whole situation. Please help.","title":"Consequences of filing a false police report","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443170223,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mbbdd\/likelihood_of_being_actively_pursued_by_le_for\/","id":"3mbbdd","body":"If there's a warrant out on someone for grand larceny ($400, no priors), would going to another state reduce the likelihood of arrest? This person plans to turn themself in once enough money for defense and bail has been ","title":"Likelihood of being actively pursued by LE for grand larceny (VA)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441831576,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kamt3\/prosecution_for_unpaid_invoices_in_a_foreign\/","id":"3kamt3","body":"Hello all,\n\n\nI registered a domain name a few years ago via a French registrar (domain name provider) but as I wasn\u2019t using it, I decided to let it expire as I usually do with domains I don\u2019t want anymore. The problem this time, is that this Top Level Domain (TLD) provider had a clause in the contract saying that the domain would never expire except if I fax a document stating that I want it to be deleted. I unfortunately forgot that clause, owning a bunch of other domains with various TLDs...\n\n\nThey started to send me invoices in German asking me to pay an amount 3 times higher than what I paid at the company where I registered this domain. As I didn\u2019t knew what it was about as I am not reading German, so I simply ignored it. I later on received letters from debt collecting company asking me for a much higher amount, every letter was also written in German. When the amount started to become bigger, I decided to contact them to know why I had to pay and got my answer. Unfortunately, the amount I have to pay is over 100\u20ac and they threaten me to prosecute me.\n\n\nI asked myself if this company is doing right but I don\u2019t know the law well enough. I am now asking you guys for advices knowing the following: \n\n* It is an Austrian company (TLD provider and debt collector) and I am living in Switzerland (French speaking part). FYI: Austria is in the EU, Switzerland not.\n* The company I bought the domain from is French and all the process was made in French.\n* All letters I got until I got in touch with them was in German. No English or French.\n* The first amount that they asked me to pay was 3 times higher than what I usually paid for this domain. \n* All letters I got asking me to pay an amount of money arrived after the due date.\n\nIs there any law protecting me in my case? Is there any way to avoid paying such a high amount for a process which was, I believe, not made right?\n\nThank you in advance. ","title":"Prosecution for unpaid invoices in a foreign language","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1542225463,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x3i8q\/how_do_dog_breed_exclusions_on_home_owners\/","id":"9x3i8q","body":"Pennsylvania, USA \n\nI have what some consider a \u201cdangerous\u201d breed. My homeowners insurance doesn\u2019t cover my breed (which is ridiculous anyway). \n\nI have heard about insurance companies dropping their clients because they found out about their dog. \n\nI thought that my dog breeds exclusion just means that they won\u2019t cover an incident relating to my dog.  \n\nWhat does the breed of my dog have to do with a house fire or hail damage?\n\nCan they refuse payment of a fire or similar because of my dogs breed?","title":"How do dog breed exclusions on home owners insurance work?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555465873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be2761\/small_business_problem_ohio\/","id":"be2761","body":"Hi I own a small business and work on eBay. I recently sold an item for $6.00 and it said it was new. The item I sold was actually used. I have not contacted the buyer to let them know but I will refund the item. What can I do now? Should my account be suspended or can they sue me for fraud?","title":"Small business problem (Ohio)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540506122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9reytc\/owner_is_siphoning_money_to_his_kids_and_wont_pay\/","id":"9reytc","body":"Hi reddit, my wife and I were laid off. At the time, they said they would pay out unused vacation and hours worked and I would continue getting a paycheck for a couple pay-periods. Same thing was promised to my wife. \n\nI was supposed to receive that paycheck, but it never came. I was notified that it's been delayed because of insufficient funds. \n\nHere's where it starts to get bad. My wife was hired about 3 weeks ago, and had only started at the job 1 week ago. She left a very stable job to come work for a company that made a lot of promises, knowing full well that they couldn't afford her. That's crappy, but not illegal (i think). \n\nHowever, I have confirmed that the owner of the company has transferred sizable amounts to his kids and to himself from the company while not making payroll. Is this illegal? And if so, how should I approach the issue? My wife and I have savings to live off of, but not enough to enter into a legal battle. Thanks!","title":"Owner is siphoning money to his kids and won't pay out for hours worked\/unused vacation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571768547,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlm0kv\/ive_worked_at_my_job_for_a_year_and_a_half_and\/","id":"dlm0kv","body":"I work at a Daycare, and started in September this past year. I started at 10.40 an hour until December, which minimum in NY went up to 11.10.\n\nA few weeks ago, I asked when my review would be, seeing as it was my first year. I was told my \u201craise\u201d was December, and my next one is December of this year \u2014 when it goes up to 11.80.\n\nThat makes sense, if I wasn\u2019t under the assumption that I\u2019d be getting more, but I was told \u2014 \u201c.20 raise, minimum.\u201d\n\nSo now I\u2019ve been here for a year and change, and I\u2019m making the exact same as those hired weeks ago. My employers said they\u2019ll discuss it again in December, but that\u2019s it as far as things I can do.\n\nMy other coworkers, who are 15+ years older than me, but have been here 1\/2 longer than me are making upwards of 14. I do the work of multiple teachers in multiple rooms, take extra responsibilities, stay late every week to prep for the following.\n\nI\u2019d love some advice here. Thank you for helping me understand.","title":"I\u2019ve worked at my job for a year and a half, and was told upon hiring we get yearly review for raise. I was informed the increase in minimum wage this past December WAS my raise. Am I missing something?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553382771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4pij7\/superspeeding_in_georgia\/","id":"b4pij7","body":"Hi, I just got a ticket speeding today in Georgia.  The officer clocked me at 106 in a 70.  He wrote me a citation and told me that I need to show up in court on May 2nd.\n\nThe stop went very smoothly and I was as polite as I could be and he was polite as well.  He also allowed me to continue driving back home even with how fast he clocked me.\n\nWhat should I do for the court date?  I know about the superspeeder law in Georgia and I also know that jail time is possible at those speeds.\n\nAny advice would help.","title":"Superspeeding in Georgia","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1441835122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kawuh\/update_1500_in_damages_for_a_small_4bedroom_house\/","id":"3kawuh","body":"https:\/\/redd.it\/3jjhjn Here's the link to the original post for those who are interested in the whole story.\n\nI've contacted the landlord to threaten small claims court. Whether or not I'll go through with it, I'm not sure. I no longer live within the state of Colorado so I would be required to take time off from work - which isn't really a possibility as I just started, or hire an attorney to represent one of us, the former tenants. In the email I wrote to our former landlord, I explained that I would rather arrive at a compromise rather than take things to court.\n\nGoing through all of the charges he detailed in a letter containing our returned deposit after the alleged damages, (listed in the original post) I told him that I believed $500 total is a more appropriate estimate. Honest to god, I still maintain that the house was left in great shape when we left. We scrubbed down the walls, floors, the microwave, fridge etc so even the proposed $500 seems way over what he deserves.\n\nThis was the first time he has responded to us since we received his correspondence returning $40 of the $500 security deposit per person, $2,000 in total, which was about a week ago. His response to my suggestion was that we could discuss a compromise on the damages but he would then go through his emails and texts regarding late rent payment and deduct the late charges from each tallied month. \n\nMyself and my three roommates paid separate checks to him each month. I always had my check on time, but I am unaware if this goes for my roommates as well. The lease states that if rent is late a fee of 5% is added on to the total. My question is as follows: is this legal? Can he go through the past 24 months we've leased from him and charge us after the fact? I'd imagine he would charge us on the $2,000 total rather than the split $500 per person so that would be a huge mess trying to figure out who owes what. \n\nI am so frustrated. It seems like he has the upper hand in this situation and that he's set on making a profit off of us rather than assessing these reported \"damages.\" I'm sure I should be speaking to a real estate lawyer, but I'd love some advice before I enter that pricey and time consuming step. Thanks.","title":"UPDATE: +1500 in damages for a small, 4-bedroom house left clean and well-maintained","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554670274,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bakyxd\/please_help_double_leaseholder_question\/","id":"bakyxd","body":"So I am going to cut right to the chase. \n\nMy boyfriend is moving here May 18th or somewhere really close around that area depending on when we return to the apartment( but maybe a two day window around the 18th).\n\n The situation is this:\nThree bedroom apartment with the allowance of  six people.\nMe(leaseholder).\nRoommate 1(leaseholder).\nRoommate 1\u2019s wife(occupant).\nRoommate 1\u2019s little sister(no where on paper showing that she\u2019s here).\n\nThere is a problem with her sister because she was only supposed to visit for one week then go back to California, it\u2019s now been three weeks and she doesn\u2019t contribute to rent nor to the cleaning, nor does she have a job.\n\nI brought up that my boyfriend is going to move down here after I go to get him in that date(May 18) \nShe said it might be crowded and that she will think about it. I wasn\u2019t really asking her but telling her because I am also a leaseholder of the apartment. \n\nSo my real question is do I actually need the approval of the other leaseholder to allow my boyfriend to join us on the lease as a leaseholder or occupant? \nIf not what are my options because either way he\u2019s moving down here\nI mean the apartment allows six people to legally live there \n\nLittle bit of side info but, Roommate #1 also has a friend that comes over randomly for days at a time soaking up our electricity and I am not sure how to bring it up that he overstays his welcome.","title":"Please help double leaseholder question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552072592,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayu3lh\/mi_mother_threatening_to_call_cops_over_dog_she\/","id":"ayu3lh","body":"The mother has been relentless since we have started taking care of her dog. She calls daily threatening and blackmailing her daughter to buy her alchohol among other things so that she will postpone calling the cops. The mother cannot even take care of herself let alone another animal. The daughter has spent over a thousand dollars in much needed veterinary work after years of neglect by the mother. Legally the dog is her mother's, however her inability to take care of the dog led to the dog being in our possession. Unfortunately we do not have pictures of the previous conditions but we do have vet records that show the mother would refuse any treatment for the dog, as well as a note from the vet stating the vastly improved condition since shes been in our care. Recently the mom has been upping her threats saying that she will make sure to ruin her daughter's life and have her arrested at her workplace. Also I think it's important that everytime we took the dog we had her mother's permission and it began after we began taking care of the dog because her mother was in the hospital. She gives us permission then threatens to call the cops and blackmail us for more cigarettes and alcohol because she is unable to get out of her own house. Does her mom have an actual case? What are our options? \n\nAlso I live in Michigan if it matters","title":"[MI] Mother threatening to call cops over dog she was neglecting. Daughter has been taking care of dog.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541617491,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v29qh\/dealing_with_a_stalker\/","id":"9v29qh","body":"I\u2019ve cut ties with a toxic friend who has some serious issues mentally. I\u2019ve screen shotted  messages and pictures of his extremely violent texts and threats including pictures of this guy borderline stalking me and a friend. If he were to commit an assault one day or do something dumb and I were to press charges would these photos help me build a case against him? ","title":"Dealing with a stalker","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570226268,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dde7ye\/credit_card_fraud\/","id":"dde7ye","body":"My credit card was stolen yesterday morning, the first thing they did was go to Starbucks and spend $30. \n\nI figure the police aren\u2019t really going to look into it, so I called SB to see if they\u2019d let me look at security footage. They said no, so I\u2019m frustrated. \n\nIs there anything illegal about them authorizing the purchase with a stolen credit card?","title":"Credit Card Fraud","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1411977359,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hrsd8\/am_i_legally_obligated_to_pay_her\/","id":"2hrsd8","body":"I started my own company and am the only person running it. Shortly after starting the company, a friend offered to get involved because she really liked the idea and saw potential in the company. Over the past year she has helped me with my small business in varying ways. My business does not yet generate revenue. She was not alegal employee. There were no contracts about her role or her contributions to the company, nor were there any contracts or even discussions about her getting paid. I did tell her about a month ago that my intent is to pay her for her work once the company begins generating revenue. I also have a letter from her stating that she willingly offered her services without the expectation of compensation.\n\nRecently, she asked about becoming a legal business partner. I declined her request, explaining that I'd like to keep my company a sole proprietorship for now but that I may be up for discussing the topic again further down the road. She promptly ceased all involvement, sending me a formal letter stating she would no longer be a part of the company. With this letter was an invoice for her previous work, which in total was 50 hours (50 hours over ONE YEAR and she wanted partnership... Sorry, back to the point) and even though it featured varying types of work it was all for one flat hourly rate. The total invoice was over a thousand dollars.\n\nBecause there was never an agreement or signed contract regarding her role and involvement with the company, let alone anything regarding her compensation, am I legally obligated to pay her invoice? Like I said, I want to compensate her, but not at the ridiculous amount she is requesting. Can I pay a lower amount - is there like a legal minimum amount you can compensate someone if there was no agreement to an amount prior (for example minimum wage)? Is it worth going to court over (for example if I don't pay and she tries to sue) considering lawyer and court fees? Again, more importantly, do I even have to pay her?\n\n**Edit 1:** I am located in the US\n\n**Edit 2:** She also made things I'm still using. I'm afraid if I try to negotiate or not pay that she will go after me legally for the stuff she made that I'm using, even though she made those items for the company without any contract or agreement to compensation.\n\n**Edit 3:** She was a part of the team, so to speak. I even gave her the title of \"web manager\" as a large portion of that 50 hours was spent setting up, designing, and maintaining the company's website. It was implied\/presumed that she would stay on board indefinitely, and once the company started generating revenue that she would become an official employee. ","title":"Am I legally obligated to pay her?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554588975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba9mwc\/does_a_teacher_who_no_longer_teaches_you_have_to\/","id":"ba9mwc","body":"I\u2019m a 19 year old guy from the United Kingdom and I\u2019ve been asked to give a talk at my old school to some kids who are at risk of ending up in the criminal justice system cause that\u2019s where I ended up at their age. I want to be able to talk about my upbringing and how it might have affected some of the choices I made and why I ended up where I did, so I think it\u2019s super important that I somehow mention that my dad was violent towards me and my brothers growing up cause I think it teaches you that solving stuff with physical force is somehow \u2018normal\u2019, even though it\u2019s obviously not.\nPlease, please understand though that I\u2019m not using that as an excuse for committing crimes myself, but I want to let the kids know that if it\u2019s happening to them then they could end up like me if they\u2019re not careful. That\u2019s why I really don\u2019t want to just gloss over it during my talk.\nSo it wasn\u2019t anything really bad that my dad did, mostly just using his belt on me and my brothers when we were younger (I\u2019m the youngest), but then he stopped when I got tough enough to defend myself. Me and my brothers never told any teachers or anything.\nThe thing I\u2019m worried about is that whether the teacher who will be supervising my talk will legally have to tell the police if I give too much info.\nI\u2019ve been doing some research and it seems that teachers have a legal duty to report this kind of stuff. But I don\u2019t know whether it only applies if you\u2019re a current student or not. I don\u2019t feel in danger at the moment. I have no siblings under 18. My dad *does* have access to my 5 and 6 year old nephews, but my brother knows what he is like so he makes sure they are safe around him.\n\nSo my question is whether my old teacher will have to report my dad hurting me and my brothers in the past to the police even though I\u2019m 19 and it happened a few years ago? If I asked the teacher NOT to report it then would they have to follow my wishes?\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Does a teacher (who no longer teaches you) have to report to the police any crimes your parents did against you as a child.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539494261,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o0ep3\/im_not_signed_on_the_lease_can_i_leave_whenever_i\/","id":"9o0ep3","body":"Very long story short: my two friends signed a year long lease that ends in December. I moved in around February of this year (my name is not on the lease and we didn\u2019t create a \u201csub\u201d lease for me at all). The landlords think my two friends are only living here. 3bd\/2bath house. They would have been splitting everything if I didn\u2019t move in. \n\nA lot has happened the last few months and I feel very uncomfortable. One roommate was in a very horrific car accident that was entirely her fault, thus causing her crazy mom to move in (without telling anyone). Everything is weird and I want to be out before the lease is up. \n\nDo I have any obligation legally, not morally, to stay here? I don\u2019t think they would even try to attempt to go after me leaving a month early, but just to cover my ass, would that be okay? I\u2019m in California and again, have signed nothing. ","title":"I\u2019m not signed on the lease, can I leave whenever I want to?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507926911,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/767kml\/att_lied_to_me_and_is_forcing_me_out_of_a\/","id":"767kml","body":"I have what is known as a \u201cgrandfathered data plan\u201d with AT&T. I have had it for many many years and it has served me well. I do not wish to get rid of it, and they cannot take it away for me because it is contractually guaranteed for me as long as I wish to keep it. They occasionally introduce features that are not included in the old grandfather plans in an effort to get people to switch to other plans which may be more profitable for them and which may contain a reduced feature set for the consumer. I have never bitten a hook on those features because I like my plan the way it is.\n\nI just spent over $700 on a very nice Apple Watch 3. Prior to my purchase, I called AT&T and verified that I would be able to add the watch to my grandfathered cellular data plan without any issues. They said that it would work fine, and I would be charged an additional $10 a month, which is reasonable to me. So I purchased the Watch.\n\nI received the watch today and I was experiencing difficulties pairing it with my iPhone. So I called AT&T while on the phone with the Apple support technician. The AT&T senior tech support representative explained to me in no uncertain terms that there is literally no way that the Apple Watch 3 will pair with somebody that has the \u201cfamily plan\u201c grandfathered unlimited data plan. \n\nI explained to her that I invested a considerable amount of money in this watch based directly on their advice and I expect it to work with their network the way that they told me it would. She had no sympathy, and told me point blank that there was nothing that could be done and I was out of luck.\n\nI realize that this is totally a first world problem, and that I am posting mostly out of anger, but I wonder what recourse there is for someone like me in a position like this. I am being forced into some different plan after being lied to by AT&T about an issue that is very important to me. It\u2019s not going to make me homeless, I\u2019m not going to suffer any ill affects other than maybe a dent in my pocketbook that Has yet to be determined.\n\nJust curious if this is as frivolous as I think it sounds. If it\u2019s not, it might be fun to rattle their cage a little bit.\nThanks.\n\nI am in San Jose, California.","title":"AT&T lied to me and is forcing me out of a lifetime phone plan against my will. Is there any recourse?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570113523,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcrsl3\/mi_no_hot_water_for_3_weeks_bats_for_months\/","id":"dcrsl3","body":"GR, MI. We have texts documenting us asking for the bat situation to get looked into since about early\/mid July. (Years of reports before that of squirrels getting into the attic and INTO OUR APARTMENT thru the bathroom vent. They tell us to just trap and release the squirrels.) \n\nTheir *only* repair guy came out two weeks ago and PLUGGED the hole that the bats were supposedly getting in through. Our landlord said, and I\u2019m directly quoting: *\u201cThey go out during the day and when they come back tonight to sleep, they won\u2019t be able to get in.\u201d* Obviously that\u2019s not true. Bats are nocturnal. We pulled up the Wikipedia page right then and there in his face, and he told us he was too busy to read it. \n\nWe heard struggle for a few nights up in the attic, and then there must be another hole they got through because we can still hear them and see them coming and going. We have asked them to take care of it again and again and they ignore the texts\/emails. \n\n\nWe also went three weeks recently without hot water. It did eventually get fixed, but again.... three. Weeks. That was a ridiculously long time. \n\n\nI\u2019m assuming we have a case to break our lease, I\u2019m just not sure how to go about it. He refuses to give us a copy of the lease. Can we print the texts?? Can we call the city? We\u2019re frustrated. There\u2019s stuff leaking from the ceiling and I\u2019m sure it\u2019s got to do with the bats. It\u2019s terrible.","title":"[MI] No hot water for 3 weeks, bats for months, squirrels for 3 years; landlord does nothing.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441957018,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kiks7\/land_ownership_in_texas_passed_on_through_wills\/","id":"3kiks7","body":"Many years ago my grandfather owned an \"undivided one-half interest in and to a 200.4 acre tract of land.\" The other undivided one-half interest belonged to his sister.\nMy grandfather passed away first and left everything he had to my grandmother. That includes his interest in the land.\nA year later his sister died. His sisters's will stated that she left all her right, title and interest to the land to my grandfather and in the event that he predeceased her then she specified that ownership of her share of the land was directed to his heirs in accordance with Texas statute... so who would that be? My grandmother? I think so and assume at that point grandmother became 100% owner of all 200.4 acres.\nWell Grandmother recently died. There is no mention of the land in her will. But everyone knows she still had it and eventually an inventory of her assets will most likely reveal this. One part of the will states that she bequeaths all remaining property both real and personal owned by her at the time of her death to her three daughters in equal shares. So I assume this includes the land. \nHere's my question: Do the three daughters now have an undivided 1\/3 interest in the 200.4 acres? Or does each daughter now just own 66.8 acres separately?","title":"Land ownership in Texas passed on through Wills","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1506363742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72ed9z\/oh_nsfw_filing_for_an_annulment\/","id":"72ed9z","body":"A little background. My husband and I have been together for 4 years. During this time he had asked to save sex for marriage. I agreed. On our honeymoon I realized something was very wrong. He would not have sex with me. Over the next year we had sex only a small handful of times and it seemed like he felt uncomfortable and uninterested. I discovered he had a severe pornography addiction for 10 years. \n\nHe is out of the house and I am hoping to file for annulment under the grounds of marital fraud for him hiding his addiction from me until it was too late. My question is this....how do we do this on a tight budget. I dont know how to file? Do I just fill out papers and pay the court cost? Do I have to hire a lawyer? We have agreed on all the division of assets down to the dollar. This will not be a vicious thing. He has already admitted to several of our friends what happened so that they wouldn't blame me for leaving him so i know he isn't out to get me in any way. I also kept my last name so that part should be easy. Help?","title":"[OH] [NSFW] Filing for an annulment","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554788072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb45ny\/chances_of_getting_deferred_judgement\/","id":"bb45ny","body":"I have an open plea for a domestic assault and criminal mischeif. (2 serious misdemeanors) Victims don't want to press charges and trying to say as much as possible to help me.\n\nLawyer had me get pysch evaluation, character references (everyone wrote how I have a golden personality pretty much) I'm in anger thearpy currently and my thearpist even wrote that she doesn't believe I'm going to be harmful to anyone.\n\nAnyways sentencing is in about 10 days. And what do you think the chances of getting a deferred is from the judge? The county attorney is trying to fight the deferred.","title":"Chances of getting deferred judgement","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540498711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rdwit\/high_speed_wifi_standards_what_are_they_and_is_it\/","id":"9rdwit","body":" In the state of Pennsylvania, or in the country in general, is there a legal standard or minimum for download and upload speed? Im a resident of a more rural area in Southeastern Pennsylvania and I'm forced to use a provider company by the name of Frontier. If you've ever had them or have experienced them I'd like to formally say I'm so sorry for your suffering. But, in essence, this provider offers a \"high speed\" internet option of a whooping 12 Mb\/s download speed. It is positively the most volatile internet on the planet. As an avid PC Enthusiast and gamer, it can soil an experience and frankly ruins my day at times. I've read that the standard is at least 25 Mb\/s per second for advertised high speed internet. Is there someone to contact that can force them to stop ripping me off? Is this even legal? In the first place?? Any help is appreciated.","title":"\"High Speed\" Wifi Standards. What are they and is it legal to go below them?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552158005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az6s61\/question_regarding_subcontractor_pay_in_broward\/","id":"az6s61","body":"My father in law is a subcontractor running a directional drill for wiring for a larger contractor service for the local power company. However, after finishing jobs for the larger contractor, it usually is taking them 6-7 months to pay for the job. He is tired of taking extraordinarily long to get paid even after writing letters and bills of no payment to the company. I am curious what legal advice to give him as far as his rights as a sub contractor in Florida?\n ","title":"Question Regarding Subcontractor Pay in Broward County, Florida","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550530674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/as39lv\/company_hasnt_delivered_check_after_more_than_a\/","id":"as39lv","body":"So i was cashing a check and the scanner basically shredded it. So work says theyll issue a replacement minus 50$. Its been a month they keep saying they are working on it but now my immediate boss is being ghosted by them hasnt heard anything in almost a week. \n\nTechnically i know that they arent outright withholding my payment so i cant go to the labor board but is there anyone i can go to to help?","title":"Company hasn't delivered check after more than a month","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551345499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avp42j\/friend_moved_out_ex_is_threatening_her_for_half\/","id":"avp42j","body":"Her ex cheated on her, left her for the other girl. They literally just moved into the apartment not too long ago, about 2 months. Both names on the lease. So, the one thing my friend has asked her ex not to do was to bring this girl home. But while she was at work one night, she came home to them both. She has packed up and left, even cancelling his phone line that was under her name. She called the landlord to explain everything that has happened and that she moved out. The landlord has given her, half of her deposit back and has made a new lease for her ex. But her ex does not work. He has been out of a job for months now. He's been threatening to come after her if she does not give him half of the rent. And literally just started threatening her by making a police report and taking her to court. Does he have a case? I don't know anything, so this is why I'm asking. \n\nI'm extremely worried for her. \n\nShe has him blocked on everything and he got into contact with her with a new number. She has been hiding from him since she moved out and have been driving her father's car instead of her own. She is also ready to get a restraining order against him because its not the first time he has made threats or laid his hands on her. \n\nEvery helpful information is appropriated! Thank you! ","title":"Friend moved out, ex is threatening her for half of the rent.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554172454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8datw\/nj_landlord_threatened_to_go_to_court_for_not\/","id":"b8datw","body":"Hey everyone, throwaway looking for advice for a friend. Here is what i have been given.\n\nSo I recently [last Thursday] got an eviction notice for a set date in late June. I was told by my landlord that I would have prior notice to visitations for the property listings. I was also told they would only be taking photos of the exterior. However, yesterday my landlord called and notified that they are coming Tuesday afternoon to take pictures of inside and outside the house. With such short notice, I went to cleaning today [monday] and didn't have direct access to the house phone. I missed a few calls and then started to recieve texts from my landlord saying that she will go to court [to move the eviction date] the next time I don't answer the landline for her and have me pay the fees for doing so. \n\nTldr\nSo basically she has written notice that she would have ample time to work on the house to prepare it for listings prior to anyone coming to take pictures (obviously that is not the case\nAnd has a written text threatening an earlier eviction date than written for not answering a landline when the landlord has access to her cell phone.\n\nWhat should she do? \nIs this entirely within the landlord's power?","title":"[NJ] Landlord threatened to go to court for not answering landline.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540917137,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9spk4k\/witness_landlord_attempting_to_enter_my_apartment\/","id":"9spk4k","body":"Early this morning, my roommate and I witnessed heard a knock on our apartment front door. I was half asleep on the couch and my roommate was busy so neither of us went for the door (as we were not expecting anyone). We then heard some rustling with the front door lock. My roommate then opened the front door to find one of the office attendants at our doorstep with a key in her hand. She mumbled \u201cOh just checking your cabinets\u201d, then hurriedly went into our kitchen and then back out the front door again. \n\n\nDisclaimer: We believe she may have been attempting to scout out the existence of an illegal\/unregistered puppy. ","title":"Witness Landlord attempting to enter my apartment unit without prior warning or notice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569338232,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8om72\/can_they_legally_cut_our_water_off\/","id":"d8om72","body":"alright guys. this is about to be a mess. so my family has rented a house for a little over a year now from a family friend. we are in Alabama. the lease was from April 2018-April 2019. it is now September, and we are still in the house but did not sign a new lease because the homeowner lost the house to a loan she took out against her business. so the house we\u2019re staying in is under foreclosure, and is actively up for auction. \n\nwe know that we legally have 90 days once the house is sold, but until then, the homeowner has cut off the water with no warning. (the account was still in her name and we paid her the water bill with rent.)\n\nwe went to the water company and paid $125 to get it back on. but the company wants a signed letter from the homeowner stating that we are living in her house, which she refuses to do. so they\u2019re going to cut off the water and there\u2019s nothing we can do to get it back on. we have no active lease to show as proof, but we do have proof of other bills such as power and trash that come to the house and are in our name. \n\ndoes anyone know of anything that can help resolve this situation?","title":"can they legally cut our water off?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445786483,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q5nbg\/usa_ga_contested_moveout_charges_and_10_days_to\/","id":"3q5nbg","body":"Hello LegalAdvice,\n\nI just received a letter from my old property manager itemizing the move-out and cleaning expenses they've attached to our final statement. Dated October 21, they've indicated $900 in damages,  $750 of which came from replacing all of the carpet. In the same letter, they've indicated that not paying this statement within 10 days (October 31) will result in them sending our bill to collections and filing a remark on my credit report.\n\nBefore moving out, we had vacuumed and steam cleaned all of the carpets - there were no holes, tears or stains to be seen so we were confident we did our due diligence. Without pictures or proof of how we left our old apartment, do I have any grounds to argue or settle for a lesser amount? The letter seems very aggressive (10 days to pay or else?) and I've never had to deal with this before, so I'm hoping someone can explain my options.\n\nThanks!","title":"[USA, GA] Contested Move-Out Charges and 10 Days to Pay","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571514238,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk8mzx\/husband_committing_unemployment_fraud\/","id":"dk8mzx","body":"So like the title says, my husband is actively committing unemployment fraud.  He files for unemployment even though he is back to work, so we've been receiving unemployment checks despite the fact he has a job. He knows he will get caught & have to pay it back eventually  but doesn't seem to care. I only found this out because we just got a letter saying he owes $800 for overpaid unemployment from last year, so this is not the first time he has done this. #wtf\n\nAs his wife, what should I do? How can I protect myself legally and financially?","title":"Husband committing unemployment fraud","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541611401,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v1d51\/is_driving_on_a_suspended_license_a_probation\/","id":"9v1d51","body":"I got a OWI in Muncie Indiana last year at this time. I've payed all my fees, done the drug and alcohol classes, never skipped a beat on probation. I was paying 1000$ a month to uber to and from work because my license being revoked. The time came where I couldn't pay my bills and pay to get to work because I live in the county. Well on the way home I got caught. Now less than a month away from being released on probation I've got a letter in the mail saying I violated my probation. ","title":"Is driving on a suspended license a probation violation in Indiana","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569165583,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7rslh\/management_from_hell\/","id":"d7rslh","body":"Hello, I work in a restaurant in south Carolina. I work in the back of house(BOH otherwise known as the kitchen). I have a few managers from hell. Have no clue what they are doing and think they do just from the fact they are in positions of authority. They are the GM and a fake assistant GM position that doesn't actually exist but was made up to make the other FOH(front of house or dining room\/bar\/serving floor) manager feel important. The GM is an asshat and has made some really bad decisions and just generally likes to be in control of things when he doesn't know how to do them, not illegal but just a moron.\nThe assistant GM though is very much a questionable one, stealing tips, setting out vendettas, being logged in when not there, scheduling nightmare shifts and not submitting the schedule to our app until sometimes Saturday night at 6pm(which is the schedule for the following day, sunday. Meaning morning shift can go to sleep not knowing if they have to work the next day) nightmare shifts include but are not limited to, closing one night(can be as late as 2 am at times) and opening the following day(at 4am) then asking them to stay late because she didn't schedule someone for night shift. Flip flopping people back and forth between night and day all within the same week. Then she as well will burn bridges like the one we had with the military because a few coworkers were military, she basically told them to screw off. But the point is she is stealing tips and remains logged in and having others submit orders to the kitchen under her name while she is not there. She is salary so she doesn't get hourly but she does get tips on the tickets under her name. \nI do love this restaurant and it's a wonderful place just the management needs to change and I'm not sure of a way I can make that happen. I know I'm not legally allowed to punish me for seeking legal recourse from what they have done but it will sour relations with them and set their crosshairs on me.\nThe GM has actually scheduled someone in the BOH for more than 40 hours this week(he fired\/lost most of the BOH management and staff in general recently so he's doing schedule)","title":"Management from hell","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554328973,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b94dpu\/if_my_car_was_damaged_by_a_young_school_kid_while\/","id":"b94dpu","body":"Just recently, a young school child, while I was waiting to pick up my relative, threw a decently sized rock at my car. When I checked the impact location, a decently sized dent was made in my car.  I called the kid over and asked his name so I could identify him easier. What do I do now and who is responsible for the damage caused to my car? ","title":"If my car was damaged by a young school kid while on school premises, who is responsible to pay for the damages.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571278063,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dizolm\/were_my_ferpa_rights_violated\/","id":"dizolm","body":"I am a student worker for a public university. For my student job, I am paired with faculty members for the semester to assist them with teach with technology in the classroom. One of my faculty partners was a professor I had the previous semester, whose class I failed and am retaking (earning an A so far this semester!). \n\nHe brought up my past academic history to my boss to voice his \u201cconcerns\u201d about me. My boss did not tell me how in depth the conversation was, but he had to have at least vaguely alluded to the fact that I struggled last semester in his class. \n\nIs this a violation of my FERPA rights? I wasn\u2019t sure if the conversation was too vague to be considered a violation.","title":"Were my FERPA rights violated?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553591275,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5nf27\/my_parents_just_lost_their_apartment_to_a_fire\/","id":"b5nf27","body":"Two days ago the apartment complex my parents lived in caught on fire. It didn't seem that their unit caught on fire, but it may have endured smoke damage. My parents are safe and are residing at a hotel.\n\nUp until today what happens to the apartments was up to the Fire Marshall, but I was told the decisions have now been placed with the landlord. My parents and many other tenants who were evacuated because of the fire had their leases cancelled and deposits returned from the landlord.\n\nSo far there has been no word on when they can get their belongings. My parents have been asking every authority involved and so far no straight answer has been given. The only items we're really worried about are the irreplaceable things like photos and art.\n\nIs there anything we can do to get an answer on what's going on or some way they can get into the unit?","title":"My parents just lost their apartment to a fire and have not been allowed to get their belongings.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506471551,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72ondh\/colorado_brother_not_on_lease_has_become\/","id":"72ondh","body":"Hi all,\n\nI have somewhat of a unique issue. I am currently living with my brother and one other roommate. The other roommate and I are on the lease together, and we just recently signed a 1 yr extension. My brother is not, however the landlord said verbally that it was okay if he stayed here (3 br house) and has been paying his fair share of rent monthly. My brother has become increasingly disrespectful (to the point of threatening) to me and I want him out. It has honestly reached the point of no return; mending the relationship is out of the question. What are my options?","title":"[Colorado] Brother, not on lease, has become out-of-control and I want him gone.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506461950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72nofh\/california_soon_to_be_exwife_didnt_show_up_to\/","id":"72nofh","body":"So I currently am in the process of filing for divorce as well as asking for half custody of my child(Wednesday after school through Saturday at the same time child gets out of school). I served the other party two weeks ago today. Today was also the court ordered mediation which the mother of my child did not appear at. She hasn\u2019t allowed me to see my child since being served and does not return my texts or emails, she also has a known history of not taking the child to doctors appointments and failing to get the child to school on time. I decided to only correspond with her through text or email so everything is documented which I informed her of. So my question is, what will the repercussions or outcome be with her not appearing at todays mandated appointment? ","title":"[california] soon to be ex-wife didn\u2019t show up to court ordered mediation.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569276758,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8dt6g\/music_manager_scammed_me_100_vancouver_bc_canada\/","id":"d8dt6g","body":"So I am a rapper out of Vancouver, BC and it\u2019s a hard scene out here. People only want to show you if they know you and also promoters only promote you if you are popular so it\u2019s a hard jump to take. What I do on the regular is DM people through Instagram that are followed by my favourite artists and I look for management. So I got in contact with this guy who KNOWS this artist and that\u2019s a fact. He responded saying he likes my stuff, he called me and we talked for 30 min. All was good, he texted me quite frequently for months. \n\nNow he said he does this thing where he goes to studios and plays music for artists for around 100$. He said it\u2019s a good opportunity to get ur music heard by higher ppl. So I say WHATEVER, I gotta take this shot. Few hours later he says wow they loved your sound, this is a good step let\u2019s talk ASAP. Called him, texted him, etc etc. I see his Instagram is active and he\u2019s posting stories and stuff so it kinda raises questions. I saw him buying a new phone the day after so maybe he\u2019s doing this to multiple artists. It just sucks that I don\u2019t have that money to just give out and I did it not wanting to miss an opportunity and I feel like I was scammed. \n\n\nI did this through PayPal GIFT so I feel like I have no chance BUT I was gonna go to the bank and get them to do a chargeback. What are my options ?","title":"Music Manager scammed me 100$ [Vancouver, BC, CANADA]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1445447714,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pno71\/update_oregon_landlord_trying_to_change_how\/","id":"3pno71","body":"[Previous post](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3fcnnc\/or_landlord_trying_to_change_how_utilities_are\/)\n\nI told the apartment management that I would only pay the utilities as stated in the lease. However, they're still going through with charging based on the new formula, and of course they're charging more than what's in my lease. \n\nThey claim that despite my fixed lease they can change the utility bill as long as they give written notice. Here is the relevant phrase in the lease agreement:\n\n> If allowed by state law, we at our sole discretion may change the above methods of determining your allocated share of the utility services, by written notice to you.\n\nHowever, I am unable to find anything in Oregon state law allowing for such a change. [ORS 90.302](http:\/\/www.oregonlaws.org\/ors\/90.302) [ORS 90.532](http:\/\/www.oregonlaws.org\/ors\/90.532)\n\nAm I wrong, or are they wrong? Thanks for any advice!\n\nEdit: Thank you everyone for the replies, especially \/u\/paddypoopoo and \/u\/shazbadam. I will push back citing [ORS 90.220(2)](http:\/\/www.oregonlaws.org\/ors\/90.220)","title":"[Update] [Oregon] Landlord trying to change how utilities are calculated","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504366008,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xmn7i\/mn_us_can_a_restaurant_open_if_it_has_no_hot_water\/","id":"6xmn7i","body":"My workplace (fast food) doesn't have any hot water right now but they're still opening. Is that legal?","title":"[MN, US] Can a restaurant open if it has no hot water?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569937788,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbtnyb\/rampant_nepotism_at_my_gfs_job\/","id":"dbtnyb","body":"GF - girlfriend\nAM - area manager\nSM - GF's store manager\nGD - grandaughter\n\tI'll try to be concise.  My GF has been working at a store for almost 2 years now and has seen co-workers come and go. Her SM is related to the \"area\" (2 stores) manager.  The AM employs her own daughter at the other store and now her GD works at the other store with my GF.  GF was told when she started there that holidays were a 3-way split between the employees, yet the GD has somehow had the last 2 holidays off.  Last night the GD came in, spent 30 minutes in the bathroom and then left sick.  GF called the SM and let her know, SM said she'd have to stay because last night she was shopping around for a storage unit for her mother and her son had a ball game.  Her suggestion was to switch Saturday with GD.  That, however, would actually give GD more hours than GF.  I just found out that the SM is only paying her 14.5 hours for yesterday because the GD was there for .5 hour (in the bathroom).  This is not unusual behavior, GD has called off several times in the past and GF gets hosed routinely.  GD is never reprimanded or punished for this behavior and I'm trying to keep my cool and not call the main store and start ripping people a new one.  Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.","title":"Rampant Nepotism at my GFs job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447079734,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s4xwj\/can_my_newly_unemployed_exhusband_request_child\/","id":"3s4xwj","body":"My ex-husband recently lost his job. We currently have a no support order for our son and split custody 50\/50. Up until this point, there was no need for child support due to the fact that our salaries were relatively equal. We are not on good terms and since he is now unemployed I am fearful that he will come after me for child support. What are the chances that if he decides to go this route that he would actually be awarded the support? I am living paycheck to paycheck and I was just curious to see if this is something that I should be concerned about. \n\nI would like to add... I have had to support my ex numerous times due to unemployment and lack of motivation to find a new job. Now that we are no longer together, I am not interested in supporting him. I would give anything to make sure my son has the best life possible and have gone above and beyond to make sure he has everything he needs at both my house and his father's... The reason for my concern is that I am afraid if he requests support it will be to support himself and not our child. He is constantly trying to hurt me by going after me and in the end is only hurting our son. It has been a long road and doesn't seem to be getting any easier.\n\nThank you in advance for your help!!","title":"Can my newly unemployed ex-husband request child support (NH)?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541998018,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9waxmv\/neighbor_complained_about_me_speeding_on_the\/","id":"9waxmv","body":"I happened to pass a neighbor on the freeway while driving about 10 MPH over the speed limit. While stopped in the neighborhood they pulled up next to me, complained that I was driving too fast and angrily said a few times that they would be watching me. \n\nI live in CA, is there anything they can actually do about it? \n\nThanks for any advice you can offer. ","title":"Neighbor complained about me speeding on the freeway and gave a vague threat that they would be \"watching me\".","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571610726,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkr10d\/would_it_be_illegal_to_sell_cheap_but_good\/","id":"dkr10d","body":"Say I buy the watch for 20$ tell the buyer about it, show it to them and charge them 60$ would this be against the law?","title":"Would it be illegal to sell cheap but good watches for a higher price","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554398091,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9fj55\/question_about_2_breaks_at_work_for_8_hour_day\/","id":"b9fj55","body":"This is in Kansas. \n\nWork (normal office setting)  restructured our breaks and hours to the following: \n\n8:00am-4:30pm \n\n10 minute break at 10:00 and 30 minute lunch at 12:00. But we aren\u2019t allowed to leave property on our 10 minute break and we aren\u2019t allowed to smoke on property. \n\nThey said the reason for the change was \u201cyou can thank your government for this\u201d \n\nAnd then working that last 4 hours without a break sucks. \n\nI\u2019m not saying it\u2019s illegal; but they would for sure try and pull some shit. Is there any laws regarding this? All I can find for Kansas is that no breaks are technically required. ","title":"Question about 2 breaks at work for 8 hour day and not leaving property.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554578605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba7wyy\/landlord_claiming_he_can_keep_entire_security\/","id":"ba7wyy","body":"In September, the house that I was renting in Los Angeles caught on fire and had extensive damage. It became inhabitable and I vacated the property that night. \n\nThe landlord never returned my security deposit, and when I emailed him asking for it back a few months later he claimed that he was keeping it all to help offset the cost of the fire damage to the property.\n\nThis fire was analyzed by arson investigators from both the local Fire Dept and by State Farm insurance. Both investigators determined that the cause was unknown\/accidental.  There was no \"at fault\" determined. \n\nDoes the landlord have any legal rights to my security deposit or should he have to return it in full?\n","title":"Landlord claiming he can keep entire security deposit because of a house fire that was not caused by tenant","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569124796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7lftl\/death_threat\/","id":"d7lftl","body":"The thing is yesterday I was chatting with a dude in WhatsApp and then she was starting to offer me sexual services and i say no because I never ask about it like 10 minutes later I received a call from the number and was a guy talking to me about pay 80 bucks because I made her \" lost her time \" so he threatening me of death saying if I didn't pay he would find me and then kill me I take screenshot of the conversation and I blocked the number just for security and then I tracked the phone numbers and one of them is from Dominican republic and the other one is from San Jose California I don't know if was an extortion or it's real what do you think about this situation ?","title":"Death threat","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505836794,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/713xus\/i_need_help\/","id":"713xus","body":"I lent money to a cannabis dispensary owner in Colorado. It is a personal loan he used to expand his business. He is not doing well and trying to sell the company. There are people interested in it but they do not like how much debt he has that would need to be paid off. Several people lent him money. I know he could declare bankruptcy. If I get a lawsuit filed against him before he declares would Ha have to pay me back?","title":"I need help","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570047784,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcfwwi\/im_being_threatened_to_pay_200_or_else_charges\/","id":"dcfwwi","body":"A little under a week ago a close friend of mine was beat up very badly in a bathroom at the college we go to. The attacker did so because my friend hooked up with his girlfriend the night before. On the same day but that night, a friend and myself found out where the guy was and we decided to go. It wasn\u2019t his house, but it was his friends. Pretty stupid idea but we were both pretty intoxicated. I stayed on the sidewalk and my friend ran up to the door and knocked on it and asked him to come outside. He refused so my friend proceeded to smash the door window with his foot. After this happened, the guy came outside and proceeded to knock my friend out, concussing him pretty badly. The only time I stepped foot on the property was to get the guy off my friend. An ambulance came to get my friend, and they filed a police report I think. I talked with the police and told them my side of the story, they let me go after about 10-15 minutes. I was contacted today by this guy saying he wants $150 for damages or else he\u2019s pressing charges against both of us for destruction of property and trespassing\/breaking and entering. About an hour ago he raised the amount to $200. Is he legally allowed to demand money or else he\u2019ll press charges? Is that blackmail? \n\nI forgot to add this, but I think it\u2019s pretty important - when this guy beat up my other friend the first time, he took a video on my friends phone for some reason. My friend still has that video. But I\u2019m unsure if my friend will want to press charges for this\n\nAny advice is greatly appreciated.","title":"I\u2019m being threatened to pay $200 or else charges will be pressed for destruction of property and maybe trespassing\/breaking and entering","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503372295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v8dor\/local_tutoring_branch_closing_down\/","id":"6v8dor","body":"The tutoring company I go to has recently stopped offering classes at my local branch in California. I and others have a contract for ~$13000 that says I can attend any class at any time. The branch is only offering after school help for homework, which costs significantly less than my plan. The company says that they are still offering classes for us at a branch might further away from us. Parents want to open classes again or be reimbursed, however I'm worried because the contract states that the company will offer classes and not that specific branch. Can anyone help us find a way to get those classes back at the local branch or be reimbursed?","title":"Local Tutoring branch closing down","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554509355,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9ykn2\/va_not_me_but_a_friends_teacher_wont_follow_iep\/","id":"b9ykn2","body":"she needs 20 min of active time per day. it is repeat offence. can she sue? if so what for? what action would you recommend? pm me for more details","title":"(VA) not me but a friend's teacher wont follow iep 5th grade (bad grammar on mobile)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1549507099,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anyxhj\/my_bosses_is_ripping_off_our_wages\/","id":"anyxhj","body":"I live in South Carolina and work for a family owned dry cleaners. I clock in and out using a computer system that keeps track of our exact hours.\n\nSo a few days ago I found out that I don't get paid based on what the system reads. For example. Friday, when I got my weekly paycheck, it read that I had worked for 37:00 hours. All except two of my paychecks since I've worked there (I've received 6 - worked six weeks) have read that I worked EXACTLY x amount of hours (37) and NO minutes. Only my first two read x hrs and 15 mins and x hours and 45 mins. \n\nWhat I was told about my fourth week working (by a coworker) is that a lot of people have noticed we get paid in 15 minute increments so that we lose time. Ex: if we clock out at 2:14, we get docked 14 minutes to 2:00 or if we clock in late one morning at 9:01 or come back late from break say 2:01, our checks will show we lost 14 mins. \n\nBut it still didn't explain why I was getting exact 00 minutes. (Technically my last four checks *could've* been exact hours b\/c I come and leave at roughly the same time and take an hour break everyday). But I had definitely stayed later than close some days and been back early from break on some days. \n\nI had been docked 27 minutes on my last pay check. From 37:27 to 37:00. On of my coworker had been docked 51 minutes! \n\nWhen I asked my boss, she confirmed that our paychecks are figured in 15 min increments. I asked her by how much? If we're late by 8 minutes a couple times, how does she figure that? She basically said it depends on the person -_- if they're habitually late (and I imagine by their performance or what mood she's in when she talks to her dad bc she's highly moody and I just recently found out is very racist. None of this I have physical evidence of but both are very true). \n\nSo basically her dad (who doesnt work with us) wouldn't know if I'm late b\/c of traffic or another viable, reasonable excuse or if I had taken a longer or shorter break b\/c of something I've agreed upon with coworkers. And my boss might not even notice b\/c sometimes she's not in the building when I and others show up\/leave. \n\nWhen i finally talked to her, she showed me on the system that they round the hours and count them like this: if I showed up at 8:50 to 2:14 for a break (that's 5 hours) then 3:10 to 6:05 (3 hours) so 8 hours vs 5:24 and 2:55. So actually 8:19 so I lose 19 minutes. So basically if im scheduled 8 hours i get no more than 8 hours but I CAN get less if I'm late in the morning or on break. This is to make sure she can schedule me right at 40 hours but make sure I don't get overtime.\n\nAlso, I'm one of the two people at night who close. The store closes at 6 and we're usually out of the door within minutes. While I was still new and training sometimes we'd stay as late as 15-20 minutes after. I learned I am not getting paid for anything after 6 (confirmed by a coworker, my boss actually walked out of the store mid-convo to run an errand when I tried to have this conversation).\n\nI never got to ask her again because I haven't seen her a lot and tbh I'm nervous. She can be intimidating. Basically I just need to ask why. Why don't they just pay us based on what the system says? I know she's probably trying to \"trim the fat\" but I want to hear her say it (or lie and say the math is easier or something about the system)\n\nSo basically if we want all of our hours (as one employee has been doing), we have to sit down with her at the end of each week and talk through every day we were late or early and probably why we were too. Although i dont think itd be that big of a deal bc she could just pull up on the screen our exact hours and go off that(?)\n\nLike I said, she's very moody and always busy. Everything I ask seems like such a hassle for her to answer. I think it says a lot about how she runs her business and treats her employees overall. \n\nAlso, not all of us have time to do that every week (I don't) and I dont imagine we'd be on the clock when we worked that out b\/c we are very busy during opening hours so I dont know if itd be worth it in the end? \n\nThe only other option is to show up exactly on time and leave exactly at 6 (which is near impossible if there's still customers coming in up until close). And take an exact hour break. Being the shy person I am, I've been trying to do this over the last week instead of resisting but it's very stressful trying to show up NOT ONE MINUTE LATE considering traffic and without getting there early and standing around and wasting time that way.\n\n\nThe worst part is she didn't tell me. I had to find out through coworkers four weeks in (who hardly even knew the whole story either). If my boss had told me, I could've planned more accordingly and she still hasn't said that she doesn't pay me after 6 so as far as she knows that *I* know, I'm getting paid if I stay any later.\n\n\nSorry this got wayyy longer then i had planned but i feel like the details are important. I really appreciate if you read through all of this.  Is their any illegal things happening here? What would be the best course of action or where should i report it to, if so? ..Besides the racism which I have no proof of. Also she open carries at work. Is that legal?\n\n","title":"My bosses is ripping off our wages","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568807133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5wjvm\/my_mom_died_and_now_im_being_taken_care_of_by_my\/","id":"d5wjvm","body":"To clarify- This is not her account I am posting for her as she does not have Reddit\n\nfirst things first because I know every single person will tell me to do so but CPS have already been called and nothing came of it. She has a social worker but that is about it. \n\nHer aunt is extremely manipulative and controlling and will not let her have any outside contact other than School. She tried to contact her 19 year old sister and her aunt smashed her phone. She has no door on her room. There's no physical abuse other than throwing items in being hit with a broom.\n\nThe big legal question we have is that the reason she lives with her aunt and not her parents is that they both died, but her mom in her will stated that she was to go to her cousins on the other side of the family. Her cousin is 30. \n\nShe's 15 we live in Alabama she previously lived in South Carolina. I can drive so any resources that you can think of please link them.","title":"My mom died and now I'm being taken care of by my abusive aunt","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551112154,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aun33l\/am_i_eligible_for_my_2018_bonus\/","id":"aun33l","body":"I have worked for my company for almost four years and I just got an offer at another company so put in my resignation, effective date March 8. Bonuses for 2018 have a line in terms and conditions that states \u201cUnder no circumstances shall any Participant who, on or before the Payment Date, voluntarily terminates employment with the Company or who is terminated due to Misconduct be eligible for any bonus under the Plan unless required by applicable law.\u201d The payment date happens to be March 8, my last day. I did not know this term when I submitted my resignation. I asked if they could change my termination date to March 11 and they said they \u201cdidn\u2019t think so\u201d. I live in Colorado, do I have any recourse?","title":"Am I eligible for my 2018 bonus?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441837594,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kb3wr\/sharing_links_to_legal_pornography_in_public\/","id":"3kb3wr","body":"What laws are there about sharing porn besides copyright laws?  If you share a link to NSFW content without an NSFW tag on a site like Reddit, minors could potentially see it without having to click through any age verification checks.  What kind of laws are there about this?  Are there any restrictions even if minors *do* have to click through age verification checks but do it anyways?  There are a few things I see happening on Reddit that seem sketchy to me and I'm curious to know what laws apply to them:\n\n* People posting NSFW content like porn in the comments section of a SFW post.\n* Redditors PMing and asking for porn sources.  Should you never send a reply considering you have no idea what age they are even if they say they are 18+?\n* Also, Redditors on subreddits like \/r\/GoneWild or \/r\/SexSells: what kind of age verification is really being done there and how can we trust it's legit?\n\nThis is mainly for the U.S. but I'd be curious about any\/all locations as well.","title":"Sharing links to [legal] pornography in public forums?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1504180381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x6dng\/fl_ex_applied_for_food_stamps_state_may_open_a\/","id":"6x6dng","body":"This is in the state of Florida.\n\nKeep in mind through all of this, my ex was investigated for food stamp fruad about 10-11 months ago due to not reporting money I was giving him and claiming he paid rent when he did not. They dropped his benefits. So I do not understand how the state can consider giving him food stamps again.\n\nMy ex and I have 50\/50 custody, I have them 183 nights, he has them 182. Right now there is no child support order in our parenting plan. I have, in the past, given him $400 a month because he was watching the kids while I was working Monday-Friday (he works nights). When they started school, I dropped it to $200 month. It's just a curtesy from me since I would be paying a daycare otherwise. (I do have a statement from his attorney confirming I've paid him monies, so there is documentation.)\n\nHe works part time at UPS. However he is constantly out of work due to a shoulder injury from years ago which he has gotten surgery for and doesn't do any pain management for. He will just not go to work when it suits him. He makes money under the table, of which I have no way of proving. He does not pay rent. He also has next to no medical and dental costs because the free insurance he gets at work is fantastic.\n\nI work 45 hours a week and make 2k a month after taxes. I am remarried. I pay rent and insurance as well as uninsured medical bills. (Probably have about 2-3k in medical\/dental\/vision expenses a year.)\n\nNow, if this was a simple issue of supporting the kids, it would not be a big deal. But as it stands, I spend more in the care for our children.\n\n*I have paid 100% of their medical bills even though it is supposed to be a split cost. But I will tell him what his portion is to reimburse me and he ignores it.\n\n*I have paid for all their school supplies and back to school wardrobe. The ONE thing he said he was going to get, he failed to do. I have messages from him stating his sister would be buying them school clothes, and he claimed he would be as well, but has not.\n\n*I spend at least 100-200 a month doing things with the children on the weekends, like going to the movies or bowling, etc. He will occasionally take them to a local spring, but it is a once every few months occurance.\n\n*I have a statement from his attorney that states my ex is capable of finding an additional job. So by his own admission, he is willfully underemployed.\n\n*I have a statement from him stating he starts training in a week for a new position with better pay and more hours. When I asked him about this and why he was applying for food stamps, his story changed to \"not better pay, MAYBE more hours.\" So he's already showing that he will lie during this case as it suits him.\n\nSo it seems to me, I would not be supporting my children, but rather supporting his laziness. This irks me because when you factor in my rent and medical expenses, our income is about the same. He just eats out all the time, has a new vehicle with absurd monthly payments, and buys optional things like a new dog, or a new grill, or his 2-3 week long vacations out of state a year. Meanwhile I budget and plan and live frugally.\n\nI would like to know if a judge will consider these factors in our child support hearing. In the state of FL, support is based on income, even in 50\/50 custody situations. But when one parent has more expenses, what happens? What kinds of expenses will be considered? What about the standard of care provided by the parents? At my house, things stay clean, the kids each have their own bedroom, we have a routine, I read all their school papers. His house is filthy, they ALL co-sleep in the same bed, he doesn't know when things need signed and turned into the school.\n\nI just have a real issue in paying the state so he can recieve food stamps when he has already PROVEN that in the past, he lies on the applications. I also find it suspect that he applied for food stamps using old paystubs, and not the paystubs he will be getting from his new position which will most likely be substantially higher.\n\nPart of my has a definite negative bias against my ex. I know in many cases, child support is the only way some deadbeat parents are involved with their children. But in this case, he is the deadbeat and willing to lie to extract money from the state, and I have to foot the bill.\n\nDoes having a child support hearing automatically mean someone will end up paying child support, or does the judge consider the whole picture and sometimes dismiss the case?","title":"[FL] Ex applied for food stamps, State may open a child support case against me","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551082409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auiu8f\/estranged_roommate_refuses_to_return_house_key\/","id":"auiu8f","body":"My SO and now estranged roommate signed a two bedroom eighth month lease on December first.  (We\u2019re in SD county CA if it matters). Around a week ago she brought a guest to stay over for approximately a week. After two days she asked if her guest could move in. Soon after that the three of us (the original tenants\/lease signers) agreed that the fourth party should not move in.  Within two days she decided she needed to move out because the two of us did not want a fourth tenant. We then all decided removed her name from the lease. She\u2019s now refusing to return the house key, so I changed the lock.  I would like to pack all of her belongings and schedule a time for her to pick them up from my porch. I am wondering if I am on solid legal ground by doing so.","title":"Estranged Roommate Refuses To Return House Key","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508574433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77s9n1\/legal_video_game_tournaments\/","id":"77s9n1","body":"Please advise. \n\nIs hosting a cash entry and cash prize video game tournament legal business in California?\n\nFor example, two players sign up for a two player tournament of the sports video game NBA 2K. The sign up fee for each was 25 dollars. The winner of the tournament gets 40 dollars leaving 10 dollars from the sign up fee for the business. \n\nI currently use a online site by the name of GamerSaloon that facilitates the process of entry fee and prize money. They claim to be legal as the games are skill and not luck based, so you are not gambling as you do at something such as Slot machines.  \n\n","title":"Legal Video Game Tournaments","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571197363,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dijlkp\/wifes_crazy_exhusband_making_threats_if_we_do_not\/","id":"dijlkp","body":"My wife's ex-husband wants us to amend their divorce decree. Currently, the decree states that my wife is entitled to carry both of her daughters as dependents on her tax returns. Her ex-husband owes back taxes, and is trying to scare her into changing the decree so that he is allowed to claim one child as a dependant by threatening to sue her for half of his back taxes. Both of the children live with us full time.\nHe lived and worked in another state, and though they did file their taxes together for the years in question, they were functionally separated and we believe that my wife qualifies for the innocent spouse rule.\nHis messages say that we have until tomorrow morning to agree to ammending the decree or he will take documentation to his lawyer and the IRS regarding the returns and force her to pay half of his back tax bill.  We live in Arkansas and they have been officially divorced for a year.  My question is  would this qualify as coercion, extortion, or blackmail? What should we do?","title":"Wife's crazy ex-husband making threats if we do not amend their divorce decree","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553214312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3y9ih\/ky_usa_lost_contact_with_daughter_due_to_clause\/","id":"b3y9ih","body":"My divorce decree stipulates that either parent of our one daughter can request the other take an alcohol (EtG) and ten-panel drug hair test and if the party being tested comes up positive for either alcohol or any drugs that are not prescribed, they immediately lose contact with our daughter until contact is reinstated by the Court. Well, right around the time the divorce was being finalized, about three months ago, I did some \"molly,\" which was utterly stupid, but at the time I naively assumed my ex-wife wouldn't trigger the drug test unless provoked. I was completely sober for about a year and three months prior to doing molly, and I've been completely sober in the three months since. \n\n​\n\nHowever, earlier this month my ex-wife requested I submit to the hair test. I had gotten my hair cut once since I took the molly, and had assumed it was out of my hair now. I was wrong. My labs came pack positive for amphetamine, cocaine and MDMA (apparently the \"molly\" had a lot of cocaine in it, which I did not know at the time). The levels of those drugs that were detected were very low. A little research revealed that such low levels are indicative of one-time usage.\n\n​\n\nNevertheless, when my ex-wife discovered I tested positive for drugs, she immediately sent her mother over to retrieve our daughter, and I haven't seen or spoken to my daughter since. It will be one week as of tomorrow, March 22.\n\n​\n\nWhen I got ahold of my lawyer, her response was that she is not going to schedule a hearing until I can produce a clean hair test, which is problematic because, in order to even up my hair with the sample site on my crown, I mowed my hair down to a buzz cut. The lab requires at least 1.5 inches of head hair to run the test. That's about three month's worth of growth, which would mean I have to wait three months before I can petition to have contact with my daughter reinstated. This is devastating (and inconsistent with what my lawyer told me when we were drafting the divorce, which was that if I were to test positive and lose contact it would take \"a couple of weeks\" to get the case on the docket). \n\n​\n\nNow, in the meantime, my ex-wife *could* allow contact--anything from supervised visits to just letting my have our daughter 50 percent again--but so far the only response I get from her is silence. My lawyer says she's been trying to convince my ex-wife (presumably via my ex-wife's lawyer) to allow supervised visits, and my lawyer claims my ex-wife \"is considering it,\" but I'm growing more anxious by the day. \n\n​\n\nMy question is, what can I do to convince a judge to reinstate my contact with my daughter besides wait three months and\/or just hope and pray my ex-wife softens and lets me see my little girl? I've already contacted a local substance abuse\/mental health treatment hospital that runs a number of outpatient programs, and I'm thinking of going to the lab tomorrow (and every week hereafter) for an 80-hour alcohol and 10-panel drug urine screen. It seems to me that should suffice, but my lawyer seems insistent upon waiting until I can produce an all-negative hair test result. \n\n​\n\nI was an idiot to agree to that clause and an even bigger idiot to violate it. But it almost seems borderline unconstitutional (removing my daughter from me without due process), and I wonder if I'd have a case for getting it taken out of the divorce decree entirely. Anyway, and suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.","title":"(KY, USA) Lost contact with daughter due to clause in divorce I never should have agreed to","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568662364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d55bfw\/boston_ma_general_laws_part_iv_title_i_chapter\/","id":"d55bfw","body":"Please ignore my username - this is a throwaway account (if you could not tell).  \n\n​\n\nI hope the title is okay and this post doesn't get removed B\/C I really need advice.  \n\n2 weeks ago (Friday 9\/6), my friend and I went to a parking lot under a highway overpass near a train station to burn some T-shirts that were a part of a uniform from my old job that I got fired from (my boss was a dick - wanted to do poetic justice to move on by symbolically burning shit from that place).  We did this around 7-8PM.  Although the parking lot had cars in it, we did it away from those said car behind a cement barrier block in order to \"contain\" the fire as best as possible.  The cement block was near a pile of dirt, so we could easily put it out if it got out of hand (since we forgot to bring water).  The entire time we were setting up, unknowingly to us, there was an employee of the transit system (we guess hired to patrol the lot to prevent break-ins since this area isn't really the best part of town).  \n\nThe entire time, even tho this idea was mine, I kept saying aloud that we were gonna get caught and arrested since I started to get paranoid\/regretful.  My friend reassured me the shirts would burn quick and it would be fine.  Once we lit it, and the pile was burning for \\~3mins, the transit worker stepped out of his car and called us out loudly, asking what was going on.  My friend went up to him in his car while I slowly backed away from the fire - covering my face not to hide it intentionally but that is just a nervous tick I do when I get anxious.  My friend went up to him and said a few words.  He later told me when the guy asked him what was up, he just said \"not to worry about it.\"  That same transit employee ended up telling my friend to \"just leave\" and so my friend left after me.  We started walking back to his apartment nearby, and my friend said to start running even tho that guy told him to simply leave.  \n\nOnce we got back to the apartment, we both started kinda freaking out.  I had to go back to the station to take the train home.  My friend said to go back the way we came, but if I saw police lights, to just turn left and go down another street to go around that general area to the train station.  When I got to the area, there were no police lights to be seen.  My friend ended up going back there the next morning around 4AM (to check the pile and finish the job), and he said he saw ashes and that the pile was wet so the guy must have put it out with water.  \n\nFast forward to this morning, my friend was walking up one of the train station set of stairs.  When he was almost up, apparently the guy who was there that night spotted him and called him out.  \"You're the guy who started the fire,\" he said.  My friend tried denying it (since it wasn't like that the man was a cop).  The guy then said, \"That's BS, come with me\" and he grabbed my friend by the upper right arm.  They went down the stairs and at the bottom was a parked transit police car.  The transit employee explained everything that went down that night to the officers.  My friend argued that the transit employee didn't report him immediately when first confronted and actually told him to simply leave the premises.  The worker then proceeded to pull out his cell phone and bring up a photo of my friend's face (full-frontal) but from the distance of 10ft away.  The officers demanded my friend to hand over his ID and issued a ticket on the computer to be mailed to his ID's listed address.  \n\nThis is his first offense in MA.  This technically wasn't arson since we were near no buildings at all, the and property being burned was my own.  The only violation that occurred would be trespassing on transit property, even tho many people who get off at this particular station walk through this parking lot since it is a shortcut.  \n\nWe don't know what to do.  Shouldn't my friend only be issued a ticket on trespassing?  My friend plans on going to court to pay for the ticket, but I think he should argue to the judge about the circumstances of trespassing\/how it is not really arson and bring up how that transit employee didn't try to report him when it happened (friend told me public defenders aren't assigned in ticket-court, which is why I am saying he needs to defend himself to the judge).  Please offer any advice, it would be much appreciated and welcome.","title":"(Boston, MA) (General laws - Part IV - Title I - Chapter 266 - Section 1) Arson ticket but not really since it wasn't a building","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570906133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgz6i5\/lease_vs_city_laws\/","id":"dgz6i5","body":"Today, a member of my building's maintenance staff let himself into my apartment without warning. Or, rather he tried, without having call first or received permission of any kind. He opened all the locks, but a door chain stopped him from getting in. I was in the shower, my place was still kind of messy from having people over last night, and I hadn't received any communication saying anyone would be coming over, so I said nothing hoping he would go away and get in touch if he needed something...when I wasn't undressed and after I had cleaned. Nope, he just opened the locks. I know which guy it is because he said \"hello?\" when attempting to come in and I recognized his voice. \n\nI did have some maintenance done on the pipes recently, but it was already marked \"done\" and I had not contacted them again. \n\nThis is the second time this has happened, the first time with a different employee. However, it was when they were installing a new bathtub, so I let it go -- I had waited months for that tub though, so to show up with no notice at 6:30am on a random day while I was sleeping was really annoying. \n\nI checked my lease just now and it turns out, it states the landlord can come over without any warning. So couple questions: \n\n\\-- Does \"maintenance staff\" fall under \"landlord,\" too? \n\n\\-- My city's law is that landlord must give 48 hours notice before letting themselves in. If I sign a document saying landlord can let themselves anytime without warning, does that override it? \n\nThis just strikes me as so inappropriate. Even when you contact them about maintenance, there's a little box to check about whether or not you give them permission to enter. What if I was changing in the living room??","title":"Lease vs. city laws?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446385483,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r2ubb\/is_there_benefit_to_having_my_own_lawyer_vs\/","id":"3r2ubb","body":"Things to consider:  We could all 3 be charged for the same controlled substance, but there's also possibility we have entirely non-overlapping charges (some of which will hopefully just be dismissed).\n\nMy charge that I know of: 220.03, Criminal possession of a controlled substance -- substance was actually a probiotic\n\nRecord: No prior record; with an ACD years ago\n\nLocation: Brooklyn, NY (in a rough area)\n\nStatus: DAT appearance in early December\n\nSentiment: I want my record untarnished to pursue a PhD.\n\nStory: Traffic stop with 2 friends; no apparent reason for stop or subsequent search; put into handcuffs for what was said to be \"heroin\" residue on passenger seat (most likely brown sugar from crumb cake, SERIOUSLY);  one probiotic capsule (white powder in plain gel cap) on me, confiscated; one friend found with prescribed controlled medication (but charged due to lack of prescription on hand); other friend found with controlled prescription drug (no existing prescription); after release, was told residue on seat tested positive for \"some weird MDMA thing,\" but that they weren't going to bother scraping it for evidence; I was then told that the pro-biotic tested positive for \"weird MDMA thing\" as well.  Not sure if there was any testing done or if the field test just gave a false positive.","title":"Is there benefit to having my own lawyer vs. sharing a lawyer (saving money) for DAT where multiple people could be charged for the same controlled substance?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541047891,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t6jf0\/someone_hit_my_parked_car_i_want_to_get_it_fixed\/","id":"9t6jf0","body":"Like I said, someone hit my parked car while I was at work. I was lucky that another employee saw it and let me know before they ran off (which they were clearly trying to do). We exchanged info and I tried to submit my claim.\n\nBasically the agent has been blowing me off for 3 weeks. We talked once right after this happened and I haven\u2019t been able to get in contact with her since then. I\u2019ve called almost every day and left a message. Her voicemail says she guarantees a response within 48 business hours, but clearly that\u2019s not the case here. I\u2019ve even tried calling the 800 number for the company instead, but all they did was leave a message for my agent saying she needs to call me. That was a week and a half ago ago.\n\nI\u2019m very frustrated and I don\u2019t know what to do. Is there any simple legal action I could take to get this done? Any advice would be appreciated.","title":"Someone hit my parked car. I want to get it fixed, but my insurance company has been ghosting me for 3 weeks now. What can I do? (Oregon)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446324876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r0bjn\/canada_unsure_which_employment_contract_is_in\/","id":"3r0bjn","body":"I've been employed with a company for several years, and signed a fairly standard initial employment contract.  A short time ago, my employer presented me with a new employment contract to sign, with a few key differences.\n\nAfter reading the new contract, I saw that some terms were altered in my favour, and some altered in the company's favour.  However overall I concluded that the new contract was very favourable to me and so I signed, and received a cheque in return, which I cashed.\n\nHowever, I never received a countersigned copy of the new agreement.  I followed up several times but was brushed off, and I suspect they don't want to give me a countersigned copy.  I really need to know what contract I am employed under as I may be making decisions based off of this.  I feel that the position I am now in is that the company could decide at any time to operate under either contract, simply by signing\/not signing the new agreement.\n\nWhich agreement am I legally employed under?  How can I ensure the new agreement is in effect?","title":"[Canada] Unsure which employment contract is in effect","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1505435964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/706gc9\/can_car_crash_charges_change_wvpa\/","id":"706gc9","body":"I was in my first car crash recently (everyone was okay thank god, my car is totaled I'm not sure about the others). I'm 17 and my 12 year old sister was in the car with me on our way to my Dad's. What happened was I misjudged braking distance and went through a stop sign and got t-boned. The cop was helpful and nice. He told me he would work with me if we contested the ticket as to avoid points on my license. I'm just afraid my stop sign running could turn into some other charge like reckless endangerment of a minor or DWI or something (id never drive under the influence, especially with my little sister in the car). I wasn't drug tested on scene or evaluated as being drunk or anything either, I'm just afraid of my charges getting worse, mostly because of my sister. I'm trying to get an idea of what to expect for court (also my first time in a court). I'm a West Virginia native but the crash took place in Pennsylvania. ","title":"Can car crash charges change? (WV-PA)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444319359,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nzgnp\/ma_is_there_any_good_reason_to_keep_my_cars\/","id":"3nzgnp","body":"She co-signed the loan when I was 16 which is why it's under her name. I fully paid off the loan myself a couple years ago. I also pay all insurance & upkeep myself. \n\nFrom every pragmatic perspective, this is my car. It's just residually in her name. Whenever I bring it up she just says to leave it alone. I'm reading that as a smothering mother who wants to keep me as a baby in her nest for as long as possible(I'm 24, first purchased when I was 16).\n\nSo is there any benefit to keeping my car registered in my mother's name? Are there any drawbacks to changing the registration to my name?","title":"[MA] Is there any good reason to keep my car's registration under my mother's name?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1413609041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jl2ob\/falsely_accused_of_what_i_assume_is_sexual_child\/","id":"2jl2ob","body":"Hello, everyone. I'm in a bit of a situation and I need help. So I have a neighbor I've known for well over a decade. I've known her daughter since she was under a year old. I moved into this place about 4 years ago, when I was married. My wife was the neighbor's cousin, and we are since divorced. Anyway, during the marriage, the neighbor's daughter would come over frequently to talk and play with my wife. Listening to music, singing, playing Rock Band, so on. Well, after the divorce she quit coming around, for obvious reasons. I divorced her cousin. Anyway, she came over a few months ago, asking if she could use my computer and internet to work on a school project. I said sure, and there were no problems. Well, she came over a few times after for the same reasons. Yesterday she came over and asked if she could listen to music (note I'm one of the only people in this complex with a computer and internet) so she could pick out a song to request for her boyfriend at their upcoming school dance. I said sure, and I played the songs for her while I was talking to my friends online. After listening to the songs over and over and working on a drawing for her boyfriend, she left to go home. This evening, I was in the shower getting ready to leave for a play I am in, and there was a knock at the door. My girlfriend answered, and it was the girl's mother. She told my girlfriend that her daughter said I'd asked her to take her clothes off while she was here. She informed my girlfriend that her daughter had lied about this before, and just wanted to know what happened. A short while after, I was going to go talk to her, and she'd already called the police. I had to leave to go to the play, and while I was gone, the officer came over. She told the officer where I was, and he said that was fine, but demand that she have me call him first thing in the morning to ask me questions. I obviously don't want to do so without a lawyer, but I cannot afford one, and he says if I dont, he will assume that what she says is true. With it being the weekend, no legal aid places are open now, and I cannot afford a lawyer. I've been told not to say a word to the police without a lawyer but I've also been told the only way to get one is to be arrested and have one appointed to me. I honestly have no clue what to do. Can anyone help me? Thank you for taking the time to read this, and thank you in advance for any advice you can offer.\n\nNotes; The girl is 12, and I live in Ohio.","title":"Falsely accused of what I assume is sexual child abuse","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570459674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dekg1p\/would_it_be_legal_to_take_my_knife_off_my_hip_and\/","id":"dekg1p","body":"I live in Woodstock IL. I came across a homeless man well known for being unpredictable and he always carries an American Flag pole which I feel could be used as a deadly weapon if he so chose to. This guy approached me a little bit ago and yelled something in my face. I ignored him and while my back was turned drew my knife from my hip and placed it in my coat pocket. I did not brandish it at him, i did not unsheathe the blade and threaten him with it, in fact i intentionally drew it when he couldn\u2019t see me do it. This guy then followed me for a short bit. When he was no longer behind me i put the knife back into my hip. I said nothing to him, i just kept walking in order to deescalate. Is there anything wrong with what i did?","title":"Would it be legal to take my knife off my hip and place in my hand sheathed so I have it at the ready?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553666759,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b60svs\/health_insurance_has_dragged_out_payment_for_6\/","id":"b60svs","body":"One year ago I had a workplace accident that left me unable to work. I immediately contacted my insurance company and was told that there is no rush to begin the monthly insurance payments\u2014in fact, it could be more efficient for me and the company to wait until I return to work and claim the entire lump sum at that point.\n\nUnfortunately, I can not return to work without further medical evaluation and, potentially, surgery. The insurance does not cover the evaluation and possible surgery expenses, which I can not afford myself. I've been waiting in line to get free treatment for a year now and I'm still unable to return to work.\n\nHowever, I was already low on money by October, 2018. That was when I contacted my insurance company again and requested for them to begin the monthly payments until I return to work. The first thing they said was that I should have asked for the payments immediately after the accident. It was a different individual from the one who had previously recommended that I wait.\n\nWhen I explained my reason for waiting and that it was suggested by another agent, my explanation was seen as \"suspicious\". Because my first conversation with the company right after the accident was a phone call, I had no proof. So they requested proof of injury, proof from my doctor and proof from my employer.\n\nI collected all of the information they requested and sent it within less than a month. After around a month of silence, I contacted the insurance company again and asked why I haven't received any payments yet. They said that they required more information and that they sent some papers to fill out to my doctor.\n\nFor roughly two months, I contacted both my doctor and the insurance company every couple of weeks. My doctor kept saying that he has sent the information back to the insurance company and the insurance company kept saying that they are still waiting for the information from my doctor.\n\nI believe it was February when I finally received an e-mail stating that they have the papers from my doctor, but apparently, they needed even more papers and information from him. So they sent him even more papers to fill out.\n\nIt shouldn't take more than 5 days for the information to be delivered from point A to point B by post. But somehow, my insurance company has spent the past \\~4 months on sending and receiving two pieces of paper from my doctor.\n\nI can barely afford rent, partially due to the monthly payments I'm sending to the insurance company for their amazing service. Is there anything I can do to speed this up? Any legal actions I can take?","title":"Health insurance has dragged out payment for 6 months","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553788904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6kldb\/advantage_of_lying_denial\/","id":"b6kldb","body":"I caught a lot of charges at once, most of which should go away because the truth of what happened, and plea deal.\n\nOne thing was true, and is a crime.  Only eye witnesses saw it.  Could I just lie and deny?  Will the prosecute this in trial?  Lie to my lawyer? ","title":"Advantage of lying \/ denial?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569537494,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9r846\/cousin_was_fired_3_hours_into_his_first_day_for\/","id":"d9r846","body":"Essentially the story goes like this;\n\nTuesday my 24 M cousin walks in for his first day dressed in khakis and a button down. During orientation his boss says that what he's wearing is not work appropriate and he should come the next day and he asks what they would prefer, the boss replies \"khaki and a button down\". Obviously confused he asks her that he thought he was wearing just that and would like her to be more specific, she says \"we will discuss this later\". Fair enough.\n\nA few hours later she pulls him out and walks him to the door and hands him $70 in cash for the day telling him \"It's not going to work out because you undermined my authority in front of others.\" Flabbergasted he leaves and tells me and many others this story.\n\nCurious as I'm ignorant but is there any reasonable cause he was let go? I know they have to pay in check and cash is not acceptable but is there anything he can do in terms of wrongful termination or what?","title":"Cousin was fired 3 hours into his first day for asking a question about the dress code [Wisconsin]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555484205,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be4rb2\/moving_out_early\/","id":"be4rb2","body":"I was presented with an opportunity to take over someone\u2019s lease at an apartment much closer to work (2 mile instead of my current 28 mile commute). It was super last minute but I took them up on it. \n\nI informed my landlord on 4\/16 that I am moving out and I plan on moving on 4\/28. He said that was okay. He then texted me a couple hours later saying the notice was too soon and that I had two options: help him find someone to take it over, or stay until 5\/16 and pay half the months rent for May. This will not work for me financially because I already have to pay the first months rent for the new lease plus a possible security deposit (I say possible because the landlord might work something out with me since it was so last minute).\n\nI am totally fine with helping him find someone for as long as he needs but I don\u2019t think I can stay there another month and pay because of the way my bills have been set up to get this move going. It\u2019s very early so I might still have time to figure something out but my landlord has been known to suddenly change his mind on previous agreed upon arrangements. Which is one of the reasons why I waited so long to give him notice because I was afraid he would turn around and try to evict me immediately or make the remainder of my stay a living hell until I leave.\n\nThe place I currently live at is a room that I\u2019m renting in the landlords house. Two other roommates along with the landlord himself also live in the house. It was a very unofficial agreement to rent out the room. I don\u2019t think I even actually signed a rental agreement, just a lease application in order for him to have some information on me.\n\nI was ready to get out of this house due to numerous problems that I have with the landlord and the rental. I work overnight so I am home during the day, that being said he refused to let me use the heater during the winter and now refuses to let me use the ac when it\u2019s getting hot. On top of that, the ceiling fan in my room is broken and I mentioned it to him multiple times yet he still hasn\u2019t fixed it (the ac and fan issues it the main problem). I\u2019m constantly being blamed for anything that goes wrong in the house because I am \u201cthe only one at the house during the day\u201d even though everything I have been blamed for was one of the roommates doing. And also my personal space and designated areas (in the fridge and pantry) have constantly been intruded on by him, his kids, and even strangers. \n\nIn Georgia the minimum notice is 30 for the tenant however I have read that due to certain circumstances I am allowed to leave with little to no notice (an example on the website is not heat during winter months). Due to the reasons stated above I am wondering if I have grounds to leave early instead of having to wait until the 30 days.\n\nThe easiest solution to create less drama is to just go ahead and stay until 5\/16 and pay the half month rent. My preferred solution is to leave on 4\/28 as planned and not pay anything. Is there a way that I can go ahead with my preferred solution without causing legal problems given the circumstances listed above? I can try to provide more info if needed.","title":"Moving out early","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502854404,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tzfw6\/different_state_llc\/","id":"6tzfw6","body":"Hey, I posted this on \/business to no avail so I'm hoping there are some business-legal guys here. \n\nI have some questions about LLC's. I'm planning on registering an LLC soon and have been researching the pros\/cons of registering out of state. I live in NY, notorious for our taxes, so I'd obviously rather register in a state like FL, for the tax benefits, and pay an agent for a physical mailbox there. \n\nHowever from what I read, this doesn't protect me from being taxed in NY, and can label my LLC as a foreign company in NY; leading to people advising to just register in the home state to avoid all of this. So I'm confused whether there is any actual benefit of going through the work of registering in a different state, while residing in my home state. Any advice would be appreciated. ","title":"Different state LLC","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1508376383,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77b9nh\/mb_canada_landlords_wont_deal_with_bedbugs_i_feel\/","id":"77b9nh","body":"Hey guys , I'll try to keep this relatively short. We have been dealing with bedbugs in our apartment since June- a month after moving in. Its possible it had started sooner but I haven't had bbs before, so I didn't know what to look for . As sooooon as I realized what the problem was I contacted my LLs. Since then they have been coming in bi-weekly to treat the unit themselves. They told us that no one else had complained, and thus believed we were the only affected units. So i believe they have not tried to treat any other units on top of trying to deal with the issue themselves. \n\nI'll add that there was a bb inspection a couple weeks after we arrived which leads me to believe this was a pre existing issue. \n\nWe have gotten progressively irritated at them over the course of this experience . We told them 3 times to contact a professional, if not 4 times . I am aware that what they have been doing is in fact illegal. I called a local hotline and the guy over the phone sounded almost as irritated as me about how my landlord has been dealing with this, he told me to try my best to get them to contact an exterminator. Regardless of how much we press it they assure us that \"they've dealt with it before \", \"they'll get back to us \"- whatever they can to put it off. \n\n\nI'm not getting sleep, I feel uncomfortable enough in my living space knowing bugs are everywhere let alone having my LLs in my space weekly\/ biweekly . Last month I got in contact with a local health inspector, she came in , took a quick glance , according to my other half she didn't look that hard and told us. 'It's not bad enough for me to make them call an exterminator'. (side note : She knew our LLs name even though we didn't give it to her )\n\n\nI was absolutely heartbroken about this, just defeated. I felt like no one was on our side and we were just doomed to live like this and never leave this godforsaken apartment . Anyways, now I've got over the grief and Im just angry again . This doesn't seem right to me at all. Our landlord also stopped treating at this time because they \"didn't see anything \" we saw some the next week and informed them we did still have bugs, they have not been in contact with us , or even tried to treat it themselves since . It has gotten so bad since then , it hasn't been this bad over these last 5 months.\n\n\nSO found two bbs on him tonight , and he was just enraged, checked the apartment again and found a shit ton of them . He called the LLs and told them they HAVE to call an exterminator, and asked them why the hell they haven't done anything since we last complained . They said \"oh we have been in the unit in the last two weeks! We've been treating it !\" they INSISTED , that they've been treating . They haven't , my SO has been off work and home for the past month. . So, on top of being negligent, they're liars. He told them, very sternly that they are NOT treating it themselves and they are calling an exterminator . Landlord #1 just keeps saying \"I'll talk to landlord #2, I'll talk to landlord #2\". \n\n\nI wrote them a letter just regurgitating what we've already been telling them- stating the issue and how long it's been happening , requesting that they hire a professional , and informing them we will contact an inspector if they do not hire an exterminator.(I know , I've already called an inspector but I will try to get in contact with a different one than the one we dealt with because I feel like they did not deal with the issue appropriately).I stapled the letter to documents from the Manitoba government sites , with some applicable regulations highlighted . \n\n\nI have two copies of this letter, a million photos of bites, bugs , stained sheets, photos of sheets they threw in the garbage against our consent, I have (most) of their notices of entry, and I also have a doctors appointment booked next week to get some help with these bites\/ rashes all over me. \n\n\nSo what I'm asking is if I've done everything okay so far, if there's anything else I can do , if I'm fucked, if I should prepare anything else, etc. Just any advice would really be helpful because I'm not sure how to proceed or if I'm taking the proper action . \n\n\nI really appreciate you taking the time to read this, and any advice given.\n\nEdit:words ","title":"[mb, canada] landlords won't deal with bedbugs , I feel like I've done everything I possibly can to get this dealt with but it's going nowhere .","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503705474,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w2cjj\/ny_forms_necessary_to_form_a_subsidiary_corp_s_in\/","id":"6w2cjj","body":"If anyone can just tell me what forms I will need exactly and where to find them blank, I'd sincerely appreciate it. Thank you!","title":"[NY] Forms necessary to form a subsidiary corp (S) in New York but incorporated in Delaware and same board of trustees and format as parent company","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554339346,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b967ok\/can_i_be_issued_a_14_day_eviction_notice_when_i\/","id":"b967ok","body":"My rent was due on the 1st, I told my landlord I would have it tomorrow (the 4th). She came over today and served me with a 14 day notice to vacate. Last month I was given a 5 day notice to pay or vacate, which I paid (in full) before the 5 days was up. I thought 14 days were only legal when you have a month to month lease. My understanding is I can only be served with a 14 day if I did not remedy the 5 day I was previously served. Am I correct, or can she legally evict me? ","title":"Can I be issued a 14 day eviction notice when I have a one year lease? (Wisconsin)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553519931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5alj1\/need_to_kick_exgirlfriend_out_of_my_house_but\/","id":"b5alj1","body":"Basically I caught her cheating on me and found out she\u2019s pregnant with another mans child and lead me on for 4-5 months (in which she\u2019s been living at my house) and I left her.\n\nWell after I told her I want her out of my house, she called the cops on me because I was trying to get her out. Cops told me I can\u2019t just do that and I need an eviction notice. \n\nI\u2019ve already told the cops that I told her to leave, I told her she can come get her things whenever she wants, and of course other things such as physical abuse she has inflicted upon me. However the cops still told me I have to let her stay.\n\nI just want to know if anyone has any ideas. I\u2019m trying to get an eviction notice done now but I don\u2019t know how to write it or what to put in the reasoning box. \n\nI need help, please.\n","title":"Need to kick ex-girlfriend out of my house but Ohio law won\u2019t allow me without an eviction notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541623314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v368q\/landlord_company_is_refusing_to_remove_roaches\/","id":"9v368q","body":"I live in Pasadena, Ca and moved in a house a few months ago that is rented out by a company. When I first moved in with my roommates we noticed a small outbreak of roaches and we immediately notified the landlord.  They sent out someone with a can of Raid to \u201ctake care of the issue\u201d.  Since then I have spent hundreds of dollars trying to fumigate the house with no success. \n\nI recently contacted them against and they stated that our lease makes us responsible after the first initial pest control from them. Do I have any legal rights to fight this?  The problem has gotten very bad and I live very ocd clean and it\u2019s driving me nuts. Is there someone in my city I can file a complaint to against this or am I truly responsible for their screwup?  ","title":"Landlord company is refusing to remove roaches that were there during move-in.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551481202,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awawgg\/performance_improvement_plan_pennsylvania\/","id":"awawgg","body":"Today I was put on a PIP. I am in Pennsylvania.\n\nMany of the items cited in the PIP were provably untrue. Other items are from anonymous rumors.\n\nI can easily conform to the quantifiable items of the PIP (I already am), but other measurements are \"leadership\" and \"reputation.\"\n\nIs there anything (other than the quantifiable things, which are easy) I can really do?","title":"Performance Improvement Plan (Pennsylvania)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446995076,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s0drk\/mom_in_jail_while_my_brother_is_dying\/","id":"3s0drk","body":"Hello Reddit,\n\nI live in Riverside, California\n\n3 days ago, my brother hung himself in the room he was living in. He survived, but has severe, permanent brain damage and will probably never wake up. On the day he hung himself, my great grandparents came to visit as me and my mom sat with my brother. There is a lot of bad blood between my mom and my great grandparents, and as such, the situation became very tense. My mom and great grandparents took shifts visiting with him while the other party stayed outside. My mom was outside when my great grandparents went to leave and I asked them to walk the long way around to avoid her so there wouldn't be conflict. My great grandmother did exactly the opposite. She walked right by my mom, staring her down when she already knew my mom was heated. Although it was a mistake, my mom pushed her away, knocking her to the ground. \n\nMy great grandmother was adamant about pressing charges. I tried to convince her otherwise, with my brother fighting for his life, he needed all the support he could get. No luck, she went so far as to stand outside in the windy cold waiting for the police to show up. Yesterday, the police finally showed up and arrested my mom. They explained to me that, although she faced a battery and elder abuse charge, she would likely avoid going to prison if the case even made it past the judge.\n\n\nI thought things would be ok, but in the middle of the night last night, my mom called me and explained that they had her sign a paper about an old DUI warrant, and after she was done here, in Riverside, she would be sent to Victorville to address those charges. She didnt even know what she was signing and didnt have counsel present, she was trying to hard to cooperate so she could resolve the situation so she could be with her son. Those charges are years old, but with the seemingly short time frame my brother has left alive, he would probably pass before she resolved these cases. I want to bail her out, but her bail is set at $75,000. I work and make enough money to provide for my wife and kids, but I dont have the means to pay the $7500 I would need or even pay a down payment and afford a payment plan. I don't know what to do, I want my mom to say goodbye to her youngest son, but it looks like I have no real way to help her. Does anyone have any advice for me. I'm trying so hard to hold it together, but the weight of this whole situation is resting solely on my shoulders. I've lurked reddit for a long time on another account, but havent posted much. I'm not familiar with the etiquette, but I'm running out of time to make things right. Any help of guidance anyone could give is greatly appreciated.","title":"Mom in Jail while my Brother is Dying","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570037235,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcdeuo\/my_old_landlord_not_sending_security_deposit_2\/","id":"dcdeuo","body":"Located in metro Detroit area of Michigan. The last day at my old house was August 1st and the landlord still hasn\u2019t sent us our security deposit or a list of damages. On August 1st we had a move out inspection with the property management company and I gave them my forwarding address and the lady said she would forward the information to the owner. About 2 weeks ago I emailed the property management company asking for an update and got a reply stating that they forwarded all the information to the owner and that the owner has the security deposit so it\u2019s on them. They also said that they would get back to me with an update hopefully by the next day but I still haven\u2019t heard back from them. I\u2019ve emailed them back a couple times since with no reply. I haven\u2019t called them because I wanted everything in writing. I don\u2019t have any of the owners information to contact them either. \n\nI\u2019ve googled a bit and it seems in Michigan they only have 30 days to return my deposit or provide a list of damages and it seems my recourse would be to sue in small claims court. Is this accurate? Would I or should I get a lawyer to help? If I sue the owner would they be able to counter sue for anything? Something to note is our last months rent did come out of security deposit. Does that affect how much I\u2019d get if I sued? Basically would it be worth it to go to court over?\n\nThanks for your time","title":"My old landlord not sending security deposit 2 months after moving out [MI]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540419884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r4e5k\/so_i_got_fired_for_stealing_money_from_the\/","id":"9r4e5k","body":"As mentioned I was fired for stealing a few dollars here and there from a register at a coffee shop, and you caught me on camera. I know I have not stolen $500 for a far, but I had no choice because he was lecturing me about someone else I had done this previously and is now in jail and serving something like two years in jail.. which I found is true but I don\u2019t think he did as much time as he said he did. \n\nWe pretty much just took breaks and lunches when we could and we did not clock out for them and Wood work overtime but would not get compensation for overtime hours,, is there a certain departments that can basically see if there\u2019s any shady management things going on? \n\nSorry for the long post but if anyone would know that would be greatly appreciated thank you.","title":"So I got fired for stealing money from the register, but my boss said to give him $500 or I\u2019ll be arrested, and yes he called them already.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1412863894,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2irdfw\/wisconsin_us_cellular_signed_me_up_for_a_contract\/","id":"2irdfw","body":"Warning: Long\n\nI had originally signed up with US Cellular on one of their national belief plans (http:\/\/www.uscellular.com\/about\/press-room\/2010\/industry-first-programs.html) which are no longer available. A perk was, after a two-year commitment, you never sign a contract again. \n\nWell, I ended up having enough \"reward points\" to get a free phone, so I walked into a US Cellular store (an official store, not an authorized agent) and got one. Sales dude activates my phone, I ask \"will there be a contract with this?\" and get \"Not with your belief plan! Keep that one, it's such a good deal\" and I walk out of there not paying anything, not signing any paperwork, and the only thing in my hands being the box of the new phone.\n\nSeveral months later, after some major billing issues on their end (oh whoops, your bill increased by 30 bucks because um...value and uh...stuff) and trying multiple times to resolve them, I'm fed up with US Cellular and want to cancel. Oh, well, guess what - \"you have a contract until 2016 so you'll have to pay an early termination fee of 600 bucks.\"\n\nI tell the rep I never signed any contracts with my new phone, that I got it entirely with reward points (a benefit of my plan) and was *told* I would not have any contract. They give me a spiel on how they wouldn't make any money if they didn't make all phones have a contract, the sales guy should have told me, and that after sometime in 2013 they forced all new\/upgrade phones to have contracts. \n\nI asked them to produce my contract, thinking I would have had to sign or otherwise agree to a contract (like I initially did when I first joined US Cellular) for one to be in place. They said they couldn't pull up that information, just that I had one, and that a contract request could take an unknown time period to pull out my contract to verify the information on it. So they offered to call me back when they find it (I'm sure they won't).\n\nTL;DR:\n\nUS Cellular signed me up for a contract on a phone bought solely with reward points, even though my plan was no-contract past the first 2 years (long since passed) and the sales person told me I would not have a contract. I never signed anything. Now I'm going to have to pay ETF if I cancel before 2016. \n \n* Do I have any recourse to avoid an ETF?  \n* Can US Cellular make a one-sided contract on my behalf?  \n* If they can't produce the contract, am I still bound to its terms?  \n* Assuming they can't produce the contract, if they charge me an ETF after cancelling, do I have to fight them in small claims court if they were *not* allowed to do this?  \n\nSorry for the long post, and if this is the wrong place to post please let me know.","title":"Wisconsin - US Cellular signed me up for a contract without my knowledge","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1444328268,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o02jx\/ca_question_regarding_return_of_deposit_to_a\/","id":"3o02jx","body":"My friend and I have lived together for a long time in a house that we split, but at one point we decided to bring in another roommate to help cut costs on rent and utilities. This roommate stayed for 1 year and 8 months and then decided to put in his 30 days because he wanted to move out. That's fine with us, but I feel like the property manager is screwing us over with the way he's decided to handle our original deposit. \n\nWhen the new roommate moved in, he paid his first months rent and then also paid a deposit equal to his rent amount. Since my original roomate and I already had the full deposit paid on the house previously, we took his new deposit amount in cash and held it in a separate account for use against any damages upon his future move out. \n\nNow that he's moving out, we both decided to move out also as we didn't want to absorb his rent again and decided to find a cheaper place nearby instead. Somehow he privately negotiated with our property manager and got him to agree to pay his deposit back early since he put his 30 days in about 2 weeks before us. \n\nThe problem with that is that the property manager never accepted money from the new roommate for a deposit. He only accepted money from me and my original roommate. So basically he is giving a portion of our money back to our 3rd roommate and that doesn't give us the ability to take out any money for damages. \n\nThe 3rd roommate didn't clean his room or bathroom, refuses to help clean any of the common areas, left many personal items in the house and in the backyard, and also owes partial payments on some final utility bills. \n\nSince the property manager said he'd give him is deposit back, we now have no way of taking out the money we need to cover those expenses from the deposit money we've been holding all this time. \n\nIs it legal for the property manager to give the 3rd roommate his portion of the deposit out of the fund that me and my original roomate paid ourselves? I'd prefer that he gives the original deposit back to us, and then we can dole out the proper portion to the 3rd roomate minus expenses for cleanup, utilities, etc out of the cash deposit we've been holding from him. \n\nI just wanted to get more info before I call the property manager and have a talk with him about this situation. \n","title":"[CA] Question regarding return of deposit to a roommate of mine who moved out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555530147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bec3tm\/can_i_break_my_lease_legally_because_of\/","id":"bec3tm","body":"So I\u2019ve been living in this apartment for about 5 months now. For law purposes, I live in TX. In that time, things have broken at least once every two weeks. Maintenance does come to fix the problem, but sometimes it takes FOREVER. I\u2019m talking weeks and sometimes months. We told them the shower didn\u2019t work when we moved in and they didn\u2019t fix it until 3 months in. The light in the ceiling went out and it took them two weeks to come fix it. Things like that are normal and constant with these people, but my big issue is leaks. Our ceiling had a literal hole in it for nearly a week before they came to fix it. I had to send four emails and one certified letters for them to do something about it. The ceiling leaked AGAIN in a different spot about a month later. They came and said they fixed it. The ceiling is now leaking yet again, a third time, in the same spot they said they have fixed. I\u2019m sick of living there because something is always breaking and they take forever to fix it. I have a new baby and if the leaks keep up, I\u2019m worried about mold. I haven\u2019t tested for mold yet, but since this is the second leak in the same spot, there\u2019s got to be wetness constantly and I\u2019ll test it  I know I can break my lease due to negligence of them NOT fixing things after written notice in a week, but do I have any options for their own repairs constantly breaking and taking days to fix?","title":"Can I break my lease legally because of inadequate repairs?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540978932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sx7yd\/got_a_ticket_for_a_basic_speed_rule_hawaii\/","id":"9sx7yd","body":"So I got a ticket for \"hard acceleration in rainy conditions\" and the cop basically has no evidence of speeding, but still felt the need to give me a ticket. There was cars speeding past me but I do drive a modified vehicle which is moderately loud. Now all these modifications are perfectly legal. The reason for the \"hard acceleration\" was because I was in a turning lane and needed to merge over, I haven't really seen any ticket like this before in the previous states I've lived in and I have a very clean driving record. Should i take this to court? I really dont want to dish out the 157 dollars and even worse, have this on my record. How should I go about this? ","title":"Got a ticket for a basic speed rule (hawaii)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554233819,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8ntxk\/is_school_staff_peeking_into_bathroom_stalls_to\/","id":"b8ntxk","body":"Staff and APs at my old high school would frequently look into stalls while students were in them to try to catch them vaping","title":"Is school staff peeking into bathroom stalls to catch vapers illegal in anyway?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1410537919,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g7la4\/how_to_deal_with_insurance_and_a_most_likely\/","id":"2g7la4","body":"I am currently located in Philadelphia. Long story short my motorcycle was clipped while parked and knocked over. Their insurance has since claimed full liability and I talked to an appraiser this morning. He has told me the bike has to be towed to an inspection center in order for them to process the claim and I will not be getting the bike back. In his words they are purchasing the bike from me. Is this normally how this situation is handled?\n\nBe it that this was my project bike and a lot of work and money was put into it I feel as if they will low ball me considering the age and state of the bike. Do I have to accept their offer? If not, how should I go about countering?\n\nAll in all, I was expecting to be compensated for the damage and be able to part out all the aftermarket pieces but now I'm afraid I will lose a lot of money because of this. Any help is much appreciated. ","title":"How to deal with insurance and a (most likely) totaled motorcycle","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505135133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zf94b\/il_filing_dba_or_llc_in_state_how_do_i_protect\/","id":"6zf94b","body":"I might be wrong about the scope of a DBA and LLC name filing in my state here; as far as I understand it getting a name, let's say Company A1, means it must be available in my state and registering it gets me that name in my state. But that doesn't extend into other states or countries?\n\nHow does one claim a business name on the largest scale? \n\nAre there downsides to claiming it only in my state (e.g. Company A1 in IL and Company A1 in CA owned by someone else)?","title":"[IL] Filing DBA or LLC in state, how do I protect that name in other states\/countries?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553970795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7ee22\/broadband_provider_has_been_bought_out_mid\/","id":"b7ee22","body":"Hi guys, not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but seems to fit the bill. \n\nMy broadband provider recently got taken over by another company that I don\u2019t want to be contracted to. Is this grounds to be able to get out of my contract without a early exit fee? ","title":"Broadband provider has been bought out mid contract. No details of the agreement has changed.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508103554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76lwx2\/ia_i_get_paid_less_than_minimum_wage\/","id":"76lwx2","body":"Muscatine, IA\n\nI work at a place that pays less than minimum wage. They say that it is because we are still in school so they can pay that (they pay $6.25 an hour). We receive no tips. They say that because we are in school it is a legal loophole to pay us less but I have only found things saying we can get payed less for the first 90 days of employment.","title":"[IA] I get paid less than minimum wage.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541736444,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vh9ld\/boss_changed_benefit_payment_schedule_is_my\/","id":"9vh9ld","body":"Hi, I accepted a job at a startup and instead of some salary they offered me a revenue share paid quarterly. When I accepted I thought that the payout would happen on the financial quarter. Here's the slightly redacted text of what's in the employment letter:\n\n\"In addition to your salary, you will earn 10% of revenue brought in by any revenue stream known to the Company, capped at $6,000 a quarter. This is a cumulative $24,000 a year given \\[the company\\] generates $20,000 in revenue per month. Income earned in this manner will be paid out on a quarterly basis.\"\n\nI asked the CFO on the quarter of the year point if there was a payout and he said to wait till the companies financial quarter. We have just passed the companies financial quarter and I asked again and I have been told that it was the intention of the company to have the payout occur 12 weeks after the signing of the employment agreement. This means that the payout would be pushed back several weeks and that my ratio of bonus to hours worked would go down for the previous two months.  \nI have believed that it would be paid out on the quarter points of the the year since signing, is that a valid interpretation of the contract? Do I have any recourse legally speaking? \n\nAlso the state is Georgia. Thanks for any input!","title":"Boss changed benefit payment schedule, is my reading of a contract valid?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554847022,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbdyv3\/point_to_point_wifi_connections_in_us_cities\/","id":"bbdyv3","body":"Background: I\u2019m thinking of linking my apartment in the Atlanta (midtown) with another friends apartment also in Atlanta (midtown) with a point to point 5GHz wireless connection. The apartments are within line of sight of one another so this is possible, and are about 1km apart. The reason is for fun, and we will be attempting to play some multiplayer video games over this connection. \n\nQuestion: Are there any laws against such point to point connections in such a dense urban area? Where should I go to learn more about these laws if any exist?","title":"Point to Point WiFi Connections in US Cities","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1542137381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ws88t\/my_sister_is_being_forced_into_the_next_grade_in\/","id":"9ws88t","body":"For context, my family lives in Florida - in the pinellas county school system\n\nMy sister who is 15 was held back this year in 8th grade due to medical disability, she has POTS which in turn gives her learning disabilities such as dyslexia and memory problems so when she had gone into 8th grade a year ago, she failed out because she couldn't concentrate in the classes and had really bad headaches. she attempted hospital homebound last year but ended up barely participating in that either due to the pain. So this year she is repeating 8th grade again. She is happier, has made friends, is doing so much better in class (all A's and B's) and is finally starting to feel like she belongs. She already has a highschool picked out that she'd like to go to due to their theater program. \n\nWell it is nearing the end of the first semester and my mother gets a call that basically told her that my sister actually DID pass 8th grade somehow, through a mixture of averaging grades from her early semester grades the year before and some of her hospital homebound grades. they told her basically she passed with straight D's or something like that. Due to this, they told my mom that they were going to pull her out of eighth grade come the next semester and put her into 9th grade at a highschool she doesn't like and didnt choose. They did not discuss any of this with my mother or my sister before they made this decision, and they are telling my mother that there is some kind of law that means she has to go to the next grade.\n\nIt just doesn't make any sense, she is just starting to belong and only JUST now starting to understand 8th grade content. If she was shoved into 9th grade, she would not be prepared for the content and would only have ONE semester to learn all the content in time for exams. They keep telling her they'll like put her in summer school and get her online classes and this and that and its just... how are they allowed to force this on a child who doesn't want it? \n\nWhat I'm asking is does my mother have any chance to fight this? My mother has spoken to someone who told her that because my sister is disabled, perhaps there is a way to fight this. \n\n(i am sorry if my post is lacking in any details, if people need more specifics I can definitely ask my mother for extra info, this is my first ever post here and i just hope that I can get maybe a few replies)","title":"My sister is being forced into the next grade in the coming semester","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539803791,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p1p7g\/pa_should_i_go_to_court_to_fight_speeding_ticket\/","id":"9p1p7g","body":"I was caught doing 94 in a 55. The state trooper gave me a ticket for doing 75 in a 55 because I was polite. On the ticket in the remarks section he wrote 94\/55. If I take this to court, to try and reduce the points from 4 to 2, is there a chance the judge gives me a worse punishment such as 6 points which can result in license suspension?","title":"(PA) Should I go to court to fight speeding ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443570230,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mweb0\/updatewawife_being_sued_over_accident\/","id":"3mweb0","body":"So we met with a lawyer who filed an answer( I believe that's what he said) stating we never received the initial summons that was sent to her parents house even though they had our address. Her parents don't even think anyone was home at the supposed time. Our lawyer says we don't have to go to court on Thursday now and we are waiting for their response. \n\nDoes this sound right?","title":"(Update)(WA)Wife being sued over accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540715595,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s1r9h\/how_can_my_brother_take_his_kids_away_from_their\/","id":"9s1r9h","body":"My brother and his gf are together but he doesn\u2019t want to be with her. He wants to leave with the kids because she\u2019s a drug addict and won\u2019t seek help. How can he legally take his children? What are the steps? Can a grandparent step in as well?","title":"How can my brother take his kids away from their mom who is a drug user?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551759904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axgwc9\/legality_of_browser_extensions\/","id":"axgwc9","body":"Any advice for learning about laws around Browser Extensions? To explain, for a Design class, my team is looking into designing one that would work when a user is on freelancing sites, like fiverr etc. But I'm having trouble looking into the limits of what browser extensions can do legally. Any knowledge you can share with us would go a long way with helping my classmates and I to treat this as \"real world\" as possible.\nThank you in advance.","title":"Legality of Browser extensions","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570902320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgycqm\/my_landlord_will_not_let_me_out_of_my_lease_even\/","id":"dgycqm","body":"I am posting this on behalf of a friend who lives in Kentucky.\n\nShe has been renting a one bedroom apartment with her (now ex) partner for 4 years. Their lease annually renews in June, and both their names are on the lease. Since their most recent lease renewal, they have broken up and my friend wants to move out. Her ex has agreed to take responsibility for the full rent moving forward, however, their landlord refuses to let her break the lease or let the ex sign a new one that makes him the sole tenant. She does not want to move into a new apartment while her name is on the current lease because she doesn't want to be held responsible if the ex changes his mind, damages the apartment, etc. \n\nThe landlord is saying stuff like \" Well I've never heard of a lease having anything in it for leaving early\", \"Well having two people is more financial security from me so why would I let someone go?\" and \"Well if I'm a good landlord, why would you want to move out?\" (Yes, he is aware that they broke up.) Their lease does not have any clause about breaking the lease. \n\nIf the landlord refuses to remove her from the lease, can she sign a contract just with the ex so that she has it in writing that he will take responsibility for the full amount of rent until next June and will be responsible for any damages or extra fees related to the apartment, or would that not hold up? Is there anything in Kentucky law about lease-breaking that could help her leave this situation?","title":"My landlord will not let me out of my lease even though roommate already agreed to pay full rent (KY)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447707030,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t2emm\/nc_boyfriend_screwed_out_of_partnership\/","id":"3t2emm","body":"About a year ago, my boyfriend formed a company with his good friend and neighbor. Soon after, they created an LLC. His friend had prior working knowledge of the field that they were entering, so they agreed to an uneven split of equity [52\/48] with my boyfriend receiving 48%. \n\n\nRecently they had some disagreements about how to handle some of the finances, and his partner decided, without warning, that he was going to exercise his majority ownership, and kick my boyfriend out of the company. To add insult to injury, his now ex-partner offered him his initial investment amount as his sole form of compensation. So, if he accepts this -- all he has to show for his past year's worth of busting his butt is his meager initial contribution to their startup.\n\n\nAside from this being wholly unjust -- is this legally sound? Can his partner kick him out, based on having slightly more equity? On top of that, is my boyfriend only owed his initial investment? I'm not business savvy, but I would think that he is owed 48% of everything [profits\/property\/etc.]. Before we respond to this slap in the face, I just want to make sure that we aren't attempting to engage in a fight we can't win.\n\n\n\nThanks for reading, and I hope you can shed some light!","title":"[NC] Boyfriend Screwed Out of Partnership","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553010725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2z25u\/san_diego_ca_our_landlord_has_decided_to_sell_the\/","id":"b2z25u","body":"We just received a call from the property management company who manages all communications between the owner and tenants. We were informed that the owner is looking to sell the house we live in, as well as another property of his, in order to fund the purchase of another property he is interested in.  He is asking that we be out within 60 days, at which point he will give us the full security deposit and one months rent back. \n\nWhen asked, the management company explained there is nothing in writing yet because the owner has just expressed his desire to take this action, and asked the company to see if they could get us to leave on these terms. When asked if it was firm, the management company suggested that the owner might be willing to incentivize us more, as he is aware this is sudden and unwelcome. \n\nAs stated in the title, we literally just renewed our 12-month lease. There doesn\u2019t seem to be anything in the lease terms that cover this situation. We can potentially find somewhere else, maybe even for less money, but this is a huge blow to us still. \n\nIs the owner legally allowed to make us leave, given the renewed lease? \n\nThanks in advance! ","title":"[San Diego, CA] Our landlord has decided to sell the house we occupy, but we just renewed our year-long lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506373008,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72ffla\/va_fake_id_but_nothing_else\/","id":"72ffla","body":"I was charged with possession of a fake ID, however there was no alcohol involved. It was found when an officer was going through my wallet after searching my room for marijuana. I read about this being dismissed, although I'm not sure if that applies to me since I'm 18. Is it possible to have this dismissed, even in the best case scenario? ","title":"[VA] Fake ID But Nothing Else","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551767908,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axi15o\/wrongfully_charged_with_misdemeanor_battery_i\/","id":"axi15o","body":"Saturday night my friend and I went downtown and because my friend was wearing a red shirt so group of Hispanic guys started provoking an argument with us. Can't remember what was said exactly since we were drunk, but had to do with Norteneo and Sureneo colors. We are not in a gang or anything. Then I remember one of them said they would be waiting outside for us. \n\n​\n\nI remember stepping outside and being sucker punched. Then 3-4 of them started throwing punches at me. My friend being a bigger guy was able to beat 2 of them. One to a pulp. I basically got my ass kicked though and yet the police charged me and my friend for battery. I won't give you all of the details. \n\n​\n\nI have never committed a crime or been arrested before. Work for a local non profit. graduate college in engineering this semester. I'm not a violent person. I was attacked and because I was drunk and my friend won the fight we were the ones arrested. I hired a lawyer to clear my name. When I graduate I don't want anything preventing me from finding a good job. What I want to know is if it's possible or likely for the lawyer to clear my name completely and drop the charges? I mean I already hired him today. Did I make the right move? He said he would contact me again tomorrow. \n\n​\n\nAnything else I should know? ","title":"Wrongfully Charged With Misdemeanor Battery. I Hired A Lawyer. Advice?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554289385,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8wibg\/company_loses_government_work_contract_demanding\/","id":"b8wibg","body":"Hello. My company was notified of intention to lose their government contract bid  to another company by Fedsim. We are now in a protest window. If the protest fails and awards the new company, the new company literally begins a 90 day transition period of taking control of our positions. \n\nI took $10k in relocation to move to this location to work. The stipulation being I had to stay with them for 1 year. I was given the false impression that there was still 4 years left on the contract so this wasn\u2019t a concern initially. \n\nIf my company loses the protest and it\u2019s awarded to the new company, my company is insisting that involuntary separation doesn\u2019t count unless I stay on until the very last possible day and receive a Lack or Work (LOW) letter or I have to pay back all relocation costs (no prorated option). \n\nMy question is, under the assumption my company loses the protest, can an argument be made that involuntary separation occurs once the award has been made because it is inevitable 100% that in 90 days there won\u2019t be work from my original company. Or is there a legal precedence that establishes that even if you know they can\u2019t pay you any longer after a certain point you still have to wait until that date for it to be legally defined as involuntary separation. \n\nIt is beneficial for me to join the new company as early as possible in the event the new company wins the award. \n\nHere is the exact language of the relevant part of the contract I signed to accept relocation. \n\nInvoluntary Separation: In the event the firm initiates separation (Current Employee) or rescinds an offer (New Hire), prior to completing one full year of service the employee will not be required to repay any relocation expenses incurred on their behalf.\n","title":"Company loses government work contract, demanding I stay on until LOW letter or pay back all relocation costs.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541696864,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vbt2y\/the_start_date_for_my_new_contracttohire_keeps\/","id":"9vbt2y","body":"**Dallas, Texas**\n\nI was supposed to start on Monday. Every day, there's been a new reason why my start date needs to be delayed one more day. Now I'm not even getting a reason, just another delay.\n\n# Situation\n\nAround the time I quit my last job (end of last month), I had two job offers. One was from **Higher Paying Co.** for a salary, and the other was from **Contracting Agency** for a six month contract-to-hire at **Trendy Co**. I chose Contracting Agency\/Trendy Co and the $15k+\/yr lower paycheck because I liked the office culture and the job would be a great learning experience.\n\nSome events:\n\n* I turned down Higher Paying Co and signed the Contracting Agency offer. After I've signed, the start date is pushed back two weeks! Unfortunately for me, the offer said \"*estimated* start date,\" not \"start date.\" \n* Three weeks before this Monday, I put in my two weeks notice. I wanted a week of vacation. I've already signed the offer.\n* Last Friday, I got a call from Contracting Agency saying my start date had been pushed from Monday to Wednesday because my workstation was still being set up. I was told I would receive a Visa giftcard with two days' wages.\n* Tuesday, I got a call saying there had been a misunderstanding. My salary conversion after six months would now be $15k LESS. The representative suggested after six months, they help me find another job. My hourly wage for six months is safe, though.\n* The representative from Contracting Agency TOLD Trendy Co what I said about finding another job! Trendy Co flips and says, this is a contract to hire. If you're not interested in becoming a salary employee, don't work for us.\n* I resolve the problem by saying the opportunity is worth more than the salary, so I'll still go. Representative says great, but your start date has been delayed one more day.\n* Representative doesn't answer my call yesterday, just texts me saying she's sorry and she's texting the Trendy Co Vice President right now.\n* No word since then.\n\n# Questions\n\nMy offer at Higher Paying Co. is still standing, and you'll note that now the pay difference after six months is at least $25k, something I didn't know when accepting the offer. Unfortunately, the salary conversion was not in the contract, only verbal. **How screwed am I in getting reparations from Trendy Co or Contracting Agency if I go to Higher Paying Co?**\n\nIf Trendy Co cancels the contract (not sure if this is possible - I haven't seen the agreement between Trendy Co and Contracting Agency), do I have any recourse?\n\nAny general\/situational advice?","title":"The start date for my new contract-to-hire keeps getting pushed back. I've already quit my previous job. Reparations?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539904742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pecoi\/company_refusing_to_pay_pto\/","id":"9pecoi","body":"A co-worker of mine is leaving our office and gave their two weeks notice last week. The company told her this week that they will not be paying out her PTO (about 100 hours) if she does not give 1 months notice. \n\nThey say this is in the handbook. To be honest I haven\u2019t been able to find it in their, but is this even legal? I figured a company would have to pay out PTO hours regardless. ","title":"Company refusing to pay PTO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442505325,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lbcwr\/tx_what_does_sealed_med_report_mean\/","id":"3lbcwr","body":"I was on probation for 5 years, finished a month or so ago. I check the County Clerk's website from time to time to see if anything new is posted. Today it had an entry that said SEALED MED REPORT and i was wondering what that means? I tried googling it and couldn't find any answers. Any help is much appreciated","title":"TX - What does SEALED MED REPORT mean?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553825382,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6ro6e\/is_there_a_way_to_get_my_dad_to_have_full_custody\/","id":"b6ro6e","body":"Hi, so my mom is very egocentric, she mocks me, makes me embarrassed, and only wants me to have good grades so she can brag and since im the \"smart\" kid (did good for 1-4 grades) that it pisses her off when i get bad grades, she favors my siblings over me. So is there a way that I can get my dad to have full custody of me and my mom not get  in trouble?","title":"Is there a way to get my dad to have full custody of me but not my other siblings?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506411570,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72iu73\/criminal_property_damage_victim_wi\/","id":"72iu73","body":"I have an open criminal property damage case against my boyfriend of 5 years.  We've reconciled and settled things between the two of us. (i.e he is undergoing counseling and paid for repairs).  I have yet to submit an official statement or receipts for repairs to the courts.  I want the case dropped.  Would it be better to submit an official statement or to let the case die during trial?  I know I don't have the power to drop the charges, but from a prosecution standpoint which route would be best?","title":"Criminal Property Damage Victim (WI)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552975575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2tptm\/ny_my_ex_boyfriend_is_a_selfadmitted_pedophile\/","id":"b2tptm","body":"I want to make sure I have done everything I can to prevent him offending especially because he is aspiring to become a social worker working with children in his \u201cdesired\u201d age range. He is currently 20. To the best of my knowledge he has not possessed child pornography or touched a child inappropriately but he has a large collection of lolicon. I\u2019m very confused on the legality of lolicon. Is there anything I can do legally? \n\nAlso, I want to make it abundantly clear this isn\u2019t a revenge related thing and it\u2019s out of concern for children especially since I have a sister in his \u201cdesired\u201d age range.","title":"[NY] My ex boyfriend is a self-admitted pedophile and I want to cover all my bases legally.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554923949,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbq4gx\/new_york_driving_without_insurance_from_out_of\/","id":"bbq4gx","body":"I apologize if this is not the place for the question but I cannot find the answer I\u2019m seeking anywhere else I\u2019ve looked. I\u2019ll keep it simple. In New Hampshire, you\u2019re not required to have vehicle insurance. I want to drive through the state of New York, where the penalty for driving without insurance involves a hefty fine and possible vehicle impoundment. My car is registered and inspected in New Hampshire. What would happen if I were pulled over?","title":"[New York] Driving without insurance from out of state","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553030172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b330bm\/teacher_taking_photos_of_me_and_friends_without\/","id":"b330bm","body":"Hopefully this is the right place for this, if not please direct me to a more appropriate subreddit. I'm also typing this on mobile, so please excuse any grammar or spelling mistakes.\n\nFor a little background:\nI go to a very large school in Texas that is known to already have numerous issues with students. I've lived here for almost two years now and had to transfer out of my school due to internal conflicts last year. I did a semester at the new high school then transferred back to my original high school to be with my friends. Most of the administration know me very well as they have completely disregarded incidents that I have brought up to them. Main issue being that a fellow student and I were both bullied, when I tried to file a report all of the assistant principals (ap) as well as the principal dismissed the case without allowing me to even write a formal statement. This one ap in particular has caused great pain in my life (as well as very close friends of mine. He has also called a close friend of mine a \"suicidal freak\" to her over the phone with her mom on the line) that has lead to self harm and other unorthodox ways of dealing with my pain. The ap has continuously been reported for harrassment by my friends, but the school always sides with the AP, as he acts dumb to the things he is responsible for. I blew up on him a few weeks ago and was issued in-school suspension for yelling at him. A conference with me, the ap, and another admin to try and figure out why I acted out. When i explained why i acted the AP acted as if non of it ever happened and the school once again sided with him, making it look like I made everything up. So, with all this in mind, I know that whatever is to happen the school will continue to side against me. \n\nBackground out of the way, the last period ended and everyone was released. Me and my friends went outside to our cars and were all talking. I had the trunk of my jeep opened and I was going over notes related to this car restoration project with my friend. We all park pretty far away from the school in a parking lot shared between the students and faculty. We have already had issues with this one teacher who parks in the area yell at me and my friend about smoking (me and my friend are far away from the school and others, of age, and have ash trays so we dont leave butts anywhere, we also dont make it obvious at all that we are smoking). Today however, when we where standing outside trying to make some plans and going over my car notes, the teacher pulled up next to us accusing us of smoking and saying that she took pictures of us and will report us. My whole issue with the situation is that she took pictures of us without our consent. One of my friends who was standing with us is 17, so that also means she was taking pictures of a minor without consent.\n\nDoes anyone have any advice as to what to do, or if she is even allowed to be taking pictures of us without our consent? I dont personally care about any consequences that I recieve as a student, I have really given up on everything academic as well as in my personal life. I'm just frustrated with the school getting away with all the stuff they do to the students and being framed as the good guys, while the students are framed as degenerate liars.","title":"Teacher taking photos of me and friends without consent.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570344006,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddznk1\/nm_my_siblings_and_i_were_bequeathed_a_house_they\/","id":"ddznk1","body":"How can I accomplish this while keeping everything above board? I imagine that somehow I could purchase the property from the estate? I also recognize the inherent conflict of interest in that scenario, which is why I've come here. I have read a little about an overbid process that may be required for selling a house in probate although I am not sure yet if that's required in New Mexico.","title":"[NM] My siblings and I were bequeathed a house. They want to cash out. I would like to keep it as a rental. I am also the estate's executor.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553537702,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5e87i\/am_i_responsible_for_allergic_reactions_if_i_am\/","id":"b5e87i","body":"I will be selling boxes filled with various treats and am curious if I am liable for a customer having an allergic reaction of the products I am reselling.\n\nIf so, how do I protect myself without insurance?","title":"Am I responsible for allergic reactions if I am reselling food\/various products in a subscription box service?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1413310983,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2j8loq\/someone_sold_me_a_pirated_copy_of_software_is\/","id":"2j8loq","body":"Hello, This is my first time posting here so hopefully I am doing this right. Just yesterday I purchased a piece of digital musical equipment on craigslist. The equipment was supposed to come with the compatible software, which was stated on the advertisement to have a clean serial code and would be legitimate. \n\nI later went to install the software after I made the transaction and it doesn't seem to work. After looking into it, I find a file wight eh exact same name on The Pirate Bay and realize this person sold me a pirated copy of the software. Obviously selling a pirate copy of the software is very illegal and extremely punishable. I tried to be civil with the person. I texted him and told him i discovered he sold em a pirated version of the software and I informed him of the legality. I simply asked him for my money back, as I am a busy college kid and I'm not trying to start any trouble, I just want my money back. As expected, he has neglected to text me back yet.\n\nMy question is this: I have screen shots of his craigslist post, his phone number, his first name, and the stuff that he sold me. Is there any type of legal action I could take to get reimbursement seeing as how he was violating (i assume) some kind of copyright law? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advanced.\n\nEDIT: Location is Las vegas","title":"Someone sold me a pirated copy of software. Is there anyway I can take legal action?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1505073225,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zag13\/nyc_signing_a_lease_where_i_already_have_been\/","id":"6zag13","body":"Hi, \n\nSo I live in NYC. I have been living in my current apt for over 10 months. This week the landlord wants to renew lease.  One roommate texted about me signing lease. \n\nI said sure, but now am nervous because I already have been living there. My credit report, pay stubs, and bank statement say that address. So, idk what would happen when he sees my app. My one roommate who asked, said it may be in the lease they can't sublet. I didn't know this until recently. \n\nAm I doing anything wrong by saying I've been using mailing address? Should I just say I've been living there? On my credit report it says since July of this year that has been my address.\n\nAlso, I have not gotten a new ID. It still has my address from my parent's place in another state. \n\nThanks","title":"[NYC] Signing a lease where I already have been subletting, roommates never contacted landlord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570468057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/demdhd\/pet_waste_as_a_lease_violation\/","id":"demdhd","body":"So this is my first time posting here, im on mobile, and english is my second language so I'm sorry for any formatting issues,or language issues please bear with me.\n\n\nSo my boyfriend  and I have been living in our apartment  complex for a little over two years; we really liked living where we are as it's close to my doctor's office and 5 minutes  away from my boyfriend's  work. But recently we have had a problem between the owner\/ landlord and ourselves and want some advice to see if anything can be done.\n\nI want to preface this by saying we have been late on our rent maybe twice but never over 24 hrs. We have never had a problem with anyone around us, no destruction of property or  anything like that.\n\nSo here's the issue, we have two medium size dogs and our apartment  complex had a small little dog park they converted from a tennis court. We have used it with no issues till a few months ago. Management  decided that if you have dogs you had to bring your pet in and have a sample if DNA taken. They now have implemented  an policy that in short terms if any  sample of your pet waste is taken from the property no matter how big or small you would be fined. The first time is a 200 dollar fine and any time after that it's  a 500 dollar fine payable immediately and considered a lease violation. We are very, VERY vigilant  on cleaning  up after our girls. We buy our own bags and after dark carry a flashlight to be sure we won't miss  anything.\n\nLast month they claimed we didn't cleanup after the girls and charged us, we were incredibly  surprised  and flabbergasted by it but we paid it. This month again they said we didn't clean up and have charged us the 500. At this point we think its ridiculous and are a bit angry because since last month we've been even more careful. So now we are giving them 30 days  notice of  out intent to leave and not renew  our lease.\n\nWe feel this has been quite ridiculous  and want to know if their is anything we can do legally to get these fines reversed or as a way to get the lease violation and the breaking of the lease taken off our credit record.\n\nI don't know if anything  can be done but I wanted to make sure and cover the bases and see if anything can be done. \n\nThank you for your time and for any advice given.","title":"Pet waste as a lease violation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553826575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6rv89\/can_i_break_my_lease_if_i_feel_unsafe_due_to\/","id":"b6rv89","body":"I live in a small privately owned apartment building in south Florida, I moved into this apartment 7 months ago, my current apartment had mold and everything decent was booked up for the season. The current landlord did not make me aware that he was selling the property and made false promises that he would fix it up. The tenant before me really trashed this place, and as expected the landlord never followed through with repairs. I have had to replace & fix multiple things, oven, windows, doors etc.  On top of all this I was constantly harassed and stalked by my neighbor, he even vandalized my property on multiple occasions. And I recently caught another previous tenant in my backyard at 4 am feeding stray cats. The building was then sold to another private owner and the neighbor harassing me was evicted but still comes onto the property, he was here yesterday and definitely cracked the windshield on my company car. I have reported all these incidents to the police except the most recent. Not only do I not feel unsafe, but the neighbors are constantly getting bedbugs, my ac breaks all the time and I'm simply exhausted from living like this.\n\nIs any of this grounds to break my lease without the consequences of being liable for any rent\/difference until the lease is up ?","title":"Can I break my lease if I feel unsafe due to harassment, vandalism & multiple building code violations ? (No smoke alarms, no hurricane impact windows etc.)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555030100,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc7hrw\/can_a_separated_not_divorced_mother_prevent_a\/","id":"bc7hrw","body":"One of my friends has a father across the country but her mother said she wouldn\u2019t let him see him if she got anything below a C on  his report card. Please help.","title":"Can a separated (not divorced) mother prevent a child from seeing its father across the country?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541457936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uii2z\/my_sister_needs_to_get_a_divorce_from_her_husband\/","id":"9uii2z","body":"Okay I\u2019m really sorry this feels like it\u2019s gonna be long winded. I\u2019m also on mobile but I\u2019ll try to keep this organized and as short as possible. \n\nSetting: Tx \nS - sister, M- mom, \nBrother in law(going crazy)- BIL\nkids- G1,G2, B. \n\nM calls me and tells me what\u2019s going on randomly asking for hacking help. Ps I\u2019m not a hacker I was just good at power cycling the router. Apparently shit is going down hard. S is under the tyranny of bil. They both caugh each other  cheating, he\u2019s been doing it for years, even coerced s into a 3way against her wishes. She was more his toy. So she went looking for affection he caught her. \n\nNow bil is becoming aggressive and physical to s and G1 because she stands up for s.\n\nThere\u2019s way more drama, this well is fucking deep. \n\nM now wants to put cameras in s and bil\u2019s home with s\u2019s help and permission but under m\u2019s possession. (That sounds like trouble to me) since bil has full access to all of s\u2019s accounts for everything. I don\u2019t know why she gave him the keys to the fucking proverbial castle of digital freedoms but she has. \n\nG1 is 17 and has been pinned to a wall by her neck (she\u2019s a tiny track runner) bil is a retired navy guy. He\u2019s become aggressive and physical with her when she defends her mom. \n\nS and m want to get video of this to use against bil and have him committed. He can\u2019t be arrested or the kids lose the military college benefits of bil. They\u2019re not going to be able to afford schooling without it. \n\nBil has G2 in his pocket and is putting G1vs G2 and B is 15 and on G1 side. \n\nS is currently going to school under bil\u2019s retire benefits. If bil gets arrested I\u2019m told they lose the family medical and the kids college help. \n\nAny advice on what advice to give would be super appreciated. I moved overseas to avoid this drama tbh. \n\n","title":"My sister needs to get a divorce from her husband who has become crazy and abusive. My mother is about to maybe do some illegal things... I\u2019m trying to stop this drama from across the globe.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571733547,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlf11s\/abusive_sibling\/","id":"dlf11s","body":"I have an abusive sibling(sibling 1, aged 10) that physically abused myself and other sibling (sibling 2 aged 8) on many occasions. Take for example this morning:\nI was in bed along with the rest of the house when sibling 1 lit a stick of insense, me having asthma was largely affected by this. When my mum asked him to put it out he refused and ran off, about ten mins later I hear a scream from the other room. It was sibling 2 being burned by sibling 1 with the stick of lit insense my mother and I rushed in she took the insense off him, put it out and in the bin, no punishment given. 5 mins later I can smell it again and go to investigate sibling 1 has another lit stick, I snatch it from him, put it out and put it in the bin. In his room I find several packets of the stuff stashed away which I give to my mum. Later sibling 1 revealed to me that he lit the insense to trigger my asthma. As we where getting in the car to leave for school siblng 1 punched sibling 2 many times to the point of crying his eyes out.\n\nThis stuff is a regular occurance and sibling 1 is a serious threat to the entire family but my mum doesn't see that, as a teenager in Australia is there any legal action I can take to have him sent to boarding school or to live full time at his dads on the premise that he is dangerous, would it hold up in court?","title":"Abusive sibling","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507234635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74inb2\/wisconsin_may_have_accidentally_committed\/","id":"74inb2","body":"A few days ago, a got a call from a police detective, who informed me that I am currently under investigation for felony identity theft\/fraud. \n\nIn August of 2016 I moved into an apartment with my now ex girlfriend. Gas and water were included in our rent, so our only utility was power. When we first moved in, the electric bill came after the first month addressed to the house, but under neither of our names. Stupidly not thinking anything of it, we just paid the bill. (Idiot Mistake 1)\n\nTime goes by, she moves out, one of my friends moves in, bill keeps coming, we keep paying. When it's time to move out in late July, we don't bother doing anything with the electric bill, because I figured it would be ok. (Idiot Mistake 2)\n\nWell, it obviously wasn't OK. Turns out, it wasn't the landlord's wife the utilities were under, but the previous tenant, who hopefully, never shut them off.\n\nIm saying hopefully, because the detective made it sound like that is the crux of this case. If I can prove that I didn't open a utilities account in this previous tenant's name, then i'm just dumb, not malicious.\n\nI just have no idea where to start. I called the utilities company and they stonewalled me, since they think I committed fraud now, and I need that account information to at least partially exonerate myself. I just have no idea where to start.\n\n","title":"[Wisconsin] May have accidentally committed identity theft, or at best, fraud?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569798532,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db2sag\/car_was_stolen_last_night_and_i_am_being_forced\/","id":"db2sag","body":"So long story short, my car was broken into last night and stolen from my house.  The person who stole my car ended up running out of gas and was immediately stopped by the police. The person is in custody and I was told my car is currently in impound. Police department says I am responsible for towing and impound fees. It\u2019s about $300 in total which isn\u2019t going to break me, but I think it\u2019s ridiculous that I am responsible for these charges, when it was my car that was stolen. Can I file a lawsuit against the car jacker in order to avoid paying this?","title":"Car was stolen last night and I am being forced to pay for towing and getting it out of impound.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554492545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9vj8s\/occupants_rights_with_emotional_support_animal\/","id":"b9vj8s","body":"My girlfriend is an occupant on my lease but not listed as a tenant. She has an ESA letter from her therapist but her dog is listed on the restricted breed list at my apartment complex. Can she legally keep the dog in our apartment being that she is only an occupant. Thanks in advance for your help!","title":"Occupants rights with emotional support animal.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555538713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bedphn\/urgent_i_have_a_court_summons_for_an_out_of_state\/","id":"bedphn","body":"Hey guys. So unbeknownst to me, I was supposed to have my out of state license switched to a Florida license 30 days after I moved into my apartment here (January 2018!). I go to court for it next month. The officer advised I can have the charges dropped if I get a Florida license before the court date. But I was researching Florida statutes and this license change law doesn\u2019t apply to full time students. I\u2019m a full time online student and my school has a campus 30 minutes from my apartment. I can\u2019t find anything that says that wouldn\u2019t count. It would be much easier for me to just keep my out of state license because I turn 21 in a few months and will need to renew it anyways and was going to get a FL license then. \n\nShould I be safe and get the Florida license (DMV appointment is tomorrow afternoon) or should I go to court and present the argument that this law doesn\u2019t apply to me as a full time student?","title":"Urgent! I have a court summons for an out of state license as an online student","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443822521,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n9zdf\/workers_comp_claim_denied_bill_in_collections\/","id":"3n9zdf","body":"About 2 years ago my SO was injured while on a business trip out of state. The company she worked for is in Colorado.  She was sent to the hospital and had some tests\/scans done and her company had given her the relevant information over the phone for their workmans comp insurance which was then provided to the hospital. Her company was very careful to never discuss this over email.  About 2 weeks ago we get a notice from a collections company that she owes the hospital several thousand dollars. She has communicated to the hospital that this was a workmans comp claim and the hospital mentioned that this happens frequently.  The hospital went back to the insurance company to find that the claim was denied and they have appealed their decision only to be denied again.  We have now been informed that we must pay or her credit will start to get negative marks.  We are curious what are options are? Should we just pay, or should we fight?","title":"Workers Comp Claim Denied. Bill in Collections.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1550010806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apz9ca\/my_f29_father_m66_died_intestate_a_week_ago_he\/","id":"apz9ca","body":"Hi all,\n\nLast Saturday, my father was supposed to come visit my son and I. When he hadn\u2019t shown up by noon and hadn\u2019t answered my calls, I knew something was up. My partner came back and helped me pack up our son, and we made the 2 hour trip to where my father was living in Maryland (I know different states have different laws for these situations, so hopefully the location will help). I found him passed away.\n\nDad never expected to die young; he had no will. To complicate things further, he was \u201coff the grid\u201d for the past ~20 years after my parents divorced. What I mean by that is that he lived in a camper trailer with your power or running water. He was mentally ill, and very paranoid (big distrust of government\/\u201cthe man\u201d watching him).\n\nSo, this is where I stand: Dad owned his property outright as far as I know, and maintained current payment on the property taxes (I found a recent receipt). At one point in time, he owned another plot of land in Virginia, but I haven\u2019t found any record of his having maintained taxes so far; I\u2019m clueless as to how to proceed figuring that out.\n\nDad owned some large equipment (he did handy jobs for a living) that I can\u2019t find any titles for\/records of. He had two SUVs which I\u2019ve found the registration for. He had additional large trucks which he used for parts that I can\u2019t find registration for. He also owned some firearms that I\u2019m 10000% sure are unregistered and we\u2019re obtained illegally.\n\nHe had no credit cards, and I\u2019m not sure if he even had a bank account. The most recent statement I found was dated from 2014. He had PO Box keys, but the mail I found that had a box number was all old (2014) and the keys don\u2019t open the box that corresponds to the mail.\n\nI suppose what I\u2019m looking for is any advice on where to start. Since he was intestate there\u2019s no clear idea of what he\u2019d wanted done. I\u2019m next of kin, and an only child so at least there won\u2019t be any debate on how to divide the estate. I hate to say this, but most of what he owned was junk; I\u2019m just hoping there\u2019s enough to cover paying my uncle back for the cost of cremation and the funeral. There\u2019s certainly not enough for me to feel confident that I\u2019ll be able to recoup money spent on a probate lawyer, so I\u2019m trying to wrap my brain around what needs to be done myself. Today I received copies of his death certificate so I do have that.\n\nAny advice on where to start\/how to even get the power to handle things\/try to access any accounts he may have had would be tremendously appreciated.\n\ntldr; father died intestate and did not keep records of any accounts he had, very little equipment he owned, or any practical information for the handling of his estate. Where to even begin?\n","title":"My (F29) father (M66) died intestate a week ago. He was \u201coff the grid\u201d and figuring out what to do is a nightmare. [US]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1408644885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e79nu\/roommates_removed_my_fire_alarm_massachusetts\/","id":"2e79nu","body":"Hi guys, would really appreciate some advice. I rented a room in an apartment for the past year in Massachusetts, but due to health issues, I spent my nights over in my SO's apartment (both landlords were aware and indicated they were okay with the arrangement). In my absence, my two roommates occasionally went into and stored stuff in my room; I didn't give express permission, but didn't particularly mind, either. Some time in the last few months, however, they removed all the fire alarms from the apartment, including the one in my room, due to beeping from batteries dying; I wasn't aware until I went over to start moving out. Now they're threatening a lawsuit against my landlord because she wants to deduct the costs of two missing alarms from their deposit. Their argument is that she's responsible for maintaining the alarms, including their battery switches (I think batteries are consumables, like light bulbs, so it was our responsibility, not the landlord's - correct me if I'm wrong). The roommates never notified me about the alarms, or else I would have gone over and changed the batteries myself.\n\nSince one of the missing alarms was in my room, I offered to pay for it, but the landlord refused me, saying it wasn't my fault (since I didn't remove it). I'm concerned, though, that if both the landlord and the roommates are serious and go to civil court, it'll come out that the alarms were removed. If I'm understanding MA law correctly, removal of the detectors is a criminal offense punishable by up to $1000 and up to a year in jail. Since I am responsible for the room, could I be in trouble, even though they essentially broke into my room and removed it?\n\nIt's such a mess over what's probably $50 that I wish my landlord would just take my money and call it a day, but she doesn't think it's fair.","title":"Roommates removed my fire alarm. (Massachusetts)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570060457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dciuhs\/louisiana_can_a_companyemployer_deduct_time_for\/","id":"dciuhs","body":"So I was going through my time card and noticed anywhere from .45 to an hour being removed from anything close to 5 hours. I'm part time and a student so I work 3-9, and am not allowed to take a break between 3-6 because I work in a high volume part of the dealership. Is this legal, if not what recourse do I have and what steps should I take?","title":"{Louisiana} Can a company\/employer deduct time for unused lunch breaks?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541635020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v4vi7\/work_refuses_to_pay_holidaypay_on_remembrance_day\/","id":"9v4vi7","body":"So on Monday November 11th we were told we have to come in for work on remembrance day because the company we work for is based in Ontario and they don\u2019t do remembrance day. Which i find stupid because how many companies are from different locations.... and if I had a Veteran in my family, i would also be furious ( I dont, im just saying) BUT Instead we get Boxing day off but my question is, what is the legality to this? Them not paying us for working on a government holiday is not right, right? I mean I like having boxing day off but I dont like companies pulling BS. thanks","title":"Work refuses to pay holiday-pay on remembrance day [ British Columbia, Canada]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571085692,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhwqe9\/i_need_advice_regarding_a_custody_matter_arizona\/","id":"dhwqe9","body":"Hi everyone, \n\nI need help! I am divorced and we do have a child \"together\" (my biological child - he adopted my son ironically the year that we divorced). Two weeks ago my ex-husband had his parent teacher conference with our son's teachers. It was less than stellar and he had asked to talk with our son that night regarding this. I had no qualms and did let him have that conversation, until it came time for his bedtime. When this happened I had our son (M) tell his dad that it was his bed time and then end the call. This ended up being the \"wrong\" decision according to my ex and he screamed at me on the phone that he was going to take me to court because I'm denying him parenting time and other allegations. He then said we wouldn't be going to court but that he would petition the court for mediation unless I agreed to meet with him in person to talk about his concerns. I am not comfortable meeting with him in person as any interactions I have with him become hostile and quite frankly I am afraid of him. He has been controlling everything since we became divorced. He makes more than 3 times what I make on an annual basis and has an attorney lined up at any point he needs them. I cannot afford an attorney unfortunately and am intimidated by this fact. He has e-mailed me multiple times recently which I can share with anyone who wants more of a backstory. His most recent e-mail is listed below: \n\n​\n\n\" It turns out that the best course of action is not for mediation but to pursue enforcement of the child custody agreement which will lead to your reimbursing my filing, service and attorney fees in addition to any legal sanctions which could include jail time that may be imposed on you for again being in contempt of a court order. Arizona law (A.R.S. \u00a725-403.06). I am prepared to do so but really think we can resolve this outside the court for M's sake because I would hate for him to have to deal with you receiving jail time but you are giving me no choice.\n\nThe sole purpose of my request for an in-person meeting is to be able to sit down and talk these violations out without the interference of third parties and to present the physical evidence so we can come up with solutions benefitting M as well as both of us. I have already come up with multiple ideas which I believe are more than fair considering the situation. However, I am tired of being the nice guy and getting constantly screwed by you since you think this is all a joke and you can do whatever you want regardless of the court order. We have only 4 yrs. and 9 mos. left that we have to deal with each other and trust me, I am more excited about that than you. So here is the deal, you meet me at Westgate fountain park either at 6:30pm tonight, tomorrow night or Wednesday night where it is public and neutral. We will sit inside one of the restaurants to discuss and resolve the situation. If you still refuse or do not reply, I will file enforcement paperwork which will include multiple violations.\n\nAs you believe there is nothing to resolve, here are some but not all the violations that you have committed limited to just in the last 9 months and of which I have well documented verified evidence of:\n\nFailure to adhere to joint parenting with regard to decision making.\n\nFailure to inform promptly of important events.\n\nHurting my relationship with M through actions made by you.\n\nFailure to consult with me regarding extra activities that lessen my access to M.\n\nPreventing me from having access to M.\n\nFailure to work cooperatively in future plans consistent with the best interest of M.\n\nFailure to amicably resolve such disputes as may arise.\n\nThis is not an attempt to bully you but you claimed to not be aware of anything wrong so I am informing you of them. I have been more than lenient in requesting to meet so I have made the selection of a meeting place that about equal distance.\"\n\nMy question is: Do I \\*have\\* to meet with him? If we do go to court, how should I prepare? I just need advice quite simply. :(","title":"I need advice regarding a custody matter... (Arizona)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503198626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uthq2\/canada_can_i_withold_rent_from_my_landlord_if\/","id":"6uthq2","body":"So basically my landlord relocated this couple from the building to right next to me, and all they do is smoke and drink beer all day long. They yell and fight and just behave like animals. Pretty bad, huh?\n\nWell, one day I was leaving my apartment and the woman who lives there approached me outside, completely drunk and starts lipping off. I tell her to stay away from me and she charges at me, resulting in a brief grapple. I push her off of me, not really an issue physically, but then she calls the police and lies to them and makes a big deal out of it.\n\nSo I explain to the police what happened and they don't press charges, but they take everyone's statements and leave. This woman then makes an even bigger deal and tells the landlord her fake story about how I dragged her out of her apartment and started assaulting her.\n\nThe landlord doesn't like me very much because everytime there is an issue in the building i'm pretty vocal about it. They hear both our stories and immediately give me a notice to evict, and they are filing directly with the LTB, and using her fake witness statement with the police as proof. \n\nThen she goes and tells her husband and her husbands friends the fake version of her story and there's been a lot of tension around lately. This is definitely building up towards a physical confrontation.\n\nI informed the landlord and they are deliberately ignoring the complaints in regards to this matter.\n\nCan I withold rent from the Landlord until they deal with this issue? I'm not really getting any enjoyment out of living here at this point because I can hear these people swearing at me next door and she is trying to provoke an angry response from her husband towards me. \n\n\nI would also like to add that there have been several N5's in the past from the landlord trying to evict me, none of which actually succeeded, all for issues I did NOT cause. Everytime I bring my version of any situation that goes on (noise, fighting, littering), they don't listen to me and serve me an N5. \n\n","title":"[CANADA] Can I withold rent from my Landlord if they are being difficult and refuse to deal with a safety issue around my apartment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541372917,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u8531\/contempt_of_court_and_motion_to_modify\/","id":"9u8531","body":"LOUISIANA\n\nThis is a throwaway account for obvious reasons.. but I am hoping to get some light shed on my concerns. \n\nMy child\u2019s father and I share 50:50 custody of our toddler daughter. We settled outside of court in January with our attorneys and on January 1st 2018, our agreement was filed with the court and went into effect. \n\nTwo weeks ago I filed contempt charges and a motion to modify our agreement for the following reasons:\n\n1. Father only exercises 21-39% of his shared time over the coarse of the last 11 months. 39% being the highest ever exercised. (Work trips, cancels time for his personal activities, just doesn\u2019t feel like being a father that night, most of which are all last minute).\n2. Violation of a stipulated decree to notify the other parent of a medical issue. (Twice)\n3. Constantly late on child support (never pays the full amount).\n4. Violated the morality clause with a romantic interest. (Must be in a 6 month consistent relationship before our child is introduced\u2014had his girlfriend basically cohabiting in month three).\n5. Refuses to discuss and\/or agree on extra curricular activities for our daughter because it will disrupt his personal schedule (even though it will be his scheduled days he is only responsible for.\n6. Blocked my number so I can not communicate regarding our daughter (spitefully while she is sick). We never communicate more than 2-3 times over a month, so nothing is excessive). \n7. Continues to bully me and push me into a corner saying \u201chis money is power and a judge will do nothing more than a slap on the hand, so \u2018try me\u2019\u201d type of conversations when we do communicate.\n8. Violated the order by refusing to bring our child back to me after the scheduled parenting time was over.\n9. I am the one who is constantly responsible for taking off of work to care for our child when she is sick and can not attend daycare, or the daycare is closed\u2014on his scheduled time and mine\u2014even though our order states the parent whose scheduled time is responsible. Ratio of 26:3\n10. His new girlfriend has two toddlers of her own, and when my child returns to me after his visitation, all of her manners, structure, schedule are completely out of the window. Not to mention, she craves attention from me like she hasn\u2019t had any one-on-one in days. \n\nI know that is very lengthy\u2014but I\u2019m hoping to get some advice on how this will actually hold up in court. From what my attorney states \u201che wanted 50\/50 on paper to get out of a high child support\u2014because he\u2019s not exercising his parenting time or his parental responsibilities\u201d. I am motioning to modify our agreement from 50\/50 to more of a 70\/30\u2013so our daughter has more of a structured environment, and can get the proper developmental skills she needs at such a young age. (Example: fully potty trained with me, but after a weekend with her father, it\u2019s all out the window).\n\nI am asking you guys because basically, I\u2019m not paying you for an answer. I trust my attorney, but just want some light shed on this situation.\n\nAny advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!","title":"Contempt of Court and Motion to Modify","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540969060,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9swewb\/doors_at_work_were_locked_up_when_i_arrived_in\/","id":"9swewb","body":"Apparently the boss (the dragon mistress) didn\u2019t keep up with rent. We are all on part time contracts. She owes us termination (2 weeks) and a payout of our leave. She is refusing to pay anything and has dropped off contact for 3 months. \nFair work got involved but couldn\u2019t do anything if she refused to communicate. They told me to take her to small claims court but that costs $300 and could take 6 months. \nWe are currently talking to journalists who are cracking down on wage theft to get some publicity. Any other hot ideas? Technically she has not even let me know I am fired (not by writing or verbally) and it turns out she was not even paying super or tax the whole time! Does this ramp it up to anything that I could call the popo? \n\nThanks!! ","title":"Doors at work were locked up when I arrived in the morning. No warning, no payout! (aus)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555505103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be7cun\/potential_employer_asking_me_to_resign_before_job\/","id":"be7cun","body":"Hi everyone,\n\nI\u2019ve interviewed with a solid job, which the manager of that department wants to hire me. He says the hiccup is that his boss, the VP of operations, cannot hire me directly without me quitting my current employer first. His reasoning is that said VP has a non-compete agreement between his company and mine to not directly hire each other\u2019s workers. For some background, this VP started his career with the company I work at currently for about 10 years and jumped ship to run their operations. Advice? Is that legal? I\u2019m in TX if that helps. Let me know if I can provide any information.","title":"Potential Employer Asking Me to Resign Before Job Offer Due to VP\u2019s Non-Compete","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539969554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9plw82\/friend_9_603_miles_away_is_being_sued_by_own\/","id":"9plw82","body":"Not sure if this is the right place to post this so I apologize in advance for using the incorrect flair and if it is not relevant.\n\nI met this friend of mine, B from Ecuador while we were studying in an Australian university 8 years ago. He graduated few years later and couldn't stay on so he had to go back to his hometown in Quito, Ecuador while I remained in Australia. We haven't been in touch since but I had a call from B this week out of no where and asking for help. Apparently B's elder sister and brother-in-law (sister's husband) is pursuing legal action against B for the threat of domestic violence, at least that's what I think it is according to the way he explained and also the legal documents he sent me which were all in Spanish (has to use google translate). \n\nHowever, B said that this is not true and he is being falsely accused and I believe him (from the time I've known B, he's not a violent person). Unfortunately he told me his family (parents and other elder sister) is siding with his sister and will be her witness in court. I'm not sure how is B's relationship with his family since he never mentioned them before but it must feel pretty shitty to be in his position where his whole family is against him. \n\nB told me that he doesn't have any evidence to defend against her sister and family's claims but he told me his partner and his friends are willing to be his witness and declare that B is innocent and the accusations made against B is false. \n\nApart from witness testimonies, is there anything else worth pursuing to help convince the Judge that claims against B is false?\n\nAppreciate all the advice I can get and hope the information above is clear and specific enough. TA.\n","title":"Friend 9, 603 miles away is being sued by own family for \"being a threat for domestic violence\"","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569871307,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbgq7i\/lawyer_is_telling_me_i_dont_need_to_be_at_a\/","id":"dbgq7i","body":"My ex and I are in litigation for our children. I've been the sole provider for the kids during the school year for about 9 months and she is now moving back into the area. We intend to settle with joint custody but even if we can't come to an agreement that will likely be the judgement. \n\n\nRegardless our \"Pre-trial settlement conference\" is set for Wednesday. That paperwork says ALL PARTIES AND THEIR COUNCIL OF RECORD MUST APPEAR\" \nMy lawyer has told me several time that I don't need to show. My ex is continuously emailing me stating I need to be there to settle this. I want to trust the lawyer and think he has my best interests, but feel he may be dragging this out to make more hourly. I DO NOT want to go to court or have my kids in front of a judge. \n\n\n Should I go anyway?","title":"Lawyer is telling me I don't need to be at a pre-trial conference. All the paperwork says otherwise.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1502909705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u482m\/can_someone_elses_insurance_co_actually_get_my\/","id":"6u482m","body":"I'm a delivery driver for a pizzeria. I was involved in an accident back in march of this year. There was more damage to my car than his truck but he swore it was my fault and I was too shook up to argue so I claimed responsibility (like an idiot). My insurance told me they won't cover it since I was delivering food. I hadn't heard anything since then until today when the other guy's insurance called to say that I could have my license suspended if my store doesn't have insurance (and knowing how cheep the owner is, we probably don't. ) Can my license really be suspended and is there anything I can do about this?","title":"Can someone else's insurance co actually get my drivers license suspended?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1412464897,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ibcu9\/may_i_distribute_encrypted_files_if_i_dont_also\/","id":"2ibcu9","body":"[Removed. This was probably the wrong place to ask this question.]","title":"May I distribute encrypted files if I don't also distribute the key?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507785667,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75uxev\/recent_termination_salary_payback_requested\/","id":"75uxev","body":"So here\u2019s my story. \nI started working for a small financial planning and wealth management firm in Washington state in early July. Normally in this industry you are only paid when you sign a client and they pay for services \u2013 but that can be difficult when you have bills and you are building a book from scratch. \n\nAs part of the employment agreement with this firm they agreed to pay me $7,500\/mo essentially as a draw, offset by any income I generate and the balance would be paid back over the period of the year following termination of that base pay rate (termed as an interest free loan.) \n\nThen something I certainly didn\u2019t expect happened, they terminated me this week. I haven\u2019t heard back from the president of the company on the dollar amount but in my exit interview we did discuss the fact that I would be paying back something at the start of the year. \n\nBy my math they have paid me for 3 months, so they have paid me $22,500 (I haven\u2019t generated any revenue in the short time of my employment with them.) I\u2019m not trying to assume the worst here, but I should have gotten paid at least minimum wage over that period, but I am concerned that he will come back with a figure somewhere around there. \n\nThe thought that someone may ask me to pay them for working at their company for three months is highly concerning to me. The reasons for my termination have nothing to do with performance or money, and are irrelevant for this issue. \n\nI\u2019m hoping to be equipped for the inevitable conversation I will have the with president of the company, and I\u2019m wondering what my options are for countering the number he lays at my feet. While my contract said that I owe back a base of $7,500, I just can\u2019t come to grips with the idea of working my ass off there for three months and owing every dime back to them. This also makes things with the clients I came over with from my previous firm very challenging, and there is a case for lost revenue from those relationships which I am also likely to lose outright. \n\nI will add that I am considering contacting a wrongful termination attorney as the reasons cited for my termination were related to basically not making friends with people in the office, which I found difficult as a sober person in an office of people who only talked about drinking and only socialized at happy hours\/wine tasting events. \n\nBeing totally honest here, I was talking to these guys about working there until I retire and they pulled the rug out from under me. While I'm somewhat grateful that it all stopped before I went too deep in the hole, the circumstances under which it happened were very unexpected and have put me in a very bad spot. I want to minimize the financial impact to me to the best of my legal ability.\n","title":"Recent Termination, salary payback requested","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538973326,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mbu98\/custody_and_house\/","id":"9mbu98","body":"I'm a travel nurse In a pickle over custody of my son. My ex (separated but not divorced) lied and got temporary emergency custody stating he thought I would take my son out of state. I'm going to go back home pending the end of this contract and get a permanent day job and live in the house that is in both mine and my husband's name.\n\nMy ex is saying I cant stay there but he wants me to pay the mortgage. Is there any legal basis that would prevent me from living in the house if I'm the sole provider of income? He's a veteran and student but unemployed. His parents are moving down and he could reasonably live with them but he says under no circumstances will he move out. My thoughts, so I'm still going to live there and not duplicate expenses when I don't have to.\n\nAlso how can I build the best case for myself for joint custody for my son.","title":"Custody and house","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540840111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sg6d8\/my_math_teacher_told_a_story_to_the_class_about\/","id":"9sg6d8","body":"My right away thought was that is abuse. I know he was once divorced and has two kids but he is stubborn doesn't let anyone listen to him, I was thinking of hitting my school with a records request to get the facts about his previous job, why he was divorced, and ever if he broke the law for assault. He is the type of person who gets really angry just the other day some girls were trying to help a struggling math student with a problem. He blew out of proportions he said \"You get kicked out of college for crap like that\" I am not a student who hates math in fact I was student of the year last year, his behavior is concerning. He breaks out at the entire class for just a 2 students conversation. If I were to pursue a legal option how may I go about this? \n\nLocation : San Diego, California","title":"My math teacher told a story to the class about how he made 7th graders stand outside for 45 minutes in the hot sun just because they wouldn't listen to him.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570459545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dekey8\/one_of_my_friends_a_teen_was_groomed_by_a\/","id":"dekey8","body":"He cannot access the DMs of the pedophile at all since he deactivated their account (they're now on another one and doing the same shit but to different people) but the pedophile hasn't deleted the pictures at all. Could we get law enforcement or Discord involved in this and get rid of this person? Isnt this basically child porn production? We have been dealing with this piece of shit for 4 years and now he's taken it too far.\n\nSorry if I used the wrong flair. I've never posted to here before and I really want to help my friend.\n\nThe pedophile is 17 and the teen groomed in this case is a 13 year old.","title":"One of my friends (a teen) was groomed by a pedophile years older than him on Discord, and got sent dick pics, the pedophile has deleted their account and moved to another one, is there any way we could get law enforcement on the case?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552086884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aywrrg\/i_think_my_employer_might_be_paying_me_under_the\/","id":"aywrrg","body":"I work for a small local shop run by a Cambodian family, most of\nthe employees are family members but I was hired on to help\nthe new owner (Former owner's cousin.) I'm only 18 and my\nformer job at a large retail chain just took my taxes right out of\nmy paycheck, so I know next to nothing about them, I'm still a\ndependent according to my mom. So immediately I got\nconcerned when my first paycheck came around and I got my\nfull wage in cash. It's minimum wage so it's not a lot but\nabsolutely nothing was taken out. I didn't fill out a W-2 form and\nall my googling seems to point to me being paid under the\ntable but I can't get specific answers. \n\nKeep in mind I definitely earn under $12,000 at my current\nhours and wage, I'm not fulltime either. Am I being paid under\nthe table? If I am, what should I do about it? \n\nI understand that there's concern that I'm being underpaid or shortchanged but I'm definitely paid the right amount, always on time, and I keep all the tips. They're very kind to me and generous with the food but I know that might not matter if I get  burned by fryer oil and they don't have worker's comp. The family doesn't have the best grip on the English language, would it be prudent to try and explain that I need to be taxed? If they were doing something illegal, would I be culpable if I said nothing?\n\nObviously all those questions are moot if the answer is \"no, what\nshe's doing is not illegal.\" But if it is, I'd appreciate some advice,\nthanks!\n\nPS. I was going to post this on Personalfinance but then changed my mind so this might be on the wrong subreddit. ","title":"I think my employer might be paying me under the table","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445750429,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q4b1w\/can_these_online_find_people_companies_post_my\/","id":"3q4b1w","body":"State Of: Maryland\n\nRecently a traffic violation of mine was posted onto a \"public records\" website. A simple Google search of my name will pull up the traffic violation along with my home address and all details about the violation.\n\nI realize that it may be \"public record\", but they're demanding that I pay money to have it removed. Can they legally do this? Should I threaten to contact the Attorney General?\n\nAs you can imagine, I'm pissed off. What can I do?\n\n**Update:** So it's clear there is a disconnect between what's legal and what's ethical in this situation. I'm not one to sit idly by and let this shit go on, so I'm going to file complaints with a few different organizations. Sure, maybe it won't matter much - but we live in a world where enough complaints leads to change. With all the people out there pissed off about this, it shouldn't be hard to put something in motion.\n\n[Feel free to chime in on this new thread in the Privacy subreddit.](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/privacy\/comments\/3q8mf7\/public_legal_records_and_those_who_distribute_it\/)\n\nThanks!","title":"Can these online \"find people\" companies post my \"public record\" information online and then request payment to have it removed? Isn't that blackmail?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569010432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d70goe\/traveling_out_of_the_country_with_pending_charges\/","id":"d70goe","body":"(reposting it from yesterday since someone tagged it with business\/finance??? and got zero replies)\n\nA couple friends and I are supposed to be going on vacation to Japan in a few weeks but I just found out that one of my friends has a pending misdemeanor and felony charge. Everything is already booked and now I\u2019m worried that that she isn\u2019t going to be able to go. Can you still leave the country even though those charges are just pending?","title":"Traveling out of the country with pending charges?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506429851,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72k2xd\/bankruptcy_fraud_and_child_support_question_nc\/","id":"72k2xd","body":"My cousin has two kids, 9 and 13, with a real jerk. About five years ago he filed for bankruptcy and a modification of child support, and had his monthly support reduced and about $10k in back support wiped.\n\nHe's now suing for another modification because he wants more custody, and her lawyer discovered that his bankruptcy filing had a lot of false information. He lied on the filing, among other things that he was paying my cousin half of his paycheck when he was not paying support at all, also that he was broke when he had several other profitable businesses running that still netted him about $100k a year. \n\nShe will talk to her lawyer next week, case was continued until October, but I am too curious if back child support could be made retroactive to his bankruptcy filing. Also, if he gets busted for this fraud, who gets paid first? The government fine, his lawyers, or kids' support? ","title":"Bankruptcy fraud and child support question [NC]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539370595,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nn0yz\/ca_dashcam_interior_recording_what_defines\/","id":"9nn0yz","body":"Hello all! This is my first post, so please be gentle haha.\nI am an Uber driver in California, and I recently purchased a dashcam capable of interior audio\/video recording. I understand that California is a two party consent state, so I know I have to get consent to record a conversation that in which everyone has a reasonable expectation of privacy. My question is\n1.if I were to use the interior camera, how would I establish consent from the other party?\n2. Is posting a paper message of \"This vehicle is monitored via video and audio recording\" on the windows or other visible surface of the car sufficient?\n3. Do I have to ask for consent specifically, or do I even have to ask at all ?\nI have heard people say that, in the back of the car, it is both reasonable and unreasonable to expect privacy of conversation in an unfamiliar independent contractor's (not taxi) car, so I am unsure of what to think. Google thus far hasn't helped me very much.\n\nThanks!\n\n\n","title":"[CA] Dashcam interior recording: What defines consent, and how is consent reached?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1538953271,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m9ltx\/does_a_shops_legal_name_have_to_be_the_same_as\/","id":"9m9ltx","body":"So, exactly the title. My friend started a new bagel shop and named it \"[Street Name] Bagels.\" We've come up with a much, much better name for the shop, but the bland name is already on the lease and paperwork. He's still renovating, but I wanted to ask, can the sign out front not correspond with the legal name of the business? The sign hasn't been made yet. ","title":"Does a shop's legal name have to be the same as the sign out front?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553029437,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b32uwr\/working_for_5_month_and_only_getting_paid_less\/","id":"b32uwr","body":"Hey Guys, so I'm working in this company based in California, and so far as a designer (website, mobile, UI\/UX) I only earned less than $1000 for working here more than 5 months. (No benefits, insurance, payment mostly through paypal with 10% fee and tax separated)\n\n​\n\nThis company mainly hires young recent college grads from China and India, and most of us are on OPT visa or some other non-citizen\/green card status. They define us as contractors, we get paid based on project rather than time-based, but we are all required to be onsite from 9AM to 5PM, sometimes working overtime until even 7PM.  Or most of the time we just come and finish our work within 2 hours yet we have to wait for several hours until next task is available here. I have read some articles and it says contractors are not required to be onsite full-time but I'm not sure.\n\n​\n\nAFAIK, outside of the 2 bosses, only 2 other people are given a full time job. Other employees are either contractors like me, or volunteers getting paid nothing at all. My job is mainly design websites and apps, plus some project managing. On the contract it says designers will get paid 10% of the project's design payment, which was never transparent to us. Last project I made 6 pages in total, spending quite some weeks making changes to satisfy the client, and in the end I was also arranging meetings with them because it's easier than communicating through project manager. And today I was told this entire project I am only going to get paid $125. I knew it wasn't going to be anything decent but I'm still shock at how bad this company can be.\n\n​\n\nAnd there are people who got paid even less than I do here. A girl who started working here before me got paid only 100$ ish this entire time, because her clients constantly want to make changes and they also don't respond fast enough. Another girl started volunteering here because when she just came here her EAD date \uff08the date that she can legally start working and getting paid) hasn't start yet. But now she can legally work and yet the company still find all excuse not giving her a contract and making her do stuff for free.\n\n​\n\nFor us contractors, we are also constantly asked to do work that are not even a project (so, no payment at all), like designing the company's own website and social media campaigns, designing boss's friend's company materials, and one time they even ask designers to photoshop some carpets on an office floor picture just because she wants to move office and didn't know if carpets would look better. \n\n​\n\nNot sure about other position's job, but for designing the company is also pretty shady. We have 4 onsite designers yet they only purchased 2 adobe licenses, so we have to constantly kick someone offline in order to work. We are constantly asked to copy templates from themeforest or other template markets instead of designing our own. (Boss won't purchase the template so we had to copy the design just from the preview image). We are also asked to use icons from website that requires designer's credit for free use, yet we don't credit at all. \n\n​\n\nThe shady stuff doesn't just happen to employees but for the clients too. Boss always asks PMs and Accountant to rush the clients for payment (I think that's not what their job is?), and since recently I've been given the designer PM task as well, I went with our accountant to a company that hasn't sign the design mockup approval form even though they verbally approved it. I thought we were just going there to let them sign so we can start web development, instead I found out we were asking them to pay the full amount for the project. (Note that the website isn't live yet). Of course the client didn't wanna pay because on the contract it says the 2nd installment would only be paid once the website is launched, yet it is still in development. In the end the client payed 80% of the full amount, but still that wasn't what the contract says. Later I heard from the accountant that bosses constantly pushes her to ask for money prematurely, making her send invoice even though client hasn't signed any approval form yet. The accountant was so mad when they keep letting her to do this almost not-legal stuff? \n\n​\n\nEveryday I'm looking for a different job but with the OPT status it isn't the easiest thing to do. But this company is showing me how much worse it can get everyday I'm here. I want to see if there's something I can do to this company. Although I am hesitant because I'm just a new grad international student and I also don't have much money and time to devote into this stuff. But still, any advices are appreciated! Thank you so much for reading this long post.","title":"Working for 5 month and only getting paid less than $900(onsite full time in CA), exploiting shady company","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552502005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0ph4e\/inconsistency_between_merchant_rules_and_car\/","id":"b0ph4e","body":"Hello Friends,\n\nI'm running into a curious issue trying to start a rental car company in my home town. As many of you know, rental car companies charge security deposits as protection from damage and theft. This is done as an authorisation hold for the estimated amount of the rental plus the deposit, ensuring the customer doesn't push their credit cars limit beyond their ability to compensate for damages.\n\nOur insurance deductible is $500, so we'd like to charge this as a security deposit, however the bank says that this is against Visa\/MC regulations. I have reviewed mastercards merchant rules and this it says:\n\n\"May not include any charge in transaction that represents either the vehicle insurance deductible amount or an amount to cover potential or actual damage when the cardholder waives insurance coverage at the time of the rental.\"\n\nDespite this, rental car companies charge security despots up the wazzoo for car rentals... As high as $5000 in my experience (Ireland).\n\nSo what's the loophole here? Is it a question of itemising a certain way? We would be offered zero protection from any incident and that's not how this business operates. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Inconsistency Between Merchant Rules and Car Rental Deposits","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569115053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7jqsb\/wife_wants_to_move_out_and_separate_but_not\/","id":"d7jqsb","body":"\\[michigan\\] Throwaway account. \n\nThe wife and I have been going through a rough patch the past few years. She had an emergency surgery with not the greatest insurance, we've gone to marriage counseling to try and work on us, she started going to her own therapist to solve some personal issues, and I too have started to see a therapist as well. Things have started to get better, or at least I felt they were, until a week or so ago when she decided she wants a break and to move out for an extended period of time. I thought this was the \"it's over\" talk which she later clarified that \"I never said I wanted a divorce.\" So now she plans to move in with family about 30 minutes away. \n\nSo I guess here are my questions;\n\n\\-What steps can I take right now (if any) to protect myself if a divorce does happen in the (possibly near) future?\n\n\\-Should I be the one to file or should she?\n\n\\-What can I expect from dividing the household assets? I bring home more income working 2 jobs.\n\nExtra information\n\n\\-No kids to fight over\n\n\\-No affairs are happening\n\n\\-She has a lot of medical debt that she is now in collections on for a couple of the outstanding bills.\n\n\\-we both have a decent amount of debt; student loans and credit card.\n\n\\-We have a joint IRA and I have a 401k from work, I am the only one who has been putting money away.\n\n\\-Her car is paid off, my car is a lease. (not sure if that matters but I'll add it)\n\nI'm not sure what else I should be asking for help on so I'm open to ideas...This is still a bit of a shock and appreciate any and all serious feedback.","title":"wife wants to move out and separate but not divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539887193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pbvsv\/subleasors_arent_paying_rent_leasing_company\/","id":"9pbvsv","body":"Hi! I\u2019m new to this subreddit and am hoping I\u2019m not breaking any rules, but I\u2019m very frustrated and am wanting to learn my options.\n\nMy husband and I bought a house in the middle of our lease and needed subleasors. Our landlord company helped us find our subleasors and everything was fine until September. They started falling behind on their rent payments, and recently the breadwinner lost his job so they don\u2019t have a way to pay for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe way the company explained subleasing is that the new tenants are essentially added on to the current lease, so all 4 of us are responsible for the funds not paid. If the subleasors don\u2019t have everything paid by the end of he lease, my husband and I are responsible for any unpaid funds. Every sublease I\u2019ve known states the new tenants completely take over the lease and we walk away from the deal, but apparently that\u2019s now how this company does it, which I now find a bit fishy. The way they presented it was like, well here is your only option, so I didn\u2019t really think twice.\n\nI reached out to the company we are leasing from to ask them what our options are, and they said, \u201cwell, you\u2019ll just have to pay their rent. Hopefully they find a job soon!\u201d I thought this was unacceptable and asked for the current tenants to be evicted so we can start to find someone else to take over the lease. The company said they would start the eviction process, but they have been unable to provide me with a date the tenants will be out. I have suspicions they are not actually evicting the tenants, but are just urging them to get off the property.\n\nIs this how subleasing is supposed to work? When a company evicts tenants, is there a set date that they have to be off the property? If I ask the company to evict our subleasors, do they have to do so? I feel as though I was tricked into being responsible for our lease and am powerless to take control of the situation by not having the power to evict the current tenants.\n\nI\u2019m just frustrated and am wanting to handle this as quickly as possible so my credit doesn\u2019t completely tank. Help!","title":"Subleasors aren\u2019t paying rent, leasing company giving us the run around (IN)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569553717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9uhe4\/when_is_the_right_time_to_have_high_beam_lights\/","id":"d9uhe4","body":"Hello! I have a relative who drives early in the day and it's dark on this road because, there's not many lights on the road. He had his high beam lights on. Anytime a car would pass by he'd dim them. There's not much traffic on this road either. Well he was stopped by a police officer and was given a ticket for having his high beam lights on. The officer didn't know what the price of the ticket would be but, said it could be as much as $300.\n\nI'm having issue finding the office to pay his ticket. The only thing on the ticket is 2 different phone numbers. I googled those numbers but, the buildings don't have any information on them nor do I see a place for him to park. \n\nThis took place in Monroe, Louisiana by the way.","title":"When is the right time to have high beam lights on & what is the cost of a high beam light ticket ?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571765693,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dllbe9\/am_i_at_fault_for_a_vehicle_that_was_stolen_and\/","id":"dllbe9","body":"So I went to a party over the weekend. At the end of the night my girlfriend came to pick me up as I was too drunk to drive home, I left my car behind with the intent of returning in the morning to get it. After I left someone took my car from the party and crashed it before leaving it abandoned in a parking lot. The police are currently investigating to try to determine who the driver was. Am I at fault in the eyes of my insurance company? Does it matter if the police can determine who took and crashed the vehicle?","title":"Am I at fault for a vehicle that was stolen and crashed?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1408861782,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2efe4b\/ca_a_family_member_has_died_and_my_family_is\/","id":"2efe4b","body":"A member of my family recently died, I will be referring to him as Bob. Bob was married for years and years to Sue and had 2 children, Kate and Mary. Even after Bob and Sue split up they never divorced and he moved in with another woman, Jane. Both Bob and Sue have their names on the house they lived in while they were together (which Bob kept and Jane moved into with him, they never married) and Kate let him use some firearms she owns, some registered to her, some to Bob's parents (which Kate has power of attorney over) and some unregistered. They were left in the house when Bob passed. \n\nKate spoke to Jane and Jane told her that Bob had a will stating everything (Property, house and contents) would go to Jane, then to Mary when Jane died and that nothing would be leaving the house, even Jane's firearms. She also claimed that she would be the one who decided when\/where the funeral took place (and is planning it for Kate's husbands' birthday). \n\nJane's son recently came to stay with her and has been helping her clean out the house. When Kate went to speak with Jane she noticed that some of the aforementioned firearms had been moved\/were missing. Jane's son is known to be a thief which is causing Kate to worry that her guns may disappear and she will be unable to obtain them in the future.\n\nNow this is where the story is currently at, I have a few questions regarding the situation.\n\n- If Jane and her son take Kate's guns and the guns of those she has power of attorney over is that theft? Can Jane+son be arrested for it?\n\n- Sue's name is on the house, can Bob have legally willed it to Jane?\n\n- Jane has no legal relation to Bob, she just lived with him. What rights does she have?\n\n- If Kate calls the police to obtain her firearms will they confiscate the unregistered ones that belonged to Bob's parents even if Kate is trying to get them back so she can register them in her name?\n\n- Could Jane take the unregistered guns and put them in her name to legally make them hers?\n\n- Does Sue or Jane have the right to decide on the funeral arrangements?","title":"[CA] A family member has died and my family is confused on what rights they have. Story time.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571596234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dknldq\/help_beyond_scared_right_now\/","id":"dknldq","body":"I had a reddit account for porn and I posted on it. Now I went on a website earlier and posted an image I saw from that website that specifically stated that the girl was 18+. When I posted it, I got a comment saying she wasn\u2019t. My reddit account was then suspended and I was scared shitless. I don\u2019t know if she really was but I have deleted the image and even the reddit account. I don\u2019t know what to do and I\u2019m afraid something will happen to me. I am still underage. I did not expect any of this to happen and I\u2019m frightened. Please help","title":"Help. Beyond scared right now.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1538697251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lh9jv\/pennsylvania_can_my_employer_force_me_to_repay\/","id":"9lh9jv","body":"Last year, my employer offered to pay my tuition costs for a non-degree program at a local tech school. The program cost \\~$4000 and ran from September 2017 to April 2018. Per their policy, my employer would only cover up to $2000 a year. To prevent me from having to cover the remainder, my manager set up a payment plan with the school so that $2000 would be paid up front and the other $2000 at the beginning of January 2018.\n\nI had several conversations with my manager while this whole arrangement was being set-up, and he mentioned that I may have to sign an agreement to stay with the company for a year or two, or else I would have to repay the full amount of the tuition. Nothing ever came of it. My employer paid for the course, and I completed it in April 2018. I was never asked to sign any type of agreement, and I was never contacted by HR about the matter.\n\nRecently, my manager caught wind that I was actively job-searching because I must of shown up on the radar of one of the contractors we do business with, and they let him know about it (they described it as a \"professional courtesy\"). He actually took it pretty well and wanted to put me in for a pay increase to try to get me to stick around.\n\nHe told me that HR flat-out said no to any pay increase and threatened to come after me for the tuition money if I left, citing some clause in the employee handbook.\n\nI applied to a significantly higher-paying job a few days ago that I have a decent shot at getting, so I decided to dig through the employee handbook. All I found was this short section outlining the education assistance program:\n\n>\\[Company Name\\] will assist team members with the tuition cost of courses in our field of business for undergraduate associate and baccalaureate degree programs, certification programs, and job-related adult education courses and seminars. The annual assistance is $2,000, not including books, fees, grants, and scholarships. Your Manager or immediate Supervisor can provide you with additional details, information, and requirements. \n\nThe only thing I could find relating to reimbursement of this money was buried in the Human Resources Handbook:\n\n**Repayment Conditions**\n\n* Team members are required to repay for education assistance expenses within thirty (30) days if the following occurs:\n   * Team member receives a grade lower than \"C\" or a \"fail\"\n   * Team member withdraws from the class or fails to complete\n   * **Team member voluntarily resigns from \\[Company Name\\] for any reason within one year of receiving assistance (will pay a prorated amount to \\[Company Name\\] deducted from payroll check or within 30 days)**\n\nIs this legally binding? I'm a bit skeptical since, on the very first page of this document, it explicitly says \"neither these documents nor their contents are a contract between \\[Company Name\\] and yourself.\" And, I've said, I've signed no written agreement, and I certainly never agreed verbally to these specific terms.\n\nIf it is binding, though, and I'm reading this correctly, it looks like the one-year period begins the day that the check is written. If that's the case, then I've already fulfilled my one-year obligation for the first $2000 payment in September 2017, correct? Also, since it says that the repayment amount is to be prorated, I'd then only have to pay back a a quarter of the second payment, since it has been 9 months since then. Or am I completely misunderstanding this?","title":"[Pennsylvania] Can my employer force me to repay them for educational assistance costs if I leave the company?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540919419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9spwmg\/choke_holdings_teenager\/","id":"9spwmg","body":"A freshman told a bus driver she was going to hell the bus driver started crying and when they got to the school a cop was waiting and grabbed the freshman off the bus the freshman went to get away and the cop grabbed and chokehold him dragging him to the principals office the freshman wasn\u2019t arrrested and didn\u2019t get fined is this legal and if it isn\u2019t what can they do ","title":"Choke holdings teenager","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539936401,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9phrxb\/would_this_be_parental_kidnapping\/","id":"9phrxb","body":"Hey folks. Throwaway for obvious reasons. Here\u2019s the short-ish version of what I\u2019ve got going on. \n\nMy (now) ex-gf and I have 2 year old child. I do not live with them, as I work out of state and visit them on weekends. This weekend is a long weekend for me, had great plans of spending it with them. However, I found out that my gf has been cheating on me. We\u2019re splitting up and things aren\u2019t friendly. Feeling all those feels that one would. Anywho...\n\nTomorrow, my ex-gf will be bringing my child for me to hang out with for the day. My thoughts are to take my child back with me for the weekend, two states away, to see my family and allow me to be around my support system. \n\nI plan on just asking her first to make sure it\u2019s cool, but if she says no, what risks do I run if I take my child for the weekend, anyways? \n\nThanks \n\nProbably relevant info: We\u2019re unmarried. No parental agreement or court order exists. I\u2019m named on the birth certificate. Trip would originate in Colorado, (their home state) and go through Wyoming and South Dakota, then back. ","title":"Would this be parental kidnapping?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553889253,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b71v5z\/usa_what_are_the_potential_legal_issues_relating\/","id":"b71v5z","body":"I discovered it\u2019s likely I fathered a child with someone I barely knew. She took the child to another state before I knew the child was likely mine and as of now we haven\u2019t gone to court for paternity. She has said I don\u2019t have to be involved but I\u2019m not sure how long that will last. At first I wanted to be involved but when I decided to go to court she was angry I\u2019d be on the birth certificate and have rights so I put it on hold.\n\nI\u2019m trying to decide what the right decision will be considering I may never have much involvement. I\u2019m worried that I\u2019ll lose out ok involvement only to be hit up later for child support and that the court will use my lack of involvement against me.\n\nCan anyone give some insight as to how I can make the right choice? Morality aside, because I know it\u2019d be ideal to be involved and I\u2019m not against it, I\u2019m just not able to move or even travel at the moment which is why I don\u2019t know what to do. \n\nThanks for any help","title":"[USA] What are the potential legal issues relating to not being involved in child\u2019s life?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554414496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9ivah\/extremely_violent_teacher\/","id":"b9ivah","body":"hey i\u2019m in 8th grade in the digital design major at my school. there\u2019s two semesters and so what they do is split the semesters. one semester will be fine arts, and the next will be digital design. i\u2019m on the second semester and when we met the new teacher he was pretty cool, but i had a feeling he didn\u2019t care much about his job idunno i guess it was just the way he carried himself. also we had next to no assignments and when we did he would grade them two months later. he just graded something from the 2nd of february yesterday. we watched a total of 4 movies and over 10 free days. he wasn\u2019t here this tuesday which was the first time he wasn\u2019t here this semester which was whatever maybe he\u2019s just sick. the next day he said zero words to the class and didn\u2019t move out of his chair. same with today. because we had no assignments me and my two friends hopped on the computers and played solitaire and snake. one of my friends john got mad and smacked the keyboard when he lit with a high score of 73. wasn\u2019t a crazy slap but unwarranted and it was his fault and if he got in trouble for it it\u2019s would be 100% his fault. at 10:56, one minute before class ended i open necked my other friend and he pushed me away but we were laughing, it was all fun and games. i get we still shouldn\u2019t touch each other in any way shape or form in school, but it didn\u2019t warrant this. he pulls us and tells us that we had to talk to him in private after class so we sat back down and waited for him to talk to us. we saw he was waiting for everyone to leave so i realized shit was going down. from the beginning of the year i knew his was violent because one time on students computer wasn\u2019t working properly so he slammed the mouse. the teacher told him to to stop touching his stuff like it was his which is perfectly fine nothing out of the ordinary thing to say. when he came over to check what wasn\u2019t working though he slammed the mouse as had as he could a total of maybe 10 times. anyways me and my two buddy\u2019s all looked at each other like shit was about to go down when we saw he was waiting for everyone to leave. once everyone was gone he came over and started the talk with that he was quitting after this year. he said the reason was because of us three, and that people like us are the people the world is like how it is. there wasn\u2019t really anything to warrant this so it was kind of alarming. we were kinda loud but definitely not the reason the world is how it is. after that he said if we ever see him and his family on the streets suffering to just know it\u2019s all our fault and he hopes we feel bad. i tried to keep quiet and so did my other buddy, but the other one i\u2019ll refer to as jimbo tried to chip in and said \u201chonestly it\u2019s crazy to me that we\u2019re the reason your qui-\u201c and he got cut off by the teacher screaming at the top of his lungs for him to shut up and that he didn\u2019t want to hear anything from him. after bashing on us for 10 minutes he let me and my friend go, but told jimbo to stay. this was during our lunch btw which doesn\u2019t really matter in the long run but still. jimbo was in there for 5 minutes after us and while we were waiting for him the teacher was holding up his entire other class. the students were talking and me and my friend overheard \u201cwell i guess he\u2019s screaming at someone else again\u201d and one other kid said the reason he wasn\u2019t at school on tuesday was because of another student. he picked the wall til his knuckles bled and had to stay home because he fractured his hand or something it not sure. jimbo came out the class crying not because he was sad, in pure anger. he told us he was screaming 1 foot away from his face and throwing stuff around the entire room, including a water bottle that he tried to hit him with. a teacher saw jimbo upset so we let her in on the situation and she went to go talk to him. i went and talked to one of my close friends that was in his class the semester before us and he said he was a lunatic to them too. he said that his class was kinda bad and they talked a lot so one day he screamed at the whole class and told them he was quitting because of them. somebody said thank god and so the teacher waited around the students. once the kid that said thank god was about to sit back down he pulled the chair from beneath him picked it up and threw it at the wall. then he threw it at the student. what the fuck do i do, should i go in tomorrow and record him if he does anything crazy, or do i stay away from him completely. i told my mom (because i\u2019m fucking 14) and she emailed the school about it. i\u2019m just really confused on what i should do at the moment, and would love some advice. sorry if this was really long. have a nice day.","title":"Extremely Violent Teacher","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554216583,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8k6ud\/florida_us_is_noncompete_enforceable\/","id":"b8k6ud","body":"I started working part time at a print shop about a year ago. The manager quit and I was promoted to manager. Once I became a full time employee, she had me read through the handbook, which included the noncompete clause (can\u2019t work for a company like ours in a 25mi radius for 2 years). I signed it and never thought about it since. Well I started applying to jobs and I remember that I signed that. I can\u2019t find my copy. I looked for my employee file. Can\u2019t find it. Looked at our business files, looking for it and I can\u2019t find it there either. I\u2019ll be working for another print shop but almost all of their software is different. Their machines operate differently. My boss sent me to one training out of state since I\u2019ve worked here. The other stuff she kind of taught me but kind of just threw me in and had me learn by trial\/error and YouTube. I wouldn\u2019t say she taught me anything I couldn\u2019t have learned online. I\u2019m just getting spooked that if she does pursue that she may win. I don\u2019t think she will but I wanted some advice. Thank you ","title":"Florida, US is noncompete enforceable?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539357913,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nl7g0\/looking_for_advice_on_what_can_be_done_legally\/","id":"9nl7g0","body":"My wife has recently come to me seeking advice on how to deal with her ex husband, and parent of her son prior to our marriage. Long story short he is a complete and utter dip shit. I usually try to stay our of anything related to this because I don't feel like it's my domain, but she has asked if I know what we can do about it, and I honestly didn't know what to say. I told her I would look into it and get back with her on tomorrow or so on it.\n\n​\n\nHere is the situation:\n\nEx is a liar that we honestly can't trust a single word that comes out of his mouth. He told us a week before he was moving even further away (from a half hour to an hour and a half), and in a different state. We have reason to believe he isn't reporting his income correctly to child support services as well... We just don't have definitive proof, but things are just not adding up. He just bought a very expensive car while he is over 1,500 dollars behind in child support. He might just be irresponsible with money, but I think there is more than that going on.  Keep in mind my wife without me would probably have to live with her parents because she just wouldn't be able to live on her own. I personally end up footing a lot of bills for my step-son (which I don't mind at all). I just think some of these things should be his responsibility. And honestly if we don't get more money from him it doesn't really matter which is one of the reasons we haven't pushed anything on it as of now. Just to avoid personal drama. We also have concerns that he is doing things with the kid the shouldn't mainly small things like sneaking into his apartment's pool after hours, and other small things like that. There is also a story about something that happened at Walmart where it sounds like he was using him as a distraction while he stole something from Walmart. We also have reason to believe he has stolen from us personally, and stolen from my step son. They went on vacation and we gave him some spending money to buy whatever while he was on vacation not a whole lot, but it up and disappeared under some confusing circumstances. He might of lost it, but it's doubtful. Step son said it never left his bag, father said car got broken into, but nothing else got stolen..... It just doesn't add up. \n\n​\n\nHe also tends to back out of fatherly duties when he doesn't have a girlfriend. When he gets a new girlfriend he tends to be dad of a year until she figures out how much of a dip shit he is. Then without a girlfriend he tends to skip one weekend a month where he has to \"work\", or whatever bullshit excuse he comes up with.  Also according to one of his ex girlfriends after a while he becomes a really terrible father. Apparently there is a lot of yelling in the house, and just all around nonsense. Step son not getting to bed until wee hours of the morning and just sketchy shit.  She also mentioned that his apartment is disgusting, and one of the reasons that we have never been allowed in the apartment. \n\n​\n\nThis is on top of the fact that the father also has demonstrated a bunch of other irresponsible behaviors. Not having a car seat. We met him in a Walmart parking lot and I literally had to go into Walmart to buy him one before he left. Letting him ride in the front seat (he's 6 years old).  It's getting to the point where there are so many small things that my wife just can't trust anything that is going on over at his dads when he stays there a couple weekends a month.  My wife is at her wits end of this. Really the only reason my step son want's to go over there is because he allows him to stay up all night playing fortnite and really just a complete lack of rules or discipline.  My wife just wants to know her options. Is getting supervised visits only something that could happen in this kind of situation. \n\n​\n\nWe would be able to hire a lawyer and everything we just want to make sure it's going to be worth it first before we put a lot of time, energy, and money into this.  My wife has asked me to gather some opinions on what can be done (and she is as well) so we can talk about it Saturday. I have posted similar things before and gotten criticism about how he's not my kid and not my decision and I totally understand that... I'm not making any decisions here... I'm just getting opinions to help my wife make a decision that is all I'm trying to do.\n\n​\n\nTL;DR: What can be done about my step sons terrible father if anything.\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Looking for advice on what can be done legally about terrible parent. (Kansas)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541995661,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wao1s\/a_minor_accident_is_going_to_ruin_my_life\/","id":"9wao1s","body":" \n\nSo I was recently in a minor accident and although the police report reported that it was not my fault, the insurance company is requesting that I take 65% of the blame. Please help.\n\nThe other car had pulled out backward of a parking space perpendicular to the road I was traveling on. I had no time to react, and I hit the back right section of their car. Since they had paused a split second before I hit them and it is my first ever accident, I assumed it was my fault, which I admitted to the other driver and have since learned was not the right action. There was also an elderly gentleman who witnessed it and repeatedly told me I was at fault, telling me I should \u201cbe ashamed of myself.\u201d However, when the police arrived they explained that they should have been looking both ways before they backed out and reported that I was not at fault. But after exchanging insurance and testimonies, the insurance company tells me they have an eyewitness (assumably the elderly man) who claimed I was talking on my cell phone, which I wasn\u2019t and have the phone records to prove it. When I sent these in, they then said that I wasn\u2019t talking and instead I had it in my hand and was texting or using it for another purpose, distracting me from driving. All they have is the elderly man\u2019s testimony which supposedly trumps the police report. However, the man had left by the time the police arrived. \n\nWhat can I do? I\u2019m a young driver and can barely afford my already high insurance, nor can I afford to pay an attorney. \n\nI understand there are more serious and pressing legal matters, sorry if this isn't really an issue worthy of this subreddit.","title":"A Minor Accident is Going to Ruin My Life","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540420014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r4ere\/college_let_fulltime_status_lapse\/","id":"9r4ere","body":"  \n\nThe situation I\u2019m in is as follows\u2026My college failed to apply a full-time status to my enrollment which has caused my student loans to leave the deferment period before I have actually graduated. Because of my situation (not taking the required amount of credit to be automatically full-time) I applied for a full-time override which my advisor said I qualified for. Filled out the required form, emailed it to my advisor to send up the chain, and that should have been that. My full-time status should have been applied. \n\nHowever, it turns out that didn\u2019t happen. No one has any record of my application. I tried contacting the registration office who said they never received the original application, the department contact never received the form from my advisor, and my advisor is effectively unreachable because they are on leave of absence for the semester. I was told I could apply mid-semester for the full-time status (which I did) and that it could be applied to my enrollment status, but that change could take up to 60 days to take effect. By that time, I will (hopefully) have graduated and the status would be essentially useless by that point.\n\nMy problem is that I\u2019m not able to afford paying back the student loans, plus the installments for this semester\u2019s tuition, plus normal living expenses. This would have been manageable if I would have tacked this semester onto another loan. I don\u2019t know what else I could do to get a resolution at this point. I\u2019m well aware that I might not have any option since they have started the process on remedying my enrollment status I just need to wait it out for what will eventually become a useless resolution. Or is there something I\u2019m overlooking in the whole thing that someone else may have some experience with and can offer their views on?","title":"College let full-time status lapse","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539639038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oh222\/i_believe_im_being_exposed_to_black_mold_at_work\/","id":"9oh222","body":"(Burner account) Was recently told to move desks. Ever since I\u2019ve been stuffed up and lightheaded at work. New desk is under an air vent. \n\nThe building is 2 stories and a girl upstairs has complained of same symptoms. \n\nAn OSHA complaint was filed and 2 weeks ago they came through and changed the air filters and cleaners the coils. \n\nA second complaint was filed later regarding the water and water filters. Those were changed last week and I believe they received a quote for a full duct cleaning. \n\nI\u2019ve asked to move back to my original desk but was told that no moves were being done. \n\nI\u2019m finding it more and more difficult to be at work and am concerned that I may pass out at work. (Working in getting checked out by primary care) \n\nI\u2019ve thought about HR, however they have proved themselves untrustworthy in the past. \n\nIs there any legal ground here? Do I need to reach out to the OSHA rep?  I\u2019m at the point where I don\u2019t want to go to work ","title":"I believe I\u2019m being exposed to black mold at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441577381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jwip5\/landlord_seeking_advice_for_eviction_process\/","id":"3jwip5","body":"Hello -\n\nI'm the landlord of a Michigan condo and made a mistake by not collecting background information on my current tenant. They are now three months past due on rent, and I've started the eviction process (7-day pay or quit notice was served to them last week). They've communicated that they intend to vacate the premise before the 7 day period.   \n\nThe advice I am looking for is what you think my options are for collecting the past due rent. Unfortunately, the only information I have on the tenant is their name and license plate number. Seeing as though I am not going to know where they are after they move out, is there any chance of getting them into court with just this information? I've never summoned anyone to court before - will the state take on locating them with their LP number?","title":"Landlord seeking advice for eviction process...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551692758,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax5dnm\/owner_is_selling_hotel_i_live_in_and_run_as\/","id":"ax5dnm","body":"Hello.\n\nSo I\u2019ve been living in and running this small guest house\/hotel for almost 4 years. Never received a bonus or a thanks. We\u2019ve remained 8.7\/10 on booking.com and have appeared in our local papers as \u2018*my towns* Premier Guest House\u2019.\n\nSo last late October, they told me it was on the market. They told me not to worry because it would be easily a year before it could properly change hands since whoever buys it would likely change the license and convert it to a multiple occupancy house unit. Their other guest house my mother runs took 2 years to go through, while my mother lived and worked there to keep it running as it transitioned.\n\nI was shocked but I figured; ok, I have a while to get my affairs in order, Christmas is coming up socno saving just now. Will save after Christmas.\n\nChristmas came and went and the viewings started. \n\n2 viewings and boom we got a buyer.... the guy is a complete sap, sulks when there are guests in rooms so he can\u2019t go in and measure the window arches while my guests sleep. But anyway, he\u2019s put up the paperwork around the area for the locals to approve the conversion to multiple occupancy. EVERYONE nearby has spoken to me on the street and said they are opposing it, however I don\u2019t feel like it will be enough.\n\nSo anyway, I have recently been looking for work, viewing flats. Taking trial shifts, doing side work to earn money for a deposit (\u00a32000 in fees to move in anywhere for a 1 bed apartment...) as they\u2019ve never paid me much as my flat and bills were inclusive.\n\nI have a new job. It\u2019s an apprenticeship so it doesn\u2019t pay well until next April when pay goes to full. I need to find another job too. On booking.com any day during Monday to Friday, I\u2019ve blocked some of the rooms, so I can get back from my new job, checkin a couple, do a couple of rooms ready for tomorrow, then the next day, make up the rooms the last people were in and check in 2 to the rooms I did last night. I hope you\u2019re following me as it may be confusing.\n\nThat, plus weekends are open fully, I don\u2019t see what the problem is. Even at 50% capacity mon-fri during April is the same as we\u2019ve ever had. \n\nBut no, he\u2019s told me I have lost my holiday hours because of it. \n\nI\u2019m wondering if there\u2019s any legal ground on this as I last signed a contract 2 years ago and I don\u2019t remember them saying anything about taking away holiday in the case of having to look for new work and residence. \n\nThanks  and sorry if I\u2019m incoherent, I\u2019m absolutely infuriated.\n\nOur plan is to move out this week and just keep coming back to do the rooms until I get paid in April. ","title":"Owner is selling hotel I live in and run as manager. I\u2019ve been given 2 months to find new work and a home, and raise the money to do so. I\u2019ve had to make some amendments to the booking diary so I can look and he has removed all my holiday hours because of it","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554308360,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b901ym\/question_about_master_electricity_meter\/","id":"b901ym","body":"I have recently been given a lease to sign for an apartment I\u2019m planning on moving into in May. When the unit was advertised to me, I was told all utilities are included. Reading the lease, however, it says that I am responsible for paying electric. I reached out to the current tenant and she said they tried to do the same thing to her, but that the building, which has 4 units, only has one meter. They didn\u2019t inform me of this and there are no provisions to ensure that I am only paying for the electricity I use. I spoke to the electric company and they confirmed that there\u2019s no way to tell how much electricity each unit used. \n\nI already gave them my security deposit of $1000, which doesn\u2019t seem like much, but I\u2019m a poor student and can\u2019t afford to throw that away. Also, I really would like the apartment, I just don\u2019t want to be stuck paying electricity for 4 units. \n\nAre they allowed to force me to put the electricity bill in my name? The other tenants went through similar arguments and it sounds like the other tenants don\u2019t pay electricity, so I don\u2019t see how they can make me pay for the entire building. Are there laws I can cite to get them to amend the lease? They said if I refuse to sign it, they will show the apartment to other people, despite me already paying my security deposit. \n\nThanks!","title":"Question about master electricity meter","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569859277,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbdp9n\/ma_rosh_hashanah_day_off\/","id":"dbdp9n","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice\nMy friend is attempting to receive a paid day off for Rosh Hashanah at our place of employment in MA and they are telling her she must use one of her personal days for this. Is this true? She is upset and wants to know the rules of this.\nNot sure if this falls under our employee handbook or if there is a general rule. \nThis is for a non-profit if that helps.","title":"[MA] Rosh Hashanah Day Off","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445712798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q2781\/at_will_employment_vs_resignation\/","id":"3q2781","body":"Hello \/r\/legaladvice, I am reviewing a offer letter for a small office position with a company in Michigan, USA. In the letter it states that the company is an \"at-will employer,\" however **\"...if you wish to resign from the services of the Company, the standard notice period will be of 30 days.\"**\n\nMy question is: how legally binding is this clause? In my position, there is a very real chance that another company will reach out to me with a offer that is much better than the one that this office is currently providing. The truth is Company A has demanded my answer by Monday with no room for a decision extension. That being said, I am at the beginning of my career and the right first employer is not something I want to miss out on because I took what was on the table at the time.\n\nImportant Info:\n\n1) The letter does not mention what, if any, action will be taken if I resign without the full 30 days notice.\n\n2) So far, company A has invested no money or resources in myself outside of the time it has taken to interview me for the position and offer me a role. \n\n3) Any competing offers would come no later than a week after beginning my position with Company A.\n\nAny advice helps, thank you in advance!\n\nEDIT: Words","title":"\"At will employment\" vs. Resignation!","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554246924,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8qf3p\/possible_neighbor_harassment\/","id":"b8qf3p","body":"I\u2019ll try to keep it concise.\n\nMy backyard neighbor is an active elderly woman that lives alone with a bunch of cats that free roam. So it all started when I moved in. The weekend of or after I closed and began moving in my house, I was outside with my dog and he had barked a little at the handful of lawn care workers in her back yard. It was a new place and so I just assumed he was just interested saying hi in his own way, he literally pees himself when the vacuum cleaner comes out and has never been malicious towards any person he\u2019s ever met in the over 3 years I\u2019ve had him and I take him everywhere. \n\nWell there\u2019s a fence in my backyard and the backside is a cement block retaining wall type where on the right side is roughly 20 ft and it\u2019s relatively lower than the rest and he can put his paws on it and look over. The lady walks up to me while I\u2019m outside and starts getting outraged and saying how she was attacked by a dog as a kid and told me if he ever came into her yard, she\u2019d shoot him. And yeah. Great intro. My parents were there so I told my father and he walked out and she basically said the same and how the people beside me had added additional height to the fence in certain way and I should do that. \n\nFast forward a little cause I\u2019m broke from being single and owning a house and she talks to me again while I\u2019m outside (her detached garage with washer dryer is right behind said fence) and says she\u2019s talked to animal control and can get me a rather large fine and about how she doesn\u2019t like big dogs, etc. \n\nCouple months later, she starts talking rudely to me again and my father is there helping me do some handy work(it\u2019s an old house). He comes out and tells her we\u2019re going to do something that won\u2019t be too invasive blah blah blah. She basically says the same thing about the neighbors added fence. Always making threats about animal control or whatever. I\u2019ve documented at least two of the occasions and what she said. Especially the first. \n\nSo we get to now. I finally put a 4\u2019 wire fence an inch off the back wall that isn\u2019t permanent because the posts are just metal that you drive into the ground but it\u2019s all hunter green and can barely see. I planned on using it to plant honey suckle to run up it and obscure the fence and view of her backyard for my dog. The next Friday I get a notice on my door from zoning of my city. Had to pay and get a plat printed out, mark on it where the non permanent fence was and pay for a permit. That\u2019s done but they said that if she keeps calling or complains to me again or makes threats, the only thing I can really do is file a harassment charge against her. It seems crazy to me considering in the roughly 10 months I\u2019ve lived here, she\u2019s only been outside when my dogs were there about 4 times. And every time she talked to me and made a threat or a rude complaint. Then I thought I did the right thing by trying to make her feel more protected and she does this. My dogs are rarely outside because I feel it would just cause more issues (which sucks because I bought the house and big point was because of the nice backyard). They rarely bark unless they see a squirrel to chase. And they\u2019ve never once attempted to get over the fence while I\u2019ve been here and never now with the additional fencing do they ever put their paws up and look over. \n\nYet, her cats are constantly in my yard and I\u2019ve never said a word. They poop in my backyard constantly and it smells awful and I\u2019ve had bad instances. My dog must\u2019ve stepped all in it and luckily I keep a blanket on my couch in case they jump up with mud on them, or it would\u2019ve been destroyed. My puppy that I\u2019ve gotten since living here ate the cat poop while I wasn\u2019t looking and I found out when he threw up on my leather seats in the back while otw to my parents house for dinner one night and I quickly realized it was cat poop as I almost vomited trying to clean it and spent $50 on cleaning products to try to clean out the cat smell. \n\nMy main question is, what do I do if she tries to keep pushing all this further? She obviously has issues with memory since two of the occasions she asked for my number and name written down. Did it both times and she kept referring to me as my gf\u2019s husband when she approached her when I wasn\u2019t here, although she kept correcting her. I didn\u2019t want to put the fence on her property which is why I didn\u2019t do it the way she wanted","title":"Possible neighbor harassment","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1502901177,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u38cu\/fl_my_mils_car_was_hit_by_a_company_work_vehicle\/","id":"6u38cu","body":"My MIL was rear ended by a company work van two days ago, which pushed her forward and caused her to hit a van in front of her. Company driver was found at fualt. This happened in Florida.\n\nShe is currently stressed out because the company is telling her they only have insurance coverage up to 10,000$, and told her \"If the other people file a claim, we won't have enough left for you.\" Basically hinting that she will have to cover all repairs\/deductibles.\n\nWhat are her options here? It sounds like she is being lied to and manipulated. I have never heard of someone just saying 'meh, well, we might not pay up because we only have so much coverage'","title":"[FL] My MIL's car was hit by a company work vehicle, causing her to rear end someone else. Company claims they don't have enough insurance coverage for both victims repairs.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503376045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v8omc\/california_do_i_send_lease_termination_letter\/","id":"6v8omc","body":"I am moving out of my current apartment on September 6th but my lease ends on September 30th. The lease contract, with a 30-day period included, is unclear by which date my lease termination letter should be sent: the day my lease ends (since I am still paying September's rent) or the day I move out. \n\nAlso, on the lease, the owning management company is different than the management company I deal with to turn in rent and ask for repairs. There is an address to our entire building listed for the owners but no mail box here to receive it that I see. However, we do have a rent drop-off box but, of course, I could not certify mail that. Should I send it to the address of my daily management company instead? Thank you all.\n","title":"[California] Do I send lease termination letter 30-days before the end of my lease or before I move out? What to do without address for my landlord?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553280377,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b48sma\/help_my_friend_got_fired_because_of_her_wealthy\/","id":"b48sma","body":"I am writing to give a little bit of an assistant to a person I know who is completelty abused by someone with power and money. \n\n\nShe dated this guy a while ago. The reason why she left him because he was a complete psycho. She recorded his voice upon leaving and he threatend her \"I will ruin your life until you get back to me\". \n\nAfter few weeks, this guy went to her workplace with a lawyer. He asked the management to fire her because she disclosed his information to check his medical history. The root cause of her malpractice was, that she got sexually infected from him without telling her. She confronted him while they were dating it was not a big deal from him. But he used this as a loophole.\nI am not going to expose any further. Then she recieved several traffic violations from the police totalling up to $2k, registered her name to his car he was driving. So after the breakup, he went bat shit crazy. She finally unregistered her name, arranged her court day and hoping not to get charged in court.\n\nMy friend doesn't want my help because she is afraid of him and she knows what I am capable of. I got this information from my other source.\n\nWe cannot afford a lawyer but any legal advice you can give us so I can do something on my side? That would help alot. \n","title":"HELP my friend got fired because of her wealthy ex bf. I'm from Canada, any Canadian law advice?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539023597,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mhjzh\/friend_owes_her_employer_6000_for_taking_too_many\/","id":"9mhjzh","body":"Posting for a friend who does not use Reddit, with her permission. I'll call her Mary. \n\nMary is a single mom to 3 boys, the oldest of which has juvenile diabetes that requires a lot of doctor visits. Though she has asked many times, there is no flexibility for the hours in Mary's office even though she is a salaried employee. When one of the boys has to stay home sick, she has to stay home as well since she can't afford last-minute childcare. She is not allowed to work from home in these situations (yes, she has asked). She is therefore forced to use her vacation and sick days to be able to care for her family. \n\nShe has been with this employer for almost two years. Last week, they came to her and said she was 7 weeks over on her sick days and owed the company $6000 dollars for that time. They want to arrange to take it out of her paychecks and get it \"paid off\" by the end of the year. She can't afford reduced paychecks. She has been talked to about her sick days before, but was never made aware that she would have to pay the company before now. Note: this is in Florida. \n\nIs this legal? Is there anything she can do to improve her situation? Thank you in advance. ","title":"Friend owes her employer $6000 for taking too many sick days","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1413830390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jt4pj\/what_to_do_with_compelling_evidence_defense\/","id":"2jt4pj","body":"This is in the state of Connecticut.\n\nVery very long story, will try to keep it terse.  I have compelling audio evidence that my defense attorney conspired with my prosecutor, presiding judge, and the police to fabricate evidence and elicit and guilty plea.  I also have audio evidence that the judge and prosecutor threatened me.  I ended up pleading guilty as a result of this, but have not yet been sentenced.  I already hired another attorney to get the plea thrown out - we are confident we can get it thrown out with the evidence we have.  What other avenues should I consider?","title":"What to do with compelling evidence defense attorney conspired with prosecutor and judge","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553947261,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7ahlm\/under_which_circumstances_can_i\/","id":"b7ahlm","body":"Hi, \n\nlet's say my last name is Microsoft\\*. I offer consulting services, complementing to my normal full-time job as an academic. I would like to make everything a bit more professional and incorporate under the name \"Microsoft Consulting\", or similar, as my clients know me as such. Is it possible to incorporate using my own name, and what about trademarking it? I have the intuition that it would rain cease and desist letters if I'd carry the brand \"Microsoft\" for my own business. Would something like \"P. Microsoft Consulting\" or \"Dr. Microsoft Consulting\" work?\n\nThank you in advance for any advice you may be able to give. \n\n​\n\n\\*Obvs, that's not my name but I share my last name with a corporation of similar scale and name recognition. ","title":"Under which circumstances can I incorporate\/trademark my name? I share a name with a large global corporation.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446856057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rtzch\/can_programmers_stop_their_freelance_work_without\/","id":"3rtzch","body":"A friend of mine had an app idea, and I told him that I would work on it for him (he doesn't know how to program). In writing via email, he asked me to work on it for him and I said that I would. There is no formal contract or negotiation of pay\/equity. We have since had a falling out. I have no intention of stealing his idea, but have a few questions. Am I obligated to continue working on the project since I said that I would? If not, am I under any obligation to provide him the unconpleted source code (instead of literally throwing it away) since he has asked me for it? If I were to give him the source, am I allowed to license it how I please?\n\nWe are both in California","title":"Can programmers stop their freelance work without facing repercussions?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569175099,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7tzev\/wisconsin_disability_discriminationhostile\/","id":"d7tzev","body":"Hello!\n\nI posted recently in r\/deaf, but this is a bit of a difficult  question, as many individuals who are Deaf or HoH don\u2019t consider themselves disabled, so this didn\u2019t go far. \n\nMy questions: \n\nAm I permitted to retain an attorney with an EOCC inquiry, or should I wait until the EOCC has investigated and comes to a determination?\n\nHistorical:\n\nFrom December 2018 to yesterday, I worked through extreme behaviors due to Audisim in the workplace, and spent a lot of time, money, and energy trying to educate my prior employer (HR+senior staff) on what I was having to deal with environmentally due to hearing loss. The situation is unique in that I\u2019ve never had an issue with my hearing aids\/noise isolation devices I prior jobs until working in this environment  because the CEO insists that his \u201cculture\u201d is defined by extraordinarily loud music\u2014think club level volumes\u2014in \u201chis bank\u201d for the entire workday. I wasn\u2019t aware of this prior to being hired, and they isolate new hires in a quiet area of the building for one month until placing them in offices on the main floor with the loud ambient sound. \n\nAfter six months of splitting headaches and not being able to work (creative) due to the distractions, I requested an accommodation to one of several empty offices or cubicles in a quieter area of the building with HR. They denied it.\n\nI\u2019m 31, and they didn\u2019t believe I was HoH because they couldn\u2019t see it, so I provided documentation (my audiology report), and they then permitted an environment test which was successful with sound mitigation....Then they denied the move again because the CEO, quote, \u201cDoesn\u2019t like it.\u201d I provided resources to the EOCC, JAN, etc., and they simply refuse to acknowledge the ADA, and said as much. Additionally, the CEO actually went so far to physically intimidate me after the request was made (i.e. screaming at me when I had noise-cancelling headphones on, clapping next to my head, taking me by the shoulders and directing me to the loudest parts of the building, directing others to yell at me so I could hear, etc.). \n\nI resigned yesterday, in writing and signed, my exit interview stated that that my departure was due to the discrimination and failure of the institution to handle this appropriately. HR was aware of the entire situation from Day 1 to resignation. \n\n[Link to original (too long) post](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/deaf\/comments\/d0t2lw\/inputadvice_requested_reasonable_accommodation\/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)\n\n*Note:\nI am very fortunate that my community rallied behind me during all of this, and quietly found another lead for work that embraces my talents and abilities first; the hearing impairments are a non-issue. They are giving me a private office, and I start on Tuesday.","title":"(Wisconsin) Disability discrimination\/hostile environment?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553884670,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b70yfx\/i_havent_gotten_a_security_deposit_and_it_has\/","id":"b70yfx","body":"So like the title suggests, my husband and I moved out of our apartment on February 4th. The rental company that our landlord uses walked the old apartment on March 1st, where they took the keys to the old apartment. We now currently rent another apartment from them in the same duplex (it's actually 4 apartments in one big house) and had to submit a separate security deposit for that one. I haven't received any list of damages or a check at all. I contacted them on Monday and they told me they were waiting for some sort of approval from the actual landlord. He has been over here 4 times in the past 2 weeks and has never gone inside the old unit. What do I do? How do I proceed from here? I live in California for context. ","title":"I haven't gotten a security deposit and it has been almost 30 days. What do I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553904563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b74ozy\/are_my_hours_being_cut_illegally_texas\/","id":"b74ozy","body":"Sorry that this is long or if it sounds dumb, I hope this is appropriate for this sub. This just happened and I need to vent a little. \n\nI work retail at a gift shop at a mall. I work 11am-7pm every Sunday. There is only one person who works at a time, so I am by myself for that 8 hour shift. We used to have two signs, one that said \u201cBe Back in 5 minutes\u201d and another that said \u201cBe Back in 20 minutes\u201d. I put up the 20 minute sign once every Sunday, to walk to the food court, get lunch and come back. Im gone about 10-15 minutes, only leaving once. I was told by my store manager that this was fine to do. \n\nAbout two weeks ago, I noticed that the 20 minute sign was missing. Figuring it had gotten misplaced, I made another one to use when I leave to get lunch. I walk into work today, and I bring up to my store manager why my Sunday schedule says 11-3 now for this coming Sunday instead of 11-7. He says that someone in the mall whom the owner of the company knows was taking a picture of the door closed with the sign up when I would leave to get lunch and sending it to the company owner. Manager says the owner now wants two 4 hour shifts instead of one 8 hour shift because he said \u201cshe apparently can\u2019t stay in the store for 8 hours so now it will be 4 hours\u201d, and then the store manager tells me today that the reason the 20 min sign got thrown away was because the owner didn\u2019t want them to be used anymore (after three weeks of me using the 20 minute sign I made on Sundays). This information was not communicated to me. So now my hours are being cut over a miscommunication. \n\nI would have started bringing lunch if I was told don\u2019t leave anymore, but I was told I was allowed to go and buy lunch. I\u2019m planning to address it again with my store manager, although he just told me that since it was an order by the owner it\u2019s \u201cout of his hands\u201d. Were my hours cut illegally, or is there a law that allows me a 10-15 minute break to walk to buy lunch during an 8 hour shift? ","title":"Are my hours being cut illegally? (Texas)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442343263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l2pzr\/showbiz_fansiteblog_claimed_i_was_in_a\/","id":"3l2pzr","body":"I'm from Leeds, England. About a month or so ago, I was in one of the local papers, having won a competition. Nothing odd about that, it happens all the time.\n\nHowever, my girlfriend (who I live with) found a story about me on a showbiz blog and fansite, hosted in Canada. As it is, she's a regular visitor to that site, which i wont promote here, for obvious reasons, given itd be spamming and such, and not good to promote, it would it?\n\nThe story allegedly claimed I was in a relationship with Scarlett Johansson and named me including the town I lived in, even used my photo (which was surely taken from the newspaper's website).\nIt claimed it'd been having a relationship with her since 2011, which is total BS.\n\nLuckily my girlfriend sees it as ludicrous and dismissed it as nonsense and a joke.\n\nI think, but, as IANAL, isn't this libel? Which legal system does this come under? British? Canadian? This is probably why I didn't ask it at the legaladvice UK subreddit.\n\nI don't know the author's home nation, but given a .yahoo.ca account was the contact email, presumably it's Canadian.\n\nI've followed your advice as you said:\n> If you're worried about your identity, create a throwaway. We want to help as many people as possible, and that includes those who may stumble upon your post later.\n\nWhere should this case be pursued, and how realistic would it have a chance of being in court?\n\nAFAIK, some cases don't even make it to court, but given that it involeves someone making allegations against someone who would be a \"public figure\" and me, an ordinary guy, where do I stand legally?\n\nCould Ms. Johanssen be even classified as a public figure, under British law, or Canadian law?\n\nNot sure, needing advice here.","title":"Showbiz fansite\/blog claimed I was in a relationship with a celebrity when I'm not (Leeds, England)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539444079,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nuilq\/daughters_punishment_at_school_3th_grade_to_work\/","id":"9nuilq","body":"My daughter was being a brat at school and got herself into trouble. That's not an issue. My issue is that her \"punishment\" is to help with the special ed kids in their classes. \n\nI don't understand this. What popped into my head was the phrase \"discrimination is taught.\" I do not find this moral whatsoever, suggesting that a punishment be to help those with disabilities. What are they trying to teach my daughter by saying, \"you did something bad, now as a result you have to spend time with someone different than you.\" As far as punishment with things that could be viewed as volunteer work or an actual job, I know this is used a lot such as sweeping floors or picking up trash, but this is taking your time to help another human in your presence who isn't as lucky as you. \n\nI just wanted to know the legal view of this, if it's any kind of exploitation slander of the special ed kids.\n\nI will be having a talk with my daughter before this \"punishment\" next week about those with disabilities and whatnot. She's very familiar with family members with physical disabilities and has known all her life not to be prejudice or judgmental. I really, really hate that that seems to be what the school is doing. Also, with it being the weekend now, I haven't been able to contact the teacher who gave out this punishment. ","title":"Daughter's \"punishment\" at school (3th grade) to work with the special education classes. Is this legal in any way?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568997739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6xk5p\/my_beloved_paranoid_grandpa_passed_away_and_im\/","id":"d6xk5p","body":"Weird background: grandpa has some classic cars that he purchased back in the 80s. Being a paranoid man, he paid all cash, had people sign bills of sale which were never fully filled out, and then proceeded to store the cars in a storage unit which was also paid in cash for over 25 years and is still being maintained by my brother and I now. The unit owner never knew his real name because the deal to rent the unit was made between my grandfather and her father so there is no real record of \"him\" renting the unit. He never registered some of the cars. Some don't have titles. We can't locate the old registrations.\n\nAll of this occurred in Connecticut. Before he passed, we relocated him to Virginia so we could take care of him. The unit with cars is maintained in Connecticut to this day. Because he passed in Virginia, we have to use their probate system. They have not yet been made aware of the cars' existence as part of my asset report because I don't even know how to prove they were his. \n\nHe left a will that writes out his living children and leaves my brother and I as co-executors and co-beneficiaries. We consulted a lawyer who said the will looked good and that we need to find out what Connecticut DMV says about the cars first. I scoured their website and didn't find any answers except to try and file for possession of \"abandoned\" cars. I would try that, but I'm afraid to chance it in case the previous owners get that notification in the mail about me trying to possess the cars, and decide to take them back. I would have no way to prove my grandfather bought them aside from incomplete bills of sale.\n\nI'm not sure I even have a leg to stand on and every idea I come up with comes to a road block. Please help! I just want this probate process to be over with.","title":"My Beloved Paranoid Grandpa Passed Away and I'm Trying to Figure Out Probate Across States","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541793699,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vnqpr\/can_a_teacher_make_a_student_stand_and_say_the\/","id":"9vnqpr","body":"Today a teacher at my school forced a sophomore to stand and say the pledge. After the pledge had concluded she moved the student to the back of the class and proceeded to lecture to him about how \"disrespectful\" sitting is. She took the entire period to lecture him and the class about the flag and pledge.  Is this allowed? ","title":"Can a teacher make a student stand and say the pledge?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1413926423,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jxfaw\/looking_for_advice_for_a_friend_he_bought_a_car\/","id":"2jxfaw","body":"Does he have any ground to stand on?  \n\nOn Saturday he went to the dealership to look at cars.  They first offered him 2000 down and 355 a month, he said no and eventually they worked out a deal with 0 down and 320 a month.  They signed the contract on Saturday, he drove the car home.  On Monday they left a voicemail saying he just needed to fill out some more paperwork, but when he called back he found out the real reason.  The bank wouldn't let them do 0 down and 320 a month, so they wanted to change the deal and make him pay 1000 down.  He refused to do that and went to return the car.  \n\nThey kept trying to make him put 1000 down and keep the car, they wouldn't take no for an answer.  Finally, he just gave them the keys and we went to get in my car.  While we were pulling out, they ran out and said they could do 0 down and 320 a month, but my friend no longer wants to deal with these people because of their shady way of doing things.  They argued with us for a while trying to get him to leave in the car, but he wouldn't and we ended up leaving.  They just left him a voicemail asking when he is going to pickup the car.  \n\nAnything he can do?  This is Indiana, by the way.","title":"Looking for advice for a friend. He bought a car from a dealership, they tried to go back on the deal after the contract was signed, friend returned car, now they want the same deal and are pretending nothing happened.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569862854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbel1m\/usa_ga_who_is_legally_responsible_for_not\/","id":"dbel1m","body":"Hi, I signed a lease last year with two other people in Georgia, US. Two of us moved out, and one person renewed the lease and added two other people to their new lease.\n\nThe lease we signed clearly stated the property management company will not return our security deposit if we have not vacated the property. In emails, they have repeatedly written that \"the incoming tenants would need to work out their security deposit portion with out going tenants. Out going tenants will be refunded their refundable portion of pet deposit that that was paid.\" \n\nThe property management company returned the pet deposit as they said they would. My former roommate is not answering any calls\/texts\/Facebook messages about the security deposit. I know the first names of the two new tenants, but not their last names. I have found one of the new tenants Twitter account with their GFM they set up because they need to pay money to the outgoing tenants. Due to this, I believe my former roommate and the two new tenants do not have the means to pay their security deposit. It has been 30 day.\n\nIs the property management company responsible in any way for not returning our security deposit, or are they in the legal right to say we have not vacated the property and they can't return the security deposit?\n\nIf the company is not responsible, who is it we will need to sue for the security deposit? Is my former roommate responsible? Are the two new tenants responsible? The two new tenants both signed the new lease with cosigners; are their cosigners responsible?\n\nThank you for any advice you can give!","title":"USA, GA: Who is legally responsible for not returning security deposit?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442785584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lq4nw\/brother_is_cutting_ties_with_family_but_plans_to\/","id":"3lq4nw","body":"The other day, my brother confided in me that he plans to cut ties with our mother after finishing school. They have never gotten along, and the last few years have been absolute hell whenever he was home from school and living with her at our family house. LOCATION EDIT: PA, USA\n\nThis part is fine. I honestly think they will both be infinitely happier, healthier, and more successful living apart. The problem is, my brother plans to take the family dog, whom our mother absolutely adores. This dog was a gift from our mother to the family, given not long after the divorce.\n\nWe all love that dog, but my brother believes he is mistreated by my mother, and claims the dog would be better off with my brother. In all my time living here, I have never seen a shred of evidence that my mother neglects our dog. When I brought this up to my brother, he angrily accused me of always taking our mother's side. This accusation is quite often true, but only because 90% of their conflicts seem to be my brother's fault. I try my absolute best to be fair and rational, but being a middleman between family members is a very sad position indeed.\n\nI have no delusions of \"keeping the family together.\" I know they are happier on their own. However, I am absolutely terrified that this situation will escalate into a battle that will do terrible damage to my relationship with both my brother and my mother. If push comes to shove, I could see consequences as severe as either of them being deemed mentally unstable, as I am well aware that a range of mental health issues have done nothing but add fuel to the fire on both sides over the years. I will do anything in my power to avoid this. I want them to lively happily, separately. \n\nAs of now, I have absolutely no clue how to proceed. My brother is stubborn as hell, and refuses to see anyone else's point of view. Just telling him it is illegal or unfair will only get him angry and defensive. He'll probably try to steal the dog in the middle of the night or something. The only solution I can imagine that would leave everyone walking away unscathed would be to have my brother realize on his own that he can't win this without concrete legal repercussions. The only way I see that happening is by giving him information on how someone removes a pet from somebody's custody, telling him to make sure his case is bulletproof, and letting him realize that it can never work. This way he would do the work and hopefully realize on his own that he'd lose. If that happens, he may begrudgingly leave the dog with our mother, and go on to live his life as he sees fit.\n\nLuckily, we have over a year before this crisis occurs, but I'm really hoping I can find a way to diffuse the situation. Please let me know if there's things I should research, viewpoints I haven't considered, etc. Thank you in advance!\n\nTL;DR: Brother plans to cut ties and steal the dog. Help me make sure this doesn't happen.\n\n","title":"Brother is cutting ties with family, but plans to take the family dog. This will not go over well.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570579137,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df8qun\/i_did_not_sexually_assault_my_sister\/","id":"df8qun","body":"My sister (30F) is in the process of a divorce. She is filing for full custody of her two children (5M and 8F). She received a letter from her husband\u2019s lawyer that had an affidavit attached from her husband\u2019s sister. It states that she fears for her 8 year old niece\u2019s safety. Why? She says my sister confided in her that I (36M) sexually assaulted my own sister when she was a child. For the record, I did not assault my sister.\n\nShould I get myself a lawyer? Or, disregard their baseless accusations.","title":"I did not sexually assault my sister.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554929005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbr40j\/a_restaurant_is_essentially_stealing_my\/","id":"bbr40j","body":"I apologize for the long post!! It was recommended that I post this here! (Also sorry if my flair is wrong, I wasn\u2019t really sure)\n\nBack when I was getting my photography business started I would reach out to businesses and offer free photos in order to build my portfolio and corporate experience. I heard back from, let\u2019s call him Jim Doe, the owner of several big restaurants in the area. And he was looking for free photos for his restaurants, and in exchange, was very adamant about giving me \"exposure.\" Now of course I jumped at this opportunity because he's a big name in the area, very successful, and I was excited that he saw the potential in my work. We had a meeting where he was very excited for my future, told me to watermark all of the photos I sent to him, and that'd he'd credit me in all of my work that they used. I felt like this was a pretty fair trade off for someone just getting into the business, so I was all in.\n\n I spent the next couple days going in and spending hours taking photos of his restaurants, and then spending a few weeks editing them to make sure they were perfect because I hold a high standard for my work. He and I were both thrilled with the photos after I finished and sent them his way. I did get one nice shout out right after I sent the photos on one of his Facebook pages, which I greatly appreciated. But, things began to go downhill. \n\nI noticed that about 90% of the time my photos were being used in ads, websites, social media, etc. that my watermark was being cropped out, and I wasn't being given proper photo credit like I was promised, which would've made up for cropping out my watermark. It irritated me to no end but I chose not to say anything because I didn't want to open that can of worms, and was hoping it was just an honest mistake. Just recently, however, I learned through a screenshot that my fiance took while scrolling through Facebook that about 7 of my photos were being used in an article for one of the biggest news sources in my state, and one of my photos was being featured on THE FREAKING FOOD NETWORK! An international stage for my business! I'm sure you can imagine how infuriating it was for me that not only had my watermark been removed again, but that there was Z E R O credit given below the photo on either website. In fact, when asked for photo credit, it says \u201cPhoto by: Jim Doe\u201d on The Food Network even though I took and edited the photo. \n\nI have reached out to him to give him my two cents on the situation, and see if he had anything to say about it, but I have yet to hear back. I figure the kind thing to do for someone who took so much of their time to make beautiful images for your business would be to just give credit where credit is due, it takes about 5 seconds. Especially due to the fact that he's a small business owner himself, he should understand better than anyone how exciting it is to see something you've worked hard for displayed on a national stage. \n\nI\u2019ve also learned over time from other sources that this man is notoriously sleazy and takes advantage of people and businesses just because he thinks he can. I plan on typing out a Facebook post explaining in detail everything that\u2019s happened, and warning people not to trust or support this guy. I also plan on reaching out to the Food Network and the news source using my photos somehow (not really sure how to contact anyone who could help me there) to let them know of the situation, and that I would like proper credit, or for the photos to be taken down. \n\nNow the kicker about all of this is there was no contract at all. (Which was super naive of me but I was just starting my business and didn\u2019t know better) so everything the two of us agreed on was said at a meeting with him, my fianc\u00e9, and myself. I never signed anything, nor did he. I don\u2019t know if this totally screws me at all in the legal space. I\u2019m not necessarily trying to get money or royalties or anything, I would just like my name to be credited along with my photos that I worked so hard on like he said he would do, because they\u2019re my photos. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"A restaurant is essentially stealing my photographs, what (if any) legal action can I take?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539284745,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ncvfa\/are_my_parents_separated\/","id":"9ncvfa","body":"Just a quick question. I live in NC. I\u2019m a senior in high school applying for my FAFSA, and one of the questions asked is if your parents are separated or divorced. \n\nMy parents are married and live with me, but only speak with each other when yelling. They fight pretty bad, and in the past, my mom has kicked my dad out for a few days, or tried filing for divorce. Their fighting has regularly impacted my life for years, especially this last year. After I leave for college, they plan to separate almost immediately. However, since they still live together, do I have to put them as married? What is technically legal separation? \n\nSorry if this is dumb!","title":"Are my parents separated?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553529195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5cczg\/fl_exhusband_is_mentally_unstable_and_emotionally\/","id":"b5cczg","body":"I divorced my ex-husband 9 years ago. Since then he has married two other women. He is currently in the midst of his third divorce. With all three of us, he was manipulative and verbally and emotionally abusive. He also threatened suicide in front of all three of us. (He denied it when I brought it up during our divorce.) He was given majority custody because the judge believed his denial of all mental issues and because at the time I was living in another state and the judge would not allow my daughter to relocate with me.\n\nMy ex has cut off all communication between our daughter and his 2nd and 3rd wives and turned her against them, telling her they are horrible people. He is currently telling our daughter that his third wife is mean, is trying to take everything, etc. He is involving her in details of his divorce and making her take sides.\n\nHe is currently (I believe) in contempt because he has moved out of state with her and is staying with his parents. He gave me zero notice, and when I asked him about it, he lied and said that they have not moved. He then gave me a new address to mail his support checks to. I looked it up and it is a box at a UPS store. \n\nHis third wife got in touch with me and confirmed that they did, in fact, move out over a month ago, and that he is mentally unstable and constantly swinging back and forth between mania and depression.\n\nI have been told by lawyers in the past that a judge will not change custody unless physical abuse is involved. Is this true?\n\nDo you think there is any hope for me getting her?","title":"(FL) Ex-husband is mentally unstable and emotionally abusive toward our child (11F) Any hope for custody?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542143733,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wt7om\/landlord_is_trying_to_hold_me_responsible_for_a\/","id":"9wt7om","body":"Recently we alerted our maintenance department verbally about a cracked window. This was discovered in a room that is rarely used when they asked us to tell them which windows had condensation between the panes due to bad seals (which was another issue we had alerted them about). \n\nWhen I spoke to the apartment manager she informed me she would be coming in to document the crack with photos and that we would be charged $95 to fix it if it\u2019s on the inside pane, which it is. I refuted this explaining that we did not crack the window, and that it is a thermal crack due to temperature differences from the outside and inside. It\u2019s common for breaks of this nature to be clean (not like a blunt force impact) and be either on the inside or outside. \n\nCan they prove that this was negligence on our end, and can they hold us liable for an act of god?\n\nLocation: Michigan \n\nPhoto of the window: https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ovxy7Wl","title":"Landlord is trying to hold me responsible for a thermal crack in a window.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571188309,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dihro6\/landlord_passed_away_maine\/","id":"dihro6","body":"Hi, my parent passed away and I am the executor and sole beneficiary of the will, though I haven't filed it at the probate court (plan to do so on Friday). My parent has tenants, some of whom are behind in rent. My name is on my parent's bank account, but I have not taken out or deposited any funds in that account for anything other than my parent's bills\/properties.\n\nI'm planning on continuing to collect and deposit rent checks into the account. I understand that as executor, or at least once I'm named executor, I will be able to sign and deposit checks made out to my parent, so it seems like I should tell tenants to keep making checks out to her. I'm planning on giving tenants notice that I will be collecting rents and evicting people if needed, even though I think I will need to wait until the court appoints me executor before I evict. \n\nAm I missing something?","title":"Landlord Passed Away (Maine)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1542152222,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wugkm\/bad_news_articles_were_written_about_me_a_couple\/","id":"9wugkm","body":"TD:LR Had some problems at school that ended up on the news and no one will hire me because of it can I sue for discrimination.\n\nSo back in June I had some stuff that followed me around for a few years that I was constantly bullied for and called names. It ended up on the news because the school didnt let me come in for the last day. But since then I haven't been hired at all. They all turn me away saying they have a full crew and don't need anymore. I have applied to 6 different jobs and keep calling back asking till they told me they were full. But they still have hiring inside signs. Is this discrimination because I was a victim of a bullying which made it to the news?","title":"Bad news articles were written about me a couple of months ago.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552044830,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayp9ww\/my_moms_ex_doesnt_want_to_leave_the_house\/","id":"ayp9ww","body":"(Sorry if there is a better fitting flair for this, I'm unfamiliar with a lot of English terms in the flairs)\nAlright so, I'm writing you guys because I'm desperate for a solution even though I don't know if there is one.\n\nLast summer my mom's boyfriend broke up with her because he was having an affair with someone. My mom gave him until the years end to find some place else. The years end arrives and he still hasn't found anything so he begged, or as I like to say guilt tripped, my mom into a bit more time. They made a compromise for half this month instead of the end of the month because mom doesn't want there to be a big fight.\n\nNow the end date is soon arriving and he still hasn't found a place (let it be know that he had over 9 months time). He confesses that in the first 6 months he didn't even properly look for a house because he hoped he could stay as long as he wanted. Mom doesn't want to extend his time but he comes with all this talk of that we are lawfully unable to kick him out the house because, even though the house is on our name, he also signed he contract to agree with that.\n\nWe are going to call the landowner on monday to ask if that's true but if it's true, is there something we can do?\nWe already tried to see if we can make an agreement together with a lawyer but we simply can't afford that.","title":"My mom's ex doesn't want to leave the house","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442703233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lm3kv\/i_accidentally_stumbled_across_a_child_porn_cite\/","id":"3lm3kv","body":"Last night I decided to masturbate and went to website that hosts a collection of amateur 18+ videos that I found by googling 2-3 years ago. The website usually links to other affiliated websites that has more videos so you can access a ton of videos through a chain of websites. This even happens when you click on a picture of a video. Instead of taking you to a video it takes you to another website. Normally I just click a bunch of videos that peek my interest for when I finaly start doing the deed. Im not paying any great detail to the actual websites that pop up. Sometimes the videos dont actually pop up and its just another one of the websites that create the chain. So I start buffering videos from the left tab to the right when I realize the entire collection of videos on the website on the right most tab feature girls that are almost certainly underage. I instantly close out of the incognito browser and report an incredibly vague report at a website I was told to by another government one. I'm worried if I provide too much information Ill be contacted and I live with my parents so chances are If I'm contacted by government agents investigating child porn my parents will find out and I dont want to have to explain that to my parents. HOWEVER, if it means me not going to jail I'm fine with that. Which leads me to the next two parts.\n\n1) How do I properly report this with the minimal chance of drawing attention to myself? I can't recreate the chain but I remember the first website and the picture but not the name of the next few videos to click to get to this website. I DO want to report this properlly but I dont want government agents showing up at my house or school, for any reason, questioning me about child pornography.\n\n2) How much trouble can I get for visiting this website and what do I need to do to cover my ass? Full disclosure: I'm a frequent visitor to the FIRST 3 (out of 4 or 5, I cant remember) parts of the chain of websites as they are affiliated with each other. The website in question was left open in a tab for an unknown amount of time before I clicked a random picture and started buffering a video but as soon as I started buffering the video I realized all the girls looked a bit too young and closed the browser instantly. I know I cant recreate the chain because I tried to after closing out so I could get a URL after googling how to report it. With the exact same click and pictures all I got were adds for normal consumer products like detergent which were exceptionally strange. The girls weren't 100% underage. There models out there who make a living because they look like it but this entire website was amateur videos of girls who look liked this. There was no way they werent underaged. I don't know if that argument can work in my favor. I really doubt it. EDIT: I should mention I live in VA.\n\nThats quite the wall. I apologize for any bad grammar, typos, or errors. I'm a bit nervous as this is probably the most fucked up thing I've seen on the internet and this could effectively ruin my life if I dont handle this correctly. I'm grateful for any and all advice you can give me and thank you so much for your time to read this and help me!","title":"I accidentally stumbled across a child porn cite during last night's masturbation secession. How do I report it while drawing little attention to myself and how much trouble can I get for visiting it?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1506909093,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73pxh2\/miil_traffic_lawyer_avoiding_my_calls_a_month\/","id":"73pxh2","body":"I got a speeding ticket while driving through Illinois in the beginning of august. Since i live in Michigan and i had just got points taken off after the 3 yr point expiration (i think its 3 years) i decided to hire a traffic attorney to try to get me no points so my insurance wouldnt be high like the last few years. \n\nI found a national company online called cdlconsultants.com. Does anyone know if they are reputable? I did try to look them up to see their reputation and I believe i found something that made me trust them. (I don\u2019t remember what i saw, it was almost 2 months ago.) I paid them >$400 and they found me an attorney in Illinois that would take my case and they send it to her. \n\nMy court date passes (last week of august) and i hear nothing from my attorney. I call her a couple days later and leave her a message to see whats going on. The next day she calls me back and says the court date got moved or something. She gives me another date. That day comes and goes and still no word from my attorney. I call her a day or two later and leave a message. The next day she calls back and says it got pushed back again to monday September 25. Tuesday September 26 at 11am i call and leave a message. She still has not responded to me. \n\nAt this point i have no idea if anything she said was true and for all i know i now have a warrant out for me in Illinois for an unpaid ticket. \n\nI have to drive through Illinois to Missouri in 2 weeks and am worried. Should i write her a nasty email? What if what she has told me is true all along and and the date keeps getting pushed back and then she intentionally botches my court appearance? I was wrote out a nasty letter to the cdlconsultants company but i held out on sending it to wait to see what you guys think. \n\nIf this is a scam, what can i do? If i just have a crappy attorney what can i do? How can i verify the attorneys claims? I guess giving the Court a call is a good place to start. If there is a warrant what do i need to do to fix it? Like i said, i have to drive through Illinois again in 2 weeks. ","title":"[MI\/IL] Traffic lawyer avoiding my calls a month after my court date","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553027432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b32gjn\/orthodontist_lied_to_me_about_a_contract\/","id":"b32gjn","body":"So I go to an orthodontist where they provide invisalign and the first set didnt fit. This was not on my end and I was blamed behind my back for it (They never told me it was my fault they just told my mom when I was getting an Xray) I was also handed a contract where I was told to read it aloud as soon as I got it. She pointed to a place and I began reading. I signed in the spots I was supposed to and had a question about a part that was titled \"violation number\" she said she didnt know what it meant but told me to sign anyway and wed ask about it later. I did. I dont know much about this stuff. Im only 15. After I signed it she added something underneath the violation number. It was a \"1\". Not once was I told that I violated anything and was lied to when I asked what it meant. They told my mom that if they dont fit I will be charged $500. Its total BS. Im so pissed right now. Is there anything I can do. Sorry if anything is messed up but im in a target right now.","title":"Orthodontist lied to me about a contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553089935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3c9yx\/tboned_not_at_fault_but_my_insurance_doesnt_care\/","id":"b3c9yx","body":"I was in an accident on Saturday with my girlfriend, we were driving down a main road with the right of way when someone came from a stop sign on a side street and struck my driver's side. We spun out, hit a parked car, and stopped against a telephone pole. I had to be extracted from the vehicle by the fire department and was in the hospital for three days. I'm now at home recovering, but still can't return to work. My girlfriend is shaken and bruised but she's okay.\n\nI made the mistake of calling my own insurance first, Geico, and they basically told me that I'm fucked.\n\nYears and years ago when I first signed up for the policy, I was under my dad's health insurance and would be for several years. I don't remember what terms or conditions I had signed then but apparently I had signed off on no medical coverage whatsoever for myself in the event of an accident. And so when I called them after the accident, Geico told me that due to NJ being a \"no fault state\", I can't go after the at-fault driver's insurance for medical damages. But they said I can pay a penalty fee of $750 to convert my insurance to include PIP, since I'd been paying a discounted rate previously to not have it. They also said I'm only covered up to $15,000 with a $2500 deductible. I wouldn't be surprised if my hospital stay was at least double that, as I was in the ICU for a night and was administered lots of opiates and other meds. \n\nI called a lawyer's office who works by contingent fee and they had a field guy at my hospital bed an hour later. They said it wouldnt cost me a dime but that what my insurance company told me is wrong and that they absolutely can get the other guys insurance to pay. \n\nI did some reading about no fault insurance in NJ and I'm really just not understanding it. How can it be that if someone hits me, I'm the only one responsible for my injuries? Why wasn't I ever advised that I was making a huge mistake by not including PIP in my car insurance? I'm a responsible driver and don't get into accidents, I always assumed that it I did, it would be someone else's fault and their insurance would cover me if hurt.\n\nI also don't understand the contradiction between what the lawyer told me and what I'm reading about NJ law. I'm really worried about how I'm going to pay for my hospital stay. What should I do now? ","title":"Tboned, not at fault, but my insurance doesn't care (NJ)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1542119919,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wpl33\/landlord_withheld_information_and_caused_the\/","id":"9wpl33","body":"Recently we moved into a little house in Michigan that we started renting around six months ago. There haven't really been any major issues with the house and our relationship with the landlord was pretty good until today. My mom went to use the bathroom and the toilet became way more than clogged, leading to the dirty toilet water to come up in the bathtub and every sink including the kitchen sink to leak into the basement and ruin a lot of our stuff that was sitting in boxes. When we called the landlord, he said he'd send out a plumber who would arrive the next day. The plumber accused us of throwing paper towel down the toilet which was absolutely untrue. It wasn't until we convinced him that we were 100% sure that he told us we weren't allowed to flush toilet paper down the toilet because \"there's a galvanized pipe and if you keep putting toilet paper down here, it'll just happen again.\" Which made us feel crazy! Neither me or my mom have ever lived in a house where we weren't allowed to throw toilet paper in the toilet. It was when the plumbers left that my mom called our Landlord to tell him what had happened. His response was \"I was going to tell you about it but..\" and then \"You should've researched the house. It's common sense, most houses don't.\" Not only blaming us for not knowing the toilet couldn't take toilet paper but telling us we should assume it won't. It was a basic \"I'm sorry your upset but I won't do anything about it,\" type deal and I just want to know if there's any way we can get out of this year lease with him or any sort of action we can take? He knew the entire time about the pipes, even asked my mom for months \"No problem with the house right?\" Even said he'd pay for the problem if it involved the pipes but now that it's an issue, it's \"tough luck.\" Is there anything at all that can give us a little peace? It may seem minor but my mom is super frustrated and things are hard enough as it is, I'd just like to bring back some good news to her. Any little bit of help is appreciated!","title":"Landlord withheld information and caused the basement to flood.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550995513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/au5wss\/if_you_live_somewhere_but_you_arent_on_the_lease\/","id":"au5wss","body":"I live in Tennessee","title":"If you live somewhere but you aren\u2019t on the lease can you get your address changed to that house","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539663616,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ok8ws\/guy_sends_nudes_to_minor_school_refuses_to_take\/","id":"9ok8ws","body":"Singapore\n\nA week ago, a classmate sent nudes (not of himself), to me (16) and a friend (17). We both deleted the picture as we were very disturbed and disgusted by it. \n\nI told my teacher about it, and the guy confessed to sending it to me (I have it recorded). \n\nThe school did nothing but inform his parents. \n\nThey refuse to remove him from school leadership positions, and I have to see him every week. \n\nThey guilt tripped me into moving on, and told me to be the bigger person and not escalate this. \n\nI have all of it recorded, I just don\u2019t have the photo he sent me. \n\nSingapore has a section of the penal code (section 292) that makes it illegal to distribute and transmit obscene material (ie pornography). \n\nCan he be charged for it? Is this sexual harassment? What else can I do about it? Thanks. ","title":"Guy sends nudes to minor, school refuses to take action","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1446614043,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rgfjv\/texas_needing_help_with_landlord_giving_a_72_hour\/","id":"3rgfjv","body":"Okay so here's the story. \n\nI live with my mother still (21 years old) and she got a job at a restaurant. The owners of the restaurant also own the place we are living in. They let their employee's (I guess they only ever have 1 employee at a time) live in this place rent and utilities free. They don't pay anything at all and the only money my mother makes is from her tips from when she is a waitress there 1 or 2 nights a week, every other night it's her cooking and cleaning and she's been working 70+ hours a week since starting there. \n\nEarlier today when her shift started she brought up how she is worn out from the 70+ hours a week and the husband of the couple that are the owners said he'd talk to his wife about letting her work 50 hours instead and still waitress a night or 2 a week. The wife goes nuts and starts to scream at my mother so my mom said she quit and walked out. \n\nAfter I went to work today the husband came over to our place and handed my mom a hand written eviction notice that said we had 72 hours to get out (so until this Friday the 6th). He also threatened her saying his wife would come over here and physically assault my mother. We've only live here for around a week to a week and a half but my mother has worked for them for a bit longer, close to a month now. We would have lived here longer already but they had to evict their last tenant due to her quitting as well (they've been through 7 people in the last couple of months). \n\nI need help figuring out if the 72 hour notice is actually legal or not. I am not familiar with our laws here in Texas and I've always heard you're supposed to be given 30 days to leave before being evicted. \n\nMy mother is going to a organization tomorrow (can't say the name because it will give away where I live) to help us find a place to live and they got even more furious with her when she told them that. I believe they got angry because they don't take out taxes for pay or anything at all for their employees and that will be reported to the organization that my mother is visiting tomorrow.\n\nI think I got it all put down, so any advice will greatly be appreciated!\n\n\nEdit: Ahhhhhh I'm dumb, I forgot some info. \n\n\nThere is no lease due to the arrangement of the living conditions and he was supposed to make up a contract for both of him, his wife, and my mother to sign about us living her, her working etc but they never got around to doing that either. ","title":"[Texas] Needing help with landlord giving a 72 hour eviction notice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570241382,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddh66v\/landlady_allowed_tenant_to_move_into_her_house\/","id":"ddh66v","body":"This is in DuPage county, Illinois. I'm asking this on the behalf of someone else.\n\nLandlady is renting out rooms in her house. She has owned the house 6 years, already has one tenant\/roommate living there for the last 5 years with a month-to-month lease.\n\nTitle starts to explain the situation. Landlady has allowed a new woman and her two teenage children to move in. Landlady made the mistake of letting them move in without yet paying rent or signing the lease. (She realizes the mistake.) It has been over a week.\n\nHow long until they establish residency in the house? They have not received mail here yet. Their belongings are in the house. Should she give a 5 day notice? A 30 day notice? How long until they become squatters?\n\nI'm confused on the information I have learned from Google, forgive my ignorance. I'm finding out this information for the landlady. Let me know if I'm leaving out any relevant information.","title":"Landlady allowed tenant to move into her house without paying rent, tenant has still not paid rent. How to evict if they do not pay? (Illinois)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444231207,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nulzl\/or_update_deferring_an_assault_charge_in_oregon\/","id":"3nulzl","body":"[Original Post](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ed589\/deferring_an_assault_charge_in_oregon\/)\n\nFirst off, thank you to any of you who offered advice on this!\n\n\nTo recap, I was being charged with misdemeanor Assault 4 and Harassment as a result of a fight that I got into. I didn't go into details before, but the short version of the story is that my Ex's new boyfriend was physically preventing me from seeing our little girl, things got heated and emotional, and I punched him.\n\nSomething that developed after I posted was that they both went and got restraining orders against me (He got a stalking protective order, and she got a FAPA Domestic Violance restraining order). They both gave very similar, false statements that I threatened to kill them and our little girl, and that I beat up my ex. This was going to be pretty easy to fight because they didn't mention any of this in their police report. Fortunately, neither of them showed up to the hearings so the orders were vacated.\n\n\nPlease believe me when I say I didn't threaten anyone, and I didn't lay a hand on her. The only reason I took a swing at her boyfriend was because he had me pinned up against my car and was behaving in a threatening way. I thought he was going to attack me. My ex later told me that she didn't want the restraining orders and tried to leave the courthouse multiple times, but they were convinced she was a scared victim and bent over backwards, basically coercing her to go through with it. He was also exceptionally heavy handed in dealing with her in the situation, and dictated to her what she should say in her written statement, becoming angry if she disagreed.\n\n\nSo yeah, he's a super cool guy, and a harmless victim of my aggression.\n\n\nThe topic of my post was asking if it was possible for me get a deferred sentencing agreement (DAP) for the charges in Oregon, since some of applicable laws seemed to state that causing physical harm precluded that option - but I was also able to find several cases where people successfully deferred their sentencing.\n\n\nI did end up retaining a lawyer who told me unequivocally that a DAP was possible, but he encouraged me to pursue a civil compromise with the guy I got into a fight with.\n\n\nThis was a huge pain in the ass, but I was fortunate in the fact that my ex didn't want me to be in trouble and she ultimately convinced him to sign an Acknowledgement of Satisfaction. My attorney expected that the district attorney would protest and we would have to have a separate hearing over it, but we were pleasantly surprised that she accepted - and all of the charges were dismissed.\n\n\nI asked my attorney about having the record expunged, and he told me that it's common for municipal court cases in this area to not even show up on background checks, but that if I did a background check on myself in a month and it showed up - he'd help me out for free.\n\n\nSo for anyone else out there looking for options - it's possible. I got out of a jail sentence, a criminal record, and $2000+ in fines with a $1000 attorney's fee and some luck.\n\nThanks again for all the advice!","title":"[OR] Update: Deferring an Assault Charge in Oregon","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447550975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3suipm\/wanc_my_mom_doesnt_want_to_create_a_will_and\/","id":"3suipm","body":"Hi,\n\nMy mom is divorced with no siblings, parents, etc., and living in North Carolina. Last week before going on a trip she sent me an e-mail with \"final instructions\" in case anything happened to her, and it's really stressing me out! I could use any advice at all as I'm having trouble figuring this out through googling.\n\nMy understanding from our prior conversations is that all of her bank\/stock trading\/etc. accounts are in both of our names, or I'm named as the sole beneficiary, I apologize that I'm not 100% clear on the details but basically I'm not concerned about that aspect of things.\n\nHowever, she does have a car and other physical assets, and she doesn't want to write a will or put my name on the title. Basically she is a really stubborn and frugal person and I don't think I can change her mind on this. She told me that she doesn't want to have to ask anyone to be a witness for a will because she \"feels like she would have to take them out for pizza afterwards\"... just so you know what I am dealing with here.\n\nI have two half-siblings that I'm not in contact with, and they know her address, but other than that they are pretty estranged. I'm not sure how long it would take them to figure out what had happened in the event of her death, because they have gone really long stretches without any communication in the past. She doesn't want me to contact them AT ALL in the event of her death, she literally told me that if they ever got a hold of me to tell them that she took a long trip somewhere, and says that I should tell a lawyer\/anyone else involved that I'm an only child. I'm not an expert but this sounds super illegal\/easily disprovable to me! She doesn't want my half-siblings to get ANYTHING, but I feel like it would be better for me to just tell them and give up 2\/3rds of what I should be entitled to rather than get into some kind of legal trouble\/crazy legal battle over it.\n\nCan anyone tell me how this would play out in real life if I just pretended that they don't exist? Is it as bad of an idea as I think it is? What would you do? Thanks!","title":"[WA\/NC] My mom doesn't want to create a will, and doesn't want me to inform my half-siblings in the event of her death. What will happen?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505544496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70fihh\/media_and_stocks_question\/","id":"70fihh","body":"I have a simple question. After doing research I have not found a definitive answer. My question is as follows: Is it illegal to write an article and spread it around the net with the intention of affecting the value of a stock. For instance, if a person was to write a story claiming a certain company was headed for economic trouble but phrased it as an opinion then paid to spread this news around social media. The intention would be to cause a momentary dip in stock where a person would buy shares. The market would surely equalize after the fact. Net=profit?\n\nIs this legal?\n\nEdit:\n\nLocation: USA","title":"Media and stocks question.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569509737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9kqn2\/shady_personal_trainer_contract\/","id":"d9kqn2","body":"Good morning,\n\nI'm currently trying to terminate my contract with a fitness center due to moving from Louisiana back to South Carolina. The move was unexpected due to illness within my family so it's also a quick move. I contacted the manager who signed me up who stated that after 3 days, any issues with the contract had to go through an outside company who handled their billing. I contacted this company and was told the cancellation department only operated by email (within the contract it does tell me that I need to submit a written request for cancellation by mail, but I needed to know what information they required as \"acceptable proof of moving\") I emailed the company asking what proof they required, what my refund would be (within the contract it states that if the member moves more than 35 miles away a refund of 90% of prorated unused services is due) and I asked what my cancellation fee (based on the contract I would owe 25% of the remaining amount on my contract). They responded and informed me no refund would be due, but that I would owe the 25% and then listed the option that would be \"proof\" of moving. I explained my situation with moving in with family to help take care of someone, I wouldn't have a job, morgage, utility bill (because she informed me that my bank and cell phone statement with my new address would be rejected), no military orders, and my ID is still my parents address bc I didn't change it when I moved to Lousiana a few years ago. I was told I couldn't cancel without this proof.\n\nSo I began reviewing the contract word for word because if they were going to pick and choose which sections of the contract they were going to enforce, I was going to find their errors. In the body of the contract it states that the contract singed on 07\/23\/2019 was for 9 months at $100 monthly payment. I agreed to 9 months, but I'm currently paying $100 every other week, which is $200 monthly. Then under the fees section it shows that I'm being charged $12.50 per session for 16 session a month, but I'm only getting 8 sessions per month. Right below that it shows again $100 monthly payment but for 17 months. All of this contradicts what I was told I was signing, I was going to be a member for 9 months with 2 sessions a week and charged, $100 every other week. \n\nAm I wrong to wonder why the contract contradicts what they're actually providing? Do I have any legal course of action since the contract is written so poorly and based on the terminology they've been over charging me? I originally singed up with them in April, and I loved the gym so much I extended my contract in July. Had I known I'd be moving in September, obviously I wouldn't have done so. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I know it was stupid to sign something based on what I was being told without fully reading the terms beforehand, it won't happen again, but now I need to know what I can do to fix a very stressful situation in the middle of a very stressful 1000 mile move. I appreciate any time you take to respond and help me out. :)","title":"Shady Personal Trainer Contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508151998,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76pqw4\/new_owner_wants_to_run_restaurant_in_accordance\/","id":"76pqw4","body":"I'm a morning shift chef working at an Eastern European restaurant in NYC. I usually come in before 6 to do prep for our breakfast service, however today I was met with a bloke claiming to be the new owner of the place. He said that we're going to be closed for at least a week while updates and renovations are performed, that's fair enough. The dodgy part is the new owner wanting all the staff to sign new contracts or be fired by the end of the week.\n\nThey didn't want to give me a copy of the new contract to take home before I sign it, but when I read it a few things immediatelly stood out, aside from grammar being slightly questionable at times:\n\n1. It's explicitly mentioned that the restaurant is now owned by a company that's incorporated in Ukraine and therefore will be ran in accordance with Ukrainian law, and that supposedly also includes all labour disputes. Now, I know very little about law, but that doesn't sound at all legal to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the business is located in New York common sense dictates that it should be ran in accordance with federal and NY State law.\n\n2. The basic monthly salary offered to me in the contract is 2000 Ukrainian Hryvnia. Obviously I checked how much that was in USD on the spot, and it's roughly $75. The new owner assured me that I'll be able to make as much as I did previously or possibly more thanks to a system of bonuses, but none of that is explicitly mentioned in the contract. In any case, I imagine a deal like that breaks all kinds of minimum wage laws.\n\n3. The contract allows the owner to let me go with a week's notice, while my quitting would require a 3 months' notice AND I forfeit all my earnings for the last month. I pointed out that the last part is obviously completely illegal and he can't expect anybody to work for free. After that the guy claimed he'd get rid of that last bit in a revised contract he wants me to sign.\n\nI've been given until friday to come in and sign a new contract if I want to carry on working there. Now, I'm not an idiot and I realise that my time there is over, but I still prefer to consult someone who knows more about law than I do. What do you think should be my next move here?\n\nAlso, I suspect the new owner is either: planning to ruin the business for some reason, a scam artist (and not a very good one), or a moron if he legitimately expects an experienced chef to work for 75 dollars and a pinkie swear promise of being paid more than that in bonuses.","title":"New owner wants to run restaurant in accordance with Ukrainian law","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443891460,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ncxtk\/rented_a_car_missed_some_damage_need_help\/","id":"3ncxtk","body":"Hi All,\n\nI recently rented a car when abroad for a week. When I got the car me and the guy walked around the car and noted all the little scratches and things on the forms and we both signed it. I stupidly did not take any photos\/videos at the time.\n\nI drove it for a week. Took good care. Had a lot of fun.\n\nTook it back and the guy inspected again and said there was damage to the front bumper underneath and sure enough there was. I 100% did not cause this. Looked through some photos on my phone that I had got the car in the pictures and I could see that same damage from the first pics I took on the second day. I was really shocked.\n\nThe guy made me sign that I could see the damage and pay the deductible (nearly \u00a3750). I didn't know what to do and had a plane to catch, so just signed it. (Probably a silly mistake here). He advised if it costs less to fix you get some money back.\n\nNow I'm back home I think I need to fight this. I know I've done loads of things wrong but I didn't cause the damage, and I can't afford that \u00a3750.\n\nI'm supposed to hear in a few days what they are charging me and if I receive any back, but really wanted some help and advice. I paid on my MasterCard as well.\n\nWhat should I do first, and how should I go about trying to challenge it.\n\nThanks. Andy.","title":"Rented a car - missed some damage - need help disputing fee","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555089457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcg5ae\/now_heat_or_gas_for_3_days_chicago\/","id":"bcg5ae","body":"Background info: I\u2019m renting a room in a townhouse but all tenants are affected, rent and utilities are payed to the property management company \n\nThere has been no gas or hot water to townhouse for 3 days. When I contacted one of the property managers he told me that I was annoying him outside of business hours and that the property owner wouldn\u2019t like to be charged extra for after hour services (what??), not having gas wasn\u2019t an emergency, and we should be happy that the electric still worked.\n\nHe then claimed that the other property manager came to the unit with a contractor to check things out, and even included her in a three way call between us. She then stated that she never came to the townhouse and that she only called the gas company. She went on to claim that the gas was off because large outage related to construction.  \n\nThey both stated that one of them would be here in the morning to figure things out, no one has showed up (radio silence from them)\n\nHere\u2019s where things get dodgy... I called the gas company this morning and they claimed that there is no outage anywhere in the area, there is no account opened for the address (by an individual or a company), and they can\u2019t send anyone over here to look into it because of that.\n\nI just moved in on the first and my lease is a year, I just want to be able to shower and cook. What can I do to get the gas situation fixed when the property managers don\u2019t seem to care?","title":"Now heat or gas for 3 days, Chicago","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540795597,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sasij\/reckless_driving_on_probation_pti\/","id":"9sasij","body":"Throwaway for privacy. Full disclosure this is a long one.\n\nLocation is Hudson County, NJ\n\nEarlier today I was pulled over by a HC sheriff and was issued two tickets for reckless driving and improper passing.\n\nI let my temper get the best of me after two separate people cut me off moments before and subsequently cut someone off myself and then I brake checked them repeatedly when they repeatedly honked their horn at me. The driver behind me was directly in front of a HC sheriff van. I ended up brakinv until a complete stop and immediately after the van's lights went off and I got the two tickets. (For people unfamiliar with this area, people drive like animals here with lax enforcement but that doesn't excuse my behavior)\n\nA little background: I'm in my early 20s and earlier this year was put on PTI in NJ for aggravated assault for \"getting into a fight\" near the college I attend (regarding that, long story short I defended myself from him attacking me but he and his friend lied to the police saying I was the attacker... so my attorney said I can take PTI for to 3 years, with possible early dismissal, and then the case is dismissed. 6 months aftee that it's automatically eligible to be expunged to where I can legally say it never happened...  Or I could spend at least 20k and go to trial which would be risky since it's a \"he said she said\" case. Needless to say I took the safer of the two bets). Next fall I'll return to being full time at said college but until then I work in the city. Nonetheless my point is fhe officer said \"what I did wasn't criminal so it shouldn't affect that [PTI].\" Is that accurate?\n\nI already have my email drafted to inform my probation officer of what happened. Should I contact my old attorney for advice? Also I was put on PTI in April; you're eligible for early dismissal of the program at 1.5 years in - how badly does this hurt my chances of that? (My only other offenses since then are a few parking tickets, all paid for)\n\nFurther, since the (handwritten) tickets say court appearance required, should I get a lawyer or is that not necessary for this?\n\nAfter I explained my situation a little bit the officer said he'd try to work with me and the prosecutor to lessen the tickets since I have no prior moving violations. He said something to the effect of maybe they could drop the reckless but add a heavier fine or something. He said as it stands it's 9 points and a $1k fine. I looked online and didn't see penalties matching anywhere near that much but maybe I am missing something. I'll know when I go to court in two weeks.\n\nAnyway sorry for such a long post, I just don't have many people to turn to in my life right now for advice. Please feel free to give me any advice or tips on how to best handle this. \n\nP.S. I've been told I drive aggressively in the past but this unmistakably shows me that I need a significant, immediate, and permanent change to my driving and I'm going to do just that. This won't happen again. \n","title":"Reckless driving on probation (PTI)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569471668,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9emug\/is_it_obstruction_of_justice_if_someone_concealed\/","id":"d9emug","body":"Pretty straight forward. The person concealed the location of the criminal for a few months. When the police interviewed the person, they confessed the location of the criminal and the criminal was arrested. The person was never actively questioned by the police until the day of the confession.","title":"Is it obstruction of justice if someone concealed a criminal for a period of time but eventually turned them in? [OH]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554946631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbuaxp\/traffic_ticket_decision\/","id":"bbuaxp","body":"I was recorded driving 75 in a 60 mph zone in Grant County in Washington State. The officer reduced the traffic violation to a 5 mph over limit (over 40) 46.61.400 violation code. It most likely happened shortly after passing a vehicle on a 2-lane highway before I had a chance to slow back down to cruise control at 67-69. The fine currently is $105 but I want to take steps to minimize damage to my record for insurance and non-cdl driving employment. Insurance.com says speeding 1-15 mph will stay on my record for 3 years and increase my rate by $288. I\u2019m guessing this is per year but it could also be per 6 months.\n\nOptions on the ticket are \n\n1. Pay the fine and allow it to go on my driving record.\n2. Mitigation hearing to explain that I was passing a vehicle and trying to get back into the driving lane quickly. This will still go on my driving record although I may pay a fine.\n3. Contest the infraction. Go to a court date and try to remove the infraction. If I lose, it will still go on my driving record\n4. Option not visible on the ticket: Pay roughly $150 to defer the ticket and go 12 months without another infraction. This will stay off my driving record if I don\u2019t get another infraction\n\nCurrently I am leaning towards deferring the ticket. I have went 8 years to date without a traffic ticket. 4 of those with relatively high yearly mileage.\n\nSpecific Questions:\n\nShould I defer my ticket?\n\nIf, not why and what is the recommended alternative?\n\nIf, yes why and how do I correctly defer a ticket?\n\nWhat is another free source for informed advice? The rules say not-for-profit or governmental organization links are acceptable.\n\nDo you need any more information to help me make an informed decision?","title":"Traffic Ticket Decision","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571403960,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djn8lf\/i_am_in_desperate_need_of_a_pro_bono_family_law\/","id":"djn8lf","body":"I am currently living place to place due to various circumstances, and planned to get on my feet and pay a lawyer so that I could be there and provide how I need too. However, it\u2019s been almost 3 years and I can\u2019t wait any longer. I have reached out to various, firms and emailed however I haven\u2019t had any luck. I\u2019m in desperate need of direction. Thank you.","title":"I am in desperate need of a pro bono family law attorney in Florida. I have not seen my daughter since 2017 and need a direct referral as I have tried to find help with no luck.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549634007,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aogpl9\/ohio_negative_pto_balance_from_final_paycheck\/","id":"aogpl9","body":"Hi all, \n\nWe have a small company in Columbus with six employees.  We will be terminating an employee next week.  While they have 3 weeks of vacation that accrues hourly, they have a negative PTO balance due to lots of sick time off in January. \n\nThe question is, can their negative PTO be deducted from their final paycheck?  Unfortunately, our handbook is silent on the matter. \n\nOn one hand, I believe Ohio only allows payroll deductions with written permission of the employee.  On the other, Is negative PTO considered a payroll advance or loan?. \n\nThe answer appears to be yes per this letter from the DOL which is identical to my situation:  https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/opinion\/FLSANA\/2004\/2004_10_06_17FLSA_NA_unearned_vacation.htm.  But I realize state laws may be more restrictive than federal.  And, this letter is 14 years old. ","title":"Ohio - Negative PTO balance from final paycheck","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568887754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6bx82\/i_may_be_out_a_month_in_back_rent\/","id":"d6bx82","body":"I am a homeowner who rents-out a spare bedroom. I had a roommate leave with adequate notice. He\u2019s an Army veteran who passed the background\/credit checks and always paid his rent on-time. In December 2018, we made a verbal agreement that he would do upgrades and repairs to my house in exchange for that month\u2019s rent, as he was running low on money for the holidays. When he left, he said that he would be able to get the agreed-upon repairs and upgrades.\n\nIt has been over a month and a half; I have contacted him via text and email multiple times with no response. I am beginning to think that he\u2019s ditching-out on our agreement. He \u201cforgot\u201d to give me his forwarding address, as I'm still getting some of his very important mail. I figured the mail would at least get him back here; but so far, it hasn\u2019t.\n\nWhile there is no formal, written contract that states that the December 2018 rent will be waived in exchange for specific upgrades and repairs to the house; I have emails and text messages that specifically mention our verbal agreement, as well as the agreed-upon upgrades\/repairs. \n\nWhat should I do? If I were to take legal action against him, the lease states that I can recover legal fees if I prevail in court. However, i\u2019m not sure I would prevail without a formal, written agreement. I\u2019m trying not to take any legal proceedings, if possible.\n\nTLDR: Roommate with otherwise-stellar reputation owes back rent based-upon verbal agreement that was alluded-to in texts and emails, which specifically states the agreed-upon upgrades\/repairs. For the past month and a half, I have contacted him via text and email multiple times with no response.","title":"I may be out a month in back rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541727335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vg5gb\/i_have_noisy_apartment_neighbors\/","id":"9vg5gb","body":"My boyfriend and I have complained to the landlord at least three or four times. I am wondering what my next steps could\/should be.","title":"I have noisy apartment neighbors..","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571330677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj91ga\/downstairs_neighbor_is_chain_smoking_and_giving\/","id":"dj91ga","body":"My downstairs neighbor (apartment complex) is chain smoking on her back balcony. The cigarette smoke is blowing into our apartment and giving my GF asthma attacks. I've reviewed my lease agreement and talked with the apartment manager - there is no set smoking policy. They don't seem too interested in changing that policy. I've kindly asked my downstairs neighbor not to smoke on her balcony - she doesn't care. WA has state law restricts smoking in public areas, but from what I read, residential and\/or multi-family homes don't apply. What can I do?","title":"Downstairs neighbor is chain smoking and giving my GF asthma attacks. - [WA State]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569961482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbz8nd\/florida_i_think_my_boss_is_spiking_my_drinks_with\/","id":"dbz8nd","body":"This happened in Miami Florida. \n\nIm a bartender in a busy, well known bar\/restaurant.\n\nWe are, as you may know, allowed to have free water\/coffee\/sodas during our shift, but they must be placed (for bartenders) in a small service station tucked behind the bar (out of our sight). Because of the layout this is only accessable to staff members (one door is to the bar, the other to the storeroom where we store our liqour. \n\nI have been working here for around six months. After around a month, my boss (the owner) sat me down and said he had noticed I never took shots with customers, and that is their policy that doing so encouraged boosted sales and a more enjoyable atmosphere to the guests. \n\nI explained that I dont drink (this is true, outside of one or two times in college), and that I just dont like the experience of being out of control.\n\nHe seemed to take this well, saying that it probably was a smart move then, but stressing that he hoped I didnt neccisarily share this with guests as it might make then them feel judged. I, of course, assured him that I never judged anyone and wasnt going to brag about my personal habits.\n\nAt first, I assumed everything was fine. But since then on many occassions since then when working with the owner Ive noticed after leaving my cut of water back there when I came back the water tasted very off and bad so I had to dump it. I then started to bring in my own water bottle, with water from home, but the same thing happened. Normally this coincides with the owner going back there to grab more booze\/etc.\n\nTgen around a week ago, my coworker accidentally takes a drink from my glass and say, \"Going real hard tonight with the vodka-water?\" To me. Now, I had been suspected something was being done with my water, but I dont really know how spirits taste, so this seemed like confirmation.\n\nAlso, it should be noted that recently the beverage manager has been up our asses because there has been many partially-empty bottles of vodka left in the storage room (where no open bottles should be held).\n\nSo my theory is that the owner has been slipping back there and spiking my waters with vodka, qqthen slipping the open vodka bottles back in the store room. I want to know what can be done about this as I do need to keep this job - I normally make beyween $1500 and $2500 a week so Im making more then I would at comparable restaurants. Ive talked to my coworkers and they think I should just suck it up and dump any waters I leave back there and pretend Im drinking them. Others have said I should just start taking shots with guests to get the owner off my back. Is there anything I can do about this legally?","title":"[Florida] I think my boss is spiking my drinks with alcohol at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540052293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pveh6\/my_father_owes_50000_in_child_support_how_do_i\/","id":"9pveh6","body":"Title. He and my mom got divorced in 2009, when I was about 8. My family has always been poor and we have lived off of welfare for many years since this. Child support payments would make life so much more livable for us. My little brother\u2019s 10th birthday is tomorrow and my mom only has $25 to spend on him. \n\nEnough of my sob story though. My father paid child support for only a few weeks after the divorce. A warrant was issued for his arrest for an unrelated incident, and he was put in jail. After he served his time, though, he moved to Florida. From my understanding, this meant that he could not pay and a Maryland warrant wouldn\u2019t solve much. He is also getting paid under the table so the money doesn\u2019t come out of his check and as a result he has wracked up around $50,000 in back child support. Is there any way we can get him to pay?","title":"My father owes $50,000 in child support. How do I get him to pay it?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553815156,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6pw85\/usa_ca_i_23m_got_into_a_car_accident_that_was_the\/","id":"b6pw85","body":"I got into a car accident last November, I was on the freeway driving the speed limit when the other driver crossed all the lanes at once and slammed on the breaks to try an make his exit. He did this so fast I did not have enough time to break and we collided. We called the police and he said we are both responsible for own damage, gave us each a small paper with the information for the accident, and we were free to go. I did not have insurance or a license at the time. The other driver is now stating I owe him for the damages and will threaten to send this to collections. I do not feel as I should be responsible for this as I paid for my own damages and if he hadn\u2019t been reckless trying to make an exit too late  we would not be here to begin with. What should I do? ","title":"[USA CA] i [23m] got into a car accident that was the other drivers fault and they are now coming for me threatening to go to collections. What should I do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539217342,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n52md\/got_a_ticket_for_operating_an_uninsured_motor\/","id":"9n52md","body":"The police officer told me I could call the courthouse and see if I could get out of the court date, but he said it would be up to the court and they may or may not pardon me from appearing in court. I can appear sooner, but not later if that helps. Also, since I do in fact have insurance what are the chances of the fine being waived? ","title":"Got a ticket for operating an uninsured motor vehicle in Illinois. I have insurance, but my proof was no where to be found in my car (have no idea what happened to it). The bigger dilemma is I cannot appear in court on the set date. I am moving out of state. What can I do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1549379705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anf17b\/reported_a_colleague_for_sexual_harassment_in_the\/","id":"anf17b","body":"I work for a small (9-15 FT staff) nonprofit in Denver and overt sexism has been an issue in my workplace for the past 4 years. I\u2019ve never reported anything before because the organization\u2019s executives like to handle things \u201cone-on-one\u201d and off the record. \n\nA colleague who\u2019s newer to the team said something that made both myself and my direct report extremely uncomfortable, so I informed his supervisor (who is also one of my supervisors). The supervisor instructed me to bring my concern directly to the individual and it didn\u2019t go well.. the accused blew up. \n\nI then reached out to our administrator to file a formal complaint and go on with my work. The next week, upon my return from a short work trip, I was confronted by my supervisors and instructed to sign a \u201ccounseling record\u201d indicating I had created a hostile work environment. Upon my asking for clarification about statements in the \u201ccounseling record,\u201d I was told that my \u201cresponse to the write up had been noted in my file.\u201d A week has passed and my boss has refused to talk to me, indicating \u201cit is not advantageous for us to speak prior to our next formal meeting.\u201d\n\nThrough the grapevine I\u2019ve been told he plans on firing me today. \n\n\nDoes this sound like it could potentially meet the definition of retaliation for reporting sexual harassment? I have had zero performance issues in my 4 years with the organization. ","title":"Reported a colleague for sexual harassment in the workplace, now I\u2019m being fired","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568558473,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4lab4\/child_custody_laws_in_md\/","id":"d4lab4","body":"My boyfriend and I have a son together. We\u2019re not married and I have been contemplating on leaving him. I want to get all the information I can before I make any moves. \n\nI care for our son 98% of the time. His 2% is when I\u2019m at work. As soon as I get home, he hands our son to me so he can get ready for work (reasonable), but the days he\u2019s off, it\u2019s so he can get his \u201calone time\u201d. AKA, play his video games. We don\u2019t work as a team and disagree on parenting decisions most of the time. Fights turn into him threatening to take our son because he doesn\u2019t want him to be raised by my dad and his wife, even though he will be raised by me (we live with them).\n\nI drive, work, take our son to his appointments, bathe him, do education time, do the laundry, clean the apartment, basically super mom. I feel like a single mom, like nothing would change if my boyfriend was gone. \n\nMy boyfriend as admitted to having anger issues. He gets easily irritated if our son is crying or pulling on him for attention while he\u2019s playing his game. He doesn\u2019t physically hurt our son, but he will yell and get verbally aggressive towards our son. I hate it. Now, I have expressed my disapproval to how he handles these situations, but he brushes it off and tells me to shut up. On top of that, my boyfriend has tried to justify that it\u2019s okay to ignore our son for a video game.\n\nThere are times he can be a good dad and makes our son laugh and happy. It\u2019s great to see those moments. Unfortunately, the bad times outweighs the good. I don\u2019t want my son to grow up in a toxic environment and think it\u2019s normal as he gets older. It\u2019s what I fear the most. \n\nIf it comes down to having to go to court, I would want my boyfriend to take anger management and allow him to see our son anytime he wants, supervised of course. I wouldn\u2019t want to take our son away from him completely. I want them to have a relationship. \n\nWhat are the custody laws for unwed parents in MD? Is there anything I should do if it comes down to this path?\n\nSorry for the long post, but I figured the details would be helpful. Thank you for taking the time to read my post.","title":"Child custody laws in MD?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539130769,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mum34\/someone_elses_business_in_my_name\/","id":"9mum34","body":"Know somebody who owns a tattoo shop, but they are here illegally (was deported and crossed back). The shop is under his ex wives name and they both don\u2019t want it under her name anymore. The person trusts me and want to put their tattoo shop in my name in case something were to ever happen to them. Whats can happen? And can I do this successfully and help run the business? \n\nThe business has been up and running for over a year and had many artists and proper licenses and is very friendly. No drugs or crime go on there or with anybody who works there. \n\nIn Washington state btw. ","title":"Someone elses business in my name","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1504851124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yt0o2\/missouri_i_think_my_landlord_is_entering_my_house\/","id":"6yt0o2","body":"Several times I've left for work, knowing for sure that I locked the doorknob and deadbolt, and come home to find them unlocked. She has copies of the keys. Nothing is missing, so it wasn't a burglar or anything. I'm going to set up a hidden camera to get proof. If I do catch her on camera, what do I do next?","title":"[Missouri] I think my landlord is entering my house when I'm not home.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555138711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcnxuh\/child_support_arrears_and_tax_returns_in\/","id":"bcnxuh","body":"Help! My husband who I am currently in the process of divorcing is getting ready to file taxes. He financially supported us for more than half of 2018 and I was a stay at home mom for all of 2018. We live in California.\n\nHe is refusing to get together to file taxes jointly and refuses to send me his W-2. He has given me an estimate of how much we'll each get back (a little over $2,000) and says that if I agree, he'll go ahead and file jointly. He says that if I don't agree, he will just go ahead and file separately. These are my concerns:\n\n1) I have no idea what's on his W-2. Last year we ended up owing $800 in taxes because he didn't tell me he ramped up our dependents. Basically I don't trust the figure he's given me considering he's a pathological liar, and I need his W-2 as proof which my lawyer already asked for but received no response and with the tax deadline being on Monday, there is no way I'll get it from him. \n\n2) If he files separately, will I still have to file even though I made no income besides receiving cash aid for a few months after I left him?\n\n3) He owes me about $2500 in child support arrears. If he does end up filing separately, will the IRS withold his return and send it to me to cover the arrears? OR, if we end up filing jointly, will he be forced to give me his half of the return to cover the arrears? \n\nI don't know if this is the right sub but I hope I can get some help because dealing with this man is a nightmare. Thank you!","title":"Child support arrears and tax returns in California","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506546489,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72vcfg\/my_roommate_terminated_her_lease_and_wants_her\/","id":"72vcfg","body":"This was posted in financial advice before. Moved it over here. \n\nHi, Reddit. I am not sure if I posted this in the right place, but if not please delete.\n\nThis occurred in Georgia.\n\nMy former roommate and I signed a 14 month lease in October 2016. There was a bit of confusion when we applied\/signed the lease. We were supposed to split the deposit, but it didn't end up working that way. I paid $525 and she paid $125. So $650 total for a security deposit. 6 months in, she got fired from her job because she kept skipping out and not doing work and decided to move across the country back to her parents home. She gave me a month to find a new roommate. I couldn't find anyone so my brother moved in to help out. Because she terminated her lease and I released her as my roommate, they did not give her her security deposit back. They will be putting the $650 in one check and it will come to me. I personally found her very difficult to live with and I felt like she gave me a really hard time by just up and leaving me to a $1300\/month rent apartment. I do not feel like I owe her the money. She texted me today asking me if I could please give her part of the deposit back, and I don't feel like I should. \n\nMy question is: does she have any legal claim over the money since she terminated her lease? Also, any advice on what I can say to her in response to asking me for her part of the deposit back? My apartment complex clearly told her she wouldn't get it back since she is terminating early. Thank you for the advice and please let me know if you have any questions. ","title":"My roommate terminated her lease and wants her share of the security deposit- more info below.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1411797510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hlh7u\/can_i_be_arrested_for_telling_a_lie_to_a_family\/","id":"2hlh7u","body":"I have a family member (an in-law) who is going into the FBI.  It is illegal to lie to a federal agent.\n\nCan I or my spouse (or my kids, or my father-in-law, or else in our family for that matter) be arrested for lying to this person, even if it's inadvertent? \n\nI told my spouse that I am worried about this, and they thought I was crazy. However a lot of the literature available on this topic is quite scary, and makes it sound like you can be arrested for any lie, no matter how small, no matter the context, no matter the subject, and even if you didn't realize you were lying. \n\nTake this scenario for instance:\n\nFBI-family-member: \"So are you guys going to have kids soon?\"\nMe: \"We don't really know right now, we're just taking life one step at a time :)\"\n\nNow lets say my spouse and I actually do know that we want kids,  and in fact we have been trying, but we want to keep it to ourselves until we are pregnant and know for sure that it's healthy and we are keeping it (e.g., perhaps  we have a family history of miscarriages and we don't want to tell anyone until after our first trimester).\n\nCan we get in trouble for this? My guess is that technically we can. I want to be wrong, but I don't see any way around the conclusion that if we want to remain 100% legally bulletproof we have to either avoid this family member or be extremely careful what we say around them from now on :(\n\nEdit to add: I am in California (not that it really matters for this kind of question)","title":"Can I be arrested for telling a lie to a family member who is in the FBI?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541283410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ty8wl\/health_insurance_at_work_indiana\/","id":"9ty8wl","body":"I work at a food franchise as a manager \u201cin training\u201d. The training part is exactly what it means and i will have to leave for two weeks to go to training to become a certified assistant manager, which is when I become salary (as of right now I\u2019m hourly). I\u2019ve worked for the company since March of 2018, and became full time in June. As a manager in training you are REQUIRED to work a minimum of 50 hours a week, so full time. For the past year I had state health insurance but lost the insurance due to making too much money at my job because I\u2019m full time. Legally, the company is required to offer me health insurance because I\u2019m full time. I asked our HR manager for more information on health insurance and she said they cannot offer me it because I have to either be 1) a certified manager, or 2) salary. There have been other managers in training that have received health insurance without being certified or salary, so I don\u2019t know why they won\u2019t offer it to me. The store manager told me to talk to the owner of the store (and franchise) and tell him what is going on and see if he will do something about it. Is there anything else I should do?","title":"Health insurance at work (Indiana)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571779769,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlotmg\/ny_my_brother_was_fired_for_a_company_ipad_being\/","id":"dlotmg","body":"Hey everyone my question is super simple so im going to keep it short. long story short about a month ago my brother had his company ipad stolen from him, it was no big deal and he even payed it in full to replace it.  Fast foward to yesterday he left the ipad on the back of the company truck and drove off when they found it it was ran over a bunch of times and broken. My brother brings it to his boss and offers to psy for it again and instead was fired.  My questions are simple, can he collect unemployment for this situation? Can his old employer take money out of his last check to pay for the ipad?\n\nI know he should have been more careful with the ipad were just looking for some answers!\n\nThanks guys!","title":"[NY] My brother was fired for a company ipad being destoryed on accident, could he still claim unemployment?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447533059,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sth4k\/breaking_a_lease_early_in_ontario_due_to_bad\/","id":"3sth4k","body":"Hi. \n\nI'm a student living in a house, when I moved in I was under the impression that 5 people, not 8, would be living here. (excluding one of the girl's boyfriends who basically lives here...). They have also put up \"house rules\" that where not mentioned or discussed when I moved in, such as quiet hours. The house itself is in a messy state continually, there is black mould in the kitchen, the other tenants things are everywhere, taking up space in the kitchen, living room and dining room. There are 2 kitchens and 2 tiny bathrooms being shared by 8 people! They also have not yet paved the driveway which they said would happen in the summer. Also, they frequently entered the house in the summer with no prior notice. Some days I walk in the front door and trip everywhere from people's shoes.\n\nThe roommate below me is also constantly complaining of noise, which I am not..I'm not home often and when I do i'm sitting in a chair or in bed. I never play music. I'm having anxiety about coming home and just walking around the room so I don't \"disturb\" them.\nThere's also always piss on the bathroom seat from the other tenants... The laundry machine is also constantly broken and there are ants\/spiders\/fruit flies everywhere.\n\nI can't continue living here anymore with these people in these conditions. I've already found an apartment to move into by myself.\n\nMy problem is the landlord says I MUST stay until a new tenant is found. She drafted up a paper agreement that says that I'm solely responsible for finding a new tenant (not legal, landlords must look as well), that I'm responsible for all rent, that they will keep my deposit, that I have to pay 200$ for repainting and for a credit check for a new tenant. There's no way I'm paying any of these things. I've already had one person call about the room when I set up an ad and they laughed in my face when I said 7 other people lived here. There's no way any is going to want to live here in these conditions. What are my options here? I definitely am leaving January 1st when I can move into the new apartment. \n\nSomething to note is that my landlords Rental Licensing expires January 12, and they need a new inspection before obtaining another one. \n\nSince legal offices are closed on the weekend, I have to wait until Monday to call for legal advice. ","title":"Breaking a lease early in Ontario due to bad living conditions..landlord won't let me leave?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540841827,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sgftr\/what_if_my_stbx_wife_cant_refinance_when_the\/","id":"9sgftr","body":"My wife paid me off in our divorce to leave the house and surrender my rights to it. There is a clause that if she sells it within two years, I get 20% of the profits. I realized in our settlement agreement there is nothing stating that she MUST refinance when my name is off. \n\nSo basically, once it is final, I will not have my name on the deed, but it will still be on the mortgage. I have a feeling. She won\u2019t be able to refinance without my name on it also. I don\u2019t think she will get approved. What can I do if she refuses to sell the house due to not wanting to give me more money?","title":"What if my STBX wife can\u2019t refinance when the divorce is final? Is my name stuck on the mortgage while the house is only in hers?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1409283686,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2evzu9\/wa_divorce_how_is_inherited_property_handled_in\/","id":"2evzu9","body":"As explained to me at consultations with two separate attorneys, my husband's inherited property is taken into consideration when dividing up the marital assets.  As I understand it, the fact that he has those means I should expect to receive a larger percentage of the joint assets to compensate.  ('Equitable and just distribution')\n\n(The property at stake is a $232,000 IRA and 1\/3 ownership in a $300,000 vacation home, both inherited from his father in 2007.)\n\nMy situation is that I've been a stay-at-home mom for nearly 17 years, homeschooling our special needs son for the past five years.  I will be returning to school and starting over, while he has a $250,000 salary.  Given the income disparity, both attorneys suggested I should ask for 60% of the assets, but I'm not sure if that 60% is just joint assets, or does it also include the value of his inheritance? \n\n\n","title":"[WA] Divorce: How is inherited property handled in division of assets?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505864093,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7173bk\/medical_claim_denied_because_it_was_late\/","id":"7173bk","body":"[NJ, United States]\n\nI need to help my mom appeal a denied medical insurance claim because she doesn't understand English that well, but I don't really understand this process either. My dad is using her company's insurance plan and when my mom filled the papers for the insurance she put it under his name instead of hers so when they searched for it they weren't able to find the information. By the time my mom found out about this it was already past the claim filing date so the medical reimbursement got denied.\n\nUnder the requirements or an appeal it asks for \"The reason(s), in clear and concise terms, for disputing the denial of the claim or gente's act or omission.\" Should I explain the mix up with my dad's name for this, or should there be something else? Is there a chance of this being successfully appealed?\n\nMore information: This is with Aetna Deductible Expense Plan. Total is about $800\n\n\nThe letter says that: Currently, gente is unable to process the following requests for reimbursement. And that It is past your claim filing date of March 2017 to submit 2016 expenses.\n","title":"Medical claim denied because it was late","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1445390667,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pkoh7\/toronto_on_landlord_pressuring_us_to_declutter\/","id":"3pkoh7","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice ! \n\nI'm currently on a month-to-month lease and gave my two months notice to leave my apartment. My landlord waited a solid month then gave us a 24 hour notice of inspection. Our place is super clean but honestly it's kinda small so we have some bins about with our moving stuff, and then we still live here so we have art on the walls and cute nerdy tchotchkes on the shelves. \n\nSo, they came by for the inspection and complained that nobody would be able to picture themselves living here. They sent us numerous emails saying they'd come again this week (tomorrow actually) and that we would need to declutter for photos. There's nowhere to put anything and whenever we mention this they don't acknowledge it. On top of this, we don't feel much incentive to pay any money for storage as they've been pretty shitty landlords who refuse to fix things (amongst other complaints I could list off).\n\nThere were no photos of the apartment when I came to see it, and it turns out they've never bothered to take photos but now they want to. But SEVERAL tenants have lived here without photos of the place. What I'm wondering is - can they actually force us to make our apartment photo ready? We're of course worried about not getting deposits back and that kind of thing.\n\nThanks!\n\nEDIT: My added question is - how many inspections are allowed? Our initial inspection was supposed to be the one where they took photos but they decided it wasn't good enough. We sure as fuck aren't staging our place for him so we'll probably fail this inspection too. What do? He keeps calling his notice of entry emails an inspection.\n","title":"Toronto, ON. Landlord pressuring us to declutter apartment for photos.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569893031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbltb7\/wage_theft_from_employers_nyc\/","id":"dbltb7","body":"I'm writing this on behalf of my girlfriend. She doesn't have papers to work legally. She's here on a travel visa. She's been working under the table for an employer who pays her in checks and I cash them for her and give her the money.\n\nFor the past month his checks have bounced. He promised to fix it and he wrote more checks that bounced. Is there any recourse for my girlfriend to get paid that dont involve her getting punished? We are in New York City. Thanks in advance","title":"Wage theft from employers NYC","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541020418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t2zi8\/wrongful_termination_ca\/","id":"9t2zi8","body":"Hi all, I\u2019m trying to figure out the time frame I have to file a lawsuit against a state agency in California for wrongful termination. I\u2019ve read several different things on google but everyone tells me you have two years from the time of termination. A lawyer I just talked to, whoever, told me I only have one year, which I am coming up on two weeks from now. To summarize my termination, I was terminated for calling in to work when I could have came in. I was part of a union which didn\u2019t help me in any way or give me any advice. Thanks for any info you provide","title":"Wrongful Termination CA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569892825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dblrmh\/old_roommates_responsible_for_deductions_on\/","id":"dblrmh","body":"Sorry if this is the wrong sub for this. Moved out of old apartment on first of August, two roommates moved out August 10th. Have just gotten security deposit back, rent from the 1-15 and utility bills were taken out, fine. But carpet cleaning fees for my two roommates\u2019 rooms was deducted totally $130. Then there is a $360 deduction because the landlord had to take out 12 bags of garbage they apparently left there???? So now instead of getting about a $360 refund, I\u2019m getting $130. Is there anything I can do about this? Should I talk to my landlord?","title":"Old roommates responsible for deductions on security deposit after I officially had moved out and turned in my keys","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539209467,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n42um\/can_i_call_the_police_for_somebody_for\/","id":"9n42um","body":"I had a DM from Instagram about an ex girlfriend and it escalated into a major problem. My used to be friend gave him my house address, my name, and other personal info and he threatened to come over with his \"boys\" and murder me. Can I call the police and press charges?","title":"Can I call the police for somebody for threatening to send somebody to come to my house and murder me? [PA]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1409186266,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2es0w0\/sk_canada_i_have_a_draft_order_of_custody_and\/","id":"2es0w0","body":"Like the title says, I have a draft custody order for my 2 children, and it reads as I expect it should, given my demands, but I'd like to make sure that it's legally what I'm asking for.","title":"[SK, Canada] - I have a draft order of custody, and need to make sure it's exactly what I asked for.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569686901,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dahy6l\/canada_friends_and_i_made_a_business_ceo_sold\/","id":"dahy6l","body":"Met ceo in 2015 where we made a bunch of videos together for his vine account of 100k followers. \nHe later posted one of our videos to FB (before the FB video boom) and got millions of views.\nHe later independantly created a Facebook page where our videos were reposted. These videos in turn generated many views and followers thus forming the page's foundation for huge growth.\n95% of the page's content was meme reposts (copyright infringement) that brought in a total of 700k followers. My original content was often reuploaded and he made some original content of his own.\nWe all drop out of college and within a period of time the other cofounder and him get a house. Here is where CEO decides he wants to make a corporation. \nI name the corporation and I also give money to CEO to pay for the website which is posted on the FB page.\nI submit articles for the website as sweat equity (voluntarily not taking pay not not in exchange for shares).\nCEO gives verbal promise that, \"if this \"works out\" you'll be given a sort of pension.\"\nFacehook page gets airline clients, financial client, tv network client and one celebrity collaboration.\n\nAt the end of the day I and one other are publically named cofounders. The other cofounder had editor access to the Facebook page, I never did.\nCEO sold the FB page for 100k+, bought a condo and a caddie and we havent seen him since. \n\nWhat do?\n\nEdit: There was never a partnership agreement between anybody.","title":"(CANADA) Friends and I made a business. CEO sold assets and kept all money. Should I sue? (Lots if details)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554429184,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9ldey\/time_card_discrepancies_at_school_job_now\/","id":"b9ldey","body":"Hey everyone, I\u2019m a graduate student who tutors part time at my university while I complete my degree. Now unfortunately there were some discrepancies for a few shifts because I was absent minded and I had lot going on in my personal life. We had a death in our family and I was swamped with school obligations and I forgot to adjust my work time correctly. Normally I punch in as usual when I begin and end tutoring via an online system but because my laptop broke that month I was unable to do it in real time and I would punch my hours in the beginning of the week from home then go meet with my students later on. Now unfortunately this got tied up there were schedule conflicts and for a few of these clocked shifts I didn\u2019t meet with my students and I forgot to go back and erase the punches. There\u2019s also evidence of days where I met with my students and I never punched in to show clear evidence of me meeting with students and having punched earlier in the week. Now my administration found out and sent me a notification to meet with them which I have scheduled but have not attended yet. In the complaint they state they feel I am \u201cunworthy to be a candidate for my degree\u201d which makes me think they are trying to kick me out before graduation next month. My big question here is should I get some kind of lawyer involved before my meeting and go in with my lawyer to speak with the administration? They claim they want to interview me one on one to get my story but I don\u2019t want to say something dumb and get kicked out, I just want to explain that this was an absent minded error on my part and I apologize and take responsibility for my actions but I really wasn\u2019t ever trying to intentionally steal tutoring hours.","title":"Time card discrepancies at school job, now administration might be threatening to kick me out [USA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570518058,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dewg13\/hypothetically_would_this_be_legal\/","id":"dewg13","body":"So, my brain is kinda stupid and thinks of random questions, and I'm really curious about this one. \n\nIf a landlord had two potential tenants both interested in an apartment, and thought he could manage to keep them apart from each other so neither tenant knew about the other one, would it be illegal to rent to both of them, with separate leases, separate rents and everything, with neither tenant knowing about the other? I assume it would be very illegal, but I don't know for sure. If it varies by state, you can just say whatever you're familiar with. I'm also curious if you've ever heard of this happening. Thanks!","title":"(hypothetically) would this be legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444247792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nvq8d\/nh_verizon_block_c_violation_arguments\/","id":"3nvq8d","body":"I'm pursuing, through the FCC, resolution of the practice of locking bootloaders by Verizon. This practice is, in short, the direct limiting or prohibition of the ability of core software elements on phones to initiate 3rd party software even at the request of the user.\n\nI have, thus far, created and currently support the following arguments based on the official regulatory document located here: https:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/edocs_public\/attachmatch\/FCC-07-132A1.pdf\n\nMy arguments so far presented to the FCC, and so far dismissed based on content of footnote 502 are the following: \n\n\"1. The stance that it is an accepted standard that constitutes \"reasonable network management\": \nAcross the industry, the average phone is released with a system initiation\/execution system (bootloader) that is possible to modify by the user after accepting that doing so will make the warrantee \"null and void,\" and that after doing so modification, its consequences, and the repairs that may be required are the burden of the user. \nAcross all devices Verizon offers, there are several that have had bootloaders that have been possible *by design and original intent* to modify, notably the Galaxy Nexus. This lack of any continuity nullifies the argument that it provides for an increase in the security of the carrier's network systems as such devices would be readily available to users with mal-intent, however they are not used for that reason, primarily because of the following question\/complaint I have\n\n2. A device with an unlocked bootloader does not, above what is offered by similar devices with restricted bootloaders, pose any significant *demonstratable or previously demonstrated* risk to the security of the host network. I have failed, in extensive research and with contact with Verizon over the matter, been shown any case or hypothetical example that would allow for a phone to compromise the security of the host network by a method that an unrestricted bootloader would serve a role beyond trivial, passive, involvement. On a whole, due to the unrestricted nature of the application ecosystem of Android, the execution of dangerous code on a network would not be affected by an unrestricted bootloader even if it were at all possible to directly execute any such code on a network that makes use of modern protocols and standards for server operation.\n\n3. I still find no supported objection to, or exception from, the contents of paragraph 222 and footnote 500 of FCC-07-132A1 that would allow for the restrictions mentioned\n\n4. As mentioned in the original phone call from Verizon, one argument they provided was that they were allowed choice of operating system based on footnote 502. Although I do not currently have access to the document directly at the current time due to the FCC undergoing server renovation\/upgrades, to the best of my memory it carried meaning as follows: the carrier may be allowed to implement and use their choice of software such as to not require modification of the host network. This allows for the preinstallation of endorsed applications and the modification of the \/system partition of the phone to interface with update protocols that Verizon has established, along with various modem\/radio firmware modifications to accommodate the network bands and protocols in use. This does not specifically allow for undue burden on the consumer, and as it is modification that does not affect the ability of the phone to interface with the network to avoid network modification, it is not protected under this clause.\n\nAnd Fifth: The protection (on the part of the end user) that is provided by wording to the effect of the following: \"the installation of applications on the part of the user may not be impinged or disrupted by the host carrier outside of existing laws and regulations or reasonable network management.\"\n\n\nThe following is my argument of non-immunity based on footnote 502:\n\n\"footnote 502 allows for choice of operating system by the carrier, however in technicality the bootloader specifically, by reference to such devices as being \"Android Based\", is independent of the Operating system. A bootloader is an initiation protocol, and as a stand-alone application is wholly incapable of either interfacing with the carrier's network (first justification for modification) and in the state it is provided in, does not freely allow the installation of any legal application on the part of the user. It's inherent inability to be modified or to modify the applications directly run on it, if it is considered an os, is in violation. On the other hand, if it is not considered an element of the operating system, its restriction is unwarranted by footnote 502.\"\n\nI suppose my question is, does my argument have validity? How can I subvert the argument presented in footnote 502 in a manner that either proves violation through the practice or allows for the other arguments to carry legal weight over that exclusion?","title":"(NH) Verizon Block C Violation Arguments","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569030395,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d74em1\/what_does_a_merger_do_to_an_s_corps_membership\/","id":"d74em1","body":"So say I\u2019ve got an S Corp, and this S Corp is the member of an LLC. I want to move this S Corp to a new state so I merge it (tax free reorganization is the plan) into a new Corp in the new state. What happens to the S Corp\u2019s interest in the LLC? Does it transfer over to the new surviving Corp of the merger automatically? Do I need to do some kind of transfer of interest? Thoughts?","title":"What does a merger do to an S Corp\u2019s membership interest in an LLC?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553723389,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6able\/help_me_settle_an_argument_ive_been_having_with\/","id":"b6able","body":"First of all, sorry if this isn\u2019t as serious as some other posts, Im not sure if this is appropriate on this sub.\n\nAnyway, cardi b apparently said she used to drug and rob men. Could police arrest her and send her to jail without any other evidence? My friends think so but I definitely don\u2019t think that\u2019s true. As you can tell, I really have no clue what I\u2019m talking about lol.","title":"Help me settle an argument I\u2019ve been having with my friends, could Cardi B be arrested?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571024048,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhkzrh\/misdemeanor_retail_fraud_for_passed_off_items\/","id":"dhkzrh","body":"a family member was charged with misdemeanor retail fraud because her other family member \"passed off\" (\"not scanning\") items. is this an accurate charge? \n\n\n750.356d Retail fraud in second or third degree.\n\nSec. 356d.\n\n\u00a0\u00a0(1) A person who does any of the following in a store or in its immediate vicinity is guilty of retail fraud in the second degree, a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $2,000.00 or 3 times the value of the difference in price, property stolen, or money or property obtained or attempted to be obtained, whichever is greater, or both imprisonment and a fine:\n\n\u00a0\u00a0(a) While a store is open to the public, alters, transfers, removes and replaces, conceals, or otherwise misrepresents the price at which property is offered for sale with the intent not to pay for the property or to pay less than the price at which the property is offered for sale if the resulting difference in price is $200.00 or more but less than $1,000.00.\n\n\u00a0\u00a0(b) While a store is open to the public, steals property of the store that is offered for sale at a price of $200.00 or more but less than $1,000.00.\n\n\u00a0\u00a0(c) With intent to defraud, obtains or attempts to obtain money or property from the store as a refund or exchange for property that was not paid for and belongs to the store if the amount of money or the value of the property obtained or attempted to be obtained is $200.00 or more but less than $1,000.00.","title":"misdemeanor retail fraud for \"passed off items\"","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569663970,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dae00o\/fired_from_us_police_dept_18_months_ago_for\/","id":"dae00o","body":"I  really need some perspective on my chances of ever getting hired again in LE in any state in the US. Any information from employment attorneys would be greatly appreciated. Apologies for the length, there's a  TL;DR at the bottom.\n\nI was a  full-time civilian employee for a police department for three years but  my ultimate goal was to be a PO. While waiting for a PO hiring cycle, I  took the first open job in the department which was a full-time civilian  position, later I moved to a part-time civilian spot in an elite unit  with the promise it would become a full-time position in 6 months. Being  p\/t meant losing my benefits and union protection temporarily but was a  rare opportunity and good for my resume so I took it. I worked hard at  the department and always had great quarterly reviews, no complaints,  trained\/studied to be a PO in my spare time and when I could finally  test I came in 2nd out of hundreds of recruit applicants and got a  preliminary offer\/academy date.\n\nHowever,  during those p\/t working months a few things happened (got divorced, a  family member committed suicide in front of me, and I had a major health  issue - since resolved) and here's where I royally fucked up... I  started drinking to cope. Drinking to fall asleep turned into day  drinking on my days off and it was a rapid descent into full blown  alcoholism. I basically was only sober for the hours I worked. No one  else knew but one day I had a revelation and realized I needed help so I  called a rehab facility to come pick me up. I was off work for the next  3 days and planned on calling my Sgt next day (when I wasn't a wasted  mess) to notify him that I would be gone and explain the situation. The  patient coordinator got my work numbers and said she would take care of  it with my Sgt and HR and arrange any paperwork because I would probably  still be very sick the next day, plus the rehab takes your cell phone  from you during intake. But soon after I got to rehab center, I had  withdrawal seizures and had to be transported to a hospital to be  sedated. Don't remember those next few days because of all the seizures  and being sedated, but the patient coordinator told me she spoke to my  Sgt and HR, they were aware I would be out for several weeks and were  \"very nice about it\". I saw the notes from those convos in my records,  she absolutely spoke to them days before I was scheduled to work.\n\nHere's  the thing- after I was released from rehab my command was being weird  about when I could come back and after a month of \"no need to come in  this week, we'll be in touch, hope you're doing well\" texts they asked  me to come in for a meeting, where they told me I was being terminated  for \"no call no show\" the week I entered rehab. I was totally  blindsided. My Sgt said he went to bat for me and was always pleased  with my work but ultimately it was up to my LT and a Captain I'd never  met. LT said they didn't hear from anyone about my absence until a week  after I was scheduled to work and there was no record of me being  transported by ambulance to the hospital from my house so they think I  was lying about that whole thing (I was transported to a hospital from  rehab so yeah, there's no record from my home address). They said my car  was at my house sometimes and gone other days, and my ex -also a cop-  told them I was at home during that time period (I wasn't, I was at a  live-in rehab facility and of course I left my car at home, don't know  why the ex said I was home. Ex claims he didn't say that but refused to  put it in writing. He was also using my car while I was away without my  knowledge which explains why it was sometimes not in the driveway). LT  said they left me voicemails and I never returned their calls or  texts... but I had no cell phone, it was literally taken and put in a  safe on day 1. I spoke to them twice from the facility phone near the  end of my stay letting them know when I would be out but LT says they  don't recall these convos. I explained everything as best as I could and  LT seemed hesitant to proceed after hearing this info but basically  said \"Labor relations has approved the termination. So it's already  done, sign here. This is bad but it's not the end of the world\".\n\nDidn't  realize I had a choice and with no union to advise me otherwise... I  signed. As a P\/T worker I was told by HR that I was not covered by  policies protecting employees who self admit substance abuse problems  and voluntarily check themselves into rehab, previously they'd said I *was* covered.\n\nI applied for unemployment and was approved ie *Not  fired for cause because I had paperwork showing I was hospitalized\/in a  medical facility and had notified the PD in accordance with policy,  plus the PD violated labor laws by not terminating me in a timely  manner.* The PD lawyers appealed on the basis that \"one of my  doctor's notes didn't have an 'official' hospital header on it\" and I  didn't bring his business card with me to the hearing, (neither of which  were requirements or asked of me in advance) and I didn't have a  written statement from the patient coordinator saying they talked to my  Sgt, only a summary note in my records with the time and date and  initials. Again, was not told I needed that because my Sgt hadn't denied  talking to her until the appeal. All of a sudden he doesn't recall  speaking to her ever. The unemployment office's fax machine was down so I  couldn't get a new letter with a header or statement sent over by end  of the hearing day, therefore my decision was reversed and they sided  with the PD's attorney. Terminated for misconduct re: no call no show.  DQ'd indefinitely from that department, and my PO recruit offer was  withdrawn. Ineligible for unemployment.\n\n**DL;dr-  Fired after voluntarily going to treatment for alcoholism, previously  stellar employment record now includes a TERMINATION FOR MISCONDUCT (no  call no show). I've been sober for 18 months and have my life in order  but honestly, what are the chances of an agency taking a chance on me?  Does the back story change anything, would it help or hurt my chances to  explain the reasons for my termination? Or should I just accept it's  over for me in law enforcement?**","title":"Fired from US police dept 18 months ago for alcoholism related issue, everyone advised that I get legal advice on the matter (tl;dr at end)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538481289,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kpxxb\/boss_wont_allow_me_to_leave_in_exactly_two_weeks\/","id":"9kpxxb","body":"In January of 2018, I was hired as an office assistant at a small tech company. Per my contract, I was guaranteed a 30, 60, and 90 day pay raise with a dollar amount each time. It never said that it was from a job performance review. I was still a little ignorant on these things and at first I assumed it came from job performance reviews. \n\nI never got a single pay raise until August of 2018. My first real job review occurred in June where I was \u201cdenied\u201d a pay raise due to  \u201ctardiness.\u201d This was complete crap due to the fact that I was always the first one in the office every single day and they knew that, but I had no way to prove it because we don\u2019t have a clock in or clock out system.\n\nSo finally I\u2019ve been looking for other places and I turned in my two weeks notice on Monday of this week. My boss seemed very disappointed and kept offering me to give another dollar pay raise. I respectfully declined and told him I was pursuing other opportunities (a salaried job this time, but I didn\u2019t mention that.) \n\nI guess I made the mistake of offering a little bit of flexibility saying that I could, maximum, stay 2 1\/2 weeks in order to help him find the right replacement. He immediately jumped with saying that per my contract, I was obligated to stay until he thought we had \u201ctrained\u201d the right replacement and said it would be right to stay at least another month. \n\nIs this even right? I know this all sounds ridiculous. But I\u2019m also afraid that guy will somehow not give me my check if I don\u2019t stay until he says go dog, go. I know for a fact he hasn\u2019t even tried to start finding a new assistant. I offered to help with the job postings and he flat out also said no. Nowhere in my contract does it mention that. I need also mention we have no formal employee handbook. Or HR. My boss does payroll himself.\n\nSo I am guessing I have no obligation to stay after my 2 1\/2 weeks if I never signed such a statement in my small contract to begin with? I know I may sound stupid but I am quite a meek person and I don\u2019t know how exactly to approach this when the time is up. ","title":"Boss won\u2019t \u201callow\u201d me to leave in exactly two weeks?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507572090,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75avyd\/noncompete_after_leaving_employment_neus\/","id":"75avyd","body":"I recently left a freight brokering business where I worked with one owner\/partner. I left for financial reasons and because I wanted to work with a more mature company that was more established in the business. I gave appropriate notice and support during the change. I have already started my new position, and my previous employer\/partner has advised he wants me to sign a non-compete agreement before receiving my last check. I feel like this should have been done before my final days of leaving the business. \n\n1) Can he withhold my final check until I do what he wants?\n2) Can he try to force me to sign a non-compete AFTER I have already left the business?\n\nBig side note: He is also currently my landlord. I have a 3 year lease with an agreement to purchase. The house is owned under a separate business identity, but is listed as the address of residence for the business I left and I am the listed resident agent. I have no issues continuing to be the agent.","title":"Non-Compete AFTER leaving employment (NE\/US)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554154201,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b89fjv\/investing_in_house_with_gf\/","id":"b89fjv","body":"Apologies if wrong flair. Basically myself and my partner are UK based and have a lifetime mortgage ISA, this allows \u00a34000 investment per ISA per which receives 25% interest at year end. I earn significantly more than my partner and will therefore be paying all of my share and 87.5% of hers.\n\nNow she has verbally told me if we split up she will pay me my share back. On top of this we are rock solid.\n\nI have asked this question before and received the \u201cobviously you don\u2019t trust her\u201d excuse. No. I simply want to make sure that in a worst case scenario the money is not lost. \n\nWould appreciate any help with what I can do to solve this.\n\nThanks all!","title":"Investing in house with gf","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1442672122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lk4k2\/california_break_in_can_i_sue_ll\/","id":"3lk4k2","body":"I live in a prettt rough neighborhood in Southeen California. It was a nice enough apartment complex, until they had difficulties filling units and started letting anyone move in, no longer doing background checks like the one I had to pass 4 years ago when we moved in. \n\nWe were broken into last Saturday, someone kicked down our door, and stole all the electronics in our livingroom. We called the police, then I walked down to the office to inform them. The lady seemed more annoyed than concerned that one of the units had been broken into, and informed me that someone would be down to our apartmenr shortly to fix the broken door frame.\n\nThe maintenance man came to fix the frame temporarily so we could lock, and told us that they would need to install a new frame later. He still hasnt been back, so I dont know how safe our door is. But during the repair we noticed that there was no strike plate on the dead bolt. Only a rounded hole cut into the wood. I did some research and it seems that strike plate should have been there in order for the home to be cobsidered habitable. \n\nWe decided to move. My four year old daughter is too scared to sleep at home anymore, and with the worsening crime rate, I also felt it was time to move on. So my whole family chipped in to get us into a nicer place across town that is in a quiet neighborhood near my parents. We qualified for the new place and have a move in date set. Our apartment however is requiring a 30 notice, and part of next month's rent. Can they force me to pay? Our door is not a properly closing\/locking\/insulated door. They are aware of the issue and have not made repair yet. What are my options? Thanks in advance.\n\nAlso, they took my laptop so I'm posting from my cell phone. Forgive me if I have typos or fornatting issues.","title":"[California] Break In, can I sue LL","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570131210,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcvunm\/the_risks_of_company_review_sites\/","id":"dcvunm","body":"I\u2019m thinking of making a review site similar to yelp or Glassdoor.  The problem is companies likely won\u2019t want to be featured  on the site  so most content is user generated.  I will however have to add company logos.  Most companies have media folders publicly available with the logos they want used.  Can I use these?  Will I get into some trademark or copyright issues?  What other risks come with user generated review sites that are largely negative in nature?   For example what if a review is damages the reputation of an employee because they performed poorly?","title":"The risks of company review sites","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507740071,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75qajv\/lab_report_came_back_positive_for_toxic_mold_high\/","id":"75qajv","body":"So, as the title says.. I received the lab report today clearly identifying *Stachybotrys* also known as black mold as the primary finding in our sample.\n\nThe reason I sent off the sample recently versus two years ago when the moisture issues (which I'll detail below) began was due to my dogs both breaking out into severe rashes for no particular reason while at the same time, our moisture issue had since peaked at an all time high.\n\nI myself have experienced a chest pain over this period of time that the doctors have yet to identify, and other inhabitants have also experienced typical symptoms associated with mold exposure.\n\n#What is a 'moisture issue'?\n\nOn multiple occurences, our A\/C has failed us (outside unit replaced, inside unit replaced, line set replaced, parts on new interior unit replaced, etc etc) which have led to multiple instances in which moisture would collect in such a manner underneath the A\/C that we could not keep up with maintaining a dry environment.\n\nIn addition, the upstairs unit had piping damaged due to renovation performed on the building, which led to a ton of water collecting in our living room.  When they came to fix it, and drywall taken out - blam TONS of mold..  The plumber says to landlord \"Nah that's not toxic.. seen toxic plenty of times, just spray some bleach on it.\"\n\nChrist sake we went an ENTIRE month one year in the spring without A\/C.  If any of you are familiar with the South, specifically on the coast - humidity is almost always 90%+.\n\nI've documented all attempts to have these matters resolved as soon as possible, and in most incidents our landlords reaction has been lackadaisical at best, several times waiting for a friend to perform a favor and look into it versus getting a professional there ASAP.\n\n\nI've had an MRI, CTScan, EKG and Xrays which all come back clear while attempting to figure out where this pain in my chest is coming from.  Stumped until now.  It would explain SO many things.. but I don't want to just jump to conclusions.\n\n#Questions for you professionals\n\nIf it helps, I'm in Mount Pleasant SC & we've been a tenant for almost five years. I'm also aware of how few states have clear guidelines on \"safe habitable levels\" for mold, much less toxic.  SC has had a bill in state senate for two years now to improve regulations on the matter.\n\nI live in an apartment, comprised of four per building.  Each apartment is privately owned.  There *is* an HOA that the owner reports to.\n\n1. What do I need to do, to ensure that our deposit is not withheld due to this?\n2. Is the landlord liable for incurred expenses (vet bills, hospital bills, etc.)?\n3. I already have a lab report stating toxic mold is present, and it was found underneath the A\/C - this means it's been blown all over the house.  \n    - Do I need an inspector to perform an air quality test to determine just how bad it is?  I've had a Germguardians (AC5250PT and small outlet versions) and running 24\/7 for the past two years which I'm sure has helped greatly reduce the airborne allergens.\n\nIt's my understanding, legally, that the Landlord must seek to have this issue resolved immediately and it must be resolved within 30 days.  In the meantime, said Landlord must provide another habitable space.  This is where I'm ultimately afraid..\n\nI know I need to get out, but Charleston is not a cheap place to live, and we just aren't prepared to increase our rent by $600\/mo - he hasn't raised the rent on us since we started, and it's cheap in comparison.\n\nTLDR; Our home has toxic mold.  Everyone has felt the impact healthwise and it's cost us a pretty penny.  Landlord will likely kick us out due to month-to-month lease.  What legal recourse do I have to both protect my family and our deposit, and\/or recover expenses?  \n\nIf I've left anything out that you find pertinent to better evaluate the situation, I will gladly provide it to the best of my abilities.\n\nThank you in advance..","title":"Lab report came back positive for toxic mold, high probability it's been present for years due to landlord negligence. What should my next steps be to best legally protect my family?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553457853,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b50t4b\/is_it_legal_for_person_a_to_post_a_video_of_him\/","id":"b50t4b","body":"As the title says, the video shows that person B is consenting for the video to be taken. However, there is no evidence for consent for the video to be posted. Can person B prosecute person A (and win)?","title":"Is it legal for person A to post a video of him having sex with a person B on the internet, given the fact that person B has given explicit consent for the video to be taken, but no explicit consent for the video to be posted?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553409008,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4tcar\/speeding_ticket_in_park_zone_in_town_i_dont\/","id":"b4tcar","body":"So I was driving in Watauga, Tx, a town I usually don't visit. They are the only city that has this thing called a park zone where you can go 20mph only. I didn't see the sign or the cop camped out with his lights off and he gave me my first ticket. Now where I live these park zones don't exist and this is the first I'm hearing of it , even explained this to the cop but seemed he was trying to make his commission. I'm a student and based on their website it's a $304 ticket. Is it worth going to court to argue? ","title":"Speeding ticket in 'park zone' in town I don't usually drive to, caught doing 18 over in a 20mph zone, worth going to court?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571613443,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkrlqr\/moving_tomorrow_my_license_is_expired_for_one\/","id":"dkrlqr","body":"Let me explain. It\u2019s definitely not like I don\u2019t want to pay it, I have been through a lot of financial problems during these past 2 years. Originally the registration wasn\u2019t expensive, but ofc because it\u2019s been a year the renewal is now $980. Only now, I am now in a better situation where I can pay my renewal, but that\u2019s only until the end of the month.\n\nI haven\u2019t been pulled over once, and I do have insurance and drivers license is up to date. Also I have never had a ticket. \n\nI\u2019m moving tomorrow 3 hrs away from home. Because of time, I won\u2019t be able to pay my renewal before the move. I am a little nervous on having to drive so far without it. \n\nIf I do get pulled over, what are the chances on me getting my car taken away?","title":"Moving tomorrow, my license is expired for one year. Unable to pay until my paycheck.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442544989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ldvx6\/amending_a_parenting_plan_we_are_going_to_court\/","id":"3ldvx6","body":"Me: Mom\n\nDaughter: 9 years old; 10 in 2 months\n\nWe are in Montana\n                        \nA bit of background: \n\n\nI (mom) have had my Daughter living with me during the school year for the last 3 years while her Dad has her on the weekends and during the weekdays over summer break. Our current parenting plan states that she is to be with me during MY school summer break, but we haven't followed it for the last 3 years as I am no longer in school.\n\nI was alright with our current situation and failed to update the parenting plan (partially because it stated we have 50\/50 custody on it and I didn't want to take that feeling away from her Dad). We also split claiming her on our taxes every other year even though I have been nearly solely financially responsible for her for the last 3 years.\n\n\n\nThe current situation:\nFor the last year her Dad has moved 4 different times, 2 of those times have been in a small one bedroom camper trailer. Not a trailer home, a camper trailer. She spent this summer living there  in the 'living room' while her Dad, his wife (who is pregnant with someone elses child) and her 2 year old brother, not to mention the 2 large dogs and cat that live in it as well.\n\nA few additional points about this summer and what led me to request and updated parenting plan:\n\n-She regularly came home after spending the weekdays at her dads not having showered, or only having showered once because 'there isn't enough hot water'.\n \n-She isn't made to brush her teeth or go to bed at any certain time.\n\n-She comes home argumentative, and talks back constantly, a problem we don't have during the school year.\n\n-She told me she couldn't go to bed the night before school started at 10 pm because she was at her grandparents eating.\n\n-She tells me she only eats top ramen and pizza while she is there (while I am sure this is an exaggeration, I do believe it to be very common)\n\n-Her dad got her pets, and they died within a week because of the heat of the camper trailer.\n\n-She wasn't able to stay there a few times over the summer because the smoke from this years fires had reached dangerous levels and filled the camper.\n\nWhat I requested:\nI requested an 'amended parenting plan' that states she is to be with me on the week days throughout the year and her Dads on the weekends throughout the year because of the living conditions at her Dads. \nToday I received a response from him saying he wants to uphold the original parenting plan (that we haven't and cant follow for the last 3 years) and a notice from the court that we have an order setting hearing in a month.\n\nedit: I should also mention that he has a light criminal history and was recently in trouble for resisting arrest.\n\nWhy I am here:\n\nI am assuming I should get some sort of legal representation, I am going to apply at a low-cost legal service as soon as I can. I truly didn't expect him to try to fight this considering he told me he knows his living situation is unacceptable\n\nCan anyone give me any advice or experiences to go forward? \nHow should I prepare and what should I expect?","title":"Amending a parenting plan - we are going to court. What can I expect and how should I prepare? (MT)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1408410624,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2dxu0j\/strong_fumes_coming_from_apartment_management_is\/","id":"2dxu0j","body":"Apt in Collierville, Tennessee. \n\nLandlords are painting apartment next door. The company they are using only opens backdoor no other ventilation.\n\nI was not given a notice of painting or anything. The fumes are making my fiancee and I light headed and nauseous.\n\nCan I request they show me the chemicals they are using so I know if me and my fiancee are in danger?\n\nAre they in the wrong in any way?\n","title":"Strong fumes coming from apartment management is painting next door. (TN)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446465328,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r78xk\/my_ex_has_kicked_me_out_of_our_apartment_how_do_i\/","id":"3r78xk","body":"Hello! I'm having a bit of drama concerning my ex boyfriend who I was still cohabitating with up until last night.\n\nWe live in Texas. Both of our names are on our apartment lease (which doesn't expire til the end of next summer). From what I recall, the lease is more of a \"I'll make sure someone cuts a check\" and not a \"Party A pays $X and party B pays $Y\" and there's no written agreement on how much we would each be responsible for. That said, ex's dad has a lawyer on retainer and I don't.\n\nPresumably my ex wishes to continue his residence there, as he attends university nearby. So it wouldn't be getting out of the lease completely. What I'm really interested in is just getting my own name off the lease so I can't be held financially responsible anymore. My ex will not permit me to enter the residence, Nd I sure as hell am not going to pay for a living space I'm not inhabiting.\n\nTL;DR: nasty break up. I was kicked out. How do I get my name off the apartment lease?","title":"My ex has kicked me out of our apartment. How do I get out of the lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568596880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4tpu2\/my_car_was_scratched_what_are_my_options\/","id":"d4tpu2","body":"Hi, Folks!\n\nFirst time post. Not sure if this is the right subreddit, but figured someone could point me in the right direction. Any help would be greatly appreciated.\n\nSo the gist of it is that another car bumped into my car mid-traffic yesterday (turned into my lane) and left a small scratch on my fender (found out later).\n\nI debated stopping and filing for a police report, but I decided not to at the time for the following reasons: it would be unsafe for me to attempt to wave\/chase the the other car down, the bump seemed insignificant \/ not worth it, and on top of that I had a 5-hour drive ahead of me. I have a decent dashcam video and also a picture of the license plate. I also had another passenger with me. This is in NYC.\n\nWhat are my options? Should I be contacting\/notifying anyone? If I am NOT interested in suing, is there any factors\/aftermath I should consider?\n\nAt the moment, it is NOT my intentions to sue and getting insurance\/police involved. I can live with the scratch (life is too short, and personally I have deemed it the kiss of NYC traffic), but part of me (could be reddit) is also telling me that I should file a police report or something. I am hoping the power of the internet could affirm\/reject my judgment and shed some light on what I could be missing out on.\n\nThanks for reading. Again, would place emphasis on knowing what my options are and why I should swim one way or the other.","title":"My car was scratched, what are my options?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568651008,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d530ck\/my_apartment_removed_my_fianc\u00e9es_name_and_added_a\/","id":"d530ck","body":"Basically the title but I'll give more info. The state is Nevada. My fianc\u00e9e and I have lived in the same apartment for 3 years. Over the past month we have been doing paperwork with our apartment to transfer to a new complex owned by the same company. During this process we find out that my fianc\u00e9e's name has been removed from our lease (in the computer, haven't seen anything on paper) and this \"Christine\" woman was put in her place. This apparently happened back in August but didn't find out til 2 weeks ago when we showed up in the office and was asked if one of us was \"Christine\", which neither of us is named. We asked them to remove this mystery woman from our files and to put her name into the correct file and they claimed to do so. Flash forward to this past Saturday. We called to sort out the details of our transfer only to find out nothing can be done by my fianc\u00e9e because her nane doesn't show up on the computer as being a resident and that \"Christine\" (who is somehow now the primary on our account) or I have to get it sorted out. WE NEVER RECIEVED NOTICE THAT THIS WOMAN WAS BEING ADDED. Is there any thing we can do to get them to stop this madness?","title":"My apartment removed my fianc\u00e9e's name and added a new tenant without notification.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507088344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/745ndm\/denver_can_i_contest_a_parking_ticket_that_has_no\/","id":"745ndm","body":"I was parked illegally for maybe 5 minutes while I was picking up a delivery with my hazards on. I came outside to a guy hanging out the window of his official vehicle trying to take a picture of my vehicle. He got blocked by a bunch of cars and I was able to drive away while he was still trying to get a picture. I still had a ticket slapped on my car however. Can I contest this ticket if there is no photo proof?","title":"Denver: Can I contest a parking ticket that has no photo proof?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541956314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w5gla\/how_should_i_tell_my_son\/","id":"9w5gla","body":"he\u2019s 17 this happened last year and he just recently opened up to me about it. he has anxiety issues and this has just been keeping him up at night because he\u2019s so worried about it. He told be that last year for a couple of days he \u201cfooled around\u201d with a 13 girl. the age of consent where we live is 16 (14 if the partner is within 5 years of age).  he told me the most they did was him fingering her but they never had sex. this whole thing happened for a few days and he eventually stopped because of the guilt he felt. he\u2019s worried that she\u2019ll tell someone and it\u2019s gonna get reported and he\u2019s gonna get charged. \n\nwhat he did is statutory rape but i just need to give him a straight answer on how it would go if this whole situation got reported. if there\u2019s very little to no evidence that it happened how would it all go? would he still get charged or is it to far in the past?","title":"how should i tell my son?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444002746,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3niffk\/dental_office_being_harassed_by_residential\/","id":"3niffk","body":"I work with my dad at his dental practice. He's the only dentist and I work the front desk for him.\n\nSo on Thursday (Oct. 1st) we open up the office to find the office broken into. We hit full panic mode for a bit before we confirm nothing was stolen. We check with the building's super (this is an apartment building with commercial space btw) and he tells us that the tenant above us called the fire department over a \"strange smell.\" Naturally they blame the dentist. \n\nThe same day someone from the landlord's office comes in to speak with us asking about what kind of chemicals we keep on the premises. The only chemicals we have in any significant amount are X-ray developer and fixer. He tells us that the fire department reported a \"vat\" of chemicals in our bathtub. We show him that this \"vat\" is in fact an about 24x12x12 plastic container filled with water we use to clean our x-ray developing machine. My dad, pissed off enough to be in full go-fuck-your-self mode, took a cup from the treatment room and downed a glass of the stuff in front of them to make a point.\n\nFew hours later a guy comes in sent by the landlord to check the air content and has his scanners running as he talks to us. Based on those scans he said that the air in our office was cleaner that it is outside. My dad told him everything that he told the guy from the landlords office and downs another glass from the container in front of this guy as well.\n\nThe guy tells us about the [Right to Know Program](http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dep\/html\/businesses\/tier2.shtml), specifically the [hazardous substance list](http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dep\/pdf\/tier2\/rtkhazlist.pdf). We checked how much of the developer and fixer we have at a time against the list. I don't know the numbers off the top of my head, but we are well below the limit. \nOn Saturday my dad goes in to find our first patient chilling in the waiting and he tells us the door was wide open for him. We check with the super it turns out the bitch above us called the fire department again.\n\nWe are worried that this tenant may be attempting to build a case for our eviction.\n\nEdit: went with Landlord\/Tenant flair since that's what we are most worried about at the moment but this *is* a bit of a mix.\n\nEdit: [update](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nkjkt\/harassment_via_fire_dept_escalated_threatened\/)","title":"Dental office being harassed by residential fellow tenant via Fire Dpt. [NYC]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540139216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q4u4f\/randomly_drug_testing_policy\/","id":"9q4u4f","body":"If someone goes to Canada and uses marijuana legally then comes back to the states and gets selected for a random drug test and fails can they still have the right to legally terminate them?","title":"Randomly drug testing policy","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539645848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oi153\/will_i_be_granted_a_civil_protection_order_i_live\/","id":"9oi153","body":"Hello. I (19F) am seeking a civil protection order against a person (25M) i was romantically involved with. In short, he insulted me through Facebook Messenger and after a few short words, I blocked him on Facebook. I then (coincidentally) received two friend requests from fake facebook accounts, and a message from a third insulting me once again. I blocked all accounts. He then added my roommate on facebook, and proceeded to message her as well. In one message, he states \u201c.. you two will suffer the consequences of your misdeeds,\u201d and in another states \u201ci know your address of residence and of workplace\u201d considering we work and live at the same places. He admitted to me on a date that he used to kill animals, and has been institutionalized twice. He was also diagnosed schizophrenic, and therefore he\u2019s obviously mentally unstable as he is not taking medication. I fear that he will act out or have an \u201cepisode\u201d, and may even harm myself or my roommate. \nWhat do you think I could do? Should I present the screenshots in paper form, and what other documents should I bring with me? I just want to make the best case possible and come as prepared as possible. Thank you! \n\nTL;DR: I feel threatened by a man I was romantically involved with who is mentally unstable and I want to apply for a protection order. ","title":"Will I be granted a Civil Protection Order? I live in the state of Ohio.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1550776332,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/at738v\/should_i_take_this_company_to_the_labor_board\/","id":"at738v","body":"(cross post - couldnt figure it out on mobile)  \n  \nOntario, Canada\n  \nHello everyone! Saw this forum, saw it was lively, and would like to make a submission! A small backstory and some questions:  \n  \nI was offered a position as a store manager with a telecommunications sales company(we sign people up for phone plans).  I've been in this industry for about 3 years now - I know all the plans, the carriers, and the game. I know how to speak with customers and This was a salaried position and I needed to work a minimum of 37.5 hours to effectively get paid. I accepted this position, with full training to be provided from my Territory Manager.  \n  \nThat pretty much went in the drain; my Territory Manager(TM) and District Manager(DM) was neglectful of the store. They were not accessible for training or for help - they may have visited twice in 3 months. Company HR was restaffed several times in the course of 3 months as well. My team(provided when I was hired, not hired by me) were not good candidates for the position. Truth be told, the store operations were on point but the store was not profitable yet. At the 3 month mark, my DM visited me out of the blue and offered me 2 options: termination or stepping down to a full time sales rep position. I took the full time option.  \n  \nIn my time as a store manager on salary, I overworked myself. I worked well above 37.5 hours to meet store objectives. Apparently this is a big deal, because as my DM was having the talk with me about termination\/demotion, he told me \"if I offer you full time, I don't want you to go to the government about this.\" So I agreed to that as well.  \n  \nThe thing is this: I was also told a lot of things by the DM in the meeting. I was told to email him a list of things that I could work on as a manager and he promised me that he would get me trained on those things and back in a management role. It's been about 4 months now, we have been through 2 other managers, both unqualified and untrained(because of management). I feel it's impolite to leave me out of the loop - no one has talked to me about training for management again.  \n  \nA few things that I can speak to the labor board or a similar organization about:  \n  \n* Wishy washy expectations  - there's a lot more but I'm keeping this post brief\n  \n* Being promised full training but receiving very little - it's still in this company's job postings that training is provided  \n  \n* Extra hours I worked on salary and no one stopped me from doing so because the store is neglected  \n  \n* I have not had a stable schedule made 4 weeks in advance since I started here, it's been a week by week basis, it affects my performance, and I'm pretty sure it's illegal to not have a schedule prepared for 4 weeks in advance  \n  \nI'm looking for advice as to whether I should bring this attention to the company from the government, the labor board, the better business bureau, etc.  \n  \nThanks in advance, I look forward to reading all the comments and advice people provide. Thanks!!","title":"Should I take this company to the labor board?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541934231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w2zn3\/what_documents_do_i_need_to_establish_which\/","id":"9w2zn3","body":"I'm an adult, single, no kids. My parents divorced before I became an adult, and neither parent was the custodial parent (joint custody not just joint visitation, I'm aware that there is almost always a custodial parent, but there really wasn't which made a lot of things more difficult)\n\nI don't have valuable possessions or a ton of money or anything, but if something were to happen to me I would want to ensure that my mother to have the right to make all decisions. I know I need a living will, but what kind of document would I need to establish that if I were to die that she gets control of the remains, gets my possessions, is able to handle legal matters (bank accounts, lease, that kind of thing) that were in my name, gets to make funeral arrangements, etc.?\n\nAssume that my father would do anything he could to make things harder just to spite my mother. I don't want to leave any openings for him to turn anything into a court battle or make things more difficult for my mother. ","title":"What documents do I need to establish which parent would effectively be next of kin\/have legal rights if I died? (CA)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553543186,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5fea0\/my_friends_parents_are_sending_him_to_live_with\/","id":"b5fea0","body":"Mobile formatting.\n\nMy friend lied to his parents and said he was going to work when instead he went to a water park with a big group of us from work. He is a junior in Highschool and his family decided that to show him how hard life is, and how he can\u2019t be spending his money on stuff like a water park they are going to send him to live with his uncle in Jordan for two years . My mom offered to help him legally emancipate himself from his parents and he could move in with us but he said he wants to have a relationship with them when he is older. Is there anything that can be done to stop them from messing with the rest of his life and sending him to Jordan?","title":"My friends parents are sending him to live with his uncle in Jordan (we live in the U.S) for two years because he lied to them.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507444119,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/750846\/paying_off_girlfriends_personal_loans\/","id":"750846","body":"Good Day legal advice.\n\nMy title pretty much sums up my situation.\n\nSo I've been with my girlfriend for 2 years now, I've known about her debts for the past year, and I'm now at a stage in our relationship where I think she's the one so im comfortable with paying off her debts for her so that she's no longer paying interest on them.\n\nI'd be getting her to still pay me back (mostly because there is no way she would let me pay them off without paying me back every cent)\n\nCurrents debt is $11010 @ 6%p.a \n\nDoing this would save her a lot of money in interest in the long term which is why I'm wanting to do this (this is a fairly large amount of money but I would not be struggling paying this, it would only take a % out of my savings that I never touch anyway).\n\nOf course however, in life nothing is certain and you should always be practical, hence why I would want to have a contract written up with her, what would be the best things to include in this contract in case things ever turned south in our relationship to cover me in law (this would be written up on a piece of paper with both of us signing it, does this change its legality? Would we need witnesses etc?)\n\nLooking for any advice on this.\n\nLive in New Zealand if that helps.","title":"Paying off Girlfriends personal loans","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1506105375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71t09i\/sos_mom_is_fighting_us_for_custody_of_our_daughter\/","id":"71t09i","body":"Boston, MA \n\nI apologize in advance if this is very scattered or written weird. Just got \u201cserved\u201d the papers about an hour ago... \n\nBack story: I am originally from Seattle, WA while boyfriend is from Boston, MA.\n\nLast year in December, my SO and I had a beautiful babygirl. Fast forward to February, I find a job and SO\u2019s mom offers to watch our daughter for us. After a while of her watching our daughter, we would ask if we could have our daughter back, GMA (baby\u2019s grandmother) would always make excuses for us to not take her (she knows this place, it\u2019s more comfortable for her here, she\u2019s in a routine and we don\u2019t want to mess it up, etc) Now, my SO and I are both first time parents and are grateful to have GMA watching over our daughter with such care so we just let it go and would let her stay. I would visit her maybe 3\/4 times a week (decent drive back and forth from where we were staying). \nAround May, I ended up leaving my baby\u2019s dad because of stresses (ended up getting back together) and moving in with a friend located in CT. The plan was agreed upon by the dad that the baby could come stay with me in CT. GMA dislikes this agreement and makes excuses for daughter not coming to stay or even visit me in CT, would make more excuses how I couldn\u2019t come stay the weekend at her place so I could see my daughter, etc. \nA few weeks ago I ended up moving back to MA as my SO and I got back together. We have been staying at GMA\u2019s place for the time being but have been discussing us moving together (with daughter) to WA state as my parents wanted us to come live with them. We thrived in WA and had a great relationship, but moved to MA as he has a bigger family, which I thought meant more love for the baby... \nWhen we brought it up to her that we were going to move, GMA told her boyfriend (lives there) and when we were going to sleep he came into our room and screamed at the top of his lungs (baby sleeping in other room) that he won\u2019t allow the baby to be taken away from them and how if we take her he will slit my SO\u2019s throat with a rusty butter knife, etc. Now, he was drunk, but it\u2019s not excusable. He has had so many DUI\u2019s he has gotten his license taken away and still drinks (even after going to prison for the last DUI!) and tries to take care of our daughter while under the influence. Not to mention he drives GMA\u2019s car everywhere when he doesn\u2019t have a license. \nAnyways, about 2 weeks past and my anxiety is through the roof to talk to them about everything again. The day I decided that we were going to talk to them about it again, GMA said not today because she wanted a few days to \u201ctake it in\u201d before we talked about it(??) and I freaked. I didn\u2019t mean to but my anxiety was beyond through the roof that I flipped out how we needed to talk about it and she needs to woman up and face her fears. How it\u2019s been two weeks and the date for us to move is getting closer. GMA  shoved me because I wouldn\u2019t move then showered and left. Hours later she comes back and I apologize for flipping out on her, GMA starts talking all about mine and SO\u2019s relationship and just basically shitting on it. Ofc that starts an argument and SO gets involved as well (meanwhile baby is smiling and laughing all about this). I\u2019m trying to get my daughter away from all the commotion and GMA comes towards me and tries to yank my daughter from my arms. I tell her to stop and move my free arm to tear her arm down (not trying to hurt) and she swings her arm and hits my head, I swing back (being the dumbfuck I am), she hits a few more times and kicks my shin. I leave with daughter outside as SO was outside at car for that moment. Cops came. Said we both could have been arrested for DV but isn\u2019t gonna do anything as they understand our situation. We talk all together afterwards and agree to take the weekend to cool down. GMA and I apologize and makeup before we leave for weekend. Cool. \nWe come back on Monday (this week) and GMA and her BF tell us they\u2019ve accepted the fact that we are moving with daughter. Well, today we got served papers for a custody battle next Friday. I am so torn, heartbroken, numb, dead inside. I don\u2019t know what to say or do. \n\n\nShould we get a lawyer? How should we go about this? \n\nalso: -gma has been fighting for disability for a while now and has lied about taking care of baby. She\u2019s been out of work for over a year. -Walked out on SO and little brother with their dad when SO was 12 and didn\u2019t contact for a while. \n\nAny advice is helpful.. we both feel just dead to the world right now... \n\nTLDR; SO\u2019s mom is fighting us for custody of daughter when we try to move back to my home state with her ","title":"SO\u2019s mom is fighting us for custody of our daughter","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554866976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbhbrh\/discrimination_against_employee_for_potential\/","id":"bbhbrh","body":"Hi - first post on reddit! Also on mobile so forgive formatting. This all takes place in Pennsylvania. \n\nI am the General Manager of a midsize restaurant and for anyone that has ever worked in the hospitality industry you know we have our fair share of drug and alcohol abuse problems among employees. Sometimes we hire kitchen staff from the local rehabilitation center that are on work release since our owner really believes in paying it back to the community and giving second chances. Generally we have good experiences with these hires, while on occasion some of them prove to use it as an excuse to go back to their old ways. This brings me to our current situation...\n\nWe have a busboy(16) that was hired approximately 5 months ago. Decent enough kid, needs a lot of direction and generally seems to use his shifts as social hour instead of trying to be the best team member possible. He seemed to have become buddy buddy with one of the line cooks (28) who was a hire from the rehabilitation center. He had known drug offenses but was on parole and was trying to turn himself around. However within the past few weeks it came to our attention that the line cook began to sell drugs on the side, from what I was told it was mostly weed but who is going to tell their boss the whole truth. Long story short at one point this past weekend both the busboy and the line cook were seen leaving the restaurant (during shift), entering the line cooks vehicle, staying in for about 10 minutes and then returning to work. Again, for anyone that has spent any time in the hospitality industry there\u2019s very few explanations for what would have been happening during that exchange. A server subsequently called out the line cook for this to which he reacted by walking out on his job and has not been back to the restaurant since. \n\nWe have since spoken to the busboy about this situation, informing him that we were aware of this incident and from the outside looking in it did not seem as innocent as a little chat in the car. He obviously did not admit to any wrongdoing and we do not have proof of such but we do not want to have any suspicion of drug activity on the premise at all and therefore decided to let him go. \n\nHis father has since reached out to us claiming that his son as been discriminated against on the basis of who he was seen with. I tried to explain that this was not a legal definition of discrimination in the state of Pennsylvania and that I found that to be the wrong choice of words. He continued to plead with me to \u201cmake it right\u201d and that he could see \u201cpotential problems for our company\u201d regarding this issue. To which I asked if he was threatening legal action if we did not agree to hire his son back. He seemed to back off once that was brought up but continued to be adamant it was discrimination and that we should make this situation right for his son. \n\nSo my question is would this fall under discrimination of any sorts given that PA is an at-will employment state and further more could he pursue any valid legal action?","title":"Discrimination against employee for potential drug use?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553786957,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6k6t7\/mo_my_company_rounds_my_time_updown_to_the\/","id":"b6k6t7","body":"So I\u2019ve heard coworkers say it, but I\u2019m just now looking into it. My company (a franchise daycare) uses a clock-in system that, upon starting your shift, rounds up to the nearest 5. For example I start at 3, if I get there at 3:01, my time card will read 3:05. The opposite happens upon clocking out. If I clock out at 6:04, my time card will read 6:00. Effectively, in a worst-case scenario, I\u2019ll only be losing 9 minutes of work, but I still think this is me and my coworkers getting cheated, because over time this can add up to a lot of money, especially when I\u2019m broke and only making $9 an hour. My boss\u2019 response to this is \u201coh, it\u2019s like that everywhere.\u201d But I am positive that\u2019s not true, having looked at my time card obsessively at my last job.\n\nFirst I want to know, is this legal? Secondly, if it isn\u2019t, I\u2019m not part of a teacher\u2019s union, and I don\u2019t know how to even go about that. Where do I start? ","title":"[MO] My company rounds my time up\/down to the nearest 5th minute. Is that legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554474649,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9rwb0\/my_father42_is_trying_to_hold_my_moms_life\/","id":"b9rwb0","body":"My father has been knowing i smoke since november and told me \u201cyoure old enough to go to jail, what you do is your responsibility\u201d ever since he has expressed no discomfort in my habits. However on tuesday he notified me that he will he holding my mothers life insurance policy money ($50k+) from me so i wont \u201cruin my life.\u201d He told me i will have to go to court and hire an attourney in order to gave access to the money, what can i do? \n\nOn mobile sorry for any formatting issues.","title":"My father(42) is trying to hold my mom\u2019s life insurance policy from me (17M) because i was smoking weed. Can he legally do this? (TX)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551109538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aumld7\/uncle_passed_and_family_members_including_next_of\/","id":"aumld7","body":"As the title states, my uncle in Southern California passed over the weekend and he only has one surviving child who is next of kin. He died of an overdose, or head trauma (were not sure- they\u2019re doing an autopsy report) and his child was told she could collect his things at his apartment if his roommate was home, and if she wasn\u2019t home to go to management or contact the police to let her inside. My sibling, and two cousins went with her on Sunday and because the roommate wasn\u2019t home, his daughter broke in (hit the doorknob off). They took all of his stuff and replaced the doorknob. \n\nMy sibling says they were definitely on camera and he\u2019s laughing about it. I don\u2019t think he realizes that this could be bad. However, I\u2019m not so certain what the laws are regarding this stuff, and his roommate is also an addict who he was sleeping with and she was gang-affiliated. Stupidity all around.\n\nSo... what can the repercussions be if any? ","title":"Uncle passed and family members (including next of kin) broke into apartment to collect his things, is this legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569708316,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/damknb\/what_are_my_options_to_obtain_an_inheritance_that\/","id":"damknb","body":"I am located in the state of Pennsylvania. I have an inheritance sum of $63,000 that I am rightfully allowed access to at the age of 21. I turned 21 in January of this year... You see where this is going. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nMy aunt is the trustee of the money but she has always been shifty with the details. Recently I pushed the issue and was met with a reluctant, pale-faced aunt who could only show me a few bank statements and seemed very nervous. She told me that \"some\" of the money has been invested in stock, which I am not sure if she was legally allowed to do. She claims to have been keeping receipts for the account but refuses to hand over the money and has been making me ask for small increments of it. She always makes me argue with her over it but has made comments in the past few months about how she knows she has no grounds to stand on legally. \\*\\*I have seen the document officially stating that the money is mine at the age of 21\\*\\*. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nThis weekend I asked for more of the money and my aunt flat out refused to allow me access to any more. She told me to \"go for it!\" when I threatened legal action. My questions are: is it going to cost me a lot of money to hire a lawyer to handle this? And how long does the process usually take once a lawyer is involved?","title":"What are my options to obtain an inheritance that is being withheld by a family member who is suspected of illegally spending the money?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569337657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ohno\/ohio_emotional_support_animal\/","id":"d8ohno","body":"Hey internet, I moved into an apartment in May this year. My girlfriend and her dog stay over most nights, and when I moved in the landlord asked if the dog would be staying there \/ moving in. I said no, because we did not anticipate him staying as often as they do. My place is nicer for him, because her place doesn\u2019t allow pets but he\u2019s a registered emotional support animal. \n\nI got an email from my landlord saying the dog pretty much lives there, and I need to pay $300 and pet rent for $40 a month. She gave me a 11 day notice, and this money was due on October 1.\n\n I don\u2019t have an extra $300 to give her, and he is registered emotional support, but it\u2019s my girlfriends dog, and she isn\u2019t on the lease. She can\u2019t get added until May 31 of next year. Any options?","title":"Ohio Emotional Support animal","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446468812,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r7e6q\/ca_can_my_landlord_prohibit_me_from_getting_a\/","id":"3r7e6q","body":"I'm in a rent controlled two bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, CA. My roommate and I are both on a lease, but she's leaving soon and I'll be the only person on it once she does. I can't afford the whole place by myself, and I'd planned on getting a roommate to replace her, but my landlord recently changed his unit policy and now prohibits tenants from getting roommates. This policy was news to me as I found out about it from my manager the same day I informed him of my roommate's plans to leave and my intention to get a new one.  \n\nMy manager said my landlord instituted this policy to avoid conflict, but since it's rent controlled and I'm paying less than I would otherwise, I think it's just his attempt to push me out of the unit so he can rent it out at a higher price. The original lease, which is month to month, doesn't say anything about prohibiting roommates. So, is what he's doing legal? Am I legally not allowed to find a roommate to replace her? What can I do, if anything?\n\nThanks!","title":"[CA] Can my landlord prohibit me from getting a roommate in a rent controlled apartment in California if I'm on the lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552501717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0pf24\/is_it_legal_for_a_company_to_not_let_your_own\/","id":"b0pf24","body":"I\u2019m trying to keep this as vague as possible but basically a company made a mistake and an NDA agreement was involved without letting a personal lawyer look over the contract. It was basically sign this now or you are banned, is this legal?","title":"Is it legal for a company to not let your own lawyer look at a NDA?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570794706,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dge199\/vegas_apartment_severe_water_damage\/","id":"dge199","body":"I've outlined starting points based on how much you feel like reading. I've written this super detailed to limit questions. I'll still answer them though so start at the last bold line if you'd like : )\n\n**Possibly relative info:**\n\n In Jan. 2011 I reserved an apartment. The actual unit \"was finishing repairs\" so I was shown an \"identical\" model unit. I went back 2 different times to take measurements because I was buying all new furniture. Move-in was set for March. \n\n  While I was signing the lease the manager told me that the bottom piece of the center island hadnt come in yet and not to fret because it would be fixed soon. I asked why it was broken and she told me because there was \"severe water damage.\" I should mention that this was my very first apartment on my own as an adult. I was just 18 years old. \n\n  I signed the lease and went up to the unit. I couldn't get the door open. I found a security guard roaming the garage and had him help me get it open. He had to ram his shoulder into the door several times to get it to open. The door frame was swollen as hell. The carpets were very wet. I had zero cell phone reception anywhere in the unit and the biggest issue being the unit was the exact opposite of the one they showed me and I measured. This was a big issue because the couch I bought would now block the sliding glass doorway My furniture was scheduled to be delivered that day. The carpets were too wet so I had to reschedule and the soonest they had open was in 5 days. Thankfully my roommate allowed me to stay another 5 days but I had to pay each day a prorated amount. \n\n  The next morning I went into the office and told her I wanted a different unit because of all the issues. She had another unit and let me change no problems. \n\n**-------------------\\*This is where the real problem starts but you can still skip ahead to next bold line\\*----------------------------**\n\n   A few weeks after moving in the guest bathroom toilet was making a bubbling noise. The toilet had never been used and was never even filled with water since I moved in. I reported to maintenance and when he came over he told me \"you need to keep a close eye on this because it can be a very VERY serious problem.\" He didn't seem too worried at the time so I just kept an eye on it as he said. Right before Easter, I woke up to the sound of running water. The toilet was overflowing with water and the hallway carpet was soaked. The maintenance came to suck up the water. They used my bathtub to empty the water back out. Which they left full so I had to reach my arm down the tub to empty it. Assholes. They also left dirty soaked towels on the floor in a pile in the bathroom. The next day I woke up to the sound of gushing water. Water was exploding out of the toilet. They came to suck the water back up again and cut the padding out of the carpet. But because it was an easter weekend, no plumber until the next business day. I can't remember what exactly happened but in the letter, I wrote to the apartment when I broke the lease said that \"the plumber was able to successfully fix the issue with the pipes.\" \n\n  The entire left side of the 1500 sqft unit now had carpet that was cut from wall to wall in several places and no padding. The walls were soaked about 2\/3 of the way up. The exterior hallway carpet was soaked. The smell was unbearable. I begged the manager to replace the carpets but she literally laughed at me and said no way. I told her the walls would mold and her exact words were \"Its drywall. It will dry, and therefore it will not mold.\" I was sure it would mold so I paid a mold inspector to come and take a look.\n\n​\n\n**-----------------------------------------------------------\\*For quickest reading, start here\\*-----------------------------------------------------------------**\n\n The manager, the maintenance man, the mold inspector and I all met in my unit before the mold guy started. He went about his work. A few minutes later I asked him if he thought it would mold (he knew I had been having a hell of a time with the manager during this situation and was very concerned just based on what I told him when I was scheduling the appointment.  He turns toward us, lets out a little laugh, places his hand flat on the wall, pushes lighted and lets his hand break through the wall. He looks directly at the manager and says \"Yes, THAT is going to mold. and technically this is a category 3 (can't remember exact # he said) because it came from a toilet. No one is even supposed to be living in here due to the risk of Hepatitus.\" The manager cut him off and said \"well now that I KNOW how serious it is we will get started on repairs right away.\" Mold guy says \"and whos going to do that? You?\" The maintenance man says \"I will.\" Mold guy asks \"and how do you suppose youre going to go about making this habitable again? Do you even know what chemicals need to be sprayed? Are you certified to do this kind of work?\" The manager stops him and assures him it will be done properly. Mold guy turns to me and says \"Honey, you should seriously consider breaking your lease to get out of here.\" He wrote his findings on my receipt and gave me his card. He said I could call him any time if I needed him to talk to anyone about his findings. I had to fight the manager to agree to replace the carpets. Which \"would be much lower quality.\" and \"I would foot the bill for my furniture to be moved while they were being replaced.\"\n\n  I was BEYOND stressed out. I just wanted to wash my hands of the whole thing. I worked graveyard and would have to take off work to be awake while the repairs were being done so I could be present. I called corporate and asked to break my lease with no fee. They approved. I wrote a 3-page letter explaining why I was moving out after just 6 weeks. This issue wasn't the only issue I had, its just the worst one. \n\n  The assholes had the nerve to keep my $250 deposit and send me a bill for $500 for cleaning and other things I cant remember. It never showed up on my credit reports though.\n\n  I know I'm way past the statute of limitations but whoever is living in the unit right now isn't. I HIGHLY doubt that they fixed it properly... because of the first unit that they tried to have me move into (read the first section.) If they couldn't even fix the door frame swelling and wasn't even going to hire the proper people to fix it then chances are they did nothing and if they did it was the bare minimum. \n\n Oh lol, the property manager ended up quitting her job because of all the issues going on there. \n\n If I can get the current resident to allow a mold inspector to come do another inspection and we find that there is mold in the walls then the new tenant would have a case. Right? Because I can prove they knew without a doubt the severity of the issue not only because of the mold inspector I paid for but because of the letter they made me write explaining why I was so desperate to break the lease so soon. I have pictures+videos of everything, all of my paperwork, receipts, everything. \n\n But I'm not doing to waste my time if I'm not going to get something out of it. My plan is to write a vague letter to the new tenant and tell them enough info so that they know there could be a serious issue but not enough to make them think they can proceed without me. Then hire a lawyer to write us a contract so that if they win any money in court, I get a percentage of it. Call a mold inspector and if they find mold, file a lawsuit. \n\n I cant pay for the lawyer and If the current residents cant, are there any lawyers that you think would do this for free and be paid if they win the case? I really don't know much about lawyers and lawsuits. \n\n Be nice, I was 18, had no idea what I was doing and I only want to do something now because I watch a lot of court tv shows and based on those episodes, my experience is 10x worse than any comparable ones I've seen. I'm asking you all first so that I don't make a fool of myself. If this could affect me negatively if it's taken to court then please lmk and I'll cough up the money to consult someone locally.","title":"Vegas apartment severe water damage","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569460215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9civd\/stock_ownership_in_a_family_business\/","id":"d9civd","body":"In 2011 for estate planning and retention my mother and father started to gift me stock in the company. I now have 25% of the corporation. In 2014 we started another company together. 50% ownership each stated in the articles of incorporation. We are looking at selling the businesses and now my father is stating he never ment to give me the ownership of the corporation but a dba of the company. And he also stating he didn't mean to give me 50% of the land the new business is located on half he previously owned and half was purchased at the time the new company was formed. He is stating he wants this fixed prior to any sale. He is having second thoughts obviously since he would have to pay me 25% on one and 50% on the other. He is stating he can do whatever he wants because it is his. He said he doesn't want to get legal involved. I've given 19 years to this business with little retirement in line. I'm 49. It's been a real burden on our whole family as legally if I'm not mistaken he signed the documents and now there is a payday he is basically bulling me to concied. I have paid taxes on my shares and have retained earnings on the books for 70k in a note. Legally if he pushes me more what should I do?","title":"Stock ownership in a family business.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555423301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bduans\/loss_of_revenue\/","id":"bduans","body":"Hi, I was hoping someone could help me.\n\nMy business has severely been affected by a road closure so less people visit.This has lost to a massive loss of income which means that I am going to have to close the company next month.The company responsible for the road closure has delayed works for a couple months.I was wondering if anyone can help me and give me any advice of the situation.\n\nThank you.","title":"Loss of Revenue","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1443654302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n141n\/victim_of_online_fraud_small_scale_need_advice\/","id":"3n141n","body":"Hello reddit,\n\nI recently bought as used sports item on a well-known online forum dedicated to this particular sport. Paid 130$ for said item. I am from Canada and the seller is from the United States, as most members of this forum are.\n\nI have done dozens of similar transactions with members of this forum over the years and never ran into trouble. Usually transactions go like this : send paypal money as gifted to seller which then ships me the item through standard USPS. In this particular case the seller received my money and never shipped the item (it's been 20 days). Hasn't provided a tracking number either, which most sellers do usually 1-2 days after the money transfer. I know it's not a great idea to send paypal money as a gift, but this seller had numerous positive reviews from respected forum members).\n\nCan I report this guy to a cyber crime department in the United States? I heard it was possible to do so, from another user who was scammed in similar fashion.\n\nThx for any help!","title":"Victim of online fraud (small scale) - need advice","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507676151,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75kv2u\/utah_how_much_is_my_specialty_business_worth_to\/","id":"75kv2u","body":"Hello there!\n\nI was hoping you guys could help me out. I own a smoke shop in Utah. If you aren't familiar with the tobacco laws in Utah, it's very restrictive. Also, I as a business owner can no longer sell my specialty smoke shop license. And any prospective business owner can not buy a specialty smoke shop license. So I've decided to move out of state and lease my shop in the meantime. The buyers want a smoke shop, and unfortunately our licensing laws do not permit people from opening a new smoke shop, or buying an existing smoke shop. If you have a license, you're in business. But your license can not be transferred to someone else.\n\nAnyway, so now we are negotiating how much these people should pay me to lease my shop to them every year. I've been open for 8 years and have a solid customer base. My sales are between $1200-1600 daily. My profit per year after rent\/inventory\/employees\/other shop expenses, is between $50,000-60,000 a year. I have $90,000 worth on inventory in the shop. \n\nThe buyers want to lease my shop for 5 years. They would pay me $90,000 for the existing inventory. They are also responsible for paying the building rent since I do not own the building. Essentially, we are trying to work out how much they should pay me yearly to lease my customers, my specialty smoke shop license, and my business name and reputation. They could always take my $90,000 inventory and open a smoke shop in another state. But, they are not interested in building a business from the ground up. They are also not interested in relocating since they have family in Utah. So the only way they can run a smoke shop in Utah is to lease it from us or another business owner willing to do so. They want to make money immediately, and my shop would make them money immediately. \n\n\nSo reddit, how much is this worth? The buyers threw out a number of $5,000 a year... but honestly, I have no idea how to counter or what is even fair to lease a business like this. I don't know if this number is super low, it sure sounds low to me! \n\n\nWhat do you guys think?? Has anyone been in this situation before?","title":"UTAH How much is my specialty business worth to lease it out when you can no longer get a license in my specialty?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1443136498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m9gxs\/fl_sister_was_arrested_but_it_involved_corrupt\/","id":"3m9gxs","body":"A couple weeks ago, a girl my sister knew from rehab said she NEEDED to borrow my sister's car for an hour to do something. She begged and begged until my sister gave in. Of course, she never brought the car back. My sister attempted to report the car as stolen, but was told she could not after she told the cops she gave the girl her keys, even though this was days after they agreed on one hour. Jump forward a week, the car is finally towed. And my sister is able to retrieve it. Her wheels were all replaced by the shittiest tires imaginable, and there were three stolen SUV tires in her trunk. The battery was also replaced. So, my mom pays for everything to get replaced and we think the nightmare is over.\n\nA few days later my sister is having an argument with her ex(?) boyfriend and she pulls over to finish the call. Eventually, a cop comes by. She is clearly distraught, which he interprets for intoxication and asks her to get out of the car. He searches the car and finds a purse filled with all sorts of drugs under the passenger seat, which my sister somehow missed. In the glove box, there was a stolen credit card, and obviously the stolen tires in the trunk (which happened to be concealing a police scanner). All of this, except the tires, was unknown to my sister. They search her purse, take all of her cash (wtf?), seize her car, and arrest her. \n\nToday, she went to court and was sent to rehab. She tried to explain the stolen car scenario, but the prosecutor denied, saying it was a lie, I guess. My sister also claims that it also came out that the police, according to the judge, had been tracking all of her phone calls, pictures, and other phone activity for the past six months and had everything (why would the do this? Is this legal? All of today's proceedings were explained to me by my grandmother, so it's possible my sister is hiding something that happened 6 months ago, but I don't believe there is anything, so this really puzzles me.\n\nOf course, you'll want to know if my sister was high or knew of the drugs in her car. In the past, when I've confronted her about whether she has relapsed, she has, to my knowledge, been honest, even when she's still using and trying to get clean. That may sound like she relapses a ton, but it's only really happened a few times. Also, one of the drugs they found was her drug of choice, so I highly doubt she would have let it sit there had she known it existed. It would either be in her, inside her house, or in the toilet. As for the court proceedings, I'm going to try and get a copy of the transcript once the court opens tomorrow.\n\nMy sister, obviously, has no money. My parents are going through a divorce and both JUST retired, so their finances are a mess. They already have a ton of legal expenses and can't really afford more. So, we can't really afford a lawyer.\n\nWere the cops right to deny her the ability to report the stolen car?\nWas the search of her car legal?\nWhat can we do now to get her car back?\nWhat the hell is up with the phone tracking?\nCan we do anything about the police corruption (report it to a sheriff or something)?\n\nedit: My mother tried to contact a criminal defense lawyer. His suggestion was offering the police money for the car back. Isn't this just bribery?\n\nedit 2: Okay, calm down. I'm just trying to sort out all the facts here. I understand that no real corruption was involved. It is a simple misunderstanding.\n\nAlso, her \"intent to deal\" charges were lifted through a bargain that the public defender made. Does this mean we can retrieve the \"evidence\" (her cash) back?\n\nMy main concern, which hasn't really been addressed, is getting the car back.\n","title":"[FL] Sister was arrested, but it involved corrupt cops, potentially illegal car searches, and more fun. What can we do now?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446744513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rnhbm\/custody_questions\/","id":"3rnhbm","body":"MINNESOTA:\n\nI'll try and make this short. I've had my son for a good 70% of the time from ages 1-5. His mother lived over an hour away, so when he started school there he would stay there for the week and come to me for the weekends\/holidays\/summer etc. I have since moved closer, within 40 mins, and got a job in the town he lives in so I could get him during the week again and spend more than just the weekends with him.\n\n\nI wanted a 50\/50 type thing, which was met with resistance. Then agreed on a thurs-monday arrangement. Ex got married last month, during this time he spent the 2 weeks for their honeymoon with me and it went great. Shortly after they got back he apparently only wants to spend Friday-Sunday afternoon with me because he \"misses his mom too much\" to spend anymore time with me.\n\n\nI have zero doubts she is manipulating him into this, but what can I do? Can I go to court and try to get an arrangement made? I've tried talking to the mother about this, but she is a narcissist and every logical and completely civil discussion or point I bring up is met with defensiveness, deflection etc.\n\n\nI know it's difficult to guess, but what are my chances at 50\/50 custody?  Where the child stays with me 50% of the time and her 50% of the time?  I'm certain she will attempt to lie(bring our son to a therapist and tell the therapist a completely fabricated story to get something in writing) to the judge\/courts.  How much am I looking at for a lawyer and what can it do for me?\n\nEDIT: We were never married and she has had full custody since he was born.  I never had a chance to ask for more, she did this behind my back and told everyone the father was out of the picture.  I haven't pushed for any type of custody because I was fairly happy with how much I got to see my son (70%) of the time from ages 1-5.  I am no longer happy with the arrangement and the mother is becoming impossible to deal with or talk to.","title":"Custody questions.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568880812,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6az4y\/my_landlord_is_extremely_negligent_and_also\/","id":"d6az4y","body":"Hey! This is going to be long so I apologize in advance if my post is messy, hard to understand, or grammatically incorrect. I\u2019m not the best at that stuff so if anything needs clarification or something, please let me know! Mobile btw.    \n \nAnyway, I\u2019ve lived in government housing since I was a kid and I\u2019m reaching out for help with my landlord of twelve years. My family and I have had a ton of issues with her and maintenance that works under her over the time we\u2019ve been here but those are for another post at another time, since right now I just need some advice on what to do about two things in particular:  \n\n  \n \nWe have mandatory inspections every 4 months I believe \u2014 which is _not a problem in itself, though her invasiveness during them has been_ \u2014and had one last year that HUD was a part of (we didn\u2019t contact them jsyk). \nOur old house was in bad shape primarily due to our landlord and maintenance not doing their jobs. I don\u2019t want to sound like an asshole who knows how they should do said jobs so some examples are how we\u2019ve had mold ignored despite pretty much begging for them to fix things that we could not, times they did \u201cfix\u201d it were only by drilling a plastic cover over one spot despite it being inside of the wall, she argued with me in the past on whether the disgusting shower\/tub window was moldy or mildewed and then suggested  _\u201dcovering it with like, a shower tarp\u201d_ despite it also being like that when we first moved in, using duct tape to fix water heaters, and so on.  \n\nThere were tons of violations and the HUD workers left visibly angry with her. This resulted in us getting approved to move to a newly \u201ccleaned\u201d apartment in January. _I say \u201ccleaned\u201d because it\u2019s September and there have already been issues for months_ despite us constantly tending to the house. Also for another time.   \n\nI am mentioning all of that because it brings us to the most recent problem that we have had with her regarding this move. **She has continued to deny _and_ lie about black mold in the old apartment being, in fact, _black mold._** Black mold that we only found while moving out. Black mold that she has tried to say was _\u201djust dirt\u201d,_ isn\u2019t black mold at all, _\u201dwe\u2019ll see about that,\u201d_and more recently _\u201dwe got it tested and it wasn\u2019t black mold!\u201d_  We aren\u2019t the first family with black mold problems or complaints.  \n\n \n\n**This is where I now need to talk about what my thirteen year old brother went through for around a year before we moved,** and it\u2019s the main drive for why my family needs to know what can possibly be done. \n\n  \n      \nHis problems started in early summer (maybe a bit before) as dizziness and headaches, then he fainted in our dad\u2019s arms at an amusement park but because of the heat, we assumed it was dehydration and made sure he drank even more water than he had before and reminded him to, while watching for anything else. This turned into one event a week, sometimes more and the first doctors we took him to couldn\u2019t figure out the cause. He was given salt pills, told to stick to drinking lots of water, and they had us continue keeping an eye on him. We thought maybe it was blood sugar too, so we had him sent to school with snacks.  \n    \nThe worst event was when he woke us all up in the middle of the night and then started to pass out in my arms while the ambulance was on the way. I held his face and patted it to try to keep him awake\/coherent, and I can\u2019t forget the fear in his eyes and his voice as he asked me if he was going to die because he didn\u2019t want to die. He shouldn\u2019t have had to go through that.  \n      \nNo answers on that night either, just waiting on the referral to a neurologist and cardiologist. That was November.   \n\nThis stopped when we moved out and officially started staying in the house at the beginning of February. EEG results showed mild seizure activity and the only thing that happened was he fell down a few of the stairs after passing out on them, but this was the last one. After that, nothing \u2014 and nothing since.   \n     \n**Our family doctor told us in April that the seizures were caused by black mold.**  \n  \n       \nI also want to add that one of my cats has a very sensitive immune system and used to be sick constantly, for years. She didn\u2019t want to play often, she just slept a ton, would lick and rip her fur out until she was bald and bleeding, has cuts on her mouth from scratching, and was extremely skinny. I thought she was going to die, and there are times she was close. Since we moved out of that apartment, she is still a bit stuffy but she has gained weight and fur she NEVER had much of before. She looks and acts like a completely different cat.  \n\n \n       \n**Despite pictures and proof, EVEN from our doctor, my landlord continues to deny it is black mold** _and even gets an attitude about it when my mom brings it up to her._ Other people who have lived or currently live in these apartments also have had mold issues.  \n\n \n\n**Here are pictures:**\n  \n- [All of the pictures of mold spots I could get while in the middle of moving.](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/7uDgb5L) Stress and time got in the way or I would have taken more, so areas not pictured are black mold behind the fridge, mold in the water heater closet, faint black mold spots along the wall behind a computer desk, the bathroom that was basically filled with mold, and definitely more I\u2019m not thinking of at the moment.\n\n- [My cat before and after moving.](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/0uZAD1L)\n\n- [Part of my old kitchen, now gutted, as of 9\/18\/2019. All of that is black mold that we didn\u2019t know about.](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/JJ4GFJg) It was growing behind our cabinets, stove, and god knows what else. \n\n- [My friend\u2019s pictures of her ceiling where the bathtub was beginning to fall through, which maintenance knew about, and mold in her tub that was covered the same way as ours \u2014 with shitty, thin plastic.](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/1gNmaBw) Her bathtub was gutted and redone recently, but only after she called HUD twice.\n    \n \n\n**Now, about the service animal issue. ** This happened yesterday to my sister, who our landlord uses as a verbal punching bag sometimes while disguising it as trying to help or guide her. My sister has had problems in the past that she turned completely around and is in her best shape yet, she even cleared her entire record by doing community service, going to court and appointments on time, and doing everything she needed to get back on track after a drug incident years ago and then an abusive situation not long after.  My landlord uses her past against her \u2014 down to scaring her into submission by mentioning how she could lose her apartment if she doesn\u2019t clean it right or if she \u201cmesses up again\u201d.  She knows that she is scared of losing her home because it would have a domino effect: she would lose her kids and everything she has, and I\u2019m afraid she would lose her life too because she\u2019s been through too much and just got out of it all. \n\n  \n\nShe is talked down to, berated, and basically implied to be subhuman by our landlord, yet she still treats her with the respect she doesn\u2019t get. That\u2019s the kind of person my sister is.  \n  \n\nDue to her past and the abuse she suffered, she is mentally and medically frail (as are my nephews who were also severely abused by her husband). She has two cats, one of which is not on the lease because of how new he is and was a stray my oldest nephew got attached to. She had already planned to get them approved as service animals, as her tabby cat has been with her through everything that happened (to the point that she was abused too) and is like another child to her, and the stray calms my nephews down as well as helps them cope with daily life. I\u2019ve never seen such patient, well-behaved cats.  \n\nOur landlord learned of the next cat and said my sister had 24 hours to get rid of them, which is understandable in the sense that she broke a rule, but she was already in talks with her therapist to get them approved as emotional support animals. So her therapist rushed to it and got them approved. The landlord said over the phone after she called her, _\u201dWell, I guess you can keep the cats.\u201d_ No shit?  \n\n  \n\nYesterday, my sister failed her inspection despite me, my fianc\u00e9e, and her best friend helping her clean because our landlord had added extra rules that made no sense onto the list (I don\u2019t know what all they were since I didn\u2019t see it and was only told by my mom) and she also does this thing where if you do something that defies her, she looks for any reason to write you up. _We\u2019ve been written up before for something being broken in our house, something maintenance already knew about, because my mom got an attitude with her at the time._   \n\nSo she was looking for any reason to write my sister up because she \u201cwon the cat battle\u201d as we\u2019ve been calling it. In this case, it was because her house was _\u201dawful, it\u2019s almost as bad as your mom\u2019s - and you know how bad it was after she moved out.\u201d_  ~~She didn\u2019t know she was on speakerphone with my sister, so my mom heard that.~~ \nWhat were the problems? Apparently it smelled like pee (nope), there was \u201ccat crap in the windows\u201d (we checked afterwards since yes we forgot to clean them but it was very obviously bright melted candy the kids had shoved there along with dust), and other things I can\u2019t remember right now but she said, word for word, _\u201dif those cats are going to do that then you\u2019ll need to remove them\u201d_ and even  _\u201di know they\u2019re emotional support animals but legally I can ask you to get rid of them\u201d_ which is the worst part.  \n \n \n\nThat isn\u2019t legal at all, is it? Since they are legal emotional support animals, paper and everything? Yes she needs to clean more and is going to before another inspection next week, she\u2019s right about there being issues, they are not what she listed but honestly that isn\u2019t even the point now \u2014 my sister and nephews can\u2019t lose their cats because it will absolutely destroy them, especially when they\u2019ve already been through so much.  \n \n\n_I\u2019m not sure how to fit this in but I feel it is important to mention that she acts strange towards all cats in general, to the point of telling one of my best friends who worked for maintenance that one of the other workers would \u201ctake care of\u201d a stray cat that had gotten hit by a car but was still alive on the property. My friend informed me that this meant he would shoot it, so she took it to a local animal shelter. My fianc\u00e9e and I also took one of the other strays back to her home state with us after the landlord mentioned she would have a friend \u201ccome do something with it.\u201d_    \n \n \n\nThat\u2019s all for now, thanks for reading it. Sorry this is so long, we just don\u2019t know how to figure out what to do about any of this and I\u2019m tired of my family living in fear and situations that jeopardize their health.  \n\n \n    \n  **tl;dr:** this is hard to whittle down into something small but pretty much my landlord denies and lies about a black mold infestation that could have seriously harmed my family (but my brother especially) in our old house, despite having multiple proofs of it, and also fabricates reasons to try to take away my sister and child nephews\u2019 legal emotional support cats.","title":"My landlord is extremely negligent and also threatened removal of family service animals. What do I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541237296,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tss7n\/suddenly_policy_change_limiting_pto_use\/","id":"9tss7n","body":"i, so I work at a small company in California (under 10 employees) and starting Dec. 1 my manager informed me if we decide to use any of our accrued PTO for a specific day it has to be at least 4hours. This was just brought up to me as I requested to use 1.5hrs of my PTO to leave work early at 3:30pm for a 4pm doctor's appointment since I get off a 5pm. So in the future if I were to have another 4pm appointment instead of I just leaving 30min before I would have to leave by 1pm and use all that excess PTO. I understand the laws can differ by state but I was hoping someone could shed some light on sudden policy changes and the limitations of PTO usuage. Thanks!","title":"Suddenly policy change limiting PTO use","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553278352,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b48dtu\/laid_off_while_under_contract_ma\/","id":"b48dtu","body":"So I'm living in MA and signed onto a 14 month contract of employment last year. The contract was at a construction company.\n\nIn my new hire package I was stated as having 2 weeks paid vacation and was to be employed for a 14 month duration. I was laid off after 10 months with no warning and my insurance benefits ran out that same day (which sucked because I had to cancel an important appointment that was for the week after). \n\nMy vacation was prorated to a certain number of hours less than the 2 weeks during 2018, which was fine. But I was told that vacation \"reset\" after the new year. \n\nOn the day I was laid off,  I was told that the vacation days I took in February were \"dipping into time I had not accrued\" and that \"happened all the time.\" This seemed suspicious to me, but I was a little emotional at the time so I couldn't really think straight. \n\nIs there anything I can do about any of this, or am I out of luck? \n\n​\n\nThanks!","title":"Laid off While Under Contract (MA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551974621,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aye6ez\/shady_cut_in_pay_should_i_contact_hr\/","id":"aye6ez","body":"I work at a large agency in California that has several sites. I\u2019m a salaried, full time employee, and have been doing extra shift work to make a little extra money at a different site from my home site. For years, the agency has paid salaried workers 25\/hour for regular shifts and 32\/hour for on-call shifts if you get called in, plus a small stipend paid regardless of if you actually end up working. \n\nYesterday, I got my paycheck and it was more than I expected. 30\/hour for regular shifts and 36 for on call. The agency has been increasing pay across the board for several months, so it was a nice surprise, but not totally unexpected. \n\nMinutes after receiving my paycheck, I get an email from someone at the other site that the way we clock in is changing as of March first (6 days ago), and very short, confusing instructions on what to do. I send an email back to clarify, and she says that all shifts are now to be punched in as regular hourly, and that rate has increased to 30, and then said that the old on-call rate was 32, and she\u2019s sorry if this affects me negatively. \n\nShe didn\u2019t say out right that it\u2019s a $2 pay cut for on call, but implied it. I wouldn\u2019t have been informed at all if I hadn\u2019t asked for clarification in the first email. She also did not say anything about the 36\/hour I got on my last check. \n\nMy sense is, that the agency increased the pay, but this site doesn\u2019t want to use more of their budget, so they\u2019ve decided to log the on call hours as regular and just hope nobody notices. \n\nAlso, 90% of the shifts available are on-call, so it would definitely decrease my pay overall. \n\nIs it legal to decrease pay retroactively? How much advance notice is an employer required to give? It\u2019s very possible that if I push HR, they will reverse the decision (I think it\u2019s possible HR has no idea they are doing this). How should I approach that conversation?\n\nTL;DR Got a pay raise on two different kinds of shifts. Then got an email saying to clock all hours as the lower rate, starting last week. ","title":"Shady cut in pay, should I contact HR?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552556154,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0ya74\/tx_boyfriend_witnessed_a_fight_all_of_the\/","id":"b0ya74","body":"My boyfriend witnessed a fight at a business where we have a number of mutual friends including staff and patrons. I was out of town. I do not want to give too many details because I know several people in that community browse reddit.\n\nEssentially, the witnesses to the fight lied and claimed that the person who is now in jail was the aggressor. My boyfriend says that while there was arguing and the use of strong language, that he did not initiate the physical contact. In addition, during the fight, the true aggressor was injured incidentally. The witnesses claimed that the one who is now in jail caused this injury and it lead to a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. This appears to be a complete fabrication.\n\nStaff and patrons, who my boyfriend and I are friendly with, pressured him to lie to the police if asked. However, despite remaining in the area while police questioned witnesses, he was not spoken to. He and a friend are now stressing over this as they know the morally correct thing to do would be submitting statements to the police with the truth.\n\n1. What legal repercussions could my boyfriend and his friend face for not informing the police about the truth (neither one was ever questioned or asked for a statement)\n\n2. Is there a way to present these statements anonymously in a way that will be taken seriously? It\u2019s obviously not important compared to an innocent man being in prison, but he (and I) will likely lose friendships over this.\n\n3. How likely is it that charges could be dropped as opposed to my boyfriend being required to testify in court?\n\n4. Are our friends who lied to the police likely to be charged with a crime if my boyfriend comes forward?","title":"[TX] Boyfriend witnessed a fight. All of the witnesses lied and now a man is in jail on felony charges based on those statements.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554787419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb42lv\/minor_parking_ticket_today_city_ordinance_seems\/","id":"bb42lv","body":"\"  It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle on any public street within an area extending twenty-five feet from a street intersection, unless designated by yellow colored paint. ***(Ord. 3942, \u00a71)*** \"\n\n​\n\nSo the city seems to have very clearly recently redone this particular curb in the last 3 months or so. This street parking space is in the area just beyond the marked yellow for the cross walk and intersection.  There aren't any no parking signs or any indication that the area was not to be occupied, I had only the yellow paint to go off of.  I had more than enough room for my vehicle, to where I'm a conservative 3 feet within the unpainted section, so I thought I was golden.  Obviously I'm surprised when I get back later that day to see a ticket under my wiper.  The ticket is pretty clear and all, states the above ordinance and admittedly I am clearly within 25 feet from the intersection, by my measurement about 21 feet.  What really got me all flustered was that they bothered to repaint the curb yellow after redoing it, but they did not extend it back the 25 feet like it *used* to be before the curb was redone. (google maps image proves it).  I was then motivated to go home and look it up.....\n\n​\n\nHere's the legal advice I'm seeking as a young adult:\n\n1.)  \".. unless designated by yellow colored paint.\"   To me that sounds like the city intentionally did not paint this section of curb after the reconstruction of the curb to allow for parking, especially when there is past proof that the curb was not painted. Is this enough get this whole thing thrown out?\n\n2.)  As far as minor parking tickets like this go, do many small towns or municipalities in general let it slide if bring the fine collector a small, 30 second, well-founded case?\n\n3.)  Is a minor parking fine even worth fighting? Honestly everything in my body says this isn't right and I definitely feel pretty helpless in this situation. This is further compounded by the fact that I'm sure I'm not the only one who has fallen victim to this situation, I mean there's a solid 5-6 feet of unpainted yellow that has to have drawn ticket after ticket. It all seems so shady for a municipality.\n\n​\n\nThank you in advance for your advice!","title":"Minor parking ticket today, city ordinance seems unclear, seeking advice as a young adult","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554220332,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8kzei\/what_if_employer_does_not_offer_cobra_after\/","id":"b8kzei","body":"I was recently laid off and my active medical insurance ended 3\/30. My previous company has an awful cobra administrator, and since I was in a Benefits position I attempted to log in to the employer's cobra account just for shits and giggles today to see if the amount was still active (this is the administration section not available to employees or cobra participants. I was laid off 3\/1, so my account should have been terminated on 3\/1). \n\nTurns out my account is still showing me as an active employee. I predict this will not be caught within the 30 day deadline to get me my insurance packet.\n\nI'll have new benefits on the 15th, so I'm not particularly worried. I'm not going to seek any legal recourse, but assuming they don't give me my packet within 30 days of 4\/1,\n\nA) what legal repercussions may exist \nB) is there any potential legal action that could be taken against me logging in, or against the employer for not terminating the account which grants me access to sensitive employee data including SSNs? Note that I logged out immediately after checking my record because I'm paranoid as hell \ud83d\ude02","title":"What if employer does not offer cobra after termination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443568563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mwalb\/wa_usa_can_my_expectation_of_privacy_be\/","id":"3mwalb","body":"Suppose that I live in an apartment with blinds that close. They're good, opaque blinds, but if somebody outside the window stands close enough and stares in from certain angles, it's possible to see inside somewhat.\n\nFrom what I understand someone typically has a reasonable expectation of privacy when in their home with the blinds closed, but do they no longer have that expectation if they learn that someone can take special pains (i.e. more than a casual glance) to look inside? In other words, **is the reasonableness of the expectation contingent on my actual knowledge?**\n\nFor example, our state law on [voyeurism](http:\/\/apps.leg.wa.gov\/rcw\/default.aspx?cite=9A.44.115) says that it counts when the victim had a reasonable expectation of privacy. Would someone who did that to me before I realized the vulnerability of my blinds be guilty, while someone who did it afterwards would be innocent?\n\nI just want to know if I'm *supposed* to feel nervous when I change clothes or have a gentleman caller in my own bedroom with the blinds closed. I'll be getting blackout curtains soon, so my curiosity is semi-academic.","title":"[WA, USA] Can my expectation of privacy be compromised in my home if I know that voyeurs could see in by making unusual effort?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540832312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sewuv\/fathers_custody_rights\/","id":"9sewuv","body":"I am the father of a beautiful little girl and her mother has decided she wants to move across country and take our daughter. We have not gone to court for any reasons as of yet including for custody and have been trying to work things out on our own. We have had ups and downs but things were finally looking up and my current partner and I would have her every other week because she is not in school yet. Recently, we had a fight with my Ex and she threatened to take me to court for child support if I didn't help her move. I know I have been lucky to not have to pay child support yet, and am not opposed to it, and I know that she will probably file for it eventually. My question is if she goes through with her threat  is there any way to prevent her from moving so that I can actually see my daughter especially while having to pay child support?","title":"Father's custody rights","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553267798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b469kq\/how_bad_is_divorce_was_i_naive_thinking_that\/","id":"b469kq","body":"My husband and I (Texas) are divorcing after almost 10 years (1\/31\/09). We have 4 children ages 1-9. Our oldest has health issues that require multiple visits every now and then. I would use too many sick days so I've been a SAHM for 2 years. Husband also started a new position that required longer hours and the pay was great enough that we didn't need my income. \n\nI thought it was going to end smoothly but I spoke to him last night and I think he's going to be vicious about it! I have no idea why. We spoke earlier this week and it was fine. But last night he was telling me that he was seeing his lawyer today so I said I still needed to choose one. He was pissed! He started screaming asking why did I need a lawyer. He said that all we needed a lawyer for was to file paperwork, that we wouldn't go to court once we agreed in mediation. I told him that I didn't think that was right. I kinda don't feel comfortable about not having a lawyer. What if we don't agree? Especially regarding finances. He's pretty upset. But what if we don't agree on child support or what I believe he should pay for? How do I know his lawyer wouldn't screw and I just signed my life away because I didn't know what I was agreeing to. I don't feel comfortable with him inside the house with me but he's sleeping on an air mattress in the living room. I told him I wanted to get my own place and he texted me about how I was going to get in trouble if I spent unnecessary expenses. He was already talking to his lawyer. He literally bought a new truck a couple weeks ago without me knowing but whatever. But that scared me into thinking that things might get ugly. How do I make this go smoothly? Do we have to hate each other? Do I have to stay in the same house as him until it's finalized? That sounds horrible and awkward. What should I NOT do? I want to be prepared. \n\nI just picked a lawyer and called. I meet with her on Monday. I'm terrified. ","title":"How bad is divorce? Was I naive thinking that things would go smoothly?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553634403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5vak3\/a_9_year_old_assaults_me_with_a_fistbatknife_how\/","id":"b5vak3","body":"Just a hypothetical scenario. saw a similar question on another sub and was not impressed with the answers. \n\nis there any legal precedent for these types of situations?\n\ndoes the gender of the assailant matter?","title":"a 9 year old assaults me with a [fist\/bat\/knife]. how much force can i use to defend myself without going to jail?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571115871,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di2zov\/thinking_about_writing_a_book_about_how_insecure\/","id":"di2zov","body":"Hi. I\u2019m considering writing a book about how open the free internet is and how it is not enforced on small crimes. I was thing about taking examples from my own life of how easy it is to obtain copyright content  and how search engines contribute to how easy it is for normal people to find this copyright content online. Making many young people today criminals that have no idea what there doing is a crime and assuming these easily accessible copyright content online are a luxury of the internet and not something that you could get arrested or charged with crimes.\n\nIf I were to use examples from my life of how easy it was to obtain copyright content (movies, games, foreign comic not aloud in the US due to the contracts with the creator and the distributor) . Could the book be used as a form of confession to sue me in court?\n\nNote: examples would be from when I was as young as 7 years old all the way up to today (a legal age adult).","title":"Thinking about writing a book about how insecure and open the internet is and how easy it it is to break the law.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553713440,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b688rb\/ca_drivers_ignoring_stop_signs_right_next_to_a\/","id":"b688rb","body":"Over the past 15 minutes that I have been here, there have been 10 different vehicles, two workers of the government (public workers, etc), all except two failed to make a complete stop. One stopped because it was the law, the other stopped because of traffic. \n\nIs there anything I can do about this? It's right in front of a school. And I really don't want one of these children to run outside and splat. \n\nCan I report these vehicles to the police? File a completing to the local police? How do I go about it? \n\nI've heard of others doing something similar. \n\nSorry this isn't like a major concern but meh. ","title":"[CA] Drivers ignoring stop signs, right next to a preschool.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507173444,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74dd06\/landlord_served_me_3_day_notice_from_her_attorney\/","id":"74dd06","body":"This is a twinhome unit in Fargo ND.\n\nThere is a long story of WHY I'm in this situation, but it is a matter of withholding rent due to BS living conditions, and we have said we will move out at the end of October.\n\nToday I met with the landlord to negotiate rent payment depending on certain conditions being met, and she gave me a 3 day notice which she claims is from her lawyer. I don't believe her, it seems fake. The notice states that all past due rent shall be paid in full pursuant to N.D. Cent. Code ch. 47-32-02.\n\nI looked up that code, and it talks only about eviction notices, which this is not. We have not been asked to evict, it was never even mentioned. We simply have withheld rent due to unit being not as advertised, health concerns, unfinished projects within reasonable time frame, etc. \n\nWhat can we do if our landlord is threatening fake legal action and making up demands? Is demanding rent within the scope of that code even though it mentions rent nowhere?\n\nI don't want to get screwed by failing to obey the law, but I also won't be duped into just paying when I shouldn't need to. \n\nFYI I understand that legal counsel should be found locally, I only just found out today though and have not yet been able to find a single person who helps tenants.","title":"Landlord served me 3 day notice \"from her attorney\", I think it's fake.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1413772373,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jqywg\/mugged_on_pizza_delivery_and_police_phoned_me_to\/","id":"2jqywg","body":"Australia, WA\n\nThe story is: About 3 months ago I was on a pizza delivery around 12 at night, when I got to the house 4 guys took the pizzas and ran away, I phone the police as soon as I could then rushed back to the store and told the manager. The police asked me to go with them into the police department that night for a statement. Because I feared for my safety in my job I left the next day. I worked there for over a year and never has that happened. \n\nFast forward 3 months: I was jobless for a month and a half before I got another job, believe me being 19 and looking for a decent job is hard enough already not to mention I have to pay for a car and get to university everyday with the little money that I had left. This morning I got a phone call from the inspector from my local police department saying that they have caught one of the guys and he's sent to 18 months in prison, and that I should go onto WA workers compensation because I am eligible for a \"large sum of money\".\n\nI don't know where to go from here, I am not all that legal savvy so I hope you redditors of \/r\/legaladvice could give me some, you know legal advice? ;P ( Sorry for the bad joke )","title":"Mugged on pizza delivery and police phoned me to say that I should claim victim compensation, need help","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555271942,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd6uuz\/sink_needs_repairs_and_landlord_is_asking_me_to\/","id":"bd6uuz","body":"The sink in my bathroom has never worked. It was never a huge issue because there is another working sink I can use. I tried normal remedies of drain cleaner and snaking the drain, but nothing has worked. I told my landlord months ago and she had a plumber look at it and determined that there is a clog over 15+ ft down. She told me it was my job to fix it because it was my fault. I tried getting longer snakes to use on the drain, but still to no avail. I\u2019m moving out so I brought up the issue to her again, and she told me that I have until the end of the month to hire a certified plumber to fix the drain that \u201cI clogged with my hair\u201d. It\u2019s clearly not my hair because I\u2019ve never used the sink, the clog is 15+ ft down, and what I\u2019ve pulled out of the drain with the snake is dirt and leaves.\n\nNote: I found in WA state law that it is the duty of the landlord to keep all plumbing fixtures in working order. \n\nWhat actions can I take to make my landlord pay for this repair instead of me?","title":"Sink needs repairs and landlord is asking me to hire a plumber and pay for costs. [Washington state]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503264282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uyf4p\/abusive_marriage_family_relationships\/","id":"6uyf4p","body":"I need some advice for my mom and little brother (step). The deal is, my mom is looking to get a divorce and my 15 year old brother, whom she's raised since infancy is 'out' only a year, is going to be stuck with his homophobic, abusive father. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this and if you could offer any advice or name any resources. We want to try to get custody of him, but not sure if we have a chance. My brother's biological mother passed away when he was a baby and my mom is the only mother he's known. Ever since coming out, or rather was caught by his dad (we tried to keep it because he's just an asshole), he's been verbally abused by him. He stood up for himself last week after an incident and with things being already rocky with mom and stepdad, it made it worse. My mom has clung as long as she could to this relationship just so my brother won't have to be stuck alone with him and she has such guilt over the fact that she's reached her breaking point. We hate that her leaving the home is leaving him behind. Is there anything we can do? What helped you? \nWe live in Texas, if this gives better insight into what options we might have. ","title":"Abusive Marriage & Family Relationships","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446665936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rj5z6\/va_real_talk_requested_do_i_have_enough_for_a\/","id":"3rj5z6","body":"I'm posting this for a friend because she doesn't reddit. \n\nThe location is Norfolk, VA. All involved are adults, US citizens, and no one has a criminal record. \n\nY dated X for 6 years. They never cohabitated. During the relationship, there was never any violence, threats, or other disturbing behavior. However, since Y and X broke up >2 months ago, X has barraged Y with phone calls and messages, which have become alarming. At first he was threatening to kill himself, which Y chose to ignore; no harm came to X during this time. 2 days ago he switched approaches, and started threatening to disclose private sexual info about Y to Y's father. X then stated that if Y had sexual relations with X, X would not tell Y's father about the private info. Through X's text messages, X then admitted to causing damage to Y's possessions out of anger, naming the specific possessions he damaged and the date.\n\nNone of the items damaged exceeded $100 in worth. Unfortunately Y did not think to photograph the damage at the time. \n\nThe threat that X wanted to have sex with Y or else he would humiliate Y in front of family was re-stated several times very clearly. The info that X is threatening to disclose is not illegal in nature, and it is not intimate photographs. It is just sexual information that Y would not like her parents to know about.\n\nObviously Y cannot control X's behavior. She wants no further contact with him but his behavior has been escalating instead of calming down like you would normally expect in a breakup. \n\nHere are our questions: \n\n- Does she need to tell him to stop contacting her or can she just continue with not responding to his contacts? \n\n- Based on the info above, should she pursue a protection order? Assume she has documentation of all the texts\/emails\/calls, but not of damage to her belongings (beyond his statements).\n\n- How useful\/durable is a protection order in VA? Is it worth pursuing or would we be better spending our time on security systems, cameras etc? \n\nThanks for your assistance with this. I will try to answer any clarifications as best I can. ","title":"[VA] Real talk requested: do I have enough for a protection order?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570759409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg8cxm\/help_were_in_nevada_and_our_landlord_has_left_us\/","id":"dg8cxm","body":"Our air unit went out 2 weeks ago, and we have been in a battle with out land lord since. We living in an apartment, and they gave us a small portable unit for the living room. This means to stay cool in 90 degree days, (this is the first actual cool day we\u2019ve had) we\u2019ve had to live, sleep and eat in the living room. \n\nIt took two weeks to \u201cget\u201d the part. We emailed, called, and asked for updates, but rarely got a response. We finally filed a complaint against them, and magically the part arrived within two hours. They told us we had to remove the DNE no matter what so they could fix it. We both work, and have a puppy, so we have the DNE for that reason. My fianc\u00e9e took the day off, and it STILL didn\u2019t get fixed. We had to call the apartment for an update. They never called us and the air company won\u2019t communicate with us by contract. \n\nToday, they had another part, and apparently, they\u2019ve been working on it all day. They\u2019ve had our power off, didn\u2019t notify us that it would be. Our food spoiled, we have no way to cook anyway, and we\u2019re sitting pretty much in the dark with candles. \n\nWe do know what to do. Please help. Thank you.","title":"HELP! We\u2019re in Nevada and our landlord has left us with no power, air, and no timeline.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538883870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m2a0p\/sketchy_cash_and_a_reissued_check\/","id":"9m2a0p","body":"Hey so I lost a check around the 19th of September and upon realizing it I messaged one of my managers that day and they said it would be reissued. I still don\u2019t have it, and when I ask about it no one seems to know why it\u2019s taking so long. They just say, \u201cI\u2019ll send payroll an email tomorrow.\u201d Last week my AGM handed me an envelope of 2 one hundred dollar bills.  I asked what the envelope was for and she said, \u201cIt\u2019s for you! You need to pay rent right?\u201d I promptly refused to take the cash because 1) It seems illegal 2) It felt like a bribe to forget the check and 3) it wasn\u2019t even the correct amount which would be $359. Is this legal? Also if I don\u2019t see the reissued check for another week is there any legal action I can take to make sure I get my money? I am broke and have been waiting for almost three weeks now. Any advice is welcome. Thank you","title":"Sketchy cash and a reissued check","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507581213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75byyg\/ca_usa_employment_health_insurance\/","id":"75byyg","body":"Moving from one company to the other having insurance during the hiring process I filled out my paperwork to get insurance when my current was up last year around Oct 2016.  Now I need insurance (tooth ache) turns out I don't have any with the company was told by HR that I never signed up during the \"open enrollment\" was also told it rolled over but being a new hire nothing did.  Nothing was being taken out of my paycheck was told by HR that they couldn't do anything till next enrollment.  Was I supposed to sign a waiver to opt out of insurance? if so I never did.","title":"(CA, USA) Employment health insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553090695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3cf6l\/my_dad_who_has_money_is_dodging_child_support_and\/","id":"b3cf6l","body":"So my dad recently decided to stop paying child support (again). He is doing this because I decided I don\u2019t want to talk to him anymore.\n\nHe\u2019s done this in the past, and my mom has always been able to get him to court where they force him to start paying it again + pay back pay for what he missed. He currently should be paying about 6 years worth of backpay.\n\nThe issue is that since he lives out of town and is able to dodge his court order for 7-8 months before he is required to show up, and then they just make him start slowly paying what he owes instead of requiring him to pay what he owes all at once.\n\nI\u2019m 18 and really need the money for when I\u2019ll be going to college in the fall. How do I deal with this in a way that will be resolved faster than 8 months? We both live in Indiana btw","title":"My dad who has money is dodging child support and getting away with it","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555457077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be0pte\/got_towed_but_there_was_no_sign\/","id":"be0pte","body":"This is NJ. I parked my car in the morning around 8 and when I got home from work around 6, it was gone. Its a public street on a college campus in a cityish area. I was parked right at the entrance of the street and there was NO sign posted anywhere saying I couldn\u2019t park. There was no sign saying anything. There was no sign at all. \n\nI have pictures of the area I parked and I took a video of me walking around for reference. Is there anything I can do at this point?","title":"Got towed but there was no sign","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1412198478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2i12wf\/canada_looking_to_incorporate_no_business\/","id":"2i12wf","body":"Less than a week ago I posted an idea on r\/web_design and r\/webdev and got some amazing feedback, we've come what I believe to be very far in a very short period of time, and now we're looking to take the next step.\n\nI'm hoping to hear from both American and Canadian participants in this, I'd like to get both sides of the spectrum.\n\nI don't have a business background, and I've been trying to cram every little bit of information that I can so I can try to understand how this process works, but to no avail.\n\nWhat are some recommendations in steps that someone could recommend to me for starting a business?\n\nIt's a tech start up and I've heard good things about Delaware and Nevada being very kind towards tech start-ups. Is it a particularly troublesome procedure for a Canadian to try to start an incorporated business in the U.S? Or would it be better for me to try and start in Canada?\n\nOn top of that, I've seen various prices while doing my research, but they're mostly all over the place. Is there a rough estimate as to how much it would cost from one place to another in order to do a start-up?\n\nIs venture capital something that I should be looking into?\n\nLook forward to hearing your replies!\n\n","title":"[Canada] Looking to incorporate, no business background.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570577865,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df8gey\/upstairs_unit_leaking_in_my_closet\/","id":"df8gey","body":"Ok so I just found out everytime my upstairs neighbor flushes their toilet its leaking on their floor, down the wall and all over my kids closet. Theres a big pvc pipe that runs from the ceiling to under the house. All around the pvc at the roof of the closet is fully saturated and theres several patches of black mold. The ceiling looks like it's about to collapse. I haven't paid rent yet this month. Looking for advice on how to proceed. I believe my landlord lives out of state. Never met the guy and only communicate via email. As far as the \"handyman\" hes a complete burn out with no skills other than mowing the lawn and never replies when I've attempted to contact him for smaller less important matters. What do I do?","title":"Upstairs unit leaking in my closet","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570748483,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg636m\/bill_of_sale_on_a_motorcycle_title_gone_wrong\/","id":"dg636m","body":"Hello,\n\nI was going to purchase a motorcycle from what seemed to be a trusting fellow and completed the transaction at a bank with both of us signing a bill of sale.\n\nHowever, when I got home I noticed that the title was in someone else's name and not signed, but I had written my name on it already.\n\nAfter noticing this I contacted the seller immediately and request a refund, which he gave thankfully, but my name is still on the title. Being that this title hasn't been processed yet, that means the bike isn't mine. Nor is it his legally on paper.\n\nSo my legal question is, is this no longer my issue, can I walk away from this and have him deal with it? Is the bill of sale at all binding even though he didn't own the bike?\n\nThank you in advance.\n\nTldr: I bought a motorcycle that was an open title, put my name on the title then returned it to the seller who didn't legally own the bike.","title":"Bill of sale on a motorcycle title gone wrong","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570577480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df8d69\/advice_needed_apt_roof_leaking_for_a_month_no\/","id":"df8d69","body":"My husband and I live in the suburbs of Chicago in a top floor apartment of an older building. About a month ago, we realized that our kitchen roof was leaking through the ceiling light during a rainstorm. We immediately notified our landlord. With each subsequent rain, we have had leaking through that ceiling light fixture and about 5 other places in our ceiling. The ceiling is obviously water damaged with bubbles, discoloring, and change in texture. Our landlord has claimed it was repaired, only for us to get more water the next time it rained (this time we got almost 3 gallons!). This most recent event happened on Friday, 9\/27. We again notified them right away and they were super cavalier about it- saying they'd get the roofers back to take a look soon. We have since heard almost nothing from them except that they are \"working on it.\" We are currently living in an apartment with no kitchen light (someone came in a removed the whole fixture), are unable to keep anything in the cabinets because they fill with water drips when it rains, and with a sagging kitchen ceiling. The drywall in the ceiling is spongy and flaking off...I personally think one more good rainstorm will make chunks start falling out. We have a timeline of all our communication with them and as much of a paper trail as possible. What is the next logical step? This whole situation seems off... I'd think that a property management company would be way faster at repairing a major water leak. On top of all this, we also have mice living in our cabinets and drawers and their solution was to set traps with no bait. We do have renter's insurance if that would help at all. Thank you for any advice you have!\n\ntldr: Apt roof leaking for a month, landlord has not made repairs or communicated about status of repairs. Our kitchen is not super usable due to there being no light fixture and unusable cabinets due to that water leakage getting in\/on all dishes. Also, we have mice living in our cabinets and drawers.","title":"Advice needed: apt roof leaking for a month, no real repairs made","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551908404,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay4ctd\/facing_suspected_sociopath_in_court\/","id":"ay4ctd","body":"Hi, my question is for lawyers in family law within the US. For those of you who\u2019s client faced a suspected sociopath in the family court system- how did you approach the situations common to that issue? (Such as no problem lying on the stand or manufacturing documentation, parental interference and harassing behavior toward your client) How did you strategize representing your clients interest both in the courtroom and preparing your case beforehand? \n\nI ask because I have a very laid back lawyer with an impressive reputation in our town for fair and level headed practices- he\u2019s also got an impressive number of wins in his background. But in my case, he doesn\u2019t seem very invested in an aggressive defense against the conflict I\u2019m facing and seems to have the approach of: since I divorced this person- I\u2019m going to have to put up with this behavior for the kids sake and to worry about the changes to the custody order only.  Is this normal for family court these days? Any stories or advice would be appreciated. ","title":"Facing Suspected Sociopath in Court","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554510814,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9yszu\/friend_involved_in_sexual_solicitation_by\/","id":"b9yszu","body":"A friend of mine who lives in Florida has informed me of a politician soliciting prostitution from her. She has all the records of their text conversations. She didn\u2019t know he was a politician until recently. She reached out to the local newspapers and they want the proof and her contact details.\n\nWhat type of lawyer should she contact to draw up a contract to protect her identity? Can she be compensated by the newspapers by selling her story? If so, what type of lawyer would handle it. Finally, what else should she consider before providing these details to the media?","title":"Friend involved in sexual solicitation by politician needs protection for going to media","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569363394,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8uds8\/i_just_realised_that_i_am_being_send_to_work_at_a\/","id":"d8uds8","body":"Location A is the place I applied to work. It is relatively close and I can get there easily I'm 30-40 mom, 3.7miles from where I live. \n\nLocation B is the place I've been reassigned to. It is beyond town and, funnily enough, it's where my training took place. It's 9 miles away, 1.2hr travel - and that's off peak, for 9.30am and finish 5.30pm. Whereas the actual shifts are for 7.40am and finish 3.40pm, which is going to be a nightmare. It took me 2 hours (peak time) to go to my previous job that was roughly 7 miles away, and that was nowhere near city centre. \n\nI applied to work to the place nearer me, location A. It gives me time with family, shopping, household cleaning, and other commitments. I signed a provisional contract in early August and just finished my week long training. One of my colleagues on my training that was meant to work at the same place as me, received a time table but I was not on it. Yet I was informed that I start at the same time, 1st Oct. \n\nI check my mailbox and surely enough, there's an email in which it's casually mentioned that I will start working at location B on 1st Oct following successful completion of my training. \n\nNow, I am not quite sure what my options are. I cannot commit to work there as it's totally not ideal. 4 hours travel time each day is not what I signed up for at all. My day would be waking up at 5 to make it in time, coming home at 6 and going to bed at 8. \n\nDuring the interview, I had informed them that I would be travelling by public transport.","title":"I just realised that I am being send to work at a location that is different to what I applied for, and is different to what my (provisional) contract states. The new location would significantly take longer to get to than the original one. What are my options?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447270185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sfwm2\/recorded_a_song_in_2013_and_was_scammed_by_the\/","id":"3sfwm2","body":"I live in Ontario, Canada. 2 friends and I paid $500 through Indiegogo to go down to Nashville and record a song with the main singer\/songwriter of one of our favourite bands. We got down there and had the time of our lives, documented it for a music video and ended up with a song that we all liked; the guy even played\/sang on the track!\n\nWe come back home and I e-mailed him around October. He sends me a rough mix (Essentially the same as what we had back in the studio) and says he wants to wait to mix\/master it until all the bands that did the same indiegogo perk have recorded. We then dropped about $300 on a music video and used the rough mix as placeholder audio. I e-mailed him again in June 2014 about maybe coming back that summer and he responded but we decided not to come down and let him know that as well as asked him the status of our song. No response.\n\nI e-mailed him again in August and didn't get a reply. Facebook'd him in October 2014 and March 2015 and then Facebook'd the engineer in April 2015 and have not gotten any response. I e-mailed him again in early June and got this response:\n\"Hey neonfire999! Thanks for reaching out. Let me wrap up tour (last show June 16th) and then I'll get back to you ASAP. Hope all is well!\"\n\nI since e-mailed him again after June 16 and got no response. I know that since we recorded he's been quite busy reforming a band and doing stuff with his new project but I'm beginning to worry we have been scammed out of $500 and never get the song.. Is there anything legally speaking I can do to reach some resolution here?\n\nThanks.","title":"Recorded a song in 2013 and was scammed by the producer and engineer","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1549988666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apv1mp\/can_i_give_someone_power_of_attorney_if_they_live\/","id":"apv1mp","body":"I\u2019m in the process of writing my will, and I\u2019m a little stumped when it comes to assigning someone power of attorney in regards to my medical wishes.  \nI\u2019ve already named my husband, but want to name an alternate, in the event that my husband dies, and I am incapacitated and unable to make medical decisions (i.e., car accident). I want to name my brother, but he (along with all of our family) live in Canada, whereas we are in the US (PA, if that matters).  The software I\u2019m using only allows me to enter US addresses, and doesn\u2019t allow me to name him without providing that info. \nAny help would be much appreciated! ","title":"Can I give someone power of attorney if they live in another country?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541994882,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wakov\/i_went_to_small_claims_over_a_few_hundred_dollars\/","id":"9wakov","body":"I know I\u2019m in the right (yea I know, everyone does), what are the chances that a district judge would rule a different way if I were to appeal the case?","title":"I went to small claims over a few hundred dollars, the ruling came back that I had supplied insufficient proof, so the case was dismissed.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539290488,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ndq5p\/i_had_a_settlement_agreement_with_a_company\/","id":"9ndq5p","body":"My location: SF, CA\nCompany Location: New York, NY\n\nBackstory: Way back in 2015, I had employed a company based in New York to provide me with specific job related training and interview opportunities. I had to deposit $2500 as part of the process and it was refundable in case the training did not come through. As the title suggests, it did not come through from their side and I asked for a full refund. They agreed, but kept avoiding my phone calls and emails for a long time. After two years of persistence, they said they would pay me back and asked me to sign on a settlement agreement. \n\nThe settlement agreement states that they would pay me $2000 split in four checks sent to my address on specific dates starting Sep 2017 to Dec 2017 (basically one a month). I have a signed copy of the contract (which has one hiccup Which I will get into in just a minute) I have not seen any checks arrive from them. They are back to avoiding calls and emails. So I used different google voice numbers to get through to them and every time I do that, they pick up, give some reason and say the money will be sent the same day and it never happens. \n\nNow to the hiccup in the agreement, the date on the company signature is missing, however the company sign, my sign and date next to my signature is there. \n\nNow what are my options? Tbh, I have forgotten about the $2k and I don\u2019t care much for it. However, it\u2019s the principle that matters and I want to do something about it. From what I have read online, this company has done this to a lot of vulnerable people and I don\u2019t want to let them go.\n\nThank you very much in advance! ","title":"I Had a settlement agreement with a company stating that they would pay me what they owed me ($2k) The payments were due in four parts starting Sep 2017 via checks. Haven\u2019t seen anything since. What are my options?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541179028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tm319\/department_of_labor_laws_regarding_an_employer_in\/","id":"9tm319","body":"Hi guys. My questions pretty simple, is an employer allowed to deduct payment from you for poor Behavior?\n\nThis morning my fiance was pulled into a meeting with all of their employees there, in which there were only about 6. His boss decided to tell everyone that there would now be a $20 fine immediately taken from the next paycheck, if you were late. Not damaged something, not stole something, if you were late!\n\nOn top of all this recently his employer has been telling him that everyone else is jobs in which they don't want to do are now my fiance's problem. It's getting to the point that my fiance is not wanting to get out of bed, but the amount of work around here is either part-time which won't help our family of 5, or just no one's hiring cuz it's an offseason.\n\nDoes anyone have any suggestions? Of what to do or if it's illegal for them to be doing this in the first place? Because of the employer is saying that his investor said that it's legal, but according to the department of labor laws and less it's stolen money from a cash register or damage property that they can't do this.\n\nFor reference, I'm a disabled stay-at-home mom. We have kids and the cost of daycare in our area would be more than I could make even working full-time.","title":"Department of labor laws regarding an employer in missouri.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553629072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5u6tb\/what_are_our_options_regarding_articles_11_and_13\/","id":"b5u6tb","body":"This legislation is already going to affect countries in the EU, and it'll almost definitely have a domino effect that will cause problems for the rest of the world too.\n\nNow that it's been passed, is there anything us average citizens (both inside and outside the EU) can do to reverse it?","title":"What are our options regarding Articles 11 and 13?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1503586669,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vrdxy\/teacher_harassing_student\/","id":"6vrdxy","body":"TL;DR: Is it legal for a teacher to save a student's Facebook profile picture and print it out and put it around the school?\n\nI live in Australia and today I was at uni and a teacher was talking about a student behind their back because they disagreed with them on a political issue. The student made no attempt to start an argument, they're not even a part of my class, but the teacher was speaking very negatively about the student and pretty much being what I would call text book definition of \"bully\".\n\nHowever this went even further when the teacher asked a few of the students to print out this person's Facebook profile picture and email it to him so he could print it out and put it around the staff room for all the other teachers to see.\nMy question is, is this illegal? It seems immature and stupid at best but I would have thought there'd be some sort of legal ramifications if the teacher were to actually go through with that.\nThanks!","title":"Teacher Harassing Student","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570660265,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfolre\/how_far_is_too_far_when_regarding_a_copyright_law\/","id":"dfolre","body":"So, I'm a games design student and part of an assessment is to make a bunch of ideas for some games - 1 a week for 4 weeks with different development factors ifocussed on for each.  \n\n\nThis week, my group is making a board game about spirits and conjuring them etc. We figured it'd look pretty cool if it had a few things like playing card backs that looked like a ouija board - by that, i mean having a sun and moon and similar overall aesthetic. Additionally, a planchete for something else in the game. However, i'd like to point out, the board game isnt a ouija board, its a deck building game about using ghosts to fight other ghosts - it only takes from the ouija board's design with having a planchete & the sun\/moon yes\/no thing.   \n\n\nHasbro owns Ouija boards (or more specifically the selling of the ouija board and planchette together) - they bought the copyright as far as my looking on google served, however, planchetes are free reign. I was wondering if this would be an issue with me taking these design aspects still, even though its not a copy of the ouija board itself, simply basing design elements off the classic board - however these existed much longer prior to hasbro owning it. I've also seen things like merchandise based off ouija boards in the past, and whilst these could be either done without the knowledge\/care of hasbro to chase it, they could be free reign as its simply the concept\/design, and not the actual board and planchete itself. I looked around online but couldnt find much more about the regards to this. If anybody could help out it'd be greatly appreciated.   \n\n\nSide note, not sure which flair fits, so im sorry if im wrong and i'd be happy to change it following some guidance on which :)","title":"How far is too far when regarding a copyright law? (Hasbro: 'Ouija Board')","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1550096131,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqca8i\/i_was_terminated_and_rehired_at_a_company_but\/","id":"aqca8i","body":" I asked this on an attorney website and I decided to also ask it here. Thanks for the help!\n\n*I was hired as a seasonal worker for a job in Twinsburg,  Ohio in November 2018. I was assigned to go to an orientation the day  after Thanksgiving, but cancelled and rescheduled it the night before,  to the following week. I attended the newly rescheduled orientation and  didn't receive an employee badge, yet I received a work schedule, and  dates for training. However, I couldn't log in to their database. Later  that day, I called HR with the intent to reschedule my work, and  learned I was terminated for not attending orientation, which I just  came from. I was also paid for the orientation. I spent the next week or  so calling back and opening a support ticket to resolve my situation.  Finally I was rehired. When I showed up for my next scheduled training  day, I was turned away again, with a claim that I was still terminated  and that they didn't have anymore training days scheduled in the future  (which are required to work there). I contacted HR again about this  situation, and was told to just resign and re-apply. I refused and  waited out my remaining time, until I got a call from the company in January  congratulating me for my work this season and ending my work for the season.* \n\n​\n\nHere is additional info from a response I made on that attorney website:\n\n *Thank you very much for taking the time to respond. I tried to fit as  much detail as I could due to the character limitation, so I apologize  if I wasn't as clear as I should have been. I am aware Ohio is an  at-will state, and I am not looking for a discrimination case. This  seems to me like their mistake led to me not being able to work at all.  As I mentioned, they did hire me back, but while I was \"employed\" I  could not work as I couldn't attend the mandatory training sessions  (that were also rescheduled without my knowledge) while I was still  considered terminated, and they had no plans to schedule anymore. I am  merely wondering if it is possible to be reimbursed or compensated for  money I could have made if I was able to work for the duration of my  work. Since I intended to make some money for the holidays and personal  debt, I missed out on buying what I intended to buy (which is pretty  trivial but I ended up having to cancel my longtime pre-ordered  purchase), and I even missed a few payments for my debt which I could  have paid if I was employed for that time.* \n\n​\n\nTLDR; I was hired as a seasonal warehouse associate, attended orientation, was terminated for not attending said orientation, subsequently rehired, then couldn't work since I missed the mandatory training days while wrongfully terminated. I'm simply wondering if there's any way I can be compensated for this.\n\n​\n\nAgain, I thank anyone who can help me in this situation! I apologize for any spacing errors, since this was kinda hastily copied and pasted.","title":"I was terminated and rehired at a company but wasn't allowed to work. Can I be compensated?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504563021,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y3l32\/ca_subrogation_after_insurance_settlement\/","id":"6y3l32","body":"Earlier this year I was a passenger in an injury car accident. My injuries consisted of a broken hand, along with minor ankle and hip injuries. My fianc\u00e9 was driving, and the insurance deemed the accident her fault. \n\nI went to the doctor the next morning to get treated for my injuries (Kaiser Permanente, urgent care, no ER). I had the main urgent care visit and 3 follow up visits with an orthopedic doctor regarding the broken hand. Everything healed quickly and properly so no surgeries or physical therapy were needed. \n\nMy fianc\u00e9's insurance company quickly settled the claim without any outside legal assistance, which was settled for $500 to cover copays and missed work, then a couple thousand for pain and suffering. They had me sign a release of liability that states I cannot hold the insurance company or my fianc\u00e9 liable for any further injury claims or expenses for this incident. Seemed to be a pretty basic boiler-plate release. \n\nI learned through the insurance agent that all injury claims were settled and each person injured was given a chunk of the policy maximum, based on their injuries. \n\nFast forward another couple months or so, I get a letter from The Rawlings Group asking for details regarding the responsible party so Kaiser can recoup treatment expenses. Naturally, the settlement given to me has already been spent to stabilize my finances and assist my fianc\u00e9 with a down payment on a new car since the accident totaled her car.\n\nI am now wondering how\/if I should respond to the request from The Rawlings Group, and how that may pan out.\n\nSince I have signed a document releasing the car insurance and my fianc\u00e9 of financial liability, would The Rawlings Group come after me on behalf of Kaiser? Would they possibly get the reliability release thrown out and the car insurance would deal with it?\n\nI know Kaiser had the right to bill members for expenses not covered by the insurance, but wouldn't this be considered a covered expense?\n\nI know it's common for insurance companies to ask for their cut if the settlement claim goes through the courts, but what about private settlement agreements?\n\nShould I forward the request for information to the insurance agent that handled the claim?\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"[CA] Subrogation after insurance settlement","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555398865,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdqyit\/can_campus_security_go_through_my_friends_passport\/","id":"bdqyit","body":"My friend had his room searched because campus security saw a sock over the fire alarm from a building adjacent to the dorm. While security was searching they proceeded to strip the beds, upturn any open bags, take out and shuffle through all the papers in the drawers where they found and looked through his passport without his permission. When they searched only his roommate was present.\n\nThe passport is what shocks me. What is the legality on this in Washington State?","title":"Can campus security go through my friend's passport?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551382205,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avv3yb\/canshould_i_take_legal_action_if_a_former\/","id":"avv3yb","body":"I worked as an independent contractor for a business in California for 4 months, receiving payment each month. I left the business on my terms, but do not have a friendly relationship with some members of management.\n\nYesterday, I emailed HR and another member of management (both I am on neutral terms with) asking for my tax forms. As I have moved since last year, I requested the forms electronically. So far I have not received a response. I\u2019ll be reaching back to them tomorrow by end of day if they don\u2019t respond. Refusing to send the documents out of anger or spite isn\u2019t something I\u2019d put past one of the crazies in charge. \n\nJust to be aware, what is the course of action if the business does not send me my tax documents by tax day? Am I on the hook for moving and not telling them after I left the business? ","title":"Can\/should I take legal action if a former employer fails to send me my tax documents? (CA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446709541,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rlrm5\/unsafe_backing_ticket_us_california\/","id":"3rlrm5","body":"I had approached the scene of the incident traveling approximately westbound on REMOVED, upon seeing the amber lights from REMOVED I told myself I will need to slow down to pass the traffic hazard ahead. Upon reaching the scene of the incident I notice a marked Police car with flashing lights on it entirely blocking the westbound lane on REMOVED Ave at approximately ADDRES REMOVED. Cautiously approaching the scene I come to a complete stop a safe distance from the police car, and attempt to wait for directions as to how to proceed. While waiting I had noticed more than one vehicle pull through the service station parking lot to my right. Upon being completely ignored, no acknowledgement of my existence or presence, I check my rearview mirror, and I physically turn my head to look behind me. I saw no cars between me and INTERSECTION REMOVED, approximately one-thousand feet from my location. I proceeded to shift into reverse and back my vehicle up to a point in which allowed me to pull into the service station parking lot via the east driveway, and drive through and exit via the west driveway, neither of which were cordoned off by any means of which to indicate traffic of any kind was prohibited. Upon exiting the parking lot of the service station, I continued westbound on REMOVED avenue.\n\nI was pulled over and issued a citation for CVc 22106.  No person shall start a vehicle stopped, standing, or parked\non a highway, nor shall any person back a vehicle on a highway until such movement can be made with reasonable safety.\n\nDoes it matter that i dropped my clutch and spun my tires upon reversing?\n\nThe officer also verbally notified me of my \"speeding\" through the parking lot, however, it is a private lot and i do not believe it falls under the jurisdiction and is not a highway and is thus irrelevant to the case?\n\nWhat should i do to prepare for court as i will be fighting this ticket?\n\nVisual here http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/u8wzQlC.png the red circle is where \"someone got struck by a car\" according to the officer, the orange circle is the location of the police car that was blocking the westbound lane and the black circle is the location of my vehicle before i backed up.\n\n","title":"Unsafe Backing ticket? (US California)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540149901,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q6bj5\/fraud_or_negligence_mi\/","id":"9q6bj5","body":"About two years ago, I started working as an (exempt) operations manager at a medium sized company, a subsidiary of a much larger company. In my job description and employment discussions, we agreed no payroll or commission reporting as it would take too much extra time. They had a former employee working to complete those tasks as independent contractor for a flat fee.\n\nAfter 6 months, my boss tells me there is a big push to reduce or eliminate contract labor, and furthermore, keep the reporting in the company and on our secure server, to keep the independent contractor from accessing. He asks if I can take it over. I tell him that\u2019s going to be 12-20 extra hours of work per month on weekends and I need a flat fee to pay for the extra work. I need the extra money and we agree on it when he\u2019s in the office.  Now big parent company is publicly traded and has a SOX plan in place: I prepare payroll, my boss goes in to the system to approve payroll, and someone at big parent enters and cuts the checks.\n\nFast forward a year and a half. Big company does an HR audit and sees I have been paying myself for the fee. But how\u2019s that possible? Boss has set up auto approving payroll! Simple misunderstanding though (or just dereliction of duties I guess), right? No, boss says he has no idea what these payments are for.....even though I explained, reminded them of my employment contract and the former independent contractor, and the fact that hey, payroll and commissions were always done on time (and had far expanded since I started).\n\nInvestigation proceeds, and I\u2019m fired for misconduct, which makes sense from the point of view having my boss say he doesn\u2019t know what the payments are. Whatever, I was already looking for a new job anyway. I don\u2019t need unemployment or benefits. But wait! Insult to injury: they\u2019re demanding I pay that money back!\n\nWhat should I do? Other than talk to a lawyer...?","title":"Fraud or Negligence? (MI)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551985579,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aygbth\/attempted_assaultrobbery\/","id":"aygbth","body":"Hi, I am the age of 15 and have been attacked at a bus stop after I was travelling home back from school. I had some valuable possessions ( at least to me ) namely my phone ( 6splus ( ~\u00a3200 )) and my AirPods ( ~\u00a3150 ).\n\nA group of 4 teenagers , roughly same age as me approached me and talked to me while i semi-ignored them ( strangers), I realised something was odd and i took my earphones out of my ears and into my hands.\n\nSoon, one of them loudly threatens me to give him my AirPods or else ( he\u2019d hurt me ), however I was much bigger then him and in a fight he had little chance so I said no ( by now, his friends had wandered down the road).\n\nHe began to push me around and I reacted back stopping him. Eventually, since i had a heavy backpack on at the time, he managed to trip me over. At that point, my phone fell from my pocket and he stole it and began to run down the road.\n\nOut of instinct, i ran a few metres after him round the corner of the road before i quickly realised that it wasn\u2019t worth the risk. Eventually, after quickly realising that my phone was locked and useless to him, he came back to me and offered to trade for the AirPods. I firmly told him no, and i realised a police car had just passed. I said police help and the police didn\u2019t notice me and went onwards but he gave me back my phone and threatened me not to tell anyone about what happened.\n\nI went after to the local supermarket nearby and contacted 999 who filed all the reports, and they say it is likely they will find him since I told them what school he went to and what year he was in.\n\nHe is ~15 and this is all in the UK. What do you guys think he may receive as consequence?\n","title":"Attempted assault\/robbery","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553928206,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b786dn\/help_bfs_employer_putting_less_hours_on_his\/","id":"b786dn","body":"I am in California. My boyfriend is the assistant manager at a very big fast food restaurant chain that is owned by an independent franchisee. He's been keeping track of the hours in which he works, and on his paycheck, it is said that he worked less hours than he actually did, so he is not getting the money that he is earning. To be completely sure of this, he checks the computer in which he clocks in with.  He met a former assistant manager of the same shop he works at, and she said that this happened to her too, and that said boss \"does that to everyone\". When confronted, his boss does not deny it. I am confident that this is illegal, but I don't know the specific law\/penal code. Can someone tell me what specific law forbids this\/what this action is called and what her possible penalties are? We will probably take her to court, but even if we don't, we at least want to know what we can tell her to hopefully make her cut it out.","title":"HELP! Bf's employer putting less hours on his paycheck than he actually worked","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446922936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rx1fg\/virginia_fairfax_please_help\/","id":"3rx1fg","body":"May the lord bless those who reads this. May the lord bless those who guide me through this for I am forever in their dept. \n\nI am no native speaker, so I appreciate your understanding.\n\n\nIn 2008 I got to United States of America for the purpose of studying B.S in economics at George Mason University. I got to the states sometimes in Feb 2008, being there for the first time, actually it was the first time ever I got out from my country. So it was a shock and fun and plenty of homesickness. \n\n\nThrough a contact I managed to get things running and settled there. Long story short I stayed in the states only for 9 months and then left for home. Here is the reasons as for why I left as advised by my embassy which to my believe one of the worst advice I ever had.\n\n\nSometimes in July I was at my apartment chilling in one of the weekends, alone, that very same day I knew that my dad is having kidney failures and his condition is no good, they needed transplants and asked for us, children to line up for compatibility tests. \n\n\nIt was sad day for me, I hit the bottle, beer only, after having few, 3 or 4 I started making something to eat, and I heated some oil, and covered the pot, and sat on my laptop skyping. \n\n\nFew minutes later I heard the voice of the cooker shaking slowly, I knew the oil is heated and ready for the French fries I am about to make, I removed the cover, and there was a flash fire that hit the ceiling and my forehead along the way, the flash went off immediately after I have covered the pot but the fire sprinkler went off and caused mayhem.\n\n\nWater levels quickly rose too much and water leaked everywhere damaging everything and leading to furniture damages to the 3 apartments which were underneath me. After few minutes the fire men showed and inspected the apartment and called for the turning off water sprinklers system and left. \n\nThat night I stayed out of apartment under the rain for hours waiting for cousin to pick me up as he was driving from VA, Richmond, and I was living at apartment complex named Lincoln, Fair Oaks at Fairfax County. \n\n\nSo he showed up and we crashed at a nearby hotel as my apartment was in no livable conditions. Few days later I had to move back or else hotel bill going to destroy my budget, being student at that time. \n\n\nSo the apartment had been cleaned to the best possible, budget cleaning crew, nothing fancy. All this was a serious shock to me, being out my country and not knowing who to contact, which advice to seek and what to expect. \n\n\nA couple of weeks later I have received a letter, I believe it was from an insurance company, stating I have to pay the sum of 22,000 USD or so for the damages caused. No way was I able to manage this money, at least at that time, nor did my family have something like it. \n\n\nSo I improvised and went to the embassy, I heard they offer legal advice. And so I got there and met with several staff and a US lawyer who said that if I cannot pay, I have to drop school and leave for home, that same suggestion was seconded by the embassy staff responsible for the students abroad. \n\n\nSo I did, without notice to my landlord, I left and the claim still stands, at least I believe it does.\n\n\nAfter several years and this never skips my mind, I want know how do I close this file once and for all, which steps I need to take and who can help with it, what expenses I am looking at, will it require my physical attendance in the states or can I assign a law firm to handle this for me?\n\n\nAppreciate your help and guidance\n","title":"Virginia, Fairfax, please help!!","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570422417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deekid\/california_worker_voluntary_resignation_for_not\/","id":"deekid","body":"At my job, my team and I have been having issues with our management about accountability and communication. The fact is, they don\u2019t hold themselves accountable and don\u2019t communicate with us about changing. There have been consistent threats of firing the team and outsourcing the work. Me personally I feel like I\u2019m singled out as this started as a remote position, but then they got an office. I\u2019m the only member of my team that has to come into the office 5 days a week, while my coworkers get days to work from home. I\u2019m also paid a full dollar less than my coworker who does the same work I do. We finally got so fed up with our management that we went to HR. Which is a PEO that the company outsourced their HR work to in Idaho. We are based in California.\n\nThe way the complaint was handled was not satisfactory. They meant to speak with one manager, but the other manager was listening in on the call. Our manager was also looking at me and my coworker knowing that we were the ones who filed the complaint. I heard my name multiple times. The worst thing I heard was our manager asking \u201con what grounds can I fire somebody\u201d. Suffice to say, things have been tense. HR emailed us to say they determined there was no harassment, which is not what our complaint was about. We documented the problems we had, and nothing changed. However my team now feels we are being forced out.\n\nNot long after we got a document detailing the expectations of our team. And we were furious. They demand people must be at the office from 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM, our regular hours. However this still does not apply to everybody as I am still the only member of the team that has to come in 5 days a week. The document says that we need to take our lunches at 12:30 PM. And our 10 minutes breaks must be approved by management. We are not allowed to speak ill of the company. It\u2019s also clear that management wrote this, not HR. As it appears the letters were also tailored to each person, since my supervisor for the team says a certain part is not in her letter. We have expressed our displeasure with the document as it does not resolve the issues we have been having with our manager. HR\u2019s response is if we do not sign the document, they will take it as our \u201cvoluntary resignation\u201d.\n\nI was wondering if this is legal? Does this seem like a form of retaliation for reaching out to HR about or concerns? I feel like HR is protecting the company and not us. And these expectations are only sent to our team, none of the other departments. We have a suspicion we are being forced out for filing a complaint. Is this legally a voluntary resignation for not signing? Our supervisor has been reaching out to lawyers, and they have said file with the department of fair labor. Does this document really have backing in having us voluntarily resign from our positions for not signing?","title":"California worker, \u201cvoluntary resignation\u201d for not signing expectations document","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571174866,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dierza\/how_long_does_it_take_to_issue_out_an_arrest\/","id":"dierza","body":"Long story short , I received a speeding ticket in Texas 2 months ago. I don\u2019t live there and wasn\u2019t able to drive back and forth to go to court. Called it in and planned on doing the task necessary so that it doesn\u2019t go on my record ex. traffic school. I let them know I probably wouldn\u2019t be able to come in soon and she said well they\u2019d send something in the mail if I need more time. So I\u2019ve been waiting for that. \n\n\nI received a letter today, that\u2019s dated 2 weeks ago, saying that if I don\u2019t come into court by tomorrow morning , there\u2019s going to be a warrant out for my arrest. \n\nI called the court again and was told to print out the plea form online and get it mailed by tomorrow. I asked about the warrant for my arrest and she said as long as today\u2019s date is on the form, I should be okay. \n\nMy concern is ... what if they issue a warrant out immediately and I\u2019m in a bind because of it? If a warrant does go out, can it be withdrawn after they receive my paperwork? I\u2019m trying to get hired with the post office so this is the LAST thing I need. I also have been unemployed since February which is why money is very limited. \n\nAlso, why not give me the option of mailing in my plea when I spoke to them originally?!","title":"How long does it take to issue out an arrest warrant ?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447076680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s4rr1\/estate_and_debt_of_recently_deceased_colleague_nj\/","id":"3s4rr1","body":"My colleague recently passed away. It was a very unexpected and shaking experience for me but even more so for his family. He is survived by his wife, daughter and granddaughter, none of whom speak English and able to sort through the financial and legal problems they are facing. \n\n\n\nI am trying to help them set us an estate so the widow can take control of all assets. We went to a surrogate court and were told to bring a list of assess that belonged solely to the diseased. \n\nI understand the she needs to list bank accounts that have her husband as a sole owner, car (payed off). \n\nDoes she have to include a 401k plan  on which she is listed (probably) as a beneficiary. There is also a life insurance payment on the way - is it also part of deceased estate?\n\nThere is also about $15k debt of his credit cards. That is MUCH more than the sum on his bank accounts. How does the debt pay into the estate situation. Will the bank make a claim against the estate - taking everything?\n\nThank you for your help!!!","title":"Estate and debt of recently deceased colleague [NJ] - HELP","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570683744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dft5zz\/is_it_illegal_for_a_minor_to_search_bags_because\/","id":"dft5zz","body":"I was working at a movie theater when Joker was released and was put on greeting duty (like a ticket taker but our theater doesn't need one except for busy days). After I was told I was greeting and was handed a green plastic stick (I found out it was a drum stick) and told to use it for bag searching. I thought it was weird but did what I was told and then I noticed a police officer patrolling the lobby\/concession area which prompted me to ask a manager what was going on. He told me that we had increased security for the Joker movie because there was threats of shooting in other theaters and because of the shooting that happened when the Dark Knight Rises in 2012. I understood and continued working but I started to think that I probably shouldn't be up their since I am a minor and I was standing in the open at the only entrance a shooter could come through and that I had to search peoples bags for weapons. I would've been okay with it if the officer was standing near me but he was patrolling areas where he wouldn't be able to see me. Basically I want to know if they broke some law in putting a minor in the riskiest position when shooting threats were being made.","title":"Is it illegal for a minor to search bags because of a threat","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442773946,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lpbra\/my_son_suggested_i_look_at_reddit_for_answers_i\/","id":"3lpbra","body":"If you have done all the executors duties and the Legal end of a Will, what would a reasonable amount be to compensate for all your efforts? We are in the final distribution stage and it hasn't been easy. Estate was approximately worth 300000.00","title":"My Son suggested I look at reddit for answers.. I have been searching the Internet and still feel lost. I am the Executor to a Will in Illinois.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568957501,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6qc0e\/my_former_landlord_is_keeping_part_of_my_security\/","id":"d6qc0e","body":"My lease ended July 31st, and in Maryland a landlord has 45 days to return the security deposit, so for me that was Sept 14th. My deposit was $590, and a week ago he returned $430 of it to me. He was holding the remainder to cover the cost of fixing a damage in the living room, and waiting for us to pay our final water bill. I just received my water bill and paid it, however he is keeping the rest as he has not yet had the damage in the living room actually fixed! It\u2019s my understanding that the repairs have to be MADE within 45 days, is this correct?\n\nAlso some context, there was a lot of arguments about who caused the damage in the living room, even though 4 out of 5 of us agree it was the 5th person that person refused to accept responsibility so the landlord decided it would be split evenly among us. He says he hasn\u2019t fixed the damage because of the discussions about who was at fault.","title":"My former landlord is keeping part of my security deposit for a repair he has not made (MD)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554629335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baelsq\/heading_to_court_in_couple_of_days\/","id":"baelsq","body":"I\u2019m going to be heading to court in a couple of days in hopes that I may get my moving violation taken away or at the least the fine reduced.\n\nThe details: I made a right turn at a red light. There is a bike lane there and while making sure no bikes where going through and everything was safe, I made the turn. I drive Uber and was looking for a passenger that did not speak English. In the stress of it all I did not see the signage posted for that light.\n\nWhat\u2019s the best thing I can say or do once I\u2019m in ground of the judge?","title":"Heading to court in couple of days.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553965051,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7dduy\/cigarette_smoking_coming_up_through_vents\/","id":"b7dduy","body":"Location: Arizona \n\nI live an an apartment and the tenants below me smoke cigarettes in their apartment and the smoke comes up through the vents and in my apartment. I am not a smoker and the smell is horrific as you can imagine. I even heard second hand smoke is worst that first hand smoke. I told my landlord and she said she can\u2019t stop anyone from smoking in their apartment. Is that true? And what can I do legally? Thank you. ","title":"Cigarette smoking coming up through vents","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540241611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qhw8f\/do_you_need_proof_of_vehicle_registration_in\/","id":"9qhw8f","body":"I\u2019m in Illinois and some sources say I don\u2019t need proof of vehicle registration in Illinois if my car is under 8000 pounds. Is this true?","title":"Do you need proof of vehicle registration in Illinois?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507565048,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75a1tv\/usa_wi_ive_been_working_since_sept_5_on_supposed\/","id":"75a1tv","body":"Hi! I worked two jobs for this place last year, and I never had a problem. I'm back working these two jobs for this place this year, I started September 5th. I was told I'd have to wait up to four weeks for my first paycheck while my info is entered into the system. I go to check my pay stub for this upcoming Friday (10\/12) and I only got paid for one job. I texted the boss of my other job and he said I won't get paid for that one until Oct 26 (almost 2 months after I started working). Is this legal? What can I do?","title":"(USA WI) I've been working since sept 5, on supposed biweekly pay but I was just told that my first paycheck won't come until Oct 26?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410966571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gnyvv\/what_are_the_legal_requirements_regarding_the\/","id":"2gnyvv","body":"My SO and I got a washer and dryer from an RTO retailer in Missouri in which we completed a reference check application and made a $200 down payment. The washer and dryer was delivered and they failed to have the contract ready. We called for the following two-three weeks inquiring whether they had the contract ready to sign. We kept getting the run around so we stopped contacting them and figured they'd call when it was ready. We've never signed a payment agreement and never received a bill in the mail. Now, four weeks later, they called and harassed us, claiming we stole the equipment. What actions can we take?  Since they never had us sign a contract, would the $200 be considered as payment?","title":"What are the legal requirements regarding the failure to execute a rent-to-own contract agreement for appliances?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570997559,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhfuav\/is_pooling_tips_between_two_different_locations\/","id":"dhfuav","body":"Hello! A curious thing is happening at my partner\u2019s cafe\/restaurant.\nThe owner has two cafes under the same name. One of them is fully-functioning with a kitchen, dining space, and drink bar with alcohol. This location is constantly packed and is very popular. The other is a kiosk-like drink bar without alcohol in a small shopping center. For some reason, the owner says that the two different locations, in two separate towns, should pool tips to help out the smaller location when they are slow, and then vise versa.\nI haven\u2019t been able to find anything online about two locations sharing the same tip pool (especially between locations that have very different skill sets\/ responsibilities). I have never heard of this happening before. Is this legal?\nThanks so much!","title":"Is pooling tips between two different locations legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503554262,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vox2t\/nsw_australia_im_a_broke_musician_who_has_just\/","id":"6vox2t","body":"So I have recently been approached by a large agency\/record label in Australia to sign a song I have written, and have just received the contract from the label, and am hoping someone would be able to clarify what is meant in one of the clauses, and if it would screw me in the long run.\n\nThe clause I am worried about states:\n\n \"Upon expiry of the Initial Period,(label) to have (1) option(s) to\nextend the Term for a further period on same terms and conditions. Each of Initial Period and any Option Period(s)\n(as applicable) referred to as a \u201cContract Period\u201d. Each Option\nPeriod shall be exercisable by (label) prior to the expiry of the\nCurrent Period but continuing in any event until thirty (30) days\nafter Artist has served a written \u201cwake up\u201d notice to (label)\nentitled \u201cFailure to Exercise Option\u201d. (label) may exercise the\napplicable option at any time until the expiry of the 30 day \u201cwake \nup\u201d period.\"\n\nSo would this lock me into a perpetual deal in which they can continually renew the agreement once I have signed this first deal, or would I need to resign every occasion they wanted to renew?\n\nThank you so much in advance, I know I need to see a lawyer about this but I currently just don't have the money, so any advice would be deeply appreciated!","title":"[NSW, Australia] I'm a broke musician who has just been offered his first record contract, and would just like a phrase clarified to make sure I'm not being screwed in the long run","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541704333,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vcxdy\/classroom_collective_punishment\/","id":"9vcxdy","body":"Some background in the grading and general information in my class: a 2-3 hour assignment in my class would be worth 30 points, how well you do would be x\/30 in the grade book, I am an 11th grade student and the class in question is an English\/Humanities mixed class. We are in A state of California.\n\nSo basically what the teacher is doing is collectively punishing the class for whatever he sees fit. We now have a \u201cParticipation grade\u201d which is worth 100 points a week. Every time a student is at least 1 second late to class, it gets marked down 5 points, and it stacks. The problem with this is that it\u2019s not only when people are late, but also whenever he sees fit now. We currently have 80\/100, and have maintained around this area for a couple weeks. I am a student who has maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout my high school career and now I have a B in his class, just from this.\n\nPS: If you leave class or try to get another student to class, you get marked down as well, an additional 5 points for everyone. The kids who are late don\u2019t care about their grade. That\u2019s the problem.\n\nMy question is: how can this possibly be allowed? To literally impose your power to lower kids grades for no good reason.\n\nAddition information: I attend a school that only has two teachers we subject per grade, and we switch after first semester. Meaning that this is the teacher I\u2019m stuck with, and I cannot switch out.","title":"Classroom collective punishment","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571068645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhskcr\/canvassers_sneaking_into_apartment_complex_wa\/","id":"dhskcr","body":"I manage a senior and disabled apartment complex in Seattle. The majority of my tenants are elderly, single and rarely, if ever, have visitors. \n\nBecause of upcoming elections, canvassers have been hitting our area hard. I've found out from numerous tenants that they are being canvassed, sometimes multiple times a week and usually late in the evenings. No one has been granting them access, and instead, they're just walking in the door and waiting for someone to exit the building, then entering and going door to door. They are upset that they're being woken up, having to go to great lengths to answer their doors, and some are concerned about fraud and the potential for crime. They do not want canvassers in the building, and it has never been an issue before this year. \n\nI know that canvassers do not need to heed \"no soliciting\" signs since they aren't selling anything, and that explicitly denying them access is a first amendment issue. We're a larger affordable housing agency, I have concerns about the potential for bad press, since the city councilperson they're canvassing for is a supporter of rent control, but it also seems to be alienating potential supporters. \n\nIs there anything I can post at the building, or any action that I can take, so my residents won't have to put up with this for another month? Would they follow a \"no trespassing\" sign if I got a trespass authorization from the police department? I've noticed those going up on other residential complexes in the recent months. I'm hesitant to step on political rights, but I guarantee my tenants housing free from disturbances in their lease, and we are a secured building, so it is very upsetting to people when they get unexpected knocks on their doors.","title":"Canvassers sneaking into apartment complex (WA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555589278,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bekr9j\/nieces_live_with_me_but_no_support\/","id":"bekr9j","body":"My Nieces 14 & 17 have lived with me for over a year now & I receive no support from Mom or Dad- they are divorced.  Mom took off with her boyfriend & Dad has been in and out of there life.  They will not give up custody and the girls don\u2019t want to go thru it.  My problem is they both have good jobs & could provide support but since the girls chose to live with me they won\u2019t.  The Mom even claimed them on her taxes! I work 70 hours a week but am starting to not be able to provide.  Is there any help for me?  Ty-Mary","title":"Nieces live with me but no support.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570464074,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/delg1u\/i_keep_getting_ticketed_for_parking_a_street\/","id":"delg1u","body":"My street suffers from busy parking and often enough, I'm left with desperately parking in the only spot left on the road, the corner of my street. Usually the city is really good signaling where you shouldn't park with yellow paint on the curb or a break on the line for the parking lane on either side of the road. But recently, a team of heroes take it upon themselves to subjectively decide if my car is too close to the cross walk. \n\nThe first ticket gave me no explanation of what I did wrong and only wrote improper parking on the ticket. So me not knowing the rules, I try to park more \"properly\" thinking it was just a vindictive officer who didn't like my bumper. The second ticket I actually receive a helpful description of what I did wrong, this time saying \"2.5 ft from crosswalk.\" So now I'm thinking that either officers are equipped with measuring tapes or rulers when on the job or they are subjectively measuring for their biased reasoning. \n\nIs there a law or an article that can protect me from parking authorities if the road is improperly marked for parking? Because all signs suggest that parking is permitted on that corner and there are no objectively measured markers that would be useful for this kind of subjective dispute.","title":"I keep getting ticketed for parking a street corner even though there are no markers on the road.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442767306,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lovcv\/question_regarding_an_inheritance_from_a_uk\/","id":"3lovcv","body":"I'm not sure if this is the most appropriate place to post, but I didn't get any traction in the personal finance thread so I thought I would try here.  \n\nI had a discussion recently with my father-in-law (FIL), a UK citizen. My mother-in-law passed away four years ago so any discussion regarding inheritance involves my FIL only; no spouse is involved and he will not marry during the remainder of his years (I can say this with certainty due to his strict religious convictions).\n\nThe main asset we have discussed is a townhome worth approximately 350K GBP. He may have a life insurance policy but we haven't confirmed this yet and are waiting for the appropriate opportunity to ask about it. The townhome would most likely be sold and split three ways amongst the children, so let's say my husband may receive approximately 115K GBP.\n\nMy husband is now a US citizen and we reside in the US full-time. We also have a child with special needs and a special needs trust established for him, if that is at all relevant and would help us from a tax perspective.\n\nI have tried researching how inheritance tax in the UK works but quite frankly the legalese confuses me. We do plan on seeking more formal legal advice but this is cost prohibitive for us at the moment. My immediate question is, would we be taxed twice on any inheritance from the UK - both from the UK and the US? If so, what are some immediate steps that we could take to protect us from any additional tax liability, if anything? Establish a trust? If so, what type? We are not opposed to diverting some of the money into my child's special needs trust.\n\nThank you in advance!","title":"Question regarding an inheritance from a UK citizen to a US citizen","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568864702,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d68j2v\/nyc_please_help_clarify_when_a_guest_is_staying\/","id":"d68j2v","body":"I\u2019ve seen this in a few places as I\u2019m researching legal background regarding co-tenants boyfriends being overnight consistently. \n\nwould this generally be accepted to mean consecutive days or is it a total of 14+ days over the course of # of months?","title":"[NYC] please help clarify when a guest is staying for \u201cmore than 2 weeks in # months\u201d?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540818143,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9scvcs\/life_insurance_for_suicide\/","id":"9scvcs","body":"If I have past history of self harm, suicide attempts, mental illness is there any life insurance out there that would cover these things? How does it work? If you have a pre-existing condition will they just automatically exclude it? When i signed up for my current life insurance i divulged my previous history so they excluded it. If I don\u2019t disclose it will I be able to get cover if this occurred? Or would it become redundant if that was the cause of death. \n\nTLDR does life insurance exist if you have past history of suicide attempts that will cover that cause of death. \n\n","title":"Life Insurance for suicide","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541259059,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tuzlk\/how_to_kick_out_a_now_exboyfriend_wisconsin\/","id":"9tuzlk","body":"Ok so a friend has an ex boyfriend who has been living with her for the last few years. She wants to kick him put but he will not leave. We have been told by police that he has established residence and so she needs to serve him eviction notice. He does not have any mail going to the house nor an ID saying that he lives at that address. Does she still need to serve an eviction notice or can this fall under trespassing and saying he is no longer welcome there?","title":"How to kick out a now ex-boyfriend? (Wisconsin)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541236244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tspdy\/utah_petition_of_parentage\/","id":"9tspdy","body":"My husband has an almost four year old daughter with his ex girlfriend (they were never married). One year after his daughter was born, the mother signed her rights away to her mother (maternal grandmother) so she could have guardianship of their daughter. Because of this, the grandmother has used that power for parental alienation against my husband, forbidding him from seeing his daughter on a regular basis. She refuses any attempts he has made at contacting her (either by blocking his phone number, or calling police if\/when he has visited her house). The only time he is able to see his daughter is when his mother (paternal grandmother) is able to pick her up\/keep her over night. Surprisingly, [paternal] grandmother is almost in full support of [maternal] grandmother\u2019s parental alienation of her son, and hardly ever tries to help the situation by explaining that her son is in a great position to take care of and be fully present in daughter\u2019s life. Because of this, she (paternal grandmother) doesn\u2019t allow father\/daughter time unsupervised by her, and he has never been able to have her overnight unless he stays at (paternal) grandmother\u2019s house. \nWe have met with a lawyer as a consultation, but are currently unable to pay lawyer\u2019s upfront retainer fee. However, he recommended we start a petition of parentage to establish custody (as custody trumps guardianship) but was unclear whether the respondent would be birth mother, or caregiver (maternal grandmother). Is there anyone that could give clarification on that? Also, any further advice on how to best handle situation would be greatly appreciated.\nTo add: right now he\u2019s looking to just enforce his rights to visitation, before trying to open a custody battle. That way he can have a solid record of his consistency in her life, due to the fact that some many others (his family included) are working against him for no better reason than they simply don\u2019t like him. He has never brought harm to his daughter, or put her in harms way. He has never been under the influence of any alcohol or illegal substances around her. He has no violent history. He hasn\u2019t even drank alcohol\/smoked a cigarette in her presence, yet his own mother doesn\u2019t trust him alone with her. \n","title":"Utah petition of parentage","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549581097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ao9y30\/legality_of_severance_offering\/","id":"ao9y30","body":"I work for the largest home Improvement store in the United States. I am an outside sales consultant for them and was a top performer in my market. The company recently announced that they were immediately eliminating 4 out of 5 of our products nationwide. For me personally, these 4 eliminated offerings made up 75% of my compensation. \n\nWhen the company made the change, they eliminated ~2\/3 of the sales force, and kept the top 1\/3 of performers to only sell the 1 main offering.  The employees that were terminated were given a severance package of over $15,000 - regardless of performance. The sales people that were retained were not offered any sort of compensation change, or given the option to leave the company and take the severance package - essentially being forced to accept the changed position or leave with no severance. \n\nMy question: is this legal for them to not give an option to their top performers to leave and take the severance package? \n\nAs an example of what this would be like: say a company had 2 managers and they were eliminating their position. They fired the one and gave them a severance package.  The other kept their job title, but were told they must only do 1\/5 of their previous job and with this would only be paid 1\/4 of what they were before. With this change they were told they could either take it or leave it. \n\n","title":"Legality of severance offering","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443066715,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m5oyr\/apartment_building_is_allowing_some_residents_to\/","id":"3m5oyr","body":"I live in a luxury high-rise with some really nice amenities that are shared by all residents (e.g. Starbucks machines, a penthouse lounge, etc.)\n\nThere are 4 residents living here who are distributors for an MLM company who have been using these amenities for their business. They park several exotic cars with their company's logo outside the main entrance and frequently bring groups of 30-50 people over for sales pitches in our nice amenity rooms.\n\nThe lease specifically has a section on Prohibited Conduct that expressly disallows conducting any types of business activities here, with exception to work-at-home business that does NOT involve customers or business associates coming to the apartment. This does NOT fall within that exception.\n\nA group of 30 residents has gotten together and protested to building management, but the response we get is either \"we are monitoring the situation to make sure it isn't excessive\/disruptive\" or even \"it's not conducting business, they are just bringing people over for luncheons.\"\n\nOur problem with this is that it creates significant traffic and parking shortages, these guests tend to leave trash around the property, and - most importantly - we frequently find our access to these amenities curtailed when we want to use them. We are okay sharing with the needs of other residents, but when a business frequently brings huge groups in, it affects everyone else's ability to access them.\n\nWe know of at least one staff member who was even recruited by the MLM to become a distributor, so it appears there may be some conflicts of interest in how the rules were being enforced. He left a few weeks ago but we feel like that set a precedent here and that it's possible there are others \"on the take\".\n\nMight we have any remedies available to us if their failure to adhere to the lease is reducing our enjoyment of and access to the facilities?\n\nThank you!","title":"Apartment building is allowing some residents to violate their leases in a way that disrupts others. [TX]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569419623,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d93lnn\/what_to_do_if_my_employer_has_a_policy_that\/","id":"d93lnn","body":"Alabama - My employer has a policy stating that under no circumstances should an employee discuss their wage with another employee, regardless of the reason. The punishment for violation is termination of employment.\n\nIs this legal, and is there a way to report it without getting fired for violating it before reporting?","title":"What to do if my employer has a policy that prohibits speaking about wages?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442898271,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lwgcn\/canada_sk_i_think_i_helped_my_brother_steal_my\/","id":"3lwgcn","body":"So, on Saturday, I let my brother borrow my car (I had work at two he said he was running an errand and would be back before then.) Time goes by and it's now five and I've missed work. I keep telling myself that he'll bring it back. Saturday passes, Sunday passes, Monday passes, but my car's gone still and so is my brother.\n\nI messaged him today (Monday morning) asking him where he's been, no reply and tonight (Monday night) telling him that if he doesn't have it back by tomorrow, I'll report it stolen.\n\nMy brother has been to jail twice but I thought he had the common fucking decency not to rob his little brother blind. He also has a suspended license, which I didn't learn til today. \n\nThe registration was in the passenger's glove compartment. \n\nAs for the PS4, I woke up and it was gone. He said he was using it to kill boredom while recording (This was Friday) and it hasn't been back since.\n\nWhat are my options realistically?\n\nAdditionally: I let him borrow it once before for a day and he brought it back smelling like weed.","title":"[Canada, SK] I think I helped my brother steal my car and PS4.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570228537,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddeps3\/our_apartment_owners_are_refusing_to_honor_an\/","id":"ddeps3","body":"Back in January, we recieved an email from the apartment's official email address saying if we signed on to a new lease before February 1st, we would recieve a bonus $500 credit to use anytime during the lease. So we signed the new one on January 30th. We have a copy signed and dated by all parties, as does the apartment manager. We waited until this month to use that credit, but a month ago the property manager who sent the email out has been fired. The new one is saying they will not honor the credit, because he wasnt supposed to be giving it out.  However, other tenants who signed a new lease before February 1st and recieved the credit already used theirs while the previous apartment manager was still here. Is there anything we can do? We have the email and lease still.","title":"Our Apartment owners are refusing to honor an agreement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568967240,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6rs4e\/my_school_uk_is_telling_kids_to_install_a_mitm\/","id":"d6rs4e","body":"this is an alt and I will be keeping all personally identifiable info private.\n\nMy school is telling (notibly not \/forcing\/ but highly recommending and pressuring) kids to install a MITM certificate. for the unaware a MITM certificate allows the network [school] to view all traffic in and out of the phone. I know for a fact they do log this traffic and store it. None of the kids are being made aware about the fact that their info is being logged.\n\nis this legal?\n\nsidenote: is it legal for me to release proof of this and can I get in trouble releasing this post","title":"My school [UK] is telling kids to install a MITM certificate in their phones to monitor all traffic","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568834417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d62pvn\/my_previous_employer_hasnt_paid_me_and_two_other\/","id":"d62pvn","body":"I left this company a couple months ago, i have yet to receive my final paycheck. I\u2019ve sent multiple texts and called him with no answer. My other two coworkers have recently left, and they have yet to be paid as well. Realistically, we could go into the business and demand our paychecks, but he also took 10% of our tips to pay for the POS system. One colleague suggested filing a class action lawsuit for our tips being stolen from us, but i\u2019m pretty sure that isn\u2019t applicable to this. I\u2019ve also contemplated filing a Wage and Labor claim, but being 20 years old i\u2019m not sure if this is my best option. He treated us horribly the entire time we worked there, constantly accusing us of stealing coffee beans and other merchandise (it\u2019s a coffee shop), moving our shifts around without any notice, days and even hours before they\u2019re scheduled. This has been a very frustrating process for all of us, we\u2019re in need of some advice and a plan of what to do about this.","title":"My previous employer hasn\u2019t paid me and two other colleagues our last paycheck, he also took 10% of our tips the entire time we worked there.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552961534,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2rjxk\/an_old_childhood_friend_of_mine_just_commit\/","id":"b2rjxk","body":"I was wondering if he gets convicted, which he most likely will. Will he serve his sentence in the US or will he get deported? He\u2019s 20","title":"An old childhood friend of mine just commit murder but he\u2019s a non citizen","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555343637,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdhlpg\/oh_can_someone_watch_a_video_and_tell_me_if_there\/","id":"bdhlpg","body":"I posted previously about a custody issue between my boyfriend and the mother of his first child. We would like to take legal action against the grandmother who assaulted me and my BF because she is the primary caregiver of the child and is very clearly unfit to be in this role. We also have her on audio\/text harassing BF, myself, and his mother and sister at their places of employment (they are schoolteachers). Someone PLEASE help us.","title":"[OH] Can someone watch a video and tell me if there is enough evidence to file an assault charge?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445988157,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qhki8\/ma_question_on_the_wording_of_my_lease\/","id":"3qhki8","body":"So to start off, I received a notice last week stating that all parking spots upfront cannot be used for 3 days. Not a big deal, but I have handicap parking and those happen to be the handicap spots. I did call my office to ask f they will assign me a close spot temporarily for those 3 days but was told no. So I called the city. I ended up talking to building inspectors office who told me they are having difficulty with my leasing office regarding other things and they would look into this for me.\n\nCome yesterday they were told I complained. I was told from my office that I can use the handicap spots at night only, but had to move from 7am-6pm. That is fine with me, as long as I can have a spot when I come home late some nights since parking gets sparse after 5pm.\n\nJust now I found a notice on a door I rarely use. It mentions they are coming in on Friday from 8-4 to do an inspection based on the wording of my lease which states\n\n \" 15. Right to Enter: Upon reasonable notice of 24 hours, we and our employees and agents may enter the Premises during reasonable hours for inspections, maintenance, repairs and pest control procedures, and to confirm compliance with this Lease. We also reserve the right to enter the Premises at any time with less than 24 hours\u2019 notice in the event of an emergency, to check for abandonment, or to abate a nuisance.\"\n\nI am trying to figure out what they are looking for \"inspection\" wise. I see the word inspection and think that means if something is wrong, or the building inspector needs to come in. But does it mean just because they can? I know they are pissed, and I also know they know I am messy (I have a health issue which prevents me from picking up and cleaning as much as a healthy person) I am concerned that no matter how clean I can make it in the next couple days, they will try to evict me for not being up to their standards. Do they have a right to do this?\n\n","title":"(MA) Question on the wording of my lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553483127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b55dfh\/partnership_dispute_can_we_remove_a_business\/","id":"b55dfh","body":"Location: NSW, Australia\n\n​\n\nShort background:\n\n* Business Partner (X) found investor (A) to invest into our marketing agency\n* X told me investor going to invest $150k, $100k to him personally for his 5% (some kind of deal with investor, like they were investing in some other project together), and my 5% for $50k to go into the company etc etc\n* I didn't know the investor at all, so did't question it, we needed the money for the company\n* Now I met with investor, and we found that\n   * He told investor $150k is split 50k\/50k between 2 founders, and 50k invested into company\n   * He told me that $150 is split $100k to him, for another project, $50k goes into the company\n* Among some other things, the Partner X has transferred his shares\/directorship to his wife last year, so even though his still the shadow director, and doing all the things\n* He has also threatened that he could sell his own shares to anyone, anytime, he could sell it to some guy in China and let them use our agency branding, case studies and I wouldn't even know\n\n​\n\n​\n\nQuestions\n\n* We need to deal with this business partner, and the investor is looking to start a law suit, but in the meantime, between me and investor, we have 55% shares, can we first vote out the director and remove him from company?\n* Can we then draft anything between me and investor saying that Partner X is prohibited from contacting any clients, using our branding and case studies?\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​","title":"[Partnership dispute] Can we remove a business partner?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571269723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diy0tq\/someone_sold_me_their_icloud_locked_iphone_and_is\/","id":"diy0tq","body":"Not really legal advice, but just wondering of what I can do to solve this.\nNote: Bad formatting, I am on mobile.\n\nTwo weeks ago a woman sold me a used iPhone 6 Plus through OfferUp. The description said that the LCD was damaged and that the device was iCloud locked and that they could remove it.\nFast forward a day or so I go & buy the phone. I order a new screen on eBay and a new screen comes in and is replaced a few days later. I then contact her because the screen finally provides touch and ask if she can remove the lock. She says no because \u2018all sales are final\u2019 and that she doesn\u2019t know the password. I then ask her if she can reset her password, log onto iCloud on a different device, and remove the phone off of her account. She says know again for the same reason.\nWhat can I do? I tried taking it to Apple and they said to \u201cget the original proof of purchase\u201d and then they can remove it. I tried everything I can and I am considering if contacting the police is an idea.\n\nI need your help....","title":"Someone sold me their iCloud locked iPhone and is refusing to unlock it, what could I do?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555640189,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/betyqs\/i_told_my_ex_he_could_take_our_9_year_old_to\/","id":"betyqs","body":"My ex and I have 50\/50 custody of our 9 year old daughter with two weeks of vacation each in the summer. He asked a few months ago she could accompany him abroad even though it would be a longer trip than his allotted two weeks. I said \u201csure\u201d (in writing via e-mail) because I didn\u2019t want her to miss out on a great travel opportunity. Then he gave me the exact travel dates... and they\u2019ll be gone for 5 weeks. I said ok but now I\u2019m having second thoughts because that\u2019s a really long time to have her away from me. Since I said she could go he has planned lots of \u201camazing opportunities\u201d for her that infringe on my custody time. The last straw is his bringing her over 3 hours late to celebrate her birthday with me because he bought her a horse and \u201cshe has to ride it.\u201d In a fit of anger I shot off an email that I wasn\u2019t comfortable with her being gone 5 weeks and he could only have the two stipulated in the custody agreement. I\u2019ve felt this way for a while but my email was an obvious retaliation to his latest stunt. He hasn\u2019t replied yet but he\u2019s NOT going to be happy. \n\nDo I have a leg to stand on as far as not allowing her to leave the country for more than 2 weeks? Or because I agreed earlier via email am I stuck with my initial decision?","title":"I told my ex he could take our 9 year old to Europe for 5 weeks. Now I don\u2019t want her gone that long. Can I retract my consent or is it too late?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1415566291,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2lsk1x\/ne_dealer_sold_me_a_car_without_possessing_the\/","id":"2lsk1x","body":"Bought a used 2011 Buick Regal from a large dealer in Omaha, NE on 10\/4. When I went to register the vehicle the DMV said they have not received the title yet. When I spoke with the dealer they informed me that they are having difficulties receiving the title from the previous owners lien holder, as in it had not been paid off yet. It is now 11\/9 and I am unable to register my vehicle and therefor not able to legally drive the vehicle that I purchased.\n\nI was under the impression that it is illegal to sell a vehicle without a clear title unless they present the car as such, which they did not. \n\nLast time I spoke to the dealer I made it clear that I need the title by Tuesday 11\/11, or I will be returning the car for a full refund as I am legally allowed to do (after 30 days and no title.) They threateningly suggested I speak with a lawyer before doing that because \"they have a pretty good one.\"\n\nNot sure where to go from here?\n\nIt's aggravating that I cannot legally drive a vehicle that I paid close to 16K for, especially since they never had the title in the first place when they sold it to me.\n\nShould I lawyer up? Is this normal for Dealerships to sell cars without titles, as the dealer claimed they do all the time?","title":"(NE) Dealer sold me a car without possessing the title, still do not have it 35 days later. Threatening me with legal action if I try to return the vehicle.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570467884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dembwx\/employer_pays_for_drive_time_however_my_employer\/","id":"dembwx","body":"I work for a Community integration program for children with special needs. Our staff use their own vehicles to transport the individuals within their community. Our company pays for milage driven with the clients as well as the drive time between clients. Mileage logs must be turned in at the end of each month. Late submissions are not accepted. However, there is no limit on how long you can submit drive time. Here's where the fishy part is. Our HR rep came in this morning and stated that we do not encourage or notify staff that drive time can be submitted so that they can get paid for it. HR rep stated that it is too time consuming and they would rather keep hush about it so they wouldn't have to pay their staff even though they are entitled to it. Can this legally be done?","title":"Employer pays for drive time, however my employer doesnt want staff to know that they can.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538522712,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kvruu\/oklahoma_unemployment\/","id":"9kvruu","body":"So a neighbor of mine lost his job, and I'd like to give advice, so I figured this was the best place to come.\n\nBest i can tell, he had a job with a maintenance contracting company (cleaning carpets, etc). His company lost a big contract with a buildinghe was scheduled on at the last minute, and let him go with 0 notice. I assume filing for unemployment would be a good option. How would one go about that, and are there any follow-up questions I should ask? ","title":"Oklahoma unemployment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443405962,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mnd3m\/pa_volatile_housemate_problem\/","id":"3mnd3m","body":"Me and some friends moved into an apartment a few months ago. It's a 5 bedroom, and 2 of them had 2 girls we didn't know moving it. We thought it would be fine since we're all easy to get along with and can forgive most faults to a reasonable degree. These 2 girls have escalated over the past few months to a point where it is no longer manageable.\n\nThey get high several times per day, and do not make an effort to ventilate it meaning it gets spread through the whole house via the circulation system. One of us has asthma and I have other medical issues which makes it hard for me to breathe during that.\n\nThey blast music loud enough where I can hear something right in front of me while they are on the 3rd floor. It gets especially bad when they bring the music down to the common room on floor 1, use our furniture (the 3 of us fully furnished the house, while they brought nothing but inflatable mattresses) and refuse to do anything about the sound.\n\nThey steal our food consistently. They lie about it and say that \"we just forgot what we did with it\". One of us has a photographic memory so that excuse sort of falls flat. They've destroyed one of our pans while cooking 4 lbs of our turkey (this was witnessed by us) and refute that happened at all. They refuse to compensate for destroyed kitchenware or stolen food.\n\nThe girl brought a dog that we weren't made a dog until we already payed non-refundable fees for the house. The landlord promised us that the dog was not allowed in common areas (we have this in writing via text message). The dog is not house trained. It relieves itself on the floor approximately once a week on average, one time even under our expensive sofa. The dog situation is sad since it's borderline neglected. Unfortunately it's so borderline that animal control can't really help it.\n\nThe part that's made this unlivable for me is that I've received two violent threats already. The first is when the 2 girls came home drunk off their asses around 4 am screaming. I had work in the morning so I had to ask them to keep it down. When I went down I was threatened. The last was this past weekend where I was sitting sick on the couch, huddled in blankets watching tv with my friend. One of her friends came unsupervised and said \"Can I have you phone.\" Reasonably, I asked why. He got very defensive and aggressive. A strange man asking me to have my phone and dodging why he needs it is very sketchy so we declined. After that he started making threats to assault and kill me. That night, the other girl ended up assaulting her cousin in the house for approximately an hour. We swear we heard walls being broken through, but we're all a bit scared to go to the 3rd floor an look at the damages.\nAt this point I genuinely do not feel safe in my own house. We tried our hardest to be accommodating to strangers, but at this point they're getting more belligerent in an attempt to egg us on. We don't know where to go from here, and any advice at all would be appreciated.","title":"[PA] Volatile Housemate Problem","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552894189,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2fp5v\/mental_illness\/","id":"b2fp5v","body":"can a criminal case be dismissed due to the defendant being mentally ill?","title":"Mental illness","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504476111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xw4m7\/investing_in_legal_medical_marijuana\/","id":"6xw4m7","body":"I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm thinking about financially investing in a safe startup area that will generate residual income over the next few years before the market\/holding gets big (and expensive). \n\nThe legal medical marijuana field is making headway although it is not yet legal on a federal level. \n\nHow safe (and legal) would such an investment be if I were to be employed as a, say, licensed legal professional or attorney, and live in a state where it is legal for medical purposes although not yet decriminalised? \n\nCurrently in the southern United States. ","title":"Investing in legal Medical Marijuana","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1412277308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2i490o\/california_squaw_valley_had_a_computer_glitch_and\/","id":"2i490o","body":"Hey guys so [here is the story](http:\/\/www.tahoedailytribune.com\/northshore\/13253432-113\/pass-squaw-tahoe-warner) essentially they glitched and a bunch of us were able to purchase these tickets for $1.00. I think it should be made very clear that we successfully completed this transaction the money has left the account confirmation emails all around (and screenshots). \n\nWe received an email last night which the article summarized but the wording reads like we \"attempted\" to purchase these tickets and they won't be giving them to us but will be sending out a special offer instead. To me this special offer is trying to buy our silence i think we should be able to get these passes! In the article it says they are preparing a statement. \n\nWhat do you guys think? Does this completed sale not represent a contract between us and the company? United honored their glitch! None of us purchased hundreds of tickets either it was one or two for our spouses!","title":"[California] Squaw Valley had a computer glitch and sold season passes for $1.00. If they refuse to honor this do we have legal recourse?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554033310,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7mz7m\/what_were_my_rights_in_the_situation_could_i_have\/","id":"b7mz7m","body":"So I was pulled over last night and the whole situation seemed off to me. It was around 3:00am in Ohio, two of my friends and I were driving back from Florida. It was my friend\u2019s car but it was my shift to drive. Because I was so tired and it had been an irritating drive back up, I was speeding to get back home. Not an excuse just an explanation, I was guilty of speeding and won\u2019t argue against it. So I get pulled over by a cop and I wake my friends up and ask the owner of the car to start looking for her registration. Meanwhile I roll down my window as the cop approaches the car. The cop doesn\u2019t ask for my ID, insurance, or registration. The first thing he asks is where I\u2019m coming from and where I\u2019m going. I tell him and he immediately asks me to get out of the car and asks to give him the car keys. Im a little baffled because yeah I was speeding but I was only going over 10mph. I\u2019ve never had a ticket before, only one warning. But the cop wouldn\u2019t know at this point because he still hadn\u2019t asked for my ID and the car isn\u2019t mine. After getting out he immediately escorts me to get into the back of his car where he then asks for my name. I tell him and he does whatever cops do on their monitor in their car. I wasn\u2019t paying much attention to the screen because I was so confused at this point that I was just trying make sense of what I had possibly done wrong besides speeding. He exits the car and again approaches my friends car. I later find out that he asked for registration and asks my friend (owner of the car) for her ID. He comes back, does some more stuff on his monitor, and then turns around to ask me, \u201cAre you aware you\u2019re driving a stolen vehicle?\u201d. Now I go from confused to shock. My friend has had this car for years, her parents bought it for her, she\u2019s originally from Florida so then plates are Florida plates, she\u2019s had it before she moved up to Ohio where I met her.  I just tell the office no and try to make sense of my situation. Meanwhile the cop does some more stuff on his monitor, gets out to talk to my friends some more, then comes back to let me out of his car.  As I get back into the drivers seat he explains to me that there\u2019s a stolen vehicle in Michigan that has the same plate number as my friend\u2019s car. He gives me a ticket for speeding and leaves. So was the cop in the right during the whole thing? Could I have handled it any differently? Or was this all normal? The whole thing just felt off to me, but it could also be because it was 3:00am and I was majorly confused. ","title":"What were my rights in the situation? Could I have done something different?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569325648,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8m0lc\/i_got_a_media_request_for_a_potentially_viral\/","id":"d8m0lc","body":"So basically I uploaded a video here on reddit and got a media request from junkin media. They ask the person I was filming to fill out a appearance release contract.  The person appearing in the video has a bad feeling about it. \nDoes anyone has experience working with that company?","title":"I got a media request for a potentially viral video","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554659231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baiwm5\/going_87_in_a_70_zone\/","id":"baiwm5","body":"I was pulled over for the first time from my way back from work on an Interstate in North Carolina and recieved a Citation without a fine only a mandatory court date. When interacting with the officer he made note that I had been polite and cooperative. \n\nI'm freaking out because I'm almost certain this could qualify for reckless driving if convicted guilty. I'm currently a college student and am heavily in debt so im deathly afraid that I may be unable to enlist the help of an attorney. Reflecting on my actions I feel terrible for having done this, I should have paid more attention. \n\nAll the articles I'm reading online are giving me really mixed messages, I dont know If my life is ruined or if I can make a reasonable plea.\n\nThis post was removes earlier, but I just had to repost because I'm fixated on this and am in desperate need of any advice at all. I suppose a valid question might be why did I recieve a citation with a date and no fine instead of a ticket?","title":"Going 87 in a 70 zone","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444016561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nj7u2\/il_can_i_have_a_key_lock_doorknob_on_my_bedroom\/","id":"3nj7u2","body":"I'm over 18 living in my mom's house but I don't pay rent and there was no agreement between my mom and I signed or discussed (sorry if the flair is wrong, this was the closest thing I could think of). My ex-boyfriend also lives here and my relationship is hostile and volatile with both of them. Recently he choked me but I didn't press charges for fear of retaliation. Today I replaced the normal privacy lock doorknob on my bedroom door with an entry doorknob that has a key lock. This is to make me feel safe and to protect myself as well as my belongings when I leave the house as she has threatened to destroy my possessions during previous arguments. \n\n**Am I allowed to have this lock on my bedroom door to protect myself and my belongings?**\n\nShe has also threatened to take the door off entirely and during the argument she punched holes in the door from the outside with a hammer. \n\n**If I were to come home to see my bedroom door removed or smashed through, would I have any recourse whether she trashed my belongings or not?**\n\nETA: I have absolutely no where to go and I cannot move out for some time. If I could, I would. I'm trying to tough it out here until I can go somewhere safe but in the meantime I need to feel safe enough to function or else I'll never get out.\n\nETA again: If someone has any actual legal advice or recourse I could have--especially about if I come home to find my bedroom door gone or smashed in and my belongings destroyed or thrown out--please comment. If you're just going to say \"hey, you should move out\" then keep scrolling. Guess what, it's already occurred to me and I'm trying to but it's not happening tomorrow and in the meantime I'd like to not be assaulted or have my things destroyed. I know, crazy right?","title":"[IL] Can I have a key lock doorknob on my bedroom door in my mother's house?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569548656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9tj8f\/wa_my_coworker_makes_significantly_less_because\/","id":"d9tj8f","body":"I just found out my co-worker makes significantly less than others because of her immigration status (she makes $13\/hour versus $17-$19\/hour). She is currently struggling to afford rent, etc. due to her non-livable wage. Her wage is not only below minimum wage but seems discriminatory. I know that federal law forbids discrimination regardless of immigration state, but does she have any legitimate legal recourse for this?","title":"[WA] My co-worker makes significantly less because she is undocumented","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554228835,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8msze\/or_county_bus_did_a_hit_and_run_on_my_car_with_a\/","id":"b8msze","body":"I am a county employee. I was parked at work when a man comes running into my place of employment asking if anyone has my make and model of car. He said he watched the county bus hit my car and leave. A hit and run. I go outside and there is damage, I call and make a police report, and call my insurance. \n\n\nI spoke with my insurance today who said that the officer viewed the footage on the bus and said there was no footage that showed the bus hitting my car. I question where the camera is on the bus because it was the right front bumper on the bus that hit my left back bumper and my car is very low to the ground so I am not sure that the cameras would have picked it up. \n\n\nThe officer also said that while the witness reported he saw the bus hit my car, that from the angle that the witness was standing, that he could not have seen direct impact. The witness told me that the bus hit the car\u2019s rear end and moved the car forward slightly, reversed, and then drove around the car and left. \n\n\nI know what bus route it was. The witness ran into my place of employment because he saw the bus hit my car. There is damage with a paint transfer from the impact and the paint matches the county bus paint. What should I do to prove this happened? ","title":"(OR) County bus did a hit and run on my car with a witness. Police report said there was no proof.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568421911,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3yc4q\/i_am_very_scared_and_not_sure_what_to_do\/","id":"d3yc4q","body":"Last night I (23M) was in an online chatroom and was talking to a girl. I STUPIDLY gave her my phone number when she asked. I am extremely lonely and suicidally depressed, so at the time I wasn't worried about giving out my actual phone number. She called from a restricted phone number. We got to chatting. I made to sure ask how old she was and she said she was 29. The site itself doesn't let you on unless you put your age as 18+. After chatting for a bit, we had phone sex and went our seperate ways. This morning, I got multiple text messages saying something along the lines of an undercover officer was posing as a 14 year-old girl and that a warrant was going to be put out for my arrest. Also, in those text messages, they sent my mother's name. I am on my mother's phone plan and you can Google search my number and her name comes up. They kept texting me and trying to call me from the restricted number (I didn't answer). After the last time they called, they texted me and said that the warrant had been issued. \n\nSo, if it really were an undercover officer, is there any possible way that I could be faulted for what was claimed in the text messages? I didn't do anything with anyone else except the one girl who said she was 29. \n\nP.S. I am sorry if this isn't the right place or right flair for this. I have been anxious and panicking all day because of this.","title":"I am very scared and not sure what to do.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444594959,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3odals\/if_somebody_attempts_to_replicate_a_dangerous\/","id":"3odals","body":"If I make a tutorial involving dangerous high voltage and somebody dies replicating it am I responsible even if I point out dangers like \"touching this while on will kill you\"? Does the age of the injured person matter? Or should I 'age restrict' my video to 18+?\n\n Are disclaimers even necessary? Im in the USA, FL if it matters.\n\n","title":"If somebody attempts to replicate a dangerous tutorial of mine and gets injured, can I be blamed?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1411166700,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gwjng\/do_i_have_any_claim_to_monetize_my_video\/","id":"2gwjng","body":"The video in question: http:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=4LtqJr_asR4\n\nI am in the U.S., And I made this video.\n\nIt has the music track in it - Animals.\n\nMy questions is, since I edited it\/ made a remix of it, does that not mean that it is my content to be monetized?\n\nIf so, how do I stop the previous copy right claim on it, and get back pay for the money they were making on it.\n\nAs you can see, it is a fairly popular video I worked hard on.","title":"Do I have any claim to monetize my video?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551881588,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axz94r\/ill_be_entering_college_as_a_17_yr_old_so_does_my\/","id":"axz94r","body":"I got accepted to a college that is one of the best in the world for my major, if not the best, but since it's not well-rounded it's not very high up on the world college ranking list when you Google world's best college and therefore she can't show it off to her friends (she's Asian as fck). She's not going to drop a single penny because she keeps saying \"oh your dad is so rich he should give back to society\" when he's actually just another salary men that just might be on the higher end of principal engineers. My mom is my only legal guardian and she states she'll exercise it to force me to go to this other  dumb low ranking state school because that has at least a better reputation to her friends (in the Asian world if you've never heard of it it's automatically an embarrassment). That college won't even have the major I'm looking for which means she'll effectively change my future to what she wants (a doctor) because she wants me to take care of her when I'm older instead of saving up for retirement (she legit has zero retirement savings and she's 57). Help pls, college decisions are coming out this month.","title":"I'll be entering college as a 17 yr old, so does my mom have control over my decision when shes not paying for it?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571293682,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj2dm3\/landlord_wants_to_track_each_rooms_power_hot\/","id":"dj2dm3","body":"Hi all! \n\nHoping someone might be able to help. I am in little old New Zealand so tenancy laws may differ but it\u2019s worth a shot! \n\nLong and short of it is me and my partner live in I suppose what you would call a Sharehouse.  4 bedrooms all with en-suites and walk in wardrobes. Shared kitchen and living areas. \n\nOur landlord is what you would call overbearing. This house is his baby as the old property that used to be on the site was destroyed in the earthquakes so he got a big payout and built this house only about 2 years ago. He will waltz into the house (without knocking or notice) we were eating dinner tonight and he unlocks the door and waltzes in and tells us he will be monitoring all of our power usage per each room and it is getting installed next week. He also said something about tracking shower usage (although I am unsure how he will do this?) \n\nIs this legal?? I am so over him but scared to say anything as we may need a reference from him for when we move. Huge long shot I know,  but any help would be appreciated !","title":"Landlord wants to track each rooms power & hot water usage","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442875313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lv50b\/boyfriend_has_been_committing_fraud_what_kind_of\/","id":"3lv50b","body":"First of all, I'm sorry for breaking the cardinal rule of including location other than to say it's in the USA, but for reasons that will become evident, I do not want to disclose it online. \n\nI was sent here from \/rbi after writing a post that I'll link to once I'm not on mobile. Long story short, yesterday I discovered that my boyfriend (who had a past of mild online  criminal activity, which I was aware of) had fallen off the proverbial wagon for the first time since we started dating (and for the record, yes, breakup is forthcoming). From what I gleaned myself from his phone and what Reddit helped me figure out, he's more or less a go-between for a guy who gets Amtrak tickets (likely through stolen credit card info, though i cannot currently prove that) and the people who place the order after viewing a craiglist ad. Not necessarily important how it happens, but involves craiglist and money wiring. \n\nI am connected to this man (though i shortly will not be) and am afraid of the possible legal ramifications should any of this catch up with him, - and based on some of the texts i read, it might. Here are my primary concerns:\n\n- while we do not share a bank account, we recently attempted to start a business together, doing what we both live. Zero funds save petty cash were expended on it but it links us in a way I don't like. \n\n- my i.p. address may be in some way connected, although I'm fairly certain this mostly took place over the phone \n\n- 2 months ago we took Amtrak together and i now am concerned those tickets were purchased fraudulently\n\n- there is documented online conversation wherein I accept previous crimes he has committed. None were this bad, and there is also documented lambasting and freak-outs from when i discovered this last transgression. \n\nWhat am i at risk for? Am i culpable if i don't go forward with this information? Having never participated, am I in any way guilty by association? \n\nThanks to everyone for your time. ","title":"Boyfriend has been committing fraud - what kind of risk am I in? (no location)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540258845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qkbkb\/employer_asking_for_detailed_health_info_for\/","id":"9qkbkb","body":"My employer (small business, Utah) asked all full time employees to fill out an outdated version of the Utah Small Employer Health Insurance Application. They stated that even if employees plan to waive coverage, we needed to fill out all sections of the form (Sections A though I) and return it to our HR head. My employer's reasoning for requesting this information is to share all employees health information with an insurance broker and multiple insurance providers to get better insurance rates. I will be waiving coverage from my employer as I have better coverage through my spouse's employer. I have offered to fill out the Waiver of Coverage, as stated in the form provided to me, but my HR head told me that the only way they can lower rates is if I give my health information to them. \n\nThe sections I was asked to fill out are no longer in the updated form provided by the State of Utah. The following are the sections in the outdated (2010 version) form I have been asked to fill out:\n\n* Section C Enrolling Employee \/ Spouse \/ Dependents - asks for age, weight and height.\n* Sections E Health Statement - asks \"yes\" or \"no\" questions about specific health conditions. \n* Section F Prescription Information in the Last 12 Months - asks for specific prescriptions and why they were prescribed.\n* Section G Additional Information - asks for specifics on any conditions that were said \"yes\" to in Section E.\n* They also want me to sign Section I, which includes this statement \"I acknowledge that I have had the opportunity to waive coverage for myself and any eligible dependents that I have listed those waiving coverage, if any, in Section J, \u201cWaiver of Coverage\u201d of this application.\"\n\nI do not want to provide my information for a variety of reasons, but the main reason is that I have not received a confidentiality statement from the broker or any of the insurance companies that will see my information.  \n\nCan my employer mandate that I provide them my health information for this reason? Do I have to provide this information to them when I am waiving coverage?\n\nThe updated form I am referring to can be found here: [https:\/\/insurance.utah.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/247UT-SmEmployerHealthApp.pdf](https:\/\/insurance.utah.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/247UT-SmEmployerHealthApp.pdf), but I do not have a link to the 2010 version which was provided to me.","title":"Employer asking for detailed health info for group insurance, but I'm waiving coverage. [UTAH]","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541588877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uyiu9\/child_support_different_states_unmarried\/","id":"9uyiu9","body":"My gf and I had a baby 6 months ago. Our relationship is deteriorating and I think we may separate. If we did, she would move back to NJ and I'd stay in CA. We've been living together for 1 year and I have paid for all expenses during that time. I looked at both states laws, they say child support is based on income and time with parent. Is child support amount not considered in child support amount?\n\nSo, if I have 100,000 in the bank and then quit my job (I hate my current job), how would child support be determined? Assume 100% time with the mom in NJ.\n\nHow is payment made and tracked? Do I pay the NJ government and she picks it up? Do I send to her account and send proof to govermment?","title":"Child Support, different states, unmarried","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540461730,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r8w22\/my_mom_is_trying_to_kick_me_out_in_a_week_please\/","id":"9r8w22","body":"Hello. So Im 20 years old and live in California. My family are Jehovah's witnesses. Today, my mom found I got into contact with, and visited my non JW ex boyfriend *whom she she forced me to break up with simply because he's not a jehovah's witness* She told me that I can't live with her anymore and gave me until next week to tell her where I will go. I know this isn't normal, my family is not normal.\n\nI have been paying rent to her CONSISTENTLY for about 2 years. Now I thought here in California you have to at least give tenants 30 days notice. Now shes used this as a bluff before twice. However Im nervous shes serious this time. I appreciate your guys' input. Thank you. ","title":"My Mom is trying to kick me out in a week PLEASE HELP","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447272244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sg1y9\/custodydaycarecontempt_question\/","id":"3sg1y9","body":"I live in the state of Kansas. I currently have full residential custody of my child however there are provisions so to speak that make dealing with her controlling dad hard to handle. As of late the current one is daycare. In our agreement it states that both parents have to agree on who watches the child. Our previous daycare had some questionable things going on and I no longer felt I could trust the safety of my child in her care. Plus because of the drama my child's dad started the daycare told us to seek other providers. Since then my child has been coming to work with me everyday. My work has been very cool with the whole situation since I work alone in an office. However were going on 3 months of this because he refuses to agree on anyone even though he admitted to my lawyer that his current girlfriend has watched the child on numerous occasions. This was of course without my consent or approval. His lawyer threatened to file contempt against me if I put the child in a daycare. \nAs much as I love my child this situation isn't healthy. He has no valid reason to deny daycare providers especially since the one with an opening is the one he originally wanted (I have email proof and she would be willing to submit a letter about him hounding her for an opening when the child was born for several weeks).\n\nMy question is if I put her in daycare at this point without his permission and he files contempt, how likely is it that I would get in trouble? Or rather what would my consequences mostly look like. He's using this to try to control me and this custody situation. The daycare provider is state approved and has been in business for over 20 yrs.","title":"Custody\/Daycare\/Contempt question","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552697405,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1mkka\/chicago_il_can_i_consider_my_apartment_unlivable\/","id":"b1mkka","body":"I have been living in my apartment with my girlfriend for two years now. About 8 months ago we noticed that the humidifier stopped working. It wasn\u2019t that bad of an issue until this last winter came along, and it became horrible!\n\nWe have gone through numerous humidifiers and she has missed multiple days of work because of the effect it has had on her breathing (she has asthma) and sinuses.  She also has documents from doctor visits regarding these issues over the last few months. \n\nWe are under new management as of 4 months ago, and we let them know about this issue on the initial walkthrough. To date, not a single thing has been done to fix the humidifier. About 10 days ago we emailed them to let them know that we want to break the lease and gave them 14 days notice. We were informed that not only would the lease not be broken, but we will get no compensation for the sickness or lack of humidity in our apartment. \n\nI\u2019ve tried to find anything online to declare a lack of humidity unlivable, but all I find are articles about mold. \n\nI\u2019ve noticed in our lease and from the law that after 14 days notice, a tenant may legally break the lease and move out. But our lease also states that if we go to court and lose, we are responsible for all court costs. Do we have a case here to just up and leave?\n\nThanks in advance for any and all replies!","title":"Chicago, IL. Can I consider my apartment unlivable if the humidifier is broken?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508458737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77iju7\/ar_potential_insurance_fraud_wondering_how\/","id":"77iju7","body":"A friend of mine has a really good insurance and it covers a lot of things including detox, rehab and a sober living housing for up to 6 months. My friend also has a brother who is an addict and they look a lot a like. In fact most people can't tell them apart if they meet them separately. Just out of curiosity what kind of crimes would they be committing and what kind of repercussions could there be? I'm trying to talk them out of it and find another way but just wanted to see what your guys opinion would be. ","title":"[AR] Potential insurance fraud, wondering how illegal it might be.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569448331,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9a5ha\/my_mom_does_not_want_to_leave_property_to_dads\/","id":"d9a5ha","body":"Hey everyone, \n\nPosting for my mom as she is in need of legal advice! \n\nWe live in Florida and my dad was diagnosed with dementia about two years ago. My mom has been his primary caregiver and to keep my dad and herself active and busy, she invested in a few apartments to turn into Airbnb\u2019s. \n\nMy dad has four daughters from a previous marriage, they are all about 50-55 years old. I am 22 and was adopted by my mom as a baby, and later adopted by my dad a few years after my parents got married.\n\nThe main concern my mom has at the moment is that his daughters will decide to try and fight for any of the property if either she or my dad passes away. As of now, everything is under her name and in my dads Will, it states anything he may own will go to my mom. He has also claimed me as his only child.\n\nMy mom is worried that if she passes first, my dad will get all the property and his daughters will all come running to claim anything they can take. Even though two out of his four daughters have been more welcoming to my mom and I, she does not see them as her children. She says she wants her hard earned money to go to me since I am her only child. Obviously, legally everything is equally my mom and my dad\u2019s since the property was bought after marriage, which she doesn\u2019t mind if everything goes to my dad but she does not want his daughters to get any of it. \n\nIs there a legal way she can protect her property to ensure they can\u2019t fight for it? And if they try to fight the Will, what are some things my mom should look into to defend herself?\n\nIf he only claimed me as his child in his Will, what does that mean for his other daughters? \n\nAny advice would be much appreciated! My mom has seen some lawyers but I wanted to find out any more legal advice to know what she needs to say or do research on before she goes to more legal consultations.","title":"My mom does not want to leave property to dads daughters from a previous marriage, what\u2019s the best way to protect herself?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570321714,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddvz13\/im_not_really_in_a_legal_pinch_but_i_have_a\/","id":"ddvz13","body":"I\u2019m an 18 year old high school student in MI who has a keen interest in getting a job within the homeland security or DoD. Now I like some, greatly respect the armed forces, law-enforcement agencies, and gov. agencies as well as showing my support towards them. So I\u2019m curious, if I was to purchase a jacket with the Homeland Security logo on it and wear it as a means of showing support towards them am I committing any crime? I know to some it may seem like I\u2019m impersonating a federal agent however, in no way am I doing such.","title":"I\u2019m not really in a legal pinch but I have a question that I\u2019m rather curious about.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570714398,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfy2il\/tx_i_got_a_ticket_for_matching_traffic_what\/","id":"dfy2il","body":"Long story short, I was matching the 50-ish mph in a 40 mph zone that\u2019s notorious for traffic being faster than the speed limit. I changed lanes and failed to recognize an undercover cop (which I\u2019m usually paranoid about, just was enjoying the flow of traffic and didn\u2019t pay attention to the Chevy that could possibly be a cop and ended up being one.) and he pulled me over for speeding. I wanna contest the ticket in court but this is my second ticket ever and my first I defaulted on to just do defensive driving. How should I go about this?","title":"[TX] I got a ticket for matching traffic, what should I do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552256987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azldph\/is_there_a_way_to_check_why_a_teacher_was_fired\/","id":"azldph","body":"A teacher at my child's school was fired and from what everyone says it has something to do with sexual harassment. As a parent I am concerned and I feel the need to check the validity of these claims.","title":"Is there a way to check why a teacher was fired online in GA","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541272932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9twvir\/asking_for_a_friend\/","id":"9twvir","body":"SUBJECT LINE: Adult Internet hosting and Global Copyright Laws.\n\n*Keywords: Adult content hosting, Copyright infringement laws, Workarounds, Non-profit and advertisement...* \n\n**Request form:** Unbiased; Non Judge-mental; Objective legal opinion and review.\n\n\\----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nQuestioner:  \n\n\n**How do the online adult hosting laws differ between the US and somewhere like Amsterdam, Europe?** \n\n* Is it legal to host adult content on your website? \n* Is it legal to host copyrighted content on your website?\n* Is it legal to redirect or embed adult content that's stored elsewhere?\n* Is it legal to redirect or embed copyrighted content that's stored elsewhere?\n* Is it legal to redirect or embed copyrighted adult content that's stored elsewhere?\n\nIs it legal to host *all of the above*\\* on a public video hosting or adult hosting service like [openload.co](https:\/\/openload.co)  (Or alternative)  or [pornhub.com](https:\/\/pornhub.com) (Or alternative) and what are the legal risks, other than the video being taken down by the hosting service?\n\n* Is it legal to embed copyrighted\/adult content on your website, that you have yourself hosted on an external public video hosting service? \n* Can anything be held as evidence of such an act in court of law and how likely is it to be prosecuted? How about if the content on the external hosting service is watermarked by a company logo that is the same one representing your website? Can a logo or name be held as evidence in the court of law?\n* Does the legal responsibility of the hosted content lie on you or the provider of the video hosting service?\n* Is it far more likely that the video hosting service will initiate a takedown notice on your content?  \n\n\nIn such a system where the example copyrighted\/adult content is outsourced on an external hosting server legally liable by a different company, embed into your own website on another server hosted in ***example*** Amsterdam, Netherlands, Is it deemed an illegal or a legal service and can it be prosecuted on proven in court of law. How likely is that to happen?\n\n**How do these laws differentiate in terms of non profit and commercial websites?**\n\n* Is advertisement considered as profit independent to the contents of a website? Does making profit through ad traffic fall under the *Commercial use* licence in regards to the content or is it only accounted for direct sales?\n* How does all of this apply to the aforementioned system of integrating an external content hosting service into a profitable ad network website?\n\n**What defines copyrighted content and where can copyright information be attained?**\n\n* What content is considered copyrighted as opposed to public domain content? How do you access the copyright information beholding a particular item?\n* ***Example:*** One acquires a wallpaper collection on a public network like **example** [reddit.com](https:\/\/reddit.com) ; How does one determine the licence of the distributed content?\n* How likely is that one is to be prosecuted for hosting the publicly acquired wallpaper collection on his website servers and what are the legal risks?\n* If the content is deemed under copyright law, what risks is one exposed to when hosting the content? How likely is it that one is to have legal issue with using an object that falls under the majority of easy accessible data on the internet?\n* When does a contents licence expire and fall under public domain?\n\n**What good historic legal examples are there of such or similar legal scenarios where one can draw an objective conclusion from?**\n\n* What are some example of won and lost court cases regarding similar scenarios?\n* What takeaways can be acquired from them?\n\nIf you have completed the questioner, I assume you now have a general overview of the type of activity under legal review. Any additional advice and laws pertaining to the subject matter are welcome.","title":"Asking for a friend...","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570577178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df8ap5\/parent_receiving_child_support_long_after\/","id":"df8ap5","body":"Hello \/r\/legaladvice , \n\n​\n\nI just found that my mother will be receiving child support from my father (\\~$20k \/ yr)  until I finish my undergraduate studies. The scholarships I have received allow me to pay for college without support from my mother, and I will be living on-campus, so apart from her household. She is working an OK job and shares rent \/ expenses with her boyfriend. Seeing my mother piss away close to a thousand dollars a month for the past \\~10 years of my life was at least somewhat justifiable knowing that it supported both of us, but now that I will be completely financially independent of her, will I be able to petition for an early end to the child support? If so, how? They are legally divorced.","title":"Parent Receiving Child Support Long After Independence of Child? [MA]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569609522,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da4lo7\/hiringnot_hiring_someone_based_solely_on_their\/","id":"da4lo7","body":"This article came out about Michelle Phan and she mentioned hiring\/not hiring people based on their zodiac signs is this discrimination? \n\nLink to the article: https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2019\/09\/michelle-phan-youtube-beauty-star-on-why-she-left.html\nAnd here's the quote \n\u201cI wanted a very nice, diverse, astrological place. If I have a team of water signs, it\u2019s going to be too emotional, too volatile. Or if I have too many earth signs, it will be too grounded. If I have too many fire signs, it will be too volatile, everyone will be competing.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m an Aries and Sagittarius rising, so I need spontaneity or else I just become really bored,\u201d says Phan. And of all places, she\u2019s found that constant stimulation in the world of bitcoin and blockchains. \u201cI\u2019m actually more excited about Bitcoin than I was when I first discovered YouTube.\u201d","title":"Hiring\/Not hiring someone based solely on their zodiac sign, is this employment discrimination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442790847,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lqgmn\/is_there_any_way_i_can_prove_someone_is_my\/","id":"3lqgmn","body":"Growing up, my parents had always told me that my grandparents were all dead (and nothing else about them). But about a year or so ago, I heard a rumor that my grandfather was alive, and someone gave me what was supposedly his name and previous address. I used the Internet to find what I think is his current location, but I still can't be sure he's actually related to me. After all, I could have made a mistake somewhere, and accidentally found another person with the same name. And the person who told me could just have been lying, or honest but mistaken.\n\nThe guy in question is very elderly and (I'm pretty sure) in a nursing home somewhere, so I'm not sure how I could contact him directly, and for unknown reasons his court-appointed conservator hasn't returned my calls. Is there any way that I can force someone somewhere, government or private, to confirm whether he is in fact my grandfather? When he eventually dies, could I sue to be included in his will? I don't even want any money, I'd just like someone to tell me what the bloody devil my parents were hiding.\n\nIf location matters for legal purposes, the man in question is in Massachusetts, and I'm in a different state which is not within driving distance (so it'd be difficult for me to just show up unannounced). ","title":"Is there any way I can prove someone is my grandfather?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568911610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6gqoq\/need_help_understanding_my_first_traffic_ticket\/","id":"d6gqoq","body":"To preface this, I'm a Maryland resident with no prior traffic tickets. I was recently driving on the highway and I came across an unmarked police car going about 5-10 mph over the speed limit in the left lane. There was no traffic, so I flashed to pass, but the car didn't move. I flashed again with no result so I moved towards the car and moved over to the middle lane and accelerated about 15 mph over the speed limit to pass the car. I then got in front of him in the left lane and he promptly pulled me over. I messed up, major mistakes on my part. I sped too fast and likely followed too closely, and I deserve to deal with the repercussions for that. I understood him pulling me over.\n\n\nWhat I didn't understand was the way the officer treated me and the way he spoke to me. I pulled to the side of the road and he came up to my car and immediately yelled \"Don't mess with the state police\" and began telling me everything I did wrong. I nodded and timidly acknowledged my wrongdoing. He then began getting upset about me flashing my lights at him, yelling at me and telling me that I can't flash my lights. I calmly said that I thought I could use them to flash to pass, and he said \"We don't do that around here\". He continued to tell me how I could've killed someone if it was an elderly person in front of me and how I made a big mistake. I didn't argue with any of this since I was honestly pretty scared by his demeanor and tone. He then gave me a warning and 2 citations, and got angry at me for driving like that in my dads car (why does it matter whose car?). \n\n\nHere's where the problem lies. The warning on the ticket doesn't match what I did. The warning states \"TA - 22-223(c DRIVER FAILURE TO REDUCE LIGHT DISTRIBUTION WHEN WITHIN 300 FEET OF APPROACHING VEH. FROM REAR\". I don't believe this law applies to me flashing my lights at him, and I don't know what I'm able to do to argue with it. What I did may have been illegal, but that violation doesn't match what I did.\n\n\nMy other two charges were as follows:\n\n\n\"DRIVING VEHICLE IN EXCESS OF REASONABLE AND PRUDENT SPEED ON HIGHWAY 55+\" \n$90 Fine\n\n\n\"DRIVER OF MOTOR VEHICLE FOLLOWING VEHICLE CLOSER THAN REASONABLE AND PRUDENT\"\n$110 Fine\n\n\nAre the warning and violations separate from each other? \n\n\nWhat can I do to argue with any of these charges, if anything?\n\n\nWhat should my course of action be?\n\n\nI work at a job that requires me to not have a bad driving record, or it could cost them too much in insurance. This would result in me losing my job and being kicked out of school if I'm unable to find another job (it's required for my program). I'm very concerned and I'd love to hear any advice. Thank you.","title":"Need Help Understanding My First Traffic Ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569239770,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d85hps\/do_i_need_to_file_for_a_new_llc_if_i_already_have\/","id":"d85hps","body":"Hi, I\u2019m in upstate NY. I have an LLC that I paid a fair amount of money to attorneys to establish for me. It was originally meant to be a technical consulting company but has been idle for a couple of years. If I wanted to start selling pizzas, for example\u2014so something in a different industry altogether\u2014could I simply file a DBA and operate: MyTechCompanyName, LLC dba Pizza King.\n\nAgain, there\u2019s no business activity currently associated with the LLC.\n\nThank you in advance.","title":"Do I need to file for a new LLC if I already have a dormant one that\u2019s available?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541169413,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tknc0\/property_management_started_charging_fees_to_pay\/","id":"9tknc0","body":"6 months after I already moved in, the property management sent an email stating they were switching vendors that handle payments. They never sent an email stating the fees would be pushed onto the tenant. Never resigned a new lease agreement about additional fees.  Although they do offer different option to pay, I currently pay an extra $1.95 on top of my lease agreement amount. What are my options? I live in Michigan. Thank you!","title":"Property management started charging fees to pay for rent 6 months after lease agreement.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508421683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77ek3a\/usma_auto_insurance_company_claimed_to_represent\/","id":"77ek3a","body":"I got a voicemail at work from an insurance company in late July this summer  saying that they were calling in regards to an auto accident that happened in mid July. I freaked out because as far as I had known my car had not been in an accident, however several family members had been borrowing my car and maybe they had been in an accident without telling me. After contacting everyone who borrowed my car, I found out that no one had been in an accident. I called the insurance company back, and they said the accident had happened July 2016, and gave me the plate number or car model (can't recall which) turns out it was my mom's car they were calling about. \n\nMy moms car had been in an accident last July, but I was neither he driver nor on her insurance at that time (although I am now and at the time of the call, which is why I assumed they called me). I told the person that I thought it had been resolved, and she said it was, but now the other driver is coming after us for more money.  She asked if I could make a recorded statement, and I said no (bc I didn't have time and wasn't even in the country when the accident happened anyways). She started the recording anyways and after the first question I repeated that I did not agree to make a recording, and I will call her back when I have the time. I planned to call her back after work. I went home and asked my mom about it and she said that this company wasn't even her insurance company, and that neither party had been found at fault for the accident. \n\nNormally I would think maybe I misunderstood the person on the phone, but because of the confusion with the dates and the fact that this happened over a year ago, I asked a lot of questions, and the woman on the phone made it very clear that she was my mom's insurance company, and made it seem like the other driver was coming after them for more money. \n\nI didn't call her back and didn't reply to her phone calls. Eventually I got a letter in the mail asking me to call. I starters getting voicemails from a man with he insurance company. This same man  came to our house when we were not home, and left their card and a message relative was visiting. He's been sending me phone calls, voicemails and texts, to the point that I blocked his number.  Last week, I saw he viewed my LinkedIn profile, and today I come into work and my supervisor gave me a message saying he called because he is trying to track me down and wants to know if I am still an employee. \n\nI do not want to talk to them after the initial caller misrepresented the situation and themselves, and tried to push me into giving a recorded  statement. I do not know why the keep calling me specifically, though I assume it is because they have my contact info. This insurance company was my insurance company last year, so I assume they saw the same address and knew they could contact me about it. They also know I was not the driver because during the initial phone call, the woman said the name of the actual driver (not my mom or me). At this point I am also assuming they represent the other driver. \n\nWhat can I do to stop them from harassing me? If they have an issue they can work with my mom's insurance but I do not want to talk to them or give any recorded statement. \n\nEdits: for clarity ","title":"[US-MA] auto insurance company claimed to represent my mom, tried to get a recorded statement from me regarding an accident I was not involved in. When I found out they were not my mom's insurance company I stopped replying to them, and now they are harassing me on my phone at home and at work.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568597219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4ts6u\/wanting_to_break_1_year_lease_2_months_in\/","id":"d4ts6u","body":"The title says it all, really. I live in a house and all has been fine and dandy until the unit above me got rented out. The dude is obnoxious as shit, blasts his music at all and I mean ALL hours of the day, is constantly yelling at his tv, his kids, his girlfriend, parties so loud you can hear it down the block, he's stolen my underwear from the laundry room common area... For whatever reason, he controls the heat and air conditioner throughout the entire house so it's either uncomfortably hot or cold. He nearly gave my dog heatstroke for leaving the heat on for a week straight! I've tried talking to the landlord multiple times, I've called the police and gotten him fined twice, I've even tried talking to the dirtbag himself but he won't relent and my landlord couldn't care less. Her words, not mine.\n\n​\n\nHow do I go about breaking the lease legally? What does it entail? Do I need to get a lawyer involved? Located in BC, Canada.","title":"Wanting to break 1 year lease 2 months in?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554163281,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8bkop\/sister_of_10_years_of_age_was_sexually_harassed\/","id":"b8bkop","body":"I just found out that my sister age 10 was sexually harassed by another classmate. This is the third time this has happened by the same classmate and the only reason she spoke up was because 2 of her friends reported the boy and after talking to my sister, she did not speak up the first 2 times cause she was so nervous.\n\nThe boy had touched her chest, buttocks, and genital areas even after being told to stop.\n\nI want to make sure that this does not happen again and to keep the boy away from my sister as she is very clearly disturbed and does not want to talk about the topic.\n\nWhat are the legal steps I should be taking? Who should I file complaints to?\n\nState and city: Las Vegas, NV\n\n​","title":"Sister of 10 years of age was sexually harassed","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555303012,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdc0ya\/a_question_about_traffic_laws\/","id":"bdc0ya","body":"I just recently got T-boned at an intersection. I had a stop sign and the guy had a flashing yellow light. I had previously stopped at the sign and waited for a good bit to make sure no traffic was coming my way, then proceeded. The other guy was about 30-40 feet away and had plenty of time to see me and react, as he was (according to himself and a witness behind him) doing only 25mph. Instead of stopping the driver proceeded forward and looked like he swerved into me rather than just stopping. I was given a citation for failure to yield by a police officer that responded to the scene. Am I at fault? The driver had plenty of time to stop, and I was already over halfway through the intersection before he hit me. What recourse can I go through to prove I'm not at fault if Im not?  Could I get the citation dropped if I attend the court date issued and explain what happened? Or am I completely at fault, and I was in no way in the right and he didn't have to stop at all?","title":"a question about traffic laws.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570314784,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddufw4\/enforcement_of_informal_contract_for_independent\/","id":"ddufw4","body":"In Texas. \n\nI was recently hired by a small business as an independent contractor to work a few large events in the coming weeks. No formal agreement or contract was signed but they had me fill out a W9. \n\nAfter submitting paperwork the manager emailed me a schedule of my shifts and I confirmed, totaling around 30 hours over two weeks. Halfway through my first shift, I was released early due to \u201cslow business.\u201d They cancelled my second shift the morning of, and alluded to the possibility of cancelling the remaining shifts as well. \n\nI am concerned about loss of wages due to the companies poor planning. I don\u2019t know if they plan to pay me for the times I agreed to work, even though I am no longer needed. \n\nEmployee handbook states \u201cIndependent contractors are not employees and are paid according to contract and not according to wage and hour law.\u201d\n\nWould my emails with the manager constitute a contract\/verbal agreement? Does that mean I would be paid for the agreed schedule, since I am not an \u201chourly employee?\u201d\n\nThanks!","title":"Enforcement of informal contract for independent contractors?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553984622,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7grxr\/was_pools_closed_the_habbo_raid_from_2006_illegal\/","id":"b7grxr","body":"So a while back I heard a lot about this Habbo Hotel raid called \"pool's closed\", with which many of you are probably familiar. I had considered joining it but it seemed like it could be considered \"hate speech\" or something like that, since people were doing questionable things. Was it really illegal? The question just came up in my mind when remembering that incident haha, thanks guys\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Was \"pool's closed\" (the habbo raid from 2006) illegal in any way?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1447433186,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sog98\/tn_usa_renting_townhouse_with_shared_wall\/","id":"3sog98","body":"Quick summary on back story, more details in comments:\n\nBasically about 2 months ago new neighbors moved in to the townhouse connected to mine.  They smoke weed 3x+ times per week and it stinks up most of my apartment.\n\nI asked management to attempt to seal a vent, or do something.   Management told me that they were unable to do that, and all they could do is write them a letter.\n\nI don't know what my options are.  Do I have any right to expect the leasing agency to do something about this?  If I feel that my conditions aren't habitable, can I try and break my lease?  I'd rather move out than deal with frequently having to lock myself in my room and block the door with a towel... ","title":"[TN, USA] Renting townhouse with shared wall, neighbors smoke week 3+ times a week, stinks up my apartment. Management unresponsive, options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552485795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0mdd5\/what_to_do_with_an_abusive_and_manipulative_dad\/","id":"b0mdd5","body":"This is for my friend who I am close with and is struggling with an abusive parent. In this case, I'm just going to call my friend Bob. \n\n​\n\nSo today, I was happily texting a friend of mine until I found out he has been crying these few days. He explains to me that he was crying just then because of how angry his dad was when he found out he hasn't taken a shower this late into the night (8:30pm). Bob describes it as \"starts swearing and s\\*\\*\\*, telling me how I smell like Mom's a\\*\\*.\" Worst part was, he was in a call with a couple of friends when this happened. He explains to me that this verbal abuse is isn't uncommon and it's something he and his mother have been enduring for a long time - a divorce is even expected.\n\n​\n\nThere are many instances where he would rage towards his family and continue arguing until he gets his way. He restricts the family's freedom to go places and when Bob wants to go out, the dad provokes a challenging attitude that made sure he isn't allowed to go anywhere else besides the university he's enrolled in. That's why sometimes, friend is scared to go back home and tries to be out as long as possible. He spends every night in the house with anticipation of the sudden outrage his dad dishes out onto his family. He even threatens his son to kill him and banter about it with other family members. \n\nThere was a time where his dad praised him up towards other relatives, but Bob believes this is for his own personal gain. Whenever this doesn't happen, he likes lashing out\/emotionally abusing the mom and occasionally scolding his children for no reason.\n\n​\n\nBob hates his dad. \n\n​\n\nIt was that night when he vented to me through messenger. Bulks of texts were sent fueled by the anger boiled up inside him. It was obvious that his life was altered heavily on the abusive relationship he had with his Dad. He even states, \"my love is f\\*\\*\\* cause of my dad.\" Bob just hopes that his Dad can get out of his life forever and never have to think about him. \n\n​\n\nThe thing is, Bob's dad won't agree to sign the divorce papers assigned. Apparently, he doesn't want to lose the 'house money' and care for Bob and his sister as they are not 18 yet. Bob wants to take legal action against him because he believes he can't play the passive game any longer. But as a 1st year uni student (17), he isn't sure what he is capable of doing. As a friend whose parents have been recently divorced, my anger led me to this sub searching for courses of actions Bob may achieve. (Of course, he gave consent for me to post here for legal advice).\n\n​\n\n\\*Located at Queensland, Australia\\*\n\n​\n\n​","title":"What to do with an abusive and manipulative Dad who won't agree to sign divorce papers.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570399346,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dea5ot\/mold_in_apartment_personal_belongings_destroyed\/","id":"dea5ot","body":"I\u2019m a college student and I have a mold in my apartment (off campus). I live on the ground floor, with almost no sunlight, and lots of plants right outside of my window. This situation started in June\/July I believe. Out of nowhere I got trachea and pharynx infection. I didn\u2019t think of it much until I noticed my shoes and jackets getting molded. They were covered in white patches and around that time I\u2019ve also noticed mold in my bathroom wall. (That\u2019s when I knew that my infection was caused by the mold) I told the leasing office about it and they changed the wall and they changed my carpets as I requested. I thought everything would be fine from then on. I left for vacations for 3-4 weeks and when I came back, more clothes\/shoes\/jackets\/bags were covered in mildew. My roommates wall is also starting to get covered in mold. We told the leasing office and they invited a second inspection last week which concluded that mold spores are coming from the trees that are outside and that\u2019s why our apt is molded. I\u2019ve lost around $1000\/$2000 due to destroyed belongings, it has caused me a severe stress which disrupts with my school, health issues, and I just don\u2019t want to be home at all... I\u2019ve told the leasing office that they should move us to a different apartment but they say that we would have to start a new lease and the rent would be much higher. If I was to break the lease, I\u2019d have to pay 2 months worth of rent after I move out. I\u2019m in contact with Renter\u2019s insurance so we\u2019ll see if I can be reimbursed... I also made an appointment with legal services office on my campus. Is there anything else I could do? Can I sue them? If yes, then how? Thank you in advance!","title":"Mold in apartment. Personal belongings destroyed. Resident of California.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540325961,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qspko\/questions_about_the_estate_of_my_deceased_mother\/","id":"9qspko","body":"My mom passed away in January 2018. I am the only living heir. She left a will, left 100% of her estate to me - my father (they are divorced) was named executor, however they had not spoken in over ten years (it was an old will) so he declined it.\n\n​\n\nShe was somewhere between $5000-$10000 in credit card debt, multiple cards. I don't know exactly how much because in order to run a credit report on her, I apparently have to be the executor, but there isn't one. My peers have urged me to NOT file to become executor since it's a ton of work, I live out of state, and I don't have any money. No debt collectors have tried to get in touch with me.\n\n​\n\nHer estate only consists of whats in her bank account (\\~$2500), her car (worth maybe \\~$1500), and her IRA, if that is a part of it, I'm not sure. Her car is still in the lot it was in when she passed, and I've been told by the owner of the lot that it needs to be gone by the end of the year. But if her estate technically belongs to the credit card companies, and there's no executor, what am I supposed to do? I've called the probate court for the county she lived in roughly 10-15 times, and no one answers and I've left several voicemails, so that's really why I'm turning to reddit for answers. It's been 10 months and no one has tried to come for any of her assets so I don't know what I'm supposed to do.","title":"Questions about the estate of my deceased mother who was in debt","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539670672,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9okyfy\/serious_to_what_extent_are_reddit_memes_legally\/","id":"9okyfy","body":"Background: we are a hopeful startup attempting to build a dating site in which user interactions are set up via common taste in humor. We're targeting US first but will be moving to the international space with the same setup as I will describe below.\n\nIn order to source memes for our platform we wanted to use a curated list of subreddits which had content that would be recent and contribute to the application. This would mean we would fetch the subreddit content and display it using the Reddit API.\n\nNow fast forward to relevant sections of the [Reddit API Terms and Conditions](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/wiki\/api-terms#wiki_2.__your_use_of_reddit_apis.), section 2d:\n\n> 2. d. User Content. Reddit user photos, text and videos (\"User Content\") are owned by the users and not by Reddit. Subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms, Reddit grants You a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable license to copy and display the User Content using the Reddit API through your application, website, or service to end users. You may not modify the User Content except to format it for such display. You will comply with any requirements or restrictions imposed on usage of User Content by their respective owners, which may include \"all rights reserved\" notices, Creative Commons licenses or other terms and conditions that may be agreed upon between you and the owners.\n\nI've got 2 questions regarding this. First, as it says that the content is owned by users and not Reddit, does that mean we cannot use them in our commercial application even if we display them without modification (showing both the username and subreddit as well, we simply \"format it for such display\")?\n\nSecondly, by \"you will comply with any requirements or restrictions imposed on usage of User Content by their respective owners,\" is that on a preemptive or reactive basis? e.g. Do we contact the user for each content before using it at all, or can we have an automated system that displays a feed of content from the subreddit apart from anything we deem is copyrighted (and if contacted, remove content)?\n\n\nOn a separate note, by saying all content is owned by the users, would that mean meme reposts are actually illegal? I doubt that it is enforceable but at least in theory would they be subject to copyright laws?","title":"(Serious) To what extent are Reddit memes legally protected?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541495200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9umtyd\/iowa_able_to_charge_employee\/","id":"9umtyd","body":"Employee states the other manager, who longer works for the company, gave her permission to run the credit of a customer at the cost of $30. Customer never followed through with the purchase and the company is now out $30, not to mention the inquiry on the customers credit for an unauthorized credit check. \nCan I ask that employee pays the $30 and either split it with previous manager or however they see fit but the company shouldn\u2019t be out the $30. Both employees know how big of a screw up that is. Employee even stated she\u2019d have to pay the $30, but is it legal?","title":"Iowa- able to charge employee?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570495131,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/desis5\/i_just_had_my_spousalchild_support_hearing\/","id":"desis5","body":"My ex refuses to leave the apartment till I find a job. I've been a sahm for 5 years. Prior to that most of my job experience is in low wage jobs. I need training or further education to support myself. No determination was made today. I explained that while he is paying some bills, he neglecting ones that affect my ability to find work or are even necessary for emergencies. I explained to the judge that I have no money, no income, no savings and property. I explained my liking for work that will support me and my kids that either offer training or education opportunities. My ex went on about irrelevant issues. What should I expect. I live in Pittsburgh, pa. Is there any reason a judge could refuse someone in my position?","title":"I just had my spousal\/child support hearing","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542052080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9whe4f\/electric_scooter_accident\/","id":"9whe4f","body":"To sum up today's events while I was coming down a alleyway on a lime scooter after slowing down to cross, in the process of crossing the one-way street I was hit by a vehicle. I suspect the vehicle was either going too fast or distracted and wasn't able to react until the point of collision. The posted speed was 25 MPH. on the lime scooter i was going perhaps 5 if that. The officer that came issued me a contact receipt which had a signal 32, which is a personal injury code. The car who hit me was admit on seeking repairs to his vehicle placing the blame on me. In a state of confusion and adrenaline I wasn't prepared or able to defend myself. The office seem to have sided with the person who hit me. \n\nShould I seek legal counsel? \n\nWhat actions should I take? (bare in mind i'm a college student already on a tight budget.) \n\nPS. sorry for the wall of text. ","title":"Electric Scooter Accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555010109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc3w4r\/can_landlord_refuse_to_renew_lease_because_of_a\/","id":"bc3w4r","body":"Hello! On mobile, sorry for bad formatting.\n\nI have severe anxiety and depression. Recently spoke to my doc and she suggested that getting a small dog would help tremendously since I was doing a TON better back when I had pets. They gave me reason to step outside and keep going. I'm hoping to train and and register the dog as a support animal. A few days ago I went to the shelter a found the sweetest little boy, but unfortunately the timing seems bad because we're about to renew our lease by the end of next month. \n\nMy landlords are... well not very nice and despises animals. They also remodeled the house before we moved in, so I can also understand why they want to be cautious aside from them hating any little critter (they even said no to fish). They also seem to be super untrustworthy. They send people to take pictures of the inside of my home like every 2 to 3 months as part of an inspection. They mostly do it to my room in particular, which makes me really uncomfortable because I have personal and expensive items.\n\n\nAnyways, I'd love to adopt the puppy, but I'm afraid that if I register him now and bring the the letter from my doc, our landlords will try to fight it... And  even if they allow the dog for now, I'm scared that they will refuse to renew the lease for next year.\n \nI'm located in California. I've looked into the fair housing act, and into as much info as possible about service animals. If it's best to wait, I'll hold off on getting a dog. I'm terrified of risking my family being homeless. If I do wait, would it be better to bring it up again to my landlords after we've signed the lease?","title":"Can landlord refuse to renew lease because of a Service Animal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447252781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3seqtk\/contractor_has_not_returned_to_finish_building\/","id":"3seqtk","body":"I hired a Landscaping contractor to build me a half wall & half fence combination, as well as to put in some grass, landscape rocks and some stonework on the pillars used in the wall. This guy did work on the house across from mine, which is where I got his info and he also did some work on my folks place after they saw his work here. The original quote he gave me was for $9500 and he said it might be a few hundred more than that towards the end. He began work in June of this year,over the course of three months he managed to put the wall up, with 8 columns, put a cheaper version of the fence we wanted without showing us samples like we asked. He put in two different types of grass, one that grows significantly faster than the other and one that barely grows at all. The sprinkler system he installed does not work properly. \n\nHe brought landscaping rocks in without first bringing a sample by and I had asked at least a half dozen times for him to bring samples by. He brought caps for the columns but never attached them so they are sitting freely on the columns, and at $50\/ea it worries me. The only real thing he has left to finish is the stonre work he was supposed to place around each of the columns. The budget ending up getting to $10,700 and after I gave him a  check for the last $500 he disappeared never to be seen again apparently. It was my mistake for giving him the last bit of money while there was still work to be done. He had complained about how tight the budget would be for the project the ENTIRE time he was here, and moaned about how he was going to have to pull money from other projects to finish it. I disregarded this because we had already raised the budget, not to mention the fact that my folks gave him an extra $2,000 on top of their budget because he did a decent job finishing theirs. \n\nI just don't know what my options are at this point. I would really love to just have the work completed at this point and I fear my HOA may come at me soon about the unfinished columns. I have his number, but he does not respond to calls or texts. I do not have an address for him either. A lot of the work was done by his young kid and this Hispanic guy and his two young kids(Under the age of 10). There is more than stonework that needs to be fixed, broken chunks of the wall he said he would fix, the sprinkler system needs fixing, and the whole grass situation with two very different types of grass bothers me. \n\nI also suppose it's worth noting that we sort of had a contract that he devised in MS Word, but it's far from anything professional. This guy does not have fully run professional business. \n\nI will be leaving for work shortly with little access to reddit so I hope i provided enough info at this point. I forgot to add that this is in Southern California around the Palm Springs area.\n\nThank you","title":"Contractor has not returned to finish building the wall we hired him for.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568578188,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4prvz\/gf_is_being_told_to_sign_a_document_agreeing_to\/","id":"d4prvz","body":"GF's employer posted [This Document](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/EEV1LDP.jpg) at her work today, and told everyone they have to sign it. In it, the employer is literally stating that they will not pay their employees for time they have worked. GF hasn't signed it yet. I know that FLSA requires employers to track all employee hours accurately, as well as pay employees for ALL hours worked. However, if she refuses to sign she will likely get fired. She has no other jobs lined up, and enjoys her work otherwise. What is my GF's best response to this?","title":"GF is being told to sign a document agreeing to not be paid for hours not clocked in?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555105694,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcjah7\/for_official_use_only\/","id":"bcjah7","body":"Am I allowed to take a FOUO contract to a attorney if the other party is not honoring their side of the contract?","title":"For official use only","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569510546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9kx6z\/boss_says_i_am_self_employed_but_i_have_to_follow\/","id":"d9kx6z","body":"So a little background, I started working at this place about 3 and a half years ago as an associate. Then about a year later I asked if I could start doing the bookkeeping for him since I was already doing it as an associate. It was supposed to be my only position, Bookkeeping. Since it was two years ago the only thing I remember from the contract was having to give 90 day notice when i leave. \n\nHowever, he still has me working as an associate, taking on manager duties and maybe occasionally I can work on book keeping. This includes me still doing sales, abiding by his schedule, and i have to pay my own taxes, he doesn\u2019t deduct them. So this makes me think I am misclassified as an employee.\n\nI asked for a copy of my contract yesterday for an apartment over email, and instead of emailing me back he called me and told me that I am self employed so I don\u2019t need it. \n\nI already know I need to get out. This was my first real job and I didn\u2019t realize at the time that the company would screw me over. Definitely a learning experience. \n\nI am just curious on if since he misclassified me and is treating me as an employee instead of someone who is self employed if the contract is any way breeched? Should I contact the IRS about the misclassification?","title":"Boss says I am self employed, but I have to follow his schedule and won\u2019t give me my contract to refer to","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568522255,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4fzom\/labourstat_day_help\/","id":"d4fzom","body":"I live in Canada. I noticed on my pay stub that i got paid for 2 hours of Stat pay, and the day that was the holiday was Labour day. Now i worked on the day before and on September 2. I do nightwatch as a living and i worked 10pm-8am (Sept 1 going into the 2nd) and 10pm-7:30am (2nd into the 3rd). I was told two things. \n\n- That Stat pay starts right on the midnight of the day and ends when the following day comes (12:00am to 11:59pm) \n\n- People who work into the Stat day will get the entire shift paid as Stat pay.\n\nI do a lot for my work place but you kind of get sick when you don\u2019t get what you put in. Did they pay me correctly (2 hours Stat pay) or did they short me?","title":"Labour\/Stat day help","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568432425,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d405xl\/im_the_master_tenant_on_a_new_lease_with_3\/","id":"d405xl","body":"I vetted these strangers and they\u2019re all lovely people, but I still want to protect myself in case they turn sour. I\u2019m not too familiar with California housing laws, so are there other things I should have the housemates agree to? \n\nAs an example, I was thinking of having them agree that they can\u2019t move out before the lease is up without finding someone to pay the rent in their place. Is this useful? Is there anything else I should add?","title":"I\u2019m the master tenant on a new lease with 3 strangers, should I have a contract for them to sign?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542007785,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wbyls\/how_do_i_coparent_with_an_abusive_ex\/","id":"9wbyls","body":"Just this weekend and five years post divorce I found myself checked in a Hyatt a few miles from my house, once again seeking emotional refuge from my abusive ex. When he found it threat I am now dating someone, he completely flipped and verbally attacked me over the phone, flooded my phone with nasty messages and lastly threatened to come to my house and take our son. \nAs I lay in one of the double beds watching my now 11 year old sleep in the bed next to me, I found myself having PTSD flashbacks of the torment my ex\/sons father put me through when I finally had the courage to leave him 5 years ago and all of the verbal and emotional abusive I endured for years before that. \u201cWill he try to forcefully take my son again?\u201d \u201cWill he come pounding on my doors in the middle of the night?\u201d With the use of all the tools I e gained through therapy, yoga, personal development books... etc. I managed to pick myself up and start making a plan. \nI fought a long and hard 4 year custody battle and the judge finally gave him weekend visits 8 months ago. The visits were going well, because my narcissistic ex behaves extremely nice when things are going his way but now that he found out I am happy and possibly moving on, the irrational abuser was unleashed. \nMy question is... Are there others going through something similar? If so what kind of custody agreement do you have? What\u2019s the best way for me to get full custody of my son? \n","title":"How do I co-parent with an abusive ex","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571425490,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djs5xm\/trying_to_get_reimbursed_by_car_insurance\/","id":"djs5xm","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice,\n\nA month ago I was involved in a car accident. The other party rear ended me on the highway and it was pretty open and shit as far as who was at fault. It took some time, but I was able to get my car repaired and during the process, I made use of a rental car. Now, I'm trying to get reimbursed for said rental through the other person's insurance and I am getting the run around. The claims representative told me that it could take up to two years before I'd get any reimbursement! I am currently facing $700 for this rental and it's looking like I might never see that money again. Is there anything I can do to get reimbursed? Do I have to seek legal action? Would it even be worth it? I just feel defeated after this whole battle with the insurance company. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.   \n\n\nHere is some additional information: I live in the United States. The other party member was driving a rental car and had purchased the insurance through the rental company.","title":"Trying to get reimbursed by car insurance.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539888635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pc3in\/missouri_how_to_transfer_the_right_to_prepare_my\/","id":"9pc3in","body":"I am 18 years old and living in southeast Missouri. I may be dying soon, and I want to insure that my will and final wishes are carried out. As I understand since I have to next of kin my parents would become the executor of my estate and decide my funeral preparations. However, due to recent developments in our lives I am not sure my parents will carry out my funeral preparations properly, specifically regarding my gravestone and the preparation of my body. Is there a legal way for me transfer the rights to my funeral preparations to a trusted friend, and how can I go about insuring that any of my dying wishes regarding my property and my memory be honored?","title":"(Missouri) How to transfer the right to prepare my funeral to a person other than my family?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554259646,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8skug\/rescinded_offer_for_salary_requirements\/","id":"b8skug","body":"I recently interviewed for a position at a local tech company and received an offer.  The compensation in the offer was significantly less than my salary requirements, so I countered.  They refused to budge on the salary and eventually rescinded the offer.\n\nToday I came across a website that publishes salaries for H1B visa employees and found that this company sponsors quite a few of them.  They are currently sponsoring multiple people with the same title as the position I was offered, and with salaries 20-30% more than what I asked for.\n\nAdmittedly, **I am not an expert on H1B visas, nor employment law.**\n\nIf I am qualified for the position, are they legally allowed to deny my employment based on my reasonable salary requirements when they are sponsoring H1B visas with much higher salaries?\n\n​\n\n(Please do not turn this into a racist thing.  The person that has that position must have worked very hard to get there.  I'd like to get a better understanding of the H1B visas and not have this thread instantly lock.)","title":"Rescinded Offer for Salary Requirements","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541007652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t10sw\/being_denied_housing_with_legitimate_esa\/","id":"9t10sw","body":"Michigan. My boyfriend has a legitimate ESA dog, with an official letter from a therapist, not an online scam certificate. She is a pitbull lab mix. We brought up this information to the apartment complex that we wanted to move into, and they told us that even though she is an ESA, they don\u2019t allow pitbulls. I did my research and found that LEGITIMATE ESAs cannot be denied housing for that reason, even in an apartment that\u2019s not pet friendly. Is this place denying us legal? How do we show them that they are in the wrong? ","title":"Being denied housing with LEGITIMATE ESA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554657981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baiocb\/my_mompurchased_a_house_from_a_trust_managed_by_a\/","id":"baiocb","body":"long backstory but needed for context:\n\nSometime in the late 80s\/early 90s my aunt began a relationship with a man who was quadriplegic. She was his caretaker 24\/7 and from my understanding eventually gave up her career to look after him and somehow received a salary from this via a foundation and\/or SSI or something similar (somewhere in the 40k \/year range). \n\nAt some point he received a settlement from his accident that paralyzed him somewhere around 750k-1M.  The proceeds of the settlement were moved to an irrevocable trust managed by his father so that they would not lose medical benefits provided by state healthcare.  The trust owned my aunts home where she lived with her boyfriend as well as the boyfriends family home and had cash.\n\nSomewhere in the last 15 years the father died and it was discovered that he had mismanaged\/gambled\/ paid off his mortgage and spent all of the money in the trust.  My aunts boyfriend was also drawing on this for living expenses as their only other income was his disability + my aunts salary as his caretaker. I believe they never married because she would not have been able to get paid to be his caretaker and he refused to let anyone else do so.  \n\nThe family then decided to ask my aunt to become the trustee with the boyfriend as the main beneficiary and his 4 siblings are contingents I believe (not sure how trusts work)\n\nMy aunt could no longer afford the home after a few years and they  approached my mother with the idea of buying the home from the trust. This meant that my aunt and boyfriend could remain in the home. My mom would get the home at a deeply discounted price as an investment split the mortgage with my aunt and my aunt and her boyfriend would receive proceeds to live off of (somewhere around 75-100k). No issues came up during sales process and my mom bout the home around 2013. \n\nRecently the boyfriend died with no will. The siblings immediately asked my aunt how long she would need to be in the house for because they wanted to sell it.  My aunt informed them that the trust did not own the home anymore and it had been purchased by my mom when they could no longer afford it due to their father illegally spending all of his son\u2019s settlement money. \n\nYesterday my aunt received a certified letter from a trust attorney asking for all financial documentation related to the trust for the last 20  years as well all documents related to the purchase and sale of the home as well as an explanation as to how she acted in a fiduciary role when she sold the home from 100k under market price and where the rest of the proceeds of the sale went. \n\nI guess I\u2019m wondering if it is possible if my mom could lose the house or really what type of issues are they going to face going forward. They are supposed to meet with their own attorney this week but i was looking for some additional advice\n\nTLDR: aunt acting as trustee of an irrevocable trust sold a home out from the trust to her own family member. Beneficiaries of the trust are now starting legal review into the sale of the home. \n\nThanks for any advice! ","title":"My mompurchased a house from a trust (managed by a family member) they possibly shouldn\u2019t have sold it. Can she lose the house?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571335082,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dja27o\/left_item_at_host_family_is_it_considered_a_crime\/","id":"dja27o","body":"San Diego: Left a personal item (of high value to me) at a host family, before moving to a new host family. I have contacted them by phone and email multiple times now, and it\u2019s been a week. Is it considered a crime if they have disposed of the item or larceny if they refuse to give it back? Would filing a police report do me any justice? Just looking for help as to what I can do...TIA xx","title":"Left item at host family, is it considered a crime if they have disposed of it or refuse to return it?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569268206,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8buyb\/nv_cited_for_resisting_public_officer\/","id":"d8buyb","body":"I was standing behind the police line they set up for a perimeter for a barricaded suspect in a business that was across the street about 100-150 yards away. \n\nI was standing there talking with the officer without issue for several minutes, then all of sudden when SWAT is setting up to make entry he tells me to back away. So I step back about 15ft behind him, but I still have clear line of sight of what\u2019s transpiring down the road. \n\nHe then says he want me out of sight, because he doesn\u2019t want me to get hurt or me react and start shooting, because I made him aware through casual conversation I\u2019m a CCW holder. I told him I appreciate his concern, but I\u2019m aware of the risks by being a bystander. Also said I wasn\u2019t planing on intervening on a situation that already being handled by SWAT. He then goes on to say by me refusing to move, an already safe distance, to a place where he feels is safe, I\u2019m obstructing him. \n\nI didn\u2019t understand how my current location was in anyway obstructing his ability to maintain the perimeter. which was where the drive way on private property meets the public road. \n\nFrom what I understand, I feel like he can not arbitrarily tell to me stand \u201cout of sight\u201d especially when well clear of the perimeter line and on private property. \n\nDoes what I described actually meet the qualifications of the Infraction I was cited for?","title":"[NV] Cited for Resisting Public Officer","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541430602,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ueaac\/should_i_take_my_former_landlord_to_small_claims\/","id":"9ueaac","body":"I\u2019m currently in a bit of a stalemate with a former landlord about a security deposit.\n\nAbout two and a half years ago, my boyfriend and I subletted an apartment from friends of mine. They had just bought a house and needed to get out of their lease. In the time they were there, the property was bought by another management company (shitty, corperate company), thus transferring thier lease and all deposits to the new company. When my boyfriend and I took over their lease, my friends gave us thier security deposits and everything and nothing seemed wrong remiss when we signed with them.\n\nOur lease with this company ended September 30th. When I went to drop off the keys, I settled on the small incidental charges that were going to come out of the security deposit. In reviewing this with the property manager, she then claims the security deposit my friends had initially paid was $275 dollars, and that we would owe them an additional $250 dollars for pet cleaning etc. I pushed back on this, I was fine with the fees\/charges they were assessing, but I had NEVER rented anywhere with a security deposit that low. Even the property manager was like \u201cyeah you\u2019ll totally get money back\u201d and then when she looked in the system she made a face like there was a mistake. She then continued to double down on the fact that the system was right and we owed them money. I told her I would be contacting my friends to see if they had any documentation for what they paid. \n\nI contacted my friends who then also insisted they paid more that $275 for a security deposit, and proceeded to send me copies of the checks cashed by the old management company clearly memo\u2019ed security deposit for $875. I sent this to the property manager, and asked that they check their records because we have evidence thier records aren\u2019t correct. In the month or so we have moved out, we have been corresponding with the property manager, and she keeps telling us she can\u2019t find my friends records. My friends only lived under the old management company for about a year or so, then another partial year under new ownership, it is not like they had a very long-standing lease. The management company sent us one notice about two weeks ago that the $250 we owe is due and they will send it to collections if we don\u2019t pay in 15 days. \n\nI received an email from the property manager on Tuesday that was basically a word document she said was \u201csent from the CFO\u201d of the company showing this is what the old management company paid them for my friend\u2019s deposit. It is extremely non-descript and does not have any indicators it was generated outside of thier office in excel.\n\nMy questions are - do we have any recourse with this issue? I feel like we basically have bonafide proof they mishandled our money in some way and have not been able to prove otherwise. \n\nCan we fight these charges and what could our options be? \n\n","title":"Should I take my former landlord to small claims court? Inaction may hurt my credit. [PA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447558930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3suxqm\/deceased_mothers_journals_as_hearsay\/","id":"3suxqm","body":"In a custody court case of the child's father vs her guardians (child's aunt\/uncle); would a diary from the child's mother saying he was abusive to her and the child hold up in court or be thrown out for hearsay?\n\nEdit: they are in texas\n","title":"Deceased mother's journals as hearsay","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569778493,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daybhn\/electrical_problems\/","id":"daybhn","body":"I\u2019ll try to make this short and sweet. I moved into my apartment back in mid-July. When I moved in everything seemed alright as far as appliances, plumbing, etc. Shortly after moving in my AC (central air) died, lights started flickering and my water heater started leaking and my washer and dryer quit working.\n\nI notified my landlord (property management company) about the problems and there was little to no action taken. I was without AC for almost the entire month of August, (I live in Virginia, so August is about the worst time to have no AC), and their only solution was to add a window unit in my bedroom. After that there was no communication about the status of the repairs. Finally after several weeks of asking, emails and visits to the office with a written list of the needed repairs they fixed the AC, water heater and washer\/dryer.\n\nThe lights in my kitchen and bathroom still flickered after the \u201crepairs\u201d, but at least my AC was fixed along with the water heater. It then took them another 2 weeks to remove the window unit from my bedroom. All the while there is very little communication from the property manager. \n\nNow, with the unseasonably hot weather in late September my AC is dead again, the lights in my kitchen (overhead track lighting) are half burnt out and the rest flicker and cut out randomly. \n\nWhen the repairs were underway about 3 weeks ago one of the maintenance workers told me in person the problems were all related and were electrical in nature. He is not an electrician, but said one would be by to look at the breaker panel ASAP. I was told that one did visit, but got no communication on whether he felt more extensive repairs were needed. I was told by the non-electrician maintenance worker that there may have been a surge that blew a bunch of things out.\n\nNow that these problems with the AC and lights have returned I feel like any sort of major repairs that were mentioned are indeed necessary, and because all of these problems seem to be electrical it makes me very concerned about fire or shock. Let alone the lack of AC and having a dark kitchen.\n\nNow for my question: Rent is due in a few days and I am debating withholding my rent until these things are fixed to my satisfaction. Do I have any sort of legal standing withholding rent? Or will they attempt to evict me? I just want the repairs to be made and get on with the rest of my life. I want a home that feels comfortable and safe and I don\u2019t feel like paying them money for a place that doesn\u2019t feel like that. \n\nAny advice is much appreciated and feel free to ask any questions as I may have left out some important info.","title":"Electrical problems!!!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569447747,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9a1ew\/federal_hiring_process\/","id":"d9a1ew","body":"I work for a federal agency. 3 years ago I applied and was nominated for an Asst. Director job for an office. The hiring official conducted interviews and they submitted my name through the competitive process to the District Director. In my agency, there is an approval process for signature. Hiring official (Director) in each state, district director, then to central office operations. In this instance the District Director did not support the nomination. Fast forward to a couple months ago, and again I was nominated for an Asst. Director job in a different state. Same District Director did not support the nomination. Filed a formal EEO complaint. Any advice on getting a lawyer or am I wasting my time?","title":"Federal Hiring Process","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554314505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b91d2e\/woman_living_in_parked_car_on_street_in_oakland\/","id":"b91d2e","body":"Posting on behalf of a coworker who doesn't use Reddit.\n\n  \nOne of my teammates lives in in Piedmont (Oakland, CA \/ Bay Area). For the last few days, a Honda sedan has been parked on the street directly to the left of the end of her driveway. At first, she didn't mind it and thought one of the neighbors might have a guest. Then, her nanny told her that she saw a person sitting in the front seat of the car. The windows were fogged up. The next day, my coworker's husband saw the person move to the backseat. Coworker and husband have 2 young children, so they have been closely monitoring the situation.\n\nAfter 3 days of waiting and observing, my coworker called the non-emergency police line. Eventually, two cops came and spoke to the person in the car. It's a middle-aged woman. The cops told my coworker that the woman is homeless, so they gave her a flyer listing local homeless shelters. The police informed my coworker that under local law, it is not illegal to live in your car. So, unless the person is doing something otherwise illegal, she cannot be asked to move.\n\nMy coworker made sure to contact her neighbors to give them they update; several neighbors also have young children and noticed the parked car.\n\nWe were all a little perplexed when we heard this story over breakfast. My coworker is understandably concerned about the safety of her house, her kids, etc. In theory, any number of people could live in any number of cars parked in any neighborhood in Oakland? Is there really no other recourse to encourage this woman to move her car \/ residence?\n\nThanks for your help!\n\n​","title":"Woman living in parked car on street in Oakland, CA community; no recourse to encourage her to move.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506439794,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72l3wb\/my_lawyer_refuses_to_cooperate_with_settlement\/","id":"72l3wb","body":"He wants me to agree to my company paying him the absolute maximum that my company can afford each month. He wants a profit loss statement so that he can determine the amount of profit we make, and he wants me to agree to pay him that amount every month. Every time I have tried to explain why I do not want to do this, He threatens that if I do not pay him and settle he will set up a trial date asap. We really do not want to go to trial because the most likely outcome will be a liquidation of my company to pay the other side and our lawyers. What should I do? Is it legal for my lawyer to do this? If I agree to pay my lawyer all of my company's profit, how will I be able to settle and pay the opposing side in this case?  \n\nLocation: Florida","title":"My lawyer refuses to cooperate with settlement until I agree to\/sign a promise of payment contract.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571172555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/die7hi\/previous_landlord_claims_i_owe_a_500_charge_for\/","id":"die7hi","body":"My previous landlord texted me asking for $500 made out to her account for damages to the exterior deck, which the townhome association owns, expected to recieve payment within 30 days from September 3rd. I admitted to the accident on that day in a reply to her text, but asked for proof that the association assessed this charge.\n\nFast-forward 30 days to October 3rd, and landlord texts me asking for payment, or they will begin filing court documents. During these 30 days, I never recieved any sort of proof. I made that clear to landlord and they said an email with the attached invoice was sent on September 5th, which it wasn't. I asked for a forwarded email of the original email, stating that it was sent on that date and 6 hours later landlord responds with a picture of them holding a statement from the association with a $500 charge for deck damage.\n\nI then emailed this photo to the townhome association with a rundown of the situation and they called me stating that they had checked their records and this $500 fine was never issued from them, the document was forged.\n\nLandlord is now asking for my address to send court documents to and saying the charge will now be $1040 after filing with the court. Even after I told landlord that I knew the document was falsified. \n\nWhat is my best course of action here? I haven't given landlord my address, and just today was notified that the documents will be forwarded to me. I am truly conflicted as to what I should do as I have written confirmation from the association that the document was forged. However the association is unwilling to communicate further on the matter because they do not want to get involved.","title":"Previous landlord claims I owe a $500 charge for damage to the balcony of the property due to burn bubbles made in the deck boards after I accidentally spilled coals while grilling.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555525503,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beb7jx\/neighbor_hitknocked_over_my_motorcycle_then_lied\/","id":"beb7jx","body":"(Apologies for length, trying to be thorough)\n\nBackground: \nSo there\u2019s construction going on at my apartment (city replacing waterlines) and a large portion of regularly available spots, now aren\u2019t usable (and are blocked off) between 7:30am and 4:00pm.\n\nNeighbor (older retired guy,who I\u2019ll just call E) asked the girlfriend if he could use our assigned spot during the day, since we\u2019re both at work, provided he move his car before my girlfriend gets home (before 6pm). I didn\u2019t like the idea as my motorcycle sits along the front of the spot, parallel to the concrete bumper. However, it\u2019s a long spot with plenty of room for the car and motorcycle without spilling out. \n\nSpot description : For size reference another neighbor and her boyfriend both have motorcycles and can both fit their bikes at the front of the space and her car (with at least 3 feet in between) without risk of spilling into the sidewalk at the end of the assigned parking. The motorcycle is kept up on a single sided stand by pit bull, (solid high-grade steel) very stable and would take a decent amount of force to knock over, let alone break...more below.\n\nEvents (long, skip to bottom regarding insurance):\nDue to internet problems at the office I ended up leaving my office early that day (still in the morning) to work at home, got back just after 9am and parked in a spot along the street. My bike was up, on its stand, covered, all good. When I finally go back outside at 4pm my bike is knocked over and E\u2019s car was closer than it should have been, even though it was recently moved. \nThe stand, which looks [like this](https:\/\/www.revzilla.com\/motorcycle\/pit-bull-hybrid-one-armed-rear-stand-ducati?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI66LW1dLX4QIVjaGzCh0w8gREEAQYBCABEgJ9rvD_BwE) was effectively broken. The pin\/lug with goes into the rear hub was pulled off when it was hit. \n\nThe bike was pushed over the concrete bumper, and when it hit the ground it snapped the front brake lever (right side of the bike, an aluminum part). The rest of the damage so far looks superficial: scrapes on part of radiator, scratches and slight damage to right side mirror assembly, rear body panel etc.\n\nI\u2019m annoyed that my neighbor would be so careless, but I realize accidents happen. I take pictures of visible damages to the bike, stand, and neighbors car in the spot. \n\nI believe E and his roommate (someone I\u2019ve only seen once)are home as both of their cars are there. I walk up to the apartment and knock, also calling out \u201cE, need to talk to you, I need your insurance information\u201d etc.\n\nI wait about 30 seconds, nothing, but I thought I heard him inside. I decide to walk back downstairs and do some more work, and I\u2019m sitting at a table which looks directly outside so I might be able to see him if he decides to move the car (although the upper walkway passes on either side of my view range so he can still avoid me). I still go up every 30 minutes (3-4 times) to try and talk to him but he doesn\u2019t answer the door. His car is eventually moved, probably by his roommate.\n\nI call tell the gf what happened, and her immediate response is that he isn\u2019t welcome to the spot any longer and he needs to be held accountable (I obviously concur). \n\nI end up calling the non-emergency police line and reporting it as a hit and run (since he didn\u2019t leave a note and is avoiding me). I also start the claim process online (description of the incident, damage locations etc).\n\nThe police show up at about 10:15pm, I described what happened and even though I didn\u2019t witness the incident firsthand he\u2019s obviously going to deny it. The police knock on the door and ask him to open up and explain they\u2019re just there to facilitate a civil discussion about the bike\/spot. \n\nI ask him about insurance, he changes the subject and denies hitting the bike and that if he had knocked it over he would have picked it up (he\u2019s around 70, and not in physical shape to do so). He alluded to having seen it and I ask him why he was avoiding me, he changes the subject again to it being about something else (me not liking him, acting rude\/cold) - the police cut him off and tell him it\u2019s not on topic. We aren\u2019t getting anywhere and I tell him my gf and I don\u2019t want him using the parking spot any longer; he tells me since he had the agreement with her that she should tell him in person, the police again intervene and tell him no that isn\u2019t required and he needs to respect that. \n\nI again ask him why he wasn\u2019t willing to talk earlier and again he starts getting off topic and belligerent again, police cut him off and we go outside. Police advise me to go through my insurance and let them sort it out, I agree, thank them for coming out and go to bed.\n\n**Insurance:** Spoke to an adjuster about my options the next day, with 2 options:\n\n1.\tadjuster said they would be running a check against his information\/DMV records and pursue it, directly through his insurance\n\n2.\t*OR** if it was too slow I could file it under collision, pay my deductible ($200), they would assess the damage and pay out what is necessary and seek remuneration from his insurance.\n\nWas told it would only take them about a day to establish his insurance company. I opted to go through his as I would rather not pay out of pocket.\n\nCalled my insurance back the next day after seeing the claim as \u201cclosed\u201d on my insurance app, I inquired as to why as nothing had been done yet. The adjuster noted in the file they had a letter stating his insurance had been canceled due to non-payment.\n\nI then told the adjuster I\u2019d obviously like to proceed through my collision and pay the deductible.\n\n**Do I have any legal recourse or should I just accept the $200 loss and move on?**\n\n**Note**: I\u2019m annoyed with my neighbor for a few other reasons (inappropriate comments he\u2019s made to my gf and the neighbor) but he\u2019s obviously financially struggling and possibly even has dementia. I have *no vindictive desire to see him kicked out of the building, or impoverished to the point of contributing to the mentally unstable homeless in the area*. Almost feel like I should be posting this to \/r\/AmITheAsshole","title":"Neighbor hit\/knocked over my motorcycle then lied about it to me, and the police, and I found out he\u2019s uninsured.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569452492,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ax4k\/pulled_over_for_suspended_ca_registration_in_nj\/","id":"d9ax4k","body":"So I moved from CA back to NJ in June and have been driving my California registered car since. This car was purchased in California. The tags expired in April and I drove from California to New Jersey in June without a problem. And for more context, I have a perfect and clean driving record. Never so much as a parking ticket. \n\nI did not register my car in NJ because I plan on staying here for 2 years max and heard of many other people doing something similar for the same time period or more. \n\nI plan on moving back to California but I did not want to register my car as it can be up to $500 for out of state vehicles to register. It just seemed like a waste. \n\nHowever, I was just pulled over by a cop and he gave me a ticket and two court summons. I'm looking to get out of this or pay as little in fines as possible because I am not financially in a place to afford any of this. I know with speeding tickets if the cop who pulled you over doesn't show, you're able to contest the ticket. Is there a chance there is anything similar with this? \n\nAdvice? Thanks so much in advance. I'm really scared.","title":"Pulled over for 'Suspended' CA registration in NJ. Help!","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554748896,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baxfx0\/no_contact_order_dismissed_without_my_approval\/","id":"baxfx0","body":"Located in California. Last June I went to court with my ex fiance after I pulled a temporary restraining order against him due to him stalking me incessantly. He hired a lawyer and we settled on downgrading to a no contact order. I represented myself. That no contact order was signed by a judge, and I have a signed copy. Then, a few weeks later I found out he was harassing my parents by email. I asked his lawyer to amend the order to include a stipulation that he is not allowed contact with any of my family members. I signed this and assumed it was taken care of. \n\n\n\nLast week I received an email from my ex's lawyer. It contained a picture of some stuff I left behind in our apartment. the photo conveniently included a lot of background information (including the dog we shared together, etc). Most of the items in the photo were directly related to our relationship, and things I told him several times before the protective order  that he can donate or trash. This was a manipulation tactic to contact me the only way he can. I told his lawyer this, and to never contact me on behalf of (ex) again unless it pertained directly to maintaining the protection order. \n\n\n\nFast forward to Thursday, I get a court summons for our case. \"Court's Own Motion\", \"Notice of Hearing\". It's scheduled 3 days before I take a major career exam (think BAR exam type) which would highly elevate my stress levels and cause me to miss even more work that week. \n\n\n\nMy friend who works for an attorney was able to use a kiosk to see a stipulation and order was filed on 3\/21\/19, but was unable to view it. I contacted my ex's lawyer to find out what this is about and received this answer:   \n\n\n\" The Amended Stipulation you signed in July 2018 was resubmitted because the\u00a0 Court returned it stating that there was already one on file.\u00a0 I spoke to the Court clerk and resent it.\u00a0 The Court Clerk advised me the court may not file the Amended Stipulation as the case had been dismissed, but told me I could send and she would ask the Judge.\u00a0We are just trying to get it filed with the Court, no new Stipulation was sent.\u00a0 It was the same one you signed on July 30, 2018.\"\n\n   \n\nAfter more prodding:\n\n\n\n\" Our office has not received a conformed copy of the Stipulation and Order signed in July 2018, from the Court.\u00a0 I am attaching the Stipulation and Order, as well as the Minute Order which were filed in June 22, 2018.\u00a0The Stipulation and Order filed in July 2018, is the one the court returned unfiled.\u00a0 When I called the Court to clarify why it was returned, that is when the Court clerk informed me the case had been dismissed. As per my previous email, the Clerk told me to resend the Stipulation and I did.\u00a0As soon as I know more information, I will get back to you, or have one of our attorneys get back to you.\"  \n  \nAm I to understand that I am currently NOT protected under any order? How can the court dismiss a protection order without direction from either person? Wouldn't they need to send a notice it was dismissed? Do I have no other choice but to attend the court date (I'm not even sure what it's about)? Is it likely I could have the date pushed back? Is it negligence that I've been unprotected entirely all this time and I'm just now finding out by the court and not his lawyer? Should I visit the clerk to get more information?  \n  \nAny advice appreciated. I'm really nervous being unprotected and knowing that he even recently tried to reach out to me.","title":"No Contact Order dismissed without my approval? What do I do now?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571329136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj8o6u\/car_was_stolen_insurance_company_sucked\/","id":"dj8o6u","body":"Several months ago, my car was stolen.  Insurance covered everything, so we started the process of getting it taken care of.  We first had to wait 3 weeks before we could file the claim, but we reported it stolen and waited.  In the mean time, insurance set us up with a rental.  After 3 weeks, the car was still gone, so we started the claim.  \n\nWe had to send the keys into the insurance company before they would pay for the car.  They valued the vehicle at $10,500 and we had a $500 deductible.  We were waiting for the check to come when we got a call from the police.  The car was found.  We didn't have any keys to pick it up, but even if we had, it was in no condition to drive.  It looked mostly cosmetic, but the battery was definitely dead.  We contacted insurance to figure out what the next steps were.\n\nApparently, the insurance company hadn't processed the paperwork yet, so they said they would send the keys back and they would pay to fix the car.  The original quote was for around $6,000 worth of repairs, so they said they would repair it and that would be the end of it.  Well...when the body shop went in to complete the repairs, the quote kept going up.  By the end of it, we were looking at around $8,000 in repairs.  We got the car back and the repairs weren't complete...so we took it back.\n\nThey had to change the locks\/ignition, repaint the car, also needed new rims still.  There was an electrical problem, there was so much more wrong with this car that they didn't see in the beginning.  When all was said and done, the final bill for the repairs was just shy of $11,000...and that's not even including the rental fees.  \n\nThe value of the car is greatly depreciated now and we are still having issues with it.  Just today we had a new issue with the Vehicle Stability Assist.  The car should have been totaled...I'm not even 100% sure this car is safe to drive anymore.  Do we have any legal case here?  What can we do?","title":"Car Was Stolen, Insurance Company Sucked Throughout the Process (Oregon, US)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539739677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9otwvw\/brought_a_pistol_into_exgirlfriends_house\/","id":"9otwvw","body":"I\u2019ll start this off by saying that this is in Wyoming. I\u2019m only 20 years old but I always carry, Ive been pulled over a couple times and I always let the officer know I\u2019m carrying a pistol as well as a shotgun and an ar-15. I\u2019ve never had a cop give me a hard time about my guns. My ex girlfriend has our child and she has not been very good about letting me see him, so I got a lawyer and have been trying to get a legal agreement signed between the two of us to protect my rights to my child. The other day she told me that I could come over and see him, so I showed up to her (her fathers) house and had my pistol on me. When I stood up to get a drink out of the kitchen she saw my pistol. I went and talked to her dad today seeing as how it\u2019s his house and that I didn\u2019t ask him if I could carry in his home. He told me he is considering pressing charges as he said his daughter (my ex) felt threatened. She [texted] (https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/Igywm8n) me after asking why I was carrying. I guess my question is what should I be expecting from this? ","title":"Brought a pistol into ex-girlfriends house","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569274833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ddwi\/what_can_one_do_about_this\/","id":"d8ddwi","body":"So my grandfather recently got \u201cscammed\u201d over tinder. He\u2019s got way too much money and a girl he matched with got him to send over $400 over cash app. He sent this money thinking she was going to buy a ticket to come and see him, instead she unmatched him and kept the cash. What can my grandfather do about this? Can he sue her? Or is this legal?\n\nLive in California, girl was in Arizona","title":"What can one do about this?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569978849,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc35p6\/renting_movies_from_itunes_google_play_movies_etc\/","id":"dc35p6","body":"What would be the legality of renting movie from a service say iTunes, and then (since you get 24 hrs. Of rental time) renting 2 hours of watch time for that movie to someone else for say $0.50. I am asking because you usually only watch the movie once in the 24hr period so there is time left over that could be monetized. Thanks for your advice.","title":"Renting movies from itunes, Google play movies, etc.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1445024601,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p12q8\/copyright_question\/","id":"3p12q8","body":"Hi,\n\nI recently started a business in Canada, and we were thinking about naming a bundle \"dynamic duo\". Would that be something copyrighted? And, in the future, where could I go to see if certain terms \/ words can be used?","title":"copyright question","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570072578,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcl8cc\/realty_company_sent_me_to_collections_and_it_now\/","id":"dcl8cc","body":"State: South Carolina\n\nLong story short, I was a tenant for a realty company this past year and after my lease ended, they gave me a $500 invoice instead of my safety deposit. I immediately get a sit down with the general manager of the realty company to discuss the invoice. It went well and the General Manager said she would look into all of the items I didn't agree with and said she will email me in the following week with an updated invoice. A full month goes by and I still haven't heard anything from the General Manager nor the realty company. Next thing I know, I receive a collections letter saying that the realty company sent me to collections on the $500 invoice. I immediately call and email the General Manager of the realty company. I didn't receive a response for a couple days (and still haven't), so I filed a complaint on the BBB and paid the collections debt. A few weeks later, the company responds to my BBB complaint with a finally adjusted bill total, which I still disagree with being that what they took off was only the items I could prove were wrongfully on the invoice, and none of the items that the General Manager was going to \"look into\" was taken off.\n\n​\n\nSo my questions are:  \nCan I sue them for wrongfully sending me to collections and screwing up my credit score?  \nCan they still try to collect on the newly adjusted invoice even after I paid the collections debt?   \nI signed my lease with 2 other individuals, yet I was the only one sent to collections. Is that legal or does that depend on other factors?  \nThis last question might not be relevant to this sub... but is there a way to fix my credit score from a collections debt if I don't sue?","title":"Realty company sent me to collections and it now saying that","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554157956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8ae3k\/i_live_in_nj_can_i_work_in_ny\/","id":"b8ae3k","body":"I am a student and I live in NJ. The NY minimum wage is much more appealing to me. I live by myself, pay my own rent. Can I apply for a job in NY? Like McDonald\u2019s, something simple? Do I need to notify anyone on my application or tell the IRS or something? I have no idea how financial stuff works, sorry ","title":"I live in NJ. Can I work in NY?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538438591,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9klrzw\/wrongful_termination\/","id":"9klrzw","body":"Was offered a severance package, due to (in my opinion) BS work infractions, by my area manager and his boss. I was told I had 30 days to accept or reject and better myself for the company. In all honesty I\u2019ve hated my job for years now so after seeing what the severance package involved I went straight to HR requesting for it. Per the information in our company\u2019s HR forms library, I was entitled to 2 weeks for every year employed up to 24 weeks, which I qualified for, and my 300hrs of vacation would be cashed out. Seemed like a good deal to me but I could never get my HR rep to confirm and finalize. \n\nIt\u2019s been 7 week and I\u2019ve gotten nothing. Today I was terminated. Coincidentally a week after I request for FMLA for a sick family member of mine. \n\nConsidering seeking a lawyer to fight for the severance package I was offered but never given. Thoughts? \n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated.  Located in CA. ","title":"Wrongful Termination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542262554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x8lgb\/hacker_stole_my_information_from_my_broker_advice\/","id":"9x8lgb","body":"About five years ago I opened an account with a broker and in order to create the account I was required to provide proof of employment, paystubs, voided check and a host of other personal information. The information I provided was mostly scans in either PDF or image format, all transferred via email from my personal account to the broker\u2019s company email address. All was fine until a couple of days ago when I received a courtesy message from the broker stating his email had been hacked and the company \u201cwas looking into it\u201d. Initially I wasn\u2019t concerned because most credible businesses wouldn\u2019t keep email correspondence containing personal identifiable information on email servers for five years....\n\nTo assuage my fears, I responded to my broker to find out what, if any information of mine would\u2019ve been vulnerable. The broker responded stating all the information I provided him five years ago may have been accessed. \n\nAt this point I not taken any further action other than do some research. Here a guideline I found: \u201cCanadian Privacy Statutes generally require organisations to retain personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, subject to a valid legal requirement. The exemptions to the right of access vary among the statutes and need to be carefully considered. Personal information that is no longer required to fulfil the identified purposes should be destroyed, erased or made anonymous.\u201d\n\nAt this point what I want to do is determine what the brokerage firm\u2019s data retention policy is, then I can determine whether my broker followed the proper protocols. Or is there a stronger stance that I can take? FYI the brokerage doesn\u2019t have any public facing data retention policies on their website, just the standard privacy policy regarding cookies etc.\n\nThoughts and feedback is appreciated.","title":"Hacker stole my information from my broker - advice needed","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446221235,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qur14\/nj_how_to_evict_a_tenant_that_constantly_harasses\/","id":"3qur14","body":"A close family friend owns a multi-family building she rents two families.  The problem is the downstairs neighbor, let's call her Susan.  Susan has run off three previous families who lived upstairs by falsely calling the police on them, calling child services, sending nasty letters, etc.  The current family that lives upstairs is about to leave as well.  They have a pending court date against Susan, but they are sick of fighting for some peace and quiet.  Susan's lease is coming for renewal on the 30th of November, and my landlord friend wants to know what she can do to either get Susan to become as normal a human being as possible (not likely - it appears Susan just likes to run off other tenants so she doesn't have anyone else living upstairs), or to put in language into the new lease that would allow the landlord to legally evict her with as little mess as possible.","title":"[NJ] How to evict a tenant that constantly harasses other tenants","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569552679,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9uape\/can_i_sign_over_my_car_to_the_tow_yard_that_took\/","id":"d9uape","body":"I live in Florida. \n\nMy totaled car was towed from my apartment complex for sitting too long. \n\nI called the towing company and told them they can have it because I don't want it anymore. The receptionist told me I can, \"sign over power of attorney\" to them and they'll take ownership. \n\nAfter I hung up, I realized I only have an electronic title, not physical. I realize you probably need the physical copy to sign the car over??\n\nIs power of attorney different?\n\nTl;Dr my car is totaled in a junk yard w\/o a title. And I need to sign it over.","title":"Can I sign over my car to the tow yard that took it?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539362469,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nluqu\/expired_inspection_fine\/","id":"9nluqu","body":"Virginia, USA - Noticed recently that my car's inspection sticker is a couple months expired (been a crazy few months)... will I be fined when I take it in to get inspected or only if I keep driving around with it expired? ","title":"Expired Inspection Fine?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568822465,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5zviw\/chances_my_ex_will_get_any_rights_over_my\/","id":"d5zviw","body":"My ex and I have had a child 9 years ago, he cheated and left. When my daughter was 2 she met my now husband and he became her daddy. We started the adoption process a few years ago but we also had to terminate my ex\u2019s rights. My ex was in prison after he left us and was sentenced to 7 years and got out on parole. Well he doesn\u2019t want his rights terminated and wants visitation. My daughter doesn\u2019t have recollection of him and lives a fun normal life. We started the child custody evaluations by the court and the family counselor said she\u2019s going to have to meet him so she can see the interactions to put in her report. So I have to tell my daughter the truth she thinks my husband is her DAD.  Also, he has 3 felonies. Including drug, assault and robbery. anyway, what are my chances I\u2019ll be able to terminate his rights? I\u2019m terrified that my child will have to spend time with a strange man that walked out on her life and made stupid decisions.","title":"Chances my ex will get any rights over my daughter, she hasn\u2019t seen him since she was 1 she\u2019s almost 9?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553056467,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b37n8v\/bumped_a_bumper\/","id":"b37n8v","body":"This morning in traffic I had a small fender bender. And by small I mean barely tapped the car in front of me. We pull over to the side of the freeway to assess the cars. There is no visible damage at all that I can see. At the most there are 2 small (1\/4 inch) scratches on a hard plastic piece on her bumper. We agree this could be from anything though. No insurance info was exchanged, no pictures were taken(that I know of), police were not called. All he requested is that I text him my name in case anything comes up. \n\nFast forward 2 hours or so. I get a text from him requesting my insurance info because he wants to take his car in to get look at by the dealership. I responded by kindly refusing to give my info, saying there is no damage to either car, and that i don't need a car dealership to try to get money off me or my insurance company. I again told him there was no damage but if he thought there was he should've called police or insurance then when we were stopped. He then replied saying he now saw damage and could send me picture proof. He said it was hismistake not exchanging insurance info cuz he was nervous being on the side of the freeway where it was \"unsafe\". I since have blocked him and did not respond to him\n\nMy question is am I in the clear here? I don't want him to try and scam me or my insurance. If there was damage i saw i would gladly have payed or given him my info...but there was no visible damage. I never ad after me police or lawyers correct? I'll try my best to respond but I'm going to bed shortly. Thank you for your time and responses. This is in the USA also","title":"Bumped a bumper","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505919082,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71bko6\/in_do_general_cleaning_costs_count_as_damage_when\/","id":"71bko6","body":"Indiana  Just saw this post https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Purdue\/comments\/71anop\/granite_apartments_is_potentially_illegally\/ . I was wondering if things like vacuuming a carpet before another tenant moves in are considered damages or covered under normal wear and tear.  I looked online through http:\/\/codes.findlaw.com\/in\/title-32-property\/in-code-sect-32-31-3-13.html and I can't find someplace that specifies.  Thanks.","title":"[IN] Do general cleaning costs count as damage when moving out?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551723799,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axaen6\/property_owner_wont_fix_shower\/","id":"axaen6","body":"Apparently the property manager has been trying to get ahold of the property owner to get the fix approved but its been 2 weeks and im the one getting screwed over with no shower. What can i do or where can i go for help about this?","title":"Property owner wont fix shower","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568683936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5a2da\/can_i_vote_breach_of_contract\/","id":"d5a2da","body":"I am a locum tenens physician assistant. I signed a contract with a staffing company that states I will begin work at a certain place on Sept 16. Today (the 16th), I have yet to start work. I was told via telephone that the clinic postponed needing a provider due to unforeseen circumstances. They are uncertain of when I will need to begin work.\n\nTo make matters more irritating, I was told that I can begin work this week at 2 other clinics that are approximately an hour apart from each other, and 90 minutes from the clinic I signed a contract to work in.\n\nMore info - I am responsible for paying my own travel and lodging. Lodging in this area will be approximately $2000 a month for a subpar living situation. If I work at the other 2 clinics, I could be told at any point that the original clinic is finally ready and I need to go there - making housing a trickier situation since I don't know how long I'll need to be in each place.\n\nMy question is - by not having me working by today at the clinic I signed the contract to work at, is there a breach of contract by the staffing company?\n\nSorry for the long post.","title":"Can I vote breach of contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554046055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7ox3h\/can_my_employer_make_me_continue_to_work_during\/","id":"b7ox3h","body":"It kinda pisses me off a bit, but I can\u2019t find anything, so maybe this is legal. I recently turned 18 and work a 9 hour shift. I had to take one of my 2 10 minute breaks an hour after I started, but was told I had to continue to take front counter and drive thru orders while on break.\n\nIs this legal? (Washington State)","title":"Can my employer make me continue to work during 10 minute breaks? (Washington)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571223797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dinozj\/stolen_digital_goods\/","id":"dinozj","body":"First let me start by saying I have no clue where to post this but it seemed like the most relevant subreddit. \n\nPurchased an online video game account, was assured by the vendor that it wouldn\u2019t be hijacked if I changed the email and the password, so I did.  After owning the account for a few days and feeing comfortable that there was no way it was going to be stolen, I decided to spend some money on it. Fast forward about two weeks, and the account has been stolen. My question is not so much how do I get the account back, as I already consider it lost (have already reached out to paypal) but what avenues do I have to recover the money I put into the account? I doubt paypal will help me out as the game company stated that accounts are not to be bought\/sold. I have alread reached out to the vendor and paypal but have yet to receive a response. Worst case scenario i\u2019m going to contact my bank but i\u2019m not sure that even they will help me because I did receive the goods (in game currency which I spent) and I used them. I know i\u2019m an idiot, and I won\u2019t make the same mistake, but i\u2019m desperate to recover these funds and put them towards something useful this time.\n\nGame: League of Legends\nCountry: Australia\nVendor: igvault","title":"Stolen digital goods","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539217687,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n541k\/went_to_go_visit_an_old_friend_brought_my_dog_and\/","id":"9n541k","body":"I couldn't help but laugh. This concept is totally foreign to me. What is this crazy level strictness about? Apparently, they have a \"your guests are your responsibility\" rule. What can they legally do about it? Am I a jerk for having a well trained dog and no leash?","title":"Went to go visit an old friend. Brought my dog, and my friend's landlord called and said they will write a \"citation\" if I bring the dog again without a leash. (California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570021193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc9v20\/inheritance_adoption_law_18_f_india\/","id":"dc9v20","body":"\nEnglish isn't my first language so sorry for bad formatting. \n\nI don't know what all details to tell so I'll just get on to the question. Is it possible for someone over 18 to be adopted by other parents? I lived with a family for 10 years & all my documents has that address as my permanent one. I recently went no contact with them & reconnected with my real dad but my permanent address is still connected to my old house. Right now I live in a hostel so I can't list this one as a permanent address. \nMy cousin & his wife are planning to adopt me but I'm not sure it can be done once I'm over 18.\nPlz ask if I'm missing any details. \n\nOne other thing, my real father has some ancestral land & he wants to sign it over to me but he says he can't do it since he got it from his father & I would need the permission of his other children. Is there any law stating that ancestral land can't be passed like this? And if I get adopted will I forfeit my right to the land in the event that my father passes away?","title":"Inheritance & adoption law [18 F India]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569977363,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc2us7\/new_year_showing_my_career_my_new_me\/","id":"dc2us7","body":"MD. I plan on transitioning in the new year and I want to know if I should get a lawyer before my company (15 years employ) knows in case they try to terminate me. Like should I hire a lawyer to talk to HR?","title":"New year showing my career my new me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571071906,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhtcjd\/the_collections_question_of_the_week\/","id":"dhtcjd","body":"Location: Oregon\n\n     I was involved in a custody case approximately 4 years ago regarding my son. I won and received full custody. Because of the extreme nature of the case, my sons mother was ordered to pay all of my attorney fees and interest. There was also a tax lien placed on her name.\n\n     The attorney has now sent the money owed to collections, and they are coming after me. I physically cannot afford the payments, due to the fact that I'm a single parent and have sole custody of my 2 children, with no incoming support for either of them.\n\n     I have received no communications in writing from the collections agency, and only one phone call at the end of last week.\n\n     Am I correct in assuming that a court order supersedes the original contract signed with the attorney, or am I going to have to start looking for a second job?","title":"The Collections Question of the Week","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569615728,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da5za1\/got_sucker_punched_in_the_face_in_highschool_and\/","id":"da5za1","body":"Ok so I'm a freshman in my highschool. I just got done doing my mile run after gym and went inside to get changed out of uniform. As in changing, this one dude who keeps one insulting me comes up to his locker which is next to mine. Let's call him AT (antagonist). I'm used to AT doing this so I just brush it off. Not today tho. I ask him why he doesn't like me becuase that's all me freshman mind can think of saying. He says \"because....\" and goes one to insult me more. I ask him why he doesn't like me again. Next thing I know I have blood all over my face and I'm leaning against the lockers with everyone holding him back. I go to wipe my face off in the sink and the gym teacher comes and checks on me. To make this shorter, my parents are in the office with the school resource officer and the 9th grade VP (Freshman are in there own wing of the school.) My mom tells the officer that she wants to file charges. I get taken out to school early. On our way home, she tells me that shes thinking about getting me a restraining order and going to small claims for pain and suffering since it not bad enough of an injury to need medical help. At least that's what my pediatrician says. I was just wondering what type of legal action should I prepare for. Please keep your words simple since I'm only 15 lol. Thanks","title":"Got sucker punched in the face in Highschool and am wondering how to go about small claims","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554264765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8tczo\/california_have_i_overpaid_my_rent\/","id":"b8tczo","body":"This is my first time renting a house, and when i signed this lease I was a freshman in college with little to no knowledge of renting. I have since done research on the subject and have arrived at the following issues. Just for simplicity I'll be referring to the Primary Applicant on the lease as \"PA\". PA's father is cosigner on lease.\n\nDuring mid April last year, before I signed the contract, I was quoted a final price of $380 without utilities. **After I signed the contract** I was made aware of the fact that PA did not intend to stay at the house over the summer and as such, he was not only going to not pay half of his rent, he was going to make the three of us pay the remainder of the rent sum. His logic was he would not be living in the house so he would only pay half of his rent for three summer months in order to \u201creserve\u201d his spot. When I asked PA if this system of \u201creserving\u201d a spot when you\u2019re not living in the house would apply to all of us (uneducated college student here) he said it wouldn\u2019t. At the time I wasn\u2019t aware that you couldn\u2019t skip out on half of the rent just because you weren\u2019t going to live there, that\u2019s just not the way the world works, now I know.\n\nFrom calculations that no one has actually seen in the past 10 months the lease has been running, PA and his father determined a rent rate of $395\/month during normal semester (Sept-May) and $485\/month for the three months PA wasn\u2019t going to be there (Jun-Aug). I felt forced to comply with this for fear of being evicted had I questioned these prices. There is no document cementing these as the official prices. The only documents related to this is the main lease, and on the lease the only amount mentioned is the total rent of $1700 to be paid to the landlord. Since both the PA and his father are literally always unclear on the math behind the rent split, I worked the very simple math out of PA paying %30 of the total $1700. I have been told by one source in real estate that a judge would see that %30 as a good enough effort to pay for the master bedroom and that normally it would just be an even split not based on room size. However, every other person I\u2019ve asked suggested that rent should be based by square footage used. I then found the rent calculator at splitwise.com\/calculators\/rent (not advertising) and found a fair price based on square footage to be $372\/month for the three of our rooms and $584\/month for the master bedroom. I calculated this to be a reasonable 4% increase for the master bedroom. The three of us decided to present this plan to PA, who wholeheartedly agreed that it was a fair price and he would be fine with paying that. And when questioned if he would bring back the unfair summer rates he initially said he was, then I asked why that same system wouldn\u2019t apply to all of us and he quickly decided not to use that system anymore.\n\nCome March, I decided to calculate the rent change from original prices to $372 year round and discovered that we had each paid $533 over the new agreed upon rent price. This leads to a **total of $1600 overpaid** between the three of us. Due to the size of this I had assumed that reparations would be made to reimburse us based on the new rent rate. Unfortunately that was not the case. Come March, we spoke to PA about reimbursement, he demanded we pay the original prices. I refused and demanded at least the fair price we agreed upon in February ($372). PA agreed but only under the condition that we would definitely move out at the end of the term and he made it clear he was unwilling to reimburse us.\n\nFor the rent rates, my argument for reimbursement would be that while yes it is unorthodox to make retroactive payments, it is my understanding that it is also unorthodox to change the rent price in the middle of the contact term. We all agreed on the fair price and that whether or not a person is living in a room there will be no \u201creservation\u201d price. So would it not make sense to reflect that in all rent payments? Again there is no document cementing any price split between the four of us. Are we still liable for rent even if we have more than overpaid for it? Another point of view that was brought up to me was a possible breach of contract by PA, if he did not pay his full share of the rent, he was essentially not paying rent. Is that correct? \n\nThe purpose of this is to determine if I would have a case should I decide to escalate this to small claims court. Would a judge actually see I have a point here? Or is there something I\u2019m missing? He has broken the lease knowingly at least twice and possibly three times. Again I\u2019m just a college student with limited rental knowledge trying to figure this out and it seems I\u2019m alone in my pursuits, the other guys have rolled over time and again and at this point it just seems like PA and his father are just trying to extract more money before we go. Am I being taken advantage of?","title":"[California] Have I overpaid my rent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570348684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de09jt\/my_ex_has_my_nudes_from_when_i_was_15\/","id":"de09jt","body":"Recently I got in touch with my douche ex and I asked him if he still had my nudes back from when we used to date. At the time, he was 18 and I was 15. As far as I know, the relationship was legal.\n\nI asked him to delete those photos but he refused. He didn't make a threat that he's going to release them, but I want them gone.\n\nCan this be considered child pornography since he's 23 now and still has those pictures? What's the best way to approach this?\n\nCountry: Serbia","title":"My Ex has my nudes from when I was 15","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552728403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1qn4l\/divorcing_husband_should_i_go_back_to_home\/","id":"b1qn4l","body":"To start of the story, I have a green card through my husband that I don\u2019t intend to keep. The whole marriage wasn\u2019t for the green card at all, it just doesn\u2019t work, I want to go back to my home country, he is more or less a jerk and I fear he might intentionally make my life miserable once I reveal my intentions of divorcing. I have no support network here (California), he also earns a lot more money than me. \n\nNo prenup, we do not own a house, no kids, he has a car he had before this marriage, and also lot of debt from before the marriage plus we have some debt on a credit card he is an owner of and I have a card to it in my name, but I\u2019m not a joint owner of the account, I regularly contribute to the account. I do not want any alimony or literally anything, although he paid majority of the expenses, as I was getting used to living here and couldnt work for a while due to the immigration process, his earning potential is also a lot higher, since I am an immigrant and he has a law school. Now I have a full time job with good insurance he is also on and I pay. All I want is to get out of this situation as fast possible. He is not abusive, just to make that clear. I assume he would be willing to sign the no fault divorce papers...\n\nThe thing is, I am worried about him taking my money or cutting me completely off once I will bring this up and then I have no resources or people to turn to. I am thinking about leaving the country permanently and just leave papers for him to fill out. Is that an acceptable idea? I really don\u2019t know hot to handle this and I don\u2019t really have the money to just go to a lawyer. What would be the best course of action for this situation? \n","title":"Divorcing husband - should I go back to home country in EU or stay for the divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570463043,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/del7mu\/rental_company_charging_late_fees_based_on_lease\/","id":"del7mu","body":"I renewed my lease for this September in June. My reoccurring payments for rent stopped at the previous lease end date and I was charged a 10% late fee this month. The lease I signed in June stated there\u2019s an initial $50 late fee plus $10 reoccurring charge. I signed this lease online. In August they emailed us saying they would be changing the lease and needed us to re-sign. (No reasons given). \n\nDid a little digging and realized Texas recently passed a law to allow a maximum of 10% late fees charged on rent no questions asked so this new lease they wanted us to sign had the 10% in it. \n\nA couple weeks ago, before the rent due date, they left this new contract at our apartment door. I have not been able to return it because they have ridiculous 10am-6pm office hours and I have a full-time job.\n\nEven though they do not have this new signed contract are insisting I pay the 10% which is $160 versus the $70 when I initially raised concern two days ago, or $90 to reflect today\u2019s late fee.\n\nI can pay it, but I\u2019m just so incredibly annoyed by their lack of communication that I almost want to dispute it.","title":"Rental company charging late fees based on lease agreement they don\u2019t have.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539044858,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mkfju\/update_witnessing_systemic_discrimination\/","id":"9mkfju","body":"Original post : https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kmuk9\/us_witnessing_systemic_discrimination\/?utm_source=reddit-android\n\nTLDR; If you witness discrimination due to a business practice but aren't personally affected - the Department of Justice has a hotline that will give consideration to your complaint.\n\n\nI'm providing this update since there didn't seem to be anybody who could offer advise on the original issue.\n\nI finally figured out who to call if you don't have an individual complaint regarding discrimination in employement. The Department of Justice has a citizens' hotline that takes non-individual complaints regarding practices that affect a group of people. \n\nIt was a frustrating process that led to dead ends with my state's Human Rights commission, the EEOC, DoL, several attorneys, and a confrontation with the owner that resulted in me terminating my \"at-will\" employement with the agency.\n\nI'm currently writing a letter of concern to the corporation that owns the franchise (my own intiative). Hopefully, it will compel them to action. I don't expect I'll be hearing back from the DoJ or corporation anytime soon - but it's better than nothing. \n\nRegardless, thank you for the encouragement and providing a platform where we can vocalize these issues. Even if it didn't directly result in any guidance, it felt good to know that -in one way or another- I was being heard.","title":"[Update] Witnessing Systemic Discrimination","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541134909,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9th65e\/can_i_have_them_hold_a_portion_of_the_company_for\/","id":"9th65e","body":"A guy I know is starting a business and he asked me for a loan to help start up, he offered to pay back double what he borrowed and then give me the option to invest. I think it definitely has the potential to be lucrative but I want to be certain first. Is it possible to get in writing that if I choose, that when the loan is due, I can return that money to them for an already agreed up percentage of the company? ","title":"Can I have them \u2018hold\u2019 a portion of the company for me?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1444464028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o75bd\/ebay_seller_is_threatening_to_sue_over_negative\/","id":"3o75bd","body":"Hi, I'm in the UK. Basically, I gave bad feedback to an eBay seller (one of those one-man-business shows you often see on eBay) because his product page was misleading. (the product on the picture had a different colour than mentioned in the text) I personally think this was intentional, because the product colour in the picture is much more sought after than what was written in the text. He sent me a message stating that he's going to court because my feedback that his listing was misleading is untrue. He also offered me to call him on his cellphone number to settle this out of court, which I guess is probably a bullshit way of him to try to get some money out of me. Normally I'd just ignore the message because my statement wasn't untrue and I don't think I've done anything wrong, but I'm self employed and the last few months have been rough so I'm very short on cash. I'm generally stressing out a lot lately and I can't afford this shit. To just avoid any trouble I wrote him back that I'll edit the feedback to \"neutral\"  if he makes the request to eBay. I didn't get any reply. So what I'm basically asking, do you people think this guy is full of it or do I have to worry to find a letter from a lawyer in my mailbox in the next few weeks? (I worry about that because my experience is - when these things go the way of the lawyer - It doesn't really matter who's right but it'll start costing money)\n\nEDIT: The guy also lives in the UK and all of this is over an item worth about $3.\n\n--\nUPDATE: I got another threatening message, where he sets me an ultimatum until when he will go to his lawyer if I don't \"remove\" the message. He also wants to sue for \"damages\" incurred by my negative feedback now. I'm also now convinced that this dude is basically full of crap. After repeated advice on here, I'm going to call the eBay customer Hotline, explain the situation and ask them if that's the kind of people they want selling on their platform. Maybe it'll result in something. Oh also, more people left negative feedback because of the same thing. Maybe he always does this.","title":"eBay Seller is threatening to sue over negative Feedback","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507504752,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75563w\/my_apartment_is_falling_apart\/","id":"75563w","body":"I live in Florida and our lease is up for our townhome\/apartment at the end of November. It hasn't been an awful stay but I'm looking forward to moving into a larger, nicer apartment mid November. Just last week my current complex had to fill out some rental verification for my new complex, so I find the timing of all of these issues to be a little too coincidental.\n\nThe A\/C unit in the upstairs bathroom closet started leaking and causes several leaks down into the living room through the A\/C vents. We heard weird scratching noises inside walls the night before. And yes, we change the air filter every month, they provide them in the rental office.\n\nWe have laminate flooring throughout the unit, except in the bedrooms, and water rises up through the floor with every step through the upstairs bathroom and downstairs in the living room now.\n\nThe downstairs 1\/2 bathroom makes a gurgling sound after flushing and you can watch the water drain out of the toilet and leak out of the back and onto the floor.\n\nThe front door won't latch closed, the part that comes out and latches is stuck inside the door, so we have to use the bolt lock Everytime to keep the door closed.\n\nI realize some of this may seem a little petty, but we have four pots on the floor that we have to empty every few hours and it's really just very aggravating.\n\nThis all just started yesterday, we woke up to a puddle in the middle of the living room. We have renter's insurance, but I just have no idea what I'm supposed to do and if I'm going to be held liable for these repairs. Am I supposed to repair all of this on my own? Does the apartment complex take care of the repairs? If so, do they bill me for it? I'd love to just leave this place and stay in a hotel or something until we can move into our new place, but I definitely can't afford that and rent at the same time.","title":"My apartment is falling apart","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506138480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71w3gk\/is_internet_an_excuse_to_break_lease\/","id":"71w3gk","body":"When I came into my apartment they told me that fiber optic cable internet came free with the rent of the place. When I tested it I was getting amazing speeds of around 50 mbps. However every night it now slows to a crawl at around .2 mbps and 1750 ping. I asked if I could pay extra to up our service or perhaps change our service to better suit our needs. Leasing management said no way possible and had some people out to our place. After no improvements I just don't know what I can do.\n\nEdit: I know how snooty this seems but the internet is one of the main facets of my life and hobbies and when I don't watch TV it is my only source of entertainment outside board games.\n[TX]","title":"Is Internet an excuse to break lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551401868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avyiso\/oregon_my_past_employer_has_incorrect_records_of\/","id":"avyiso","body":"I used to work for a convenient store 3 years ago. I was recently informed by my friend who works there now that I am on their no hire list.  So I called the store manager to see what was up with that. She informed me that I was a no call no show and quit with no notice. \n\nThis isn\u2019t true and I have a witness. I actually came into work and wrote out a two weeks notice on paper and taped it to the same store leaders computer. I then called the store a few days later to ask when I worked next and was told I was taken off the schedule. Over the phone I told the store leader this and she told me to contact the regional manager. I have reached out and no answer from him. \n\nA little background leading up to me putting in two weeks: the week before I did call out twice for being sick and the store manager was really upset about it. Ultimately I felt like that\u2019s why she took me off the schedule premature to the end of my two weeks. \n\nI am someone who likes to have a straight and clean record, and also I fear this might haunt me later down the line when potential employers call the store about my employment. Other than call outs for being sick (not at all excessive over the year I worked there) I was a good employee. \n\nI wouldn\u2019t care too much, however I only have three different jobs I\u2019ve ever had, as I\u2019m a college student studying accounting. I like to put down the store as a reference for cash handling and bank recs, but this might be a thorn in that idea. Any recommendations on what I should do? \n\nThanks. ","title":"[Oregon] My past employer has incorrect records of me","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570631505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfhurr\/unsubscribing_from_a_premium_snapchat_account\/","id":"dfhurr","body":"Hi, I\u2019m very sorry if this is not the right sub for this kind of question. Last night I decided to subscribe to a premium Snapchat account that was advertised as a one time payment of $9.95. Well there\u2019s a saying about something sounding too good to be true, because after I submitted the payment, I went back and noticed the fine print, which included automatic subscriptions to 3 other accounts all at $50\/month each. I definitely can\u2019t afford to spend $150\/month on something like that. The website gave an email address to contact about account cancellation, and I emailed them twice but haven\u2019t heard from them. Could I avoid being charged by telling my bank I lost my card or something so that the card I signed up with will be frozen and can get a new card? Or will the website still find a way to charge me? \n\nYes, I know I should have payed closer attention to the fine print beforehand. And again, I\u2019m sorry if this is the wrong sub for this issue","title":"Unsubscribing from a premium Snapchat account?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571366881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djh4qk\/can_a_school_take_child_aside_without_parent\/","id":"djh4qk","body":"In Nevada, Clark county school district at an elementary school a teacher approached child (10f -5th grade) after school and stated the child was in trouble and needs to go to the principles office first thing in the morning. We called the school and asked why, they told us they don\u2019t have to tell us the matter and also told us we can\u2019t accompany our child in the morning at the office for this meeting. \n\nCan they actually deny a parent to accompany their child in elementary school to the principles office especially after denying parents the reason for this visit?","title":"Can a school take child aside without parent?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1542042869,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wfvc8\/landlord_filing_eviction_after_i_mailed_rent_to\/","id":"9wfvc8","body":"I've been screwed over by multiple landlords on the past but this is the first time it's ever gone to a possible eviction. So heres the situation. \n\nA new rental company took over for my original landlord about three or four months ago but I was still under the one year contract which is up at the end of this month. The new company has tried multiple times to raise rent on me by $100 with no notices or anything. I've sent out rent by money order on time every month and for the past three months they have been giving me five day notices and trying to say that I didn't pay them and then they finally receive the payment in the mail and are quiet until the next month. \n\nI have emails going back and forth with multiple property managers about this same issue. I kept all the five day notices. I learned my lesson from past landlords and hold on to and record everything I can. I explained to them that rent is in the mail and that I'm not required by law to pay it online. I was unable to pay it online this month otherwise I would have. I asked them why they were trying to raise rent without any notice and they tried to tell me it was all late fees. Its $5 a day for late fees which wouldnt add up to $100 any way you look at it. \n\nThey stopped responding to my emails and I woke up today to an official eviction notice. I realize they still would have to take me to court but do they have any grounds to even take me to court? The money order is still in the mail and post marked on time, they allow a five day grace period where no late fees apply and it was sent out in that time. I took photos of the money order and kept the receipt and the envelope it was sent in showing that it was postmarked in the time frame. Should I cancel the money order because of this? I'm honestly completely at a loss. They should receive the money order any day now. I cant afford a lawyer right now and I'm moving out of state in a few days and cant stay here to fight this in court. I also cant have an eviction on my record because of how hard it would be to find a place to rent to me with that. Any advice would be much appreciated. \n\nLocation: wisconsin ","title":"Landlord filing eviction after I mailed rent to them on time by saying that I should have paid them online.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445977677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qgt39\/can_i_get_a_restraining_order_on_my_abusive_mums\/","id":"3qgt39","body":"From the age of 8-14 my Mum was in an on\/off relationship with a man and they had a child together (my half-sister).\n\nHe was physically, mentally and emotionally abusive to us day in and day out and on numerous occasions, hit me and threatened to kill us.\n\nMy mum and this man eventually separated for good and upon doing so we had to move interstate for a few months and have security guards.\n\nHe left and did not pay child support at all (no surprises right!). \nFast forward 15 years, my mum has since married to a wonderful man (he's the best step dad ever and they've been together for 14 years!) and my half sister is now 18. \n\nNow last year, my half sister's dad reached out to my half sister and they are having a relationship. In this time, my mum and step dad have separated, the cause of which was from my mum having an affair with my half sister's dad (I know right, I can't even believe it, trust me!). \n\nMy question is, can I get a restraining order? He has not reached out or communicated to me at all since having a relationship with my Mum but I don't have anything to say to him. He doesn't exist to me and I don't want him to even have the opportunity to communicate with me; he tormented me, he abused me.\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated. I hope there's something I can do. \n\nThank you.","title":"Can I get a restraining order on my abusive Mum's ex-boyfriend - Australia?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552336236,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azycks\/chicago_hacker_harrasing_my_friend\/","id":"azycks","body":" \n\nMy  highschool friend moved to Chicago a few years ago to study. She was in  a relationship with a guy for like two years before she realised he was  a manipulative narcissist. I lost contact with her during that time so  I'm only learning about all of this now as we are recently reconnecting.\n\nApparently  he didn't take too well to the break up as his been constantly hacking  her electronics, emails and social accounts. Basically everything a  university student would need to function. From what I've been able to  understand, the guy somehow is able to take control of any of her  devices be her phone or laptop. She said  she took her phone and laptop to the shop to check for spyware but they found nothing. She's changed phone 4 times now and has just given up.\n\nUnfortunately,  it's really hard to get any details or more elaboration on the hacking  as she literally falls apart whenever she talks about it. Ultimately I  do more harm making her recall her situation while trying to find a  solution. Shes already been to the cops and that didn't lead  to anything. Its getting to the point she seems to be borderline  considering suicide if his actions got worse as she feels isolated and  helpless. The womans spirit is shattered and I don't know how longer she  can stand it.\n\nPlease who can she get in contact with to properly document what is happening and who to report it to?","title":"Chicago hacker harrasing my friend","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541608570,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v0xyr\/my_stalker_wants_me_to_stay_with_my_wife\/","id":"9v0xyr","body":"Since 2014 I have had a stalker that comes in and out my life sending me and my wife things that would make us argue and not trust each other. They are capable enough to use my wife\u2019s number to send me texts, pictures, and screenshots. But then when we break up they threaten my wife and last night I received pictures of my wife and kids sleeping at 5am since I\u2019m not at home anymore. Freaked me out.  I already deleted my fb page and my fb messenger bcuz they were text ppl from my account. What do I do?","title":"My stalker wants me to stay with my wife","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569333797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8nmpv\/dc_is_it_legal_for_my_landlord_to_move_in_with_me\/","id":"d8nmpv","body":"Trying to include all of the necessary information, but it requires some background and context. Throwaway because a lot of people use this website.\n\nI moved into a group house (6 rooms) in  Washington, DC in August 2018. There were several other roommates when I moved in, but now they've all moved out and my landlord has not found new tenants. I am still here because I'm finishing my degree and moving in December and didn't want to move twice within the span of four months. I worked this out with my landlord, who wrote a lease extension, and mine now ends January 31st.\n\nI have regrets. The landlord has always been difficult, picking fights with roommates and entering the house frequently and without notice (I just learned that DC requires 48 hours' notice, we have gotten 15 minutes' notice in the past or none at all). Since there haven't been any new renters for the empty rooms though, things have gotten much worse. I went on a trip mid-August and let my landlord know, casually in conversation, that I would be gone for a few days. I got back at midnight and was locked out of my house and room, the house because there was worry that I had given my ex-roommates my access code (digital locks, not physical keys) and the room because there had been an (unauthorized, unwarned) showing of my room to potential tenants and it was carelessly locked after that showing. I did not have my keys on me since I left the room unlocked when I left. The landlord happened to be there and let me in, going on about how \"lucky\" I was that they were there...\n\nAnyway. My landlord was there because they've been living in the English basement for months. When I had roommates, we were never told this, but we observed that the landlord was definitely living down there. There's a separate entrance\/exit, but the floors are not soundproof and we could hear what was going on in the basement, we could also probably be heard. There were texted complaints about my male roommates \"walking too loudly\" in the house. Maybe two weeks ago I was in my living room when my landlord walked in and started talking about how they were going to list the individual rooms in the house on airbnb for short-term leases. They also mentioned that with new DC laws (I don't know which specifically), airbnb owners have to live on-site to rent out rooms. Apparently the basement wasn't good enough, because they mentioned that they may move into the main house.\n\nI did not take this threat seriously, which is on me. This Sunday (9\/22), I got a text at 11:30am from my landlord that said \"I will be moving stuff into the house today & most likely sleeping there tonight.\" Of course it's not just that one night, I've heard them in the house these last two nights, all of their food is in my kitchen, and I'm on edge constantly. \n\nMy questions are these: \n\nIs my landlord legally allowed to move in? I have found laws on privacy and entry notice but none that address this issue specifically. \n\nWould it be relatively easy for me to fight this? The landlord gets \"Washington Lawyer\" so I'm worried they are an actual lawyer. I am not one. \n\nIs it worth fighting? I'm only going to be on the lease for four months, living there for three, and they will absolutely retaliate if I push back on this. I have broken some of the house rules in the past (ex. I have kept food in my room which is something written into the lease that I'm not allowed to do, I keep it well-hidden but they've probably seen it) which could be used as justification to make my life further hell. Still, being constantly monitored is a horrible way to live.\n\nI appreciate any advice people are willing to give me.","title":"(DC) Is it legal for my landlord to move in with me?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555413524,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdspy1\/mi_adopting_step_daughter\/","id":"bdspy1","body":"I live in Michigan , I\u2019m getting divorced, my step daughter that\u2019s 11 wants to live with me after the divorce , I\u2019ve been in her life 10 of her 11 years . \n\nI strongly believe her mom will oppose it , and I don\u2019t believe her dad will go for it either . Is there anything I can do ?","title":"(MI) adopting step daughter","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552676914,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1iusx\/can_canary_mission_be_sued_for_defamation\/","id":"b1iusx","body":"This is more out of curiosity\/interesting topic that came up in normal conversation, but can Canary Mission be sued for defamation or something else to make it stop what it's doing? I know some people who have been targeted by them, so now if you Google their name, their Canary Mission profile is the first result, under some title like this person supports terrorism in the US when that's completely false.\n\nFor those of you who don't know what Canary Mission is, it is basically a pro-Israeli website in the US whose mission is to discredit anybody who stands up for Palestine (college students or professors) by posting information about all the pro-Palestine people they can find under the guise of 'these people are supporters of terrorism and are anti-American. For example, let's say person A is a member of SJP (the big pro-Palestine student organization, stands for Students for Justice in Palestine) and shared a post that says that Palestine should be free. They take this information and post photos they find online or their undercover people take of them, on their website, along with 'Person A is a member or SJP' then write a few paragraphs in that person's profile about how other people, who are in a completely different state and also happen to be in this organization among others, did bad stuff and overreach to make some arbitrary connection, then they post a few other paragraphs about how the person wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth for the post about freeing Palestine and supports Hamas and is anti-Semetic, just for saying that Palestine should be a country or for saying that Israel shouldn't kill Palestinians. Basically it destroys the image of anyone who says anything against Israel in a US college campus. \n\nWhat can be done about this, if anything? And has anybody tried to do anything legally against them, and if so, what was the result? ","title":"Can Canary Mission be sued for defamation?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1503029522,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ufhar\/dad_wants_to_borrow_money\/","id":"6ufhar","body":"He is in California \nI am in Georgia\n\nI guess contracts would be the most appropriate flair here. \n\nMy father called me today saying that he wanted to sell me 15oz of gold today. I happen to have the cash to buy it and I am very interested in buying it, however, selling to him is code for borrowing from me. He and I have done this in the past, by handshake, in much smaller amounts without issue but this much gave me pause. \n\nThis would be a cash or bank transfer (we use the same bank). The gold would be sold to me at spot, and that price holds for a year, otherwise if he chooses to buy it back it's spot when he decides again. I reserve the right to sell it otherwise once it's in my possession if I do choose. \n\nMy big questions are:\n\nReporting requirements. Does the taxman need to be involved?\n\nA written contract. Should this be involved since this isn't a loan, rather a sale or pawn? \n\nShould I be concerned with what he is doing with the cash? He told me that he'd be using this cash for \"all lawful purposes\" (apparently my sister is in need, but she and I don't speak much). \n\n>How much is 15oz of gold?\n\n[Spot](https:\/\/goldprice.org\/spot-gold.html) is $1286\/oz and over 15oz it is $19290. \n\n\nThanks for reading. ","title":"Dad wants to \"borrow\" money","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1542128580,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wqu7y\/getting_out_of_a_12_month_lease_issues_with\/","id":"9wqu7y","body":"I had a question about getting out a lease - whether it is possible based on any of the issues we've had with the current place we are living. I will preface this by saying that we signed a 12-month lease and I am pretty certain that the lease states that we are liable for the full 12 months (but I am not sure of the specifics, I don't have the lease is front of me right now).\n\nWe moved in about 5 months ago to a place that deems itself a 'luxury' apartment. We pay about $1800 a month for a one bedroom so it isn't necessarily a cheap place to live but the market in our area is fairly expensive.\n\n**A few of the minor problems we've had:**\n\n* A neighbor keeps their door open at times as late as 11PM with a strong odor of food coming out of their place. They seem to cook a lot of very smelly food which is fine but they open their door to the hallway to basically air of their apartment. We complained and management said they'd speak to them because tenants aren't supposed to keep their doors open. Nothing has changed in 2 months. The odor is VERY strong. We are 3 doors down, our door is 20 feet or so from theirs, yet the odor is strong enough to fill most of our apartment.\n* They only have a single large dumpster for the whole complex of 10+ buildings (about 30 apartments in each building) and it is located at one end of the complex. When we moved in there were multiple but that changed a month in and they said it was \"cheaper\" to have one.\n* They told us when we moved in that they were building a \"dog park\". The complex is dog-friendly. The \"dog park\" turned out to be basically a 10' x 10' fenced in area.\n* Neighbor\u2019s above us are very noisy. We can hear everything from talking to them simply walking around. But I don't even think it is all their fault, the floor seems very thin. At night we can legit hear what sounds like people putting stuff on a nightstand, or turning on their bathroom sink etc. \u2013 We complained because it is so noisy, and they are often up late. We've been woken up on multiple occasions around 1 AM because of the noise. Again management said they'd speak with them and nothing has changed.\n* They don\u2019t seem to follow their own lease rules in terms of upkeep: People aren\u2019t supposed to have certain things on their balcony\u2019s - yet they do. People are supposed to pick up after their dogs - yet we see dog crap on the ground all the time. These are again minor issues by why are we supposed to follow the lease terms when the complex clearly doesn't care?\n\n**And then what really was the last straw for us was this incident this morning:**\n\n* They didn't give us proper notice about coming into our apartment. They\u2019ve come in twice in the span of about 3 weeks (once to change the AC filter and a 2nd time today to check the fire alarms - which they were supposed to check months ago). We get less than a weeks notice that these are happening. Today though they told us they just needed to \"pop their heads in\" to see if the fire alarms were working...then this morning when they were doing the inspection they sent us a text to say basically \u201c we are starting the inspections now and\u2026oops, by the way, we need to go into your bedrooms\/bathrooms to check the alarms as well, sorry!\u201d. So they told us first on Friday that they just needed to pop in real quick, then right when they were starting the inspections this morning, when everyone would be at work, they are telling us they actually need to go into our bedroom\/bathroom. Luckily we didn't have anything personal out, but this seems like a HUGE invasion of privacy. How can they give us basically no notice that they'll have to go into our bedroom and bathroom? Super frustrating.\n\nSo I am not sure if any of this is worth using as reasoning to fight to get out of a lease early. And maybe I am just complaining too much and need to chill out. But any advice on what can be done would be greatly appreciated.\n\n​","title":"Getting Out of a 12 Month Lease - Issues With Management\/Privacy","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554256479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8s23y\/employer_wont_pay_me_located_in_co\/","id":"b8s23y","body":"I worked with a guy painting houses and he didint pay me the day we were supposed to cause i went to texas for a week it was alright with me he doesnt have papers and couldnt send me the money now fast forward  to the week when i get back he said he didint owe me anything and i even sent him prove on my messages that he was even asking me foe my routing number to transfer the money but he didint and he doesnt want to pay its been like 3 weeks what should i do? Any help","title":"Employer wont pay me located in CO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505405992,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/703ahp\/what_are_my_options\/","id":"703ahp","body":"My parents are angry, for a reason that's unbeknownst to me and I'm sure over something little, and they've decided to kick me out. My boyfriend and I live in their house, and have been for almost a year now, rent free with no lease or any written contract. We were going to leave months earlier, but got into a car accident and totaled the car, resulting in us both losing our jobs. \n\nMy parents are now trying to kick us out, saying that we've been living at their house on a weekly basis and we can be kicked out whenever. Out licenses have their address on it and our belongings are here. \n\nIn addition, they've tried to cut of the power to the room we stay in, tell us we cannot use the bathroom, put locks on the fridge, turn off the internet, and lock us out of the house. \n\nWe live in North Carolina. ","title":"What are my options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569133413,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7mqzn\/am_i_being_used_to_launder_money\/","id":"d7mqzn","body":"(Pennsylvania, US) I've been around the sugar dafing block enough to know, business account that isnt authorized on PayPal or venmo usually equals scam. But this man is wanting to send me money, with no catch. Obviously other than normal \"sugar\" expectations. There's usually always some weird catch. I made a new bank account specifically for this encounter, if its fraudulent will the bank immediately catch it? Its nothing above 1000 at a time. If I change my password after and spend the money, is that criminal? Only weird thing I've noticed with these men with business accounts is, they always have the same \"working abroad\" sentiment, and they ALWAYS ask you to delete your account on the sugar dating website. Any ideas on what that accomplishes? Sorry if this was a lot.","title":"Am I being used to launder money?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554507020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9y7e6\/ca_us_medical_scribes_not_being_paid_ot_for\/","id":"b9y7e6","body":"First off, I want to apologize if this isn\u2019t the right platform for this inquiry.\n\nI began working for a medical scribe company in 2018 (in LA, California) and noticed I was being paid overtime rates for anything beyond 8 hours  per day. \nMy manager then informed me than anything over 8 hours *in one day* is considered overtime in California. \n\nThis leads me to my next question...\n\nMy best friend works for another scribe company, and she works 3 12hr shifts per week and gets paid minimum wage for every hour that she works. \n\nIs this legal?","title":"[CA, US] Medical Scribes not being paid OT for working over 8hrs\/day.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553257631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b44gqz\/small_claims_notice\/","id":"b44gqz","body":"New York small claims court.\n\nHow should I be notified that my tenant wants to go to court?\nShe supposedly got a lawyer over security deposit.\nRegular or certified mail?","title":"Small claims notice?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444335207,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o0jpn\/formerish_roommate_wont_move_out_xpost_from\/","id":"3o0jpn","body":"Location: Savannah, GA.\n\nI have been living in the same house since December '14. Originally there were four of us. Our lease went until July of '15. During July I went out of town for a few weeks. Two of my roommates moved out, found subletters. Landlord wanted us to sign a new lease. Told him once we had the people we would, all was good. Third original roommate moved out and I found someone for his room. \n\nOne of the new roommates was always kind of a bum. Asking me for smokes, money, laundry detergent, taking my beer from the fridge. \n\nFast forward to September and landlord starts, understandably, pressing to sign the lease. I'm not comfortable signing a lease with bummy rooommate living here. I talk to bummy roommate and he says he's on his way out anyway, says he'll be out by end of month. \n\nPerfect. Had an old friend tell me he's moving into the town where I am, told him he could have the soon-to-be evacuated room. He agrees, is excited. Landlord drafts up lease and the four of us (3 living and friend on the way) sign the lease, pass background check etc. \n\nIt's now Oct. 8th and bummy roommate hasn't left yet. Friend gets here in next couple days. Bummy roommate, for the past week and a half, keeps telling me he'll be out of here by \"tomorrow night\" or \"by the morning\" and he keeps getting drunk. Just talked to him. His stuff is semi-packed but he doesn't seem close to moving out. \n\nHe told me he doesn't have anywhere to go. I don't want to make him homeless. I have told him he could store some stuff here if need be and told him if he really needs he can crash on the couch for a night or two. I'm nervous that he won't ever leave. What can I do?","title":"Former(ish) roommate won't move out (x-post from r\/advice)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446926291,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rx97i\/becoming_a_landlord_how_do_i_protect_myself_while\/","id":"3rx97i","body":"We've been in our apartment for 3 years and now we are purchasing the building (4 plex). We've always really monopolized the yard but would like to work to make ita nicer common space. I also want to do things to make it nicer for my family (eg: wooden clubhouse instead of plastic swing set).  While Ican't see much harm from a raised garden bed, i don't want the stoned guys upstairs to burn themselves on the grill or fall out of the clubhouse and i especially don't want them suing me if they do. The building is fully rented and under lease at the moment so I'm wondering what Ican do that is outside ofa clause in the lease.  \n\nTL; DR: want a \"use at your own risk\" document for tenants who are already under lease. ","title":"Becoming a landlord! How do I protect myself while creating common spaces for residents? (St louis)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542298699,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9xcld0\/does_my_lease_say_i_can_leave_midterm_nj\/","id":"9xcld0","body":"I signed a new lease for an apartment that I've been living in a few years at the beginning of 2018. My landlord told me that he wants to renovate the apartment (so he can increase the rent) and that we should plan to move after the lease ends. Here is what the lease says (bolding is my edit)\n\n>This Agreement shall continue as a YEARLY tenancy starting on February 1, 2018. **At any time Tenant desires to terminate the tenancy, Tenant may do so by providing to Landlord written notice of intention to terminate**. Such notice to terminate must be provided to Landlord at least 30 days prior to the desired date of termination of the tenancy. If at any time Landlord desires to terminate the tenancy, Landlord may do so by providing to Tenant such written notice of intention to terminate at least 30 days prior to the desired date of termination of the tenancy. Notices to terminate may be given on any calendar day, irrespective of Commencement Date.\n\nI know that in NJ a landlord can't force a tenant to move, but we'd rather find a new place than live somewhere that our landlord hates us. Does this section of our lease mean we can leave before the lease term expires (January 31, 2019).\n\n​\n\nThe way I'm reading it is, that we can give the landlord 30 days notice and then move out and not owe additional rent. Can someone confirm?\n\n​\n\nI'm fine to wait the lease out, but I've started looking at listings and if I find something I want to jump on...I'd like to know my options.","title":"Does my lease say I can leave mid-term? NJ","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504734528,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yise6\/racist_costumer_threatened_to_get_me_fired\/","id":"6yise6","body":"[OH]Soo while I was working at the local McDonald's, a customer went up to order and mumbled very softly. Politely I asked him to repeat himself and he replied \"Can't hear with those big ears nigger?\" At this point I am barely stopping myself from beating this guy up. I just told him I needed him to leave and I would not serve him. Being the one of two people here(I am a assistant manager and the other person was a new guy) he had no choice but to leave, he left screaming about how he was gonna get me fired. Should I be worried? The lead manager is known to fire people very quickly.","title":"Racist costumer threatened to get me fired","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541459895,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uis20\/cafriend_has_been_hospitalized_for_mental_health\/","id":"9uis20","body":"This is my first time posting here, so sorry if I'm doing anything wrong! I'm using a throwaway to protect my friend's privacy\nMy friend goes to public university in California, and over the past couple of weeks they have had serious mental health problems that have led to them being hospitalized multiple times, both voluntarily and as a 5150 (72 hour involuntary psychiatric hold). After being released and going back to school, the dean of her college has started requiring meetings with my friend, and has done the following\n-made my friend reveal the details of their mental health problems despite not being a mental health professional\n-told my friend that they are required to tell her (the dean) details of any suicide plan my friend may have \n-told my friend they are having a negative effect on the school community\n-told my friend to drop out (I think she means take a leave of absence for the rest of the quarter)\n-told my friend to move out of student housing for the rest of the quarter (which would cause my friend to lose their housing for the rest of the year\/lose the money they paid for housing)\n\nMy friend is already struggling and this dean is not making things easier. My question is, can the dean legally be doing any of this? Is there anything my friend can\/should do? Thanks!","title":"[CA]Friend has been hospitalized for mental health issues, school wants to make them leave- warning for mental health problems(?)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1443029231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m38yg\/ontario_canada_enforcing_contract_guidelines\/","id":"3m38yg","body":"So this is currently my brother in law's situation. Pretty much he worked for over 5+ years at a chiropractic clinic, there were some differences at the end which made him quit. In his contract between him and the guy owning it, it stated that for at least 2 years after leaving the clinic, you can't open or join a clinic within 4 km of the one you worked at. So I'm assuming that realistically it can't be legally enforceable? If he opens his own clinic within the 4 km, can the original employer take him to court? I've heard that it wouldn't work if the 4 km rule was prohibiting him from earning a livelihood? \nThanks! ","title":"(Ontario Canada) enforcing contract guidelines..?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569784064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dazlqi\/can_a_college_apartment_complex_make_you_change\/","id":"dazlqi","body":"I live in a college apartment complex off campus. I have a 1 year lease with them. Lately, they have been calling me non-stop asking if I want to renew for another year, even going as far as taping up a flier to my apartment door about renewing. They have started telling me that if I don\u2019t renew now, that I might be forced out of my apartment complex and moved to a different one, even if I renew later on. Is it legal for them to kick me out of my certain room, even if I renew my lease before my current 12 month lease is up?","title":"Can a college apartment complex make you change units, even after renewing?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539068067,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mmxu9\/if_i_was_never_put_on_child_support_will_i_be_in\/","id":"9mmxu9","body":"If I was never asked for child support does that mean I have to pay in arrears or do I just pay starting from now on. Or will they go back from the time I signed over custody. Thank you. ","title":"If I was never put on child support, will I be in arrears?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539113872,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9msary\/our_school_locked_all_but_one_restroom_in_our\/","id":"9msary","body":"Located in Dallas, TX. \n\nOur school locked all the restrooms except one because people started writing on the walls, and now we require sign in to even use a single restroom. Is there anything wrong with schools allowing this?","title":"Our school locked all but one restroom in our school of 1200.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1505056220,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z8qc3\/if_the_fbi_were_investigating_a_teacher_for\/","id":"6z8qc3","body":"Per FBI, Investigation: middle school teacher for sexual contact with students.\n\nPotential victim\/witness: died at 20 from accidental OD, about a month after his mother died of natural causes. \n\nInterview scenario: about a year after son's death, father has sold\/donated their possessions and moved to a town about an hour away.\n\n2 agents knock on door, explain investigation, interview father and search home (just look around, nothing taken). Mostly they ask about his friends from middle school and if he ever said anything.\n\nIf the son WAS a potential victim\/witness, it would've been like ten years prior to his death.\n\nIs this a thing, or were they more likely investigating the father?","title":"If the FBI were investigating a teacher for sexual misconduct, would they interview the father of a potential victim\/witness if that person were dead? (IL)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447636470,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sypvu\/what_can_i_do_about_this_crazy_girl_at_my_school\/","id":"3sypvu","body":"Okay, I used to be friends with this girl, but then she started getting all paranoid. She thinks I was flirting with her b\/f behind her back, which is not true in any way. Heck, I only tolerated him because they were dating. Anyway, things kept getting worse and worse between us and then finally one day she cornered me in the bathroom. When I tried to leave, she threw a punch at me and so I had to defend myself. Two of her friends were there watching to make sure I didn\u2018t get away. A teacher walking by heard the noise and came in and broke the whole thing up.\n\nWe got hauled down to the principal\u2019s office and the police were called. Her friends claimed I started the fight and I ended up leaving the school in handcuffs. Luckily, I wasn\u2019t expelled or anything. But I was given ISS (in-school suspension).\n\nThe worst part of all this is what happened on Friday. I had to go to juvenile court. She and her two friends have maintained their version of events through all this and I was found guilty. I was sentenced to spend Thanksgiving break in juvie. Next Friday evening is when I have to go in and I won\u2019t get out until the evening of the 29th, nine days later.\n\nI don\u2019t know what to expect when I go in. I\u2019ve never been in trouble with the law before, so this is all new territory. But my main concern is what to do once I\u2019m out. This girl really has me scared now and I don\u2019t know what to do. Help!\n\nI'm from Louisiana btw.","title":"What can I do about this crazy girl at my school?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571586364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dklblp\/need_some_reassurance_on_some_child_support\/","id":"dklblp","body":"Tl;dr: I\u2019m a male with full custody of a child after my ex signed it over. After arguments she\u2019s threatened to get a lawyer and try and get it reversed. Where do I stand?\n\nHey all, straight to the point, I\u2019m a 25 yo male and have a child with my ex girlfriend. We\u2019ve come up with our own agreement and she has signed over full physical and legal custody to me because I agreed to pay for everything for our child. I work swing shift with a lot of overtime so She has our kid a lot. \n\nRecently we\u2019ve been having arguments because she will make plans with him on the days I\u2019m supposed to have him and I will still let him go because I don\u2019t want to restrict what my child gets to experience because me and his mom don\u2019t get a long. So I\u2019ve been very willing to let her have him when she wants. She pretty much even makes the schedule for him as far as who will have him and when. \n\nYesterday she was going to take him to an event, then cancelled, and was going to dinner with a friend so they could meet our son. Then she cancelled that. It was getting later in the day and I texted her saying \u201chey why don\u2019t you just keep him tonight since I work early tomorrow and I don\u2019t want to mess his sleep schedule up by waking him up earlier than he normally does. She replied with a snotty comment about how she doesn\u2019t mind spending more time with him and insinuating  that I was avoiding my time with him. \n\nComments like that make me very angry and we had an argument and other drama. \n\nLong story short my main question is, since I have full custody, and have been more than willing to share our time with our son equally, where does she stand if she decides to try and go back to court to over rule my custody rights?\nI even got a new job at work that would be a more consistent schedule for our son I\u2019m just waiting for my start date. \n\nA little background, she has a police record from a drunken night and being belligerent in front of witnesses, she signed over the rights willingly (through some forms my lawyer wrote up), and I\u2019ve always tried to get along for our sons sake. \n\nI reside in Indiana. \n\nPlease let me know if there\u2019s any info missing. I appreciate you all!","title":"Need some reassurance on some child support questions please.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1408569411,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e4amg\/california_los_angeles_county_question_about_30\/","id":"2e4amg","body":"Hi \/r\/LegalAdvice! \n\nMy primary questions: Since we are no longer inside the 12 months of the lease contract, can we give notice today, Aug 20th even though it is not the first of the month? Can the landlord take the rest of the rent out of my deposit? If I move out of state can I sue the landlord in small claims court to get the money back from my deposit? \n\nWe've been beyond the 12 month term of the agreement but inside the a section of a \"SUPPLEMENT TO APARTMENT LEASE\" there is a section that stipulates:\n\n\"In no event shall the Lessee give to the Lessor less than thirty (30) days written notice of intent to vacate the premises. Such a notice must be given to Lessor on the FIRST of the month accompanied by the full payment of rent. If Lessee intends to vacate the premises at the end of the lease, written notice must be given to Lessor not less than 30 days prior to expiration of the Lease.\"\n\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"California ( Los Angeles county ) question about 30 day notice to terminate apartment lease agreement","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540069781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pxto3\/vacation_hours_not_paid_out_after_leaving_job\/","id":"9pxto3","body":"I left a job (with more than 2 weeks notice), with about 56 hours in vacation time. I was sent a check for 14 of those hours. When I asked about the remainder, I was told \"they have to figure it out.\" Calls to the bookkeeper for that business are now going unanswered. I would rather not speak to the owner because she is (obviously) vindictive and was extremely upset that I chose to leave. I live in MA. It is my understanding that these are wages that need to be paid out after you leave a position. Do I go to the owner, or straight to filing a complaint? ","title":"Vacation hours not paid out after leaving job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568417398,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3xglz\/landlord_decided_not_to_let_me_renew_2_week\/","id":"d3xglz","body":"This morning i got a text from my property manager saying that the owner of the property has chosen not to renew leasing with me. Ok. The only problem here is i was not given this info until today 09\/13\/19. My expected move out day is 09\/30\/19. I have been asking for the last couple months via text and phone when is my renewal is or whats happening. Their reasoning was in July they sent me certified mail (late on rent) and it was returned. Odd cause i didn't get anything on my door or any notice from management etc. So basically they've known since July and didn't say a word, til today.  A little after the property manager called me back to say, 'yeah i thought about it and its not fair you didn't get a month's notice. You can stay til Oct. 30th if you pay more for rent. Then move out.'\n It seems like I've been on their crap list since my Dr. prescribed me service animals. The management didn't say they were an issue, but i can't help but feel this is why I've been mistreated by them.  Really i wouldn't mind staying til October, but i don't think i should have to pay more than usual as they don't have an 'if we decide not to renew you section'in my lease. The only thing it says is, if you choose to leave they need a 30 day notice. (This is in the state of Arizona)\nAny advice here? \nTIA!","title":"Landlord decided not to let me renew, 2 week notice given. Need advice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555034140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc857x\/ca_my_landlord_in_la_is_raising_my_rent_24_is\/","id":"bc857x","body":"Title says it all. I'm currently living in a RSO protected apartment in Los Angeles paying $2900\/month. My one year lease is ending June and my Landlord just hit me with a $3700\/month asking for next year. Is this legal? I've read in some places it's not and some places that it is... tbh idk please help someone!!","title":"[CA] - My Landlord in LA is raising my rent 24% Is this legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568748510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5lvzj\/can_a_crossing_guard_give_or_report_you_to_the\/","id":"d5lvzj","body":"So I did something pretty stupid, it wasn\u2019t super dangerous however it was dumb and I acknowledge this. The light just turned red and I overtook another care on the other side of the road and made a left(I really had somewhere to be and they stopped short) in the event of doing this the crosswalk guard was with a child..  I\u2019m not F\u2019d up  I wouldn\u2019t have went if they were moving. However I made the left turn clear and away from them. I was stuck in a bit of traffic however and the crosswalk guard pulled out her phone with the quickness and got my plate\/car. She didn\u2019t record the act but she did get my plate so her word against mine. Am I screwed?","title":"Can a crossing guard give or report you to the police for a ticket??","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554704043,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baq88q\/one_of_my_best_friends_is_locked_in_a_lease_in_an\/","id":"baq88q","body":"Like I said in the title, it's not me, but one of my best friends (he doesn't use Reddit and I want to try to help him). The shootings aren't necessarily murders or anything too crazy, but he's told me there were gunshots roughly every other night the first month he lived there. Now the shootings happen once or twice a week, with the most recent happening last Saturday in broad daylight. That one involved an ambulance, so someone was likely hit in the process. My friend assumes these shootings are likely gang related as there aren't any shootouts with the police. To add to his housing woes, two of his shared-wall neighbors have been evicted, with one of the replacements moving in about 2 AM blasting music and hitting the walls until about 630. He's looked into breaking the lease and moving, and the total cost is gonna be about $5,000, with the actual lease-breaking costing about $1,400. Is there any legal way he can get out of the lease due to feeling unsafe, without having to pay the $1,400? ","title":"One of my best friends is locked in a lease in an apartment and can't get out. In the 6-7 months he's lived there, there have been roughly 40 shootings in and around the complex. Is there a legal way out of the lease? (Stone Mountain, GA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569953097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbx5mi\/employer_lied_about_income\/","id":"dbx5mi","body":"I work part time in Phoenix AZ and the minimum wage is $11\/hr. I work at a place that\u2019s real sketchy and every employee complains they are underpaid. I\u2019m currently being paid $10\/hr and I\u2019m in a tough situation at the moment, unable to land a job in my field and can\u2019t afford both food and rent (so I choose to pay rent). I applied for the Nutrition Assistance program but the process dragged out for over a month because my employer refused to give me pay stubs or any proof of income (only a generic check is given every pay period). On the deadline of the application, they finally decided to fill out a sheet I gave them where they tell the state some information about my hours and gross pay. I find out today my application was declined because the employer wrote down my gross pay as what I should be getting paid, not what they are actually paying me. This caused a discrepancy in the system and now I have to go through the whole application process again (which my employer probably will refuse to be involved in). When I first asked them for pay stubs, they immediately assumed I had reported them for underpaying me (I have evidence of this) and ignored me until the case worker called them (at that point they confronted me about why she was calling). I strongly believe they purposely lied about my income on the employment form and that has costed me acceptance into the nutrition program. There has to be something I can do about this right? Or am I just out of luck. Any help is greatly appreciated. \n\n\nTL:DR - I\u2019m underpaid, my employer lied about income on a gov assistance form and that costed me getting accepted for said assistance.","title":"Employer lied about income","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538029389,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jafl7\/ny_discriminated_against_for_mental_disorder\/","id":"9jafl7","body":"First off I want to start by saying I\u2019m sorry if this is the incorrect flair or if I should be posting this somewhere else, but a quick look through the wiki tells me I should be alright, please correct me if I\u2019m wrong though.\n\nI work in a factory and have been here roughly 3 months, we have a decent amount of people on each shift, and each machine has a \u201clead\u201d that kind of supervise\/direct the 2-4 other operators on the machine. I\u2019ve made a good impression on my supervisor and the leads in my time here so far, and I was told that starting today I\u2019d be getting trained on a machine so that I could eventually be the lead on it. I\u2019ve been a lead on other machines before, and I\u2019ve worked with the lead that was supposed to be training me on several occasions and we\u2019ve always gotten along. This is where it gets confusing though. \n\nWhen I walked into work today to verify that I was going to be on that certain machine, my name was listed on a different one so I asked my boss and he said that he wanted to push it back until Monday because of our schedule and he didn\u2019t want me learning anything new before we had several days off, so he put a different guy there. I didn\u2019t think much of it cause it makes sense so I went to the machine he had put me on instead. A few hours after I got to work, the guy that ended up taking my place on the machine I was supposed to start training on (who I\u2019m friends with), texted me saying that the lead had requested him instead because he doesn\u2019t have OCD like I do, then went on to say that because I have OCD that \u201cnothing would get done.\u201d (I should mention that not once has my OCD ever gotten in the way of my duties, and I even make an extra effort to make other people\u2019s jobs easier whenever I possibly can)\n\nIt\u2019s pretty well known here that I have OCD and it\u2019s easy to brush off the little comments people make to try to get at me, \u201cthat label isn\u2019t straight\u201d, \u201cyou missed a spot of dirt\u201d, etc., but this comment got to me because it actually stripped me of an opportunity to advance at a job I take very seriously and exceed in. \n\nI\u2019m not entirely sure what exactly I should do about this, I don\u2019t want to be a snitch and run to HR but if someone is sabotaging my chance at bettering myself in this company, whether they know it or not, I feel like I should do something.\n\nTL;DR - Was supposed to be trained by a guy, he said he wanted somebody else that didn\u2019t have OCD because nothing would get done.","title":"[NY] Discriminated against for mental disorder","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1412748910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2imyu5\/i_got_into_a_car_accident_that_im_99_sure_is_the\/","id":"2imyu5","body":"I came to a stop at a 4-way stop sign. I noticed a car (call this car X) coming from my right. I saw X slowing to a stop so I started moving forward. X never came to a full stop, and X's front bumper hit my rear bumper.\n\nI messed up by not filing a police report. It was a secluded street and the only witness was my passenger. We exchanged information and X left. I called my insurance and told them the story. They told me that since I'm only covered for liability, they would only take action if I were found liable, to cover for X's repair fees. (Is that normal?)\n\nNow my car's sitting at home, because it's definitely not safe to drive. I need to get it fixed ASAP, but don't have the money unless X's insurance company calls me to write me a check, which I somehow doubt will happen. I really have no clue what to do next. Should I look for a lawyer?\n\nTL;DR - title","title":"I got into a car accident that I'm 99% sure is the other's fault, but my insurance refuses to help. Do I need a lawyer? (California)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552603967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1731z\/pa_usa_school_district_suspending_student_refuses\/","id":"b1731z","body":"Public School is suspending student for incident that happened over a week ago. Staff have refused to show the video evidence of this event. The driver isn't corroborating the event took place. \n\nCan they legally deny access to these tapes?\n(Access defined: tape to be shown to guardians of one of the children involved at the school.)\n\nThe event was a fight. Assistant principal claims student A shoved head of student B into their crotch during the fight.\n\nPunishment: 3 day out of school suspension. No monetary fine levied at this point.","title":"PA, USA - School district suspending student refuses to show video of the event that happend on bus.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1411617384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2heed8\/ending_of_a_case_need_some_advice\/","id":"2heed8","body":"Long story short, I was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct in the state of South Carolina. I have court tomorrow. I got a lawyer and am prepared for the case. Today the arresting (in this case, ticket writing) officer contacted me. He informed me that my ticket is dropped and I don't even need to show up to court. I checked my ticket online and it is still there. I have informed my lawyer that I do not need his assistance, but I am still going to court just in case he is tricking us. Has law enforcement done things like this before? If I show up and I do indeed still face these charges, how can I push back the trial or call foul on the officer telling me he has dropped the ticket and I didn't even need to come? Thanks for any advice.","title":"Ending of a Case: Need Some Advice.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447436070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3son0i\/i_bought_a_customizable_laptop_in_the_uk_and_it\/","id":"3son0i","body":"I got this new customizable laptop from an UK retailer. I order an 1TB HD, but it came with a worse one, only 500gb. I noticed and emailed the company, which asked me to send the laptop back so that they could change it, which means I'll have to stay for some days without any computer and I'll have to reinstall everything in my HD back. Besides, I only have a Windows 7 installer and they only provided windows 10 drivers, so I'd have to install windows 7 and upgrade it to 10, which takes a few days for Microsoft to do. To summarize, it will be quite an inconvenience on top of a very messy order, with delays and missing parts along the way. I asked them to compensate me in any way, since it was their mistake and they told they won't, all they would do was install the HD I initally paid for and let me deal with the wait and the hassle of reinstalling everything. Is there anything I can do to pressure them? Do they have any obligation to their costumer in this kind of situation? Any suggestion is allowed. Thanks.","title":"I bought a customizable laptop in the UK and it came with a worse HD by mistake. The company simply wants me to mail it back and have it changed. Am I entitled to any compensation for the delay and inconvenience?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539402045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nqu4n\/can_i_go_to_school_without_my_parents_consent\/","id":"9nqu4n","body":"Not sure which flair to use as there\u2019s quite a few questions here. To keep it as short as I can here\u2019s my situation (sorry in advance if it\u2019s incoherent, I\u2019m at 5% consciousness rn I\u2019ll fix it up later) \n\nMy parents are dysfunctional and just all around bad parents. They\u2019re hyper religious, and my dad\u2019s parents and family believe they suffer from depression. We don\u2019t have money and the house always looks like absolute shit while they sit on their asses doing nothing. I am the oldest of over 6 more kids (not saying exactly how many). I\u2019m 16 and I live in New Jersey. My grandparents live in Florida. \n\nI was in very very religious private schools my whole life. After dropping out of a shitty nightmarish boarding school a few weeks back I\u2019ve been basically begging my parents to let me go to public school. During this time, I was home all week and I realized that it\u2019s not normal for our house to always look like a pigsty, and for my parents to be on their phones 24\/7 and not do anything really. CPS has been called 2 times so far but they were looking for black eyes and needles, so nothing panned out. There was physical abuse involved but that totally ended 3 years back. \n\nI want to move to Florida with my grandparents and go to public school there. Problem is, my parents hate the absolute shit out of my grandparents. After they found out I reached out to them to get help for us, they freaked out and said I should just live there, which is basically my dream, but they calmed down since and now it looks like I\u2019ll be stuck with them til I\u2019m 18. What can I do? Can I legally fly out and start school without their consent? I don\u2019t want to ruin all my siblings lives cause it isn\u2019t THAT bad... what can I do. ","title":"Can I go to school without my parents consent?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1508252880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76z4gr\/i_just_got_a_check_from_the_ftc_for_being\/","id":"76z4gr","body":"Only reason I'm asking here is I got a check for $15 when I put in closer to $1000 back when I was 19 years old and naive.\n\nIt's been 8+ years since I was involved with them & on this check it says \"Void if not negotiated within (60) days of date of issue.\"\n\nI'm not familiar with any of these legal proceedings, so out of sheer curiosity is it possible to get more of my money back?\n\nI wrote it off as a loss a long ass time ago, but now this morning I laughed as soon as I saw this in my mailbox.\n\nState: VIRGINIA","title":"I just got a check from the FTC for being involved with Fortune High Tech Marketing.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551655034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awzygx\/how_to_deal_with_my_20f_boss_38m_boss_and_his\/","id":"awzygx","body":"'m a 20 y\/o female music teacher at a private music academy franchise. My boss and franchise owner, ~38M, has caused me to be uncomfortable because of his inappropriate and sexual comments. He calls me babe and honey, which could be inoffensive and explained as being friendly but he also confides in me his personal problems (ie: he's getting divorced). He also has shown me inappropriate music videos and songs with very sexual connotations. I'm often there early because of the time I am able to get dropped off at, and last week he showed me a song about female oral sex because he said \"as a female, I would appreciate it.\" He also once called me over to his desk and said \"this is kind of dirty but it's so funny!\" and shared with me a picture of a girl holding a used condom and a straw with the caption \"kid's meal.\" He also comments and tells me I'm too thin, or that I look nice, or that he likes when I bite my lip.\n\n\nI've shared these incidences with my parents and boyfriend and they both say I should quit but I work there five days a week and feel guilty leaving the company and my students high and dry. I also have done nothing to discourage his behaviour, as he is my boss and I didn't want to be confrontational. My dad suggested I ask him for severance or speak to the owners at head office, but I am nervous to burn this bridge. My boss has also said that he's very vindictive, and that it's good that we're friends because he is revengeful to people who cross him. I'm very shy and non-confrontational so I'm scared to stand up for myself. \n\n\nI was offered a job at another franchise location owned by somebody else so I do have another job lined up if I say the word, but it's within the same company so it's likely that I would encounter my boss again. I have been at this company for three years and his behaviour had escalated but I also want to do this strategically and responsibly in a way that will work out well for my future career. Do I respectfully give my two weeks and accept the other position?? Do I ask for severence and report him to head office?Any advice on how to handle this would be helpful and welcome.","title":"How to deal with my (20F) boss (~38M) boss and his inappropriate behavior towards me?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445344783,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3phgbv\/divorce_after_20_years_oh\/","id":"3phgbv","body":"I'm getting divorced after 20 years. My soon to be ex says he wants to keep things \"nice\" between us, but my gut is suspicious of his motives.\n\nI've been a homemaker all 20 years & have no job skills. Any idea on how long I'll get spousal support? I'd like to go back to school, so I can get a good job to support myself. If need be, I can provide more details on why the divorce is happening.","title":"Divorce after 20 years OH","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549642537,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aoi2i6\/legal_advice_for_my_friend_in_ohio\/","id":"aoi2i6","body":"Hello. To make this simple. 1 is any or of this illegal?  2 is there anything that can be done? Sorry if this is stupid. So hear me out:\n\nMy friend worked in the period of January 1st -15th 2019. She also worked between January 15th and the 31st 2019. From my understanding she should have received her check on February 1st 2019 for the time worked between January 1st 2019 and January 15th 2019. She has not yet received it and called them today. They said they sent it in the mail yesterday February 7th 2019. Which is illegal from my understanding? Also they told her today February 8th that they have no idea where her W-2 is and will have to get back to her? Those have to be post marked by the 31st. Which if this was done wouldn\u2019t we have received it in a week or so via U.S mail within the same city? Sorry if this is stupid but I can\u2019t stand to see my friend get pushed around anymore as they won\u2019t stand up for themselves and I feel something here is illegal. \nThanks for any advice. ","title":"Legal advice for my friend in Ohio.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445583660,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pvmsz\/disable_veteran_getting_divorced\/","id":"3pvmsz","body":"So this is a weird story. I got married when I was in the military and have been married for 4 years. However my wife wanted to keep our marriage a secret from her parents so we never told them nor lived together even after i got out. I have been filing taxes married filing separately while they have been claiming her and paying for her college. As of up to this point she has not had a job and started working maybe a few months ago.\n\n When it comes down to how we've lived together we have lived together at most 2 months out of those 4 years when i was getting out of the military.  She wanted the marriage under that wraps (no this was not a contract marriage she was my high school sweet heart) due to her parents cutting off her college. So just recently my wife decided since she has a job now, has new friends (never had any before) that she now wants to smoke weed and drink with them and has detached herself from the marriage and doesn't to try and work things out anymore. \n\nWhen it comes down to assets all i have is my Service Dog, Bengal cat, and money that I earned. The question I have is can she take my service dog or bengal (who I let stay with her at her parents but I bought) and touch my money even though I live off of it and am on 80% disability soon to be put at 100%. \n\nWas married in CA\n\nIf you need more details please let me know ","title":"Disable veteran getting divorced","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553623603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5t1ex\/i_need_to_know_details_about_the_supposed_federal\/","id":"b5t1ex","body":"I am a dialysis patient of 10 years & found out time spent on dialysis counts as time served on the waiting list\n\nI moved to Arizona in December & found out that because I'm on Medicare AND well under 65 that I don't have access to private party insurance, and half the states here in the USA are in the same boat. \n\nI came from a state where I had access, and didn't know it was an issue state to state until after I arrived here.\n\nLast week I turned in an official typed up & signed paper from my nephrologist's office stating this.\n\nI have a feeling (for various reasons) that there will be resistance to say the least, and I would like more information on my leverage, because I am basically next up on the transplant list and am a perfect candidate at under 30 years old with a lifestyle in the top 5% with no other health issues.","title":"I need to know details about the supposed federal law that allows me to get out of my rent lease on grounds of lifesaving medical procedure I cannot get in the immediate area of dwelling.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540873735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9skpxe\/parking_police_breaking_their_own_policy\/","id":"9skpxe","body":"CA, USA.\n\nSo i only get to park on campus once a week in the staff parking lot because they have a huge sign that says staff parkings ends at 5pm. My class starts at 6pm. Im usually there and in a mostly empty staff parking space around 5:45pm. \n\nI have been doing this for ten weeks and even watched the \u201cparking police\u201d look past my car because of the sign.\n\nOn the sign it in no was states that you have to have a school parking pass. It states clearly that \u201cStaff parking is open to students after 5pm\u201d. \n\nWell after my one night class i see i have a ticket with the time being 6:07pm stating i didnt have a valid parking pass. I took a picture of their sign saying students can park in staff places after five. I plan on bringing my school ID card stating that i am a student and the sign clearly states that students can park in staff places after 5. \n\nIf this was a real issue i would have gotten fined somewhere over the past 10 weeks. \n\nWhat else should i look up or talk about to dispute this stupid parking ticket. According to their signs i was legally allowed to park there. What part of the school should i go to? ","title":"Parking police breaking their own policy","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443557270,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mvjg7\/brothers_wife_left_him_for_another_man_while\/","id":"3mvjg7","body":"**Location:** South Carolina\n\n**In a nutshell:** My brother and his wife purchased a home in a new neighborhood that is under construction.  He has recently discovered that she is having an affair with the married neighbor and my brother has filed for divorce with grounds (adultery, he has proof in the form of text messages).  There is a $7500 fee to cancel the house and neither my brother nor his wife can afford it on their own.  Is there a possibility she could be responsible for the entirety of the cancellation fee during the division of assets since this is NOT a no-fault divorce?\n\n**The whole story:** My brother, his wife (we'll call them John and Jane) and their two young children have been living with my parents for the last 2 years in order to dig themselves out of a financial hole.  They worked with a financial services company to pay off all debt, repair their credit and have saved up quite a bit of money and bought a home in a new neighborhood that is currently under construction and scheduled for completion at the end of November.  They have approximately $10,000 in a savings account.  The account is in my brother's name and she does not have access to it (so there is no danger of her draining the account).\n\nJust when their financial troubles are about to be over, my SIL has tanked the marriage.  The house was not cancelled earlier because Jane has not been willing to say she wants a divorce, but also has been unwilling to participate in marriage counseling or respond to any of my brother's efforts to work on the marriage (all she does is say \"I don't know\" or \"I have some thinking to do\" when he tries to talk to her about it).  As a result of her refusal to work on things, my brother asked her to move out of my parents' house and she did.\n\nRecently it came to light (through text messages) that she has been having an affair for the last few months with the next door neighbor and she admitted to some of it when my brother confronted her.  The neighbor is also married and he and his wife (we'll call them Sam and Sara) were friends with John\/Jane.  Since Jane has moved out of the house, she has continued seeing Sam, taking the children to meetings with him (not often though) and they have been planning dates, saying \"I love you\" and looking for a house together.  My brother filed for divorce with grounds (adultery) on Monday.  Jane does not know and will be served later this week.\n\n**So my question is ... there is a hefty penalty from the builder for cancelling the house ($7500), will he have to pay for half of the fee to cancel the house even though he is divorcing her with grounds and it's not \"his fault\" that they are cancelling the house?**  Neither my brother nor his wife can afford the house on his\/her own.  To my knowledge, they have already been approved for the loan, but they are waiting for the house to be finished to lock in an interest rate and finalize it.  He has a divorce attorney and has consulted with a real estate attorney, but I don't know everything they've talked about (and Jane knows nothing about any attorney and does not know about the divorce filing, she will be served sometime this week).  I know the real estate attorney reviewed the house contract and advised him against trying to sell the house once it's complete (which was my suggestion) and told him to basically just plead his case to the builder and hope they let them out of the contract and will resell the home as a spec home.\n\nOther possibly relevant info:  She has a DUI that is currently being resolved and his divorce lawyer will request that she pay the cost of the DUI going forward.  He is also requesting primary physical custody of the children as well as requesting that Sam have no interaction with them.  My brother and the kids are planning to continue living in a stable, loving home with our parents until at least the end of the school year.  Sara knows about the affair and has kicked Sam out of the house .  Once Jane is served, my brother will be sharing the evidence of the affair with Sara so she can pursue her own divorce.\n\nAny advice is appreciated.  Please let me know if I can provide additional info.  ((Also, if anyone could give me advice on how not to murder the bitch, it might come in handy.))\n\nedit: I flaired this Custody, Divorce and Family, but if it's more appropriate as Real Estate, I'll be happy to update.","title":"Brother's wife left him for another man while under contract to build a house, will he have to pay the fee to cancel the house? [South Carolina]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445435765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pmtd0\/preemptive_advice_for_dealing_with_shady_tree\/","id":"3pmtd0","body":"I'm in Indiana and am trying to get a tree in our front yard removed. After contacting the city arborist and learning it is on our private property, she referred me to a local tree removal service. I contacted them, they gave us a written estimate and said they'd put us on the schedule.\n\nIn the meantime, we come home one day and our neighbor is having one of his trees cut down by a different company. The guy in charge (wearing basically pajamas) comes over and says our neighbor told him to come over and talk about having our tree cut down. The guy offers about $200 less than what we were quoted by the other company, but the number kept fluctuating. I was somewhat hesitant, but after all he seemingly did a good job at my neighbor's, and later that evening my neighbor praised him, so I said yes. I told him the next day at 10:30am would be good, and he said he'd bring a contract at that time. I made sure he was insured, and he was. Then I called and canceled with the original tree company.\n\nTen-thirty the next day comes around, and he's a no-show. He was supposed to grind my neighbor's stumps as well, but never did. I talk to my neighbor and he's upset. I ask for the guy's phone number (the one listed online was disconnected), and call and apparently talk to his dad, who has the same name as him (Sr\/Jr). I tell him we're going to hold off on the tree, please don't cut it down. He said he'd let his son know.\n\nThe *next* day, they've returned. The guy we've talked to in person two days prior has no knowledge of what I said on the phone to his dad, but we told him to his face: no, we don't want it cut down by him anymore. He claims to have already cut down a couple branches, but I really didn't see any evidence of that (I took \"before\" photos about a week or so back). I told him to just set those branches by the tree on the yard. I think he was expecting payment for doing those, but we refused. He said our neighbor told him it was okay, but I had even told him earlier that day that we were going with someone else.\n\nSo now it comes to this. He just did a tree for another neighbor (despite me telling him I thought the guy was shady), so I expect he'll be in the area again. My wife and I are at work most of the day, so it's feasible we'll come home one day and he'll have cut it down, since according to his BBB complaints (which I read too late) said he often does that sort of thing: do the work then pressure people to pay up. OR he'll have people pay before completion and then not finish the work... something we aren't going to do with any tree service. \n\nSo after all that... Without any contract, would we be liable to pay anything, if he goes ahead and cuts it down? I'm also concerned because he and the people working for him don't seem like the most upstanding citizens. In particular, I looked the lead guy up in the state's case records and he has multiple to his name, both criminal (theft, DWI, driving without license, domestic battery) and civil (financial institutions). I don't want to get on his bad side and put my family or house at risk. Would have been good to know beforehand, for sure.\n\nFrom what I can gather, me accepting his offer was a verbal agreement, but now having told him not to cut it down, and if he does, I can still challenge him. The lack of a physical contract will help me in that case. But still--am I at risk of him deliberately letting a limb fall on our house, or attempting to break in, or worse? Part of me doesn't want anything to do with him, the other feels like I should just let him get it done, pay him, and get him out of my life.\n\nOh, and I got back on the schedule with the original, seemingly more reputable company!","title":"Pre-emptive advice for dealing with shady tree removal company?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508090133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76khmg\/nc_i_fathered_a_child_in_undergrad_in_nc_in_2007\/","id":"76khmg","body":"I had unprotected sex in Durham county while an undergrad at Duke with a local.We broke up and then she told me she was pregnant. I moved to NYC after I graduated and before child was born.  She married about a year after child was born.  I have been paying a contractually agreed upon sum of $1000\/month since. I see my son twice a year in NC.  I found out through the register of deeds office this week that a new birth certificate was filed in 2008 due to an adoption. (To my knoledge she never listed me as father on original.) We did do a DNA test in 2007 which confirmed paternity.  Shouldn't I have had some notice that an adoption was occurrring to allow me to contest?  Should I be entitled to the monies paid for 10 years? $120k.  How should I notify her that I do not intend to pay anymore?","title":"[NC] I fathered a child in undergrad in NC in 2007. Been paying mutually agreed $1000\/month child to mother since. Now I find out her and her husband adopted child in 2008. What recourse do I have?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553125797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3jdo2\/mother_31f_not_paying_her_court_ordered_half_of\/","id":"b3jdo2","body":"Hello all. For the ease of writing this post, I'm going to call my fiance Jack and his ex-wife Linda.\n\nJack and Linda have a 50\/50 custody order of their son. In the CO, it states that each parent must pay 50% of their son's insurance, regardless of who he has insurance through. Since the divorce in April 2017, the son's insurance has been under Jack. Linda has not paid a dime towards the insurance. Jack has sent her multiple emails and text messages with a breakdown of the insurance and pictures of his benefits (broken down in a booklet from his insurance company). She has repeatedly said she won't pay it\/can't afford it. Jack has sent the insurance info at least 6 times over the past two years and reminded her verbally, via text, and in front of their counselor that she owes him insurance money. She always tells him she cannot afford it.\n\nWe don't particularly want to take legal action at this time. She is rather high-conflict but has no particularly damning attributes to take her to court over (yet). I'm wondering if we sit on this knowledge that she is purposely and knowingly breaking the CO, can we get in trouble for not taking legal action sooner? Can Linda get in trouble later down the line for never having paid the insurance if we do end up in court at some point?\n\nTLDR: Both parents are required by a custody order to pay half of child's insurance. One parent hasn't paid anything towards it for nearly two years now. Can she get in trouble for not paying it? Can we get in trouble for not taking legal action as soon as she refuses to pay the insurance?","title":"Mother (31F) not paying her court ordered half of son's (7) insurance to the father (33M)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540097454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q0yzu\/need_help_asap_im_19_and_pay_rent_can_my_mother\/","id":"9q0yzu","body":"I live in Australia and my mother has just come into my room and told me to pack up my computer or she is going to throw it away. Keeping in mind this is a $3000 desktop that I paid for myself. She is annoyed that I spend so much time on it but it is the only way for me to keep in touch with my friends who live hours away. I have been paying her $200 per week for what she has said covers rent, water, electricity and internet usage. Does she have the right to tell me to remove my device.","title":"Need help ASAP! I\u2019m 19 and pay rent. Can my mother force me to remove my computer from my room?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504285786,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xfxnw\/landlord_put_giant_holes_in_our_walls_over_a\/","id":"6xfxnw","body":"There was a pipe that had been leaking for apparently quite a while in our wall. The owners cut a giant hole in the wall in our kitchen cabinets, and then one above our shower. It's been over a month since this happened, and every time that we text and ask for a date, they push it back because they're on \"vacation\" that seems to keep being extended longer and longer.\n\nWe are unable to keep hardly anything in our kitchen cabinets, and we suspect it's starting to become mold city in our bathroom considering there is no ventilation in our place beyond having open windows and then running portable fans which we purchased ourselves (our bathroom doesn't even have a fan, and we live in a humid area so it's extra weird).\n\nI've read the landlord tenant act, and it seems there may be a couple relevant points, but it's hard for me discern. I'm not sure I can prove the bug point at all, despite how I now have a scar on my forehead (very sensitive skin) from a bug bite that I got over night (all our windows have screens on them). I will say that I hadn't seen a spider in months but saw 7 the week they opened the walls... \n\nBased on [this](https:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/dpd\/cs\/groups\/pan\/@pan\/documents\/web_informational\/dpdd016420.pdf), here's what I think *may* apply, but I'm not sure if I have enough to take any sort of action.\n\n - Maintain structural components, such as roofs,\nfloors and chimneys, in reasonably good repair.\n\n - Maintain the dwelling in reasonably weather tight\ncondition\n\n - Make repairs to keep the unit in the same condition\nas when the tenant moved in\u2014except for\nnormal wear and tear\n","title":"Landlord put giant holes in our walls. Over a month later, they're still not fixed and we've got a bunch of bugs because of it. Not sure if there's any action we can take? - Washington State","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445887236,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qbh3x\/can_i_switch_cars_with_my_so_in_texas_not_married\/","id":"3qbh3x","body":"She's going into the navy bootcamp mid Nov. she got a ticket last night for driving without insurance, if she had gotten arrested her dream would have been over. She got a ticket, it's expensive but it's getting paid. But she has to drive a little while to get to her recruiter every Friday, and I want to switch cars because mine has insurance. It's under my dads name, and while he wouldn't be aware of the switch I don't think that will cause trouble. \n\ntldr: want to switch cars for a couple weeks, is it legal if it's not under my name\/would she get a ticket or arrested. ","title":"Can I switch cars with my SO, in Texas, not married, car in my dad's name","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571681955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl4kjm\/can_i_get_custody_of_my_brother_over_state_lines\/","id":"dl4kjm","body":"Getting custody of brother out of state?\n\nAlright, I don\u2019t even know how to start this topic, so I\u2019m going to try with a little pretext?\n\nI live in Oregon, and have two half-brothers in Alaska who live with their mom, aged 11 (we\u2019ll call J) and 17 (we\u2019ll call R). I moved in with them in early 2012 at the age of 18 and took the position as their caretaker, due to their mom being extremely absent doing drugs. However, I didn\u2019t realize the daunting task of raising 4-kids as a high school dropout working at McDonald\u2019s was almost impossible. The only food they ate was what I could buy from my paychecks and what I brought home on my lunches\/after night shifts.\n\nI ended up joining the army and starting my own family in late 2012. I visited in 2016 after my tour in Afghanistan and was in awe at how they were living. They had hardly any food, there was minimal to no walking room in there due to the absolute mess. Their mom wasn\u2019t home for the week I was in state visiting, so they stayed with me at the hotel. \n\nMy sister recently moved to Oregon from Alaska, and told me the horrible stories of what\u2019s going on at their house with the boys in the house. Meth being smoked in front of them, random people coming over and buying drugs out of the trailer they live in. Just not conditions you would ever want a kid in. \n\nMy wife and I are buying our house in the next month, and I\u2019m working on my bachelor\u2019s degree at the moment. My wife and I discussed if it were possible to bring them from Alaska, we\u2019d be able to raise them. We\u2019ve talked with R about him moving here at 18, but we want to pull J out of that scenario ASAP.\n\nI suppose the question comes down to this; is it even possible to get custody of my own brothers across state lines?","title":"Can I get custody of my brother over state lines?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555669381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bexkld\/my_sister_was_abused_by_mt_mother\/","id":"bexkld","body":"Tell me if I got the flair wrong.\n\nUsing an older friend's account, ignore the hentai\/anime subs.\n\nMy (adopted) sister (15F) was verbally and physically abused by my mother (throwing plates, threatening to get my father's gun out, etc.). I (11F) am worried that (although I am not being affected by this) her attention will eventually turn to me, as the only (closeted) lesbian\/gay in a devout Christian family.\n\nMy sister and I are planning to go to a friend's house and from there, the police station.\n\n1: What could happen to my mother?\n\n2: Is there any backlash on the friend\/their mother?\n\n3: To my knowledge, my father does not know or join in on this. Would he take responsibility for us?\n\nI will update ASAP.","title":"My sister was abused by mt mother.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568951550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6pbvz\/internet_services_are_still_running_but_provider\/","id":"d6pbvz","body":"So our internet has been running like usual and we have been behind on payments. So we recently gave the people a call and told them we want to pay off whatever is owed, they stated there is a restoration fee of $99. However our internet has been working without interruption even after they said they \u201ccut the cord.\u201d We have had internet and it isn\u2019t showing on their side that we do. We haven\u2019t even touched the modem in months let alone restart our router. \n\nCan we get in legal trouble for the months we have used the internet for free even though we nor the company are aware of it? They did not provide a solution over the phone and said they already cut it so they aren\u2019t sure what\u2019s going on. They didn\u2019t say they will send anyone else to check or anything. It\u2019s still running.","title":"Internet services are still running but Provider says they shut off services a while back","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1506459339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72ndwe\/san_francisco_landlord_has_not_provided_secure\/","id":"72ndwe","body":"I rent an apartment in an 8 unit building in San Francisco, California. As well as my apartment, I rent a garage space with a secure storage unit for additional rent per month. My landlord splits duties with his sister, and they are both new to the business due to the previous landlord (their father) sadly passing away about 4 years ago.\n\nThe garages are located at street level. My garage is shared with another tenant in a different unit - so there are two spaces with no partition wall. The garage has two garage doors, so myself and my neighbor can move our cars in and out easily. Two storage units are included in the garage, which is again shared with my neighbor though they _are_ partitioned and locked using a padlock.\n\nAbout two weeks ago, my neighbor and landlord called me downstairs due to a problem with my neighbor's door. From what I could see the spring hinges had sheered away from the door frame causing the door itself to come off the guide rails. \n\nWe were able to get the door to the point that it was safe, though I was not happy that my landlord failed to secure the door. No contractor was called to either fix the door or board it up. \n\nThe next day someone did arrive to re-attach the door, and I was informed the issue is resolved.\n\nThe following week I arrive home at 8pm to find my neighbor yet again struggling with her door. After a small amount of investigation I could clearly see the door was not fixed correctly. It was tilting, and not aligned which cause the door to wedge on its own frame.\n\nToday I discovered I can easily pull my neighbors garage door open **whether locked or not**. This obviously gives access to my neighbors garage content, but also my own. This is of particular concern as the garage is on street level, opening to a side walk and fairly quiet road.\n\nI would like to contact my landlord and be very clear this isn't acceptable. However, I would also like to understand if there are any codes or regulations which mandate how secure a garage space (with storage?) must be and make these clear to them. I don't think I should really be renting secure parking and rental spaces if they are indeed not secure.","title":"[San Francisco] Landlord has not provided secure solution to damaged, shared garage door","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540484014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rbpts\/as_a_new_freelancer_should_i_hire_a_lawyer_to\/","id":"9rbpts","body":"I\u2019m new to the freelance scene, specifically in web development. I\u2019ve been told that \u201cyou should always get it in writing,\u201d so I want to protect myself from evasive clients and such.\n\nWith that being said, should I hire a lawyer to draft a contract template that can be filled out by each of my clients? Or is there more I should do?","title":"As a new freelancer, should I hire a lawyer to write up a contract for clients?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540612611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rrf92\/ripped_off_by_grand_canyon_univ_school_claims_i\/","id":"9rrf92","body":"Basically, I had been wanting to finish my Bachelor's degree, but due to location, there weren't any opportunities for me close-by. I figured Grand Canyon University online might be my best option. Despite all the red-flags early-on, my student advisor told me I would receive a scholarship and that my tuition would be covered upon enrolling for the upcoming semester. Everything seemed fine, until the end of the semester arrives and I receive a letter from MOHELA with an invoice of around $4,856 in student loans. First, I had never authorized for a loan to be taken out in my name, and second I was never made aware that my \"financial aid\" was actually a federal loan.  I immediately called MOHELA and was told that since it was 30 days past the day they were withdrawn and that I had completed the semester, there was nothing that could be done and I would need to pay them off. Around the same time I was figuring this all out, I had already been enrolled for the next semester of classes. About the 2nd week into classes, I had downloaded all my invoices, took screenshots of all the emails between myself and my advisor, requested an official transcript, and called my advisor to have myself immediately withdrawn from the university. I find out another $1,786 loan has been taken out to cover the semester, and that since I was already in the 2nd week of classes, I would not be eligible to receive any tuition refund. The loan was reversed, since, \"Federal law and regulations do not allow GCU to keep federal grant or loan amounts when a student promptly withdraws from a course,\" But GCU is now stating that I owe them the $1786 for the entire semester; they have been threatening to send my balance to collections immediately.   \n\n\nIs there anything at all I can do to reverse the charge? Is any of this even legal? Thank you to everyone in advance.","title":"Ripped off by Grand Canyon Univ.; School Claims I owe up to $2000+","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551595638,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awrj3y\/sublease_legalities\/","id":"awrj3y","body":"Hello,\n\nSo I just signed a two month sublease so that I am able to work until I can grab my own place. \nThe process was a bit sketchy, tbh, in comparison to some past subleases I\u2019ve considered. \n\nWe signed a homemade \u201clease\u201d found off of the internet, without any signatures from the other tenants (my current roommates) or the landlord himself. The girl leaving and her mother and I are the only ones who signed.\nAdditionally, the \u201clease\u201d contained many unnecessary components & I had to talk them into putting the end date on it rather than having it open ended.\n\nThey request I pay them by check, as well, which I am fine with but am worried that they will \u201close\u201d my check(s) or do something shady with the info on them. (She told me she wouldn\u2019t cash it probably until the END of this month... which i find odd as it is a common courtesy to do it soon.)\n\nI feel like I was rushed into signing as I didn\u2019t want to be essentially homeless, but I wanted some advice to see if I acted too hastily. I can provide any additional information, if necessary- I just didn\u2019t know how legally binding this hole made document would be if things do indeed go south, and if my checks can be trusted with these people leaving.\n\n(The landlord has verbally told me as well as his daughter who lives here I am fine to live here, but has nothing in writing anywhere- idk if that matters at all? The \u201csublease\u201d also is the most generic lease she could find online- it refers to her as the landlord, etc etc.)\n\nAre there any precautions I can take in any regards to this situation? The document is already signed and done, and it is only two months... but they gave me a bad vibe so I just wanted to get some advice!\n\nThanks in advance for any responses!","title":"Sublease legalities?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444433838,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o5ttc\/illinois_joint_custody_advice_never_married\/","id":"3o5ttc","body":"Child, child's mother, and I reside in Illinois. Only 1 child and the child is 8 years old. Child's mother and I have been separated for some time now. I want to establish joint custody but she is against it. I do pay child support and I take her mostly every weekend and days that I have off during the week. This is the first time presenting this to court. I do not know what to expect.  ","title":"(Illinois) Joint custody advice. Never married.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552341464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azzf22\/in_ohio_can_a_tenant_put_rent_into_escrow_because\/","id":"azzf22","body":"I've rented from same complex since 2013, a few months ago our apartment manager quit and she was replaced with someone who rarely is in the office. She wasn't in her office on this past Thursday, Friday and again the following Monday meaning the tenants have been unable to make maintenance request for the last five days in a row. This new manager has done this a few times, there was one week where she was only on site for a total of four hours for the entire week, I work second shift so I'm home during the day when she should be on duty, so I know how often she's gone.  The reason I ask if this is grounds for starting an escrow account is that my understanding is in order to start an escrow account, you need to have made a maintenance request and they ignore it. But what if I'm unable to make a maintenance request because she's hardly ever in her office? Just to be clear I've left several messages concerning my apartment not getting hot water starting with last Thursday. So can I start an escrow based on the fact that the apartment manager is hardly here? I feel as a tenant there should be someone on duty everyday and if she's not available then a suitable substitute should fill in. ","title":"In Ohio, can a tenant put rent into escrow because the apartment manager is rarely on duty?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444187218,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nslgy\/los_angeles_ca_terminationmodification_of_free\/","id":"3nslgy","body":"Several members of my family jointly own an apartment building in Los Angeles. Previously, they have had a policy that family members could live there for free; my sister and cousin have been taking advantage of this, and have lived there for several years.\n\nHowever, recently the owners have been suing each other over a dispute. As a condition to settle it, one of the parties wants to force my sister and cousin to pay rent at the normal rate or move out, with 24 hours' notice.\n\nThe building is rent stabilized. However, as I understand it, normal rent stabilization rules don't apply to my sister or her cousin because they were given discounted apartments as family.\n\nMy understanding from hanging out on this sub is that, absent a written lease or rent payments, they have a month-to-month lease at $0, and normal notice periods are required before they can raise rent or terminate the lease. (I believe those periods would both be 60 days, as they've been living there for more than a year and the increase would be, um, infinity percent.) Is this correct in this situation? Realistically, what would it take to fight them if they try to raise the rent without proper notice?\n\n(There are obviously lawyers involved in the surrounding lawsuit, but the friendly ones are not experts in landlord-tenant law, and none of them represent my sister or cousin.)\n\n**Update**: More intensive research has convinced me that they probably at least have a tenancy at will. (*Covina Manor v. Hatch* indicates that these can be created implicitly when the landlord allows the tenant to move in and they don't agree on a term or rent.) That would give them thirty days' notice under California Civil Code \u00a7 789.\n\nI'm not sure I can find support for the idea that they have all the rights of a month-to-month tenant, though. If it helps, my sister made improvements to her apartment out of her own pocket while she lived there.","title":"[Los Angeles, CA] Termination\/modification of free lease for family member","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568556023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4ksj6\/usalnc_child_support_and_custody\/","id":"d4ksj6","body":"Hello all! I hope this is okay to post here! \n\nSo I\u2019ve been with my current boyfriend for about four years, before we started dating he had a child with another woman. Initially she wanted him to be in the child\u2019s life, she wanted him to pay her money and wanted to give him \u201csupervised visitation\u201d which meant he could come to her house and see the child for an hour or two. He tried to do this as much as possible, but not as much as he would\u2019ve liked to since they had broken up (never married) and they would fight every time he would come over there. \n\nFlash forward to the end of that year, 2015-2016?, she left the state. She told him she was moving to Alabama and that was it. He tried to stop her, because he didn\u2019t want his child to be moving so far away but she did it anyways. During this time she told him she didn\u2019t want any money from him, made it incredibly hard to contact her (blocking on fb, changing numbers, no address, etc), and when contacted would ask him to terminate his rights to the child.\n\n This went on for some time probably around a year until she moved back to her\/our home state. Then we tried to keep things civil with her, trying to set up child support with her and visitations. While living here we only got to visit with the child twice, since the mother never wanted to meet and always \u201chad something going on\u201d where she said she couldn\u2019t. She eventually moved back to Alabama and again stated she wanted him to sign his rights over, contact info changing, etc. \n\nFlash forward to now, she\u2019s not with her husband (the boyfriend before) and she\u2019s asked my boyfriend for child support again (he\u2019s given her about $2,000 since Feb). Which he happily agreed to with the condition that he could have a relationship with his child. Which she said fine to, except that it\u2019s only video chats or phone calls.  And visitation is again hard, we saw the child for the first time this year in about two years and it was a 40 minute \u201csupervised visitation.\u201d They agreed upon an amount of money for child support, which she always wanted more than what was agreed upon (using manipulation and threats to go to the child support enforcement agency to get the money she wanted) . And when we agreed to raise the amount of money, it is apparently still not enough because she still asks for more consistently while allowing him to rarely have contact with his child. \n\nSince all the background is out, I have a few questions. \n\nWhen does backpay start in Alabama? How long does it take to start doing\/do child support through the state? Can you do child support and custody at the same time? Is child support determined based on where the child lives or the non-custodial parent?","title":"[US-AL\/NC] Child Support and Custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442426218,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l762l\/uk_my_phones_manufacturer_is_refusing_to_return\/","id":"3l762l","body":"To add more context to the post, I have an LG Nexus 5. It initially had a screen fault which I got repaired with no quibbles. As a part of the repair process I believe the power button got damaged as it has been in for repair 2 or 3 times with the fault. This time around, I was asked by LG to send the device into themselves directly. They claimed that because the phone was refurbished they couldn't repair it (despite repairing it before). I tried to protest and ended up getting nowhere, now I am fighting to try and get them to return my device. I have called multiple times and just keep getting shoved away with \"We'll call you tomorrow.\" and \"I'll call you back when I have information.\"\n\nI'm 17 so I am wondering what I can do. Can I take the case to trading standards for the repeated fault or is this a job for a solicitor or even something else?\n\nEDIT: Flaired it as best I can.","title":"[UK] My phone's manufacturer is refusing to return my device. What can I do?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552682320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1jw9u\/divorce_in_new_york_are_my_personal_assets_at_risk\/","id":"b1jw9u","body":"My 2-year gay marriage has turned out to be a total bust because I found out my spouse is a serial cheater and also has a terrible temper.\n\nI have a modest salary ($75k) but I am lucky to have about $1.5m in stocks in my name which mostly came from a family inheritance. My spouse makes about $50k, has no savings, has about $6k in credit card debt, and owns a few modest properties abroad which his parents manage and he doesn\u2019t have easy access to their documentation.\n\nWe signed a pre-nup which stipulates no spousal support. We also have no marital property and no children. The do however have a few pets together and we are both on the apartment lease (despite me so far paying all the rent). \n\nI assumed that if we divorce, we will be good, and I\u2019ll keep all my assets, because of the pre-nup and the lack of marital property.\n\nHowever, a friend was recently very alarmist and warned me that my spouse could still go after my assets (in order to keep up his standard of living?) and that I should take greater steps to protect them.\n\nIs that true? What steps can I take? Would I need to do them before filing for divorce?\n\nDoes it matter whether we agree to a no-fault divorce? Would it help if I proved fault because of the cheating? Does it hurt my case that I\u2019ve stayed over a year since the cheating revelations, trying in vain to reconcile?\n\n\nThanks! \n\nTL;DR \nThinking about divorce because husband is a big cheater among other incompatibilities; concerned he might go after my personal assets despite the pre-nup.\n","title":"Divorce in New York - are my personal assets at risk?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539979620,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pnfon\/ga_active_military_brother_commits_suicide\/","id":"9pnfon","body":"My brother who was active military committed suicide in July. He was in the middle of divorcing his wife. She took his son (2yo) out of the house and was refusing visitation even tho they had a court order. My brother was miserable and at his wits end.\n\nThe divorce was near being finalized, but nonetheless was not finalized at the time of his death.\n\nThe months leading up to his death he changed his beneficiaries for his SGLI policy (which still pays out regardless of suicide) 3 times. Once to make my dad the only beneficiary (removing her completely), then a second time adding her back on as well as myself, and then a final time in May adding in my 2 other sisters. (Total of 5 beneficiaries w equal shares)\n\n*i should also note that during this time he was admitted to the hospital 3 times for evaluations due to him saying he was suicidal. He was diagnosed with PTSD and schizophrenia \n\nMy sisters and I paid for the funeral (the POS wife only contributed $500 despite raising $2000 on a go fund me page specifically for the funeral)\n\nWe all met with the CAO (casualty assistance officer) to complete the death claim form. We were advised that it could take anywhere from 60-90 days to process.\n\nNow that it is going on 4 months my sister contacted the casualty office and found out the wife is contesting the beneficiaries and is trying to collect the full amount of his policy. The only information that they have given us is that it is still under review.\n\nWhat options if any do we have? Should we retain an attorney at this point or just wait for a decision? Is it likely that she would be able to get away with this? Please help","title":"(GA) active military brother commits suicide & estranged wife (divorce not finalized) is \u201cchallenging\u201d the beneficiaries....what can we do?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571685232,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl5cij\/how_to_get_my_mother_out_of_my_housing\/","id":"dl5cij","body":"I am a male mid 20s. my mom is late 60s, retired.\n\n I own my own RV, a travel trailer with no slide outs, therefore space is limited. \n\nWhen i bought my RV in 2015 I never transferred the title to my name. but i bought and paid for it, so i own it and its mine, my housing.\n\nMy mom is currently staying with me in my house. She doesnt have any susbstance abuse, problems, no drunk, no smoke or anything like that, in case your wondering. were just normal people.\n\nTheres basically almost no privacy cause of the small space, and i cant bring women over cause of it. and cant start my own life with my wife and kids if shes staying in the housing with me.\n\nhow do i get her out of the housing? the title to the rv isnt in my name. i cant exactly call the local police non emergency number and tell them to get her out can i? even if i do that, they may ask for proof that i own the rv.","title":"how to get my mother out of my housing?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570117810,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcsqz2\/my_friend_wants_to_report_her_parents_to_a\/","id":"dcsqz2","body":"For the record, this is happening in Brazil.\n\nMy friend (16F) will give testimony to a district attorney in a few days (undecided yet) and report her parents for physical and emotional abuse.\n \nThe abuse she suffered includes but it's not limited to:\n\n-Being beaten to the point of bleeding multiple times by her mom (which her father never did anything about).\n\n-Being threatned and insulted constantly by her mom. Example: Her mom said she'd ruin her life once.\n\n-She publicly humiliated by her mom on several occasions. Example: Her mom would scream at her in the middle of the street.\n\n-Her father *implied* he'd do something bad to her and\/or her family in case of she reporting him. She's specially terrified of him considering he's a cop.\n\nWhat she wants:\n\n-She wants a protective measure (I dunno the name of the term) against her father.\n\n-She also doesn't necessarily wants to them to be extremely harmed by this.\n\n-She wants to live with her grandma from now on.\n\n-She wants adequate psychological treatment to her mom.\n\nWhat she should do and\/or say when she meets with the district attorney?","title":"My friend wants to report her parents to a district attorney","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504692387,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yepqr\/written_contract_of_money_exchange_for_compliance\/","id":"6yepqr","body":"One of my \"friends\" has recently agreed to transfer me a sum of money on the basis that I do not get lawyers involved or talk about their particular actions towards me in the recent past. We have both agreed to these terms, but I am wondering if my end of the deal of compliance would be considered a good\/service and validate the contract.\n\nWe are currently trying to draft the contract ourselves but are pretty unsure of how to write it in the best way possible. If this person were to claim that this is coercion and not pay me the money, would that be true even if they signed their name to the written contract agreeing to those terms? I don't know how to best draft this thing and ensure that I am not screwed over.\n\nThe terms were for a lump-sum transfer by my \"friend\" of x amount by y date to my personal bank account and then x amount transferred over a period of two calendar months from y date to my personal bank account under the condition that I am not to go to any lawyers or this person's bosses with information regarding what they did to me.\n\nIf anyone can help me out, thank you.\n\nEdit: Florida\n\nEdit 2: If this person is only signing the contract because they feel that I will go to their superiors or get her into trouble, would that be considered undue influence or duress. I just am worried this could flip on me.","title":"Written contract of money exchange for compliance.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443736333,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n5lgc\/getting_charged_with_less_than_1000_theft_in\/","id":"3n5lgc","body":"I stole $240 of food from my employer over the course of 3 months. I can pay this back but I'm not sure if what they're going to fine me or if it's just going to be $240. I have a court date next month and my mother is telling me it would be less cost effective to hire a lawyer because it's my first offense and I'm going to pay the fines right away.\n\nAny idea what I should do?","title":"Getting charged with less than $1000 theft in Maryland","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445445260,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pnhmx\/problems_between_tenant_and_landlord_regarding\/","id":"3pnhmx","body":"Hello!\n\nThe other night, while getting out of our clawfoot bathtub, the tub itself shifted and caused damage to pipes. Our landlord is now trying to say that we need to pay for the repairs, since something we did caused the bathtub to slip, resulting in the damage. \n\nMy argument is that, since the force exerted on the tub that caused it to shift was so minor (the force you exert while moving in and out of a tub), that means that there must be other underlying issues here. Yes, the force that I exerted broke something, but that force should never have been enough *to* break it. \n\nIn the province of Ontario, tenants are responsible for the repairs of undue damages, while it only says that landlords are responsible for \"wear and tear\" damages. I guess that in a way, this is neither.\n\nThe tub is moved easily when pushed at all and the bathroom is not level. When we did our initial move in inspection, we noticed a bubble under two tiles, as well as the bathtub floor was in disrepair. At this point our landlord commented that eventually it would need to be fixed.\n\nShould we just pay it? Should we go to a lawyer? ","title":"Problems between tenant and landlord regarding tub damages in Ontario.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551660168,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax0sp7\/do_i_have_to_pay_the_roommate_i_just_kicked_out\/","id":"ax0sp7","body":"If you go back in my post history, I wrote a \/r\/AITA post about it but long story short, I'm on the lease for my apartment. On my lease agreement, rent is due the 1st-4th, and if paid after there's a $95 late fee. Posted a craigslist ad to rent out the 3rd room, with room being X dollars per month and a nonrefundable deposit of Y, and the same rules about the late fee. It's not listed as a security deposit, just a deposit. The person who took the room, we had a verbal agreement. I originally intended to write a lease for them to sign and decided to wait after the first month and then just forgot. Every month since moving in, except January they were late on rent, plus a couple financial red flags. They told me they had financial issues shortly after moving in so I lowered the rent by $100. Still late. They also deliberately ignored me when I tried to collect a late fee from them. After being late the final time, I kicked them out within the legal time frame .\n\nNow they are saying they want their \"security\" deposit back?? On Craigslist it clearly states it's a nonrefundable deposit, and verbally we agreed it was nonrefundable before they moved in. There is no legal document, no lease, or anything about a security deposit. Do I legally owe them the deposit back even if the ad states it's nonrefundable?\n\nMy landlord gave the okay for me to rent the room out, but they don't have a formal written contract with each other or have even met.\n\n\n","title":"Do I have to pay the roommate I just kicked out their security depost back? [Georgia]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541150678,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tigvu\/employer_wants_to_dismiss_me_because_of_my\/","id":"9tigvu","body":"I currently work in a 24\/7 business, so most employees work shifts, including night shifts and very early starts. When I applied for the job, I warned the recruiting manager that I was on medication (antidepressant) which meant I couldn't drive or handle machinery for 9-10 hours during the night time so I wouldn't be able to do all shifts. They said no problem, and put me on day shifts.\n\nAs of today, I have been here over 6 months, passed my probation and am a good employee. I'm punctual, follow the rules, I'm never off sick and I have made no mistakes. A small group of my colleagues are very angry with me because I work middle shifts, no nights or strange hours, and I have to cut off my overtime at around 11pm so I can get home and take my medication, which sometimes leaves them short staffed due to poor rota planning. This has led my manager to believe I should be dismissed, because he is no longer happy with our initial agreement.\n\nI love this job, it pays well and I had hoped to stay here for a while. I'm devastated. Does my employer have a leg to stand on when it comes to dismissing me? It all seems rather unfair since he initially agreed to something and is now wanting to take it back, but what does the law say?","title":"Employer wants to dismiss me because of my prescription medication [UK]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505827981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/712zjf\/confrontation_at_a_new_university_about_a\/","id":"712zjf","body":"Throwaway\n\nSo, at my old institution I was found responsible for sexual misconduct. It was a complicated situation, I was in an abusive relationship, it was a third party report from one of the friends of my ex. \n\nRegardless, I freed myself of that past and actually managed to get into a doctoral program at a new school. The school did not request disciplinary history on the application unless it led to dismissal. In my case, it only led to a year of probation. \n\nIt is a couple of weeks into school and a title IX coordinator emailed me to ask me to come in to meet with her. I said that I am not on campus much and asked for her to discuss over email or phone, and she said that she prefers to meet in person and suggested a time right before my class (it kind of felt like an intimidation tactic that she looked into my schedule). \n\nShe keeps using language like \"request\" to meet, \"prefers\" it to be in person, it is \"important\" that I talk to her. \n\nTo what extent am I legally required to talk to this woman? What do I have to disclose and what am I allowed to not talk about? \n\nShe seems to be trying to intimidate my already, and I just want to make sure that I am going into this situation fully aware of my own rights regarding disclosure. \n\n\nThe original incident happened 3 years ago and I am now at a school in WI.","title":"Confrontation at a new university about a disciplinary past at a different university","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551837028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axt7cq\/we_signed_a_lease_and_paid_7k_towards_a_house\/","id":"axt7cq","body":"Tonight, my fianc\u00e9 and I decided to visit the home that we\u2019re scheduled to get the keys to next Monday. We already put 7k towards this house between paying the deposits, HOA, scheduling movers, cable, internet, rent, etc. \n\nThe leak is pretty big and results in water damage throughout the ceiling and on the floor below. The realtor said she\u2019d put in an emergency work order, but obviously we\u2019re very worried now. We were scheduled to move in on the 11th and some of the other work orders also had not been done yet including a fire detector that had fallen completely out of the ceiling and carpet shampooing. \n\nWhat are our options? Should we ask for our rent back if the damage isn\u2019t fixed by next week? Help? ","title":"We signed a lease and paid 7k towards a house that now has a leak in the ceiling a week before our move in date, what are our options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552145940,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az4ob2\/ca_someone_sent_some_private_photos_and\/","id":"az4ob2","body":"I worked at a place as a secretary and was generally a good employee, if I do say so myself. I arrived to work on time, rarely called in sick, and did my work diligently; my boss was even hinting at a promotion sometime in the near future. Essentially, I have never given my boss a reason to fire me. \n\nA couple years ago, I cut off a very toxic and obsessive friend, and for a couple months after that she\u2019d been finding ways to contact me when abruptly, and to my relief, she disappeared. A couple months ago, I got a DM from a girl with a legitimate looking Instagram account who complimented me; this was not out of the norm as I have a fairly larger following and do get DMs occasionally. I thanked her and we began talking, eventually reaching the point of being online friends. She\u2019d tell me about her day and about her troubles and I\u2019d tell her about mine, with it sometimes me complaining about my boss. Nothing hugely offensive or any sort of threats or anything, just some banter and me calling him dumb names and me complaining about the job in general. Definitely nothing that I would ever dare say in person.  I should also note that my private Instagram account has some \u201cpromiscuous\u201d photos, as I once worked as a lingerie model and would sometimes post pics of those days. \n\nYesterday, I got called in to a meeting with my boss. He shows me an email he got with the conversations between me and that online friend, as well as screenshots of some of my more suggestive pictures. The email he got it from was the email of the girl I had cut off years ago. He says that this behaviour could be very bad rep for the company and promptly asks me to pack my things and leave. \n\nMy question is, is this legal grounds to fire me? The conversations should have never been shown to him and should have never gone out at all. I\u2019d love some help on this issue, thanks in advance!","title":"(CA) Someone sent some private photos and conversations to my employer and I was fired because of them. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569447132,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d99wy8\/i_make_good_money_but_cant_buy_a_house_because\/","id":"d99wy8","body":"Custodial parent is hiding somewhere in the country and I cannot locate her to serve her to correct obligations to a more fair amount after she remarried to a Naval officer.\n\nAttorneys won't touch this because they want tens of thousands (retainers) to fix this; but only after she is located. Who in their right mind can afford this when most of your income is already being taken away?\n\nEnforcement agency won't negotiate whatsoever because they just want the money, and they are unable to make contact with mother themselves. \n\nPrivate investigators have been unsuccessful in a skip trace, and kids are not 18 so they cannot be used for location.\n\nI have no way to locate the mother, I cannot serve her and I cannot fix this to make it better for me to live.\n\nWhat else can I do?","title":"I make good money but can't buy a house because child support obligations are too high (+$1,400\/mth).","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504297419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xh7af\/shoddy_roofing_job_labor_warranty_expired\/","id":"6xh7af","body":"Not sure of flair, sorry if wrong. \n\nWe hired Lowes to have a new fence built, seamless gutters installed and our roof completely redone in January of 2015. The roof was completed in July of 2015. \n\nTwo months ago we noticed a shingle coming loose. We tried to contact the sales person who gave us the run around for three weeks and then got another number who ignored us for another two weeks. \n\nHad a different contractor come out to asses the damage and repair costs. One full shingle is resting against a vent pipe. There are no straight lines, nails are exposed, nails were put in too hard and are not holding anything. The 1\" ridge vent was installed with 1 1\/4\" nails. There more, but not my question. \n\nRight now the lowes rep is pretty much telling us because the labor warranty expired we are SOL. But she has \"research to do\". Whatever that means. We don't know who the original contractor was, random guys showed up with no mention of company name. \n\nWhat are our options? Small claims court, our home insurance??  We live in NY. \n\nThanks\n\nEdit: We were never given any kind of warranty for any of the projects. \n\nWe were verbally told there was a two year warranty. We found out that did not start until Dec of 2016. Apparently, we had a one year warranty. ","title":"Shoddy roofing job, labor warranty expired","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570432767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deg2t5\/i_work_at_a_high_volume_bar_in_virginia_and_the\/","id":"deg2t5","body":"We have struggled with liquor cost, but we have gotten it under control they gave us a goal of 20% cost and now it\u2019s at 18%, which is pretty amazing for a bar that does happy hour for 9 hits of the day. For example, the owners see that over a week, while pouring thousands of ounces of vodka we are missing 4 bottles of vodka for the week.  This is less than 3% of the overall vodka poured and since we are high volume and use free pouring, in any other restaurant I have worked or helped, it would be considered cost of doing business. If you do the math, it equates to us pouring about 1.57 ounces instead of 1.5 ounces as we are allotted for each pour. Since we use imprecise pouring tools and we are far to high volume to use jiggers (a liquor measuring tool)  it doesn\u2019t seem right that they would be allowed to charge us for these overages. They intend on holding back our tips and charging us anything that they decide is missing every night. Is that even legal? Is there anything we can do to combat this?","title":"I work at a high volume bar in Virginia and the owner wants to start charging us(the bartenders) for anything they deem to be loss for the night. Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507147118,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74aqmh\/utah_property_manager_says_that_my_partner_and_i\/","id":"74aqmh","body":"SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH:\n\nMy partner and I just moved in to an apartment together. In our lease agreement, it states that we, the tenants, are \"responsible to keep the premises free of pests and pay for pest control services as necessary.\"\n\nThis is fine, and we're willing to pay for any needed pest control, but our property manager is using this an excuse to get us to pay for the pest control that wasn't performed before we took over the lease on the property.\n\nHowever, we *just* moved in and we have found cockroaches, spiders, and various other insects. Clearly, pest control has not been to our apartment in some time.\n\nIt is my understanding that \"implied warranty of habitability\" would require that the landlord be responsible for the pests in our unit.\n\nCan anyone offer some insight here?","title":"[Utah] Property Manager says that my partner and I are responsible for pest control (as per the lease agreement), but the pests have clearly been here before we moved in (a week ago)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568692550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5bo2d\/security_deposit_handled_between_tenants\/","id":"d5bo2d","body":"So back in February I signed a lease addendum for a 2bedroom apartment lease Aug 2019-2020. My potential roommate (we'll call her Cristina) decided in July that she'd move in with her brother, but got two people to replace her in her room. There was a bit of conflict because my family didn't want me to share that space with two other roommates, but Cristina offered $500 for me to sign the new least addendum and I agreed to just take that out of the security deposit payment (more on that later).\n\nFast forward to when we become official tenants. I drop off stuff and live there for a week for school orientation. One of my new roommates, (Kat) was a subleaser that stayed over the summer. An old tenant (Mackenzie) came over and stayed for a week as well to pack some of her stuff. My other new roommate also drops off stuff during this week (Amy). During this time, Cristina texts me and reminds me that I have to pay her a security deposit, not the management company\/landlord. It's a weird situation, so I tell her I'll talk to my roommates first. I leave for a trip and come back.\n\nAll my new roommates and I settle in, but we keep getting texts about the security deposit. We talk and decide that since the apartment hasn't been inspected since 2015, then we want an inspection for damages by management before we pay any deposits. So the old tenants fight us and say we could've caused damages the last couple weeks, we have to prove they did the damages, etc. Cristina says she's not comfortably giving me $500 and I say \"that's too bad, you promised me that amount for something that's not related to this security deposit situation\". Eventually management comes in and calms them down a bit and we do the inspection. Now, theres a small charge that the old tenants want to split because they don't think they caused it, but maintenance had told me the damages definitely had been there longer than a couple weeks. \n\nAmy now says that we don't have a contract signed about a security deposit with the management company, nor with the old tenants, and therefore we don't need to pay anyone anything. Since a lease addendum apparently replaces names on a lease agreement (management told us this), I'm not sure if we dont have an agreement signed about a security deposit. I met with management and they told us they would release the deposit they have to us (it's the payment the tenants from 2015 paid them), and that we should pay old tenants the security deposit. \n\nBut, since Cristina threatened legal action I want to know what we can do. Do we actually have to pay Cristina and Mackenzie a security deposit? Management said we didn't owe any amount by any date, so my roommate is saying we don't need to pay them. Can we make management accept our security deposit and release the current security deposit to the old tenants? Or what about the $500, since that was through text message, is that agreement valid?","title":"Security deposit handled between tenants??","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569588289,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9zvtp\/my_employer_is_keeping_my_last_paycheck_and_not\/","id":"d9zvtp","body":"So this situation actually gets a little bit messy and it will probably be really long because there\u2019s a lot of backstory. Back in January I was working at a preschool in NC. My previous employer in NJ (which was an in home day care at the time) messaged me and told me that she was opening a new school and she would love for me to be a part of it. \n\nShe offered me a place to stay in her basement where the in home daycare was until we moved to the new school which was only supposed to be about a month, and then she told me I could redecorate down there and do as I please. She told me when we moved to the new school, she would give me a $2 raise and then I could start paying rent $800 a month. Mind you this basement had no kitchen and she promised she would install one down there this whole time, so I agreed to the $800 a month. \n\nSo months go by before we finally move to the new school, I believe about mid March. I still have no kitchen. I never got my $2 raise, I never got a lease agreement so I lived there rent free. \n\n(Living there was pretty awful. I caught her son spying on me through my window THREE times and she denied it every time I brought it up. Her husband was a dick to me. Her two younger kids were throwing non stop tantrums and wake up in the middle of the night screaming. I had no privacy, they had little to no respect for my own space and I even caught her husband downstairs in my room a few times when I wasn\u2019t home. But that\u2019s all beside the point)\n\nSo around comes August and I find out I\u2019m having a baby so my boyfriend and I decide to move to North Carolina to be near my parents. It\u2019s August 28 and I still haven\u2019t told my employer yet, and then that day I get home from work and I have an envelope slid under my door. It was a lease agreement. The agreement said $800 a month, $250 for a pet fee (since I do have a dog which was also a huge issue even though she said it was fine before I moved in to the home) I thought this was all a bit ridiculous since 1. I never got my $2 raise. 2. she was asking more than I even make in one pay period. 3. I never even got a kitchen installed down there. 4. Living there was pretty much a nightmare.\n\nThe next day I told my boss I was moving back to North Carolina in September and she asked me to stay until September 20 so I agreed so she could find a replacement for me. \n\nNow it\u2019s September 14. I was out to dinner with my boyfriend when I received an email from my employers husband. It basically said that I would still need to pay my rent for the month of September due to our lease agreement and I never followed through with our agreement from the beginning. He also said he had to fix damages from my dog in the basement. Also wanted to know when I was leaving since his sister was coming to town on the 21st so he would like to get the space ready for her.\n\nObviously this made my blood boil. for starters, I NEVER signed the lease agreement. When I told my employer I was moving I just kind of assumed that addressed the whole rent thing, and she never told me that I would still need to pay for the month of September. I also never got my $2 raise and I was only given a lease agreement in late August so why was I the one not following my part of the agreement?\nI decided to just ignore the email and talk to her in person the following Monday.\n\nSo come around Monday and she didn\u2019t bring up the email or anything just wanted to know when I was leaving, so I told her I was planning on leaving the 21\/22 after I had time to pack up my stuff and pack my U-Haul. It was made kind of clear that I was being rushed out so I told her that Wednesday the 18th could be my last day so I can pack up that Thursday-Friday and be gone before Saturday. She agreed.\n\nNow it\u2019s Wednesday, my last day. I say bye to my students and coworkers and not my employer since I\u2019m still pissed at that point. Next morning I get my U-Haul and she texts me asking where I am. I told her I was getting my U-Haul and she said she never agreed to Wednesday being my last day, we just brought it up as an idea. I ignored her because I was really pissed off at this point.\n\nSo I packed up my stuff Thursday and Friday, cleaned the whole basement and left Friday afternoon. Never said bye or anything. \n\nNow it\u2019s the end of my pay period and I was expecting my last paycheck. I got an email about my paystub so I looked at it and it says my gross earnings were $750 but my net pay was $0. She deducted all of my pay. \nSo here I am, out $750 and not sure what I can do. I had a feeling she would do this but now that it actually happened idk what I can really do about it. \n\nIs she legally allowed to keep my last pay for \u201crent\u201d even if I never signed the lease agreement they gave me? \n\nTL;DR: lived in my bosses house and never payed rent because I was never given a lease agreement. Then one week before I move she asked me to pay $800 and I didn\u2019t. She then kept my last paycheck","title":"My employer is keeping my last paycheck and not sure what I can do about it because of a messy living situation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568954893,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6pwrh\/what_can_i_do_as_a_renter_who_is_being_harassed\/","id":"d6pwrh","body":"I live in B.C. Canada \n\nI have been renting my unit for close to 3 years now have have suffered from in-going issues with the strata not taking my complaints seriously and issuing my fines without warnings on \u201cby-law infractions\u201d that no one else seems to have to follow. \n\nMy biggest issue is with my downstairs neighbour (who is a member at large on the strata council). She loves to flex that she is in the council with me constantly because I \u201cwalk too loudly\u201d and get ready for work at 4am (her issue is with noise from getting out of bed and opening my closet\/dresser drawers). \n\nI have filed a total of 4 formal complaints against loud music from her unit, smoking on her balcony (strictly prohibited) and having her contractors work well before and beyond the by-law hours for construction noise. To my and my landlords knowledge, she has never been issued a formal notice of complaint. \nI have been issued 3 formal noise complaints from this neighbour with threats of fines (with no warnings) because I \u201cwalk too loudly\u201d and open closets and drawers between 11pm-7am (I get ready for work at 2-5am most days). Strata doesn\u2019t seem to believe my complaints are valid and has said they need to come into my unit to verify the noise (from downstairs neighbours TV\/radio) for themselves before they will take action. \nI confronted neighbour about her music being too loud a couple of months ago and was told it wasn\u2019t and that that was rich coming from me who \u201cstomps around day and night\u201d. I informed her that I walk in the balls of my feet because I too dislike the noise of stomping feet and that unfortunately walking is a necessity for me where as her music was not a necessity. She then informed me that I am a \u201cproblem tenant in this building and that everyone around [me] had complaints against me. I said this was the first time I had been informed of this and would definitely be following up with the other council members to verify (was told that this neighbour is the only person to have a complaint against me). Can we request she be removed from strata for lying to me about strata matters to benefit her position in an argument? I am beyond uncomfortable that this women who has so much hate for me has access to keys to my apartment. \n\n\nMy parking stall is adjacent to the only \u201cempty\u201d wall in the parkade which means lots of people will park along this walk since there is no visitor parking, even though there is 3 signs saying no parking at anytime and violators will be towed. 4 times now I have been blocked in by an empty vehicle early in the morning on my way to work, which has made me several hours late since there was absolutely no way of finding the owner of the vehicle (no note or contact information left in the car). I\u2019ve complained about this to strata every time it has happened with pictures of the vehicle showing I cannot get out of my stall. The 4th time this happened I was on my way to pick up my elderly gran from the airport early in the morning and had to wait 2 hours for the owner to get back to the car and I went off telling them they cannot park there because it blocks me in and do they not see the 3 signs? I was called a bitch and told to fuck off. \n\nA couple of days later I am coming out of the elevator to the lobby and hear the strata president and the owner of the car that blocked me in (the one who called me a bitch) gossiping about who the \u201ccrazy lady\u201d is in stall 10 who got so mad at him. I walked around the corner and said \u201chi, it\u2019s me who is in stall 10, is there something you would like to discuss?\u201d Both went white and quickly walked away. \n\nI have been shamed with notes on my door and mailbox for being a \u201cproblem in th building\u201d and also for allegedly messing up the garbage collection since I\u2019m not sorting properly (my family owns a recycling company, I am well aware of how things are sorted locally and practice them) with 0 evidence this was me. \n\nA meeting was called to address mine and my downstairs neighbours issues, where I was given no chance to speak and repeatedly told to \u201cshut up\u201d by the council president when I spoke up to defend myself against false accusations (one being they I keyed this neighbours car 2 years ago! First time this was brought up). My landlord got up and told me we were leaving several times because of how poorly I was being treated by the council. \nNo minutes were apparently taken at this meeting, or so I\u2019ve been told (the property management representative was present and typing into her laptop the entire time). \n\nThere\u2019s so much more and I have a massive document with a detailed timeline of events and every email ever exchanged between myself, my landlord and strata, but that is the jist of it. \n\nI have spoke with the tenancy board and TRAC who have informed me that they can only assist with tenant to landlord issues and that strata issues have to be taken up by my landlord on my behalf or I can use one of their templates to seek damages from my landlord to hopefully get him to take this more seriously. They suggested if my landlord is compliant that we can seek legal representation against the council. \nMy landlord had asked me not to reply to a few important emails that were sent months ago and still hasn\u2019t followed up so I am getting increasingly frustrated at how drawn out this is becoming. \n\nI have asked to meet with my LL this Sunday AM to discuss my options because I cannot afford to move and live in constant anxiety about fines and complaints from my neighbour to the point that it has severely affected my mental health. I\u2019ve gone into a deep depression since living here all because of this as I\u2019ve never had an issue with anyone in the 6 apartment I have lived in as an adult. \n\nIs there anything I can do or any points I can bring up to my landlord on Sunday that might help me out here? \n\nI am just so frustrated and tired of dealing with this every other month in top of the constant construction noise from various renovations, it\u2019s a living hell for me. \n\nAny advice is greatly appreciated as I feel I have scoured everything I can find on the internet and through tenant resources and found no answers. \n\nThank you in advance!","title":"What can I do as a renter who is being harassed by strata members?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539717414,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oqt9r\/texas_realtor_not_refunded_deposit_30_days_after\/","id":"9oqt9r","body":"This one is a bit tricky because I do not want to take action against the landlord, he is family but he hired a realty company to manage the property before I moved in and for two years I paid to them. I moved out last month and gave the realtor my new address to send deposit and have waited over 30 days and today I contacted her about it and she said she forgot and will have to get an itemized list for deductions first. Family member won't help as he is sort of a pushover which is why he needed a realtor in the first place. Do I have to just wait even longer for the itemized deduction list and for them to mail it out? Was counting on the money. Thank you for any advice. ","title":"Texas, realtor not refunded deposit 30 days after move out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412718398,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ilmai\/getting_a_title_for_a_motorcycle_that_hasnt_been\/","id":"2ilmai","body":"Here we go...\n\nI recently purchased a used motorcycle, without a title, from a family friend($250). He had the last original registration and license plate for the bike, which was waaay back in 1985 out of Utah. I live in Illinois. For the sake of facts, it is a 1982 Yamaha XJ750 Maxim. It was given to him a few years ago in a trade. I gave the VIN# to my brother-in-law, who is a police officer, to run through NCIC or LEADS(w\/e systems is used to look up stolen vehicles) It did not come back stolen, and the name matched the name on the registration. \n\nI tried looking up the gentleman via Google, and can not find any info on him. I have come to the conclusion that he has either moved from that area in Utah, or has since passed away, seeing as I was told he was in his later years back in 1985. \n\nNow my question is: How do I go about getting a title? If it was never registered in IL, would I have to go through Utah's respective departments? I was told a court ordered title or a bonded title would solve my problem, but I'm not sure I fully understand the procedure that goes with either of those. \n\nThe bike runs great. I would love to fix it up a little, but can't justify the time, money, and effort if it will all be in vain...\n\nFor the record, bikes from Utah, but the bike and I are currently in Illinois.\n\nAny advice, or a turning in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. -cheers!\n\n","title":"Getting a title for a motorcycle that hasn't been registered since 1985. Utah\/Illinois","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506547467,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72vg7o\/friend_agreed_to_paying_me_for_cat_sitting_but\/","id":"72vg7o","body":"So my friend was going out of town from Monday - Sunday and wanted me to Cat sit from Tuesday-Saturday. I'm a huge fan of cats so I agree.\n\nShe asks me what my rate is, and since I'm doing it for a friend I just say $10\/day. She agrees. I would like to say I did an exceptional job, including Snapchats of the cats showing they are happy and sending reports each day about how it went. \n\nShe would respond to each report, thanking me. On Friday, she texted me after a report saying \"How much do I owe you?\" I tell her $50 for 5 days. She says \"Awesome, I'll have the cash for you on Sunday.\" \n\nOn Sunday I text her when I should come over to receive the payment, ignored. So I call her Monday, ignored. I texted her Monday as well, ignored. \n\nI then sent out a text not relating to the cat sitting just asking her if she's ok since she's been silent for two days and maybe I'm missing the big picture.  She replies instantly saying \"Yeah I've just been super busy since I've been back, sorry for not texting back!\"\n\nI then say \"it's ok, do you have a couple minutes today or sometime this week to just pay me for cat sitting?\" And then no response for a day.\n\nIt's been three days since I've supposed to be paid and there has been no update on that.\n\nI have texts proving that she agreed to pay me. She agreed three times throughout her vacation. \n\nThe question is, is suing too much for $50? Is there another option? I'm only 19 so legal issues is a whole new world to me.\n\nThank you for the help! \n\nEdit: Seems I'm supposed to post the location. It's USA Seattle,WA. Cheapest pet sitter I've found in the area is $25\/visit ","title":"Friend agreed to paying me for cat sitting, but ignoring all my texts about being paid.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1412038751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2huez8\/need_legal_advice_motorcycle_accident\/","id":"2huez8","body":"Hello,\n\nI recently got into a motorcycle accident in San Jose CA. (Aug 30) I was the passenger on the motorcycle. A Prius cut us off and the driver and I went flying off the bike. Luckily the driver is fine. I was rushed to the hospital. Broke 3 bones in my back , stitches on my left arm and road rash like you can't believe. The biggest scar is road rash\/ burn on my back that is the size of a watermelon. I am stuck with these scars for life and very insecure about them. I want to get therapy or counseling because of all this. \n\nPlease Reddit, Tell me what I can do to get the *most* money from this fuckers insurance. I don't know what my next step is. I know I need a claim but how? I don't think I trust insurance of the driver at fault. I think they want to give me the least amount of money as possible. I know I need to get medical bills, loss at work and millage to the hospital. But anything else??? Does pain and suffering count? How much $ am I looking at here?\n\n**ALSO**! I can't afford to be paying the medical bills anymore! I called the insurance company of the Prius and they said they can not help me with that. It is a one time claim. So that means I have to wait until I am all done with my medical needs until they can get fully reimbursed me and settle the claim. How am I suppose to get medical help if I can't afford it?\nShould I be getting an attorney? How much money should I be getting?\n\nPlease Please help me out friends of reddit!","title":"Need Legal Advice- Motorcycle Accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503940832,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wkv6i\/business_partner_refuses_to_pay_wages\/","id":"6wkv6i","body":"New york state. \n\nLong story short another employee and I have accumulated over 4,000  hours of work with no pay. Yes I know, why did we keep working that long with no pay. \n\nBusiness partner made a stupid move and signed his personal name onto a year lease where under his assumption he would have been able to leave and \"only lose the deposit\" if he defaulted on the lease. \n\nI, regrettably at this point, stayed and worked to try and offset any of the debt accrued. The lease is coming to a close soon and he has received an eviction notice and a letter to negotiate something down. \n\nHe is attempting to liquidate all the company assets to try and cover his ass and offset any of the debt he can. \n\nThe issue is, I brought this up to him about the efforts of the other employee and I have made to offset his mistake. \n\nWhat really set me off was, he claimed this was my fault. That the business had failed. Working for 9 months, with no pay, unfortunately living under the same roof as him, trying to help his mistake while working 80 hours a week. To hear him stammer out that this was my fault that he is in so much debt. I can't describe what that did to my mind. I wasted months trying to help someone who could not bother to read the first page of a lease agreement. \n\nWhat do I need to prove that we have been working here all this time?\n\nWhat the hell do I do in this position. Any advice is appreciated , and of course, I learned, maybe its time to stop looking out for people.","title":"\"Business partner\" refuses to pay wages","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445622847,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pxlxt\/ex_called_police_after_an_argument_we_both_got\/","id":"3pxlxt","body":"Prefacing this with : THIS RELATIONSHIP IS OVER.  I know I need out of this and far from him.  Please keep advice to the situation legally :) Location is GA.  Thanks in advance! \n\nSo,  we have been arguing for the last couple of months badly, have lived together for about a year (i'm 25f he is 29m).  We just signed a new lease a month ago.  Haven't lived together in that apartment but for a few of those days.  \n\nHe is constantly wishy washy in fights, one minute he wants me to go sign myself off the lease that second, the next minute he wants to marry me.  I don't take it seriously when he wants to break up because he has done this in basically every fight since we got together.  I just chalk it up to coming from a home where his family wasn't together and his dad more or less walked out until a few years ago.  \n\nRecently he has been intentionally pissing me off, doing and saying terrible things, then recording me once I get angry.  Two weeks ago he called me (which I recorded) saying he was going to do something to \"affect my school\"  (I am in grad school and a GRA and take it very seriously).  \n\nMonday night we get in a fight (on our 1.5year anniversary), he starts spitting on me (his fav thing to do these days), I put my hand up to stop him and he is pushing my hand away and thrashing around and I end up accidentally scratching his face.  He calls the police, they come out, call it a wash and leave.  (Yes, I know I should have protected my future and stopped trusting him at this point). \n\nWednesday morning he is telling me \"I've been such a douche to you and you're so good to me, you make me want to try harder for you\" blah blah blah.  He then was hurting my feelings all day, later in the night when we were together at home I was admittingly being a b!tch, we get in an argument, I go near where he is and he shoves me back pretty hard (I had not been physical at him at all, I am not a physical person in any normal situation).  He keeps pushing me emotionally and egging me on, I get angry, he starts recording me once I am mad and irrational (in my underwear).  Starts gathering his things to leave, grabs my favorite hat I wear every day (that he won for me), I start saying \"no not my hat don't take my hat!\" so he grabs a kitchen knife and slashes it.  So after a minute of bickering I make the dumb decision to slice his computer chord in revenge. Should not have. I know. \n*edit: this is where the criminal trespassing charge come from, not sure about it though we are both on the lease, and he didn't get one though he cut my hat*. \nHe calls the cops, tries to show them the video he had been recording of me they arrest both of us for hurting each other's property and simple battery.  We both spent the night in jail.  The report says as far as my battery charge \"She hit his ribs with her hand, the cop noticed very slight redness near his left ribs\"..........  Says nothing about his battery charge.  They didn't document or photograph my bruises or anything of the sort.  I didn't even try to get him in trouble when they came out, they arrested him based off his video before they even talked to me.  They told me it is not us pressing charges on each other, it is the state vs us because we live together it is family violence or something like that. \n\nI am thinking this could go two ways:  either we could maybe both say things were documented wrong, it's not how it happened, and potentially try to have the charges dropped (not even sure if this is an option), or he is going to go try to present all this \"evidence\" against me - in which case I feel like I should protect myself and do the same in the hopes that this will be seen as self defense on my part.  \n\nI want to know if the first option is even possible, if I should try to talk to him about it (we don't have a no contact), or if I should just go start trying to protect myself.  I am afraid with the second option that that increases my chances of having life-long battery charges on my record, and though he is definitely a bad person to me right now, he is a good person and I don't want him having any charges either.  Though he has gotten pushy with me in fights he has never and would never just outright hit me or anything of the sort.  \n\n\ntldr; do I protect myself and present all evidence I have against ex, or do I try to go the route of us figuring out how to help each other avoid this all together. \n\nThanks again! ","title":"Ex called police after an argument, we both got arrested for simple battery and I got criminal trespassing.. not sure where to go from here","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570190495,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd6e9i\/can_my_dil_come_back_against_my_son_for_any_new\/","id":"dd6e9i","body":"They are 20 years old, married at 18, no children no real estate nothing much more in possessions than the average teenager and not much income. They were living in my fully finished basement. She\u2019s is American and he is Canadian, they were married in the US. She left him in July this year and indicated her wish for a divorce a few weeks afterwards. My son has sent her the information she says she requires for the paperwork, but hasn\u2019t received or signed any papers yet. He is moving on with his life and is wanting to try out some investments. Does she have any right to any money he might make at this point?","title":"Can my dil come back against my son for any new money he may receive since she has asked for divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568652876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d53g6t\/two_professional_licenses_one_state\/","id":"d53g6t","body":"I did not know which flair to add. In the State of Florida, is holding two professional licenses allowable? I just got my health insurance license and I am in the process of obtaining my real estate license. I would like to make sure I can hold and practice for both at the same time. I don\u2019t really see any conflicting interests.","title":"Two professional licenses, one State","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553265385,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b45t1x\/help_with_sublettingassigning_my_lease_in_condo\/","id":"b45t1x","body":"Hey guys, so my roommate and I signed a 1 yr lease from Sept 2018-Aug 2019. We're 2 university students living in a condo in downtown Toronto. We were originally planning to stay for the full year but our plans for the summer changed and we won't be downtown for the last 4 months of the lease (May - Aug). So we're looking to sublet\/assign the lease.\n\n​\n\nWe found out that the building has their own rules that don't allow subletting (we haven't asked about assigning the lease but I can't imagine their rules will be different). We didn't know this when we signed the lease because our lease agreement with our landlord says we have the option to sublet\/assign the lease and the landlord can't unreasonably deny us. What can we do about this? No one told us or gave us the rules of the condo. In fact, I asked someone in management for a copy of the condo's declaration, by-laws, and rules and she wouldn't give it to me. She said it doesn't concern the tenant and the owner (landlord) is given a copy when they first buy the place. It's written in the lease that the landlord needs to provide the tenants with these rules within 10 days of signing the lease which did not happen. \n\n​\n\nCan someone help us with the next steps to take? We're not sure what to do. ","title":"Help with subletting\/assigning my lease in condo (Ontario)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540342848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qv1wm\/i_was_forced_to_limit_political_discussions_in\/","id":"9qv1wm","body":"California specifically Los Angeles County\n\nI work at a company where a proposition that will be on the ballot on Nov 6th will directly affect my wages and working conditions.\n\nI have been trying to encourage coworkers to inform themselves about the proposition and to understand our current working conditions and what would change depending on whether or not this proposition passes. \n\nI continue to perform my duties without any issue and decided to dawn a button that expresses my belief in what action would promote better working conditions in regards to this proposition. \n\nI was told I am to cease wearing the pin due to it violating dress code policy.\n\nMy understanding is that although political speech at a private workplace may be curtailed with policies, being that I am discussing a proposition that directly correlates with our working conditions I am protected.\n\nWhat am I missing?","title":"I was forced to limit political discussions in regards to working conditions.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553777075,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6ibz6\/entire_apartment_building_flooded_what_are_my\/","id":"b6ibz6","body":"Hi there r\/legaladvice, unfortunately yesterday afternoon the apartment building that I am renting a unit in was flooded when a water pipe burst dumping preliminary estimates of 75,000+ gallons of water into the building. This ended up displacing everyone in the building (probably 50-75 units). Although this is second hand information, the story I was told was that the town was conducting annual sprinkler testing in the building when the pipe was over pressurized. \n\nThankfully the fire department was able to get my dog out as my wife and I were working. Last night we were escorted into the building to get medicine and some clothes but were not able to grab much as the building was condemned according to the property manager.\n\nI have been in contact with my renters insurance and have gone over our policy. While we are covered, the policy limits will more than likely not cover the full amount of the items destroyed and incurred expenses as we are in a hotel for the foreseeable future. After talking with the property manager briefly, they are saying everything has to go through my renters insurance and the property will not be assisting tenants with temporary housing. \n\nMy wife and I are all set for the next couple of days, but based on the damage visible from the brief walk through this will be a long restoration that our insurance policy limits will not cover. \n\nMy question is: is the property owner or the town responsible for any costs associated with this displacement? \n\nI\u2019m aware it is probably spelled out in our lease but as stated above I don\u2019t really have access to any documents. \n\nThank you in advance. ","title":"Entire apartment building flooded, what are my next steps?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540272848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qlzlm\/possible_faulty_or_defective_jump_starter\/","id":"9qlzlm","body":"My brothers car was entrusted to me while he was sent overseas for Navy stuff, the battery recently died and my mom let me borrow a portable jump starter thing to jump start the battery. I used it before and it worked perfectly fine, I used it about 2 hours ago and it ended up heating up and I didn\u2019t notice till my mom came rushing outside cause she smelled it, i look up and i see the thing explode into a ball of fire and it melted to start burning through other things and melted the fuse box. I panicked and put out the fire but now I am worried about what will happen with the insurance and how much it would be to fix this. I searched up if anyone has had problems with this and I found some other videos on YouTube of people who had portable jump starters that melted, exploded, or smoking  one even looked exactly the same leading me to believe that the company could have defective products. What steps should I take in order to resolve this issue?","title":"Possible faulty or defective jump starter exploded and became a fire ball","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553639727,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5wd5z\/demoted_after_reporting_sexual_harassment\/","id":"b5wd5z","body":"I work for a non profit organization,  I reported almost 2 weeks ago a co worker who was touching me when I asked them not to, triggering my rape related ptsd on purpose and being transphobic to another co worker. A week later, last week, I was written up during the investigation for \"malicious behavior\" and was given a warning at the end of my shift. I was gone the rest of that week on a doctor's note for surgery. I was called in yesterday and told I wont be returning to work for 3 days I'm suspended and they put me on overnight shift even though it's hard for me with my ptsd. They never gave me evidence when I asked why it was malicious behavior other than stating that it is and that my report made him feel uncomfortable. She knows I cant do these hours and told me to figure it out since I share transportation with my boyfriend. She is aware I have a disability and has always helped me with this since day one of starting my job. However, ever since I reported this coworker shes treated me differently.  I'm scared to go back because now he knows I reported him, I'm scared I'm going to get fired and I dont lnow what my rights here in missouri are. My doctor told me he wants me to quit because he thinks its hostile environment and could cause me to lose my focus on my ptsd recovery and to file for unemployment but idk if I qualify. I've been there for around 8 months.","title":"Demoted after reporting sexual harassment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539179192,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mzln5\/my_manager_is_allowing_cats_to_defecate_all_over\/","id":"9mzln5","body":"I recently started a new job in UT and quickly found out it's not the best place to work. Nearly every corner of the office and the garage area where the majority of the work is done has cat piss or shit. I got talking with one of the guys there and asked if it had always been this way. He told me this is how it all went down hill:\n\n\nPregnant cat shows up around a year ago, they take it in. Now up to 8 cats with the kittens. Nothing is done about the animals and two of the kittens get pregnant. Both have kittens and it's up to 20+ cats at this point. Most of them leave, but continue to come back regularly because the boss feeds them. \n\n\nSo now we have a few bigger issues that have cropped up. Issue number one is one set of kittens disappeared and the dude I was talking to and I are being accused of doing it. They claimed they had cameras and threatened our jobs for a week. Dude went over and found out that the cameras only go for 24 hours so they were just pressuring us to try and get a confession for shit we didn't do. They agreed to drop it after I told them it was workplace harrassment and threatened to go to HR. \n\n\nIssue two: The cats have been using the files as their personal litter box and a bigger boss found out today. I'm worried I'll lose my job anyway or be forced to clean up cat shit to save the boss' ass.\n\n\nIssue three: there is a large possibility that one of the cats might have rabies. Change in personality and it has a huge wound that hasn't healed in a week. The cat food has attracted racoons and they have been fighting with the cats. \n\nWhat options do I have here to get rid of these animals? I want to keep the job since it pays pretty well and works with my schedule, but I worry about my health. Plus, I definitely don't want rabies. ","title":"My manager is allowing cats to defecate all over the work place. Help?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504204263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x8phq\/oklahoma_employer_docked_pay_im_salaried_is_this\/","id":"6x8phq","body":"First time poster so forgive me if I mess up. My apologies for being vague but I wish to remain as anonymous as possible. \n\nMy employer has docked my pay because I do not have enough vacation time to cover my recent absences. I was out 3 days during this pay period. \n\nI did still answer emails and calls from my co-workers and bosses during those 3 days, I just did not go into the office or clock-in. \n\nFrom my understanding, this was not right and I should have gotten a normal paycheck. \n\n\nAlso, I am a little unsure that I should even be salaried\/exempt because I am not involved in outside sales, admin, or IT. I am an assistant and in charge of no one. \n\nThank you in advance for any advice or feedback!","title":"(Oklahoma) Employer docked pay, i'm salaried. Is this right?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571031341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhm6gi\/can_i_rescind_a_finance_contract_for_furniture_i\/","id":"dhm6gi","body":"My wife and I recently signed a contract to finance some furniture with the total amount financed being just over $1900 after paying $350 down, although it was not required. We still have not taken ownership of the furniture (other than one $59 rug) as we are waiting on delivery from the furniture store. We only agreed to the finance contract on the basis that the store employee stated we would have 101 days \"interest free\". I understand that the finance company is entirely different from the furniture store, but the finance contract states that interest accrues on the very first payment, just 2 weeks from signing, not actually having taken possession of the items being financed. (Except for the rug I suppose)\n\nThe only mention of 101 days in the contract states as follows: if you pay us the then-current principal balance plus the lesser of $50 or the amount of accrued finance charges within 101 days from the finance charge start date, you will have satisfied your obligations under this agreement (\"early payoff discount\")\n\nDoes this mean there truly exists \"interest free for 101 days\"? If not, can we legally rescind the contract due to not having taken ownership of said items, excluding the rug, which our down payment more than covers.\n\nThe interest rate is absolutely horrific and we really cannot afford to be mislead. We're having a hard time understanding the contract and just want to make sure we won't be paying for this mistake for years to come.\n\nThank you for taking the time to read this and we greatly appreciate any advice.","title":"Can I rescind a finance contract for furniture I have yet to receive?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571323085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj7ad2\/landlord_wont_let_me_dispute_moveout_charges\/","id":"dj7ad2","body":"Location: Florida\n\nI lived in a property that\u2019s owned by Pierce Education Properties, a corporation based in California. After I moved out I got a statement a few weeks later saying I owed $55 for trash removal, although the charge was supposed to only be $25. I spoke to the property manager and she informed me that the items thrown away were kept in storage and charged by the day until I came and picked it up, but I was never notified I had a bag there, and this whole bag storage thing was nowhere in my lease or \u201cmove out guide\u201d they emailed out. After trying to dispute the charge with the property manager, she refused to speak to me since all disputes had to be made by September 30th, according to corporate policy. I have now been calling corporate and they have not gotten back to me in over a week. This isn\u2019t the first time my landlord has tried to get money out of bogus charges and I have record of everything that has happened since living there. Is there anything I can do besides just give them my money?","title":"Landlord won\u2019t let me dispute move-out charges","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552890428,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2f9fb\/reddit_is_plotting_to_ban_a_subreddit_but_the\/","id":"b2f9fb","body":"So, as many people know, r\/piracy is being prepped for a ban by Reddit legal. r\/piracy does not allow pirated content in their subreddit, or even links to the content. My question is, can a large corporation or website like Reddit take down content which is permitted under their own guidelines if they have a \u201cfree speech\u201d clause in their terms of use? If any more information is needed, r\/Piracy has the message from Reddit legal stickied, or I can try to answer. ","title":"Reddit is plotting to ban a subreddit, but the subreddit hasn\u2019t broken Reddit\u2019s guidelines","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1504760408,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yl4v9\/havent_signed_a_w2_or_i9_since_i_started_work_is\/","id":"6yl4v9","body":"I work at a small locally owned restaurant in California and have been working there for probably about month and a half. I work 8-12 hours a week and have gotten paid with a check four times. I get paid $10 an hour, which is 50 cents under minimum but I also get $15\/$20 cash (depending on how long I work) as tips that come with the paycheck. I think we all split the tips but that still seems odd to me it's done that way. However, I have yet to sign the W-2 or I-9, which I'm not sure but I think I definitely need to sign those. The owner asked me for my social security number and that's it. I had asked my friend who worked there before me and she said she didn't fill those out either.\n\nAlso on top of that question, the paychecks I've gotten have those paystubs that have all the witholdings and deductions so I'm not sure if that adds to the situation or not. Also I don't plan on staying much longer, but that's besides the point.","title":"Haven't signed a W-2 or I-9 since I started work. Is this a problem?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554847307,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbe0uf\/airbnb_host_threatening_to_sue_me_over_review\/","id":"bbe0uf","body":"Apologies if this is the incorrect flair\n\nI recently stayed at a Airbnb where the host listed in the House Rules a Non-Disparagement Agreement. The agreement states my guest and I agree to not file any disparaging complaint, chargeback, review, Better Business Bureau complaint or any public statement regarding the subject property and its affiliates. And in my booking, I agree to these terms is what it states. When prompted by Airbnb to review my trip, I gave an honest and fair review stating the place was clean and updated and the host was responsive when needed. I said that it was a bit noisy at night because it is off main road and that there was no Wi-Fi. The host now is messaging me saying I will be subpoenaed in 3 days if I do not remove the review. I contacted Airbnb to remove it because I would rather not deal with this, but they are claiming that my review is justified and that they won't take it down. Airbnb says that I have not violated any of their policies and that I have nothing to worry about. I responded to the host saying that I tried to get the review taken down and that I would like to handle this civilly. The host responded with other threats of upcoming lease's falling through due to my comments and that it will be included in the future lawsuit. I'm unsure how to handle this. I spoke with Airbnb again and please ask them to reach out to her because this host is threatening their customers. I'm hoping that I hear back from them soon on a resolution. Should I be worried about this or how do I handle this going forward?","title":"Airbnb Host Threatening to Sue Me Over Review","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445951103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qexmb\/al_usa_petition_to_lower_child_support\/","id":"3qexmb","body":"I am divorced with joint physical\/legal custody, my ex, the mother, is listed as primary care giver. We split physical custody 50\/50 with time on a alternating week schedule. I have been paying $800 a month child support for 2 kids for over 3 years now. That amount was agreed on between my ex and I after our lawyers calculated the amount using the state's formula, DHR is not involved. The amount was calculated when daycare and medical cost were involved for both kids. She has since taken them off her insurance through work and put the kids on Medicaid and is not paying for any daycare. My question is can I petition the court to lower child support because she won't agree to a lower payment and what are my chances of a ruling in my favor? I wasn't sure if it's enough of an argument to say I have the kids 50% of the time, I'm also paying rent, utilities, gas, groceries, clothing, etc. when they are with me and all of that is outside of child support and also that since medical and daycare cost are no longer an expense. I've offered to put them on my medical insurance at work but she won't agree to do so.","title":"(AL, USA) Petition to lower child support","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508180039,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76soq7\/correct_service_process\/","id":"76soq7","body":"Hi all,\n\nNew to this sub so thanks in advance for your patience and advice! I was named successor of a trust after someone passed. Even though all addresses\/contacts have been changed for years (since the passing), there is a lawyer who continually uses the deceased name and old address to serve lawsuits. Given that no one related to the trust is at that location, I am now finding out through mail forwarding that the deceased was \u201cserved\u201d another lawsuit. \n\nConsidering I am the only person who can legally be served in relation to this trust and clearly was not, what are my legal rights here before I start shopping around for representation?\n\nThanks again!\n\nEdit: located in CA","title":"Correct service process","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539232294,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n6t55\/showed_up_to_move_in_date_at_my_apartment_and\/","id":"9n6t55","body":"Hello, I want to start off by saying thank you in advance for any advice that I may get from responses to this thread. Buckle in, I think this is a doozy. Also, I will update this story as it develops. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nTL;DR: Signed a lease 2 months ago, find out last week that the apartment management has changed but that were told we were still good to move in, show up on move in day and find out that the previous tenant is still occupying the unit and in the process of being evicted, which could take a month or more. What are our options to either get out of the lease and go somewhere else or get compensated by the apartment complex through rent reduction or something else?\n\n​\n\nMy girlfriend and I began looking for apartments in Northeast Texas at the beginning of August. We found an apartment with a floor plan and a price that we liked, so we jumped on it. The leasing team informed us of a unit that would be available for move in on October 8th so we began the application process. We paid the appropriate application fees and any deposit that was required that night and submitted our applications and were informed a day or two later that we had been approved and that we will receive a welcome email that detailed what needed to be set up and paid upon move in. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nEverything seemed to be going smoothly until we received the welcome letter on August 8th, which had price a price discrepancy for the pet deposit that was different than what was given to us a few days prior in person and would've resulted in us paying $150 more than what we were originally informed. After playing phone tag for a few days, I eventually was told that the original welcome letter was using an \"outdated form\" and it auto calculated the pet deposit wrong, according to the leasing manager. They made the corrections after I hounded them for a few days to get the correct pricing in writing on an updated welcome letter. Once we agreed to the pricing that we would be paying on move in day, we signed our lease on August 24th (I know, a month and a half early and before getting to look at the unit was kind of a dumb move). After signing the lease, we received a confirmation that the lease had been confirmed and about 3 weeks later, on September 13th, we received another email from the management team that was devoid of any detail, but had \"Lease Agreement Executed\" as the subject line. Inside the email, was just a barren email that just said Thank you for your interest in (Apartment Name) and had the lease attached with not just our signatures, but the signature of the office manager as well, it also said at the bottom that it was an auto-generated email. I did a quick Google search and from what I understood, that was a good thing, not a bad thing, even though my heart did skip a beat when I saw the term \"executed\".\n\n​\n\n​\n\nAfter that email, complete radio silence. I didn't find it weird that we heard nothing new since we were still almost a month out from the move in date. However, as it got closer, I still found it odd that I hadn't heard anything from the complex to confirm that we were ready to move in or anything. I called three times last week and spoke to people, giving them my name and the unit number that we were to move in to, to make sure we were ready to go for move in on Monday of this week. I don't remember which phone call it was, but during one of them I was informed that the owner of the property had taken over management of the property a week ago and that the 3rd party management team we had originally dealt with two months ago had almost entirely been replaced save for the assistant office manager (AOM for short).  During this same phone call, again after telling the person my name and the unit number we were to move in to, I asked if our lease was still valid due to the management change and if we are still good to move in on Monday. The person (I later found out was the leasing manager, LM for short), told me that she \"had personally been walking the property every day to make sure that everything was good to go\" and that \"because the lease was for the property, all agreements still stand despite the change in management\". \n\n​\n\n​\n\nWell, if the title of this post didn't spoil it already, it wasn't. When we arrived on Monday, we spoke to LM directly because everybody else was busy. She initially asked us for the unit number and seemed to be having trouble finding our lease. After a few minutes of going in and out of AOM's office and talking to her, LM states that because we had signed the lease and it had been approved so long ago (remember, the last time I had seen any action on the lease was less than a month ago, on Sept. 13 when it was \"executed\"), that it might just be faster to sign a new lease instead of her try to find the old one (LM has only been here for a week and a half, so we were patient). LM gets our emails and emails us a new lease.  At this point, LM is back in AOM's office for a few minutes while we are reading lease. Sensing that something was off still, we read everything again and found that our pet addendum hadn't been added to this new lease, nor were the washer and dryer that were supposed to be included in the unit as stated in the first lease. When LM comes out of AOM's office, she has a very nervous and \"I have bad news\" face on. LM informs us that the previous tenant of the apartment we were supposed to be moving in to is still occupying the unit and is in the process of being evicted, but that she's not sure how long the process has been going on because the previous management team had left no notices that we were even supposed to move in that unit or on that day. Essentially, in the current teams mind, we didn't exist until we showed up, despite me calling and giving my name and unit number multiple times the week before, AFTER the new team had taken over. So now we will have to pay a cancellation fee for our electric company, and get our mail un-forwarded. Luckily we are currently living with friends so we are not at risk of losing the roof over our heads or getting charged insane per-month rates at our current home.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nLM states that the office manager (OM) is out on training until Monday and that she wants to do whatever she can to make this right for us. LM shows us another unit with the same floor plan that was right next to a busy street, not a renovated model like the one we were supposed to get and nowhere near the on-site dog park or fitness center which was a big selling point for us, so we declined. After that, LM suggested a different floor plan that was actually a 50 sq. ft. decrease from what we were supposed to be getting, which we also declined. At that point, LM states that she really would like to make this right and that she understands that we would like to get the unit that was originally agreed upon, but since the eviction process is somewhere between started and ended, it could be another month or more before the unit is ready for us to move in to. LM states that she will email the OM about the situation but, as stated before, OM will be out of the office until Monday and might not be able to respond until then. We ask to get an email with this whole situation in writing so that, should any issues arise, we can verify from the LM that we showed up on the agreed move in date and were informed that we couldn't move in for the above stated reason. This was right at closing time and LM stated that she will get the email to us first thing the next day (yesterday). LM didn't deliver. I called yesterday afternoon, and was informed that LM was out of the office due to a family emergency and that they will notify her of my call as soon as she got back. I still did not hear anything. I called again today and was told that LM was still out of the office and will definitely be back in the office tomorrow. So I will just have to wait and if that amounts to anything.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nHowever, this is not the end of the story. I have been bored at home and remembered that court cases are a matter of public record and that I can look up the name of the property and see what eviction cases they have filed. This ownership company has filed 7 or 8 eviction notices this year (I've never looked that up before, so I have no idea if that's a lot, a little, or average for an apartment complex) with them listed as the plaintiff and the tenant listed as the defendant WITH their address and unit number. Unfortunately, among the cases listed, there is no case where the defendant's address matches the address and unit number that we were supposed to move in to on Monday.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nSo given all of this information, what, if anything, can we do to uphold our side of the bargain and hold the apartment complex accountable? We really like the property and the location is perfect for us, so we are willing to chock this whole situation up to current management inheriting a mess that was left over from the previous team, as long as we are compensated in some form for the huge inconvenience. LM already outright told us to keep a paper trail of any cancellation fees and such that this has caused so we can be compensated for that stuff. From my very basic understanding of the tenant\/landlord laws of Texas, if we were to go to court, we would most likely win but we would really rather not do that and maybe just get a reduction in rent of some sort or a free garage space or something like that. We just don't know what we can and can't say\/do\/ask for in this sticky situation. Please help! Thank you all!","title":"Showed up to move in date at my apartment and told that the previous tenant hadn't moved out yet","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442702390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lm1pl\/is_a_mother_sending_her_children_away_and_renting\/","id":"3lm1pl","body":"A mother sent her children to live with my friend full time for an unspecified amount of time.  My friend has been caring for them off and on over the past few years during events like new boyfriend arrival,  utility shut off,  suicide attempts by the mother and subsequent hospitalization, jail stays, and an approximate year long disappearance. While trying to find out from the mother and grandmother how long she can expect to have the kids this time she learned that the mother has rented their bedrooms to a man and that they aren't welcome back anytime soon.  As you can imagine, there is a lot going on with the mother and my friend would love to be granted guardianship over them so they could have stability and organized routine safe visits with the mother. She also suspects that the mother has committed fraud\/identity theft with their ssn's and guardianship would allow her to find out and begin repairing the damage.  Could this renting out of their rooms be used to \"get\" them?  Could she sue for custody because of this? ","title":"Is a mother sending her children away and renting out their bedrooms grounds for \"removal\"? (St Louis, Missouri)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540260844,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qkkw6\/illegally_evicted_from_my_apartment_with_no\/","id":"9qkkw6","body":"Throwaway account. \n\nTo preface this I have spoken to an attorney, I just don't know what else I need to do or look into to cover my bases.\n\nThe complex I live in is owned by a family that has 4 complexes all right next to each other. Each individual complex has an office, and there is a main office that is kind of like an HQ for them. If rent due dates fell on a weekend and the office was closed you could go to the main office and pay, this is something we had to do frequently. \n\nA month ago we received an eviction notice stating we hadn't paid rent. We gathered our rent receipts,  and received copies of our payments from the office we paid at, and met our attorney and landlord. They withdrew the eviction notice and everything else and said there would be no further issues, we just needed to go in and sign some papers later that week. \n\nWe were supposed to sign those papers on a Monday, but due to unforeseen circumstances we couldn't sign until Wednesday.\n\nA week later on Tuesday (last Tuesday now) a different landlord (he's higher up the chain for the complexes) showed up and said we had to be out by the end of the day. We explained the situation and that we were up to date and he said they refiled the eviction notice the previous weekend and left notices, and that we missed a court date (none of this happened). So we called our attorney and an hour later douchebag landlord shows up freaking out why we hadn't left yet and proceeds to enter our apartment and literally just start throwing our stuff out the door.\n\nLike I said, we have an attorney, receipts, videos, pictures and witnesses. Is there anything else I need to make sure I do to cover my ass? I don't know what else I need to do to prevent any further issues from this incident.","title":"Illegally evicted from my apartment with no notice (description in comments)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571086556,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhwy3f\/what_would_happen_if_all_but_one_employee_died\/","id":"dhwy3f","body":"Oklahoma, USA\n\n\nI work in an automotive shop and w regularly work with explosive materials.  Most of my coworkers are over 70.  We only have six employees, myself included.  I am the youngest by 40 years.  My coworkers and I got to joking around an began wondering what would happen if there was an accident with a fuel tank and it went up, killing a bunch of us.  \n\nMy question is this; if everyone dies in a small company except one person, do they become the new boss?  Are they now responsible for any legal issues?  We don't have anything resembling a contingency plan or a chain of succession.  It's a small auto shop in a leased building.  Most of my coworkers are dealing with life-altering medical issues (cancer, mild dementia, etc) and I would like to know if I'm somehow liable if everyone else dies (not by my hand, obviously).","title":"What would happen if all but one employee died?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554732320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bau7fc\/i_want_custody_of_my_two_sisters\/","id":"bau7fc","body":"First i want to say that i have not talked to my parents directly in just over 5 years, but i still regularly talk to my two younger sisters. This is because i was sexually assaulted by my uncle for years and my parents knew about it, and after i turned him in they abused me themselves. My sister (16) (who is in her senior year of highschool and moved out of my parents house this year) told me yesterday when she came over that my parents have been beating my 10 year old sister. I was LIVID and imediatly went to my parents house to check on my sister, she had two black eyes and was obviously in a lot of pain with a bunch of other hand marks all over her body. I want custody of them but how would i go about doing that. \n\nBtw, my sisters are both at my place for the time being. I am NOT letting either of them go back into that house.","title":"I want custody of my two sisters","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508451765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77hv9h\/oregon_has_my_landlord_broke_our_lease\/","id":"77hv9h","body":"I have commented about my situation a few times in \/r\/Portland but I would really love some actual answers. \n\nSo in June I filed a maintenance request at my apartment because the backdoor frame is leaking. It started as a little drip, but now there are three spots where it leaks from and it is pretty heavy. It took them two weeks to come out originally, and we were told that a contractor would come look at it within the month. Nothing ever happened, and since it was so dry this summer we didn\u2019t think about it much. \n\nCome September we get our inspection and let them know that nobody ever followed up about the leak and asked if they were aware. The lady(not manager) told us that nobody ever told them there was an issue and that they would get back to us. \n\nTwo weeks later, no word, but there was rain in the forecast so we went to the manager and reminded him nobody had followed up. He said he was never informed of both the maintenance request OR the fact we brought it up at the inspection. He told us that during the inspection they found \u201c30-40 issues in other apartments\u201d and that we would be added to the list \n\nSo, we got notice he quit yesterday. He never followed up. It has soaked into the carpet(for the third time, we told them this was happening) and now I\u2019m seriously worrying about mold issues. \n\nHas the management broke the lease for refusing to fix it? What can we do about it if they have? Also is this a situation where we can call someone in ourselves and charge the apartment? Can we withhold rent?\n\nAny answers would be awesome, I\u2019m so fed up I just want to get out of this godforsaken place. ","title":"Oregon, Has my landlord broke our lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540919920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9spz97\/ca_new_manager_will_not_acknowledge_previous\/","id":"9spz97","body":"Hi Reddit,\n\nI need help dealing with an obstinate manager and asserting my rights as a tenant (I'm located in Los Angeles). He has been at his current post since beginning of the year and has zero experience as a property manager. I've had several run-ins with him and have repeatedly had to school him on CA housing laws, with which he seems to have no interest in familiarizing himself with.\n\n​\n\nA little background on the guy: he has a history of being super shady, as multiple previous tenants will attest to. He will tell you something in person then go back on his word. He will also berate and bully you if you disagree with him or question his authority. When we had flooring fixed due to water damage, he tried to pin the cause of the leak on us, told the contractor his version of the story (without even speaking with us) so the contractor would make a statement saying it was our fault. Then he demanded us to give him a money order for the damage (which amounted to $500). We fought that of course, and won (contacted the contractor who recanted his prior statement, saying the manager misled him into saying that in the first place). Since then, I've been afraid of retaliation from him.\n\n​\n\nAnyway, this is our current situation...\n\n​\n\nAccording to my rental agreement, there is an additional $100 added to the rent for every additional occupant over 2. Last year, after my 3rd roommate moved out, the old manager did not lower our rent. I asked him but he said he was not sure he could do that (he was under a lot of pressure by the landlord to get us to move out because we have rent control). At the time, I didn't question is because I didn't want to cause trouble between us and the landlord but after digging into the housing laws months later, I came to realize that the rent should have been lowered.\n\nEarlier this year, we got new management and under him, I added 2 more occupants to the lease. We told him that since the rent was not lowered when the last roommate moved out, we should be able to add 2 more people at only $100 increase, to which he obliged. This past month, 2 roommates moved out. By law, the rent should be $200 lower but the manager refuses to do so stating that the rent should be returned to the state prior to the 2 people being added. He said since he allowed us to add 2 more people at $100 increase, when 2 people moved out, the rent should only go down by that much.  He also refuses to acknowledge that the rent was illegally maintained at the rate of 3 occupants when there were only 2. When I tried to explain to him the rent situation, he dismissed it as \"not his problem\". There is a clear paper trail of our rent, increase and decrease whenever a roommate was added and dropped. Furthermore, because he has a history of vindictive behavior, I'm afraid this guy will claim he never got my rent check (which is sent through the mail so I can't confirm if he's received it until he cashes it) if the amount isn't what he wants it to be. Any advise on how to deal with this issue would be greatly appreciated!","title":"[CA] New manager will not acknowledge previous illegal rent increase","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552242868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aziplp\/old_apartment_is_trying_to_make_us_pay_nearly_a\/","id":"aziplp","body":"Husband and I just moved out. As we were taking down our bed frame, we noticed that the leg of the bed had popped a hole through the carpet and through the single sheet on thin, very old plywood underneath it. At first, we were shocked that the place where we slept was barely holding us above the ceiling below. Secondly, we were worried about losing our security deposit. \n\nIt is important at this point to keep in mind that, on our last release renewal, we were offered a carpet cleaning. We needed up not using this gift. Months later, under a new landlord, we requested a carpet cleaning. She said that we couldn\u2019t use it because we \u201cdidn\u2019t use it in enough time\u201d and that \u201ctechnically you\u2019re supposed to have a cleaning once a year so it\u2019s like you\u2019re already breaking the rules\u201d. This followed up with several emails and phone calls from the new landlord. After I forwarded an email from the old landlord showing that we did not use our renewal gift, she never responded but never gave us the gift. \n\nFast forward a week. We have received an email stating that we owe $700 for carpet depreciation. Nothing was stated about the hole in the floor, but if it were, we would simply say, hey. Build a better floor on your own money. But no, carpet depreciation. They refused to give us our free carpet cleaning and we lived there for 2 1\/2 years, we assume they would need to replace the carpet regardless.\n\nThey say we have 30 days until collections show up. What in the world do we do?","title":"Old apartment is trying to make us pay nearly a thousand dollars on top of our security deposit [Wake County, NC]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571116983,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di361m\/thinking_about_writing_a_book_but_worried_it_be\/","id":"di361m","body":"Hi. I\u2019m considering writing a book about how open the free internet is and how it is not enforced on small crimes. I was thing about taking examples from my own life of how easy it is to obtain copyright content  and how search engines contribute to how easy it is for normal people to find this copyright content online. Making many young people today criminals that have no idea what there doing is a crime and assuming these easily accessible copyright content online are a luxury of the internet and not something that you could get arrested or charged with crimes.\n\nIf I were to use examples from my life of how easy it was to obtain copyright content (movies, games, foreign comic not aloud in the US due to the contracts with the creator and the distributor) . If I write the book and it gets published could the book be used as a form of confession to sue me in court over every copyright that I have infringed throughout my life?\n\nNote: examples would be from when I was as young as 7 years old all the way up to today (a legal adult under the eyes of the law). I grew up in CA of the USA. I plan in the future to move to a different state, but for now I\u2019m still in CA.","title":"Thinking about writing a book, but worried it be used as an open confession that people could use to sue me in court.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570439539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/degy3i\/traffic_ticket\/","id":"degy3i","body":"Hello just joined today after watching YouTube videos about reddit. I was curious if I should write a letter to explain the situation or attend a hearing?\n\nBasically the story is that my sister has problems with people being around me while talking to her on the phone due to her feeling as though they are listening in on her. So I usually drive around my area to put her at ease and to just go exploring since I stay cooped up in my dorm anyway. On this particular night at around 9:30pm ish I am driving around at 55 mph because that was the last sign speed sign I had seen in a while. To add insult to injury the place had very little to no lights (dim) in the area due to the telescopes built nearby. So as I am driving at 51 mph I suddenly get pulled over by a police officer for speeding. I pull off to the side and follow what he asks of me do with ease.  What the officer tells me is that I was going 51 mph in a  35 mph zone. I understand that I am at fault. However what made me livid was that I could clearly see another sign that said 55 mph speed limit like a football field away. \n\nI am wondering if I should go to a hearing , write a letter, or just suck it up and remember it as a hard lesson?","title":"Traffic ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571476744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk1d79\/if_a_school_bus_with_seatbelts_gets_pulled_over\/","id":"dk1d79","body":"We got a band thing at 3 am right now right after a band thing at 12 am so we all wanna sleep but the bus driver told us that we have to wear the seatbelts or else our parents pay the ticket. We all feel like she\u2019s lying.","title":"If a school bus with seatbelts gets pulled over because students aren\u2019t wearing seatbelts do the parents pay the ticket or does the driver?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552993048,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2vzen\/can_employer_make_me_pay_for_training\/","id":"b2vzen","body":"Hey, I'll try and keep this as brief as possible.\n\nI'm working in accounts and my employer has paid for me to complete a bookkeeping course. They said they would draw up a contract for me to sign that basically says I will pay back the cost of the course IF I leave within 2 years of finishing the course. As of yet I have not seen or signed this contract, I don't even think it has been drawn up.\n\nHowever, I am looking at handing in my notice and I am wondering if they can make me pay for the course once I have handed in my notice?\n\nCheers.","title":"Can Employer make me pay for training?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568414109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3ws0m\/potential_landlord_discriminating_based_on\/","id":"d3ws0m","body":"My husband recently got a really good job in a small town. This company is the largest source of employment for the three town area around it, and due to the amount of people working there, there is not enough housing in the area. \n\nWe have been looking for a place to rent for awhile now, and finally found one that was within a reasonable distance to his work and allowed pets. Everything was going good and we were about to get the paperwork when they asked us which church we went to. I said that we didn't go to church and figured we'd move on and complete the paperwork. However, the lady said that the home was no longer available to us because she only wants to rent to God fearing people, because the lord has called upon her to help them, and it wouldn't be fair of her to rent the place out to us when there were church goers who needed a place to live. This was all over the phone, no text. \n\nBefore this, everything had been going okay. We are quiet people who don't smoke, or party, I'm a SAHM with a baby and my husband works full time. It was only when religion was brought up that she decided to do a 180. Even if we could get in the house, we no longer feel comfortable renting from her, but is there any type of administration we can file a complaint with? \n\nThis is in Arizona, she has one house and two rental properties.","title":"Potential landlord discriminating based on religion","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568941744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6nfyy\/can_my_landlord_tell_me_to_start_making_rent\/","id":"d6nfyy","body":"Can my landlord tell me to start making rent payments using \\[redacted\\] through text between leases if my apartment is in Wisconsin?\n\n\\- I signed a new lease in July\/August for a year's rent on a property.\n\n\\- I have paid via a check sent from my bank each month during my time at this location( 11+ years ) I don't believe forms of payment were ever specified on the leases( but will be getting my lease out of my bank box tomorrow to check ).\n\n\\- About an hour ago I received texts from my landlord stating the property owner is going to start \"doing on line rent payments\" through an online company called \\[redacted\\] that has a \"good reputation\" and asked me to provide an e-mail address.\n\n\\- Searching \\[redacted\\] with an online search engine lead me to some stories involving renters and home-owners getting calls and e-mails from flippers and realtors trying to buy, sell, and sale jobs and has made me not want to use this method to pay bills( even if I have relocate from the property ).\n\n\\- I live in Neenah, Wi.  \n\n\n\\- I am open to questions.","title":"Can my landlord tell me to start making rent payments using [redacted] through text between leases if my apartment is in Wisconsin?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555120653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcloy1\/can_i_tow_my_neighbor_at_their_expense\/","id":"bcloy1","body":"I live in an apartment building in Chicago and we have a 2x2 parking square in the back of the building with 4 spots available.  We have never has any issues because of good communication however.  Usually if a car is blocked then a quick text or phone call can get the vehicle moved.  Recently my neighbor has parked behind me and left for the night leaving me blocked in without notifying me or leaving a spare set of keys so her roomates could move the car.  Not knowing this I texted her to move her car and it took her an hour to respond with \"I'm not home right now and will not be back til tomorrow.\"  Because she apologized I did not give her any grief and would assume that she would learn from the mistake.  Now a month later I made plans to meet with someone and the same neighbor blocked me in and went out for the night leaving me stuck again.  Can I have her car towed since she has left me with no alternative? Any help is appreciated, I talked to the landlord and he isnt very interested in the situation.","title":"Can I Tow my neighbor at their expense?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553874053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6ytiu\/in_divorce_involving_infidelity_and_abuse_is_a\/","id":"b6ytiu","body":"I am in the process of figuring out what I need to do to get a divorce. I have very limited resources, and cannot afford to pay a lawyer at this time, but I would like to get an idea of what I\u2019m looking at so I can save and plan accordingly. \n\nI\u2019m a stay at home mother, an am very active in my community. I\u2019m a well known figure, and would like to keep as much of what has happened to me under wraps for the sake of my children and my reputation. I have been unfaithful in my marriage, and my husband found out a few days ago. Since then, he has become a sort of monster I\u2019ve never seen in him before. He has raped me twice. The first time more forcibly, the second I was more passive out of fear, but definitely expressed a solid \u201cno\u201d. There are many reasons I do not wish to have to pursue this with the police, but the main reasons being there is no physical evidence. He was smart enough not to leave any marks or bruising, and was not \u201crough\u201d when he penetrated me. I live in a smaller community and I know from observance that this would turn into a \u201che said she said\u201d scenario, and given the complicated factors of our marriage and my infidelity, I do not believe I will be met with support or any sort. I do not wish to be ostracized as I surely already will for my discretions, nor do I wish to put my children through that. I also don\u2019t believe I\u2019d want to see my children\u2019s father in prison. I just want to get out of this marriage with enough to support myself and my children. \n\nMy question is, would I be able to bring this to the attention of a lawyer and bring up his sexual abuse in divorce proceedings without a police report? I am concerned with his anger and although he\u2019s never threatened to harm our children, his mental state is declining rapidly and I am afraid he may not be able to control his actions. We have a special needs child who can be difficult behaviorally, and I worry about him snapping. I know that infidelity can affect some asset division and definitely alimony in my state, but how does abuse factor in when determining whether one spouse should receive alimony? I know he will try to contest any sort of financial support in the divorce. I really just want to deal with this civilly so that I don\u2019t have to face the shame and embarrassment of my family and friends telling me I deserved to be treated this way after my affair, nor do I want my children to grow up with a father in jail, or a father than cannot attend their extracurriculars. He currently coaches for our oldests sports team, and I know this would just devastate our family more, on top of a public divorce. Any advice on what the general best course of action would be greatly appreciated. ","title":"IN- Divorce involving infidelity and abuse, is a police report the only chance I have to bring this up in civil proceedings? how will abuse factor into alimony?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553123486,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ixyu\/353_speeding_ticket_tampa_fl\/","id":"b3ixyu","body":"I've got a lot of accompanying detail to hopefully get back the most helpful responses. I read through dozens of other speeding ticket post on here and still found none that I felt was close to my own case which why I'm posting.\n\n​\n\nI am a 23 year old guy, university student\n\nFormat: Traffic Stop Info > Info I researched relevant to state > Final lingering questions\n\n​\n\nTraffic Stop:\n\n\\- never been traffic stopped, had license suspended ever, first legal\/illegal infraction of any kind ever\n\n\\- got stopped at 11:41 PM for speeding\n\n\\- speed: 92 MPH (not disputing that, there were four green lights back to back on perfectly straight and empty road)\n\n\\- speed limit where stopped: 50 MPH (not disputing that)\n\n\\- wasn't and never: drink, smoke, do any other drugs, no prescription medication either (just excited about seeing someone for once)\n\n\\- virtually no other vehicles on the road because of the time  \n\\- NOT:  interstate, school zone, construction workers present\n\n\\- was stopped while legal and quite carefully stopping at the first red light i encountered, no swerving or anything crazy, did not launch off after that red light, since there were then other vehicles present so was going the speed limit at that time\n\n\\- cited as infraction with mandatory civil court appearance\n\n\\- apparently most of what the officer said to me was incorrect\/false: said i won't be getting a fine, that i needed to set a court date within ten days or have my license suspended, and that they are reasonable with setting the court dates around your schedule\n\n\\- have a voice recording of the second half of the traffic stop, first half behind the officer requesting my documents then returning to his vehicle with it  \n\n\n​\n\nResearch:\n\nTried to set the court date at midday the day after, agent I spoke to on the phone told me that there was no ticket in my name and to call back on Friday, ticket was issued Monday night, so i was calling on a Tuesday. Calling back Friday means that I'm already losing three of the ten days I have to set a date or get license suspended. And also the operator on the phone tells me that this rule of ten days or get suspended isn't at all true, then she hangs up on me. \n\n\\- call back on Friday, date and time for court date set for me without any interaction from me (invalidating on of the things the officer told me during the stop)\n\n\\- also only then do i find out that the ticket is $353 seems unreasonable to me (with some googling i find out that is the expected price that increment over the speed limit)\n\n\\- the ticket is still a ton of money for me being a uni student, it's gonna set me back quite a bit\n\n\\- found out\/confirmed that it is legal to record interaction with on duty police officers without their consent in Florida, except they may ask you to stop\n\n\\- speed was checked with a lidar speed gun (not saying it is the case, but if wrongly calibrated could have given a wrong speed for me higher than i was going)\n\n​\n\nQuestions:\n\n1. What is the best possible result? (From what I read dismissal or defference)\n2. Is there ground for dismissal with the misleading information the officer gave me, especially considering I have a recording to prove it?\n3. What result can I actually hope for?\n4. What result\/path leads to least amount of trouble\/time spent on this whole thing?\n5. And do officers not give warnings at all or anything? (I clearly didn't look suspicious since when the officer asked me seemingly routine questions like whether or not I had be doing drugs\/alcohol or if i had a dead body in the car he took me at my word and didn't even bother getting my insurance and registration since I was fumbling to find them)\n\n​\n\nThanks in advance to everyone, who takes time to read this and give useful comments!","title":"$353 Speeding Ticket - Tampa, FL","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551402238,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avyl1f\/apartment_complex_lied_about_having_cameras_do_we\/","id":"avyl1f","body":"My apartment complex in Texas has cameras all over the place but apparently none of them are functional. Management must have been called out on it because they took down all the signs saying there\u2019s surveillance and replaced them with lame signs that say \u201cyou may not see us but we see you\u201d\n\nI had my car broken into in the garage a few months ago and they told me some BS about the footage being at corporate and there\u2019s a big process to get it. I pay $50 a month for the space in the garage, which was advertised as having cameras.\n\nMy neighbors and I feel frustrated about this situation, especially since I\u2019m not the only one to have their car messed with. legally do we have any recourse?","title":"Apartment complex lied about having cameras. Do we have any recourse? (Texas)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541555042,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uutgt\/can_you_get_a_divorce_without_both_parties_signing\/","id":"9uutgt","body":"So my family life is shit. The rest of my family (me my mom my brother and his wife) have been begging my dad to sign the divorce papers. He refuses to do so for some reason. He says he can fix the marriage but he's hit her before he's an awful husband. We just want my mom to be happy. He says that he talked to his lawyer and his lawyer said that if anything legal or financial is done behind his back the hammer will come down on my mom. So I'm just at a lost for what to do. Any help will be welcome! If you need more info I'll be happy to provide. ","title":"Can you get a divorce without both parties signing?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552160903,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az7ait\/grandma_cut_dad_out_of_the_will\/","id":"az7ait","body":"(California)\n\nFound out today that my grandmother cut my dad out of her will, which means my sister and I will be inheriting her money (possibly up to $1m each) when she dies. My dad is 50 y\/o with no savings because he\u2019s been banking on that inheritance. So basically when I inherit the money, I need to give it to him or else he\u2019s screwed. I don\u2019t have a problem with that, except for one thing \n\n1. My stepmother - this is the real issue - she\u2019s 10 years younger than my dad and will likely outlive him. Shes also exactly the type of person who, once she takes control of that money, will abuse the power that comes with it. My sister and I will have to suck up to her or be cut out. Even if we don\u2019t piss her off, she\u2019s likely going to try to leave most of the money to her own family. And that\u2019s if there\u2019s any money left when she\u2019s done with it. She is a compulsive shopper, even now there are amazon packages of literally useless shit being delivered every single day. My great grandfather made that money, and he wanted it to be passed down to his own family. Is there any way I can give this money to my father without allowing her to run off with it when he dies?\n\nNow before anyone tells me \u201cyou don\u2019t have to give your dad the money, don\u2019t go against your grandma\u2019s wishes blah blah\u201d just don\u2019t. My great grandfather made that money and he specifically wanted it to go to my dad. He literally told my grandmother NOT to hire lawyers and screw everything up but she did it anyway. So I\u2019m going to give the money to him as per the wishes of the man who made the money in the first place. Pls just focus on the stepmother thing.","title":"Grandma cut dad out of the will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541796149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vo32u\/about_to_get_divorced\/","id":"9vo32u","body":"Canada\n\nMarried 4 years. I have nothing. We rent a condo together both names on the lease, have 1 daughter age 3. She has the car in her name. \n\nShe left me 2 weeks ago. I am been trying to save the marriage but at this point from the last text she gave me it isn\u2019t possible. She\u2019s claiming rape, and child abuse. I been a stay at home dad for 4 months. I just had carpal tunnel surgery, on both hands and I flew out to stay with my parents. She said she\u2019s getting child services involved because our kid is scared of the numbers 3315. Condo numbers, I never laid a hand on my kid nor my wife. She\u2019s sick and has health problems. I have depression and just getting over the carpal tunnel pain. She claims I have abused our child which I have not. I been doing everything to save the marriage but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible. I am flying back in 2 weeks to collect my stuff and close my open accounts. What should I do in the mean time. She has been drinking a bottle of wine every night since she started working, 4 months since I got laid off and went on medical EI. I have no income atm but I can get a job fast. We have a joint bank account which I won\u2019t be using anymore. I want to be in my kids life but I fear child services will definitely work against me. \nHELP. ","title":"About to get divorced","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570506510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deupk1\/copy_right_transfer_contract\/","id":"deupk1","body":"Im not sure if this should go here honestly, so i apologize in advance if this is not  the right place.\n\nAnyways, im starting up my own business and have hired someone to design a business logo for me. Part of my payment is supposed to include full ownership rights to the logo.\n\nThe person ive hired is a freelancer and not an actual company, and ive never purchased a logo before. They seem kinda wishy washy when i mention having full rights to the design so i want to make sure i actually have FULL rights and that they dont try and come after me for royalties later.\n\nSo what should i make sure is included in our contract to give me full rights. Plus since this is all being done online, and thru email is there anything else i should do to ensure the contract is legit?","title":"Copy right transfer contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1409949742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fkyxa\/ny_apartment_complex_wrote_wrong_rent_amount_on\/","id":"2fkyxa","body":"I currently pay $875\/month for rent.  I was sent a lease renewal for $890.  (Every year the rent increases $10 - $20.)  I asked them to remove a $25 homeowners clause (which would allow me to cancel my lease if I chose to purchase a home) as I no longer plan to buy.\n\nI received the papers back for my new lease and the rent is listed at $850.  They took off the homeowners clause but did not add a yearly rental increase.  If I sign the lease and return it, is it binding at $850 for the year or can they increase if\/when they realize they made a mistake?","title":"NY - Apartment Complex wrote wrong rent amount on new lease, is it binding?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568440859,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d41faz\/housing_lease_rules_in_ontario_canada\/","id":"d41faz","body":"i live in ontario, canada\nso i rent a house, with 4 other room mates, with all of our names on lease, so two them just left the house, there names are still on lease.\nthey have just find the new place, but all the rent and all is now on other 3 of us.\nso, i am just wondering is there any legal action i can do against them.","title":"housing lease rules in ontario canada","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444431343,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o5ou9\/thanks_and_a_question_wa\/","id":"3o5ou9","body":"I wanted to thank you people for the advice you give.  I'm going through a landlord harassment \/ constructive eviction right now, and hanging out in this sub helped give me confidence that I don't have to just roll over.\n\nI saw the legal aid lawyer this morning, and he complemented me on the amount of research I had done.  I was able to point him to relevant sections of the law during our discussion before he could go through his index.\n\nFelt pretty good.\n\nAnyhow, I'm not saying much in the interest of OpSec, but our time was cut short before he could answer my last two questions, so I'm tossing them up here.\n\nTwo services provided have been denied me without notice.  One from the first, other from the third.  In addition, as of the third, my stove has been disabled.\n\nAccording to [RCW 59.18.070](http:\/\/apps.leg.wa.gov\/rcw\/default.aspx?cite=59.18.070), she has 72 hours to fix the stove, and 10 days for the others.  I sent demand letter, return receipt, on the 5th (next business day from incident).  Yesterday I got text saying delivery had failed.  Not sure if no one home, or refused, but my prior demand letter was refused.\n\nMy question is, does the time limit start from the incident, the time the Post Office attempted delivery, or when it's actually delivered?  \n\nI'm thinking it's from the attempt.\n\nSecond, according to [59.18.090](http:\/\/apps.leg.wa.gov\/rcw\/default.aspx?cite=59.18.090), [59.18.150](http:\/\/apps.leg.wa.gov\/rcw\/default.aspx?cite=59.18.150)\\*, and [59.18.300](http:\/\/apps.leg.wa.gov\/rcw\/default.aspx?cite=59.18.300), the fine for each is $100.  If and when I have to go to small claims, since there are three items, do I sue for $100*3, or just $100 per day?\n\nAlso, If I do file, and the services aren't restored before the court date, can I amend the suit the day of the trial to reflect that amount?\n\nThanks. \n\n    * Note, I'm not sure this is correct section, one is an \"agreed\" service, the other is \"necessary\" (and, per the lawyer, possibly an ADA violation). ","title":"Thanks, and a question. [WA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555244871,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd299r\/pa_stepkids_cutting_kids_out_of_parents_will\/","id":"bd299r","body":"Basically, my grandfather remarried 16 years ago. She brought nothing into the marriage, while he had a paid off house and retirement money. They sold his house and bought one together.  He had 4 kids, she has 3.  They both changed their wills to make each other the beneficiary and then stated that the 7 kids should split what was left when they both passed. \n\nUnfortunately my grandfather passed first. Immediately after, the step grandmothers child with POA (or whatever it\u2019s called) dumped her in a nursing home and has ignored her. She also changed the code\/locks on the house so we were unable to get the items of my grandfathers (including a handmade two person swing and his American flag). My parents just found out that they have since sold the house and changed step-grandmothers will so they are the only heirs. (We are unsure if step grandmother knows they did this or not. She still calls my father to complain that they never visit her, etc.)\n\nMy parents don\u2019t think they have a case because legally, she is the beneficiary and can do what she wants with the money. I was just hoping for a second opinion because they are so upset about this. It isn\u2019t about the money, it\u2019s about how they are acting and the refusal to let us get my grandfather items before they sold the house.","title":"[PA] Stepkids cutting kids out of parents will.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1506394719,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72hlc9\/is_there_still_time_to_hire_an_attorney_to_make\/","id":"72hlc9","body":"I don't even know where to start. Basically my family member \"Bob\" got arrested because his friend\/dealer ordered drugs from another country and sent it to his house. Bob cooperated with the feds and told them everything he knew, his federal public defender assured us if he pled guilty that he would be looking at 3 years in prison with 1 of those years in a drug treatment facility. \n\nAs a family we pushed Bob to take the deal. After reading reports on Human Rights Watch at the horrible outcomes for defendants that go to trial in federal drug cases (9 out of 10 cases return a guilty verdict, and prosecutors can tack on extra years in prison simply because you pissed them of by not taking the plea.) we were horrified that he would probably end up doing 25 years if he went to trial like he wanted to.\n\nNow the pre-sentencing reports are saying he is looking at 7 years in prison. From the start a lot of what his PD told us has been inaccurate. Currently his sentencing has been post-poned because the state\/feds are building a case against the actual person who paid for and ordered the drugs - he is known dealer - and Bob's info should help get him arrested and hopefully shave a year off his sentence.\n\nMy question is, should we even bother to hire a private attorney to go over the case before sentencing to see if they can help in any way - would an attorney even want to work on this case? Is it too late? We don't have much money but as a family we don't want to watch Bob get screwed. Even on the arrest reports the federal agents lied about several details, when we asked his PD about it she said that it didn't matter.\n\nBob's not a bad guy, he self medicates and basically stays inside most of the time because of anxiety. He's not a drug dealer and has never been violent. 7 years just seems excessive.","title":"Is there still time to hire an attorney to make sure federal case got handled properly?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503875330,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wfgu7\/sell_without_a_business_license_usa\/","id":"6wfgu7","body":"Can you sell online without having a business license or a sale tax permit ? I have looked online but I am still confuse I don't want to get into trouble if I do sell online without having the forms I need. I appreciate any advice thanks in advanced. ","title":"Sell without a business license USA","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540575450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rmv70\/constructive_desertion_in_va\/","id":"9rmv70","body":"Hi all,\n\nI am planning on consulting a lawyer soon, I just have limited means and want to bounce this off of this sub.\n\nI got married very recently - only about two months ago. My husband has been in a serious mental health struggle since the day we met. However, after we got engaged and definitely after we were married his behavior towards me worsened significantly. \n\nHe has thrown me out dozens of times this year. He's created threats to kill not only me but also my family. He has yelled at me and humiliated me multiple times in public, not to mention in private, using every word - whore, bitch, stupid, you name it. There are unfortunately many witnesses that can attest to him going off on me in public places. On our wedding night, he got drunk and angry and told a bunch of people in public that the marriage was off and he was going home alone (he did) and what a bitch I was, etc. etc.\n\nHe has come up with completely provable falsehoods to \"protect himself\" as he is convinced I am a threat to his job and his money when he gets drunk. I am, for reference, a 120-lb woman and he's a 270-lb man who owns a lot of firearms. For example, once he sent me a barrage of texts that I \"assaulted him\" and \"violently slapped\" him. I was parked, away from the house, by the time I received these messages. He told me he was going to call the police and that he had told a friend that I hit him - though he never actually called the cops, he did tell the friend. I have an audio recording (VA is 1 party consent) on my phone from the moment he got angry until I drove away. He openly admits he's going to publicly accuse me of doing something for sympathy. The audio is timestamped about 15 minutes before the accusation and we talk about the time in the audio.\n\nI could go on but there's a lot of similar incidents. He admits in writing or over audio a lot of threats and rage. I know what you're thinking, why would I have stayed or gotten married at all? The truth is, I was blinded when he was sober and not symptomatic and would apologize and say he wanted a life together. I got caught in the toxic cycle where you believe someone and want their potential to be realized. Then he would throw me out of the house again and say that my family are all pedophiles. He won't get sober. So here we are.\n\nHe owns the house we live in and did before the marriage. I've paid him to live there every month, an amount that seems small but he always insisted I didn't pay more and I also pay for groceries, cook and clean, pay for all upkeep and maintenance of the car I've shared with him, and run the Airbnb out of our spare bedroom that makes up over a third of the mortgage and utilities. We have two dogs, and one he says he \"got for me\" but the papers are in his name and he claims I can't take him. We've both paid vet bills and I've paid for half of both dog's expenses since moving in. He's an attorney and makes about double what I make and he's 13 years older, so he had appreciable assets before the marriage that I didn't. I have some debt from grad school and just got my first job making decent money. My net worth is barely in the positive, if that. His is close to $1 million if you put all assets and the house together. He talks constantly about me taking his money, but when I had asked him multiple times to get a prenup to solve his concerns, he kept refusing and saying it wouldn't really protect him. I don't know, I guess I'm just now seeing all of this as controlling and abusive.\n\n**I want to file for a fault-based divorce, which would eliminate the waiting period.** In Virginia, there's the idea of constructive desertion, which I understand from reading as that the spouse made such a toxic environment that marital relations are insufferable or dangerous. Considering that he was literally forcing me out of the house many times and has constantly talked about ending the marriage and getting rid of me, I think this applies to me. I've also considered cruelty but from my understanding, cruelty is rarely granted unless there's significant physical abuse corroborated by official reports, hospital records, etc. While he has sometimes gotten physical, it's more been like shoves or dragging me out of bed, so I don't have any of that.\n\n**My questions:**\n\n1. Does this seem to fit the approximation of constructive desertion?\n2. I know fault-based divorce is a lot more costly and legally complicated. Does this seem like it would be worth it financially versus pursuing a no-fault settlement?\n3. Does the fact that he has a diagnosis for a mental health issue (PTSD) impact the consideration of fault? E.g. is there a similar defense to the insanity defense in a criminal trial?\n4. Should I pursue a protection order based on violence and harassment that has occurred? I am basically worried that if I don't do this, he will and make up things (like he made up that I hit him) to justify it. \n5. Are my contributions to the household (i.e. rent, doing the Airbnb) only valid during the marriage? If I take the dog that's \"mine\" is there anything he can do?\n\nThanks for your time and I always like reading this sub.","title":"Constructive Desertion in VA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569340450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8p41w\/theft_2_charges_for_first_time_offenders\/","id":"d8p41w","body":"Hi there reddit, I have to go to court today for theft 2. The total dollar amount was under 150. Its my first offense for anything. I've never even had a traffic ticket. My friends convinced me to steal and I got caught. I owned up to it to the police because I know they had me on camera. I dont expect jail time but I dont know what to expect. I was told about a possible diversion program but I'm 23 and dont know if there's an age cut off.","title":"Theft 2 charges for first time offenders?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553358682,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4l3mu\/apartment_complex_sent_a_paid_bill_to_collections\/","id":"b4l3mu","body":"A year ago I broke the lease on my apartment for personal relationship issues. The fee for breaking the lease and all other fees and rent were all paid in full. The apartment complex, a year later, said I did not pay the fee for breaking my lease. This was the beginning of January. They sent the bill to a collection agency. \n\nI pulled up my bank statements to prove that I did in fact pay the apartment complex all required fees. They said there was absolutely nothing they could do since it had already been sent to a collection agency. \n\nI contacted the collection agency in January. I sent them multiple bank statements so they were able to see that I ALWAYS paid rent on time and I did pay the lease breaking fee. On my bank statement it even showed that one of the payments to the apartment complex was for breaking the lease. They said they would look into it. \n\nAfter calling the collection agency multiple times they finally resolved the issue. It took them over 2 months. It's now March 23rd and the collection is finally off my credit. \n\nThe first week of March I applied for a rental house with a friend but was denied. The property manager said we were only denied because of the collection on my credit check. Even after explaining that it was false and that all fees had been paid to that apartment complex. \n\nThe rental company did a hard inquiry as well, so that hurt my credit. Now I'm out of the rental property and have a lower credit score. \n\nIs there anything I should or could do about this? ","title":"Apartment complex sent a paid bill to collections. I was denied a house rental because of this false claim.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568667782,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d56mdg\/az_colleague_put_in_his_notice_but_since_hes_in\/","id":"d56mdg","body":"I\u2019ve worked for this company for over 3 years and in the past, when a colleague in sales put in their notice, it\u2019s been company policy to be walked that same day but compensated for the following two weeks. However, the guy who put his notice in today and as he was getting walked, our HR manager said that he would not be getting compensated for his last two weeks because Arizona is a right to work state and that they could just let him go. Luckily, he persisted and got the Manager involved, and eventually got his pay out. But out of curiosity, is that even legal for the company to do?","title":"[AZ] Colleague put in his notice, but since he\u2019s in sales, they had to walk him. They just tried to refuse to pay him for the last two weeks and claimed \u201cRight to Work state\u201d?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507329950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74r6mw\/father_in_law_left_mother_in_law_and_16_year_old\/","id":"74r6mw","body":"   My father in law is a piece of shit to say the least.  He has been emotionally abusive to his whole family their whole life. January 2017 his father died and left the estate to his children. Each stood to get 1,000,000, a house, a car,  and a piece of the vacation property.  My wife and I are still in school and we both work our asses off.  We both are full time students and work full time. Anyway about 4 months ago my father in law decided he was unpleased with his life so,  he left my mother in law and my 16 year old sister in law to move to Colorado (he wanted to be able to smoke weed freely) leaving my mother in law to run the two buisnesses hes started on her own (her name isnt on either buisness and she is technically unemployed so she isnt profiting at all except being able to use a small amount of whatever her decides for groceries.) Anyway hes just called out of nowhere and told her to get out of the house with my sister in law. She doesnt have any money or credit because he always forced evrything in his name and doesnt have anywhere to go. My wife and i have a small apartment in the city and dont have the space. My mother in law has filed for divorce but doesnt think shes entitled to any of the money or anything for my sister in law.  I guess my question is legally,  what can we do?  Can my mother in law sue him?  Can she get child support? Can she get anything that will force him to take car of things?  Also my wifes car was in his name because he had bought it for her as a present and never let us switch it and he just told her she wasnt allowed to drive it,  anything she can do with that? ","title":"Father in Law left Mother in law and 16 year old sister in law","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551880492,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axz2lr\/i_came_across_an_app_across_google_play_store\/","id":"axz2lr","body":"I had reward points of around 210 dollers, conversion of these in my PayPal account will give me around 105  dollers. The developer of that app is from India and he is not replying to my messages. I think that my money is gone. What are the legal actions that I can take against him?\n \nPlease Help me guys.","title":"I came across an app across Google Play Store that converts Money from Google rewards to actual PayPal money.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540131176,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q3ss9\/brother_in_law_and_sister\/","id":"9q3ss9","body":"My sister and brother in law got married a year back but things haven\u2019t been going smooth with them. The problem is my brother in laws family who keeps denigrating my sister and my brother in law has been highly supportive of them. Yesterday he called my mom and said that my elder sister should not call my younger sister and that she doesn\u2019t know anything. he was shouting as well at my mom. Initially I thought my brother in laws mom is not bad just misunderstood by my sister but when I went to meet them though they were super nice to me they had grudge against my sister and were like she is the reason why he is getting sick, superstition  and all that nonsense. I feel bad that my sister hasn\u2019t been getting the love she deserve in that family. What should I do ? ","title":"Brother in law and sister","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541089905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tb045\/leaving_home_under_the_age_18\/","id":"9tb045","body":"Just wanna know if I can leave my house right now. I'm 16 but I turn 17 in 2 months. I Googled this question and lots of places say I can leave and cant be forced home, I don't know if that's true so I'm asking here. \n\nFor context, I'm currently in a really bad home situation. I don't want to go into too much detail but to make a long story short, I did something to make my entire family go against me. I'm not trusted by my family anymore, my mom threatened to send me to another school and to take me and my siblings to Mexico if things get worse. I'm talking with my current school counselor, physiatrist and police officer so I don't need any help in that way. I just want to know if I can legally leave my house and live in a friend's house. ","title":"Leaving home under the age 18","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552940476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2njl9\/trying_to_see_if_my_gf_can_file_a_civil_suit\/","id":"b2njl9","body":"First time posting here. Disclaimer: I might make another post on this issue if i hey better information on the situation, but I\u2019m just trying to help my gf and her roommates out as soon as possible. \n\nSo my gf and her roommates live in a house near their university. One of her roommates, we\u2019ll call her L, is pretty objectively a terrible roommate. She leaves messes everywhere, stays up late at night loudly playing video games and neglects her dog that she has in the room. My gf and her other roommates (my gf, and her other two roommates S and O) have even had roommate meetings to try and get her to correct her behavior and keep things in the house running smoothly. I\u2019ve only met L once. \n\nRecently, things in the house have taken a bad turn and L decided to pack up all her things and leave. From what I understand, my gf payed L\u2019s rent for her because L hadn\u2019t turned in her share of the rent on time for it to be sent to the landlord. Since L has control of the utilities, she\u2019s since shut off WiFi and power to the house even though everyone else is still living inside. L\u2019s mom even called my gf and threatened to \u201cmake her life miserable\u201d which we have saved on gfs phone. The roommates have been documenting Ls general uncleanliness and other behavior that might end up in the other roommates having to pay for things like cleaning the carpet, etc. since L has vacated the premises and has gone AWOL on rent, can my gf and her roommates file a civil suit for the rent and other things L has gone awol on? \n\nIf you have questions about the lease agreement, or anything else, i will be adding these later when I go to talk to my gf later today. Any help is appreciated in this matter because neither I nor my gf has any knowledge on legal matters. Thanks in advance. ","title":"Trying to see if my gf can file a civil suit against her former roommates","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541777956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vlfsb\/oregon_criminal_defense_does_anyone_have_any\/","id":"9vlfsb","body":"Also, I'm interested in knowing the case law definition of \"serious injury\" and if there are any instances where a bone fracture was minor enough to not qualify. \nP.S. I apologize for the very specific line of inquiry. Not asking for any research, just whether anyone has come across any precedent in their experience. But if someone has the access and feels so inclined, be my guest.","title":"Oregon criminal defense: does anyone have any experience with Oregon case law surrounding felony assault? Particularly, relating to people with ID (intellectual disabilty) and their criminal culpability","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540829174,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9seeo7\/mother_is_holding_legal_documents_hostage\/","id":"9seeo7","body":"Myself (25F), my oldest sister (19F) and my youngest sister (15F)\n\n​\n\nOur mother (44F) is physically, financially and mentally abusive. She wouldn't teach me to drive, help me get my state ID, wouldn't let me get a real job and took any money I earned. She beat me daily and when I was 17 I moved out. She kept most of my belongings. Didn't give me my birth certificate or social security card, so I had to jump through all the hoops.\n\n​\n\nShe has been doing the same thing to my oldest sister since I moved out, she wouldn't let them talk to me so I had no idea until recently. My youngest sister has started cutting herself to cope, mother got her a prescription for Xanax and keeps it for herself. Mother is trying to get oldest sister to get a prescription also. Oldest has been working for cash under the table for the last two years, mother takes all her money.\n\n​\n\nMother has a boyfriend (27M) who doesn't work. Oldest has been working for cash under the table for the last two years, mother takes all her money. Mother pays the bills and basically hangs out with her boyfriend all day every day, smoking weed she bought with my oldest sisters money.\n\n​\n\nOur beloved grandmother was working with the oldest to get her legal documents in order and to help her get her own place, but in September she was diagnosed with lung, liver and pancreatic cancer. She went downhill so fast. Mother already inherited some property and wasn't supposed to get anything else. All of grandmothers assets were supposed to be liquidated and put into an account to be divided amongst her grandchildren when we each turned 25.  Mother took advantage of her weakened mental state and had her change the will. She gets everything and we get nothing. She has been spending all of grandmothers money and running up her credit cards. Mother already has a huge amount of dept.\n\n​\n\nMother told the oldest that when grandmother dies, she, her boyfriend and the youngest sister will be moving into grandmothers two bedroom house, and that oldest needs to find somewhere else to live. But she still won't hand over her legal documents so she can prepare. I'm worried she has amassed debt in my sister(s) names and doesn't want to get found out. \n\n​\n\nOldest is coming to live with me once grandmother passes (we don't want to be banned from visiting her, so we are waiting). Youngest wants to leave when oldest does because she is worried she will be trapped there unable to contact anyone for help. \n\n​\n\nTL:DR - I need to know the legal ramifications of taking my 15yo sister without mothers consent.\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Mother is holding legal documents hostage.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549806933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ap42p6\/last_will_and_testament_estate_planning\/","id":"ap42p6","body":"What is the proper way to ensure that your will is upheld after you die?  Do you file it with probate?  Register my Executor?  I have no idea.\n\nI am in Georgia (USA).","title":"Last Will and Testament \/ Estate Planning","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1441643671,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jzkh5\/pregnant_girl_needs_a_divorce\/","id":"3jzkh5","body":"I live in Arizona. I've been married just over two years. I have an 18 month old son and a daughter due in November. My husband likes to drink and solicit people for sex on Craigslist. He's done this four times, and I am ready to get a divorce. I was a stay at home mom\/college student, so I don't have any income currently. My husband made just enough for bills, and very little extra. I'm worried about my husband getting custody, I really don't want him to be able to take my oldest son overnight. I have copies of his Craigslist emails from two separate occasions, but other than him having two DUI's I don't have any proof he's an alcoholic. I'm not sure if I should file for divorce as soon as possible, or if I should try to wait until after my child is born? I don't know what more I'll need to build a strong case? Or how I will pay for any of this. Any advice is appreciated.","title":"Pregnant girl needs a divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445733339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q3ghs\/public_organization_jamming_fcc_controlled\/","id":"3q3ghs","body":"a school I attend jams any 2.4ghz wireless network that interferes with their own wireless network and should a router still be interfering they will flood it with packets in order to deny service. \n\nare they allowed to do this because they are a school or is it still illegal. the packet flooding is a distributed denial of service attack and other other is intentionally jamming an FCC controlled frequency which are illegal for citizens","title":"Public organization jamming FCC controlled frequency","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539290797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ndrsy\/transferring_inherited_property_to_beneficiaries\/","id":"9ndrsy","body":"This seems so simple, yet I have't gotten specifics. What process does our personal representative have to go through to transfer the home my parents left to we three beneficiaries n their will? Our father has passed, naming us 3 siblings as heirs in equal parts. We have opened the estate and probate process, we have a small amount of outstanding hospital bills that will be covered with the decedent's tax return. But how do we:\n\n1. Transfer the deed\/inherited home into our names? I have heard quit claim deed, Personal Rep\/Executors Deed, Wisconsin Department of Revenue Transfer Real Estate Transfer fee. Not sure where the steps are here.\n2. One sibling will buy out the siblings. Should we take care of Step 1 first, transferring the deed into all 3 of our names, and then do a quit claim deed?\n3. For the sibling doing the buying out, what paperwork do we need to make the buying out official? Just the quit claim deed? \n\nMany thanks! ","title":"Transferring inherited property to beneficiaries (Wisconsin); buying out other beneficiaries","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1549848665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apb03l\/employer_is_withholding_certifications_from_me\/","id":"apb03l","body":"I work at a small daycare in Pennsylvania. When I first got this job, I was required to obtain certain clearances (child abuse clearance, criminal background clearance, etc.) as well as complete numerous trainings, all of which I had to pay for. I was told after three months of my employment at this daycare, I would be reimbursed. I\u2019ve been there now about four months and I still have not been reimbursed (despite me mentioning it numerous times), but that\u2019s not the bigger issue I\u2019m having. Backstory- I got this job because it was the easiest option for me at the time to get something on my resume after being unemployed for too long. The thing is, it\u2019s very inconvenient for me. My commute is way too far and my pay is nowhere good enough to account for the money I pay for in gas, let alone other expenses. Therefore, I am still looking for another job. I want to go to another daycare but in order to do that, most places require me to have on hand these certificates and clearances. Now, back to the issue. I do not have copies of some of the clearances & certificates, since I was told to give them to my employer and never received them or a copy of them back. Because I need them in order to move to another daycare, I have asked my employer multiple times for copies of them if not the originals. Each time my employer has blown me off and eventually straight up told me they couldn\u2019t give them to me because it is their property. I reminded them I haven\u2019t been reimbursed and if that was the issue to not even bother paying me the money back if that meant I could have copies of the paperwork. Their response was saying they can\u2019t do that and insisted they will pay me back. It\u2019s been a couple weeks, I still haven\u2019t been reimbursed and still haven\u2019t received copies of the paperwork. Is this legal? Even if they do reimburse me, can they still hold them from me? Is there any further action I can take since I am getting nowhere with my employer?","title":"Employer is withholding certifications from me, without reimbursement","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569496796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9i8e6\/work_charging_me_for_sick_days\/","id":"d9i8e6","body":"Kansas, USA\n\nI got paid last week and noticed $80 taken out that appeared to go to medical stuff. I dont have their health insurance so I asked a supervisor. She said its for sick paid time off.\n\nSo each paycheck, I\u2019m losing $80 to go towards when\/if i call in sick. I\u2019ve taken 3 sick days due to some severe gastrointestinal issues they already knew about and i was written up for using so much of my sick time (sick days i didnt get paid for)\n\nIs this even legal? I mean they\u2019re taking my money and then when i call in sick i dont even get paid and can get written up for using it.","title":"Work charging me for sick days?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571669342,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl1m8z\/moving_company_threatens_to_file_charges_on_me\/","id":"dl1m8z","body":"Hi, seeking advice on how to proceed. \nI recently moved interstate with a moving company X. I paid 5600 in total. \nFor about 1\/4 of my items, the company did not wrap at all, did not do an inventory count. I asked them repeatedly (in writing) that I am concerned about this but there was no response. 12 days later they forced me to accept delivery even though I am concerned about accepting when they did not put stickers  on some of my items as I would not know what is missing.  I asked them to reduce the rate for these 1\/4 items as I did not get the service I was promised. Within those items that they put stickers on, 4 boxes , 2 bed box springs, one dining chair were missing and several pieces damaged. They directed me to a site called movingclaims for filing missing item and damage claims. When I called them next day asking them about not wrapping my items which caused the damage and not doing the inventory which caused them missing, they called me I was extorting them the day before negotiating like a terrorist. At this point I filed a charge back for $699 from my credit card company. Now they are threatening me to file a lawsuit for charging back and that I will be liable for attorney costs as well once they do. Till date they have done absolutely nothing to answer my questions regarding wrapping, inventory or even apologizing for calling me names. What should I do?","title":"Moving company threatens to file charges on me","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568424756,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3yuwm\/ga_if_my_boyfriend_ends_up_on_sex_offender_list\/","id":"d3yuwm","body":"He\u2019s a non confrontational guy and has never been physical or abusive in any way, but now could end up as a registered sex offender. We have 1 child together and 1 step child (I had a child with my late husband). How would this impact our family? Are there different levels for violent and nonviolent registrants? Are registrants always on the list for life?","title":"[GA] if my boyfriend ends up on sex offender list (not physical reasons) what does that mean to the family?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571119365,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di3jgx\/i_thought_i_wanted_my_daughters_father_to_take_a\/","id":"di3jgx","body":"I finally found the father of my child after he fled upon realizing I was pregnant. My daughter is now over a year old, and I have been able to provide everything she needs. I do not wish to seek child support, because i do not want this man to be involved in either of our lives. He has no desire to be a parent and has made that very clear. I am fairly certain that I'd be able to get him to take a court ordered paternity test to simply establish by law that he is the biological father. However, I am worried that this may lead to consequences that I am not currently aware of. So what is legally at stake here if I proceed with the test?","title":"I thought i wanted my daughter's father to take a paternity test. Now I'm not so sure","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539968917,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9plss2\/complex_parking_ticket\/","id":"9plss2","body":"TL DR; Got a parking ticket bc someone was upset I took 'their parking spot', contacted complex owner, I got a ticket and now have to pay $25 per month for parking\n\nBeing made to pay $25\/month for parking in a private complex with no prior warning, is this allowed?\n\nFull Story;\n\nI'm a recently graduated university student still living with my roommates in Guelph, On, Canada. I've been living here full time since last year, meaning I did not go home for the summer like my other roommates. I just got a ticket for a parking in my complex parking lot. I have a visitors pass on my car which has had no issues for the whole summer and was confirmed to have not issues by the complex manager. The parking lot has been more busy since University has started again in September. \n\nMy roommates parents contacted the complex manager (they own the house I'm renting in) who said the parking pass is no longer valid and that she has sent out mail discussing this but neither my roommate or I have seen any mail, (especially because i was here in the summer, meaning I would've seen the mail). She said someone in the complex contacted her and she contacted whoever to give me a ticket (wasn't the city, i called them and they said it was a private company?). She then reveals that I must pay $25 per month to park here even though I have had no issues for 6 months. \n\nThis is a major issue for me because I know there is plenty of parking in other parts of the complex, there is just a high amount of people near me and limited parking because of how the houses are located. \n\nSome bonus facts; since i don't go to classes daily anymore, i don't leave the house much other than for work and groceries etc. I received the ticket at 3:47 pm on Oct 18, an hour after I came home from work, parking next to my roommate. My roommate continues to go class at 4pm-6pm and leaving the house 10pm-1230pm and he never saw the ticket, he only noticed it this morning, Oct 19 and showed me. He says he would've seen the ticket earlier if it was on my car by 3:47.   \n\n\nAgain, I guess what I'm asking is if it is okay for my complex manager to ask for $25 per month for an additional parking spot? I haven't received any previous info about this, and I think it is unfair because of the low number of parking spots near me but plenty in the rest of the complex.   \n","title":"Complex Parking Ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505825339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/712qii\/my_school_failed_to_notify_both_the_students_and\/","id":"712qii","body":"In the trailers (away from the main building), there were [indoor\/outdoor mold levels of up to 58:1 ](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/QRgGm)and they failed to notify us, or the parents. I'm not quite sure what dangerous mold looks like, but [here ](https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/0bIYX)is what it looks like at my school.\n\n2 math teachers told a student that they were not coming to school because the administration would not show them the mold report. The next day, the two teachers were not at school.\n\nThis all happened during the first 2 weeks of school, and we (the students and parents) are just now hearing about this. The school administrators say that the air quality is normal NOW, but I'm not so sure. \n\nAlso, two of my friends have missed school this week due to a severe migraine headache (she missed two days) and \"allergies\" (he missed one day). \n\nDo we have any legal action we can take? \n\nShould I be worried about my and the schools safety?","title":"My school failed to notify both the students and parents that in half of the classrooms, we had abnormally high mold levels, and people are getting sick... [VA]","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553822659,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6r83l\/mt_i_26f_was_sent_acknowledgement_of_service\/","id":"b6r83l","body":"I [26F] was victim to a domestic assault, or a Partner Family Member Assault in MT, 7 years ago in 2012. He was found guilty and received a 6 month suspended sentence, required to take an anger management and alcohol course and pay fines. \n\nI have since moved to another town, and today was served paperwork, by mail, to have his charges expunged. I do not in any shape or form want these charges dropped from his record. However, in the documents sent to me, there is no where that I can sign whether I agreed or disagree. The first document says that it's a 'acknowledgement of service', and I am to sign in front of a notary and return.\n\nMy question is: if I sign and return these papers, will I unknowingly be agreeing to the expungement? Or does this just mean that I recieved them and more paperwork will follow? I don't understand a lot of the jargon and I just want to make sure I'm not accidentally agreeing to something I don't mean to be. \n\nIf anyone has any information as to how I can go forward with denying the expungement or someone in my state that I can contact to get more information, I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you!","title":"[MT] I [26F] was sent acknowledgement of service papers because my ex-boyfriend is trying to expunge a domestic violence charge he committed against me. How do I move forward?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570670553,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfqrpf\/neighbor_smokes_weed_inside_and_makes_my\/","id":"dfqrpf","body":"I live in Colorado so its legal to smoke. The building I live in has a \"No Smoking\" policy. I checked when we moved in because I used to indulge. They basically told me it was okay to smoke outside, but not okay to smoke inside. Someone is smoking inside and its getting sucked into our shared HVAC and pumped into our apartment. We seriously cannot get away from it. Outside is fine because we can just close the windows, no big deal. Well my apartment building isn't doing anything to actually enforce that, not sure how they would anyway, but the fact remains that my place reeks all the time. I have reached out to them and they basically just said sorry we're dealing with that. It is just annoying right now, but my wife is pregnant and soon we will have an infant in the unit. I really want to get this resolved before then, obviously. And I can't figure out who the hell is doing it.\n\nIs there anything I can do from a legal standpoint?","title":"Neighbor smokes weed inside and makes my apartment smell on a daily basis","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569723335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dapazc\/do_i_have_any_chance_of_beating_this_ticketnyc\/","id":"dapazc","body":"I got a ticket for insecure\/dirty license plate on my motorcycle, at the start of my ride it was straight and attached to my bike and oriented fine, but at some point it became loose, it was stretched to the bike still but it was now mostly sideways, would I have any chance of winning a not guilty plea?","title":"Do I have any chance of beating this ticket(NYC)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551671624,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax2lye\/i_masturbated_at_my_female_roommate_through_her\/","id":"ax2lye","body":"I masturbated outside of my female roommates door and ejaculated on her bedroom door, twice (same occasion, not separate). Yes, I know it\u2019s ridiculous, no I was not in the right mindset at the time. Things between us have been toxic for awhile and alcohol was involved on my end.  I am in the process of having her removed from the house (private landlord, she\u2019s month to month). She is threatening to call the police in retaliation. Do I need a lawyer? Did I commit a crime? \n\nI know she tried to get a restraining order to get me to move out but it was denied, so can I assume that I didn\u2019t commit any serious offense? Everything I\u2019ve read seems to indicate there are no laws against masturbating in common areas of ones home, and I never directly did anything to her so there\u2019s no assault or battery. I know she\u2019s probably going to give up once she realizes she\u2019s out of the house regardless, but it\u2019s the weekend so I can\u2019t contact a lawyer to get advice, but I\u2019d like to get an idea of what I\u2019m looking at here. I\u2019m in Wyoming. ","title":"I masturbated \u201cat\u201d my female roommate through her door, I\u2019m working with my landlord to have her removed from the house, she\u2019s threatening to call the police in retaliation.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541243957,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ttbev\/car_parking_fine_uk\/","id":"9ttbev","body":"My wife took my car and went shopping last week, and I have just received a fine in the post for 100 pound, my wife misread the signage and didn't pay \u00a31.10 and now they are charging \u00a3100, now this particular car park isn't local authority and is a private company, just wondering where I stand in regards to withholding payment as it seems like more of an invoice than a fine... with it being a private company, so do I have to pay or should I bin it ? ","title":"Car parking fine (uk)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539974431,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pmn8b\/business_competition_is_allowing_sales_tax_fraud\/","id":"9pmn8b","body":"We are a small business in Chicago, Il who\u2019s main competition is a Fortune 500 retailer who\u2019s allowing their customers to commit tax fraud. I don\u2019t know who to turn to and everyday we are losing money from our customers taking sales there and getting everything for 10% less than what we can legally allow. Is this something worth pursuing? ","title":"Business Competition is allowing sales tax fraud by allowing customers to fake tax exempt eligibility.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1443800096,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n8jjx\/ri_landlord_keeping_security_deposit_found_out\/","id":"3n8jjx","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice!  Long time lurker, first time poster.\n\nHere's the rundown.  This is a classic security deposit case with a slight twist.\n\n* Last year I signed a 1-year lease on a unit in a triplex in Providence, RI. After the year was up, I chose not to renew the lease and moved out.\n* When I showed up on the morning move-in day, the landlord was still doing repairs and cleaning out the apartment from the last tenant.  I wasn't able to occupy the unit until the end of the day and he left trash, broken fixtures, and dirt & dust in the apartment.\n* While I was a tenant, my landlord was very by-the-book. He was very communicative while I was a tenant, fixed broken things quickly, and was religious about paperwork.\n* 3 weeks after moving out, I received a letter in the mail from my landlord. This letter stated that I owe $100 on top of my security deposit and included an itemized list of damages.\n* Upon further inspection of the letter, I started to get confused and upset.  It included major fixes to items that were not damaged at move-out.  It included repair for things that were broken upon move-in.  The cleaning bill seemed inflated and over-blown.\n* I found out that other tenants in the building also had there entire security deposit taken with a similar suspicious list of damages.  If it improves our chances, we are willing to work together.\n* I have pictures of the apartment when I moved in.  I do not have pictures at move out.\n* I plan to take my landlord to small claims court.\n\nMy questions for you \/r\/legaladvice\n\n* Is it possible to take group action?  Is that even a thing?  If I individually take action, does it help my claim that other tenants are in a similar situation?\n* How do I prepare for small claims court, what do I bring? I have never been in this situation before and I feel lost and confused.\n* What can I do to increase my chances of winning my case?\n* Does the state of the apartment upon move-in have an impact on what cleaning & damages are legit?  Does the fact that the landlord was still in my apartment cleaning on move-in day matter at all?\n\nThanks so much for looking!\n\nFor reference, I combed through the threads below to before posting here.\n\n* [(HI) Landlord is attempting to keep $2700 deposit- no concept of \"wear-and-tear\". Mentioned tenant laws and LL is upset because it'd be \"unfair\".](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/39fgb3\/hi_landlord_is_attempting_to_keep_2700_deposit_no\/)\n* [Landlord held all of $625 security deposit and then charged us $465 on top of it, for carpet he told us he had planned on replacing anyways (AZ)](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/379bfs\/landlord_held_all_of_625_security_deposit_and\/)\n* [[Washington] Landlord not returning security deposit after moving out](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/25m53y\/washington_landlord_not_returning_security\/)\n* [Landlord Trying To Keep Nearly Entire $2,800 Security Deposit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3id1f2\/landlord_trying_to_keep_nearly_entire_2800\/)\n* [(CA) Landlord won't return deposit, now threatening me... ](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/1ygcra\/ca_landlord_wont_return_deposit_now_threatening_me\/)\n\n\n","title":"[RI] Landlord keeping security deposit. Found out both neighbors are having similar issues. Is group action an option?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552114432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az0r71\/germany_father_refusing_to_pay_child_support\/","id":"az0r71","body":"alright this is my first post here and sorry abouut the way everything is written i have a spelling disorder and english isnt my first language\n\n​\n\nmy parents divorced around 16 years ago maybe and my father had never paid the full child support for unknown reason but since i finished school a while back he has become increasingly agreesive with the way he acts towards me and my mother and started to pay less and less child support and suddenly nothing anymore because i apparently refuse to find wokr (which isnt the case im trying my best ) and ignores the fact im currently recovering from a serious injury which could still take weeks if not longer   \n\noverall he owes now 100 grand my lawyer meant i cant do anything there but i know she is lyiing because the lawyer of my mother said something else is there a way he can be made to atleast pay the full sum again and be made to stop the way he acts? i need the money to pay for my therapy sessions (for injury) and my medications","title":"[Germany] father refusing to pay child support because son is supposedly lazy and a disappointment","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551728682,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axbe2w\/nebraska_can_my_family_members_get_their\/","id":"axbe2w","body":"An uncle of mine had been experiencing difficulties with his landlord, primarily in the form of extortion\/shakedown, and agreed to forfeit the property rather than pursue legal action. My uncle was up-to-date on all rent\/utilities payments and had already paid, in excess, for a minor repair to the property for accidental damage. \n\nWe were in the middle of loading his son\u2019s belongings, as well as his own, into a moving van yesterday when the landlord and property manager came through with a sheriff and a locksmith to kick us out. Although we were doing so one or two days past a thirty-day period, we were not given notice that the locks were being changed and that we were being barred from re-entry. The majority of their belongings are left inside, including some loose cash (raised by depression-era folks) and electronics\/furniture\/toiletries, and we have no guarantee that we\u2019ll be able to reclaim everything. Are there any options for recourse, or are we really past the point for any action on our part? \n\nThank you in advance for your time and consideration.","title":"[NEBRASKA] Can my family members get their possessions back?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569335930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8o3tt\/landlordroommate_dispute_and_we_are_caught_in_the\/","id":"d8o3tt","body":"First time posting on this sub, but I am at a loss and could really use some advice.\n\nMy girlfriend is a student at CU and was living in a house near campus with a revolving door of friends and other students. There have been about 12 other tenants all together that lived in this home. However, since Boulder has a law that no more than 3 unrelated people can live together in a single home, only three of her roommates actually signed the lease.\n\nThe total time of occupancy was about three years, and now that they have moved out, the landlord is bringing forth a ridiculous sum of $18,000 in damages. They were required to make a deposit of $10,000 to begin with, so he is seeking an additional $8,000 for charges of all kinds.\n\nI have an itemized list, but the charges are things like full carpet replacement for $8,000, touch up paint and spackle for several hundred dollars, and yard work he verbally agreed to take care of. Bear in mind this was a house full of college students, so there was some legitimate damages and wear and tear, but it is hard to imagine that it could stretch to that amount.\nHe also included several charges that he said he would tack on if anyone disputed any of these charges.\n\nOne of the more significant charges (~$2,000) was a fee for having too many cats in the house. My girlfriend had gotten a kitten during this time, and no one who was actually on the lease informed her that this violated the \u201c2 Cat Limit\u201d (For what its worth, he claims there were two additional cats and his timeline is mostly when she had already moved out of the home). Her roommates want her to pay an excess of $3,000 for her share of the $8,000, and are vaguely threatening to take her to court for this money. She is still in school and working full-time to pay her loans and keep her head above water and cannot reasonably afford this.\n\nSo these are my questions:\n\n1. Since the landlord was very aware that there were well over the 3 unrelated tenants, is the lease valid?\n\n2. Is it worth getting a lawyer to dispute these charges from the landlord?\n\n3. If we don\u2019t have a viable route to disputing the charges from the landlord, could she be liable for paying this $3,000\/lose in small claims court?\n\nThank you for reading, I know it\u2019s a lot of information and I probably left some out, so feel free to ask any questions. I would greatly appreciate any advice","title":"Landlord\/Roommate dispute and we are caught in the middle. [Boulder, CO]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553649226,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5y3v3\/mo_can_i_take_my_ex_husband_back_to_court_because\/","id":"b5y3v3","body":"First time posting here, on mobile so excuse formatting issues. This long so thanks for reading .\nMy children are 7 and 5.\nI live in a 50\/50 state. However, my ex husband currently only has 2 days a week (Sunday and Monday) and alternating holidays. He pays child support. He picks up and drops off on time for the most part. The issue is the neglect of the kids when in his care. He doesn\u2019t have them bathe, brush teeth, change clothing, brush hair. On Tuesday(the only day they change clothes )when they\u2019re brought home he sends them in old non fitting clothes so he can keep the nice ones I send them in. Their underwear and socks are usually crusty and smell rotten as they aren\u2019t provided fresh pairs (even if I send them they come home in a bag). He tells the kids they\u2019re mistreated in my care. That I \u201clet them have whatever they want\u201d and that they need discipline. This discipline ranges from groundings to refusal of food. He doesn\u2019t hit but will send a child to bed with no dinner then school with no breakfast the following morning. The kids have no bed times and school reports they\u2019re so tired they\u2019re falling asleep in class. He has fallen asleep at home and forgotten to pick them up from school. He\u2019s dropped them off late in totally seasonally inappropriate clothing on the one day he changed clothes (tee shirts and shorts in the dead of winter, sweaters and pants in 80+ degrees). He doesn\u2019t help with homework, doesn\u2019t attend any sporting events or parent teacher conferences. If the kids need to bring something to school on one of his days, it doesn\u2019t happen. He tells the children if they try to resist coming over or if they cry for me that he will make sure they don\u2019t see me or their grandparents again. He over shares very personal things like his love life, how much I hurt him when I left, his fear of death, fear of being overweight. My young children know more about death and calories than the average adult. He forces them to work out. He has lied to me about their health care. He will claim he took them to a dental appointment and then I\u2019ll get a call from the dentist asking me to reschedule (now I make sure to schedule things on my days). \n\nSo yeah, he\u2019s got some parenting issues, for sure. But, is this enough for me to take legal action? My mom keeps telling me to take him to court. My fear is that he will somehow get more time with them and not less since it\u2019s a 50\/50 state and he\u2019s a narcissist who will put on a good show for any judge or lawyer. Is there any chance because of what I listed above that he would get less time? Help.\n\nTLDR: Ex husband is shitty parent but is he enough of one for me to take him back to court for more custody?","title":"[MO] Can I take my ex husband back to court because of his treatment of our children?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508009161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76e6hv\/drivers_auto_insurance_company_not_paying_damages\/","id":"76e6hv","body":"Location: Oregon, U.S. \n\nGreetings fellow members on r\/legaladvice!\n\n\nOn September 20th, I was driving home from school. I took the right lane which is designated only for right turns. All the other lanes are one-way meaning you can only go straight if you're driving on them. As I got into the right turn lane, a driver on my left turned right onto an opening that leads to my city's plaza while I was driving on the right turn lane. Basically he isn't permitted to do that unless he is on the lane I'm on; the right turn lane. He hit my driver's door and heavily damaged it. My vehicle was operable though. I called the police immediately and requested an officer to attend. Me and the driver that hit me parked in the plaza to have a talk. I talked to him and he had 2 passengers with him and no injuries were sustained on both of our ends. His car had minimal damage because he hit me with his bumper. He admitted fault at the scene. When the officer arrived, it turned out the driver had no license and was driving his grandma's car. He once again admitted fault to the police officer. While the driver was talking with the officer, a young girl offered to be a witness because she has seen the incident. The traffic cameras recorded the whole incident because it was super close to an intersection with traffic lights. After the discussion was over, the driver was given 2 citations. The police printed and gave the report to me. Now it is October 14th. I filed a claim with his insurance company and repeatedly called them stating why it is taking so long for them to compensate the damages. They stated that neither the policy holder nor the driver are answering to any methods of communication. I got a hold of the policy holder and called them and they stated they would call the insurance but they haven't. What do I do now? Should I let MY insurance company pay the damages and take the driver to collections? Should I start a small claims case against the driver and the policy holder? I am a clean driver with 0 accidents or any tickets and citations. You will find a screenshot of the incident location and which streets I'm talking about. \n\n\nTL;DR: A driver hit me and he admitted fault to me and the police officer but his insurance company won't compensate me the damages he caused because he isn't responding to any communications. I've got evidence from the police report, witnesses, and his statement. \n\n\nThank you for taking the time out of your day to help! I greatly appreciate it!\n\n[Incident Map](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/WPqKn) \nSee the long text for explanation. \n\nGreen line= my path of travel\nBlue line= travel path of the driver who hit me","title":"Driver's Auto Insurance company Not Paying Damages","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554861093,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbgenz\/sales_job_contract_changed_from_salary_to\/","id":"bbgenz","body":"Unsure of whether this is a legal or a personal finance question, but I would really appreciate any help.\n\n\n\nMy boyfriend has had a full-time sales job at a new small business since November last year.\n\nIn the New year they changed his contract from a flat salary to a lower salary plus commissions. This was 2 months after he started, and the business was not yet fully operational with a database of clients. This meant he did not have an idea of the profits they could expect.\u00a0His contract was changed to reflect this new structure, and he signed it. It is now based on profit \u2013 if he meets $12,500 profit in a month, he gets a portion of the sales above $12,500. There were two sales people at the company, and the other salesperson\u00a0quit a month ago due to these changes. Neither of them have been able to reach the $12,500 or even come close, as it is a seemingly impossible target. They both were consistently reaching their KPI\u2019s of phone calls and business walk-ups each month, but were\u00a0not seeing any commission due to the $12,500 target.\n\nBefore the contract change, he was making $1900 per fortnight after tax. After the contract change, he is making $1105 after tax per fortnight, a difference of $795. Since the contract change has been made, he has lost a total of $11,130 (from 14 weeks of a\u00a0$795 loss). He works an average of 11 hour days, 5 days per week (and often weekends).\n\n\n\nFrom a business\/legal\/finance perspective, is there anything he can do to recoup the money he has lost over the last 14 weeks? He is currently looking for another job regardless, but I believe it is extremely unfair that he has lost so much money from the false\u00a0hope of earning commission. He has now had to take out additional loans from financial institutions and family just to get by. He is living in NSW, Australia if this is relevant.","title":"Sales job contract changed from salary to commission based? (NSW, Australia)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505696789,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70rnil\/living_in_new_york_how_do_i_deal_with_a_landlord\/","id":"70rnil","body":"So I gave my landlord a 30 day notice at the beginning of the month telling her I would be out of the apartment by 9\/31.  She's been extremely aggressive and hostile since then.  Prior to giving her my notice and her going crazy, she received calls from other property owners asking to verify my rental history. She never returned those and came to my apartment at 8:30-9:00 pm freaking out that I'm moving, she's going on and on about how I'm probably going to cost her at least a month of rent bc she won't be able to rent the apartment until 11\/1 at the earliest and I'm screwing her over.  I rent month to month as my lease was up over 2 years ago.  \n\nShe came to my place over the weekend and demanded I remove all of my belongings from the porch, my potted plants and my children's toys from the yard, and my recycling containers from the back porch.  She told me I have to be the one to show the apartment to prospective tenants and my dog better not be inside when I do. \n\nShe just started texting me tonight telling me she will not start counting a 30 day until I give her a firm date, which I have on several occasions and told her so she then texted and told me to tell her again, but instead of 9\/31 she wants to me text her I'm leaving 10\/30.\n\nI think I've been a pretty good tenant, I've never bothered her about anything, my rent had always been paid.  Her son lives on the other half of the house and I've never complained about him. He's a deg addict whose most likely suffering from mental instabilities. He's constantly screaming and freaking out or he's on his porch visibly messed up.  \n\nAny advice would be great.","title":"(Living in New York) How do I deal with a landlord whose become hostile after giving her my 30 day notice?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570139402,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcxtgr\/if_you_get_hit_from_behind_and_you_hit_the_person\/","id":"dcxtgr","body":"Someone I know got hit from behind and the force pushed his car into the one in front, damaging the front of his car and the rear of the car in front. Will he be liable for the car in front that he was pushed into? This was in Little Rock, Arkansas.","title":"If you get hit from behind, and you hit the person in front, are you responsible for the person in front? Little Rock, AR","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444408646,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o49jd\/does_a_newborn_count_as_an_additional_occupant\/","id":"3o49jd","body":"Trying to figure out whether these terms in our lease apply to a newborn:\n\n* You will not allow anyone to be in occupancy other than yourself.\n\n* If any person not listed in the lease agreement lives on the property for more than ten (10) days in any lease month, and we decide not to end the lease, you agree to pay us an additional rent for that month, the sum of Two Hundred ($200.00) for each such person.\n\nI've been looking through the landlord\/tenant info for CT but haven't found anything about new babies. Just trying to figure out if we need to budget an extra $200 (once? or per month till the end of the lease?) for baby rent. He hasn't lived in the apartment for 10 days yet, so I assume the proper course of action would be to inform the landlord of his existence in writing before we hit day 10? Or do we need to say anything at all about him? \n\nExtra info: new haven area, lease is calendar year, we may or may not want to stay another year mainly based on rent increases (it's gone up ~$50\/month each time the last two years), landlord is very hands-off\/distant\/professional so will be going by the book\n\nTIA!!","title":"Does a newborn count as an additional occupant for an apartment rental? (Connecticut)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554844622,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbdicg\/pennsylvania_adult_children_what_rights_do_i_have\/","id":"bbdicg","body":"My husband and I are 24, he moved with me into my parent's house christmas 2015. We have paid rent since he moved in, and in all this time have only (with my parent's permission) missed 4 months rent. 3 in the first year, and this current month. \n \nI can't seem to find laws relevant to my situation, so I'm coming here for help. \n\nMy parents are abusive and since we told them we intend to move in June, I suspect they're going to try to kick us out early just to fuck with us. Do I have tenant\/renters rights? How much time would they have to give me in the form of eviction notice, can I fight it legally to stay here until we are able to move?\n\nThank you so much if you've read this, I am in a desperate situation and any advice would be deeply appreciated.","title":"Pennsylvania- Adult Children, what rights do I have?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538924817,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m5pcd\/what_license_should_i_use_to_distribute_source\/","id":"9m5pcd","body":"Hey. I'm looking to sell source code for something I built, what license should I use? Obviously I don't want people reselling the source code, but they must be allowed to compile it into their program and sell the program.","title":"What License Should I Use to Distribute Source Code?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554570361,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba6grs\/the_tenant_i_just_filed_a_lawsuit_against\/","id":"ba6grs","body":"The tenant is being sued for more than $16000. The entire house needs new carpeting, new padding, and a new subfloor because of extreme pet damage.\n\nAlong with other damages.\n\nThe total is more than $16000.\n\nThe tenant called me and said they\u2019d give me $2500 over time. I declined and demanded the full amount.\n\nThe tenant replied with \u201cfine I\u2019ll just file bankruptcy and discharge it so you get nothing idiot\u201d and hung up\n\nCan they seriously do this? Would it really just screw me out of $16000??","title":"The tenant I just filed a lawsuit against threatened to file bankruptcy if I don\u2019t accept less than full amount.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539186070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n0ksq\/want_to_move_out_of_house_after_burglary_dont\/","id":"9n0ksq","body":"I\u2019m a student and I live in a flat with three others in london. Yesterday someone broke into our home and stole more than 40k worth of electronics and jewellery. The police and forensics were already here so it\u2019s being investigated now. \n\nAll of us have a 12 month lease, which started in July. two of us pay monthly and the other two paid six months in advance and are supposed to pay the second half later. \n\nNow to our question: since we don\u2019t feel save here anymore, we would like to move out ASAP. We don\u2019t know if it\u2019s possible \nA) to break the contract under the circumstances, way before the 12 months are complete \nB) how to get the rest of the 6months money that was paid in advance back \nC) avoid having to pay the rest of the 12 months \n\nAny help would be really appreciated. We also don\u2019t know who to contact about an issue like that so if you know anyone or a company who specialises in cases like this, it would be really useful. Thanks! ","title":"Want to move out of house after burglary - don\u2019t feel safe anymore.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568952311,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6pgug\/estate_with_no_assets_expecting_a_small_check_how\/","id":"d6pgug","body":"My mother in law passed away last week. She had no assets but did have a lot of debts. My husband and I paid for the funeral. We found out there will be 1 more check sent to her for disability (from her former employers policy). Since we aren\u2019t going through probate, how do we claim the check as reimbursement for funeral costs? We also need to gain access to her bank account to close the account, etc. She was married but separated and she has another adult child, so my husband isn\u2019t the sole heir.","title":"Estate with no assets, expecting a small check, how do we claim for funeral costs","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540862695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sjebs\/is_it_illegal_to_take_back_gifts\/","id":"9sjebs","body":"Ok so I\u2019ve been seeing many posts about partners who had been cheated on in a few subreddits recently and many of them do versions petty or serious things. Many of them often take back things that the two shared or gifts he or she had given to their partner. I would like to ask, if you purchase let\u2019s say a PS4 and gifted it to your partner on her birthday, anniversary or whatever, is it illegal to take it back after the two of you broke up? More specifically if he or she cheated on you and you took it back out of spite? ","title":"Is it illegal to take back gifts?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539961845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pkpd4\/ca_caused_a_minor_scrapescratch_on_another\/","id":"9pkpd4","body":"I am a woman in my mid-20s in southern California.\n\nEarlier this week I was driving through some construction on a busy road, listening to music. There was a car in a left-hand turn lane that was partially out of its lane, so I gently moved around it as I moved through the intersection with the other vehicles. The traffic was moving really slowly, and I didn't notice anything was wrong. A couple minutes later (still driving) I noticed two people in another car frantically flagging me down. I couldn't hear what they were saying, but it seemed urgent so I rolled down my window and yelled, \"Should I pull over?\" and they screamed yes. We pulled over to a safe area of the road. They told me that I had swerved and lightly scraped their car. There was a minor scratch on the front left bumper of their car and on the right, back side of mine. Not even a dent, just paint scratched off. I hadn't even noticed scratching anyone's car or felt anything, but my music was loud so I figured it was possible that I had?\n\nI made sure they were OK, and took photos of both of the scratches on our cars. Mine was even more minor than theirs, and my car already has a few scratches from driving it outdoors, so I wasn't concerned at all. The driver and passenger in the other vehicle were a middle-aged woman and her son who appeared to be in his 20s. They were kind about it, but concerned because their car was apparently leased (NOT a rental, I confirmed this) and was supposed to be returned tomorrow in Arizona. They wanted me to pay them outright \\~$200 for potential costs of damages and go our separate ways. I told them I wasn't comfortable with that because there is no way of knowing how much the damages to their car would actually cost. They asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I figured there were 2 options: 1) They take my contact info and send me a bill for the costs which I will pay (though I knew this was unlikely since I'm a stranger and they have no reason to trust me) or 2) I will provide my insurance information and they can file a claim.\n\nThe woman kept going on about needing to return their car, the hassle of getting an estimate and going through insurance, etc. She kept saying it would be easier if I just paid them. I told her I understood and was very sorry, but I'm not comfortable providing any sum of money on the spot. I opened my car door to get my wallet, a pen, and paper to write down my insurance info. She stopped me and said, \"You know what, this is too much, you handle your car and we'll handle ours. Let's go our separate ways.\" I said, I am more than willing to give you my info if you just wait a moment. I'll write it down and show you the card to confirm it is correct and the insurance is current. She shook her head, got in the car and left with her son. They did not ask for my name, phone number, nothing.\n\nIs there anything I should do here? I have photos of their car, so I can certainly prove that I did stop and didn't just scratch their car and leave. I also texted my boyfriend and called my employer during the incident (since I wanted my BF's advice and had to inform my employer that I would be late).\n\nEDIT: I should note that I don't plan to fix my car at this time, the scratch is damn near unnoticeable and there is no dent or damage to the vehicle.\n\nWhat a weird situation. Any advice?","title":"[CA] Caused a minor scrape\/scratch on another driver's vehicle, we pulled over and I offered my insurance and contact information so they could file a claim. They refused and we parted ways. Do they have further legal recourse\/is there anything I should do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571650058,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkxy5a\/nh_what_do_you_do_if_landlord_ignores_you_for\/","id":"dkxy5a","body":"I have emailed my landlord about 10 times in the past two months and called him numerous times, he picks up the phone but gives me a list of excuses and tells me he\u2019ll get back to me and never does. The toilet has been slowly leaking water and it is getting worse over time where I have to change out the towel in front of it several times a day (there\u2019s also a guy that lives below me). I am at a loss here because I wanted to keep neutral relations and renew the lease in a year but I fear I will never get anything fixed this way. I overlook alot of code violations and shady shit while living here but I refuse to live with wet toilet water feet when I take a shit.","title":"[NH] What do you do if landlord ignores you for months about fixing a water leak in bathroom","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538769845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lppgt\/less_pay_but_more_responsibilities\/","id":"9lppgt","body":"My mother has been with her company for 20+ years.  She has been at her salary cap for several years, so when annual raises are rewarded, she receives a one time lump sum payment and it does not improve her retirement earnings.  In addition to her regular job duties, she is also the safety inspector for all locations of our company, a responsibility she did not request and she receives no compensation for these additional duties.  She has been told she has no option to resign these duties.  She has repeatedly requested for changes so that she may receive her full salary increase, but has been told she is at the salary cap and cannot receive these raises.  She recently found out other employees that do not have additional duties are making the same salary, and an another employee that is being paid ABOVE the salary cap.  They all have equal years of service and similar qualifications.  She filed a complaint with Human Resources and is still being denied her raise.  Does she have any recourse?  (She is not in a protected class, so I do not believe disparate treatment complaints are an option.)","title":"Less pay, but more responsibilities","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508178753,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76sjah\/wa_landlord_spying_on_me_not_sure_what_to_do\/","id":"76sjah","body":"So I have been  renting this room for about 4 months now. Anyways, last night I found cameras under the toilet seat. Also I found cameras in my shower. Theyre very small but up close it's obvious what they are. Is this illegall?? Seems like it should be. I don't think cameras were included in the contract but I didn't read it. What are my legal rights in this situation?","title":"[WA] landlord spying on me. Not sure what to do.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554327093,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b940vh\/my_landlord_is_not_responding_to_texts_or\/","id":"b940vh","body":"I am currently leasing an apartment and it has always been somewhat difficult reaching my landlord. Eventually, I will get a response back, but this is a little more of a pressing issue. When I first signed the lease, I informed her that I would be looking at buying my first home within the first 6 months and she had no problem with it. She actually encouraged it and just asked I show the purchase agreement. Well, almost a month ago I put that approved offer in and will be closing before the end of the month. I have tried reaching out to her first asking to meet or have a time to verbally speak to her at least three times and then I just finally texted her to let her know I was closing and that I was using my security deposit to cover for this month's rent. I never received a message back acknowledging this. I made one final attempt to confirm that my message was received on Monday and I still haven't heard anything back. Any suggestions on how to go on about this?","title":"My landlord is not responding to texts or answering her phone regarding my moving.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553643666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5x3on\/anyone_knows_how_to_read_the_florida_traffic\/","id":"b5x3on","body":"Need to understand what this means (from the county clerk website):\n\n    COMMUNICATION RECEIVED: 03\/26\/2019 METHOD: MAIL MSG TYPE: 3\nORIGINATOR IS\nMESSAGE CODE: TSINFO1; NO T\/S PMT. WITH CORRESP \n\n**Background:** *Got a ticket for not stopping at blinking red. I completed the 4hr FL driving class immediately. Sent the completion certificate, Money order and the relevant forms (payment and school election form) in one packet. In my opinion it should closed altogether but the citation status is still \"To be paid\".* \n\nDoes it mean that according to the court the money order has not been received?","title":"Anyone knows how to read the Florida traffic court docket language?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552595341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b15cfe\/wa_gf_is_on_lease_ex_is_missing_uncle_refuses_to\/","id":"b15cfe","body":"Today my gf found out that she's still on the lease with her ex for an apartment in Western Washington. The apartment was her, her ex, and her ex's uncle. Now the ex has gone missing and is no contact and has been AWOL in Seattle for sometime and the uncle is refusing to accept calls or move out. She doesn't want to be responsible for the rent or have an eviction on her record. Eviction day is tomorrow and we don't have the $1500 to avoid eviction. Is there anyway that we can get out of being evicted, paying for an extension, and get her name off the lease while the ex is awol and the uncle is avoiding contact? Our current solution that the apartment can agree to is that we move everything of ex's and uncle's stuff out today, get at least one person's signature besides my gf, and get an inspection on the apartment today or tomorrow, however, that sounds terribly unlikely and if there are other options we would love to take them off available\n","title":"[WA] GF is on lease, Ex is missing, Uncle refuses to leave, oh my","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569000644,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6y8mc\/not_sure_what_to_do_got_scared_and_nervous\/","id":"d6y8mc","body":"Hi there my significant other was driving my vehicle and bumped somebody in the rear end. Come to find out the my insurance hadn't got paid where I thought they had taken their money out of my bank so I didn't have insurance on the date of the wreck and I figured there was no damage and no injuries I didn't have to make a claim so i didnt worry about going into my insurance app and filing a claim. After talking to the other party's insurance it dawned on me this other party in the accident is trying to pull a fast one on me and I wasn't sure what to do so when I went to reinstate my policy yesterday I had correctly put down that yes I had been in an accident since my policy was cancelled and proceeded to tell them what happened. There was no option after I got done with that to pay my insurance and restart it. Then about 15 minutes later out of nervousness and being worried to death I had went back in to reinstate my policy and then marked no on the question about having a wreck since my policy was cancelled to get my insurance back and proceeded to make a claim for the accident. I had no idea my insurance policy was even canceled and now I have no idea what to do. the people in the claims department at my insurance wasn't very friendly and even hung up on me once. I do not want to get in trouble for anything as i have small children I was just doing what I thought was in my best interest. What should I do at this point? Thanks","title":"Not sure what to do got scared and nervous.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446047358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qko0n\/nc_how_do_tenant_rights_differ_in_this_situation\/","id":"3qko0n","body":"I'm meeting with my university's student legal department Monday, but I wanted to make sure I still have a case because my lease ended July 31.\n\nI could make this unbearably long, but then I doubt anyone would read it. So. The brief version. As a note: *We had a lease for this apt from August 2014-end of July 2015. Now we are on month to month payments, and my landlord is aware that we (students) plan to move out at the end of May.* ***How does this affect us legally? We're mostly looking for reimbursement for issues that were ongoing while we were on lease, but we realize that we could technically give two months notice today if we wanted to.***\n\n\n...\n\n**Ongoing maintenance issues**\n\n*For all of these, I sent written communication (text or email) that got a response from landlord confirming the issue, within two days of the problem occurring*\n\n- Window unit AC in roommate's room hasn't worked since mid-August. We're in NC. Though it's cool now, it was damn hot in August.\n- Ceiling leak in my bedroom since October 2. Mold growing since October 3. Can barely breathe through my nose\n- Leak in living room ceiling December 2014 - September 2015. No longer leaks, but huge chunk of ceiling is still missing. It looks awful.\n- Leak in bathroom wall (water building up between paint and drywall) August 2015 - October 2015). No longer leaks, but the wall looks terrible from all the paint that slumped down.\n- Pane of roommate's window missing since October 2014. Makes AC bills awful and lets in humidity.\n- Plenty more issues, but the ones above were by far the most problematic.\n\n\nI realize we could have moved out once the lease was over, but my landlord (old man and his wife) kept assuring us that he would fix everything. Just last night, he said drywall repair man would be by today. I responded asking what time, and he responded saying the man will actually be working in another apartment today, so \"not to worry\" about scheduling...\n\n\n**What we're looking for**\n\n- Reduced rent until existing problems are fixed\n- Reimbursement for past months where we were paying full rent but the leaky, broken AC apartment was obviously not worth that much\n\n**Potential things against us**\n\n- Paid September rent late, but gave ample notice to landlord, told him I was waiting on checks in the mail from my bank that took forever (I was), offered to do it via bank transfer, etc., and he preferred to just wait for the check. He finally deposited it a month after receiving it.\n\n- The lease says no pets, we have a cat. He is well aware of this, and around 6 of the other 10 apartments in my building have pets ranging from rats to big, loud dogs, even though the building is supposed to be no pets. My cat is good, doesn't scratch what he isn't supposed to, always pees in litter box, etc., so as long as I clean the place thoroughly to get out any cat smells, there will pretty much be no \"lasting\" effect of him on the place.\n\n**Thanks in advance for your help!**\n\nedit: here's a photo of the [living room ceiling](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/zmkwNh6.jpg). 2-3 feet wide. And here is some of the [mold and leaking](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/8cjkPVd.jpg) in my bedroom. ","title":"[NC] How do tenant rights differ in this situation, since I'm on month to month now?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503715015,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w35x3\/im_in_way_over_my_head\/","id":"6w35x3","body":"About 8 years ago I ignorantly signed a paper that was to finalize my divorce and unknowingly to me, give up my rights to my son. I tried to take my ex husband back to court to get partial custody but the case was thrown out  since I didn't fill out the paperwork correctly. I don't have much money for a lawyer. I did seek help from the court but it was a mess. Since the paper work was done out of state and we were living in CA they didn't know how to help me. My ex had now moved himself and our son to the east coast again. Is there a chance that I can get custody again or am I just screwed? Any advice would be helpful as I feel hopeless and lost and am doing this all alone. ","title":"I'm in way over my head.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551480419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awarti\/sewage_leak_in_front_yard_not_fixed_for_over_2\/","id":"awarti","body":"Hello Everyone.\n\n​\n\n(This is in Carrolton, TX)\n\nI currently rent a house from a renting company that has had a sewage leak in the front yard since beginning of January. I submitted 3 separate work orders through their (crappy) system and three separate times some person comes out and says they cant fix it and will send a plumber. You can smell the literal crap in the front yard from inside the house and it is extremely frustrating. I have emails from the maintenance manager laying out when they received work orders, for what reason, and why it accidentally didn't get fixed. I want to know what legal recourse is possible for me at this point. \n\n​\n\nFrom my research I have seen that I can sue for the rent payed from the first contact about the issue all the way to when it is fixed, plus a months rent and $500. \n\n​\n\nDo I have a good claim here? They did send people out but did NOT fix it due to them and their vendors own fault (also stated in the email). Do I need to get an attorney for this or can this all be handled without one?\n\n​\n\nThanks,","title":"Sewage leak in front yard not fixed for over 2 months","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542261867,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x8in1\/overpaid_by_employer_in_china_who_is_now_my\/","id":"9x8in1","body":"I\u2019ve looked into other \u201coverpaid\u201d posts on this sub and I understand that this is not legally my money. I need help determining what to do and how to legally cover my ass if I\u2019ve done something wrong. The story:\n\nI worked in China illegally (no Z Visa) for a large corporation that is based in the US, but with offices around the world. Although I corresponded with a team in the US during my time there, the Chinese side of the company \u201chired\u201d me and paid me RMB into a Chinese bank account. I was based in China at the time of this hire, the company told me they couldn\u2019t get me a working visa with no valid explanation as to why, and as a result I did not sign a contract (they had one for me but took it back to amend something relating to the visa and then never got it back to me). Because I was paid monthly and regularly, the lack of contract didn\u2019t bother me. \n\nI decided to leave China and relocate to the US in spring, so I quit working for the large corporation. Returned to China over the summer to do some work for a different company, obtained online banking to keep track of payment from said different company, and realized the previous employer, the large corporation,  has been paying me monthly ever since I left. It\u2019s hard to get money out of China, so I\u2019ve kind of put this all out of my mind until...\n\nI just started working, again, for that same large corporation on the same project but based in the USA, hired by the US team with a real, signed contract, getting paid USD into a US account. \n\nA friend with legal knowledge told me that they wouldn\u2019t be able to ask for the money back because I was working illegally. But this is a very large corporation with Chinese and US lawyers so I\u2019m sure they would win any fight they want to start. \n\nShould I contact my new boss and act like I just noticed all this money in my Chinese acct and have them talk to the Chinese side of the business? I don\u2019t have contact with anyone over there anymore. Could I get in any trouble for this because I was working illegally at the time, even though the Chinese side of the corporation knew that\u2019s what I was doing? \n\nShould I keep quiet and see what happens? My fear is that this number keeps growing and somehow the IRS sees that I have a large sum of money in a foreign account that I\u2019m not claiming. \n\nAppreciate any guidance. \n\n","title":"Overpaid by employer in China who is now my employer in USA","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539737249,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9otlg4\/wrongful_termination_from_university_job_nj\/","id":"9otlg4","body":"I\u2019m making this post on behalf of my friend who is not on Reddit and is currently a student in a state university. He worked for Rutgers University Public Safety (this is crucial). He asked me to ask the community the following:\n\n\n\n\u201cOn Thursday morning one of my friends reported me to RUPD (Rutgers University Police Department) claiming that I was suicidal. My other friends and I made several comments in jest about this matter which were misinterpreted and were unaware that he would take these comments literally and would be worried. This friend struggles with mental problems, has lost a friend, and is currently in therapy to resolve these issues. He projected his own fears onto me, and while I understand where he is coming from and fully appreciate his care for me, his inclination to overreact is the reason I was reported to RUPD (Rutgers University Police Department). We were not fully aware about his issues until after this incident occurred. We have assured him we will cease these comments, that I am not a harm to myself, and that we are there for him.\n\nUBHC (university psychiatric services) has told me that they did not tell RUPD that I was cleared due to patient privacy, so there is some miscommunication going on here. \n\nMy concern is that since I was cleared, and this issue happened because of a false flag, I do not understand why I was terminated. Everyone from work is avoiding my calls and emails.\u201d\n\n","title":"Wrongful termination from university job (NJ)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555372042,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdn1vy\/dmv_is_going_to_suspend_license_for_2_years\/","id":"bdn1vy","body":"Okay so my fiancee was selected at random to provide proof of insurance for the past year to prove she was insured on the road. She sent the info to the DMV but today she recieved a letter saying the VIN numbers didnt match and she would have her licence suspended. She called the insurance company to see and the VIN was wrong. The VIN they had was for a 2010 Prius (we also have a 2010 Prius) but it wasnt ours. The insurance had 8 incorrect numbers in their VIN on our policy. We have no idea how this could have happend. The insurance says they have on recording that they were given the wrong vin number and all they could do is change the number going forward. Now were stuck with a $150 fee and she has to get a SR22 that she has to pay for monthly. (Delaware, Ohio BTW)","title":"DMV is going to suspend license for 2 years","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555294386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdaph3\/take_kids_out_of_state_after_finalized_divorce\/","id":"bdaph3","body":"I (m32) have been divorced for 16 months and have a very vague divorce decree that has little direction with regards to how big life decisions should be worked out. My ex (34f) asked me to move to Utah before the divorce to be closer to her family and then within a year of that, divorced me. I had a flexible job where I could live pretty much anywhere, and did so in good faith. She has not been able to find full time employment and is on government programs even after my $1600 a month I pay in child support and her working part time. I wish to move back to Denver and be able to RESUME the life we had established there. \n\nWill I have any kind of case to petition a judge to allow me to take kids back to where my job is based for more stability and job advancement as well as more family support (my extended family) as she has not be able to prove that she can support them financially? We have joint custody. \n\nShe has also subjected my kids to questionable behavior with regards to introducing love interests very quickly after meeting them, one who was a know felon who was breaking parole to even be in the state to visit her and was at the house with kids who woke up to find him there. \n\nTLDR: any chance I have of taking kids to different state because of economic stability and family support far exceeds what they have now even if divorce was finalized in current state.","title":"Take kids out of state after finalized divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552782237,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1zb8s\/ny_being_investigated_for_insider_trading\/","id":"b1zb8s","body":"I work for an investment firm. So a few weeks ago I was meeting with a representative of one our clients and she rubbed me the wrong way (disheveled and disorganized, seemed to be under the influence). Taking this as an indication of the company\u2019s competency, I decided to not invest in her company. Well this turned out to be the right move, as almost immediately after the decision was made her company went nearly bankrupt due to a scandal  breaking regarding the company\u2019s practices. So I felt good, thinking that I saved my company a great deal of money. Well not long after, I was informed that the SEC was investigating me for insider trading. The thing is, I had no idea about the scandal and no non-public information was revealed at the meeting. Moreover, apparently the representative was interviewed and claimed she did reveal non-public information to me. I don\u2019t know what she could have to gain from this, it could have been spite, but my world is crashing around me. I\u2019m working on getting a lawyer, but what steps should I be taking?","title":"[NY] Being investigated for insider trading","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1444453963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o6sqx\/should_apple_fix_my_phone_screen\/","id":"3o6sqx","body":"I'm working with one of their agents who is supposedly contacting another department of the company to work on my case, but in the meantime I was curious to get other people's advice.\n\nI was given an iPhone 6+ for my birthday last February. In March, I was listening to music and pulled the phone out of my pocket to check the time. It fell from my hand, but was saved by hanging an inch over the ground from the headphone jack. The second I bent down to retrieve it, it fell off the jack and shattered. From a one inch drop. The agent at the store told me that iphones generally don't have warranties for accidents such as cracked screens or other damage, so I ignored it until last week.\n\nI don't know why, but last Wednesday, I decided to see if my iphone was covered by going to the apple website. I basically went through an automatic processing...process, where it asked what was wrong with my phone. Now one of the options was for screen damage, so I selected it. Then it asked me for the SN on the phone, and it pulled it up and said yes, I was covered until this coming February. So I sent the phone to them.\n\nI got it back today and it was still cracked. Apple sent a letter with it that said something along the lines of \"We couldn't fix your iphone because it fell under one of the following 3 categories that aren't covered by your warranty.\" Beneath that it listed 3 reasons with check boxes next to them. None of the boxes were marked.\n\nNow here's the issue. I broke the phone and they wouldn't replace it. That's fine. But they did put some sort of very strong adhesive screen protector over the phone. As much as I would have loved that, the protector completely covered the microphone, so I tried to listen to a voicemail and couldn't hear anything. The protector also covered all but a small square in the home button, so I couldn't use the touch ID function for my phone. So I had to take it off if I was going to use my phone.\n\nAs I was trying to carefully peel off the adhesive protector, it was ripping out shards of glass, the whole screen bowed outwards, a chunk of glass is now missing from my screen, and there's a huge sort of...fault line on the screen where the glass was pulled up over itself, (think tectonic plates) so now it has a sharp edge on it, making the phone basically unusable.\n\nI called apple, and the agent I talked to was very understanding, apologetic, and he did mention that they never should have put the screen protector on a shattered screen. He passed me to his supervisor, who mentioned that the screen protector was supposed to be permanent and shouldn't be removed. Which I don't believe, because again, it was covering the home button, and blocking the speaker completely. She said she would make a case for my incident and pass it along to another department.\n\nSo I'm curious. Do you think Apple should replace my screen due to their protector basically rendering the phone unusable and then severely damaging the screen when I tried to get it off?\n\nTl;dr sent broken phone in, wasn't covered by warranty. apple's screen protector made phone unusable, but when I tried to remove it, it severely damaged the screen, and their agent said it should have never been put on, while another agent says it was supposed to be permanent.\n\nEdit: I'm located in northern Minnesota. \n\nUPDATE: I sent an email this morning to the woman I talked to yesterday who gave me her contact info. I also sent her pictures of the screen protector and the damage it did to the phone. I got a call from her today, she said she was able to get ahold of the other department she had to talk to, and they said they have no record of a screen protector being put on it. I told her that I sent her pictures of it and she said \"I'm not saying you did this, but anyone could put a protector on their phone and say we did it.\" She sent my info to UPS so I could ship my phone back. I'm going to ship the screen protector too, I'm pretty sure it's one they don't sell in stores, but only have at the warehouse where they fix the phones, seeing as it basically disables the phone.","title":"Should Apple fix my phone screen?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541438806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ufibj\/clark_county_nv_im_scheduled_to_work_the_whole\/","id":"9ufibj","body":"The poles are open from 7am-7pm. I am scheduled to work from 6:30am-7:30pm. My boss said she could let me out at 6:30pm with 30minutes to make it to voting. There are two problems with this, first off I don\u2019t know which location of two I am required to vote at and secondly my car is in the shop until Wednesday so I am reliant on rides from friends and public transportation. Any information to help make sure I get to vote is appreciated. ","title":"[Clark County, NV] I\u2019m scheduled to work the whole time the poles are open to vote tomorrow. Is there any laws or regulations that give me the time I need to vote?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553048841,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b36fxj\/school_system\/","id":"b36fxj","body":"So i have a post on my profile about how i was bullied in class, the teacher didnt help me out and neglected me even though we made eye contact during the whole thing, etc. Lied about it on an email, and i got in trouble from that teacher for retaliating and saying something with an f bomb. I was told on my post on r\/imatotalpieceofshit for legal advice in a newspaper or educational board? Anyone got some advice because im in 9th grade and im wanting to make sure this doesnt happen again.","title":"School System","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570900032,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgxv0y\/i_was_in_an_accident_on_my_motorcycle_which_i_was\/","id":"dgxv0y","body":"So I was in an accident on my motorcycle which I was at fault, and I don't have  insurance. The person I hit is willing to settle out of court,  and said he paid a $1000 deductible for his car. What can I expect to pay him? And what steps should I take in this process. I don't want to say or do the wrong thing here.","title":"I was in an accident on my motorcycle which I was at fault. I didn't have insurance.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1508185974,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76te9k\/sister_dealing_with_custody_issues\/","id":"76te9k","body":"Sorry for any formation issue since I'm on the mobile app. I posted initially on personal finance but they sent me to this sub. I forgot to add I live in California in the title. \nTo give some background, I'm a full time college student that just turned 20 student with no savings and currently no job. I'm working on my associates degree. My parents currently are going through a pretty nasty divorce\/separation. It has been an awful environment for the long time (I'm honestly shocked they've been together for 20+ years) but it has gotten extremely worst. My mom found out that my dad lost all their savings and house to prostitution like a month and a half ago.\n Yesterday, my mom came to me bawling her eyes out that the court would probably not give her custody to my younger brother. My father is the sole source of income for all of us. He pays the rent and my tuition. She told me you can barely get him to pay for your books anymore so you need to watch out.\nShe asked me \"if push comes to shove\" that she would be counting on me to fight for custody because she doesn't trust my dad. \nThis is weighing heavily on me as his sister. I hoped my brother would at least get to college first. That they would at least think of him when they fought in front of us. I hated coming home from school thinking, \"I wonder if they are still on good terms today\". \nI just want to know if there's anyway for me to take him and move on? I'm the neutral party, I'm not using him as leverage like they are, and he wouldn't have to choose between mom or dad. \nI know my mom has good intentions but I know it's still going to be a toxic environment. I know she's going to keep using him heavily as a emotional crutch and lash out. She would be the type of person to tell him you are exactly like your dad and you'll end up like him if x, y, and z. And I don't think a 15 year old kid deserves that. \nMy dad would never be able to interact with him with his work hours. I know at 15 you can be self sufficient but I also know my brother. Plus, my mom would probably lose her mind he stayed with him. She has stated she rather die than lose us to him. I live out in LA, California what kind of job can I do that can support us? \n\nAnyway, the tdlr would be along the lines of; \n\nHow (if possible) can an incomeless Californian 20 year old take custody of their siblings and live together?","title":"Sister dealing with custody issues","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442953448,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lzaiu\/lawyer_expects_payment_without_a_contract_verbal\/","id":"3lzaiu","body":"My past employer found me a lawyer for some traffic violations I needed to take care of. She generously paid for his services, or so I thought. He just sent me a bill... I signed nothing and we never said a THING about payment. She fired me last month and now this. I was done with the whole mess about 5 months ago. She is behind this, I know. What should I tell him concerning this bill?\n\nEdit: cincinnati, oh ","title":"Lawyer expects payment without a contract, verbal or written?!","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1505331196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zwy47\/landlord_accuses_us_of_clogging_pipes_with_rubber\/","id":"6zwy47","body":"Socal resident here in OC. This house was originally a business of some sorts and was converted into a home recently. Showers were installed, rooms were built, etc. 2 weeks of moving in, there were already signs of problems, such as water flowing back up from the main shower, but slowly draining again if left alone. It didn't seem to be an issue then. Handy man comes by and snakes it the first few times. 2 other housemates move in and the problems are more apparent. One night, someone was using the laundry machine and water flowed out of the shower drain and flooded the bathroom. It came to a point where we had to call a plumber to pull out what has been clogging it: toilettes and rubber gloves. He proposed someone had flushed it down the toilet, which is how it got stuck (but my belief is that the construction crew left it in the drain when installing the actual shower). Plumber also states that he was doing a maintenance job a few weeks prior with no signs of clogging or standing water. Landlord assumes we flushed these materials down the drain and is charging us for the repairs, which is close to $500. Do we have to pay?\n\nThanks to all in advance! All answers are appreciated. Please let me know if this is not the place to post. I will move it accordingly. ","title":"Landlord accuses us of clogging pipes with rubber gloves and charges us","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504057915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ww09f\/okneed_advice_on_my_fathers_estate\/","id":"6ww09f","body":"Let my sister be the executor because we agreed on most things and I'm the oldest but from a different marriage. Now It looks like she might be doing somethings on her own in her interests not all heirs interests . What are my options at this point ? Also this involve federally restricted property.\n\nEdit : the estate is in Oklahoma ","title":"[OK]need advice on my fathers estate.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554928114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbqxsb\/sc_usa_name_change_question\/","id":"bbqxsb","body":"​\n\nI got married ten-ish months ago and haven't gotten around to legally changing my last name, although it has always been my intent to take my wife's last name. I just haven't gotten around to it due to time\/money.\n\nI have also decided in the interim that I want to change my middle name too (I want to take on my mother's middle name; my current middle name reflects a family member that I found out some Really Bad Shit about, and I don't want my maiden name as my middle name for a similar reason-- same person)\n\nCan I do both at once-- like change my name to my current first name, my mom's middle name, and my wife's last name when I do the marriage name change?","title":"[SC, USA] Name Change Question","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541690855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vaxby\/lease_break_pa\/","id":"9vaxby","body":"I recently found a great house that would be perfect for me, put a bid in and it got accepted. The problem is that I\u2019m in a lease that still has 10 months left on it. I looked at the lease agreement and it is very broad, it basically says in the event of a lease break the tenant will be responsible for paying the rest of the lease out unless the landlord agrees to break the lease. What are my chances of being able to break the lease without having to pay the rest of the lease?","title":"Lease Break (PA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569879994,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbivyk\/vermont_owner_of_the_restaurant_fired_me_two_days\/","id":"dbivyk","body":"So this just happened yesterday, actually 25 hours ago. I have been working at this restaurant for about 5 months now, working on the line. It is a smalls staffed kitchen, 4 total workers and for the most part only one person is working at a time; weekends there will be two people on the line to help out. This has caused problems in the past with not communicating to the next person about what we are running low on, what's priority, etc. Our sous chef walked out a handful of weeks ago so its been extra stressful. The chef, also the pastry chef and kitchen manager, will blow us off and make us do the ordering and prep list. To say the least, its a chaotic environment that has no rhyme or reason. So I have gotten emotional in the past, and when I get emotional I tend to stay quiet and bitch a little, not a crazy amount but the normal \"ugh, we are out of this and that. Why cant my coworkers communicate this shit to me\" stuff like that. The owner and I have had a couple meeting in the past about this behavior and his main message was to man up, shut up, and do your job. So thats what I did, tried to cut back on the bitching and moaning and try to get what needed to be done, done. So three weeks ago, I put in my two weeks notice. The owner could not make the meeting so our chef and General Manager were there to listen in the meeting. It went well and I was respectful. They even asked if I could work an extra week so they had enough time to train a new person. I said sure so it turned into a 3 week notice. No biggie. Fast forward to yesterday...\n\nI came in for my shift that started at 3. We were totally out of clean dishes, AGAIN, so I instantly got into the emotional, quite, stand-offish mood. Went upstairs to bring down all the dirty dishes that were piled up. Didn't say a word to anyone, just picked it up and brought them to the dish pit. An hour or so goes by, and the other guy in the kitchen (new guy for about 2-3 weeks) asked if he could do anything else for me. I hesitated for, literally, about 4 seconds before he said \"what you're just not going to talk to me now?\" and then I finally said in a very quiet, stern voice \"no. youre good. You stocked everything up.\" Nothing derogatory, but nothing flattering either. So I go outside to smoke a cigarette and my chef calls me. She asks me to have the other guy in the kitchen call her. I thought that was strange since she should have his number by now. Whatever. So I go back inside, tell the guy to give our chef a call. Next thing I know the owner of the restaurant comes down stairs and asks to speak with me. This is where the real story happens. \n\nHe starts off by telling me I have two options, \"You can either burn this bridge and leave right now, or you can leave on Tuesday and shake my hand and leave on a good note.\" I said I planned on fulfilling my notice and that I would leave on Tuesday. He then proceeds to ramble on and on about how everyone in the restaurant texted him saying I was causing a huge scene, making everyone uncomfortable, and breaking stuff. Which is absolutely not true; I didn't yell, raise my voice, throw anything, or talk down to anyone. He then proceeds to threaten me with taking me to court for Destruction of Property. Telling me that he will send the court paperwork to my house in Burlington, he will find out my address in Maine (moving there next week, thats why I put my two weeks in), or he will send it to my parents store in my home town. He asked me 4 times in total if I wanted to burn the bridge and walk out now, or to stay until Tuesday as my last day. Finally I told him very sternly that I am staying until Tuesday to fulfill my obligation, and why he kept asking me about that. I then realize someone is standing behind me, I looked back while I was talking, it was our front of the house manager and bar manager just standing there. He buts in while I was talking, tell me that she is not here to be in the conversation, but as a witness. Finally, after being so flustered and shaking, and almost crying at his point, the conversation was pretty much done. So I walked away and went to the corner of the kitchen. Drank some water and took a couple deep breaths. He pulled the other guy in the kitchen over to where I was just talking with the owner, couldn't hear what they were talking about. After about a 1-2 minute conversation, the owner come to me and says \"drop everything and get out of my Restaurant. Stop right now, and leave. Now.\" I was confused and said what do you mean? He repeated, just saying leave now. So I put on my jacket, asked him if this was a firing or if I should come back to finish my last two days. He said you are absolutely terminated. Do not come back and your last check will be sent to you tomorrow.  \n\nTearing up, frantic, and barely able to talk I went to the bar I always go to after work. Got a beer and tried to relax. Then I realized I had forgotten some things in the building. I texted our bartender if he could bring them out to me, he said yea so I waited for him on the corner near the restaurant. He didn't come out, but the witness that was behind me in the conversation came out. She was bawling her eyes out. Like...hardcore crying. She immediately apologized for what happened, saying that was all fabricated and none of what he said while talking to me was true. I was not causing a scene, I didn't break anything, and that no-one texted him saying that I was acting crazy. She said that the other guy in the kitchen, texted our chef on her day off and told her that I was being quiet and very stand-offish. She explained to me how it actually started and that everything was blown way out of proportion. \n\nSo, I ask for advice. I feel like the owner abused his power, threatened me with made up legal punishments, and tried to scare me with his power. Is there something here that I can make a case for?","title":"(Vermont) Owner of the restaurant fired me two days before my two weeks notice. Seeking advice to see if there are options for me moving forward.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555007566,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc3e52\/ohio_mold_in_house_landlord_doesnt_want_to_hire\/","id":"bc3e52","body":"As the title says we are almost positive there is mold in our home we are renting, I have pictures, have provided her with pictures. It\u2019s causing my fianc\u00e9 to get sick regularly. She doesn\u2019t want to come see it and refuses to hire an inspector. Lease is up in February and I was wanting to know if there was anyway to push her to hire an inspector or break lease. Thank you for any help","title":"(Ohio) mold in house landlord doesn\u2019t want to hire inspector","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507787832,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75v2p5\/long_term_disability_denied_pls_halp\/","id":"75v2p5","body":"My long term disability claim via Aetna was denied and it seems like one of the key reasons is that I'm still playing gigs with my band once or twice a month. I'm currently in intensive treatment for depression, anxiety, ptsd and substance abuse after being beaten and raped along with escalating abusive behavior at work. I'm most definitely unable to hold a job for many reasons right now, not least of all my full time treatment schedule.\n\nI'm compiling a huge appeal case but I'm not sure how exactly to explain that playing for 30 mins twice a month is not the same as working a high stakes job full time. My social media presence and band activities have significantly declined since I left work and I plan to quantify that along with getting signed statements about the impact of my disability on my band members and our work, but is there anything I should be careful with\/know?\n\nAny help would be severely appreciated. I'm in a really bad spot.","title":"Long Term Disability Denied pls Halp","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1447621554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sxsf8\/kids_mom_disappeared_a_month_ago_not_been_seen_or\/","id":"3sxsf8","body":"SHE LEFT A MONTH AGO OR SO IN OUR ONLY CAR LEFT THE CHILD SEAT ON THE STEPS TOOK FEW CLOTHES AND ITEMS AND HAS NOT BEEN SEEN OR HEARD FROM SINCE. CELL PHONE HAS BEEN OFF ALL TOGETHER NO TEXT OR MIN USED. THE POLICE CAME BY AND LOOKED IN MY HOUSE FOR HER DUE TO HER WORK CALLING TO HAVE THEM CHECK ON HER. IDK WHAT TO DO . CAN I LEAVE THE STATE OF GA WITH HIM LEGALLY ? I LOST MY JOB DUE TO THIS AND I AM RUNNING OUT OF MONEY AND FOOD FOR MY SON AND MAY NEED TO GO STAY WITH SOME FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA WHERE IM ORIG FROM IDK ANYONE IN ATLANTA AND  ITS STARTING TO HURT. IM 33 SHE IS 37 YEARS OLD AND OUR SON IS 6 I REALLY DONT WANNA MOVE BECAUSE HE IS IN SCHOOL BUT GOT TO DO WHAT I GOT TO DO JUST WANT TO DO IT RIGHT. PLEASE HELP !!!!! THANKS , DISTRAUGHT FATHER OF ONE!","title":"KIDS MOM DISAPPEARED A MONTH AGO NOT BEEN SEEN OR HEARD FROM WHAT SHOULD I DO TO PROTECT MY SON AND MYSELF","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507382093,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74usjq\/atlanta_georgia_is_my_apartment_complex_allowed\/","id":"74usjq","body":"I paid my last apartment bill a week before it was due, for $1,554.00 (which is base rent). It is normally due on the first of every month.  I got a notice on the 6th saying that I owe an additional $150  because I did not pay the following monthly fees:   \n\n* $3   Pest Control fee.    \n* $25  Trash fee.   \n* $5  Utility\/Admin fee.   \n* $62.21 Water fee.   \n\nBringing this to a subtotal of $95.21 due. With the $150 late charge, I have to now pay $245.21.    \n\nMy question is are they allowed to charge this exorbitant rate for the amount owed?","title":"[Atlanta, Georgia] Is my apartment complex allowed to charge me a $150 late fee for a $95.21 balance remaining 6 days after the due date?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539029240,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9miejd\/what_can_i_do_about_a_neighbor_who_is\/","id":"9miejd","body":"So a little background about us: We are 6 roommates renting a 4 bedroom house in Middlesex County. We moved in the house about a year ago and have never had any altercations with my neighbor or anyone else, but he has twice called the authorities on us unnecessarily, and is threatening to keep doing it. \n\nFirst incident: All of us smoke cigarettes. But we don't do it inside the house. We tend to sit on our front porch while smoking and usually end up throwing the cigarettes butts nearby. (Inside our front yard. We usually clean it up once a week). My neighbor has a family of 4, including a small child (\\~4 or 5 years old). He came over and threatened to \"sue\" us and said he will call the cops on us if his child ends up eating the butts by mistake. (I'm assuming a few butts blew over to his yard because wind and stuff). We ignored it and went about our way. Next day, he called the cops on us. I explained the situation to the officer, who very politely told me that we were doing nothing wrong\/illegal and that we should probably try to avoid throwing the butts in our front yard to avoid future confrontations. \n\nSecond incident: One of my roommate uses a portable AC in his room on the second floor. The hose from the AC dumps the water in a small bucket of sorts. My roommate, if he's feeling lazy, sometimes dumps the water IN our front yard. Now my crazy neighbor called the township authorities and told them that we throw piss out of our window (??? I know, doesn't make any sense). The township official told us that he wants to inspect the house. We let him to do the \"inspection\" (without any official paperwork) and he found nothing. Now, a week later, we received a letter from the county stating that out house needs to officially inspected and that we have 10 days to respond. I'm not sure if this is related to the previous incident. It may be because my neighbor complained directly to the county (He keeps threatening to do this so possibly.) \n\nFrom what our landlord told us, similar incidents have happened in the past as well with past tenants in the same house. (although, I don't know the specifics of it). Is there anything we can do to stop this? Any advice\/help is greatly appreciated! \n\n​\n\n​\n\n​","title":"What can I do about a neighbor who is unnecessarily calling the police on us? [NJ]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552634234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1bsyh\/is_it_ironic_to_have_an_open_door_policy_but_also\/","id":"b1bsyh","body":"The company I work for has At-Will employment but also has an Open Door policy that they push during orientation and grand opening, but once you're in the swing of things, gets completely disregarded. \n\nCan anyone explain why this is or how effective the policies really are, seeing as they sort of seem as if they are complete opposites? What should I, the employee, do if I have a concern in the workplace that might be controversial, especially regarding the Assistant Manager?","title":"Is it ironic to have an Open Door Policy but also At-Will Employment?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540436998,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r6k0b\/property_manager_was_fired_now_i_have_to_sign_new\/","id":"9r6k0b","body":"[Colorado]\n\nMy property manager was fired. I am 9 months into my rent and now the owners of the property and their newly hired property manager are making me sign a new lease.\nThis lease has different terms. Most notably they want to start touring potential tenants starting in November when my lease ends end of January. The previous lease said they would start tours 14 days before the lease ends.\nAfter much difficultly trying to get into contact with her about my concerns, the new property manager came over to discuss the new lease terms with me after I expressed some concern about the differences from the previous lease.\nShe said that since the previous property manager was fired, my previous lease (which was supposed to go until January 31st) is now invalid. We got into a heated screaming match about the terms and she said that she is trying to compromise but I am not working with her.\n\nWhat are my rights here? Is my previous lease completely invalid? Are they really able to just make us sign a new lease with a bunch of different terms? I\u2019m probably going to move out early now that this situation is becoming so difficult.","title":"Property Manager Was Fired Now I Have to Sign New Apartment Lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553729737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6bjhg\/i_have_a_10yr_old_child_with_a_man_i_never\/","id":"b6bjhg","body":"For 2 years he has paid her health insurance (about $200 a month).  He is claiming he wants 50\/50 custody to not pay child support, well actually he wants full custody to spite me and make me pay\/him not pay anything . She lives with me full time. She has always lived with me primarily. He sees her 1-2 times a week sometimes overnight(on weekends) but mostly for a few minutes during the week to say hi. \n\nI think it would be fair to go see a judge to set Child support. We have no legal paper work of any kind done. What are somethings I need to do to Protect myself from him taking her? Have I waited to long? Do I have to get a lawyer or could I handle my end myself?\n\nBackground if it helps:\nI don\u2019t do drugs, I rarely drink.\nI work 32 hrs\/week at one job and 9hrs\/week at a second job. \nI am now married. \nI have in the past received TANF, child care, food stamps, Medicaid on her behalf. \n","title":"I have a 10yr old child with a man I never married. We have been separated for 8 years. Now I would like to get child support set up. Is it to late? Located In New Hampshire.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539376210,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nnt5q\/im_being_threatened_with_an_eviction_notice\/","id":"9nnt5q","body":" \n\nI paid my rent late by 1 day last month. (Sept) I asked the management company of my Townhouse if it was okay that I was a day late and what the fees are. I was told, \"Don't worry about it. We will wave it this one time\". I have the E-mail as proof.\n\nNow a new management company has taken over. (Mid Sept) We got a paper saying rent was due BY the 6th of October. Money Orders were no longer allowed. We paid on the 6th, but we still got a late fee because it's actually due on the 5th at midnight. I was fine paying a late fee. My gf didn't want to go out on the 5th to get her cash out of her account. I said it was fine, thinking we could pay it the next day with no problems. So we got a late fee for that, whatever.\n\nI usually paid by money order with the last management, but now we have to pay online. So I made an account with them and put in my bank account info. I saw that there was a late fee from the previous month. (the one that I was told I wouldn't get from Sept) I gave them a call and asked if I can pay the amount without that late fee now so they can get their money. So just the one late fee (Oct rent). They said they couldn't do that, because it has to be the whole payment that shows on my account. I sent them the E-mail as proof that the September late fee was void and I shouldn't have to pay it. The lady on the phone said a manager has to make that decision and he wouldn't be back until Monday. (It was Saturday) She gave me her E-mail and I forwarded the E-mail saying I wouldn't be getting a late fee for Sept from the previous management.\n\nNow, I'm okay with paying the October late fee, just my misunderstanding from what they meant by \"Paying BY the 6th\".I didn't hear anything from them on Monday. Tuesday, they gave me a call and I was at work, they didn't leave a message. I called them on my break and she said that the fee was taken off so just the Oct fee was late. I said okay, I'm at work, I will pay it when I get home or tomorrow. (I had to get some cash from my gf, she was and currently is in Florida, so we used paypal and I paid it when I got home that night around 1 AM.) She said right then and there, if you don't pay by Friday, we will send an eviction notice to our attorney. (Seems like a very aggressive thing to say when they are the ones that fucked up on the Sept late fee being there, and then not responding to it.)\n\nThe transaction didn't go through until yesterday (the 11th). I got an E-mail from their resident portal that the transaction went through on the 10th. Today, I notice in my mail that I have a paper saying I'm getting evicted. The paper was dated on the 8th. So... wtf. I can't get a hold of them. What is happening? What should I do?","title":"I'm being threatened with an eviction notice?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569430392,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d961z7\/michigan_termination_of_employment_manager\/","id":"d961z7","body":"Corporation operates on a very strict points system policy. Points given for any missed\/late punch, calling in sick to work, not having badge, etc. Termination occurs at x points per company policy.My boss would occasionally enter in a time for me if I forgot to punch or when she told me I didn't punch but I was sure that I did.In previous conversations I was told that even if I reached x points, there would be something like a life circumstances review and it didn't automatically mean termination. I was told I am an extremely valuable employee and would not just be terminated.On a Monday I got to work on time, realized I didn't have my badge, took a picture of the time clock to prove I was on time and discovered my badge had fallen out of my purse in my boyfriend's car. I was penalized for not punching in and for not having my badge which is a dress code violation. My badge was dropped off to me before the first half of my shift ended. Manager tells me I now have x points and she has to submit this to HR. On Wednesday I asked my manager if I need to be looking for a new job and she said she doesn't think so. I was not involved in any circumstances review or anything.Thursday she pulls a coworker aside and tells her that my employment is up for review and to try to learn some things from me. She did not share this with me.Friday I worked the first half of my shift and then was called into my manager's office and terminated by manager and regional manager. My termination paperwork was signed and dated on Thursday by my manager and regional manager. I was terminated Friday mid-day.One of my co-workers is angry and asked my boss why several people have told her that my manager has changed their punch times but my manager won't do that for me. My manager says that those are specific cases where she prevented the person from being fired.My now former coworker reports to me that another coworker has shared that she is getting close to x points. She was late that day. Clipboard near punch clock shows that she wrote in a time and wrote \"schedule adjustment.\" My manager had changed her shift time so that she did not accrue a penalty point for being late. Another employee wrote \"missed punch\" and wrote his times.\n\nIf manager is choosing when and for whom to enforce policy, can I submit something to HR at least asking termination to be changed to resignation? Can I ask for something similar to a severance package to keep me afloat until I find a new job?","title":"Michigan termination of employment - manager chooses when to enforce policy to prevent termination for some yet I was terminated.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503546435,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vobtc\/michigan_how_do_i_get_out_of_a_lease_i_signed\/","id":"6vobtc","body":"I really really do not want to live with who I am living with, but i cannot find another person to take my spot on a lease. Is there any way to get out of the lease?","title":"[michigan] How do i get out of a lease i signed?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539811859,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p2v2a\/favoritism_in_a_private_companys_office_any\/","id":"9p2v2a","body":"California. Work in an office doing software. For the last 6 years I have been the only Full Time Non-Exempt Employee in my department of 30 people. There are Non-Exempt Employees in other departments, but in Software it just does\u2019t happen. However there are Non-Exempt Contractors, but technically they are the staffing company\u2019s folks (H1B)\n\nLong story short, my manager and the department executives greenlit my promotion to elevate and align myself to my fellow team members back in FEB. This would align my pay and make me Exempt. However the company put all \u201cnon-essential\u201d promotions on hold due to financial difficulties. After some months the company had a reduction in force. I am still at the company.\n\nDuring the time before the layoffs the company continued to hire in my department, both full time and contractor. Some even contract conversions.\n\nA friend in another department, who had their promotion put on hold, actually got theirs approved right before the layoffs were announced. This person is no high ranking employee, In fact they were in a similar situation as I was being isolated from other members of their department. This person did not get laid off either.\n\nIs the company breaking any law by holding out processing my promotion and status change? Does the fact that the company hired people during the on hold phase matter? What about my friend getting their promotion approved, but nothing for others like myself? \n\nKeep in mind that the company reps have said no back pay will be paid even though all of this was signed in FEB. I feel like I can\u2019t even take PTO because at some random time those hours will be worth 30% more money, and I don\u2019t want to burn them before the promotion is officially approved.\n\nAny insight appreciated!\n","title":"Favoritism in a private company\u2019s office: Any protections?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553218339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3yya4\/is_it_a_thing_for_das_to_commonly_talk_to\/","id":"b3yya4","body":"As in, is there an informal process where a defense attorney might convince the DA to drop charges after being immediately filed?","title":"Is it a thing for DA\u2019s to commonly talk to criminal defense attorneys immediately after charges are filed on a client?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444846341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3or3lv\/online_order_cancellation_uk\/","id":"3or3lv","body":"Hi \/r\/LegalAdvice, I need some advice.\n\nI recently purchased some RAM from an online retailer during a sale. The order went through, my card was charged... and then they cancelled the order. I was offered a refund.\n\nThe price of the RAM has since gone up.\n\nAs far as I am concerned a contract was formed upon the order being placed and my card charged, and as such they are in breach of contract. I believe I am within my rights to request the RAM I ordered, or better RAM for the price agreed. I'm fairly sure I can reject the offer of the refund.\n\nMy friend literally went through this. Its literally why I know about this law. Its literally my right. They are fucking me over.\n\nWhat are my rights? Can anybody point me to any relevant case studies or laws?","title":"Online Order Cancellation [UK]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569824145,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db7exm\/ca_who_was_at_fault_for_this_accident\/","id":"db7exm","body":"I was driving down a two lane street. The right lane is big enough for two cars and usually people put their cars far to the left so people on the right are able to pass to make a right turn. Nobody is allowed to park on the curb of this street. I am driving straight and there is a red light two streets ahead so cars are stopped and I decide to pass on the right side to be able to make a right at the major intersection. There is a street before the major intersection not too far from the major intersection where there is a keep clear so cars are able to pass through there even if there is stopped traffic. I am driving on the far right along the cars stopped in traffic and before I make it to the street before the major intersection, a car making a left at the keep clear hits me on my left side right where my car axel is. Please give me advice on whether I was in the wrong for driving in the far right or if the other driver was at fault for not paying attention when making a left. It was determined by the insurance company that it was my fault but I don\u2019t believe that they are correct because they were making a turn and I was going straight.","title":"[CA] Who was at fault for this accident?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568694500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5bzeo\/can_someone_tell_me_if_this_cease_and_desist\/","id":"d5bzeo","body":"I have the unfortunate pleasure of writing up a letter asking my neighbor to stop playing loud music. My intent is to signal to them that it has gone on too long, and we have spoken about it and the only logical next step is court. I'm not sure what needs to be included or if I should be using some template, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. I plan to tape it to their door tomorrow. \n\n  \n\nSeptember 17, 2019\n\nWarning to Cease Loud Noise\n\nI feel the need to write this formal warning to please cease the disruptive and loud noise emanating from your apartment at all hours of the day. I let this go on for months because I felt it was okay to be playing music during the day, despite how loud it was. However, after waking me up a few times, keeping me awake a few more, and playing the music consistently every week I\u2019ve had no choice but to try and amend the situation. We have spoken about this, and I\u2019ll admit at first I was rude and off putting but since then I have tried to talk with you and express how much this noise affects me. I have told you my anxiety is greatly affected by the noise you produce. You have told me to wear headphones. My headphones do not block the noise you create. I have asked you to wear headphones, to which you told me you have a brain injury and cannot. If you simply removed the bass from your sound system, we would have no problems. I wish we could have no problems and go back to existing without issue. \n\nI have spoken to you on 5 separate occasions about this. I have spoken to the landlord and I have spoken to the police, and you have ignored every sign I have sent to you that I am personally not alright with the disturbance you are creating in my home. As it stands, this is the final word I wish to have with you before I go to court. I have attached documents pertaining to noise ordinance in our county.  If you have any issue with this, speak with the landlord as I do not wish to speak with you on this matter any further. I have tried that.","title":"Can someone tell me if this Cease and Desist letter is appropriate?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550277210,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ar3awj\/ny_employment_question\/","id":"ar3awj","body":"I have recently started a new part-time job which requires me to work a split shift with odd hours. So for example, tomorrow, 2\/16\/19, I will be working from 14:00-16:00 and then 20:45-23:00. According to the NY Employment Law website I think I should receive a one hour bonus for working this split shift, but my employer states that do not pay a split shift bonus ever. Today I worked 14:45-18:00 which was only 3.25 hours, so I believe I am entitled to 4 hours because of the call-in mandate in NY, but again my employer has stated that they will not pay the call-in mandate. I am not sure if this is illegal. I do not want to stir the pot but I also believe my employer should have to respect these mandates. It's part-time employment at minimum wage ($11.10) so I am not sure if that matters or if the nature of the job somehow exempts my employer from these mandates. Thanks for reading, and again I would appreciate any advice.","title":"NY Employment Question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541881033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vxhhe\/paying_and_registration_tickets_in_chicago\/","id":"9vxhhe","body":" I received two tickets... One for parking and one for expired registration. I never received a reminder in the mail about renewing registration (I used to get these... Do they not send them out anymore?). The tickets say that there is photo evidence of the infractions. 1) Anyway, does anyone think this is worth disputing in court since I didn't get the reminder? 2) If the traffic cop doesn't show up and I plead not guilty, would I still have to pay because of the \"photo evidence\" thing? Thanks! \nThe icing in the cake: I went straight to the DMV (to purchase registration) after all of this, which was supposed to be open but they were closed for Veterans Day \ud83d\ude11","title":"Paying and registration tickets in Chicago","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571259377,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/divnli\/my_landlord_us_iowa_threatened_to_fine_anyone_who\/","id":"divnli","body":"My landlord has sent out a mass text saying\n\n(1\/2) Hi- Due to \"Fight Club\" last week, everyone is being penalized. I will not allow any parties AKA \"having a few friends\" over starting today 10\/16-10\/30. (2\/2) $150 fine per person will be issued, no exceptions. I will be here as well as watching the cameras.\r\n\nThis is in response to a very large party last Thursday where there was a fight that lead to an ambulance being called. This strikes me as very vague. The lease never covered anything like this. Can she fine for something as vague as having a few friends over?","title":"My landlord (U.S, Iowa) threatened to fine anyone who has friends over for 150$ a person.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569716447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dao2w2\/divorce_and_abuse_in_the_military\/","id":"dao2w2","body":"I posted this about 3 weeks ago in the r\/military board but I guess JAG officers don\u2019t frequent the board at all, so I\u2019m reposting it here in hopes of getting some answers. Please let me know if this violates Reddit rules or the rules of this subreddit, since I\u2019m still pretty new to the website. I took a look at the rules regarding this subreddit and I think I\u2019m following this all but I could have always missed something. Thanks for your help everyone, I mean that!\n\nNew account to protect the guilty party and new to reddit either way, but I got a situation and I need as much advice as you can give.\n\nLong story short my wife is both abusive and active duty in the United States Navy. The family advocacy program worked together with the navy and marine corps relief society to send me back to my home state to get away from her, but her chain of command protected her because she was the CO\u2019s personal chef (one of two).\n\nI\u2019m former active duty navy myself (honorable discharge), and I was told to report to the hospital in the closest base to me in my home state, where I was immediately sent to a local VA and declared to be in critical psychiatric condition and immediately interred for a week in the mental healthcare inpatient program and sent to a year of therapy 5 days a week with an abuse counselor, VA MOVE, an on-base psychologist, a VA psychiatrist, and the VA \u201cInterpersonal Skills\u201d program.\n\nI was diagnosed with major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, high cholesterol and adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder when previously I had no diagnosed illnesses. I was prescribed high dose sertraline, strattera, a statin, and daily hydroxizine at low doses for sleep. I was on suicide watch for all the time I was in treatment, and was required to attend all sessions at the closest facilities to me, a two hour drive from my grandparents farm. I was on the road a minimum of 5 hours a day total for an entire year and tried my best to do farmhand and construction while finishing my bachelors degree.\n\nNow I\u2019ve finally gathered my medical records from the VA, the outside organization that provided my abuse counseling, and both the mental healthcare ward and the family advocacy records from my local base for every time I had to put in a financial abuse claim when she withdrew all the BAS\/BAH (extra money for being married to someone) from our joint bank account, which was quite often. Now that I finally have all the records, I need to send them off, but that\u2019s where the question lies.\n\nThere seems to be no consensus on where I should send the records or how. I\u2019ve been told a blanket statement about how I should lodge a complaint with her chain of command but not really told how. Speaking to fellow divorcees the consensus is that I should lodge a complaint outside her chain of command so they can\u2019t protect her, but no information on where to go or even how to go about doing that. The JAGs at the local base won\u2019t touch divorce at all and the local family advocacy program says that they can\u2019t do anything because she\u2019s navy and they\u2019re Air Force. The closest navy base to me is a 6 hour drive away and I wouldn\u2019t know where to go once I got there nor the business hours of the offices I\u2019d need to report to.\n\nFrom what I\u2019ve gathered, I need to do a write up contextualizing the records so they don\u2019t have to dig through all the paperwork to see what she did and when, and the medical sign off on the damage those actions caused psychologically. That gives me a lot to do and not much to go on, and doesn\u2019t answer the question of where to go to turn it all in. Her chain of command was contacted every time I sent in a financial abuse claim but she\u2019s somehow dodged all consequences for her actions. Local lawyers can help me with the divorce part but I was told if I file correctly, I can get transitional compensation for abused spouses, which would really help me finish pre-Med requirements for USUHS (basically military medical school).\n\nIf I\u2019ve posted this in the wrong place or the wrong way, I\u2019ll keep it as a copy and paste word document for me to edit and post in the correct area. Any help would be greatly appreciated, this has obviously been quite the ordeal.","title":"Divorce and Abuse In The Military","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570167788,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd35j8\/co_hit_and_run_have_a_reasonable_suspect_how_to\/","id":"dd35j8","body":"So today I park out front at my office to clock in and load up equipment. I\u2019m inside for about 10 minutes and come out to find that my car has a sizeable dent on the rear bumper and adjacent panel and the car parked about 15 feet behind me has a busted headlight. Whoever hit the cars didn\u2019t leave a note. I contacted my boss to explain the situation and he mentions that a company in the building has a security camera on the outside of the building which may have caught the incident. I go to scope out the camera and notice that the truck owned by another company in the building (the same company that owns the security camera) has a series of fresh paint scratches that match my car color and is level with the damage on my bumper. The length of the truck is also comparable to the distance between the two cars. \n\nI left a note with the other damaged car explaining the time of the accident, the fact that there\u2019s a chance it was captured on video and my name and number. \n\nMy boss said that he will contact the company regarding the security footage but im concerned that this company may have been the one that hit me. How should I proceed if they aren\u2019t forthcoming with the footage and they deny that it was them. I haven\u2019t yet filed a police report but intend to do it first thing in the morning.\n\nAny advice is appreciated. Thanks for your time!","title":"[CO] hit and run, have a reasonable suspect. How to proceed?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554238239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8oqhk\/vehicle_towed_after_decal_sticker_stolen\/","id":"b8oqhk","body":"Hi Guys!\n\n​\n\nReally not sure if I'll have any course of action at all, but sometime in March, the Tag on my license plate (1979 Volkswagen Bus) was either stolen or fell off of my license plate. I park in a **PAID** parking spot (20$ a month!) with a Parking decal on the bus, indicating my spot. \n\nThe week of March 11-15th, I left town on Spring break. My apartment complex knew that I was gone, and **during this time, they decided to tow my vehicle,** I believe this was intentional. Their reason for towing was of course, a non updated sticker on my license plate. If I had known the sticker had been stolen, I surely would have reported it and made my complex aware, but I hadn't been in town during the time thanks to spring break. \n\nUpon returning, I came home to a missing VW Bus! The tow company charged me 330$ to have it removed, 160$ for the towing bill and 30$ or so every day that it was kept in the lot. Do I have any legal course of action to take against my apartment complex?\n\nKeep in mind, **they gave NO warning** via email or phone. They did claim however, that they put a sticker on the bus stating that it would be towed, but I was not able to see it as I was out of town. This sticker was not on the bus when I picked it up from the tow company, meaning that they either lied about the sticker, or it fell off after they put in on.\n\n​\n\nI would love to hear some advice of someone in a similar situation, or anyone who has an idea on what my course of action should be. I would ultimately just like to have the apartment take that 330$ off of my rent next month. \n\n  \nAlso, the bus can be found on instagram @thedaddywagen if you'd like to see my progress of restoration!","title":"Vehicle Towed After Decal Sticker Stolen","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552706228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1nx3d\/can_i_get_in_trouble_for_shooting_tires_out\/","id":"b1nx3d","body":"My house was recently egged and shot with a bb gun breaking windows (they stayed in a car) while I was unaware of it. Next time, I'd like to show them what a real gun looks like. I was wondering if I (17) could get in trouble for shooting their tires out so they can't drive away.","title":"Can I get in trouble for shooting tires out?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554968029,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbx1ry\/experiment_10_min_online_survey_looking_at\/","id":"bbx1ry","body":"[https:\/\/goldpsych.eu.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV\\_3ICiWTmwJZxfCwR](https:\/\/goldpsych.eu.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_3ICiWTmwJZxfCwR)\n\n# Participants needed for interesting study about perceptions around stalking in scenarios that may or may not depict stalking behaviours\n\nHi everyone, i am currently looking for participants for my BSc Psychology dissertation study and would really appreciate anyone spending 10 minutes to complete my survey. Thankyou!!","title":"[Experiment] 10 min online survey looking at perceptions around stalking for dissertation (18+)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553886457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b71b8s\/wife_being_harassed_at_work\/","id":"b71b8s","body":"Hello,\n\nWould be nice if I didn\u2019t have to ask this, but I\u2019m not familiar. My wife and I work for a 3rd party inside Walmart. We sell phones, but have our own management and such. Since working there, she has had issues with some male employees following her and making inappropriate comments. Rule for us is that we take it to our management and then they talk to Walmart management. That happened a little over a month ago.\n\nShe is still getting these comments and such. My manager says she been bringing it up, but last week, one of the males walked in saying it stunk and the other male said it was my wife\u2019s lady parts. The first male then messaged her on Facebook saying he never saw her so red. She has multiple messages from multiple people working there that she ignores. She\u2019s not confrontational and doesn\u2019t want to get anyone in trouble, but it\u2019s out of hand.\n\nThe other male was the one who my manager talked to Walmart about before because he was inappropriately touching her sides after she told him no. My question is what can I do? We went to management but I don\u2019t think anything is getting done. I was told I could call Walmart hq, but I feel like my management would of done that.\n\nThanks for any advice.","title":"Wife being harassed at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553909112,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b75g0c\/realty_company_made_a_mistake_with_lease_dates_we\/","id":"b75g0c","body":"We have a lease that says we can take possession on 4\/1. We signed it two days ago. Today we got a call saying when the previous tenant gave his 30 days notice in March she didn't notice he said he would be out on 5\/1. The tenant said the best he can do is an early move out on 4\/26. \n\nWe are in a house right now that is set to be sold by the landlord on 4\/17 so we can only stay till 4\/10 going day by day rent. \n\nWe are trying to find another house to rent but we live in an area that's a town of ~25,000 so the pickings are slim.  We could find an airbnb or hotel for 16 days. This means we have to spend an extra 350 to 500 for those 16 days vs what we would have spent on rent. \n\nWhat if anything can we request from the realty company? Should we tell them they need to find us another house? Should we tell them to pay for the hotel? At a loss on what direction to go on this. ","title":"Realty Company made a mistake with lease dates. We can't take possession of a house that we have a signed lease for 26 days after our date.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570982215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhcdco\/forced_to_pay_tow_fee_after_not_being_notified_of\/","id":"dhcdco","body":"I currently live in a large condo complex in Connecticut and this morning I was notified of my car being towed by a neighbor for being in her parking spot, this was the same place I\u2019ve parked since I\u2019ve lived here and was assigned when buying the condo, but recently after repainting the parking lines, (Nothing changed just line re-striping) they had apparently changed and moved some peoples parking spots (No clue why) and I was not notified in any manner, text, email, mail, person. One of these parking spots was mine and now I\u2019m forced to pay the towing fee, the neighbor refuses to pay, and the condo association will not reimburse me, it was a small fine, just 173$ but it still feels unlawful for me to pay this as I wasn\u2019t aware or notified of any parking changes. Any advice for course of action, file suit on neighbor, condo association? Am I in the wrong? Any help appreciated","title":"Forced to pay Tow fee after not being notified of parking spot changes","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568931665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6lc1e\/sneaky_stalker_of_over_15_years_and_police_wont\/","id":"d6lc1e","body":"Okay, so I don\u2019t really know where to start but, I have a stalker. This man has tortured me emotionally and mentally for the last two years or so now.\n\nIt started when him, my ex fling, and another friend had a reunion hang out session overnight at my friends home. I was excited that my friends were reuniting, and let them have their time alone. All was well until the next morning, when I was at work I started receiving weird text messages from my ex fling stating \u201cplease send me nudes baby\u201d. Which, I can say was extremely out of character but I thought he was still drunk, so I just said no at first. Then, he kept praying and I got suspicious. My ex fling is also dyslexic mind you, so the fact that I was receiving full sentences BEGGING me for pictures, I immediately snapped. I knew it was one of my friends, who ended up being my now worst nightmare. \n\nEver since that day- he has blocked my general friend group and I on social media, which at first I was perfectly fine with. Until he started the cycle of sending me hateful messages, describing how much he hated me and slandering myself and my body. He frequently messages me that I fear him and I should. However, he is smart. \n\nOnce he sends the messages, I open them and see it\u2019s him. Before I even have the chance to open the message with his name on it to screen shot it- he blocks me after the message is sent. So I will \/see\/ his name pop up in my push notifications, but by the time I click it it\u2019s gone. \n\nIt\u2019s psychologically exhausting. He won\u2019t stop. One of the most brutal ones to date was him reaching out to a friend of mine, telling them that I should \u201cfuck my mothers rotten eyeless corpse\u201d and \u201cwatching her fat gorilla of a grandmother die in the hospital was funny\u201d \n\nI\u2019ve went to the police, and have gotten the same boys will be boys statement over, and over, and over again. Nobody wants to help. \n\nThis part doesn\u2019t matter as much, but I would to mention, he has a previous juvenile record for stalking, and got kicked out of our high school for that. He also has swords, and a pretty brutal google search history. 99.99% sure he\u2019s on a watch list.","title":"Sneaky stalker of over 1.5 years and police won\u2019t take me seriously..help?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553305375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4dey2\/just_found_out_i_have_a_bench_warrant_in_another\/","id":"b4dey2","body":"So, I used to be an addict, and unfortunately did a lot of stupid things to fund my habit- like shoplift. Apparently, one of these times back in September I was caught and charged without my knowledge (I\u2019m assuming from a camera or something?) In October, I got clean and moved to a new state. (Crime committed in Iowa, I now live in Nevada.) I just did a search on my name in Iowa courts to find something else unrelated, and noticed a new case I\u2019d never seen before, and clicked on it. I\u2019ve attached [these screenshots](https:\/\/m.imgur.com\/gallery\/OeqO3gY) (with my name and case number blacked out) for more info.\n\nI don\u2019t currently have $325 to spare, or really any money- I\u2019m struggling while trying to build up a new life for myself here. I would have appeared had I known about the charges, or even been in the state when the charges were filed, but, I truly had no idea and was not contacted at all. \n\nWhat can I do?","title":"Just found out I have a bench warrant in another state from an old crime- what exactly can I do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441847573,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kbvcs\/60_days_notice_on_rent_increase_but_lease_was_not\/","id":"3kbvcs","body":"My landlord gave me a renewal lease invitation with a rent increase with 60 days notice. The new amount was suppose to take place on Aug 24th.  I did not receive the lease until today 9\/9\/15.  On 9\/1\/15 she called me letting me know that the lease was due, however...again the lease was barely presented to me today.  She never told me it was due 9\/1 and I have been asking her questions and for the lease. I paid the old amount on the 1st since I did not receive the lease.  The amount on the invitation is different from the amount on the lease.  Now she does not want to accept my rent check for the old amount, she wants the new amount.  How can I pay that if I dint get a lease until today? I live in Downey CA","title":"60 days notice on rent increase, but lease was not presented.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553633261,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5v1z7\/ny_can_i_sell_the_portable_ac_the_previous_tenant\/","id":"b5v1z7","body":"When I moved into my apartment (after the lease was signed but before my move in date), the landlord sent me an email: \u201clooks like the previous tenant  left an AC unit in the apartment. Do you want it?\u201d\n\nI responded \u201cSure I\u2019ll take the AC if you were just going to throw it away\u201d\n\nThe unit is a portable unit on wheels and requires no installation. \n\nNow that I am moving out into an apartment with central air can I sell the unit? No mention of it has been made since.  I am in NYC. ","title":"[NY] Can I sell the portable AC the previous tenant left behind?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554491300,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9vade\/ending_employment_contract_early\/","id":"b9vade","body":"I work for a contracting company. Located In georgia. When I first signed on I apparently signed an agreement with a non compete clause and a clause saying I have to work for them for 3 years unless I die or be fined up to 25000$.\n\nI am being offered twice the amount of money I make now by the company I am contracted to in texas, and would like to take it as it would also provide more stability to not have to move once this contract ends.\n\nThe company I originally signed on for has changed their name twice since I started, and I am paid through the new company's name. Both new names showed up as separate entities on my taxes this recent year.\n\nSo my question is, is my contract valid any more?my contract is for a company that seems to no longer exist in name.\n\nI plan on talking to a lawyer but does anyone else have experience with this?","title":"Ending employment contract early.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539969341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9plv1m\/friend_may_be_expelled_from_medical_school_over\/","id":"9plv1m","body":"My friend is a California resident and is in her 2+ year of medical school at a reputable California university. This is all related to me by her:\u00a0\n\nSometime in February my friend logged into her account for the student portal to check her grades and see the results of a recent evaluation done by her professors. The student portal keeps track of when\/where your page is accessed for security reasons. That log is visible in a side-bar on the dashboard. There were entries in that log she did not recognize. After some investigation, she determined that someone had found a way to access the recent evaluation on her private page without logging into her account. (The log actually stated the name of the user visiting her information. It said simply: John Smith.) She freaked out. She clicked through to this \u201cJohn Smith\u201d profile and found it empty. She then began to fiddle with the url, trying find any information on this blank account. Another friend was called over and was with her, coaching her how to investigate a bit. With enough fiddling with the url, they made it to another students page. Then another. Then a third. It seemed that if you made an account and could guess the right url, you could see just about anybody's private information. She panicked. She shut the computer and tried to forget it happened. About a month later she told me, but when I advised her to tell someone, she stressed that things get so competitive and she couldn't afford to get in trouble. There had been a greater security breach a month prior, and students were continuously getting updates on fixes. She figured things would be fixed. No one else had reported unauthorized activity in their account. She hadn\u2019t seen anymore visits from John Smith.\n\nLast month she gets a call. She is being called before student council. They\u2019re accusing her of breaking into three other students accounts. It\u2019s serious. She gets called in, they say she\u2019s getting a black mark on her transcript that will follow her for the rest of her career, and that they will reconvene early December to deliberate on whether or not she will be expelled. The VP of student affairs told her that she broke all rules of conduct put everyone at the school in peril. \n\nMy friend is now speaking to me as though she may be suicidal. She knows she should have immediately told someone about this incident, but she made no attempt to hide anything. Does it not behoove the University to protect this information? She did not hack into anyone's account. She did not save information. She doesn't have very much money, nor does her family, and lawyer's are $400+ an hour there. Does she have any recourse if she gets a lawyer?","title":"Friend may be expelled from medical school over the university's security issues. Is there any legal recourse?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552855527,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b29s52\/i_want_to_adopt_a_cat_in_a_flat_where_pets_arent\/","id":"b29s52","body":"Hi guys, for more detail, I live in the UK and am renting a flat through a letting agency. My girlfriend has a cat that had kittens roughly a year ago and all of them have been adopted bar one. Her and her family struggle to care for the cats for various reasons. She visits my flat often with this cat and stays for weeks at a time. The cat behaves well in the flat and doesn't leave a mess (I respect that landlords want to keep their property in good conditions). I fell inlove with this cat and would love to adopt him and take him off their hands. In the case that if the agency find out, what would be a probable outcome? Will I get evicted? If so what would happen to my deposit? I have a years lease thats only 7 months through it, do I pay for the rest of the lease? etc.\n\nAny help\/advice\/information would be much appreciated.\n\nCheers!","title":"I want to adopt a cat in a flat where pets aren't allowed. What would happen if I get caught?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539577105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o9hcp\/what_does_it_take_to_get_custody_ofadopt_someone\/","id":"9o9hcp","body":"I have a younger brother and he is 15, and I am ten years older. I haven't been able to get in contact with him until recently when I found his personal Facebook page and Instagram. He was posting on both about how depressed he was so I reached out to him and I have been able to keep steady contact for about a week now. \n\n​\n\nOur mother no longer has custody of him but she can have visitation if she pays an absurd amount of money. His father is quiet possibly the worst person on the planet, but that's a story for a different time. A few weeks ago my brother secretly messaged our mother and she said it came off as suicidal, so when I messaged him I tried to get as much information from him that he could give me.  From what he has told me, he thinks about suicide every day, he normally doesn't eat or sleep and thinks there's nothing more to life, while this isn't the only thing that this whole thing involves, its the most pressing. He told me he doesn't want our mom to know and he doesn't want to have his dad find out. Our mother recently had a Dr. visit and she mentioned his messages to her, and the Dr. said that legally she has to report them.\n\n​\n\nHere's the dilemma, once my mom does report it, the state could potentially take my little brother, again and fail him, again. What I can't have is to have him handed off to his father's side of the family because they are all the same and they won't understand or won't care enough to do anything. As far as I know I am the only person from our siblings that could take him and I would want nothing more, but I am a full time student, almost finished, living with my father at the moment, until I get my degree. While I will work as hard as I can to get him, at this moment and for the next few months I feel like the state wouldn't find me stable enough. So my question is, what are some steps I could take to eventually be able to adopt or gain custody of my brother when this all starts? I've been told that either the state they live in, Oregon, or the state I live in, Texas, could help my living situation if I was willing to take him. ","title":"What does it take to get custody of\/adopt someone?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553407967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4t7xw\/my_parents_asked_me_to_write_their_wills\/","id":"b4t7xw","body":"Apologies in advance for the length \n\nMy parents are not from the US, though my brother and I were born here, and they have asked me to write their wills. My dad is 61 and my mom is 43. My brother is 24 and I am 20. \n\nI think I understand the basics behind the writing of a will, but I do have some questions \n\n1. Can I write their wills without them being present? They live in NH and I live in Maine and they\u2019ve asked me to type up their wills and email them so they can print it and have the town stamp them as official. \n\n2. Can I type them out? I read a lot of things saying they should be handwritten, but handwritten by the person who\u2019s will it is. \n\n3. How specific should I be? I don\u2019t know much about my parents assets or anything tbh, and my dad told me to essentially say that if he dies, then to split everything 3 ways between my brother, my mother, and I. The same goes for my mom, but assuming she dies later than my father, then 50\/50 between my brother and I. I read that being specific is key in wills, otherwise the relatives may have to deal with the government anyways, but I don\u2019t know much about how much either of them are worth and am not sure if \u201csplit my worth into thirds\u201d is sufficient enough for a will. \n\n4. I also read that there needs to be a witness to sign off on the wills, but that it can\u2019t be anyone who\u2019s inheriting from the owner of the will. Can I have my husband sign off on it? Or is that a no, since he\u2019s my husband and he\u2019s technically inheriting as well? \n\nI am going to bed soon and will read replies in the morning. Any helpful websites you know of would be immensely appreciated, as well as any kind of advice. I\u2019m just kind of at a loss, I don\u2019t really know where to start. Thank you all :) ","title":"My parents asked me to write their wills","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571115073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di2uup\/roommate_refuses_to_contact_me_after_several\/","id":"di2uup","body":"My roommate (who is my cousin) has recently not paid her half of the rent. I hadn't found out until several days after the late fee was added because the landlord had knocked on the apartment door asking for her. (She had been staying with her boyfriend.)\n\nShe had told me previously that she was getting less hours and that she would talk to the landlord about paying a portion and then paying it off later. She hasn't talked to the landlord at all.\n\nTo top things off she had just bought a car for two grand and is making payments on it, but she is unable to pay her half?\n\nShe told me that if I wrote up a termination letter she would sign it. I did and messaged her that it was complete. But no response. I waited until the next day and messaged again. After about an hour I called, but no reply. Another hour, I call her again, she texted me that she was at work. I immediately apologised and politely asked her to message me afterwards. I didn't get any messages.\n\nThree days later I stopped by where she was staying trying to deliver the termination notice. (Both her and her boyfriends car were out front.) No reply to several knocks on the door or a phone call to each. I went to her parents home, her mother told me that I was harassing her at work. \n\nSorry for the rant but here's some questions I have. Would my attempted contact be considered harassment? Is there a way to get her off the lease and still only pay my half? I would rather not ruin the landlords leasing schedule if I could help it, but I can't afford the full rent by myself and I truly have no other people to co-rent it with.","title":"Roommate refuses to contact me after several attempts of trying to get her to pay her rent. (New York)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553705351,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b66k0y\/boyfriend_on_probation_for_sex_offense_family\/","id":"b66k0y","body":"I have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for 1.5 years and my family does not know about him. My boyfriend is currently on probation for a sex offense and is applying to transfer his probation to another state, where his family is. \nSix months ago I decided to move away from my home state (where he\u2019s currently living) to live with his family. We agreed this would be best to make our relationship work.\nI used to work for the probation office that supervised him but we didn\u2019t start our relationship until after I left my job. Since I briefly worked with his probation officer, I am worried about her finding out that I am currently in a relationship with him and living at the residence he wants to transfer to. \nAlso, I have a family member (working in a law enforcement capacity) who works at the same building as his PO and I am concerned they may find out about my relationship before I get the chance to introduce him.\nAside from my family getting mixed up in this, should I worry about any legal action that can come if his current PO finds out our situation? I am still learning about the possible repercussions. ","title":"Boyfriend on Probation for Sex Offense. Family does not know about him and PO does not know about me.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539130680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mulod\/ca_employer_falsely_fired_me_with_cause_and_left\/","id":"9mulod","body":"Hey Reddit, looking for some advice here as the situation is a bit complicated.\n\nFirst important detail I suppose is that I am in California.\n\nMy employer, a small, but very successful small business with a lot of money in the bank, had hired me to work for a large tech company in the Bay Area as a W2 employee for almost a year.\n\nAfter the contract that the company had with the big tech company ended, I didn't get any new work assigned. I didn't receive any paperwork saying that I was let go and there was no communication on that front.\n\nI assumed that I was being let go and began to prepare to search for a new job. \n\nShortly later my boss texted me demanding me that I quit, and when I guided the discussion that I didn't quit and was looking to file for unemployment he got hostile and said on text record, \"I can't afford the EDD to come after me\", along with various other vague threats like lowering my wage to minimum wage and requiring me to do the same work.\n\nI offered to continue to do work at a lower rate as long as it was fair to the work I did (not minimum wage), and to get the same benefits has his other employees did such as remote work. There was an ensuing semi-violent, verbal confrontation on his part, but I have no documented proof of this so I'm leaving it out as I don't think it's something you can anything about.\n\nWhen I later emailed to check in a week later after still no future communication and notifications that I was being removed from the various services to communicate. They send a single response stating that I was terminated \"due to breach of employment contract\" dated the day before I sent the email. I understand that employment is at will, but they didn't give any formal notices, any termination packet, or any sort of info.\n\nIn addition to all of this, I wasn't paid overtime hours (I'm technically hourly, not salaried) and I was told by someone that worked in HR that in California that overtime is always paid no matter what. My vacation was paid out weirdly, and they didn't pay out all of my vacation when I left (only last month, Sept, they paid out the remainder of my vacation and I hadn't worked since June).\n\nWorst of all, they contested my case with the EDD and now my claim was denied and then brought into appeals after I sent them the texts. However, the EDD has been silent and refusing to speak on the appeals process saying that a different department handles them, and that they will contact you when they are ready. I've been stuck here for 2 weeks with no answer wondering who I am supposed to contact and what I am supposed to do. All I got was the registered mail confirmation back from the appeals department and nothing else.\n\nAs rent in California is expensive, I'm running low on time and this stress is making finding a job difficult (I'm doing over 3 phone screens a day avg. rushing to find any job. I applied to Starbucks and In-N-Out, but I was denied for being overqualified and they wanted someone more \"permanent\"... go figure).\n\nEverything about this stinks of being illegal, but I'm not sure what it's called. This isn't racism, so I'm not sure if it falls under \"Wrongful Termination\", and I didn't quit so it's not \"Constructive Discharge\".\n\nGoogle hasn't been super helpful on this and most of it has been very vague or doesn't actually seem to apply (I can't tell cause I'm not a lawyer). I'm hoping to reach a settlement out of court instead of going completely broke through the legal system which is what I think my employer is trying to do to get me to drop it entirely.\n\nWere any laws broken here? Do you get paid overtime in California or does it not apply if you earn over a specific hourly wage? How prompt does accrued vacation have to be paid out?\n\nHow do I explain to a lawyer my situation? ","title":"[CA] Employer falsely fired me \"with cause\" and left texts saying they can't afford for the EDD to come after him for employment.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569528356,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9p25y\/friends_phone_was_taken_my_classmate_and_sent_his\/","id":"d9p25y","body":"throwaway for obvious reasons\n\nmy friend got his phone taken from a classmate and the classmate sent something to my friends father that is false and might ruin the relationship the father has with the son, can the classmate be sued for anything?","title":"friends phone was taken my classmate and sent his father a text","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571367686,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djhaq1\/moved_across_the_country_to_work_for_a_company\/","id":"djhaq1","body":"I'm posting this for my brother, who has been majorly screwed over by his former employer. I'm sure he probably has no legal recourse, but I figured I would post to see if talking to a lawyer would be worth his time.\n\nHe moved out to California from the Midwest 2.5 months ago to work at an accounting firm. They did not pay for any of his moving expenses, so he paid out of pocket for the whole move (a chunk of change). While working there, he's had nothing but good things said to him, has never been written up\/spoken to by management, and has gotten all of his work done. \n\nToday was his first day of work after the end of busy season. He was fired by HR, who told him that he had not been progressing as they wanted him to. There was never any indication from any of management that there were any issues with his quality of work, so this was of course a shock to him. \n\nHe and I suspect that they hired him with the intent of firing him after busy season (as a temp of sorts), but never made this clear to him, so he of course has uprooted his entire life to move out there. My question is, does he have any recourse to sue for moving costs?","title":"Moved across the country to work for a company, fired after 2 months for no real reason [CA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442478450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3la2mo\/issues_with_a_sublet\/","id":"3la2mo","body":"I attempted to find a search to a similar situation to ours, but came up mostly blank. In June, we moved into a sublet in an apartment, in Washington state. 2 other people were living there, who were on the lease. I have text messages from the tenant saying that they had people live in the apartment for about the same time period before, but no concrete answer on whether or not this was okay with the landlords. In a haste to get into a new place (Mine was quickly closing out), we didn't really go through the process to get everything approved. No contract was drawn up, we basically moved in at the end of June. In July, we heard that there were concerns with the front office of subletters, so I contacted the tenant to ask if this was actually okay, to which I got \"Of course not.\" This is why I was paying rent through the tenant, which was supposed to make this obvious. Instantly, we began to find a new place, and were moved out in mid August. We paid full rent for the month of August, despite multiple friends of mine saying we should only pay half, prorated due to us moving out halfway through the month. Now, the tenant is back home and saying we stole things and broke furniture (which I am 100% confident we did not do). They have been sending me near-constant messages, and I have not responded and simply blocked her number. Now those same friends are suggesting I simply cancel the last check I sent, since I was lied to initially and this harrassment is, to be quite honest, pissing me off. I'm strongly considering this option, but I just want to make sure my legal bases are covered. \n\nBullet version:\n\n1. Moved into sublet without landlord approval, was told this was okay at the start. No written contract was made. Tenant did not even know my full name until I gave them a check for rent.\n\n2. When told that this was in fact, not okay, we moved out as soon as was possible. \n\n3. We moved out halfway through a month, and I paid a full month's rent for that month anyway since this person was generally cool with rent dates and I was leaving early on them, despite again, no written contract being made.\n\n4. They start harassing me with text messages saying I stole\/broke things and demanding payment for them. I don't respond to these messages, thinking they just want more money from me.\n\n5. It's suggested to me that I cancel the last rent check, or threaten to do so if this person keeps sending me messages. I kinda want to do this, I could really use the money right now, but I want to know I'm covered first.\n\n\nGoing to review this post after it's made to make sure it looks good formatting wise. I'm not a frequent reddit poster. ","title":"Issues with a Sublet","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568407271,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3va4r\/insurance_added_family_members_to_policy_without\/","id":"d3va4r","body":"My parents have car insurance through Progressive. On the policy, it should include myself, my mother, my stepfather (referred to as SF), and my cousin. Recently, my cousin acquired her own car insurance and notified my parents she no longer needed to be on our policy. My SF called progressive to drop her from their insurance, when he found out that Progressive added my (biological) father, my father\u2019s mother (grandma) and my sister to the policy. \n\nMy SF notified them that they were not supposed to be on the policy but Progressive refused to drop them, stating they needed written proof from each member they no longer need this insurance. SF decided instead to just cancel the entire insurance but they still argued that to cancel the plan, they still needed proof these policy members were no longer \u201cliving at the same address\u201d as my parents. \n\nWhen asked how they got the information that any of these people lived together, Progressive had back-tracked records to when my mother and biofather were still married (and my grandma living with them) and had sent an EMAIL to my SF to confirm or deny that they lived together. We never got any such email and they added my other family members to the policy anyway. Additionally, they listed that all of these members had a date of birth of 3\/20\/2003, which is obviously incorrect for all of them and were charging my parents for insurance under this information.  \n\nSo. I guess I am wondering the legality of this is and what actions we can take? The vehicles were registered in Nebraska if it matters. Progressive still won\u2019t cancel the plan, continuing to state they can\u2019t cancel it unless all of the members provide proof they have not lived at my SF and mother\u2019s address.","title":"Insurance added family members to policy without consent?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570904464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgytkq\/how_to_go_about_hiring_someone_the_right_way\/","id":"dgytkq","body":"Hello legal advice, for the last almost 6 years, I have been self employed, doing mobile massage. I\u2019m a licensed rmt, so I go to their home, perform the massage, get paid, and send an insurance receipt. Before, I have tried to hire help, and it has gone poorly. I want to try again, but this time I just want to make sure I understand how to go about it the legal way.\n\nPreviously, I hired as an independent contractor. So my understanding is that I\u2019m hiring them to perform each massage at a piece rate amount. This way, I don\u2019t have to deduct taxes, as a contractor they are responsible for this themselves. Is this correct?\n\nSecondly, the last time I hired, I was badly burnt when they decided to leave. They announced their intentions to branch off on their own, which I was fine with, and wished them well. They then went into my booking software and emailed all the clients they had seen to come to their business from now on. I lost 20% of my repeat clientele.  What sort of legal contract can I do to stop this from happening again?would this require a visit to a lawyer?\n\nThanks!","title":"How to go about hiring someone, the right way? Alberta, Canada","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505241184,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zow40\/mi_my_teacher_is_threatening_detention_if_i\/","id":"6zow40","body":"I know she can't, legally, punish me for not standing for the pledge, as I'm not bothering anyone and peaceful protest is allowed.  If she does try to punish me, what do I do?  It's a violation of the first amendment, right?  Who can I go to?  ","title":"[MI] My teacher is threatening detention if I continue to not stand for the pledge.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1443502313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3msory\/what_can_my_sister_in_law_do_to_get_back_custody\/","id":"3msory","body":"Okay so long story but please bare with me. I need to help her. My sister in law lost custody of her son 2 years ago and my in laws got custody of the boy. Anyhow, they're refusing for her to get overnight visits or anything with the kid. He's now 3 years old. She lost custody of him because she used to take him to the hospital alot (first time mom jitters). The hospital saw it as medical abuse and called CPS to get the child taken away. My in laws kicked her out and she went to counseling and was diagnosed with Munchhausens through proxy. She's been getting help and her therapist has said she's been doing very well. My in laws are being very difficult. They won't let her have unsupervised visits with her son and refuse to let her have overnight stays with him. They gave her conditions, that she join the military and has to be married first before she ever gets her son back. She's joining the military, but my in laws want to jeopardize her chances in the military by trying to get her sent to Leavenworth.(too many things to try and go into). They said if she tries to get custody of him, my mother in law will go to the IG in the military and show them her medical records so she can get sent away. I'm a mother myself and I know if I lost my boys, it would tear me apart. And I can't stand by to see her hurt anymore. She's a good mom. I've seen her. My mother in law is a terrible woman. She is doing nothing for the child's best interest. I've seen both sides of the story and no one is giving my sister in law any credit for trying. My mother in law is doing everything out of spite. And I just wanna know if my sister in law has a chance. She still has parental rights, my mother in law has tried to ask if she can adopt the boy. But she's doing all that to hurt my sister in law. I've seen it, she's not a good person. She has tried to take my kids too but does not have enough proof to give CPS for them to take my children. Thank you.\n\nLocated in AR, USA ","title":"What can my Sister in law do to get back custody?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570124736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcucmi\/parents_pushing_for_custody_do_they_have_a_case\/","id":"dcucmi","body":"My girlfriend and I had a child (F2yo).  My gf has  been sick off and on a lot. My parents live in town so we let them watch her but often it's been easier to allow them to keep her because I'm getting off late and working the next morning early or my gf doesnt feel good.\n\nShe and I both had jobs but quit hers in order to nanny (she did this so that one day when we get a house we can have her watch kids and just keep our daughter instead of family watching her as child care).\n\nMy mother told me yesterday that we are going to be served papers for them to get custody under the argument that they believe our daughter needs to only reside in one household and that her staying with us part of the week and them part of the week is confusing and damaging to her.\n\nWe went and picked her up this morning and are considering just keeping her to sort of prove that we can do it and it's already always been our plan to keep her full time anyway (hopefully gf doesnt get crazy sick again).\n\n\nOther relevant info: \n\n-Though we submitted both of our names as parents for our girl somehow my name isn't on the birth certificate. So my parents aren't even our daughter's grandparents technically.\n\n- Her parents live two hours away and she could stay with them as needed.\n\n- My gf and daughter have Medicaid currently, something my mom thinks isn't enough.\n\n- My parents has apparently tracked how often they took her over the last few months and though the amount we've taken her has grown my gf didn get really sick for the last two weeks and we've hardly taken her.\n\n- My gf and I have a bit of a rocky relationship but it's never been violent nor do we argue in some crazy way in front of our daughter.\n\n\nDo we need to retain a lawyer? Do they have a shot? Advice?","title":"Parents pushing for custody: do they have a case?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554697808,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bapdpt\/ny_ticket_for_a_dirty_license_plate_but_im_not\/","id":"bapdpt","body":"Time: 10:48 PM\nI was pulled over earlier and was given a ticket for having a dirty license plate. The ticket says that the number plate was \u201cobstructed by an unknown substance that obstructed the view of the number plate.\u201d \nHere\u2019s what my plate looks like (I blocked most of it, but the number 9 is the worst one): https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/eALdBFx\n\nIs the plate clean or do I have a bias because it\u2019s my car? I want to plead not guilty and try to fight off the ticket. Are there any possibilities? ","title":"(NY) Ticket for a dirty license plate, but I\u2019m not sure if my plate qualifies for \u201cdirty.\u201d","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570733970,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg2owj\/ut_trial_by_judge_and_character_letters\/","id":"dg2owj","body":"Hello! \n\nHere is the issue at hand: two misdemeanor charges for stalking have been pressed based on falsified police reports (which contradict each other) and no evidence. There is a huge amount of evidence disproving the charges, yet the case is moving to court anyway. Trust me. Everything has been tried to drop the charges. There are no more options. Court is where it is headed. The defendant is a person of color, and the liar pressing charges is a pretty, white Mormon girl. It is an ex-boyfriend\/ex-girlfriend situation wherein she has lied all through everything. \n\nThat is just a background about the absurdity of the situation. But, this is Utah. Chances are, racial discrimination will serve a big role. It already has in a few ways. My first question: is a trial by judge better than a trial by jury? Juries tend to be more emotional, while I understand that the judge tends to stick to the matter of law, and that is likely better in this situation.\n\nSecond question: the police reports and her testimony grossly misrepresent the defendant. Is it best to write a slew of character letters to the judge? The case is currently in the pre-trial conference phase. Is that the best time to submit the letters? Are these good ideas? \n\nThank you in advance.","title":"UT - Trial by judge, and character letters","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553316622,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4f49u\/stolen_wallet\/","id":"b4f49u","body":"Left a chain grocery store about a week ago and somehow dropped\/lost my wallet between the register and my car. I only live a few blocks away, so by the time I realized what happened I went back immediately, no longer than 5 minutes total. Drove to a spot near my old parking spot since it was taken, and traced my steps back to the counter. \n\nI found a manager inside and asked if my wallet had been returned, and they looked and said no. The lady took down my name and number on a brown paper bag (?) and then said she\u2019d call if someone came forward. \n\nHeard nothing. Returned the next morning to see if it was there and a different manager told me that the wallet had been found and the police were called, they didn\u2019t have my contact info (?) and the customer who found my wallet gave it to the police? I called the police and they said they had no info and it would take until the end of the day to process everything and to call back in the morning. \n\nBy the second day, the policewoman told me that no wallet was returned and that there wasn\u2019t even a call to the police from what she could tell. I went back to the store and got in touch with the assistant manager. He had no idea about anything and took down information about what happened and told me he would figure it out and call me back. \n\nTwo days later, I get a voicemail from the asst manager saying that he tracked down the employee, the *only* employee, that talked to the customer who found my wallet, and that the customer called the cops and gave it to them. That\u2019s all he really said in the voicemail. \n\nI call the police, who again inform me that my wallet isn\u2019t with them and no call was ever made to the police. The policewoman asked me if anyone actually *saw* the police or a customer call the police, which I didn\u2019t have an answer for. \n\nI call the asst manager back and leave a voicemail asking if he could call me back so I could get more information to call the police. Never does. \n\nToday, I went back to the store and the asst manager wasn\u2019t working, and none of the working managers had any clue about what I was talking about.\n\nTo be completely honest, I think the employee stole my wallet. I know it\u2019s just a wallet, but is there anything I can do about it? Do I just file a police report? I just feel like there has to be another way. ","title":"Stolen Wallet","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570743911,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg52xm\/possible_conflict_of_interest\/","id":"dg52xm","body":"I am going to buy a home. I plan to live their two years in order to take advantage of the 0 tax on capital gains (the money I make from the sale of the house).\n\nAdditionally, I\u2019d like to rent a room or two out. In doing so, I will set up an LLC and have a formal small business. \n\nAfter two years of tax returns, established business credit and a modest profit, will the LLC be able to buy the home I\u2019m living in and begin my rental property portfolio?","title":"Possible Conflict of Interest?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554775714,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb2cws\/landlord_lost_our_money_order\/","id":"bb2cws","body":"Recently my apartment complex came under new ownership that only accepts payment by check or money order. Before, we always used cash (I'm a waitress so it's easier. We always paid in person and got a receipt). Being younger and not owning a checkbook or really knowing how money orders work, we went to Walmart for a money order, googled how to fill it out, sealed it in an envelope with our names and apartment #, and dropped it into the locked \"after hours\" dropbox provided by the owners. Today, 5 days later, I recieved a notice from the state and the owners saying we have 7 days to pay or be evicted. Clearly there was a misunderstanding, so we went to the landlord's office.\n\nThe property manager was not there, but an employee was. He says every day that week he checked the drop box and would have recorded and deposited our money order if it was there. But he said they had no record of it. He seemed like he genuinely believed us, and also a little nervous, worrying that he would be held responsible for it being missing. We emailed him a screenshot from my bank account showing the transaction at Walmart, but that's just about all the proof we have of paying it.\n\nHere's where it gets tricky. The people of the internet suggested calling Walmart or the money order company to trace the money order, see if it was deposited or get a refund, etc. With it being our first time using a money order, we didn't know that there was a stub attached that was meant for us to keep that had the tracing number on it (Don't hate, it's not like they teach you this stuff in school). So the stub got turned into the drop box with the rest of the money order.\n\nWithout any more proof than the bank statement, we are at a loss of what we can do. Is it the landlord's fault for losing it? Is there a way for me to prove I actually paid it? Is it my fault for not keeping the order stub or waiting to pay it in person? How can I fix this without paying twice for one month of rent? The employee is going to brief the property manager tomorrow and then they are going to give us a call.\n\nWe are newlywed college students, nearly all of our money goes to bills or saving for car expenses\/student loans. What can we do if they don't accept the responsibility of losing it and want us to pay it again?","title":"Landlord Lost our Money Order!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570478719,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deowh0\/lady_at_work_bought_a_golden_doodle_and_wants_to\/","id":"deowh0","body":"So long story short, my GF\u2019s friend from work bought a Golden Doodle for 4K from PetLand. It\u2019s chipped, has the papers, all of that stuff. This lady can\u2019t handle it anymore so she\u2019s now telling my GF that if anyone wants it that it\u2019s there\u2019s for free or it\u2019s going to the pound. If she\u2019s giving it for free how would that work legally with is obtaining the dog for free while she still is making payments on it? There\u2019s probably a balance of 3k left on the dog and if ownership is transferred to us does that mean that balance goes to us now? Seems kinda suspicious, I\u2019d hate to see this dog go to the pound because of a negligent owner but I also do not want to have that debt transfer to us as well. Any help would be appreciated.","title":"Lady at work bought a Golden Doodle and wants to get rid of it. I\u2019m curious about taking it or having a family member take it, but I have a legal question.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1542227917,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x3vt6\/california_traffic_violation_first_time\/","id":"9x3vt6","body":"I was recently cited for failure to stop for RR signal in L.A. County.  I'm so mad at myself for even doing this especially with my daughter in the car.  I was immediately apologetic and courteous with the Long Beach officer who stopped me.  When he handed me the citation, he strongly suggested I go to court because he *probably* wouldn't be there.  I understand that if the officer is not present, which it sounds like he won't be, that the judge will dismiss the citation.  So now that I've set my arraignment date, what happens next?  Is this when I plead not-guilty and then go back for the actual trial where the officer doesn't show?  Sorry for the dumb question, I've never had a ticket before and have no idea what I'm doing.","title":"[California] Traffic Violation - First Time","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1409712767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fblmx\/anyone_with_experience_with_salonbeauty_industry\/","id":"2fblmx","body":"I signed a non-compete years ago to keep my job - I am looking for someone I can talk to who has handled something similar to this situation. There is a 2 year limit saying I cannot work within 10 miles of current salon. But, I have read that this usually doesn't stand up in court because people have the right to make a living?\n\nI am terrified of upsetting my current employers so I would love to PM someone and talk about it instead of posting details that would lead back to me on this sub.\n\nThanks in advance!!!","title":"Anyone with experience with salon\/beauty industry non-compete agreements? - Alabama","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568400579,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3tqfy\/contract_vs_false_advertising\/","id":"d3tqfy","body":"I just recently purchased certified used car at a dealership in California on 9\/11\/19. On the dealership website they have the car listed as having a Navigation system and it did have the nav app on the center console screen. It was grayed out but I just thought it will be available after purchase or you have to turn it on in the settings menu. But that wasn't the case the SD card for the nav system was missing and come to find out they are VIN specific and that's why some of the options on the center console screen are greyed out. I didn't find out about the SD card until the next day (after purchase). The new replacement SD card and installation will be 480 USD. My question is, is it the dealerships responsibly to pay for the SD card since it says it has it on their website or mine.\n\nAny advice will be appreciated, thank you.","title":"Contract vs. False Advertising","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570375395,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de4mdk\/theoretical_hit_pedestrian_on_green_light\/","id":"de4mdk","body":"Almost had an accident occur and it got me thinking about what if it had occurred....so here\u2019s the situation:\n\nI was driving downtown last night and was stopped at the stoplight. The light turned green so I moved about 3 feet forward before a teen just sprinted right in front of me from the curb and I had to slam on my brakes.\n\nHypothetically if I had hit the kid, would I be at fault in this situation since pedestrians have the right of way?\n\nThanks!","title":"Theoretical: Hit Pedestrian on Green Light","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1409921298,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fjnqo\/ga_currently_pregnant_and_looking_to_protect_both\/","id":"2fjnqo","body":"Hi everyone!\n\nThis is my first time posting here, so I apologize if I miss anything.\n\nLong story short, I am currently 8 months pregnant and no longer speak with members of my family. My husband and I have previously written a letter to my father to get our reasoning in writing in case we need to proceed with a restraining order at any point; however, I have recently become concerned this is not enough. My mother and I have not been in contact for nearly 5 years, so those boundaries are pretty well established.\n\nI am concerned with the idea of my parents ever gaining access to our daughter, whether something were to happen to me in labor or something were to happen to either my husband or myself after she's born. I'd ideally also like to protect my husband in that scenario as well. We have picked two different households where we would like our daughter to end up should something happen; however, I am deeply concerned with either of my parents gaining any sort of access whatsoever to my daughter in the future under *any* circumstance. \n\nBasically, I would like to protect her as much as humanly possible from ever coming into contact with them, having them reach out to her or find ways to track her, etc. The problem lies in the fact that both of my parents, while divorced, are incredibly manipulative and narcissistic. They have both managed to get away with pretty insane and \"shady\" behavior based off their skill of manipulation and connections. I won't get into it, but there is a history of abuse within my family, and my dad has been able to charm his way out of way too much using his white-collar-charming-business-guy approach, and playing the \"concerned father\" card. The same goes for my mother, only her approach is that of the martyr. \n\n**I do not want there to be any loopholes for them to ever impact my family, and I feel that getting something legally documented would not only protect my family, but also help us establish more reason behind a restraining order should they ever challenge it\/ should we ever need one.**\n\nWhat would my best approach be here? I'm assuming going through something like LegalZoom would offer too many opportunities for them to get an actual lawyer and poke holes through everything, right? If I sit down with a lawyer over this, what kind of price range\/ approach am I looking at?\n\nI'd love any sort of advice to protect my family as much as possible, now and in the future under any event.\n\nThanks!","title":"[GA] Currently pregnant and looking to protect both my husband and expected daughter from my family.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1446587370,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3reqk8\/is_it_legal_to_use_and_electronic_font_to_sign_a\/","id":"3reqk8","body":"I have a PDF that an employer wants me to sign and return, While I know there are cryto secure signatures, I just want to use a standard font and \"sign\" the document and email it back without having to print it and then scan it, and send it back.","title":"Is it legal to use and electronic font to sign a document rather than printing and signing it?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551661551,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax10l2\/how_do_you_bring_a_large_estate_from_one_state_to\/","id":"ax10l2","body":"Title says it. ","title":"How do you bring a large estate from one state to another? The person is still alive","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1447691862,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t1c0x\/parking_lot_accident_las_vegas\/","id":"3t1c0x","body":"Hello everyone! Posting from Las Vegas, NV. Yesterday I was driving through the bank parking lot to go around to the atm, and a guy backing out ran right into me, his back left end hit my driver side door. I laid on the horn but I guess he didn't hear me. He got out and asked if I was okay, I was, and we inspected the damage together.\n\nHonestly it didn't seem so bad, just a couple scratches on my driver side door and handle. I was able to wipe some of the dirt off with my jacket sleeve, and I thought it wouldn't look so noticeable once washed, so I told him it was cool. His car was much worse off than mine anyway. But later on that night it rained, and the rain washed away the \"dirt\" and I noticed there is more damage than I thought. I hate to be a dick, but I feel like maybe I should report the damage now. Especially since my dad is the registered owner of the car and will definitely notice the damage. \n\nThing is, I didn't get the guys name, but I did get license plate number, make and model of the car. My question is, can I file a claim now or is it too late? Would my insurance be able to find out who this person is based on the info that I have? Would he have to accept fault? Is this even worth my time? I will post a pic of the damage so you can see. Thanks for your time! \n\nhttp:\/\/imgur.com\/iLh8RZL","title":"Parking lot accident- Las Vegas","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504475080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xw11q\/tx_parents_who_i_am_staying_at_home_with\/","id":"6xw11q","body":"Location: Texas, United States\n\nI have been at my parents house for about four months searching for a job every day.\n\nI am aware that to evict someone from a house there is a 30 day legal notice necessary, and so when they said this I thought it was bullshit but wanted to ask here and make sure.\n\nCan my parents call the police to evict me for no other reason than  that 'it is their house'? For no other reason than because it is their property?","title":"[TX] Parents, who I am staying at home with, threatened to call police to evict me for no reason other than because 'it is their house'","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540388717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qzsks\/an_unruly_driver_ran_over_my_bike_threatened_to\/","id":"9qzsks","body":"I've been a fan of this subreddit for awhile, and now suddenly I find myself hoping that the community can help guide me to the right resources and inform me of next steps for aggravated assault.\n\n**Background:**\n\n**Location:** Chicago, IL\n\n**Date:** October 23rd, 2018\n\n**Witnesses:** Many, but do not have their information. Intersection has a camera - but cannot get access to any footage unless I press charges. \n\n**Note:** I do not have the contact information of the aggressor, only her license plate and address (but not apartment unit).\n\nYesterday I was riding my bike to the vet's office and was on a two-way narrow street in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. There was a white sedan in front of me that abruptly stopped without any hazards or signals. The driver then began to drive forward again. Further down the street, the driver comes to an abrupt halt again pulling to the right and was negligent in noticing me (or being a conscious driver, for that matter). I tapped her car to make her aware I was there, and pulled out in front of her as it became apparent later on that she was looking for parking - hence her stopping unexpectedly in the middle of the street. \n\nI pulled up to the stop sign, and she sped up behind me. She began yelling at me, screaming, \"I'm going to fucking run you over on your bike. Touch my car again and I'll fucking run you over.\" She shouted this several times and began inching closer to me (she was already less than a foot away at this point).\n\nI dropped my bike in front of her car, and stepped aside, still in front of her car. We continued to argue - and I had shouted back that she was mad because she was in the wrong - and shouldn't have stopped in the middle of the street. She then ran over my bike, and reversed to let it loose from under her car. I quickly got my phone out to take a picture of her while she was reversing and making a U-turn, and she went and parked her car in front of her apartment. I immediately called 911 and explained the situation. While giving the operator the location, she approached me and started yelling that I was threatening her and I was violent - and shouted her address telling the cops to come over because I was in the wrong. She then walked away. \n\nI was waiting at the corner of an intersection for about 30 minutes - and she walked past me after having gone inside. She brought her dog out, intentionally walked by me, and was talking loudly on the phone describing my location - trying to intimidate me. She did this twice and then headed inside. \n\nThe cops finally arrived and I explained the situation. I did not want to press charges at that moment in fear of retaliation (I have no idea who this woman is and I'm worried she works in my industry ) so I had them provide me a Victim's Report and they wrote it up for Aggravated Assault. They wrote her up for aggravated assault, and said that if I wanted to press charges they would arrest her at that given moment. Again, due to my fears, and just being overall shaken, I asked to take some time to think about it. \n\nI talked to some people in my network who are lawyers, but none in the field of Criminal, who were laying out my options. It's important to note that there was no visible damage to my bike - but I have not yet inspected it (too shaken up). I talked with the bike shop and they mentioned that they would have to do a precision test to make sure the rims and frame weren't bent, and that sometimes it's not visible to the human eye - so they would have to inspect. \n\nA lot of people are telling me to take her to small claims and recoup damage on my bike, but truthfully, I want to press charges. If I hadn't gotten off my bike, I feel as though she would have ran me over. I want her to face the consequences of her actions, and have her be penalized for damaging my personal property. \n\nMy question is, what are my next steps if I want to press charges? I'm a pretty private person so I don't want to have publicity surrounding this, and am not looking forward to having my name involved. Will I need a lawyer or some defense? What is my best way to ensure that she's reprimanded? \n\nThank you for your time.\n\n​","title":"An unruly driver ran over my bike, threatened to run me over. How do I proceed?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570509509,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dev7cg\/help_please_a_young_lady_i_mentor_has_an_upcoming\/","id":"dev7cg","body":"Hi! I\u2019m a community Director for a non-profit that works with students living in mobile home communities (Metro-Atlanta, GA). One of my former students, whom I still advise and advocate for, was recently involved in a minor traffic accident on her way to college. She is 18, but only has a provisional license\/learner\u2019s permit. I explicitly told her not to drive without a licensed driver over the age of 21, but she made to choice to drive herself (her explanation: her ride bailed, no one could take her, she didn\u2019t have money for an Uber, and there was an important test that day). Trust me, I\u2019m upset with her, but she is a first generation college student and received a scholarship from the non-profit I work for. I think she feels a lot of pressure to be successful at school and that contributed to her choice to risk driving herself to class.\n\nShe often relies on me for help and advice; her parents are undocumented, and have mostly been uninvolved in her affairs due to a variety of reasons. She called me right after the accident, and I arrived at the scene shortly thereafter.\n\nSituation: She pulled out in front of another driver, tried to switch lanes, and hit another vehicle. Minor damage, no injuries. She immediately pulled over, exchanged information with the other driver, and waited for police to arrive at the scene. The vehicle was not hers, but she had permission to use it, and registration and insurance were up to date. She was cited for driving with the wrong class of license and failure to yield. Under GA law, those are moderate offenses, but there are additional consequences for driver\u2019s under age 21 (i.e., she cannot plead \u201cNolo\u201d or ask for a \u201chardship exception\u201d for limited driving privileges)\n\nShe has since obtained the correct class of license, but it will likely be suspended at the judge\u2019s discretion. Since Nolo isn\u2019t an option, what is the best way for her to plead? Would pleading \u201cGuilty\u201d or \u201cNot Guilty\u201d even make a difference? I\u2019m accompanying her to court for support, and I would greatly appreciate any advice that may help her!","title":"Help, please! A young lady I mentor has an upcoming court date for driving with the wrong class of license and failure to yield...she cannot afford legal counsel and is confused on how to plead.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554862243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbglii\/il_military_divorce_questions\/","id":"bbglii","body":"I will try to summarize this briefly- my ex and I filed a few months ago and have an upcoming court date. We filed self-rep as we split our assets ourselves (not married long not much to split). I filed, he filed the appearance (so he did not have to be served). Since the date, he has been deployed. He appointed a power of attorney. Will a judge grant a divorce without him present? There are 0 assets to be divided and he did sign the appearance.","title":"(IL) military divorce questions","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571236218,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diq3d6\/my_landlord_hasnt_cashed_my_rent_checks_in_2\/","id":"diq3d6","body":"Philadelphia, PA.\n\nI pay my rent by check on the 1st.\n\nAugust 1st, September 1st and October 1st rent checks haven't been cashed. Its a largeish rental property manager that manages my building.\n\nIn the recent past, my apartment manager had been scheduling fake \"pest spraying\" appointments, as well as abruptly \"visiting\" my apartment for fake \"emergency repairs\". I bought a couple of cheapie video cameras, so I have all of this on video. (Well... i should say... video of my empty apartment showing nobody entered my unit during these fake pest fumigation appointments. I also have video of my apartment manager entering my unit when they left a letter claiming the maintenance staff was supposed to be entering for 'emergency repairs'.)\n\nIts been months and NONE of my rent checks have been cashed. My lease expires in 4 months from now. I wrote a letter to my landlord September 1st about my August rent check not being cashed, and essentially sent the same letter about September and now, October.\n\nWhat should I do at this point?\n\nI've long felt as if the apartment building is kicking out tenants for bullshit reasons. I've reached out in the past to a local attorney regarding the fake pest fumigation letters, which I thought was a resolved issue.\n\nI could submit my check by hand, but since August, I've been mailing them to the front office via certified mail with green card so I KNOW the office manager received my rent.\n\nWhat is my next move?? I am poor, I don't have friends\/fam to move in with, and I feel like I've been barely holding down the fort keeping an eye on my shitty fuckin landlord.  I feel like they're no cashing my rent checks in order to claim I didn't pay rent or something.\n\nI checked my bank and ZERO attempts have been made to cash any of these checks. Money still sitting in my account.\n\n*(BTW: I, generally, want to move... before someone says MOVE, I wanna let ya know I am saving and looking for a new place, and I need to be here until my lease ends in order to save\/move in a way I can afford. I just cant pickup and leave on short notice. It is a process.)","title":"My landlord hasn't cashed my rent checks in 2 months","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505389695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/701p3w\/can_i_get_a_shirt_printed_including_the_nike_logo\/","id":"701p3w","body":"I want to customize a shirt with a Nike logo somewhere in my design that has been altered. I just want to get it for me and my friends. The Nike logo is being used for satirical purposes","title":"Can I get a shirt printed including the Nike logo?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1507752729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75rrtn\/bc_canada_charged_with_fraud\/","id":"75rrtn","body":"Alright, so I've just been charged with fraud (sec 380(1). Worked retail, done some things which accounted to a lost of $400. First time offender and not sure what to expect. I'm an adult but currently still living at home. Not sure if I can handle this myself or should I involve my parents. My court date is in late November. \n\nedit: So I spoke with legal aid, they said there's nothing to be done until my first court date. That lawyers need to get all the information from there. What goes on the first court date then? ","title":"(BC, Canada) Charged with fraud.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447200493,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3scdx3\/being_held_hostage_by_former_employer_multiple\/","id":"3scdx3","body":"Throwaway and very vague intentionally. I'll try to give as many details as I can while still protecting myself.\n\nA lawyer, who was an investor in a company I resigned a management position in, has been threatening me repeatedly with lawsuits. He is a 'high powered' lawyer who is known for being ruthless. He does not practice law in the state that I live in. He does not practice law in a state that, as far as I am aware, the company is registered in. I was an independent contractor and not an actual employee.\n\nIf I don't listen to his demands and do as he wants, he threatens to file a 25+ page suit of complaints.\n\nIf I don't take his call, he will file it, if I don't answer his emails, he will file it. \n\nIf I don't work for him, for basically no wage, he will file it. \n\nI do not have the type of money to defend myself in this situation, and am nearly broke already from just a couple months of emails and calls back and forth. With the legal help that I have, we are under settlement negotiations and anything that he says during this time can't be used against him - no matter the amount of threatening to my financial security or career - from what I have been told.\n\nHe has stated multiple times that he will ruin me, that he does not care if he wins or loses the lawsuit, that he will just file another. \n\nHe has said that after that, the other investor will file one, and they will take turns suing me for different things. He has said he will not rest until my career and life are ruined. \n\nI took other contracting positions during and after my time at the company to make ends meet for my family because I could not afford to otherwise with a salary cut I took that was desperately needed to save the company. He has stated he wants access to all of that code as he believes I have or am trying to sell company secrets. The types of contracts were for different software\/platforms than the companies product.\n\nHe is convinced that the other employees who resigned after I did all left because I asked or told them to. This could not be farther from the truth.\n\nHe has gone to lengths demanding personal information about me and my family, with no clear reason, and more threats of filing if it is not provided. \n\nTo me, he seems quite paranoid and any type of slight against him that he can think up, he will turn into a reason to sue me.\n\nI am scared, I worry for the future of my family. I haven't been sleeping, I'm terrified of what he's going to try if I don't give into his demands and go back to the company against my will. Any help is greatly appreciated.","title":"Being held hostage by former employer [Multiple states - US]","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554149568,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b885q0\/my_latvian_friend_13_has_an_abusive_father\/","id":"b885q0","body":"First of all, I'm just 15 and I'm not native English, so if any of this isn't typed down in the right way, I'm sorry. He just a few minutes ago told me that his father was hitting him and yelling at him. This was not the first time. He told me it began 5 years ago, and since then it became more and more common. He lives in a full family with an older brother. His dad has been like this with his whole family. His dad pays for the flat they live in and he's afraid if he's gone, they won't have anywhere to live, as far as I understood from how he talked. He told me he wants to cry but he's afraid if he heard him he's going to do it again. He also told me that his dad has been using him as a slave every once in a while. I don't know if that's an exaggeration or not, but after what he said, I believe it. I don't know if this is the right place to post this. I'm afraid for him, even though we're half a continent away... Please, if you can say anything, please help him. ","title":"My Latvian friend (13) has an abusive father","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552111439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az0e8u\/tx_i_have_reason_to_believe_my_employer_is_trying\/","id":"az0e8u","body":"I am currently residing in Texas.\n\nI don\u2019t know a lot about the wage laws or what is right and not legally, but my instinct tells me that my employers are trying to pull a fast one on all of us. There has been a problem with our \u201cService Charges\u201d we have a pretty big restaurant with 2 additional private dining rooms that we typically rent out for larger or private events. Typically they schedule 1-2 servers for the parties and a couple more to run the floor for regular business. Recently, the restaurant changed their policy, they used to cut the servers a check after the event in the amount of the service charge. Now, they have put all of our \u201cservice charges\u201d on our checks to get taxed. I understand that this is probably legally the correct way to handle this and that paying taxes is something that we all have to do, but we\u2019re still getting paid the tipped wage at 2.13\/hr while all our service charges are getting taxed to high hell. There have been several instances where myself and some of my co-workers are getting checks in the amount of $0. It feels that we\u2019re working for free, when we could be on the floor actually making money. \n\nAnother incident happened that made things seem a little fishy, I don\u2019t know if this is relevant to what\u2019s going on at all, but I feel it might be significant. A couple of months ago I was working a big buy-out event and $200 of their $5000 bill went unaccounted for on their bill but their card had already been charged. When we picked up the finalized check they had tipped an extra $200 which would have been split between all of the servers. When the manager\/owner found out e was fuming and told us that the $200 we just made was going to pay for the unaccounted $200 on the bill. This didn\u2019t seem fair or right, ad one of my co-workers confronted the manager about how it\u2019s illegal to make us pay and he started babbling about something called the \u201cspirit of the law\u201d and that basically he can do whatever the hell he wants and a difference between \u201ctips\u201d and \u201cservice charges.\u201d\n\nSorry for this being all over the place, I\u2019m just trying to understand what\u2019s happening and see if we are all getting screwed. Thanks for all your help!","title":"[TX] I have reason to believe my employer is trying to lie about our earnings","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571355340,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djer0m\/usaca_can_i_get_towed_on_this_private_residential\/","id":"djer0m","body":"Hi, I just found out that a street I park on is actually privately owned by the residents. In the agreement, one of the easements is the city itself. What does this mean exactly?\n\nAlso, can a towing company tow my car if there are no signs posted and it otherwise appears as a residential street? I am not blocking access \n\nI called a towing company and they said it was the sheriff\u2019s job.\n\nI received verbal consent to park on the street by one of the residents of said agreement.\n\nThanks!","title":"[USA,CA] Can I get towed on this private residential street? Resident-group owned agreement is in place","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540599130,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rq0u6\/wi_landlord_didnt_notify_about_bedbugs\/","id":"9rq0u6","body":"\nAbout a week ago, I began waking up with red, itchy, bumps. Started on my leg, then my arm, and finally my face! So that was the last straw. After checking my apartment and not seeing any trace of bugs, I went to get a generic raid fogger from Walmart. And wouldn\u2019t you know it, when I flipped over my box spring and there was a tiny larvae.\u00a0\n\nI immediately proceeded down the hall to my property manager office\/apartment and asked if there were bed bugs in the building. Her response \u201cyes, but not on your side\u201d. Now I\u2019m gonna editorialize here and say she communicates EVERYTHING ELSE TO TENANTS but not a peep about this. Don\u2019t believe me? Here is an example of her text blasts to all of us: [texts from landlord](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/CA7P187)\n\nSo she\u2019s told me that she had a dog sniff the outside of our apartments to detect bedbugs and the dog did not indicate my apartment had them. To her credit, she did schedule pest control to come out on Tuesday.\u00a0\n\nMy question is: what is the typically procedure for required for this situation because it seems she\u2019s only spot treating apartments and not the entire building. And since bugs travel when they\u2019re trying to be murdered, I feel like I\u2019m going to have to deal with this forever (well, until my lease ends in September 2019). Can I break my lease over this? What are my rights?\n\nAny advice you have would be helpful. Thank you so much!","title":"[WI] Landlord didn\u2019t notify about bedbugs","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541182869,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tmnk6\/ia_my_rental_complex_has_decided_theyre_no_longer\/","id":"9tmnk6","body":"The new website they want us to pay rent with charges over 40$ to pay using the website. Can they legally do this?","title":"(IA) my rental complex has decided they\u2019re no longer going to accept checks for rent. This is a complex of roughly 300 units.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569111951,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7j3m4\/california_the_shift_lead_at_our_restaurant_is\/","id":"d7j3m4","body":"From my understanding it is illegal for managers\/shift leads to be included in the tip pool. However, my manager\/shift lead is paid hourly. His duties fit the description of our manager as he makes the schedule, tells us when we can go on break, approves time off, recommend discipline, close the register, handling refunds and customer complaints. He is there from open to close, but serves sometimes 1\/4 the amount of tables as the opening server and gets the same amount of tips as that server due to his duties that don\u2019t allow him to serve. He has full authority over us and we as servers feel we are being treated unfairly, I\u2019m just curious if there is any law to back us up. I\u2019ve read the Fair Labor Standards Act as well as [this article on Trump\u2019s new law ](https:\/\/www.wagehourinsights.com\/2018\/04\/new-tip-pool-rules-changes-to-the-flsa-and-dol-guidance\/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) but I am still confused as to if we have a case under state or federal law.","title":"California. The shift lead at our restaurant is paid hourly with a lot of managerial duties and barely serves tables. He is being included in tip pool and taking the highest percentage of tips (same as opener\/closer) is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552652876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1ebx9\/filing_a_motion_to_rehear_motion_to_appeal_florida\/","id":"b1ebx9","body":"Is it possible to file both a motion to rehear & motion to appeal at the same time? \n\nMy wife recently filed a motion to rehear her case and it appeared that the judge has been on vacation and has not seen the motion as of yet. Two weeks have passed and its gotten closer to the end date to file for an appeal. \n\nHer lawyer instructed her that while judge is making a decision to file a motion to rehear that it is best to go through an filing a motion to appeal before the deadline ends to do so. \n\nIs this possible? Isnt one motion voided after another one is set or is it not? \n\nThanks \n","title":"Filing a Motion to Rehear & Motion to Appeal (Florida)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443656307,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n18pj\/corunaway_laws\/","id":"3n18pj","body":"So, my niece is one month away from her 18th birthday and ran away from home due to physical and mental abuse.  They've always been mean to her, but it escalated quite a bit as she got closer to being able to legally leave.\n\nI was talking to a friend of mine in the probation department and he said that as far as he knew, once they cross the six month mark (17 1\/2 yrs old), they're counted as an adult and can't be forced back into the home.  I don't know how true that is.  \n\nIf she's reported as a runaway, which I've yet to confirm, will there be an active search for her or is it just one of those where if she's found, they'd bring her home?  CPS has proven to be less than helpful with my nephew in the past, in the same home, despite multiple reports of domestic violence in the home.  \n\nSo what's the best course of action? ","title":"[CO]Runaway Laws","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554813897,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb7i6g\/created_an_app_with_same_name_and_similar_concept\/","id":"bb7i6g","body":"Hello,\n\nTitle says it all really. I unknowingly created an app that has the same name as someone else, and although they are different in many ways, they are also similar in other ways. We are developing our app in Canada, and their's is being developed in Slovakia.\n\nOur app is set to drop in May and we've been working hard on it for a year, so it caught me by surprise and bummed me out a bit to find out the news regarding the other app.\n\nI have trademarks and copyrights for my app, but I'm not sure how those protect me.\n\nWill I face legal troubles in the future for releasing an app with the same name as someone in another country with a similar concept?\n\nCheers!","title":"Created An App With Same Name and Similar Concept as Someone Else","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1447269632,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sfv8n\/legal_obligations_of_a_paypal_invoice_when_i\/","id":"3sfv8n","body":"I am in Washington state, the company in question is in Connecticut, and I believe the freelancer is near them, in New York (but I am not sure). 100% of the communication between me and both parties took place via email. \n\nI have recently started a small Etsy business. To make a long story short, I design a small crafting tool that I have produced professionally by a machine shop, and then I resell those tools online in my Etsy store. The manufacturing process requires that a template tool be made before production begins. Think of it like a stencil. Most shops make them in-house, but some outsource. \n\nAfter some poor results with my previous manufacturer (who is local to me), I started \"shopping\" other options within the US. I had been in contact with K at the shop in CT via email as well as many others, but K quoted me the best price-per-piece, so I decided to go with the CT shop, at least through a round of testing. The CT shop outsources not only the making of the stencil template itself, but the design\/file layout through a freelance graphic designer they contract with. So, K put me in touch with their freelancer, J. \n\nI had sent J my design files, and was communicating with him while simultaneously continuing to talk with K about my manufacturing needs. During that time, I sent K samples of what I'd had manufactured for me previously--so that she could see some of the defects I was trying to avoid. \n\nOn the day that I had given J the \"go ahead\" via email to create the file layout for the stencil template, K received my samples and then emailed me later and revised her quote to nearly TRIPLE the originally quoted price-per-piece. (It should be noted that prior to receiving the samples, K had ALL the technical specifications that she should have needed to accurately quote the price--I was very clear with her as to exactly what I needed, and went so far as to send her files, photos, and videos of the user-end process, which I assume she viewed. I also assumed that she knew enough about her own field to make an accurate quote the first time around). The new cost is not sustainable for me, so I immediately put K on hold, and emailed J and told him to hold off as well. \n\nEvidentially, he did not. In that short period of time, he went ahead and made the file layout. Later that day, he sent it to me and indicated that he intended to charge me for it even though I had asked him not to make the file (I can't be sure if he made the file before or after seeing my email, but now that I'm proceeding with another company and have made a file layout myself, I know it takes mere minutes). Yesterday J sent me a PayPal invoice for his time. It's not a huge number, but for a very new business of my size, it's a considerable setback.  \n\nUpon receiving the invoice from J, I forwarded it to K asking her to split it with me at least, because had she quoted me an accurate price to begin with, I never would have considered moving forward with them or J at all. K sent back an extremely rude, unprofessional response that can best be summarized as \"you're an idiot, this was your own fault for not knowing what you're doing, go f--- yourself.\"\n\nI am not quite sure how to phrase my questions about this. I am a designer and craftsperson by trade, and a (new) businessperson secondarily, so I am feeling lost and possibly like I've been intentionally taken advantage of. Am I legally obligated to pay the invoice? If I refuse, will J jeopardize my PayPal account status? I can't let that happen, so if it's the case, then I will have to just pay it and deal with the consequences. It will mean I can't afford to proceed with manufacture with another shop until I have at least another paycheck from my \"day job\" which will cause me to miss out on the beginning of the holiday sales season. \n\nAre there no ramifications for K's bait-and-switch in quoting the price? There was never any contract, and the quote itself came simply in the body of our email conversation. K is the \"director of sales and marketing\" at the shop in CT. I'm assuming the only person \"above\" her would be like the president of the company or something, and I don't know if it's worth it to send a letter or the invoice to them? How do I protect myself from these kinds of business practices in the future?\n\nI understand that I made some mistakes here, but I'm asking that you please not belittle me for them. I've had plenty of that today. Thank you in advance for any advice. ","title":"Legal obligations of a PayPal invoice when I rescinded a request to a freelancer?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540482958,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rbk32\/car_insurance_claim_help\/","id":"9rbk32","body":"Hi reddit, long time lurker, first time poster!\n\nSome context: \nI was driving a 2003 Honda and the other driver was in a 2016 Chevy Malibu. I\u2019m a broke college student who can only afford to attend my university because of my scholarship. I have no savings to speak of and I \u201cmade it out\u201d of the inner city, where you\u2019re more likely to drop out of high school, get arrested or be killed before the age of 18.\n\nI (18m) was in a car accident on the 31st of August.  The other driver (22f) was driving in my right lane blind spot, and I tried to merge to the right lane after checking my mirror and seeing it was clear to do so.\n\nOf course she was in my right lane so as I merged the right side of my car hit her side view mirror and we both pulled over afterwards. Once we were on the curb she\u2019s in hysterics blaming me for everything, that she had just bought the car and that I was distracted while driving. \n\nThe problem lies in the insurance companies. I don\u2019t have a car of my own, but I do have my own license and the car is insured under my mothers (40sf) insurance. On the day of, I wasn\u2019t on the insurance, but we immediately called to put me on it, as the police officer that took our statements gave me court date to prove the car was insured. \n\nMonths pass and I go to court with proof of insurance and my name on the insurance policy. When we\u2019re called up she claims she also wants me to pay to reimburse her for the damages for her car she paid out of pocket for because, according to her, the claim didn\u2019t cover the cost and I wasn\u2019t insured when she filed the claim. The court couldn\u2019t confirm my enrollment in the insurance policy and now I have another court date where I have to bring a letter from the insurance company stating I am insured. \n\nAfter leaving and explaining to my mother what happened, she told me the other driver was already paid by her insurance company. I have no experience with the legal system and, honestly, this was my first time in court. \n\nWhat now? Am I screwed? My mother told me that everything is gonna work out fine and I shouldn\u2019t have to worry. Help me out reddit.","title":"Car insurance claim help","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445198170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p9inh\/is_it_illegal_for_a_landlord_to_refuse_to_rent_to\/","id":"3p9inh","body":"I wanted to transfer my lease over to a Non-US Citizen (But she does have a Class F1-Visa which expires in 2020). However, my landlord says \"I am sorry but I cannot allow a non-US Citizen move in unless she prepays the entire rent upfront and provides the required security.\" Is this legal?\n\nEdit:http:\/\/www.equalhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2012-Immigration-Status-FAQ.pdf","title":"Is it illegal for a landlord to refuse to rent to an Non-US Citizen? (NJ)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447351841,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sk6gv\/getting_out_of_a_corporate_membership\/","id":"3sk6gv","body":"Hi all, throwaway in IL here. I apologize in advance for the lack of details in this post; I know basically nothing about law, especially corporate law. \n\nMy husband has had part ownership in a company for a long time. When he first started, he received profit checks every month then paid taxes on those profits in April. A few years ago, the company re-structured and had all owners sign a new agreement. We made the huge mistake of not reviewing the new contract with a lawyer before signing it (we assumed the company had good intentions). \n\nFrom that point forward owners were referred to as \"members\" instead of owners and all profit was collected by the company to be re-invested, HOWEVER all members continued to pay taxes on the profit. So basically, for the past 3 or 4 years, we have been paying taxes on money that we never see. \n\nOur accountant says this is pretty typical for companies to have arrangements like this, and our membership should be considered an \"investment.\" However, we are in the process of starting a family and buying a house, so we are not interested in keeping this investment; we are dipping into our savings account every tax season to pay taxes on money that is under our name but that we have no access to. \n\nAnyway, my husband officially wants out of the membership and as tried contacting the CEO of the company many times. Every time he talks with him, he gives him the runaround (\"this is out of my control,\" \"I would have to speak with attorneys,\" \"I don't really have information on that,\" \"That's not my department,\" etc). Finally we found out from him that there was no money available for a buyout or tax distribution, which apparently means that there is no chance we will ever see the money we've lost over the years. Upon hearing this my husband asked if we could just get out of the membership so that we are no longer liable for future profits, and again, the answer was \"not at this time, no.\" We apparently have to hold on to this membership at least through the end of this year.\n\nSo tl;dr we are trapped in a company membership that we no longer want. Without seeing the actual contract itself (we are planning on breaking it out and reading through it soon) is there any advice anyone can give? DOes anyone have experience with company memberships and the legality surrounding them?","title":"Getting out of a corporate membership?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570289077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddom3j\/distracted_driving_in_driveway_wa\/","id":"ddom3j","body":"Hey so I recently bought a house on a moderately busy street. Now my driveway is pretty steep, with a neighbors driveway attached perpendicular to the front of the driveway (they have an easement to use the front 10 feet of my driveway to access theirs) but it\u2019s my property all the way to the sidewalk (presumably). \n\n\nSo when I am leaving my driveway I flip a U turn in mine\/my neighbors drive so that I am facing the street, and can then zoom right out whenever there\u2019s an opening. \n\nSometimes though, I\u2019ll use the time I\u2019m waiting to merge onto the street (still entirely within my driveway though) to connect my phone\u2019s Bluetooth to the car, shoot a quick text out, pretty much anything I am not allowed to do while actually driving. My question is: is this legal? On my property? If I shift the car into park when I do this, would it change things?\n\n\nI know Washington is pretty intense about their distracted driving laws so I wanted to get some outside advice before I wind up with a citation for texting in my own driveway. I\u2019m in Clark County if that makes any difference.","title":"Distracted Driving in Driveway? (WA)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539738997,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ottgs\/landlords_and_cable_installation\/","id":"9ottgs","body":"I just moved into a unit that's been renovated head to toe. There is no wiring for internet to just get it \"turned on\" I have to get it installed and it's $75 extra. Do I sound crazy for wanting to ask my landlord to pay that? Especially because he asked me to have it installed in a certain way that he specially wants. Thanks guys!","title":"Landlords and cable installation??","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570159727,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd1uq0\/manipulative_father_being_divorced_by_good_mother\/","id":"dd1uq0","body":"Recently my parents have had their relationship incredibly strained. Divorce is likely, and it\u2019s going to go down incredibly rough. However, my father has been the most manipulative man ever to my family and especially my mother. He\u2019s toted his status as breadwinner as a reason for us to bend down and kiss his feet, and for him to think he can walk all over us. He\u2019s cheated countless times on my mother while projecting the same insecurities onto her, asking her for access to everything.\n\nHere\u2019s is where it gets worse, recently he\u2019s started digging through items such as her messages, phone calls, in hopes of finding something that could prove she\u2019s cheating. My mother is a saint, and would never do anything like cheat. He\u2019s gone as far as taking her phone, calling people he thinks are possible, and then erase the calls, however my mom gets texts wondering why she called them wondering if everything\u2019s ok.\n\nHere is what i\u2019m wondering, California is a 50\/50 state, however we would barely be able to survive with 50%, if at all, is there any possibility we could get more, or are there other legal actions we can take against my father, because of how manipulative and controlling he\u2019s been over my mother?","title":"Manipulative father being divorced by Good Mother [CA]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541238382,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tsv5y\/employer_doesnt_pay_me_for_a_week_of_being_sick\/","id":"9tsv5y","body":"Disclaimer: I'm not a native speaker, sorry for any issues. \n\nI got ill on the 10th of October after a half day worth of work. I called them to notify them that I was sick and was going home. \n\nOn the 23rd I called them to notify I was working again. So I was ill from the 10th until the 23rd. \n\nThey didn't pay me my sick hours. I called them to see whats up. They tell me the following:\n\n\"Our sick-leave handling party called you on the 12th. They told you to call if you were STILL ILL on the 15th. You didn't call, so they ASSUMED you were better. Therefore they marked you as not ill from the 15th\"  \n\nThey payed me sick days from the 10th until the 12th of October. \n\nI was ill when they called with a 40-degree celcius fever and couldn't even make out I was alive at that point. They made such an agreement with a very ill person and expected them to not only remember the agreement but to also call if they were STILL ILL. \n\nIn my contract it says I should call when I'm better, not if I'm STILL ILL. \n\nBasically they fucked me out a week worth of money and have stated they're not going to pay it. \n\nIs there anything to be done besides resigning? \n\nLocation: Netherlands. \n\nThanks in advance. ","title":"Employer doesn't pay me for a week of being sick because they claim I told them I was better","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569217748,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d82ct7\/va_cruelty\/","id":"d82ct7","body":"I planned to file for a no fault divorce, but the (non-legal, interpersonal) reason that I am leaving my husband is because his parents stalk\/harass us and he will not tell them to stop. He has deteriorated since we had children (3 next week, and 10 months), which is right when their behavior got more invasive and demanding. He has decided that instead of setting ground rules he will blame everything on me to avoid their wrath. He has been harassing and smearing me to his family and his friends, and his parents have joined in instead of stepping back so that he can keep his family (us!) in tact.\n\nI found an email from him today that he sent in the midst of their latest antics. He delineated all of the things they had done to me over a one year period, and stated that his betraying me and their harassment directly caused my mental health decline and voluntary psychiatric hospitalization. He stated that he lied to our therapist, lied to my dad when I was in the hospital telling them I \\*was with friends\\*, and told his family where I was when he promised not to. He admits to doing these things to me while I was pregnant and to the abusive behavior of his parents. I have pictures of me throughout this ordeal, and I went from postpartum weight and glowing to completely emaciated with cystic acne in a matter of months. I have texted people throughout this ordeal and they have the texts. I have called 911 stating that he was on the phone with his parents telling them to come pick up the kids bc I didn't agree to stay married. I told my psychiatrist that he threatened to put me in a mental institution if I didn't do what he said. I've retaliated back physically (which I do not condone), but the timeline is clear from the emails.  \n\nUltimately, I am concerned about this dynamic being present in the lives of my children. I can leave, but they are his children too and will have a relationship with him. Would this email potentially help me establish that this was an untenable living situation? Will this have any effect on his custody or on grandparents visitation? He really laid out every single thing and took full responsibility. Can he just say that he was placating a mentally ill spouse?","title":"VA - Cruelty?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539681853,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9olyw9\/gday_from_australia_night_pay_loading_and\/","id":"9olyw9","body":"G'day at the title states this is an Australian matter, so I work for a company as a casual and I am primarily a night shift worker, I have worked night shift for the last year or so, I get a 30% loading on my original pay as a night shift worker, However when it comes to earning overtime whether it be 1.5x my pay rate for any hours after the standard 8 or 2x for Fridays the loading is never seemingly factored into it, I am still working night shift so why am I being punished for putting in more hours? For example my pay went down around 2 dollars per hour after my 8 hours of my shift the other week because the 1.5x my original pay didn't compare with my normal rate of pay, Is this legal to not factor in loading when applying overtime for night shift worker? How can I go to my employer and tell them I am unhappy with this what legal grounds do I have to stand on? Would anyone know where I can find this information out so I can print it out and take it to my next toolbox talk to have some actual facts to back up my statement or am I just pissing into the wind here?","title":"Gday from Australia, Night pay loading and overtime question.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540210523,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qd9o6\/selling_a_car_in_payments\/","id":"9qd9o6","body":"Hoping this is the right flair for this question!\n\nI recently sold my old 2001 Mazda 626. Had a bunch of issues with the car so I recently replaced it with a 2007 Kia Spectra and tried to get it sold. Unfortunately, no one would take it at asking except for my slightly sketch neighbor who wanted to pay it off over time. $100 a month for 5 months. I know where he lives and have a copy of his license so figured why not. Wrote up a bill of sale that explained the terms of $100 a month until $500 on the car was paid, car was sold \u201cas is\u201d, etc. He claims that because I am holding the title until the car is paid off that I am responsible for putting insurance on the car and getting the registration updated. Is this true? If true I\u2019ll do it to fulfill any legal obligation, but I worry that he might have the right idea and  I just didn\u2019t realize what I was doing.","title":"Selling a car in payments","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1409638273,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f8jkq\/ca_my_girlfriends_mom_was_in_the_middle_of_an\/","id":"2f8jkq","body":"Sorry about the shitty [picture](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/jFtXYFs.jpg?1).  My girlfriend isn't the greatest artist.  Basically, the turn left light was green for my Gf's mom, but as she went into the middle of the intersection, the biker decides to try and go in front of the car.  The biker gets hit, breaks my girlfriend's mom's headlights, and calls an ambulance.  He then goes to the hospital for a broken thumb.  The only witness that saw the collision told the cop that the biker was inside of the crosswalk when he was hit.  I'm thinking this is an insurance scam because both the 15 year old boy and the lady had the same fictional story.  Is there anything that she can do?","title":"[CA] My Girlfriend's mom was in the middle of an intersection turning left and a biker came in front of her and got hit.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554488258,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9uodz\/any_recourse_against_a_discrimating_employer\/","id":"b9uodz","body":"\nAround last week, I interviewed for a position at an Ice Cream shop. In the beginning stages of the interview which was just a phone call, I was invited to come in for a in person interview. I should note that having language skills in either Japanese or Korean was a  part of the  Job requirements to which I speak Japanese. \n\nThis is where the issue arose, all of the employees at least that I encountered on that day happened to be Asian. I am an African American. Upon entering the store and asking for the hiring manager one of the employees gave me confused look as if I was not supposed to the person for the interview, walked to the back and told someone. I was told that the hiring manger was not in yet although we had already scheduled a time and date for the meeting. I waited for about 20 mins all the while the employees smirked and looked on with some distain.  I\u2019m no stranger to working with Asians as I have experience in multiple Asian restaurants. I have an extensive background in food service that qualified me to get the interview. Then another person came up to me and told me they would interview me instead which I found quite odd. The interview was very succinct and short. I gave them my resume and proper cerifications for food handling and then I was whisked out the door. I\u2019m clean cut, fit, have no tattoos. I firmly believe that I was discriminated againist in this job position because of my skin color. I wasn\u2019t asked any question about my language skills which seemed to be a part of the job description. This is honestly the first time this has happened to be, but I\u2019m sure that I wasn\u2019t given a fair chance to apply for a position because I didn\u2019t fit the raical theme that the company or it workers are trying to purport. The name of the company itself is founded on a selling Japanese ice cream treat. My question is do I have the grounds to file an EEO complaint or should I just let it go? \n\n","title":"Any recourse against a discrimating employer?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410130468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fra64\/flat_mate_taking_me_to_court_after_leasing\/","id":"2fra64","body":"This is a throw away, I AM IN ENGLAND,UK.     \n\nSo basically me and 3 university friends get a place together.     \nThe contract said it was a JOINT-TENNENTCY however after careful consideration we decided we would pay our rent, bills ect separately, and thus did not assign a lead tenant, ultimately meaning we took responsibility for ourselves. We all paid (before moving in) a \u00a3250 deposit to the letting agency SEPARATELY.     \n\nWe all moved in october, (contract started july) but me and my folks went down around sept to move a few bits in and check the place out and basically in my room i didn't have a bed, it was a foundation and just a mattress thrown on top. So my parents ring the letting agency and tell them, after which they reassured us a bed would be there for me by the time i move in .. I moved in a month later, NO BED! so basically they didn't deliver on a load of promises and generally treated me like shit. we went days without running water, got pips stolen off the roof when which led to my room only getting flooded, and so on! ANYWAY - i refused to pay the last 4-5 months of my rent for these reasons as i felt they letting agency breeched the contact (duty of care and maintenance), so the company kept all 4 of our deposits, 2 of my flat mates said they were expecting it and wasn't too fussed, but the other flat mates parents kicked up a fuss and wrote to the company. The letting agency said it was because of me they kept the money and if they wanted their \u00a3250 back they would need to get it off me.     \n\nI of course feel this is wrong. Surely the deposit was taken up with the company and not me. My friends parents have threatened me with legal action and I've received serval court dates which i haven't attended. What should i do?      \n\nIm sorry if it seems all a little bit confusing haha. all help would be appreciated. \n\nMany thanks.    ","title":"Flat mate taking me to court after leasing company refuse to give us deposit for flat.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409263018,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ev2c9\/landlord_asking_if_i_have_a_copy_of_the_signed\/","id":"2ev2c9","body":"EDIT: [California, United States]\n\nSo I signed a one year lease like two years ago, have been out of the lease for a year and have just been paying a couple months in advance usually. \n\nThe place I'm staying at though is a dump in a very nice location. The building 100% has termites and has not been taken care of. I even found a nest of baby termites when I was replacing the carpet with laminate a while back.\n\nAnd now my landlord is trying to sell the place and had some people come by and check it out and come in each of the apartments (it's a 4 unit building). He's now asking if I have a copy of my signed lease because he can only find an unsigned one in his files. I didn't make a copy, just printed out the lease agreement, signed it, and mailed it to him.\n\nI'm wondering why he needs a copy of it though since it's a year old and I'm out of the lease. Just to give to the potential buyers?\n\nI'm just a bit paranoid about these type of things now after a car accident a couple years back where a lady ran a red light and trash my car and then her insurance copy tried to get out of it by saying it was my fault for not looking.","title":"Landlord asking if I have a copy of the signed lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447134173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s8mf2\/can_a_nonprofit_practically_hide_its_assets_in_a\/","id":"3s8mf2","body":"I'm involved in a lawsuit against a church in Texas. We just discovered that the church doesn't technically own anything. Virtually every dollar and asset is owned by the \"1st Church Foundation\" (obviously, not the real name). The foundation has its own board, composed of members of the Church, and the pastor \"advises\" the board on expenditures and has veto power over any expenditures. The thing was incorporated 10 years ago as a separate 501c3 from the church with the purpose to \"serve the interests of the church\". Members of the church are asked to donate to the foundation, and the fundraising literature, which is marked \"1st Church foundation\" in small print, reads like fundraising material for the church itself, with photos of church activities, personnel, etc.\n\nMy attorney thinks we are SOL. He is of the opinion that this division is going to prove effective in protecting their assets. If so, I should abandon this now. I get this impression that this is a sort of new tactic for churches, and no one really knows how it's going stand up. \n\nAnyone?  TIA for any opinions about the matter or on additional sources.\n\n\n\n\n\n ","title":"Can a nonprofit practically hide its assets in a directed foundation?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551732488,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axc5jb\/az_salary_but_paid_hourly\/","id":"axc5jb","body":"I work at a consulting firm that says I'm salary but when I recently needed a sick day they stated it comes off of my \"PTO\" time (personal time off). I originally thought PTO was vacation, but I soon learned that was both vacation\/sick days combined for a total of 2 weeks and 1\/2 a day.  I was confused at first cause they stated I had to log every working hour including PTO hours (which PTO is understandable).  When I said well I'm salary so if I miss one day it doesn't change my weekly pay, HR said that they would deduct a whole day of pay for me if I don't deduct it from PTO. I was told although I'm classified as salary I'm really hourly and the only difference between myself and real hourly employees (who do exactly what I do with same title) is that if they work over 40 they get overtime in their paycheck, and if I work over 40 I'll get half of my OT in the form of a bonus every 6 months.  This company has less than 30 people if it matters.  Also their policy states that FMLA is only 6 weeks non paid, I'm assuming this is fine because they don't have more than 50 employees? My questions are if my classification is accurate and if how they are handling sick\/vacation\/overtime correct?  ","title":"[AZ] Salary but paid hourly?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444893694,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3otvyv\/someone_wants_to_sell_me_a_franchise_location_but\/","id":"3otvyv","body":"So, let me preface this by saying that franchisees (owners) of this particular business aren't in it for money, but for the love of the game, and it's kind of silly...  It's a sport where people hit each other with foam swords in mock fantasy battles.\n\nSo, the local owner wants out after having done it for a number of years. He contacted me and wants to sell it to me for $500 (though the number doesn't really matter).  However, I've long had concerns about the actual franchise (it's a national thing).  \n\n* So, the franchise is set up as a for profit business, but they hide it, never having their name appear with any kind of Inc. or LLC.  \n* Everyone except the franchise owners are \"volunteers.\" Volunteers will do things like accounting, making equipment, and being staff. They are *only* compensated with things like \"magic swords\" which are sometimes never redeemed (If you are full time staff, you can't ever play). \n* The events cost money and there's a very stern \"no refund\" policy. One time I showed up for an hour, none of the volunteer staff arrived and so I left. The owner later demanded I remit payment. \n* $10 per entry fee must be payed to the franchiser. \n* The game frequently runs \"Volunteer drives.\"  For example, they bought a trailer off of Craigslist and ran a drive to pay for the $2000 (People being compensated with \"magic swords.)\"  The owner told me the trailer actually cost $1000 and he just used the other half to \"pay\" himself. \n* The owners frequently talk about how much money they're losing \"doing this.\" But cost saving measures keep getting put into place, like the events being moved to free public spaces instead of the previous rented grounds.\n* The owner implied I could make money off of it if I \"was smart.\"\n\nSo, I know this is unethical, and I wouldn't have to follow in his footsteps. But what I'm wondering is, is the whole organization acting illegally? Mostly, all of the volunteer\/donation stuff that is going on, despite being registered as a for-profit.\n\nI want to see this keep going as a thing, but I'm afraid to touch it and my gut says to run away.... \n\nedit: Location USA, it's a national franchise. ","title":"Someone wants to sell me a franchise location, but it seems pretty sketch. What do you think?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1414895673,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2l16nw\/is_this_contract_breaking\/","id":"2l16nw","body":"After I signed a contract with an ebook anthology, but before the ebook went to print, the editor\/publisher kicked me out of the book.\n \nMy contract says nothing about removing me from the book prior to print, or any powers of that effect. Furthermore, it says that the contract can't be altered without written consent of both parties.\n\nIs kicking me out considered breaking the contract in this case, when the contract mentions no powers?\n\nAlso, I signed the contract and faxed it in. I signed it, and the publisher was supposed to sign his half. I do not know if he in fact signed his half or not. If he did not, can he still remove me, or is it the fact that I signed it binding in some fashion? \n\nI'm in Chattanooga, TN.","title":"Is this contract breaking?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554249389,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8qukp\/please_help\/","id":"b8qukp","body":"Hi, I\u2019m a junior in high school. Last Friday I went to the bathroom at the start of a period. About 30 seconds after I had entered, a large group of underclassmen rushed in. They made a ring around the walls of the bathroom and two in the center squared up. I thought \u201cjust another fight\u201d, and locked the door of the stall I was in, as there was no easy way out at the time. The two went at it, it was pretty rough, and eventually everyone filed out. Teachers came in shortly after to sweep the last of the kids out. \n\nToday an officer from my school called my dad to inform him that I have been involved in gang activity. I was suspended for a day, however, I stayed home sick today and he convinced them to let me serve the suspension today. I also now I have this one instance on my otherwise impeccable record, with college being so close this is cause for concern. \n\nThis is the worst case of \u201cwrong place, wrong time\u201d I have ever witnessed. They obviously have cameras everywhere and apparently I was seen \u201crushing\u201d to the bathroom, in their mind to be there in time for the fight. If they have phone videos I may be seen on video watching the fight. \n\nIt seems to me that they have no reasonable evidence for this kind of action. I just wanted some opinions and advice on how to proceed. I will be speaking with some sort of authority tomorrow. \n\nThanks ","title":"Please help","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1538348607,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kax6p\/international_student_question\/","id":"9kax6p","body":"I am an international student (F1 visa)  here in the US and I do not have employment authorization. However I have some internet skills that pays me good. Is there anyway to get paid legally for me?","title":"International Student Question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569975420,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc2ggb\/slumlord_issues\/","id":"dc2ggb","body":"Ooook, so I moved into an older house. Mice, basement full of mold and standing water. Told landlord said mice were unavoidable since they were field mice and the basement floods. This was mid July. Not satisfied with this answer, I called code inspection in VA and they came by and found multiple violations including a huge hole behind the stove where the mice had chewed threw the foundation. Code inspector said he would send us a report as well as landlord; never sent report. Landlord threatened me with legal action for calling code authority. Told me I could leave if I was so unhappy, then 20 min later told me to vacate the premises by the end of the day. Next day told me she was sick of dealing with high school girl drama (me and my roommate\u2019s desire for a safe home) and as a home owner she reserved the right to rent to more mentally stable people. Roommate left, landlord promised to fix problems and apologized. Had guy set mouse trap and did nothing about mold. Turned out to be a con man. Had a lockbox installed as there were two other rooms that were available so people were coming in and out of the house unannounced until I really got upset and she agreed to let me know when people were visiting and giving me at least a days notice. Rented a room to a couple of crackheads (literally) and had a surprise possible renter come in through lockbox and she caught them smoking crack. When asked about it they denied it and landlord was like \u201cok cool\u201d. This was the last straw, between the black mold, mice, strangers in the house and crackheads I took it upon myself to move out as she is incredibly vindictive and told her today I moved out and explained why. She told me I was responsible for the remainder of the lease and would not be getting my SD back. My thing is if she kept the house in an uninhabitable condition then I have every right to leave, plus I have written consent I could leave. I would also like to get my SD back as there is no clause of how far in advance I must give to terminate the lease; in fact there is no way out of the lease at all. Can some tell me if o have a leg to stand on? I have her blocked on my email and phone and I will take her to small claims court for my SD as she had no intention of making the house safe for her tenants. Thanks for listening! \n-T","title":"Slumlord issues","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570488620,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/der6ui\/ca_employer_runs_payroll_monthly\/","id":"der6ui","body":"Hi everyone.\n\nI accepted an offer last week and signed all of the paperwork. My offer stated my yearly salary but it did not mention how often I would actually get paid. I assumed that it would be either weekly or bi-weekly. \n\nToday, I checked my Gusto (online HR\/Benefits website) account with the company and it stated that I would get paid once a month, on either the 31st or the 1st.\n\nAre they allowed to only pay me once a month? To my understanding, employers are required to pay their employees at least twice a month. \n\nFor context, this is for an Executive Assistant role at a start up.","title":"(CA) Employer runs payroll monthly","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568429017,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3zli8\/arizona_question_about_protective_order\/","id":"d3zli8","body":"This on behalf of a family member. Contemptuous breakup. He messages from 15 different numbers and multiple FB messenger accounts. End up getting Order if Protection in place. No contact since. Mutual congregation member reaches out to me. He intends to attend our Church, plans to arrive before and block her from attending the Church she grew up in. From a Quora post I found, this would be a violation in California.  Anyone able to point me in the direction of an Arizona Statute regarding this?  Have had my attorney draft a couple letters for this situation already and the $250\/hr is adding up!","title":"[Arizona] Question about protective order","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552518404,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0sry6\/legal_advice_about_moveout_charges\/","id":"b0sry6","body":"My fiance and I are residents of Missouri and are having legal issues with our old landlord. We lived there for 13 months and after moving out they sent us a letter in the mail claiming that we owed them $434 due to \"damages\" after also keeping our $300 deposit. \n\nUnfortunately the letter wasnt recieved until after the debt was sent to collections. But the debt that was submitted to collections totalled $1063 also after keeping our deposit. $723 of which is for painting and re-sealing the entire apartment due to \"smoke damage\", that they have no evidence of other than a third party company saying there was smoke damage. \n\nThey claim to have sent us an updated list of charges, which we never recieved. (She told us that we would have to take it up with the post office for not receiving it lol) \n\nOnly after I inquired about the charges, she emailed me the \"updated\" list. She told me the reason for creating an updated list of charges was because they recieved the bill for painting later. Yet, on the updated list of charges, the painting charge is dated for the same day as all of the other charges (is back dating legal?)\n\nOn top of that, the updated list also still included charges for spots and bed stains on the wall which were in the original bill we were sent, AS WELL as the painting. (Double charging?) \n\nOn top of these additional charges, there are other charges that we believe would be considered normal wear and tear. They also over charged us for water and late fees in the original notice, which she herself admitted were inaccurate.\n\nAfter totaling up everything, we believe our actual financial responsibility is $157 in addition to our $300 deposit. \n\nThey said the only way to handle this is in small claims court, so our questions are: \n-What rights do we have and are we in the right to dispute? \n-Does it matter that we never recieved the updated list of charges? \n\nNeither of us have ever been to court and have no idea what to expect. Any advice would be appreciated!","title":"Legal advice about move-out charges","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540754885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s5xjd\/my_personal_website_was_domain_hijacked_and_now\/","id":"9s5xjd","body":"Is there anything I can do? It wouldn't bother me to lose the domain but its my real first and last name they're now using as a company name.","title":"My personal website was domain hijacked and now my name is being used as a business name","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552756466,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1ur56\/chargeback_fraud_remorse\/","id":"b1ur56","body":"Typically whenever I try to get advice for my huge fuck ups online, I get made fun of for how much of an idiot I am. Please, if you can, bare with me, advise is greatly appreciated.\nAbout two weeks ago, I made two $25 purchases for two online subscriptions based off of the same vendor online. About a week later, I felt remorse and deleted the account. Rather than seeking a refund, I went to the bank to file a chargeback saying that the charges were fraudulent (that\u2019s the part where I totally screwed up). Two days later, I\u2019ve been given provisional credit, so I\u2019m assuming the chargeback process has begun. I felt remorse for the whole thing after leaving the bank, what\u2019s the worse that could come out of this if the vendor is able to successfully show that I was the one that made this purchase? Can I cancel the chargeback all in all, and if I can, should I?","title":"Chargeback Fraud Remorse","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539650397,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oimcm\/chicago_divorce\/","id":"9oimcm","body":"My husband initially filed an uncontested divorce in illinois. The court date was today but the judge wouldn't sign the papers or something (I do not have the whole story...and I might not get it). I did not go because it said on the paperwork that it wasn't required for me to go and I was afraid to see him honestly. \n\nHe is now saying he hired a lawyer to do the paperwork and she will be sending me a marriage settlement agreement. \n\nDo I now need a lawyer? I'm not looking for anything from him (he was the MAJOR breadwinner...like I made 1\/5 of what he made), we have no kids and no joint assets. I moved about 5 months ago.\n\nI dont have money for a lawyer....getting back on my feet after this abusive marriage is hard and I'm still working on getting long term housing. \n\nIs there any scenario that I could do without a lawyer? Can i just have a lawyer read what his lawyer sends to me and they tell me if it's legit? ","title":"Chicago divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553426810,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4vcsy\/fraud_uk\/","id":"b4vcsy","body":"Good afternoon everyone.\nIn the date of 17 March me and my girlfriend we was looking for a rent where to move ,as we was searching we found this guy RD with a nice apartment at 590\u00a3\/m,we procced to contact him and let him know about the apartment,after we message each other and he said that is a inginer in Madrid.Spain and an agency called \"Airbnb\" would do the papers in he's behalf ,as desperate and foolish I was I sent him my passport and my current adress as details for the agency (I have he's passport as well).\nAs he told me I would have to send the agency (590\u00a3x2 rent and 590\u00a3x1 deposit).\nIn the date of 18 March I went at the bank and sent the 1770\u00a3 as I was thinking to an Airbnb account holder. As I sent the money through IBAN I had to wait 3 days until the transaction to be successfully. After those 3 days (21 March) I received a letter from bank letting me know that the transaction was successful, after that RD didn't answer to any of my emails or messages ,I tried to call him and a automated message answered me everytime i tried to call him.\nIn 22 March I called the agency and asked them about RD's registration and ref number for the apartment,they told me non of the information I provided was helpful or any registration or found.\n23 March I was at the bank and let them know about the stupidity I did.\nThey said they couldn't help my directly.\nMy questions are:\n1.Could I recover the money I sent?\n2.Is there anyway he could use my passport details in a way that could harm me?\n\nThank you.\n\n\n","title":"Fraud U.K.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445628653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3py01g\/nscancommon_law_separation_wife_moved_an_hour_and\/","id":"3py01g","body":"So, as the title states, the ex and I separated. She originally was looking for a place around where we live (NS, Canada) but decided to go live with her parents for free. They live about an hour and a half away. Without telling me, she quit her 55kish job down here and dropped her hours to casual, expecting to make 15k a year. She enrolled our son in a day care where they live and only wants me to see my son Friday-Sun one week and Sat-Sun the next. In her letter from her lawyer she's asking for child support based on her new projected income and wants me to take over 100 percent of our debt. We owe 18k ish on a line of credit we are both signed to. If I do not she's threatening to come after the house (which doesn't overly bother me, it's' half hers as well.)\n\nI have a lawyer, as does she, but I'm not feeling overly hopeful about any of this. There's no abuse or neglect or anything like this, so I don't see why I'd ever have to agree to seeing my kid 4 days every two weeks.\n\nI don't know. I just thought I'd throw this out there and see what anyone thinks. Thanks.","title":"[NS-CAN]Common law separation. Wife moved an hour and a half away, quit her full time job and started going to school all without telling me.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541026256,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t3uao\/oregon_evicting_someone_who_isnt_on_a_lease\/","id":"9t3uao","body":"Hello,\n\n  \nI am a Oregonian landlord who is trying to evict somebody who's only sole reason living in my home is because of a relationship with a previous occupant who has left them and the residence. They're not on the lease. The occupant hasn't payed any form of rent for the last year and a half  and was given a citation of 30 days to pay this months rent and back-rent from my lawyer and has failed to do so. They have lived in my Home for about 5 years and stopped paying rent a year and a half ago. \n\nI've already started the process of evicting them with a lawyer but because of financial troubles I am in debt with the lawyer and they won't send the final 72 hour notice.  I am unsure of what the next approach I need to take to finalize the eviction.  \n\n\nI'm going to go ahead and apologize for my grammar. This situation has been quite stressful for me and has affected my mental health has taken a toll on my finances.   \n\n\nAny proper advice given for this situation is much appreciated.  \n\n\nThank you for taking the time to read this.\n\n​\n\n **TL;DR**   \n\n\n*Living in Oregon. Occupant isn't on the lease. Was given a citation to pay rent within 30 days and failed to do so. I'm in debt with my Lawyer and they won't send 72 hour notice and I don't know the way to do so. They have lived in my Home for about 5 years.* \n\n​","title":"Oregon - Evicting someone who isn't on a lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551731086,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axbvis\/cops_want_to_talk_to_me_just_talk_no_arrest\/","id":"axbvis","body":"As far as I know they just want to talk but should I get a lawyer first?","title":"Cops want to talk to me( just talk, no arrest warrant)about a crime that occurred in my hometown when I was 15( 20 now) because apparently my name came up","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570738427,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg3tky\/i_filed_a_suit_in_smalls_claims_court_against_my\/","id":"dg3tky","body":"1. Moved out and got charged $2600 for a move out fee from previous landlord.\n2. Attempted to dispute the charges with the landlord because they were invalid and exaggerated. Landlord rejected my claims and denied my request for fair move out charge. I did offer to pay about 580 which is more fair amount for the charge that they could charge but they refused that as well.\n3. Filed a small claims court against them for $1700 the difference between the $900 deposit that I had paid with the remaining balance on my account.\n4. They sent me to collections while in the middle of a dispute with them and after they receive notice that I had filed for a claim at small claims court. They also sent my wife to collections even though she was not a signer on the lease because I had moved in before I knew I was going to marry her and that she would be living with me so she does not have any signed responsibility regarding the lease or the payments of the lease or anything of that sort.\n\nPlease help or give me advice on what to do!","title":"I filed a suit in smalls claims court against my former landlord, they sent my account to collections while disputing a $2,600 move out in the middle of disputing the charges. WA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551477823,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awac2w\/truck_was_towed_from_buildings_lot_without_notice\/","id":"awac2w","body":"First time poster. So we've been having a lot of snow recently, and I've always moved my vehicle from the lot for snow removal when given proper notice. By proper notice, I mean that whemever we know the night before. Usually though, the landlord sends a text to our 20 unit building within 2 hours of removal, and at 10 am when everyone is at work or school. Also, snow removal is quite random, and can be anywhere within three days of snowfall.\n\n I like to walk to work and school because it's not far and it's good for me. This means that I and several others usually cannot move our vehicles in the given time frame, and cannot park on the street because it is across from a school with 'no parking during school hours' signs. \n\nAll that being said, last night my truck was gone from the lot, and when I called the landlords office this morning in was told that it was towed because it \"hadn't been moved in months\". This is simply not true. It has been driven, just not often. When I asked two times why I hadn't been contacted before towing, both times the question was ignored and responded with \"it hasn't even been moved in months.\" The call ended about then when I lost patience. Does anyone know if I have any rights to do anything here?\n\nNote: There was no snow removal on the day it was towed, and we have never been threatened with such action before. Also every tenant has their vehicle information included on their lease documents, so they knew it was mine. I have always paid rent and associated bills on time and in full.","title":"Truck was towed from building's lot without notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539632629,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9og1vj\/teachers_taking_students_mobile_phones\/","id":"9og1vj","body":"So I go to an English public school and I was in a lesson and I wanted to check the time, my teacher saw me and asked for my phone to be sent to the schools safe (if a student is on their phone in class the school takes it and your parents have to pick it up 24 hours later) I refused and when I went back to the school the next say I deliberately did not bring my phone the school asked for me to bring it in and I refused. My question is: do I have the right to refuse teachers asking for my phone? And how would I argue telling them that I am not giving it over? Normally this would result in my being put in isolation and detentions until I give my phone up. Is this allowed?","title":"Teachers taking students mobile phones","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571229553,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dioqmo\/i_was_sexually_abused_as_a_teenager_and_want_to\/","id":"dioqmo","body":"So I'm not sure what to do, I am an adult in my 30s residing in the southern U.S.  When I was 15 years old I was homeless and living in eastern NC. \n\nThere was a man much older than me, maybe in his early 40s at the time, who took advantage of me and at least 3 other kids that I know about. All of us didn't have any kind of stable home situation. \n\nI'm almost certain that he had at least one adult Friend who did this also. I do not know the friends name, but I do know the name of my abuser. Also I know what his past address was, as found it on Google maps. \n\nI want to know what I can do? could I be held responsible for not reporting this sooner? Also who do I contact? Who can I tell that could possibly do something about it?","title":"I was sexually abused as a teenager, and want to turn the person in","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554455998,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9oxxc\/us_ca_dentist_offered_me_30000_to_lie_to_my\/","id":"b9oxxc","body":"Hey, \nIm in California and i need a legal advice regarding medical insurance fraud. \n\n2 years ago in 2017, a dentist called me and told me they have a special offer for first time patients, which is to get teeth cleaning and get $200. I went to his clinic and got my teeth cleaned and received a $200 check. A week after that, i checked my dental bills online and found out that he charged my dental insurance around $1000 dollars including stuff they he didn\u2019t do. I called the dentist to ask him about that and he told me no worries, if i need anything extra regarding my teeth it will be free of charge; because of this i knew that he is sketchy and decided not to deal with him again. Then one year later in 2018, he called me again and said he need to talk to me in person regarding my medical insurance and insist to speak with him. Thus i went to his clinic to speak with him and he offered me to get cure for back pain and in return he will offer me $200. I refused and said no thanks. Then 3 months later, I checked my medical bills online and found out that he billed my insurance $10,000 dollars.\n\n\n I spoke with him regarding the bill and he was telling me bullsh** and that it was a mistake bla bla ... i decided to report him but I got busy with work, and this year I reported him to my medical insurance company for fraud. I spoke with my medical insurance customer service regarding this issue and at first they didn\u2019t take the issue seriously and told me they can\u2019t do anything because he is out-side their network and they don\u2019t have his info!! I got mad and insisted to them to investigate my dentist and gave them his info. Then one day later my dentist called my and told me to come to speak with him, i went to his clinic and he seemed nervous and then he offered me $30,000 CASH and in return that i speak with my insurance and tell them that it was a miss understanding and there is no fraud.. I refused and told him i will speak with him later because i was shocked and didn\u2019t know what to do!\n\nWhat should i do in this situation? My insurance is not taking the matter seriously and i think they told him that I claimed he is fraud! Am I eligible for California insurance fraud prevention act ? Also im a little bit nervous because i know that he can get in jail because of this and he know know my name and my address, so if he is desperate he can hurt me.\n\n","title":"[US, CA] Dentist offered me $30,000 to lie to my insurance company - insurance fraud","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539536704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o4d8z\/abusive_mother_wants_to_exercise_grandparent\/","id":"9o4d8z","body":"Mother lost custodial rights to me when I was 16 and has recently found out that I am pregnant (27 now). She currently lives outside of IL and plans on moving here in May because IL has grandparent rights. \n\nShe lost custody to my father because she was deemed unfit to parent. She has mental health disorders including stealing, drugs, lying, abusiveness, and many more. She is currently addicted to opiates. We have been out of touch since I was 16. And I mean completely out of touch. I learned all of this through a mutual family member. I\u2019m not due until January. \n\nMy understanding for grandparent custody in IL has me unconcerned about her gaining any custody. However, the visitation rights seem very gray in IL and in the US in general. I plan on contacting a family lawyer and looking at my options but given that it\u2019s Sunday and I\u2019m losing sleep over this I was hoping to get some direction on the severity of this. \n\nSide note: I am not against moving to an adjacent state with more rigor laws denying visitation to her. ","title":"Abusive mother wants to exercise Grandparent rights in [IL] in order to see my child","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569851362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbbtwg\/sibling_skipping_bail\/","id":"dbbtwg","body":"My wonderful sibling has been to jail\/court multiple times, as far as I know for petty theft but it could be for worse. Every time our family gets a teary phone call begging and pleading for her to be bailed out. Well, this last bail was 5,000 usd. No small amount. Her court date is October third, and if she misses this, as she has left to another state 'to meet her one true love', as far as I know, we will be out the 5k with no way to get it back.  \n\n\nI'm not sure what I'm looking for, just if the wizards here have any input at all I'd appreciate it.  \nThe case is being tried\/held in WA.","title":"Sibling skipping bail","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541542459,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ut1bd\/what_should_i_fight_for_in_court_after_being_rear\/","id":"9ut1bd","body":"Today at noon I was rear ended by a large 9 seat sprinter van. They were doing 79 in a 35. They were texting and driving and missed two red lights before hitting me. I was at a complete proper stop at a red light. There was two witnesses on the road besides everyone in the accident. \n\nI was sent to the ER by ambulance, put in a neck brace, broke my leg and sprained my ankle.\nI was wearing my seatbelt.\nBeing sent home in two days with crutches, cast, a lot of medicine and an appointment for physical therapy.\nAll ordered by the doc.\n\n\nMy car is totaled and destroyed.\nThe driver admitted to not paying attention, looking down at her phone.\nShe was driving a company sprinter and is an employee. She had another employee in the passenger seat.\n\nWhat can\/ what should I fight for in court? \nInsurance is taking care of my hospital bills.\nI would ideally like a settlement that includes money for damages and suffering. But am I crazy to ask for that?\n\nDearborn, Michigan. ","title":"What should I fight for in court after being rear ended and breaking my left leg by a company employee who was speeding and Texting and driving in a company van?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554350629,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9808m\/can_i_do_anything_about_this_non_consensual\/","id":"b9808m","body":"Hey Legal Advice, I want to apologise in advance if this lay out is weird.\n\nTo start things off I need advice from Australia and I have no idea how to type this so I\u2019m sorry if it\u2019s all over the place. \n\nNot long ago I was involved in an orgy; which was safe and consensual.\nEverything was all fine and dandy up until 2 days ago when I started getting messages demanding money! \nI was very shocked and confused so I started asking questions such as \u201cwhy do I apparently owe you money?\u201d, \u201chow much money do you want\u201d and \u201cwhy after 2 weeks are you demanding money from me?\u201d to which was answered and I refused to pay straight away as I have to replace the things that him and his friend took from the place we were at, as I had explained to him!\nFrom there he started making threats to post photos and videos that him and his friends have of me, I didn\u2019t even know they had any photos or videos of me! I am shocked, hurt and disgusted. I didn\u2019t give consent to have photos and videos taken, nor did I know they existed. I have no idea what to do. \n\nI don\u2019t know where I stand, I didn\u2019t consent to be filmed, I had no idea there were any videos or photos up until 2 days ago! I said I\u2019d pay him back after I replaced the stuff him and his friends took. \nI also asked, if I give them the money they want right now will they delete everything they have of me and they refused! I have no idea what to do, please help! ","title":"Can I do anything about this? Non consensual recordings and now black mail","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506567455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72xdhy\/sos_apartment_manager_threatening_fine_due_to_my\/","id":"72xdhy","body":" Sorry for the title gore, but I didn't have a good way to word my dilemma in a concise way. Here's the deal:\n\nBoth myself and my non-married SO commute to the local U (CA) nearly everyday, where I spend on the maximum of 3 minutes loading and unloading her in the back parking lot of her apartment complex. I usually make it out within a minute but sometimes she has 2 trips to make due to books or food or otherwise. I cannot help her as that would require me to kill my engine and leave my vehicle,  something I cannot do in a private parking zone.\n\nRecently, the manager (along with their grown child of upper-20) has told me that I can't drop off my SO in the lot, but rather do so in the busy and narrow sidestreet outside (a dangerous one). If I don't, quoth the manager, she will fine my SO and her family for violating parking regulations despite me not being affiliated legally to them in any way.\n\nIs this a legal move? I'd rather not press my luck but at the same time, not have to change my pickup and dropoff locations.\n\nThanks for the help! ","title":"SO's Apartment Manager threatening fine due to my [not resident or relative] idling in lot while SO disembarks","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1550277267,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ar3b76\/ohio_employer_docking_pay_if_register_is_short\/","id":"ar3b76","body":"Hi all. I am a server and was just told that if the drawer is short that it is deducted from all the servers pay checks. Is this legal?","title":"(OHIO) Employer docking pay if register is short.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554223538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8loag\/girlfriend_beats_me_and_i_am_forced_to_pay_her\/","id":"b8loag","body":"My girlfriend has hit me several times, but a month ago, she hit me hard in the head, while I was cuddling our two dogs, where i pushed her back and told her to stay away from me. She chased me through our apartment and I warned her three times, that if she didn't leave me alone, I would defend myself.\n\nShe then sued me for attacking her and made marks on herself as prove, luckily it was dismissed by the police, as she was lacking proper medical prove. But the police found my warning about me defending myself, to be a threat upon her life, which has now led me to be forced out of my apartment in 4 weeks and have to pay her a lot of money as \"victim contribution\", because the 'threat' made me  \"commit a severe crime against a victim'.\n\n​\n\nAny way I can prevent being kicked out of my apartment and pay that large criminal fee?\n\nPS: I live in Denmark, so criminal law may vary.","title":"Girlfriend beats me and I am forced to pay her for it","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552332865,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azxnqg\/ca_landlord_says_i_cant_smoke_cannabis_anywhere\/","id":"azxnqg","body":"I recently got a paper on my apartment door that i assume was given to all tenants. It says that cannabis use isn\u2019t allowed, even in our back patio areas because the apartments are not considered a private residence...\n\nI\u2019m confused. If cannabis is permitted in my city, and i\u2019m renting this apartment...why can\u2019t i smoke in the privacy of my back patio (which is entirely concealed)?\n\nIf i\u2019m expected to follow the rules and laws to a T, then i would basically have to ask a friend or family member to let me come to their house every time i want to smoke my legal, medical cannabis...?","title":"[CA] Landlord says i can\u2019t smoke cannabis anywhere in or around my residence...?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570737529,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg3ltp\/can_i_be_charged_with_a_crime_during_someone\/","id":"dg3ltp","body":"I was recently robbed at gunpoint. The person who robbed me is claiming  I was there to buy a large amount of marijuana from him. His attorney recently contacted me and asked a slew of questions related to me allegedly picking up from the perpetrator. I did not answer any of them, as I am completely unsure if I am able to be charged in this case, or if it\u2019s just something his attorney is doing to make me seem like less of a victim. \n\nAs always any and all advice is welcome and appreciated!","title":"Can I be charged with a crime during someone else\u2019s legal proceedings?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540916364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9spfzg\/should_i_hire_an_attorney_for_insurance_claim\/","id":"9spfzg","body":"Hello, My father is an Uber driver. He had to take someone from Columbus, OH to West Virginia. After he dropped the person off and was on the way back to Columbus, he hit a deer and the damage was bad, but the car was somewhat driveable so he drove back home. The next morning, we called the insurance company to make the claim. We have comprehensive insurance which is the insurance you need if you hit a deer, so we knew we would be covered. We called the insurance company and opened a claim for the incident. About a week later, someone from the insurance came down to see if the car was totaled or not. He ended up deciding that the car was totaled and we would get paid however much the car was worth. After they decided the car was totaled, the company began to avoid our calls and take time to call us back. After another almost 2 weeks they told us that Uber should be handling my claim, not the insurance because they thought my dad was driving for Uber while he had the accident, but this was not the case. Uber contacted me to ask if they should be handling the claim or not. They realized that he was not online on the app when it happened so they do not need to handle the claim, the insurance company does. My insurance company kept going back and forth with Uber conflicted over who should handle the claim. My insurance company asked us to prove that he dropped the person off safely and ended the trip before the accident happened. I proved this information to them by giving them my dad's Uber history. Now, the insurance company is saying that in a recording they had, we stated that the accident occurred at 3:30 which is when he was still with the passenger, which is not the case. I know we never said 3:30, but they are saying they have the recording in a CD which they will mail to us. They will not tell me how long it will take for me to receive the CD, nor will they give me any tracking information or allow me to access the recording digitally. At this point, it has been over one month since the incident happened and we have not gotten anywhere with my insurance company. They are not cooperating and it does not seem like they will. No matter what we try, they keep blaming me or keep saying Uber needs to handle this even after proving that they don\u2019t. Now, my question is should we hire an attorney to deal with this case or should I wait to get the recordings even though it does not seem like they will be cooperating and sending it soon, seems like either they are trying to waste as much time as possible or they don\u2019t want to pay us at all. Please give some suggestions as to what we should do as this is our first time dealing with something like this. Thank you","title":"Should I hire an attorney for insurance claim?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554709607,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baqync\/my_dad_never_paid_the_child_support_he_was\/","id":"baqync","body":"I might not have used the correct flair, I honestly don't know what this would even fall under. This is a long shot, but I thought I would ask. My parents got divorced when I was an infant, and it was stated in the terms of their divorce that my father would have to pay child support for an amount of time I'm unsure of. Well, I'm 19 now, and he never paid any of that money my whole life. I'm just trying to gauge if this is worth legally pursuing. There are a few more issues with this: my father got deported 10 years ago and he now lives in Brazil (his country of origin). I am not entirely sure how much he was supposed to pay and until when, and if payments were supposed to be documented. I also cannot ask my mother as I haven't seen or spoken to her in years and she is one of the great unfindables.  \n\nIs there any way I could take this issue to court? Do I have any standing? What kind of lawyer would I have to get? Would a lawyer even take my case? How would I go about suing someone overseas? Any help\/advice anyone could give me would be much appreciated.","title":"My dad never paid the child support he was supposed to; Is there any way I can see that money?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571001736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhgscp\/questions_about_contracts\/","id":"dhgscp","body":"I hope someone can explain here for me.\nI signed a contract for 3 months period at a work-out centre. \nThe price given is higher per month than I would\u2019ve gotten if I picked a 12month one.\n(I chose 3month so I wasnt obliged to go there 12months)\n\nIssue here is that I thought I would be free of obligations after the 3 months and would be paying this sum each month and be free to cancel any time.\n\nHere\u2019s the deal: After my 3 initial months my contract went automatically over to a 12month plan and since I\u2019m cancelling it 7 months after my 3 months they are holding me for 5months payment.\n\n1. Can I demand to see their version of the contract? \n\n2. If neither party have the contracts, can I refuse to pay?\n\n3. Is it even legal to bind me 12months without my consent? (I believe this isn\u2019t in the contract.)","title":"Questions about contracts","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569166441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7s00e\/parental_rights_when_using_a_sperm_donor_upstate\/","id":"d7s00e","body":"I am infertile so My SO and I are TTC using a sperm donor. We are doing artificial insemination using a known donor with fresh sperm and not going through a clinic. We are not legally married for financial purposes. \n\nI know that NY does not have any laws recognizing a known donor agreement. We have no concerns about the donor trying to get parental rights, that is not the question of this post. The concern is what my rights are as a non-biological father and the best way to ensure them. If god forbid anything we're to happen to my SO or if we were to separate, I need to be sure I have rights as the father. \n\nAs far as my understanding, I have three options. \n\n1. I formally adopt the child. This is the least desirable option. The donor would need to be involved in the process, but he does not want any involvement with the child whatsoever. It would also be costly and time consuming. \n\n2. We get married before the baby is born and do not mention the child was conceived using a donor. I would be on the birth certificate and established as the father. Getting married is possible but not ideal, as mentioned before for financial reasons. What risks are there of this being challenged? If challenged, how likely would I be in the court revoking my rights?\n\n3. We sign a paternity acknowledgment form with me as the father. Would this be legal or would it be considered lying on a legal document? If it is illegal, would it affect my likelihood of being granted rights if challenged?\n\nI know there is also precedent for a non-biological parent being granted rights for assuming a fatherly role, which I will be doing. Also, for being part of the preconception planning. We have both been seen at a fertility clinic for testing and discussing our options. \n\nThanks in advance, any answers and advice are appreciated.","title":"Parental rights when using a sperm donor (upstate NY)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569591590,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da0k2b\/landlord_takes_back_rental_after_we_paid_deposit\/","id":"da0k2b","body":"So my boyfriend and I are in the process of moving to Australia, specifically Melbourne. Because it's expensive to live there, we didn't want to book our flights until we've secured a rental. Our parameters were quite difficult; short term rental (four months), furnished, and in the CBD. We found a place and within that day of speaking to the landlord, our friend who lives in the city viewed it for us.  \n\n\nEverything went well, we asked to secure the place for us and we paid the deposit that was requested. We booked our flights to arrive the day we could move in. A contract was given to us. The landlord asked that we send a scanned copy of our passport and WHV visa for security, sure. When I was about to email her our info, I received this:  \n\n\n*Hi* u\/bagara93*,*\n\n*Unfortunately, the tenants currently staying in the apartment has decided to continue living in the apartment. We have decided to let them continue with their tenancy. Could you please give me your account number or your friends acc. no (John) so that I can return the 880$ that you guys have paid.*\u00a0\n\n*Sorry for the inconvenience.*\n\n  \nWhat the fuck??? Can she do this? After I'd already sent the deposit and a contract was made? \n\nI tried to send the most civil fuck you when I gave her my bank details. This was my response:\n\n  \n*Landlord,*\n\n*Wow this is so disappointing and unprofessional. We booked our flights based on this deal after we sent you the deposit. I\u2019d advise for the future, don\u2019t demand and accept others\u2019 money if you haven\u2019t even checked the current tenants\u2019 position. It\u2019s* ***extremely*** *unfair and now we are left in a terrible position. If anything, because we sent you the deposit money and you should have told those tenants that the deal was already\u00a0in place.*\n\n  \nA few hours later when I told my boyfriend about what happened, he said that we should fight it and figure out if we're legally in the right. Is there anything we can do?","title":"Landlord Takes Back Rental After We Paid Deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409784468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2feg2o\/im_unable_to_pay_wifes_court_ordered_lawyer_fees\/","id":"2feg2o","body":"Got Divorced, Ex-Wife Lawyered up and I got fucked. Judge has ordered me to repay my Ex-Wife (a Lawyer) $1000 in Legal fees. I was unable to make it to Court to fight the charges (long story). I Dont have 1000 Dollars to pay her. What do I do?","title":"I'm Unable to pay Wife's Court Ordered Lawyer Fees in Divorce, what do I do? Nueces County, Texas.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552663409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1g7s4\/can_they_tow_my_car\/","id":"b1g7s4","body":"So, I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m not wrong in the least bit, for clarification. Sorry on mobile. \n\nSo a little back ground. In CO. \nI started renting in second chance housing about 5-6 months ago. They are a little lower apartments, but it\u2019s fine for the situation I was in when I first moved in. \n\nThere\u2019s no assigned parking, and if you get to the complex any time past 5 o\u2019clock, you won\u2019t have a spot. There\u2019s been vehicles parked for a pretty long time in the lot, but they\u2019ve never towed anyone. \nLast week, I had a surgery on my chest, so I\u2019m feeling significantly better, I\u2019m in no way recovered and still weak. Last night, around 9-10 o\u2019clock, I have to make a trip to Walmart. I hop in the car, abandoning the spot I was in, head to Walmart, get the stuff I need, and come back. The spot is obviously gone, but I pull up to a \u201chandicap\u201d spot to unload since I have to make numerous trips to the apartment, and be a little closer. Now I understand it\u2019s bad, and I had every intention on moving it back, but forgotten about the car. That was at 11pm. \nI walk out to the lot today at 8AM. Car is gone. Have no idea where it went. Walk to the office, say it\u2019s been towed, it\u2019s over here. Now, the issue I\u2019m having is the handicap spots aren\u2019t real. These spots were manually painted, with no signs in front, by the complex. The police were not involved. \nI go to pick up my car, and they\u2019re closed until 9am. And how are they able to tow it with no way of getting it out when it happens? I do get it out of paying $217. \n\nIs this legal? Why is this not stealing the car? I know it was neglectful for me not to move the car to the street, or a further spot if there was one available. \n\nTldr: car was towed in a make shift handicap spot by apartment complex. ","title":"Can they tow my car?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508608347,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77uvgo\/starting_to_monetize_my_blog_and_start_a_business\/","id":"77uvgo","body":"Soon I'll be adding affiliate links and ads to help bring in money for my travel website. I've never started a business and looking to file as an LLC in Washington state. Resources for steps in starting a small online business? I might end up charging for services\/products as well (in the future). Pretty much every site says you need to get legal advice on it. I'm not sure if it's that necessary or it's as easy as filing for the LLC through the WA Secretary of State website and being done with it. Any advice helps!","title":"Starting to monetize my blog and start a business. What do I need to know?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551285470,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avfewv\/being_forced_to_resign\/","id":"avfewv","body":"I work for a big public company in the UK and we just had a restructure announced today. \n\nI was told that I\u2019m not being made redundant. Instead they are taking my job description and putting it into a different department. I work in the strategy team. My new boss has no strategy experience and it has been made clear to me he will have no interest in doing strategy work. My current boss told my that it was a bizarre decision, the role would be completely different and that instead of accepting the role I should resign.\n\nThe job description is being deliberately left the same even though the role will clearly be completely different. But I\u2019ve only been with the company 18 months. I feel I\u2019m being forced to resign rather than do what is a non-existent role. But I feel like I don\u2019t have any options because I\u2019ve been there less than less than 2 years.\n\nAny advice would be amazing! Thanks wonderful people in advance!","title":"Being forced to resign","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541620973,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v2tal\/nv_how_to_handle_a_bench_warrant_being_issued_age\/","id":"9v2tal","body":"Hello, currently reside in NV. I was charged with a misdemeanor reckless driving a while ago. I was told.to attend two driving courses and to pay a fine. I paid the fine that day, and attended one course on time, however the other course was an in person course only offered once a month. I was 5 days late completing this course, as I had to wait until the next time it was offered in person. \n\nI got a notice saying there was a bench warrant out for my arrest for not complying. How do I handle this? I really don't want to go to jail or something if I go into the court house to talk with someone. I understand I might have additional penalties for being late, which is fine I just really don't want to risk my job and schooling if they lock me up until a judge can see me. \n\nNothing I did was violent or drug related, it was just reckless driving. I had alcohol in my system but was below the legal limit. Police mentioned they were looking into whether or not they could penalize me more for having any alcohol in my system etc etc which was probably a scare tactic but it was cheaper to plead guilty to being a shithead driver than hiring a lawyer. \n\nBasically if I can walk in and set an appointment or something to get fined or make amends I would like to get this a settled. \n","title":"[NV] How to handle a bench warrant being issued, age 24.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569617329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da6c3l\/ca_security_deposit\/","id":"da6c3l","body":"Moving out of my first apartment and gunna do my walkthrough today. Lived here for about a year and a half. The only damage is a 6in x 6in stain in the carpet and a very faint blue stain about 2ft x 2ft on the wall. People have told me they repaint after ever rental so I shouldn\u2019t get charged but I\u2019ve read otherwise. Anyone with experience have some insight?","title":"CA - Security Deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503438916,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6veei4\/financial_aid_not_being_instated\/","id":"6veei4","body":"Relevant Information\n---\nLocation: Florida, USA\nUniversity: University of Florida (Public University)\nScholarship: Presidential Scholarship ($5,000 per year) - http:\/\/www.admissions.ufl.edu\/afford\/scholarships\nScholarship FAQ: http:\/\/www.admissions.ufl.edu\/afford\/scholarshipfaq\nAgreement Document: http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/7gi1r\nFax Log: http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/zAbtE\n---\nI was awarded a scholarship by my University earlier this year. An agreement document was sent to me to be completed and sent back to the University by May 12th. I faxed the document to the specified fax number on May 3rd. Recently I was contacted by the University stating that I am ineligible for the financial aid as I, according to them, did not send the agreement document. Upon further inquiry, the University claims that that only the first page of the five pages faxed to the University was received. I have fax logs indicating that I did indeed send five pages and not just one page. However the University says that there is no definitive proof on my end or on their end that the scholarship agreement was received. I have been told that if the problem was due to a technical error, that I can still receive the financial aid. I have tried to provide as much information as possible with the above links, but if what I have provided does not suffice, then try using the name \u201cPresidential Scholarship\u201d or \u201cUniversity of Florida\u201d to find more information online regarding policies.\n\nI believe that since I have provided proof that I sent five faxes of one page each (five pages total), but the University only claims to have received one page, that there is clearly a technical error. Because there is a technical error, the University cannot require that I provide additional proof that the documents that were lost in this error were indeed the scholarship agreement documents due to some kind of \u201cbenefit of the doubt\u201d. In other words, since the documents weren\u2019t received in the first place, the University is no longer able to inquire about the content of what was not received because it doesn\u2019t matter--a technical error happened regardless and they simply have to \u201ctrust\u201d me about it. Again, this is simply what I believe and I have no experience with law in the past. How should I go about getting the financial aid at this point?\n\nIt\u2019s impossible for me to recover what was actually sent in the fax logs, only when and to whom they were sent.\n","title":"Financial Aid Not Being Instated","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555031113,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc7nll\/is_this_principal_doing_anything_thats_illegal\/","id":"bc7nll","body":"So some background info:\n\nI go to a pretty well known public High School in the US. It's one of the top schools in the State and a great school except for what seems like a fairly corrupt principal.\n\nEvents that led me to post here:\n\nCP= Principal\n\nThe first personal experience of CP happened fairly early in the school year. So I brought a drink into school and someone had put pencil graphite in the drink. The drink was a juice so nobody would be able to tell there was something put in it. The graphite was slipped into the drink when I went to use the restroom. When I got back another student stood up and yelled at me not to drink it and identified who did it. So me being angry went to the principal's office and had to deal with talking to CP. So CP asks me who did it and called the student who put the graphite into my drink. So long story short the person's parent called the school and said that graphite was not toxic and that nothing should happen to her kid. So CP lets that student go and pardoning them from punishment. See, my problem is what if that student actually put something harmful into the drink and what would have happened. This event pretty much leads me to assume that CP has done this before.\n\nThe second personal experience with CP happened just today. So school lunch in the US is held to an extremely low standard. So my friends and I were getting sick of eating school lunches and decided to order a pizza and grinders from my local pizzeria. We had seen other students do the same thing and be completely fine with ordering food to the school. So the food gets here and CP pulls me into the office, asks me what I was doing and said what I did was unacceptable. I really didn't understand what was wrong as teachers order from the pizzeria and students have done so before so I told CP and CP ignored what she said and that she did not care about what other people had done. So I paid for the food and CP would not give me the food even though I had paid for the food. So I headed back to lunch now and CP yelled at my friends for the same reasons. To mention, my friend who gave me the money got threatened to be searched for having money. And again, any time my friend would try and argue what CP said, CP would say they did not care. So we all came to the agreement with CP that we would get the food back at the end of the day, When me and my friends go back to claim our food, one of our friend's pizza was missing a slice. Then the rest of the staff was joking with us and laughing about pretty much implying that CP is wrong for what they did or giving the perception they did. This seems unfair to me because other students were able to so why not us and the \"I don't care\" attitude CP brought along with it.\n\nMy questions:\n\n1. Is what CP is doing illegal?\n2. Should I eventually get into contact with a lawyer?","title":"Is this Principal doing anything that's illegal?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1445803683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q6ri9\/uk_scotland_do_criminal_charges_expire_once_a\/","id":"3q6ri9","body":"Well over a year ago, I was charged with a serious offense and remanded in custody over a weekend. On the Monday, I was taken a Sherriff court but then released (was told I was being \"liberated\") before appearing in any court or in front of a judge. I was never given a court date and told by my solicitor that, for the time being, I wouldn't be appearing in court and would have to wait for more news. I was specifically told I was not on bail, had no limitations, and could leave the country etc.\n\nEventually, months down the line, I got a letter from the CPS telling me the case wasn't being pursued. My solicitor explained that this meant I was *essentially* never going to hear about it, but there would always be the possibility that it could be brought up again if new evidence appeared. He also explained that, although I'd lost income, paid legal fees, and spent months of my life in an emotional abyss, there would be no point in either bringing my own legal proceedings against my accuser or in pursuing an official \"Not Guilty\" verdict. I've come to accept that as the best course of action and am past it now.\n\nThe only thing left for me to worry about are the charges. Since I didn't actually do anything, no new evidence should ever appear. But that's obviously not going to comfort me 100%. I've spent a lot of time looking at UK, and Scotland-specific, law information regarding charges and bail, but can't find anything relating to my specific situation - especially the part where I was released without appearing in a court. I'd really like to know if the charges ever expire, or if they'll be hanging over my head forever.\n\nCan anyone help me?","title":"[UK Scotland] Do criminal charges expire once a case has been discontinued?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541988922,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w9v4o\/help_me_not_get_screwed_in_my_divorce\/","id":"9w9v4o","body":"Broke, lawyerless single mom in need of legal translation!\n\nI was married for seven years, have two children (6 and 2 y\/o), and own one house. I was a stay-at-home-mom since the oldest was born, and all of the assets\/credit\/income are in my ex\u2019s name. I left my ex in Feb 2018, he stayed in the house with our two children and kept the car. I am currently living in a studio apartment (he co-signed the lease in exchange for me not asking for alimony, which I didn\u2019t want anyway), working part-time in retail tech support, and in school for massage therapy, with plans to finish and become licensed in late spring 2019. \n\nFor the most part the divorce has been \u201camicable\u201d, as in I don\u2019t hate him and I\u2019m not trying to bleed him dry, etc. I just got married too young and didn\u2019t want to be married to him anymore. He is understandably mad at me for leaving, and has been pretty immature, but we\u2019ve gone to mediation and sorted out most of the details. Right now the children live with him six days per week and me one day per week, since I don\u2019t have a car to get them to school\/daycare, and I have no family while he has quite a large family who is mostly local. He works 9-5, lives in our 3br house, and has the car he came into the marriage with (I sold mine when we moved to the city and two cars weren\u2019t necessary). \n\nAll I am asking for in the divorce is a renegotiation of physical custody to 50\/50 once I am licensed\/employed and can afford a car and at least a 1br apartment, and 50% of the current equity of the house. He can\u2019t afford to buy me out right now, so he is currently paying for my school tuition and all childcare expenses, with the agreement that my portion of the back expenses of childcare and tuition will be taken from my half of the equity when the house is sold in a few years. \n\nGoing from a single-income family with a child with special needs to a 1.5-income, two-home \u2018family\u2019 is of course expensive, and I don\u2019t have any assets with which to afford a lawyer. So he has a lawyer doing all of the filing, but as he is still angry and acting immature, I don\u2019t trust 100% that I\u2019m not getting screwed. Currently what is holding up the legal process is that I have a simple paper to sign, and I don\u2019t know what it says. So I\u2019ve had it for two months and haven\u2019t signed it. I\u2019ve had trouble finding free legal help, so here I am! I\u2019ve read Reddit a thousand times but never posted anything, so forgive any errors please.\n\nThe divorce process is complicated, of course, so my confusion lies with item 3 on page 1 (affidavit of consent) and basically all of the second page (waiver of notice etc etc etc). Wtf is this? What rights would I be waiving, and at what point are they waived? Any ideas? State is Pennsylvania, for clarity. Thanks!","title":"Help me not get screwed in my divorce!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506365255,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72ejhx\/ive_worked_hundreds_of_hours_of_overtime_over_the\/","id":"72ejhx","body":"Bit of background: I work for a concert venue\/music theatre in Wisconsin in upper management. I started last February and was told I'd be paid hourly. Figured that would be fine because I knew I'd be working long hours during the season and would make plenty of money. I was also told by the owner after I had accepted the job, \"management doesn't get overtime pay, but we'll work out a bonus for you at the end of the season.\"\n\nI was under the impression this was a non-profit organization, which I thought meant they weren't legally bound to pay overtime, although can't say I'm up to date on the latest regulations. Now I'm fairly certain we ARE NOT a 501c3 as I was lead to believe, and also recently found out I will not be paid the bonus covering overtime pay.\n\nI often put in 60-75 hours a week running the theatre, without a dime over my standard pay. Owner has an F rating on the BBB for his accounting firm he also owns and have seen many complaints across all review platforms of him lying and scamming people out of money. Also has been sued a couple dozen times according to the local Circuit Court access page.\n\n","title":"I've worked hundreds of hours of overtime over the last 7 months at a new job without getting any overtime pay, being promised an end-of-season bonus in it's place. Now it seems that bonus won't come, is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569692457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daj6ik\/is_there_any_way_i_could_create_and_publish_a\/","id":"daj6ik","body":"\\[California\\] I want to build a mobile application which shows live scores as well as professional sports and fantasy sports news. Is this possible, considering I would be using the teams' names\/logos, as well as athletes names in the app?","title":"Is there any way I could create and publish a mobile app which uses professional sports team names and\/or logos?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570764285,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg9aum\/can_i_hangout_with_this_person_within_the_six\/","id":"dg9aum","body":"I live in Alberta, Canada.  \n\n\nSo, here's the issue I'm having.  \n\n\nI use to work for a private preschool a month ago.  A nanny of a child that I worked with told me she wanted to grab some coffee when I was no longer working for the company in question.   \n\n\nMy contract states that \"I can't solicit clients or take away any customers or prospective customers for whom the employee provided services for while employed by the employer, for the purpose of engaging in any activity which directly competes with the business of the Employer anywhere within the Prohibited Jurisdiction. \"  \n\n\nI can't see how getting coffee with someone or hanging out with them would fall under this part of my contract. \n\n1. because I work in a different field for Education now\n\n2. They aren't a client of the company or could not be due to reasons I've been told by said nanny.  \n\n\nWhen I was employed by said company I brought up the exact issue and they told me it was a gray area of the contract and told me I could not. I think that isn't the case. So, can I or can't I? should I wait till the 6 month period ends or can I talk to them now? I hope I'm not being too dumb and misunderstanding my contracts guidelines.","title":"Can I hangout with this person within the six month period I use to indirectly work with?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553552432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5hcks\/my_bipolar_aunt_beat_up_my_brother\/","id":"b5hcks","body":"Sorry for any grammar mistakes or anything,im shaking quite badly.\n\nMy aunt is 33 and has a 3 year old daughter. We are a family of seven and live in a house for like three; we tend to bump into each other a lot. \n\nMy aunt went to jail some time ago for selling drugs and taking them. She got off probation five years ago. Since she got off probation, you could tell that she was in something or she had a mental illness. She would be crying one minute then yelling and screaming the next. \n\nShe has gotten into physical fights with my mom (no repercussions because no one is clear who started them and no one wanted to press charges) and I have gotten into a small fight where i, stupidly, hit her first. \n\nEverytime she gets mad, she leaves with her daughter. Her daughter is now a nervous wreck.\n\nEnough for back story...\n\nSo, about an hour ago, my aunt came back inside to fix her boyfriend a sandwich. My mom was making dinner so my aunt couldn't get any space to make it. She went on and on about how \"He's hungry and he hasn't eaten anything!\/When you get done can I make him some food\/ etc.\" Eventually, they started arguing and I think my mom said something like \"If he would wait twenty minutes, he could have a real dinner\" and my aunt told her \"Fxxx you\" and threw somethig at her (maybe a piece of cheese or something idk) and my mom told her to stop throwing stuff and to calm down. My aunt got into my mom's face and my mom says \"Go ahead and hit me! I dare you\".\n\n This back and forth kind of stuff continued for a bit until my aunt went to throw a punch as my brother was coming out if his room. She missed and my brother pushed her out if the kitchen and into the living room. My aunt kept hitting my brother,trying to get back into the kitchen and she broke his glasses in the process. He tried to catch them and she ran back the hall to grab her keys but threw her daughter into her arms. My mom told her she was staying here until the police got here. My grandma took the baby out of my aunts room and wouldn't let her go until my aunt just left the house. \n\nThe officer eventually got here and basically told us that the only thing that we could do is call social services and child welfare. He left us with that.\n\nMy aunt came back and said that the officer told us to give her her kid. We weren't going to do that until an officer came so we kept her in the house until one did.\n\nMy grandma called the social services number at least six times before a machine picked up. After a chain of button  pressing, a person answered only to tell her that child welfare is closed until tomorrow.\n\nHer mother really doesn't take care of her other than the occasional diaper change (she hasn't stayed at the house long enough to potty train her). What steps can we take to obtain custody of the kid? Also, what can we do to get my aunt help?","title":"My bipolar aunt beat up my brother","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570073233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dclckj\/how_would_a_custody_battle_go_if_one_parent_was\/","id":"dclckj","body":"Currently live in Nevada where we split custody 50\/50. \n\nMy ex husband just told me that he doesn\u2019t know for sure but he has a possible job, a \u201creally good job\u201d, waiting for him in Louisiana. This is all hypothetical in the moment but if this becomes a reality i need to know what to expect. What would be the run down a judge, or whoever, would look at for custody? I don\u2019t want to take my child away from his father, but I\u2019m also not willing to budge on giving up anymore time with my son. I have a good job and support myself and my son 100% on my own. We live in a good area and all of our family lives within 3 miles of each other. If my ex husband got this job and decided to move, and had an insane idea to try and get full custody, what would be the odds? He has no friends or any family done in Louisiana. He\u2019d be alone and my son wouldn\u2019t be with anybody he\u2019s familiar with except his dad.  \n\nI know this is a long shot. It\u2019s all hypothetical right now. But like i said, i need to prepare myself.","title":"How would a custody \u201cbattle\u201d go if one parent was moving to another state for work? (NV)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442222749,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kw1cd\/ny_getting_cas_alerts_from_my_isp_not_sure_what\/","id":"3kw1cd","body":"I've recently been getting CAS alerts from my ISP and it's getting to the point where they are trying to suspend my Internet connection. I am not sure why this is happening, though, seeing as though I only use my Internet to surf Netflix and play games online. How do I go about handling a situation like this?\n\nMy home network has a total of 8 people connected to it that I know of. At any given time, there are 4 people connected to it. I don't suspect any of my family to be the one to download anything illegal seeing as though the content in question seems to be in English and they all primarily only speak Spanish? \n\nI am confused about this situation and don't really know what to do, help?\n\nMy ISP is Optimum by the way. I am also not the owner of the account either. I simply use the Internet the most in the house and thus, am the only one that knows about this problem. ","title":"(NY) Getting CAS alerts from my ISP, not sure what to do or how to handle this situation?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571075513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhu8lq\/traffic_ticket_moving_violation_i_dont_think_the\/","id":"dhu8lq","body":"Long story short, I was pulled over for not freaking signaling for changing lanes literally 2 street away from my house. I\u2019m quite sure I did but officer says I did not and gave me a ticket. I have my back dash camera that can at least prove the **officer was not able to clearly see if I did or did not turn on my signal**. Basically the video shows he was several streets down after pulling a SUV over. He gets in the car while at the same time the two lanes between him and I both had large SUV changing lanes and at exactly the same time I was also changing lanes. It is almost impossible for him to even see I put on my turn signal for a split second as the two suv in the two separate lanes were in the way and also changing lanes. **Do i need a traffic lawyer for this with direct video evidence or can I just go to court and defend myself base on this?** I\u2019m almost 100% sure he will be at court. It\u2019s kind of funny because even afterwards the pull over, off his chest camera he even told me how to get out of it.... he clearly felt bad. I have a clean record and am a healthcare Professional. This is in Houston, Texas","title":"Traffic Ticket Moving Violation: I dont think the officer was current and I have evidence: In Texas Houston.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540469314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r9ot7\/nj_ex_roommatetenant_left_fleas_in_house_how_do_i\/","id":"9r9ot7","body":"I own a 2 bedroom condo and rent out the other room from time to time to pay bills. Yes i live in one of the two bedrooms. Long story short my ex roommate lived like a hoarder\/slob with two cats (and never took care of them) and I noticed jumping tiny black bugs and kinda hoped they were only temporary because of the good weather.. I was wrong. Anyway she's gone and moved out but I still have the bugs, later found out they are fleas\n\n1: how would I prove to a judge she's the cause of the bugs? \n\n\n2: I don't know her new address, I have her old address which is her parents house. Can I serve her a lawsuit there? \n\n\n3:is there a statute of limitations on suing for money\/damages?\n\nThanks. And yes she is on a lease ","title":"(NJ) ex roommate\/tenant left fleas in house, how do I sue?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554880351,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbj2ty\/rushed_to_the_emergency_room_for_lymphangitis\/","id":"bbj2ty","body":"Because we've lived here for 4 months without complaints he claims the bugs were brought about by us after moving in. I know I really messed up when I noticed bites months ago but chose to handle the problem myself with store bought bed bug sprays and diotomatious earth powder. The infestation actually seemed to disappear until a few days ago when we removed the previous tenants' old furniture from the house. I woke up covered in bites again the next day, and to my horror I noticed a big red streak developing from one bite, travelling up my arm slowly. A quick google search and I was off to the hospital where they confirmed an infectious bite gave me lymphangitis.\n\nLandlord is aware of the situation and kindly refused to pay for fumigation, saying the house was all clear before we moved in. How do we proceed?\n\nI'm in Woodbury, Tennessee.","title":"Rushed to the emergency room for lymphangitis caused by bed bugs, landlord won't pay for fumigation.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571432416,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djtrzk\/ex_is_taking_kids_away_we_were_never_legally\/","id":"djtrzk","body":"I know this sub is for simple legal questions, but I'm desperate.\n\nMy ex is taking the kids 12 hours away. This is in Michigan. I can't afford a lawyer, one that I called said that it was $95 just for the intro-hour session then after that they would quote me the full fee. I can't even afford that right now. I'm freaking out. I've tried googling and searching the [michigan.gov](https:\/\/michigan.gov) website but I don't understand any of it or what the right forms are or where even to send them.\n\n​\n\nCan anyone who's been through this or familiar with this type of situation give me some direction?","title":"Ex is taking kids away, we were never legally married. Where do I start? I cannot afford a lawyer.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570473429,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/denn06\/am_i_screwed\/","id":"denn06","body":"So not too long ago I get on a dating app to boost my self confidence. I'm not getting many matches except the occasional girl asking for money in exchange for sex. But I get a message from a girl that seems to be normal. We converse, and she seems fine. She then asks for my number. So I give it to her. She then proceeds to send me nudes, and so I feel like I should do the same back since this has never happened to me before. Then she ghosts me. Her online profile is gone. I don't hear from her again. But four days later I get a call from a number. It's a man claiming to be her father saying that The girl was 15. Her profile said she was 20 which is of great concern to me since I'm over 18. But he then said that if I sent him money to replace a laptop that was broken due to the aftermath of that we could move past that. So I send him all of my savings and checking account money to put this behind us. He calls me a week later claiming that I called him and says that \"It's a good thing I called him because he needs to send me my money back so that he can press charges against me\". But he won't press charges unless I can find $300 to send him to help him afford to send his daughter to anger management classes. Also a direct result of me messaging his daughter is what he claims.\nFirst of all, how illegal was it what I did even though I made sure to delete the pictures as soon as he informed me that she was underage?\nAnd second, does he have any ground to file charges? Is it possible off of a phone number?\nAnd lastly, what's my best move? I can't afford to pay him those $300s. I gave him everything I had the first time he told me to pay up or he'll file charges. Is there a good way I can defend myself in this case?","title":"Am I screwed?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442712310,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lmlk2\/need_help_breaking_the_lease_because_my_roommate\/","id":"3lmlk2","body":"I moved into an apartment in Montgomery County, Maryland with two other roommates because they said it was a quiet, respectful environment, and I didn't doubt them at the time. They told me one of them was bringing her dog, and the apartment doesn't normally allow dogs but she had gotten a doctor's note so I guess it would now be allowed. She assured me the dog was well-behaved and house-broken. \n\nSo 4 weeks ago I move in and it's one problem after another, but that's not entirely relevant. The girl brings the dog from out-of-state last week. This dog is not entirely house-broken, and also will bark at anything and everything. If someone isn't in the same room as him he will bark until someone pays attention to him. If he hears other tenants he will bark. He barks to drive me crazy.\n\nMy question is: does getting a dog constitute a material change of circumstances, and can I get out of my lease? \n\nI'm studying for the LSAT and have already had to postpone my test date because of all these issues, but now i literally cannot study in my own home. I have to study after work when most libraries are closed, and what's more is if i'm the only one home I literally cannot relax, sleep, or do anything because the dog barks. ","title":"Need Help: Breaking the lease because my roommate got a dog","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550003329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apxu1x\/i_just_got_fired_from_my_retail_job_for_shopping\/","id":"apxu1x","body":"I just recently got hired at Target in Orem, Utah. I was hired 2 weeks ago, but today I was fired for a reason that I think is invalid.\n\nAfter my shift ended and I had clocked out, I figured that I might as well do some grocery shopping while I was still there. I bought a bunch of stuff and went to check out at the registers, but it was VERY crowded and the lines for the register were very congested. While I was waiting in line, my boss sees me, goes up to me, and asks \"What are you doing?\" I told him that I was just shopping, but he told me to put all of my items back and leave. He said that he would prefer if the registers are open only to guests, not employees. He says that an employee shopping only means one extra body to congest the front end. \n\nI argued that since I was off the clock, I qualified as a guest. I then said that I wasn't putting my stuff back and that I was staying to buy my stuff. My boss then tells another employee to take my cart and put all of my stuff back where it belongs. My boss takes me to his office and fires me. \n\nIs this not a completely bullshit reason to fire me? I was literally just shopping and trying to make use of the employee discount that they gave me in the first place. Can I fight this in any way? Could I file for wrongful termination?","title":"I just got fired from my retail job for shopping off of the clock.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504439965,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xsr24\/landlords_turned_off_my_water_electricity_smashed\/","id":"6xsr24","body":"I think it's important to point out that I live in the UK (London). They own the house but they are not registered as landlords no one knows they are renting which I didn't know until recently. My house used to be part of their house but they built an extension and turned it into two separate properties so I have no door number I'm just in a house next door. The fuse box is in their house and they control everything.\n\nSo I found a 1 bedroom house for \u00a3600 a month on Gumtree which is as cheap as a room in a house so I went for it. My dad (who was staying at his house in spain while he renovated his new house here, he sold our house so I had to find somewhere to live) went to meet with the landlords and take a look at it while I was at work.\n\nI moved in the next day (in March), the landlords are an Albanian couple and ask for 2 weeks deposit 2 weeks rent (\u00a3600) to move in. I asked for a contract or something in writing but they refused. This was unacceptable to me but my dad agreed seeing as I had no other options, he was leaving the country the next day and had all of my things in his car. I wasn't happy and said I really need this in writing but they said \"we won't give you anything in writing, you can take a picture of our ID and pay rent in cash\" I was pissed off but had no choice.\n\nA few months later I have my friend come over for a few hours to play games (I borrowed a PS4 and finally had my own place so I was really happy about this). The landlords went *nuts*. They told me I can't have guests because it costs them more money for two people to use a kettle or shower(?). I said that's ridiculous there's nothing about this in the contract because there is no contract and 1 person coming over for a few hours 1 day a week isn't bothering them, we don't use the kettle and they don't shower here.\n\nThey installed security cameras outside my door to \"catch me\" having my friend over. Later they came to me with the \"evidence\" and said I need to pay more money for my friend to be here or move out. They said it's now \u00a3700 a month and they want a copy of my friends passport and will class my friend as living here. I said my friend won't come round anymore but they refused the idea and said I have to do this or move out. I had nowhere else to go and my dad told me to pay it to keep them happy so I did.\n\nI asked my friend not to come anymore, for 3 weeks there was no one at my house. I went to the landlords (I paid fortnightly) and told them they can see from the cameras no one has been here so can I just pay the normal rent now. They said no, it's always going to be \u00a3700 now or I can move out.\n\nMy friend starts coming round again since I'm paying for it. A few weeks later he has his dads funeral and tells me his two brothers are coming over from Ireland for it with no space for them to stay. I have a whole house to myself and I checked with a police officer before because my landlords are crazy - I am allowed to have guests to stay for a short time and since my friend is classed as living here, he is allowed to have his family stay round for a few days. So I agree, I wanted to do what I could do to help.\n\nThe landlords go crazy and tell me I have 3 days to move out because I have 3 guests in my house (it was a Thursday). I have to be out on Sunday at 3pm or else. I said I gave 2 weeks deposit so they need to give me notice but they tell me they won't give my deposit back and I have 3 days or else.\n\nI try to talk to them but they shut the door and won't answer my calls. I try my best to move but it's impossible and Sunday comes around. 3pm they knock on my door, I say I'm sorry I told you I can't leave in 3 days I have nowhere to go I need actual notice. They go back to their house and turn off my water and electricity. They come to my house with 5 \"builders\" and start to kick off my door. \n\nI call the police. The police arrive and almost arrest the landlords and make them switch my water and electricity back on. They tell them to give me notice or a section 21 and tell me that my landlords are insane. They leave.\n\nThe next day the landlords turn off the water and electricity again. I can't shower, wash my clothes, flush the toilet or wash my dishes. The male landlord then smashes through my wall with a hammer telling me to get out. I wake up to this man inside my house flailing his arm around through my wall with a hammer. I call the police again. Same story. The landlords print out a section 21 online and they sign it saying I have to leave 14th September.\n\nA few days later they tell me they're going on holiday for a month and switch off the electricity (not the water) again the day before my birthday then leave the country. I pay to stay in a hotel because I can't cook or see in the dark or charge my phone etc.\n\nAll of the food in my fridge went bad, I can't charge my phone for work because it dies at night and I end up being late for work everyday because I'd wake up with my phone dead from full charge and no alarm (almost got fired but I have an amazing boss who understood my situation, I ended up staying up most nights not sleeping to make it to work but I'm not late anymore I got an alarm clock), I have to pay for takeaways everyday because I can't cook or store anything in my fridge. I have to pay for a gym to shower because I can wash my hair at home but I can't dry it. It's costing me so much money I can barely save up to move out. \n\nToday there's still no electricity. They're back from holiday but told me it's broken and can't help me so all the police could do was ask them to get an electrician. I have 11 days to move out and some money saved up (doing the best I can) but could really use more time if I don't want to borrow money.\n\nI know I brought this on myself because I agreed to not having anything in writing but I felt like I had no choice at the time. Is there anything I can do legally? This all seems so wrong..\n\n**TL;DR** My landlords gave me 3 days to move out because I had 2 guests round. Turned off my electricity and water, gave me 3 days to move out and smashed through my wall with a hammer. I have no contract, just a verbal one. Can I do anything legally? ","title":"Landlords turned off my water, electricity, smashed through my wall with a hammer and gave me 3 days to move out because I had 2 guests in my house.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506701951,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/738vnr\/university_library_charging_me_160_for_a_8_book\/","id":"738vnr","body":"I checked out a book from my university\u2019s library (public university if that\u2019s relevant) and I forgot to return it and it\u2019s not just over a week over due. I looked the book up on Amazon, and it was $8.99 new. The book I checked out was in poor condition at best. I got an email saying because the book was now a week over due, they\u2019re charging me $75 for it. Not only that though, they\u2019re also charging me \n$10 Processing fee\n$10 Billing fee (because they charged my student account\n$10 Non-Cash payment fee (because they charged my student account)\n$20 Late fee\n$10 Clerk fee\n$20 Replacement fee\nAs well as $.25 for every one of the 8 days it\u2019s late. \n\nOh but if I return the book, they will reduce the fee by $25.\n\nThey\u2019re making me pay $160 for a $8.99 book because it\u2019s a week late. Also, I can\u2019t just not pay it because they charged it to my student account so if I don\u2019t pay it I can\u2019t graduate.  Is there anything illegal about this? It seems like there has to be.\n\nI live in NH USA\n","title":"University Library charging me $160 for a $8 book.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569801268,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db3bmy\/sisters_divorce\/","id":"db3bmy","body":"Sister is divorcing her husband (CA)\n\n\nFacts:\n\nMarried 15 years\n\nShe makes 2x what he does\n\n1 child together (14f). She will want to stay with mom primarily \n\nBoth have retirement plans (hers will be far greater than his). She does not pay into SS due to her profession. He does. \n\n\nShe put him on deed of house 10 years ago. She bought before marriage and she pays the mortgage. \n\n\nHe has 50k in CC debt. She has 60k in student loan debt. \n\n\nQuestions:\n\nWill she owe him alimony? If so for how long?\n\nWill she have to pay for his lawyer due to income discrepancy?  He has 0 savings and won\u2019t be able to afford an attorney. \n\nIf she were to get say 80% physical custody who would ow child support?\n\nAre they both entitled to each other\u2019s retirement plans?\n\nShe wants him off the title. How does this work? How much will she owe him? 50% Equity since he was added to title?\n\nWill the debt cancel out for each of them?\n\nThanks LA!\n\nShe will be speaking with an attorney this week.","title":"Sisters divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554304900,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8zbmk\/contract_jargon_advice_floridausa\/","id":"b8zbmk","body":"Hi everyone! So I'm refinancing my car. I finally was offered a good rate, yay!\n\n​\n\nThey've given me the paperwork and everything like that, but I want to be sure I'm not getting screwed. I'm also not entirely sure what to be looking for when it comes to this.\n\n​\n\nDoes anyone have advice of who I could speak to or web sites I can go to that can help me go through this contract to make sure I'm not getting messed over? I'd go to a bank, but if I'm not getting the loan through them, most likely they won't help me. Is this something I would have to pay a lawyer to do, or accountant?\n\n​\n\nThe legal wiki says to get a \u2018local attorney\u2019, but so I need one just to go over it with me? Is it expensive? Can a web site assist, and if so, does anyone know any that are legitimate? I'd google myself but I don't want to get wrong information by mistake.\n\n​\n\nThanks in advance.\n\n​\n\nTL:DR Who do I speak or is there a good website to go to to just understand and check a contract? ","title":"Contract Jargon Advice? (Florida,USA)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1441415708,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jowmp\/will_and_testament\/","id":"3jowmp","body":"So, my father has been working at a restaurant for 30 years.\nThe owner, who saw my father like a son, passed away in 2004.\nHe was told by the owner's nephew that he was left something in the will. He was never told anything by any of his children. He didn't pursue it due to his legal status. The restaurant is a small family chain that makes millions and the children have taken over managing. My dad was interested in finding what he left him or what was said about him.\n\nI already tried searching the probate filing online. What should the next steps be?\n\nOrange County, California","title":"Will and testament","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554476695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9sb1z\/should_i_work_with_viralhog\/","id":"b9sb1z","body":"So viralhog contacted me to license a video i just uploaded.\nI have my own youtube channel with 21k subs and a total of 4,3M views. I have one specific video that goes really well, although my views and revenue has quite dropped the last 2 months. They will monetize and use my video and give me 70% of the revenue. Ofcourse i could make more myself, but the fact is they have videos with over 65M views. Which is if you think  about it quite alot of money (i'd say approx 45K for me if i get the 70%) and my most viewed video has 3,7M views. So this video is more likely to go viral on viralhog which ofcourse means i could possibly earn more with that specific video with them. I asked about this on another subreddit but they only linked me a post about someone complaining viralhog copyright claimed them by sharing one of viralhogs licensed video on facebook, so that really wasn't helpfull to me since that has nothing to do with my situation.\nThey offered me a contract, i really wish i could post it so you could take a decent look but this subreddit doesn't allow images.\n\nI'm quite conflicted, can anyone help me make up my mind or does anyone have any bad or good experiences with this company? ","title":"Should i work with viralhog?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568751454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5mkfb\/can_employee_keep_me_from_giving_a_reference_for\/","id":"d5mkfb","body":"One of my coworkers recently left the company under tense circumstances. Today I got an email that another coworker had been contacted by one of our customers to provide feedback on this former employee. HR has advised that we \"may not give our opinion on a former or current employee\u2019s performance.\" Is this legal? If I do give a reference for this person could I be fired?\n\nIn this case - I don't necessarily even want to get involved, but keeping employees from giving references for colleagues seems wrong.","title":"Can employee keep me from giving a reference for a former coworker?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446517273,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3raq6d\/potential_roommate_issue\/","id":"3raq6d","body":"I rent a house. I can afford it. It's a nice place, and the landlord is pretty laid back. I'm allowed to get roommates (the lease says I am responsible), so I'm wondering how to do this safely.\n\n\"A\" is coming in February. He's a friend of mine from college and we've lived together before. I trust him implicitly, and he's a smart guy, hard worker, and all around fun dude. I'm looking forward to it.\n\n\"B\" I met when I moved to town. I bought some furniture from her family. Stand up folks, her dad has really taken a liking to me. Only issue - first thing that comes up when you google \"B\" is a mug shot. Now, I've met her and hung out with her a few times (she hasn't moved in yet), and I know her dad at least is good for things - he trusted me on credit for a few months, and we have a good relationship. \"B\" 's crimes seems to be a few counts of some kind of financial crime against \"federally insured institutions\" - I'm guessing bad checks. I'm not asking for a lot in rent (like I said, I can afford this place on my own), and I don't think that's the issue -\n\nI want to know A) how much I need to know in this situation. I don't care about her issues, but she's moving in under my lease, so there needs to be some kind of disclosure here. B) How do I treat these two fairly? Can someone point me to a \"roommate sublease\" contract I can have both sign?\n\nIs there anything I'm overlooking, or am I being too naive? I can call B's dad and straight ask him, but I don't want to come off as a douche.\n\nI won't be monitoring this account - please post replies in the thread. Thanks.\n\nEdit: Location is south Georgia, if that means anything.","title":"Potential roommate issue","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571694701,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl7lrm\/the_odds_of_a_disorderly_conduct_charge_getting\/","id":"dl7lrm","body":"First time offender got cited for disorderly conduct on my college campus and I was just wondering what the odds of it getting dropped in court were (pleaded not guilty). I spent my savings from working the past 4 years on 2 attorneys and I hope that helps. \n\nIf this goes on my record, i\u2019m never going to be able to get a job and it\u2019s just causing a lot of unneeded stress especially around final exams.\n\nIf anyone can comment it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.","title":"The odds of a disorderly conduct charge getting dropped for a first time offender? (Pennsylvania)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541189446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tnmvp\/husbands_custody_battle_w_ex_wife\/","id":"9tnmvp","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nI am new to reddit and have heard that this is a great place to ask questions and seek some legal advice. So please feel free to comment and help!\n\nMy husband and I have been married for a month now (have been together for over a year), and he has a stepdaughter that is 3. We live in AR. My husband and I started dating when he was going through a very long, drug out divorce\/custody battle with his ex wife. To give you some background, he is a wonderful father to his daughter. He always puts her first and always misses her when she is not around. He is very proactive in being a part of her life. \n\nWhen he and his ex wife first separated, they agreed that bc of his job which he has split days off and works 50 hours a week that it would be in the best interest of their daughter to let her mother have primary custody and let him have their daughter every other weekend and the days he is off during the week and he would pay child support. But she did not keep up her end of the bargain. She always had an excuse as to why their daughter couldn\u2019t come see him, either she had already made plans or she was just plain mad at him. She would only allow him to see his daughter for a few hours a night once a week even after he begged to see her. So he decided to go to court. \n\nDuring the last 1\/4 of the custody battle that kept dragging on for what felt like years, my husband and I moved in together before we got married (we were engaged) bc we were very tight on money when I was having trouble finding a job out of college and I couldn\u2019t afford to pay my rent. We were told by his previous attorney that he would be able to throw out the law of \u201ccohabitation\u201d from the decree, and that we would be fine moving in together as long as we had a good home with plenty of room for his daughter. Which we moved into a bigger place. But we were definitely told wrong. He got a new divorce attorney that was much better after that.\n\nThe trail day comes and his attorney told him that it would be in his best interest to find a way to settle bc he has seen this particular judge only give minimum visitation to fathers if they were living with another woman. We are tied up in this home so there was no way I could afford to live in an apartment on top of it all. His ex wife kept going on about how he never spends time with their daughter but she wants primary custody and wants child support but wants him to have visitation. They agreed to a 50\/50 split (two weekdays every week, and every other weekend even though he wanted one week on\/one week off) but with him still paying child support or she would take it to a judge. She wanted his money. They agreed to let her keep primary custody if he got the 50\/50 visitation, and kept their daughter on his insurance through work (her job does not offer health insurance).\n\nThat was two months ago. Everything since then has been fine. My husband has never missed a day of visitation or been late on a child support payment. As soon as open enrollment came around, he took his ex wife off of his health insurance, added more benefits for his daughter and added me on. But his ex wife is always texting him every day about things about their daughter. In the past month, she has asked us twice if we could switch a weekend that we have her bc she wanted to take her on a vacation or had a party planned. We have continued to be civil and work with her but have told her we will not be doing it anymore unless absolutely vital. She cannot stand it. \n\nHis daughter goes to daycare 3 times a week. And his ex wife pays for it (the amount per month is less than what we give her in child support). One of the days she is there is one of his scheduled visitation days and he is off work. So he doesn\u2019t take her that day bc he wants to spend time with her. His ex wife texted him saying that he needs to start taking her to daycare bc she has to pay for it whether their daughter goes or not and if he doesn\u2019t, then she wants to go back to court to amend the custody agreement or he should start paying for the daycare on top of child support. That was a week ago.\n\nThis week, we get a call from his mother saying that his ex wife talked to her saying that she wants to take him back to court bc she believes that their daughter is traumatized by this arrangement bc she is having to go back and forth between houses too much and wants him to go to mandatory family counseling bc he will never work with her. (Again, we do everything we can to work with her on changing visitation weekends). My husband also received a call from his insurance saying that she was asking for information on their daughter\u2019s benefit status. This was yesterday. \n\nThe gist of it is that we feel that she is constantly fishing for some form of information or intel of us doing something wrong, which we do not. She has even had her sister drive past our home, and follow his mother. And she keeps wanting to take more from my husband (more money at least) even though she has what we feel is everything! She has no bills to pay bc she lives with her mother and gets a very large amount of child support from us, even though we have their daughter 50% of the time. I was just wondering if there is anything we can do. His attorney told us that it would look very bad on her if she goes back to court so soon bc she stood up and agreed to the terms of the settlement. \n\nWhat I want to know is there anything that we can do to find something on her? I\u2019m so tired of her trying to fish for information on our lives that I want to do something about it. ","title":"Husband\u2019s Custody Battle w\/ Ex Wife","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540149868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q6bcb\/month_to_monthno_documentation\/","id":"9q6bcb","body":"I live in Charlotte (Mecklenburg county). My landlord asked me to lease, evicted me, yesterday and wants me out by tomorrow. I never signed anything paperwork and I pay month to month. \n\nI am feeling scared they might hurt me, physically throw me out. \n\nWhat can I do? ","title":"Month to month\/no documentation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541615422,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v1ygq\/landlord_is_trying_to_charge_me_for_something\/","id":"9v1ygq","body":"I moved into shared housing less than a month ago. When I moved in there was 5 others already living there. The 5 others who I live with aren't the tidyest but we have 2 cleaners who come by once a week, so it's never been that big an issue.\n\nLast Friday I had to rush to my home town due to a family emergency and I am yet to return to my shared house. Today I received an email informing me that I will be send an invoice for the cost of contractors to deal with rats. The landlord refuses to pay for it himself due to the fact the bin was overflowing when he visited today. On top of this the contractors to deal with the rats were hired on the 9th of September, 3 days before I even moved in.\n\nIs my landlord allowed to charge me for this? What can I do to fight it?\n\nI'm in the UK, if that helps. Thanks!","title":"Landlord is trying to charge me for something that happened before I even moved in.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552940648,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2nktw\/los_angeles_ca_can_i_handwrite_my_written\/","id":"b2nktw","body":"So few months ago I got a traffic ticket and I requested trial by written declaration.\n\nFor the declaration of facts do I have to type and print it out or can I handwrite directly on the document the court provided me?\n\nThe direction says type or print only but I'm not sure if by print they mean print out or handwrite clearly without using cursive. ","title":"[Los Angeles CA] Can I handwrite my written declaration?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443061762,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m5ex1\/ct_landlords_daughter_entered_my_home_without\/","id":"3m5ex1","body":"So I've had an interesting day. This all happened a few hours ago and I'm still processing and trying to figure out how to proceed.\n\n\nI live in an apartment that is a two story house with stairs between levels and the basement level being essentially a mother-in-law suite (I live in the basement). My landlord lives in the upper level and we have a private rental through her. Her daughter, we'll call her Hilda, is a realtor and set up the rental page for her mom on Trulia but we do not rent through her company, it is private through the landlord, with only the landlord's name on the lease. \n\n\nThe pipes under the sink were leaking, so when I saw Landlord this morning I asked her if the plumber was coming soon. She said Friday. I told her we couldn't do dishes and it would be great if someone could come sooner, but if not we would make due. She said she would make some calls and see what she could do. Ok.\n\n\nI went out for a walk with my grandmother. I come home and all of my doors are wide open. I panic, because I wasn't expecting anyone and my cat is indoor only and has been sick recently. I ran in, saw Hilda (also weird because I was told no one but my partner and I had keys to the apartment), and started asking if anyone was in the apartment and if she'd seen my cat. She said no, that he was probably still in there (for the record he's only a year old and often gives me the slip). She wanted to talk and tried to get me to stay but I was so scared for my cat I ran in the home and asked her to please wait a few minutes while I looked for him. She said no, and tried to barge in. My grandma blocked her and said no you can't come in, she needs a few minutes. All the while a poor, terrified plumber looked on. Hilda lost it. She almost attacked my grandmother physically to push her out of the way. I found my cat hiding in the closet and came outside to address the hubbub. \n\n\nI notice that there is a stranger with Hilda too, I'll call her Gertie (I found out later she is Hilda's much older daughter). And Hilda's young son. Hilda tears into me. She's in mine and my grandmother's face, screaming obscenities. Saying she has every right to go in the house because it's her mother's house, and I'm a filthy pig who should be ashamed of myself. I'm really confused at this point. She's screaming obscenities, saying I'm taking advantage of her mother and making personal attacks on my character. And then she tells me all three of them have just taken an extended tour of my apartment. They looked through everything (after telling me earlier that they'd just gotten there), made some comments about my altar (I am Pagan and have a small shelf with tarot cards, statues, and candles), my videogames, they went into my bathroom and my bedroom and went through my things. Then Gertie chimed in and the two of them were saying things like, \"Is this normal for you? Is it okay for you people to live this way? You're sick. You're disgusting. My home is pristine, so I can't understand your type.\" I'm still not following. So I speak for the first time asking calmly and politely after a 15 minute rant, what mess they are talking about. [Aside: I do have a decent amount of things, but there is no biological mess, no fire hazards, no cat waste, and most of the things are neatly organized] They tell me the apartment reeks and they want to evict me and make me pay. And they said there was cat piss everywhere, there was not, the floor is 8 years old and was spotty when I got here, and there is a wet patch near the entry because I just vacuumed and steam cleaned the carpet and was trying to clean the spots. Eventually they agreed to leave and my actual landlord came home.\n\nThe landlord agreed with Hilda without even looking at the place. I invited her in, showed her, and she says it's terrible. Again, there is no mess, some clutter, but it's not dirty and I just cleaned. She talked down to me and said it was 'unacceptable' and she used to inspect Military housing and I would fail an inspection, and got mad that I didn't want to let her into my bedroom. I asked what she meant and she couldn't tell me. The best she could come up with was there are some boxes on the floor (like, four cardboard Home Depot boxes) and she didn't like them, and she thought it smelled odd (which, it always does, it's a freakin' basement). She said I had til the end of the week to fix it or she would evict me and then she left. I'm reeling and crying at this point because it's as though I've entered bizarro world.\n\n\nMy fiance rushed home and had words with her. She agreed the carpet wasn't out fault, and she didn't think the same things were bad as Hilda did. [Also for the record she's never before asked to see the home.] She extended the time to next week sometime, and wants it cleaner or something. I checked our lease, and there's nothing about cleanliness or organization, aside from not violating the health code. I don't know what she wants because it looks clean to me and she didn't specify anything, just that it's not organized the way she likes it. \n\n\nWe also found out during this that she's been spying on us through our windows and doors and listening to everything that happens in the apartment, she told us this. And that she's planning on legally giving the house to Hilda soon.\n\nNow, I've been vacuuming, steam-cleaning, cleaning all the windows for fall and the house is not that messy. Her house is a lot messier than mine. I'm just feeling like she is being so hypocritical by holding me to these odd, unreasonable, unspecified standards and getting mad when I don't meet them and before this was passive-aggressively talking to Hilda without talking to us at all. I feel so violated right now and don't know what, if any, my legal recourse is or should be. \n\n\nWhat do, Reddit?\n\n\nSmall edit: Landlord also admitted she held grudges against us for not wanting to mow her lawn, and was still pissed I'd declined her offer to do it; and keeping some boxes in a storage shed she has for our use that hold electronics and that these things made her feel negatively towards us.\n\nSmall edit two: I remembered she also told me she didn't like that I had furniture in odd places, and wouldn't hear it when I told her I had been vacuuming and moved some things to the side to be able to clean thoroughly. And the vacuums are still sitting out. xD","title":"[CT] Landlord's Daughter Entered My Home Without Permission, Snooped, and Verbally Harassed Me","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541604662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v0dox\/wa_towed_from_complex_parking_lot_due_to_being\/","id":"9v0dox","body":"Woke up this morning to my car missing. Called the towing company and was told my car was parked in an [unmarked spot.](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/2804zQk) it\u2019s that little car shaped nook. \n\nI feel like this is pretty clearly a spot, and am unsure as to  what action I can take from here. Should I pick up my car first and then go to the landlord (who may not have been the one to tow it), should I go to my landlord first to find out if this is even a spot before getting my car, or is it pretty clear that I have no case here? Also, while it doesn\u2019t really help much, I\u2019ve used this space numerous times and it\u2019s often occupied by other vehicles.\n","title":"(WA) Towed from complex parking lot due to being parked in \u201cunmarked\u201d spot.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540658958,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rvps6\/toronto_on_canada_uncooperative_roommate_moving\/","id":"9rvps6","body":"There are three people jointly on the lease of one floor of this house. After one roommate was convicted in a sexual assault case, the other two of us asked him to move out. The rent and bills were dealt with by him, including the joint postdated cheques that the landlord asked to be paid with, but I understand that the landlord does not have a postdated cheque for November. He has been uncooperative through the process, such as delaying the confirmation that he intended to move out. He has also currently locked the door of his mostly empty room, so we can\u2019t take photos of it to look for a new roommate or show it to prospective tenants. He has stated that he will be completely gone by the end of the month.\n\nHe is still on the lease, as are the other two of us. The month is almost over, and while we\u2019re not worried about finding someone to move in for December, we are concerned about November\u2019s rent. He has also paid his last month\u2019s rent deposit, as is customary in Ontario.\n\nMy questions are:\n\n1. Will he be liable for next month\u2019s rent, through the last month deposit or otherwise?\n\n2. Will we be able to transfer his part of the lease to a new roommate, or will the new roommate have to sublet?\n\n3. Can he break his part of the lease before we have a new roommate to assign \/ sublet it to?\n\n4. If he is liable for the rent and refuses to pay, what can we do about it?\n\nThank you.","title":"[Toronto, ON, Canada] Uncooperative roommate moving out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571699716,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl8qu1\/are_bonus_snacks_from_a_vending_machine_stealing\/","id":"dl8qu1","body":"Today I got three bags of cookies from a Vending machine from the price of one. I did not do anything other than buy a bag of cookies and three dropped. \n\nUpon telling this story to a family member they got angry at me saying that taking the extra cookies was stealing. I'm just wondering if what I did was legally wrong and if I could face any punishment, the vending machine was in my school?","title":"Are bonus snacks from a Vending Machine stealing?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1549481064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anueak\/is_this_workplace_discrimination\/","id":"anueak","body":"To start off, I have been diagnosed by the VA with PTSD. Before the traumatic event happened I was doing really well at work. My former manager even gave me a raise cause he believed I wasn't making enough for my skill level.\n\nThe event happened and I got a new manager. After the event my performance started slipping. I was making more mistakes and taking longer to complete projects. This went on for 8 months and I decided to go to the VA to figure out what was wrong with me and that's when I was diagnosed.\n\nMy main limitations of my disability are difficulty concentrating, maintaining attention, and memory issues.\n\nI continued to try and improve my performance. I was able to stop making mistakes but this made me take even longer to be careful in my work and at the same time manage my symptoms.\n\nI was then placed on a performance plan stating if I did not improve my work speed I could possibly be terminated.\n\n​\n\nMy question is because my work performance issues are clearly being caused by my disability and the ADA states my employer needs to offer me reasonable accommodations which they have not. Is this disability discrimination?","title":"Is this workplace discrimination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442015477,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3klwiu\/north_carolina_landlady_locked_me_out_of_my\/","id":"3klwiu","body":"So I moved a few months ago for a job and found a nice room in a kickass house for rent. Signed a six month lease (very obviously printed from a template). Everything went swimmingly for about 2 months. On the first of September, I went down to see my family in Georgia (planned trip), the day after leaving I received a series of texts from the landlady saying that she was evicting me, she was changing the locks\/installing a security system, that I wasn't to return to the house (I should note I had already payed rent for this month). She accused me of stealing\/damage to the property\/lying. I never received any eviction notice\/court date and as of earlier today, the Sheriffs' department still has zero paperwork in regards to my eviction. I should also note that she does live in the house (5Bed\/3Bath, she is recently separated, missed that warning sign). I had to call the police over to the property yesterday to get my stuff back that she had packed up (she was threatening to send it to Goodwill), they would not let me  into the property to take pictures or double check for any leftover belongings (I was told that was a civil issue, despite having proof or paying rent that month\/lease and the lack of an eviction order they couldn't let me inside.)  \n\nA few other notes of interest:  \n\n1) At the onset of the lease, it states that a inspection report was to be done and filled out by both parties, that was never done (she \"wasn't worried\" about it). What does that mean in regards to how any claims of damage would be handled?  \n\n2) When I moved in I was having some financial trouble, she allowed me to forgo paying the Security Deposit until a later date (which I was going to pay on the 4th and even gave her a check for that I placed a stop payment on once I received her notice). In the lease it states that the Deposit would be payed immediately, so my question here is what will that mean later on?  \n\n3) I am presently staying in a hotel since I came back up from Georgia, could I sue her for reimbursement on costs for temporary housing, since she has seemingly illegally barred me from entering a property I was leased and had payed for?  \n\nI am fully intending to take her to small claims court and I have legal insurance through my work that covers some phone consultations and a certain amount of hours for a lawyer, I wanted to tap into this sub to try to broaden my knowledge a bit before draining that resource.  \n\nAny other questions or advice is greatly appreciated.","title":"North Carolina: Landlady locked me out of my room\/house while I was in Georgia, never filed eviction papers.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541451681,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uhklm\/insurance_was_cancelled_not_entirely_sure_what_to\/","id":"9uhklm","body":"Hi, I'm an 18 year old college student who recently had his insurance cancelled (August 31, 2018). My mother and I have been calling to ask why, as I recently had surgery to fix a hole in my heart in July, and I was prescribed pills until Janurary.  The insurance paid for my pills, but now it has to come out of pocket, being roughly $60.  As a student who has a mother that is not a citizen and 3 other sisters to support, money is tight. Thankfully, the pharmacy said they'll be more than happy to refund me and charge the insurance once I get it back. Main issue is the procedure I have coming up that's to evaluate the device they put to cover the hole.  This costs thousands of dollars.  Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit, but what should I try to do?  Calling wasn't very helpful, they only told me to check my case info, but didn't really guide me there, and when I tried, I was told to try again later.  I really appreciate any help I can, and will answer questions to the fullest extent.","title":"Insurance was cancelled, not entirely sure what to do.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551133597,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auraol\/i_moved_in_with_my_girlfriend_and_her_roommate\/","id":"auraol","body":"So I moved in with my girlfriend after college and she was already in the middle or a lease, it's pretty common around here to do this which I know is still immoral but it's the situation I'm in. \n\nI regret doing this and we have a new lease lined up for July. The roommate has mental problems, and is also an alcoholic. Like seriously bad mental problems and this causes a lot of tension.  I pay my half of the rent via venmo so its provable, the wifi is in my name. I can show payments I've made to the roommate for gas and electricity to my girlfriend. \n\nObviously the landlord could kick me out, I've accepted this. My question is what my options are and what should I do? Should we go to the landlord and try to get my staying there legitimized, can the roommate get us in trouble without her being in trouble herself since she agreed to this and accepted money for the majority of the year? \n\nAgain I'm really aware how stupid my decision was but her mental health has rapidly declined and we originally didn't expect her to react like this because she was nothing but supportive of it at first because it would help with rent. \n\n","title":"I moved in with my girlfriend and her roommate with their permission, but not on the lease, her roommate is now saying I have 3 days to leave.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551935451,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay8wj1\/signing_a_lease_but_deciding_not_to_move_in\/","id":"ay8wj1","body":"On February 19th of this year I signed a 12 month lease for an apartment. I did pay the deposit, all fees, and first month. The scheduled move in date is April 15th but I\u2019ve decided not move in. Based on that decision, it is likely that I will have to pay out that entire lease or pay until they get another person to rent it out? ","title":"Signing a lease but deciding not to move in before move in date","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571054676,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhplml\/i_recently_started_a_new_job_in_ma_after_a_few\/","id":"dhplml","body":"We had a window of 1 hour to clock In for work(I work a desk job), and we accrued CTO weekly.  Now we have a 5 min window to clock in and if we are late they take away CTO... is that legal?","title":"I recently started a new job in MA, after a few weeks they change the CTO and start time policy..","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571160108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dib4rl\/reneging_on_job_offer\/","id":"dib4rl","body":"Thank you in advance for your help and patience. I am a student at a very large university pursuing a career in finance. The business college has a policy in which employers are asked to let students make a decision by November 1st in regard to accepting job offers. \n\nI have a received an internship offer for the summer, but the employer has been firm on a 5pm deadline October 15th (today). I have been given the go-ahead by the university to renege by November 1, but can the employer take legal action against me? Again, THANK YOU!","title":"Reneging on job offer?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444955027,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oxeni\/ca_uninsured_driver_rear_ended_by_insured\/","id":"3oxeni","body":"My girlfriend **[Car B]** (new driver, uninsured) and I were rear ended  the other day on the highway by a possibly underinsured driver, lets call her **[Car A]**.  And we were hit at such force it hit us into the car in front of us **[Car C]**\n\nThe police report indicates she was at fault, as both cars gave statements saying essentially that she, Car A, was 100% at fault.\n\nHowever, that still leaves us with the question of how we proceed in this case.  We know so far that we have to:\n\n1. file a claim with at faults insurance\n2. get 2 estimates from body shops about damage (visual estimate says approx 7,000)\n3. gather our personal injury associated costs (visit to ER, xrays, pain killer medication)\n4. not forget to account for a \"loss of value\" claim now that the car has been in a wreck.\n5. do we have to report this to the DMV?\n6. cry from not knowing what were doing\n\n \n\n**My questions for legal advice is:** if the driver of Car A is at fault but is under-insured (CA minimum insurance is 5,000 in damages) -- and she is responsible for 2 cars -- and damages are already around that amount for Car C (what the driver of Car C told us via text), then how does that work, **Are the drivers of Car B (us) and Car C in competition for who can get that amount first or are we each entitled to that much separately?**\n\n \n\n\nfrom what the insurance company of the driver at fault [Access Insurance] has told us, they only sell 5,000 and 10,000 policies, so does that mean if our claim of damages is more than 5000 dollars (it will be, car is in bad shape) that between Car B and C's damages claims against her, her insurance will run out and we will have to end up suing the girl personally for the remaining cost.  Who is entitled to a larger portion of the insurance claim, our damage is a lot worse, in addition to it being a newer car, and loss of value isnt even factored in at this point.\n\n \n\n**TL;DR:**\n\n**is an insurance adjuster just trying to pull a fast one to lower our expectation of what we can expect? or should we be preparing to both sue the driver of Car A as well as race to get Car B fixed and paid for before Car A's insurance policy runs out\/dries up.**\n","title":"[CA] Uninsured Driver rear ended by Insured Driver(at-fault), HELP with insurance headache and potential lawsuit process?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1538160606,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jpo4i\/skin_eating_machine_fluid\/","id":"9jpo4i","body":"My husband works on a machine line and is exposed to machine fluid that burns,blisters his skin and he has an allergic reaction to. He has asked HR for help and they are claiming they have no protective clothing or otherwise to help. Also they say they have no idea what\u2019s in the fluid. I am calling BS. They have to have an MSDS sheet on the stuff. What would be next step. He loves his job. \nHave pics trying to figure out how to post to show you. ","title":"Skin eating machine fluid.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441814915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k9bu4\/what_is_the_length_if_any_of_statute_of\/","id":"3k9bu4","body":"We had a nasty embezzlement where the individual formed a new company and not only stole money, equipment and such from us, but then told clients that their business was our new DBA for a program we were starting to launch. We came across the evidence we collected recently and were considering filing a class action lawsuit to the benefit of everyone that was adversely affected. \n\nAt the time that it happened we were so beaten down we attempted prosecution, but despite our 4\" binder of evidence it was not enough for them. They told us they only cared about homicide, drugs and gang violence. Our county at the time it occurred had a reputation of being indifferent to business crime. \n\nThanks for your time. ","title":"What is the length, if any, of statute of limitations for a lawsuit for embezzlement \/ fraud? Washington state, USA.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445448771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pnr0m\/apt_maintenance_entering_without_permission\/","id":"3pnr0m","body":"My boyfriend and I rent in Ohio. While I'm at school today he was at the apartment getting ready to take a shower and lay down because he works third shift this week. He called me after a class to tell me that the following had happened...\n\nHe was preparing to take a shower and heard a knock at the door. While putting his clothes back on he heard another knock, followed by the front door being unlocked and opening. It was maintenance asking to change the furnace filter. He explained that he works tonight, told them that it was not a good time and to come back later. From what he has told so far, they then said that they needed to perform a bug inspection and walked past him into apartment. He said they sprayed under the sink and walked around looking in each room before leaving.\n\nWe had not received any notice whatsoever. I tried Googling for some information, but wanted to double check with anyone who could offer some help. From my understanding, it's Ohio law that a landlord must provide reasonable notice (which equates to 24 hours) in a non-emergency situation, and if notice is not given a tenant is allowed to turn them away at the door. We're pretty normal, we don't do anything illegal or suspicious that would justify it, if that is acceptable for them to even do.\n\nI would appreciate anyone confirming or correcting my quick research. Any suggestions on how to approach them in the office tomorrow? Our lease is going to be up at the end of November and we were hoping to renew. Both of us are pretty annoyed at the moment and I was ready to call the office out of anger but I held off.","title":"Apt. maintenance entering without permission","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541718528,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vf04n\/or_teacher_took_my_phone_because_it_was_in_my\/","id":"9vf04n","body":"Today at (public) school my teacher in my math class came up to me when i was unplugging headphones from my phone and told me to give her my phone now. I did and and she said it was going to be taken to the office. Afterwards she asked for my chromebook witch the school provides but you keep unless it breaks. I took it out of my bag and gave it to her. She said I can have them if i do my work. After class I went to the office to ask how i get it back they said i need to talk to my teacher they have not heard about it yet. I went back to the office the next class and they said she emailed my mom and that she needs to get it before school ends. I asked why and she said thats up to my teacher. I went to my teacher and asked her and she said she can take it because if i am under 18 anything i have inside of the school the school owns. She also said she can take it whenever she wants and for whatever reason she chooses. As far as i know they can only take it if it is disrupting normal school learning. The things she said did not sound true in any way so i am wondering if that is true and how i can get it back. My mom cannot just get it because she is a single mom and works full time. She would have to leave work early and go out of her way to get it. Thankyou","title":"(OR) Teacher took my phone because it was in my pocket.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1443146108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ma3bl\/exboyfriend_trying_to_get_out_of_lease\/","id":"3ma3bl","body":"Some background: I[20F] have supported him[20M] for the past year. I let him live with me at my apartment. He was not on that lease nor did he pay me. He only worked for a couple months total. The plan was for him to move to Ontario with me, get a full time job and pay the rent there while I go to school. \n\nWe both moved from Nova Scotia to Ontario for August 1st. We both signed the lease. I planned everything around two incomes. Well, we broke up and he moved back to NS. He said he would still pay half the rent. I even gave him money to pay off a ticket if he promised he would still follow through and pay monthly. Now he's mad at me and threatening to get a doctor's note which will get him off the lease so he doesn't have to pay every month. Will that actually work? Do I just pay my half and let the landlord get after him for the other? We didn't both sign a lease for half the rent, just one lease so I'm not sure if that will work. \n\nIF he payed half, my part time job and student loans would allow me to scrape by for the year. If he pays nothing, I can not afford to stay here or finish school. Please help.","title":"Ex-boyfriend trying to get out of lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551077734,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aui8ko\/confused_about_possible_illegal_paying_practices\/","id":"aui8ko","body":"My girlfriend works at the YMCA part time and they require a 30 minute unpaid break to be taken every 5 hours even though she is 18. If they don\u2019t have my girlfriend take her 30 minute break they have her \u201cairlog\u201d that she supposedly took her break. Now the thing is that she is told to go back and write in on her time card that she took her 30 minute break which in turn she is not paid for it. I looked up airlogging and could not find a single hit on it so I\u2019m sure that it\u2019s her manager taking advantage that she is young (18 yrs old) and that she won\u2019t do anything about it. So she should tell her manager about this and if he still tries to make her \u201cairlog\u201d her break she should get documentation and look into raising the issue to HR or the higher ups correct? I\u2019m not sure but from another reddit post I read a few days ago they were talking about how if a company is not paying you for even a minute of paid work it is illegal, so any advice would be awesome. Thanks!","title":"Confused about possible illegal paying practices","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568601109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4uim0\/michigan_i_havent_been_able_to_use_my_dishwasher\/","id":"d4uim0","body":"When run, the dishwasher in my apartment leaks under the wall it sits next to and into the living room carpet on the other side. I emailed the company that owns my building and let them know about this on 7\/25.\n\nThey sent a maintenance guy on 7\/30. They left a \"maintenance was in your home!\" door tag while I was at work, with no details of what was done. It didn't look to me like the dishwasher had been pulled out from under the counter or anything.\n\nI emailed again on 8\/8 and asked if I could get any kind of ETA on a repair. The person who responded said it was on the agenda and she would tell me an ETA as soon as she had one.\n\nWhen I went to the company's office on 8\/30 to drop off my Sept. rent, I mentioned that it had been more than a month since I could use the dishwasher. The woman at the office was apologetic, said that they were \"down to one maintenance guy,\" and that she had a whole list of maintenance requests and mine was \"at the top of the list.\"\n\nWe got notes on our doors on 9\/10 saying maintenance would be coming through the building on the 12th to do a routine check on all the outlets in the units, and that tenants should leave a note if there were any maintenance issues they should be aware of. I left a note on my door re: the dishwasher, mentioning the date I first reported the issue. \n\nAs of today, still no word back. And, a fun development- the pipe under my kitchen sink has started dripping when there's any amount of water left sitting in the sink basin. So washing the dishes by hand is a pain in the ass now too.\n\nI'm in a lease that ends August 2020- I've lived in this building for a few years and this is the first time I've had a problem like this. There's no language in my lease mentioning the dishwasher or any other appliance in the apartment. Do I have any recourse at all? How bad can they fuck me on my deposit if I just use the dishwasher and let it soak the floor? (jk... mostly)\n\nThanks!\n\nETA: My girlfriend reminded me\/told me to add- there was *mold* on the wet carpet when we first discovered the leak (hidden from view under a console table that sits against that wall)","title":"Michigan- I haven't been able to use my dishwasher since July","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538832035,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lvw4a\/ne_hired_as_union_employee_told_after_4_months_it\/","id":"9lvw4a","body":"I was unsure if this would fall under employment law or union law. I work for a telecommunications company in Nebraska. I was hired in June of this year, and throughout the hiring process I was told multiple times the position was a union position under the Communications Workers of America. After 3 months of employment, bargained employees are granted optional holidays. I took those days to go to a wedding, Thursday, Friday, and Monday. On Friday I get a text from my boss stating that they had \u201ccoded the position wrong and it is not union, therefore you do not technically have any leave and this time will be unpaid.\u201d I should also mention that right before I had left for vacation, I had opened a dispute with my commission. It just seems extremely shady to me, and does not seem legal. Is it? ","title":"(NE) Hired as union employee, told after 4 months it was coded incorrectly","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553387349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4q90i\/neighbor_issue_updated\/","id":"b4q90i","body":"So I just posted about having problems with my neighbors. I spoke to the police today. They contacted the neighbors. I told the officer I just want them to leave me alone and I'll happily reciprocate.\n\n30 minutes after the police leave 33M comes home. He notices our open bedroom window and shouts up into it \"being gay is a sin against god\"\n\n\nI immediately contacted the landlord and the police. The landlord called the neighbors and spoke to the mom (50+F) and she apparently hollered at her son and sent him out of the house. Landlord knew I called the police about what they said. They came back out and issued a ticket for harassment.\n\nI'm legit worried about living in my home now. I'm wondering what kind of retaliation there will be.","title":"Neighbor issue updated","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571239431,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diqti2\/shady_business\/","id":"diqti2","body":"Legal advice \n\nIn mid August I signed a lease for a townhome in Virginia that was managed by a realty company. The property manager seemed sleazy to me even at the time, but it wasn\u2019t enough of a red flag for me not to sign the lease. I moved in and out of the unit with in one week. There were noisy neighbors, a faulty appliance and my car was towed after I specifically asked for a parking pass I was told I did not need. \n\nI emailed the property manager to let him know I would be moving out, he told me to pay the fee and continue to pay the rent until it was re-leased. I paid them the $500 \u201cadministrative fee\u201d for them to find to new tenants, kept the utilities on, and paid October\u2019s rent in full and on time. I checked within the first few days to make sure the apartment was listed as available, it was at that time. \n\nA few days ago, I got curious and looked to see if the unit was still listed, it was not. Initially, I thought, well now I may have grounds for termination of the lease since I paid them to find new tenants and they are obviously not attempting to do so. Then I thought, maybe they have an applicant and I will hear from them when the lease is signed.   \n\nToday I got tired of waiting and decided to drive over to the unit to see if there were new tenants; sure enough there are people living there. I never received any communication from the property manager that they had shown the unit to potential renters, I was under the impression they had to do that by law.  I still have keys to the unit, last I knew utilities connected,  and have not been presented anything to sign in order to complete the process of terminating the lease. I don\u2019t have a ton of experience but, of all of this seems odd to me. I have yet to contact the property manager because I don\u2019t know exactly the right course of action. \n\nAll in all between pet deposit, security deposit, two months of rent, and the administrative fee my partner and I have sunk over $4000 into a town house we lived in for one week. If I could recoup any of that, I would be very pleased. What\u2019s the right course of action? Could I have a small claims court case here? Or should I just contact the property manager and let it go? \nAny advice would be appreciated!","title":"Shady business?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1414533068,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2km1u3\/texas_deed_restrictions_on_county_land_how_likely\/","id":"2km1u3","body":"I'm looking to buy land in Texas under county jurisdiction. I was told by county officials that one can do just about anything as long as drainage and health concerns are met, which I assume are enforced by the county fire marshall, the sheriff and the courts. But those darn deed restrictions..\n\nWritten in 1971, they state \"..no temporary buildings shall ever be erected on such land, or trailer house or mobile home used or occupied on such land, the construction of living quarters being limited to permanent dwellings of no more than two family type with a minimum of 1,000 square feet of enclosed living space per family.\"\n\nThe land is undeveloped. We want to develop it, so we'll get the required construction permits. And common sense should tell the neighboring land owners that we'll probably need some trailers, mobile units, etc. during the construction phase(s). \n\nSo the nightmare situation is someone complains, the court files some action, the sheriff visits us and tells us to remove the mobile units, effectively shutting down everything. \n\nAny anecdotal experience in these scenarios with the courts and sheriff? Any other ways to interpret the restrictions? Any creative solutions? Thanks in advance!\n","title":"Texas Deed Restrictions on county land - How likely would Courts\/Sheriff enforce?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553403343,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4snkj\/general_contractor_harassment\/","id":"b4snkj","body":"Hi all,\n\nI had an appt with a contractor to come fix something earlier this week. I ended up finding someone cheaper to do the work and called contractor 1 to tell him we were going to cancel. He did not answer so I left him a VM saying we are canceled for our appt day. Mind you it was at least 2 days before the actual appt. We did not have any contract nor did I give him money. \n\nFast forward to the day of the schedule work and contractor 1 calls me and texts me more than a handful of times from 8am to 11pm. I havent answered him because I know he for my VM as he texted and called me back about canceling. He also mentioned twice he was going to come to my house and wait outside via text. \n\nWant to know if I am in the wrong (legally)?\n\nI have contacted my local police station and plan to file a complaint due to harassment and intimidation. \n\nLmk if you\u2019ve had a similar experience and what you did. \n","title":"General Contractor Harassment","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553911677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b75uil\/trying_to_leave_my_father_who_has_primary_custody\/","id":"b75uil","body":"I am going to go ahead and say that I am on mobile so please excuse that.\n\nSo as stated, my father is my primary parent and has custody on most days, however he lets me go to my mom\u2019s biweekly instead of what the court ruled\n\nThere are various reason that I want to leave but they all stem from one thing: his abusive girlfriend, who has as much if not more control over my life than my father.\n\nTo start with, she is verbally abusive on a regular basis when my father is not around, which is almost never due to his job. She and I both show the symptoms of an abuser\/abused person.\n\nSecondly, she has been the cause of me planning multiple suicide attempts, although luckily I never went through with them.\n\nThirdly, she gives me the bare minimum of privacy. The only time I am allowed to be behind a closed door is when I am using the bathroom and changing my clothes, any other time I am not allowed to be behind a closed door.\n\nI should also mention that I am 15, live in the state of Georgia, and have multiple witnesses if needed.","title":"Trying to leave my father who has primary custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553144918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ml0r\/question_about_reimbursement_at_work\/","id":"b3ml0r","body":"So I work at a franchise restaurant and the head manager has been buying supplies like sponges and steel wool and recently had to buy a new noodle for the dishwashing sink, a person who our franchise owner hired to essentially be our regional ( franchise owner owns a couple of these) regional said that my manager has to pay out of pocket for these expenses the sponged and the new noodle, so he won't be reimbursed. This doesn't seem right, are there any laws about this or anything. Sorry if my flair is wrong didn't quite know what to call this subject. Also in WA state.","title":"Question about reimbursement at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445804754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q6u8y\/ontariocanada_23yo_sister_has_a_2_month_old_baby\/","id":"3q6u8y","body":"My little sister lives in Ontario and recently had a child with her boyfriend of 3 years. They moved in together and have been at each other's throats ever since. Especially since the baby was born, they are fighting and screaming constantly. She is traumatized by it to the point where she can't sleep or eat anymore, she is having frequent anxiety attacks, he has called her ever slur in the book in front of the kid, and it's becoming physical with each of them hitting or grabbing each other and leaving marks.\n\nHe hasn't been helping much with the baby as he works a lot, she stays home and is his primary care giver while she's on maternity leave. She has nowhere else to go in Ontario and it's clear that those two need to be apart. The only way she can leave him and be able to support herself and the baby is if they both come to Alberta where I live, and she has a lot more support and family here.\n\nThe problem is that the boyfriend's mother is threatening to charge her with kidnapping and abduction if she leaves the province. She's even called the police on my sister for leaving the apartment to go to her mom's house with the baby. She's poisoned her son to believe that my sister has no rights to take the baby anywhere, and I don't know how much truth is in that...\n\nIs my sister legally allowed to bring her child to Alberta to live with me and get her life back together, despite her boyfriend refusing to give permission for that, and despite the fact that their relationship is likely headed towards criminal charges if they don't split up immediately?\n\nUpdate: apparently when they were fighting yesterday, she punched him in the back and left a bruise so he's taken a picture and is using it as blackmail to make her stay there. He's threatened to tell the police that she's been beating on him, if she leaves.","title":"Ontario(Canada) - 23yo sister has a 2 month old baby with her boyfriend. Relationship is toxic: verbal abuse, daily fighting and screaming. She needs to leave, wants to come to Alberta with baby.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446776515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rpmpr\/pa_oral_contracts_re_leases_enforceable_up_to_3\/","id":"3rpmpr","body":"Hello - I need to know if oral contracts regarding rental property are enforceable in Pennsylvania.  I keep reading that they only need to be in writing if they exceed 3 years. Is this true? I really am hoping so. IS there a case law that I can cite if so? Many many thanks","title":"PA: Oral contracts (re: leases) enforceable up to 3 years?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443532481,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mtvyh\/aus_need_help_writing_up_a_contract\/","id":"3mtvyh","body":"Hi all,\nI am 19 years old living in Australia, and looking to buy my first car. I found a car that I have been looking for for a long time, even before I could drive. The owner is letting me look at it tomorrow, and if I like it and it is in good condition, is allowing me to pay a deposit of $800 and then take it off the market until I have the rest of the cash. We agreed on writing up some sort of paperwork for this particular deal, but I am not very experienced in these sorts of things and was posting get some help on how to go about it. Thank you\n\n\n\nPS: Please don't tell me to wait until I have all the cash and then look for a car. this car frankly has all I need from a vehicle and the guy has been pretty reliable with every question I've had. He's allowing me to test drive, check out and get it looked at by a mechanic.\nMods please delete this if it is not suitable for this subreddit, I literally couldn't think of any other place to post this.","title":"[AUS] Need help writing up a contract.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539121090,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mtc37\/my_partners_father_stole_money_from_them_but_made\/","id":"9mtc37","body":" 3 years ago, my partner worked in Texas while living with their father and received a paper check every pay period. The father then verbally forced my partner to continue signing these checks over to him so that they could be deposited into his account.\n He stated the money would be \"available when needed\" however, three years later my partner and I live in South Carolina and when we really needed to dip into those savings, he basically says he won't help. Giving no explanation over than \"these funds are for xyz, not bills\".\n\n Its approx 7k worth but my partner doesn't know if they have legal ground to stand on since the checks were signed over. Is there anything we can do?","title":"My partner's father stole money from them but made it look consensual with signed checks, is there anything we can do?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540631296,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rsy2m\/startup_bankruptcy_so_im_an_early_employee_err\/","id":"9rsy2m","body":"So, ended up joining the company at half salary on the expectation that I\u2019d be rewarded later. We were all new at this, so we were kinda winging it. Initially, it was going to be some sort of debt bond, but for a bunch of reasons, ended up with stock options. Company ran out of cash and ceased operations. Bankruptcy proceedings are likely starting soon. Options are worthless now. The next time I talk myself into joining a startup, is there some sort of legal agreement that I can enter into that would give me a claim as a creditor in case of bankruptcy proceedings? Is this commonly done?\n","title":"Startup Bankruptcy: So, I\u2019m an early employee (err, was) in a startup that had some success, but outran the cash supply and ceased operations. Now, my investment (in the form of several years of reduced salary) is gone. How can I better protect myself next time?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552576819,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b11kl2\/5050_partnership_and_partner_went_rogue_after_the\/","id":"b11kl2","body":"I work as a HVAC professional and have my entire career. I also have a Bachelors in Business Management degree. I met a young guy who wanted to start a heating and air company and needed my expertise since I owned a company before. He agreed to make me a 50\/50 partner, which we did legally, and formed the business.\n\nMy ideas on everything were used for starting the business. We even have bank accounts open. He gave me a story of how he wasn\u2019t ready for a business and wanted me to sign everything over. I told him I\u2019d rather dissolve or he can pay me for my ideas.\n\nHe has since stopped responded to any communications and sent me a message that he \u201crestructured\u201d the business already and has cut me out. I have signed nothing.\n\nI do not have money invested, but I feel my ideas that I gave under the impression of being a partner should be compensated for or the business should be closed. \n\nI am not sure if I should look into getting a cease and desist somehow, or small claims court maybe. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.","title":"50\/50 partnership and partner went rogue after the formation of the business.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541366757,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u7agm\/can_i_be_exempted_from_from_federal_wage_and_hour\/","id":"9u7agm","body":"Hi All,\n\nSo I'm about to start my first big boy job. The contract I signed includes the following language:\n\n>As a regular, full time employee, you are expected to work an average of 40 hours per week. This position is considered exempt from federal wage-hour law which means that you will not be eligible for overtime pay for hours actually worked in excess of 40 in a given work week.\n\nSo basically my question is...is this legal? I'm not a manager in any even remotely plausible way. I was under the impression that non-managers are legally required to be paid to time-and-a-half for any hours beyond 40 in a given week. Am I missing something here?\n\nThanks for any help!","title":"Can I be exempted from from federal wage and hour law?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446266771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qxlq5\/what_are_the_penalties_of_giving_birth_on_subutex\/","id":"3qxlq5","body":"If there is no specific answers it would be very helpful if someone could tell me where I could find some. The only answer I could find is that it varies from scounty to county. My family friend  is about to have a baby and they are worried about their child being taken from them. They don't smoke weed or buy other drugs, the soon to be mother has been on subutex for a few years and is currently working because she wants to make sure they have money saved up. They are very prepared and have all the stuff the baby needs from clothes to toys. I know they are responsible people and even have the babies first  outfit picked out. My point is they care and are NOT DRUG attics. She was to afraid to tell her doctor because they live with her parents and are on her parents insurance. She doesn't want them to know. VIRGINIA, USA","title":"What are the Penalties of Giving birth on subutex or drugs that help you stay off opiates?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552860115,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2am98\/school\/","id":"b2am98","body":"Hi, so in school we are doing a unit in Ancient India in our history class. We have to make a poster on different aspects of Hindu religious beliefs. On the back, we are required to \"write an article that compares and contrasts the beliefs in Hinduism with your own *personal* beliefs.\" Is my teacher allowed to ask this and am I required to answer\/can he grade me based off of my response?","title":"School","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570624134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfgbho\/ri_employer_wants_me_to_report_to_a_different\/","id":"dfgbho","body":"As the title says. I\u2019m a contractual employee working I.T. My bosses told me they want me to report to Newport, RI instead of Providence. That means I\u2019ll have an hour drive instead of 10 minutes, as well as having to pay $10 in tolls round trip. It\u2019s a 30 mile trip out there. They said I can\u2019t get reimbursed for any of it and that it\u2019s \u201cpart of the job.\u201d Can they do this? Should I go through the contracting company for any dispute? Should I bother trying to fight this? Thank you.","title":"(RI) Employer wants me to report to a different site an hour away. Said I can\u2019t claim mileage and they won\u2019t reimburse for tolls. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540612530,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rrezf\/so_whats_my23maleflusa_best_course_of_action_to\/","id":"9rrezf","body":"First off, let me say, man am I glad to be back. That was the longest 7 days of my life, WOWzers.\n\nSo I'm gonna try to sum this up as much as possible, and will still end up having to make a tl;dr...\n\nBe me, chillen in Florida(current resident), staying at a hotel. Pretty much living day to day since hotels are very expensive. I post to Craigslist in search of a room for rent under the \"room wanted\" section. Link up with older lady she reaches out to me wants me to come rent a room. At this point, that Sunday I paid and moved in on a verbal, weekly, contract.\n\nThis goes well until a month in she asks me to raise rent from 125-150 and I can move into the master bedroom. I take the opportunity. This goes on for a month until she just let me know someone else is moving into that room, who can *pay more*. So I move back into original spare bedroom. Now there's two new people moved into the master, and two spare beds, one is still open\/hers butts she's trying to rent that one out too.\n\nShe won't let me change lock on door despite the number of strangers in the house even when I made it a point to offer her a key but only her and of course I'd cover the cost. Nope.\n\nNow the hot water heater tank is broken. She is trying to pressure me into replacing it and she'll credit me November's rent. I wasn't able to and now feel as if I am on egg shells around her. She was freaking out about not having any money to afford one and oh what on Earth was she going to do. I just got home and there's a brand new water heater sitting in the driveway. Lol. Of course she's sleeping when I come in so haven't had chance to talk to her. \n\nI agreed to help with chores and cleaning maybe minor house maintaining but not a major project such as this and to use rent to leverage against me? I hope she follows through with her agreement on a two week notice at minimum right now.\n\nShe has since moving in cut off the AC, because it's \"cooling down outside now\", cut off the wifi, placed her *constantly* screeching, 15 y\/o parrot inside the house now in the spare room from outside back patio where he originally was, and I tried to pay a week ahead and doesn't remember me giving her name extra weeks payment so and she writes everything down so she knows I didn't give her any extra like for sure for sure so I'm forced to take it a week at a time or she'll forget.\n\nShe's so depressed she hasn't gotten up off of the couch in the two months I've been here more than 30 minutes total idk man she's doing a lot of things to fuck with me idk why idk my best route to take here\n\nObviously, move, yes I get that but the area I'm at I struck gold on finding such a place to rent that includes everything and isnt ghetto-fied because I'm not going back to that I'm done living that lifestyle.\n\nShe even asked me to deposit her tax return into my bank account because she's doesn't have one I guess blacklisted due to tax fraud or evasion years ago idk the full story just some white collar shit she's psyched out over from years ago I honestly don't even want to know but I'm like wtf no? You own a beautiful huge house yet crying because you don't know how to handle this 350$ hot water heater situation and you push it on me like it's do or die\n\nYou'd think she didn't want me there but just the other day made me a key for the house and just idk man it's fucking with my head I need to leave but not much of anything is available right now especially trying to get ahead on bills by at least just one month would be life changing but been the most challenging thing I've done yet epspecially when I work under the table ten an hour 12 hour shifts 7 days a week and not have a alcohol or drug problem, or even a expensive hobby. It always ends up somehow being enough just to eat and pay for TP. I try to laugh it off. Find the light in it.\n\nI just want to make sure am I doing anything wrong or is there anything I need to do that anyone advertising ses I am open to all suggestions need to find a better way quick before I lose this opportunity like I said very rare around my neck of the woods in the shoes I wear, if you get what I'm trying to say. Right now I just give her 125 every Sunday for that week and stay to myself. Clean up behind myself in private room and common area. Exceptionally well tenant id think of myself to be.\n\nAnything is thanked for in advance love you guys any additional info please request I'll add.","title":"So, what's my(23\/Male\/FL,USA) best course of action to deal with a shady rental agreement?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1415636626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2lvbot\/oh_legal_obligations_for_government_building_with\/","id":"2lvbot","body":"A volunteer fire department I am on wants to have Wi-Fi. I, as the 'department IT guy', don't want to put Wi-Fi in. I was told that my argument may have a possible legal backing considering we are a public (technically government\/ non-profit) organization. I'm primarily focused on if someone does something on our Wi-Fi ( piracy, child pornography) ","title":"(OH) Legal Obligations for Government Building with Wi-Fi?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555458184,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be0wpy\/personal_property_insurance_claim_declined_for\/","id":"be0wpy","body":"This is in California. My car was broken into, and some personal property in the thousands was taken. I have receipts and photos etc so that\u2019s not much concern. Mostly what was taken was tools, equipment and motorcycle parts. \n\nFirst the insurance company stalled for a month, then they said they think parts are not covered under the policy. Nonsense but ok I wait. 2 weeks later they finally decide it is covered and the adjuster changes again. A week later they ask if I race competitively and am sponsored. \n\nI tell them I race motorcycles as an amateur for fun. I don\u2019t get paid or anything. It\u2019s a hobby. I was honest and told them some companies give me parts discounts etc as \u201csponsorship\u201d but again it\u2019s not paid and not a profession at all. Bleeding money if anything. \n\nThey come back today and say all your property is \u201cbusiness property\u201d and we aren\u2019t covering it. I asked what the business was and didn\u2019t get an answer.  This is a renters insurance policy.  Some of the items lost I owned before I even started racing at all. All of it was paid for by me personally. I\u2019m not on a big racing team etc.  Seems like this is just an excuse to try and not pay my claim in bad faith? \n\nMy policy limit is $15k and I don\u2019t have a business license.","title":"Personal Property Insurance Claim declined for being \u201cbusiness property\u201d, but I don\u2019t have a business.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569340547,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8p4vp\/would_it_matter_if_i_do_not_respond_to_a_10_day\/","id":"d8p4vp","body":"I live in NYC. I've been living in the same apartment since 2016 with my great-aunt who passed in December 2018. I applied for succession rights and was denied. I've been sent a 10 day notice to vacate based upon a certificate of eviction.\n\nThe notice says I have 10 days to respond to the landlord regarding this issue. I spoke breifly with a lawyer who told me I should go to the housing court and fill out an answer form because they can't work with me on my case until I have a court date. I called the housing court closest to me and they said there's no real need for me to fill out an answer form since it will go to court either way.\n\nMy gut is telling me to listen to the lawyers advice and fill out the form but does it actually matter? Would it somehow make my case look worse if I just waited until I get served court papers?","title":"Would it matter if I do not respond to a 10 day notice to vacate?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569622134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da7cys\/bankruptcy_pausing_eviction\/","id":"da7cys","body":"I\u2019m located in CT, USA.\n\nI\u2019ll try to keep this short and edit if needed.\n\nTl;dr can a bankruptcy filing stay an eviction as long as it\u2019s before the final court decision is made?\n\n\nI\u2019ve not gainfully worked since November 2018 due to disability. I was able to keep up with my most important bills, like rent, through July thanks to the proceeds from the sale of my grandmother\u2019s house last year plus savings left over from when I did work. I tried doing some independent contractor stuff here and there but it was too difficult and the effort\/cost of gas far outweighed the very small income I was getting.\n\nI\u2019ve applied for SSDI\/SSI but was expectedly denied so in the appeal process now. \n\nAugust rent would\u2019ve been paid but landlord didn\u2019t cash the check until the very end of August and some automatic bill payments that I couldn\u2019t stop in time jacked up my bank account. The intent was to pay rent and then let those payments bounce...cell phone\/internet, not the end of the world. \n\nSo now I\u2019m behind August, September and soon, October. I haven\u2019t been able to pay any other bills in a couple months either, including some old loans and credit cards. This sounds dumb and irresponsible, but honestly right now I don\u2019t care about those...just don\u2019t want to lose my apartment.\n\nI\u2019ve been in treatment for nearly two years and my doctors will clear me to do some easy, part time work next month. There\u2019s no way I\u2019ll be able to catch up with rent right away, and I don\u2019t have anyone I can borrow from especially without a job (\u201conly\u201d $2200 for 3 months plus fees). My lease is until March 31 and if my previous landlord still owned the building I know he\u2019d let me pay the 3 months over the period of Nov-March but now we\u2019re owned by a distant property management company. \n\nI\u2019ve already expended the notice to quit time period, and they generously gave me 10 days instead of 3. The summary process was served and I have to drop it off in court on Monday. Per state legal aid, they figure I\u2019ll get a court date in roughly 7-10 business days after which I\u2019ll get my judgement to leave.\n\nI\u2019ve been considering bankruptcy...not ideal but my credit is screwed anyways and it\u2019ll be a long long time trying to get back above water either way. I\u2019ve read online something about being granted a stay...if at least temporary...on court proceedings including eviction once the initial bankruptcy paperwork is filed. So I wouldn\u2019t be filing with the express purpose of staying the eviction, simply filing earlier than I intended.\n\nQUESTION: Is this the case for CT, and if I\u2019m able to get paperwork filed before my eviction court date, might I be granted a stay? I have every intention of paying what I owe to my landlord, evicted or not, as a matter of principle. I just need more time to get my crap together...sell some stuff, try gig work again in addition to whatever I can get part time...secure alternate housing...etc. I\u2019m comfortable starting the process myself (although yes, a lawyer would be preferable)...paperwork and process I\u2019m fine with, just don\u2019t know the actual law...I just don\u2019t want to waste my time on a false hope.\n\nI am also working with a social worker\/211 to see what other assistance I can get but as a single non-parent without a terminal illness there is (understandably!!!!) not much available.\n\nThanks.","title":"Bankruptcy pausing eviction?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552073452,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayu9ao\/sister_was_fired_after_having_a_medical_issue_and\/","id":"ayu9ao","body":"My sister works for a big company in Florida, the other day she collapsed and had to go to the hospital. They put her in ICU and while she was in the hospital she received a call from HR and her boss saying that she needed to focus on her health called her a liability and said she could reapply for her position in a few months. She is devastated and now is looking for a new job while in the hospital. ","title":"Sister was fired after having a medical issue and needing to go to ICU.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504825282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yqu82\/landlord_kept_our_entire_security_deposit_we\/","id":"6yqu82","body":"My two roommates and I recently moved from our previous residence at the end of July. It's come time to recoup our security deposit of $1600, but now our landlord is claiming:\n\n> \"You left a huge mess. We had to hire a truck and men to make several trips to clean up the massive pile of trash that you left on the curb. The cleaner spent 8 hours cleaning the place, and then we had the remediate the basement from the cat urine smell. Your deposit was more than spent in restoring the house to a rentable condition. I will send a spreadsheet detailing the costs against the deposit.\"\n\n\nNow we know we left a mess on the curb, but that's fairly common in city neighborhoods. The garbage pile included a mattress and an AC unit to be disposed, then about two bags of sealed garbage. Otherwise, the basement claim is 100% bullshit, there was no smell when we left, no smell ever. Even so, damages wouldn't hit $1600 from anything we did. We spent days tidying, cleaning, and scrubbing the house to make sure we wouldn't lose a dollar spare the fines from garbage removal (I'd estimate ~$500 or less for that). Spending 8 hours cleaning what? The house was immaculate. \n\nWe messed up because we didn't take photos of the cleaned residence before we left (he doesn't know this). It seems that my landlord is trying to pull a fast one because he needed to redo his basement and has a convenient excuse in my cats, plus we're young adults in our early 20's, seems like an easy fight for him to pick.\n\nThey didn't say anything about these fees against our deposit until the week after deposit was due back to us. I asked his wife for info (she's a partner in their business) on 9\/2 and she said he handles that, I asked him today (9\/7) and received the above response. I told him I'd like to see this itemized spreadsheet asap and am likely visiting housing court tomorrow to review my options and potentially file suit. \n\nThe residence in question is in Philadelphia County. I have some photos showing the residence in the weeks before we moved out, since I had sent him photos showing him the residence was suitable for tours. \n\nI'd like to receive this itemized list of costs before filing suit, but since I had to inquire about the deposit multiple times already, I doubt we'll see it soon. \n\nIs anyone here familiar with tenants rights and housing court in Philly? \n\n\nPlease and thank you, much appreciated! \n\n\n\nEdit: he provided the itemized list and it looked like a freshman in accounting class copied their homework from their textbook; he provided all rounded numbers in $50 increments (ie $450 for excessive cleaning, $500 remediation of cat urine in basement, $200 carpeting cleaning due to cats, etc) with the exception of the last month water bill which was $58.94. This guy made up a bunch of numbers and I'm excited to see him try and produce receipts or documentation for these costs. \/u\/gwillen \/u\/swalsh411 \/u\/NightRavenGSA  , not only that, but it appears that the landlord is responsible for garbage disposal in our lease, so that expense is also disputable.\n\nEdit 2: So it appears my roommates and I overlooked\/forgot about this binding arbitration clause in the lease. Can anyone explain what this means for what actions we can take? \n\n> BINDING ARBITRATION\nTenant and Landlord agree to submit any dispute concerning this lease to arbitration before\nthe American Arbitration Association. Both parties agree to give up their rights to a jury\ntrial, punitive damages, tort damages, attorney\u2019s fees, costs, or expenses as a result of this\nagreement or enforcement of the arbitration\u2019s award. Both parties agree that venue lies in\nMontgomery County, State of Pennsylvania and this arbitration clause shall survive the\nending of the breach of this agreement.","title":"Landlord kept our entire security deposit, we disagree [Philadelphia, PA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568674382,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d583zw\/monro_brake_failure\/","id":"d583zw","body":"Not sure if this is the right sub so sorry if this doesn\u2019t apply.\n\nI took my car to Monro auto services about 3 weeks ago on a Friday. I needed to get new rear brake pads, which they installed. Saturday, while driving, my (I believe) left brake pad somehow fell out of place while braking, and my brake pedal hit the floor. As expected I was super freaked out by this, and it was also in the middle of me driving about 1 hr 30 min away.\n\nOn my way back from where I drove to, the sound made when I stepped on the brake was horrendously loud. I didn\u2019t know then what was the problem, but it was all that metal where the pad should be rubbing against itself. \n\nI took it back asap where I said as politely as I could that this is fucked up and it needs to be fixed. So they replace the brake pads for free and everything\u2019s fine.\n\nThis Thursday I\u2019m supposed to be making a 5 hour trip, but my cars been making a grinding sound around the wheels. Only when driving, not braking. I take it to another shop to avoid Monro, and they tell me my left rear brake pad has nearly fallen off again. They tell me to take it back to Monro and drive safely.\n\nI take it back to Monro earlier today and tell them I\u2019m leaving in 3 days. This needs to be done correctly. They put new pads and calibers on for me for free.\n\nDriving home, mind you in 5 o clock traffic, I go to step on the brake and I hear my brake pad falling out again, brake pedal hitting the floor. I hear the same scraping metal sound that I heard the first time around.\n\nI dropped my car off to Monro again and ended up dropping it off after yelling at them that this needs to be done correctly. \n\nThey just called and I picked the car back up. The guy said he test drove it twice and hard braked and said there was no more scraping while driving. I drove my car back home and the brakes feel fine, but the scraping is still very much there. He told me he \u201ctacted\u201d the brake pad in to ensure it won\u2019t move. I\u2019ve had enough car problems for the day.\n\nIs there\/should I bother taking any legal action? I still don\u2019t even feel safe driving it around town, let alone on a 5 hour trip Thursday. Again sorry if this isn\u2019t the right sub for this post. If anyone has recommended subs please lemme know. Thanks","title":"Monro Brake Failure","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553227133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b40d8u\/exbf_is_trying_to_force_me_to_renew_lease_and\/","id":"b40d8u","body":"Hi everyone, apologies for formatting, I\u2019m on mobile.\n\nMy ex-boyfriend and I broke up back in November, and it started off as an mutual split. He didn\u2019t have a job, and I couldn\u2019t afford to break the lease, so I verbally agreed to continue to pay my half of the rent even though I moved out. I already know that the above is where I messed up already, but what\u2019s done is done. He agreed not to renew with me on the lease 60 days before as per our lease, thinking that he would have a job, and he would renew by himself (this was back in November). Now, our lease is up at the end of this month (next week), and he and I met in the beginning of March and I asked him how things went. Turns out he never gave a 60 day renewal notice, and still had no job. I expressed to him that I wanted to be taken off of the lease and not renew, but he begged me not to as he didn\u2019t have a job, and couldn\u2019t qualify for the apartment alone and would be homeless. I told him no still since I didn\u2019t want to be responsible for a place that I didn\u2019t live at, and he got upset and won\u2019t speak to me anymore, and things are now bitter between us. I tried to propose a compromise and give him 60 more days to live in the apartment with the termination\/move out notice as stated in our lease, but he would have to find a job and another place in two months, which I thought was better than the lease ending and him being thrown out.However, he flat out refused, and said if I gave the notice, he was not going to pay any of the rent for the remainder of the 60 days.\n\nI gave a 60 day notice anyway, but the apartment complex won\u2019t accept it without my ex\u2019s approval, and the property manager said the lease will automatically go month to month. I don\u2019t feel the apartment complex can hold me in a forever month-to-month leases just because my ex won\u2019t acknowledge the termination, and he can\u2019t renew our lease without my signature. He can\u2019t renew by himself because he doesn\u2019t qualify, so it seems to be caught in a loop. I had no choice but to consult and hire a property law attorney, and they confirmed that my ex needed to \u201cacknowledge\u201d the 60 termination, but they also say I would be free from the lease since it\u2019s ending this month. My attorney reached out to the complex, who directed him to their legal department, and now it\u2019s between the attorneys to figure it out.\n\nOn top of everything, today I got a notification that my ex applied for a lease renewal for another year with me still on the lease, and it was pending our signatures. I know I should follow the advice of my attorney, but my main question is can the apartment complex force me into month-to-month leases or a lease renewal because my ex won\u2019t agree to take me off the lease?\n","title":"Ex-Bf is trying to force me to renew lease, and apartment complex won\u2019t let me out of the lease without his consent. (USA, TX)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442861930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lu7zu\/uk_why_can_this_man_no_longer_be_prosecuted_for\/","id":"3lu7zu","body":"\n\nMore than 700 indecent images of children had been found on his computer back in 2004 but he had not been extradited for that and could now not be prosecuted for those, Mr McInnes explained.\n\nhttp:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/news\/north-wales-news\/idwal-glyn-jones-man-charged-6851026","title":"[UK] Why can this man no longer be prosecuted for the images? I thought there was no statute of limitations here?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541379546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u8zqp\/force_signing_of_tenant_release_form_in_a\/","id":"9u8zqp","body":"Place: Davis, California\n\n​\n\nMy situation: \n\nI want to take over a lease starting now (Nov) and ending Aug 31st. I want to live there from Dec 15-June15 and do not want to have to worry about finding somebody to take over my lease or subleasing.  Housemates agreed I can start paying Dec 15. \n\n​\n\nApt complex has a \"tenant release form\" all the housemates can sign come June, and I will be totally off the hook for rent or finding somebody to take over the lease. The current housemates are willing to sign this form for me. They are sitting with an empty room and are desperate to fill it. Makes sense for them, I am not misleading anyone. \n\n​\n\nProblem 1:  this form is filed in June, yet I want to sign the lease now and rest assured I won't have to pay for summer. Can I draft up an agreement NOW saying the housemates have to sign my release form in JUNE or pay me whatever rent I overpaid? \n\n​\n\nProblem 2: If the list of housemates changes (say one leaves another comes in) then said form is invalid. Can I also put it in the contract for current housemates that any NEW housemates added\/replacing them must also sign MY form come June? \n\n​\n\nHow do I phrase all this to be enforceable by small claims court? \n\n​\n\nThanks :) ","title":"Force signing of \"tenant release form\" in a roommate agreement?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1446655462,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rie4i\/nj_is_it_true_that_a_vehicle_must_be_registered\/","id":"3rie4i","body":"A friend's vehicle was impounded. It had out of state temp tags on it and he is currently incarcerated. I have the title and he wants me to get the car out of impound and store it at my house until he gets out. The first time I called the police station they said I could have it towed off the lot to my house with just proof of ownership, which made sense to me. Now they're saying that it must be registered and insured, even though I have no plans of driving the car and the vehicles owner will not be getting out any time soon. It just down't make any sense to me that the vehicle would need to be registered and insured just to be moved. I feel like they're just trying to gouge me for more storage fees. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TiA!\n\nEdit: After a few more phone calls, and explaining the situation more clearly, it seems it was all a misunderstanding, and that I can get the car towed without registration. Not deleting the thread until I actually have the car though, and any further advice is still appreciated. Will update as information comes to light.","title":"NJ: Is it true that a vehicle must be registered and insured in order to get it out of impound on a tow truck?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554810870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb70e6\/unknowingly_created_an_app_with_same_name_and\/","id":"bb70e6","body":" \n\nHello,\n\nTitle basically says it all.\n\nI have an app that is about to release this May, that myself and a few people have been working on for a year. Then today, somebody sent me a message saying they found an app on the Google Play store that literally has the exact same name as ours and the concept is pretty damn similar! Our app is being made in Canada, this other app was developed in Slovakia. I had no clue there was anything else out there similar to what we are developing.\n\nWith 8 Billion people on the planet, apparently even when you think you have a brilliant idea, someone on the other side of the globe is thinking it too. lol\n\nAm I going to face any legal repercussions for putting out an app that has the same name and a similar concept?\n\nI do have some trademarks and copyrights for my app, but I'm not sure how they protect me.\n\nThanks!","title":"Unknowingly Created an App With Same Name and Similar Concept as Someone Else","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554957045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbvvs3\/how_do_shows_like_live_pd_get_away_with_recording\/","id":"bbvvs3","body":"Simple question with a complex answer I imagine. How do they get away with it? Does everyone sign a waiver? Is it used as evidence and can be used somehow? Would someone be able to sue for defamation?","title":"How do shows like Live P.D. get away with recording people?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553955331,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7bqk3\/hit_a_car_in_the_parking_lot_but_not_driving_my\/","id":"b7bqk3","body":"New account, just in case there\u2019s accidental nefariousness.  Trying to be on the up and up, but if I knew all the rules I wouldn\u2019t be asking.\n\nLong story short, I\u2019m borrowing my parent\u2019s car from their vacation home to cycle the fluids, etc. and left my normal car in their garage.  I do this from time to time, and I\u2019ve driven this car many times.  My parents know I have their car right now.\n\n\nMy parents have a big SUV and I usually drive a mid sized sedan.  I turned left into a parking spot, and I guess the turning radius isn\u2019t what I thought it\u2019d be.  I hit the back right bumper of the car in the space next to mine and scraped it up, and dented the bumper a little.  I did the right thing and left a note with my information.  I took pictures of each car and a video documenting the damage, just in case the owner tries to claim more damage than there really is.\n\n\nGiven the small amount of damage, I was going to ask this person if I might just be able to pay for this and keep the insurance company out of it (of course, if they\u2019re not okay with that, I\u2019ll do what they ask).  I\u2019m fully insured, but would rather not have huge rate increases (I\u2019ve never had an accident before, but you know how it can be).  My main question I am concerned about is - does it make a difference that I wasn\u2019t driving my car that I have insured?  My parent\u2019s car is also insured, but I was going to try to do the same thing for them - fix it and not have to notify an insurance company (of course, I\u2019ll tell my parents what happened).\n\nI just don\u2019t want this to be in the middle of an insurance squabble between two companies (Company A covers car involved but I\u2019m not a policyholder, but Company B covers me but not the car involved).\n\nAlso - is it illegal\/unethical\/immoral to not notify a police department and not notify an insurance company in this scenario if both parties are cool with it?  This only happens 20 minutes ago so I don\u2019t know what their reaction to that idea will be.\n\nThanks!","title":"Hit a car in the parking lot, but not driving my car. Any issues with my insurance covering this?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569534607,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9qk69\/roommate_has_been_living_in_house_owned_by\/","id":"d9qk69","body":"So how screwed are we? My parents own the place and the roommate has been living here since the beginning of the month with the lease sitting on the table, having been reminded of it several times, never signed the lease. And now realizing she can\u2019t afford to live here she wants to leave. She hasn\u2019t technically signed the lease but has been living here, is she at all liable for the lease that she had said she signed but was living here under false pretenses? Plz help","title":"Roommate has been living in house owned by parents for month, wants to leave, didn\u2019t sign lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442346951,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l2yx8\/10_years_ago_i_was_in_my_stupidtwenties_and_broke\/","id":"3l2yx8","body":"We had a brief fling, then she said that she was also sleeping with a few other guys, and she was pregnant with her finance's child (I had not known she was engaged). That was the last I heard from her, until this morning. \n\nToday, she located my mother on Facebook, and directly told her that she has a 9-year old grandson, and that I need to come be a part of the child's life. Before I consider even talking to this psycho, I am requesting a paternity test, which will hopefully show I am not the father and be the end of it. If somehow I am the dad, what can I do to protect my family now? I am married, and well-off with 2 young kids. Should I lawyer up before even taking the paternity test? Thanks for any help! \n\nI am an upstate-NY resident.","title":"10 years ago, I was in my stupid-twenties, and broke the cardinal rule of not sticking it in a girl who was crazy.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569331026,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8n28x\/car_accident_with_a_towing_company_that_has_shady\/","id":"d8n28x","body":"Hey guys, first time posting here. I\u2019m from California in the US. Thanks to all who read this and give some advice.\n\nA few weeks ago a was nearly in a head on collision, a large flatbed carrying a car drifted into my lane and despite my best efforts, clipped my back end. The car is likely totaled (it\u2019s a Prius plugin) and it\u2019s not drivable.\nI felt fine and said so to everyone involved at the scene, but a few days later I began to have neck and back pains so I went to the dr & chiropractor as well as took a day off of work.\n\nI have three witnesses (the car behind me, the car behind the other driver, and a pedestrian that was nearly hit) that agree on what happened and confirm that it is the drivers fault. \n\nSo this happened nearly two weeks ago, I followed up with my insurance immediately and let them know everything that happened, but I didn\u2019t hear a word from the other guys insurance until yesterday. It turns out he\u2019s a broker, which seems a little weird but I\u2019m unaware of how the insurance business works. He gave me a claim adjuster\u2019s information and case number then told me he worked for the actual insurance company, but after I googled the name he works for a third party claims settler?\n\nIs this normally how insurance works? Should I get a lawyer? This all seems a little shady but I\u2019m trying not to throw money at a lawyer if it isn\u2019t necessary. Thanks everyone, I appreciate the advice.","title":"Car accident with a towing company that has shady (?) insurance, should I lawyer up?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571336592,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djaexb\/contempt_of_court_child_visitation\/","id":"djaexb","body":"Trying to make it short..son is 16 now. 5 years ago I ( now 38 male ) suffered an hypoxic brain injury. 2 years to get ssdi ( back pay on laywer ), 2 years in court. I HAVE A SIGNED court order to see my son. Since December of 18 her and her husband do not let me see or even talk to my son. Her husband was arrested for domestic violence in Oct of 18. No one will help me, unless I pay $2500 to a lawyer. Which I  an can not as I get less the 12k a year in ssdi. I have contacted the cops a few times but they will only do wellness checks ( which they won't do for me after I asked the 2nd time ) division of family services will not help because there is no child being abused. I have emailed so many attorneys and the city courts ( every division lol ). I get almost zero responses. The only one that was slightly helpful was to go to the city website and find the forums to represent myself. There are so many forms. I am so lost. I need help. Will someone pls explain how I go about this. After my brain injury I need step by step instructions then I will fully understand and wont have any problems grasping it. Any help from anyone or any professionals in the state of Missouri willing to step in would be appreciated. Thank you all for your time!","title":"Contempt of court, child visitation","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550609874,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asfbcd\/declining_unofficial_work\/","id":"asfbcd","body":"When my boyfriend first started working at the company he currently works for, he he two titles that stratified two departments.\n\nEarly last year, one of those titles was official removed at his request and they said they would work on finding a replacement.\n\nIt\u2019s been almost a year and they still have not found a replacement but are forcing him to do the work with zero communication on progress for finding a replacement. There is the added stress that the people that submit requests to him never seem to be able to do their job correctly (direct lack of effort to even try to submit request correctly) and do not reply to any follow up clarifying questions he has for weeks (there is hard evidence of this).\n\nAdditionally, he just found out that they stopped looking due to high churn in the other department which has been resulting in a higher then average workload.\n\nHe is coming up on a year of this.\n\nIs there anything in Oregon Law that would prevent him from being fired if he chose to decline the work that was officially (on an HR level) removed from his job requirements almost a year ago? Are there any steps that he can take to try to make his situation better?\n\nPlease note that we are aware that simply leaving the company is an option but I am looking for any potential legal recourse if he chose to stay and simply refuse the work or if there is a way to push back and get the company to stop treating him so dismissively.","title":"Declining Unofficial Work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569022100,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d72w04\/uk_lease_agreement_has_a_break_clause_for\/","id":"d72w04","body":"In the break clause of the tenancy agreement it is stated that the landlord may break the agreement if any of the clauses are broken by the tenant. However, in the tenant break clause it states that the tenant cannot break the tenancy agreement. Does that mean I won\u2019t be able to break the agreement and have rent (for months where I don\u2019t live at the flat) refunded to me ? I read online that there is a law for consumer protection in contracts that prohibits this sort of unfair division of power in a contract. I am afraid that if I bring this up I may not get the flat. Anyways, if say the landlord fails to uphold clauses like maintenance of the flat for damage I did not cause or lead to, can I break the tenancy agreement? On the ukgov website it says I can but I am worried that signing this agreement would make me give up that right.\n\nAny help is appreciated.\n\nThank you","title":"UK - lease agreement has a break clause for landlord and none for tenant","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569380294,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8xeh9\/can_i_sue_for_lost_vehicle_value\/","id":"d8xeh9","body":"I\u2019ve been rear ended pretty bad twice in 3 months. My auto body guy says I can sue the people that hit me for reducing the value of my vehicle. Is this true? Is it worth it? I have a base model family sedan that\u2019s a few years old","title":"Can I sue for lost vehicle value?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555177701,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bct413\/tx_is_it_illegal_for_my_soontobe_ex_husbands\/","id":"bct413","body":"Ok sooooo.   \n\n\nI'm in the middle of a very messy divorce. My soon-to-be ex husband started banging this woman while we were married, told me it was over, turns out they have two kids that I didn't know about until recently... cool. I don't fully understand all of the custody stuff as it stands right now (I'm trying to get full custody for many reasons, including that he's a negligent alcoholic in denial) but since the divorce isn't finalized, I haven't kept the kids from seeing him when he asks (which he's only doing to look good for the court, he's admitted that much). I know that they're not allowed to be overnight at their place, they're not allowed to be alone with this woman... we're not supposed to disparage each other which I've definitely held to (but my kids for the most part hate him, especially my two youngest kids) but he hasn't, because they tell me that he talks badly about me and they're confused about that. anyway...  \n\n\nYesterday he was like \"I want to take them out after school\" which I allowed, telling him to have them hone before bedtime, etc etc...   \n\n\nKids get home, middle child (7 y\/o) who really hates his dad confesses to me that while they were out, he felt \"gross\", and that Girlfriend gave him \"weird liquid medicine\" and \"some pills\"  \n\n\nAs soon as he told me my heart stopped. This son has always been very sensitive to medication and has several allergies, so I'm always very careful with what over the counter medications I give him. I know it's likely that she just gave him Dayquil and some Tylenol, but even those are very dangerous (especially when mixed since most liquid cold medicine has acetomeniphen already?) and as the primary parent I am so angry that I wasn't consulted what she put in my child, especially since she's only met him a handful of times and isn't exactly a put together person herself!!! and of course my ex doesn't care, and since he hasn't actively been involved in their lives for years he has no idea himself about those things either  \n\n\nis there anything I can do about this? I don't know that this is something I can press charges over or what I can do, but I'm just so shocked and angry. I've tried to ask my son details about what she gave him (what color, did the pills come in an orange bottle, etc) but he's young so he can only describe so much, and again while it may not be something scary, of course I'm terrified that this woman gave him something prescription... and again since she's not his mom and doesn't know his allergies or tolerances that he could've been seriously hurt. Do I have any recourse other than just trying to get this divorce finalized???  \n\n\nthank you so much :(   \n\n\ntldr soon-to-be ex's adultery girlfriend gave my young son mystery meds w\/o consulting me, wondering if there's anything I can do?","title":"[TX] Is it illegal for my soon-to-be ex husband's girlfriend to give my child mystery medication without asking me?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571676711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl3cf5\/pennsylvania_sister_denies_adoption_of_son_to_my\/","id":"dl3cf5","body":"Background:\n\nAround 4-5\\~ years ago my parents filed for emergency guardianship while my sister was in jail and later that year received sole custody of my sister's son. My parents have been housing and providing for him for his entire life with the exception of a few speckles of my sister moving out and very quickly getting into to trouble.\n\nMy sister is a felon, and has spent my entire life committing crimes of varying degrees (she is 18 years older than me). One count of assault, well over two dozen (scattered) counts of theft and fraud, and recently a DUI and possession of a controlled substance.\n\nShe is currently in jail (and has been for almost 2 years now) for the aforementioned DUI and possession of a controlled substance AND stealing a very significant amount from my (very sick) grandmother after my aunt let her stay with her to straighten up (who didn't know at the time that she was on the run from the police).\n\nMy sister steals and manipulates from everybody who has the pleasure to know her including stealing a significant amount from my parents (over $10,000 alone from them), often targeting the elderly and other vulnerable people. She is constantly in and out of jail.\n\nShe recently has shared with us that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and multiple personality disorder and will be back out of jail in a year approximately.\n\nWhat we want to know:\n\nIs it worth it financially to fight for adoption?\n\nHow much would it cost?\n\nDespite my sister's very long and significant criminal history and alleged diagnosis of mental illness, is it possible that she would still be considered competent and fit to parent even though she has broken her probation more times than I can count, and has often been out of work and completely unable to provide for him? 2 of her other children (who are adults) would likely testify against her if that counts for anything.\n\nIf my parents were to adopt him, he would draw around $1000 dollars per month from my father's social security which would very significantly help him and us. My nephew wants nothing to do with his mother and is very happy and well adjusted with us (he is 12 currently).","title":"(Pennsylvania) Sister denies adoption of son to my parents that have sole custody of and is (in our opinion) unfit to parent","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569965262,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc05fn\/landlord_sold_building_nyc_new_owners_kicking\/","id":"dc05fn","body":"Like the title says, my now former landlord sold the building I live in. The building is small, with only four 1 bedroom apartments. Everyone's leases end at different times. The new owners are asking everyone to leave at the end of January, regardless of when your lease ends. \n\nSome of us only moved in this year, so it's a huge hassle and expense to move again. Now sure if I have any recourse here. My lease ends February 1st, while some of my neighbors have leases that go until March or June.\n\nI've googled around, but being in NYC all of the articles I can find pertain to rent stabilized apartments and none of the units in my building are rent stabilized.","title":"Landlord sold building (NYC), new owners kicking everyone out. Possible recourse?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504193447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x7k9e\/ny_question_about_lease_section_concerning_jury\/","id":"6x7k9e","body":"Hi legaladvice, I'm looking over the lease for an apartment I'd like to rent, and I came across the following section:\n\n> **Jury Trial and Counterclaims** \n \n>a. Jury trial. Landlord and Tenant agree to give up their right to a trial by jury in any action or proceeding brought by either against the other for any matter concerning the Agreement or the Premises.  \n \n>b. Counterclaims. Tenant agrees to give up the right to bring a counterclaim or set-off in any action or proceeding by Landlord against Tenant on any matter directly or indirectly related to the Lease or the apartment\n\nWhat does this mean exactly?  If I have damages caused by the landlord, would this mean I wouldn't be able to pursue any legal action against the landlord?","title":"[NY] Question about lease section concerning jury trial & counterclaims","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444008565,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nirrc\/sc_flood_damage_being_blamed_on_my_dog_being\/","id":"3nirrc","body":"There's currently a flood in SC which tore down part of a privacy fence at a resident where i'm renting couple of rooms with a few people. My dog's being blamed for it and the owner of the residence is demanding me to pay for it. \n\nDoes this sound legally right?","title":"SC Flood damage being blamed on my dog, being evicted.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570081005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcmlem\/landlord_making_me_pay_full_rent_for_apartment\/","id":"dcmlem","body":"Los Angeles, CA.\n\nI live in a \u201cluxury\u201d apartment building managed by a larger company.\n\nAbout 5 weeks ago water started coming through pretty rapidly from my ceiling in 2 places of my kitchen. I immediately went down to the leasing office to let them know what was happening and they sent someone up to stop the water leak.\n\nApparently my neighbor 2 stories above me left their sink running and it somehow magically leaked through an entire apartment above me and then down to my apartment. \n\nThey say because the damage caused by another tenant and not their fault they would not reimburse my rent for the duration of the repairs and basically said to deal with my renters insurance or break my lease with no penalty.\n\nI didn\u2019t want to move out because moving is a pain in the ass and I love my apartment and location.\nI was told the repairs would take about 2 weeks, and so I decided to just live through it.\n\nI did claim with my renters insurance and they did offer to move me to a hotel, but I didn\u2019t take them up on it because I have a $500 deductible and it would almost be more inconvenient to live in a hotel .\n\n\nDuring the first stage of the repair process my  entire kitchen was covered in plastic ceiling drywall was torn off in my kitchen, hardwood floors in kitchen removed leaving exposed concrete and exposed ceiling framing wires pipes etc in my kitchen. Loud fans were running 24\/7 for a week to dry the moisture. They came and removed the fans but left everything covered in plastic and told me they would soon start the rebuilding process which would take about 5 days. (This was 1 month ago) Also all my cabinets were covered in plastic so I couldn\u2019t access my stuff. \n\nI was annoyed I had to live through this but ok with this process as it seemed reasonable and they were at least fixing the issue.\n\nNow I\u2019m sitting here, I\u2019ve removed the plastic coverings myself as they made my already tiny apartment almost unlivable to deal with and it seems no one is coming to \u201crebuild\u201d my kitchen.\n\nI\u2019m paying full rent for my apartment that looks like 1\/2 a construction site and every time I ask\nWhen they are going to come and finish the repairs they tell me next week...\n\nDo I have any legal right to withhold rent or at least demand a reduction on my rent? It seems unfair to me to be paying so much to live here with my apartment being torn apart the way it is.\n\nI have photos of the apartment under construction if anyone wants to see, but I\u2019m on my phone and don\u2019t know how to upload them here right now.\n\nThank you so much I hope this all makes sense I know it\u2019s a lot of info!","title":"Landlord making me pay full rent for apartment under construction","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442795515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lqr47\/help_my_marina_wants_me_to_pay_rent_for_a_boat_i\/","id":"3lqr47","body":"I posted this in \/r\/sailing and they suggested I x-post here. This is in San Diego.\n\nI sold my boat at the end of August and the guy I sold it to has not moved it from my old slip. Apparently he never contacted the marina at all and now they want me to pay for September's slip fees. Obviously I don't want to pay for a boat that I don't even own anymore. According to them, I am responsible for the slip fees until the boat leaves or the new owner applies and is approved for the slip.\n\nWhat are my options here? Can the marina really hold me liable for what is now this other guys boat? Can I have it towed away? Can I move it myself - where would I move it to?\n\nI'm thinking I will just tell the marina to keep my (1 month's rent) deposit and that they should treat the boat as being abandoned in their marina - put a lien on it, seize it, whatever.","title":"Help, my marina wants me to pay rent for a boat I no longer own.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443850479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nbd2q\/grandmother_passed_inheriting_car_new_zealand\/","id":"3nbd2q","body":"My grandmother passed away around two months ago and her two sons (my father and uncle) were put in her will to receive all of her assets split 50\/50. They have since signed papers to her lawyer saying that I could have her car as a gift. I'm now being told things from different parts of the family that I'm not allowed the car until the house is sold. Should I be able to have the car as soon as the papers are processed by the lawyer or will I have to wait until her house is sold? So far nobody has given me a consistent answer. If someone could help me out with this i'd really appreciate it. Thanks!","title":"Grandmother passed, inheriting car. (New Zealand)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1414621542,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2kq151\/usuk_someone_using_files_generated_from_my\/","id":"2kq151","body":"Ok, I made an application for Android that generates layouts\/images using inputed data. This is all then stored in a special format and can be shared for others to use. Someone has made a clone of my application and told users to \"just go import stuff from his.\" \n\nI feel this is not right since they would have had to reverse engineer my application to know how the files were stored. My question, is this grounds for getting them removed from the store \/ a lawsuit for lost income based on them getting sales over me by misguiding consumers?\n\nI am from the US. I have tracked him down to the UK.","title":"[US\/UK] Someone using files generated from my program for profit.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540178731,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q9yys\/ca_domestic_partnership_partner_ordering_me_out\/","id":"9q9yys","body":"Tonight my partner (male) and I got into an argument, that elevated to him telling me I had 10 seconds to get out of his office or out of his life. Things escalated to the point where he told me our relationship was over and I am to be out of the house tonight (10\/20\/2018) or he will call the cops and lie to say I wasn't taking my psychiatric medication, and that I was taking illegal drugs (also untrue).  \n\n\nWe have been in a relationship since February of 2014, and had a witnessed partnership ceremony in 2015. We have not registered with the state as domestic partners and are not legally married. I have paid approximately half the mortgage on both homes we have lived in, but both are in his name only.  \n\n\n**My first question is**, if I leave, will that impact my ability to leverage a right to remain in our house until we can hopefully resolve our issues without breaking up? I frequently see recommendations on this forum to stay in the house for divorce sake, but we can't divorce.   \n\n\nLet me be clear, my partner is the love of my life, and while things aren't perfect with our relationship, I cannot bring myself leave him.   \n\n\nI also contributed to the escalation of our argument this evening, and am worried about possible legal ramifications.\n\n  \nEvents recap:  \n\n\nAfter telling me I had 10 seconds to get out of his office or out of his life, I walked out to my office with him still yelling at me, and me asking him to stop. He came to my office, yelled some more, and then went to close the order. I stood up and followed him asking him listen. He refused and continued to walk away. I then threw a bottle of vitamins at the wall about 7 feet from where he was walking, with no intention of hitting him. The bottle ricocheted further down the hall. He walked to it, picked it up, tossed it in his hand, looked me straight in the eye, and then threw it as hard as he could at my head from about 15 feet away. The only reason it didn't hit me in the head was because I ducked.  \n\n\nWe continued yelling at each other, with me telling him to stop physically threatening me, and he was getting closer and closer. He backed me into a corner, and was screaming at me, and I instinctively pushed him away. He grabbed my wrists, shoved me back in the corner, and I struggled. When he didn't let go I tried to bite his wrists, and he let go, but still was pinning me in the corner. I was getting more and more scared. My partner has a double black belt in karate, and while I used to think he'd never physically hurt me, I was terrified and stuck. I couldn't get away. I hit him in the face, and he backed off, then told me to be out of the house tonight and that he never wanted to see me again. He then packed a change of clothes and left the house.  \n\n\nHe has since taken pictures of where his glasses scratched his face and told me he's sending them to the police if I'm not gone tonight. He has threatened to call my psychiatrist, as well, with the intent of supporting his claim to put me in a psych ward if I don't leave, and told me he will make sure I am never able to get a job again because of my mental \"instability\".  \n\n\nI told our closest mutual friends, a couple, and one has come over to help support me. She called Steve to ask him not to do anything stupid and give me some time, and to find out if he's okay. He's staying in a hotel tonight.\n\n  \nI called the on-call at my psychiatrist's office to relay the information to him to cover my ass. I'm compliant with my bipolar medication, have never attempted to harm myself or others, and have not taken illegal drugs during the time we are together. I have had a medication issue where my depression wasn't being adequately treated, but now is fine. The on-call let me know that it would be very unlikely for the police to commit me if I'm coherent and can explain myself, even if I wasn't taking my meds. He left a note for my regular psychiatrist, who I have an appointment with at 10 a.m. tomorrow. (I am scared to leave the house for the appointment because of above mentioned reasons.)  \n\n\nA similar situation happened two years ago, without physical contact, and he kicked me out. I left for my parents' house, he contacted me, and within two days asked me to come back home. We mended fences and I came back to him and our home.\n\n**My second question is this:** he's threatened so many times tonight to call the cops, my psychiatrist, and my family to lie about my mental health status, I feel like the CYA move would be to file a temporary restraining order. However, this is the very last thing I want to do as it would ruin his life and there would be zero chance of getting back together. I don't feel he's a physical threat to me at this time, and am making sure to have mutual friends over when we see each other next. How do I protect myself and protect him at the same time?  \n\n\nPlease no comments about how I need to leave him. I'm not entertaining that option for a great many reasons. I just want advice on what legal grounds I have to stay in the house and how to protect myself from dealing with the police because of his threats of a 5150.  \n\n\nThanks in advance.  \n\n\nFYI: I'm already backing up my hard drive and our server under a private account online, packing important papers, and items so I can leave quickly if I have to. I haven't talked to my family or his, or any other of our friends about this, and am also looking for a local attorney to see tomorrow. I probably don't have time to hit the gym, though.  \n\n\n​\n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n\n​\n\n  \n\n\n​","title":"CA Domestic Partnership: Partner Ordering Me Out of Our House Tonight and Threatening with Calling Police and a 5150 Involuntary Hold","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443483892,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mrlx8\/significant_other_may_have_a_warrant_out_for_his\/","id":"3mrlx8","body":"My partner (call him James) and me are currently staying in the UK, in a city we just moved to. When we stayed in our previous location, James was made a witness to a brutal assault by a known group in the area and have been called as a witness (about a year later) in the trial against them. The group have contacted James and made threats regarding what will happen if he testifies against them, but he decided to appear anyway. The night before the scheduled trial his parents received an answering machine message stating that the trial had been moved forward a day. And so it kept being postponed day by day for about a week, to the point that we decided for him not to go. It was unfeasible to keep purchasing train tickets that would go unused; with the standing threats it seemed not without risk; and James is just starting work in a place he really enjoys and does not want to go away for any period of time.\n\nA few days later, his family (brother, step father, mother) have all been contacted on their private numbers - keep in mind that not once have the police attempted to reach James on the number he provided when making his statement and have had for years - by police officers stating that there is a warrant out for his arrest and that he was to be arrested and kept until he was to appear as a witness, and possibly until his own trial for contempt of court. We have only heard about this from them, we have not once been contacted by phone or in person.\n\nAs a bit of background, James has been very unlucky with the judicial system in the past. He has been on trial twice and acquitted as there was not sufficient case. This has led to severe anxiety and depression, with at times psychotic presentation. He has seen a doctor about this recently. It definitely contributed to his decision to not appear as a witness.\n\nHe stayed at his parents house until we moved so that is the address he provided when making his statement to the police. We have just now received a phone call from his mum saying that the police appeared with the expressed intention to arrest him(around midnight). They were last in touch with his family on Thursday, so James phoned his solicitor who was going to contact fiscal\/prosecution to find out if there is a warrant. He has yet to call us back and we are understandably a bit freaked out.\n\nWhat can be done? Is handing oneself in the wisest things to do, all things considered? Can his mental health issues be used in his \"defence\"? Is failure to appear as a witness treated like any other criminal offence (a 24\/hr legal counsel we found via google seemed to suggest otherwise, however reluctant to give much other advice)? ","title":"Significant other may have a warrant out for his arrest - how to go about this?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542230108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x47qv\/does_the_france_have_reciprocity_with_the_usa\/","id":"9x47qv","body":"Hi everyone.\n\nI\u2019m planning on getting married to my fianc\u00e9 in the United States. I am American and she is French. \nWe are going to get the marriage recognized in France.\n\nIf I have a prenup done in the USA, will it be recognized in France. \n\nDo I have to make one there too? \n\nThanks!!","title":"Does the France have reciprocity with the USA? (Prenup)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447032468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s2s0i\/oh_usa_when_do_you_take_legal_action_against_a\/","id":"3s2s0i","body":"**Question:** \n\nWhen is it time to take legal action on a wedding photographer who has yet to deliver photos despite being contractually obligated to do so? \n\n\n**Context:**\n\n\nSigned a deal with wedding photographer (actual professional photographer, not someone who does this as a hobby) for our wedding on August 1st. It was for $3,500. \n\n\nShe told us on day of wedding that we would be getting our photos within 6-8 weeks.\n\n\nContract states 8-10 weeks maximum delivery time. We are now on week 15 with no photos.\n\n\nWe have contacted her on multiple occasions, been told for the past two months we'll get them soon.\n\n\nWe are now noticing that she is posting photos on social media of shoots after our wedding and are getting frustrated as she has yet to contact us to apologize for the delay, give us a concrete delivery date.\n\n\nI've been told we should begin sending certified letters, and even to consider taking her to small claims court.  My concern is that this will result in us not getting quality photos with edits, or no photos at all, which ultimately is all I want.\n\n\n**TL:DR** \n\nWedding photographer has yet to deliver photos and is 5 weeks (50% longer) past contractually agreed upon delivery time. Continues to tell us they're almost done (for 2 months) and posts photos of other events that took place after ours on social media.","title":"OH, USA: When do you take legal action against a wedding photographer who does not deliver photos despite being contractually past delivery date?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571388762,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djkpsu\/how_can_i_get_my_mums_will_from_my_stepdad_and\/","id":"djkpsu","body":"Ive given him over a month to give me a copy of mums will. Shes been passed for about 10 months now.\n\nI have not moved, he knows where i live, and he has my email and phone number. He has not contacted me or done as he promised.\n\nI asked again for mums will, tacking on her death certificate and tfn. He agreed the first time and didnt follow through, this time i only gave him a day to reply.\n\nHe didnt. Ive told him i have more right to mums details than he ever will, and i will take legal action if i have to.\n\nI have the phone numbers to solicitors who give free phone sessions so i will be contacting them for advice after this, i just need mums basic details first (like her dob, i never remember her birth year)\n\nI want mums details so i can access her super, she had nothing for my brother and i to have when she died other than the stuff in her house which my \"stepdad\" only let me go through 3 days after mum died. My brother didnt get a chance at all. \"Stepdad\" destroyed most of the stuff and sold the rest.\n\nMum worked her entire life so i struggle to believe her super wouldnt have covered her debts and then some. If my brother and i cant have anything, i want for us to at least have whats left. She owes us that much. And if he has spent it, then HE owes us that much. And more given the emotional damage hes causing.\n\nWhat i want, is mums details that will allow me to access her few assets, and her camera. He hasnt sold it like he claims, hes given to his new girlfriend, which is an even bigger insult (he \"met\" her 3 months after mum passed).\n\nMum was 42ish when she died of liver disease brought on by intense alcoholism. She was suicidal, and knew by continuing to drink that she would die an early death. She chose this. And he helped her. She couldnt leave the house so he brought the grog to her. He easily could have chosen to put up or leave. Instead he fed into her depression and helped cut the string.\n\nI have no sympathy for him. I have no sympathy for her.\n\nI just want something to make all the energy my brother and i wasted on that woman to mean something.\n\nWhat is your advice in this situation?","title":"How can i get my mums will from my \"stepdad\" and what action can i take if he hasnt followed it?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539597203,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ob9z7\/company_lost_boyfriends_tax_form_and_said_theres\/","id":"9ob9z7","body":"Recently, my boyfriend applied for a part time job at a local fast food business. He went through the orientation process, filled put his tax forms and got his uniform. The company told him that they would order him a pair of work shoes and as soon as he got them, they'd put him on the schedule.\n\nA month passed, and there was no word on his employment situation. He called multiple times and was given the same answer every time, that his shoes never came in. He got fed up and called the GM of the company, and they fessed up and admitted that they lost his tax forms. \n\nWe don't know what to do. No one knows where it went and why they keep making excuses for losing it. At this point, he's getting fed up with the company but is worried about his lost tax information. I've advised him to call the District Manager, but other than that we have no clue what to do. Legally, what can we do?","title":"Company lost Boyfriends tax form and said there's nothing they can do about it. [OH]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554928804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbr2lx\/today_the_director_of_the_private_school_that_i\/","id":"bbr2lx","body":"There are four teachers and we were sat down after school today to be told that our last paycheck (last Friday) would be our last full paycheck and that we would only get half pay through the end of the year. They simply do not have the funds that they anticipated they would have for the remainder of the year. \n\nI\u2019m wondering if it is legal to suddenly cut someone\u2019s pay by half. My last pay period ended on March 29th, so all of April thus far will not be paid in full. I have a contract stating that I get a certain amount monthly and have not signed anything consenting to a decrease, let alone for my pay to be cut in half. We recently relocated to Maryland, where they are an \u201cat-will\u201d employment state. Can I be fired if I refuse to sign a new contract? I am contracted through mid-June. \n\nTIA for any and all advice.","title":"Today the director of the private school that I teach at told the teachers that they can no longer pay them their salaries.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1538584124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9l2q7z\/using_sick_leave_as_paternity_leave_texas\/","id":"9l2q7z","body":"I work for a small business in Texas (~15 employees) and as part of my employment package I have 2 weeks of sick leave. I am also expecting my first child next month, and previously asked my employer about using sick leave to care for my wife and child following his birth. My employer told me that I could only use sick leave for myself, but I am not sure that this is correct. We do not have a strongly defined policy, in fact the only policy I have identified about sick leave is in my offer letter which simply states that I have 10 days of sick leave per calendar year and that the company may require substantiation of illness greater than 3 days. \n\nI know that sick leave is not required by law in Texas, and I am having trouble verifying if there are any laws regarding its use if it is offered. Does anyone know of any laws regarding the use of sick leave if a company offers it? Do I have any other recourse here?\n\nThank you in advance. ","title":"Using Sick Leave as Paternity Leave - Texas","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444789012,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oo45a\/in_what_ways_are_sites_like\/","id":"3oo45a","body":"IF YOU ARE NOT HERE TO OFFER ACTUAL ADVICE AND ARE EASILY OFFENDED PLEASE HIT THE BACK BUTTON. FOLLOW THE BASIC GUIDELINES OR YOU WILL BE REPORTED. \n\nI am in Louisiana.\nmyfreecam.com etc legal? I have recently seen connectpal take off for women selling videos etc. I am curious to the laws on cybersex and how does owning a website as such offering this pertains?\n\nIf I am a female, and I host my own website selling personal things like custom videos panties etc, where is the line drawn? If I paid someone to host it for me does that cross the line? Don't want anyone getting in trouble like Gottfrid. Just curious if there was a website dedicated as a main hub for the someone interested in selling what are the legal grounds. ","title":"In what ways are sites like...","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552876112,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2d9l7\/how_much_of_a_bad_idea_is_it_to_diy_a_last_will\/","id":"b2d9l7","body":"My family has a relative who's worried about his health and wishes to set up a (long overdue) Will as well as Living Trust for the immediate children. He wants to do this using stock documents straight downloaded from the web rather than paying money for an actual lawyer to make one.\n\n​\n\nThis might be a stupid and obvious question, but for my peace of mind, how catastrophic a move would that be? I believe the issue is that wording may not be precise in legal terms if it's just a stock, fill-in-the-blank document, which could prevent his assets from going to the children properly or allow others to step in.","title":"How much of a bad idea is it to DIY a Last Will and Living Trust over hiring a pro lawyer?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539214015,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n4o0h\/im_supposed_to_start_a_new_job_this_coming_monday\/","id":"9n4o0h","body":"I recently got the opportunity to apply for a new job. I went through the interview process and passed. They said the pay was DOE(Depending on Experience). \nThey only have two shifts, Mornings - Afternoons or Night - Mornings. \n\nThey sent me to Drug Test and Background check. I passed both and they asked me to put my two weeks in at my current job. He mentioned that I would get all of the info the Monday before I start, which would be the last week at my current job.\n\nA week passed and I hadn\u2019t heard from him so I emailed him yesterday asking if there was any word on my hours, pay, or how benefits would work. He responded that I would come in Monday(The Day they said I would Start) and do an Orientation and see how things are run and I would learn everything I need to know. \n\nNow I\u2019m nervous that there\u2019s a chance that they won\u2019t hire me even after they told me to put my two weeks in. I already trained the new guy and I won\u2019t be able to come back, is there anything I can do if this happens?\n\n","title":"I\u2019m supposed to start a new job this coming Monday but they haven\u2019t told me my hours or my pay yet. They asked me to put in my 2 weeks at my old job and I have done that. What if they decide not to hire me? Better Details in the post.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541142335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tht66\/turned_down_for_a_job_asked_what_the_issues_were\/","id":"9tht66","body":"I finished my degree a little bit ago but was asked by my current employer if I could finish out a project I was very involved in. The project is coming to an end and have been looking for a job that pays better and where I can actually begin using what I've been going to college for. \n\nI made it to the third interview that was directly with the head of the division on Wednesday and thought it went extremely well. The previous interviews also went very well and I thought I had this job in the bag until Wednesday, the interview went pretty well with a few odd questions thinking back on it but I brushed it off ass him trying to see what my homelife was like and see if I was available to work OT to meet deadlines etc. \n\nQuestions along the line of \"Do you gave a girlfriend or fiance at home?\" \"No, but I do have a significant other and he's entirely understanding of the important of finishing up a project on time and correctly\" \"You have a boyfriend? You seemed very masculine, very well let's move on\" and more basic questions ending in \"We have a lot of office\/family events, would your boyfriend be joining us?\" \"Yes, of course he would if he was available\". \n\nNow I brushed this off mostly due to the age of this man, he's in his 50s and while people can be really understanding about gay relationships sometimes older individuals just word things a bit differently and not entirely \"PC\" but generally mean well overall.\n\nToday I received a call from HR thanking me for my time however I am not being offered a position at this time. I tried to do the most professional thing and ask them what their policies are on reapplying within the company for other positions etc in the field because I really do want to work there, feel like I'd be a fit blah blah blah. HR was really nice and explained all their policies and then gave me the head of the divisions email so I could connect with him a bit more. Okay! Great, I can reach out and ask him about other positions or possibilities in the future and network a bit.\n\nSo I sent him an email earlier in the day thanking him for his time and politely asking about other positions and very nicely asking is there anything I could have improved on or can work on currently to make myself more suited for the company. What I got back was quite different than I was expecting.\n\nHe very nicely answered everything then at the end in regards to my question about being more suited to the company sent back this \"Your sexuality may be an issue with the atmosphere of the office environment I have helped create here. Thank you for your interest in (company) however I will not be able to have you work in my department now or in the future.\"\n\nI sent him an email to his company email and received the response from his company email. I've never been actually really discriminated against due to being gay in such a way in a professional setting. I'm not super flamboyant or shout out that I am gay at every turn, I'm quite masculine and it really throws people off when they find out that I'm gay. \n\nDo I contact a higher up in the company about this? I'm perfectly suited for what they were looking for, right experience and degree and even know a handful of the people I would be working with and they sent emails to HR recommending me. I feel he directly didn't hire me because I am gay. What are my options here?\n\nThis is a large company that's multinational and located in Seattle, WA.","title":"Turned down for a job, asked what the issues were. Told \"your sexuality may be an issue with the atmosphere of the office environment\".","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571256952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/div29o\/college_student_threw_hydroflask_at_my_windshield\/","id":"div29o","body":"I was driving to work and I work near a university where they have shuttle busses that take their students to their classes around the campus. Huge traffic today and normally always busy but it was busier than usual and I cross the intersection on green where a shuttle bus from the school turns right on the opposite side of the intersection last minute, almost hitting the person next to my lane causing him to swerve a bit into my lane. I was going slow since traffic and I give him space but the driver next to me honks and then I hear yelling from inside the bus. Next thing I know I see a damn hydroflask flying straight from the shuttle window on the left of the bus and it hits my windshield causing it to crack and then shatter. A damn hydroflask. The guy who almost got hit just looks at me in shock and the bus stops as soon as the bus driver heard the glass and we eventually move to the side. I get out and ask who threw the bottle to the driver and she directs me to the girl, poor driver was nearly apologetic and I told her it's not her fault. The girl who threw the bottle was obviously angry and once I asked what the hell is wrong with her, she tries to push me off to get off the bus and yells at the driver that shes late because of her?!? I didn't let her off and told her that she needs to give me her credentials or I would go to her campus school and find her information and file a report. I had pictures of the incident, the driver next to me as a witness, and nearly all the other students on the bus including the driver. She tells me to fuck off and I take her picture and ask the driver for her ID number since they need that to ride the shuttle. Nevermind getting late to work, I had a broken windshield and now I was left to put a complaint to the university security and campus office dept. I'm at work right now and they have the girl on hold on her campus and the school calling me saying that shes crying and sorry for the incident. I'm obviously not going to let it slide but what's the course of action here?!","title":"College Student Threw HydroFlask at my windshield!","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1549743982,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aoway9\/large_telecom_company_cuts_employees_pay\/","id":"aoway9","body":"Not sure if this is where this belongs (first post) but I need some advice.\n\nI work for a company that is contracted to a large telecom company in Canada. I get paid piece work (paid by the job and not time worked) and recently my company has told us that we will be making less money when doing multiple of the same work at one address. Example: So say I get paid 10 dollars for wiring a phone jack every other phone jack I wire I only get paid 7 dollars even though the work is the same. They have also asked us to run an app on out phones while at every job which was not a requirement before. Also they dont pay us for overtime, they say if we work more than our 40 hours a week we will be doing more piece work which will in turn make us more money... We have been told multiple times that the company is Federally regulated and not Provincially because of the type of job (Telecommunications). I dont know enough about the Federal employment laws and all internet searches turn up with different info. Thanks for reading sorry it's a little long.","title":"Large Telecom company cuts employees pay","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554633766,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baf1va\/wills_notary\/","id":"baf1va","body":"Would anyone be able to say if it is legal for a Notary to be the author of a will? Say for instance a notary wanted to get into the will writing business. Would it be a conflict of interest to perform a notorial act on a document in which you are neither a witness nor have any self interest (i.e. not a beneficiary)? Thank you for your time and have a wonderful day!","title":"Wills \/ Notary","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505057781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z8vms\/apartment_construction_asbestos_exposure_risk_and\/","id":"6z8vms","body":"Hello all,\n\nFirst time posting here,\n\nI currently rent an apartment in Orange County, CA. It's an older building, and has constant plumbing issues; the rental agency that oversees the property has just completed a walk-through of each apartment (quadplex) to test for lead\/asbestos before starting construction.\n\nI'm curious if I have the right to get a copy of the tests, and because of asbestos risk for going airborne, I want to be able to witness if construction within my apartment is done without exposing me to unnecessary harm.\n\nThe re-piping will take approximately one week to complete, being that I am working full-time, and juggling an internship, I can't afford to move out, nor do I want to.\n\nWhat legal rights do I have in this situation, and how should I proceed?\n\nI was going to email the agency and request the results of the test, request that construction only happen at my apartment while someone is present, and that construction adhere to the times given.\n\nThanks for your time everyone!","title":"Apartment construction, asbestos exposure risk, and my rights as a tenant.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554952976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbvaxl\/i_am_a_master_tenant_in_nyc_i_want_to_evict\/","id":"bbvaxl","body":"I am posting on my roommate, the master tenant\u2019s, behalf as her posts keeping failing (I\u2019m the roommate moving out):\n\n\u201cI recently found out my problematic room mate is not on the lease and never sent in any identification or paperwork to property management.  (I must emphasize property management did not come after us for this information despite having his contact information and being well aware of his presence). We signed a lease for the past year but he was never officially approved so my old room mates who are not living here anymore are still on the lease, they did not receive tenant surrender forms.  This is property management\u2019s beef, not mine.  I still have contact with these previous room mates and we are on great terms and they understand what is happening. \n\nMy other room mate is moving out because he has made her uncomfortable.  He\u2019s broken mutually agreed upon rules between the three of us concerning guests and nudity and has blocked us on his phone when we bring up grievances and boundaries.   The room mate moving out has seen his dick in the kitchen, the dress code issue was discussed our very first meeting (we are both women btw). He\u2019s stolen food, etc.  There are plenty of problems going on with him.  I can\u2019t tolerate this guy stonewalling me.\n\n\nI need to know what is the best process for evicting him with a holdover in NYC.  Can I write an unofficial note to him asking him to leave before serving him papers?  Would it be considered a threat to ask him to leave or else I would serve him with papers?  Nobody wants to go to court but he needs a push.. Also what relation can the server be to me?  I am aware that I cannot give him these papers directly.  I don\u2019t know anyone who knows him.  He is also quite avoidant and sneaks in at night after we\u2019ve gone to bed.  Does the time matter when we serve him?  Can we lie to get him to open his door so we can have someone else unrelated hand him the papers? (I mean unrelated as in not involved in the conflict).\n\nI\u2019m trying to figure out the first steps of this process.  I figure I should text him about wanting him out because he avoids me face-to-face, I\u2019ve written a sample of what I want to send him but I\u2019m not sure if he can use it against me:\n\n\n\u201c*******, I\u2019m asking you to consider leaving within 30 days.  You are not on the lease, I am, and I hold the power legally in this situation.  I don\u2019t want to go to court but I absolutely will.\n\nWe\u2019ve tried to talk to you. You continue to break rules, you don\u2019t communicate with us when we are civil, and you\u2019ve made us feel unsafe on multiple occasions ignoring boundaries we\u2019ve tried to set.  I do not want you in this apartment anymore.  You\u2019ve proven that you cannot handle living with other adults and upholding mutual agreements in a shared living situation.\u201d\n\nWhat do you think? Any input is appreciated.","title":"\u201cI am a master tenant in NYC, I want to evict roommate not on the lease, how do I proceed?\u201d","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554161053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8b464\/how_is_this_not_theft_and_seizure\/","id":"b8b464","body":"(NY) Hoping for some advice or at least an explanation... \n\nI parked in a private lot next to my therapist\u2019s apartment earlier today and when I was 20ft outside of the lot a guy yelled out to me, took my picture, and told me he booted my car. I came back to my car and argued\/pleaded with him for a bit to let me just move my car and he refused. \nHe told me to go across the street to the bank and give him $70 or else he would tow my car. He showed me the signs and told me the signs were my warning (which had only been up for a few days and I hadn\u2019t noticed because why would I notice that the signs changed when I\u2019ve been parking there for months when visiting my therapist?)\nAfter a few more minutes of pleading with him he told me to call the cops, which I did because I wasn\u2019t sure if I was getting scammed or not. My therapist also came out and tried to plead with the guy while I was going into a full on anxiety attack. \nA cop came by, said he\u2019d been there an hour ago because the same thing had happened to someone else but ultimately he couldn\u2019t do anything because it was private property. He told me I had the option to take a civil suit against the towing company and building management that owned the lot if I wanted to. My therapist ended up paying for it because I didn\u2019t have the money and I\u2019m guessing he can write off as a work expense? I\u2019ll offer to pay him back next appointment at least. \n\nMy question is how is a private towing company holding my car hostage for money any different than say a beauty salon taking my jacket and refusing to give it back unless I pay them? I understand there must be some difference but I\u2019m curious to know what it is. \n\nAlso, is it worth taking up a civil suit? How do I do this and what do I have to do\/say? Do I have a shot at getting anything back?","title":"How is this not theft and seizure???","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539052832,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mlek3\/do_i_need_a_lawyer_and_a_notary_for_a_postnup\/","id":"9mlek3","body":"My spouse and I would like to draw up a postnup, but we don\u2019t know where to begin or who we need to talk to.\n\nIs this something that we can draft on our own using an online template and have a notary go over the details and witness the signing or do we need a lawyer in order to even draft a postnup?\n\nFor that matter.. what exactly is a notary? The most we really know is that they are legally recognized by.. the state? as a witness for the signings. \n\nWe live in the state of California, if that detail is of importance. ","title":"Do I need a lawyer and a notary for a postnup?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569845736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbanwy\/catx_company_keeps_sending_me_medical_bills\/","id":"dbanwy","body":"This is confusing to me, hopefully it makes sense below.  \n\nOn June 1 of this year, while vacationing in California, I needed to go to the ER and took an ambulance.  The ambulance company (American Medical Response) took my insurance information.  \n\nAbout a week later, I received notice from my insurance (United Healthcare) that the ambulance was out of network and that a third party (Data iSight) believed that, although the ambulance was charging $4200, I should expect to pay around $870.  The $870 would apply to my deductible.  In Mid June, the ambulance company said they contacted my insurance and said I owe $4200 that will be applied to my deductible-no payment will be coming from my insurance.  I then called my insurance because my deductible is less than $4200.  My insurance company said they will contact ambulance company and I will not be responsible for $4200.  \n\nSo July 31 comes and I get a notice from ambulance company saying I need to pay or the bill goes to collections.  I called my insurance again, they said they are working on it.  August 15 comes and I get another notice from ambulance company saying the bill is going to collections in 10 days.  This time, I conference call with my insurance and the ambulance company.  My insurance company clearly tells the ambulance company that the insurance company will pay whatever is owed over the deductible.  Ambulance company says they will allow extension as this is worked out.  Well September 27, I get another letter from ambulance company saying I owe $4200 and it will be sent to collection in 10 days.\n\nWhat can I do to get the ambulance company to contact the insurance company and stop bothering me until they work things out.  The ambulance company knows I have insurance and they both have the others contact information.  I will pay my portion, but they keep contacting me asking me to pay everything and threatening collections.","title":"[CA\/TX] Company keeps sending me medical bills without going through my insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555183855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcu8sn\/police_came_to_the_house_to_looking_my_husband\/","id":"bcu8sn","body":"The police came to the house this morning banging on my doors. I asked what they wanted through the window and they said they were looking for my husband. \n\nI called my husband to tell him and we were both confused about what they could want. I asked if they have a warrant and they didn\u2019t say anything to me and just waited outside for my husband. \n\nI begged the cops to tell me *something*!and they said what we can tell you is if he doesn\u2019t come now we\u2019ll come back with a search warrant & break down your door. At this point I\u2019m disturbed.  My husband finally came home & they said they had a warrant for his arrest.\n\nMy husband was arrested for a crime he didn\u2019t commit. They said he robbed a gas station and that they have a video of him. \n\nThe person was apparently driving a car that was registered to his name but the thing is, he has a ton of cars registered to his name as a favor to his brothers because he pays their insurance. One of his brothers is sort of a trouble maker and let\u2019s questionable people borrow his car sometimes. \n\nAre they allowed to lock someone up just because they saw a video of a car registered to his name at the scene? This is bonkers.","title":"Police came to the house to looking my husband. They say he robbed a gas station but he didn\u2019t. (Michigan)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555103566,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bciwr0\/leasing_agency_asked_for_social_security_card\/","id":"bciwr0","body":"Hi, so renting a new apartment, the leasing agency asked for a copy of my license and my social security card. I don\u2019t carry my ss card, and keep it in a safety deposit box, so couldn\u2019t give it at the time. I have no idea why they would need to make a copy of the card, nor can I find anything online indicating a reason for it.\n\nThis all being said, I still have not given it to them, and they are still able to progress with me getting the apartment. Is there any reason they would have to ask for my social security card?","title":"Leasing Agency asked for social security card?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550629587,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asiq7z\/school_wrongfully_terminated_professor_help_sc\/","id":"asiq7z","body":"Hi, I am a 17 F student in my senior year of HS. On Feb,18,2019 a teacher at my school (a state boarding school) was abruptly fired. He had worked at the school for years prior, and was widely regarded as one of the best and most engaged teachers on staff. On Friday he was on campus and by Monday morning the Academic VP informed all of his sections that he was no longer working at the school. My school has recently gone through a slurry of (I think poor) administrative changes, and many of the teachers are against these changes as well. The teacher in question was the most outspoken about these issues, and rumors had it that he was fired because of this opposition.\n\nVarious staff members have confirmed the circumstances around his dismissal. He was notified of the dismissal via his campus email on Friday and is now gone. Other teachers have expressed fear of losing thier jobs if they speak up against the new President as well. The teacher was already informed that his contract wasn't being renewed, but I'm not sure if he was notified by the state required date of August 15th.  \n\n​\n\nI've been researching SC Title 59 regarding Teachers and come across these:\n\n\" Any teacher may be dismissed at any time who shall fail, or who may be  incompetent, to give instruction in accordance with the directions of  the superintendent, or who shall otherwise manifest an evident unfitness  for teaching; provided, however, that notice and an opportunity shall  be afforded for a hearing prior to any dismissal. Evident unfitness for  teaching is manifested by conduct such as, but not limited to, the  following: persistent neglect of duty, willful violation of rules and  regulations of district board of trustees, drunkenness, conviction of a  violation of the law of this State or the United States, gross  immorality, dishonesty, illegal use, sale or possession of drugs or  narcotics. \" (SC 59-25-430)\n\n\" (A) A teacher may not be dismissed unless written notice specifying the  cause of dismissal first is given to the teacher by the superintendent  and the teacher is given an opportunity for an evidentiary hearing. The  superintendent or his designee may meet with the teacher before issuing a  notice of dismissal to discuss alternative resolutions. The parties  attending this meeting must have the option of having a representative  present. This written notice must include the fact that a hearing before  the board or its designee is available to the teacher upon request if  the request is made in writing within fifteen days as provided in  Section 59-25-470. Any such hearing must be public unless the teacher  requests in writing that it be private. A board that chooses to delegate  the evidentiary hearing to one or more designees, as provided in this  section, shall indicate in board policy that it engages in this  practice. The hearing process becomes effective when the board adopts  the policy, and must be communicated to all affected employees within  fifteen days. A subsequent change only may be made pursuant to the board  policy revision process.\" (SC 59-25-460)\n\n​\n\nDid my school break these codes? And if so, what can I as a student to do protect other teachers on staff?  \n ","title":"School Wrongfully Terminated Professor???? HELP SC","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571114159,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di2pfw\/mom_is_forcing_me_to_sleep_in_her_driveway_and\/","id":"di2pfw","body":"Okay so here\u2019s some background: I\u2019m 23 years old and I\u2019m paying $150 a month to live with my mom and her husband while trying to find a more stable living situation . Due to our house being small, I have to take up residence in her driveway inside a camper. \n\nIn this camper I have: \nElectricity (from an extension cord to the garage) \nNo running water or restroom \nNo central heating\/cooling (Desk fan\/space heater) \nLimited storage space \n\nIt\u2019s not terribly bad, at least until a couple months ago. My mom would often threaten to cut my power and internet due to me \u201cstaying up late\u201d. I work night shifts at the local fast food place, and usually don\u2019t get home until after lights out. This is usually when my stepdad would flip a latch to the front door so I can\u2019t come inside despite my rent covering usage of the bathroom. \n\nIs this legal? I\u2019m afraid to contact any authorities because I want to try and retain a somewhat decent relationship with my mom, even though she\u2019s making zero efforts. If you need more details, please let me know!","title":"Mom is forcing me to sleep in her driveway and threatening to cut power","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555610723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beopq3\/my_neighbor_says_i_cant_park_on_my_driveway\/","id":"beopq3","body":"We have a driveway that accesses the backyard that is on our property and is paved.  It was built by the person who lived in the property before us. When we first moved in, the neighbor says he had legal paperwork that says we are not allowed to park there. We did not really have the need to park there, so we didn't argue about it.  Rarely we have gatherings and events, our guests will just park there and the neighbor will come over and knock on our door asking us to move the vehicle soon.  We tell him that it is just temporary and we will move the vehicle.  \n\n​\n\nThe other day, my mom bought a new vehicle, so right now we have about 6 vehicles (we are a family of 5 and each of us has a vehicle).  There was not enough space so one night I park on this driveway.  The next morning, the neighbor takes his truck and parks in the spot on the street (at the end of that driveway) to block my car.  I know he did his on purpose.  I didn't need the car so I didn't say anything.  That night he moves his truck, I move the car from that driveway the next morning.  Now he is parking at the end of the driveway on purpose.  \n\n​\n\nMy neighbor lives with his wife and has three vehicles.  He always park in his garage or on his driveway.  I know he is doing this on purpose.  Like I said, we rarely park in this spot, maybe once every 2-3 months and we never park longer than 24 hours.  \n\n​\n\nMy question is, can I park in my driveway here ?\n\n​\n\n[http:\/\/i64.tinypic.com\/eqb3nb.png](http:\/\/i64.tinypic.com\/eqb3nb.png[\/IMG])\n\n[http:\/\/i65.tinypic.com\/11a92cx.png](http:\/\/i65.tinypic.com\/11a92cx.png[\/IMG])","title":"My Neighbor says I can't park on my Driveway","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569474463,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9f2z2\/someones_turning_my_street_into_an_old_car\/","id":"d9f2z2","body":"Hey everyone,\n\nReally don't know what to do about this situation, so hopefully you guys may have some input on this. \n\nI live in a city next to a college campus in Ohio. As you can imagine, the parking situation is really complicated and the narrow residential streets are almost always parked back to back. \n\nOn the street that I live on something really strange has been happening recently. First, it was a very old beat up car parked in front of my house with Alabama license plates. I thought it was strange, and a couple of weeks have passed. Then this week, two more very old beat up cars with Alabama license plates have appeared. And then another one. It seems like every time there's a space that opens up, some guy parks some old beat up car from Alabama there and it just stays there forever. I can tell for sure that no one has driven these cars since they were left there. \n\nIs there anything I can do about this situation? It's incredibly frustrating and has a real impact on all of the nearby residents that lose valuable space. \n\nI really appreciate any help with this.","title":"Someone's turning my street into an old car storage lot","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540416650,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r3xo4\/madison_wi_came_back_from_trip_out_of_town\/","id":"9r3xo4","body":"Hello,\n\nThanks in advance for any help. \n\nI rent a room in a large house in Madison, WI. I left town Monday evening and got back late Tuesday night. When I got back I discovered the whole third floor (my room, another tenant\u2019s room, an empty bedroom, and a bathroom) had no electricity. The rest of the house still had electricity. No breakers were tripped when I checked. \n\nSince I wasn\u2019t sure how long the electricity was out, I figured the other tenant had already notified the landlord and assumed it\u2019d be fixed the following day (today). I got back to the apartment today and the electricity is still out. I have called and left a voicemail and sent a text as well so I have a paper trail as to when I alerted him to the issue. \n\nThe landlord has had poor communication in the past with fixing maintenance issues. Obviously having no electricity is a major inconvenience (I often work from home and need electricity for that). \n\nDo I have any options to make sure this gets resolved quickly, or what should I do in the meantime if I need to work from home but don\u2019t have electricity?\n\nThank you!","title":"[Madison, WI] Came back from trip out of town, apartment has no electricity.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569060693,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d78oog\/my_landlord_lied_to_me_about_my_neighbour_having\/","id":"d78oog","body":"I moved into my apartment on 1 September. When I came to check out the place initially, I could hear my upstairs neighbor's baby crying.\n\nI think the landlord could sense my disinterest in the apartment after hearing it, and he assured me that the baby didn't live here - it was just family visiting temporarily. The units above me are 3 bedrooms, so I had no particular reason to doubt that it was just temporary visitors.\n\nAfter almost a month of listening to the baby cry, I bumped into my neighbours and got chatting. Not only is it their baby and they live here, they've lived here for 5 years and own the apartment. My landlord also lives in the building, so he surely knows this.\n\nI can't blame the baby for crying because babies are gonna do what they do. But I work from home, so I have to listen to it all day and it wakes me up multiple times in the night. I've gotten noise-canceling headphones, but I didn't really have budget for them so they're nowhere near top of the range ones that totally block out the high pitched crying of a baby. \n\nI also can't wear them while I sleep (I can't wear ear plugs or an eye mask or anything on my face\/head while I sleep, I don't know why) so I wake up whenever the baby wakes up.\n\nI'm starting to lose my mind a little bit. I can't get more than an hour or two of uninterrupted sleep, and when I'm woken I'm so irritated I can't fall asleep for hours again. This weekend, I'm staying at my parents an hour away just so I can get some sleep this weekend.\n\nI'm financially able to move pretty much immediately, but I've signed a one year lease. How do I break it without forfeiting my deposit (which I'd need to pay the deposit on the new place)? I have nothing in writing showing the landlord lied, even though I've tried via email to coax him into admitting the situation in writing.\n\nWhat can I do?\n\nLocation: CA.","title":"My landlord lied to me about my neighbour having a baby. Can I terminate the lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555020364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc5um2\/do_i_obey_my_law_school_grad_fianc\u00e9_or_tell_the\/","id":"bc5um2","body":"There\u2019s a lot of intimate details I don\u2019t want too public, so I\u2019ll post \u201cshort\u201d details here and add any more details if needed.\n\n1. My fiance has a lot of psychological issues and intensely fears abandonment.\n\n2. After three days of literal torture (I\u2019ll give just one example: I had to stay up both nights, all night, writing lines saying \u201c[Fiances previous ex] is better than [me]\u201d thousands and thousands of times. Just one example.), she took all of my most valuable things before I got home (phone, computer, clothes, etc.). I saw some them strewn about the house. After the argument, I found out that she had thrown most of my things outside and into the neighbors backyard.\n\n3. I asked her where my things were. She told me that she wouldn\u2019t tell me because she was afraid I would leave her if I had them. I told her she was a bad person. Whenever I do anything that upsets her, I have to \u201cfix\u201d it; in this case, she wanted to hit me in the face. I agreed. After multiple times of her punching me, I told her to stop.\n\n4. She tried to punch me again, so I grabbed her arm, she tried with the other arm and I grabbed that too. I told her to stop punching me, but she tried again and I \u201cthrew\u201d her to the floor. She put her arm behind herself to break her fall and hurt her finger; we later found out she broke it.\n\n5. I went looking for my things where she hides valuables, on her \u201ctreasure shelf\u201d (mostly shotglasses and some jewelry). She kept yelling at me and pulling me away while I looked, and wouldn\u2019t tell me where my things were. I swept her shelf to the floor in anger (an uncharacteristic action I attribute to three days without sleep and one I sincerely regret), and broke several shotglasses. She later had me record a video saying I broke her shotglasses and I was sorry.\n\n6. During a later argument, she went to the police and told them I pushed her and broke her finger, and showed them the video of my admission of breaking the shotglasses as evidence. She later took back her statement, saying that she was trying to commit suicide and that I pinned her down, breaking her finger. The police said it was already referred to the DA and they have enough to arrest me and question me.\n\n7. She is really adamant that I tell the police she was trying to commit suicide (of which there is MUCH evidence she has been extremely suicidal recently, including attempts) and that I pinned her down. If I tell the truth, she says I\u2019ll get convicted because it wasn\u2019t self defense because I could have \u201ctaken 2 steps back\u201d and she ways 109lbs. She went to law school, I didn\u2019t. I feel like I need to trust her.\n\nI don\u2019t want to get convicted, I sincerely didn\u2019t intend to hurt her when I pushed her to the ground. I don\u2019t want to get in trouble with my fianc\u00e9, but she\u2019s the kind of person who checks the police report to see the story I told them. What do I do? Do they have some sort of advocate I should talk to? Leaving my fianc\u00e9 is out of the question.","title":"Do I obey my law school grad fianc\u00e9? Or tell the truth?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505686354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70qo2a\/need_some_help_with_drafting_a_letter_of_intent\/","id":"70qo2a","body":"Tucson, AZ My landlords have not answered any requests for maintenance which include: a leaking sink, broken cooler, and sanitation of apartment complex grounds.  I plan to draft a letter with the intent to withold rent and i need to make sure that they dont ignore that as well or pretend they didnt get it and evict me.  I was thinking things like hand delivering the letter with a witness in tow, or have the letter notarized and sent via certified mail to ensure delivery, or even a combo of both like notarize and deliver with witness.  Is any of those good options, should i do more, or something completely different?","title":"Need some help with drafting a letter of intent to withold rent for maintenance","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568645556,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d51quu\/kansas_as_an_executor_of_a_will_is_there_a_way_to\/","id":"d51quu","body":"When the will was drafted, it was done up with a POA, and there were three copies. \n\n1. No notary stamps on either doc, went to the testator.\n\n2. Notary stamp on only the POA, given to testator\u2019s ex-girlfriend who served as POA for testator\n\n3. Notary stamp on will AND POA, retained by law office\n\nSince the death of the testator, POA has given her copies over to the executor (who is also partial beneficiary, and testator\u2019s previous employee and close friend), who is trying to get will probated, but can\u2019t seem to get anywhere without notarized copy. Law office is claiming they don\u2019t have it, but there may also be a chance that they spoke to the family when they shouldn\u2019t have (possibly even gave them the will, even though they weren\u2019t supposed to be discussing with them) and may be trying to cover their tracks. How can executor go about procuring docs he needs to be able to probate. Additionally, are there any free\/very cheap legal resources in Kansas that are able to help with advice\/questions?","title":"(Kansas) As an executor of a will, is there a way to make a law office give you the original, or at least a copy of the notarized original, if you only have a copy that is NOT notarized?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1507148599,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74aww7\/can_i_buy_my_grandfathers_ranch_before_my_uncle\/","id":"74aww7","body":"My aunt owns my grandfather's Texas home and ranch that has been in our family for 4 generations. My grandfather is very old so he has had everything moved into my aunt's name. My aunt and uncle are getting a divorce and my uncle has already taken about everything (chairs, table, TV, stove, pots and pans, bed, etc.) and now he says he is going to take the house and land. My aunt doesn't have any real credit and has massive debt from a fairly recent (4 years ago) emergency surgery. Is it possible for my aunt to sell the land and house to someone else and it be safe from my uncle? I just want to keep the family ranch all together and within our actual family. No divorce papers have been served yet and the house and land is only in aunt's name.\nMy cousin's are still living with my aunt and I think they are just spying on her for my uncle. I told my aunt to tell them to GTFO, but she says she's not sure.  \n\nTLDR: Uncle and aunt are divorcing, uncle threatening to take aunt's house and land that has been in family for generations. Can she sell everything to someone else and he can't touch it? Texas. No divorce papers have been served.\n\nEdit: made some statements more clear.","title":"Can I buy my grandfather's ranch before my uncle takes it? Texas","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1409271914,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2evham\/rent_written_on_lease_is_lower_than\/","id":"2evham","body":"Hello,\n\nMy fiance and I recently signed a lease to rent an apartment in Philadelphia.  We originally had a sublease with the old tenant at $810 and signed on for a year starting this month.  In previous discussions, the number $850 had been thrown around by the rental company and that is indeed the amount that they have put as the monthly rent on their online portal. However, the rent on the lease we signed says $810.\n \nI'm not normally one to nitpick on things, but $480 over the course of a year is a significant difference.  Is the number written on the lease legally binding?\n","title":"Rent written on lease is lower than","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553361062,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4lk31\/hoarder_in_my_building_died_she_was_infested_with\/","id":"b4lk31","body":"As the title says, there is a cockroach problem in my building but specifically on my floor. A woman two units down from me had dementia and recently died in her apartment. I knew something was wrong because I began to smell something in the hall, she had been in there four days.\n\nWhile she was alive the building had tried to address the pest infestation in her apartment, as it began spreading quite rapidly. Anytime they tried to spray, she refused to let them in and I believe it\u2019s because she was mentally unwell. They served her an eviction notice but she died before the 90 days I think? She was always wearing the same thing and was dirty all the time. I called the LHIN (Local Health Integration Network), the city and anytime I had someone lined up to help her she would refuse to let them in, even though she would initially agree. She would speak to my wife but not me, but then forget everything she told my wife or that my wife said to her. We tried to help her but she would forget who we were. It genuinely makes me quite sad.\n\nAnyway. She has died and they have been unable to locate any relatives, she literally had no one. Last night I came home and there were literally cockroaches covering her door and all over the hallway. Adults, babies and every other size. I called building management and they keep telling me to put in a maintenance request, this is has been there solution to every call we have placed. BETTER THAN THAT, they also keep telling me to get her to put one. In case you weren\u2019t reading, she is literally dead. They haven\u2019t even gone in to clean her apartment yet and a few days after the mailman delivered something and left her mail slot ajar, making the whole hallway smell of death.\n\nThey refuse to deal with this problem and I am VERY angry. My dog and cat have started eating roaches in our apartment and I have had to ask some friends to care for them temporarily. I pay a lot of money to live here and I am ready to threaten legal action as we have been financially inconvenienced and we have been deprived of the quiet enjoyment of our unit.\n\nI don\u2019t know what to do, I am at a loss and any advice would be appreciated.","title":"Hoarder in my building died. She was infested with cockroaches, they are literally pouring out in to the hall now. My building keeps telling me to file maintenance requests and has ignored most of my calls since November. I am being financially impacted now. (TO, Canada)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540268058,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qlgl1\/pregnant_girlfriend_says_shes_moving_to_africa\/","id":"9qlgl1","body":"So my girlfriend is 2 months from due date with our son. The relationship has gone sour and we are both in agreement things aren't working out. She is from Africa, and has said that she intends on moving back to Africa with our son about six months after he is born so she can be with her family and friends. She moved to US about 5 years ago, and is a permanent resident (green card holder).\n\nWhat sort of rights do I have as a US citizen (born here) at stopping her? Did she have the right to take my son out if the country? Do I have to talk to a lawyer about custody? \n\nThank you.","title":"Pregnant girlfriend says she's moving to Africa with my son after he's born","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553686708,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b63eks\/working_with_an_injury_and_unsympathetic_manager\/","id":"b63eks","body":"Location: Indiana\n\nI've recently started a new position in which I'm required to stand when customers are present. All of the standing has exacerbated a chronic injury I have in one ankle. After several hours, my foot is grotesquely swollen out of my shoe and very painful. There are chairs to sit at the work area, but I was told it is rude to sit in the presence of a customer. \n\nYesterday there was a customer OUTSIDE and I was scolded for sitting. They could not even see me. I told the manager about my injury and she said if she can stand then I can (she primarily sits in her office at a desk). \n\nI have a doctor's appointment scheduled for next week. If I have a doctor's note can I expect the company has to provide reasonable accommodations such as letting me sit? ","title":"Working with an injury and unsympathetic manager","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505065509,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z9nuh\/employer_docking_my_pay_50_an_hour_if_im_late\/","id":"6z9nuh","body":"I work at Les Schwab in Washington State in the Seattle Area. I help out around the shop, and I'm the lowest on the mechanic food chain (I'm the youngest and haven't been there for 10 years). So I've been late for 2 days in the past week- neither of which were my fault (construction and bridge closure). Today my boss told me that my pay would be docked .50c an hour on a day that I was late. I don't get paid very much to begin with, so that's a considerable part of my day's wages. Can he do that? It's a privately owned business, but its part of Les Schwab. Any advice would be appreciated- I definitely can't afford a lawyer, but I wonder what my options are.","title":"Employer docking my pay .50 an hour if I'm late that day?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568937510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6ml14\/ontario_canada_is_it_legal_to_not_get_paid_for\/","id":"d6ml14","body":"I was on the highway for 5.5 hours today in a company vehicle going either to or from the job site. Is it legal for the company to take 5 and half hours daily away from me an justify it by saying its not my gas? It cant be. Ive tried looking through the ministry of labour but its very hard to follow. Thanks in advance.","title":"(Ontario Canada) is it legal to not get paid for travel?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541957955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w5pd6\/i_screenshoted_a_very_inappropriate_picture_then\/","id":"9w5pd6","body":"Ok so, I was reading experiences about the dark web and I saw this dude with his written experiences posting screenshots of the dark web\nIt was nothing bad or anything but I saw this one seemingly young person in a bikini. It was fucking disgusting and I screenshoted it so I can report it to the police. He said it could or couldn't be real, so he didn't know and I didn't know. It looked so strange because it looked like a adult midget. I deleted the screen shot and forgot to report the person. I'm so scared","title":"I screenshoted a very inappropriate picture then deleted it. Am I in trouble?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571290772,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj1y3o\/lease_question_from_ontario_canada\/","id":"dj1y3o","body":"I am a tenant in Ontario. I have been living at my address for going on 3 years. In my lease it was stipulated that I pay to have my carpets cleaned upon vacating the unit. This was due to me having a dog. Since then they recarpeted half of the unit, which was previously click flooring. I am moving because this place is too expensive to heat (which is the landlords fault but I digress) obviously I dont have the thousand dollars needed available. Is anything written and agreed upon in a lease truly valid? Or are they hoping on ignorance here? Thanks in advance.","title":"Lease question from Ontario, Canada","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445294865,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pexz1\/friend_of_mine_offered_a_room_to_me_for_rent_and\/","id":"3pexz1","body":"I live in Southern California as a college student, and my friend texted me on tuesday saying \"Hey [me], Tom is moving out, a spot is opening, can you afford rent?\" I said sure, and he said ok plan on moving in on november. So Friday, after verifying this with other members of the house, I give my landlord my 2 weeks and then on saturday my friend tells me in person that one of the girls who was sharing a room is going to take the open room. Well my landlord has already got new renters lined up and I got screwed out of my place to live, I was wondering if there was any legal action I could threaten, or if I have any legal leverage to get into the room that was originally promised to me. \n\nOh also the house I would be moving into is subrented by 4 different people I think, and they would probably like to avoid legal action. I dont know if I left anything important out, please let me know if theres more information needed, and what I can do in this situation, I've already started looking for other places to move but this one is the cheapest by far and has the best location for me.","title":"Friend of mine offered a room to me for rent, and took back his offer the day after I gave my two week notice to my landlord.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552660588,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1fp8l\/florida_roommate_has_been_stealing_from\/","id":"b1fp8l","body":"Hello all\n\nI had a roommate causing problems and not going halves on cleaning supplies ect or silverware, i bought the silverware and so i basically hid it in my closet.\n\nHe has been breaking into my bedroom for the past 2 days to steal clean silverware (note MY silverware). I have come home to find chargers unplugged and a gift basket in my closet lopsided and more. \n\nIf he does it again can i get law enforcement involved and charge him with breaking and entering? The lease states i believe which room is his and which is mine. \n\nAlso if i have the police look at the mess and take pictures if it happens again? ","title":"Florida: Roommate has been stealing from me\/breaking into room","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569431948,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d96ex5\/someone_is_trying_to_sell_the_property_out_from\/","id":"d96ex5","body":"First, sorry about the formatting, I\u2019m mostly on mobile. But also, she\u2019s not technically our landlord. \nWe live on the property that was left to three sisters. We are very close with one who lives away and live beside another one who owns the house above us. Before I moved in, my boyfriend and his family have been living here for about 19 years. There is no written lease or legally binding paperwork. My boyfriend owns the house and it is in his name, but the property is not. The only thing we pay is part of the power bill that we share with the sister on the hill. \nWe live in SC and have built a patio onto the house and improved the driveway. This morning, the third sister who has not come around until today, told us that they would be selling the property because it was in her dad\u2019s will. The sister that we are close to told us that was false and the property was supposed to be split between the sisters. We have an appointment with an attorney on Friday but we have no clue what to do. Do we have a case to claim squatter\u2019s law or do we need to start looking for another plot of land?","title":"Someone is trying to sell the property out from under us","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505923555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71c2xa\/dad_ignoring_divorce_proposal_from_mother_in_the\/","id":"71c2xa","body":"So my mom and dad who are no longer talking are going through the process of a divorce. My dad has been abusive to us(mental,psychological,physically and financial). He hasn't been paying his half of the bills(mom and dad own property 50\/50) for a good 9 months now, so my mom and sister are having to pay them and he is basically living here with us for free and is doing things like eating well,buying nice clothes,etc whilst we are scraping the barrel with hardly enough money to pay for things like my books for college. He hasn't got a job and has been out of one for nearly a year but he obviously has money from somewhere as he is able to buy nice things. About a month ago he sent my mom an email about their divorce including the grounds for the divorce and a proposal for what he wanted in terms of possessions and things to do with selling the property.\n\nMy mom didn't agree with his proposal so she sent him an email back with her own proposal that is more fair in terms of finances.\n\nAfter this proposal was sent to him by her, he seems to be ignoring it as it has been a week and he is still carrying on his unreasonable behaviour such as cooking fish in the flat knowing that my mom is allergic on purpose and doesn't even seem to have acknowledged the email as he is also carrying about as if he hasn't received the email with the proposal. He seems to think that if he ignores her he can get away with it and keep living here for free and making our lives hell so please if anyone has advice on how to deal with someone ignoring something like this that would be greatly appreciated.\n(Other info that may be useful:\nCan't afford to get advice from a professional as reasons explained above.)\n","title":"Dad ignoring divorce proposal from mother in the hopes that it'll go away and he can continue to abuse us financially.(UK,London,Surrey)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554933031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbrw6g\/i_have_a_question_about_the_trust_i_pay_into_for\/","id":"bbrw6g","body":"I have to keep a positive balance in my trust with my attorney. I am located in Oregon, and my attorney in Washington. This is a divorce attorney, and the divorce was filed in Washington state.  \n\n\nMy attorney uses Clio to send me invoices, but the amount I have paid into the trust is never on there, and there is no balance of my trust. Clio only tells me what they are billing me, and a VERY brief description of what they are billing me for. When I asked about this, the Legal Assistant just emails me back with the balance. They do not actually show me on paper how much money I have paid into the account, or how much is left.   \n\n\nHow can I ask for a physical paper showing all of my deposits into the trust, and all of the withdraws? Am I entitled to this? I am just trying to make sure that there isn't something being missed.  \n\n\nThank you in advance.","title":"I have a question about the trust I pay into for my attorney","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552260721,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azm146\/difficult_living_situation\/","id":"azm146","body":"Guessing off the bat I have no legal grounds to do anything about the living situation I\u2019m in currently; turning to the Reddit hive-mind to see if anyone out there may know something  I do not.\n\nBackground:\nThe property management company of the building I live in sold this building as a young working professional and family community. I signed a year-long lease (up in August) because it seemed like the perfect fit. In email communication, they also touted the building as luxury (it was in the construction phase before I relocated and moved in). \n\nDue to occupancy rates, it took about four months before they leased the building out to mostly short-term college students. It literally has the 24\/7 sounds of large dorm, and constant revolving tenancy. The college kids are tearing the building up (it\u2019s gross). I haven\u2019t slept well in months, and it is legit impacting my health (all the things that come with sleep deprivation). \n\nManagement doesn\u2019t care; all concerns have fallen on deaf ears because they need the students to pay for this \u201cluxury\u201d building. \nI\u2019ve been stacking documentation of their mismanagement of this property since December (i.e. it took them a month to replace a faulty major appliance in my unit, we are paying for an on-site manager that doesn\u2019t exist, the parking lot residents pay for is not maintained, multiple requests to address the noise level, faulty construction with major flooding, etc.). My last and only hope: the president of the bank I work at is best friends with owner of this management company. I\u2019m going to chat with him tomorrow and ask for his help (outside of legal) and see if man-to-man he can call in a favor and get me out of the luxury dorm, and into a different unit without me having to cause a scene with an attorney. \n\nTl;dr\u2014is there a way to get out of my lease without impacting my credit legally? (If not, I\u2019m still moving out and paying double rent so I can sleep. It really is that terrible.)\n\nThanks for your input\/advice. \n","title":"Difficult living situation...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443056124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m52jg\/my_friend_and_i_were_victims_of_a_violent_crime\/","id":"3m52jg","body":"We live in Pennsylvania and that is where the incident occurred. The two men responsible were charged with simple assault, disorderly, and harassment. \n\nMy medical costs were nearly $8,000 and my friend's were roughly $5,000. We went to the pre-trial, and up to this point nobody but me and my friend knew our medical costs (we never told the DA or the officer handling our case until we went to pre-trial). It ended up being pushed to a further date anyways while we were there, but before knowing the medical costs, they offered us a guilty plea in exchange for paying all our medical and accepting only a disorderly. But then they learned about the medical and I was told by the officer that the new deal they offered was a guilty plea in exchange for \"a portion\" of our medical and a disorderly, with the intent of taking them to civil court for the rest of the medical. \n\nMe and my friend are vehemently against this. We want all our medical paid for a disorderly and then we want to take them to civil. I am looking for outside opinions on all this. If we counter back with this do you think they'd be likely to take it considering that if this goes to trial they will get charged and potentially go to jail for assault? (the case has a ton of witnesses against them, it's pretty air-tight and one has a history of violence according to the police officer).\n\nIs there anything I should say, do, etc.? Also, the DA representing us hasn't said a word to us...even at the pre-trial this guy totally ignored us...not a single word. Is this normal\/professional? I feel like w deserve some legal consultation from him.  \n\nEDIT: The police officer told me it was up to me and my friend to accept\/reject their deal. His exact words: \"It's up to you, I'm just here as an intermediary\".\n\nThe officer also told me that it was a potential outcome that the judge would agree with them and only make them pay a portion if she thinks the cost is too high. I don't have insurance. He said that she could look at that and say \"Why don't you have insurance?\" as a good argument. And my jaw hit the floor.\n\nAlso, to everyone angry about me saying \"my case\" and me being \"represented\" you've all made it abundantly clear that they don't represent me. I understand. \n\nEDIT 2: And could someone please tell me why their lawyer would say we should only pay a portion of our medical and then sue for the rest in civil? In either case he expects us to get our medical paid for 100%, no? So why not accept it all now in the criminal case??\n\nEDIT 3: Apparently I don't understand civil court. Someone said I have nothing to go after them in civil for assuming all the medical gets paid in criminal court. But don't I have a right to sue for personal injury? Pain and suffering? My friend and I got jumped and seriously hurt. ","title":"My friend and I were victims of a violent crime. We found the people responsible, and I need your advice in looking at their deal their lawyer offered.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553258149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b44jrl\/landlord_paid_utilities_for_years_and_now_wants\/","id":"b44jrl","body":"TLDR: my landlord in Virginia has been paying my gas bill for the last 7 years, he is now demanding full reimbursement. Am I legally responsible for the full 7 years of gas bills in the state of Virginia? \n\nAdditional context: the landlord had autopay set up for the gas bill prior to my moving in, when I moved in I notified him in writing that his autopay was still hitting and he should turn it off because I was paying the bill now. He never turned it off so I stopped making payments. At first I paid the bills even with his autopay hitting, but his autopay kept hitting and I kept getting bills showing we were overpaying and I eventually stopped. At the time my landlord seemed okay with the arrangement, but in hindsight I guess he just forgot and now he\u2019s demanding almost $5k I\u2019m back utilities.","title":"Landlord paid utilities for years and now wants to be reimbursed. Am I legally obligated to do so? (VA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555632920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/besst9\/wi_i_really_need_some_advice_in_regard_to_the\/","id":"besst9","body":"There is so much I would like to say here, but I will be straight to the point.\n\nI have a 6 year old son that lives with his mother. I have been taking him every other weekend since we separated. We have no court order and haven't needed one until recently. She has had 3 other children since we have separated (one a year) with the same father. He is Hispanic and was here illegally until they got married. She thinks that she is going to take my son out of school for a year and take him to Mexico for that year. She claims she is going to home school him but if you knew her, you would know that he will just end up a year behind in school.\n\nHow do I get going with starting custody proceedings? I am only asking for 50\/50 custody with placement every other weekend.  Meet half way or receiving party picks up. This is important because she thinks that I should do all of the driving. 50\/50 placement is not an option because we live 1.5 hours away from each other. I do NOT have money for an attorney. She would not have one either.\n\nAlso, how can I stop her from taking him out of the country? Doesn't she need my permission? Am I able to put a travel ban on him or something?","title":"[WI] I really need some advice in regard to the custody of my 6 year old son.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570586566,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfac9x\/speeding_ticket_help_me_please\/","id":"dfac9x","body":"Well it finally happened to me... my first speeding ticket. I am 22 years old and completely clueless in the legal realm. I got back to my hometown and was headed to walmart trying ferociously to reach my roommate to figure out what was needed for my new house and BOOM... the speed changed from 55 to 45. I didnt go very far before the city officer pulled me over and ticketed me for going 11 over. This is my first ticket and I would love for my insurance to not go up any further. Any advice will help on how to get this off on my court date.","title":"Speeding ticket, help me please","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569449127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9abc3\/licensing_blog_content\/","id":"d9abc3","body":"Could anyone help me understand what contracts are typical for blogs to get access to content creator's work? \n\n​\n\nI run a blog and would like to get exclusive and perpetual access to content created by bloggers (and the ability to lightly edit it), but I'm having trouble finding any sort of standard contract to sign in this case.","title":"Licensing Blog Content?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555394485,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdqf4b\/whats_the_legality_of_leaving_bacon_on_a_dead\/","id":"bdqf4b","body":"Location is IL\n\nA cop recently got gunned down here (lol). I wanna leave bacon on the grave as a protest. Is it legal to do so or will I face charges if I\u2019m caught?","title":"What\u2019s the legality of leaving bacon on a dead police officer\u2019s grave?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554927874,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbqw84\/weed_use_and_custody\/","id":"bbqw84","body":"For about three months my soon to be ex and I smoked weed on occasion after the kids went to bed. For approx 1 month, after he moved out I smoked weed myself after the kids were in bed. Sometimes he'd come and we'd still smoke together. There's text history as proof. Are the courts going to deny me custody over this? I haven't used in over 2 months and have no plan to use again. I have a good inclination he's going to use it against me.","title":"Weed use and custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541267751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tw62q\/is_there_a_legal_obligation_for_me_to_see_my_half\/","id":"9tw62q","body":"I\u2019m 15 years old and live in NM. I have custody with my mom so I live with my mom and step dad except for every two weeks when I visit my dad for four hours. I think this is below what is court ordered but I\u2019m fine with that since I am not very fond of him. The problem is, my dad has two other kids with my step mom. And she\u2019s been a problem ever since right after my parents broke up (not divorced, they weren\u2019t married if that\u2019s relevant) when I was born. I\u2019ve had custody with my mom and my time per visit with my dad has slowly gone down more and more because of problems I have with my step mom. She has always favored my brothers and puts me down any chance she gets. She called me a bastard over text with my mom once. Things like that. The point is, she has been so stressful to me that my visits have gone down from friday night-sunday morning to just friday night. This was fine with me until recently. Now that I\u2019m old enough to understand the complexities of most of this stuff, she now just takes off with my brothers during visits, not letting me see them. My dad doesn\u2019t do anything, he\u2019s just a puppet. And it bothered me but I didn\u2019t care too much until recently. I have gone 2 months without seeing them and I didn\u2019t see them until last night\u2019s visit, when she showed with them up 15 minutes before I left. I got into an argument with her and she said if she has stuff to do, she\u2019s gonna do it with them regardless of me. This really pissed me off and it hurt. And being 15, I don\u2019t have long to see them before I go off to college. My brothers are around 9 or 10, I wouldn\u2019t know since I never see them. Is there anything I can do at all legally, even to just threaten my step mom, to have them bring my brothers for all my visits? I know I\u2019m still a minor, but in that case, could my mom do anything? Really, the only thing I want here is to see them. Thanks","title":"Is there a legal obligation for me to see my half brothers if we have custody with different parents?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1502842946,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tyebp\/illinois_diy_divorce_with_spouse_now_living_out\/","id":"6tyebp","body":"I posted in here a few days ago about starting the divorce process with an uncooperative wife. [Link here](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6suh5f\/il_need_divorce_advice_wife_refuses_to\/?st=J6E8V9EJ&sh=cc86527b)\n\nSo we have spoken and she wants to end things as I do as quickly, and cheaply as possible. The only thing we had of contention (the car she has) will be taken care of by the end of the month. There are no kids, no assets, and she doesn't want anything.\n\nShe has said that she will sign papers given to her and cooperate with the process. After doing a little research and speaking with a lawyer, I'm thinking that maybe there is no reason to involve a lawyer.\nI'm still a little confused as to the process though if I were to file myself and was hoping the good people of reddit might be able to help me out again. Here is my understanding of DIY divorce in IL as it pertains to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong.\n\n1) File with county circuit clerk.\n2) At time of filing, present appearance, entry, and waiver form. Wife has agreed to sign when she comes back.\n3) Get court date.\n4) In meantime or before filing, draw up papers. Debts continue in individual names. Wife gives up right to maintenance, marital assets as previously agreed, and agrees to default judgement. Again wife says this is fine and will sign agreement. I have a friend's papers to go off of on this to write everything appropriately. \n5) This is where my understanding is iffy. Go to court, present agreement and appearance, entry, and waiver. Get judgement. My understanding is that in Illinois there is a six month requirement for separation prior to granting of the divorce unless there are circumstances preventing reconciliation. My wife cheating (can provide proof) and the fact she is choosing to move out of state I think satisfies this.\n\n[TL;DL]  Need divorce. Have (I think) simple mutual uncontested case. No kids or assets. Wife says she will sign appearance, entry, and waiver along with agreement when she is here later this month. Can I do this all on my own quickly without her?","title":"[Illinois] DIY divorce with spouse now living out of state","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571669196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl1l12\/nj_apartment_complex_refuses_to_do_repairs\/","id":"dl1l12","body":"My apartment complex, which consists of 30-50 buildings across two blocks, is refusing to do repairs and keep things running. Within the last few months, we've had a pipe burst that nearly flooded my mother's bedroom, a stove that had a faulty starter and we still haven't received a replacement radiator because the metal fins are warped and rusted. ( photos of the faulty radiator [https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/yRlxZVG](https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/yRlxZVG) )   \n\n\nYesterday one of the shared laundry room's washers broke, leaving one washer for 31 apartments, the other two have been in disrepair for a long time. One for four months, and one for over a year.   \n\n\nI've spoken to the head of maintenance at least once a month for the past year,  and they keep giving me the same answer \"well we're working on getting new washers\".   \n\n\nIn addition, one of the maintenance workers consistently harasses my mother and I , has made lewd comments about her and threatened to kick our small dog, which the office has turned a blind eye to. \n\nBoth my mother and I call the 1800 number frequently and send letters to the head office (which probably get scrapped), and she refuses to withhold rent. We pay our rent on time every month ($1700) and we keep to ourselves.  Is there anything else we can do to get the ball rolling on proper repairs and just an improvement to the quality of life?","title":"[NJ] Apartment complex refuses to do repairs","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441457187,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jqlrs\/ma_do_tenants_have_a_right_to_peaceful_living\/","id":"3jqlrs","body":"I recently noticed my new neighbors upstairs are extremely loud (at all hours) They do have 5 little boys and 3 adults in a 2 bedroom apartment. The kids constantly run, jump, bang into walls all day and all evening long. Once they calm down, the adults get loud and laughing, yelling, etc. I am at my wits end here. I have told my rental office about them, and she said she would speak to them. I even introduced myself yesterday and asked if she can have the kids go easier on the floor. Last night around 12 I went up and asked if they could keep it down, where  I was told I was \"being ridiculous, they are having simple conversation\" I want to know if tenants have a basic right to quiet peaceful living so I can push the issue with my rental office.","title":"(MA) Do tenants have a right to peaceful living?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554228155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8mnhs\/i_got_a_speeding_ticket_what_are_my_options\/","id":"b8mnhs","body":"Let me start by saying if I was going as fast as the ticket says, I would just own up and pay it. But it\u2019s not that simple and I have no idea what to do. (TLDR at bottom)\n\nThis happened in Minnesota. I visited my parents for the weekend and was driving home. The speed limit is 70mph so I set my cruise to 76-78. (This is where I\u2019m at a loss). I know it\u2019s still speeding, but it was with the flow of traffic (not an excuse, just stating facts). Traffic is a little heavier because it\u2019s just after 5pm. I notice there\u2019s a state trooper up ahead so I check my speed: 76mph. Over the next few miles I get closer to the officer (who is sitting in the left lane). I then am a few car lengths behind him (with no one in between us) and move to the right hand lane to \u201cjoin\u201d a group of cars. Suddenly the trooper drops back and gets in behind me, turning on his lights. I pull over and grab my license and insurance info.\n\nThe interaction went like this:\n\nTrooper: why do you have a North Dakota license but Minnesota plates?\n\nMe: It\u2019s my parents vehicle, they\u2019re borrowing it to me while mine is in the shop (true). \n\nTrooper: Why were you going 86mph?\n\nI don\u2019t know what to say. I know I have a lead foot, that\u2019s why I had cruise control on! \nMe: 86?! I had my cruise on about 76-78. I don\u2019t think I was going 86. \n\nTrooper: You came up to me going 86 then slowed down. \n\nHe gets me the ticket and asks\nTrooper: **Why would you pass a marked police vehicle??**\n\nI\u2019m pretty much speechless. *Who would be stupid enough to pass a cop?? And because I DIDN\u2019T.* HE dropped back to get behind ME. \nI take my ticket and go. \n\nThis is where I need help: What are my options??\n1. pay the $180 ticket, insurance goes up, have it on my record\n2. Fight it?\n3. Try to lower it? If it\u2019s lowered to 6-8mph over the speed limit the ticket would be $120. Still expensive, but that\u2019s what I was going. What I\u2019ve heard though is that if I try this route the judge would probably say \u201cyou were still speeding, take your original ticket and go.\u201d\n\n**If I fight it, do I try to get it reduced to the speed I was actually going (because I was speeding) or do I try to get the ticket totally dropped? What are the chances of fighting it working out for me? What can I do to help my chances?** I don\u2019t know how he determined I was going 86mph, how do they usually do that when you\u2019re from behind them? I know, there is a such thing as rear radar, but what is the probability that\u2019s what he was using? And if it was rear radar, could he have gotten the speed from another car around me?\n\n**TLDR** Got a ticket in Minnesota. State trooper says I was going 86mph in a 70mph. I KNOW I set my cruise to 76-78. If I was actually going 86 I\u2019d own up to it, but I wasn\u2019t. What are my options and what are the probable outcomes? ","title":"I got a speeding ticket: what are my options?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1408915306,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eh29z\/my_mother_decided_she_doesnt_like_how_much_she_is\/","id":"2eh29z","body":"In 1991, My mother's grandpa set aside a part of his will for her. Now that her grandma is dead, she recieved  notice that the grandpa set aside about 13k but the grandma did not set aside anything for her. She signed the form and sent it in, in order to recieve the check. \n\nShe called me today, saying HER grandma had set aside millions and that the family is conspiring against her. She wants to contest it and challenge it, but she signed it right? So therefore, she can no longer contest it. But she called today and said that shes going to say that I signed it while she was on vacation and that she wants to challenge it. \n\nBasically, I need any advice. I am only 21 and I really don't want a knock on the door from the feds saying I foraged her signature on a trust -_-","title":"My mother decided she doesn't like how much she is recieving in her grandmothers will and is now saying I signed the form and sent it in. I didnt. Details inside(CA)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571101906,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di0cxb\/i_was_offered_a_job_in_nc_and_then_was_told_they\/","id":"di0cxb","body":"I started corresponding with a company the first week of September, ended up scheduling an interview with them for 9\/20\/19. The interview went well, they indicated that I was their ideal candidate and followed up with me on 9\/22 expressing that they would like to add me to the team. The owner invited me to lunch so I could meet her husband, who co-owns the business, to confirm that he was on board and could meet with me face to face. This meeting took place at a restaurant on 9\/25\/19. The lunch went well, and they offered me the job. They told me they would send an offer letter soon if I accepted, and that they would give me a few days to decide. The next day, 9\/26, I sent an email stating that I formally accepted their offer, thanking them for the opportunity. They emailed back excitedly on 9\/27 and thanked me for accepting. They sent me a run down of the information they would be sending formal documents of regarding compensation, the company handbook, an offer letter, non-compete agreement, and a start date of 10\/16\/19. On October 4, they sent over these final documents for my review, confirmed my start date of 10\/16, and expressed again that they were excited to bring me on, and that they will have me sign all of these documents in person on 10\/16, my first day of work. \n\nToday, 10\/14\/19, I received an email from the owner stating that while on vacation, they decided to \u201crestructure the business requiring a transition period to start immediately and continue into 2020\u201d and that they unfortunately will be unable to employ me at this time. They have asked me to confirm that I have received their email, which I have yet to do. \n\nHere are the damages I believe they have caused me:\nI purchased new clothing in the amount of about $250, for which I can produce a receipt (and possibly even still return some of) in adherence to their dress code. I have stopped corresponding with other potential employers since 9\/27, when I accepted their offer. I have stopped looking for jobs or submitting resumes since 9\/27. I am probably not going to be employed for at least another month, if I\u2019m lucky, so that\u2019s another month with no compensation of any kind. This has really set me back financially, when it probably wouldn\u2019t have if I was still looking for other jobs and following up on leads for jobs I was looking at. Especially since it has been quite a while between when they offered me the job, and when I was due to start. I\u2019m going on 2 months without any kind of pay. What should I do?","title":"I was offered a job in NC and then was told they will not be hiring me 2 days before I was due to start, seriously setting me back financially.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552191651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azc2gs\/my_company_is_threatening_to_withhold_my_paycheck\/","id":"azc2gs","body":"I work for a small business in WI, USA. Most of my coworkers use direct deposit, however, there are a few of us who don't (including me). Recently, the woman who does our payroll sent out an email to everyone who doesn't use direct deposit. The jist of the email was that our paychecks will be withheld if her or our CEO is on vacation when payroll is being processed. She suggested we sign up for direct deposit if we want our paychecks on the days we are suppose to get them. Is this legal? Can I demand my paycheck to be available on the days I am suppose to receive them?","title":"My Company is threatening to withhold my paycheck if I don't sign up for direct deposit!","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554227335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8mh90\/fianc\u00e9_and_i_separated_i_am_primary_on_the_lease\/","id":"b8mh90","body":"Pretty much the title. I was the primary on the lease. Got evicted. She was on the lease as a tenant I believe? Can she rent on her own at the same place? It\u2019s low income housing. $827\/month. She\u2019s employed. New\/fresh credit.","title":"Fianc\u00e9 and I separated. I am primary on the lease and got evicted. Can she rent from same apartment complex?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571165386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dicf0f\/employees_clocking_in_early_to_gain_extra_time\/","id":"dicf0f","body":"Hi, I work for a student employment division at my state funded school in North Carolina and wanted to get some clarification\/advice (if need be)on a situation I\u2019ve run into with a new payroll system.\n\nOur job is very time sensitive. As such, employees often clock in 5-10 minutes early so they can be ready when their shift starts. Which is fine, but under this new system it rounds in 15 minute intervals which means if they clock in at the :52 before an hour, they get an extra 15 minutes they weren\u2019t scheduled for. Under the old system, it wouldn\u2019t have mattered since it kept time down to the minute and the times would come out the same since most shifts end early, but this new system just isn\u2019t working. Idk why my division thought this was a good idea, but they did so here we are. \n\nSo the problem is that employees are clocking in (for example) at 7:53 for a shift that starts at 8:00 that lasts 1 hr and clocking out at 8:53 for which gives them an extra 15 minutes. It isn\u2019t a huge deal, but it adds up quick when 15 people do it 2 or 3 times a week each. \n\nI just want to know what the law is on this, since I\u2019ve been reading up on it and it\u2019s just confusing me even more. Can I change the clock-in times to be consistent with the scheduled shift times? Or can I only reprimand them? The people above me are saying I can change the clock-in times but that seems shady so I just want to get a second opinion before I proceed. \n\nFor additional context a lot of the time they clock in only 1 minute early so it would be a matter of changing a :52 to a :53.","title":"Employees clocking in early to gain extra time under new payroll system","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553195248,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ul1e\/need_to_serve_a_temporary_restraining_order_to\/","id":"b3ul1e","body":"I\u2019ve been granted a temporary restraining order against someone in a different city from me. I received the hearing date two days ago, and it\u2019s slated for 2 weeks from today. Here\u2019s the trouble:\n-Person needs to be served 5 days in advance. \n-Police in his city say they can\u2019t do it because I don\u2019t have his apartment number (only the complex info).\n-He doesn\u2019t have a job, and is a student at the university, so no employer to check and I\u2019ve been told the university won\u2019t give info \n-I tried reaching out to the complex manager and they said they can\u2019t give it out \n-I know where his parents live -in another- city, and the police said that they could try serving him there if I faxed that specific police department. I have no guarantee if he\u2019ll even be there, as he doesn\u2019t live there full time. \n-A Google search produces nothing for his own personal address, except his parents\u2019. However, I know he lives in the complex because he\u2019s sent mail to me from there but with no apartment number.\n\nI\u2019m at my wit\u2019s end and don\u2019t know what my other options are. I\u2019m an elementary teacher and don\u2019t make a lot, so I can\u2019t afford a lawyer :( please any advice will be appreciated. I\u2019ve thought of calling his parents to see if they know his apartment number but run the risk of him hearing me, and I\u2019ve been advised that I shouldn\u2019t not contact him in any way. ","title":"Need to serve a temporary restraining order to someone out of town and I don\u2019t know where they live precisely. Options?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568658944,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d54ad7\/is_it_legal_for_for_a_state_university_to_charge\/","id":"d54ad7","body":"And if you park in another area the immediately tow you and tell you they will expel you on your second ticket. \n\nAgain you\u2019re not allowed to even buy another parking pass in a different area and there\u2019s never parking. \n\nOne time I got a ticket for parking in one area when I had a pass for another because there were no spaces and a security guard saw me and yelled at me telling me I was a liar and a deceived and horrible person for parking somewhere I didn\u2019t pay for and therefore stealing from the university I was attending. \n\nThis is a state university in the US.","title":"Is it legal for for a state university to charge for a parking space and not only oversell the amount of spaces so there\u2019s never parking but also limit which area you\u2019re allowed to park in (not allowing you to buy another pass in another area)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571584842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkkzdg\/own_a_home_and_let_my_freeloading_friend_stay\/","id":"dkkzdg","body":"My friend was in a bad situation and needed to get back on their feet. I own a home and have a spare room so I offered for them to stay with me until they get back in their feet. We had agreed on 200$ a month but didn't put it in writing (I know it was stupid, hindsight is 20\/20). Right before moving in, they quit their job. The first couple months they said they couldn't pay so we told them to do what they could for the time being. Apparently that was nothing, in fact, we (my husband and I) had to even pay for their groceries. I did this because we had an almost 10 year friendship and they were coming out of a bad situation. \n\nI ended up helping them get a job where I work and rent still never came for 11 months. There was a constant back and forth about just paying something because we needed to cover the increase in utilities. Nothing came of it. During this time, they were rude to my huband and I, would not do their dishes, would not take out their trash, and treated my home like a hotel with a maid service. I was expected to wake them up when they were late, and take their trash out because \"it's all going to the same place anyway.\" I realize I should have evicted them then but I didn't want them out on their asses in the middle of winter. \n\nThey finally started paying rent last January. It wasn't the full amount but it was something. Fast forward to last July, we told them we need them to move out in the near future because we would be starting to move on with our lives and wanted to start a family. They said they would need until the end of August to get some money together and look at places. We agreed.\n\n They quit their job in the beginning of August and said they needed until the end of September because they would be starting a new job. That came and went and they said they were going to be out by mid October. It's now mod October. Last week, my husband asked which day they were planning on moving multiple times. They ignoring him until Friday when they said they weren't planning on leaving. We tried to set a date for this weekend and they said they're not going and \"know their rights.\" \n\nHow TF do I get them out?!","title":"Own a home and let my freeloading friend stay with me until they get back on their feet. Refused to pay rent for almost a year and has been an overall nuisance, how do I go about evicting?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540508524,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rfa7z\/pto_policy_resignation_virginia\/","id":"9rfa7z","body":"Just resigned as I'm taking a new position. Wanted to give my boss notice in person but could not due to scheduling conflicts and his absence. Opted for a phone notice, but only gave 8 days. My employer is now telling me my PTO will not be paid out because I did not give 2 weeks notice(14 calendar days). Is this legit? Am I entitled to my PTO with these extenuating circumstances, or am I gonna have to take the 'L'?\n\n​\n\nAny advice would be great!","title":"PTO Policy, Resignation (Virginia)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541416062,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ucmvv\/how_can_i_report_a_youtube_couple_to_copslocal\/","id":"9ucmvv","body":"My girlfriend\u2019s sister showed us this disgusting couple on YouTube. Apparently they are from Utah. They are doing these breastfeeding videos with their baby and the so called mother is loving the sexual attention she gets from sick pervs online as well as donation money. This kid cannot consent to this. It\u2019s wrong and sick and vile. I live in Nevada and have no idea how Utah laws work, but apparently she lives in Salt Lake City. Please help. I\u2019m so angry over this because I was molested as a child and I know how it feels. ","title":"How can I report a YouTube couple to cops\/local police for child exploitation in Utah?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541714181,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vee22\/i_rear_ended_someone\/","id":"9vee22","body":"This past week, I got into a car accident that was my fault. After the officer was done writing the police report, both parties decided to negotiate a deal where we would fix their car (since our family owns a bodyshop) so we wouldn\u2019t have to involve insurance. They agreed, so we are gonna repair their car. My question is are there any good resources on how to write up a document where they won\u2019t come after us after the repairs are complete? Like a template or any important information that should be on the document. They agreed to sign such a document, just having trouble writing something up. ","title":"I rear ended someone","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541125780,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tg5cq\/pet_problems_with_a_neighbor_in_an_apartment\/","id":"9tg5cq","body":"A bit long with detail so I apologize. TL;DR at the bottom.\n\nSo the situation is this. I\u2019ve been in an apartment on the third floor of a three story complex for about a year an a half now and before my renewal I made sure to express my desire to get a dog with the management. I let them know ahead of time the breed and initial age and everything was accepted by them and they drafted an addendum to include him. After I purchased the dog (then 7 weeks old) I signed everything and things were fine. \n\nThe person below me had moved out around that time as well and then a month or so later, someone else moved in. I had only seen an older lady who didn\u2019t work go in and out of the apartment and on many occasions made comments on how cute\/beautiful my dog is and once or twice stated she might have to steal him in a jovial manner. \n\nThen about a month ago we started hearing\/feeling banging on our floor whenever our, now 7 month old 50lb, dog decided it would play with its toys to occupy itself while I took care of other things. (Cleaning, cooking, lounging, day to day tasks, etc.) it then escalated to her pounding on the door one day shortly after the floor\/her ceiling banging stating that I needed to stop throwing whatever toy I was throwing or whatever I was doing because she could here him run back and forth and it \u201csounds like a herd of elephants\u201d. She went on to state that she works night shift 8pm-8am and that she needs her sleep. Saying \u201cI\u2019m a nurse and you wouldn\u2019t want a nurse to not have sleep because things could get deadly\u201d, in a bit of a threatening tone but I didn\u2019t think much of it. Not that it discredits her any more but I later found out she just works hospice and isn\u2019t actually a nurse. \n\nI apologized stating I would try to keep it down but he is a puppy and likes to play weather I play with him or not. since my dog was brought home, I would toss toys for him to fetch in the apartment or play with him on the floor so we could play. The initial confrontation also happened to coincide with my dog recently having a leg injury and being on many pain and antibiotic medications to try and heal it and i was instructed by my vet to not have rough or prolonged play sessions or go to any dog park or have walks longer than 20 minutes and at an easy pace. Which I also stated to her and that it was most likely the cause of his increased activity indoors.\n\nThings continued with her banging every so often and coming to the door to berate me for him causing too much noise. I haven\u2019t thrown any toys since the first time she came to my door but she doesn\u2019t believe me and I can\u2019t prove it without buying camera equipment and just recording constantly. Then one day someone from the front office came to talk to us after a complaint from her. He stated what she stated to him saying \u201cshe says her 90 year old mother is upset by the noise...and it interferes with her sleep as she works hospice\u201d. I know for a fact her mother doesn\u2019t have a problem because she told mentioned the situation to me herself in passing a few days after the first confrontation at my door. I explained to the front office person at my door the situation with my dogs health and what I could and couldn\u2019t do as directed by my vet. I can quote him as saying \u201cas long as you are doing everything you can, you are not wrong and there is nothing we can do\u201d.\n\nWell right after that I felt bad for my dog as the situation was only going to get worse, especially with winter coming and daylight dwindling sooner and harsh cold temperatures and snow would soon be moving in. So I decided to start taking him to the dog park where I work every day for at least an hour, because the one provided here is a terribly cheap excuse of a \u201cdog park\u201d that\u2019s a small fenced area that has pits everywhere and is built almost immediately on a steep slope so there is no safe way, or really any room, for a dog to run around and release any kind of energy. \n\nWell she continued to hit her ceiling and come to my door and I continued to inform her that I have been to dog parks against my vets orders to try and appease her but due to his breeds high energy after the time it takes to get home, rinse him off, and feed him, he has energy again and occupy himself by running playing with his toys. Which occasionally means picking up a toy by himself, flinging it, and running after it. I sent an email to my community manager after being directed to when I went to the front office to talk to them about the issue in person from my perspective. And didn\u2019t receive anything for three days when the lady below bangs on my door and yell at me to stop playing with him and throwing things she can here my do it. \n\nI was literally in my kitchen making food at 7:48 at night because that\u2019s the only thing I have after I get home from work and immediately leave to take him to the park, bring him home and rinse him, and feed him.  She threatened to call the cops and I said if that is what you feel is necessary that fine but there is only so much I can do.\n\nCop comes 30 minutes or so later and says he has spoken to her and is now speaking to me on her behalf, says that she wanted a police report written and says that he wouldn\u2019t and won\u2019t because per our  noise ordinance laws, I\u2019m not doing anything wrong. Our laws state quiet hours are from 10pm-7am. He did however officially request that she not come to my door anymore on my behalf. \n\nReceived an email earlier today from the community director finally stating that she has talked to the downstairs neighbor and informed her she is violating her lease by banging on the floor\/ceiling. She also stated I was in violation of my lease as well. I read my lease and the only line I can find that would state I\u2019m in violation is part of my pet addendum and stated this:\n\n\u201cThe animal must not disturb the neighbors or other residents, regardless of wether the animal is inside or outside the dwelling.\u201d\n\nI don\u2019t understand how my dog playing like a dog, in the apartment I pay for in a timely manner, with pet deposit and monthly fees included could be in violation of the lease, especially when I\u2019m going out of my way, against veterinary order, and by the request of management, to take my dog to a dog park daily. She is the only one with an issue, my other neighbors adore my dog and it\u2019s friendly energetic nature.\n\nThe lady below me has also told me on many occasions that when dealing with the management office and looking for an apartment, she told them she required a first floor apartment away from kids and animals. And that on the day of her move in, they said all that was available was the second floor below me and that they didn\u2019t disclose the floor above had pets. \n\nDoes her abnormal schedule and inability to stick to her own requirements or adjust to complex living, where you will always hear people, mean that I might be forced out of my apartment and be responsible for the remaining rent due to a default from violation of my lease? Or worse, have my dog forcibly removed from my apartment?\n\nWhat are my options? What can I request that they do, or not do? Can I rightfully ask for a termination of my lease without being penalized and being responsible for the remaining few months of rent? It\u2019s not fair for me to not be allowed to live naturally in my ow apartment, as well as my dog. \n\nTL;DR Apartment pre approved and agreed on dog in apartment, got dog and life goes on as he grows up and got hurt, stuck inside for two months and lets out energy in doors, new neighbor moved in below, time passes and she complains and harasses me about noise. Try my best to mitigate energy against vet orders, she still complains, management says I\u2019m violating my lease. What can I do to not be eventually evicted and still pay remaining rent or loose dog?\n\nSorry for the terrible formatting or wording. I\u2019m a bit stressed at the moment...","title":"Pet problems with a neighbor in an apartment complex.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552944007,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2o94p\/how_will_i_know_when_i_am_officially_divorced\/","id":"b2o94p","body":"My soon-to-be ex-husband has a lawyer and I do not. I have spoken with his lawyer on the phone several times and she's been very nice to me about all of it and said all I had to do was sign my waiver of appearance.\n\nShe told me that there would be a court date set and they are not expecting me to show up, and then she told me that we would be divorced the day of that court date. \n\nWell today I called her and I said to her that I had mailed back my waiver of appearance and I was wondering when he and I would officially be divorced. The lady was real rude with me and she was like \"ma'am I am not your attorney, I am his and you do not need to call me with these questions\". And I reminded her that she told me that she would inform me either by call or mail when that court date was. She did relent and tell me the court date is on April 8th. \n\nMy question is -- is it true that i will be legally divorced on April 8th, which is the day of the court date where I signed a waiver of appearance in an uncontested divorce? \n\nIs there any other way to check if I am legally divorced that doesn't involve calling his lawyer again? Will I get a letter in the mail? Could I call the courthouse and would they be able to tell me? I really need to know as soon as I am divorced from this man and if he or his lawyer won't tell me if we are legally divorced, is there another official way to find out?","title":"How will I know when I am officially divorced when the other party has filed for uncontested divorce and I signed a waiver of appearance? (AR)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568634701,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4zkg7\/are_the_instagram_captions_promising_free_things\/","id":"d4zkg7","body":"I see a lot of instagram captions that look something like this: \"If the Clippers win the 2020 NBA championship I will biy a jersey for everyone who: likes this post, follows 'x' and comments \"done\". Are they legally obliged to deliver on this promise?","title":"Are the instagram captions promising free things legal contracts?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1503639646,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vwkv4\/lady_barely_bumped_into_my_car_and_apologetically\/","id":"6vwkv4","body":"First time posting, never had a reason to (fortunately) until tonight. I'm in Florida:\n\nEarlier tonight I was in a drive-through when a lady pulling up behind me in an SUV bumped into the rear of my little two-door car. It felt pretty hard, but I got out and we looked at the damage and... miraculously there was none at all, on either car. It was late-ish at night and there were no other cars or people behind the restaurant to have seen or to be around in general. She seemed super apologetic and sincere nonetheless and wanted to exchange information just in case something popped up (or popped off my car...), to which I agreed. She had already pulled out her license, registration, and insurance card, so I followed suit and grabbed all three of mine and we snapped pictures on our phones of each others' info. We exchanged phone numbers too.\n\nAnyways, that's all that happened, and it took maybe 10 minutes max. My question: Is it likely she was simply being sincere and apologetic? Or is there some known scam that follows a similar pattern of events? After talking about it with my wife (who was in the passenger seat this whole time) she agreed that it could appear a little suspicious. The other driver was very willing to fork over all her insurance info when, frankly, I was prepared and content to leave *without* exchanging any info, and had even implied it during the initial conversation (after inspecting my rear bumper). The other driver insisted however, so we traded.\n\nTrying not to be paranoid or irrational. It was just my first time in any sort of encounter in which I needed to exchange insurance info, so I'm just cautious on how things were handled. I would love to hear some third party thoughts on what happened, and any recommendations on things to watch out for or what to do better next time. (If the answer is literally just \"You did everything as you should, quit yur fussin'\", then sweet, I'd love to hear it.)\n\nSo, thanks in advance!","title":"Lady barely bumped into my car, and apologetically wanted to exchange all info. It all felt a little sketchy.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539708133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9opcsd\/legality_of_location_spoofing_when_paying_for_a\/","id":"9opcsd","body":"Are using VPNs illegal? If not, how about GPS spoofing? \n\nMy wife and I have an NBA team we watch whose streaming rights are owned by AT&T in our state. We're cable cutters, and the only way to watch is to pay over $100 a month for to get that streaming channel from AT&T (Direct TV). \n\nNBA League Pass offers streaming (like $18 a month) of that team's games in all 49 other states, and many countries. Only our state is excluded because of AT&T's contract with our state's team. \n\nWould it be illegal to use a VPN and GPS spoofing on my phone to say we're in a different state in order to access the games?\n\nBonus question: How about other services where buying from a different country makes it cheaper? Plane tickets, Amazon purchases, and so forth. ","title":"Legality of location spoofing when paying for a service","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552943933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2o8lt\/tn_advice_on_flooded_rental_house\/","id":"b2o8lt","body":"Hello all! Sorry for formatting; on mobile. \n\nSome Context: I am renting from a property management company in Nashville. My house flooded due to my water heater busting. It\u2019s been a month. Just looking for some advice really. \n\nI wasn\u2019t home when it happened. My roommate was. We called the emergency number as soon as he woke up. The initial response was fast and they got a restoration company and plumber out to start the process. The restoration company took about a week to demo and dry our house. We\u2019ve been waiting ever since to get new flooring and our house back to livable conditions. \n\nReason I\u2019m here: We haven\u2019t been able to contact our management company. It takes about 2-3 days of 2 calls a day to get a response. I\u2019m tired of the non communication from them. They haven\u2019t offered to put us in a hotel. All they are doing is not charging us rent on a day to day basis. \n\nAre we entitled to any additional compensation due to the inconveniences? \n\nIs there any legal angle I can take to hurry their process up and at least get some communication back? We don\u2019t want to break our lease and move because we love the property and location but we hate living on couches at our friends house. \n\n","title":"(TN) Advice on Flooded Rental House","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571458417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djyt2e\/california_labor_law_on_overtime\/","id":"djyt2e","body":"I\u2019ve been at the company for about two months now, and it came to my attention that we are not being paid accordingly. At a minimum we work 4 days a week 10 hours a day. But majority of the time we work 11-12 hours a day, and sometimes but rarely 5-6 days a week if we are needed. What would be considered overtime? After 8 hours in a working day or 40 hours in a working week?","title":"California Labor Law on Overtime","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570236092,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddg92s\/required_to_use_personal_vehicle_for_work_who\/","id":"ddg92s","body":"Hello, I work in an outpatient clinic. Our job requires us to use our personal vehicle for clients that cannot come to the clinic due to transportation issues. When I was driving to a client\u2019s home for a home visit, a rock flew off a truck and damaged my windshield. My deductible is $250. I have asked work to cover it and they said no, I\u2019m required to have insurance and maintain my car in good working condition. (This was through email.) While not relevant, I took a picture of the truck and am currently trying to get the dashcam video recovered to show the incident.\n\nI was not satisfied with the response because of course I have insurance and the car works great. It is not as if they offer work vehicles for us to use. I have a meeting with them next week to discuss this further. Can I hold them responsible for the deductible?","title":"Required to use personal vehicle for work, who cover damages?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540589248,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9roszj\/husbands_father_wants_to_see_his_grandchild_but\/","id":"9roszj","body":"(NY) Also apologies for poor formating on phone.\n\nMy husband and his father are not on best terms and never have been. His father left him and his mother when he was born and overall has never been around in his life unless he needed money from my husband as soon as he got a job at 17.\n\nHis father has threatened to break me and him up, have him married to his cousin, and threaten to kill him when he was much younger.\n\nOver the years, I've never met his father or spoken to his father directly. (Though I've heard his voice over the phone and seen his car pick up my husband when we were younger. I don't even know what he looks like!) I know my husband has never wanted me to meet him and now my suppose father-in-law wants to see our newborn. I'm worried about his father doing something by force or taking legal action against us?\n\nIs there anything we can do or he can do? I haven't been able to sleep with how frequent my husband's father has been calling him over the matter. Does he have any right to see his grandchild? He doesn't know where we live nor have a clue, we've already completely excluded him from our immediate family.","title":"Husband's father wants to see his grandchild but we don't want to let him.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552657411,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1f4ep\/potential_lawsuit_from_needle_accident\/","id":"b1f4ep","body":"So my friend was working is retirement home as a utility worker and the bussers brought back a plate with a needle on it and when he was cleaning it he accidentally stabbed himself with it the needle and there was blood on blood contact. The retirement home is paying for the medicine but now he has to do bloodwork for up to 6 months and has to take 30 days of medication that makes him feel sick and weak. Is there any legal action that can be taken? And if so how should he proceed.","title":"Potential lawsuit from needle accident?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409503156,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f3chc\/nc_rape_four_years_ago_wondering_where_to_go_from\/","id":"2f3chc","body":"When I was 18, I invited a few people into my home, got extremely inebriated, and was raped based on a complete inability to consent (vomiting, slipping in and out of consciousness). A few people were there who heard the bed moving, one friend entered the room when it was immediately over to him putting his pants back on and me not conscious, and they told him to leave, with him driving. I showered soon after, though my friends told me I shouldn't, and purchased a Plan B in the morning. I mentioned at the time that I wasn't sure it was consensual to several people, and as I recall the vomiting and waking up at various points being too drunk to move and it happening, I am sure that it wasn't.\n\nIt took me two years to really accept it. I told him how I felt, and he informed me that he was being investigated for several felony drug charges, that I \"asked for it\", and that the police were monitering his facebook and I needed to stop talking. So, he acknowledged that we had sex, but in his opinion it was consensual.\n\nTwo years later, a couple months ago and just over a year sober, I called the police. They handed the case over to university police in the town I live in, because he lived in that vicinity, and I told my full account, with the friend who heard the activity and witnessed him getting dressed and who I had said I was unsure of the act coming in to make her statement as well. He was supposed to be called in, the officer has not called me back in a few weeks, but for now I am just wondering what exactly can be done.\n\nAt this point, I obviously have no physical evidence. I have an admission of the act from him through text and Facebook, his possible statement at least acknowledging that we had sex, eyewitness accounts stating that I was beyond the point of consent and that I questioned the act immediately afterward, and I have his criminal history on his back. I don't know if any of this is useful, and I don't know if I should just leave the case as a reported crime without moving forward. I was given the option to move forward, but sort of discouraged by the officer in charge; however, she works for the university he was attending when it happened. I don't know what to do. Please help me.","title":"[NC] Rape four years ago, wondering where to go from here.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506426101,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72jriz\/maryland_montgomery_county_i_am_a_tenant_renting\/","id":"72jriz","body":"So, my landlord has renter's permit from the county as well.\nThis house is a fully rented, 5 bedrooms, 5 people, all renting rooms.\n\nMy mistake was to not looking at the room, bathroom and kitchen carefully before signing the lease for 6 months.\nI found out that my landlord doesn't really clean anything before renting the room out, but just rents out to the next person as is.\n\nThe bathroom is dirty as hell, and it looks like the toilet seat cover hasn't been changed for last 15 years or so.\nKitchen is also dirty, I sometimes see cockroaches running around.\n\nNow, I just saw a worm crawling in my room wall. It's seriously disgusting.\nThis is what makes me mad, I have asked them to clean and replace the toilet seat and what not (verbally) and haven't done so yet, but my landlord will blow up my phone with text messages and phone calls and voicemails about when I am going to pay him the rent.\n\nHe knocks up on my room door, open door with his key and starts to harass me about when I am paying the rent. I still haven't paid for September and it's almost over. \nIt's like all they care about the money and not replacing dirty and disgusting stuff on the house, which I have asked for.\n\nWhat I do want to know is that, how do I deal with the harassment of asking for rent, and what can I do about this awful living conditions. I just refuse to pay the rent unless they fix this disgusting situation.\n\n","title":"[Maryland - Montgomery County] I am a tenant renting a room in a house","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539488409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nzvec\/i_was_pulled_over_and_the_officer_snapped_my\/","id":"9nzvec","body":"Florida - USA\n\nI was pulled over on the highway going 10 over. \n\nI provided my license, insurance, and registration. \n\nOfficer takes my DL and asks if my address is still current. I tell him \u201cno\u201d as I moved and was too lazy to update my address and shell out $15 for a replacement. He takes my info, goes back to his car, comes back, and snaps my drivers license in front of me. Tell me he is citing me for speeding, failing to update information, and driving without a license in my possession. He tells me to replace DL. I\u2019m a passive person, so I didn\u2019t feel like arguing and questioning what just happened. So, my question is this...does he have any right to do this? \n\nMy Drivers License is slightly bent in the middle from accidentally leaving is slightly out of my wallet and proceeding to sit on it, but it still scans at cash registers, and is completely intact. Address was inaccurate, but I can\u2019t see that as being a reason to destroy it. Now I have tickets to pay and a license to replace. In the meantime, I\u2019m waiting for my replacement to come in the mail. \n\nDo I have any recourse here in regards to the tickets? I\u2019m not arguing the speeding or updating information, but I had my license in my possession...so why get cited for \u201cnot\u201d having one?\n\nThanks in advance. ","title":"I was pulled over and the officer snapped my license in half and cited me for not having license in my possession...do I have any recourse?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541968776,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w78zk\/ex_is_trying_to_keep_me_from_my_son_by_keeping_me\/","id":"9w78zk","body":"Hey r\/legaladvice,\n\n​\n\nThese past few months have been hell for me and I'm not sure I'm doing any of this right. I live in Utah, my EX (F19) (never married) and I (M23) have a son who is about to turn 4 months old. A month before his birth we separated. The cause of separation was money issues, family disagreements, and my stress levels caused me to become distant toward her. I'm also fairly irresponsible and lied about having more money than I actually did. When she moved out I was furious and was pretty aggressive in subsequent messages. I called her a \"[retard](https:\/\/imgur.com\/9m3P3pA)\" amongst other colorful names. In context, my insults and name calling make sense. It's more complicated than that, but those are the basics.   \n\n\nFast forward 2 days before his birth, [we agreed on a name with his last name being our last names hyphenated](https:\/\/imgur.com\/eR8GJuZ). We both agreed to this although I was a little bitter about it. I didn't find out he was born until 12 hours after he was. When I got to the hospital I found out she [changed his name again](https:\/\/imgur.com\/DZbHE40) and cut my last name out completely. She said she [refused to put me on the birth certificate](https:\/\/imgur.com\/aboipQo). In Utah, that is her right apparently. When I started getting upset she told me I could either calm down or leave. So, wanting to be with my son, I calmed down.   \n\n\nAfter a few weeks and only having seen him at the hospital, I was messaging her asking when I could come see him. Things ramped up and I got [this](https:\/\/imgur.com\/uzmnxEQ) from her. I saw this as her basically telling me her plan was to adopt my son out to someone else. So I told her I was going to court. She demanded we only contact each other through email and only talk about Elliot in those emails. Simple enough requests, but being the emotional dumbass I am, I've broken it once. We agreed on some visitation times that was less than the State's outline for visitation with children his age. I missed 2 visits due to work. The time I broke our email rule was the night I lost my job. I was feeling so low. I thought if I just tried to talk to her about what I was feeling and going through her humanity would show again and maybe we could work on our issues. So I sent her [this](https:\/\/imgur.com\/Dt8j0Vl) (It's a long message so you can start 8 lines from the bottom). Those last few lines are the reason she told me I needed to see a therapist and sign a release before she would let me see him again. I decided I wanted to work with her. Having been a child of divorce I understand the toll it takes. So, I told her wasn't going to court and just wanted her to work with me. Since then she has been very spotty with communication and never answers direct questions.   \n\n\nIt's been 2 months since I've been able to see him. Rachel got into another relationship which was much harder news to handle than expected. It finally made me realize if I don't do something NOW I could lose him forever and Rachel won't give a shit about it. I know, because [I asked her and she completely dodged the question.](https:\/\/imgur.com\/yl5Y1E1)  \n\n\nThe problem is that I don't have any money. I called a lawyer (I can't afford) who was very helpful and told me to contact the ORS and claim him as my son and ask to pay child support. He said they would verify paternity and put me on his birth certificate. A little later, I found out that the ORS won't actually help me with that because Rachel isn't seeking child support from me. The other method I found was a VDP (Voluntary Declaration of Paternity) which I found ALSO [has to be initiated by the mother](https:\/\/imgur.com\/UN2Gjx6).   \n\n\nSo now my only option is a petition for paternity. Luckily, the court I have to go through has a way to fill paperwork out online and then I print and deliver it to the clerk. The filing fee with the online service and paternity test is 380$ which I can't pay so I'm also filling a fee waiver which will hopefully pan out.   \n\n\nSince our separation and attempting to take criticism to heart I have changed a lot about my life. I see a therapist at her request every week. I have begun paying off debts. I'll be starting parenting classes next week. I don't have a job right now but I've been donating plasma and using that money to live on and pay these extra expenses when I can. I'm going back to school in 2019, although I don't have proof of that yet.   \n\n\nI just want to know how strong my case is, how do I make sure I get at least get joint custody? Are there any family law lawyers in my area willing to work with me for cheap? I'm just so fucking hurt by all of this. I don't want to lose my son. I don't want to deal with all of this heartache. I hope I'm doing the right things. I will be filing officially on Tuesday afternoon and hopefully serving Rachel on Wednesday night.   \n\n\nThank you for your time. I know I really haven't played my cards well but she's toying with my emotions and I just want everything to work out in the best way. I know it's not realistic anymore and I tried for too long. ","title":"EX is trying to keep me from my son by keeping me off his birth certificate","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539313744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ngp5i\/do_you_like_to_put_a_turd_in_your_ass_after_it\/","id":"9ngp5i","body":"NUGGET OF","title":"Do you like to put a turd in your ass after it already came out [hudson florida]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541634199,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v4rhv\/trying_to_change_back_to_maiden_name_a_year_after\/","id":"9v4rhv","body":"I\u2019m in West Virginia and I got divorced last year. At the time I was going to keep my married name but now I\u2019d like to go back to my maiden name for personal reasons. \n\nI called the social security office and they said it was free to change and all I needed was my drivers license, social security card, birth certificate, and a notarized official copy of my divorce decree. After that I can change my drivers license.\n\nThe county circuit clerks office, however, said I\u2019d have to pay $200 for a petition, then put an ad in the paper for some reason that would cost another $80-90 dollars. At that point I\u2019d be seen by a judge and they may or may not allow it to go through. If it isn\u2019t allowed I don\u2019t get my money back. \n\nMy question: what harm is it in changing it with the social security office but ignoring the circuit clerk\u2019s office? Will it affect my ability to vote or get married in the future? ","title":"Trying to change back to maiden name a year after my divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552286563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azq4sz\/mold_issue_suspected_to_not_have_been_properly\/","id":"azq4sz","body":"Throwaway because reasons. \n\nLast Fall, a mold issue was found in our apartment after a water leak that was not our fault. While repairing the leak, what appeared to be mold and extensive rot was discovered. After getting a couple bids from professionals, the rental company decided to let previous maintenance guy fix it. Since he quit, many unresolved issues have been found complex wide that he supposedly had fixed, including caulking over mildew on our tub when we first moved in. \n\nI have been having health problems, and all of the tests they have run keep coming up normal, clear, etc. I don\u2019t know what put it into my head, but I looked up mold exposure symptoms and it would explain literally everything that I\u2019ve had going on with me. \n\nMy partner and I discussed it, looked at things more closely where the damage originally was, and there is now a dark spot on the linoleum that wasn\u2019t there before. We are currently running one of those at home mold test kits to see if anything pops. \n\nMy question is this. If we find that there is mold, I am fairly certain that we can get the rental company to let us out of our lease. I am thinking about asking them to return our rent for the months since the problem was first discovered, if it turn out that is in fact what is going on. I feel like it was negligent on their part to not get it taken care of correctly by a professional, and they left us living in an unsafe living condition. Is that something that I could do? How much legal recourse do we have in a situation like this?","title":"Mold issue suspected to not have been properly repaired by rental company, is potentially causing health problems.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540160933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q7th5\/am_i_obligated_to_fix_my_exgirlfriends_car\/","id":"9q7th5","body":"I know how ridiculous this title sounds.. but I have a child with this person.\nWe were never married but we have an 8 year old son together. We were together 5 years.\nI am now married to my wife who I have been with for 2 years (may not be entirely relevant to this question but thought I should mention it).\n\nI pay her $1200 a month in child support by agreement (aka not court ordered) and was up until this year paying her car insurance, phone bill and student loans. \nEven though we broke up coming on 3 years now. \nI also pay for anything my son needs for his schooling. \nMy ex has never worked and has explicitly stated that she never will. She (and my son) lives with her mother and her mother pays all her bills. \nI should mention that we also don\u2019t have a custody agreement, my son lives with her full-time but I am free to visit and take him whenever I like. As long as she is willing, which is sometimes not the case.\n\n2 years ago now, I bought her a car so she could do things like food shopping and taking our son to school etc.\nI\u2019d let her know on many occasions to make sure she is taking it in for regular services, which she didn\u2019t.\n\nThe car is now \u201cbroken\u201d as she says and she has no plans of taking it to the mechanics to get it fixed unless I pay for it. I have no idea what is wrong with the car and frankly I\u2019m not sure I want to take it to the mechanics and find out.\nShe is saying that if I don\u2019t pay to have it fixed, then our son just won\u2019t go to school, and if there are any emergencies or if my son gets sick it will be on me that something bad happens to him..\n\nI don\u2019t know that I could pay to have her car fixed right now as my wife and I just bought a home and we are stretched a little thin with closing costs and moving costs.\n\nMy question is am I obliged to fix her car because my son in involved? \nI feel like an asshole that I\u2019m even questioning it, but I told her so many times that it\u2019s important she sets money aside to have the car serviced regularly and I kind of feel like I knew this would happen. \n\n","title":"Am I obligated to fix my ex-girlfriend\u2019s car?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541140208,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9thn06\/missed_my_court_date\/","id":"9thn06","body":"I\u2019m not sure if I missed my court date or not, so I was hoping you could help me. What happened is that I got a DWI and showed up for the first court date that I had as expected. After trying to get a public defender the judge told me to come back with my household income. Then just now I check my court date and I have a bench warrant for not showing up to court. \n\nI had an attorney review scheduled but I don\u2019t have an attorney and am going back to the court house today to try and get a public defender. Will I go to jail? Will I have to pay a fine for not showing up? Should I be worried?","title":"Missed my court date?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554358744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b994vy\/how_to_best_terminate_a_parents_parental_rights\/","id":"b994vy","body":"hi, my child is 4 and I'm looking to get them a passport this year. I was told I would need the other parent present to sign off on it.... here's some background.... \n\nhe has not been in my Childs life since my child was about 6mo old... his involvement ended when a DV situation happened towards me while our child was on my lap.... we have not heard from him since. I do not receive child support of any kind I have been the sole caretaker and provider since my child was born. we now live in a different state than the other parent and have no contact. my intentions aren't to sever their potential future relationship but I think when my child is older they can decide for themselves if and when they want to reach out. until then its very practical and way more convenient for our everyday lives to remove him from the birth certificate and terminate rights especially since he is not presently, emotionally, or financially contributing what so ever. I want to clarify that we have never had a parenting plan, there has never been any legal documents establishing anything other than the birth certificate signed at time of birth. I Waited a few years to see if anything would change and it hasn't.... was going to wait a few more but was wondering if now is a good time or if things would go smoother if the child is a bit older? my worry is that he will try to refuse this out of temporary pride and we will be stuck in the same situation for potentially longer in the event that he did refuse.\n\nI would of course provide evidence to combat that, but want to know what would be the best evidence for a clear and concise case since he's been completely absent I'm not sure what evidence to provide.\n\njust trying to plan for worst case scenario.\n\nI've tried googling this matter and I didn't get any clear advice on how to go about this other than general information. \n\nany advice would help, I want to be fully prepared and knowledgable while making sure I'm going down the smartest path confidently. \n\nthank you in advance.","title":"how to best terminate a parents parental rights?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552700354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1n101\/tx_this_seems_completely_unreasonable_apartment\/","id":"b1n101","body":"\"If you don\u2019t pay the first \r\nmonth\u2019s rent when or before the Lease begins, all future rent for \r\nthe Lease term will be automatically accelerated without notice \r\nand become immediately due\"\n\nSo if rent is $1000 and first month rent payment is a week late then the tenant has to pay $12000?? Assuming 1 year lease.\n\nDoes \"when lease begins\" necessarily mean the first day of move-in? One definition I found of \"begins\" is \"first part\". \n\nWhat about \"immediately\"? Is this necessarily next day?\n\n","title":"(TX) This seems completely unreasonable. Apartment Lease.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568586910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4rrmg\/can_an_employer_collect_tips_in_a_pool_and_dole\/","id":"d4rrmg","body":"(TN) Basically title. My former (as of today) employer was paying me $8.50 an hour plus two dollars an hour from our stores\u2019 tip pool. Every time some has gotten a raise they have received a raise in their tip share rather than their hourly rate. I am wondering the legality of this.\n\nI quit today for a plethora of reasons and asked for my W2 and a copy of the Non disclosure and anti compete agreements I signed and my employer denied me both originally. I told him he had to give me my W2 and he said to ask him for it next year. He is still maintaining he doesn\u2019t have to give me copies of the contracts I signed and told me to \u201csue them\u201d. This store has been doing a lot of shady and below bar seeming stuff so I don\u2019t really know what to do. \n\nThanks for any help.","title":"Can an employer collect tips in a pool and dole them out as wages? Can they withhold my W2 after I request it? Can they refuse to give me a copy of a Nondisclosure agreement I signed?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569539781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9rqi9\/job_poaching_without_consent\/","id":"d9rqi9","body":"\nA few months ago I interviewed with a software company my current (non-software) company uses. My non-compete shouldn\u2019t apply. My company has multiple divisions and wants to expand the software company to the other divisions. \n\nI recently found out the president of my company was negotiating with the software company with a clause that I could not be hired (poached) by the software company. \n\nIs there anything I can really do? Seems if I say anything to my company I\u2019m going to look bad and if I go to the software company without a Real offer I\u2019m screwed too.","title":"Job poaching without consent?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1413388892,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jbso2\/boss_offered_to_start_a_business_with_me_i_want\/","id":"2jbso2","body":"My boss approached me about a business idea she had. I currently work part time at an after-school program. She suggested I become a contractor and do the same thing I currently do, I will however make much much more money. \n\nThe issue is that she wants us to be business partners and approach other schools to do it there as well. What I currently do is very specific and involves a lot of knowledge of a STEM field. I'm the only one with that knowledge at work or in other schools. I would rather do it on my own because I will be doing 99% of the work. \n\nDo i have a legal obligation to work with her if she's the one who approached me about the idea? I feel like I have a moral obligation to do so but I also feel like I would really be taken advantage of since I will be doing most of the work. \n\nThank you","title":"Boss offered to start a business with me. I want to say no and do it on my own. (TEXAS)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569681363,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dagrtg\/rear_end_collision_nh\/","id":"dagrtg","body":"Hey everyone,\n\nI'm I'm NH\n\nI was just rear ended, took pictures of my damage, neglected to take pictures of her car or license plate (ughh hate myself). My bumper is falling off and my back hurts.\n\nThe lady emailed me her policy information but I can't see it when I click the link. The police pulled up behind her, asked if we exchanged info, but didn't file a report. I have emailed the lady several times, sent her a Facebook message, emailed the police, and emailed her insurance company. Her Facebook says she's on the Massachusetts bar. I have an attorney and judge in my family who have offered to help if she doesn't respond.\n\nWhat else should I do?\n\nThanks","title":"Rear end collision NH","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541786324,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vmo60\/my_school_makes_us_participate_in_researchfor_free\/","id":"9vmo60","body":"I'm aware of a law that doesn't allow professors to use their own students in experiments, but I feel like this is still illegal in some capacity.\n\nCertain classes at my university require you to fill a \"research requirement\" in order to receive credits for the course. You have to participate in three different experiments over the course of the semester.\n\nThere is no academic benefit to us students who participate in the research, and it would only be by coincidence that it related to our class at all. This is my second class where they are requiring me to do this, and I find it ridiculous that they will not give you credit for the class unless you fulfill the requirement.\n\nAdditional info: The experiments are out of class. Thanks in advance for any input!","title":"My school makes us participate in research...for free.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1413732407,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jp354\/a_verizon_technician_replaced_my_equipment_and\/","id":"2jp354","body":"So I set up service in June of 2013 with Verizon Fios in NYC. It took about 3-4 different times for technicians coming out to finally get all my services to work properly and Verizon wound up comping my first month. In that time, I had a technician come out to repair my services. Well, he took my old TV set top box and replaced it with a new one. \n\nFast forward to June of 2014 when I'm moving out. I return the equipment in my possession and get my final bill stating I have a $100 credit coming my way. One month passes, no refund. Two months, nothing. August bill comes in(I kept checking online) and I notice a $626 charge for unreturned equipment. I call and they verify that I returned everything but one box, the box that the technician lost, or improperly stored. My initial call was 8\/21 or there about. They assured me everything would be ok. \n\nI come back from vacation, same thing. I've called at least 10 times now, about once a week. I've been promised its taken care of, that I'll get calls back and that this won't affect my credit, but none of these have happened.\n\nThey put a hold on collections until they sort this out. That lasts for 90 days. 90 days from 8\/21 is rapidly approaching and I don't want to get sent to collections. \n\nI can prove that I have returned everything and that they are the ones who messed up but they keep denying it and I feel like are just postponing until that 90 days is up and I am forced to pay. \n\nAny ideas on how I should go about this? Small claims court? I've spoken to countless \"supervisors\". \n\n\n**TL;DR A Verizon technician lost some equipment when they were repairing my services and now they are trying to charge me.**","title":"A Verizon technician replaced my equipment and lost the broken box, now Verizon is charging me","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569594561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da17tr\/tricky_custody_question\/","id":"da17tr","body":"I have a tricky custody situation. I have had physical custody of both of my daughters for the last six, almost seven years, but in my divorce\/custody decree I only have legal and physical custody of my oldest daughter while my younger daughter was supposed to be in the legal and physical custody of my ex. I ended up with physical custody of my youngest when my ex abandoned her to her grandmother to move to Florida with her new husband, DCFS was involved because of my ex's drug use and after failing to attend a meeting and take a drug test I was told by CPS that I could take my youngest daughter home. \n\nFast forward six years, my dumbass hasn't ever considered that I needed to change my original divorce decree and now I find myself in my current mess. My oldest daughter is currently a ward of the State, I placed her there to get her proper mental health treatment since my wife and I couldn't afford the 30k a month to have her placed into a facility. I now need to get my divorce decree amended for my youngest daughter to legally be in my legal and physical custody. \n\nMy question is can I amend the divorce decree for the youngest child and not the oldest as she is not in my custody at the moment? I live in the State of Missouri.","title":"Tricky Custody Question","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1538601526,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9l5gv8\/my_employer_has_not_been_paying_my_super_and_i\/","id":"9l5gv8","body":"I randomly checked my super account last night after work and discovered that my employer of five months has not been paying it. But it says on my payslips that its been paid.\n\nHow do i go about this?\nWhat steps do i take?\n\nI am in Australia.","title":"My employer has not been paying my super and I don\u2019t know how to go about it","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568646118,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d51vc5\/ny_signingbonus_not_paid_in_time_of_what_contract\/","id":"d51vc5","body":"So I haven't received my bonus in a new contract that started and got signed on September 1st. This was made to keep me for another year. (Both parties signed, gut feeling they have forgot) The contract says \n\n\"Bonus: You will be given a one-time contract signing bonus of five thousand dollars\r($5,000), subject to deductions for taxes and other withholdings as required by law, within two weeks of the signing of this contract. If you choose to end your employment with the (COMPANY I WORK FOR), or if you are fired for misconduct, frequent absence, or other violations of this contract, within 12 calendar months, a prorated amount of this bonus\r\nmust be returned.\"\n\nI know the first reaction is go and talk to your boss about it who happens to be the CEO. But I've been working at the company for a few years now and last year they forgot to give me a raise that was written into my last contract on time. (I had to mention it and got everything fixed 2 week late). For many reasons I was a scared to do this new contract but I felt the up front money would really help me right now.(scared of having to pay it back) Also having a good and loyal employee recently get laid off for really no reason.(they were given a small severance though). All contracts on the company can fire at will.\n\nHow should I handle this? Right now I'm in good standing at work. But am very unhappy and feeling like this happening is breaking my last straw.","title":"(NY) Signing\/Bonus not paid in time of what contract says. Feel like I've made a big mistake.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539210388,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n477i\/i_worked_for_a_month_for_no_pay_at_an_nyc_school\/","id":"9n477i","body":"I applied to be a teacher in NYC. I moved this summer from NC after graduating from college. I am licensed to teach in NC, but when I moved I started the process to be licensed in NY. \n\nI checked the requirements and it appeared that I met them all provided I passed the NYSCTE\u2019s  (New York State Content Teacher Exam) for what I wanted to teach.\n\nI applied for jobs and was hired at a school in Washington Heights. Since I wasn\u2019t licensed, my principal asked if I would be licensed when I submitted everything and I confidently said yes. \n\nFor this reason, she had me start and told me I\u2019d get backpay once I was licensed. I thought it was a bit sketchy but since this was a principal telling me this, I figured it was okay. \n\nI worked for about a month with no pay (Sept. 4th - Sept.  26th.). I went to teacher orientation, taught all of my required classes, and also stayed after school for parent open house. \n\nI left since I went to speak to both an NYC Certification specialist and a UFT Certification specialist. The NYC specialist said there was no way I\u2019d be able to get a license since my degree was a general *subject* degree instead of a degree with a concentration. I would have to go back and apply for a master\u2019s in education and wait till I could apply for an intern license.\n\nI later looked on the NY Teach website and noticed a tiny block of text with special stipulations for certain scenarios. For my *subject area* I needed a concentration which NC and my education program did not have me complete. \n\nThe UFT licensing specialist suggested a convoluted way to licensure which required me to spend money I didn\u2019t have and to take additional tests to make up for coursework I didn\u2019t have. She also stated that I should have been hired as a sub per-diem or as a long-term sub in the first place while the license process was happening since in NY it is apparently a lengthy process. \n\nThis means I should have never worked the way I did. However, I did work those hours. I did teach 4 classes and I completed all of the other obligations. \n\nI believe the principal didn\u2019t hire me as a sub since NYC schools have their own budgets that principals manage. Her budget likely didn\u2019t include the pay for a sub so she hoped I\u2019d get my license quickly so I could fall into the teacher budget she had my position under.\n\nI looked online at the NY\/C labor disputes page but I was confused when it said that a person in a professional position couldn\u2019t apply if it was over $900. Based on the fact that I worked for 40 hours for 3.5 weeks, it would obviously be more than that. \n\nWhat can I do to get this pay? \n","title":"I worked for a month for no pay at an NYC school. How do I go about getting paid?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551197540,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av14uy\/housing_discrimination_or_not\/","id":"av14uy","body":"Philadelphia, PA \n\nI apologize for this long post. I will try to keep it as relevant as possible.  I am not sure if this constitutes as housing discrimination and\/or harassment\/intimidation and if I should file a complaint with HUD. \n\nBefore signing the lease for a multi-unit building (5), I informed my landlord (all via email) that I have an emotional support animal (ESA) and that I could give her proper documentation from my mental health provider. She never acknowledged this part of my emails to her... fast forward.. \n\nAt lease signing, she insists I pay a pet deposit. It ended in a debate about interpretation of my rights, me becoming tearful out of frustration, but her waiving the pet deposit after all. (this should have been my first red flag to not sign this lease). \n\nNow (6 mos later)- after requests being made for repairs (roof leaks, mold because of roof leaks, and dishwasher flooding kitchen), proper Philadelphia documentation required for rental unit, etc., she is requesting another letter from my mental health provider (claiming I fraudulently drafted the first one), pay a pet deposit, or find a new home for the ESA. My therapist happily complied, and gave her additional information about emotional support animals. \n\nShe has told me on many occasions that I need therapy, has called me \"crazy\" and is now telling my live in boyfriend (also on lease) that it is his responsibility to make sure I get the therapeutic help I need -- this language is not new to us. My boyfriend has avoided talking to her because of her offensive attitude, which has left me to talk to her.  I was able to shake off her poor communication skills until it got personal. \n\nI have damn anxiety and depression, and the ESA helps me so much. Based on my landlords behaviors, she would probably try to have me committed if she had the power to. \n\n​\n\nSo-- report to HUD, or suck it up ? She's a landlord to 13+ units across the country if that matters at all. ","title":"Housing discrimination or not?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550709186,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asw8cp\/florida_employer_owes_me_1500_in_unpaid_wages_and\/","id":"asw8cp","body":"I\u2019m a service tech. I work 5 days a week and start at 9am, end at 5:30pm. I am required to clock in at 9am every day.\n\nThing is, two of the week days, we have to be at the gas station to fill up trucks at 8:30am. Still have to clock in at 9am.\n\nThe three other week days, we are required to be on work premises in the office at 8:45am. Still have to clock in at 9am.\n\nI\u2019ve calculated a ballpark estimate how much money I am owed from this unpaid work and it is around $1500 total.\n\nNext thing. On multiple occasions, my boss has expressed that any fuck ups need to be fixed by the employee off the clock. He is telling us if we continue to fuck up, we will be demoted and have a pay decrease. Next fuckup after that is termination. \n\nHe told me today I did not solve a problem. I did the necessary job functions i was trained to do to solve the issue, and supposedly it wasn\u2019t solved. He says he paid me for that work, and  I am to come into work tomorrow and tell him how I\u2019m going to fix the problem, because he\u2019s not going to pay me again to fix it.\n\nThis is insinuating that I am to redo the service with no pay. Guy is a hot head, so I am fearing demotion, pay decrease, and termination if I refuse to work for free. What do I say? Do I do the work and log it?\n\nTo my knowledge I cannot be fired due to something against public policy, which would be requiring your workers to work unpaid.\n\nI have already contacted an attorney who is working on the case and hasn\u2019t gotten back to me yet. I also have another job lined up and have an interview set up soon. \n\nI feel like I am being taken advantage of big time and I\u2019ve been nothing but loyal to this company. What do I do?\n\nThanks guys. ","title":"[Florida] Employer owes me $1500 in unpaid wages and is telling me I have to work for free now.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541699295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vc69t\/obstructing_intersection_citation\/","id":"9vc69t","body":"So this morning, on my way to work, I received a citation for obstructing an intersection. I understand that I was in fact in the intersection after the light changed, but my issue is that this happens all too often at this intersection. Is there any way I can use the poor infrastructure of the area as a legal argument to not only absolve myself but also get the local government to make changes to the area to keep this from happening again in the future?\n\nIn essence, the intersection leads to the highway many, many people use each day to get into the city of Atlanta. The local on-ramp often backs up due to both the volume of those entering it as well as its proximity to an exit to another high-traffic highway. Because of this, traffic can back up all the way to the intersection and often into said intersection. I would argue that, during peak times, there is at least one vehicle sitting in the intersection at all times. I have to turn left through this intersection and there are 3 left turn lanes, only one of which feeds directly into the on-ramp (I was in this lane).\n\nThe light to turn left is generally pretty short during morning rush to keep people from getting stuck in the intersection, but I was still left sitting in the intersection because a bus was taking up more space than necessary and people often jump the line from the other turn lanes further increasing the wait for those trying to get out of the intersection.\n\nThere was another lane I could have entered to get around this, but that would require me to break the law by changing lanes in an intersection as well as be a general douche for jumping the line (although not technically a legal argument).\n\nWhen I explained that to the officer, he rudely commented that I should have been able to see the traffic and should not have turned (although my best judgement at the time was that I would make it before the light changed) and also that I could have changed lanes. I told him I didn't want to break the law (as he was conveniently the one I was blocking in the intersection) and that he was asking me to choose the lesser of two evils in front of a police officer.\n\nI know this is a long post for a simple traffic violation, but I'd really like the city to change something about the local infrastructure to keep this from happening. People get pulled over here quite often for blocking the intersection and I feel like what the officers are doing with the situation is essentially entrapment when they could be assisting in managing traffic.","title":"Obstructing Intersection Citation","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569190496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7xesp\/tennessee_diy_childless_divorce_and_retirement\/","id":"d7xesp","body":"This community doesn't seem to allow crossposting, so just making a PSA that I've also posted this on \/r\/divorce to get a wide range of answers and info as we can't seem to find many straight answers on this online...\n\nMy wife and I are trying to begin a DIY divorce in TN. We are reading some straight up bullshit about equitable property distribution and we literally just want to get rid of the marriage title between us. We're still best friends but we want to live apart and relieve some of the legal pressure on ourselves. We've been married for one year. Upon some reflection at our one year anniversary two weeks ago, we've decided that we suck at communicating with each other and I have some shit I need to work out in counseling before I even consider being in a relationship of substance ever again. We downloaded the forms for childless couples, and they're super vague and want a lot of information about financial accounts. I've showed my wife my accounts and debts. She's showed me hers. We know who has what (hint: we're broke as fuck).\n\nIncomes:\n\nMine - $59000\n\nHers - $55000\n\nTotal assets are something like as follows:\n\nNo homes, businesses, anything of value.\n\nJoint Savings - $5100. We'd like to split this 50\/50.\n\nEach has an individual 401k (we don't even want to split these up or touch them due to taxes):\n\nMine - $2800\n\nHers - $2500\n\nDebts:\n\nMe - $55k across student loans, personal loans, credit cards, leased vehicle\n\nHer - $85k in student loans and credit cards\n\nThe retirement account thing is the biggest question. The Agreed Divorce form we downloaded basically says we can't use the forms if we have 401ks or retirement accounts. I have an HSA with like $500 in it, and obviously the 401ks listed above. And I cover her health insurance. She's agree to get health insurance and I've agreed to give her half of the HSA in the form of not withdrawing it but simply Venmoing her $250. We don't want to get lawyers here because the price of the lawyers is going to exceed the total value in assets. We also don't want to mess with any sort of IRS reporting or making any early distributions or losing out on our matches\/vest(ments?) from our respective companies.\n\nBegin Rant: This all just seems like some Christian ass garbage (we're both nonreligious) to deter people from getting divorced. Some remnants from the 1950s that don't seem to consider two equal partners who still care about each other but simply want to revise their relationship due to some other circumstances. Why is this so fucking stupid? How about a checkbox that says \"Do you want to be divorced and keep all your shit and they keep their shit and you guys move on and do whatever the fuck you want?\"\n\nFucking hell. So what do we do reddit? I see some of these online services which seem to have other forms and mention waivers of property and such. We live in a 2 bedroom apartment and have like 6 pieces of furniture. This is not a high profile divorce case. We need our assets to be able to move on and pay for deposits and shit in our new respective lives. The less of this we give to bloodsucking attorneys and courts the better. Any advice here?\n\nShe'll have to get her own car. We'll split paying a month's rent to get out of the lease. We are looking to just cover our halves of everything and move on. Can we just check the no box on the assets? Or just leave shit off? We don't want to perjure ourselves but we'd just like to get the government out of our fucking lives. Thanks.","title":"Tennessee DIY Childless Divorce and Retirement Accounts Question(s)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541376213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u8kjm\/what_age_do_you_need_to_be_to_take_a_motorcycle\/","id":"9u8kjm","body":"Florida","title":"What age do you need to be to take a motorcycle training course?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554147950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b87pei\/can_my_apartment_charge_me_for_common_area\/","id":"b87pei","body":"This is in Illinois. \n\n​\n\nSorry I'm new here and this is my first apartment and would like some help. \n\nI rented my apartment for a year now and renewed for a second year. It's been a rocky second year. They increased rent and added a lot of additional fees and charged me more than what was on the contract. I rolled over and just paid because it was only a couple dollars and it was in a great location close to my parents, school and work. \n\n​\n\nToday I went to pay my rent and utilities and noticed an extra charged. I called and asked and they told me it was to pay for common utilities and admin fees like hallway lights every month. I didn't have to pay it the year before and it wasn't attached to my utilities bill but more or less a miscellaneous charge. I looked back into my contract and only found this\n\n \"If an allocation method is used, we or our billing company will calculate your allocated share of the utilities and services provided and all costs in accordance with state and local statutes. Under any allocation method, Resident may be paying for part of the utility usage in common areas or in other residential units as well as administrative fees. Both Resident and Owner agree that using a calculation or allocation formula as a basis for estimating total utility consumption is fair and reasonable, while recognizing that the allocation method may or may not accurately reflect actual total utility consumption for Resident. Where lawful, we may change the above methods of determining your allocated share of utilities and services and all other billing methods, in our sole discretion, and after providing written notice to you. More detailed descriptions of billing methods, calculations and allocation formulas will be provided upon request.\" (I don't know if it's important but this was attached to the Utilities Addendum but the charge wasn't attached to my utilities bill but under miscellaneous fee.)\n\n​\n\nI tried to search on google if it was legal and I think the consensus was tenants were not responsible in paying for common areas. I also found (765 ILCS 735\/) Rental Property Utility Service Act under the Illinois General Assembly but it was hard for me to understand. But I did sign the contract. Is it legal or no? \n\n​","title":"Can my apartment charge me for common area utilities?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553196587,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3uutb\/how_will_i_know_when_i_am_officially_divorced\/","id":"b3uutb","body":"My soon-to-be ex-husband has a lawyer and I do not. I have spoken with his lawyer on the phone several times and she's been very nice to me about all of it and said all I had to do was sign my waiver of appearance.\n\nShe told me that there would be a court date set and they are not expecting me to show up, and then she told me that we would be divorced the day of that court date. \n\nWell today I called her and I said to her that I had mailed back my waiver of appearance and I was wondering when he and I would officially be divorced. The lady was real rude with me and she was like \"ma'am I am not your attorney, I am his and you do not need to call me with these questions\". And I reminded her that she told me that she would inform me either by call or mail when that court date was. She did relent and tell me the court date is on April 8th. \n\nMy question is -- is it true that i will be legally divorced on April 8th, which is the day of the court date where I signed a waiver of appearance in an uncontested divorce? \n\nIs there any other way to check if I am legally divorced that doesn't involve calling his lawyer again? Will I get a letter in the mail? Could I call the courthouse and would they be able to tell me? I really need to know as soon as I am divorced from this man and if he or his lawyer won't tell me if we are legally divorced, is there another official way to find out?\n","title":"How will I know when I am officially divorced when the other party has filed for uncontested divorce and I signed a waiver of appearance (AR)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554075239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7ucnc\/how_can_i_legally_have_my_parents_live_with_me_in\/","id":"b7ucnc","body":"\nMy parents are retirees and live in a different country. I live in a rented apartment in WA, and they want to stay with me for 3 months. Community management says guests staying more than 10 days have to be added to the lease. Should I add my parents to the lease and become the guarantor, even though I will be physically living under the same roof? What other options can I take  to make their stay legal? They have a tourist visa. ","title":"How can I legally have my parents live with me in a rented apartment for 3 months?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506996295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73xgw3\/tx_is_my_noncompete_clause_enforceable\/","id":"73xgw3","body":"I am a young (entry level) engineer working in Texas for a contractor that made me sign a non-compete clause as part of my pre-employment paperwork approximately a year ago. I have an offer on the table from a client to go work for them. My non-compete clause basically says I can't work for a client until 18 months after my termination. I have heard that most of these are unenforceable in right-to-work states, especially if I didn't sign something saying \"I will take 'X' in exchange to stay here for 'X' years,\" and particularly if I have no company secrets (I don't). Thanks for the help!","title":"[TX] Is my Non-Compete Clause enforceable?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504212456,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x9oap\/ca_employer_has_been_changing_the_schedule_on_us\/","id":"6x9oap","body":"Is it legal for them to change the schedule without notifying me? They post schedules a week in advance. I take a picture with my camera but management claims that I am at fault.\n\nI have other work which I do manage this schedule with. But with these changes it will force me to make a decision: Which place to get fired from. I don't want to be fired.","title":"[CA] Employer has been changing the schedule on us without notice. I just got a text reminding me to come in for work tomorrow. Boss says I \"need to check the schedule every day for changes.\"","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540333717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qtuce\/legal_advice\/","id":"9qtuce","body":"Hello everyone, I have a long tedious story and was wondering if someone could give some advice. \n\nA year ago my great uncle passed away. He owns some land that his sister lives on as well. The uncle was going to sell the land\/put it in the sisters name. The land came from their parents it\u2019s on their side of the family.  However, he passed away unexpectedly. Now, somehow the uncles ex wife\u2019s name is on the paper for the land they have been divorced for many years and she\u2019s been remarried several times after. The land was never put into the divorce paper. Well he remarried someone for a short amount of time and they never divorced they\u2019re still legally married. No one knows how her name is on the paper it should not be since it\u2019s his family land. She is very crooked and knows people who can do things which is what we believed she has done. She\u2019s also saying that he divorced the other lady but there are no records of it and even the other lady says they\u2019re still married. My great aunt received an eviction letter from her saying she has to leave in 3 months. She\u2019s lived there almost her whole life. \n\n\nIs there anyone who could give some advice ","title":"Legal advice","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553191580,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ttfo\/just_paid_off_an_overdue_ticket_that_caused_my\/","id":"b3ttfo","body":"As the title says, should I just go to the DMV and talk to them?","title":"Just paid off an overdue ticket that caused my license to get suspended, wondering where do I go from here","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540863809,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sjjeq\/hypothetical_if_you_comit_a_felony_and_become\/","id":"9sjjeq","body":"It is a hypothetical scenario, but I'll say the location would be for California, USA.\n\nI feel like the title says most of what my question is. But to elaborate further: Say you commit something like aggregated assault or murder (or some other form of a felony that requires a prison sentence), and in the process of committing the crime you get blunt force trauma to your head (say the victim acts in self defense), what happens to you? I'd assume that the entire incident was recorded or something, so as to be no doubt to the commission of a crime. Would you still be tried in court, even though you are incapable of mounting a defense?\n\nAn alternative scenario would be, what would happen if you committing said crime and are eventually let out on bail. During the wait time before your court date say you get hit by a car (or something else happens which renders you brain dead). What would happen in such a scenario? Would your charges stand in spite of your not being able to defend yourself anymore?\n\nJust curious, thanks.\n","title":"Hypothetical: If you comit a felony and become brain dead in the process or shortly thereafter, can you still be tried and go to prison?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551584918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awq5zn\/current_lease_allows_1_dog_and_want_to_know_what\/","id":"awq5zn","body":"Been living here for almost a year, and just recently got a second dog. I\u2019m afraid if I ask for a second dog on lease, they will say no and actively look for it on property. But, what is the most likely outcome if I say nothing and leave it to chance?","title":"Current lease allows 1 dog and want to know what would realistically happen if they find out we have a second dog. Oregon","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1413302225,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2j84zk\/maryland_employment_verification\/","id":"2j84zk","body":"My wife is working in Anne Arundel County.  She is trying to get a previous employer to verify her employment to her current employer.  The previous employer is refusing to do so.  Is there and county\/state\/federal law that requires a past employer to verify employment?\n\nThanks!","title":"Maryland Employment Verification","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569280083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ek4z\/misdemeanor_court_arraignment_tomorrow\/","id":"d8ek4z","body":"Court tomorrow for a misdemeanor of suspended registration. I was unaware of it due to it be toll violations for under five dollars, as it was never delivered to me due to a clerical error on my registration and the address. And a ez pass error. Think North Town vs. South Town. BMV information of suspended registration was also undeliverable due to this error. I got it fixed, paid the toll fees and reinstatement.\n\nWhat\u2019s my outlook?","title":"Misdemeanor court arraignment tomorrow","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1502819899,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tvvn5\/north_carolina_got_my_first_speeding_ticket_ever\/","id":"6tvvn5","body":"So my driving record up to this point is clear. This is my first ticket ever. No tickets nor accidents before this. Was wondering if I will get insurance points. I know I'll get DMV points, but not sure if I'll get insurance points.\n\nLet me know.\n\nWhere do I check this?","title":"[North Carolina] Got my first speeding ticket ever. 54 in a 45 zone. Need advice on how to approach this...","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540927388,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sr4ql\/dc_i_was_hit_in_a_crosswalk_by_a_taxi\/","id":"9sr4ql","body":"As the title said, I was hit by taxi at the intersection of Massachusetts Ave NE and E St NE. I\u2019m ok, just sore, but I need a new helmet and missed a day of work. The insurance form want two estimates, but not sure how to proceed. ","title":"(DC) I was hit in a crosswalk by a taxi","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540932674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9srxwh\/landlord_up_charged_us_when_we_moved_out_kicked\/","id":"9srxwh","body":"Warning, kinda long.\n\nI live in Colorado springs.\n\nLast year I made a mistake of moving into a friend's basement. We had an official lease and while she was strict it wasn't an issue.\n\nMy now fiance and I got engaged and decided to move into a bigger place, and gave notice about 4 months in advanced.\n\nThen in July things changed. I had a friend park their car where we were permitted (in the lease) to have guest cars. My landlord said I was no longer allowed to have guest cars and had to have them move. That day though I was admitted to the hospital and was there all week. But I told my friend they had to move there car asap.\n\nMy friend, let's call him J, told me he went to the house, knocked on the front door to tell them he was here to get his car. My landlord wasn't home but her exfiance, BS, was, she answered the door. While he was there he asked if we had any mail to bring us since I was in the ER. BS said okay and lead him to where our mail was kept (in the back laundry room. Then J left.\n\nI received many text from my landlord saying J trepassed uninvited into her home and scared BS. She claimed he had no right to go to the property and go inside. I told her she had made him go back for his car and BS had not only said okay but lead him to the mail. My landlord said BS has no authority to invite people and she was scared since J is a male and she's a female. My landlord said this was enough to edvict us over.\n\nKeep in mind she knew I was in the hospital \n\nWhile I was still in the hospital she posted a notice banning J from our property. Our lease says nothing about her being able to restrict our guest but she said she now feels threatened in her home. My fiance threw out the note so I wouldn't stress, but she took it from the trash and resigned and dated it saying not to throw it out.\n\nI return home about 8 days after the mail event occurred. When we tried to tell her that she couldn't restrict guest she claimed she can and if we brought it up again she'd edvict us.\n\nThen the next day my landlord went away. She didn't mention it to us which is fine, but she locked up the mail key and I had no way to get our mail, including things from the hospital. I reached out if she could have her dog watcher or someone bring the mail in or leave the key out (she had before) but she did neither. \n\nShe came back 6 days later (July 30th) like nothing happened but called us up. She claimed she was told we had our friend over and broke the notice she gave and gave us a 30 day notice. We had already given notice that we were moving out on August 31st but this pushed it to August 30th at 1pm (just a power play).\n\nSince she cut our last day out we paid rent up to August 30th at 1 pm, instead of until the end of the 31st. This of course upset her and she started claiming we owed much more for internet (which is included in our lease) and changed how to prorate the rent. She gave us nonstop texts and written notices, and in two days she gave us easily 7 notices, but they all were at different prices. I told her she could take the original check we gave or return it and she refused. And claimed internet wasn't included.\n\nAugust 2nd she cut the internet.\n\nAugust 3rd I gave her a new check and cancelled the original one. I gave a note saying the first was cancelled and had told her before to not use it and I'd write a new one.\n\nAugust 4th she demanded our internet tower back claiming we now had to pay a rental fee each day and she would also charge us for a new one. The new one was over $200 and highly sophisticated while the old one was barely worth $30. She also said if we didn't return it in 20 minutes she would come down to get it.\n\nI told her she wasn't allowed to just enter our apartment and she said she was bringing a prospective renter in and that she can. We returned the tower and also called the police and opened a harassment case.\n\n(The renter \"cancelled\")\n\nAugust 6th she claimed she had a new prospective renter and demanded we leave the house. We refused to leave and she came slamming at our door saying she could call the police on us and that if we spoke a word she'd charge us another 3 months of rent.\n\nThe new renter came on the 7th, I have the whole encounter video taped but nothing major happened.\n\nAugust 8th she returned my new check saying she cashed the first one and I owed her the difference, which I told her again that check was cancelled and she said she cashed it.\n\nAugust 10th that check bounced. She claimed we had to pay the bounce check fee plus late fees of $45 a day for each day we were now late, even though we had tried paying.\n\nThat was the same day my fiance and I went out of town to visit his family since she had me going into panic attacks constantly. We told her we would be away until Saturday and had the other check still written out on our fridge. She refused saying she will never enter our apartment and will \"ruin our credit\" and charge us more late fees.\n\nWe finally got her to agree to have a third party give her a check. The next morning (August 11th) the new check was delivered with all the fees she demanded.\n\nAugust 14th I got a called from animal control saying our landlord found our apartment abandoned and our cats left alone. I told them we had an old roommate taking care of them and our apartment was fully packed up in boxes but not abandoned. I also began calling my landlord but she ignored all calls from me and my fiance (over 13 calls).\n\nThe case got dropped and the animal control worker even said she kinda knew it was a fake call.\n\nAugust 16th I had my old roommate (she had known the security code from living there so we didn't give it out to anyone) go and pick up my cats to bring them to her home. She was also very scared of my landlord and asked if she could bring a police escort. She called and they said she could but our landlord needed notice.\n\nI told my landlord the plan and that she was bringing a police escort for safety. My landlord claimed I threatened her safety by needing them because she didn't feel threatened so by needing them I must have been a threat. \n\nThen without me knowing, unfortunately the police weren't able to give an escort in our town and told her to video tape the process and bring a witness. She did and my landlord went off saying I lied to her to get her to allow people in my apartment. Only then did I find out what happened and told her but she went back to saying I was lying and threatening her and her family.\n\nSame day (16th) my landlord said I would be evicted if I didn't move out as soon as I returned, and we would not be allowed to be there during her walk through and we could only get our things with her permission (she had lock the second bedroom in our apartment and a back yard storage barn she had let us use).\n\nWe got home August 20th and gave her the notice to let us get our things. We brought our friends (one was a family of 5, but also our friend J) she threatened to call police for having so many people, especially J there. She then \"banned\" us from returning and said we all had to leave and she would put our stuff on the curb for us. I told her not to touch our things and she went off on me rejected the help she offered and being selfish.\n\nShe then said if we wanted anything we needed the police there, so we called them and we're about to get our stuff. Then we deep cleaned the apartment and we're done by 1am. My landlord then texted us saying this was now our new move out day.\n\nNow a side note, the app was trashed when we moved in. Holes in the wall, literal trash and broken furniture, etc. The people who rented it before her we're arrested and it was bad. In exchange to move in early we offered to clean it. We empied it, repainted, everything. I'm really pissed that I can't find my original photos but I do have texts from her explaining some of the damage before we moved in.\n\nMoving out we deep cleaned, and repainted again. \n\nIn Colorado she had 60 days to give us our deposit or an invoice of damage back. She took 70 days to send an email saying she believes her original one was lost in the mail. She claims we now owe her $180+ dollars on damages, on top of our full deposit, for cleaning and floors and steam cleaning carpets (when we only had a carpeted staircase). \n\nI feel like she owed us so much for the crazy fees and threats and the week early move out, but we did so much to clean the apartment. I have pictures of us once we cleaned it so I have that. She's also claiming we have a trash disposal fee when garage was included, plus a over $200 cleaning company fee, and a $255 \"wood install and painting maintance\" fee, on top of $30 paint fee, $60 hard wood floor repair cost, $80 carpet shampooer fee, and a $15 cable remote fee when we had returned our cable box months earlier.\n\nShould I get a lawyer or just go to small claims court? I don't have any money to pay for a lawyer but I don't know what to do.\n\n\n\n","title":"Landlord up charged us when we moved out, kicked us out a week early, and now is claiming we owe her more money. (Colorado)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552157593,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az6plq\/my_wife_contracted_tb_from_work_and_her_company\/","id":"az6plq","body":"TDLR at the bottom.\n\n​\n\nI'm in New York. Some backstory, my wife has worked in healthcare most of her adult life. This includes nursing homes and long term care facilities. Currently, she's working for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. All of these are considered higher risks for contracting communicable disease. However, she was tested for TB at her last job over 2 years ago and it was negative. She was a stay at home mom up until this November. She was just diagnosed with tuberculosis and the health department thinks she got it from a client at her current job. Obviously it will be near impossible to find patient zero or prove without a doubt that she contracted it at her current job but the time line lines up. The health department won't  release her to work until they can investigate the source. Our problem is, her company is refusing to comply with the health departments request to release the names of her clients and the employees are not required to be tested for TB although some have voluntarily been tested. She thankfully qualifies for short-term disability so her job is safe for awhile. However, I'm worried about what will happen when that disability runs out? How long are they required to hold her job? Are they required to release any information the health department requests? What if they refuse, can the health department keep my wife out of work indefinitely? Is there some legal action we can take if they try to fire her?","title":"My wife contracted TB from work and her company is refusing to cooperate with the health department","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555197655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcwlzx\/can_they_sue_me_for_the_accident\/","id":"bcwlzx","body":"A family member collided into a parked car, no injuries. We have standard insurance that covers our collision costs, while the driver of the parked car only has fire and theft insurance since they weren't planning on driving the car during the winter time.\n\nI live in a no fault insurance place. Our insurance covered our repairs while their insurance is refusing to cover the costs due to their  specific policies. Now they're threatening to sue us if we don't reimburse their costs of around 5k. My insurance company says the case is closed since they did not have the proper insurance and we got our car fixed.\n\nDoesn't the no fault policy mean their responsible for their own insurance repairs? Any advice?","title":"Can they sue me for the accident?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571385125,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djk7yx\/can_college_professors_ask_for_personal_medical\/","id":"djk7yx","body":"I have fully registered with my disability support office and receive current accommodations in-class. I have autism and my doctor has worked with Disability Support at my school for a while now. \n\nI'm currently very ill due to some side effects of a medication change, and I sent out a signed note from my doctor regarding this to all my professors along with a note from myself apologizing for my absences in the past short while.\n\nAll but one of my professors were receiving and worked with me via email to sort out timing for exams and all that. The other professor however, is questioning why my doctor is in another state (doesn't believe that the note is real).\n\nTruth be told, I worked with my doctor a while before I moved here, and I wasn't willing to see anyone else because I have a hard time with meeting new people so we now teleconference for our sessions. That being said, does my professor have a legal path to do this sort of questioning? Feels very violating and I couldn't possibly think of a reason why a professor would be able to require this kind of information.","title":"Can college professors ask for personal medical information?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1508188881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76tqgq\/mn_employer_is_requiring_part_time_employeehigh\/","id":"76tqgq","body":"I\u2019m a 17 year old high school student working after school and a car dealership changing oil. I work 3:30-6:00pm every weekday and 8-1pm every Saturday. This summer I worked 40 and 45 hour weeks still as a part time employee. My question is, can my work require me to come in when I have days off of school other than my regular scheduled times and technically not pay overtime?","title":"[MN] Employer is requiring part time employee\/high school student to work full time hours on school vacations.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571359585,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djfm76\/forgot_to_take_my_name_off_lease_with_roommates\/","id":"djfm76","body":"I will keep this short and answer questions if needed.\nI'm a student and lived with roommates I thought I could trust. I lived with them for over a year and when I moved away I forgot to take my name off the lease. 2 month after moving away I have a collection agency call me for the landlords I leased off saying I owe $2,000 because my former roommates were evicted. Is there anything I can do to fight this as I didnt live there and my former roommates are unwilling to help me out.","title":"Forgot to take my name off Lease with roommates","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569875294,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbhq6k\/wi_apartment_unlivable_for_about_month_do_i_owe\/","id":"dbhq6k","body":"Hello I live in southeastern Wisconsin and I have a bed bug infestation in my apartment.\n\nOn Sep 9, 2019 I had a building inspector come over to verify the infestation and to order my landlords to hire an exterminator. My landlords had been ignoring my calls for 2 months at that point. The building inspector saw the bugs and made the order for my landlords to start the extermination process within 15 days.\n\nOn Sep 10, 2019 I started crashing at my friends' homes because my apartment was unlivable.\n\nOn Sep 19, 2019 the extermination company came in with bed bug-smelling dogs to verify which apartments had bugs but did not start the extermination process yet.\n\nToday on Sep 30, 2019 they have started or will start (I haven't asked the building manager for an update yet) the extermination process, with a probable follow up treatment on Oct 10, 2019.\n\nIf I'm out of the apartment for that long can I withhold rent for October? My lease expires this month but I have a low credit score so I most likely would not meet the credit requirements to get into another apartment building.","title":"[WI] Apartment unlivable for about month. Do I owe rent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553111712,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3gkst\/in_the_us_is_a_company_bound_by_the_minimum_wage\/","id":"b3gkst","body":"If I\u2019m willing to work for some ridiculously low amount, like $3 an hour or something, is a company allowed to pay me that? \n\nI tried looking it up and could only find things about wages + tips or contract work, nothing on an offer given by the employee for a full time position. ","title":"In the US, is a company bound by the minimum wage law if I am willing to work for less?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555537307,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bedfsv\/us_when_im_18_can_i_legally_leave_my_parents\/","id":"bedfsv","body":"Ive been 18 for a half year. I've been living in the college dorms. The last semester this year is almost over and I'll probably fail. I loved being away from my parents, and we never really get along. When they found out I've failed there gonna be pissed, but I know they won't let me leave. Can I legally leave them no matter how much they want me to stay?","title":"[US] When I'm 18 can I legally leave my parent's house, even of they don't let me?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569461917,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9cutd\/fl_rat_infestation_that_the_building_and_landlord\/","id":"d9cutd","body":"Hey guys, I\u2019m writing this post at my boyfriend\u2019s house because I refuse to go back to my apartment. There is currently a rat infestation and the building management is stating that their only job is to set traps on the fifth floor. I spoke to my landlord about securing the unit and filling up the holes that the rats have created and he says that that is the building management\u2019s responsibility. Currently I have trapped 5 rats in glue traps and snap traps. I only go to pick up clothes and I run out. Do I have grounds to break my lease and get my deposit back? Is my landlord liable for anything? \n\nAlso, the reason I know it\u2019s the whole fifth floor and not just my apartment that is infested is because the building manager told me herself that I am no the only one of the 5th floor that has complained. I believe this started because there was a fire on the sixth floor and they have to pull out a lot of dry wall on the fifth floor because of water damage. (I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s relevant or not). \n\nThank you in advance for all of your help!!!","title":"[FL] rat infestation that the building and landlord don\u2019t want to pay for","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442793136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lqloz\/sold_phone_for_absurdly_high_price_on_ebay\/","id":"3lqloz","body":"Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I don't really know where else I could post this. I recently sold a OnePlus Two on [eBay](http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/131604650842?ssPageName=STRK:MESOX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1561.l2649). I listed the starting bid at $450 and it sold for $1475. eBay says the payment has been sent but am still waiting for the money to show up in PayPal. This phone normally sells in the $450-500 range on eBay. Is something fishy going on or does the buyer just REALLY want this phone?\nThanks!","title":"Sold phone for absurdly high price on eBay","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541794796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vnw9f\/need_help_with_a_monthly_rent_payment\/","id":"9vnw9f","body":"So my Gf lives with a roommate which she pays rent to every month. On her contract it says she will pay rent on the 15th of every month and will be delinquent afterwards if not paid. However, said roommate is trying to make her pay on the 9th (and last month on the 10th). Gf just went through a job change and needs up until the 15th to pay the rent. \n\nIs she required to pay when her roommate asks or can she wait until the 15th like her contract says. If she doesn\u2019t pay today can her roommate do anything other than be upset? I told her she has nothing to worry about but she wants to hear from you reddit experts first.","title":"Need Help with a Monthly Rent Payment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553703134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b663aw\/kicked_out_of_school_after_being_shot_in_detroit\/","id":"b663aw","body":"I would like to start out by saying this is not me. I am interested in the story because it is happening in the same area I went to grade school. I am not concerned on the legality of the shooting (obviously thats illegal).  Im concerned about the legality of this student being kicked out due to the shooting incident happening.\n\nHere is the link, if you want to read the article\nhttps:\/\/www.wxyz.com\/student-at-walled-lake-western-says-he-was-kicked-out-of-school-after-random-shooting-in-detroit\n\nBasically, the school decided to ban him from coming in to school, as well as ban him from school events because the person who shot him was never identified. The school believes the shooter is still out there and could hunt down the student at any time. In order to protect the other students, they decided to just ban him from coming anywhere near the school. They did, however, offer the option to complete his classes online so he can still graduate.\n\nIs this legal? The shooting had nothing to do with the school, so I don\u2019t see why the feel they need to take action on the matter. Their logic kind of makes sense, but at the same time, it doesn\u2019t. ","title":"Kicked out of school after being shot in Detroit [MI]","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1442077823,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kokr3\/hi_individual_i_am_subletting_from_refuses_to\/","id":"3kokr3","body":"Sublet what can only be described as a vacation rental for a month, \"landlord\" stated that I had paid her for one month and after that time I would just need to pay any remaining days spent there to, what is essentially her landlord (actual property owner). I informed her that I did not intend on staying past the end of the month I paid for (Aug 14th - Sept 14th). She then stated that I would have to pay her landlord regardless in addition to a $100 cleaning before she would return my deposit. \n\nMy question essentially is: as far as I can discern from Hawaii tenant rights, because it was not a written lease\/fixed term, it becomes either a week to week or month to month type situation, in which after 14 days of lease termination she is legally bound to return my deposit unless she can document significant damage (she can't) not to mention she cannot charge me additional cleaning fees outside of what is equal to one months rent (I'm going to leave it clean despite it being dirty and ant infested when I moved in). Is there anything I'm overlooking? Additionally, if I do intend to go to small claims, should I file a dispute against her through PayPal because that is how I paid her, or skip that all together and just file a claim with small claims?\n\nThanks.\n\n\nTLDR: Sublet \"landlord\" failed to find a new tenant to maintain her lease with actual property owner, wants me to foot the bill. ","title":"[HI] Individual I am subletting from refuses to return security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1411265581,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2h02b1\/is_slapping_someone_legal_if_they_pay_you_because\/","id":"2h02b1","body":"Serious question. Say some weirdo likes being humiliated and wants you to treat him like dirt for money. As long as there is no sexual contact is it legal? No one is naked. lol\n\nLet's say it's in Michigan.","title":"Is slapping someone legal if they pay you because they are weird and they like it?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555640319,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/betzgs\/fl_i_am_leasing_an_apartment_i_no_longer_want_to\/","id":"betzgs","body":"I despise my job, and want to move away and get a new one. However, I still have about 8 months on my lease. What happens if I just disappear?","title":"[FL] I am leasing an apartment, I no longer want to live here, what happens if I just pack up, leave and never contact them or pay them again?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570330034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddxjdk\/persistent_air_conditioning_issue\/","id":"ddxjdk","body":"I live in New Orleans, Louisiana and just started renting a house in August. In the last two weeks my central AC has gone out three separate times, the most recent time being today.  At the hottest point of the day my house gets to a whopping 95\u00b0 on the inside, I have a dog, cat, and mice so its just unsafe at that point. After almost a day of being forced to sit in this awful heat I bought a portable AC unit off of Craigslist that could keep one room pretty cool, without it you definitely couldn\u2019t stay in there for more than 30 mins. But they fixed it the next day just for it to go out a few days later... they come fix it again, just for it to go out a few days later... It went out this morning and they sent someone to look at it but they couldn\u2019t do anything until tomorrow. I don\u2019t necessarily feel entitled to anything because of this although I feel like this is a little ridiculous. All of the houses on my street are owned by the same people and every  other house (all about the same size) have noticeably larger units. The landlord seems to have no intent on replacing the unit and keeps sending seemingly random people to \u201cfix\u201d it.\nI\u2019m pretty young and this is my first experience with renting a house so any input is greatly appreciated. I also understand it may greatly vary depending on what\u2019s in my lease.","title":"Persistent Air Conditioning Issue","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539890569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pcdsm\/i_am_being_sued_by_my_landlord_what_should_my\/","id":"9pcdsm","body":"So for a little background, I was served with a 60 day notice in September because they are selling the house that I rent. \n\nFast forward to October 1st and I'm trying to get into a new home. I called my rental management company and told them because of the  cost of moving into a new home, I wouldn't be able to pay the rent before October 5th, which is the day before a late fee applies. I informed them that I would be paying on the 20th of October. I received a 3 day notice to pay rent or quit. Again, I emailed them to inform of my intention to pay on the 20th. \n\nLast night, I was served by a process server that I am being sued by the owner of the house. \n\nI called the property management company to see if I could pay the rent, and was told that it is out of their hands and I need to follow the instructions on the notice I was given by the process server. \n\nI just need advice to what my next step should be? This is all very new to me. Do i need a lawyer? Can I just make the payment to court (?) and make this go away? \n\nPlease help!","title":"I am being sued by my landlord, what should my next step be?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540355441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qwl4r\/ca_customer_furnature_maker_dissatisfied_client\/","id":"9qwl4r","body":"Husband is a sole  proprietorship where he makes custom furniture.\n\n​\n\nA while ago, he was contracted for a large custom walnut dining table and chairs (I believe 8 or 12 chairs). He met another woodworker at the time and when they approached the client, he was clear to indicate that he would handle the table to her specs and the other woodworker would make the chairs. Unfortunately, I believe the contract is specifically between my husband and the client. He also notes in the contract that he guarantees his work.\n\nThe other woodworker was not as good as he had proposed and also said shady shit to the client behind my husbands back to make her doubt\/unsure. Husband delivered the table to her specs - its gorgeous with pull out leaves on either end. Anyways, the client was satisfied and they started working on the chairs. The client, to say easily, is unsettled as everyone who interacts with her questions her sanity. Thus, she asked for certain specs on the chairs, then didn't like it and couldn't make up her mind. Due to her inability to make a decision, it dragged out the project. Now she wants all her $$ back. My husband has since split with the other woodworker, who he already fronted a large sum of the deposit to.\n\nWe talked to a lawyer who said, because the contract stipulates that he 'guarantees his work' that she may be able to win in court b\/c she can demonstrate that his work was not guaranteed to her liking.\n\n​\n\nThe client sent a long letter that shows the timeline of her interactions, many of which are incorrect because the other woodworker said inaccurate things behind my husband's back. \n\nWhat can be done? I'm scared shitless because I think she can come after us? We dont have the money to give back nor do I believe we should as he gave her a table to her exact dimensions. Before her letter, he went back to pick it up to redo the top because she wouldn't stop complaining about the finish, after she stored the wood table in her hot Sacramento garage (and it became warped). He thinks she was planning to spring this on him the whole time so got him to pick up the table then to send her letter. He is also wants the clear the air with her, but I don't know how useful it is. And he is concerned she can ruin his reputation.\n\nPart of me wants to get the money from the other woodworker and then tell the client to take the table and the money from the chairs that couldn't be made due to her inability to decide. Technically, 1\/2 of the project was fulfilled - the chair's couldn't be done because the client asked for outrageous specs and after they gave her a draft version, she was unhappy and then couldn't make up her mind.\n\nThanks in advance. Let me know if I need to give any other info.","title":"CA : Customer furnature maker, dissatisfied client wants all $$ back","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553038760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b34p0n\/ia_pa_how_to_ensure_my_mom_is_taken_care_of_after\/","id":"b34p0n","body":"Long story short, my lifetime may come to an end before my mother's. Over the course of my lifetime I have accumulated money and have large insurance policies. My mother is my primary beneficiary. I don't have any other people I would want to leave anything to.\n\nMy mom is married to an asshole who won't divorce her because he wants every penny for himself (she has money from a settlement) and is setting himself to have a good retirement (401k, pension, savings accounts) while leaving my mom pretty much penniless because she has to support him even though he works so every dollar he earns goes to his pocket. I want to give my assets to my mom upon my passing away but I don't want my asshole stepfather to ever see one penny of it. I want my mother taken care of for the rest of her future. \n\nWhat can I do to protect my mother's inheritance? What can I do with my estate to ensure my money stays with her only in case of a divorce or if he dies? (He has other children who may want to come claim money from her)\n\nI live in IA and my mother leaves in PA.","title":"[IA & PA] How to ensure my mom is taken care of after passing away?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540255434,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qjvnd\/my_roommate_assaulted_and_threatened_me\/","id":"9qjvnd","body":"My roommate came home one night at 3 am and following a normal conversation, I asked him a simple favor, and he got extremely agitated extremely fast... without an escalation he started to threaten to kill me and hit me then he threatened to destroy my property and following that he came closer and head butted me and spit in my face. \n\nIt didn\u2019t hurt that much, but nonetheless I was scared, I retreated into my room and called the police... \n\nThey came and took multiple statements from both of us and proceeded to arrest him for what I think misdemeanor battery class A, not 100% sure... \n\nHe went to jail, and left a day after on bail. \n\nToday I\u2019m thinking of whether to continue with my legal charges or try and sign some sort of out of court agreement where he agrees To not Harm or Harass me, and not file retaliation law suits. \n\nMy question is simply can the idea of an out of court agreement hold back in court, if he violates it. \n\nIs this agreement considered a legal document that I can use in the future ? \n\nAnd general advice on what can I do at this moment all would be helpful \n\n\nThank you ","title":"My roommate assaulted and threatened me","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569422365,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d94760\/my_father_recently_passed_away_suddenly_without\/","id":"d94760","body":"Like the title says, my father passed away in an accident two months ago. We received the life insurance money with no problems, but in addition to this payout, as a part of his healthcare plan and a result of him being a long term brain cancer patient, he would receive a check for a considerable amount annually that he was meant to supplement his income. This check came from a separate insurance plan than that which was paid out as life insurance. Before his passing, he had completed the paperwork to receive this check, and once we notified the insurance company of his passing, they assured us that we would still be able to receive the check. It arrived in the mail last week made out to \"his estate\", but as a result of the sudden nature of his death, he had not named a benefactor. My mother and I would like to get herself named the benefactor, and are not sure how to go about doing that, and if it's something that the court will require a percentage of the money from, we have considered just not doing anything and counting the money as a loss.\n\nThank you for any advice, you guys are great!","title":"My father recently passed away suddenly, without leaving a will behind. My mother received a check made out to his estate, but the bank will not let her deposit it, what do we need to do? [TX]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571207176,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dil9ag\/baby_daddy_help_arizona\/","id":"dil9ag","body":"I\u2019m stuck. Back on September 18 2017 I hooked up with a guy and the day after we hooked up he blocked me on all social media. About 3 weeks later I found out I was pregnant and couldn\u2019t reach out to him. I went with the pregnancy and gave birth to my beautiful daughter. After months of trying to contact him I post all hope. The other day my friend found a recent Instagram account with him and his girlfriend who have a kid which was a month old btw when we hooked up. Without even thinking I messaged them and advised them about my daughter and that she is his. His girlfriend messaged me and we talked on the phone and we talked about doing a DNA test but I stated I did t want child support or for him to be in her life because I just can\u2019t trust him. She was pushing that of the DNA test proves he\u2019s her dad she will make him go through with being in my daughters life. This made me change my mind and I want to back out of the DNA test. I let her know of this and she began harassing me and is now threatening to take me to court for a legal paternity test. I told her why I wanted to back out and with her threats to me, my daughter and having her friends even harass me... I changed my number and had to delete my social media. I\u2019m just scared they will pursue for this legal test and once the DNA proves he\u2019s the father... I will lose all my paternal rights to her. I just don\u2019t know how to go about this situation.","title":"Baby Daddy help (Arizona)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507330109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74r763\/long_term_disability_insurance_colorado\/","id":"74r763","body":"I have been receiving long term disability insurance benefits for 4 years. I was just awarded SSDI. If I refuse to give the LTD company the lump sum I received, what is the likelihood that they could sue and successfully recover the the back pay I receive for myself and my dependants? ","title":"Long Term Disability Insurance [ Colorado ]","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570313716,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddu702\/started_new_job_with_new_company_suddenly\/","id":"ddu702","body":"This is in NYC. So started working as a valet and the few guys that I work with [all of them from the same Central American country and all of them have years in this company and have worked in the same garage longer than I have, I am basically the new white guy] \n\nI can tell that they have something against me and I think are doing these things to get me under suspicion and fired.  \n\nStarted working for the Parking Garage about 3-4 months ago and manager has taken me aside two times already to tell me that there is a surge of customer complaints about theft of their property inside their cars and damage to their cars. The parking garage unfortunately doesn't have cameras where these things seem to take place which is the back of it and with four different guys per shift (three of them have been in the same garage for years) everyone is suspicious of me the new guy assuming that I'm the thief and person who has been damaging the cars. \n\nI insisted several times on the company installing more surveillance cameras to prove my innocence. \n\nI have a feeling that one of the veteran guys is doing this to have me fired so he can bring his friend in. \n\nI dont want to be called a thief and bad driver as I have years of experience and never stole anything in my life. I wouldn't risk my job over some petty shit. You never know who could have a hidden camera in their car anyway.  \n\nSo, what are some things I can do to prove my innocence or fight this slander. And if I do end up fired what can I do about this. \n\nIt breaks me to know that people might think that I'm a thief and in this career just this reputation can have serious effects of never getting another job. \n\n\n\nSummary for Tgose Who Hate long Posts:\n\nStarted new job at Parking garage. All staff are vets of same company and worked in same garage for long time. Since my hiring few months ago; customers complaining about theft of their property (cash, electronics, jewelry, etc) and damage to cars. Poor surveillance in garage to figure out who is behind this. I suspect 1 vet trying to frame me to get me fired to have his friend hired. Manager has taken me to side and told me that ever since I was hired he's never seen so much complaints basically accusing me. What can I do to protect myself and to prove my innocence. Also if somehow I do get fired what action can I take.","title":"Started New Job with New Company; suddenly customers complaining about theft and damage to their property (long post with short summary for those who hate long posts)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571770217,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlmff8\/ca_supplement_company_is_not_safe\/","id":"dlmff8","body":"Hey guys, so my friend works as a Quality Control (QC) in a supplement manufactoring company. The boss of the company doesn\u2019t let my friend do the job. Basically, if there\u2019s some unappropriate materials (contaminated, bacteria-grown, etc) , the boss just says \u201coh just let is pass and send them.\u201d\n\nOf course my friend won\u2019t sign any papers stating that the materials are good to go. But the FDA came to the company and basically told them to improve stuff. The FDA also found some stuff that\u2019s not supposed to be in supplements\/vitamins, like isopropyl alcohol. And they found that the company is manufacturing a nasal spray that\u2019s \u201cconsidered\u201d a medication (when it\u2019s only a supplement company).\n\nSo is there like a major claim that can be charged against this boss ? And is it worth it? I feel like the FDA is really slow and may not close this company down soon. But the boss doesn\u2019t learn from the mistake and i feel like it\u2019s such an unsafe company for the community...\n\n*not sure what flair to put so i put business law*","title":"(CA) supplement company is not safe...","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569073331,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7amy9\/should_our_s_corp_create_a_new_c_corp_to_conduct\/","id":"d7amy9","body":"We are a multi-member S Corp LLC with 2 members, 10 employees, and about $1M\/yr in sales. Our CPA recommended a strategy that I have never heard of and would appreciate any opinions on. Forgive me if my terminology is a little off, but I hope the intentions are understood.\n\nShe (CPA) suggested we create a new C Corp entity. This company would be the \"management company\" of our existing S Corp LLC. The benefits she explained include:\n\n* Increased legal protections for S Corp LLC by shielding with C Corp.\n* The ability for members (Like me) to take distributions as a W2 employee and avoid self-employment tax.\n\nI'm doing some novice research and reading pros and cons. I found some [things like this which warn against this strategy](http:\/\/archives.cpajournal.com\/old\/08660134.htm).\n\nI wasn't sure if this question should be posted here or to a different sub, but it seems relevant to legal advice and I'm looking for an alternate view to our CPA. Thank you for sharing any thoughts.\n\nAnd we do have an attorney for the company also. I have not posed this question to her yet, but I'd like to go in Monday with a little more knowledge on the subject.","title":"Should our S Corp create a new C Corp to conduct administrative functions? (TX)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1507042508,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/740wsd\/vacated_a_rental_property_over_a_year_ago\/","id":"740wsd","body":"Hey everyone, I'm moving this from PersonalFinance. I'm having a small issue with my old landlord. I rented a townhouse from 2014 to 2016 in New Jersey. My lease stipulated that the tenant was responsible for all utilities, including sewer. I was given a separate packet from my lease agreement, that included instructions to change water, electric, and gas over into my name, which I did. I was never given instructions to change over sewer and assumed it was lumped into my rent as sewer is a tax that I cannot put in my name as the tenant. Well it turns out, no one was paying the sewer tax and a lien was placed on the property. The landlord contacted me today demanding I pay the sewer tax for two years plus interest and penalties.\n\nMy question is, am I still responsible for these taxes, since the landlord released me from my lease over a year ago and accepted my letter of intent to vacate and returned my security deposit?\n\nAnd if I am responsible for these taxes, am I only responsible for the principal, since the tax bills are the property owner's responsibility, and the onus falls upon the landlord to bill me for those taxes, and it was his negligence not to bill me in a timely manner that incurred the interest and penalties?\n\nAny advice on this situation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!","title":"Vacated a rental property over a year ago, landlord is now asking for unpaid utilities. Who's responsible?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553736952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6csby\/mother_and_father_are_having_custody_problems\/","id":"b6csby","body":"So I'm a 13 year old boy with my 15 year old sister but we also have 2 older sisters, and My parents are divorced. Recently a narcotics agency raided our home and arrested my mother where they found weed and (false) cocaine residue, the day after she was bailed. but our father, after hearing this enacted emergency costody and custody was given to my father due to my mom still being in jail after this we are sleeping on his couch in a one bedroom apartment.\n\nAfter having to move.in with our dad our mom gave us a call and told us that custody could be given to my grandparents but the choice for our fathers choice. We asked him about it but he denied wanting to do so during an about 40 minute rant trying to turn us to his side of the argument. And after my school social worker setting up a meeting that he dicided he does not want to go to as the only people there are my mom my grandparents and the social worker and me and my sister believing that everyone there will be against him.\n\nWe do have another upcoming court date to settle disputes and who has final costody, I do know that if thoroughly searched they would find incriminating evidence against him, also I'm not sure if this would help but on multiple occasions I have been \"full mooned\" by him which he deemed perfectly natural.\n\nRight now I am very scared of the actual possibility that I could live with my father until I turn 18 in 5 years. I really just need to know how I can try to not live the rest of my teen years with him. Thank you redditors.","title":"Mother and father are having custody problems with me and my sister","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569473648,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9eyar\/a_job_i_want_to_quit_has_me_on_a_1099_but_i_dont\/","id":"d9eyar","body":"In California\n\nI've worked a whole of 6 hours at this job, and I want to quit. They hired me on with a 1099 while I'm training, with the promise of putting me on a W2 after completing the training. \n\nI'm worried about how I could collect my paycheck since I'm not considered an employee. If I was an employee it's my understanding that they'd have to provide me with the paycheck within a couple of days. Another thing to note is that at this job I'm not doing anything that an independent contractor would do, I'm doing everything an employee would do except I'm new and being trained.\n\nWith only 6 hours of work my pay would be under $200.\n\nNowhere in the agreement that I signed with them states how I would get paid if I were to quit.","title":"A job I want to quit has me on a 1099, but I don't do anything an independent contractor does.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569420057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d93owb\/do_you_think_i_have_a_case_to_fight_this_speeding\/","id":"d93owb","body":"So I was driving from Jacksonville to Tampa and I was taking I75. It was 10:30pm and I was going 95 in a 70. I passed by a cop at some point and he pulled in behind me because he could tell I was speeding (he didn\u2019t actually clock me at this point because apparently he had just finished pulling somebody else over and hadn\u2019t taken it back out yet). It was so dark that I couldn\u2019t even tell he was a cop, only that his car was white; as a matter of fact, I didn\u2019t even see him pull in behind me! One second there was no one behind me and the next there was someone tailgating me and I saw him in my rear view mirror.\n\nNow, I had just passed a white car and since at this point I didn\u2019t know the dude was a cop, I thought that it was the same white car from earlier and he was acting aggressive because I was going faster than him (happens a lot, apparently I\u2019m indirectly calling them a bad driver if I want to drive faster than them...) Since he\u2019s tailgating me so hard, I speed up a bit to try to get the message across that he\u2019s too close.\n\nI get really scared when he speeds up with me, the road is completely empty and he can pass easily so obviously he\u2019s just being aggressive. So again I try to speed up to get away. He speeds up again, so I go to get into the middle lane and let him pass me. It\u2019s only at this point that the dude turns on his lights and I realize the guy that had been tailgating me the entire time was a cop! \n\nI did research on it later and I realized he was using a technique called pacing, where he keeps up with me to gauge how fast I\u2019m going. I didn\u2019t even know this was a thing until he pulled me over, but I did research on it and it is NOT necessary to tailgate someone to pace them. He could\u2019ve kept a safe distance and as long as that distance remains constant, he should be able to tell my speed.\n\nAnyhow, I end up getting a ticket for 109 MILES PER HOUR. Apparently this is the speed I got to trying to get away from him and before I moved into the middle lane. Despite explaining to him that I was only actually speeding at 95 and I was trying to put some distance between us because he was following uncomfortably close, he still said it counted and he had no way of verifying that I was only going 95 when I passed him; he can only write the ticket based off what he experienced while tailgating me.\n\nI\u2019ve contacted an attorney today because now I have a mandatory court hearing for going 30 + mph over the speed limit. Now I\u2019ll have to pay $356, get 4 points on my license that I can\u2019t take off with traffic school, and possibly even jail time! I\u2019m hoping my attorney can convince the judge to charge me with going 25mph over the speed limit. Then I can pay the $356, pay to take traffic school and get the points off my license, and no jail time. Do you think this is plausible?\n\nI\u2019m 18 and this is my very first run in with the law, so I\u2019m freaking out. I don\u2019t want to go to jail just because I\u2019m an oblivious idiot :(","title":"Do you think I have a case to fight this speeding ticket? Florida","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551946305,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aya9xw\/phoenix_az_i_think_the_girl_above_my_unit_is_dead\/","id":"aya9xw","body":"The title explains it all I think. The girl living above me has a bunch of notices sticking out of her door. She and her boyfriend were having troubles, after he moved to belize to become a cop or something. The guy next to her were talking and he told me she was taking it really, really, really difficultly and that she was going to stay with a friend. It\u2019s been like 3 months since all of this and i\u2019m just worried about it tbh. What should I do? Don\u2019t wanna be invasive. ","title":"[Phoenix, AZ] I think the girl above my unit is dead in her apartment. There\u2019s over 10 notices sticking out of her door. What can *I* do in this situation?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555099083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bci2eg\/raffles\/","id":"bci2eg","body":"In VA, United States. I want to hold a small online raffle to raise money for a special car restoration. I'm giving away an item worth around $200. Wanted to do $10 entries. \n\nI can't find a clear answer, I know it varies by state. My biggest question is, is it illegal because I'm not a non-profit organization? I'm not going to be making big bucks here, just a few hundred.","title":"Raffles","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1503882359,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wg3yk\/fl_girlfriend_missed_jury_summons_what_do_we_do\/","id":"6wg3yk","body":"My girlfriend was summoned for the 21st and due to personal matters completely forgot about the summons. It's been 5 days and we just found the letter of the summons. What should we do?\nEDIT: She is diagnosed with PTSD, OCD, and bi-polar disorder. Can she file for an excusal from the next one?","title":"[FL] Girlfriend missed jury summons. What do we do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445890297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qbpb8\/oregon_landlord_created_policy_regarding_the_use\/","id":"3qbpb8","body":"I recently received a letter from our landlord stating a new policy that prohibits the use of charcoal or wood grills, and propane grills of a certain size. There are no restrictions in the lease regarding this at all. I have checked, and as far as I can tell, there are no state or local laws prohibiting the use of outdoor grills on residential property.\n\nDo I legally have to comply with the new policy? I wouldn't think so since I am not breaking any agreements set forth in the lease. \n\nAny advice is appreciated, thanks!","title":"[Oregon] Landlord created policy regarding the use of outdoor BBQ\/grills, not in lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569879182,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbiov4\/roommate\/","id":"dbiov4","body":"Let family member live with us. Want her out. What do we do? She does not pay rent. She is not on the lease. Landlord doesn't know.\nUS\/Missouri","title":"Roommate?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551379422,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avukwc\/undersigned_authority_on_a_trust_waiver\/","id":"avukwc","body":"I'm a dumbass who has inheritance coming my way.  I got my waiver to start the process, but I'm stumped.  I don't fully understand what an \"undersigned authority\" is, exactly.  In addition to my signature information, there's also spaces for the UA.\n\nIs it a co-signer\/witness, or is it the attorney?  If it is a witness, who would be able to qualify?","title":"\"Undersigned Authority\" on a trust waiver...","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554402998,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9gjnk\/understanding_who_keeps_items_wi\/","id":"b9gjnk","body":"Hey all, \n\nSo to start off I got divorced 2.5 years ago with a mutual divorce. We were married for 3 years. \n\nI went overseas (military) to a location that does not allow spouses and had a rocky relationship then (3.5 years ago). Before going overseas, some stuff was stored at my storage location, some stuff she took back to her families house (where she is from) and some stuff was stored at my parents house.\n\nThe stuff that was stored at my parents house included a couch, tv, and coffee table. She is stating she wants all of that - I bought the couch\/coffee table and her grandma bought the TV as a wedding gift. \n\nI told her she can not have those as it\u2019s been 3.5 years since they were \u201cstored\u201d there and our divorce says nothing about it. In the section for who keeps what it was kept blank. \n\nI am just trying to see if she has a rock to stand on I guess. \n\nSorry for the wall of text. ","title":"Understanding who keeps items (WI)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552399421,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0859t\/is_it_too_late_to_file_a_counterclaim\/","id":"b0859t","body":"I have a mediation hearing in a few days. I already filed my answer. It has been 4 months since I was served and I filed my answer. But I just discovered details I can use for a counterclaim. \nI live in Iowa and this is for a Money Judgement in Small Claims (Landlord vs Tenant). My counterclaim would include negligence(with photos of property and emails that show my landlord failed on their duties). Since it\u2019s the mediation hearing and not the actual trial. Do you think I have a chance in filing a counterclaim with only a few days before hearing? ","title":"Is it too late to file a counterclaim","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446137738,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qq3pu\/girlfriend_forgot_60_day_notice_for_lease_but\/","id":"3qq3pu","body":"We're in Atlanta, GA. This is happening now. My girlfriend was paying for a 6 year lease on an apartment. She went back to school and paid off the rest of the months. Now it's two days away from the move out day, which she assumed would mean her lease would end. She's screwed now because I can't pay and she hasn't had a job since she's been back at school.\n\nFirst of all, can we cut some sort of a deal with the apartment complex to somehow pay over time or not pay if they can get a new tenant by a certain time? Anything we can do other than put in a 30 day now that it's month to month and pay for this month?\n\nSecondly, she was promised a washer and dryer which is in her leasing agreement. She communicated with the leasing office multiple times and they promised to come install them, but over the 6 months she never received a washer and dryer. Does that give us any leverage or is it too small of an issue to really matter?\n\nThanks","title":"Girlfriend forgot 60 day notice for lease, but they didn't hold up part of the lease either. Options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541906623,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w0m9e\/as_a_17_year_old_employee_what_options_do_i_have\/","id":"9w0m9e","body":"I work at semi popular pizza chain in Ohio and I\u2019ve been here for almost a year. I\u2019ve taken around 4 breaks in that time. It\u2019s my understanding that if I work at least 5 hours I get a 30 minutes break. A few other things I believe are illegal are \n\n\nHaving minors close the store without any one over 18 being present\n\n\nRegularly leaving minors alone during the day\n\n\nAnd telling employees they aren\u2019t allowed talking about wages \n","title":"As a 17 year old employee what options do I have if my employer doesn\u2019t obey child labor laws ?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570678645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfsarc\/car_was_stolen_from_parking_deck\/","id":"dfsarc","body":"Howdy folks! \n\nSo...my car was stolen 2 weeks ago from a parking deck while I was at work. I work for a startup and the startup pays $75\/month for my parking as well as 200 other employees. The reason they pay for our parking is because its convenient. But also because we have building security that is on duty 24\/7. Well...my car was broken into and driven out of a PAID PARKING DECK. theday the car was stolen..I went to the security deak and asked if they might have the incident on camera and they said \"nah man we have 14 cameras and only 2 work\" the security walked the garage and tried to find my car but they had no luck.\n\nA few days after the theft I saw the guys that were outside the day my car was stolen and I drove past in my rental to see if I recognized them and when they saw my face they peeled out...so I got behind them to get their tag and the driver decided ti hand a pistol out of the window. I immediately called building security and let them know...hoping thry would at least send out an email warning the other 1200 tenants in the building that a car had been stolen and that the thieves were armed and dangerous but nope...nothing no correspondence whatsoever. \n\nWhats more concerning is that a car was broken into after my car was stolen and again...no correspondence from security whatsoever. \n\nThere have been no chsnges to security...no signs installed and no additional patrols...so my guess is that they want to sweep it all under the rug. But my main concern is my car...\n\nSince my car was stolen I've had to rearrange my financial situation to get a new car...I had only 2 payments left at the time of the theft but I feel that if security had been doing their job...my car wouldnt have been taken...its absolutely absurd to me that a 3000 pound car was able to be driven out of a 5 floor parking deck past what we thought were working cameras with no alert whatsoever. \n\nMy question is..does this fall under \"negligent security\" as it relates to legal responsibility? I've contacted a few lawyers but all have told me that I'd have to have been hurt to move forward with a negligent security case...but imo its the fault of the security that my car was stolen. The guise of the desk is that its secure and safe...hence why people willingly pay $75 a month to park there. \n\nI'm hoping to get some financial compensation to either pay off my new vehicle or cover the value of my old car.\n\n\nHow realistic of an expectation is this? And is this something I can pursue without the help of a lawyer? \n\nThanks in advance! \n\nLocation US-GA","title":"Car was stolen from parking deck","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538024995,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ja15h\/us_pa_hostile_work_environment\/","id":"9ja15h","body":"I'm a bit confused on the definition of a hostile work environment and what actions must be taken by the company if a work environment has been deemed hostile.\n\nI have a coworker (black) who once asked me what ethnicity my son is. I am white. I said \"he's African American and white.\" She proceedes to chastize me on how I should just say black because African American is offensive (even though that is his ethnicity). Since that day, however, her temper with me has been very short. She directs her anger toward me and treats me much different than my other coworkers. It wasn't a big deal to me until today, when I felt it crossed the line. She made a presumption that I was looking at her weird (I don't recall even looking at her at all) and began to tell the assistant manager that I was looking at her weird. Then she said \"you know what it is?\" And pointed to her arm, indicating her skin tone, \"racism is alive and well. Our ancestors dealt with it and we deal with it still today.\" She slandered my name with the implication that I was racist. I was very upset and reported it as harassment. The supervisors moved her for the day but I'm curious if that falls under the umbrella of a hostile work environment, as I believe she's targeted me because of my race. If so, should I be made to continue working with her in the future?","title":"[US, PA] Hostile work environment?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569284173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8fdll\/wa_landlord_pasted_a_legal_notice_on_my_door_for\/","id":"d8fdll","body":"Location: Washington state.\n\nEarlier today, I received a letter which was taped on my door stating that I have a balance of $XXX remaining on my security deposit, which was due at the time of moving in. It also mentioned that it was a ten-day notice to comply or vacate. On the envelope, the words \"Legal notice\" was written, but it was never served to me in person or via certified mail. In any case, I contacted my bank and received an image of the deposited check that was given to the property management company prior to moving in.\n\nNormally, I would have sent them the check image, have the issue rectified and moved on, but this is a property management company well known for its notorious practices such as exorbitant move-out charges, random charges, etc, ripping off poor students and their high-handedness has been intolerable of late. Of course, I am not looking to sue them (I do know I don't have a case), but is there any way I can respond to them in kind? I am looking for pointers for a well deserved passive-aggressive response. Thanks in advance!","title":"[WA] Landlord pasted a legal notice on my door for nonpayment of security deposit. I have paid it in full prior to moving in.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570487920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/der1nd\/was_told_i_was_no_eligible_for_rehire_anything_i\/","id":"der1nd","body":"o I worked for a very large company that builds Man lifts and I worked as an assembler for that company for a year and a half. During my first few months with the company I was dumb and young(18 at the time) fresh out of high school and wanting the money but not wanting to work so I quickly accumulated a final warning for my attendance, at this company a final warning lasts for a year if it's for attendance you cant miss a single day for 6 months and then if you get a write up of any kind during that year your terminated. Well I made it thru the 6 months and was doing well as I got my final warning in March and I was well into January of this year and no issues, i should also mention that how their write ups worked is if you missed 3 days in 30 days, 6 days in 60 days or 7 days in 90 days it was a right up and doctors notes don't apply for 7 days in 90 days. Anyway I applied for a different position in the company and I received it and transfered from 3rd shift to 1st shift at a different building across town. I worked this for a month and didn't like it at all and I was trying to get back on my old shift since my position was not filled yet. HR was dragging their feet saying I had to work 6 months and how I'd have to talk to my plant manager who was just dragging me in circles, during the month of February I had also missed two days due to snow\/car trouble which was not excused because I wasn't sick, well on February 28th I was in a car accident after falling asleep at the wheel( the main reason I was trying to go back to 3rd is because I couldn't adjust my sleep schedule and I was working 10 hour days so I'd be up for over 20 hours at a time straight, the day of my accident I was up 26 straight when I wrecked) I was the only one Involved thank God but my car was totaled and I hurt my back this happened Wednesday night after work ( I worked monday-friday and usually a few hours on Saturday too) well I called in to call off because the doctor told me that he wanted me off until the following week I could go back Monday depending on how I felt well Monday came and I was still hurting bad and I called off and told them why then I called into HR later that day to discuss going back to my old job again because of this car accident I was hoping they'd understand that I need to go back where I was more comfortable and I could get the rest I need, well when I called I was told I was being terminated for missing work and that I could reapply in 6 months, even tho I had vacation I could use and I had used the year before with no issue all of a sudden the 3 or 4 days of vacation I had couldn't be used and I was being terminated, I was never told I was not going to be rehireable I was told I could reapply in 6 months well 6 months came and I put in like 3 applications and all were denied within a day of me applying so I sent a message to the HR lady that told me I could reapply in 6 months and she informs me I was not rehireable due to violation of the attendance policy, note while I was working I had seen multiple people get fired for sleeping, attendance and even drug use and all get hired back and breaking this attendance policy (also note I was only 2 weeks away from being out of my probation for the final warning I received the year prior and the HR lady even said if I had gone another 2 weeks they could not have fired me for this because I would have been outside the window for that final warning, but they couldn't make an exception even tho I made it so long) what I'm wondering is if their is a way for me to fight this being on the no rehire list indefinitely Because of the area I work in there are no jobs that pay anywhere near as well and when you go from making $16\/ hr + to the best I can make in a reasonable driving distance is $12.50. I'm just curious what options I have if any","title":"Was told I was no eligible for rehire. Anything I can do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569428245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d95jt3\/can_my_previous_employer_enforce_a_noncompeting\/","id":"d95jt3","body":"I worked for Universal Studios for 2 years in highschool as a parade attendant. I quit last June. In all the paperwork at the beginning, I signed a non-competing contract that said I cant work for a competitor for 2 years after I quit. I've recently been offered a position at one of Disney's retail stores. Does the non-competing contract hold, even though Florida is a right to work state? I really dont know anything, and I'm not trying to get sued. Thanks ahead of time!","title":"Can my previous employer enforce a non-competing clause for a low level position? (FL, USA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539745671,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ousrb\/apartment_created_an_account_with_3rd_party\/","id":"9ousrb","body":"My apartment first introduced parcelpending as an optional service to residents. I didn\u2019t sign up as I get my packages delivered to my workplace. However today I got an email that they have signed up on my behalf . They have shared by email and other details with a third party service and created an account . This is not a free service and now I am required to pay for this optional service .\n\nIsn\u2019t it illegal to share my info with a 3rd party service that I did not consent to?","title":"Apartment created an account with 3rd party without consent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502836705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6txsdx\/tx_i_have_only_been_paid_for_one_week_instead_of\/","id":"6txsdx","body":"I work for an arcade in Texas, while I was signing paperwork I could not provide the physical copy of my social security card for my employer to see but he allowed me to work and on the fourth week I showed him my social security card and he filed the paperwork. I got my paycheck today (we are paid weekly), and the way I see it it should include four weeks pay (the week the paperwork was submitted and the three previous weeks) but instead I was only paid for one week. When I asked my boss he said I had two options, he could add one or two hours each week until I get the money I'm owed or I could wait until I'm fired or quit and he would continue paying me each week until I get what I'm owed. The check was short about $800-$700 dollars and neither option seems realistic to me if I actually want to get paid. I have pictures of all my time cards and I have pictures of the schedules with my name on it and when I'm supposed to work. What kind of legal grounds do I have and what are my options if any?","title":"[TX] I have only been paid for one week instead of four.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570056026,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dchvgr\/im_legally_disabled_was_manipulated_into_a\/","id":"dchvgr","body":"Trigger warning: Hints and kind of mention of manipulation, abuse, etc. and suicide\n\nI am not entirely sure if this is considered a legal issue, tbh but if anyone here can help me it is appreciated.  \n\nI have autism and a lot of other mental issues as well that have me disabled. I am not getting any government assistance because I'm still in the application process, but I've been in the mental health treatment since 2016 if that's important, and have been in two inpatient facilities. I'm 19 now. \n\nLast year in 2018 I was manipulated (he always threatened me with suicide to do everything he wanted, including sex, and at one point told me he would \"take me with him\")\n\nAs an autistic person, I'm not good at handling stress and confrontation like that. I had a friend help me get away (I was literally only 18, I'm 19 now) and we had an agreement made in front of a lawyer that he would pay the annulment fee because i have no income and had no income and have never had any income. \n\nHe didn't hold to it and not being separated legally is giving me more anxiety which I don't need since I already get that from normal life as a person who struggles to do basic things already. \n\nSo now I don't know what to do. The annulment period is far gone, he keeps contacting me in different ways either harassing me trying to manipulate me more to be with him again despite being engaged with a kid (don't know if he told her) I've blocked multiple social media accounts I believe we're him or know that they were him. \n\nAnd we are still legally married and I don't want to be. I can't afford divorce so I'm just wondering if there is anything at all I could do it if it's my best bet to just wait until SSI is approved and pay for it with that since this is a really sticky situation. I am currently living with my family so I won't go homeless if that's the best option.","title":"I'm legally disabled, was manipulated into a marriage and he didn't hold up the deal to pay the annulment. What do I do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539129842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9muhrg\/ear_protection_at_work\/","id":"9muhrg","body":"Hey all,\n\nNot totally sure if this belongs here, but figured it could be a good place to start. \n\nFor a little over a month now, I've been working as a dishwasher at a steakhouse in Portland, Oregon. It's my first time working at a restaurant and I'm mostly just doing it to pay some bills. \n\nUnfortunately, in the last few days I've noticed that when I leave work, my ears are always ringing. In addition to that (and according to my girlfriend) I've been yelling when speaking without even realizing it. \n\nI'm sure this is all coming from the constant banging of plates against each other. \n\nSo I brought this all up to my boss, the head chef, and asked if I could use earplugs. To my disappointment, she said that wearing ear plugs in the kitchen is too much of a hazard. \n\nI'm not totally sure what to do about everything, but it just doesn't seem right. And I'm NOT going to lose my hearing because of a job washing dishes. \n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated! ","title":"Ear protection at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570495654,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/desmic\/a_coworker_mentioned_something_about_my_w4_which\/","id":"desmic","body":"I work for a small company. The owner is the only person who handles tax forms and such. Either the owner talked to people about what\u2019s on my form or she left it out for others to see. Whatever the case, I am upset. I want to email the owner about this but I need help with the wording so it doesn\u2019t sound like I\u2019m angry.","title":"A coworker mentioned something about my W-4 which she has no business knowing. How do I approach the owner about this?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570035491,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcd0bd\/just_received_my_first_contract_for_releasing_a\/","id":"dcd0bd","body":"e title pretty much says it all, does anyone have any advice on how to proceed with this? or what actions I should take?","title":"Just received my first contract for releasing a single on a label, don\"t really know if its a good deal","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555465271,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be23d5\/a_property_management_company_we_rented_a_house\/","id":"be23d5","body":"Lemme set the scene: last summer my mom had to stop working as a nurse, as her cancer became terminal and painful. You can't work as a nurse while on as many pain meds as she needed. She was the main provider for our family. Both my Dad and Brother are disabled. Due to problems in the brain area. But, with her disability payments, and our savings, we could make it to the end of our lease in March of this year. And then we were hoping to find somewhere in town to move into that was cheaper.\n\nFirst problem: We lived in northern California. The Camp Fire was one town over from us. Having so many people displaced raised all rents and property value in our town. The cheapest place we could find that would suite my dying mother's needs was around $2,000. Not something we can afford. So we decided to move to where we knew had some friends a couple states over. We found a home to buy that was pretty much perfect and in our price range, but it would take most of our savings to actually move us there. So now, after moving, we are pretty much broke.\n\nSecond problem: A couple weeks before we moved out, my brother accidentally slipped and fell in the shower. He is 19, and lean, and has a harder time with coordination because of his autism. The fiberglass shower is 30 years old and obviously wasn't in the best shape when we moved in. He hit his back on the tub part and cracked it probably about 6 inches. We notified the property management, and they sent someone to look at it. They said it was unrepairable, and needed to be replaced.\n\nFast forward to a couple days ago. We have moved into our new house. My mom has been in and out of the hospital a lot. She is in very bad shape. The property management company sent us some paperwork with the estimate they got for a new shower, and they are expecting us to pay ALL of it. All $3,975 of it. For a brand new shower. It wasn't even the bill. Just one estimate. \n\nWe do not have the money. We have some friends of ours that do finance looking into fighting it, but we don't have any answers yet. And my Dad does not have the time to go back to California and fight it himself. My mom is in and out of different hospitals (some hours away from our home) dealing with complications. We need him here as he is the only driver left in our family. \n\nDoes anyone know of some way to fight this? Some way that doesn't require my dad going back to California or us having to put ourselves in more debt? Any help or suggestions at all would be extremely helpful.","title":"A property management company we rented a house from is requiring we pay to replace a 30 year old shower.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552971213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2t3sr\/eviction_notice\/","id":"b2t3sr","body":"I live in an apartment in Eugene Oregon. It's March 18th at the time of posting, and I received an eviction notice to leave on March 31st for smoking marijuana in the unit.\n\nI don't smoke marijuana, nor does my roommate. I have no idea how to proceed. They've also only given me only 14 days to leave, which I'm pretty sure is also illegal.\n\nI haven't the slightest of ideas how to proceed. Any advice right now would be appreciated ","title":"Eviction notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508049031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76hgye\/mi_got_caught_getting_frisky_at_a_park_after_hours\/","id":"76hgye","body":"My girlfriend and I (Both 17) had been on a date and decided that we wanted to get frisky. Both of our mothers were at their respective houses, so we decided to park my car at a local park and do our thing there. The park is just down the hill from some appartment buildings so I parked where I thought nobody could see us. After about an hour a car came up to mine and parked perpindicular to ours (note, it was 1:00 am and heavily raining) even though the rest of the parking lot was empty, they were shining their headlights right at us. We then decided that we should probably leave and frantically started to put on clothes. I didn't want to stick around long so I had my girlfriend start driving the car away and the guy FOLLOWED US. Since I knew the neighborhood pretty well I had her take a way that made us lose our stalker. My question is, can we get in legal trouble for what we did? ","title":"[MI] Got 'caught' getting frisky at a park after hours.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539397449,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nqdt7\/harassment_at_work\/","id":"9nqdt7","body":"So the best fitting flair I could find is employment law. My girlfriend works at a family owned Indian restaurant. Since it is family owned, there is no HR department, however the husband and wife work there daily. My girlfriend has a co-worker, who regularly makes sexual cracks at her, will walk up essentially putting his crotch in her face saying he doesnt mind, has tried to throw stuff in her cleavage, and even blatantly told her to shut the fuck up. These last two were directly in front of the owner who did nothing about it. The straw that breaks my back is he constantly asks her out for drinks after for work. First time she politely declined, then moved on to saying no my boyfriend wouldnt appreciate that, and this third time he asked, he even told her \"Oh come on, we can go out, see where things go. Plus you know eating isn't cheating,\" clearly making an implication there in both of our eyes. This isnt a post about me being concerned about my girlfriend leaving me for a co-worker. Ive come here because she's asked me for help in dealing with the circumstance. I have never worked for a company without a HR department, so what steps should she take to rectify or prevent this behavior from happening in the future? She is worried of backlash, because the owners wife thinks very highly of this other server, and there are very few servers there, so if he got wind of a complaint, she fears he would make her job harder due to his seniority. Anybody have any experience or advice in a situation lile this? Thanks in advance!","title":"Harassment at Work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570215052,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddbmyo\/car_accident_parked_car_who_is_at_fault\/","id":"ddbmyo","body":"[photos](https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/AGhvXTb)\n\nOkay so today I was on my way to Panera and got  into a minor car. As I am looking for a parking spot there is a grey car right in front of me. That car pulls into a parking spot and there is an empty one next to her so I pull right in. As I pull in I do not see a door open! Im POSITIVE it wasn\u2019t open. ( not that it matters in a legal sense) They literally just pulled in! As I pull into the space I see that the space in front of me is empty so naturally I begin to drive into that one so that the front of my car is facing out of the space and I can pull off easily without backing up. Before I could even cross the line into the space in front of me I hear a crash. The side of her door hits the side of my door. ( side swiping motion) I stop the car and she says, \u201c miss my door was open.\u201d It wasn\u2019t. Police report gets filed and we go put separate ways. I feel like if her door was really open way before I pulled in then the damage should have been at her door and the front of my car not the side. Anyway is it my fault? Im in NY by the way.","title":"Car accident. Parked car who is at fault?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442273968,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kz5cd\/save_my_cats_freedom\/","id":"3kz5cd","body":"Disclaimer: This might not be as serious as some of the other posts, however it is 100% legit and I'm seeking genuine advice.\n\nDear lawful friends,\n\nHere is the situation:\nI live in an apartment complex which has rules regarding pets, most relevant of which is that \"Pets have to be on the leash or accompanied by their owner outside of their **dwelling**\".\nMy cat has always been an inside-outside cat ever since I adopted him a year back and goes out in the evenings by himself. One of the residents of my building (aka BTCH) is **apparently** fatally allergic to cats and has threatened to call the cops or animal control if I ever let my cat outside. \nShe has approached the management and provided photographic proof of my cat roaming outside. [All of which show my cat just lounging on my balcony]\nManagement has totally sided with her and warned me to keep my cat inside or on a leash.\n\nMy take on the situation:\n1) I have asked for formal proof showing that BTCH is actually allergic to cats. \n2) There are several other cats which roam freely on the premises, yet I seem to have been singled out. When I brought up the point, and asked for the same rule to be applied to everyone, the management disregarded it as a superfluous argument.\n3) I asked as to what they mean by **outside my dwelling** (as all the proof that they have is of my cat on my balcony), to which they had no answer (Nothing on the agreement defines the term). Yet, they said that the balcony is considered outside my dwelling and hence, my cat needs to be leashed.\n\nHere is where I need some advice:\nMy cat will suffocate indoors, as its outside his nature to remain always indoors. \nWhat are my options as far as letting my cat run free and not get in trouble with the law?\n\nThanks for reading this far.\n\nLocation: Atlanta, GA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Save my cat's freedom","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554327455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b943dk\/gdpr_data_breach\/","id":"b943dk","body":"Going through a shared drive on my computer in work I came across a folder called \u201cabsences\u201d. Inside contained a spreadsheet outlining any dates an employee on our team was off sick and whether it was certified or uncertified by a doctor.\n\nThis drive is accessible to all members of my team and one or two people outside my team. \n\nI have no issue with my absences being listed for all to view, but surely having them labelled as certified or not is a data breach? I would have thought only my manager should have access to this information. Am I wrong here? \n\nI am currently lodging formal grievance against my manager for other issues and wonder should this also be highlighted! \n\nI am located in Ireland so would be under the new EU GDPR regulations. ","title":"GDPR data breach?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552341649,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azzgic\/am_i_over_reacting_or_should_i_take_this_serious\/","id":"azzgic","body":"So I get it, what I was doing was creepy and pathetic and I\u2019m not proud of it. I don\u2019t need moral judgment. I just need to know if I did anything to get the cops to track me down.\n\nSo there are subreddits on here where you post pictures of girls you think are hot, or a sub that\u2019s for pictures you \u201cgot off to\u201d (like their Instagram pictures and stuff like that). And talk about them and stuff. Obviously of girls that are 18+. So I posted some girls that I knew from HS and currently in college for a few months and so on and so forth, talked about them \u201csexually\u201d and what not. So one day I got  a PM from some random person saying \u201cI\u2019ve contacted a lawyer and we\u2019ve contacted the authorities to track you down, enjoy your life in prison\u201d (that was a very general summary of what they said). I immediately freaked out and deleted the account. \n\nNow I don\u2019t know what I could of possibly done besides a copy right issue. Is there the possibility that one of the pictures that I posted of a girl were before they were 18 a reason? (I wouldn\u2019t know I didn\u2019t check the dates on their instagrams ) Even though the picture would be on her public Instagram and not a sexual picture in the least. I never had any nudes of any of the girls. The only nudes I ever had were these pictures of a girls breasts (no face or other part of the body) that this guy said he knows from college, and that got me worried that maybe she was under 18 in them? But then I read just breasts aren\u2019t enough. I don\u2019t know I\u2019m freaking out. But other than that, no nudes or anything, no active searching or posting of under 18 content or anything like that. \n\nI received that message 7 months ago, I have been freaking out ever since. Is the fact it\u2019s been 7 months a good sign? Did I do anything wrong that the cops would be interested in tracking me down through IP address? Should I get a lawyer?\n\n","title":"Am I over reacting or should I take this serious??","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540738230,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s3ojn\/individual_leasing_and_bad_roomate\/","id":"9s3ojn","body":"My friends are currently living in an apartment that has individual leasing. The fourth room in their apartment was open, so the complex moved someone into the space. To say the least, this person is not a good fit. They are overall generally messy, smoked tobacco in the apartment (against the lease), and perpetually plays victim when confronted. This person was also living in another space in the complex, but requested a room change for reasons that are unclear. I am currently in a very unhappy living situation and I desperately want to move in with my friends. They also want me to move in as they are unhappy with their current living situation. We have absolutely no idea what to do. Confronting this person would not end well and they are definitely not willing to move again despite the tension and obvious dislike. Is there any legal way for my friend to request a roomate change or apartment change? ","title":"Individual leasing and bad Roomate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568589750,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4scqy\/hit_and_run\/","id":"d4scqy","body":"(I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this so if its not can I have some directions) I was the victim in Hit and run at the exit of local gas station. The accident happened at a stop sign where the offender backed into my vehicle, which is already illegal to do at an intersection on its own though I didnt know this at the time. They got out and started demanding my insurance but I ignored them because I was in a bit of shock and called my mom who said to call 911. Right as I called 911 the offender got in their vehicle and fled the scene, they had a license plate in their back window but the window was too tinted to read any identifying characters. However I would know exactly which vehicle it is if I looked at the CCTV footage from the gas pumps but there were no cameras facing where the accident occurred. It was the vehicle literally right in front of mine before we left the pumps and they sat there just in their phone only starting their own leaving after I started my own cat which I thought nothing of at the time but now seemed suspicious. My question is would it be legal if I used the footage from the gas pumps to identify it and make them pay for damages or be liable for the $500 to $1000 dollar fine for a hit and run in my state","title":"Hit and run","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541812693,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vq8pa\/life_partner_and_business_legal_advice\/","id":"9vq8pa","body":"Sorry if this doesn\u2019t make sense but I\u2019m a little stressed and overworked and will do best I can. I am starting a medical practice June of next year. I am currently in a 3 year committed same-sex relationship and I plan to propose this winter. I think marriage sometime 2019 is reasonable. Is there a way to protect my partner should something happen to me before we are married since the business will be in my name? For example, if I die, can he be the one to get the business and sell it? He currently lives in a house I own and I\u2019m worried if something happened he would be homeless as a result as well. Also, when we get married, how can I still protect him and the business? I want to protect him from liability medical malpractice lawsuits as well.","title":"Life Partner and Business Legal Advice","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443289187,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mhjkw\/does_exlandlord_owe_us_prorated_rent_louisiana\/","id":"3mhjkw","body":"I gave a landlord 30 days notice to move and paid the full rent for that time period, and moved out of state on day 13. Around day 17 or 18 the utility company called to ask if I had moved as new accounts were being set up for a new tenant. I've confirmed with our old neighbors that new people moved in before the end of the month. The landlord provided us part of our security deposit back and did not provide the pro-rated rent for the remaining month, even though I am almost positive he charged the new tenant prorated month for September. The landlord also refused to do a walk through with us and then deducted the following fees from the security deposit: $100 for \"mini blinds;\" $100 for \"cleaning\" and sent a photo of stained tiles in the bathroom that are the result of hard water; and $200 for \"brush in the yard\" because a tree fell the week before we moved. I think he's using the fact that we moved 1000 miles away, and it'd cost more than the money I think he owes us to fly back and deal with this to his advantage. \n\nTl;dr We had an active lease with a 30-day notice to vacate. Moved out on day 13, new tenant moved in on 18th. No rent returned for the remaining days. Is this legal?","title":"Does ex-landlord owe us pro-rated rent? (Louisiana)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569264122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8au7v\/father_in_law_hospitalized_dimentia_alcoholism_no\/","id":"d8au7v","body":"Looking for advice, guidance, pitfalls to avoid. My wife\u2019s father was just hospitalized and we\u2019ve been told he can\u2019t be released on his own as he\u2019s not in a mental state to take care of himself. (Serious alcohol withdrawal, dimentia, etc \u2014 doesn\u2019t know the year or who the president is). Hospital social worker says he will need to be released to a rehab facility (retirement home type of place I guess) that provides both physical therapy and substance abuse therapy. As of right now: no will exists that we know of (living or otherwise - I searched county records online) and he has been declared unfit to sign over Healthcare records or Power of Attorney. My wife is the eldest and she has a younger sister who is pretty emotionally unstable. \n\nFather in law has a decent chunk of money saved plus investments, exceptional credit, owns two trucks, owns a home (likely fully paid off), has excellent health insurance (from what we\u2019re told), and receives a significant amount of pension + Social Security each month. My wife flies down there in a couple of days to find out exactly what is going on, gather info, and figure out what to do in order to get him into a good facility as smoothly as possible. \n\nReally need help here guys, flying blind as we\u2019ve never encountered any of this first hand. What should \/ shouldn\u2019t we do?\n\n(Side note: their mother passed away unexpectedly about 6 months ago and it was a complete SHIT SHOW. Zero preparations were in place, zero. Her younger sister went off the deep end and started trying to act on things and make decisions in an underhanded way behind her back. Granted, she was under severe emotional distress, but we want to avoid as much of the craziness and drama as we are able this time and have the focus on their father being taken care of. The sister and her husband are already speaking to everyone involved trying get access to the money and attempting to make a case to have her as Power of Attorney. We haven\u2019t even been down there to see what is actually going on yet so I have a feeling this will be contentious at some point).\n\nPlease Help and Thanks!","title":"Father in Law hospitalized - Dimentia & Alcoholism - No Will, Power of Attorney, Help Please","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445362951,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pioqe\/tx_postmortem_child_support\/","id":"3pioqe","body":"I saw [this comment](https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/r\/AdviceAnimals\/comments\/3phhoz\/everyone_meet_my_exwife\/cw6ij6m) on the front page that made me sick\n\n>Have a family friend who lives in Texas, divorced with a psycho vindictive ex-wife and a few kids. The ex had this insane mother who made child support payments for the dad living hell, even trying to get him to pay past 18 years old.\nMeanwhile, ex-wife went to pick up daughter who had just finished her first year of college across the country, they were driving back to Texas and in a freak accident they both died in a car accident. The ex's mother sued the dad for lost alimony due to the death of his ex-wife (completely out of his control) and won, so now she gets her daughter's payments. Fuck Texas's legal system\n\n\nIs this possible? If so, how?","title":"[TX] Post-mortem child support","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568868738,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d697cp\/dealership_went_out_of_business_and_lienholder\/","id":"d697cp","body":"The dealership I was financing from went out of business and didnt sell the loan. Despite never being informed of this, the lien was in an employees name. The DMV gave me his name and number and told me to sort out a payment for lien release. He's refusing to communicate with me so thats not even possible. The DMV wont help figure this out. How am I supposed to get this title if he wont communicate with me? Or is there a way to surrender the car?","title":"Dealership went out of business and lienholder refuses to release lien","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508011750,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76efge\/help_neighbor_funneling_smoke_into_my_apartment\/","id":"76efge","body":"So when i cook, my exhaust gets sent to my neighbors house. I like to cook with onions and peppers frequently. This neighbor just moved in so hes not used to it yet. \n\nNow that hes found the exhaust gets interchanged, hes been burning paper and smoking up my entire apartment when im not cooking out of spite because he doesnt like my cooking. \n\nWhat do i do?","title":"Help! Neighbor funneling smoke into my apartment!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568881203,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6b10g\/i_got_pulled_over_tonight_and_was_notified_that\/","id":"d6b10g","body":"I was towed back in January of this year and paid to get it out the next morning. Tonight I just got pulled over and was notified there\u2019s something called a lien on my car. Should I call the towing company to get this taken off?","title":"I got pulled over tonight and was notified that there\u2019s a Lien on my car.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554438875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9mub7\/can_i_as_a_company_sponsor_somebody_to_get_a_work\/","id":"b9mub7","body":"I have a small business, literally me and my mom. We have an employee who isn\u2019t legal so I\u2019ve been paying him cash out of my personal funds. Is there a way to help him (this man is a saint and amazing in helping me and moms business) and sponsor him possibly to get a Work visa or even citizenship? ","title":"Can I as a company sponsor somebody to get a work visa?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569914925,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbpszo\/the_police_officers_on_our_way_to_school_had_a\/","id":"dbpszo","body":"Soon are we in the fault?\nBecause the guy in the black suit wasn\u2019t crossing he was just stepping over and over so I think he wasn\u2019t crossing so we did nothing wrong.","title":"The police officers on our way to school had a guy hunching in a black hoodie step one foot onto the crosswalk he pulled over 6 people including us there was a car close in front of us we could saw the guy when it was to late because we already passed and we can\u2019t just stop we are going to court","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1441947180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ki5qe\/dekalb_il_studio_apartment_came_with_fire\/","id":"3ki5qe","body":"So amongst the other problems with my new apartment (like a kitchen sink that constantly backs up sewer water that pours on the floor\/soaks through the walls), I noticed today that the fire extinguisher is in very bad shape. It's dented, has no hose and a broken nozzle, the pin has been pulled and inexpertly replaced, and is so old there's no date or marking of any kind on it to indicate its age. It has no inspection tags and its mounting is coming out of the wall (held on by one screw [EDIT: I took it out of the mount so it doesn't fall, hit the floor wrong, and manage to explode.]). The gauge shows that it is within the desired range, but that's the only way in which it's not scary. The dents are on the bottom but there's no plastic. All of these mean it needs to be serviced ASAP, but I'm trying to figure out if I should simply call the fire department to condemn it, or if it's still usable. \n\nEither way, the important question is: **Is my landlord required to replace it?** \n\nWhen did they start putting dates on fire extinguishers? (Yes, I have Googled this. No, I can't find any relevant info.) How do I know if it is pre-1984? All fire extinguishers made before 1984 should be condemned and are not suitable for use. \n\nBy Googling its model number I found some that look the same. Images are here: http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/xZnRi THESE ARE NOT MY EXTINGUISHER, just pictures I managed to find that are the same type\/appearance. \n\nThere is one smoke detector in my 256 sq. foot studio apartment, and no sprinkler system. We're three floors, but the apartment's front door opens to the outside; there is no common hallway. \n\nIf there's any other info needed, let me know. \n\nBefore anyone asks: No, I can't get pictures of the exact one in my apartment. The patent no. is 2864451, which the patent search shows was registered in 1958. ","title":"[Dekalb, IL] Studio apartment came with fire extinguisher so old it has no date. Is landlord required to replace it?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553297189,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4c1tc\/if_there_is_no_physical_evidence_of_a_crime_and\/","id":"b4c1tc","body":"So say a detective is investigating a crime and has no physical evidence and the suspect hasn\u2019t said a word to police about it. What factors would need to be at play for a prosecutor to bother trying the case? What else would he or she need to feel comfortable filing charges?","title":"If there is no physical evidence of a crime and only testimony, how important to the investigation is it to get statements from the suspect?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568398201,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3t6ti\/my_lawyer_ran_off_with_50000_of_my_settlement\/","id":"d3t6ti","body":"Hi everyone! I in the state of Georgia and I was wondering what can I do about my lawyer. He\u2019s ran off with 50k of my money. His phones are disconnected and the office is closed indefinitely. My accident happened in 2014 and the settlement came in 2018 but he\u2019d never released it to me. I called the Ga bar association with no help at all. And now this fool disappears in the wind with my and to another extent other people\u2019s money. What do I do? I know there\u2019s something that could be done but I don\u2019t know where to start.","title":"MY LAWYER RAN OFF WITH $50,000 OF MY SETTLEMENT MONEY. WHAT DO I DO?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540036840,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ptl0u\/help_with_bullying_for_my_4th_grader_wisconsin\/","id":"9ptl0u","body":"I originally posted this question on r\/advice and it was suggested to post here as well. \n\n I have a 9 year old daughter who is in a very small (12 child) combined 3rd\/4th grade classroom at a private school in Wisconsin. She and the rest of her classmates have mostly been together since Kindergarten and get along really well. Because the class is so small and they are growing up together they treat each other more like siblings than classmates a lot of the time. Which is sometimes good and sometimes not so great.\n\nUnfortunately, things have changed in their little world this year. There is a new child (m8) who is on the autism spectrum who is a challenge in the classroom in general and has decided to target my daughter in particular.\n\nHe gets out of his desk and comes over to her while they are supposed to be working, he mocks her hair, her clothes, her weight, her height. He knocks her over on the playground, he makes up mean songs about her, everyday it is some fresh new hell for her. She doesn't want to go to school and has even asked if she can change schools.\n\nShe did retaliate one time on the playground, she and some other friends chased him into a shed after he called her a bitch and lassoed her with a hula hoop. He told the playground monitor and subsequently the principal that he \u201cfelt unsafe\u201d. My daughter and her friends were punished, he was not.\n\nMy daughter has been seeing a therapist for about 18 months for anxiety and she specifically requested a meeting with her to help deal with this kid. At the beginning I told her that she had to try and get along with everyone, he\u2019s a new kid trying to fit in, and even made her invite him to her birthday party \u2013 which she did not want to do. Both her Dad and I have talked to the teacher and the principal, their response is that they expect everyone to treat one another with respect. But he is not being held to the same level of behavior as she is.\n\nI have a strong suspicion that he was asked to leave his last school, based on what I have heard from others and the fact that his twin still goes to the other school, but I am not sure.\n\nWe have a meeting scheduled with the teacher, principal, other parents and the kids next Friday. However, I\u2019m not willing to accept any blame for his behavior on behalf of my daughter, which is what the teacher and the principal want us to do. At this point I\u2019m not even willing to meet halfway. As far as I am concerned, my part of this is to avoid calling the police on him for assault and he leaves her 100% alone.\n\nWhat legal rights does my daughter have here? What should we do? We really don't want to leave the school as it has been wonderful and supportive up until now, but we are also not willing to allow her to be targeted this way by both the child and the school administration.\n\nThanks for any ideas!\n\n​","title":"Help with bullying for my 4th grader. Wisconsin","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1506910959,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73q37k\/2_police_stations_keep_sending_me_back_to_each\/","id":"73q37k","body":"I live in IL outside of Chicago in the suburbs.  Basically I've been a victim of identity theft and someone had purchased vehicles in my name and has stuck me with their parkign tickets and toll vioatlions all totally about $1000\n\nIn order for me to get this straightened out, I tried to file a police report with Chicago PD and they had said that because I am a resident of my city (the city that I live in) that I need to file a report with my local police department.\n\nSo I call my local police department and they basically tell me that I have to go file a report with Chicago police.\n\nCall Chicago Police, they tell me that I need to go in person to my local police department and have them file a police report in person.\n\nHowever I am a bit concerned about going into the police department, I'm not interested in causing a scene.\n\nIf I go, can I speak with the sergeant or whoever is in charge? Then, can they still refuse to file a report?\n\nI basically just need a report, an affadavit from the FTC site and my motor vehicle report to send in to Chicago city of finance.\n\n","title":"2 police stations keep sending me back to each other and won't file a police report for me for identity theft.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553725254,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6ap5g\/can_a_lawyer_serve_as_a_notary_in_nc\/","id":"b6ap5g","body":"I had a friend of mine who is an attorney in Maine notarize a document for that will be seen in North Carolina. My friend assured me attorneys are recognized as notaries in most states, as long as it\u2019s not a document that pertains to a matter that lawyer is involved in. \n\nIs an attorney and their bar number acceptable as notarization in NC? I can\u2019t seem to find a clear answer by googling. This is for probate processing for my father\u2019s estate. He was in NC, I\u2019m in Maine. \n\nThank you!  ","title":"Can a lawyer serve as a notary in NC?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540988257,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sy64n\/nymonroe_county_bank_took_foreclosed_property_or\/","id":"9sy64n","body":"Bank in letter demands rent by Nov 1st but doesnt say what to pay? Says fair market value but not sure what that is? Also, I don't think the others in the house or two of them, will be able to pay rent by the 1st (one by around the 15th next month and another by the 9th i assume). The third person refuses to pay anything and is looking to move out asap. There are four living here. The letter is also requesting our social security numbers etc but we don't have an actual lease, we are oral month-to-month and always have been. Why in the world would I give someone my social security number to begin with? The landlord went to prison and he was living here before all of that. Told us to pay the bills when he went to prison. Suggestions? Do I contact the lawyers on this letter and explain all of this? What should I say? What will they say? Someone told us that eviction from nonpayment on the 1st (late for any reason is grounds for eviction entirely?) or missing it by even a day means we get evicted within 2 weeks to a month? We are really heart broken, confused, and unsure how to go about this honestly. Please offer advice :(","title":"[NY][Monroe County] Bank Took Foreclosed Property (or bought it?) from Landlord and sent us a letter to leave in 90 days from date on said letter. Letter dated October 26, we received it last night. We paid only for the utilities up until now and they are demanding rent by November 1st","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506290370,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/728504\/is_there_anything_i_can_do_to_get_back_what_i\/","id":"728504","body":"(CA, US) Hi \/r\/legaladvice. First off, I wanna say I realize the stupidity of my actions, and I ask for forgiveness over anything dumb I say regarding investments. I am not very knowledgeable on the topic. It's been about a year since all this nonsense happened. I thought I was over it and using it as a lesson to move forward, but nonetheless here I am trying one last time to see if there's anything I can do to get back what I gave. Very long story short, I lent my savings to someone much older who, looking back at it now, was taking big advantage of me financially and emotionally. He manipulated me to get funds out of me, whether it was with a suicide attempt, threat of running away, death from a loan shark, or my own addiction to the feeling of relief I'd get when I thought things would turn out okay. and I stupidly fell for it every time. So many sleepless nights in regret over my involvement with him. In addition to the thousands I gave him over the period of time we were together, there was also a contract he convinced me to sign with him before it all happened, while he was working at a job with an entertainment company. Initially, I agreed to, then I backed out before I did, thinking it to be a rash decision. But he pushed it and explained to me initially that by signing it and investing 2k among other investors, I'd get a much bigger return after 6-7 months. I later found out that he simply added my 2k to *his* investment and then was going to just give me my part of it afterwards(at least that was the plan). Yes, I should have tried to learn more about how investments and the like worked, before I did anything with them. But I did not. After many stressful events, he's been in jail for about 8 months, for unrelated reasons. I knew nothing about investments at the time, and honestly, I still don't. As far as I know, the money is being \"held\" in the company?\n\nI've uploaded screenshots of the 2 page \"contract\" I signed with him. My info is crossed out in blue, his and his former employer's company in red. There is a version with both of our signatures, but I've uploaded this one because it's easier for me to access. I say \"contract\" because after all the ridiculous events that have transpired, and realizing his untrustworthiness, I doubt that the thing is even real. \n\nhttps:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/Fr78w\n\nI just want to know if there is anything at all I can do with this. If not, then that's fine. I'll move past it and learn from it, like I have been. Thank you.","title":"Is there anything I can do to get back what I \"invested,\" with this contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508027463,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76fvgh\/mi_im_part_owner_of_a_sandwich_shop_i_had_to_take\/","id":"76fvgh","body":"The way things used to work was we paid our employees a bit over minimum wage. Since it\u2019s a food service, many people wanted to leave tips. \nTypically tipped employees make $2 something an hours and collect tips. But our shop is too small for anyone to make enough money on that plan. \nWe finally put a tip jar out, and we\u2019d use the tips to pay for contributions to local fundraisers. Everyone who works for us knows this and agrees. We get a lot of requests for contributions, so this really helps us be able to say yes.\nRecently I found out that my business partner has been paying herself with the tip money. She doesn\u2019t take a paycheck, and this, she said, is her compensation for the many hours she puts in. (She really does work often)\nThe employees said they are the ones who work for tips, and they should be split among those working. \nMy partner reasoned that if they want the tips, they will get a lower hourly wage, and they can split the tips. She lowered their hourly wage by $3 an hour. \n\nThey all quit. They figured the tips are about $200 a week, and they\u2019d be losing money with this arrangement because they\u2019d have to split it between 8 people. \n\nI feel like her new pay scale is not legal. I\u2019m recovering from major surgery, so she didn\u2019t discuss this with me. I can\u2019t talk to our accountant or attorney until Monday. I haven\u2019t slept since I found out. \n\nIs this legal?\n\nTLDR: Owner cut pay by $3 an hour, plus tips, everyone walked out. \n\nUpdate: Thank you, all of you. I\u2019m going to have to drag myself out of bed and shut this shit down. I should have known better. ","title":"[MI] I\u2019m part owner of a sandwich shop. I had to take a leave of absence. I just found out that my partner has made a change that caused all of our employees to walk out.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552999043,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2ww4r\/contractor_covered_a_leak_in_our_2nd_floor\/","id":"b2ww4r","body":"We had a contractor come by in January (during cold winter) to fix a leak above our front room window. Now that it's starting to warm up and rain, water has started to leak from the same exact spot. It's stated in the contract that it was covered. When I called the contractor he said he will come by the same day and \"call us back\". It's been a few days and after calling him several times he has not answered or returned the call. What should I do? ","title":"Contractor covered a leak in our 2nd floor apartment and guaranteed us a 1 year warranty. Now he isnt answering\/returning our calls to repair the same leak. Located in Chicago, IL.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551741605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axdwy5\/my_exgirlfriend_moved_out_and_is_not_following\/","id":"axdwy5","body":"Hello,\n\n(Backstory) So recently I broke up with my girlfriend. She wasn\u2019t happy with her life, and kept talking about how she wanted an open relationship, which I was definitely not interested in. She had plans to move out, but for the better of our relationship and to give each other more space. Then I found out she was texting someone I didn\u2019t know and would not tell me what about, but admitted to the person being a guy and that she liked talking to him. This raised concerns for me, and things became worse between us and eventually one night about a week ago we got into a big fight and she moved out that night. \n\nRewind a couple weeks... The landlord is aware she will be moving out. We lived in a room we rent out of a house owned by a couple who lives off the property. Since there was two of us, we were splitting the rent. Since she was moving out I needed to redo my contract with the landlord, which we did. She also made an agreement with the landlord over text that we would both pay our half of the rent on March 1st, and my new contract will begin on April 1st.  I have the screenshot of this text, sent to me by my landlord on February 24. Our lease agreement also has both our names listed as paying X amount each on the first of every month. \n\nAs for the possibly stolen items, I woke up the day she moved out to her leaving to go to work. I was drinking heavily that night and I had an extreme hangover. I turned my place upside down, and could not find my phone. A few days go by and I go to play Xbox only discover the game disc had been removed from the Xbox and the other game I had on disc was missing with it. This led to me strongly believe she was responsible for the destruction\/theft of my phone. She try\u2019s to avoid my questioning regarding those things in the emails I have sent to her, and denies having anything to with this. \n\nWhat are my options and my rights(WA State) as far as the rent situation? And what can I do about my missing things?  ","title":"My Ex-Girlfriend moved out and is not following through with her rent responsibilities. I also believe her to have stolen a couple of my possessions including an iPhone.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553965806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7dime\/friend_and_i_had_a_written_informal_contract\/","id":"b7dime","body":"Is there any legal recourse available for me to take, she is saying that the contract is not legally binding.\n","title":"Friend and I had a written, informal contract which she has now breached","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1409551216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f5bms\/foreclosure_timeline_in_washington_state\/","id":"2f5bms","body":"I currently live in a house headed for foreclosure. My question has to do with the timeline of what happens after the auction. Everything I've read online says that when the house is sold at auction, the buyer has a right to the house after 20 days.\n\nBackground: I do not own the house (my mom does) but my daughter and I have been living there the past two years. My name is on all the utilities. I don't pay rent (obviously, it's my mom's house and we knew it was going to be foreclosed on) but I guess technically we are the tenants. \n\nSo my question: How will they go about telling us to get out? Will they just show up on day 20 and change the locks or will we get a notice with an additional timeline that we need to be out by? I hate all the uncertainty and just want to make sure I know what timeline I need to be working with for moving out. Thanks in advance for any advice\/help. \n\n","title":"Foreclosure Timeline in Washington State","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447073523,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s4m4k\/landlord_threatening_to_evict_based_on_unfounded\/","id":"3s4m4k","body":"This post is about my girlfriend who lives with two of her friends in the upstairs of a house that they lease. In the same house there are 3 people living downstairs and the landlord treats this as a separate apartment.\n\nMy gf and her friends moved in a few months ago for school and the downstairs tenants (snobby grad students) have been constantly complaining about noise. I have visited enough times and know my gf's friends well enough know that they are not noisy. They might giggle or laugh occasionally, otherwise they don't throw parties, listen to loud music, etc. The landlord does not live in the house, has only been told of the noise by the lower tenants, and has never made any attempt to verify the noise levels. Despite this, she is threatening to evict. Additionally, the lease mentions nothing about noise aside from \"No parties or loud music that may disturb other tenants\".\n\nTo add to this, the lower tenants have done a handful of inappropriate things:\n\n- When it was discovered one day that the house had mice, the lower tenants marched upstairs in the early morning, knocked on the bedroom doors of all three girls and yelled at them to clean the kitchen because there is mice\n- They claim the girls have too much trash since the bin gets too full\n- They leave notes on the thermostat saying it MUST stay at 74 (also the thermostat is upstairs in the girls private part of the house so they entered without permission to do this)\n\nThe landlord has known the lower tenants much longer and very clearly takes their side in these issues. This is in Ontario. What can the girls do and where do they start?","title":"Landlord threatening to evict based on unfounded noise complaints.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504404303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xqk7m\/landlord_issues\/","id":"6xqk7m","body":"Just moved out of a house we rented for 2.5 years (myself, girlfriend, dog and cat)\n\nLandlords are, as expected, trying to fuck us out of every penny of our deposit. We spent a full day cleaning every square inch of the small house. I personally spent 5 hours vacuuming and shampooing the carpets and they had the nerve to suggest we didn't vacuum even once. \n\nHow much can they claim in undefinable \"labor\" expenses, and how much can I force them to provide itemized receipts and invoices for what they are withholding from our deposit refund?\n\nAnother issue, we had scheduled a meeting to do the walk through at a specific time. When we got there they were already in the house with their supplies sprawled everywhere, outlets taken off the wall, stove taken apart, etc. This seems like it provides doubt about how we left the house and what they did while we weren't there \n\nCalifornia ","title":"Landlord issues","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552021286,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aymdqn\/use_it_or_lose_it_vacation\/","id":"aymdqn","body":"My mother works for a very large manufacturing company, that for privacy reasons I'll call A&Z. She was injured at work a little over a 2 years ago. She went through the whole workers comp thing, that was a fiasco, the company tried screwing her every which way they could send her to crappy doctors and whatnot. The company has a vacation plan where you can buy extra days of vacation, $xx.xx amount of money comes out of each check biweekly, at the employees rate of pay. At open enrollment 2017 she bought extra days of vacation that went into effect 1 Jan 2018. The whole year of 2018 she was out on disability for the injury sustained at work and was unable to return, however her employer was still deducting the biweekly payment for the vacation days. With her not being able to return to work she was not able to use the vacation time, and the employer is now refusing to reimburse her for the money paid for the days or for the time off. The company does have a \"use it or lose it\" policy for the extra bought vacation days. When she emailed her HR manager, the manager quoted a federal law that I have been unable to source states, \" employees must use regular vacation days before purchased vacation days. If the employee has unused vacation days by the end of the calendar year due to disability\/workers compensation leave or unanticipated urgent business needs, the employee may carry over up to 10 days of Unused regular vacation. Any additional unused regular vacation days can be paid out. Any unused purchased vacation days will be forfeited.\"\n\nNothing I can find says anything close to that, or anything really.\n\nWhat options does she have?\n\nThe state is North Carolina, but if I'm not mistaken  the HQ for the company is in Cincinnati Ohio, if that makes any difference. \n\n","title":"Use it or lose it vacation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540220336,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qel1m\/scotland_uk_sheriff_issued_a_warrant_for_overdue\/","id":"9qel1m","body":"Posting on behalf of my mother \n\nMy mum ended a tenancy agreement on April 2016 and handed back the keys. For a few months, she stayed with her mother, before leaving the country for just over a year. Recently she's had a letter through from the Sheriff Court states she has unpaid Council Tax from April 2016 - August 2016 and that the Letting Agency is stating that we didn't move out until October 2016. \n\n1. She sent the notice of tenancy ending via text and no longer has that text\n2. The property was put back on the market middle of October 2016 with pictures of all the flooring ripped up, despite the fact we were still supposedly living in it\n3. The Letting Agency was taken over by a new company in December 2017 and they're saying they have no record of the tenancy. They're asking for letters or tenancy agreements. But the previous landlord conducted everything via text\n4. Previous landlord was lucky not to be sued due to giving out our phone numbers to a private business who started sending threatening messages and calls. Private business also alleged that the landlord said they could \"break the door down if they wanted\" We didn't take it further because it was at the end of our tenancy\n5. I don't even think there is any paper work at this point to even proved we lived there, other than credit reports or council tax bills, I'm unsure if Gas & Electricity would have records of the end of contract \n\nThe Summary Warrant states she has to pay over \u00a3550, which she doesn't have. She's on income support + housing benefits. The council have said that she is the one liable to prove that she doesn't owe this money. Would we be within our rights to request a FOI to see what information the council holds in regards to this matter?\n\n​","title":"[Scotland, UK] Sheriff Issued A Warrant For \"Overdue\" Council Tax","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508281564,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/772fiy\/ny_landlord_live_with_the_guy_going_to_prison_no\/","id":"772fiy","body":"Moved in early 2016 I believe. I could be wrong. either way, live in ny, upstate ny region to be more exact. Landlord is a roommate meaning i live with the guy. hes going to federal prison or at least he pleaded guilty to something recently. I have no leasing agreement other than transactions concerning rent payments and money sent to landlord and probably text messages etc.\nI prepaid using my student loan money until april 2018 as of this month. If he goes to prison, what happens to me? What happens to my prepaid rent I just sent in the last couple weeks?\n\nUpdate : the money is being used to keep the house from being foreclosed on. I was told that he's going to prison in a few months time they have to determine his sentencing. In addition to the rent I paid $3300 to cover October 2017 through April and my next payment is due May 1st. I was told I will likely have to find a place to live. I gave them all my money to live while I do school full time online. They said after the house forecloses they will give me the money back and after I'm gone.\n\nI need a lawyer. Should I call my bank immediately? I need major advice and I'm panicking. ","title":"[NY] Landlord (live with the guy) going to prison. No lease agreement, living month\/month, prepaid until april 2018 using student loans, will I be screwed?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568770608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5qoni\/who_is_liable_if_injury_occurs_from_a\/","id":"d5qoni","body":"Good Evening-\n\nWe have an online site devoted to pet care for products we have developed and have insurance on all those. We are interested in carrying another company\u2019s product on our site; this product would be an invested supplement.\nMy concern\/question is whether our company would be liable if something were to happen secondary to ingestion...or if the owner were to feel something happened because of the supplement. Is it the company that directly sells the product or the original manufacturer? Does that change if the product is white labeled under our company and has our name on it.\n\nWe are an online retailer based out of Missouri.\n\nThank you!","title":"Who is liable if injury occurs from a white-labeled product?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555023114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc6cek\/mb_canada_my_landlord_asked_me_to_move_out_as\/","id":"bc6cek","body":"Title says most of it, but we basically got in a disagreement and have both decided it would be best to end the lease early. I read online that he has 30 days to give the deposit back after I move out. I just wasn\u2019t sure if maybe this was an exception if we both agreed on a date. Thanks for any replies.","title":"(MB, Canada) My landlord asked me to move out as soon as I can, we agreed on a date but he said he doesn\u2019t need to give my security deposit back if he can\u2019t find someone to fill the room by that date. Can he do this?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508605074,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77uj60\/how_to_have_domestic_violence_charges_dropped\/","id":"77uj60","body":"My husband has an active warrant out for his arrest for domestic violence. I want to know if there's any way I can have these charges dropped without him having to go to jail?\n\nI spoke with the officer who handled the situation and he told me to call the judge, but the secretary at her office said they don't allow people to speak with her and to call the officer back because it's \"between me and him\". \n\nI'm about to have a baby and we have a small child, I have no friends or family to help me. So staying with my husband is my only option at this point. We can't afford for him to go to jail over this and lose his job. \n\nIs there anything I can do at this point?","title":"How to have domestic violence charges dropped against my husband? (South Carolina)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571505286,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk6nnx\/hit_a_parked_car_left_a_note_is_that_all_i_need\/","id":"dk6nnx","body":"Hit a car parked on the street while backing out of a driveway while working about 45 minutes ago. The damage is a couple of large scratches on the drivers side. I left a note with my name & phone number and said \u201cI have insurance, please call me.\u201d. I have bad anxiety & currently am sitting here wondering if I needed to do anything else? I live in North Dakota","title":"Hit a parked car & left a note - is that all I need to do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551390199,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avwhdm\/usa_nv_is_this_employment_agreement_enforceable\/","id":"avwhdm","body":"I was hired by a legal firm (I\u2019m not a lawyer just a secretary) and they made me sign a contract that I have a copy of. It says \u201cproposed initial working schedule XX hours per week, rate of $X per hour\u201d \n\n\nYesterday I was told by my boss that they are cutting my hours to less than 10 a week because they \u201cdon\u2019t have cases\u201d, I don\u2019t think this is true because they just hired someone today who is getting paid much less than me. I was told by a coworker they want me to quit and this is how they are getting me out. I am very surprised because I have emails from my boss praising me, I was under the impression I was doing well. \n\nI did call unemployment and they said I am qualified, I filed. I am seeking another job. ","title":"(USA, NV) is this employment agreement enforceable?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539224789,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n5z1x\/uninsured_sister_bumped_a_lady\/","id":"9n5z1x","body":"Not sure if I attached the correct flair, but heres the story.\nOn a rainy day, my sister slid into a woman bumper. It didn't leave a mark and they both agreed to exchange information.  My sister took pics which showed there was previous damage, held together by bolts and screws. The lady told my sister she would get a few estimates to repair and they both agreed the truck came to rest on the bumper and didn't actually move the car. No police report was filed. \n\nI'm sure I know how this will be advised but I'm going to ask anyway. \n\nThe lady has presented no estimates for repair of the damage my sister caused and is instead asking for a lump cash payment to repair\/replace the entire bumper. I told my sister it might just be easier to pay her to go away but I'm worried it won't be the end of this. The lady has not presented pictures of the repaired bumper either saying the work has already been completed. And of course threatening legal action if she doesn't get paid soon.\n\nMy question is, what can I do to help my sister (now insured) make sure that this lady doesnt come back and try to get more money. It seems a little shady, but i know my sis would lose in court and end up paying much more than $700 in fees. I am going to help her pay this woman to make her bumper \"right\" again.\n\nI apologize if this is hard to read. \n\nAny constructive advise is greatly appreciated. ","title":"Uninsured sister bumped a lady","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552342261,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azzl3c\/going_public_against_former_employer\/","id":"azzl3c","body":"Hello! Hoping the community can help me out on this one.\n\nFor the sake of being anonymous.. I was termed without cause from my employer last month because I brought to the attention of the CHRO the same federal violations of the law (discrimination including employer relations\/pay equity\/etc.) that I had brought to his attention beginning in March 2018. He disregarded it each time \u201cwe will get to it eventually, etc.\u201d complete rug sweeps. \n\n.. to make matters worse, I am pregnant. \n\nBG: this is a male dominated industry, company comprised of 85-90% Caucasian males who were treated favorably over minority employees and women. \n\nI retained evidence that proved my allegations of racial discrimination, gender discrimination, pregnancy discrimination (non-confidential, emails to and from my boss to me, things I had direct access to) and gave them to an attorney I retained. I was fired two days after boss received notice from attorney for my employment file ( stating \u201cclearly you\u2019re not happy.\u201d) During said meeting, he is shoving a release of all claims in my face to sign in exchange for $50K+ USD. I said I wouldn\u2019t sign it. \n\nThey didn\u2019t get wind that I retained any emails until after my dismissal which they saw in my business email that I forwarded our emails to my own personal email. To make matters worse, the CEO did something deceitful with my computer that their own IT department wrote to me electronically and warned me about. Obviously have the documentation I need there.. \n\nFast forward to now, they\u2019ve had their company bulldog (attorney) harassing my attorney on a daily basis since I refused to sign the release and\/or destroy the evidence that states they did indeed willfully commit the acts - threatened me with sending police to my home for a search warrant for any documents I retained, fighting my UE claim (we have never in my tenure fought any UE claim - including one where we fired a Caucasian male, after my repeated warnings, for using the N word constantly. Or the Caucasian male who used our company credit card to charge over $2K+ in personal expenses), slandering my name internally in which I have retained all emails from internal employees stating such, etc. causing a lot of undue stress on an already stressful pregnancy. \n\nI have filed a complaint with the EEOC, which will take months if not years to resolve. However in the meantime, I am being silently tortured day in and day out. I want to speak out against them to the ACLU, NAACP - any media forum that will hear me out. \n\nI\u2019m hellbent on this and I just want to know how to go about it. Should I call them \u201cformer company\u201d or directly name them? \n\n","title":"Going public against former employer","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504273711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xemt6\/south_carolina_forprofit_company_preaches_about\/","id":"6xemt6","body":"I work at a medium sized for-profit company in South Carolina. \n\nTopic A) This company holds weekly mandatory meetings (they, if pressed, say aren't mandatory, but everyone is made to go by their managers) and among business items has someone pray, share a \"testimony\", or preach about Jesus disguised as sharing the vision of the company. They have just instated what they are calling a CPO (Chief Pastoral Officer) who is a Christian pastor. They also have \"missions trips\" to foreign countries (where they attend churches and preach) and will donate money to people participating in them or will donate money to Christian missions trips of churches.\n\nTopic B) A group of employees once began working with HR to form a \"Diversity Council\" in the fashion of companies like Coca-cola to promote awareness and be a sounding board for management on inclusiveness strategies. They (management) would not allow us to put the words \"sexual orientation\" in the proposed groups mission statement as a basis on which the Diversity Council would not discriminate against.\n\nHow illegal is all this? Topic A and Topic B separately. Is there a legal proceeding that could stop all of this? It all seems very wrong for a company to able to do.","title":"South Carolina: For-profit company preaches about Jesus at weekly mandatory meetings and instates a \"Chief Pastoral Officer\"","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568408566,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3vklr\/florida_apartment_complex_let_pest_control_in\/","id":"d3vklr","body":"Basically my roommate came home to $200 missing from her dresser and her bedroom door shut which she never does. The front office confirmed that the pest control was in our apartment today. She pointed out that they didn\u2019t leave a notice and they\u2019re saying they did leave one but it \u201cmust have blew away\u201d which is bullshit and none of our neighbors doors had a notice either. The police are doing a report right now. The front office isn\u2019t telling us which pest company was in. Should my roommate sue the complex? Will they end our lease? I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll get nasty but what should she do?","title":"[FLORIDA] Apartment complex let pest control in without leaving a notice first, they stole $200 cash from my roommates nightstand","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1549610783,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aoe67c\/i_interviewed_for_a_higher_position_and_was_told\/","id":"aoe67c","body":"For a little more information I work in a factory in Wisconsin. There was a posting saying our department needed to fill an empty supervisor slot so I took the chance. After interviewing I was told I was selected unanimously and that after a 6-month training program I'd get the job title, raise, etc. That was last March. Since then I have been occasionally doing the supervisor role as training.\n\nThe reason I'm posting this is that once again I did the role tonight. I was doing well until the end of the night when issues arose I needed help with. When the help I was promised didn't arrive and things fell apart. I was reprimanded for not being up to par with the others. When I told my boss I was frustrated about being set up for failure while being denied the actual position, I was told I would get the position once somebody else in the role moved out of it (we have around 8-10 in the role at any time).\n\nIs it legal for them to deny me the job I applied for and was told I received while making me do the work anyway? \n\nSorry if my post sounds whiny. I need to cool my head. Thanks for any advice. I can clarify details as needed.","title":"I interviewed for a higher position and was told I got the job. A year later I still don't have the job title nor any of the benefits.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568771195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5qszj\/a_new_temporary_supervisor_is_possibly\/","id":"d5qszj","body":"This is complicated, but I want to be prepared when the conversation comes up. I am an on-call temp, who started with a government business about a month and a half ago. When I started, my supervisor, #1. Was aware of my disability. #2. Told me that I was NOT required to work certain, or a quota of shifts. Recently he went on medical leave for a surgery, and a new woman took temporary position. She called and discussed with me which shifts I was available for, and I let her know I could not work overnights any longer. Because I've never met this woman, I didn't feel comfortable going in detail about my disability and telling her that my inability to work overnight shifts was because of that. I just simply told her I could not. I took plenty of swing and morning shifts. \nToday, my coworker told me that she had received an email stating her plan to hire new temps and \"purge\" the list of temps who cannot work overnights. So, now what? If I am to be taken in and told I'm fired, what rights do I have? What can I say? I don't want to lose this job, I really do love it.","title":"A new temporary supervisor is possibly threatening my job. [OR]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570674308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfrhx1\/notification_to_executor_of_estate_upon_change\/","id":"dfrhx1","body":"Hopefully this is just a simple question...\n\nMy father added me as the executor of his estate in his will... can he remove me and\/or change this without me knowing?\n\nI'd really appreciate any insight you have to offer. Thanks!","title":"Notification to executor of estate upon change?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551945213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aya5kx\/nv_i_have_no_clue_where_to_even_start_to_find_help\/","id":"aya5kx","body":"I need help or intelligent advice concerning a family member who is incarcerated for assault with a weapon\n  This person is up for parole in the near future, but the problem is that he is displaying symptoms of severe schizophrenia. He has quit communication with all family and thinks that we are all in grave danger. He has access to numerous weaponry and is prone to violent behavior. This guy will be back on the streets in 8 months. The problem is he needs serious medical attention and a thorough mental evaluation. How can we get this situation addressed? I know what a threat he could be in his present state, without treatment. Suggestions? Where do we start? Who will give this serious consideration? How do I get mental help in the prison system? \n ","title":"[NV] I have no clue where to even start to find help..","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540512702,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rfsp4\/did_my_professor_break_the_law_professor_shared\/","id":"9rfsp4","body":"Hey guys - first of all, I want to be clear that I have ZERO intentions of pressing charges or pursuing any legal action, however I was curious as to if one of my college professors just broke the law. \n\nLocation: Alabama\n\nRecently I was diagnosed with a somewhat minor, non-contagious illness that required me to miss a few days from school. The illness was not anything serious or deadly and not contagious to anyone in class, but it was something incredibly embarrassing for me to have. \n\nAfter being told by my doctor to take a week off, I email my professors to let them know of my condition and my short absence. I was extremely clear that I did not want them sharing this information as it was private and strictly medical. \n\nOne of my professors did not care apparently and decided to tell several other professors as well as several of his classes. \n\nI only realized it today when several students were making comments to me about my medical condition which I had no shared with anyone. Several classmates told me that it was the professor telling everyone. \n\nSo with tears in my eyes, I approached him. He laughed at me and told me it wasn\u2019t a big deal. He didn\u2019t care and told me he had more important things to do than to apologize to me because he \u201churt my feelings.\u201d \n\nRegardless, I have contacted the dean of my college to make a formal complaint. I was just curious to know if it was illegal for someone to disclose private medical information such as this. I did make it clear to him that I did NOT want it shared at all, and I have it in writing (email). \n\nThanks guy!!\n","title":"Did My Professor Break the Law?? - Professor shared my personal medical info with several classes and his peers.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551637961,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awwvlm\/can_my_father_disinherit_me_if_no_one_knows_i\/","id":"awwvlm","body":"My father abandoned me when I was a year old in 1984 in New Jersey. He currently has three adult children that are younger than me and a wife. I really doubt he told anyone that I exist because I\u2019m mixed raced and a Bastard. \nHe is a wealthy doctor and I assume he doesn\u2019t want me to inherit anything of his. I read about a law in California that said if you have a child and don\u2019t mention them in the will you can\u2019t disinherit them.  If he never mentioned me in his will but I can prove I\u2019m his first born child, could I contest the will when he dies? Random curve ball: there is a contract that states I can\u2019t interfere with his life.","title":"Can my father disinherit me if no one knows I exist?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1550241848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqx7yg\/negative_retro_adjustment_from_25_years_ago\/","id":"aqx7yg","body":"Hello, my paycheck shows a negative retro adjustment when I call my HR they say it was from an overpayment from 2.5 years ago. I'm concerned because I can't check my timesheets that far back. Is there a time limit on when they can make adjustments? Thanks for you time. ","title":"Negative retro adjustment from 2.5 years ago","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442477855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3la1vx\/how_to_get_arrest_records_taken_down_and_can_we\/","id":"3la1vx","body":"My friend was released yesterday from jail. They were arrested for failure to appear and the police released her because she did appear. It was a filing error at the court that ended up with her being arrested and she would have missed the appointment with her probation officer if it wasn't for being bailed out if she would have missed that appointment she would have lost her pretrial diversion and would have gotten more charges. She is suffering from withdrawal from her medicine as they didn't let her take the medicine she had when she was arrested or provide her with the medicines during the 5 days she was in jail. She was arrested in error and now were trying to get the pictures and records off of the following sites: http:\/\/florida.arrests.org\/ http:\/\/openpasts.com https:\/\/mugshotsearch.org https:\/\/www.usinq.com\/ www.floridablotter.com and I'm pretty sure there are other places I missed. but the arrest was made in error and she has lost job offers from this. Is there any way that she can get her records taken down from those websites.\n\nMy second question is can we sue due to the fact that this arrest was made in error and has put her life in danger. Some of the medications she was on could have killed her from stopping taking them without being weaned off. right now she is in her room crying because she lost her job from this and is having trouble finding a new job due to having a record. All we want is really to get her information taken down. she's convinced that her life has been ruined.\n\nalso update of this post: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3klz14\/fl_arrested_for_failure_to_appear_in_court_but\/","title":"How to get arrest records taken down and can we sue for the arrest. [FL]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539223457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n5t46\/detention\/","id":"9n5t46","body":" My friend got detention for throwing a glass bottle, and he now has trash pick up during lunch. I'm wondering how long he legally gets for his lunch. Hes a middle school student in a LAUSD school. ","title":"Detention","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570440505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deh3bf\/i_called_cps_on_my_partner_for_neglect_and_took\/","id":"deh3bf","body":"I currently live in Kansas. I moved here from Colorado when I was 8 months pregnant with my baby,  since then things have gone down hill, but my baby's currently 10 months old.  This happened today, and there's a lot to unpack, so any type of advice is welcome. \nI have a ten month old baby that my partner and I are supposed to take turns watching while the other is at work. I work part time during the days, and he works full time at nights. \nSince my baby was born he's completely neglected her unless we have company over. He'll leave her in her crib with the lights off and door closed for hours at a time while I'm at work without checking on her. Many times I'll get home from work and she'll be swollen from crying and covered in poop. It's gotten to the point where I've started leaving bottles in her crib with her just so she can eat while I'm gone. \nToday I asked him to watch her while I go to church with a friend, and while I was gone he not only ignored my child, he threw my kitten outside in the cold for hours before she finally \"escaped her kennel.\" Since meeting him he's gotten rid of three cats, each one was an I'm sorry present for the last one he got rid of. \nI immediately packed my child and left to stay at a friend's house.\nHe called me four times on my phone while I was sobbing in the living room to bring him something to drink from the kitchen, with no remorse. \nToday I took our shared car, that's under my name, and he's called the cops on me. As well as threatened me with legal action he's been going to all my friends houses to try and find my child and I. \nHe'll push my daughter if she tries climbing on him while he plays video games, and will yell at her if she touches him when he fails asleep on the couch after playing video  games. He throws things at our dog, hit me so hard it left welts, and has broken numerous things around our home, and opened\/ maxed out three lines of credit with my information promising to pay it off. \nTl;dr My partner consistently neglects our baby and expects me to be his mom, while taking care of all the house work. We currently rent an apartment, and I have $30k of debt he's wracked up in my name. My mom who lives in Colorado has offered for me to stay with her rent free if I move back.  I'm going to the police in the morning to report the situation, but I want to know what I can do with the debt, how to get out of the apartment, if I can get in throuble for removing my child, and if I can take my daughter out of the state.","title":"I called CPS on my partner for neglect and took my baby to stay with a friend, partner is threatening to call the cops on me for kidnapping","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569866970,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbfmak\/palmer_recovery_attorneys\/","id":"dbfmak","body":"Has anybody every heard of Palmer Recovery Attorneys? I can't tell if they are a legitimate company\/ law office or just a huge scam. Many Google reviews claim that they are a scam and give them a rating of 1.6 stars. SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP!!!! I've googled them and tried other search engines but haven't got a definitive answer on whether they are legit or not.","title":"Palmer Recovery Attorneys","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553382513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4ph0s\/my_dad_was_arrested_for_beating_my_momim_want\/","id":"b4ph0s","body":"I\u2019m still reeling. My stepdad (J) put my mom (m) in the hospital on Thursday after beating her with a painting. I wasn\u2019t there, I\u2019m in college and returned home as soon as I found out, and this is the first time my 8yr old brother (b) had to deal with it on his own. I\u2019m usually there to lock us in a safe space I built in our house so my dad can\u2019t hurt us. M got a protection order and as of right now is considered separated from J. I don\u2019t know how to help her, as she wants to take him back. J comes from good amounts of money though and is willing to fight for custody of B.  Money talks a lot in our town, and I\u2019m scared he\u2019ll win. I\u2019m also scared they\u2019ll get back together and eventually J will hurt or kill M and hurt B or even kill him. The rest of my family believes he\u2019ll kill them as well. I\u2019m so scared. I know I couldn\u2019t actually express my anger towards M for her wanting to take J back, she\u2019s already blaming herself and I can\u2019t hurt her anymore right now. I will have a serious talk later, but in the meantime what can I do to help her? Is there anyway that, if M does return with J, I could get custody of B? I\u2019m a college student (20F) with a job and am engaged to a fianc\u00e9 who works full time. We can afford an apartment and we both have cars. I have no student loans. J will hurt them, I know he will. He\u2019s done this before in the past and he\u2019s told b he doesn\u2019t really love him. I\u2019m so heartbroken, I\u2019m so lost. I don\u2019t know what to do. Someone help me please","title":"My dad was arrested for beating my mom\u2014I\u2019m want custody of my brother in case she takes him back.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568438425,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d412w8\/my_boss_forced_me_to_coming_is_when_j_was_sick\/","id":"d412w8","body":"I live in Hampton Roads Virginia, I would rather not say the exact city because I am still currently employed at this company.\nI work for a private country club in Hampton Roads as a cart attendant. For the attorneys here, I may have even helped you with your bags once. \n\nAnyway, a few weeks ago (Labor day weekend) I was scheduled to be off for that weekend. Theast day before those three days, I had attempted to move a large drum full of golf balls and I injured my back, although I didn't know it was an injury until I got home and moved the wrong way. I wasn't even able to turn my back at all, let alone sleep. The next morning, I got a call asking where I was and why j wasn't at work. I had a copy of the schedule on my phone and it showed me as being off for the next three days. I told them this and the manager called back and told me I had to come in immediately. I explained that I would if I could, but I had hurt my back very bad and was in no condition to work. A chiropractor corroborated this with a note later in the day. My manager said he needed me anyway. I told him I would not be coming into work to mess my back up even more. No. \n\nTwo days later, supposed to be my last day off, I woke up with a fever and nausea. I got a call from my boss, again asking me where I was and why I wasn't at work. I, again, explained that I was scheduled to be off for the past three days. He said that that was wrong and that I needed to get into work asap. I then told him I was sick, and he said, and I quote, \"do you want to work here?\" I said yes, then he said \"then you better get down here\". So I showered and went to work feeling miserable. Ever since then, I have started recording all","title":"My boss forced me to coming is when j was sick and tried to make me come in after a work related injury","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443720385,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n4j5p\/central_texas_custody_concerns\/","id":"3n4j5p","body":"I'm having a difficult time getting in touch with my lawyer and am hoping to find some reassurance in the meantime.\n\nMy soon to be ex wife and I live in central Texas and are fighting over custody of our 6 year old daughter.  When we filed our divorce papers in July, she agreed to 50\/50 custody.  She would keep our daughter for a week, then I would, etc.\n\nFor the months of July and August this is how it worked.  She kept her for a week, then I kept her for a week.  When our daughter started school however, she has begun to only let me see her on weekends.  I get to pick her up from school on Friday and take her back to school on Monday.\n\nThis is unfair and not what we agreed upon so I have asked my lawyer to ask for a hearing to temporarily order my wife to give me the 50\/50 custody we agreed upon until, at least until we have our divorce hearing and the judge sorts everything out.  The temporary orders hearing is at the end of October.\n\nI just started a new job that runs from 8-5, and I'm not sure of how to deal with my daughter's school schedule.  I have no problems getting her to school, but her school lets out at 3 and I don't get out of work until 5.  I don't have any family that are available to pick up my daughter after school, everyone works.\n\nCurrently, my boss is letting me leave work to pick up my daughter from school (I work in a very small office) and keep her there until quit time.  My wife is a part time substitute teacher and works at the same school our daughter attends, so she is able to just take her home with her.\n\nI'm extremely concerned about custody during the summer time.  My wife will not be working during the summers, but I will be.  I'm afraid that will affect my chances of keeping my daughter.\n\nThe one time I actually got to speak with my lawyer, she told me I have a really good case against my wife in our divorce and a really good chance at getting the 50\/50 custody I want, but  I'm starting to have doubts though due to scheduling conflicts.\n\nAre my fears substantiated?  Is there anything I can do to improve my chances?  I love my daughter more than anything and not being able to see her is killing me.","title":"(Central Texas) - Custody concerns","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552475006,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0koej\/us_amazon_echo_alexa_search_warrant\/","id":"b0koej","body":"Hi,\n\nI'm a german law student and this is for a research project, so there is no real case to this question. I want to know if in the US the authorities\/prosecution can obtain audio recordings and other data which Amazon collected through Alexa-Devices (e.g. Amazon-Echo). \n\n​\n\nI don't want you to do my work for me, but I would be really thankful for a starting point. So where do I have to look? Is this state or federal law which would govern such a procedure\/search warrant? Is there a statute?","title":"(US) Amazon Echo \/ Alexa Search Warrant","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569890719,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dblays\/parents_trying_to_get_me_to_sign_and_notarize\/","id":"dblays","body":"A couple things to know as background info are that my mom is crazy, manipulative and very wealthy so she has tons of resources at her disposal. I\u2019m a college student graduating in a year where I\u2019ll be financially on my own and I live in Texas. \n\nA while back she tried to get me to sign some documents for \u201cmedical purposes\u201d which is BS. One of the documents was a medical power of attorney, but she also snuck in a statutory durable power of attorney (with a ton of added clauses, will give examples in a second) and a HIPPA agreement so she could see all my records. She is now trying to get me to sign a car title and I\u2019m concerned she\u2019s gonna try and copy my signature as she has connections at the bank she wanted to notarize these documents at. \n\nAll of the documents combined would give her complete control over every aspect of my (and my future husband and kids) life. A couple examples include: \n- \u201cconvey any and all assets of my estate into such trust or trusts as my agent shall seem proper...\u201d\n- \u201cconvey any or all of my property whether real or personal into any limited partnership which my family shall establish in the future in return for a limited partnership in said partnership\u201d \n- \u201cto transact with the United States Post Office on my behalf including but not limited to receiving my mail and placing change of address requests\u201d \n\nThere\u2019s about 3-4 pages of these different types of clauses and a couple others (paraphrased) mean she could have access to a safety deposit box in my name, have access to any bank account with my name, loan my money (with or without interest) along with tons of others and there is also a clause saying I (not her) would be responsible for ANY damages done while she was \u201cacting in my name\u201d and she has the legal right to sue any third party who refuses to treat her as if she were me. \n\nWould there be any way for me to know if she forged my signature? I\u2019m worried she\u2019ll forge and then rack up debt or break the law and I won\u2019t know until it\u2019s too late. Any help is appreciated! \n\nIf you think this sounds like a ridiculous soap opera, damn I wish it was. But hey you can\u2019t pick family right?","title":"Parents trying to get me to sign and notarize sketchy documents sos","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1503007077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uddrr\/north_east_pennsylvania_us_i_received_a_letter\/","id":"6uddrr","body":"My one insurance paid half,  but they never tried billing my secondary insurance despite repeated attempts at giving them the information. The first time being less than 18 hours after my spinal surgery. What do I do now? They said I have 30 days to contact them.\n\nThank you so much for your time \n\nSorry if I didn't use the correct flair. ","title":"[north east Pennsylvania US] I received a letter from a collection agency asking for roughly 40 grand of an 80 grand bill.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540914874,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sp7y0\/usingeviction_notice_with_airbnb_laws_about_30\/","id":"9sp7y0","body":"\\*\\*We live in Chicago\\*\\*\n\nMy friend has received an eviction notice from her landlord (she's $1500 behind on rent from the summer). She tried doing a weekly payment of $500 for the next three weeks to pay it off but they don't care. They want her gone.\n\nHere's the real issue:\n\nUnfortunately, she dragged me into this mess a few months ago. She told me she needed to sublease the apartment until summer cause she was moving back into the student dorms but had signed a lease until next summer (2019). I told her to just airbnb it because she could cover rent and make extra money that way. She asked me to help, in exchange for 10%, with cleaning the studio and making it presentable. She failed to tell me she was extremely behind on rent so I thought this plan would go smoothly. I find out two weeks ago that she received an eviction notice. We have a guest currently staying until November 10th (the eviction papers were received Oct 16th). Last night, I got a message from the guest saying she had checked the mail and saw in big red letters \"EVICTION NOTICE\" which obviously worried her. I told her we were aware and it was being handled but she wanted confirmation that she wasn't going to have her possessions taken\/doors locked while staying in our airbnb. Now, I'm trying to get my friend to call her landlord and find out but honestly, she's an emotional mess who isn't really doing much to figure this situation out and is expecting me to do all the labor and work for her.\n\nI just want to know if the 30 days applies in this situation. Should our airbnb guest be worried?","title":"usingEviction Notice with AIRBNB (laws about 30 days) help!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445563876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pumiu\/indie_game_contracts\/","id":"3pumiu","body":"I've got an artist and another coder that will help me start out with my game that I'm trying to make. Since this will basically make up the entire group, I'm wondering how I should pay them. Also I need to create contracts for the two, stating specific duties and to avoid legal conflict. I have no idea how to do that, and I was hoping to be pointed in the right direction","title":"Indie game contracts?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569353198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8s25a\/divorce_case_no_kids_tennessee_several_questions\/","id":"d8s25a","body":"I am currently going through a divorce and need some legal advice.  Four months ago I paid for a lawyer and wrote up terms to divorce from my husband with the reason being irreconcilable differences.  On May 5th 2019 I left my home in the middle of the night after having a fight with my husband.  I was afraid for my safety after he had drove me out far into the country and ranted about things I can't even understand. My husband still resides in said home.  The home mortgage is in my name, but he is on the deed and I have made the payment to have him removed from the deed.  The terms allow him to take all he owns, including his car (which was purchased with a loan in my name as well), but he must leave the house 30 days after the terms are signed.  The terms were originally 90 days, but now that we are 120+ days out I have changed the terms to 30 days.  The problem is, as you may have guessed, he won't go sign.  \n\n\nMy husband works for Target and has told me all his legal fees will be paid for since he is in management (works as security manager), but I'm not sure what that really covers.  I am afraid to have him served considering I feel he will fight me in court over this, and I'd rather settle this a simply as I possibly can.  He was making more money than me, but I recently received a promotion and will now be making the same as he is.  I feel a little more comfortable taking him to court now, but it still bothers me that it will be 100% free (according to him) and he can fight me as long as he wants.  I have continued to pay for the mortgage even though I do not reside in the home, I also pay for utilities still. We only have one joint bank account and it's a billing account that we both put money into each month to cover all expenses. I fully own my car, but he's still paying on his car loan.  He also has massive debt with paypal credit as well as student loans.  There have been a few domestic issues I'd rather not discuss, but a domestic occurrence was filed by him one time when I left after we had a fight (before we separated).  He was afraid the neighbors heard.  I have medical records to coincide with this incident the following day. No charges were pressed. I'm not sure how that would be handled in court though.  \n\n\nBasically, I want to know how my case will possibly be judged.  I have tried to play this out in a manner that would have only myself going to court to finalize the divorce after he signs, but it seems he will never go sign no matter what.  I really just want my house back, and to be back with my pets.  I'd rather not go through a long court case, so if there are any other options I'd like to know what they are.  I have not gone back to my lawyer to start the serving process, which is also why I am writing this as I feel like my only option is going to be having him served.  Any legal advice would be greatly appreciated, and thank you if you've taken the time to read all the way through this.","title":"Divorce Case - No Kids - Tennessee - Several Questions","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503065606,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ui310\/is_there_a_statute_of_limitations_on_traffic\/","id":"6ui310","body":"I currently live in Ohio and have for about 15 years.  Yesterday I received a card saying that an arrest warrant has been issued for my arrest.  I called the number included and found out that I have a ticket for speeding and for no insurance (failure to maintain financial responsibility i think). The county of Florence( I think the city is Kileen) is where the ticket was written and was closed when I called last night.   \n\nI called today and spoke to the county they informed me that the tickets were written on 2\/17\/2001.  They were turned into a warrant 6\/21\/2016 and I received the notification yesterday 8\/17\/2017.\nThe lady I spoke with let me know that there is no statute of limitations on traffic tickets, and that they are a small town that doesn't even have a jail and doesn't have the officers to enforce warrants. Therefore Williamson County picked up the backlog of tickets and was going through all of them.  However she also mentioned that they did this 8 years ago. \n\nI did a google search and it says that there is a 2 year statute of limitations on traffic tickets and class 'c' misdemeanors.\n\nSource: http:\/\/wwwtrafficticket.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/statute-of-limitations-on-traffic.html\n\nThe tickets come out to a little over 800 dollars.  Should I go ahead and pay the tickets?  Or should I get a lawyer and fight them? \n\nIt was over 16 years ago and I vaguely remember this, the car was my brothers and at the time I don't think he had insurance. So i can't get that dismissed.  The area was a known speed trap but again after 16 years I can't be 100% on that. ","title":"Is there a statute of limitations on traffic tickets? (Texas)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540869736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sk9sx\/speeding_ticket_question\/","id":"9sk9sx","body":"I am in Nebraska, and I was driving on a one-lane highway and there was this car that was riding my ass the whole time and wouldn't pass me even when we went through towns with two lanes. It was kind of freaking me out because it was dark, I was alone, and there have been quite a few cases of women being followed by traffickers in areas close to where I was, so I was speeding through a little town going 45 in a 30 to try and get a few cars between us when I was pulled over.\n\nI know I should have explained to the cop what was going on (I don't know if it would have helped but I regret not saying anything). \n\nAnyway, I got a ticket (my first ever) last year and took a stop class so i'm not eligible to take another one- I don't care about paying the ticket but I really don't want it to go on my driving record and raise my insurance. I did some research and it looks like I could possibly request a mitigation hearing, or try to have it deferred, but I have no idea how to go about doing either of those. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!  ","title":"Speeding ticket question","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570450648,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deimsz\/fl_other_driver_ran_a_red_light_hit_my_truck_and\/","id":"deimsz","body":"A couple of weeks ago, my truck was hit as I was taking a left turn on green arrow. The other driver, a 76 year old woman, ran the red light, clipped my truck, and then left the scene without so much as tapping her brakes. Fortunately for me, my girlfriend was in the car behind me and pursued her down the street. My girlfriend was able to get a picture of the other driver\u2019s license plate and the damage to their car, which we turned over to law enforcement. The deputies on the scene confirmed that another deputy went to the address attached to the plate number and found the damaged car outside, but couldn\u2019t get ahold of the owner. We were free to go, so I reported to my insurance and went about my night\nMy insurance asked for a copy of the police report, so about a week later I went to pick up a copy. The report clearly states that I had right of way and the other driver ran a red, but there was nothing listed under the traffic infractions section about the other driver fleeing the scene or running the red light. Now her insurance is denying my liability claim because their driver was not on scene to give her side of the story (because she fled the scene), and the report was \u201cone-sided\u201d. The Sheriff\u2019s department will not get back to me with answers on why they have not filed charges against the other driver, even though I have called multiple times and left messages in multiple departments since receiving the police report. \nIs it time to file suit? Can I name the sheriff\u2019s department in my suit as well? What possible reason would they have for not pressing charges?\nTIA","title":"[FL] Other driver ran a red light, hit my truck, and sped off. No charges were pressed when they were found, and her insurance insurance has denied liability.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552274161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azo8z0\/separation_in_sc_usa\/","id":"azo8z0","body":"My wife kicked me out last Christmas. My children have been at my apartment every weekend this year.\n\nI want to move away from SC to make more money from work.\n\nWhat documents should I file to ensure my wife doesn't claim I abandoned her? More to the point, what could I do to take my kids with me?\n\nAs far as I know, she has not filed anything yet either.","title":"Separation in SC, USA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568571705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4oa1w\/college_kids_blocked_all_parking_near_my_house_i\/","id":"d4oa1w","body":"I live in a suburb in a college town.    Most of the suburbs are occupied by college kids who throw parties on game days.\n\n\nLast night was a football game and college kids had all their friends over and parked in all our spots near my house.  If I was to park somewhere else near my house, it would be over a couple blocks away.  \n\nI go get groceries, come back and see my spot is taken.  I stop in front of my house, grab the groceries and run them in.  Put the cold stuff away in the freezer, and come back out to see a man giving parking tickets to like 15 cars on the wrong side of the street, mine included.  \n\nI walk up to him and explain that there is so many cars I couldn't stop near my house and I'm moving my car right now.\n\nHe himself pointed out how there were 3 cars against the fence on the corner of our suburb (my house is on the corner) where people parked like 3-5 feet away from each other taking up a lot of parking space. \n\nI agreed and said \"Is there any chance I can just move my car and not get this?\"\n\nObviously not but it was worth a shot.\n\nI move my car a few blocks down and take pictures of the cars blocking our parking area. \n\nI wrote an appeal about how college kids are stopping us from being able to park anywhere near our house and I attach pictures of the parking that the cars stopped me from parking in my usual spot.\n\nI am frustrated, obviously, expecting the have to pay the fine.  \n\nIs there any chance that my reasoning and appeal will be accepted and I won't pay the fine?","title":"College kids blocked all parking near my house. I stop in front of my house on the wrong side of street to drop off groceries. When I come out, parking ticket.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552353561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b01nw7\/ct_is_my_tenant_legally_protected_to_smoke\/","id":"b01nw7","body":"We have a tenant that qualifies for for a medical marijuana license under Connecticut state law, and a few tenants in the condominium have called the HOA (who have since contacted us) to complain.  We contacted the tenant and told them that we didn't have an issue with his use of marijuana, but rather that (1) they were smoking it in the rental unit when our lease explicitly states \"no smoking\" (i.e., not specific to tobacco, etc.), and (2) other owners were complaining to the HOA. We have since asked the tenant to not smoke in the interior of the property, and stated that we had no issue with them using any legally prescribed substances in the property as long as it didn't potentially damage the unit or cause the neighbors concern.  The reason for this post is that the tenant believes they are protected under the above mentioned Connecticut state law to smoke, specifically, inside of the rental unit.  Does anyone have any insight? ","title":"[CT] Is my tenant legally protected to SMOKE medical marijuana in my rental?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552992833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2vydu\/she_isnt_letting_me_get_a_dna_test_done_to_see_if\/","id":"b2vydu","body":"I was with this girl for 3 months and she slept with her ex husband while off of birth control without telling me she was off to try and trap him into a relationship with the kid. Now she is refusing to get a dna test done and I don\u2019t know what to do in this situation.","title":"She isn\u2019t letting me get a dna test done to see if the kid is mine.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571196835,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dijhwo\/mls_player_wont_pay_what_he_owes_for_jewelry_he\/","id":"dijhwo","body":"I sold jewelry to a MLS player and he is refusing to send over the full amount of payment he owes me.\n\nSold two pieces to him- a baguette bracelet and ring- agreed upon price was $4000. He paid $800 as a deposit and asked that I overnight ship him the items.\n\nAfter he received the items, he was satisfied with the product and then later stated it wasn\u2019t worth the price that he paid for and said that he would send $1700 more as he believed the items were worth. \n\nI told him that he could just return the items, but he insisted that he liked the pieces and that what he was sending to me was a fair price.\n\nI have screenshots to all the messages showing he agreed to the price, how he liked the items, and him stating he would only pay $1700 more. Also have proof of shipping, taxes, and related proof of what I paid for the jewelry.\n\nI\u2019m still owed $1500 from him and am wondering what the best avenues are to pursue the rest of the payment from him.","title":"MLS Player won\u2019t pay what he owes for jewelry he bought","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553517159,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5a47k\/my_school_is_breaking_the_law_while_stalking\/","id":"b5a47k","body":"So I go to GEMS Wellington International School, Dubai.\n\nAfter a while here, I've noticed it's been installing FortiClient on some Windows laptops without our knowledge, permission or consent. Our school uses FortiGuard to ban some websites in our school, but this was too far. I ask the IT Admin about it, and he made up some gibberish about our parents saying yes. I've asked my parents and friends parents, but no firm mentions anything about it or computers or internet. Does this violate the Computer Misuse Act?","title":"My school is breaking the law while stalking their students at home?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1442974482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m0leh\/ca_landlord_entered_without_notice_not_sure_how\/","id":"3m0leh","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice,\n\nThis is in Berkeley, California. \n\nBack story: The water heater was having issues around three weeks ago, they sent someone out to fix it. There have been no issues since. They did not inform me that any additional work was necessary.\n\nI came home early from work today to find my front door unlocked, and an extension cord hanging from the roof in front of it. There was a man inside who claimed to be working on my hot water heater, which he did appear to be doing, although he did not have any tools. He informed me that the manager let him in to the apartment. I received absolutely no advance notice, verbal or otherwise, that anyone would be entering my apartment today. I am very upset about the situation, I am concerned they could've entered my apartment without my knowledge in the past. I took a picture of the open front door and extension cord, but not the individual actually inside the apartment. The fact that I did not receive any notice regarding the entry seems to violate Civil Code 1954, and I am not sure how to proceed. I am considering taking them to small claims court (along with my roommate).\n\nHow should I proceed? Do I have a good chance of winning in small claims court? Is it worth the trouble?\n\nEDIT:\nI would like to state that the landlords and management have done multiple things to warrant my ire. If they are relevant I will be happy to share, but what I am trying to say is, they have not ever shown me any lenience, and they are excessively pedantic and disagreeable. Thus, I am not terribly concerned about our relationship.","title":"[CA] Landlord entered without notice, not sure how to respond","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552924502,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2kcwp\/vafl_my_father_was_arrested_over_charges_he\/","id":"b2kcwp","body":"My father was charged with embezzlement in 2014. I could debate if he actually did it or not, but that\u2019s not why I\u2019m here. I\u2019m here because my mother has to support 5 kid by herself while he is sitting in jail over something that was thought to be resolved.\n\nNow as for some more background; He ended up pleading guilty to the charges to avoid trial time and etc. so he received probation. Although on probation he was allowed to move to Florida with the rest of my family and report into a PO here. This was resolved years ago and he has since had to claim bankruptcy due to him not being able to afford the court fees. Anyways, last night my father was arrested when he was pulled over and ended up popping for a Warrant that was taken out in 2016. Mind you he has been pulled over before yesterday and he has never ran into trouble with that. Now he\u2019s sitting in a Florida jail waiting to be extradited back to Virginia to attend court. I\u2019m beyond stressed\/scared because I had to come home from school to help my mother with this situation. I\u2019m trying to resolve this as quickly as possible, but I don\u2019t know where to start. \n\nWhat exactly should I be doing in this situation to help speed up the process?\n\nTL;DR dad arrested on charges he already served his time for now he\u2019s being extradited back to the state he received said charges ","title":"(VA)(FL) My father was arrested over charges he already served probation for and now they\u2019re trying to extradite him from Florida to Virginia","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541618230,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v2dz7\/i_screwed_up_a_decade_ago_and_dont_know_what_to\/","id":"9v2dz7","body":"I need help. I am 36 and at the end of my wits, I have struggled with this weight in the back of my mind for over a decade.\n\nI had a fender bender back in the early 2000s and thought that my insurance company handled it. A few years later I received a single claim from a Collection Agency demanding I pay something on the order of 30k to them for an auto accident I caused. They didn't make much of a fuss and I thought they were scammers, which was a thing in the news at the time. Fast forward until i moved back to Florida and I was settling in to try and rebuild my life when I got a letter in the mail revoking my driver's license. \n\nI had a default judgment against me because i never showed up in court. Someone involved lied about serving me as they claimed I was served in NC, while I had already been back living in FL. I have lived with my parents my entire adult life, due to severe social anxiety and depression. They have always shown me love, but have never done well financially. My mother drove me to the courthouse and we tried to investigate what had happened, but living paycheck to paycheck meant we couldn't pay the debt, we couldn't even get a lawyer to talk to us. My father tried to talk to the only lawyer we knew in the family and the asshole disowned the whole family just for asking for his advice on finding a lawyer to talk to about the problem. \n\nThis was over ten years ago and I have had no life and little peace of mind since then. I can no longer go on as things are, but I don't know how to change them. I live in the middle of no where in rural Florida with high poverty and unemployment. I'm not certain I could hold down a minimum wage job if I could find one at this point. I want to rebuild myself, but I keep falling back to remembering this horrible debt and I don't know what to do. I know I haven't gone into the specifics, and as I understand it this is Insurance Subrogation and it tends to be very difficult to navigate. I am here to ask if anyone has a suggestion of what I should do, what I can do. \n\nI haven't been able to go out from my parent's crappy home without one of them to drive me since George W. was president and I'm desperate for any advice, any idea that might give me a chance to start over. In Florida, would a bankruptcy get my license back? Is there anything I can do? I know I screwed up royally. Honestly I don't see any chance to recover but I have to ask. Thank you for your time and my apologies for my terrible writing, I am unable to keep my head straight whenever I think about this issue.","title":"I screwed up a decade ago and don't know what to do, please help","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506345562,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72cd45\/mo_ex_husband_was_homeless_just_moved_in_with\/","id":"72cd45","body":"We have a 12 year old child. He was supposed to have a weekend visit every other week, but has been homeless and only would see our child once a month. He would take our child for a meal and then home. \n\nHe has recently gotten a girlfriend (but only says they're friends) not that it matters I'm just trying to be factual. I looked up her name and she has pending felony charges for synthetic marijuana. She's out on bail awaiting a court date next month. \n\nI told him I'm ok with him seeing her, but don't want our child going to his house and spending the night. \n\nDo I have the right to keep our child away from this situation? What can I do?","title":"[MO] Ex husband was homeless, just moved in with roommate with pending felony drug charges","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568407018,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3v83b\/houston_tx_we_work_from_a_house_neighbors_suing\/","id":"d3v83b","body":"So i think \u201cBusiness Law\u201d is right? \n\nMy boss bought a mansion and he renovated the basement to be an office space for his employees (6 of us). The neighbor filed a lawsuit against us, not really sure for what. The lawyer who came to tell us said, and i quote, \u201cThey\u2019re suing you because you\u2019re hispanic.\u201d \n\nThere are 5 other known companies in the same neighborhood doing the same thing, but they aren\u2019t suing them. \n\nIs there something we could do? \n\nSo far, the lawyer representing us is finding out which houses are the ones who are also running businesses, in order to use it in the case.","title":"(HOUSTON, TX) We work from a house, neighbors suing.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554495873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9w6wd\/my_landlordemployer_wont_allow_my_service_dog\/","id":"b9w6wd","body":"I work for an apartment complex and also live on site. I have a legally signed lease. In the lease, it is stated that huskies are an aggressive breed, therefore, you cannot have them in the apartments. My dog is a husky, but I have papers from a doctor stating that she is my emotional support animal due to some mental health issues I have. I\u2019ve lived here now for about 3 months and have been trying to have my dog live with me. Now that I have papers in hand, my employer\/landlord is still stating that I cannot keep her in the apartments due to her being a husky. Is there any loophole to this? My understanding was that ESA are covered under fair housing laws. TIA","title":"My landlord\/employer won\u2019t allow my service dog","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555267735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd61te\/refund_enrollment_confirmation_deposit_at\/","id":"bd61te","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice,   \n\n\n(sorry if this is the wrong sub to post it in, but I don't know any other better place to ask than here) \n\nI had planned to enroll in the University of Washington last fall (Fall 2018), but I ultimately decided against that. So I wanted to ask if it was possible to get a refund for the enrollment confirmation deposit. I had paid $3000 to enroll in Master of science in computational finance and risk management. The college said this money would also go towards my tuition, but I did not attend this college. When I had paid, the website did they this was nonrefundable, but $3000 is too much for me to go to waste. So is there any way of getting a refund or partial refund?","title":"Refund Enrollment Confirmation Deposit at University of Washington","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569257243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8956h\/inheritance_ripoff_by_sister_imagine_that\/","id":"d8956h","body":"After MANY false expenditures listed on a homemade spreadsheet (even included a copy of a check with it \"filled-in with blue ink on the copy paper), kept 1% of my \"portion\" should anything come up in the next year.\n\nThis isn't legal is it?","title":"Inheritance RIP-OFF by SISTER (imagine that!?)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552478920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0l8j2\/girlfriend_has_an_abusive_father_and_im_losing_my\/","id":"b0l8j2","body":"A few months ago my gf has first told me about her abusive father. He is emotionally and phisically abusing both my gf and her mother. He is a drunk and a junkie, and already divorced with her mother, although they still live together. Her mother still somewhat loves him and this love changes to hate and back again from day to day. It's moving nowhere with his expel from their house as the house is written on their both names, and he refuses to move out. He verbally abuses them, calling them both whores and other names, treating them like shit, he has affairs, comes home drunk and also somewhat beats them although the details on this are unclear to me, as when i tried to pry more out from my gf she quickly changed the subject, knowing i would probably lash out into their house and beat the shit out of him causing further problems to everyone. I never found a visible bruise on my gf though so thats the only thing keeping me rational for now. He doesn't do anything productive around their house and tries to command around it, making my gf dig holes in their garden to put their dogs shit in no matter if its raining or not, cleaning up literally the whole house while hes watching her work and shouting curses on her, being a dick at all time. Sometimes my gf cant sleep during the night as she hears them two arguing for house screaming at each other. I dont even know what more he does and im not sure i even want to. The police has been in their house a couple of times as they or their neighbours called police on him for family abuse, but nothing has ever been solved by that. His brother works at the police and protects him at all costs and he has never had any problems talking his way out.  Now im almost 18 and gf is 16 and I have no clue of what to do now. I would like to beat the living shit out of him but that would definitely get me locked up and bring problems to me, my parents, and what im worried the most is that it would bring problems to my gf as well from her father. Her mother refuses to take him to the court to finally get him evicted or this situation dealt with. I considered hiring a private investigator to dig some dirt on him so he has no chance of escaping the police and a trial next time, but i don't have the money nor the connections to do so. I feel like waiting until she turns 18 and comes to live with me is both dangerous and very uncomfortable for me and her i imagine. Is there anything i could do? please help i am  slowly losing my patience with this guy.","title":"Girlfriend has an abusive father and Im losing my patience","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571564608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkhjii\/my_street_a_dead_end_with_a_roundabout_to_turn\/","id":"dkhjii","body":"Yea, are we only allowed to come but not leave?\nAm I breaking the law for not giving a shit?","title":"My street, a dead end with a roundabout to turn, has been designated a one way road due to construction in an other street.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539234684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n71v1\/i_got_in_an_accident_with_a_police_officer_what\/","id":"9n71v1","body":"This happened on Friday. I drove to jack in the box for lunch and there was a car on fire in the parking lot. I was distracted for obvious reasons and a fire fighter waved at me to turn around as the parking lot was being closed off. I  strarted to do a u turn but a cop was trying to go around me and ended up hitting me. I was going 5 miles an hour tops so it wasnt a bad accident. Just a messed up fender and scratched up door. He then gets out of his vehicle to check the damage. Asks if i didnt hear his siren, i told him i couldnt distinguish between his siren and all the others blaring at the same time. So he calls another officer to do the report. They take my info and pics of the accident, give me a card for the police report and say to get it on monday. Then they send me on my way. I called my insurance company and they tell me nothing can be done without a police report or his insurance info. Ive been checking for the police report and its still not available. I only have liability insurance from a crappy company so i dont expect anything to get fixed but i dont want to be liable for the damage to his vehicle. Is this the same as a regular claim or is it different because its a cop? Friends are telling me to get a lawyer and make the city pay but i dont think its worth it for like $200 worth of damage. Im also considering not making a claim and paying out of pocket but i dont know if the city will come after me for the damage to the cop car. I dont really know what to do. Im in texas too not sure if that matters.","title":"I got in an accident with a police officer. What am I supposed to do?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569986695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc4p4e\/my_wife_fell_for_a_student_loan_forgiveness_scam\/","id":"dc4p4e","body":"I am sorry about the long and possible bad formatted post. I am on mobile and its almost midnight and i cant sleep due to the stress of this.\n\nToday my wife was contacted by a company i will name if applicable. Their located in California.\n\n the company called her for student loan forgiveness and told her it will be forgiven if she pays three monthly payments of $199 starting tomarrow. \n\nShe signed a document, stating they belive she may be eligible to loan forgiveness. Under the belief it will be forgiven under the the premise of three payments and 22 months of payments of 0 dollars. \n\nOn the second page she skimmed through it says\n\"We\tare\ta\tprivate \tcompany\tnot\taffiliated\twith\tthe\tDepartment\tof \tEducation.\"\n\nThe next page is her info, ssn and adress\n\nThe next two pages are terms i can copy and paste but im not two worried about them.\n\nIve read this document and i am concerned about a few things primarily that she signed limited power of attorney and i dont understand that it means. Stating\n\n\"1 Principal hereby grants to said attorney in fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing which may be necessary, or convenient, in connection with any of the foregoing, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as principal might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that our said attorney in fact shall lawfully do or cause to be done by authority hereof to communicate with the Department of Education (DOE), DOE loan servicers, licensed collection agencies, and all other related entities and individuals relating to my Federal Student Loans and the specific obligations that Company has undertaken.\n\n2. I understand and agree that Company is not authorized to dispense any legal advice, nor will I request or accept such, relating to my personal financial situation. All communications between my creditors, the parties listed above and Company are with my express permission and instruction. I understand that Company is not a law firm, is not licensed to practice law or provide legal advice, and I expressly agree to waive, forgo, indemnify and defend any claim by Principal against Company relating to the practice of law. I understand that any creditor or collection activity, demands, or lawsuits are unrelated to my enrollment in the Company program.\n\n3 in accordance with Section 805(b) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, I hereby authorize third party communication from any and all employees of the Department of Education (DOE), DOE loan servicers, licensed collection agencies and all creditors or other third parties to communicate directly with Company concerning my account or the collection activities associated with it.\"\n\nThe next page im concerned about is the next page where my wife gave our bank routing info and number to make these three payments.  \n\nAnd the last page is a cancellation page and states\n\nYou\tmay\tcancel\tthis\ttransaction,\twithout\tany\tpenalty\tor\tobligation\twithin\t3\tbusiness\tdays\tfrom\tthe\tabove\tdate.\t (Alaska\tResidents\t5\tdays)\t If\tyou\tcancel,\tany\tproperty\ttraded\tin,\tany\tpayments\tmade\tby\tyou\tunder\tthe\tcontract\tor\tsale,\tand\tany\tnegotiable\t instrument\texecuted\tby\tyou\twill\tbe\treturned\twithin\t10\tbusiness\tdays\tfollowing\treceipt\tby\tthe\tseller\tof \tyour\t cancellation\tnotice,\tand\tany\tsecurity\tinterest\tarising\tout\tof\t the\ttransaction\twill\tbe\tcancelled.\t If \tyou\tcancel,\tyou\tmust\tmake\tavailable\tto\tthe\tseller\tat\tyour\tresidence,\tin\tsubstantially\tas\tgood\tcondition\tas\twhen\t received,\tany\tgoods\/services\tdelivered\tto\tyou\tunder\tthis\tcontract or\tsale;\tor\tyou\tmay\tif\tyou\twish,\tcomply\twith\tthe\t instructions\tof\tthe\tseller\tregarding\tthe\treturn\tshipment\tof\tthe\tgoods\/services\tat\tthe\tseller\texpense\tand\trisk.\t If\tyou\tdo\tmake\tthe\tgoods\/services\tavailable\tto\tthe\tseller\tand\tthe\tseller\tdoes\tnot\tpick\tthem\tup\twithin\t20\tdays\tof\tthe\t date of\t your\tnotice\tof\t cancellation,\tyou\tmay\tretain\tor\tdispose\tfor\tthe\tgoods\/services\tto\tthe\tseller\tand\tfail\tto\tdo\tso,\t then\tyou\tremain\tliable\tfor\tperformance\tof \tall\tobligations\tunder\tthe\tcontract.\t To \tcancel\tthis\ttransaction,\tmail\tor\tdeliver\ta\tsigned\tand\tdated\tcopy\tof\tthis\tcancellation\tnotice\tor\tany\tother\twritten\t notice\tto:\t\"company name\" and \"incomplete adress\"\n\nI am hoping on what we can do to fix this, legally other than just not paying it. \n\nThank you for your time. I do appreciate any help.","title":"My wife fell for a student loan forgiveness scam, please help. MA","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508074226,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76ixzr\/road_rage_incident_is_not_being_considered_and\/","id":"76ixzr","body":"I was driving my car along this stretch of road that has a speed limit of 25 mph. Yes, very slow. I always travel at that speed there, especially since I see many cops pulling people over for speeding. Last week, some asshole behind me is aggressively tailgating my car, honking his horn, and trying to force me to go faster. I refuse to, and follow the law. As I get to a stoplight, he gets out of the car, and runs to mine, slamming his hands against the driver side window and my hood. I try to speed out of there, but he starts to follow me. Eventually, he runs my car off the road, and into a ditch. My front bumper comes loose from this incident.\n\nThe police are called. They tell me that what happened was a lie, also accuse me of just telling a tale in order to avoid being busted for falling asleep while driving. I'm not sure where they got that idea from... I was anything but sleepy, I was panicked. I never got the other driver's license plate because he was behind me the whole time, just the make and model of the car...I guess? It was dark since it was past 10pm... I was given a two tickets, one for reckless driving, and another for \"drowsy driving\"(???).\n\nDue to this, my insurance will not cover the accident, and I am officially \"at fault\". \n\nWhat can I do now? Is there any way I can get the police to amend their report? Can I convince the insurance company it's not my fault? I drove past a Wal*Mart during the chase but would they have cameras outside, near the entrance? Thanks, I appreciate any help I can get... The state is New Jersey btw.","title":"Road Rage incident is not being considered, and police think I was just \"drowsy\", help?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444699669,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oj15i\/whats_the_legality_of_sex_chat_rooms_alabama\/","id":"3oj15i","body":"Long story short, I live in the middle of podunk nowhere Alabama. You know the stereotype of the \"xenophobic black\/gay hating\" redneck from the deep south? I live in a small town of hundreds of them, my family is them. The problem is that I think I might be gay. I really want to explore this side of my sexuality but I have to do it in secret. Thank god we live in the modern age and we have the internet. \n\nBasically I want to try out some adult only chat rooms and see how I feel, and I want to be a responsible adult and research this first. I'm 20, but what is the legality of this? Obvious I'm fine if it's an adult only chat room and I'm an adult, but what about the others I will interact with? What's my liability? ","title":"What's the legality of sex chat rooms? [Alabama]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1550858772,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atkr8f\/stepgrandparent_illegally_changed_my_grandfathers\/","id":"atkr8f","body":"Location: Pennsylvania \n\n\nMy grandfather passed away in October of 2012. \n\n\nHis will originally left 35% to my grandmother and the other 65% was split between my dad, his only child, and myself. \n\n\nThree days before my grandfather passed my grandmother illegally forged his signature updating his will to leave everything to her. Further complicating this my step grandma\u2019s best friend is a lawyer and acted as a witness to the will change. The lawyer was not the original executor of the will but was changed to executor when my grandfather was on his deathbed. \n\n\nWe found out about this about two weeks after he died. My father is horrible with legal matters but additionally my dad\u2019s wife at the time became extremely sick and died within 2 months. He lost his father and wife within weeks of each other and was beside himself with grief. I was 18 at the time and I had no knowledge of any legal recourse we could take against my step-grandparent for changing the will. \n\n\nI know it\u2019s 7 years later but is there anything I can do? I have an original copy of the will and the one with his forged signature and the two look nothing alike. Also he was in a coma so there\u2019s no way he would have been able to sign the will on the date that it was updated. The amount was above 2MM usd and also he had a house worth ~1MM usd. \n\n\nMy step-grandmother cut off contact with us after this event but I know she is still alive.  Is there anything I can do now or is it too late? ","title":"Step-Grandparent illegally changed my grandfather\u2019s will before he died. Is there any recourse I have? [PA, USA]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555020111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc5sx8\/husband_and_wife_live_in_a_house_owned_by_the\/","id":"bc5sx8","body":"Long story short: the husband raped and prevented his wife from having any sort of freedom. Stopping her from going out and getting a job and such. \nNow she wants to be honest with him and tell him that she doesn\u2019t love him anymore. \nThey have 2 kids. She\u2019s afraid he will stop her from seeing them again. \nShe doesn\u2019t have a job and she won\u2019t have a house while she figures some stuff out before leaving herself. If he kicks her out. \n\nQuestion is: can he really? \n\nI\u2019ll give more details if it helps answerinf the question. \nI have another post that gives more info on the story. \n\nThank you","title":"Husband and wife live in a house owned by the husband\u2019s family. Could he legally kick her out?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571170520,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/didp3d\/can_the_city_leave_traffic_cones_on_my_property\/","id":"didp3d","body":"The small town that I live in has been leaving traffic cones on my property for about a week now when they finish the shift they leave them there in my yard. Are they legally allowed to do so? And am I allowed to take one inside to mess with them or is that also illegal?","title":"Can the city leave traffic cones on my property (and can I move them)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444263345,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nwqrp\/az_i_bumped_a_pipe_with_an_old_loose_fitting\/","id":"3nwqrp","body":"Pretty simple situation: a day after doing laundry I was washing my dishes and noticed water coming from the cabinet under the sink. Took a look and the pipe was detached from the drain. (My guess is I bumped the pipe while putting my detergent away.) I reattached it and noticed the ring that secures it (idk what it's called) was old and very loose.\n\nI let my landlord know and he sent someone over to do a repair that took all of 5 minutes. Now they're charging me for the repair and claiming it was my fault. Based on my reading of [ARTLA](https:\/\/housing.az.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/files\/AZ%20Residential%20Landlord%20and%20Tenant%20Act%20-%20Revised%20July%203%202015.pdf), they should be held responsible for maintaining the plumbing, provided I use it reasonably and don't damage it negligently. I'd hardly call bumping a pipe with a bottle of detergent negligent. Then again, IANAL.\n\n [Here](http:\/\/imgur.com\/BTSodNe) is a pic of the paragraph in my lease about maintenance.\n\nDo I have a reason to be stubborn or should I just cough up the $35? We have a new property managemnt company and I'm just afraid if I give 'em an inch they'll take a mile, so it's basically a matter of principle to me (though $35 is still over half a day's pay for a grad student like me!).","title":"[AZ] I bumped a pipe with an old, loose fitting. Petty landlords trying to charge me for the simple repair.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554394803,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9etyk\/myself_and_other_tenants_are_unable_to_contact\/","id":"b9etyk","body":"As the title said, myself and two other tenants are unable to reach our landlord. We take him cash every month for our rent between the 1st and the  4th, or whenever he has replied to us in the past. Sometimes this was after the 5th, and I have worried that since our receipts are dated past the 4th, he will have a way of coming back at us saying our rent was always late, even though he was always late to respond.\n\n​\n\nThat's beside the point, because my roommate and I, as well as the guy who lives in the back of our duplexed house, cannot reach him. We have been calling and texting him since the 1st, to get no response about taking our rent to him.\n\n​\n\nAlso, I messaged him three weeks ago about our toilet seal being broken and the toilet flooding the bathroom to get no response either. I ended up having my friend fix that, as well as the sink in the bathroom that wasn't working. I had to pay for parts, but it wasn't too expensive so I didn't save the receipt.\n\n​\n\nI also receive no AC to my room and my room sits at about 85 degrees unless it's a cooler night. We live in Florida, and I've considered buying a window unit, but they are very expensive for me to have when our lease ends in August. We also have termites for the second time since living here, and I have a lot of nice wooden furniture so this is concerning to me.\n\n​\n\nI am wondering what my rights are, and what I should do since I can't get into contact with him. Am I able to terminate my lease early at this point? Should I find an attorney? Or are these things I just need to wait out and deal with? (I currently have three grand in cash just sitting in my house at some risk of being stolen since I'm unable to take it to the landlord so I'm trying to find out soon if I should not pay rent this month or what)","title":"Myself and other tenants are unable to contact landlord for three weeks now","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553397936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4rx06\/my_subtenants_mother_forged_her_signature\/","id":"b4rx06","body":"I am in the process of subletting my room to someone. I was first in contact with the mother who was arranging everything for her, which I understand since her daughter was busy and needed to find a place to stay.\n\nFast forward to now, I sent out the contract to the mother and asked her if she could get her daughter to sign it and send it back. I got it back with the signature allegedly signed by her daughter, the subtenant. \n\nI am also in contact with her daughter who is basically on board with everything no problems and definitely knows her mom is doing everything for her which is also just fine.\nShe replied to my previous message that I sent before giving the contract to her mother, saying:    \u201cIf you could send over the contract that one be great.\u201d\n\nNow, just a reminder she sent that message after I received the file with \u201cher\u201d signature already so that would lead me to believe she didn\u2019t sign it herself.\n\nSo, I\u2019m just wondering, even under the impression that she is totally fine with her mother forging her signature, should I just let it slide?\nI personally don\u2019t think it\u2019s that big of a deal but since it\u2019s a legally binding contract, I just wanted some quick advice on how I should proceed.\nTIA","title":"My subtenant\u2019s mother forged her signature","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553124416,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3j45o\/im_thinking_of_moving_outdue_to_some\/","id":"b3j45o","body":"I\u2019m going to go ask my landlord tomorrow about it but i just want to make sure I reading my contract correctly. I believe it says I will still be held accountable for the remainder of the lease I have right now even if another different person takes over?\n\n\n\u201cREPLACEMENTS AND SUBLETTING. Replacing a resident, sub- letting, or assignment is allowed only when we consent in writing.\nProcedures for Replacement. If we approve a replacement resident, then, at our option: (1) the replacement resident must sign this Lease Contract with or without an increase in the total security deposit; or (2) the remaining and replacement residents must sign an entirely new Lease\nContract. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, your security deposit will automatically transfer to the replacement resident as of the date we approve. The departing resident will no longer have a right to occupancy or a security deposit refund, but will remain liable for the remainder of the original Lease Contract term unless we agree otherwise in writing\u2014 even if a new Lease Contract is signed.\u201d\n","title":"I\u2019m thinking of moving out(due to some disagreements) and giving my lease to another person.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570201380,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd8k1a\/washington_state_custody\/","id":"dd8k1a","body":"Washington State Custody\n\nMy husband has a six year old daughter who lived with her mother during the week, has always come to our house for weekends.  Child support has been set up through the courts, but there has never been a parenting plan or custody agreement. Last year, birth mother was essentially couch surfing with child. My husband spoke to her about concerns regarding stability for the child. Mother explained she was going to move in with her sister for a year or so and get on her feet. She and child moved in with sister, and within a week mother left. For the past year aunt has been raising child during the week, child continues to come to our home every weekend.  All of this has been agreed on, nothing has ever been established through the court.  We have all just been waiting for the mother to \u201cget on her feet.\u201d  Last we heard, mother is living in a tent and comes by to visit randomly at aunt\u2019s home.  Mother does not have a working phone number and it is very difficult\/impossible for my husband to get a hold of her to discuss their daughter. \n\nMy husband and I are wanting the child to come live with us.  Is there anything legally stopping my husband from just saying she will come live with us?  Aunt has done a wonderful job, but it just doesn\u2019t make sense for her not to live with her father anymore.","title":"Washington State custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553146474,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3msqm\/washington_stateunfair_prenuptial_agreement\/","id":"b3msqm","body":"Hi everyone. I have a question about enforceability of prenuptial agreement. I'm a software engineer with relatively high salary and I'm considering proposing to partner who has minimum wage job\/qualifications. I want to make sure that wealth I get before\/during marriage is fully protected in case of divorce. My guessing is that having agreement to split assets based on income may be considered unfair by judge (since at the time of divorce it'll probably be something like 10%\/90%; no alimony). Is there a way to ensure, that such agreement will be enforced in case of divorce?\n\n​","title":"[Washington state][Unfair prenuptial agreement]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569834038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db8r5e\/scratched_someones_car_but_there_was_already\/","id":"db8r5e","body":"Accidentally scratched someones car when I was pulling out of my cousins house. \n\nThere was barely any damage to both vehicles, but I still exchanged information. Given how they acted, it seems fairly obvious they might try to falsely claim damaged. \n\nTheir car had already had sustained damage where I had impacted (front bumper was falling off, had scratches, and a broken headlight).\n\nWhen I called the police and filed an incident report, the officer literally just shrugged when he saw the damage to my vehicle and just treated it as \"shit happens man\". \n\nIs there anything I can do to make sure that they don't falsely claim damage? \n\nI have a feeling they are going to try to blame me, despite the impact speed and height of my vehicle  making it difficult for me to have caused such damage, for the what they already had on their car. \n\nI've got State farm full coverage and they have some no name local insurance, and I've never been involved in any sort of automotive incident before. \n\nCheers!","title":"Scratched someone's car, but there was already significant damage in the spot that I scratched. How can I prevent them falsely claiming damage on my insurance?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446787250,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rq8u9\/crime_of_passion\/","id":"3rq8u9","body":"US[IL]\nMy friends and I recently read about the disturbing tendency for drivers in Asian countries to repeatedly run over pedestrians they have hit because it winds up costing them significantly less.  The fine for killing a pedestrian is around $70,000 in China.  If the pedestrian is injured instead of killed the driver must cover the costs of their disability, which can be much more expensive.  This causes some drivers to repeatedly run over those who are hit to ensure they are dead.  [A Slate article on the subject if you're interested](http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/foreigners\/2015\/09\/why_drivers_in_china_intentionally_kill_the_pedestrians_they_hit_china_s.html)  As we talked about being put in that situation, having your family member run over repeatedly and then someone trying to offer you money for your silence, most of us agreed we'd beat\/kill the driver over it.  We were very divided on if this would qualify as a crime of passion or not however, and if you would go to jail for a long time.  The split was pretty even as far as minimal jail time, if any vs a long sentence for murder.  Any one with any legal experience want to offer an opinion?  Help us decide the argument?","title":"Crime of passion","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442012649,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3klqn1\/being_accused_of_downloading_music_on_company\/","id":"3klqn1","body":"Hey legal advice,\n\nI'm in an obvious bind here and looking for some advice on how to proceed. This is happening in the US.\n\nOur company gave us all laptops this year. They said to take it home and log on so you know it works the first week. I did but never felt the need to bring it home after that. I logged into my google chrome account to sync my bookmarks but left it at work everyday. Fast forward to September 4th. I was having some java issues and asked the IT guy to come look at it. He was looking at for about 20 minutes before unplugging the thing and leaving. Never heard from him. Over labor day weekend, we get a strongly worded email about what we should and shouldnt be doing on our company laptops such as downloading and sharing music files. i chuckled because seriously who's dumb enough to do that.\n\nwell apparently it was directed towards me. The IT guy took my laptop because he found several pirated \"movies, songs, etc\" on my physical work computer. I was in shock when my boss told me, I couldnt understand how this happened. (I did download some songs the night before but that was on MY personal computer at my house.) Knowing this information, I simply told my boss that I hadnt taken the computer home (I hadn't) but the only thing I did was sync my google chrome (this includes history). My thought was that my IT guy pulled up my history which obviously showed all my devices and saw a few of the torrents. (I'm an idiot for even syncing them in the first place). Anyways, I didn't use the work laptop to do this so I stood my ground. my boss said there were viruses and what not going through the company's servers and it was all found to be from me. I said I would check my computers at home because I had synced my internet. I deleted all my history and what not as soon as I got home. \n\nToday my boss asks me how everything went. I told them I didn't find anything but still insisting I would never do something so stupid on a work laptop. They had talked to the IT guy saying the downloading occurred on that particular computer the night before around 6pm. (I had downloaded the torrents the night before on MY personal computer around 7pm.) The IT has a screenshot he is sending my boss which they are then forwarding to me so I can see what exactly the IT guy is seeing here. I am dumbfounded as how these files I downloaded on MY personal computer are now on a work computer I hadn't taken home that night. And how 10 viruses managed their way onto it as well.\n\nI didn't use the work laptop to illegally download music which I am being accused of doing. Do I have a leg to stand on here? I realize illegally downloading a torrent is a no no in general but I would never be dumb enough to do it on  a work computer. Is my synced history going to get me in trouble? Should I own up to that or continue saying I did not use the work computer to do this? I'm thinking about getting my union involved. I have screenshots of my phone showing me at home that night when the computer was at my workplace. I am dumbfounded as to how this guy can say these files are on the work computer when I clearly have some on MY personal computer 50 miles away. And as far as viruses are concerned, my computer is ok so how are viruses getting into my workplace. \n\nI'm just concerned over my job and being accused of something I didn't \"technically\" do. Any help or advice would be appreciated. \n\nThanks ","title":"Being accused of downloading music on company laptop","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540849385,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9shl8g\/i_need_help_building_a_case_to_convince_my_work\/","id":"9shl8g","body":"Hello Reddit, I'll start with a brief overview of my predicament and then a summary of the information I have so far and then hopefully people who know more can fill in the blanks: \n\nI work as a field service technician that has to travel from location to location with a very small amount of tools and fix different pieces of equipment owned by my company, I get paid portal to portal (I'm on the clock while I'm traveling) using a non commercial vehicle that my company owns and insures (Honda Civic) and because I live in California, I spend about three hours stuck in traffic for every 1 hour of work, so weeks where I work 60+  hours only contain less than 20 hours of actual \"wrench turning\" \n\na big part of my job records Metrics of how many repairs I can make in a week, and how many work orders I can close a month, and because I spend a lot of time in San Francisco, spending much more time stuck in traffic than getting to work on machines, it really screws my metrics and makes me look bad. I'm an avid motorcycle rider with many years of experience and recognize the huge advantage in both time and cost that would come with being able to use a motorcycle (or a personal vehicle regardless, it shouldn't matter) since it cuts a three or four hour gridlock commute down to an hour at best in SF. \n\nI really do love my job, and enjoy all of my clients and I'm strongly motivated to be the most efficient technician I can be, and it causes me a great deal of stress that I get so far behind because it's impossible for me to visit more than two facilities in a day, I brought this particular issue up several months ago and got told no because Company Insurance didn't cover motorcycles \n\nI did a little bit of research and learn that using a personal vehicle while on the clock means that personal insurance is what would cover an accident, not company insurance, but workers comp would pick up damages after my personal insurance Runs Out. \n\nI'm trying to build a credible case to present to the president of the company in a week and a half to try and convince him that I'm not a huge liability, and what the company can do to protect themselves from my additional risk (I will very gladly accept the risk on my behalf because I know motorcycling is dangerous) \n\nFrom my incessant Google searching, who is liable for what seems to be in a lot of Grey area and I'm not exactly the smartest guy in the world to figure it out, and I was hoping somebody here has any advice on what I could do? ","title":"I need help building a case to convince my work to let me ride a motorcycle","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539528197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o37rm\/update_visible_mood_growing_on_apartment_walls_tx\/","id":"9o37rm","body":"I sent an email with pictures to my leasing company\/management on Thursday, October 11th. \n\nThey sent a man from the management company as a \u201cmold inspector\u201d on Friday, October 12th. He looked at the mold, literally said \u201cYeah that\u2019s mold.\u201d And then **said** they would take care of it. \n\nI was then called by the apartment manager (G) on Friday, October 12th and told that a roofer **would** be at my apartment on Saturday, October 13th between 12 and 1 to inspect and get up on the roof to (hopefully) find the leak. I was told I needed to be available so he could come inside my home and see where the mold was in relation to the top of the roof. \n\nI called the leasing office at 1151 to ask if they had an ETA on the roofer. I was told by an assistant (F) to the manager, that she had no idea when he would be hear, and she had no information about a roofer, period. \n\nI stayed at my home anyway, until 1445 on Saturday, waiting for the roofer. I *should* have a record indicating when I left, as I used maps and sent message to someone I was meeting. \n\nFrom my understanding, they one week from the time of being notified of the mold to fix it, correct?\n\nAnd at that point, if they haven\u2019t fixed it, we can **legally** break our lease, **without penalty**?","title":"[Update] Visible mood growing on apartment walls, TX More questions","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554081015,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7vdnq\/how_do_i_find_out_the_details_of_my_brother_and_i\/","id":"b7vdnq","body":"I can give more information as needed in the comments, but I'm afraid that if I add all the details that are relevant to figuring out what probably happened, it will effect my mental health whereas if I focus on what I need to do to eventually find out what happened it will be better in the long run. \n\nTherefore to make a long story short, when I was 7 and my brother 11 my biological mother was bedridden (don't quite know why but not unreasonable given her other health issues) and she was not legally married to my non-biological mother. My brother and I then lived with first my grandparents, then my aunt and uncle until eventually being returned to my parents. I had no contact with my non-biological mother, and my biological mother lived in a nursing home type facility. Since both sides of my family are habitual liars, either directly or by omission, asking them about what actually happened is impossible. I know for sure I was in the foster care system and this was not being kidnapped by relatives (in a legal sense, maybe court documents were forged who knows) for a few reasons but most importantly (maybe to me, since this is emotionally charged) because it's kind of hard to be kidnapped when your parents drive you to the house of the people you were supposedly kidnapped by and somehow are forced out of the house and unable to call the police without a sound. \n\nWhat government agency do I inquire at? Do I need to hire a P.I.? What information will I need? I'm guessing there was probably a court case, where do I go to find it? Thank you in advance. I hope \\[CUSTODY DIVORCE AND FAMILY\\] is the correct flair but if it needs to be changed I'm 12% certain reddit lets you do that and I never talked to anyone with CPS as far as I remember. ","title":"How do I find out the details of my brother and I being in foster care (with relatives) [Ohio]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542153013,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wuke6\/in_masters_program_changing_classes_adding_one\/","id":"9wuke6","body":"I am fairly certain that there is absolutely nothing that I can do about this, but I wanted to ask the experts in case I was wrong.\n\n​\n\nI'm currently in a master's program for counseling, which is structured to prepare students to have every class necessary for our state licensure. This program has been going on for 3 or 4 years now.\n\n​\n\nWe had a change in program directors, and they have since realized that the program was missing a class that was necessary for licensure. It turns out there is a class (which of course I've already taken) that is not necessary.\n\n​\n\nAs such, I have to take this new class and pay the additional tuition so I effectively wasted over a thousand dollars for a class I didn't need.\n\n​\n\nI have asked for them to either refund the class I didn't need or let me take this new class without cost since it was their mistake, but they said no. Is there anything that can be done on this?\n\n​\n\nThank you.","title":"[IN] Master's Program changing classes, adding one halfway through due to their mistake and creating additional cost to students.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539284964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ncwmf\/pronouns_on_job_applications\/","id":"9ncwmf","body":"Illinois.\n\nAre they allowed to ask my gender in a job application? \n\nThey are asking me for my 'preferred pronoun' and I am not comfortable with this.  If I don't fill something in though will they not consider hiring me? ","title":"Pronouns On Job Applications?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503583014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vr06w\/religion_in_state_university\/","id":"6vr06w","body":"I am currently enrolled in a genetics class and the professor is teaching faith as fact. He has stated multiple times it has been proven that god is real and that humankind arose from the garden of eden. I found this wildly inappropriate and emailed the dean of the college of biology about it. He responded to me and told me that he was sure the professor would not do that and that I am mistaken. I am in Kentucky and everyone keeps telling me to just get over it. I am paying tons of money for an education and I refuse to sit back and let him preach during class. This is my last semester and this is the only professor that teaches  this course. If this continues can I pursue this in court ?? ","title":"Religion in State University","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553473967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b53ti8\/missouri_taking_care_of_15yo_niece\/","id":"b53ti8","body":"My niece has been living with me since December. Short back story: her brother is my blood nephew, my brother had a kid with my nieces mom. I claim her as my niece even though she\u2019s not my \u201cblood\u201d but it\u2019s whatever. So my brother died almost ten years ago. He left behind two boys by different moms. Z\u2019s mom just isn\u2019t a good mom. She doesn\u2019t know how to put her needs after her children. My nephew lives with her mom, and Z lives with me. Z\u2019s mom has been homeless or living in the local run down motel. I need help figuring out my\nOptions here in Missouri. We have to prove proof of residence by August 1 for the new school year coming up. I am not technically her legal guardian. I know the easiest route would be her mother signing over her rights to me, but is there anything for special considerations because she pretty much abandoned her? I don\u2019t want zoey to have to go to a foster home. Things I have found out is that because I am her aunt, I would have to apply to be a foster parent. Go through classes. Have a home study. I really don\u2019t want to have to go through these things nor do I have the funds to do so.  Any advice is much appreciated. ","title":"Missouri taking care of 15yo niece","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1447391849,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3smohe\/ca_parents_just_got_divorced_want_to_make_sure_my\/","id":"3smohe","body":"**This is long, and I apologize. My mom and I are living with my grandma, and we're poor enough that we receive food stamps and are Medi-Cal members, so obviously we couldn't afford a lawyer. My dad had a whole group of lawyers, so we're panicking about how fair their divorce settlement was. I have all the legal papers handy if you need more info. If anyone could even skim over some of the paragraphs and answer a few of my questions, I'd really appreciate it! Thank you!**\n\n\nLong story short, my dad stopped coming home one day and moved in with his mistress instead, but told us other than that nothing would change as long as we forwarded all bills to him. In reality, he purposely lost his job (he doesn't have to pay spousal support without an income), stopped paying our rent, bills, etc. without warning us, and got us evicted and my mom's car repossessed.\n\n\nTheir divorce was finalized on Tuesday, and the agreement was that my dad would take on all the debt, and in the event that he ever gets another job, the court can decide how much he owes in spousal support. \n\n\nThe main problem is that he has a looong history of ignoring bills. He coerced my mom into putting her name on all the bills, and we were warned that if he doesn't pay, the creditors can still go after us regardless of their agreement. So what do we do in that case? The agreement is rendered useless if we get saddled with all of his debts anyways. I'm not sure how he's expected to pay everything with no income. Even if he can be taken to court for not paying, if we can't afford a lawyer aren't we in the same boat again?\n\n\nPart of his debt is that he owes ~50k for tax evasion. My mom was never allowed to see anything when he did taxes though. He's been signing her name all these years (which I think is tax fraud?) and keeping everything a secret, which is why my mom had no idea when he just stopped filing taxes after a while. But because she never filed separately, the judge said they're free to come after her if my dad doesn't pay. How does that make any sense?! Why would she file separately if my dad said he was filing jointly and warned her to keep out of it? I can't believe what my dad was legal *and* we could end up with his $50k debt.\n\n\nAlso, he agreed to pay for my student loans (I wouldn't have even gone to college if he hadn't assured me he'd pay years ago). I'm now below the poverty line and my payments are deferred for now, but I'm paying a bit each month to try and cover the interest costs. If I ask him to give me cash every month to continue this, will he not get in trouble for failing to follow through since there's no official paper trail without receiving bills? I don't want my credit score to be ruined if I end deferment, start getting billed, and can't afford to pay without his help.\n\n\nHis girlfriend is rich and they're planning on getting married soon, but since he's supposed to pay spousal support in the event that he ever gets a job again, does he get penalized in any way if he doesn't report it? He doesn't know that my mom's friend is a lawyer and is willing to periodically check on my dad's status for free, so I'm thinking my dad might think he can get a job and just keep us in the dark.","title":"[CA] Parents just got divorced, want to make sure my mom didn't get screwed over (we couldn't afford a lawyer and I have a lot of questions)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570551647,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df29zt\/a_little_help\/","id":"df29zt","body":"Hello, I'm 19 and live with my mother.\n\nMy parents are divorce, and my dad take my 15 years old brother with him. He is and Entilted brat and a sociopath that do nothing more than drugs, party and skip classes.\n\nThe thing is, despite all my family and friends are trying to do to change his way, he just don't understand, and refuses to lisent or do anything that about it.\n\nSince is illegal to skip school\/do drugs until you have the mayority of age (18 in my country). Can i press charges against my brother without my parents getting in any trouble? or is there any legal option that can sort this thing?\n\nWe are trying to do everything in our power to help him, but nothing works...\n\n*English is not my native lenguage sorry for the mistakes.","title":"A little help?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507237707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74izf6\/california_and_texas_i_signed_an_independent\/","id":"74izf6","body":"My contract says it is governed under the state laws of California as that is where the company is owned and operated. I live in Tx and work exclusively from here. \n\nJust checking, is that correct? Or is it really governed under Tx law? Federal law? Can I fight provisions in it sighting Tx law? \n\nSorry if its a dumb question, I have no experience with this. ","title":"[California] and [Texas] I signed an independent contractor agreement in CA but live and work in TX. What state laws govern the validity?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551731419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axbxwg\/a_buddy_and_i_worked_for_free_for_over_8_months\/","id":"axbxwg","body":"TLDR: A buddy and I worked for a guy who said he was starting an entertainment business in my hometown. We were promised by him that we would eventually be paid once \"the company is off the ground\", but nobody ever received a cent. He bought us both gifts over the course of 8 months, and is now demanding them back since we resigned. Would it be wise to file a lawsuit?\n\n​\n\nAs some background: we are both undergraduates at a Pennsylvania private university, and I met this sunny fellow through a friend that met him at a bar one night. He was presenting himself as an event planner turned entrepreneur, however I am fairly certain he never legally established this entertainment firm. He took my buddy and I in as \"partners\" with his venture, and tasked us with social media marketing, speaking with local business owners, and starting a podcast. We worked for him constantly in our spare time, under a promise that \"once the money comes, everyone will get paid appropriately\". It wasn't until last night we realized that the money was never going to come.\n\n​\n\nDuring our time, neither of us saw any kind of business plan, business license, financing activity, nor any transparency for what our roles in the company were. He allegedly used to plan events for AT&T, and has been spending his savings trying to make something happen. We simply did as he said under the understanding that we would be paid once the company was up and running. He clearly had enough money to buy a $500 camera, 2 microphones costing $180, a $100 mixing board, etc etc for us to use, and called them \"gifts for you guys to have\". Buddy even got gifted a brand new iPhone XS ($1000) that was paid for under this conman's own cell phone bill. I was wise enough to turn down the same offer. \n\n​\n\nLast night the both of us decided we literally could not afford to work for this guy for free, so we told him that we are backing out. He is now demanding to take back all the things he had bought for us, leaving us without any sort of compensation for our work. Buddy of mine is now effectively broke and can't afford dental insurance to get his cavity filled. For almost a year we invested our time into his venture, and now at the end of it we are left with nothing to gain from this. Would this be reasonable enough to file a lawsuit? What could we get out of this? Need something to get back on our feet after this mess. Thank you for reading.","title":"A buddy and I worked for FREE for over 8 months, under the promise of future pay. Bought us \"gifts\", and wants them back now that we wised up to his scheme. Grounds for a lawsuit?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553486850,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b55yiv\/sexual_harassment\/","id":"b55yiv","body":"I was going to change my clothes in the locker room after my 6th period class ended, and before I arrived at my locker someone pointed out a figure standing behind a door behind my locker, and I was on edge and during the changing of my clothes, and shortly after the football coach who\u2019s known to illegally search kids comes out of the room without saying a word and just stares at me while changing my clothing, made me insanely uncomfortable. He left after what seemed like under a minute and I want to know what can be done I\u2019m a junior in high school from Washington state and I\u2019m a minor as well. ","title":"Sexual harassment","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569965051,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc03kz\/have_not_received_final_check_3_weeks_after\/","id":"dc03kz","body":"I live in California, I'm aware that labor laws here state I'm due my final payment within 72 hours of resignation. My general manager said he would contact me about my check, so i just assumed I would come pick it up. I have not been contacted at all, and it has been 3 weeks since I quit. One of the managers that I was super close with told me the GM doesn't mark us down as having resigned, but will just let the system \"auto-terminate\" an employee, as the computer will fire you after enough time without coming in to work. I contacted HR and an \"investigation is ongoing\". How can I ensure I get the money I am owed? Is there any compensation for my late payment?","title":"Have not received final check 3 weeks after resignation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554390817,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9dyu7\/canada_alberta_landlord_is_selling_property\/","id":"b9dyu7","body":"Howdy all. \n\nI am in a lease until October, though my landlord is selling the property. I have a few questions regarding a complaint he made about the unit. \n\nThe property is a non smoking property which I have upheld - though since legalization i have been growing my own cannabis - nothing against it in my lease, nothing against it in building codes providing the smell does not find it's way into other units and bother other tenants. I have been growing my legally allotted plants, they are in a grow tent inside the unit and are ventilated with a carbon filter to reduce smell as humanly possible. I have quite the stash of weed in the home from my previous grow so naturally there is a smell in the unit. It does not eminate into the hallway and we have never recieved a complaint addressed to our unit regarding smell or anything. \n\nMy landlord is coming by today to discuss the unit. Mainly the \"stench of weed\" I was wondering what power he had over the unit - we havent made a late payment on rent, he has told us prior that we have been wonderful tenants and that he would happily sell us the unit if we could afford. \n\nWould my landlord have the power to stop my grow? Prevent me from carrying marijuana on the property? Is there really anything he can do? The realtor told me during a walkthrough that I need to hide my bong etc - which I agree and dont agree with - it's legal now but I understand that some people still see it as a taboo. \n\nRealistically I just want to know if he has any power over my crop? Its 6 weeks from finishing and I would be very disappointed to have to get rid of 3 plants worth approx $3000. ","title":"Canada Alberta. Landlord is selling property.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444934656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ow1v4\/car_accident_ca\/","id":"3ow1v4","body":"Hello Reddit, I am posting this for my sister who needs help with an accident she had recently. Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks in advance and for your time. \n\nI was involved in a car accident. I was going northbound on the right hand lane and the other driver was going south bound. Apparently, the other driver (A different driver) had given him the okay to pass, I was unaware of this and struck his car. His passenger side of his car was dented and my front and right side of the car was dented. There weren\u2019t any serious injuries other than my back hurting from the collision. An officer was called to the scene and information was exchanged. Assuming, the driver had given me the right information and it being checked by the officer, I left. It was not until I got to work that I realized there was information missing. When I got home I called his insurance to file the claim. The insurance agent could not locate this driver\u2019s information. There was some information that was falsified.  I called the police department that took care of the collision and let them know that I was given false information. \nI then went to the police station and spoke with an officer regarding the incident and was given the right information of the driver. I was able to file the claim and spoke with both agencies regarding the collision.\n The driver then texted me and told me that his car would not start and put the blame on me.\n I made him aware that he had given me false information.\nHe then proceeded to put the blame on me and said that he has video evidence of me using my phone and has witnesses.\n(Note* the witnesses involved were his buddies as this incident took place where he is well known. When the incident occurred all his buddies came out to talk with him. I let the driver and his buddies know I was calling the police, and, once I called I made them aware that an officer is going to arrive. The buddies then dispersed.)\n\n\nTL;DR - Involved in accident that wasn't my fault. He went left when he wasn't t supposed to. Lied about information. He claims to have me on my cellphone which is false. I feel that because he was hit somewhere where he is known that the witness will all be against me since they are all buddies with him. ","title":"Car accident (Ca)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571766556,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dllj28\/texas_sexual_assault_and_high_school_does_nothing\/","id":"dllj28","body":"Obligatory not my situation\n\nSo, a friend of mine was getting begged for sex by her classmate, and not only did he continue, but after asking her in person after school if she would be willing to have sex with him, he groped her breasts and began masturbating on her and she froze out of sheer panic. After getting the courage to report it, she and the boy were suspended during their investigation because the school argued it was consensual since she didn't say no during the sexual assault. Their argument is that \"messages confirmed their sexual relationship\" despite her denying his previous advances. During their investigation, they (2 males, principal and officer) even blocked her father from being present during her second questioning and began questioning her about sex where she again froze.\n\nWhat can my friend do in this situation?","title":"[Texas] Sexual Assault, and High School Does Nothing","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553653535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5yu8j\/application_help_please\/","id":"b5yu8j","body":"I recently applied for a my insurance license and I checked no for conventions,felonies, etc. I pled guilty with a conditional discharge\/I was a minor when I was charged. It\u2019s why I check no, now my application was sent to the legal division for review and I\u2019m having to go to a court clerk and receive case documents. When I go to the court clerk, will they ask for a drug test? ","title":"Application help!! Please!","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1443202247,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mcz4n\/london_uk_this_morning_police_rang_my_doorbell\/","id":"3mcz4n","body":"To Clarify, I am 28. Five years ago I bought a Chachma Baboon skull on eBay because I've always been interested in animal anatomy. It was very easy to buy and it was posted from South Africa without any issues. Being hard for cash, I decided to put it back on eBay last week albeit at a higher price to try and make some profit. It was an impulse purchase and the original listing explained that animals were not hunted from the wild but died naturally. That was enough to make me impulse buy it as a wacky thing to own when I was 22. Stupid perhaps.\n\nToday at 7:30am, the doorbell rings, one female police officer and one ''Endangered Species liaison officer'' say they have a warrant to search the house for endangered species items that are prohibited. Ofcourse I let them in, still in my dressing gown.\n\nThe police woman searches the whole flat and I show her the damn skull on my shelf. She continues the search to my bathroom and finds an unrelated, antique stuffed crocodile I bought years earlier from a woman on eBay. The item is extremely old and there are at least 20 of them on eBay at any given time. They are CITES approved if they are pre-1947.\n\nThis crocodile was then siezed too. I explained that these were things I bought on ebay  and had no idea I was breaking any law. They were very civil and told me to do some research on animal poaching and its consequences. I am very well read on the matter and utterly despise and oppose animal poaching of all kinds. What I am interested in is quirky relics and antiques.  They said the items would be taken to be looked at by an expert and used by the police for ''training and education purposes''.\n\nSince then I have done some research and it appears that neither the Chachma Baboon or this antique stuffed crocodile are infact endangered species according to the people who classify what is or is not ''endangered''.\n\nI don't care if they take them from me, but they did cost me \u00a3350 and the crocodile has likely already been damaged as parts of it were incredibly delicate.\n\nI have to go an be interviewed at the police station once I receive word from them via email. I was not arrested or cautioned. I had to sign a piece of paper that had two statements from me regarding what I believed each animal was. ''Its a chachma baoon skull.'' , '' Its an antique stuffed crocodile''. Signed X\n\nDo I ask for a lawyer when I am interviewed? \nCan I ask them to prove that these animals are infact prohibited to own as ornaments?\nHow can an animal that is not endangered be prohibited in this way?\nDoes the fact that I have all the email info from when I bourght them help me?\nWhat is likely to happen to me?\nHow can I protect myself from receiving a caution?  \n\nThank you for ANY help or advice anyone can give me. \nDan, London\n\n ","title":"London, UK. This morning police rang my doorbell with a warrant to take away an ornamental baboon skull I was selling on eBay (which I previously bought from ebay)...They came in and took more than just that. What do I do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571373965,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djihv3\/can_a_teacher_be_fired_for_watching_us_change\/","id":"djihv3","body":"There was a lot of chaos and the gym teacher walked into the locker room while we were changing to talk to us, this would've been fine if he didn't say anything and simply watch for a couple minutes before saying a few words and leaving.\n\nCan this teacher be fired or arrested for doing this?","title":"Can a teacher be fired for watching us change?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571278379,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dizqs9\/sister_adopted_3_kids_and_has_had_0_assistance\/","id":"dizqs9","body":" Hello everyone,\n\nThis is newly created account as some of my family follow my main account. With that said allow me to start from the top.\n\nTwo  years ago my brother in law's cousin's wife gave birth to a little boy.  The little boy was born addicted to heroin because they are drug  addicts and criminals. They had 2 kids at the time, a newborn boy and a  3-4 year old little girl who my sister and brother in law have been  watching previously. DCF was called and the kids were taken from them,  none of my brother in laws family stepped up to offer assistance or help  so my sister and her husband decided to take care of the kids in the  hopes the parents would get there shit together. They took them in and  raised them for a year while the mother and father went from rehab to  rehab, halfway house to halfway house and finally were arrested for  larceny\/grand theft.\n\nMy sister has  4 kids of her own and with the addition of 2 more kids in a 3 bedroom  home, they have 6 kids total. Taking care of a newborn baby can be  pretty expensive and they were told they would be reimbursed for diapers  and baby formula and to save the receipts. Months went by and they  received no assistance at all. They were then told that because my  brother in law makes over 100k, they were not eligible for assistance. I  don't see how this could be possible as 6 kids cost a hell of a lot  more then that and not to mention a new born baby.\n\nThey  dealt with the news and did the best they could, still living in a 3  bedroom home while the original parents spent some time in jail and were  released mid last year. They were not supposed to be speaking with each  other and were not to have contact with each other as they are hostile  towards each other. Didn't work and she wound up pregnant (awesome  parents right?). Things were going okay and they were still acting  sketchy but passing drug tests and doing what they needed to do to get  the kids back.\n\nCourts awarded  their mother custody earlier this year around the boys first birthday  and the kids were back to a broken home. The father was out of the  picture doing his own thing working and staying out of trouble. My  sisters family began to get normal again. Drama just started up a few  weeks ago and the mother gave birth to a baby girl. The mother failed a  drug test shortly after for bath salts and cocaine and the husband wound  up driving over to her house and assaulting her. DCF took the kids  again (3) this time and yet again a new born baby and a 2 year old + the  5 year old girl. That brings my sisters household to 7 kids and 2  adults.\n\nThey have a new DCF case  worker that has promised them reimbursements and the opportunity to move  into a bigger home. Now they are saying they have to wait for them to  be adjudicated independence and they are still dumping out money and  having a hard time making ends meet. She has setup a a page to get help with these kids but knowing the shitty family she married into (not  my brother in law he's a hell of a guy, hard working and treats her and  his kids right) they wont get much.\n\nI'm  looking for any advice on to how to get her help with getting the ball  rolling. Her family should not have to suffer because she did the right  thing and decided to take these kids in and keep them out of random  homes where I'm sure the state would pay for someone keeping them.","title":"Sister adopted 3 kids and has had 0 assistance from the state","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552340615,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azz8ts\/virginia_what_options_do_i_have\/","id":"azz8ts","body":"I'm currently conflicted and a bit emotional so if i ramble a lot through this that's why, ill do a TL;DR at the end \n\n​\n\nI am 16 and my parents and i don't have the best relationship. Not that its always been bad but its off and on and for the past two-ish months its been okay until this week.\n\nSo a little backstory\/context of my life is that i have C-PTSD, really bad general and social anxiety, depression, other mental illnesses and I've attempted suicide once though on my medical record it says twice (long story, they counted a cry for help as a suicide attempt instead of self harm\/cry for help) and each time i believe i got the help i needed, maybe not all the help but what they could offer also of course a week or two in IP isn't gonna fix 4 years of abuse so they moved it to me staying home being watched and going to therapy \n\n​\n\nOne of the requirements to leave IP(inpatient at a mental health\/behavior health facility) was to have and follow a safety plan which a couple people had to sign- my mother, my doctor, and me and part of that safety plan had my triggers\/warning signs that things are getting bad and recently i haven't been doing too good and I've been displaying all of those warning signs on the list. Which during this my mom noticed and helped me and was very kind and understanding during it which i appreciate(she made and brought me food when i couldn't get out of bed, let me stay home from school because my anxiety was too much, etc) but then Wednesday she told me we were going on a trip to Maryland to see family THAT WEEKEND leaving either Thursday night or Friday morning. Which seeing family really stresses me out and is a lot but most of the time i can handle it but i wasn't stable enough to go and i begged them for me to stay home because not only was i not feeling best but i already had plans to hang out with my boyfriend whom makes me feel better especially because I've been depressed for two weeks with anorexic thoughts coming back and almost relapsing. I managed to get out of it because i recently applied to subway and they told me to come in Friday and Saturday so i just held in my emotions and let it go because i was able to stay home and not go but it still hurt me that they didn't consider if i already had plans let alone my mental health before just planning a trip with only two days in advance. \n\n​\n\nThe weekend passes I go out and am able to calm down though i did have a political party meeting Sunday which was stressful but other than that the weekend was a good break for me. So i let it go and assume everything's fine especially because i have therapy Monday so i'll be able to get the whole situation off my chest but that didn't happen. \n\n​\n\nI get ready and head to therapy with my mom (she drives me there because i don't have my license yet) i don't know how but it gets brought up again and we start arguing but then we arrive and instead of my therapist just seeing me one on one she brings my mom back with me to have a family session and we end up getting into it again and she ended up crying and then i got to talk with her a bit one on one and i started crying then on the way home we argued about it in the car and my mom started driving recklessly and speeding which she does whenever we argue in the car though sometimes she threatens to crash the car. \n\n​\n\nWhen we got home she stayed in the car and i went in the house and i started googling and researching emancipation and wondering what i could do but then she walked in and started talking to be about how if any of her children left her (I'm one of three) she would kill herself and how when she was younger she was physically abused by her step father and how because she doesn't do that to me I have a good life  (though i was sexually abused by my neighbors for 4 years and she knows that) \n\n​\n\nI really can't handle it any more i don't know what to do because if i lie to her and say everything's fine i lose but if i talk to her and be honest about how i feel i lose as well \n\n​\n\n**TL;DR :**  my mom and i have a bad relationship and she has a habit of throwing things\/ threatening to kill herself\/ and threatening to crash the car and its taking a toll on me and i don't know what to do anymore","title":"[Virginia] what options do i have?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443735682,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n5jxy\/unresponsive_estate_lawyer_what_are_my_options\/","id":"3n5jxy","body":"This guy failed to show the first time I made an appointment with him (overslept). I should have taken that as a sign of things to come, but I didn't. I've only met with 2-3 times in person with regard to an estate in probate (I'm the ind. exec.).\n\nAnyway, I communicate primarily through email with him (because at least I have a record of our correspondence that way) and that is by no means frequent - I'd say once per month throughout this entire process, usually as a result of something he needs from me, which I promptly provide - then I don't hear anything from him.\n\nThis most recent occasion he emailed me, asking me for my opinion on the value of the house in the estate (a figure I gave to him the first time we met). I respond with number, because he said that we needed to do it \"this week\" within 30 days of the anniversary of the decedent's death - which was 60 days in the future (not the first time he's gotten the decedent's death date wrong, even though he has copies of the death certificate).\n\n Throughout this process he has been \"communicating\" with the IRS, who sends me letters and forms for what I believe are a tax history request, and I copy the forms (which always have some kind of \"i\" that he didn't dot, or field he didn't fill in - that I HAND deliver to his mail box (a 30 minute drive) because I'm afraid of something getting \"lost\".\n\nI have received the same fucking bundle of papers from the IRS Information request 3 times. So I also asked, in the same aforementioned email, for him to explain what the purpose of these information requests were. Getting on 2 weeks to that important document that had to be signed by me \"this week\" no response to anything I sent him in reply to that email.\n\nWe are nearly a year into this probate, and I am livid with this guy. I have been more than patient. I don't call him, or pester him with emails, or stupid questions - I've barely spoken with the guy. I ALWAYS respond promptly with anything he requests of me and then I hear NOTHING back. I have had to remind him of documents I have already given him.\n\nSo my first question is: Is this guy truly negligent or am I being deliberately f***d around here. What is the angle - because I can't believe that someone with a law degree could be this  careless (and I have checked his credentials and looked into any bar issues - his records clean as far as I have been able to determine - but I live in Illinois, so corruption, cronyism and nepotism is a thing, obviously).\n\nI guess my ultimate question is, at this late in the process, would I be wise or ill advised to fire his ass and find another lawyer (even if it means I have to pay his f*****g $4000 fee) and is that even an option? Or should I just gut it out and pray that this guy doesn't completely f**k up this entire thing.\n\nFinally - to make it perfectly clear - I have not been a pain in the ass to this guy. I don't initiate any interaction with him, unless he contacts me. I've been Johnny on the Spot with everything he's asked of me, and he's even complimented me on my responsiveness - this is the treatment I get in return.\n","title":"Unresponsive estate lawyer. What are my options?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554922067,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbpqua\/friend_had_nude_pictures_taken_by_photographer\/","id":"bbpqua","body":"Hi reddit.\n\nI told my friend to make a post here but she won\u2019t budge. She says she\u2019s researching for herself and I don\u2019t trust her to do the best job researching it. \n\nMy friend is a popular poster on r\/gonewild\n\nShe had a guy pay her to do a nude photoshoot on her first year of college. She said the guy was incredibly creepy and she ended up blocking him. \n\nOn one of my friends posts , I jokingly asked my friend if she would show face in her pictures. She declined. \n\nThe creep messaged me a few days later and asked if i wanted to see her face. He sent me a few pictures and a video. \n\nWhat are her options here? What can she do to stop the guy stalking her for good? What penalties come with this kind of action?","title":"Friend had Nude pictures taken by photographer, She told me he was creepy and blocked him. He has recently been in my DMs and offered to sell me these pictures.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539780884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oyeay\/sons_father_going_after_sole_custody\/","id":"9oyeay","body":"Some background- when my son was 1 we moved to another state, the courts ended up giving me sole custody because my sons father wasn\u2019t active in his life. When my son was almost 6, we moved back to Maine and I allowed his father to see him every weekend(at this point visitation was completely up to me) Last year we had to move from our apartment and I was having a very hard time finding a new one. I was offered a job and an apartment in Florida to work for a company that I had already worked for and because of the situation I decided it was the best option for all of us. We moved and I received paperwork from my sons father for a PFA\/restraining order that would have been on behalf of my son and his father- the judge dropped the case at court(so it wasn\u2019t a big deal) I received custody papers and even though I was resentful towards my sons father, I offered him all vacations- including summer. The first vacation was winter vacation and a couple weeks before my son was set to go, his father said he wasn\u2019t going to pay for any tickets until summer.  The courts had lowered his child support to me in lieu of him paying for these tickets for his son to come see him. I ended up feeling bad for my son and paid the one way for him, for winter and spring.  Now to current- I lost my job in Florida(because it wasn\u2019t making enough money and my boss would take this out on me) I had come back here to pick up my other son from his grandmothers and decided then and there that I was going to stay here(also where my other sons father lives and where my son currently is) because our new custody papers are pretty lenient- I asked his father to keep our son until I was on both feet(my own apartment and a job).  I texted him a couple of days ago to let him know that I\u2019d have an apartment soon and that we could split up the custody more evenly.  That night I received court papers with a motion for him to get sole custody.  I know it\u2019s pretty far fetched that he\u2019d get sole custody but that doesn\u2019t remove the stress this is causing me. I am not going to be able to afford a lawyer.  I do need to send in opposition- do I write a long winded letter to the judge explaining the situation and why I object to him getting sole custody?  Or do I keep it short and simple? It says it needs to be written- can I type it and sign it? \n","title":"Sons father going after SOLE custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571456897,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djykcw\/help_teacher_coercing_me_for_a_grade\/","id":"djykcw","body":"I am an 8th grader in California. A few students stole some pennies from a teacher. The teacher barged into our home room and started ranting about being a bystander to this shit. Then she proceeds to assign us, for a grade, a \u201cpenny gathering mission\u201d where each of the students has to find 50 pennies and give those pennies to her. I told my parents about this and they told me it\u2019s a \u201cwaste of time\u201d and to \u201cfuck off\u201d.  At this point I am clueless at what I\u2019m supposed to do. My parents are already telling their friends and co-workers about how stupid of a child I am and I feel like I\u2019m alone on this. I really do need some advice as to what I should do to not pay this 50 cents and not lose my dignity.","title":"HELP. Teacher coercing me for a grade?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570656035,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfnm7c\/serious_my_isp_is_ruining_my_life\/","id":"dfnm7c","body":"  \n\n\\[SERIOUS\\]\n\nHey redditors,\n\nI'm having mortal hell with my Internet Service Provider, Frontier, based in the U.S. They are constantly throttling me. like every d\\*mn day. I have compiled enough evidence for a legitimate informal FCC complaint. I have done EVERYTHING in my power to secure better internet. My mental sanity is going in the toilet because of what's happening.\n\nI've traded routers several times. D2200D model, which is the base model. I'm advertised to receive 6mbps down, and 1mbps up. I'm *actually* getting a half to a quarter of those speed. My latency is in the FULL F\\*CKING SECONDS AND I CAN'T TAKE IT. It takes me almost a full week to download 40 gigabytes. I've called other companies, no one services this area other than the monopoly making franchise of Frontier. Now, I've seriously considered taking them to court, and contacting the FCC.\n\nI have repeatedly called, complained, asked for upgrades, services, reboots. I can't use a VPN on my connection, because the vpn pulls hard enough to stop the internet flow, and I truly mean a dead stop. My peak hours are from Noonish (11:30 by the chart) all the way to midnight. I get a steady connection at 3 A.M. because there is simply no-one awake in my area.\n\nI've tried changing my working hours to this. From 3 AM to noon. My mental health is going down, I\u2019m worried my last good hobby . My ISP is throttling me, and they refuse to do anything.\n\nNow the catch 22.\n\nI can take them to court; they'll turn my sh\\*t off. I can complain informally to the FCC; I'll have even less internet. I can then FORMALLY complain to the FCC, pay the $200, and make a full case: My ISP will just turn my sh\\*t off until a resolution. I'm stuck. I have all the hardware to run my minimum speed (1 meg), but I'm constantly reminded that anything less than a 14\/mbps just won't work. MY ISP IS TELLING MY I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH INTERNET, BUT THEY REFUSE TO HELP. I\u2019m told 30\/mbps is the standard, as long as I have at least HALF that I\u2019ll be perfectly okay.\n\nI have thought about petitioning for an increase, but the population here is wildly spread out. I might be able to come up with 300 signatures. \n\nWhat do I do so I can finally have some peace? I'm tired of waiting 20 minutes to watch a 40 second video. My mental sanity is breaking because my main hobby, the thing I use to keep myself from going off the deep-end, is in jeopardy. If I can't have a hobby, I can\u2019t have a life. Easy right? I'm at my last nerve, and I really need a miracle.\n\n(Some notes) It is a personal line: I use it for myself and my business. I am in the United States. They (Frontier) will not offer business lines where I\u2019m at. Moving is not yet an option for another few years. Satellite is unreliable here due to weather and unclear skies most of the year. I don\u2019t make enough to afford a lawyer (around $5K to $15K). VPN used: MyPrivateVPN\n\nService provider: Frontier .. Speeds on the 'contract': 6mbps download\/ 1mbps upload .. latency 150ms-9999ms Bill: $120\/mo. Router model: D2200D Other providers: Wild blue, hughes net, Verizon wireless. Wildblue satellite: 20mbps download, 4 up, latency 4400ms. Hughes net sattelite: 20mbps download, 5mbps upload, latency 3200ms. Verizon wireless mobile hotspot: 600\/kbps download, 200\/kbps upload, latency 500+ms.","title":"[SERIOUS] MY ISP IS RUINING MY LIFE.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568774851,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5riu3\/my_apartment_might_be_sinking_into_the_ground\/","id":"d5riu3","body":"So my apartment is a ground level one bedroom below two other 2nd story apartments. The apartment next to mine (also a base level apt.) is unoccupied and I recently found out why. They are building two apartment buildings right next to mine (one in front of mine and one next to mine), so there are two massive dug-out holes for foundations in each of the two spots and one of the construction workers struck up a conversation with me when I was getting home from work one day. Now, his boss, the owner of the construction company who built all of the apartments including mine, is my landlord who owns a successful small construction\/materials business that has built many of the buildings in my neighborhood. He explained to me that he was considering renting the apartment next to mine but changed his mind because of the price and the condition it was in. The condition it was in is precisely what makes the price outrageous (he also implied that mine would be rising to that price too sometime next year). He showed me into the apartment in question (door is kept unlocked) and what I saw utterly baffled me. The floor is at a nearly 20-degree incline so that when you are walking across the room you are actually walk up\/downhill. He explained that he thinks the building is sinking into the ground and I also noticed afterwards that the concrete walkway is cracked and also at an incline right outside the apartment. But despite being only a few feet away and sharing a wall, my apartment shows no signs of an incline even after testing with a bubble level. So my question is, what are my options here? If I am to trust what the construction worker says, then it's only a matter of time until my apartment starts doing the same thing as well as possibly the neighbors who live in the two apartments upstairs. Should I lawyer up and file a claim against my landlord even though he is a powerful and rich businessman in the local area? Not really sure what to do here, I know the obvious answer is to move out, but I generally like my living situation, and plan to move into one of the new apartments once they're built, however I think this is a safety violation worthy of calling him out on since I haven't been officially informed of this at all.","title":"My apartment might be sinking into the ground.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539206946,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n3q8c\/accused_of_possession_of_stolen_property\/","id":"9n3q8c","body":"I currently have an open warrant in California. I was accused of having knowledge of property being stolen, and being in possession of it. I haven't turned myself, because I'm afraid that I'll serve jail time for something I'm innocent of. Keep in mind there is no evidence of me knowing it was stolen property.","title":"Accused of possession of stolen property!","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570926258,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh3c3v\/bitsane\/","id":"dh3c3v","body":"About a few months ago, Bitsane deleted its website and vanished. I had about $1,000 in XRP in the digital wallet. Are there any legal steps I can take to get my money back at least?","title":"Bitsane","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551579884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awpggh\/writing_a_will\/","id":"awpggh","body":"Husband and I have a 4 month old daughter and feel it's important to have a will in place for her custody and to ensure all of our assets go to her (just in case we both pass before she's 18). Can we write something up and just get it notarized or do we need to hire a lawyer to do it for us? We live in the US in Mass.","title":"Writing a will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571703857,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl9o7o\/va_grandparents_rights_and_supervised_visits\/","id":"dl9o7o","body":"Filing for divorce and I have young children - 3 and 1. My MIL, widowed and wealthy from family inheritance, contributes to the kids through STB-ex and is emotionally and verbally abusive towards myself and SO. Sees the kids 1\/2 the year, other half travels. The youngest does not know her; the oldest has stopped mentioning her since she\u2019s never around. \n\nI would like to request supervised visits for her, as she has been verbally abusive towards me in front of my children and SO is unable\/unwilling to speak up for fear of being written out of the will. I\u2019m fine supervising once SO and I are divorced. \n\nWhat recourse do I have for this? I figure that I cannot fully keep her away from the children. Do I have to prove the abuse? I can, from therapy\/psychiatry records dating back before I had kids, peaking during pregnancy and postpartum, and passive abuse since SO and I have separated. I have written admission from SO (immediately before separation) that he has emotionally abused me so that I will get back in line, because he fears her. We have extensive couples counseling records that mention her behavior. Again, my kids are young and she barely sees them (and 80% of the time it\u2019s if we travel to her). \n\nI\u2019m the primary caretaker; kids have been in my care continually since birth and SO does not take responsibility for them outside of visiting and taking them to the park or to dinner. Thanks for the help.","title":"VA - Grandparent\u2019s Rights and Supervised Visits","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569774824,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daxhgc\/the_mother_to_my_niece_is_brainwashing_her_to\/","id":"daxhgc","body":"My niece (C) is 4 years old and we have a complicated relationship with her mom though we try not to show C. We have gone to court and we have visitation every other weekend and for an hour in the middle of the week for dinner.  Recently C has been saying her mom wants her to stop coming over here and she shouldn\u2019t come here. And that her dad (my brother) yells at her and is mean to her (not true at all because we record every interaction with her mother and the only one aggressive is the mother). So we recorded C saying all of this to my mom (her grandma) and I wanted to know if there is anything we can do to sort this out whether it is legally or personally.","title":"The mother to my niece is brainwashing her to think she can\u2019t come and see her dad","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569278297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8e65g\/am_i_required_to_report_this_type_of_fraud\/","id":"d8e65g","body":"Hello, I'm registered with FINRA, series 7, 66, 9, & 10.\n\nI work at an investment company that is owned by a large bank where my mother has a bank account.\n\nRecently, one of my siblings decided to start a business with no real business plan. He was supposed to open a year ago and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on office supplies, computers, monitors, etc. Come to find out, he had convinced my mother to add him to her two bank accounts as an account manager. He had been paying for all of this by wiring money out of her account into his and using that for the business. To date, his business has generated $0 in revenue.\n\nHe also convinced her to take an early withdrawal from her retirement account and she will be hit with a early withdrawal penalty on taxes next year.\n\nWith her authorization, he opened a bunch of credit cards in her name and put charges on all of them. She ended up refinancing her house to pay for the charges. \n\nI'd say that is her fault for authorizing it, but here is the problem... \n\nWhile this was happening, my sibling was sending my other siblings and I messages about how he believes our mom has dementia and is losing her sanity. Come to find out, she was diagnosed with microvasular inschemia just before all of this began. \n\nAs part of my fraud training, it stated that if we suspect any fraud on elders, or at risk persons, we are required to report it, even if it doesn't pertain to our line of business. I know that one of the banks be was transferring the money from is the parent company of the firm I work for. \n\nIs this something I need to report? \n\nThanks","title":"Am I required to report this type of fraud?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570573569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df7gjf\/can_contracts_be_modified_before_signing_illinois\/","id":"df7gjf","body":"My company recently started shooting pictures and video around the office for marketing, promotion, and web site material. Afterwards they handed out a publicity waiver and release. Most of it seems like pretty generic stuff but some of it has very strong language. My only hang up with this is one sentence.   \n\"My consent, authorization and license grant, are irrevocable, ... \"   \nIt continues to talk about how i waive my right for any royalties, payments, etc. I take exception to the fact that if my company starts doing something i don't approve of with my image, voice, material that i have no right to remove any of it by revoking my consent. It's extremely unlikely that would happen but it still makes me a bit uneasy. I don't get the impression I have much choice in signing the waiver. Can I cross out and modify the contract to say that my consent is revocable? Would that be in any way binding?","title":"Can contracts be modified before signing? Illinois","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555597473,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bem5mt\/in_case_of_my_passing_what_happens_to_things_that\/","id":"bem5mt","body":"So if I were to pass away soon & I had a lot of things under my name such as an apartment, a car I am paying for monthly, my phone, all of that? \n\nDo my payments dissolve or do they get passed on to someone close to me?\n\nIs there something I can do to make sure all things under my name can dissolve after death?","title":"In case of my passing, what happens to things that are under my name legally? (Car, apartment, credit card, etc)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570479945,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dep76w\/what_does_mailing_recommendation_mean_after_a\/","id":"dep76w","body":"I know someone who's going through a divorce. They didn't have a lawyer with them while their ex husband did.  \n\n  \n\nThe judge just ended things by saying he would be \"mailing recommendation\". Does anyone know what this means?  \n\n  \n\nThanks.","title":"What does \"mailing recommendation\" mean after a divorce support hearing?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442362313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l3xyc\/custody_battle_in_inilmo\/","id":"3l3xyc","body":"my husband and I have a complicated situation with the mother of his child. A little over a year ago we agreed on a mediated parenting time arrangement because the mother moved to St. Louis from Evansville IN where we live. In the agreement we meet in Mt. Vernon IL every other week to exchange. About a month ago, she refused to show up. Now we are trying to have her served with contempt paperwork, but she has moved and given us and the courts a false address and refuses to give us a valid one. We would like to try and get custody this fall, and suspect that she has moved out of state without permission from the court. How do we serve her?","title":"Custody battle in IN\/IL\/MO","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549412803,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ankr8r\/nj_former_employer_is_sending_harassing_texts\/","id":"ankr8r","body":"\nI have a court date with the Department of Labor against a former employer very soon. I have not been in contact with my former employer since leaving the company. \n\nThe former employer has sent me 2 harassing text messages aimed at intimidating me to not going through with the case in the last week (nothing threatening with the exception of \u201cLooking forward to seeing you\u201d).\n\nThe former employer is stating that their evidence against my claim will embarrass me unless I drop my claim against them and then sent a series of emojis depicting the topic of their evidence a week later. \n\nMy former employer stated via text they intend on embarrassing me in court unless I except a small monetary settlement from them to drop my case against them. \n\nThis all started after my former employer sent a fake adjournment notice to me and I called the department of labor to verify.\n\nIs this illegal for them to do all of this prior to our court date? ","title":"[NJ] Former employer is sending harassing texts prior to court date.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552779856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1yxeq\/my_land_lord_over_charges_us_on_utilities\/","id":"b1yxeq","body":"There are 5 of us. All in college living in one house. Our rent is $200 each then he also charges us $110 each for utilities. So $1000 in rent and $550 in utilities. \n\nAt the beginning of the year he said we could see our utilities bill each month if we wanted to. So I asked for the month of September, it was $60 short. I then again asked for the month of November and it was $80 short. It's probably ended over $700 now including winter break in utilities (when we weren't there) that we haven't used after this month.\n\n\nI've asked him 3-4 times again to see the utilities each month and he says we will, but never has showed me again since he realized I was catching on. Do I have a case here? Is he breaking any laws? \n\nSide note. He also makes us pay in cash if that makes any difference. Also in September he said our bills were gonna be more expensive in the winter because we'd be running the heat. Then in November he said it would more expensive in the spring since we'd be running the AC. He  contradicted himself essentially and lied to us.","title":"My land lord over charges us on utilities","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552352302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b01g6t\/no_lunch_breaks_allowed_at_the_subway_i_work_at\/","id":"b01g6t","body":"Hello, I work at a Subway in Pittsburgh PA and we have a rule stating that \"No employee (under any circumstance) is allowed to leave the building after starting their shift\" they argue our \"lunch break\" is when we are in between rushes, we dont clock out for this \"break.\" Is this allowed? Its locally owned if that changes anything.\nAny information would be greatly appreciated!","title":"No lunch breaks allowed at the Subway i work at?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551822989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axqsmn\/uk_new_employer_a_week_late_on_first_pay_check\/","id":"axqsmn","body":"Worked first full month of February, was sent payslip on the 26th with pay date on the slip as 28th. When I wasn\u2019t paid on the pay day - Thursday - I thought, but odd but we have a small office and an accountant who works remotely so possible he does it manually and will do it during the day. \nFriday rolls around and no sign. \n\nI asked my colleague if she has been paid and she rolled her eyes saying they\u2019re always messing it up. \n\nShe also has not been paid. \n\nWeekend - nothing and expected nothing. So Monday morning I email the accountant first thing, I didn\u2019t cc in my manager as I thought this may have been a mistake on his part. I said along the lines of \u2018I was expecting to be paid on the 28th, can I confirm you have the correct details for me\u2019. \n\nHe rang my boss - they speak another mother tongue - and informed us that the director has forgotten the password.... \n\nLater in a group text he said systems error.  It\u2019s now almost Wednesday. The update is they have written to the bank. When he told me this, I said there\u2019s way to work around this, if he phones he can probably phone authorise this - partly i think no one wants to call the big boss out. \n\nThey have assured me it\u2019s an access problem and not a funds problem.  I don\u2019t have any reason to believe it\u2019s a funds problem since we are still doing normal activity - booking trips\/flights etc. \n\nI have told them I need to pay my rent and also book flights for a friends wedding where the prices keep increasing.  They asked if I could be patient and ask my landlord for an extension- I can and have but I don\u2019t want to nor should I have to.\n\nI have been out of work for 6 weeks prior to this doing odd jobs so I have \u00a330 to last me until whenever and the tube is \u00a37 a day so .. until the weekend! \n\nWhat else can I do to get paid without a threatening tone? Any advice would be appreciated! \n\nNote: sorry for the rant and formatting. \n","title":"(UK) New employer a week late on first pay check. What are my rights?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568504929,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4d0tc\/parking_ticket_was_misdated_and_that_date_wouldnt\/","id":"d4d0tc","body":"As the title says, I received a parking ticket on my car for parking in a zone that requires a resident parking sticker from 6am - 10:30am Monday through Friday (near a train station, meant to prevent commuters from parking on residential streets). The ticket states I was parked there on a Saturday according to the written date issued. \n\nI\u2019m in Massachusetts and the ticket is only $20. I can afford it and honestly the ticket is cheaper than parking in Boston...but I would like to know if I have any ground to stand on to get it dismissed. \n\nAny advice would be much appreciated - thanks!","title":"Parking ticket was mis-dated and that date wouldn\u2019t fall into the violation parameters (6am-10:30am M-F resident sticker req.)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551535125,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awi0ew\/boss_constantly_toucheschokesbody_checks_me\/","id":"awi0ew","body":"NJ: I am an adult male and my boss (male, few years older) consistently touches me in front of dozens of other people in a professional office setting. He has put me in a headlock, he often grabs my shoulders or neck and shakes me, he tousles my hair, he often hipchecks me when I\u2019m standing at someone else\u2019s desk. I\u2019ve told him to stop but that makes it worse. Other people have complained to HR and been fired for this exact complaint, so I feel like I have no recourse there. \n\nOn top of that he is a blatant racist and sexist, and says shit out loud in the office that I wouldn\u2019t even say to my friends at the bar. \n\nShould I get a hidden camera on my desk and present footage to him or to HR? or try the HR route myself? Should I just talk to him first and then get a camera? Not sure what the best path forward is. Interested to hear your thoughts. ","title":"Boss constantly touches\/chokes\/body checks me. Others who report similar behavior to HR have been fired.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569553610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ugpc\/oh_mother_of_my_son_disagrees_with_my_intention\/","id":"d9ugpc","body":"Hello, I am just seeking some advice as I am unsure if I am championing a lost cause. \n\nMy son is 3 years old, and his mother and I were never married. There was some debate when he was born over his parentage. After a DNA test proved that he was mine, child support was put into place when he was about 6-8 months old. Eventually I filed for shared parenting to assert my rights as his father as part of an equal relationship between the two of us. \n\nWhen he was born she gave her maiden name as his last name, though I had wanted him to have my last name, but wasn\u2019t proven the father yet so I couldn\u2019t. 3 years later we have maintained a civil relationship between us, including her new husband who is a respectable stepfather to him and I get along with as well. \n\nI broached the topic of wanting to have his last name changed to mine, she thinks that because he is so young, all it would do is confuse him and not be in his best interests. I only want to do what\u2019s right for my child, but I also don\u2019t want to put this off any longer. \n\nAny advice would be appreciated.","title":"[OH] Mother of my son disagrees with my intention to change his last name.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569208577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d80vzo\/mom_kicking_me_out_this_week_dont_have_anywhere\/","id":"d80vzo","body":"Let me start this off by saying I am 16. My mom is extremely conservative and lost it when she found my stash consisting of a juul, dab pen and a lighter. At the moment I have a minimum wage paying job and an old car, and am still in high school (online school). My dad has passed away, living with him is not an option.  Told my friends about this, they are not taking it seriously and joking telling me to go shoot up with the junkies at the nearby city. No one has offered a place to stay. I live in California and I don\u2019t make enough to live in even a shared bedroom. Help?","title":"Mom kicking me out this week. Don\u2019t have anywhere to go.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570649347,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfm1ti\/suspended_at_work_in_wa_state\/","id":"dfm1ti","body":"Hello,\n\nI was just wondering if I have any rights regarding suspension at my place of employment. I\u2019m aware that I live in an at will state, but their reasons for suspending me are absolutely false, and unfounded. \n\nI was told yesterday that I was temporarily suspended, but found out thru coworkers today that my boss is telling everyone I\u2019ve been fired. She has personal issues with me that are not work related and she\u2019s basically been waiting to do something like this. She took advantage of this week as her boss is in the hospital and out of the office for a couple weeks. \nDo I have any rights at all? From what I\u2019ve looked up online, I do not.","title":"Suspended at work in WA state.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444372149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o2krw\/previous_roommates_parents_asking_for_restoration\/","id":"3o2krw","body":"[US] [Indiana]\n\n\nFor clarity's sake we\u2019ll establish that there are three people inolved\n\n\nRoommate 1 - Nephew of houseowner\n\n\nRoommate 2 - Me\n\n\nRoommate 3 - The third party roommate (in the same situation as me)\n\n\nSo, let me give a bit of backstory. I had a friend who offered to let me and another friend live with him in his aunt\u2019s old house (unoccupied for 4 years prior, with the consent of the owners) and I agreed to do so. I moved in with a verbal agreement (always talked to the aunt through my friend never directly) that we would renovate the house and pay exclusively utilities instead of paying rent. we lived there for ~9 months with no problems and made the utility payments consistently with the exception of two months non-consecutively where I was a week late on payment.\n\n\n I was told by my roommate that we would meet up after moving out and schedule a time to clean up the place and return it to the state that it was in before we moved in, but he never got back to us on that. So the problem is, my roommate's parents are now asking for a payment $100+ (unclear on the amount, they will be  hiring a cleaning service and the cost will be split 3 ways. It will probably amount to over $300) for cleanup fees and we  have an issue with this. Now, 2 months after moving out I'm being harassed by both him and his parents to make the payment, keep in mind the property owners have not yet been involved. \n\n\nSome important things to note:\n\n>- I had another roommate who is in the same position (2 people living in the residence aside from myself)\n\n>- The work we did on the house including paying to help finish the basement, painting, replacing rotten steps on stairs, and doing yard work.\n\n> - There was no written consent during the duration of my stay\n\n>- No roommate agreement\n>- We both had our addresses changed to the house we were living in and received mail to this residence during the time we lived there, however we don't have any reason to believe the property owners know about this.\n\n\nWe appreciate any help we can get at this point. We are honestly fine with paying $100 dollars each but if the amount requested is over this we've both agreed this is unjust. I'd rather avoid taking this issue to court so if there is a way of convincing the opposing party that they will lose & or the will lose more money taking us to court they will end up losing more money than just paying for the cleanup themselves. We just want to know if we have legal ground in this situation and if it's worth contesting.\n\n\n\nWe appreciate any help we can get at this point. We are honestly fine with paying $100 dollars each but if the amount requested is over this we've both agreed this is unjust.We would rather avoid taking this issue to court. So if there is a way of convincing the opposing party that they will lose in court , or that they  will lose more money taking us to court rather than just paying the cleaning service themselves, we would find that situation ideal. We just want to know if we have legal ground in this situation and if it's worth contesting.\n\n\n\nThank you for your time,\n\nRoommate 2\n\nRoommate 3\n\nEdit:Grammar and intent \n\n","title":"Previous roommates parents asking for restoration fee on residence despite having any sort of roommate agreement or contract.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555263981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd5c1c\/should_i_contest_no_turn_on_red_if_the_light\/","id":"bd5c1c","body":"I got a ticket for turning right on a no turn on red but I couldn't see the right turn light from the white line. I turned around after getting the ticket to get a video because I think this is completely absurd.\nThe white line is about 15 feet from the back side of the light\n\n I did wait at that white line until there were no cars coming for a long while so I did do my due diligence in driving safely.\n\nThe cop was milking this spot so it's obviously not clear enough to drivers whether or not they can turn. \n\nPosting the video is against r\/legaladvice rules so unfortunately I can't post it here.\n\nThanks for your help.","title":"Should I contest no turn on red if the light wasn't visible from white line? [Indiana]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551923033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay6yrp\/oh_landlord_returned_security_deposit_late_and\/","id":"ay6yrp","body":"I had a lease that ended January 1 and I contacted my landlord after to ask when I would get my security deposit back. They informed me I would receive it within the end of the month or early February. Come end of February I hadn\u2019t received a check and asked again and was told the check would be sent the next day. \n\nI just received the check today and a large portion of the security deposit was taken out for damages and cleaning beyond normal wear and tear. The mail was also dated a week after they said they would send it. I strongly believe the amount taken is in no way justified but that\u2019s beyond the scope of my question. \n\nSince my landlord did not send me my check within the 30 days Ohio law seems to state that I am owed the amount in full. After contacting them about this they stated that I should send them a letter in writing stating this. \n\nMy question is whether or not I should cash the check they have provided in the meantime till they (hopefully) send me a check for the remaining amount. Does cashing it imply that I agree with their assessment of damages and the late delivery?","title":"[OH] Landlord returned security deposit late and took a lot of for \u201cdamages and cleaning\u201d, should I cash the check?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506708811,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/739mwu\/wi_biz_partner_has_been_redeeming_credit_card\/","id":"739mwu","body":"[throwaway account to keep this off my real name]\n\nMy friend is in a business partnership with 5 other individuals. One of the partners runs most of the \"business stuff\" and is an authorized user of the corporate credit card. My friend just learned this partner has been redeeming the reward points on the corporate card for their own use for years (mainly airline tickets for personal travel).\n\nThe question, beyond the breach of trust, is if there is anything governing the use of these point for personal use. I'm going out on a limb and guessing this isn't covered in the partnership agreement to for the company.\n\nMainly trying to judge if they should seek further legal advice on this, or if that would be a waste of time. ","title":"[WI] biz partner has been redeeming credit card rewards point for personal gain","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554482666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9tj4x\/va_nannying_and_unemployment\/","id":"b9tj4x","body":"[VA] I\u2019m a nanny currently employed full time and over the table - I get a W2 and my boss pays state\/federal taxes as my employer. In a few months she is moving, and I won\u2019t have a job anymore. Because I\u2019m a live-in I\u2019ll have to find a new place to live, but I\u2019ll be working up until the day she leaves and won\u2019t have another job lined up for at least a few weeks afterwards. This means I\u2019ll be looking for housing and a job at the same time, and I\u2019m thinking of setting aside my job search until I have a place to live. \n\nMy question is, because I\u2019m not being fired and I\u2019m not quitting, can I file for unemployment for the weeks between my finding another job and losing this one? Will this cost my former employer money? Note that I am NOT being fired, my job just won\u2019t exist in any capacity anymore. ","title":"[VA] Nannying and Unemployment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571423248,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djrmo0\/my_school_wants_go_call_authorites_on_my_for\/","id":"djrmo0","body":"Im a 16M, and a junior in highschool. This HS aren't particularly fond of me and try to get me in trouble on a weekly basis and do whatever they can to bring me down. Once again, this happened. Today was a half day for an event and they got a DJ and everything of the sort. Theres this 1 kid, we'll call him \"Jim\". Last year for the same event, he starts dancing, acting like a fool, and everyone records. (Everyone has this video or at least a clip of him, including me) This year again, Jim starts dancing, making a fool of himself, and acting dumb. People around me start recording him and before I was able to move, they took of all our phones, and said i was recording, when in reality, i was just trying to play Pokemon GO's new event. After school, they gave them back, but now they are saying it is bullying, and they want to call authorities to \"properly discipline us\", according to my friend.  What should i do in this situation?","title":"My school wants go call authorites on my for \"bullying\"","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568537311,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4i0a8\/didnt_finish_defensive_driving_speeding_ticket\/","id":"d4i0a8","body":"I got a speeding ticket in Austin a few months back and pleaded no contest in order to cut my fine down and take defensive driving. After I started my defensive driving course online, I broke my ankle and completely forgot about the course. I had completed about 1\/2 of the course before the deadline and after I got my boot off, moved to another city for school. A few weeks back I got a letter from the court with a court date and an option to possibly pay over the phone (I\u2019m not so sure about the phone payment?). I\u2019d rather not miss school for this if possible. Is going to the court my best option? If I don\u2019t pay it will I get a warrant for my arrest?","title":"Didn\u2019t Finish Defensive Driving, Speeding Ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443810233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n976g\/paralegal_homework_advice\/","id":"3n976g","body":"Our assignment is to draft our first complaint.\n\nWe were told to use any tools available to us (so Reddit isn't cheating ) to figure this out.\n\nI am not asking for people to give me all the answers...just point me in the right direction\n\nWe are to pick the Court jurisdiction and what the tort would be.\n\nThe facts are, a tenant trashed the rental house and abandoned the house leaving the doors open a week before his lease ended.\n\nThe lease states the tenant will be liable for all damages to the house.\n\nThere is $6000 worth of damages to the house.\n\nThe tenant left with no forwarding address, so their whereabouts are unknown.\n\nI think this should be at the Magistrates court as it is a small claims issue but is there something other than Breach of Contract that I should be looking at claiming?\n\nThis takes place in Georgia.\n\nThis is due on Monday so any gentle nudges in the right direction would be appreciated.\n\nThank you in advance.\n\n**EDIT** I think it is basically a Breach of Contract but our instructor is trying to challenge us to see if there is something other than just that.\n\nI am looking into all your suggestions, so again thank you for taking this time to help me \n\n","title":"Paralegal homework advice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570475040,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deo0ng\/is_it_possible_to_get_out_of_a_lease_because_of\/","id":"deo0ng","body":"We live in a 12 unit apartment complex in Memphis TN. Six units up top with a hallway connecting all. Same for bottom floor. Our next door neighbor has been run out of his apartment by crack heads and now it has been turned into a crack den. People coming and going at all hours of the day and night, knocking on our windows, asking us for money, and putting us in danger by leaving the outside doors unlocked for easier entry since the customers don\u2019t have a key. It has been confirmed that they are trafficking drugs in the apartment. The police were called a couple of days ago because one of the customers chased down one of our neighbors with a weed whacker in order to be let in the outside door to get to the apartment to buy crack. \n\nThe landlord has been informed and has contacted the \u201ccurrent tenant\u2019s\u201d case worker. I put it in quotation marks because he is no longer the person living there, as he has been run it by squatters and the main crack dealer. The landlord says they will change the outdoor locks, but this doesn\u2019t ease my mind. \n\nWith drug dealing comes violence and weapons. Does this give me any grounds for terminating the lease or is it something I just have to suck up and deal with? I\u2019m afraid of stray bullets and being cornered or mugged. I\u2019m a young girl and do not feel safe.","title":"Is it possible to get out of a lease because of drug activity and harassment by neighbors?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554783301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb3iix\/school_contracts_void\/","id":"bb3iix","body":"Are school contracts pretaining to out of School events binding if they are not signed by a advisor or superintendent? And if so what if they didn't follow the contract by not following two different rules listed in said contract??","title":"School contracts void???","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1506464883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72nzw6\/north_dakota_previous_landlord_agreed_in_a_text\/","id":"72nzw6","body":"Long story short for backstory, We rented the bottom portion of a house that needed the spare bedroom carpet replaced and we were fine with the old carpet since we had a kitten at the time and knew accidents were bound to happen and the main bedroom just had new carpets installed. Fast forward to a year later, the owners of the house(A) sold the house to someone else(B), with the new owners aware the carpet was in poor condition when we moved in.\n\nFast forward to a year after that, B went through a walk-through with my SO and myself. We all walk through the whole apartment and they state everything looks great, but the carpet in the spare bedroom would have to be replaced due to the smell and condition of the carpet. We talked again about how it needed to be replaced when A owned the house and that B knew that when B purchased the house. We offered to pay half, since the smell was on us, but the condition was not. They said that was fair and my SO was present during this and we handed over our keys. They brought nothing for us to sign and when we asked if there was anything to sign, they said no.\n\nTwo weeks later we get a text from B on a Tuesday stating they were taking out half of the cost to replace the carpet \"in the one bedroom\" and that it would be finished that week. \n\nYesterday B sent a text saying they were replacing the carpet in the main bedroom(brand new carpet 2 years prior) because they stated replacing the first carpet did not get rid of the smell. The cat was not allowed in the main bedroom and did not have accidents anywhere else in the house. We had multiple witnesses assisting us with cleaning and moving throughout the whole apartment the day of the walkthrough and days prior stating there was no smell in the main bedroom or anywhere else in the house except for the spare room.\n\nSo my question is, Is it legal for the landlord to agree on the one bedroom carpet replacement at half cost over text message and during the walkthrough, and then charge us full price to replace both carpets, one that was in excellent condition with no odor?","title":"[North Dakota] Previous Landlord Agreed in a text to one condition is now changing conditions. Is the text legally binding and can he add on to it?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553190038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3tho6\/lease_differences\/","id":"b3tho6","body":"Hey guys, so I live in a 2 bed 2.5 bath apartment in Alabama. My roommate and I are on two different leases. I renewed my lease last year since I\u2019m graduating and I hate moving. Anyway I signed for 639 a month with a 40 dollar allowance package. My roommates rent is 650 with free utilities. Now he\u2019s not the greatest roommate to begin with, but he\u2019s been causing my utility bill to sky rocket. Last year without him I was averaging about 40-50 dollars in overages (How I don\u2019t know) I\u2019m not big on AC since that\u2019s a bulk of the bill but I turn off every light that I am not using. All my lights are LED energy saving bulbs, my TV\u2019s are energy saving etc. Any way this year my new roommate has almost doubled my bill. This past month my bill was 102 dollars without my allowance. 60 dollars was from electric. He leaves every light on in the apartment. Quite literally every light. He spends majority of his time in his room which doesn\u2019t make sense why all my downstairs lights are on. I have 8 different lights downstairs. Now I\u2019ve asked him to be vigilant about it since I have to foot the bill and he hasn\u2019t done much about it but it\u2019s getting way too out of hand. I\u2019ve told management that I\u2019m pissed with the fact they matched me with someone who has free utilities and I don\u2019t. I\u2019m already low on money and I cannot afford to find a new place or keep paying the outrageous bills on top of my rent. \n\nWhat can I do to alleviate this?","title":"Lease differences","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569068596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d79tlo\/medical_bill_opened_in_my_name_from_divorced\/","id":"d79tlo","body":"Ex lives in North Dakota with my 2 (out of 4) youngest kids, there was dental work done and the ex provided the dental office with a copy of our decree so they can split the bill correctly.  Dental office's billing system isn't able to split a bill like that so they create a separate account in order to accommodate the decree percentages.  Ex gave them my name but then gave her ND address for the bill to go to, this was not told to me at all.  I only knew about it after the mail started showing up and one of my kids questioned me through text, \"why are you getting mail here?\"\nI thought nothing of it and asked her to open it since it had my name on it and it was  my portion of the  dental bill, just 90 days past due now.  This also shows up on my credit report now and I'm wondering if that is a form of fraud or some sort of identity theft.  ND laws about this require a police report just to investigate...","title":"Medical bill opened in my name from divorced parent","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571434274,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dju6xi\/teacher_asking_for_money_as_an_assignment\/","id":"dju6xi","body":"I\u2019m in the 8th grade living in California. A few students stole some pennies from a teacher and now that teacher is demanding 50 cents in pennies from every student in that class. She says that this is an assignment that we must complete. Is there anyway I can not give those pennies but also not get punished? Also, do I have any legal leverage in this situation?","title":"Teacher asking for money as an assignment?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552665408,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1gl9m\/miwhat_are_the_repercussions\/","id":"b1gl9m","body":"I\u2019m 17 and my younger sister is 15. For as long as I\u2019ve been alive I\u2019ve been forced to go on visits to my dad despite saying how bad they were. I\u2019ve tried everything from refusing to go, to even trying to talk to the court about it. Since my sister and I are so close to 18 could we refuse to go or would there be some type of issues with it? My mom is worried about being in contempt of court if we refuse to go and we don\u2019t have enough money to go through a bunch of legal processes. My question is what could happen to us or my mom if we refused to go even though we\u2019re supposed to?","title":"[MI]What are the repercussions?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539051227,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ml7qo\/ultimatum_given_by_employer_for_having_a_mental\/","id":"9ml7qo","body":"As the title states, I was given an ultimatum by my employer today. To give a little background info:\nI have been diagnosed with moderate to severe depression and anxiety for 2 years. As of recently, I have noticed my workplace environment has been contributing negatively to my mental health. I confided in my manager, whom I trust, in what I should do in terms of my position. I wanted to stay within my agency and potentially switch to more of a desk job rather than hands on\/ on site (I am an after school teacher working with a non profit agency). My manager was understanding of this all and spoke to his boss about a transfer or even being demoted to being a substitute. I was told today by my manager that his boss was giving me 2 options: either to take an unpaid leave of absence or to resign and put in my 2 weeks. He said this was due to the staff to student ratio at our site particularly (even though we have more hires coming to our site soon, which means we will technically be overstaffed).\nI was given until the end of the day to make my decision. \nI chose to take a week off to decide what to do. \nBut what the fuck do I do? \nEither I have to look for a new job or suck it up until I leave in January for college. Is this even allowed? I know about the ADAAA, but does it apply to non profits? I love my students, I love my team, and I love what we do.. but I am not going to sacrifice my mental health for this. I also find this particularly sketchy because they make accommodations just fine for anyone else (ex. availability, switching classes, etc.) Any advice would be greatly appreciated because I have a week to figure this all out. Thank you guys.","title":"Ultimatum given by employer for having a mental illness, is this allowed?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541884888,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vxzzr\/how_to_get_my_dads_house_back\/","id":"9vxzzr","body":"My dad died years ago when I was still a minor. Half of his 7-acre property (where his home and automotive business were both located) is technically promised to my step-uncle \u201cMike\u201d (via divorce negotiations between my grandfather and Mike\u2019s mom). Since my dad\u2019s death, Mike has taken control of the house and I cannot find his contact info anywhere. Mike had all the cars in the junkyard crushed for money and sold all the tools\/equipment from the business. While half the land is Mike\u2019s, the tools and cars were not.\n\nThis has been going on over a decade and I can\u2019t find my uncle Mike. The house is currently being occupied by a renter.\n\nI feel like I\u2019m getting screwed out of half my inheritance but mostly I just want to get the property back. I grew up there and it makes me physically ill to know it\u2019s just being taken. My questions are as follows:\n\n1) how do I prove half the property is mine without having the will (There\u2019s a will from my grandfather\u2019s passing that gives the property to my dad, aside from the part that went to his ex wife. I\u2019ve seen it but don\u2019t have it. My dad didn\u2019t have a will that I know of)\n\n2) how do I track down my uncle\u2019s contact info after google\/social media searches have failed?\n\n3) will I need a lawyer?\n\n4) what are my options for getting sole ownership of the property? I\u2019d settle for not being screwed out of my inheritance but what I really want is to keep the property in our family. I love this property and would rather not have to sell it for profit.\n\n5) have I waited too long to take action?\n\nThis issue keeps me up at night, any advice is appreciated.","title":"How to get my dad\u2019s house back?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1408808489,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eddif\/debatable_speeding_ticket_on_long_island_ny\/","id":"2eddif","body":"I recently received what I consider an unfair speeding ticket, although, admittedly, my speed was illegal in the eyes of the law.\n\nScenario: I was driving on Route 27, near the Hamptons, where the speeding limit is 55 MPH; I was going at 57. However, as soon as you enter the Town of East Hampton, the speed limit abruptly drops to 30 MPH. A state trooper \"caught\" me at this very divide, where the speed limit goes from 55 MPH to 30 MPH, which means I received no grace period to slow down---he literally got me smack dab at the beginning of the 30 MPH zone.\n\nMy issue is this: If I had slowed down earlier to compensate for the new speed limit, I would have been going 15+ MPH under the 55 MPH state highway speed limit, which also could be deemed an obstruction to traffic (and, hence, illegal). I was going at 57 MPH in a 55 MPH zone, and was given no time to slow down upon entering the new 30 MPH speed zone. I view this as unfair and unreasonable since it is a damned if I do (if I had slowed down to, say, 35 MPH, prior to entering the 30 MPH speed zone, I would have been going 20 miles slower than the Route 27 55 MPH speed limit), damned if I don't (if I had continue going at an acceptable speed in respect to Route 27, and only slowed down upon entering the Town of East Hampton, I still would have been going 10+ miles over the new 30 MPH speed limit) scenario.\n\nI understand there is a lot of gray area here, but the precipitous drop in speed limit means, in my opinion, that there should be a grace period in which I am given the opportunity to slow down and match the new speed limit, which is 25 MPH lower than the old speed limit.\n\nMy question is will this argument hold up in court? Will the prosecutor or judge understand how this situation can be seen as unfair, or will I only be seen as a kid trying to worm his way out of a cut-and-dry matter in the eyes of the law? I'm sincerely miffed by this ticket and believe it is a situation in which I was given no reasonable method to slow down.\n\nThank you for all your help, Reddit counsel. I appreciate any and all advice on this matter.","title":"Debatable Speeding Ticket on Long Island, NY","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571738387,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlfpga\/my_landlord_forgot_to_have_me_sign_a_lease\/","id":"dlfpga","body":"All I signed was a deposit form and a pet addendum. Does this mean he could theoretically be able to have me leave at anytime and vice versa?  \n\nSay I was to move out, would I be able to get my deposit back?","title":"My landlord forgot to have me sign a lease agreement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507921577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/766zpq\/nc_i_was_stupid_and_my_phone_was_confiscated_in\/","id":"766zpq","body":"Hello \/r\/legaladvice, I was stupid and had my phone out for a minute during lunch, an administrator saw it and now they say they're gonna keep it over the weekend and give it back to me on Tuesday. The school *does* has a policy that the first time a phone is confiscated they will keep it for three days, because this happened on Thursday I won't get my phone until Tuesday, my parents came to the school this morning with me and asked for the phone back, the school told them to scram pretty much.\n\nI was told at the start of school of a policy that states phones will be confiscated if caught, but can my parent get the phone back due it to being their property (technically I suppose since I did not buy it on my own and I am under 18) and not mine?\n\n\nWhat steps could I take to get my phone back before the end of the day? The school still has staff in it for a couple of more hours so I have time.\n\nThank you very much and I am sorry for getting myself in this situation. ","title":"[NC] I was stupid and my phone was confiscated in school.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539025709,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mhvin\/wife_unfairly_dismissed_from_work_do_we_have_a\/","id":"9mhvin","body":"I came home to some shocking news today. My wife was suspended from work with immediate effect (pending a disciplinary hearing). Here's the backstory. \n\n\u2022 On Friday, 05 October 2018 manager calls one-on-one meetings with all employees except her and a colleague. \n\u2022 Manager calls another meeting later the same day at 15:00 with all employees. \n\u2022 Manager, in the presence of and backed by HR, requests that all employees declare what time they clocked in, what time they left and returned from lunch. \n\u2022 Based on this, HR verbally instructs employees that they are to leave at 7PM. \n\u2022 Wife leaves work at 5:30PM along with two other colleagues. \n\n\u2022 On Monday, 08 October 2018 HR calls two separate meetings with my wife as well as one of the two colleagues that left with her. \n\u2022 HR issues a notice of suspension to my wife with immediate effect. \n\u2022 The same is done for one of the two colleagues. \n\nI hope we have a case of unfair treatment. The manager has always had a personal problem with my wife. Over and above that in the initial meeting, no proof backing the declarations of what time they clocked in was required which means that some employees could have lied.  Thirdly only two of three employees were served with notices instead of all three who left at 5:30 of Friday. \n\nAny advice is appreciated.\n\n","title":"Wife unfairly dismissed from work. Do we have a case?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569853312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbc9n3\/colorado_25000_rental_damage\/","id":"dbc9n3","body":"My mother owns several rental properties where she used to live in Colorado. We live in North Carolina now. \n\nOne of the tenants has been the property manager for around 12 years, collecting rent, making repairs etc. my mother is older and just didn\u2019t want to deal with it and trusted this person. I believe they have a contract of some sort, though have not seen it.\n\nAny repairs that needed to be made, the cost was deducted from the property managers rent since she didn\u2019t have access to my mothers bank account.\nThe property manager, let\u2019s call her C, works as a book keeper or something and keeps a detailed ledger using quick books of everything spent. \n\nThere were gaps in her rent for 8 months once when she had to replace a furnace, the numbers seem sketchy to say the least. She would hire her husband as a handyman to do repairs on the properties. Very shoddy work and usually bandaid fixed.  Other tenants say they did the work and C still took credit and charged for repairs.\n\nThere was a broken window that she billed $800 to repair. Just the glass was replaced.\n\nDoor knob replacement was billed out around $200 I think... it was a $20 Walmart replacement. \n\nMany examples of questionable \u201cdeductions\u201d from her rent.\n\nMy mother is selling the houses and doesn\u2019t want to deal with any of it. I have POA and am selling the house C lives in. I have fired her as PM and have received all the ledgers.  She moved out and the house is now under contract.\n\nThe inspection revealed a lot, nearly $25,000 in PREVENTABLE damages. Most notably a leaking shower that caused damage to the exterior wall. Full bathroom remodel because the floor was sagging and tiles were moldy with grout missing. $15,000 for bathroom remodel.  Mold on interior walls in rooms adjacent to the bathroom. Cracked stem wall foundation directly below the bathroom. Structural engineer suggests it was due to the leak. $10,000 to repair the stem wall.  \n\nSeveral smaller issues like the irrigation not working, active termites (C was aware of the termites and did nothing) dead trees, textured ceiling peeling off etc.\nSidewalk against the house settled and is causing drainage to flow toward the house on the other side of the building, no foundation issues there though. Down spouts for gutters do not direct water away from the house... cracked and broken concrete...\n\nA house that valued around $250k we had to sell for around $200k because of the neglect.\n\nI\u2019m not worried about the trees or the textured ceilings or irrigation or concrete around the house... those are common wear and expected to some extent. \n\nBut by neglecting the leaking shower for so long, my mother is out at least $25,000\n\nI would like to pursue legal action, but I have questions:\n1) what kind of lawyer would I need?\n2) do I have a case?\n3) would it be worth my time and energy? They aren\u2019t wealthy and I doubt they could cut me a check for $25,000\n4) Am I failing to consider anything?\n\nThank you for any advise you could bestow","title":"Colorado $25,000 rental damage","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550073704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aq81p5\/labor_laws_for_being_scheduled_while_on_jury_duty\/","id":"aq81p5","body":"So I work in an extended hours Walgreens as a pharmacy tech and I told the tech that makes the schedule that I can\u2019t work tomorrow, February 14th, because I am being summoned for jury duty. I just got my schedule for the week starting tomorrow and I have been scheduled to work tomorrow 4-12. Other than being a dick move, is my employer allowed to do this? I know if the jury duty lasts till 5 I can\u2019t be punished for being late but am I allowed to be scheduled? Do I still get compensated even though I am scheduled? I was really looking for a free day off for Valentines as a thank you from the government and now I\u2019m pretty much screwed. What are my options?","title":"Labor laws for being scheduled while on Jury Duty","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569766810,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/davpn8\/am_unable_to_register_llc_as_the_name_is_too\/","id":"davpn8","body":"The title says the gist but to elaborate: I sent a brief letter to the other co., which is in another city and does nothing like what I do. I even included info to the Secretary of State office, my contact info, and stamps so they didn\u2019t need to so much as pay for postage to return their signature of approval. But nothing. \n\nI get that they probably don\u2019t want another company by a similar name, but it\u2019s not a competitive situation? I digress. What are my options? Am I able to register in another state?\n\nI\u2019ve looked at the popular Delaware route which is an option but their website is sort of confusing to me. Also, from what I can tell, LegalZoom is charging out the nose to file there. I could\u2019ve wrong, though. \n\nAny help would go a long way in figuring this out. Thank you.","title":"Am unable to register LLC as the name is too similar to another in my state (OH) but the other co. won\u2019t reply to my letters.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553032314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b33fts\/new_landlords_trying_to_collect_on_rent_from\/","id":"b33fts","body":"Good evening ! Local reddit lurker here with a problem as usual. Recently my old landlord, we'll call him Mr. Jones, has been forced out of ownership of his properties due to what he described as a \"Long lasting legal battle\" Between the new landlords. I don't know all the details of Mr. Jones' case but i know it has something to do with bankruptcy and the company who owned the buildings be for both parties. I didn't pay rent to Mr. Jones in Feburry because he ghosted most contact when he lots his hearings, and Now the new owner are trying to collect rent for February and March. I never signed any lease, nor habe i entered any verbal cinteact with these new land lords and my lease with Mr. J was only month to month and expired before march. I'm wondering if I legally have to pay them any rent ? The new owners are kinda sleezy and I was thinking to use the money to get a new place, but I'm a young guy and I don't want to make a a mistake. State is New Mexico if that helps.\nThanks to anyone who took the time to read !","title":"New landlords trying to collect on rent from previous lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444054538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nksm8\/using_company_names_in_a_program\/","id":"3nksm8","body":"Hey everyone,\n\nI wrote a programm which can launch applications you add to it.\nWhile this works for any regular program there is one exception.\n\nIf you want to add a program that is distributed by a specific company you have to follow slightly different instructions.\n\nI have created a button which opens an instruction window with instructions on how to do so. The button has the company name on it and I reference this company by name in the instructions aswell.\n(I did not use the companys logo, only plain text)\n\nCan I publish the program in this form or do I have to ask the mentioned company for allowance?\n\nEdit: I'm in Germany. Forgot to add that to the title.\n\nEdit2: Clearer description of the situation","title":"Using company names in a program","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444954571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oxdog\/teen_datingmessaging_app_florida\/","id":"3oxdog","body":"Can I legaly make a teen dating or messaging app?","title":"Teen Dating\/Messaging App {Florida}","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570010453,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc83a9\/can_a_company_refuse_to_provide_a_pay\/","id":"dc83a9","body":"AL\n\nIn my company, different shifts receive a pay differential (higher for 2nd and 3rd) and I had been under the impression that would start once the shift did. My HR department had said they didn't receive the paperwork at all (supervisor advised they did it as part of the standard for changing an employee's shift), so I had my supervisor resubmit it, backdating it to denote I began the eligible shift 30 days ago. HR now stars they will only pay the higher wage from when they received the paperwork, not when I began the higher rate shift.\n\nIs it legal for them to state the shift is a higher wage, then refuse to pay for the period between beginning the higher-rate shift and receiving the paperwork, as they were aware I had begun a different shift through the time clock system?","title":"Can a company refuse to provide a pay differential for a time period, if they state they didn't receive the paperwork until a month after the change?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409748747,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fcp11\/parental_rights_question_involving_polyamory\/","id":"2fcp11","body":"Hi, everyone. My boyfriend and his social circle have been trying to help out their friend (who we'll call John) when it comes to leaving his crazy girlfriend, but there's a roadblock.\n    \nWe're in Pennsylvania.\n    \nA few years ago John got into a polyamorous relationship with Susan and Jennifer. Before John came into the picture Susan and Jennifer were living as a lesbian couple. John thought he hit the jackpot because he went from 0 women to 2 women, and sometimes threesomes - and he ended up moving in with them. But then they wanted to get pregnant. John agreed to act basically as a sperm donor for them and was adamant that he didn't care because they weren't going to be his kids. However, going through the pregnancies and living with the children and, you know, totally acting as their father (feeding them, taking them to school, etc.), John has fatherly feelings for the children and sees them as his. He loves those kids.\n   \nJohn is not on either child's birth certificate. We know that he signed something regarding the child he had with Jennifer to give up his rights (not sure if he signed anything with Susan for that child).\n     \nNow, Jennifer is an extremely toxic person. She finds every way possible to make John's life hell. She'll throw fits to keep him from leaving the house, for example. Just picture the stereotypical toxic girlfriend from hell, then times it by five and that is Jennifer. Jennifer's insane behavior led Susan to leave the relationship with her, but all 3 of them still live in the same house and raise the kids together.\n    \nWhenever John does something Jennifer doesn't approve of, she will hint (or outright say) that she will take their daughter away from him and he won't be allowed to see her. John stays in this terrible relationship in order to stay in his daughter's life. (His relationship with Susan is pretty normal and Susan has never threatened to take their son away. They basically co-parent.) John wants to leave the relationship and find someone normal but still be able to see his daughter. As I said, he's not on the birth certificate and he signed away his rights. Lately Jennifer has been pushing for a Wiccan marriage (so not legally binding) and no one wants to see him further tied to this toxic\/crazy person. Is there ANYTHING he can legally do to fix this situation?","title":"Parental rights question involving polyamory","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554654891,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bai3jx\/police_want_to_see_my_hard_drive_i_want_to_erase\/","id":"bai3jx","body":"Sorry for any mistakes in English, it is not my main language. I am in California.\n\n​\n\nMy neighbor and I are on bad blood, mostly due to cultural differences. Nothing is really major about it and police have never been involved. He has many modified cars that he usually works on, he has a big garage, and one night one of the cars was stolen after a break in. It was very special to him and rare as it had been sent from his home country to California. This was told to me by another neighbor.\n\n​\n\nThat was approximately a week ago. When I came home two days ago, the police were at my house waiting for me. They asked me questions, like did I see the break in, did I hear anything or did I know anything about what was stolen. I gave honest answers and really I would like him to have his car back because I think it means a lot to him. Yesterday I got a phone call from a different police officer asking what I knew about the car that was stolen. I told him what the neighbor told me about it, and I know a little bit about sports cars so I said I knew what kind of car it was generally, and that it was very nice. The officer told me that they have been checking everyone's house in the area and that they would like to come in and look at mine just to make sure that nothing was taken from mine but also to make sure that I didn't have any break in tools or anything to hide. He also said that, because of the type of car it was, there's a large chance that it was stolen to be sold out of the country, so they would need to be access my computer and phone. I asked him if they suspected that I stole the car, he said no, they just wanted to make sure everyone was okay. I told him I would call him back.\n\n​\n\nI live alone, and I am completely innocent of anything. I know nothing was stolen from my house, and I feel that this is just a plan because maybe the neighbor said something about our relations. I have many very personal things on my computer, intimate data that I would never trust to anyone besides myself. Money information, but I also have other data like a downloaded movie or two that I got from torrent. I can say no to them searching, but I also would rather erase the hard drive in a very aggressive manner (I am a computer security consultant). While I understand this possibly will not forbid high level forensic recovery, I would rather destroy the data as best as I can and still use the computer by reinstalling everything after aggressively erasing it.\n\n​\n\nWould doing so be illegal or bad advice?","title":"Police want to see my hard drive, I want to erase it","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568562730,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4m8mh\/havent_received_watergas_bill_in_over_4_months\/","id":"d4m8mh","body":"Hello, \n\nI moved to a new apartment back in May and I although my electricity bill has come in just fine, I haven't received a single water\/gas bill, even though supposedly I'm the one responsible for it. I asked the complex's property manager what's going on and he said that there have been people here longer than me who haven't received anything. \n\nMy question is, to what extent am I liable for overcharges, when I haven't physically receive any bills and haven't signed up for any kind of online account\/paperless waiver. \n\nThanks in advance","title":"Haven't received water\/gas bill in over 4 months.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540155627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q74kz\/what_happens_to_the_parents_if_an_underage_person\/","id":"9q74kz","body":"A friend of mine was having a pregame at their parents condo in high school that is on the 71st floor of a building. The parents were out of town and did not know the party was being held. During the party one of the kids thought it would be cool to stand on the other side of the railing on the balcony. If that kid had fallen and died what repercussions would the parents (home owners) receive? ","title":"What happens to the parents if an underage person dies at a party at their home that they didn\u2019t know was being held?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555186481,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcupxp\/legal_advice_business_associate_owes_me_commission\/","id":"bcupxp","body":"[Lb](https:\/\/share.icloud.com\/photos\/0gjJfe9_z2Ugcb-hxF4IwKkIw#Harbour_Island)","title":"Legal advice, business associate owes me commission","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1444239291,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nv5b4\/civil_union_vs_marriage_vs_domestic_partnership\/","id":"3nv5b4","body":"Hello - my girlfriend and I have been together for nearly eight years (with no children), however we're both hesitant to get 'hitched' (both very independent, would prefer to avoid any legal 'headaches' if things for some reason change, and we can't even come close to affording a wedding ceremony at this point - nor would we like the attention). A side consideration is that I will be pursuing a 4 year graduate program, and including her income may adversely (possibly drastically) affect the amount of federal financial aid I would receive (this may make our whole question null). \n\nRecently, she changed positions, and her new position does not offer affordable health insurance. I work at a hospital and have a very affordable plan (the motive for this question). I was told CO is a common-law state, and my employer requires at minimum an affidavit of common law marriage to share health benefits. \n\nSo this led us to a Civil Union, which seemed to meet all of our needs. We went to the county clerk, who asked us why we would prefer to get a civil union over a marriage, and led us to believe (in addition to being a bit rude) a few things opposite of what we'd found when researching previously:\n\n* There are no significant differences between a marriage and civil union, except marriage is recognized federally\n* The reason CU exists is for same-sex couples, and the recent law change just hasn't been reacted to yet\n* We would be required (non-optional) to file taxes jointly\n* We would be required to file for divorce if the relationship were to end (understood) and it would be essentially the exact same thing if we were married (not what we understood)\n\nWe were essentially under the impression that a CU imparts some benefits (inheritance, hospital visitation, seemingly some power of attorney) in addition to the ability to cover her under my health insurance plan, and it therefore sounded like a good idea (CU sounded easier to dissolve, and we wouldn't have any nightmare 50\/50 split scenarios etc, despite the fact neither of us see that happening - I expect we'd separate as amicably as two can. We own almost nothing anyway at this point). We know that if we were to ever get married we would first need to dissolve the CU. \n\nSo, I guess I'm just confused. Is there something that would allow us to share these benefits, that would be easy to dissolve (and I wouldn't incur her debt, we wouldn't forced to split belongings (even if one of us turns evil), and we can file taxes independently if desired)? Both of our families are huge fans of the 'married' world, and that's led us to be hesitant to make things that 'official'. But we've been together for long enough... \n\nI'm guessing that a domestic partnership won't help us, as my employer requires an affidavit of common law marriage.\n\nThe best summary of our 'research' on CU: http:\/\/www.one-colorado.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CivilUnions_FAQ.pdf\n\nThanks for your help, apologies for the long request.\n","title":"Civil Union vs Marriage vs Domestic Partnership (CO, heterosexual couple)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1447384245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sma6j\/requesting_guidance_for_obtaining_custody_in\/","id":"3sma6j","body":"The situation is messed up so I will give the highlights for now. My three year old nephew lives with his mother in SC and his father currently lives in New York (posting this on his behalf from yet another state). They were never married and there is no formal agreement for custody. His father would like to get sole custody as his mother is - to put it nicely - pretty messed up. Nothing that is overtly and unquestionably illegal but the kind of things that most child psychologists would likely take a strong stance against. Can anyone offer recommendations for how to best catalog what has happened and try to get full custody from out of state?","title":"Requesting guidance for obtaining custody in South Carolina","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506607172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7308y5\/texas_can_i_get_fired_for_this\/","id":"7308y5","body":"I'm a medical aide (CMA [AAMA]) at a school, my school ranges from K-8 and it's a public charter school. This student was 13 years old, and she told me that she had sex for the first time with her boyfriend, who is now 16. Now, I'm known to give advice to students in my school because of lack of counselor that only comes once a month, but I do tell my admin when it's something of importance, and keep it quiet when it's just drama in school. But this is something I'm not sure what to do about.\nThis student was telling me that he didn't use a condom but she's not pregnant because she got her period. I was being careful with my words and told her that while I'm not going to get her in her business, but to please be careful, because of age of consent in Texas and also because of pregnancy. If she is going to continue doing these things, then at least protect herself, but that's all I said.\n\nI reported this to my Dean of Students and told her I told her to be careful on this situation, she told me I'm not allowed to say this or it's condoning the behavior. \n\nNow, the parent is coming and she'll have a meeting with her and the student, without me and I am worried this kid will say more than what I said.\n\nI don't want to lose my job, I only wanted to help and I didn't know what to do in this situation because I never had this happen before.","title":"[Texas] Can I get fired for this?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1409045973,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2em37k\/left_after_financial_year_ended_but_ex_employers\/","id":"2em37k","body":"Hey Everyone,\n\nI'm from the UK, not sure if this is where I state that? \n\nSo I worked for an old employer for 18 months and left on May the 2nd 2014. As far as I'm aware the financial year runs 1st April - 31 March in the UK. I got messed around with redundancy's but that's a different story so I handed in my notice and finished on the 2nd. I'm still in contact with a lot of old colleagues and my housemate still works for the same company. Two of my old colleagues who were made redundant have received letters stating they are getting their bonus and the amount. They both left the company before I did yet I have not received any letter regarding my bonus. I send an email to the HR dept at my old company and the replied with \"As you resigned and left before the end of the financial year there is no entitlement to a bonus.\" Can a company do this? Can a company have different dates for a financial year? I have emailed them back stating the dates for the Financial year I found on google and the date I left the company. Can anyone let me know if I have a leg to stand on here?\n\nCheers","title":"Left after financial year ended but ex employers not giving me my bonus.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570558026,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df3r3w\/i_made_a_mistake_and_let_my_boyfriend_live_with\/","id":"df3r3w","body":"According to my lease I'm not supposed to have any adult staying there not on the lease, so I can't go them for help for fear of losing my home. \n\nMy BF(43m) was allowed to come stay with me when his female room mate was going through some serious mental health problems and he didn't feel safe or comfortable staying there anymore. This was back in March maybe.\n\nHe's not been helpful and only helped a little bit with bills in August and September after I finally made a huge deal about it. \n\nI'm over it all and want him out but he's refusing to leave saying we had a verbal agreement and he doesn't have to go anywhere. From what I can tell from my online searches he's correct and I may have to formally evict even though he's not technically allowed to live there according to my apartment complex. \n\nPlease help. How do I get myself out of this terrible situation I've gotten myself into without losing my home?\n\nSorry for any formatting issues as I am issuing mobile.","title":"I made a mistake and let my boyfriend live with me when he was down and out...now he won't leave.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570510067,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/devahy\/what_is_a_mutual_arbitration_agreement\/","id":"devahy","body":"I am working with chemicals and heavy machines, and I was wondering if this agreement prevents me from suing my company if I get hurt or cancer for doing this job.\n\nPerhaps my question has nothing to do with the agreement, but I am just asking.","title":"What is a mutual arbitration agreement?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541522441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9upwkd\/landlord_charging_bogus_1000_transfer_fee\/","id":"9upwkd","body":"Hello,   \n\n\nSo my landlord just randomly added on this extra $1000 \"transfer fee\" to my monthly payment after I moved to another unit and I'm curious if this stated in the contract or not?    \n\n\nHere is the contract: [https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/wyJa5nr](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/wyJa5nr)  \n\n\nThe part circled in red is the only thing in the whole contract that mentions a $1000 fee... there are two strange things I noticed.\n\n* First, it's checked off saying \"Will be considered\" so I'm quite confused why I'm getting this extra fee.\n* Second, the second option where either one of two boxes isn't even checked out???  \n\n\nThe leasing agent that added this extra charge to my account seems pretty scummy so I'm quite suspicious.  \n\n\nI would greatly appreciate anyone's input.  \n\n\nThanks so much.","title":"Landlord charging bogus $1000 transfer fee???","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541442778,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ug5qy\/got_new_job_going_to_have_two_health_insurance\/","id":"9ug5qy","body":"I got a job working for the state. I\u2019m going to official be on the state\u2019s plan in mid November, but we still technically be on my parents until January 1st. What should I do? I use my insurance pretty often, which one should I use for the time being?","title":"Got new job, going to have two health insurance plans until January 1st. What should I do?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540675217,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rxuo7\/adoption_paperwork_has_wrong_middle_initial\/","id":"9rxuo7","body":"Hi all,\n\nSo we adopted our youngest from foster care last week.  In the moment I didn't double check my name and today when we got the paperwork I realized the middle initial is incorrect.  My first name and last name are correct but my middle initial reflects my middle name before marriage and not my current legal middle name (but easy to prove it was at one time my name).  Husband's name is correct.  Document is signed by me so that also lends proof.\n\nIs this something that needs to be corrected or is it something that we can just let slip?  We should get her new birth certificate in a few weeks and that will reflect my maiden name and not married name.  The name on the paperwork also does reflect a name I had for about a minute after I was first married because of a social security screw up.  Don't know if that matters.  Thanks for any guidance.  Just don't want problems down the road.  ","title":"Adoption Paperwork Has Wrong Middle Initial (California)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540987894,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sy4he\/fl_military_member_stationed_in_md_warned_for_not\/","id":"9sy4he","body":"I'm an active duty military member, resident of FL, and stationed in MD. This morning a civilian police officer warned me to get my address updated on my FL driver's license. He cited MD state law when he warned me. He did not vote a specific law, just \"MD state law.\" \n\nMD DMV says they don't have a requirement for me to get a MD license and they obviously can't issue a new FL license. FL doesn't seem to be able to issue a FL license with MD address. I've been active for 15 years, have not been FL that entire time, and haven't been told to update my address before. \n\nIs there a MD state law that applies to active duty military to update the address on an out-of-state license?\n\nIf yes, how do I get that done for FL?\n\nIf not, is there a reference I can refer the officer to if it happens again in the future?\n\n","title":"FL military member stationed in MD warned for not having MD address on FL driver's license.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553786795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6k5nb\/rural_utility_company_fabricating_charges\/","id":"b6k5nb","body":"This post is on mobile so please excuse any formatting issues. Apologies if I flaired this incorrectly, first time poster here.\n\n  My fianc\u00e9e and I lived for a little over a year in a town of < 500 people while she attended a graduate program the next town over. In this time, we rented from a housing company that advertised extensively to the students who attended the school and we had a spotty experience to put it lightly. \n\n  To give background, while we were in this house there were constant heat and A\/C outages that were addressed but nearly always with a quick fix that led to later problems. There were sinks that didn\u2019t work, pipes that made noise, lights that flickered, and just general old house issues that we mostly ignored because the house was within our budget and it was temporary. \n\n  The only two MAJOR problems we had were the local water company and the mold in the house. The mold was black mold that sent me into some sort of episode that left me incredibly short of breath and my heart thumping but it was addressed by the housing company (after many threats to get counsel because I believed the owner of the company acted in bad faith; he was a physician who was aware of the effects of the mold and he was aware the mold existed because it was an issue with previous tenant.)\n\n  The mold was addressed quickly, the water company is still haunting us. \n\n  While we lived in this house, we were constantly overbilled for our water. They had a standard rate up until 5000(?) gallons a month that we paid four months in advance when we moved in because we deal with our bills quarterly where possible. Within a few months we were getting bills for 10,000 , 11,000 , and 14,000 gallons even on months where we would be visiting family while the school was on holiday. \n\n  All said and done we ended up paying them nearly 800$ over what our bills should have been for the year (calculated using their standard rate) just so that we could close our account and move on with our lives. This 800$ was on top of money our previous landlord told us they paid the water company after we proved we weren\u2019t home and their plumber found no leaks in the house during a few of those months.   \n\n  It has been nearly nine months since we moved out and we are still hearing from the water company. My fianc\u00e9e\u2019s credit was just hit with a mark from a collection agency near the town where we lived and we are trying to figure out how to proceed. We are certain that this charge is a mistake at best and a total fabrication at worst because we dotted our Is and crossed our Ts before we left and even got the housing agency to call them to confirm. \n\n   I looked for information about a company that might own the local office but as best I can tell the water company is just one lady in the town hall that oversees everything and one guy that drives around town on a golf cart with a walkee talkee that is the town policeman\/water man\/fireman etc... The water is spring water that is pumped out locally and lightly treated before going to homes so it\u2019s not even being handled by a larger entity for treatment before the local branch distributes it. \n\nMy ultimate questions are, do I have any recourse? Is this worth getting a lawyer for or is there any action I can take on my own without a lawyer? \n\nThanks in advance for any advice. ","title":"Rural Utility Company Fabricating Charges","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554145008,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b86y4a\/pennsylvania_getting_evicted_landlord_tried_to\/","id":"b86y4a","body":"\n\nI lost my job in January and had issues getting my unemployment compensation until about 3 weeks ago. I ended up broke and unable to pay my rent on time on its mid-March due date. \n\nMy cellphone, where I stored LL's phone number, stopped working around this time. I realized I had his number stored only in my phone and that I don't know his address or last name. I didn't pay my rent when it was due, and a few days later I found a \"Notice to Quit\" telling me to move by March 28 taped on my door. \n\nI began moving to a city about 1hr~ away and made several trips with my small car. I planned on being 100% out of my apartment on March 28, leaving it clean and empty. I was going to have everything out and vacate March 28 and have LL keep my security to cover my late rent. \n\nI found rides and got back to the apartment and to Walmart, and had a bit of a stress induced mental breakdown for a day or so, and am still trying to figure out how to move the rest of my things and myself. \n\n\nAnyway, yesterday my boyfriend and I were asleep in the apartment when I wake up to my front door being opened sometime around. 11AM - 1PM. My landlord unlocked the door and was letting himself in when he saw me there. He just said something about needing to check on the water, then just closed the door and left. He did not tell me he would be coming and didn't even knock. I know he knows I didn't leave yet, but I imagine that he thought I wasnt home yet without my car in the driveway. This is illegal from what I have read as there was no emergency. I didn't think much of it at first though and dozed back off. It's creeping me out that he could try again when I'm gone though and Im a little nervous he can come in again while I'm not here and do whatever he wants to my stuff... \n\nAnyway, I am not trying to dip out on my rent or be a squatter or anything, I just want to get out of the area I'm in and go anywhere else. I kinda got stuck while. I was leaving though...\u00a0Today I received the notice for the hearing with the majestrate for the eviction hearing. I just need some advice on what to do... \n\n\nI guess that I should also mention that my LL and I never had a formal written lease, just an oral month to month lease, I guess it would be called.\n\n\nTLDR Broke and\u00a0getting evicted and having a string of bad events, my LL entered my apartment illegally \n\n\nSo here are some specific questions I have:\n\n\n1 How should I document LL's illegal entry? I would let it go if the court appearance was not scheduled, but I feel like I should document it just in case. Should I go to the police to report it? On the hearing should I bring it up to the magistrate?\u00a0 Could this harm his attempt to evict me?\u00a0\n\n\n2 i understand now how my lack of communication.\u00a0Now that I have my LL's full name, address, and phone number what would be the best way to contact him to find a resolution: phone, text, certified mail, request to meet in person?\u00a0\n\n\n3 If LL and I do not come to an agreement, I won't be able to make it to court that day anyway, as I will be out of this area, without a car, still broke, and without a way to get there. He only filed seeking to evict me + late rent + court costs, so if that judgment goes against me, fine I guess, but can he try for more at the hearing?\n\n\n4 Is it generally acceptable for tenants to use their security deposit to cover owed rent in PA?\u00a0\n\n\n5 I am not 100% sure where I will be living long term after this, so what should I provide LL as my forwarding address?\u00a0\n\n\n6 Any good sources\u00a0for legal advice for PA tenants?\u00a0\n\n\n7 From what I read, the initial \"Notice to Quit\" must be very specific. What would invalidate it? I noticed my name is spelled incorrectly and that there's nothing saying I can pay the rent within the 10 day period, it just said I had to leave within 10 days. From what I read the notice must say both when the reason for the eviction is nonpayment. Mostly just curious about this\n\n\nThanks for any help\/advice. I wanna get out of this place and get my life going somewhere else but I feel a bit stuck..\u00a0\n\n\n","title":"Pennsylvania: Getting evicted, landlord tried to illegally enter during this. Questions about","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570064937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcjrty\/ne_landlord_entered_apartment_illegally_and_found\/","id":"dcjrty","body":"The landlords entered my apartment unit without notice and saw that I had a cat. The lease states that nobody can enter a unit without a 24 hour notice unless it's an emergency situation. I live in a complex that doesn't allow animals (multiple residents have animals, some registered as ESAs). They want me to move out in a month because of this situation. I'm fine with moving but am curious if what the managers did was legal and if I have any recourse.","title":"[NE] Landlord entered apartment illegally and found out I was breaking the lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502814462,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tv8of\/cant_afford_wedding_dj_havent_paid_deposit_what\/","id":"6tv8of","body":"Financial situation arose which is causing us to cut costs on our wedding.  We haven't paid the \"non-refundable required deposit\" to hold our date yet.  But an extremely bare bones agreement was signed.  Can I cancel with this DJ?  What will it cost me?\n\nThank you ","title":"Can't afford wedding DJ, haven't paid deposit. What are we liable for?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570653488,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfn0cs\/my_professor_made_a_really_inappropriate_comment\/","id":"dfn0cs","body":"I (21 M) was in class just a couple hours ago. I was using my phone during a part of my professors lecture which I know is rude and I\u2019m wrong for doing so. We then got into our groups to work on a project when he comes up to my group and does the thing where professors y\u2019all to the whole general group and says \u201cdid you know if I catch someone using their phone 3 times in class I can fail them? Isn\u2019t that so cool\u201d in a sarcastic tone while looking at me. Obviously directed at me. I apologize and he then says \u201cyou can text after class, massage your dick with it, whatever\u201d which just caught me and my group off guard and has me embarrassed, humiliated, and just disturbed. He tried to apologize after class saying he\u2019s sorry if he went to far with that comment. I couldn\u2019t even respond other than saying it was super inappropriate because I just wanted to get out of class I was so disturbed still. I don\u2019t know what I should do, I\u2019m not really ever one to tell on someone, and I don\u2019t really get bothered by people\u2019s comments but this one just got me. Im thinking about emailing the dean or just emailing him telling him how inappropriate that was. I don\u2019t know if I really want to get him in trouble but his comment has me pretty disturbed as I said before. What do?","title":"My professor made a really inappropriate comment to me in front of peers","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1542225931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x3kuy\/father_passed_away_made_ambiguous_statements\/","id":"9x3kuy","body":"My dad was diagnosed with lung cancer last year, and passed away about a month ago. When he was first diagnosed he liquidated almost all of his assets and all he had left was a checking account, life insurance policy, and an IRA. \n\nHe had a bad experience when his parents passed away which ultimately led to a split amongst him and two of his siblings and they didn\u2019t speak for almost 30 years.  I\u2019m one of three beneficiaries, the other two are my brothers and my dad wanted to make it as easy as possible on us and his will is pretty solid.  \n\nThe week before he died he made some very ambiguous comments to my brother and to my uncle (my dad\u2019s brother who he still had a relationship with and is the executor of his estate).  One comment, which my dad subsequently signed a piece of paper to, stated that money he had given me last year now needs to be repaid to his estate. \n\nThe money in question was given to me last year with no agreement, implied or explicit that it was a loan.  \n\nMy question is, is my father stating in writing I owe this money back legally sound, and do I need to repay it to his estate? \n\nTo me it sounds like giving someone something and later on saying they owe you back...\n\nThanks all in advance for any help!\n","title":"Father passed away, made ambiguous statements prior to death.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554286499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8w3pe\/oh_divorce_legal_advice_please\/","id":"b8w3pe","body":"Background-\nMarried: 11\/2016\nChildren: 2\nHouse bought: 7\/2016 in his name\nVehicle bought: 12\/2017 in his name\n\nMy hopefully soon to be ex but STBX for short bought the house we are in July of 2016. We married November of 2016. I would prefer to not have to move all of the kids and my stuff out in one day since we have so much and I have no clue how I could manage to do that. Is it true that he could change the locks one day then I would be screwed as far as getting whatever I left?\n\nFurther questions:\n\nWhen will I be eligible for state benefits (child care assistance. food assistance, Medicaid, etc)? I wasn\u2019t sure if the divorce has to be finalized first. \n\nIgnore if answered in previous: If I\u2019m not eligible until after the divorce is finalized is there a way to get temporary help while the divorce is pending? (I make a little more than minimum wage and part time since STBX had me stay at home with the kids since 4\/2018.)\n\nHe is showing signs of an affair (dating app on phone, bought condoms when we didn\u2019t use them, change in grooming habits, picking fights over nothing, very high sex drive out of nowhere. concern about how long he\u2019s lasting in bed when it wasn\u2019t a concern, saying our sex life is monotonous, changed phone passcode). Unfortunately this is the 3rd time in our relationship that he\u2019s done shit like this. Am I able to file an at fault divorce due to the signs of cheating, history of alcohol abuse and emotional abuse? He also is an alcoholic and I have called the cops on him twice (once is 8\/2017 and second time 12\/2018). Both incidents involved him drinking heavily. First call about him threatening to shoot himself if I leave (multiple times) and screaming at me nonstop. The 2nd time was him drunk and opening the door on the highway when I was going 70mph. He was having suicidal ideations at the time so I was afraid he was trying to kill himself. I have text messages screen shotted showing his emotional abuse towards me as well. \n\nAlso can I meet with a lawyer the same day? I would like to get some paperwork filled out so I can get the ball rolling on this.\n\nThanks! \n","title":"(OH) divorce legal advice please","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503584438,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vr5jy\/was_i_raped\/","id":"6vr5jy","body":"So on New Year's Eve I got more drunk than I think I've ever been. I couldn't walk, could hardly talk & basically had no fuckong clue what I was doing. Needless to say I blacked out and the last thing I remember is attacking my dog with kisses and repeatedly telling him how much I love him. I woke up the next day and realize I'm in bed with my boyfriend and strangely another man! Someone I barely even knew btw. Confused they both went over the previous nights events and was told what I obviously assumed at this point anyway, that I'd had a threesome with this practically stranger. I forget to mention that not only had I been drinking but I also was snorting coke & oxy's which I had zero tolerance for both so I was beyond fucked up. Here's the truly disturbing part though my boyfriend doesn't party. The strange man however was a big partier. So my stone cold sober boyfriend talked me into fucking another man while I was in no state to make any sort of rational decision. His reason for doing this of course was for very selfish reasons. He's bi and very turned on by watching me with another man and was very much hoping for some one on one with the strange man as well, which to his disappointment did not go as he had hoped. I'm obviously feeling very betrayed and hurt and just quite disturbed by this situation. I just feel like he should be protecting me from men trying to do exactly what he did! Now I understand I chose to drink and use drugs. Not only that but I don't look at him as my babysitter or anything like that but I was trashed and he was sober. He knew exactly what he was doing and he knew that I was so drunk I hadn't a clue what I was doing. I feel as though he took total advantage of me and it's not some minor thing. Sober me would put a lot of thought into deciding wether or not the risks to my relationship which I highly valued mind you, I honestly don't know if the risk of causing problems in our relationship would be worth the rewards. Thinking of my wants & needs no it wouldn't be worth it but taking his desires & fantasies into account and the fact he's a very sexual person with sex bring more important to him than most people I know than maybe I would've decided it was worth a try. But the fact is I wasn't sober and I wasn't given a chance to rationally make that decision. Is this rape? Is it illegal in any way? I'm not at this point looking to press charges but am curious to hear others opinions on this matter. i was under the impression it is illegal to engage in sex with someone who's that drunk while your sober but I wonder how it works in my situation? so any feedback will be greatly appreciated. I am located in the US, New York State. ","title":"Was I \"raped\"?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540286496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qn9ir\/kicked_out_by_apartment_roommates_after_they\/","id":"9qn9ir","body":"throwaway account for obvious reasons..long story short, I was rooming with 3 people. We were all talking & just having a good time & politics came up. I didn\u2019t bring up who I voted for...it almost seemed as if they already knew before they proceeded to ask me who I voted for. I told them & then they told me I needed to leave. They took my key, gave me back my rent money, threw me outside & threw my stuff outside. What kind of legal action can I take against those 3 pieces of shit? ","title":"Kicked out by apartment roommates after they found out that I voted for Trump","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569243501,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d866mo\/roommates_looking_for_online_replacements\/","id":"d866mo","body":"So, just to start with I want to say it\u2019s my first time posting here and I\u2019m not sure if this is the right place to post, but here it is. \n\nIn January my partner and I signed a 12 month lease with on old work mate of mine. Things were fine, there were a few things that we all did that annoyed one another but I thought we still all got along quite well. A month into the lease (let\u2019s call him Pete) quite his job. 5 months in (let\u2019s call her Lucy) goes from part time to casual and has less hours.  6 months in they tell us they are going to live at Pete\u2019s dads house to save money on food, but they\u2019d be happy to pay for their half of the rent until either the rent period finishes or we find roommates. We don\u2019t have many friends that are renters, most are already in rentals, and the few people that were interested decided against the rental because of the price or from how far away it is from the city. Recently Lucy and Pete have  decided they don\u2019t want to pay rent anymore, have tried to get us to sign a change of tenancy agreement, which we refused because we couldn\u2019t afford it. They\u2019ve now told us they have found roommates off the internet, and when I asked for any details about them I was told they knew nothing about them. Is there anything we can do in order to not have random strangers take over their part of the lease? We will be contacting the real estate to ask what our options are but if anyone has any legal advice it would be helpful.","title":"Roommates looking for online replacements.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553975537,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7f8uh\/holding_a_cellphone_at_red_light_ticket_need\/","id":"b7f8uh","body":"I live in Toronto, Canada about a year ago I was caught holding my phone at a red light for GPS purposes since the highway was closed that day I had no idea where to go and pulling over downtown is difficult. I was caught by a bike cop who pulled me over in a horrible area where numerous people were walking by my car giving looks and rubbing by the car. \nAnyways the judge when I went for a early resolution implied I should fight it and ask for disclosure which I did; the only evidence he has on me is his notes no video or audio.\nHow should I deal with it in court? I can\u2019t afford a 490 ticket as I\u2019m a student.\nThank you\n [evidence against me ](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/gLodgAS) ","title":"Holding a cellphone at red light ticket; need advice","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571676769,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl3cuj\/my_estranged_father_recently_passed_away_i_am\/","id":"dl3cuj","body":"Hey all.\n\nA couple of weeks ago my dad, with whom I severed contact two years, passed away. The police got a hold of me and informed me that after the autopsy I could make mortuary arrangements and collect his personal possessions. I have no interest in either his possessions or making arrangements for his body.\n\nProblem is, my dad was an addict who eventually turned his back on everyone and lost everything he had; He had debts to many, many banks, and became homeless years ago. He abused me as a kid and siphoned off thousands of dollars from my brother and me until we severed contact with him. Now I am finding out that even a basic cremation costs around $1000. It seems he's draining my resources one last time from beyond the grave.\n\nDo I have a legal obligation to pay for the disposal of his remains? Or can I tell the coroner that I want nothing to do with it? I do believe I am the only contact they have for him, but nobody else in the family has even reached out to help me handle the logistics of this, let alone the cost, so I reckon if I don't take care of this, nobody will.","title":"My estranged father recently passed away, I am next of kin but not inclined to cover mortuary disposal expenses. (Southern California)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1443318131,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mj6nc\/is_it_illegal_to_not_report_a_crime\/","id":"3mj6nc","body":"is it illegal to not report a felony? What about specific cases such as if the victim of the crime is a minor? (state of Pennsylvania) ","title":"Is it Illegal to not Report a Crime?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539966568,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9plfli\/false_accident_flag_experian\/","id":"9plfli","body":"So, recently my wife and I's auto insurance policy lapsed and I had to get it immediately reinstated due to her car being financed and a warning from the bank.\n\nA little backstory: Last year probably around 12-15 months ago, my brother-in-law who is on our insurance policy backed into my cousin's car and a claim was filed & closed.\n\nSince having to reup our insurance, they forced me to accept him as at fault for one incident on our new policy but also had my wife listed as at-fault for something and she's never been involved in any claims or incidents whatsoever.\n\nIt appears this at-fault reporting is being pulled over to the insurance by an Experian report.\n\nWhat can be done here? Should I concern myself with the insurance company or Experian?\n\nAny advice is appreciated.","title":"False Accident Flag - Experian","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554965291,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbwqfp\/tx_my_stepsons_dad_is_incarcerated_and_has_been\/","id":"bbwqfp","body":"The title pretty much sums up the situation. At the present moment no attempts have been made to notify the biological father of the attempt to relinquish his parental rights. I have never personally met him since he has been incarcerated for the past seven years for aggravated robbery.\n\nIt is my wife\u2019s assumption that he will not voluntarily relinquish his rights. He has never paid child support although it is court ordered. My wife would take my step-son for visits before I was in the picture (a decision I disagree with). \n\nI have to main concerns:\n\n1.) Should I proceed with the court ordered termination of parental rights and just not discuss it with the biological father?\n\n2.) If pushback is received, for civil lawsuits, does an individual get a court appointed lawyer if they cant afford one? I consulted with my attorney but she claimed not to know.","title":"TX - My step-son\u2019s dad is incarcerated and has been for the past 7 years. I am trying to adopt but he wont relinquish his rights.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555368126,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdmcoe\/mass_questions_about_any_what_rights_i_have_now\/","id":"bdmcoe","body":"So I was living with my brother and his girlfriend who just got into a nasty breakup. Both of them are on the lease , currently sitting on the grass with all my belongings praying it doesn\u2019t rain. The lease is up next month so they can both technically still be there. \n\nI was not on the lease but had been living there 3 weeks. they threatened to call the police if my stuff wasn\u2019t out within an hour which is a whole other question of if it\u2019s legal. What can I legally do to protect myself right now from losing my stuff\/going to jail. I have no money , no family in this state besides my brother.","title":"[Mass] questions about any \/what rights I have now.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540764302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s77za\/uk_half_sister_being_abused_what_can_i_do\/","id":"9s77za","body":"Background: I (24f) moved out of my mother's when I was 16. My half sister's, then 9 and 5 (17, 13 now), were given to their Father less than a year later by social services due to the abuse and neglect they received from our mother (I also received this, hence why I moved out as soon as I could). \nOver the past year or so, both my sister's have stayed with me during their school holidays for a few days (with their dad's consent obv) and over time they have told me more and more about their current situation. Sister 1 (17) hates sister 2 (13) and they frequently physically fight, s1 is much bigger and stronger and usually wins. S1 is \"perfect\" in their dad's eyes- amazing grades, good friends, independent, hard working etc etc. But s2 is apparently evil- nasty, angry, 'bad' friends, always starts the arguments and such.. from personal experience of when they were kids and I was raising them, s1 was the nasty child and s2 was always quiet but ended up blamed.\nRecently s2 stayed with us by herself and admitted that she has seen a doctor and has been diagnosed as depressed, she self harms and her dad is physically and emotionally abusing her. He's said that she's just like our mother (a serious insult), he's tried to say she's not his kid, he's said he wants her to leave the house and he's grabbed her shoulders and shook her, slapped her across the face, thrown a bottle of water over her and shoved a door into her leg (he used to physically abuse our mother when they were together). She admitted she had also hit him a couple of times when she's angry. She now wants to go into voluntary foster care because she's scared and so hurt at home by both of them. \nWhat do I do? Where do I begin?\nMy husband and I have a 10month old little boy and would willing have her live with us but it's a big undertaking and our son needs to come first, plus we live in a totally different city over 2 hours away.\nHelp?\n\nTL;DR: my half sister (13) is being physically and emotionally abused by her father and older sister (17). Our mother is totally estranged by social services, what can I do\/what should I do as their older half sister (24)?","title":"(Uk) Half sister being abused, what can I do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540184398,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qamdq\/speeding_ticket_for_10_over\/","id":"9qamdq","body":"I was driving back from Kansas City with some friends. I was driving on I-35 North and had hit the Iowa border about 5 miles back. I was pulled over by a state trooper that was parked in the median in between the highway. He said he clocked me at 80 in a 70. What would my best course of action be to try to keep the points off my license? I'm 17 so I know my insurance rates will go through the roof for my parents. The ticket is $114 so I can afford it, but is a Defensive Driver course an option in Iowa? The court is almost an hour and a half from where I live too so I'd like this to be fixed in as few trips back down there as possible.","title":"Speeding ticket for 10 over","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551824446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axr2ip\/is_it_legal_for_a_step_father_and_his_legally\/","id":"axr2ip","body":"The story is way too long to tell here so I\u2019m going to give the needed details.\n\nBasically my father started molesting my half-sister (his legally adopted daughter) at the age of 13. When she was 21 he impregnated her, under the guise that she was doing this on her own from a sleek donor. I\u2019m her little brother and just found out about all this. Unfortunately she is refusing to testify in any way as she is majorly brainwashed by the whole situation. I need to know if there is any legal action I can take, and what the legalities are regarding the situation. Obviously there is no proof of molestation without a testimony, but is there a way to get the law on him by using the fact that the child has his and his adopted daughters DNA?\n","title":"Is it legal for a step father and his legally adopted daughter to have children in the state of AZ","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569432614,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d96klf\/my_job_paid_my_commission_to_someone_else_and\/","id":"d96klf","body":"Hello everybody. So to start off, I am a 1099 employee for a solar company. I sell residential solar, and I get paid a commission off of every sale I get. \n\nI have a contract that reflects that I\u2019ll be paid out for every sale at the regular rate.\n\nBasically what happened is this- my old manager was a dirtbag. He constantly had people put sales under his name, claiming it would help us all win a contest, and that we would pay us after he got paid for it.\n\nWell he was terminated for some very shady business practices, and we\u2019ve been dealing with the cleanup. \nOne of the things I\u2019ve dealt with is that I just had a sale that was installed, and was set to be paid out on 9\/20. I emailed our company accountant on 9\/13, plenty of time before payroll was done, and explained the situation, essentially telling him that it was under my old bosses name, but that it was my sale and I needed to make sure I get paid for my work. \nHe gave me a thumbs up over text when I told him I emailed him. \n\n9\/20 comes, and big surprise, I don\u2019t get paid. \nI text the accountant, and he said he would look into it and call me the next day. \nAs of yesterday, nothing from him. So I went above him and called our CEO, who told me that they accidentally paid it to my old boss, and there was nothing they could do about it because they won\u2019t pay it out twice. \n\nIs there anything I can do about this? I know being a 1099 limits my rights, but I feel I did everything I was supposed to to let them know I was owed that money. \nIt as about $3K that I missed out on because of our accountant\u2019s negligence. \n\nI\u2019m in Arkansas, if that effects my rights. Thank you for any help.","title":"My job paid my commission to someone else and said there\u2019s nothing they can do about it.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1415209564,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ldw97\/can_someone_be_sued_for_filming_while\/","id":"2ldw97","body":"**The Story:**\nA Canadian (the accused) working as crew on an American yacht, sailing it from Sint Maarten to the Bahamas in the Caribbean uploads the videos he took during the trip to Youtube. The accused gets an angry email 6 months later from his Captain (the owner of the yacht) stating that there was a breech of trust and if the videos are not taken down, he will seek legal action \"seeking all remedies including damages\".\n\nIn the email, the Captain threatens to: \n\n*If you fail to comply be aware that I intend to hire local counsel in Toronto to pursue all of my remedies including damages. Additionally I will write to all crew services, rallies and clubs to inform them of your breech of trust. I will also commission a web page and several videos of my own to express your breech of trust and dishonesty while in my employ. I will make sure that these remain paired to the above referenced videos for as long as they remain online.*\n\n**The facts:**   \n- The job was unofficial, 'under the table', cash, nothing signed   \n- At no point did anyone on the boat state they didn't want to be filmed (in fact, everyone was actively engaged with the camera)   \n- The camera was never hidden, always out in the open and obvious   \n- The accused made it aware that he was a Youtuber and uploads all his sailing videos to Youtube   \n- The accused does earn a very small amount of income from the videos   \n- The Captain (and everyone else on the boat) are never shown in anything but a positive light (ie. no defamation of character). These are just 'fun' sailing videos.\n\n**Questions:**   \n- I know you cannot film in someone's home without their consent, but what about on their boat?   \n- Can the accused be sued for MORE than the income earned on the video? What \"damages\" have occurred here?   \n\nThe accused intends to remove the videos regardless, but is worried about potential further legal action afterwards (as the Captain is somewhat of a rage case).\n\nAny help\/advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Can someone be sued for filming while (unofficially) employed on a yacht sailing offshore and then posting it to Youtube?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1542198642,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wzogt\/someone_took_my_picture_after_i_passed_them\/","id":"9wzogt","body":"I was trying to get around someone while driving, because the flow of traffic on one side of the road was going much faster than them and I was approaching an area where were likely going to be passed by most of them. I was trying to get over into the other lane, and to do this I was tailgating them for a couple seconds (10-20 max) then I got into the other lane, the person in front of me passed them, then I passed them. I thought nothing of it. I was probably driving over the speed limit to do this, but not by enough to say it was reckless. \n\nThen I get to a stop light and I look to my right and they're in the turn lane with their phone out the window trying to take my picture or video me or something. It really freaked me out, it was just for a second, but I don't know if they somehow got their phone out and taped the whole thing or what. \n\nI have no prior tickets or anything, and I'm worried that he's going to be able to report the video and try to say I'm driving recklessly. I'm terrified of what he's going to do. I'm in Florida if that helps, I just want to know what I can expect him to do. I'm really scared. ","title":"Someone took my picture after I passed them driving, what can come of this? [FL]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539756916,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ow1h5\/dont_know_how_to_handle_subrogation\/","id":"9ow1h5","body":"So I got into this accident a few months ago in Tennessee(I was uninsured that time). It was a private property I crashed into a car at an intersection called the police after that police said it was private property so He didn\u2019t cite anyone at fault. My only offense\/ticket was for the absence of insurance at that time of accident. Fast forward to 2 weeks I got a letter from the other guys Insurance company that I need to give them My info and everything. I just ignored it as I have asked for advices from friends here (I am a tourist btw) then fast forward 3 months I got a Subrogation letter that I need to pay $20,000 dollars for the damages and everything. \n\nMy question is how to deal with his and how do I act? I barely know US laws and I am dirt poor in my country. It has only been 2 weeks since I have received the subrogation letter. I badly need advice since I dont want to leave the US with this thing in my head. I got 2 months left in my Visa.\n\nThank you","title":"Dont know how to handle subrogation","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1503038651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ug4wz\/landlord_is_trying_to_ruin_my_life\/","id":"6ug4wz","body":"Please bare with me, here's a little bit of back story but I'm in quite the situation and would appreciate any advice I could get. TL;DR at bottom. I am in North Carolina, USA\n\nI'm currently a college student who was living in an apartment with 2 other guys for the last two semesters. I moved in after they had already been living there for a year. The place was a dump- dogs, nasty carpets, broken screen door etc. This was never fixed, as I kept to my bedroom and didn't have a problem with it. \n\nThe lease was a year long that ended on July 31. The owners decide to sell the place, as their son (my roommate) wanted to leave school. They ended up selling the place to a new owner 2 and a half months before my lease ends.\n\nMy other roommate moved out and was able to get out of the lease fine, dodging the last two months. I had to take summer school, so the previous owners  came to an agreement that I'd just pay the same price for the last two months, but to the new owner.  I lived in my bedroom by myself for 2 and a half months. I met with the new owner, seemed like a nice guy, I told him a little about the place, how I only kept to my room. He tells me he's never even been to the place before but bought it because it was a good deal.\n\nI was stunned because the place was pretty nasty- other than my bedroom. He repainted the walls, changed a bunch of decor while I lived there. He checked out the place, I told him how the old tenants got a dog before I moved in and how upset I was. I told him about numerous things that happened before I moved in (which was true) and he seemed extremely understanding. Kept saying \"don't worry about it\". I paid him the same price- no problems. Two months later, I move out. I ask him about the security deposit (that the old owners transferred to him) and he immediately breaks contact with me. No texts, dodges my calls, won't respond to email. I'm horrified, because he is a very quick texter and was texting me back to back right before I popped the question.  \n\nThinking he bailed on me, I send him mail demanding the deposit and showing evidence of him having it- fearing the worst. I get a response back from him finally, via mail. Turns out, he's keeping my deposit and charging the maximum amount (one and half months rent) possible. He gave me deductions and charged me every single thing that was wrong with the entire apartment...\n\nHe even charged me for carpet replacement in the OTHER BEDROOMS, which he locked as soon as he first met me.... he charged me for a DOG even though he knew I didn't have one and I told him the old tenant did to my dismay... I am shocked, no idea what to do other than sue...\n\nDo I have a case? In the contract, that I assume passed to him, it's not specific about damages and isn't specific about my bedroom being my only responsibility. He didn't do any checklist in the beginning so I'm hoping I can argue that he bought the place as is. He never requested any cleaning or inspections of the previous owners. \n\nAny advice would be amazing. Thank you for reading.\n\nTL;DR owner buys property during my lease, last two months gets transferred to him, does not make previous owners clean or repair, now is charging me for all damages that happened before my stay throughout time that was never fixed- which we talked about and he seemed to understand.","title":"Landlord is trying to ruin my life","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506483989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72ps2b\/washington_dc_va_speeding_camera_ticket_never\/","id":"72ps2b","body":"Yesterday (September 25, 2017) I received a notice from a collection agency in regards to a speeding violation in D.C. from a speed camera (I have lived in VA for over 2 years). The date of the offence given was in March of 2016, and with the late fees associated with it being 18 months give or take a few days, the charge was for over $750 and it was stated that because it has been so long I have forfeited my right to dispute the charge. This was also the first notification of the ticket I have ever received (I never received an actual ticket). With all of the controversy over camera tickets (speeding and red light cameras), am I expected to actually be liable for the $750? The research I've done online hasn't exactly been conclusive, mostly just sites stating that these tickets violate the 6th amendment and whatnot. I don't have an issue paying the original fine (even though I'd like to not pay anything if possible), I'm just astonished with the expectation that I'd pay so much without actually receiving an actual ticket. Does anyone have some solid advice with a legal reference? Much appreciated. ","title":"[Washington D.C. & VA] Speeding Camera ticket - never received","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571447704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djwzeu\/i_finally_moved_out_ofgot_kicked_out_of_my\/","id":"djwzeu","body":"Title says most of it. Location of his house is Wisconsin, I\u2019m moving back to Minnesota to my boyfriend\u2019s parents house (with my boyfriend, of course). My dad is abusive, but that\u2019s a long story for another post. I\u2019ve been trying to leave for a while. Yesterday (Friday), he started screaming at me again and told me and my boyfriend to be out by Saturday. \n\nIf it matters, I\u2019m 20 and my boyfriend is 18. \n\nI\u2019m pretty sure he can\u2019t legally kick me out at this short of a notice, despite the fact that I didn\u2019t have a lease with him, but I\u2019m scared and I don\u2019t want to fight it. We\u2019ve been living with him since July. I have been trying to leave since the abuse started up again, which was maybe two weeks in. \n\nToday, my boyfriend and I moved what we could with my little car over to his parents. Most of what is left is furniture and maybe 2-3 boxes left of belongings. My dad just had my little sister [text me](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/PTzndfi) saying that my mom and step dad can come over to help move stuff but can\u2019t come inside. There\u2019s no way in absolute hell that I can even physically move the furniture myself. The boxes and my bed frame, maybe, but it\u2019s unreasonable for him to request this. On top of that, I\u2019m worried that he\u2019s not going to restrain his two very aggressive dogs while I am trying to move things. \n\nCan he make requests like this? What can I do? I considered calling the police department to see if an officer can escort me in to retrieve my things, but I can see it taking 1 1\/2+ hours to get this done and I don\u2019t know what\u2019s reasonable to ask and to not. I\u2019d also rather not stir things up any further with having the police over. I also worry that he can deny allowing the police in because he smokes marijuana and I\u2019m sure has paraphernalia and such out. \n\nLastly, and maybe warranting an entire other post, can he lose custody for drug use? To my knowledge, it\u2019s just marijuana, which isn\u2019t legal in Wisconsin. He\u2019s also extremely emotionally abusive and I show symptoms of PTSD for it. I\u2019m in the process of diagnosis and intensive therapy right now. I don\u2019t want my siblings to keep going through this. I may have been able to escape again, but they can\u2019t yet. I cant believe I even wanted to give him another chance.","title":"I finally moved out of\/got kicked out of my abusive father\u2019s house. I\u2019m supposed to get my furniture tomorrow, but he says my mom can\u2019t come in the house to help me move it. I can\u2019t physically move it on my own. What can I do? Also, questions about custody and emotional abuse\/drug use.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555688786,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf0mii\/cheated_by_vendor_realized_i_had_misread_the\/","id":"bf0mii","body":"Is there any possible legal recourse for me at all if I entered a contract not realising (due to my inexperience and foolishness) that the terms stated in it were highly unfavourable for me, specially the termination clause, and then the other party takes advantage of the clause (I allege it was as per their plan) resulting in a phenomenal loss for me?\n\n​\n\nIs there any way I can call out intentional misleading or would it help to prove that there were a huge number of other breaches of the said contract by the other party?","title":"Cheated by vendor, realized I had misread the contract. Looking for options :-(","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1506666078,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73625j\/question_about_using_brand_name_without_patents\/","id":"73625j","body":"Hello! I live in California and am an avid crafter mainly focused in textiles. I recently thought of a \"brand\" to put on tags of things that I create. I searched the name under the patent database and found two files that were dead. I googled the name and there are a few blogs with the same name. I really do love it and would only be giving\/ selling locally to friends and family. Could not having a patent, and having others using the same name, get me into trouble if money becomes involved? I plan to keep this very small. Thank you so much!","title":"Question about using \"brand name\" without patents?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555427672,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdv358\/do_i_have_to_let_maintenance_into_my_apartment\/","id":"bdv358","body":"This might be the wrong sub but I don\u2019t know where else to post it.\n\nSo this just happened a few minutes ago. I work nights and was trying to sleep before I go in again tonight. I got a knock on my door a few minutes ago that woke me up and it was maintenance coming to fix my blinds, which broke the day I moved in almost a year ago. I never put in a ticket to get them fixed because I have blackout curtains over them but one of my neighbors complained about the look of broken blinds. He insisted on coming in saying \u201cI left a note on your door\u201d. I told him I did not get a note and I\u2019ve been in and out of this apartment at least twice every day for the last 2-3 weeks. He still insisted that this was urgent and would only take a few minutes. He came into my apartment that was COMPLETELY trashed because I haven\u2019t had time to clean in weeks. If I had known he was coming I would have given up my sleep to deep clean this place. I apologize profusely for the mess and tried to salvage it the best I could. After a few minutes of messing with the curtains he finally got the new one up and left. Was he allowed to come into my apartment just because he supposedly gave me notice that I never got? Could I have refused to let him in?","title":"Do I have to let maintenance into my apartment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554507306,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9y91t\/pa_i_recently_turned_18_and_i_am_now_recieving\/","id":"b9y91t","body":"So, I turned 18, and my father who is on social security, housing assistance, whole nine yards, had me fill out a form that basically said that I would recieve income from social security while still enrolled in school. I have been planning on using the income from these checks to pay for various things to help me get into college. This includes AP Exams, application fees, Clep exams, and audition fees. My father claims that he is intitled to the checks to pay for HIS expenses (car loans, car insurance, maintenance, his medications, etc.). He went as far as to instruct me to cash the checks at my bank, and then to just give him the cash. Is this legal in any way?\n\n​\n\nHere are some more details.\n\n* The checks are coming straight from the treasury with my full (first, middle, and last) name on it. \n* I had to submit a check or something else with my bank routing info and account number.\n* The envelopes and checks are directed to me specifically, instead of \"parent or legal guardian of OP\"\n* My father has kicked me out of the house multiple times, I am basically not living at home anymore in a physical sense, albeit I am still there in a legal sense.","title":"[PA] I recently turned 18, and I am now recieving Social Security checks. Is my parent\/guardian entitled to them?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570239577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddgv6v\/interstate_car_troubles\/","id":"ddgv6v","body":"So I kind of messed myself up in this one and before calling a lawyer I wanted to turn here.\n\nBack in April I purchased a car in Arizona where my family lives. I had a friend of the family negotiate for me and drop the price of a new car down dramatically with a great interest rate (1.5% if you're curious), which is why I bought it there. It's a brand new car. I had wanted it to be registered on Arizona at a family member's address and have all the documents sent there.\n\nI have received no documents to that address. My home of record is in Florida. I have received a ripped-up registration application and a check for the registration amount which I have since cashed to the Florida adress. \n\nI'm actually in the military and stationed in San Diego, and recently learned that the title actually went through and is titled in Arizona. I never received a copy of the title to the Arizona address I gave the dealership.\n\nAll I want to do is get my car registered titled and the plates from Florida while being out of state, because of the benefits for a Florida registration. Just today I requested a copy of my title which could take one to two months to get to me. The temporary registration is already expired and I'm not really sure what to do if and when I get that title. \n\nAny help is appreciated and let me know if you need any more information.","title":"Interstate Car Troubles","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552348275,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b00q7b\/boss_admits_cutting_hours_of_female_employee_to\/","id":"b00q7b","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice!\n\nMy close friend works in childcare in Australia. It is quite a large company. We will call her Sarah. A new male employee started working there a couple of months ago, we will call him John. \n\nSince John began work, Sarah\u2019s number of shifts and hours have been heavily cut. She has gone from 25 hours per week down to 15 hours per fortnight. On the other hand, John is working the hours she used to have, perhaps more. \n\nI have worked with Sarah in the past, and she is an extraordinary employee. She will come in last minute, she will pull twice her weight of the workload, and she treats the children with upmost respect and prioritises their experience. It would be absolutely fair to say that all 100 kids from the service would say Sarah is their favourite, and that her shifts being cut are unrelated to her work ethic.\n\nA few days ago, Sarah asked the centre co-ordinator (boss, manager, in charge) why her hours have been changed so drastically, and why John gets so many. The boss, without any hesitation told her that \u2018John is a man, and we want more men in the service\u2019 - that\u2019s why he is getting the shifts and hours instead.\n\nIs this discrimination? I understand that there are far bigger and more important issues regarding human rights in the world right now, but I feel that in a workplace; the centre coordinator telling Sarah that she gets less hours because she isn\u2019t a man; is completely out of line.\n\nI suggested to Sarah that perhaps she should put her phone on voice memo mode and ask the boss about it again, recording her response as proof. However, I told her I will ask here before she goes ahead with that. Is it legal?\n\nWhat could come from this? Would Sarah need to hire a lawyer and bring this to court? Would Sarah just have to approach FairWork to report it? Clearly after 2 months of barely any hours, financing has become a problem due to what I believe is discrimination. Does Sarah have any grounds to stand on (with the audio proof, perhaps without) to be compensated for this?\n\ntl;dr: New male started work, female friend got hours cut and male got 3 times the amount. Boss admitted that it was because he is a man. Should she record the next conversation? What is the next step?\n\nThank you very much for taking the time out of your day to read this!","title":"Boss admits cutting hours of female employee to give to male employee \u2018because he is a man\u2019","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539977866,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pn67p\/gun_pulled_out_on_me\/","id":"9pn67p","body":"Earlier today I was waiting for the bus. I was standing next to the entrance of a building when an older gentleman came out of the building. When he came out he saw me and decided to place his hands on my shoulders from behind in a friendly manner while trying to talk to me. \n\nIf someone tries to talk to me, I\u2019ll act how any other respectful human being would act and talk to them back. Touching is a different story especially if it\u2019s a stranger, it\u2019s just uncalled for. Regardless, I told him something along the lines of \u201cits cool you\u2019re being friendly but you don\u2019t have to place your hands on me.\u201d  He then asked me to repeat myself. I told him again \u201cI don\u2019t know you, you don\u2019t have to touch me.\u201d\nHe then began to get really angry and started treating me. I didn\u2019t say anything back until he pulled out a gun from his jacket. \n\nWithout trying to reveal any personal info,  I was born and have lived in NYC for my entire life and this is the second time I\u2019ve had a gun pulled out on me. \n\nHe continued to yell at me while holding the gun inside of his jacket. Telling me to respect my elders, to watch how I talk to people, and if I were in a different borough, I would\u2019ve been dead. After about 10 minutes of this he finally left. A couple bystanders witnessed the whole thing but for the most part they either recorded, laughed at me, or yelled out \u201cthat\u2019s right, respect your elders\u201d. \n\nI then looked for cameras in front of the building this all took place and there were at least 2 which possibly could have recorded the incident. \n\nThe area this incident took place is an area I often have to go to and I definitely wouldn\u2019t want him to decide I\u2019m in the wrong borough if I were to run into him again. My question is; is there anything I could do to prosecute this person for threatening me and pulling a gun out on me? If so what would be the best course of action?\n\nTL;DR: guy pulled out a gun on me in NYC because I asked him to not touch me, what can I do to prosecute him?","title":"Gun pulled out on me","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506832151,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73jq86\/my_wife_and_whistleblowing_a_little_clarity\/","id":"73jq86","body":"TL;DR - My wife is having work trouble, a customer has persuaded the staff to constantly give her freebies and has created a hostile work environment. Now my wife feels she has to transfer out. \n\nA little background: I am a traveling healthcare professional who moves every 3-6 months for employment, and have been doing this for 2 years now. My wife travels with me, and the easiest way we have found so far is having her work for a major retail company with multiple locations, making it easier for her to transfer. \n\nWe began our latest contract in the Denver, CO area about 4 weeks ago. My wife transferred in easy enough and is working in the coffee shop of said retail store. Everything started off okay for the most part, with the exception being the obviously inept manager. \n\nThis man blames other people for jobs he doesn't do, plays favorites with the employees, and for the most part, just plain doesn't do his job. But he's the department manager. \n\nHowever, after about 2 weeks, she realized that one customer (we'll call her Laura) comes in 2-3 times every day and gets drinks for her and her family. The catch is, she doesn't pay for them. Apparently, Laura is friends with most of the employees and the manager, invites them over for parties constantly, and is an ex-employee. When my wife served her and made her pay for her drink, Laura made snide comments to her and about her to other staff. She then insinuated that she could have her fired. \n\nMy wife took this all with a grain of salt, and reported the fact that employees were giving free products to her store manager and district manager, as well as a slew of other incorrect procedures and food safety concerns. \n\nWell, it's now been three weeks, and things have gotten bad. My wife refuses to wait on Laura, the other employees still give her free drinks, the manager and all other staff members refuse to communicate with my wife and a basically making a hostile work environment for her. On top of that, the manager has cut her schedule from working 4 days a week to only 1 day. And brought another employee from the store's deli counter to replace her. The timing of this is far too coincidental. She will be going to HR in the next couple days to transfer to another store because she just cannot take the snide comments, mean actions, and dirty looks from the staff anymore. \n\nShe has reported the managers behavior and the free drinks to HR as well, but nothing has been done. Now for my questions: 1) She seems to think that she should be covered under \"Whistleblower\" protection. Is she correct in the understanding of this? 2) Does  the fact that nearly all employees are giving away product for free equate to stealing to the tune of nearly $40-50 per day? 3) Would she be in her rights to video a \"transaction\" in which it would be obvious that Laura is not paying for drinks as proof? Colorado is a one-party consent state, and in a public shopping area, I can't imagine a reasonable expectation of privacy. \n","title":"My wife and whistleblowing. A little clarity?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540949683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9subut\/my_school_will_not_punish_potential_school\/","id":"9subut","body":"My school has had many incidents occur over the last two years. These incidents have been, a child threatening to shoot up the school (twice. He did it again this year and got expelled for it) a kid who raped a student (banned from the bus for two weeks) and a student who groped 10+ students (no punishment that I know of). We visited the school board but their meetings are in a way where they don't have to respond so we got no responses and nothing changed. Are they violating some kind of code or law or is this completely legal?","title":"My school will not punish potential school shooters and actual rapists with more than a few weeks of suspension","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570470362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/demx25\/one_vehicle_accident_occured_in_front_of_me_now\/","id":"demx25","body":"Kansas City, MO\nJuly 2019 - Present\n21F\nPROGRESSIVE. \n\nIn July, I was driving on back highways north of Kansas City, and came to a T intersection. I had a stop sign, and the road in front of us had none. I stopped, looked both ways, and let my foot off the break. Did not gas. SUV comes over the hill, slams on his breaks, loses control and rolls. I never entered the intersection, and never passed the white line\/stop sign. Highway patrol took my name and phone number, took my witness statement and let me go after the wreck was cleared. \n\nI don't know if it's okay for me to post the crash report, it is publicly available. \n\nhttps:\/\/www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov\/HP68\/AccidentDetailsAction?ACC_RPT_NUM=190451230\n\nI got a letter one or two weeks ago, from his insurance looking for my witness statement. Havent had a chance to send it back. \n\nI got a call today, from his lawyer. They asked for my insurance provider and policy number. \nI stupidly word vomited my provider, but realised it was not smart to give a lawyer my policy number when I don't know why they need it. \n\nThe lawyer says they are filing a claim against me,  for the medical damages the driver incurred.\n\nI'm freaking out a little because\n 1. I don't understand how they can do this\n2. I can't afford a rate hike or any claims against me tbh\n3. WHY IS A LAWYER INVOLVED? IF It was a legitimate claim I don't understand involving your lawyer. The insurance companies usually handle this themselves no? I could be wrong but I'm scared and I know I didn't do anything wrong. \n\nHow do I proceed, and is it even within the realm of possibility that his claim could be seen as legitimate? \n\nThere isn't a claim on my policy yet, but the call was just today.","title":"One vehicle accident occured in front of me, now the driver is trying to claim medical on my insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1413814643,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jsavl\/uk_starting_business_with_another_person_no_idea\/","id":"2jsavl","body":"I work at a university, not a salary but I get a contract with a set number of hours which I claim against throughout the year. The other person is not currently employed and will be relying on this company. I've read through the documents on gov.uk about setting up a business but there are so many different types to choose from and I have no idea which would work best for the both of us. It's your standard design and web development type company. Any advice would be great!","title":"[UK] Starting business with another person, no idea what I'm doing!","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568758420,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5o4z6\/withholding_rent_nyc\/","id":"d5o4z6","body":"Hi! \n\nI\u2019m currently doing research on whether me and my roommates are justified to withhold rent from our landlord. \n\nOur shower handle fell off and while we technically can turn it on, we need to use pliers which is surely causing further damage. It also will not stop dripping with is causing eroding in the shower, it\u2019s quite gross. \n\nDoes this constitute \u201cuninhabitable conditions\u201d? We technically can use the shower but I wouldn\u2019t consider it safe or working. \n\nWe have asked many times for this to be fixed and have been mostly ignored. They had a plumber come but it was not fixed, the handle was just placed back and fell again soon after. \n\nAlso side question, when we signed the lease we had a patio and our building gave permission to construction to eliminate it with a fence and did not inform us. We came home and it was done and no one would answer or return our calls. Is there anything that can be done about this? They had us sign a general lease that said we weren\u2019t allowed to use the backyard but when we asked about it they said it\u2019s fine because we have permission and that they always use a general lease. Did we mess that one up? \n\nThank you so much! Nyc housing is so hard and the headache never ends (at least in my budget) so any help is very appreciated.","title":"Withholding rent? [NYC]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554055785,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7qpjm\/we_need_help\/","id":"b7qpjm","body":"Hi my name is Daniel, I\u2019m 14 almost 15. Our dad died in January. My mom and dad were divorced when we were 4. We live in the state of Maryland. So me and my twin sister hate our mom and don\u2019t want to live with her what so ever, because she can be really mean to us at times. Yesterday was the 3rd day in a row that she cried due to my mom. We have 3 siblings 2 are 27 one is 29, I were wondering if there is anything we can do legally before the age of 18 to get out of our moms house and live with our siblings? Thank you for your help! ","title":"We need help!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539028314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mi9gh\/coworker_required_to_pay_100_due_to_mistake_new\/","id":"9mi9gh","body":"So I\u2019ve been working at my current place of employment for over a year, but only recently learned that the owners have been doing this. the brief version is that they were under-staffed last week and it was busy, so there was some miscommunication between two coworkers, and one of them mistakenly gave out an order placed over the phone without having the customer pay for it. \n\nwhen the owners found out, they told him that he would personally be responsible for paying them for the mistake. he did pay, presumably because long term job security is more important to him than a one time $100 loss. \n\nbut my question is, is this legal? I\u2019m pretty sure it isn\u2019t, but i can\u2019t find a concrete law stating why it wouldn\u2019t be. let me know if i\u2019m mistaken and it is legal. my main concern is that everybody makes mistakes, and he\u2019s been there much longer than i have. if i make a mistake like he did and they attempt to try to force me to pay for it, would i be able to decline (with the risk of being fired)? I am 18 and work at a well-known pizza parlor\/restaurant in my area. ","title":"Coworker required to pay $100 due to mistake [New York]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504650138,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ybg8m\/medical_bill_from_over_a_year_ago_no_longer_on\/","id":"6ybg8m","body":"Last week I received a medical bill from a doctor's visit from July of 2016 for about $100 (I don't have the bill in front of me as I'm typing this). It is not itemized other than I owe them an amount of money that the insurance didn't pay for. A complication is that I am no longer covered by that insurance policy, I aged out at the end of August 2016, and have changed policies 2 times since getting my own policy in September 2016. I called the 800 number on the bill and they said they don't know what its for and I need to call my Doctor's office, they just handle the billing. So I called the Doctor's office and they said they don't handle the billing and that I need to call the 800 number. The bill is due this week (again do not have it in-front of me as I type this), which seems like short notice seeing as I only got it last week. Some googling tells me that If I do in fact owe them money they have up to 3 years to collect it under NYS law, but it seems absurd that they waited over a year to bill me for a visit. From what I can remember, I went in for a pretty routine checkup and they did some blood-work (which didn't seem unusual, they are always keeping an eye on my glucose and cholesterol levels given family history). \nIs there anything I should try? Both phone numbers do not work during my lunch hour, nor do they start working for half an hour after I start work in the morning and half an hour before I leave work in the evening. So suffice it to say reaching them has been difficult, though I did manage to steal 15 minutes on Friday and reach the doctors office, the supervisor wasn't there and they called me back today and left me a voicemail (which I told them to do per my work situation). I might have to take time off of work to deal with this if I hope to clear up the situation, but I'm not comfortable throwing away ~$100 without knowing what I'm paying for...","title":"Medical Bill From over a year ago, no longer on same insurance, getting \"the run around\" [NY]","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506810685,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73hzi8\/writing_a_letter_to_support_a_fellow_tenant_being\/","id":"73hzi8","body":"I live in Arizona in a large apartment complex.  In the past few months, the apartment complex has changed billing practices in various ways, some of which may or may not be legal.  I have taken the approach of paying the amount demanded by the apartment complex, while simultaneously delivering a letter noting where the billing appears to be in error.  In my case, the dispute amounts to around $300 between several months.  None of these letters has been answered.\n\nOther tenants have faced similar problems, some of them finding higher demands for payment ($500 over the previous month's rent in one case).  As such, they were unable to pay this and two tenants that I know of are being evicted.  A number of the tenants met to discuss options, including those facing eviction this week.  \n\nWe decided to write letters to the court regarding those who are facing eviction, saying essentially that we are also residents and are confused over the billing practices.  More or less saying, \"there but for the grace of god go we.\"  Had we been unable to pay the additional fees demanded while we dispute them, we too would likely have faced eviction.\n\nHow would such letters be received by the court and is there anything we should specifically do or not do in the letters?","title":"Writing a letter to support a fellow tenant being evicted","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447442569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sp300\/re_can_i_sue_my_ex_wife_in_small_claims_to\/","id":"3sp300","body":"California, Father of two children, ages 15 and 13.  Divorced for 11 years. \n\nThis last April, after 10 years of sharing joint legal and physical custody of my two children, my ex wife (divorced 11 years) took me to court to request full physical custody of my children because she planned on moving out of state (to the other side of the US) with her current husband (military).  I think it was a \"Hail Mary\" play on her part because custody and parenting had been cordial and cooperative up until that point but that's neither here nor there.\n\nOn our initial court hearing, the judge ordered a \"limited investigation\" so that the kids and other parties affected could voice their opinions. The investigation cost is a little over $2,300 - half of which was paid for by my ex wife and half paid by me.  \n\nAt our last court appearance, the judge declared that if my ex wife were to continue to move out of state, I would retain primary physical custody of both children and joint legal custody with visitation rites for their mother (3\/4 of summer, alternating holidays, and a possible weekend a month with no travel of the kids). Needless to say, I'm ecstatic and feel vindicated but I'm still out $2,600 which definitely hurts me financially. \n\nWith other court costs and missed work (4 days), I estimate that I've spent $2,600 so far.\n\nCan I sue my ex wife to recover court costs ($1,500) and lost wages ($1,100) due to this now closed custody case which was ruled in my favor?","title":"RE: Can I sue my ex wife in small claims to recover court\/investigation costs related to a now closed custody case?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570488861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/der8rq\/unpaid_roommate_gains_entry_while_i_sleep\/","id":"der8rq","body":"(Ohio) Signed a lease for an apartment with a former friend a few months prior. Less than one week into living here, roommate moves back home due to not being able to afford the apartment. I try to be as understanding as possible with the newfound prospect of me paying the full of the rent, however roommate is not responding to any of my requests to have his name signed off the lease. \n\n​\n\nI have tried multiple times in the past two months to get this unpaid roommate off but just ignores my texts, snaps, etc... It does not matter to the landlord who upholds their half of the rent, so as long as it is paid. This gives me little legal grounds to ask for the key back as he is a legal, \"paid\" tenant. Despite not *living* here, not paying rent, and being uncooperative to the proceedings of removing his name from the lease, this individual is showing up while I sleep and leaving the door unlocked.\n\n​\n\nNothing has been stolen or disturbed, but I am quite disturbed by them showing up unspoken when I am still in my bed, sleeping. I feel defeated to the point I don't feel safe living here due to the frequency of this person that I don't trust being able to just walk in here for months.","title":"Unpaid roommate gains entry while I sleep","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541643682,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v608d\/i_signed_a_lease_two_months_ago_then_i_got_kicked\/","id":"9v608d","body":"I signed a lease and moved into an apartment on August 16th of this year. After about a month I had to move back home for unrelated reasons. I just recently started a new job, so I haven't been scheduled a lot, and I haven't been making enough to pay rent. I was planning to go to the landlord and pay what I could when one afternoon I got an email saying that I was being kicked out. The email stated I had to pay them, give them the keys, or they would evict me.\n\n  \n\\*this is the exact wording in the email\\* \\*\\*\\*\"WE DEMAND PAYMENT OF SAID RENT OR THAT YOU SURRENDER POSSESSION OF THE SAID PREMISES  **WITHIN THREE (3) DAYS**\"\\*\\*\\*\n\n  \n I did not have the money to pay off the rent(\\*\\*$943.00\\*\\*)so the next day I drove down there and gave the landlord my keys and told them I will pay them when I can.\n\n​\n\nNow a couple of days ago I got another email saying this \\*\\*\"We are processing your\u00a0move-out\/default.\u00a0 The move-out statement that was generated to your email reflects the past due\u00a0along\u00a0with the remaining full contract amount due.\"\\*\\* They are making me pay as if I lived there from move in to move out. (\\*\\*Aug 2018 - July 2019\\*\\*) In total they are saying I have to pay them $5153. Even though I lived there from Aug 16, 2018, to November 5, 2018, as shown on the Financial Move -out statement. Is this fair or should I look into getting a lawyer?\n\n\\*\\*\\*TL;DR - I signed a lease in August, they kicked me out because I couldn't pay rent and now I'm paying full price for the apartment.\\*\\*\\* ","title":"I signed a lease two months ago, then I got kicked out. Do I still have to pay for the entire lease term?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446265116,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qxj49\/australia_items_damaged_during_insurance_claim\/","id":"3qxj49","body":"While the tiles were being replaced in our house as part of an insurance claim, the removalists put our fish tank cabinet,  stove, clothes dryer, fridge, and a floor rug out on the uncovered verandah. While  out on the verandah the items were rained on heavily for 5 days. I complained to the insurance company, who has told me to complain to a contractor, who then told me to complain to the removalist. I spoke with all 3 groups (insurance company, contractor, and removalist) and told them all that I will want all of the items replaced because they have been exposed to water. All of the groups are trying to dodge the blame and keep telling me that the items will be fine.  \nThe Scope of Work that I and the contractor signed specifically says:  \n**Kitchen \/ Lounge Room**\n\n1. Remove all furniture in kitchen lounge room from site for a period of 12 days.\n1.  Reinstate all furniture to kitchen and lounge room 12 days\"  \n\nI want these items replaced ASAP because we want to be able to move back into the house because our 3 year old daughter is missing home and my wife is pregnant, would involving a lawyer speed up the process?  \nOn Monday I plan on lodging a complaint with the Financial Ombudsman.  \nThe insurance company is [DSH](http:\/\/www.dsh.gov.au\/)  \nOn there website they also have a link to the [Codes of practice](http:\/\/codeofpractice.com.au\/for-consumers\/making-an-insurance-claim) which say:   \nUrgent financial need of benefits\n\nIf you are in urgent financial need of the benefits under an insurance policy you hold, because of loss or damage which has resulted in an insurance claim, your insurer can fast-track your claim, and\/or make an advance payment to you within five business days to address your immediate financial need.\n\nRepairs\n\nIf you make a property repair claim and your insurer selects the repairer, it will accept responsibility for the quality of the repairs and the materials, and will handle any complaints that arise about the quality or timeliness of the work, or the conduct of the repairer.","title":"[Australia] Items damaged during insurance claim repair","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1409320697,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ex2tg\/i_22f_need_to_break_my_lease_and_i_think_im_being\/","id":"2ex2tg","body":"I posted about this in \/r\/relationships recently, and was advised to seek \/r\/legaladvice wisdom. \n\nLinks to previous posts:\nFIRST : http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/relationships\/comments\/2eam9u\/my_horrible_roommate_22f_thinks_i_22f_am_the\/ \nTL;DR : Roommate doesn't pay bills, is stealing from me, and is very dirty and rude to me. I think it might be due to depression, as she just lost her mother. Should I wait it out as a good friend, or cut my losses and move?\n\nSECOND : \nhttp:\/\/nr.reddit.com\/r\/relationships\/comments\/2ew98a\/update_my_horrible_roommate_22f_thinks_i_am_the\/\nTL;DR : I need to break my lease to escape crazy roommate. She claims I cannot break the lease without her signature, and I have to just pay her rent for the remainder of the term, so she can remain living there. Advise. Lawyers very, very welcome.\n\nTo isolate the exact issues that I seek advice on:\n\n1. I need to break my lease for numerous reasons. On my lease, it states, *\"Resident must pay an early termination fee of $995.00 and give notice at least 60 days before termination date. The date must be between 1\/31\/2014 and 12\/2\/2014.\"* This is the only mention of an early termination of any kind throughout the lease agreement. \n\nMy landlord tells me today when I go in for clarification that since my roommate and I were given a move-in special of First Month Free, and a $95 discount on monthly rent, we would owe back the non discounted First Month ($995) as well as $95\/mo back beginning a the first month of rental, through to now. (8 months x $95) making my totally termination $2750. \n\nNo where did I sign that the discount would be payed back in the event of early termination. All I signed was the lease that cited the $995 option. This may be some kind of complex policy perhaps, but can they actually charge me above and beyond the termination fee listed in the contract?\n\n2. My roommate claims that both hers and my signatures are needed in order to break a lease, and she will not sign it. So the only options I have are find her a new roommate, or write her a rent check every month until the end of the lease. (5 months away). Even though I won't be living there, and I'm sure her unemployed boyfriend will be. I don't want to pay his rent and my own in a new apartment somewhere. Is this true? Do we need both signatures to break the lease, even if I could pay the termination in its entirety? I can't imagine evil roommates have been give the power to hold their roommates hostage. \n\nPlease advise. \nTL;DR: Can a landlord charge you a bigger termination fee than is specifically stated in the lease agreement, and do you need both renters' signatures in order the break a lease?\n\n*EDIT: I have found a random page within the folder that my lease was given to me in. It was filled out by the landlord, and does have a section at the bottom that states, (summarized) \"Applicant understands concessions are being given, and if she fails to complete her lease, the entire concession will be forfeited and and immediately payable or due.\" Okay...  But it is a statement, in a section of statements, that all require initials from the tenants. We never initialed the paper. I was not aware of it until just now, because I was never asked to sign it, and just now found it in the back of the packet, unmarked. Does this effect my situation?*\n","title":"I (22F) need to break my lease and I think I'm being fed crap about what I'm required to do. Do I have the law on my side? - California","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539130322,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mujz5\/a_mexican_website_has_taken_an_image_of_mine_and\/","id":"9mujz5","body":"So about 6 months ago, I made a stupid Photoshop image and posted it to r\/pokememes.  This is the [Post](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pokememes\/comments\/8748xs\/made_this_in_photoshop_today_im_happy_how_it\/).  It received 11 up votes, nothing special.\n\n  \nToday, I decided \"hey, I'm bored I'm going to google search my name.\"  So as I go through the images in the google search, I come across this, [a Mexican website using my name and image without my consent.](https:\/\/esmemes.com\/i\/created-by-alex-arrowood-21128399)\n\n​\n\nI know that there Is not much I can do from the states, and my step-dad is already working on getting their IP address and etc. to contact them to remove the image and my name.  If this doesn't work, is there anything I can do?  \n","title":"A Mexican website has taken an image of mine, and used my name without my consent.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554473788,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9rqbi\/quit_my_job_that_includes_commission_pay\/","id":"b9rqbi","body":"So I quit my job at a tanning salon where I got paid wages and commission. I live in Minnesota. I got my last paycheck and they withheld my commission pay. Is this legal?","title":"Quit my job (that includes commission pay)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541649471,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v6pvt\/friend_cant_afford_a_lawyeris_there_anything_she\/","id":"9v6pvt","body":"She shared a post about a threat to a school cops took her phone and computer \n\nBefore doing so they asked if she would sign a paper allowing them to. She said No and they took the items in question anyway. \n\nIt\u2019s been a few weeks and she has contacted the lead detective since and they apparently acquired a warrant for the Items after the fact. \nShe wants her stuff back. She can\u2019t afford a lawyer. What can she do?\n\n\nShe lives in Texas btw ","title":"Friend can\u2019t afford a lawyer...is there anything she can do?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1409844380,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fglyi\/when_is_the_time_to_file_bankruptcy_for_a\/","id":"2fglyi","body":"* I am out of cash reserves (about $300 in operating account) Business is not generating enough cash-flow to satisfy all debts or continue purchasing from key vendors. The reason, not that it matters, was the loss of 5 key clients about eight months ago.\n\n* Without cash, I am unable to continue operating sometime in the next 10 days.\n\n* The company is an LLC, which is responsible for debts nearing: $90,000.  Federal taxes also have not been filed for three years. Assets for this LLC include equipment, valued at roughly $100,000. \n\n* The building is owned by a different LLC. It owes property taxes of $20k plus a mortgage of $150,000.... market value for the building is $595,000\n\n* We are current on mortgage payments and other loan payments. Not current with many vendors, not current at all with non-secured debt (various credit cards).\n\nI've been trying to sell the building alone, the business alone, and both combined for a few months. Several deals were close, but have fallen through. No viable offers on the table right now.\n\nWith so few options from what I can tell, does this seem like a case for bankruptcy?\n","title":"When is the time to file bankruptcy for a business (New Hampshire)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542148962,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wtzy7\/our_apartment_is_illegal_what_rights_do_we_have\/","id":"9wtzy7","body":"Tldr at the bottom. Sorry for the formatting, I'm on mobile. \nBuffalo NY\nMy two roommates and I have been renting an apartment since June and have 8 months left in our lease. We just found out our apartment is illegal (we contacted the city and found out that there is no Certificate of Occupancy for our dwelling which is needed for a 3+ family house [us on third floor, another tenant on second, landlord on first]). There have been numerous issues since moving in but the biggest one is the mice. They're everywhere. My roommate counted 6 out in the living room at once when up late studying, I called my landlord up to catch two in the pantry during the day when I was in there, one crawled up my leg while I was sitting on my couch watching videos on my phone (they're ballsy- light, noise, the couch being in the middle of the room didn't stop it), and they've gotten into our food and pooped all over our counters. We've been complaining to her about this since August yet all we've gotten are mouse traps (we bought plenty of our own, currently 20+ in the living room alone) and we haven't caught any (we're baiting with peanut butter, chocolate, candy, etc). \nNow the question is, what rights do we have? We don't have much money, and because of work and school we don't have much time to move. We can't pick up a lot of things and carry them out since we live on the third floor and we're three girls lacking upper body strength. We can't afford movers. We understand if there's a will there's a way but it's going to suck. If we move before the end or the month can we get our rent back? What if she doesn't give the security deposit back? I'm pretty sure there's mice living in my new couch (I know they've hid there) and mouse poop contains diseases, can she compensate the cost of the couch? I'll list below more ways she broke the lease\/was a shitty landlord (if there's no legal back up to it). But here's the real kicker- she's a rental realtor. She didn't rent our apartment through the agency she works for but that's her occupation. She has the advantage, our money, and knows more about this than we do. We know she'll try to take advantage of this situation. \nWays our apartment sucks:\n* Old tenants were still there on our move in date when we already paid rent\n* Apartment was not clean after they left (cabinets had old tenants stuff, fridge not clean, floors gross, black mold in shower)\n* Persistent mold in the bathroom. She painted an anti mold paint after a month+ \/replaced the vent but after it kept coming back blamed us\n* We can't have the electric bill in our name but we still have to pay it\n* Not getting an exterminator for 3 months until one of our parents contacted her. He still hasn't come yet, she's only using a retired one who makes his own schedule\n* Broken light in the bathroom, took 1 month to replace and two months for her to fill in the holes \n* We smell gas occasionally\n* Our apartment can't support any other appliance when the microwave or dishwasher is on, our lights constantly flicker\n* The window to the fire escape can't lock, there's a security system on it if someone does open it but only the landlord has access to it and it's never on\n* (Not in our apartment upstairs) in the basement there's a blow dryer taped to a stick resting on the beams to blow on a pipe presumably to stop it from freezing(???)\nMost of this is documented in pictures and texts with her acknowledging that she's aware of the issues. \n\nTldr: Landlord has been renting us an illegal apartment that breaks multiple housing codes. She broke the lease day one and now we want out. What rights do we have?\n\n","title":"Our apartment is illegal, what rights do we have?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571374029,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djii8t\/mother_in_law_is_asking_my_wife_to_put_her_name\/","id":"djii8t","body":"So basically my wife's mom and dad are separating and he's threatening to come after her things. She's the main money maker between the two (district school psychologist) and he works at a casino. My MIL is asking that she registers her new, paid off, vehicle under my wife's name so her father can't pursue claim to it while they're hashing everything out. I know she wants to put a certain number of assets (potentially) under my wife's names to exonerate then from being pursued by my FIL. I'm telling her no way until we know how this could affect us first and foremost. How should we handle this?","title":"Mother in law is asking my wife to put her name on assets during divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447257496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sf170\/fled_from_abusive_husband_7_years_ago_how_to_get\/","id":"3sf170","body":"Hello, Reddit. I have never gone through a divorce before, so forgive me if my questions seem silly.\n\nSeven years ago, my kids and I had to run away from my severely abusive husband (We'll call him Chris) after a life-threatening event. The kids and I went to a Battered Women's Shelter and stayed there for a few weeks, then I found a small apartment and we lived there for a year. After Chris and I had been apart for over a year, the kids and I moved to Texas. He knew that we had moved - a family friend told him and said that he was furious, but he never got in contact with me. I kept the same phone number, e-mail addresses, social media accounts and he knew my mom's address, so Chris could have contacted me if he wanted to. I never put a restraining order on him, nor did I tell him not to contact me.\n\nI had little contact with Chris for the first year after leaving, and now haven't heard anything from him for nearly 6 years. I have no clue where he is anymore (His home state is NJ, but he moved around a lot), and every divorce lawyer I've talked to said that he has to be a resident or we had to have lived in Texas together in order for me to be able to file for the divorce since we have kids together. That doesn't sound right, but again, I've never done this before so I don't know what is or isn't legal.\n\nChris hasn't seen or spoken to the kids since we left and has made no effort to help. I tried to get him to visit the kids after we split, but every time we had something scheduled, he would cancel or was \"too busy.\" Eventually, I stopped begging him to see the kids and just let it go. I don't know if I can legally file abandonment charges since I was the one who left him. Is that a possibility? \n\nChris cheated on me multiple times throughout our marriage and I found out 3 years ago that he had also gotten married to another woman. That marriage can't be legal, can it?  A mutual friend said that Chris had told them that our marriage was \"never finalized,\" but I have our marriage certificate and it's on record at the courthouse. \n\nHow do I go about getting a divorce when I don't even know where he is? Our mutual friends have all moved to different parts of the US and no longer speak with him, so they're no help. His close family members are dead, and I don't know any of his distant relatives, so I can't ask them where he's at.\n\nWe have nothing together (houses, cars, bank accounts, etc), except for the kids. I want to have full custody of them because I worry for their safety if they're alone with him. Is this an option? \n\nWhat should do? \n\n**Edit\/Update**: I've been on the phone with different attorneys for the last 3 hours, but I'm still getting the same answer - I cannot file unless we were previously residents in Texas during our marriage. One suggested I file in the state we were married, another suggested filing in the state we last lived at together, but those states are both 12-15 hours away and it's not possible for me to file there. One lawyer was helpful in agreeing that I need to do a service of publication (thanks to everyone who suggested that, by the way) but so far, I have not found anyone who is willing to take my case. This is so frustrating.\n\nOne said that I should to try to go with the bigamy route (because he is still legally married to me and was remarried in another state\/county), saying that it would help me tremendously to get a copy of that marriage license. Another said that I should \"say\" we lived in Texas together to get divorce proceedings started. Others have said that it's just not possible at all. I'm getting so many conflicting answers and it's very confusing. I have two appointments scheduled for tomorrow, so hopefully I will hear good news from them.","title":"Fled from abusive husband 7 years ago, how to get a divorce? - Texas","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555094756,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bch8gx\/statue_of_limitations_is_6yrs_mn_not_13\/","id":"bch8gx","body":"I just found out Wells Fargo is wanting to sue me for breach of contract. My last contact with them was 2007, they illegal tried collections by calling past employers and family members. My sis managed a collection agency they called her and i never heard another word. The statue of limitations in MN is 6 years. Is the \"statue of limitations\" enough of a defense to get them off my back? I believe their claim is under $3-4000....If I was wealthy I'd spend $1000 to not give them a dime! Thanks Reddit\ud83e\udd1e","title":"Statue of limitations is 6yrs MN! not 13?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443882162,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ncfgh\/landlord_withholding_security_deposit_despite\/","id":"3ncfgh","body":"I will try to keep this as short as possible, though it feels like a long story.  This involves my tenancy at an apartment in **Central Connecticut**. All editing done to the provided photographs is solely to protect identities.\n\n\nFor my first job out of college, I accepted an 18-month temporary position with a company near Hartford with an end date of December 2015.  I moved in July of 2014 on a 1-year lease, and as that lease drew to a close, I was contacted by the landlord about renewal. At the time, I actively was looking for a job in New York City, and expressed my concern with committing to a long-term lease when I could need to move out at any time.  The landlord allowed for a lease-termination date of October 1st, and in addition suggested adding a clause to the lease which would allow for early termination for a smaller fee, in this case $350 (rent was $710 for the previous lease, $725 for the new one, and my security deposit was $710).\n\nThat email conversation which took place at the end of May can be seen [here](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/DomXf)\n\nAs she instructed, I added an additional page with a cancellation clause to the end of the lease and signed it with the understanding that she would sign it as well.\n\nThe copy of the lease (pictures taken from my phone) can be seen [here](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/wDHqw)\n\nOn June 12th, I was informed by the landlord that my apartment had been rented for October and that she had told the new tenant that I was moving out October 1st (this becomes important later).\n\nIn late July, I got the good news that I had gotten a permanent job in NYC.  I informed the landlord that I would be moving out at the end of August, and was willing to pay the $350 fee which she acknowledged and accepted.\n\nThroughout the process of moving out I was very communicative and she was very responsive concerning me moving out at the end of of August.  She also said multiple times that I would be getting my security deposit (presumably minus the $350 fee) within 30 days of moving out.\n\nNow the bad part:  two days ago (after waiting over a month from our last correspondence) I texted the landlord to find out when I would be getting the deposit as it had been over a month.  She now claims that she is keeping it because I said I was moving out October 1st (remember that text in June?) and that I owed September rent. \n\nThe full extent of our text conversations concerning me giving notice of moving out early, getting the deposit back, and her now refusing to return the deposit is [here](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/feScv)\n\nThe text message she is hanging her hat on is [here](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/TdHaM)\n\nI pointed out that we had a cancellation clause in place for a smaller fee, but she has since failed to respond.  She also did not answer her phone when I tried to call later in the day.\n\n**My claim:**\n\n* The cancellation fee was specifically in place to protect me from losing my full deposit if I were to need to move out early.  She suggested it and she agreed to it.\n* She was well aware that I was moving out at the end of August as evidenced by our text conversations.  She acknowledged and confirmed the notice I gave on July 30.\n* Multiple times she assured me that I would be getting the deposit back, and only now is changing her story.\n\n**My concerns:** \n\n* I do not have proof that she signed the early termination addition. If she were to try to claim that she never signed it, her emails show that she was acting in bad faith, but I don't know how much weight that holds.\n* I did not submit \"written\" notice that I was moving out.  From what I understand, text messaging can constitute written notice if the messages are acknowledged and confirmed, though I honestly am unsure about this.\n\n\nMy question is: Do I have a case for a small claims lawsuit?  The exact purpose of negotiating the termination fee into the lease was to prevent this sort of thing from happening.  I know that I am in the right in terms of the spirit of what we agreed to, but I am concerned if the evidence I have is enough to take her to court.\n\nThis entire situation is making me sick the past two days, so I am hoping to get some answers as to whether or not I can stick it to her in court or if I need to take the loss and erase any trace of this dreadful person from my life.\n\n","title":"Landlord withholding security deposit despite agreeing to small cancellation fee for early termination","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568941366,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6nd5d\/pa_boyfriend_cant_receive_packages_at_his\/","id":"d6nd5d","body":"My boyfriend is trans and lives in an apartment building in Harrisburg, PA, and he recently moved in. Because he just moved in, he isn't officially on the lease, and is not a resident of Dauphin County, but he is a PA resident. \n\nI sent two packages to him, under his chosen name and not his deadname, and he hasn't legally changed it yet. He is telling me that he cannot get his packages, and doesn't know if one of the official residents of the apartment can get them for him, or go down with him to get them. \n\nWhat can he do to get them, and how should we proceed in the future to prevent this from happening? He is planning on becoming an official resident as soon as possible, but the current lease is running out in October.","title":"[PA] Boyfriend can't receive packages at his apartment complex?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555446172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdypmc\/can_i_force_a_company_to_delete_my_account_and\/","id":"bdypmc","body":"At one point, I had a meal program app that I signed up for. I decided it was not for me and cancelled my account. I found today that this account was not completely deleted and still has my credit card , personal address, full name and social in the about me fields. Can I force them to delete my account even though they don't allow this as per customer support?","title":"Can I force a company to delete my account and saved creditcard info?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568848200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d658oe\/does_my_illegal_father_have_and_rights_over_me\/","id":"d658oe","body":"Ok so I want to join the air force but I'm 17 and they need both parents to sign for permission but my father never been in my life, never raised me, never done anything for me, I do not see him as my father. He's abandoned us but the problem is that him and my mom are still married and he's in Mexico. He once sent divorce papers before and my mom signed them without hesitation but apparently they didn't go through??? So my question is, is there anyway i can like disown him??? Or emancipate myself from him???","title":"Does My Illegal Father Have and Rights Over Me?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539281635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ncejr\/usa_virginia_lawyers_my_gf_hired_to_handle_a\/","id":"9ncejr","body":"My girlfriend and I were in a car accident last year and she decided on going with a settlement case. She was sent to the ER that night and when she got the bill to pay for the ER, it was sent to the lawyers for the use to go towards the settlement case. The lawyers said not to worry and just send the bills their way. \n\nAfter the case was done, the lawyers had documented that the hospital bill was paid for by insurance, so we thought that that was a done deal. \n\nMy gf checked her credit score recently to find that her credit has completely TANKED because theres a mark saying that the hospital bill was never paid for. She\u2019s trying to get a hold of the creditor but they\u2019re not picking up, she filed a refutal for the claim that it hadnt been paid for but hasnt received anything yet. Im not sure what we can do.","title":"(USA, Virginia) Lawyers my gf hired to handle a settlement case didn\u2019t confirm with the hospital that the bill was paid for and now her credit score is tanked because of a $9000 bill that they claim was never paid for","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1444917446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ouvr9\/im_having_some_roommate_issues_relating_to_our\/","id":"3ouvr9","body":"Original posts here: https:\/\/redd.it\/3othwk and https:\/\/redd.it\/3ottk1\n\n\nI'm in Ottawa, Ontario in Canada.\n\n\nI found my roommate through a facebook group for housing. She posted an ad looking for a roommate for the upcoming school year back in April 2015 for Sept 2015-April 2016. I went for a viewing at the apartment and liked the location, price, and space so I signed the contract under my roommate for an 8 months lease, while she renewed her 1 year lease with the landlord.\n\nAugust 2015. My roommate messaged me that her new boyfriend was going to move in with her. She did not ask me for my opinion on the matter and simply wanted to notify me that he would be moving in during October. I was annoyed and angry because this change affects me too, and as my roommate I would like some respect. We discussed the matters of rent and utilities and she said \"we could split everything three ways, that seems the most fair and it would be cheaper for all of us!\" And with that, I was quite happy because my rent and utilities cost would now help me save $1000 from what was originally planned when I signed the contract in April 2015.\n\nSeptember 2015. The day I arrived at the apartment, I was caught off guard by the fact that her boyfriend ended up moving in 1 month earlier than what she told me and that there were pets in the apartment. The contract I signed clearly stated that there were no pets, smoking, alcohol consumption, drug use, partying, or loudness allowed in the apartment but here they (roommate and her boyfriend) were, drinking alcoholic beverages, petting their new kitten, a fish bowl on the table, and a snake in a tank. Not to mention, her boyfriend brought up the fact that he is a smoker (cigarettes and marijuana) and is in possession of drugs (I didn't ask how often he does them, but he does use them). On top of breaking the rules in our contract, she said that there must have been some confusion and that I misinterpreted her meaning of \"we could split everything three ways, that seems the most fair and it would be cheaper for all of us!\" because we (her, her boyfriend, and I) would not be splitting everything three ways, but only the utilities. So I am still paying half the rent while the two of them pay a quarter of the amount each. I found this unfair considering she has also broken many rules in the contract, so we agreed to make a few adjustments and resigned the contract.\n\nOctober 2015. My roommates have informed me that they find it unfair that I pay less in utilities in comparison to them. I quickly reminded them the reasoning behind that, since I pay a significantly higher rent cost but they were both stern on changing the contract, yet again. I want to continue with the last agreement we had, but they insist that I pay more. We have not settled on an agreement.\n\nI am now left with a continuous anger and near hatred\/ill feeling towards my roommates because of all the issues they have caused and am not sure what to do at this point. It would not likely be possible for me to move since it would be near impossible to find another apartment in the same location and price range. I am left to deal with this roommate issue until April 2016. Am I being unreasonable? I feel like they're taking advantage of me because they know my situation of not being able to find a new apartment. Also, I already put up with all these nonsensical changes (there have been others that I haven't listed) and it just seems like they're trying to get what they want because I have let it slide previously. The landlord doesn't seem to care as long as he is getting the full rent money, so he is no help.\n\n\nI apologize in advance if my post is poorly written. I can send the contract\/agreement if you're interested.\n\n\n\n\n**tl;dr:** My roommates keep changing our contract agreements and I'm fed up with it now. What should I do since I am stuck living in this apartment until April 2016?","title":"I'm having some roommate issues relating to our contract\/agreement.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554133938,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8464m\/estate_probate_question\/","id":"b8464m","body":"My father passed away a little over a month ago, my grandmother (his mother) is the executor of his estate. It is a small estate and not much to his name. The question is about his car loan, my grandmother heard that since his car is worth less than the loan then she would have to pay the difference. So basically the loan is for say $8000 and it is only worth $4000 so if they repossess it (none of us can refinance the loan for us to take the car) then she will owe the lender the difference of $4000, is this true? We are in WV of that makes a difference. ","title":"Estate probate question","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1409857560,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fhajs\/sacramento_ca_stepfather_threatening_to_remove_my\/","id":"2fhajs","body":"I have searched this subreddit as well as several CA legal resources, and have been unable to find relevant information regarding the below issue.\n\n**Location:** Sacramento, California\n\n**Background:**\n\n* My mother and step-father live in Sacramento California. My brother (21) currently lives with them while he goes to school. At the moment, he is urgently looking into alternative living arrangements.\n\n* I am an adult child in this matter, and live in Michigan. \n\n* My mother has been struggling with mental illness for many years, and it has caused significant strain on her marriage. They have filed for divorce numerous times over the last several years, but have always reconciled. \n\n* My mother and step-father do not have a pre-nuptial agreement.\n\n* She does not have an independent job, and assists my step-father at his real estate office. He is the \u201cprimary breadwinner\u201d in the fact that she doesn't receive a formal paycheck, but she puts in full time hours assisting him with real estate work. She has historically had a very hard time holding down independent jobs (mostly due to the mental health issues that had not been treated), but is enrolled in a paralegal program to get her qualifications up to speed. She was a stay-at-home mother for ~14 years while married to my father.\n\n* My mother has been an alcoholic for many years, has attempted suicide multiple times, and can be very manipulative and hard to deal with.\n\n* Earlier this summer she was hospitalized and finally received psychiatric care. She was diagnosed with rapid cycling bipolar and borderline personality disorder. She is now outpatient and on medication. \n\n* During the time period leading up to her hospitalization, there was a domestic abuse file \u201copened\u201d on my step-father after the police were called to the residence multiple times, and she presented severe bruising. At the time, she said that he hit her. Now, she\u2019s saying that she was exaggerating and it was a very emotionally trying time for both of them. Charges were never filed, but the case apparently remains \u201copen\u201d.\n\n* Prior to hospitalization, he had taken away all credit\/debit cards and her checkbook to prevent access to their joint bank accounts, as well as car keys. This was appropriate while she was intoxicated, but she was not given access to either vehicle for approximately a month.\n\n* They recently moved to a new rental property. My step-father\u2019s name is the only one on the lease. The house belongs to my step-father\u2019s lawyer\u2019s daughter. My step-father and his lawyer are very good friends.\n\n**Current Situation:**\n\n* My mother drank \u00bd bottle of wine two nights ago, then took sleeping pills. These mixed together caused her to sleepwalk, and she fell down half a flight of stairs. She presented bruising. This, paired with the drinking, made my step-father very angry.\n\n* He stated that he did not feel that he could risk having her or my brother in the house because she is a \u201cliability to his character\u201d due to the open domestic violence file. \n\n* He stated that he was going to file a motion in court with his attorney to have her removed from the home. From what I\u2019ve gathered second-hand, he\u2019s used words like \u201cemergency removal\u201d and \u201cemergency eviction\u201d, though he has not stated specifically the type of motion he intends to file.\n\n* No divorce motions have been filed in court yet. There are no open legal proceedings between my mother and step-father.\n\n* He has stated that he will be taking away her credit\/debit cards and checkbook again to prevent access to joint bank accounts.\n\n* He has threatened to call the police and put a \u201chold\u201d on her by telling them that she is suicidal and forcing admission to inpatient care to remove her from the home.\n\n**Questions:**\n\n* Is he legally able to remove her from their home? Under what circumstances is this possible? What would these actions be called?\n\n* Is he legally able to take away credit cards\/debit cards\/check books that access joint accounts?\n\n* What legal recourse is there to him falsifying statements that she\u2019s suicidal in order to have her committed to a hospital?\n\n* If he is able to remove her from the home, is he obligated to financially assist in alternative living arrangements\/temporary housing?\n\n* Does the open domestic violence file have an impact on any of this?\n\n* Where can I find more resources for specific California laws in regards to this?\n\n* He is holding their bank accounts, so she is not \u201cable\u201d to afford an attorney. What options are available?\n\nThank you in advance for your feedback, I\u2019m happy to answer any follow-up questions you  might have.\n","title":"[Sacramento, CA] Step-father Threatening to \"Remove\" My Financially Dependent Mother from Rental Home Through Legal Action.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1502914394,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u4rkp\/wv_family_member_used_company_credit_cards_for\/","id":"6u4rkp","body":"A family member used company credit cards to make purchases essentially for personal use. Many people feel like they were manipulated by someone in order to do this. That person has a long, documented history of manipulating people and taking advantage of them. The business is a christian based organization and are ran by a church. They seem to be somewhat understanding of the situation as this is not at all something my family member would ever do. We are offering to pay back whatever amount they feel was spent. My question is whether or not they have to report this or could they choose to allow us to pay back the money in order for my family member to avoid what would likely be jail time. Edit: I forgot to add that it is a state facility. I don't know if that would make a difference. ","title":"[WV] Family member used company credit cards for non-business purposes. Are they required to press charges?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506568605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72xh2h\/is_it_legal_to_throw_away_gift_cards_with_money\/","id":"72xh2h","body":"So I work in a retail chain and sometimes we find gift cards around that have been forgotten or left because there was little. MA, US\n\nAnyways when we find these we're told to just throw them away or we'll get fired if we use then yada yada yada. But I got to thinking that if it's illegal to throw actual money away how can this be any different because they do have government money on them that is expected to go back into virtual circulation and if we keep throwing these away I'm sure they can add up to a significant amount.","title":"Is it legal to throw away gift cards with money still on them?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542155711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wuxol\/expired_license_due_to_no_proof_of_residency\/","id":"9wuxol","body":"Hey guys,\n\nRight around June of 2018, my car got broken into right around the parking lot of Amtrak. Everything was in my glove compartment ie. Insurance Card, Car Registration, and most importantly, Passport.\n\nI know I am a dumbass for keeping my passport in my glove compartment, but I left it in there because I needed it for a job. I was born in the Philippines and I came to California when I was 9. I am now 20 and  I became a US Citizen through naturalization. When I filed for my passport, I had to ship my birth of certificate, green card, etc. Essentially, all the paperwork I came here with was shipped when I was trying to file for a passport.\n\nMy driver\u2019s license is expired and I went to the DMV and they said that I needed some sort of Residency Card or proof of residency. Well my passport got stolen. So I don\u2019t know any way to show proof I am a resident. \n\nToday I got pulled over. The cop told me that he\u2019s not gonna tow my car, not gonna detain me, but he did write me a ticket to show up to court for driving with an expired license.\n\nI need to get my license renewed. Is there any thing I can do? Please help me I am in college and I am tripping out because I would rather commit suicide than get held back on education.\n\nTLDR; License is expired. Can\u2019t get renewed unless proof of residency because passport got stolen. Need information on how to get it renewed. Will commit suicide if i get held back on college bc of this.","title":"Expired License Due to No Proof of Residency","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442889569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lw08b\/overturn_a_founded_cps_ruling_virginia\/","id":"3lw08b","body":"Throwaway for obvious reasons.  In 2009 I lived in Virginia where I gave birth to my daughter.  At about 2 months old I heard a \"clicking\" in her back and took her to the hospital.  Doctor said it was just her cartilage rubbing on bone (because her bones are not fully formed).    They did an xray and found nothing.  Then a cat-scan, nothing.  Finally they asked if I wanted to do am MRI and I said I'd rather be safe than sorry.   They said she had a broken rib.  CPS got called and investigated.  Because I didn't know how this happened and had no reasonable explanation, they took her away and gave custody to my mother, who lived in another state.  I was young and dumb and believed in the system and thought that things would be okay.  I did everything they asked, anger management, parenting classes, and therapy.  I couldn't afford a lawyer at the time and thought if I did what they asked, everything would be fine. None  of it mattered.  A few months later, I was founded on abuse and neglect because I couldn't explain the injury and I was her primary care taker.  Criminal charges were never pressed.  I now live in another state but may be returning back to Virginia. How can I go about this to get my name cleared and overturn this ruling? ","title":"Overturn a \"founded\" CPS ruling. Virginia","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552775531,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1y8e1\/pulled_over_without_license\/","id":"b1y8e1","body":"Alright so I\u2019ve never been pulled over before and I was speeding on the freeway to get to school (The speed limit in California is 65, I was going about 80) I\u2019m 20 years old and I\u2019m scheduled to take my drive test in a week, I currently have my permit. When the officer pulled me over I told him I didn\u2019t have a license so he said they would have to impound my car and I have to wait till Monday (it\u2019s currently Sat) to get my car due to the place being closed on weekends. My question is: will obtaining my DL be helpful in court or will it still be considered a criminal offense? Or will this charge affect me obtaining my license? It currently says it\u2019s an infraction on my ticket not a misdemeanor which I\u2019m confused about also. Isn\u2019t driving without a license automatically a misdemeanor? ","title":"Pulled over without license","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507684378,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75lorx\/la_enrolled_in_a_universal_life_policy_without_my\/","id":"75lorx","body":"I posted in \/r\/personalfinance and the nice folks over there recommended I post here. So, about a year ago my auto insurance agent began pestering me about a Universal life policy claiming it was a fantastic investment and would be extra beneficial for me since I would get a \"multi-line\" discount due to already having auto insurance through them. We discussed the UL policy a couple times but I ultimately decided it wasn't for me. Now, I have my auto insurance set to auto-draft and don't really ever check the amount that is drawn (stupid, I know, you can yell at me in the comments.) This evening I decided to check around at some other insurance agencies to see if I could sniff out a better rate. Upon logging in to my insurance provider's website, I notice I've been paying for the UL policy for almost the past year!!! I never signed any forms to authorize this policy. Is there a certain form I should ask them for to prove I never signed off on this?","title":"[LA] Enrolled in a Universal Life policy without my consent?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540837250,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sfqah\/was_in_a_crash_and_left_with_a_bill_from_the\/","id":"9sfqah","body":"This happened a bit ago but considering I\u2019m still paying it off, I might as well see if I should\u2019ve made different choices. \n\nAbout a year ago I was a passenger in a head on collision. I wasn\u2019t wearing a seatbelt and ended up slamming into the windshield. This left me with a couple scrapes on my forehead and a little dazed. The next thing I know is I\u2019m getting out of the car and a couple paramedics are shuffling me into the ambulance as it is \u201cmandatory that I go for a head injury\u201d. I remember distinctly telling them \u201cI cannot afford this,\u201d to which they said \u201cthe car insurance will handle it don\u2019t worry,\u201d so I just accepted that I wasn\u2019t getting out of going.\n\nInitially my memory of the day was fog but slowly started coming back in the next hour. The doctor had me stay for a while for observation and before I left he wanted to do a MRI. I was back to my full awareness and specifically asked, \u201cHow much will that cost because I can\u2019t afford it.\u201d\n\nHe quoted me about 1000 and I declined. At that point, knowing my mother was right there, advised I do it because I might have a bleed even though my memory was back and felt no pain. When I protested, he assured me \u201cinsurance would handle it\u201d so I eventually gave in. But I definitely felt heavily pressured into it. \n\nAfter I get all the insurance info sent out over the next few days and I don\u2019t here anything from anyone for 6 months. Then a bill comes in saying I still owed them over 1000 dollars. That was after the insurance covered about 2500 bucks. \n\nNow I\u2019m still paying it off, but after talking to my friend who was driving at that time he told me the EMTs never really asked me if I wanted to go. He said they told me they just wanted to check me out real fast and next thing he knew I was gone.\n\nShould I have agreed to pay? Did I mess up by not challenging the bill? It seems messed up that as a passenger, who was essentially forced into admission and treatment, that I would be left with any sort of bill.\n\n","title":"Was in a crash and left with a bill from the hospital","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444210779,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ntl5y\/using_a_trademarked_name_in_a_program\/","id":"3ntl5y","body":"Hey everyone,\n\nI wrote a programm which can launch applications you add to it. While this works for any regular program there is one exception.\n\nIf you want to add a program that is distributed by a specific company you have to follow slightly different instructions.\n\nI have created a button which opens an instruction window with instructions on how to do so. The button has the trademarked name on it and I use the trademark in the instructions aswell. (only plain text)\n\nI would also add a notice that the trademarkt belongs to the respective company in the about section of my program.\n\nCan I publish the program if I add a trademark symbol next to the trademark or do I have to contact the company and ask for permission?\n\nEdit: Forgot to add the country I'm asking for is Germany","title":"Using a trademarked name in a program","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555702511,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf3axi\/i_have_several_questions\/","id":"bf3axi","body":"My father is a man who would fit in nicely in r\/niceguys, r\/iamverysmart, r\/whiteknighting and r\/entitledparents. Questions at the bottom if you don't like reading walls of text.\n\nHe was absent from my life for about 7 years. At some point, he abducted me and took me almost 4 hours away from my home to \"save\" me from my mom who was working two jobs and had us staying with her sister because he left her to care for me alone (they weren't divorced). He was planning on keeping me when he didn't have anywhere for me to sleep or any clothes for me. My mom got police involved and filed for sole custody so that he couldn't do something like that again. After 7 years or so he came back around and they got divorced, but then he started becoming a pain in the ass. He called CPS, he filed for emergency custody, he requested joint custody...my mom gave him supervised visitation and weekly phone calls, but he requested unsupervised visitation and probably wanted daily phone calls. During the first supervised visits, he told me that his abduction was meant to save me, that I was being brainwashed, and essentially that I wasn't allowed to say he kidnapped me. He claimed that we were being abused, that he \"saw things\" at our sister's house that weren't there. He exaggerated a lot of things that were there. \n\nI recently expressed to him that I don't want to see him or talk to him because he isn't doing me any good, he's causing my mental health to deteriorate. He made the conversation about how \"statistically, kids need their father\" and how he \"deserves\" me and how he's \"a good, Christian man\" and he \"doesn't understand\" why I don't want to see him or talk to him, that I was obligated to provide him with a specific, believable reason to not want to see him or talk to him.\n\nI genuinely want him to be out of my life, but apparently I am not allowed to stop calls and visitations myself. My mom is apparently obligated to force me to see him and talk to him even when I have expressed to both him and her that I don't want to. \n\nI've been wanting to post here for a while, but I'm scared that someone involved in this fiasco might have a Reddit account and might discover my identity if I talk about this, even when I try to be vague, like I did here. \n\nIf you're reading this and you know who I am, don't tell him. Please. I don't want this to get any worse than it already is.\n\n---\n\n1.) Is my mom obligated to force me to see and talk to him when I have expressed to both him and her that I don't want to?\n1a.) Am I obligated to provide a specific, believable reason to not want to see him or talk to him?\n\n2.) Should I be able to go see the judge, so that he can hear me out?\n\n3.) Can my dad use the medication I take or conditions I have in claims against me and my mom in court?\n\n4.) Will\/Can the police arrest my mom or force me to go to a visit if I refuse to go to a visit?\n\n5.) He owes tons of money in child support that he refuses to pay. Should\/Can we press charges?","title":"I have several questions","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540395501,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r0qtn\/employee_lied_about_having_a_valid_drivers\/","id":"9r0qtn","body":"I\u2019m the manager for a small business in Massachusetts and during the interview process our employee, here out referred to as D, stated he had a driver\u2019s license and reliable transportation. Usually I get a copy of the license, but D said he forgot it. Since he had all his other paperwork I let it slide for the time being, assuming he would get it to me. A handful of months have passed and I didn\u2019t follow up about a copy of the license, which is on me, I know. D also has stated to both the general field manager and the site supervisor he had his license on more than one occasion. \n\nNow D was pulled over in one of the work trucks and fined $1000 for not possessing a valid driver\u2019s license. I\u2019m at a loss here because I don\u2019t feel we should be responsible for this fine. D was the one who misled the company after all. The citation report lists him as the driver but it\u2019s made out to the company as the violator. \n\nIs there some way to push the responsibility of paying it back onto him? What should be the consequence for him? I don\u2019t want to do something that breaks employment laws, but slapping him on the wrist isn\u2019t going to cut it. He put the other employees at risk, as well as put significant risk to our auto insurance. God forbid he was in an auto accident. ","title":"Employee lied about having a valid driver\u2019s license and got a $1000 ticket. What to do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541101500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tcril\/colorado_ongoing_lease_terminated_because\/","id":"9tcril","body":"Long story short (1 week long): My girlfriend and I lived in apartment building for 1 yr and 3 months. Around 2-3 month ago we wake up with a few bug bites then found what looked like it might have been a bed bug. We killed it and figured we would be more aware the next few days to see if we get any new bites. We didn't get any new bites so we figured the 1 bug we killed was the problem so thought nothing of it. About a month later, we woke up with a few bites again and found what might have been a baby bedbug. We immediately contacted our landlord about it because he\/she recently sent an email saying we had a scheduled Orkin, routine inspection coming up soon. \n\nMy girlfriend made a post on Reddit about that day and the day the routine Orkin maintenance visit was scheduled. That same day we requested an investigation to be done on the building. \n\n​\n\n**Here is a link to her post that goes into a lot more detail to the whole story thus far:**\n\n[https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r6p7o\/co\\_is\\_landlord\\_being\\_unfair\\_about\\_bedbugs\\_in\/](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r6p7o\/co_is_landlord_being_unfair_about_bedbugs_in\/)\n\n​\n\nThe next few days we exchange emails regarding how to move forward with exterminating the bed bugs.\n\n>**(Can add links to the emails if there is interest)**\n\n​\n\nWe then receive an email from our landlord in the middle of the day on this past Monday giving us 48 hours notice to evacuate the premise with our pets from 12-7pm because Orkin is coming to treat all effected units for bed bugs. Also, that the success of the treatment is contingent on how well you prepared. The preparation required a lot of time(46 minute High heat drying cycles of all clothes\/linens) and money(vacuum sealed bags, small steam cleaner and mattress protector). \n\n>**(Can add links to the emails if there is interest)**\n\n​\n\nA few emails back and forth of me suggesting to not rush so that everyone can adequately prepare if the success is contingent on it, also requested Landlord to address and answer previously ignored emails (One of which we were waiting on an answer for to continue preparation). Landlord repeats that Orkin is coming for treatment on Wednesday.  Does not even acknowledge my concern. I then replied that, the statement is untrue as another tenant found a bed bug and is not getting treated. Landlord does not address my concern again. \n\n>**(Can add links to the emails if there is interest)**\n\n​\n\nFast forward to Halloween (the day Orkin performed treatment), we receive a notice taped to our door for a 30 day termination notice with Section reference 1 to lease; saying after 6 month lease it turns to month to month, reoccurring until termination on either end. Landlord or tenant can terminate lease with 30 days notice.\n\n​\n\nWe responded back with asking for a reason for the termination and landlord ignored the email. \n\n​\n\nLater that day I received a text message from Orkin, which was unsettling because I never gave Orkin my phone number and they would have no reason to speak with me as they should be speaking to the landlord. \n\n​\n\n\\***Continue with the following text messages\\*:** (Landlord admits to; being irresponsible, unprofessional, neglecting our safety, does not have time, due to another job, to properly manage the building, downplays our concerns, and ultimately responds to everything in a manner you would expect from a 15 year old). Also, don't be fooled by the grammar, English is the landlord's main language.\n\n1) [https:\/\/imgur.com\/5MvbmEp](https:\/\/imgur.com\/5MvbmEp)\n\n2) [https:\/\/imgur.com\/CgJjeVT](https:\/\/imgur.com\/CgJjeVT)\n\n3) [https:\/\/imgur.com\/ZcJkUmQ](https:\/\/imgur.com\/ZcJkUmQ)\n\n​\n\n**Landlord then indirectly says reason for termination:** Landlord says it's because we don't like her. \n\n​\n\n4) [https:\/\/imgur.com\/CYSc1ss](https:\/\/imgur.com\/CYSc1ss)\n\n5) [https:\/\/imgur.com\/0PuLqh0](https:\/\/imgur.com\/0PuLqh0)\n\n​\n\nThe next morning, I received an email from landlord responding to the email mentioned in the above text messages that she said she didn't receive. \n\n​\n\nJust as I was finishing typing this post, landlord pulls up to apartment building, comes inside and I hear her pause outside our door for a few seconds, then exits the building and pulls away. Not sure if landlord was checking to see if we were around or what, but I guess it's time to get a camera to watch the inside of our unit to see if anyone comes in without our knowledge for the next 29 days...\n\n​\n\nI have not responded to the landlords last text messages as we are unsure where to go from here and how to handle the situation. \n\nDo we request our door be re-keyed? At this point we want as little interaction with our landlord as possible until we leave as all of this is taking a toll on our sleep, mental health, stress and anxiety which is ultimately affecting our jobs. \n\n​\n\nPlease let me know if there is any interest in seeing the email correspondences, I will gladly provide any and all information \/ exchanges we had. \n\n​\n\nThanks! ","title":"[Colorado] - Ongoing; lease terminated because landlord thinks we don't like her","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571631344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkv355\/laws_regarding_cbd_products_i_am_confused\/","id":"dkv355","body":"I'm based out of NYC and I want to start an Ecommerce company selling cbd infused gummies with under 0.3% THC. \n\nI will be shipping throughout the United States and potentially internationally. Is this legal and if so, would I need special licenses?","title":"Laws Regarding CBD Products. I Am Confused.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568879651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6atlk\/questionable_lease_term\/","id":"d6atlk","body":"Hi there! Obligatory apology for format - I'm on mobile. \n\nI'll try to keep this short and simple. My SO and I are looking at apartments and found a great contender. In the lease, however, it states that the landlord can enter at anytime without notice. \n\nI asked him about this, concerned about privacy (I work night shift so often I ignore knocking or calls during typical business hours) and he just said he wouldn't abuse it and that they added it on there for suspicion of drugs, etc. Past tenants we talked to says he always gives notice. \n\nMN law requires reasonable notice for non-emergency entrance. If we ended up getting this apartment, would we be giving up this right? \n\nI should add we don't have anything to hide, but I have a tendency to walk around half dressed or shower with the bathroom door open - not something a landlord needs to see.","title":"Questionable lease term","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552517391,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0sl1r\/leaving_children_to_seek_a_divorce\/","id":"b0sl1r","body":"Hi all. Let\u2019s say a parent leaves the children with the abusive spouse, moves into a shelter and seeks a divorce because the other spouse refuses to sit down and try to figure out what to do, and instead just screams and threatens will the leaving spouse loose custody? I\u2019m in this situation and I want to leave as he\u2019s holding our kids over my head to get me to stay even though I must deal with verbal abuse and physical abuse. I attempted to leave once before with the kids but he made my families life miserable because he was so angry I took his children. He obviously does NOT care about me!\n\nI\u2019m so stressed out and miserable I\u2019m becoming sick.\n\nPls give me some advice!","title":"Leaving children to seek a divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551924677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay78ng\/houston_tx_father_died_can_i_do_probate_myself_or\/","id":"ay78ng","body":"Hello,\nI recently met with a probate lawyer for a quote and it was around 3500, which seems high. My father didn\u2019t have a large estate, he has a will which clearly states that I receive everything. No siblings are contesting the will and he has been divorced for decades, just have to do probate to sell the house. No outstanding debts aside from the house. Seems like my case will be very simple.\n\nCan I file the paperwork myself to avoid the high fees of a probate lawyer?\n\nAre there any resources that I can utilize to make sure I fill out all the necessary forms and do things correctly?","title":"[Houston TX] Father died, can I do probate myself, or do I need a lawyer?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552598124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b15wwo\/friend_lost_her_father_and_step_mom_is\/","id":"b15wwo","body":"Friend tragically and suddenly lost her father. Her father was relatively successful and had a few assets. Her step mom, says she was left everything and will not let them see a copy of the will. The fact she won\u2019t even let them see it leads me to believe she is hiding something. Is this legal? Is there a way for her to appeal this?","title":"Friend lost her father and step mom is withholding the will. Is this legal?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568754721,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5nb6f\/pulled_over_for_speeding_avoiding_an_accident_and\/","id":"d5nb6f","body":"I was driving and to avoid being hit by a car that was pulling out, I sped up. A few seconds later, I get pulled over and told I was going 65 in a 50. I was so shocked, I didn't know what to say. I gave the officer my license and he asked about my record, and having never been pulled over (and freaking out inside) the best I could muster was 'It's good' before he quickly took my license and walked away. A minute or two later he comes back and gives me a ticket for double parking, with \"Speed 65\/50 820 ft.\" in the notes. Before I can explain why I had sped up, he was gone. \n\nI have no idea what to do now - I don't think I was speeding by that much, and even if I was, I was trying to avoid an accident. I have an impeccable record (not even a parking ticket) and had never been pulled over before this. I feel like the officer was just trying to rack up tickets by the fact that he barely spoke to me, didn't give me a chance to explain, and wrote it up as a parking ticket and was gone. I know I should feel lucky I wasn't given a speeding ticket, but since I was trying to avoid a collision it feels like I shouldn't have to pay it at all, and it's stressful to have this living on the salary of a high school teacher.\n\nIn my state (MI) my options are to: \n\n1. Accept Responsibility and pay \n\n2. Accept Responsibility with Explanation - write in or appear in court and accept the charge and explain why, and hope they reduce your ticket.\n\n3. Deny Responsibility - Deny the charge at all and go to court go through a process where they try to get you to accept a plea, then an informal hearing with the judge and an officer, and if no resolution is made, a formal hearing with attorneys. \n\nI feel like it's not possible for me to have been going that fast, and I have a legitimate reason for speeding at all. I'm afraid if I deny it'll go poorly, and in addition to the idea terrifying me I can't take multiple days off, and attorneys are expensive. But if I do option 2, that means I'm admitting to speeding by that much and have to just hope they reduce my fee. Do I have any hope of reducing or making this go away? What is my best course of action?\n\ntldr; I was given a parking ticket for speeding when I was trying to avoid an accident - what hope do I have of fighting the ticket and how should I do it?","title":"Pulled over for speeding (avoiding an accident) and given a ticket for double parking?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540838735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sfyob\/civil_servant_question_north_dakota\/","id":"9sfyob","body":"Would employees who work for an ambulance service under the umbrella of a local government be protected under the civil service protection act? Thanks.\n\nBackground: Person suddenly fired without explanation or warning.\n","title":"Civil servant question (North Dakota)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446578370,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3re2t5\/if_i_attempted_to_steal_a_trap_bike_and_get\/","id":"3re2t5","body":"Obviously booby-trapping a bike is illegal. If somebody were to (imprudently) booby-trap a bike and I were to attempt to still it, would it be the case that they were liable for my injury *and* that I was liable for the attempted theft? Or would their intent that I try to take the bike (to my detriment) preclude my being charged with attempted theft?\n\nThis is a hypothetical, so my location isn't that pertinent; I'm curious how this plays out in various jurisdictions. \n","title":"If I attempted to steal a 'trap bike' and get injured, am I still liable for attempted theft?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554258133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8sc60\/i_didnt_answer\/","id":"b8sc60","body":" \n\nI am in Texas. I know nothing about the legal process. What follows is my best attempt to explain the situation. If I left out important details or something needs clarification, please ask and I will do my best to explain.\n\n​\n\nSo in January of this year I was served with divorce papers along with a summons (also in January). I don\u2019t have the money for a lawyer so I just showed up by myself. My STBXW was with her lawyer. When the judge called on us, my wife\u2019s lawyer said something along the lines of \u201cwe need more time\u201d and I was asked to step out into the hall so that we could talk about next steps. \n\n​\n\nI lied to my wife\u2019s lawyer and told her that I had an appointment later that afternoon to meet with a lawyer myself but that I would rather handle this without the court if possible. Both my wife and her lawyer agreed that we could try to settle matters of custody, child support and the division of assets without going to court.\n\n​\n\nA couple of weeks went by and my wife forwarded me the temporary orders. It included joint custody and the division of our major assets. I mentioned above that I know nothing about the legal process and I don\u2019t. But my wife has been married and divorced before. I had read her original divorce decree so many times that I felt like I had a pretty firm grasp on what it said. The same applied to the temporary orders. I got the gist and agreed to the temporary orders.\n\n​\n\nIn between then and now, several people have encouraged me to get a lawyer and finally my mother offered to pay for one. So I met with a lawyer on 4\/1\/19. She offered to represent me for a reasonable price. I mentioned that I would prefer if my STBXW and I could figure this out without going to court. The lawyer offered to read the final divorce decree for me (again at a reasonable price) to ensure that I was not being taken advantage of. I agreed to this.\n\n​\n\nBut my lawyer said something in that meeting that has been bothering me and I should have asked for clarification. I didn\u2019t which is why I\u2019m asking here. The lawyer stated that today (4\/1\/19) was a deadline to \u201canswer\u201d. She asked me if I would be doing that and I said no. BECAUSE I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THAT MEANS.\n\n​\n\nNow it is 4\/2\/19 and I did not \u201canswer\u201d. I\u2019m freaking out about what this means. Did I just sign away my rights by not responding to the court? What are the implications of this? Can my STBXW now put whatever she wants in the decree and I have to agree to it?\n\n​\n\n**TL:DR - What does it mean to \u201canswer\u201d a summons\/divorce thingy? Can my wife put whatever she wants in the divorce decree? Do I have to agree to all of her terms. Is it too late to fight this in court if I have to?**\n\n​\n\nThank you so much for taking the time to read this. I\u2019m sorry it\u2019s a mess. I am also a mess and I\u2019m freaking out. Your help is appreciated.","title":"I didn't \"answer\".","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553261055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4517k\/michigan_school_installed_screen_monitoring\/","id":"b4517k","body":"On mobile, sorry for formatting.\n\nAt our high school, our school chromebooks have monitering software installed to make sure we stay on task. This includes the ability to close tabs and prevent you from accessing websites. I'm not sure if I can say the exact brand, so I wont.\n\nThe problem with this, obviously, is that it is her personal laptop that the program was installed on, and it cannot be uninstalled without her performing a factory reset, forcing her to loose a lot of data.\n\nThere is no terms of use or anything when you first log into the schools internet, and I cannot find anything regarding internet terms of use on the schools website either.\n\nIs there any recourse here or is it as simple as requesting that the tech department uninstall the program?","title":"[Michigan] School Installed Screen Monitoring Software On Sisters Personal Laptop Without Her Consent That Cannot Be Uninstalled.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1413334849,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2j9unb\/can_anyone_cited_relevant_legislation_that_sets_a\/","id":"2j9unb","body":"least week I was tremendously excited by my $2000 win of some very expensive furniture.  Sadly, the seller has had the inverse reaction and won't give me the furniture.  I'm righteously indignated and want to go to California civil court to force compliance .  Ebay claims that a successful auction is \"constitutes a formal contract between buyer and seller\". Okay... So where is the contract.  eBay also claims that the bids are legally binding.  Can you direct me to court cases that recognize the validity of the user contrac?  I would love anyone's opinion.  the twist ?  Well, this- the furniture is in a house that is in escrow, not closed.  I strongly suspect that the seller is backing out because she may have offered the furniture with the house.  Any ideas?  ","title":"Can anyone cited relevant legislation that sets a precedent for a buyer suing a seller that won't respect auction outcome? there is a Twist...","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571190318,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dii6fj\/rookie_about_renting_got_my_invoice_on_my_deposit\/","id":"dii6fj","body":"So this landlord is a guy that bought the building in Jan of 2019 and our lease terminated in August of 2019. My husband and I decided to not renew our lease and move in with my father to save some money and pay off some debt\/save for a house, so we have not signed a new lease. Our existing lease was the same every year, it's a photocopy of a photocopy of a mimeograph by the looks of it.\n\nIndiana statute states he has 45 days to provide me with this. Today (10\/15) is either day 45 or 46, depending on how you count. From the day we vacated, Aug 31, or from the first day we weren't there, Sept 1. \n\nHe is claiming cleaning out trash (we left a microwave we didn't need behind as what we thought was a favor) in the amount of $200 and replacing the carpet in the amount of $1000. The carpet was busted when we got there, and I sent him the pictures I took with the previous landlord when I met with her in the space to sign the lease. There were existing cigarette burns, juice stains, and bleach spots (white spots on a cream\/tan\/pink carpet). All which clearly show in my photos. Indiana also has specific wording disallowing retaining a deposit for mitigating things related to \"Everyday wear and tear\" but I can imagine that's tough to prove.\n\nDeposit amount was $750 for the first month's rent, plus a $500 pet deposit (we owned one single cat). Over the last couple years before the old couple that owned the building sold, rent went up a little so we were paying $770. Since we were struggling with money, I asked him over the phone (when I thought he was a reasonable person) to take our last month's rent from our deposit, so the remainder was $480. \n\nThe only way I have to prove the $500 was paid are 5 cancelled checks for $850 where I wrote \"Rent + pet deposit\" on the memo line. \n\nSo now I have this invoice for $1200. Am I on the hook for this? Or for $720? His invoice makes no acknowledgement of any deposit money. I was really hoping for that $480 to pay what I owe for the last months of our old internet and utility service (electric was not included, all others were included in the rent). What do I do next? Are these amounts worth getting a lawyer for? I know they're trivial amounts, but it's nontrivial for us right now. \n\nThank you in advance!","title":"Rookie about renting, got my invoice on my deposit and it's insane and I don't know what to do - Indiana","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540208610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qd1fq\/a_car_dealership_ask_you_to_sign_so_that_if_they\/","id":"9qd1fq","body":"A friend was going to bring his truck into a dealership to get the frame looked at. When he was going to drop it off, they wanted him to sign something saying if the dealership breaks something on the truck, they not responsible, he is.\n\nCan they do that? If something happens to vehicle while it's in the dealership possession,it should be on them. \n\nHe walked away,  he didn't want them to look at it after that.","title":"A car dealership ask you to sign so that if they break something on the car, they're not responsible when you bring car in to be looked at\/ worked on?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1445477501,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ppqj6\/mo_presumption_of_paternity_for_which_husband\/","id":"3ppqj6","body":"A couple divorces, but wife is in very early (possibly unknown) stage of pregnancy when divorce becomes final. Some months pass and the woman, now obviously pregnant, marries again.\nBiological father notwithstanding, which husband is the presumed father?","title":"MO Presumption of paternity for which husband?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442361740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l3wpv\/nj_usa_landlord_wants_to_change_terms_of_lease\/","id":"3l3wpv","body":"I'm 20 years old (going to be 21 in one month) and recently I signed a contract for my family and I to live in an apartment of a two family home. I filled out an application authorizing a credit score check. And after seeing the home I told the landlord I wanted it. She agreed that after she receives the security deposit we could sign a lease together. \n\nA few hours later I returned with the security deposit in full, and the next signed the lease. Today, I received a call from her daughter saying that they have to run a credit score check since I was under the age of 21, I gave them all the information for the credit score. They ran a check but came up with nothing because I don't have a credit score (I've never had a credit card, leased\/bought a house\/vehicle, etc.) they would have to get rid of our current contract to put it under my parent's names and change it from a 1 year lease to a 6 month lease. \n\nThey then threatened that if we didn't change the contract we wouldn't be able to move in. Our lease at our current house is up in 1 and half weeks which leaves us no time to find a new apartment. Can they do this? And if they push on what sort of action should I take? ","title":"[NJ, USA] Landlord wants to change terms of lease agreement after we have already signed contract...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506007767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71jw08\/chemical_exposure_at_work\/","id":"71jw08","body":"I work for a private corp that works out of a state run facility ( ny ).  There was an issue where several state employees were exposed to hazardous photo-lithography solvents.  The emergency response team failed to take adequate ( or any ) data on the air quality and insisted the workers to continue work in the contaminated environment.  The issue persisted for over 10 hours as the workers were continuously exposed.  The Management has failed to acknowledge the incident and went as far as deleting the call records off of the cell phone from the employee who called in the suspicious odor.    \n\nI went to OSHA, who said I was on a state run facility so they could not do much.\n\nPESH would not go forward as I am not a state employee.\n\nThe few lawyers I have spoken to are only interested if I was exposed and damaged by these solvents\n\nIs there any action I can take to get some justice in this situation?\n\nThank you for your time.   ","title":"Chemical exposure at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569893661,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbly7v\/renting_room_and_landlord_way_overstepping\/","id":"dbly7v","body":"So I\u2019m posting on behalf of my little sister and her boyfriend. They are currently renting room through a friends mom. This woman is a drunk  but for her boyfriend it\u2019s this or homelessness. They pay her 200$ bi-weekly. \nHere is where the issue comes in, this woman texts them daily demanding to know if their working and threatening them if they say their off or don\u2019t respond. She barges into their bedroom at all hours of the night drunk for any reason, last night it was because they were talking to loud to which she started accusing her boyfriend of being abusive and manipulative and \u201clike her ex husband\u201d, she looks through their things, allows her and her drunk friends to follow them calling them names even in their bedroom. Her youngest son has been caught more than once stealing their things including my sisters panties. She out right makes fun of the boyfriend and attempts to push her way into their lives demanding to know where they are what their spending their money on and when they\u2019ll be back. \nThis has taken a toll on both of their physical and mental health to the point my sisters eating disorder has come back full swing. \nThey don\u2019t feel like they can complain because they never signed a formal lease and she\u2019s told them it\u2019s her house rent or not if she doesn\u2019t like them she\u2019ll throw them out but she\u2019s documented every time she\u2019s paid her rent. They move into a new place on October 19th but is there any way they can protect themselves and push back in that time?","title":"Renting room and landlord way overstepping","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568435130,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d40l9d\/multiple_possible_disability_law_violations_by\/","id":"d40l9d","body":"I responded to a post asking for assistance and met a person and their kids. Adult and one child is disabled. I don\u2019t want to go into detail because I don\u2019t want their landlord to retaliate.\n\nI basically took the adult to a food pantry and helped them load up and did all the muscle work. This person is by no means sketchy. Their story matched that their house was full of heavy medical supple boxes. The house was neat except for the massive boxes. I carried out about 300 pounds of garbage and yet the house was still neat. This person speaks articulately and has their head on their shoulders.\n\nThis persons condition makes them extremely weak and tired. This person occasionally uses a wheelchair and can\u2019t carry much at all and lives on the third floor.\n\nHere are the issues I encountered that obviously harken to the landlord:\n\n1. This person states that when they mentioned they were dying verbally the price of rent jumped 100 dollars next month and again one hundred dollars the month after, bringing us to the present after the landlord stated how horrible it was to have tenants die on her saying she couldn\u2019t deal with that again. \n\nThis person states that they asked their neighbors about rental price hikes and there have been no price hikes for anyone but her and she is now paying 200 over the average. \n\nThey are on a month to month lease after signing a yearly lease agreement twice and the landlord refused to allow another yearly lease agreement after the time she told her landlord about her situation.\n\n2. There is no disabled parking in their specific parking lot. The landlord told her to park in a parking lot in another cluster of apartments with disabled parking (owned by the same management company. There are also no wheelchair access ramps in their cluster of apartments though there is like a sidewalk thing just beyond the parking lot and towards the apartments.\n\n3.  I believe Vancouver, Washington has laws regarding disabled tenants that have to do with giving them an accessible apartment on the first floor.\n\nThese situations were visible to me upon arrival. I\u2019m pissed.\n\nThe person in question is broke and isolated I don\u2019t know what legal recourse they could pursue but they are on the verge of homelessness and much of that is as a result of the living situation.\n\nI don\u2019t know what agencies to possibly contact or if there is even a legal precedent to seek damages due to these unjust hardships tacked onto their condition and impending death as they\u2019re just trying to live long enough for their child to grow up without being homeless.\n\nI would greatly appreciate any help. This person is overwhelmed.","title":"Multiple possible disability law violations by landlord as a person who will die soon is priced out of their apartment for being disabled (washington, US)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447270142,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sfwi0\/got_in_a_minor_crash_in_parking_lot_ca\/","id":"3sfwi0","body":"Today, I was trying to navigate a busy park lot. At one point, I was trying to turn left, but there was four cars coming from right. So I stop and wait. Just as I was about to turn, I glance at left and saw nothing. I then release the brake and start to ease into the lane. Just as I was about quarter way into the lane, another car pop around from behind the shop. So I stop and let that one pass. As it passed, I let the brake up and start to turn to left. \n\nThere was a car right in front of me that either speed up and try to get around me or didn't stop at the cross in the park lot where it say \"stop\"\n\nJust as I was about to step on the gas, I saw the car was directly in front of me and I slammed on the brake. It was too late, I crashed into this car side and put a decent dent into it. The car and everyone was fine. But the woman and her daughter (who was driving) was as mad as can be and yell at me for not paying attention. \n\nI on other hand have dash cam but didnt tell them about it. I instead was like \"Hey! My windows is as clear as can be! You could see that I was already part way into the lane and look at other car that just passed but you chose to try swerve around me. \n\nWe end up got into some argue before we finally exchange info and left. \n\nI just looked at dash cam and it was pretty obvious I stopped part way into lane to let the other car pass the as soon as the other car passed, this car try to speed up and go around me so they didn't have to wait for me to make the turn.  \n\nSo who would be at fault in this case? I'm pretty pissed about this. I can understand if something was an accident, but this.... To me was just blatantly careless and impatient on others part! ","title":"Got in a minor crash in parking lot (CA)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569980749,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc3jo4\/is_my_dads_employer_within_his_legal_rights_to\/","id":"dc3jo4","body":"My father is 62 years old and has had many different jobs. He is in the trucking dispatch field currently. He knows trucking better than anything besides aquariums. He only has to work for three more years before he\u2019s done but he is a hard and very loyal worker. He is required to work 11 hour days M-F and gets only one week of vacation. He is salaried so he says he has to but how is it okay for an employer to require that many hours? His boss is a flat out awful, rich bully. He verbally abuses everyone in the office and allows his other employees to ridicule and berate other employees as well. It\u2019s terrible and so toxic. One of his employees is a single dad with two young girls and he is usually required to work over 70 hours a week. The boss is just as awful to him. I don\u2019t know what to do. Are there any rights for salaried employees in NY?","title":"Is my dad\u2019s employer within his legal rights to make his employees work almost double the 40 hour work week because they are salaried employees in NY?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571496791,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk4rj1\/wrongful_domestic_violence_charge\/","id":"dk4rj1","body":"Hi so my dad has a domestic violence charge on me and he\u2019s never had a criminal record before. The situation was that I recorded him hitting me at the wrong time and he only did that to defend himself. The officers told me he can get out of bail by today but it\u2019s the weekend and he\u2019s been in since last night. The video never sent to the officers and they told me that If I want him out soon I don\u2019t comply if the situation was that. The thing is that I want to know how is the process going to work when it\u2019s the weekend get there isn\u2019t sufficient evidence for anyone else to see plus the fact that I have a mental illness. Is there any way the process can be done sooner also despite it being the weekend? Also we all reside in Broward County south Florida so if anyone knows the laws in that area that would be great.  One more thing when will the bond be posted and how can he get out by today ?","title":"Wrongful domestic violence charge?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569117017,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7k3jq\/living_in_apartment_off_lease_if_leaseholder\/","id":"d7k3jq","body":"i live in apartments that i don't have to be on the lease for, a large reason is that i don't make 40x the rent, so i wouldn't qualify to be on the lease. so if the lease is up and the roommate that holds the lease chooses not to renew OR if the roommate breaks the lease and leaves, what happens with me? i know i have some tenant rights, but i'm not exactly sure what they would be in this situation. i wouldn't be able to afford the rent hike that would come with a new lease and either way i wouldn't be able to be on the lease. \n\nhow would the landlord have to kick me out, are they able to if i've been living there paying rent for months, and if so, how long would i have to move out?","title":"Living in apartment off lease, if leaseholder leaves, can landlord kick me out? NYC","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555373729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdnc3a\/mechanic_stole_my_car_and_claims_it_got_towed\/","id":"bdnc3a","body":"I have a \"friend\" thats a mechanic, I bought a car that needed to be fixed, since he was supposed to be taking care of all of that I stupidly let him keep the title of the vehicle. He left the title in the vehicle (or so he claims) and the car was towed. By whom, I have no idea. Im not sure who I should call to even find the vehicle at this point or what steps I should take.","title":"Mechanic stole my car and claims it got towed","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555444540,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdye50\/battered_womans_syndrome\/","id":"bdye50","body":"So I have an essay to do on the short story \"A Jury of Her Peers\" by Susan Glaspell. To sum it up, the main character Minnie Wright is accused of murdering her husband. There are two woman who have found that she was being abused. Minnie Wright killed her husband while he was sleeping in his bed. How would all of this play out in a court of law? Would she be guilty or not?","title":"Battered woman's syndrome","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541206843,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tpz4h\/got_a_ticket_for_points_but_getting_fined_as_well\/","id":"9tpz4h","body":"Hello everyone i need some advice or help actually\nEarlier in the year me, my fiance (4 months pregnant at the time) and two friends took a trip to upstate ny (live in nyc). On our way back we ended up speeding a little because the fiance had to use the bathroom badly (about 15 over the speed limit). \n\nSo we get stopped by a police sheriff, she explains why she was speeding and he gives her a ticket and says \" im giving you a ticket but its for points for speeding.\" \" You can plead guilty and just take a defensive driving course to remove the points.\" I was skeptical but fiance went ahead and submitted the ticket as guilty. Fast forward 4 months and she receives a letter saying she has to pay $300 for the ticket along with points. Plus ny is charging her $300 for driver responsibility assessment. \n\nIs there anything we can do at this point?","title":"Got a ticket for points but getting fined as well help","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568449352,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d42jw6\/got_pulled_over_for_drink_driving_last_night_in\/","id":"d42jw6","body":"Perhaps worth mentioning, I was never offered the opportunity to get my car recovered myself. It was safely parked on a side street. Or InFact drive IT despite the fact I had JUST BLOWN ZERO!! Which apparently can convict you but not clear you?","title":"got pulled over for drink driving last night in scotland. Car was seized by the police. I was taken into custody and my girlfriend was left freezing in the middle of nowhere. I did my breath test, it came back as zero. I want to claim for taxis etc. As it was their fault. Is this possible?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552419036,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0by4t\/wrongfully_fired_by_big_employer_need_advice_for\/","id":"b0by4t","body":"Hello,\n\n\/r povertyfinance suggested I post my dilemma here and seek advice.\n\nI was let go by the biggest University in our state today.\n\nAfter 4 years of abuse of my person - because of my disabilities and the gross incompetence of their management of my grant program's funds and hr paperwork - they decided to blame me and boot me out.\n\nVarious Facts:\n\n1. I have personal copies of every email I've ever sent and they ever sent to me on these topics.  I also have copies of various memos and conversation on the subjects I was accused of.  I have ample proof that the accountants they are trying to protect did not do their jobs and even my assistant is personal witness to lost paperwork and unpaid bills.  \n2. I have FMLA accommodations for a ADA covered disability on file for the last three years.  My first FMLA interview they basically forced me to disclose my disability to my boss, then they started treating me differently.  \n3. I am also a mostly-out GLBTG person.  I tried to keep it on the downlow at work because of its conservative nature and the conservative values of some of my students - people still can look at my social media or see who I advocate for on campus and know . THUS:\n4. When I was promoted to this position I was told two of four of the committee strongly did not want me.  Those persons then drove to move my program out of their department and the other one didn't pay my bills for four months throwing us into a financial nightmare that made me physically ill for months.  I have proof of all of this.\n5. I also worked over 14 months in my position as a solo FT employee managing at staff of 40 in the summers.  We were federally mandated to have all open FT positions filled in 3 months, but due to their lazy management it took 6-8 months to fill each position. \n6. My reasonable requests for adequate staff were denied, even if the offered staff was free-of-charge student labor.\n7. I was left alone to write an entire federal grant, by myself with no help from the University, to maintain my program.  I assume they wanted me to fail, but I didn't and I got over 1.5 million dollars granted to run my program.  At least 1\/2 of that goes back into the Uni for costs and infrastructure.\n8. The University itself is in possession of all of this data that support my claims IF they cared to search for it, but they are not inclined to help out someone who is not a rich, legacy there and would rather protect those who are.  With access I could log in right now and tell exactly who made the changes to our HR to cause this last problem.\n\nI am really, really, really tired.  Being a \"little guy\" who has chosen to work with low-income, underprivileged teens and   \n who has spent my life educating myself and creating intentional events and experiences to help them change their lives does not come with lots of material rewards.  I took most of this mistreatment because I grew up in an abusive background and making an honest living doing something amazing as helping these kids was worth every administrative fight and every disrespect to my education and person.\n\nWhat should I do?  I'm pretty darn broke, especially if I can't rollover my retirement, but if there really is case it would set a precedent for future people in my position to get treated right.\n\nThanks!\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Wrongfully Fired by Big Employer - need advice for a little guy","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568684110,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5a3lf\/need_help_finding_a_good_divorce_lawyer_in\/","id":"d5a3lf","body":"How can you find the best divorce lawyer and stop your spouse from getting a good lawyer? Do you contact other divorce lawyers so it\u2019s a conflict of interest?","title":"Need help finding a good divorce lawyer in Downriver, Michigan.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540651275,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ruqdr\/property_management_keeps_changing_things_taking\/","id":"9ruqdr","body":"I live in a large apartment complex in PA. My husband and I and our children have lived here since 2016. Up until a few months ago, we have been happy for the most part with the way things run. Beginning this past summer, there has been a complete turnover of office staff and a new property manager. Since then, they refuse to open the community pool, and they did not even inform the tenants here, we were waiting for it to open, and once mid June hit, I asked them what was going on and I was told the pool is permanently closed and was offered no explanation as to why. Most recently, the locks were removed from the building doors and when I asked when they were going to be replaced, the secretary told me that they were removed and that there will no longer be locks on the building doors anymore. I was upset, because that was a main reason why I selected this complex because of the extra layer of security having the building door locked. When I asked why, she refused to answer my question and instead gave me an attitude and told me that\u2019s the way it is now. I called corporate, and the lady only returned my call 2 WEEKS later. She was very rude, and simply told me that both the pool and security door locks were decisions made by management and \u201cit\u2019s for the best\u201d.  She said she is aware there have been a lot of changes since the new property manager, and there will continue to be more changes. Our rent went up $50 dollars a month, with our new lease (which we did not sign, the property manager \u201cauto renewed\u201d it a month before our lease ended) despite everything changing, so I asked if they can lower our rent back down to what we were paying, and she laughed at me and said thats not going to happen. I should add that over the summer, one of the maintenance men was charged with burglary for entering a tenants home and stealing thousands of dollars worth of stuff. Again, we were not notified of what happened, they just sent a memo out that he is no longer allowed on the property. I only found out what happened through my job. Is there any recourse, I really don\u2019t want to move because we are planning on buying a house, but I don\u2019t want to stay here if they are going to keep taking things away and treating us like crap.","title":"Property management keeps changing things\/ taking amenities away","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507038902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/740j08\/im_having_a_health_problem_due_to_bugs_in_my\/","id":"740j08","body":"I have found bugs near places where I broke out in welts and rashes. Same with another person in my apartment. apartment complex sent someone in for bed bugs. He looked under and around the beds, and based on the amount of 'bites' we have on our bodies there would be a visible infestation. There were no bed bugs, no fecal matter of bed bugs, nothing related to bed bugs. I had pictures of the beetles that i found around the house, I asked to show him and he refused, said his specialty is bed bugs. He said he was going to order a steam cleaning with the apartment based on what I said but when we called the complex to make sure he did that, we found out that didn't happen. We called them again to make sure we get someone who is qualified to look for pests, more than just bed bugs because we have pictures of the bugs that we have found but they didn't get back to us. One of us is going to go in the morning today to show them pictures of what we're dealing with. If that doesn't work I'm not sure what else I can do.\n\nI tried calling another pest control company but they said if you had someone already come for bed bugs they can't look, and if your apartment complex has a pest control company they use, you can't have another. That's literally what they said. I'm taking her word that it's illegal but I don't know.\n\nI believe in Kansas, where I live, its legal to try to have my lease broken. I'm going to the doctor to explain as best I can what's happening because I'm really stressed out, and that isn't helping.\n\nWhat are my options? I think in Kansas if you have bugs or something the inspector is supposed to come and see if it's the way you take care of the apartment that is bringing the bugs in. Our place is spotless. We keep everything clean. I'm not sure what else to say at this point. We're being very efficient in this but the management isn't doing anything about this, and it's becoming a problem.\n\nRegardless of welts or the way I'm reacting to it, there are bugs here that shouldn't be here. And I've seen more and more of them. I want rid of them but management isn't allowing me that.","title":"I'm having a health problem due to bugs in my apartment. The apartment team is dragging their feet. I'm considering breaking my lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541446190,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ugpm2\/landlord_retaliation_pa\/","id":"9ugpm2","body":"Very strange situation. We are living in my wife\u2019s ex-husbands house for 5 years now. We really had no issues until this year with him. He just refused to take action on significant repair issues unless I called the health department.\n\nFirst issue was we had a major sewage backup in February with sewage on the floor in basement (concrete) and the shower stall was filled with floating debris and anytime we flushed more would come out. I am not a jerk. He kept on saying he was going to call a plumber etc but nothing ever happened. Finally after two months I finally reported it to health department to try to spur action. He promised he would do something about it if I dropped the complaint.  My point was not to get him in trouble as in getting fined . He once again promised me something would be done. I waited another month. Nothing done. I had to report it a second time to health department. He promised me a second time it would be addressed. I dropped second complaint to give him another chance. Nothing was happening and I thought I would have to report him a third time but after 4 months it cleared it out somehow. \n\nSame thing happened with furnace issues. It broke last year and he was refusing to fix it unless we paid for the part. We paid for the par on top of the rent. He installed it and heat worked for a few days then quit again. He didn\u2019t respond or do anything so I reported it to health department again.  I also had to to the same thing last month. Heat broke again and I had to report it and then he fixed it.\n\nHe served us with a 15 day notice yesterday despite not being any issues with rent. He isn\u2019t suing for and rent from us.He also told my wife he was trying to make us leave with no heat and sewage issues. Would this be considered landlord retaliation? ","title":"Landlord retaliation PA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446169094,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qsaby\/6000_car_collision_repair_by_dealership_very_poor\/","id":"3qsaby","body":"Location: TX, USA\n\nI took my Acura TSX to a reputable dealership collision center. However, my experience with them was horrible. No attempt was ever made to ever contact me throughout the repair process. I had to call them 2 weeks in to get a first update. From then on, I had to call multiple times a day to get someone on the phone (left messages every time). The repair ended up taking 7 weeks (initially told 2 weeks). The bill ended being ~$6000. \n\nHowever, upon inspection, the work was really shoddy. Panels were not aligned perfectly, headlights were not aligned evenly either. Worst part was that I had suspected that one of the headlights was not replaced (the bill indicated both headlights being replaced, there were scratches on one of the headlights and the other was perfectly clean). Its been 2 weeks, and now I noticed that water had leaked into the head light and now it flickers. Also the alignment of the car isn't correct, as the car slightly veers when driving straight. \n\nI am lost on what to do next. I don't want to have to take it back to the dealership collision center and have them take even more time to fix these problems. \n\nCan I...\n\n1. take it to another collision center and get a post repair inspection? Would it be free if I have them do the extra repairs? Could I have the previously collision center pay for all the new repairs?\n\n2. can I threaten to sue the previous collision center if I can prove that parts that were billed to have been replaced were not actually replaced? Isn't billing for parts\/work that wasn't done fraud? Texas has a statute (Deceptive Trade Practices - Consumer Protection Act) that makes it illegal to state that work has been done or parts replaced when that is not true.\n\n3. should I contact my insurance agent?\n\nPlease advise on how I should proceed. I just graduated college and am not at all prepared to handle this. I also don't have many avenues to turn to for help. Thank you so much!!!!\n\nTLDR; Likely collision center fraud, how do i proceed?","title":"$6000 car collision repair by dealership, very poor work done, possible fraud in billed parts not being replaced, how to proceed?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568638936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d50ctj\/am_i_allowed_to_hand_out_free_samples_of\/","id":"d50ctj","body":"I'm in the process of creating a new supplement, and would like to give away free samples online, to potential retailers, and if possible to random people as part of a marketing campaign in tourist areas.\n\nMy question is, am I allowed to just hand out samples of a dietary supplement? I would imagine there's some sort of restrictions keeping people from being able to do so, but from my research the FDA doesn't require approval before supplements hit the market. I don't know who to contact to see if there's anything I would have to do to ensure it's legal, could anyone please point me in the right direction?\n\nCan I really just hand out pills to people, and if not what do I need to do to make sure I'm complying with any legal requirements in providing samples? Is it just a matter of making sure it's in a sealed container? Is there someone who I have to check with to make sure it's safe? Thanks in advance for any help.","title":"Am I allowed to hand out free samples of supplements?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541533034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9urkiw\/child_labor\/","id":"9urkiw","body":"There is a probably 13 year old, maybe 15, that goes door to door offering to wash cars for extra dough. Is it considered child labor or something if I buy a power washer and let him use it to clean people's houses, driveways and sidewalks seasonally for money, and take 30% of whatever he gets?","title":"Child labor?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551744615,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axefw0\/nys_i_want_to_check_myself_into_mental_health\/","id":"axefw0","body":"Is there anyway I could check myself into the hospital for inpatient to get emergency treatment maybe some medication or whatever I need without my job firing me for missing work for this in NY?","title":"(NYS) I want to check myself into mental health inpatient to get evaluated as I\u2019ve been having suicidal thoughts a lot more. I don\u2019t want to lose my job. I have 3 (8 hour) vacation days left so I can use those and the other 2 days I used when I had the flu. I\u2019m just scared of losing my job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539805778,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p1zg4\/toyota_dealership_is_saying_they_cannot_extend\/","id":"9p1zg4","body":"Im in CA. I leased a new car from a high volume Toyota dealership on 9\/20\/18. I traded in my old lease 3 weeks early for this new one. This week, I received a letter in the mail saying that they \u201ccannot extend vehicle financing\u201d to me at this time. Along with the letter shows that they obtained a copy of my credit report and said this was taken into consideration when making the decision. \n\nNow I\u2019ve looked into the Yo-to scam and it seems that this is likely but I\u2019m not 100% sure. The letter is dated 10\/9\/18 and postmarked 10\/10\/18. My credit score is 746 so I don\u2019t see how having a wonderful score would impact me. I never missed a single payment on my last lease either if this accounts for anything. \n\nI haven\u2019t called them just yet. I\u2019m not sure if I should call them myself and try to figure out what\u2019s going on, or if I should hire a lawyer and have them take care of everything. Or if a lawyer is necessary. \n\nNone of this makes any sense to be happening 3 weeks after I drove off the lot with the car. The 10 day contingency period is already well over. \n\nCould really use some advice! Thank you!","title":"Toyota dealership is saying they \u201ccannot extend vehicle financing\u201d to me 3 weeks after a lease deal has already been made [CA]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568993090,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6whfh\/one_year_age_difference_as_statutory_rape\/","id":"d6whfh","body":"First of all: I know that's a serious offense, and I would never, EVER condone it. However, I don't feel as though I am a genuine predator, like many of the people this law helps prosecute.\n\nMy boyfriend and I are one year apart, 17 and 18 respectively. We have been in a relationship for about six months. We are happy and loving, and when it comes to sex, we are respectful and even have safe words in place to prevent discomfort or unwanted situations. Personally, I feel comfortable telling him when I am not in the mood, and he is always fine with it, opting to do something else together in lieu of sex. We practice enthusiastic consent, and if we feel the other is not excited to do something, we will stop. We also periodically check in anyway, even if we are both having fun.\n\nI had completely forgotten that, technically, I am an adult and he is not. Legally, at least. I don't want to break up with him but I also want to protect myself. Is there anything I can do to prevent possibly being arrested for statutory rape?","title":"One year age difference as statutory rape?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554411938,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9idr3\/its_a_long_shot_but_id_like_to_hear_your_opinions\/","id":"b9idr3","body":"Last year, (May 2018) I was a dumb 19 year-old and wanted to make money quick. I found a certification program that'd allow me to run my own business by training people on their body language. \n\nIt's legit, run by a human research lab, and all that. But I never finished the program because like an impulsive idiot, I realized I don't like it or care to \"be my own boss.\" It was difficult for me to take that initiative to handle other aspects of being self-employed, I just couldn't do it. \n\nI... wasted $6,000. It's a 12 week program and the payments were split between 2 weeks. I paid the first $3,000 in week 1. But, I didn't have enough money for the next payment. Because of that, I didn't have access to the program for 5 weeks! Once I made the last payment, I \"continued\" but never finished. \n\nSo I wasn't aware of the 30-day refund policy. I asked for a refund back in September 2018, but was dismissed because I had 30 days. But I didn't have my consistent 30-days in a row to \"try it out\" because I was blocked from entering after the first week. \n\nI also recently found out I'm on the autism spectrum, which isn't an excuse, but helped me realized why it was so hard for me to continue with this program and practice the body language skills on myself. It was beyond not being a good fit. \n\nI know I made a mistake and rushed into things without considering all the responsibilities, but I'm just hurt by this organization for literally dismissing the situation. Before I applied for this program, I watched all of their Youtube videos and even bought their book because of how much body language helped me in social situations. \n\nIs there anything I can say or do? I remember sending a long email to one of the program directors and all I got was \"I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I can't refund you in this case.\" even though I don't care to finish the program or use the certification. I basically gave them free money. I get nothing out of this. \n\nI mean, what would you do?... As embarrassed as I am to type all of this, I really appreciate your perspective regardless. Thanks..\n","title":"It's a long shot, but I'd like to hear your opinions. Is there a way I can get a refund from certification program that I never finished?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569297881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8hzgl\/early_lease_termination_no_penalty\/","id":"d8hzgl","body":"Trying to see if this is a matter worth pursuing...\n\nMy apartment complex hires contractors for HVAC work. In my lease, it states that contractors may enter for \u201creasonable business purposes.\u201d \n\nA few weeks back, complex notified me an hour before contractors were entering my apartment. I have indoor security cameras. Contractor was recorded on camera talking about my dog and that he planned to \u201csteal\u201d my dog - said verbatim. I was upset when I watched the recording, and the complex said, \u201csorry\u201d and that future contractor work will either have me there or a complex employee present. I made it clear that the contractors were never to enter my unit without someone else present. All of this was via email. I have been paranoid and on edge ever since the \u201csteal\u201d comment.\n\nLast week, contractors had to yet again come into my unit. It was scheduled to where I was there and so was the complex maintenance supervisor. Work was completed in an hour. No mess was left. Contractors leave to work on other units. Complex employee leaves. I leave for work 30 mins after that. Three hours later, receive notification on my phone of motion in my apartment. There was a single contractor without a complex escort and in my bedroom no less (not long though). Contractors were told to never enter my unit without me or employee present. I was upset again and told the complex what happened (via email). They said they would look into it.  Went into the office the next day and was told they didn\u2019t know the contractor would do that and he wasn\u2019t supposed to be in there and that they were sorry. \n\nI want to terminate my lease without penalty. My anxiety is through the roof and I perceived the initial stealing statement as a threat against me and my property. Would my circumstances make it possible for me to end my lease without having to pay $3500+ in penalties? I have six months remaining of an 18 month lease. In TX. Have requested a meeting with the complex regarding the lease but haven\u2019t heard back yet.\n\nThanks for any thoughts or advice.","title":"Early lease termination, no penalty?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540987956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sy4rg\/some_guy_is_threatening_to_report_me_to_the_feds\/","id":"9sy4rg","body":"a month ago or so, i commented on someone\u2019s reddit post that advertised illegal hacking. i said that\u2019s a scam. some random messaged me saying it\u2019s not, that it worked, whatever. i said idc, fuck off. today, he asks me what happened to the person who did the hacking. idk, & idc. he\u2019s like, yeah, i\u2019m reporting you to the feds. where\u2019s my money & where is my completed work ? i never engaged in illegal hacking & i never took this man\u2019s money. he seems like a weirdo. should i be worried or nah ? ","title":"Some guy is threatening to report me to the feds?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554943250,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbtqws\/ilin_divorcing_your_powerful_spouse\/","id":"bbtqws","body":"So my friend(W) wants to divorce her husband(H) and was wondering what would be the best possible route to go about it. Their situation is as follows:\n\n**Marriage:** Married  (for 15 years in Illinois) but moved to Indiana a couple of years later and still there as of now. Have 4 kids all under the age of 10.\n\n**Reason for Divorce:** The husband emotionally abuses her daily, controls her and treats her like a servant.\n\n**Husband:** Net worth of close to 100 million. Most of his money is under LLCs both local and international. The Car and house are under his name. \n\n**Wife:** Totally the opposite. Has about a couple of grand to her name and a lot of credit card and student debt before marriage. Pretty illiterate when it comes down to legal matters. Has a bachelors degree and used to work at a decent job for a short time. \n\nShe doesn't want anything from him not the house, car or any of his money only custody of the kids. He has made it no secret that he his going to destroy her if she divorces him and anyone that helps  her.  I don't know if it is relevant but he just stays home and smokes weed all day.\n\nHow should she go along handling her divorce?","title":"[IL][IN] Divorcing your Powerful Spouse","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1538558986,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kzlv8\/is_my_friend_getting_screwed\/","id":"9kzlv8","body":"My friends job insists he has to clock out for all breaks even his 10 minute. He works in a restaurant. He works 8+ hours a day. They also have many issues with things like sanitations (drop stuff on floor and managers still make them use it. Stuff like that) does he have any recourse or is this normal. He wants a new job because of the stuff above.","title":"Is my friend getting screwed?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568983952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6uh09\/im_receiving_some_lawyers_bills_by_accident_and\/","id":"d6uh09","body":"I have a website at [gmrpc.com](https:\/\/www.gmrpc.com\/) with a catch-all email box set up for the domain. Since earlier this month, I'm getting emails from MyCase.com addressed to a lawyer that used an email address for my domain to sign up there. This started several months after I picked up the domain earlier this year. Either that service doesn't confirm email addresses at all or they owned the domain before me.\n\nNow I'm getting a few emails per week delivered to me addressed to this lawyer. All notifications from [MyCase.com](https:\/\/MyCase.com) and containing information about cash deposits and invoices and various case names. I don't know if it's sensitive information, but it might be. I'm not getting any other emails (for now).\n\nI've tried to contact MyCase several times but without success. There also is an open support ticket with them about this, but they have not taken action after 2 weeks.\n\nWhat do I do now? I could just block this one email address and make sure everything bounces back, but the emails are coming from a no\\_reply address so it could take a long time before anyone notices and maybe this lawyer wants to see these emails.\n\n[GmrPC](https:\/\/www.gmrpc.com\/) is a hobby project, but I've invested a lot of money and energy into it and I have big plans for it. I want to help this lawyer and fix the situation so he gets his notification emails. But the last thing I want is to awaken a lawyer who will then snap his fingers and reclaim his old domain back (that he isn't using much at all). Ok, I'm probably overreacting, I hope :)\n\nMy next idea is to call the lawyer and try to get it resolved amicably, but I'm in another timezone and my English speaking isn't great. So that's another situation I want to avoid. Any advice is welcome!","title":"I'm receiving some lawyer's bills by accident and don't know how to stop it","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570343008,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddzj3f\/i_might_be_accused_of_adultry_what_can_i_do_to\/","id":"ddzj3f","body":"I'm in VA. So long story short guy and wife are getting divorced and pretty sure shes going to accuse him of adultry. I would be labeled as the other woman. There is no proof of this happening. We have sent texts but that's it. Do I need to worry? I read about condonation and they've been living like a happy couple for the last two years and have since packed up and moved to Idaho for the last month. So does that automatically rule out the adultry? Trying to plan ahead. Thanks","title":"I might be accused of adultry. What can I do to protect myself?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504816713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ypydr\/usa_nv_employer_threatening_to_cut_my_hours\/","id":"6ypydr","body":"My managers asked me to come in on a day I requested off (and was scheduled not to work). I agreed, and then made the mistake of venting to a friend that I would have to rearrange plans I made for that day. My manager then texted me saying \"If you have an issue you come to me, not your friend. If it's this big of a problem, I will hire someone else and you will get only 20 hours\". \n\nI've had one too many issues and am seriously considering just jumping ship, but is it considered retaliation of her to cut my hours like that? I know Nevada is a right to work state so I don't have very many rights as an employee, but is this situation legal?","title":"[USA, NV] Employer threatening to cut my hours","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569616964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da690m\/landlord_deducting_old_plumbing_bill_from\/","id":"da690m","body":"I rented a house for two years in California with 1 roommate.\n\nDuring our tenancy the sewer pump for the house broke multiple times, spilling raw sewage into the basement and causing major inconvenience to me.  The thing would break constantly over nothing.  One time a plastic toilet deodorizing clip was found in the pump however neither my roommate nor I used any sort of thing.  It looked like it had been in there for a long, long time when it was pulled out.  It must have been from a previous tenant.  Another time a few flushable wipes were found, but nothing egregious.  I use only Scott toilet paper to prevent plumbing issues and I have never neglected the plumbing.\n\nAnyway, long story short the landlord paid the plumbing bill and that was that.  The pump failed AGAIN spilling raw sewage and she started to complain to me about how she \"paid for the previous bill out of her own pocket\" and how the downstairs bathroom \"shouldn't be used that much\" because the previous homeowner told her that.  This is not in the lease nor was this ever mentioned to use EVER until over 1.5 years into the tenancy.\n\nAbout a year ago, the landlord mysteriously stopped paying the gardener (it is in our lease that paid yard maintenance by a gardener was included).  She ignored two attempts to contact her regarding the state of the lawn, and we ended up having to hire a gardener.  So, she broke our lease and never once responded about the yard work until we had to have the plumbers over for yet another sewage pump malfunction.\n\nWe gave notice back in July about moving out (more than 30 days notice).  My roommate was moving out and I asked the landlord if she would be OK with a married couple moving into one of the rooms (2 bedroom 2 bath house).  She said no and that it would be too hard on the plumbing.  From what I could see, this denial was illegal based on California occupancy standards (at least 2 adults per room).  However, she was being SUCH A PAIN that I decided I just wanted to move out.\n\nThe last few weeks of my tenancy, the landlord began to harass me with repeated requests to allow her to enter with contractors for estimates to upgrade the kitchen and upstairs bathroom.  These were to be cosmetic upgrades.  She asked around 6 times and as I work from home this was a major inconvenience to me.  HOWEVER I let her do it to be courteous and to avoid her from becoming petty in retaliation with the security deposit.\n\nShe also tried to get me to allow the installation of an entire HVAC system that would have the place under construction for a week, which I declined stating that it would be too disruptive.  The HVAC system would have been purely an upgrade.\n\nAfter moving out, the deposit was not returned within the CA required 21 days.  My roommate and I sent separate demand letters asking for the deposit.\n\nSoon after delivery of the letters she texted my roommate and I stating that she would be sending the deposit back minus deductions via FedEx.\n\nShe ignored two texts from me asking what the deductions would be, and 24 hours later said we would be receiving the check in the next day.\n\nThe check and itemized list come BACKDATED to September 21, however the mail was posted on September 27 (I was last on the property on August 31).\n\nThe deductions were for a $50 paint\/patching fee which could be deemed reasonable, however she is now charging the $465.00 plumbing fee from almost a year ago to the deposit, as well as a mystery $225.00 \"Move out\/Move In Cleaning\" which could mean anything.\n\nAlso listed on the fees is a $100 charge for a door hinge that was broken while she was in the house with the contractor doing an estimate.  It is marked as \"Waived\".  But why it's even on there is a mystery.\n\nThere are no receipts.\n\nI'm taking her to court, but I would like to get any advice on this that I can before proceeding.  \n\nAdditionally, are there any free tenant or law advocacy groups in San Diego that I can consult?","title":"Landlord deducting old plumbing bill from security deposit? CA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571777368,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlo84w\/cosigners_on_lease_not_allowing_me_to_break_lease\/","id":"dlo84w","body":"Long story short- I am a student in off-campus housing. I am co-signed on a 12-month lease with 2 other students. \n\nI decided to graduate early, and for that reason I decided it would be easier not to live in the house at all, and begin attempting to find a replacement roommate sooner rather than later. I still pay my share of rent\/utilities included in the lease, and I live elsewhere with a shorter lease during my search. \n\nMy landlord agreed to break my lease when I found a replacement roommate. I have found the replacement roommate. Now he is saying that he cannot break it without the other 2 co-signers agreeing. but my former co-signers are refusing to sign the amendment to the lease that would allow the replacement to be on the lease, and me to get off it because of issues they have with me external to the lease. They refuse to communicate with me. Is there any way I can still break my lease without them having to co-sign the amendment?","title":"Co-Signers on Lease not Allowing Me to Break Lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554668425,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bakmzn\/pedofile_trying_to_chat_up_minor_on_youtube\/","id":"bakmzn","body":"Yesterday I was watching a YouTube livestream of a girl that could be maybe 12? (I really can't estimate age). Some random started talking to her through chat. It was innocent at beggining but then he started calling her cute, pretty, beautiful and similar things. He even asked for Instagram account to talk to her after the stream ends. She gave him that Instagram thing with @ (I don't know how it is called, sorry). The livestream ended soon after that. I sweared at this guy quite badly in chat so she banned me and I could not really help. So I want to ask if there is anything I can do now to help her? I already reported the person on YouTube.","title":"Pedofile trying to chat up minor on youtube livestream.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555615100,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bepjia\/notice_to_vacate_question_washington_state\/","id":"bepjia","body":"In January I emailed my apartment building asking for a two-month extension on my 12-month lease (originally ending February 28). I confirmed in that email thread that I would be moving out effective May 1, and only needed the two month extension until I would be moving into student housing for grad school on May 1. I signed a 2-month renewal lease, which stated I needed to provide a 20 day notice to vacate or else I would be charged the next month's rent (I did not see this part of the lease, and take it upon myself for not reading carefully. In my defense though, I assumed the apartment complex was acting in good faith since the reason for drafting the renewal lease was my specific two-month request with confirmation I would move out at it's conclusion). \n\n​\n\nThe apartment complex is saying that I now owe rent into next month because I did not provide 20 days notice. Does my email thread with the leasing agent confirming I wanted to move out effective May 1 give me any recourse? I understand it is before the renewal lease period, but the renewal in question would not exist without that email confirmation from myself. It feels as though the leasing company is not acting in good faith, which is stated in 59.18.020 of the Washington Residential Landlord-Tenant Act ( [https:\/\/apps.leg.wa.gov\/RCW\/default.aspx?cite=59.18](https:\/\/apps.leg.wa.gov\/RCW\/default.aspx?cite=59.18) )","title":"Notice to Vacate Question - Washington State","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571098532,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhzopz\/car_crash\/","id":"dhzopz","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nSo from what I thought it would be a small problem it turns out I was sooo wrong.\n\nSo last nigh I hit parked car on the parking lot. I left a note with all of my information and left. At the time j didn't know it was a mistake.\nI was expecting a call from the vehicle owner, but I never got one, so I went to the police station to report the incident. And I got a citation with criminal application selected.\n\nI was told I need to show up court which makes sense.\nI was just wondering in how big of a trouble am I in ?\n\nMassachusetts \n\nThanks","title":"Car crash","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569858990,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbdmpj\/ex_was_arresting_for_breaking_a_dv_restraining\/","id":"dbdmpj","body":"Located in California. Earlier this year, he was arrested for domestic violence and was given a court-ordered restraining order. He tried contacting me, so he was additionally charged with contempt of court. His arraignment for this charge was supposed to be on Friday, but he apparently didn\u2019t show. No one is contacting about regarding the case (the DA is charging him in both cases, not me), so I\u2019ve been following it on our county\u2019s court website. My question is what exactly do [these motions](https:\/\/imgur.com\/8qrjhLi) mean?\n\nHow i\u2019m reading it is: he skipped court, an arrest warrant was made, and then i\u2019m confused by what the last two mean. Affidavit for what? and does setting bail mean he\u2019s been arrested?\n\nThank you!","title":"Ex was arresting for breaking a DV restraining order. Skipped the arraignment, what do these motions mean? [Ca]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571067871,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhsdlf\/need_help_with_custody\/","id":"dhsdlf","body":"One of my family members need help, 3 years ago he married a woman that already had 2 daughters (one 3 and other 5 if i remember correctly) so they went in court to determine who will take care of them, It is still not decided and they are in court for 3 years. As for now they can only pick them up one time per month, on a saturday and then give them back at Sunday. The thing is, they live at about a 2 hour trip from them  so its not easy because of work, etc, etc. And the last time everything went normal, almost, when they were going there was so much traffic on the road that It literaly didnt move, they ended up going back and trying for 4 different times until they finally managed to drive there (also there were a lot of drunk drivers so they didnt want to risk It) all while trying to contact the girl's father, which promptly blocked them on every social media before they could explain themselves. They ended up coming back at 4 am from the trip. Also their father makes a lot of \"fake\" reports like one time he let them have the kids for the day, they took the kids to the playground and of course they got dirty so after they gave the kids back he imediatly started taking photos and in the court said that \"they were refusing to give them back, and when i went to their house i found the kids in this state\". Also, the oldest one (5) always says t\u00f4 her mom that her father hurts them. Their mom thinks he only wants the kids for the money and is planning on a very risky move, that is giving the father the custody to see if theyre gonna neglect after some time, or try to offer money to him and after (if) he accepts, ghost him. Any ideas?\n-English isnt my First language\n-I live in brasil","title":"Need help with custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570486212,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deqo48\/lease_breaking_due_to_legitimate_documented\/","id":"deqo48","body":"Hello.  I have a progressive brain disease called Corticobasal Degeneration.  I live in a two story house with my wife and children.  All bedrooms are on the second floor.  \n\nMy mobility issues have progressed to the point where I use a wheelchair full time.  I can transfer in and out of my chair somewhat safely currently.  \n\nLast month while transferring to the stairlift I lost control of my body and feel down a flight of stairs.  Resulting in a head injury and hospital time. \n\nMy doctor and palliative nurses feel strongly that moving to single level house is important.  Otherwise they do not want me attempting to use the stairlift or navigate around the house without supervision.   \n\nSorry for rambling on....  basically I need to see if we can break out lease.   We live in Oregon.  I don\u2019t think there is a specific law that says we can break put lease for medical reasons unless the landlord is violating the agreement\/the cause of the safety issue.  \n\nWe have perfect credit and the last thing I want to so is damage that.    Out lease is up in 10 months.  We have been here for over 2 years have been trouble free renters other wise. \n\nThank you for any help.","title":"Lease Breaking due to legitimate documented medical issue","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540403855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r20so\/my_ex_lied_to_me_about_his_age_and_now_i_am_being\/","id":"9r20so","body":"I have just turned 18 two weeks ago. I am a homosexual living in London. In July earlier this year I met up with a boy who later became my boyfriend. He told me that he was 15 and was turning 16 in September. The two year age gap did not really bother me as I had seen so many relationships with age gaps greater than that.\n\n​\n\n We met on Kik which is a 17+ app. I arranged to travel all the way to his area. We went swimming on our first date. I must admit that I was unaware that the legal age of consent was 16 in my country. Although I had assumed he was around 16 at the incident. We had oral sex for 5 minutes in the changing room. I felt really anxious  as it was my first time. I was so excited about it yet when it happened. We met again two more times. We watched a movie and we also went to a park to have lunch. \n\n​\n\n Since it was my first time he asked me to record it and send it to him. I now realise how stupid this was! His parents found the video last month and they reported me to the police. It was then when I found out that my ex was actually 13!! He did not look 13 as he was extremely tall (6 foot)l and talked maturely about adult topics like politics and sports. He always told me that he wanted me to be more dominant in our relationship. I was so shocked and disgusted with myself. I have recently asked my mother to arrange psychotherapy counselling for me since I felt disgusted with what I had done. I have my whole future ahead of me and I feel like I have been deceived and manipulated. I even had to come out to my parents when the police took me into custody a few days ago. They have not talked to me and did not feed me. I was having seriously strange thoughts yesterday.\n\n​\n\nI am not really sure what my question is but I want to know what legal advice I would be given regarding my situation. \n\nDoes me being under 18 (minor) at the time help my case? \n\nDoes the fact that he lied to me make a difference?\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​","title":"My ex lied to me about his age and now I am being charged for sexual assault on a minor.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508429583,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77ffig\/east_texas_methhead_babymomma_27f_endangering_my\/","id":"77ffig","body":"The title says it all. My nephew is 4 years old. His mom \"Sara\" -my brothers ex girlfriend from 4 years ago - has picked him up from daycare \"high as a kite\" on a few occasions. The daycare documents these events (I'm not sure how) and tells my mom - who occasionally picks up my nephew. Yesterday, my mom instructed the day care to call the police and have her plates written down, next time they suspect she's high and picking him up. \n\n\nRight now, my nephew \"Tod\" is usually in the care of his mother. My brother (\"Greg\") and Sara have never been to court regarding custody of Tod. \nWe see pictures of Sara on Facebook with random older men. There was an occurrence at daycare when Sara picked up Tod where the daycare staff noticed there was someone outside Sara's car smoking. Sara yelled \"Get your ass back in the car!!\" To the man. Sara has all but told her own mother she is a prostitute. \n\n\nSara has been diagnosed as bipolar\/depressed. Not sure if she's ever been to rehab, but we all know she has had on again off again drug problems. \n\nI'm scared for my nephews safety. My brother wants custody. How do we initiate the process? What kind of \"proof\" is needed ? If there's any attorneys or law students reading this, are there any family code references you could give me ? Anyone who has had similar experience, I welcome your thoughts and advice. Thanks ! ","title":"East Texas - methhead babymomma (27\/f) endangering my nephew (4\/m). How to get custody ? What documentation is needed?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568407664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3vdci\/pennsylvania_the_estranged_son_of_my_aunts\/","id":"d3vdci","body":"My aunt and her boyfriend lived together for approximately twenty years before he passed away. They never married (I know this was a mistake), but upon his death the land and house in which they lived were willed to his son, and the contents of the house were left to her. There was little of any significant value in the house at the time of his passing, just mainly their personal items, old furniture, clothes, etc. She was also named executor of the estate. The son was estranged from his father and they had minimal contact before his father\u2019s death. Right after he passed, the son and my aunt had an amicable relationship, but soon had a falling out.\n\nThat was two years ago. Now, my aunt has received a letter from the son\u2019s attorney stating that he filed a petition to replace her as executor. He\u2019s basis for doing so is a claim that the requisite inventory and taxes have not been filed and paid. My aunt believes that she has done this and is looking for paperwork to that effect.\n\nMy question is, if she were to not show up at the hearing and allow him to become executor, would he be able to go after her for anything that was in the house, or any other things of value such as a car that is titled to her (and was titled to the deceased)? Would she be liable to pay anything? And, is there any other ideas or guidance on how to proceed here? Thanks in advance.","title":"[Pennsylvania] The estranged son of my aunt\u2019s deceased boyfriend is attempting to have her removed as executor of his estate. Are there any negative consequences to this action?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541573066,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ux3su\/man_breaks_into_our_house_and_is_threatening_to\/","id":"9ux3su","body":"TL;DR at bottom\n\nSo at around 10 pm, I was awake and sitting in my room playing on my computer and talking with my brother. I was startled by the sound of our door being busted open so I was kinda freaking out bc my mom was asleep, my dad was out of town for some work and won\u2019t be coming back for another month, and my sister was already downstairs working on some homework. I did the first think I could think of, i told my brother to grab a metal baseball bat from my dad\u2019s room and be quiet. I went for a \u201cgun bag\u201d in my room, but it doesn\u2019t carry a real firearm. One of my hobbies is airsofting and I had a pistol without an orange tip so it was somewhat convincing as an actual gun.\n\nMe and my brother went downstairs and a random dude in a hoodie had a knife and was threatening my sister. I start yelling and I think he was freaking out bc I was also strobing my underbarrel light in his eyes, so I did the thing that came to mind when I\u2019m thinking of situations like this from movies, I tell him to slide the knife to me and lay face down. My man actually listened prolly bc he thought he was gonna get shot. My sister was crying, my brother was still freaking out and I had adrenaline running through my veins. In retrospect I think I was overreacting, but I was really really scared. It kind of looked like he was making moves for the knife bc I hadn\u2019t picked it up so I took the bat and just kept swinging at him, sorta surprised he isn\u2019t dead. lol. Well I was running to my room to get my phone to call the police, and when I came downstairs he ran for the door which was still open. I didn\u2019t even think about chasing him bc my head was really clouded with other thoughts.\n\nWell this was a week ago (haven\u2019t opened a police report or anything like that). Flash forward to yesterday, we got a letter on our doorstep which said something along the lines of, \u201cI\u2019m gonna report you to the police for assault unless you pay me $2000 at [address] before next Wednesday\u201d and some random info about how he had evidence and whatever. He is probably still really beat up I\u2019m shocked he could run after I hit him. Well I\u2019m starting to get really scared bc that\u2019s a lot of money, and I\u2019m only a freshman in high school and I don\u2019t want anything on my permanent record. I would think I\u2019m fine but I never opened a report and we\u2019ve had our door fixed since then and I don\u2019t think we have any proof that he broke in. Idk what to do\n\nThis is in California and this is a burner accountant I will prolly delete this post in a while\nafter I get relevant information, I might post multiple times so it is seen and gets good responses\n\nBtw idk which flair is relevant so I just checked the one that is closest\n\nTL;DR\nMan comes in, man gets hurt, leaves, week later, get blackmailed","title":"Man breaks into our house and is threatening to report me for assault","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505695117,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70ri0t\/wrongful_termination_job_filled_with_unqualified\/","id":"70ri0t","body":"My girlfriend is a drug and alcohol counselor. She has been working for a small company (A total of 5 employees aside from her) in Wayensboro PA. She asked to take a 3 week medical leave on Aug 14th, which was approved VIA text message from her employer. After her 3 week leave, she attempted to contact her employer about returning to work, and they did not answer calls or text messages. 1 1\/2 Weeks later, they finally responded (after multiple attempts to contact them) that they would \"Let her know when to come back, and that they needed to have a talk\". \nOver this period of time, we had come to find out that the company had been using free interns, to illegally and unethically run the groups that my girlfriend had been running, and to do the individual counseling sessions that she had been running. \nAfter multiple more attempts to contact them on a time to meet and discuss what is going on, they finally made contact again stating that she could come by during business hours to collect her things, lied and stated that there are no groups whatsoever anymore, and that there is no work for her. \nOpinions on any of this?\n\ntl;dr- Girlfriend took approved leave, was replaced by unqualified interns and fired. ","title":"Wrongful Termination? Job filled with unqualified interns.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571362176,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djg5p7\/motorcycle_towed_ca_i_dont_want_it_back_does_this\/","id":"djg5p7","body":"My motorcycle was towed, I had started the registration process with the state, but they needed the motor VIN before it could be officially completed. This motorcycle was a project, I bought it for $275, and I probably have about $600 total into the motorcycle. It was towed on the weekend, so tow yard costs end up being more than what I even paid for the bike, so I figured I wouldn\u2019t pay to get it back. I know they will either sell for scrap or put a lien on the vehicle. Does this affect my personal credit in any way and\/or will this affect me registering another vehicle in California?","title":"Motorcycle towed CA, I don\u2019t want it back, does this affect my credit?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541646763,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v6e8k\/can_my_16f_parents_legally_keep_me_from_being\/","id":"9v6e8k","body":"I couldn't find a flair that fit well, so I did my best. Hello, I'm 16 and live in Texas and my parents have rules such as \"Friends have to be 20 or younger\" and \"be home by midnight\". Both are understandable but as I'm moving out next year, I would prefer to experience these things before I'm on my own. Can they report me for staying out past their set curfew (our city does not have a curfew for minors), and can anybody get in trouble if I hang out with adults? Thank you in advance, if there's any questions or if I left something out please let me know.","title":"Can my [16f] parents legally keep me from being friends with\/hanging out with adults? Can they make me come home at a certain time if my city has no curfew?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540827621,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9se6dd\/i_was_involved_in_three_auto_accidents_over_the\/","id":"9se6dd","body":"I live in North Carolina.\n\nI was involved in three minor accidents in the over the past two years, and I\u2019ve been paying my dues with higher insurance rates.\n\nThis morning, I got a sales email from Allstate auto insurance claiming they could get me a cheaper rate. I went on their website to enter my information in per usual, and surprisingly, I got a drastically lower rate, even with lower deductibles and my accidents.\n\nI called a local agent at Allstate to verify the quote, and she did verified it, but oddly the three accidents I was involved in did not show up when she ran my drivers license and motor vehicle record. These accidents were reported to the police, so I\u2019m not sure why they wouldn\u2019t show up?\n\nI told the agent to email me the quote, and made it very clear about the three accidents I was involved in (and to include this fact in the quote for my records), but she was adamant that my driving record was coming up clean.\n\nAre there any downsides to accepting this quote? If I do, and they somehow see these accidents later on, will this come back to bite me in the butt? I want to make sure I\u2019m protecting myself from getting into any legal trouble.","title":"I was involved in three auto accidents over the past two years, but when I got a new quote from Allstate, my driving record came back clean. How should I proceed? (X-post from r\/Insurance)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554377643,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9bjue\/hacked_i_woke_up_with_60_emails_and_unauthorized\/","id":"b9bjue","body":"As the title states, I woke up with 60 emails, most of them requests to confirm subscriptions. One of them is an order confirmation from Macy\u2019s using my PayPal. I immediately went into PayPal to dispute the charge and I changed both my PayPal and online banking passwords. I\u2019m unsure if there\u2019s a legal component here? I know this is probably common but any advice on next steps would be appreciated. ","title":"Hacked? I woke up with 60 emails and unauthorized purchase","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551581092,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awpmrs\/advice_about_condemning_a_house_and_removing\/","id":"awpmrs","body":"My mother is in the hospital with very bad health issues. She has been a drug addict for many years. \n\nI did not know the extent of how bad her house is until I recently went there to have a look. \nThe entire property is absolutely horrible. It is a complete hoarder house. Just the very brief time I was there was enough to see broken and dumped furniture, appliances, garbage, and all sorts of junk piled up all around the home. Many of the windows are broken and boarded up. \n\nI\u2019ve spoken to a few friends that informed me the inside is actually even worse. There are massive holes in the floors. There is hardly room to walk anywhere. There are rats and raccoons that constantly roam around the area. \n\nWhile my mother is in the hospital, we have learned that she has had a boyfriend that has lived with her for a few years. He is a drug addict and may have had a part in her health issues. \n\nI cannot let her move back to that house because she will be taken advantage of and will not live very long. \nShe does own the house. \n\nI would like to have the house condemned so that she cannot return. After having it condemned I would like to have it all torn down, have the land appraised and sold. \n\nThe house is certainly not up to code and it is uninhabitable. \n\nHow do I go about this? Is there a risk that the city could take it and keep it?\n\nI don\u2019t care about the boyfriend because he will have to move out anyway. But does he have any rights to it?\n\nI am in California by the way.\n\nAny advice is appreciated.\n\n","title":"Advice about condemning a house and removing someone from the property.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441582476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jwsjj\/if_a_man_has_been_raising_a_child_that_he_thought\/","id":"3jwsjj","body":"I'm not posting about a particular case. I'm just curious about this because we get these questions allllll the time on \/r\/relationships that involve a father finding out that the child he is raising is not his biological child, even though he thought he was the biological father (seriously, it's like Maury in that subreddit). I feel like there are a bunch of non-lawyers that pontificate on this issue, often due to having some kind of political or social agenda, without having any real knowledge of the law.\n\nI am curious:\n\n* What are a man's rights in this situation?\n* What are his responsibilities?\n* How does this affect custody if he wants to continue raising the child? How does it affect custody if he no longer wants to raise the child?\n* How does this affect child support? Is he still obligated to pay?\n* Does it matter if his name is on the birth certificate? \n* Does it matter if he was married to the mother at the time of the child's birth? Does it matter if he was married to the child's mother before or after the birth?\n* Does it matter how long he has been raising the child?\n* What are other facts that are relevant in these kinds of cases?\n* How does this vary across jurisdictions? What are the differences between the laws in different U.S. states? What about different provinces in Canada? How about in other countries like the U.K. and Australia?\n\nEdit: Yes, of course I understand this is an enormous question. I'm not asking any one person to answer the whole thing. I was just hoping that anyone who had knowledge that bears some part of this question might feel like sharing some of their knowledge. Answer as if it's your jurisdiction. Tell me about a case you're familiar with that pertains to this issue. Recommend a great book or law review article on this question. Correct a common misconception you hear a lot. Surely there are some lawyers in here who want to correct the grievous stream of misinformation happening in [this thread](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/relationships\/comments\/3juhnn\/i_26_m_just_found_out_my_son_3_m_is_not_my_child\/), for instance. Or just don't respond if you don't feel like it, no pressure. If no one cares about this issue, that's totally fine. There is nothing on the sidebar that says general hypothetical questions are not allowed. Jesus christ people, no need to be douchebags if you don't have anything to contribute.","title":"If a man has been raising a child that he thought was his, but finds out that he is not the biological father, how does this affect custody and child support? [anywhere]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553755573,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6fhl9\/jailbaited_and_character_assassinated\/","id":"b6fhl9","body":"Throw away here due to my main account having my face on it.\n\nSo, I matched with a girl on tinder in March 2018. Tinder is an app where you have to be 18 to have a profile. I\t [M-23] sent her a message and we quickly moved to snapchat. That is where she told me she would actually be turning 18 in 4 months. I definitely should've cut her off there. But we had already been flirting and my libido had taken off, etc. I keep talking to her for about a month but then I feel weird about her being underage, even though she's no longer in high school at this point. So I try to cut her off and she sends me about 8 unsolicited nudes in a row on snapchat. Me, being the dumbass I am, caved and started talking to her again and sent some photos back. This process of cutting her off and her sending unsolicited nudes for my attention repeated about 3 times. But one time I cut her off and posted a picture of me hanging out with another girl and she got jealous beyond belief. I woke up and she had taken about 30 screenshots from snapchat and then blocked me. She posted \"TinderFiasco sends his dick to underage girls\" and the memes started flooding from there, I contemplated suicide for about a week before my brain settled. She even sent my nudes to her friends and to my own adult sister. She brought my nudes into my workplace and tried to show my boss to get me fired but it didn't work, instead I quit my job and moved out of town because I was constantly getting called a pedophile.\n\nI have screeenshots of her admitting that she blackmailed me as well as a dated screenshot of her tinder profile with a fake age. My sister has the messages where she sent revenge porn around. I feel like I have a good case, but I can't afford a lawyer. What are my options here? I want to sue for Defamation of Character really just to clear my name. I realize it's been a year but I recently moved back to town and the harassment from people I don't even know is still continuing. ","title":"Jailbaited and character assassinated","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541514375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uoqk3\/my_counselor_says_my_volunteer_hours_at_a_private\/","id":"9uoqk3","body":"\nI volunteered over the summer at a non-profit private school\/summer camp. I went to go turn in the hours to go towards Bright Futures Scholarship, and my counselor said the hours wouldn\u2019t count because kids paid to go there. (i\u2019ve heard some are on scholarships, but i am not sure of the facts) I\u2019m not looking for a lawyer, but i just want to know if she can say that they don\u2019t count. This is Florida.[Receipt for hours](https:\/\/m.imgur.com\/CBHiom5)\nThank you so much and i apologize if this is the wrong sub.","title":"My counselor says my volunteer hours at a private summer camp do not count.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1542246803,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x6m8h\/do_i_have_to_dispose_of_abandoned_marital\/","id":"9x6m8h","body":"Location West Virginia\n\nSo, our divorce was finalized in May. All but one item he specifically asked for in the property settlement is still in my home.\n\nLong story short, this is a person I need to remove from my life so I can move on. As such I'm planning on sending him a thirty day notice to pick up the items. No time frame is indicated in the divorce paperwork, and I think six months has been plenty of time to get them. Especially given he's been here twice to get other things, and keeps leaving these items. (At this point I honestly think its a power play to drag this put more, but thats another story.)\n\n\nAnyway, all the advice and sample letters on making notice of abandoned property is in a landlord\/tenant capacity and include that the items will be disposed of if not collected.\n\nSince we were married, all but one of the items were purchased jointly, and the items in question are furniture that I actively use or could be using, do I actually have to inform him of intent, and dispose of it?\n\nOr do I have the right to keep it and use it as it is in the home we shared?\n\nAny advice would be appreciated! Thanks in advance :)","title":"Do I have to dispose of abandoned marital property if my exhusband doesn't claim it?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554273073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8ug49\/can_i_legally_fix_potholes_on_my_own\/","id":"b8ug49","body":"Can I fill potholes around my my neighborhood been a pain driving home avoiding moon craters already got a flat because of one. If so what would be the best material to fill them with ?","title":"Can I legally fix potholes on my own?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554131201,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b83kmo\/how_can_you_legally_prevent_abusive_people_from\/","id":"b83kmo","body":"- Abusive family hasn't seen me or kids in years \n\n- Have no paper trail (always had to \"keep the peace\") except for 1 time I did call PD but he was gone by the time PD showed up so that's worthless. But there was sexual, mental, physical, emotional, financial abuse even into adulthood. \n\n- I did give them letters stating not to contact kids or I through any means including phone, in person, gifts, mail (I went on and on), and THIRD PARTY - 3 years ago for 1 parent and 2 years ago for the other parent.\n\n- Kids dad is friends with abusive family. Says he will bring them over there to visit. Kids dad and I share custody. Have done so relatively well for about 8 years. \n\n- Family is abusive on every level. I am terrified. I can't stop shaking, sobbing, throwing up, I just want my babies safe. \n\n- What legal action do I have?! ANY?? \n\n- I may be able to answer questions but am scared to give too many details. ","title":"How can you LEGALLY prevent abusive people from having access to your kids?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503690310,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w0uoe\/rabbit_chewed_through_a_wiring_harness_inside_of\/","id":"6w0uoe","body":"So there are a lot of rabbits that hangout on my apartments grounds. I never thought anything of it until today when the electronics in my car do not work, so I take it into the shop and they tell me it\u2019s been chewed through by something. It\u2019s not surprising now because I see rabbits next to my car all the time when it\u2019s parked at my apartment. Can the apartment be held partially responsible at all for this? According to the dealership it\u2019s $1500 in parts and labor. I have the funds to cover this but I feel like it\u2019s also something that should be addressed by the apartment complex for allowing this infestation of cute cuddly rabbits to exist. \n\nI\u2019m in South Dakota. \n\nIf any more information is needed, let me know! ","title":"Rabbit chewed through a wiring harness inside of my brand new car while parked in my apartments parking lot, what can I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443402841,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mn6vf\/ma_disabled_mothers_neighbors_keep_pit_bull_on\/","id":"3mn6vf","body":"Hello, I'm seeking legal advice on behalf of my mother.  She lives in a basement studio with only one entrance.  Her downstairs neighbors live in the first floor 2 bedroom apartment, at least 7 people live their along with their pitbull (the signed a lease that stated no pets).\n\nThe pitbull is neglected and left chained to poll.  The poll is directly in the path of the only entrance to my mother's house, it's also where my mother's mailbox is.  There is literally no way to avoid the dog if you're trying to get in or out of my my mother's house.  The dog is friendly, but steps in it's own poop and pee and jumps on people.  Once a one of my mother's visiting nurses got covered in dog poop after the dog jumped on him while he was trying to get into my mother's house.  The mailman has also not delivered mail to my mother on several occasions.\n\nMy mother has talked to the landlord who has refused to do anything.  The landlord is afraid that they will stop paying rent and doesn't want to go through the process of evicting a single mother with 4 children.\n\nTL\/DR\n\nYou can't enter or leave my mother's house without going through a pit bull that belongs to her neighbor.  It's prevented mail from being delivered and has smeared dog poop on people trying to enter her home.  The landlord refuses to do anything, does she have any options?  She is disabled and lives on SSI.","title":"(MA) Disabled mother's neighbors keep pit bull on short leash in front of her door.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568659140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d54ebe\/us_wa_money_transmitter_laws_opening_llc_outside\/","id":"d54ebe","body":"Thank you for reading this post. Here's my situation.\n\n​\n\nI've recently discovered a method of selling and trading cryptocurrency for cash or cash-equivalent articles, nationally and internationally, that is very profitable. So far I've only done it on my free time on a small scale, but I want to scale it up and devote more time and resources to it. I started researching the legality of it and discovered that in my home state, Washington, the kind of cryptocurrency trading I'm performing is subject to money transmitter laws. From what I understand, the bill that applied these laws to cryptocurrency trading was aimed more at online exchanges, but even then I'm pretty sure I would still fall under the scope of it (correct me if I'm wrong). That's what led me to my next two questions.\n\n​\n\nWould it be possible for me to open a LLC within a different state and conduct business under the name of the LLC? Even if that were possible, would I still be subject to money transmitter laws if I were physically in Washington? The business itself is completely online, obviously. The only physical assets would be my computer and myself.\n\n​\n\nIf this is a slimy thing to consider then please correct me. I have no intention of doing anything malicious, I just want to explore the possibilities of this venture without exposing myself or anyone else to anything negative. Thanks!","title":"(US - WA) Money Transmitter Laws & opening LLC outside of home state","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570487752,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/der0cx\/question_about_attending_court_for_traffic\/","id":"der0cx","body":"I received a speeding ticket in July in Ohio and I *very, very stupidly* forgot about it. I was pulled over at the end of September for a light being out. The cop said it was just a heads up, but when my license was ran it ended up being suspended due to not paying the ticket. He gave me a citation and said there was a mandatory court appearance for it. \n\nI paid the original ticket right away (and BMV fees), got my license reinstated. However, I saw driving under suspension is a misdemeanor offense and started to feel a bit sick\/worried.\n\nSo, I contacted an attorney\u2019s office in my area. I don\u2019t know much about lawyers, but their website said they dealt with traffic violations and they had decent reviews (7 really good ones, 1 poor).\n\nAnyway, they seemed a little surprised I was so worried about this but said if I was really concerned they could help me. She said they obviously can\u2019t guarantee any outcome, but the goal was to get the case dismissed entirely. If not that, then to a lesser charge like driving without my license on me or something. \n\nI hadn\u2019t heard from them for a little so I called on Friday to check in (my court date is tomorrow). They told me I wasn\u2019t going to have to go to court and that they were filing the paperwork that day. Today I checked the court docket online and it still shows my case scheduled for tomorrow morning. So I called them again and she sounded maybe a little exasperated with me, but said they filed the paperwork and it takes a couple of days to process. That I definitely do not have to go in tomorrow and that they handle these sort of cases all the time. \n\nMy concern is that I don\u2019t have anything in concrete writing saying I don\u2019t have to go in and online it\u2019s still showing I\u2019m suppose to be there in the morning? Is this a common process? If I don\u2019t go in and there was a mistake or delay in filing will things get even worse?","title":"Question about attending court for traffic violation","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571291765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj23ei\/tenant_rights_when_subleasing_california\/","id":"dj23ei","body":"After subleasing a room in a house for almost a year, the woman who is on the main lease (the one I\u2019m subleasing the room from) stated that we would be going on a month to month lease and staying in the house after our initial 12 months was up. Last week she texted me and said she had an issue with my new girlfriend quietly spending the night in my room for one night (first time she ever came over) and then started acting passive aggressive, doing weird stuff like vacuuming outside my room at 5am, telling me I\u2019m no longer allowed to have guests at the house and slamming doors constantly, so I\u2019ve distanced myself and we aren\u2019t on the best terms. \n\nI was just told that I have 2 weeks to move out because she won\u2019t be going on a month to month lease with the homeowner anymore and will be leaving the house. I reached out to the homeowner (off-site landlord) to ask if I could just take over the rent myself and he says he already has another tenant lined up, but he hasn\u2019t even been to the house to show it, I still live there, and this all happened in under 24 hours, so this seems questionable. \n\n2 weeks notice isn\u2019t a reasonable amount of time for me to move. Do I have any options here?","title":"Tenant rights when subleasing (California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539739372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9otvc6\/germany_sharing_topcomments_from_9gags_facebook\/","id":"9otvc6","body":"I blacked out the commentator's name but didn't black out his profile picture's thumbnail. In my case I shared a screenshot of it on reddit.","title":"[Germany] Sharing top-comments from 9GAG's Facebook page regarding an instagram celebrity's statement","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507351041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74swr5\/got_fired_was_offered_my_job_back_on_the_same_day\/","id":"74swr5","body":"I posted about this in r\/personalfinance and some people felt like I should bring it here for some better answers.\n\nLong story short, I have had intermittent absences over the past year that should have been covered by FMLA. My employer told me that it wouldn't apply to my situation, so I didn't apply for FMLA. Our company has a strict attendance policy and these absences were counting against me. \n\nEarlier this week I had one of these such absences. This morning, I had a meeting with my store manager and signed separation paperwork. When I got home, I called HR and told them the situation. \n\nA few hours later, I got a call from my district manager. She was coming from the corporate office and wanted to meet me at my location to chat. After we talked about what happened, she offered me my job back plus some perks, including:\n-Clean slate on the attendance policy\n-Better training for GMs regarding FMLA\n-Wage review within 30 days\n-Voiding of the separation paperwork. This way if I declined the offer, I would be signing voluntary resignation paperwork instead.\n\nIt's that last bullet point that makes me a little uncomfortable. On the one hand, quitting looks a lot better on a resume than termination. On the other, it covers their asses if I quit instead of if I were to be fired for this issue. \n\nI was told I should ask if this was a situation where I should start looking for employment lawyers. I signed an arbitration clause upon hire, so I don't know if a lawyer can do much for me. But it seems like my employer made a big mistake with FMLA- I should have been notified that I fall under FMLA for my hospitalization last year and the resulting intermittent absences ever since. ","title":"Got fired, was offered my job back on the same day (WA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551595230,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awrhga\/different_country_legalities\/","id":"awrhga","body":"I have a friend who\u2019s nude pics got leaked (he\u2019s under 18) and we know who did it. The thing is, the guy who did it is American and the friend is from Europe. How would things work here and can the leaker be prosecuted?","title":"Different country legalities.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1538933705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m6wkb\/coworker_took_my_paycheck_and_then_threw_it_away\/","id":"9m6wkb","body":"I have a weekend side job that I work part time for extra money to put in my savings. Last Tuesday paychecks were issued for the last pay period and my coworker (whos also a good friend of mine) sends me a text that she took my check for me. I never asked her to do this and I was planning on driving up to the store to get it after work (at my regular full time job during the week). But I was like, ok cool whatever just make sure you leave in your car and I'll pick it up whenever we hang out later. I was a little confused as to why my manager allowed her to just take my paycheck without even trying to contact me to ask if it was ok, but I figured as long as I got the money it wasn't a HUGE deal, just an annoyance.\n\nI didn't see her until last night, and when I asked her for my check she says that while cleaning out her car, she ripped up and threw out a bunch of her old paystubs without looking at the names on any of them and most likely threw mine away with them. I was texting her this morning and now she says she never picked up the check to begin with and it's still at the store. So I drive out to work, and lo and behold it's not there and someone has signed my name on the form saying we've received our checks (it's very obviously not my handwriting or signature though) and my friend admits that she signed for my check, but never took it, and that my manager watched her sign for it.\n\nFinally, after arguing for maybe 30 min, she says she took the check, but swears she gave it to me at a concert we both went to. She never gave me any check there, and even if she had, that concert was mid September and this check wasn't issued until the beginning of October. I called the company and asked how much the check was for (they said they dont release those records to anyone and wouldn't tell me) and if they could reissue me a new check because I never received mine (they said it wasn't their responsibility and wouldnt do that either).\n\nWho exactly is responsible for this? I'm very upset, but I dont know who to direct my anger at. Do I have to just deal with this? Is this something I have to just hash out with my friend, or is the company legally required to ensure I get paid? Or is this something i take up with my manager because she handed out my check to someone else without verifying with me it was ok to do so? I'd rather not have to go through court, because this is just a part time job and the check was maybe around $250 at the most, but is there a law anywhere I can pull out to force someone to pay me??","title":"Coworker took my paycheck, and then threw it away (TX)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442938353,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ly8yi\/i_25_m_need_some_help_after_i_seperated_from_my\/","id":"3ly8yi","body":"This is the first time I've posted in this subreddit and I am thankful in advance for any advice that can be given. My wife and I seperated 7 months ago, which I have discussed extensively in \/r\/relationships, and after getting back on my feet I do have some questions regarding what happens next and what I can do to safeguard my assets. \n\nA bit of background; we were only married for circa 6 months before she decided that she could not longer commit to a relationship or our marriage and it all broke down. From what I can fathom this all stemmed from some family trauma on her side and I did everything I could over a period of 5\/6 months to fix our relationship\/marriage before realising that enough was enough and moved on. \n\nI should note, before I continue, that we have no kids together and we do not own\/share a house. We were living with family while we saved to buy somewhere but have been with our own families since the seperation. \n\nFrom what I understand of the laws here in the UK I will have to wait until we have been seperated for 2 years, if she consents, or 5 years, if she does not, to get a divorce. This leaves two massive problems for me:\n\n1) Because I have moved back in with my parents, my savings are starting to build up. \n2) I want to buy a house eventually. \n\nThe issue I have with both of these two points is can she take half my savings, or my house if I buy one? And is there anything I can do to stop her; whether it be a formal agreement or something else? \n\nThe other point worth stating is a week before she decided to end the relationship, I lent her \u00a36,000 to be put towards a new car. This was most definitely a loan, which she knew, but I made no contract with her and just bank transferred the money across. This may seem stupid now but at the time I didn't know what was coming... \n\nSorry for the long post and thank you in advance for any help you can give.","title":"I (25 M) need some help after I seperated from my wife (UK).","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503863625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wecj9\/la_is_there_any_way_that_my_sister_and_i_do_not\/","id":"6wecj9","body":"We're the next of kin in their will and everything is supposed to go to us. In saying that - they've been making some pretty extreme purchases lately (hot tub, iron fence, 3rd car, vacations) and putting it all on the credit card. They're getting this money from a $200,000 mortgage (it might be a loan, not sure?) My sister and I don't use any of it, we just maintain it for them.\n\nI'm 22, my sister is 20. Is there any way for my sister and I to not have to pay for their purchases that we don't use? We're jobless students and all my money goes to school or they've taken it and spent it on stupid shit ($1700 I never approved for them to use and never got it back). They're both on their last leg and I don't have the money to pay for what they're buying + interest \n\nEDIT: Thanks all!\n\nTLDR: grandparents are running up bills, do I have to cover this when they die?","title":"[LA] is there any way that my sister and I do not have to pay my grandparent's debt when they die?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568481434,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d48202\/copyrighttrademark_law\/","id":"d48202","body":"So I am developing a commercial video game that is based on a famous Nickelodeon show and was wondering if this would cause any issues for me? I mean, what's the worst that would happen even in the case that a big company noticed a small developer? I will be creating all the artwork that will be inspired by the show so there will definitely be similarities in the visual aspects. To what degree would I be allowed to copy aspects from the show without running into copyright infringement? Is there even a chance I will be noticed? Thank you!","title":"Copyright\/trademark law","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570225936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dde5i4\/landlord_is_stealing_electricity\/","id":"dde5i4","body":"My wife and I rented a house, Florida, that has a small cottage (1 bed, 1 bath with a kitchen and living room) in the back corner of the property. The Landlord is responsible for the cottage and rents it as an AirB&B. We noticed our electric seemed high so we investigated and noticed our main breaker (after the electric company\u2019s meter) is tapped off and feeding the cottage and his workshop via an underground feed. It appears we have been paying for the electric to all his AirB&B clients without knowledge or repayment. We want confront him but don\u2019t quite know our rights.","title":"Landlord is stealing Electricity","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551241978,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av96tp\/should_i_fight_oregon_unemployment_appeal_loss\/","id":"av96tp","body":"I applied for unemployment after being let go by a car dealership in June. I left one dealership to work for another and was unable to meet the sales goals at the new store. I was initially denied but appealed and after 5 months of waiting for a hearing an administrative law judge ruled in my favor and I received the 4 weeks of benefits I had filed 4 totaling about $2,400 gross, 2,000 after taxes were taken out. The state unemployment department than appeal and this case was decided in their favor and this 3 judge panel denied me unemployment. Their reasoning was that since I had left another dealership to work for the dealership that let me go and both places had a minimum wage versus commission pay structure I could not be certain that my wages would be higher at new job and I didn\u2019t leave a job for good cause. I looked at the appeal process for the next level of appeal\nAnd it seems to be something I would need a lawyer to complete. \n\nQuestion: should I seek out an attorney and filed another appeal? What are the likely consequences if I do not file appeal? Will I have to return the money already paid out? Are there penalties that can be applied to me? \n\nBackground: I am a 25 year old male. I am currently employed at another job. All jobs in question are located in the Portland Oregon area. Initial filing was in June 2018, first hearing was in October 2018, second hearing in January 2019. ","title":"Should I fight Oregon unemployment appeal loss?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541398069,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ub4t2\/eli5_how_to_legally_buy_a_car_in_washington_state\/","id":"9ub4t2","body":"Old van, clean title, sold by owner (not dealership). How do I legally buy it?","title":"Eli5 how to legally buy a car in Washington State?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552926499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2kreb\/ma_my_mother_passed_away_last_month_in_her\/","id":"b2kreb","body":"I do not have the rent receipt from her initail first month, only the last 6 going back to August 2018. She lived there just under 8 years. All repairs - wall deterioration, replace bathroom\/kitchen tile, motion sensor - were paid in cash by the landlord to his \"buddy\" who isn't involved in a liscenced businesses. I don't know for sure but am confident in assuming the security deposit was never put in a bank, per state law in MA. I justst finished emptying her house yesterday and she paid up until this saturday, so at least I get last months rent back. I appreciate any help","title":"MA - My mother passed away last month in her appartment and was ruled an unattended death. Her landlord has refused to give her security deposit back due to 3 floorboards being removed from where she was found (blood in the wood). Don't know if the court headache is worth it","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445713309,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q28dq\/portland_oregon_roommate_refuses_to_move_out_even\/","id":"3q28dq","body":"So a bit of a backstory.. My roommate and I advertised for a 3rd roommate for a 3 bedroom apartment we have. We interviewed this one guy and he seemed ok. Said he was clean and cleaned up after himself. Was a gamer and seemed a good fit. So we bought him in and got him on the lease.\n\nAfter he moved in, we found out that he's a slob. His room is very messy, he doesn't clean up after himself (for example, spills of pancake syrup on the floor), leaves rotting food around and we found out that he is HIV positive and bringing people over to stay the night to have sex. I know that you can take precautions about it, but neither of us are comfortable with random dudes who are homeless just appearing in the apartment and the messes he leaves in the common areas (his room, while it's probably attracting bugs with the rotting food, is his business and if he wants to live in filth, that's his call).\n\nWe talked with him about a month and a half ago and we said it isn't working out and he agreed (he felt like he was the scapegoat when he was caught is a few of his lies) that he would move out. This was the middle of September and we told him we would give him until the end of October (45 days roughly). He agreed it was fair and things continued.\n\nAbout a week into October, he came to both of us and said he is having a hard time finding a place to live and he doesn't feel it's right to become homeless just because of a personality dispute. While I didn't want to (as his public messes in the common areas were getting worse), we agreed to allowing for him to move out to the couch (since we have found an old friend of both of ours that we know we will get along with to take the bedroom) and to monitor the amount of apartment searching he does (he tends to sleep from 5am - 5pm) for an additional month if he can't find anything.\n\nSo here it is.. Coming up on the end of the month and our friend is sleeping on the couch waiting until he can move into the room at the end of the month. The guy moving out said (and I quote).. \n\n\"I'm not signing the agreement, I'm not leaving util I find a place and I'm not moving out of the room.\"\n\nSo.. What recourse do I have? I really don't want to be an ass and drive him out (though I will if I have to). If it comes to it though, what can I legally do to get him out?","title":"[Portland, Oregon] Roommate refuses to move out even after agreeing to do so.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542072329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wketx\/unlawful_eviction\/","id":"9wketx","body":"3 days ago, we received a 10-day eviction notice that was taped up to our door.   \nPreceding this, we have been living in this house for about 2 years.  For the first year, everything went over smoothly. Rent was collected and paid on time, and there was nothing more to it. About a year after we moved in, the owner of the house went bankrupt (he embezzled money out of his company and basically jumped ship) leaving us to live in this house without him collecting on rent.   \nWhile we are still here living in this house, we have not received any notice to move out or be removed. The only thing we have received was an email to put an offer on the house, which we replied to, but with no response. Since he jumped ship, a bank has bought and sold the house to a builder, who has now sent this 10-day eviction. The problem is, they are all in the original owner's name.   \nBasically what I'm getting at with all this, is that our family wants to know if it is legal to kick us out of this house with only a 10-day notice, especially when the name on the eviction isn't our own. We would have liked more time to find somewhere to live, as it is hard in the area we live in currently. Hoping those at \/r\/LegalAdvice have something for us. ","title":"Unlawful eviction?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503489149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vifz9\/nz_tenant_hasnt_paid_rent_since_moving_in_and_we\/","id":"6vifz9","body":"We own a house in New Zealand with my partners brother and we are dealing with a guy who hasn't paid his rent but still says \"he did it\". Unfortunately (not our choice) he never signed anything like a contract or never paid a bond so what are options? We obviously want him out but is there any sort of legal action we can take to get our month and a half of rent and bills paid? It's the first time we have ever rented out rooms to people we don't really know and since we aren't in the country we have left it up to the brother to take care of things but he is new to this as well. We learnt lots of lessons with this fool but would love advice to get our current money owed to us now. ","title":"[NZ] Tenant hasn't paid rent since moving in and we are out of country, what are our option?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507256602,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74ks0v\/seattle_wa_landlord_gave_notice_105_that_i_need\/","id":"74ks0v","body":"I will try and keep this as brief as possible, but it has been a long ordeal...\n\nMy apartment, along with every other 1st floor apartment in my complex flooded a few weeks ago. I was not home at the time, nor was I at fault. My landlord told me that the plumbing company could not find a root cause. I was allowed to move back in 09\/22 after all of the vinyl and carpet were replaced and my landlord assured me that the apartment was sanitized (twice!) and that it was livable. \n\nOn 09\/29, I received an email from my landlord with a PDF stating that an inspector recommended the sheet rock and cabinets in the units be replaced. The letter states that because it is \"dusty work\", we will not be able to live in the apartments during construction and that the construction will take \"at least a month\". We were given the option to either vacate until the construction was completed, or get out of our leases without penalty and find new housing (I am month-to-month btw). The letter DOES NOT state when construction is slated to begin. \n\nAt this point, I began looking for a new apartment in the area. I finally found an apartment and got my application approved today (10\/05), however my lease won't start until 10\/10 and I couldn't get a moving truck until 10\/11. I notified my landlord of this today (10\/05) via email, and he responded saying that construction would begin on Monday (10\/09). This is the first notice I have been given about a start date for construction. \n\nI looked through Seattle's \"Information for Tenants\" document and found a section on Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance (pg 7). This states that 90 days notice is required in the event of an activity that requires them to move.\nhttp:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/dpd\/cs\/groups\/pan\/@pan\/documents\/web_informational\/dpdd016420.pdf\n\nMy landlord also referenced provisions in my lease, which he says allows them to do this construction with this amount of notice and require me to vacate. I will post them below...\n\nPossession: In the event of the inability of the Landlord to deliver possession of the Premises at the time of commencement of the term of this Lease Agreement, Landlord shall not be liable for any damage caused thereby, nor shall this lease thereby become void or voidable or shall the term therein specified be in any way extended, but in such event, Tenant shall not be liable for any rent until such time as Landlord can deliver possession. Tenant shall deliver up possession of the Premises to Landlord at the end of his tenancy as provided herein. \n\nCasualty Loss: Should the Premises be totally destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by fire, lightening, earthquake, flood or any other casualty, this Lease Agreement shall be deemed to be terminated as of the date of such casualty. Should fire, lightning, earthquake, flood, windstorm, or any other casualty partially damage the Premises or the building in which the Premises are located, the Landlord may elect to terminate this Lease Agreement at his sole discretion. If Landlord elects to repair the damaged Premises, the rent shall be abated in the same ratio that such portion of the Premises is rendered for the time being unfit for occupancy, and not used or occupied by Tenant, shall bear to the whole unit. \n\nNow, in my opinion, neither of these sections apply to my scenario. Possession appears to only apply to my initial move in, not any time after my initial move in. I have lived here for over a year. The Casualty Loss section also does not seem to apply, as I was allowed to move back into my apartment by my landlord, which to me implies that this is not an uninhabitable apartment.\n\nSo my question is, does my landlord have a right to force my out of my apartment on 10\/09 after notifying me 10\/05? Does the \"Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance\" apply to my situation? Do the above sections from my lease allow my landlord to force me out?\n\nApologies if I did anything wrong here, I am not a redditor and was referred here by a friend. I tried following the guidelines as best I could. \n\nQuick info -\n- Currently month-to-month after a 1 year lease agreement\n- In the city of Seattle, WA\n- Have renters insurance\n- Vacated after flooding on 09\/14\n- Landlord allowed move-in on 09\/22\n- Landlord emailed letter stating month-long construction project on 09\/29\n- Landlord disclosed construction start date via email on 10\/05","title":"[Seattle, WA] Landlord gave notice 10\/5 that I need to vacate my apartment by 10\/09 for construction. Is this legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506522565,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72sm8g\/texas_is_mental_health_not_covered_by_time_spent\/","id":"72sm8g","body":"Update: so I spoke to HR, and they aren't honoring my time as a temp PERIOD. What do I do from here on out? \n\nSo... I've been dealing with some mental health issues, and it's gotten to the point to where I cannot function at work. My boss has complained multiple times, and I'm in danger of losing my job.\n\nMy doctor has recommended I take FMLA since the medication he's wanting to put me on takes at least 3 weeks to start working & it makes me physically sick. I've tried working on the medication, but had to quit as it made my performance even worse. \n\nHR called me this morning to tell me my FMLA request has been denied because I haven't been working here long enough. Combined with my time here as a temporary employee, I've been here for almost 2 years. That SHOULD count, but according to HR, that time doesn't count for my medical condition.\n\nHR said I qualify for non-medical leave, but my job won't be protected. \n\nIs that correct? It doesn't sound legal to me, but I'm not a lawyer \u30fd\uff08\u00b4\u30fc\uff40\uff09\u250c","title":"[Texas] Is mental health not covered by time spent as a temp under FMLA?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504735306,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yivax\/outrageous_moveout_charges_neglected_black_mold\/","id":"6yivax","body":"My wife & I just recently moved out of our apartment, for which we just received our move-out report. The report states that the carpet in our apartment needed to be completely replaced due to \"Excessive Wear,\" as well as the whole unit needing to be repainted. Neither needed to be done. We have pictures from move out day showing that there is no damage to the carpets or walls. Also, we lived in black mold for who-knows-how-long, which never got taken care of prior to us moving out. Looking at the reviews for where we lived, this is something that happens to almost everyone (charges). Just wanted to see if we have a case here if the property manager refuses to drop the outrageous fees bestowed upon us. Thanks!","title":"Outrageous Move-Out Charges & Neglected Black Mold [Pittsburgh, PA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503594776,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vsaxe\/florida_former_employer_wont_send_shipping_labels\/","id":"6vsaxe","body":"I worked remotely for my former employer and was given some monitors, a computer, cell, and such. Upon my leaving the company I boxed all the equipment up to be shipped back the them, but they didn't respond to my request to provide shipping labels for me to return the equipment.\n\nA few weeks ago, they e-mailed me asking for me to return the gear and I again asked for them to send shipping labels since I wasn't going to pay for the shipment. They told me they would email the labels to me shortly but never did, even after I asked again.\n\nSo my question is, how long do they have to provide me with a means to return their equipment before its consider abandoned? I'm not trying to dishonestly keep the gear but don't want to be storing the stuff forever or pay out of pocket to return their stuff.","title":"[Florida] Former employer won't send shipping labels to return their equipment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553029781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b32xf4\/my_boyfriend25m_is_threatening_me23f_to_take_my\/","id":"b32xf4","body":"A few months back I moved with him back to his home state. I left my family behind in bad terms because of our relationship. When I was pregnant he promised we would get married but never actually did. After we settled in he changed a lot and became abusive\/controlling. We have got into a few fights and in one of them I told him that I was planning on moving back with my parents because our relationship wasn't working out. He got so mad that he said he would take my daughter away. I'm really anxious and depressed because all of this. I don't want my daughter to lose his father but I'm also not happy at all in my position.  What can I do in my situation?","title":"My boyfriend[25M] is threatening me[23F] to take my 3yr daughter away if I try to leave him.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540306908,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qps3m\/questions_about_an_adult_being_in_a_relationship\/","id":"9qps3m","body":"Hey fellow redditor, first of all, i'm not in this situation. I'm 19 and i'm a bit confused, i'de like to understand more clearly what this is all about just in case. To me, an adult being with a minor is fine as long as everyone in the relationship and the parents of the minor are okay with it, is this true ?    Secondly, to me it is the same about having sex, if everyone is okay including the parents is it okay  ? In both of this case, i assume that people dont change their mind and take legal action against the adult afterward ofc.   \nI do live in France btw, are the law about this in FR and US different  ? ","title":"Questions about an adult being in a relationship with a minor","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552280010,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azp6o3\/canada_will_a_theft_under_18_be_on_my_record_now\/","id":"azp6o3","body":"Back in 2016 I was caught stealing condoms at a grocery store. However when the police showed up i was let go for. I didn't show up to court or anything and just carried on. \n\nHowever, the security that caught me mentioned something about this will show up on my record. I am not sure if I was found guilty or not? \n\nThe reason I am asking is because I have a job opportunity and they require a background check.\n\nThanks","title":"Canada - will a theft under 18 be on my record now that I am over 18?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441576273,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jwgin\/student_loan_consigning_and_divorce_need\/","id":"3jwgin","body":"My father is getting divorced and is unsure if legally he can cosign for a student loan for me for the semester. He wants to do so, the situation is the divorce decree isn't official yet, he hasn't signed any paperwork for it and I am working student taking online classes and will be able to pay him back\/pay off the loan in full before the first loan payment is due (it is only for 6,100 in total and is the only student loan I have and will need to take out). It's a private student loan, and I have taken into account the interest as well.\n\nHe and my mother own a house jointly as well, and we are from NY state if that helps, although they still live in NY, I currently live in Massachusetts. Also he is technically my step father, and my mother and I haven't spoken in close to a decade. I don't know if he not being my biological father changes anything legally speaking I assume not as I am in my late 20s. Just want to list the details in case any of it effects the legal situation. Any information on the legal situation here, whether he can cosign would be really helpful. Thanks.","title":"Student loan consigning and divorce, need information","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539978338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pn8qm\/nc_not_receiving_promised_raise_after_company\/","id":"9pn8qm","body":"North Carolina. The company I work for just went through a merger. I was to receive a significant raise. The former CEO had reassured me this was going to happen, however I never received anything in writing.  Now the new company is telling me that was never part of the agreement and since I have no proof I need to drop the subject. Now I know I screwed up by not getting it in writing. I also cannot quit because I'm working check to check. The former CEO is retired, and I'm finding out now I won't make anything near my promised income for several years. Is there anything at all that can be done?  \n\nJust to add, I know I pretty much have no recourse but it never hurts to ask ","title":"(NC) Not receiving promised raise after company merged.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571250894,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ditkr3\/how_to_get_at_fault_removed_from_insurance_company\/","id":"ditkr3","body":"Background: I\u2019m a 30 year old female US resident in the state of Georgia where the accident took place.  March 18,2014 I was rear ended while at a full stop.  The impact pushed me into and under the car in front of me.  The driver who hit me was ticketed as being 100% at fault, witnesses stated to the officer that I was easily 10+ ft from the vehicle in front of me at the time of impact so he said I was in compliance and was not following too closely and therefore had zero fault with the accident.\n\nIn June of 2019 while changing auto insurance companies we were informed by our new agent that my insurance company for the accident (State Farm) had me listed as an at fault party and had been making me pay increased premiums since the accident due to being at fault (I was told the increase was a \u201cnormal yearly increase\u201d at the time I first noticed them).  It now shows on my record that they have me listed as an at fault party.  \n\nHow do I get this removed?  Can I get this removed?  They have the incident report from the state patrol showing the only at fault driver was the one who hit me.  The lawyer who represented me for the case has been less than helpful.  \n\nThank you!","title":"How to get \u201cat fault\u201d removed from insurance company?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568910851,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6gkcb\/468_ticket_for_stealing_29_of_gas\/","id":"d6gkcb","body":"*URGENT HELP NEEDED* I need some legal advice on this situation I\u2019ve gotten in. The other day I was at the gas station and I used my card to get gas. The gas started filling at it hit $29. A man came out of the gas station and told me I had to pay inside because the system timed out. I didn\u2019t have enough money to pay for it at the time. I proceeded to call my dad but to no surprise no answer. I had no money and I thought I\u2019d get arrested if I came in the gas station. I waited there as I called in my car. I didn\u2019t know what to do and decided to stupidly drive away hoping everything would be okay since it was not that much money. The cop soon came to my house and threatened to give me a ticket. I told him I could call my dad so he can pay for the costs but he refused and still gave me a ticket. He suggested to go to court and that\u2019s why I\u2019m looking for advice on how to get the ticket dropped since it is theft. Someone please help, I really didn\u2019t mean to get into this mess. I would take it back if I could and pay even more than the gas costed. If anyone can give me advice on how to get the ticket dismissed, I\u2019d be really appreciated. :)","title":"$468 ticket for \u201cstealing\u201d $29 of gas","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504738335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yj64z\/on_canada_tenant_rights_in_uninhabitable_living\/","id":"6yj64z","body":"Came back from summer break to find my driveway flooded with water and leaking into the basement. Pipe burst under the driveway and leaked through the foundation into the basement. City had to come shut the water off for the house at the street to stop the leak. Been without water for over 24 hours now and counting. Significant water damage in the basement and a lot of black mold (all over the walls and floors where the moisture has been). Don't really want to be breathing that in. Waiting on the city to locate underground lines so they can start the dig, then after they fix the leak we can get water back and they can start basement repair. I feel that is both unsafe to be living in a house with this much mold and not liveable since without water we cannot shower, cook, clean, or use the washroom. Just wondering what my rights are and if we should be given alternate accommodations while this is being fixed?","title":"[ON, Canada] Tenant rights in uninhabitable living conditions","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553794186,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6lp0h\/going_to_get_a_paycut\/","id":"b6lp0h","body":"I work in New Jersey. I'm not under a contract or anything, all my raises were through word of mouth. Company is about to buy a new technology that will automate my job. Theyll likely keep me on for minor help here and there, but because the bulk of my job is being automated, I'm expecting them to try and give me a paycut since they could pay someone less to do the minor work. \n\n​\n\nMy question is: If I were to refuse a pay cut (my commute is too long, I cant justify the drive for less money), and if they then were to let me go, would I still be eligible for unemployment? Or would my refusal count as negligence\/misconduct and somehow cancel out my ability to collect?","title":"Going to get a paycut","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569803918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db3u0l\/moving_to_a_new_state_temporarily_as_a_student\/","id":"db3u0l","body":"I tagged this as traffic and parking because it pertains to auto affairs...\n\nAnyways, I\u2019ve moved to a new state (North Carolina) for school. I\u2019m working on a second bachelors degree and at most, I will be here for at least two years max. \n\nI was speeding on a desolate road on the way home from school on a weekday night (10:45pm). I was going about 15mph over the limit and there is no excuse for this. I accept fault! \n\nBut the officer who ticketed me also gave me a ticket for not having a vehicle registered in the state of NC. My drivers license is in the same state where my car is also registered. I moved here on the 20th of August and was given my ticket about two weeks ago. \n\nI\u2019m due in court on October 28th.\n\nI was told by two friends that because I\u2019m a student with temporary resident, I shouldn\u2019t have to register my car here. I also pay no bills or rent here, but in my home state. \n\nI\u2019m having a hard time finding resources for what I can and can\u2019t do in relation to this predicament as well as the fact I have no where near enough money at this time to register my car here. \n\nIf anyone has any advice or idea for what I should do, feel free to comment to DM me. Even send resources because I\u2019m having a hard time finding anything relating to students. \n\nThank you!","title":"Moving to a new state temporarily as a student and auto registration\/licensing...am I required to get a new drivers license and re-register my car?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444173598,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nrs4t\/can_stay_at_home_dad_with_no_income_common_law\/","id":"3nrs4t","body":"I'll try to keep it somewhat succinct. \n\nI am in a common law marriage of approximately 4 years. I have a son with her(2.5) and she has twin daughters (8), from a previous relationship, with whom we share custody with their father. My primary role in the relationship is that of \"stay at home dad\". She is the sole income earner for the family.\n\nWe have recently hit a, seemingly annual, \"rough spot\". Just today she has drained our shared bank account, locked me out of her \"personal\" account with the funds, and left nearly $2000 on the Visa in my name (used for nearly ALL daily expenses and monthly bills).\n\nShe has started looking at new homes and has informed me, \"I will be leaving, with the children, and you will have nothing. Good luck.\"\n\nI have contacted a couple of \"emergency distress\" lines that have given me the number of a couple legal advice help lines. They, however, do not open until the morning.\n\nI'm a little stressed and just curious what advice\/resources this subreddit might be able to offer up in the meantime. Thanks.","title":"[CAN] - Stay at home dad, with no income; Common law wife is \"going to leave me with nothing\"","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445152937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p7ds8\/nevada_tax_write_off\/","id":"3p7ds8","body":"If I bought a domain for the purpose of my business, but I haven't incorporated or filed for a business license yet, can I still write off the expense after I incorporate?\n\nThank you","title":"(Nevada) Tax Write Off","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555203650,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcxirz\/girl_who_took_over_my_lease_is_trying_to_scare_me\/","id":"bcxirz","body":"About 6 months ago a girl took over my lease and only has 5 months of it left. We had agreed through text that I would pay her $140 a month if she gave me a written contract to sign for taking over my lease. However we later decided on move day and in person that I would pay that amount for half of the lease and then she could keep my brand new fridge\/freezer, a designer cookware set, and a toaster and we would call it even for the other half of the lease and that no written contract was needed (so I never signed anything and she never produced a contract). \n\nWell now we\u2019re at the point where she has 5 months left and she\u2019s trying to act like we never made that agreement and says I owe her another $550 after I\u2019ve already paid her my half of the agreement. She even started posting on my social media threatening me and trying to slander me saying I owe her. She\u2019s threatening to go to the police on Monday if I don\u2019t give her the cash and tell them that I frauded her into taking over my lease. \n\nI want to add that she completely 100% took over my lease. She is not subleasing. She signed a contract with my landlord stating the lease is now her responsibility 100% and removed my name completely from it. \n\nWhat are my legal defenses here? I\u2019m sure she still has all of my things and I\u2019m pissed that she would do this. \n\nHelp?","title":"Girl who took over my lease is trying to scare me into paying her more money than we agreed on. What are my defenses? (FL)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503465104,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vgu4q\/ca_if_it_applies_can_a_website_change_its_terms\/","id":"6vgu4q","body":"I'm ashamed as I'm usually very spam\/scam savvy, but I attempted to buy a 'refurbished' PS4 online, only to then find out after a $69.99 'buy it now' fee, you must accrue 300 points via surveys, activities, and oddly enough writing multi-page articles on topics. I emailed service as there was a refund clause of their terms of service stating something like 'within 60 days you can get a refund via an Amazon card', but they've replied basically saying 'check again fucko' and now it says that there is no refund and we can change the terms at any time. Did I get robbed, and can I report to the BBB?\n\nEdit 1: Just reported to my Bank, they're taking it to investigation","title":"[Ca, if it applies] Can a website change its terms of service without notice and steal?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553889103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b71u4c\/seattle_wa_a_landlord_has_indicated_she_does_not\/","id":"b71u4c","body":"Hello,\n\nIn February 2018 I leased an apartment in Seattle. I met with the landlord (lets call her Rebecca) to tour the unit. Rebecca and I were exchanging pleasantries and she asked what I do for work. I told her I work in property management, to which she replied sharply \"Oh ... well we don't typically rent to people in property management. Or lawyers.\" Later, when meeting with her to sign the lease, I noticed in the terms that the lease was not renewable - it was a fixed-term, one year lease. When asked why that is, she told me that they would be happy to send me a new lease \"if we like you\". I tell you this to illustrate the fact that Rebecca is already a walking, talking Fair Housing violation. \n\n​\n\nI probably should have walked away from the place after all the weird remarks and behavior, but I really liked the apartment so I went ahead with the lease. I stayed at this apartment until the end of February 2019 when she offered me a \"new lease\" at a 15% higher rate 12 days before my lease expired (which is technically legal because my leased was not being \"renewed\" technically). I declined the offer. My tenancy was fine; I was not late on rent even a single time and never received any formal lease violation (i.e, 10 day) notices.\n\n​\n\nI am staying with a friend now while I look for a new apartment. I inquired about an apartment near my last one I found on Craigslist. I received a response shortly thereafter from - you guessed it - Rebecca. She said:\n\n​\n\n \n\n>\/u\/Corndog, this is Rebecca your previous apartment manager.\u00a0 I don't know that we would be a good fit for you. \u00a0  \n>  \n>We don't allow music instruments or mopeds here either.  \n>  \n>It is an ancient building that echoes with every little sound.\n\n​\n\nSo, to summarize: I meet all the rental criteria she listed on the ad. I've lived at another community of her's and by all accounts was a good tenant.  I never received any complaints about my bass guitar that I play plugged into headphones, and I parked (and would continue to park) my moped on the public street. \n\n​\n\nI am inclined to file a report of violation of Fair Housing with the city - but some feedback or general advice would be very much appreciated.\n\n​","title":"[Seattle, WA] A landlord has indicated she does not want to rent to me, presumably for personal reasons. Is she violating Fair Housing law?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568757454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5nx6l\/private_company_in_final_stages_of_being_acquired\/","id":"d5nx6l","body":"I am a salaried employee at a new place of work. The company I interviewed for was acquired by a large corporation with the deal being finalized a week before my start date. They are a privately held company. At no point in the interview or in any part of my offer did the indicate they were in the process of being acquired. The compensation package contingent to the job offer is now likely different. Different health insurance, profit-sharing bonus stated as part of compensation likely eliminated. The VP of my department has been let go and the new management has a history of layoffs and has terrible employee ratings on Glassdoor.\nBasically my job security now feels more tenuous and the conditions upon which my offer were made were changed on me unwittingly. Do I have any sort of protection here, especially in regards to if I were to be let go, I have almost no time served so severance would be minimal. \n\nPlease pm for more details if helpful; throwaway for privacy reasons.","title":"Private Company in final stages of being acquired, didn\u2019t disclose in at any point in the interview or offer process. Any recourse","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539499495,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o0tbl\/i_was_looted_during_florence\/","id":"9o0tbl","body":"I was robbed over a month month ago, they stole everything we had. They took all of our game systems and everything else we owned of value. Our insurance claim was 7800 dollars. One of the things that they stole was our Xbox one. Microsoft said that they could provide the IP address of the criminal and the detective tole me it can take a month to pull the warrant just to get the IP address. Then I would need an additional warrant to search... how is this possible!?! I can\u2019t help but feel like they just don\u2019t want to investigate this case... is it true it will take a month to pull one warrant!?!?!? Please help... ","title":"I was looted during Florence","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541817243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vqrri\/employees_not_allowed_to_shop_where_they_work\/","id":"9vqrri","body":"Not sure if this is the right place for this, but it can't hurt. Long story short my wife works at Goodwill in Florida. She has worked for Goodwill for a few years now, in 3 different states starting while I was still in the Marine Corps. Now we're out, living in Florida, where she transferred to one of the stores in the region. \nThe location where she works now, as well as the other Goodwill stores in the region,  forbid the employees from shopping at their own stores, even during off hours. I was just curious is this legal? Seems to me, if someone worked at Walmart near their home and they were told they couldn't buy groceries from that Walmart it would be a problem. ","title":"Employees not allowed to shop where they work, even after shift,","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570603877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfdb1k\/signed_a_contract_without_being_fully_aware_of\/","id":"dfdb1k","body":"I think by the rules it states I\u2019m not allowed to say where I did this but basically I found a website that\u2019s supposed to help you get your money back for a canceled flight, all you had to do was create an account to see if you\u2019re eligible. \n\nWhen creating the account I gave them my email, box number and signature to state that the flight information I will be giving them is legit and that I agree with the terms. From what I read of the terms I didn\u2019t notice anything sketchy - especially not anything that would say \u201chey if you cancel your account with us we\u2019ll charge you a $100 cancellation fee for every month that passes by\u201d \n\nSo anyways I sign up for this account and enter in my flight info and they say I\u2019m eligible for a refund only if I\u2019m a European citizen or it\u2019s a European flight (I forget if they stated both or if it was only if it were a European flight) \n\nSo seeing I\u2019m in Canada I just go \u201coh never mind\u201d and close the window completely forgetting about it \n\nThe last few months however (this happened in July) they send me automated emails saying \u201cWe still need your scanned flight documents if you want your money back from canceled flight\u201d and seeing as they weren\u2019t dying down I just went over and canceled my account with them no big deal - until they send me one last email of an invoice of \u00a3300 for essentially cancelling and wasting their time and if I don\u2019t pay it it\u2019s an additional \u00a3100 each month on top of it. \n\nI look into their terms and all I can see is it basically says I have 14 days to cancel only before they get to charge me money for wasting their time. \n\nI don\u2019t know who to go to about this. This company is only located in England and I\u2019m in Canada - what is the worse that can happen in this situation? Can I ask advice from the police? Is there a place to go or do I need a lawyer? Thanks","title":"Signed a contract without being fully aware of its terms and am now being charged $500 along with an additional $100 a month if I don\u2019t pay.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540154165,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q6xc3\/my_mom_wants_to_evict_my_brother_27\/","id":"9q6xc3","body":"My brother is 27 years old and has been living with my mom rent free since January of this year. He relapsed on drugs in December and lost his job and moved back in with her and since then gotten clean, got a job, and overall is doing better. She asked him to start paying rent ($300) and he refused and said you'll have to kick me out. How would she begin the process of eviction? He also claimed he has \"squatting rights\" and that she couldn't evict him. Is there any accuracy to this statement? Is there any reason she couldn't evict him even if she went about the process correctly? (United States)","title":"My mom wants to evict my brother (27)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446607825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rg2zm\/seattle_wa_can_my_apartment_complex_really_just\/","id":"3rg2zm","body":"I received the following note:\n\n\"In accordance with RCW 59.18.140, you are hereby notified that your Rental Agreement is modified, or a new rule is being implemented as follows: [Apartment complex] will be charging each unit a flat rate of $40 per adult for the utilities of water\/sewer\/trash, replacing [current metered system]. The new policy is effective December 1st 2015.\"\n\nI looked into RCW 59.18.140, and it seems to only apply at the end of the lease term (my lease ends in 9 months) or upon mutual agreement, but I did not agree to this. I conserve water, and my previous water\/sewer\/trash bill was lower than the new flat rate. I asked the manager of the complex, and she said that they are getting rid of the old meters, and just charging a flat rate per person so they can meter the entire complex as a whole...\n\nCan they do this? If so, why? If not, how can I fight back given that they \"can't\" meter my specific apartment anymore since they're getting rid of the old meters?","title":"[Seattle, WA] Can my apartment complex really just change my utility charges like this?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553626534,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5tnix\/nyusa_terminated_for_reporting_that_my_manager\/","id":"b5tnix","body":"What should I do to make sure I can get back at least what I\u2019m sure I\u2019m owed? It\u2019s a bit over $1,000, and for as much as I probably need a lawyer, I\u2019m not sure I can afford one out here, especially over what\u2019s chumpchange to them.","title":"(NY\/USA) Terminated for reporting that my manager was stealing from the employee tips, and that (at least) my paychecks were short, though other employees had told me theirs were, too","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570035262,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dccyer\/il_exlandlord_wants_me_to_pay_for_entire\/","id":"dccyer","body":"My boyfriend and I just left Chicago, Illinois where we lived in an individually owned condo for a year. It was an alright place to live, a little run down from the previous tenant (really bad stains on the floor in certain areas from water damage, etc.) We left as soon as our lease ended to move back to Florida due to not being able to afford the expenses (surprise, Chicago is expensive) but we had always paid rent on time, and we informed our landlord that the professional cleaning he had asked for when we left the apartment could come out of our security deposit, as well as two other small damages (a closet door that fell down, and a stain on some of the wood flooring that wouldn\u2019t come out). He agreed. \n\nA few days ago, we reached out asking if there would be any money left from the deposit - as it had been almost a month and we hadn\u2019t heard a word from him. He replied, and to our utter disbelief let us know that in addition to the damages we mentioned he was going to have to:\n- repaste and repaint the entire apartment due to holes in the walls (he included a picture of holes we had never seen before)\n- refloor the entire wooden flooring section of the apartment (to the tune of about a thousand dollars)\n\nHe let us know we would have to pay these costs above and beyond the very hefty security deposit we already paid. Immediately we both felt like we were being taken advantage of. He didn\u2019t provide quotes from a specific company, or proof of the pricing. Like I mentioned, we have videos and pictures of the apartment that definitely don\u2019t show it being damaged to the extent he\u2019s claiming.\n\nWe have reached out to a housing lawyer but haven\u2019t found anyone who can see us in the timeframe we need yet.\n\nIt may also be relevant that when we moved in our security deposit was double what the original listing asked for because my boyfriend was unemployed.\n\nShould we reply? If so, what should we ask for\/say? Is it inappropriate to say we are involving a lawyer? TIA.","title":"(IL) Ex-landlord wants me to pay for entire renovation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554697047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bap9y5\/mom_getting_divorced_in_california_and_buying_a\/","id":"bap9y5","body":"So my mom and dad are getting divorced and currently live in California. My dad refinanced their house in his name only and is giving my mom her part of the house. She wants to buy a house in Oregon and is concerned that my dad may try to take her house or part of it because they aren\u2019t officially divorced yet (will be legally separated in June and divorced in September). Does my mom have anything to worry about or should she wait until the divorce is final to buy her house?","title":"Mom getting divorced in California and buying a house in Oregon before divorce is final, will this be a problem for my mom?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541438861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ufim8\/customer_refusingignoring_my_requests_to_pay_me\/","id":"9ufim8","body":"Hey everyone,\n\nI\u2019m a college age male and over the summers during both high school and college I ran my own yard care service. It was a one man job where I did everything myself. Then, when I left mid August for college again I had a friend take over for me and I subcontracted him to take over all my customers included her. \n\nI have a customer that I have done work for for three years and this summer I was recently hired by them again. They have always been good for payment without issue. I usually charged people every month or two months for service costs. I had never had an issue with her paying in the past and figured she would pay at the end of the season as I\u2019ve had other customers offer that. \n\nWell, it is beyond the end of the season now and I haven\u2019t been paid once and she owes me a total of $550. I have a spreadsheet of dates that I\u2019ve mowed\/performed services for everyone I worked for this summer including her and I\u2019ve also tracked whether I\u2019ve been paid by them or not, this includes all services for her. I am wondering how long the payment must be over due by before I can take her to court. So far it is at least two months. I have tried multiple times and multiple ways to get in touch with her, this includes calls, voicemails, emails, texts and over Facebook and I haven\u2019t heard a thing back in two months. \n\nWhat would my best course of action be regarding this situation? Is my spreadsheet of services performed evidence enough that she owes me? What court would this go to?\n\nFor reference as well, I live in the state of Minnesota. \n\nPlease let me know what I should do, thank you! ","title":"Customer refusing\/ignoring my requests to pay me for services.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1550266939,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ar1ncc\/employer_withheld_entire_paycheck_without_put_me\/","id":"ar1ncc","body":"This is my first post in this sub reddit, but in light of recent events I\u2019m no longer a lurker.\n\nI recently worked for a Virtual Reality arcade, mind you this is a minimum wage job. \n\nI want to explain this situation in full, so you can see if I\u2019m liable for this. I worked a shift last Saturday, my boss called me about 15 mins before I worked to let me know a whole party was waiting for me... over 20+ people. I told him I was on my way and that I\u2019d arrive by 12:00. \n\nShortly after I pulled into work, so did my co-worker (owners son)\n\nI went to the front door to unlock it and my key was no where to be found on my key ring... so I frantically searched everywhere and couldn\u2019t find it. I apologized profusely to the customers and told them I\u2019m doing everything I can do to fix the situation.\n\nI eventually got a hold of another co-worker who had a key and they came and unlocked it.\n\nIt was about 12:35 when the doors were opened and it took me about 5 minutes to turn everything on and what not.\n\nAfter everything was said and done, the party had a great time and I tried to make their experience great. My boss had mentioned that he didn\u2019t tell the customer a station was broken beforehand, yet charged them full price. He offered me to let them know about the comp (I didn\u2019t) I went and fixed the broken station and then offered the customer the suggested comp for getting started later (I even added time to their slots at that moment) I had the customer sign a sheet when they agreed to the suggested comp, so I thought all was well.\n\nA few days later I\u2019m assigned to another shift, I had a high grade fever and was asking co-workers on our conversation app called Sling? No one would help me so I told him I can\u2019t work and that I needed to quit the job because of other reasons. He said to put up a sign saying inclement weather, I did.\n\nNow today, I wake up to a text saying he\u2019s taking almost 500 dollars from me because I have to pay half of the time for customer comp which is like 275 dollars PLUS 4 hours of VR time which is about 150 value...\n\nNow the customer and I had already agreed and talked about this... 50 dollars and 2 hours VR time.\nHe was being very nasty to me and harassing me when I called him asking him why I\u2019m paying out money for a compensation when I never agreed to it.\n\nWhat do I do? Am I actually liable for something HE told them ?\n\n\nHowever, I woke up today from a text from my boss stating that","title":"Employer withheld entire paycheck without put me agreeing, is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571264863,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diwytq\/landlord_giving_me_the_runaround_on_installing\/","id":"diwytq","body":"I live in Texas, and as many of you know, it gets really hot here. My last electric bill was over $500 in the new house I'm renting (which is more than double than I've ever paid anywhere else), so I asked the landlord to send someone over to inspect the AC as the house stays in the mid to upper seventies constantly, causing the AC to run nonstop hence the enormous bill. The AC guy said our unit is fine but the house needs insulation. We notified the realtor who notified the landlord and they told us to contact a guy about it. We have done so several times with no response, and when we ask the realtor about it, they're incapable of doing anything apparently.\n\nI've read about there being scenarios where the landlord has x number of days to fix x otherwise the tenant can hire someone to do it at the landlord's expense. Is this one of those scenarios? Is there anything I can do to get this resolved? Thanks.","title":"Landlord giving me the runaround on installing insulation.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504738392,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yj6e6\/is_a_scanned_signature_on_a_loan_agreement_legal\/","id":"6yj6e6","body":"I am planning on lending an ex roommate money to pay off an outstandingly balance so we can avoid eviction. He lives in Indiana and I live in Illinois and it needs to be paid next week. I cannot send it this week as the details have not been finalized. The contract would be under Indiana state laws.\n\nSince I need it signed in a hurry, I am planning on him signing the loan agreement, scanning it, and then emailing it to me so that I can sign it. Is this a valid signature? ","title":"Is a scanned signature on a loan agreement legal?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569126231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7loc9\/not_sure_what_happened_to_my_car\/","id":"d7loc9","body":"This morning when I was about to load my trunk for a trip to see my parents I noticed an odd medium crack on the top of my rear bumper and a small dent on the front of the trunk, right in the middle. There are no scratches\/marks whatsoever. I always back into spots so I never get to see the back of my car, and when I don\u2019t they are diagonal parking, and it\u2019s not something you\u2019d notice at first sight in the first place because of the odd location. \n\nLast time I remember opening my trunk was about 2-3 weeks ago so anything could have happened within this period, I don\u2019t remember bumping into anything because I have a rearview camera and my car also usually beeps if I approach something too closely. I don\u2019t think anyone could have rear ended me in such a clean way without me feeling it, but I also don\u2019t know if someone hit me while my car was parked and I just never saw it, there are literally no scratches or paint missing on my car. \n\nThe damage is relatively minor, but should I file with my insurance or pay out of pocket? It seems like the cost of repair would be way cheaper than my deductible anyway, but I\u2019m not sure if it still needs to be reported for insurance reasons as I\u2019m not very familiar with all that.","title":"Not sure what happened to my car?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505629633,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70m039\/ca_probation_ended_last_monday_what_happens_next\/","id":"70m039","body":"I was placed on felony formal probation for 5 years and it just ended last Monday, is there anything I need to do next? The only time I've met my PO was when I initially started, after that I just had to call in monthly to an automated phone service. I've called the probation office twice and left messages but never got a call back. ","title":"[CA] Probation ended last Monday, what happens next, is there anything I need to do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554245027,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8q2t8\/what_can_i_expect_from_my_theft_conviction\/","id":"b8q2t8","body":"Hi, I live in Oregon and I was convicted of a 2nd degree theft charge. It\u2019s against my moral compass and I\u2019m absolutely embarrassed that it happened, but it happened at my place of work over the period of a couple days when I was completely short on money. \nThe total amount of property stolen is around $150 worth of merchandise, and as I just turned 18 the officer I was apprehended by said that I would qualify for the Diversion program to have it removed from my record. \nWhat can I expect on the court date (4\/25), what kind of money am I looking to be out, I\u2019m already paying the company a promissory note, and what do I need to do to ensure I don\u2019t go to jail? Please help me Reddit, I have nobody else to go to. ","title":"What can I expect from my Theft conviction?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553823110,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6rath\/are_there_limitations_to_how_long_a_written\/","id":"b6rath","body":"My landlord left a message on the 6th of February saying there would be sanitation inspections on the 28th of February. The notice stated that any issues would have 7 days to be corrected or else a $75 and possible eviction could occur. \n\nWe cleaned up the apartment,  but come the 28th... nothing. No sign they had inspected. No notice. Nothing. We just moved on. \nIn March, we started going through our things and donating lots of stuff we don't need anymore. Because of this, a lot is in bins and looks quite messy. \n\nToday, March 28th, we got a notice that, including some troubling stuff about our pets (they claimed we haven't paid a deposit, when we have for both cats), they also did a sanitation inspection today without sending another notice. They also didn't list any specific issues or grievances to correct. \n","title":"Are there limitations to how long a written notice is valid?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447389544,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3smkfn\/timmons_ontario_joint_bank_accounts_and\/","id":"3smkfn","body":"Hi,\n\nWe live in Timmins, Ontario in Canada. My Dad moved in my eldest Brother, who is also his Power of Attorney, a couple of years ago. In my Dad's testament it says that his property will be divided between me and my two brothers essentially 33\/33\/33.\n\nWe recently found out that most of my Dad's money is in my is actually in a joint Bank account that he shares with my eldest brother and my eldest brother has survivorship of the account. The same is true of some of the money my dad has in investments.\n\nMy question is, will this be part of my fathers property that gets divided evenly? Or will all this go to my eldest brother and whatever is left will be divided 33\/33\/33?","title":"[Timmons, Ontario] Joint Bank Accounts and Inheritance","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1504955937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z16mg\/someone_rear_ended_me_the_damage_wasnt_bad_so_i\/","id":"6z16mg","body":"In NY.\n\nSomeone rear ended me on parkway. The damage was not bad but with my car even a tap can get to 4 figures of repair. \n\nInstead of running it through insurance I got a picture of his license and his insurance card. I said I would get estimate and we don't need to put it through insurance. No police report.\n\nI got the estimate emailed it to him and now he is MIA. Thoughts?","title":"Someone rear ended me. The damage wasn't bad so I let them go with a picture of their license and their insurance card and a promise to pay for it. I got the estimate and they are MIA.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554303727,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8z2ot\/have_been_billed_2400_council_tax_as_i_dropped\/","id":"b8z2ot","body":"I am currently on holiday with my family and I get an email from my housing agent demanding I pay a bill of \u00a3888 plus another \u00a31480 or I go to court. Probably more to come too, I live in a 7 man house paying \u00a34000 a year all Bill's included.\n\nI have lived in a student house of 7 people for 2 years now. I dropped out of university after 1 year and started working as an apprentice full time. We are using a student housing agency and I presumed that it was fine since I was still studying as an apprentice. \n\nFast forward to now. Apparently because all my housemates are students, I have to pay council tax for the whole building by myself. A seven man house in the city centre! That is why the bill is so high.\n\nIn my contract it does state that I would have to pay council tax if it comes to it, but I had no idea what I was signing for! \n\nMy family informed me that I can go into the council and apply for discounts. Since I am earning apprentice wage (16k) and all my housemates don't pay council tax. But I am on holiday and my housing agents have said the council will take it straight to court. I have received no bills until now, no warning at all. \n\nDo I have to pay this? \nWhat amount should I be looking to settle for?\nCan I deal with this when I get home? \n\nI seriously need help, thank you to any soul that contributes <3","title":"Have been billed \u00a32400 council tax as I dropped out of university last September. No warning.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446135014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qpwir\/questions_about_do_not_rescuscitate_order_nyma\/","id":"3qpwir","body":"Edit: Whoops; typo in title.\n\nHello,\n\nI am currently living in New York, in the process of switching over residency. My permanent address is in New York state, but I still hold a MA driver's license, which will be switched over within the next month. Not sure if that affects anything, but I felt it was worth noting. \n\nSomeone I knew in passing today lost their life due to injuries sustained in an accident recently. It is a very sad situation for everyone who knew this person, but it appears that their family made a decision to abide by their wishes to pass peacefully. It has made me think about what I would want in that situation, and what I would want my friends and family to do for me.\n\nI have thought in passing; and told one of my best friends; that if I was ever in an accident or had an illness where I was unable to make my own decisions, and there was no hope for recovery, that I would not want to remain on life support. Reading this news today has made me realize I need a concrete plan in place, so that my wishes are met, and that my family and friends are not caught in limbo on what to do.\n\nMy questions are:\n\n- Do I need to meet with a lawyer to draft a DNR order?\n- If yes: how do you recommend I do so?\n- If no: how can I draft up my own DNR order, and how do I get it distributed to where it needs to go?\n- Do I need to list a power of attorney? Can I have more than one?\n- How would you recommend I draft this document? Outline all of my wishes for healthcare (ex: if I am brain dead\/in a coma\/unable to breathe on my own for x amount of time\/ect, please do this).\n- I have also listed, on my retirement accounts, where my monies from those accounts should be distributed, should I pass away before I can claim them. Should I also draft up documents for my checking and savings accounts, and the few assets I currently have, like my car? Should I create a will with an attorney?\n\nThank you so much for your help.","title":"Questions about Do Not Rescuscitate order [NY\/MA]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568689390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5b42r\/can_apartment_complexes_confirm_the_residency_of\/","id":"d5b42r","body":"Hi all, this is my first time posting here so apologies if this breaks any rules or if it\u2019s a dumb question.\n\nI\u2019m trying to send a birthday card to my friend in a different state (she\u2019s in CA). I have an address for her from last year, but I\u2019m not sure if she\u2019s moved apartment complexes since then. I do know for sure that she\u2019s in the same city, and I even searched the white pages online but only found an address in her old state. I don\u2019t want to ask her if she has moved, because that would ruin the surprise!\n\nI googled the address I do have for her and found a phone number for the complex. My question is, if I call them to ask if she still lives there, are they allowed to tell me? I have a feeling that they aren\u2019t, but I figured it was worth a shot to ask here in case. Otherwise is there any other option aside from me just sending it into the void? Thanks!","title":"Can apartment complexes confirm the residency of specific tenants?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553910438,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b75nk9\/tow_truck_scam\/","id":"b75nk9","body":"I accidentally parked in a tow trap. When I came back to my car the tow guy was in my car with a crowbar and my car was alarming. I don\u2019t know if a tow guy needs to be in the car to tow it but if not, what can I do about it?","title":"Tow truck scam.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571169045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/didbnr\/landlord_entered_illegally_ontario_canada\/","id":"didbnr","body":"So me and my husband are currently moving out of our apartment, but we aren't spending the night there as we have zero furniture still left in the place other than our ottoman. Today he went over to do some cleaning and packing of small things that we forgot\/didn't have the time to grab while we were moving furniture. He was there last night and forgot to lock in he deadbolt when he left, and when he went back today it was deadbolted and someone had clearly been there (lights left on, things knocked over and stuff made slightly messy). We know it was our landlords or someone they employ because they'd need master key to lock the deadbolt.","title":"Landlord entered illegally (Ontario, Canada)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540743258,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s4bsp\/my_manager_is_saying_that_they_are_going_to_take\/","id":"9s4bsp","body":"So I work for a popular fast food chain and we are pretty much busy 24\/7. Recently the registers have been short 50-70 dollars for the past week or so. Since we cant find out who is doing it my manager said they'll have to take money out of all of the managers checks to make up for the money that was short. Im pretty sure that is illegal, but i want to make sure. ","title":"My manager is saying that they are going to take money out of all managers checks because someone is stealing from the store.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553862937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6wpth\/do_telephone_recording_laws_apply_to_video_chat\/","id":"b6wpth","body":"I know in some states you need to get permission from the other party to record a phone call.  Does the same thing apply to a video chat on the computer?  Thanks!","title":"Do telephone recording laws apply to video chat?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539127182,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mu5st\/apartment_heating_i_have_no_control_over_the\/","id":"9mu5st","body":"So I live in, what I've now discovered is, a not so great apartment building. Besides the neighbours (who I can go on about, also may need legal help with that if it continues) the landlords are sneaky and just generally pieces of shit.\n\n​\n\nThe place is run down and I'm pretty  sure a water pipe burst once a month. As well, fire alarms are constantly short circuiting and in the 7 months I've lived here, there have been (monthly testing aside) 5 fire alarms going off and no fire. Each time the fire trucks come and each time I ask why. The landlord went so far as to say if you don't see a fire truck, don't bother leaving your apartment because it means they noticed the short circuit and called ahead. That is a massive safety risk that they shouldn't be suggesting we take. Not only that, my windows face the back of the building so I wouldn't be able to see the trucks anyway but I digress, this was to paint a picture of the shit hole I live in.\n\n​\n\nMy main concern right now is the heat. It's currently October 9 in Ontario Canada and today was 25 degrees Celsius outside. There is a law in Ontario that states\n\n\"*A landlord shall provide heat to a dwelling unit that is rented or leased and that is normally heated at the landlord's expense so that a minimum air temperature of 21 degrees Celsius is maintained in all areas of the dwelling unit from the 15th day of September in each year to the 1st day of June in the following year*\"\n\nThat being said, when I arrived home from work today at 3:00pm (it was still around 25-26 degrees out) I walked into my apartment and actually lost my breath. It was boiling in there. I left the windows open all day but the thermostat still stated it was 28 and rising to 29 very soon. I went to check the register and it was hot, still pumping out heat. I have no way of turning this off either. It was more than uncomfortable and my girlfriend, who had been home most of the day, was showing signs of mild heat stroke (I'm no stranger having spent many summers working construction sites). I got her a bunch of water and took her for a drive to cool her off and she started feeling better. When I got back, I went to make a sandwich for work tomorrow and the fresh baked ciabatta buns I bought on October 8 had mold on them and were warm to touch.\n\n​\n\nBasically my question is, given the heat has now impacted my life to the point my girlfriend was, stretching it a bit but, injured and I had to purchase more food, is there anything I can do to make them turn the heat off or at least down? I mean for Christ sake, the minimum is 21, why was the heat on when it was already 28 in my room? I should also mention I have spoken with the front office about this, and they quite literally shrugged and stated they couldn't do anything because of the law. They didn't seem to listen\/care about the part where it was almost 30 degrees and my girlfriend had heat stroke.\n\n​\n\nAny help at all would be hugely appreciated. I'd add my neighbour issues here but this post is long enough. Thank you for reading and any advice you have to share!","title":"Apartment Heating - I have no control over the temperature (Canada)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408742314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ebaqx\/advice_needed_what_to_do_about_an_absent_parent\/","id":"2ebaqx","body":"I have a child, who is 11. Their father has not seen this child since July 2013 and has not paid child support since February of this year. This is a pattern he has always had, he sees the child maybe once a year and currently owes me thousands in arrears. He also cannot hold a regular job, which is part of the reason he is not currently paying child support. He is court ordered to provide insurance for our child and has not done so since he was fired from his job about three years ago. His court ordered visitations are every other week Fri-Sun. \n\nMy husband and I are wanting to move out of state within the next couple of years, but from what I understand in New York State you need either permission from the other parent, or permission from New York State to move out of state or it could be considered kidnapping. In order to get permission from the state you have to provide proof of where you will be working, living, who you will be living with, and what type of area it is. Which sounds like a huge pain in the butt.\n\nFirst of all, is this even true? I've tried to research this on my own and, for some reason, I can only find laws that apply to New York City area, which is not where I live. \n\nSecondly, my husband has wanted me to look into whether or not the absent father's rights can be terminated by taking him to court?\n\nThank you in advance!","title":"Advice needed, what to do about an absent parent in NY?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507008653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73ygot\/california_managers_love_to_give_allotted_10\/","id":"73ygot","body":"Gotta love fast-food McMinimum wage McJobs, yeah? If that gives you a McIdea of where I work. \n\nTitle explains most, but a lot of the time, certain managers will give us our two 10 minute breaks during the last hour of an 8hr shift. The 30min break comes about 3 hours in. My boss and GM seem to either agree with it or not give a damn and I\u2019m afraid of unfair treatment or negative social backlash if I speak up (a few managers are my friends who got promoted). \n\nAm I right in being upset about this? If well-documented, can I take this over my boss\u2019 heads?\n\nEdit: Yes, whistleblowers are protected, but that doesn\u2019t mean my hours won\u2019t disappear because of my \u201cperformance as of late\u201d\n\nEdit: The crux of my issue is: I\u2019d like to do something about it, but is it worth it to start gathering punch receipts and going to the DLSE? Do I stand to gain anything?","title":"[California] Managers love to give allotted 10 minute breaks in the final hour","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552694913,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1m5ia\/ny_mother_of_child_moved_to_another_state_before\/","id":"b1m5ia","body":"Title pretty much says it all, but I\u2019m beginning the court process and I\u2019m wondering if it\u2019s going to be possible to request she be responsible for transporting my child back and forth for visitation. It seems usually it\u2019s up to the parent getting visitation but do these circumstances change things? ","title":"[NY] Mother of child moved to another state before I knew about the child. Can I request she be responsible for transportation?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569869197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbg6o8\/oregon_usa_employer_reducing_my_annual_raise\/","id":"dbg6o8","body":"Posting this in a throwaway due to potentially identifying information.\n\nMy employer rolled out a new automated grading system for employee performance factors including attendance, attitude, safety and general competency. I was not notified of this system until a couple weeks ago. While I scored very highly on most of these factors for this year's performance evaluation, I scored poorly on the \"safety\" aspect because I supposedly \"get injured a lot,\" bringing my overall score and therefore raise for next year down.\n\nThis year I sustained a cut requiring stitches as a direct result of following standard operating procedures. Not getting into too much detail because my case is very specific, but I commented several times that the procedure was \"an accident waiting to happen\" (it involved employees being required to place leverage over a sharp blade without protection, with the fulcrum being susceptible to collapsing, and in my case the fulcrum collapsed and injured me). If it helps I was covered under workman's comp, and new safety precautions were enacted because of this.\n\nIn addition, we are required to report any injury that results in blood being drawn, even if it's a nick or papercut so small you can't even see or feel it. The idea is that we want to decontaminate product that may have come in contact with bodily fluids (and be covered if the injury does get infected), and I'm 100% onboard with that. I work in manufacturing and build hundreds of tools a week containing sharp components with only thin, abrasion-resistant fingerless gloves for protection, so of course nicks happen from time to time even though I am very careful. Wanting to be a good employee, I reported all three times I got tiny nicks this last year, emphasizing on my reports that the injuries were extremely minor and probably didn't even require first aid beyond washing with soap and water.\n\nMy employer states that this \"shows a pattern of behavior indicating careless hand placement,\" and therefore has decided that I'm unsafe. However, my coworkers often mention getting nicked and continuing working, because they don't think their injury is severe enough to warrant a report and fear that taking the time to do so will harm their productivity or \"get them in trouble.\" Some are even afraid to file reports for injuries that are clearly pretty bad - we've found large quantities of blood sprayed all over work stations and smeared on the first aid kits before, but no report filed to indicate whose it was.\n\nSo my question is, is it legal for my employer to be doing this? If not, what should I do? Their justification is simply that my safety rating doesn't bring my overall score\/raise down \"too much to be a problem,\" but honestly after never being late once in my 1.5 years of employment there, only taking one sick day, having a company-positive attitude, performing higher than average and working overtime every time it's offered, and just trying to follow the rules to begin with, I really don't feel right about this. Also, my company is non-union.\n\nThanks for your responses.","title":"[Oregon, USA] Employer reducing my annual raise because of last year's injuries","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506728703,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73bo63\/need_advice_on_my_rights_as_an_independent\/","id":"73bo63","body":"\nHello there\n\nI'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I need some advice in this mess of a situation. \n\nIm located in Ohio and have been under contract with a company (which for anonymity's sake I will refer to as \"J\") since April of 2015. This is my first contract with them as well as my first experience as an independent contractor. For a little background, J is a company that contracts multiple individuals for the same task in the same location and therefore has a  weekly posted suggested \"schedule\" to keep workload even between us. \n\nNow, J is notorious for blurring the lines as much as they can between independent contractor and employee for their own benefit. There has even been a lawsuit filed against them as a result of this, in which J settled. This happened after I signed my contract and is part of the reason why I've made the decision to leave J once my contract is up on October 15. As a professional courtesy, about 3 days ago I gave J a couple weeks notice of my departure to which their response was cordial and professional. \n\nToday I came to to work one hour later than the \"schedule\" had me at. J's business was not at all compromised because of my tardiness and this is common amongst the workers here. Nevertheless as soon as I walk in the door I get a call from J who proceeds to berate me for that hour of missed work. They go so far as to threaten dropping the contract early for \"misconduct\" or what have you and turning it around to sue me for breach of contract. \n\nMy question is: do they have a leg to stand on to back this threat up? Is J just having a tantrum and blowing hot air? Or should I keep myself prepared to lawyer up?\n\n\n\n","title":"Need advice on my rights as an independent contractor","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445013616,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p0bfm\/arizona_5day_termination_of_lease_agreement_if\/","id":"3p0bfm","body":"Quick facts\n- Hired a independent mold inspection company that proved toxic mold in apartment\n- Both emailed the results, had a one-on-one meeting with the manager, and offered a physical copy for them to make a copy of (they refused to make a copy but I physically saw them open the email and forward to people)\n- Now, I'd like to serve legal notice per A.R.S. \u00a7 33-1361(A) since the apartment has done nothing since I gave notification of the toxic mold via email, verbal, and offering of a physical copy (again, they chose not to make a copy) -- it's been 4 days.\n\nThe question -- per my lease it says legal notice must be hand-delivered or mailed in writing. Would the email, one-on-one meeting where I went over the physical copy of the toxic mold results, etc count as day 1? OR would I have to deliver the letter stating A.R.S. \u00a7 33-1361(A) and count that as day one even though they had notice the living environment was harmful 4 days ago.\n\nTHANK YOU!","title":"[Arizona] 5-day termination of lease agreement if uninhabitable living conditions -- question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542153358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wum3s\/hiring_discrimination\/","id":"9wum3s","body":"Ok. First time posting, and on mobile, sorry for any formatting ect..\n\nSo, I have been employed as an underground coal miner or in some form of coal industry for a number of years. I am trying to get out of the industry, and about a month ago interviewed for a job I was interested in. Immediately after the interview, I was offered the position. I submitted to multiple drug screens, and background checks which all are fine. We move on to the physical, and here is where the problem arises. A few years ago, I was diagnosed with a bone disease which destroyed both of my hips. I had bilateral hip replacements to fix the issue, physical therapy, and back to work I went. So the doctor clears me for the job. Lots of people have hip replacements and lead full lives, including me. Well, the company puts on the brakes. They demand a second physical. So, I submitted to a much more rigorous physical with lift tests, ladder tests, treadmill tests, audio and visual tests, and pulmonary tests, and again I pass everything fine, with the doctor clearing me for the job. The next communication I get from the company is they \" cannot hire due to physical results\", and all further communication must be in writing. Flabbergasted, I contact the office who did the physical and confirm I was cleared for the job. Next, I fire off a letter inquiring what in the physical disqualified me for the position, to which I get no response. \n\nWhat, if anything, can I do? This sounds very discriminatory to me, as I have been, and currently am, working one of the most physical and demanding jobs in the world. The job I was applying for would have been FAR easier than the one I work now. ","title":"Hiring Discrimination","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540976369,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sx07u\/pregnancy_discrimination\/","id":"9sx07u","body":"My wife works for a county is Wisconsin.  We have 2 children.  During each of her pregnancies, she asked for light-duty but was told \"there was none available\".  She ended up burning through her leave and had to take an unpaid leave of absence for both pregnancies.  \n\n​\n\nRelevant facts:  Several others were given light duty assignments before and after my wife's leave.  In one case, a male was given light duty while my wife was off.\n\nMy wife went unpaid for a several months due to medical restrictions enacted by her doctor.\n\nI believe she is out significant income and time towards retirement due to their lack of accommodation.\n\nPregnant women in the past have been reassigned to another area of the agency that would fall within their medical restrictions.\n\nMen have been re-assigned to other departments when staffing was an issue.  I can show documentation of staffing shortages in the same department during the time she was denied light duty.  This would have fallen into her medical restrictions and has been done with others several times in the past.\n\nShe did file an FMLA request with HR and specifically wrote a request for light duty assignments.  I do not believe HR was involved in any of those decisions.\n\nThere is a part-time front office position that has \"hours as needed\".  I understand that this person continued to get hours during my wife's leave.  When asked about this, I understand the justification was that \"her hourly rate was higher than the part-timer\".  Pregnant women had been allowed to do this front office work in the past, however that's been 7 or 8 years.\n\nMy wife is prepared to leave employment here if we pursue this matter.  \n\nWe have both thought this was very wrong from the beginning.  She elected not to pursue anything in an attempt to \"be a team player\".      \n\n​\n\n​\n\nSome questions:\n\n1. This is super wrong, correct?\n2. Doesn't a government agency have a duty to accommodate medical restrictions?  ie if there is work to do that falls within her medical restrictions, is their a duty to accommodate?  or can they just say \"we don't have anything available\"?\n3. I understand her employer to be the county, not the specific county agency.  Therefore, shouldn't they have sought light-duty work in other departments of the county?, (before completely denying her).  \n4. I understand there are time limits for filing a complaint.  She is outside the window from when she was last denied, however, as they are currently allowing others to have light duty, desn't the clock re-set as males are freely being given light duty but she wasn't?\n5. Does it pay to address any of this with HR, or just contact an attorney?\n\n​\n\nThanks or any help \/ advice.\n\n​\n\nI think this is mostly about making sure others don't go through the same things we did. \n\n​","title":"Pregnancy Discrimination","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507141703,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74a43j\/how_to_set_up_a_will_or_trust_az\/","id":"74a43j","body":"Hello, \n\nMy husband and I need to set up some sort of will or trust (or both) in the event of our deaths (or even just 1 death). I just found out today in the state of Arizona our son (1yo) will not automatically go to a relative but to the state. Which makes me very nervous that we don't have anything set in place for him.  How would we go about obtaining these? Do we need to see a lawyer? We don't have much in the way of assets yet but will be acquiring a home in the near future. Any advice is appreciated. \n\nThank you!  ","title":"How to set up a will or trust? (AZ)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551556856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awlnpy\/ca_property_management_company_said_to_move_out\/","id":"awlnpy","body":"My partner and I signed a lease with another couple in August 2018 (Los Angeles, CA). Things went south within a few months and the property management company agreed to allow a future sublessor to take over our portion of the lease. They instructed us to send written consent and include our move-out-date in the letter. \n\nWe were within a week of the move-out date and our roommates had not found a sublessor. Things were growing extremely hostile and our roommates proposed (in email and text) to take over the rent in full if we agreed to move out. We asked them to take over the lease via the agency, but they didn't want to on the basis that the property management company  wouldn\u2019t approve them solo. \n\nThis did not sit well with us so my husband went to the leasing agency to inquire if anything could be done. At this point in time we were also considering filing a civil harassment lawsuit against our roommates and we wanted to inform the property management company of our intent to do so. \n\nTo our surprise, the manager told him that we could move out. She said the property management company would send us confirmation of our names being removed from the lease once the move out was complete. We were hesitant to believe her, it seemed to good to be true, so my husband sent an email recapping their discussion. **The manager reconfirmed via email that we would be taken off the lease once we were moved out.** \n\nA week later we were fully moved out and our roommates gave us back the security deposit in full. They paid the next months rent in full too. We immediately notified the leasing agency in writing per their instructions. Photos our of empty room were even included in the notification. \n\nA week later we received an email from a separate manager (the other managers boss) stating that the information Carmen gave us was not accurate and that we were still on the lease. This was extremely alarming, but our roommates did agree (in writing) to continue paying the rent. February rent was paid, but now it\u2019s March and the website is showing the rent as unpaid. We know they didn\u2019t get a sublessor yet because their posting is still active online. \n\nShould we be looking to for a tenant rights lawyer, or is this a civil lawsuit? Is the property management company at fault for providing us with incorrect information ? ","title":"CA Property Management Company said to move out to get off the lease. We moved out. Still on the lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568867024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d68x97\/custody_residence_change_notification_requirement\/","id":"d68x97","body":"Custody agreement has the standard text that knee needs to notify the court and other parent when there is a change of residence.\n\nHow many nights can I stay at my boyfriend's apartment before I need to file as change of residence? (Note that I still have my own house as my mailing address and no plans to change that any time)","title":"Custody Residence change notification requirement","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540356875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qwqf8\/tx_i_am_unemployed_have_around_700_in_the_bank\/","id":"9qwqf8","body":"i moved back home a few years ago when this first started and it has only grown progressively worse, i am worried that if i head off to an ER that they will try to charge my mother or bill me based on my household income. since i am not the homeowner in this situation and have no income, would that affect my mother at all? i have tried to look for affordable health care but they're basing everything off of my household income and i am not sure who's income they're looking at in that sense.\n\n​\n\ni'm not sure if insurance is the right flair for this, please let me know if i need to change it.","title":"(TX) i am unemployed, have around $700 in the bank, and need to go to a hospital to figure out what's going on with my body. how much debt am i going to put myself in by going without insurance and what can i do to keep myself as far out of that hole as possible?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551993856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayhwzd\/dmv_title_concern_in_nv\/","id":"ayhwzd","body":"OK, I don't have ALL of the details but the quick and dirty is this: \n\nMy sister is going through a nasty divorce and one of the vehicles that went to her ex-husband (a truck) he refuses to sign the title that would transfer her name off of it. So her name is still on the title and he is driving it uninsured (again this is in NV). Does anyone know what she can do to force the DMV's hand or does she go to the length of filing a stolen vehicle report and explaining the situation to the local PD?\n\n​\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"DMV Title concern. (in NV)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568855111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d66od7\/using_someone_elses_art_as_my_profile_pic_on\/","id":"d66od7","body":"An artist has said no reuse of their art as a twitter icon or any other personal purposes. Can I still use it anyways?","title":"Using someone else\u2019s art as my profile pic on twitter","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1538988924,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9md7op\/lost_my_job_after_surgery\/","id":"9md7op","body":"Fast Food\n\nCA\n\nSomewhere in June I tore my ACL and Meniscus and had to get surgery so I could walk again.\n\nI regularly brought in my Doctor notes that extended the time I could be off to recover. I couldn\u2019t walk, So my mom brought in one of the notes and told one of the managers that I\u2019d be back somewhere around October. \n\n10\/7\/2018 \nI went into work with my doctors note that release me to work and was informed by the head manager of the restaurant that the manager that my mom informed that I\u2019d be back in October said that I was never coming back. She then told me that I was terminated because she thought I wasn\u2019t coming back. \n\nMy mom says she never once said I was never coming back and this isn\u2019t the first time my ex-employer has done something shady like this. \n\nI called the community manager that runs the same restaurants in the area and left a voicemail to see what I can do. \n\nI just want my job back. Is there anyway or should I just get another one ? ","title":"Lost my job after surgery.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538121619,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jl2em\/boss_fired_me_for_her_own_mistake_and_refuses_to\/","id":"9jl2em","body":"I went to work doing upholstery for a small company. I worked there for 6 hours. \nThe lady told me to make some cushion covers for two cushions she agreed to pay me $20 an hour. I asked her what the cushions were for (twice) and she said \"they are just cushions\" so I figured they were large floor cushions thus they would be the same size. The tools she had we're all broken, the sewing machine was broken (I had to fix it) she didn't have working scissors, rulers, pencils or pattern making paper. I had to make the pattern out of baking paper (for cooking) and tape. The zips she provided we're too small. \n\nDespite this I managed to sew two very perfect pillows. The first fit perfectly. The second... Was 4cm too small for the cushion. I was really confused and knew I didn't make a mistake when I sewed it. I ask the lady and she said they are for a chair and are not the same size despite never mentioning this previously. I felt awful but knew it wasn't my fault since she didn't specify the end use (when I asked twice for the very reason of making sure they were  correctly sized) and the tools she gave me were abysmal at best. Not only that but the fabric she gave me was exactly right for the size I did, even if I was aware that the second cushion was bigger by 4cm there would not have been enough fabric for it.\n\nThe boss smiles and tells me it's ok, the then says she will pay me and give me more work the following week. I send her my bank details and I don't hear back from her for a week and she ignores my texts. I then text her asking for more work and she finally answers, she tells me she wants someone with more experience and that she would pay me for the hours I worked. She ignores me for a week. I asked about the pay 3 times before she answered... Telling me she will only give me $40 (the original agreement was $120) because she had to \"order new fabric\" and get someone else to sew new pillows because mine were \"unusable and awful\". My pillows we're PERFECT. I am good at what I do, I can sew a button up shirt from scratch within an hour perfectly, a pillow was easy for me. I told her that it's illigal to take out of my pay for such a reason and that I expect full payment. She kept my pillows and did not have new ones made or order new fabric as she said. She is ignoring me again and said \"you have a good day\" and won't even pay me the $40 she promised. \n\nI just want my money ","title":"Boss fired me for her own mistake and refuses to pay me for the hours working with her, what can I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570140849,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcy5dx\/oh_can_an_employee_claim_unemployment_benefits_if\/","id":"dcy5dx","body":"Three months ago, I had an employee leave to pursue another career. She gave less than a day's notice.\n\nLast month, I got an unemployment claim on her behalf from Jobs and Family services. On the claim form, it stated that she quit for other employment.\n\nI filled out the information on the form and sent it in, expecting that it would be denied, as my understanding was that you  cannot collect unemployment if you quit voluntarily. \n\nI got it back today saying that it was approved due to a lack of work\/layoff from another company.\n\nDoes it make any sense that I would be liable for her being laid off from a job she left me for? Is this something that is common practice? On what grounds could I appeal this? If I offer her her job back, does that make her ineligible if she refuses?","title":"OH: Can an employee claim unemployment benefits if they quit for another job?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507473711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7521d9\/fl_accesed_some_unsecured_college_servers_login\/","id":"7521d9","body":"What exactly can happen to me by doing this. It was a public facing sever that was open to anyone. I want to report this to the IT depart of the college, but I\u2019m afraid that I can get into trouble if I do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.","title":"[FL] Accesed some unsecured college servers, login with default username and password","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555422408,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdu50e\/mom_left_need_advice_on_how_to_proceed\/","id":"bdu50e","body":"I honestly don\u2019t know how to word this post, but I\u2019m going to do the best that I can. I\u2019m sorry if my story is confusing or lacking details, I\u2019ll be happy to answer any questions in order to get the type of advice I need to help me in this situation. This is going to be a long one, so thanks for investing your time into helping me with my family drama.\n\nSo, over the weekend my mother had a total mental breakdown and decided that she was going to leave us to go live somewhere else, I\u2019m assuming she went to go live with her aunt. She abandoned my 13 year old sister, leaving her in the hands of my father who is way to old, overworked to be a full time parent to a teenager, he also blames her for my mother leaving (which pisses me off more than you can imagine) and denies the fact that my sister has undiagnosed Autism (something I\u2019ve been begging my parents to investigate since she was 4, but they completely neglected her mental health, my sister also believes she is Autistic). When my mother left she trashed my sister\u2019s room, throwing garbage, dirty clothes and her belongings all over the floor (I have a pic of this as evidence), called her a \u201ccunt\u201d repeatedly and told my sister that she doesn\u2019t love her and she\u2019s not her mother anymore. My sister is an IVF baby who was conceived using a donor egg, so she\u2019s very sensitive about our mother not being her bio-mom. My mother hasn\u2019t been gone for long and I do think she will come back, but even if she does she has proven over and over again to be an unfit parent to my sister. My mother is chronically ill, she has idiopathic arthritis, Crohn's disease and a diagnosed mental illness that she will not disclose to us. She is on all kinds of medications; pain killers, anti anxiety meds, most of her medicines are controlled substances and she smokes a hell of a lot of weed. She is suicidal, angry and violent when angry, she\u2019s never hit us, but she threatens it, throws things at us and uses derogatory slurs to describe her children. My dad is not much better, he\u2019s a baby bomer who believes in the \u201cold way\u201d of life, doesn\u2019t believe in mental illnesses and will not pursue treatment for my sister. He is also on a ton of medication for pain and he has diabetes, like my mom he smokes a crap ton of weed and on his days off all he does is sleep, I believe he has depression, but doesn\u2019t believe in it. My sister has been experiencing some extreme school refusal, it\u2019s a fight every morning to get her out of the house, which results in my father threatening her with violence to get her out of the house. My sister says she has told the school psychologist what\u2019s been going on in the house, but I\u2019m not really sure if that\u2019s true. My sister is a pathological liar and I only believe what I see with her, everything that I\u2019ve reported in this post are things I\u2019ve seen and heard with my own two eyes and ears.\n\nMy question is, how do I help my sister, keep her safe and get her the mental health treatment that she desperately needs? I am 21 and have a family of my own, my fiance and I live with my parents, he works a part time job and I am in school. We both have history of mental illness, but we\u2019ve both been through treatment and therapy, we have a much better grip on things than my parents do. I personally want custody of my sister, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to be possible because on paper my parents look like \u201cgood\u201d parents. Our extended family is not going to help me with my sister because they\u2019re either on my mom\u2019s side or my dad\u2019s, no one besides my fiance and I is on my sister\u2019s side and I believe she is the true victim here. I wouldn\u2019t even know how to get her out of this house because my fiance and I cannot afford to live on our own, even if my parents pay me child support for my sister. The only idea I\u2019ve had is to call my mother\u2019s therapist and ask him wtf he\u2019s been doing with her for five years. Since she\u2019s been in therapy we have ALL noticed a steady decline on how she behaves and reacts, my mother is completely out of it and needs to be hospitalized in my opinion, but I\u2019m not sure if calling him will do anything. Reddit what do I do? How do I protect my sister? This has been so incredibly stressful and I need to protect her from further trauma at the hands of my parents. I truly don\u2019t think my parents are bad parents, I think they\u2019re unfit parents who can\u2019t handle it anymore, I can handle it and I\u2019m more than willing to step up for my sister, but I don\u2019t know how. I would love to get her into therapy, it\u2019s been a dream of mine for her to have her own therapist that she can talk to, I need to make that happen, but if I don\u2019t have custody of her can I even make that happen? Please don't recommend that I call child's services on my parents, I'm not going to do that because I don't want to traumatize my sister further by having her end up in foster care. I know our extended family will not take her and she's just going to end up in the system, I believe in this case calling them would be doing more harm than good. My sister is safe. Myself and my fianc\u00e9 are here, we feed her, make sure she's getting what she needs and we spend time with her. Uprooting her life and putting her in a strange environment wouldn't be helpful to her or her mental health.  Any advice is wanted, we live in New York if that helps. Thank you for your time.","title":"Mom left, need advice on how to proceed","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568557704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4l4g2\/bus_driver_went_on_a_power_trip_i_want_to_make\/","id":"d4l4g2","body":"I was riding in a bus ( Peter Pan) yesterday from New York to Philadelphia. The driver was driving recklessly (too fast, taking sharp turns) and after a passenger complained about it to him, he started driving 30mph on a 55mph highway for an hour. There was no problem with the road, weather, or bus, that justified that. When I asked the bus driver about it - he just said \u201cthe guy [passenger] asked me to drive slower, so I am doing that\u201d. \n\nIn addition, when he finally stopped driving too slow he went back to driving too fast (70mph in a 55mph road).  \n\nI have screenshots from google maps and a speed measuring app that back my story. \n\nI consider that a very serious incident and want to make sure the bus company deals with that properly. \n\nWhat are my options? Is there some sort of supervisory organization I can file a complaint with?\n\nThanks!","title":"Bus driver went on a power trip. I want to make sure the bus company deal with that properly. What should I do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539510508,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o1lnw\/accidentally_stole_a_chapstick\/","id":"9o1lnw","body":"This might sound silly and paranoid but I just need to be sure. I was browsing throughout a store and along the way I grabbed a chapstick and held it in my hand along with my phone and keys (I have a habit of holding on to small things in my hands I know I\u2019m stupid). Later during checkout In a hurry to get my wallet out i stuffed whatever was in my hands in my pockets to get my money out. It wasn\u2019t until I was pulling away in my car and seeing an employee exit the store and looking at me that I realized I still had the stupid chapstick in my pocket. \n\nAm I being paranoid? Will there be charges\/warrants\/whatever? I know this stuff sounds so dumb but I just want to know what could happen. I\u2019m a good noodle I swear :( ","title":"Accidentally stole a chapstick","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551403200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avyqoh\/when_can_employers_withhold_paychecks\/","id":"avyqoh","body":"I am 19, living in Phoenix, AZ. I recently quit\/was fired my job. Due to the way the conversation went, I\u2019m not really sure if legally I would be considered to have been fired or resigned. The company has bad blood with a lot of people, and I know about a dozen previous employees are all filing OSHA claims about the company and want to start a class action lawsuit. I will also be filing an OSHA claim, and would like to participate if there is a lawsuit. While the owner of the company does not know these plans, he knows that a lot of people hate his company, so he has started making people sign a paper saying they will not make any reports or take any legal action in order to get their last check. Can he do that? One of my friends recommended going in to the office, taking the paper and not the check, and using it as evidence in the potential lawsuit. Its not a huge check, only like $150, but I really need the money and I worked the hours for it. On a side note, I have never been paid overtime pay despite working 40+ hour weeks and there were certain times where i was paid under the table, in cash, less than minimum wage and neither I or the company had to pay taxes on it. The owner also has claimed we are not allowed to discuss our wages, which i know is illegal. My main concern is what I should do when I go into the office tomorrow to hopefully collect the check and sign\/not sign the paper. Any advice of class action lawsuits\/OSHA claims would be appreciated as well though! Also I do know that none of these papers he has people sign are notarized contracts, and his \u201clawyer\u201d is not actually a lawyer and someone that just used to work at the Sheriffs office and claims to be the owners legal representation. ","title":"When can employers withhold paychecks?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539263750,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n9vbq\/multiple_eeoc_violations\/","id":"9n9vbq","body":"If a company is found guilty of violating an EEOC law, is ordered to pay a judgement, and then violates the same exact law in the same exact way a few years later... Does the company face a harsher punishment the second time around? As in, is it possible that they may be ordered to pay more money?","title":"Multiple eeoc violations?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571671224,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl21uu\/speeding_ticket_in_work_zone_tn_i_want_to_fight\/","id":"dl21uu","body":"Hello\n\nI was pulled over for going 62mph in a 45mph work zone. There were no workers present. And I was generally going the speed of traffic. He was obviously sharking for someone who wasn\u2019t paying attention.\n\nI want to fight it in court or at least ask for mercy from the judge. I\u2019ve also heard the officer needs to show up to be convicted. But it looks like I need to plead \u201cnot guilty\u201d in order to go to court. And I checked the speeding signs where I got pulled over and I am definitely in the wrong.\n\nI\u2019m worried about pleading not guilty and then asking for mercy and basically admitting I am guilty. Will I just be shooting myself in the foot by going?","title":"Speeding ticket in work zone (TN). I want to fight.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553699214,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b65h9z\/its_illegal_what_my_mom_is_doing\/","id":"b65h9z","body":"So right now I\u2019m living with my mom in Texas, but I used to live with my dad in Mexico (they divorced almost when I was born) the thing is that she kinda forced me to come to Texas, and I just want to go back to Mexico, but she told me that she won\u2019t let me go back, and I wanna know if is there anything that i can do, I just turnt 17 btw","title":"It\u2019s illegal what my mom is doing?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571484086,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk2gei\/signed_a_housing_contract_and_lost_my_job_options\/","id":"dk2gei","body":"I relocated from India to Luxembourg as I got hired in a company here. I signed a housing contract for a year and paid deposit of \u20ac2000 plus a months rent of \u20ac1000. I lost my job after 3 months so I have to move out and go back to India since I can\u2019t pay rent anymore. My tenancy agreement says 3 months notice but I don\u2019t have money to pay starting next month.\n\nCan I just leave the premise and leave the deposit as it is? \n\nDo I have to pay the landlord for the remaining months even though financially I am unable to because I am jobless? \n\nCan I get a new tenant for next month so that the rent keeps on going for the landlord? \n\nLooking for options.","title":"Signed a housing contract and lost my job. Options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446776918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rpnis\/indiana_i_have_4_parking_violations_at_my\/","id":"3rpnis","body":"I attend a relatively small university. Behind our dorms is the \"B\" permit parking lot. In the \"B\" permit parking lot, there are a select few spots reserved for \"G\" parking. The \"G\" spots are reserved for the frats next door, but they have their own parking lot, so the \"G\" spots in the \"B\" lot are never used. The \"B\" lot is almost always full, excluding the \"G\" spaces which are hardly ever occupied. The alternative to parking in the \"B\" lot is to park in the road that runs parallel with the lot. I refuse to park in the street because I don't want to risk being hit by a car, especially at night (our police chief was recently arrested for a DWI). So often times, I find myself parking in the \"G\" spaces in the \"B\" lot. I paid over $200 dollars for a parking permit at the beginning of the year. It appears to me that the university is selling a product that they don't have, which HAS to violate some kind of law, right? I received 2 parking tickets today at different times, for the same parking violation, despite being in the same spot. I didn't even realize I was ticketed at all until I went to my car this evening.\n\nI am currently drafting a letter to our police department. You have 10 days to appeal the violation, and can only do it online (so they'll give it to you, but don't want to defend their stance?!?!). This is my 4th ticket this year already! The next portion of this post is my rough draft of the letter I am handing to our police department tomorrow morning, and isn't necessary to answer my question. I just want to know what \/r\/legaladvice thinks, and help if I have any kind of tenant rights. My letter is as follows:\n\nDear (  )PD,\n\nOn Tuesday, November 5, 2015 you put a parking ticket in my windshield. I was ticketed because I parked in a \"G\" space in a lot that is intended for \"B\" parking. I pay $52,000 per year to attend this school, and $225 for a parking spot in the \"B\" lot. When there aren't enough spaces in the \"B\" lot, one is supposed to park in the street that runs parallel with the lot behind the dorm. I refuse to park in the street, as I don't want to get out of my car at night, and risk getting hit by a drunk driver, i.e. your police chief who was recently arrested for a DWI.\n\nThe \"G\" spots in the \"B\" lot go generally unused by the frat, and are typically unoccupied. I apologize for parking in said spot, but I value my safety more than anything else, and better safe than sorry.\n\nAs previously mentioned, I pay a lot of money for a spot, and even more just to attend this school. (Insert University here) is doing wrong by selling more parking passes than they have spots. As stated on the website, \"B permits allow parking in resident,\" therefore I am entitled to park wherever there is a space in said lot. I understand (  PD) gets a kickback on every ticket, but that doesn't grant officers permission to abuse their power. If you have any questions you may contact me at (###)-###-####, and I will be speaking with my lawyer.\n\n\nWhat do you guys think? Do I have any kind of rights here? How should I edit my letter, if give it out at all?\n\n","title":"[Indiana] I have 4 parking violations at my university this year, including 2 today alone.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540344054,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qv7nu\/trustee_of_estate_got_into_car_accident_when\/","id":"9qv7nu","body":"My grandmother passed away in June of this year. I\u2019m 19 and don\u2019t have any other parental guidance (she raised me). I\u2019ve been driving her vehicle that she left me as I\u2019m trustee of her estate, and the main beneficiary (my 3 minor siblings the only other ones). I was driving the car regularly before she passed unexpectedly. I\u2019ve been completely at a loss here, the lawyer she appointed to look over me is completely detached from the situation and simply told me I needed to take inventory of all her belongings and properties before I started using them, which I did. He also is having his secretary send my official paperwork, (my \u2018keys to the kingdom\u2019,if you will) but she\u2019s taking her sweet time doing so. \n\nAnyways, I\u2019ve been driving her vehicle as I stated before, and although I\u2019m a licensed driver under her insurance, I\u2019m not the policy holder. I hit a hawk-rather, it hit me- and it left a sizable dent in the car and knocked off a mirror cover. The windshield also cracked pretty badly. I know the car has full coverage, and the insurance is paid in full up until next summer, but I don\u2019t know how to go about getting it fixed. Has driving it been illegal? Will I get in legal trouble if I take it to a shop or try to file a claim? I\u2019m very young and inexperienced, and I don\u2019t know how any of this works. I can\u2019t ever get ahold of the lawyer, (only once in 6 months after calling 5 or 6 times in one week and threatening to get a new lawyer), so I\u2019m planning to get a new one after a receive my certification of trustee paperwork from him. Any advice in this situation would be greatly appreciated, as I have no desire to break any laws or lose any privileges I may have as trustee. \n\nThank you. \n","title":"Trustee of estate, got into car accident when neither car nor insurance are in my name. (US)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569510103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9kth9\/going_through_my_own_auto_insurance_or_against\/","id":"d9kth9","body":"Got in a car accident in NYC where a city transit authority vehicle crushed part of my front bumper because the driver didn't see us. Filed a police report and got the damages assessed: about $3K in damage. \n\nThe transit authority mailed me this tort claim form that I have to file against them within 90 days indicating the assessed damage. I was told they're a self-insured entity and that going through them instead of my own auto insurance would take a long time and be frustrating. \n\nBut I'm hesitant to file a claim with my auto insurance because I don't want to pay the deductible and have my rates go up. It was the transit authority's fault, which the driver pretty much already admitted, and I don't want to have to pay a cent.\n\nWhat should I do? Does filing that tort claim form against the transit authority prevent me from also going through my insurance or is it something I need to file either way? Is it possible\/advisable to go through my auto insurance and then have my deductible later reimbursed by the transit authority from subrogation? Thank you!!","title":"Going through my own auto insurance or against the NYC transit authority?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568435245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d40lvn\/internet_company_isnt_providing_what_was_promised\/","id":"d40lvn","body":"I\u2019m looking for advice or options at this point. We are guaranteed 100MB\/s (wired) which we haven\u2019t been receiving (which we pay over $45\/month for!!). However, that\u2019s the least of our issues. The biggest problem is the internet will go out every several minutes. Phones will \u201cconnect\u201d but nothing will load. PC (which is wired) will say it doesn\u2019t have internet connection. We have tried calling several times and 4 separate technicians have come in to \u201cfix\u201d the problem. Nothing seems to work and we feel cheated out of almost $50 a month. Thanks in advance","title":"Internet company isn\u2019t providing what was promised in contract.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555353860,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdjqly\/i_live_in_tennessee_and_plan_on_sueing_my\/","id":"bdjqly","body":"We had a breach of lease in October. We recieved the fee we owed in November\/ December. I paid my third in February. Turns out I'm the only one who paid. I'm the only one they have an address for or any contact information. Yesterday I got a paper saying call their attorney and tonight they're coming to serve my court papers. They said we might be able to work something out and they'll drop the case. \n\nI have enough savings to pay both their portions tonight if they want so we can drop the case and I don't have to split court fees. So I plan on paying it and then sueing them for the money back and to pay for my court fees instead. I have my reciept and proof that I paid my portion on time and this wrecked my credit score since I'm still technically responsible since all three of us were on the lease. \n\nI don't know the difference between an attorney and a lawyer or who I need to talk to\/ hire for this. I'm 19 and on my own and have never been in a situation before. I don't even know if I have a case worth picking up but these savings were for a car and my roommates keep putting me behind so I want the money back if I'm gonna cover them. Obviously I can't just ask if they'll pay me back. They won't. \n\nMy landlord knows none of this was my fault and said she'll help me out if I have any trouble leasing in the future, if that helps or matters at all. \n\nTldr: the title basically.","title":"I live in Tennessee, and plan on sueing my ex-roomates over some money from a breach of lease. Does anyone know who I should talk to to get this started\/ lawyers who focus on cases like this?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554659808,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baj0lc\/30_day_notice_to_vacate_but_ive_lived_here_for\/","id":"baj0lc","body":"Do I have 60 days or 30? Does clock start from the post mark or the day I was notified? ","title":"30 day notice to vacate but I've lived here for two years. Someone who lived here less than a year moved out a day before the notice post mark","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552531057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0uyks\/mi_ive_had_to_call_the_cops_almost_a_dozen_times\/","id":"b0uyks","body":"I feel like this will all sound ridiculous but this has been my life the last month. Apologies for the long post. \n\nTLDR: naked man keeps running around my apartment complex 2-3 times a week. No one in the office is doing anything about it and the property manager and police won\u2019t give me any answers. \n\nBackground:\n\n\nIn the beginning of February I was woken up around 3am to loud banging and someone yelling \u201cI\u201d over and over again but very monotone.  At one of the doors at the building across from mine there\u2019s a fully nude adult man banging on the door. The area I live in is definitely not the safest place to live so this wasn\u2019t too surprising. I call the cops and they come with an ambulance. I hear one of the cops say something about this guy doing this before and that he\u2019s on drugs (someone said PCP but idk if that was the cop of the other resident). \n\n\nThis happened a few more times all in the middle of the night (in the middle of winter in MI). I really wasn\u2019t bothered by it at first it was just kind of annoying. This continued again about 2-3 times a week, that I am aware of. There have been times I\u2019m coming home and he\u2019s being put in the ambulance so I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve missed some other incidences. He\u2019s been completely naked every time except twice, that I\u2019ve seen. \n\n\nI started getting more worried about a week ago because the last few times he didn\u2019t get aggressive but it took more police officers to get him down and longer to get him in the ambulance, so I feel like he\u2019s escalating. Last night I woke up around 3am to him really screaming \u201cI\u2019m scared\u201d and \u201chelp\u201d (he always yells that if he\u2019s not yelling \u201cI\u201d but it\u2019s always calm and monotone). It took more than 5 cops to get him down and strapped in the gurney. This went on until 5:30am and I had class at 9am so I was really pissed off this morning. \n\n\nI emailed my property manager asking if there\u2019s a plan or solution for this because I know they are aware of it. The reply was basically that he\u2019s getting the correct documentation and violations and being watched closely. She also said she spoke to the police and that drugs aren\u2019t involved, but she didn\u2019t say what was causing these episodes. Then she told me to contact our 24\/7 patrol security if I need anything (who I\u2019ve never once seen around when this happens and I\u2019m often the first person to call 911). \n\n\nI wasn\u2019t really happy with this answer so I called the city police department to see if they would tell me anything. I was told they can\u2019t give me any information but that he can assure me that the individual has never been violent and I don\u2019t need to worry. \n\n\nHonestly, both of these answers just made me angrier. He\u2019s never been violent that they know of. It\u2019s possible that he could be very violent. This is a man that regular gets naked outside in the snow with temps in the negatives. I\u2019m not even slightly convinced that I\u2019d be safe around him. And even if he isn\u2019t violent, listening to a sick man yell \u201chelp\u201d and \u201cyou\u2019re hurting me\u201d over and over while cops try to wrestle him into a gurney for 30 mins is honestly a terrible thing to listen to. I can\u2019t go out to my car at night and I live in a college town where drunks students are always walking around. I\u2019m having anxiety every time I hear that \u201cI!\u201d because I know I\u2019ll be hearing it for the next hour. Im 2 months away from graduating with my degree and moving out but this is really adding to my stress. \n\n\nSo my questions are:\n\n\n- Is there any way I can get more information about what\u2019s happening? My name, phone number, and address has been taken by dispatch multiple times if that means anything. \n\n\n- Does the property manager have any legal obligation to do something about this even though he hasn\u2019t been violent?\n\n\n- If he is mentally ill, does this really excuse him from legal trouble even though he\u2019s naked and causing scenes in public?\n\n\n-  If he is mentally ill to this degree, how is it possible for him to not have some kind of aid or caregiver that\u2019s legally responsible for him? Is there someone else I should be trying to contact other than the police?\n\n\n- Is there anything else that I can do to push management to do something about this?\n\n","title":"[MI] I\u2019ve had to call the cops almost a dozen times in the last month on a naked man yelling outside my apartment building. Nothings being done about it.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551936544,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay91xo\/my_former_boss_refuses_to_pay_me_wa\/","id":"ay91xo","body":"Hi! I\u2019m posting on mobile so ignore the formatting.\n\nI worked as a barista for a family friend\u2019s coffee shop. My mom was working as the manager at the time, doing a favor for her. Because they were going through a financially tough time, I agreed to train for free. \n\nI filled out my W-4 tax form and signed a bunch of stuff saying I was an employee. I don\u2019t know how minor work laws work but I worked from 5:30am-9am every shift, if it matters. Unfortunately, I didn\u2019t receive my employee ID so I couldn\u2019t clock in most of the time. I do have witnesses who say I worked every one of those days.\n\nI worked a total of 16 hours and clocked in for 8 of those. She refuses to pay me because she \u201cdoesn\u2019t believe I worked\u201d calling me \u201ca piece of work\u201d for requesting my money. Other employees were paid for their training hours. I\u2019m just wondering if there is anything I can do to get the money I earned? I\u2019m also 17.\n\nTLDR: I didn\u2019t get paid for hours I worked because \u201cit doesn\u2019t count\u201d to the owner.","title":"My former boss refuses to pay me? [WA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571534485,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkcvqn\/ex_wife_causing_issues_with_our_divorce_decree\/","id":"dkcvqn","body":"I am happily divorced, and have a few questions since location of myself and ex wife has changed. She is trying to have us \"talk things out\" rather than go to court. \nSo here are my questions:\n\n1) if we want to amend the divorce decree do we have to go Back to original state(VA) OR can it be done in TX again?\n2) How is child support calculated in TX? IS it dependent on time with kids or just off income (we try to do 50\/50 as per divorce decree)\n3) I was told that in the state I came from, if we had the kids for greater than 3 weeks, child support wasn't due that month. Is that true in TX (This was told to me by a non lawyer, so I'm unsure on validity)\n4) If I had lost a job am Is my ex wife still entitled to the full amount of child support?\n5) if I am BEHIND on child support and am paying a little extra each month to pay it back, can that still be held against me if we go to court?\n\nThank you for any and all advice. It isn't ugly yet, but I smell a storm brewing and I want to have good advice going into it.","title":"Ex wife causing issues with our divorce decree from VA, Now living in TX.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550869188,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atmrbg\/any_advice_for_possible_wrongful_termination\/","id":"atmrbg","body":"I\u2019m new to the Reddit community, and I\u2019ve held back on voicing my story for awhile because I wasn\u2019t sure what I could do, and how to go about doing it. What started this new change was advice from friends and family to speak out, talk to lawyers, and the fact my employer is still coming after me even after they fired me. They are now trying to have me pay back unemployment, which I can\u2019t afford. I have a new job now, and would have let everything they did go but they just couldn\u2019t let me have unemployment.\n\nI can\u2019t stand by and let them get away with what they did and said. So I wanted to know, what\u2019s the best course of action I can take while also sharing my story. Forgive me if it\u2019s long, but I\u2019ll try to trim it down the best I can.\n\nI started working for Springhill Suites by Marriott in Cedar Park back in May 2018 as a laundry attendant. When I started there was two people already working in that position, who helped with training me on how to wash, dry, fold and stack the shelves in the laundry room. Since I was a trainee, I would be getting training pay until my 90 day review in which I would get a raise. Shortly after being hired, they hired another laundry attendant to work the morning shift. We now had one full time AM attendant and I became the full time PM attendant.\n\nWe had a perfect team and system, and things were going great. I started asking about my 90 day review, which I got an excuse that both the general manager and my supervisor have to be there to do it. I never got a 90 day review, with excuses of the system isn\u2019t working, the system needs an update, use to be paper but now it\u2019s computer, needs to be scheduled, something came up, it\u2019s too busy... you get the idea.\n\nHowever, in late September the managers shut off our thermostat and it caused the room to become so unbearably hot and uncomfortable that the morning attendant walked out. I do not have the luxury to just quit a job without having another to immediately replace it. I stayed, and became the new AM attendant. I explained to my supervisor that it\u2019s unbelievably hot in the laundry room, because my folding station is literally next to the dryers which are both pumping out 170 degrees. She suggested that I just leave the door open then. I took my concerns to the general manager, to which she suggested they cut the finger off a blue glove to show that they AC is on and working even though the thermostat is off. I expressed again that just because it turns on, doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s blowing cold air, and I was literally covered in sweat. After a few days, and constantly begging for them to turn on the AC, they finally turned back on the thermostat where I can finally cool down the laundry room.\n\nThat\u2019s when I noticed an uptick in my direct supervisors attitude towards me. She started criticizing me periodically throughout the day, regardless of how well the shelves were full or not, or what I was currently working on. If I was currently drying the towels, she would open the dryer and look inside the lint trap and yell at me for not cleaning it. I would tell her that I start and end the day with cleaning it, like the sign says to which she said I should clean it more than that. She would demand I stop what I would be doing and mop the laundry room floor. She would complain that the washer machine either looks too full or too empty. I just endured whatever she said, and agreed to do what she wanted. One day, she came in to demand that I fold the towels quicker because the housekeepers needed them. I said I am currently working on them, but you can take what is already folded in the buggy. She said I should have told the housekeepers they were done, even though I\u2019m technically not done I just have a done pile, I said okay. When she turned to leave, I heard her say under her breath \u201cFucking fag\u201d. I don\u2019t know if she thought I wouldn\u2019t hear her, or if I just heard her wrong. However, that wasn\u2019t the first or last time I heard her say such a thing. To summarize some of the stuff she would say, I was called everything from \u201cFucking fag\u201d \u201cFag\u201d and being told I should be more of a man and less like a queen.\n\nI then got in trouble for staying late at work to fill up the shelves, her exact words were \u201cYou are trying to abuse the system to get overtime! You are scheduled to work exactly 8 hours, nothing more and nothing less!\u201d I also got in trouble for taking a lunch, she excused me of taking one for to long, but when I showed her I was only gone for 20 minutes and not the full 30, she then said I took it at an inappropriate time and I\u2019ve slowed down the laundry room.\n\nBecause of her constant presence, I started to document my progress in the laundry room. I would take pictures and videos of what it looks like when I walk into the laundry room in the morning, before the housekeepers empty the shelves and after, my progress and when I leave. I did this without the managers knowing, because I had a feeling that they are trying to get rid of me in some way. I did this routinely for several days for the rest of my employment. I got called into the office, and both my manager and General manager accused me of not opening the chute and backing it up to the higher floors, and leaving the shelves empty. I had a video of me opening the chute before I left and sent it to the manager as proof. They still wrote me up. Keep in mind, when I started they had two people working in the laundry room, we had a full time AM and a full time PM laundry attendant. So they expected me to be able to do all the laundry for the entire hotel in exactly 8 hours by myself. I was then getting yelled at by now not one, but two managers who did everything in their power to make me hate working there.\n\nThey then started to remove things from the laundry room that I needed. They removed all the buggies from the laundry room on the busy days telling me the house keepers needed them. So I would have to carry wet sheets and towels from the washer to the dryer, and use the dryer as a make shift buggie just so I can have space to fold on the table. This would of course slow me down, which would then be my fault. They also removed the chair in the laundry room, saying that it\u2019s now a standing only position. However, I would find a chair put back in there when someone would work on my day off. I asked why someone working on my day off was allowed to sit and use a chair, and was told that they aren\u2019t laundry but a housekeeper. It was clear that both managers had it out for me specifically, with one of them making gay remarks when she would leave the room.\n\nI didn\u2019t know why, but I felt like they wanted me to quit. But why? If I quit, then they had no one for the laundry room. I then spoke to another manager, and said that I want a corporate HR number. She told me that if I had a problem, I should call the owners and gave me their number. That same day, the two managers who have been gunning for me pulled me into the office. They told me that the laundry position was going away, and that a third party company would be coming in to take it over. They then offered me a housekeeping position, with the same pay. I agreed, and signed on to became a housekeeper but I decided to bring up what I\u2019ve been feelings because now I know why they wanted me gone. I tried to be brave, because I was confronting both of the managers who have been harassing me for weeks. Unfortunately, I gave in too quickly when they laughed and said that\u2019s something we will work on. They of course didn\u2019t and I\u2019ve became so convinced they still want me gone, and stressed out that it caused me to not only stay up at night but I started going to work around 4 or 5 in the morning. I tried calling the owners of the hotel, and left messages but never heard back. I felt I was brushed off, and that I would have to find another way to voice my concerns about what\u2019s happening at the hotel. I continued to arrive so early in the morning so I can be able to do as much as possible and try to give the housekeepers everything they needed. When it came to starting becoming a housekeeper, I was told they company can\u2019t start till January. I thought it was a red flag, that they would start gunning for me more. Which they did. I kept asking for a corporate HR number from managers, and they said to just call the owners.\n\nIt was early Sunday morning on December 9th when I walked into the break room to use the restroom when I noticed a poster. It was one of the corporate Human Resources posters that explained everyone\u2019s right to work, talk about work place harassment and what to do when you feel harassed. However on the bottom it said if you feel like your complaint isn\u2019t being taken seriously to call this HR number. I was hit with a wave of emotions, because I now had an outlet to call and voice my concerns to. I called but unfortunately, they were closed and only open weekdays but I now had an outlet.\n\nDuring the day, the manager came in to do her usual complaints about me. I regretfully asked how come the corporate HR Number wasn\u2019t disclosed to me. She didn\u2019t ask which one, or what HR number, she just said \u201cYou have every right to call that number, if you choose to.\u201d and walked out. I came in the next day, December 10th, same time early in the morning, with every intention after work that I will be calling that number to file a complaint. I got called into the office around 11, and was told I was being fired for leaving the shelves empty and that it\u2019s not working out. Since I was recording them, and at this point had nothing else to lose I decided to bring up how both of them were harassing me and why they didn\u2019t disclose corporates HR number. I wanted them on tape admitting they withheld that number. I got it. The manager said if I had complaints I should have called the owners.\n\nI filed for unemployment, which they are trying desperately to get back. They\u2019ve accused me of being a bad employee, refused to do my job, and being mean to other employees. I had one manager submit a note on my behalf to discredit them, and I\u2019m friends with a former manager who would have gladly stepped in as well. I have a recording of the manager telling me that the managers tried to coerce her into writing something else or leaving out things in her note. As well as saying other employees are all scared to come forward.\n\nSo I need help, I don\u2019t know what else I can do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Any advice for possible wrongful termination, discrimination and harassment?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553363639,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4m1ti\/is_it_legal_in_nj_for_someone_to_offer_to_pay_back\/","id":"b4m1ti","body":"So the question..\n\nIs it illegal to offer a parent money to sign over their parental rights?\n\n\nNew Jersey","title":"Is it legal in NJ for someone to offer to pay back...","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552515697,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0s8yn\/mom_forcing_me_and_my_sister_to_stay_in_her_one\/","id":"b0s8yn","body":"We've been living with our dad adter our mother decided to freak out at my dad because she'd been cheating on him and wanted an easy out, she (after a few weeks) out of nowhere made my dad send us to her (through the help of a friend of dads) this was before she promised to pay something to help the family out but she said she couldn't because she didn't have enough money when we got here she has two tvs, a netflix account, and new car (she might have sold the one she took with her) she said this was mandated by a judge, is she allowed to do this and can we go back to our dad?","title":"Mom forcing me and my sister to stay in her one bedroom apartment when before we had a choice","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571684480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl55tu\/ma_got_on_my_domestic_partners_way_better\/","id":"dl55tu","body":" \n\nMy partner started working at a  company that offered significantly better health plans that mine does,  so we made it so I could be on his health plan, with me opting out of my  works. Up till then, I'd been paying my monthly premiums for my work  plan.\n\nApparently my coverage  through him became retroactive to his start date of employment, and he  was charged a hefty bill for imputed income taxes due to that. Since I  had my own coverage during the retroactive period, can one of us get a  refund from our insurance companies for the double-covered period? It  would be a huge help to us.","title":"[MA] Got on my domestic partners (way better) insurance - he got a huge bill retroactively even though up till then I had my own plan. Can one of us recover our paid premiums? (X-post from \/r\/insurance)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570226625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddeawf\/i_need_help_with_my_abusive_father\/","id":"ddeawf","body":"My father is rich and abusive. He\u2019s a narcissist, and recently I went behind his back to do something important, testifying on my mom\u2019s behalf in court. He\u2019s going to hurt me. He\u2019s already hit my mom before; he\u2019s given her nerve damage. I went behind his back, and although he\u2019s never hit me before, he\u2019s ALMOST DONE IT for such little things like being late for school. I\u2019m genuinely afraid for my safety, both mental and physical. I went to the police to see if I could get a protective order, but nothing could be done for the mental abuse. The officer even denied that what he does is abusive. CPS was the one who called in the officer. I\u2019m a minor, and I\u2019m running out of options. Every piece of advice from the legal aids office hasn\u2019t worked for me. Please help; I feel like I\u2019ll go crazy with him. I\u2019m already suicidal; I can\u2019t handle this. I need help.","title":"I need help with my abusive father.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569095967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7ffap\/needing_help_ca\/","id":"d7ffap","body":"I got my visitation with my daughter taken away due to our court order saying my ex could drug test me whenever in a four hour time frame even if I live an hour and a half away. I couldn\u2019t make it due to I\u2019m not medically allowed to drive and couldn\u2019t find anyone else to drive me. I\u2019m at a lost of what to do and my lawyer is working painfully slow it\u2019s been roughly 2 months since I got a new lawyer and I\u2019m not sure if How long I\u2019m to wait.","title":"Needing help CA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504050085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wv8xn\/business_taxes_usa\/","id":"6wv8xn","body":"I want to start selling online but I don't how I should charge for tax do I just mark up the price of my goods and when my taxes are due I just tell them how much I made and they deduct it from there or do I have to google each states tax and charge accordingly to each customer who buys something, or do I charge tax in only my state of California, and I also know here in Los Angeles where I live tax is like 9% but other places in California it is cheaper ,I'm so confused and I want to do it correctly and not get into trouble.","title":"Business taxes USA","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1549794514,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ap2t4c\/what_happens_if_someone_puts_you_on_their_will\/","id":"ap2t4c","body":"And you don't want to tell everyone your new name. ","title":"What happens if someone puts you on their will but you change your full name (USA)?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505401042,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/702qxg\/virginia_leaseholder_vs_occupant_issue\/","id":"702qxg","body":"My friend is the occupant on a lease. Her two room mates are the lease holders. All of us with the exception of one of the leaseholders have known each other\/lived together prior. \n\nDue to a recent disagreement over lack of communication between all occupants, the two lease holders gave her 30 days notice to vacate and are trying to prevent me from accessing the premises out of spite, even though I've done nothing to warrant it. Never threatened them, damaged the household, or anything.\n\nAre they allowed to bar me from the premises, even though my friend is on the lease as an occupant and says I can enter the house? I will add that, she works 12 hours a day and the entire time they've lived together have used me as communication between the four of them. Which is what caused the initial issues even after me telling them to go directly to each other.\nThis is in Virginia Beach.","title":"[Virginia] Leaseholder vs Occupant issue","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555349921,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdiwzl\/dog_being_sexually_abused_by_owner\/","id":"bdiwzl","body":"My girlfriend is a student at a veterinary clinic, and sometimes makes part of real attendance, one woman brought her dog, which was suffering a lot, the woman said that her husband is abusing the dog but can't do anything ( something like she doesn't want to ruin their childs life by something like that), and my girlfriend teacher says that they can't do anything because of the client secrecy, but my girlfriend doesn't work there and anything, can she report it without getting the clinic in trouble?","title":"Dog being sexually abused by owner","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570395040,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de96yk\/coworkers_pay_getting_docked_for_having\/","id":"de96yk","body":"Hi all, looking for help. \n\nMy co-worker is paid hourly as a cleaner, he has recently started counselling for depression and our employer has arranged a meeting tomorrow to tell him he is to be paid less hourly as he is now doing counselling (usually for around 8-12 weeks,  sometimes longer) on Thursday afternoons. \n\nThe thing is, I\u2019m salaried at the same company, I also have counselling on Thursday afternoons and yet my pay has not been cut nor has there been talk about it since I started counselling 2.5 months ago. \n\nSurely he should just be paid for the half day Thursday and not have his overall hourly pay reduced. \n\nThanks in advance","title":"Co-worker\u2019s pay getting docked for having counselling (UK)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541924486,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w28jz\/i_got_fired_from_my_job_and_am_trying_to_figure\/","id":"9w28jz","body":"I don't make very many posts and don't know if this is the right subreddit for this post but I can't better fitting one.\n\n​\n\nI got hired at Chipotle 3-4 weeks ago and had came into every shift and even picked up extra hours. This last Monday I called out for the first time since my roommate was sick and that was what was expected of me. I contacted the store and they said that its okay, and that their sick hotline (SSR) would contact me to get information from me. They never contacted me so I went into work the next day. \n\n​\n\nThursday came around and I got sick this time so I called in and my manager (lets call him manager A) said it was okay and the same thing as last time, and still SSR never contacted me. The next day was my best friends wedding and I was the man of honor so I already had the day off, but I called out the next day (Saturday) as well. Same thing same manager, still no contact from their SSR and no mention that I should not come into my shift on Sunday. \n\n​\n\nSunday comes and I'm feeling better, another manager texts me making sure that I feel okay and is the SSR said I can work since it says on their schedule I can. I tell him I'm feeling better and that I never got contacted by SSR still. He says to come in. I go into work that night, and manager A is working as my lead for the night, he knows everything that has been going on because I have called out to him every time. He does the preliminary are you healthy and not sick, and then sign the papers crap you have to do. I clocked on and worked for about 2 and a half hours til I started feeling sick again, told Manager A and he sent me home, once again not telling me not to come to work for a period of time. I call in the next morning for still being sick to Manager A once again (this sickness sucked btw haha) and same ordeal, no call from SSR, not being told to not come in after set amount of time, feel better. \n\n​\n\nThe next day (Tuesday), I come into work. I clock on and get caught up talking to another manager and a trainer and forgot to wait for the healthy check and immediately started washing my hands. Manager A come rushing around the corner and starts asking what I'm doing and why I'm there, he escorts me to the front of the kitchen and then tells me that we need to have a talk. I learned from the two I was talking to at the beginning of the shift that the Region Leader is there and shes mean. Manager A sits me down and talks to me asking why I'm there and why I walked past without a health check first. I explain that this if the first job that I have had to do that and I just forgot since I haven't really worked in a week and I'm new as it is, and that I'm there because I was never told not to be. He apologized for not telling me and asked why SSR never told me not to come in. He also explained that there are 3 days after calling out and a 24 hour period after that that I'm not expect to work. NO ONE had told me that up til that point. He stated that the RL is very aggressive about these polices and has fired a GM for the same thing before. So I say my okays and that I'm sorry, and I mention that SSR has never contacted me and he says that sometimes they don't contact you if that understand the sickness. I say okay I understand , weary but just going with it, and I leave.\n\n​\n\nThe next day the RL calls me and asks about the incident the day before and what me and Manager A talked about. I inform her of the situation and what was said. She says okay and that shes going to look into the situation and that it may end up in a termination. She says she will get back to me within 24-48 hours. At this point I know she is going to fire me.\n\n​\n\nShe calls me on Friday to ask me if I can talk with her on Saturday (Today), and I tell her that unfortunately I am on a trip out of state to see my family and wont arrive back until Wednesday. At that point she informs me that she has made a decision about the incident and that I am being terminated from the company. I pick up my last check that day and she gives me too free burritos. Woohoo.. I ask her what was the main cause for the termination and through stumbling words she says that it was health safety from me coming in that day. I say thank you for the check and leave.\n\n​\n\nNow I am wondering if me being fired was reasonable or if I should bring it up with their HR department, also if I could collect unemployment from the company until I find another job, This happened in Boise Idaho. I'm not quite sure where to go from here and just would like some guidance. ","title":"I got fired from my job and am trying to figure out if its reasonable termination","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506117465,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71uawi\/racists_on_a_bridge_cause_tons_of_traffic\/","id":"71uawi","body":"So I live in Maryland and on a bridge over I-95 there is this guy who parks his truck and flies about 10 American flags with anti-immigration signs. This always causes serious delays often than 30 minutes long. Is there is any way I can legally get rid of him?","title":"Racists on a Bridge Cause Tons of Traffic.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568834707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d62sfq\/threatened_to_be_fired_for_not_showing_up_to\/","id":"d62sfq","body":"I live in NC, it is a 1099 if that helps. My manager really wants people to be at our work meetings. We cannot clock in or get paid for these meetings. The other day he posted in our group message that if anyone misses two meetings in a row they will be removed from the group and fired. Is this legal?","title":"Threatened to be fired for not showing up to meetings we do not get paid for.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541110400,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9te3h7\/customer_refuses_to_pay_3yo_invoice\/","id":"9te3h7","body":"First time poster from MA.\n\nI manage the accounts receivable for my boyfriend's commercial mechanic business. We have a certain customer that is delinquent on 5 invoices, two of which are from 2016, one from 2017, and the last two from this year more than 90 days old. \n\nThis customer refuses to pay their statement because \"they are too old\". We send statements quarterly, pretty on the spot. So they have been aware of their balance for a while. I closed their account as few months ago and they have been making cash in hand sales only. \n\nThe invoice in dispute is a little under $500. My boyfriend is just irritated and wants to just let it go because he believes there is nothing we can do. I have little to no experience in accounting. \n\nLegally, do they have to pay these invoices even if they are 3 years old? Should we bother to continue asking them to pay it? We are not looking to sue, just resolve. We are a small business. \n\nCurious of your input and advice!\n\n","title":"Customer refuses to pay 3y\/o invoice","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554145941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8776h\/unemployment_claim\/","id":"b8776h","body":"Location- Indiana\n\nRecently my work lost a client so they \u2018temporarily laid off\u2019 several individuals with no notice and no return date. It\u2019s been two weeks already. If I file a claim for unemployment and it gets denied does my employer get notified of it? I know if it\u2019s accepted they obviously do. Wondering if this is the same for denial. ","title":"Unemployment claim","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551626897,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awuyws\/my_grandmother_passed_in_january_now_credit_card\/","id":"awuyws","body":"So my grandmother died in January of this year. She had a debt of $3000.00 to the credit card company. It was only in her name. Now they are saying we need to pay off the debt. My father is now owner of estates (but his name like I said is not on the credit card)  is he obligated to pay anything if his name is not on the credit cards? Can they go after her bank accounts? What should we do?\n\n​\n\nThank you if you need more info let me know. ","title":"My grandmother passed in January now credit card company is saying we need to pay her debt (PA)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554216737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8k7yt\/new_ownership_fired_all_the_old_staff_without\/","id":"b8k7yt","body":"So, I\u2019ve been working at this restaurant\/bar  for over a year now and I love the place. The money is steady and I have my regulars that come in.\nThere were whispers about the owner wanting to sell the place but I didn\u2019t want to believe it because I thought someone would at least give us a heads up...  \n\nWell I went to start my shift and the new manager pulled me aside and said, \u201cwe can\u2019t afford you, and all the other staff. Well call you if things pick back up.\u201d \n\nI understand that Louisiana is a right to work state. But there has to be something that could be done besides filing unemployment.\n\n","title":"New ownership fired all the old staff without notice. (LA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571611752,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkr8xk\/anonymous_harassment\/","id":"dkr8xk","body":"I am being cyber harassed via anonymous texts through an app. So far it has only happened on two occasions but this person is essentially black mailing me\/holding something over my head. \n\nI am pretty confident who this person is but I cannot prove it. A police friend of mine is going to try and track the phone where the messages are coming from. He was able to do it before when someone was getting anonymous messages through an app, so I am hopeful.\n\nI previously blocked this person on all social media and their phone number. Even my partner has them blocked. I\u2019ve blocked every anonymous number they\u2019ve used\n\nDo I have a case for a no contact order if I can prove where the texts are coming from? I\u2019m going to change my number tomorrow. TYIA","title":"Anonymous harassment","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507382452,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74utiz\/wisconsin_late_paycheckany_employer_repercussions\/","id":"74utiz","body":"I noticed I was overpaid when looking at my pay stub when it posted online 10 days before payday. I told HR about error, they said it will be fixed by payday and your direct deposit for correct amount will go through. \n\nPayday comes(on a Friday)-no paycheck deposit. I was traveling and checking on my bank app. Checked later in day-still nothing. I get no email or call from HR saying it's delayed or anything. Go in to HR and Monday and ask what's up-\"It's still being processed, will be mailed from corporate and we'll have it here as a physical check tomorrow\". OK. Go Tuesday-no check. \"It's still being processed it'll be here tomorrow\". Go Wednesday, finally get check-5 DAYS AFTER PAYDAY AND 15 DAYS SINCE I TOLD THEM OF ERROR.\n\nI get paid once a month and I have bills and rent due on 1st. Could have been extremely damaging with overdraft, minimum balance, and bounced check fees had I no savings or had forethought to actually check my account before using debit card. I was fine because I have a buffer-but not all are so lucky. \n\nQuestion- Should I talk to an ombudsman or someone? Is there any way HR\/payroll can be held accountable besides me writing a strongly worded letter to corporate? I understand mistakes happen but there was no communication on their end at all. Complete negligence. \n\nTLDR; Missed paycheck and HR didn't let me know it would be late. I had to ask every step of way. Any way to hold them accountable?","title":"(Wisconsin) Late paycheck-any employer repercussions?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508531635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77ov7u\/bc_rental_building_owner_installed_cameras\/","id":"77ov7u","body":"I\u2019m worried about this building owner trying to renovict is next year with a major reno to the building\u2019s windows. I\u2019m trying to amass all their wrongdoings with hopes that it might help our fight against possible eviction for renos\/ jacking rent to take advantage of the current market in Vancouver.","title":"[B.C.] rental building owner installed cameras without any signs or notice to residents. PIPA states they need to prior to installation but is that law?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445588062,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pvsbs\/pa_emotionally_abusive_guardians\/","id":"3pvsbs","body":"Hi Reddit. \n\nI'm posting on the behalf of someone I know, and I have very little legal knowledge along with few details. This means a lot to me, so I would be very appreciative if you could supply some advice. \n\nA friend of mine (lets call her Jay, she is 15 years old) lives primarily with her father (and stepmother), and her mother has them on only on certain days of the week. She struggles with severe depression, anxiety, trauma, and has attempted suicide in the past.  Her father and stepmother treat her very badly, often insulting her and overall being controlling and manipulative. They will tell her that she is fat, ugly, worthless, and blame her for anything and everything bad. It's awful because she believes them when they insult her, and she thinks she deserves the abuse. One of the biggest reasons Jay has such trouble coping with her emotional issues is because of how much awful her living condition is. She has been trying to live with her mother who is much better of a parent than her father but so far nothing. It would be so beneficial to everyone if she lived with her mother, but the father has fought against it.\n\nFrom my standpoint, and the standpoint of many others, it is a quick fix for her emotional problems if she lived where there isn't emotional abuse, but rather love and emotional support with her mother. It's logical. I'm afraid of her safety because I'm not sure how long she will be able to take the constant victimization and bullying.\n\nAs someone who cares deeply about her, and who struggles depression and suicidal thoughts as well, what would be some steps to take in the direction of getting custody to the mother? We also can't afford to pay an attorney.\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"(PA) Emotionally Abusive Guardians","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555180857,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bctolv\/ca_exwife_may_be_remarried_meaning_the_alimony\/","id":"bctolv","body":"This post is on behalf of my grandfather, who is 85 and doesn't have Reddit.\n\nMy grandfather has always been fairly well-off, and his ex-wife has only ever wanted him for his money. When they got divorced in 2016 the court ordered him to pay some amount in alimony. The agreement was that when she remarried, the checks would stop. (I don't know anything about divorce, so that might be standard.)\n\nWell, now she's just sent my grandfather a long-winded letter stating that he needs to pay her $30,000 or she will take him to court (she didn't explain for what, but she did claim he was abusive, which he isn't and never has been). We're aware this is extortion and we know she has no case considering she TOLD us, but it got us to do some digging into her life and we think she might have already remarried. She lives in Thousand Oaks but it's possible she remarried in Las Vegas. Is there any legal way to find out if she has a marriage license somewhere? We could use it not only to stop my grandfather from paying her further, but also we could force her to pay back everything from after she was married.","title":"[CA] Ex-wife may be remarried, meaning the alimony checks will stop - any legal way to find out?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570709114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfx0x3\/friend_needs_advice_on_exwife_and_custody_battle\/","id":"dfx0x3","body":"My buddy asked me to post here because he doesn\u2019t know what to do anymore. He and his ex wife divorced over 5 years ago. She has lied in court and been found out multiple times, even things as simple as saying she couldn\u2019t speak english and never been even yelled at. She\u2019s changed her address twice without telling anyone and the judges did nothing. She ignores him about little things that in paperwork she is supposed to do, including him calling his child once a day. He\u2019s talked to police officers but they say they cant do anything, \u201cwe wish we could but our hands are tied\u201d. The list goes on, but how can he do anything when everyone seems afraid to punish her? He works away from home most of the week so if they did, are they afraid she would be deported and he\u2019d have to manage himself?","title":"Friend needs advice on ex-wife and custody battle","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552319811,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azv27u\/help_elderly_father_abandoned_by_wife_of_25_years\/","id":"azv27u","body":"This is in FLORIDA :::\n\nMy father (75) has been married to this woman for over 20 years.\nHe\u2019s been in the hospital for the pass few weeks and he\u2019s saying he doesn\u2019t want to go back home due to mold and a failing roof . So naturally - I\u2019m moving him in with me and my fianc\u00e9. I am 30 he is 27. \n\nMy question is what do we do with the house ? He wants me to have it , but legally I feel like it\u2019s hers. She hasn\u2019t been back for 6 years and she\u2019s been seeing another man in between those years. \nCan he claim abandonment? He owned the house before they were together . \n\nShe is my step mother and we have NEVER gotten along due to extreme alcoholism . I have called and asked her to come down , and help take care of him. It just seems like she is waiting for him to die. Last time I spoke to her she said: \n\u201cI\u2019m not coming out of this marriage without anything\u201d\n\nShe already has taken over their vacation home in the mountains and claims it as hers, my father hasn\u2019t been there in over 6 years , and it\u2019s not fair he paid for it. She never worked ever . \n\nI\u2019m just at a loss here. ","title":"HELP! ELDERLY FATHER ABANDONED BY WIFE (of 25 years) FOR PAST 6 YEARS DURING HEALTH CRISIS ...","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553269674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b46n9k\/someone_i_know_is_potentially_grooming_minors\/","id":"b46n9k","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice, frequent lurker here. I'm also an attorney, so to a certain degree I ought to know the answer to my own question, but it involves something outside my specialization so I thought I'd ask you first. Throwaway for obvious reasons.\n\n​\n\nMy (32\/F) father (74\/M) has a long-time friend who I'll call Tom (38\/M). Tom is the son of one of my father's close friends, and my father thinks of Tom as an \"adopted nephew.\" He's known Tom since he was a baby, and nowadays Tom is in his late 30s (38 if I remember right). Tom lives in Michigan, we live in Florida.\n\n​\n\nSeveral months ago, I learned (through a long story I won't get into here) that Tom had sexually abused my 13 year old step-sister during a visit at my father's house. I don't know what specific sex acts happened between them, but I know it was something sexual and illegal. I reported the incident to the DCF hotline number and told them the limited details I knew about it. I was also under the impression that my father and stepmother were going to report the incident to the police.\n\n​\n\nHowever, I later found out that my father threatened to divorce my stepmother (33\/F) if anything ever happened to Tom as a result of reporting the abuse. My stepmother is a very meek woman, uneducated, used to having other people take care of her, and she basically has no financial power\/leverage to use in their extremely uneven power dynamic marriage. While she isn't \"evil,\" my father successfully manipulated her into never reporting what happened or taking my stepsister to the police. And my stepsister kept it a secret for a long time and seems to be unwilling to talk about it with others (her mother found out after she told a friend, and her friend told her mom, and the mom told her).\n\n​\n\nAs far as I know, nothing ever came from my call to the DCF hotline, most likely because there were so few details I could provide. Moreover, Tom lives in Michigan and has been \"banned\" from returning to my father's house, so it isn't a high-risk situation where a child is living with their abuser and is being repeatedly abused. Alternatively, it's possible that an investigator was sent to talk to my stepmother and stepsister, but for the reasons above, my stepsister refused to tell them what happened and\/or my stepmother did not cooperate.\n\n​\n\nI recently learned that my stepsister (now 16) is suicidal, doing drugs, fighting physically with both her mother and my father, and has been involuntarily committed by the police three times. I know it's because of what happened to her and the fact that neither of her parents did anything about it. I took her out to the zoo after I heard about what was going on; she told me that my father has been emotionally abusive to her since the incident and that she's still too scared to report what happened. Since then, my stepmother told me her behavior has improved and she decided to go back to high school (she was out for a whole month following her most recent arrest\/commitment), so she is at least doing better.\n\n​\n\nSuffice to say I'm not happy with my father right now. I'm sure you can read between the lines of the story above and see how messed up he is. He has both NPD and ASPD and this was my last straw with trying to put up with his behavior. I told him I'm not speaking to him until he tries to fix the situation with his stepdaughter, which I know he won't do, which means I won't be speaking to him again. And honestly, the thought of that doesn't upset me at all.\n\n​\n\nNow, on to my question. I know that Tom loves video games and spends a lot of time on the internet. I'm pretty sure this was how he was able to groom my stepsister when she was 12-13. I suspect that they talked to each other online, leading up to the abuse incident.\n\n​\n\nI'm worried that this guy could potentially be talking to other minors online and\/or meeting up with other children where he lives in Michigan. I do not know his address or phone number, but I \\*may\\* be able to convince my stepmother into giving me that information. (It's also possible she will refuse to do so in order to protect herself.)\n\n​\n\nAlthough, again, I don't know if he's actually doing this to any other children or not. I also don't technically \"know\" whether he used to internet to talk to her or played any games online with her.\n\n​\n\nIt's possible that if I walk into my local police station and demand to talk to a detective that they might take some further action. But I don't want to subject my sister to unnecessary trauma and she's made it clear to me that she wants to move on without reporting it, no matter how much I tell her to.\n\n​\n\nIs there, realistically, anything I can do further in this situation to \\*at least\\* get this child predator out of his community and into prison? Should I contact authorities in Michigan? Which ones, considering I don't know the exact county\/city he lives in? Federal authorities? Should I go to the local police myself and see if there's anything they can do to help investigate him across state lines?\n\n​\n\nTL;DR: I know someone who is possibly, but not definitely, talking to minors online for sexual purposes. I know he is a threat to children and I strongly suspect he groomed a minor online at least one time, but due to various reasons, it was never reported or investigated. I do not know his full name or his address, but I may be able to find that info. Is there anything else I can do to have the authorities look into this?\n\n​\n\nThanks ahead of time for reading. In the event this ends up on BOLA, I can ***100%*** assure you that this really happened and I am not a troll.","title":"Someone I know is potentially grooming minors online. Is there anything I can do in this situation? (FL)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569422778,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d94ae5\/on_canada_discriminatory_parental_leave_top_up\/","id":"d94ae5","body":"My husband works for a large international company.  I'm pregnant and he's planning on taking parental leave when our second child is born.  He looked into the parental leave top up policy with our first and was pleased to see that there's a 6 week 100% top up available.  When he notified HR that he was planning on taking the full 6 weeks, he was told (and given documents that support) that the leave is only for the \"parent who has given birth\".\n\n\nIs this a discriminatory policy, or is it just a grey area?  I understand why it is the way it is (obviously the time it takes to heal from birth is non negotiable) but in addition to men it also excludes parents who adopt or use a surrogate.  If it is discriminatory, is there a way to set things right reasonably anonymously?  Our big worry would be retribution if we complained.","title":"[ON, Canada] Discriminatory parental leave top up policy?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539209374,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n42eg\/60_day_notice_rules_ontario_canada\/","id":"9n42eg","body":"Hello\n\nMe and my fiance rent in an apartment building in Ontario. Currently we are renting month to month past the lease expiry of 1 year. We never signed a new lease. We ended up finding an apartment that we want to move to. We have paid a depost ( 100 dollars) for the new place however the new landlord wants us to move in for Nov 15. \n\nAs I'm sure you know the law requires us to provide 60 days notice that we are moving out. We gave notice on tuesday this week, so the lease would be expiring dec 8. The current landlord has now told us that our move out date has to be dec 31. Which would be more than 60 days notice, and we would be paying for two different apartments for november (not financially possible), potentially losing the new one (which my fiancee has her heart set on). \n\nSo my question is can the current landlord force us to do that? Does it have to terminate at the end of the month? And for the record we would be willing to pay whatever the cost is for those extra 8 days. Or are we SOL?","title":"60 Day notice rules Ontario canada","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553631811,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5ur7x\/i_opted_out_of_my_employers_mandatory_arbitration\/","id":"b5ur7x","body":"The company recently went through a bankruptcy. During the process, our legal entity changed (although nothing else did), and we were all given new mandatory arbitration agreements to sign. This was the only indication I've had that anything has changed at the company. I asked my HR rep who said all employment is now contingent on arbitration agreements. Is this allowed?","title":"I opted out of my employer's mandatory arbitration agreement, now I'm being told it is obligatory. (IL)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550941165,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atxgfe\/ga_can_my_employer_prevent_me_and_other_employees\/","id":"atxgfe","body":"I just found out from my manager that they are about to implement a new rule in which employees are not allowed to use the restroom while clocked in and may not clock out to use the restroom and may not go until their scheduled breaks (which are about 3 hours apart). Is this legal? Can they do this?","title":"(GA) Can my employer prevent me and other employees from using the bathroom?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540387461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qzmeb\/1st_aid_cpr_training_company_liability\/","id":"9qzmeb","body":"Hello, I am in the process of starting a 1st aid and CPR training company and need some advice on the liability of training services. Once I certify a student can they come back and sue for training provided? If so, how do I protect my company? Do I need to have all of my students\/customers sign an agreement? I am very new to all of this and any advice would be much appreciated! ","title":"1st Aid & CPR Training Company Liability","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505495706,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70b9c5\/what_does_it_take_to_remove_a_gal\/","id":"70b9c5","body":"I'm in Illinois. Cook County.\n\nIf the GAL has shown (what I believe to be) clear bias and advocacy for one parent rather than advocating for the minor child they've been appointed to represent, how can that be shown? What is the process for GAL removal? Is it unlikely that they'll be removed? Any idea on timeline and expenses to have them removed?\n\nIn my case in particular, I have one lawyer who believes removal is the right path and the lead lawyer who thinks that the correct path is to work around the GAL.\n\nHave you ever been part of a GAL removal? Was it successful? Is it the same judge who oversees the case who will make the decision whether or not to remove? \n","title":"What does it take to remove a GAL?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508368441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77ai5f\/making_sure_inheritance_is_honored_fl\/","id":"77ai5f","body":"I'm an only child. My father is married to a younger woman who will more than likely outlive him by many years. He owns property and two homes on the land that he has always promised to me. \n\n\nHe's made it clear that the title to the land is for blood family, only (no spouses). However, once he's gone he wants his wife to stay in the home and retain ownership until she passes, and only then will I truly inherit the property and homes. \n\nWhen my father passes, I have no intention of continuing a relationship with this woman. Will have to keep her in my life at least until I'm sure her final papers have everything related to the property and homes in my name?","title":"Making sure inheritance is honored? (FL)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571012812,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhixxw\/relocation_contract_for_repayment\/","id":"dhixxw","body":"I took a promotion and from that moved. The company paid for the move. Breaking my lease and getting a uhaul. The contract stats that I\u2019d have to repay funds if I quit or am fired within 2 years. The issue is I\u2019ve been working 70-100 hours a week since I took the job and am at my breaking point. I\u2019m not sure if there is a way out but it\u2019s something that\u2019s kind of holding me in to a job that is punishing to my physical and mental wellbeing. And advice is appreciated.","title":"Relocation contract for repayment","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1506624868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/732871\/i_received_a_traffic_ticket_what_information\/","id":"732871","body":"I received this ticket in Massachusetts, United States. This is my first ticket and I did some research and found out that if any information is wrong, they can possibly dismiss the ticket. So a few things wrong is he put my middle name with my first name instead of putting it in the middle initial spot. The city of where I got pulled over was also not included on the ticket. Only the street name was there with a number. I don\u2019t know if these are strong enough point though. What does the agent name at the bottom of the ticket mean? That\u2019s not filled out either. I\u2019m mostly afraid of my insurance going up. Any help is appreciated. thank you\n\nEdit: is there also any way I can go to traffic school to get out of this ticket?","title":"I received a traffic ticket. What information needs to be on it?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444613737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oedx5\/ct_recently_employed_to_provide_inhome_behavior\/","id":"3oedx5","body":"I realize plenty of people on salary work more than the standard 40 hours per week, but my question is about the legality of claiming full time is 30 hours per week and then specifically scheduling me for much more than that. To be clear I am okay with staying late at a client's house if a session runs late or there are problems, but I want to know if him going into the system and knowingly scheduling me for 30+ hours is legal even if we agreed on 30. \n\nMore background: Recently I was employed by a man who runs an in-home therapy service to children with autism. It's a small business with basically the owner and then us workers. There is no office or anything. The client's insurance pays him through an online scheduling\/appointment service and then he pays us. During the interview he states salaried\/full time hours are 30 hours per week.  Once I start actually working, though, I'm being scheduled in the 40-50 range with no mention of overtime. Is this allowed? The company is an LLC if that makes any difference. ","title":"[CT] Recently employed to provide in-home behavior therapy to children with autism. Employer states salaried\/full time work week is 30 hours\/wk, but schedules me for 40-50 hours\/wk. Is this legal? More details in post","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505420504,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/704wdx\/2_speeding_tickets_within_20_minutes_tx\/","id":"704wdx","body":"Ok I know I was dumb but...\n\nThe first one happened when I was leaving K town in K county driving from my moms house to my own in a neighboring city 25 mi. away. A city cop parked on the side of the road clocked me going 67 in a 55. Ok I fucked up give me a ticket. \n\n20 minutes later, after closely watching my speed my mind starts wandering and a Sheriff driving toward me in the oncoming lane clocked me going 81 in a 70. I was outside of B city limits in B county. He was a total ass but that's beside the point. Two tickets in two counties in less than half an hour. \n\nI can handle paying one ticket, but two is feeling unmanageable. Basically, is there anything I can do? What is my best course of action?\n","title":"2 speeding tickets within 20 minutes!!! TX","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569727667,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daq14h\/speeding_camera_flash_in_california\/","id":"daq14h","body":"im from arizona, was visiting Dana point Ca when i was on the freeway getting off and a camera flashed me, i guess i was going about 40mph on the exit?? not sure anyway. ...\n\nhow much are these tickets usually in this part of CA and does it go on my drivers record? \ni am a 24 non resident from arizona with a  workers permit. \n\nthanks guys.","title":"speeding camera flash in California","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503366191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v7sz5\/ar_found_out_my_half_sister_stole_my_identity\/","id":"6v7sz5","body":"Last week I posted about a fraudulent account in collections hitting my credit report. The collector claims I have an outstanding debt from an ER visit in June 2016. I filed disputes with the CRAs, sent a letter to dispute the collection with the debt collector, reported my identity stolen through the FTC, filed a complaint with the CFPB since the debt collector wouldn't provide any info, and also filed complaints with the attorneys general in Arkansas and Missouri, where the collector is located.\n\nToday I got an email from the CFPB saying that the debt collector had responded and that my complaint was closed. The response said that they were treating the account as fraud and returning it to the creditor as well as sending a record for deletion to the CRAs. I found it hard to believe that the collector would budge this easily after my previous communication with them. I called the collector to ask them specific questions related to their complaint response, hoping to record proof of them contradicting their response to the CFPB. \n\nTurns out the debt collector is doing the right thing, for the moment at least. The guy I talked to this time was much more helpful and even cooperative. He was able to give me much more information about this debt that is supposedly mine. He told me that the patient who went to the ER was...my niece! Her mother is my half sister. I would consider us estranged. The only time she talks to anyone in my family is when she needs money. My first instinct when I saw the collection was that she put my name on something, and after five days of investigating it turns out I was right.\n\nTomorrow I'm talking to the hospital to verify that this wasn't some sort of billing error on their part. They told me last week that they had no record of me being seen that day or being listed as a guarantor, but the account in collections seems like evidence to the contrary. \n\nDepending on how my conversation with hospital records, I'll be filing a police report. My half sister needs to face some consequences for once. Two questions - what charges might she expect to face? Also, should I expect any issues with the hospital related to HIPAA or PHI? I don't expect to be told what my niece was treated for, but if I'm on the hook for payment I would expect to know if my name is on intake records.","title":"[AR] Found out my half sister stole my identity","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570814318,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgi9gm\/toxic_cofounder\/","id":"dgi9gm","body":"I recently started a startup with a coworker\/friend I\u2019ve known for a few years and someone else I met a few months ago. We\u2019ve finished our launch plans, are preparing for app development and have investors interested so we\u2019re pre-revenue and basically all we have is an idea.  My co-founder that is also my coworker started acting strange in the past month. He has missed several meetings (which are important so we can finalize plans to meet with investors), has seemingly ignored calls and messages (though he claims that he never received them but has openly admitted he\u2019s purposefully chosen to remain silent as of recent). Those actions have begun to sour the teams feelings towards him. \n\nI was able to get a call through to him to express some grievances one time when an issue of equity distribution came up. I told him that the team is more than willing to discuss his grievances and adjust the equity to satisfy everyone. I made several attempts via text to setup a meeting with him following that call to discuss his grievances but he seemed apprehensive about meeting providing excuses. Recently I went to his desk and made him schedule a meeting. \n\nMy thinking is that he doesn\u2019t want to work on the startup anymore but is not wanting to say it himself. We were in the process of preparing our co-founder agreement and operating agreement before he started acting strangely. I\u2019m prepared to let him go,  however, he is still on the incorporation paperwork with his stake of equity. I have scheduled a meeting with him later today which he\u2019s agreed to. The purpose of the meeting is to ask him what has been going on and if he\u2019s still interested in being apart of the team. If he\u2019s not I\u2019d like to have him sign and NDA a non-compete agreement and for him to surrender his co-founder status and equity. I am not hopeful that he will continue working with us, i just want him to surrender his position and equity with no misunderstandings or issues.  \n\nAny recommendations on how I should I go about this meeting? Should I tell him upfront that we need him to sign documents forfeiting his claim to the company or just accept his resignation and have lawyers draw up paperwork and have him sign it later?","title":"Toxic Co-Founder","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446568964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rdd5e\/nyc_alerting_surrounding_people_to_the_presence\/","id":"3rdd5e","body":"We play middle age \"beer league\" pickup soccer in NYC in a public park. There are about 20 of us and occasionally we'll sit around the park after the games and drink a couple beers and BS for a while. I understand the illegality of that and actually got popped a year ago and got a whopping $10 fine.\n\nThe police occasionally come through but you can usually see them coming from 30'-40' away. Yesterday there were probably 10 people drinking beers and changing at different places around the field. I wasn't partaking but I did see the police coming early because I was the closest to the directing they were coming from. I yelled across the field \"THE POLICE ARE COMING,\" so the people who weren't aware could do whatever they needed to do to be in compliance. This was actually the second time this happened, I did it about five months ago under the same circumstances.\n\nNeedless to say, that didn't go over well with the three officers. They took my ID ran it etc etc. They said that it's obstructing the duties of an officer (or something like that, I forget the exact phrasing) to warn people that the police are around. I politely argued for a minute until the other officer came back with my ID and said I could go, then reiterated what his partner said about warning people that police are in the area. The ID officer said he remembered me from last time and that if I ever did it again he'll arrest me. I thanked him and went about my business and nobody got ticketed.\n\nIs it illegal (generally speaking) to simply yell, \"THE POLICE ARE COMING\" in a situation like this? Don't get me wrong, I don't go out every day doing this kind of stuff and looking for trouble; just curious.","title":"NYC - Alerting surrounding people to the presence of police in a public place.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569158365,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7qb8t\/why_am_i_not_allowed_to_film_anywhere\/","id":"d7qb8t","body":"I'm trying to be a YouTuber in Romania. Now, everytime I try to film somewhere be it mall,parking lot, hotel, and such properties I'm always kicked out and told that \"this is a private property\". This usually comes with a stupid excuse such as in the hotel example in which they said \" it's so ideas don't get stolen\" even though I made sure to only film a white wall and nothing else. This is starting to get exetremely annoying and unnecessary. Can someone let me know what the problem with filming in such places is?","title":"Why am I not allowed to film anywhere?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553379450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4oywe\/quashed_a_warrant\/","id":"b4oywe","body":"I am looking for a template and advice to write for a motion to quash a warrant for Tucon AZ. The person is currently out of state. So this will be mail in. This is for a ticket from 1999. The DMV from out of state said they won\u2019t give him a drivers license until he either starts a payment  plan or pays in full. ","title":"Quashed a warrant","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570034742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dccu5q\/my_boyfriend_has_physical_not_legal_custody_of\/","id":"dccu5q","body":"I\u2019m dating a guy with a bat shit crazy ex wife. She is \u201cafraid\u201d to let her children stay at his moms house because she thinks his stepdad will rape them. Nothing has ever happened, but she hates his mom and stepdad. His stepdad is not a sex offender nor has ever been accused of anything like this. \n\nBecause this is a false and serious accusation, can my bf do anything to mediate the situation without suing for legal custody? Can she really control where they are even when they\u2019re with him?","title":"My boyfriend has physical not legal custody of his children. Can his ex wife ban his kids from staying at his moms house?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568832427,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d628f3\/discrimination_based_on_sex_as_a_business_model\/","id":"d628f3","body":"Hypothetical here, if I wanted to start a gym that only allowed female members would that be legal, or could I get sued because of discrimination based on sex? If it is illegal, could I work around that by making it cost prohibitive for males to attend the gym (i.e. female $20\/month, male $250\/month)?","title":"Discrimination based on sex as a business model?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569419695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d93m74\/im_on_salary_at_my_company_and_they_just_sent_out\/","id":"d93m74","body":"I was under the impression that you can\u2019t deduct a salaried employees pay based on hours worked in a single day.","title":"I\u2019m on Salary at my company and they just sent out an email stating - Oct. 1st everyone will be required to use an app to track your hours and you will be paid on hours clocked. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553812399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6pd4y\/job_offer_rescinded_gender_discrimination\/","id":"b6pd4y","body":"I have been with my current company since September 2016, a small, 15 employee, non-profit. I was promoted in October 2017 and by August 2018 I had taken on several of my supervisors (Executive Director) responsibilities as he was removed pending an investigation. I became pregnant, was out for 8 weeks. I came back to work in December 2018 and by  January 2019 the supervisor position was posted. I applied after receiving feedback encouraging me to from current staff, board members and the interim director. I interviewed for the position along with three others. \n\nOn Monday 3\/25\/19 I was offered the position, I asked to think it over and discuss this with my husband before I signed the offer. I counter offered the next morning and heard nothing. Wednesday evening I received a text message from the interim director indicating that the offer was rescinded and the position was being reposted. I inquired as to why and was told (via text), \u201cYes, your email response was above their expectation.\u201d\n \nI replied, \u201cSo instead of counter offering or explaining that it was higher than anticipated they would rather repost. I was unaware that salary negotiation was unacceptable.\u201d\n\nHe replied, \u201cIt was the tone\u201d\n\nI replied, \u201cSorry, I was unaware that there was a tone. I wanted to remain professional yet leave it open for discussion.\u201d\n\nThis is the email I sent: \n\n\u201cDear Mr. (interim director),\n\nI wanted to thank you and the board of directors for the job offer and I am very excited for the opportunity to lead the (company) as the executive director. After taking into consideration the unique value that my education and work experience brings to the organization I would like to discuss the starting salary before I sign the offer. According to my research I am looking for an offer closer to $48,850 which is less than the median average salary for non-profit executive directors and well below the starting base salary of previous directors.\n\nI am aware of our current financial situation; however, I am confident that I can make valuable contributions to the company and I hope we can come to a mutual agreement.\n\nRegards,\n(Extemporia)\u201d\n\nI was initially offered $7,250 less and was hoping to negotiate an amount between what the position posted for, $37,440-$52,640. I know that the two previous male directors started around $45-50,000 and they did not have the same amount of experience I do. Also, the most recent director is currently being investigated for felony theft charges from the company. \n\nI have contacted a lawyer and am waiting to hear back. My husband has contacted the EEOC as well. I feel the company grossly mishandled the entire situation and it looks an awful lot like gender discrimination to me. \n\nAny advice\/input is appreciated. \n","title":"Job offer rescinded, gender discrimination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540518942,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rgjvt\/would_having_people_sign_a_sheet_says_my_name_is\/","id":"9rgjvt","body":"I'm a college student and I'm driving some friends to cheer on some of our other friends at an away game this weekend. My dad wants me to get everybody to sign a waiver so that hes not financially responsible in case of an accident or something. Could I just write on a piece of paper that says \"u\/_hank_marducas_ is not liable for any injury?\" Or something similar? How should I go about getting\/making this waiver to make it not too difficult for myself or anybody else. \n\nAlso, would I be any more liable than if i were driving a couple of my friends to get dinner since this isnt a school sanctioned journey?","title":"Would having people sign a sheet says [my name] is not liable qualify as a waiver?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504204897,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x8sw0\/following_too_closely_citation\/","id":"6x8sw0","body":"Recently was exiting the highway and was stopped behind a car at the stop sign waiting to turn right. The car  was pulled around the corner pretty far but was stopped yielding to traffic. I let off the gas and started rolling then looked left to check for traffic. I failed to notice that the car in front of me stopped for no reason as I began to push on the gas and I ran into the back of it. The car in front of me suffered some damage which I took full responsibility for, but the officer issued me a following too closely citation.\n\nI did a bit of research and saw that others have fought this citation and failed. I'm posting because I find it a bit ridiculous I was issued this for being STOPPED too close to another car? Do you feel this is something I can fight?\nI'm in Utah. \n\n\nNinja edit: the reason I'm so salty about this is my older brother would purposely act like he was turning right and let stop suddenly then accept cash rather than billing insurance. He did this 5 or 6 times until his car was best up enough it was totaled he submitted to the insurance.","title":"Following too closely citation","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569108351,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7i9s5\/employer_limits_amount_of_sick_time_used_per_day\/","id":"d7i9s5","body":"Pretty basic issue here, I work twelve hour shifts but management only allows up to 10 hours of sick time to be used per day, meaning if I get sick I miss out on those hours entirely. \n\nIs this illegal or just a dick move?","title":"Employer limits amount of sick time used per day. [WA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554679761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bamm8z\/what_are_the_odds_money_owed_to_landlord_would\/","id":"bamm8z","body":"My landlord is attempting to sue me for over $16000+all fees, so probably close to 20 grand.\n\nHe is claiming that he has to replace carpet, padding, and subfloor throughout the entire house because of pet damage.\n\nThis would put me over 50k in debt making under 30k a year.\n\nWith a couple places including the landlord trying to sue me and tying to garnish my wages.\n\nWhat is the likelyhood that his 20k lawsuit would get discharged through bankruptcy? I know sometimes it won\u2019t discharge stuff like that.\n\nWhat would he have to do to keep it from being discharged? Would he likely do it? Or do most creditors just roll over during a bankruptcy.\n\nI\u2019m in indiana","title":"What are the odds money owed to landlord would get discharged by bankruptcy?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447509485,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ss406\/illinois_judge_ruled_that_i_am_no_longer\/","id":"3ss406","body":"Hi LegalAdvice, a few days ago I had my day in court. I was being sued by my former roommate for an apartment I moved out of with over 11 months left in the lease [JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY]. The judge's ruling was that I would pay a dollar amount and no longer be obligated to the lease, and also stating that the roommate would be soley responsible for the remainder of the lease. \n  \nI paid the roommate, but is there anything I should do with regards to the landlord? They do not know this lawsuit took place and I'm wondering what that means for the lease. I do still have keys for the apartment and my name, as far as the landlords are concerned, is still on the lease. I'd like to protect myself in all remaining cases.\n  \nWhat would you recommend?","title":"[Illinois] Judge ruled that I am no longer obligated to ongoing lease after being sued by roommate for unpaid rent, what now?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571269753,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diy11n\/work_doesnt_want_me_to_disclose_my_mental_illness\/","id":"diy11n","body":"My company was taken over by another brand. It means all of our staff had to re fill out the hiring paperwork, which includes a disability\/illness disclosure form. \n\nFor the past seven years of working various jobs, I\u2019ve always disclosed that I have severe depression. The only accommodation I ever ask is that some days I may need to call in sick (if things are servere) and that I do have therapy appointments one day a week that I include in my availability. It\u2019s never been an issue. \n\nBut the new company sent me back the paperwork and told me they didn\u2019t want me to disclose that sort of thing. The letter they sent basically said \u201cit\u2019s not the type of illness we\u2019ve ever had to accommodate for in the past so it\u2019s not necessary for you to fill out this paperwork.\u201d\n\nI\u2019ve had friends lose their jobs and get screwed over over not having documentation like this. I have all the paperwork from a doctor to prove I have a legal disability. Our new HR won\u2019t return my calls or emails and I\u2019m not sure if I should even be going to work until this is settled. Management won\u2019t say anything further on the situation. \n\nWhere do I go from here?\n\nLocation: Canada.","title":"Work doesn\u2019t want me to disclose my mental illness?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507669045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75k3rh\/college_housing_company_trying_to_collect_on\/","id":"75k3rh","body":"I recently graduated and moved out of my college neighborhood community. I have had a terrible experience with this company as they are absolutely after every dime the can get from college students. Lose a silicone guest wristband? $25. Lose the half-broken gate remote? $50. Trash bag not completely in **tiny** 15 gallon valet (sounds fancy, but they failed to take our trash more often than not) trash bin? $15.\n\n \n\nI know you have to crack down on college students to prevent any rowdiness, but they were money-grabbing at every corner with this fee and that fee. To me, their actions are predatory towards college students who are irresponsible and not willing to dispute charges.\n\n \n\nCurrently, they are trying to claim $380 from each of us (3 roommates). Here's the breakdown: https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/4GmoAFm.png\n\nFirstly I find it odd that the $80 bedroom cleaning fee was applied to all 3 of our individual bedrooms. The lease already had a $35 \"Restorative Fee\" to cover carpet cleaning which was separately billed, and I made sure to clean the bathroom (shower, sink, toilet, counter) and not leave anything behind in the bedroom.\n\nSecondly, the full paint I don't understand because there was nothing more than regular wear and tear.\n\nThe company is now threatening to transfer the collection agency, which I'm not sure what that all entails, tbh. Please let me know if I am out-of-line and these charges are justified or if I am in the right and can somehow get out of these charges.\n\n \n\nAs far as the lease goes:\n\nTo paraphrase, one bullet says that the Tenant must return the Dwelling in the same or better condition, reasonable wear and tear excepted, clean and free of trash with all appliances and fixtures working. Any additional stain removal, carpet repair, and\/or replacement charges will not be an additional charge as provided in the damages section.\nNext bullet says the Tenant must pay all unpaid rent and other charges without limitation, charges for damages, the amount of which shall be determined in the reasonable discretion of Landlord.\nI was going to go look in the damages section but I can't seem to find one in the document, so maybe it's dispersed throughout different sections.\n\n \n\n**Any suggestions are welcome**","title":"College housing company trying to collect on exorbitant move-out fees. (Location: Oklahoma, United States)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570914506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh0xwf\/2_speeding_tickets_in_one_week\/","id":"dh0xwf","body":"i just received my second speeding ticket this week and I'm not sure what to do. i work at pizza hut and i don't have the money to pay them both and I'm planning to go to court. i was planning on going to college in january but now I'm not sure if I'll be able to go and just leave my parents to deal with it. i guess i just need advice if anyone here has experience","title":"2 speeding tickets in one week","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541735811,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vh6yq\/parents_living_trust_attorney_in_ca_asked_for\/","id":"9vh6yq","body":"I got a courtesy letter from the county saying \u201cour records indicate that a grant deed was recently recorded under your name in our office...\u201d. The notice is to verify accuracy and legitimacy. Is it normal for there to be changes made to the grant deed when doing a living trust? I\u2019m worried because I can\u2019t imagine changing the grant deed is necessary and without having a copy of the new recordings, I have no clue what was done. Please help, thanks!","title":"Parents living trust attorney in CA asked for original grand deed to their home so we provided it and now received a potential fraud letter from county.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570770354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgabem\/landlord_recording_videos_through_bedroom_window\/","id":"dgabem","body":"Living in MA.\n\nA bit of background: our roommate has been renting from our landlord for 3+ years and my boyfriend and I moved in 6 months ago. We live above our landlord and have no lease. Our roommate is a musician which the landlord has had no issue with until the last month. Roommate is respectful of quite hours and generally turns things down by around 8-9pm. This is not our only issue with our landlord and we\u2019ve been searching for a new place, but housing is expensive.\n\nThe issue: on Tuesday Landlord approached Roommate to turn down his music at around 5pm by coming up onto our deck and knocking on Roommate\u2019s bedroom window. He yelled for Roommate to turn down his music. When Roommate opened the blinds to reply, he noticed that Landlord was recording through the window on his phone. He admitted to recording videos when he\u2019s done this before as well (4-5 times in the past month). He made some joke about not trying to make a pervy video which made us very uncomfortable. When Roommate went to the police to ask if this was legal because we are a 2-party consent state, they said it was because he was outside.\n\nIs this true? Did the police just not want to get involved in what could be a civil matter because he is our landlord? At what point does a conversation no longer become private under the 2-party consent laws?\n\nI feel like what it boils down to was that he was recording through our apartment window and the apartment is private. I\u2019m worried this may be more of a problem than we know about because if he wanted proof of the conversation he could have just sent a text. I don\u2019t want to be screwed over if we actually have a peeping Tom situation (I\u2019m female, not that it really matters).","title":"Landlord recording videos through bedroom window","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1549941971,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aposl7\/old_boss_contscted_new_employer_to_talk_shit\/","id":"aposl7","body":"I left on a sour note with my prior supervisor when I went to work for a friend. My old supervisor contacted my friend\/new boss to talk about how awful I am and tell her things that are untrue and have been proven untrue. What, if any, legal recourse do I have? I'm in Oregon.","title":"Old boss contscted new employer to talk shit about me","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550006198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apydqt\/ny_usa_my_employer_wants_to_pay_commission_to\/","id":"apydqt","body":"Basic info: salaried salesperson who also earns a percentage of each sale. Business is based in NY. \n\nFirst question: is paying commission on a quarterly basis illegal?\n\nMy reading of NYS Labor Law section 191 (https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/new-york\/2014\/lab\/article-6\/191) seems to indicate it is as NY considers commission to be a \u201cwage.\u201d \n\nIf this interpretation is correct is, what remedy is there? Can I be fired for reporting them? Will there be any changes forced by the department of labor?\n\nHappy to provide additional information.","title":"[NY, USA] My employer wants to pay commission to sales people on a quarterly basis which seems illegal under NYS Labor Law. What recourse might I have?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445543197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ptarf\/how_would_i_kick_start_the_child_support_as_a\/","id":"3ptarf","body":"A little backstory here:\n\nI'm going to be taking a new job Illinois in January and my daughter's mother and I established that we'll enact child support then.  I'll be having my daughter every other weekend, since she's at the age now where she'll be needing to be in one location for most of the time.\n\nI'm curious what route I should take to get the documentation in place and serve the paperwork before starting this position?  She's notoriously bad with paperwork and I want to make sure the agreement is established legally so there can be no hiccups.  I want to see my daughter as much as possible without complication.\n\nI understand the 20% obligation and am happy to pay for my daughter's well-being, but I'm lost in where to go from here.","title":"How would I kick start the child support as a father?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1408777596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eclmr\/my_tenant_refuse_to_pay_administration_fee_due_to\/","id":"2eclmr","body":"I live in Ontario, Canada. \n\nI rented my house to a young family, according to our agreement they have provided me 22 monthly post-dated rent cheques. however since June, all the cheques bounced for the first deposit attempt, I have to called them and listen to their apologizes and go to collect a replacement cheque and went deposit it. Same situation has happend three times so far, and I told the husband that he has to pay $50 administration fee every time his rent cheque bounces, as it is written on the contract. He so far refused to pay me the $50*3 fees.\n\nAt first I assumed they are having some financial trouble, then I noticed their new car. I feel like I have to send them a tough message about the cheques been bounced regularly.\n\nWhat is the legal consequences for what they do? Also what is the legal consequences for not paying the administration fee we agreed on the contract? Do I have the right to evict them?\n\nThank you.","title":"My tenant refuse to pay administration fee due to bounced rent cheque.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553817452,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6qbep\/pa_my_electric_bill_skyrocketed_overnight_at_my\/","id":"b6qbep","body":"Obligatory apology for being on my mobile. \n\nBackground: I moved in to my boyfriend\u2019s apartment, and have been trying to get a subletter to take over my lease (with my Landlord\u2019s approval). I\u2019ve barely been at my apartment in the past 5-ish months, and have had very low electric bills for most of the time. My landlord viewed the place about a month ago or so, and said he put in a work order to have the valves of my radiators loosened. \n\nAfter that was done, my electric bill came in and cost $200 more than usual. I called my electric company, and since the usage was over 4x higher than it had ever been in my two years at the apartment, they sent someone to check the meter. Turns out the meter reading was accurate. \n\nI\u2019m only at the apartment for an hour or so every couple of weeks, and I always leave the lights off, and nearly everything unplugged. And the electric usage is way higher than last winter, when I was there every day, with the lights always on, space heaters running, etc. \n\nI called my landlord to see if he had any idea what could be causing it, and he kept defensively jumping to \u201cwe haven\u2019t done anything\u201d right off the bat. He suggested that my past bills had been estimates, and that maybe this was my actual usage. However, they checked last year and credited my account because they had been estimating higher than my actual usage (and never anything even close to this high). He said that the radiators don\u2019t use any electric, only gas.\n\nI called the electric company again today, and they informed me that in the months prior, I had been averaging 3-5 kWh\/day, and on February 16, it jumped up to around 50 kWh\/day and is currently averaging around 100. The woman on the phone seemed to think it was definitely the radiators, and said that the radiators were being powered by a furnace, which would affect my electric usage.\n\nI called my landlord right after that, and he repeated that the radiators don\u2019t use any electric. I have no idea if that\u2019s true, but both him and the woman from the electric company seemed insistent. I asked him what date the work on the radiators was done, because I highly suspect it was on February 16, but I accidentally deleted the voicemail from the maintenance guy that would\u2019ve confirmed it. \n\nHe said he didn\u2019t remember when the work was done, and refused to give me a date or an estimate when I kept asking. I suspect that he has documents of the work order, but is refusing to share the date with me (he works as part of a real estate firm so I\u2019m assuming those kinds of things should be documented). He just kept responding to my inquiries with \u201call we did was loosen the valves... it wouldn\u2019t affect your electric at all.\u201d I suggested that maybe someone is siphoning the electric, but he dismissed this instantly as well.\n\nSo I don\u2019t know how I should proceed from here. I know that I, myself, am not using 100 kWh\/day of electric, and I\u2019ve been over to double check that everything is turned off\/unplugged. It feels like this is the result of the work done on my radiators, or something that my landlord should be responsible for, but I\u2019m new to all of this stuff (it was my first solo apartment). I\u2019m worried that me not staying at the apartment could somehow be used to claim that this is a result of my negligence or something.\n\nCan I ask my landlord to pay\/reimburse the bill? Who\u2019s liable here? The bill is due April 1, should I just pay it, or will that make it harder to be reimbursed if my landlord is indeed liable? I\u2019ve started documenting all my calls because that seems to be universal advice here. I really appreciate any advice! \n","title":"[PA] My electric bill skyrocketed overnight at my (semi-vacant) apartment and my landlord isn\u2019t helping.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554243246,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8pqtr\/how_to_cancel_a_payment_on_my_traffic_ticket\/","id":"b8pqtr","body":"Long story short, I have a trial in two days and I got confused by the letter I received with court info and thought I was supposed to \"post bail\" by paying my ticket before going to trial. The ticket clinic told me I wasn't supposed to do that and they can't help me if I've already paid. I paid about 30 minutes ago and I read something about cancelling the payment but I can't remember what it said. I called the courthouse and they couldn't offer me any information, they couldn't even find my case by the citation number. \n\nIs it too late or is there some way to cancel the payment?","title":"How to cancel a payment on my traffic ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447652030,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3szkwe\/grounds_for_breaking_a_lease\/","id":"3szkwe","body":"Hi all.  I recently relocated to California for a new job.  I found an apartment, did a walk-through and pointed out a lot of issues to the manager, who said that they'd be taken care of before I moved in, 2 weeks later.  On move-in day, nothing had been done: there was still no key for the back door, the carpet hadn't been cleaned, I couldn't use the mailbox because it wouldn't close because they'd lost the key, and none of the plumbing issues had been taken care of.  The first week in my place was spent calling the manager, the maintenance guy, and plumbers, and dealing with 2 days without being able to use the toilet, a few days without the bathroom sink (wouldn't drain), and when that was fixed,  the rest of the week without a kitchen sink (plumbers had to come twice to fix it).  Management acted annoyed that I was \"bothering\" them with requests to fix those things; I've never moved into an apartment before that hadn't been made move-in ready.  \n\nIn the 2 months since then, there've been constant issues.  The heater smells and sets off the smoke alarm every time I use it.  The CO detector went off and I had to call the company and then the fire department to check the place.  I spent the night in a hotel after suffering from a few days of headaches and nausea. The gas company came to check the place and capped the oven and stove, so I've gone 2 weeks without a use of stove or oven.  I woke up one morning to the sound of running water-an overhead sewage pipe had burst and was pouring all over the driveway in front of the front door.  The outside of the apartment had a leak that has eaten away part of the siding.  Although the apartment complex is strictly pet-free, for some reason the management allows one of the tenants to keep a dog.  I've had to clean up dog feces from my yard 5 times since I moved in, because the neighbor lets her dog out at night and she heads straight to my yard.  The manager wouldn't let me talk to the tenant because he said he likes to deal with those issues himself; however, although I contacted him each time the dog used my yard again, he did nothing until I threatened to file a complaint against the neighbor.  The apartment is constantly damp although I bought an expensive dehumidifier (climbing into damp sheets in bed at night has been a real treat) bathroom smells like mold but I haven't had a chance to send off the home mold kits I bought.  I work from home, but have had to miss time at work because of constantly dealing with issues in the apartment.  I feel like I work for the property management company.  \n\nI have about 10 years of rental history, and I've never had to call a landlord more than once a year.  The fact that this place has had so many issues in 2 months makes me think that the place was uninhabited for a long time and they rented the place to me without making a lot of much-needed repairs.  \n\nI feel that the place is uninhabitable.  Do I have a case for breaking the lease?  At this point I'm afraid to see what will go wrong next.  \n\n\n\n","title":"Grounds for breaking a lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569863809,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbeti1\/should_i_use_my_parents_address_for_my_llcs\/","id":"dbeti1","body":"I'm 20 years old and trying to register an LLC in North Carolina. The last part of the form I need is the registered agent address. Since I am still in college, I don't own or have a permanent residence and I was wondering if it was a bad idea to use my name, and my parent's address (who live in NC) as the registered agent? Would there be any legal issues with doing this?\n\nIf I should't use their address, I was thinking of using a registered agent service instead.","title":"Should I use my parent's address for my LLC's registered agent?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540389264,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qzva0\/sign_a_paper_when_being_firedquit\/","id":"9qzva0","body":"In NYC.\n\nWhenever someone quits or is fired they are forced to sign a paper saying they won\u2019t talk negatively about the company. They are told if they don\u2019t sign the paper their last paycheck will be withheld. Is this legal?\n\nCompany is laying off an entire branch, and I\u2019ve seen them do this before when people quit as well, want to know if this is legal before I sign or not. ","title":"Sign a paper when being fired\/quit","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555206962,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcxzyf\/other_parties_insurance_company_is_closed_until\/","id":"bcxzyf","body":"I have my car that I\u2019ve been trying to sell for the past 2 months, recently I finally had someone offer to buy it but a day before he was going to buy it, someone rear ended my car in my driveway while it was classified as under storage with my insurance company. So it doesn\u2019t have any comprehensive on it. It has a huge scrape and ruined a ton of paint. \n\nI figured no problem I\u2019ll file a claim and get it fixed up that day, but when I called them they seem to be a smaller private insurance company and are closed for the weekend and I can\u2019t file a claim with them until Monday. Today comes around and I told the buyer the situation and he took back his offer and won\u2019t even buy the car after it\u2019s fixed. \n\nWhat can I do in this situation? I needed this money to help pay for my bills for this month.  Do I have any ground to sue because if it?","title":"Other parties Insurance company is closed until Monday, can\u2019t file a claim under them and I lost a customer trying to buy my car because of it.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1502815039,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tvb5a\/getting_fired_for_getting_injured_at_work\/","id":"6tvb5a","body":"Hi, so to start the story, I was at work last night and fell in to a lift pit injuring my knee, nothing too serious, bad sprain and two days off work. I told my supervisor right away and due to me not being able to walk on it at the time he took me to the ER. Today my HR called me and informed me I am in trouble for it, and when I return they will decide if they will let me go. Didn't ask me if I was okay or anything even, just got on me about how much the ER visit will cost and how they are short handed all ready. I was not on anything at the time or in the past, wasn't goofing around or breaking any rules, never been even written up for anything and even won a award this year for my work with the company. My question is while I know they don't have to care, can they legally let me go?  I am in Colorado","title":"Getting fired for getting injured at work.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571669452,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl1n3c\/is_this_grounds_to_quit_and_file_for_unemployment\/","id":"dl1n3c","body":"My job description is completely inaccurate.  I am in finance and supposed to be an analyst, but I\u2019ve been completely relegated to secretarial duties. Dinner reservations, managing calendars. 80 hours a week. If I get Analyst work, I\u2019m expected to complete it AND the secretary stuff. I looked st their history of job postings and realized they basically hired me for something that no one applied to but switched the title and description. Is this grounds and quit to file for unemployment?\n\nThe question of whether I should is another one...","title":"Is this grounds to quit and file for unemployment?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540046428,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9punai\/sold_a_truck_new_owner_never_transferred_title\/","id":"9punai","body":"Long story short. We sold the truck to a guy who paid cash for a non running f150. He signed a bill of sale and left a copy of his ID then towed the truck away. \n\nThree months later. He puts a new engine in the truck but gets it towed. We moved from Ohio to Washington and because truck is still in our name the letter for the impound goes ALL the way back to Ohio. 5 days later the letter reaches a family member and we get the notification that it's been impounded. It's now $700 to have to truck taken off the lot. \n\nThe new owner apparently went to go get the truck off the lot but they wouldn't release the vehicle because he never transferred the title even though the letter States that anyone with written permission from the registered owner may retrieve the vehicle. \n\nI call the guy up and talk to him and after a brief conversation he vanishes and I haven't heard from him in over 24 hours. He has the keys and the title for the vehicle but I'm responsible for removing it from the lot but I can't drive it. If I have it removed he can just come take it back whenever we're at work because he has the keys . \n\nReally at a loss for this one. The new owner has invested significant money into a new engine, however he has been driving it with expired out of state tags for however long it's been running.  It's got some of his company's painting equipment in the vehicle as well. Any advice you all might have would be amazing. ","title":"Sold a truck, new owner never transferred title.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540481932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rbep3\/nevada_originally_recused_myself_from_my\/","id":"9rbep3","body":"Me and my girlfriend had an argument that turned to a simple pushing match. It was a heat of the moment thing, and I called the bail bond office to inform them that I want to recuse myself as co-signer for my girlfriend\u2019s bond, an agent came to my door few days later, and asked for my girlfriend. \n\nI said that we forgave each other for the fight, and that it\u2019s all fine and dandy. The agent said \u201cwell because of your statement, we have the right to revoke your girlfriends bond, whether it\u2019s valid or not\u201d. The agent tried to invite himself into our house, and right away I told him to step back, and I tried closing the door on him. \n\nHe kept warning me that I\u2019m interfering with his duty, and I didn\u2019t pay much mind to that, so I kept trying to get the door to close. I did a quick right hand push to win some ground. He screamed at me for \u201cassaulting a law enforcement officer\u201d. \n\nHe ultimately wins when his accomplice shows up, due it becoming a 2 on 1 struggle. The one tells me \u201cyou need to get the fuck out of here if you\u2019re going to act this way, there\u2019s a McDonalds down the street, so why don\u2019t you piss off, and buy a happy meal\u201d. \n\nI told him no, and that I was going to stay, it\u2019s my house after all. He basically says it\u2019s my prerogative, and starts to instruct me to put hands in a position where he was going to put me in cuffs. I started to resist the cuffing, and he informs me that I can\u2019t resist, and that I need to do as he says. \n\nI didn\u2019t take him seriously, at this point, I thought their ego was well on par with mall security. I made it known to them that they\u2019re dicks, and the agents partner looks at me and tells me that I\u2019m \u201charboring a fugitive\u201d, and suggests that I \u201cshut up\u201d. The partner then follows up telling me that the first agent doesn\u2019t like paperwork, but will arrest others for these actions. \n\nI cool off, and later ask the second agent, who\u2019s watching me while my girlfriend is actually going quietly with the arrest, if I can be freed and I promised that I\u2019ll go somewhere else. The agent tells me no, and when I ask why, he implies that I passed that opportunity. \n\nI asked why I\u2019m in cuffs, and he sarcastically states that it\u2019s to do with closing the door on them, and \u201cbeing hostile\u201d. The other agent has my girlfriend come into the living room, (she got front cuffs, what the hell?!?) he mentions that he\u2019s not going to arrest me, because he\u2019s *sooo* nice. He does state that I\u2019m not eligible for being a co-signer with my gf, and she\u2019ll have to find a different person if she chooses to go that route. \n\nIs the actions that I experienced firsthand with the bail bond agents legal? Could I sue them for it, is a pissing match like this even worth it? \n\n\n","title":"Nevada- Originally recused myself from my girlfriend\u2019s bond, but I essentially revoked my statement, but the bail bond company is revoking the bond regardless. I also got thrown in cuffs, and accused of the most ludicrous \u201coffenses\u201d, and not eligible for being a co-signer.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551041359,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auce2p\/massachusetts_if_an_expensive_electronic_device\/","id":"auce2p","body":"My bedroom has a ceiling window that started leaking recently. It leaked onto my tv and my tablet, and luckily I noticed before any damage was done to either. But there aren't a lot of places to move my stuff so that it won't be under the area the water falls to, and I'm mainly wondering if they are legally considered at fault if any of this gets damaged. \n\nI'm already doing what I can to protect my stuff from damage, but the reason I ask is because this isn't the first time I've had to worry about the leak and I want to be prepared if it isn't the last. ","title":"(Massachusetts) If an expensive electronic device is damaged by a ceiling leak that the landlord did not fix in a timely manner, am I entitled to a replacement by them?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444422825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o56s3\/nc_my_landlord_said_it_is_impossible_to_break_my\/","id":"3o56s3","body":"I live in an apartment with 3 other people. When we signed the lease, it stipulated that if anyone did not pay, the other 3 would not be accountable. My complex repeatedly threatens me with extra rent charges claiming my payments are late, but when I ask them to check their system, miraculously, the payments are there. Our complex also requires parking passes. I moved in in August. They just now received the passes and are going to start towing on October 12th. We have to present our registration, license, etc to get the pass, but I will be out of town and have to leave my car there. So, they'd probably tow me. This complex has a reputation for being shitty, so is there any way to break my lease?","title":"NC My landlord said it is impossible to break my lease, but they have fucked up countless times. Any advice?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1549672111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aon267\/work_says_i_have_to_use_personal_time_to_leave\/","id":"aon267","body":"So me and my department are scheduled to work eight hour shifts from 7:00am-3:30pm but they offer overtime in that we can come in an hour early and stay an hour late. I work in Pierce County, WA  and it started snowing decently so we wanted to go home at 2:30, figuring we worked an eight hour shift already. They're making us use personal time to cover from 2:30-3:30 claiming that since we're scheduled from 7:00-3:30 we have to cover that last hour of scheduled time. \n\nDo we have any grounds to tell them they can't do thIs?","title":"Work says I have to use personal time to leave after eight hours.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1414637479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2kqued\/contract_question_in_va\/","id":"2kqued","body":"I have a situation where an agent of a company (Company A) signed a renewal to service agreement with another (Company B)  Company B now claims that the person who signed the renewal lacks authority to enter into contracts on their behalf.  Assuming the agent acted in good faith and assumed the person who signed had authority to do so, Is the contract binding?\n","title":"Contract question in VA","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1444797182,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ookrg\/discrimination_in_the_workplace_what_steps_should\/","id":"3ookrg","body":"I've been working for an industrial company for a little over a year. The company is a subsidiary of a larger conglomerate. I happen to be a gay male. Shortly after I began working there, homophobic comments, though few and far between, began. This was relatively easy for me to ignore at the time, as they were not particularly vicious, just ignorant. Several weeks ago, one of my coworkers began making extremely homophobic comments at me and around me. The comments ranged from \"you sneeze very manly for a feminine person\" (following a sneeze in the break room) to a comment involving Freddie Mercury and HIV after me and a friend coworker were discussing Halloween costume ideas. The issue was brought to management's attention, as their were many witnesses. I reported one of the incidents, but the others were reported by the witnesses. So far, the company is not taking any action against her, other than warning her to stop. Since the warning, her comments and actions have continued. Other employees have also joined her in the comments since then. \n\nThe company has a non-discrimination policy that includes sexual orientation, although I know I am not protected under Ohio state law. That said, the parent company does have multiple contracts with the Federal Government, and I read that under executive order, this might extend protections to me.\n\nMy question is: is the company legally required to take action against her if such actions continue? Do I have any protections here? I am not under an employment contract, so I do understand my employment is at-will, but what should I do to cover myself if anything should happen?\n\nSorry if this was jumbled. I'm a bit stressed and this is a hard situation to communicate. Thank you for any advice you may have.","title":"Discrimination in the workplace, what steps should I take? (OH)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540773350,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s8eia\/2_speeding_tickets_in_2_months_juvenile_oh\/","id":"9s8eia","body":"So I\u2019m 16 and have been driving for about 6 months. 2 months ago I got a ticket for 83 in a 65 and 1 month ago I got one for doing 88 in a 70. I\u2019ve accepted that my license will definitely be suspended but I was wondering how long that would possibly be? Would I have to retake my driving test and take a class?? Idk what to do","title":"2 speeding tickets in 2 months (Juvenile) [OH]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542061106,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9witjp\/portland_or_can_a_relative_of_a_defendant_contact\/","id":"9witjp","body":"My brother is being charged with a pretty serious crime, but his circumstances might be seen as mitigating. He has a PD, but we are worried that the PD is not being diligent about his defense. We, his family, have contacted the PD asking him to present my brother with ROI forms, but he hasn't after several days. My brother's court date is tomorrow, and we still haven't heard back from his PD. \nMy brother is Intellectually Disabled and cannot read or write. He suffers from other mental illnesses as well. He had an incident at an adult transition program he attended resulting in a teacher suffering a fracture in their wrist. We have paperwork sent from the school that might be useful, but we haven't had the opportunity to give them to his PD. \nThis PD has had multiple BAR disciplinary actions taken against them for failing to do their duty to their clients. Including forgetting to file motions requested by the client, because the case \"slipped under the pile.\" \nWe can't afford another attorney, and my brother's alleged offense would fall under Measure 11 in Oregon. \nI would like to know if it is unheard of for a family to open correspondence with the DA or would that only hurt his case and chances? ","title":"[Portland, OR] Can a relative of a defendant contact the DA or ADA on the defendant's behalf regarding a case?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553871950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6ye86\/pa_police_confiscated_my_electronics_when_im_not\/","id":"b6ye86","body":"So to preface this, i do not have the money for a lawyer.\nMy roommate is under investigation of a crime (i do not know the full allegations because the case does not involve me) the investigation from what i know has been going on since july 2018, january of 2019 the investigating officer came with a warrent and seized all the electronic devices where i live. \nThis includes the following that are mine:\n2 Cellphones 2 desktops, 2 laptops, Modem, 2 Routers, Nintendo switch, Xbox 360, Xbox 1, Nintendo 3ds, gamecube, usb flash drives, external harddrive\n\nHere is a seperate list for some even more ridiculous things taken:\nCharging cables, ethernet cables, power cables for my computers and monitors, keyboards, mice, headsets, controllers, monitors, printer cables, laptop chargers, dvds, movies\n\nMy roommate got a lawyer (who is not contracted to me so cant really give advice or assist me in anyway.\n\nThe investigating officer is not giving me information on what is happening with my stuff, has not responded for 2 months on this, the police chief just gives me a smirk and tells me that it is the investigating officer who i meed to speak to about it all.\n\nMy roommates lawyer has also tried reaching out to the investigating officer but for 2 months jas not reached him. He also checked and found that the case has not been updated in 2 months.\n\nI have been going down to the police station trying to speak to the investigating office but every time i go down there he is not there, the receptionist just sends him and email and tells me thats all she can do.\n\nTl;dr: police officer seized my electronics and now is not responding to anyone.\n","title":"[PA] Police confiscated my electronics when im not the one under investigation and refuse to provide an update on what is going on.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553153580,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3nnb6\/found_a_weird_website_tracking_my_roommates_phone\/","id":"b3nnb6","body":"I don\u2019t know if this is the right subreddit for this but I will give it a try. My roommate has been dealing with a stalker for some time now. She just told me and me being me I did some digging to see what kind of personal info of hers is out there. I came across a website by searching her phone number and it has coordinates of where she was. The IP is linked to some VPS so I can\u2019t get any other info. I gave her all the info and is going to take it to the police she has been working with through the situation. I tried searching a bunch of different numbers and only something weird like this only comes up with her number. I don\u2019t know what it could be.(I do not want to give away what url so I will describe it.) It is just a white page with 5 lines of text: her phone number, phone number and her carrier, the date the location was traced and the coordinates, then a report number with her phone number again. What could this website be? She thought it was something to do with her case but I figured this is the last thing the police want out there when dealing with a stalking case. I can provide more info if needed. ","title":"Found a weird website tracking my roommate\u2019s phone number.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1542118512,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wpefl\/possible_shooting\/","id":"9wpefl","body":"There is possibly going to be a shooting today, the school wont give the students any info, my mom is making me go, should I stay out of school? I dont know where else to put this so I'm sorry, but I need an answer quick.","title":"Possible shooting","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1504898774,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ywzgw\/wv_cosigned_on_a_vehicle_was_repossessed_and_im\/","id":"6ywzgw","body":"Not me but my Fianc\u00e9. Several years ago she co-signed on a vehicle loan with her ex. Not long after they split up and he takes the truck with the agreement he pays for it. Ex moves somewhere and she has 0 contact with him. 10 months later, the bank is contacting her with repossession threats. Couple months go by trying to get in touch with him, working with the bank to locate him. He's missed 7 payments by this point, we can't afford the truck so we allow them to repossess it, which you don't have to tell us, wasn't the best idea. Now the bank has sold the vehicle and reported the difference to us as still being owed. \n\nLong story short, should we pay for the vehicle and sue for breach of contract? Are court costs also something we can sue for? Should we pay for the vehicle at all? What are the ramifications outside of liens for not paying for it?","title":"[WV] - Co-signed on a vehicle, was repossessed and I'm being charged solely for the remainder","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1506794035,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73gdf1\/los_angeles_ca_a_few_labor_law_questions_about_a\/","id":"73gdf1","body":"My sister is 16 years old and started working at a popular sandwich prepping place. I know minimum wage in Los Angeles is $12 but I'm not sure for minors since I couldn't find it online for Los Angeles County.\n\nIs $10.75 fine? \n\nAlso, a certain shift lead is not letting her take her lunches but has my sister cover her lunches, is that fine? \n\nI don't think my sisters minds as long as she's paid accordingly for it. I just don't want her to get in trouble with school since they've signed a work permit. \n\nI'm practically her guardian without the benefits since my mom won't sign them over since she receives aid for her. I wanna make sure it's all fine since I've been the one involved and my mom doesn't care as long as my sister pays her rent. (For her own room she's been given by section 8 but that's another post). \n\nLastly, that same shift lead asked my sister to stay until 11pm (work permit\/labor law says 10pm). Then she threatened to leave her there to close herself and to explain it to the manager. \n\nWhat happens if she does that? She told my sister she would be liable of the store not closing but I don't think that makes sense. I told my sister if that happens to just call the manager or say you can't stay until 11pm. \n\nHer availability and the work permit and state law say 10pm, can she get fired for saying no to 11pm? \n\nThanks :) ","title":"[Los Angeles, CA] A few labor law questions about a minor working?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541438426,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ufg6y\/deadline_for_401k_to_be_uploaded\/","id":"9ufg6y","body":"I'm in Portland, OR. I apologize if this isn't the right place to post this but I'm not really sure how to go about this. My employer is extremely lazy and slow in the corporate accounting dept. I signed up for 401k contributions 2 months ago. We have semimonthly pay periods so there has been 5 pay periods since I signed up, each deducting anywhere from $20-$50 from my checks. When I go online to our site to check my 401k contribution balance it still shows $0. We've brought this up with my employer multiple times and they always spout some BS like \"maybe it hasn't refreshed\" or \"that's weird because we put it in for sure...\" and I want to know, is there a deadline or a time frame they must abide by for putting our 401k contributions into our account? And if there is, can I do anything to get them to abide by it? Because right now I feel like my $130ish is just sitting somewhere and will be forgotten given the nature of our accounting dept. Thank you for any and all help :) ","title":"Deadline for 401k to be uploaded?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570546542,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df130n\/ms_pay_an_extra_60_to_make_a_traffic_ticket_go\/","id":"df130n","body":"Alright, so about a month or so ago I got a speeding ticket (68 in a 55 on an empty highway, so not really egregious but not frivolous either), went to court and the judge gave everyone the option of paying an extra $10 to take a driving class and take the ticket off the record. I thought cool, don't want my insurance rates going up, and it's just $10. So I paid my ticket+$10. Then I went to take the online course, and found out it's an additional $50 for that. I'm a little peeved, but I'll be honest I still want to do it to get the ticket off my record.\n\nMy question is, how is this legal? I'm sure it is somehow because it's not like they're hiding it, but everything about it screams extortion. \"Slide us some extra cash and we'll pretend like this whole thing never happened\" is basically the definition of extortion. Is it just because in addition to taking your money, they're making you take a \"class\" as well?\n\nAnyway, the whole thing seems pretty sketchy to me, but nobody else seems to have a problem with it. Interested to hear some feedback on it.","title":"[MS] Pay an extra $60 to make a traffic ticket go away?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555116921,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcl53r\/do_my_parents_have_to_find_out_about_my_speeding\/","id":"bcl53r","body":"I\u2019m 18 years old and went 75 in a 45 and got a ticket. Have to appear in court by June. Can I just go by myself, pay the fine and for it to be over? Or are my parents gonna find out some way?","title":"Do my parents have to find out about my speeding ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446633185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rh78w\/apartment_leases_and_moving_canada\/","id":"3rh78w","body":"Information:\n\n-I'm on a year long lease for an apartment (only two months in).\n\n-I have a roommate.\n\n-Plans have changed and I want to move.\n\n-I put down the 2200$ deposit to secure our apartment.\n\nWhat should I do here?  As in, how do I have myself amicably removed from the lease and ensure I get first and last back once the year's up?\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Apartment leases and moving... [Canada]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569467560,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9dx9x\/apartment_property_management_cant_negotiate_rent\/","id":"d9dx9x","body":"My property management has offered three different renewal amounts based on a month-to-month, 6-month, and 12-month lease renewal. I am being offered an increase of $55 a month at the lowest renewal rate (12-month).\n\nI asked the property management if they would consider allowing me to keep my current rent, and they responded: \n\n>\"Due to Federal fair housing laws (we are) not able to negotiate the yearly renewal offers.\"\n\n[California](http:\/\/www.fairhousingnorcal.org\/california-and-local-fair-housing-rights.html) (and Federal) Fair Housing laws seem to be in place to ensure no tenant is given a poorer offer, discouraged from renting, or treated differently based on inclusion in a protected class. \n\nI have a friend who lives in the same complex, has the same unit layout and square footage as I do, and just renewed her lease two weeks ago without any increase in monthly rent. Her unit has not been renovated as recently, though the renovations are things like minor differences in the brand of appliances (refrigerator, washer\/dryer, dishwasher). We essentially have the same amenities. Her rent is sitting at $1395\/month, while mine is currently $1495 ($1550 if I renew).\n\nIs it legal for her to have had no increase in her rent, while my rent is going up by a total of $660 for the year? I'm already paying $100 more than she is a month, and I'm not sure why they wouldn't have opted to raise her rent by $27.50\/month and raise mine by the same amount... if their goal is to be fair\/equitable.\n\nAlso, do Fair Housing laws actually mean negotiations are prohibited? It seems the laws are meant to protect tenants, but instead they allow property management to raise rent without objection.","title":"Apartment property management can't negotiate rent because of California Fair Housing laws?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553302476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4cyja\/employment_discrimination\/","id":"b4cyja","body":"I was recently diagnosed with a disability. While I was in the process of getting accommodations from my employer I accrued several absences, which were related to my disability(even though my boss says otherwise). When my yearly review came up I was denied my full raise because of said absences. Would this be considered discrimination? Not sure if it helps, but points are awarded for being late, absent etc. up until recently (and still might be) it\u2019s up to a leadership to \u201capply\u201d points. Meaning then can\/could ultimately decided when to give or not give out points. In my first attempt to get accommodations I requested to remove points since my disability could cause me to miss work or have to leave early(also a offense). It was denied and I had to restart with a new request.","title":"Employment discrimination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442840340,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lstc0\/man_caught_on_camera_taking_my_wallet_i_left_in_a\/","id":"3lstc0","body":"This just happened and though I think it's an open\/shut case, I'm not too familiar with the legal system and I would hate for this to go awry. This happened in Canada. \n\nI was carrying a large sum of cash (approx a few thousand) after making a private sale minutes before. SO and I stopped at a restaurant to get some quick takeout and ended up leaving my wallet on the waiting bench. Yes I know it was stupid, believe me, I don't need to be told again.\n\nArrived home and immediately realized and turned back. Called restaurant but got connected to a central call centre and by the time they could transfer me I was almost back at the restaurant. Immediately ran inside and asked the server about it after seeing it wasn't on the bench. No dice, they hadn't seen it. I go back outside and tear my car apart to make sure, still no dice. \n\nThey call the owner as they have access to the cameras in the front of the store. Sure enough we see me leave without my wallet and a man comes in and is eyeing it as he orders. After ordering, he sits down beside it and grabs it. Quickly looks at my ID it appears and then pockets it. Walks out shortly after. One of the servers identifies the man as an acquaintance. He says that the guy had just come back in to pick up his order while I was outside and when asked if he had seen a wallet he said no.\n\nPolice are called and take my statement along with the server and take a look at the footage. Get a call the next morning that the guy was arrested\/charged but they couldn't recover the wallet. Turns out the guy admitted to taking the wallet but maintains that he gave it back to me after walking outside. \n\nSo now this has to be dealt with through the court system and although it seems black and white to me, I'm worried that I might not get this money back. \n\nHere's a summary of why I don't see him getting out of it:\n\n-he's on camera shadily taking the wallet\n\n-he lies when asked if he's seen a wallet (confirmed by servers statement and possibly audio from the camera)\n\n-I have GPS location logs that show when I left the restaurant, when I returned (bless you Google) and that I was not even there for him to give me the wallet\n\n-I have a witness alongside me the entire time\n\n-I have confirmation from the buyer in my private transaction, emails, my SO and a picture of the money fanned out that I sent to my brother as a joke minutes before (to prove that I was carrying the amount I claimed) \n\n-Might be able to see large sum of cash from the camera when I am paying for my order\n\nI have a bad feeling that although he might get charged for theft, I might not have enough substance to get my money back :(. Thoughts?","title":"Man caught on camera taking my wallet I left in a restaurant, will I ever see this money?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571505603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk6q6v\/someone_is_spying_on_women_in_the_restroom_at_my\/","id":"dk6q6v","body":"Virginia USA. My company (A) and another company (B), owned by same parent company, share a building including restroom facilities. The restroom for female employees has three stalls. There is a woman working for company B that peeps through the gaps between stalls to watch people using the toilet. Her excuse for spying on people using the toilet is to \"check if they are on their phones\". She has done this to at least four people within a week -- those are just the ones I know of, from company A. No idea if she's done this to her own coworkers. She is not a coworker of ours and she is not even a manager in company B, so she has no authority to tell anyone to get off their phone even if she saw them on it. We do not believe this is her true reasoning. \n\nSomeone has informed HR of this problem and yet she continues to look at people through the stall. Nothing has changed.\n\nIf she continues to spy on people after HR does nothing, what actions should the victims take here? Complain to HR\/management again, or take it higher to the parent company? I do not believe our HR and company B's HR are connected, they are two different companies and function independently.\n\nIs this considered sexual harassment, and if so, is there room to press charges if this behavior persists despite warnings?","title":"Someone is spying on women in the restroom at my workplace.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506545870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72v9ze\/im_16_years_old_and_going_to_court_for_a_traffic\/","id":"72v9ze","body":"I live in Massachusetts, United States. A month after getting my license I went through a crosswalk without yielding to pedestrians. In the other lane a car was stopped already. I was in a rush to get home and didn\u2019t notice them. It was also the first time I was alone and going through a crosswalk with pedestrians. A dog ran into the crosswalk so I slowed down and planned to stop because of course I\u2019m not going to run over a dog. However the owners waved at the dog to come back and the pedestrians didn\u2019t cross so I thought they were letting me go. However as soon as I passed the crosswalk I realized my mistake and that I wasn\u2019t thinking clearly because I was in a rush. A cop saw me and pulled me over for a $205 ticket. I\u2019m going to court to fight it in a few weeks. Any tips on what to do? I have pretty traditional Asian parents who really don\u2019t help me with advice like this. I know I have to dress formally for the hearing. Any other tips to help me get by? Thank you for reading this long post and all help is appreciated.","title":"I\u2019m 16 years old and going to court for a traffic ticket. Any help appreciated.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554861915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbgjm1\/foreign_national_wife_fired_for_accent_in_usa\/","id":"bbgjm1","body":"My wife was fired today for having an accent. Specifically a manager she had never met called her and told her she was fired because he wasn't comfortable with someone with her accent working as a waiter. She is fluent in English, but has a British English accent, being from Eastern Europe.\nThey knew her English was excellent and she had an accent when she was hired(and still does).\n\nShe received 2 notes on 2 separate checks in the last 3 weeks that probably influenced the restaurant a bit, but instead of having her back, they're firing her.\n\nThe first was a tip for $2 and a note saying \"You can do better honey\"\n\nThe second was a tip for $0, no complaints the entire time, but at the end, decided to write, \"Watch your tone when you're talking to people\"\n\nI probably don't have to mention that these kind of people are probably the worst kinds of people you can meet. For some reason they were both late 40s early 50s sets of women but I know there's more people like that around and it makes me sick.\n\nAnyways, I'm in the military and have some legal resources at my disposal. According to what I found on google, what they did was illegal. We are living in Minnesota. \n\nAnother event to note was that yesterday someone at the bar got burned for serving alcohol to a minor. When the officer went and asked who was certified, he found out that the girl (who was immediately fired) had not been given training for serving alcohol. The managers also stated that my wife would be getting certified as a bartender, as she was the only other one who didn't have the training\/certification she needed to serve alcohol. \n\nThis is something they have never brought up with her or mentioned to her. I've told her to record every conversation she has here on out in case it's worth pursuing somewhere like small claims court or workers rights. The place has a strong chance of having their alcohol license pulled, and maybe more if it gets severe enough. \nMy wife is a legal permanent resident in the US, and is originally from Croatia.\n\nShe's been working these sorts of jobs for around 6 years and has never been fired, so she's naturally pretty tore up about it. She has had a bunch of panic attacks and increased anxiety since it happened as well.\n\nMy questions for legal advice are this:\n\nIs this worth pursuing in small claims court or one of the workers rights organizations in Minnesota(or another venue)?\n\nHow would I go about it?\n\nAny and all advice is greatly appreciated. If you need any more details, please let me know in the comments! In the meantime I'll be collecting as much documentation as possible.","title":"Foreign National Wife fired for accent in USA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554316457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b91s2l\/truck_title_issues\/","id":"b91s2l","body":"Location is Pennsylvania. \n\n​\n\nI know a lot has been done wrong here, and I am not looking for judgement.  I just want to know where to go from here.  Before moving to Pennsylvania from Oregon in 2015 my husband traded our van for a truck.  There were bills of sale exchanged and they were handed the title to the van.  Promises were made that the title to the truck would be forthcoming (FWIW you can get a title in your name with a bill of sale in Oregon.)  After repeated attempts to get the title from the previous owner of the truck, we lost contact.  Because of (lets face it) laziness we never sent in the required documents to get the new title.  It then sat on our property for about 2 years without moving.  Last December the mobile home park we live in threatened to tow the truck and charge us for it.  Instead we used one of our AAA tows to take it to my mechanic, where it was deemed  too much work to fix it up.  We gifted it to the mechanic instead for him to use as parts to fix a truck that he had that was close enough in year to a truck he had (I think?  I just know the parts would work.)  However when I went to get the bill of sale out of the safe it was no longer there.  I have searched high and low and I cannot find this bill of sale.  I also do not have the name of the original owner anymore.  Is anyone more familiar than I with title law in Oregon that would know how I can get my mechanic legal possession of the truck?","title":"Truck Title issues","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553203787,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3waih\/how_do_we_prevent_this_as_an_employee\/","id":"b3waih","body":"How do we prevent corporations from naming themselves as beneficiaries on an employees life insurance policy?\n\n[Walmart keeps life insurance money.](https:\/\/news.wfsu.org\/post\/walmart-sued-collecting-life-insurance-employees)","title":"How do we prevent this as an employee?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570296337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddq8xr\/what_exactly_happens_when_you_snitch_in_prison\/","id":"ddq8xr","body":"I know this question has probably been answered 100 times but here I am.\n\nSo after seeing all the 6ix9ine jokes about him snitching in court.\n\nCould he actually walk away from any criminal charges?","title":"What exactly happens when you snitch in prison?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571592590,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkmq1o\/5050_power_in_a_company_and_making_decisions_even\/","id":"dkmq1o","body":"I am starting a business with my friend \nAnd we each will have 50\/50 share\n\nSince we each have 50% power what kind of system (rules) we should come up with it now, that if we disagree on things in future, it will let us come to conclusion without problem.","title":"50\/50 power in a company and making decisions, even we don\u2019t agree on something","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505428024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/705on6\/college_film_club\/","id":"705on6","body":"[US] [Michigan] I am the president of a film club where we watch movies every week and provide criticism and also learn about directors. The college administrators have recently told me that I am breaking copyright law and need to buy the right to every movie I show. \nIs there anyway to get around this such as face-to-face exemption as we are nonprofit and teaching a lesson or even fair use. Any help is appreciated thanks. ","title":"College Film Club","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1445150764,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p7b90\/nevada_law_sales_tax_for_intellectual_property\/","id":"3p7b90","body":"Hi fellow redittors,\n\nI was wondering at what volume of sales, would I need to start charging sales tax for book sales in clark county in the state of Nevada? I am happy to look for the information myself if you can direct me to the content. I appreciate any help.\n\nThank you in advance.","title":"(Nevada Law) Sales Tax for Intellectual Property","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1506344373,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72c90w\/fl_how_to_best_report_abuseneglect_of_a_disabled\/","id":"72c90w","body":"Hi legaladvice,\n  I came here to ask for advice on the best way to report a situation that came to my attention. I live in the northeast, but I have family in Florida who became the guardians of another family member a few years ago. This individual suffers from severe mental illness, and the VA has been providing benefits to my family there to take care of her after the passing of her father, who was her guardian until that point. She has been in their care for a few years, and during that time her siblings reported the family for abuse\/neglect. I was told the allegations were totally unfounded and motivated by jealousy over the monthly check from the VA. Here I should note that my family members are indeed the type of people who see themselves as entitled to that money, and look at it as a payday instead of resources for the veteran's care. I don't know much about the complaint that was made previously, but I've been told by my younger cousins that there is a court case ongoing, and the family is no longer receiving financial support.\n\n  A few days ago, I was contacted unprompted by an adult member of the household, who described the behavior of another family member towards the veteran. According to her, there have been verbal threats, intimidation (this man is huge physically, while the veteran is a very petite woman), attempts to deprive her of food, and even putting up the toilet seat in her private bathroom to encourage her to fall in when she sits down. I have worked in several places with the disabled, in hospitals, and with children, and I know enough to identify this immediately as physical and psychological abuse. I urged this person to report to the VA, but she told me that she's too scared of retribution as she lives in the house and relies on this abusive person financially. I have only been in their house once since they've been caring for the veteran, but during that time she was essentially ignored all day other than having a plate of heavily processed food thrown in front of her. I have personally seen him be emotionally abusive of his own family and once witnessed him kick his wife out of frustration, so I fully believe these allegations. To further compound things, the other young adult in the house described him as out of control, angry all the time, and unmedicated for his own mental illness. Both have stated repeatedly that they will not report the abuse, even when I sent them the Florida statutes on reporting abuse and neglect of the elderly and disabled and pointed out that they may face legal consequences for being of age and not reporting what they knew. \n\n   Although I only have secondhand knowledge of this situation (including screenshots), I feel that I have no choice but to report what I know. My entire family is populated with abusive narcissists, and I knew that this person was mistreating his own children, who are both fortunately competent adults capable of leaving, but to create a hostile and maybe even dangerous environment for a disabled person with no voice or chance to escape is another matter entirely.\n\n  So reddit, my question is this: I know the procedure for reporting to the VA OIG and am planning to do so right away, but are there other avenues I should be pursuing to make sure that the situation gets the attention it deserves? Police welfare check, etc? I am so truly sick to know that these horrible people not only abused us growing up, but are now doing the same to a helpless veteran and everyone is cooperating to cover it up. I really appreciate any advice you can offer so that I can use what limited voice I have to speak up and defend this poor person from the terrible people she's trapped with.","title":"[FL] How to best report abuse\/neglect of a disabled veteran","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571093862,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhyo3i\/car_is_insured_in_ar_and_in_my_name_but_i_dont\/","id":"dhyo3i","body":"TL;DR I drive my mothers car and have the insurance in my name and state of residence (Arkansas) while the car is registered out of South Dakota. Do I need to worry about my insurance not fulfilling my recent claim?\n\nI drive my mothers car. The car is registered out of SD because she lives full time in an RV and there are lax registration laws in SD that allow them to register everything out of the state. I live in Arkansas and have car insurance in my name but I'm worried that because I don't own the car, my insurance company will be able to deny my claim for flood damage on my car. I have already filed the claim and have the car in a body shop but the shop estimated the repairs to cost over the amount that the car is worth so I am expecting it to be totaled. I'm just worried my insurance company will refuse to honor (? unsure of what i should be saying here) my claim because I don't own the car. I have been keeping up with my payments and have paid for my insurance in Oct. I tried to ask this in the insurance sub but didn't get a very straight answer.","title":"Car is insured in AR and in my name but I don't own it and its registered out of SD.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541184590,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tmwnd\/divorce_decree_educational_and_extraordinary\/","id":"9tmwnd","body":"This is in Missouri. The section reads: \n\n\u201cEducation and extraordinary expenses:\n\nThe parents have joint legal custody and they shall each pay fifty percent (50%) of the educational and extraordinary expenses that are incurred by agreement unless the parties agree or the Family Court Judgment provides otherwise.\u201d\n\nMy question is.. what exactly constitutes educational and extraordinary expenses? Is there a published list somewhere? \n\nJust a couple examples; My son is in elementary school and has a field trip and choir trip coming up. Choir also requires a t shirt purchase.  Are these fees considered to be covered under educational here?\n\nAs for extraordinary expenses I have no idea what these are. Can I get some advise on these expenses as well please?\n\nThank you\n","title":"Divorce decree \u201cEducational and Extraordinary expenses\u201d","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443571856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mwhs2\/oklahoma_apartment_renter_after_three_years_of\/","id":"3mwhs2","body":"Recently my landlord decided to stop by and look, only through the door, no stepping in.\n\nHe had something on his mind, which later I could only assume he heard something he didn't approve of.\n\nAfter taking a short minute to look in, he was fine. As he started to walk away, I asked if everything was ok, and if he heard a rumor or something. He turned around, hesitated, tried to say something, then said never mind, don't worry.\n\nI closed the door, waited a moment, looked out my window. He didn't walk far. He was at the edge of the street, leaning on my roommates back end, with his phone in hand. After a about 10 seconds, he started walking down the road, not towards his house. He doesn't run an office for the small set of apartments he runs.\n\n**TL;DR**: Landord stops by, for the first time in three years, to look through my front door, wouldn't say way, then walks away.\n\nIs there anything of concern I should be considering?\n","title":"Oklahoma, Apartment Renter, After three years of living, Landlord randomly visits.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541723103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vfm1h\/3_eggs_and_ham\/","id":"9vfm1h","body":"So me and my family moved into a house in the bay area about a year ago. Due to its location is quite expensive and honestly too expensive to be dealing with things like this. Recently our neighbors sold their house and the new owner keeps renting out the rooms to different people. The current owner has very nicely come up to us and asked that we do not park infront of her house and although it is not illegal to do so we understood and obliged. \n\nAlthough we aren't \"allowed to park\" in front of her house, her tenants continously park infront of ours, sometimes taking all the parking spaces. The straw that broke the camels back was when one of her tenants parked on a red line and effectively trapped all the cars parked in the cul de sac inside. After this happened my dad had a talk with the guy and when he was done he said that the guy didnt take it well.\n\nThis morning around 4 am the guy egged our house. He threw 3 eggs, one at my window, one infront of our entrance door, and one on our roof (hence the clever title). We know it was him because I stay awake for a while on days I wont have school and play video games so I saw this all unfold. We reported it to the authorities but didnt tell them about the neighbors because we dont really have evidence and we are scared that the guy might do something else (hes had the cops called on him before and we think he thought it was us and therefore the egg thing was his revenge). In the meantime we bought cameras and we are going to make this known to the neighbor so that he gets a little spook (not telling him that we know its him) \n\nMy question is, should we take legal action on this although we dont really have evidence or is this too petty of a situation? I'm honestly a bit uncomfortable because im a 20 year old woman who is home alone often and it creeps me out that he choose my window to throw the egg (even though I've never talked to him before). We have never had a problem with neighbors before so we just dont know how to act. Thanks for reading!\n\nTl;dr: neighbor gets mad at us and eggs our house, we dont have evidence but I saw it happen because of my dysfunction sleeping schedule.\n","title":"3 Eggs and Ham","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569336898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8objd\/i_want_to_get_an_emotional_support_dog_but_i_dont\/","id":"d8objd","body":"In Ontario, Canada. \n\nI've been living alone for almost 3 years and its getting to a point where I'm struggling really badly.\n\nI'm only 19 and have no family around me nor do I have any friends besides my partner who lives 30 minutes away. I've suffered with anxiety, depression, and BPD for years and I've always looked into getting a emotional support dog but because I rent basements I'm unable to do so.\n\nHowever, recently I did some research and found that by registering your dog as an Emotion Support Dog, landlords can't evict you for having one. I signed a lease for a new place last week and will be moving in October 1st and I'd like to politely ask them if I can get the dog. They mentioned they allow limited pets and the previous tenant had a cat.\n\nMy question is, if they deny it, can I still go ahead and get the dog, register it as an Emotional Support Dog, and legally have it? I dont want to go behind their backs which is why I want to talk to them first but honestly I dont think I can take another year of living completely alone.","title":"I want to get an Emotional Support Dog but I dont know if my landlord can deny it (Canada)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506986663,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73wl3j\/ca_employer_said_my_raise_was_implemented_but_now\/","id":"73wl3j","body":"Hi there this is my first time posting here because I am really at a loss of what to do. I recently moved to California from Oregon where I was working the same job[contracted]. When I put in my request to be moved i was offered either my standard pay rate of $12 an hour + expenses(gas and millage) or $15 an hour. I got back to him a day later and chose the $15 an hour. I recently checked my paychecks and it was the same $12 an hour rate with no millage or gas covered for. I asked them why this was and what I was told was \"it does not go in effect for two weeks following a move to a new location. This is standard for all geographical relocations\" I asked him for any sort of documentation and he responded with that he didn't have any but he could send me a screenshot of my pay. I'm really fucked on bills at the moment and my costs weren't covered. How should I handle this?","title":"[CA] Employer said my raise was implemented but now is saying its standard practice to wait two weeks.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569815436,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db60ca\/how_to_say_no_to_overtime_when_its_part_of_my\/","id":"db60ca","body":"I'm  okay with working overtime here and there (hour or two), but over the  past few weeks we've been expected to work an extra few hours per day +  most weekends.\n\nWe were given this  notice on the Monday before having to start working this much. I've had  to cancel many arrangements in my personal life and have been struggling  to find time to study (I am in school part-time, but no one knows this  since it would conflict with my work as I'm planning on leaving in a  year+). It's also taking a toll on my physical + mental health.\n\nI  can't find a new job at this point, and I don't want to be fired, but I  also want to make it clear that in the future I can only work a few  hours overtime. My boss does seem to be understanding, but who knows  what would if I bring it up.\n\nMy contract says that overtime is compulsory when given proper notice.","title":"How to say no to overtime when it's part of my contract?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569469814,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ebhf\/roommatesubtenant_refuses_to_pay_back_rent\/","id":"d9ebhf","body":"First off, I am posting this for a married couple who are friends of mine. Neither of them have reddit accounts or any reddit savvy, so I agreed to ask on their behalf.\n\n​\n\nThis is in Ohio in the US. These friends allowed someone to move in with them over 2 years ago. This subtenant is not on the lease in any form (although the landlord gave permission for him to be there). My friends never made this subtenant sign a sublease. He has not paid his rent in full for over 10 months. Since his living situation and monthly rent was never put into writing, he believes he shouldn't have to pay and that my friends have no legal case against him. He plans on moving out before the end of next week. My friends believe that since they have plenty of witnesses that he lives here, witnesses to a verbal agreement that he agreed to pay, and proof that he was paying beforehand they believe they have a legal case against him.\n\n​\n\nI'm assuming they're out of luck if the subtenant refuses to pay back what he owes, but I agreed to ask nonetheless. They are perfectly aware that they made an incredibly foolish decision to not make him sign paperwork upon moving in. If this subtenant refuses to pay, would they stand a chance if they decided to pursue him legally?","title":"Roommate\/subtenant refuses to pay back rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506932012,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73rieh\/ca_any_repercussions_for_towing_a_car_on_my_dads\/","id":"73rieh","body":"Our landlord loves to tell the previous tenants that they can park their cars in our backyard as long as they find my grandpa first. \nMy grandpa is a mega sweetheart and is the type to inconvenience himself and his family to help strangers. He has let previous tenants (that we don\u2019t know) park in our backyard twice so far. My dad and I also park our cars in the backyard so when another car is there, there is not enough space left so I have to park in the streets. Extremely annoying as I live in a dense area. \n\nI can\u2019t stop my grandpa from allowing strangers to park their cars. He won\u2019t listen. My dad is annoyed but ultimately doesn\u2019t want to deal with it. I want this to stop. I already asked the landlord to stop but he said as long as my grandpa lets him, they can. \n\nHow can I stop strangers from parking in my dad\u2019s property? Can I tell these people that I will tow their car if they park in our backyard again? I know my grandpa lives here so he can do what he wants but I live here also. I\u2019m at loss what to do. ","title":"[CA] Any repercussions for towing a car on my dad\u2019s property?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553219912,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3z7ui\/im_reaching_out_to_a_prospect_for_my_agency_side\/","id":"b3z7ui","body":"Hey guys! \n\nTo keep this simple and short, I work at an event company that has received sponsorships from a certain company.\n\nI also own an a marketing agency that focuses on social media and noticed that that company is starting to get active on social networks.\n\nI want to reach out to them to see if I could potentially get them as a client but I'm not sure if I would be getting myself in trouble for trying to do this...\n\nAny advice or help on the topic would be very much appreciated \ud83e\udd13","title":"Im reaching out to a prospect for my agency (side hustle) but that prospect has already done business with the company i work for full time","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541461631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uj0v1\/father_charged_me_with_credit_card_theft_with\/","id":"9uj0v1","body":"Long story short, my Father's a multi-millionaire, sperm donor, piece of sh!t. I graduated high school and began University. My Father always promised as long as I maintained good grades and stayed out of trouble, my college and expenses would be taken care of. Fast forward into my sophomore year, my Mother divorced him. In retaliation to my mother, not only did my Father drop his financial obligation (that he promised) he accused me of credit card theft on a card he provided me. The card I was issued had a infinite limit on it. My Father cut off all financial help and left me entirely destitute. In vengeance and great regret, I paid my vehicle (which was in his name) off  and my college tuition on the credit card for that semester which totaled $30,000. \n\nIt's been 12 years of hell and oppression. Im a 32 year old, single female that have made pretty decent decisions with my life and have no other convictions of ANY sort. NOT even traffic violations. I've battled guilt and humiliation from being a felon on paper. \n\nI was placed on deferred adjudication with 3 years probation. I was released a year and a half early for good behavior. I filed an order for non-disclosure it was granted in 2016. Its been 10 years since the arrest date.\n\nCan anybody chime in on what my record may look like now? Does it show that it was deferred or is it entirely sealed. Much Love and thanks","title":"Father charged me with credit card theft with card HE gave me.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569594262,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da15bp\/just_a_question_in_regards_to_impersonationfraud\/","id":"da15bp","body":"My gf has been going through a divorce for three years. This last week we found out, from her bank contacting us, that he got temporary checks on one of her accounts and tried to use them. The bank didn\u2019t pay them, and said they would contact the D.A. My question is do we let the bank handle this with their lawyers or do we need to pursue it? I appreciate your feedback.  \n\nThey were married for 11 years and we live in a small town so he knows her SSN number,  et cetera.","title":"Just a question in regards to impersonation\/fraud","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444507454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o95q2\/wa_parents_kicking_me_out_no_job_can_i_stay_a_few\/","id":"3o95q2","body":"I graduated from college earlier this year but I have no job at the moment. There are a few mental issues (depression & anxiety) that prevent me from getting a proper job and my parents are kicking me out.\n\nDo I have the legal right to stay in the current house for a few weeks to find a job and a place to live? How long do I have? Would I be considered as a tenant?","title":"[WA] Parents kicking me out. No job. Can I stay a few weeks to find a job and a place to live?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553358378,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4l1is\/the_county_courts_spelled_my_name_wrong_on_their\/","id":"b4l1is","body":"I got pulled over because the officer claims I was speeding. This ticket eventually became a defective equipment ticket which I assume is a lesser charge. I Spent a bunch of time on the county website searching by name and came up with nothing. Eventually I encountered a name similar to mine but my last name was wrong. Can that be beneficial to me in any way? ","title":"The county Courts spelled my name wrong on their website. Is there any way this can be used to dispute a ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541361740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u6kbm\/if_i_just_murdered_someone_should_i_call_the\/","id":"9u6kbm","body":"First, this is just a question, I haven\u2019t killed anyone or know if anyone that\u2019s done so. Second I\u2019m curious, what should you do? While turning yourself over to the police is the smart thing to do, would calling your lawyer be smarter?","title":"If I just murdered someone should I call the police first or my lawyer?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1415769392,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2m1oce\/tunecore_claiming_copyright_on_creative_commons\/","id":"2m1oce","body":"I edited a video, synchronizing it to a song I found by an artist named Jimmy Gelhaar. \n\nWhen I uploaded to YouTube, a copyright notification arose saying TuneCore owned the music. At first, I thought it was a false claim (as I've gotten them before), but then I realized that Mr. Gelhaar, while giving away songs on his website free for download and **royalty free**, is also selling the songs--digitally remastered--on iTunes, Amazon and elsewhere. Evidently, he's using TuneCore for the distribution.\n\nMy own attempts to reach the artist have been futile. TuneCore is inept at resolving the problem after a week. I will keep you posted as to whether or not they actually resolve this problem, but I've given them more than enough time so I came here.\n\nIn short: I download music for free from a site where it's perfectly OK to do so, and use it under the CC license as allowed by the composer of the music ([here's a link to the site](http:\/\/www.jimmyg.us\/faq.aspx)).\n\nExcerpt from the artist's FAQ page:\n\n**If you'd like to include the full license for legal reasons, you can do the following:\n\n\"Title www.jimmygelhaar.com Licensed under Creative Commons 'Attribution 3.0' http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\"**\n\nThe music is also for sale on iTunes as part of a digitally remastered album. This I can see being claimed by TuneCore (hence the problem). But I have the non-digitally remastered music via **free** download, for use **royalty free**. I have the right to use this music as I please, provided I give proper attribution, under Creative Commons. And I'm not being allowed to.\n\nWhat would you suggest I do?\n","title":"TuneCore claiming copyright on Creative Commons music. What do I do?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1542245188,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x6enr\/son_has_a_peanut_allergy_school_continues_to_give\/","id":"9x6enr","body":"This has been an ongoing issues since the second day of school, where he was given peanut butter crackers. We sort of brushed it off as a new school year, new students, teachers a bit frazzled dealing with first graders no real big deal. His allergy isn't really severe but still not fun to deal with and can potentially become life threatening.\n\nWe had already informed the school of his allergy before the year started and even talked directly to the teacher about it because the default snack during the day if no other parents brought in a snack in peanut butter crackers. We even offered to purchase a special alternative for him, but they said it was unnecessary as they have other alternatives.\n\nSo we figured the issue was over when a few weeks later it happened again, this time they claimed he grabbed another students snack and ran off to eat it before they could stop him. Now my little one can be a little bit of a hard head and I can potentially see this happening so again we talked to him about peanuts and how dangerous they are to him. He continued to adamantly deny doing that and said Mrs gave them to him. \n\nWe then decide a meeting with the principal is in order, not to blame the teacher or accuse her of lying but to hopefully get this under control. Again a few weeks of no more issues, then it happened again.\n\nOnce again the story is \"he grabbed it and ran off and ate the whole package before we caught him\". Okay so a 6 year old managed to grab an unopened package of crackers, elude a teacher and an aide and eat the whole package before he's caught? He's crying and swearing to us he was given them, and after so many incidents we have to start believing him. \n\nAnother meeting with the principal and teacher gets us a \"Do not worry! This won't happen again\". We have another long sit down with our son to explain that even if it's given to you, ask to make sure it doesn't have peanuts or other nuts in it.\n\nThen, the very next school day (the meeting was on Friday) he's given another snack of peanut butter crackers but this time he asks if there is nuts in it and then he's given the alternative. We figure it kind of sucks that the kid has to be the adult right here but at the end of the day he's learning to ask about nuts. We send an email to the principal detailing the issue and say that the next stop is the school board if he is given peanuts again. We get a response back \"if he's asking now what's the problem? He should have known to ask to begin with. We are teachers not parents.\"\n\nWe have no issues for a while until this week. Some parent brought in PB&J sandwiches for snack time and he was given one. He forgot to ask about nuts but thought \"it was only in the crackers\". We find out the parent was aware of a nut allergy in the class (it's on the parent snack sheet) and brought in just a jelly one that was made separate from the peanut butter one's. He was not given this one. We spent a day at the hospital.\n\nWe've had endless talks with him about nuts and do our best to teach him but some of the blame has to be on the teachers here right? Do schools not have an obligation to deal with allergies? The school lunch seems to have zero issues with this and has never given him a nut when there are several things on the menu rotation that contain them. He gets a special tray that was no where near any nuts. This is in Indiana, any help is appreciated.","title":"Son has a peanut allergy, school continues to give him or allow him to get peanuts.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555025231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc6p93\/i_got_by_my_employer_stealing_a_lighter_on\/","id":"bc6p93","body":"So I work in retail, and one day I borrowed a lighter off the shelf. Apparently I forgot to put it back on the shelf afterwards, completely by mistake.\n\nMy district manager caught me and just chewed my ass out and told me I\u2019m getting a Hail Mary because I should be fired for that. He wrote me up instead of firing me.\n\nHas this just ruined any future growth I could have had at the company? Should I just get ready to quit? \n\nI\u2019m worried if I immediately put in my 2 weeks notice right after this he\u2019ll mark me as not rehireable or that they\u2019ll press charges against me.\n\nWhat should I do? Should I be worried about criminal charges? Or did I luck out?","title":"I got by my employer stealing a lighter on accident.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542200817,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wzxm3\/renting_apartment\/","id":"9wzxm3","body":"So, me and my friend found apartment to rent in UK, Manchester via company. I made recurring payment for every month, we paid everything, also deposit and agency tax. So, my agency got deposit and agency tax, but rent payment is still in transaction, I contacted my bank and they told me, that it might take 3-5 days for that kind of transaction, I told my agency that and sent proof that payment was made, but they keep telling me, that I am breaching my contract and that I need to send the money (850 pounds) now. But first of all, I don't have that kind of money, second of all, it wouldn't go through the same day again. I put all my saving and money to that apartment, I don't know what to say or do, I am afraid that agency is going to take my money and I will be left with nothing. I've sent proofs that I paid, but they don't seem to care.","title":"Renting apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445573903,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pv73q\/mn_question_on_security_deposit_deductions_from\/","id":"3pv73q","body":"So my GF and I just moved to a new apartment the beginning of October, and we just got our security deposit back from our last apartment (only a small fraction of it though).\n\nMost of the stuff is valid (damage to carpet from cats scratching\/tearing at a spot under our bedroom door, some tape\/wire hangers that I missed, etc.), but there are a couple things that we were shocked by and wanted advice on if we have any case on fighting it and getting more of our deposit back.\n\n[Picture of paper we got with the check (at least the relevant part)](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/G7uc59l.jpg)\n\n1. misc cleaning: we cleaned the apartment to the same or better than it was when we moved in, but they still charged us 4 hours @ $50\/hr (which btw, that figure was never included in our lease, just a line about charging for cleaning) this one im the least hopeful about but figured i would mention it.\n\n2. fill holes, prime and paint where hole were: I had talked to him about this, and even filled most of the holes before we left. in my conversations with him on the phone, when I asked about filling the holes and painting them (if they provided the paint, so it would be the correct one) they said not to worry about it. I feel like he should have said something about how he would have to charge us for painting over the holes, especially since when we moved in he made the comment that they always do a fresh coat of paint on the walls when someone moves out. Also looking at my texts between me and him when i asked about the shower rod he said i could install it but made no mention of having to charge for repairs, maybe that was just supposed to be a given, but figured i would mention that also.\n\n3. light bulbs: there were no burnt out light bulbs when we left. there was a light fixture that we had been having issues with but he said that he hated those and was planning on just replacing it and that we wouldnt have to worry about it. (this one im not super concerned about since it was just $12, but it just feels rude.)\n\nWhat bugs me the most, is that although in the lease it does say something about withholding some of the security deposit for this stuff. There was nothing that said how much they would charge.\n\n\nBasically I'm wondering if there is anything that he deducted that we could fight, or if we are basically screwed out of all that money.\n\n\nP.S. on the late fees, most of the times that they were going to be late, we told him they would be a couple days late and he said that wasnt an issue.","title":"[MN] Question on security deposit deductions from last apartment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570150549,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd0598\/my_dad_needs_help_we_are_trapped\/","id":"dd0598","body":"I didn\u2019t know what flair to put in sorry if this is wrong. \n\nHis woman kicked him out. But he has so much stuff at this woman\u2019s place. Trailer full of stuff. Old antiques passed down through the family. His old high school stuff. A lot of just things that can\u2019t be replaced. She is from a smaller town where she grew up and she knows everyone. Half the police force is on her side. My dad wasn\u2019t even allowed to go back to the house to grab clothes when she kicked him out. He just wants his trailer and all his belongings. I know the law. But when the local law dosnt abide what can we do?","title":"My dad needs help we are trapped","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540508793,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rfbhz\/babies_like_paint_dust_right\/","id":"9rfbhz","body":"Glendale, CA.\n\nthe company that owns our building is having our windows sanded, repainted, and rescreened. it's all being done without warning, which is not the real problem. today the guys on the windows opened one up, and sanded the sill without putting up any kind of barrier. *this blew paint dust into the room my infant child was sleeping in.*\n\nthis can't *possibly* be ok, can it? I dont know if we can do anything, but we'll definitely be moving because of this. we're on a monthly lease, so it won't hurt us, but if we need to use this as a defense, do we have any ground to stand on?","title":"babies like paint dust, right?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504734427,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yis0g\/ustn_validity_of_a_lease_with_a_joke_gotcha\/","id":"6yis0g","body":"First let me say sorry for any poor formatting or misspelled words, I'm in the middle of a move on mobile. \n\nMy question concerns the lease I signed for the apartment I'm moving out of. \n\nWhen I signed my lease there was a \"(don't) initial here\" section that my neighbors had given me a heads up about. \n\nEssentially, amongst the paragraphs of terms to acknowledge, my landlord wanted to funny and slip in a clause to make sure tenants read the lease. The paragraph in question strted to NOT initial if the tenant states that by initialing next to it the tenants give their consent for him have first claims to harvest their organs. I'm curious if this affects the lease I signed. \n\nI ask because I heard a while back that jokes like this, or terms that are considered unviable are not legally binding and often nullify the contracts they're a part of. Is this true? What's the possibility it nullifies my lease and any others he's had others sign?\n\nThis landlord is a real slumlord, and I want a little more info on my side. He's done plenty during my residency, to myself and other tenements, that violates state law and I've called him on that a few times already but it never really stops. I fully expect him to try and cheat me on my deposit.\n\nI tried reaching out to some local lawyers for consultations, but a month later and no response from any of them, so here I am. I'll be happy to clarify on anything I've missed\/left out, too.","title":"[US\/TN] validity of a lease with a joke \"gotcha?\"","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443206464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mda09\/contract_referscalls_upon_procedures_that_do\/","id":"3mda09","body":"The council rented my property and their tenants destroyed it, I have been through a complaints for 8 months, (I started repairing my property- but sent them quote prior to conducting work)\n\nThe council now wants to call upon  a \"dispute resolution process\" mentioned in our contractual agreement,\n\nTurns out this process does not exist nor is it documented and they are documenting it ( reverse engineering this document)\n\nMy question is.. does this now make my contract Fraudulent? Misrepresented? void or what?.. it cost me over 15k to fix my property,,, they want to give me 5k... \n\nIm in London.. (looking for the edit to put location in header - sorry Im new)\n","title":"Contract refers\/calls upon procedures that do exist - Is this fraud\/void or misrepresentation?-PLS HELP!","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541719089,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vf2za\/virginia_son_suspended_til_further_notice\/","id":"9vf2za","body":"Hi Everyone,  My son recently got suspended from high school til further notice.  Today while at school my son was playing with a rope turning it into a lasso.  I recently have been playing red dead 2 and have been letting him play it, so I know exactly what he has been thinking.  One of the kids in his friends group said that it looked like a noose and he had the \"great\" idea to hang it in the hallway.  He wasn't trying to do this in a racist or other intimidating way but more of a joke.  He got called to the office where they made him sign some papers saying he did it before me and my wife even showed up.  We got a form this evening saying that he was suspended until a hearing will be set up in front of a disciplinary committee in front of the school board.  The call I had with the principal makes me think they are trying to frame this as a hate crime and they might take action to expel him from school.  Do I need an attorney before the disciplinary hearing?\n\n​\n\nI know what my son did was wrong and stupid but this is the first time he has gotten in trouble and I don't want this to affect his future.  I also can't afford private school and I can't afford to move.","title":"[Virginia] Son Suspended til further notice","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571315745,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj5rvq\/roommate_plans_to_bring_unsafe_individual_into\/","id":"dj5rvq","body":"I (F24) just signed a lease with a close friend (F23) of many years.   A week before we move in she gets back with mentally unstable(putting it lightly) and abusive ex.  He\u2019s had multiple psychotic breaks in the last year and threatened lives. I\u2019m not comfortable with him being in my space. \nShe might agree to not let him stay with us or she\u2019ll choose to not move in. She has avoided me for days after I\u2019ve brought this up. \n\nIt\u2019s likely she will break our new lease.  What are the chances our new landlord will let me stay on the lease? \n\nIs it in my best interest to find a new roommate before or after I talk to my landlord(subleasing is not allowed)? \n\nIf she doesn\u2019t want to break lease but brings him over, do I get a restraining order? \n\nI\u2019m truly worried for my safety since he already knows I don\u2019t like him and has a history of violence. \nI\u2019m pretty stressed since I can\u2019t afford this new place alone but my current landlord has already signed a new lease for where I\u2019m staying now. \n\nThrowaway because she knows my main account.","title":"Roommate plans to bring unsafe individual into new home","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506447631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72m0th\/massachusetts_manager_letting_me_go_soon_after\/","id":"72m0th","body":"I'm working an office job in Massachusetts. I was working from home a few days a week because my manager allowed it and I have a doctor's note on file with HR stating that I need to work from home as much as needed. My manager then changes to a different person and this manager asks me why I am working from home so much (in a sternly written email). I point him in the direction of HR for the agreement set up along with the doctor's note. A week later he tells me I am being let go along with a few other people.\n\nCan I do anything here? Maybe fight for more severance at least?","title":"[Massachusetts] Manager letting me go soon after inquiring about me working from home (my HR department cleared me to do so)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570684561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dftarn\/could_someone_explain_what_would_make_the_penalty\/","id":"dftarn","body":"I found a few sources that said piracy fines can be up to 250,000$ per offense in the US. Is this just to accommodate for the states with higher penalties? If it\u2019s not, what would make it less\/more extreme? \n\nPlease simplify it for me, I\u2019m a bit of an idiot lol","title":"Could someone explain what would make the penalty for piracy worse\/better?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540430445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r5qup\/my_work_is_paying_me_more_than_i_should_be_being\/","id":"9r5qup","body":"Background: I work at a multi-national chain that provides millions of customers around the world with goods. (McDonalds) I got a pay raise in June to be making 11.75 an hour. However I recently noticed on my paycheck that I\u2019m making $13.35 an hour- more than all the managers above me except for our General Manager. I haven\u2019t told anyone about it except for my girlfriend because I want to keep it that way. I\u2019m almost 100% sure that my wage is a mistake, so could I get in legal trouble if I don\u2019t bring it up to my General Manager?? Furthermore if they do notice and drop me back down to 11.75, could I fight to keep the 13.35?","title":"My work is paying me more than I should be being paid- could I get in trouble for this?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568724449,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5ghdw\/advertising_product_by_saying_our_product_is_used\/","id":"d5ghdw","body":"Assuming that I want to advertise a product that is used by individuals. I know for a fact that at least one employee of company xyz is using that product (e.g. think of a software that increases his\/her productivity), but the employee individually discovered the product (not via the company). The product may or may not be free. Is it then allowed to advertise the product \"as being used by employees of company xyz\" or could one face legal issues with that company?\n\nThanks for advice!","title":"Advertising product by saying \"Our product is used by employees of companies xyz\".","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1508295446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/773t95\/am_i_screwed_here\/","id":"773t95","body":"A couple weeks ago my daughter had a sleep over with a few of her 17\/18 year old friends. They came over and hung out, watched movies, went in the hot tub, etc. \n\nNormally I let my daughter have a beer or two when she\u2019s home with us hanging out. Well during the sleep over my daughter and couple of her friends ended up having a few drinks. \n\nFlash forward to the next day I wake up to sexts from one of my daughters friend claiming we hooked up the night before.  She\u2019s 17 and I\u2019m 38. \n\nMy wife had gone to bed pretty early and I don\u2019t remember much after midnight. \n\nI DOUBT I had sex with this girl. I\u2019ve been ignoring her texts and blocked her since Saturday but she\u2019s continuing to escalate. \n\nToday she messaged me on Facebook saying she going to go to the police to \u201cget me back\u201d for taking advantage of her. \n\nI don\u2019t know what to do at this point. I don\u2019t want to go to the police because I let the kids drink. \n\nDo I have any protection here? Could the still get my DNA if we did hook up? Am I looking at big trouble for letting them drink? Should I just ignore her until she stops? \n\nI do have a vasectomy so there\u2019s not chance of pregnancy. What should I do here?\n\nI\u2019m in OR if that matters. \n\n","title":"Am I screwed here?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444750088,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3olhnr\/moving_out_of_apartment_and_i_have_a_couple_of\/","id":"3olhnr","body":"I am in TX. I am moving out of the apartment I have rented for the last 2 years. This complex is the first I lived in outside of my parents house, so I am trying to make sure I do everything correct. \n\n1. I know that they are required to return my deposit to me within 30 days with an itemized list of deductions taken from the deposit. If I feel that the charges are overpriced, am I allowed to ask for invoices for repairs? \n\n2. My lease isn't up until October 20th, but due to scheduling I had to move this past weekend. I cleaned the apartment over the weekend and reached out yesterday to schedule a walk through with the manager and return the keys. She responded that since I moved out early, I am technically in violation of my lease. She will not walk through the apartment or accept my keys until the 20th. I can go sleep there a few nights until the 20th if need be. My rent and utilities are all paid in full for the remainder of my lease. Can they charge me the reletting fees for moving out 9 days early? \n\nI may think of more to  add, but these are my two biggest concerns. ","title":"Moving out of apartment and I have a couple of questions","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508177228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76scn5\/certain_people_are_trying_to_borrow_money_from_my\/","id":"76scn5","body":"LOCATION:  California, U.S.A. \nI don't trust the people who are asking for money, even though they are extended family members.  My dad is very naive and he does everything he can for his brother's family (alot more than hes ever done for his own family but I'm not going to get into that now).  I know that my uncle is greedy by nature and only cares about his family.  Hes only trying to use my parents.  Is there any legal document I can force him to sign that forces him to pay my parents back eventually? \n\nEDIT: I just want to clarify that I am usually the person who handles documents and paperwork for my parents since their english isn't very good.  In this context, I am basically supplying the \"contract\" or documentation so the direct parties on the loaning and receiving end may sign it.   I am trying to protect my parents. \n","title":"Certain people are trying to borrow money from my parents. Is there any way I legally bind them to some agreement saying they'll pay it back?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568434036,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d40f2d\/ca_rental_situation_30_day_notice_that_roommate\/","id":"d40f2d","body":"My roommate abruptly said she will be moving out of our month-to-month lease as of October 13. \n\nThis is 30 days notice, however we pay rent on the first of the month. This is less than a month\u2019s notice for me to be able to pay most of the month\u2019s rent myself (19 days out of the coming 31 day month).\n\nI am flabbergasted and do not know what my options are- does this seem legal? The lease simply states a 30-day notice of move-out date. I am also being forced to find a roommate to take over the lease mid-month on October 14, when most leases start the first of the month.\n\nAny advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you.","title":"[CA] Rental situation: 30 day notice that roommate is leaving mid-month but 3 weeks until I pay rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540330485,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qtdvv\/landlord_has_been_harassing_me_about_neighbors\/","id":"9qtdvv","body":"(Note:  I admit this is a crazy situation.  I wouldn't believe it myself if it weren't happening to me, but I've documented everything.)\n\n​\n\nI'm an apartment tenant who moved to a city in New York State in November last year.  For the first nine months I lived here, things were peaceful and I got along well with the landlord and maintenance.  In July, when I was paying my rent, the landlord told me that there had been \"complaints\" from the neighbors about a smell coming from my apartment.  I was very apologetic, but I was also a bit confused as I didn't notice any odd smells in my place.  I have two cats, but I'd been keeping their litterboxes clean.  I had cats in the two apartments I'd lived in prior to moving here, and there hadn't been any complaints there or in the nine months prior here.  But I promised to be extra vigilant about any smells, and I was.\n\n​\n\nThen at the beginning of this month when I paid my rent again, the landlord again referred to \"neighbors' complaints\" about smells from my apartment.  I said I'd again make sure any smells were taken care of--even though neither I nor anyone else could smell anything off--and again I did.  Two weeks later there was a threatening note my door claiming that I was not keeping my apartment \"to standard\" and that this was a \"final warning\".  This time I was a bit more angry about it, as I had really been vigilant about everything--new litter pans, deodorants everywhere, cleaned apartment from top to bottom in those two weeks, the works.  I could smell absolutely nothing in my apartment, even if I put my face right next to the litterbox!  The landlord told me she would come to my apartment in person today.  As it happened this morning there were a couple maintenance men fixing the washing machine in the room next to mine.  I asked them if they'd noticed \"anything unusual\" in the hallway by my door...they said they did not, no smells or anything else.  I was getting a little suspicious.\n\n​\n\nSure enough about an hour later the landlord comes over and immediately starts complaining about \"overwhelming smells\" coming from my door.  I mentioned what the maintenance men had just said about the hallway.  She claimed \"well it's cat pee and it has to be your apartment because nobody else in this building has cats.\"  (Totally false...in fact the neighbor directly across the hall also has two cats!)  She continued on by saying \"well the neighbors are sure that it's coming from your apartment.\"  I asked how the neighbors could be certain of that.  Then she backtracked.  \"*Well actually the neighbors haven't made any complaints*, but I think there's a cat smell here.\"  Then she claimed that she knew there was a cat smell \"because I can tell when you come to pay the rent.\"  Uh...really?  \"*OK maybe it isn't cat smell*, I don't know, maybe you smell bad?  I don't know.\"  I was totally speechless.  Then she quickly made excuses, saying she'd be back next week, and took off.\n\n​\n\nI realize this is a situation almost too stupid for words, but I'm at my wits' end here.  Basically the landlord is threatening me over a totally non-existent problem, compounding it by lying about \"neighbors' complaints\" that never happened, and topping it off by insulting me about alleged bad body odor.  (And yes I'll be the first to agree that people are immune to their own body odor, but she's claimed that it can be smelled in the hallway outside of my apartment even when I haven't been there for days!)  I'm not sure what the legal remedy might be for this, but this harassment absolutely has to stop.  I'm furious that I've been lied to, threatened, and insulted over this.","title":"Landlord has been harassing me about \"neighbors' complaints about cat smell.\" Today she admitted she was lying about the complaints and the smell. How do I stop the harassment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570389204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de7tyj\/company_promised_per_diem_and_travel_expenses_for\/","id":"de7tyj","body":"Ohio - I work for a large company (2000+ employees) that sent myself and group of coworkers to another location out of state to work for three weeks. The hotel rooms were booked and paid for directly the company, and we drove a company car. We were promised a flat per diem for meals and reimbursement for any gas purchased. We were only required to keep and turn in receipts for gas. This trip took place in July. \n\nIt is now October, and none of us have received any pay outside of our normal wage for hours worked. I have been asking supervisors, management, and HR, and no one can give me a direct answer as to when we'll be paid or why there's such a delay. It should be noted that on a previous trip in early March, payment was not made until late June, and did not include reimbursement for gas receipts. \n\nWhat options do I have? I understand there are no Federal or State laws requiring employers to pay reimbursement for travel expenses. Can I file a complaint with the Labor Board? Or do I need to find an attorney and pursue this as a civil matter? The amount owed is approximately $900.","title":"Company promised per diem and travel expenses for business trip, over 2 months later and they still have not paid.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540580461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rnl62\/nj_help_understanding_termsphrasing_in_a_will_one\/","id":"9rnl62","body":"Hi all!\n\n~I've asked a fair amount in this sub over the past few months. And once again am back.  I am stuck on two sections of my grandfathers Will that on an tryinf to help translate for my mum. She assumes since I have an MBA in British Lit, I must know the law! Smh. \n\nAnd right to it. \n\nOk so this is from the second section part B and states: \n\"I give to my daughter's 1 and 2, or the survivors of them, all my clothing, effects, jewelry, vehicles, and furniture, etc.\" \n\nIn the state of NJ this all counts as tangible property. \n\nNow section Three states that \"The balance of my estate whether real or personal, and where ever situate (referred to as my reaiduary estate) shall be distributed as follows:\"\nIt was a 60\/40 split. \n\nQuestions: Is the propwrty\/personal belongings in section Two the first one I quoted , separate from the assets left to each sister as state in section Three? \n\ni dont understand if his tangible property counts as part of the  40% of estate assets. \n\nAlso in NJ, Bank accounts open after death, stocks, Bonds, CDs, etc are NOT tangible property and I am assuming, are part of the estate? So they would be included in the percent of assets to be split? \n\nMy main consfusion as stated is is there a difference between sections Two and Three? Do both sisters split his tangible property 50\/50 if it says it is left to both of them. Or are they also equal to estate assets to be split as part of the 50\/40? \n\nAny advice is appreciated if I've even made sense. My apologies for sounding like a babbling bafoon  ","title":"|NJ| Help understanding terms\/phrasing in a Will. One main question. In one section all \"tangible property\" sounds divided 50\/50 but in the following regarding estate assets I am unsure if the tangible property is included as part of estate. Will include exact phrasing with question.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554994499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc0tr4\/ca_do_you_need_to_update_will_after_getting\/","id":"bc0tr4","body":"Single, own house and my mom is my beneficiary at the moment and it\u2019s stated in my will. If I get married (community property state), do I need to update my will or will this will be enough after I\u2019m married to keep my mom as beneficiary of my property and to make medical decisions for me?","title":"CA- Do you need to update will after getting married?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552007988,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aykdze\/or_special_needs_trust\/","id":"aykdze","body":"i\u2019m posting here because my lawyer hasn\u2019t responded to my phone calls and i\u2019m frustrated. \n\ni\u2019m a co-guardian to my older sister who is disabled. she receives SSI and medicaid. \n\ndue to an old will that couldn\u2019t be changed, i\u2019m splitting my inheritance with her. (my grandmother refused to believe she was mentally ill and my father passed away so my sister and i were the next of kin to receive it and it\u2019s a long and complicated story). \n\nher half of the inheritance has a combined total of well over a million dollars. \n\nher disability gives her a relatively short life expectancy, where she will in NO way ever be able to spend all the funds in her special needs trust before death. \n\nupon death, whatever is owed to the state for her care will be paid out first, and i will receive whatever is left. she\u2019s been hospitalized pretty much her entire life, racking up very pricy hospital bills, so there will likely be nothing left. \n\ni\u2019m essentially splitting my inheritance with the state and pretty pissed about it. \n\nanyway, i hired a woman who is a professional to be co-guardian and grantor\/trustee to her special needs trust. she disperses funds and checks with the lawyer to make sure certain purchases are OK. \n\ni am only allowed to spend money on her for things that are not already provided for her- like clothes..... and makeup... and random junk. she doesn\u2019t have a license and can\u2019t drive so we can\u2019t get a car with the funds. she can\u2019t buy a house because she receives housing. she is constantly in hospitals where she isn\u2019t allowed to have things like electronics, or even shoe laces. \n\ni recently asked the co-guardian to ask the lawyer about buying me a car, because i visit her often and she is usually hours away. (plus, that would take a somewhat good chunk out of the funds). he said no, as it would have to be HER car only, and she can\u2019t drive. \n\ni know i probably sound like a selfish entitled brat, but try to hear me out. i love my sister, and she is safe and happy and comfortable. but there\u2019s no way in hell im going to be able to spend millions of dollars on her alone. in the lesser of 2 evils, i\u2019d rather spend the money than have it go to the state.\n\ncan someone help me out here at all with some advice? my lawyer is a bit unhelpful as is my co-guardian. they don\u2019t seem to understand how much money is at stake here and how incapable she is. should i take her off disability? see how much she owes medicaid right now? i\u2019m so overwhelmed and confused and more money keeps coming into the trust as years go on (it\u2019s dispersed by age). \n\nid like to note before i get hate- i do have my own half of the inheritance, and i am honestly more than comfortable financially, so this is not just me being greedy. \n\n","title":"[OR] special needs trust","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552460082,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0iwx3\/how_should_i_go_about_getting_a_generous\/","id":"b0iwx3","body":"Employment Law Question\n\nIssue: How should I go about getting a generous severance package?  I\u2019m 63, no longer want to work, have consistently positive performance reviews, and have been with my company for 20 years.\n\nFacts: I\u2019m in California. I\u2019m 63, no longer want to work, have consistently positive performance reviews, and have been with my company for 20 years.  I work for a very large well-known fortune 500 company.  I\u2019m an IT manager making $150k per year.  My colleagues are almost all in their 20\u2019s and 30\u2019s.\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"How should I go about getting a generous severance package? I\u2019m 63, in California, no longer want to work, have consistently positive performance reviews, and have been with my company for 20 years.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540258553,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qka7d\/ohio_is_it_legal_to_put_a_train_horn_on_my_car\/","id":"9qka7d","body":"Just curious. I think it would be hilarious because I drive a tiny ass Nissan Versa. I checked the Ohio Revised Code and there is no decibel limit for horns, it just says that it must be audible within at least two-hundred feet. It says that bells, whistles, and sirens are reserved for emergency vehicles and can't be put on commercial cars (ORC 4501 2-1-17).\n\nAdditionally, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration doesn't have any restricting guidelines that I can find. (CFR Title 49 Vol 5 S 393.81).\n\nMy main concern is that a train horn or a train-style horn will fall under the definition of a \"whistle\", and the second issue would be local municipality restrictions on vehicle noise level. ","title":"[Ohio] Is it legal to put a train horn on my car?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551995319,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayi6ng\/stalked_for_a_year_and_a_half_with_no_end_in_sight\/","id":"ayi6ng","body":"I posted this story on r\/letsnotmeet as well, and was told to come here for some advice. This won\u2019t be the exact same post, just the same information. \n\nIn August 2017, I was enrolled in college where I met this boy who I became friends with. I invited him to my dorm about a month after we met, where he showed me\/talked to me about violent things he had done in the past. This didn\u2019t worry me much, as I had a troubled past as well. That night, he sexually assaulted me. \n\nTwo months later, I took it to the cops. A school investigation was also in place, but they later determined they couldn\u2019t prove anything happened, and I dropped out of school. The legal investigation stopped being followed up on after about a month. \n\nAfter the school investigation ended, I filed for a protection order and got a temporary one granted. The day of court, his lawyer asked to talk to me privately. He talked to me about a whole bunch of things this protection order would do, and talked law-uneducated, 18 year old me into agreeing to a no-contact order instead, leaving out the fact it would only be in place six months. [This happened in February]\n\nAfter court, he would show up at my place of work, and just stand outside the store. (i was working in a mall). I left that job not long after because of it, and got a new job. In September, just a few minutes before I went to work, I got a text from an unsaved number. It was threatening, but nothing that scared me too much. I assumed it was my best friends ex boyfriend who I had gotten into a fight with days prior. \n\nThe texts kept coming, however, and they stated they knew where I worked, that I had gotten off late the night before (my shift had ended at 9pm, i left at 10pm), and then the worst one came in. I won\u2019t quote it verbatim because it\u2019s incredibly graphic, but they described in detail how they would murder me and where they would bury my body. I was allowed to go home on my break to talk to the police. \n\nThe police were the ones who pieced together it had been six months since we got the no-contact order, something I didn\u2019t figure out myself. They then told me they couldn\u2019t do anything until the sender acted upon the threats. They told me to block the number and move on, and I did. But the texts would come from new numbers, no matter how many I blocked. They had the phone company release who the numbers were registered to, and it turned out it was registered to him. I applied for another protection order, but it was denied. \n\nThe texts became few and far between, but were always incredibly graphic, either describing how i\u2019ll be murdered or implying they know where I am and they know how to make it so I\u2019ll never be found. \n\nI moved into a long term rehab facility, a few hours away from the town this all happened in, and the texts are still coming. The police have been informed, and they said they\u2019ll do something. \n\nThis has been going on for a year and a half. I have lived in constant fear, developed severe PTSD from both the assault and the stalking, and can never truly feel safe, no matter where I\u2019m at. \n\nI don\u2019t want this to end with another unfinished investigation, I\u2019m tired of living in fear and not being able to trust anyone. My life has turned into an absolute nightmare, and I want it to come to an end - before I end up another statistic of police not listening to stalking victims until they\u2019ve been killed. \n\nHow can I make sure that whatever the police end up going forward with is enough to keep me safe? I don\u2019t care if he ends up behind bars, or if I can somehow get granted another protection order, I just want to feel safe again. \n\nI live in South Dakota. \n\n","title":"Stalked For A Year And A Half With No End In Sight","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1550779212,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/at7nzi\/am_i_allowed_to_advertise_my_companies_job\/","id":"at7nzi","body":"I got this idea because my company (large, multinational firm) constantly pesters us with emails about helping them fill open positions around the country. I also happen to listen to a lot of podcasts, and am bombarded with ads for ziprecruiter, typically offering free job postings for listeners who use the referral code.\n\nIs this legal? I would make it clear that I am not the hiring manager and am simply availing myself of a free sample of a product offered to me (hiring boards) and seeking to collect the referral bonus from my company. Would the hiring board have an issue with an individual using their service in service of a large corporation? Would my company be able to fire me for farming out their job listings, essentially competing with them, and attempting to collect the bonus? Would individual applicants be able to sue me for any reason?\n\nI\u2019ve not taken any steps to enact this plan, and I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d even bother to do so even if I were assured it was on solid legal ground, but I was just interested to get an expert opinion.","title":"Am I allowed to advertise my companies job postings on job boards, submit the applicants through my companies internal website, and collect my companies referral fees?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551423515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw1umh\/secret_love_child_makes_grand_appearance\/","id":"aw1umh","body":"This is gonna be kinda long, I apologize, but want to include all relevant details and history. \n\nBefore I was born my dad cheated on my mom, this much is known for sure. My mom told me about it when I was in high school. They were married at the time. But they worked through it and went on to have me. My understanding is that it occurred about 2 years before I was born. As I understand it he went out one night and met some sleazy bar fly, had a good time, and that was the end of it. Then when I was about 4 years old he was diagnosed with an inoperable, malignant (a.k.a cancerous) brain tumor. Over the next few years his condition deteriorated to the point that he needed constant care. Obviously he couldn't work so everything fell on my mom. She worked her ass off to provide for all of us and to pay his medical expenses including in-home nursing care so that he wouldn't have to spend his final years in a nursing home. She even funded a trip across the country so that he could get an experimental treatment. Whenever she was home she did everything for him; bathing, feeding, etc. He died in 1995. Fast forward to 2017 and out of the blue I received a Facebook message from a woman who claimed to be my half sister. She has a copy of my dad's death certificate and says she was always told he was her dad and that he had a daughter. She said she is reaching out because she has always been curious about the sister she never knew. I am here because part of me wants to meet her and find out if it's true. And if so see about getting to know each other. However, I am concerned that this woman will try to go after my mom for money. She didn't allude to anything like that in her message but I am afraid she might have just been trying to gain my trust to get me to respond and will change her tune once I do. I don't think that my mom knows anything about her existence (although it's possible she just didn't tell me) and if she doesn't know I don't ever want her to. I don't see any reason to crush her like that at this point. I don't think she should have to find out that the man she sacrificed so much for was hiding a secret child all that time. I also don't think she should lose any of her hard-earned retirement due to my father being an unfaithful, selfish asshole. I'm sure that any money from his estate was long-gone years ago. Would this woman have any legal claim to get anything from me or my mom? I don't know anything about this type of stuff so I appreciate any and all suggestions and advice. Thank you for your help.\n\nP.S. My family is located in Illinois. As far as I can tell (which is very little) this woman used to live in Illinois as well but now lives in Missouri. ","title":"Secret Love Child Makes Grand Appearance","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1442859924,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lu2zu\/illinois_i_was_arrested_for_misdemeanor\/","id":"3lu2zu","body":"I am in need of consultation and advice for a misdemeanor charge against me. I was arrested for Confinement of my dog in the car that the officer claims put his health and wellbeing at risk.\n\nThe officer was called by a concerned citizen via 911 who claimed to have been at my car an hour before the officer's arrival. Officers claimed to have arrived at my vehicle and waited for 25 minutes before I returned. However, I know for a fact I was not at that location longer than an hour. Definitely less than 35 min. I am sure that I was not away from the vehicle for more than the hour that the officer and complainant claim. In addition to that, I had the sunroof open and it was 70 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny that day (72 according to NOAA). Furthermore, the officer claimed that my dog was physically distressed from the heat and ordered me to remove him from the vehicle and give him water (he had been playing with a bernese and a poodle all morning). He took a few sips from a cup of water and then sat there. If my dog were thirsty, he would have emptied that little cup.\n\nThe officers did not get the information for the woman who made the complaint so the arresting officer put herself as the one who found the situation I guess. She was pretty passionate and angry about all this. The other officer who showed up of course had to back her up.\n\nI did not argue with the officers, nor did I give them any reason to assume that I was mistreating my dog, other than leaving him in the car, on the way home from my girlfriend's parents house, to pick up a waterbottle from bed bath and beyond. Nonetheless, I was cuffed and arrested without being read my Miranda rights. I know that the law does not state specific conditions to qualify for this charge and that it is up to the discretion of the officer to determine. However, due to these circumstances and other details, I feel that I was wronged and would like to see what I can do to mitigate any damage this may do to my record.\n\nTL;DR: I was arrested for leaving my dog in an extremely hot car for over an hour. It was 72 degrees F (tops) and he was not there for any longer than 35 min. Do I have any case?","title":"[Illinois] I was arrested for misdemeanor confinement of my dog in the car. Do I have a chance?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445020230,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p0rw4\/sisterinlaw_has_been_screwed_in_divorce\/","id":"3p0rw4","body":"I'm going to give a rundown of everything that I know and I'm hoping there is some option for her at this point. They were married for a few years in **Western New York**\n\n**Assets:** Most of their money was deposited into bank accounts in his name. Last I heard there was $20k in cash but I have no idea who deposited how much. They received wedding gifts and she received an engagement ring and wedding band from him. He owns a car outright and they leased a car in his name. The house is in his parents' name.\n\n**The split:** She attempted to take him to counseling several times and he refused. She straight up asked him if he still loved her and he said no. At that point she took her dog and some clothes and went to her father's house. He took the rings and refuses to give her anything other than the leased car and her personal belongings (clothes, etc.). All of the wedding gifts are still at the house and he refuses to split any of that. \n\n**Today** she received the final divorce paperwork that states she has until 10\/23\/2015 to get a loan for the car as he will no longer allow it in his name.\n\nShe has $0 in the bank so she didn't think she could afford a divorce attorney. She has filed for deferments on her student loans because her income is not sufficient to cover them. \n\n*Does she have any options at this point or is it too late for anything to change?*","title":"Sister-in-law has been screwed in divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541028795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t46zc\/middle_school_sexual_abuse\/","id":"9t46zc","body":"i was in 8th grade when a girl that i didn't even know at all reported me for touching her ass, i was a really fucking pissed, because i know for a fact i never touched her, she lied for no reason, and probably because we were teasing her(saying hi annoyingly) and I would never ever touch someone without consent, i'm a child of God, and i know better than to do anything of that nature, i get called in to the office, and the principal (a girl) said that i will have ISS for the whole week, so i rant to my mother and she believed me, I feel like woman shouldn't be principles because in the end, it could be either a corrupt feminazi who wanted to hate and throw dirt on me, this is over, i'm in sophmore year now, but i just hate knowing the fact that bullshit like this happens. False Sexual assault, \n\n\ni tried to be a nice guy and say \"maybe i accidentally brushed up against or something but i never meant to touch her on purpose?\" thinking she would agree, but no, because that's bascially snitching on yourself, WHEN IT COMES TO SHIT LIKE THIS, always deny deny deny never tell the actual truth unless its needed in your side of justice,\n\n\ni just wish i could've handled the situation better, what could've i done to not get fucked over by a feminist corrupt principle who only cares about girls problems and believes them more over guys?","title":"middle school sexual abuse","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569446193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d99q5z\/commercial_truck_backed_into_my_car\/","id":"d99q5z","body":"I was driving down a one way street with two lanes. A commercial truck was parked blocking the entire right lane and about half of the left. I waited about a minute with him not moving and decide to go around him. As I began making my move he backed into my car and crumpled my bumper. \n\nWe called the police, they took everyone\u2019s information and filed a report. Nobody was given a ticket and the police didn\u2019t tell me who was at fault. \n\nI just got off the phone with the company and they\u2019re saying it\u2019s my fault because I went behind the truck. Do I have a case?  Should I hire a lawyer?  Never really dealt with anything like this before, any advice is greatly appreciated","title":"Commercial truck backed into my car","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446835559,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rsmln\/new_landlord_wants_us_out_need_advice\/","id":"3rsmln","body":"(South Carolina)\n\nMy roommate and I signed a lease in july 2015 that extends to july 2016. We live in a triplex on the top floor with 2 rooms underneath us. Recently, the house was sold and the tenants under us moved out, at least one was bought out of their lease we believe. The new landlord wants to make the whole house a single family unit, meaning he's been doing construction on the downstairs units for the past week. \n\nThe landlord is saying that due to the bad structure and state of the house, he's going to need to do work upstairs and on the roof. He then offered us $500 (our rent is $700) to move out within 10 days. A few questions.\n\n- 1) can he force us out of the house before our lease is over?\n- 2) can he do construction upstairs in our living areas?\n- 3) how much $ should we be asking for to be bought out of the lease?\n\n\nI really have no experience with this so any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks.\n\n","title":"New landlord wants us out, need advice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568701615,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5d1ha\/arizona_looking_for_advice_resources_for_child\/","id":"d5d1ha","body":"Will try to keep this concise :\n\nCurrent girlfriend was divorced four years ago and in that time has had to pay child support of of about $300 p\/m to her ex husband (they split custody). \n\nMy understanding is at the time of divorce she was making $65k p\/y to his $40k p\/y. She has now decided to take a lesser role at her company (for less pay) in order to complete her bachelors degree in less time (1yr vs 2yr) to reenter the job market upon graduation to higher wage potential career paths. \n\nNow that her current income has been temporarily reduced, she would like to either a) redo the calculation so he is then responsible for paying her an agreed upon sum for CS or b) waive the child support he receives from her all together. \n\nDoes LA have any suggestions on how this can be achieved? The statutes in my state are vague as to the \u201cvoluntary change in circumstance\u201d and how that affects her petition? From my view, she meets the standard for voluntarily change of circumstances because the well being of the child is not being adversely affected and she is on a \u201cvocational or educational program that will increase her future earning potential.\u201d However, all the research I have done says that this is very subjective and usually up to the court to decide. \n\nAny insight into this process would be greatly appreciated.","title":"[Arizona] Looking for advice, resources for Child support modification","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540428844,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r5jme\/clinic_coowner_is_causing_a_lot_of_trouble_what\/","id":"9r5jme","body":"  \n\n*Note: This is on the behalf of a friend I am trying to help.* \n\nMy friend (Alex) recently opened and owns 49% of a small acupuncture clinic in LA California, dual ownership. Alex lives in Taiwan, while the co-owner John (owns 51%) works and manages the clinic at LA California. Alex provided the initial funds and legwork to get the clinic started, John was supposed to manage, work in, and keep the clinic running. Additionally, the company\u2019s business bank account is under Johns name because John was not able to open a business account in the US due to being a foreigner. \n\nOver the course of the next few months several major issues have developed. During the clinic setup process John went out a purchased chairs, supplies, desks, tables, computer, etc\u2026 However, John is charging Alex 2x the actual purchase cost of the items. Alex recently figured this out after I looked into the finances for him (since he is in Taiwan). Since John works and manages the clinic, his other role is to pay bills and staff salaries. John has been late on paying staff salaries by several months, Alex recently found out after his visit to the US to check on the clinic. \n\nThe next major issue was insurance fraud. Most patients at the clinic use insurance, John is in charge of writing statements to the insurance companies to collect money. However, John is sending invoices to the insurance companies saying they double the amount they actually did. For example, if I visited the clinic 5 times, John would write a statement to the insurance company saying I visited 10 times. This has happened with three separate patients. \n\nThe third issue, John is using the business account as his personal bank account. He has treated the business account as a personal account by adding his own money and spending money as he sees fit. Isn\u2019t there some violation regarding this?\n\nLastly, I am trying to help Alex switch banks, one that allows a foreigner to manage (Alex has decided he is going to manage the clinics finances), however John is not cooperating in signing documents that will enable the business account to be transferred. John and Alex both need to sign because they both own some of the company. \n\nMy question is what laws has John broke and what can be done? This is not my area of expertise and I am looking any advice I can get. \n\n*Note: All identities have been changed. Location is still LA Cali.* ","title":"Clinic Co-Owner is Causing a lot of Trouble - What can I do?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1442892486,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lw60m\/virginia_law_involving_handwritten_unnotarized\/","id":"3lw60m","body":"My husband orginially occupied the home we are currently in , dating back 20+ years. He rented from the same owner currently. My PROBLEM & QUESTION is - over the past 25 years or so they have built a father son relationship. And the owner starting expressing his intention approx. 3-4 years ago , his intention to leave this house to my husband . Since he always considered it his anyways. He also HAND WROTE - dated signed - witnesses ( NOT notarized ) a statement that when he does pass that he wants the house to go to my husband ! Well recently ( As there apparently seems to always be ) his sister has decided to dig her heels in and decided she wants the house and since he has been recently hospitalized , has taken it upon herself to ATTEMPT to collect payments from us .. Her brother has made it clear that this house is to go to my husband, but she's relentless and trying to deem him incompetent. I drew up a T.O.D ( transfer of deed upon death ) its in perfect order , I also INSIST he read the full description and have a trusted friend read over to verify for him. Because it feels a bit more LEGAL for me . But his sister will not allow ANYONE to come within 500 miles of him and has scared away everyone. Basically keeping him close and his \"stuff\" even closer. Since there appears not to be any other way to get another NOTARIZED promise from him. Is the hand written - witnessed - dated signed - UN notarized promise we have any good at all ??? Or should we just let it go . ??!! THANKS in Advance for any clarity !!","title":"VIRGINIA LAW - involving Handwritten & unnotarized promise HELP PLEASE !!!!!!","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568553680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4kcxu\/bio_dad_pending_drug_charges_and_step_mom_abusive\/","id":"d4kcxu","body":"Hi so my bio dad was arrested with felony drug charges against him and idk that he can get them dropped so he\u2019s looking at doing time,\nHowever he is in the middle of a divorce him and his wife have a child together there is no custody agreement in place yet and he wants to get her back and then get emergency custody and prove that the child\u2019s mother is unfit so that if he does do time he can sign her over to me \n\nWhat is the best way to go about this?","title":"Bio dad pending drug charges and step mom abusive","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553777989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6ihmi\/hospital_paying_less_than_minimum_wage_for_oncall\/","id":"b6ihmi","body":"Throwaway of course. I work for a hospital in Oklahoma, and I'm having a hard time determining the laws for on-call.\n\nOur current pay is $3.50 an hour while on-call. This is the type where you must drop everything and take a call. So no alcohol, going to a movie, or events that can't be interrupted. On-call shifts are Monday to Thursday or Friday to Sunday. \n\nWe only get paid for calls if we have had more than 2 hours of phone time, and only the time after the 2 hours. This is if we are working over the phone, but do not have to go to the hospital. It's rare to go over 2 hours.\n\nIf we get called in to the hospital we don't get paid for drive time, but we do get overtime for our time at the hospital.\n\nSo is this legal to be paid less than minimum wage for? And if so, what should my coworkers and I do about it?","title":"Hospital paying less than minimum wage for on-call and not paying for call time. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554833960,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbbcsi\/ri_geico_screwed_up_my_accidents_from_2016_and\/","id":"bbbcsi","body":"I am a Rhode Island resident, and have both mine and my wife\u2019s cars insured here. Just like the posting says - I was involved in two accidents back in 2016, one in April and one in June. Since I have full collision coverage, I got my money for both accidents and never thought about it again. My rates have gone up some since then. \n\nFast forward to April 2018, and my wife got new, insanely expensive insurance. We were unsure why it was so high, but I was included as a driver of her vehicle for the first time (we got married last year), so I suspect she may have been paying for these incidents that were improperly classified by GEICO.\n\nFinally, we changed insurers again a few weeks ago and bundled ours together. Due to the agent asking GEICO questions, I begin getting word that two accidents that were included in my driving history as \u201cat-fault\u201d were, in fact, not. My question is - can I do anything to get money back from GEICO for 3 years of over-charging me for car insurance, plus 1 year of (presumably) over-charging my wife for car insurance? Any help is hugely appreciated.","title":"[RI] GEICO screwed up my accidents from 2016 and had them filed with me being at fault. Now they are saying I was not determined to be at fault. What can I do?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506526006,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72szvi\/massachusetts_im_appealing_a_firsttime_speeding\/","id":"72szvi","body":"I moved into a new apartment in the second week of August, and forgot to change my address with the RMV and car insurance. I still use my old address for my mail, and my current residence is only planned to be temporary (1 year lease, but may move out earlier). However, for the purpose of having the correct address on my car insurance for vehicle garaging, I am going to update everything asap. \n\nI recently received a speeding ticket that I'm going to appeal, and I realize that the ticket has my old address on it (due to it not being changed on my license yet). If I show up to the court appeal with an updated address on my license, will they then come after me for not having it updated at the time of receiving the ticket? Will they even notice or care?\n\n\nI've had a few things suggested to me:\n\n- Wait till after the appeal to do the change of address with insurance\/RMV (doesn't seem like a good idea).\n\n- Change it with the insurance and RMV, but just dont say that I moved in August so that it doesn't cause issues with ticket.\n\n- Update it correctly. Tell insurance company I just moved and forgot. If they ask about the updated address at the court appeal, just say I had a change of address and don't mention that I was at the new address at the time of the ticket. They're not going to investigate or care too much.\n\n- Update info correctly. If they ask about new address at appeal, explain that I just forgot to update and that everything is now up to date. They can just edit the address on ticket. \n\n\nWhat's the best approach\/is this really even that big of a deal? I've been pretty stressed about whether or not this will cause more issues for me at the appeal, and would greatly appreciate advice on the best way to handle it. Just an honest mistake forgetting to update it right away.\n\n\n\nEdit: Formatting","title":"(Massachusetts) I'm appealing a first-time speeding ticket, but also need to update address on insurance and license. Will this cause issues during appeal?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570749054,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg67m0\/virginia_am_i_entitled_to_lost_wages_from_a_car\/","id":"dg67m0","body":"I am a delivery driver. On my way out to a delivery, a driver took a sharp turn and damaged my car with their trailer. There were no injuries. The other driver verbally admitted fault on the scene of the accident, called the police, and reported a claim with their insurance company. I contacted their insurance company and the rep said that they were waiting up to 30 days for a statement from the other driver before moving forward to get me reimbursed. The insurance that I have through my employer requires me to pay a $500 deductible and have my car sent in for repair before giving me a rental car. I've missed 2 days of work (so far) with no word from the other driver or their insurance. Can I add lost wages to the claim with the other party's insurance? If not, can I take it to court?","title":"(Virginia) Am I entitled to lost wages from a car accident if I need my car to work, but am not injured?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553199036,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3vcsa\/ca_was_rear_ended_a_couple_hours_ago_in_personal\/","id":"b3vcsa","body":"Hello, not sure if this is the right place. I just need advise since I\u2019ve never been in a car accident and not sure how to proceed or what to expect. \n\nI was driving back to my work location after completing a work related assignment when I was rear ended by a woman on the freeway. \n\nI was stopped behind a line of cars due to traffic, the car behind me didn\u2019t stop fast enough and hit me pretty hard. We exchanged information, CHP made a report, I filed an insurance claim with my insurance. \n\nI hit my head fairly hard during impact and now I\u2019m waiting to be seen at the doctors to assess my injury. I also will be seeing a chiropractor next. \n\nQuestion(s), \n\n1. Since I was driving my car for work purposes, how is my employer affected? Will my insurance seek reimbursement from my employer or the person at fault? \n2. I had to take the day off to take care of this, who is at fault for lost wages if any? I have comp and vacation time I can use, but do I have to? \n\nAlso, any tips or general advice will help. Thanks a bunch. ","title":"(CA) Was rear ended a couple hours ago in personal car used for work. Currently waiting to be seen at the doctor. What to do next?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571151739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di94vx\/mandatory_training_minimum_wage\/","id":"di94vx","body":"Hi All, I was wondering if you had any insight into if this is legal or not. First off, I live in California. \nI get paid more than minimum wage an hour and I\u2019m full time. \nSo, our organization has a mandatory training on a Sunday. Upper management had let us know that the training is 4 hours and to take those 4 hours off during the week sometime so we don\u2019t get overtime. But they are only paying minimum wage for training. So in my eyes... I feel like they\u2019re forcing me to cut my check. I\u2019m going to miss out on my higher pay for 4 hours in order to do a minimum wage training and I cannot do both.","title":"Mandatory Training - Minimum Wage","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569734667,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dar3qk\/do_minors_in_ca_get_paid_overtime_for_over_a_6\/","id":"dar3qk","body":"I (17M) worked an 8 hour shift for 3 days this week and  my coworker told me minors get payed overtime when they work over 6 hours in one day. I tried to look online to make sure it was true but I didn\u2019t see anything. Does anyone know (California).","title":"Do minors in CA get paid overtime for over a 6 hour work day?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443255725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mfyjm\/help_can_we_be_evicted\/","id":"3mfyjm","body":"So my friends and I live in San Jose near SJSU. The unit is mostly all college students. We are 4 months into a 1 year lease at a rent controlled apartment and just had a situation arise. My roommates had people over a few nights ago, and things may have gotten a bit loud. LL said a few units complained about the noise. The unit below us went so far as to threaten to move out if we didn't stop disturbing them. (This will only be the SECOND complaint in our 4 months here). \n\nNow, the LL has written us a letter stating that us living here will not work out, and we have 5 days to give him a written 30 day notice or he will take legal action and get rid of us. The letter states we violated the 3 day notice to perform covenant or quit(from the first incident which happened about a month ago). \n\nSo I need help!\n\nFirst, the 3 day notice he gave after the first incident was taped to our door. A little research shows that for him to take that route would also require him mailing each of us a sealed copy. He did not do that. Would this document hold in court? And is it possible for him to lie about mailing it to us? Because we have no proof he didn't mail it technically. Seems like it'd boil down to our word against his\n\nSecond, if it does hold, could he use that as a reason to evict even though that was a while ago?? (We did not receive any complaints from then till now). I'd assume that once the 3 day window ends with no complaints, everything would be back to normal\n\nThird, does the fact that we live in rent controlled apartments affect the eviction process?? From what I have managed to dig up online, San Jose does not have a \"just cause\" ordinance, but am not sure if that applies to us since we are one a 1-year lease rather than month-to-month\n\nAnd finally, if we don't agree and it ends up going before a judge, wouldn't he need proof that we were loud? All he has is text message complaints from 1 or 2 neighboring units, and there were no cops called or anything of that nature. The manager lives a few doors down and he told us the next day that it wasn't that loud, so could the complaints be considered hearsay??\n\nI'd appreciate any help guys...\n\nThanks!","title":"HELP!!! Can we be evicted?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542160116,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wvitc\/starting_an_internetbased_service_anonymously\/","id":"9wvitc","body":"As a preface I'll say this is tailored to be for California, US. \n\nI do some media stuff on the side in my spare time, and I may be able to turn it into a more-than-nothing side gig in the future. As such, I've begun to start to wonder about doing things \"the right way\". I know I can operate as a Sole Proprietor with a little bit of paperwork which could expose me to liability and also requires me to incorporate under my real name. That's something that I'm really trying to avoid since it's internet-based and I don't really need disgruntled people trying to get me off my day job because I said something they didn't like. As far as I can tell, there is no way to operate \"privately\" as a sole proprietor. \n\nNow, I've also looked into incorporating as a LLC while using a registered agent. As far as I can tell, this is doable, but easily incurs ~$1,000 per year in fees which at this time is nowhere near what Id be reaping from the side gigs. \n\nOf course if\/when the time comes I'll consult with individual CPAs\/attorneys, but I'm trying to get the feel for how all of this works. Is there a way to incorporate as a business for tax purposes while protecting my own identity?","title":"Starting an Internet-based service anonymously","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568858564,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d67dcr\/apartment_has_various_sanitation_issues\/","id":"d67dcr","body":"Austin, Texas\n\nAt my apartment (possibly surrounding apartments too), there is a rat infestation. I informed the management company about this, and they sent a 3rd party pest control company to try to take care of it. The pest control company set down traps which killed 2 rats (I also killed one myself with a shoe). However, the rats still occupy the place, but the pest control company has stopped coming. I continue to inform the management company about this and they seem to ignore it. I'm pretty sure this is a huge sanitation issue. Thus, it must violate some Texas property codes, but I do not know enough to know what to do.\n\nThere was also a recent issue with the gas lines. They finally fixed after about a week of not having gas (this means no hot water\/dryer). In compensation, they offered 2 options: stay at a local hotel, or stay at apartment and get $40 off rent each day gas is off. I stayed at my place since all my stuff was there, and it was close to my work. I was wondering how legal is this compensation and is it possible that it should be higher?\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated. \n\nI'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong sub and used the wrong flair. If you know where I could post this\/what flair to use, please let me know.","title":"Apartment has various sanitation issues","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541170728,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tku1x\/is_there_anything_protecting_workers_from\/","id":"9tku1x","body":"I understand that rules are rules. I'm just wondering if there's anything wrong with management all of the sudden, in a matter of two weeks, go to zero tolerance on issues of breaks, one minute late write ups, threats for write up for talking to co workers more than 30 seconds. Write ups for not meeting unrealistic goals. ","title":"Is there anything protecting workers from management suddenly going to zero tolerance for rules?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551193257,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av0cv0\/can_a_biological_son_trump_adopted_daughter_in\/","id":"av0cv0","body":"This story is a bit convoluted, so please stick with me. My mom is adopted by my great grandparents. My great grandma has a son with an unknown man, and that son is the biological father of my mom. She was raised under the guise that her biological father was her brother up until her 15th birthday party where she found out by accident. That man (my mom\u2019s birth father) is a lying, thieving con artist who makes his money in the cruelest ways possible. \n\nMy great grandparents have a property that my mom and I have been taking care of since I can remember. We pay all the bills and taxes - all digital receipts on our cards. That\u2019s the only property they have. As they\u2019ve gotten older, they\u2019ve made it crystal clear that they are not going to make a will for the property. They just want to be buried, and that\u2019s it. \n\nMy main question is, can my mom\u2019s biological father be next in line for the property? He is my great grandma\u2019s son, and my mom is the adopted daughter. He\u2019s fought property from his other kids and won, so that\u2019s why we\u2019re ruminating on this. Is it best to make a will? Someone said that the son could ask the court for a DNA sample of my mom to prove she\u2019s not the daughter so that he gets the property - is that plausible?\n\nI hope I explained things thoroughly. \n\nThanks for reading!","title":"Can a biological son trump adopted daughter in regards to property from parents?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1507566407,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75a7kk\/my_neighbors_and_my_life_were_threatened_today\/","id":"75a7kk","body":"We have a house across our street which does nothing but sell drugs and the entire neighborhood knows it, theyre not very discrete, and theyre very loud. Today they were just sitting in their front yard laying on their horn of their car repeatedly over and over for 5 + minutes. I'm across the street trying to finish a paper due in an hour and I cant think! I go outside and idiotically yell \"SHUT THE FU*K UP WHITE TRASH!\" I know, completely stupid and indefensible but it is what happened. It escalates the dude in a wheelchair rolls out yelling for his wife to grab his gun yelling \"Come out here in the street and say that\" rolling towards my house, his wife walking out just as angry. My neighbors come out to aee what's going on, in defense of me (once he starts yelling grab my gun I'm gonna shoot this fu**er I havent said another word), but essentially the conversation came down to him telling us to shut up and not get any closer or he will have a drive by ordered on our houses, or he will kill us himself. This cant be legal! I'm scared as he'll, I cant tell the cops to come here or they'll know I called and maybe get somebody tto come drive by. What do I do? Who do I talk to? Ive told an officer to call me, but they havent been very prompt about it and I'm not sure if they will prove to be effective. I am in the Detroit metro area.","title":"My Neighbors and My Life Were Threatened Today","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1549950982,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apq3vi\/nyc_regarding_a_termination\/","id":"apq3vi","body":"Hey all, hope I don\u2019t break any sub rules, first time posting here. It\u2019s a rather quick post.\n\nI don\u2019t want to go too in depth with it as it\u2019s a personal matter but I\u2019m wondering what can be done about a scenario that occurred with my family just a few hours ago.\n\nBasically the employer let go of my family member because their \u201cservices are no longer required\u201d, however it\u2019s without a doubt obvious he wants to replace said family member (who has 22 years of employment at said place) with someone they can pay minimum wage to.\n\nThere is a whole lot more information that goes with this but I cannot go in depth with unfortunately. My question now is can this be reason to do something about it? Go to a lawyer, sure, something?\n\nI am completely obvious to law so I apologize in advance for my ignorance if it\u2019s a rather quick answer.","title":"[NYC] Regarding a Termination","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571541390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dke6jp\/divorce_while_pregnant\/","id":"dke6jp","body":"So in the state of Texas they won\u2019t grant anyone a divorce if there\u2019s a pregnancy involved and I honestly find that ridiculous. I have been separated from my \u201chusband\u201d since March 2018, he lives half across the country now and I haven\u2019t seen him since. We\u2019re still friends just didn\u2019t work out. But I am currently pregnant with my boyfriends kid. Spouse was supposed to send me divorce papers for the last year but could never be bothered until I got pregnant. That really lit a fire under his ass cause he could be put as the father and made to pay child support. State of Texas you have to wait at least 60 days after filing for divorce to even make the court date. So I\u2019m already in the second trimester now, I haven\u2019t been able to apply for Medicaid or see a doctor because I don\u2019t want them to put a hold on my divorce even though there\u2019s no possible way that my \u201cspouse\u201d is the father of my child and he agreed to signing denial of paternity paperwork if and when needed. My 60 day waiting period will be up next week and I\u2019m getting nervous, I don\u2019t want to get in trouble with the divorce courts for hiding this? Is there any repercussions for this type of situation?","title":"Divorce while pregnant?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444372530,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o2lc9\/got_into_a_car_accident_but_the_person_who_hit_me\/","id":"3o2lc9","body":"Almost 5 weeks ago, I was rear ended while stopped at a stop light. The guy hit me so hard that I smashed into the car in front of me. My body shop estimates the cost at around 6,000 which is just around the worth of my car at this point. However, the opposing insurance company will only pay 1,000 of it. (Basically, both bumpers need replacing. My trunk needs repairing. And my radiator is damaged, among other things) \nLong story short, the opposing insurance company has been nothing but terribly rude and it took over a month just to send out the paperwork to get my car fixed. \nI am getting screwed out of thousands of dollars worth of car repair and I am not sure where to go from here. \nPlease help!","title":"Got into a car accident, but the person who hit me wont pay the full amount to fix my car! (Illinois)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1442253879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kxrsq\/nys_is_my_security_deposit_refundable_if_my\/","id":"3kxrsq","body":"So here's the story.\nI signed a 1-year lease on a place agreeing that I would be living with 3 other people. Without my knowledge or consent, a 4th person was added. When I asked for a copy of the lease, I saw that the number 4 was crossed out in the number of residents and replaced with 5. I did not initial the change or agree to it. I'm now planning on moving out. Am I legally entitled to get my deposit back or must I surrender it along with 1 month's rent?","title":"[NYS] Is my security deposit refundable if my landlord breaks a lease agreement?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445265906,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pcx8v\/new_york_usa_need_advice_on_a_trust\/","id":"3pcx8v","body":"So my wife, her brother, and sister are a part of a trust that was written for their grandmother. It was written in NY and was originally written to take care of her grandmother followed by her descendants. Her grandmother being the primary, her children secondary's, and her grandchildren tertiary's. But in 2013 it was written almost exclusively to take care of my wife's father should her grandmother pass away. Well a few months ago her grandmother passed away. Now her father and the trust lawyer have sent her and her siblings a letter asking them to sign it saying that the money in the trust was never misused in anyway from 1980 until now. The issue is her father is greedy and bad with money. he has tried to get as much as he could out of the trust before. He would fake hospital bills and present them to the lawyer to get money. He also owes the IRS a lot of money for failing to pay back taxes. My wife is worried that he is going to try and bleed the trust before her or her siblings can get anything at all. They just want to use it to pay off student loans. None of them want to sign the paperwork at all. The trust was originally written so that the trust lawyer was able to decided on how money was distrusted in the best interest of the trust. Now it is written so that her father can spend any and all interest on what he wants, how he wants. The trust was also change with out informing any of his children and they didnt sign anything to change it. What would be the best course of action to fighting the change or keeping him from blowing it all on a house or gambling?","title":"New York, USA, Need advice on a trust","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569580602,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9yimv\/could_i_leave_a_company_ive_signed_a_contract\/","id":"d9yimv","body":"Backstory to this.\n\nIt's a media organisation that sent the contract to us digitally. We e-signed it, and asked for a signed version from them back. They've never did, are we able to leave this company without legal repurcussions?","title":"Could I leave a company I've signed a contract with they've never signed back?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553707437,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b66zrp\/landlord_refuses_to_let_me_break_the_lease\/","id":"b66zrp","body":"Here\u2019s the situation: I moved into a new apartment in July 2018, and immediately noticed that the upstairs neighbors were stomping\/banging around, even during quiet hours. I spoke to management about it at the time, and things got better for about a week. Then, they started to get worse again, and it became unbearable in December. I reached out to management again, who this time lied about reaching out to the upstairs neighbors about the issue. That manager left in January, and I didn\u2019t receive a follow up on the issue until February. \n\nSince that time, I\u2019ve been trying to resolve the situation almost daily. It started with me requesting a rent reduction or free parking, or even moving units. Management seemed amicable to this, but nothing was ever formally offered. Keep in mind that by this point, the noise had gotten so bad that it was keeping me up at 12:30-1 am (who lets their kid stay up that late??). \n\nLast week, I decided to start looking elsewhere for living arrangements, and fell in love with a place nearby. When I approached management about breaking the lease, they told me that I had the option to either buy out with 3x rent plus the concession I received at the beginning of the lease (the which I planned to reimburse anyway) and 30 a pro-rated amount until move out. \n\nSince I didn\u2019t want to pay almost 10,000 dollars to move out of a situation I\u2019ve been trying in good faith to remedy for months, I contested that, and have been holding management\u2019s feet to the fire. I told them that I knew my legal right to quiet enjoyment per Washington state law, but the best they seem to be willing to give me is to move me 2 doors down the hall. Too little, too late. When I pressed the regional manager to let me out of the lease, she told me she needed to speak to her lawyer about the lease terms, which leads me to believe that they know they\u2019re in the wrong. \n\nSeeing as I stand to lose quite a bit of money if they come after me, what are my options? I\u2019m almost certain they violated the lease by refusing to remedy the situation for this long, but I\u2019m not sure I can afford a lawyer in addition to everything else. I want to move out for a reasonable amount, and live somewhere I can be happy.","title":"Landlord refuses to let me break the lease without paying 3x rent despite noise complaints stretching back 9 months","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570465677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deltih\/what_legal_measures_would_i_have_to_take_to\/","id":"deltih","body":"Hello! I know the title is a mouthful so please bear with me. \n\nI am the president for a public health club at a public NYC college. We decided that one of the events would be an STI Testing workshop with on-site campus testing for HIV, chlamydia, and gonorrhea. We were lucky to have the backing from the student government. \n\nWe are moving forward with the workshop but the administration said the testing portion is still tentative because of legal issues it would have to cover (i.e. rapid HIV testing requires pricking the finger so they want a waiver created for students to sign). They also said they needed to verify if the organizations are legit which seems ridiculous to me since I got the organization on the college page. \n\nI don\u2019t mean any offense but I think that\u2019s kind of ridiculous. At my old college campus (also public NYC school), they never had to go through that and testing was offered twice a semester. The event is supposed to take place next month. Is there anything I can do to speed up the process? \n\nI have this feeling of dread that administration is dragging their feet on purpose and with less than a week to go, I want to know if I can give them that nudge to get things moving. \n\nThank you!","title":"What legal measures would I have to take to ensure on-site testing is available to students on a NYC college campus?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540976885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sx1tn\/old_mlm_boss_for_a_life_insurance_mlm_asked_me_to\/","id":"9sx1tn","body":"Title is self explanatory. \n\nI was an assistant to an insurance agent guy working for an MLM. He usually filled out an application with an iPad and ask his clients to sign both the application and on an app in his iPad for future paperwork that would need the client's signature. But sometimes all he had was a signature on a physical application. He would ask for me to scan it and photoshop out everything but the signature to save it as a PNG. \n\nI still have emails and notes unedited from the time I worked for him that shows that he asked me to do it. And he still probably has these notes on his PC as well. I just really want to know if it's illegal. And if it is, just how illegal? ","title":"Old MLM boss (for a life insurance MLM) asked me to scan, edit, and save clients' signatures. Is it illegal?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571241198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dir8cs\/can_you_be_denied_worksmans_comp_for_previous\/","id":"dir8cs","body":" \n\nI work in healthcare and have been experiencing back pain due to the nature of the job: pulling, turning, repositioning patients. I have not been injured with any specific pt, just been experiencing back pain for about a year now. \n\nMy concern is should I go to my primary doctor, which is part of the same company\/network I work for? Or should I go to a doctor not affiliated with my work\/network. \n\nThe reason I ask if because an old coworker of mine at another hospital went through the same back pain and eventually was injured at work and was not able to file a workman\u2019s comp because they knew about her previous back pain since she used her primary doctor who was part of the same company\/network as the hospital she worked at. \n\nNow she feel like they\u2019re trying to get rid of her, but that\u2019s another conversation.\n\nAnyway, I have not been injured at work but now I\u2019m afraid that if that does happen in the future I won\u2019t be able to use workman's comp since they will have my medical history. I have an appointment with my primary next week to discuss my back pain. I am hesitant due to what my co-worker experienced.\n\nWhat should I do? Should I just go to my primary or go to a doctor not affiliated with my work\/network? \n\nI appreciate your time reading this, thanks.","title":"Can you be denied worksmans comp for previous injury? Hesitant to go to primary doctor","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554055615,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7qoay\/was_denied_a_promotion_i_was_guaranteed_by_2\/","id":"b7qoay","body":"Recently, I quit my job at a call center.  I was denied a promotion that I was guaranteed by two supervisors. I even asked if there was any doubt to which my direct supervisor said \"No\". I have extreme phone anxiety and came to this company because I was told of a chat team. I got into this chat team for the holiday season and was put back on the phones. Due to performance, I was on a very short list of immediate candidates to put back on the team. Fast forward and a position for IT comes up. THIS is the job I was guaranteed. It wasn't until a few days after I was told I got the promotion that HR blocked my promotion for being on a corrective. Before, I had a team lead tell me this was due to an error on our supervisors side that can't be fixed. That's OK, my performance will bring it back up. When I was denied the position, I brought my direct supervisor into a room to explain my frustration and disappointment. He told me that I was on a corrective for a completely different issue than I was told before and basically said \"I don't think you can handle this position.\" The position he had personally told me I had, and had supported my development into getting into this department. Chat team was hiring when IT was and word got around that I already got IT so they gave the position to someone else. When they told me I would be staying on the phones, my anxiety kicked it. I quit the job that day after having this conversation. I felt I was done incredibly wrong by this company. This has sent me into a depression unlike I have seen. I don't know if I have a case.. But what they did was wrong. I know very little of law. Do I have any case against this company? \n\nI feel these details were necessary to make my question of \"Do I have any case\" have context. \n\nThank you for reading this. I apologize for the wall of text. It just makes me feel dirty and has been keeping me up at night. ","title":"Was denied a promotion I was guaranteed by 2 supervisors. Do I have any case at all?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571427283,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djslg0\/using_snow_days_as_sick_days\/","id":"djslg0","body":"At my public college in New Jersey I have found out about a problem with the school. Supposedly the dining hall workers get lose a sick day when they cannot make it to work. Also they do not get paid more for working on snow days. I was wondering if this is legal that they can take away sick days like that even when the workers have no means of getting to the school. It snows a lot in New Jersey so this is a common issue and I was wondering what steps I should take to confront the administration about it since the union has not done much to help the employees in the past.","title":"Using Snow Days as Sick days","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550699563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asublt\/conflict_of_interestnoncompete_question\/","id":"asublt","body":"I work for AT&T as a DirecTV customer service rep in Montana. AT&T has no presence in Montana except for DirecTV, cell service, and the call center I work at. I have been investigating the possibility of setting up a rural wireless ISP in the area I live in because of the current internet service is hamster-with-a-morse-code-key slow, and as part of the investigation I disclosed a potential upcoming conflict of interest to AT&T and asked how to prevent problems as I researched my options. I was expecting them to say that once I actually opened an ISP and started spending money, I would be required to either resign or abide by very strict rules, but what they said is that I had to stop all research immediately or else be fired. I am expected to sign an agreement to this effect by Friday.  \n\n\nThis seems like a bit of a stretch for the following reasons:  \n\n\n* I exclusively work with satellite television as I have since before AT&T bought out DirecTV in 2015\n* While a new set of rules for employees was issued after the buyout, no contract (besides a collective bargaining agreement) was signed by me following the change in management. My original job offer only mentioned conflicts of interest with DirecTV as a satellite TV provider.\n* AT&T does not provide internet in Montana and has announced no plans to do so\n* I am an hourly worker and am not being compensated for doing (or *not* doing) anything off the clock. It has been made abundantly clear that everything not strictly related to customer service and satellite tech support is outside my job description -- even assisting customers with any internet-related issue that doesn't directly impact their TV service is not permitted.\n* The town I live in is 35 miles away from the call center and an ISP in my area would have no interaction with the call center\n* At this point all I'm doing is researching funding options and costs of running fiber to our middle-of-nowhere town. I am not performing paid work for anyone, nor am I actually doing anything beyond research at this point. \n\nDo I have a leg to stand on? ","title":"Conflict of interest\/non-compete question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551720931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax9tf8\/part_time_responsibilities_for_full_time_pay_and\/","id":"ax9tf8","body":"\nI posted this in r\/personalfinance and thought maybe it could go here too... I have been working at my part-time job for about three years. My pay is $10.50 an hour. I have gone from being a cashier to a department head of two departments (for about 8 months) and a cash office clerk (just started about 2 weeks ago) in that time. All of the other department heads are full time (I am the only part time department head) and they make $16.00 an hour. I have been strung along thinking I will be promoted to full time pay but it has not happened because the new (has been there almost a year) store manager is super behind on payroll (and has been since she started). As I was given the cash office position I asked about full time. The previous full time person quit who did this job so there is a position open for full time pay. She said that once payroll was better she would give me full time. I was put in a corner and basically made to do this position as I was about the only option left. Managers or CSMs cannot do cash office and the other people are not reliable enough. She said I need to work on my attendance even though I have only missed 3 unscheduled days of work in 3 years! I have also not have had a week\u2019s vacation in over a year. Since being given the position she has hired a couple of new part timers! I am currently working an average of 26 hours a week.   To add more to the mix I kind of dread getting full time even though I deserve the pay. She overworks everyone making us work 12 hour shifts without assigning breaks. Sometimes we get home late at night (10 pm) and are asked to be at work early the next morning (8 am). If the work isn\u2019t done she makes you come in even if that day was assigned off (full time only, but sometimes I get roped in because I am a department manager). You will get written up if you don\u2019t. She does not care if you have children to be picked up from school when we are unexpectedly asked to work longer (one is a single mom with young kids). That is your problem to fix. Cashiers cannot have water at their registers  and must stand there for hours without moving. We are on our feet for up to 8 hours without rest. We get one assigned (written on the schedule) one 30 min break but have to ask for others. We are supposed to get one 30 min break every 5 hours and one 15 for every 4 hours. We have to go through a chain of asking for covering purposes so they make it a hassle to ask. Most people just suffer so we can possibly go home earlier. During Christmas the full timers worked 60 hour weeks (payroll). Many people have complained to Human Resources but the only answers we get are that in the employee handbook it states that each decision is up to the manager\u2019s discretion.   I have been trying to find another job but I have not been able to get another. I feel stuck and abused and I\u2019m not sure what to do. Any advice would be helpful.","title":"Part Time Responsibilities for Full Time Pay and Possible Worker Abuse","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568753509,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5n17t\/hair_stylist_gave_out_my_personal_information\/","id":"d5n17t","body":"Yesterday I received a haircut from a local salon. After my haircut I pulled out my wallet to discover I only had my American Express. The salon only takes Visa\/MC which I wasn\u2019t aware of. I told the stylist I would have to come back with my visa, as I wasn\u2019t sure what happened with it. She said no problem, she would like me back it before the end of today. Found out my daughter had it, no problem. Wasn\u2019t able to make it back in last night and figured I\u2019d just come back today. \nAt 9:30 last night I received a FB notification that I had been tagged in a post. The manager of the salon wrote to the admin of a local \u201ccrime\u201d page, giving them my name and claiming I stole from them. I contacted her today and she told me her own general manager gave her permission to give my information out and let them post about me. Obviously upset. I got in touch with the CEO of the company who stated, \u201cWhat she does off the clock, I can\u2019t control\u201d. \nIsn\u2019t this a client confidentiality matter? I\u2019m publicly accused of theft which never happened. I fully intended on paying $21 + tip for a basic haircut. Any input would be helpful. TIA.","title":"Hair stylist gave out my personal information","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570570190,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df6mq2\/my_friends_grandpa_died_his_shitty_uncle_is\/","id":"df6mq2","body":"my friend has been through a lot of shitty things his mother killed herself in a car crash a week after his braces and he had family leave out on him and abandon him multiple times in his life but someone that he cared about and he cared back for was his grandpa. His grandpa was rich in the sense that he owned two houses and had solar panels with also half-million dollars in the bank building up. So when my friends grandpa past he put in his will the person who was always there for him my friend this touched my friends heart and everyone that lived near or around my friend agree he should get everything cause even if they were assholes they knew it was the right thing to do. Till one day where they found out his grandpas past family and they were shitty people wanting stuff off the bat and wanting it all no one was able to get anything but one person. That on person was my friends uncle and at first he said no he didn't want anything but last week he changed his mind and lawyered up and told him I want it all with nothing left for you but a couple grand.  My friend has lost a wheel and has car issues and now has to make it to every court case as he is the only one defending himself. I ask you reddit is there anything me and my friends can do to help this friend as he really needs the money and the houses cause he never had a good homing and the uncle lives out of state and has never talked to his father in decades like 30.","title":"My friends grandpa died his shitty uncle is contesting the will cause he wants everything","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541420602,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ud259\/walmart_shoplifting_are_they_likely_building_a\/","id":"9ud259","body":"This may not be the best place to ask, but I wasn\u2019t sure where else. Might Xpost. \n\nI\u2019m not going to sugarcoat it: sometimes, I don\u2019t have enough money to get what I need from Walmart, so I\u2019ve taken it. Individual items are never more than $20 but this has been an ongoing thing for quite some time (think several months, sometimes with weeks in between incidences, other times just days). This is at multiple stores, but one in particular is hit the most often. I try to ensure that concealment is out of view of the cameras but there\u2019s no guarantee that it is always effective. Obviously. Sometimes, I will switch price tags instead or scan items improperly so as to pay less\/only pay for one when I get two\/etc. I\u2019ve also stolen items and then proceeded to return them at another location so I could buy food when I truly had no money. \n\nTonight: I walked in and selected one item ($5.97 in value) in plain view of a camera. Once (presumably) out of view of any cameras, I concealed this item. I then went and selected the other two items I came for, and purchased them through self check. While paying, an associate said \u201cYes, he\u2019s still right here. He\u2019ll be done in a minute\u201d and I don\u2019t know what it was, but it just clicked. Associates used to be very friendly as I\u2019m a regular and make regular purchases. I think they know. There\u2019s no doubt in my mind that they know. I was not followed (as far as I could tell), I wasn\u2019t watched while exiting, I was not approached. Nothing. I never have been. \n\nThe plan: I\u2019m not going to steal anymore. That sounds stupid, everyone says it, but I\u2019m not. It isn\u2019t worth the risk anymore, point blank. \n\nI was thinking that I could just frequent a different Walmart in my area, one that I have stolen from previously but not as frequently. I was also thinking I could just wait a while before frequenting that store again. \n\nMy questions: \n\n1. If all concealment has taken place out of view of a camera, what is the likelihood that they are building a case against me? What can they do without video evidence or an LP apprehension in store? \n\n2. My state (SC) apparently has no statute of limitations. Is this true? If not, what is the statute of limitations on petty theft? \n\n3. Will simply shopping at another location (and obviously not stealing) be enough to ensure that they won\u2019t have the opportunity to apprehend me? \n\n4. Do they have the right to apprehend me after the fact even if they do not have LP stop and confront me while actively stealing? ","title":"Walmart Shoplifting: Are they likely building a case? What can I do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504834561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yrp0b\/i_filed_an_anonymous_complaint_against_my_teacher\/","id":"6yrp0b","body":"Lots of people told me to post this here to get a legal perspective \n\nLast year I had this gym teacher that would always touch and make inappropriate remarks to me. When I was doing the exercises he would \" position\" me correctly by touching areas like My butt and inner\/outer thigh area in a weird creepy way. I've had personal trainers for my sports position me correctly and it was very professional, This was not. \n\nAt first I just thought he didn't know what he was doing but then when we moved to the health portion of gym he touched Me on my thigh and on my leg while I was sitting. So far I'm the only girl he does this too I asked the others( however I'm sure there are others). I  sit there watching and praying that this would be normal yet it wasn't happening to anyone else I could notice.\n\nTowards the end of last semester before summer he asked if I could be the last one out of the change rooms because he trusted me to \" lock up\" and I did and as I waited for everyone to leave he came in as I was getting ready to go. He shut the door and asked for the key so he could lock it. I told him I was just leaving, and handed him the key trying to slide past him to leave. This shithead moved towards me and corners me on the wall and told me \"that won't be necessary\", as he started to put his hands on me. I managed to slide out then and ran home. Thankfully it was the weekend. I spent it writting a complaint and concern letter. I skipped the rest of my classes and failed the course, and to graduate I need one gym credit. NOTHING happened to him, I can't go up and say it was me because I have no proof the change rooms are the only place where there are no camera!!!!!\n\n. I got my schedule yesterday guess who has this damn  teacher again! I tried to switch my courses around my counsellors are saying I can't due to the awkward timing. Of course with my luck. I have to and don't know how to face him. I really don't feel like getting felt up or potentially raped this semester\n\nTL;DR \nMy school didn't take action on my complaint about a Perverted teacher and now I have the same teacher can't get out of it and have to face this creep again. \n\nI live in California ","title":"I filed an anonymous complaint against my teacher sexually harassing me and the school ignored it and now I'm stuck in his class AGAIN!!!!","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555256808,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd421o\/ny_neighbors_started_saving_parking_spots_and_now\/","id":"bd421o","body":"Hey everyone, this has been going on for a while but my neighbors got some safety cones and have been using it to save a parking spot in front of their house, sometimes saving 2 by spreading the cones out. This has started a trend in the block and everytime I come home around 3pm I see at least 4-5 neighbors doing the same thing and its getting frustrating at this plint because we have limited parking. I was told its legal if they have permits iirc and as far as I know the first neighbor runs a daycare in their home so they might get a pass on that, but even then they use it for strictly personal use. Because of this, people started parking at the fire hydrant (literally every single day) and god forbid something happen, that can be a huge problem. Is there anything I can do to stop this and be anonymous? Ive seen that you can report it online but not without leaving your name and address etc. I want this to be completely anonymous because I know it will start trouble.","title":"[NY] Neighbors started saving parking spots and now half 1\/4th of the block is doing it. What can I do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552465735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0jkju\/how_should_i_go_about_getting_a_generous\/","id":"b0jkju","body":"Employment Law Question\n\nIssue: How should I go about getting a generous severance package?\n\nFacts: I\u2019m 64, in California, no longer want to work, have consistently positive performance reviews, and have been with my company for 20 years.  I work for a large public company making $200k per year. \n\nThanks in advance!","title":"How should I go about getting a generous severance package? I\u2019m 64, in California, no longer want to work, have consistently positive performance reviews, and have been with my company for 20 years.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410640046,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gbcx8\/ny_at_what_point_does_a_nonlawyer_officer_of_a\/","id":"2gbcx8","body":"I am the founder and CEO\/Chairman of a corporation.  We've ran into a few legal issues of course, and I understand that I cannot represent the corporation in court as a non-lawyer, outside of small claims, because of court rules and unauthorized practice of law concerns.  What I'm wondering is at what point do I (or one of my employees or officers) run afoul of UPL laws in terms of things outside the courtroom?  Can I send demand letters?  Draft contracts for the corporation?  Discuss courses of action and possible legal ramifications with other board members or officers?  \n\nObviously these types of things happen all the time in a corporation, but as I am not the corporation, merely an agent for it, I'm worried at what point I'm crossing over to advising an entity on legal issues for compensation.  Is there any authority on this that I can read?","title":"[NY] At what point does a non-lawyer officer of a corporation engage in the unauthorized practice of law.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569440828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d98hve\/i17m_am_currently_being_charged_with_sexual\/","id":"d98hve","body":"First and foremost, yes I am a huge idiot. I regret it every time I think about it, and its been giving me suicidal thoughts because of what I did. And Second, yes it was consensual, the reason she brings this up is because after I found out she was lying about her age I tried to stop talking to her. This ended up pissing her off to threaten me with jail time. I called her bluff and I ended up realizing she wasn\u2019t bluffing. Fast forward I\u2019m questioned and stupidly confessed I had a relationship with her in some way, I go to jail for a day. Now I\u2019m in pretrial. We met on snapchat, usual texting and I had just gone through a break up so I was eager to get over my ex. I was so blinded by my emotions that I thought it would be a good idea to have sex with as many girls as possible and I was not having any forethought whatsoever. One of them ended up being her. And I don\u2019t blame anyone but me on this, but she says I threatened to kill her family and her included if she told anyone. Which I was shocked to hear, since nothing even remotely related to that ever happened. I only cut off contact. Regardless, theres no evidence of any of our conversations unfortunately. I know I\u2019m an idiot and should be punished but is there any way to simply expose the truth and get what I truly deserve?\n\nAgain sorry this isn\u2019t the typical case, I understand it is a very sensitive situation.","title":"I[17m] am currently being charged with sexual misconduct with a minor under 12, Arizona. Is there any chance of it going to juvenile? (I\u2019m being tried as an adult)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541678209,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v9dbb\/landlord_trying_to_use_security_deposit_while_we\/","id":"9v9dbb","body":"Hey, I\u2019m not 100% if LA can do anything but maybe you guys can help me?\n\nIn June I moved into a room in a house in Philadelphia. Things were fine, but I heard horror stories from my roommates at the time of the landlord coming in randomly to inspect and to grab things from the basement. \n\nSince then I\u2019ve had the landlord come into my room while I\u2019m at work with 0 notice and try to clean or do construction. I brought this up as being not allowed through the lease, and it has stopped. She has also sent paragraph after paragraph nitpicking over the smallest things in the house, such as a back door to our fenced in yard not being locked, or the floors not being swept.\n\nThe three of us who live in the house all are very busy people, and the house is lived in somewhat heavily. We keep jackets on a spare couch, and we have cooking utensils that are out from dinner the night prior. We all have long hair, so our shower drains get hair logged sometimes. I also have a cat whose litter box stays with me on the third floor, but the cat roams the house. He usually sleeps on our living room sofa, and like most cats shed.\n\nContext is over, but I feel it\u2019s necessary.\n\nToday I woke up to our landlord telling us that because of the state of cleanliness in our home, she would be hiring both an exterminator and a cleaning company to come through and clean the house. We would have to pay for it out of our pockets or out of our security deposit. The members of the house and I are in agreement that we do not feel comfortable with this happening while we are actively living in the house, and while it is only half way through the lease. Is there anything we can do?","title":"Landlord trying to use security deposit while we are still living","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554953509,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbvdsc\/fubotv_charged_me_for_the_last_5_months_after_i\/","id":"bbvdsc","body":"Not sure if this is the right place for this, but if anyone has any advice I\u2019d really appreciate it. I\u2019m beyond pissed rn. \n\nSo in December my family cancelled cable, and I started to look into streaming services to finish the NFL season. My top three were Sling, FuboTV, and PlayStation Vue. I ended up choosing PlayStation, and cancelling my other two free trials. I remember EXACTLY how it happened, and I thought I was good. Paid for PlayStation until the NFL season ended, then I cancelled it without a hitch.\n\nFast forward to now. I lost my job 2 months ago, so I\u2019ve been trying to live more frugal. I was looking at my bank statement tonight and saw that FuboTV has been charging me for the last 5 months. That\u2019s about $225 for a service I have never even used. I hurried up and started chatting with a customer service rep, but he said they don\u2019t offer refunds and tried to get me to come back for a cheaper offer.\n\nI am beyond pissed and kind of panicking. I really need that money, even just a partial refund would be great. Is there anything I could do about it?","title":"FuboTV charged me for the last 5 months after I cancelled their free trial","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570747828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg5xzv\/va_ticket_for_no_inspection_sticker\/","id":"dg5xzv","body":"So I got a ticket for no sticker today. My court date is at the end of November, should I call and just pay whatever the fine may be? Or would it be better to just get it inspected tomorrow and then bring the receipt with me to my court date? Never been pulled before so I'm just not sure. Thanks in advance!","title":"(VA) ticket for no Inspection sticker","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569885250,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbk3gc\/speeding_ticket_in_virginia_with_complications\/","id":"dbk3gc","body":"So, a few weeks ago, I (20M) got pulled over for speeding in Virginia. I was going 89 in a 70, but the police officer said I seemed nice and he didn\u2019t want to damage my record (I have a clean record other than this), so he filed it that I was going 80. Over 80 is considered reckless driving in Virginia as I understand it, so this way, the fine and charge were less.\n\nI have a few questions, though. I live in Tennessee. \n\n1. How likely is it that my insurance company finds out about this?\n\n2. As I understand it, I don\u2019t need to come in to court if I plead guilty. Is this true? Will not coming in negatively affect me at all? It\u2019s a 7 hour drive to where I got the speeding ticket, so I\u2019d really like to not come in if possible.\n\n3. I know other people have taken classes to get speeding tickets wiped from their records. How do I request this? \n\n4. The police officer told me just to pay it and move on, because I don\u2019t want to cause any trouble so that they don\u2019t check the radar and see that I was actually going 89. How true is this?\n\nThank you for any help, because I\u2019m really confused. I will gladly answer any other questions","title":"Speeding Ticket in Virginia, with complications","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568440236,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d41c1h\/michigan_my_employer_has_accused_me_of_stealing\/","id":"d41c1h","body":"To establish some things first I've worked in this coffee shop for a year. I have had similar situations of my boss acting unprofessional yelling at employees, calling them names, having us break healthcode rules because he wanted to save money. \n\nWe are allowed to he tipped by they go into a jar and then bagged at the end of shifts and go to the boss, we may not keep them. He \"gives\" them as bonuses though most of out best employees have never seen a bonus.\n\nToday was my last day at a food establishment, I had already put in my two weeks. Today being my last day I had many regulars come up to say their goodbyes due to they were very fond of me and I always made their coffees\/drinks right. One customer in particular was a dollar short so I proceeded to take one dollar out of the tip jar to pay for her drink. I didn't think too much of it because it's one dollar and most people there know they never will see their tips again. My boss then later called me saying did I take money out of the tip jar and I said I did and explained the situation. He told me never to do there again in which I apologized for and replaced the missing money.\n\nThere was a major storm in my area that knocked out power multiple times that one time it triggered the smoke alarm, I called him to let him know the situation and to ask what to do next. He stated he didn't know since they never had went off before, I mentioned options to turn them off, then he denied them and told me to wait and hour and call him back and see if they are still going off, I proceeded to wait 30 minutes and called him stating that I couldn't handle it anymore, telling him that both my coworker and myself were leaving due to the noise and negligence, and he then proceeded to say I was stealing from the store and that's why I was leaving because I got caught. I explained to him that it wasn't and that I was sick of all the issues the store has. In which he explained if I left he will prosecute me for stealing, which I encouraged him to do being all the missing money was back were it was, and that I would just let people know on the healthcode violations he has been breaking in which he called me \"a piece of shit\" and hung up. Which made my coworker leave with me due to his tone on the phone.\n\nI've never stolen a thing in my adult life, my childhood I definitely lied a lot thinking it would make me cool and realized it never did, so ever since I always try to live the most honest lifestyle I can. \n\nI do have past coworkers I've talked to since leaving today that said they were willing to go on my behalf as witnesses to the times he has poorly mistreated me and others.\n\nI honestly just don't know were to go from here, like morally I know this all wrong but on legal standpoint I don't know if there is one, or on what grounds? So any advice or help would be wonderful please, and thank you!","title":"[Michigan] My employer has accused me of stealing, and has called me quote a \"piece of shit\" and more due to quiting","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553900991,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b742vr\/i_suspect_my_sister_is_being_mentally_abused_ma\/","id":"b742vr","body":"I am (M) 18 years old, and my sister is 15 years old. I live with my dad and my sister lives with my mom and her stepdad (not real dad. My sister and I have the same mother and father). When I was 16 my mom allowed me to move out because I could not get along with her and my stepdad. I moved in with my dad. Since then, my sister has not come up to my fathers. She has been up maybe a half a dozen times in the last 2 years. With the way that my mother and stepfather treated my two older siblings, and then treated my after they left, I was afraid that soon they would begin to treat my sister the same way. Today I found out from my sister that she wanted to come up to our dads for the weekend, but our mother and stepfather would not allow her, and was instead forced to go up to North Conway New Hampshire (about 2 hours away). I heard this from my dad, and was kind of surprised that she did this, then asked my sister about it and my sister told me the same story. I told my sister I would say something to my mother about this. But she does not want to get yelled at because she always gets spoken down to by my mother and stepfather and she does not like it.\n\nTLDR: Mother and stepfather will not let my sister visit our father.\n\nAre my mother and stepfather doing anything illegal? Back when I was younger my siblings and I would live with our mom but get to go to our fathers for the weekend. That\u2019s all I know about their custody agreement but am not sure if that changed.\n\nAre there any resources that my sister could see to help her if she is being mentally abused or pressured by my mother to not see her father?\n\nThank you in advance. Throwaway account because I don\u2019t want to give my real identity.","title":"I suspect my sister is being mentally abused [MA]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569123799,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7l9x8\/30_day_to_leave_notice_and_we_did\/","id":"d7l9x8","body":"I hope this is the right place to ask this. My fianc\u00e9e and I received a letter under our door that said we have 30 days to leave. There was no mention of any cure. We were wanting to leave anyway and were looking at options. We moved before the 30 days were up. This was in May. Our lease was due to end in July. We both received letters in the mail from a collection agency saying we owe about 2500 each. How each? And how do we owe if we were told to vacate? I have the 30 day letter still that they gave us. What can we do, if anything? Any advice would be appreciated. We are in Ohio.","title":"30 day to leave notice and we did.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553827320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6rzgp\/ticket_for_95_in_a_65\/","id":"b6rzgp","body":"Title says it all. Was paced on the highway going 95 in a 65. The ticket i received states I was going 95 in a 65 (30 over). The citation is \"Citation VIO 1: \\*SPEEDING.\" Does this mean that I am not being charged with reckless driving? Or is that still to be determined when I appear in court? ","title":"Ticket for 95 in a 65.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569552149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9u75m\/wa_splitwages\/","id":"d9u75m","body":"I have a question about WA wage laws. I\u2019ve been working at a Dominos as a Assistant Manger for 3 years now and just recently the part time owners forced us into split wages so when I\u2019m not running a shift I make $12.50 and $14 when I am. Can he do that, it feels Illegal but Im not sure. Thanks for the help","title":"WA Splitwages","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538485585,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kqfnm\/protections_for_negative_changes_in_job\/","id":"9kqfnm","body":"Hello,\n\nIs there legal recourse when your job description changes in a way that impacts you negatively (mentally, physically) and it is implied, but not stated, that if you don't agree to this change you'll be terminated? My employer is in California, I work remote in Nebraska.\n\n=====\n\nFor more info and context, if you need it:\n\nI'm uncertain if this is an employment law topic or a disabilities topic.\n\nI've been with this company three years. I love it, am loyal to it, and most important, *need* to stay employed with this company for certain reasons. Three years ago when I started, I was in a similar role. I transitioned into a very different role two years ago and a year ago I transitioned back into this role with the verbal promises that I would not be asked to perform a certain task as it impacted me severely on an emotional, mental, and physical level in my first role.\n\nA new manager joined us a year ago. This manager knew when they joined that I was limited on this specific task, and verbally promised we would work around it. Until now we have. With the acquisition of a new director, now that role is changing. I will be required to perform this task. I tried speaking with my new manager, tried going to HR, and even tentatively tried bringing it up to the director. In total, it's been a pat-on-the-head\/sorry-it's-not-going-to-be-fun\/just-try-your-best response, again with the strong impression that if I don't comply, I'll be let go. In my terror at losing this job, I've said that yes, I understand that the role is changing and that I'll ask for help if I can't manage.\n\nIn my mind, it would be equally wrong to ask a person in a wheelchair to try their best to climb stairs as stairs are now required in a role adjustment, and to just ask for some help if they can't do it. By the time help comes, I will already be impacted.\n\nIn the last two weeks, my health has gone from struggling with stable to sour, including two breakdowns, two panic attacks, ongoing anxiety, loss of sleep, and yesterday becoming physically ill when confronted with the task. I've sent a note to my doctor asking if we can discuss requesting an accommodation this week.","title":"Protections for negative changes in job descriptions?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1416710142,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2n4tjx\/was_browsing_4chan_and_a_troll_convinced_me_to\/","id":"2n4tjx","body":"I live in PA. Basically, someone commented on a post saying that, in order to find a particular pornographic video, I would have to go on motherless.com and search \"pthc.\" I did it without even thinking twice, but it turns out that the acronym stands for \"preteen hardcore\" and the website said that they logged my IP address. I wasn't on the website for more than 10 seconds, but I'm still worried about how to proceed. Yes, I know that searching it was stupid.","title":"Was browsing 4chan, and a troll convinced me to search something CP related","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444077734,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nmcjw\/landlord_forcing_tenants_to_sign_new_rules_or_be\/","id":"3nmcjw","body":"My complex put new community rules on our doors with a note that says \"If these documents are not returned by X date then all apartments are subject to lease violations and fines.\" Pretty sure they meant all residents, not all apartments, but regardless the new rules talk about fines but never state an actual dollar amount for fines, and my actual lease for the apartment says that the apartment has the right to change community rules at any time, but it doesn't state that I need to sign them. \n\nDo I need to sign these new rules and can they really say they'll enact fines without stating the amount of those fines? My worry is that signing these new rules is one of their new rules they're putting in place (but that is not stated on the new rules document, the demand that they be signed and returned was printed on a separate, small piece of paper).  Thanks!","title":"Landlord Forcing Tenants to Sign New Rules or be Fined - Lease Doesn't Say I Need to Sign, Help? (Texas)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551889845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay0qcx\/boston_ma_us_landlord_sent_us_renewal_letter\/","id":"ay0qcx","body":"My friend and I moved to the Boston, MA area in June 2018 for new jobs right out of  college. We found a place, 12 month lease, for $X.00. We have been living there with no problems since then, and recently got a letter in the mail from the landlord\/company, stating we had until March 15 to let them know if we were staying another year, so they could set up showings.\n \nThe letter they sent us starts with\n \n\u201cYou are hereby notified to quit and deliver up the premises now held by you, namely [Redacted address] in Boston, MA at the end of May 31, 2019.\n \nNotwithstanding the foregoing, you are hereby offered a new tenancy (12 month lease) at the monthly rate of $X.00 payable in advance on the first of each month, commencing June 1, 2019.\n \nYou may accept this offer by paying $X.00 + $75 to [Landlord Company] on or before said date so long as, with said payment, you are not otherwise in arrears on your rent as of said payment.\u201d\n \nAll of this was fine but we were curious about the $X+75 we were going to have to pay. Upon asking our landlord, she stated that the price in the letter was incorrect, and that our rent was in fact to be raised $75 a month. She stated that she made a mistake when creating the letter, and apologized.\n \nMy question is: since we were served a document (with places for our signatures, and digitally signed by our landlord at the bottom), do we have any legal standing to contest the rent increase for the upcoming year? I am obviously not a lawyer but the language in this letter confuses me. Thank you in advance!\n\n","title":"(Boston, MA, US) Landlord sent us renewal letter stating rent would not increase, but it will","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445981865,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qh4jh\/drugged_at_worked_today_by_a_new_coworker\/","id":"3qh4jh","body":"Bear with me as I am still very much feeling effects from earlier. \n\nI have been working with my company full time for 16 months..\nWe just hired a new employee in the office, which we currently have around 13 people in. \n\n\nWe are a very tight knit group, and are always joking around.\n\n\nThe new coworker assumed I would enjoy eating a pot laced brownie. It was lunch time, he asked me to try half of his cookie. Said \"Its really sugary, so only eat half.\" \nAte it. And started to bug out about 45 minutes in and confronted him because I was feeling really shaky and dazed.\n\n\nMy wife had to come to pick me up as I kept getting more and more \"high\" and I talked to all of my managers and informed them of this situation.\n\n\nI am really fucked up right now and need some legal advice on what I'm supposed to do. I'm at around 4 hours after being drugged. This is in Florida\n\n\n\n**EDIT:**\nIt has now been around 7 hours since I ate the cookie. Still feeling the effects, although it has been a lot less intense. Feeling a little dizzy, been drinking a lot of water and trying to distract myself. \n\nThe guy who drugged me was fired after my wife picked me up, and I plan on talking them more in detail tomorrow about the whole situation when I'm not out of it anymore. Thank you for the replies and advice, and I will update you tomorrow.\n\n**UPDATE**\n\nI am at work this morning. Still feeling groggy and kind of out of it.. Can't really explain it. I have decided not to get the police involved. He got fired, I won't ever see him again and I can leave it at that.\n\nAlso, if I left anything out let me try my best to quickly answer some questions I have in my inbox...\n\nHe did confess to giving me a laced cookie (Did not say it was pot, could have been more idk)\nI don't work at a shitty dead end job, it's a full time serious company.\nI don't like being in that state of mind and if I knew if had any type of drug in it, I certainly wouldn't have eaten it. I did not 'enjoy' being drugged, and it's not a 'fun' experience.\n\nThanks for all the comments and advice. This will be my last update.","title":"Drugged at worked today by a new co-worker.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554097139,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7xzqu\/15_yo_10_yo_with_divorced_parents_can_i_choose_to\/","id":"b7xzqu","body":"My sister and I go between my mom and dads house every few days and spend our time  50\/50 with each parent. There\u2019s always arguing between my mom and stepdad and I believe that it\u2019s making for a very toxic childhood for both me and my younger sister. So, can I request to only stay with my dad? And what about my sister, can she also get to decide at her age?","title":"15 y\/o + 10 y\/o with divorced parents, can I choose to only stay with one parent?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508330481,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7769o4\/ukengland_can_someone_help_clarify_some_terms_of\/","id":"7769o4","body":"So, my contract states that I am to work a 12 week probationary period. It states my start date as 16\/08\/17. I am planning to leave this job on or before the 10th of December (dick move I know). My contract states that after the probation period I must give one weeks notice before leaving. It also states that if my employment is terminated before the end of my probationary period, the company can (from any money they are due to pay me) deduct however much it costs them to cover the shifts I won't be doing for the rest of the probationary period.\n\nNow, my manager's a fucking mess and did my 1st week probation meeting last Friday and also made it my 4th week probation meeting because she hadn't done either yet. She wrote on the form \"4 Working Weeks\" because I took two weeks off. Which extends my probation period by a long time, considering this is my 8th week at the company.\n\nThings I want to know, because the contract isn't clear:\n\n1. Before the probationary period is up, do I have to give a weeks notice?\n\n2. If I quit before the probationary period, do they still have the right to deduct whatever shifts they have to cover from my last paycheck? (Is \"terminating employment\" the same as quitting, or is that only when\/if they fire me?)\n\n3. The contract makes no specification between \"working weeks\" and \"weeks after start date\", so how do I figure out my probation period? \n\n4. Because my manager has written that my eighth week was my 4th working week on that probationary meeting form, does that mean I still have eight weeks left of probation, regardless of how probation is accounted for?\n\n---\n\nI know these are questions I could ask my manager, but I don't want to let on that I'm leaving. Plus, I have the most awful anxiety about this kind of thing. \n\nI get the feeling that because the contract is so vague on all this it should be simply taken at face value (probation ends 12 weeks after start date, \"employment termination\" includes quitting, no notice needed while on probation), but I wanted to clarify.","title":"[UK-England] Can someone help clarify some terms of my work contract regarding leaving work.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1502998602,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ucfq3\/traffic_court_fl\/","id":"6ucfq3","body":"Hi all - I was recently cited in an accident (my insurance deemed the accident 100% NOT my fault) for \"Improper passing on the right\" in violation of Florida Statute 316.084(1). \n\nSituation: I was traveling southbound on a two lane road (one lane in each direction). Along this road are residential communities on either side. When one comes up, there is a turn lane as you approach the community. In my case, the community was on the left, so a turn lane forms to allow people to turn left into that community. There is also a road to the right here, with no separate turn lane (meaning turns onto this road are made directly from the southbound lane of traffic on the main road).\n\nAs we approach the intersection, the pickup truck (driver B) begins drifting into the left turn lane. No turn signal is given. I am behind the pickup truck and notice he is moving to the left turn lane. His truck was about 50% in the left turn lane, so I speed up to pass and attempt to continue in the southbound lane of traffic. As we get to the intersection, he turns right. In effect, he did one of those \"let me swing out and make a wide right so that I don't have to slow down or turn my steering wheel as much\" turns. \n\nMy insurance has deemed the other driver 100% responsible with the following statement: \"You were in control of your lane at the time Driver B executed his right hand turn. Based on the location of damages, he had a duty to ensure he was clear and also had a duty to make a proper turn from the main lane of traffic.\" \n\nMy question: **This occured in Pasco County, FL. The back of the citation says that if i request a hearing and am convicted, the court may impose a fine of up to $500. Does this mean that the judge, in all his or her glory, can magically decide that I owe more than the civil penalty of $164 that is written on my citation?** How can this be and how often does this actually happen where I am expected to pay a higher fine for the infraction itself (not talking about court fees) simply because I executed my right to a hearing? I guess, **Under what kind of circumstances might the judge decide to impose a higher fine?** My driving record is clean and I plan to present myself in a suit and be very respectful. \n\n**Should I even fight this ticket?** I really don't think I did anything wrong. If the pickup truck actually made the left turn, no officer would have ever pulled me over and cited me for improper passing on the right because I didn't wait to pass him until he was 100% in the turn lane. I only got the ticket because the guy decided he wanted to essentially make a right turn from the left lane while I was trying to pass him, and we collided. \n\nthe Statute: \n\n> 316.084 When overtaking on the right is permitted.\u2014\n\n> (1) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass on the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions:\n\n> (a) When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn;\n\nTo me, it appeared the pickup truck was \"about to make a left turn\" based on how he veered into the left lane by 50%. I don't know if this is sufficient to fight the ticket though. Officer didn't witness this at all. ","title":"Traffic court - FL","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540334497,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qtyeg\/drunken_driver_crashed_into_me_and_my_wifes_car\/","id":"9qtyeg","body":"So Sunday we were watching tv when we heard a loud squeal with a crash. Look outside and both my wife\u2019s car and my car were involved in a wreck while it was parked on the road. My car has full coverage and my wife\u2019s car had no insurance because we had just gotten it from her dad out of the shop that he was rebuilding only 3 days ago. (Yeah, I know we should\u2019ve got it done, just never got around to it) Well the kid that crashed into us was drunk\/high and he ran from the scene and was later found when his car broke down. Come to find out it wasn\u2019t his car, and the friend who owns the car won\u2019t respond to calls or messages. So who\u2019s liable for the damages? My wife\u2019s car is totaled, and my rear end was basically ripped off. The insurance says they\u2019re unsure who\u2019s liable because the owner can claim the driver didn\u2019t have permission to drive it. Doesn\u2019t seem right that Ill get no compensation for my wife\u2019s car and my rear end will only be covered under my insurance and I\u2019ll have to pay deductible and such. Anything I can do? Or make sure that I do to prevent myself from getting screwed over?","title":"Drunken driver crashed into me and my wife\u2019s car.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554946825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbuc36\/ga_dad_passed_in_al\/","id":"bbuc36","body":"So there is this account of my fathers that I just found after I started sorting through his files. I am his only child and only heir. I knew nothing about it until now. I am a 50% beneficiary but so is his ex wife. My dad passed from ALS and also had FTD. His mind started declining years ago and after his divorce it never got changed. When I called the company today I was told even if I got a lawyer and tried to probate it to receive 100% she would still get her 50%. Is this true? I thought under certain circumstances and with the divorce, if I probate it all would be mine? Should I just go ahead and get a lawyer or do you guys know if that is true or not?","title":"GA. Dad passed in AL.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540254710,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qjs9s\/my_car_with_a_valid_parking_pass_was_towed_from\/","id":"9qjs9s","body":"I guess this is a two-parter?\n\nSo almost two weeks ago I woke up and went outside and my car was gone. I called the police and they said it was towed and gave me the number for the company. The company told me to pay up even when I explained the situation. You can even *see* the parking sticker on my windshield from the lot. They keep upping the price every day and said they will give it to some other place if I don\u2019t pay them soon, and they\u2019ve been \u201ckind to keep it so long.\u201d I go in every other day and try to fight them on this, but I work a lot and they always just tell me to pay them. \n\nI\u2019ve had really spotty transportation since then and I\u2019ve been late nearly every day to my awful fast food job. It\u2019s the only way I have to make money. I came in yesterday and my manager said I was late too many times and to stop coming in. Basically I was fired. And yes they knew about my situation. She also told me, kind of on the sly, that if I could get the car thing figured out and\/or stop coming in late she\u2019d try to hire me again because she knows I need the job and I do good work. \n\nI talked to my landlord too when my car was taken and when I lost my job. First he said it was between me and the towing company, figure it out. When he heard I lost me job he said I had to pay by November 3rd or he\u2019d kick me out and if any of my stuff was inside the apartment he\u2019d throw it out.\n\nMy first question is: how do I get my car back? I have less money than I need for rent right now and they STOLE it from me! Also can they just give it to some other place if I don\u2019t pay them? They want more money than I even own at this point. \n\nMy second question is: can my landlord just kick me out and throw away my stuff like that? And can the towing company be held responsible since they stole my car, which cost me my job?\n\nI\u2019ve been crying for days. I\u2019m scared I\u2019m going to be homeless soon because they took my car. It was parked in my assigned spot on the apartment lot with a valid parking pass. No one will tell me why it was taken, everyone just keeps saying pay up or it\u2019s not their problem. I was getting my life on track and now I\u2019m going to lose everything. I don\u2019t know if I can even afford a lawyer because it sounds so expensive. I can\u2019t take this. ","title":"My car, with a valid parking pass, was towed from my assigned parking spot. The company refuses to give it back, my job has fired me, and my landlord told me \u201cpay by the end of the month or you\u2019re out.\u201d I\u2019m terrified and stressed. TX.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568735497,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5iwwy\/can_a_landlord_charge_all_tenants_if_they_dont\/","id":"d5iwwy","body":"Apartment complex sent an email saying people need to stop leaving garbage outside of dumpsters and they will find out who is responsible and charge them if it continues. However, if they can't find out who is responsible they will charge everyone.\n\nIs this something that is allowed or protected? I am in the state of Indiana.","title":"Can a landlord charge all tenants if they don't know who is responsible?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555603393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/benak0\/what_will_a_divorce_look_like_when_parties_are_in\/","id":"benak0","body":"My friend is looking to file for divorce. She and her husband were married in Utah. They moved to Florida last Spring. Now that they have separated, he moved back to Utah, leaving her and their daughter in Florida. \n\nWill this be an overly complicated process since they are no longer in the same state? Is there anything she should be aware of? She is wondering if she can file easily on her own, or if she would need to hire an attorney.","title":"What will a divorce look like when parties are in separate states?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539643121,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ohnn4\/execution_of_eviction_judgement\/","id":"9ohnn4","body":"Thank you in advance for any answers.\n\nI'm located in Massachusetts, i'm currently in the last stage of evicting a tenant and had a couple of question's so as to not waste time.\n\n1. Is the execution needed in writing from the court, or can i just go to the constable after the 10 day appeal period? I know they're not appealing if that helps.\n\n2. They've stated that they plan on leaving all their stuff on my property, will i still need to hire movers?\n\n3. If yes to question 2, will i need to purchase a storage unit? Or will a detached garage that is completely empty work?\n","title":"Execution of eviction judgement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555374106,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdnea6\/apartment_complex_sent_debt_to_collections_agency\/","id":"bdnea6","body":"I lived in a student housing apartment complex at the University I go to and I moved out last August. After moving out they informed me that I owe them a whopping $7,800 total. $600 of that amount was in \"damages\" to one bedroom and I believe another $800 was for another room I had rented in the same apartment under my name as a guest room since we didn't want a random 4th roommate and it was only another $65 a month. Anyways, they claimed that I since I didn't pay off the amount I owed by move out, I owe them \\~$6,300 for \"not fulfilling the lease\" which keep in mind is more than I was set to pay according to my lease for the entire year I lived there. I talked to the apartment complex a couple of times about the issue but they weren't helping me out very much and just showing me my ledgers for what I owe them, and kept telling me over the next 2-3 months in emails that I needed to pay my balance before it was sent to collections. I called their bluff and didn't pay it since they were trying to settle for \\~$5,000 back in October of 2018. In February of this year I get a notice from Credit Karma that I have 2 new hard inquiries and see that they sent it to the collections agency Southern Management Systems. I did some research and found that they aren't a real credit agency and more of a personal debt collector for companies and business' but it is still on my credit report dropped my score around 35 points. I want to resolve this but I'm not sure what to do and how to handle not paying them an absurd $7,800. Please let me know if theres any questions you might have and I'll do my best to answer them in the comments section.","title":"Apartment Complex sent debt to \"Collections Agency\"","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571332278,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj9ffm\/landlord_admitted_someone_was_in_our_apartment\/","id":"dj9ffm","body":"They even said we could go reach out to legal services if we thought it was necessary. We have about 6 months left on out lease and I was wondering if we could get anything out of it easily like free parking\/ utilities, etc... or if we did anything it would just be ending our lease.","title":"Landlord admitted someone was in our apartment without them giving a 24 hour notice (Ohio)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571340958,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djbfgy\/fl_i_am_an_independent_contractor_working_for_a\/","id":"djbfgy","body":"I\u2019ve been working for a company as an independent contractor and just found out that I may have been taken advantage of for the last 4 years. Is this true?\n\nI was curious to know what my options could possibly be if they are in fact in the wrong. The only thing I know they are doing \u201cillegally\u201d is keeping me on a schedule. Other than that, I get paid $10 an hour, I work on average 23 hours a week, and I get 0 benefits. \n\nIs there anything I can do or have I just been getting taken advantage of?","title":"[FL] I am an independent contractor working for a company and I have been informed that I\u2019ve been taken advantage of.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541545499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uthvs\/mom_refuses_to_show_me_how_much_money_i_got_from\/","id":"9uthvs","body":"Obligatory mobile formatting and broken English. \n\n\nI\u2019m 21 and I hurt my back a month ago from babysitting my cousins kid. So bad that I had to go to the ER for it. Anyways, my mom made me do an insurance claim since I\u2019m under my parents insurance and today it popped into my head about what happened to it. I go and ask her.\n\nMe: \u201chey, what happened to that insurance claim?\u201d \n\nMom: \u201cThe money is already deposited to my checking. I had to pay for your hospital bill\u201d\n\nMe: \u201cwell...can I see it?\u201d\n\nMom: \u201csee what?\u201d\n\nMe: \u201chow much we got? I just wanna know.\u201d\n\nMom: \u201cno. It\u2019s gone already. It was only a $100\u201d\n\nShe was looking very suspicious and didn\u2019t make eye contact with me. \n\nMe: \u201cso? I just wanna see. Isn\u2019t it wrong for you to hide it from me?\u201d \n\nMom: \u201cyou pay for your bills then!\u201d\n\nI left after that. I really just wanted to know...\nI\u2019m thinking they spent it on their trip to a different state. They were begging me for money when they were on that stupid trip. \n\nIs it legal for her to hide that from me?","title":"Mom refuses to show me how much money I got from insurance when I hurt my back.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1503634678,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vw8hc\/california_the_state_paid_my_friend_too_much_each\/","id":"6vw8hc","body":"My friend works for the department of fish and game and was recently informed that he has been overpaid on his paychecks for the entire duration of his employment (over 10 years) and now they want him to pay it back.  For whatever reason, they're only going after the last 3 years worth but they are demanding it be repaid within the next 12 months.  The amount they are requesting is around $10k which would put a large financial burden on my friend.  He's spoken with his union rep but was told there was little chance of him getting out of this.  My question is, can anything be done to either get out of repaying or negotiate better terms? How is he even at fault here?","title":"[California] The state paid my friend too much each paycheck for his entire employment. Now they want it back","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571161913,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dibkjp\/massachusettes_employer_withholding_my_check_and\/","id":"dibkjp","body":"I'm not sure exactly what information would be helpful here but I'll be happy to provide any details that could lead to a resolution.\n\nI work as a PCA. I fill my own timesheets and submit them to a company official for review and final submission. It is a bi-weekly pay period.\n\nToday I've been told that my entire check is being withheld because I fraudulently claimed 2 shifts that I wasn't present for. This is false. I was there for even *longer* than my required shift and didn't even claim extra time. There are 4 individual witnesses to this, the client, his wife, a coworker, and my sister (my transport) and the company either doesn't have evidence to support their claim that I wasn't there or isn't willing to provide me with it. \n\nI know this part doesn't rest on the shoulders of the company but, I work very hard to maintain this job. It's not nearby and I pay a lot more than I can afford for transportation sometimes, but I always get there. I'm struggling to make ends meet and bring without pay will kill me financially for the foreseeable future. \n\nWhat can I do? I can't just take the loss for no reason and be okay with it... I feel like I'm being bullied. I'm sorry if any bit of this is incoherent; I'm stressed severely. Thank you in advance for any help.\n\n*Sometimes my check comes with unpaid hours even though my timesheets are approved by a supervisor, in which cases I have to go through a week long process to fix the \"error\"... It's always a terrible experience*","title":"Massachusettes employer withholding my check and accusing me of fraud without evidence; what can I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444246483,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nvmzv\/cease_and_desist\/","id":"3nvmzv","body":"(Texas) Hello, my father recently started a new business after leaving his old employer. He sent business cards to all of the addresses of old clients he personally knew and remembered. However, whenever my dad would do a job at his old company, the company would provide a paper with the clients name and address. Now, the former employer is accusing my father of using those papers, which they say is confidential information. How should we respond? Can they prove that my father actually did use the papers specifically to promote his business? As far as my dad knows, he has never signed any non compete agreement or anything even remotely similar in his time there.","title":"Cease and Desist","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1442094598,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kpnav\/or_stepfather_possibly_divorcing_mentally_ill\/","id":"3kpnav","body":"My mother has gotten sick over the past ten months or so. She has grown paranoid and has visions, which has caused her to stop going to the doctor for treatment. She would disappear in her vehicle and check into a hotel, emptying their bank account in the process. She recently disappeared in her car, driving up into the woods on logging roads without food or water causing local authorities to send out a search and rescue crew. Needless to say, it's been a stressful time within the family.\n\nMe and my step-father took her car away from her and it's currently being stored in my garage. My mother and step-father have been experiencing some financial strain. Just today my step-father approached me about giving her the car and letting her do whatever she wants to do (which would amount to her taking off again). I disagreed as I believe it to be a danger to my mother as well as other people on the road. He pushed the issue and told me he's at the end of his rope with her, insinuating that he could divorce her, which has come up a few times in the past several months.\n\nI understand a person losing their patience with someone who is not mentally well. At the same time, she is my mother and if he leaves her, she would have nothing. A mentally ill woman with little income and belongings. I urged him to be patient and hope that she would bounce back from this, which she has before. But it sounds like his mind might be made up. I truly do think he'd prefer she'd die rather than go through a divorce. When she got lost up in the forest, he didn't bother to try and find her. I had to do the legwork of tracking her and calling the authorities to assist me.\n\nHe's told me several times that she should come stay with me, but it's not really an option. Things are tight for me financially as well and I'm in the middle of potentially relocating for my career.\n\nWhat can I do? Her mental state is bad, but she's had an episode once before years ago and she came out the other side to be completely normal again. If I get relocated and my step-father files for divorce, I have no clue what happens to her at that point. Never mind the fact that she would not have the financial means to get by, but she would also not have the mental capacity to live a life that would ensure her well-being.\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated. We live in Oregon.\n\n","title":"[OR] Step-father possibly divorcing mentally ill mother. How can I help her?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541451171,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uhhro\/required_steps_for_an_executor_of_a_will_austin\/","id":"9uhhro","body":"My Grandmother has passed away (Austin, Texas) and left a will which names my Uncle as executor. I am a beneficiary of the will. I, however, have doubts about whether my Uncle is following what is normal and mandatory practice for an executor.\n\nWhat are the normal and sequential steps that an executor must follow when someone passes away? In specific, is it mandatory to go to probate court in Texas?\n\nAny help would be appreciated,\nThank you!","title":"Required steps for an executor of a will; Austin, Texas","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570025141,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcansh\/virginia_security_deposit_issues\/","id":"dcansh","body":"On the 17th of August this year I moved into my first place that wasn't with my parents and it was supposed to be great, described in the ad as a chill house with great roommates, software engineers and interns at Aerospace. It even had a maid service and when I moved in the house appeared to be clean enough but only after I was there a couple days did I found it was pretty filthy. So I gave this guy a $650 security deposit and $650 first months rent with a verbal agreement for a month to month sublet of 1 room. We had no written contract of any kind. Shortly after I moved in I found out that this \"software engineer\" was unemployed and the house was full of people that can't hold down a job or act in any way like responsible adults and the situation quickly turned weird. It turned out that this \"software engineer\" (referred to as Dan from now on) is basically running some kind of weird pseudo halfway house and likes acting as he said \"mom and dad\" to these people. He also told me that it was against house rules to lock the door to my room and that if my girlfriend came over to hang out that he \"feared for her safety\" heavily implying that she would probably be assaulted if she came over and I wasn't there (E.G. she spent the night and I left for work earlier than her). None of this was mentioned before I moved in and it was total false advertising. I only spent about 7 nights there total from August 17th to September 30th and essentially lived with my girlfriend because I was so uncomfortable being in that house. The last straw was the Fairfax City Police showing up the last weekend of September looking for one of the other people living in that house. While I was chatting with them they made it very clear that the house had had issues with drugs in the past and that it was basically just super sketchy and after I explained my situation to them they wished me luck in my hasty departure of the house and into a better situation. I moved out that weekend.\n\nSo after all this Dan is claiming that he is allowed by law to keep my entire security deposit of $650 because I did not give him proper 30 days notice that I was moving out and he printed out this article https:\/\/www.thebalancesmb.com\/telling-your-landlord-you-are-moving-out-4158013\n to back that up. The article doesn't seem to cite the Code of Virginia at all and it appears to be referencing situations that involve written contracts or leases and we only had a verbal agreement. Also, when I moved out he openly admitted that only 2 out of 4 of the people he is subletting to are paying rent and he is having trouble coming up with the money to pay the actual Landlord (he seems to think he is the legal landlord but he is just the dude whose name is on the lease to rent the house). The main question here is Dan actually allowed by law to keep my entire deposit because I didn't give him 30 days notice even with no written contact of any kind? Also if I decide to fight this in court will the judge understand why I left on such short notice? Than you so much for reading this whole mess.\n\nJust adding a note. The house is in the Fairfax City limits and I believe with how the house is zoned it is actually unlawful for him to have all of these people in there with no lease because in Fairfax if you aren't on the lease you have to be related to the person that is on the lease. Not positive though.\n\nTL;DR I moved into a house with no lease and no written contact of any kind just subletting a room and now the guy I was subletting from is trying to keep my entire security deposit because I did not give him proper 30 days notice before moving out.","title":"[Virginia] security deposit issues","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554218587,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8km5d\/employer_lying_on_record_of_employment\/","id":"b8km5d","body":"My girl friend had just received a record of employment from her employer and the reason for termination is she quit. This is a lie. She has a medical issue that affected her the first and only day of her being on the job and she was sent home early when something came up. The day after the employer called her and informed her she was no longer needed so they basically fired her. The issue we are running into now is she is no longer able to work do to a recent surgery and now social development wont do anything because they believe she quit from her job for no reason. We live in Canada. Any input would be grateful as we are both financially stressed because of this situation","title":"Employer lying on record of employment","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539633458,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9og6ma\/my_vehicle_was_struck_in_a_hit_and_run_car_was\/","id":"9og6ma","body":"Girl next door hit my car while it was standing in front of a no parking sign that the management of our building put up. I parked my car there about 20 mins beforehand to grab my laundry.  There was about 3 car sized spaces between my car and hers , so she had plenty of room to avoid my car. These signs were not posted by the city. She hit my car and left the scene and tried to deny ever hitting my car, but the superintendent of the building was there watching the entire thing and told me. He gave a statement to the police and said I could give his name to my insurance. The officer who came to take the report saw the sign and said he needed to make a note of it. What am I liable for? This is in NJ. ","title":"My vehicle was struck in a hit and run, car was standing in a \u201cNo Parking\u201d spot put up by apt building owner, not city ordinance. Am I liable to fix my car now? NJ","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540421400,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r4li2\/miin_cyber_security_liability\/","id":"9r4li2","body":"Situation:\n\nI have a professional background in IT. While I\u2019m very familiar with the various technical aspects of cyber security, I\u2019m admittedly not an expert, and it is not my specialization.  I\u2019m located in [IN]. \n\nRecently a friend of a friend, who is a lawyer, located in [MI] has asked me for help regarding their single person Law Firm\u2019s cybersecurity practices. They have even gone as far to offer food & beer for the service. I believe they\u2019re specifically worried about a hypothetical malpractice? suit regarding mishandling of client files. I voiced some concern about my liability if something were to happen afterwards. This hesitation upset my closer friend quite a bit (the lawyer and I\u2019s mutual friend). I offered to give some general best practice advice\/reading material until I could figure out if I would be liable, but this didn\u2019t placate them so they are still quite mad at me. I haven\u2019t heard from the lawyer either. \n\nSide notes: \n\n-\tBy help they meant full on setting appropriate security measures up for them.\n\n-\tI\u2019m not a contractor.\n\n-\tBased on their current security standing I have doubt that they would keep up or follow through with any measures I put in place. \n\nMy questions:\n\n1.\tWould I be liable if I just gave general advice?\n\n2.\tIf something were to happen where their client files were compromised, would I liable if I helped them?\n\n3.\tDoes my liability change if I receive beer and\/or food? \n\nMaybe this depends on the answers to the above questions, but am I just being paranoid? I really don\u2019t mind helping at all, but It doesn\u2019t seem crazy to me that I could be dragged into a lawsuit because of this. Right now I just can\u2019t afford that risk financially or even professionally. \n\nThanks for your input! Sorry if the formatting is poor, I\u2019m on mobile. ","title":"[MI,IN] Cyber Security Liability","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570382615,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de695h\/my_boss_is_3_weeks_late_paying_me\/","id":"de695h","body":"I don't know if this is the correct subreddit but I need advice. To remain confidential I wont release any details about the company or myself.\n\nI work in a very small security company totalling maybe 10-20 people. From the start there were issues with pay and scheduling. I very soon realized how sketchily this company was ran. I really didn't care, I just worked my hours and bitched about pay on payday. It's always been an in between job, but the situation I'm facing now is something I've never been confronted with before.\n\nOn a weekly pay schedule my pay was 2 weeks late. There were a lot of excuses, I dont care and bank doesn't. I get my check after 2 weeks and it bounces after several days. Here I am a week later, with more hours that need to be payed, and my boss has taken to ghosting me. I dont know what to do and I suspect hes taking advantage of me because of my age. I'm 18 and this is one of my first jobs. \n\nMy mom is telling me to take my check up to the district attorney's office which I have no problem doing, but I need my car insurance payed, I need to eat, and my account is over drafted and I'm facing NSF fees.\n\nWhat can I do? Any help at all would be appreciated. Thanks.","title":"My boss is 3 weeks late paying me","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553649925,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5y86r\/il_joint_accounts_with_3rd_party_during_divorce\/","id":"b5y86r","body":"Going through a divorce which I anticipate will be nasty, so I\u2019m going to be a bit vague\/gender neutral.\n\nA few years ago when my MIL was getting divorced she opened  a joint account with my STBX where my STBX was the primary account holder and MIL was the secondary ( I\u2019m pretty sure with the intent to hide assets from her husband). Let\u2019s call it account#1.\n\nTo the best of my knowledge STBX didn\u2019t really use account#1, maybe an occasional transfer here or there to send \/ receive money to pay for favors (like dinner, small gifts etc..)\n\nNow going through my own divorce, history seems to be repeating itself.  Shortly before divorce was filed STBX opened yet another joint account with my MIL (account #2). Then at a later point after filing for divorce STBX zeroed OUR joint account, and STBX paycheck was changed to be deposited to account #2. \n\nMy question is:\n\nIs account #1 marital property? In whole or in part ?\n\nSame question for account #2.\n\n\n","title":"[IL] Joint accounts with 3rd party during divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554911723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbnnhn\/speeding_ticket\/","id":"bbnnhn","body":"I originally had a long detailed post but it was removed because some questions in it were deemed unanswerable.\n\nHow do I legally reduce the total impact of a speeding ticket in Washington state.\n\nWhat other subreddits can I post on for questions on insurance, driving record impact, etc?\n\nI will respond with details as needed.","title":"Speeding ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507152089,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74bbbc\/landlord_deducting_1500_from_deposit_for_floor\/","id":"74bbbc","body":"First things first, I live in Michigan. \n\nJust bought a house, and finished up my last ever rental lease. Landlord wants to deduct $1,500 from the security deposit for floor refinishing, due to having two dogs whose nails were in constant contact with the floor.\n\nThe house was dog-friendly, and non-refundable pet deposits were paid, so there's proof that the landlord knew from the outset that dogs were living in the house. \n\nI firmly believe that would count as normal wear and tear (landlord responsibility) and not excessive damage (tenant responsibility).\n\nThe dogs did not attempt to dig through the floors. They just... existed in the house for two years. Nails were regularly trimmed. The house had some area rugs (supplied by me), but not many.\n\nLandlord intends to sell the house now, and I understand that perfect floors would increase value somewhat, so I get *why* she's refinishing the floors. I just disagree with whose responsibility it is. \n\nI have the landlord's initial itemization. I have 7 days to respond by mail. If I have a solid case that it's normal wear and tear, and I'm not just grossly mistaken, I will send her a reply stating as much and request the $1,500 be removed from the itemization.\n\nThen again, I could be very wrong, which is where you lovely folks come in. Your help would be greatly appreciated before I make a fool of myself. Thanks in advance!","title":"Landlord deducting $1,500 from deposit for floor refinishing - but is it normal wear and tear?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569960115,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbywcn\/leasing_agency_charged_me_over_900_two_months\/","id":"dbywcn","body":"In April 2018, I moved into an apartment with my then friend. We officially signed a joint lease for June 2018 through June 2019 in April 2018. Note that the leasing agency is owned by my friend\u2019s aunt and a portion of her family works there. As well as this, she was once employed by them. \n\nWhile living in the apartment, my friend and I both have two cats (four cats total). Rooms are not assigned and the lease was a joint lease, meaning we signed the same leasing contract. \n\nI moved out on June 30, 2019 while my roommate was out of town. Keep in mind that we also stopped communicating in January of 2019 due to differences. As of May 2019, on of C\u2019s (this is what we\u2019ll call my ex-roommate) friends moved into the house. She is not subleasing the room, but is paying half the utilities. C also renewed her lease until September. This did not, however, renew my lease (according to the leasing company) but charges will still being applied to my account (I called and was told that I would not have to pay these charges - they essentially explained that they would be \u201cwaived\u201d). \n\nSkip to September 18, a letter was sent from the leasing agency, stating that I owed $906.80. This is after they withheld the $500 security deposit (I paid $250 of this when we signed). The letter states the following:\n\n\n\n\u201cEnclosed please find an itemized list of charges. Based on these charges you have a balance due of $906.80.\n\nCREDITS\nManagement held security deposit - $500\n\nCHARGES\nCertified mail fee - $6.80\nReplacement door jam - $250\nGarbage\/furniture removal - $100\nCharges for carpet replacement due to pet damages - $450\nCharges for painting needed with color change - $600\n\nTOTAL CHARGES - $1406.80\nAMOUNT DUE - $906.80\n\nPlease remit the balance due immediately. If left unpaid this balance will be forwarded to a collection company within 30 days. If you are unable to pay this balance in full, please contact our leasing office or email to set up a payment plan.\u201d\n\n\n\nThis letter appears that C is not being charged for her half of the damages, even though the lease was joint, we both had cats, and both our rooms were painted. There is no way anyone can prove this otherwise, and I did not create all the damages being assessed. \n\nAny advice of the matter would be appreciated, as I am a college student and just can\u2019t afford to pay this, nor do I think it\u2019s fair that C isn\u2019t being charged for her half of the destruction.","title":"Leasing agency charged me over $900 two months after moving out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554928150,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbqy0v\/nj_international_graduate_student_need_advice_on\/","id":"bbqy0v","body":"Hi Everyone,\n\n​\n\nI'm an international student enrolled in the Newark, NJ campus of a State University (No prizes for guessing which one).Please bear with my wordy sentences, English is not my first language.\n\n​\n\nMy story goes back to November 2018. I was a graduate student in a Graduate Program. I cannot provide more details than this, because it can compromise my identity. A Professor in one of the courses I had enrolled in withheld my scores in two in-class quizzes. I noticed the missing quiz grades on the web portal for the course.\n\n​\n\nI met the Professor and she coldly informed me that she suspected me on cheating in the quizzes. Naturally, I was shocked  and asked the Professor for proof. Her answer was basically \"I saw you cheating. Either accept the sanctions, or face an Academic Integrity probe.\"\n\n​\n\nAt that point, I felt the quizzes were too trivial to jeopardize my working relationship with my professor, and dropped the matter to defuse the situation. BIG, BIG MISTAKE. I will explain why later on in the post.\n\n​\n\nAt the end of the Fall 2018 Semester, I saw that I was awarded an F grade by the professor. The margin by which I had failed the course was equal to the marks I forfeited in the quizzes. I was really in a mess, because I had applied to graduate from my program in January 2019.\n\n​\n\nNaturally, my application to graduate was denied. After a lot of emails and back-and-forth between myself, the Dean of my program, and the Professor, it was agreed upon that I had failed the course and my grade appeal was also denied. I was asked to re-enroll in an alternative course in the New Brunswick campus of the same university. The fees for this course totaled USD 7500, approximately.\n\n​\n\nTo compound my problems, my University's DSO (Designated Student Officer) for International Students told me that because I haven't graduated per schedule, my post-completion OPT (Optional Practical Training) work authorization would be capped at 20 hours. I couldn't apply for CPT (Curricular Practical Training) either because I was no longer in good academic standing. This caused me a lot of hardships while searching for a job.\n\n​\n\nAdding insult to injury, I was now informed that I was subject to an Academic Integrity investigation. Remember the quizzes from earlier? Well, my Professor had filed an incident report about the quizzes. My requests to expedite my hearing fell on deaf ears, and I haven't heard back from the Investigator since Jan 24, 2019.\n\n​\n\nCut to April 2019: I'm doing good in the remedial course. I've gotten a full-time job offer. I'm on track to graduate at the end of the Spring semester. But at an immense cost. My academic reputation is now in tatters because of the F on my transcript. I suffered financial losses because of the course fees, repeated travel to the New Brunswick campus of the University, and by the income lost because of the cap on my work authorization. I also had pre-existing mental health issues, which led me to develop anxiety and chronic insomnia. I was briefly self-medicating with sleep medicines. I've also suffered premature greying because of the stress.\n\n​\n\nI want to know if there is any legal options that I can pursue against my University, my Professor, or the Academic Integrity Investigator for denying me due process, and for the economic, mental and reputational damage. It's been nearly five months and I don't have an answer. I'm willing to settle for a formal written apology from the University, the Professor, and Academic Integrity investigator (or any combination of these three parties) for treating me like this.\n\nPlease advise me: any help would be appreciated.\n\n​\n\nTLDR: My professor screwed me over with an F, and I had to repeat the course with an Academic Integrity violation which hasn't been investigated. I want reparations. Please advise.","title":"[NJ] International Graduate Student: Need Advice on pursuing Legal Action against my University","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1503658928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vxq88\/fianc\u00e9_wants_me_to_bring_son_back\/","id":"6vxq88","body":"Earlier this month my fianc\u00e9 and I got into a pretty big fight and she told me to leave and I told her I wasn't leaving without our two and a half year old son. She said fine and I wrote up a paper stating where I was taking my son and that it'd be for 3-4 weeks or until she could get better transportation and we both signed and dated it. Fast forward to Now and it's only been two weeks and she's saying if I don't bring him back she's getting a ride from her friend to come get him. I need to know what legal standing I have and what rights I have. \n\nHere's a little back story\/info: I'm disabled and draw disability and have stayed at home with our son since the day he's been born. My fianc\u00e9 works 40+ hours a week and is off two maybe 3 days at most. She is bipolar and has had a few mental breakdowns one of which she pulled a knife on me and I had to call the police and she was admitted for 72 hour psych eval. She was released under the assumption she was going to get help immediately. She hasn't seemed help or taken any of the medicine they prescribed her so her issues haven't gotten any better. She's constantly yelling and screaming my son and I and saying hurtful things and honestly I don't feel comfortable with the idea of her having him without me being there. \n\nNow She insists that I bring him back and that she can handle him, and she wants to have primary custody. She says she can afford to pay rent, pay for everything he needs, and pay for day care\/child care(which is what I've been taking care of by being home with him for 2.5 years) \nMy biggest concern is she's going to be constantly screaming and yelling at him like she's already doing except I won't be there to stop her or take the brunt of it, and that she'll find a babysitter that isnt fit or a good choice just stick him with them because they're cheap and he'll overall be suffering at home and at day care. And she hasn't gotten a reliable vehicle that could even meet me at a halfway point between us. \n\nShould I bring him back to her, or what do you think I should do? I've spoken to a lawyer who suggested I write up the paper stating where I was going to take him and for how long. Please can anyone help. Thank you in advance. \n\nAlso all three of us are residents in Tennessee but  my son and I are currently in NC\/SC with my family which She agreed to. ","title":"Fianc\u00e9 wants me to bring son back","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570281009,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddn2br\/lease_ended_in_september_yet_being_charged_1100\/","id":"ddn2br","body":"The realstate agent won't pick up her phone and answer any calls but today I was greeted by an email saying me and the other flatmates who have already moved out owe $1100 for rent for October or threaten eviction. Our lease ended last month and none of us know what's going on. Do any of you have an idea on what to try next?? Rn the 4 of us are spamming her phone until she finally talks to one of us because there is no reason why we have another month of rent.\n\nEdit: we're in Virginia","title":"Lease ended in September, yet being charged $1100 to stay for the month of October","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441852888,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kc92p\/family_member_died_cannot_find_last_will_and\/","id":"3kc92p","body":"Columbia, MO.\n\nFirst off, I apologize if this has been asked before. My searches returned nothing good.\n\nMy aunt passed away on Monday, leaving my cousin and I the main beneficiaries of her will. My cousin was name executor of the will but we are unable to find the document. She has no descendants.\n\nMy question: If a person was known by multiple people to be the executor of the will, at least informally, is that good enough for them to handle the estate? Or will everything have to be settled through probate or some other govermental body?","title":"Family member died. Cannot find last will and testament.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540866019,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sjtgs\/former_tenant_giving_me_a_hard_time_not_paying\/","id":"9sjtgs","body":"Hello r\/legaladvice,\n\nI own a townhome property in the suburbs of Philadelphia.  My previous tenants have lived there for about 6 years until this past August.  However, in their last couple of years, they exceeded their payment due dates multiple times and started slacking off in that regard.  I've tried my best to be as lenient and understanding as possible (life happens), but here was the final straw.  The tenants have failed to pay their due rent of this past June, July and August, a total of around $3000 (or more).  They have been giving me a hard time lately, their move out date was scheduled for the end of August so I scheduled a convenient time where we would meet up and discuss this topic in a civil matter.  On a last-minute notice they told me that their \"insurance\" for their new property was giving them a hard time and they weren't able to afford and pay their dues on time (again).  I should also mention that they have always been dodgy and constantly making up excuses whenever they were late on a rental payment.\n\nWhilst trying to contact them for another time to meet up to discuss this topic, they blocked my phone number and any form of contact to avoid paying the due amounts.  I was able to find their email from an acquaintance and told them what was my final offer before taking legal action.  I tried to be as kind as possible by giving them two options.  With both of these options I even offered for them to pay me much less than their dues (\\~$3000), yet they still gave me trouble and claimed that they owed me less than $1000 (wherever that came from).  A 1 month's rental is over $1200!  I offered them to either work it out, or take them to court to settle the matter but yet they still refused and continued to give me a hard time.\n\nMy issue is: these tenants moved to another state while running from the rental payments.  The only information I have on them is the city they are in and nothing else.  What possibly can be done in order for me to receive my due payments?  Since they are now in another state I didn't want to risk any legal repercussions (if any).\n\n​\n\nSide note:  On Facebook (and other public forums) there are others who know of the tenant(s) and also claim that they are 'delusional' and dodgy in anything financial-related.\n\n​\n\nThank you.","title":"Former tenant giving me a hard time, not paying dues (PA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539834410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p5o1f\/assault_from_private_tutor\/","id":"9p5o1f","body":"I never told anyone this before but when I did ACT camp in 10th grade summer I had this asshole 45 year old pretty built teacher. He kept bragging about how he graduated from UChicago and was a pretty shit tutor in general. Admittedly, I was a pretty cocky student because I nearly always got top marks, and I already did a lot of act practice tests on my own outside of class. The practice test of the day was a practice test I already did before so I kinda goofed off, started sections early, was making noises and playing with a blanket I had and the teacher grabbed me and pulled me outside and yelled \u201cdo I have to beat the fuck out of you\u201d and other profanities and just yelling in general. It was pretty scary. The funny thing is I ended up getting a 36 on that practice test but when I think back to that moment I get so pissed because I was so helpless in that moment. I was a pretty rowdy student but still, it doesn\u2019t justify me paying someone who is supposed to tutor me and then him threatening my life. Honestly, it was a pretty traumatizing experience and I dropped out the day after. Because I was in an Asian household, I had to get on my knees and beg my parents to drop out. I even thought of like going back and beating the shit out of him. I had been going to this school for quite a while because I was the math tutor was amazing and he was really surprised to see me leave. It\u2019s arguable that I even lost my motivation to pursue higher education because of him. I was wondering if I could do anything legally at this point considering it was nearly 5 years ago. School was in the state of Georgia by the way. Thanks guys ","title":"Assault(?) from private tutor","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571105222,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di106b\/concerns_at_my_complex\/","id":"di106b","body":"Hey All,\n\nA coworker suggested I come here and seek and advice I could get. I've been in Missouri for about 7 years. Lived in the same place and am rather quiet and just play video games and watch TV when I'm not at work or in class. I've seen many new faces come and go (including management). \n\nYesterday I received an email from my Landlord stating that there was a noise complaint about me palying video games all hours of the night. I don't stay up late and am in bed by 10:30 pm and up by 6:30 to cook breakfast and converse with my gf who lives 2 hours away. I replied back that I was astonished by this, and was wondering when this incident took place. \n\nI want to talk to Landlord and record the conversation so I have it to go back to for information if need be. I was told that Missouri is very lenient towards the landlords and the tenants have nothing to stand on. Any and all help would be appreciated.","title":"Concerns at my complex","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568414721,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3wwss\/need_help\/","id":"d3wwss","body":"[Montreal] Hi, want to start a small buisness. The goal : buy cars who need to be repair, repair it and sale it. But, I don't know what is legal and what is not legal concern that. Can you help me ?","title":"NEED HELP","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1507841938,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75zyzz\/fl_i_worked_a_shift_and_never_got_paid_boss_wont\/","id":"75zyzz","body":"First off, sorry for for any format issues, I'm on mobile. \n\nAnyways, the story is basically that I worked for one day (what he called a testing\/training shift) and decided the job wasn't for me, so I politely declined his offer for more shifts. \n\nThe one shift I worked I clocked in and out and did all the work other employees did. It was a 5.5 hour shift. I know the payment wouldn't be much, but I'm at the time where I could really use that amount of money. I texted the number he communicated with me from (we communicated over text for all of this except the initial phone call offering me the shift) \n\nThe text read: \"Hi Mike! This is (name). I worked for you on September 19th. I know I didn't accept the job, but I was wondering if you were going to mail the check for that day, or if I needed to pick it up? Thanks! - Sent October 5th, no reply. \n\nAfter he didn't text, I attempted to call the shop, and they told me Mike wasn't there. After this, today, I messaged him on Facebook and just copy and pasted the text message and added, \"I'm not sure if you got my text\", still being very polite. No response. \n\nIm not really sure where to go from here. I know it would probably be about $45, but I still feel I deserve to be compensated. I'm really not a confrontational person but i think it's unfair of him to not even give me a response. ","title":"[FL] I worked a shift and never got paid, boss won't return communication with me. What do i do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503190544,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ustw8\/can_a_school_reject_me_if_i_was_just_arrested_but\/","id":"6ustw8","body":"So I'm transferring into a university [in Illinois] and my admissions counselor was just about to admit me. She told me everything was perfect on my application, my grades high, my academia top knotch, etc. Just as she was about to she said hold on-- I see you checked off on your application that you've been arrested. I'm going to need a personal statement and for my Dean to review this before you get admitted. \n\nThe arrest in question was a false arrest of retail theft where I was never charged or convicted. I explained my situation to the prosecutor in court and since there was no evidence or way to prove I was stealing, he dismissed my case. But I didn't want to write that in the personal statement because I feel like it sounds whiney, so I just wrote a personal statement about how I was arrested for retail theft and how it was a wake up call for me to change and become a better person. Etc. however, and I made sure to make this clear in the letter, I was NEVER charged nor convicted. \n\nSo my question now is, can the dean really just reject my admission to the school based on an arrest that I was never proven guilty of? If the admissions counselor was READY to admit me based off everything else on my application and my GPA,but then stopped when she saw my arrest, it would mean that if the dean rejects me, my arrest is the reason for doing so. \n\nIs this allowed? I understand convictions causing rejections because then the student might be a harm to the students. But I don't understand how an arrest can effect my entrance into a school. I spent less than 20 minutes in the courthouse before the prosecutor realized that I shouldn't even be there and let me go! Or is the dean simply just reviewing my application as a protocol but I'll most likely get accepted anyway?\n\nAny legal advice on this situation would be appreciated, or even just advice on the protocol of schools asking about arrest and using arrests to determine whether or not I should be admitted. ","title":"Can a school reject me if I was just arrested but not charged or convicted?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1442581941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lfg14\/florida_apartment_complex_is_under_new_management\/","id":"3lfg14","body":"Here are a few policies:\n\n- All tenants are required a parking decal. Each apartment is allowed to \"registered\" 2 vehicles. All visitors must have a \"visitor\" parking pass. This is picked up at the management office. Visitors may not park overnight. Any vehicles not complying with these regulations may be towed without notice. (keep in mind... there is more available parking than I've ever seen at an apartment complex. Overcrowding the parking lot is NOT an issue) I feel if my girlfriend wants to spend the night every so often (once every two weeks) she should be allowed to and park her car in one of the plethora of parking spots available without a problem. \n\n- No items may be left in the breezeways and stairwells. This includes shoes. (I've been reprimanded for leaving my work shoes, which should stay outside, outside my door) .\n\n- Tenants aren't allowed to loiter outside their apartment door or breezeway. All stairwells and breezeways should be used to transporting in and our of apartments only\n\nBesides these policies, the hot tub hasn't been remotely warm for 2 years, and the gate (it's a gated community) hasn't been in operations for 2 years as well. If these are in my lease (meaning I'm paying for these amenities, are they obligated to offer a working hot tub and gate? \n\nedit:formatting","title":"[Florida] Apartment complex is under new management and they are creating new policies. Are these breaking the lease if they aren't in the one I signed months ago before the management turn-over. Are these policies even legal regardless?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555092565,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcgs04\/ny_how_to_fire_traffic_lawyer\/","id":"bcgs04","body":"I honestly, with a doubt, have the worst lawyer currently representing me. He does not communicate with. It\u2019s been almost 3 months since I hired him and I haven\u2019t heard anything from him or his office regarding when my court date would be. So today I finally called the court house and asked them when my court date was scheduled and they told me. I\u2019ve never had to do this before since my previous lawyers had always told me as soon as they found out. I\u2019ve also asked him advice and he told me things that didn\u2019t make any sense and I really just want to get rid of him.\n\nHow do I do this? People have told me to do it in person, call him, email him, or send him a certified letter. But I\u2019m not sure which one to do? Is it better to just call him and tell him I no longer want him to represent me? Do I need it in writing? \n\n(Also sorry if the format is bad, I\u2019m on mobile)","title":"[NY] How to fire traffic lawyer?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553647233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5xqyu\/ms_a_friend_caught_their_landlord_having\/","id":"b5xqyu","body":"Hey reddit, my four buddies are renting out a four bedroom house and the title accurately describes what happened. No joke. Two of them were home and they heard moans coming from one of the empty rooms. When they checked it out, their landlord was right in the middle of having sex with his girlfriend on top of the bed that my friend sleeps on every night. It's unclear as to whether or not the landlord knew they were home. They were all gone this past weekend so there's no telling if this is a recurring thing that, until now, has been happening right under their noses. To top it all off, when he leaves he tells them that he's bumping up the rent!\n\n​\n\nAs far as trespassing goes, I'm sure that it all depends on the contract and whether or not they waived their rights to permitted entry. But this is definitely indecent exposure, right? And in many circles sexual harassment? Should they sue, or is it worth it since their lease expires in 4 months? Is it worth reporting to the police? How can they guarantee that they won't have to pay more rent? Their course of action is very unclear because this is such a unique situation, and we're all college students with little understanding of the legal ins and outs of this. Any help is greatly appreciated.","title":"[MS] A friend caught their landlord having intercourse on their roommate's bed... they were there the whole time","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554747736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bax7uw\/my_brother_his_girlfriend_another_friend_and_i\/","id":"bax7uw","body":"This happened a while back, on March 9th, but as of now we're still dealing with it.\n\nSo, the case is open-shut. The other driver had minimum liability coverage for Tennessee, and we are located in Georgia (the state line is a six minute drive away, so it's common to cross back and forth multiple times a day). The insurance wants to pay out for medical reimbursement and the car itself.\n\nThe car has been settled on, but after talking to the insurance adjuster about an hour ago, we were told that the friend (we'll just call her P) had hired a lawyer and is refusing to accept a settlement. This is causing all of the claim to come to a standstill while all of us are just wanting to take the money and let it go.\n\nUnfortunately, my brother (B) and his girlfriend (G), had a falling out with P over some...personal issues shortly after. She refuses to contact any of us.\n\nIf P decides to sue over taking the settlement, doe that basically mean we're fucked on taking the settlement? Is there a way we can sort of \"split\" the claim so we can get our money and P can do what she wants?","title":"My brother, his girlfriend, another friend and I were hit head-on by a woman who fell asleep at the wheel. The other friend has hired a lawyer to prepare for a lawsuit, but we want to settle. I'm unsure what's going to happen from here on.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539225476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n61yw\/last_paycheck\/","id":"9n61yw","body":"So long story short my boyfriend was let go from his job a few days ago and is awaiting his paycheck. As far as I know, once someone is fired in Nevada, compensation must be immediate, at maximum 3 days. His manager left a voicemail saying they would mail the paycheck to him. Is this legal if it doesn't arrive by tomorrow? It has been 2 days as of tonight. ","title":"Last Paycheck?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554271082,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8u739\/car_was_towed_is_there_anything_i_can_do_fl\/","id":"b8u739","body":"To start off, my car got towed for not having a parking permit, and I admit I was in the wrong about that, I\u2019ve already paid the fees, but I\u2019m just confused about a few things.\n\nI sleep over my boyfriends house during the weekdays, so I park in the guest parking. He has a friend that also does the same whenever he sleeps over at his girlfriends house.\n\nI came over at 12am, and then woke up in the morning to head to class when I saw my car was missing.\n\nI called the local police department when I saw my car was gone, and they told me it was towed. Then I called the towing company, and when I asked why they said it was bc I didn\u2019t have a parking permit. Fair enough.\n\nAfter paying everything, I asked who called to get my car towed and they told me it was the neighborhood check that they do, so my car got towed around 2:30am.\n\nI wasn\u2019t really upset until I found out that his friend (who was also staying in guest parking the same time), wasn\u2019t towed and he doesn\u2019t have a parking permit. And when I went to check the other cars that stayed overnight, they didn\u2019t have parking permits either, but were still there.\n\nThe whole situation just confused me overall since I\u2019ve been parking there since January and never had a problem. I\u2019m not really trying to fight my ticket (I probably can\u2019t even), but some of this stuff just doesn\u2019t make sense to me.","title":"Car was towed. Is there anything I can do? [FL]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571691377,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl6szw\/street_beefs\/","id":"dl6szw","body":"So I've been watching street beefs on YouTube and was just wondering if they were breaking any laws? And how a similar thing would work in other places or if it's just a one in a million type of thing","title":"Street beefs","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539903229,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pe5io\/friends_place_of_employment_found_mold_in_the_ac\/","id":"9pe5io","body":"Hello all,\n\nI have a friend (who currently does not use Reddit) who just found out there is mold in the AC vents at their workplace. My friend has also noticed recently they have some trouble breathing and they feel like something is stuck in their lungs. \n\nThe question is: if my friend goes to get checked out and they have a health issue because of the mold, can they make their workplace cover their bills? Would this count as workman\u2019s compensation? Any advice\/help is appreciated. Thank you.","title":"Friend\u2019s place of employment found mold in the AC vents, is place of employment responsible for medical bills?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540401989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r1qlk\/manager_made_me_work_off_the_clock_without_me\/","id":"9r1qlk","body":"This happened a few weeks ago but it just resurfaced in my mind. I work as a host at Cracker Barrel and the event happened on a busy Sunday afternoon. Whoever was doing the shifts for the week screwed up and scheduled all the hosts out within an hour of each other, which, as you could guess, doesn't work very well. I'm a minor, which means I can't work more than 5 hours at a time without getting a 30min break. Well, I had already worked over 4 hours and it was getting dangerously close to my 5 hours, so I asked my manager, who we'll call Dumbass Fathead III, if I was good to clock out. \n\nWhen I went to clock out, however, the computer said I needed manager authorization since I was an hour over my scheduled out time. I radioed for a manager, and Dumbass Fathead III came over to give the ok, but instead of clocking me out, he told me to go check the bathrooms. I told him the guy who left just like 20min before me already checked them, but he insisted that I make sure they were clean first before he clocked me out. \n\nSo, I went and restocked a single stack of paper towels, then went back to clock out. When I tried, however, it said that I was already clocked out. Dumbass Fathead III had clocked me out when I walked away to clean the bathrooms without telling me, which meant I worked off the clock against my will or knowledge. Is this illegal? And if so, what are the ramifications? ","title":"Manager made me work off the clock without me knowing about it. How illegal is this?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568432658,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d407by\/oklahoma_do_i_have_grounds_to_break_my_lease\/","id":"d407by","body":"I recently moved into an apartment with my girlfriend, and to say it has been a less than stellar experience is putting it lightly. Right off the bat, AC and fridge don't work despite maintenance supposedly doing a check before we moved in. There are rat droppings in the cabinets, a few roaches here and there. Maintenance comes and replaces the fridge with an old unit from a different apartment, and says it will be replaced in 3 days. Well that took a month, and was by far the least of our concerns.\n\nIt took the apartment complex 4 months to fix the AC and it was summertime in Oklahoma. Took them 2 months to order a new unit and even then it was still not working. It got so bad we had to stay somewhere other than our apartment for a while until they fixed the issue. Obviously, we asked for a concession. We had talkedwith them about not paying rent for June, which the manager said not to worry about, then got a meeting with the manager and got a concession for half off July's rent. \n\nA couple weeks later we get an email stating we were to be evicted due to unpaid rent in June, obviously we were blindsided by this and I emailed the PM right away, and he said that he made a mistake and he thought June was included with our original concession (500 off first months rent upon moving in) and therefore we would need to pay that month off in full. Not wanting to be evicted for fear of hurting my cosigners credit I agreed to set up a payment plan to get the rent paid off.\n\nTwo weeks after this we become INFESTED with cockroaches. I'm talking almost covering the floor and if any dishes are left out they get covered. I think maybe it's because I haven't kept up with the cleaning, but then remember the room below us has been vacant and they just started renovating it, tearing out walls, moving appliances, etc. The apartment sets up a time for the exterminator to come out and he says they most likely came from the apartment below, as one of our walls is filled with them. We have to throw away the couch, tv stand, and now our mattress because they are crawling with roaches and my girlfriend can't stay in the apartment without having a panic attack.\n\nWe have tried subletting but the apartment complex keeps trash and appliances out in open view so nobody even wants to look. The one person we got to come take a look just bailed, and I'm thinking it's partly due to an unfriendly, shall we say, front office manager who has hung up on my cosigner many times and tried to paint us as idiot snowflakes. What do you guys think? Do we have grounds to legally break our lease?","title":"[Oklahoma] Do I have grounds to break my lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444673033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oh9c9\/texas_roommate_bailed_in_the_middle_of_the_night\/","id":"3oh9c9","body":"tl;dr: Roomate bailed in the middle of the night, owing me $700. I didn't take preemptive measures, and now I'm afraid there's nothing I can do.\n\nFirst of all, I know that there were several things I could have--and should have--done differently to mitigate this situation, but now I'm stuck and trying to seek any remedies possible to this situation.\n\nI rent a house in Austin, TX, and the landlord allows me and my girlfriend to be the only two people on the lease as long as we pay rent on time every month. There are 3 other bedrooms in the house that we rent out on a month-to-month basis. We vet our roommates with only a \"gut\" feeling, and ask anyone that moves in to be courteous and respectful and give at least 30 days' notice if they want to leave so that we have time to fill the vacant room. Also, I pay all utilities in advance and the roommates pay me back their share along with rent each month.\n\nLast month our roommate (we'll call her Sarah) was  $77 short for her payment (included rent and utilities), and told me she'd have the money this month. Fast forward to Oct. 7. I get an email from Sarah saying that she moved all of her stuff out in the middle of the night and that she is sorry, goodbye. She has not responded to any phone calls, texts, or emails since.\n\nShe still hasn't paid rent for this month, she didn't pay utilities for last month, and she is still $77 behind from last month's payments. At this point, I am out $700 that I have already paid to the landlord and utilities on her behalf.\n\nHere's where it gets tricky. She never signed any agreement. I don't have any information on her except her name, phone number, and email address. Since she left after the 1st of the month, it is extremely difficult to find someone to fill her spot before November (although we are trying).\n\nAs a last resort I figured I'd look to Reddit. If there is anything I can do at this point, I'd love to hear your advice. But please don't tell me how stupid I am for trusting a complete stranger, without running a background check, without making them sign anything, without collecting a full month's security deposit, etc...I already know that was stupid of me. I tried to be a nice guy and help out a fellow human being, and this is how I get repaid.","title":"[Texas] Roommate bailed in the middle of the night, left me with all her expenses.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571625393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dktz5k\/is_owning_a_savannah_cat_illegal_in_kentucky\/","id":"dktz5k","body":"Incase you guys are asking: \nNo I'm not adopting, I live with my parents, and I'm not looking to rent either.","title":"Is owning a Savannah cat illegal in Kentucky?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446080948,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qn4z1\/california_am_trying_to_set_up_an_online_website\/","id":"3qn4z1","body":"I know participants would be bound by laws of their own states, where can I become better informed regarding each state's laws?  Also, how do the feds determine whether a contest is of skill or chance?","title":"California - Am trying to set up an online website that hosts contests of skill. google has been good so far but now I need to know specifics.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1447211572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sd201\/us_small_business_owner_here_looking_for_advice\/","id":"3sd201","body":"I own a small business that deals with brides and grooms very regularly, and until now I never thought twice about the name of the receiving party on my contracts I send out. Legally speaking, if Jane Doe signs the contract, and then becomes Jane Smith before the contract is fulfilled, is she still bound to the terms of the agreement?","title":"US Small business owner here looking for advice about legal names on contracts.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554527217,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba10g6\/wa_reduced_inheritance_due_to_a_verbal_agreement\/","id":"ba10g6","body":"My grandmother in law died and her will is very short and splits the inheritance equally between her 6 kids. My wife\u2019s father died 2 years ago so she is receiving his inheritance instead.  The executor called today and told my wife that she would be receiving a small fraction of what everyone else is receiving because her dad had borrowed money and verbally told his mother to take it out of his inheritance but it\u2019s not stated in the will. That money will be divided equally among the other 5 kids.\n\n**Can the executor collect on a debt based on a verbal agreement like this even though he passed away 2 years ago and (from my understanding) all of his debts should\u2019ve been paid at that time?** Shouldn\u2019t they have to at least provide documentation of the debt (we haven\u2019t seen any)? \n\nAccording to the executor all the checks are already mailed and we should be grateful for what we are getting and not be greedy. To me, this just seems way too sneaky and multiple things don\u2019t make sense. \n\nThank you in advance!","title":"[WA] Reduced inheritance due to a verbal agreement about repaying a debt","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1443921417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nemer\/unsafe_stairs_at_my_apartment_complex\/","id":"3nemer","body":"I've been requesting that the apartment complex manager (property owner is corporate-owner with several large properties around Seattle area) upgrade\/fix\/replace the stairs that provide access not only to the pea patch available to the tenants, but also to the sidewalk and street. \n\nThe stairs are a gravel\/wood combo with no hand railing, ~15 steps, and the steps are different lengths apart from each other, some of the wood 4x4s are tipping up or down at and angle, and some of the wood is rotting away. Plus, the wood gets slick when it rains, and when the gravel is on the wood, it's like marbles under your shoes.\n\nI've only talked to them via email so I have records of the conversation, and they said they were going to fix things in September, but still nothing has been fixed, and they haven't responded to my latest email (from Sep. 19th) when I asked what the plan was.\n\n1. I've been trying to go through the [Seattle Building Code](http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/dpd\/cs\/groups\/pan\/@pan\/documents\/web_informational\/s047851.pdf) and trying to make sense of it. (Starting on Section 1009.) If I could actually prove a violation, should I take it to the apartment manager as leverage?\n\n2. If I push harder and threaten reporting a violation, am I setting my family up for getting priced out of our home at the end of our lease? (My wife is pregnant, which is a big reason why I'm doing this, but I also don't want to fuck this up and get priced out and have to move with a new baby in August when our lease is up.)\n\n3. Is what I'm doing even worth it or am I just that whiny tenant? I've fallen once already on these stairs when the wood was icy. My wife is due in December and I'd hate myself if she fell on these stairs because I chickened out from trying to get hand railings installed (at the very least) just out of fear that they'd retaliate by hiking the rent up next summer.\n\nThanks for your help. Let me know if any other info would be helpful.","title":"Unsafe stairs at my apartment complex","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568407060,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3v8eb\/promised_raises_to_be_in_effect_this_pay_period\/","id":"d3v8eb","body":"In the email following employee evaluations, the CEO included a calendar claiming raises would be in effect this pay period and reflected on the check i received today. I received my normal hourly rate, not the raise I was promised. When emailed about this, the CEO claims they won\u2019t be in effect until next pay period and that the \u201ccalendar was off....\u201d\nis this illegal?","title":"Promised raises to be in effect this pay period, didn\u2019t follow through.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538256232,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9k0oh6\/friend_fired_for_speaking_with_a_texas_accent\/","id":"9k0oh6","body":"My friend moved up north from Texas and is in the medical field. She is Hispanic, but English is her first and only language. She has a moderate Texan twang, not as strong as Mathew McConaughey. Her employer asked her to speak less with an accent, but being the strong individual she is, she refused and was fired.\n\nI know there is some EEOC stating that accent discrimination is unacceptable, but refers to foreign accents and not regional accents.\n\nIs there any legal recourse she can seek, or was her firing legal?","title":"Friend fired for speaking with a \"Texas accent\"","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550675403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aspe8x\/question_about_mileage_pay\/","id":"aspe8x","body":"Hi I have a question about mileage pay. I traveled for a week for my company a month ago and I\u2019m supposed to receive 175 dollars in mileage pay. It\u2019s been a month since and I haven\u2019t seen it. I have ask my district leader and all they tell me it\u2019s been approved. I\u2019m now leaving the company and really feel they are just going to try and let it slide is there any action I can take with this matter. My location is New Hampshire. \nThank you! ","title":"Question about mileage pay","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551897300,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay268z\/my_ex_girlfriend_is_accusing_me_of_stalking_her\/","id":"ay268z","body":"Hello, i would like to know what  should i do about this thing that happened about 2 months ago.\n\nso long story short my girlfriend posted on her twitter my FULL name (both surnames) accusing me of stalking her.\n\nto explain this part she is an attention whore. her twitter have like 10k followers. and we broke up like 3 years ago but we still fuck twice every six month. \n\ni dont really give a damn about Twitter i dont even have an account but i dont like false reputation and my fullname on internet.\n\ni tried to talk with her and she told me that she made the post because she was bored.\n\nshe refused to delete it because she got so many likes. i also have messages of her telling me to fuck like 4 months ago even thou she has a boyfriend.\n\ni dont really want to create an account just to get like \"an online revenge\" i just want to delete the post.\n\ni was thinking of paying her for that. maybe 50bucks i dont care i just dont want my name on that post because it could affect my professional career \n\nbut i dont know what to do, maybe i could do something legal about my fullname to get deleted the post or my full name. like false accusation.\n\ni have proofs of texts and nudes even a video of us fucking(she used to like to record her getting fuck in the mirror.\n\nbut i am not that type of dude. so i dont even care getting revenge online .\n\ni just want her to delete my name of that false accusation with thousands of likes and retweets.\n\nTL:DR .\nmy ex girlfriend is accusing me of stalking her in her twitter.\ni got proof that this is a false accusation.\nwhat should i do.\n\nthank you very much and sorry for bad english.\n\nall feedback is welcome ","title":"My ex girlfriend is accusing me of stalking her","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555703542,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf3hz1\/my_house_is_in_probate_ky\/","id":"bf3hz1","body":"Received a call from a real estate agent asking about my house, stated it's in a file he bought from <omitted>, collected from publicly available information.\n\nOf course since the courts took a half day due to the Good Friday holiday, I can't call to check probate court if my house is indeed in probate.\n\nI called the title company we used when we bought the house, they'll search their files and get back to me.\n\nWhat should I be doing at this point?  \n\nHow could the house be in probate?\n\nLocation: Kentucky","title":"My house is in probate? [KY]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569366887,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8v3yh\/chicago_il_cable_services_were_originally\/","id":"d8v3yh","body":"When I signed my lease, cable service was included in my utility package. \n\nToday, our landlord sent us an email saying that the package will be discontinued. If we wish to continue our cable service, we would have to pay the provider directly. \n\nThe landlord is directing us to this phrase in the lease, \u201cYou agree that you may, upon thirty (30) days prior written notice from Owner to you, begin receiving a bill for additional utilities and services, at which time such additional utilities and services shall for all purposes be included in the term Utilities.\u201d\n\nI don\u2019t consider this an additional utility, per se. How does r\/legaladvice interpret this situation and this clause?\n\nMy utility package and rent will stay the same.","title":"[Chicago, IL] Cable services were originally included within my lease\u2019s utility package. Landlord will soon remove cable package starting December.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541861145,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vut7b\/united_statescalifornia_a_user_from_the\/","id":"9vut7b","body":"As a hobby, I've operated a small image-sharing website for the past few years.  It only receives light traffic (less than 10 posts per day at best) and does not have any advertising, donations or revenue of any kind.  Pornography of any sort (even if its legal) is and always has been against the rules because it's not \\*that\\* kind of image-sharing site.\n\n​\n\nThis morning I found that a user operating from an IP address based in the Netherlands uploaded a photo of a naked child and specifically labeled it as CP in an apparent attempt at trolling me.  The child was not being raped or hurt in the photo; it was just a picture of a young girl without any clothes on.\n\n​\n\nI've already taken the post down, and I'm taking down the entire website right now because it's obviously not worth this kind of liability.  The post had been up for approximately 24 hours before I was made aware of it.\n\n​\n\nWhen I took the post down, the image was deleted because I did not take this situation into account when I wrote the software (although in all honesty I'm not sure if the correct thing to do would have been to hold on to the photo as evidence or immediately destroy it so I'm not in possession of child pornography).  The site never had an account system, so the only information I have on this person is a dutch IP address, and I don't have any way of knowing if he was operating through a VPN.\n\n​\n\nI'm looking for any sort of advice I can get, but specifically I'm worried about the following points:\n\n​\n\n* Am I obligated to report this even though I don't have any information on the person who uploaded it?\n* If I do report it, then who do I report it to given that the person who uploaded it is not within America's jurisdiction?\n* From a legal standpoint, is a photo of a naked child considered CP when the child in the photo is not being hurt or forced to perform sexual acts?\n* Was deleting the image the wrong thing to do in this instance?","title":"[United States\/California] - A user from the Netherlands uploaded a photo of a naked child to a website I own","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540134542,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q47m9\/ns_preparation_for_severance\/","id":"9q47m9","body":"Location : Nova Scotia\n\nI work for an Extra-Provincial corporation, with headquarters in the US (Texas) and offices in Canada and many other countries.  I\u2019ve been with this company for close to 15 years.  Since an acquisition last year, we\u2019ve taken on an enormous amount of shitty contracts and poor cost control, and for the last 18 months have had regular (quarterly) reductions in force (RIFs) to react to that.  The first few RIFs took care of low performers and forced accounts and teams to think leaner than they had previously (not all bad, save for those losing their jobs for reasons not within their control).  We\u2019re still at it and while I\u2019m not concerned, I want to be prepared should my day come.  I\u2019m a high performer, generally respected, but no one is safe and sometimes decisions come from others who don\u2019t have your back.  Should my day come, I will only have 24-48 hours to respond to their severance offer.  Is there anything I can to do prepare to get the best thing for me and my family.  I don\u2019t plan on fighting the decision but want the best buffer I can to find my next gig.  At my level and in my province\/city, similar or even next level down jobs are hard to find.","title":"[NS] Preparation for severance","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540583029,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rnyca\/munchpak_credit_card_problems\/","id":"9rnyca","body":"Hello!\n\nA few months back I purchased 6 months of Munchpak as a gift. Munchpak is a service that once a month sends a sample of snacks from various countries. I bought 6 months worth of boxes all at once for a few hundred dollars. I deleted my credit card from their site after the purchase and moved on with life. Their site shows no billing methods available and only shows my last purchase.\n\nYesterday I got an e-mail saying that I was being billed again for another 6 months. According to support the 6 month subscriptions are assumed to go on forever, and deleting the payment method does nothing. This irks me for a few reasons:\n\n* *Every* purchase option on their site apparently signs you up for a subscription. \n* The \"subscription\" is especially confusing since I legitimately did subscribe to 6 months worth of boxes paid in full up front. Their site is (intentionally?) conflating a single purchase subscription with future 6 month order subscriptions. \n* The site UI is not great. Based on their UI it looks like the 6 boxes I purchased would have required me to quit the \"subscription\" immediately after the last box was received but before the next set was charged. Who knows though. Like I said, the site UI is not good. Right when I first bought my order the \"Tickets\" section of their site showed a generic help desk ticket that looked like someone was testing the system out. Suuuuper professional. \n* I cancelled the \"subscription\" the day of the charge before anything was shipped, and I contacted support. They told me tough luck. This feels like poor customer service without reason. \n* Their UI indicated they had no billing methods for me on file. I feel like I've been misled and as a result exploited. Blue Apron does similar shenanigans. \n* I sent a e-mail to MunchPak support immediately after the charge and said the charge was incorrect. I got a response within 5 hours telling me tough luck. I responded within 2 hours indicating that it doesn't even make financial sense to alienate an existing customer over a single shipment, and that deleting the only billing method obviously indicates an intent to terminate subscriptions. Nothing had been shipped by this point. No harm. No foul. Everyone can still walk away happy here. At that point I was still interested in the product for future gifts. We're now going on 24 hours of silence. I think they're ghosting me until the product ships so they can say it's too late.  \n\nI've already disputed the charge with my credit card company, but is there anything else I can do? \n\n​","title":"MunchPak Credit Card Problems","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570232958,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddfngl\/new_zealand_stolen_airpods\/","id":"ddfngl","body":"My airpods have been, stolen would insurance cover that?","title":"New Zealand, Stolen AirPods","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506884097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73niat\/tx_apt_office_lowered_rent_cost_can_i_somehow\/","id":"73niat","body":"Howdy, I'm a college student living in a apartment complex targeted for students (comes pre-furnished, we share living room\/ kitchen; 4 separate bedrooms) I signed my lease for 650$ a month at the end of April, for the start of August (school semesters), I thought that since last year the on-campus housing (where I lived) got full, that this place would run out of space as well. So here's the upsetting part, now they are offering 550$\/month + 500$ reward card for signing. Is there any way I can take advantage of this, or should I chalk this up as a learning experience?","title":"[TX] Apt. office lowered rent cost, can I somehow take advantage?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569200244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7zbhe\/filing_own_divorce_question_regarding_custody_any\/","id":"d7zbhe","body":"So - filing paperwork ourselves in Utah. Joint custody - but technically I (mom) will have more time because I work from home and he does not. So during the week the kids are with me and he has 2 nights a week after work until bedtime + every other weekend. On the papers it asks the amount of \u201covernights\u201d to determine child support - which he feels should be evenly split. But the parenting plan which lists the actual schedule has the # of days\/nights. In short - they don\u2019t match. Will this be an issue when filing??","title":"Filing own divorce - question regarding custody. Any advice appreciated!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539210692,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n48op\/is_this_a_ferpa_violation\/","id":"9n48op","body":"My professor decided to post our exam grades to the online course page(available to all enrolled as well as certain administrators) as a 2 column table. The first column was our full student IDs and the second column was the grade on the exam. When highlighted, there was a third column visible that was our Full Legal Name. The post was made as an announcement instead of just uploading to the grades section for each of the 28 students. This is in Missouri, US if that is necessary information. We emailed the director of the campus and received a reply that said \"I'm out of the office today, but I'll email the department when I get back.\" \n\nMy questions are:\n1. Is this a FERPA violation? \n2. What can we do about that? ","title":"Is this a FERPA violation?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553226989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b40chc\/can_i_still_become_a_high_school_teacher_f20\/","id":"b40chc","body":"Hi, so I am labeled on the CACI list because I wasn't protecting over my 2 month old. She ended up getting 11 fractures (by my husband) and I have an open CWS case. I'm in the process of getting her back.\n\nMy dream was to become a high school art teacher, but I'm afraid I can no longer do that. I don't plan to live in California, I plan to move to either Indiana, North Carolina, or Colorado. \n\nWill this affect it? Is there any way I can get my name off of this list since I wasn't the perpetrator? I really need help. I don't want to go to college for it and then find out I can't. \n\n(Sorry, by the way. I wasn't sure which flair would fit this and I'm really sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.)","title":"Can I still become a High School Teacher? [F20]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552517475,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0sll3\/i_was_awarded_a_400_scholarship_almost_a_year_ago\/","id":"b0sll3","body":"Hello,\nI think this is the right place to post this. I'm on mobile so forgive me if the formatting is messed up. I live in Washington state. TL;DR on the bottom.\n\n\nOn June 9th, 2018 (the day I graduated high school), I was rewarded a $400 scholarship from a small fire district. I simply received a certification stating what I was rewarded and a letter telling me certain requirements I needed to follow. The requirements was I needed to send an official transcript after completing my first semester at the college, proving I had a GPA above 2.0 and that I was actually enrolled at the school. If I did that, they would send a check directly to the school. The scholarship has an expiration date of one year, so it will be voided on June 9th, 2019.\n\nI completed my first semester with a 4.0 GPA. So, I sent an official copy of my transcript to the fire district, along with a letter of request for my scholarship and the financial aid office information of my college. I sent that in August 2018, and got email confirmation (from my college) that it was delivered.\n\nA couple weeks go by and I haven't heard anything, nor has my school received a check. I call the fire district and am transferred to the chief's wife who apparently deals with the scholarships. She simply states, \"I haven't seen any transcripts, but I also haven't gone through the big stack of letters on the desk. I'll look for it and will get back to you. If it's there the check will be sent out promptly.\" I understood and agreed. Another 2 weeks go by and still neither I nor the school has heard of received anything. I call again and get the same excuse, \"I haven't checked the mail yet.\" Another 2 weeks - still nothing.\n\nAfter that, they stopped answering my phone calls. They will not call me back either when I left a message. I have emailed them and still nothing. I completed my second semester, and sent another official transcript to them and still haven't heard anything nor has the school received anything. I am about to complete my first year at this college and still have not received my scholarship.\n\nHowever, I believe that this fire district is going through money issues. They are very small and volunteer run. They've been selling almost all their vehicles and excess equipment, so I don't think they have the money for my scholarship. Last time I actually got a hold of someone at the fire district, I was told the chief's wife just had surgery and couldn't speak to me. As well as the chief being very busy, and wouldn't be able to speak for a couple of weeks. I'm really afraid that they are not going to speak with me or get back to me until after June 9th, when it will be expired, so they won't have to pay it.\n\nI have proof of sending them my transcripts, as well as (unanswered) emails showing I requested my scholarship to be sent to the college and that I met everything. Although it's only $400 I really need that money. I deserve this money, I was rewarded it fair and square and have met all their requirements.\n\nI'm going to be sending them another official transcript, this time showing my entire first year completed. Along with a letter of request once again. But I have a feeling they will not respond.\n\nSo, my question is, if they don't give me my scholarship money before June 9th, is there anything I can do to receive my money? Or will it be voided, even though I've been trying to get into contact with them, since it'll be past the expiration date?\n\n\n\nTL;DR : I was rewarded a $400 scholarship on June 9th, 2018 with a one year expiration. After meeting all the requirements, I requested my scholarship check. School never received it. Fire district keeps making excuses. Now the fire district refuses to answer my phone calls, emails, or letters. I'm afraid they don't have the money to pay for my scholarship, and that they will avoid me until June 9th 2019 when it will be voided. Is there a way to get my money, with proof I met requirements and sent multiple requests? Or will it be voided regardless?","title":"I was awarded a $400 scholarship almost a year ago by a small fire district. They still haven't sent my check, and now won't answer my phone calls or emails. I'm afraid they're going to wait until it expires and never give me my scholarship. [WA]","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568848546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d65bd2\/nyc_management_entered_my_apartment_without\/","id":"d65bd2","body":"Writing on behalf of someone:\n\nManagement sent a list minute email stating they had to fumigate in less than 24 hours due to bedbugs in another apartment and tenant would not be able to return to apt for 8 hours.\n\nIn the meantime, management had entered their apt, without informing tenant and packed up all their belongings in black garbage bags. Who knows what\u2019s missing or damaged and where anything is now.\n\nWhat legal options do they have?","title":"[NYC] Management entered my apartment (without informing me) while I was at work and I came home to all of my belongings packed away in black garbage bags.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551495645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awd2qo\/a_colossal_trainwreck_of_horrible_events\/","id":"awd2qo","body":"Hi Redditors,\n\n​\n\nNow I just want you all to know that this is my first post on this subreddit and this may not be the best place to ask for clean and clear-cut legal advice, but this is a rather odd case with a lot of external factors and I need some advice on either which specific attorneys I should be looking for, or just a point in the right direction. \n\n​\n\nNow before I give the story, I need to list some of the things that are currently going on.\n\n1. Father is currently undergoing a criminal case involving the firing of a handgun on my mother's house and is therefore going in and out of court, with the possibility of 30 to 300 days of jail time.\n2. Mother has an active restraining order against father because of the incident, in which he cannot come within 100 yards of her.\n3. There have been talks of divorce, but nothing is set in stone yet. It has been pushed back due to the criminal case.\n4. Both parents have ownership of the house, with 80\/20 to Mother and Father respectively.\n\n​\n\nSo... Let's begin. \n\n​\n\nThere's a rental property. As owners, both my mother and father collect rent in a rotating three-year manner. All responsibilities including cleaning, looking for tenants, maintenance, remodeling, repairs, among other things are to be those of the person collecting money. So after six years, it's time for my mother to start collecting rent again. As the last tenant to live there had just moved out, we caught the end of the agreement and basically had to take care of the mess after the old tenant had left, including cleaning out the front yard, back yard, and main house. We made necessary maintenance repairs and did some light remodeling on the house in preparation to have it rented out. So the verbal agreement for collecting money was very play-by-ear until recently, when a criminal case involving my father and mother had occurred. Now this basically makes the decision-making difficult and my parents are using me as a messenger as a point of contact.\n\n​\n\nIn early January, my mother began to remodel and make repairs to the house as necessary. As a \"FOR RENT\" sign was put up, we had a few people that dropped by to check on the condition of the house and ask when it would be available for rent. As we were still early on in repairs, we couldn't give a straight answer and so we kept telling them to check back at a later time. However, my mother consulted a real estate agent to get an estimate on the rental value of the property and was suggested around $2000 to $2400. This agent had also suggested that we rent out the entire lot but we notified them that there was an illegally built unit in the back connected to the side of our house and garage. By illegally built unit, I mean there was an exposed gas pipe (turned off) along with a separate shower room + toilet + sink. + refrigerator (unplugged). Now this unit was built pretty shoddy, the walls were crooked, the floor was misaligned, you name it. On top of that, this room was previously built for storage but when my father was collecting rent, he decided to convert it into a separate unit for rent (neither are contracted nor licensed builders if you haven't figured it out at this point). This room measures roughly 20 ft by 40 ft, including the shower room, bathroom, and kitchen with the exposed gas line. There is vinyl \"wood\" floorboards that run the span of the entire room. Oh yeah, also the \"living area\" has two sealed-shut windows on the ceiling, and no open airflow anywhere besides the metal screen door (and I mean like, the kitchen\/bathroom area was a closed off space very similar to a walk-in closet with little room for a gas range + range hood which was going to be put in as well at a later date. The agent had told us to rent it out as a storage unit, and so we told those interested in the rental property that were were to rent this as a storage unit only. As a side note, after speaking to a city official regarding the validity of the \"storage\" room, it was deemed unfit and they had recommended that we file a report on the incident so the city could approve of the deconstruction of this unit, as it violated city code.\n\n​\n\nNow, back to the issue. We had received numerous offers from people who were interested in renting the property and ultimately decided on our prospective tenant(s). Now this couple who we had selected had been rather pushy about wanting to move in, as they were on a month-to-month contract and were afraid of being kicked out at any time. My mother suggested that this family could move in early February once repairs were finished and the house was in the proper condition to rent. Of course, this was ballpark as she told them this information in early January. Upon the agreed conditions of renting out the entire lot and only using the back unit as storage, They wrote a check for the first month's deposit and for the remaining 20 something days of February, a total of around $3300. Decisions were basically finalized at this point as we had given the tenant a green light to move in.\n\n​\n\nThe February 8th, a day before the tenants were to move in, my father contacts me and basically tells me that he's moving in on April 1st as a permanent resident until further notice, since he has nowhere else to go. As a side note, my father owns 2 mobile homes and is renting both out after losing a court case on whether he is allowed to rent out the mobile homes despite the landlord's approval. To my knowledge, him moving in after the tenant has paid for the deposit and first month's rent is basically him breaching the contract between landlord (my mother) and the tenant (the couple), regardless of whether the rental agreement was verbally accepted or written. His other excuse was that because he was partial owner, we should only rent out the main house excluding the unit in the back (3 bedroom, 1 bath), the front yard, and the garage. Now, this is an issue because my mother had basically promised the tenants through a verbal agreement, that this couple could move in on the 9th of February and would be paying $2000 a month for the entire lot. The notice was given to me on the 8th, the day before the tenants were going to move in. They had hired hauling services to help them move into the house the following day and had already paid. My mother had me relay to my father that this notice was too late, and that the tenants had already spent the money and were preparing to move in the following day. On the 9th, they moved in. Now when they wrote the check for the deposit and first month's rent, my mom did not cash it because she was unaware of how grave this situation could be.\n\n​\n\nSo we allowed the tenants a few days to have everything settled down and have everything moved in. When we went to visit them and notify them of the situation, we had a verbal talk between the husband, wife, and their daughter with my mother there and myself present. We explained the situation to them, and they brought up the issue of utilities as the power, gas, and electricity were all connected by the central lines in the main house. They believed that it was unfair to them to have to pay for the usage of utilities of someone else, and so we agreed that the rent should be lowered. This is when the husband jokingly suggested $1500, to which my mother immediately said \"No\". She suggested $1800, and I even told her we could lower to $1700, but ultimately we chose to leave it in the air because we had not come to a complete understanding of what my father was planning on doing. After contacting him and sorting out the situation, he came to the agreement that he would help pay utilities conditionally. The example he used was, \"If they use $200 worth of electricity as a family, I should not be paying for half of that, but I will agree and pay a third.\" Now, we left later that evening with not much progress other than two things: the first being that the rent needed to be adjusted accordingly, and the second being that we would have to consider the duration of the contract (at the time it was monthly because of the problem of having another person living there and other unknowns).\n\n​\n\nSo now fast-foward to earlier today. After drafting the document and adjusting the rate to $1800 for a 3 bedroom, 1 bath, and 1 car garage on a physical copy of the rental agreement application, my mother went over to the rental property and handed them the rental application to review and sign. As I was not there, I could not say if everything that happened next was 100% accurate), but basically the wife was arguing for $1500, stating that we had already agreed with them on the $1500 a month. To put into perspective, my father was collecting rent at $1700 for the previous tenant for the exact same setup and the house was not in a semi-new condition. As the situation escalated, the wife calls her husband and both of them tell us that we had agreed to $1500. Now the situation becomes a he-said, she-said situation where the three of them had agreed on a pricing, and my mother and I agreed on another pricing after reviewing. Now, I know that my mother had not asked them about how much they think would be fair, but paying $500 less for the property because of no backyard and storage room is unrealistic to my mother (the backyard is basically a bunch of stone blocks covering dirt and two storage units that are full of our old family belongings). On top of this mess, my father has been parking his unused car in their driveway without their permission since yesterday when he is the one that suggested they only rent out the front yard instead of front yard + backyard. When we had previously brought this to the attention of the tenants before they moved in, they had said that they were okay with it, as long as we gave them a lower rate in which we agreed was fair.\n\n​\n\nNow, finally according to my mother the wife had called up their lawyer and had demanded that my mother meet up with their lawyer tomorrow. What should we do? It looks like they are trying to take this situation to court because of a breach of contract (even though we did not sign a written agreement prior to them moving in) and it puts us in a bad situation. They are asking for four months of free rent before moving out, and if they take it to court, they could be getting six months. The issue here is that wear and tear along with damages to the house could cost more money for repairs, not to mention that this situation has already escalated to a point where selling the property is starting to sound good. What type of attorney should we be looking for? I understand that this is obviously a civil case, but with the involvement of my father and him \"breaching a verbal contract\", who's in the wrong here? What kind of outcome can my mother expect? She just started collecting rent but has not made any deposits yet and her credit card bill of \\~$3000 is coming in sometime next week for the repairs.\n\n​\n\ntl;dr - my mother let tenants move in while decisions were being finalized but father decided because he's part owner of the rental property he can move into the illegally constructed unit in the back and restrict the rental agreement from the entire lot to just the main house, garage, and front yard.","title":"A Colossal Trainwreck of Horrible Events involving Tenants & Landlord + Contract Breaching??","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506668081,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7366s5\/tennessee_bfs_brother_is_trying_to_take_entire\/","id":"7366s5","body":"I'm going to start at the beginning and be very thorough. If anyone is *willing* to read this, your advice would be much appreciated. All the details are key to this case (imo, anyway). This is **very** long, so I apologize for the length in advance, but if it gets removed because of it, then that's fine. I just want ppl reading this to grasp the situation as it actually is, and the only way to do that is to tell you all of it. No real names are used. \n \n \nBackground: Around 6yrs ago, my bf Greg left his entertainment career behind to move back home with his parents to take care of them. Both of them were diagnosed with dementia (his father first, then his mother later). Toward the end of his father's life, he had home healthcare and hospice care, as well as Greg there by his side. Greg wouldn't leave the house for no more than 30mins at a time, being afraid his father would either fall out of bed or worse. He passed away, then his mother's dementia was exacerbated by his fathers' death, so she became violent, uncooperative, and extremely emotional (I was a witness to this), and her health progressively worsened since she refused to take hardly any of the medication her doctor prescribed. She passed away due to this I believe. \n \nRather than getting a 9-5 job being over 60, Greg decided to finish his current project so he can turn it in next month, working day and night on it so he may possibly get some income coming in next year. That being said, the only income he currently has is an account with enough money in it to last maybe 4 more months. So he is jobless, living in a home he may possibly be thrown out of. I lost my job a week ago and my child and I are living in a small apartment, so I have no way of helping financially. \n \nIn the will, Greg's parents signed off on the estate being split practically down the middle, with Greg being made the **Executor** of the estate during the drawing up of said will. *This will was completed at least 9 years before their parents' health began to decline.* After their parents showed them the will, Charlie, Greg's brother, **did not speak to or visit either of their parents** for years. In short, here is what was in the will: \n \n \n-They both receive over 120 acres of land **each** , evenly split \n-Greg receives the house and personal belongings\/antiques. \n-Charlie receives the family vehicle, and personal belongings\/antiques. \n-Buildings (one is portable, some others are not) on the property and **all** their contents (Greg's belongings being in them as well) are stated in the will to be included with the house, automatically deferring to Greg. \n-Greg's studio, every last item belonging to him, but no receipts for ANY of his personal items that are in here, or anywhere else. \n-There was one life insurance policy on their mother, and the only beneficiary listed was Greg, for obvious reasons. All of it went toward her funeral and unpaid bills.  \n \nHis brother, Charlie, is a multi-millionaire who owns various homes, businesses, vehicles, bukus of land, and any other materialistic item\/property you can imagine. I promise that's not an exaggeration. \n \nHe decided to take Greg to probate court.  \nHis reasoning was that he wanted to find out if they left anything out of the will that was in the sheds. Ha. \n \n**-** At the first meeting, Charlie says there are other belongings in the home that he wants, so Greg agrees to give them to him. They set a time for Charlie to come by to acquire the belongings. \n\n**-** A court date is set for spring. At this meeting, Charlie says he wants all the buildings on the property and their contents, Greg disagrees. Charlie then says he wants Greg to sell him Greg's half of the property. Greg disagrees. They schedule another meeting. Charlie never shows to pick up the belongings. They set another time. \n\n**-** Charlie has his lawyers send Greg's an email stating he wants a complete list of every single solitary item that is on the property and within the house, and wants to have an estate sale **while Greg is still living there**. Many of these items belong to Greg, but yet, no receipts since many of them were bought ages ago. Charlie doesn't show again to pick anything up. They set yet another time. \n\n**-** Charlie petitions for an extension, it's granted, and court date is set for fall. Charlie calls Greg after filing, they begin to argue and Charlie tells him that he believes Greg is responsible for their mother's death. Charlie requests that instead of him coming in to look through the items, he wants Greg to record every item in the house. Charlie still doesn't show to pick up the items, they set another time. \n\n**-** Charlie finally comes by to pick up the belongings, takes the car, but doesn't take half of the things he said he wanted. \n\n**-** After months of silence, Charlie has his lawyer communicate to Greg's that he wants everything. **Everything.** Every acre of land that was left to Greg, the house and the buildings. He is also able to file another extension for the court date that was set, so there hasn't been another set yet. Greg met with his lawyers a few days ago, and they said Charlie wants to go ahead and have the estate sale, soon. They ask if he has receipts, and of course, he has very few. So he is potentially going to have a lot of his own belongings sold off in an estate sale, and lawyers say there isn't anything they can do. \n \nCharlie is **well aware** of Greg's situation, so I believe he intends on bleeding him dry through lawyer fees, delaying the case as long as he can, regardless of the outcome. Charlie's reputation proceeds him. He is beyond greedy, and I've had countless people who know him personally tell me the same. \n \nSo, you see, this is personal. Charlie is trying to prove their parents weren't of sound mind and body when the will was drawn up (although they weren't diagnosed until many years later), that Greg mistreated both of them during the time he took care of them, that he misappropriated funds out of the estate account for his own use, that he stole money from the life insurance policy that was rightfully his (that's laughable since he was the only beneficiary), AND that he is, essentially, a bad person all around. It's disgusting that he would stoop this low. All Greg wants is to be on good terms with him. Greg has character witnesses, one being the primary care physician of his mother's, nurses who actually took care of his mother, and a few others. \n \nI assumed Greg being the Executor of the estate would give him leverage to get this thing done, but according to what the lawyers are saying, it doesn't matter. So I don't really even understand someone being made an Executor if situations like this can happen lol I don't even really know why I'm posting this. I guess in hopes of a Hail Mary miracle, because we are beyond desperate. I know I'll find a job soon, but I won't be able to help pay attorney fees if they use up all of the estate account. And Greg is going to run out of money, forcing his hand.\n \nI have no idea what can be done at this point since Greg's lawyers are telling him all of this is legal, Charlie can and will have an estate sale while he is living there and sell off even his own belongings, and can drag this out for another year. I don't know what's going to happen, and I don't know if anything else can be done??? \nI know this is ridiculously long, I'm sorry. \n \n \n \nTL;DR: BF's brother is trying to toss him out of the home he is living in that belonged to their deceased parents. BF is Executor of estate. The will was to be divided pretty fairly between the two, yet the brother is filing for extensions to push back court date and wants to take everything. The will states that the house and the land it sits on goes to my BF, and we have become financially unstable and cannot swap lawyers since no money and lawyer will be paid through the estate account. BF is facing being homeless and having a wrongful death suit brought against him, since the brother is stooping low enough to say he believes my BF is responsible for her passing, but brother hasn't even been around for 10+yrs to know what was going on. Have no idea what we are going to do. ","title":"[Tennessee] BF's Brother is Trying to Take Entire Estate and Make Him Homeless, Dire Situation, Can Anything Else be Done??","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445312799,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pg352\/denver_co_unexpected_medical_emergency_need_help\/","id":"3pg352","body":"I also posted about this in \/r\/personalfinance [here](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/personalfinance\/comments\/3pbvjr\/unexpected_medical_emergency_please_help\/) and was told to ask about POA specifically here, so I hope y'all can help.\n\nLong story short, my mother and I lived together and she handled the actual bill paying. I would give her money for my share, she would pay the bills with it. However, she is now unconscious in ICU, and unable to help me at all.\n\nI have looked through her things, and can not find a Power of Attorney anywhere. My sister advised the best thing to do would maybe be to reset passwords for services I know we carry, since I currently can access her e-mail, and to pay the bills that way. \n\nWe have no idea how long it will be until she can sign over a POA to me, and as I am the only in state relative, it all has fallen to me. Is there a way to go about getting POA for an unconscious person, and if not, is it acceptable for me to simply handle things by resetting her passwords and paying through the same accounts? \n\nDo I really need to involve a lawyer, or can this all be handled without one? ","title":"Denver, CO. Unexpected medical emergency, need help with Power of Attorney.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571633127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkvdyx\/planning_on_posting_a_video_review_of_terrible\/","id":"dkvdyx","body":"**Background:**\n\nI recently moved from a luxury rental complex in South Florida. We had lived there for two years. About a year in, a new company bought the complex and began major renovations. It started with the community facilities and pools, and then they began renovating the apartments themselves. They immediately hiked up the rent $500 to anyone who wanted to renew. In our building of about 8 apartments, six tenants moved out within the span of three months. They began construction immediately and it was..loud. Like wall-shaking loud. \n\nThe construction devastated my health and caused migraines and vertigo. I was sleep-deprived constantly. My husband worked night shift and needed to sleep during the day, we were in hell.\n\nThey frequently started earlier than 7AM and went later than 5PM. This included breaking titles which broke the legal sound barrier limit. Despite numerous complaints from us, they continued heavy construction. We finally negotiated a termination of our lease (which wasn't supposed to be up for another six months.) And scrambled to find another apartment which we finally did and moved out last week.\n\n**Now for my question:** \n\nI have nearly 30 video clips (timestamped) as well as series of ridiculous emails between myself, their local management team and their corporate office that makes me them look like the villains they are. I want to make a review video and post about the realities of my experience with their management and construction--warning future tenants not to lease with these people.\n\n  \nAre there any legal repercussions to an honest review of this nature on a well-followed YouTube channel? As well as cross-posted on Yelp and other review sites? I'm currently with a private renter now and will most likely buy a house after this (will never rent or live in an apartment again if it can be helped.)\n\n​\n\nBefore I post--Is there anything I should know about their rights or whether this is considered libelous or slanderous?","title":"Planning on Posting a Video Review of Terrible Rental Complex","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554256556,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8s2lj\/im_scared_of_my_dad_can_he_lose_custody_please\/","id":"b8s2lj","body":"I am a 14 year old girl. Parents have had joint custody for 6 years. Live with my mom, see my dad on weekends and school breaks. I am TERRIFIED of my dad. He neglects me emotionally and is a manipulative piece of shit. Besides the point, he constantly talks about MURDERING people in cold blood because they are not white. This is the question. One night my dad approached me with a gun up to his head. A loaded gun. He was crying. It was all a joke to him but it scared me to death. When I parents were in court getting the divorce worked out my mom said that he did the same thing. When I was 7 my mom threatened to leave him and he put a gun up to his head threatening to kill himslef. I was in the room. This is not a new behavior. It\u2019s not funny to me and I\u2019m scared he might have bad intentions. I really want to get out of there but I don\u2019t know what to do. Every time I have asked to not go see him he always says, \u201cyour mom and I have an agreement\u201d but I am terrified. I need help. I\u2019m scared. Can he lose custody if I tell the court the truth. I don\u2019t have proof but I know that I\u2019m scared for my life.","title":"I\u2019m scared of my dad. Can he lose custody? Please help (14 y\/o)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552074640,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayuhi0\/need_to_be_set_straight\/","id":"ayuhi0","body":"Throw away for soon to be obvious reasons..\n\nI have an issue...\n\nI work in an adult novelty shop, and i recently started stealing money from work.. \n\nThe way i do this is i pretend to make a sale,make sure the customer doesn't want a receipt, then I take the money and put it in a separate place in the drawer, I give change like they would get but from my own money, and I close the sale like it didn't happen. I'm basically giving away items for free and taking the money from the sale. Then at the end of the night I take the money and do my regular closing stuff. So far I've taken about a total of 200$ maybe a little less. But I know i need to stop doing this. It's like an impulse, I need to get myself to stop. Can someone tell me what will happen if I get caught so I can convince myself to stop? ","title":"Need to be set straight","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540850454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9shqnp\/eviction_reported_after_2_years\/","id":"9shqnp","body":"Two years ago I rented an apartment in Colorado with my ex boyfriend and a co-worker of ours. to make a long story short the co-worker stopped paying her portion of rent and we couldn't afford to pay rent anymore. I used up my savings to keep us afloat (stupid i know) while hoping that she would pay up. Of course she never did and we got evicted and I thought that was that. We never got our deposit back so I assumed that it was to cover the rent we couldn't afford since I found this on [https:\/\/www.nolo.com\/legal-encyclopedia\/eviction-notices-nonpayment-rent-colorado.html](https:\/\/www.nolo.com\/legal-encyclopedia\/eviction-notices-nonpayment-rent-colorado.html) \" If the tenant does not pay the rent, but moves out within three days, the landlord may use the tenant\u2019s security deposit (if any) to cover the unpaid rent after following certain steps required under Colorado law. If the security deposit does not cover all the rent due and owing, including late charges, if provided for in the lease or rental agreement, then the landlord can sue the tenant in court for the rent still owed.\"\n\nNow two years later my husband and I are looking to rent an apartment in Texas and everything was looking good until today the apartment we applied to called us to let us know that my old apartment posted last month that I owe over 3,800$ to them. I have rented at two other apartments after the one MY ex and I got evicted from and never had any issues. \n\nI'm wondering what to do in this situation?  I'm also wondering why now and if it's even legal. If they did use our deposit there's no way I could possibly owe this much I could really appreciate some help from people who know more about this than I do.\n\nTLDR: \n\nOld apartment landlords say I owe over 3800$ two years after being evicted. ","title":"Eviction reported after 2 years??","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540779920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s96ye\/tn_landlord_is_backing_out_of_an_agreed\/","id":"9s96ye","body":"Nashville, TN. Writing for a friend, M. Landlord is L. Apologies if the situation is not completely clear cause I'm not M, but will clarify anything as needed.\n\nM has signed a year lease from July 2018 until June 2019. M has been trying with landlord to reach an agreement in order to terminate the lease. M gave notice she wanted to vacate on Oct 18, and wanted to leave on Nov 15; so less than 30 days but M says she will still pay for the full month of November \/ move out is flexible. Landlord had agreed to termination as long as she finds a new tenant via email; \"the one \\[tenant\\] you can find to continue your lease will need to sign a new lease with us if we feel he\/she is a responsible individual \" and that \"\\[your\\] lease will not be terminated until a new lease is signed\". \n\nM has found a person willing to take over and has communicated as much that is a student in the community like most of the residents there. M has only signed a new lease at another place after this email because they believed they could terminate the lease as long as landlord could approve another tenant. However, landlord has now said they are unwilling to terminate the lease and will only allow a sublet because it is a \"busy time of year\" and don't want to take the time to vet the new tenant. M wouldn't have signed the new lease unless she could have terminated the old one; i.e. she did not want to responsible for two leases at once.\n\nThe lease has absolutely no statement about termination policy. The security deposit is said to be for cleaning \/ damages only. The one thing that has me thinking is this waiver in the lease: \n```\n\"No statement or promise by landlord \\[...\\] as to tenancy, repairs, amount to be paid, or other terms and conditions shall be binding unless it is put in writing and made a specific part of this agreement\"\n```\n\n**TLDR**: Landlord agrees to terms of a termination as long as tenant finds a promising new tenant and pays for the full month of November via email. Tenant signs new lease with this agreement. Landlord then reneges on termination agreement and wants to only sublet b\/c they do not want to go through trouble of vetting a new guy. Tenant still wants to terminate.\n\nSo here are the questions:\n* Is M forced to sublet and has no choice to a termination?\n* Was the email the landlord sent a binding termination agreement at all? (I'm guessing not.)\n* Is there anything in tenancy laws in TN that can work to their benefit in this situation?\n","title":"[TN] Landlord is backing out of an agreed termination and wants sublet","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504220157,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xahrs\/las_vegas_nv_question_about_financing_a_car_my\/","id":"6xahrs","body":"I went through a dealership and I had to provide references. To my knowledge the information provided by my references is valid. \n\nFrom my understanding the bank will contact these references. I forget what the dealership said happens if the information isn't correct.\n\nSay one of my references gave an old address, does that count? What happens if they cannot verify a reference? Does the deal fall through and then I lose out on the car?\n\nIf the deal does fall through do they keep my down-payment even if I return the vehicle?\n\nThanks.","title":"[Las Vegas, NV] Question about financing a car. (My first time purchasing).","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1542147650,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wtt2p\/employer_withholding_portion_of_salary_after\/","id":"9wtt2p","body":"Hey r\/legaladvice, I'm posting on behalf of my lovely wife. She works for a non-profit organization in the state of Illinois. Recently, her employer switched to a different payroll system which changes from 'real time' to a bi-weekly payroll cycle which apparently results in a 'lag' of 5 days. Her employers solution to this was to pay employees 70% of their bi-weekly salary for the first paycheck in November and 80% of their bi-weekly salary for the next week in November. They will make up the unpaid salary in May 2019. She just learned of this today (2 days before payday) and as a salaried employee her budget relies heavily on the regularity of her paychecks. Can her employer legally withhold or delay paying her 25% of her salary for roughly 6 months? Thanks!","title":"Employer withholding portion of salary after payroll change","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551226615,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av6o11\/proving_unreasonable_change_in_job_duties_as_good\/","id":"av6o11","body":"I am almost a year into a disastrous paralegaling job and i am at the end of my rope. I understand that corporate law firms are fast paced but firmly believe i have a compelling argument for recieving unemployment after quitting under unreasonable change in duties. \n\nI was initially hired to contact subrogation companies (basically banks for ur health insurance) and obtain liens, deal with any disputes or issues. Whatever. Within a few months i was given a new position as a file reviewer as well as a cost reviewer (confirming that all costs weve accrued havent been lost and have been added to our invoice in order to be reimbursed) first, i graduated undergrad in may with a crim degree i have no accouting background, my job has turned into not only reviewing the files but also handling serious escalations and resolving accounting issues. I was told of the job change in a meeting with all my coworkers without any discussion of a raise or any prior discussion. My colleagues routinely email me before my manager to handle escalations. \n\nThe quantitative evidence i have is consistent failure in meeting my KPI (goal set by my manager for number of reviews to do in a day) which is currently 10, each review takes about 45 minutes to an hour and in an 8 1\/2 work day thats mathematically impossible. I also have a 30 minute meeting every morning, and i spend the first hour- hour and half finalizing client distributions (this is seperate from the review process) making this goal even more impossible. I have explained this on several occasions and my manager wont reconsider.\n\nMy days are packed to the point where i actually feel anxious to use the bathroom outside of my lunch break, not only because my manager has encouraged us to only use the bathroom during our break times but also because i am afraid of any lost time that will stymie meeting my goal. I come home every night and lay in the dark and cry every morning before i go in. I am not qualified in anyway to handle escalations from my coworkers and also the unattainable numbers goal is consuming my life. Before they changed my job, everything was fine. Do i have a case? ","title":"Proving unreasonable change in job duties as good cause for quitting when filing unemployment in NJ?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505317635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zve93\/apartment_i_moved_out_of_fined_my_roommates_and\/","id":"6zve93","body":"We were fined and the supposed reason was the bathroom and living room were untouched\/extremely dirty. We cleaned that place for about 6 straight hours. I know that the terminology they are using is way off basis. However, before we start I will mention that neither I nor my roommates took any pictures (I know I know, berate me in the comments). But, we do have a witness from someone who didn't live there who was helping us clean. All advice is very much appreciated!\n\nEdit: This apartment is located in Minneapolis, MN","title":"Apartment I moved out of fined my roommates and me $400 for not cleaning, when in fact we left it spotless. This place's business model is basically putting ridiculous fines on college kids to make money. Anything I can do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553906326,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b74zu1\/landlords_changed_2_months_before_we_moved_and\/","id":"b74zu1","body":"My fiancee and I have been living in an apartment for 18 months. We moved out in February. 2 months before we moved, the landlord sold the property to a property management \"company\". We left the place *EXACTLY* the way we found it, but didn't take pictures a year and a half ago to prove it, which might make our case every hard to argue. Anyways, the new landlords sent us a check for $200.00 this week for our security deposit. The deposit was $900. They stated it was due to \"cleanup costs\" and to \"replace screens in the windows\" which is impossible, because there were never any screens in any of the windows and we spent 6 hours on the last night we lived there thoroughly cleaning and scrubbing everything. We even spent our own money on spackle and paint and repainted the walls before we left so we would get our deposit back. \n \n      We left a mattress by the dumpster, and I realise that costs to dispose of, but besides that, we left the place spotless and we might even be able to have our ex landlord vouge for us at least as far as the screens in the windows go. How do I proceed from here? We really need our money back, and after all that hard work that we did to make sure the place was spotless, I feel like they're trying to royally screw us over. Should we make a police report, or talk to a lawyer? Aren't lawyers too expensive for just 900 dollars? We'd both really appreciate any advice we can get here. Thanks guys! ","title":"Landlords changed 2 months before we moved and new one refuses to give us our full security deposit. Need advice please!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504426746,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xs16h\/illinois_parentage_cases_involving_my_father\/","id":"6xs16h","body":"Hi everyone, forgive me if this post doesn't belong here. I wasn't sure where to put it and will gladly take this long-winded question elsewhere if it isn't appropriate here. \n\nIn my free time recently, I've been poking around my county's circuit court records to entertain myself (exciting, I know), and I came across some information about my family that I could use a little bit (read: a lot) of help navigating. \n\nTo give you some backstory, the history of my immediate family is a little rocky. I was born before my parents were married, and from what I understand, they weren't even dating at the time. About 6 years later, they decided to give each other a more official go and have been happily married since. It's not something we ever talk about or really acknowledge, and I guess that should have been my first sign that something was off about it. There's never been much drama surrounding their relationship from what I can remember, aside from grumbles from more conservative family members about how they \"just weren't doing it right\" and what have you. Even though I didn't see my dad very often in those formative years, my childhood was relatively drama free and happy, though I do have extremely vague memories of my dad taking me to some woman's apartment at times when he'd have visitation with me. There was a boy close to my age that I got to play with, so I thought it was pretty cool. I don't know when this all stopped, but it did, and I haven't seen them or heard of them since so I never really thought of it much until now.\n\nJump ahead to the present, where I'm hoping for some guidance. Browsing the public court records, I naturally searched all of my family members for, ya know, educational purposes. First was my mom. I came across my original parentage case, which was to be expected. But then I found a second parentage case between the two of them years later. I was their only child up until that point, so that's what I would first like some information on: whether that's normal or not, what may have transpired for there to be two, etc. \n\nIn both cases, my mother was the petitioner for parentage with my dad as the respondent. The first case goes as follows with the limited information that the site provides: petition, certificate, certificate, order. Nothing too exciting there, I don't think, but even after researching, I'm not sure how parentage cases usually go. What throws me off is that the second case reads very differently. While they were both in the same respective positions, this case was over 5 years later, just before they decided to marry. The documents filed go as follows: petition of paternity, appearance standard, notice of motion, rights & obligations, admission of paternity, agreed order. What I would like to know is why is this different from the first court case they had for paternity\/parentage? Did my dad not admit to paternity? Is there usually a second case involved years later? Generally, what could this mean? I take it he was not legally my father until that point, but what transpires in legal cases for this to happen?\n\nAs if I wasn't confused (and frankly a little hurt) enough by all of that, I decided to search my dad's name in the circuit court records. It's a fairly unique name, so I was certain when I came across another parentage case for him--but with a different family that I had never heard of before. This case happened in between the two parentage cases involving myself, about 3 years after my first, and was much more convoluted and confusing than my own. In it, the petitioner was a man, my father was a respondent, and there was another man as a second respondent, but with the same last name as the petitioner. What. There were also many documents filed in this case, and if it helps, they go like this: petition, affidavit, notice, order, miscellaneous, notice of motion, notice, motion, order, order, affidavit, order. Whatthehellisgoingon. I've already searched the mystery family name on various search engines, but it appears to be a fairly common last name. Could my dad have another illegitimate child somewhere? There was nothing in this case about rights & obligations or admission of paternity, and no further cases following it.\n\nI am well into my 20's now, and really would not like to dredge up old\/sour memories for my parents by bringing this up, especially if it's something my mother (bless her heart) isn't aware of. If there's anything you could tell me about what these things could potentially mean, then I would appreciate it so much. This will eat away at my soul if I don't get any closure. I know that there's not much information here despite the post being so long, but it's very late here and I am still trying to process this as best as I can in my sleep-deprived state. If there's any more information that would help, I'll gladly supply it if possible.\n\nIn summary:\n1. Why would my mother have to petition my father for parentage twice?\n2. Why did the court documents read so differently\/ why were there different results in my 2 cases?\n3. In what instances would there be 3 different men on a parentage case?\n4. Why were there so many more court documents involved in the mystery family case with no admission to paternity?\n5. Should I be looking out for a potential sibling that I and possibly my mother are unaware of?\n6. Generally any other information you could give me on parentage cases would be appreciated.","title":"[Illinois] Parentage Cases Involving My Father","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443566513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mw630\/had_a_car_accident_who_is_at_fault\/","id":"3mw630","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice,\n\nI recently had an accident involving a party changing lanes and hitting me on the rear door, driver's side. Here is a diagram of the area of where it happened: [Diagram](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/b4JsAWl.jpg) The X indicates where the car was stationary and the arrow indicates movement. \n\nEDIT: [Better Diagram](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/m4z2hnc.jpg)\n\nAs you can see the driver most likely wanted to turn right to go onto the forked road. When I saw the car it was on the left lane. I was on the right lane heading straight. The car on the left lane was stopped with its right turn signal on but slowly inching toward my lane. I slowed down and moved over to the right a bit as a precaution, but ultimately I was hit. \n\nThe other party made a statement to me when we were exchanging insurance information: \"I thought you were going right.\" Right meaning onto the forked road. Apparently when I moved over to the right the other driver believed I was going to turn right onto the forked road.\n\nI talked to the adjuster and with the following details he says I may have some liability:\n\nSpotted 100-150 feet. Slowed down and moved slightly to the right of my lane. I had 2-3 seconds to do something to avoid the accident, the adjuster said.\n\nI do not have the other party's statement. Who is at fault?","title":"Had a car accident. Who is at fault?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554769664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb1cun\/my_grandpa_has_dimensia_and_his_ex_wife_secretly\/","id":"bb1cun","body":"I live in texas. My grandfather and his wife got divorced a  year or two back. In the divorce he kept his two homes, she took a $50k settlement and moved away. My mother moved in with my grandfather to take care of him. Months later his ex wife came back and convinced my grandfather that they were still married and never divorced. At that point my mother was concerned with my grandfathers mental health and well being, so she had the adult protective services step in. He was checked out by a few doctors and they all stated that he was not in his right mind and in no condition to make any legal decision for himself. After that his Ex wife secretly re-married him without telling anyone. She also got with a real estate agent tried to sell his second home, and became the beneficiary to his social security benefits etc.She was later taken to court, the APS was pushing for the marriage to be annulled and establish who would get custody of my grandfather. But, the judge ended up throwing the whole case out. We reached out to a lawyer who said the reason the marriage wasnt anulled was because we were in the wrong type of court, and that judge didnt have the power to anull a marriage. He also told us that our best bet was to file for guardianship, but there was no guarentee that it would be successful because they're still legally married. \n\nSide note we have proof that she is cheating\/ has attempted to cheat on my grandfather on several occasions. \n\nWhat are our best options?","title":"My grandpa has dimensia and his Ex wife secretly remarried him.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553766916,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6gukl\/can_i_get_sued_for_this_tweet_that_i_made\/","id":"b6gukl","body":"Hello,\n\nThere have been a very hot topic in my country, about a doctor who got his PHD and Master\u2019s from The American University of Athens. Which I believe is a university that does not even exist, the website also looks very sketchy and full of scam: https:\/\/www.aua.edu\n\nPeople have been having very long arguments but the thing is that people barely do any research in my country, and I\u2019m not mocking them but that\u2019s true unfortunately. Therefore, I replied to his tweet and said \n\n\u201cI wonder why people can\u2019t simply research the university\u2019s name for only a minute to find out immediately that the website is sketchy and the address leads to an apartment near a gas station\u201d\n\nI then woke up the next day, only to find out that he uploaded a video saying he\u2019ll sue whoever said that his admired university is an apartment that sells degrees. Though I\u2019m not the only one, there are thousands of people including famous characters who made some similar tweets. My account did not include any information about me, and I deleted my tweet immediately.","title":"Can I get sued for this Tweet that I made?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569550948,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9tz39\/trying_to_reopen_my_case_to_change_plead_nolo_pay\/","id":"d9tz39","body":"I went to court 2 weeks ago because of a ticket. The violation was failure to maintain lane. And it resulted in a minor fender bender. I pleaded not guilty due to the circumstances and requested a jury trial( i was trying to run away from a road rage cituation). The police officer did not care at all about that and gave me the ticket.\n\nAt the municipal court, I was told that i would get another court date within a month or two. Today I called the court and they are saying 6 months to 2 years before they even get my case.\n\nMy problem is that I am in the process of enlisting in The army and I need this to be over with to be able to enlist. \n\nWhat can I do to get my case re opened at the municipal court and plead nolo?\n\nThank you for reading","title":"Trying to re-open my case to change, plead nolo, pay the fine to be able to enlist in the army","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443257803,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mg119\/sucker_punched_outside_of_bar\/","id":"3mg119","body":"Hey everyone,\nI'm not used to using an account on reddit but it's probably time as I'm a constant lurker and there is actually a lot of informative and honest\/genuine responses from the community at large (including in this subreddit).\n\nAnyhow, last night I got into a verbal altercation with a kid from my high school (I'm currently 26 years old). It's safe to say he started it and escalated the situation and I, naturally, didn't let him get away with it so engaged in said verbal disagreement. Then, with no physical contact yet made or any indication there would be, he sucker punched me in the face. Wasn't even looking in his direction when it happened. People gather and break it up quickly but I was bleeding profusely from my nose. He takes a cab and leaves in the ensuing people-mob and I call the cops. They have an incident report filed (no charges, nothing on his name), just basically they came to my location and it says \"basic battery.\" Anyhow, as the officers informed last night as everyone had been drinking alcohol, all witnesses aren't very credible (also they were all random people who left the scene) and its his word versus mine, which at this point I'm sure he will make up whatever he needs to to say I provoked the altercation (sans him not having any injuries).\n\nI'm okay with not pressing charges but I definitely want a complaint filed against him so it's on his file? I also am going to the doctor because I think my septum has been split, and I will possibly need reconstructive surgery to repair that issue (can barely breathe out of one of my nostrils currently). If that is the case I would want to press charges.\n\nHelp me out here guys. The cops on the scene were very dismissive about the situation as alcohol was involved. I was 100% assaulted after a verbal altercation that was not physical. I don't get how they can just blanket being drunk as an excuse for assault. I'm going to doc tomorrow but I'd just like to hear a few words from people who know about this!\n\nThanks community,\n\nJoe\n\nedit: also badly busted upper lip (think it was an uppercut) and various other cuts\/marks on my face\n\nedit edit: Nose\/Septum is definitely broken. All of the signs are there. Do I get the medical doctors to make a note to bring to the police station?","title":"Sucker Punched Outside of Bar","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570042684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcens7\/advice_on_repairing_neighbors_broken_sprinkler\/","id":"dcens7","body":"Some background info before I begin\n\nI'm renting the house I live in. \nI do my own lawn work.\nMy yard and my neighbor's yard are connected and we both have trees in our yard, they don't maintain they used ever. \nI broke my neighbors sprinkler but I'm not sure I should be the one to replace it\n\nSo I need advice on where I stand here. I let my grass grow out because some of it was dying and I was testing out where I needed to redirect my sprinklers. While i was mowing my lawn I ran over one of my neighbors sprinklers but it still works. The sprinkler is a rainbird that pops out of the lawn and oscillates, but it wasn't flush with the ground like it's supposed to be which is the entire point of those kind of sprinklers. We spoke about it and I said I'll look into replacing it but never specified when I would get to it because I'm pretty busy with work. I noticed that the sprinkler actually sits on my  side of the property line by about a foot. Does this give me some leverage to not be responsible for her broken sprinkler? I don't care if this makes me immoral or an asshole, she has a late 30's son with some mental disorders that constantly harasses me and my wife and I've asked him and her to have it stop. It hasn't stopped and i kind of want to give her a big fuck you. She also has a tree with branches that are now pressing against my roof which was only replaced a year ago. Do I have some kind of legal backing to tell her to fix it herself and fuck off? Or could I get a small claims type of deal from her if I don't replace it?","title":"Advice on repairing neighbors broken sprinkler","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553568057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5k974\/mechanics_lien\/","id":"b5k974","body":"Can someone explain to me the ins and outs of a mechanic lien in MO. More specifically the process and ramifications of a lien being put on your home for non payment of something. The backstory here is a solar company that I was contracted to was not holding up their side of the deal so I rescinded the contract. I\u2019m now being told if I don\u2019t pay them $1800 for work completed then there will be a lien placed on my home. They completed no physical work. If I understand correctly, if the value of a property has not been improved then a lien has no legal affect on your property. Any information is appreciated. ","title":"Mechanics Lien","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553894699,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b72x9r\/i_dont_know_what_to_do_since_we_have_a_verbally\/","id":"b72x9r","body":"Sorry if this is the wrong Subreddit, I'm new to this; this is my first post here. If this is on the wrong Subreddit please direct me to the right one. Thank you for your time and for reading this.\n\nSo I'm a 7th grader that goes to school and has to deal with a Verbally Abusive Science teacher along with 6th through 8th graders. I'm 13 and still considered a kid and they act like what I say doesn't matter and just brush it all off. They've gotten many complaints about it and I don't know what to do. The thing is the Vice-Principal isn't the problem the Principal is. \n\nSo I don\u2019t know how to say this but this is really important and I really need some answers to it.\n\nIn the school I\u2019m at we have a Verbally Abusive teacher. She\u2019s our science teacher and she verbally abuses us everyday we\u2019re at school. She\u2019s called us brats, stupid, and many more things.\n\nShe\u2019s given a 6th grader a C on their test because they couldn\u2019t pronounce a few words about the Cell structure and the words are really hard to pronounce to.\n\nI\u2019ve told the Principal multiple times about the teacher and they say they\u2019ll talk to them but they don\u2019t. The Principal doesn\u2019t care on what we have to say or what the teachers do.\n\nA teacher once made a really offensive joke about Queer people and I told the Principal and they still did nothing. The Principal doesn\u2019t seem to care.\n\nThey also like to spoil their kid that just started their first year here. He never seems to get in trouble and they always buys him lunch.\n\nI don\u2019t know what to do about it, the Principal never listen no matter how many times we\u2019ve complained about it to them. We even had a verbally abusive Substitute and we complained about them and the Principal still did nothing.\n\nI really don\u2019t know what to do since it seems there\u2019s no way out of it. If I don\u2019t do anything more students will be subjected to the Verbal abuse and keep in mind they teach Middle School which is usually 11-15-year-olds at my school and I don\u2019t want young kids to have their Self-Esteem lowered because of this.\n\nI\u2019d go to another school but it\u2019s the only school that teachers Middle School and High School in my area.\n\nIf you can help me with this I\u2019d appreciate it a lot. I\u2019m just worried about the kids that will soon have to go to this school and be subjected to it. Any help is appreciated.","title":"I don't know what to do since we have a Verbally Abusive Teacher","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570261611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddk6wd\/workplace_harassment_canada\/","id":"ddk6wd","body":"About a month ago, I was verbally assaulted by a supervisor at work. She had a history of workplace bullying. I want to stress that this was not an argument. It was an attack. I asked a neutral question and she got escalated, began raising her voice, and saying false and humiliating things about me in a common area. When I asked her to stop, she carried on even worse. As a result of this event, I have been unable to work for a month. I filed a workplace harassment claim with my employer and with Workmen\u2019s comp. She resigned the day after I filed the complaint. Do you guys think this meets the standard for workplace harassment?","title":"Workplace Harassment Canada","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568775293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5rlzn\/my_handicap_friend_is_getting_kicked_out_of_her\/","id":"d5rlzn","body":"My friend and her Aunt have been renting and living in a house for years, on and off with her grandmother. Her grandmother had left for months and returned again, has not paid a dime towards rent, but decided that she no longer wanted to live with the other two and got her friend (the landlord) to give them an eviction notice saying they need to be out by Sep 18th.\n\nWhat I want to ask is, if all her bills are paid, is there anyway for her to legally force the landlord to give her 30 days? She is handicap so she needs time to get a home that is wheelchair accessible.","title":"My handicap friend is getting kicked out of her house please help! Illinois","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554842370,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbd2a7\/nc_usa_landlord_trying_to_demand_payment_for\/","id":"bbd2a7","body":"First some backstory. My boyfriend and I began a 13 month lease at Apt A in April 2017 (April 17-May 18). We resigned another 13 month lease for Apt A in May 2018 (May 18-June 19).\n\n​\n\nIn December 2018, we put in a request to transfer from Apt A to Apt B because it had better flooring, better view, more space, etc. We received lease paperwork and signed the documents for Apt B. The new lease dates were March 19-April 20. The complex informed us that they will advertise Apt A to get it rented to new tenants when we move. They found new tenants sometime soon thereafter and our transfer out of Apt A and into Apt B was set for March.\n\n​\n\nFebruary 2019, we realize that we no longer want to go through with the transfer to Apt B and we needed to look for different housing. We contacted the complex at this point to see what our options were. They stated that we would have to pay a early termination fee for breaking our lease with Apt B, equal to two months rent. Because our lease had not began with Apt B, I reached out to a lawyer in the family for advice (they live in a different state, far away).\n\n​\n\nUpon further investigation, we discovered that the lease we had signed, had never been executed by the complex (we also never put down a security deposit for Apt B). I then sent an email to the complex stating these findings and that the \"application\" (lease paperwork, lawyer friend said use \"application\" instead) for Apt B had never been a contract. They responding by sending a signed lease (one that they had not signed nor sent before), with back-dated signatures. I pushed back further, with more legal jargon family lawyer advised, and the complex backed down regarding our obligation to Apt B.\n\n​\n\nSo, because they had new tenants moving into Apt A, we still had to leave by newly agreed upon date of March 2019. When we went to turn in our keys to the complex at move out, they stated that we owe an early termination fee for breaking our lease on Apt A because we are not agreeing to the original terms of the contract and we are leaving earlier than June 2019. I stated that we have no other option than to leave Apt A because there are new tenants moving in. The new end date of the lease on Apt A had to be March 2019 because they have new tenants moving in. With a lot of unprofessional behavior and yelling on their part, we were told that we are at fault and we owe an early termination fee on Apt A.\n\n​\n\nI need assistance to determine if we are truly at fault in this situation and should pay the fee they are demanding. Would reaching out to a local lawyer be worthwhile when the amount in question is less than 2k? Is there anything we could do to fight this ourselves?","title":"(NC, USA) Landlord trying to demand payment for early termination fee when moving out on agreed upon date","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569192767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7xv6l\/is_this_a_potential_lawsuit\/","id":"d7xv6l","body":"I work at a Dollar General and there has been a lot of electric issues lately, since early July. We finally got an electrician to come in and look a couple of weeks ago and he tells the manager that \"the fuse box could blow up at any moment. We need to close the store down to fix it.\" The district manager is well aware of this and doesn't want to because he doesn't see why they can't come in at 10 pm after closing to fix it. I'm back there normally from Wednsdays to Fridays working by that fuse box pulling metal carts of merchandise out for stocking and back in for collecting. Should I wait till I get injured or sue?","title":"Is this a potential lawsuit?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569029790,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d74awe\/i_had_my_drivers_license_confiscated_by_an\/","id":"d74awe","body":"I was refused picking up my medication due to a slightly damaged ID card, and was told it's illegal for them to accept it, which, I haven't been able to find anything about it anywhere online, even in the company policies. (My wife works with the company and can't find anything about it either.) \n\nSo, I'm wondering if anyone has heard of anything like this.\n\n\nEdit: This was is Tennessee","title":"I had my drivers license confiscated by an associate at a pharmacy due to \"damages\".","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507874564,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/762vzy\/my_former_employer_took_tips_from_me_without_my\/","id":"762vzy","body":"I'm writing this for my dad who doesn't speak English but I've done the best with clearing up anything lost in translation, if anyone needs clarifying just ask.\n\n\nI have a case against my employer who did not pay part of my tips as well as deducted money without my authorization and break a contract with me. \n\n\n I have a hearing with the department of labor for the day 10\/25\/2017 and my lawyer presses me to close the case accept only $ 9500.00 and I think that is not enough compensation. She is also telling me that if I did not accept the offer the judge will say that I only deserve $ 3000.00 and my question is, is it true what my lawyer says and should I keep fighting instead of laying down and accepting a sum significantly lower than my previous offer of $27k? Which for all the damages done I still believe is too low. \n\n\nState: CA, Southern California ","title":"My former employer took tips from me without my consent, they terminated me, and then blacklisted me and then I tried to sue them only for my lawyer to do a 360 from feeling positive to sounding like she sold out, how should I proceed?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554852846,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbf0xp\/bathroom_any_basement_leaking_due_to_faulty\/","id":"bbf0xp","body":"So around last year the basement and bathroom started to leak sewage all over the rooms, I got an insurance adjustor to come out and compensate us for all the damages. Lately, it has been acting up again and sewage leaked twice in the same week. I can't take a shower or go to the bathroom because the only way I've found to stop is to turn off the pump. I notified the landlord, to which he responded he would send his maintenance guy to take a look. The maintenance guy sent a plumber to take a look and he said the problem is with the pipeline itself and that it needs to be torn out and replaced. I contacted the landlord again, to which he is yet to fix the problem(this was last year). I know I can use rent money to pay for the repairs, but I am afraid if i do he won't allow me to renew the lease. What can i do to protect myself if he does deny the renewal or if he can deny the renewal because of this? \n\nState of michigan","title":"Bathroom any basement leaking due to faulty pipeline, landlord notified several times but refuses to do anything.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539910438,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pf1nm\/pain_and_suffering_after_motorcycle_accident\/","id":"9pf1nm","body":"I was recently in an accident where a driver turned left not at an intersection and I was unable to stop or avoid them.   I was brought to the hospital, xrayed my leg and had cat scans done on my head neck and abdomen.  \n\nNo internal damage found, no breaks or fractures in my leg but the knee was badly sprained and was unable to put any weight on it at all for several days and now after a week am kind of  able to start getting around but not well.  My doctor says I am healing well though and should make a full recovery.  \n\nAll my friends and family are saying I need to try and get money for pain and suffering but I have never been in this situation before, would rather not get a lawyer involved because I don't know that I am actual in enough pain and suffering to make it justify able.  Can I get any advice on how to move forward with this situation?","title":"Pain and suffering after motorcycle accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540169161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q8u0h\/situation_where_roommate_who_is_occupant_on_lease\/","id":"9q8u0h","body":"Roommate has a boyfriend who lives on East Coast of Florida coming over to the West Coast of Florida and staying the night multiple times a week at our place. This has been going on 4-5 months now. The boyfriend Brandon has no job and the only bill he pays is the internet so he can game. He contributes zero to the rent, electricity, water. I am an OTR (over the road) truck driver and my girlfriend rides with me, so we aren't there at the house over three weeks a month. This all started off after him (Brandon) being there from Thursday - Sunday night for about 3 weeks. Nothing was said or asked for monetarily for him being there using up utilities and my girlfriend and I let it go. \n\nThis continued on and on until about two months ago when we had a sit down with the three of us excluding Brandon. We made it clear to roommate (Nicole) that we are expecting things to be split four ways because he is basically living there now. She said yes sure I understand that and agree with you, her response is Brandon is looking for a job as soon as he gets it, four ways it'll be. \n\nFast forward to today, over the past 2 months I have been on the road 56 out of 61-62 days. Last week I get a break and come home for a few days on a Tuesday, tired and worn out from driving for months I almost immediately hit the bed. I'm awoken a few hours later by my dogs barking and the front door closing, I go out and its Brandon standing there shocked that I'm in the living room checking. Turns out Nicole gave him a key, never even bothering to ask if that's ok to give a key to what essentially is a stranger to us considering how long we are out on the road. \n\nYesterday we attempted another conversation about splitting things four ways and it ended with being told that he wont be contributing to anything but keeping the internet on for his gaming. So my girlfriend and I are now looking for what our options are to get Brandon and Nicole out of the house as both have become real nasty about the situation, we both worry about our valuables being at the house with two people who appear to have free rein of the house with us being gone so often, we can we do? Thanks in Advance.\n\nTL;DR\nRoomates boyfriend has essentially moved in, is not on the lease and doesn't pay utilities but internet. What can we do to fix this?","title":"Situation where roommate (who is occupant on lease) has boyfriend staying with my Girlfriend (lease holder) and I (occupant) that isn't on lease multiple times a week.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541285519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tyian\/sos_ex_gf_was_evicted_last_week_need_advice_about\/","id":"9tyian","body":"We live in Las Vegas, NV \n\nLast we know what happened to her. She cut herself with a knife in front of the constable while the eviction \/ lockout was being perform. She was then brought by ambulance to the hospital. \n\nWe are unsure if she was admitted into a mental hospital or regular one. We don't know for how long. \n\nBut she left behind her dog, all of her belongings and a car in the garage that's no longer running. \n\nSo far we have put all of her property in a storage facility. \nHer dog was brought over to the Vet's doggy day care center. \n\nWe don't know what to do about her car.\n\n \nMy SO is concidering bringing the dog back home if she doesn't pick the dog up since we don't know when she's getting out of the hospital. However, that's a huge risk because we don't want to deal with her coming back to the property. ","title":"SO's ex gf was evicted last week. Need advice about her dog, car and belongings.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554137639,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b84ysj\/debt_forgiveness_after_a_suicide\/","id":"b84ysj","body":"Sorry that this is a heavy subject. **You all aren't therapists. This is a real legal question.**\n\nMy lease renews in June. I love where I live. to be honest, my parents help me out a lot with my rent as long as I pay for most other things. Here's the issue\n\nFor 10% mental illness\/ 60% physical problems (non-life threatening chronic illness)\/ 30% random other issues...my goal is to keep seeking help\/ confiding in trusted people and make it to my birthday in July. \n\nBut it might turn out that it's easier for everyone if I just end my life. If the **worst case scenario** happens, my friends and family will get over my death and remember me for the good times. But, I don't want to leave anyone with any debt if the worst case scenario happens. I'm not in a financial situation to pay 100% of my bills 100% of the time. \n\nso, is debt forgiven in the case of a suicide? is there some precedent for that? ","title":"Debt forgiveness after a suicide?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570113514,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcrsip\/friend_of_mine_has_posted_pictures_of_me_online\/","id":"dcrsip","body":"My (fake) friend and I were into a sort of war,I lost,he then thought it would be funny to post pictures of me on Instagram (pictures I\u2019ve asked him to delete countless of time when he took them). I asked him to remove them since our \"war\" ended. He\u2019s now asking for money or more pictures of me in pyjamas or pictures that you would keep for fun or in secret and a video of me who says I lost that \"war\" (it started because he was being racist and I told him to stop,eventually it became a battle of insults).Also,I\u2019m a girl if it can somehow help with it.\nI also don\u2019t know if this is where I should post this,but it looked like somewhere I could ask","title":"Friend of mine has posted pictures of me online and asks for something in return for deleting them","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555438368,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdx6s2\/german_child_custody\/","id":"bdx6s2","body":"My Sister in law is needing advice as to how to go forward with a custody case regarding her son. I will be vague so as not to identify her or her son.\n\nShe was previously married to the individual and they had a son. She was able to claim German status after the marriage. Because of this, the custody rights favoured the husband when they separated.\n\nHe was abusive so my SIL left. They shares visitation rights, but because she worked out of country, the rights also favoured the husband.\n\nFast forward a few years and he has had more than one DUI charge and has lost his job. While he still has custody, he sends their son to his parents (the child's grandparents) for the majority of the time. He does this because he can no longer work in Germany with his profession. He has to work out of country.\n\nMy SIL is trying to get main custody rights. She will not deprive her son from visiting the family on his father's side, including the grandparents. The child's father is trying to claim that his parents are a better home for his son.\n\nThe father has been emotionally abusive to the child. The father has been in a second marriage where there was emotional abuse to the wife and her child as well, and as far as I know she has moved out with her child.\n\nShe is not asking for rights that would cut her son off from his father. What would be the best way to approach this situation so that it turns out best for her son?\n\nI'll try to answer any questions without giving away anyone's identity.","title":"German child custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552661650,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1fw3n\/hoa_not_disclosed_in_our_lease\/","id":"b1fw3n","body":"Do we have to abide by HOA regulations if the landlord did not disclose that there was a HOA and our lease makes no mention of one? We didn't even know there was one until we got a letter saying we are in violation of a ridiculous rule stating that nothing can be stored in the garage except for vehicles.","title":"HOA not disclosed in our lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550007301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apylcz\/ive_been_moved_to_a_different_position_at_my\/","id":"apylcz","body":"Been having pretty bad health problems for a while. Employer was well aware and I'd been going to the doctor to try and figure it out. Yesterday I asked for FMLA paperwork to take to my next appointment. Today I'm brought into a meeting at the start of my shift to be told I'm being moved to another role based on my lack of productivity. Kicker is that I'm unable to perform the new role due to sciatica.\n\nNow, I've never had a one on one meeting about my productivity. We've had group meetings as a department and in those meetings it was brought up that everyone's productivity is down, not just mine. And talking with HR, I guess they got a completely different story. \n\nWhat can I do here? I can't perform the new role, they won't allow me to have a second chance at my old role, and I can't quit now because I desperately need the health insurance to figure out what's wrong with me.\n\n\n\n\n","title":"I've been moved to a different position at my company after asking for FMLA paperwork. Ohio","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410462684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g4os7\/rear_ended_2_days_ago\/","id":"2g4os7","body":"Hi guys, asking a couple questions here because I'm not 100% sure where else to ask.\n\nI was rear ended 2 days ago, I have a police report with information of all 4 cars involved (I got rear ended, and went into 2 other cars). I first contacted my insurance wondering what I should do and my agent told me that I should be calling the insurance of the girl who rear ended me.\n\nI called them around 11am the day after the crash and had to add the other vehicles because the girl who hit me only filed for her own care. Their insurance contacted me back around 8pm the same day just to get a general idea of what was happening. Today a new agent contacted me saying that she had been handed the case and held a 10 minute recorded call asking me everything that happened.\n\nI explained the extent of the damage and that I do not know what else is damaged with my car. I also explained that people were hurt in the car in front of me, but the passenger and I in my car had whiplash and that was it. \n\nThe agent told me not to go getting quotes for my car and that they will refer me to someone to get a quote.\n\nI feel like I'm being played. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I'm a young 20 year old male and I'm unsure of anything to do.\n\nAll I know that the police did not give me a citation, because it was very obvious that the accident was not my fault.\n\nThank you!","title":"Rear ended 2 days ago.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555358228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdknio\/speeding_citation_need_to_go_to_courthouse_for\/","id":"bdknio","body":"Hey guys, need some help here. In order to get the defensive driving option for my speeding ticket, I need to go to the courthouse. It is 1 hour from my house. I'm not sure if i should be pleading guilty or not if I want defensive driving option from the judge. The courthouse lady said to please no contest or guilty if I want that option. Any advice or tips on how to handle this? It's my first speeding ticket so I am really lost in the process. Thanks.","title":"Speeding Citation, need to go to courthouse for first time, please guilty or not guilty for defensive driving?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539904552,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pebuc\/usa_rear_ended_while_driving_a_rental_car_1st\/","id":"9pebuc","body":" \n\nApologies in advance if my situation is not clear or if i need to add information, but this is the first time I've ever had to deal with anything like this and my first post of this topic...\n\nI was rear-ended while driving a rental at the beginning of September in California. The CHP was called and a report was made, the other driver was 100% at fault. We got his insurance information and turned in the car the next morning where they did an inspection and completed paperwork. We notified that there was a police report and gave them the other drivers insurance information. \n\nI had used my chase cc so that i could use the insurance in the event of an accident but don't know how to go about that process. If someone can walk me through that process i would greatly appreciate.\n\nNow I'm getting letters from Enterprise asking for me to pay $8500 in damages. Why is this happening if the other driver was at fault? What do I need to do and what comes next?","title":"(USA) Rear ended while driving a rental car, 1st accident, absolutely no idea of what to do next","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568665704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5656t\/my_coworkers_look_at_the_galleries_of_clients\/","id":"d5656t","body":"I work for a company that involves handling customers phones unsupervised for a few hours. We ask the customers for their security pins saying we need them (we don't always need them, but sometimes we do). My coworkers use these pins to look through their galleries for nudes or other in appropriate or funny pictures and it seems like that's just something that happens here that nobody questions.\n\nIs there any way I can report this to get it changed without going to my boss (owner of this store)? I wouldn't be surprised if he suspected already, or doesn't care out of negligence.\n\nThanks.","title":"My coworkers look at the galleries of clients phones for nudes\/other things if they find them attractive. It's a super fucked up violation of privacy.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539740664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ou27z\/germany_is_it_legal_to_share_a_screenshot_of_a\/","id":"9ou27z","body":" This is my post in a subreddit (the commentator's name is blackened, but not is profile picture): [https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/facepalm\/comments\/9ot9jt\/dopey\\_persons\\_problems\\_repost\\_for\\_better\\_facepalm\/](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/facepalm\/comments\/9ot9jt\/dopey_persons_problems_repost_for_better_facepalm\/) ","title":"[Germany] Is it legal to share a screenshot of a comment on a 9GAG's public post (posted on Facebook)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444067293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nlm4m\/not_sure_if_this_is_the_right_sub_but_im_not_sure\/","id":"3nlm4m","body":"(Nevada)\n\nEvery year on my birthday I receive a cheque written in my name. With that cheque, I am able to deposit it into my checking account and from there, my mother transfers it into my trust fund account (which I do not have access to) and transfers money back into my checking account as needed. \n\nThis year, we changed the process to protect my money since I'm starting to get larger installments. I received the cheque and the cheque says my mother's name followed by our lawyer's name, followed by \"FBO\" and then my name.\n\nWith this, both my mother and lawyer have to sign the cheque before it can be deposited. \n\nNow, I do not have access to the trust account. Can I deposit the cheque into my checking account, followed by my mother transferring it into the trust account? Can I write up a deposit slip with the trust account's information and directly deposit it into the trust account? \n\nThank you. ","title":"Not sure if this is the right sub, but I'm not sure how to deposit my installment of my estate\/trust fund.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540587707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rolhk\/got_phone_stuck_behind_school_locker\/","id":"9rolhk","body":"I was messing around with some friends and my phone ended up on top of the lockers.I went to the office and told them what happened they said chances are its just going to stay back their , Can they do that?","title":"Got phone stuck behind school locker","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1446840950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rt07s\/no_one_cited_after_car_accident_what_now\/","id":"3rt07s","body":"I was just involved in a car accident last night in Phoenix, AZ.  Was heading north, a southbound-facing car didn't see me and made a left hand turn right in front of me.  I hit the brakes but there simply wasn't enough room to stop.  It was pretty clear that she was waiting for another car to turn right and did not see me at all, she came out of the car saying \"I am SO sorry!!\"  Thankfully neither of us appeared to be hurt.  Two witnesses stopped, one of them gave me their number.\n\nThe arriving officer filed a report, but did not cite anyone.  He said that protocol was to make an observational report and let the insurance companies sort it out.  I am not sitting well with this, as I have a $500 deductible and no rental coverage.  I should be hearing from my adjuster tomorrow, and was told that the other drivers' insurance may pay for a rental and\/or the deductible, but playing the waiting game now.  I just want to be back on the road with as little financial impact as possible, would contacting a lawyer be the smart move or would it needlessly drag out the process?  Any advice would be appreciated.","title":"No one cited after car accident. What now?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552431701,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0egbs\/father_murdered_the_mother_can_his_parents_still\/","id":"b0egbs","body":"My cousin was murdered by her boyfriend yesterday. They left behind a three year old, and the boyfriend\u2019s parents want custody of the child. The child has spent no considerable amount of time with the grandparents. Under TEXAS (caps lock to make things clearer) law, what chance does my kin have on keeping the child? ","title":"Father murdered the mother, can his parents still claim custody?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569755410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/datt5r\/apparently_its_illegal_to_break_down_in_missouri\/","id":"datt5r","body":"On August '18, I was cited for leaving the scene of an accident and failure to stay in one lane causing adv accident. I'd be glad to share the police report; I didn't do it, but I did break down. His case rests on scratches on our car, and that's about it. \n\nThe tie Ross on the front passenger side. I was driving down the street, the tire went, and I hit the curb. As soon as I could, I got off the roadway. I was parked across the street from McDonald's, and after seeing the hittee's Facebook post, she for suspicious and called the police. That is the ONLY train I ended up I his radar. There we're no witnesses. They don't know what time it happened. Someone pin Facebook suggested or was a truck, because they round the corner too fast, casting doubt on \"I'm obviously the only one who could have done out.\"\n\nThe city's attorney did not fine the tickets until May, the day Benni before my court date. I went to court and plead not guilty. We had the pretrial hearing, where the lawyer offered me a plea deal. I turned or down. I went to court for the trial, and the police chief was unable to be there due to poor health. It's been continued until mid-November.\n\nI'm tired of fucking around, and more than anything, I just want this finished.\n\nThank you.\nCat\n\nedit: here's the police report.\n\nhttps:\/\/documentcloud.adobe.com\/link\/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ae3da12ef-06e3-46fd-9bd4-8a960b07df4b","title":"Apparently, it's illegal to break down in Missouri...","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553592340,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5njq6\/au_im_currently_on_workers_compensation_and_my\/","id":"b5njq6","body":"(Australian law) \n\nI'm currently not working due to a work related accident and I've been off for over a month and a half.\n\nI had a meeting with him last week and he said that he would like me to resign but said he will terminate my employment if I choose not to do so.\n\nI followed up an email with him yesterday to the advice of a friend, saying:\n\n\"As per our meeting on the 21\/3\/2019 at approximately 3:30pm in attendance was (person 1) (person 2), (person 3), and myself, at this meeting you asked me to resign.\n\nAt the meeting you also said there will be no position avalible for me when I return after a medical clearance.\n\nPlease clarify this is yours and (company name) standing on my employment?\n\nYours sincerely,\"\n\n\nAnd his respnose was:\n\n\" Adam, we have given you options with your employment. Whether you decide to leave or we terminate you is entirely your choice. As discussed at the meeting, we are no longer using employees for duct installations, and as this is your only skillset within the company, you have the choices as above. We will not have a position for you moving forward.\u00a0\n\nPlease advise at your earliest as we have advised you at our earliest for obvious reasons.\u00a0\"\n\nI have not responded yet.\n\nMy job is an air conditioning installer. I install ducted and split systems, which he failed to mention in the above text.. meaning he will still use the employees he has to carry out the installation of the split systems. The other employees are able to carry out service work as well as install work where I have only done installation work. \n\nWhay are my rights? Am I entitled to redundancy? Will this be an unfair dismissal?\n\nPlease help me as I'm not very familiar with the law.\n\nI plan to seek professional advice in the coming days.\n","title":"(AU) I'm currently on workers compensation and my boss said his discontinuing my line of work and there is now not a position avalible for me","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444856417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ortbp\/wa_lawyer_father_not_following_child_support_order\/","id":"3ortbp","body":"Backstory:\nSo, my daughter's father and I were never married and (oddly\/awkwardly) share a last name. I mention this because it tends to confuse the judge when we have gone to court, they presume we were married when we only dated for a short period of time. \n\nAnyway, the Child Support Order includes payment of 48% of the daycare costs. This works out to roughly $730 a month. The only time he has ever paid this was the one month my lawyer (who was representing me for the Custody Order - never filed) asked him about it. I have sent him more than adequate documentation of the costs on multiple occasions without response.\n\nSince that time, he burned through my legal retainer and then some by meeting with my lawyer, refused to pay to have the Custody Order filed, and only pays the Child Support. In the past year, this has been on time more often but he has also moved so far away that I spend most of this money on gas to pick up my child from visitation. \n\nWe have a somewhat stable truce about visitation which I'm loathe to upset but honestly, I can't afford to pay all the daycare on my own. If it weren't for my fiancee, we'd essentially be homeless or I'd have to give up my reasonably paid job to move away from the city to somewhere with cheaper child care. This isn't fair to my fiancee and I feel crummy about not paying my fair share. \n\nAnyway, I can try reporting him to the state but that wasn't very effective the first time AND was very nerve wracking. Last time, he managed to get the judge to allow him to claim her on his taxes every other year despite only having her 4 days a month in addition to getting his support lowered. I got steamrolled; just thinking about it makes me feel a bit sick (with him and myself).\n\nAs he is in criminal defense, a lot of his work is paid under the table. I presume, or he's really bad at his job and is barely making ends meet - per the financial records he submitted for the original order. I need to be paid back for this daycare. Period. But you can't get blood from a stone.\n\nQuestions:\nCan I report him to the Bar for not following the Support Order? I believe that lawyers in WA have to certify that they are in compliance with all legal orders every year. He's essentially falsified that certification for 2 years now.\n\nWhat is the potential outfall from that sort of report? It does me (and, importantly, my kid) no good if he can't work or knows that I reported him.\n\nI think I need to take him back to court regardless, but I really don't want to. Can anyone point me to better resources so I'd be prepared next time? I had no idea that the tax thing could even be on the table. Advice on what to say to reverse that complete nonsense?\n\nTL;DR What happens when you report a lawyer for not following a Child Support Order?\n\nMany thanks\n(first posting, lemme know if I need to edit)","title":"[WA] Lawyer father not following Child Support Order","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540224548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qf8j7\/i_was_violently_assaulted_how_do_i_make_sure_the\/","id":"9qf8j7","body":"Two days ago, I was walking home alone from campus. I\u2019ve made this walk a hundred times before. I live in a mostly sleepy college town, not a lot of crime.\n\nHowever, on this night, a man passed me on the sidewalk, swung his arm around my neck as he passed, and pulled me onto the ground with him. He wrapped his legs around my body so I couldn\u2019t get up. He covered my mouth with one hand, and used his other arm to put me in a headlock. I remember as he was choking me thinking about how I didn\u2019t expect to die this way. \n\nMy arms were pinned in a way that I couldn\u2019t really move them much, but my hands were free. I pulled his thumb backwards and I heard a pop. Not immediately, but not long after he pushed me off of him and ran away. \n\nI immediately called the police. I gave them a description of the man. They drove me home and I haven\u2019t been able to be alone since. \n\nI had a CT done of my neck, and though I\u2019m not seriously injured, I do have cervical strain, in addition to a black eye and some minor cuts and bruises on my face. \n\nThe police haven\u2019t found anyone. They took down details at the scene, but I\u2019ve since called back and I worry they didn\u2019t record things correctly. I can\u2019t even tell if they\u2019ve checked the cameras in the are.\n\nWhat are my options here? I\u2019m going down to the station today to see what their progress is. How can I make sure my case doesn\u2019t fall to the bottom of the stack? For context, I live in Mississippi.\n\nWith the skill that this man took me down, I have no doubt that I wasn\u2019t his first and I won\u2019t be his last. \n\n\nTLDR: was violently assaulted, need help ensuring the police don\u2019t let this or something worse happen to someone else by being complacent.\n","title":"I was violently assaulted. How do I make sure the police are taking my claim seriously?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1550368869,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arfurz\/not_being_paid_for_what_i_work\/","id":"arfurz","body":"I work in Wisconsin for pharmaceutical manufacturing (quality control). I\u2019m non-exempt salaried. I work three 12-hour shifts and found out recently I don\u2019t get paid more for working between 36 and 40 hours. But I can begin earning overtime for anything over 40. Is it right for my company to not pay me for extra hours after 36, but less than 40? ","title":"Not being paid for what I work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1549927849,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apmkel\/am_i_entitled_to_backpay_ga\/","id":"apmkel","body":"My former employer had a union I paid dues to be a part of and shortly after being hired there, a new contract was supposed to be signed as well as annual raises given out (I began at the end of August 2018, the contract was supposed to be signed sometime in September according to a supervisor, and I quit in January 2019). Well, none of that occurred, and I left about a month ago due to a cut in hours and still no word on when the new pay rate would go in effect. Every time I asked a supervisor, the answer was the same: \"I don't know.\"\n\nAfter I left, my friend told me that they said anyone who quit before the contract was signed would not be entitled to backpay. I even checked the subreddit for the company (it is a big shipping company) and they said the same. The only reason I'm inquiring about this now is because I visited my sister today who graduated with a law degree and said the entire scenario doesn't sound legit and I should look into it. \n\nI'm asking you all: \n\na) are they allowed to withhold back pay for the time I was employed or is that irrelevant because I left? The way the spoke implied we would be getting paid back for working for less than what we were getting. I thought I would receive a check because I was part of that.\n\nb) is this worth pursuing and if so, how would I go about it?\n\n","title":"Am I entitled to backpay? [GA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541445852,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ugnpj\/got_my_first_ever_speeding_ticket_and_i_have_no\/","id":"9ugnpj","body":"I'm not trying to get out of the ticket. I messed up. I just don't really know what I'm supposed to do.\n\nI was pulled over for going 81 in a 65 just outside Little Rock, Arkansas by a state trooper. It's my fault, I was trying to hurry home as it was late at night and I didn't know the speed limit dropped in that area. I'm in my early 20's and have never gotten a ticket before. I don't mind paying the ticket but I would like to avoid higher insurance bills if possible. Is there some sort of defensive driving course or something I can do? Do I have to go to court? Sorry if these are super basic questions I just have zero experience in the legal world.","title":"Got my first ever speeding ticket and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542004246,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wblqu\/is_it_legal_for_landlord_to_refuse_you_to_take_an\/","id":"9wblqu","body":"TL;DR: Mobile home landlord refuses to allow me to leave for work. Threatening to evict if I leave for extended leave. \n\n​\n\nI own a mobile home and pay rent for the space in California. I will need to be out of state for a few months for work. I told the manager\/landlord of the mobile home park that my sister would move in to take care of my place while I'm gone. The manager asked for me to fill out a lengthy application for my sister but no background\/credit check needed. We filled it out, turned it in, but kept getting brushed off for my sister's approval for weeks. \n\n​\n\nI finally cornered the manager and told her I needed an answer *now*. She then says that she is not able to approve because their new community rules (which I was only now given a copy) states: \"no other person will reside in the mobile home without the applicant's presence regardless of whether they are listen on the applications or rental\/lease agreement as an additional occupant.\" She says she will evict me for abandoning my home if she finds out I'm leave. I asked her, \"does this mean I can't even take a 2 week vacation? This doesn't make sense, I don't have to run my schedule by you.\" But she said she didn't care and if she found out that I wasn't physically living in my home then she'd have me kicked out. \n\n​\n\nIs this even legal?? I tried to research if the California Civil Code or Mobile Home Residence Laws state anything about this but haven't been successful. Does someone know?\n\n​","title":"Is it legal for landlord to refuse you to take an extended vacation?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568404051,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3ujfg\/charged_300_on_a_rental_car_for_a_damage_plan_i\/","id":"d3ujfg","body":"So I got into a little bit of a fender bender a few weeks back and long story short there was no damage to either of the cars, but the air bags went off so my insurance is ruling it a total loss. However, while I've been waiting to hear what the settlement is going to be, my insurance company provided me with a rental car through a local rental car business paid for entirely through my insurance.  \n\n\nGetting the rental car was difficult in of itself because I didn't have a vehicle to make it there, and even when I did get there they told me they were out of cars and to come back another day. Eventually I make it on a day and time when there are cars available and the representative goes over everything my insurance covers, the cost, if any damages happen etc etc... During this conversation the representative asks me if I want to do my damage plan through my insurance or through the rental car business. I didn't think it mattered because I assumed the damage plan just came with the car and was paid for through the insurance. I just picked whichever was the cheapest because I didn't think I would be paying for it.   \n\n\nFast forward a few weeks and I still haven't heard back about my settlement and I'm still driving the rental car. I check my bank account and see that there's a $300 charge from the rental car business. Now, I know I hadn't gone over how long I could keep the car, because both the insurance company and the rental car company said they would give me a week's heads up before I have to return the car. So I call the rental car company and ask them why the charge is on my account and they said its because I \"opted\" for the damage plan, and then proceeded to tell me that all of their products are optional and the representative assures me that I was given an option to opt out of the damage plan when I signed up for the car. But I can assure you, as can my friend who was with me that day, that I was never given an option to opt out of the damage plan, just whether I wanted to do it through my insurance or the rental car company.   \n\n\nSo is there anything I can do to get the charge reversed or to claim that the company made me agree to a damage plan without my knowledge? I know its kind of a stretch because I signed off on the whole contract, but I was told that everything on the contract would be paid for by my insurance company. Any and all advice would be appreciated.","title":"Charged $300 on a rental car for a damage plan I wasn't given a choice on","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1408647162,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e7e2k\/parental_kidnappingillegal_adoption\/","id":"2e7e2k","body":"I was told to post this here, and provide more information, so I apologize in advance for the long post, but here we go: We live in Washington state. Two years ago, my best friend brought her then two year old son to her ex (his father) for a visit. At the time, she was the primary parent, and he consistently refused to sign parenting plans. He took the child, and moved to Kansas where he married his cousin (not kidding). They refused to even allow my friend to speak with her son on the phone. They took him to doctors and psychologists and proceeded to tell them that he had been forcibly removed from his mother by the state after having been found in a meth house, dirty and horribly abused. None of these things are even remotely true. They have filed reports of sexual abuse with the local police, they've put into court declarations detailed accounts of their claims that she abused their son, refused to get him medical care, that a social worker with the state took him away, that she's spent a year in jail, and it's all completely false, and very easy to prove. The trouble is, no matter what we do, it seems like nobody cares that they've lied on court paperwork AND that he illegally left the state and refused her even the most basic of visitation with her son. I've been informed that this is a parental kidnapping. As soon as he left, she tried to file police reports that he had taken her son against her wishes. It turned into a \"that's not our jurisdiction\" thing. They refused to even take reports. She has hired two different lawyers with the same result: They take the case, they tell us what a strong case we have, how easy it will be to win, and then they meet privately with his lawyer, stop returning our calls, and that's the end of the lawyer. Well, now she doesn't have money to hire another lawyer, and even though she qualifies financially for the legal assistance programs in our state, they have refused because they say it's a \"high conflict case.\" We've gone to court three times now asking for a writ of habeas corpus (to make him bring back her son), and we've been denied every time. It seems that they believe what he's writing and won't even read what we've written. She has never had any rights to her son taken away, and after he repeatedly called social services early in their relationship with more crazy claims about how she was treating her son, it's well documented that they showed up and found that he was clean, healthy, happy and taken care of. Because he kept filing things in both Kansas and Washington (where we live), there was a UCCJEA (I apologize if that's wrong) hearing that determined that the Washington state court had jurisdiction. Despite that, she was served last month with papers saying that, through the Kansas court, he is trying to have her parental rights terminated, and to let his new wife adopt my friend's son. She's been told that if she can't go to Kansas, it's over. We don't have the money to go. We don't have the money for another lawyer. It's obvious that they don't have the right to do this, but right now it's looking like she may lose her son forever. Is there anything we can do? ","title":"Parental kidnapping\/illegal adoption","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568754817,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5nbyz\/should_i_sue_my_landlord_property_manager\/","id":"d5nbyz","body":"I just moved into a lovely townhouse in VA. everything was going great until it wasn't. So let's get some info up front.\n\n- All fees, deposits, etc were paid without issue.\n- I was instructed to take the key from the lockbox on the door.\n- I was only given 1 key.\n- 2 garage door openers were provided.\n- I was not given information about the ADT security system or any access\/security codes.\n- There is a security lock on the door leading into the garage. It has a keypad. I was not given any access codes or means to program it with a code. It appears to be a Schlage  \nFE595VCAM619ACC\n\n\nI moved my belongings in and was starting to get unpacked. I realized I needed a screwdriver from the garage. My car keys (and house key) were sitting on the kitchen counter, but I did not need them for this trip to the garage.\n\nI walk through the door and into the garage. Grab the item I needed, turned around and tried to renter my home only you realize the door is now locked.\n\nThe Schlage keypad lock has automatically locked me out with my keys inside. I'd already locked the front door of the townhouse as well.\n\nThe property manager\/leasing agent did not have the access code and needed to reach out to the owners who are overseas.\n\nIn the end I called a lock smith to break to deadbolt on the front door (not the Schlage). It cost me about $250 and I'll have to pay to replace the deadbolt as well.\n\nThe property manager says I'm responsible for replacing it and that they will but compensate me for any fees or costs.\n\nMy argument: I was not informed of this locking mechanism, it's functionality, or any access codes needed. No information, or documentation was provided electronically or physically.\n\nThe Schlage lock has a keyhole, but the house hey provided does NOT work with that lock. So it would have proven useless.\n\nCan I, and should I file a civil suit to get my money back. If I file a suit will this cause complications with the property manager, and could they evict me?\n\nThanks I'm advance!","title":"Should I sue my landlord\/ property manager","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409529557,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f4i72\/california_bought_a_car_that_turned_out_to_be_in\/","id":"2f4i72","body":"Hello all. this is my first time submitting something here so if I did something wrong just let me know and I'll fix it.\n\nSo to the problem. My girlfriend and I just bought a car and it turned out the car was in a major accident, the entire front, passenger side suspension was replaced (a different suspension then the car came with), the heater core was removed and there is possible damage to the  dash as well from water damage. We were told by the seller that her husband and his uncle do all the repair work and maintenance to the car, a 2001 Chrysler Pt cruiser. When we asked if the car had been in a crash the seller told us it was in an accident but it was only cosmetic. We were also told the car had a clean title. The vehicle also has other issues we were not informed about. We just bought and registered the car last week and received a letter from the DMV that stated money was owed on the vehicle with a date saying money was owed last month and that the car can not be legally driven.  We feel that we were lied to, and scammed. What can we do?\n\nedit: Just wanted to add that we don't feel safe driving the car now that we know what is wrong with it.\n","title":"[California] Bought a car that turned out to be in a major accident and owner stated it was just cosmetic","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443668611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n207g\/new_york_city_received_a_rent_increase_letter\/","id":"3n207g","body":"Tried to sum it up in the title, but the short story is as follows:\n\nI am rent-stabilized. When I moved in, my building was privately owned. The owner sold the building to a management company in 2013, who had to make many updates (for both legal and cosmetic reasons). As such, the management applied for a rent increase and it was granted, despite an appeal from the tenants. The rent increase is fair enough, but there is also a note about a \"temporary retroactive rent increase\" of $1,500, since the management applied in October 2014 and was not granted until now.\n\nI understand the rent increase, that's fair, but is this implying that I am supposed to send a $1,500 check to the management, on top of my rent increase on the first of the month, tomorrow? I essentially lived in a work zone for over 2 years, and my apartment was left untouched.\n\nThank you for any help or insight you guys can offer.\n\n[Letter from Management and DHCR](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/6f0co)\n\nEDIT: Sometimes it just takes a second or third pair of eyes to help make it all clear! I'm going to give the management a call tomorrow, but all of your observations seem on-point. Thanks all.","title":"[New York City] Received a rent increase letter from the DHCR, which not only raises my rent but also calls for a \"temporary retroactive rent increase\" of +$1,500. What does this mean, and do I have to pay it? Images enclosed.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571373354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djie5r\/ok_so_i_accidently_found_nude_pictures_of_kids_on\/","id":"djie5r","body":"Lemme explain so last month I was on the net looking for \u201cof age porn\u201d and I searched some words hoping for good nude pics and ALOT of nude pics of underage kids came up in the search. Took me a minute to realize it but when I did I wasn\u2019t sure why I found something like this so easy. The words \u201clittle mis nudist pageant\u201d came up in some of the pics that led to websites with the source. \n\nSo I looked up online legal wise if I could be arrested for this and I read articles saying some nudist parents Were arrested before for having pics of thier kids naked. But the court defines that it was not child porn cause they were not touching themselfs or committing sexual acts. \n\nMy question is is this true fir Florida? If the fbi saw I found it on my computer would I be arrested for CP and if that happened what would be my defense?","title":"Ok so I accidently found nude pictures of kids on the internet so what my legal defense?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571317508,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj64c4\/repeated_incidents_with_no_consequences\/","id":"dj64c4","body":"     Hi guys seeking a little guidance about my current situation. I work for a small start up in the Boston area. Great company for the most part. My issue is that I\u2019ve had a number of incidents with the same individual and no actions have been taken against them. The most recent of which makes me feel that if this person is not removed then I have to leave.\n\n   The first few incidents were not initially reported because it was early in both our hiring and I didn\u2019t want to seem like a tattle tale, but ultimately the individual yelled \u201cthen go fuck yourself\u201d loud enough the whole office went quite, and an incident 2 mo later in which this same person stood up next to me and said \u201cyou want to talk some fucking shit\u201d. In a very threatening manner.\n\n  All of this was brought to the attention of the employer but nothing past sitting in a room and making him apologize has been done unfortunately. This had made my relationships in the office difficult following the incidents as he basically kissed everyone else\u2019s ass enough to exclude me from every extracurricular.\n\n   This week I had issues with our cloud service syncing used his computer to make sure my projects were syncing and what do you know, my name is open on a group chat with 3-5 other employees. The discussion at hand was essentially a collusion to set up a fixed \u201crace\u201d that he would know about and I would not in order to investigate my job performance and \u201cdecide if it\u2019s worth it to keep me on\u201d. Something which he has 0 ability to organize or actually fulfill.  I took this information to my employer and a meeting has been set to discuss next week. \n\n   My worry is that the individual in question will not be removed, and I may be forced to continue to work in this environment until I find another job.\n\n   My thought at the moment is maybe I provide a sheet outlining the incidents in question, and just have the employer sign the sheet. This would be so that in the event he does not leave, and they deny me working from home that I have evidence to supply unemployment insurance so that I wouldn\u2019t be without income for the next few months. \n\n   I\u2019m sorry if this is written terribly. I\u2019m very frustrated, and of course thank you in advance for any advice!","title":"Repeated incidents with no consequences","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552799466,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b21tg7\/changing_which_parent_is_in_charge_of_my_health\/","id":"b21tg7","body":"I am 18, and was wondering how would I go about changing which parent is in charge of health insurance. On the divorce decree it is my non-primary parent that is responsible for medical things.","title":"changing which parent is in charge of my health","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540243332,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qi5qe\/pa_is_it_legal_to_scam_overseas_scammers\/","id":"9qi5qe","body":"My grandmother recently fell victim to one of those fake tech support pop up scams on the internet in which people overseas, usually India, will put adverts on the internet convincing people to call a number where they charge money for bogus tech support. \n\nI wasn\u2019t too happy about this, so I did some research to find out how these folks operate. I came across a Facebook group for people who run these scams where they can exchange data sets of names and phone numbers of people to call, as well as JavaScript code for setting up ads to host on websites and whatnot. So here\u2019s what I did. \n\nI created a fake Indian Facebook profile to join one of these groups. They let me in. I managed to get myself added to a WhatsApp group for scammers as well. Then I decided to take advantage some of these people. I create an excel file with a list of randomly generated names and phone numbers that I took from a website that sells unused phone numbers for people to use, and I advertised that I had names and numbers for sale. I had 5 different people take the bait and I managed to make $200 off of these people that I had them wire to a fake PayPal account I set up, which I then wired to my legit PayPal account. I then deleted my profile and my WhatsApp account and never looked back. \n\nEven though these people are criminals and overseas, could I still get in trouble for doing this? ","title":"[PA] Is it legal to scam overseas scammers?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571725800,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dldw0t\/my_mother_is_going_through_my_mail_and_wont_let\/","id":"dldw0t","body":"I'm a 21 year old full time employee who still lives with her mother and I'm at a point I feel trapped. \n\nA guess a good place to start is the fact I grew up in a household of abuse, physical and verbal, where extended family stalked us into hiding. In fighting was common, I even had makes across my face from where my mother hit me. Over the years, it has calmed down- no physical abuse but more verbal. I'm called a manipulative bitch more times than I can count and have gone to work or school in tears. \n\nWhen I went off to college, it came to a head when I ended up in debt to the tune of $2k that the school demanded I paid up. Though I begged her not to, my mother forced me to \"let her\" pay for it. I had wanted to bear the debt as it was my fault, but it was after weeks of screaming I bent and let her do it. \n\nHer solution had been to place it on a credit card. I should not have, but as a sign of good faith and to show I was serious about paying it off, I gave her permission to put my name and social on the card as well. The interest was alright for the amount and I was working on a plan to slowly pay her back and still go to school. \n\nThen she placed $13k on the card for legal fees that came from the divorce with my father. The card with my name on it. The interest shot through the roof and she told me I was the one who needed to pay off the interest, which had gone from a manageable amount to something I literally could not sustain. I ended up dropping out of college and working full time at the first job that took me. \n\nAfter a year of struggling, I came home to find her asking me in depth questions about my financial standing. I never let her put her name on any of my banking information outside that one card, something I kept separate from all of my money. I didn't think much of the questions until I found her shifting through my mail. Because of the card, I get a lot of shady credit card offers through the mail. I hit the limit where my bank has to alert me that credit requests were going through and my mother believed the small letter was a bounced check or something else of the sort. \n\nI watched as she opened it and proceeded to read it, holding the paper from me when I asked that she gave it to me. It was done with no hesitation on her part and it seemed to be without any realization of what she had done being wrong at all.\n\nI don't know what to do at this point. I'm worried of what she might have done outside of this one letter, how many of these things she might have gone through without talking to me. She won't let me move out, demanding I pay her back before I even consider leaving. \n\nI don't know where to go from here.\n\nHelp","title":"My Mother is going through my mail and won't let me leave [Colorado]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447067158,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s4d0t\/i_think_i_might_of_been_scammed_and_need_some\/","id":"3s4d0t","body":"Hello, i recently did business with someone on craigslist to trade my ps4 for a computer that they had listed. They lived about 3 hours away, so we agreed to meet in the middle. On the day we were supposed to meet something came up for me and i couldn't make it. I let him know, told him we could just ship it and give each other tracking numbers. At this point he had already agreed to meet me in person and i had been talking to him for several days so it seemed like a fine enough deal. I shipped my package, his shipping turned out to be more than expected and he claimed he couldn't ship it until Friday when he got paid. Something came up for him Friday and he claims he sent it Saturday morning. So, i asked him for a tracking number and he said he would give me it when he got home from work around 10 pm. So i waited and didn't ever get a text or email. I emailed him again after telling him to get a hold of me. It's now about 5 am on Monday. Last i heard from him was the previously mentioned email on Saturday letting me know he shipped it out and he said it should be here Monday. In the event that i'm getting scammed and my package doesn't show up today, what should i do? I have his phone number, PayPal email address, and his address. I also did some research into his name and found out his wife's name, several relatives names, where he works and various other things about him. I just want to know what to do if my package doesn't show today or i don't hear from him. Thanks for any helpful information in advance. \n\nEDIT: I'm located in the united states in Arkansas.","title":"I think i might of been scammed and need some advice.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568524116,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4g9le\/tow_company_questions\/","id":"d4g9le","body":"I don\u2019t really know where i\u2019d post this so this is my best guess, anyways I live in an apartment complex and the parking is for guest\/tenants only. It\u2019s not a car we take out too much anymore so we don\u2019t really want to pay it back, but we also don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth enough to cover the 2,380 lien sale fee. I\u2019ve read online since it was a private party impound, all we have to do is prove ownership to the car and we won\u2019t have to pay the storage\/ towing amount ( which is what\u2019s costing the most ), the website i looked up didn\u2019t specify where this applied so I just need some clarification. Car value is less then 4000 and State is California","title":"Tow company questions","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442442136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l89b7\/apartment_management_wants_to_renew_my_contract\/","id":"3l89b7","body":"**Forgot to add location to title - [UT, USA]**\n\nMy contract expires on Halloween, and today management just emailed me a renewal offer of $140 higher than what I'm currently paying. Last year we verbally agreed (which I understand may have no bearing since it wasn't written) that rent would only go up by up to 3% upon renewal. \n\nWhen I inquired about the exorbitant rent increase, the rationale she gave was that a 10% military discount was accidentally applied to my rent rate last year **(not specified anywhere on the contract)**. The response I received from the leasing office was:\n\n\"We definitely appreciate you as a tenant, but you do need to understand that this past year you have had $1290 in savings and the property now needs to recoup these costs.\"\n\nIs there anything I can do to receive a more reasonable rate? $140 is a 13% increase from my current contract rate. Of course I can find somewhere else to live, but I was operating under the assumption that my rent would only go up $20-30, not a whopping $140, and up to this point had every intention to renew. I would like to remain a tenant because moving is such a hassle and I love my current place. Any help would be appreciated.","title":"Apartment Management wants to renew my contract, but raise my rent $140\/mo - anything I can do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1549897996,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aph6jv\/kansas_questions_about_signing_a_separation\/","id":"aph6jv","body":"I am asking a general question about signing a release and non disclosure agreement with a former employer. My understanding of these type of agreements is that they may include a period of time where you can choose to revoke the agreement after signing it. is there any reason to not ask the employer to remove the seven day period where you can choose to revoke the agreement? as a hypothetical example someone might be concerned that the entity offering the agreement could invent information saying the person spoke about the agreement (which violates the agreement) during the seven day period after you signed it and say the agreement is now void, and not pay the agreed severance. \n\nThanks !\n\n","title":"[Kansas] Questions about signing a separation agreement with an employer","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568499058,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4bua4\/fl_estate_deceased_parents_unclaimed_property\/","id":"d4bua4","body":"Hi Guys,\n\nMy mother passed away back in 2015 and we went through probate, and were named the executors and personal representatives of the estate via court documents\n\nI'm not too sure why this wasn't found by our lawyers when we went through probate, but I was recently contacted to notify me that there was unclaimed money under my moms name in the Florida unclaimed property system, I checked the website ([fltreasurehunt.gov](https:\/\/fltreasurehunt.gov)) to find it, and verified there are unclaimed funds under her name.\n\nI'd like to get them without having a lawyer involved again, as there's only approx 2 grand involved and was hoping to use it for property taxes.\n\nI filed a claim (or rather, started the process) and was told I need the following:\n\n>1.The original completed and signed claim form, **with**;  \n>  \n>2.A legible copy of the current government issued photo I.D. of the claimant. Example - driver\u2019s license;  \n>  \n>3.An original certified copy of the death certificate for the deceased owner;  \n>  \n>4.A certified copy of legal probate documentation, dated within the past year, that reflects you are the legal heir or current representative for the estate of the deceased owner;  \n>  \n>5.Proof the deceased owner is the same individual who is listed as the owner of each account claimed. See claim form for examples\n\nNow the part that I need help with, I have documents from the Pinellas county circut court stating that myself and my sister are personal representatives & executors of the estate, dated February 18th 2016.\n\nMy understanding is that the estate was closed once we finished (or so we thought) our affairs.\n\nDo we need to \"re-open\" the estate for this?\n\nCan I just request a copy from the circuit court to show myself and my sister are the heirs to my mothers estate and put in the claim?\n\nFor example:\n\nI can request a copy here:[https:\/\/public.co.pinellas.fl.us\/copyrequest\/guestorderprobate.do](https:\/\/public.co.pinellas.fl.us\/copyrequest\/guestorderprobate.do)\n\nObviously it's a probate case, it's marked as closed, and it's asking me for a type of pleading etc\n\nDo I just put in the additional information basically what I outlined above, and that all I'd want is another copy of the proof that we're executors and representatives of the estate and that's it?\n\nAny advice or information would be greatly appreciated\n\nThank you!","title":"[FL] [ESTATE] Deceased Parent's Unclaimed Property?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570224160,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dddrft\/bank_accidentally_issued_a_1400_check_in_the_name\/","id":"dddrft","body":"My mother died in December 2017.  At the time of her death all of her assets, including her house and an IRA were in a trust. My brother is the trustee and he and I are the beneficiaries. \n\nWe sold her house and divided up her most of her assets 50\/50 in 2018. It took until early 2019 to finalize rolling over the IRA into two separate IRA\u2019s. One in my bothers name and the one in mine. \n\nNationwide, who had the trust IRA and now had the IRAs in me and my brothers name issued two checks made out to the trust. The mandatory withdrawal for 2018. One of these checks was issued by accident. \n\nNationwide should have only issued a check for $1230. The post tax amount of the mandatory 2018 IRA withdrawal. Instead they issued one check for $1230 and one for $1400. My brother deposited both of these checks into the trust checking account and then withdrew the money and split it 50\/50 between us.\n\nNationwide called and they want their $1400 back.  At his point the sole asset of the trust itself is a checking account with $50 in it. The house was sold and we closed a year ago.  My mother\u2019s assets have all been split and distributed except for the $50 in the trust checking account. We keep the $50 there in case we receive another check in her name to keep the account open. \n\nWhat can Nationwide do to us if we don\u2019t return the $1,400. I know they can put a lien on the trust assets, but there\u2019s only $50 in the account. Can they try and go after my brother and my individual IRAs?  They are Nationwide IRAs but they are in our names, not the trusts.  \n\nMy brother and I don\u2019t want to return the $1,400. It was their mistake. But what can they do to us if we keep it?","title":"Bank accidentally issued a $1,400 check in the name of my late mother\u2019s trust. We deposited it. They want their money back.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1503719631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w3ith\/old_landlord_trying_to_collect_15_months_of\/","id":"6w3ith","body":"This isn't actually my old landlord but my roommates'. I'm still part of this whole mess though since I subletted one of the rooms in the house.\n\nMy roommate just got a huge packet in the mail from her old landlord detailing a total of 2083 dollars that they still owed him. Apparently there were 15 months of unpaid water bills that they owe plus a couple of missing rent checks and some other things. I double checked the lease and they are indeed responsible for water, however they were apparently only required to transfer gas and electric before they got their keys.\n\nWhat's strange though is that the landlord never said anything about the water bill being due until after everyone had already moved out almost a month. On top of that he didn't start asking for missing rent checks until the month before move out. There were checks missing from a whole summer ago. He also never said anything about getting the water transferred or owing him money for the water.\n\nI'm not sure how to deal with this situation. On the whole it just feels sketchy and irresponsible, but at the same time since it says on the lease that they are responsible for paying water technically he is allowed to ask for that money. I don't know what the law is in Pennsylvania and I also don't know if what the landlord did is legal or not. \n\nJust not sure what to do next anymore.\n\nTL;DR - roommate's old landlord is suddenly asking for 15 months of water bills and missing rent checks from months ago after everyone moved out for almost a month without ever saying anything beforehand, not sure how to proceed \n","title":"Old landlord trying to collect 15 months of \"unpaid\" water bills","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541963127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w6fxa\/living_in_a_weekly_they_keep_retaliating_against\/","id":"9w6fxa","body":"(copy and pasted from my message to an lawyer on AVVO, Im a Las Vegas resident.) \n\nI live in a weekly. Been paying for over a year. They have put me on no re rent multiple times. Threatening, harassing (including some sexual harassment from security), and retaliation. My ex was trespassed from the premises for something he didn\u2019t even do. He has only helped me with bringing up groceries and water a few times and pick me up and drop me off because I\u2019m pregnant with a high risk pregnancy and need help. \n\nThe landlord doesn\u2019t even let me know I\u2019m on no rerent and never comes to my door. (She lives in same building) but leaves it on my packet to where I only find out when I go down to pay rent to find out SHOCKINGLY I can\u2019t pay rent. They never let me see this notice even when I request. \n\nI wish to move in two weeks but afraid of being locked out or officially evicted before I can finish packing by myself and my new apartment is ready. \n\nI have written incident reports and they never get solved. During the incident where my ex got trespassed they let someone who broke into his car and steal documents with my name on it to go into the office and do a welfare check they brought this stranger to my door who proceeds to just ask for my ex. The security stood and did nothing when the strange hits my ex. Then security forcibly holds my door open as I\u2019m trying to close it and kept looking me up and down and I\u2019m half dressed! I felt completely violated. They didn\u2019t trespassed the strange only my ex who was the victim. When nothing was even done to \u201cwelfare check in\u201d on me. \n\nI want to know if I can stay the two weeks while being on no re rent? Do I have any standing? I am unsure what to do this is my first time living on my own. I would like to have advice on this situation. Thank you!\n\n- - - - - - - - - -","title":"Living in a weekly, they keep retaliating against me. I'm moving in 10 days but on No re rent. Worried and pregnant.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541740419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vhp2o\/why_dont_people_know_how_to_reverse_park\/","id":"9vhp2o","body":"Located in US, Florida \n\nSo I went to work at around 10 am yesterday, parked my car as usual and got off work at 5 pm. Came back and the car parked behind me looked awfully close, so I just go to check the back, lo and behold this guy doesn\u2019t know distance and the bumper of his car is just casually digging into the back of mine. Now, the damage isn\u2019t life changing, the paint is chipped off and it\u2019s slightly dented inwards, you can barely tell. However, it\u2019s still an inconvenience to me and honestly I\u2019m just so annoyed because it\u2019s not like they even bothered to check how they parked and now my decently new car has an ugly scratch on it. \n\nI didn\u2019t bother to wait around for them to come back and just left, is it too late to call anyone about it and get this sorted?\n\nWhat could I do to inconvenience them? \nTheir car didn\u2019t have any damage and honestly I\u2019m just trying to get them to pay for their horrible parking job they obviously didn\u2019t care about what they were doing. ","title":"Why don\u2019t people know how to reverse park","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503782313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w86rx\/teen_startup_looking_to_protect_ourselves_and_be\/","id":"6w86rx","body":"Hi R\/LegalAdvice,\nMyself and two friends are almost a week away from launching a website (been almost 7 months of work!). We're ridiculously excited and believe there's big potential. I'd like to keep the specifics private but our site mainly involves an E-Commerce operation and an Affiliate operation. We offer affiliates an option to upgrade their tier and receive certain features. They can achieve this either through a direct payment or hitting a sales goal. My dad is worried we may be opening ourselves up to more legal liability by offering a paid service. God forbid we have to bring things to an end at some point, would we have to refund the purchases of these \"advanced memberships\"? \n\nSecond issue:\nWe literally have no terms and conditions or anything of that matter. My two friends and I all signed contracts we made stating our roles and amount of equity\/shares owned and then scanned and uploaded the documents to each other and made duplicates so I believe were fine on the management end? We also have each invested a considerable amount of money and just want to make sure everything's fine there. However what can we set up for our affiliates or do we even need to?\n\nThird issue:\nWe're all 15 \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af. I'm sure I've violated a few rules along the way in terms of age restrictions on several programs we use including PayPal etc. However, my parents are fully aware and had originally created them for me. I'm not sweating that too much but for Shopify and several other things I need to have Tax ID's and enter my SS#. Should I have my dad \"sign up\" and use his info even though I'm running the entire operation? What are the legal ramifications and is it even likely that the Paypl thing would become an issue? If we did register it in my dads name would we have to go back and register the business and everything in his name?\n\nSo now my final questions are:\nA: What can we do to protect ourselves?\nB: Do we need an LLC and can someone guide us to the right place to begin that?\nC: What do we do in the case that we have to shut down when people have paid for memberships?\n","title":"Teen startup looking to protect ourselves and be legal - NY","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570488083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/der2v8\/stepdaughters_father_refusing_to_provide_health\/","id":"der2v8","body":"I will try and make this quick and simple. I am just interested what if any are my options for the following situation. \n\nI currently carry my step daughter on my health insurance because her biological mom is a stay at home mom for our biological daughter. The situation is I recently found out my SD biological father has his own insurance and is refusing to add my SD.  It normally wouldn\u2019t be an issue but she is undergoing very intense treatment that is extremely expensive.  I am just trying to figure out my options. Every time we bring it up to home he goes ghost and we don\u2019t hear from him. \n\nThanks in advance.","title":"Stepdaughters father refusing to provide health insurance.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569847821,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbb2x3\/a_theoretical_situation_i_almost_ran_into_driving\/","id":"dbb2x3","body":"Who\u2019s fault would it be if one car has their tail lights out and someone ends up rear ending them?","title":"A theoretical situation I almost ran into driving today","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552580195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b128lu\/my_boss_is_giving_my_scheduled_hours_away_after\/","id":"b128lu","body":"This is in Ontario Canada. \n\nWithout going into a lot of the personal details I got a new job and gave my 2 weeks notice a few days ago. I was scheduled for 3 shifts this week and 3 shifts next week at my current job. \n\nI worked one of my shifts this week and was approached by a coworker when I announced my new job asking if she could have one of my shifts next week so I gave it to her because I knew she needed the money more than me. \n\nToday, I woke up around 5 am feeling pretty ill so I called work a few hours before I was supposed to work and told them I wouldn't be coming in. Within minutes I was asked to call my general manager where she accused me of avoiding shifts because of my new job and implied I was going to just call in for the rest of my shifts to fuck them over. This was not my intention. \n\nWhen I mentioned I was sick and struggling with a chronic illness which she knew about she told me that she was also sick but still came into work because that's what people do. She told me I needed to \"take time to recover\" and told me not to bother coming in for my shifts this week because she would find someone else to work them and told me to let her know sometime today if I wanted to bother coming in for my shifts next week or she would just give them away too.\n\nI'm trying to keep my feelings out of this the best I can but I'm very hurt by her actions considering I really love the company and the only reason I'm leaving was because of the lack of available hours. \n\nWere any laws broken here out of curiosity? I'm debating emailing our district manager about it. ","title":"My boss is giving my scheduled hours away after giving 2 week notice.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507313873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74phfs\/i_want_to_file_a_complaint_against_a_previous\/","id":"74phfs","body":"US\/Arizona\n\nI recently quit my job with this place because I had a new job come up however my friends and manager still work there. My manager has been there for four years and is one of the hardest workers I know, yesterday the area supervisor, basically our boss, came in and started yelling at the top of his lungs at my manager telling her she was plotting against him trying to get her employees to ruin his company. He then proceeded to tell her she could either quit right now to make sure she stays positive in his book or he could fire her right there. I tried calling their hotline but said they couldn't help with this situation, I sent an email requesting information but still haven't gotten anything and as the title states I can't go to HR because his wife works there and would almost surely block me out. There is no audio or visual recordings as far as I'm aware, I know nothing of law, is this legal? What steps can I take to help out?","title":"I want to file a complaint against a previous boss but his wife works in HR and fear she'll shut it down before it can go anywhere.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507101003,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/746jyi\/wi_how_to_help_my_dad_write_a_will_he_has_stage_4\/","id":"746jyi","body":"What steps can I go about to help him write a will, is this something I will need to hire an attorney for or can I do this without one.  \n\nMy dad has a couple of acres of land in Florida as well, but as the title states we reside in Wisconsin but he would like to have the land in Florida under my name along with the house.\n\nAny advice will be highly appreciated.","title":"(WI) How to help my dad write a will? He has stage 4 cancer and is in hospice care, will I need to get an attorney?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554260349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8sopu\/tenant_problem\/","id":"b8sopu","body":"Tenant told me they would pick up house AS-IS it\u2019s stated in contract. They repainted the house fixed the bathtub and told me they want me to pay them $800 for the paint they bought and the bathtub.  Am I supposed to pay them for the amount they spent?","title":"Tenant problem","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443664490,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n1r8m\/austintx_legal_divorce_help_pls\/","id":"3n1r8m","body":"My husband of 16 years cheated on me and decided he wanted to divorce me because \"this wasn't working for him\" his words.\nWe have a 15yr old son, he has four other older children all adults. Now he is saying he will take out son and move out of the state to be with her before next June.\n\nHere is my problem. I have been a housewife the whole time we were married. I have supported him emotionally and sometimes financially (small things like getting the power turned back on, or buying groceries when he had no money). I have no income. I do small things online to make myself some emergency money, which I tend to have to use a lot lately since he has been doing whatever with his money.\nI knew our marriage wasn't great and I was willing to work on it, he was not. \nI also have had a hard time looking for pro bono legal aid, as it seems I'm not qualified. Also if he did leave me here and take our son. I would be abandoned. I can't work, I have very bad social phobias, I don't even know how I can get to see a lawyer if I found one that would take me. I have no transportation and no metro\/bus service where I live. My husband is my sole source for me son and I get to food\/supplies, him to school EVERYTHING! \nI have been told to \"talk to a lawyer\", I can't get out of the house to do that let alone pay for one. I have trouble with phones as well. \nI'm screwed!, He wants sole custody, he wants to dump me here in a state I came too only cause he moved us for his job 5 years ago.\nI have no family or friends here to help what so ever.\nPlease I beg the Reddit community, please give helpful advice. I'm so stressed and have no way out of this.","title":"{Austin,Tx} legal divorce help pls!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554910496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbnf14\/what_are_my_rights_as_a_contractor_who_receives_a\/","id":"bbnf14","body":"I was an employee and they switched me over to be a 1099 contractor without changing my job at all. I've asked if I can work from home, they said no. I've tried to change my hours, that get upset. I'm expected to be in the office everyday 10-4 and have to give a few days notice if I want to take time off. Does anyone have any resources for me that could help me understand what is going on here? What are my rights?","title":"What are my rights as a contractor who receives a 1099? (Illinois)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555361521,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdl9pv\/subscription_box_company_used_my_original\/","id":"bdl9pv","body":"Today my partner sent me a screenshot of a sponsored facebook advertisement for SprezzaBox which used a picture I had taken of a nice arrangement I made of a previous box's contents and posted on my personal instagram profile. They've posted my picture on their instagram story before, but I was actually given credit then (still no permission). While I tagged SprezzaBox in the post, I am not and never have been an official ambassador or influencer for the company; I've read their rules for ambassadors and will never become one she to the exploitative nature of their terms of agreement (basically giving them free reign to use my likeness and original content how they please without limit).\n\nI have proof that I took the picture and posted it, and I saved the screenshot of the ad in case it magically disappears. So what are my options here? Do I request compensation? Demand they take it down or give me credit? A combination of those? \n\nTL;DR SprezzaBox used my instagram picture for an online ad without crediting\/compensating me or requesting permission, and I want to know how I can\/should proceed\n\nEdit: I'm located in Maryland","title":"Subscription box company used my original Instagram picture without permission\/notice and didn't even credit me.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554053072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7q68r\/leaving_trash_behind_after_renting\/","id":"b7q68r","body":"Long story short, I was a tenant at will for a really awful landlord. When we moved in the place was disgusting and the old tenants trash was left behind in a pile on the floor (it was a LOT of trash). We cleaned it up before we moved in, despite my landlord saying she would do it (she \"never got around to it\")  We're currently moving out (Need to be out by the first) and she told us not to put anything else in the dumpster we usually use because it's \"full\". (it isn't actually full, she just doesn't want us using it). What are we supposed to do with the trash? We didnt put a deposit down or anything because we were tenants at will. Could we get in trouble for leaving it behind? It's in bags in a pile. ","title":"Leaving trash behind after renting","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539740187,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9otzos\/the_plaza_i_work_in_has_a_grocery_store_whose\/","id":"9otzos","body":"Hi all, thanks for reading. I hope I've selected the correct flair. \n\nI work in a plaza that has a big chain grocery store. My work's suite is at the bottom of a slight slope and carts left by negligent shoppers have slammed into several cars (including my own) leaving scratches and dents galore. When confronted, the grocery store manager said they are not liable for their carts. We asked if they could install locks on the wheels (so if they traveled too far, they would lock up) and they said that was too expensive to maintain, as they'd had it in the past. \n\nThis has left myself & my co workers (as well as several plaza patrons) with a huge headache, as these carts are constantly flying down the slope, hitting our vehicles. I myself have 3 dents the diameter of a can of coke and the grocery store will do nothing. \n\nDo we have any options or recourse for this?","title":"The plaza I work in has a grocery store whose carts have damaged several vehicles. Grocery store won't reimburse or compensate anyone for the damages","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539715003,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oqfkh\/a_friend_of_mine_is_being_forced_to_pay_300week\/","id":"9oqfkh","body":"My friend lives in South Carolina, United States.\nA friend of mine was recently contacted to inform as part of their lease that they cannot own specific dogs because they are \"Dangerous\". This includes Pitbulls, Bulldogs, German Shepherds, Boxers, Chows, Akitas Huskies, and Rottwielers. The dog is technically a mix of the 3 listed, but they have owned the dog for nearly 2 years without an issue in the same location. It recently just became up because a neighbor complained about it barking once. They are required to pay $300 a week or get rid of the dog they say. My friend is not a Redditor, so I am here to ask for advice on what can be done. Is there anything that can be done for this situation? My friend and their family cannot afford the $300\/week, and the dog has become attached to them dearly In addition if the dog is given up they are afraid that it will not comply very willingly and end up becoming exactly what it is deemed by the lease. This might all be for nought, but I cannot sit idle as my friend loses their best friend. Thank you for taking your time to read this, and I hope that someone can help. \n\n\n-If any additional Information is needed, let me know. I will be glad to provide it if it will help decide the situation. ","title":"A Friend of mine is being forced to pay $300\/Week or Give up their dog.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540487244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rc7a9\/wa_management_company_found_error_in_their_lease\/","id":"9rc7a9","body":"I\u2019m living in the same house for 1.5 years, one year under one lease and this year under a new one due to change in roommates. The old lease outlined that tenants covered electricity, gas, garbage, and internet in addition to rent. The new lease, prepared for and signed by the management company, states tenants are only responsible now for electricity, gas, and internet. Garbage is explicitly outlined as a utility covered by the company. A few other things in the lease changed like length of time guests can stay over, etc, but nothing unusual. Rent remained the same.\n\nMy roommate and I didn\u2019t question it since they prepared the lease and signed it. We thought it was a change in their management policies for properties or a reward for being good tenants. \n\nI emailed the management company about the garbage bills in September and never heard back about that, though they did contact me about another issue. Now they are angrily emailing us to sign an addendum otherwise the property manager has to pay out of pocket for our garbage.\n\nI explained I understand it is a mistake on their part but I had no reason to question why they started paying for it. They\u2019re accusing us of trying to get out of a prior arrangement, being bad people, etc.\n\nWhat can we do? The garbage has now accumulated fees due to lack of timely payments and is upwards of $200.","title":"(WA) Management company found error in their lease, wants to resign","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539372674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nnbpx\/no_parking\/","id":"9nnbpx","body":"So I go to a smaller college that has streets right beside it where a lot of the students park, and one day some paper signs show up by 2 of the houses that say no parking and are tied to a tree by a string. Now since parking is limited, I thought this was crazy so I need some advice. Can I park there and not get towed? Can a citizen just put paper signs up? (No I wouldn't be blocking a driveway) ","title":"No parking?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569366984,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8v4le\/i_was_told_this_happens_every_where\/","id":"d8v4le","body":"So I work at a small grocery store in Mississippi, US, and the vendors sell us products with vendor coupons so we'd sell them on sale and they'd refund us. However my store sells them at regular price then claims credit on the coupons lying to the vendor company. Is this legal? Ask questions on details in the comments","title":"I was told this happens every where","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570147535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dczk11\/abandoned_in_a_3rd_world_country_with_2_kids_to\/","id":"dczk11","body":"Please help!  I have been trying to represent myself to the best of my ability in a CA court in Riverside County for the past 16 months because my husband took our community business income away from me, left me with all the bills and has forced impoverishment on my 2 children & I in a 3rd world country.  \n\nI have contacted numerous attorneys for assistance and no one has been able to help me because I have the \"potential\" of getting my 1\/2 of my business income back and have a small home in Honduras that has a mortgage.  \n\nThe case now has a new commissioner assigned who has no idea what she is doing and is making matters even worse for me by stripping away my previous ability to appear by phone and placing delay upon delay upon delay on my Request for Orders for EMERGENCY child support, return of business assets, alimony and attorney's fees so I can have help representing myself, which I filed back in APRIL, 2019.  I think I should recuse her as well as do an Ex Parte hearing, but I have no funds to accomplish this.  I have already had to take almost $50,000 in loans out just to survive.  \n\nThank you, in advance, so very much.  I am so frustrated, stressed and sad that I have had to do everything on my own with still no legal help from anyone to get this loser of an ex that I was married to for 23 years to be responsible and give me what is rightfully mine.","title":"Abandoned in a 3rd World Country, with 2 kids to support, no income & going through a divorce with a Sociopath","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508377500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77bdde\/turned_on_the_apartment_complexs_outdoor_water\/","id":"77bdde","body":"Location: Texas\n\nI have a lot of plants on my balcony and was hooking up a hose to the building's outdoor faucet, mainly to see if it even worked. Well, it didn't, and now it's spewing water like it's turned on even though I've shut it off as much as I can. There was a plastic bag loosely tied around it, but nothing saying \"broken\" and when I went over the lease with the staff in detail there was nothing saying to not turn out the outdoor faucets. They don't have an after hours emergency line for maintenance, so it won't stop pouring. The office opens at 9am tomorrow.\n\nWhat should I do?","title":"Turned on the apartment complex's outdoor water faucet and now it's leaking profusely, and won't be able to let anyone know until tomorrow morning. Can I be held responsible?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539983853,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9po2hz\/driving\/","id":"9po2hz","body":"A little backstory, my girlfriend, now 19, got in trouble for stealing when she was 17 and is on \"good behavior\" for 2 years and her license was suspended as well. After the suspension was up, she went to get her license but they needed her birth certificate which her mother lost, so she couldn't get it. We live in Virginia but she's from Pennsylvania, so they ordered it online twice but every time they call they say the status is pending.\n\nFast forward to a month ago, she gets pulled over for speeding, tells the cop she forgot her license, and gets a reckless ticket doing 100 in a 70 and another ticket for not having her license. The cop tells her to just bring her license to court and they will drop that charge. I wasn't there and honestly don't know how he didn't arrest her on the spot, this was in Virginia.\n\nFast forward to last weekend, she decides that she's just gonna drive to Pennsylvania and get her birth certificate so she can get her license before court. I couldn't drive her because of work. She says she's gonna drive really slow, I couldn't stop her if wanted to anyway. On the way she gets pulled over in Pennsylvania for driving in the left lane too long, and another ticket for driving without a license, again not sure how she didn't get arrested.\n\nI'm honestly just at a loss. She's terrified of going to jail, which I'm pretty sure she's gonna, and I don't know what to tell her. Should we get a lawyer? We don't have a lot of money, but if I need to I can probably afford it. What I'm asking basically is what's the best course of action to take? \n\nSorry for bad format, on mobile. Thanks in advance. ","title":"Driving","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1413815824,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jscu4\/from_the_legal_perspective_of_an_investor_owning\/","id":"2jscu4","body":"Hi, this is my first post here, so please tell me if this is the wrong subreddit for such a question.\n\nI want to start a holding company, through which I can buy other companies that are in the United States. I'm not from the USA, I was born and currently live in the European Union. My question to you is, would acquiring a Green Card (which I can acquire, but I'm not certain whether that would benefit me) aid or hinder my endeavors with investing in American companies through a non-American holding company?\n\nPlease be as specific as possible, since I want a broad understanding of the benefits and consequences of owning a Green Card in relation to investing.","title":"From the legal perspective of an investor owning a non-American holding company that owns American companies, would it be better to have a Green Card or not?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552333382,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azxrbj\/ri_my_abusive_father_suddenly_moved_back_into_my\/","id":"azxrbj","body":"Rhode Islander here, obvious throwaway account for obvious reasons. My father [51M] who has physically, mentally and emotionally abused me [15M], my younger sister [13F], and my mother [54F] for over 15 years was finally arrested last year for domestic simple assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. After the courts did LITERALLY NEXT TO NOTHING to bring him to justice he was sentenced to take DV classes and there was a restraining order for a while.\n\nHowever, my mother doesn\u2019t make a lot of money and he has been paying some of the bills while also renting an apartment somewhere. Since things are really getting tight he convinced my mother to get the judge to drop the court orders so they could discuss finances and taxes leaving me and my sister vulnerable. A few months later (present day) he decides to take it upon himself to \u201creunite the family\u201d by dropping by unexpectedly and moving in last weekend. My mom had agreed for him to live in the BASEMENT so we wouldn\u2019t have to see him but he could stop renting so we\u2019d have more money. \n\nHowever, our tenant downstairs is a little bitch and won\u2019t leave (and we\u2019re not really able to do anything about it considering the apartment has a bunch of other legal issues I don\u2019t wanna uncover here). So my father moves in upstairs into our living room. Then he steals my mom\u2019s keys and makes copies and takes all of the deadbolts and chains off of our doors we put in place to protect ourselves from him. For the past few days he\u2019s tried to pretend we\u2019re a happy family again which we aren\u2019t. He\u2019s already resuming control of our lives. All three of us have been diagnosed with depression, PTSD and a different anxiety disorder thanks to him and we are scared to death with nearly no options on the table.\n\nMy father says since his name is on the mortgage we can\u2019t try to lock him out or he\u2019ll call the police. I want to try to nail him for good this time since he faced no jail time for 15 years of countless criminals acts, but we feel there\u2019s nothing we can do or even anywhere to go to ride this out. My mother doesn\u2019t have many friends since he prevented her from making them long ago, and her family estranged us for his actions. Help? What do I do? I have to live in the same house as the monster who abused me relentlessly my entire life.\n\nTL;DR, my abusive father moved back in after nearly a year once our restraining order was dropped but we don\u2019t feel safe here. What can we do? Can we do anything?","title":"[RI] My abusive father suddenly moved back into my mother\u2019s house. What can we do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570934905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh4x4v\/unemployment_question\/","id":"dh4x4v","body":"I work at a chain of gas stations in my area, they send a program to confirm we are iding people for restricted product. I've pass 7 times until tonight, the girls I'd wouldnt scan (which is part of the company's proofing policy) so I bypassed it by checking the date on her id, as per company guidelines I'm now suspended w\/o pay till further notice. If I keep my job they will make me drive 2 hours each way to get retrained. If I dont goto the training I will be let go\/fired.\n\nMy question is, if I turn down the training opportunity would they be able to deny my unemployment. (I work in pa the company is registered in ny)","title":"Unemployment question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541171987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tl0l4\/texas_sbec_investigation\/","id":"9tl0l4","body":"If you have ever been investigated by TEA *(Texas Education Agency)* in Austin, specifically SBEC *(State Board for Educator Certification)*, for any allegation that could potentially affect your Texas teaching certificate, would you be willing to share about your experience? Or share a friend's experience? I am working with a lawyer from a local teacher's association to defend my certification against a ridiculous claim, but it can take 6-10 months just to get a hearing with the SBEC investigator. I feel it would help my anxiety to at least have some understanding of the process I am facing legally when I finally get a hearing.\n\nPlease share especially:\n\n\\- What do the investigators' offices look like? Where does everyone sit?\n\n\\- What evidence or findings did they share with you? Was any of it a surprise to you?\n\n\\- How long did the meeting\/hearing last? Who was there in the room?\n\n\\- What kinds of questions were you asked by the investigator?\n\n\\- Did they request any specific papers or items from you?\n\n\\- What, if anything, did you bring with you to the hearing?\n\n\\- If you came with a union lawyer, what role did he or she play? What did the lawyer say or do?\n\n\\- Did you feel you were treated fairly?\n\n**- Is there anything you wish you had known before you went?**","title":"Texas SBEC Investigation","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1505839515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71499z\/can_i_park_on_my_street_during_street_sweeping\/","id":"71499z","body":"I know this is a small issue, but I can't seem to find a correct answer.  I have street sweeping outside my house from 8am-10am, two days per week, and a sign that states no parking from 8am-10am due to street sweeping.  If I watch the street sweeper pass my house at 8:30 am, can I park my car there once it has passed, or do I still need to wait until 10 am?","title":"Can I park on my street during street sweeping hours AFTER the street sweeper has left my street? California","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570719230,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfz5ph\/cant_i_send_myself_home_if_i_am_sick\/","id":"dfz5ph","body":"I'm 18, a legal adult, and my mom doesn't let me miss school, ever. I got yelled at for missing 5 1\/2 days FOR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR last year. \n\nThe school has repeatedly told me I am not allowed to leave without a parents permission. I'm sick, and my mom doesn't care. I want to go home. I am not ABLE to get permission. Why can't i send myself home? Should I just walk out? What can they even do?","title":"Can't I send myself home if I am sick?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1505655235,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70ni57\/eviction_summons_in_nj\/","id":"70ni57","body":"Being evicted for nonpayment of rent, I have no job or anywhere to go. My court date is Oct 4th. Should I appear and explain or just leave? I haven't left because the leasing office said I would be sued for rent until the end of my lease, Dec 31. Does receiving an eviction summons mean the complex has terminated my lease and I can just leave? ","title":"Eviction Summons in NJ","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569792255,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db1h7y\/early_lease_break_by_resident\/","id":"db1h7y","body":"So My girlfriend and I are on a lease, with one resident as our roommate. Our roommate decided that she wanted to leave, and only orally notifies us 5 days ago (9\/24\/19). Now she is refusing to pay rent for the next month, because she wants to only partially pay her rent (rent is due 10\/1\/19, but wants to pay until 10\/5\/19), leaving us to pay for the rest of rent. With a lack of 30 day notice, is there anything I can do? I don\u2019t care about her wanting to move out, but she has to give 30 day notice and pay the rent because it would give us a nasty financial hit for her decision. She refused to find a person to take over the rent, and when we did, seemed to not understand that someone can just move in that quickly. (New person agreed to move in 11\/1\/19). \n\nIn short, resident on lease decides 5 days before next rent is due that she wants to move out. We\u2019re fine with her decision to move out, however can\u2019t\/don\u2019t want manage extra money for rent that fast. Can we do anything about her decision to leave without 30 day notice? It\u2019s not a sublease, on our agreement she is listed as a resident.","title":"Early Lease break by resident","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552621711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1a2hv\/my_friend_is_being_emotionally_abused_and_his\/","id":"b1a2hv","body":"Ok so this just happened and I'm still shaking from the events but I will do my best to explain the situation.\n\nOk so I'm on a discord server when one of the members is having a mental breakdown in one of the chat rooms. He keeps saying he is an attention whore and needs to be ignored but due to me having depression myself know exactly what he is doing, crying for help. We are able to calm him down and he finally tells us what is wrong...\n\nHis family has a long criminal record and he was separated from his real father at a very early age. His mother, brother, and one of his mothers weed friends all are emotionally abusing him for his sexuality and on multiple occasions his brother has tried to kill him. He has tried to get help from the school counselor but apparently that only made things worse. He is too scared to call the police without evidence because he knows if he does the abuse will get physical. Apparently almost like clockwork his mother and stepfather argue and he might be able to record it. \n\nI don't know what state he lives in and I don't know what to do. I have had a friend screenshot the events and we are doing our best to help him. I'm mostly asking how he can get evidence and get to the police safely. I dont know if this is the right sub to ask but please, I'm worried sick for my friends well being.","title":"My friend is being emotionally abused and his only help is his discord friends. What do we do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443657603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n1bnr\/il_landlord_claiming_apartment_damages\/","id":"3n1bnr","body":"I moved out of my apartment approximately one month ago.  I recently received an email from my former landlord claiming damages to the flooring for $600.  I had moved out a few days before the end of my lease, and did a video walkthrough the final day of the lease.  The only damage to the flooring is consistent with my initial move-in pictures.  However, the maintenance man had entered my apartment (without my permission) to make minor repairs between when I moved out, and the end of my lease.  It is possible that he made repairs that I did not notice.\n\nI did not pay a security deposit, but I would prefer this to not adversely affect my credit.  What options do I have?  Should I even acknowledge receipt of the email?","title":"[IL] Landlord claiming apartment damages","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568747539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5lnyx\/questions_about_my_rights_as_a_father\/","id":"d5lnyx","body":"Quick summery.\n\nNot married and living with my ex who we own the house together. She is on disability and I pay all the house payments, utilities, etc. We are taking the house out of her name and just putting it in mine. We have a daughter together that lives with us. We are both seeing other people but my ex continuously puts down the woman I am dating in front of our child (3 yo daughter) and states how she isn't around my daughter because she is \"mentally unstable and emotionally this that and the other thing\" all of which are not true. My ex will be moving away about 88 miles, our daughter is currently in preschool and her whole family lives literally in our hometown aside from her sister (8) who lives where my ex is moving to (her original hometown).\n\nWhat do I do? I have recordings of my ex talking about if i go to the courts she will make my life a living hell and she won't work with me as a parent. Also, once the house is in my name, she is trying to dictate if the woman I am seeing is allowed to live with me or not. Also, she has made verbal threats to me about beating up the woman I am seeing...\n\nSo I ask you Reddit, please help me with some direction. What can and can I not do? What are my rights to my child? Please help a stressed out father.","title":"Questions about my rights as a father","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569866299,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbfg3m\/the_tenants_below_me_changed_the_wifi_password\/","id":"dbfg3m","body":"Hey everyone!\n\nSo I live in a three story apartment. There is one router for all three apartments. For some reason the router was placed in the second story apartment. Everyone that lives here is a student. \nThe WiFi is included with the rent. The tenants that live in the second floor apartment (there's three of them), have kicked all of us except them off of the wifi. This isn't their router or their right as the landlord installed it for all of us to use. I have homework to complete and I do not have a car so it is a pain to go to the library to complete my work. What can i do? I contacted the landlord and he said he will move the router, but this make take a few days. Do I have to just wait it out? I've talked to the tenants below me and they really don't want to share the wifi password because they believe the WiFi is slower with our usage.","title":"The tenants below me changed the wifi password and will not share the password","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1410018530,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fn73l\/how_do_you_fill_out_a_affidavit\/","id":"2fn73l","body":"I have this affidavit I need to fill out and I don't know what goes where. I'm in SC\n\nhttp:\/\/imgur.com\/2DnE7sX","title":"How do you fill out a affidavit?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508213380,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76w4ni\/fl_few_questions_on_business_contracts_please_help\/","id":"76w4ni","body":"Hey all! 24 y\/o female who runs a recording studio (s-corp). Long story short is when me and my partners started the business we didn't really fill out all the proper paperwork to keep us all accountable, so I need a little help getting pointed in the right direction.\n\nFirst off, when we started the business 3\/4 of us paid a dollar amount as startup fees. This signified the percentage of the business we would own. The 4th of us said he would contribute his recording equipment to cover that cost. We've already signed the ownership documents and he has shares... but my question is, what document do I need to look for so that he can sign his gear over to the business? That way everything is sound, legally and the company owns his gear just like it own the money we all gave.\n\nNext, we never signed a shareholder agreement. I'm sure our president will get a generic one over to us soon but I wanted to know of any extra clauses I could look up to really protect me in case of things going south. Example: if one of our owners embezzled money from the business, or does something else that violates the relationship, would I be legally allowed to leave and be entitled to my initial investment? I'm sure there are clauses that could state this but where do I start?\n\nOnce again, thank you Reddit and I'd love to be pointed in the right direction. I can do a lot of research myself but I need a little bit of guidance.\n\nTL;DR I need help looking up two contracts. One that will let an owner sign over his personal assets to the business (in return for the shares of owning said company). And a contract that protects each owner and their original investment if any other owner violates the relationship.","title":"[FL] Few questions on business contracts. Please help.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541268108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tw7xo\/i_think_my_friend_was_married_by_a_minister\/","id":"9tw7xo","body":"Howdy!\n\nMy friend asked me to post on here for her, she is not a redditor but I hoped you guys could help. She recently had a small wedding and had her friend be the officiant. She had gotten her license in Hamilton County which is where the wedding took place. The friend had gotten ordained through the Universal Life Church online but did not realize that the state of Ohio requires ministers to do a one-time registration with the state. \n\nI\u2019ve been doing research on her behalf (I know that google is NOT the answer) and it seems like this is becoming a larger issue with so many weddings being officiated by friends\/family. According to many of the articles I have read, it may be that no one ever finds out. What is the best course of action? Should she have her friend quickly send in her ministers license application to the Secretary of State in Ohio? I\u2019m not sure where to point her from here. ","title":"I think my friend was married by a minister without a license","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445254665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pcbhh\/i_bought_a_chair_from_dxracernet_europe_and_ive\/","id":"3pcbhh","body":"EDIT: Sorry I forgot to mention I'm from Sweden.\n\nI bought a DXRacer chair back in May and when it arrived it had a hole in the back rest so I contacted their support straight away and I was given a timeframe of a month for their manufacturer to make some spare parts they could send.\n\nMy issue now is they have kept pushing it back a month at a time until last week when I got a mail saying that they will be unable to help me because its not their problem anymore and gave me 3 new email addresses I should contact.\n\nIn their mails they say the owner dropped DXRacer or something and is now going under the name DXSeat and they told me to complain somewhere about the website I bought it, its hard to understand what they mean when their English is much worse than mine.\n\nSo my question is how should I move this forward? The email address I was in contact with pretty much sent me to the US part of DXRacer and they are telling me its not their responsibility so I'm stuck. I don't think I can contact my bank for a charge back when its been this long since my purchase.\n\nWhat I've gathered from the emails is: DXRacer Europe doesn't exist anymore, its now DXSeat that is owned by the same person but he cut ties with DXRacer and is now selling chairs under new name and doesn't give a shit about old orders made on the DXRacer Europe website.\n\nIt feels like they both blame eachother and neither of them wants to take responsibility, who is it that has the legal obligation to help me?","title":"I bought a chair from DXRacer.net (Europe) and I've been trying to get some support saine May.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551055018,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aueqta\/death_of_spouse_with_debt_assets\/","id":"aueqta","body":"Hello.\n\nMy mother passed away in January. I am helping her widowed husband (my step father) getting all the bills paid, changed to his name, etc, as my mom did these because her English was better than his is. No will.\n\nWe have one question: my mom had her own checking account and credit card through a big name bank, only in her name. Her ssi and ssa deposits went into this checking. One bill was automatically deducted each month. My dad did not know about the CC until after her death. \n\nThey have a checking and savings account in a credit union under both names that they both used. There is about $25 in savings, dad\u2019s income direct deposits into the checking. The rest of the bills are paid from this account. The income just covers the bills with little leftover.\n\nThey rent the house, no issues there.\n\nThey own two cars, a 2006 is paid off, in both names. A 2015 they got about 1.5 years ago with a loan from credit union, still owe about $4500 on it, car in both names.\n\nMy mom had no other assets. She had personal belongings which our step dad allowed myself and my sisters to go through and pack up to donate, keep what we would like to. Clothes, trinkets, etc. \n\nWe waited until social security caught up with the death to take the overpayment out of mom\u2019s checking account. This just happened. They cleared out the whole account.\n\nThe issue we have trouble figuring out is her personal CC. Is my (step)dad responsible for replaying this?  Our plan was to go to a local branch tomorrow with the death certificate and marriage license and thought it should be fairly easy. Are the cars safe or will the bank want us to sell the car to pay off her debt?\n\nThank you","title":"Death of spouse with debt, assets??","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1442208271,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kvhkt\/maine_usa_15_yo_child_coming_to_live_with_us_no\/","id":"3kvhkt","body":"Hi there, thank you for taking a look at our situation. My wife's father recently died unexpectedly. He had 3 kids, A B & C. My wife is B. A & B are by wife 1, C is by a woman who was at one time deemed unfit, and the father had since remarried to Stepmother, no kids by that one. \n\n\nStepmother never officially became a guardian for C. Since the father died, Stepmother has not shown any real interest in becoming a guardian. She quickly did secure C's survivor benefits though to add to her Social Security payment. \n\n\nStepmother and C have not gotten along well in the past, and have been having problems since the death. It has escalated to the point where they have agreed that it would be best if C comes to live with us instead. \n\n\nC wants to keep going to her school where she is a sophomore. She has secured transportation each day. Stepmother wants to keep the Social Security money while not having any real responsibility for C. \n\n\nComplicating the matter, C's father was a businessman and had some significant assets. He did not leave a will. It appears Maine law defaults to C getting 14% of assets that were solely in the father's name, though that will take some time. \n\n\nC has expressed an interest in becoming emancipated when she turns 16. We could care for her but if we became guardians we would probably have to make her go to our local school, we could not afford tuition for her non-local school, which would run about $10,000 a year.\n\n\nSo my questions are:\n\n\n* What are the potential pitfalls of allowing this to continue without formal guardianship?\n* What would happen if she needed medical care anytime soon? Who would be responsible?\n* If matters stayed as they are, could Stepmother seize control of C's 14% share of father's assets? Stepmother has a poor history of financial management for C's benefit.\n* What course of action might you take if you were in our shoes?","title":"(Maine, USA) 15 yo child coming to live with us, no current guardian, father recently died, stepmom difficult","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446410689,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r4fz7\/united_kingdom_family_not_letting_anyone_see_a\/","id":"3r4fz7","body":"My grandad recently died and my aunt and uncle have been very secretive about the whole affair, not even telling me or my mother (Who was not included in the will but i was) that he was even deceased until 3 days after the burial. \n\nThe last time i spoke to grandfather i was to receive a 1\/8th portion of the sale of a house in spain as well as some sentimental items as per his will at the time. My aunt and uncle are not letting anybody see the will and are insisting all he left me is a very small sum comparative to what i should have been getting and none of the items.\n\nIt's my understanding that as a beneficiary of the will i should be allowed to see a copy but as my family are being uncooperative i have no idea how i would go about this. Any advice on how i could would be very well appreciated. If it's of any help he died on the 13th of october. ","title":"(United kingdom) Family not letting anyone see a copy of a will.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571500341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk5ith\/louisiana_what_do_we_need_to_do\/","id":"dk5ith","body":"My 89 year old grandfather recent passed away and my dad is struggling and feeling lost on what to do next. \n\nI was unaware of the amount of assets my grandfather had but apparently he had nearly half a million in just bank accounts and stocks until he was close to passing and I saw the shit hit the fan with my dads brother and my grandfathers wife. \n\nApparently he had a living will but there has been no lawyer or whatever they are called in this situation assigned to my grandfathers estate or will. \n\nI\u2019m struggling to think of what information would be helpful to share so ask anything you may need to know. \n\nMy dad is absolutely lost and his brother texted him today and told him that they need to get a lawyer to settle my grandfathers bills with a death certificate and he wants to split the cost with my dad. \n\nAgain, I have no idea what would be helpful to know but any guidance would be great.","title":"Louisiana: What do we need to do?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568504664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4cz0e\/tenancy_act_in_canada\/","id":"d4cz0e","body":"I was just wondering about renting with landlords who are also the spouses parents. They\u2019re was no agreement in place as when the place was almost paid off it might\u2019ve been transferred to their names but the couple this is happening to, the grown child has moved out wanting to get out of a bad marriage and the spouse won\u2019t leave and is claiming matrimonial\/beneficiary property. Nothing was in their name. The one staying is asking for a lot of money after a fair offer, their counter offer is incredibly high but it\u2019s with the promise of being out in seven days. They\u2019re also they\u2019re withholding all of the other\u2019s things including important documents and have not done anything to help financially with the child they have together. Just looking for a bit of extra info is all. Thanks in advanced.","title":"Tenancy act in Canada","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541687158,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vaf2b\/recieving_death_threats_ohio\/","id":"9vaf2b","body":"Hi LA,\n\nI have been receiving death threats from the social media accounts of my ex-gf. Called her after the first one and she said her account was hijacked and she will handle it. \n\nContinued receiving them until last night, called the police and informed them. Slept with my shotgun next to my bed and shells on my bedside table because I was that scared. \n\nWould this be grounds for getting a restraining order? Even if she claims her accounts were hijacked, I still have a fear for my safety because of her. \n\nWhat would the process of receiving a restraining order look like? Do I have the grounds to do so? What other courses of action would you all recommend?\n","title":"Recieving death threats (Ohio)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555406406,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdrthc\/how_to_deal_with_car_thief\/","id":"bdrthc","body":"Hi all new to Reddit here.\n\nI wanted to ask for serious advice on what to do in this situation. \n\nBasically my car got broken into and they took everything (wallet, ID, cards, and iPhone) in Bay Area Calif.\n\nMy phone has pictures and videos that are personal. \n\nAfter the incident I keep getting No Caller ID constantly and I\u2019m afraid it is the thief. They used my cards at a gas station and also to try to call inmate in jail! \n\nRecently I had a strange number calling and I Googled it and there were pictures of a guy that fit the box (I received verification code in another language of them trying to sign in my Apple ID) \n\nI\u2019m really freaking out and anxious since last Monday when it happened.\n\nI\u2019m worried they are going to attack or come after me or rob my house or things since they have my ID and know my address.\n\nAnd I\u2019m freaking out that they keep calling me!!! I didn\u2019t answer because I\u2019m scared. I just want them to leave me alone. I know there is 2 people because they stole my stuff and also stole my neighbors car. \n\na) Should I tell the police about the number ? Also it was suspicious because I tried calling that number and it said it wasn\u2019t in service, when that number called me 30 mins prior.\n\n b) How do I deal with this fear of being targeted be it either me (stalking me then rob) or my car or home. I\u2019m a young female in my 20s. \n\nI have minor PTSD from all these worrying and anxiety. I\u2019m scared to even be outside my house or park even a block away because I\u2019m afraid they are watching me. I\u2019m scared to even put a hair tie in the car. \n\nPs this is my first time my car got broken into and I did treat it like my 2nd room, so all of my stuff got stolen. \n\nThanks everyone!","title":"How to deal with car thief","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504306561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xi50v\/my_air_conditioner_broke_during_a_heat_wave_the\/","id":"6xi50v","body":"A couple days ago our central AC unit broke. This is the hottest week in Los Angeles all year. Our landlord is making it our responsibility to find a repair company and call someone to come out. The PM said we should go to Costco and buy an AC unit and return it once it cools down. Do we have any rights here? I asked him to call the repair person to schedule this repair and he said he is done dealing with the situation. Our studio is over 100 degrees during the day and 95 degrees at night. We have to leave our dog at a friends house during the day so she does not die in the house. ","title":"My air conditioner broke during a heat wave. The property manager is not dealing with it.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444549082,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ob5rm\/california_how_long_to_return_security_deposit\/","id":"3ob5rm","body":"I moved out of my complex on Aug 15th. I received itemized deductions and a check on September 9th. I went in and argued that I shouldn't have been charged to paint. They agreed and gave me a printout of the new amount. I still haven't received a second check (haven't cashed first either). I went into the office and they said they can take as long as they want because they gave me my original check on time. What ways can I put pressure on them to give me my money?","title":"(California) How long to return security deposit?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541113622,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tejjy\/university_failed_to_get_proper_accreditation\/","id":"9tejjy","body":"On mobile, so I apologize for any bad formatting. \n\n\nI graduated from a well known University with a Master's of Public Health. When I originally applied for the program, the University was in the process of becoming an CEPH\/ASPPH Accredited University. The head of the program assured me that she had gotten 4 other Universities accredited, and that it was a \"sure thing\" for the school I would be attending. \n\nFast forward 3 years, I graduate, and the school fails to get accredited. Not only did they fail to get accredited, but it was suggested that they close the program, and they no longer offer that degree at all. \n\nWhat this means for me, for the most part, is that I cannot apply for employment within a government agency or acedemia. They require a degree from an accredited university. Even when I apply to jobs in the private sector, they have a hard time vetting my degree. As the program no longer even exists, there is sometimes confusion when a prospective employer requests. And I feel that it negatively affects me while trying to expand my career. I have managed to find employment in the field, but not to the caliber that I was expecting to be able to persue with a properly accredited degree. \n\nI feel I was advertised a \"sure thing\", and didn't get what I will be paying for for a long, long time. What I want to know is would I have a case to have my loans partially\/wholly forgiven, and if so, what kind of lawyer to persue for the best possible legal advice? If any additional info is needed, please let me know. ","title":"University failed to get proper accreditation, severely limiting the use of my masters degree. [PA, USA]","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571188101,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dihq1m\/employer_forged_signature\/","id":"dihq1m","body":"[California] So long story short, my employer recently told us that we would be swapping from receiving checks to receiving our pay on pay cards and there was no alternative. However I recently found on our payroll website documents that authorized the use of pay cards with my forged signature as well as them putting my wrong birthday. Who should I contact and what can I do?","title":"Employer Forged Signature","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539224111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n5w3v\/after_a_breakup_my_ex_made_false_domestic\/","id":"9n5w3v","body":"Doing this on a throwaway account to remain anonymity. \n\nRecently my girlfriend of 2 years and I have split. We\u2019ve had a couple of arguments here and there like every other couple but there has NEVER been a case of domestic violence. I loved her so much and did everything for her. I even took in her underage brothers (13,14) and provided for them as my own since there was abuse between them and their father. I thought everything was fine until one night I got home from work and saw that she took EVERYTHING of ours. Just like that she took her brothers, my daughter, and herself and moved back in with her father. I tried to go and see my daughter but she had her dad threaten me to leave. I thought that was the worst things could get but then I got hit with court papers. She filed a restraining order along with my daughter against me for beating her. It hurts me so much, I\u2019ve never laid hands on this woman I didn\u2019t know where any of this was coming from. Today I had court. She won. I had so much evidence against her and she still won. Text messages of her saying how great of a man I am, notes from managers documenting that she has come to my place of work MULTIPLE times in a day after filing the restraining order on me, and she still won. She got her father and one of her brothers to lie on me. Both claimed they witnessed me beat her. I had to move back with my parents because I can no longer pay all of my bills without her. I really thought we were in this together... Where do I go from here? What legal action can I take to reverse this and clear my name? I\u2019ve cried everyday since she left, I don\u2019t care about her, I just want to see my daughter. I love her so much and I know she misses me. It kills me thinking that she probably thinks I just abandoned her. I\u2019m so depressed I\u2019m scared I\u2019ll do something stupid to myself one of these days because I don\u2019t know if I can take this. Please help me and give me any advice on how I can get my daughter back, thank you.","title":"After a breakup my ex made false domestic violence accusations, filed a restraining order on me, and now I can\u2019t see my daughter.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570866438,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgs2v1\/coworker_harrassing_me_ohio\/","id":"dgs2v1","body":"I have a coworker that has constantly been filing false complaints against me and recently escalated by trying to get me fired. She has also indirectly threatened me by bragging about her assault record and describing how she likes to fight people she hates. She has only targeted me and it has resulted in me getting 2 writeups in one day. I live in constant fear that she will succeed in getting me fired which has resulted in me having panic attacks and anxiety attacks almost every single day. I want to file a TPO or restraining order, but I'm worried my company will fire me because of this. \nIs there a way I can go about this without losing my job?","title":"Coworker harrassing me (Ohio)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503699803,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w1tpe\/ms_in_the_right_to_break_my_lease\/","id":"6w1tpe","body":"Since moving into a new apartment at the same complex me and my family have been plagued by a\/c troubles. When we first moved in the a\/c didn't work at all. We complained first day and someone came out and got it on. Over the next few days we realized that the apartment wasn't really getting cool. After checking vents and barley feeling any air coming out we called in again. Someone came or again put freon in the unit and said it was good. It was not. Since then we spent the entire summer enduring the heat and making bi-weekly calls the the maintenance people. We were told everything from there was a leak in the ducts in the apartment below us to the unit being bad and we're often told there was nothing they could do. We requested window units to try to cool the apartment and were told that they couldn't do that. The last three months ( the hottest of the year) our electric bill has ranged from $160-$195 in a 1000 sqft apartment. We recently got pre- approved to buy a house. What I need to know is if I'm in the right to break my lease so we can buy a house and we done with renting. The least states that it is the apartment complexes responsibility to repair all major appliance or other repairs including a\/c in a timely manner or they would have to supply a remedy of the problem. If they fail to do this it states that I need to provide them with a letter giving them 30 days notice of me breaking the lease and vacating the property. With this wording would I be in the righ? ","title":"[MS] In the right to break my lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555087657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcfsa6\/i_think_i_saw_child_porn_on_omegle_i_recorded_it\/","id":"bcfsa6","body":"This happened a couple of hours ago. I was surfing omegle to chat with people because I was bored, then I saw someone who I think was engaging in child porn, I don't want to go into details about what I saw, other than I started screen recording as soon as it was clear it was dodgy and kept them on the chat to try and get information about where they were and names etc. after they hung up on me I reported it to the police. They came to my house, went over what happened and then asked if they could take my computer with the recording on it. I let them, but now I'm having major separation anxiety from handing over my computer and thinking  of all the embarrassing (not illegal though) stuff I have on it.\n\nMy computer is full of comprising (again not illegal) stuff about me, including naked selfies I've taken of myself in the past to send to lovers.\n\nI directed the police to the omegle screen recording on my desktop (named very clearly 'omeglescreencaptire_todaysdate.mov'), but all my other files are on this computer, my entire digital life - I have no idea what they are going to look at, I am having deep regrets about handing over my computer right now, please, reassure me I've done the right thing - or if I haven't - some advice on how to protect myself moving forward. Thanks for any advice you can give.\n\nI am in Sydney, Australia","title":"I think I saw child porn on omegle, I recorded it, reported it to the police and they seized my laptop","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571362350,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djg70z\/az_can_i_work_at_a_store_if_my_significant_other\/","id":"djg70z","body":"Sorry if that sounds confusing, but basically I want to work as a courtesy clerk at a Safeway (#1) in town, and my significant other is Grocery 4th at another Safeway (#2) several miles away. He NEVER works at #1 anymore, but he did start there.\n\nI know for a fact I can't work at Safeway #2, but is there a conflict of interest we have to declare, or am I ineligible to work at Safeway #1 entirely? Thank you!","title":"[AZ] Can I work at a store if my significant other is in management at another store within the same chain?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506321947,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72aqvo\/tow_truck_driver_illegal_practice\/","id":"72aqvo","body":"\nHey, so this happened quite a while ago in Virginia but it\u2019s been on my mind ever since. I was parked at my girlfriend\u2019s apartment and left the parking pass in the cup holder. My car was towed and even though I was angry that they had overlooked the pass, I understood that it was not properly displayed so I let it go. The next day I had my parents come and get my car while I was out of state (conveniently the company had a 2 hour window one day a week for retrieval). \nAnyway, when I finally got back to my car I searched around to make sure nothing was taken. I found the receipt left by the driver when he towed my car the previous night in the arm rest box and decided to read through it. One section of the receipt shows a picture of a car with the instructions \u201ccircle areas of damage\u201d above it. Basically, the driver is to circle any areas of the car where there is damage so they won\u2019t be held liable in case an owner comes after them for something they didn\u2019t do. On this paper however, all of the sides were circled. My car has no scratches and never has. I have no dents or rusting body panels. The frame is perfectly fine and the wheels are fine. Basically, the driver had circled everything so in case he messed up, he would get off Scott free. Is this illegal? Is there any course of action I can take? I just hate the dishonesty and if I can do something about it I would love to. Any advice would be appreciated! Yes I still have the receipt and all of my car records. \nThanks!","title":"Tow truck driver illegal practice?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554494447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9vwuq\/my_boyfriend_19m_is_being_threatened_with_a\/","id":"b9vwuq","body":"My boyfriend has been renting out a small apartment from his grandfather for the past year. I don't know if them being related matters in any way, since he still signed a lease agreement in order to live there, but I'm saying that just in case. Due to him having health issues that interfered with his old job, he got let go and was unemployed from January until last week. He's missed rent for February, March, and now April. His rent is $400 a month, and the amount of money grandpa says my bf owes him constantly changes every time the subject is brought up (it ranges from $1200 to $2500, as he frequently changes whether or not he's charging interest and how much interest he's charging). \n\nMy bf's lease runs out at the end of this month and our plan is to move him in with me. The problem with this is that grandpa has been very insistent on getting the money he's owed and has threatened to take my bf to court if he moves out without paying him every cent. He mentioned potentially forcing my bf to sign a new lease that was implied to have much higher rent and\/or forcing him to get a second job so he can pay for everything.\n\nWe've been trying to check the lease to see if there's anything grandpa has lied about in it, but my bf lost his copy of the lease agreement sometime in January. He's been repeatedly asking for a new copy since he discovered it was gone and has repeatedly been met with excuses like \"I don't have time\" \"My printer broke\" and \"We'll get it later\". \n\nTo make things more complicated, grandpa has a history of violence. His ex-girlfriend got a restraining order on him when he was younger and he beat her so severely she barely lived and is still wheelchair-bound because of it. Because of this specific incident as well as others, my bf is hesitant to move out and is half considering signing a new lease and getting a second job just to appease his grandpa.\n\nI know for a fact that he can't force a new lease on my bf and he can't prevent him from moving out (at least, not legally). The man is currently on parole and I, personally, am not afraid of him, but I was wondering what could potentially happen if he went through with this lawsuit. Will any judge even take his lawsuit seriously if he won't provide my bf with a copy of his lease or proof that he owes money? Can they garnish my bf's wages if this all comes to pass? Is there any way to settle this without going to court? ","title":"My boyfriend (19m) is being threatened with a lawsuit by his grandfather (Wyoming)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539791631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ozvso\/hit_and_run_questions\/","id":"9ozvso","body":"Hi reddit,\nbasically i was at a stop light and got struck by another car and damage was made to the rear of my car. the car fled the scene and ended up driving off.\nI pulled over somewhere and called an officer who then wrote up a formal police report.\nHe only gave me the number of the report and told me to give it to my insurance because they should be able to take care if it\nwhen i called my insurance they told me i have to go to the police station and get a report, see who hit me and go through their insurance\nmy concern is when i go there and do get the copy, i do not believe they police will just have their insurance handy but rather than name and address (basic info) how do i go about this because i feel as though i\u2019m about be on a goose chase going between two people. I would really appreciate any info. Accident occurred in PA. ","title":"Hit and Run questions","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554692502,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baom1o\/what_are_the_logistics_of_becoming_a_small\/","id":"baom1o","body":"I have an amazing opportunity to go to school for free through my spouses new job. And one of the things I am interested in, is getting certified in photography. I\u2019m also interested in having a presence on YouTube and Instagram.\n\nI don\u2019t have any illusions of grandeur, it\u2019s a saturated market. But I want to treat this professionally and if I could at least pay for the equipment I want, I would count it as a success. Any profit would be a plus.\n\nWhat are the steps\/advantages of becoming a legitimate business and can I write off my equipment purchased for my business on my taxes? \n\nAny advice is greatly appreciated!","title":"What are the logistics of becoming a small business and writing off necessary equipment on my taxes?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570847994,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgp9l8\/ongoing_job_problems_related_to_a_raise_and\/","id":"dgp9l8","body":" Summary:   \n\n\n  was offered job with a $500.00 bonus if I stayed employed 90 days.  \n I got the job, went through training, and worked my first year.\n\nproblems: \n\n* been at this job 2 years 7 months\n* never got a bonus, also a few others never got it too.\n* yearly review was overlooked for 2 years.\n* on anniversery of year 2, I got my 1st year review, and they admitted it was late\n* on the 1st year review (one year late) I was awarded a raise.\n* raise has yet to go through.\n* working on 2years 8 months, no write ups, no year 2 review, no raise\n* boss phoned me yesterday to cover for someone during a weeklong on-call on short notice. This is very stressful b\/c we work 10hr days and then oncall 24hrs\n* today I phone HR, they confirm a payraise on next paycheck.\n* my supervisor has been saying it will be on the next paycheck for 4 months.\n* I think I've been more than patient.  \n\n\n​\n\nMy speculation is the boss wanted me to cover X's shift b\/c I'm still getting less pay, and now will work much more for less before any raise goes through (if it ever f\\*\\*\\*\\*iung does).\n\n​\n\nAlso, there isn't ANY word on if\/when my 2nd year review will go through.\n\nHR doesn't have any answers, and mostly worthless.\n\nmanagement is all white guys, and they apparently only promote white guys.\n\nthere was a girl who after one year received a button, a paper acknowledgement, and obviously a raise, and then she quit. Then there was a new employee about 11 months ago, who has already been promoted.  \n\n\n There are guys that have worked here longer than me, and still not promoted. \n\nI've lost all my motivation to do any thing extra, and only do the bare minimum now, but still take pride in my objective and work. I am really good with the shit tools I have, but still I'm not getting resentful and wonder if there could be a class action suit against them.  \n\n\n Bonus info: the last time I phoned HR (last February) I asked why it was taking so long. The very next day I had a \"random drug test\".  \n\n\/serious.","title":"Ongoing job, problems related to a raise and management.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540355301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qwkis\/my_landlords_control_the_heat_in_my_apartment_it\/","id":"9qwkis","body":"I've texted them every night for the past three nights to please turn it on. They have not responded. I live in the state of Illinois, my utilities are worked into my rent. My unit is freezing. \n\nCan I do anything?","title":"My landlords control the heat in my apartment; it is 37 degrees farenheit outside and they still haven't turned on the radiators. What do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569422742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d94a49\/texas_law_question_about_cars_and_criminals\/","id":"d94a49","body":"Ive been curious about this forever if your car gets wrecked lets say its a rolls royce and the guy who wrecked it was running from the cops or its a hit and run something of that nature not a simple fender bender would you legally be able to kick their ass? now for some explaining the reason i ask is i own alot of old school cars ive put huge amounts of money into and id certainly be seeing only red if they got wrecked. Now i dont believe violence is the answer im just curious about it from a legal standpoint. So anyone who knows Texas law please let me know please and thank you","title":"Texas law question about cars and criminals","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443403577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mn8cn\/md_usa_my_child_is_being_cared_for_by_her\/","id":"3mn8cn","body":"**This may get long, and it's a bit confusing, but here goes**\nAbout 5 years ago, I had a daughter. At the time, I was not exactly a candidate for mother of the year. I never abused my daughter, but at one point CPS intervened citing possible child neglect. They conducted a very lengthy investigation, during which I was not allowed to have my daughter with me. I was military at the time, and reached out to my parents so that they could assume temporary guardianship of my little one. JAG drew up Power of Attorney papers to give my parents the ability to act on my daughter's behalf, taker her to the doctor, etc. There was no child support paperwork, etc. It was a straightforward document where I signed to allow my parent's the ability to care for her without issue. I lived in GA at the time and they lived in IL. So my daughter left the state and I had to stay while the investigation was carried out. From that moment, I began paying my mother a monthly support amount of $300 even though I was not obligated to by any document. I did it because I wanted to care for my kid.\n\nAfter about a year, my case was closed and it was determined that I wasn't a risk. However, my mom started giving me push-back on me taking back my daughter, flat out refusing to hand her over because \"I didn't see her enough.\" I was terrified of her cutting of my access to my child, especially since I was 12+ hours away, so I let it drop at the time. I still payed her, and I still visited my daughter as frequently as military leave would allow. At some point, I started paying close to $400 a month, because my mother said she needed the money. I had the money, I had a job, so I gave it to her. Then, a year ago, I got out of the military. My husband and I hit a rough patch. I stopped being able to pay more than $200 a month, and then eventually, I couldn't afford to pay anything. We moved to MD to have the support of his family, and so I could be closer to my daughter. But since I was no longer \"contributing fully\", my mother began to get VERY angry with me. She has threatened to take me to court, sue me for child support that I was never obligated to pay her in the first place. She still refuses to give me my daughter back, and now she will not speak to me at all. I am terrified, but also angry. I want to have my daughter in my life, I want her to be around me and know me as her mom. Her whole life, my mother has told her that I am her SISTER. I don't know what my options are. ","title":"(MD, USA) My child is being cared for by her grandparents, question on Power of Attorney","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569795002,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db22s3\/person_at_fault_wont_respond_to_insurance_calls\/","id":"db22s3","body":"Hello\n\nA girl hit my car in the parking lot while I was in my car. She then walked away and ignoring me calling her. I put a note on her car saying \"call me or I will report hit and run\". She freaked out and texted me \"I am sorry  I did not recognize I hit you\" Even though she went up front and inspected her \"severly damaged\" bumper. I told her that and she said \"I went to the front to take my license plate number to pay for the parking\". Well, in Arizona we do not have a front license plate. I told her this, and she just ignored. I asked her for her insurance and she sent it to me. \n\n​\n\nI called them and filed a claim. Minutes later she asked me to fix things out without involving insurance. I ignored her texts because insurance already knew, and I prefer the legal way. \n\n​\n\nCalled Insurance a week later, they told me she has not been responding to their calls, and they cannot do anything regarding the claim without her statement. And I am just left out alone, not knowing what to do. \n\n​\n\nI have read online that the only option I have is to file a small claims court lawsuit against her. I mean I am fine with that since I have all the evidence and I have the witnesses. However, paying court fees up to $300 for a $1200 repair is not worth it. It is easy to win the lawsuit but how am I going to collect the repair amount from her if I win? It is going to be a pain let alone the loss in court fees. \n\nAlso, I wish not to involve my insurance since it is liability only, and I am afraid they raise the rates. \n\n​\n\nAny advice? Should I threaten her with filing a lawsuit? Is it even legal? I was so nice to her for not filing a hit and run, but apparently, she doesn't deserve this kind of treatment. \n\n​\n\nLocation: Phoenix, Arizona","title":"Person at Fault Won't Respond To Insurance Calls..!","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553736409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6cp22\/can_i_withdraw_from_my_deceased_fathers_bank\/","id":"b6cp22","body":"My father passed away unexpectedly with no will of any kind but I am next of kin.  He has a Wells Fargo account his social security is deposited into.  They haven\u2019t been notified of his death yet as I\u2019m still waiting for the death certificate.  I have his atm card and pin, is it ok for me to take the money out? ","title":"Can I withdraw from my deceased father\u2019s bank account (PA)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1410880321,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gkd62\/computer_company_replaced_my_girlfriends_hard\/","id":"2gkd62","body":"Sorry about the brief title, it's quite a long story.\n\nThis is about PC World\/KnowHow. A few weeks ago now my girlfriend had a keyboard key come off her laptop (not broken, just flung off) not knowing what to do and having insurance with KnowHow, she took it into PC World.\n\nThe guy behind the counter looked at it, and said he would not do it there just incase he did more damage and agreed to send it off, he handed over the document for my girlfriend to sign (where she agrees to data loss and playing with her laptop etc) but after not being able to find a pen (??) he took the document back and told her not to worry about it as they shouldn't touch anything else.\n\nFast forward about a week and a bit and my girlfriend gets a call to come and pick up the laptop, she takes it home and boots it up and it's a brand new install of Windows 7. At no time has she been contacted\/called about any of this. She's a uni student in her third year of University so had a LOT of documents\/software on that laptop including Office also.\n\nShe rung up and they were very rude telling her she was warned about it (she was not). In the end I found out and got involved, emailing them and complaining, and after two weeks of being rudely treated over email, they agreed to send the hard drive back for data recovery, but I got told that it would be 'difficult' because of the state of the drive.\n\nI received the hard drive back, and it had not been wiped (so it had been sitting there with her data on) and after recovering a lot of her data, I used a few programs I use at work to scan the HDD for problems, and none were found. I contacted them and asked them for an explanation of what was wrong, and they just said their engineer said there was a fault and so they fixed it. (He no longer works for them according to them, so I can't get anything more).\n\nAfter emailing them backwards and forwards for months I have not managed to get anywhere with them, they will not accept fault for replacing her HDD for a broken keyboard key (The key was replaced, not even the keyboard, so why they checked the drive I do not know).\n\nFinally the last few weeks they have been ignoring my emails completely (The last 5 or so) I even reached on social media, and they ended up ignoring me after ~4-5 tweets.\n\nDo I have any type of legal stance here due to my girlfriend not being aware and not signing this document? I understand I got most of her things back, but holding her HDD with the data on with no reason and possibly checking her data I thought was against the computer miuse act, I could be wrong! (I'm in the UK)\n\nAny help would be great, sorry if it's slightly confusing, I'm in a rush right now.\n\nAny questions, feel free to ask\/PM and I can show you more details!","title":"Computer company replaced my girlfriends hard drive, when the problem was completely different","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1408643261,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e76j7\/new_jersey_notice_to_quit_after_lease\/","id":"2e76j7","body":"Hello-- \n\nMy family is moving. We moved into the house we've been in now in 2008. For that first year--July 2008 to the end of June 2009--we had a lease; that lease required 60 days notice to our landlord to move out. \n\nSince then, we've been on a month-to-month lease, according to our landlord. Nobody in the house ever signed anything acknowledging any terms of this month to month lease. I'm assuming that everything that was in the original lease carried over to the new month-to-month agreement.\n\nThat being said, do we still need to give 60 days notice? According to NJ Stat. Ann. 2A:18-56:\n\n\"No judgment for possession in cases specified in paragraph \"a.\" of section 2A:18-53 of this TItle shall be ordered unless:\n\na. The tenancy, if a tenancy at will or from year to year, has been terminated by the giving of 3 months' notice to quit, which notice shall be deemed to be sufficient; or\n\nb. The tenancy, if a tenancy from month to month, has been terminated by the giving of 1 month's notice to quit, which notice shall be deemed to be sufficient; or [...]\"\n\nThis is eviction law, but it seems to clearly say that a month-to-month lease requires 1 month's notice. Would our previous lease override this to require 60 days? I understand that it *would,* if we were still bound by that lease, and I'm not exactly sure if it would, if we were on a yearly agreement--but it seems strange that the transition from yearly to month-to-month would allow the landlord to require what is, essentially, twice the term of the current agreement. So, are we still required to give 60 days notice, or only one month?\n\nLong story short, I can't even claim to have gotten a decoder ring off the back of a cereal box, let alone any skill at law, so is there anyone who can clarify this for me? Thanks so much.\n","title":"(New Jersey) Notice to quit after lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553629532,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5ua6f\/landlord_increasing_rent\/","id":"b5ua6f","body":"Okay so let me start of by saying we have been living here for the past 5 years and not once have we had the rent increase on us. The rent is currently at $2,200 a month. (yes we live in California lol). I have personally been with a musical group for the past year and up till a 4 months ago we have been singed to a well known label in our genre of music. That said I have drastically increased my income per month. I don\u2019t know how our landlord knew about it but we were told that they were going to increase the rent to $3,500 based off of my profession. Now let me tell you this house is not worth anymore per month than maybe $2,500, it is not run down but it also wasn\u2019t built in the 2000\u2019s.  I know for a fact we can afford to move but the problem is that we have 4 kids in the house that are already going to the nearby schools  and my parents \/ siblings already have jobs near our city, why not move to another house in the city you ask? The houses in the city are too small to fit us (9) and the ones that are, are being sold at over $1 million... sure we can pay the extra 1,200 but why would be want to increase it because of my profession. Main question is should we cave in or is there any possibility that he can\u2019t increase it for said reasons?","title":"Landlord Increasing Rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446945855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ryg0b\/is_there_a_legal_limit_to_how_many_unrelated\/","id":"3ryg0b","body":"Hello \/r\/legaladvice. \nI couldn't find anything online regarding this topic so I'm hoping for some quick insight. I rent a room that is part of a house, has two floors and currently 5 different tenants. I was in the process of arranging to have someone move in with me and share a room but my landlord says its NY state law that no more then 5 people that are unrelated to each other can live in the same house legally. \n\nIs that a real thing? Seems ridiculous to me. Any thoughts are knowledge on the subject would be appreciated. \n\nThanks all!","title":"Is there a legal limit to how many unrelated families can live in one house? NY","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550782539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/at8bv7\/my_boss_hasnt_scheduled_me_for_2_weeks_in_a_row\/","id":"at8bv7","body":"In the past 2 weeks i have made 0 hours and $0 at my \"Job\". My manager didn't even contact me, nor send me a schedule. She sent me a schedule in the past where I wasn't working because of the holidays so I know she chose not to send it to me. I had to ask my coworkers and then eventually ask her, herself. Not only that but the weeks before this i have only been making a maximum of 4 hours a week. My manager is constantly being neglectful when it comes to me personally and I have even heard from my coworkers that she talks about me behind my back. She has called me and another coworker \"Dumb and Dumber,\" which hurts my feelings especially. I have payments to make and groceries to buy since I'm a student but recently I have been running out of food and barely been able to make my payments thanks to reaching out to my parents but that defeats the purpose of having my own job. When I asked my boss what was going on she just told me that since I am a part time employee that doesn't guarantee me hours. I can understand that maybe for 1 week but 2 weeks means I'm basically unemployed. Not only that but she has made it clear that she will not be scheduling me for the following weeks after this. I'm not sure where I stand within my legal rights but this whole thing leaves me feeling like a victim. Is there and grounds or precedent for the scenario I'm currently experiencing. ","title":"My boss hasn't scheduled me for 2 weeks in a row. I'm a part time employee.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1411439669,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2h6w6b\/mississippi_officer_gives_me_a_speeding_ticket\/","id":"2h6w6b","body":"So I moved into a new house the day before and was on my way to college on a different road. As I was driving and trying to remember what was on my test for the day, I get blue lights flashing behind me. I slow down thinking he is going to pass me and pull over the people that were way ahead of me... NOPE just decides to pull me over.\n\nHe asked me if I knew why I got pulled over and I said no, and he told me I was going 41 on a 30. I told him I was sorry and did not see the new speed zone sign. But he continues to write me a ticket.\n\nI finally get a ticket and head my way to the final exam 10 minutes late. After taking the exam I look at my ticket and notice 3 mistakes.\n1)he wrote the street name as \"X avenue\" instead of X road. So the street location is technically wrong. 2) he wrote my name down wrong leaving out complete letters in my name. 3) he wrote that I was going 41 in a 35 (resulting in me going 6 over the speed limit).\n\nNow I missed citations court because of school, and I have court in 2 days. I received a letter that says my charge is: Speeding 10-20 MPH over the limit. \nBut the ticket he wrote clearly has a wrong street, and the ticket says I was going 6 MPH over the speed limit.\n\nWhen they ask me if I plead guilty to this charge, do I have a favorable chance of winning this case if I state not  guilty to the \"speeding 10-20 mph\" and present the ticket that says I was going 6 over?\n\nIf I am allowed to ask questions to the officer, what type of questions should I ask( ex. is it possible after making a few mistakes on my ticket, that you as well made a mistake on my speed?). \nI would love any input and advice yall have on the matter.\n\nP.S. No, I am not trying to elude the ticket etc, I am simply asking if I have a pretty good chance due to the inability of the officer to do his job correctly.","title":"Mississippi- Officer gives me a speeding ticket but writes down wrong street and speed zone-- this results in me getting a different charge. Please help!","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541280939,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9txxi0\/possible_restraining_order\/","id":"9txxi0","body":"So, I think I will be going home from work to an emergency restraining order.\n\nQuick backstory. I am in the begginings of a very ugly divorce. Finances still have us cohabitating, though I wish that were not the case.\n\nIn September she (through a third party) made a false report to CPS of me sexually assaulting our 12 year old daughter. The charge was found to be unsupported very quickly. Since that day she has begun referring to me as child molester and actively preventing me from spending time with my children (12yo girl, 6yo son). She also follows me around the house with her phone, recirding everything I do(cooking, cleaning, sitting...) Refering to me as child molester the entire time.\n\nYesterday however, while doing her normal recording she kept refering to me as wife beater. When it was time for me to leave for work, she was nowhere to be found. She had left the house, refused to tell the children where she was going. I don't bother to ask because I know she won't tell me, but our daughter oarticularly was upset that her mother wouldn't say. It is important to mention both children were given the oppourtunity to go with her, but they refused, wanting to stay home with me.\n\nAfter numerous calls to her, not going to voicemail but being sent to voicemail, I arranged to drop them at their grandmothers house, whom they love. After leaving them I called their mother again to tell her where the children were.\n\nA man answered the phone, and after me asking, identified himself as a police officer. I asked wher my STBX was and he responded that she was filing charges. He then began asking me questions but I told him he would need to talk to my attorney and gave him my lawyers info.\n\nSo my question is...how worried should I be returning to my house tonight\n ? What might I expect? What should I be doing to prepare for that eventuality?\n\nAdded: I did not mention in the original body of the post, but I absolutely have not done anything innapropriate to my daughter. She still chooses time with me as much as possible. I have not laid a finger on my STBX, although she has struck or pushed me a few times. She is not diagnosed, but through reading I suspect she may be BPD, and she has accused my of many things that have not happened, even claiming to have photographic evidence that she refuses to share.\n\nThank you to anyone that has read this all, and has any helpful advice.","title":"Possible restraining order?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570346094,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddzxls\/pa_planning_on_leaving_husband_want_to_take_son\/","id":"ddzxls","body":"He says if I leave with our son while he is at work he would kill me. He also says the only way he'd agree to a divorce is if I sign over all my rights and only have supervised visits. He has a felony and regular marijuana usage, I don't do either. He's working and I'm not. I have a college diploma he does not. \n\nWe share an apartment. \n\nCan I leave and take our son to a family members house? Can I keep my son with me throughout the divorce? If I don't file for divorce but want to leave can I take my son? How does this work?\n\nHe says if I leave it's kidnapping because he didn't give permission. I said I don't need his permission to take my son to my family members. I wouldn't try to keep my son from him but he would try to keep me from our son. I wouldn't hide from him he would know where we are and he could see his son whenever","title":"[PA] planning on leaving husband, want to take son with me, what can I do legally","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568571386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4o7fo\/unable_to_use_kitchen_with_less_than_a_month_from\/","id":"d4o7fo","body":"I was scheduled to move into this new place the weekend that hurricane Dorian was coming here. That Saturday (8\/31\/2019) we came with the agent from the HOA and the owners for the lease signing and money exchange. When we got here, we found that that the townhouse was FILTHY. The previous tenants had moved out weeks prior but the landlord said he had no prior knowledge of this and would've had it cleaned before we moved. It was frustrating but with a uhaul full of stuff, and a pending hurricane, and even with tears of fatigue and stress, we signed the lease after the owner said they'd compensate us $100 for cleaning if we stayed. We paid $2700 ($1400 1st mo. and $1400 deposit minus $100 for cleaning). We couldn't stay in the place because there was now water or power because previous tenants had it all shut off and because of the hurricane and all the local closures, we didn't move until 1 week later. Ever since I moved in, I've been noticing this smell coming from the kitchen. It was coming from the stove. Long story short, I discovered that there is a sort of bad\/rotten food\/garbage smell coming from a soggy drywall spot that goes under the wall and into the foundation. I called the landlord and explained the situation. I was told that they are out of town and for me to look for the smell in detail and cut into the drywall if needed and let them know what I find. They continued to say that if anything needs to be done, for me to do it and that they would pay me back. Here's where my dilemma lies: I don't even have money for gas and food right now. I poured every last dime I had (and even borrowed more than half) to be able to move. I didn't even move by choice. Previous apartment complex simply decided to not renew my lease and only gave me 30 days notice (which I know is legal). The landlord won't be back for about a month, I have no money to even begin to have this inspected or to rent the ozone generator to clear the smell and now I had to seal off the kitchen with tape and plastic because the smell is nauseating. I had to put the fridge in the dining room and now have no access to the stove or sink. I've had to dig into the money I'm saving up for my upcoming rent due 10\/05 and the landlord has yet to say to deduct it from the rent. I'm afraid to not pay rent but how can I pay $1400 when I can't even use my kitchen and my whole place smells like a landfill? What right do I have to withhold rent and how much rent can I withhold since everything that needs to get done costs so much money? What do I do?","title":"Unable to use kitchen with less than a month from having moved in (Florida).","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554939896,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbt6gm\/buying_a_car_from_another_state_and_driving_it\/","id":"bbt6gm","body":"This may be a bit convoluted so bear with me if I\u2019m not clear on any of this. \n\nI am purchasing a CPO\u2019d S4 that is currently in California at a dealership. I am getting the car financed through my local CU. The CU here is sending all of the money to the dealership and is handling the titling fees and registering fees that are required by my state, which is Wisconsin. \n\nInitially, they were going to charge me $3,337 of taxes for California alone. I was confused but I guess this is a new law put in place as of this year. \n\nAnyway, after going back and forth with the dealership quite a bit, they\u2019ve agreed to put the car on a truck, take it to just outside of Vegas where I\u2019ll meet the car, take delivery, sign a thing that says I didn\u2019t drive it in California (I won\u2019t) and then I\u2019m on my way. \n\nHere\u2019s where I\u2019m lost. The dealer cannot issue me a temp plate, since it\u2019s going outside of California. Ideally by the end of this week, early next, the dealership will send my CU all the paperwork *except* the title. They\u2019ll send a KSR which I guess lists my CU as the lien holder, but I do not believe this is the equivalent of a title. \n\nThe dealership is saying that it takes \u201c6 - 8 weeks\u201d to issue a new title and then the car will finally be registered. I haven\u2019t gotten much out of the WI DMV, but they need a title to register the car, is what they\u2019re telling me. \n\nDoes anyone have any insight? Does this all seem correct? Is there any way I would reasonably be able to drive this car back to Wisconsin from Nevada with a temporary sticker, tag, something? \n\nAny advice is helpful.","title":"Buying a car from another state and driving it back, need some help with registration process \/ titling","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552664472,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1gf05\/drug_use_law_enforcementpolice_etc\/","id":"b1gf05","body":"Before I go into my question etc... please understand I realize I am responsible for my mistakes and will have to live with it.\n\nI have the dream of being a crime scene investigator or something like that, but first I am pursuing the job of a police officer. Although my teenage mistakes are making me question if I have ruined my ability to do so. At the age of 17\/18 I have tried LSD a small amount of times, no more than 3. (I know, I was stupid.) Also I had smoked marijuana. I havent done anything since and I was interested in trying to go to Police Academy or something of the sorts in my early 20s. Will they automatically deny me? Will tests show up that infromation from that long ago? I will be honest in my testing because I don't want to lie to them about marijuana although should I keep the LSD experimentation to myself? I really do not want to be dishonest, but I am so conflicted. Its difficult because that is the only thing that could be automatic disqualification, and that is standing between me and my passion. I am really upset with myself and wish I had done things differently. I just really am passionate about this job. Also I have no criminal record of any sorts. Your responses would be greatly appreciated, thank you. ","title":"Drug use Law Enforcement\/Police etc.....","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553470187,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b535hm\/being_sued_by_tenant_for_water_damage_need_help\/","id":"b535hm","body":"Let me start by saying ive scheduled to speak to a lawyer as this sub has taught me, but i wanted to see if anyone here could help provide some insight on my situation. State is California if that matters. (first time poster, apologies for format\/lack of info)\n\nThe story goes like this: An older man is renting out a living space my family owns, and recently a leak appeared above his bedroom. Upon investigation, the cause of the leak was something that was completely out of my hands, and could not have been predicted to prevent. I am now being told by sued for the leak, and ive been told by others that the old man can make claims of emotional damages of not having somewhere to sleep, kids were traumatized by the event, etc (really a stretch of stuff). \n\nMy question is What should I expect? What can this man sue me for other than any physical damage the water may have caused? Will his claims hold up in court? Anyone have similar experiences?","title":"Being sued by tenant for water damage, need help.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541112532,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tee7w\/am_i_being_evicted_wa_state\/","id":"9tee7w","body":"I got an end of tenancy notice that I need to leave by December 31st. No reason was given, besides saying corporate picks random people to kick out which makes no sense to me. We do have someone living here that is supposed to be on the lease and he's saying he turned all the papers in but his name isn't on this end of tenancy notice which makes me worried, but again the only reason they gave us was that corporate kicks out random people (wtf really?) So will this be referred to as an 'eviction' on my record even though I've been given plenty of time to move out? Or is it really just corporate deciding to randomly kick me out after not even a year of living here? Should I be worried?","title":"Am I being evicted? (WA State)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569410801,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d91x05\/nyc_would_this_count_as_normal_wear_and_tear\/","id":"d91x05","body":"My old apartment has very few outlets. I\u2019d like to use extension cords and surge protectors to make \u201cfake outlets\u201d by stapling the extension cords to the wall using a staple gun. This would leave two small holes every few feet mostly at corners. Would I lose my deposit?","title":"[NYC] would this count as normal wear and tear?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1411336951,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2h2jha\/aggravated_speeding_ticket_in_il_what_to_do_now\/","id":"2h2jha","body":"I was driving my girlfriend's car and was driving on an IL highway.  The speed limit was 55 and I was pulled over and ticketed for going 34 over.  I didn't realize I was going that fast, and am so upset with myself, but now what?  I did some searching and saw that being ticketed at that speed is a class B misdemeanor and is punishable with up to 6 months in jail and $1,500 in fines.  I'm going to get a lawyer, but was just wondering, what kind of punishment am I realistically looking at here?  Am I going to jail?! ","title":"Aggravated Speeding Ticket in IL. What To Do Now?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539311025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ngduh\/divorce_in_sc\/","id":"9ngduh","body":"Backstory: Married 6 months and wife asked for a divorce. Apparently this was a scare tactic but I decided that it being the 4th time she\u2019d asked for one in 6 months that our marriage wouldn\u2019t last. \n\nFast forward to now: dating someone else while separated. Wife found out and wants me to file for divorce under adultery. What, if any, consequences can this carry (legally, professionally) in South Carolina? ","title":"Divorce in SC","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570054447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dchilk\/my_dad_gave_his_last_wishes_but_didnt_have_a_will\/","id":"dchilk","body":"We recorded him saying that he wanted me to get 40%, my brother to get 40% and his wife is to get 20% of his estate. \n\nHe didn\u2019t sign anything, all we have is a recording of him saying it. \n\nWe live in Indiana. I could care less about the assets because he doesn\u2019t have much. It just boils me alive that she\u2019s pretty much doing what I thought she was going to do. Wait til he dies and live easy.","title":"My dad gave his last wishes but didn\u2019t have a will.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570466337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/delz0w\/my_mother_is_an_unfit_parent_id_like_to_have\/","id":"delz0w","body":"Hi. You can call me Kay. I'm a 20 year old female. I know that parental rights are nothing to be joked about. And trust me, I'm not joking. My mother is probably killing my little sister slowly with how horrible she is. Her apartment is consistently littered with garbage. There's garbage bags greeting you outside the front door, too. Dishes are almost never done. Full garbage bags in the kitchen all the time that no one bothers to take out. My aunt went over to clean and was there for 5 hours, and still couldn't finish everything. She did the dishes, and there was mold growing from old broccoli and cheese. She nearly threw up from the smell alone, not to mention how it looked. My little sister is 14 years old and has been living in these conditions for about a year. Not to mention that my mother is just an awful person in general. She is overbearing, stressful just to listen to, and doesn't do anything to help improve her situation. She lays in her own filth and misery, and I can't even imagine having to live with that again. I need Kansas law. Can anyone help me save my little sister? What are the steps involved?","title":"My mother is an unfit parent. I'd like to have parental rights over my little sister.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503964181,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wnfi9\/isp_dropped_my_familys_plan_because_i_pirated\/","id":"6wnfi9","body":"I live in a very, small town in Northeastern Pennsylvania. There is only one reliable and efficient ISP in my area, which is Service Electric, which is apparently connected to PennTeleData up here as well.\n\nI used to pirate movies online (two prior incidents being caught), but after the Game of Thrones episode leaked, I couldn't help myself. I used a VPN on my Samsung to download it, but I forgot to delete the torrent immediately after and was seeding it for about two weeks. \n\nMy ISP decided to drop us, which is honestly an understandable decision. I know I really messed up here. \n\nIs there any chance I can convince them to keep me or give our family one more chance? We've never been late on bills and have been loyal to their company. There are very few other options for ISPs up here, so I really screwed the pooch on this one.\n\nI really need help with this whole situation, so I'm willing to do almost anything to get them to take me back.","title":"ISP dropped my family's plan because I pirated stuff online.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1413320793,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2j9519\/stolen_phone\/","id":"2j9519","body":"My friend and I were busted at in a hotel room with some weed. Apparently, it was enough for a distributing felony in Virginia. (I don't know how much it actually was.) We weren't having a party or even being loud, this same cop had been harassing my friend for a few weeks now and just finally happened to catch him in the act. My line of reasoning is, it's a hotel room, we just checked in a few hours ago, if we both refuse to talk we can have our lawyers argue the weed was already in the room, left by a prior tenant. (I didn't tell my friend this at the time but I figured even if that plan went south, my name wasn't on the room so I was safe.) Well, that didn't work, and it majorly pissed the cop off so much so that he \"confiscated\" our phones as \"evidence.\" Both of our lawyers told us we could plead guilty to a misdemeanor possession. I said I wasn't pleading guilty to anything because it wasn't my weed. My friend had already admitted it was his and that I had nothing to do with it. My (crappy court appointed) lawyer basically scared and bullied me into taking a plea deal I didn't want. I wanted a real life jury trial and to let them hear how my friend, who admitted he was the one selling that weed, got off with a misdemeanor and they're over here trying to stick me with 2 felony conspiracy and distribution charges. But, I'm getting off topic. I caved and took the stupid deal against my better judgement. My problem now is, I have no cell phone. I heard awhile back that the Supreme Court can't use anything in your phone as evidence against you anymore. And even if they hadn't made that a law, there was nothing incriminating on my phone anyway. It literally played no role in my case. So my question is, is there any possible way of me somehow getting my phone back?","title":"\"Stolen\" Phone","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541170818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tkuhe\/my_brothers_friend_has_been_asked_to_leave_and_is\/","id":"9tkuhe","body":"Hey friends,\n\n​\n\nSo the situation: My brother's friend from out of state moved here to Florida and my brother was kind enough to let him stay with him for a couple months and help out with the rent and bills until he could afford his own place. He has been living in my brother's house for 2 months and has received mail from 2 jobs that he had, but he is a real slob and hasn't thrown any money towards the bills or rent. My brother is tired of it and has finally asked him to leave but the friend from out state is now claiming squatters rights and claims that he cannot be forced out due to this (Note: My brother rents this house).\n\n​\n\nI am in the mortgage industry and familiar with real estate laws so my brother came to me for advice. I primarily work with buyers and sellers so i was unsure of the proper action to take to help my brother out. From what i believe, if his claims are true, he can be given a notice to evict in 30 days and my brother has to just wait it out but i feel like you guys may have a better solution. Do squatters rights work in residences where someone lives or just for vacant, adverse properties?\n\n​\n\nTo be clear: my brother rents this house, he currently lives there with one roommate who is on the lease, the friend that was asked to leave is not on the lease and hasn't given him any money for any bills. There is no contract signed between the \"squatter\" and my brother. My brother does not want to involve his landlord because he fears he may be evicted for letting someone stay there that long. The property is located in Holiday, FL (Pasco County).\n\n​\n\n​\n\nTL;DR: Brother had friend move in temporarily. Asked his friend to leave due to being slob and not helping with bills. Friend is claiming squatters rights and won't leave.\n\n​\n\nThanks in advance redditors.","title":"My brother's friend has been asked to leave and is now claiming squatter's rights","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539055297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mloyh\/if_you_live_in_a_state_that_requires_front\/","id":"9mloyh","body":"Title sums it up","title":"If you live in a state that requires front license plates, can you remove the front plate (and not be cited) when driving out of your home state since there isn\u2019t a nationwide requirement to have a front license plate?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551937429,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay966m\/should_i_be_payed_for_hours_worked_uk\/","id":"ay966m","body":"Last week I was called in at 12pm by my agency for an 8 hour shift starting in two hours . I replied I could work the shift and made my arrangements to go to work at 2pm. It wasnt until after the shift i realised the employment agency i am with had texted me at 1:30pm, 30mins before my shift that i was no longer needed in work. Unfortunately i had already worked the whole shift after realising this due to turning my phone off for work. Am I legally entitled to be paid for the work I did even though technically I shouldn't have came in? I should add i was not told during my shift to leave at any point.\n\nRegards.","title":"Should I be payed for hours worked? (UK)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445967554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qg28d\/heat_on_in_apartment_unknowinglyhigh_electric\/","id":"3qg28d","body":"My question is...can I charge my manager for leaving the heat on in my apartment. My electric bill for 5 months was 1,400??\n\nI moved into a condo about 5 months ago and from day one the bedroom has been unbearably hot, but I just thought it was due to extreme lack of circulation due to small windows. So we just didn't go in the room anymore. Every month my electric has been about $300-400. \n\nI called SDGE asking why such a high bill,they asked if I was always hot, I said YES ,they told me to check my breaker for one that said heat and click it off.within 10 minutes my room was so nice and cool. But now my dishwasher doesn't work because they are connected on the breaker. And when I moved in, I wasn't even told the place had heat in the ceiling\n\nMy question is...can I charge my manager for leaving the heat on in my apartment. My electric bill for 5 months was 1,400??\n\nUPDATE: thank you a million reddit for all of the help and replies, I am going to try the thermostat and see if it will work so I don't have to shut off my dishwasher too! ill update tomorrow!","title":"heat on in apartment unknowingly\/high electric bill(san diego,ca)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551575555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awotp1\/my_landlord_had_a_housing_inspection_and_it_turns\/","id":"awotp1","body":"Like the title says, I found out I live in an apartment that is non-compliant with city housing code. A housing inspector came through recently and said that the kitchen in the basement apartment is not allowed. I will have to move out, but I'm not sure when. I'd like to stay until July 2019.\n\n​\n\nI live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I signed a lease agreement for month-to-month with one month's rent as a security deposit. I've been living here since 11\/01\/2018. Will there be ramifications to me continuing to live here? Will I want to put  future rent in an municipal escrow? Can I ask for reduced rent or rent money returned? What am I not thinking of?","title":"My landlord had a housing inspection, and it turns out my apartment is illegal. Now I have to move out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444586518,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ocrlf\/mnusa_arrested_while_jogging_home_from_a_friends\/","id":"3ocrlf","body":"Last night I decided to walk home from my friend's house after we went out to the bars. It was about 3.5 miles, but I didn't mind as I wanted to walk off the buzz I had. It was 230am and I decided I want to get there faster so I started to jog home. I was about two blocks away when hear a car coming up from behind me. I move to the side of the grass to continue jogging home. It's dark and I hear someone say something, but it wasn't very loud so I continued to jog. I then hear someone chasing after me and turn around and see that it's a cop. I stop immediately and ask whats going on. He pushes me into the back of a car and asks me why I'm running and I tell him I was just trying to go home after going to the bars. I was not exactly thrilled and kept asking, \"What's going on? Why are you doing this to me? I haven't done anything.\" He accuses me of lying and says he think I was running away from a cab driver who had told him 3 people just stiffed him on a ride. \n\nA few more cops show up and he puts me in the back of the squad car. They continue to question me and ask me why I was running home. I continue to tell them that I was heading home and didn't want to drive because I had been drinking. The cab driver shows up and sees me in the back of the car. He tells the cops that it WAS me but that he didn't want to press charges. At this point I feel like I'm in the damn twilight zone and am furiously mad. They ask me to take a breathalyzer and I do. (I blow a .09) They then discuss amongst themselves what to do with me. I hear the one cop continue to ask \"Should we tag him, should we tag him?\" \n\nHe takes me out and starts to take the handcuffs off, he struggles and I quip \"What? First day on the job?\" Obviously he was not thrilled, so I then told him I was going to file a complaint against the police department. He then yells at me to get in the car. So I get in and they decide to arrest me and book me at the police station. I ask the driver (who was not the cop that yelled at me) what I was even being charged with. He tells me, \"We will tell you when we get to station.\" So I got to the station get booked and now they charged me with a misdemeanor for fleeing the police. Court date is in a month.   \n\nWhat is my next step here?\n I don't have a a lot of money so will a public defender be good enough to get the chargers dropped? \nThe cops did not read me my rights or even tell me what I was getting charged with. Did they do something illegal?\nShould I file a complaint against them for how they handled it?\n\nAny help here is greatly appreciated!!","title":"(MN,USA) Arrested while jogging home from a friend's place late last night","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555111845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bckcrn\/committed_debit_card_fraud_as_a_bank_employee\/","id":"bckcrn","body":"Around November of last year I was not in a good mental place. Stressed about not making enough money for my family, trying to get in a house, never enough groceries in the house, piling bills. Enough of excuses.\n\nA customer had a damaged card and I replaced it for him. The bank system allows the damaged card to be used until the new card is activated. I used the damaged card for a few weeks for groceries, going out to eat, and random costs. Come December the customer launched and investigation and by end of January I was terminated after the investigation. I was interrogated and made to sign a confession.\n\nMonths later I thought it was behind me. I started a new job, we paid off our bills, and we were good. A few days ago my wife called me saying the police was there. I went home, was arrested as a \"fugitive\" living in Alabama and the warrants were In Georgia. Im on bond right now, awaiting court. 26 counts of credit card fraud all felonies.\n\n\nLong story short. Ive never had more than 2 speeding tickets. I'm not a bad person but I really fucked up. What are the chances I can avoid jail time by means of first time offender, community service, parole, or restitution? I will work my ass off to pay every dime I owe and I'm fined. But I have a family and we just found out we are having another child. I will not survive prison. 2 days in jail showed me that much.","title":"Committed debit card fraud as a bank employee","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569575021,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9xp4z\/looking_for_a_quick_bit_of_advice_to_see_if_my\/","id":"d9xp4z","body":"Hey there, \n\nI have a quick question about a trademark I have found in the states. I want to be 100% sure that I won\u2019t be infringing on the existing one. I have sourced the trademark info and just want some one with a law background to give their view. I would think they would know instantly. \n\nThanks in advance to anyone who can help.","title":"Looking for a quick bit of advice to see if my product idea will impede on an existing trademark in the states.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1507286327,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74mst4\/va_i_might_have_an_almost_18_year_old_son_and_i\/","id":"74mst4","body":"I'm using a throwaway because this is nuts.\n\nBackstory is this. I met a girl in high school, almost 20 years ago. She had a boyfriend at a different high school but she wanted to fool around and didn't want anyone to find out. We did and kept it quiet. I wasn't the only one she was messing around with. After graduation we left for college, different schools. She would show up and we'd fool around a bit sometimes but it was still a sort of secret FWB thing. Before the first semester was over, she claimed that she was pregnant. At some point I figured there might be a DNA test to see who the father might be if the boyfriend found out she'd been cheating on him but I never heard anything. She dropped out of school and moved back home. I haven't heard from her since then. I heard that she really was pregnant and that she had her baby. \n\nLast month I get together with a friend from back then who tells me a wild story (being intentionally obtuse here). It looks like no one ever claimed this kid but she told a few people that it was mine when she got caught with the cheating. (This was proven in a court but I don't want to go into specifics if I don't have to.)\n\nWhat, if anything should I do? There is so much more to this story but I don't want to be identifiable. \n\nEdited for clarity: After the kid turns 18, if he comes for a DNA test and I'm ordered to submit to it - what can I expect if I am the father? Do I need a lawyer at that point? Or should I speak to a lawyer now to preempt any drama?\n\nEdited to add: Thanks, everyone for your thoughts on this. I've only been sitting on this information for a couple of weeks so my thoughts and feelings are all over the place. I appreciate everyone who responded on a more personal level - definitely stuff to think about. Thanks also to everyone who answered the question of a DNA test and back child support. I might be wrong, but I think that was the only legal aspect that I needed to consider and now I'm moving on now to other aspects of this situation. Thanks again!","title":"(VA) I might have an almost 18 year old son, and I have no idea what to do next.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540947503,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9su1ck\/apartment_purchased_new_hardwood_flooring_with_my\/","id":"9su1ck","body":"Location: Illinois, United States\n\nI spent two years at this apartment & they\u2019ve been nothing but trouble recently. Some background info, I\u2019m currently a college student & I\u2019m living in a decent apartment complex. I lived in a different apartment number the past two years & for my senior year I moved to a different apartment in the same complex but on a higher floor. After I switched to a different room, I got my security deposit back from the previous room which was much lower than expected. The main concern was a $300 charge for a floor replacement. I know I didn\u2019t spill or drag anything on the carpet to damage the carpet, it\u2019s possible that the carpet was a bit dirty when I moved out. \n\nI asked the apartment manager which reports to \u201ccorporate\u201d about all problems that tenants have. After some back & forth between the manager I was told that corporate determined that the rug was \u201cbeyond cleaning\u201d & I was told the carpet was *replaced*. After some back & forth over email, i got some pictures that \u201ccorporate\u201d said was evidence of the rug being dirty, but the rug looked fine. I responded to the pictures saying this on October 14th but got no response. So today I was able to go down to the office to ask what was going on. \n\nWhen I went to the office to talk to the manager & I was told that \u201ccorporate\u201d filters out all emails that are sent to the manager after the final date to file a dispute which was October 11th. I mentioned that the pictures didn\u2019t seem that bad & this is when I was told that the $300 was not for carpet replacement but rather new hardwood flooring?? The apartment was built in 2012 & I highly doubt that they\u2019ve replaced the carpets since so I feel it\u2019s safe to assume they decided that it was time to replace them with more durable hardwood floor & wanted to charge me for it. \n\nIn my opinion the dispute was not resolved so I asked for the corporate contact information & was told that all communication ***had*** to go through the manager, there was no contact between tenant & corporate. I was then told that if I was unhappy with the decision corporate had, hiring an attorney was the next step. \n\nI\u2019ve mentioned \u201ccorporate\u201d a few times because I\u2019ve never been told who the parent company is. There\u2019s no evidence on the website either. After finding the construction company that built the building, I found the LLC which I then searched on a government site with a LLC directory. From there I found the principal office which I then googled. Fortunately I found a property company on yelp & googled their name & sure enough I found a property company that owns my apartment building, along with about 40 other apartments around the United States. \n\nI have the corporate phone number but now I\u2019m not sure what should be said on the phone to them. The lack of info on \u201ccorporate\u201d on the website was sketchy & the fact I didn\u2019t know they charged me to replace carpet with hardwood flooring until after the final dispute date is even more sketchy. Any help would be appreciated but I feel hiding an attorney for $300 would be a bit overkill. Thank you","title":"Apartment purchased new hardwood flooring with my security deposit after move-out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552967683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2skji\/fl_non_payment_of_wages_in_financial_services\/","id":"b2skji","body":"Hi I\u2019m a ex-salaried employee who used to work for a startup financial advisory company (Company A), \n\nI quit my job because I was not paid my wages for 4 months after CEO led  us to believe all this time that we were going to get paid \u201cnext week\u201d and that funds were not an issue. \n\nWhen payment didn\u2019t occur, the most innovative excuses were said, but basically it was due to cash flow issues, and CEO did not capitalize the company to avoid this situation. We were 7 people not including CEO and since then, 3 people have left including me. \n\nCompany A is not the same company that signs the financial advisory contracts with Clients (Company B - is a dba of another company) and received the money. A broker dealer license had been applied for and was recently approved for Company C. One of the shareholders is common in all companies. \n\nCompany A is an LLC without licenses and assets\nCompany B has 2 active mandates \nCompany C has the license\n\nFinancially, this Issue is above $35k, and there is possibility of inviting other former employees to participate getting amount close to $100k? \n\nBasically, I want to know:\n- are there different angles that I should consider other than the ones mentioned in the title?\n- can I go after all shareholders and companies that are related to the business one way or another? \n- What would be an approx likelihood of success if I were to file a lawsuit? \n- if Company A files for bankruptcy before end-March and I don\u2019t file a lawsuit before, can I claim anything? What are my rights?\n- the industry we are in is regulated but if I didn\u2019t sign any documents on behalf of the company, am I liable in any way?\n\nLooking forward to your replies and help. \n\nThanks so much!","title":"(FL) Non payment of wages in financial services company due to cash flow issues - employment law, wage theft or fraud case?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1506486055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72pxza\/ca_offered_a_new_job_on_temp_disability\/","id":"72pxza","body":"I've been on temporary partial disability for 2 months from a retail job for an injury to my arm. I was not actively looking for work but a much better job basically fell in my lap and I got an offer today. I intend to accept the offer. Now I know of course that disability checks will stop but what about my on going medical treatment? The doctor has already told me I need surgery. \n\nAlso, the new job is an office job whose duties do not conflict with my injury. I've already contacted an attorney but the deadline for accepting the position is before my meeting with the lawyer. Any advice would be very much appreciated! ","title":"[CA] Offered a new job on temp disability","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553038808,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b34pbq\/my_so_31f_made_a_second_complaint_to_hr_over\/","id":"b34pbq","body":"I'll try to be brief, but my GF worked part-time as a server in a casino in Canada for just under 2 years. She never missed a shift, always picked up the shifts of others who called in sick or didn't show up, was always on time and loved the interaction with customers.\n\nOther servers disliked her, possibly because she was there to work not socialize, always outsold the other girls, customers would ask for her by name, and she didn't go out with them after work at 4 am to party (due to full time job in morning) and didn't do drugs with them.\n\nThey would make up stories about her (over serving, not doing job, serving wrong section or ringing in drinks wrong) to explain why she made more in tips than them but whenever they checked the cameras and her cashouts, she was always vindicated.\n\nThey started doing petty things like blocking her way so that she couldn't pick up her drinks, and pretending they couldn't hear or see her so she would have try to reach between them. Junior High shit.\n\nManagement was complicit and let this happen because they're the type to try to be friends with employees and didn't want to discipline them. SO made official complaint after they openly talked about her in front of her face saying pretty nasty shit, and things got better. Until the Operations Manager, who liked my SO's work ethic and sales, left the company.\n\nBullying started again, requested mgmt to address it to no avail, official complaint made when, one night, two girls were actually physical, dropping the shoulder when walking by her. She registered her concerns with HR, HR suggested it wasn't bullying, but that they were \"just being jerks\" which is different. She has the whole email chain to back this all up.\n\nSO was asked in to discuss, and instead they hand her layoff notice when she gets there, and offer her less than $300 in severance (less than what calculation should be based on time of work in province).\n\nShe's considering getting a lawyer to at least write a demand letter, but she's not sure if it's worth the cost considering she was part time and doesn't know what she's really entitled to. She made a labour board complaint, but doubt she'll benefit from that.\n\nTLDR: My SO \"laid off\" after raising issues of bullying\/harrassment at part-time server job, is it worth getting a lawyer?\n\n​","title":"My SO (31F) made a second complaint to HR over workplace bullying, gets told they're \"just being jerks\" and is laid off when they call her in to talk about it. What are her options?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571677755,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl3lc0\/fl_age_at_which_a_minor_can_choose_to_not_see\/","id":"dl3lc0","body":"I\u2019ve looked, but can\u2019t seem to find any concrete information on this topic. I understand a minor cannot make this decision in a \u2018because I feel like it\u2019 basis up to a certain age.. \n\nMy 14 year old begs me, kicking a screaming into the airplane every summer on her way to visit her dad (Ohio). She hates him.. and I tell her my hands are tied. \n\nIs there an age where she can make that choice because it\u2019s what she wants & not because of extenuating circumstances (abuse, etc) ??\n\n*The visitation, etc paperwork was all done in Florida, he moved away afterwards.\n\nThank you.","title":"FL - Age at which a minor can choose to not see other parent ?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503242260,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uw986\/child_supportchanging_jobs_illinois\/","id":"6uw986","body":"Hello,\nI am starting a new job this week and was wondering if I personally have to do anything to have my new job start withholding for support.\n\nFrom what I gathered online ([here](https:\/\/newhire.hfs.illinois.gov\/NewHireWeb\/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.jsp#c)), my new job will report me as a new hire and then Child Support Services will match that information up with my current support order and will soon send them an Income Withholding for Support order so that they begin withholding from my new checks. Is this correct?\n\nSo what I understand is that the state automatically knows about my new job and will send out the paperwork on their own, and I won't have to personally file anything that notifies the state of my new job. Am I right? Just looking for clarification here.","title":"Child support-Changing jobs (Illinois)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571614503,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkrtzs\/manager_at_work_started_dating_my_exfianc\u00e9_read\/","id":"dkrtzs","body":"Total throwaway post but recently I found out a sr. manager at work started seeing my Ex Fianc\u00e9. In a totally small world from what I know, they met on Tinder, matched and have been going out the last 6 months. He has no affiliation where I work so I was kind of caught off guard when I bumped into him at our departments company award ceremony with her. This is a manager that I run into DAILY and might even be one of the gatekeepers for the next position I\u2019ve been eyeing. I have never talked to her or had to interact with her yet but I\u2019ve been super worried lately that my ex is going to tell her damaging information about me. When we were together the final straw to our tumultuous relationship was him going through my phone and I caught him doing it and FREAKED out. He started recording me from his phone instigating a fight so I\u2019m pretty sure in the video I look crazy coming after him trying to get my phone back. He texted it to his parents and next thing I know they came to town and made me move out of our house we BOTH bought and life had to start all over. The whole thing felt setup and didn\u2019t help we had both been drinking the night before (happened at like 4am half asleep). Now, if she (manager new gf) knows all this and creates an impression of me. Can she use this against me at work?! \n\nI am in Texas. This incident happened 2 years ago. Also if it provides any insight into HR where I work, I am employed by a Fortune 50.","title":"Manager at work started dating my Ex-Fianc\u00e9. Read for more deets.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555532244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beciai\/best_interest_on_the_child_educational_in_texas\/","id":"beciai","body":"My daughter is in second grade and has been evaluated by the school for dyslexia. She has dyslexia.  She has been recommended to be put on the 504 services.  According to the school they need both parents signatures\/approval for this.  It is in my daughters best interest to be put on the 504.  My ex is refusing.  What is my next step?  Should I hire a lawyer and go to court?  I do not really have money for a lawyer.  Are there free lawyers for this? Could I possibly do this without a lawyer?  Would a court side with me in the best interest for our daughter and her education?  Please help with any advise. I have been advocating for our daughter since pre-k to get help and be evaluated for dyslexia.  This is the first year that she has had a teacher that has actually cared and helped her and myself with the process.  Her father has dismissed this the whole time.  He is even a teacher.  I really need help.","title":"Best interest on the child. Educational. In Texas","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503247902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uws8q\/oven_was_broke_when_we_moved_in_owner_wants_us_to\/","id":"6uws8q","body":"We've been living in an apartment in San Francisco, CA for three months with three roommates. The oven door fell off its hinges the day we moved in. It was broken by the previous tenants who didn't alert the landlord. We've contacted the landlord who authorized us to find a repair man to fix the oven. We've spoken to three different repair people who refused to fix the oven because it is a foreign brand and there are no replacement parts (landlord liked to buy fancy but poor quality things for his apartment). The landlord sends us an email that says were SOL and he'd be willing to go 50:50 with us on the cost of a new oven for his apartment. I find this particularly irritating because, on lease signing day, he verbally told us that he would fix any broken appliances.\n\nI'm not sure how to move forward. We need the oven to make food and the eating out costs have significantly increased our food budget. I've spent significant time trying to resolve the situation. I don't want to buy the landlord a new oven; we pay enough in rent already. I'm also afraid that he will unfairly deduct the cost of a new oven from our security deposit or take it out on us in other ways as the landlord has shown to be particularly \"cheap\". Maybe I shouldn't have told him it was broken in the first place. Is there a SF office that handles renters claims? can I withhold my rent until it gets fixed?\n\nEdit: One of the repair men took the oven door off the hinge and now it's laying on the floor in my apartment. I don't have the tools to put it back on. It's a small apartment and there's no where good to put the door.","title":"Oven was broke when we moved in. Owner wants us to buy him a new one.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441505121,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jtas5\/international_divorce_and_child_support_questions\/","id":"3jtas5","body":"Four or five years ago I met and fell in love with a beautiful foreign exchange student from Brazil. I live in Arkansas. We were married and wanted to start a family together. She became pregnant, however it seems her true intentions were to gain citizenship to the U.S. \n\nShe left and I didn't hear from her for almost a year. She gave birth to a girl. After finding this out through a mutual acquaintance, I contacted her and had her fly back to the states. She came alone without the child. We talked about reconciling and she stated her reasoning for leaving was that her family didn't approve of our relationship. And that her father was dying.\n\nIn a dumb mistake moment, we had sex while she was here. At this point in time, she is still my wife. She then leaves without any warning and flies back to Brazil. Again through this mutual acquaintance, I find that she is now pregnant again. She refuses to return any of my correspondence and after a couple of years I find out she has a son.\n\nI assume both of these children are mine, although no paternity has been established. She has served me divorce paperwork which states both children are mine and demands back child support as well as refunding of some expenditures for furniture when we were first married.\n\nI contested this paperwork through an attorney here, and her international attorney never responded. Two years have now went by. She has since harassed me. I have moved on with my life and have found a wonderful woman who sees more in me than a green card. I want to divorce this woman and I also want to ensure I am not screwing myself financially in international court.\n\nI also have no idea how much I would have to pay in child support. I don't want a relationship with these children as I am sure they have been poisoned against me by their manipulative mother.\n\nPlease help. Any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated.","title":"International divorce and child support questions. Please help!!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553351170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4jpxh\/cease_and_desists_company_name\/","id":"b4jpxh","body":"I created a company name in New Jersey in 2015 and have been doing business with that name for about 3 years. Another company in California recently sent a \u201ccease and desist\u201d from using that name through a lawyer. They claim to have been using that name since 1990. Not much information about them online. \n\n\nThe name I applied for was granted to me by the state of NJ . What are the ramifications here if I don\u2019t change it? What should I do?","title":"Cease and Desists (company name)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505144984,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zg8h2\/filing_an_unemployment_dispute_over_contracted\/","id":"6zg8h2","body":"I live in Maryland. \n\nI recently filed for unemployment benefits because I was laid off from my job I had for 3 months. I worked previously at a non-profit as a design assistant. I started as an intern and got hired on as an independent contractor. When I got a full time position, I essentially quit my assistant position.\n\nI have nooo idea what I signed as I know nothing about taxes. I know that's hard to prove but I started out the job when I was 21 and was excited to get money. \n\nNow that job filled my time for my base-year salary but because I signed a 1099, I get no benefits. \n\nDo you think I have a shot at filing a dispute with my former employer or should I just let it go?","title":"Filing an unemployment dispute over Contracted position","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539733795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ot5de\/online_websites_using_images_that_i_tookmade_and\/","id":"9ot5de","body":"I assume it\u2019s no copyright=freeforall on the internet but just wanted to come and check. \n\nExamples: 1. Video game screenshots 2. Personal photography 3. User-created (original content) gifs and spliffs. ","title":"[Online] Website\u2019s using images that I took\/made and claiming for themselves.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553271093,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b46xgt\/friend_is_charged_with_wreckless_driving_based_on\/","id":"b46xgt","body":"A friend on mine was driving his girlfriend to work in the uptown area in my city. The bridge that takes you to uptown has an exit ramp leading into uptown. There is a yield at the end of the exit ramp where it meets an overpass which also leads to uptown. There was a car that came to a complete stop at the yield in front of my friend so he decided he had enough room to go around as traffic coming off the bridge on the same exit ramp would very quickly be piled up behind them or maybe rear end him. He checked to see if cars were coming his way from the overpass and there was an SUV which he said he had plenty of time to pull around this person and be infront of the SUV, also the street comes to a red light in about 200ft anyway so the SUV should be ready to start slowing down any second on the overpass leading to uptown. Long story short the lady in the SUV obviously had gotten enraged by his actions and followed him for the about 2 minute drive to his gf's work and blocked them into a parking spot and ran up to his window freaking out screaming and calling him childish and all other sorts of things. Then she proceeds to say her father is the police cheif or something very similar and that she has a picture of his license plate and shes going to get him in trouble. Fast foward a week and he is called into the police station and receives a ticket for wreckless driving(refused to sign it) and has a court appearance based on a picture of his license plate and her word... how is this legitimate?? Please explain so I can help my friend if possible","title":"Friend is charged with wreckless driving based on someone else's word","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555500925,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be6pfn\/abused_mother_was_caught_by_her_husband_recording\/","id":"be6pfn","body":"a bit of an introduction: my mother has been in the hospital 2 times in 2 days due to a reaction to switching medications. I could not see her the first admittance, so I stopped by the next morning after work and it was obvious something was wrong and I took her back to the ER myself. afterwords I was confronted by her husband, drunk, about it, saying it was unnecessary, and other negative things...\n\n​\n\nit should be stated, he is quit an alcoholic and takes his alcoholic rages on her consistently.\n\n​\n\nI went to work again approx. 10 hours ago, and just before leaving he called me to \"check in for her.\" and during this conversation he was already screaming at her in the background. shortly after, as I left work, he called me saying that she had walked out on him and drove off. \n\n​\n\n\\*\\*\\* I swiftly turned around and picked her up and she told me she had recorded him verbally abusing her and when he realized she was recording, he slapped the phone out of her hand and that's where the recording ended but the rampage continued. I'm uncertain if anything became anymore physical currently.\n\n​\n\nI currently have her with me, I have blocked his number and she has her phone turned off. her phone and all money is linked to his and he texted her saying he will be turning her phone off today. She has a doctors appointment in a few hours that he has knowledge of and I'm unsure if he would be there to confront her. \n\n  \nI'm aware that Florida is, unfortunately in this circumstance, a 2 party consent state but, there would obviously be exceptions for such events, correct? Also any advice pertaining to where we should continue with this would also be appreciated.","title":"abused mother was caught by her husband recording him. FL.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553289595,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4amj4\/ran_into_the_back_of_someone\/","id":"b4amj4","body":"I just received a letter via my insurance company via an attorney detailing the accident where I ran into the back of a SUV. I was in a small two door hatchback. I was traveling down a road with a train track...one that doesn\u2019t get used very often...so when I does it\u2019s very odd and people seem to try to speed up to avoid waiting. This day the lady in front of me did the same thing...when she realized she couldn\u2019t make it then proceeded to slam on the brakes and I hit her while slamming on breaks. I couldn\u2019t have been going over 35 mph. The paramedics and police were called. They didn\u2019t issue me a ticket but determined the accident to be my fault. \n\nThe accident happened over a year ago. I get a letter today saying this lady has had a horrible time since the accident. It says she can\u2019t work, play with her kids, etc. I\u2019m a young 20 something and literally have no money and it says something about owing $50,000. I\u2019m so naive when it comes to this kind of stuff. Can someone help ease my anxiety or is this going to ruin my life?\n\nIt\u2019s hard for me to imagine the size of my car and the low speed of the impact hurt her in the least? I felt fine after the incident. Is this all a lie just to get money. Please help. ","title":"Ran into the back of Someone","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1409794159,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2few8g\/south_carolinacan_i_videotape_other_people\/","id":"2few8g","body":"I have read so many horror stories about men being falsely accused of raping women, having their reputations tarnished, being kicked out of school, losing their job, etc.. A friend of mine was also accused and brought to the school ethics council by someone who eventually dropped charges, but not before getting him kicked out of his fraternity and taking his job.\n\nI have hooked up with crazy girls before and I would really just love the opportunity to cover my own ass so I don't have to deal with any of this. I would never do anything illegal like this so I just really don't want to be thrown under the bus by someone who wants to get me.\n\nAny help would be appreciated.","title":"[South Carolina]Can I videotape other people visiting my apartment in order to prove that I am innocent if I ended up being falsely accused of rape or something of that nature?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540555711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rk5fu\/my_nephew_got_a_024_on_an_english_assignment\/","id":"9rk5fu","body":"General location is a southern state, USA. \nSo my nephew is getting a 0\/24, with a few other students because they choose to sit during the pledge of allegiance during 1st period English class. The teacher waits for the announcement each morning then writes down who is standing and participating versus who\u2019s seated.  It might a racial concern, but I don\u2019t want to pull that card unless I have definite proof. My nephew is a fine student, so it\u2019s not like it\u2019s failing him, but I\u2019m concerned with how to address the teacher and\/or administration.","title":"My nephew got a 0\/24 on an English assignment called \u201ccitizenship\u201d because he refuses to say the pledge of allegiance every day.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1445260172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pcl59\/pennsylvania_usa_montgomery_county_landlord_has\/","id":"3pcl59","body":"Landlord has a history of smooth talking and not answering his phone or emails except at random points throughout the month. He also has a history of promising one thing and then not doing it. To make matters worse, he's a prominent figure in our community and owns a bunch of properties and restaurants.\n\nA little over a month ago, I notified my landlord that our freezer was broken. I've reminded him multiple times since then to fix it and he has repeatedly attempted to get someone out to repair it, but it's never happened.\n\nIn that same time, the fridge also broke, and he was notified of this. My fiancee and I have lost hundreds of dollars of frozen meat, pre-made meals, all of our dairy, not to mention the time and stress we've had trying to hunt our landlord down, use a cooler to keep some of our stuff cold, etc.\n\nI insisted that I want the rent halved for this month ($1150\/month is usual rent for us) and the fridge to be repaired. He basically laughed and said there's no way that's happening and to contact renter's insurance. My renter's insurance won't cover our losses because it's the landlord's fault and not because of an act of god\/power surge\/whathaveyou.\n\nTo make matters worse, my fiancee got food poisoning last night and had to take a day off work to get better (we're assuming from the improperly-stored food at a high temperature, but we don't know for sure). \n\nANYWAY, landlord promised to buy a new fridge\/freezer for us and it was supposed to be delivered on Saturday in a 2-hour window. We waited all day for it and it did not show\n\nIt was not delivered, and he has not answered or returned any of our calls or emails except to ask \"was it delivered?\" via a brief email on Sunday morning.\n\nAfter repeated phone calls and emails trying to get him to give us any sort of update (he basically has gone AWOL and rarely gets back to us), I told him that if I don't hear from him this afternoon I am calling the township we live in to complain and also hiring a repair guy to repair the fridge\/freezer and deduct it from our rent.\n\nWhat can I do here? Do I have any options for getting damages back? Can I complain to an agency or township, or will that likely create retaliatory behavior? Really appreciate any advice\/help.\n\nTL;DR Landlord has repeatedly promised to fix our freezer\/fridge or buy a new one, has not done so. Refuses to acknowledge any sort of compensation. Freezer\/fridge still not fixed or replaced 1+ month later.","title":"[Pennsylvania, USA - Montgomery County] Landlord has failed to fix freezer\/fridge for over a month","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505847666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/715909\/ceo_gave_2_hours_for_decision_on_staying_or\/","id":"715909","body":"Live in Colorado and work for a privately owned home health care company. Because of \"cost containment\" purposes, some jobs have been shuffled and some have been removed. Friend of mine works for the same company and was told that she can either be reassigned to a new job (hers was one that was removed) or, if she does not choose to accept the job, have to quit. The CEO told her this info at 11am and then she must sign or resign at 1pm. \n\nIs any of this legal? If not the reassignment part, the fact that she gave her basically no time to consider anything?","title":"CEO gave 2 hours for decision on staying or leaving","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571283403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj0px1\/nc_reckless_driving\/","id":"dj0px1","body":"I'm just going to preface this, I fucked up.\n\nI am currently in college and I was visiting a friend that lives four hours away. This person means a lot to me and they were going through a rough time and I wanted to help them de-stress in a sense. Instead they ended up in the emergency room due to having a panic attack. Since I was unable to be allowed in their dorm (college policy, something I was not notified at the time) as I was caught by their RA and I didn't know anyone else in the college I had a choice to make. Either wait in the hospital in a place that's very far away from home, or make the drive (at the time she had about five other people in the waiting room).\n\nI start driving and I make it about two hours into the trip before I fall asleep at the wheel. I end up driving into the median and hitting the poles there. I am currently being charged with reckless driving for knowingly driving dangerously  (I also went 80 in a 65). I just wanted to know what the situation moving forward is going to look like for me, as in what will happen to me. I have no prior incidents or tickets, and I do not drink or smoke and I wasn't texting.","title":"[NC] Reckless driving","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568915058,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6hjpr\/ineligible_for_rehire_without_reason\/","id":"d6hjpr","body":"Okay, not sure if flair is correct. But here is my issue, a little ovet a years ago I worked for a company for another, I was contracted. Long story short I was let go for time and numbers, that said they blacklisted me. But they won't give me a reason as to why I was, and everyone that I knew who was fired for the same thing went back after 6 months. Is there anything I can do. I could really use this job, I'm falling behind on things.","title":"Ineligible for rehire without reason.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554172767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8dcqn\/advice_on_how_to_proceed_with_collecting_payment\/","id":"b8dcqn","body":"I'm from Utah. TL;DR at the end.\n\nAs some preamble, I'm a freelance filmmaker operating in Utah, USA. I often work as an independent contractor in various positions (writer, editor, gaffer, whatever) and I've been stiffed payment for projects before (either unclear terms on a crew deal memo, etc.), usually it's been my bad and the trouble on collecting the debt will have been greater than  the payment is worth.\n\n​\n\nHowever, last July, I was hired to do some additional editing on a feature length doc by one of the producers who happened to be the editor. I did my work and sent in an invoice. During\/just after this there was some kind of dispute between the higher ups and the person who had brought me on was cut out of the movie. So I was put in touch with the other two producers\/director concerning payment. After some conversations it was agreed upon that I was going to get paid the amount that I had submitted on my invoice. Not long later the director\/producer calls me up and says that they are waiting on a meeting with a possible investor before they want to pay out myself and a couple of other editors that were in the same boat as me., and I should get payment at the end of the month (August).\n\n​\n\nThe last day of August I get an email from the director asking me to forward my original invoice to the 2nd producer,  who gets back to me that they have to delay payment again as they set up an LLC. I agree on the condition that I get a signed and dated promissory note which they agree to. I get the note about midway through September with payment indicated that it's coming on or before October 31st.\n\n​\n\nFast forward to October 24th, the director calls me to ask me if he can delay payment yet again. He wants to wait to pay the editors until the first week of January because the producers art trying to make another LLC in California and hey want to wait until their next fiscal quarter to pay out. I still have the promissory note and we agree to a verbal extension until then (you can probably guess where this is going). \n\n​\n\nSo here we are in April, the communiques with these higher ups has slowly petered out to nothing, and I find myself here with a signed\/dated promissory note. I suppose I'm looking for some advice on how best to approach collecting this debt. I understand I can file in small claims court, my concern is if they've gone to California is there anything I can do besides filing in Utah, hope that the court rules in my favor, then hope again that these folks will actually pay up?\n\n​\n\nTL:DR: Got hired for a job, was delayed payment. Asked for promissory note, got one. Been ghosted on payment. ","title":"Advice on how to proceed with collecting payment","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554605571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bac261\/whos_at_fault_for_this_car_accident_please_help\/","id":"bac261","body":"I had my first car accident today. I was in the right lane merging into the left. There was a full car's distance between me and the car that hit me so I had my signal on for a full minute and was positioned halfway into the left lane because I thought she was letting me over because she left the space there and waited, saw my signal and did not honk or scoot up. I thought I was in the clear. \n\nMy car was stopped. Immediately when the light turned she sped up to block me and in the process drug her car along side mine and tore off my bumper. We pulled over and called the cops. Come to find out this woman is unlicensed except for having a license in Mexico and she told the police she did not understand what a turn signal is. She did not even have the Mexican license on her.\n\nOfficer decided neither of us were at fault and gave no tickets just driver exchange sheets.\n\nCould my insurance flip this around on me?","title":"Who's at fault for this car accident? Please help","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554561083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba4uuo\/georgia_first_offender_criminal_record_is\/","id":"ba4uuo","body":"Hi all,\n\nI\u2019ve reached the end of my rope and I don\u2019t know where else to turn. Here\u2019s the short story.\n\nIn 2015, I was the lead car in traffic driving down a street with police setup at the end. There were several cruisers parked on the curb and officers wearing vests holding flashing traffic wands. \n\nWhen I approached, one stepped into the street and directed me (and what I, at the time assumed, the traffic behind me) to a side street. \nDown that street were more officers, one of which was walking (back turned to me) in the same direction towards two parked cars.\n\nI drove around the officer and the parked cars and exited the street.\n\nI thought it was an accident detour. It turned out to be a massive speed trap traffic stop, that I bypassed. Several marked cruisers caught up to me and stopped me. And I was arrested.\n\nThe basic charges were Fleeing and attempting to elude, speeding, and impeding officers on duty. However, the officer (with his back turned), says I nearly hit him. Felony Assault on a police officer.\n\nThe judge believed my account, but I was afraid to go to trial against police without a good attorney, so I took a First Offender plea deal for 5 years probation, 250 hours community service, defensive driving course and a $1000 fine. Once completed, record will wipe clean.\n\nI have dutifully completed my requirements and have served 3 of my 5 year probation sentence. Good behavior has me on a \u201cno-report\u201d status, but the nature of my charge makes early termination ineligible.\n\nTHE ISSUE \n\nUntil I\u2019m done, my record is stained and no landlord or rental properties will take me. I\u2019ve been living with family until now, but my time is up. I need my own place despite the fact no one will take me. I have a great paying job and a credit score near 700. But my record kills me every time. Application fees get expensive!\n\nAssistance programs have waiting lists too long. Plus, I don\u2019t want to end up in some dangerous felon environment that could put my remaining sentence at risk.\n\nI\u2019m trying to find private landlords, but many of them search backgrounds as well. \n\nI don\u2019t know what to do.\n\nIs it possible to have my record prematurely sealed? Are there exceptions to the \u201cineligibility\u201d? Is there anyone in Georgia that can help? I just want to find a safe, decent place to live. Two years is a long time to wait.\n\nPlease help, any advice is appreciated! \n\nThank you.\n","title":"Georgia First Offender criminal record is preventing me from finding a place a to live.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442341567,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l2lym\/pa_landlord_anonymous_lease_says_property_manager\/","id":"3l2lym","body":"EDIT - I just spoke to an attorney with a tenant advocacy group on the phone, and I have my answer to at least the late fee part of the situation. If you are interested, I have revised this post with what that lawyer told me. <3\n\nI live in Pennsylvania.\n\nI rented a house with two others in February. We've had a variety of small issues in dealing with the landlord, but generally it gets sorted out.\n\nWhen we moved in, our landlord - who is NOT the property owner - said that the actual owner chose to remain anonymous. She would be the property manager, but our lease stipulates that she takes 100% responsibility for the property, including any legal liability. Conversely, if we were to get sued, she would be the one suing not the owner. I always thought this was sketchy, and I'm wondering what the legality around this is?\n\nMy second question pertains to late fees. As I understand it, in PA, a late fee for rent cannot be a penalty. It must accurately reflect any actual financial loss taken by the landlord resulting from the lateness of payment.\n\nOur landlord has a mailbox outside of her own home where she has us drop off rent. It doesn't lock. Again, I've always felt this was sketchy, but up until now it was not a problem. This month she claims my money order was not received. She waited until the 11th to tell me this, the point at which the late fee as stated in the lease is at it's maximum ($125).\n\nI have a lot of issues with this, but it seems like I have no real room for recourse other than to state that her late fee represents a penalty rather than actual losses, which is illegal in PA, and to refuse to pay it. Because of this situation, I've given her notice that I am moving out November 1st, but I don't want to leave behind conflict for my other two housemates who are staying here.\n\nSo to summarize:\n\n1.I am curious if it is legal for a property owner in PA to insist on being anonymous to renters of that property, and for a third party to take on complete legal responsibility.\n\n2.I am curious if it is legal for a landlord\/property manager in PA to assess a flat late fee without providing proof of actual financial loss resulting from a late payment; and also if the fact that the \"lateness\" of my payment resulted from no fault of my own is relevant.\n\nThank you kindly for your input.\n\n(X-posted to Legal, per someone's suggestion)\n\n\nEDIT - This is what I was told over the phone by an attorney for a tenant advocacy group, summarized.\n\n* There are no specific statutes in PA law that regulate how much of a late fee can be charged for late rent.\n* A late fee that doesn't actually represent what was actually lost by the landlord when rent is paid late contradicts a very basic principle of all civil law, specifically that when a contract is broken, the damaged party is only allowed to request what would compensate actual damages.\n* A pre-established flat fee that isn't even close to actual financial loss is actually a penalty.\n* Penalties in consumer contracts are not legally enforceable in PA law under any circumstances.\n* Challenges to pre-established flat fees for late rent that do not represent actual financial loss to a landlord, when brought into PA landlord\/tenant court, are routinely acknowledged as valid. The court frequently demands amounts already paid be returned, and denies the demand for claims for unpaid fees, particularly those over 6% of total rent. Apparently there are a plethora of cases on file that reflect this.","title":"[PA] Landlord Anonymous, Lease Says Property Manager Assumes All Responsibility. Also, Question re: Late Fees","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446243037,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qwarh\/shareholder_of_nyc_coop_interested_in_suing\/","id":"3qwarh","body":"I live in a co-op in NYC and am having a big issue with management. Very long story short, the glue gave out and my floors completely \u201chumped\u201d in June. It\u2019s caused continuing damage throughout my apartment, from dislodging other floorboards to heavy areas of discoloration. \n\nBy July, management and our insurance had ascertained that there was no leak causing the hump and discoloration, but rather the glue giving out as there is no subflooring, and the floor is glued directly to cement. The Board (my husband is on the board but obviously was not a part of these particular decisions) approved in July for my floors to be re-done with pre-finished wood as well as a $1000 housing credit and $200 for maid service afterwards. This is because the co-op board covers damage to the floors that happens below the wood. The glue gave out, it is their responsibility. We asked the property manager to email us this agreement and he just said \"I have the notes\" (although I do have earlier emails with management saying specifically that they know they are responsible for the fixing the damage to the floors). \n\nSince then, management kept on coming back to us with excuses and cheaper \u201csolutions\u201d (like replacing my real hardwood floors with parquet) that were unacceptable. Finally they just said they would only \u201cfix\u201d the floor and not put down new wood but instead \u201cre-glue\u201d the old wood. At that point it had been 3 months and I just wanted to get it done so I agreed so long as the discolored parts were also replaced with new wood. However, those discolored parts of the floor that were damaged due to the \u201chump\u201d they are now saying that they are not responsible for because they argue that \u201cit has always been that way and you just never noticed it\u201d and its \"natural for that to happen to wood\" even though I have tons of evidence showing that I informed them of the continuing damage since the hump began. They also refuse to do a walk through with me to confirm what we need to fix only saying \"it will be done well, you don't need to worry\". \n\nFinally, my husband and I got our own quotes from a contractor because management was so useless. We gave the Board three estimates, one for just fixing the damage, one for replacing the floors fully which is what was recommended, and one for replacing the floors with subflooring which we do not currently have, but would be the best, most long-term option. Because of the \u201cupgrade\u201d to the last option, we said if that were approved that we would agree to cover costs above and beyond the estimate, but for THAT option only. The Board and Management approved the cheapest option, which was estimated at $10k. We got a call a day or two later from Management stating that there\u2019s a MAXIMUM of $10k on the project and that\u2019s all they would reimburse.\n\nI assumed that the assistant who called me was just mistaken, and wrote an email very quickly to both the Board and Management stating what we actually did agree upon at that meeting, which was doing the cheapest ESTIMATE for just a \u201cfix\u201d instead of a replacement of the floors and they would be held liable for any future damage, and the $1k housing credit and $200 clean up credit. I didn\u2019t receive a response for a week. \n\nLast Thursday, Oct 22  I sent the contractor\u2019s contract to management to sign so that management can then send the 50% deposit to the contractor so he can begin work.  \n\nI didn\u2019t hear from them until today when I got a letter that Management wants me to sign a \u201crelease\u201d stating that they are going to give us a check for $10,000 and THAT\u2019S IT. They don\u2019t want to be held responsible for anything which includes any further damage. THAT IS NEVER WHAT WE AGREED.\n\nIt\u2019s been 6 months with a 6 inch high and 40 foot long hump in my living room. There\u2019s huge discolorations and additional humps all over my floors now BECAUSE they\u2019ve taken this long to fix the problem. I had to traverse this with a newborn and have tripped numerous times (thank god no one was hurt) and I can\u2019t even set up my nursery because of the damage. I can\u2019t have friends over. I can\u2019t buy a new couch.  I HATE LIVING LIKE THIS. I\u2019m in literal tears!  \n\nMy contractor also thinks that really I need a whole new floor, that the damage is just too much. While that was what the board and management originally agreed, at this point I don\u2019t care if we just do a cheap fix, I just want my floors and MY LIFE back! And management (and the board) needs to be held responsible to what they agreed upon and for their lack of response that lead to even worse damage. \n\nI've contacted a few real estate lawyers regarding suing over breach of warranty of habitabiliy but so far they say this isn't \"what they do\" so I'm not even sure what kind of lawyer to contact. \n\nI have a LOAD of emails, photos, and video evidence supporting my side of the argument. I'm not entirely even sure what Management's \"evidence\" is other than their just not \"replying\" to actual agreements and contracts we sent them. \n\nWHAT DO I DO??","title":"Shareholder of NYC co-op interested in suing Management due to breach of habitability","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554583821,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba8sna\/terminating_my_contract_with_my_landlord_do_i_get\/","id":"ba8sna","body":"I am a college student living off-campus with two other housemates. One of my housemates has a boyfriend who basically lives with her, and spends every single weekend at the house, Friday to Sunday. He does not have his own place. He lives on campus at a different university but treats this as if it's his \"permanent\" home. This wouldn't be a problem except he makes me feel very uncomfortable and I end up having to avoid him and stay in my room. \n\n​\n\nThe landlord had made it clear she does not want any more than three people living in the house, but when I tried to speak to my landlord she spoke to my housemate and boyfriend and came back asking me to be more flexible. He is not on the lease or anything, but spends about a third of the month at the house. The situation is made worse because I wear a hijab; normally my house is where I can take it off and relax, but because of him I have to wear it all the time.\n\n​\n\nI want to terminate my contract and leave before my lease is up, but will I have to still pay my security deposit if I cite these reasons as my cause for moving out and terminating? It was worth a month's rent. This is in CT.","title":"Terminating my contract with my landlord, do I get my security deposit back?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541680072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v9k5k\/sister_in_law_turned_mother_in_laws_house_into_a\/","id":"9v9k5k","body":"[Texas] I'll try to keep this short and somewhat coherent.\n\nJune 14th 2018 - mother in law passes due to cancer.\n\n-doesn't leave will but stated many times she wants her house to go to all of her children\n\n-husband and I live house over from MIL house with my mother\n\n-sister in law and druggie boyfriend move in to MIL house as squatters and turn it into trap house\n\n-they constantly come over begging for food, water, clothes, food, ect, despite having jobs because they spend all their money on drugs.\n\n-they start coming over all tweaked out once every few weeks to complain that we aren't helping them enough.\n\n-Nov 6th 2018 they have some of their tweaker friends knock on our door and say SIL needs us.\n\n-we go over and our now surrounded by 6 tweakers all yelling at us saying SIL doesn't want us in her life anymore and we didn't help enough so now she hates us or some bs allong the lines of that\n\n-argument escalates, I record them being dumbasses trying to fight us and also call the cops\n\n-they come at us, fights ensue due to self defense. They get their asses beat, cops show up. \n\n-cops clearly on our side write up everyone at MIL house citations to not come near our property anymore.\n\n-cops also write husband and I citations to not enter MIL property.\n\nThis is where the problem is. It's my husband's mothers house and because his sister and her druggie friends turned it into a trap house and got us banned from the property. My husband is heart broken, he loved his mother more than anything and all he has left to remember her by is this house and these people are destroying it. And we can't even go in anymore.\n\n\nIs there anything we can do to get these people out of this house and make it in my husband's name? My husband just wants his moms home back. ","title":"Sister in law turned mother in laws house into a trap house","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554253962,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8rmzr\/inil_custodyabuse_claimsswitching_courtsthis_crap\/","id":"b8rmzr","body":"I live in Indiana.   Ex wife lives in Illinois.  The divorce decree was granted in Indiana.  We also went back to court last year over custody with virtually nothing accomplished (we were ordered to coparenting counseling -- I believe I had another post about this if you're interested).  \n\nNow my ex has lodged claims that I've abused our two children.  She filed this in Illinois and the court there granted her an emergency order of protection.  There is a hearing scheduled next week.  \n\nI'm not sure what to do next.  I've exhausted my funds in the custody fight last year.  I've raised all my concerns about her unsafe living conditions (at the time, her roof leaked -- now she lives with a guy currently dealing with a DUI and his son beats on my youngest), medication issues (overdosing clonidine and not giving lamotrogine), school attendance, and so on.  She lied under oath numerous times.  She has no problem perjuring herself.  \n\nI'm applying for free legal aid.  I thought about trying to move the court case back to our original court (Indiana allows for one change of venue and she never filed a motion to move it).  I'm concerned about family connections in her small town that may unfairly sway the judge.  \n\nSo I'm not sure what to do. I've been falsely accused (it should go without saying that I don't abuse my kids) but I feel like I'm guilty until proven innocent. So I'm looking for suggestions.  ","title":"[IN\/IL] Custody\/Abuse claims\/Switching courts\/This crap sucks","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568403964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3uink\/delaware_llc_foreign_qualification\/","id":"d3uink","body":"I\u2019m a young entrepreneur. I\u2019ve been working on a new business, one that is strictly online \nfor now, but eventually (in at least one or two years) will be physical. \n\nI want and need to register my business. The issue I\u2019m having is where to register. I currently live\nin my home state, and don\u2019t want to stay here forever. For this reason, I don\u2019t want to get licensed here. I\u2019m not sure where I plan to move, so I figured Delaware is best because it provides me flexibility to move anywhere, when the time is right, \n\nFor an online business, will I need to get a foreign qualification in the state I live in? Does getting a bank account require it?","title":"Delaware LLC & Foreign Qualification","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1409162618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2equom\/question_about_a_rent_payment_that_was_not_picked\/","id":"2equom","body":"Hi all, this is kind of an \"inquiring minds want to know\" question since I am going to pay my landlord anyway, because it's the right thing to do.  However, I am still curious about the answer.  In November 2013 I paid rent to my landlord via online banking (our usual method) and he did not pick up the payment.  It languished for several months, and eventually the money got returned to me.  I put it in a separate account, because I figured he'd eventually notice, but I was curious to see how long it would take.  Apparently that answer is 10 months, because he emailed me about it today.  Just wondering, since I sent the payment, he was notified via email multiple times that it was ready to be picked up, but he never picked up the money, am I legally required to send him the payment now?  Thanks!  (I am in Massachusetts.)","title":"Question about a rent payment that was not picked up by landlord (Massachusetts)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446677765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rjzwx\/is_allstate_committing_fraud_i_never_signed\/","id":"3rjzwx","body":"I will try to make this as cut and dry as possible. \n\nTo preface this, I will say that these kinds of tasks I find anxiety inducing and complicated so I usually do my best to avoid them, I do not like making appointments, paying bills, calling customer service etc. This may help you understand my role in this...\n\nMy SO has an auto policy through Allstate and we just moved in together (CA) and thought it was a good idea to get renter's insurance. He called an insurance center here and got a quote for the policy which he forwarded to me. Queue the agent(let's call her Mary) calling and emailing me to add my auto, look at the quote, sign papers, etc. \n\nThis was a lot for me and I panicked a little. I told my SO I didn't feel comfortable reviewing and signing everything on my own so I wanted to look it over with them and then we could sign the papers. I was receiving those reminder-to-sign emails which has a button link to the Allstate website where you register and e-sign your documents. I NEVER registered and signed these to my recollection. \n\nFast forward a couple months and I have just been bookmarking\/flagging emails from Allstate because I assume they are just reminders to sign etc and I have been SO busy at work and overwhelmed by the endless emails, I don't really pay attention to them. Until I realize, that I am actually being charged for the policy (without taking my SO's policy into account as well). I notice this because I was reviewing some of my financials.\n\nI realize that maybe I signed the papers and did not remember...so I try to log into my account on allstate and realize the user name doesn't even exist in their system (AKA I never registered). \n\nI have been on and off the phone with Allstate and this is what I think happened:\n\n- Mary called me to talk about the policy quote, but I was not ready to sign. I am assuming at this time that I gave her my card number as preparation to start the policy (I DID eventually want the policy after all)\n\n- Mary STARTED my policy without my signature. She continued to send me many reminder emails to sign\n- I go a couple of months paying for a policy I did not sign for\n- I realize this and call Allstate \n\nTurns out Mary is no longer with the company?...so they cannot ask her about our correspondences. Everyone I have talked to has said they cannot locate my signature documents and that my ledger's last notes just say that reminders to sign have been sent...no notes about me signing. I have continually asked Allstate to produce documents that have my signature on them (just in case I signed them in my sleep or something!), but no one has been able to give them to me. Now, I am quite forgiving so I have asked to have my policy cancelled from inception and refunded completely. The whole thing has just left a bad taste in my mouth and I would rather start from scratch than adjust a policy that I never actually signed for initially. \n\nAllstate has continuously asked me about receiving payment emails and a policy in the mail...but I keep telling them that it essentially doesn't matter what I got....if they don't have a document, then this is fraud...am I correct? They have casually said they cannot backlog my policy. I believe they are just trying to convince me that what they have done is ok. \n\nI have been thrown around from office to office and agents and now am waiting for a manager to call back, but I want to make sure I have a good understanding of everything. I would love to get other's opinions! Thanks!","title":"Is Allstate committing Fraud? I never signed documents! Advice please! (x post from \/r\/insurance)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1443716570,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n49up\/my_brother_needs_advice_or_a_defense_lawyer\/","id":"3n49up","body":"State: Texas\nCharges: Agg Sexual Assault of a Minor\n\nThe things that I know and things from grapevine:\n\nMy brother moved to Texas a while ago to be with a girl he had met. Girlfriend has a daughter who is ~6. Bro and Girlfriend, left daughter with Girlfriends Aunt, and came back home for a long weekend. They went back to TX and that following Thursday my brother and girlfriend were both in jail. Soon after the girlfriend was let go. My brother was then held for 90 days in jail while they tried to come up with evidence to indict him. They interviewed the little girl multiple times from my knowledge and enough evidence didn't show, so they had to let him out on a PR Bond of $200k. He had lost his job he just got when they jailed him. He is with the Girlfriend still and she knows that he didn't do anything. Girlfriend and brother are now expecting a child together. He just got another job. They received a letter of indictment yesterday, grand jury is sending it to trial. I have no trial dates or anything of that nature. \n\nMy Opinion: \n\nI think the Aunt made up the story and planted the information in the little girls head. I also believe him when he said that he didn't do it to me.\n\nHe needs your help Reddit, our family has no money, and I mean NONE. Is there anyone out there that would be willing to help him with advice or defense, on a pro-bono or reduced fee basis? I know public defenders exist, but they are usually super swamped with cases that they can hardly spend much time on one particular case.\n\nEDIT:Thank you for the responses. I will take a look and forward information on for him.","title":"My Brother needs advice or a defense lawyer.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570676442,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfrwbc\/ca_can_i_take_traffic_school_later\/","id":"dfrwbc","body":"I got a ticket in February for speeding and took traffic school so my insurance doesn't go up.\n\nI got another speeding ticket 2 days ago and I have to wait 18 months between speeding tickets to take traffic school again.\n\nI am going to try and fight the ticket, but my question is can I take traffic school later if I don't in the appeal ?\n\nLike when it is 18 months from my original traffic ticket, can I take traffic school again to hide my 2nd ticket from my insurance ? \n\nI'm broke and struggling to pay insurance as it is","title":"[CA] Can I take traffic school later?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568483078,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d48exy\/wifes_salon_suite_lease_agreement_help\/","id":"d48exy","body":"Was wondering if anyone could help give me direction in how to handle a situation with my wife\u2019s lease agreement for the salon suite she is renting. (Tennessee)\n\nThey came this week for the paper work to renew for the year but my wife and her suite mate are wanting to split up and go to new singal suites at a more affordable  location. Her lease shows the info for a one year term and they were on the renewal list signed by the owner but the problem is there was a verbal agreement that they would do three years. \n\nAll the paper work says one year but he is saying they would need to pay 85k if they leave early but the contract states they only have to pay for the free weeks they used. You get one free week of rent a year. \n\nHe also want 3k to get the room move in ready even though it says you forfeit your deposit nothing about paying extra. \n\nI just need some advice because I figure talking to a local Lawyer but I would be nervous if we take it to court and have an $88k fee to pay if something goes wrong. \n\nI really appreciate any help or feed back.","title":"Wifes Salon Suite Lease Agreement Help","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445606511,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pwjuj\/should_i_fight_conditional_termination_of_lease_tn\/","id":"3pwjuj","body":"I've lived at my condo for about two years and never had a problem until a couple of days ago, receiving a letter of Conditional Termination of lease to pay about 3k for money in damages by the beginning over November, or my rental agreement will be terminated.\n\nThey're charging me for installation of a new laminate flooring, and for changing the carpet in the second vacant bedroom, and a broken doorknob in the vacant bedroom.\n\n\nThe bedroom has been vacant for a few months when my old roommate moved out. She broke the doorknob and left stains on the carpet that couldn't be removed even after people came in to clean the carpet. Now, here's where the problem is:\n\n\n\nI've been going out of town pretty often and found a new person to come to my apartment to watch my dog. When I came back from out of town, I received a call from the office that my dog had gotten in the room and had an accident in there, so they were billing me to have the carpet cleaned a second time.\n\n\nAfter that, there's been a new roommate who came to look at the apartment. She was unhappy with the carpet in her room because there were still indentations in the carpet from where my old roommate put her furniture, and there's some black and grey staining on the carpet from who knows what that couldn't be taken out from the two carpet cleanings.\n\n\nSo I guess she complained to the office and they came in and replaced the carpet completely. I got this letter the other day saying I haven't been controlling my dog and they're charging me for the new carpet and broken doorknob!\n\nBasically they're saying I have to pay this 3k in two weeks or move out. I'm a student and don't have that money saved up, plus, I understand my dog had an accident in there and that its my fault for not finding someone better to watch my dog, but in living here for two years with no issues, they can really try and kick me out like that?! \n\n\nShould I go to civil court and try and fight the charges? Or go to the office and just ask for an extension on paying the 3k? Any help would be appreciated. I've been super depressed and I don't have the money to pay this in two weeks, or anywhere else to go in that short period of time. ","title":"Should I fight Conditional Termination of Lease? [TN]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539706751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9op4yv\/hit_and_run_calling_insurance\/","id":"9op4yv","body":"I was recently involved in a hit and run. I was the person to \u201cflee\u201d the scene. However the guy was extremely irate, road rage isn\u2019t even what it should be called. After the collision we get off the exit and I saw the way he\u2019s acting already. I was scared adrenaline pumping and just I peeled off. It looked like he was gunna rip me out of my car. No cops were called on either side. But now i have reported it to insurance and i have to make the call to explain my story. I feel 100% justified in leaving but how do I word it so I don\u2019t seem like I just did it to get away. Because i knew he had my plate as its easy to remember. My dad already has a hit and run under our insurance so Im trying to be as careful as I can. I don\u2019t want the premium to go through the roof because my whole family will have to get rid of their cars over 1-2k worth of damage.","title":"Hit and run calling insurance.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1445488212,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pqe3x\/my_ex_landlord_is_threatening_to_sue_us\/","id":"3pqe3x","body":"Our old landlord is threatening to sue my husband and I. What happened was we moved in and then my husband lost his job a short while after. Just on how much I made at my job all I could afford was small meals here and there, but never enough to even pay half of the rent or anything else. So the economy went to shit over here after the oil field crashed and so we had nothing. We were in this house for three months on the second month we told her we needed to cancel our lease agreement because old debts were garnished from our taxes and that's what we were relying on and we didn't see a dime of that. The LL said that was ok and that she would just use our deposit as that months rent. Well I still had to work and my husband found a job but we still needed to move things out of the house which he put off doing and she had people come into the house even when we were living there to view it before we left. Well she threw our couch out into the rain and the other tenants either kept some of our things that we didn't get or threw it out im not sure. Now let me just say that in the house it was a fire hazard completely. We had the den and laundry room running off of an extension cord because she would not come fix the electrical issues or always shrug it off by saying that her electrician kept putting her off. The water heater of the house was actually located outside in a molding wooded enclosure that was lifted off the ground with cement blocks on each corner. The gas company refused to light the pilot because it was a safety hazard and didn't follow their regulations. So we had to do that ourselves and didn't it continuously since it was old and rusted and would heat up and then water would leak out of it and turn the pilot off so for a couple months I hardly got to shower and for our little girl we had to boil water, let it cool and then give her a warm bath. And since the house was old, in the winter they came and put styrofoam sheets all at the underside of the house so that \"the pipes wouldn't freeze.\" only for them to blow away in the wind and our neighbors complain about the pieces being in their yard.\n Either way we left under the understanding that month by month when we had the money we would pay her until we gave her what we owed. Well, my husband always got calls from her constantly and texts messages demanding she have the money on this day and on this location or else. (no we did not sign an agreement for this it was just verbal) There were a couple times we were so worried about paying her that we didn't pay our car note on time to make sure we had given her the money so we wouldn't be taken to court. Well we owe her $500 now and the harassing has still not stopped. We haven't paid her yet since we have another place we are staying at (and somehow she knows this) and I no longer have a job and my husband didn't make enough this last check for us to give her anything.\n Her husband called us today and said that of we didnt have the $500 in thirty days he was taking us to court and that he was going to sue us for court costs, the 500 we owe, and a years worth of rent even though they have new tenants living there just after a day that we moved out! Is this even legal? What should I do? We don't have the money to give! Even if she did win a case I don't know how or what she would even get from us. Please help!!\n I don't know if it helps, but the house we lived in was in erath, Louisiana.  ","title":"My ex landlord is threatening to sue us...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553577063,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5ln1v\/my_manager_posted_a_video_of_me_on_his_snapchat\/","id":"b5ln1v","body":"I work at Chipotle and at my restaurant we close at 11:00 PM and we usually get out around 12:00 AM.\n\nI checked my Snapchat to see that he posted onto his public story him slandering me saying \u201che wonders why is dining room still isn\u2019t done\u201d I took offense to this and reported it to my GM. Is there any legal action I could take into this? Against Chipotle or him. \n\n","title":"My manager posted a video of me on his Snapchat story without my consent","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446144335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qql3z\/withholding_pay_due_to_late_time_sheet_ontario\/","id":"3qql3z","body":"I just got an email from my boss saying that if I don't have my time sheet in by 11am Thursdays (Mine was in by 12:30 as I don't start till 1pm) that I will not be getting paid this pay period, my questions are can he really do this? And since the company I work for is non-profit do they have a different set of labour standards?\n\n","title":"Withholding pay due to late time sheet (Ontario)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541044076,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t650v\/tn_on_call_pay_without_hourly_work_pay\/","id":"9t650v","body":"TLDR: should we get hourly pay plus the on call pay for taking tech support calls after normal hours? Tennessee law\n\n\nToday 4 of us was told we would be starting an On call work schedule. Each of us are going to rotate a week in which we must answer calls from customers if they are \u201cdown stores\u201d and provide tech support and dispatch a tech if we can\u2019t fix them over the phone. The hours are 5-8pm Monday - Friday and 8-8 Saturday and Sunday with an on call pay of $100 a week.  We have a answering service who will be learning how to filter down stores from non urgent calls.\n\nWhere I feel we are getting cheated is they won\u2019t be paying us hourly for the time we are actually on the phone. If we don\u2019t have a call then we are free to do as we please and I know they are doing that correctly but once we have a call we must return the customer call and resolve it. \n\nWe are in Tennessee.\n","title":"TN on call pay without hourly work pay","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555284936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd96ne\/ia_ex_wont_pay_for_my_lawyer_bills_even_though_a\/","id":"bd96ne","body":"I have a daughter, and took the mother to court a few months ago. My girlfriend at the time agreed to pay (along with me) our state and federal taxes to the lawyer to help bring the bills down. \n\nFast forward to a couple weeks ago and the girlfriend and I split up. She now claims that she will NOT pay her state taxes (fed already paid), and that I will cover it. \n\nThe contract is notarized and clearly states that she must pay her federal and state taxes. The kicker is, my lawyer is her personal family lawyer who they\u2019ve used for 3 generations now. \n\nI don\u2019t want to use the lawyer as a middle man and I want to get her to pay without going to a small claims court. What are my options?","title":"IA - Ex Won\u2019t pay for my lawyer bills even though a legal contract is notarized.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568754651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5nal3\/bk_nyc_landlord_is_pressuring_me_to_pay_for\/","id":"d5nal3","body":"Hello,\n\nI moved into this apartment 2 years ago, it's the first time I ever lived under a landlord who wasn't a friend or living in the building with me and first place I've lived in in New York. Things were already pretty shady when I had to pay first and last month's rent to the landlord and a deposit directly to the person who was moving out of my room (apparently this was easier for the landlord's office, skipping a step of having to return the deposit to the tenant themselves)\n\nAnyway, over time I became the person who would collect my roommate's rents and pay my landlord our collective sum total every month directly into a bank account. Things became tricky when one roommate was continuously late. She was behind by 3 months before she moved out then paid off one month with the deposit of the new tenant who she \"sub-leased\" to. \n\nMy landlord refuses to deal with her directly to get his money that is owed, and insists that everyone currently present in the apt. is responsible for the missing payments because \"I RENTED THE APARTMENT AS A WHOLE UNIT, NOT INDIVIDUAL ROOMS\". While it seemed all like my ex-roommate's fault, this event unraveled the problems with how my landlord runs his building. We've requested several requests for the lease (because he kept on adding on new rules of late fees, possibly increasing our late fees in the future, and threatening to raise our rent) - it turns out that he hasn't updated any lease since November 2017, a month before I moved in! He only has copies of our drivers licenses and emails and phone numbers. Every time he meets with us, he has no legal documents- and just expects verbal agreements to suffice when it comes to repayment. So apparently we have squatter's rights (?) The internet and power bills are under my name. \n\nMy 3 other roommates are moving out at the end of the month and I don't really know what my options are here, or what kind of legal action my landlord can have against me. I also don't want to ask other people to move in who may suffer the same inconvenience. I know some new tenant's rights laws are being applied but I'm not sure what actions to take to defend myself and my roommates from being evicted or anything.\n\nI apologize if this is confusing but that's exactly what it is. I'd appreciate any resources I can look over to solve this or any insight as to what my landlord is doing to avoid having had an official lease written up for years.\n\ntldr; landlord has been hounding my roommates and I for rent money owed to him by an ex-roommate for half a year and expects us to make up for it or demand it from her, he has no lease with any of our names on it. I have been squatting here for 2 years, and my 3 roommates are vacating at the end of the month. Must I pay him her portion to continue living here, can he evict me?","title":"BK, NYC Landlord is pressuring me to pay for roommate's late rent. Turns out he has no lease. What's a squatter to do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539284079,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ncrqp\/moving_to_california_from_michigan\/","id":"9ncrqp","body":"I selected Traffic flair because it seemed most relevant. \n\nI\u2019m moving to Los Angeles from Detroit due to a contract consultant position at my company. I will be working in LA for 12 months then I intend to move back to Michigan. \n\nMy questions are:\n\n1.\tDo I need to register to be a California resident?\n2.\tDo I need to get a California license, plate, and tags?\n3.\tif related to above, do I need to register my out of state vehicle if I don\u2019t need California plates?\n\nMy *permanent* address would be my parents place in a Michigan. I just leased the car in May and it has a brand new plate and tags on it. ","title":"Moving to California from Michigan","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570835939,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgmywr\/speeding_ticket_costing_944\/","id":"dgmywr","body":"I got in trouble for speeding one night on an empty road in California. The traffic stop went down without any troubles and i went on my way back home. I got the ticket in the mail and the cost was $944 the ticket I received from the officer has two citations one for basic speeding law and for max speed 65 MPH. I just want to know if this is allowed and that its not double jeopardy.","title":"Speeding ticket costing $944","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569267324,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8bngd\/usa_co_landlord_seeking_security_deposit_four\/","id":"d8bngd","body":"The previous guy was a pretty shitty tenent. Rent was backed up for months, and some damage to a sink in his room after we kicked him out. We found a sublet who moved in at the end of May. \n\nAbout a week ago he notified us we owe a $700 security deposit for the new sublet since the previous tenent's was used for unpaid rent and to fix the sink. \n\nNothing was mentioned about this until now. Is this how these things work? What are our rights in this situation? Isn't this something he should  have been on top of from the get go?","title":"USA, CO Landlord seeking security deposit four months after sublet moved in","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541385046,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u9oi9\/working_at_chipotle_my_boss_doesnt_let_me_take\/","id":"9u9oi9","body":"I\u2019ve been an employee at a certain burrito wrapping business for little more than 4 months and have not once been given a 2nd break after working 8 hour shifts. We are heavily discouraged and often teased for even wanting a single break and are seen as an inconvenience. I live and work in California and realized this is not legal and was looking to get some help on what my next step should be. Thanks reddit :)","title":"Working at chipotle & my boss doesn\u2019t let me take breaks","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569345058,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8q6ll\/someone_smashed_in_my_wifes_truck_window_how\/","id":"d8q6ll","body":"Not sure what flair to put on here as that\u2019s never happened before. Somehow my wife missed it yesterday that one of the windows were broken into (don\u2019t ask me how because I don\u2019t know) and some items were stolen. I came home from work yesterday and saw a kid with a couple of dart guns that looked exactly like the ones in my wife\u2019s truck for my nephew. I asked her and she dismissed it saying there was a big sale a while ago and they were cheap. Now she calls me today and says yeah my window was broken. (Still baffled how she came and went to work without noticing other than the fact that she rides with the windows down and it was a back window). I don\u2019t really know how to deal with the situation as the evidence is disturbed(wife moving truck after the fact) and that other than seeing a kid with what was likely the stolen items, I don\u2019t know who did it. I live in an apartment complex.","title":"Someone smashed in my wife\u2019s truck window. How should I proceed?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540227658,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qfq64\/workers_compensation_help\/","id":"9qfq64","body":"My girlfriend was injured 3 weeks ago at a warehouse job. When she got injured she thought it was just her being tired but I convinced her to inform her manager that night over text. He confirmed and said he filed it. About a week after I convinced her that she needed to ask to see a workers comp doctor because she was still was in major pain. She did it over text and he said he would. Still have the texts of him confirming. 2 weeks later and no word. My girlfriend then went to hr and said that she was supposed to hear from them. They said that they didn't get the note and sent her immediately to the doctor. Now 4 days later she has a 20 pound weight restriction and the same manager that told her that he would notify hr about it told her to take the week off without pay. My girlfriends best friend is battling the same thing where the manager hasn't reported the last 2 times she has been injured.\n\nDoes any of this seem like something wrong is going on? I know the reporting issue with the manager is against Workers Compensation law in Georgia but is the time off without pay?","title":"Workers Compensation Help","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571341707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djbm04\/father_died_has_life_insurance_had_a_change_of\/","id":"djbm04","body":"I live in Kansas\n\n\nI'm sure I already know the answer, but can any argument be made for the change of beneficiaries form that is unsigned or are the beneficiaries on the policy the ones that will be given the payout?","title":"Father died, has life insurance, had a change of beneficiaries filled out but not signed...","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555056717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcb28l\/problem_with_an_esl_tutoring_company\/","id":"bcb28l","body":"Hello everyone. I need some help and information, and I'm hoping I can get some help here. \n\n​\n\nI have been working as a tutor, and I got employed in my current esl company in December. And everything was great, but in March their platform starting having many bugs and issues which they ignored. The issues caused me to be unable to confirm two lessons and loose that money. Both times it happened, I reported it to them but they said that I am offline and there's nothing I can do about it. I submitted proof I was there, online, in the platform but they ignored it. \n\n​\n\nThen many other issues started happening while I was in the lesson - parts of the lesson like the lesson flow, chat, and vocabulary section wouldn't load or work. After a while, the IT guy decided to hop on a call with me to try to fix everything. He used TeamViewer to check everything and then started digging through my browser and wanted too reset it and delete everything. I switched the window on him and wrote that I do not wish for him to reset and delete everything I have there, but he just ignored me and told me \"Let me do my job\". He reset my browser and tempered with some setting, then exited to give me a lesson that I should let him work and not interrupt him like that.\n\n​\n\nI was pissed, but let it slide, and continued my day. The day after that, I log in, start to teach but the platform won't load and audio won't work. I tried playing something outside of the platform, but my audio still wouldn't work. I reported this to both the IT guy and my bosses. But they just ignored me, and the IT guy said \"Oops, that can happen sometimes\". I had to cancel my lessons since I couldn't teach with a broken computer.\n\n \n\nAnd now I received my pay for March, and it was much lower than it should have been. I went to talk to my bosses, and they told me I was penalized for the two cancellations that happened because I didn't confirm the lessons (because of the website bug) and the ones I cancelled because the IT guy broke my laptop. I complained to the boss to complain, gave him proof of everything, told him that the IT guy broke my computer, but he literally said he can't do anything, and everything is my fault. \n\n​\n\nDo I have any chances for my case? I just want the money that is owed to me (since it wasn't my fault for any cancellation) or at least some form of compensation since their employee broke my laptop while acting against my permission.","title":"Problem with an ESL tutoring company","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541611792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v1f74\/my_employer_wont_give_me_direct_deposit_until_i\/","id":"9v1f74","body":"If this is the wrong place I'm sorry, direct me where to go!\n\nSo I started working for this company and I filled out my direct deposit form with all of my information and everything was good. About a month later, still no direct deposit. I asked them why and they told me that form is outdated and I had to bring in a voided out check. I have an online bank, so I had to order them and wait for them to come. \n\nIt's now been two months, my personal checks came in, I voided one out and handed it to my manager and they said they would give it to the GM to give to HR when he comes in. \n\nNow it's month three. My voided check just sits in the office for weeks. I know this because one of my managers asked me about it and showed it to me. He even sent a picture of it to HR.\n\n I just got transferred to a new store with the same company and I now have a paycard instead of it being direct deposited to my account. They are telling me if I want direct deposit I will have to bring in another voided check and it will take them a month to set it up.\n\nIts been a four month fight with them to just give me direct deposit. I hate this feeling of not being able to do anything. What are my options? Can I even do anything?\n\nThanks for the help!","title":"My employer wont give me direct deposit until I bring in ANOTHER voided check.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541701223,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vcgra\/emotionally_manipulative_and_angry_teacher_what\/","id":"9vcgra","body":"Sorry if I miss out on information, please just ask for clarification if needed.\nI am a high school senior, many students, parents, and teachers have stood up against a teacher being emotionally abusive and manipulative. She has continuously yelled at students, told them they don\u2019t matter, and made them stay until 10 PM to work on the upcoming show (it\u2019s theater). We have tried being heard by the school but admins will not take action. Many of us have already quit the show and asked for an apology or something, and nothing is being done. We have not had a formal meeting with admin and teachers and were even denied parents at an after school meeting. We are upset and want action to be taken. What can be done? Should I go to the district to try and get it resolved? Has she broken laws? She has students on snap and text and requires us to add her to stay in leadership. We would like her fired but of course know it is barely possible, but just want something done. I will answer any questions you have and I\u2019m sorry if it isn\u2019t anything legal related.","title":"Emotionally manipulative and angry teacher, what can be done?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554741281,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bavyfg\/a_coworker_f18_and_other_coworkers_of_mine_got\/","id":"bavyfg","body":"Inbefore: No, I am not that kind of guy who wants to beat up people. I am a fair person and want people to deserve justice. But when it comes to injustice like this, I can no longer hold myself and be very very angry and I'm afraid that I'll lose control (no, not beat him up, but shout at him with full voice next to my coworkers, which I don't want to).\n\nShe just told me that our coworker sexually harassed her 3 weeks ago. If you want to know what it was: She wore a shirt with a little bigger neckline (google translator, sorry if wrong) and he literally pulled it down and said \"You better watchout with that kind of neckline, especially around someone like me with a breast-fetish\". Yes she told me exactly this. In addition she told me that he also grabbed another female coworkers ass, commented the breasts of ANOTHER female coworker and did something she didn't know to another coworker, female.\n\nI need YOU to calm me the fuck down and give me advice. She explained the whole situation the second chef 2 weeks ago. I got the information right now, that means in the 2 weeks NOTHING HAS CHANGED and the guy still works here as if nothing had happened.\n\nThat guy (harasser) has an 11 year old child and is a single father. I don't want to do anything without my coworkers permission (going to the police), but I just CAN'T let him go and harass other women at other work places!\n\nPLEASE tell me what to do, because this one time in life I really don't know what to do.","title":"A coworker (F18) and other coworkers of mine got sexually harassed at work from another coworker (M50+) and I need you to calm me down in my decisions","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570705878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfwgcw\/finance_company_keeps_forgetting_our_conversations\/","id":"dfwgcw","body":"First time post so hope this all meets requirements.\n\nBasically over a year ago me and my partner purchased a new TV. We were convinced by the salesman to get it on a payment plan and keep our money.\n\nNow the payment plan is handled by a 3rd party finance company. This company was great at first, happily taking payments or even on one occasion  giving us an extra week to pay our monthly installment. \n\nNow, this company is ridiculous. My partner lost her job, and we had to contact them to rearrange the payment plan. We had a conversation in which we agreed a new monthly figure and date for payment. Next week we receive a threatening letter from them demanding full payment because we apparently didn't contact them. We then called again and they conveniently didn't have a record of the call ( we do however have call logs proving we contacted them) \n\nWe went over the same thing all over again, but this time we demanded a letter being sent with confirmation of the conversation. Few days later we get this letter confirming the Direct Debit has been set up and confirms what we said on the call.\n\nNow, almost 2 weeks later we've received another threatening letter demanding full payment due to the direct debit NOT being set up. We call, and due to an admin error on their end, the Direct Debit isn't set up. They're now advising WE have to pay an extra \u00a315 a month on top because it wasn't taken. But we have the letter from them, stating that we provided all the details they needed to set it up...\n\nThis company has been beyond a joke with our situation. Having over 30 minute conversations wth them completely forgotten, and now we're being told to pay more, due to their incompetence!!\n\nWhat are our legal rights in this situation? My partner is in bits over it all, we've had numerous threatening letters demanding full payment when in fact we've adhered to all their requests to this point, but I cannot understand how it's fair for us to have to pay more due to their error?\n\nI've been thinking about reporting them to the Financial Conduct Authority, but thought I'd share this here first to see what you all think.\n\nBased in the UK.\n\nMany thanks for taking the time to read this!","title":"Finance Company keeps \"forgetting\" our conversations.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568574334,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4ow2h\/need_help_on_next_steps_supervisor_has_me_listed\/","id":"d4ow2h","body":"I'll try to keep this short. I notified my manager, in writing and via our work email, that my last day would be August 1st in May. I need to move my 403b money (father got sick unexpectedly, we have no other resources). She still has me down as employed there, so I cannot take my withdrawal. I worked at a large hospital.\n\nI have called HR, they said she is the only one who can initiate the paperwork. I have called her, left messages, texted her, emailed her. I have done all this then given her at least 2 weeks to respond. I've called her supervisor and left a message with her, but as I said I work at a large hospital and I dont even know if that person listens to their messages.\n\nI'm at a loss. I just need this person to send a form to HR saying I'm no longer employed. I could physically go there, but I moved over 3 hours away, so it wouldn't be just like me stopping in.\n\nShould I contact a lawyer? If so, what kind? Thanks in advance.","title":"Need help on next steps. Supervisor has me listed as employed when I am not.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552855170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b29pq8\/dog_breeder_forcing_me_to_buy_her_pyramid_scheme\/","id":"b29pq8","body":"I just purchased my first puppy a few days ago from a breeder here in Utah. The breeder and I had been texting back and forth about the details on purchasing the puppy for a few days and it was mentioned that he came with a two year health warranty. When I went to pick him up, she pulled out the contract for the warranty and told me that I would be required to feed him Pawtree dog food in order to keep the contract valid and she claimed that it\u2019s the absolute best dog food for my puppy. Being my first dog and not having previous knowledge on the brand, I assumed that she was just ensuring that the dog would be getting proper nutrition so that it didn\u2019t develop any health issues due to poor diet. Upon further research (after signing the contract and taking the puppy home), I found out that Pawtree is and MLM that sells mediocre, overpriced dog food. Turns out the breeder tricked me into buying her dog food so that she could score a commission.\n\nThe contract states verbatim:\n\u201cBuyer will provide the Dog with nutritious food and necessary veterinarian care, including deworming, heart worm prevention and regular vaccinations (including rabies). Required dog food: PAWTREE dog food an all-natural dog food to keep your puppy get the best start in life. This is in order for warrantee to be valid. Order off FillmorePaws.com when you order each time it will report to my email and this will keep you contract valid and ongoing.\u201d\n\nJudging by the grammar and spelling errors, it sounds like she\u2019s not the sharpest tool in the shed and most likely wrote this herself. I really do not want to pay for this overpriced food, and after doing some research, I\u2019ve found many dog food brands that are less costly and much healthier for my puppy. My question is: is it legal for her to require me to buy her food and\/or are there any loopholes to this contract that will allow me to not buy the food and still have a valid health warranty? I appreciate any help.","title":"Dog breeder forcing me to buy her pyramid scheme dog food or she\u2019ll void his 2-year health warranty","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551472968,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw9h8m\/may_i_discriminate_based_on_college_major_for\/","id":"aw9h8m","body":"California\nIs it permissable for a landlord to discriminate by renting out to only STEM majors?","title":"May I Discriminate Based On College Major for Rental Units?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541732911,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vgund\/co_can_elementary_school_withhold_evidence\/","id":"9vgund","body":"My 8-year old\u2019s school called us saying that he and another student were passing notes back and forth talking about violence and threatening to kill one another. My son denies writing any such thing and says it was all the other kid. He may of course be lying but we know his handwriting and want to see the notes in question. \n\nIt\u2019s a serious difference to us whether he was participating in this activity or if he simply failed to stop and\/or report it. \n\nThe school is not treating this as though a credible threat has been made against anyone, my son is not being expelled or suspended, and no law enforcement has been involved. \n\nIn the first conversation before we spoke with our son, the school was resistant to show us the notes. Does the school have a right to withhold evidence that supports their accusations?","title":"(CO) Can elementary school withhold evidence?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570808466,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dggy8q\/manager_refusing_to_give_refrences\/","id":"dggy8q","body":"Good people of reddit I\u2019m lost. No idea if this is the right sub and I\u2019m on mobile so sorry!\n\nI\u2019m in a really toxic work environment that has affected my mental health so much to the point I\u2019m now under a mental health order. I\u2019m trying to leave my job as it\u2019s the main cause of it, my boss is the main cause of it, she\u2019s abusive and just a horrid person, I\u2019ve tried complaining to HR about her but they won\u2019t do anything as she\u2019s the longest serving staff member! \nI told her I needed to look for new jobs as this one isn\u2019t helping me what so ever, and her response was and I quote, \u201cno I will not give you a good reference, you\u2019re quitting, why should I\u201d \nI\u2019ve been nothing but a model employee, getting outstanding on every review I\u2019ve had, she\u2019s got it out for me for no reason! Where do I stand with this? Is there anything I can do? The job I\u2019ve applied for has specifically asked for my current managers reference. \n\nThank you","title":"Manager refusing to give refrences","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571419482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djqq9x\/a_man_was_taking_a_picture_of_my_car_and_me\/","id":"djqq9x","body":"I was leaving school and I was in the right lane in a two lane road. A car ahead of me suddenly breaks and turns their blinker on late so I got into the left lane. I think I might have cut off the car behind me but I did not him them at all.\n\n I felt bad but what could I do, so I keep driving and I pull into a left turn lane at a light. There are two turn lanes so I get in the one on the right.\n\nBecause I was waiting For the light I was looking around and I look left and I see the car I cut off and some old dude taking a picture of me. Once I looked over he sped up to get to the light.\n\nI was behind a truck waiting for the light, but the left lane had nobody so he just went to the front, after awkwardly being stopped next to my car taking a picture of me, if that makes sense. Kinda hard to explain.\n\nCould I be in any legal trouble? I\u2019m guessing he took a picture of my license plate too.","title":"A man was taking a picture of my car and me","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570668945,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfqg9k\/my_brother_in_law_is_an_idiot\/","id":"dfqg9k","body":"My brother in law is 22, was manipulated for drugs to let a 50 year old register and insure a motorcycle under his name 2 years ago.  He is since clean of drugs, but his past in catching up.   He has since received an outstanding ticket in his name while it was cause by the 50 year old and the man is no where to be found. We\u2019ve gotten in touch but has been ignoring all pleads to get the bike unregistered in my brother in law as name etc.  not sure what to do. Do we report it stolen etc?","title":"My brother in law is an idiot.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538786800,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lrx8o\/expectation_of_confidentiality_for_job_interviews\/","id":"9lrx8o","body":"I recently interviewed for a job in which the prospective employer is a former co-worker. During the interview it was explicitly stated that the interview would remain confidential. I assumed it would be regardless of the assurance, but whatever.\n\nFast forward to the day after the interview, and a current co-worker calls to tell me that they were interviewing for the same position that I had just interviewed the day before. During their interview, my current co-worker was told that I had interviewed for the open job with our former co-worker as well.\n\nOther than sharing my disgust for their lack of professionalism and expressing my disinterest in the position after learning this, is there anything to be done legally against this person\/business?","title":"Expectation of confidentiality for job interviews?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554896942,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbl28q\/help_with_fbi_texas\/","id":"bbl28q","body":"An FBI special agent has requested that I show her my company's quick books, bank records, and text messages between me and the person of interest. \n\n​\n\nDo I have to comply? I don't want my company getting involved in any of this mess.","title":"Help with FBI (Texas)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571374387,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djikfb\/landlord_usri_evicting_a_tenant_with_cancer\/","id":"djikfb","body":"This has been keeping me up at night for weeks. I need to write this out and using a throwaway.\n\nTL; DR\nMy section8-tenant and I entered into a one year contract from 2\/1\/2018 to 1\/31\/2019. I let my tenant know in writing that we would not be renewing contract and she needed to move out when her lease ended on 1\/31\/2019. She is still living in the premises and has made minimal effort to leave.\u00a0\n\nThe tenants bills have been higher than I anticipated, and therefore I am losing money every month. As this is costing me money, the only reasonable decision is to sell the house. In order to sell the house, we need the tenant to leave so we can make cosmetic repairs before putting the house on the market. I have politely demanded that my tenant leave multiple times in writing and they have not. I would like to proceed with giving them a final notice and then eviction.\u00a0\nThe challenge is that my tenant claims to have cancer and has told me several times over the last 8 months that she \u201chas two weeks to live.\u201d\n\nA lawyer told me it will be a challenge to evict her - is this true?\n\n\n\n\n\nHere\u2019s the whole, drama-filled story:\n\n\nPartner and I bought a house together in October 2017. We decided that we would both rent out our existing properties. \nI own a one family home in the suburbs of Rhode Island, on a dead end street. It\u2019s a nice place, pretty new (built in \u201807) - it\u2019a starter home so to speak. \n\nIt took a couple months but I finally found a tenant - the woman that owned a house across the street had a mother who was looking for a place to live, and having her so close would be great! The mother is older and mostly spanish speaking so the bulk of my interactions were with the daughter during these early stages. \n\nOnce I had agreed, it comes out that her mother is a Section 8 tenant. I had gotten very few people interested in renting so I figured, hey why not, the old lady is sweet and is conscientious. \nIt takes a couple months to get everything set up - she was supposed to move January 1, 2019, but because she took so long to get an appointment with her representative and her paperwork in order with The Local Housing Authority, the date Section 8 would begin to pay was February 1, 2019 (so that was the soonest they would allow her to move in)\nJanuary comes, get the inspection, get all of that approved\/verified as Section 8 and squared away - we all go to the office a week before move in to sign final papers. At this meeting, I find out, Local Housing Authority\/Section 8 only gave her a voucher limit of $1100 for her and her grandson (a college student who would be living with her). Her voucher was awarded based on a budget for a two bedroom apartment. I had listed it as $1500 (for a three bedroom house) with utilities included. \n\nI was on the spot at the Housing Authority offices, and already had the place vacant for 3 months waiting - I did the quick math and I figured at $1100 a month I would be making about $100 each month in profit. Instead of $600. Bird in the hand and all of that, I agreed. \n\nAs time goes on, the costs of bills are creeping higher. The tenants have water\/sewer\/electric usage that is double, even triple of ours (we are very thrifty and energy conscious) and costs per unit for utilities are increasing too. Next, taxes increase because it\u2019s recognized as a rental (no longer homeowner occupied which granted a tax exemption.) Also, Homeowner\u2019s insurance is higher for a rental. By 10 months in, I was LOSING $200+ a month because bills were so high. \n\nSat down with my partner and we agreed that three houses is more than we can handle right now - just the act of having to pick up rent every month was stressful. \n\nWe would go on the first to pick up rent, she wouldn\u2019t have her money yet (from the state) so we would make the drive again a few days later to pick it up. We tried calling ahead but her cell phone was often disconnected, we would text and call her daughter and get no answer. So we would be stuck driving 20-25 min each way just to see if she had the rent. EVERY MONTH. At a certain point we started coming closer to the 5th or 7th to give her more time,  it was still the same song and dance. The last two times she\u2019s had us drive her to the bank to get a check for rent. \n\nThey\u2019ve gotten more concerning as time goes on. They replaced all the bedroom door knobs with deadbolt locks. There is a cleaning van ALWAYS parked in the driveway (she says it\u2019s her sisters and she parks it there). There is an older gentleman who is always there - we assume he lives there. There\u2019s a couple grandkids always there too. Two of the bedrooms just have air mattresses. She told us her college age grandson (who is in the lease) is living with his girlfriend somewhere else because the girlfriend had a baby (I assume his baby...) The basement always reeked of pot and there would be joints in ashtrays, bongs, hookahs, the works. I brushed it off. \n\nIt just wasn\u2019t ideal and they were putting excessive wear and tear on the house. We decided the best solution would be to sell it. To do so and turn a reasonable profit, the house needs some cosmetic fixes so we need the tenants to leave so we can make it look nice and sell it in the best shape possible. \n\nIn December 2018, I sent a letter saying that we will not be renewing the lease, which would expire on January 31, 2019, and they needed to move out. After some back and forth, it comes out that the Old Lady\u2018s cancer has come back and has been given just weeks to live. I feel awful, so I send a new letter that says we are not renewing contract but due to medical issues, we are giving her an extra two months to find a suitable living arrangement (be out by March 31st)\n\n\nShe didn\u2019t make any attempt to move. After asking several more times, she finally found a place in May 2019. Because of her fixed income, she didn\u2019t have savings for a security deposit for the new place. She asked me for her whole security deposit back, I gave her half back (and had her sign a statement of receipt). I just wanted her to go! \n\nA couple days before she is supposed to move in to the new place, supposedly the new landlord said she can\u2019t move in because the house had repairs that weren\u2019t finished yet. My tenant said she had mentioned her cancer to the new homeowner - and how she has two weeks to live - and then suddenly there were excuses why she couldn\u2019t move in. Long and short of the story, he supposedly kept the security deposit and she was never allowed to move in.  I am not convinced her own daughter didn\u2019t scan her. By this point in time, It\u2019s the end of June. \n\nFirst week of August, I get a call from a neighbor - there was a major domestic dispute  at my rental the prior evening and cops were called, etc. \nIt was the Old Lady\u2019s birthday, so all her kids and grandkids came over and had a party. On the front lawn. On a Wednesday night. A family argument broke out, there was screaming\/shouting, physical fighting, they grabbed rocks and smashed car windows...yeah. I have a confirmation from the local police department that there is a police report and someone was arrested. \nBut she\u2019s dying of cancer. Two weeks to live. Remember?\nAt this point in time, I contacted a lawyer. Lawyer says eviction will cost me about $1000-$1500, and it will be long and drawn out because a judge will delay because of her cancer. Instead, the lawyer recommends I offer her money to leave \u2014 and good luck, because the lawyer doesn\u2019t want to get involved in this case. I do this, the tenant doesn\u2019t bite. She just wants to die peacefully in her bed in my house.\n\nWell, It\u2019s now the middle of October and she\u2019s still here. So I am accepting that I need to find a lawyer that I have to evict her. \n\nI am so discouraged. I feel terrible that she has cancer but I feel like I\u2019ve been manipulated and taken advantage of. I just want to sell this house and be done with being a landlord. \n\n\nMY QUESTIONS: \nWhat should I be doing to cover my ass? Anything I should be keeping record of?\n\nIs the lawyer\u2019s concern that I won\u2019t be able to evict her because she has cancer valid?? \n\n\nAppreciate any  advice or anecdotal experiences you have to offer.","title":"[Landlord, US-RI] Evicting a tenant with cancer?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569706563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dam8a4\/major_violations_by_health_insurer\/","id":"dam8a4","body":"Discrimination\/ Breach of Contract? \n\nMassachusetts commercial health insurance \u2014 our son on the autism spectrum should have been protected by the ARICA Act \n\n\u2014 199 incidents of billing coinsurance fees for ABA therapy, in direct violation of our contract, over the course of 2 years \n\n\u2014 Medical care from ABA provider, in-network and contracted by insurer,  fell far below the very basic standard of care. We call and insurer\u2019s behavioral health dept agrees that they have been billed far below the standard of care and suggests we file a grievance. After 60\ndays (because aba provider didn\u2019t respond to insurer for 50+ days), Insurer closed initial grievance regarding possible medical negligence \u2014 without asking provider \u2014 for supporting documentation from medical provider who assured insurer our son was getting everything he needs despite bill after bill showing crucial parts of ABA therapy were missing (the BCBA clinician time)\n\n\u2014 Insurer has provision in documentation that patient had to help make own medical supplies or else not covered \n\n\u2014 Insurer has photographic evidence of medical negligence in documentation and crumbling medical supplies \n\n\u2014 4 months into second grievance (which we had to file because our first one was closed arbitrarily), still no formal response or even request for more time  \u2014 just a certified letter three months after filing stating they had assembled a multi-disciplinary team to investigate medical care, policies, and their grievance process, a single call from a legal dispute specialist telling us she \u2018understands our frustration\u2019, and email from legal stating son\u2019s aba provider still hadn\u2019t furnished son\u2019s medical records for a quality care investigation \n\n\u2014 Daily MUE limits on clinician time for ABA therapy that violate Massachusetts ARICA Act, leading to our son recovering therapy that fell far below the basic standard of care for ABA. After filing our second grievance I can see that they lifted these limits but they have not responded to us.","title":"Major violations by health insurer","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571421748,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djr9xv\/my_vehicle_is_currently_being_used_against_my\/","id":"djr9xv","body":"My mother passed away and left her vehicle to me, although in her illness she put the wrong last name which she has and not I. My father is currently using it for duties and is currently \"threatening\" to take it and other possessions away. He has on multiple accounts drove recklessly\/said he has rights to it and I do not. I in return to his threats I have said it is not his vehicle, it may not be legally mine yet but it is not his, no matter what he thinks. If it comes to the point that I fear this fairly old, (three generations of my family have owned it) comes to being totalled, and I call my vehicle stolen, what will happen to it? Will there be any possibility of me getting it back with my the tod out of my name currently? (I may have text evidence of her leaving it too me) Will it get destroyed or will it be left at the police station? I live in Texas.","title":"My vehicle is currently being used against my will, but I am not sure how to react since I am underage.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541661234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v7xle\/getting_deducted_for_lunch_breaks_i_dont_take\/","id":"9v7xle","body":"Posting from a Burner account so I don't get fired. \nI'm in Texas. I'm a nurse at a hospital that is part of multi-chain conglomerate, multi million dollar company. We work 12 hour shifts and are automatically deducted 30 min a shift for a \"lunch break.\" If you know anyone in nursing, you know the idea of a 30 min break away from the unit is a joke that isn't feasable, and never happens. \n\nCan they do this? Deduct me for a break I don't take? Is there any way I can \"opt out\" under the law?\n\nI know it's a small amount of time but it's more irking than anything, how many millions they are scraping off everyone's paycheck. ","title":"Getting deducted for lunch breaks I don't take?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446600968,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rfn9z\/additional_repayments_after_auto_accident\/","id":"3rfn9z","body":"Hey guys, obvious throwaway here, but I'm helping someone else here anyways - she doesn't use reddit and I can't think of a better (free) place to ask. Placeholder names also used here.\nAnyways, here's the story: a while back, A, B, and C were driving. A was the driver, B owns the car, C was sitting in the back. There was an accident (a simple one, no third parties involved), and the car was totaled (i.e. the insurance company bought the car) for a certain amount, let's say $10,000. However, B wants A to pay up the balance, because B bought the car for, say, $20,000. B proposes that they check online for current prices of previously owned cars of the same model, then A can top up the balance. Does A have to do so, and\/or does A have the right to refuse? (let's say that various online second hand car shops peg the car's value at between $12,000 and $13,000, which is honestly not a significant difference)\n\nIn addition, C was slightly injured, and fractured a bone because C was not wearing a seatbelt. The insurance policy purchased by B covers all medical fees for C, up to, say, $3000. However, it is likely that the total medical fees C requires exceeds this amount. Does A also have to pay the balance for C? As far as I understand, in ME (where this happened) seat belts are mandatory according to the law, and C does not have any personal insurance that can cover any additional costs.\n\nSorry guys, something mucked up, and I had to take down the post. Reposting here with more clarification, and hoping for more help as well. Thanks!","title":"Additional repayments after auto accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570146343,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dczbm4\/abandoned_in_a_3rd_world_country_with_no_income_2\/","id":"dczbm4","body":"Please help!  I have been trying to represent myself to the best of my ability in a CA court in Riverside County for the past 16 months because my husband took our community business income away from me, left me with all the bills and has forced impoverishment on my 2 children & I in a 3rd world country.  I have contacted numerous attorneys for assistance and no one has been able to help me because I have the \"potential\" of getting my 1\/2 of my business income back and have a small home in Honduras that has a mortgage.  The case now has a new commissioner assigned who has no idea what she is doing and is making matters even worse for me by stripping away my previous ability to appear by phone and placing delay upon delay upon delay on my Request for Orders for EMERGENCY child support, return of business assets, alimony and attorney's fees so I can have help representing myself, which I filed back in APRIL, 2019.  I have bad to take almost $50,000 in loans out just to survive.  Someone Please Help Me.  Thank you, in advance, so very much.  I am so frustrated, stressed and sad that I have had to do everything on my own with still no legal help from anyone to get this loser of an ex that I was married to for 23 years to be responsible and give me what is rightfully mine.","title":"ABANDONED IN A 3RD WORLD COUNTRY WITH NO INCOME, 2 KIDS TO SUPPORT & GOING THROUGH A DIVORCE WITH A SOCIOPATH","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507534914,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/757l1u\/if_i_conceal_a_item_in_a_store_but_put_it_back\/","id":"757l1u","body":"Tonight I stupidly decided to put some bottles of cough syrup in my waistband. However, I noticed that a security guard began to follow me around for a bit. I knew that this couldn't be good, so I threw the bottles back where they belong, bought a soda, and walked out. The security guard followed me outside but stopped 15 feet in front of the store and stared at me. I had the idea that if he could have done something, he would've, but maybe he just wanted to scare the shit out of me ( It worked ) Anyway, back to my main question, is what I did illegal? I believe it shows that I intended to steal it, but I'm not sure if he could have stopped me. \n\nEDIT: I would like to thank everybody who replied for their advice. Some other facts that I should have disclosed; I have already stolen stuff from this place before, not above 100 dollars, but still quite a bit. ","title":"If I conceal a item in a store, but put it back, can I be arrested?(CA)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555632729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/besrko\/potential_suspension_of_junior_operators_license\/","id":"besrko","body":"Okay, before anyone jumps the gun on me and calls me a complete idiot or says I get what I deserve, I will say I was in the wrong in this situation, and whatever repercussions result from it are mine and I am willing to accept them.\n\nBG info: I am under 18, a VT resident but received this ticket in NY.\n\nEarlier today, I had some car troubles and as a result was going to be about thirty minutes late to my class. I was driving on a straightaway behind someone who was going 5 or so under. I was about five car lengths behind him and was approaching a hill about a quarter mile down the straight, so I floored it to pass him (within a dashed line zone). On my speedometer, I was going about 67 when I moved back into the right lane. Just as I straightened out in my lane and crested the hill less than two seconds later, a NYS trooper was in the oncoming lane and put his lights on to pull me over. Pulled over, and he was very nice about the situation. He said something along the lines of, \u201chey, I pulled you over because you were going a little too fast\u201d and I was in near tears and I was panicking because it was the only time I\u2019d been pulled over for breaking the law and so I said \u201cyeah I\u2019m late for class\u201d. Gave him my info and he came back a few minutes later with the ticket, cited going 72 in a 55. I can promise I wasn\u2019t driving that fast, but since the man was being really nice I didn\u2019t want to argue with him or anything, so I let it go and went on with my day.\n\nHere\u2019s my dilemma:\n\nI\u2019m a Vermont resident, and therefore I have a Vermont license. The ticket was made in NY and should I want to contest it in court, it\u2019d be done in the respective NY county. I also have a junior operator\u2019s license since I am under 18. In NY, it says if I am convicted of the speeding ticket (if that\u2019s the right term? I don\u2019t know) the minimum number of points on my license would be 4\u2013my other problem lies in the fact I have a Junior operator\u2019s. The only thing I can find online for the amount of points a junior operator\u2019s can get is \u201cThe Commissioner shall also recall any learner's permit or junior operator's license for 30 days when an operator is adjudicated of a single texting violation under section 1099 of this title, 90 days following adjudication of a single speeding violation resulting in a three-point assessment...\u201d. This implies if I got convicted, I\u2019m basically fucked. The other thing is this\u2014my court date, should I contest the ticket, is after my 18th birthday. \n\nSince I got the ticket before my 18th, if I got the four points on my license would it apply to the conditions of my junior operator\u2019s or the conditions of someone over 18, where the points limit is 10 before suspension?\n\nOther problem is I\u2019d like to bring up in court the fact I was speeding since I had finished passing someone, but I\u2019m concerned I\u2019d be cited for unsafe passing(his radar clocking the person behind me st the correct speed, whereas I was not), which is an additional 3 points. I didn\u2019t mention the passing to the cop because I was really shaken up and was fumbling to find my registration and on the ticket I basically incriminated myself by saying, and as he quoted when he state I was speeding, \u201cYeah I know I\u2019m late for class.\u201d, and it doesn\u2019t mention the passing at all. \n\nSorry for this giant essay, and thanks if you read this far.","title":"Potential suspension of junior operator\u2019s license","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570709932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfx6lc\/reclaiming_a_video_game_account_league_of_legends\/","id":"dfx6lc","body":"Recently found out my brother sold my league of legends of legends account (a online video game) for money (PayPal) after I quit the game for a while due to school\/college. The website he sold my account to (account warehouse which is a video games account buyer\/reseller) requires you to take a picture of your government ID, provide all emails associated with the account, and even take a selfie next to your ID as proof that \u201cown the account\u201d. He did all this and in return got his money while they got my account and changed all my credentials on it and then sold it off for more. After looking into them more, account warehouse claim to have a \u201clifetime warranty\u201d where they can reclaim an account or \u201cresolve any issues\u201d that happen if the said account was to be reclaimed back by the owner (me). I worked with the league of legends support team and they were able to verify that I am the original owner of the account and gave me access back to it. Now to be clear league of legends terms of service forbids any buying\/selling\/trading of any account but with the circumstances we have here could account warehouse hold any legal obligations against me (or my brother) for this since money was involved for my account, sold off, and then reclaimed back by me?","title":"Reclaiming a video game account (league of legends) after it was sold for money?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552954695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2qb8e\/nc_what_do_i_do_with_this_check\/","id":"b2qb8e","body":"I\u2019ll try to make this as simple as possible, and anonymous for apparent reasons.  \n\nI am legally divorced from my wife in the state of New Hampshire. Easy, simple, assets split in half, child custody \/ child support was set, etc. Our home, sold over a week ago. When that was finalized, I was issued a check in **just** my name.  \n\nMy problem runs into cashing said check, which I\u2019m unsure if I should do. I am currently in a relationship and live with a woman that is still married in the state of North Carolina (they are legally separated, divorce is filed and basically awaiting to be finalized) however I am being sued by the significant other. It has already been apparent that he\u2019s after money. However none of current reasons for going to court is specifically \u201csuing for my money\u201d at this point. I\u2019m working on a dismissal so this could not even go to court. \n\nI\u2019m trying to find a way to keep these finances away from this settlement. I know I can gift up to 15K without it being taxed, and if I do that to multiple family members (who would then give me access to the money), can HE go after them \/ sue them for the money? Although I am trying to keep him from money, I also want to legitimately help my eldest son that is having financial hardships right now (school, loss of job)  \u2014 Should I also look at putting money into a Trust or Retirement account?  \n\nMy lawyer said because there are no judgements going against me for funds that I should be okay, but I want to have a plan in place incase it\u2019s not dismissed and it goes further.  Any advice would be appreciated. \n\n","title":"[NC] What do I do with this check?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554008688,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7k6ej\/tx_will_going_to_probate_deceased_has_two_kids\/","id":"b7k6ej","body":"It\u2019s a complicated story but we\u2019re trying to make sure he doesn\u2019t get anything out this. He already stole $60,000 from their dad who passed away and he doesn\u2019t deserve a damn thing. ","title":"TX Will going to probate, deceased has two kids BUT one is a POS felon who stole money from deceased and sibling. Anything we can do to prevent POS from inheriting.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1538681515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lf3ay\/pa_does_my_friends_employer_need_to_pay_her_for\/","id":"9lf3ay","body":"My friend was recently recruited for a new job that requires some certifications. She explained what certifications she had, they said that was fine, they made her a verbal offer, and they asked her to start training (job specific training, unrelated to the certifications) on a specific date. During training, they told her they can't make her a written offer until she gets the other certifications and that she can't work for them until she has them. They also told her they couldn't pay her for training until then, either. So far she's completed about four days of training over the last two weeks and they haven't paid her anything. \n\nThe additional certifications could take months to get and she has to pay for them out of pocket. Is it legal for the company to withhold payment for the training until she has them?","title":"[PA] Does my friend's employer need to pay her for training completed if they haven't made a written offer?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570819433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgje8t\/oklahoma_offer_rescinded_after_drug_testing\/","id":"dgje8t","body":"Title sums it up pretty well. My partner has a medical marijuana card in Oklahoma and applied for a job. He was offered it and had to do a drug test. The company said that they're fine with medical marijuana. However, they have to do a drug test because they're a social services agency. \n\nWell, the drug testing company is not located in Oklahoma. And if you look online about them, they have a history of discrimination against marijuana. When the medical review officer called my partner to discuss his results (present THC), he said yes there would be THC because he has a card and he had to send in his card. \n\nWell, his offer was rescinded without being told why. After pressing the company, we were told that it was because the drug testing company said that his THC levels were \"outside medical marijuana range\". And so they failed him. \n\nHowever, what does that even mean? Oklahoma doesn't seem to have a definition for that. And does the drug testing company really have that much power?","title":"[Oklahoma] Offer rescinded after drug testing company stated to employer that THC levels were \"outside of medical marijuana range\"","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540306843,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qprpb\/nj_need_help_understanding_nj_lease_terms_and_law\/","id":"9qprpb","body":"So i tend to be long winded, but i'll try to be as brief as possible. I live in NJ, my boyfriend and I signed a one year lease last august which was valid from 09\/01\/17 to 08\/31\/18. We never signed a renewal nor were we approached by the landlord for one. We've been having major issues with the man that lives upstairs and can no longer be in our apartment anymore (He runs a machine all night that vibrates our entire apartment, stomps and knocks at random hours of the day claiming we're being noisy, stomps at night while we're sleeping again claiming we're making noise). We've had several conversations with the man but have gotten nowhere and he's gotten a bit aggressive to the point I don't feel comfortable being there alone anymore. This all has been occurring since the end of August and has progressed in the last month that we want to be out ASAP. \n\nWe talked to the Landlord throughout this and he offered us to move into another unit, but upon touring it, it wasn't in great shape and we would rather rent elsewhere. When we told this to our landlord he says that we're still under our lease and would be breaking it if we leave. He says that even though our lease ended in August, it automatically renews for a full year.\n\n I've looked into our lease ([http:\/\/www.shorehomes.com\/images\/form%20125%20-%20residential%20lease%20-%20pdf.pdf](http:\/\/www.shorehomes.com\/images\/form%20125%20-%20residential%20lease%20-%20pdf.pdf)) and there's nothing I can interpret as an automatic renewal for a full year. \n\n> 27. RENEWAL OF LEASE: The Tenant must be offered a renewal of this Lease by the Landlord, unless the Landlord has good cause not to do so under applicable law. Reasonable changes may be included in the renewal Lease. Not less than \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_60\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ days before the expiration of the Term of this Lease, the Landlord shall notify the Tenant of the proposed terms for the renewal Lease. Within \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_30\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ days after the Tenant receives the Landlord's renewal notice, Tenant shall notify Landlord whether Tenant accepts or rejects the proposed renewal Lease. If the Tenant does not notify the Landlord of Tenant's acceptance, then the Landlord's proposal shall be considered to have been rejected. If the Tenant does not accept the renewal Lease, the Tenant must vacate the Property at the end of the Term. \n\nI did some research online and found the NJ Landlord-Tenant Information [https:\/\/www.state.nj.us\/dca\/divisions\/codes\/publications\/pdf\\_lti\/lease.pdf](https:\/\/www.state.nj.us\/dca\/divisions\/codes\/publications\/pdf_lti\/lease.pdf)  \n\n> Lease Renewal A landlord must allow the tenant to renew the lease unless the landlord has good cause for an eviction under the Anti-Eviction Act. (This does not apply to two or three-family owner occupied dwellings, motels, hotels, transients or seasonal tenants). Yearly and month-to-month leases will automatically renew for another term unless a valid notice to quit is given by the landlord or unless the tenant gives notice to the landlord that the tenant will return possession of the premises to the landlord.  \n>  \n> If the tenant or landlord does not renew the lease and the lease was for a term of more than one month and the tenant holds over (stays after the expiration of the lease), the tenancy will become a month-to-month tenancy, if the landlord continues to accept the rent and there is no other agreement between the landlord and the tenant. SDG v. Inventory Control, 178 N.J. Super. 411. This tenancy is still subject to all the terms and conditions of the written lease other than its duration term. Heyman v. Bishop, 15 N.J. Super. 266.  \n\nThe wording of this section seems contradictory and I'm hoping someone here has the knowledge to make heads or tails of it. I've read some horror stories and I don't want this to turn into a financial fiasco. Basically I'm asking, If we are technically hooked for second year lease or a month to month tenancy? Also can I give my 30 days notice and be out without any repercussions?\n\n​\n\nTLDR: Lease ended 08\/31\/18, no renewal efforts were made by either party. I want to move out, but LL says our lease renews automatically. I can't find supporting clause and NJ law is confusing. Am I on a yearly or month to month lease? How can I get out of my apartment ASAP without negative consequences or lawsuit?","title":"[NJ] Need help understanding NJ Lease terms and Law so I can move out ASAP","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507089054,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/745pje\/tenant_screwing_me_over_im_not_there_so_i_dont\/","id":"745pje","body":"This is the story:\n\nI live in California, but I rent out my house in Montana. Our original agreement was for one year, which he fulfilled and is now on month to month. Three months ago, he stopped paying. He told me he had some injury and couldn\u2019t work, and like an idiot I was courteous and let him pay next month. He refused my calls, and didn\u2019t pay. I finally hit ahold of him and he told me he\u2019s not leaving.\n\nAfter some work, I managed to get my friend up there to legally act on my behalf. I tried to serve him eviction notice, which the court said had to be done through a reputable service. The server tried for 5 days, but he avoided him. Apparently the guy doesn\u2019t work anymore, and just spends all his time inside. I mange to get ahold of the idiot again, and he tells me he\u2019s not planning o leaving. At this point I\u2019m already out 3k, and I\u2019m struggling to get by as it is.\n\nI later get a message from my friend that he seems to be moving. I contact Mr.Idiot again and he says he\u2019s leaving. I  try to serve him again, but this bastard keeps hiding out. Tye sever tried to find him using the SSN he gave me, which turned out to be fake. I need him out, I can\u2019t afford this asshole. What do I do? I\u2019m very frustrated right now, and feel like I\u2019m screwed no matter what.","title":"Tenant screwing me over, I\u2019m not there so I don\u2019t know what to do. [MT]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568996168,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6x72m\/my_dad_had_life_insurance_that_no_one_knew_about\/","id":"d6x72m","body":"So like the title says, turns out my dad who passed away from a sudden death heart attack 3 weeks ago had life insurance from his job that he didn't know about. The paperwork isn't filled out for anyone in particular, and no one said anything till now almost a month later. So the couple questions I have are:\n\n1: Who does it go to?\nMy parents were divorced, and my younger sister and I are both adults now. If it's not filled out by him for anyone specific, does that mean eldest gets it?\n\n2: Can I Sue?\nBased on the paperwork he had medical insurance through his job as far back as April that we were all sure he didn't have. His boss was apparently notoriously bad about telling him things about his job, obviously with this whole mess to begin with, and he never went to the hospital the day before because he didn't think he could. Do I have a case for anything?\n\nIf anyone needs more information, I'd be happy to try to provide it, but this is really all I have. Random paperwork from his job that claims someone related owns $10,000 now. I want to know how this could work out considering my mom (who hasn't been married to my dad for 20 years) is gunning for the money. This is all my dad has to leave his kids, and I ABSOLUTELY CAN NOT have her get it. She's squandered thousands over the years, and has been a shitty mother to me my whole life. I know I'll see nothing as soon as it's in her hand, and I need this for my son that I *actually* care about.","title":"My Dad had life insurance that no one knew about (Help ASAP!)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1443429390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3moern\/ky_issues_with_my_landlord_and_neighbors\/","id":"3moern","body":"I am very sorry for the wall of text about to ensue...\n\n\n\nI moved in my apartment at the beginning of the year. It was quiet, I didn't have to deal with much. I am a very laid back guy and just want to live as low-conflict as possible. That said, I am NOT a pushover.\n\nTo describe my complex, it's rows of single floor apartments. I share a row with several other apartments with separate air and water, sharing a wall with my neighbors on either side.\n\nA few weeks into my tenancy I start noticing my bathroom smells like pot. HEAVILY of pot. So bad I can hardly use it without feeling sick. I start finding strong areas and get assistance from the landlord and his handyman sealing them up. I even take gorilla tape to the access panel with their permission. Months later we finally found it coming from the ventilation as our fan was not very strong and it appeared there was no firewall between the apartments in the attic. Anyway, during this time we complained frequently to the landlord as ANY form of smoking was forbidden, and to top it off it was an illegal substance. Honestly, I don't really care if my neighbor smokes pot. I'm for legalization... but it's a non smoking apartment and I've needed occasional use of an inhaler since moving in as a result. This has fallen on deaf ears as he generally refuses to act. He told me to call the cops when it happens. That... didn't help too much.\n\nMy first month of tenancy we run into another issue as well. My fiance and I hear my neighbor being beaten by her boyfriend pretty badly and call the police. This sets the neighbor off against us ever since.\n\nCombined with the report of pot and the police visit and their aggression afterwards he informs us that he told them he will not renew their lease... but that's it. They claim to have never gotten any notice of such to him and he stays quiet on the matter, with me still reporting about the pot smell filling my apartment.\n\nA few months into my tenancy my fiance and her son are kicked out of her parents house. I had the foresight to add them as tenants (though the lease is in my name only) when I first moved in. At this point my tolerance for the pot plummets. I start calling the cops frequently.\n\nTwo months ago things came to another head. She broke up with her boyfriend and over the course of a few weeks things escalated and then died down. One night she has a friend double park me while I'm on lunch break from work. I call the cops as I didn't know her boyfriend had moved out and as I'd been menaced by him once I wanted to avoid direct conflict. Police came, forced her friend to move the car, she screams about it on the phone for half the night (well past noise curfew). The next morning I'm woken up early by my Landlord who knows I work 3rd shift. He tells me to \"tone it down\" because I'm \"Harassing\" my neighbor.\n\nMe, harassing her. I laugh at him.\n\nAside from the big events, here are all the things I've reported her for:\n1) Smoking in her apartment.\n2) Smoking pot in and around the apartments.\n3) The event with her abusive boyfriend beating her and causing the subsequent noise complaint for noise after curfew as well.\n4) Consistently loud after the noise curfew, disruptively so as it has kept my fiance's son up several nights.\n5) Her dog peeing on our door, under our windows, probably on our cars as well (tires wet without rain, but didn't see it).\n6) She lets her dog out in the shared lawn area, that isn't fenced, unsupervised and without a leash. He's a small little rat dog but he chases people aggressively and as of this past week bit a new tenant's child on the arm hard enough to draw blood. Child was not provoking the dog. She rolled her eyes at the child's mother when she was asked to keep her dog on a leash. We do have a leash law.\n\nShe's the one who's harassed us and has been un-neighborly from the get go, and our Landlord, who told us to call the cops, tells me I'm the harasser? Our landlord implies that she admitted to double parking me on purpose as retaliation and said that she may calm down if I stop reporting her...\n\nI get the impression at that point my neighbor just took one in the mouth to get out of trouble.\n\nWe decided to give her a month to make good on the landlord's word. She gets worse for 2 weeks and then suddenly behaves. No more pot smell (beyond a very faint odor once in a blue moon and, thankfully, during school hours) and noise became much better. She also started taking the dog with her EVERYWHERE so he stopped being as much of a nuisance. She also put a bare minimum effort into keeping him away from us.\n\nThen she got a new boyfriend. My fiance is taking our dogs out to pee when suddenly I hear a loud noise from in front of the house. I hear a stun gun. Apparently the douch bag, as soon as he was behind my fiance (but keeping to the sidewalk) turned on a stun gun. He turned it on as he was between my fiance and our front door. He kept it on for 10 seconds while he slowed down but continued to his car. He only turned it off once he was in the car. My dogs and my fiance were a good 10-15 from the side walk with their back to him, but the motion was very deliberate.\n\nFast forward 2 weeks, we decide to bring this up with the landlord when we turn in our rent. Our choice was solidified last night.\nMy fiance reported that she heard someone running back and forth in front of our apartment. Our neighbor's door slammed so hard it shook our windows on the opposite side of the apartment. There's screaming so loud my fiance doesn't have to strain to make out the words... \"What are you doing? No stop, please don't, please stop.\" More incoherent screaming, slammed door, someone running, car starting. My fiance was not the first one to call the police. They arrived around 10 minutes later (they are within walking distance ironically). My neighbor didn't come back until the next morning. Her new boyfriend is wanted by the cops at this point and I don't know if he was caught or not. I do know from another neighbor that he may be going to prison for what he did. Beyond assault, I have no clue what he did. \n\nBetween last night's event and her dog biting a child, I'm done with her and I'm done with my landlord not fulfilling his obligations.\n\nWhat I need to know is what rights do I have and what recourses are available to me? What do I do if the dog attacks my fiance's son while we're outside? What do I do if my dogs are attacked? This is a little rat dog but he can break skin and continue to attack.\nI've been told my lease is mine to break at this point as he has not provided a safe and comfortable environment and due to his refusal to enforce the lease agreement. The apartment is a great price and in a great location for me and my fiance, I really don't want to give that up.\n\nEdit:\nTL;DR - Neighbor smokes pot, stinks up my apartment, has aggressiev dog who pees on our door, dates douches who menace\/threaten me and mine and have assaulted her (with one possibly on the run or arrested as of last night). Landlord doesn't seem to GAF and after telling us to call the cops on her tells me I'm \"harassing\" her with the police.\n\nPlease, any help would be appreciated.","title":"(KY) Issues with my landlord and neighbors","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555095431,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bchdb8\/what_happens_if_a_lease_i_sign_has_illegal\/","id":"bchdb8","body":"In a lease I\u2019m about to sign to rent a house, it says he can enter with 2-24 hours notice. However law where I live requires 24 hour notice (California). What will happen if I sign the lease and he does this?","title":"What happens if a lease I sign has illegal articles in it?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551203545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av2beo\/company_could_be_trying_to_sack_me_i_dont_believe\/","id":"av2beo","body":"I have been thinking of leaving my company. And to move to a new one. So I had been trying to collate all my certifications. I have a training contract so knew i\u2019d have to pay a % of these back when I left. \n\nSo I emailed all the training providers asking for a copy as I didn\u2019t have mine. (Company keeps hold of them and tries to not let us have them, claim is for security but everyone knows it\u2019s so we can\u2019t use them if we leave). \n\nThe reason I didn\u2019t ask my company directly for them is I knew they would be very difficult about this and I was wanting to send them over to other recruiters for potential jobs. So wanted to get them fast. Now i\u2019ll have to pay back the training fee\u2019s anyway so as far as i\u2019m aware I own them anyway. \n\nFast forward a week and he finds out i\u2019m wanting to leave. Further more a company I emailed has forwarded him my email about me asking them for Certificates. Now he\u2019s claiming dishonestly and no integrity and I was trying to go behind his back etc etc. Saying I was trying to do that so I didn\u2019t have to pay training fee\u2019s. However I signed a contract so knew I had to pay that way anyway. But he\u2019s trying to spin it this dishonest way. Last time I spoke to him it sounds as if they want me sacked. \n\n1) Can I actually be sacked for this? I thought I was trying to get what was rightfully mine.\n\n2) What GDPR laws did the training company break by forwarding them my email to them? Did they break any? Surely they can\u2019t just forward emails like that is there not new privacy laws against that? \n\nThanks for any help Reddit. ","title":"Company could be trying to sack me. I don\u2019t believe they have a right to, thoughts? (United Kingdom).","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555003838,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc2nu6\/ma_high_school_student_dues\/","id":"bc2nu6","body":"So I've recently been made aware of that to **graduate** I need to pay my student dues. Not to attend class events, but to graduate. By the time I graduate I will owe $200 according to the class of 2021. I've never attended any class event, nor do I intend to do so. Is it legal to stop me from graduating unless I form over the $200?","title":"[MA] High school student dues...","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541527139,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uqn6d\/equipment_violation_for_out_of_state_vehicle_nyc\/","id":"9uqn6d","body":"I received a ticket for tint in NYC for a car registered in Connecticut. My tint level of 44% is compliant with CT state law. The officer used the tint machine that reads out how much light passed through the windows. Connecticut allows tints which allow at least 33% of light. NY State requires at least 70% of light to be transmitted through. My drivers license is also for CT. On the ticket itself the officer did not mark my state for the vehicle or my driver's license. I was cited VAT 375-12A(B). I was reading through the statute [here](http:\/\/public.leginfo.state.ny.us\/lawssrch.cgi?NVLWO:) and [here](https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/new-york\/2013\/vat\/title-3\/article-9\/375\/) as well. \n\n12 reads as follows: \n\nIt shall be unlawful to operate on any public highway or street in this state any motor vehicle **registered in New York**  state  unless  such   vehicle  be  equipped with safety glass wherever glass is used in doors,   windows and windshields. For  the  **purposes  of  this  subdivision**,  any   device  other  than  a  trailer,  which is attached to or carried upon a motor vehicle and which lawfully can be occupied while the motor vehicle is in motion, shall be **considered a part of such motor vehicle**.\n\n 12-a Every motor vehicle, except a  motorcycle,  when  driven  or   operated  upon a public highway, road or street shall be equipped with a   front  windshield  in  a  fixed  and  more  or  less  upright   position   constructed  of  safety glass as defined in subdivision fourteen of this   section and required by subdivisions eleven and twelve hereof. No person   shall drive any motor vehicle with  any  sign  or  other  nontransparent   material  other  than a certificate or paper required to be displayed by   law upon the front windshield or the sidewings or side windows on either   side forward of or adjacent to the operator's seat.    \n\n12- (b) No person shall operate any motor vehicle upon any public highway,   road or street:     \n\n1. the front windshield of  which  is  composed  of,  covered  by  or   treated  with  any material which has a light transmittance of less than   seventy percent unless such materials are limited to the  uppermost  six   inches of the windshield; or     \n2. the  sidewings or side windows of which on either side forward of   or adjacent to the operator's  seat  are  composed  of,  covered  by  or   treated  with  any material which has a light transmittance of less than   seventy percent; or     \n3. if it is classified as a station  wagon,  sedan,  hardtop,  coupe,   hatchback   or  convertible  and  any  rear  side  window  has  a  light   transmittance of less than seventy percent; or     \n4. the rear window of which is composed of,  covered  by  or  treated   with  any  material which has a light transmittance of less than seventy   percent. A rear window may have  a  light  transmittance  of  less  than   seventy  percent  if  the  vehicle is equipped with side mirrors on both   sides of the vehicle so adjusted that the driver thereof  shall  have  a   clear  and  full  view  of the road and condition of traffic behind such   vehicle.\n\nFor the purposes of 12a & b, does the text about safety glass being required in the beginning of 12 for vehicles registered in NY apply for 12-a & 12-b as well? I work in the area so I would have no problem going to court to plead my argument but I was just wondering if I had a leg to stand on. \n\nTLDR: Does VAT 375-12a & 375-12b apply to vehicles not registered in the state of NY?\n\n​","title":"Equipment Violation for out of state vehicle (NYC)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508565306,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77rra0\/suing_a_former_landlord_while_im_overseas\/","id":"77rra0","body":"My former landlord in Massachusetts keeps claiming that she sent my security deposit in the mail and that it keeps being returned to her as undeliverable, however she won't send me any evidence of this claim. I have reason to believe that she hasn't even attempted to return it since I moved to Vietnam and she doesn't think I'd be willing to go back to the states to sue her. My question is can I have someone else file a claim in Massachusetts housing court on my behalf, and can I add the cost of the plane ticket to and from court to the amount I'm suing her for?  \n\nShe has broken several MA security deposit laws over the duration of my tenancy and is liable for treble damages plus fees, so it is well worth the trip home for the lawsuit.","title":"Suing a former landlord while I'm overseas","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552423710,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0cvsp\/pa_told_well_only_offer_you_the_job_if_you\/","id":"b0cvsp","body":"A friend of mine just told me that a recruiter at a company called and told him that he has the job as long as he promises to leave his faith at home and not bring it to the workplace.  Is that legal? What should he do from here.  ","title":"[PA] Told \u201cWe\u2019ll only offer you the job if you promise to leave your faith at home\u201d","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541308375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u138x\/ca_charge_nurse_abused_her_authority_and_yelled\/","id":"9u138x","body":"I work full time as a surgical tech (union) in a small hospital. The shifts are very intense especially the evening shift which is my shift. Our boss is the director of surgery, and below her are two charge nurses who run the OR day shifts and evening shifts. This is about the evening charge nurse.\n\nShe had always been vocal about her orders being absolute and when she found something wrong no matter how tiny she yelled at us. She grew up in a different country and when she got mad her screaming became unintelligible mix of English and her mother tongue language, and the problem ended up being solved because we were scared of her yelling so we wrack our brain trying to find out what the problem is and fix it before she comes after us. Most people who have been there a long time tolerated it and told me , a new employee, to do the same. She had the director's trust to run the evening shift, and she did a good job by being the little dictator she is.\n\nI started working evening shift couple weeks ago and had the taste of her screaming in day one. I tried to forget it and move on because I was scared that if I made a complaint I'd just be laughed at and get fired. \n\nThen came yesterday. She told me to come into an operating room to relief another tech I'd call Mary. I went in and was told by Mary that she already took her break. (This is not uncommon, \"relieving\" someone could either mean so they can go to their 10 min break or their 30 min lunch break, or even to go home because they are done with their shift). I went back and told the charge nurse as such. She started to looked angry and looked like she was gonna scream but she didn't and said (with a scarily restrained voice) \"I told you to go relief her she needs to go home\". I was like oh okay so Mary needs to go home, not taking break. I went back in to tell Mary. Mary then told me that she doesnt need to go home because she's on call that day. (On days we are on call we need to go back to the hospital if there are emergency surgeries so people usually just stay behind to finish the case they are working on). Assuming that the charge nurse are not aware of the on call, I went back outside to tell her about what Mary said. This time she (the charge nurse) went nuclear on me. She screamed that she was the one in charge and what did she just tell me to do why wasn't I go doing things as I was told but keep talking back to her blah blah blah. Then she went into the room Mary was at to scream at her that she knew Mary was on call but there aren't many surgeries left and she wants Mary to go home so just do as she was told.\n\nBoth me and Mary were stunned. We did not went against her order on purpose. We were just following the rules, the rules that we were told to oblige by the director (about relieve to break and on call shift). To the best of our knowledge.  The charger nurse were the one who didn't explain her course of actions so we thought that she did not know about the entire circumstances.\n\nI held back my tears as she went on to tell me that from now on I must do as she said no question ask or I would be yelled at again. And that she knew perfectly well what she was doing and to never question her authority.\n\nI had an anesthesiologist and a circulating nurse in the room who witness half of her yelling when she enter the room Mary is in (when she yelled at me she was in the hallway and another cleaning staff noticed as well and he confirmed with me he heard everything).\n\nI was planning on reporting her to the director this monday. However, I am risking my career for this because the director was rumored to be very biased and it was clear I was not one of her favorite staff. She may pretend to listen but I do not know how far she will go with me to resolve this. From my experience abuse are often more tolerated and rugswept in medical field. As long as patients are not harmed and the place run smoothly, there are little we can do to protect ourselves from higher-up bullying.\n\nI grew up abused by my parent that leads to me being very traumatized and I shut down whenever I'm being screamed at. I ended up asking to go home early that day because I got physically ill after the whole thing. I've always been frail and, though I was never properly diagnose, I notice that whenever there is a stressful event happen (final weeks, working and studying full time, piling deadlines, abusive aggressors attacking me etc.) I will always get sick and unable to function for a few days. Im worried that if this continue I might have to call out of work too often and that would jeopardize my job as well. It seemed the charge nurse has been successfully operating this evening shift by doing what she was doing to me  to everyone else and thus I don't know how much my voice weighted in this whole ordeal.\n\nMy question is, if the director decided to side with her and tell me to tolerate her abuse, what are my next steps to protect myself (I am almost 100% sure there will be a meeting between me, director, and the charge nurse and so she would definitely retaliate)? \n\nThank you for reading, there is no tl;dr because I'm not a native speaker and writing everything out is the best I could do. If you read this far, thank you so much. I appreaciate any advice I can get. ","title":"[CA] Charge nurse abused her authority and yelled at me for something I did not know about. Plan to report her to higher up on monday.What are the next legal steps I should be taking if they took her side?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1414441853,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2khxsk\/cease_and_desist_letter_for_copyright\/","id":"2khxsk","body":"In July we got a cease and desist letter\/e-mail regarding our app *Toddler games: Fun touch*:\n\n> [Company] has learned that you have engaged in copyright infringement of their exclusive rights. These exclusive rights are being violated by material available in Apple, Inc. and Google, Inc. mobile app stores platforms.\n\nIt's hard to get in much detail of the case without naming the company and their app. Is it okay to publish that here? Or should I publish the whole e-mail conversation blanking those names?\n\nSummarized they claim that the \"copyright infringement\" is based on this:\n\n> The entire look & feel of \"[App]\" is imitated by \"Toddler games: Fun touch\". To name a few examples:\n\n> 1. \"Toddler games: Fun touch\" has animals, vehicles and musical instruments categories - just like in \"[App]\".\n\n> 2. The switch between the categories of \"Toddler games: Fun touch\" is done through a toolbar located at the bottom of the screen - just like in \"[App]\".\n\n> 3. The toolbar in \"Toddler games: Fun touch\" displays white silhouettes icons symbolizing the categories - just like in \"[App]\".\n\n> 4. \"Toddler games: Fun touch\" have 12 items per category - just like in \"[App]\".\n\n> 5. All 12 items in \"Toddler games: Fun touch\" are represented with a cartoon icon - just like in \"[App]\".\n\n> 6. \"Toddler games: Fun touch\" offers multiple rotating pictures and sounds for each item - just like \"[App]\".\n\nThey don't tell us where in the US they are located, but as far as we know you can't claim copyright on any of those reasons, can you?\n\nNo actual images, sounds, graphical elements, code or anything has actually been copied. It's all about the apps having the same look and feel.\n","title":"Cease and desist letter for \"copyright infringement\" in app [USA\/Norway]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540947797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9su2r6\/new_property_owners_took_pictures_of_my_toddler\/","id":"9su2r6","body":"US, OR, Multnomah County. \n\nSo, earlier this month, the apartment complex I live in was sold, and the new owner is in a different city than the complex (hence the location limited to the county). Earlier this week two people claiming to be the new owner and his adult daughter were on-site and walking around the outside of the property. My wife and child were outside at the time, and my wife noticed that the owners daughter took several pictures of our toddler without asking, and felt too uncomfortable at the time to ask her to delete them. The photos were definitely of our toddler, as she commented on their appearance as she took them. \nWe're worried that when we ask about the photos of our child, we will be introducing strain into our relationship with the owners. We've done our best to give our children a clean slate online by severely limiting the amount and kind of photos\/information posted, and want to keep it this way. \n\nQuestions: Can we, legally, request the deletion of the photos without potential retaliation or unreasonable delays in other requests (related to the property itself)?\nCan they refuse, and what should we do if they do? \nIf we find them online, can we request them removed from the site despite not being the one that took the photo? \n\nOther info: We don't want any issues with the new owners, as this complex took so long to find, and is affordable when compared to the rest of the county, despite taking ~60% of our monthly income. Our year lease with the previous owner has more than 6 months left. We are planning on asking when we go into office to pay rent Friday, and wanted to make sure that we are safe in making the request. ","title":"New Property owners took pictures of my toddler","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505616035,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70l3ml\/shipment_with_drugs_seized_by_dhl\/","id":"70l3ml","body":"A friend of mine sent 350 ecstasy pills on dhl (a private courier) and a couple days later they told him his shipment was flagged by costumes. The next day he called again and the guy on the phone told him it's not gonna be sent due to the contents of the parcel.\nThis was 2 months ago and dhl nor costumes or the police have contacted him he's currently out of the country on vacation and too paranoid to come back.\nDoes it normally take that long for them to contact you?\nOr make an arrest?\n\nAny advice would be really appreciated, thanks!","title":"Shipment with drugs seized by dhl","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445538192,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3psy4w\/usa_nj_using_correspondence_to_confirm_a_verbal\/","id":"3psy4w","body":"Hello and thank you for paying me any attention. I've been trying to deal with a lawsuit for awhile and have posted here before - thank you all very much for helping me before. Now to the point.\n\nIn 2012 I had oral surgery. The oral surgeon had told me at that time (verbally) that he would not hold me liable for any payments in excess of a $400 copay (made in two $200 installments).\n\nMonths later, his office sent me a second bill. I called to ask if this was a mistake. It was not. I contested. It was sent to collections, and has now evolved into a small-claims lawsuit (where he is represented by the Attorney at his debt collection agency).\n\nI'm not sure I can get the case dismissed and I'm hoping he'd rather settle, but his attorneys are as yet unwilling to contact him with my settlement offers. (Before anyone asks, I have already answered the suit and we have a court date.) So I'm looking for lines of defense, and my best shot seems to be to try to confirm the existence of our verbal agreement. I have one letter that I sent to his office in 2012 (certified) that addresses the issue and contains the following wording specifically: \"... I was told that I would owe no more after my co-payments were made.\" There are a few more instances of rephrasing of the same sentiment, but that is the more pertinent one. This letter was never responded to, and now we are where we are.\n\nWhat are my chances here? Can I use the letter I sent as proof of our verbal agreement to waive costs in excess of my co-payment? Can I win in court with this defense, or can I get the case dismissed with it before it gets there?","title":"[USA: NJ] Using Correspondence to Confirm a Verbal Agreement as Defendant in Small Claims","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552093763,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayxwcj\/california_break_room_laws\/","id":"ayxwcj","body":"So my employer wants to lock the door to the break room during a specific time of night (6-8:30) because they want people to not take their break during that time since it is the busiest time of the day for us. However, not everyone breaks during that time but since we are a restaurant we aren\u2019t allowed to have drinks anywhere so we pop in and out to put drinks down\/ drink our drinks or send quick text messages. \n\nMy question is basically are they allowed to lock our break room? \n\nLocation: California","title":"California Break room laws","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571366508,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djh1xg\/in_wisconsin_siblings_want_the_half_of_the_house\/","id":"djh1xg","body":"In Wisconsin. I purchased a house with my mother 18 years ago. My siblings all agreed that I was making a sacrifice and said they would not fight me for the house, it would be mind.\n\nUnfortunately, when we did the paperwork, we did not include wording about joint tenancy or rights of survivorship. Because of this, now that she has passed away, her 'half' of the property is included in her estate.\n\nThe housing market in our area has gone cray cray in the past 18 years and the property has increased in value quite a bit. And, my siblings are all of a sudden very interested in getting their 'half' of the estate. \n\nI am unable to refinance and fork over moola to them for their 'half'. Also, the money they would gain would not impact their lives significantly (there are quite a few of us, they all have spouses, houses, kids done with college, etc,) while I am single and have been counting on this property for the past 18 years. Without it? I am completely screwed.\n\nWTF do I do? Anyone? I live in the house and have been maintaining it. I don't expect anyone else to pitch in their money. If I am forced to sell, my life will change completely for the worse.","title":"In Wisconsin, siblings want the half of the house I bought with my mother","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554416621,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9j9f9\/roommate_threatening_my_animal\/","id":"b9j9f9","body":"I've looked for a long while for a sub to post this on and couldn't find one that seemed to suit my issues better than this one, I apologize if it doesn't fit here.\n\nLet it be known that I have a one year lease with three other girls, and I am the only one that has an animal signed under my name (3 of us have cats, 2 of the cats have not been signed under the lease).\n\nI will try to shorten this story up best I can, please bear with me. Basically, one of my roommates (A) does not like me whatsoever, most conversations we have result in her baiting me into meaningless arguments that never get resolved (I've learned to stop responding to her). Recently I have started spending some nights at my boyfriends house & (A) has been having an issue with me leaving my cat at my own house overnight. (A) has her own cat, she hasn't bought food for it since she got it, she has been bumming off one of the other girls for a very long time, recently it has been said that she needs to buy her own food, to which she got upset and started a fight. So these two things put together has made her hate me more than ever, and she has said to my other roommates that she plans to drop my cat off at the pound. \n\nConsidering my cat has been legally registered under my name, and is also on the lease, is there any way I could legally proceed to prevent this or hold her accountable if she does steal my pet from me?\n\nPLEASE NOTE- (A) is a bully, she is childish and petty and I do not wish to confront her above just stating that she would\/could be held accountable for taking my own fur baby away from me. \nAlso, incase anyone is skeptical, I take very good care of my kitty, whenever I sleep at another house I wake up and go home at 8 am to feed her, she gets lots of love and cuddles.","title":"Roommate threatening my animal","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568677247,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d58pq8\/turns_out_my_downstairs_neighbors_and_i_have_had\/","id":"d58pq8","body":"I live upstairs in a four unit apartment building in WI. Our neighbors from across the hall moved below us when the previous tenant left and the unit was remodeled.\n\nContext:\n\nSince we\u2019ve moved here in January, we\u2019ve had many issues with our landlord\u2019s so-called \u201cmaintenance man.\u201d He is definitely not qualified by any means. He has had to come back for every repair he\u2019s performed as his work doesn\u2019t hold up or was initially done incorrectly.\n\nOur utilities have been shut off a few times since we moved here for various reasons. The first was with just after signing the lease. The previous tenants turned off the heat in sub zero weather and our water lines burst. The second was with to repair the piping for the slop sinks in the basement. The third was when they were remodeling the unit downstairs. The last time was just recently as the city was installing new gas lines. \n\nOnto the current issue:\n\nFriday our neighbors had no hot water. They called our landlord to let him know the same day. After that they called Saturday and Sunday. Each time he said he was working on sending someone out.\n\nMonday rolled around with no sight of the repairman. They called our landlord and said if he didn\u2019t have someone fix it by today, they would call a real repairman and take it out of their rent. Of course he did not want to pay for that, so the repairman came out today. \n\nHere\u2019s the kicker. It\u2019s not their water heater that\u2019s bad, it\u2019s ours. The maintenance guy showed them that our water heater is hooked up to their unit, and their water heater is hooked up to ours. He\u2019s claiming he\u2019ll return tomorrow to \u201cfix everything.\u201d\n\nI got stopped in the hallway by our neighbors today coming home from work which is where they filled me in on everything. Out of curiosity\u2019s sake, we both pulled out our most recent copies of our utility bills. Turns out, our gas bills were only off by about $1. \n\nI told them if they wanted to go back and find out when this \u201cswap\u201d happened, I would be willing to pay the difference for their gas bill since then because I\u2019m sure my unit used more hot water. They said it was fine and not to worry about it. I\u2019m not too worried about going after them either because we get along really well and my bill was never unusually high. \n\nI\u2019m left with two questions. Could any of us three tenants, prior or past, pursue each other if we really wanted to? Aside from our neighbors not having hot water, is our landlord liable for this in any way?\n\nThanks in advance. \n\ntl;dr Neighbor\u2019s hot water went out. Turns out our water heater is connected to their unit and vice versa. It\u2019s really our water heater that\u2019s bad. Is anyone liable?","title":"Turns out my downstairs neighbors and I have had our water heaters \u201cswapped\u201d for an undisclosed amount of time. What now? (WI)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571597343,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dknv5u\/on_what_grounds_can_i_sue_my_sexual_harasser\/","id":"dknv5u","body":"To make a *very* long story short, at my second job I was hit on by a sexual predator who used my orientation as ammo to try and make me feel insecure from his sexual harassment tactics which he never relented at.\n\nI live in Texas. The Statute of Limitation on sexual harassment states the following (this is from LegalMatch.com , by the way)...\n\n>In a civil lawsuit, a victim of sexual abuse demands compensation and damages from his or her abuser. You may be entitled to economic and non-economic damages, including compensation for your pain and suffering.  \n>  \n>In 2015, a new Texas law dramatically changed the statute of limitations in some sex abuse-related civil cases. Under this law, you must file your civil claim within:\n\n​\n\n* Adult [sexual assault](https:\/\/www.legalmatch.com\/law-library\/article\/sexual-assault.html): five years from the event,\n\n​\n\n* Child sexual assault: 15 years from the victim\u2019s eighteenth birthday.\n\n>If the identity of the perpetrator is not known, a victim may file a \u201cJohn Doe\u201d or \u201cJane Doe\u201d lawsuit. Once the identity of the suspect is known, you must amend your complaint to include his or her name within 30 days.  \n>  \n>If sexual abuse occurs at your workplace, you may also have a [sexual harassment lawsuit](https:\/\/www.legalmatch.com\/law-library\/article\/how-to-sue-your-employer-for-sexual-harassment.html) under federal law. You must file a complaint (or charge) with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) within 300 days of the harassment or abuse. The EEOC will investigate your claim and determine whether it will pursue a lawsuit on your behalf.  \n>  \n>If it decides not to litigate your claim, it will issue a Right to Sue letter. You must file a federal lawsuit within 90 days of the EEOC\u2019s Right to Sue letter.  An employment lawyer can guide you through the EEOC complaint process and any related litigation.\n\nNow, this creep didn't directly assault me, but he basically played psychological warfare on me and other guys at my workplace which will remain unnamed. But what was also unfortunate is how the manager at the time was easily brown-nosed by him into leaving him unchecked with sob stories so he could continue to harass me and other guys.\n\nBefore I was brave enough to try anything, the next thing I know we get a new manager, and he gets fired along with half the other staff for pulling a heist on a lot of our inventory as well as smoking crack in the men's room. Whether there were charges pressed against him or not, I have no clue. But I wanted to ask you all here today what grounds I can file for lawsuit against another harasser who tries that on me at my current job or the next.\n\nThank you.","title":"On what grounds can I sue my sexual harasser?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541663774,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v85pv\/roommates_girlfriend_moved_in_hasnt_paid_rent_or\/","id":"9v85pv","body":"Florida.\nMy boyfriend and I both live in a house with now, another couple. The men are on the lease but the 2 girlfriends(me included) are not. I pay my rent 600-700 a month depending every month on time. I have receipts of it so that\u2019s not an issue.\n\nOther girl has not paid one dollar to either lease holder in the 3 months her and her dog have been here. Claims there\u2019s no place for her stuff, however, we have an empty room she could rent like she promised to when she moved in. \n\nShe has been getting mail here since before she moved in, showing that she knew what she was doing to gain \u201cresidency\u201d. I am unsure if this is true considering she does not have her own bed here(shares with boyfriend) and has never technically entered a tenant and landlord situation from my understanding, as she\u2019s never paid any portion of bills or rent. \n\nAs a result, my boyfriend has to pick up the slack and pay for her share of utilities and her rent out of his own pocket. When utilities are due, the other girls boyfriend just pays for his share and not hers. \n\nMy boyfriend thinks he needs a 30 day eviction, but I think a 3 day is fine. I think this woman needs to be punished for what she is doing. I work my ass off to live here and make sure my bills are paid while in the same situation as her, yet if I stopped paying rent I know I would never hear the end of it, and it would be solely my fault the rent for the house goes unpaid. I feel wronged, and I did the math and know my boyfriend would have at least 1,000 in savings if he saved this money instead of supporting a grown woman. \n\nPlease help.","title":"Roommates girlfriend \u201cmoved in\u201d hasn\u2019t paid rent or contributed to Utilities in 3 months.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555338473,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdglsq\/can_i_sue_my_apartment_complex\/","id":"bdglsq","body":"Two weeks ago my apartment flooded and because maintenance took 5 hours to respond to the emergency call much of my things and the apartment were destroyed.  As a result I\u2019ve been staying with family until it\u2019s fixed.  I was told it would be ready on Friday, but when I stopped by I was unable to enter my apartment because there was a swarm of 3,000+ wasps and bees near my door.  I told them about the bees 4 days prior and they promised me pest control had already handled it and that it would take a few days for the bees and wasps to die.  Clearly the bees are not going to die because they are still there.  If I am stung by one bee I will go into full anaphylaxis within 5 minutes.  This means I will stop breathing and lose consciousness.  I could die if ems is unable to reach me in time.  As a result I have stressed the importance of the bee issue to my community manager.  I have spoken to her four separate times to let her know that it is absolutely unacceptable for this problem to continue.  I even suggested she move me to another apartment on the property as the issue does not seem to be getting resolved, she declined that as an option.  As a result I\u2019m still staying with family 3 weeks after I initially left.  I am paying $1400 a month to not be able to go to my apartment because they don\u2019t seem to care that I am deathly allergic.  My husband has been stopping by to feed our guinea pig and says that the bees and wasps have become very aggressive.  They followed him all the way to his car and began to sting him.  He also said people who were on a walk with their animals and children were attacked when walking by the swarm.  If my apartment complex refuses to handle the bee issue, and refuses to move me I will be unable to continue my lease.  It is a major health risk for me.  If I have to end my lease am I able to fight the cost in court because of the bees? If I am stung by a bee after being told they are gone, can I sue them for the cost of my trip to the ER and my treatment? I feel as though they do not care and don\u2019t understand the severity of my allergy.  I\u2019m even paying for the pest control visits when they aren\u2019t working.  There\u2019s no way they can\u2019t eradicate a hive...exterminators do it on a daily basis.  This is getting out of control.","title":"Can I sue my apartment complex?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553447966,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4ytdh\/ontario_canada_landlord_asking_us_to_pay_him_more\/","id":"b4ytdh","body":"Hello! Thank you in advance for reading my post and for any advice you can give! Much appreciated!\n\n​\n\nMy boyfriend and I both live in Ontario, Canada in a city that is very student-centric. There are two universities and one college in and around the city, so you can imagine the chaos sometimes!\n\nAt the moment we live in an apartment building in the student area, and my boyfriend is attending college while I am working full-time. We signed a lease to live here in until August 2020, with a fixed rent cost. Utilities and internet are included, except for hydro which we pay ourselves. We have never paid rent late and we take good care of the apartment and its furnishings.\n\nThe entire building is managed by a management company. The individual units are often bought by investors looking to make money, and ours is no exception. When we signed the lease through the management company in 2017, our fixed rent price was 1095 dollars, and it will continue to be this amount until August 2020 when our lease is up and we move out. The rent for other units in the building has gone up to 1400+ for similar space\/number of bedrooms, so at the moment we're getting a really good deal on our rent.\n\nWell, the person who owns our condo, let's call him LL for Landlord, came by on Saturday to tell us that he is no longer making money on his investment property due to the management company's fees being too high, and our rent being too low. He wants us to either 1) pay him more money monthly or 2) move out and he would pay us the difference in our rent between our current place and our new place.\n\nHowever, we are not prepared to move. I am about to start a masters program in September, and my boyfriend is also still in school. We moved here on purpose because we knew he would be done school in August 2020, and then we could move wherever our jobs took us.\n\nSo I had a few questions regarding the LLs requests.\n\nFirst of all, if we refuse to give him more money per month, will he be able to kick us out for any reason? As far as I'm concerned we don't have any reason to give him more money per month. He's essentially a stranger and we have not had any other contact with him aside from our initial meeting when we moved in, and Saturday's meeting. He is also not offering to give us anything in return for this extra money, we would essentially just be lining his pockets with no benefit to ourselves.\n\nSecond of all, will he be able to retaliate against us if we refuse to give him more money per month? Our lease is still legal regardless of if he sells the apartment or decides not to use the management company anymore, right?\n\nThird of all, he also has a son who might attend the university here in September. Will he be able to kick us out if he wants to use the apartment for his son? What would our rights be if he did decide to try to do that?\n\nFourth, if we were to move, simply having him pay for the difference in our rent cost would not be enough. We would be greatly inconvenienced if we were to move somewhere else, and there could be other potential expenses involved with doing that (parking might be more expensive, certain amenities might not be included that we would have living here, it might not be close to my work\/school or my bfs school etc...) Would we be able to ask him to pay for the other costs associated with moving and onward until August 2020 when our current lease with him would be up? If so, how would we go about doing this while ensuring that he actually pays us?\n\n​\n\nBasically, me and my bf do not want to move anywhere else, but it is also not financially feasible for us to give our landlord more money every month for no reason but to line his own pockets. What are our rights and how can we protect ourselves against our LL?\n\n​\n\nThank you so much for reading! I appreciate it!","title":"[Ontario, Canada] Landlord asking us to pay him more money because he's losing money on his investment property.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540183170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qahmx\/former_landlord_stole_my_800_rental_deposit\/","id":"9qahmx","body":"My apologies if this seems disorganized; I get livid when I think about it. I need advice as to whether or not it is worth my time and money to after my former asshole landlord. \n\nI moved into a duplex in August of 2016, and gave my asshole landlord (AL) an $800 check- $600 for a deposit, and $200 for my dogs, + $40 extra per month for the dogs. During our year in the duplex, AL was a complete nightmare. He was an avid Hunter, and stored his hunting equipment in a locked room on the basement, so he needed access to it often. It was mentioned in the lease, and didn't seem like a big deal. When he came in it was always unannounced, and he tracked in mud and dirt, then claimed we were \"filthy\". He also stored some of his equipment in part of the basement where we lived- it was not mentioned in the lease that we were going to share our space. The basement had also suffered water damage, so there was a permanently installed sump pump, and some old carpet rolled out on the concrete floor that had seen some of that damage. We had also caught him urinating in the outside basement drain on more than one occasion, used our hose to rinse off his personal vehicles (RV's, ATV's, etc), and told us our house was 'filthy' any time we needed a repair. I found a local forum about him that mentioned the same issues we were having. \n\nWhen it came time to move out, I went on the walk through with AL, and decided to record him. He mentioned \"everything looks good so far\" when looking over the upstairs, but $500+ was deducted from our deposit for new carpet. He also accused us of letting our dogs \"piss all over the basement carpet\", and complained that the basement, \" smelled like shit\". He sent pics of the bottom of the old carpet with huge water stains, definitely not piss-sized, claiming our dogs had done the damage, and deducted $300 for resealing and recarpeting the basement. We shampooed the carpet three times before we moved. I took pics of all the blinds, because I knew he'd attempt to charge us for new ones, and they were in perfect condition. He deducted another $75 for \"filthy blinds and window sills\". \n\nWe moved out in August 2017 to a new city about 5 hours away. Is it worth my time\/ resources to go after him in small claims? \n","title":"Former Landlord Stole My $800+ Rental Deposit- Missouri","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442679930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lklo7\/how_do_i_get_rid_of_the_awful_car_im_financing\/","id":"3lklo7","body":"When I was 20 and a complete fucking idiot, I made the biggest mistake of my life and bought a car from a dealership. It's a 2011 Nissan Versa, which I thought would be a solid commuter choice for me when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and commuted from SJ to SF on the daily and made a bunch of money. I bought the car for like $15,000+ (putting like $500 down), and didn't pay attention to my interest rate. It ended up being through the roof, and now, years later, I've paid like $6,000 in interest and only chipped away at the actual price of the car. I still owe $11,000 and change. I lost the fantastic job that I had and moved to Los Angeles, and the car is quickly depreciating in value through minor, unavoidable scrapes from in this shithole city. \n\nKBB Value for a private buyer is 7-8k. Is there any way that I can get rid of this fucking car, short of committing insurance fraud and setting it on fire in the middle of the desert? It's ruining my life. ","title":"How do I get rid of the awful car I'm financing","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551378308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avud1y\/hostile_and_kind_of_crazy_roommate_moves_out_do\/","id":"avud1y","body":"A little backstory first so you can understand why we\u2019re hesitant to reimburse her.  So back in November, we moved into an apartment together; my boyfriend (\u201cJake\u201d), myself, my boyfriend\u2019s cousin who we knew very well (\u201cRebecca\u201d), and her boyfriend. Her boyfriend kept his name off the lease for personal reasons, so it was just the three of us who signed it. But we all split the rent and initial deposit four ways. \nThey broke up in early December, and when he moved out and wanted his deposit back she told him no, that he had caused too many problems in the house that he wasn\u2019t going to get it back. I won\u2019t go into details, but after their break up she went crazy. She moved in two of her friends without asking, we confronted her, she threw a fit, she initially lied about putting her 30days in to finally leave, and eventually, the last week of January, aggressively moved out. \n\nHer mother got the apartment across and underneath from us, so she literally just moved downstairs. We see her all the time, and it\u2019s always very hostile and rude (making faces, flipping us off, etc.) \n\nAfter she moved out, she refused to speak to speak to us. Blocked our numbers, wouldn\u2019t answer if we knocked, blocked us on social media. However, she got her mom to call my boyfriends dad to tell him that she wanted her deposit of $$$ back. He called and told us, but the deposit amount she said was double what she paid, and we realized she was asking for hers and her boyfriends deposit back. Initially we were going to pay her back because we had decided we were done with roommates and to live on our own, and if we moved out we would want the same. \nThen we realized there were already some damages to the house from her now ex-boyfriend and that it was unlikely we would be getting our full deposit back. When we tried to get ahold of her to discuss how much we were actually willing to pay, she wouldn\u2019t talk to us. So we put it behind us and haven\u2019t thought about her since. \nBut yesterday morning, her new boyfriend, one of the people she moved in without talking to us, texted my boyfriend a bunch of threats. Saying if we didn\u2019t give her back the money we were going to learn our lesson, and that he \u201chas a girl tryna run up on your girl so we can make it a group session if you want\u201d. I wasn\u2019t scared, mostly because he\u2019s a small and bigger bark than bite type of guy, but I know to call the police when you get threats. So we did, and the cop said he would give them a call and talk to them about making threats. So far I haven\u2019t heard anything back from the police and he\u2019s continued to text us threateningly. \nThis whole situation has made us absolutely unwilling to do anything for her. I don\u2019t want to give her any of my hard earned money, and neither does my boyfriend. It\u2019s a month after she initially asked for it, hasn\u2019t been available at all to discuss it, and now we\u2019re getting physical threats. \nMy question is; do we legally have to pay her back? Her thirty days is up and she\u2019s no longer on the lease, but can she sue us or something? I\u2019d rather just be done with this so if we have to pay her to avoid dragging this out we will. But I\u2019d much rather not. \n\nTLDR; Crazy roommate moved out a month ago without talking about money and now her new man is texting us threats about getting her deposit back. Do we have to give it back or will we suffer legally?  ","title":"Hostile (And Kind of Crazy) Roommate Moves Out: Do We Have To Give Her Her Portion of the Deposit Back??","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541304938,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u0rwm\/my_friend_wants_to_have_her_addict_dads_custody\/","id":"9u0rwm","body":"Ok, so when we (14f) were hanging out during the summer my friend mentioned that her dad is a drug addict and an alcoholic, and that her mom is getting ready to lawyer up against him. Her mom is a pretty low-income single mom, she came here as an immigrant. Then she met my friend's dad and he basically used and abused her since she had no money\/family in the US (we're in California, by the way). \n\n​\n\nWhen I say used and abused, I mean constant fighting and cheating. Her older sister is 15, and he's had a mistress since their mom was pregnant with her. They live together now that her parents are divorced, and she's around 30. They speculate that he's been with her since then, meaning...\n\n​\n\nA week or two ago she told me that, a couple years ago, she made a fake instagram account so she could follow the other woman (she's on private). That's how she got evidence that he does drugs, she printed this out to use in court but unfortunately they don't have the money for a lawyer.\n\n​\n\nNow here's where it gets tricky. Her relationship with her mom has quickly turned physically, verbally and emotionally abusive over these past couple months (I'm one of the only people who knows, though). She also mentioned she had a physical altercation with the other woman a year or two ago.\n\n​\n\nShe's asked for my help, but I don't know what to do. I'm posting on here in hopes one of you guys is better educated?","title":"My friend wants to have her addict dad's custody revoked","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539204818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n3f0v\/repubital_sabotage_within_the_work_place\/","id":"9n3f0v","body":"Hello  all,\n\n​\n\nLong time reader, first time poster. I work for the same company that my ex also works for. She works as a manager for stores and I work for the company HQ. A few months ago we were at a company event, she saw my talking to multiple females and began to spread that I was a shitty person and I soon was labeled as a player within the work place. My question here is, do I have any legal stance for this? Does this fall under slander or harassment of any sort? I deeply care about my company reputation and take this very seriously. \n\n​\n\nThank you for your time. ","title":"Repubital Sabotage within the work place","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447690098,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t17vm\/ny_charged_with_pl_22003_in_nyc_first_offense\/","id":"3t17vm","body":"Hi All,\n\nI will do my best to keep this story brief.\n\nA group of friends and I were outside of a bar in NYC.  My one friend decided that he wanted to purchase a controlled substance from a couple of strangers.  He had no cash, he had lost his debit card, and he asked me to borrow money.  I went to the ATM, took out cash, and gave him some.  He proceeded to buy the substance.  I did not interact with the people he purchased from.  Shortly after, he met back up with the rest of our group and I.  As we were walking down the sidewalk, the two of us were pulled from our group and pushed against the wall and arrested.  I was told that I was being arrested for possession because I was seen taking money from the ATM and giving it to my friend prior to his purchase.  I chose not to say anything to the arresting officer, as I wasn\u2019t actually sure if I had broken the law didn\u2019t want to implicate myself.  I was processed and charged with PL 220.03 (possession of controlled substance in 7th degree).\n\nI have a clean record, and prior to discharging me from the precinct, the arresting officer said that the result of this should be reduction to an ACD.  He also stated that I would not need a lawyer, but I feel that it\u2019s within my best interest to hire one despite his statement.\n\nThe primary thing I am confused about is how I can be charged with possession for lending cash to a friend.  If this is actually against the law, please educate me.  With that said, what is the likelihood that an attorney in NYC could get this charge completely dropped?  As I previously said, I have a clean record to this date.\n\nLastly, I would greatly appreciate information for attorneys in NYC who would be good at dealing with this situation.  I am required to appear at the courthouse on 100 Centre Street, NYC.  Also, would it be cheaper\/more effective to use a public defender?  I understand we cannot post offers for legal services in this thread, but if you have information that will help me find an attorney, please PM it to me. \n\nThank you.\n","title":"[NY] Charged with PL 220.03 in NYC (first offense). Looking for advice and help.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445791493,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q5yn1\/texas_a_tree_on_the_property_line_fell_on_the\/","id":"3q5yn1","body":"We have a pretty small yard, and this pecan tree is fairly large, and pretty much half in our yard, and half in the neighbor's yard. There have been some strong wind gusts last night and this morning (hello hurricane season) and with one thing and another, a very large limb (almost a third of the entire tree) fell and landed very neatly across the roof of our neighbor's car. I'm mainly wondering how to proceed because the tree is right on the property line (the fence actually has a gap in it to accommodate the tree, and both tree and fence were established long before we bought the property) and I don't know exactly who it 'belongs' to. Who should I contact?\n\nETA: I hope I picked the right flair. If I didn't, please let me know which one it should be, and I'll correct it.","title":"[Texas] a tree on the property line fell on the neighbor's car","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554157838,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8acu6\/father_is_brain_dead_im_next_of_kin_cant_find_a\/","id":"b8acu6","body":"In Georgia as his adult child, and last surviving relative, I am my fathers next of kin. \n\nHis girlfriend has tried to assert herself as wife or PoA, and would not contact me to allow herself to be the one in charge. She even got herself banned by the nurses at the hospital. I found out through Facebook about my dad. She\u2019s ignoring all my messages. \n\nHaven\u2019t been able to find a will on file, and his previous lawyer has told me I need to try and find a PoA or will or safety deposit box key at his house somewhere. But he sold his house a couple months ago so I have no clue where to begin.... When I pulled up to the old house and the trailer that his stuff is in currently, the girlfriend drove off in his car after seeing me, without speaking to me.\n\nShe has a child she insists is his, which I would like a paternity test done on, and the lawyer insists I need one for myself as well, which is fine, I know for a fact I\u2019m his. \n\nQuestions:\n\nWhat right do I have to search his property for a will or safety deposit box info? He owns everything and she mooches. \n\nWhat can I do about stopping her from fleeing from me and avoiding talking to me?\n\nLawyer who knows them both says he wouldn\u2019t be surprised if the will was found and set on fire by her, and if I can\u2019t find a will, what\u2019s the next course of action?\n\nHow can i go about getting paternity tests done? Regarding myself and her child?\n\nThere also might be another kid taken away by the state, whose mother later od\u2019d.  What rights does that child have? \n\nHow do I figure out his estate for purpose of paying his bills and funeral costs, attorneys, etc, while not putting myself at risk if the well is run dry? \n\nI have 36 hours before they remove his donated organs and send him to the funeral home, what are the next steps to be taken?","title":"Father is brain dead, I\u2019m next of kin, can\u2019t find a will on record at the probate office or PoA through superior court. Need help with the next step?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541391683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uah5t\/a_friend_of_mine_was_just_arrested_and\/","id":"9uah5t","body":"My friend, whom I will refer to as James, has just been arrested. He is seventeen years old and was about to graduate at the end of this school year (Florida). His eighteenth birthday is in a little over a month. \n\nAt his work - a locally run restaurant - James was having friendly banter with a coworker and fellow high school student he has known for nearly two years and considers his friend. When she asked what his plans were for Halloween, James responded with something akin to \n\n\"Oh, I'm just gonna shoot up the school.\" \n\nThe two continued talking for a significant amount of time afterwards, but the next day the girl reported the \"threat\" to our school's resource officer. James was immediately arrested, pulled from school, and is currently awaiting a hearing. \n\nUnfortunately - but truthfully - in modern teenage culture, this \"threat\" would be considered by most to be a joke. As a teenager myself, I recognize that the tragedies surrounding school shootings are so frequent that they have become a normalized source of twisted comedy (just rake a look at r\/dankmemes or r\/DeepFriedMemes). James obviously thought the same, and figured he would be safe when making this joke in good company. \n\nJames has perhaps the greatest success story of any high school student I know. We met in sixth grade and instantly became friends because of his clever, charming, and witty nature. When we started hanging out more, I learned he was being raised in a very small home by his grandparents - some of the kindest people I have met. Both of James' parents had been jailed for drug use\/dealing. I got James involved in Boy Scouts with me, and he maintained an A\/B average in all honors classes. When we got to high school, he took a nearly full AP course load and kept these grades, excelled on the cross country team, and began working to help a grandfather who had been newly diagnosed with brain cancer. \n\nWhere most kids with James' background would fall back on drug and alcohol use, James made the conscious effort to rise above his challenged background and aspire to become a first generation college student. Now he is facing expulsion, a potential second degree felony, and a major setback on his collegiate goals - all for making a lighthearted (albeit dark) joke about which he did not think twice.\n\nMy parents, among several of his other friends' parents, are uncovering evidence of his good character in the form of letters of reference, scholarship applications, and Boy Scout records. As James is currently taking care of his grandparents and in no place to do very much legal research himself, I would like to know what I can tell him. He has a lawyer, and his hearing is soon. I don't know the date; it might have intentionally been scheduled for after his eighteenth birthday. \n\nThis entire process just does not seem fair. I see no reason why some students I know have been involved in assault, vandalism, and DUI cases are still walking the hallways while James - a clean, smart individual - is being put through legal hell for a simple joke. ","title":"A friend of mine was just arrested and immediately removed from school for making a \"school shooting\" joke. This is one of the most genuine, compassionate, and hardworking individuals I have ever known. Anyone who knows him recognizes that this was not a threat.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570563918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df53oz\/employer_and_401k\/","id":"df53oz","body":"TLDR: wife\u2019s work didn\u2019t enroll her in auto 401k program 5 months ago when she started.  Anything we do to force their hand at making up lost wage match?\n\nMy wife has been working at an American university since early May. When she started they told her she was auto enrolled in the 401k program at a certain percentage. She went to check on her account last week and noticed it was empty. When she contacted HR they told her they had messed up and never enrolled her in it but they enrolled her now and it would start in about 30 days. We asked about their ability to backtrack it and they said she isn\u2019t missing out on anything since they haven\u2019t announced what they plan to match this year yet (weird I know but it\u2019s how they do it) My question is if there is anything we can do to force the university\u2019s hand at making up for the 6 months of lost wage contributions they would have matched at the end of the year without having to take more out of her paychecks each month and risk being over their match percentage at year end.","title":"Employer and 401k","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541456386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ui9rz\/what_is_reasonable_notice_to_show_an_apartment\/","id":"9ui9rz","body":"For context, I am located in New York City.\n\nI am moving out of my apartment in less than a week. My management company uses one real estate company, and multiple brokers have been contacting me daily to show my apartment since it has been listed. At first, this wasn't an issue as the showings worked with my schedule and I had the space to have people in and out of my apartment. \n\nNow they are only giving me anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour notice asking if they can show the apartment. I have less than ample space right now, as moving boxes are everywhere. The movers are coming in a few days and I would be concerned that if someone got hurt here, I would be liable. \n\nMy lease says that they have to give \"reasonable notice\" to show my apartment - my question is, what is reasonable notice? 45 minutes - 1 hour is not reasonable to me. Additionally, can I decline to show the apartment until I am out of here? ","title":"What is reasonable notice to show an apartment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570241473,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddh6te\/received_a_dmca_takedown_notice_from_reddit\/","id":"ddh6te","body":"I linked someone to a torrent for a show they were looking for in the comments of piracy subreddit and got a message from Reddit a little over a month later\n\n[Screenshot of message from Reddit ](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HyLCFLf.jpg)\n\nI have severe anxiety and the last sentence scares me. Should I actually be worried or am I just being stupid?","title":"Received a DMCA takedown notice from reddit. Should I be worried about anything?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569859766,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbdtt4\/tenant_with_drafty_windows\/","id":"dbdtt4","body":"Currently the windows in our two bedroom apartment are very drafty. A couple weeks ago we requested that the landlord replace the windows, they came by took a look and deemed that would be too much work so they will only reseal them. They have yet to do so and have only been telling us to be patient and they will get to it. My question is, are there ways to make the landlord have to change the windows?","title":"Tenant with drafty windows","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554952250,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbv6z6\/i_found_a_part_of_a_dissembled_gun_in_a_creek\/","id":"bbv6z6","body":"Throwaway just to be sure. I was just chilling in the creek behind my house enjoying the weather and I felt something in the current hit me so I quickly grab it and it was the frame of a gun ( with the serial number scratched) I got freaked out and chucked it back into the water. Is it possible if it was used for any illegal activity and found it would have my DNA on it and be able to be traced to me?","title":"I found a part of a dissembled gun in a creek behind my house can I get in any trouble?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441466313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jr2ei\/i_purchased_stolen_electronics_on_accident_and\/","id":"3jr2ei","body":"LONG STORY SHORT. \nI purchased 3 macbooks off of craigslist, the police came to my workplace and i gave them one, thinking i could catch the guy. \nThey came back to my workplace and asked for the other two. I did try to call back the detective as soon as he left in order to set up a sting or something. \n\nNow the police officer is asking me to come into the station to give a report. \nWhat the fuck do I do?","title":"I purchased stolen electronics on accident and now the detective wants to turn me from a witness to a suspect. What do I do?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569180849,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7vav1\/employer_fl_changing_to_app_based_time_reporting\/","id":"d7vav1","body":"Working for a car dealership in FL. Been here 3 years and we\u2019ve always clocked in\/out at a work computer. Now, they say they want all their stores to be on the same system, so we are being told to download the app and enable location in it, which will allow us to pull up the app when we get to work and clock in\/out. This same app will also handle taxes and time off. While I\u2019m generally for technology making things easier, I really don\u2019t like being forced to use my personal cell phone and location services for work. \nIn fairness, I do use it (begrudgingly) to do a ton of work related things like customer contract. My position is that if we are required to use our personal cell for basic work reasons like attendance and timekeeping, we should be supplied phones or reimbursed. They originally said there would be a website we could use instead from work computers, but after asking multiple times that seems to not be the case. I\u2019m told that if I don\u2019t get the app, I will not be able to be paid. \nThey are also no longer writing paper checks, so if we don\u2019t set up direct deposit we will be paid with debit cards. That\u2019s not too big of a deal because I\u2019ve always had direct deposit, but if I don\u2019t set it up through the app, my direct deposit set up will be lost. Do I have any options here?","title":"Employer (FL) changing to app based time reporting using our personal cell, if I don\u2019t use the app I won\u2019t get paid. Is that legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552333781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azxuap\/i_need_to_get_rid_of_a_roommate_and_its\/","id":"azxuap","body":"Everyone who lives here is 22... except this 35 year old casual misogynist who comes from a third world area that seems to be culturally stuck in the 1950s. He's been reliable as far as bills and it's not like he's never contributed anything to anyone, but the fact of the matter is we dislike him for being fuckin annoying and creepy (I mentioned I got a girl's number at work and he kept loudly talking about how vaginas are the best thing to masturbate into while cackling like a hyena, and when we found a prom pic of my friend\/roommate's friend\/former roommate when she was 16, he taped it to his bedroom door) and for plugging up the fridge and counterspace with rotting produce and gross plastic dishracks (we had to battle to get him to keep it under the sink instead of next to the countertop cabinets and slightly hanging over the sink)\n\n\nMy friend-roommate is named Elise and he always calls her Alice and talks about her in a derogatory, condescending way. I can't even count how many times I've referred to my cat by name (Imset) and he only ever calls him Gonzo and when he isn't joking (always accompanied by wild jackal horse laughter) about eating him for dinner he will talk about how he and \"Gonzo\" are gonna ditch me and go get laid.\n\nMe and a former friend I had an ugly falling-out with (its own can of worms, but I'm glad she's gone and my life has only improved for it) are on the lease for the apartment, which runs out in May (I plan to renew). Problem Guy, Elise and our new roommate, a fellow 22-year-old, are not on the lease. I've been informed (not by my landlord who has outright said he doesn't have a firm grasp on the legal details... yeah)  that I can demand he find a new place to live in 30 days. And I want him out.\n\nBut it's tough. I can suck it up and tell him no problem, but what if he knows something I don't, and now I've made an enemy? What if he does something petty, like let my cat out or worse, hurt him in some way? And there's mild precedent, because he sometimes takes juuust a little longer than necessary to close the front door knowing it freaks me out. I wanna get rid of this guy but it's nervewracking.","title":"I need to get rid of a roommate and it's nervewracking","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554597472,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baawtz\/package_theft_neighbors_took_a_picture_of_thefts\/","id":"baawtz","body":"I left a question up there because everyone in the family is stilling figuring out if anyone left anything besides the door or if they had a package.  We're not together right now so we're still figuring it out.   I'll update later.  Our neighbors said they saw someone take something that was near our door.  They didn't know if it was people we knew so they didn't call the cops, but they got photos. Our family have people that come to our house often so that might be why they didn't call the cops.  I'm also not sure if calling the cops would have done much.  If somebody in my family did have a package or left something besides the door how much can the cops do with a license plate?  \n\n​\n\nI was also just thinking weeks ago how lucky my family was to have not experienced any package theft... I think I jinxed my family. ","title":"Package theft? Neighbors took a picture of thefts car including license.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508483972,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77kkix\/apartment_complex_out_of_laundry_cards_for_weeks\/","id":"77kkix","body":"Our apartment (santa Cruz, California) only have laundry on site in the form of washers and dryers that take prepaid cards. You pay to put money in the cards, and each washer and dryer takes a certain amount off the card each use. The washers and dryers at our complex are significantly cheaper than local laundromats.\n\nFor over a week and a half the office has been out of replacement laundry cards. We lost ours, and when we complained were told \u201cit\u2019s your fault you were irresponsible, so it\u2019s not our fault.\u201d I don\u2019t disagree that losing it our fault, but It looks like it will be 3 weeks total before anyone (new tenants included) will be able to get laundry cards. Is it really SOL for us that they don\u2019t have replacements? \n\nI also asked about offers for taking our clothing to a laundromat since we couldn\u2019t do our laundry for weeks and they refused. It is not possible to do our laundry without these cards, unless we pay for a laundromat. Is this really 100% on us, given that access to said laundry facilities are listed on our lease.","title":"Apartment complex out of laundry cards for weeks","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446516991,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rapig\/ca_car_rental_service_charged_me_for_citation\/","id":"3rapig","body":"Hi Reddit, \n\nI posted this question in \/r\/legal and was told you guys could help me out with this situation. I'm curious if I have a good case against this, or was I swindled out of some cash from a car rental merchant.\n\nI rented a car through a car share service about a year ago on November 9th, 2014. When parking the car in the designated area it was towed by the city of San Francisco over-night. Apparently the street was a temporary no-parking zone the following day due to road construction. There was no information about construction taking place that day, and while parking the car the previous night I didn't see any signage about the street being a temporary tow-away zone. \n\nThe nearest sign was at-least 100 to 150 feet away from where the car was parked on the entrance of the street. Not to mention the signage was blocked by trees and other vehicles parked along the street. When parking the car that night there was absolutely no possible way to notice that the street was a tow away zone.\n\nI did some research and noticed that this was a clear violation of San Francisco law and code, which states: \n> \"Signs shall be posted every 20 linear feet of occupied space with at least one sign at each end of the occupied space.\"\n\nI took some photos of the parking location versus nearest \"no-parking\" signage and even made a rendering in-case I could fight this in court with the city of San Francisco.\n\nHere are some of the photos: \n\n[Exhibit A -- Photo](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/H8jb1te.jpg)\n\n[Exhibit B -- Photo](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/u9sQo5N.jpg)\n\n[Exhibit C -- Photo](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NWVQeFP.jpg)\n\n[Exhibit D -- Map](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/19uor2A.jpg)\n\n[Exhibit E -- Rendering](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/AG88dsK.jpg)\n\nI sent the car rental service these photos and plead my case, and never heard from them again. Bad assumption on my part, but I assumed the case was closed and situation dealt with. \n\nFast forward a year to October 10th, 2015. And this is when the car rental service charged me the fee's and fines from the towing of the vehicle. This completely caught me off guard and I disputed the charges with my bank and notified them of the situation as I was never informed by the car rental service that they we're going to deduct funds from my account, nor had I any information about what the deduction was for. \n\nI messaged the car rental service to figure out what the charge was for, and they told me it was from the towing of the car from the previous year. I asked for any information about this. Asked for any documents about the car being towed and for any fines from the city documented and if I could possibly appeal these charges. Also I asked the merchant why they never responded to my initial appeal. \n\n**Here is the kicker: They did say they responded; to an incorrect email address.**\n\nSo now here I am short a hefty sum of $700 and feeling hopeless as I was charged without any due-process. I never was able to fight the fines with the city of San Francisco since it's now clearly past 30 days all because I was never notified of the fines to begin with. Is there anything I can possibly do to refute these charges?\n\ntl;dr; Car was towed and rental service never informed me within the 30 days of appealing it with city, then charging me the fees and fines.","title":"[CA] - Car rental service charged me for citation without appeal process.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443157853,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mas5k\/landlord_treating_flat_as_if_its_a_boarding_house\/","id":"3mas5k","body":"(New Zealand) Myself and three friends are flatting next year, and we found a really nice place. It's three bedrooms and two of us are sharing. Now normally this would mean a reduction in costs, but the landlord is adding an additional $50 charge to the room being shared. Here is his reasoning: \"These houses are essentially rooming investments. So the rent is based on the number of people expected to be accommodated. Just as in a student hostel if two people share a room they do not pay half a single room rate. There is an extra charge.\" Also the lease is for the whole flat, and not per room. Is it legal for him to charge more for an extra person?","title":"Landlord treating flat as if it's a boarding house.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552590166,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b14a8m\/what_legal_action_can_i_take_against_my_employer\/","id":"b14a8m","body":"Hello. I'm from Utah. I work for a staffing agency, and, up until recently, I'm a bit wary of the legality of the agency. \n\nA girl I work with, I'll call her Tanya, has been sexually harassed by several men at work. I've seen it happen myself, so I know it's happening. She's gone to the agency's leads, who refuse to do anything. (Side note: she's Black, and believes this is why they refuse to do anything.) She asked a friend of mine, and myself (both white men) to re-report the guy. We did, and they finally took action, firing one of the offenders, and went to fire the other offender, who has been reported several times by other temp staff. \n\nThe other offender, we'll call him Teddy, decided he didn't want to get fired, and threatened the agency with a class action lawsuit. The agency gave in, didn't fire Teddy, and told him they would give Teddy the names of everyone who reports him next. \n\nI know the agency is dirty. They lied about 95% of the drug tests. In my training class alone, only 3 people of the 20 in there peed clean. Is there any legal action I can take? Is this just an issue of ethics\/morals? I've been told that there is some legal action that can be taken for employers pushing away sexual harassment claims. \n\nTL;DR: I turned in a sociopath for sexual harassment, and he's holding the job hostage. Help?","title":"What legal action can I take against my employer?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553858173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6vzpr\/custody_battle\/","id":"b6vzpr","body":"I got divorced July 2018 with a specific custody \u201cagreement\u201d.   I would like to take my ex back to court to have the terms of the said \u201cagreement\u201d changed, however I\u2019ve been told that I can\u2019t do anything for 3 years in the state of Texas unless it directly involved the safety of my child.  Does anybody know if this is fact?","title":"Custody battle","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442475871,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l9zih\/sexual_abuse_case_what_do_you_think_will_happen\/","id":"3l9zih","body":"My sister and I were being molested by our stepfather. It stopped about ten years ago for me (lasted for a year) but was continuing to happen to my little sister, for the past ten years. She is 17 now, I am 19. \n\nNovember of last year I told my boyfriend about it, bought up some old feelings, I asked my sister about it in May of this year (which is where I found out it was still happening to her) and told the police. Note, my mom knew about this and never did anything to stop him, though she will deny it if asked. (It would happen in the same room as her).\n\nI told the police in May and he was arrested last week. He was able to get a private lawyer instead of a public defender. What can they hold against us to discredit us? Is it possible he will get off completely? What could happen in this case? I really don't want my sister to feel like everyone has failed her.\n\n","title":"Sexual abuse case, what do you think will happen? (Live in Ca)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552084726,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aywd2a\/may_have_to_break_my_lease_whats_the_best_way_to\/","id":"aywd2a","body":"Long story short my fianc\u00e9 and I live in PA and want to move into a house but currently we are renting an apartment with the lease ending in 8 months. Now they have a clause in the lease which I will write below but I am not entirely sure what it means. We don\u2019t want to continue paying for an apartment when that money could be going to a house so any advice would be greatly appreciated.\n\nClause\n\nAfter giving sixty days written notice, Resident may terminate this lease at any time during the first six months and be released from all terms and conditions of this agreement by paying a sum equal to three months rent, and during the second six months by paying a sum equal to two months rent. During any renewal term of the lease, resident may terminate the lease by paying a sum equal to one month rent after giving sixty days written notice to owner. If sixty days written notice is not given, per diem charge will be based on the total current monthly rent payment. The sum paid as liquidated damages is in addition to the monthly rentals due to the date of termination. All monies are due with final rent payment prior to residents removal from the premises.","title":"May have to break my lease. What\u2019s the best way to go about it?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507624232,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75fpcd\/england_lancashire_mum_could_be_going_to_prison\/","id":"75fpcd","body":"My mum has always done her best to get my sister to school, but some days she just refused to go. My mum obviously cannot force her, so she would let the school know. We had a lady from the school come round and talk to my mum and my sister about attendance.\n\nFast forwards a few months. My sister had a day off as she was sick and her attendance is currently at 91%\n\nThe school sent my mum a letter stating their intention to prosecute her, with either a fine of \u00a32,500 or 3 months in prison.\n\nObviously both would be devastating for us, being a low income mum only family. I am 20, and I\u2019m not sure how me and my two sisters (16, 13) would survive without my mum for even a month, never mind three.\n\nGetting a job for a few months isn\u2019t possible as I am doing a full time university degree. Would it be possible to fight the prosecution or if not, get her finances and child benefits transferred to me for a few months as a carer of sorts? My mum is terrified of going to prison and is convinced she is going to have to go. Please, help!","title":"(England, Lancashire) Mum could be going to prison for my sister missing school, help?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570678412,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfs962\/how_the_hell_am_i_supposed_to_know_my_rights\/","id":"dfs962","body":"When it comes to traffic stops, you hear it everywhere: \"it's YOUR responsibility to know YOUR rights!!\" Ok... then how am I supposed to know my rights? Where's the source that tells me what my rights are? If an officer tells me to get out of my vehicle, do I have to do it? What if I didn't do anything wrong? What if he says he smells alcohol or weed and there isn't any, do I still have to get out of the vehicle? Does he need to provide a search warrant in order to go through my car? Do I have to roll my window down the whole way during a traffic stop?  \n\n\nSee, the problem is that there's a million different scenarios that can take place during a traffic stop... so I need to be SUPER well versed on each and every little \"if this then that\" scenario. \\*ESPECIALLY\\* because it's law enforcement's job to lie to me and try to get me confused about my rights.  \n\n\nShouldn't there be some kind of easily readable and easily accessible authoritative documents in regards to what my rights are and what penalties will be imposed upon law enforcement if they overstep their boundaries? Idk it all just seems super confusing and super bizarre to me. And furthermore, I'm fairly certain that basically nobody knows their rights. Each and every controversial traffic stop video that gets posted has a comment section filled with hundreds or thousands of people saying \"he shouldn't have rolled down his window, he doesn't have to do that!\" and somebody else will respond \"if a cop tells you to roll down your window you have to do it!\"  \n\n\nHow is it possible that something as supremely important as \"knowing your rights\" can be so enigmatic and difficult to learn that basically nobody knows their rights?","title":"How the hell am I supposed to \"know my rights?\"","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540269986,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qlois\/noncompete_clause_limitations\/","id":"9qlois","body":"Hi all,\n\nSo, I have been working for a specific medical scribe company for 2 years now. For those who don\u2019t know, scribing involves composing the notes for physicians either in a clinical or emergency medicine setting for each patient they see. For the last few months, the physicians have been displeased with the company itself (pleased with us employees) for various reasons and have been threatening to drop our company for a different medical scribe company in their emergency department if things did not change. Long story short, things did not change, The administrator physicians have decided to sign a contract with a new scribe company, effective in April, at which time I, and many other employees will be out of a job. \n\nDespite the fact that 40 college students will be out of jobs due to a company failure, corporate has assured us that they will most certainly enforce the 1-year non-compete outlined in our contract and exercise legal action against any and all employees who are hired into this new company. We all wish to transition to this new company as we have very close relationships to the physicians we have worked with over the years. Additionally medical charting is not simple and preferences vary dramatically between physicians, so they would like to have their veteran scribes, like myself, on board with this new company to continue assisting them. On that note, the physicians added to their contract with the new scribing company a shirt list of us scribes that the new company must hire if an application is received, no questions asked. The new company agreed to this. \n\nThe reason I have been so vague about the company and emergency department is because the company would also like to sue the physicians who spoke to us scribes about the change and expressed their desire for us to continue assisting them with the new company for violation of their contract with the company. Something along the lines of \u201cyou should not coerce any employee to join another scribing company.\u201d I would simply like to keep everything anonymous so that they do not get in trouble, as us scribes are keeping their names anonymous to the company so they are not sued. \n\nSo my questions are: what can we do? Is there any form of legal action that we can take on our company? Are they violating any limitations of a non-compete? Is there any way we can get out of this so we can continue to assist the physicians that we know so well and want us? \n\n(I will attach the provisions in our contract that we signed pertaining to the non-compete in a comment below).","title":"Non-compete clause limitations","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1507686344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75lvhr\/alberta_can_child_of_divorce_was_arrested_his\/","id":"75lvhr","body":"My 17yo stepson was arrested for threatening his ex girlfriend. His court date is mid October. He turns 18 the beginning of Nov.\n\nCurrently child support payments are made through Maintenance Enforcement, and they have already sent a letter saying payments end the month he turns 18.\n\nBefore his court date, the police have requested he go in an make a statement. I have no idea why, as he was already arrested and given a court date. His mother's boyfriend told her she needs a lawyer and \"did her a huge favor\" by getting his own to agree to go in for the police statement, but to the tune of $2100 ($700\/hr for 3 hours)\n\nMy husband said that's ridiculous and she can \"shop around\" before committing to that fee. Also, I believe my stepson qualifies for legal aid as he is no longer in school and doesn't have a job. \n\nThe mother has said no, he needs really good representation and this is who she's hiring. \n\nMy question is: Can she force my husband to pay 50% like with other section 7 expenses? Or does he have the right to demand she find a more affordable lawyer?","title":"(Alberta, CAN) Child of divorce was arrested, his mother wants to hire him a very expensive lawyer. He turns 18 in a few weeks. Will tbe lawyer fees be considered section 7 expenses?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505393708,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70210i\/child_custody_information_for_uncles\/","id":"70210i","body":"My husband and I are about to look into\/start the process of obtaining permanent legal guardianship of our 15 yr old nephew.\n\nA few quick bits of information:\n1.  He is the middle child of 3 \n2.  His Mother and Father have said they would support my husband and me petitioning the court for full custody and would allow it\n3.  the other 2 siblings (17 yrs old and 14 yrs old) would not seek this action, it would be just the one child\n4.  The parents are divorced.  Mother is a drug addict and father is a suspected drug addict.  Both are unemployed and neither seem to have any interest in changing that.\n\n\nWe are not sure where to start and what would be needed.\n\nAny advice is GREATLY appreciated.\n\nFull disclosure:  We are a legally married same sex male couple in Tennessee.  \n","title":"Child custody Information for Uncles","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554733575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baufyn\/dropped_from_a_b_to_a_d_after_getting_a_written\/","id":"baufyn","body":"Nebraska. I go to a decently sized university and I am a sophomore in college. I am taking accounting 1, which I need to complete my Business Administration Gen Ed. I had a B+ in the class and I was doing pretty well. So well that my professor said I didn\u2019t have to take the test coming up and she would give me an A. She told me she was allowing me to do this because I was the highest grade in the class. I was taken by surprise by this is and being at least kinda smart, I thought ahead and asked for this in writing. She agreed and emailed me confirmation that I didn\u2019t have to take the upcoming exam. \n\nNow here comes the part where I\u2019m freaking out and creating this post. The test was the previous Thursday and today she posted to Canvas (our grade book website) the grades for the test. I got a 0%. I freaked out and went to her office just now and she told me that I had to show up to the exam at least. This was never told to me or even mentioned that I had to come to that class. \n\nI don\u2019t know what to do because I have the email saying I don\u2019t have to take the exam yet she\u2019s saying I had to show up to get that credit. I\u2019m thinking about going the academic office or the head of the department because this might make me retake the class if I don\u2019t do well on the next tests and it will ruin my GPA.","title":"Dropped from a B+ to a D+ after getting a written agreement that I didn\u2019t have to take a test","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541699556,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vc7pr\/what_to_do_im_under_fbi_investigation\/","id":"9vc7pr","body":"got 2 agents hiding at my door and left a card that said call me. they act nice on the phone but won\u2019t tell me what they want. do i need a lawyer? am i being prosecuted? they\u2019re with the FBI sacramento division. ","title":"what to do i\u2019m under FBI investigation","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541373415,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u87f8\/new_landlord_promised_not_to_raise_the_rent_on\/","id":"9u87f8","body":"(Los Angeles Area) He seemed like a nice guy.  Promised not to raise the rent (I have another 4.5 years on my current lease) but suddenly raised our CAM instead.  I understand the previous owner had owned our strip mall since the 1960s and obviously the new owner has much higher property taxes to pay, but is there any rule governing the application of CAM fees?  Not certain we can afford to pay this.","title":"New Landlord promised not to raise the rent on our restaurant. Raised the CAM fees from $300 a month to $1600 month without warning","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570499243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/detcrs\/boyfriends_brotherroommate_paid_rent_same_night\/","id":"detcrs","body":"First time posting on here, so sorry if this gets confusing.\nMN, USA \nMy boyfriend owns a home, and his brother rents from him. His brother pays $400 a month for the room. \nOn the 5th of October, his brother paid rent for the month. The following night, his brother got shitfaced drunk (after a long history of a bad drinking problem) and assaulted my boyfriend (broke his finger) and his best friend.  He threatened to kill them both. We ended up having to call the police, and he was charged for domestic assault. \nHe went through detox and was bailed out today. He's waiting on a hearing, but in the meantime, wants his rent money back because my boyfriend evicted him and he's legally not let back on the property. \nMy boyfriend's family thinks he should give the money back, but I don't. \nAny help is much appreciated. Also let me know if you need me to elaborate!","title":"Boyfriend's brother\/roommate paid rent, same night assaulted my boyfriend. Does he have to give rent money back?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445450749,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pnwa4\/if_someone_punches_you_but_then_runs_away_and_you\/","id":"3pnwa4","body":"My thinking is that it would be assault in both cases, because the guy has run away, he isn't posing an immediate threat to you anymore, so you chasing him down and punching him is effectively assault motivated by revenge. Location: England","title":"If someone punches you but then runs away, and you chase them down and punch them back, does it count as assault, or could you claim defence in court?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541716053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vense\/did_my_boss_commit_theft\/","id":"9vense","body":"So, to summarize, a friend of mine works at a chain jewelry store. Her boss decided to confide in her a story about how she sold a man seven loose diamonds. When they arrived she misplaced one of them, and couldn\u2019t find it. So, she went into the back of the store with a box-cutter and a wedding band (worth anywhere from $600-1000+) with the same size\/cut\/clarity diamonds in it, and she pried one out to put it with the other six loose stones for the mans order. We are almost certain she did not report the damaged ring to her boss, because she followed this up with: \u201cI could get fired for this.\u201d Is this technically theft? Should I report this to our district manager? Thanks","title":"Did my boss commit theft?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554403008,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9gjqn\/helping_my_son_report_sexual_abuse_in_a_high\/","id":"b9gjqn","body":"Hey,\n\n​\n\nI am trying to determine what the most correct actions to take are for my family based on what has been happening (I will start with the pertinent question then proceed to fill in the backstory).\n\n​\n\n**Short(ish) and more specific version:**\n\nYesterday my son (18yo) was called into the Principal's office to talk with the police and administration about concerns that I gave to them based on what he told me. My son (who is not a victim, instigator or first hand witness) provided information to them about who can corroborate the claims of sexual assault happening in the high school. When I spoke with my son later in the evening I was telling him how proud I was etc that he did share what he knew **he mentioned a couple things to me that I am curious if I should, once again, inform the police OR if I should just encourage him to share the information voluntarily.**\n\n​\n\nThe information I am needing to consider sharing is:\n\n​\n\n1) That he downplayed the fact that one of his friends (the only one who's name I was able to provide to the police and corroborate as being in the group where the assault takes place) is even involved. My son said \"he knew the least about this and I didn't want to involve him\". I'm worried that this could potentially be obstructing the investigation....\n\n2) That following his meeting with the police and administration there was discussion on a group chat about (not exact quote here) 'well now that the cops and principal knows I guess everybody in the school knows about this'. The reason I feel I should share this information is predicated on the fact that if this is an 'open secret' of sorts that there are different ways that the investigation could happen based on that knowledge\n\n​\n\nShort version of the question: Does one continue to provide second (third) hand knowledge to investigators based on post interview questions and (secondarily) did my son put himself in legal jeopardy?\n\n​\n\n**Longer Context Here**\n\nThe other day my son approached me with a discussion about an argument he had at work. It stemmed from 3 boys (ages 15-16)  discussing a hazing process where members of a sports team would hold down freshmen, handle their genetalia, and use fingers and other objects to sodomize the boys. The argument at work ceased to be of interest to me. We discussed the underlying issue a bit more and he explained that these boys were (to his knowledge) neither victims or agressors but were aware of the practice. He said it came up multiple times over weeks and each time he pressed them for veracity of the claims and they were insistent that this is true. They also turned down his recommendations they spoke to the school police officer (whom my son spoke to but provided him no names or anything so all the officer did was say 'hey can you have the boys come talk tome' \\[.... i feel like that is unacceptable, but regardless\\]). In the description of these boys personality traits from my son he unknowingly described common traits of assault victims and that concerned me. I told my son that we should meet with one of the admins that I know and trust to see what the next step is.\n\n​\n\nI determined with my wife that that was not enough. She explained duty of care and told me I should involve the school, local PD and district. After doing that (which definitely got results!) I spoke with the school police officer for about 30 minutes and he said he'd work with my son to find out as much as he can but based on the info I gave him (the name of the one boy that my son then downplayed, and other info) he had enough to start trying to gather information but he needed my son to tell him as much as possible. We agreed that I would try and get him to sit down for an interview the following day (hopefully with me), but when he got off the phone call events unfolded differently and he was forced to call my son in before I could speak with him.\n\n​\n\nOverall it went well, and my son provided two of the three names and said the third boy didn't know anything. My son understood why I had to involve the police and took it quite well.\n\n​\n\nObviously this is a sensitive subject and I tried to phrase things respectfully, but if more details are required (or if an NSFW tag is called for) I can update this post accordingly.\n\n​\n\nThank you for your time","title":"Helping my son report sexual abuse in a high school","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554297857,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8xwr5\/ct_didnt_call_the_police_for_a_car_accident_can_i\/","id":"b8xwr5","body":"Basically, pulled into a mechanic\u2019s driveway to park, mechanic backed into me with someone else\u2019s car, caused damage to my car.\n\nCalled my insurance immediately after but was convinced not to call the police. Can I be found at fault for this with my insurance anyway if I file a claim? ","title":"[Ct] Didn\u2019t call the police for a car accident, can I be found at fault even if I was not?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568813047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5xqr4\/my_car_was_impounded\/","id":"d5xqr4","body":"So I have a car that\u2019s at my parents house in Wisconsin. I now live in South Carolina. My dad drove it last night on a suspended license and now it\u2019s impounded and the fees are more than the car is worth.  But the lady said that the suspended license fees are on MY record. Is that true???? Is there anything I can do about this?","title":"My car was impounded","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568659209,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d54fu3\/my_paypal_account_was_hacked_and_an_online\/","id":"d54fu3","body":"As the title says, someone entered my PayPal account and made a purchase from some store site. I am positive that I haven't made this purchase by accident because I know I haven't visited the website when the purchase was made. I KNOW I did not make that purchase. \n\nI contacted PayPal to report an unauthorised transaction, however they said that they rewieved my case and decided that this was an authorised transaction, without giving me any details as to what they base their decision off. Basically, they refused to help me eventho I claimed that I did not approve or made that transaction.\n\nSecondly, I contacted the seller store via the email that was given to me in purchase details, but they weren't helpful either. I explained my problem and they simply told me that I should contact PayPal and have them investigate this matter for me or that I should contact my bank. I also asked them if they can at least give me the information about who ordered the things and where is that order going and what was ordered, but they refused to tell me.\n\nEventho I clearly said that I did not make that transaction and didn't approve of that purchase and that my account was hacked, both PayPal and that store refuse to protect me. \n\nSo my question is, how can it be that both PayPal and that store site refuse to protect me? Is it legal for that store to not give me the information about the purchase details eventho it was made in my name that I clearly stated that I did not make and do not approve of? And lastly, is there anything else I can ask of PayPal or the store seller that they should be obligated to help me with, because frankly, it seems rather sketchy that both of them refuse to protect me with this case.\n\nThank you so much for reading","title":"My PayPal account was hacked and an online purchase was made without my knowledge, but neither PayPal nor the seller store helped with my issue.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570656601,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfnqwb\/internet_provider_has_been_over_charging_me_what\/","id":"dfnqwb","body":"I've been paying $55 for 25Mbps through Lumos since September 2017. Recently I had some trouble with my speed so I called their rep and through conversation they mentioned that it's actually $40 for 25Mbps. Also Lumos got bought out by the Segra Company a few months after I originally signed up for the service which I only recently learned too.\n\nI don't know when this change in price happened. I haven't called a rep to talk about price yet. I'm definitely not going to pay the $55 anymore. So what should I do now? Am I entitiled to any money back or something? What should I even say?","title":"Internet provider has been over charging me, what should I do?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1443850564,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nbd6f\/seattle_wa_can_i_get_the_police_to_help_kick\/","id":"3nbd6f","body":"Background: My parents and I live in a 2 floor house, we saved the first floor because my parents decided to rent it out to people. There are two people who rent out our first floor, a wife and a husband and the rent each month is only $650. This is for 2 bedrooms, 1 living room, an entire kitchen, and 1 restroom (I know the rent is waay to little for the amount of space we gave them but my parents are suckers). We don't have any type of lease but it was an oral agreement that the rent would be $650. \n\nThey've lived downstairs for a little over a year. A month and a half ago (8\/17) we told the tenants that they need to move out and they have a month to do so. They still haven't moved out and I haven't noticed any sign of them packing AT ALL. **The tenants have also changed the locks of the first floor door without permission. Take note that this wasn't done AFTER we asked them to move out but this was done months prior.** At this point I'm afraid their just taking advantage of my parents generosity and my parents are weaklings to confront the tenants about it - although, they have animosity towards the tenants for taking so long. \n\nCould I just kick them out by calling the police? If not, what's the best way to kick them out?\n\nEDIT: If I cannot kick them out using the police could I raise the price of rent? Since most apartments with our amount of living area goes upwards of $2000. Could I raise the price to $1300?","title":"[Seattle, WA] Can I get the police to help kick tenants out?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539736479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9othpq\/possible_case_of_wrongful_termination\/","id":"9othpq","body":"This is my first post here so excuse any mistakes I may have made.\n\nSo recently I've been fired from my retail job and I was wondering if I should be seeking a lawyer regarding this issue, here's everything that may help.\n\nI'm from Alberta, Canada\nI was fired before reaching my third month with the job\nI was fired for \"Poor Performance\"\nI was not given a warning for poor performance\nThe person that fired me claims to have the right to do so even though they're just another store employee\nI was not directly informed about being fired, instead the employee involved told my friends I was fired and no longer had a job with them and my friends had to tell me themselves\nAll my future shifts have been removed\nI was fired shortly after minimum wage went up\nI was fired the day after I took a sick day even though I informed the store manager I was taking the day off the day before and even found someone to take my shift\n\nDoes this seem like something I should receive legal help with? Would it be better for me to get myself a lawyer and see how things go or should I just leave it alone and move on with my life? ","title":"Possible case of wrongful termination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570068174,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dckeib\/louisiana_usa_do_i_have_a_claim_to_my_deceased\/","id":"dckeib","body":"A little background, my \\[30F\\] aunt \\[60\\] unexpectedly died a month ago. She raised me and we were very close. She was unmarried and childless, the only living immediate family she had was my mother \\[50\\]. I was not (still am not) on good terms with my mother and her husband. Prior to my dear aunt's passing, I hadn't spoken to my parents in about a year because I'd had enough of their abuse and disrespect. My aunt was the peacekeeper between them and me. She was *always* traveling so her house sat vacant as whenever she was back stateside, she either stayed with me or her sister \\[my mother\\] before she went back on another adventure.\n\nAfter the funeral, a family friend came up to me during the burial and asked me for my number. The family friend was in the process of buying my aunt's house from her which my aunt told me about briefly. However, I didn't know that my aunt had a paper notarized that stated \"in the event of my death, the payments for \\[property name\\] will go to \\[my name\\].\" The family friend mailed a copy of the notarized paper to my house. I said okay cool. They had to show the paper to my mother so that they could continue with the sale and get the papers signed over. \n\nWell, my parents, particularly my mother's husband, is *pissed.* The family friend told me the my mother's husband was shouting that my mother was the beneficiary of the house and that there was no way I'd be responsible enough \\[????\\] to handle this. I have no clue whether my mother actually *is* the beneficiary for her house, but it would make sense as that's her sister. My parents don't know that I have a copy of the paper, the family friend told them that I didn't have one. The house is paid off.\n\nMy question is, would the notarized paper I have supersede the \"beneficiary\" status my mother \\[possibly\\] has? I honestly don't know if the house deed even has a beneficiary line on it. The paper my family friend has was notarized April 2019. I assume that this was the latest thing to happen since during that time, my aunt was at odds with my mother.","title":"[Louisiana, USA] Do I have a claim to my deceased aunt's house?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555622786,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beqynu\/everyday_a_carpool_van_parks_next_to_me_and_the\/","id":"beqynu","body":"I\u2019m not sure if this is the right subreddit for this. I work for a large auto manufacturer and we obviously have very large parking lots. I like to park in the middle of nowhere to avoid people hitting my truck. Well recently a carpool van has been parking next to me and hitting my truck with their doors. I\u2019ll park all the way in the back they\u2019ll park back there too. I\u2019ll park in the front and the same thing. I wouldn\u2019t mind if this was some beater truck but it\u2019s a brand new $55,000 truck that\u2019s not even a year old yet. I started recording them hitting my truck. So I guess my question is would I be able to do anything about them paying for damages even though it\u2019s technically on private property? Or am I pretty much stuck bitting the bullet? \n\nLocation is Ohio if that helps \n\nCurrently on mobile at work so if I missed anything please let me know.","title":"Everyday a carpool van parks next to me and the people getting out hit my truck with their doors","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552976754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2tvu9\/job_lowered_my_wage_without_telling_me\/","id":"b2tvu9","body":"So a few months ago i got a $1 raise so i\u2019ve been making $12.50 an hour and when i got my paycheck this time it shows that i got paid $12.50 for the 16 hours for regular pay. And it shows i made $11.50 for the 64 hours of (night shift pay). Ive been working at this company for just over a year with the same exact shift and was never paid differently. I was never informed of any change until i saw my paycheck was lower than normal. Is this allowed?? I live in Utah if that matters.","title":"Job lowered my wage without telling me","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569126538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7lq3r\/owners_cutting_back_employees_forcing_the_rest_to\/","id":"d7lq3r","body":"I am fairly certain there isn't anything I can do, but the situation is as follows: I am working overnight audit for a hotel. We get a decent amount of business in the summer time, and during the winter, business is pretty sporadic. This is not a small hotel chain either, and I've never had this happen at the last 4 properties I've worked at.  The problem I am facing is that the owners of the hotel have decided to shift or lay off (depending on circumstances) most of the house keepers and the breakfast hostess for the winter season. To compensate for this, they have told the front desk staff that we are now responsible for washing, drying, and folding laundry, as well as maintaining, cleaning, and restocking the breakfast area. \n\nThis is on top of their duties where 1st and 2nd shift have to handle check-outs and check-ins, some paperwork, and maintaining the front desk. This also happens to have caused our front desk manager to quit while we are already short staffed. \n\nMy personal job description has always been maintained as me doing check-outs in the morning, check-ins that are late, audit paperwork, setting and cooking breakfast entirely between 5-6 am, emailing the paperwork, and soon, doing a M3 report. \n\nWe are now expected to be able to do what is essentially half of the housekeeper job on top of that, for minimal pay,because the owners want to save some money on housekeeping. Is there any problems legally with them doing this?  I can say that we have had most of the staff on the front desk talk about quitting at this point, due to feeling over worked, or put in a position not in line with our job description.\n\nMyself, I have another issue, in that I feel like my bosses have mistreated me as an employee over this last year. For close to 2 1\/2 - 4 months, our relief night audit quit, and I was force to work 7 days a week, with no time off except for the rare moment my GM would work a shift for one night. I can count on two hands the days off I had. They did pay me overtime, but for making me work than length of time, then having this happen to the entirety of the front desk has made me consider legal recourse, or at minimum quitting my job when I found one that is kinder to the employees needs.\n\nSome side notes: I make it abundantly clear at each job that I have a small physical disability that makes standing quit painful, due to an old injury I have in my right knee. The amount of laundry I would have to fold, which would require either constant standing, or at minimum a constant getting up and sitting down to maneuver, is not helping me with this at all.","title":"Owners cutting back employees, forcing the rest to do things normally outside job description","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542061746,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wix1v\/under_what_circumstances_can_the_police_go\/","id":"9wix1v","body":"How does that work? Do I *have* to give them my passwords? Can they pull out history that has been cleared years ago? As for text messages, do they go through all chatting apps or just SMS, Whatsapp, or Facebook? Is there any way I can clear my messages from the company's server?\n\nI'm speaking from Canada but how does this differ from America? Also, if this occured in another country with a weaker government - where people investigate crime rather than the police; would an ordinary person be able to get deleted messages?\n\nThanks!","title":"Under what circumstances can the police go through my browser history, text message history, etc?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554338807,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b964hl\/if_a_parent_works_12_hour_shifts_can_the_child\/","id":"b964hl","body":"The parent works 12 hour shifts some days and some night they work about half the month can the child still move in with the parent? And the parent is in the city about a 10 minute away.","title":"If a parent works 12 hour shifts can the child move in with them","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568483853,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d48l4p\/usa_ga_can_a_potential_employer_outright_decline\/","id":"d48l4p","body":"The situation: I applied for an entry-level finance job with Employer (not naming names). This is a big company with thousands of employees.\n\nThis is a job meant for recent college graduates. Work experience is not required for the position.\n\nIn the application process, Employer asked if I had above a 3.0 GPA, and I said no, being truthful. They allowed me to continue filling out the application.\n\nAfter submitting my application, I was auto-rejected because, \"[I didn't] meet the qualifications.\" It stated \"[I] need a 3.0 GPA.\"\n\nI have a diagnosis for autism spectrum disorder, which I received while in university. Additionally, take into account that I received my diagnosis while in university, meaning, I did not qualify for accommodations until receiving my diagnosis.\n\nFurther, *assume* there is research that a layman would agree indicates those with ASD probably earn lower GPAs. \n\nGiven the above information, if my assumption about research on ASD holds true, would I have grounds to sue for employment discrimination? I realize litigation costs money, but it pisses me off that Employer can disqualify me as a candidate without at least considering my application.\n\nIt strikes me as arbitrary- like, what if I had a 2.99? Am I not statistically identical to someone who had a 3.01? That's within a margin of error on a grading curve.\n\nI'd appreciate thoughts on 1) whether this would be considered employment discrimination and 2) whether I have standing to sue. Thank you.","title":"[USA, GA] Can a potential employer outright decline to review my application because of a GPA cutoff?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1413654320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jmess\/what_started_as_speeding_6_over_turned_into_15\/","id":"2jmess","body":"I was pulled over for speeding today, right when I saw the officer turn around I looked at my speedometer, I was going 61 in a 55. Yes I was speeding. After the officer pulled me over he approached my window and said I was going 67 in a 55? I was in a company truck, he said \" busy time of year for you guys, must be in a hurry\" I didn't contest that and was expecting a ticket for just that. Bite the bullet and move on. He then goes to his vehicle after handing my information over. The officer happened to see my old Colorado marijuana license. He continued to his vehicle, wrote the ticket and returned. After returning, the ticket stated I was now going 70 in a 55, 15 over. I now contested the stop, he then said, \" that's what the ticket is for boy, also if you drive the vehicle away I will submit a blood test for DUI\". I am not under the influence, I was never asked if i was or questioned for such. I do smoke marijuana and know a blood test would show over the low state limit of 5 nanos. I'm 40 years old, felt disrespected and abused and at this point I am now feeling harassed, avoiding any further inconvenience or unjust arrest I comply and call a friend. As I'm leaving he tags the vehicle with an orange abandon vehicle tag. I never signed the citation, the officer wrote that on the signature line. My understanding is that is a promise to pay or appear, if I don't I am arrested. What should I do? I've read that he can submit a warrant for failure to sign is that true? ","title":"What started as speeding 6 over turned into 15 over and threat of DUI arrest? Colorado, State Patrol issued ticket.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540186361,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qatvg\/can_a_special_ed_class_sell_coffee_to_the_public\/","id":"9qatvg","body":"Hi! I work at a small non-public school serving students with autism and special needs. I\u2019d also like to mention the school is in California. We have a class of high school kiddos and I want to piggy back on some great ideas I\u2019ve seen and start a coffee cart to promote life and vocational skills. \n\nSince our school is so small, it wouldn\u2019t be as fulfilling to sell only to staff. However, we do have the benefit of our school being located next to a large business building\/office with tons of people coming in & out daily. \n\nMy director is on board with the idea, but is not sure of the liability component. And to be completely honest, I\u2019m not sure either. Is there any legalities or unknown liabilities we should be aware of. I\u2019ve seen other schools do it, but I believe they sell to their own staff. We would be selling to the public. I know some high schools clubs sell things to the public or other schools who have bake sales. \n\nAny advice would be so helpful! I\u2019m really hoping we can pull this off because it would be a great opportunity for our students! \n\nThank you in advance:)\n\n","title":"Can a special ed class sell coffee to the public?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568485757,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4909l\/orange_county_ca_kicking_out_roommates_subleaser\/","id":"d4909l","body":"Hi there! My housemate is in Spain from August to December. He got a subleaser, however she has signed no contract (only agreements via messenger). We have decided to kick her out. What is her possible legal recourse given the facts:\n\n- she has not signed any legal forms or contracts\n- she began moving in on August 29\n- we let her know she has to move out by the end of the month (september 30)\n- subleasing is against our contract","title":"[ORANGE COUNTY, CA] kicking out roommate\u2019s subleaser","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570120521,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dctdfz\/wa_state_hr_forwarded_my_disability_related\/","id":"dctdfz","body":"I had a confidential exchange with HR where I asked a few questions. Somewhere in that chain, I had disclosed my disability status as well as asked questions about the policies that could help me.\n\nLo and behold, this morning I found our HR rep had added my manager to the entire exchange as an FYI. There was absolutely no need to disclose the disability status to my manager and no prior consent and authorization was made. I was literally just asking about company policy documents since my disability makes it hard for me to focus and concentrate. \n\nI am totally freaking out. I really did not ******ever******** want my manager to know. And I am terrified of being reprimanded since my manager is quite cruel as it is. And I have taken time off from work so now I\u2019m worried that they will fire me or give my position away since now they will know that I\u2019m disabled and thus less (to them) less valuable. How can I protect myself in this case?","title":"WA State - HR Forwarded My Disability Related Emails to Manager","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552273278,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azo3x0\/need_help_to_find_my_dad\/","id":"azo3x0","body":"I know there\u2019s a joke like \u201cmy dad went to find milk and never came back\u201d but i\u2019m 100% serious. i really want to find my dad, the government can\u2019t even find him for child support his name is Brad Boysen or Brad Blaser, not sure which. He lives in Minnesota around the austin area. I hope to god he can be found.","title":"Need help to find my dad","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554490662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9v5o4\/ca_my_property_manager_may_be_trying_to_scare_me\/","id":"b9v5o4","body":"Our apartment rent is cheap for a *very* nice area, but management of the property is clearly abhorrent. Not only is the day manager (\"H\") incompetent in her daily duties (we still haven't received our renewed lease signed 10 months ago), but we also live in the unit RIGHT ABOVE the night manager (\"M\").  These two individuals, H and M, manage all three buildings. \n\nEver since we've moved in, M has confronted us at least 7 times for making noises of daily living. He's filed noise complaints lying about disruptive sounds we make during hours we're not even home. On the very day we moved in, he welcomed us by yelling at us to stop shuffling boxes. He hits his broom against his ceiling religiously, yet proceeds to blast music\/karaoke all day and night. We've been told by several neighbors how much he hates us. We can barely receive guests anymore out of respect for him. When we do invite guests, we implore them to tip-toe and talk quietly, but M continues to seethe. \n\nLast month near midnight, my car's window was completely bashed into when we left the complex for 15 minutes. My car is at the very end of the lot, in a well lit area, and inconvenient for a thief to escape from. Also, **nothing** was stolen. I filed a police report, emailed H, and asked for better security measures.  Warning signs of cameras are placed all over the lot, but no actual cameras exist. H said there was nothing she could do but notify corporate, and mentioned she was about to go on vacation. \n\nI just found out my neighbor had the same incident happen to him this week. He left Ray-Bans, AirPods, and business cards in his center console, but **only** business cards were stolen. They reported it to H and asked if she knew what happened to the (my) blue car last month. H falsely informed them I had left a laptop and cell phone in the car which enticed the thief. H also said there's nothing she can do. This neighbor also receives unwarranted hostile energy from M since his move-in 5 months ago. \n\nHere's the kicker - the resident that lived in my unit before me had the same incident happen to her. That resident had a history of reporting H to Corporate due to H's constant negligence, and also a history of confronting M for his hypocrisy regarding noise. \n\nThis is starting to sound VERY fishy. I've already started collecting all documentation to report them to Corporate down the road after we move out.  What do you think is going on?? What else should I do? \n\n​","title":"[CA] My property manager may be trying to scare me and other residents out of our lease by breaking into our cars","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554981877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbypb8\/a_religious_elementarymiddle_school_ruined_my\/","id":"bbypb8","body":"My friend finally told me a about her previous school. After telling someone she trusted that she was gay the students and teachers began to bully her. She was molested in the bathroom by a boy from that school and dated him afterwards because she didn\u2019t know what to do.\n\nHer Spanish teacher failed her because of that as well (she\u2019s in the national honors society now and was just as smart then) \n\nShe tried to commit suicide twice.\n\nShe was sent by the school to a camp for reconciliation, apparently unbeknownst to her parents who thought it was just a camp. She was molested there as well. \n\nShe\u2019s never told her parents everything that happened and she suffers from consistent nightmares, paranoia, and hates being touches. \n\nThis is just the version she told me and blatantly said that she skipped a few details.\n\nI live in Michigan. The school is Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary. They must have slipped up somehow. I feel helpless.","title":"A RELIGIOUS ELEMENTARY\/MIDDLE SCHOOL RUINED MY FRIENDS CHILDHOOD","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554691289,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baofe6\/friends_to_be_ex_husband_is_constantly_harassing\/","id":"baofe6","body":"Not me but my friend and her 3 kids are going through everything stated in title. The dude has a firearm and is constantly taking pictures of aiming at their house, at their youngest kid, constantly calling and ruining anytime they\u2019re out of the house.  Not to mention that He\u2019s flat out said he\u2019s gonna make their kids suffer the way he suffered. (he lost his mom at a young age) the kids are scared of him and hate him because he waves the gun around constantly. she has videos of threats, voicemails, texts all on record and saved. What\u2019s the best legal action she can take to get this guy out of her life completely and cost effectively? This is all happening in Ar. \n\nTLDR: dude is batshit crazy is terrorizing my friend and her 3 kids. The issue is now looking to be life threatening and she\u2019s wanting to make sure he can never be a part of her or her kids lives anymore. What can she do to make that happen? ","title":"Friend\u2019s To be ex husband is constantly harassing, threatening, and causing unease","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571420399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djqy9c\/flbreaking_a_lease_with_apartment_complex_before\/","id":"djqy9c","body":"I am currently in the state of VA, but moving back home to FL. My husband has already moved there for his new job so FL is the state in which this question is about. I am also on mobile so I apologize for any spelling errors or format errors. \n\nHusband signed a lease with an apartment complex last week. Today (10\/18\/19) he is supposed to pay the prorated months rent to be able to move in\/occupy the apartment starting tomorrow (10\/19\/19). \n\nThis is considered a \u201cluxury\u201d apartment and I think it is going to be too expensive for us when all is said and done. I think we will end up drowning in rent. I\u2019d like to break the lease for the apartment and try to rent a house instead but my husband thinks if we break the lease now we would be on the hook for two months rent (which is what they consider the fee for breaking the lease early). \n\nMy question is, if we never occupied the apartment would we still be liable to pay two months rent?","title":"[FL]Breaking a lease with apartment complex before moving in\/occupying apartment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539968980,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9plt4i\/can_landlord_deduct_cleaning_fee_for_are_already\/","id":"9plt4i","body":"After I moved out, my live in landlord (I rented a room) has said he will deduct a cleaning fee from the security deposit for an area that was thoroughly cleaned, and for shared appliances. The appliances were pretty clean upon move out, and I was likely not the last to use them. Is there any law I can make him aware of that may persuade him to reconsider? Do I have any hope of receiving the full deposit? What might I expect if I tried to fight it?\n\nOther info: \n-time of stay was 2 months\n-previous incidents occurred where he demanded appliances be cleaned after every use (I complied) ","title":"Can landlord deduct cleaning fee for are already cleaned and shared area?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568675199,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d58ach\/broken_air_conditioner_during_the_day_it_gets_to\/","id":"d58ach","body":"I rent out a bedroom in a 4-bed, 4-bath house in a college town in Tennessee. Saturday night I came home and it was blazing hot inside. Absolutely miserable. Me and the roommates sent an email to our landlord stating that the AC unit was no longer working. Running, but not cooling. It is now Monday night, they had the AC guy come today and it cooled down for about an hour and started getting hotter again. We\u2019re back at square one.\n\nMy landlord has now told us that he may be back tomorrow. Maybe. They can\u2019t give us a guarantee that someone is coming to fix it and can\u2019t tell us when\/if it will be fixed. We can\u2019t open the windows because there are no screens and there are TONS of spiders and bugs outside (brown recluse spiders are common in this area, not a risk I\u2019m willing to take). So basically our house has become this awful, hot, sticky and humid place that makes it impossible to sleep in. I have 3 exams this week and need to sleep to prepare for them and I\u2019m just really frustrated. \n\nIs there anything I can do from a legal standpoint to make them move this along faster? Everyone I live with is suffering.","title":"Broken Air Conditioner, during the day it gets to 85\u00b0 in the house and 83\u00b0 at night.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541998923,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wb172\/what_else_is_there_to_do_to_gain_my_sanity_back\/","id":"9wb172","body":"In advance: sorry for the long post\nI live in PA, USA. I dated this guy for maybe a month maybe less. The reason I broke off things was because I could tell he wasn\u2019t mentally ready for a relationship and also he tried pushing sex upon me due to \u201cbeing a virgin.\u201d I never had sex with him for many reasons. After I broke it off, he didn\u2019t take it well. Harassed me to the point I blocked him on basically everything. Then he weaseled his way to work at my job at home (I live in the city now on campus in PA still.) That\u2019s when he emailed me three times with in an hour. That was back in about May when I made my first report. He seemed to disappear, but when I downloaded Instagram again and opened it, he had messaged me. Immediate block. Then I had a voicemail from him, despite me blocking him there too. My university made me so the stalking\/harassing awareness and I broke down crying. This is when I made my second report in October. The detective was awesome and we were on the way to a solution. He was going to try to get me a PFA (protection from abuse), but couldn\u2019t due to us never having sex.  Since that day, a few weeks now, it\u2019s just seems no ones helping anymore, despite them saying they will look into options. Tonight, I know I can\u2019t 100% confirm it, but I\u2019m pretty sure he tried hacking into my Facebook twice. I received two emails saying someone\u2019s trying to change my password and there\u2019s no way someone would guess my insane random email, so it\u2019s someone who has my number. There\u2019s just so much I\u2019ve been dealing with, but I tried making this brief. He\u2019s put me through mental abuse, showed up at my moms, where I live, three times now unannounced and no matter what refuses to let me go. The detective even called him and he told him I can\u2019t let her go I\u2019m in love. There was never a worry about safety, it\u2019s just obsession. It\u2019s getting so bad I\u2019m having vivid dreams where I\u2019m right there and he tries finding me everywhere. He\u2019s a nut job and I just need from y\u2019all any advice to what to do. Thank you!","title":"What else is there to do to gain my sanity back from someone that\u2019s been stalking\/harassing me for almost a year now?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505742910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70v4za\/texas_starting_a_tenants_organization_how_to\/","id":"70v4za","body":"I live in a low income apartment complex that is subsidized by Section 8. Management has never been great, but it's gotten worse and this place is becoming less and less livable. I'm working on starting a Tenants' Association. \n\nI've discussed this with several residents and they all have voiced concern about retaliation by management. Our property management company is in another state and isn't directly involved in the community. The only employees of the apartments are the manager and the maintenance guy. The manager has a reputation for deviousness and underhandedness, and residents fear that she could work to make people's living situations here worse if she were provoked.\n\nIs this a reasonable fear? How can I tell people that it is safe for them to participate, or how can I see that they are protected if they need protection from management for being involved?\n\nI have written out the following to post to the Facebook page. Is what I've said in it correct? Is there anything else that needs to be added?\n\n---\n\nThe Threat of Retaliation\n\nTexas State Law protects the rights of Texans to participate in a Tenants\u2019 Association. [Here](http:\/\/codes.findlaw.com\/tx\/property-code\/prop-sect-92-331.html) is the relevant bit of the law.\u00a0\n\nAnyone who participates in a Tenant Organization is protected from retaliation for six months after their participation. The landlord cannot attempt to evict a tenant, or deprive them of use of the premises, or decrease services to the tenant, or break a lease, or\u00a0engage \"in bad faith, in a course of conduct that materially interferes with the tenant's rights under the tenant's lease.\". These rights that cannot be interfered with include the right of quiet enjoyment of your home, and the right to health, safety, and security in your home.\u00a0\n\nIf a landlord attempts to do any of these things within six months of your participation in the Tenants' Association then the law will assume that they are retaliating against you. By participating in the Tenants' Association, you are protecting yourself from these things.\n\nThere is a big exception, tho - the law does not assume it's in retaliation if you are evicted for being behind on your rent. There are other exceptions listed [here](http:\/\/codes.findlaw.com\/tx\/property-code\/prop-sect-92-332.html). Intentionally destroying property, threatening the safety of the landlord, and materially breaching your lease have always been things that can get you evicted. If you do these things then it doesn't matter if you've participated in the Tenants' Association - the landlord's actions in evicting you or whatever they do will not be considered illegal retaliation.\n\nThe big warning there - IF YOU ARE BEHIND IN RENT IT MIGHT NOT BE SAFE FOR YOU TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN THE TENANTS' ASSOCIATION. Until we learn more, you probably shouldn't post in the Tenant's Association group if you're not up to date.\n\nIf you are behind in rent but would like to communicate with the Tenants' Association, please email\u00a0<tenants' association email address>. All emails received at that address will be kept confidential.","title":"[Texas] Starting a Tenants' Organization - how to allay the residents' fear of retaliation by management?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447708393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t2i2v\/my_dad_was_arrested_for_aggregated_assault\/","id":"3t2i2v","body":"so a few years ago my mom left her job to care for my baby brother and my father took sole responsibility of providing for our family. two days ago he was arrested for aggregated assault against my mother and as i am writing this he is going to court to fight it. he is (was) the sole provider for our family, and if he loses there will be a no contact order placed on behalf of me and my mom. my mom is currently looking for a job again in her field, but until then he basically has all control of the money in our family. he is telling my mom to go to court and ask to remove the no contact order, as otherwise we wont be able to pay for my schooling, my brothers daycare, food etc. how does a no contact order work if he is the sole provider of our family? he is already threatening to close bank accounts and hide all the money. There is a temporary no contact order already placed, but he violated it anyways by texting and calling my mom. anyone know whats the best course of action?\n\n(p.s: he's a piece of shit)\n\nEdit: Location is in Washington State, US","title":"my Dad was arrested for aggregated assault against my mother, how does a no contact order work if he is the sole provider of the family, financially speaking?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568514216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4eo4o\/my_soon_to_be_exhusband_owes_me_3k_and_i_want_to\/","id":"d4eo4o","body":"My STBX and I have been separated since February, and over the course of our two year marriage I've had to loan him money, to include covering vet bills for his dog. He has agreed to pay me back but has yet to make any contribution towards that debt due to his struggles with money. \n\nThe money I've loaned him includes a loan in my name, his half of some credit cards, and vet bill payments. I want to legally ensure he pays me back as part of our divorce, but an unsure of what my options are. I will be speaking to a lawyer about this on Monday, but I would like to know what to bring up when I do. We do not own property together and do not have kids.","title":"My soon to be ex-husband owes me ~3K and I want to make sure that he pays me back as a stipulation in the divorce. What are my options for going about this? (VA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1410358213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g08hd\/uk_this_organisations_data_protection_policy_is\/","id":"2g08hd","body":"It is only once I become a member (which involves handing over my contact details) that I can see this policy.\n\nThe policy, incidentally, says that the organisation can give out my contact details to any of its members by default (for relevant organisation-related purposes), but if I want to opt out of this then I can. (I *think*. Of course, I'm not certain, because I'm not a member.)\n\nIf they had either told me this before I became a member, or warned me *immediately* after I became a member that I had to opt out, I wouldn't mind; but neither of these happened. I was a member for years and didn't even know this DP policy existed.\n\nIs this policy valid?","title":"[UK] This organisation's Data Protection policy is only visible to me after I have given them my personal data. Is this really okay?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1446583984,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rehtk\/fighting_a_failure_to_yield_unique_circumstances\/","id":"3rehtk","body":"I'm hoping that I can explain the circumstances of the ticket I'm fighting the best I can but please don't hesitate to poke me for more specific info. Here goes:\n\nI rear ended a van and totaled my own car, which inherently puts me at fault in Massachusetts, though the circumstances I feel as though I might be able to successfully fight this.\n\nI was driving down a 2 way 30mph limit road, going straight. A utility van (think \"Free Candy\") was in front of me, and a sports car tailgating me on the rear. As we were driving along, a vehicle approached from a side street on my right, fast. I had plenty of room to speed up and avoid the vehicle as the last thing I wanted was to be t-boned, even if I had the right of way and it would have been his fault. Unfortunately, at that exact moment, the van in front of me slammed on his brakes and I rear ended him. This all happened at speeds easily around 15mph. My car was destroyed (98 cavalier, jumping the curb totals this thing), and his van was totally fine (the dude was totally cool about it, and even gave me a cigarette as I was very upset.) As I was waiting for a tow, a police officer asked me if I was okay, and what happened. I explained best I could but to be honest I was so upset, I doubt I even gave much of a story. He ended up giving me a 25 dollar failure to yield ticket which was, to me, an incredible insult. He told me I could fight it, and I did. I brought it to the magistrate and was denied. So I appealed. My court date is Thursday and I have already paid 75 dollars to fight a 25 dollar ticket, as I believe I should not have higher insurance rates for something that would not be considered unsafe driving. \n\nConsidering the officer was not present for the accident, I have never been pulled over in 10 years of driving, the van driver did not call insurance or press charges, and I was the only one who suffered: what can I do to best prepare, or do I even have a chance to mitigate the points on my license, which is really what I'm fighting so hard in the first place. \n\nThis occurred in Medford, MA\n\nUPDATE: I asked for leniency and they upheld the ticket anyway. Fuck.\n","title":"Fighting a failure to yield. Unique circumstances.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505426555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/705jgg\/dorm_is_being_charged_as_a_suite_instead_of_a\/","id":"705jgg","body":"Hi, I go to a college in Chicago, Illinois. At the end of the last academic year I selected a dorm room to live in for this academic year. It was very clearly labelled a double, which costs less to live in than a suite by several hundred dollars a semester. However, college housing is now labelling my room a suite and charging me the corresponding amount. \n\n**The goal I want to achieve**: I want to live in this dorm room at the price it was advertised.\n\nThis seems like it should be achievable, but since I'm just a college student I have absolutely no idea what my rights are.\n\nUseful information:\n\n1. I signed the housing contract at the end of the last academic year with my roommate. She and the two housing employees (resident heads) clearly understood that this room was a double and not a suite. I do not remember the contract in detail but I explicitly remember that we signed something to the effect of paying the room rate for a double.\n\n2. This room has never been charged as a suite before; it has most definitely been considered a double in the past. *It is defensible that it be labelled as a suite,* but to do so *after* we committed to living there and having only agreed to pay the amount for a double is imo indefensible.\n\nMy roommate has emailed college housing asking about this discrepancy and hasn't received a response even though it's been some time. I will contact them directly tomorrow but would like to know how to navigate a dispute like this if housing is reluctant to charge us the appropriate rate. Thanks!","title":"Dorm is being charged as a suite instead of a double; signed contract for a double","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570116498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcsgeh\/fl_simplified_divorce_and_efile\/","id":"dcsgeh","body":"Hello there, I'm not sure if anyone has any experience with this but, my ex-husband and I are splitting amicably enough and are trying to file a simplified dissolution of marriage (we have no property, no kids and have already divided everything and cleared debts). \n\nI'm trying to find out how exactly to to about filing the paperwork. I've got everything downloaded and filled in PDF formats and just need it notarized.\n\nFlorida also has an efile system so I am wondering if we can handle this ourselves without having to physically go to the court? \n\nAny advice is much appreciated.","title":"[FL] Simplified Divorce and e-file","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552638240,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1cak7\/hi_landlords_intrusive_rules\/","id":"b1cak7","body":"I signed a lease with insane rules. I was really desperate since I didn't know about the rules until after I had moved and settled in, I had and still have no where else to go (at least until low income housing waiting lists shorten, aka never) and cried when I signed it. The landlord lives on the main property, I am living in a private unit separated from the house with a bathroom and small kitchenette.\n\n\nHere are some of the rules:\n\n\n>Anyone enters the doors of this house should follow these rules\n\n\n>No smoking, alcohol, drugs, unmarried sex, foul language, on the property or coming home intoxicated or smelling like cigarette or alcohol.\n\n\n>Dress decently in the house. Shirt and pants or dress whenever you are visible.\n\n\n>No overnight visitors.\n\n\n>Other rules may be posted but please pay attention to observe how we do things be considerate and responsible to follow our customary ways and standards whether or not they are posted.\n\n\n**How screwed am I if I break these rules?** I have a boyfriend I regularly have sex with and he sometimes stays overnight, never enough to raise suspicion, too loud, or be considered a hold over tenant. I mentioned about getting married but they said they do not allow married couples in their unit, I would have to leave. I like having my family over and having short sleepovers, again not trying to have hold over tenants - just watch TV and play video games. The landlord wants advance notice of all guests and information about the person coming, saying it's my sister or cousin isn't enough nor is responding to the reason for the visit being to \"hang out\" or \"catch up\" or \"spend time together.\" They dislike me having males in my room whether it's my boyfriend or my relatives. I get intense anxiety over it. \n\n\n**Also the lease doesn't mention I have to do chores but the landlord told me if I didn't do chores then my rent would be increased, almost doubled.** I am used to only cleaning up after myself and my guests so it's been awkward doing what chores I can reasonably do (I'm disabled), like the landlord has dinner without me but wants me to wash their dishes or they make a mess in the kitchen preparing their dinner and now I have to clean it up. It is partly my fault since I was so grateful to be there before receiving the rules that I helped out by sweeping, doing dishes, some vacuuming, but I was just being nice! I tried to explain this but the landlord said if I didn't continue doing these things they would hire a maid and I would have to pay the maid on top of the increased rent. The landlord also brushes off my disability frequently and probably thinks I'm crazy. Apparently they are doing me a favor by not requiring me to mow their lawn or do yard work.\n\n\nI really do not have anywhere else to go, numerous case managers have told me there is no program open\/accepting new applications that can house me, my income is actually too low to qualify for low income housing, and county housing like others have wait lists up to 3 years long. I need to live here, no where else is in my price range and every place I have rented in with roommates has turned into a toxic environment. A lot of the rentals on craigslist have similar rules about guests, sex, alcohol, etc.\n\n\nI am getting sick of this landlord but beggars can't be choosers. I briefly looked over how I have the right to quiet enjoyment of my unit, but Hawaii law is very vague about this stating something like \"No such obligation or restriction shall be enforceable against the tenant unless it is for the purpose of promoting the convenience, safety, or welfare of the tenants of the property, or for the preservation of the landlord's property from abusive use, or for the fair distribution of services and facilities held out for the tenants generally...\" I recently informed the landlord I'm having a family guest stay overnight soon, they said something like it was rude to them -as my host- to make these plans without their approval and I mentioned I was giving them a courtesy not required by law which they said I had to prove or no more visits at all since it was them giving me favors by allowing previous guests. **How can I ensure I won't be evicted over these intrusive rules and behaviour?**\n\n\n**Tldr; I signed a lease with intrusive rules like no unmarried sex, foul language, or overnight guests. How screwed am I if I break these rules? Also if chores aren't listed in the lease, can the landlord raise my rent when I stop doing them? How can I ensure I won't be evicted over these intrusive rules and behaviour? I'm pretty desperate and have no other options. It's a nice rental considering.**","title":"[HI] Landlord's Intrusive Rules","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551660488,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax0uh1\/is_there_a_way_to_work_legally_as_a_tourist_in\/","id":"ax0uh1","body":"Don't get me wrong, I'm not planning to take advantage of economical differences. A guy told me he got fluent in English by working at McDonald's. I just want to work at a place that requires a lot of speaking. I understand a lot, but can't speak well. I'm even ready to do it for free, if it can be done legally. Maybe there's volunteering programs of any sort? ","title":"Is there a way to work legally as a tourist in the US?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540411950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r38x0\/reduced_12_month_license_suspension\/","id":"9r38x0","body":"Home State: Delaware \n\nPoints Received: 7\n\nFirst Offense\nI was pulled over for Speeding in Jersey. Wasn\u2019t on Purpose. Cop didn\u2019t explain that there was a chance that my license could get suspended. So I Pleaded guilty by paying the fine for the two charges. \n\nI didn\u2019t go to court because I wasn\u2019t at the Delaware\u2019s limit for license suspension. I didn\u2019t know that going a certain limit over on the highway automatically qualifies for suspension. \n\nMy question is if I already pleaded guilty is there a chance if I got lawyer there would be a chance to get the sentence reduced?","title":"Reduced 12 Month License Suspension?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446689444,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rkqej\/my_old_landlord_is_trying_to_screw_me_over_for\/","id":"3rkqej","body":"**INDIANA**\n\n\nSo I got a call today from my mother, that my old apartment landlord sent a 1500 dollar payment to collections.\n\nHere is where things start to get fishy;\n\n* My mom co signed our(GF and I)'s **first** lease. When we resigned another lease, she did not co-sign anything. They're trying to say the signatures move over for the entire length of our stay even if we sign a new lease. \n\n* We ended up cutting our lease early because they're just horrible people but that's a different story. We gave them our new address, and let them keep our 1000 dollar security deposit+pet deposit. Nothing fishy, just adds on later.\n\n* They're saying we have 800 dollars worth of damage due for carpet costs **but** they can't use the security deposit because since we cut the lease early, it doesn't count towards damages and they get to keep that. They said they had no receipts for anything done to the apartment, but they have a check receipt for when they paid the guy.\n\n* They're trying to say we owe another 30 days of rent for 700 dollars. When you cut the lease your suppose to pay the month you're living in **plus** the next month, and I have 2 cashier's checks that do confirm I paid 700 dollars twice at the end of our stay.\n\n* They never sent us any statements after moving out. The only piece of mail they sent us was the collections statement. We moved out in June. It's now November and I'm just now hearing about this, and they have 4 numbers on file to call if anything were to happen, on our application.\n\nDoes any of this sound right to you guys? Do I have a case with a lawyer or should I just continue the dispute privately with the collections agency?\n\nI'm not too familiar with tenant laws, I'm 21 and this is coming at a stressful time already.","title":"My old landlord is trying to screw me over for money. Does any of this sound right to you guys?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553280955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b48wsf\/my_wifes_lawyer_dropped_her_today\/","id":"b48wsf","body":"Brief summary: STBX had multiple infidelity relationship within 4 years. Been married for 5 years. Caught her in 2017 with a guy who is a known drug dealer. We have a 8 Son together. In 2018, she was hospitalized for OD on stolen prescription. Multiple DUI. Child endangerment ranges from drinking and driving with our son in the car, physically altercation with her boyfriend in front of our son, texting and driving \u2014she bents the rims and dented the bumper. This year, she completely totaled my mom\u2019s car. \n\nWe have a house together. Two cars. All furniture and appliances belongs to my mother. \n\nMy household contain my Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Younger Brother, Son, STBX and I. \n\nMy STBX takes our son every weekend to her boyfriend\u2019s. You know, the usual stuff (sarcasm). Week days she is back like normal. Goes to work, races home to get our son and disappeared to her boyfriend\u2019s until 12 AM. Repeat until the weekend. \n\nIf I want my son, I have to race home before she does, have him get out of the house. Do his homework in the park or library. Make sure she is not home. Come back and spend quality time with him. \n\nIf she is home when I am with our son, she would pull him into the room. Dress him and leaves. No words. She would call the cops on me for stopping her from leaving with our son. Cops of my city ALL knows our situation. LITERALLY! \n\nMy STBX till this day denies her infidelity even though I have solid pictures and videos of her affairs. She hides all of her car accidents from me, not realizing I can easily access all information because we are on the same insurance. Plus, she wrecked it in the neighborhood. Yea, she isn\u2019t smart.\n\nShe is a party girl. My son tends to blab and tells me that every weekend, she takes him to her boyfriend\u2019s mom\u2019s house. He sleeps there with a little boy and the boyfriend\u2019s mom. When asked where was my STBX, he says she leaves with her girlfriends. This been going on for the past 9 months since I served her the divorce papers.\n\nNot only does she keeps my son from me, but pawn him off.\n\n\n\nPast 6 months, I have tried to avoid court and try to do everything peacefully. I agreed on 50\/50 custody and give her some alimony\u2014even though she doesn\u2019t deserve it. She declined and wish for full custody with me paying for ALL OF HER LIVING EXPENSES. \n\nI declined. She threatened to go to court \u2014then she suddenly beg me to do everything peacefully. Then she is back on her BS. She probably has bi-polar disorder.\n\n\nToday, my lawyer informed me that her lawyer had been advising her to take my offer. Because according to him, my EX would not win at all in court. She would be in so much debt. She would be forced to move out and be homeless. And I would get 70 to 100 custody of my son. \n\nShe been saying no for 6 months now. And is taking legal advice from her uncle and aunt who are lawyers from a third world country. Where \u201cMothers have more rights\u201d. Something she keeps spattering about to me. \n\nI don\u2019t get why she hired a legal attorney if she won\u2019t even listen to his advice. \n\nAnyways, after 6 months of representing her. Her lawyer dropped her. \n\n\nHere is my big question:\nMediation was suppose to take place next week. Our trial got placed in July of this year. \n\nMy lawyer suggests that I should talk to her as soon as possible to see if she will agree now and just finish this all with my lawyer. OR! See if she will obtain a new lawyer. \n\nMy question is, since she is high conflict. \n\nHow do I approach her that she is in a losing end and that my offer is reasonable.\n\nHow do I make her understand that her uncle and aunt\u2019s views are invalid. Because Texas laws are equal for both parents.\n\nIf there\u2019s a better idea, I am open to it. I just want to kick her out of this house already. ","title":"My wife\u2019s lawyer dropped her today","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504668429,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yd4fo\/nebraska_no_contact_order_on_my_behalf_in\/","id":"6yd4fo","body":"UPDATE: case was dismissed and I didn't have to testify.\n\nShort background: My husband and I got into an argument over the budget. He pulled my arm left arm and I punched him in the forehead with my right. \n\nHe called the police because I punched him, and they took him to jail on a Saturday afternoon. I was totally fine, apologetic for punching him.\n\nHe's charged with Domestic Violence and Disturbing the Peace. I went to his court date at the jail, and the judge gave him a no contact order. I bailed him out on Monday evening and we've been living life normally since then.\n\nI am the \"victim\" and have been subpoenaed to testify. I want nothing more than to have this whole thing dropped. If the attorneys ask me tomorrow if we've violated the no contact order, can I plead the fifth? \n\nMy husband has already lost his job for missing that Monday off work, we owe my father the bond money back, and I really don't want him to have a Class Four Felony on his record. \n\nTL;DR: I contacted someone with a no contact order against me. Can I plead the fifth to avoid self-incrimination if I was not served an order, assuming there would not be charges pressed against me?\n\nUPDATE: case was dismissed and I didn't have to testify.","title":"[Nebraska] No contact order on my behalf in Domestic case, but I contacted him. Can I plead the fifth?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569724718,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dapjh0\/can_i_look_up_a_former_tenants_court_date\/","id":"dapjh0","body":"I recently evicted a tenant......sorta. One of my former tenant wouldn\u2019t leave and we went to court but before he could appear at the first summons. He got arrested. Months went by before the court could up with a decision. The judge decided that I can remove all his items in the room and rent it but I must keep all his items on the property until his court. His court was on the 26th of September but I have not gotten a call or anything regarding him. Is there a way I can check if he is still in jail? He would be under the Fairfax county court in Virginia","title":"Can I look up a former tenants court date?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551975653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayedkp\/can_i_be_stopped_from_leaving_the_house_when_i\/","id":"ayedkp","body":"I\u2019m in the US, Arkansas to be exact.\n\nI\u2019ve had family issues all my life. It\u2019s come down to me living with my aunt and uncle. \n\nI highly disagree with them in the first place, and they punish me and my sibling because of those differences. \n\nThey\u2019ve cut me off from the rest of my family, and I\u2019m not allowed to contact anyone that I once knew. I have done nothing wrong, they just had custody papers and now I\u2019m stuck with them. They verbally abuse me all the time, but they never do anything that can be legally dealt with. Their punishments are severe, no matter how small the mistake was or if there was one in the first place. I\u2019m 17, and I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that as soon as I turn 18 I need to leave. Can they stop me in any way? If there\u2019s anything that can stop me from going they will try it. \n\nThank you guys ","title":"Can I be stopped from leaving the house when I turn 18?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555614823,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bephnb\/us_historical_meaning_of_accused_was_held_to\/","id":"bephnb","body":"Researching a historical crime at the federal level. The terminology used is  \"...has been arrested on charge...\" & \"...accused was held to answer.\"\n\nDoes \"held to answer\" in this context mean held over for trial (whether that was in jail or out on bond) or does it mean found guilty?\n\nThe fine was up to $500 or six months in jail if convicted. But the National Archives doesn't seem to have the records of this particular US Commissioner for the specific timeframe so I'm working toward either a) finding another angle of approach or b) having to make an inference as to the disposition of the case based on other, indirect evidence.\n\nNot as sexy as Tree Law but I could sure use the help.","title":"[US - Historical] Meaning of \"Accused was held to answer\"","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1550209441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqtf6y\/a_few_wrongs_make_right\/","id":"aqtf6y","body":"My dad put in a recommendation for me at his job, temp to hire which I was hired on in October 2018 jury duty service assigned in November 2018 , my production manager (name will be tom) wasnt familiar with the hand book so at the time all he requested was for a copy of the notification I received in the mail. (Employee handbook section at bottom)\n\nJury duty service comes I'm put on standby but dont get called. I return to work the following  week and My plant manager (name will be jake) informs me the company pays unlimited days ,hands me a slip asking how many days I missed because I was on jury duty. He says in order to get paid I need to get him proof that I went. Unexpectedly get paid the following week for the jury duty. Told him I lost the proof and he would ask less and less as time went on.\n\nEnd of December 2018 I didnt think they would bring it up but they start asking more and let me know my job is on the line. I come clean soon after, the meeting we had ended with Tom and jake will come to an agreement and see what they think should happen going forward. Jake goes on vacation. Tom for the next two weeks,  decides to have me mop, sweep, scrub walls, polish and shine machines, do the jobs everyone hates to do. I do these things with no fuss til I start getting sore from working from 6am-3pm doing crappy jobs. I Call in sick, texting both tom and jake saying I overexherted myself the following weeks. The following day tom and I go over the most physically demanding tasks from the previous day making sure no injuries took place(first week January 2019).\n\n I'm left in peace til 2nd week of February 2019 tom pulls me into his office one on one, closes the door asking for the money I received for the jury duty to be returned to him by check. He asked my usual check amount and how much money I remember recieving for the jury duty. Told him I cant pay due to financial issues,only opinion would be payments .he wants to avoid HR going through all the hoops to get the money back. He says, it would be in my best interest to pay that money back since it wasnt mine to begin with. We end the meeting with met me know on Monday if you want to pay cash or check.\n\nMonday comes, and not one word about it. Fast forward to today ,thursday. My dad tells me Tom has been asking about the money. He says tom asked him to pay, so then I can pay my dad in payments. My dad agrees.\n\n-I feel this is extortion in a way.\n- should I ask hr for clarification? since I've never felt with her since my hire date.\n- Do I have any legal ground to retaliate if i am terminated?\n\n\n-Employee Handbook\nThe company supports an employs civic duty as a citizen should  They be notified to report for jury duty. The company will permit the employee to the take the necessary time off and will assist the employee to avoid any financial loss because of such service and ensure payment consistent with applicable laws. The employee must notify their manager when the jury duty notice is initially received. On any day or partial day in which the employee is not required to serve, they are expected to return to work. in order to receive jury duty pay the employee must present a statement of jury service as proof that they did attend. If an employee is paid by the entity requiring jury duty service, the employee must provide documentation of any pay they receive\n\nTl;DR \nI work with my dad at a company, I lied about showing up for jury duty. Company paid me then after asked for proof after, some how wasnt fired when I couldn't give proof. They decided to keep me ,had me doing manual labor for a bit (I'm a mechanical assembler) they asked for the jury duty pay but I'm broke .To avoid the hoops HR will have to jump through, they now asked my dad for the money back .He agreed to pay them and I will pay him in payments. I dont mind giving the money back but I feel like Tom wants to pocket the money.","title":"A few wrongs make right?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553791384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6l3zb\/hourly_employee_being_deceived_into_salaried_work\/","id":"b6l3zb","body":"Burner for reasons.\n\nAt my current place if employment (Minnesota) I have been told that I am a salaried employee. However I have to clock in and clock out everyday and if I am in early or stay late, I am forced to override the payroll system to only pay myself for 8 hours. \n\nMy pay check tells me that I am hourly though. (Not my hourly wage but: Employee type Hourly- is written on the pay stub) I work extra hours every day and am on call 24\/7 and very frequently have to work at home or get really not at work to get things done. \n\nI am part of a contract between a company providing service and a larger institution, and in that contract it dictates that I am supposed to be a salaried employee. \n\nI have been paid for 3 hours of overtime in 5 months (just recently I had to fill a partial shift for an employee and long story short had to put myself in their slot in the payroll system. That is why I began to dive deeper)\n\nMy big thing is I was explicitly told I was salaried but I clearly am not. Is there anything I can do? Is this even legal? Can they just say it was an accounting error and change my employment\/ employee status and still decline to pay me for the overtime? What benefits do they get that for claiming me as an hourly employee when telling me I am salaried?\n\nI have records of all of the hours in an indisputable fashion. We have to badge in and out every day. I can show when I arrived at the building, at my desk, and got in the elevators to leave every single day. \n\nOther important info. In the same space it tells me I am hourly, it tells my boss, (who does not have to clock in or out in the same system) that they are salaried. Also from what I can tell from basic math, I am owed over 2k if I was paid as hourly. \n\nTLDR- I was told I am salaried, but my paystub clearly indicates I am hourly. What can I do? Why would they do this? ","title":"Hourly Employee being deceived into salaried work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554156888,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8a3kp\/understanding_one_party_consent_conversation\/","id":"b8a3kp","body":" A co-worker of mine is having a hard time with a manager that yells at them and threatens their job in one-on-one meetings. Without going into too many details, they believes this manager is crossing a line of our  company policy for respectful work environment. I was going to suggest they record these conversations, but before I do, I want to make sure I understand the law correctly. If they (the recorder) consent, do they need to tell the manager (the other party in the conversation) that the conversation is being recorded? ","title":"Understanding one party consent conversation recording at work- Virginia, USA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553639028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5w863\/can_i_be_reimbursed_for_the_thousands_i_paid_in\/","id":"b5w863","body":"Georgia, USA. \n\nI\u2019ve been covering my son on health insurance for several years now. I live several states away. My ex has taken it upon herself to not use the insurance I provide and use Medicaid only instead. \n\nAfter  3 years of excuses as to why I never received EOBs (\u201cI just paid out of pocket\u201d, \u201cdidn\u2019t even need your insurance\u201d), and blocks on my son\u2019s account so I couldn\u2019t access his records, I finally found out the truth. \n\nMy ex purposely chose to not use the court ordered insurance I\u2019ve been paying for for years, and used only Medicaid because it was \u201ccheaper\u201d for her, even though I pay 70% of medical bills. Now my son is no longer on Medicaid and she has chosen to put our son on her boyfriends insurance and use only that instead. Not sure why she doesn\u2019t want to use double coverage, but I suspect it\u2019s just petty behavior because she wants nothing to do with me. \n\nWe are on track to go back to court soon. Is there I chance I can get reimbursed for the thousands I\u2019ve wasted on premiums? I understand my son needs to be covered and he still is, of course, but it\u2019s infuriating that Ive been paying so much and she chose to not use it. ","title":"Can I be reimbursed for the thousands I paid in insurance premiums that was purposefully not used?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446238906,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qw0ta\/nyc_can_a_landlord_prohibit_an_appliance\/","id":"3qw0ta","body":"I'm having trouble finding anything specific on the matter, but can a landlord legally completely prohibit the installation of a dishwasher in an apartment?\n\nConsidering that a dishwasher uses less water than washing by hand it would make sense to have one installed (since water is included in the rent price). I've talked to my landlord and he is against it regardless of whether or not it would be professionally installed. \n\nMy question is whether or not he can legally, as per NYC tenant laws, not allow us to install a dishwasher if we pay for both the appliance and installation.\n\nThis is a Pre-War, Rent Controlled building.\n\nAny advice would be appreciated, thanks!","title":"[NYC] Can a Landlord Prohibit an Appliance?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506222867,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/722t07\/rolling_the_dice_in_a_wage_claim_hearing_next_week\/","id":"722t07","body":"I filed a wage claim against my former employer, a new bar full of inexperienced restauranteurs that ran business terribly.  They failed to pay me 3 weeks worth of wages + tips for months after I was terminated, which amounted to 400 in hourly wages but much more in tips.  I was making minimum wageq-- about $13 an hour in San Francisco, but I would walk out with about $200 in tips on a good night, which was quite regular. Halfway during the time I worked there they disallowed us to take home our tips at the end of the night, instead they took them and distributed later so I have no idea how much I'm owed.  My hearing is in a couple weeks.   I don't have a W2 from them, which the court asked to provide and I'm worried that will work against me, but I have a lot of other supporting documents like schedules, paystubs, even an email from the owner stating he failed to pay me complete wages dated months after I was let go.  Mostly I am also wondering if my \"hourly wage\" in the claim should include tips? It seems unfair to not take that into consideration in the waiting time penalty.  I feel like I'm in the right, but can't help but feel like I'm rolling the dice with this wage claim.  ","title":"Rolling the dice in a wage claim hearing next week","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571625422,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dktzcl\/school_safety_and_attendance_illegality\/","id":"dktzcl","body":"sorry if grammar is a bit weird\n\nmy school has egregious health and safety violations here's a list of a few\n\n\\*asbestos in the walls\n\n\\*damp in the walls\n\n\\*building design allows fire to spread easily\n\n\\*multiple fights in the lunch hall every day\n\n\\*one kid nearly punched a gas line\n\ni don't know what to do and my school is forcing me to be in this building where i nearly get punched everyday \n\nthe school's name is middle school\n\nim scared and i don't even know if the school can legally stay open","title":"school safety and attendance illegality","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553558334,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5ihhh\/custody_of_child_tx\/","id":"b5ihhh","body":"My friend and her boyfriend split up this last weekend and he took their baby with him, they are not married and have lived together for a couple years. She went to his sisters house to get the baby and he refused to give him back and said he would bring him yesterday. Well yesterday came and no child. He told her she could come get him this morning and when she went to leave he texted her and told her that he would bring him by at 5 (which was 2 hours ago) she\u2019s texted and called with no reply. What can she do to get her child back as soon as possible. He\u2019s not abusive and wouldn\u2019t hurt the baby but he his a heavy drinker and likes to drive drunk.","title":"Custody of Child (TX)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506231027,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/723dlv\/does_having_a_nda_protect_your_idea_from_getting\/","id":"723dlv","body":"Curious because In the midst of getting an app started and funded, but many people want to know about. Would love to tell them but don\u2019t want idea to get stolen. Thanks for the help guys! I\u2019m from CA, USA.","title":"Does having a NDA protect your idea from getting stolen?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554571131,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba6lvg\/help_dealing_with_nyc_lead_laws\/","id":"ba6lvg","body":"Back in January my youngest son tested slightly high for lead. His levels were not of concern to our pediatrician as he only just passed the threshold for what's considered high. Skip a week, I get a call from NYC DOH saying they wanted to come test my home for lead. It was free, 100% voluntary and really no big deal. The woman on the phone made it seem like I should just do it out of curiosity so I did. I grew up in this house and our older soon was born here. Neither of us ever had any lead issues so I was pretty sure the house wasn't the problem. The next week these people showed up and tested every surface, my cooking spices, opened my cabinets looking for vermin and asked questions about my dog and parenting; it was far from the informal nonchalant visit the woman told me to expect.\n\nMore than two months later I get a notice from the city that certain walls tested positive for lead and an order of lead abatement. It says that I either need to hire a contractor to abate the lead within the next 5 days or contest it at my own expense within the next 3 days or request a loan from the city and have them abate the lead. We can't afford any of these options. We are a working class family of 4 with 1 on the way and every penny we earn is accounted for. Contractors are giving us quotes of 9k and better and telling us that the city definitely charges more than that. \n\nI'm wondering if we can just do the work ourselves and fight this in court. My husband is a construction contractor he's just not EPA certified and I'm hoping that if the city takes us to court we can make our case saying we did everything within our financial means to comply. We could show that our son's levels are normal and so is everyone else's. The walls test negative now (which we will pay to have retested after we finish the work) and the violations are treated. I figure if the issue is the violations and the lead levels and we address that it won't be a problem, right? What are my options here?","title":"Help dealing with NYC lead laws","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571438790,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djv62n\/should_i_get_a_lawyer_for_this_workplace_injury\/","id":"djv62n","body":"While working at The Home Store in cherry hill NJ, I was stacking boxes onto palettes for trucks to pick up. My partner working with me walked away then I tripped onto an empty palette hitting my back on the edge of the palette. The boxes of the pallet in front of me then fell on top of me. It took 2 people to get me out and get me to an urgent care. The urgent care said they didn\u2019t have the equipment to diagnose me properly so I got xrays and MRI scans at the hospital and they gave me anti muscle spasm medication. Pain meds, steroids and a patch that I wear on my lower back to alleviate swelling. I\u2019m also going to physical therapy for numbness and pain in my left leg when pressure is applied to it when walking and other normal tasks. Both scans showed nothing wrong but I\u2019m still in a ton of pain and can barely walk. What should I do?","title":"Should I get a lawyer for this workplace injury?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540007401,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pqxn6\/schrodingers_pto\/","id":"9pqxn6","body":"Hello r\/LegalAdvice!\n\nI will jump right in: I live in Washington State and work for a small company.\n\nFor the last few months, I\u2019ve been struggling with the online HR system they use, and have contacted the person in charge of scheduling multiple times (all documented) to try and figure out why it won\u2019t let me use any of my 48 hours of accrued PTO. It turns out that I can\u2019t request a day off using the PTO system unless I am scheduled to work. And my schedule has never been populated. As far as I can tell, the person in charge of making sure I have a digital schedule is the same person I\u2019ve been contacting.\n\nOn Monday this week, I was talking to HR about other matters, and brought up that I\u2019d like to use my PTO so I can go out of town to be with my fianc\u00e9 while she\u2019s in the hospital (they already knew about this, as she had to suddenly leave the company to seek medical help). This is when they discovered that I don\u2019t have a schedule, and contacted the person in charge of such things. She has yet to do anything about my situation, and the first day I had requested off is Sunday.\n\nSo, I suppose the question is: do I have legal grounds to demand they give me my PTO? I don\u2019t know how to get a copy of whatever paperwork I signed when I started at the company, but I kind of doubt it mentions any situation where the company doesn\u2019t uphold it\u2019s side of the bargain. Is this even worth turning into a legal matter, or should I just complain up the chain of command until someone does something?","title":"Schrodinger's PTO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571541239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dke5jo\/employment_labor_related_in_wisconsin\/","id":"dke5jo","body":"co-worker assaulted me\n\nSo a coworker put his hands on me, came up from behind a grabbed my neck, and the gut reaction was to say \u201cif you put your hands on my again I\u2019ll knock you out.\u201d I didn\u2019t get up and threaten him. I stayed in my seat. And he continued to be a smug ass about it. We were both written up, because he put his hands on me and I threatened him. Work policy is anyone who assaults or threatens will be terminated. That didn\u2019t happen and now things are weird in the office and it\u2019s pretty hostile. I don\u2019t trust him, and now, two months later, I was written up for \u201cbeing rude\u201d to him. I\u2019m contesting this write up with HR because I feel like he has made this place hostile and is looking for any reason he can to get me fired.\n\nI\u2019ve obviously been looking for a new job because this is a toxic environment, but now that I was written up, I can\u2019t even move to a different department. I\u2019m thinking that if I bring this up, that I believe this is being done out of retaliation for my reporting him for putting his hands on me, that I\u2019ll get fired for threatening him. How do I handle this when I appeal this write up?","title":"Employment \/ Labor related in Wisconsin","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506875216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73mlbz\/ks_employer_is_known_for_straight_up_not_paying\/","id":"73mlbz","body":"Not me, a late 20s friend of my sons.\n\nAs he gave 2 wks notice (he's 1 week thru it), his boss told him that the owners are known to not pay people their last check. Hang on, there's more.\n\nThe pre-employment contract had a clause that stipulates that they can reduce his pay to minimum wage under some condition at the end of employment. He couldn't remember the exact wording, and I haven't seen it, so grain of salt here. But he seems to think it was if you give 2 wks notice and then don't complete the 2 wks then they would make your last pay period minimum wage.\n\nI told him that this is exactly the kind of thing that small claims court was for, if you get, say, a $400 check instead of $2000, and all you want is pay for the hours worked. That if he's truly concerned about it, he could talk to the city, or a local Legal Aid, to find out about the legality of all this ahead of time, so that he knows what his options are the split second he receives a short check.\n\nSo the questions:\n\n1. He's a restaurant manager. What kind of things could a shady employer fabricate to give them a legal reason to withhold several hundred from a paycheck? I know it's pure speculation what they might be thinking, as nobody here is inside the owners heads, but any ideas may actually help us figure them out ahead of timg and how to react if this does come to pass.\n\n1. How viable is the concept of \"we will retroactively reduce your pay under certain conditions\" for a pre-employment contract? I'm an old man and I've never heard anything of the sort.\n\n1. How good was my advice?","title":"[KS] Employer is known for straight up not paying people after they give notice (and other payroll questions)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445376581,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pjqge\/sued_by_landlord_joint_and_several_lease_location\/","id":"3pjqge","body":"I am being sued by my landlord. I signed a one year lease last September (2014) with two roommates. All three of us signed the lease. We were to pay rent monthly with one check. One of the roommates lost his job in November started doing a lot of hard drugs and was very late paying his rent, so I started paying just my 3rd of the rent each month starting in March. The druggie roommate was either kicked out or moved (he said, she said) out by my landlord at the end of march. The landlord is nearly impossible to reach. We after the incident and agreed that we would figure out the rent situation later that day after I got out of work. I was unable to speak to him after that numerous attempts to get in touch. I didn't here from him again until late June when he dropped of a letter saying that he had only been receiving my portion of the rent going back to June and that he had turned off my hot water until he received the rent. I finally spoke to my landlord and he was yelling at me hysterically. He agreed to turn the hot water back on because I informed him that it was illegal. Also The third roommate had been lying to me. He had been telling me that he was dropping off his 3rd of the rent separately. He never fessed up to not paying, he just kept lying to me until he suddenly moved out a week later, skipping town. I had my girlfriend move in and pay an additional 3rd of the rent for July and August. The day before I moved out I received a small claims court summons in the mail for the remaining balance of the rent which was 1 third of the rent for July and August and 2 thirds of the rent for March April May and June. I am the only one being sued even though I have payed my part of the rent on time each month. The lease simply says \"This is a Joint and Several lease\" but the meaning of this clause was never explained by the real estate agent. The landlord only has communicated with me through his 21 year old son the last 6 months refusing to talk or be reasonable. I have tried to offer reasonable settlements but have gotten no response. He still holds the security deposit equal to one full months rent. He hasn't given me any notice of where the security deposit was deposited. The apartment was left in better condition than when I moved in. Do I have a case? Should I file 3rd party claims or cross claims against my roommates? Is there anything specific I should do to defend myself in court? -Thanks\n","title":"Sued by Landlord \"Joint and Several\" Lease. Location: Massachusetts","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570673671,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfrdn4\/is_worth_taking_a_stab_at\/","id":"dfrdn4","body":"Something seems fishy. \n\nPA. I understand PA is an at will state.. but I\u2019m not too sure if this is procedural in any aspect in any employment. \n\nI began my position with a county job at the end of July, worked for a week and then had a preplanned vacation that was known about prior to hiring, off 10 days. County procedure is you are reviewed every 60, 90, 180 days then yearly after. \n\nDuring the week I was there or afterwards from my vacation, I was never formally trained, by anybody. I was shown my desk, where things were located and thrown to the wolves and forced to figure it out on my own and bother fellow coworkers on how do do things - usually receiving a different answer each time. When I would ask my boss questions, sometimes I would get an answer, other times she would pawn me off to someone else. \n\nAfter my first month of closing files, I was told they were all wrong. I was sat down with a fellow coworker to be \u201ctaught\u201d how to do it. NOT ONCE was it my boss. \n\nI was working and doing my thing for weeks without anyone saying anything. My boss pulled me into a room and told me I was going to be given more of a workload which I accepted - nothing was mentioned in regards to performance up to this point. \n\nA week later, I was pulled into a room again to be told how shitty I\u2019m doing with the line of \u201cyou know you\u2019re on probation right\u201d. I was never once given a paper outlining my errors nor did I sign anything. \n\nTwo weeks ago, I was pulled into a room again to be told I\u2019m doing my 2 month review... almost 2 weeks early. She went on to tell me how she needs to see improvement across the board and gave me a few examples. Once again, was never given a formal complaint\/outline or anything to sign. I was never given a progress \u201cplan\u201d or anything along those lines. I asked to sit down with her for her to show me, she did for 20 minutes the following day, her words \u201cI don\u2019t expect you to get this all over night and I don\u2019t want you to be discouraged\u201d . Of course this was on the file closing that was addressed before - they both did it completely differently which I told her and her response to me was \u201cI trained Megan\u201d - she didn\u2019t want to hear for a second that things were being differently than how she thinks they\u2019re being done. \n\nLast week, she decided to call one of her random meetings and goes on to tell me I need to improve and she thinks I\u2019m \u201cway too confident in myself\u201d. There was really nothing more to that meeting. I don\u2019t know what prompted it - I arrive to work 30 minutes early every day, never clock in early\/late, take breaks when needed, no personal phone calls, don\u2019t socialize. I strictly do my work and I leave. \n\nLast Friday, I also told her that I\u2019m dealing with some health issues - I\u2019m in the process of being diagnosed with celiac disease. I told her I sometimes need several trips to the bathroom and I\u2019m constantly sick. I also advised her that I\u2019m on a high dose of steroids and they\u2019re going to need to bare with me for a couple days. She explained how she understood and how helpful that is to know. Monday, I had to leave work early for breaking out into rashes due to the gluten. I obviously had to leave immediately (per my doctor) to be seen. She saw the rashes for herself and didn\u2019t fight me or oppose me leaving and gave me a bullshit \u201cgood luck\u201d as I was leaving. I had a doctors note for the following day to stay home from the reactions but drug myself to work anyways. For anyone who knows anything about celiac\/gluten intolerances, you know it\u2019s a chronic condition and how sick you actually become. Studies even have shown, people who are first diagnosed function at the level of someone with a 0.05 BAC at all times. My doctor advised me to use FMLA as he\u2019d sign off on it that I in fact needed it - however, I don\u2019t meet the requirements. \n\nToday, at 3:30 she decided she was going to have another random meeting. She came by my desk and said, can you chat for a second? I said sure thinking nothing of it, I go into the room and her and my supervisor directly below her were there. She goes \u201cI don\u2019t know how to start this convo but you have two options, either I fire you and you are blacklisted from ever working here again or you sign this resignation\u201d. This meeting happened in less than five minutes - I didn\u2019t have a single option other than to give her an answer. I asked if I had a chance to think about this or to someone. She said no, either you sign this or I fire you. She handed me a piece of paper, undated with one sentence saying \u201cI resign my position with the county of ____ effective immediately\u201d. I signed the stupid paper to just save my own ass in the future when it comes to jobs with the county (if I reapply) or any future job so I don\u2019t have to report termination. \n\nI grabbed my stuff, walked out and she goes \u201cthis isn\u2019t anything personal\u201d. The amount of effort it took me from not turning around with a \u201cfuck you\u201d is out of this world. \n\nIn the end, I never received any documentation for anything - performance, attendance, earnings, etc. I never spoke to HR during my employment, or at this \u201cmeeting\u201d.  \n\nI\u2019m a little upset about all of this because you know, who wants to be \u201cterminated\u201d but also I don\u2019t even give a shit. Her and I were never going to get along and it was going to probably be now or later. I would like to make it clear, I do NOT want my job back within this department or under her supervision. \n\nI plan on writing a letter to HR when I\u2019m a little bit more level headed about the situation but this doesn\u2019t seem too \u201cprocedural\u201d to me. I would be happy to work anywhere else within the county and would like to make that clear.  \n\nIf there\u2019s legal technicalities in this, I\u2019d be happy to explore them as well. I may be emotional here but the \u201cgrounds\u201d for termination here are bullshit.","title":"Is worth taking a stab at?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542147207,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wtqrc\/how_do_i_get_my_abusive_father_and_stepmother_to\/","id":"9wtqrc","body":"I want to make this clear first: I am 15. I just want to say that so everyone knows that I don't have as much legal power as someone of older age. However, my mother and sister are also included in this.\n\nI also feel like doing it in bullet-point form, because all of these memories are just coming to me one by one. (Sorry)\n\n\\- Pulled out of a school every year because of father. I started in kindergarten. I was skipped to first grade in 2 days and had a great year but for no reason my father put me in a different school that made me complete first grade a second time. I had a great year at that school, had no issues, but my father put me in a different school for second grade for no reason. All these decisions were made without consulting my mother. He also put me on medication that made me worse (this has been confirmed by a psychiatrist) without telling my mother. For year he continued to increase and change my medications which only made me worse, until my mother got custody and got me off all the medications. Now, he continues to sabotage my schooling. He disagreed with my IEP team's decision to remove crisis intervention, which should not have been on there anyway after elementary school. Since it wasn't legally supposed to be on my IEP, the team was able to remove it despite my father's opposition, however he hand-wrote a note on the IEP, and that made it so the less-restrictive schools would not accept me. Now I am in a restrictive school, despite the fact that I have only ever succeeded in school when I was in regular programs. My mother and psychiatrist agree that I should be allowed to go back to my public school, but I feel powerless to make it happen, and with the court case going on, my mother is having issues making any changes legally without his agreement.\n\n\\- (About 9 years ago) I witnessed him sexually assaulted my mother, unreported.\n\n\\- (June 2010) My parents separated.\n\n\\- (February 2012) My parents divorce was finalized with 50\/50 custody.\n\n\\- (November 2015) Father punched me in the nose; on-and-off bleeding for months. CPS was called for that too (in January 2016), but was never investigated.\n\n\\- (December 2015) Stepmother gashed my shoulder, with evidence. CPS was called, but for some reason, no action was taken. She also kept changing the story when asked. I reported the incident to the police as well, in January 2016.\n\n\\- (November 2016) My mother officially gained full custody, signed out of court, but she had us most of the time since the incident in December of 2015 unofficially.\n\n\\-(March 2017) I started seeing a lawyer, court case began. Given best interest attorney in July 2017, more on that below.\n\n(May 2017) My father sued my mother and the court date has been postponed a few times.\n\n( April 2018) CPS was called on behalf of me and my sister against both my father and stepmother but it was not investigated at all because my mother had custody at the time and my father had no visitation.\n\nI was appointed a best interest attorney for the case, but I haven't even seen her in at least 6 months and I feel that she is not looking out for my best interest. She hasn't even tried to get to know me at all and has not asked for my feelings on the matter.\n\nAll I want is to be free of my father and stepmother, and to be able to move and have my mother make decisions for my family without having to consult my father. It seems that since he was abusive to all of us, and his wife was abusive to me and my sister, that there shouldn't be a court case at all and that we should be protected. I also think that he shouldn't be allowed to have input in my educational decisions due to his history of sabotaging my education.\n\nI live in Maryland. (For anyone who needs to know to get specific laws, etc.)\n\nPlease tell me how I can protect myself and my family.","title":"How do I get my abusive father and stepmother to leave me, and my family, alone?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542258835,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x85u0\/a_drunk_coworker_raised_all_the_red_flags\/","id":"9x85u0","body":"TL;DR: A coworker I just met boasted about having multiple guns, made bad jokes about torturing women and wanting to torture people, and finally admitted he had previous anger issues and had to be interned \u201cbut the therapist was wrong.\u201d I am wondering if I should say something to anyone, including authorities. \n\nFor context I will only be working with him for this week during an event. Also we\u2019re based on Wisconsin but working in Indiana. \n\nWe went out as a group of all guys after the first day of an event to grab some beers. We\u2019re all in the same company but different sectors so we all just met. About 1-2h in the dinner John Doe starts talking about his love for guns and hunting and how \u201cthe democrats will take all of our guns\u201d and the old stuff. We laugh and he goes on saying he\u2019s got at least 9 weapons at his house, including illegal ones, some that his father just left there, and also one for each of his kids. We end up trying to talk about why people don\u2019t need\/or should have that many guns, but it doesn\u2019t go anywhere. \n\nWe then start talking about girls. We\u2019re all married and two of the people, including John Doe, have kids. After a while he goes on a rant about how \u201cfeminists should all be tortured to show them who\u2019s right\u201d and talks about a scene in Red Sparrow when they skin someone and he says \u201cI wish I could pull that one day.\u201d At this point he\u2019s obviously drunk and goes on saying he\u2019s doing intermittent fasting and that\u2019s why he\u2019s so drunk (?). We all get awkward and say we should go to our hotels. \n\nOn the ride home he goes on again and talks about how he had anger management issues and had to go to therapy but that doesn\u2019t work. He then says he\u2019s only got all the \u201cviolent shit on my head tonight\u201d cause he had a stressful month. He goes on to cursing half of his department and direct coworkers, making some vague threats. We dropped him off and didn\u2019t talk about it, apart from saying that we hope he still shows up for his job tomorrow. \n\nFirst of all: Should I even be concerned or was this just a drunk rant? \n\nThen if my concerns are real (guns for the kids, some obvious sexism with super violent rhetoric, and history of mental health issues), should I report them to someone? If then, who and how? \n\nNeither state (WI or IN) has specific red flag laws, and I don\u2019t think he made any claim substantial enough to submit anything such as a FBI tip. \n\nHowever these are some really serious issues and it all points out to disaster. It could be nothing, it could end up being the next shooting in the US that goes unnoticed after a day or two. ","title":"A drunk coworker raised all the red flags: boasting about having multiple illegal guns, having violence tendencies, joking about torture and admitting to anger issues and mental health issues. Any red flag laws or possible way to \u201creport\u201d?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444944834,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3owrwa\/what_kind_of_lawyer_to_sue_budget_truck_rental_do\/","id":"3owrwa","body":"I recently moved from Colorado to Ohio - my current residence is Ohio.\n\nI rented a Budget truck for the move.  During the drive, the transmission locked up and we called roadside assistance.  The fluid in the transmission was low, looked and smelled like burnt engine oil, so we added a quart of DEX VI fluid in order to get it off the interstate - which worked.  We then waited for the tow truck.\n\nThe next day, I spent hours on the phone with customer service to get a replacement truck, as they repeatedly gave me false ETA's and misinformation.\n\n24 hours later, we were back on the road.  The truck was shaking, so we checked the tires and suspension.  5 out of 6 tires were low (60 PSI out of 80) except for one, which was cracking, balled on one side, and its pressure was up around 120 PSI.  We did not call roadside assistance, but took photos and took air out of the tire and got back on the road.\n\nI requested a full refund on the truck, since neither truck had been properly maintained, as well as the amount of time we wasted dealing with their shoddy customer service.  Budget is only willing to refund 30% of the total truck cost, plus hotel expenses.  Their reasoning is that they have no documentation on the tire issue because we did not call roadside assistance.\n\nShould I accept this 30% refund, or should I speak to a lawyer and attempt to sue Budget?  What type of lawyer would I want to speak to?\n\nEDIT: spelling","title":"What kind of lawyer to sue Budget Truck Rental - do I even have a case?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539436607,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ntocb\/ten_page_lease_front_back\/","id":"9ntocb","body":"This is my first post so be gentle.\n\nMy rent is going up in January. My new lease states that the security deposit is also going up $250. My landlords wants the $250 in November to match the rent increase in January. Can they demand this before the rent actually goes up? We are a Military family and have asked that a Military clause be added to the lease. Do we need a Military clause on the lease if my husband gets orders and we need to break the lease? \n\nA little background information we had a very basic lease for a year. Then month to month for one year. Now we have been presented with the current ten page, front and back, lease with a three page pet policy. \n\nI was also thinking of taking the lease to a lawyer because it is so long, like nothing I have seen before.\n\nLocation: New York\n\nEdit: I had to type this post again from r\/need advice because it would not link. ","title":"Ten Page Lease, Front & Back","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538646881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lagu1\/injured_myself_at_work_a_month_ago_over_the\/","id":"9lagu1","body":"My apologies. I do not know what flair would be appropriate. TL;DR at bottom.\n\nI worked through a temp service for a place that assembles parts. Not a bad place to work really. I was tasked with building some parts that took quite a bit of force to set a part into the rubber housing. This took place over the course of a few weeks a few times a week - depending on orders. \n\nThey have a set number that you should be able to do in an hour. In this case the dual set with wiring them up, Capping the wires, terminating the plug and then after successfully testing, putting the unit inside the housing - They set the number at four. This includes tossing the paperwork in the box. The part. Then taping it and slapping it on a pallet. \n\nThey provided a lever action tool to accomplish the \"popping\" of the part into the rubber housing, but after being told that I'm not getting anywhere near the needed numbers, I started just doing it by hand. Using my thumbs to manipulated it and palming it if necessary. \n\nI went from two - to three and sometimes four. Everyone seen me doing this and no one said anything. \n\nAfter a time, my thumb on my right hand started getting really sore and I thought that I was just working it hard. I'd take little breathers. I always stretched before, during and after. \n\nIt eased up a couple of days after each time but never fully went away but I thought nothing of it. I have custody of a child and I'm working as a temp. \n\nThe last day of work for me was on this job. I was finished for the day and left. While grocery shopping I received a call from the temp service stating that the company was ending my contract early due to not being able to make the numbers (on this part specifically). I went to the office and returned my badge and asked what other assignments they had. \n\nI ended up going to another place for a couple of weeks but due to issues with my hand (losing dexterity, unable to grip, couldn't even write and excuse note for my child for school without it hurting), my daughter being sick and them my mother being in a bad car wreck, I resigned from that position. It was mainly cleaning rust off of parts and the motion of sanding it after spraying it with oil would get to me fairly quickly. \n\nI can't play videogames with my daughter, I have issues cooking, writing, playing my drums...pretty much everything. \n\n\nI went to the doctor yesterday finally and he said that I have carpal tunnel and it's pretty pissed off and he gave me steroids and some pain medicine and scheduled me with a hand specialist. He said more than likely I'm going to have to have surgery.\n\nI never thought anything of it when I was doing the job. I've been drumming for over 30 years and never had any issues. \n\n\nI need your opinions if you would be so kind:\n\nWould it be wise of me to contact the temp agency, even after all of this time and explain what happened and try and file worker's compensation?\n\nWould they try and fight me on everything because it has taken me so long to do anything about it or the fact that I have done repetitive motions over the years anyhow? \n\n(*Insert Masturbation Joke*) \n\nIt's really affecting my life a lot. Yes...that includes my sex life...and it isn't getting better. \n\nOr should I just let my insurance take care of it?\n\nThank you so much guys.\n\n\nTL;DR: \n\nDumbass me didn't use the proper tool provided at a temp job and used bare hands to achieve the numbers. Over the course of a couple of months a  few days a week. This caused a repetitive strain injury that didn't get better until a month or so after I was let go for not making the numbers. Finally went to the doctor and it's carpal tunnel and I'm having to see a surgeon because it is getting worse. \n\nAdvice?\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Injured myself at work a month ago over the course of doing a job for a few weeks on and off. Need advice. - Indiana","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569105605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7hmlt\/do_i_have_a_chance_of_getting_custody_of_my\/","id":"d7hmlt","body":"When my daughter was 5 I left the house I lived at with my ex and his family. My ex and I got into an altercation and I was charged with a DV misdemeanor. They were given an emergency protective order and I was in custody for 3 days. I got out, the restraining order for him(only) was turned into a no math order. The way I left was not good an I realize that. I cheated on my husband and when he found out I left, I have no family and the only place I had to go was the other guys apartment which he shared with roommates. I knew that was not the place for her to be and there was no way his family would let that happen. The house and the relationship was extremely toxic. There are no excuses for cheating but sometimes we make mistakes and that is what I did. Since then I've been with the same guy and have tried to be in my daughters life as much as possible. We got a divorce and because he had his parents help and money along with me not knowing what I was doing he got full custody of our daughter. My case was pushed out until about a year later. I had proof of him previously being physical with me (pictures of myself with a bloody lip, bruised face) but my public defender said the court would not take that into consideration unless we went to trial which she advised against. So I pleaded no contest. During our separation my ex tried to commit suicide, and overdosed multiple times. He  was in a mental institution for 2 weeks. Public defender said the judge would not appreciate this info as it would be considered a \"low blow.\"\n\nSo it has been two years and my plan has been to wait until I'm off probation and until I have an apartment with a room for my daughter then try to get custody. I am not off probation yet but I have attended a 52 week anger management program. Her dad drinks, smokes, most likely still takes prescription drugs, is affiliated with gang members and delinquents, gets prescribed 2 different prescriptions of adderall, xanax (doesn't take it just sells it to someone else), has different women sleep over at his house in front of my daughter and the list goes on. I dont drink I dont smoke I hold a job I am a full time student I have been with the same person for 2 years and consider myself responsible despite my previous mistakes. I am tired of letting the fear of not being able to win any custody keep me from trying. I know as long as this is it is still a bit vague and of course there is no way for someone to tell me exactly what the outcome would be. Just looking for any legal advice that would be helpful in my situation and the steps I can take to work toward my goal.","title":"Do I have a chance of getting custody of my daughter? (CA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568743099,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5kmr6\/stocker_placed_on_car_windshield_by_security\/","id":"d5kmr6","body":"Security thought my friend's car was abandoned and slapped a paper sticker onto the driver window of the car. Couldn't this technically be considered illegal or destruction of property?","title":"Stocker placed on car windshield by security.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541616596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v24t6\/type_of_power_of_attorney\/","id":"9v24t6","body":"My father has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer among other things and his mental state while sentient now, is degrading faster than before \n\nHe would like me to have complete control of his finances and medical affairs, do I need multiple power of attorney forms? \n\nIm freaking out this is very fresh and I just arrived from transcontinental flight so please excuse my lack of googling, I just really need someone to kinda talk with and feed me some things :\/ \n\nFrom what I have looked up it appears he will want a durable power of attorney or a durable and a medical, is there a wizard someone could suggest that I can enter in what he wishes that spits out a form? \n\nThanks so much in advance","title":"Type of power of attorney?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570333063,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddy2u2\/permanently_banning_a_player_from_a_videogame_he\/","id":"ddy2u2","body":"So, with the increasing number of both paid and free to play online videogames I was wondering the following: \nIs it legal to take away the player possibility to play the game he payed for or a game in which he spent money on micro-transactions? \nIt\u2019s somewhat tricky of a question in my opinion, being a said game online they aren\u2019t really denying you access to it because you will always be able to buy or play it on a new account, but the question refers to your personal account and all of its contents. \nSo, while with a paid videogame they\u2019re taking away the thing you paid for (and possibly all the content you unlocked inside your account) with a free to play game they may be taking away the content you paid for (example. Character customizations, skins and other in-game content in general).\nIn the physical world it would be unthinkable that, as an example, Apple came ringing to your door to take back your iPhone since you broke one of the rules inside the user agreement, you paid for it! But that\u2019s something that happens online everyday and so this question game to me. \nExcuse the poor composition of this message, I could have definitely explained myself more clearly","title":"Permanently Banning a player from a videogame he payed for","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1506202932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7214w6\/is_it_legal_for_the_police_to_force_me_to\/","id":"7214w6","body":"Is it legal for the Police to force me to Fingerprint unlock my phone without a warrant?\n\nI have read conflicting reports on this. If a state is needed, Oregon.","title":"Is it legal for the Police to force me to Fingerprint unlock my phone without a warrant?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1417050775,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2nj92d\/usa_received_a_cd_email_regarding_a_tumblr_reblog\/","id":"2nj92d","body":"Firstly, you'll be amused that a rapist hired a lawyer that helped a famous football player's child's mother fight for custody rights. But that also means this guy is (1) guilty as fuck and (2) not fucking around. \n\nFrom the beginning: A woman was raped\/had rape attempted on her, and she called 911, received help, filed a report, all that jazz. She later posted about it on tumblr, including the name of the rapist. \n\nIf you know tumblr, it has a \"reblog\" system. Legally, the *original creator* of the content technically owns the rights to the post, and as tumblr users, we're granted permission for \"creative derivations.\" \n\nSimply, I reblogged the post on a blog I own without any alterations. \n\nTwo days ago, I received a Cease & Desist email from the lawyer of the rapist. It makes the following demands: \n\n*  my client requests that your site immediately remove any such postings which refer to him by name \n* your site immediately cease and desist from allowing any further postings regarding him by name in the future. \n* confirm that your site will take immediate action as is set forth above by providing written communication back to me that you have received this communication, \n* that you have complied with the requests made in this communication,  \n* that you agree to abide by my client\u2019s wishes in the future \n\nThat was basically most of the letter. Of course, I do plan on taking down the content. *Eventually.* Maybe. Probably. \n\nNow, here's the real question: \n\nWhat am I legally urged to *avoid* now that I've been approached with this C&D? What sort of things will and won't get me in trouble? \n\nI'm going with the base \"anything public regarding the dude,\" but technically, in the language of the letter, I'm only discouraged from directly posting the name on this site in particular. Issue is, I own an account on every site under the fucking sun. Since this dude is obviously trying to cover his ass since you can Google him and he pops up, I'm tempted to cipher it or spread through private communications or just straight-up post it elsewhere. But I'll also welcome warnings against that, because I can't actually afford to get in trouble. You guys know better than I do. \n\nAlso, how should I directly reply to the email? Are there any templates or just general points to discuss? ","title":"[USA] Received a C&D email regarding a tumblr \"reblog\" including an accused rapist's name.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569668886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daen8a\/how_do_i_obtain_a_lean_release_from_household\/","id":"daen8a","body":"I am buying a Yamaha ATV from a friend. However, the title shows there is a lean. The lien has been paid off years ago, but my friend never received a lien release statement. Reading on the internet it appears that the lien holder Household Bank NA in Carol Stream Illinois no longer exists. How do we obtain a statement proving release of the lien?","title":"How do I obtain a lean release from Household Bank NA? I believe the bank no longer exists. It is for an ATV purchased in 2002.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554157987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8aef4\/my_brother_has_been_going_through_a_custody\/","id":"b8aef4","body":"She accused them both of child endangerment and had them arrested. Yesterday they had been arguing about writing up a 50\/50 custody agreement and she was vehement. Since this morning was her allotted day to pick up her belongings from the house and take my nephew. \n \nThe sheriff station can't release any details until their appearance tomorrow morning, nor are we allowed to see them until then. We know that my brother's ex has taken him and left town. She won't answer any of our calls and we don't know what to do.  \n\nDo we have any recourse? Is there anything we can do to help my brother? ","title":"My brother has been going through a custody battle and his son's mother, had him and my father arrested today.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551718425,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax9aus\/my_boss_snooped_through_my_personal_email_account\/","id":"ax9aus","body":"Hi, folks-\n\nUnfortunately, today I was laid off from my job. I saw the writing on the wall, I knew my employers reckless spending was catching up, and I should\u2019ve been mentally prepared to be let go. \n\nAnywho- \nMy boss was very, very difficult to work with. She\u2019s was vindictive, manipulative, and all-around pretty awful. It wasn\u2019t just me, she was equally despised by everyone. \n\nShe must\u2019ve known that I was going to be laid off Friday, and went on my work computer to get the projects I was working on off my hard drive when I wasn\u2019t there. Okay, makes sense. \n\nThen, she decided to go into my personal email. Thankfully, being that google chrome and gmail have fantastic security features, I am able to track everything that she did (with proof that it was from my work computer). She went into my personal account, which I must have left signed in (but not open, all browsers are always closed)  and poked around ALL of my inboxes for over 2 hours. She even went through my deleted folder. She then downloaded data from my email. Unfortunately, I don\u2019t know what she downloaded. I can only see from the history that an archive was downloaded from my work computer. \n\nAgain- this is my PERSONAL email account, totally separate from my work email. I didn\u2019t use this email for work, and there was absolutely nothing she could\u2019ve actually needed from it. \n\nWhat is in this account is sensitive medical information (including emails from my therapist), banking information, and family information.  \n\nThis is a flagrant breach of privacy- \nIs it worth it to take legal action? Should I tell them I\u2019m going to talk to a lawyer? \n","title":"My boss snooped through my personal email account and downloaded data from it","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569957445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dby8v2\/mom_feels_trapped_in_home_with_dad\/","id":"dby8v2","body":"To make a long story short, after years of alcoholism my dad has gone off the deep end recently. There has been no physical abuse, but a ton of verbal abuse, and my mom doesn\u2019t know what to do because he won\u2019t leave. Both of their names are on the house, and bank accounts, and neither one wants to leave the house because they feel it is theirs. My mom does not know what she can do at this point, and he keeps recklessly spending all of our money, and doesn\u2019t think he has a problem. Is there any advice anyone can give? What kind of steps would she be able to take if she wanted to move forward with separation? We live in MA. Also custody shouldn\u2019t be an issue, both my brother and I are over 18.","title":"Mom feels trapped in home with dad","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552528292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0uimg\/is_my_brothers_ny_school_committing_a_felony_by\/","id":"b0uimg","body":"Dear Reddit, \n\nFirst time posting in this sub! I wanted to ask a question on behalf of my little brother, who is in a private arts college in New York. He just attended a department meeting regarding thesis projects\/senior year and a question was raised about thesis grants. The chair of the department informed the students that they needed to be registered to vote in NY state in order to get access to thesis grants. \n\nMy brother quickly realized that this excludes him. (As well as DACA students\/undocumented persons; international students don\u2019t have to register to get access to the grants.) My brother is transgender and is in the process of changing his name. He is registered to vote in our home state under his dead name, but he is waiting to register in NY until the name change is completed. He was very disappointed to find out that he is basically disqualified from getting thesis grants; he doesn\u2019t think the name change will be completed by the time he needs to apply for the grants. This policy comes from the owner of the school.\n\nCan a private college require students to be registered to vote to get thesis money? Is this bribing students? I know that NY law ELN 17-142 disallows any person to offer money or valuable consideration in exchange for someone registering to vote, but I don\u2019t know if it applies to private colleges. Is it legal to discriminate grants against DACA\/LGBTQ+ students who might be in similar situations to my sibling? \n\nMore than anything, I\u2019m upset that my brother won\u2019t have access to funding for his thesis project. He will have to do everything on his own and not be able to get the assistance that other projects will get, just because of this policy. ","title":"Is my brother's NY school committing a felony by requiring students to register to vote?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568448163,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d42emm\/legal_questions\/","id":"d42emm","body":"(Serious) I was just hit by someone on the highway, when the police arrived they ended up arresting her for a DUI (BAC .16, I live in PA). She totaled my car (2002 Saturn) any advice as to ensure I\u2019m fully compensated? Or whatever?","title":"Legal questions","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1442935605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ly285\/ma_landlord_set_up_opendns_content_filters_porn\/","id":"3ly285","body":"I live in a house with 4 other college students (ages 20-21), which is owned by an older couple who live on the premises on their own side of the house. Yesterday, 3 weeks in to the lease, and seemingly out of nowhere, the owners set up OpenDNS content filtering to block porn and other adult content on the provided wi-fi, which is used by the tenants and the owners. \nUtilities are included in our monthly rent, and we already follow a decent number of agreed upon house-rules. \nNone of the tenants are under 18, there weren't any \"incidents\" to my knowledge, so my question is: Do we have any \"right\" to have unrestricted legal content access on wi-fi that our rental payment includes? If not, do we have the right to set up and pay for our own wireless service? ","title":"(MA) Landlord set up OpenDNS content filters (porn blocking) on the building's wifi network mid-lease, without notice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555285027,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd974w\/i_rearended_someone_today_and_drove_away\/","id":"bd974w","body":"First I'd like to say that the title is a bit misleading. \n\nI rear ended someone today and by rear end I mean tap. a little bit of paint damage but no structural damage. the other driver was uninjured. we talked for a while and she said we didn't need to call the police. I thanked her but as i was driving away i saw her take a picture of my license plate. this makes me think that she may try and turn this into a hit and run type thing. i'm really worried about this because i can't afford fines and\/or go to jail. i live in georgia if that means anything. please help if you can.","title":"I rear-ended someone today and drove away.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506342415,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72c321\/gave_notice_in_august_that_i_wasnt_renewing_my\/","id":"72c321","body":"My lease is over at the end of October, and my landlord emailed me a list of dates and times all this week of perspective tenants who are coming to view the property while I'm still living in it. Nowhere in my lease does it say anything about being obligated to allow her to show the property while I occupy it, and when I brought this up she said that if I refused she would be within her rights to a) keep my deposit and b) sue me for as many months worth of rent that the apartment sits empty because I'm hindering her from finding a new tenant. I have been renting apartments my entire life and I have never heard of this, and I have never had a landlord try to show a place while I live in it. I gave notice to vacate at the end of my lease back in August so I'm not legally doing anything wrong by moving yet I feel like I'm being penalized as if I'm breaking my lease. Does she legally have the right to show the unit while I'm still living in it if it isn't stipulated in the lease? I'm not trying to be difficult, I work weird hours and I'm not comfortable with people wandering around when I'm not there or when I'm sleeping during the day, and I also don't appreciate the aggressive language and threatening with lawsuits when I've been nothing but a good tenant","title":"Gave notice in August that I wasn't renewing my lease, landlord says she is going to show my apartment while I'm still living in it (Maryland)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554345098,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b975ry\/can_we_stop_my_friend_to_be_taken_out_of_school\/","id":"b975ry","body":"This all takes place in Colorado.\n\nI just received a text from my friend saying that her mom is going to take her out of school due to her having 1 failing grade. All because of 1 failing grade. I know that she has a right to education however her mom has a teaching license and could homeschool her. Is there anything we can do to keep her in school? If it helps it is a public high school.","title":"Can we stop my friend to be taken out of school by her mom?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553655026,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5z30f\/are_all_wills_public_record_at_the_county_clerks\/","id":"b5z30f","body":"I am trying to get a hold of a deceased relative's will. If the will was made and I obtain the death certificate would that tell me if a will was ever filed under that person? I am in New York, thank you.","title":"Are all Wills public record at the County Clerks Office?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539025052,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mhrw8\/car_accident_with_unlicensed_minor_behind\/","id":"9mhrw8","body":"So the car is under mine and my wife\u2019s insurance. We lent it to my SIL and she got into an accident with a pickup truck driven by an unlicensed minor carrying a minor as passenger. the cops came to take statements and the mother of the minors arrived at the scene and proceeded to say she was driving(not her child) \nHow it happened: pickup stopped abruptly in the middle of the road, SIL hit the brakes and swerved right but still hit the pickup. Minor damage to other party\u2019s vehicle but ours is totaled. \nHow can we proceed To the fact the mother tried to claim fault to cover for her child? I\u2019m also being told an injury claim was made against my insurance but nobody was injured.\n(No party is at fault that I know of yet but so far my insurance is covering the costs of everything.) ","title":"Car accident with unlicensed minor behind wheel(other party)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1410894092,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gl3lt\/wedding_dj_indiana\/","id":"2gl3lt","body":"Hey Reddit, this is my debut I guess, kinda sad that this is the thing that drove me to create a reddit account. Anyways, here's what happened. \n\n I have a major issue with the DJ that performed at my wedding and I'm not sure what exactly to do about it. Due to his apparent inability to respond, someone at my office suggested taking him to a small claims court. \n\nHere's essentially what happened. \nMy now wife contacted him after he offered a discount (half off) to DJ our wedding. We thought Great! She (verbally) gave him necessary details, including a song to cut the cake, first dance, father daughter, removing the garter, all that stuff. This also included music for just general dancing. This was all verbal. The dj said OK and that he'd get a contract written up and send it our way. Well, come the wedding we never received a contract, the woman who came to represent the DJ was a half hour late, and unable to carry her own equipment into the room were the reception was going to be. She didn't have a table to set up with, so we had to get something put together for her, and she was missing some cables required for setting up her equipment. She didn't even know how to set it up on her own. Fast forward a little to the actual reception. Most DJ's out there provide an MC service as well where they announce what's going on at the time, and just generally get people onto the dance floor. This wasn't the case with her, as she didn't bring a microphone. Realizing this I (the groom) had to scramble to get my father a microphone to try and get this taken care of. On top of all of this, she didn't have music on her laptop that applied to what we wanted in the wedding. I've been in contact with the DJ, he was not apologetic and has been short about the whole thing. With no written contract, what are my options here? \n\nThank you,\nMichael \n\n***EDIT *** \n\nI just found out my wife did sign a contract after the wedding when she paid the DJ apparently. I'm working to acquire a copy of that now. \n***Edit 2*** \ncontract was received finally. My wife signed it after the wedding after paying, it states that she agreed to hire a DJ for the price listed. There's no description of what a DJ does, it did say that we were to provide a Table. Nothing more than that. (would have been a nice thing to know before the reception) ","title":"Wedding DJ [Indiana]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1414091770,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2k4fv1\/classified_ads_websitecaliforniabased_could_any\/","id":"2k4fv1","body":"For example,\n\nOn my classifieds site, if I have a \"services\" section, with services such as tanning, cross-fit, and healthy restaurants. Is it okay to use Google and other search engines, as well as Craigslist and Yelp to find the top rated business in these categories, then post an ad on my site FOR these businesses?\n\nThe writing style for the posted ads will be more blog-style and informational, where we either recommend the service or business and\/or acknowledge that it exists. We will not represent the business or services in any way and will provide direct contact information for the business. There will be a signature at the bottom of the ad that says:\n\n\"Name of my classified site\" Support Team\n\nsupport@\"nameofwebsite\".com\n\nThe purpose of this is to hopefully drive traffic to the site when people search for these businesses and services. Thank you for your help, in advance!\n","title":"Classified ads website\/California-based: Could any repercussions or consequences arise by posting ads for business that don't belong to me?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552693028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1lu98\/18_year_old_mother_with_an_infant_seeking_to_move\/","id":"b1lu98","body":"I (f18) have an infant with my ex boyfriend(20) and lived with his family for over a year now. He was legitimized already. He later decided he did not want me anymore and broke up with me. I have continued to live with them and cannot take the abusive behavior of my child's father and his family anymore. I have no family in Georgia that can help me get on my feet. My family lives 4 hours away. My family wants to help me but the father of my child is making the process of me moving on difficult. He has threatened to take me to court if I do not agree to only 1 week of visitation each month.\n\nI'm having to move colleges, and start new. I also am not moving permanently as I am hoping to return to GA independently in the future. \n\nWhat laws protect my rights to my child? \n","title":"18 Year Old Mother with an infant seeking to move out of state. (GA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505672898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70p8z3\/nj_license_suspended_because_my_old_car_was\/","id":"70p8z3","body":"Hello all,\n\nTo the point: I have two cars, one in my garage with no insurance (valid plate and registration), and my day to day car, which everything is fine with it. I was pulled over and the cop said my license was suspended (He said the licence was suspended 5 days ago) and the reason for my suspension was that I have a car with no insurance.\n\nI never got any notification of this. Anyways, I have a court next Thursday and I don't know what to do. \n\nI'm lost... What should I do in this situation?\n\nThank you all!","title":"[NJ] License suspended because my old car was parked without insurance.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1542239024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x5krd\/contract_not_valid\/","id":"9x5krd","body":"So recently we were given a new contract or \u201cagreement\u201d to sign. In this work agreement it states \u201cyou will be eligible to receive health insurance normally provided for full time employees\u201d not working only part time and as an at Will employee after signing this contract they are saying it was \u201can accident\u201d and should not have been included. Is there any legal way we can require them to provide the health benefits listed in the contract that they and ourselves have signed? Located in Washington state. ","title":"\u201cContract not valid\u201d","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571168399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/did5su\/gainsurance_claim_against_at_fault_driver\/","id":"did5su","body":"OK so about a week ago my wife and kids were involved in a car accident where the other driver was not only listed as at fault, but fled the scene. Luckily several witnesses got the plate # and one witness followed the driver several blocks and took pictures. Police report was done and shows hit and run, other driver at fault. My wife and kids were OK, no injuries and nobody went to the hospital. Her car was totaled however due to frame damage on the front passenger side, after recently being paid off of course.\n\nSince the process of getting the accident report to both insurance companies takes awhile, our insurance gave us a one week rental at 80% covered, we have to pay 20%. They also went ahead and without us even asking cut us a check for their appraised value of her vehicle minus our deductible. They just did this without our knowledge about 3 days after the accident and called us saying we had a check coming for x amount. It's not exactly what I would consider enough to purchase a similar vehicle to hers with the miles she had on it. It would be closer to maybe trade in value, but definitely not retail to buy another one at a dealership or something. However, our insurance company said that's just standard practice and once the accident report is in they go after the other insurance company to collect the money and recover whatever else we should be owed.\n\nFast forward to today, the at fault insurance company called my wife and on a recorded line asked her details of the accident. They then asked if it was indeed a male driving the vehicle to which she replied yes. They then informed my wife that the insured policy was only for a female in the household and had exclusions for other drivers. They didn't say they were denying it over the phone, but that they would investigate and be back in touch. I have a feeling they are going to go that route however based on the circumstances.\n\nWhat legal options do we have at this point if they deny the claim? I know our insurance could file it under uninsured motorist, but that's not really fair to us to have to eat the costs of the deductible, rental, and what money we'll be out of pocket to get my wife a comparable vehicle to what she had. Is it even worth hiring an attorney to go after the insured person or the actual at fault driver? Or should we just let our insurance handle it? After speaking to our agent it sounds like they usually just take the easy route of filing it as uninsured in cases like this. They recommended we just wait until the other insurance company sends an official denial letter. What say you, Reddit?","title":"[GA]Insurance claim against at fault driver excluded under insured driver's policy?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570825805,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgktt3\/estate_agents_unclear_on_parking\/","id":"dgktt3","body":"Moving into a new flat on Monday. When we viewed the property, we were told there was free parking available, and it stated this on the advert. \n\nFlashforward to not even one working day prior to the move-in date, and we get told there was an error and we in fact have to apply for a residential parking permit, which takes 5 working days to be delivered. \n\nMeaning when we move in, someone will have to be sitting in a car the whole time whilst the other runs up and down the stairs moving our things into the flat (there's only two of us). \n\nAnd also means an unexpected bill of \u00a398 each, and no parking for at least five days. \n\nI appreciate this is a very trivial issue, however, I'm wondering if we can do anything about this? I sent an email to the lady dealing with our move-in saying it's quite short notice for them to be telling us this, but she ignored me. Is there anything else I can do?","title":"Estate Agents Unclear on Parking","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445552545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ptxk3\/company_is_getting_sued_they_are_asking_me_to\/","id":"3ptxk3","body":"This is the short version-- I'll be happy to elaborate on some details if you folks think they're relevant.\n\nI am a software engineer at a startup in NYC.  We have achieved some success (at least in terms of growth and raising money).  An individual who had some contact with myself and the other founders back in 2012 before we founded the company is pursuing litigation against us.  The company (and the company's counsel) just came to me to ask me to cooperate with their motions in their case by volunteering access to the phone(s) I've used since 2012 as well as any personal email accounts I've used since 2012.\n\nNaturally I'm not enthusiastic about this idea.  Supposedly this access would be intermediated with a third-party contractor who would basically access my email by searching for certain keywords, and then providing them to the judge \/ court.  If I do not cooperate, they warn that I may be subpoenaed and \/ or open myself up to some liability.\n\nRegarding the relevant communications-- I am not opposed to sharing them.  For example, I'd be happy to provide all of my personal emails that are to or from the people involved in the case and\/or this company (as an example).\n\nIf I were to refuse to work with my company in terms of sharing my entire email account, and I were subpoenaed, what is the breadth of what they would ask for?  Could I just produce the relevant documents myself at that time, rather than access to my entire account?\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Company is getting sued - they are asking me to provide access to my personal email \/ phone. New York City","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1443994345,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nhxcu\/md_chances_i_can_be_in_trouble_for_minor_accident\/","id":"3nhxcu","body":"I bought my car last Saturday. 2014, no accidents reported. This Saturday, I was in a parking lot and a woman backed into me. I had pulled out of my space, started driving forward when I noticed a car to my left look like it was about to quickly pull out. I stopped and waited a moment. Then out of the corner of my eye, I see the car directly to my right begins pulling out. I lay on my horn, but they don't stop until they hit me. I barely felt the collision, but it dented right above my wheel and looks to have cracked the underside. My grandmother was in the car, she mostly spoke to them, I was too upset. \n\nI know better. I know I should've taken pictures before moving my car, I know I maybe should've called the police, but it seemed so minimal. There was another woman who tried to say she saw the whole thing and it was my fault. I don't see how it could've since she backed right into me. \n\nI reported it to both insurance companies. Now I'm just worried because I don't remember the other driver ever accepting fault. There was no damage to her vehicle at all. I'm also concerned that when my fender's dent is popped out and maybe repainted, that it's going to cause depreciation after ONE week of owning it. I think making a diminished value claim is wishful thinking, though. \n\nCan anyone ease my troubled mind or should I really be concerned about this? ","title":"(MD) Chances I can be in trouble for minor accident?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539607695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ocd5i\/if_im_choosing_to_have_a_public_defender_for\/","id":"9ocd5i","body":"Or do I need to tell the court ahead of time that I will need a public defender?","title":"If I'm choosing to have a public defender for traffic court, do I just show up?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568780822,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5sljt\/could_my_friend_have_gone_too_far\/","id":"d5sljt","body":"My non-reddit friend is concerned. He\u2019s located in CO, USA. I moved awhile go for school but we still game a lot. He had a rough day and just wanted to play some PvP games on Xbox. One of his in game teammates turned and shot him, ruining the match. He takes his rank and all that quite seriously. But my friend got a little too heated and ended up messaging the traitor \u201cKys\u201d. This resulted in a nearly instant communication ban, but Xbox spared no other details. He immediately realized not only the gravity of the situation but also how poor his self-control was. He even felt bad for saying it, regardless of what caused it. Neither of us have lawyers or friends even studying law, so I figured I\u2019d post here and see what happens. Can somebody maybe spell out for us just how serious this sits as of right now?","title":"Could my friend have gone too far?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539123519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mtoh4\/roommate_is_pressuring_me_to_move_out_and_if_i\/","id":"9mtoh4","body":"Hi there. I live in Florida. I\u2019ve been renting the house I live in now for 2 years with 2 other girls. One of the girls I live with now is subleasing one room (precious roommate left before the lease was up) my other roommate is in the master and I use the smallest room. \n\nI mentioned to her MONTHS ago that I will be LOOKING for places with my boyfriend to live. Unfortunately we couldn\u2019t find a place in time so  I decided to stay. Our lease at my current house will be over November 1st.\n\nToday she asked me if our landlord discussed the transfer of the deposit, because there will be someone taking over my room. None of this was mentioned to me, and I didn\u2019t tell her that I was moving out for sure. \n\nShe said they will sign the lease with the new roommate , and if I don\u2019t leave then they will. I can easily find people to take their place if they decide to leave \n\nI called my landlord and discussed this with him and he said he\u2019s not kicking me out or siding with them but he already verbally agreed to them three living there with the new price of the house, even though I knew nothing about it.\n\nMy questions are:\nCan they legally kick me out or force me out? \nAnd if she\u2019s hellbent on staying in this house, how can I make sure that I can be part of the lease too? Or more so, is it possible to sign the lease before they get to it? (If I get the two other people to move in)\n\n\nthank you","title":"Roommate is pressuring me to move out and if I don\u2019t, she and my other roommate will","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540376170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qycch\/getting_a_restraining_order_on_someone_who_is\/","id":"9qycch","body":"Mt birth father is an awful, awful person who I know will try and ruin my life and what I've worked for as soon as he gets out of prison. I want to get a restraining order on him, but I don't want to get him in more legal trouble (if that could happen) whilst Hes there. He was originally supposed to go to prison for 10 years due to breaking probation, but somehow managed to only get 2 and a half years. Hes a bad drug addict who gets extremely aggressive towards me because Im gay, and had threatened me and publicly humiliated me before because of it. He has also been known to lie to get people he doesn't like evicted, fired, put in jail, ect. Hence why I want to get a restraining order. So, can I get one without getting him in even more legal trouble? I know Hes Shit and it shouldn't matter, but I don't think my conscious could take it. Any advice will be helpful!\n\nAlso, I live in Virginia. ","title":"Getting a restraining order on someone who is currently in prison.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553643346,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5x1ky\/williamson_county_texas_getting_custody_of_little\/","id":"b5x1ky","body":"WilCo, Texas. First time posting. Sorry that this is all out of order. It's been a long 2 weeks. We want custody of my little brother. I would like to know what the quickest way to do that would be. We have the means to care for him - that is not an issue. \n\nBasic info:\n\n* Currently an open CPS case - 5 y. o. little brother (calling him \"N\")\n* N has witnessed domestic violence (when bio dad was still in the picture \\*see below), and alcoholism (which means seeing my mother fall and hurt herself countless times) his entire life\n* Mother lays in bed for days at a time leaving N to fend for himself, doesn't buy him clothes (she can't afford to - he's wearing 3T and 4T and his size is a S in big kids), he's thin, and he's behind where he should be in school.\n* Mother has been a negligent alcoholic my (25M) entire life - used to drive drunk regularly with myself and my little sister in the car, laid in bed all day leaving me to get my sister to school, stay out all night regularly, etc.\n* Mother lost custody (for the second time) after a (second) DWI (tried to pick N up from school drunk) last week, fell on a teacher, school called PD. They arrested her at the school.\n* After a couple of days in jail, she had a seizure (alcohol withdrawal) and they transferred her to ICU.\n* ICU found that she had  hyponatremia  (common with alcoholics)\n* Mother claims behavior that appeared as if she was intoxicated was all due to hyponatremia, but multiple witnesses (teachers) smelled alcohol on her\n* CPS was granted custody after an investigation (mostly due to information gained by me and my wife\/little sister (19).\n* CPS placed N in our care (placement) for the next 6 months\n* Mother is not allowed contact with N\n* Mother has a long track record with CPS (N was born with alcohol in his system)\n* Bio dad is convicted felon - on house arrest - no chance of gaining custody. Was around for the first 3 years.\n* Mother's husband (2 years) (N's step dad) is also an alcoholic, albeit \"high-functioning\" - enables and \"backs up\" Mother\n* Mother is extremely manipulative and an excellent liar (I am certain she's a sociopath)\n* We fostered my little sister (now an adult) the first time she lost custody - N went to the bio dad's parents (no longer an option)\n* Mother is diagnosed Bi Polar, not medicated, and may also be schizophrenic\n* Mother has totaled cars in the past and got out of the DWI charges via bribes from my ex step-dad (not involved).\n* Mother has a court date set, is not cooperating with CPS (refused to sign him over to us temporarily - needed a court order), and means to gain back custody. She has a court appointed lawyer.\n\nPlease let me know if I need to add any information. Thank you so much for reading.","title":"(Williamson County, Texas) Getting custody of little brother from my negligent, alcoholic, mentally ill Mother.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505772020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70yds6\/landlord_overcharging_security_deposit\/","id":"70yds6","body":"Location: California, US\n\nHello all:\nI have a basic knowledge of tenant laws regarding security deposits from California's website. This is a simple case of the tenants believing that they were charged excessively for upkeep of the unit. We were charged:\n\n* $180 for carpet cleaning\n* $280 for medium clean\n* $370 for full paint\n\nFor a total of $830 dollars. We received a check in the mail for $20 because they mistakenly charged us pet rent for a couple months even though we had an ESA Letter documenting my needs for an emotional support animal.\n\nContext: Given the laws and our lease, we conceded to the carpet cleaning considering we only lived there for 1 year. We spent A LOT of time cleaning the unit. The unit looked so good that the assistant manager commented on the carpets asking if we had them cleaned professionally. We didn't. \n\nWhile there was some spots missed (tiny railing on a fridge door shelf, light dust of blinds), there is no reason that we should have been charged for a medium clean. The spots they took pictures of could have easily been taken care of in 10 minutes. They responded to this saying the cleaning company wanted to charge them for a heavy clean. How is it the tenant's responsibility to bear the costs of the cleaning company wanting to take advantage of our apartment complex? California has laws that state the unit should be returned to the property management company in the condition that we received it in. However, I have pictures that show paint chippings on the carpet as well as some cobwebs. The unit was not \"fully\" cleaned prior to our moving in and we do have the pictures.\n\nNow for paint. We got charged a full paint for scuffing on the walls from furniture and filling in holes we made for shelves, tv, etc. However, from Brown, Warner and Portman, The California Landlord's Law Book, Vol 1: Rights and Responsibilities, it states that \"generally, minor marks and nicks in walls are the landlord's responsibility as normal wear and tear (for example, worn paint caused by a sofa against the wall).\" Doesn't this mean that, as tenants, we shouldn't be charged because furniture did cause some slight discoloration in the walls? Also, I have a picture with a crack in it prior to us moving in and you can tell by the discoloration around the window that it was not painted prior to our moving in. It is against the law to use the security deposit to repair damages that were present when a tenant first moves in. We feel like we shouldn't bear the burden of the costs of repainting a unit which has clearly gone through wear and tear.\n\nThere was also discrimination against the tenants as well. When talking with the assistant manager Friday, she  said all charges were fair considering that \"3 boys lived in the unit\" and that \"things were bound to get messy and the paint ruined\". Isn't that against the Fair Housing Act. It doesn't matter what gender we are. We are tenants with rights and now we feel discriminated against.\n\nADDITIONALLY, having just spoke to the manager, she was firmly rooted in her position, she proudly stated: \"I'll have you know I have worked in property management for 20 years and never lost a court case.\" That's intimidation right? No one remotely suggested small claims and she brings it up in order to intimidate us. \n\nOverall, I'm very upset on how these two goons are handling the situation and I've been told to contact the parent company first explaining how we were intimidated and discriminated against. Then we were considering small claims to get our deposit back if that didn't work out. Is it worth it? Also, I can post my pictures on imgur if anyone does happen to read this. I know it's a bit of a rant.","title":"Landlord Over-Charging Security Deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554225941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8m6t0\/right_of_first_refusal_issues\/","id":"b8m6t0","body":"I've been dating my partner for about a year and a half, and we recently moved in together. While him (D) and his ex-wife (J) had been separated for a while, they went through a very strained divorce last year. They have a 7 year old son (O). Their parenting plan has a section of first refusal for anything over 4 hours, and they have 50\/50 parenting and custody. The section states that each parent is permitted to choose a caretaker that meets their personal standards of safety if the other parent declines. \n\nLast month, D had to go out of town for a business trip. He offered J first refusal and she said no. Therefore, I took care of O for two days. During this time he developed a very minor cough. I was in constant communication with D (the on-duty parent) about it and at transition time, D emailed J telling her about the cough and that O had been given extra fluids and extra sleep. This was not sufficient for J, and she claimed that I was an insufficient care provider, saying such things as me giving him dairy and gluten caused it, and said I needed to talk to her directly. After other very aggressive emails, I have been advised by our family therapist just not to respond and let D navigate. Now D needs to travel for work again, and again he offered her right of first refusal. She refuses to respond if she wants the time, but instead is saying I can watch O if and only if I agree to email her 3 times a day with updates on her son's health and well-being to teach me accountability. She is claiming there is no deadline in the parenting plan, so does not have to tell us if she wants the time with her son. D leaves Friday for the trip and needs coverage Monday and Tuesday of next week. \n\nI understand the easy solution would be to say sure I'll give you updates; however, she is constantly trying to control every aspect of our lives. She sends weekly emails detailing our faults, her analysis of our relationship, and has even stated that she is writing her thesis in school about all of this. We need boundaries. What rights do we have for her responding within a reasonable amount of time if the parenting plan doesn't specify the other parent has to respond within a given number of days? At what point is a parent stirring up drama constantly reason to go back to court to change the parenting plan\/custody agreement? ","title":"Right of first refusal issues","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541468629,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ujyp6\/do_i_owe_child_support_if_ive_never_been_served\/","id":"9ujyp6","body":"I live Clearwater Minnesota for reference. \n\nSo I\u2019ve never been served with papers. No reference to owing money has come up. But I\u2019ve been separated from my ex wife for 2 years since our daughter was born. \n\nAnd I\u2019m wondering if I will owe backed child support if they decide to hit me with papers for child support? If so what will happen? \n\nI\u2019m not in the position to pay anything. Not that I don\u2019t want. It\u2019s just I\u2019m trying to stand on my feet and I know in instances people have gone to jail for not paying and I\u2019m worried that could happen if I\u2019m served because I\u2019m not even on my feet. \n\nThank you for any replies or helpful comments! ","title":"Do I owe child support? If I\u2019ve never been served with papers?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569883898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbjs4t\/ca_company_deducted_2_days_2_days_of_pay_from\/","id":"dbjs4t","body":"Per my contract, I am paid an annual salary plus commissions and standard benefits. No PTO for the first year, which I have not hit yet. \n\nI took two days off during the last pay period, which they deducted from my pay. However, I have dozens of emails and logged phone calls showing I was working while not in the office. Do I have any recourse to get paid for these two days?","title":"[CA] Company deducted 2 days 2 days of pay from when I was I was OOO. I am a salaried employee and have documentation showing I was working, albeit remotely.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507037578,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/740el2\/employer_wrongfully_claiming_that_employee_stole\/","id":"740el2","body":"Location: New York City \nA friend of mine (John) left a job and was expecting to be paid for the last couple weeks after quitting. However, the employer (Jack) did not pay him and in turn claims that John stole $15,000 worth of tools from the job. John claims innocence. I'm not sure if he is or not. He says he didn't steal but I don't know him that closely.\n\nAnyways, John was arrested and charged with grand theft after Jack filed a claim against him. I advised John to file a claim with labor department for unpaid balance. He was going to do that but then Jack paid him before he could do so. \n\nJohn has to appear in court at the end of the month but due to this issue his TLC (taxi) license is on hold until he is deemed not guilt. Now he is at risk of being charged with felony and being unemployed. He wouldn't be able to pay for a decent lawyer to defend himself. \n\nFortunately, Jack got in touch with John and told him that he will withdraw the case from court but John is unsure whether he should hire a lawyer or does the withdrawal clear him all charges without further court proceedings. ","title":"Employer wrongfully claiming that employee stole tools and also held pay","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503983391,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wp4lu\/fl_unpaid_wagesovertime\/","id":"6wp4lu","body":"Hi everyone,\n\nI was an extremely loyal, hardworking and dedicated worker for a company that terminated me several months ago for petty reasons. Because of that, I am seething because I feel like I was taken advantage of and abused. I gave up every aspect of my personal life for this company and now have nothing to show for it.\n\nI have 78 weeks where every single check is set to exactly 40 hours regardless of the amount of time I actually worked. I never worked one week with exactly 40 hours. Most weeks were 55 hours at a minimum. These were all punched in and accounted for at my job.\n\nSo, the statute of limitations is 2 years in Florida. That's where I come up with the number 78 from. Those are all the weeks that are inclusive in that 2 year limit. If I can prove this was willful, we can add 52 more weeks to that. But for now, I'm sticking with 78.\n\nMy last few months with the company this was addressed and my paystubs properly reflect my hours worked - including overtime. But this came with a reduction in pay as well. I have -never- spoken to any authority within my company about rate of pay, amount of pay, raises or reductions, any of that.\n\nAnyway, my questions are this:\n\nFirst of all, do I even have a case? I've called a dozen law firms, the ones without a consultation fee say I'm not right for them, and I don't have any money to pay a 200 dollar consulting fee - unless I really feel I can get somewhere with this.\n\nIf I do have a case...\n\nHow do I go about getting my time clock records? Will I or my attorney be able to get accurate and untampered records? If not, I may have ex-co-workers that I could bribe into pulling some of that up for me.\n\nThe amount in back pay I'm seeking is between $25,000 and $35,000. I'm under the impression I'm entitled to double that, correct?\n\nWhat do I need to say to get lawyer's attention to represent me? If I spend money (not mine) on a consult and don't get anywhere, I'll never hear the end of it.\n\nWhat kind of contingency fee will I be looking at for something like this? \n\nIs there any possibility I could do this on my own? Or at the very least initiate the paperwork so I can stop losing money to the statute of limitations?\n\nAny other advice would be appreciated. As well as questions and comments designed to break me or point out holes. I want to be prepared for everything, and I know if I need to appeal to a lawyer to take my case, I would like to be ready to provide sufficient and detailed answers for any question he might have. I know I was kinda vague but I'm also not sure what else needs to be said... It's pretty simple and straightforward in my opinion. Thanks in advance!","title":"[FL] Unpaid wages\/overtime","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541475427,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ukvt9\/my_renttoown_tenants_are_failures\/","id":"9ukvt9","body":"It\u2019s been 2 years since I switched them from a rental contract to a rent to own. They pay rent late 90% of the time. They send it through mail so I have evidence via post date. As per our contract, they are supposed to pay taxes. The ones due in March weren\u2019t paid until I was sent a notice of default with a sale date from the city. My lawyer sent them a letter after which they did finally get to it. My September taxes they didn\u2019t pay until October 22. I\u2019m still waiting on November rent. I live in Iowa. I guess since they keep defaulting I want them gone. What\u2019s my next step? I have records of late rents and could probably get printouts from the courthouse showing late payments.","title":"My rent-to-own tenants are failures","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551896120,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay1y18\/ca_new_employer_hr_is_insisting_that_i_bring_my\/","id":"ay1y18","body":"They say they don\u2019t need the physical card for any tax purposes, but that they **need** it for \u2018payroll\u2019.  \n\nIn all the many jobs and applications I\u2019ve ever fulfilled I\u2019ve never needed to show them my physical SS card.  \n\nSS website implies that you should really never *have* to show it, but doesn\u2019t give a definitive answer.  ","title":"CA new employer HR is insisting that I bring my physical SS card in","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539738775,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9otsf3\/a_professor_is_taking_over_our_vr_development\/","id":"9otsf3","body":"We have a contract saying that the room is our space to do as *we* please, not him.\n\n Issue is the professor helps us out by getting us deals and sponsorships for our VR space so we cant just completely rid him of our lives. He is a great connections\n\n\n The dude  leaves so much storage there that we don't even have the space open for public even though the space is meant for people to come and work in projects. So we are losing members \n\nHe does not want to listen to us and gets angry when we bring it up.\n\nWe don't want to burn our bridges with him though he is screwing us over.\n\nWhat advice can you guys give us to have him clean the area and leave without us having to completely ruin our relationship with him","title":"A professor is taking over our VR Development space, using it as storage. How can we tell him to leave?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541431307,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uee0u\/advice_needed\/","id":"9uee0u","body":"I was taking online courses with Trevecca Nazarene, I had a class coming up I didn\u2019t necessarily need or want to take. I contacted my advisor the way I always do via email and she gave me an option to switch the class and she usually handles stuff no problem. So a few weeks go by and I\u2019ve tried to reach out to her several times but no response, I called and emailed. So in this time it showed me getting a zero on the class and I hadn\u2019t been added to the new class. So the full class goes by and I get email saying hi I\u2019m your new advisor. Apparently  in this time my advisor either got promoted or quit idk. I explained to my new advisor what happens and they were able to read my email interactions and remove the zero class and get me in the class I wanted on the next slot. Now here\u2019s where the problem comes in. Because I hadn\u2019t been placed into a class at that time my required hours went down and the loans I received had already been paid out so now they told me I owe them a little over a thousand dollars back. I tried to explain to them this wasn\u2019t my fault and have a paper trail showing this wasn\u2019t my fault. Very long story short I\u2019m not in classes and my loans are in collections. Is there anything I can do to fight this? I was told by the college basically sorry but it\u2019s a federal loan and I can\u2019t do anything except pay. Any advice or help would be great thanks in advance.   ","title":"Advice needed","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539998777,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ppzml\/sent_back_to_live_with_biological_parent\/","id":"9ppzml","body":"I was born to two drug addicts that lived in Nevada, at a rehab center, and from there they ran away together and I was born. They never really quit doing drugs, even after I was taken into foster care as an infant for a year. My dad was a paranoid schizophrenic who refused to take his meds and decided to do drugs instead, and so my childhood was filled with a lot of abuse of every kind. My mom was also a druggie who also had many mental issues and refused to acknowledge the fact that my father was sexually assaulting me. I was always influenced to do the wrong things, smoke at a young age, steal, and I had no idea it was wrong because it was my normal. Once my parents split there was a constant flow of boyfriends, and more abuse of every kind. After a few years I was dragged to Nebraska with my bio mom and her boyfriend where we lived in yet another house where we had no food and lived in filth. Year after year it was one messed up situation after another, including times when my bio parents would leach off of seniors and invalids so they had free housing. At this point I was twelve and my depression was kicking in, to the point where I was having breakdowns and experiencing the thought of suicide. I didn\u2019t want to leave my room and enter a house full of filth and lack of food. Seriously, you walked a few feet in and there was at least five piles of dog crap. I met opening myself up to the many drug addicts that came and go, attempting to find anyone that could get me out of my situation. Finally one woman took me in as a babysitter for her child. During this time I missed seven months of school watching her child every day while she went and gambled, leaving me and her two year old in her car for hours on end in the freezing cold. Her car would typically run out of gas after a few hours and we would both freeze, although I usually gave my coat to the baby. After a while she got into hard core drugs and started neglecting her child and leaving me and her ex husband to take care of him. Finally she was busted for drugs and decided I was a lying bitch who didn\u2019t deserve her help, when all I did was take care of her baby and help out more than I did at my own house. From there I was sent back to my biological mom and her abusive cheating husband, who on many occasions beat either one of us. That\u2019s when I tried going back to school but after a few days I was exhausted and just felt like giving up. I missed the two weeks of school and then spend my summer leaving bed which effected my health negatively. I stopped eating or socializing and my anxiety kept me up at night, until the sun was up and I was able to sleep from 8 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon. That\u2019s when I was finally able to reach out to my best friend. She immediately contacted her mom and brought me in. She knew if I didn\u2019t find a place I would call CPS on my bio mom and that would probably lead to me being in another war zone of a home. I was immediately brought in and started to get adjusted. It wasn\u2019t until a few months later did my anxiety and depression lead to me having anger and irritability that I couldn\u2019t control. I was unable to fix anything until I finally almost took my life, and then was brought into a doctor and put on meds. I had an appointment every week for a few months before they became less frequent and a new boyfriend came into my adoptive moms life, who I didn\u2019t have a good feeling about. She began to spend so much time with him and never come home, and that lead me to telling her she should spend more time with her daughter and I. At this point I considered her my permanent mom, but she had a different idea. From then on she was constantly telling me that I didn\u2019t get a say in any adult matters and that I should act like a child. Once I started letting go of my responsible and adult like aura, she didn\u2019t like that either. We clashed from the very beginning it seemed in an incomplete family dynamic with no balancing point. After another half a year we were forced to move out of our nice house and into a very small trailer we shared with her friend, but the trailer was disgusting before we moved in. Even after we fixed it up a bit, things were still bad. With about twelve animals, including two pigs, it was constantly a pig sty. Plus the roommates never cleaned up after themselves, which we were told not to talk about. Finally after I had enough of living there and constantly being threatened that I was goin to be thrown out if I didn\u2019t stop acting like it was the end of the world when it felt exactly like the situation I went through as a child with all the chaos, I started looking for somewhere else to live after my adoptive mom insisted on it. At first I convinced her to let me stay, but after another month things got worse and I started looking again and without her knowledge. She had brought in another boyfriend and I was afraid of telling her my plans, knowing she would probably think that I was only leaving because of her boyfriend, as she though that I didn\u2019t allow her to have a boyfriend. So she finally found out one day when going through my phone, that I was planning on moving. I knew I wouldn\u2019t be able to move right away considering both my bio parents still had custody of me and that my adoptive mom had only gotten temporary custody papers. Next morning she wakes me up with only thirty minutes to pack, telling me I was being taken to the airport because of how ungrateful I was. She planned on sending me to live with my bio mom in Indiana. My bio mom had just moved out there to get clean not long before, but now that I am here I find that her and her current boyfriend may be clean and off drugs because of probation and such, but they are still dealing drugs and I am still unable to find myself appreciating my bio moms presence knowing all she did to me as a child and all of the abuse not mole she inflicted, but her boyfriends as well. So not only was my heart broken by somebody I trusted, by sending me to live with somebody who has caused me so much pain, but I also have to deal with the memories being brought back to mind with just her laugh alone. I hate her to the point where just being near her makes me lose my appetite, makes me suicidal all over again. Can anybody give me any advice on how to get out of this situation I am in within Indiana and return to Nevada? I have some places I can stay (such as family and friends, although none are permanent). If you have any other advice not specific to my question, it\u2019s still welcome. I need a lot of help and anything works. Thank you. ","title":"Sent back to live with Biological Parent","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571199017,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dijwn8\/heres_a_little_exciting_mess_for_you_guys_to_read\/","id":"dijwn8","body":"Let's make this as short as possible and hopefully one of you can tell me exactly wtf to do without me having to do something else stupid. I've added the '#'s' next to my summarized topics\/scenarios to sorta pinpoint the main issues. Whoever chooses to help however way possible, feel free to ask for more details and we'll go from there....there's a lot.\nAnd I'm honestly just finding anything that helps at this point because truth is, I'm desperate and not wanting to give up just yet. I want my son back in my life:\n\n2015 - (#1) Had a kid at 21, broke up with baby momma 5 months after baby was born, co-parented for a few months up until spring of 2016\n\n2016 - Moved to California after a brief meltdown, baby stayed with the mom. Paid child support \"under-the-table\" (didn't take it to court because I was still setting up a new life and the mom understood. Paid maybe a few hundred every week or so), worked at Costco, hated my life, hung myself after work one day blahblahblah survived lol, gets sent to psychiatric hospital for 2 weeks, goes back to work, (#2) gets fired for having too many \"unexcused\" absences ( the \"unexcused\" absences from work that my employer implied were during my stay at the hospital and WERE excused because of the paperwork I provided from the psychiatric hospital; Stating I was hospitalized and ready to work. Still unsure if I have a case with this so I'll add that one as well)\n\n2017- Moved back to same state my baby was, got hooked on speedball and H, stopped talking to baby momma up until the beginning of Summer, reconnected with them, stopped talking to her and my child the end of Fall, continued drug use\n\n2018 - Attempted to overdose, got sent to ER, they  offered rehabilitation, took it and went to Texas for rehabilitation for a good 4 months, finished rehabilitation, went back home, was sent child support forms from baby momma, relapsed, (#3) lots of traffic violations, (#4) ignored them because I became suicidal and figured a dead man doesn't need to pay shit, attempted another overdose, was offered rehabilitation again (Summer), took the offer, went to Vegas for rehabilitation for 3 months, finished rehabilitation, reconnected with baby momma and child via phone, told them I was moving down to California again (I told her what had happened to me and that I was struggling. She had no clue about the rehab visits until I told her. Again, I had a death wish so none of if it mattered at the time. At all, actually. So, letting her know much about anything at the time was the least of my problems), moved in with my Aunt in southern California, (#5) finds out rehab in Vegas went uninsured that whole time and found out only after the debt collector notices came through the mail, got kicked out of my aunt's house, lived in my car til the end of the year.\n\n2019 - moved up to my Dad's in North California, (#6) got a DUI in San Francisco, (#7) misses court for DUI incident, (#8) gets a warrant, moved out of state (this time, with my Mom), (#9) gets pulled over uninsured & no license (surprisingly, no towing or arrests were made), (#10) misses court again, (#11) license is currently suspended in 2 states\nPresent - Really nothing much besides the overwhelming paranoia of everything that's happened, unpaid bills and inability to afford my medications. Yes, there is free healthcare programs or whatever but medicine isnt free. Its not cheap, either. Especially when you've been moving around, trying not kill yourself or hurt yourself again. Gas and car fixes aren't cheap, as well. And plane tickets.\nIve been diagnosed with a few things. PTSD, ADD, BPD, and my favorite: severe depression. Ive favored Wellbutrin\/Prazosin\/Citalopram but am not taking them anymore. Not because I choose not too, I can no longer afford it is all. Counseling\/therapy is not affordable anymore. The incident that followed 2016s attempt fucked. Me. Up. Bad. Physically ok, mentally not so much. The lack of motivation and the choices I set out for myself that further burrow me into this shit show is becoming a little too much lately and resulted me into setting out my \"escape plan\" this passed month. \nI don't want to give up and want to change this. I want to see my son grow. And I chose to not see him, not because I am busy with drugs (ive been off drugs for almost 15 months now, but I still drink on occasion. So, can't really say I'm sober), but because I choose to have him grow without me. He is safe with his mother and it makes me rest easy knowing he is in good hands. Unfortunately, I question my mental health a lot.\nThere's lots of anger\/depressive episodes that occur spontaneously. Makes me unemployable a lot of the times since I can't ever keep a job more than a few months until I quit because I get tired of the job or get fired because they get tired of me. \nThat being said, reliable source of income is (#12)\n\nThank you, and I'll be looking forward to chat with you guys soon","title":"Here's a little exciting mess for you guys to read. I'm finally asking for help.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553813904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6pnl1\/fl_charged_2700_by_landlord_after_moving_out\/","id":"b6pnl1","body":"Apologies ahead of time for any poor formatting. Maybe the mods can charge me a few grand to tidy it up. \/s\n\n​\n\nMy wife and I, along with our two children, just moved out of a home we had been renting in Florida for just under a decade. When we moved out, we made sure to clean up after ourselves, but after 9 years there was some wear-and-tear. As I don't want to include any pictures to potentially identify ourselves or the home, I'll try to be as truthful as possible even if it means admitting fault on certain aspects.\n\n​\n\nThe two things I expected to get dinged for was 2 rooms that had not been re-painted back to their original color and for 2 blinds that had rips in them. Beyond that, the yard was done, sweeping, mopping, dusting, windex, etc. The house is an older house so the floor was already very scuffed up when we moved in and there was a lot of things that had to be fixed up throughout our stay (flooding, cracked walls\/ceilings, air conditioning, septic tank, etc).\n\n​\n\nWe started off paying something in the range of $850\/mth for rent when we originally moved in and that number ended up at $1,100\/mth. Our security deposit was $695. I figured that the $695 would pretty easily cover the blinds and painting. At worst, I thought maybe we would be billed a couple hundred dollars because there have been a few times in the past where (in my opinion) the property management group nickel and dimed us. However, all in all, we had a pretty good relationship and only ever had 1 late payment (a few days) that was a result of a hurricane many years ago.\n\n​\n\nAfter having been out of the home for a month, I just received an official letter from the property management group. They are stating that the repairs cost $2,700 and that we would owe just over $2,000 after our security deposit was used up. I'm hesitant to give a very specific breakdown of every charge in trying to keep with the rules about giving out information that might be revealing. If I'm mistaken, let me know and I'll add edits. Here is a sampling of the charges:\n\n​\n\n* Painting of 2 rooms - $350\n* Trim bushes - $575\n* Pressure wash wall - $250\n* Pressure wash driveway - $125\n* Replace ALL blinds - $650\n* Interior cleaning - $400\n* A handful of various charges for mailbox repair, \"flea bomb removal\"???, replace smoke detectors, replace lightbulbs, etc. FYI - I checked every light bulb before leaving and no mention of the mailbox during the inspection 2 months ago.\n\n​\n\nI won't bore you with details of how this is making me feel, beyond saying that my anxiety level is through the roof and these charges would be devastating for us. What recourse do I have? I would be extremely grateful for any advice on how to handle this situation. FYI, this is the first rental property I ever moved out of and I did not think to take pictures after cleaning. This seems incredibly foolish in light of my current situation, but it just did not occur to me.","title":"[FL] Charged $2,700 by landlord after moving out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445889294,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qbmk7\/chicago_il_roommate_suing_me_for_3_months_rent_in\/","id":"3qbmk7","body":"Bit of backstory here: I signed a lease agreement with a former friend back in July of this year. It was in a very highly desirable part of town (Lakeview\/Wrigleyville). I felt uncomfortable about it, and I'm admittedly a bit of a pushover when it comes to peer pressure, so he pressured the hell out of me until I agreed to sign the lease. I know this doesn't matter legally. I still signed the lease. It was joint and several liability, and he also had his father sign as a cosigner due to the fact that he had no credit. After paying one months rent, I moved in.\n\nThe former friend is notoriously aggressive, messy, and a heavy drinker. I didn't think it would be a problem, but when I moved in it became too much for me to handle. That, plus the expensive rent, plus the long commute to work in the NW suburbs made it very difficult for me to justify staying.   \n  \nI moved out within a few days after moving in, and told the roommate I would pay until we found a subleaser. He met me with violent aggression saying that he would either find the subleaser himself, or that he would see about terminating the lease. I was okay with this, but still felt that it was my obligation to find the subleaser. He also told me to move all my stuff out and hand over the keys. I moved all my stuff out (back to my parents), but I kept the keys.\n  \nAfter showing around 15 people the apartment, I gave each of them my roommates phone number so they could arrange to meet. He met with none of them, and didn't respond to any of my calls, stating that he's the one that gets to decide who moves in and I would have to pay until I found someone he approved of.  \n  \nFrustrated, I told him that it was his responsibility to pay the rent just like me, and that if he was not reasonable in showing the apartment, I wouldn't continue to pay like I promised. This caused him to explode, making lude comments about my character, my family, etc. I tried to bargain with him, saying that if he worked with me on finding a roommate, I would pay his rent for a month. He refused.  \n  \nIt is now nearly 4 months later, and I received a summons in the mail. Not from the landlord but from him. He is suing me for lost rent in the amount of 3 months of my share.   \n  \nWhat are my options to defend myself? Does he have a duty to mitigate damages, or can he continue to sue me until the lease is over while not looking for sublets? This whole situation is very stressful and has caused me to lose a significant amount of sleep\/affecting my day at work.\n  \nThank you!","title":"[Chicago, IL] Roommate suing me for 3 months rent in small claims court, I moved out with 11 months left","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539086498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9moiza\/mi_paying_for_defendants_attorney\/","id":"9moiza","body":"Background - I am the plaintiff. I filed for divorce. We went through all court meetings without lawyers\/attorneys; until our last bench trial, wife showed up with an attorney (unrelated: normally practices criminal law). Long term, I believe the attorneys presence helped BOTH of us. I don't want to extend this process any longer. Wife doesn't have much money, but is getting alimony and child support from me. No one asked how she was able to secure an attorney. It's a friend of a family.  Again, I have no interest in drawing this out. I don't believe she has any good reason to draw it out either. Judge broke down the judgement at the bench trial and assigned the attorney to draft the Judgement of Divorce. Attorney needed info from me. I provided it. Attorney said one week to prepare. Been over a week. \n\nNow the issue - I find out yesterday from wife that the attorney is withholding the Judgement of Divorce draft because she owes him $250. I contact attorney to see if it's okay with him if I pay the fee. He says, \"fine with her, fine with me, it's $750.\" He doesn't provide invoice, though I asked for one. Asked wife to confirm amount, she said it was wrong, hasn't confirmed. \n\nNow the questions - Is it okay to offer her to pay the $750 now, and ask her to pay me back HALF of that? Is it okay to ask for that payment in a signed document out of dispersed alimony payments? (it would take 3-4 months for her to pay me back this way)\n\nOther notes - Court fees were waived. There was no judgement on whether or not to pay for her attorney fees. I was awarded 80% of the family debt. She was awarded 80% of the assets. Child support and Alimony were reduced at this hearing. ","title":"(MI) Paying for defendant's attorney","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552575469,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b11azp\/can_i_sue_supplement_manufacturer_for_screwing_me\/","id":"b11azp","body":"Not sure if anyone would be able to help. \n\nSo I had a pre workout powder manufactured...\n\nThey told me the label would be fda compliant yadda yadda and i would get a sku. \n\nI am a small company mind you. \n\nI got my product and it didn\u2019t have a sku, and isn\u2019t FDA compliant so I can\u2019t sell on Amazon. \n\nAm I entitled to compensation etc? \n\nThanks. \n\nNew Jersey, US\n\nTldr; manufacturer screwed me","title":"Can I sue supplement manufacturer for screwing me over and producing NON FDA compliant label? [Nj] they are in [Atl]","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446521225,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3razea\/ut_landlord_refusing_to_return_deposit_on\/","id":"3razea","body":"Hello, I am posting this for a family member who was trying to rent a house in Utah from a landlord whose mangement company oversees several properties.  My family member went to this rental house and decided they wanted to rent it. The landlord asked for a $1095 deposit plus $40 that would be nonrefundable for a total of $1135, before he would run their credit and approve them for the house. They paid the deposit by cashiers check and then he sent them a copy of the lease. While reviewing the lease they found some very strange clauses and decided they didn't want to move in. For example the lease said:\n  \n* The rent can increase at any time during the lease,   \n* Utilities can also increase at any time,  \n* The renters must use his property management company for yardwork,  \n* Any animal feces found in the yard would add $50 to the monthly rent,  \n* The renter could not hire an outside inspector to check for any contaminates,  \n* Owner has the right to enter the property for any reason at any time,  \n* Owner can take any personal property as a lien if the rent is late,  \n,etc.   \n\nAfter reading this my family member decided not to rent from this management company and asked that their deposit be returned. Initially the landlord refused entirely, but today he finally returned $696, keeping the $40 nonrefundable deposit and an additional $399. The questions I have are what is the best way to recover the additional $399? Small claims court? Also are these clauses in his lease legal? If not, is there an agency that we could report the landlord's management company to? Thanks. ","title":"[UT] Landlord refusing to return deposit on property that I didn't end up renting","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569982743,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc3y5m\/landlord_told_me_verbally_i_have_30_days_to_leave\/","id":"dc3y5m","body":"Hello, hoping this sub can give me some direction and hope in my current situation. I\u2019m a college student and have been living in an apartment with one roommate. I moved in May 25th 2019 and she moved in sometime in August. Soon after I moved in, I noticed I was very congested and felt very sick. I had a hunch that maybe there was mould in the air and decided to check my A\/C unit. Sure enough, tons of white and black mould. I then cleaned what I thought was all of the mould off using Lysol wipes and went about my business. On August 8th I checked the air conditioner and noticed the mould was back, and worse. I emailed my landlord and submitted a maintainence request to have it cleaned or replaced. She told me that it was not her responsibility and that I would need to clean the unit. I told her that I had a month prior and that the mould was back and that I had now been ill because of it for 2 months. Again she told me it was my responsibility. Another month passes, and my roommate decided to check her a\/c unit. She discovered it was full of black mould. Still sick, I checked mine and of course it was also full of mould again. My roommate contacted the landlord and she had maintainence install another unit, taken from another apartment in the complex. This unit also had mould in it. So we went nuclear. We got some CLR and some bleach and cleaned the absolute shit out of these units. We thought we had fixed it finally and I assumed by this point that whatever was wrong with my sinuses must be due to my usual seasonal allergies this time of year. Fast forward to this weekend when my roommate checks her a\/c again and finds more mould once again. After returning from being away at my girlfriend\u2019s I decided to stick my phone into the a\/c unit and record it. It was INFESTED. I then decided the best course of action was to submit a maintinence request every day. We also decided that since nothing was done once again, to have the unit inspected by the city. Today, we received an email telling us there is no mould in the apartment and as the inspector looked in the unit, they said she definitely needs to replace these. When they were leaving my landlord caught them in the hall and talked to them in her office. After 10 minutes she knocked on our door. She told us that we have 30 days to be out of the apartment and that we do not need to take legal action against her and that she will be replacing the units. We told her we wanted it in writing and she said to come to the office to get it. We did about 15 minutes later and an office worker told us shes not here and that we need to come back later. So we looked at a few apartments around town and came back. She told us to come to her office so we did. She said that we cannot leave and she will not forfeit our contract and that she needs to do a mould test to see if it\u2019s mould or dirt. So I asked her why she told us we need to be out and she sarcastically (and smirkingly) replied that its not in writing and that she never said that. So I told my mother who was in the waiting area and the landlord came out and told us to leave and that we do not need to talk about it there. I told her im angry because im concerned about my health and she said that\u2019s why she needs us to leave because she\u2019s concerned too. She then told us to leave and go back to our unit. I want out and need to know what to do. [here\u2019s the parts of the lease mentioning breaking contract and leaving](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/lBIzvUm)","title":"Landlord told me verbally I have 30 days to leave my apartment, then told me she could not give it in writing and that I cannot break my lease and that I must stay","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554166112,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8c4jw\/lien_release_mt\/","id":"b8c4jw","body":"Hopefully the flair is correct.\n\nOn february 27th i purchased a 2011 peterbilt from my former boss. The truck still had a lien on the title from Mercedes Benz financial services from when he had purchased the truck in 2015. I still have access to the montana state auto dealers portal and can see that the lien is still in the system. By montana law, the lien release must be mailed to both the state and the borrower within 10? Days. Former boss states that the payoff check was mailed to MBFS on 3\/5\/19. I have 2 bills of sale including the amount, both notorized, and text messages confirming when the money (in the form of a certified check) changed hands. \n\nYou dont need a title to license a class 8 semi, i have it licensed and inspected under my company. I just want state record that the truck is in my name and owned free and clear. \n\nMisc\n\nI was sold the truck with the understanding that i would continue working as an owner operator under my old bosses authority. As soon as the check cleared, that option was rescinded and i was left jobless. Since i. Had purchased the truck unemploymemt considered it a voluntary separation in my part and i was ineligible for benefits. I feel pretty screwed by this worthless sack and want to make sure the truck is safe. He is not very financially literate and my father, a CPA, says that if anything happens its simple to take care of. \n\nHow long do i have to wait before pursuing legal action, and what does that process look like? Demand letter? \n\nTruck was purchased for $13,500. Acv is around $28,000-40,000 depending on where you go. ","title":"Lien release (MT)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555101366,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcii4a\/dentist_office_messed_up_insurance_am_i_out_of\/","id":"bcii4a","body":"My dental insurance provided by my employer changed providers at the beginning of this year.\n\nWhen I called the dentist I normally see to set up my annual cleaning, I let them know about the change in providers and asked if they were still considered \u201cin network\u201d. They called me back to say yes, and I set up my appointment.\n\nWhen I got to the office, I was asked to verify all my information and initial each page. I noticed my insurance still was not updated. So I did not sign that page. I let them know again, provided my new insurance card. They made copies and everything. I again asked if everything would be covered. The lady behind the desk called, and again told me yes.\n\nI ended up needing a root canal and crown. After they had only rubbed a topical numbing gel I heard the receptionist talking to the hygienist. Telling her that the office was actually out \u201cout of network\u201d and that the root scandal and crown would not be covered. I stopped everything. Said I would find a new dentist, that I pay for insurance for a reason, and would not be paying for all this out of pocket. They hygienist said they would get all this figured out before moving forward with my treatment.\n\nTen minutes later the hygienist, receptionist, and dentist enter explaining everything was okay insurance wise. That the original price provided to me was accurate, and that they fixed all the insurance issues.\n\nNow a month later I get a freakin bill from them for 1,200 dollars saying that the insurance kicked back saying they were out of network. I\u2019m livid. What do I do? Bite the bullet and pay the bill? Go up to the office and have a small melt down? Refuse to pay? Ugghhh I\u2019m so annoyed. Do I have any legal standing here, or am I shit out of luck?","title":"Dentist office messed up insurance. Am I out of luck?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568958759,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6qj0o\/my_father_was_involved_in_a_work_related\/","id":"d6qj0o","body":"About 4 months ago my dad was involved in a confrontation with another employee. My dad (a chef) was getting loads of orders from another employee (female cashier) and not spreading them out to other chefs who were also on the line. My dad got upset and told her cmon what the fuck there\u2019s other chefs here not just me. At first the cashier wasn\u2019t concerned over what he said but two weeks later the owner of the establishment told my dad that he should leave the job because the cashier took it as harassment and apparently her dad is a cop and could face a problem. My dad left the job site and didn\u2019t report it to his union either. Today two sheriffs department detectives came to my house looking for my dad. I turned them away and didn\u2019t give them any type of information other then I was his son. They ended up calling up my dad anyways and spoke to him about the situation and I think my dad gave a statement about it. Now I\u2019m not sure what steps we should take. I was looking into lawyers \/ attorneys but don\u2019t much about laws or anything.","title":"My father was involved in a work related confrontation with another employee and let go. Today two detectives came to our house inquiring about him.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539011373,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mfo7f\/domestic_abuse_in_florida_what_happens_next\/","id":"9mfo7f","body":"My girlfriend lives in Florida. She lives alone and had her sister visit from out of state. Her sister has a tendency to be physically aggressive when frustrated. She got frustrated last night and assaulted my girlfriend. My girlfriend asked her several times to leave her home. She called the cops to have a person of authority escort her off her property. In Virginia a domestic abuse case does not Guarantee incarceration, my girlfriend did not know the laws of Florida so she called the cops. Her sister is in jail right now, my girlfriend will not be pressing charges upon her release. How long will it be until she is released? Will her sister have to return to Florida for court if my girlfriend doesn\u2019t press charges? What happens next? My girlfriend is worried sick and feels guilty about her sister being in jail. Please reply ASAP. ","title":"Domestic abuse in Florida what happens next?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444844411,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oqyjt\/durable_power_of_attorney_dead_grandma_sick\/","id":"3oqyjt","body":"**State:** Michigan\n\n**The Short Version:** Dad got Durable Power of Attorney from Grandma. Grandma died. Grandpa's very sick. Aunt thinks she'll inherit the house in Grandma's name from Grandpa. Dad thinks he's got a trump card. I don't think so. Help?\n\nIn the early 90s, my late paternal grandmother was legally separated from my grandfather, in another relationship, but still married to grandpa. Grandma and dad went in on a house that was entirely in grandma's name. Grandma got sick. At some point, I'm not sure when, she had paperwork filed to make my father durable power of attorney for her. He still has the paperwork.\n\nGrandma died. Now, my understanding is that power of attorney expires when the principal (in my case, grandma) dies. So I don't think this document is meaningful anymore.\n\nGrandpa obviously inherited grandma's assets, including a house, and lived in that house. Grandpa and dad had a falling out, and grandpa is now hospitalized with  the early stages of dementia and a host of other health problems. One aunt is in charge of his medical decisions, but we have no idea how far that goes legally--we don't know if she has medical power of attorney or what. She won't talk to us and everyone who does know what's going on speaks of it in such vague or inexact terms that it's impossible to tell what her *legal* standing is. Another aunt is pretty much out of it, but is convinced that she inherits the house.\n\nMy dad thinks that because he had durable POA and the house was in grandma's name and likely still is, that he will control that house in particular once grandpa's dead. Since POA expires on death of the principal, I believe the document does nothing, and whoever has durable or financial power of attorney for GRANDPA controls the house until his death, when control of the house goes to the executor of the estate, followed by whoever inherits the house as per a will.\n\nI feel kind of stupid asking about this here, but I'm not a lawyer and my attempts to tell dad \"that's not how it works\" have fallen on deaf ears. I mentioned this forum and he told me to ask here--dad's not very computer savvy. \n\nSo, question: If my grandma signed over **durable power of attorney** to dad and then **died in 94**, can dad do anything with the house **in her name** when **grandpa** dies?\n\nI'm pretty sure the answer is no, but dad has a lot more faith in r\/legaladvice than my opinion. \n\nPeople involved:\n**Grandma:** Died in 94'. Owned the house, her name only. Separated from but still married to grandpa at time of house purchase and at time of death. Named dad Durable Power of Attorney. Dad has paperwork.\n**Dad:** Durable Power of Attorney for Grandma, went in on house with her in her name. Still has paperwork. Estranged from grandpa; believes he inherits or controls Grandma's house, which grandpa lives in.\n**Grandpa:** Sick in the hospital with dementia and several other things. Inherited house from grandma; house is likely still in her name. May have named Aunt1 medical POA, may not have; no one will tell us how official this is.\n**Aunt1:** Actively making medical decisions for grandpa. May be medical or even durable power of attorney for grandpa, may not.\n**Aunt2:** Believes she inherits grandma's house. Dad is sure she doesn't.\n**Me:** Dad's loyal internet monkey, asking on his behalf. Will be embarrassed if dad takes this to court if he doesn't have a leg to stand on. Almost no financial interest in this, although really anything that keeps either of my parents out of financial ruin is good for me.","title":"Durable Power of Attorney, Dead Grandma, Sick Grandpa, and an Old House - Worth a lawyer? [MI]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553771024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6hekx\/dont_know_if_this_is_the_best_place_to_post\/","id":"b6hekx","body":"My school recently forced a child to shower. It isn\u2019t really something they do, as we don\u2019t shower after P.E. Or anything, but the teachers and one of the counselors told him he smelled bad and forced him to shower.\nI don\u2019t know where the hell there\u2019s a damn shower in my school and I just don\u2019t trust anyone there. Since I was younger going to this school I always noticed some teachers who were... weird around kids. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s legal or not, I just need advice on what to do. ","title":"Don\u2019t know if this is the best place to post...","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541374129,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u8au7\/my_roommate_got_into_a_car_accident_and_the\/","id":"9u8au7","body":"**The Accident** \\- It happened a week ago in a small town in Missouri. My roommate was driving to class when a car hit her in a 4-way intersection with two stop signs. The guy failed to stop at the stop sign and ended up hitting my friend, whose car ended up doing a 180 spin but thankfully didn't flip over. The police was called and the guy admitted to not paying attention to the road and hence not seeing her car. My friend then called the guy's insurance company (a small company based in Grinnell, Iowa) who accepted complete liability. They asked her to take the car to a body shop for repair, which would be paid for by them. \n\n**The Damage** \\- The rear passenger door on the driver's side took the full impact of the hit. The bottom half of the door panel was completely scrunched up and almost unhinged. There were dents that spread across the door panel to almost the back of the car. And her exhaust pipe was somehow dangling from the rear and almost scraping the road. The whiplash resulted from the impact also hurt her neck and left arm, and she has been going to the chiropractor for it. \n\n**The Issue** \\- She took the car to one of the most popular bodyshops in town. They bodyshop gave her and the guy's insurance company an estimate of $7000 to fix the damages. Unfortunately, the insurance company is refusing to pay the bodyshop the $7000 for repair and have offered her just $5000, that is only if, in their words, \"you decide to keep the car\". But if \"you hand the car to us\", they have offered her $6500. They claim that the current market value of her Jeep (pre-owned) is around that amount. However, we have throughly searched the internet and found that a similar Jeep (with similar miles) cost anywhere between $12,000 - $14,000. They told her that they would send her a detailed report on Friday so that she can discuss it with her parents over the weekend. However, they haven't sent her anything as of yet. Her Jeep is still at the bodyshop, and the 'storage fee' is being paid for by the insurance company.  Since the company accepted liability, the claim with her own insurance company was terminated. What should be her next step? ","title":"My roommate got into a car accident and the guilty party's insurance is refusing to pay for the car repair.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551282241,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aveu1h\/my_upstairs_neighbor_flooded_his_bathtub_and_now\/","id":"aveu1h","body":"Okay so like the title says, I live on the bottom floor of a 3 floor building. My upstairs neighbor, who also happens to be my landlord\u2019s maintenance guy, flooded his bathtub a month ago and water was leaking down from my ceiling and behind the hallway wall, causing water damage to the ceiling in my bathroom and a bubble of water underneath the paint in my hallway. \n\nI sent my landlord a text the same day telling her about what had happened and she said that she would get the maintenance guy on it as soon as possible. 2 weeks later, he showed up to take a look at the damage and said he would be back Monday to fix it. He didn\u2019t show up, text me or call me and hasn\u2019t mentioned anything about it in passing when I\u2019ve seen him. it\u2019s been a month now since this happened and I\u2019m worried about mold\/mildew, structural damage, etc. rent is due in a few days and I want to know what my options are for confronting my landlord about this and what my rights are. \n\nI should note that I live in New Hampshire. \n\nSorry for formatting, I\u2019m on mobile. ","title":"My upstairs neighbor flooded his bathtub and now I have water damage in my walls. Told my landlord about it a month ago, and she hasn\u2019t done anything about it yet. What can\/should I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555639349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bettzw\/paternity_laws_for_unwed_parents_ohio\/","id":"bettzw","body":"TL;DR: father has been absent since newborn, he\u2019s not a good person either. Do I have 100% rights? What rights did he obtain by signing b.c with no family court proceedings ever happening?\n\nIf the father signs the birth certificate, and the parents are unwed, does the mother still have 100% parental rights? \n\nBackground info if helpful;\n\nMy child is 6, almost 7. Her bio dad and I weren\u2019t ever married, and he forced me to put his name on her b.c (which I later found out shouldn\u2019t have been possible- other unwed mothers said they told their boyfriend\/fianc\u00e9 they had to leave the room while it was being filled out..that didn\u2019t happen in my case.) \n\nHe was physically abusive, as well as mentally and emotionally. He almost killed me when my child was 2 and a half months old because she was crying too much on top of other \u2018reasons\u2019 in his mind. I escaped that day finally. We went through grand jury on DV charges. He was sentenced. I had gotten the max restraining order for my child and I. He was out of prison for a short time and went back in on manufacturing meth charges and DV against his then girlfriend.\n\nHe\u2019ll be up for parole later this year, and my restraining order has expired. I planned to get it filed again, but I\u2019m concerned. \n\nIf I die, and leave a will, I\u2019ve been told it won\u2019t be honored until they look at him since he\u2019s on the b.c. I\u2019ve been told I\u2019m not allowed to take my daughter across state lines without him knowing or else I could get in serious trouble. I\u2019ve been told the only way to eliminate his rights is to find someone to marry and adopt my child. \n\nWe\u2019ve never been to family court for custody, support, visitation- nothing. His name is on the b.c and that\u2019s it. \n\nDo I have 100% rights? Is there a way to ensure a will be honored if something were to happen? How do I get 100% rights if I don\u2019t already have them?","title":"Paternity laws for unwed parents (Ohio)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446682650,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rkbdt\/few_questions_about_eviction_related_issues_in\/","id":"3rkbdt","body":"I got served on 2015-11-02, and plan to talk to the law clinic on friday morning, but have a few questions was hoping to get a jump on.  I'm pretty confident I'll win, not only does the packet I received include a couple examples of perjury, but I also have the report from the Sheriff's department for my call to them when she entered my apartment illegally, two days before she gave me the notice to vacate.  Which makes it retaliatory, as it happened within 90 days after the incident.\n\nSo first, and most important question.  I have filled out the \"answer\", waiting to have the law clinic verify it's right before submitting.  However, it sticks in my mind that I need to fill out more forms, but I'm having trouble figuring out which.  Can anyone let me know which ones to use?\n\nSecond, I was served at 2130.  I don't consider that a \"reasonable\" time, but a quick searh through the RCW gave no joy.  Are there laws about when a person can be served?  just curious here, was Good Thing^tm to get it ASAP.\n\nThird, my name is technically misspelled.  actually it's miscapitalized.  my name is \"Abcde\", whereas the papers have \"AbCde\".  am I correct that this won't matter to the court?\n\nFinally, in one of the papers, there's a typo.  Or maybe I am \"a state disability\"  Will that typo make any difference?\n\nThis is Washington state, USA, not Western Australia.  clarify because the notice to vacate quotes an Australian law.","title":"Few questions about Eviction related issues in Washington.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504798758,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ynzo0\/two_noncompete_questions\/","id":"6ynzo0","body":"Hi Guys.  My wife just resigned from her position and is now coming up with a plan for what to do next.  I have two questions about her non-compete:  \n\n\n1) In her contract it stated that she would need to do intermittent and occasional \"on-call\" work.  That was not the case.  For the days she was supposed to be \"on-call\" they made her come in.  Basically she was scheduled for those days instead of on-call.  Would that violation of her contract be enough to throw the whole thing out including the non-compete?  If not, then... \n\n\n2) the non-compete clause states 25 miles, but it doesn't say \"air miles\" or \"as-the-crow-flies\" miles.  Would that 25 mile distance be a straight line or would she be fine using driving distance to calculate that distance?\n\n\nThanks very much!\n\n\n**EDIT: I forgot to add a location and now a bunny is going to get punted into a pit of lava by an NFL placekicker!  Noooo.  The location is North Carolina.  Additional notes, my wife is a doctor, the non-compete is for one year, and I'm not entirely sure what it says she cannot do.  I think it says \"cannot practice medicine within 25 miles\" or something along those lines.","title":"Two non-compete questions","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552798201,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b21nob\/removing_myself_from_someone_elses_will_ga\/","id":"b21nob","body":"Along with my siblings, I am set to inherit several assets, which include: liquid assets, personal property (homes), voting rights in partnerships, and large amounts of land.\n\nFor many years, I have been aware that this was my inheritance. My siblings and I have been kept up to date both individually and collectively on the entirety of both liquid and non-liquid assets. What to do if my father dies during a time of high estate tax or absence of it.\n\nSomewhat unbeknownst to my family, I have encountered medical issues that I\u2019ve decided to handle privately. My own disclosure of my medical treatment has been (for reasons that make sense to me) kept private, or at least in secret from my family.\n\nThere are many facets to my relationships with multiple family members. Ultimately though, I have thought for years about my inheritance. I do not want to be a part of it. The reasoning isn\u2019t important for this subreddit (afaik). \n\nDo I need to simply ask my parent about removing me from the will (highly unlikely), or is\/are there (an) action(s) I can take to disassociate myself legally from inheritance all together. ","title":"Removing myself from someone else\u2019s will [GA]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1444705918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ojem2\/my_mother_is_demanding_i_leave_our_apartment_but\/","id":"3ojem2","body":"Rockville, MD.  This just happened. So long story short, we got into an argument, and at the end of it all, my mother was screaming hysterically and telling me she wants me out.\n\nThing is, its my name on the apartment lease (her idea). My mother and brother are occupants of the apartment. Frankly I'd love nothing more than to be away from her crazy ass, but I know better than to break a lease that's still good until next December.\n\nAlso, I'm the only one in the house working full time. She has alimony payments that will likely be stopped in the next few months, my brother (who is slightly disabled) recently graduated and is trying to find work. Not much sense for me to leave when odds are I'll be the one supporting both of them in the long term (due to his disabilities and her age\/health issues).\n\nAny advice? Should I let her cool down and try to reason with her tomorrow or another day? Just for the sake of the lease if anything.\n\nMy mother and I both split the rent. I could barely afford the full rent here, I agreed to the lease with the understanding we would be splitting it.\n\nI know I can't legally just be kicked out. Please help me understand my rights here.","title":"My mother is demanding I leave our apartment, but its my name on the lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553009956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2ywm8\/can_a_police_officer_give_me_a_ticket_for_a\/","id":"b2ywm8","body":"Accidentally went in the carpool, realized it too late and came out but a CHP motorcycle was behind me, he drove up and looked inside my car and obviously saw I was alone but didn\u2019t pull me over and drove off, can he still write me a ticket for this or no?","title":"Can a police officer give me a ticket for a traffic violation without pulling me over?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568769712,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5qhxl\/being_sent_to_collections_for_a_debt_that_isnt\/","id":"d5qhxl","body":"Even tho I made the mistake of letting him use my debit card years ago , and he went ghost on them and never cancelled his account and after many attempts they went looking for me , they told him he just needed a card on file and he was paying his payments up from , I let him use it as a favor just to put on file so he can join , I ended up not having the card anymore and I guess he avoided them and now they went looking for the cardholder and that\u2019s my information , he is not wanting to take responsibility and leave me with his 1000 bill , can I take him to civil court or small claims and make him take his bill and clear my name ? All he would have to do is call and have them change the info to his the collector said , but he is not willing to what should I do need this stress gone befor my birthday this week help !","title":"Being sent to collections for a debt that isn\u2019t mine person used my debit card supposedly they just needed a card on file","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570314351,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dduc9t\/landlord_only_painted_the_ceiling_after_human\/","id":"dduc9t","body":"The other day I wake up and the first thing my feet hear when they hit the ground is splash! Turns out grey water fell from the sky like one of the plagues of Egypt or some shit. Landlord comes in and paints kills on the celing and calls it good. Now my partner has had so many health problems. Gangrene infection on his paranium. Strep in his foot. Im sick and cant work, and because of this i have no money to move. Do i have a case? Never wanted to hit someone with legal action before. No clue what to do. Any and all info appreciated.","title":"Landlord only painted the ceiling after human feces rained from the sky. Now my partner has gangrene. Thoughts?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505748458,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70vqam\/my_aunts_landlord_gave_her_a_weeks_notice_to\/","id":"70vqam","body":"My aunt lives in a trailer park in Michigan. She has lived there for near 10 years. She is on disability because of several health conditions. Before she went on disability she worked for a nursery, and had always loved plants. She has several gardens, trees, and bushes in her yard. The park manager gave her a notice today (while apologizing because it's the park owner that wants this) saying she has until the 24th to relocate any plants she wants to keep. On the 24th they will be come to remove any and all plants that remain. \n\nFew questions: \n1. She was singled out, no one else has received a similar notice. Is this illegal? \n2. She barely makes ends meet as it is, she has no money for a lawyer, and legal aid here (near Flint, but not IN Flint) is backed up. Is there anything she can do on her own if it is illegal (i.e. an injunction to file, or any other paperwork)? \n3. If it is illegal, will anything she does to stop it go through fast enough to actually keep them from ripping up her beautiful gardens? ","title":"My aunts landlord gave her a weeks notice to remove any and all plants from her yard or they will do it for her.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505272330,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zs074\/company_moving_my_hours_around_to_change_my_pay\/","id":"6zs074","body":"I work in California, but the company is headquartered in Alabama. After working a 14 hour shift, I was told corporate would not pay over 12 hours in a 24 hour period. They took 2 hours off and put them on the following day so the hours would only be worth overtime, not double time. Is this a normal and legal practice? ","title":"Company Moving My Hours Around to Change My Pay","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541947292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w49aa\/police_broke_into_my_home_because_my_child_cried\/","id":"9w49aa","body":"This has been a really weird morning... not sure if I chose the correct flair\n\nI have a 5 year old who stays with me during the weekends. He sleeps all night without any issues (except for the very rare nightmake\/sleep talking). Lastnight he was the happiest little kid in the world because we put up our christmas tree. I put him to bed around 9pm and watched some movies with my fiance who lives with me. Around 3am I got sleepy and wen to join her in bed. She gets up around 4:30am to go to work and leaves around 5am.\n\nAt 6:30am I am awoken by a single low knocking sound. I get up all sleepy thinking its my kid jumping on the bed (at which point I usually just get up, make sure he brushed his teeth and put some cartoons on to buy me a few more Z's). As I exit my room I am greeted to 4 cops staring me down across the hallway. I dont immediatly register what is going on and wonder if I should serve them a drink. One cop asks me who I am to which I reply with my full name and ask what is going on. He continues his interrogation, asking If I live with a woman. Fear slowly starts to creep up to me, thinking she was in an accident. I answer that I live with my girlfriend. The cop asks me if I have a son to which I reply yes. He asks me where he is. At this point I lean over the wall and I see my door busted upen. I am thinking someone killed my fiance and took my kid so I look at the cop, turn, head down the corridor to bis room and slowly open it fearing the worst. I see my son in bed, still tucked in and looking at me as if nothing happened. i come back down the hallway and tell the cop \"he is there, what is going on!?\" The tell me to step out into the dining room and I put my hands up as I walk past them. 2 cops walk into my room and check inside. I sit at the table and the cop sits next to me as another watches over us. I look to the door and theres the lady that guards the complex I live in with another lady i have never seen before just peaking into my home.\n\n The cop questioning me tells me someone heard  a child crying and called the police. He says they got there at 5am, which would mean they got there just as my fiance left for work. He claims they called at my door for an hour and a half and no one answered, then they heard detonations inside and decided to storm in. They never went outside my window to call me which would have done the trick. My apartment has weird acoustics and I cannot hear knocking in the living room from my room, if the door is locked, especially since my front door has a protective gate that doesnt allow for knocking.\n\nHe asks me why I didnt hear him and I told him I must have been deeply asleep. He asks if I am under the influence of drugs and I say I just went to bed late because I was playing red dead redemption. The ves me a case number (not sure what they are called) and tells me to give that to administration so they fix the door (thats not how that works) and they leave. As the cops left I could hear them talking with one of the ladies who was saying the child was crying too hard for it to be nothing. The cop told her there was no evidence of abuse or wrongdoing and she just couldnt believe it. I asked myson if he was crying and he said yes. I asked him why and he said the fan stopped working...\n\nSo now I am sitting in an apartment with my son and a broken front door. I fear when I go outside I'll be judged by my neighhbours as the child beater or worse.\n\nI have been trying to understand the timeline of events. I went to bed at 3am and my fiance got up at 4:30 then left at 5. If the cops got there at 5am as they claim, then the call must have happened around 3:00 - 4:30. My son must have stopped crying before my fiance fo up and didnt resume his crying for the rest of the night. Thecops get here at 5 and hang outside my door until 6:30 when they hear the \"detonatios\" NOT a crying child. My son had no signs of having been crying and he even stood next to me on his own during the police questioning.\n\nIs the police right to have broken into my home like that, leaving my household exposed and then just leave like nothing happened? What about the detonations they claim they heard in my apartment? Was that just an excuse to burst in? He sort of implied the detonations where heard outside and got them freaked out.","title":"Police broke into my home because my child cried during the night while I was asleep","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554500684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9x3fq\/whos_at_fault_in_this_accident_scenario\/","id":"b9x3fq","body":"(MI) As I was pulling into a spot, the car next to me opened their door (passenger side) and i ran into it. I had no time to react. Who is at fault here?","title":"Whos at fault in this accident scenario?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446117651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qou8e\/ca_usa_car_auto_insurance_fraud\/","id":"3qou8e","body":"I got in a car accident a couple days ago and was told to give my statement for the claim. Someone already looked over the car, but I just had to give a recorded statement on the accident.\n\nI gave a statement that was similar to all the things that happened, I just changed the location, to match what I told my parents what happened. Is there any way for me to go back and change my statement without consequences?","title":"[CA, USA] Car Auto Insurance Fraud","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541865306,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vvbzb\/roommate_from_hell_that_the_leasing_office_had_no\/","id":"9vvbzb","body":"I know this one is a long shot and a bit far fetched but bare with me. My girlfriend lives in an apartment in a college town that leases per bedroom. She lived there last year and when her roommate moved out she explicitly told the leasing office she wanted a random roommate (which is common and happens all the time). Well a \u201cfriend\u201d of hers went to the leasing office without consulting her and requested to be placed in her apartment. The leasing office never called my girlfriend or anything to confirm this was ok. We said oh well and decided to just live with the situation, but now that roommate is constantly stealing stuff from my girlfriend and being a general nuisance. \n\nSo my question is does my girlfriend have any legal options to take action against the complex or at the very least void her lease? She specifically said a random roommate and someone requesting to move in specifically isn\u2019t random. Also they didn\u2019t notify her of this girl\u2019s request, for all they knew she could have been a psychopath stalker obsessed with my girlfriend and they just let her move in no questions asked. We can\u2019t deal with this living situation anymore but the lease is until July.\n\nThank you","title":"Roommate from hell that the leasing office had no right to assign to the unit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554149417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b88494\/phone_recording\/","id":"b88494","body":"Simple question, Louisiana and verbally abusive ex wife. Can I record her calls? \n\nShe loves to ca me up and threaten the cops.","title":"Phone recording","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549843697,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apa8vr\/eeo_investigation\/","id":"apa8vr","body":"What should I be looking to bring with me when I am interviewed for an internal EEO investigation. I am the complainant and I want to make sure I don\u2019t forget any important facts since I know things are stacked against me from the start. ","title":"EEO investigation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507558989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/759d93\/illinois_what_questions_can_my_employer_ask_about\/","id":"759d93","body":"I have a clotting disorder which means I'm on a blood thinner. My doctor advised me not to fly any long haul flights. I do sales primarily on the west coast and live on the east coast, which means I can't fly there. I told my Boss he is fine with it. He is sending someone else and I'm skyping in. Great, right? I thought this was the end of it.\n\nNow he keeps asking questions about my diagnosis though, and what my symptoms are, etc. He's never required a doctors note, I don't think he'd ask for one. I think he's genuinely concerned, but it feels so invasive. I'm already paranoid enough about it and I do not want to continually talk about it. He even told the whole office without my permission, so now everyone is asking me about it all the time and it's making me so uncomfortable. Is this legal? How do I handle it? It's a small company. No HR to talk to.","title":"[Illinois] What questions can my employer ask about my Pregnancy?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570828346,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgldzr\/having_a_cat_while_living_in_an_apartment\/","id":"dgldzr","body":"So a little about myself because I think this will help with the advice. I\u2019m a college sophomore who has a cat. I live in an apartment that has a no-pet policy. I got a notice saying that I will be evicted if my cat isn\u2019t out in 4 days. And this is obviously a very stressful situation.\n\nMy roommate is clinically diagnosed with a mental illness (I won\u2019t specify out of respect for him). I know that I can have my cat registered as an emotional support animal, but I\u2019m not sure how strong that is legally. If my sweet little furball is a registered ESA, can I still keep him? Does this legally hold up as something that they can\u2019t evict me for? And to be honest with you, I had no idea about ESA\u2019s until my neighbor who also has a cat talked to me about it. And would I have to renew my lease with an ESA included in the agreement?\n\nAny advice will help. I\u2019m in a pinch and want to solve this as quickly as possible.","title":"Having a cat while living in an apartment","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1445486608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pqayr\/probation_violation_prescribed_morphine_while_on\/","id":"3pqayr","body":"I have a friend who is on probation for a marijuana charge and he gets drug tested twice a week. He has a legitimate prescription for Morphine (guy was in a terrible accident had six surgeries and spent a year in the hospital). \n\nNow... his probation officer (PO) says the cutoff levels for Morphine is 300 ng\/ml however if he takes his medicine EXACTLY as prescribed he's guaranteed to test higher than the cutoff levels! In fact if he took half of one of his pills and ONLY that he'd still test higher than the cutoff. If you do the math converting mg to ng\/ml it's clear the levels will be higher than the cutoff. His PO is saying that if he continues to test beyond the cutoff she's going to violate him and send him back to jail! It's even been documented that eating a few poppy seed bagels can get you to test around 300 ng\/ml!\n\nJust to note, the guy absolutely positively does not abuse his medicine. He takes it literally EXACTLY as prescribed.\n\nWhat are the guys rights in regards to this!? I mean he has every form of documentation from his doctor he can get and has brought his PO the valid prescription documents and doctor records to indicate he's on Morphine and why. His PO just does not care and says the cutoff is the cutoff plain and simple. Can a lawyer help him? What should he do to ensure he doesn't go back to jail. Not taking his medication isn't an option because the guy is truly, seriously very very messed up physically. Even with the medication he has a hard time just walking around!\n\nHe's in Maryland.","title":"Probation violation!? Prescribed Morphine while on probation and taking as prescribed causes levels higher than cutoff (300 ng\/ml). PO says it's a violation! Legal rights!?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539452755,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nvn3b\/got_sideswiped_in_heavy_traffic_other_party\/","id":"9nvn3b","body":"So to keep it short:  I live in a city notorious for traffic, which in turn causes a ton of small accidents.  After trying to take a side road, making a right on a yield once clear, and getting my driver's side door wrecked by an Uber (with a passenger) changing lanes once I had already turned (100% their fault), we traded insurance and went on our merry way.\n\nDidn't think to file a police report because there was another, more serious accident within sight and it would have been relatively pointless.\n\nStarted a claim with their personal insurance instead of Uber, went through the whole interview process, etc etc.  Hear nothing for a few days.\n\nFinally, I get a call back, and they say they haven't been able to move forward with a claim because the other driver has yet to give a statement, and is instead getting an attorney.\n\nSo a few issues:\n1.  Why the hell would someone lawyer up over a fender bender?  Even the insurance rep didn't know what to make of that.\n2.  What should I do if they drag the claim out?\n3.  Despite Uber having log of a witness in the car, would they have any reason to want to slow the process down?\n4.  Would it be possible to pursue legal action as well if the claim is denied?","title":"Got sideswiped in heavy traffic. Other party lawyers up before giving any insurance statement.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539055117,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mlo77\/att_military_discount_north_carolina\/","id":"9mlo77","body":"Good Evening All,\n\nEffective 05 October 2018, AT&T rolled out some new discounts to military service members to include a 25% discount on cell phone plans and an additional $15 off on each additional bundled service like Internet or TV. On the 5th, I went to my local ATT store to make sure my cell plan was getting the 25% discount (I was already getting their former 15% discount). While there, they asked me if I wanted to do internet or TV since I could do the military discounts on that as well. So I agreed to do internet. \n\nTheir internet rate was listed as $40 per month for 100 Mbps fiber internet (before the discount). This seemed like a great deal, especially after the additional $15 off, so I signed up. On the 6th, the service tech set everything up and told me my rate was actually $50.00 per month. So I call AT&T and they tell me they dont offer $40 a month internet and that they only do military discounts for cell service. But their website (att.com\/military) clearly shows the promotions and when I visit their website in my area (att.com\/internet) it clearly shows $40 per month. (However it's a local rate so if I check it through a VPN server not in NC, it is $50) The store was also littered with promotional materials advertising the internet rate and the military discount. The only reason I signed up was because the sales rep offered the military discount. \n\nAt this point, I've spoken to 5 different AT&T reps including the store manager and a manager of the escalations department. The escalations manager told me I had to take it up with the store but the store manager told me the offer is good but he somehow couldn't pull up any of my info and needed to wait until my sales rep was back at work (who is conveniently on an extended leave of absence). I've also been asked repeatedly to just wait a few billing cycles to see if everything just \"kicks in\" but after 30 days I'm locked into a one year service contract. \n\nToday, I was finally able to convince a rep to honor the $40 rate but he told me he couldn't apply a military discount since there was already a promotion on the internet. So my question is: how do I get them to honor the offered rate? That $40 rate is offered to everyone so it just seems weird to even offer a military discount if they are telling me that nobody is allowed to use it since the 40 dollar internet is by itself already a promotion. The only way to use it is if I opted out of the promotion entirely at which point theyd actually be charging me more money just for being military lol It comes off a bit predatory since that was what got me to sign up even though they already knew I cant actually use the discount. \n\nI'm not sure what options I have since I've exhausted my efforts with ATT directly. The icing on the cake is that I can't really just cancel and switch providers since Spectrum is the only other internet. They are who I had until this happened. It especially sucks since i already had a promotional rate through them that i cant get back now. So I lost the deal I was getting thinking I was saving a lot of money but now I'm paying the same amount for slower speeds and data caps. If I switch back, I'll be paying nearly double what I was. I feel very cheated. ","title":"AT&T Military Discount (North Carolina)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571786733,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlqh5g\/landlord_on_property_without_notice\/","id":"dlqh5g","body":"I live in an upstairs apartment with a wrap around balcony. The balcony is accessible from a shared outside (locked) door, but the balcony itself is not shared. My landlord has repeatedly come to the property and walked around on the balcony and brought maintenance workers to walk around on the balcony and do work without any notice, not even a knock on my door when they arrive. \n\n​\n\nAll of the rooms in my apartment have windows that open onto the balcony, and all privacy is lost unless my blackout curtains are closed. There have been multiple instances where I've just gotten out of the shower, or I've been in bed undressed when my landlords or strangers appeared on my balcony with absolutely no notice.\n\n​\n\nToday my landlord brought a painting crew up to my balcony and discussed the work they are starting tomorrow. I overheard them talking and I sent him a text explicitly asking him to let me know in advance anytime he or any workers would be on my balcony, and he responded that he would be painting the house. I pressed for more specific dates and times and he said there would be workers on my balcony for the next 10 days, starting tomorrow at 8:30 AM. Apparently he had no intention of telling me, had I not asked. \n\n​\n\nThere is only one line in my lease under the subsection \"Additions and Alterations\" that bears any relevance to my landlord or workers access to the property, it is as follows:\n\n>\"Lessor or Lessor's employees or contractors have the right to enter the premises for the purpose of making repairs necessary to the preservation of the property. \"\n\n​\n\nI live in New Orleans, Louisiana.  \n\n​\n\nDoes this qualify as harassment? Is there anything I can do that will prevent him from coming onto my balcony without explicit notice, preferably with at least 24 hours notice (if not more)?","title":"Landlord on Property Without Notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551922116,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay6tgo\/sisters_protected_by_her_step_dad_in_should_be\/","id":"ay6tgo","body":"Holy crap where to start\n \nSister is 21 we have the same mom different dads I'm 25 we were never really close \n \nFuck messy people. She can honestly go stick a rusty pipe up her hooch. That's a good start. \n\nMoved to a new town 2 months ago in Canada. Anyways started staying with my sister because only person I knew in town, i might have made a post mentioning this before. \n\nAnyways moved here and her place is fucking trapped the fuck out nasty cat pneumonia smells people are doing heavy drugs on the couches people living in the garage like just waste yard full of waste deadbeat people. \n\nI ain't about none of that garbage so I started kicked people the hell out then it was just me and my sister and she thanked me for helping get her place back. Next step me and this girl I met cleaned the house and continued to support my sister trying to get her shit together.\n\nWell surprise surprise 2 months later I had enough of her bullshit avoiding her mental issues even though she kept saying she would started getting super neglectful with her cats and also started going out every night and coming home the next day \"hungover\" even though we all knew what she was doing and we tried to get her to stop and she just fucking wont so whatever I decided I'm moving out. \n\nPhase 1 \n\nCalled the police and told them of the suspicious activity that was taking place at my sister house and that she was being abusive and neglectful towards her cats\nThe police told me to leave the property cause she was screaming in the background in the other room ( she had no idea the cops were called at this point, just screaming ) and the cops thought she was fighting with me but I reassured them I wasnt. \n\nPhase 2 \nWent to humane society and talked to an animal officer about her. Her cats have been taken there many times before and the officer advised me to steal her cats and bring them to a different towns human society\n \nThe problem I was facing at this point was the police told me not to go back ( not legally just recommended ) but the humane society officer said get the cats. Any ways. \n\nPhase 3 should problem mention my dog was there along with all my electronics my tv my xbox1 my guitars my clothes but I only really cared about my dog at this point. \n\nSo me and my freind I mentioned earlier went to the house I had the keys my sister barricaded the door shut ( still didnt know we called, shes just nuts as fuck ) so I kinda had to open the door and really hard push it open to get into the place my freind recorded the whole process. Anyways I got my dog and the cats and took everyone to the humane society my dogs on temporary stay along with the cats\n \nGoing to be taking the cats to another town tomorrow. Taking my dog back to my home town on friday to let him stay with a freind. \n\nAnyways the police offered me an escort whenever they had time for it, for some reason informed my sister I had called them concerning her and now shes right fucking pissed and I wouldnt be surprised if she didnt let me or the cops in to get my shit seeing as I removed her cats from her cat piss and shit\/ flea infested house and like completely away from her. I dont have any of the receipts or anything and the police are pretty much telling me I am fucked at this point. \n\nShould i report my things as theft if she doesnt return them ? Do i even have a chance without the receipts or should i find 'alternate' ways of getting my things back as long as I'm as protected as I can be ( ie get someone else to do it ) ","title":"Sisters protected by her step dad in should be condemned home situation I landed myself in the middle of","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540663300,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rwbms\/us_tx_hypothethical_what_if_a_child_refuses_to\/","id":"9rwbms","body":"This is a purely hypothethical question \n\nSay a child's father remarries and manages to win a  custody case yet the children despise their stepmother and her children , do they have any legal recourse or is such a decision irreversible?Is there anything said children can do against their fathers new lover to harass\/make their life legally?How'd such a situation look like from a legal point of view\n\nP.S. \n\nI am asking this from a purely hypothethical standpoint","title":"US TX (hypothethical) what if a child refuses to live with custodial parent due to stepparent","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541619174,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v2j06\/seems_we_have_a_hacking_situation_dont_know_where\/","id":"9v2j06","body":"First of all I\u2019m not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but here it goes:\n\nEarlier today my mother got an email from herself, that seems to have been sent by someone else. This seems to have happened to at least two emails. The email wording makes it seem as if it was something copy and pasted, but here are some of the things in the email:\n\n-\u201cYou entered a password on one of the sites you visited, and I intercepted it.\u201d\n-\u201cThrough your email, I uploaded malicious code to your Operation System. I saved all of your contacts with friends, colleagues, relatives and a complete history of visits to internet resources. Also I installed a Trojan on your device and long time spying for you.\u201d\n\nThe sender then goes on to claim that they will send a lot of pictures, etc. to everyone in my mother\u2019s contacts. (I\u2019m positive there isn\u2019t anything horrible on my mother\u2019s phone.) He claims that we have two days to send him $400, otherwise he will send out everything he has.\n\nThe problem is that along with the email the password to the email was sent. So even if there is no photos, whoever sent the email does have passwords. Recently my grandmother\u2019s card was also used to make a purchase by someone other than us.(My grandmother\u2019s card is the one used for most of our purchases and is connected to most of our accounts.) Considering how close these happened to each other, It seems fairly likely they may be related in some way.\n\nMy grandmother is getting a new card, but we still don\u2019t really know what to do from here. I can try and provide as much information as possible if more is needed.","title":"Seems we have a hacking situation, don\u2019t know where to start.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1508294548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/773qbz\/il_driving_school_instructor_takes_away_phones\/","id":"773qbz","body":"After signing up for a driving school , the instructor announced that they would be holding onto our phones during the class. We were not informed of this before signing up for the class. Additionally, their system of collecting phones allows for others to easily steal my phone (with valuable info on it). \n\nBasically, we all put our phones in a shoebox, and another teacher holds on to it until the class has ended. We are later dismissed in groups, and we can grab our phone from the box on our way out of the building. This easily allows for someone to take a different (or multiple) phone(s) and leave the building before the original owner gets to the box. By this time, they will already be long gone. Legally, can I hold onto my phone without being expelled from the class? \n\nP.S. I don't really trust the teachers with my phone either, since they keep the phones out of sight in their office until class is over.","title":"[IL] Driving School Instructor takes away phones daily before class. This rule was not disclosed before signing up for the class. Is this legal? Details continued inside.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570132445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcw5js\/landlord_keeps_sending_people_over\/","id":"dcw5js","body":"MN: My landlord sends people over without telling us he is sending someone or he gives us only a couple hour notice. There were guys who came and cut a tree down in our front yard that he paid but none of us (total of 6) were informed and today he calls my roommate at noon saying he is sending people over for a viewing of our house for next years renters. We never concretely informed him we wouldn't be renewing our lease, but now we definitely won't be. He also lives on our property in a room he built in the garage and uses our electricity when he comes up here (he lives three hours away normally) there is nothing in the lease that says he lives on the property when he visits and usually he calls just before he leaves his home that he will be arriving. \n\nThe main issue we are having is the minimal notice when sending people over or coming up himself what can we do about this?","title":"Landlord keeps sending people over","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505856182,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71695h\/a_public_defender_wasnt_assigned_before_plea\/","id":"71695h","body":"Hi- long time lurker- first time poster. My nephew is in a Colorado jail. He is charged with one each of a Class 3 and a Class 5 felony. His plea hearing was this afternoon in video court. The judge asked where his counsel was as it is a double felony case and some lady off camera spoke up and said the Public Defenders office had declined the case. Is that normal? I thought he was supposed to be provided an attorney, per Miranda Rights? What recourse do we have? He was remanded back to jail pending either bail or the trial at the end of this month. Any direction would be greatly appreciated. ","title":"A Public Defender wasn't assigned before plea hearing. Is that normal?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539318603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nh8e3\/can_my_employer_not_pay_me\/","id":"9nh8e3","body":"I am a maintenance technician in the state of Alabama and recently, my employer has started cutting overtime. When we are on call, every other week, and we get calls, we are supposed to take off the same number of hours that we get in OT. In other words, if I get 9 hours worth of overtime, I am supposed to take off 9 hours before my pay period ends. Therefore, I won\u2019t get any extra pay for the time I put in after hours. On top of that, they aren\u2019t paying my mileage. I average about 5 calls every weekend, which totals to around 200 miles of driving in my personal vehicle. I\u2019m actually losing money on after hours calls at this point. Can they get away with this? Shouldn\u2019t they at least be paying mileage? ","title":"Can my employer NOT pay me?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570331797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddxuna\/how_do_i_report_a_business_owner_to_osha_or_if\/","id":"ddxuna","body":"My employer which I\u2019ll leave unnamed for now, has been constantly putting us in unnecessarily dangerous situations since I started here. I work in a local fast food restaurant and we constantly have problems with grills shooting speaks out at us while we\u2019re unplugging them for cleaning or turning them off for the night, people have gotten electrocuted by the grills before as well. On top of that we don\u2019t have any bandaids for cuts or any kind of burn ointment or anything for really anything that requires first aid.","title":"How do I report a business owner to osha or if there\u2019s any thing we can do to up the safety at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569794015,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db1uvg\/legal_things_i_should_know_before_launching_a\/","id":"db1uvg","body":"Hi everyone! I'm launching a 4chan clone that will allow people to post anonymously. This is going to be my first real deployment and my first real project that I'm proud to share. I am particularly interested in DMCA notices. How do I receive them? Is an email provided enough to receive them? Do I have to reply to notices if I remove the content automatically? What should I mention in a disclaimer? is something like [https:\/\/16chan.xyz\/.static\/pages\/legal.html](https:\/\/16chan.xyz\/.static\/pages\/legal.html) enough to gain protection? Is there anything I should be aware of legally before launching my project?\n\nAlso, I'm considering adding a loli\/shota \"containment board.\" For those who don't know, loli\/shota are drawings of prepubescent children. I live in the US, will adding this be an issue? I will also have pornography boards much like 4chan's \/gif\/. As long as I remove the content from a DMCA complaint, I should be safe, right?","title":"Legal things I should know before launching a 4chah-ish website?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1445291571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3peq5h\/ny_trying_to_get_my_security_deposit_back\/","id":"3peq5h","body":"Last summer, I had an internship, and was able to lease an apartment for the 3 months. While I was living there, the apartment complex was bought by another company.\n\nI moved out in early August, so it's been over 60 days, and I haven't gotten my security deposit back yet. I have a lot of things to explain, so I apologize if I ramble a little.\n\nSo, the day I moved out, I emailed the manager the address to send the deposit to . He did reply, but I don't have that particular message anymore as Gmail marked it as spam and deleted it after 30 days. IIRC, it didn't have anything important anyway.\n\nA little over a month later, I sent him another email asking about the deposit. He just said that the check would be mailed \"Tuesday next week\". I didn't get the check.\n\nAbout two weeks after that, I sent another email asking where it was. I didn't get a reply, so I sent a couple more over the next week, finally getting a response that he'd check on it, and would let me know \"Tuesday next week\".\n\nThat response was over a week ago, and I haven't heard anything yet. I've tried calling numerous times, with no response either.\n\nAt this point, I'm thinking about legal action. From what I've googled, it looks like NY doesn't have a hard deadline for when the deposit must be returned, just within a \"reasonable\" amount of time (I feel that >60 days is definitely reasonable). However, it looks like my lease says \"payable within 30-60 days of termination of tenancy\", but I'm not sure whether that's the entire deposit or just the interest (which doesn't apply, because I was only there for 3 months). I can post that whole paragraph if needed.\n\nSo, I'm not really sure what to do next. I guess I have a few questions:\n\n1. Do you think legal action (small claims) is warranted at this point?\n\n2. The company is located in a different city than the apartment. The apartment is about 5 hours away from where I live now, and the other city is about 1.5 hours from there (so it would take about 6.5 hours to get to the city the company is located in). So if I end up going to court, would it take place in the city the company is in, or the city the apartment complex is in? I'm in college, so that would be pretty difficult to do either way.\n\n\nI just want to get my deposit back and be done dealing with this company, but they just wont respond. I looked up the actual company, and it doesn't look like there's anyone higher up than the guy I've been emailing, so I can't contact his boss.\n\nThanks for taking the time to read this, any advice is appreciated!\n\nEDIT: Finally got a hold of him last night, he said he didn't have a forwarding address on file (I emailed it to him the day I moved out...) and that he is sending the check today. We'll see if I get the check. \n\nEDIT2: Well, I got the check in the mail and it cleared, so it looks like this was resolved without any legal action. I didn't get any comments here, but in case anyone finds this in the future, I wanted to post the outcome. ","title":"[NY] Trying to get my security deposit back","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540589973,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rowfl\/i_want_to_sue_my_former_step_father_for_abuse_but\/","id":"9rowfl","body":"When I was 10 my mother married a seemingly nice guy from what I can remember, he even had two kids of his own which I\u2019m still in contact and have a close bond with today. But when he moved in things got bad. \nHe repeatedly psychologically, emotionally, and verbally abused me, resulting in clinical depression and general anxiety, which in turn resulted in my going suicidal for two months when I was twelve. After leaving the psychiatric ward, the abuse got worse, and then the last night i can remember of him happened, I\u2019ll try to make it brief.\nAfter the cable box was unplugged, still unsure how, he blamed it on me because I was in the room at the time. I told him I didn\u2019t do it, and I hadn\u2019t, he continued to yell at me, at that point I ran up to my room and closed my door. My sister heard the entire thing, so I have a witness. And she called my grandparents to pick me up, who thankfully only lived a mile away, eventually after he walked into my room and continued to yell at me, my grandfather walked me outside into his car, and tried to talk some sense into that bastard. I should mention I was having the worst panic attack at that point that I have ever had. Two years later, my mother got custody of me and my sister, (my two step siblings lives with their mother thank god), and now they are divorced. I don\u2019t know what to do. My mother can\u2019t sue him, for reasons I have yet to be informed on, i\u2019m assuming it was because she wasn\u2019t present most of the time. And my grandfather witnessed part of the abuse, so I have two witnesses, and a clusterfuck of mental disorders.","title":"I want to sue my former step father for abuse, but I am below the legal age to file a lawsuit.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443233150,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mey5e\/my_exwife_just_called_me_and_said_she_wants_the\/","id":"3mey5e","body":"So my ex-wife called me this evening and said she wants the children to stay and be raised by my wife and I. That she trust us more than her mother to raise our children. We have a parental agreement on file with our divorce filing at the courts, that says we have joint custody and that they will primarily reside with her. \n\nWhat do I need to do to get that changed?\nWhen I go tomorrow to pick them up from her family(she is currently in the hospital) do I need any documentation or notarized papers saying they are living with me now?\nShe has a track record of changing her mind last minute or afterwards, what can I do to protect myself and my children from being passed around like pawns?","title":"My ex-wife just called me and said she wants the kids to be raised by me. how do i do this legally in North Carolina?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568674072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d581h1\/is_this_legal\/","id":"d581h1","body":"Hey so, very new here just hoping on to see if anyone knows. \n\nMy girl works with an assisted living home in North Carolina, this company claims to have a 7 minute grace period for showing up late to work. After that 7 minutes the employee will then be docked 8 hours of PTO, regardless of whether or not the employee works the remaining 11hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds of the shift. A co-worker of here has already experienced this and my girl has been threatened with it for only being 5 minutes late. \n\nIn my experience I've had my boss take my PTO in order to cover lost time but nothing this drastic. \n\nJust curious if anyone knows more about this, it doesnt seem right to me. Thanks.","title":"Is this legal","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570240436,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddh0bc\/looking_into_filing_for_legal_separation_in\/","id":"ddh0bc","body":"Hello, \n\nI left AZ and moved to OR. I don\u2019t meet the residency requirements, as I haven\u2019t lived here for six months yet and I don\u2019t have a permanent address. \n\nSo, I\u2019m looking into filing for Legal Separation for now. \n\nWhat are my options exactly if I don\u2019t have a residence here? \n\nThanks","title":"Looking into filing for legal separation in Oregon while spouse lives in another state.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445645831,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pz33j\/fl_feeling_unsafe_with_living_conditions_afraid\/","id":"3pz33j","body":"First of all, thank you for taking the time to read this post. I will leave out many details and attempt to give the overall big picture.\n\nI am currently renting a room in a 4 bed 2 bath house. My landlord lives in the master, there is a tenant in each of the other two rooms, and my girlfriend and I share a room. My landlord's mother moved in and has been living in our living room for the past 3 months.\n\nSince she moved in there have been numerous disturbances to the house. She has smoked cigarettes in the house numerous times (which my landlord handled after I brought this to his attention). The smell of smoke negatively affects my career as I am finishing up school and do my residency in the hospital setting.\n\nShe brought two dogs with her that pee on EVERYTHING. She is an alcoholic and about once weekly slams doors or flips out in her room (the living room) waking everyone in the house up. \n\nShe has not liked me nor my girlfriend since she moved in. She is mentally unstable due to the fact that I am unable to have a conversation with her. We have pretty much ignored eachothers presence until today. Today she stopped the washing machine with  my girlfriends work uniform inside and threw the clothes on top of the machine. My girlfriend is responsible for these clothes and if they are damaged she has to pay $200 to her company for them. I confronted my landlords mother asking her VERY politely to not touch our clothes but just ask us when we are done so she can go ahead and use the machines. She immediately lost her cool and started screaming and became very verbally hostile. My landlord came home and mediated the situation in which I remained very calm and explain my issues factually while she continued to pace around the kitchen, yell, and take smoke breaks every ten minutes. \n\nI do NOT feel safe living in this environment but currently do not have anywhere to go. I just finished getting my degree in Nursing and am waiting approx. 3 weeks to take my state boards. I have a job lined up for Nov 30th but will be unable to move until mid december due to no proof of income.\n\nI am currently concerned that she will attempt to make up a story to destroy my career or prevent me from getting my license. My parents have expressed their concern that she might hurt herself then call the cops stating that I assaulted her. How can I document my actions to protect myself? Do I need to get a lawyer due to this fear? I am unsure what to do at this point and could use some advice. I can give details for anything along the way. In the meantime... I will be documenting each occurrence as they have occurred in effort to protect myself.","title":"[FL] Feeling unsafe with living conditions, afraid of being accused of something I didn't do. How to protect myself.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541105725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tdeou\/pretty_sure_this_is_illegal_child_abuse_at_a\/","id":"9tdeou","body":"Hello, LegalAdvice! This is my first post in this community, so I apologize if this is a bit long-winded. \n\nLong story short, I was recently hired at a small daycare\/preschool in Arizona. I currently work as an assistant teacher. I got placed in a classroom of one year olds and have been working with another teacher, \u201cSharon\u201d. Sharon is 77, and has worked in the school system for a long time. She is the most unpleasant person I\u2019ve ever worked alongside. \n\nMy issues with Sharon go far beyond my problems with her personally, however. I believe she is a child abuser. She frequently berates the children, tells them to shut up if they cry, drags them by their arms\/legs across the floor, drags them by their collar, slams them on the floor at nap time. She generally acts incredibly unprofessional and inappropriate. I once saw her slam a child into a seat and nearly broke one of his legs. \n\nHer behavior makes me uncomfortable. We are both recorded by the school. I\u2019ve began recording the exact date and time of instances of this abuse. I\u2019ve told my coworkers about it and even the director about moving classes. I was told that her behavior is a \u201cknown issue\u201d, and the director of the school knows about it. \n\nI\u2019m really not sure what to do here. Is there anything I can do? Is this even legal? Our school is held to high standards of professional conduct, and parents pay good money to leave their kids here. Some kids are left with her for nine hours a day, which makes my stomach turn. \n\nTL;DR: believe my coworker is a child abuser at a small daycare in AZ. ","title":"Pretty sure this is illegal? Child abuse at a preschool\/daycare (AZ)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571004766,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhherx\/can_your_discord_server_get_taken_down_for\/","id":"dhherx","body":"A year ago, some people and I made a Discord server as a community for people who use make music using an iOS app. We wanted it to be a community where we could share our passion for music and we were contacted by the developer of the app, who is currently in the server (we'll call this person D). Our community has a relatively young user-base most of us no older than 18 (this includes our team of moderators). This means that there will be memes and cursing and such. For the past few months, D has asked us repeatedly to make sure that we make it clear that we are an unofficial server, not the app's official server, and we have happily complied. Even though we made sure to do all this, D contacted us recently that, to him, the community has become toxic, and does not want it to be associated with his app (even though we are a fan community, and are obviously are in no way representative of his app or team of developers). D then demanded that we change the icon of our server, which was the icon of his app, and that we change our name, and if we did otherwise D would file a complaint to Discord for trademark infringement. Now the staff team is fairly young, so we have little if no legal knowledge at all, so we were quite scared. We decided to just comply and do what D said. Although the immediate problem is over, I was wondering if it is even possible to have your Discord server taken down simply because your server icon has a company's logo and their name in your server name. Again, we had absolutely no intention of representing or impersonation the developer team.","title":"Can your Discord server get taken down for trademark infringement?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1445380512,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pk0n2\/my_son_would_like_to_live_with_me\/","id":"3pk0n2","body":"Start off with a short backstory:\n\nMy son (13 years old) has been living with my parents for awhile (Over a year, and about a month or two after the divorce) and my ex-wife and I have been trading weekends with our son. I also have been paying child support to her which of course I don't think is right. \n\nMy son has mentioned a few times over the last year that he wants to live with me. I've told him that he will have to talk to his mother about this but naturally he is scared to talk to her and has not as of yet. However there is also the real possibility he is just saying he wants to live with me so I won't feel bad too, but I think he is being truthful about wanting to live with me. I am prepared for either answer. \n\nWith that being said and hope I'm not asking too much but, should I talk to the court about both situations and ask them to talk to my son? Hire a lawyer? Where should I begin?\n\nAlso if needed, we live in Texas.","title":"My son would like to live with me...","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569734195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dar18t\/my_cable_bill_may_have_messed_up_a_lot_would_i\/","id":"dar18t","body":"I'm not even sure if this is the correct place to post this, so please let me know where this would be more appropriate, thanks! \n\nSo, as we all know cable\/internet providers are charging way more for a way smaller channel lineup than what they used to sell. But...my provider...did the opposite??\n\nUsually my bill would be in the $100s, but this month and last month...well someone forgot to add a 0. If I were to just not question it at all, would I still be responsible for payment if I get notified by the company saying \"oh hey btw we messed up, you now owe us $XXX\" or, since I was already given my official pay statements, am I in the clear?? I'm afraid to call up and ask them since I barely have the funds to cover that, so this is more of a \"If THEY say something, will I still be responsible?\" situation.","title":"My cable bill may have messed up a lot. Would I get in any trouble for turning a blind eye? (FL)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570061381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcj114\/aetna_ohio_transphobia\/","id":"dcj114","body":"Short version: \n\nAfter a two month argument, employer sponsored healthcare Aetna approved a procedure that I had initially purchased coverage for. Then my surgeon quit. So I had to find a new one, and again, Aetna has denied me coverage, despite doing this before, despite me literally having purchased the insurance with this in mind, verifying that it was covered every step of the way.\nCan I do something legally about this? I'm going to appeal again either way.\n\nLong version: \n\nI'm a transgender man with uncomfortably large breasts. I have been wearing a binder every day for seven years. My ribs and my ability to perform cardio have suffered. \n\nI have been to seven consultations, most ending in \"buy better insurance.\"\n\nSo before the sixth I picked a company. I verified both online and via email that there was no exclusion for transgender people. I obtained surgery codes that would be used and asked if they were covered. The representative told me they were. \nSo I bought the appropriate plan. \nAnd I had my sixth consultation. \nThe surgeons office sent the inquiry to Aetna, and they denied it on the basis that the codes the surgeon was using were \"incorrect for this type of surgery, and indicate that it is cosmetic\". \n\nSo I appealed. They denied. I appealed again, and they approved, on the basis that the time they had originally set for their decision had run out. \nIt hadn't. So I took that as an approval despite not being actually able to approve it. Perhaps my seven letters of recommendation and inability to perform cardio work of any sort (and my deformed ribs) moved them. \n\nEither way, it was approved. \n\nI called my surgeon. And for weeks they didnt answer. I came to find out that my surgeon quit, and went off to start her own practice. The opening date of which remains unknown.  \n\nImpatient, I chose the only remaining surgeon in my state that takes Aetna. \nSeventh consultation. Sent inquiry to Aetna, complete with the \"You approved this before\" paperwork, scans of the seven letters of rec from doctors and therapists I have, etc. \n\nDenial. \n\nI am not playing around anymore. I'm in pain, I'm stressed because I have body parts I didnt ask for, that kind of make living normally difficult. I cant work out without seeing purple spots. I would assert that this is inherently biased behavior on the part of the insurance company. \n\nIs there something I'm forgetting? What can I do?\n\nThank you in advance.","title":"Aetna, Ohio, Transphobia","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504652032,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ybmtv\/forced_to_take_a_drug_test\/","id":"6ybmtv","body":"So, I started my new position at a nursing home this past Saturday and worked a full 8 hours Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. \n\nToday, I got a call from HR asking to come in to fill out paperwork. It honestly slipped my mind that I even had to fill out paperwork (tax forms, direct deposit stuff, etc.). I went later in the day and filled out all the papers. At the end of it, they told me I would have to do a drug screen. I had no forewarning besides the disclosure when I filled out my application about a month ago. However, it was no big deal because I\u2019m clean. \n\nWhen I peed in the cup, I saw that the cup was leaking. I caught it just in time to have probably 5mLs of pee left in the cup. I notified the HR person right away and showed her the cup. She said that it happens and gave me a new cup after pouring out the cracked cup. I tried to pee more but there was not enough for a viable sample. \n\nAt that point, I\u2019ve been there for about two hours. They poured me a pitcher of tea and told me to try again after drinking it. I tried again after drinking it, STILL not enough!!! \n\nAnyway, I told them that I\u2019ve been there about two and a half hours and I have other obligations. I had another job that I can\u2019t be late to. That\u2019s when they told me that I couldn\u2019t leave until I gave the urine sample. \nI said I can\u2019t give them the urine sample because I don\u2019t have time to wait to have pee again. \nThey said to wait 15 minutes and try again. \nI asked, what if I don\u2019t wait?\nThey said that I won\u2019t be able to remain employed with the company. \n\nThat was the gist of the conversation and long story short, I left.\n\nMy questions are: since I worked those three days, are they still obligated to pay me? I did not have any paperwork filled out prior to my first shift on Saturday.\nAlso, are they allowed to threaten my employment if I choose to leave before completing the drug screen? \n\nThank you for your time\n\nETA: I live in Ohio","title":"Forced to take a drug test?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570034774,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dccudw\/i_am_below_working_age_working_for_store_credit\/","id":"dccudw","body":"I work for a store part time in exchange for store credit (16 usd an hour) I don't process transactions or anything, only help customers, run mtg events sorting cards and other micilanious tasks. This is in California where you need a permit to work if you are 14-17 and cant work below 14. I wouldn't want to get the store in legal trouble, I have been going there for 5 years, would I have to file a lawsuit for underage labour or could any 3rd party do it. I also want to know if this could be classed as voulenteer work with reward or not, and if I would be able to use this in as a job reference. This is all with parent permission. Thanks for taking the time to respond written on mobile.","title":"I am below working age working for store credit Could this get the store I work at in legal trouble US","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1508529207,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77ollf\/im_renting_out_my_rooms_to_strangers_but_i_dont\/","id":"77ollf","body":"Boise Idaho\n\nHi guys, I am in need of some advice as I am renting out 2 of my rooms in November. \n\nI live in a 3 bedroom house with 2 spare rooms that will be rented out. I already have a template that lays out the house rules and contract agreement between me and my roomates.\n\nHowever, I am interested in the finer details of having roomates. And maybe I will need an actual lawyer to answer all my questions but I figured I would try here first and get help from the community.\n\nMy biggest concerns are the following. \n\nWhat would happen if my roommate or one of their visiting friends trips and breaks a leg while in my property?\n\nWhat happens if my house is burned down by my roommate?\n\nWhat happens if one of my roommates dogs bites my other roommate?\n\nI know these are random questions but they are legitimate concerns that I have and I am wondering if any of you could help or guide me in the right direction?\n\nThank you all","title":"Im renting out my rooms to strangers, but I dont know where to start.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538994386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mdosa\/i_was_told_not_to_come_back_last_friday_but_i\/","id":"9mdosa","body":"I was working for a recruitment agency that gave me weekly contracts to work at a warehouse. Last Friday the manager from the warehouse told me that I did not have to come in next week but when I came home and checked my mail I had a contract for next week.\n\n​\n\nI signed the contract and showed up this morning but my manager confirmed once again they did not ask for a renewal of contract from the agency and would not pay me to work. I asked to have a signed document to confirm that I showed up and to get his statement. He was hesitant but after I told him he could either write it himself or I could have the police write down a report he made a quick draft, which we both signed.\n\n​\n\nI think neither the agency nor the warehouse could sue me for breach of contract as I showed up on time and ready to full fill my work but was shown the door. But my question is how valid the contract is from the agency. I would rather not miss out on a weeks worth of salary.\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nThat was the main info. Now for a bit of context. I started working there a month and a half ago. They told me to be open with my feedback so I was. I told them that I don't enjoy the current job but I see the potential. After a couple of weeks I had another meeting where I was open about the fact that I was still in the runnign for another job and I did not see any real progression in how the job advanced. They (both the agency and the manager at the warehouse) told me that they were happy with how I was performing and told me to notify in advance if I were to take the other job.\n\n​\n\nAbout a week lather I informed both the agency and the manager that the other company had given me an offer, better then what I had now, and I still was in doubt about the progression of the job. The manager didn't even try to counter the offer. He thanked me for letting him now so soon. This was two and a half weeks before the start date for the other company. He also asked how long I was willing to stay working here to which I replied that I liked to stay up until the Friday before I start at the new company.\n\n​\n\nLast Friday, an hour before the day ends, he calls me in. Saying that he wasn't happy with my performance of the last week and I dind't need to come in any more. I didn't really debate him on it as I realised I was powerless. He did not even have to give an exude as just not writing out a contract is enough. Which somehow did not happen. As I came home Friday with a contract to sign in my mailbox. I dind't really knew what was happening so I singed it as I hoped I would still have a job for a week.\n\n​\n\n​","title":"I was told not to come back last Friday but I have a signed contract for the week. (BE)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410908352,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gluem\/speeding_ticket_in_michigan\/","id":"2gluem","body":"Hello All,\n\nI am sure that you get plenty of posts concerning this (I have actually done a search of this sub, and haven't found quite what I am looking for) but here it goes:\n\nI am 21, and live in Michigan. I recently started teaching at a College about 2 hours away from where I live, so I do a LOT of driving. While driving, I hit a little area on a highway where it dips to 45 (on a normally 55 road), and my cruise let me get to around ~60 mph going downhill before I saw the cop (I would normally coast, gradually losing speed instead of braking). He pulled me over, and we were very amicable, and he stated that if I had a good record, that I could get off with nothing (no fee or points, he said). \n\nMy problem is that about 8 months ago I got a ticket whilst passing someone, and took a course to get rid of any points associated with the ticket. And 2 months, 3 weeks and 3 days before I got this ticket, I receive a verbal warning from an officer (he said that it would go away if I had a good record for 3 months). \n\nSo my question is this: Am I screwed because my ticket was just barely less than 3 months after my warning, or could I wait until after 3 months has passed (tomorrow) to go to court to contest this, and not have anything show up?\n\nAlso, I would *love* not to have any points on my license, since I am very poor right now paying off my college loans, etc. So I can definitely pay a little more up front rather than have 2 tickets on my record!!\n\nThank you very much!!\n\nEdit- I should add that my ticket 8 months ago was for going rather fast, as I was passing someone on a busy highway. I was clocked at 72 in a 55 immediately after my pass.","title":"Speeding ticket in Michigan","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442205097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kvcfh\/bank_refused_to_accept_payoff_for_my_late\/","id":"3kvcfh","body":"My late husband, was married previously and shared a car loan with his deceased wife. When my husband died, I went to try to pay off the loan. Even though I had an affidavit of heirship, the car company refused to accept any payments from me, once they learned of his death. My late husband and his first wife had no children, and my husband died suddenly without leaving a will. I'm afraid they will try to repossess the car, even though I tried paying it off. Their excuse is that they have to contact his first wife's family to see if they want the car, but I haven't heard back from them in months. What to do? I'm in Texas.","title":"Bank refused to accept payoff for my late husband's car loan, what to do?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551894179,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay1kco\/pa_family_drama_sister_plants_other_peoples\/","id":"ay1kco","body":"So, before we begin this, my sister is bat shit crazy, currently I'm in the process of getting a restraining order but the court house is dragging their feet. And she is...upset that I am attempting to prolong my parents lives by helping them out (her opinion on this is not based at all on the fact that she lives next door to them and thinks she is getting their property...well she told them that she deserves it but that is another story)   \n\n\nBut last night when she found me in the store she started to dig in on me when I was trying to avoid her (while remaining in line of sight of a camera) and she told me that she could have me arrested for ID theft based on the papers that were in my belongings.   \n\n\nToday I did some checking and I found what looks to be medical billing info with quite a bit of PPI on it, hidden in several places...you know like in my tax papers, receipts for parts I order, with my DD214...you know...I'm at a loss how do I handle this.  \n\n\nAnd any advice on when it is and is not legal to do video and voice recording in pa?","title":"PA, Family Drama, Sister plants other people's personal info in my stuff and threatens to call the fbi on me for ID theft.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541090220,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tb1sf\/cockroach_infested_apartment_since_day_one\/","id":"9tb1sf","body":"I\u2019m posting for my boyfriend who has been living in this apartment since late august. He\u2019s located in the san fernando valley in LA. \n\nThe apartment has been infested with cockroaches since they moved in. The landlord must have cleaned everything right before showing the place, because within a week of moving in, roaches were everywhere. My boyfriend has spent a total of 7 nights in his own apartment because it\u2019s uninhabitable. He\u2019s worked 12 hour days every day for the past 6ish weeks, so he hasn\u2019t had the time or money to deal with leaving this place. Management has sent a bug sprayer twice already, and another is coming in today. But they aren\u2019t spraying the adjacent units, so roaches still come down from the unit above. My boyfriend hasn\u2019t been able to move his stuff out of his storage unit because it\u2019s expensive equipment that cannot be ruined, so he\u2019s had to spend a lot of money keeping that stored. He and his roommate are complete balls of stress; they both work 10-12 hour days, and then have to try and manage living with bugs everywhere. His roommate wakes up all night because roaches are crawling on her. My boyfriend has been staying with me so that he can sleep without massive anxiety. They can\u2019t keep food because roaches get to it immediately. \n\nMy question is what are his options? He wants to move and be reimbursed for his various expenses. He doesn\u2019t have the money to break his lease, and he feels really trapped in this situation. I\u2019ve contacted some tenants rights advocacy centers, but I haven\u2019t heard back from them. ","title":"Cockroach infested apartment since day one, looking to move and be reimbursed for expenses and rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555536250,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bed8na\/texas_is_payment_entitled_for_a_service_that_is\/","id":"bed8na","body":"Example: A client orders a 50 minute massage with an add-on peppermint scalp massage. There is miscommunication between front desk and the therapist and the add-on isn't included in the massage.\n\nCan the business demand payment for the 50 minute massage, but not the add-on?","title":"[Texas] Is payment entitled for a service that is incorrectly rendered?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552860766,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2aqbd\/seeking_a_similar_situation_or_advice_with_child\/","id":"b2aqbd","body":"Two years ago, I moved myself and my children after my three sons father served me with custody papers. I was naive in believing what I was told, \u201cyou\u2019re the custodial parent, you can go wherever you want with the kids.\u201d So in trying to leave their father, where we lived in absolute filth, chaos (he is an alcoholic and his mother a heroin addict that he pacifies) we left. Started a new life in a new state and for almost a year our lives were better than ever, doing better in school, my job was fantastic, all around better spirits. I went to court proceeding the custody case, where he was awarded custody, because I was considered fleeing. At the time he had no drivers license fallowing a dui, and me having no criminal history. I went back home after the hearing (as they found their ruling a week after) the father could not afford to pick the children up in our new home because he was broke.) he then filed contempt on me for not following the court order. I flew up for my court hearing where I was taken in cuffs to the county jail. I was only allowed to be released if the children we returned to their father. That\u2019s when my dad flew my children up, and that\u2019s where my children have been residing. Their grandmother watched them every weekend and tell me their father leaves them at night to go to the bar, my children are 8 and 3. They tell me horrific stories about their grandmother losing pills, their space heaters catching fire, no running water sometimes, awful  living conditions, basically my worst nightmare coming true before my eyes. And all I have is visitation all rights. Many failed attempts at wellness checks, where their father is a city worker in a small town and \u201cfriends\u201d with nearly every cop and throws it in my face when I attempt to have wellness checks made. He always calls and taunts me after I make the calls. I feel like it\u2019s an uphill battle that I am destined to lose. His solution to me is \u201ccome back home and everything will be fine\u201d the point is I was trying to leave this situation and abuse for the better sake of my children and myself and I can\u2019t help but feel punished for doing the right thing. Anyone have a similar situation or advice. I have had an attorney now for 2 months. ","title":"Seeking a similar situation or advice with child custody nightmare.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554788534,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb47os\/my_employer_changed_my_clock_out_time_to_give_me\/","id":"bb47os","body":"As said in the title, the gm of the place I work at changed my clock out time to prevent me from getting overtime. It\u2019s only 35 minutes, so it\u2019s not much, but if he did it once there\u2019s nothing stopping him from doing it again. What can I do? I have my clock out slip from last night when I worked, and it\u2019s currently in the system with the reduced time. I can\u2019t afford to lose this job at the moment so what do I do? Can he fire me if I bring it up and try to get him to fix it? Should I wait and keep track of all my times until I can find another job and then do something about it? The owner lives in the area and comes into the store for business purposes sometimes, should I talk to her about it?\n\nI live in Michigan and I\u2019m 22 getting paid minimum wage.","title":"My employer changed my clock out time to give me less hours to prevent overtime","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569666801,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daedeq\/tx_im_planning_to_go_to_court_over_a_towing\/","id":"daedeq","body":"My car got towed from a parking lot with only one tow sign that is basically invisible at night, not located on either side of the entrance, and not located within 25ft of said entrance. I have picture proof of these claims.\n\nI believe this constitutes a violation under \u201cGeneral Requirements for Sign Prohibiting Unauthorized Vehicles\u201d found in Subchapter G, Sec. 2308.301 of the [VEHICLE TOWING BOOTING Occupations Code Chapter 2308](https:\/\/www.tdlr.texas.gov\/towing\/towinglaw.htm#2308458) as\nadministered by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation effective September 1st 2018. This would mean that the towing company did not have probable cause to tow my car. \n\nI believe they did so recklessly as the tow guy apparently didn\u2019t stop to think \u201cwould someone reasonably know not to park here?\u201d or \u201cdoes this parking lot meet code?\u201d \nI would like to cross examine him and see if his company trains him to do these things.\n\nProblem is that I don\u2019t know if this is likely to prove recklessness at all or if I would be better off just take the fees owed to me from paying to get my car back.\n\nThanks for any feedback in advance!","title":"(Tx) I\u2019m planning to go to court over a towing incident I believe to be illegal. I believe they were reckless in their illegal towing of my car. I believe I should be owed something more than just reimbursement for what I paid, but I am unaware of my likelihood of winning. What should I do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508589056,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77t3d9\/somy_boss_had_been_sexually_harassing_me_and\/","id":"77t3d9","body":"I'm a 25 year old guy working in an office setting. My boss is a lady in her mid to late 40s. I've been working there for about a year now. It was all going well until just recently. So my boss began flirting with me. At first, I just kind of nervously shrugged it off because I didn't want to seem like a jerk. However, I got married a few months in, and the behavior escalated after she noticed my wedding ring. She cornered me one night as I was going home, and tried to kiss me and pull me into a closet to have sex. I managed to get away and went home, panicked. I wasn't sure what to do.\n\nI went to HR about it, and the lady in charge basically told me to \"think it over carefully\". Like she brushed the situation off. I decided to then go to my boss, and tell her that I was married, and didn't appreciate her behavior. My boss proceeds to fire me. At this point, I go to the police station and try to file a report. I get put in a room with a uniformed cop, and I tell him my story. I'll say this, the dude looked like he was on the verge of rolling his eyes the entire time.... So the cop is all like, \"And what do you want us to do about this?\" No, really. He inplied that the chances of any arrests was next to zero. \n\nSo now I feel stuck. I'm looking for a new job in the meantime. I haven't told my wife what happened, just that I was laid off. I feel embarrassed and angry that things worked out this way. What are my legal options at this point? Do I just forget about it and move on? If not, who do I go to and what do I do?","title":"So...my boss had been sexually harassing me, and nobody did anything about it.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555263304,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd57no\/is_it_worth_contesting_no_turn_on_red_when_the\/","id":"bd57no","body":"I got a ticket for turning right on a no turn on red but I couldn't see the right turn light from the white line. I turned around after getting the ticket to get a video because I think this is completely absurd. I did wait at that white line until there were no cars coming for a long while so I did do my due diligence in driving safely.\n\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/7RcaAc-Tx1U\n\nThe cop was milking this spot (as you can see in the video) so it's obviously not clear enough to drivers whether or not they can turn. \n\nThanks for your help.","title":"Is it worth contesting no turn on red when the light wasn't visible from the white line?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571026180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhld0f\/mother_of_missing_girl_threatening_legal_action\/","id":"dhld0f","body":"(CA, USA) Without linking to the channel or the video, my partner and I make true crime style YouTube videos- think Criminally Listed or Unsolved Mysteries. Not a big channel compared to some, we have a bit over 150,000 subs. We recently covered a twenty something woman who went missing with her date a while back. We used info found in other news articles and got all our info from an interview the mother of the missing woman gave that is available online. \n\nAt the end we speculated what may have happened- basically we think she fell in the ocean, and say the whole \u201cthe family still holds out hope...\u201d thing at the end. Now the mom messaged us asking \u201cwho gave us permission\u201d to use this info and is posting links to our video saying she will \u201cmake us pay\u201d. I\u2019m trying to to figure out the correct way to Google our rights here. We used stick footage and images from google of her as well as a snap chat video she posted and that is all over online. \n\nWas any of this illegal? The video was monitized but we have set it to private until we figure out our rights.","title":"Mother of Missing Girl threatening legal action over documentary style YouTube video on daughter.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507345498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74shsn\/texas_property_title_divorce_and_inheritance\/","id":"74shsn","body":"In Texas:\n\nA couple with both names on a house tile divorces in 1980.  There is a stipulation in the divorce decree that when the children turn 18 (1996), the house will be sold and the money divided between the two.  The man continues living in the house with their children.  \n\nIn 1999 (past the time specified in the divorce agreement to sell the house), the new spouse of the woman demands a cash payout to buy her half of the house if the man wants to keep living in it.  He writes a check for the amount demanded to the new husband and considers the matter settled.  There is no paperwork stating the fact that the payment was for half of the property, beyond a bank record showing a check written to the new husband by the man.  The man continues to live in the house with his boys there on and off as school and employment dictates, and pay taxes on the property.  EDIT: The amount paid is nearly twice the personal gift maximum.\n\nThe man passed away in 2014.  The woman's new spouse passed away in 2015.  The woman is still alive.  The man left a will, stating the property was to be divided among his kids.  When the title company was contacted regarding the sale of the property, the kids found the title is in the name of their late father and their living mother, who had been divorced for about 34 years.  There is no way the mother would willingly sign over \"her half\" of the property as she has an estranged relationship with her children.\n\n\nA few questions:\n\n-Does the fact that the county tax records for the property show only the name of the man help make a case that the property is only the man's?\n\n-Could it be that half the property is the woman's?  Or the whole property?\n\n-Is there any way to ensure the kids inherit the property?\n\n-Would Adverse Possession play any role in this?\n\n\nWe would like to contact the lawyer used to get the will accepted by the court, but we sunk all the estate money we had at this point into fixing up the house for sale (over $12k of repairs and maintenance) and paying the lawyer the first time around and will not be able to find the cash to pay his hefty (but understandable) fee.  We appreciate any feedback you can give us regarding this matter.  Thank you in advance.","title":"Texas - Property Title, Divorce, and Inheritance","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551993791,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayhwk7\/i_live_in_a_shithole_apartment_and_the_property\/","id":"ayhwk7","body":"I need some help. My boyfriend and I moved to Texas about 7 months ago and have been dealing with nothing but problems since we moved into this apartment complex. We knew something was weird by all the random fees we had to pay and no security deposit. To keep it short, we get towed twice in the complex. Only get $75 off rent out $400 I spent getting it out. This is only after fussing several times. Also, it was marketed as a \u201cgated community\u201d except the gates have NEVER worked up until last week and we had people robbed at gunpoint and our mail boxes broken into. Next, the complex never answers the phone so we can never get maintenance unless I go up to the office. Then, we start having a roach infestation, they spray 6 times over the course of two or so months. (You have to request it btw, they don\u2019t spray once a month and I pay for it in my rent.) Now they have laid eggs in my television, which we will probably have to throw away. I just went up to the office to try and get out of my lease because of all of these problems and they told me no and that they\u2019re JUST NOW going to bomb the apartment soon to deal with the roach problems, which you would think would\u2019ve been done after I asked for pest control the 6 other times. Every time I\u2019ve emailed the property manager about something, she\u2019ll respond almost immediately unless it\u2019s me complaining about something, then I will be ignored. Should I just wait it out for another 3 months until my lease is up or can I do something? I\u2019m tired of this bullshit. ","title":"I live in a shithole apartment and the property manager refuses to solve the problems or let me out of my lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568680152,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d59b3f\/how_to_deal_with_temp_agency_contract\/","id":"d59b3f","body":"First, I just want to say I like lawyers, and a few bad apples exist,  but I honestly believe you\u2019re good guys interested in justice. \n\nI employed a temp through a personnel agency over two years ago. The contract allows for direct to hire if I pay them 25% of her salary. I can\u2019t do that. So I pay the temp agency year after year. \nShe\u2019s a great worker who also owns her own business. \n\nI\u2019m in Wa. state. Is there a legal argument to be made that the contract interferes with her ability to be employed, etc? Or is there some business arrangement to get around it where I\u2019m her employer or contact worker so it won\u2019t violate the contract?","title":"How to deal with Temp agency contract","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551639901,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awx8ez\/im_the_family_secret_can_i_still_inherit_some_of\/","id":"awx8ez","body":"My father abandoned me when I was a year old in 1984 in New Jersey. He currently has three adult children that are younger than me and a wife. He was never married to my mother but did sign my birth certificate. \nI really doubt he told anyone that I exist because I\u2019m mixed raced and a Bastard. \nHe is a wealthy doctor and I assume he doesn\u2019t want me to inherit anything of his. I read about a law in California that said if you have a child and don\u2019t mention them in the will you can\u2019t disinherit them.  If he never mentioned me in his will but I can prove I\u2019m his first born child, could I contest the will when he dies? Random curve ball: there is a contract that states I can\u2019t interfere with his life.","title":"I\u2019m the family secret. Can I still inherit some of my father\u2019s estate? New Jersey","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1507296021,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74nk3v\/california_former_client_using_legal_threats_to\/","id":"74nk3v","body":"Thanks for taking a look at this thread. I am posting because a customer [customer], who is also my girlfriend's [GF] former employer, recently sent me an email threatening legal action if I do not provide her with web design labor and web hosting services (presumably at no cost). I am not at all experienced in civil law, and am a sole-proprietor with no funds for consultation on this matter.\n\nI performed a one-off service gig for [customer] in January 2017, as a favor and at a discounted price, to set up a simple website for their tattoo parlor. I had her sign a Statement of Work and acknowledgement of my Master Service Agreement (MSA), she paid me $420 cash up front, and I set up the website to the extent possible. She never submitted website content for me to install, and the 90-day period of performance expired... I didn't want to take [customer] as a long-term client, so I made sure to include that in our agreement. \n\nHere is the Statement of Work signed by both parties:\npage 1: http:\/\/ibb.co\/iLHSdw\npage 2: http:\/\/ibb.co\/eHEerG\npage 3: http:\/\/ibb.co\/dP4qyw\nPage 4: http:\/\/ibb.co\/jtrg5b\n(The Master Service Agreement referenced in the SOW is a 14-page document. It is too long to redact and post, so I will refrain.)\n\nShe never did arrange hosting, nor did she finalize her domain purchase, so I was stuck hosting the website on my high-end WordPress server. I extended 5 months of hosting to her at no cost (though it cost me $40, all told), as she was expecting a baby and I was feeling charitable. I billed her in September. \n\n[GF] recently had a disagreement with [customer] and quit, and was subsequently threatened with legal action. I fired [customer] immediately. I then wrote this explanation of the termination procedure and gave advice for service emigration, and sent it via email: - http:\/\/ibb.co\/fqLkWG\nI also attached the files neccesary to re-create her website at a new host, and even extended the offer to personally assist that host in migrating her site to its new home.\n\nIn response, [customer] sent me this \"demand letter\", which is redacted but otherwise unaltered [sic] - http:\/\/ibb.co\/gMbQWG\n\nIn this letter, [customer] displays severe misunderstanding of our agreement. [customer] states that her website is incomplete (untrue), that I was retained for ongoing maintenance (untrue), and that I discontinued her service mid-month (untrue, the site is still live with no service interruption)... [customer] then threatens legal action against myself and [GF], on the basis that [GF] has sabotaged her web host, thus losing her money. \n[customer] concludes by requesting that I perform labor on her website (presumably at no cost) and continue to host the website (which I had never agreed to host beyond April of this year). It is obvious to me that she is pursuing action simply as retaliation against [GF]. \n\nMy question is: How should I respond to this demand letter?\n\nDo I ignore it, as it's obviously spurious?.. Do I simply restate my termination notice and provide references to our signed agreement which limits my liability?... Do I pursue recourse for perceived extortion or, at least, abuse of process? (None of the above, I'd assume)\n\nI have really good termination and limitation of liability clauses in my MSA (maybe too good), but honestly am not legally smart enough to tell if the MSA itself is sound.. I've not had it reviewed by a lawyer. It *does* have a content ownership section which specifically declares my ownership of the website and its contents however, if that matters.\n\nAny sound advice on this matter would be sincerely appreciated. Again, I don't have any money to hire a lawyer, so a route that avoids litigation (or even paid consultation) is crucial.\n\nThank you all very much for your time and attention, and we wish you a positive and productive Autumn!","title":"[California] Former client using legal threats to extort free web design and hosting.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569211189,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d81c1h\/what_would_some_legal_issues_be_with_a_website\/","id":"d81c1h","body":"Hi legaladvice! I have a class project in University and desperately need your help with understanding laws regarding content hosting websites. If I reccomend videos YouTube or songs on Spotify with the link to those platforms on a website, what would some of the legal limitations be? Thank u love u \u2764\ufe0f","title":"What would some legal issues be with a website that suggests and links content from other websites.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540486369,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rc2j5\/legal_recourse_for_unpaid_work_expenses\/","id":"9rc2j5","body":"Spouse charges work expenses on personal credit card.  Has been with employer 20 years.  Currently searching for contract signed at start of employment.\nIn any event, company is months behind on reimbursement.  Thousands of dollars behind in reimbursement of expenses.  \nFairly certain expenses either weren't addressed in contract or it stated they would be paid in some reasonable time frame.  Don't think spouse would have agreed to anything ridiculous.\nDoes spouse have any recourse?.","title":"Legal Recourse for Unpaid Work Expenses?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553714200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b68egf\/my_boyfriend_was_convicted_of_a_charge_that_he\/","id":"b68egf","body":"This is my first post on Reddit so bare with me if the formatting or what not is incorrect. \n\nMy boyfriend was convicted of a DUI last month and sentenced to probation; he was originally arrested and charged in July 2018 for it. He had been going to court all that time and finally got convicted.\n\nBack in October of 2018, while he was still in court for the DUI and had not been convicted yet, he was rear-ended and got a ticket for driving on a suspended license (administrative suspense). He has been going to court and still is for that ticket since November. He has court Monday and has just decided to take the guilty plea.\n \nSince he wasn't convicted of the DUI and put on probation until February of this year, will this new conviction violate his probation even though the actual crime was committed before he was put on probation?\n\nWe are set to sign a lease on an apartment next week but I would prefer to push that back if this possibly could violate him and send him to jail. It would make sense for it to not be a violation since the crime committed was before his probation but I'm not quite sure.","title":"My boyfriend was convicted of a charge that he committed before he was put on probation, will this result in a violation of his probation?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1550014599,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apzwsg\/ca_usa_employer_reneging_on_401k_matching\/","id":"apzwsg","body":"Background: I\u2019ve worked for this company (~300 employees across the US) for over a year and learned that the company matches employee contributions to the 401k plan up to 4%. I learned that the employer-matched amount is deposited into my 401k account once annually, though I assume it is set aside by the company each pay period. \n\nToday my coworkers and I received an email stating that due to rising healthcare costs, the company is unable to provide any matching funds to any 401k contributions from the calendar year 2018. \n\nIs this legal? ","title":"(CA, USA) employer reneging on 401k matching","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553628955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5u5x1\/topeka_ks_renoviction\/","id":"b5u5x1","body":"First time poster to this subreddit.  I have read the rules and am attempting to adhere to them as best as possible. \n\nI have lived in a second story apartment in Topeka, KS for five years.\n\nI reported an issue with my dish washer. It wasn't cleaning the top shelf of dishes.  They sent out their handymen to our place and supposedly fixed it.  The feedback was that I was loading it incorrectly.   Fair enough, so I downloaded the dish washers instruction manual and followed the loading instructions and the maintenance instruction.  Once again the dishes were not getting cleaned.  So I asked for their handyman to come out again. Once again he says it isn't cleaning correctly because of user error.  I explained to them I followed the instruction manual to a T so I dont but their explanation.\n\nDuring this same conversation the landlord brought up that our lease is coming up in 5 days and the new owners want to renovate our apartment and so they wont be renewing our lease and want us out by the end of April.  \n\nThere are new owners of the apartment complex as of January 1 2019 and they have put in, reportedly 5 million dollars of renovations to the outside of the apartments through new stairwells, new siding, and upgraded optional garages.  So it makes sense.\n\nMy problem with this is, 1. I just had a baby. He is five months old.  I have put hundreds of dollars into the babies nursery in the form of paint, installing shelves, decals, light fixtures, face plates, etc (basically anything you can customize in a room was done to fight the baby's theme). 2.  I've lived here for five years. I feel like I've built up a level of loyalty and dependability that I should be seen as a good tenant so why pull this on me.  It is a pain in the ass to move. It costs a lot of money and research. At the very least give me a lot of notice so I can start looking at a new place and make a unrushed decision.  3. It seems like retaliation.  I say that because I would say I am a pain in the ass to deal with when it comes to repairs because i expect quality work.  Additionally, the week my baby was born my in laws came over to see the baby.  My father in law fell down our stairwell when he was leaving at night.  My in laws have started the very preliminary process of getting an attorney to sue the apartment complex due to an improper installation of stairs and poor lighting conditions.  He had to have a wedding band cut off his finger because his hand swelled because of the fall.  Also they will sue for medically Bill's associated to the fall.\n\nI did search on the internet for renoviction rules in Kansas but didnt find anything.  I was wondering if you could offer any information on this practice. Also if I have any rights as a tenant.  Everything I'm seeing online is in Canada and it seems like they have rights and protections. Do we have the same ?  Any advice is appreciated. \n\nTldr: lease is coming up for an apartment. Landlord says they want to not renew our lease because they need to renovate the apartment.","title":"(Topeka, KS) Renoviction","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506450716,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72mdti\/ohfl_friends_father_passed_away_in_april_and_mil\/","id":"72mdti","body":"Posting on behalf of a non-Redditing friend in Ohio. She very recently discovered that her father, who was living in Florida, passed away in April. The family was not in good contact, mostly because of the MIL who is quite a story in her own right, but despite calling the house several times the MIL didn't tell any of the siblings that their father had passed away. My friend does not know if he had a will. How would she find out if he had one? If he did not have a will, what happens next, legally? Thank you for any advice!\n\nNote: since I've seen this have bearing in other posts, the MIL and father were legally married, not common law partners.","title":"[OH\/FL] Friend's father passed away in April and MIL did not inform family. How can she find out if there's a will?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570730033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg1qj7\/my_old_school_counsellor_shared_unrelated_issues\/","id":"dg1qj7","body":"I'm sure if I can or even want to do anything about this at all but I guess i want to know for my own sanity as I've been thinking about this a lot even though it happened about 5 years ago.\n\nSo when I was in high school I saw my school counsellor for a year. I remember the first time I saw her she told me something along the lines of I'm not going to tell anyone anything unless you are putting yourself or other in danger and made me sign something.\n\nLong story short after a year of seeing her I get called into the head teachers office asking about how I've been talking about how I find it easier to sleep in the day and how much time I spend online and on social media and told me they will call my parents which I was absolutely mortified about becasue i knew I would get in trouble even if I did nothing wrong (which did happen)","title":"My old school counsellor shared unrelated issues to my head teacher and parents","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570313641,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddu6da\/please_help_me_out\/","id":"ddu6da","body":"Ok I\u2019m Shannon I\u2019m 30, and. Earlier this year I was gambling at a casino in my home town,  I was tipsy ! It was My birthday I was upset- my drink spilled in the slot machine the camera seen me. Look both ways before i \u2018poured\u2019 The drink in the slot machine! So when I went back to the casino the next day or the day after I was accosted by several security members and told to pay for it or I would be barred and prosecuted $900  I didn\u2019t pay for it so they indeed did put a warrant out for my arrest I went to jail a bandit out everything is fired I\u2019m currently still fighting in court I maintain that it was an accident my lawyer is pretty good but he seems to always advise on the side of the courts which leaves me quite perturbed , because i was lifetime barred from Indiana gaming sooooo!?\n\nwell the other day me and my mom went to lunch I asked her if my husband can come to she said yes she was going to pay for my lunch but once my husband came I am assuming that she assumed that he would pay so naturally need a paid and I according to the camera I\u2019m the one who didn\u2019t paid so they called the police they put a warrant out for my arrest for dine- Dash theft (A Misdemeanor )my mom explained what happened the next day, the restaurant was cool completely fine we were able to pay we got a receipt they signed off on it they said the matter is far as the concert is done I still have the warrant what should I do about the warrant my lawyer is saying that I still have to turn myself in and may have basically admitted guilt by payIng but he is snake oil salesmen and wait to see a judge but I know of people who have not had to turn himself in if they have the money they can simply pay it to the judge and the judge could appear or they would have to turn yourself then we can appear alongside their lawyer and talk to the judge either before or after he sees his public I do not want to turn myself in what do I do? This is not my things I\u2019m not always in trouble and. I\u2019m sickly","title":"Please help me out!","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570200195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd8al0\/photography_business_name_debacle\/","id":"dd8al0","body":"Hi all. So, I have a bit of a conundrum regarding my recent photography business endeavor. I have decided to become official, and so far I have only applied (and was accepted) to become an LLC in the state I live in, NM. I\u2019m going to use fake names, but this is what I\u2019m up against. The name I have been using, and registered as an LLC is Bob Anderson Photography. Bob is just my nickname, and Bobby is my legal name, so it\u2019s just a shortened version of that, with my legal last name, and photography tagged onto the end of it. When I researched the TESS trademark system for my business name, I received no results back, so I thought I was in the clear. I have since found (of course) a website that is Bob Anderson Photography, verbatim. They\u2019re from IL, so a good distance away from me but... what should I do? Am I allowed to be a registered LLC in my home state? We have essentially the same exact business name, and are in the same trade. I hate the thought of using my full name, but I also don\u2019t want to be sued by someone halfway across the country. Any advice is greatly appreciated.","title":"Photography Business Name Debacle","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569536595,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9r0q2\/workplace_is_trying_to_get_me_to_retropay_600_for\/","id":"d9r0q2","body":"I work for a very large  medical company. My office is one small off-location office with about 11 people.\n\nMy office (office A) had a parking lot at a shared business building. I had numerous instances where someone else from the building would take my spot and I would be forced to drive around for another (and worry about being towed) or park on the street (move it every 2 hours). The building manager, my manager, parking office did nothing about preventing or towing people who took my spot and I complained a LOT.\n\nSo i got sick of that and I parked there until sometime in 2017 when the rate was to go up also, so myself and a bunch cancelled and parked at a store across the street and paid privately. Previously the amount came off my check automatically.\n\nIn 2018 I asked for a form to be emailed to me so I can resign up for parking at Office A. I hsd been assaultrd at my new lot and nervous about it since. I ended up printing myself a copy of the form but didnt submit it because I ended up carpooling for a while, etc. So fast forward to this year in May. I need a spot, so I find my form, fill it out and on the top it says to fax to ABC office (fax number) so I do. I decided to put a second vehicle plate on the form so I refax it a second time that day. I didnt date the form because there was talk of our office moving and I didnt want an arguement about the 30 day cancellation penality if we found out we were moving last minute (then id be forced to pay for 2 places). So I start parking daily, there are incidents again that people are parking in my spot and leaving me in a bad situation, frustrated and again no one helps me.\n\nWe find out we are moving on September 15th to a new location back in early Aug. My manager says she will email the parking office and make sure myself, coworker A, b, c and D are all cancelled so were not paying for this and the new spot and no penalty. We all are happy we dont need to fill out forms and she will handle it for us.\n\nWell to my surprise they come back telling her that they cancelled co workers A B C and D but they have no record of me resigning up. I tell them I faxed my form sometime in May, twice, maybe its under someone elses name or number because of the huge amount of people who work for this company. I get an email saying they cannot find it, so I havent been charged for this year once and they want me to pay it back now.\n\nAs of the 15th, ive been paying a monthly parking fee at Office B (our new location). I tell them I cannot afford to pay for 2 parking spots, and that I submitted my form, they lost it. Now they have been arguing with me for the past week that its my mistake and that I am responsible because I shouldve noticed it was not charging me. I argued that I submitted it properly and I had no reason to check if they were charging me, they had my information before and I assumed theyd just restart that. I also feel like because someone there lost or misentered both copies of my form, I shouldnt be liable for repaying when it was their mistake.\n\n I did also mention my spot was never private and I was never helped when someone needed to be towed from my spot. The agreement says \"payment is due on the first of each month and if not received the person is locked out of the lot and subject to ticket or towing\" so I feel as this means I never actually had a spot and was kind of illegally parking and was just at risk for towing..\n\nCan they force me to pay or is this their mkstake for mishandling my form, me bringing it to ther attention thinking it was correct, so they should have to swallow the \"lost\" money? If we had said \"please cancel all parking\" instead of \"please cancel parking for A B C D and E employees\" I or the parking office wouldve never known my info didnt go through.","title":"Workplace is trying to get me to retropay $600~ for old parking spot?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445614297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3px1bi\/501c3_selfdealing_questions_iowa_corporation\/","id":"3px1bi","body":"I own the building our 501c3 will be housed in. I understand that collecting a lease payment paid by the nonprofit would violate the laws against self dealing, since I will take the director position (fair amount lease in my area for my building would be 6-8k\/month).\n\nMay I obligate the nonprofit on a NNN 5 year lease for the building, while charging 0 payment? The nonprofit would pay the property tax and insurance and utilities, but receive the use of the property free of charge from my wife and I. As a disqualified person I would receive no direct income, but there is an admitted benefit to me in having the building costs paid. This should be offset by the free lease.\n\nSince the value of the monthly lease is forgiven for the term of the lease may we consider that value as an ongoing donation to the charity for tax purposes?\n\nShould I take a salary of 72k and also forgive 72k of normal lease revenue I would zero out my income from the nonprofit. Are there prohibitions against that, or any negatives for doing so?\n\nAt the end of the 5 year lease period, or possibly after 10 years I would be interested in stepping down as director and giving the helm to another. At that point may I then collect monthly lease monies from the nonprofit for the time they remain in my building?\n\nWhen they eventually vacate or close down, I will have ownership of an asset that has been improved (vastly). Some of the improvements will be removeable, but most will remain fixed to the property. I can then lease or sell the improved property.\n\nI'll speak with a local atty soon, just want to have feedback\/ideas on these items prior to meeting her.\n\nObviously the higher value will be gains and taxed as such, but are there any negatives to me for the value increase due to the improvements being paid from the nonprofit funds? Especially those made while I am director? \n","title":"501c3 self-dealing questions. Iowa Corporation. (xpost from nonprofit)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570145423,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcz4wv\/sexual_harrasment_and_no_hr\/","id":"dcz4wv","body":"Ontario, Canada\n\nI've worked at this car dealership, a male-dominated workplace, for almost three years and experienced varying degrees of sexual harassment from a variety of men. I started working as a part-time receptionist and eventually became a full-time employee. I stayed quiet for a long time because:\n\n1. I was a student at that time in need of money\n2. There was no proper HR\n3. Male-dominated field with previous cases of harassment that were swept under the rug or encouraged to not get reported. (A previous male employee had multiple accusations against him and he even followed a woman into the washroom but still works there).\n4. Fear, ostracized, wrongfully accused of being a liar and having them gang up on me\n5. Public opinion of women was poor, some believed that education was wasted on women.\n\nVarious incidents:\n\n1. Touched on the thigh, had legs caressed, had shoulders massaged and was asked if \"I liked it.\"\n2. Had been asked for kisses, was given kisses on cheeks or neck\n3. Been asked out multiple times by married men whom I had to reject multiple times.\n4. Been called a bitch for not smiling at harassers.\n5. Had men come up from behind me unannounced to touch me, one tried to reach for my legs, another just stands and leers.\n\nI eventually burst out and called one of them a dirty old man thus proceeded with managerial meetings. I had called the labour board prior but stayed anonymous. The company ended up hiring an outside lawyer to do an investigation. Not sure what I should be wary of or watch out for?","title":"Sexual Harrasment and No HR","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410985596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gozen\/requested_trial_by_written_declaration_but_now_im\/","id":"2gozen","body":"I got a ticket a few months ago for turning left in downtown in a construction zone. I was going down a one way street and approached an intersection with a green arrow pointing upwards, and I needed to turn left on this stret. I figured, \"green arrow, I can go.\" It was also a one way street (with the direction to drive being towards my left), so I thought that it wouldnt be unsafe to do so as there was absolutely no cross traffic being a one way street. When I turned left, a police man immediately walked out from beind two parked cars to flag me down and gave me a ticket saying that that was a no left turn zone.\n\n\nI got the ticket and told my dad all of this and he recommended I request a trial by written declaration. I didnt know much about it but I did it anyway, and now I have to deal with this. I paid the bail, but at this point im wishing I had just paid the ticket and done traffic school. Is there any way to \"un-trial by declaration\", and just pay the rest of the fine and go to traffic school?","title":"Requested Trial by Written Declaration, but now i'm not sure if I have any standing. [Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553718439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b69a4k\/florida_pet_feedeposit_paid_to_apartments_being\/","id":"b69a4k","body":"I paid a pet fee\/deposit about 7-years ago at the apartments I was living at for 9-years.  When I paid it, I was told it was to cover damages in the event some were to occur.  That place changed management company's 6-7 times while I was there.  The current company, after I moved out, is claiming carpet damage.  I know they're lying, and I argued it but finally gave up and said \"just use the pet deposit\".  He went through all of my leases while I was on the phone (supposedly) and said \"I can't find anything to show me about the pet fee so it's assumed it's simply a fee for owning the pets and nothing more\".  I said I wanted to see where it shows I paid it and he said \"I see here in 2011 it says pet FEE was paid\".  I know I didn't pay the fee until 2012\/2013 so he's probably making up what he supposedly found but that's neither here nor there. \n\n​\n\nI told him, to my knowledge, the pet fee\/deposit does or does not go towards damages based on the WORDING in the contract I signed.  He told me that is not true, it says fee and therefore it's assumed that's what it is, it will not cover damages and it's my burden to prove otherwise.\n\n​\n\nI asked for a copy of all 9-years worth of my leases and will pick them up tomorrow after work to go through.  I'm trying to see where I stand with this before I proceed.\n\n​\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"[Florida] Pet fee\/deposit paid to apartments, being told there's no wording in my contract stating whether it does or does not cover damages and therefore it's assumed it does not. Is this true?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570495813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/desnog\/car_towed_because_apartment_screwed_up_temporary\/","id":"desnog","body":"I know that this is a pretty petty case, but I had to spend $179 which was my grocery money for the next two weeks because a kid working the desk at my girlfriend\u2019s apartment complex forgot I had asked him for a weekend parking pass and gave me instead an overnight parking pass. I\u2019m pretty regular so I know weekend passes aren\u2019t against the rules and there\u2019s no rule on how frequently someone can request a temporary parking pass, so there\u2019s no reason why I should not have received a weekend pass. What happened is as follows:\n\nI parked in the building\u2019s \u201cretail parking only\u201d parking spaces (this is fine as long as you move or get a pass that lets you park there) on Friday at around 6 pm and went into the lobby where a young man was working at the front desk. I asked him for a weekend pass, and he said that the website they use to create parking passes was temporarily down, so I gave him my vehicle information and kept checking in with him until the website was restored. Around 9 pm I got a \u201cguest parking only\u201d parking pass with a designated set of spaces (I am very familiar by now with which spaces I am and am not allowed to park in, and parked in the middle of the guest spaces). I moved my car into the proper space and set out. Come this morning I went to my car to find that it was missing. I went to the front desk and they said it was towed due to an expired parking pass. I received conflicting answers on whether or not the apartment could reimburse me, but ultimately I got the answer \u201cthe manager is out on vacation and you\u2019ll have to ask her next week.\u201d However, I think that they believed me when I told them that I had requested a weekend pass and not an overnight pass as was indicated on their records because they got me an Uber to the towing company. \n\nHowever, I\u2019m still out the $179 it took to recover my car and wanted to know what rights I have with regard to this. I understand that the owner is always responsible for towing costs, but when I frankly am not at fault I shouldn\u2019t have to pay up. Any advice in the event that I\u2019m denied any kind of reimbursement would be greatly appreciated as I can\u2019t really afford to hemorrhage money like this.\n\nThank you in advance.","title":"Car towed because apartment screwed up temporary parking pass with wrong dates, out $179 in towing fees","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570357897,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de1ktn\/friend_showed_up_to_first_day_of_work_and_was\/","id":"de1ktn","body":"Hi everyone, sadly I'm afraid I might know the answer here, but I wanted to post here just in case because this is someone I care about very dearly.\n\nMy friend lives in rural Indiana and until recently had a job for about four years. This was her first job out of college. Salaried position, worked her way up through a couple promotions, did very well. About a year ago the company was sold and she was kept on in the same position. However, she was no longer happy with the new management, so she decided to look for a new job. \n\nSince this is rural Indiana, there really aren't many good jobs in her field. It took her an entire year to find one, but she was eventually offered a management role at a smaller company with better pay. She put in her notice at her old job and two weeks later showed up to her first day at the new one... only to be told they had actually decided to give the job to someone else instead. (A family member of the owner, apparently.) They told her she could have a job in their phone center making cold calls instead if she wanted - for crappy pay\/commissions. Of course she declined and left.\n\nThat was a month ago and she still hasn't found another job. She managed to pick up a few shifts waiting tables at the local diner and is making about 25% of her previous salary. If she doesn't find something soon she will be forced to move out of her apartment and start crashing on friends' couches.\n\nI'm obviously heartbroken for my friend but wanted to see if she has ANY sort of recourse - at least to help her pay her bills until she can get back on her feet. \n\nThank you for your help!","title":"Friend showed up to first day of work and was told she didn't have the job anymore (Indiana)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553754751,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6fdzq\/can_i_take_legal_action_against_my_old_school_if\/","id":"b6fdzq","body":"To put it simply, im 19 now, i was 11 at the time and while i was at school one day i was talking to myself about halo, a shooting game from the xbox 360 because i was daydreaming, and one of the teachers took at as a threat and sent me to a counselor, and then after that a cop came and took me to juvy in handcuffs, i was confused, scared and no one would tell me what was going  on, all they did was treat me like i was some kind of bad kid and no one listened to what i was trying to say. I didn't get to talk to my parents and then after having my shoe strings removed, my belongings taken from me, and after that i got sent to a place called wellstone while handcuffed in a gurney while a medical doctor taunted me.\n I was scared and didn't know what was going on, And while i was there the staff purposefully did things to try and get me to \"tick\" like isolate me from the kids, feed me worse food, tell me how I'm a danger to them, but all i really did was cry and try to go home, and then i had to go back to juvy to go to court, being forced to use the bathroom in front of a 17 year old cellmate, and when i got out i was 12 years old. \nFast forward a week and it was my first day back in school, literally everyone knew who i was and was like \"___ is back\" and everyone gave me weird looks for the day, i felt devistated and humiliated, then after that one of my teachers Tried to tell me to \"say a few swears at the principal, he won't care\", a teacher tired to do that. Because of that i dropped out and got homeschooled for the rest of my school days.\n\nAnd because of all of this ive had to seek therapy for years and am still going, the memories are extremely painful and I'm not able to go outside anymore on my own because of that time, and one of the therapists I've talked to said the school has been known to treat special needs students abusicely and carelessly and I'm mildly autistic so i guess they must've seen me as special needs.\n\n\n\nTldr: a school did awful things to me and it's still severely affecting my life to this day, is there any way i could take legal action against them even though im 19 now and it happened back when i was 12? ","title":"Can i take legal action against my old school? If so, how do i go about it?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539149034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mwp3v\/hitting_one_of_walmarts_landscaping_boulders_with\/","id":"9mwp3v","body":"I hit one of walmarts landscaping boulders with my car. It was my mistake of me not seeing it. It's just laying on parking lot road now. Instead of on the small island of wood chips. There no damage to the boulder. Only to my car\n What should my next move be. Report it to the city, or walmart. Should i get a lawyer?\n","title":"Hitting one of walmart's landscaping boulders with my car. What should i do about it. (AR)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506978000,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73vou3\/uhaul_wont_let_me_delete_billing_information\/","id":"73vou3","body":"[FL\/MA] rented in mass living in fl. \nSo I rented a U-Haul a few months ago. Today I got a bill for tolls, I don\u2019t dispute that. But knowing that last time I used U-Haul they randomly charged me months later I wanted to remove my information to prevent that. Let\u2019s be clear, all my debts are paid. \nWhen I go on the website I select my billing information, click delete and it says it\u2019s been deleted. I log out, when I log back in, it\u2019s right back there.\nI called U-Haul, they said they won\u2019t delete it and I need to replace the credit card to remove that one. The thing is, there are two cards on the account, and I can\u2019t delete either. I\u2019ll click delete in one, log out, when I log back in they\u2019re both still there.\nThey can\u2019t have a delete button that doesn\u2019t delete, right? Isn\u2019t this fraud or data mining. I have videos of this happening but I don\u2019t want to post them because personal info. What can I do? Can I sue? Is this legal?","title":"U-Haul won\u2019t let me delete billing information after all debts have been paid.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551288792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avg0sf\/xgirlfriend_leasing_agent_moved_next_door_now\/","id":"avg0sf","body":"So about six months ago I broke things off with, let\u2019s call her A. A is a leasing agent here at my apartment complex. About a month after I broke things off with her she decided to move into the neighboring room.I have had security called on my room for noise complaints over 20 times and she has called to police four times now since she has moved in. The security guard has issued multiple fines of $100 with threats of eviction. We have never had a single noise complaint from anybody else, for the very reasonable level of music that we frequently play from our living room tv on weekends. I would like to mention that that I am in Florida, as well as this in an exclusive college student apartment complex. The police that have been called have blatantly said that this is a matter they shouldn\u2019t be getting calls over. The maintenance guys have also been coming into the apartment with no notice often now. I woke up today to somebody entering my apartment, I know my roommates aren\u2019t going to be home for a couple of hours so I go out into the living room to find the two maintenance workers nosing around the living room, they seem surprised when I asked them what they were doing like the expected nobody to be home. They then told me to \u201cclean up\u201d and proceeded to go into the vacant room, turn on the sink and walk out. This has been going on for months now, I\u2019ve talked to the manager of the complex multiple times, who takes her side without question I might add. I really feel like this is some form of calculated harassment, is there anything I can do to get a restraining order on her? The has become an every week occurrence of her calling the police, I went to speak with A after the last call and I could hear her laughing with her friends that also work for the apartment complex in their apartment. This isn\u2019t a game to me as a it seems to be for her. ","title":"X-girlfriend leasing agent moved next door, now harassing me.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539981472,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pnpsa\/officer_in_utah_gave_me_the_wrong_ticket\/","id":"9pnpsa","body":"So I got pulled over on an interstate highway in Utah. The officer gave me a ticket for speeding, but once I got home I saw they had entered most of my info incorrectly. \n\nThey had my car\u2019s license plate, make, and model, but everything else like my gender, name, even drivers license number was incorrect. \n\nHow should I handle this? Am I still responsible to pay this ticket?","title":"Officer in Utah gave me the wrong ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571134963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di5w9b\/i_think_my_work_is_holding_my_pay\/","id":"di5w9b","body":"Hello, I would like to start off by saying i am 17 years old so this is more of a part-time job, dont know if that affects anything so i had to put it out there, anyways, i get paid by-weekly, every 15 days, so today i got paid. I checked my account and what they paid is around 33% of what they should have paid me, is there anything I can do, anything I should do?\n\nThanks in advance","title":"I think my work is holding my pay","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409894370,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fiyiw\/friend_stabbed_8_times_what_can_his_assailant_be\/","id":"2fiyiw","body":"A friend of mine got in a confrontation at a bar with a stranger, and ended up getting stabbed eight times.  The details of the cause of the confrontation are hazy, however my friend is the type of person who pushes people's buttons for a laugh.  Two of the stab wounds were life threatening,  and the other six were superficial. My friend was unarmed.\n\nThe assailant was caught, what kind of charges could he realistically face?\n\nedit:grammar","title":"Friend stabbed 8 times, what can his assailant be charged with? (Canada)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570738482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg3u1o\/what_rent_obtained_from_subletters_is_owed_to_the\/","id":"dg3u1o","body":"Someone is purchasing a store but won't own the land. According to their contract they can sublet part of the premises and collect rent from their assignee. I'm trying to figure out how much of what they earn from their assignee is owed to the landlord and what other sums\/fees\/etc. are involved. \n\n>**Future Transfers by Tenant.** Assignee may sublet all or any portion of the Premises or assign its interest in this Lease, provided that Assignee shall pay to Landlord **one half of all rents received from any such transferee in excess of the rent payable by Assignee** to Landlord under the Lease; **including one half of any sums to be paid by any assignee of Assignee** in consideration of the assignment of this Lease. Any assignment or subletting that does not comply with the above shall be void and shall, at Landlord's option, terminate this lease.\u00a0\n\nFor the first part:\n\n>Assignee shall pay to Landlord **one half of all rents received from any such transferee in excess of the rent payable by Assignee** to Landlord under the Lease\n\nFrom my understanding this means that if assignee is paying 5000 in rent a month and their assignee is paying 500 a month the main assignee will pay the landlord 5250. Is that correct?\n\nFor the second part:\n\n>**including one half of any sums to be paid by any assignee of Assignee** in consideration of the assignment of this Lease. \n\nI'm not sure if this means that the assignee's assignee needs to pay half of the sum that the assignee would owe to the landlord as per the contract or if it's a provision for the landlord so that if the assignee charges their assignee something else other than rent, the landlord will get their share.\n\nImage here: [https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/xhqHG0i](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/xhqHG0i)\n\nThanks for your help! Let me know if I need to provide more information.","title":"What rent obtained from subletters is owed to the landlord?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508469696,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77jj52\/bc_canada_cant_pay_rent_because_im_broke_is_there\/","id":"77jj52","body":"The contract I signed reads, in verbatim, \"Agree to stay up to ______. Ending the tendency [sic] early will end up with renter to pay the remaining months rent plus the deposit.\"\n\nI wrote \"August 31, 2018\" in the above underlined area. However, I'm totally broke and I can't afford to stay here any longer. I've been living in this place since the beginning of last month.\n\nI can stay until the end of next month and I'm thinking how about my landlord and I reach an amicable agreement where we break the lease and find a new tenant by the end of next month so I can move out and my landlord doesn't lose any income. I am willing to not get my deposit back if that helps keep me from paying the remaining months' rent which I don't have any money for.\n\nHow do I go about telling my landlord I have to break contract and move out and live at my brother's place (which is, inconveniently, much further away from my school), and convince him to find another tenant before I move out?","title":"[BC, Canada] Can't pay rent because I'm broke. Is there a way for me to break 1 year lease without having to pay remaining rental fees?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503019108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uekkq\/ontario_can_i_be_fired_for_having_prescribed\/","id":"6uekkq","body":"(Sorry forgot flair) I got a job a few months ago and since I'm only 17 and this is my second job I don't know if what has happened regarding me being fired is legal. \n\nI have anxiety and have been prescribed a daily anxiety medication as well as a benzo for panic attacks. (It's like xanax). I do not take the benzo very often and when I do it's such a small dose that I do not feel \"high\". I've never taken it at work. \n\nMy place of work was a pharmacy. I did not work in the pharmacy portion I was just a cashier for other things the store sells (cosmetics, food, otc medication etc). Once I started working there I began getting my prescription filled at the pharmacy there. The owner of the store is also the head pharmacist. At one point she was the one who filled my prescription. When this happened she acted completely normal. \n\nA few days later the manager called me into the office to say I was being fired at the owners request, she told me she could not tell me why since the owner didn't tell her anything other than that it was \"confidential\". I thought it was strange I was getting fired without being told why so I pressed a bit. She just kept saying she could not tell me since even she didn't know. It was confidential. The owner was on vacation at this time. I left and handed in my uniform. \n\nI went back to the store when I knew the owner would be back to ask her why I had been fired. She seemed annoyed that I had showed up but told me it was because she could not have someone working there who was in frequent possession of a controlled substance. I could understand if she thought maybe I had it illegally but she obviously knew that wasn't the case since she was the one who filled the prescription??\n\nIs this legal? It seems very weird to me ","title":"[ontario] Can I be fired for having prescribed benzo a?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539894509,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pcy3f\/west_virginia_is_this_even_legal\/","id":"9pcy3f","body":"First of all, let me just say I know I should\u2019ve done my due diligence and looked into things before I signed a lease...... but this is my first apartment so with that being said.... I looked at an apartment and fell in love. Everything about it was literally perfect. Cheap and pet friendly. Secure building. I wanted it, so I applied for it. Obviously got approved. I\u2019d kind of wandered if there was a catch since it was so perfect. Clearly there is. My landlord didn\u2019t give me the lease to sign(clearly I breezed right thru it) until I had paid all the deposits. I didn\u2019t see any red flags at that point until I moved in. She had told me at that point that they were gonna clean the apartment before i moved in and that they would fix whatever needed fixed beforehand. I had told her that the smoke detector above the door was hanging down. Turns out it\u2019s not a smoke detector, it goes down to the buzzer. Lo and behold the buzzer was never fixed, the apartment was never cleaned, and there\u2019s not even any smoke or carbon monoxide detectors in my apartment when it\u2019s gas heat and stove. She also still hasn\u2019t given me a swipe card to get in the front door. Only a key for the back. The apartment was absolutely filthy, bathtub clogged, drywall and nails on the floor and even old food in the fridge that was most definitely not there when I had originally looked at the apartment. I\u2019ll add pics of the lease later but now I\u2019m realizing how shitty of a lease it is. I\u2019m not allowed to call a plumber or anything without the landlords approval and we have to pay for it. Literally it says we\u2019re held responsible \u201cunless a plumber determines that it was caused by defective plumbing, tree roots, or Acts of god\u201d. Like wtf.  Plumbers are expensive. My kitchen sinks been backed up for no reason for two weeks and keeps filling up. Draino and plunging doesn\u2019t work. Waiting on a drain snake to come in. So much shit is going wrong and I\u2019m ready to break the one year lease that i signed. But guess what? Another catch. You have to give her 60 days notice. That\u2019s fine. Obviously pay the rent that you owe for that time. But you also have to pay an additional THREE MONTHS of rent. How is that legal?!?!? How can she charge me for months that I won\u2019t be living there?!?!? Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreciated ","title":"[WEST VIRGINIA] is this even legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507651537,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75i1k8\/ontario_canada_any_way_to_figure_out_whether_a\/","id":"75i1k8","body":"I am in the process of trying to prove possible impersonation of a lawyer in Ontario, and I was wondering if anyone knew of anything regarding a way for me to figure out whether this specific lawyer exists.\n\nI called the Ontario Bar Association and they told me that she does not, although in the same token told me I wasent able to get this in writing unless I was a member.\n\nAre there any other places I can speak to about this? Can I use this as testimony despite lack of documentation? Could I record the conversation with the Bar and use it in court?","title":"(Ontario, Canada) Any way to figure out whether a lawyer exists?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555238478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd1jis\/business_owner_lying_to_a_client_and_will_soon_be\/","id":"bd1jis","body":"**TL;DR: Biggest client hit by Cryptolocker > paid the ransomer and successfully recovered the files > my business owner lied to the client and reported that we restored lost files from backup > client contracting an outside company to conduct audit of logs and backups; they will discover that he's lying > instructed by owner to clear logs and fabricate backups > likely going to be pinned on me > I'm preparing my resignation; don't know what next steps to take, legal liability, or legal responsibility.**\n\nHello everyone,\n\nI'm the IT Director of a small MSP (LLC, sole proprietor) in the US.  I was hired to help transition the IT Services division from a time and materials model to a recurring revenue model and bring some order to the alleged chaos that was described prior to my hiring. I have been here less than a year.\n\nWhen I got here, I discovered that things were *much* worse than what was portrayed. This business has established business relationships with its clients on verbal agreements *only*, defining no limits on service obligations while still billing T&M. Projects this place facilitates have no SOWs, as it's implied that we will be the sole service provider for IT related issues after any sort of implementation. Because we are T&M, we're constantly on-boarding new clients looking for more work and projects. Our average ticket load has increased from \\~250 per month to over \\~700 last month alone. I've lost all but one of my original team to the increased workload, and have had three walk-outs from new hires - two within two weeks, one within three days. I have ceased exercising a management role and have adopted a lead technician role just to combat the tide of service requests; management duties were absorbed by other members of the leadership team so I could focus on service requests. I've been searching for new employment for several months.\n\nBecause there's such a heavy emphasis on ensuring the growing client base is satisfied, there is no attention on maintenance: backups, monitoring, and patching are literally an afterthought of the business owner (BO) and because the primary source of friction between me and the owner. I've sat down with the owner of this business *many* times to outline the danger of this mindset and where the business is heading - that we are one unpredictable and uncontrollable event (for which we are unprepared) away from losing an unknown number of clients and other in their sphere of influence.\n\nWell - that's happening. We had one of our biggest clients - a multimillion dollar conglomerate corporation - hit with by a Cryptolocker attack and we didn't know that their backup scheme had been failing since *November* because it wasn't configured to send alerts. I notified the client, took the affected files offline, and brought the situation to the owner who instructed me to pay the ransom. A company check was cut, cashed, and sent to the ransomer and they (thankfully) sent the decryption application. I warned the BO several times that this wasn't over and that the client will want details of the event that has been explained to them to be a routine, successful backup recovery. \n\nA week later, the client asked for an after-action report detailing what happened, how, and details on remediation and future hardening efforts. Not satisfied with the BOs general explanation, they're having a second IT company conduct an audit on backups and looking through server logs and firewall settings to get a more accurate picture of what took place. I only learned this because I got a phone call from the investigator from the other company asking me for details. It's only a matter of time before this company discovers that the BO has been dishonest during both this event, but also that the company hasn't been keeping healthy backups or actively monitoring and patching servers and workstations.\n\nAfter relaying this to the BO, he instructed me to simply \"clear all the logs and tell them it's part of our backup restoration SOP,\" and fabricate backups from November forward - while instructing me to order two more employees to help plan and facilitate the act. I acted as if I was going to comply on the phone, but then immediately called the two named staff to let them know what I was instructed to do, the likely fallout of my refusal, and what they can expect to be asked to do after my departure (and that if they haven't been looking for new employment already, now is the time).\n\n**While I'd love to immediately resign, I don't have the resources to do so for long. On the other hand, I feel that I've already been exposed to some sort of legal liability and it will only get worse by staying. From an ethical perspective, I'd like to contact the client and auditing IT company and let them know what's happening and what they can expect in their investigation, but I also want to defend the livelihood of my staff.**\n\nCan anyone provide some guidance?","title":"Business Owner Lying to a Client and Will Soon Be Discovered - Next Steps?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1505805819,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/711dfx\/iashady_chain_owner_gets_away_with_way_more_than\/","id":"711dfx","body":"So basically a few years ago when I was living with my parents I had a job at a local store that sold ice cream. We were open year round. I worked there for about 2- 2\/12 years or so before being fired..? I think. I'm now a sophomore in college and moved out, but I think about all the things she had done while I was working there at such a young age, and thinking about all the now young employees being taken advantage of. \n\nBasically is started with tips. At first she would allow the employees to accept tips, and split it at the end of the night between who was working, and she would make us split the tips with her if she was working. Fortunately she barely ever closed the store, it would be myself and another employee. \n\nEventually she came up with a new \"tip system\" that she felt was fair. Its hard to explain but ill try my best. Say, Myself and another Employee were closing out the night. We collect all the tips and divided them evenly between the two of us, but our employer was now requiring us to log our tips we made, and put them into a zip lock bag, not spit up, just all in a bag, but each employees tips were logged individually as if it were split. She would hold onto the tips until the end of the month. Not only did she do this, but she came up with a \"point system\" where if we didn't do something up to her standards, she would dock off a certain percentage of my personal tips, and then take those tips i lost and distribute it among the other employees. At the end of the month she would give us our tips. \n\nShe wouldn't let me see any of those logs, or break up my tips per day, or tell.me how many \"points\" I lost. \n\nThen, a few months down the road she tells me I'm getting a raise. $.75 more an hour, and I was already  making minimum wage, so I was stoked, getting off minimum wage, earning some extra cash. She said it would go into effect on the next pay roll. I'm on direct deposit, so never checked if it went though. Not once did I ever receive a pay stub from her. And I even asked several times. But not one was ever put into my hands. I always assumed that the pay change went through. Well a few months go by and she decides to switch banks, and had to write us checks for one week. I get to work and there's a check in my mailbox with a sticky note on it saying \"$7.25 x 32 hours\" and 7.25 is the minimum wage.. I was extremely confused and confronted her about it, and she claims that she never even said anything about a raise. I pulled up my texts between my father and I and even showed her the date of when she told me I got a raise, because I immediately texted my father about it. She said it never happened. \n\nShe's a franchise owner, doesn't even own the actual business, and she breached her franchisee contract when she was selling the companies ice cream cream recipe to local coffee shops. I'm.not sure what they did at a higher level, but I know she was wanting to buy the company to get out of it, because she knew she was in deep shit. \n\nRandomly I go from working 30 hours, to 10 hours a week, to 3 hours a week, to nothing. She removed me from a group text chat with all employees in it that she sent the schedule to. She kept my name on the schedule, and texted it to everyone but me. I would have 0 hours on it, and eventually just stopped scheduling me. By now I've already had another job, but that's were it left off. I don't even know if I'm still on her payroll at all. \n\nI know there isn't shit I can do about it now, I've waited too long. But I fear for the young employees that work there now, I know they are getting ripped off by her. (highschoolers) she asks female employees to wear really short booty shorts to rack in more tips for them. Everything she does disgusts me. ","title":"(IA)Shady chain owner gets away with way more than she should..","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571034080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhml5b\/my_parents_have_a_life_insurance_policy_under_my\/","id":"dhml5b","body":" So my parents are toxic people I am trying to remove myself from by LC (low contact)  and eventually NC (no contact).\n\nI am married.\n\nMy parents are really creepily keeping quiet about Life Insurance that they have under my maiden name that has been around since I was in High school. They do not talk about this insurance. And the last time I brought it up my dad gaslit me, calling me liar about not knowing about it, and then hung up on me.\n\nCan I have it transferred to me and close it? What can I do? Can they legally do this? What purpose would it hold to have a life insurance policy under my maiden name?","title":"My parents have a life insurance policy under my maiden name. What can I do?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571321242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj6vvr\/landlord_wont_put_in_disabled_parking_spot_in_his\/","id":"dj6vvr","body":"So this isn't MY landlord, but I was assigned by my boss at work to help figure this situation out, so some background. I work as an intern at my local city's rent control office so I have no legal experience whatsoever. \n\nApparently, the tenant in question has spent the last 3 years trying to get their landlord to put in a disabled parking spot in the parking lot for their apartment complex. The complex is 12 units. Normally, we would be able to pull records on the original construction for the building but since it's so old, we don't have them and the building wasn't subject to the ADA standards that need to be fulfilled to build a building nowadays. \n\nMy boss talked with our local construction and engineering department and we were told neither one of them handle this kind of work. According to construction, this is a federal issue, so my boss tried contacting the ADA, but was put on hold and never got to speak to anyone.\n\nMy boss asked me to figure out what to tell the tenant so they know how to proceed, but my research hasn't yielded much. Who should the tenant contact\/what should they do to get the landlord to put in a handicap parking spot?","title":"Landlord won't put in disabled parking spot in his private parking lot for disabled tenant","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541054222,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t745c\/is_there_any_way_i_can_emancipate_myself\/","id":"9t745c","body":"If I'm 17 and I want to move out but my parents refuse to emancipate me, is there any way I can go to court or something and get it done without their consent? ","title":"Is there any way I can emancipate myself?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541119967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tfe5b\/im_trying_to_drive_to_my_high_school_for_a_couple\/","id":"9tfe5b","body":"My moms leaving out of town for a couple of days and is leaving the car and I\u2019m trying to use the car to avoid taking the bus in the morning and get my self some extra time at home (to sleep, finish homework, etc.) but I don\u2019t want to buy a $60 or so parking pass to use it for only a couple of days. So if I sneak in and get caught what\u2019s the most they can do? \n\n(And i apologize if this is the wrong sub to post on I have no idea any where else to post this)","title":"Im trying to drive to my high school for a couple of days and park without a parking pass. If I get caught what\u2019s the most they can do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554872811,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbi4ot\/jobs_for_teen\/","id":"bbi4ot","body":"So im 13 years old and want to get a job over the summer,but the thing is that for teens the maximum work hours is around two hours because they have to work on school.But im not going to be in school ill be in summer break so can i work longer since i wont be in school.","title":"Jobs for teen","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504205186,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x8u6v\/tenants_didnt_pay_full_security_depo_and_broke\/","id":"6x8u6v","body":"Pennsylvania\n\nHi, posting on behalf of my landlord.   Sorry, it got long. TL:DR at bottom. \n\nAt the beginning of this month, a 40-ish couple moved in.  They did not pay first months rent immediately, LL was fine with them splitting it up between first two weeks.  They have yet to pay the full deposit.  They have also broken a few lease terms (no smoking inside, brought a cat that they admitted to stealing, and a couple other things I can't recall).\n\nThey moved in some stuff, then suddenly left the state about a week and a half ago.  Lease states LL must be notified if leaving for 2 weeks.  She called them to get rest of depo. and get permission to enter property for repairs.  They lied about where they were and why no money yet, they kept changing stories.  LL knows husbands boss, who said he just stopped showing up for work one day.  She asked husband if still employed and he said he was (lie).\n\nWhen they left, the left the windows open and removed the screen, we think for the cat to be able to go in and out..seriously, these people stole a cat!  LL could not get a hold of them for about five days.  She posted a \"Notice to Quit\" and changed lock codes on door.  She left them a message and sent a pic of notice to no response.  \n\nThey returned this morning, called police and locksmith, got back into house.  Police said they are not required to leave.  She realizes she did not follow law correctly, she feared damage to her property and just wanted them out.  \n\nThese people are super sketchy and I, for one, do not want to be sharing the property with them.  They don't even have bank accounts.  LL will now begin running credit and background checks, with a more thorough lease agreement.\n\nHow can she get these people out?\n\nThanks\n\nTL:DR - Sketchy tenants have unfulfilled contract, abandoned (?) property and broke lease terms.  Moved in on August 1st.  LL changed lock codes and packed up their stuff.  Police said they do not have to leave.  How to evict?\n","title":"Tenants didn't pay full security depo. and broke terms of lease. Less than 1 month in property","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552018767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aym12x\/texas_employer_demanding_quitting_employee_pay\/","id":"aym12x","body":"I have some friends that live in the DFW area of Texas. The Husband (H) is a repairman for a place that has trouble keeping employees, he is currently the only employee working there and they can't get new hires. H found out that they were offering new hires $5\/hr more than he makes, so he requested a raise. They told H that they would think about it then after 2 week they told him no. he already didn't like working there and this was the final straw so he gave them his 2 week notice and tomorrow will be his last day. A day or two ago they told him that he would have to pay for the rest of this months health insurance which is appx. $500. H is beyond pissed and just wants to get out of there at this point but he is worried that they're gonna deduct that amount from his final paycheck. \n\nIs it legal for his employer to do so? Does H have any recourse? \n\nThank you very much for any info and advice, my friends are not redditors so I figured I would post on their behalf and see what you fine folks had to say. Thanks for your time. ","title":"[Texas] Employer demanding quitting employee pay for rest of the month's health insurance.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540972157,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9swo8y\/ca_boyfriend_kicked_me_out_of_our_rental_home_and\/","id":"9swo8y","body":"We are both on the lease, we got into an argument and he locked me out of our house. Would not let me back in and won\u2019t let me take our 18 month old daughter to my sisters house in the same town where we all live.\n\nDo I have any legal recourse outside of starting a lengthy custody battle ? \n\nCan he just kick me out when I\u2019m on a lease and tell me I need to leave when he is the aggressor? \n\nWhat of my belongings and furniture? \n\nI want to be smart about things and go about things the right way; can anyone share from personal experience or shared experience of a friend or loved one on how to handle this situation? \n\nThis relationship is over and I\u2019m just ready to move on with my life but need to know the best way to go about it. He is not going to want to break up but the relationship is abusive and I want out. \n\nI feel like I\u2019m being bullied and naive because I don\u2019t know what to do. He has experience having been through a custody battle that he lost previously. \n\nI\u2019m worried that by kicking me out he will have advantage over me since it\u2019s going to take me a while to get back up on my feet again after having just moved here into the house less than a month ago, I\u2019ll have to move again, won\u2019t get my deposit back, will have to get a new job, and fight for custody from another County. All while he won\u2019t let me see our daughter or reply to text message or phone calls in relation to her. \n\nStaying with her dad is not in her best interest, he oftentimes even loses his temper with her where I need to take her from the room. I can\u2019t see him and don\u2019t trust him to take care of her full time.  \n\n\nTLDR on the lease abusive boyfriend kicks me out of shared home and kept me from taking my 18 month old, what are my rights?","title":"[CA] boyfriend kicked me out of our rental home and won\u2019t let me take our daughter","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550952839,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atzkfz\/im_being_screwed_over_in_my_fathers_will\/","id":"atzkfz","body":"Ok, so let me first say that my parents are divorced and have been since I was 6. My dad remarried. Every since I first met the woman we\u2019ve never gotten along. They\u2019ll state that she treats me the same as her kids, but then they\u2019d let her kids degrade me and treat me as lesser. All of that aside, my dad I And we\u2019re talking and got on the topic of wills. In the conversation he stated multiple times that you leave everything to your spouse. He has also said before that he won\u2019t give me any loans for college\/any trust funds. This would make sense if his spouse would be without a job and income, but both her and my dad make well over 6 figures a year each. I want her to something, but I know that if she gets everything, I won\u2019t get any of my dads belongings, family hearlooms, pictures, etc. Is there anyway to make sure that I at least get my fathers belongings and heirlooms? What would be the best way to go about that? Thank you in advance.","title":"I\u2019m being screwed over in my fathers will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539580146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o9ssd\/my_job_kind_of_forced_me_to_get_married_three\/","id":"9o9ssd","body":"So, I don\u2019t want to go into much detail and I\u2019m not looking to get anyone in trouble but I\u2019ve been genuinely curious for a while. \n\nAt the time I was working for a religious private school and I was teaching preschool (teachers aid) and I had just been promoted to a brand new position (assistant director of children\u2019s ministries) for the church. Maybe a month after I\u2019d started that job I got called into my bosses office and told that I would either need to get married to my fianc\u00e9 at the time, move out of our home until we got married, or find a new job. \n\nNow, we were already going to get married, but the audacity of being told that surprised me. I didn\u2019t do any digging on it and I figured since we were already engaged and I really needed this job, it would be fine. So a couple weeks later we went to the court house and just did it. \n\nHow unethical was that in the eyes of the law? Was he allowed to do that? If I\u2019d said something, what would or could have happened? Again, I\u2019m just curious. I know it was shitty. And everyone else that knew about it was kind of appalled. But I\u2019m three years happily married and were actually happy we didn\u2019t get to have an actual wedding. ","title":"My job kind of forced me to get married three years ago.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445265258,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pcvqr\/can_a_rental_be_listed_for_students_or_young\/","id":"3pcvqr","body":"I live in Upstate NY and looking at ads online (Craigslist) I see many people advertise their houses\/apartments for rent and specifically say that it is student housing.  These are usually 1-4 family properties that are privately owned and have no association with the university.   \n  \nI was wondering if advertising to just students or just young professionals would be discrimination or if it would be 100% acceptable to advertise this way?","title":"Can a rental be listed for students or young professionals? (NY)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441739967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k4pqn\/nurse_assaulted_by_patients_visitors_caught_on\/","id":"3k4pqn","body":"My female friend was shoved twice by a patients' two visitors. She has the video footage from the medical facility and a police report has been filed, but is it worth pressing charges? This gentleman clearly has no qualms about shoving young women out of his way, and is suspected to be abusive.\n\nSome details for context: My friend is a nurse at a medical facility. Her patient is not supposed to be taken from the facility by certain people, and when these people showed up and tried to remove him from the facility my friend stood in front of the door, explained to them that she had to contact the patient's POA, and that they would have to wait inside until she received the ok. Then, one visitor rammed her with the patient's wheelchair and the other visitor shoved my friend out of the building. The police were called and we just learned that the medical facility caught everything on camera. \n\nFor people who have gone through this sort of thing, was it worth pursuing charges, or was it a waste of time? \n\nThanks! Love this sub, by the way :) \n\n","title":"Nurse assaulted by patients' visitors, caught on camera. Is it worth pursuing charges? (Ontario, Canada)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504295123,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xgyey\/hit_and_run_kinda\/","id":"6xgyey","body":"A few weeks ago, I was driving to work and another driver merged into me and brushed the side of my car with theirs. I immediately pulled over and the car that hit me had gotten behind me and stopped as I was blocking the road. I turned off the car, put on my hazards, and noticed in my rear view mirror that the other driver didn't seem to be doing the same. I stepped out of my car and motioned to the person to ask if she wanted to pull into the parking lot ahead. I specifically pointed to the car and said \"you hit me\". The driver then pulled out and drove away. Luckily I got her license plate number and the police were able to track her down later that day. The driver was 24 but driving alone with just a learners permit, which in Vermont (where this happened) is illegal. She got a ticket for driving alone but she said she didn't know she hit me so they couldn't do anything more like charge her for a hit and run. She provided her car insurance but it doesn't seem like they are going to pay for the damage because their client is saying she didn't hit me. The police officer told me that when he looked at her car, there were many dings and dents in it already, a sign of a bad\/clueless driver. Absolutely none of this was my fault so I don't see why I should be liable. My boss suggested I take her to small claims court as people like this need to be held accountable for their wrongdoings. In VT, if the person doesn't know they hit the other person (or says it), they won't be charged for a hit and run, and I think either she knew this and didn't want to pay, or she's just that clueless.   \nAny advice helps.","title":"Hit and run (kinda?)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555372768,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdn6h5\/property_management_company_shows_my_apartment\/","id":"bdn6h5","body":"The title pretty much says it all. We live in Boulder, Colorado and our property management company has decided to use our apartment as a model I assume. This started last Tuesday and since then they\u2019ve shown our apartment 5 times! They always text us about the showing at 5:30-5:45 pm knowing that they close at 6 so they have an excuse not to respond to us and the showing are always at 11 am the next day. We have 2 medium size dogs and we\u2019ve asked if they\u2019d use another apartment to do walkthroughs because if there\u2019s an incident with them we are at fault. Ive asked politely once and very sternly once if they would cut this crap out and both times I\u2019ve gotten the same run around answer that this is the case with everyone. I\u2019ve talked to all 4 neighbors in my building and none of them have had a single showing. I think they\u2019re using ours because we keep it extremely clean and smoke weed inside all day like the rest of our neighbors, but I have nearly reached my boiling point. It\u2019s an invasion of privacy and I honestly can\u2019t believe this is legal. If they keep this up I\u2019m going to put an electronic lock on the front door so that there\u2019s no way they can get in other than breaking a window. Our lease is not up until the end of August so I feel like the PM company is being way to preemptive with these showings. If anyone has any advice or suggestions I would really appreciate it.","title":"Property management company shows my apartment repeatedly even though we have 4 months left on our lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551132928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aur649\/ive_been_living_with_my_girlfriend_off_the_lease\/","id":"aur649","body":"So I moved in with my girlfriend after college and she was already in the middle or a lease, it's pretty common around here to do this which I know is still immoral but it's the situation I'm in. \n\nI regret doing this and we have a new lease lined up for July. The roommate has mental problems. Like seriously bad mental problems. I pay my half of the rent. I pay my half of the rent via venmo so its provable, the wifi is in my name. I can show payments I've made to the roommate for gas and electricity to my girlfriend. \n\nObviously the landlord could kick me out, I've accepted this. My question is what my options are and what should I do? Should we go to the landlord and try to get my staying there legitimized, can the roommate get us in trouble without her being in trouble herself since she agreed to this and accepted money for the majority of the year? \n\nAgain I'm really aware how stupid my decision was but her mental health has rapidly declined and we originally didn't expect her to react like this because she was nothing but supportive of it at first because it would help with rent. Any advice legal or otherwise would be greatly appreciated \n\n","title":"I've been living with my girlfriend off the lease with her and her roommates permission, now her roommate says I have 3 days to leave (ohio)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443034848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m3nhg\/sc_contract_for_out_of_state_rental\/","id":"3m3nhg","body":"I'm wanting to rent out scientific equipment out of state on the condition that if the equipment is damaged or stolen the recipient of said equipment will be liable for the cost. I intend to do this through a contract stating such which ends when the equipment is returned. In the case that a recipient refuses to uphold their end of the contract what legal recourse would I have to enforce it? The amount due would be appropriate to small claims but since the contract is negotiated in in different states how would this work, would I need to travel or could it be done in my county?\n\nThanks for your help! :)","title":"[SC] Contract for out of state rental","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1506086623,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71qy5b\/questions_about_being_kicked_out_without_notice\/","id":"71qy5b","body":"The state is Alabama. \nI'm a 21 year old with a job that doesn't make a whole lot of money from it. I've been searching for another job, but I've also been sick recently, which has made things a lot harder. Places around where I live are also seldom hiring. \n\nMy grandfather is trying to kick me out, because he says I have no ambition to find a job and do something with my life, though I've been trying, I've just been fairly ill recently, though I've still been trying. \n\nI live with my grandparents and have since I was 5. I have received my mail, used the address to make accounts, everything has been through this address. I also don't pay rent. \n\nI was wondering what my options were? My grandfather is apart of my bank account, where he can draw and take money out for me if need be. He takes care of my savings, everything. We got in an argument and last night, he kicked me out on the spot, so I packed my things and left. A few hours later, my grandmother called and begged me to come home. So I did. \n\nThis morning, he gets up and gets ready to go to work, and notices I'm back. He argues with me a little longer and threatens to kick me out. I told him if he did that, I want my debit card, it's in my name, and it's money. In which, he refused outright to give it to me and left for work. \n\nMy question is, since I have lived with them for years, I get my mail from this address and they never asked me to pay rent, are they able to just kick me out, or am I able bring up that an eviction notice must be placed. Also, is he allowed just outright refuse to give me my card? Yes, he is in my account too, but the card is in my name and the account was made by me. \n\nJust wondering so I know if I can at least get my card back and hopefully have to have an eviction before I'm kicked out, so I have more time to prepare myself. ","title":"Questions about being kicked out without notice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570082191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcmrd9\/im_a_night_shifter_whos_garage_is_blocked_iowa\/","id":"dcmrd9","body":"I just got home from a long ten hour shift. It's raining, and all i want to do is park my car in my garage and go to bed. But, I can't. Someone in my complex has blocked my garage door completely. It's my neighbors, who's garage is filled with trash. What are my options here aside a strongly worded note? I already let my landlord know and parked my car in a dirt lot we have that my car is bound to get stuck in.\n\nCan I call a tow truck? Or knock on their door so late at night?","title":"I'm a night shifter who's garage is blocked (Iowa)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539136155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mva3f\/father_and_uncle_spent_large_portion_of_money\/","id":"9mva3f","body":"My grandfather passed away in 2014 leaving behind roughly 150k-200k. In his will it states that the money and the house is to be split 50\/50 between him and his brother once both grandparents are gone and the money is for my grandma should he pass before she does. Over the last 3 years this money has been spent on far more things that are not in my grandmas best interest. Buying my uncle a car, my parents traveling, paying for new furniture for my parents and all sorts of other unethical things. My grandma has dementia and has no clue as to any of this that has been happening and has been deemed incompetent so my father and his brother have been swapping roles taking care of her finances and making sure her assisted living is paid for and such. As of today there is roughly 30k left for her and most of the money has been spent on things that were not for her. Outside of contesting the will. Is there anything my siblings and I can do to gain control of the finances so that her money is not being abused anymore and that she is properly taken care of while she is still alive? Thank you ","title":"Father and uncle spent large portion of money left to care for my grandmothers well being after grandfather passed away.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540443185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r78lv\/waiting_on_judge_to_make_a_ruling_tenantlandlord\/","id":"9r78lv","body":"I don't know what to do.\n\nIts a little tough to explain the case because of the specificity of the situation. \n\nLike i have stated in the title, its been three months since the trial date. I am waiting on the Judge to make a ruling. I do not understand what is taking so long and i cannot wait much longer. The situation is dire for myself and my family.\n\nI will try to list the details of the case and arguments, to make it easier to understand. I am not sure how much i can disclose here but i want the whole picture understood so i may receive the best advice possible.\n\nThis is a landlord tenant case in NJ. \n\nI am the plaintiff and i have a lawyer, the property in question is a secondary multi use building. \n\nThe tenant is a family member and has a lawyer.\n\nMy case is that the tenant does not have a lease and does not now or ever had their name on the property. There is no lease nor there ever was. Interestingly enough two leases have surprisingly popped up that states the tenant can live in the property for 30 years as long as they pay the building costs. These forgery's were said to be signed by me and another  person on the deed. The fakes do not even have real signatures just scribbles and its sickeningly obvious.  I stated to the court that i am now the sole owner and that there is no leases because at the time of the leases signing the other owners were too young to give consent. \n\n​\n\nThe tenants case is that they own the house regardless of the fact they were never on the deed. They also stated that they owned the house and the previous owners before my family only owned it in name. They are claiming since they have been in the property for so long that they own it. i forget the term that was used. it has something to do with a person taking ownership if no one else for a certain period of time contests the squatting. Latches maybe?\n\n​\n\nThis tenant has been convicted of fraud and stated so on the stand. They went so far to say on the stand that the property which they occupy was purchased with fraudulent money and although they were never on the deed they own the property. \n\n​\n\nHISTORY\n\nMy family inherited the property from 2 people one living and the other deceased. The tenant has worked in the building with their own business since the 90's and lived in it since 10 years ago roughly. Much of this happened as i was growing up and i did not have much say in the matter. Growing up I wanted to evict this person but I did not have the resources to do much. I also have been fearful of facing this person in court due to threats. This person has threatened my family and myself with physical and legal 'destruction'. I pressed charges but this person has enough understanding of the court and they have been able to weasel out of any type of charges sticking. But due to a financial crisis this person has put my family under i have been forced to act. \n\n​\n\n THE TENANT WAS NEVER ON A DEED OR LEASE. But due to the seemingly limitless supply of funds and knowledge they were able to move into the building and take ownership in the sense they live and work in the building without paying rent. This happened when i was younger and i didn't have much say in the matter.  The property is currently under my name alone because i felt if it was under my name alone it would be best.\n\n​\n\nTRIAL (JUNE)\n\nAt the trial my lawyer and their lawyer stated each sides case. The judge stated he would need more time to make the decision and each side would have to submit the arguments in writing.  Each side did so and the tenants lawyer needed more time which my lawyer felt was ok. Within this time period both lawyers submitted what the judge wanted and some. What i mean is that the tenants lawyer submitted additional arguments not brought up during the trial forcing my lawyer to respond. Apparently due to the answer submitted by their lawyer something went awry causing another court date to be scheduled. i believe this to be a plot to elongate the decision being made. reason i believe this is due to the domino effect the tenants answer to the court created. it coincidentally coincided with new county clerks being put in place. \n\nCURRENT SITUATION \n\nConspiracy theories aside the new court trial was cancelled the day it was meant to be held by my lawyer. My lawyer stated he had to go through the county clerks office to sort out this mess. My lawyer says they cannot bother the judge or rush him which i fully understand. But what i do not understand is what to do now. I do not understand why this is taking so long and my lawyer is astonished by how long this is dragging out. The tenant still occupies the property and is paying the taxes on the property but not to me and no other monies are coming to me. I have never received a dollar from this person and they have refused to ever do so. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nI seriously hope any readers out there will be able to understand this nonsense. ","title":"Waiting on Judge to make a ruling, TENANT-LANDLORD. PENDING RULING 4 MONTHS","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570430741,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/defsqp\/late_penalty_law_apply_for_1_day_work\/","id":"defsqp","body":"can work interview wages eligible for Collecting late Penalties for Wage Violations in los angeles, California? Work interviews for a job is usually one day gig, and offer turned down within 24 hours, and address to mail the wage was provided on interview. does late penalty law apply for 1 day work in california?","title":"late penalty law apply for 1 day work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508388892,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77cc0m\/mn_workplace_harassment\/","id":"77cc0m","body":"So I work in Minnesota and have been having an ongoing issue with one of my coworkers. Just so you get a feel of my job I am work in a room with 2 to 3 other people each day and one supervisor. We have 6 people in our team but everyone gets 2 days off so we usually have 4 people on duty at a time. \n\nAnyways to start off when i got this position everything was great I love the job and the people that I worked with were great. Then when I  finished my training another person, we will call him Steve, moved to our shift.  Steve got hired on at the same time as me, and we worked the same position at the company before hand. While we were at that position we were friends and hung out in and outside of work. So Steve came to our shift and things were fine for the first bit but then his friend started some rumors about me. When I found out I immediately went to my supervisor, we will call her Meg, and she brought me to the managers. They said they would handle the issue but I never found out if anything happened because everyone already already knew the rumor. \n\nAfter I reported Steve's friend he became very mean to me, saying very rude things, being sarcastic, and insulting me about my job performance and intelligence. I tried to talk to him one on one a few times and was only met with more rude comments. I talked to my supervisor about him and she said she would deal with it. After this he got better for about 2 months but then went back to being rude. Also everyone at the job makes fun of each other but I was more often the target, with people calling me gay or just making fun of me in other ways. It was always fine with everyone else but since Steve had made it clear that he was not friendly with me I took it as an attack and had asked him to stop. \n\nSo Steve started getting rude again and I sent an email to my supervisor Meg, again she said this would be handled. Steve would play nice for a few weeks and go back to being rude. I decided that nothing was going to change and I tried to just deal with it until I heard Steve threaten to kill one of our supervisors. It wasn't a full threat but I reported it still just to be safe. I had to meet with my manager and someone from HR but nothing was done because I was the only one that heard the comment. \n\nAfter that Steve got worse and I had to send Meg another email, she once again said she would do something but nothing changed. Steve was still being rude insulting me and he also started to insult everyone he was on the phone with, by muting himself and swearing at them and calling them idiots. I had asked him not to do that because his hostility made our job more stressful. He of course continued and at this point he began to refuse to communicate with me about anything including work related issues. \n\nDuring this time we got a person, Bob, from a different shift transferred to ours. He was nice at first but caught on with the rest of the group and started making fun of me. He quickly made friends with Steve over mutual interests and whenever they were together they would talk about it or be making fun of me together. I had asked Bob to stop telling me things like \"shut up\" or \"no one cares\" but he continued only when Steve was in the room with us. At this point I started to take paid time off to just get an extra day or 2 away from the abuse.\n\nSteve's refusal to communicate with me lead to an incident where I made a bad call because I did not know what Steve had done about something first. This ended up turning into a big deal and having our manager, Abe, getting called in on the weekend. He was upset and yelled at me and one of the other managers who had known about the ongoing issues brought it up. Abe had asked about it and said he had never been informed that there were any issues. He said he would handle it and there will be no further issues with Steve or Bob.\n\nThe problems with Bob stopped immediately for the most part but Steve remained rude. He would make rude comments to me or be sarcastic whenever i asked him a work related question, and continued to mute himself and be hostile to people on the phone. Again I just tried to ignore them until Bob made a comment to me saying he \"wants to slap you in your fucking face.\" After that comment I emailed Meg saying I needed to speak with her again and met with her and the manager Abe. I told them what he had said to me and how I am still dealing with the sarcastic and rude comments from Steve and how it is affecting my job performance and attitude. Abe told me that I need to get thicker skin, suck it up and not let it get to me. He offered to get me to change shifts and I said I would do that in a heartbeat. A few days later a posting for another shift came up and I signed up for it but someone with more seniority got it. \n\nThat was about a month ago and nothing has changed since really. Steve is still doing the same things but Bob is being neutral for the most part. Throughout this time I have tried my best to remain professional with Steve and I always communicate with him when needed even if it doesn't get a response. \n\nI am just wondering if I have any legal case here to do anything I am thinking I might need to go to HR but I have been told they are just there to protect the company. Also I did recently receive my annual performance review and got a lower score due to not being able to \"get along with my coworkers.\" \n\nAny help would be appreciated sorry for the long post but thank you for reading.\n","title":"[MN] Workplace harassment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443657353,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n1b35\/does_the_management_company_have_to_agree_to\/","id":"3n1b35","body":"I have had an ongoing issue with a leaky window. In October of 2014, I noticed that one of my bedroom windows leaked sometimes when it rained. A maintenance person took a look and eventually a company came out and it looks like they caulked the outside of everyone's bedroom windows. \n\nHere is a timeline, not sure if this is relevant: \n\n5\/15\/2015: I notice it is leaking again and make a maintenance request. \n\n6\/15: A company came to measure the windows for installation of a new window. They supposedly had another company before this but it didn't work out. I do not know if anyone ever actually came and measured my windows as I was not home at the time. \n\n7\/1: No answer when I asked for an update\n\n8\/10: The building is now up for sale and they are in no rush to fix my window.\n \n8\/11: Building manager states there has been multiple attempts to fix the window. It will not be replaced because of the sale\/limited budget. They can send someone to try to repair it. \n\n9\/30: I finally put in another request for someone to try to repair the window. (I just didn't want to talk to them unless it was an emergency, but I figure something needs to be done in case we have another rainy fall). The response I receive today is they're not doing anything and multiple attempts have been made. \n\nI sent her several emails and tried calling (their office was closed when I saw her response. She hasn't returned the calls I made to her cell phone). I basically stated that I have given them plenty of time to fix it, that it is against St. Louis City ordinance, and that there has no attempts to fix it since the spring (I am not sure why she says they have tried several times). \n\nI am afraid she will again say there's nothing she can do. In August when she informed me that the building was up for sale, she stated I could leave. My lease ended at the end of July and they never responded when I asked to renew. I want my window fixed without moving or being kicked out. \n\nIf she says again tomorrow there's nothing to be done, can I repair and deduct? According to MO rental laws, I meet the qualifications. I just don't know if they have to approve? \n\nI have lived in the residence for over a year. I understand the repair must be less than $300 and I have to provide receipts. I have made several requests in writing, with much greater than 30 days to make the repair. I owe them no outstanding fees. A leaky window is again St. Louis City codes. The leak was not caused by me\/negligence and the first and only maintenance guy that came out stated that the windows were recommended to be replaced before I even moved in. \n\nTL; DR: I have been battling for months for my property manager to fix my leaky window. She is now saying nothing can be done. If she doesn't fix it or agree to repair and deduct, can I do this anyway? ","title":"Does the management company have to agree to Repair and Deduct? St. Louis, MO","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570817032,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgiv5i\/friend_prohibits_me_from_logging_into_a_game\/","id":"dgiv5i","body":"This will sound extremely stupid and silly but I really need an answer and I can't find it. Please don't judge too much.\n\nI bought an account from my friend (PC game). It's connected to his email that he gave me no access to upon purchase. Now I need him to log in and confirm a message in order to use the product that I've paid for (only evidence is witnesses) but he's refusing to do that. \nIs that even illegal? \n\nI live in Sweden and once again I know how ridiculous that sounds, I just need to prove a point and somehow force him to cooperate, I know for sure he'll go for it. He's not the brightest but bright enough to demand evidence. I obviously won't call the police on him, it's just too stupid and not worth anybody's work time. \nI appreciate any help and sorry for my possiblity broken English","title":"Friend prohibits me from logging into a game","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569430903,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9666v\/dealership_failing_to_provide_registration_plate\/","id":"d9666v","body":"I purchased a used vehicle from a well-known dealer here in the state of Georgia. Unfortunately the company has failed to mail me my license plate and registration. I went to the DMV to attempt to get a temporary solution but they were unable to (understandably). \n\nBut the dealership is doing very little to help or resolve. They inform me that they cannot assist as the processing goes through their corporate office. I've called the corp office at least 20 times, no joke. Each time it rings to voicemail to which I've requested a call back. I've tried different extensions... no answer & no reply. The dealer also made me aware that they are also unable to provide an extension on the temporary plates nor can reissue another one. \n\nTo note- my temporary plate expires in two days. I made my monthly with Wells Fargo two weeks ago. The dealership is called ALM, located in Duluth, GA (Cobb County) . I reside in Atlanta, GA (Fulton county). \n\nMy question is what can I do from here? I have already reported to BBB and plan to file a complaint with the attorney state general's office.  But in urgency I may have to step into a legal consultation, so naturally I arrive here before moving forward. \n\nAny insights will surely be helpful. Thank you.","title":"Dealership failing to provide registration - plate & tag","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1443494399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ms9d2\/la_will_police_check_for_warrants_on_rape_victim\/","id":"3ms9d2","body":"A very close friend of my boyfriends has asked for some help because she was raped. I was glad to help her the best that I can but can only do so much. I have encouraged her to go to the police and make a report but she will not budge on the issue because she says that she has warrants for her arrest and is addicted to heroine.\n\nI wasn't sure if there is something that allowed victims of rape and sexual assault to report crimes to the police without fear of being arrested or not? In the meantime I have tried getting her information on rape crisis center and tried to her some information for a woman's shelter in New Orleans but she is kind of shut down right now not sure what to do here.\n\nThanks","title":"[LA] Will police check for warrants on rape victim?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555693102,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf1gy8\/can_my_will_dictate_who_receives_custody_of_my\/","id":"bf1gy8","body":"I recently decided that I need a will in the event of my unexpected passing. I reached out to a lawyer, but because I don't have many (any) assets, I was told that I can draft one myself and get it notarized *much* cheaper than if I went through a lawyer.\n\nThe situation is this; I have a six year old daughter. Her biological father isn't present nor is he on the birth certificate, and as far as custody is concerned, he is unable to legally care for a child. He unable to legally be within a certain distance of a school, let alone be alone with a child. He hasn't seen the child in over five years and has made no attempts to see or contact her.\n\nI have been with my partner for four and a half years. We're a blended family, but as far as my daughter is concerned, my partner is her father. Both the school and her pediatrician recognize my partner as \"Dad\" in this situation. \n\nI want to ensure, with one hundred percent certainty, that he will receive custody should I pass away. It would be devastating for my child to lose both parents in the event of my death, and I need to ensure that her biological father can't sue him for custody. I know that he could try to sue *me* while I'm alive, but I'd like my partner to be protected from that additional stressor. \n\nPlease don't give me \"get married\" advice. I'm seeking immediate protection for my family unit, and after marriage, my partner will still need to go through the adoption process to have unquestioned custody. \n\nOther notes; my immediate family would also support my partner getting custody should I pass, so I don't have to worry about them.\n\nThank you in advance for the advice!","title":"Can my will dictate who receives custody of my child in the event of my death if the person isn't related to me or my child? [Rhode Island]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540761905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s6wgb\/1200_traffic_ticket_in_washington_state\/","id":"9s6wgb","body":"I was pulled over for driving in the left lane on a 2 lane state highway. I was approaching a busy on-ramp, and wanted to make room for oncoming cars before merging back to the right lane. Highway patrol was following me for approximately 30 seconds during this time, then he turned his lights on. I was surprised, and I pulled over to the left shoulder (which I have done once before without incident). The officer immediately gets on his PA and tells me to pull to the right side, which I do. He then approaches the window and tells me he\u2019s writing me a $1000 ticket for pulling to the left, even though there was plenty room on the left shoulder. He also wrote me a $200 ticket for driving in the left lane. He didn\u2019t even give me a chance to explain that I was waiting for the traffic from the on-ramp to safely disperse. \nI learned after that it is illegal to pull to the left shoulder in my state, and I will never do that again. But $1200?? \nI am contesting the charges and hoping that the judge will at least greatly decrease my fine. What are the chances of that happening in traffic court? For the record, I was going around 60-62 mph (on a 60 mph road) and there were no other cars around other than the ones who were about to merge. \n","title":"$1200 traffic ticket in Washington State","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541743803,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vi1h2\/quit_job_was_it_admin_am_i_required_to_give_them\/","id":"9vi1h2","body":"BC, Canada - So I quit my job today because the higher management was running this village I live in into the ground. Tiny company, did work from a personal email. Village has less than 80 people. I dont want to give them the files as my only form to punish them. Judge me on that if you want that's not what I'm going to talk about here though. I just want to know, IF they come asking for the files will I have a legal obligation to turn them over?\n\nThis is a company where more than 5 people quit and kept their work laptops without being asked for them back for more context.","title":"Quit Job, Was IT Admin, am I required to give them the work files I have stored on my Google drive?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551392628,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avwxv7\/landlord_deposits_rent_twice_in_one_month\/","id":"avwxv7","body":"I\u2019m F32 and my husband is M34, this is in California. This month (February) our landlord deposited our rent once on the 12th and then again (for March) today on the 28th. Our landlord notoriously does not deposit rent until about the second or third week of each month even though it\u2019s due the first of each month. What sometimes happens is they deposit one check mid month and the next one is on the 1st of the following month. It\u2019s all over the place.  It\u2019s been frustrating and we\u2019ve talked to them nicely about it over the past six months, politely requesting that they deposit the rent with more consistency, but then today happens and I realize they deposited rent for two separate months in one month. I sent our landlord a text (our preferred method of contact) asking for more consistency and if we could come to a firm agreement on what day of the month the check gets deposited to avoid these sorts of confusions in the future. No reply yet. \n\nLandlords are typically nice and I don\u2019t want to stir up shit. I read somewhere once that landlords can pretty much deposit your rent whenever they want within a six month window. Is that true? I mean, if the landlords are well within their rights to deposit rent whenever and deposit twice in one month, I\u2019ll deal with it and move on. We are just so frustrated - we\u2019ve lived in five different rentals (all in California) before and this has never been an issue. \n\nThanks for any advice or resources!","title":"Landlord Deposits Rent Twice in One Month","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504740403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yjdkx\/wa_company_says_mil_owes_them_hundreds_for_a\/","id":"6yjdkx","body":"My mother-in-law's (MIL) late husband signed up for a membership  about twenty years ago. They never went, and so my elderly MIL cancelled the membership about five years ago, after her husband passed. She has recently received letters stating that she owes several hundred in late fees.\n\nThe company is claiming that she did not cancel the membership in the right way, and so she is on the hook for the money. She no longer has the contract (we think she must have accidentally discarded it sometime after cancelling), so we can't verify that this is correct. The \"debt\" is not at a debt collector, nor has the company so much as mentioned suing for it.\n\nWhat can we do from here? Is there any way for us to dismiss the debt and force the company to acknowledge that the membership was cancelled?","title":"[WA] Company says MIL owes them hundreds for a membership. She recalls cancelling the membership.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1413306212,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2j8chn\/usa_cali_going_to_court_tomorrow_for_a_traffic\/","id":"2j8chn","body":"EDIT: Did not win =( It seemed like the judge just fixated on one thing and then tore what I said apart, he didn't give me a chance to say anything after or ask any questions to the officer.\n\nThanks for your help, everyone!\n\n\nHello - Hoping to gain some insight\/advice on going to court for a traffic offense.\n\nNot sure if I need to go into detail, but I was pulled over a few months ago for turning left into a shopping center. The signal (left turning arrow) was yellow as I entered the intersection, turned red (almost immediately) and I completed my turn. As I turned I saw that the police officer maneuvered to follow me into the parking lot and then pulled me over for turning after the light was red (AKA red-light ticket, which is a $541 fine!!!) The speed limit on the road in question was 45MPH, I believe I was traveling around 40 MPH (maybe slower) to complete my turn. Also, the officer was facing opposite me in the intersection, so he could not actually see the illumination of the signal. And in addition the intersection in question was quite large, 3 lanes on each side plus a turning lane so it's something like 33 feet I needed to cross to enter the parking lot.\n\nAnyway, my testimony is basically the above: that I crossed the stopping line when the light was yellow, it turned red while I was in the intersection, to avoid potential hazard and avoid blocking traffic I completed my turn.\n\nI've heard that in some courts the judge will try to make you slip up or say the wrong thing. I'm not concerned with keeping my story straight (I don't think I did anything wrong) but I am worried about things like distance, speed, etc. What is the best way to handle questions like that?\n\nSecondly, what kind of questions should I ask the officer? I feel it's relevant to point out that he could not see my signal clearly, he would be making an assumption that the light was red based on the light facing him but I'm not sure how to clearly point this out in cross-ex. \n\nLastly, any tips for staying calm\/cool\/collected? I get very stressed out around law enforcement (police have always freaked me out) as well as that it's going to be stressful to speak in front of a lot of people. If I get flustered I'm worried I will lose my chance. THANKS!!","title":"(USA, Cali) Going to court tomorrow for a traffic offense (failure to obey traffic signal) any advice on how to present my case, give testimony, cross-examine the officer?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568565990,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4mz1t\/transporting_other_employees\/","id":"d4mz1t","body":"Hi, \n\nLong story short, I\u2019m in Massachusetts and wondering if an employer can require you or force you to use your vehicle to help another employee get to work. They hired someone who has easy access to the train, and yet I\u2019m being expected to drive them because their school schedule doesn\u2019t allow them to necessarily make it easily there, and because this person \u201cshouldn\u2019t have to spend money on the train.\u201d Am I legally in the wrong here to refuse to go out of my way to drive someone if that wasn\u2019t a stipulated part of my contract?","title":"Transporting other employees","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539828696,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p509j\/ga_usa_my_apartment_complex_refuses_to_turn_down\/","id":"9p509j","body":"I can hear the music through my balcony and bedroom door and it plays 24\/7 (even in the middle of the night). I\u2019ve complained dozens of times and they refuse.\n\n","title":"[Ga, USA] My apartment complex refuses to turn down the music in the patio area below my unit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441736610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k4hhk\/san_francisco_terminating_my_lease_early\/","id":"3k4hhk","body":"hi reddit... my first post here, so i'm hoping i'm posting correctly.\n\ni'm trying to terminate a lease early on a condo i am renting due to a grey habitability issue that will severely affect me because of a surgery i'm getting next month. i sent a notice to my landlord 1.5 months before vacating, and hired a broker with my own money who found him a new tenant (willing to sign a 1year lease for more than my current rent). \n\ndespite an early termination clause on my lease contract which makes me responsible for loss of rent, advertising fees, etc. (the generic clause), landlord refuses to let me terminate and requires me to sublet for the 6.5 months left on my lease. at this point, it seems he just seems to be in a vindictive mode and trying to screw me at every point: 1) he told the potential subletters that they have to vacate when my lease expires at 6.5 months, 2) he told me that i have to give up all of my deposit and last month's rent, plus his legal fees and any monies required to clean and repair the unit to terminate my lease (about $10k)... at which point he will discuss a direct 1yr lease with the potential tenants.\n\ni did not want to argue the habitability issue, because that just seemed like a can of worms (even tho the condo HOA is suing the builders for this issue, so the issue is well documented), so i tried to find legal ways to terminate the lease even if i end up paying the fees listed on my lease.\n\nupon visiting the tenant's union, i was advised that i can terminate my lease by vacating (which i've already done, as well as getting it professionally cleaned) and returning all keys. is this true, even if the landlord doesnt agree to terminate? what are my options for terminating here and getting my deposit + last month rent back?\n\nthanks in advance to anyone who is reading and\/or providing advice...\n\nEDIT: thanks xHeero! the full text of the early termination clause is copy\/pasted below. the \"paragraph 28\" referred to in the clause is the \"tenant's obligations upon vacating premises\" section that includes such things as cleaning the unit, returning keys, etc. - the normal things required when vacating the unit when the lease expires.\n\nBREACH OF CONTRACT; EARLY TERMINATION: In addition to any obligations established by paragraph 28, in the event of termination by Tenant prior to completion of the original term of the Agreement, Tenant shall also be responsible for loss Rent, rental commissions, advertising expenses and painting costs necessary to ready Premises for re-rental. Landlord may withhold any such amounts from Tenant's security deposit.","title":"[san francisco] terminating my lease early","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553327731,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4glgc\/involved_in_a_hit_and_run_how_should_i_approach\/","id":"b4glgc","body":"About 2 weeks ago I was involved in a hit and run. Someone vehicle came flying into my buddies vehicle and swirled around in normal street and then just kept going. My friends car has been totaled, we\u2019ve already filed a police report but they haven\u2019t gotten back to us.\n\nMy friend had full coverage and all 4 of us in his vehicle went to the hospital via ambulance, nothing huge happened to us. I got bruised all over, a sprained neck, whiplash causing headaches and pain. My question is how should I approach his insurance? Since he had full coverage should I go after them for the ambulance and scans I got at the hospital? Can I get reimbursed for physical\/emotional trauma from the accident? I\u2019m in California.","title":"Involved in a hit and run, how should I approach insurance?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552577599,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b11q2e\/quit_job_cant_get_paycheck\/","id":"b11q2e","body":"I started a part time job at a Dominos Pizza about 7 months ago, after a month of working I decided that it wasn\u2019t a good fit for me, short story, I didn\u2019t like the boss.\n\nI approached her at the end of my shift and I said \u201cI don\u2019t think this is a good fit for either of us, I can give you 2 more weeks or just not come again.\u201d She agreed to leaving immediately, and o thought it was over.\n\n3 months later I went in to retrieve the check(s), I was told by one of the managers that they didn\u2019t have them, and they were mailed to the office, and will then be mailed to me.\n\nIt\u2019s been another 4 months and I still don\u2019t have the checks.... \n\nI live in NC, what should I do? :(","title":"Quit Job - Can\u2019t get paycheck.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540042565,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pu6uj\/should_i_just_accept_the_fact_that_i_will_be\/","id":"9pu6uj","body":"Hi there! First time posting in this thread. Sorry for the long read.....\n\nSo a quick backstory: I\u2019ve been unemployed for about 6 months and to help myself with money, one of the decisions I made was to allow my car insurance to lapse. (I know...dumb move)\n\nAnyway, in my state if you lapse on insurance for 30 days you will get fined $25 and you then have to show proof of at least liability insurance.  My deadline for this is Oct. 24th. Otherwise, I could face my license being taken away. \n\nSo, about 2 weeks ago I was in an accident(not my fault). The girl that hit me was a drunk driver and rear-ended me. I couldn\u2019t get her info from her because she was so drunk. In my state, the police don\u2019t give you the police report that day. You have to wait 5-7 business days and they will post it online. You then have to purchase the police report to even see it. Meanwhile, because I was uninsured my car was impounded. My accident was on Oct. 8th but I was unable to get the report until October 14th. \n\nI filed the claim with her insurance and waited for the insurance rep to contact me. Only getting voicemail. So yesterday, I call the insurance company again and speak to someone else. They basically tell me that the reason why they haven\u2019t contacted me is because they are unable to get in touch with their insured. \n\nMe: \u201cWell, what does that mean for me?\u201d\n\nIC(insurance company): \u201cWell, we have 30 days to get in touch with her but if she never responds we will accept liability. However, we will only pay for a week\u2019s  worth of impoundment. We will check out the car and then issue you out a check for the damage. \n\nSo basically, I feel like I\u2019m fucked. Pretty much any chance of me getting the car out beforehand is shot. My financial situation is abysmal right now and I have no one able to help me. Plus, I have to show at least liability before I get it out and speaking to other insurance companies it seems as though I will have a hard time getting a damaged car covered anyway. \n\nAlso, I still owe on the car and pretty sure it\u2019s more than what I will get for it. So I won\u2019t even have money left from whatever I may get from the insurance company to try and buy a little cheap cash car. \n\nI\u2019m just a little overwhelmed right now. If anyone is an insurance attorney or has experience in this whatsoever, I would love your advice. \n\nThanks in advance. ","title":"Should I just accept the fact that I will be car-less forever?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570774790,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgb0u2\/who_do_i_hire_to_create_a_report_comparing_living\/","id":"dgb0u2","body":"Hello - Sorry if this is the wrong place to be asking this question, because I am not looking to sue anyone. However, I thought that anyone who knows about employment rights etc would be knowledgable about the research that goes into those cases.\n\nI work at a company that has offices in multiple cities. Employees who do the same job as me (and started at the same time as me with the same level of experience) were hired at 15k a year more than me. I requested a raise recently and my boss contacted me to schedule a meeting to discuss it. I am worried the company will claim the living expenses are **that** much higher in the other city, and that is why I am paid so much less. \n\nI thought it would probably be worth it for me to come to the meeting armed with a factual report comparing the living expenses of the city I'm in vs the city they are in, including more in depth comparisons of the average cost of a 1 bedroom apartment, groceries, etc. I have looked into it a bit, and there is **no way** that the other city's expenses are so much higher that they would be paid 15k more than me a year.\n\nI could do this myself but I feel that it will be more convincing if I paid someone more 'official' who knows how to make it look good and knows what sources are the most legitimate and respected.\n\nI would love any advice about where I could find such a person...\n\n Thanks for your time :-)","title":"Who do I hire to create a report comparing living expenses in two different cities (to prove I should be paid the same at my company)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553016725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b30a7e\/fl_if_my_ex_spouse_takes_their_own_life_do_i\/","id":"b30a7e","body":"I apologize if this sounds insensitive, I don\u2019t mean for it to be. About a decade ago I went through a nasty divorce, and my ex was given majority custody of our one child. We are both in our early 40\u2019s. My ex has a long history of depression and had threatened suicide many times. I mentioned this in court, but he just denied it, so nobody believed me.\n\nI was recently informed that his current wife has filed for divorce. Apparently she is concerned that he is going to take his own life. I, of course, would hope that he would not do such a thing, but he refuses to see a therapist citing religious objections. My question is, if he did in fact take his own life, would I automatically have custody of our child? And furthermore, could his parents fight me for custody?\n\nTo clarify, I have no history of drug or alcohol problems and I\u2019ve never abused or neglected our child. I just happened to not win majority custody.","title":"(FL) If my ex spouse takes their own life, do I automatically get custody?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504146819,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x45wx\/illinois_step_parent_adoption\/","id":"6x45wx","body":"What do we need to do so that my husband can adopt my daughter? I'm terrified of the thought that if something happens to me she'll be ripped from her family and siblings and sent to live with her unstable \"father\" downstate.\n\nMore info below:\n\nMy ex husband left in 2010, when my daughter was 6 weeks old. We were divorced in Texas by default decree and I am currently the primary custodian with visitation \"as agreed\" and was granted $500 a month in child support. I started dating my (now) husband in the spring of 2011 and he has supported my daughter financially and acted as her father since then. \n\nSince the divorce, my ex occasionally popped in and out during her first and second years, then started coming somewhat regularly around the time she turned 4. (By \"regularly\" I mean he has seen her 63 times in 2-4 hour increments since 6\/10\/2014, he skipped 43 of the scheduled visits in that time as well). Recently, he's fallen off the planet again, and my daughter is actually old enough to be upset now. The last time she saw him was 6\/18\/2017.\n\nHe never files taxes, so I don't see any of that. The state of Texas has been withholding a portion of his paychecks every month (he waits tables so it's basically $25-50 a month), and when they told him that they were going to start witholding more he quit. I'd estimate that he owes close to $40,000 in back child support, give or take $1,000. The last time she received support from him was 2\/22\/2017.\n\nMy questions are these:\n1) How long do we have to wait to show that he's abandoned her or shown inadequate interest?\n2) What can happen to someone who owes that much child support?\n\nAny other thoughts or info are more than welcome! ","title":"Illinois step parent adoption","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550115552,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqfgdb\/az_my_owner_works_as_a_sushi_chef_can_he_take\/","id":"aqfgdb","body":"I work in a small family owned sushi spot and one of the owners ( married couple) works as a sushi chef there. I understand that it\u2019s customary for sushi chefs to take part of the tip pool but from my understanding the person signing our checks cannot. From what I\u2019ve come to understand is that owners\/managers cannot take tips unless given to them directly from customers. The sushi chefs take 20% of all the servers tips off the top, meaning each of the two sushi chefs that are working at one time split it 10% a piece. We (as employees) know for a fact that neither the servers or the other sushi chefs are making more in tips when working with the owner as a sushi chef. So what kind of advice do you guys have?\n\nOn another related note they also subjectively choose when to lower a servers tip percent based on the merits of their work. If they \u201cthink you\u2019re doing 70% Work you get only 70% of tip\u201d like how can you change how much money you get from customers as tips based on things like coming in late or forgetting an order?","title":"(AZ) My owner works as a sushi chef, can he take part in the tip pool.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568670244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d576t1\/record_of_employment_canada\/","id":"d576t1","body":"Hey everyone, my girlfriend is applying for a student loan and needs to get a ROE. I read that she was supposed to be provided with one within 5 days of leaving her job but it's been two months. Her employer is being unresponsive by not responding to a text and a letter she handed in. First contact was made on September 3rd needs it by the 19th(3 days)","title":"Record Of Employment Canada","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445277579,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pdq9n\/apartment_i_moved_out_of_is_suing_me_for_150\/","id":"3pdq9n","body":"**MINNESOTA**\n\nI emailed the management company because the carpet was in pretty rough shape as it stood when I moved in. The apartment complex was old and cheap and I just needed a place to stay. When I asked them why they were charging me a fee after me and my girlfriend tirelessly cleaned the place for an entire day I got the response below\n\nHere's what they told me: \"1st the cleaner was in your apartment for 6 hour \u2013 I only changed you for 4 (saved $80.00). Your move in report says nothing about the carpet being damaged, old or worn out. I was the person who rented that apartment to you in fact and it was fine then. We replace carpets approximately every 7 years. I figured your carpet at 10 years old to save you more. \"\/\n\nSo, now I got a letter from them.. im being sued for 150 dollars.\n\nNot sure what to do, this has never happened to me before in my life.\n","title":"Apartment I moved out of is suing me for 150 dollars to replace the carpet in the unit, not sure what I should do.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551743571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axe9eq\/our_landlord_stole_our_deposit_stopped\/","id":"axe9eq","body":"Denver, CO\n\nI posted about this to \/r\/vent about a month ago, however since then we have decided to go the legal route since more has happened. \n\nhttps:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Vent\/comments\/akr83u\/i_dont_know_is_not_an_acceptable_answer_to_the\/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share\n\nTL;DR:\n-She stopped maintaining the house after she decided she was going to sell the house\n-She began doing showings of the house while we still lived there, without writing a contract or us formally agreeing to it with usually only a few minutes notice until we changed the lock\n-Someone entered our house without any type of permission (spoiler alert: it was her, we have neighbors) and fucked up my room\n\n\nSo since then she has: \n-Incrimated herself in that she was the one who entered the house, we have people who saw her\n-Never formally evicted us but made us move out by threatening to bring a lock smith if we didn't change the lock back for showings\n-Kept the deposit, claiming damages that either didn't exist, was preexisting, or are caused by her own negligence\n\nSo, I have a few questions. \n\nIs she even allowed to keep the deposit since she illegally evicted us? If so, \n\nOne of the damages she's claiming is cat urine, its not, I have proof it isn't (it's the damage caused by her not maintaining the property). However, seeing as she's claiming it is a pet related damage and she charged us a nonrefundable pet deposit, is she allowed to claim that? \n\nHow much trouble is she in for the showings alone? \n\nWhat about her unlawful entries? (She entered a few more times before the lock change) \n\nWe plan to sue for the deposit but is there anything else we can do legally against her? \n\nAny advice otherwise? (Aside from get a lawyer, we will the moment we have the money to) \n","title":"Our landlord stole our deposit, stopped maintaining the property, and gave out the key for our house and forced us out at 6 months without evicting us","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540405589,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r2acd\/possible_ada_issue_employment_accommodation_in\/","id":"9r2acd","body":"Location- GA, US\n\nHello, all. I am pregnant and currently work as an RN in interventional radiology. As soon as I found out I was pregnant I had an informal arrangement with my charge RN to minimize my exposure to radiation. Basically I perform all other job functions (Paperwork, IVs, Patient initial Assessment\/recovery, discharge, and non CT procedures) excluding those which require me to be adjacent to the CT scanner. While charge was willing to accommodate this she encouraged me to get something in writing from my physician stating that my exposure to radiation should be minimized, just to cover us. I obtained this document from my physician and submitted it to Employee Health. I was told by Employee Health that this would be considered a \"reasonable accommodation\" under ADA and would need to be approved by my Manager. My manager responded today stating that they are unable to honor the request because we are provided lead gowns for CT procedures and belly dosimeters, neither of which provide adequate protection per my physician (gown is <1inch thick and the dosimeter only notifies you of elevated exposure after the fact). So my question here is how to I bridge the gap between what I am being told by my doctor and what my manager (who is not clinical, exclusively admin...this has been problematic with regard to developing nursing policies in the past) expects of me? Is this a violation of ADA or is there further information I need to request in order to make that determination? At the end of the day I will not go into the CT area for the safety of my baby. There have been exposure events in the past due to poor communication on the part of the CT Techs as well as patient emergencies. What legal protections do I have under ADA so I am not forced to pursue other work at this time?","title":"Possible ADA Issue- Employment Accommodation in Pregnancy","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444859358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3os0ee\/us_bringing_a_minor_across_state_lines_for_sex\/","id":"3os0ee","body":"I'm in NC and I met a girl online from SC.  I am 19 and she is 16.  I am planning to pick her up and bring her back to my place.  As far as my understanding goes, it should be fine for us to have sex since the age of consent is 16 in both states?  I was worried about the Mann Act but it seems it only applies if the act would be illegal if state lines had not been crossed, but it is legal in both states.  I was also worried about kidnapping charges, NC kidnapping charges don't seem to apply, but I am worried about SC charges which I was reading about [here.](http:\/\/kidnapping.uslegal.com\/state-kidnapping-abduction-laws\/south-carolina-kidnappingabduction-laws\/) Now, I asked her if she could get a note from a parent giving her the ok to come to my place and she said she would.  Would this be sufficient to avoid any kidnapping charges?  Are there any other potential charges that I might need to be aware of?\n\nEdit:  I get it, some people think this may violate the Mann Act.  I just want to know about kidnapping and other potential charges.\n\nEdit 2:  Alright, I'll concede this was a stupid fucking idea, and while I'm still not convinced it is illegal, It's probably in my best interest not to pursue this.  Thanks for the help.","title":"[US] Bringing a minor across state lines for sex?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441872935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kdcmh\/ca_landlord_wants_me_to_sign_a_new_lease_claims\/","id":"3kdcmh","body":"This problem began this summer when my previous roommate left without any warning and I had to find a replacement. The process began in June, however after getting the green light to move in the new resident, the actual lease wasn't signed until late July. The resident manager drew up the lease for us to sign and the rental rate stated on it was lower than my previous lease.\n  \nAll parties signed it, I got a copy of the signed lease and today I find that they've been continually charging me for the previous rental amount (a total of four months worth). With this ledger they provided, they included a new lease (with rates like my previous lease) and a letter that claimed that they had made a mistake and ordered us to sign the new lease. I refused.\n  \nWhat's my legal recourse at this time? They've been over charging me for months  and now they're trying to force me to sign a new lease. At this point, I don't even want to live there any more. What can I do?","title":"[CA] - Landlord wants me to sign a new lease, claims the previous one was a mistake.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552513702,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0ruy5\/usflorida_landlord_gave_is_us_less_than_a_months\/","id":"b0ruy5","body":"LL: Landlord\nWe: Roommate and Me\n\nSorry for format, on mobile. \n\nBefore people suggest it, we don\u2019t have parents to go to for help on this matter. \n\nI know, we are the big dumb. Live and learn. \n\nWe have been renting properties from the same LL for two years now. Just switched from a smaller to a bigger apartment. \n\nA little short backstory: Door handle came off, texted LL about it. LL said they didn\u2019t want to renew lease because we were being a nuisance over small things. \n\nMy roommates and I went to pay rent as usual to the landlord. When we arrived to pay the rent, LL said that it wasn\u2019t necessary because It was the last month. We said that we wanted to renew the lease for another year. He gave us the reason above and said it wouldn\u2019t be renewing. All of this was by text, and 5 days after LL sent a letter to us with a different date then it was posted. The date inside was a couple days prior to the posted envelope. On the lease it doesn\u2019t say the amount of time necessary to give a written notice and stuff. So now have two weeks to find a new place and don\u2019t have that much saved up. We are have a hard time coming up with first last and deposit on a short notice. Is there any way to postpone this? There\u2019s this holdover thing but it says we\u2019ll pay twice the rent. \n\nAny help is appreciated. ","title":"[US-FLORIDA] Landlord gave is us less than a months notice to vacate the property. A couple broke college kids need some advice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554996707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc193p\/whats_the_first_step_we_take_to_get_a_parents\/","id":"bc193p","body":"Hello!\n\nSo, my step mother, my father, and I have all talked about terminating my birth mothers rights due to her lack of being a mother. We were wondering, what's the first step we take to get her rights terminated?\n\n \n\nMy birth mother left when I was about 3-4 weeks old, and I've never really heard from her, I haven't seen her in god knows how long. The last time I saw her, my biological brother and sister were with me, we spent the weekend at her house. While we were there, she lied to us about out dad and how our step mother is a \"crazy loon\" and \"is brainwashing us\", etc. etc. That built a huge wall between us kids, and our step mother and our dad. That caused a huge emotional wreck when we got back home. Lots of screaming, crying, doors slamming, etc.\n\nAll in all, these are the factors that allow me to get my birth mothers rights terminated. She had:\n\nabandoned us, neglected us, she is VERY unfit to be a parent, when we're with her there is a huge chance of there being emotional pain caused from them telling us false information regarding our other parents, and she made very minimal effort to care for us and to keep in contact with us.\n\nSo, I have a very valid reason to terminate her rights (there's other factors that take part in this but are to personal to say)\n\n​\n\nThank you!","title":"What's the first step we take to get a parents rights terminated?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554920325,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbpe7h\/wife_is_being_emotionallyfinancially_abused_at\/","id":"bbpe7h","body":"We\u2019re in Indiana, my wife works for a senior living company as a chef. This last week she has been calling me in tears, and coming home red eyed from crying because of the things her manager is doing. I\u2019m at my boiling point and am about to call and request to speak to whoever is above her manager and go off.\n\nToday her manager went into her time-clock and clocked her out for lunches she never took over the weekend. Also clocked her out for the day an hour before she even left because my wife called her out on it, while trying to blame someone else. (She had a little overtime) She is constantly berated for things she did correctly. Screamed at any time another co worker does something wrong. Apparently a few employees hate her, but are scared to do or say anything.\n\nShe is very soft spoken, and just takes it in stride. Only to break down in the car or bathroom on her break. But this woman is destroying her emotionally. She is an amazing worker, never misses work, picks up extra shifts. (In multiple departments, not just as chef) \n\nI just need to know if there\u2019s anything I can do\/say to light a fire under the person\u2019s ass when I call? I want to make sure something is actually done, not just blown off. I also don\u2019t want them to fire her because she decided to stand up and say something. Any help is appreciated, she loves her job and the seniors that reside there. I understand everyone has to put up with bullshit at work, it\u2019s part of why it\u2019s work, but I honestly think what that manager is doing to her is abusive and illegal.","title":"Wife is being emotionally\/financially abused at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446546530,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rc5hu\/met_someone_online_they_shoplifted_switching_tags\/","id":"3rc5hu","body":"I'm a 23 year old male in the NC\/Wilmington area. I work nights and don't get out much. Decided to go online and meet some new friends since my two best friends moved away at the beginning of the year. I met someone and they seemed nice and we agreed to meet up and drive to a local park for a jog. I arrived at her house and me, her and her sister piled into their car and went to the park. Afterwards, they said they needed to go to walmart to get a few things. Since they were my ride back to my car I had to wait for them to finish shopping. I was in the store with them, I briefly went my own way to look at electronics like I usually do, but met back up with them and was with them most of the time. Now I had always thought of shoplifting in the sense where people are stuffing things in their bags or pants and walking out with it. Apparently they were switching tags on items and I never caught on. We went to the self checkout because it was only a few items, mostly womens clothing and candles\/scents etc. They paid for their stuff and we began walking towards the door. We were approached by someone who wasn't in uniform and was escorted to a holding office. He had them empty their bags and checked the receipts. Two officers arrived and never said a word to any of us. We were all charged with misdemeanor larceny by switching tags. I never touched the merchandise or paid for any of it because none of it was for me, it was all ladies stuff. The person I met agreed to defend me in court and corroborate my story that we had just met and I was unaware of what was going on, but I'm still panicking because I can't afford a lawyer especially after finding out what \"retainer fee\" meant and I don't trust the idea of having a public defender, I've heard bad things about them. What are my options and what are my chances at defending myself if I'm not on video tampering or tinkering with any of it and the one defends my statements? I also recently found out that the oldest one involved has moved out of state and has no intention of going to court and also got her other sister in trouble for the exact same thing literally days after this incident occurred. \n\ntl;dr\n\nWas lonely, met up with a stranger I met online who turned out to be a kleptomaniac and now I have to go to court and can't afford a lawyer. What do?\n\nEDIT: I have no prior history of legal issues or charges barring an improper equipment ticket. Not that it really matters, but I was class valedictorian and have a degree in poly sci, was a delegate in the last election, I'm just not the type of person to go and steal things the day before I get paid. ","title":"Met someone online, they shoplifted switching tags and I got charged along with them.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571781558,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlp97f\/apartment_complex_and_pet\/","id":"dlp97f","body":"I (22f) just moved into a new apartment complex in August. I signed my lease in March of this year. When I turned in my application I put all of the information about my pet (1 dog). They approved my application and never mentioned anything about the pet when I signed my lease. The pet addendum was listed with 9 other addendums that I never received and was not mentioned in the pet section of the lease. I thought that the application information counted as the pet addendum in this case due to a lack of information. However, the complex did a \"blinds inspection\" in September and charged me a double fee of the normal deposit due to having an \"unauthorized pet\". I have tried to talk with the local office and resolve the issue due to a lack of paperwork. I also immediately paid the normal deposit and backpay for the 3 months. They are refusing to compromise and have insisted on the charges. I proceeded to talk with the regional manager and she has sided with the local office and stands by the charges even though I was never informed of any pet addendum and had thought the approval of the application was approval of the pet. I, nor any of the people I have talked to, believe these charges are fair and should stand. I don't know what to do at this point though. I have talked with my colleges legal services and they are the ones that recommended I go to the regional manager since it seemed such a silly charge for the offices mistake. The local judge is very prolandlord and I was advised to avoid small claims court if at all possible. Do I just have to pay the fees and leave a review for future Tennant's or is there anything I can do? I also move out in December due to graduation.","title":"Apartment complex and pet","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503981930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wp0lo\/australia_accidental_damage_to_property_at_school\/","id":"6wp0lo","body":"Roughly 2 months ago I was at school, just a normal day. Just minding my own business while chatting with friends at my locker. I was holding my phone in my right hand and eating something with my left.\n\n\nSome guys came from outside and were running inside the hallway. I was at least 3 or 4 meters away from the door next to my locker, up against a wall. One of the guys running bumped into me and my phone fell. It now has a shatter on the bottom. I kindly asked if he would pay me for compensation but he declined straight away. He claimed that it was just an accident but he was clearly sprinting as hard as he could in the hallway and he wasn't looking where he was going.\n\n\n\nI ended up speaking to the school coordinator and was told that he **\"shouldn't\"** have been running in the hallway but isn't obliged to pay for compensation. I strongly believe this was an accident, don't get me wrong, it was. But the fact that negligence was a factor in the accident has me wondering if he is legally obliged to pay for compensation.\n\n\n- The only reason I am asking about this now instead of 2 months ago is because my phone shatter has gotten far worse. \n\n\n- It started off just shatter but now the first layer of the glass on the shatter has come off over time. I also get glass fragments on my hands if I touch it now. \n\n\n- This is an iPhone 6 btw and is currently not under warranty so fixing the screen with apple with cost $208. I really shouldn't be paying for damage I didn't cause. \n\n\n- The student who broke my phone doesn't behave well and was almost expelled in Year 7\n\n\n- I was also told by the coordinator that the school doesn't get involved with damage to personal property","title":"Australia: Accidental damage to property at school but negligence was involved","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1505108856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zdjh9\/ct_i_accepted_a_job_offer_a_few_months_back_can_i\/","id":"6zdjh9","body":"I accepted an offer 3 months back over email and I went through security clearance but I was offered another job and I think I may choose this other job over the job in CT after hearing my friends complain about CT and personal decision to save money. I don't know if I can back out or not? I don't know if I signed any employment contract. My I9 form isn't filled out.","title":"[CT] I accepted a job offer a few months back. Can I decline?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554823931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb9bpi\/former_addict_applying_for_govt_job\/","id":"bb9bpi","body":"I'm applying for a government contractor position. The organization (SSA) is requiring that I submit a statement about my history of drug use\/abuse. \n\nYears ago I was arrested for DWI, and two counts of felony-possession of control substances in Virginia. However, as it was my first arrest, the courts agreed to drop the possession counts if I successfully completely counseling, etc. As such, my only conviction was the DWI. Currently, I'm almost six years sober from all drugs and alcohol. \n\nI've never pursued an ADA accommodation, but it's my understanding that I should be eligible for coverage as \"addiction\" is qualified as a disability. \n\nMy questions are, (1) should I pursue an ADA status for my recovery? (2) how forthcoming should I be in the requested statement to the SSA? (3) Is it reasonable to expect that my history of drug use, and current recovery status, won't disqualify me for most jobs?","title":"Former addict applying for gov't job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541895973,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vzetz\/how_to_not_let_my_violent_mil_get_any_legal\/","id":"9vzetz","body":"Currently 13 weeks pregnant. To get an in depth picture of my MIL I have been posting in JustNoMIL.\n\nTo keep things short MIL is a drunk. Whenever she is drinking her violent tendencies are escalated x100. She has attempted to assault me twice already. She had to be pinned back at a little kids birthday party by at least 20 witnesses. She then chased me down the street and had to be tackled be her own husband and him screaming at us to hurry and leave for our own safety. MIL has harassed me and SO for a year using \u201chealth issues\u201d and threatening suicide to get SO to talk to her again. He has been going behind my back and playing both sides. Antagonizing her and adding fire to the whole situation. \n\nShe has sent me 3 page letters calling me a liar for having asthma and being allergic to her cats (it\u2019s been documented by medical professionals since I was 6months old) She has mocked my miscarriage and told me to get over it, she has called me disgusting names and told me she\u2019s the only woman SO ever needs in her life and will do anything to get me away. \n\nWe moved states away to protect me. I am now pregnant and have an overwhelming fear for the safety of my child. I live in Texas, I need to know what I can legally do to keep MIL away from my kid for his\/her safety. Me and SO are not married. We have been together for 4 years. We were on the same page about keeping her away from our child.\n\nUntil today. He changed his mind completely and said he does not agree whatsoever anymore and that our child needs to meet his parents \u201cat least once\u201d which means it\u2019ll turn into several visits. I know my SO. I am so pissed. Someone suggested not putting him on the birth certificate, I am willing to do whatever it takes to protect me and my child. My MIL cannot have access to my baby, I am worried she will try to kidnap my kid. She reports step SIL constantly to CPS for being an unfit mom and doing drugs, an is always threatening taking custody. Step SIL doesnt do drugs. MIL will go to great lengths to get her way. \n\nWhat can I do? I have time to prepare so I need to get my ducks in a row. If it\u2019s leaving the country untraced, then so be it. MIL is dangerous and plays the \u201cI\u2019m just a little old lady\u201d victim card well. I need help","title":"How to not let my violent MIL get any legal access to my baby?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554756939,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baz15g\/i_havent_been_to_school_in_2_months_except_for_a\/","id":"baz15g","body":"attendance. My name is Jack and I have G.A.D (anxiety) and severe depression along with ADHD. This all started about 1 week into feburary. I messed my sleep schedule up and now with my meds that I cant stop taking to fix it's all messed up. This along with little to no sleep lead to me having hallucinations and a extreme amount of panic attacks over nothing. I haven't been able to make it even a week of just half days of school. I'm worried there gonna try to pressure me into coming back to full days when I'm not ready. My mother and therapist co acted the school and my mom had to wait a month to hear back from the vice principal.  They also have screwed me over on my 404 and refused to put leniance days in for my anxiety ( they have let other kids with the same disorder have the days) I just need some help kinda like if they try to gang up on me and pressure me into doing back to school full time. I'm not looking for advice on my issues relating to mental health I ha e that handled as of now and I'm purely looking to see if they might have broken laws or done something wrong that I cant use defend myself.","title":"I haven't been to school in 2 months except for a few half days here and there. I'm from Idaho and I have a meeting in a few hours about my attendence.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554466972,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9qjce\/nda\/","id":"b9qjce","body":"I work for a company (broker) who practices unscrupulous methods of data mining and sourcing. Specifically spoof calling, customer impersonation, and every single \u201cemployee\u201d is 1099. For my own protection, I plan on soon asking for a copy of the NDA that I signed before starting there. Is it illegal if they refuse to give me a copy? \n\nSide note:\n\nI have no issues with my employer and I am not disgruntled. It\u2019s a small company, they aren\u2019t bad people they just have highly questionable motives and business values. Not to mention, the CEO likes to hire ex-cons and addicts. Not that it\u2019s the worst thing in the world, but I guess if you\u2019re going to break the law it\u2019s easier to convince someone who\u2019s already done it to do it again. \n\nWhat are my options?","title":"NDA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569702501,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daled3\/my_fathers_youtube_channel_is_going_to_be_deleted\/","id":"daled3","body":"First off, he doesn\u2019t know I\u2019m writing this and won\u2019t know until I decide to tell him as he doesn\u2019t have reddit (and probably doesn\u2019t even know what reddit is). I still don\u2019t want to identify him or his channel\/business name unless it is going to helpful to this issue. Another thing I should mention is that we\u2019re in the UK but as YouTube is an international kinda thing, I thought this post would do better here.\n\nMy dad has been working on his channel for 10 years now and the past ~five years or so, it has been his full time job. He currently has 57k subscribers and a website where people can pay for additional video content and merch- which is where a lot of his income comes from. I know that in the world of YouTube this isn\u2019t much but it has supported our family of five for 3 years while my mom hasn\u2019t been working or in full-time work. It is his hobby, his job- it\u2019s just really important to him and of course has meant that we can pay the bills and all that. I\u2019m sixteen, unemployed and I don\u2019t know much about finances and legal stuff but I know that this is important.\n\nYesterday, my dad woke up to 3 copyright strikes, each from the same person. There had been no warning, just boom- you have 3 strikes. In 7 days, his channel is going to be deleted- a life ban or something, so he won\u2019t be able to create another channel in his name. The copyrighted material is in videos from five years ago- clips that only lasted a few seconds and which (to our knowledge) were not officially copyrighted or anything. But obviously, all the copyright laws changed recently and what was fine five years ago apparently isn\u2019t now. He would just delete the copyrighted videos but because of the strikes he can\u2019t access his channel. He emailed the person who gave him the strikes but received nothing back. Later, however, there was another strike from the same person. He contacted YouTube but it\u2019s just useless automated messages. My dad\u2019s just distraught. He isn\u2019t himself. He\u2019s just been at his computer trying to sort something out and I don\u2019t know what to do.\n\nIf his channel goes down, so does the website as the additional video content runs through YouTube and without a channel, he can\u2019t produce new content and so his paying subscribers are going to leave. All of his old videos- all 800 of them -will be gone from YouTube and his website. He does have the unedited versions on hard drives but again, he can\u2019t open a new channel in his name. He did some working out and found that if he worked all day, 7 days a week for six months- no breaks- he could get his old content edited but that leaves no room for new stuff. And that\u2019s obviously if he can get a new channel.\n\nIs there anything he can do to appeal these strikes? I know it\u2019s just a small channel but it\u2019s so important to him and our family.","title":"My father\u2019s YouTube channel is going to be deleted due to multiple copyright strikes that were not preceded by a warning of any kind. His YouTube business is our main source of income- how can he appeal?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554279003,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8v6gg\/landlord_breaching_rental_agreement_not_giving\/","id":"b8v6gg","body":"My rental agreement states that the property manager must give prior days notice before entering the apartment. However, the owner of the house (not the property manager) has entered the apartment at least once without prior day's notice to upgrade the plumbing for a new sprinkler system. Can I break the lease without penalty? This is in Colorado, which has pretty poor renters rights AFAIK.","title":"Landlord breaching rental agreement, not giving prior day's notice before repairs. Can I break the lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444613876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oee7x\/questions_about_legality_of_removing_spouse_from\/","id":"3oee7x","body":"My spouse is emotionally abusive. We have two children together under the age of 5. The past two years he has been prescribed a variety of narcotics\/pain meds to deal with physical issues and 4 surgeries within that 2 year span. His emotional abuse, manipulation, and rage are out of control when he is on meds. He is a recovering addict, but has abused the meds in this 2 year period under the guise of following doctor's orders. \n\nOn this most recent go round, I requested he stay with his parents during his recovery from surgery and let him know he cannot return home until he is off of pain meds. He just told me he wishes to return tomorrow, as he has weaned himself off and is withdrawing. I said I would like for us to sit down and talk before his return (ideally with a counselor) and he is now threatening to have the police force me to let him come home. \n\nI know that it is not legal to change the locks or kick him out and have not made any attempts to do so. He has been temporarily living out of the home for 4 weeks. He has never physically abused me or threatened to, but his irrational anger is often so frightening that I do not feel safe. I'm not really sure what to do, as it is too late to contact a lawyer for advice and tomorrow is a holiday. I am concerned he will show up and force himself in and am looking for advice. Thanks in advance. \n\n","title":"questions about legality of removing spouse from home (VA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539688289,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9omm5i\/support_contempt_deadbeat_mom_ohiosouth_carolina\/","id":"9omm5i","body":"Good morning Reddit. This is my first ever thread. {Irrelevant but kind of cool.}\n\nI\u2019m the sole custodian of my twin daughters. Their mother was a drug addict and She signed away her rights to the girls after a nasty court mess. I moved to South Carolina and she live in Ohio where the court case was initially heard and support obligation is filed. \n\nShe is >&5,000 behind in support has an obligation of about $450 a month and has never made a full child support payment in 2 years.  She made a payment of $50 dollars so the state says she technically has \u201cmade a payment\u201d so they cannot take action. \n\nI\u2019d like to file a contempt charge on her. My question is... do I have to be present to address the court with my information, or can I file the contempt charge without being present. The geographical distance makes it difficult to travel back and fourth.  However, she will not make any payments without some entity enforcing her to.  We have tried all kinds of alternative routes. \n\nThank you for your feedback! Cheers! \n","title":"Support Contempt - Deadbeat Mom - Ohio\/South Carolina","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446222887,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3quv60\/peru_800_worth_of_phones_stolen_store_that\/","id":"3quv60","body":"My girlfriend works at a cellphone store in Cusco, Peru. Today, two Samsung S6's were stolen, totaling to about 2400 soles ($800 USD). Her boss, the owner of the store, is trying to make her pay the money. To pay it back, she would have to take out a loan from the bank.\nI live in the United States. I have no knowledge of Peru laws. Please, can somebody help us?","title":"[Peru] $800 worth of phones stolen, store that girlfriend is working at is making her pay. Is it legal?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570027562,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcb6ri\/grandfather_passed_away_and_left_money_in_a_trust\/","id":"dcb6ri","body":"My grandfather passed away in August and has left property and his assets in a trust to my dad. I\u2019m not sure what the total value is. As far as I know, I have not been left anything and I\u2019m not sure how to find this out. \n\nAnyway, my stepmother is an addict and is on and off of pills and alcohol. She\u2019s back on the pills now. This week, family friends have told me that she has been back on pills and has stolen pills from elderly neighbors and from my grandfather when he was dying. \n\nI have not concrete proof of this theft or drug use but I believe it to be true. This is a woman who was fired from 2 hospitals for stealing pills. She also lost her nursing license. She hasn\u2019t worked for years and sits in bed all day. She broke her ankle and has to have surgery about 3 years ago and has been on the pills again since then. \n\nMy brother took care of her for a week after her surgery and my dad left her pain pills with him and told him not to let her have any more than she needs. So my dad is aware of her addiction. \n\nAfter my grandfather\u2019s funeral, my stepmother told me that my uncle (Dad\u2019s brother) \u201cmight be a problem\u201d when it comes to the estate. My uncle is pretty much estranged and rarely visited or helped take care of my grandfather. He didn\u2019t even sit with the family at the funeral. \n\nI don\u2019t trust my dad or stepmother when it comes to money. In the past they have spent bother\u2019s college fund, stolen my disabled step brother\u2019s money, and purposely short my mom on child support. \n\nI don\u2019t want them to blow all of his money and I for sure don\u2019t want my stepmother to spend it on drugs. \n\nIs there anything I can legally do in this situation? I\u2019m How I find out if I was left anything and do I have any legal rights in this situation? Any recommendations on proving illegal drug use? Any advice appreciated.","title":"Grandfather passed away and left money in a trust to my dad who is married to drug addict. Worried she is going blow the money on pills. Is there anything I can legally do?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1504010010,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wqwzo\/pa_no_fault_divorce_is_my_lawyer_trying_to_chase\/","id":"6wqwzo","body":"This seems like a ridiculously long timeline, but maybe I'm being too needy. On July 5, I met with a divorce attorney through my employer's assistance program. We agreed on a very reasonable retainer, as this is a simple no-fault divorce with virtually no contested items up for grabs, which I called in to pay the next week. I was routed to a staff member who did not answer, so I left a message. No return call. I tried a week later, was directed to someone else who didn't answer, so I left a message. No call back. So I e-mailed the office staff. The office manager eventually called me back and took my payment over the phone, assuring me that they were looking into things and that my attorney would contact me shortly.\n\n\nNext week, no word from my attorney, so I fire off a quick \"hey what's up?\" e-mail. To his credit, he called me almost immediately and was extremely apologetic, as nobody had told him I had paid. At this point, I should have just asked to be transferred to the manager to get my money back, but I was relieved to have an attorney in my corner, so I just went with it. He informed me that he would soon make an appearance on my behalf, call the wife (we are on strict No Contact), and get rolling on finalizing the agreement.\n\n\nThat was July 26. Not a word since. I sent an e-mail last week directly to my lawyer to follow up, but he hasn't replied. Is this all ridiculous, and should I be calling for a refund, or is this the typical timeline for a small fry in a no-fault divorce?","title":"PA no fault divorce - is my lawyer trying to chase my away?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539483222,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nzcut\/client_obtained_loan_and_left_country\/","id":"9nzcut","body":"I currently work for a smaller credit union, and a client has recently obtained a loan (not from my institution). As it turns out the client has left the country and it doesn\u2019t look like he will return. With him he took the loan money and most the cash from his bank account. \n\nBesides this being highly illegal, what kind of repercussions can this have for the client and his account with us? What can the institution do to get their loaned money back?\n\nI should add that I have no personal interest seeing this go one way or another, I\u2019m just interested in the legality because I\u2019ve never heard of anyone doing this.  The loan amount was around 20k. ","title":"Client obtained loan and left country","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569881604,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbj9ez\/delivery_of_3_day_pay_or_quit_notice_requirements\/","id":"dbj9ez","body":"I sublet an office in my building and the tenant has been chronically late paying rent. I have a 3 day pay or quit notice ready for the next time but how am I required to deliver it? Can I just tape it on his office door or do I need to mail it or deliver it to him in person ?  Also, can I tell him I would prefer that he leaves? In Colorado.  Thanks!","title":"Delivery of 3 day pay or quit notice requirements","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446318100,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qzvyq\/apartment_building_surprise_10_months_of_unpaid\/","id":"3qzvyq","body":"So I moved into a large apartment complex at the end of January, 2015. When we signed the lease we where made aware utilities where our responsibility including electric, water, etc. We attempted to set up a water account but the water company told us there was only 1 account for the whole building so we assumed we would receive a bill from the apartment. We never received a bill and I kind of forgot about it. A few days ago we got a letter taped to our door with a delinquent bill for roughly $700 which included 10 months of $25 late fees. The address on the letter head was our previous address, so I'm assuming the bill has been going to the address we lived at before we moved into this building and was somehow never forwarded to us. I called the utility sharing company and paid the bill in full to avoid any other charges, but i feel like $250 worth of late fees because the place we live didn't send the bill to the right address isn't really our responsibility. Do I have any legal recourse? The building is in Portland, Oregon.","title":"Apartment Building Surprise, 10 Months of Unpaid Bill","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443375418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mliw4\/why_did_my_deferred_felony_show_up_on_a\/","id":"3mliw4","body":"I got a deferred felony back in 2009 (criminal endangerment if anyone is wondering), and was told that if I didn't screw up for 3 years, it would go off my record. So after 3 years of probation, I completed my sentence in 2012. Since then, every time I've done a background check (EMT in various states), nothing has showed up. Yet somehow, Uber was able to find this deferred felony. How?\n\nBy the way, this felony was committed in Montana. I live in California now.","title":"Why did my deferred felony show up on a background check?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1550470466,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aru4fn\/is_there_anything_illegal_with_being_forced_to\/","id":"aru4fn","body":"I\u2019ve never posted here before, so apologies in advance in the formatting is bad.\n\nI work for a telecommunications company as a full-time Inbound Sales Rep, and part of my position is obviously a variety of PTO. At my company, it is broken down into Personal, Vacation, and Sick Leave. Personal runs at a flat 40 hours for the year, while both Sick Leave and Vacation accrue an extra 1 hour of time to each category for every 30 hours spent on the clock. I have worked here for about a year, and have used my share of Sick Leave\/Personal time, but still had time in both accounts to rollover into this year. Recently, I woke up one mornin feeling extra crummy, and was greeted to some puking in the bathroom before I could even hop into the shower. I called into our automated reporting system to report my absence that day, and went back to bed with a bottle of Pepto-Bismol by my side. I head back into the office the next day, to be promptly greeted by my boss staying because I missed work the day prior, I was going to be working the weekend shift to make up for my \u201cunexcused missing time\u201d. That comment is what brought me here. I used the time given to me for showing up and doing my job, to take time to take care of myself. It\u2019s not unexcused time, it\u2019s Sick Leave time, of which I still have plenty of. Is it legal for my boss to simply claim because I called in sick one day, I\u2019m going to have to make that time up, even though I\u2019ve had time stored up for such an event? Or am I just being a whiny baby who doesn\u2019t want to work a weekend shift? Any and all advice is appreciated!","title":"Is there anything illegal with being forced to work overtime for when I was sick?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553119112,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3i3d6\/ontario_canada_is_my_employer_allowed_to\/","id":"b3i3d6","body":"A year ago I started work at a marketing agency (if you can call it that- I was the first and only employee) as a marketing specialist.\nMy job included writing various copy for clients, editing documents, posting ads, regular marketing stuff.\n\n\nFast forward 6 months and we lose our big client who was paying 97% of our bills, so my employer then decided instead of finding new marketing clients he is going to keep paying me to help him build an online community with some paid membership options for professionals. The idea is that professionals that pay to be on the site will also receive some marketing services.\n\n\nI helped build the community as it was all somewhat marketing relevant work (lots of social media strategizing, finding potential customers). But now I am being told in a few weeks my job will be cold calling professionals in an attempt to get them to sign up for the site, and possibly moderating the forum discussion of the site that is open to the general public.\n\n\nMy question is- is my employer allowed to make such a drastic change to my job? And what are my options?\n\nThanks\n\n","title":"Ontario Canada- is my employer allowed to drastically change my job description?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553932161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b78nfx\/texas_getting_out_of_a_lease_signed_within_72\/","id":"b78nfx","body":"Morning all, this is a fairly cut and dry question. \n\nI am on mobile, in my newly emptied apartment that I moved into yesterday, and the time is currently 0245, so please excuse any errors, I am flustered and tired. \n\nI signed my lease on Thursday around 5PM. They were pressuring me to sign it even though I had not seen the unit, saying it's just the way things are done. \n\nSo the next morning I move in, and, well the stove shorts and catches on fire but that's just fun, extra information. \n\nAnyway, the place is infested with cockroaches, and I need to know what type of letter I need to give the management to get out of the lease. I am aware that I can get out of a contract in 72 hours, I just need to know how.  Any assistance would be appreciated, I'm going to go sleep in my car tonight and try and find a billboard lawyer who works on Saturdays to help me draft the letter in the morning. I have until Sunday evening if my math is correct. \n\nI'd hate to beg on the internet but if you have a form letter for this sort of thing I'd appreciate the help. I'd also appreciate any leads on non-roach infested apartments or rooms for rent in Houston. \n\n","title":"[Texas] Getting out of a lease signed within 72 hours","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553375215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4o96e\/an_officer_pulled_a_gun_and_pointed_it_at_my_23m\/","id":"b4o96e","body":"Hey guys, so I live in Southern California, United States. I got pulled over today and I haven\u2019t been pulled over many times, so I didn\u2019t know that I\u2019m not supposed to have my hands out of the car. I\u2019m 23f, and grew up in an upper-middle class area, so my experience with law enforcement is extremely limited (no arrest record. I had my hands out of the vehicle, and tried to tell the police officer I was on my way to get my registration fixed (oct \u201818)\u2014 I tried to pay earlier this month but I needed my car smogged, and the dmv (AND a previous officer) told me nobody could take my car away until April. Immediately , the police officer was super aggressive and we had the following conversation, please keep in mind I was talking in a level voice the entire time, with the officer aggressive from the beginning. \n\n\n- Me: hey officer I\u2019m fixing my registration today, I\u2019m literally on the way, sorry about that. (Very calmly)\n- Them: what the fuck are you doing? *points gun at my face with trigger* get your fucking hand in the car! Haven\u2019t you seen movies?\n- Me: no, \n- Them: You haven\u2019t seen MOVIES?!! WELL you\u2019re not supposed to do that, unless you want to get shot! I think you\u2019re gonna attack me like a crazy person! \nMe: I don\u2019t really watch movies, I didn\u2019t know that.\n- Them: Have you ever been arrested before? Have you ever been in handcuffs?? Give me your drivers liscene! Keep your hands on the fucking wheel!\nMe: no, here you go. Here\u2019s my registration and license.\n- Them: Hmmm little miss (my name) from (upper class Southern California coastal area on my liscence) *mockingly*, (it\u2019s a nice area, there\u2019s even an mtv show about it lol, im assuming she\u2019s just jealous or something at this point because I don\u2019t see the purpose in making fun of my address) Do you want your car towed? \n- Me: no, the dmv said it can\u2019t be towed until\nApril.\n-Them: well I can tow it, I have every right to. But I\u2019m not going to do that. Where are you going?!\n-Me: the dmv.\n- Them: GO!!!! Get out of here!!\n\n First of all, both the dmv and another police officer told me that I had until April to get the car registration fixed before it can be towed (it hasn\u2019t been 6 months yet). This is a blatant lie, correct? I get that officers have a difficult job, but I\u2019ve never been arrested or treated with this much force from a police officer. I\u2019m a 4\u201d11 Caucasian - passing female so I\u2019m assuming that\u2019s attributed to previous (unfair) bias in my favor, but regardless the level of force and gun pointed at my head seemed uncalled for. Also the literal lie about my registration, I\u2019m pretty traumatized at this point, and don\u2019t think this officer is even sane. (Please no rude comments about my demographic, I already know I\u2019m privileged to have this been my first experience being treated like this by an officer, and I\u2019d probably be dead if I was an ethnicity seen as \u2018more intimidating\u2019. So yeah, people have been telling me to file a complaint against the police department but I\u2019m not even sure it\u2019s worth it. ","title":"An officer pulled a gun and pointed it at my (23m) head\u2014 didn\u2019t give me a warning about having my hands out of the vehicle- registration expired- CA,USA","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507588312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75cqyq\/ca_my_current_employer_used_a_garnishment_order\/","id":"75cqyq","body":"I just started at a temp agency again that I hadn't worked for in over 2 and half years. My last 2 checks were garnished and they didn't tell me. I asked them why and they said they had a garnishment order from when I worked for them prior. I told them it was paid back then, how could you possibly garnish more. They called me today and said the the funds were sent to the Franchise Tax Board already and that I'll have to wait several weeks now for a refund from them from the tax board and there's nothing they can do. Can I take legal action against this employer? Are there rules they didn't abide by especially not notifying me in any way? I want to sue them for the hardship they just put me through.\n[UPDATE]\nI just got off the phone with FTB, they informed me of several rules the employer didn't follow.\n1. They didn't inform me \n2. They didn't contact FTB to verify\n3. The statute of limitations only apply for 1 year for terminated employees ( it's been 2 years since). rep. told me I could look into legal recourse. ","title":"[CA] My current employer used a garnishment order from 2 years ago that was already paid off without notifying now I have to wait several weeks to get it back. Legal recourse?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541962054,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w6ag2\/question_about_terminating_a_rental_lease_with\/","id":"9w6ag2","body":"Hello,\n\nI\u2019m going to start from the very beginning so this will be pretty long. Thanks if you choose to read on!\n\nI\u2019m a brand new JO in the Navy who was living in Panama City, FL from June of this year through October. I was stationed down there for Diving and Salvage training at NSA Panama City. I was renting a house off-base with two other officers who were going through the same training. One of those guys chose to leave the training and he left in August. He\u2019s now in San Diego and he appeared to have terminated the lease with our landlord pretty smoothly.\n\nThe other guy and I continued to pay the normal rent. However, our training was cut short due to Hurricane Michael in October. Fortunately, only the backyard fence was damaged on the property we were renting. We received PCS orders on Oct 26th or 27th telling us that we needed to leave Florida by the end of Oct and head up to the Washington Navy Yard in DC to complete the salvage portion of our training. My orders also have me moving to my ultimate duty station in Pearl Harbor, HI on November 18th.\n\nWhen we were notified that we would be leaving, we told our landlord (late Oct timeframe) and she immediately tried to apply a bunch of termination fees\/get us to pay for a bunch more months of rent. We tried to reason with her, but eventually realized we needed to follow the Servicemember\u2019s Civil Relief Act. We gave her a written notice that we were vacating on Oct 31st along with our PCS orders, on the same day we received our orders. \n\nUnfortunately, the SCRA states that we needed to do this 30 days in advance, which was impossible because we received our orders less than a week before we had to leave. No one even knew Hurricane Michael was going to hit us 30 days before this. \n\nOur landlord began giving us a really hard time about this. She continued to demand more money, told us we weren\u2019t taking care of the house properly (we\u2019ve kept the interior spotless and the lawn cut, but this is the first house I\u2019ve rented so I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s right in this regard), and she called my housemate and I on more than one occassion to berate us. During one of our last interactions she just screamed at us and called my housemate an asshole. She said we can\u2019t invoke the SCRA, because there is no military clause in the lease. When we explained that the modern SCRA doesn\u2019t require a military clause she said she would be contacting a lawyer. \n\nWe didn\u2019t want to keep fighting her and had a bunch of other things to worry about, like dealing with the aftermath of the Hurricane, and packing up all of our belongings and moving to DC. We told her to keep the security deposit to try and make up for the inconvenience of us moving last minute. The security deposit is also the same amount as one month\u2019s rent, so we may have actually owed her that amount of money for the next 30 days rent that the SCRA says we would need to pay for. Looking back, I\u2019m not sure if that was the smartest move, because it was done really informally.\n\nThe security deposit wasn\u2019t enough for her, and she emailed us that her lawyer would be mailing us something. I won\u2019t be able to see it until I\u2019m in Hawaii (that\u2019s the only mailing address I could give her). I have no idea if she\u2019s bluffing or not and will definitely see a JAG if we\u2019ve been served a small claims case or something like that. She also included our old housemate in this email, so I guess she is somehow dragging him into this.\n\nAnyways, I\u2019m just wondering if \n1) someone could give any advice or insight on what to do? \n2) Or insight into what she could possibly be going after? She mentioned that we owe her taxes for cutting the lease short, but she didn\u2019t give any more information than that. No one else in our dive school class has had to pay additional taxes to their landlords for cutting their leases short.\n3) Also, would my former housemates and I have to travel from our new duty stations to represent ourselves in court if she is suing us? Traveling from Pearl Harbor to Florida would probably be absurdly expensive.\n4) Did we fail to execute the SCRA properly? I\u2019m not sure if there are exceptions for natural disasters in it.\n\nI\u2019m not sure if I can do anything until I see what she is sending us in the mail. Thank you for any help you can provide!","title":"Question about terminating a rental lease with last minute PCS orders in Florida (military)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554272362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8ucy3\/my_grandfather_wants_me_to_hide_his_safe_after_he\/","id":"b8ucy3","body":"My apologies if this is the wrong flair. Long story short I take care of my sick\/disabled grandfather my mother is his power of attorney and the executor of his will.  My grandfather has asked that sheen he dies to hide his safe and at the first opportunity hand it over to my mother. The contents as far as I know are copies of his will, paper work regarding ownership of the cars\/house and several envelopes with cash inside to be distributed upon his death (I do not know how much.). His reason being is that he fears certain family members (his son my uncle mainly.)may try to steal it after his death.\n\nMy question is legally can I do this or will I get in trouble for it? ","title":"My grandfather wants me to hide his safe after he dies, can I?(Kansas.)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1409854684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fh518\/trademark_claim_on_a_twitch_account_name\/","id":"2fh518","body":"Hello.\n\nJust now I've received a mail from Twitch support, asking me for a new nickname to go by, because the trademark holder requested it to be removed\/transferred. I assumed it's just some kid wanting my Twitch name, so I asked the Twitch support person to provide evidence of said claim. He responded with a pdf from some company trademarking a product(?) which happened to have the same name as my Twitch username.\n\nMy question now is - is Twitch obligated to change my name? Should I expect an email from YouTube as well asking for the same thing since I have a YouTube account with that name?\n\nPictures:\n\n[Email asking me to pick a new nickname](http:\/\/puu.sh\/blslR\/8ddc9ff27c.png)\n\n[Response](http:\/\/puu.sh\/bltaL\/e26e547b7b.png)\n\n[Proof of trademark registration I assume? It's spanish, I don't understand it](http:\/\/puu.sh\/blt8v\/bd8a490583.png)\n\nAccording to the big red warning before posting I have to state that I live in Slovenia.\n\nThanks in advance!\n\n","title":"Trademark claim on a Twitch account name","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541365094,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u71lz\/corrupt_guardian_and_family_member\/","id":"9u71lz","body":"Seems pretty common, but hoping to get some more feedback because we've gotten nowhere.  \n\nSister-in-law has been gunning for control of her parents for years.  My husband was POA since 2004 and to be guardian if they were incapacitated.  \n\nThe sister took husband's mother in to Dr. for dementia test (SLUMS) which the mother scored poorly on, indicating dementia.  She (mil) also had been diagnosed with macular degneration and was legally blind.  \n\nThe sister began a campaign then to take over assets and did this by having mil change POA (while under the influence of Fentanyl and anti-depressants), sent letters to mil's primary physician that my husband was abusive and stealing from mil.  (At this point, fil was completely incapacitated).  \n\nNaively believing that a 3rd party guardian would help bring some order and get the target off my husband's back, we engaged a lawyer and went down that path.  \n\nWorst move, ever.\n\nTotally incompetent, she bounced checks, lied, let insurances lapse, accused husband of abusive scenarios (which he wasn't in the same county at the time she claimed \"yelled\" at his mother).  \n\nThere is legally (as we understand it) very little recourse.  We want the guardian out of business, she is doing the same thing to others.  We also want the sister who started all this and made these allegations to be held accountable.  \n\nMy question(s) are:  \nCan I start a blog that tells this story (just the facts) and tells other guardian abuse stories as well?  \n\nIn our position, we haven't been \"able\" to do much because the false accusations of the sister and guardian have no monetary damages to us.  And, even if we went to court, it would just end up being settled and we don't want that.  We want the guardian removed from her position so we can protect others.  We want others to be aware of this trend of abuse because we weren't aware and we (and his mother) got shafted.  \n\nThanks in advance.","title":"Corrupt Guardian and Family Member","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540025343,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9psksi\/theft_from_a_charity\/","id":"9psksi","body":"    Hey y'all. So, first and foremost, I have to alter some of my examples to hide my identity, but the general idea is there and not altered at all.\n\n    So, I work at a non profit charity that is a homeless shelter. We get many donations from food, to cleaning supplies and even paper products.  As it is, I don't know if one of my co workers is doing something illegal. He had both put me through untold grief and, in my eyes, is stealing from the homeless. Another concern is that, due to how much of a moron he is and openly talks about it, I'm confident that he will get caught, and since I said nothing while knowing full well what he is doing, would I be charged with something like being an accessory after the fact?\n\n    So, onto the main thing; he is indeed a staff member. One of the things that I find unscrupulous is that he takes donated food, food mind you that was donated to the shelter specifically for the homeless, and takes it home. I swear that he has never paid for any groceries since the day that he started working there and he has been working there for years. He also Takes paper products home with him, stuff specifically that was bought, back home with him. Now, in addition to this, he is also higher up on the food chain than the person who actually puts in the orders to buy stuff.\n\n    So Reddit, what should I do? I believe in the shelter and what we do, but I don't want someone like this working with us.","title":"Theft from a Charity?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553462493,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b51qm4\/buying_a_car_in_florida_with_no_tag_to_switch\/","id":"b51qm4","body":"I\u2019m going to be buying from a private seller that is about two hours from where I actually live. I don\u2019t have access to a car trailer. How do I legally get it from the sellers house to my own? ","title":"Buying a car in Florida, with no tag to switch over. How do I legally get it from point A to point B?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541436633,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uf647\/medicaid_fraud\/","id":"9uf647","body":"Per court order, my husband pays for his daughter\u2019s health insurance. \n\nIf his ex is not using the insurance for the child and is instead using their Medicaid as primary, is this considered fraud? I thought you can only use Medicaid as a secondary if you have private insurance. \n","title":"Medicaid fraud?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554234282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8nx9x\/search_engine_result_after_solved_criminal_case\/","id":"b8nx9x","body":"Hi everyone , first of all pardon my formatting I\u2019m currently on mobile.\n\nLast year a member of my family ( \n under 21y ) had a criminal case which result on a not guilty verdict. When I search on a famous search engine ( starts with g ) news start popping with the initial information but there is no update nor follow up on the verdict.\n\nMy question here would be: \nIs there any legal way to remove this articles this articles from the search engine or news paper webpage ? They are clearly not interested in updating on the result and It could affect his\/her ability to get a job or an scholarship in the future. \n\nLocation: Puerto Rico, United States.\n\nThanks!","title":"Search Engine result after solved criminal case","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541210360,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tqe80\/stretched_thin_then_fired\/","id":"9tqe80","body":"I started working for a hospitality company as a bar manager last year. Seven months in, upper management decided that they didn\u2019t like my boss, so they fired him and placed me in the position immediately. Being the only manager, I was required to work 80+ hours per week without a day off and HR was slow to find a second manager to help me. This went on for about 10 weeks and during that time, I was hospitalized for exhaustion after collapsing at work. Shortly thereafter, the bar changed ownership- it was bought out by one of the partners in the business. We finally hired a second manager and a few weeks later, I was fired by the same manager that promoted me. I was told that I was technically within my first 90 days with the new ownership and they weren\u2019t satisfied with my performance. I have no prior warnings, written or otherwise or any documentation regarding my performance. I also live in at at-will state. I asked HR on my way out if I would be eligible for unemployment benefits and I was told that I would be since I had no warning. I\u2019m not seeing a lot of employment opportunities in my field, so I may have to rely on benefits until the job market opens a little more. HR added that everyone was trying really hard to hold on to their jobs and I shouldn\u2019t take this personally.\n\nNow, I have received a letter that I need to be interviewed to determine if I had been involved in any misconduct that would make me ineligible for benefits.\n\nIs contesting benefits standard operating procedure for companies? Should I seek a legal aid to help me in the unemployment process? What are your thoughts regarding my eligibility?","title":"Stretched thin, then fired.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540562696,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rl0my\/a_girl_from_uni_just_threatened_to_report_me_for\/","id":"9rl0my","body":"I don\u2019t want to see her again, and that was before this shite. Back story to what happened: we were in bed naked after I\u2019d just been on a night out playing around. She\u2019s roasting me so I pop a finger in her butt. Later that night she tells me something that makes me get up and leave. I\u2019ve been ghosting her since and then she sent me that.\n\nI know popping a finger in the butt isn\u2019t cool but like, would I get in trouble for this? I don\u2019t want to be kicked out of uni you know? Is this blackmail?","title":"A girl from uni just threatened to report me for sexual assault if we didn\u2019t talk things out.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508157845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76q7uc\/mi_free_heating_in_apartment_is_landlord_required\/","id":"76q7uc","body":"I\u2019m currently living in an apartment in Michigan and it\u2019s starting to get pretty chilly overnight.\n\nMy apartment offers free heating but I\u2019ve noticed over the last week or so it wasn\u2019t working and came to find out they haven\u2019t turned the boiler\/furnace on yet.\n\nAre the required to turn it on or are they allowed turn it on whenever they feel like it?\n\nAny insights are much appreciated. \n\nThanks so much,\nA cold Redditer ","title":"[MI] Free heating in apartment, is landlord required to turn on?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540891902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9smaba\/cop_didnt_believe_i_wasnt_the_driver_and_gave_me\/","id":"9smaba","body":"\n\nDriving passenger with my friend and as we pull into our lot which is private property the officer flips his lights on and we both jumped out. \n\n he asked who was driving we both said that we weren\u2019t and he just chuckled ask for our ids. My friend gave his but mine was inside so I just gave him my name while my friend walked inside our house said he would grab it for me. \n\nHe never came back out.  I stayed and the officer gave me the tickets even though I said I wasn\u2019t the driver. I didn\u2019t say who was because he never asked he made up his mind it was me some reason. Me and my friend look completely different. He\u2019s Hispanic, 30 yrs older and I\u2019m white. \n\nEverything\u2019s on surveillance even when we get out of the truck so I know I can prove it wasn\u2019t me but will that get my friend in trouble ? ","title":"Cop didn\u2019t believe I wasn\u2019t the driver and gave me the tickets.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445000863,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ozi4t\/online_order_between_eu_states_problem_between\/","id":"3ozi4t","body":"Hello. I have ordered a few products online (I'm from Romania, seller is from Germany), on July 27th, 2015, prepaid it via Paypal the same day, the seller confirmed the payment the next day and told me they are processing it. The most expensive product in the order was a bow and bow related items, I told them I want all of them sent in one package. I got a package from them the next month, but it was everything except the expensive item. I asked them for a clear delivery date for that, they weren't telling me anything clear, always complaining they cannot contact the manufacturer, they don't know, etc. \n\nOn 9th September, 2015, I asked them for an update again and they told me it will arrive in October 2015 with them for sure and they will send it. I contacted them again today for an update and they told me December 2015, maybe 2016. I find all of this ridiculous, they aren't informing me properly and I asked them for a full refund (it's still before 90 days from my order and if they aren't providing clear delivery facts I am entitled to get a full refund with no penalties by EU laws). They told me they will give me half the money, but not full since the manufacturer has penalty fees (apparently they can contact the manufacturer after all). I asked for a clear delivery date or a full refund, they aren't offering me any. They even mocked me by telling me the bow will be delivered for sure before 31st December, 2016. What can I do about it? ","title":"Online order between EU states problem between parties","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571462574,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djzg7c\/when_does_a_joke_for_lack_of_a_better_word_become\/","id":"djzg7c","body":"my sibling goes to a public elementary school. classmate A told classmate B (awesome kid) that he was \u201cgoing to rape\u201d my sibling when she was writing something on the white board. classmate B told a teacher. teacher asked sibling if she knew what classmate A had said about her. eventually classmate B told my sibling what the classmate A said. \n\nnow i know that \u201ckids can be kids\u201d but also whatever this comment was definitely crossed a line. i don\u2019t want to ruin a life, but he needs to know that it is not okay to make threats like that. it seems like he knows this because he was not at school today but he has not been disciplined yet. \n\ni would like to know what to reasonably expect at this point. ideally, we would want that kid to be removed from the classroom as, understandably, my sibling does not feel safe. but he needs to acknowledge what he did was wrong and to apologize and to be honest, i would like to scare him and his family. none of this \u201cboys will be boys\u201d BS. it\u2019s best that he learns that this behavior is not appropriate and will not be tolerated now before he threatens others or even escalates. \n\nmy mother would like to make a police report and i think it\u2019s a good way to scare some sense into this kid. can you lovely people help so i am more informed when i make my appearance next week? especially if there is no action on the school\u2019s part.\n\nthanks in advance!","title":"When does a \u2018joke\u2019 (for lack of a better word) become a criminal threat in california?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554865317,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbh2ov\/will_overstaying_in_the_us_affect_my_chances_of\/","id":"bbh2ov","body":"Throwaway for personal reasons.\n\nI'm 18 years old and I'm currently in Bangladesh. I overstayed in the US on a B1 visa from 2001 to 2008 and have probably received a 10 year bar (I was a minor so I'm not sure if I have one). I've applied to US schools and have gotten accepted by some of them, but my F1 visa was denied as I was deemed ineligible, despite having left the US for 11 years as a minor.\n\nWill my travel history raise a red flag for when I apply for a Canadian visa? Will this be seen as \"immigrant intent\"?","title":"Will overstaying in the US affect my chances of getting a Canadian student visa?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553644332,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5x7wl\/leaving_notice\/","id":"b5x7wl","body":"I am told that if I were to leave my job, I would have to leave 4 weeks notice. I know that there are employers out there that would struggle to wait around for that long though. So what would happen if I just gave like 2 weeks notice instead? ","title":"Leaving notice","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1504201379,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x8est\/college_roommate_failed_to_pay_a_lot_of_rent_for\/","id":"6x8est","body":"This is a big one so I guess I'll just go from start to finish. I'll try and separate the info so it's easier to piece together information. \n\n \n\n**Location and Background**\n\nMe, one of my best friends (let's call him \"Alex\"), and someone else we knew (we'll call him \"Ben\") signed a *joint lease* for an apartment complex in Bloomington, Indiana. This lease was from August 2016 to July 2017 for my senior year in college.\n\n**Rent Split and Payments**\n\nPrior to paying our first month's rent, we split the rent ($1,950 a month) as follows: 670 for me, 640 for Alex, 640 for Ben. This was just because I had my own bathroom attached to my room so I was willing to pay more. After setting this rent schedule, we started paying our rent month to month. Alex and I had no problems with paying rent so we paid it on time every single month. However, Ben had difficulties paying on time so he would pay a big sum every other month or so and cover the late fees. This was only until the end of 2016 though. *From January 2017 to the end of the lease (July 2017), Ben paid no rent whatsoever.*\n\n\n**Confronting \"Ben\"**\n\nThroughout 2017, Alex and I had been asking Ben what the status of his payments were. At first, he said he was waiting for scholarship money to pay his balance. Then he said his mom talked to the GM and set up a payment plan. We (stupidly) believed him and thought the situation was being handled.\n\n\n**First Eviction Warning**\n\nOn May 5, 2017 we got emailed a warning that the complex will file for eviction. The GM said he would send a breakdown for who paid what the next day so we could see the damages. We did not get that second email. In addition, I replied to the GM and asked if Ben's parents set up a payment plan mentioned above. I did not get a response. Since we did not get the email the GM promised and I did not get a response from the GM, I assumed everything was fine (also stupid).\n\n\n**Move Out**\n\nAfter the school year ended (May 6 2017) Alex and I moved out immediately. Although our lease was until the end of July, I'm from Chicago and Alex is from Northwestern Indiana so we wanted to move our stuff out early. We also assumed Ben was going to move out soon thereafter.\n\n\n**Phone Conversation with GM (IMPORTANT DETAILS)**\n\nOn August 30, 2017 I was finally able to talk to the GM over the phone and have the situation clarified. It did not go as expected. Below is a summary of the key things I learned after this phone conversation:\n\n* Ben's parents **did not** set up a payment plan with the GM, contradicting what Ben told us.\n* An official eviction warning was posted on our door on June 21, 2017 (after Alex and I moved out)\n* The official eviction warning that was posted on the door was removed by someone and placed on a counter in the apartment. This meant the GM assumed we received the notice. Ben DID NOT TELL US ANYTHING SO WE HAD NO IDEA!\n* Court date and eviction was filed on July 3, 2017. Since we did not know about the eviction notice, no one showed up to the hearing and eviction was filed. Since we were all moved out, we couldn't even physically tell that we were being evicted.\n* Damages hearing is set for September 14, 2017 in Bloomington, IN. This is where they will be addressing who is sent to collections for a specified amount of the balance.\n* **The outstanding balance on our account is $4,475.**\n\n\n**My Options**\n\nAfter learning all this, I freaked out. Talking with the GM helped because he was very understanding of my situation knowing Alex and I paid rent on time every month. He gave me a few options, and I thought of my own. \n\n*Note:* He even said that if the outstanding balance is paid in full by the Damages Hearing on September 14, the eviction will be removed from our records. If it isn't paid by then, the eviction will go on our credit reports. Not sure if this is true but it's what he told me.\n\nThese options are listed from best case scenario to worst case scenario in my opinion:\n\n* Ben pays the full $4,475 by September 14 and the eviction will be prevented from going on our credit reports.\n* Alex and I make a deal with Ben, agreeing that Ben pay the majority of the $4,475 balance and we will split the rest by September 14, preventing the eviction on our credit report.\n* Alex and I will split the $4,475 balance before September 14, preventing the eviction on our credit report. We will then sue Ben in Indiana small claims court for the $4,475.\n* I attend the September 14 Damages Hearing and provide evidence that Alex and I paid our rent on time. I would be hoping the judge understands my story and only sends Ben to collections. However, the eviction is still on on credit reports.\n* I attend the September 14 Damages Hearing, however there is nothing I can do and the judge upholds the joint lease agreement. We all go to collections and the eviction is on our credit reports.\n\n-------------\n\nAlright so I think I have listed all my options and all the background to my situation. Here are my questions:\n\n* Are the options I listed actually viable and will they yield the results I stated?\n* Are there any other routes I should take? (lawyer, etc)\n* Is there a way for me to avoid the eviction on my credit report without paying a dime?\n* What evidence will I need to acquire other than a ledger showing who made what payments?\n* Any other advice?\n\nMy biggest priority is for this to not go onto my credit report. I don't fully understand the repercussions of an eviction on your credit report, but I assume it's worse than biting the bullet and paying the $2,237 to make it go away.\n\nIf you've made it this far, thank you so much. I am very restless and paranoid for the next couple of weeks and appreciate any and all advice on what routes to take. If you need any other information feel free to let me know.\n\n\n--\n\n**TL;DR** I had a joint lease with 2 other people from Aug 2016 - July 2017. Me and one roommate paid our rent consistently but the other had issues and then didn't pay rent all together in 2017. He lied to us about setting up payment plans with the GM. Miscommunication between us and the GM made me assume everything was ok. I called the GM and he basically told me we were evicted and the damages hearing is in 2 weeks and we have an outstanding balance of $4,475. I can either get the balance paid by then, to prevent the eviction from going on my credit report, or go to the Damages Hearing and plead my case to avoid being sent to collections. My very basic options are to deal with the eviction on my credit report, but not have to pay any money now, or pay split the balance with my other roommate and prevent the eviction from going on my credit report. ","title":"College roommate failed to pay a lot of rent for a joint lease. Lied about setting up a payment plan and never told us about an eviction notice. Very messy and I need to act fast....","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555641919,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beu88j\/advice_on_motorcycle_accident\/","id":"beu88j","body":"First of all, the incident in question happened almost exactly a year ago. I know I'm still able to take this guy to court, but it's been a little while.\n\nThis was my first motor vehicle accident. Period. I am a 25 year old male, and have (had?) a spotless driving record. No accidents, no tickets, no anything. \n\nI was hit by a left turning SUV on a green light (NO arrows, NO turn lane, 2 Lanes either direction).\n\nI had just changed from left to right lanes to avoid backed up turning traffic and continue straight. An SUV from the other direction of travel was pulled up into the intersection slightly, blinker on. Clearly wanting to turn across my lane. I've taken the MSF course, I have friends and family who ride, and I'm aware this is one of the biggest causes of motorcycle accidents. I kept an eye out, but once the SUV began to pull forward into the turn, I felt my stomach drop. I tried to avoid the SUV by swerving hard right (ended up riding in the gutter), but it wasn't quite enough. I ended up impacting \/ scraping my left leg and bike across the front of the SUV, but did not come off the motorcycle. I immediately pulled over, put on my hazards, took my helmet off and had a seat on the sidewalk. First accident, pretty shook up. \n\nI foolishly dismissed a witness who stopped for me, offering to call police or medical services. Again, first accident. I figured my bike wasn't totaled and my leg wasn't broken, so everything was okay! Driver apologized profusely, exchanged info, went our separate ways. No police, no witness.\n\nA year later, I've realized my mistakes. I'm still at a disagreement with the driver's insurance, and still paying for repairs and medical bills. With riding weather here again, I'm feeling a little freshly annoyed about this. I've spoken to several attorneys and had several recommendations to pursue small claims rather than going to court with the insurance company.\n\nRealistically, what I can prove is this. The driver claims the vehicle was stopped and I hit the SUV. However, also confirms me entering the intersection in the furthest lane from the SUV to go straight. I can prove small discrepancies in the driver's memory of events \/ story told to insurance. I can provide pictures of my riding gear with SUV paint on them. I can give a map of the area with the scene marked up on it. As far as I know, my case... It's... bad.\n\nIs small claims worth my time to reclaim the few thousand dollars this has cost me, as well as my hurt pride at this person trying to get away with hitting me? Do I have even half a shot? Or should I bench my ego and learn from this how to handle future incidents better, brush myself off and be glad it wasn't worse?","title":"Advice on motorcycle accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553203885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3wb6z\/going_to_a_vocational_school_im_having_panic\/","id":"b3wb6z","body":"This is in California. I\u2019ve been attacked three different times by three different students, I reported straight to the office the first two times but the third since everyone in the office said they don\u2019t want to deal with it I was hoping teacher could deal. An old friend decided to bring up our personal drama in class an attack me while the teacher went to make copies or whatever. I didn\u2019t involve myself in it, waited for teacher to come back and explained to him what happened. He decided having a chat with all three of us was the answer and had me wait outside for him to get her. She comes outside extremely aggressive and ready to fight to where she won\u2019t even let him talk them lunges at me to fight me but he gets in front of her and starts walking her backwards. She then gets frustrated and starts crying, runs back into the classroom to tell her friends that I\u2019m a crazy bitch and she can\u2019t stand me. Teacher said he\u2019s gonna write a report for both of us to sign and it\u2019ll be over. She then decides to go to the office to write her own report and make up lies, I get called in. At that moment the principal asks me what happened and after my first sentence she starts badgering me to leave the other girl alone, she said the teacher is backing up the other girls story. I told her that didn\u2019t make sense since he wasn\u2019t in the room, and that it\u2019s very obvious he has a personal friendship with this girl. She rolled her eyes and said this situation was ridiculous and frustrating. (IT IS!) well the next day I waited in the office for a meeting with all four of us and nothing really got resolved, just made the teacher angry and they both refused to give me my hours for the day towards my license. The next day, the teacher decides it\u2019s a good idea to have \u201clecture\u201d which was just him telling the other girls to get everything off their chest. So it was about an hour of girls talking shit to me, and I\u2019m not able to say a word or I\u2019ll get kicked out. I recorded a few minutes of it (my storage stopped the video cause it\u2019s full)  and went to the office. I ended up not being able to say much cause I instantly just started sobbing when I got to the office, I knew they were going to care and just send me on my way. And it happened. So now I\u2019m out of school, they gave me a small refund for the hours I don\u2019t have but I don\u2019t feel like the issue was resolved. This is the cheapest school around, I can\u2019t afford to go anywhere else. Is there anything I can do? I just want to get my hours and get my license.","title":"Going to a vocational school, I\u2019m having panic attacks because I\u2019m being bullied by teacher and other students but I was the one sent home.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539219359,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n5b9r\/my_children_dont_have_a_biological_father_if\/","id":"9n5b9r","body":"My children don't have a biological father but I live with my boyfriend and he's taken the dad role. If something happens to me like a car accident and I pass away, how can I make sure they'll stay in his care and not go into CAS custody or go to my severly abusive family? We're not married and reside in Ontario. I just want the best for my kids if something does ever occur. ","title":"My children don't have a biological father, if something happens to me...","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552617675,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b19flu\/major_grocery_retailer_charging_me_twice_for\/","id":"b19flu","body":"I worked at a Major Grocery Retailer in Virginia for about a year in 2018. During my time of employment I unfortunately did some things that I regret. I took hot food off the hot bar and cold items on the salad bar and was putting them in containers and when going to pay for them I would put in a different PLU code such as a banana code or a Apple code to make the price amount cheaper. I don\u2019t recollect how many times I did it but I know it was not nearly as much as they have tried to make me pay back. I was pulled into the back where our company\u2019s LP auditor came and explained to me that he knows what I was doing and asked did I agree to pay Harris Teeter back for the food I had taken. I agreed yes and wrote out on paper that yes I have stolen from the company and yes  I would pay them back in the amount of $320.00. I was told to turn in my badge and that they would be in touch. A few weeks later (11-11-18) I got a letter in the mail from the their Law Offices and was told to pay the amount of $320.00 and that I had 21 days. I worked out a payment arrangement over the phone with them and I agreed to pay 60 dollars a month. I\u2019ve almost paid them off I have a remaining balance of $80.00 and today I received a letter (post-marked 3-11-19) saying that I have to pay another $350.00 for the theft incident during my time at Harris Teeter and they are looking to make a civil claim against me. I\u2019m not understanding why I owe another $350.00 when I agreed to pay $320.00 and have almost paid that balance off. I don\u2019t know what to do as I thought that the matter was already almost paid off. Is there any legal backing for what they are doing and is there anything I can do legally to make sure I\u2019m not being screwed over?","title":"Major Grocery Retailer Charging me Twice for Theft (Trying To Resolve)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447148684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s97j9\/help_mcafee_has_billed_me_without_my_approval\/","id":"3s97j9","body":"Brief back story, i live in Australia, I am currently unemployed, on government benefits so i don't have a lot of spare cash. Was shopping for groceries today only to be told my card has been declined. I checked my bank account online and my paypal account has withdrawn money. i checked paypal and it said i have been billed from McAfee Auto renewal. thing is, i have not used McAfee in over two years and i have definitely never agreed to auto renewing my account, cause if so i would have been billed last year. what do i do? i cant afford my weekly groceries and now my bank account is in debt.","title":"Help! McAfee has billed me without my approval","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540061034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pwmi1\/garnishments_mo_usa\/","id":"9pwmi1","body":"In the year 2008, while I (my mother) owned rental properties, I went to court and received judgments regarding these five (5) ex-tenants.  After receiving the judgments with no response from the plaintiffs, I was told to file garnishments on them to receive my monies from their employers.  After consulting with an attorney who shortly retired, I was told to fill out a garnishment form for each plaintiff and it would be deducted from their wages. After this long period with no response, I started to inquire what I could do to get things moving. I really need to know how long these judgments are good for and what I should do to complete these and start receiving the monies due. I live in the state of Missouri, and from my knowledge these garnishments should still be valid.   \nWhat can and should we do to get the ball rolling on these?","title":"Garnishments [Mo, USA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571622055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dktbks\/what_to_do_with_the_vehicle_of_a_deceased\/","id":"dktbks","body":"My father passed away recently, and the only real property he left behind was his work van. We are unsure how to handle it because of several problems:\n\n1. We cannot find the title!\n2. It has over $2,000 in late registrations fees. My dad was a courier, and so he had to register his van as a commercial vehicle. Several years back he developed a rare disease in his leg which prevented him from working. He apparently paid the registration for at least a year after that, but didn't change the registration type. His condition worsened and the van was neglected for several years. The registration fees stacked up quickly.\n3. The van has some minor issues; the main obstacle is that it is a Sprinter van, and the parts are expensively imported from Mercedes. \n\nWe are not sure the best way to proceed given the circumstances. Ideally, we would like the keep the van, although we do not have much cash on hand. It would be nice to get the fees reduced somehow.\n\nMy questions are:\n\n1. Is there any protocol for waiving fees in a case like this where the owner became disabled and was unable to drive; let alone work?\n2. What is involved in taking over the ownership of a deceased relative's vehicle? \n3. How do we proceed without a copy of the title?\n\nThank you in advance for your advice! As indicated in the title, the van is registered in California. Thanks again!","title":"What to do with the vehicle of a deceased relative? [California]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569488283,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9gzj3\/wv_19_f_signed_a_lease_for_an_apartment_in_wv_but\/","id":"d9gzj3","body":"Young girl I know is paying rent to an apartment she leased in WV but will never move there. She\u2019s changed her mind and lives on her own in FL with a good job. \n\nShe paid August and September rent ($400) to the apartment in WV and says they tell her she must pay this rent until August 2020. She never moved in and never even saw the apartment. They told her SHE must find someone to take over the lease however I was under the impression that you cannot make a binding legal agreement with anyone under the age of 21. \n\nThoughts?","title":"(WV) (19 F) signed a lease for an apartment in WV but never moved in \u2014 She currently lives in FL and was told she has to pay rent from August 2019 - August 2020.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506496713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72qomd\/new_jersey_im_only_19_and_i_need_to_help_with\/","id":"72qomd","body":"\n\nTLDR: My father brainwashed all of his children to believe that my mother was crazy was imagining things when thinking he was cheating on her with my aunt or my moms sister, turns out it was true and he had two kids with her and now there\u2019s outstanding evidence(just read above)  from eyewitnesses such as myself and my siblings but the family is split in half about what the truth is and my mother kicked my father out of the house after learning about this news and he keeps trying to come back to brainwash me and my other siblings and I want to get a restraining order against because I feel he is an actual threat to us \n\nSo the questions are \n\nDo I have a case ?\n\nWhat are the next steps if I do?\n\nHow can I get a restraining order against him ?\n\nAnd what should I do to prepare for all of this ? \n\nAny help would be greatly appreciated \nIf you wanna talk to me in the PMs you can otherwise you can just comment below any help is appreciated thank you","title":"[New Jersey] I\u2019m only 19 and I need to help with helping my mother through a very nasty divorce. More info in comments please help","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570279014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddmpil\/coworkers_going_though_my_online_payroll_account\/","id":"ddmpil","body":" I recently was hired as a kitchen supervisor for a special needs facility. I am part of a relatively new management team that will be taking over the operation once we hire more staff. The staff that is there is incredibly toxic and entitled. They make decent money for a relatively easy job (cooking simple batch meals then grinding or pureeing to serve). The get all the overtime they want and for the most part make their own schedules. The way we clock in and out is on a laptop through our payroll website. It has all your info in tabs at the top. Your personal info, social, salary, etc. Early last week I didn't log out the right way and all you have to do is click back and it will go to my clock in\/out screen with a message saying basically stay on page\/log off. Well, a self admitted snoop saw this and went through my info and saw how much I make and all of my info. I can't prove it because no one will admit to who did it. But, they all will say someone did do it. The worst part is another manger who is part of this whole click encouraged it. When asked by our Director who did it said he \"pleads the fifth\" and laughed. Now, all the staff know how much I make which shouldn't be an issue because I am at a higher position but it is. They made a huge deal about it. 2 people even walked out because of it. They are back because well, we don't have any staff to replace them. I really think there should be some sort of repercussions somewhere for this. But, I honestly don't know what to do. I know the owner of the company is coming in this week to fire said manager, but that was decided before this happened. These people listen even less to me now. They do whatever they want and I'm left holding the bag. I have worked twelve days straight at 10 hours a shift the past two weeks because of walk outs, people leaving early, and just basic laziness.","title":"Coworkers going though my online payroll account","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552399288,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b084gb\/alabama_is_it_legal_to_transport_a_real_sword_in\/","id":"b084gb","body":"I\u2019m moving and I have some old antique swords. I\u2019m not sure the law in Alabama is on my side. Or if I have to keep them in their cases or what. ","title":"[alabama] Is it legal to transport a real sword in Alabama?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551224613,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av6bms\/let_go_2_days_after_telling_employer_cancer\/","id":"av6bms","body":"I was taken into a room, alone, and given a document that said they would give me less than a week's salary severance to sign away any future legal action. High pressure, sketchy.\n\nOne of the other 2 \"expensive to insure\" people were also let go, along with my lead. It was labeled restructuring but posts for our jobs (or jobs exactly like them we could have easily done and were mor than qualified for) were made by employer less than a month ago. \n\nI've never been formally warned, but complaints (to my face and whispered) happened when I had to go to treatments, when I had \"chemo brain\", etc. \n\nAlso, I just hit my year and became eligible for FMLA leave, which I had requested before but had not been there long enough and which I'm pretty sure I'd stated my need\/intent to request again for radiation round 2.\n\nI feel like they are trying to force me to take a pittance because they know I need it (I got sick with a ton of student loans and maxed out a few credit cards... this wasn't supposed to be going on this long) - I've mentioned at work I'm on the verge of bankruptcy - employed. \n\nI know a lot of this is impossible to prove - especially because I no longer have access to company Slack or email...\n\nbut if there's anything I can do to get more money - a month or a few months severance - they knew I was about to start radiation again and that'll be delayed now but finding a job with that hanging will take longer than if I was healthy. \n\n","title":"\"let go\" 2 days after telling employer cancer returned","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569078527,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7bnz1\/rape_accusations\/","id":"d7bnz1","body":"Hello, I was told to post here for some help. I have to give a little back story but I will try to keep this short. Im willing to answer any questiond that might help, though. I was born, my real parents we will call Devil and dicky. I am the youngest of 4 kids, but we all where taken from the home when i was 1. I was brought to my now adoptive parents along with my two sisters and my brother lived upstairs from us (apparetment with family living in it.) My oldest sister, We will call D. She thought our bio parents will be back for us so she went into foster care after not judt that, but for having sex at around 11, not following rules, punching holes in the wall and a bunch more. It eventuality went to me, my other sister we will call monster, and my brother (Chris. My only cool sibling.) \n\nNow onto the story.\nMonster was cutting classes to have sex with her boyfriend, we knew she wouldnt stop so we at least made her go on birth control. One day while my mom brought her there she told the doctor something. She had lied and told them my dad raped her. My dad was obviously put in jail for one day then he wasn't able to see us or contact us. We eventually where able to talk to him and visit him but now we are able to live with him. I dont think that part matters so I was vague, its going to trial this Tuesday. Her evidence is all lies, some we have proof (if its needed i will be happy to write down a list along with our proof) if she doesnt show up its over, if she does i dont know if it will be enough and my whole family is distraught, especially my father. We dont trust our lawyer and we have a secound one if needed but we arent sure if we will be able to change. I need any help on how to win or anything (im not good at writing so im not even surr you can help with what i gave so like i said just ask me questions and I will answer) Thank you for your time","title":"Rape accusations","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568959912,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6qpjw\/british_columbia_canada_issues_with_strata\/","id":"d6qpjw","body":"I live in B.C. Canada \n\nI have been renting my unit for close to 3 years now have have suffered from in-going issues with the strata not taking my complaints seriously and issuing my fines without warnings on \u201cby-law infractions\u201d that no one else seems to have to follow. \n\nMy biggest issue is with my downstairs neighbour (who is a member at large on the strata council). She loves to flex that she is in the council with me constantly because I \u201cwalk too loudly\u201d and get ready for work at 4am (her issue is with noise from getting out of bed and opening my closet\/dresser drawers). \n\nI have filed a total of 4 formal complaints against loud music from her unit, smoking on her balcony (strictly prohibited) and having her contractors work well before and beyond the by-law hours for construction noise. To my and my landlords knowledge, she has never been issued a formal notice of complaint. \nI have been issued 3 formal noise complaints from this neighbour with threats of fines (with no warnings) because I \u201cwalk too loudly\u201d and open closets and drawers between 11pm-7am (I get ready for work at 2-5am most days). Strata doesn\u2019t seem to believe my complaints are valid and has said they need to come into my unit to verify the noise (from downstairs neighbours TV\/radio) for themselves before they will take action. \nI confronted neighbour about her music being too loud a couple of months ago and was told it wasn\u2019t and that that was rich coming from me who \u201cstomps around day and night\u201d. I informed her that I walk in the balls of my feet because I too dislike the noise of stomping feet and that unfortunately walking is a necessity for me where as her music was not a necessity. She then informed me that I am a \u201cproblem tenant in this building and that everyone around [me] had complaints against me. I said this was the first time I had been informed of this and would definitely be following up with the other council members to verify (was told that this neighbour is the only person to have a complaint against me). Can we request she be removed from strata for lying to me about strata matters to benefit her position in an argument? I am beyond uncomfortable that this women who has so much hate for me has access to keys to my apartment. \n\n\nMy parking stall is adjacent to the only \u201cempty\u201d wall in the parkade which means lots of people will park along this walk since there is no visitor parking, even though there is 3 signs saying no parking at anytime and violators will be towed. 4 times now I have been blocked in by an empty vehicle early in the morning on my way to work, which has made me several hours late since there was absolutely no way of finding the owner of the vehicle (no note or contact information left in the car). I\u2019ve complained about this to strata every time it has happened with pictures of the vehicle showing I cannot get out of my stall. The 4th time this happened I was on my way to pick up my elderly gran from the airport early in the morning and had to wait 2 hours for the owner to get back to the car and I went off telling them they cannot park there because it blocks me in and do they not see the 3 signs? I was called a bitch and told to fuck off. \n\nA couple of days later I am coming out of the elevator to the lobby and hear the strata president and the owner of the car that blocked me in (the one who called me a bitch) gossiping about who the \u201ccrazy lady\u201d is in stall 10 who got so mad at him. I walked around the corner and said \u201chi, it\u2019s me who is in stall 10, is there something you would like to discuss?\u201d Both went white and quickly walked away. \n\nI have been shamed with notes on my door and mailbox for being a \u201cproblem in th building\u201d and also for allegedly messing up the garbage collection since I\u2019m not sorting properly (my family owns a recycling company, I am well aware of how things are sorted locally and practice them) with 0 evidence this was me. \n\nA meeting was called to address mine and my downstairs neighbours issues, where I was given no chance to speak and repeatedly told to \u201cshut up\u201d by the council president when I spoke up to defend myself against false accusations (one being they I keyed this neighbours car 2 years ago! First time this was brought up). My landlord got up and told me we were leaving several times because of how poorly I was being treated by the council. \nNo minutes were apparently taken at this meeting, or so I\u2019ve been told (the property management representative was present and typing into her laptop the entire time). \n\nThere\u2019s so much more and I have a massive document with a detailed timeline of events and every email ever exchanged between myself, my landlord and strata, but that is the jist of it. \n\nI have spoke with the tenancy board and TRAC who have informed me that they can only assist with tenant to landlord issues and that strata issues have to be taken up by my landlord on my behalf or I can use one of their templates to seek damages from my landlord to hopefully get him to take this more seriously. They suggested if my landlord is compliant that we can seek legal representation against the council. \nMy landlord had asked me not to reply to a few important emails that were sent months ago and still hasn\u2019t followed up so I am getting increasingly frustrated at how drawn out this is becoming. \n\nI have asked to meet with my LL this Sunday AM to discuss my options because I cannot afford to move and live in constant anxiety about fines and complaints from my neighbour to the point that it has severely affected my mental health. I\u2019ve gone into a deep depression since living here all because of this as I\u2019ve never had an issue with anyone in the 6 apartment I have lived in as an adult. \n\nIs there anything I can do or any points I can bring up to my landlord on Sunday that might help me out here? \n\nI am just so frustrated and tired of dealing with this every other month in top of the constant construction noise from various renovations, it\u2019s a living hell for me. \n\nAny advice is greatly appreciated as I feel I have scoured everything I can find on the internet and through tenant resources and found no answers. \n\nThank you in advance!","title":"(British Columbia, Canada) Issues with strata treating me unfairly and poorly as a renter","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443267237,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mgd2r\/sexual_orientation_brought_up_in_conversation\/","id":"3mgd2r","body":"Hello\n\nIf person A is above the age of consent and is having a conversation with person B online who is below the age of consent while still within the age of consent in person A's country. Person A's Sexual preference and a fetish was briefly mentioned and briefly described what it entails for person A and made clear that it's not to be talked about again. Has person A commited a criminal offense if he\/she resides in the country of Sweden? ","title":"Sexual orientation brought up in conversation with minor","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508172420,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76rrrg\/roommate_is_trying_to_steal_part_of_my_security\/","id":"76rrrg","body":"Location: Providence, RI\n\nFirst thought, I know, is why does my roommate have my security deposit?\n\nBecause my landlord sent us all one check and sent it to my roommate. I did not ok this with the landlord. This first part I figure is where I should say something, but, before that, background.\n\nWe moved out on time and cleaned everything appropriately. We also put some things on the curb. This was done because this is how they were acquired. *Literally*, all the stuff on the curb I got through scavenging around the neighborhood. While I was the person who put the most on the curb, I was not the only one; all roommates used the furniture which was put out there. (Four articles came from the living room.)\n\nLandlord didn't like this and paid to have it removed. He didn't tell us about this fact. By the time this occurred, about half of the stuff was gone from people scavenging it. He then said he was taking this out of our security deposit. The amount, total, is somewhere between $150 - $200 for the removal.\n\nAt first I was going to fight him because we had a truck and could have easily taken care of it. However, looking into small claims court costs, it would have only been a profit of about $30 for each of us, so, after talking with the others, I said we'd pay it.\n\nRoommate then asks for the landlord's number. I think that he called the landlord and told him to send the check to him, perhaps lying and saying that I ok'ed this with him. Now, roommate gave my other roommate his *entire* deposit back and is planning on docking the entire cost from my deposit, which was not the agreement I had with the landlord nor is it his right to do. He is doing this, as far as I know from talking with the other roommate about this, because he thinks I should have moved things out to the curb sooner so that people would have had more time to take stuff and, therefore, we'd not get docked the cost. (Or, perhaps, the landlord would have informed us that we should move the stuff.) Yet, given how the items were acquired, given that everyone does it in the neighborhood, given that I was moved out by the appropriate date, given that he used some of the articles which were put on the curb, there is no validity to this argument. I have not contacted him directly yet because we are not on speaking terms. i.e. He can't control his emotions enough to have a civil conversation with me and I actually feel like it wouldn't be safe to do. i.e. He's a manchild.\n\nWhat do you think is best to do? I figure the fastest route might be to simply tell the landlord to pay me. (What organization do I contact to make him do so?) Or, I can take the other roommate to court? Or call the police? I really have no idea.","title":"Roommate is trying to steal part of my security deposit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555119656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcljpt\/new_hampshire_usa_if_someone_assaults_an_officer\/","id":"bcljpt","body":"I over heard two people arguing over police brutality in Starbucks. The argument was pretty flaky from both perspectives but one thing they said that did get me thinking was, \"why do cops get different protections under the law?\" For instance in an assault case. The penalty for assaulting an officer is way more harsh than a regular citizen.\n\nI assume it's because they are already considered to be in harm's way and in a vulnerable position when dealing with a violent situation. Where most people can walk away and\/or do nothing the officer has a duty to intervene.\n\n(The people in Starbucks we talking really loud and trashy. Everyone could hear them. I wasn't like creeping on them.)\n\nThanks.","title":"New Hampshire, USA. If someone assaults an officer in New Hampshire it is a stronger penalty than if it were against a regular citizen. Why is that exactly?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442356438,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l3l8e\/need_help_regarding_what_to_do_about_a_felon_who\/","id":"3l3l8e","body":"So my Pops passed away at the end of last month really unexpectedly. My uncle is a convicted felon in the state of Texas (where we're all located) for basically driving the getaway car for a burglary. After my Pops passed my Uncle demanded the few rifles and handguns that my grandfather owned since he was the only living son. My grandmother can't stand up for herself to him and just let him take them. If he gets caught with those guns he'll go to jail (good riddance) but will my grandmother face legal consequences for this too? My mom tried to get them back and now the family has basically turned on her for this. Everyone enables my uncle and always has. He has a history of mental illness as well and I can't seem to make anyone in my family understand the seriousness of the situation.\n\nWhat should I do? I am completely at a loss.","title":"Need help regarding what to do about a felon who took a few guns after my grandfather passed away.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1503698050,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w1nlf\/usa_is_it_legal_to_create_stock_investment\/","id":"6w1nlf","body":"The setup would be that people could enter for say $5 per month, which goes into a pool. Then they pick a stock portfolio structure and after 30 days the top-performing portfolio gets some or all of the pool money.\n\nIs this legal to operate for marketing purposes as a company in the USA, especially nationwide (across state borders, online)?\n\nWould it be legal to let participants pay into the pool monthly?\n\nWould it be legal to retain a part of the prize money pool to pay for operating expenses etc.?\n\nThanks\n\nEdit: Location USA, all states","title":"[USA] Is it legal to create stock investment leader-boards with an attached, monthly prize cash pool that pays out to the top-performing portfolio?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569849103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbbchb\/md_an_employee_gained_access_to_the_personal\/","id":"dbbchb","body":"I'm part of the IT team at our company, and long story short, I've found payroll information with names and corresponding SSNs on another employee's computer. There was a security flaw that allowed any user to access other user's files even if they weren't domain admins. The only way he could have acquired these files were if he was snooping around through user files, looking for payroll information. After this was found, we deleted the files off his computer and properly locked access to user files. We were informed he may have had that information on a personal flash drive, which he did. He is facing no repercussions as of now, and as of writing this, the company has not formally informed the employees that their information was compromised. \n\nThe employee who had the information has caused a number of problems in the past such as purposefully not shipping out packages on time, coming in hours late consistently, sleeping at his desk, and in some cases, being clearly impaired. Is there anything we can do to get him out of the company for both the safety of the employees and the quality of the company? And what actions can we take if the company does not formally inform us of the compromised information?","title":"[MD] An employee gained access to the personal information of everyone in the company and faced no repercussions.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539617068,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9odn20\/want_to_start_a_business_while_living_abroad\/","id":"9odn20","body":"Hi all,\n\n​\n\nI am from the USA and am currently living in the UK on a work visa, I want to potentially start my own business to do consulting work, but want to know my options. Would it be better for me to form a company in the USA and then conduct business as a 'foreign entity' whilst in the UK? Or should I go through all the red tape as an ex-pat and register my company with HMRC and have the country of domicile be the UK? Thanks in advance!","title":"Want to start a business while living abroad.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554463182,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9pxe7\/should_i_text_my_ex_before_pressing_dv_charges\/","id":"b9pxe7","body":"Last week my boyfriend and I broke up because he choked me during an argument. I went to the ER the next day to make sure everything was okay, and they did an examination that included pictures of the extensive bruising on my neck and arms. I took pictures of the things he destroyed in the apartment as well. Family and work and very strongly encouraging me to press charges, which I was given time off work to do today. I haven\u2019t heard from my ex since this happened, but I have been absolutely heartbroken. I know pressing charges is the right thing to do, and this would still only be a misdemeanor in Ohio. Anyway, I have a few questions. How dumb would it be if me to text him asking if he has anything to say about the situation before pressing charges, for closures sake? And would you say he\u2019s likely to take a plea deal if I do press charges because there is plenty of documentation of the damage?","title":"Should I text my ex before pressing DV charges against him?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568833024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d62dix\/moved_to_va_from_nc_how_to_proceed_with_divorce\/","id":"d62dix","body":"My wife and I were together for over ten years. Numerous attempts to get her clean ended when the kids asked me to kick their mom out. It was toxic, she would start shoving matches with the children, have drug dealers to the house, start fires in the kitchen, whenever I was at work. We haven't been together in 13 years, I haven't seen her in 6 years. The kids are now both over 18 (her biological children, my adoptive). 3 months ago I moved to VA with my girlfriend of 9 years, and our two children both under 5. What do I need to do to initiate a divorce and will I have to worry about alimony? Only assets to my name is a 401k and I'll gladly give her half. Not entirely sure where she is, her mom might know. My wife's last known whereabouts was a halfway house in NC a few cities over from we used to live.","title":"Moved to VA from NC, how to proceed with divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569712567,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dandpm\/is_it_illegal_to_replace_a_buisiness_sign_with_a\/","id":"dandpm","body":"I hope that\u2019s the right flair. I live in Michigan and one of my brothers has a window cleaning business. One of the ways he advertises it is by putting business cards on a buliten on the mailbox at the end of the blocks in the cul-de-sac I live in(don\u2019t know how to spell it). I was getting the mail when I saw that his cards had been taken down and a new window cleaning business\u2019 poster had been put up. I took it down out of spite and am thinking of making a crappy version of the poster (rainbow text comic sans), is that aggainst any michigan\/US laws?","title":"Is it illegal to replace a buisiness sign with a crappier one?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569641619,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daaxb0\/landlord_is_claiming_im_financially_liable_for\/","id":"daaxb0","body":"I\u2019ll try to keep this as brief as possible. While I was sleeping, a leak that originated in my apartment started and I only realized my apartment was flooding when I woke up in the morning. It seems that the water was coming out of the hose of a mini- shower apparatus I installed on my toilet over a year and a half ago.  After I woke up, I tried to quickly manage the leak for a minute before I decided to contact the building. As soon as I was about to contact them, my door knocked and it was building maintenance who informed me there were complaints of a water leak and they determined my apartment was the source. They took some pictures and then removed the mini shower. \nLater, I received a fairly threatening email from my buildings management stating I would be financially liable for all damage because of my negligence and that I was also in breach of my lease because they claim a \u201csignificant\u201d amount of time passed between the time I was aware of the leak and notifying the building and thus endangering the building and it\u2019s residents. They then posted some bogus clause from my lease that was vaguely related to this point.  I responded to them claiming it wasn\u2019t a significant amount of time and it was just a minute. I prob shouldn\u2019t have responded before first speaking to a lawyer. Here are some additional points:\n\n1. I don\u2019t have renters insurance (big fuck up in retro spect i know).\n\n2. I found this in my lease: Toilets and other water apparatus in the building shall not be used for any purposes other than those for which they were constructed, nor shall any sweepings, rubbish, rags or any other article be thrown into the toilets. The tenant in whose apartment it shall have been cause shall pay for the cost of the repairing any damage results from misuse of any toilets or the apparatus. \n\n3. Building maintenance made an inspection about a month ago to check on water pressure and were fully aware of the mini shower I had installed. \n\n4. As I said, I\u2019ve had the mini shower for a while now and never had any issues with it before. \n\nWill I be held liable for the damage that resulted from this leak?  Any advice and input would be highly appreciated.","title":"Landlord is claiming I\u2019m financially liable for water damage from a leak that originated in my apartment. (NYC)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551639555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awx63j\/management_allowing_other_tenants_to_violate\/","id":"awx63j","body":"I moved into an apartment about 8 months ago and have been steadily noticing more and more air bnb type renters coming in on the weekend. Our main concern is safety. We were background checked before being allowed to move in but these short term renters are not. There are constantly unknown people wandering around, they are loud at all hours of the night and generally disrespectful to tenants. I decided to check my lease and see what it said about short term rentals and it states that short term rentals are allowed with proper permits and prior consent from the management company. HOWEVER, there is a clause in the lease stating \"PROHIBITION ON LISTING OR ADVERTISING DWELLING ON OVERNIGHT SUBLETTING OR RENTING WEBSITES. You agree not to list or advertise the dwelling as being available for short term subletting or rental or occupancy by others on [Airbnb.com](https:\/\/Airbnb.com) or similar internet websites. You agree that listing or advertising the dwelling on [Airbnb.com](https:\/\/Airbnb.com) or similar internet websites shall be a violation of this Addendum and a breach of your Lease Contract.\" My boyfriend and I have found multiple online listings for our building on websites such as air bnb. If other people are violating the lease, and management knows about it and allows it, do we have any legal options? Can we get out of our lease?","title":"Management allowing other tenants to violate lease (Nashville, TN)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571344104,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djc7ao\/hi_all\/","id":"djc7ao","body":"Long story short, I had a dental problem and was forced to take two days of work. I got a email from my boss saying I had to provide a doctors note in order to avoid a written warning.  However the dentist I saw is away until Tuesday . \n\nI have all my paper work and i\u2019ve asked the receptionist to send a email to the dentist to ask for a note and to my boss to confirm I was there etc. \n\nI know they are going to give me a written warning tomorrow.   They say the two days I took put me over my limit of sick days etc. I\u2019m supposed to have 8 sick days a year and they said I have taken 11.\nI had worked it out at 8. I\u2019m not sure where the extra day has suddenly appeared from. \n\nIs this legal? I know I can contest the warning as I have all the paper work but it\u2019s hassle I do not need.  Dentist has already said he is happy to provide note and have emailed my doctors who said I can self certification for 7 days \n\nJust wanted some advice really. \nThank you","title":"Hi all.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555171754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcs2em\/speeding_35_in_illinois_yikes\/","id":"bcs2em","body":"Picture this:\n\nI, a 20 y\/o security guard is finally getting off work after a week of overtime.\n\nIt's 11pm, on a cool, clear Saturday night.\n\n\nThere's nobody else on the road, and I'm eager to get home. After all, it's almost midnight, and I've got a girlfriend waiting for me.\n\nI hit the gas, get pulled over. 85 *exactly* is what the Officer clocked me at, in a 50.\n\nGives me a court date for next month.\n\nToday I get home and I have a bunch of letters from lawyers saying I'm going to jail for a year, losing my license, and paying out almost 3k? My Google searches are yielding outdated results.\n\nWhat should I do? I thought I was just gonna have to go in and explain the situation, maybe shell out a couple hundred bucks.","title":"Speeding 35+ in Illinois, Yikes","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552772331,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1xogn\/misdemeanor_larceny_not_sure_what_to_do\/","id":"b1xogn","body":"Yesterday my friend and I were accused of stealing less than $40 worth of products from a large supermarket chain. We were taken to the back, and stupidly talked too much to the officers due to nerves. I\u2019m sure they have cameras, as well as a witness as he stopped us. We\u2019re both 18 and have a completely clean record. Our court date is next month on account of a misdemeanor larceny charge. We\u2019re talking to attorneys this week, but no offices I can find are open this weekend and I honestly just need advice on how to proceed. What can I expect to come of this, and most importantly how can I keep my record clean? I\u2019m pretty positive I won\u2019t even be able to afford an attorney unless we work something out, but I can\u2019t help worry that with a public defender the process would be painstakingly long, and that it would stay on our records due to the circumstances. This in North Carolina btw. ","title":"Misdemeanor larceny, not sure what to do","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553963510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7d48y\/nyc_mom_is_a_manager_for_a_property_and_a\/","id":"b7d48y","body":"The squatter cannot be removed by police, and the squatter also scared away the previous tenants in my mom\u2019s building. He is now charging money for people to rent the units that were once occupied (around $50 for a night). Mom says he seems dangerous and she didn\u2019t want to offend him in fear of revenge or assault. She is taking him through the legal eviction process, but it seems like it\u2019ll take at least half a year before he can leave.\n\nHe says that he\u2019ll leave if my mom pays him $20,000.\n\nIs there anything we can do to make this go easier\/quicker? ","title":"(NYC) Mom is a manager for a property and a squatter is in her building. Because of squatter\u2019s rights, she can not evict him.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571030821,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhm3ou\/how_do_i_get_a_custody_change_as_the_child_with\/","id":"dhm3ou","body":"So my mom is not a very good person, and for reasons related to that I want to change legal custody from my mom to my dad, how?","title":"How do I get a custody change? (As the child with my father)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541464241,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ujdiz\/please_help_explain_this_legalese_in_this_sales\/","id":"9ujdiz","body":"Hello,\n\n​\n\nI'm about to purchase an expensive musical instrument from someone in CT, with the understanding I pay half now and half in 6 months. The seller's lawyer drew up an agreement and bill of sale, with a section of legalese at the end of the agreement and I can't make sense of. Exactly what is this section spelling out? Thanks!\n\n​\n\n11.  **COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION.**  **BUYER HEREBY REPRESENTS, COVENANTS AND AGREES THAT THE TRANSACTION TO WHICH THIS AGREEMENT RELATES IS A \u201cCOMMERCIAL TRANSACTION\u201d AS DEFINED BY THE STATUTES OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT.** **BUYER HEREBY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO NOTICE AND PRIOR COURT HEARING OR COURT ORDER UNDER CONNECTICUT GENERAL STATUTES, SECTIONS 52-278A ET SEQ., AS AMENDED, OR UNDER ANY OTHER STATE OR FEDERAL LAW WITH RESPECT TO ANY AND ALL PREJUDGMENT REMEDIES THE SELLER MAY EMPLOY TO ENFORCE ITS RIGHTS AND REMEDIES HEREUNDER.** **MORE SPECIFICALLY, BUYER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE SELLER\u2019S ATTORNEY MAY, PURSUANT TO CONNECTICUT GENERAL STATUTES, SECTION 52-278F, ISSUE A WRIT FOR A PREJUDGMENT REMEDY WITHOUT SECURING A COURT ORDER.** **THE BUYER FURTHER HEREBY WAIVES ANY REQUIREMENTS OR OBLIGATIONS OF THE SELLER TO POST A BOND OR OTHER SECURITY IN CONNECTION WITH ANY PREJUDGMENT REMEDY OBTAINED BY THE SELLER AND WAIVES ANY OBJECTIONS TO ANY PREJUDGMENT REMEDY OBTAINED BY THE SELLER BASED ON ANY OFFSETS, CLAIMS, DEFENSES, OR COUNTERCLAIMS OF THE BUYER OR ANY OTHER OBLIGATED PARTY TO ANY ACTION BROUGHT BY THE SELLER.**\n\n12. **WAIVERS.** **BUYER HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, RELATING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE UNITS.** **BUYER HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE PROVISIONS OF THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE AND\/OR NOTICES AND\/OR LAWS RELATED TO SALES PURSUANT TO C.G.S. \u00a736a-785 AND RELATED LAWS.**","title":"Please help explain this legalese in this sales agreement?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541007175,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t0y8z\/how_do_i_call_authorities_on_someone_out_of_state\/","id":"9t0y8z","body":"Just a kid, but I'm receiving really intense threats and I want it to stop. I have the persons YouTube, Instagram, and even grabbed their IP. The person lives in NYC and I was wondering how i reach reach them.","title":"How do I call authorities on someone out of state?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569109196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7igwh\/ex_husband_harassment_with_kids_oh\/","id":"d7igwh","body":"Hello,\n\nMy ex husband (divorced for 3 years) and father of our two little children will constantly provoke and harass me through text messages. It will begin with things about the children and then throw jabs in to provoke arguments. On a bad day he will send multiple texts calling me every name in the book and he makes it extremely difficult to coparent our children in a healthy manner. I know this can be pure ignorance and sound extremely petty but I just don\u2019t know how to get no contact but still deal with our kids. I\u2019ve tried to implement co parenting apps to keep things as simple as possible and he refuses to use them and says he \u201cdoesn\u2019t trust them\u201d. I live my life worrying if he will text me and blow up. A little back story, he was very abusive verbally, emotionally, and physically in our relationship. I want him to be involved with my kids but I don\u2019t want to have to speak with him for the sake of my sanity. Any suggestions?","title":"Ex husband harassment - with kids (OH)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552867585,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2bw66\/insurance_company_keeps_sending_letters_to\/","id":"b2bw66","body":"So. In early January I was in a small car accident (fender bender, no injuries). At the time, police were informed, information was exchanged, reports were filed with the insurance companies, everything that generally has to be done. I was legally at fault, seeing as I read ended the other car. Insurance says I'm good, the state says I'm good, I figured I'm clear and can move on with life. \n\nAbout a month later I got a letter in the mail from a company claiming to represent the other people in the accident, trying to get me to pay for the damages to their car. As soon as I opened the letter, i noticed a couple things were off.\n\n 1) The company that sent the letter was not the same company that the other party told me they had their insurance with. \n\n2) All of the dates in their letter did not match up with the date of the accident. \n\nI called my insurance company and told them what was going on, asking for an explanation. They told me to send them a scanned copy of the letter (which I did) and to otherwise ignore it. \n\nI've gotten another one of these letters every week since then. Every time I've called my insurance, and they keep telling me to ignore it, which I've done. Theres no way this comes back to bite me is there?","title":"Insurance 'company' keeps sending letters to collect after a car accident I caused, my insurance company keeps saying ignore them.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570669589,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfqkuw\/school_injustice_canada_quebec\/","id":"dfqkuw","body":"Hi there!  \n\n\nSo this one is quite hard to explain. \n\nSo at my college, we have one hour a day to participate in activities. My activity is soccer and we essentially have one hour of match play. \n\nNow this group of boys start insulting multiple other members of the soccer activity. One boy of the group (that insults people. Let's call him Mark) decides to insult my friend's mom quite deeply. Of course, my friends stand up and tells Mark to stop. When he does that, Mark starts being aggressive and even pushes my friend hardly. By consequent, my friend picks him up and body slams him to the ground. Once that's done my friends tries to get up and leave but the dumbass Mark decides to push him down from the waist. Security comes and breaks up the fight.\n\n2 hours later we finally get the verdict: my friend got 3 days suspension. This is totally unfair because he did do what he did as auto-defence. That same day, we decide to create the hashtag and spam it in the college's Instagram page. The next day, they threaten us to expulse us (it's a private college btw) and take legal action for spamming the hashtag, which isn't offensive. (I don't want to show the hashtag because it has my friends name and I don't want to reveal it)\n\nAlso, my friend's parent wants to take legal action against the college for not following the contract. The kid is supposed to go to school for a certain amount of days but because of the suspension, he goes for 3 days less than the indicated amount on the contract, which in this context doesn't make sense in reason of the unjustified suspension.\n\nPlease help.","title":"School injustice - Canada Quebec","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1412288987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2i4uzd\/brother_got_in_a_wreck_just_wondering_if_theres\/","id":"2i4uzd","body":"A few nights ago my younger brother got in a car accident and totaled his vehicle. Everybody was (mostly) okay. \n\nHe was driving late at night down an unlit street and hit a stationary vehicle with no lights on sitting in the street. He was going about 45 mph (the speed limit). His airbag deployed and after making sure he was all right he jumped out of his car and asked the person in the other vehicle whether she needed an ambulance. He called 911 and told them he needed an officer to come out for the accident and an ambulance to pick the other driver up.\n\nThe ambulance came first and took the other driver, who was complaining about neck pain, to the hospital. The police arrived shortly after this and talked to my brother. He was ticketed, and told the officer that the vehicle he hit had been sitting, lights off, in the middle of the road. The officer went off to try and meet the other driver at the hospital to figure out what she had to tell him.\n\nMy brother's vehicle is older and only had state-minimum insurance, so if he's found to be at fault he will not receive a payout from his insurance company. If the other driver corroborates my brother's story and says that the vehicle was not moving and had no lights on, who--in general--will be considered at fault? If the other driver lies\/tells a story that is not in line with my brother's, what is his best course of action? \n\nIt sounds to me like my brother was in the wrong, but that the other driver deserves a share of the blame as well. \n\nIf this is not the best place for this post, I'm happy post somewhere else (and, if this is not a good place for my post, I'd appreciate any suggestions). I'm happy to clear up any details I've missed. ","title":"Brother got in a wreck. Just wondering if there's anything I can do to help or advise him. (Florida)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540055979,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pvw9f\/father_who_passed_away_had_gun_confiscated_can_we\/","id":"9pvw9f","body":"[Conservative County *X* in Colorado]\n\nMy father was involved in a felony menacing charge with a firearm. He shot the firearm in the house after an argument. During his arrest, the local police confiscated the weapon (Glock 10mm). \n\nHe accepted a plea bargain that would reduce the felony to a misdemeanor. The offense was in Feb 2018 and he was on track, but passed away this week Oct 2018. \n\nI have heard that in some cases the pistol is returned, even if involved in a crime, but that\u2019s here say. Is there a rule of thumb or something? \n\nHow can we, the family get the  gun back? Since we are his next of kin and property owners (idk how far that extends either).\n\nI know it might be hard, but it\u2019s the fact that we are feeling with grief and guns were part of his life, and it\u2019s the only one we don\u2019t have still. \n\nI accept the fact that it may have been sent for destruction or used by the department etc. but regardless of what I feel, if the crime was to be dismissed as a felony, then why can\u2019t the gun be returned lawfully? \nIs it possible that they will argue that since he died, he could fulfill the plea bargain thus they can\u2019t release the firearm? \n\nIf any of this has merit, I would love to hear it. Grief isn\u2019t blinding us, we accept any fate the gun has, we just wanna know if there\u2019s any route to retrieving the firearm since he has died. Thus his crime is moot? I don\u2019t know. I guess that\u2019s why I\u2019m here in legal advise. Thanks all. ","title":"Father who passed away had gun confiscated; Can we get it back? [Colorado]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569712831,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/danfee\/tenant_in_rhode_island_horrible_landlord_is\/","id":"danfee","body":"Hey All,\n\n​\n\n**To start, the facts:**\n\n\\-I live on the 3rd floor of this house that is shared with the landlord, who lives on the 2nd floor, while the first floor is common living room and kitchen. My floor has a bathroom, bedroom, and small living room.  \n\\-I've have a standard month to month contract and lived there for 1.5 years. The floor I live on came furnished.  \n\\-I am moving out at the end of the month due to the incidents described below.  \n\\-I have stated many times over the time I've lived here that the bathroom has no ventilation other than a blocked vent and window(which doesn't do very much good during the cold season unless I want to freeze every time I take a shower). In addition, the landlord has acknowledged that  water also leaks from the bathtub drain into her bedroom below. I have pictures of texts confirming this conversations.  \n\\-The landlord has 2 cats, who go everywhere, including to my floor. They sometimes piss and shit upstairs as well, but very infrequently. I have photos of both the cats and one of the instances of their poop in my hallway. The landlord also regularly goes on travel for weeks at a time and the stench that comes from her floor where their litter boxes is significant.  \n\\-In addition, the landlord regularly has family guests over and stores their pets (cats\/dogs) in the kitchen, where they are not well maintained, and piss and shit all over the kitchen, including the counters and floor. I have photos of this.  \n\\-Every summer, there is a very significant ant presence in the entire house that swarms anything and everything edible. The landlord regularly claims that something will be done, and nothing is.  \n\n\n**What has occurred:**  \n\\-For this summer, the landlord has been harassing me via text message over complaints over slightly dirty dishes left in the sink, or the slightest mark or bit of dried whatever on the stove top, as well as a \"smell\" that they say is coming from the third floor. Towards the end of August, at 2am, while I had my headphones on and was watching a movie in my room, the landlord busted into my living room unannounced and uninvited in to accost me over some dirty dish that was left in the sink over the previous week that I had been out of state for a family event(I had a last minute meal before my flight out and soaked the dish in water and soap before I left). I have in text message her confirmation that the landlord did this, but they tried to play it off like I invited them in, after stating multiple times that it is their house and they can do anything they want. During this, I stated that I would be moving out at the end of September(which I am).  \n\\-The above intrusion was not the first instance. Twice over the previous 1.5 years, the landlord has come up and stood outside my door at 1-2AM and shouted until I woke up so they could accost me over some complaint. The above time however, is the first time she trespassed into my rooms.  \n\\-I have been moving my stuff slowly over this past week, and yesterday, the landlord started blowing up my phone, after I spent the day cleaning the bathroom and escorting a carpet cleaning crew to do their thing in on my floor. The landlord was complaining about the \"smell\" again\" and took and sent pictures of my floor that could only have been taken if they had trespassed again, and then proceeded to move all the furniture around, and eventually I had to block them so as to end the conversation, as they claimed over and over it was their house and they could do anything they want and its not my floor.  \n\n\n**Questions:**  \n1. According to my understanding of [RI's laws governing tenant\/landlord relationship](http:\/\/ohcd.ri.gov\/freq-requested\/documents\/rilthandbook-2007.pdf), the landlord must give 2 days notice before coming into my dwelling unit, which is defined as \"a structure or part thereof designed\/intended for use as a residence or sleeping place by one or more persons.\" **Considering I am already moving out in the next few days, is there anything I can do via courts or via reporting to an agency as a punitive measure for her verifiable and constant trespass into my unit, so that this doesn't happen to the next person? I want the landlord to be held accountable for their violation of the law.**  \n2. I have significantly cleaned the apartment myself and paid a cleaning crew to clean all upholstery and carpets, but the landlord was constantly complaining before I blocked them about a \"smell\" that neither I nor the cleaning crew could smell, saying the mattress and furniture was ruined, etc, while they were trespassing into my floor yesterday, I have the significant gut feeling the landlord will refuse to return my deposit. Other than providing the receipt of the cleaning crew, pictures of my clean floor, and a signed statement from a friend stating they do not detect any sort of uncleanliness or smell, **is there anything I can do to stack the deck in my favor when this eventually goes to the small claims court over their refusal to return my entire deposit? (on the claim of some phantom smell or uncleanliness)**  \n3. The landlord comes from a wealthy family and supposedly has \"family lawyers\". Considering the above mentioned snippets of text conversation regarding trespass and bathroom problems, pictures of my clean unit and the landlord's filthy pets, and a signed\/written statement from a friend saying my floor smells fine and is clean, **is there anything I can do to give myself an edge or to prove that I am in the right if the landlord's lawyers create their own signed statements of \"family friends\" attesting to this phantom smell?**  \n4. **Any other general advice with the likely small claims court scenario?**","title":"Tenant in Rhode Island, Horrible Landlord is trying to withhold my deposit and illegally enters my unit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570043461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dceumc\/parking_on_a_public_street\/","id":"dceumc","body":"So I go to a college in my town. It\u2019s about the size of a community college and it is agreed upon that there is never any parking around campus. A lot of students park on the streets surrounding the college. Yesterday and today I parked in front of a house  it\u2019s a public road and I\u2019m not blocking his drive way, mailbox or on his grass. I park there for a little over an hour and today when I walked back to my truck there was a note on my windshield that read, \u201cNext time I see you park at my house to go to *college name* I will call the cops(.) park at the college!!\u201d\n\n\nTLDR; I\u2019m parking in front of a house to go to my college and the owner seems mad even though I\u2019m not breaking any known laws\n\n\nMy question is, is there anything he can really do? If he calls the police is there anything they can do?","title":"Parking on a public street","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554565700,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba5mrk\/whos_at_fault_car_accident_in_parking_lot\/","id":"ba5mrk","body":"Who\u2019s at fault? \n\nI was involved in a car accident where the driver parked illegally behind me, in a made up parking spot. She either parked in such a way where it caused a blind spot for me because I did not see her car or she pulled up behind me after I started the process of backing out of my parking spot. I can only check my blind spots so many times before pulling out to reverse...\n\nThe damage: a crack on my side mirror and scratches to my car that might be just be paint \n\nHer damage: a cracked tail light and scratches that might just be paint \n\nNot only was she a mean, racist lady, she wants to go after my insurance and says that I\u2019m at fault. But in reality she wasn\u2019t supposed to be parked behind me and thinks she\u2019s not in the wrong. I think we\u2019re both at fault and if she wants to go after my insurance, then I will go after hers. If she had any brains, she would realize her rates would go up as well...\n\nI personally prefer just paying for my damage if I choose to, to fix my car and that she pays for her own if she chooses to as well because we were both at fault. And that we take it as a lesson to not park illegally and to apparently stretch your neck like a giraffe to make sure there isn\u2019t a car behind you. \n\nI would\u2019ve even offered to pay for her tail light but she was mean and racist and blew it out of proportion...\n\nShe did not collect any of my information except for my license plate and I the same. \n\nThoughts? \n\n","title":"Who\u2019s at fault? Car accident in parking lot","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569061539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d78sn3\/ne_i_crashed_a_company_car_what_do_i_do\/","id":"d78sn3","body":"Hey guys. \n\nSo I currently work for a non-profit working with disabled adults and I'm provided a car for my shifts with a client (errends, appointments etc) let's call him \"A\"\n\nI turned in my two weeks this morning due to what I felt like was an incompatibility with long term goals and I was offered a better job offer doing something similar but not the same through another agency. \n\nI took the company car to pick up A and we had a normal morning. I then drove through an intersection where I am sure I had the green light and next thing I saw was a pickup truck I was tboning. \n\nI hit my head, briefly went unconscious and when I came to I smelled gas, saw smoke and immediately went to pull my client out of the car and dragged him to the curb. He and I were both transported to the hospital and treated for minor injuries. \n\nAt the scene, I had three wonderful people come to assist me and my client, told me it wasn't my fault and that the other driver ran his light. Two tried to give statements and were told they'd be contacted later. \n\nI was cited at the scene for a traffic violation for a fairly small amount ($125) and given a court date. \n\nI just don't know and am not getting any clear answers from anyone. Am I financially liable for whatever the outcome is? I really am sure I'm not at fault, should I fight this or pay the small fine? A lawyer would cost more right? Will my insurance go up? My company has insurance for their drivers will that cover what this damage is or should I be calling my personal insurance agent? \n\nI'm sorry for all the questions but the moment between awake and sleep feels like death and so I'm just awake panicking","title":"[NE] I crashed a company car, what do I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508570012,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77s187\/girlfriend_moved_into_foster_care_and_no_one_can\/","id":"77s187","body":"This is sort of half legal advice, half how to, so I apologize if this sub isn't the best. I figure you guys might know a bit about insurance though so here we go!\n\nMy girlfriend's mother died when she was fairly young, leaving she and her sisters some life insurance money, which was split between the three of them based on various factors (age mostly). The one caveat was that the girls could not access the money set aside for them until they turned 18, and in both of her sisters' cases this was true. When they turned 18 their stepfather was able to help them retrieve their money. \n\nUnfortunately said stepfather was a shitty person who decided to do drugs, drink heavily, and abuse my girlfriend, leading to a phone call to police and her being taken into foster care at 17 years old (~7 years after her Mom's death). Her stepdad was not arrested, due to lack of evidence (??) \n\nNow she's looking at college costs and of course that insurance money would be very helpful, but none of her social workers seem to know how to handle the situation. It seems like they have no interest in helping her recover the money, and say that since they don't know where to start they can't\/won't help her. She has no idea how to access her money, and is becoming increasingly concerned that her stepfather will take this to his advantage and try and withdraw it for himself.\n\nSo my questions are...\n\n1. In this case how does she access the money left for her? Where does she even begin to look? \n\n2. Hypothetically, what would she be able to do if her stepdad manages to beat her to it? Would it be possible\/easy to recover? \n\n\nNinja edit-we recently moved from California to New Mexico","title":"Girlfriend moved into foster care- and no one can find money left to her by her deceased mother","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1550309120,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ar79hy\/my_sister_is_a_special_education_teacher_her\/","id":"ar79hy","body":"This is in Illinois. My sister\u2019s school that she works at had a meeting with all of its special education staff. During this meeting, it was stated by the district\u2019s assistant superintendent of special services, that my sister would not be able to recommend changes to a student\u2019s IEP that would cost more money for the district. \n\nFor example, if she felt a student needed their own individual aide, or would be better educated at another school, she was told by the district\u2019s administration that she would be unable to bring it up. These are services these students are legally entitled to. Thoughts?","title":"My sister is a Special Education Teacher. Her sister\u2019s school is telling her to break the law. What can she do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539409429,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nrigo\/im_a_teen_and_one_of_my_peers_is_starting_to\/","id":"9nrigo","body":"I have no idea how to format this and how I should feel about this. I\u2019ll summarize this as best as I can. I met H on the first day of school. He seemed a bit off, almost like he was on the spectrum or something but nothing too intense. H generally acts weird in social situations, not shy, but weird as in standing stationary and waving at someone until they glance at him and walk away. I recently started a group chat with some friends, and soon enough H was added. He\u2019s mentioned doing drugs in the past, but right now he\u2019s been saying weird stuff. He\u2019s talking about some kind of rapture and when we asked if he was high, he said he was absolutely sober. He made up crazy conspiracy theories on how he needs to train to be one of the survivors of the rapture, and how he needs to grow his mind. I started to analyze the situation and get answers out of H without him knowing, and he let it slip how his dad had gotten him in some kind of detainment and had him tested because he thought he was crazy, and H says how he has an upper level mind with practicing monk traditions. He\u2019s just really sketchy and unsettling. He also told me how he grows weed and \u201cmixes chemicals as a hobby\u201d to make poisons and drugs. It\u2019s just really weird and if you talked to him you\u2019d know what I mean. I screen recorded every message he said and time stamps, and I backed up the video. I don\u2019t know if I should go to the school about this and how they could help. I\u2019ll try to post more details if required.","title":"I\u2019m a teen and one of my peers is starting to freak me out a bit","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568864163,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d68fk4\/bedbugs_tenant_rights\/","id":"d68fk4","body":"Hi friends. \n\nIt is an understatement that the past few weeks have been incredibly stressful. The apartment that I live in has recently become infested with bedbugs. I have NO idea how they got there because we are clean. We usually have three people living in the apartment,  but one of the units are vacant. The other two are occupied by my twin sister and I. We had an Orkin technician come and survey the apartment and he confirmed there were bedbugs. He said they had only spread to my room and that they weren\u2019t any where else. He sprayed my room and the rest of the apartment. This was last Monday. \n\nI tried to call Orkin because I had some questions about the treatment and they needed my account number. However, since the service was coordinated through the apartment management, I did not have the account number. I called my apartment management for the account number, and they denied me that information. They said that the only way that I can talk to Orkin is by submitting my questions to the apartment management and they will contact Orkin for me. This makes me feel like they are hiding something from me. But they expect me to pay the $400 bill, while denying me access to talk to the technician who provided services. \n\nAbout a day or so ago, I noticed a few itchy bites on my foot which makes me worry that the bedbugs are still there. I cleaned my room from top to bottom, cleaned the apartment but I have no idea whether I got rid of them all. I am freaking out and just want to talk to the damn technician. I have a feeling apartment management would charge me for having him come out for a second visit. \n\nDo I have any rights in this situation? Do I need to set up a meeting with a lawyer? I am feeling hopeless and frustrated. I live in Kentucky.","title":"Bedbugs & Tenant Rights","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539720372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9or9ao\/car_accident_insurance_question_missouri\/","id":"9or9ao","body":"Girlfriend recently got into accident where the other driver fell asleep at the wheel and totaled her car. Apparently he has insurance that covers his car but not hers (is that even possible)? \n\nWhat steps should we take to make sure we get reimbursed for her totaled car (only had $8000 left to pay), injuries (concussion, contusion, and burns from air bag), and ER trip and lost wages.\n\nThanks for any replies","title":"Car Accident Insurance Question (Missouri)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570490364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/derkaq\/my_brother_is_special_needs_and_has_his_first_job\/","id":"derkaq","body":"Hello. My brother has mild autism and has gotten his first job. He can function pretty well but has difficulty with his emotions and social situations. This is in Maryland.\nHe recently got a new boss at work that by other bosses accounts is personally trying to make his work life unbearable because she doesn\u2019t like his emotional instability. A few examples: He isn\u2019t given the supplies he needs (gloves, paper products, ect). She purposely tells other employees to not clean bathrooms so they\u2019re extra dirty when he is told to clean them.  She will ask him to do multiple things at once and will punish him if he doesn\u2019t finish them in a timely manner. When he asks her for help or what to do in a situation, her only answer every time is that she is too busy to deal with it. \nI know that there are bosses that will make life hell, but his situation is different than the average American. I\u2019m not exactly sure of what to do, I recently have been taking care of him more because my mother has become house bound. Thank you for your time.","title":"My brother is special needs and has his first job. Not sure if what is boss is doing is legal","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506262108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7257g1\/i_think_the_hr_in_my_work_is_power_tripping_and\/","id":"7257g1","body":"[Philippines]\nI work as a chief laboratory scientist in a small laboratory. Yesterday, I received two memorandum regarding insubordination and contempt. \n\nThe first letter was regarding insubordination wherein I was being accused of sending letters to other companies asking a sponsorship for a certain annual event. In our laboratory we have this No Gift Policy - you are not allowed to receive any or ask for a gift on any other company\/suppliers. The company told me that in order to make a legal sponsorship, the company should make a letter of solicitation. \n\n\n\nI am new in this position and I don't have any idea on making those such letters that's why I copied and rephrased that old letters from the computer. (Old letter was made by the former chief)\n\nMy mistake was I made 5 copies of those drafts\/letters and signed them. I gave the letters to the HR office and have them check it. Also I know that the letter will not be valid unless they also have their signatures on it. \n\nI was being accused of blatantly ignoring the memorandum regarding the no gift policy.\n\nThe second letter was contempt wherein the president asked me about the status of the employees. I told him that one of the employee is asking for an extension of employment because she resigned from a position but wants to stay for another few months. The coordinator thinks she was bypassed because the president was the one who knew about it. \n**The Branch Officer in Charge was informed about the extension.\n\nHow should I reply with this accusations?\nIs this considered for a legal advice","title":"I think the HR in my work is power tripping and targeting me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445972087,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qgelo\/flusa_car_is_financed_can_no_longer_drive_and_im\/","id":"3qgelo","body":"Car is almost 2 years old now (2014 Kia Optima) with only 15,000 miles. I posted an ad on Craigslist to have someone take over the payments but they must bring their own financing. My ad has been up for a couple months and everyone just assumes they can take my car and give me the monthly payment.\n\nEnter some random girl. She has offered to take over the payments with a contract and in a year will refinance it under her and her husband's name. They (her and her husband) will also insure the car under their name. I'm very reluctant to do it this way but it would be easier than continuing to pay the $450 and $100 per month to keep a car that I can't drive. \n\nIs there a bullet proof contract that would allow me to hand the keys over and not have to worry about them ruining me or my credit (non-payment, accident, etc)?  Is there any kind of contract that would at least protect me in case of nonpayment or accident. \n\nIs there some sort of collateral that I could take? Maybe a title to a vehicle or something of the sort. \n\nShe plans on sending the contract over today via e-mail. Can anyone help me to see if it's something to pursue or should I just take the hit by selling it to CarMax.\n\nThank you\n\n**edit** From the responses I've gotten, it is not a good idea, terrible actually, to go through with it. I will tell her in the nicest way possible to kick rocks. Thank you again to all those that responded","title":"[FL-USA] Car is financed, can no longer drive and I'm upside down. CarMax offered $6k less than what I owe. Couple offered to take over payments but leave it in my name for a year. Details inside","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1507594696,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75ddgz\/can_i_use_free_beats_from_youtube_or_online_in_an\/","id":"75ddgz","body":"I want to sing or rap over the beats. Am i able to monotize these songs if I am using \"free beats\". I am in Canada.\nThanks.","title":"Can i use \"free beats\" from youtube or online in an albulm and make money off them?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569434025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d96wby\/ca_during_fumigation_is_my_landlord_required_to\/","id":"d96wby","body":"California apartment dweller here. \n\nWe just got told by our landlords that we are required to vacate our building for fumigation next week. We will have our rent for those days reimbursed, but unfortunately we live in a small apartment in an expensive city, and nearby alternative housing (motels, airbnb) is more than what we pay for rent. I was wondering if someone could direct me to info on landlord-tenant policies for (non-emergency) evacuations such as these. In particular, we would like to know:\n\n1) Is she required to only reimburse our rent for the days the building is uninhabitable, or is she required to actually help fund or find alternative housing?\n\n2) Is she required to provide any assistance with the boarding of pets? We\u2019ve signed a pet contract because we have pets, which requires us to pay a monthly fee, but it doesn\u2019t mention anything.\n\n3) Are they required to provide any officially disclosure about why they are fumigating?\n\nShe is known for having a bit of a temper, so I\u2018m a bit afraid to ask for any of these things without having done the research, and I definitely don\u2019t want to ask for anything unreasonable. I appreciate that she is taking care of pests in the building, but it\u2019s come at a hard time for us because we actually had relatives planning to stay over that weekend. So we could use any help we can get, and appreciate any info or advice you guys can provide. \n\nThanks r\/legal advice!","title":"[CA] During fumigation, is my landlord required to","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571608368,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkqibk\/wa_going_through_divorce_questions_for_separating\/","id":"dkqibk","body":"My wife and I own a house and are divorcing. We live in the same house. As of tonight, I will be staying at a friend's place to allow us both emotional space (things have been ambiguous and painful for matters like dinner, hearing each other, going out, etc.). We do not have kids. I pay 100% of the mortgage payments. She does not work. We have not yet filed for divorce.\n\nWe wanted to start the petition only after she found a job and felt more confident in her abilities to pay for housing, have insurance through her company instead of through me, etc.  I wanted to respect that and give her time.\n\n2-3 weeks ago, she told me that she cannot move out to an apartment or other housing because it would be \"house abandonment\" and she would be giving away her rights to her equity in the house. She said she was told this during a free consultation with an attorney.\n\nI do not want her to be chained to this house, especially since she gets very sad here. However, we are reaching a point where we are both suffering here as we transition toward separate lives (ex. I come home late from dancing, being with friends, etc.).\n\nQuestions\n\n1. If I stay over at my friend's place, is there a risk of losing my stake in our house -- for example, if I were to stay for a week, or a month, or multiple months? \n2. If one of us seeks out an apartment, applies, and moves into it, would this constitute house abandonment?\n3. Does the petition date make a difference?\n\nThank you very much for helping me understand.","title":"[WA] Going through divorce, questions for separating without house abandonment.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541396153,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uay4g\/what_is_the_legal_definition_of_a_contract\/","id":"9uay4g","body":"Services rendered for a fee? Is this correct?","title":"What is the legal Definition of a contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570889461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgvmu9\/stuck_in_a_lease_with_my_ex_her_dad_is_the\/","id":"dgvmu9","body":"Hi everyone,\n\nSo long story short, I currently live with my now Ex GF. Her father is the landlord for the house. The lease term ends at the end of July 2020, but there is no lease break clause.\n\nI do not want to live there anymore with her, but I am unsure of what my exact obligations are for rent, and if there\u2019s anyway I could somehow get out of it, or only be on the hook for a few months.\n\nSub-letting is prohibited in the lease, and I live in Virginia.\n\nIs there anything I can do? Or am I on the hook until the end of the term (which I suspect)\n\nI am using a throwaway account, to protect my privacy","title":"Stuck in a lease with my Ex, her dad is the landlord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446606091,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rfz6z\/ny_contesting_a_ticket_in_court\/","id":"3rfz6z","body":"So, I got a speeding ticket. The ticket says I was doing 80 in a 65, but the officer said his radar gun clocked me at 94. \n\n\n\nHere's some details: he was at the bottom of a hill, I was in the left lane and along side another car when I was speeding. I saw him when I was at the top of the hill (he was about 500 yards away, maybe a little more). As soon as I saw him I stomped on my breaks and moved over and behind the car I was along side with. He was younger and very nice. When he said he clocked me at 94, I was like really? and he was like yes. I honestly don't think I was at 94, but I don't know how I can argue with radar. \n\n\n\nSide note: I was definitely over the 65 speed limit. I was probably around 85 when at the top of the hill but slowed down as soon as I saw him. \n\n\n\nSo here is where I stand. I am pleading not guilty because I want to fight it. At least get it reduced hopefully becuase I can't afford it right now. Im a grad student getting my masters in social work and working for free as an intern at a hospice and have no money. I also absolutely cannot afford to get points on my license. Although I want to fight it, I don't know where to go from here. \n\n\nI've been told to keep trying to push back my date because theyll get frustrated and maybe drop it, that maybe if the cop doesnt show they might dismiss it, etc. I also read some questions to ask the officer in court that might put doubt into the judge and that might work (that maybe he was too far away for the read to be accurate...heres a link to the types of questions I found: http:\/\/www.nolo.com\/legal-encyclopedia\/free-books\/beat-ticket-book\/chapter11-2.html) \n\n\n\nOn top of all the financial stress I have about this, I also feel bad! He acted like he was so nice saying i was at 94 but he'll help me out and say it was 80. I'm afraid if I go and argue this and say all this, he'll get super pissy that he tried to help me and reduced my speed and I argue the ticket. \n\n\n\nEssentially, when I get to court, what is my best path to get this ticket to go away or at least not get points?\n\n\n\n Mehhhh someone help me! \n\n\nALSO! Here is the radar gun that was used was a Stalker Dual","title":"(NY) Contesting a ticket in court","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541001014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9szzil\/sketchy_dealings_with_a_new_investor_for_business\/","id":"9szzil","body":"A tech startup I've been with for nearly 3 years was registered in Utah, operated in Oklahoma for about 2 years, and made the move back to Utah this August. We had an angel investor \"Greg\", that's been paying for all operating expenses while we're in the prototype and R&D phase. The company owners (Greg included) signed a new contract starting on September 1st that included a new investor (Jeff) handling all payroll and operation costs moving forward, including raises for all employees. This is to get us into production and profitability.\n\nJeff has dragged his feet for nearly 2 months and caused our original investor Greg to keep paying our original salaries for 3 pay periods. Personally I think Jeff isn't a good person and shouldn't have been brought on in the  first place and I put in my notice and left the company on Oct 15.\n\nMy main question is this: since the contract (and raises) were supposed to start on the 1st of September am I (and really every other employee) not entitled to back pay for those 3 pay periods where our checks were short? When I've asked the owners they have brushed it off and said \"we're never getting that money, Jeff will never pay it\". Am I up a creek? Thanks in advance!","title":"Sketchy dealings with a new investor for business startup.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571023973,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhkzbw\/i_was_expelled_and_spent_nearly_two_and_a_half\/","id":"dhkzbw","body":"So back in 2015 I made some threats as a result of someone in school bullying me. However, this was not as big of an issue as the fact that I was suspended for 5 days. With this I thought I would be back in school and the whole thing would blow over. I ended up spending March, April, and most of May out of school as the case dragged on. Not once did I go to school during that time. I spent 2 days in juvenile detention. I would like to know if I have a case here that I should pursue further, or if I should just drop it and try to forget.","title":"I was expelled, and spent nearly two and a half months","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571623425,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dktlbs\/my_landlord_just_gave_me_notice_of_eviction_after\/","id":"dktlbs","body":"This has been going on since February. I finaly gave notice of legal action if he did not comply with law and fix it. I have texts and audio recordings of him admiting to knowing about the problem and not fixing it. How much of a case do i have.","title":"My landlord just gave me notice of eviction after i told him i wil be taking legal action if he didnt get my only working shower fixed. Do i have a case","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569205365,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d80apd\/please_help_this_poor_child\/","id":"d80apd","body":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2sKsznAeoJ\/?igshid=sda11lrcu0rs\n\nOk so i dont know where else to post, if someone has a better subreddit, pls tell me and repost yourself. \n\nIf you cant see the vid, here is a summary. Basically this guy is trying to teach the baby how to stand he slaps it across the face really hard. It starts crying and he keeps hitting it. Its very hard to watch.\n\n Basically if there is anything you can do please do so!!!","title":"Please help this poor child","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540172861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q99t3\/my_friend_made_a_song_and_now_the_song_is_used_in\/","id":"9q99t3","body":"I just want to know what his options are, they didn\u2019t request permission to use the song, is there anything he could do?","title":"My friend made a song and now the song is used in a porn video with a lot of views. What can he do about this?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507080023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/744xd9\/ohiorequesting_clarification_or_guidance_on\/","id":"744xd9","body":"Posting from Ohio on my alt.  Please let me know if I violate the rules!\n\n**Question: In the state of Ohio, what are my options regarding a hostile work environment or termination of employment by a hostile supervisor?**\n\nI believe that my direct supervisor is attempting to build a case against me to terminate my contract at the end of my probationary period.  In short, I transferred careers and definitely made some big mistakes and butted heads with some coworkers, but I have taken major steps to address these issues and many of my coworkers and associates think I'm great and do a great job. However, my supervisor has most definitely adopted a specific read of the situation that isn't true and that makes me out to be some grotesque villain, and I'm worried that she might jeopardize my ability to work for this company in the future.  I have emails and other documentation refuting her statements, but I wanted to know what the burden of proof might be on me in a case like this to prove that I'm working in a hostile work environment.\n\nI understand that Ohio is an at-will employment state and that I am in my probationary period, so I'm kinda boned as far as anything approximating wrongful termination.  I also understand that hostile work environments are generally based on harassment directed at a protected class, which I don't believe is happening here (the closest thing would be age discrimination, but it's a stretch).  However, I'm being bullied and completely unsupported by the next level in the chain of command, and I wanted to know if it was ridiculous for me to consult with a local lawyer (if I'm about to become unemployed, paying for the time with a lawyer is an expensive decision to make) or whether you guys had any advice regarding talking to the company's HR department about this.  Thanks for the advice, \/r\/legaladvice!","title":"[Ohio]Requesting clarification or guidance on hostile work environment laws in Ohio","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554147335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b87jup\/18_and_cant_drop_out_of_school_without_parental\/","id":"b87jup","body":"I\u2019m a FL resident and I just turned 18. I want to drop out of highschool so I can just get my ged but my highschool won\u2019t allow me to without parental consent. They said that my mother has to sign the forms for me to drop out (which she won\u2019t) but they never actually gave me any proof of this rule, and when I looked up the rules for dropping out in FL they say that this only applies to minors. Any advice on what to do next would be great","title":"18 and can\u2019t drop out of school without parental consent?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554520918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba07zt\/wa_statemy_company_wont_fire_incompetent_poor\/","id":"ba07zt","body":"I had a friend in college who graduated with me in my field who needed a job, and my job had space to fill. He was a great friend throughout school and excellent at his job, smart, driven, wonderful to be around. When he was hired in, he immediately began showing poor work ethic.\n\nHe does not listen to any superiors, including myself. He often stands around or does not prioritize tasks correctly in our busy setting. He also has been written up several times, asked to make a \u201cgoal-list\u201d to help pinpoint his strengths and weaknesses which he hasn\u2019t turned in since last November, and has had several complaints from every coworker. He also has put other employees in danger due to lack of restraint and mishandling medications (we work in a veterinary clinic). He has poor hygiene, which has also been addressed several times as well.  I am frankly embarrassed that I brought someone in that I trusted and spoke highly of, and he turned out to be a shit worker.\n\nDespite a paper trail and everyone wondering why we won\u2019t fire him, our company who owns us has simply asked us one thing: is there anything that would prevent us from firing him? Someone mentioned that he is trans; this is a fact that he has stated himself. The company now does not want to fire him despite every employee complaining in fear of him suing us. What can I do? I am at my wits end.","title":"[WA State]My company won\u2019t fire incompetent, poor worker because he is trans.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569622337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da7eb4\/did_my_employer_break_the_terms_of_their_contract\/","id":"da7eb4","body":"(Virginia)\n\nMy contract says that my employer \"will provide the Employee with Life Insurance three times the amount of their annual salary and long-term disability insurance, provided the Employee is insurable under the regulations or requirements of the Group Life Insurance carrier currently used by (the employer.) Under (the employer's) current Life and LTD carrier contract, adjustments to amount of coverage are effective October 1 of each year.\"\n\nMy question is about that last sentence about adjustments to the amount of coverage. It says in the contract that I will be provided with three times the amount of my salary. When they refer to adjustments to the amount of coverage being effective October 1, does that mean that the amount of coverage is adjusted based on any change in my annual salary, or does it allow them to change the amount of coverage? They told us on September 3, well after contracts were signed in May, that our coverage was being changed to two times the salary instead of three times. \n\nDoes this change constitute the employer breaking the contract?","title":"Did my employer break the terms of their contract with me?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541992276,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wa9t1\/can_tenants_deny_visitors_in_buildings\/","id":"9wa9t1","body":"My girlfriend and I live in an apartment in the Bronx. Recently we just moved into it by recent I mean yesterday. The land lord I guess you would call it said the building doesn\u2019t allow outside visitors? If we are paying for said room and it\u2019s features. Why wouldn\u2019t we be allowed to have guests in? I feel Iike he\u2019s just making shit up but I don\u2019t want to get kicked out.","title":"Can tenants deny visitors in buildings?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551423047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw1sf2\/eviction_threats\/","id":"aw1sf2","body":"I was vacuuming at 11am. It\u2019s winter, I have dogs, dirt and ice everywhere. I have every right to vacuum at 11am. \n\nMy downstairs neighbors have recently moved in. I have been here for a year now. My attempts at talking to them are moot. They\u2019re disrespectful and rude, and now lying to the landlord. \n\nThey said I was vacuuming at 8am. I was not. 8am is also still within lease terms to be active and doing things. 0800-2200 are sound-appropriate times.\n\nThis resulted in my landlord sending me a letter saying I have violated the lease and I could be evicted. Seriously. She claimed to have sent me an email saying she wanted to have a meeting. I never received this email nor did my room mate, who is never home btw, and the landlord also texts us and said nothing. \n\nI have video evidence of my neighbors playing bass music so loud at 2am that I could hear them through the floor. They are very loud, love to yell, and they enjoy loud obnoxious sex and slamming doors. But they\u2019ll bang on the ceiling when I have music on every few days when I\u2019m doing a cooking project. Again, at appropriate hours.\n\nI work nights. 0000-0800. On the weekends I know how to shut up and play games with turtle beaches on. We are quiet people and no one ever has issues with us but the landlord is taking their side and I\u2019m at a loss. This woman also claims to work night shift but I think she\u2019s bullshitting. She\u2019s loud all day AND night save a few scant hours of sleep? When she thinks everyone else should shut up. It\u2019s day time. I have to suffer with a weird schedule too. It\u2019s like the sun revolves around this chick. \n\nWe can\u2019t afford to move and just signed a year lease. Renting a house next year, sick of apartments.\n\nDoes anyone have advice for this? We are talking to the landlord soon, I\u2019ll provide the videos, but the landlord really dislikes me. She seems to have a prejudice against PTSD vets based on what another neighbor says. She didn\u2019t like the times I freaked out a little when maintenance tried to get into the apartment while I wasn\u2019t dressed. So I\u2019m not credible to her but my room mate is.\n\nI just want to know how to handle this best I guess. I\u2019m frazzled because this is absolutely ridiculous and my phone can only pick up so much of their stuff. I also don\u2019t think about sitting there all day recording their bullshit. When I\u2019m home all day I don\u2019t do anything but listen to music with my headphones on to ignore them. \n\nEdit: I copied this from another post, but to update this the talk with the landlord didn\u2019t really go well. She\u2019s talking about a LOT of completely ridiculous inconsistencies and hypocrisy though. I recorded the whole 8 minute convo on my phone discreetly. I even offered again to meet with the other tenants and the landlord said that wasn\u2019t allowed until she spoke to her bosses.","title":"Eviction threats","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1413838583,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jtlia\/machinima_used_my_rgonewild_photo_in_one_of_their\/","id":"2jtlia","body":"Machinima used my \/r\/gonewild photo in one of their videos without my permission. They are a company that focuses on video game news and other top stories. Are they allowed to do this, and if not, what should my next line of action be? I have tried contacting them through multiple ports without any sort of success. Like I said, my location isn't entirely necessary, if you want to help me out and knowing my location becomes a necessity then I will disclose it between myself and said help. Thank you in advance for any advice.\n\n  \n  \nHere is the link to the video, my photo is the thumbnail:  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mv_Svza5rBM","title":"Machinima used my \/r\/gonewild photo in one of their videos without my permission, I don't want to disclose my location for obvious reasons, like stalking.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568411640,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3w8nq\/ky_i_think_i_mightve_taken_my_siblings\/","id":"d3w8nq","body":"As the title says, I think I might\u2019ve taken it by mistake and feel incredibly bad and am panicking nonstop. What happened what that after my parents died, and the estate was settled, I was the only one over the age of 18. That being said, my lawyer had never sent any instruction in dividing the check I had gotten, not to mention it was addressed to me specifically. I mentioned that I\u2019d like to have my siblings money in a trust fund. However, they\u2019ve become 18 and still haven\u2019t gotten their money. I\u2019ve tried calling the lawyer who helped settle the case multiple time, but he refuses to answer.\n\nIs there a chance I\u2019m mistaken and I didn\u2019t take it and the lawyer put them in some trust fund because my siblings were under 18?\nAny advice would be great.\nThank you so much!","title":"[KY] I think I might\u2019ve taken my siblings inheritance money by mistake.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552782557,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1zd6q\/is_it_legal_for_an_employer_to_have_mandatory_6\/","id":"b1zd6q","body":"My girlfriend and I live in Ohio. She works for a daycare and they have \u201cmandatory\u201d 6 hour training class coming up next month on a Saturday that isn\u2019t paid, nor do they reimburse mileage since it\u2019s an hour away. I was under the impression that mandatory training would be paid like a regular shift that you work. \n\nThey\u2019ve done this in the past but my girlfriend usually doesn\u2019t go. They get shitty about it but their turnover rate is high so they don\u2019t usually fire people. I\u2019m more than willing to contact the department of labor over it since her employers have done some other shady things and I\u2019d love to see them hit with some major fines, but I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s illegal. ","title":"Is it legal for an employer to have mandatory 6 training classes without paying you for your time?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554129011,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b83446\/house_broken_into_bike_and_jacket_stolen_and_car\/","id":"b83446","body":"My family has lived in a suburb in Western Australia for almost 8 years and this is our first time with anything theft related. We live in a rented house that has a metal gate that swings open and is covered in sticks of thin bamboo. It's fairly easy to open so we added a chain to lock it but almost never use it as it never became a habit of ours. We woke up today to find our rear side car window smashed and one of my brother's bikes stolen. It was around 430 dollars and he had it for around 3 years so it sucked. Then we notice that a bag was stolen when the thief broke the car window and a jacket was inside. The jacket wasn't super expensive but had great sentimental value as it my late father's jacket and my mother and brother would occasionally wear it as it was quite comfortable and reminded us of him. Do I need anything else to do as we already called the cops and reported this, car will be fixed soon but I doubt we'll ever see the bike and jacket again.","title":"House broken into, bike and jacket stolen and car window smashed.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1502937630,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u73gs\/wrongful_termination_age_discrimination_verbal\/","id":"6u73gs","body":"This is probably a long shot but figured I\u2019d throw it out there. Before going into a lot of details, my former employer in Minnesota gave me to option to \u201cvoluntarily resign\u201d or be fired.\n\nBackstory\/reasoning - through a training course the instructor (who ran the training in addition to her actual job) put all the PowerPoints\/exercises\/and feedback forms from the previous weeks of training onto a SHARED network. The lot of us discovered this shared folder and utilized it. 3 weeks in the instructor discovered this an informed us all on a phone call that this was not supposed to be a public shared folder and she had brought this to HR as they thought someone found the folder and somehow made it public access.\n\nI proceeded to provide all information I knew - apologized saying hindsight I should have known that some of the information was as they say \u201cconfidential\u201d and tried to help as best I could. \n\nIn this phone call the instructor specifically said that they want whoever did it to come forward and \u201cit\u2019s not to late to rectify the situation\u201d. \n\nAbout 2-3 weeks later i get called into one of my bosses office with others on the phone being told I\u2019m given the choice to resign or be fired and I had until 9am the next day to decide.\n\nThey said they partnered with legal and IT to see who used the folder and that I \u201cshared\u201d information from this folder with others. AKA there was email evidence that I informed others of the location of this network (i repeat SHARED network) and I had provided my boss and our interns boss a few PowerPoints and useful training materials from this folder. I was in shock all I could ask was did your investigation uncover that I unlocked this folder? (Which I didn\u2019t and their answer was no just that I hit the criteria to be let go) I later found out that only 2 others were let go and others got only disciplinary action (as they didn\u2019t email anything).\n\nDid I look at the files in this folder - of course! At the time I honestly didn\u2019t think much of it, hindsight I get that I should have said something with the feedback forms out there - but literally they were the most basic feedback forms and they had no impact on performance in the company was just some comments from the instructor as well as some of your peers. It\u2019s not like I was sharing these with people or was I harming anyone.\n\nI decided to resign (this was a little less than a year ago) and in my last meeting with HR the lady in there said that well we talked it over and it\u2019s so early in your career that you will easily recover and rebound from this small setback.\n\n1 month after all this the new CEO (who had started about 2 months prior to this occurrence) eliminated pensions, and laid off 100 people. \n\nSo not really a short story but do I have any leg to stand on with a verbal contract (what was said on the phone that the situation could be rectified if the person came forward), age discrimination by the comment of the HR lady in the room \u2014 so if i were further on in my career you wouldn\u2019t have done this? Or wrongful termination?\n\nI will give kudos to the unemployment offices response to their attempt to deny my claim - as they asserted I performed a gross misconduct and therefore they wouldn\u2019t pay - they unemployment office pretty much wrote a nice go F yourself to the employer hahah!","title":"Wrongful termination? Age Discrimination? Verbal Contract?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555128236,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcmq5n\/3_domestic_violence_injunctions_4_dissolution_of\/","id":"bcmq5n","body":"Hello community, i\u2019m using this account for obvious reasons. I will do my best to make this as short as possible in hopes someone will actually read it and give me the best advice possible.\n\nMarried since 2015. Wife (37), Me (34) Wife suffers from Bipolar Disorder. 3 kids (hers) 1 from an earlier boyfriend (18 years) 2 from a previous marriage (7 and 12 years). Both fathers play a part in their kids\u2019 lives. \n\nI met my wife 10 years ago, lost contact, 4 years later we regained contact and she ended up divorcing her husband at the time to be with me. 1 year later she proposed to me.\n\nMy wife has been through some rough relationships. (Physical violence, Cheaters, Drunks) So saying she has the highest expectation towards relationships in none the least. \n\nMy wife is the jealous type and I don\u2019t mean she gets slightly jealous, it\u2019s the \u201cI have a problem if you\u2019re talking to any girl\u201d (friend, co-worker or stranger) jealous. She is also insecure, she doesn\u2019t trust me and I feel like she wants total control over me. \n\nNow i\u2019m not perfect. I grew up in a rough neighborhood without a father, drunk and drug addict mother and spoiled by my grandmother, great grandmother and aunt. There was always a lot of physical violence in my family, especially when my mother was around. I\u2019ve witness a lot of men beat my mother. And fighting between my mother and my grandmother. That was my fruition even until my mid twenties. I had a short fuse which later I noticed were anger problems.\n\nSo, It was hard at first from never being in a serious relationship to being married with 3 step kids. I had to learn a lot. After we became married it seemed like everything slowly went downhill. \n\nFor starters, because my wife was so jealous, there were times were I would work an entire work shift with her on the phone to prove to her that girls aren\u2019t trying to talk to me when she\u2019s not around and vice versa. I\u2019ve even had to quit jobs because of the possible conflict it may have caused coming home every day. As it did.\n\nMy wife knew every password, email, application, phone number that I used on a daily basis. I also shared my location and have \u201cread\u201d on, on her text messages. I gave her the keys to my life.\n\nThis went on for a few years until I decided to quit work all together and start my own business. It took my about 8 months but I did it. I was officially a business owner. I would then go on to teach her the business as well. Day by day. \n\nAt this point in time there were many arguments. She would leave the house on occasions and run off to her ex husbands home. Because they share 50\/50 custody he was not far away. This went on multiple times and multiple times she would come back. Claiming nothing ever happened and she was there because she had no where else to go. The same song and dance every single time.\n\nOn one occasion we got into a very serious argument. I called her out on some facts and she lashed out. Also, at this point in time she was not taking any medicine to stabilize her condition. We argued, I wanted to leave the house to get away from it and she attacked me, called the cops and prevented me from leaving. The cops show up and im immediately put in hand cuffs. I explain to then what happened, I show them my marks and they say \u201cwell, someone has to go to jail today\u201d unfortunately I was that lucky guy.\n\n\u201cFirst Domestic Violence Injunction\u201d\n24 hours later after seeing the judge, my bond is posted. To me surprise it was her who posted my bond even after a Domestic Violence Injunction was in place.\nShe cries and tells me how sorry she was. I hire a lawyer and all charges were dropped because they had my voice on the recording saying \u201clet me leave\u201d\n\n\u201cSecond Domestic Violence Injunction\u201d\nTime passed and we both made promises to change. I worked hard on my anger but she continued to be the same person, just words no actions, no change. We had another serious argument, another \u201cDomestic Violence Injunction\u201d was issued and away she went to her ex husbands home.\n\nAt this point i\u2019m fed up, not only were there two restraining orders issued against me, she also filed for a petition of dissolution of marriage two times. Not to mention she bought 3 brand new cars in a 1 week time frame. Our credit, debt  and life goals were in the trash. Back to the ex\u2019s place for over a month and so forth So...\n\nThe dust settled and she apologized again and said she couldn\u2019t help it, it\u2019s her illness and she promises me she would start taking her medicine. During this time also filed for 2 more dissolution of marriage petitions.\n\nAlso note by this time her ex husband has also had enough, he filed for a motion to take full custody of the kids because of the \u201caltercation\u201d at home. We have not have the kids for 4 months and the ex husband doesn\u2019t want me around the kids. She is the only one who can see them under his \u201csupervision\u201d (not court ordered yet)\n\nSo these 4 months have been taking a tole on us, she has been on her medicine for about 5 weeks I started a new job about 5 weeks ago (along with my business) and we hired a lawyer for the court hearing. We were suppose to see the lawyer on April 11th to go over the details with her custody case. \n\nOn April 10th it was a day like any other day. We both part ways to work and talk throughout the day. During my day I needed to talk to someone from my corporate office (Girl) and I tell my wife about it through text and my wife begins to \u201cone word\u201d reply me. At this point we have gone the longest ever without a single argument. I started wearing my wedding band again and we began couples therapy we signed a new lease for an apartment and things looked promising...but not for long.\n\nAfter the one word reply and my work shift ended, I call her to see what she wanted for dinner. I pick up the food, go home and wait for her to get off. She calls me and tells me she\u2019s going to watch the kids at karate class. (This is normal) this is the one place she was able to see the kids for the passed four months. \n\nI started saying how it sucks that the kids haven\u2019t been home in such a long time and her reply was, well (12 year old) didn\u2019t like when you cursed at me in front of him. This is where I completely lost it. \n\nI said, when did this happen? When have I cursed at you in front of them? Her reply was \u201calways\u201d now I know I have said some bad things but not once have I ever involved the kids. I never kicked her and them out of the house, I never stop picking them up from school, cooking, day care, anything. I never wanted them to see their mom and I argue, I never stopped caring for them, ever. \n\nI said what are you even saying right now? I don\u2019t even want to talk to you and hung up the phone. She ended up getting home 3 hours later (karate class is only 45 minutes) and I only assumed she was talking to the ex husband for the duration of the time. \n\nI said, no more i\u2019m done. She said if you\u2019re done you can\u2019t come to the apartment, you have to find a new place to live. This is right after we spent 2600 on a deposit and the lease is signed by both of us. From this point forward I call her any name I can think of and tell her to leave. While she was in the process of leaving, I noticed her acting weird where I keep my firearm. I grab the case that I keep my fire arm in and keep it near me, under a couch pillow (turns out my firearm wasn\u2019t even in the case) I ended up hiding it in my storage until months before all these problems started.\n\nShe leaves and I get a knock on the door and it two police officers. The ask me questions about what\u2019s been happening, I tell them politely that I rather not talk to them because the last I tried talking to police officers I ended up falsely arrested. The continued to ask questions l, I remained silent, I asked them if I have committed any crimes, they say no and I ask them if I can close my door. They tell me yes, I say, have a good night and they left.\n\n\u201cThird Domestic Violence Injunction\u201d\nThe following afternoon while packing I get a knock on the door and it\u2019s two different police officers and they issue me a restraining order and tell me I have 20 minutes to grab some stuff and leave my home until the 24th (my hearing) \n\nSo now, I don\u2019t have money to rent a motel for 2 weeks, or an AirBNB. or hire a lawyer. I have literally spent 6K in the last 5 weeks trying to make things right and all has gone wrong as I sit here in my car writing this. This is my bed for the next 12 days. Any advice would be great.\n\n\nTL;DR - Wife has backed out of 2 previous restraining orders and 4 petitions for divorce. 1 restraining order pending. No more money. Sleeping in car. \n\nLocation: Miami, FL.\n\nFeel free to ask me anything. If I can answer it, I will.  I\u2019m sorry for the wall of text, I have nothing but time right now.\n\nGood night.","title":"3 Domestic Violence Injunctions, 4 Dissolution of Marriages","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552202295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azdci6\/extortion_question_should_i_take_this_serious_im\/","id":"azdci6","body":" I was joking, with some family friends. Long story short, they are in the entertainment business. The kid sent me a video joking around, I was joking and told him I was going to expose the video jokingly and I made sure that they knew that. I wanted them to understand I was kidding and I would never do such a thing. I\u2019m not worried because they haven\u2019t responded to me for two days. I\u2019m worried that they will find this as an extortion situation. I hope that I was able to provide enough evidence to show that I was joking would never do such a thing.\n Also they are in Arizona and I am New York. ","title":"Extortion question? Should I take this serious? I\u2019m worried.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570398053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de9v6n\/tax_equalization_for_international_employment\/","id":"de9v6n","body":"I work in Construction Management and was offered the opportunity to move to Mexico from the US. In my agreement there is a clause for tax equalization saying that I will not see an increase or decrease as a part of my international assignment.  Because my taxes will more difficult to calculate due to the international taxes, they will provide tax services from a 3rd party. \n \nAs a result of working away from home, my company provides a Per Diem (Flat dollar amount among all employees) and Road Pay (% increase to base salary). These are befits that I receive because of my international assignment that I mentioned in the first paragraph.  So because of this tax equalization clause I should not pay the taxes on per diem, Road Pay, and the taxes that result from being pushed into the next tax bracket. The company I work for should be required to pay these on my behalf. \n\nI recently began asking questions about how my taxes will be calculated. Basically, the third party will do my taxes twice; once with all actually incomes, deducts, etc (this will be the taxes that are filed with US government) and again without the per diem, road pay, amount for tax services, and next tax bracket. The second will account for my tax liability as if I remained home and was not on this international assignment. I will receive my tax return from the federal government and state government as normal. My company will also send me a check that credits me the money that was with held throughout the year that was in excess of my standard tax filing(the amount that I would pay if I was not on the international assignment, second calculation). Lets call this my \u201ctax credit check\u201d.\n\nWhen I began asking about the calculation I found out that my per diem is being grossed up. No where is this gross up mentioned in any contract that I signed. And I was informed about a month ago that this amount for the gross up will be credited back to the company by being withheld from my \u201ctax credit check\u201d. Meaning I could potentially owe them money because this is a substantial amount of money.  I believe that this money is all rightfully mine, tax free because I was never informed that there was a gross up that would need to be credited back. \n\nHow can I get this money back for the gross up or prevent it from being withheld on the \u201ctax credit check\u201d?","title":"Tax Equalization for International Employment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506978850,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73vs99\/landlord_wont_return_full_deposit\/","id":"73vs99","body":"I am located in California. \n\nMy year-lease just ended, and my security deposit was around $250 short. My landlord took money out for cleaning\/repairing nail holes. I did not clean my apartment prior to moving out because he told me that he would be sending a cleaner the day I moved out. I understand that not cleaning the apartment was my fault and I should not have thought that he was sending a cleaner for free. However, if he had given me the option of cleaning the apartment myself or having a cleaner sent, I would have cleaned it myself. What makes it more baffling is that the new tenants complained that they had to do cleaning and demanded that he reduce their rent for the month, which again, came out of my security deposit. I don't understand why he made us pay for a cleaner if he didn't clean thoroughly and the new tenants had to clean anyways. I am fine paying for a cleaning fee, but getting charged twice doesn't make sense to me. \n\nAnother issue is that I was charged with repairing holes left behind. When I moved in, my bedroom had 20+ holes everywhere (I have picture proof). The landlord claimed it was my job to report the holes to him. I didn't because there were so many holes that I assumed it was normal\/no big deal. I sent him the pictures and he said he will return the money for the repairs if I also get my 2 other housemates to \"vouch for me\". EXCEPT I have picture proof! I really do not want to bother my ex-housemates with this issue and I want to know if he really needs their statements, or if my pictures are proof enough. Do I have any recourse in trying to get some of my remaining deposit back? \n\nMaybe important to note: I moved into one of the 2 bedrooms. The other bedroom had 2 other girls who had been living there for at least a year, so there was no big moveout before I moved in, so there was no inspection prior to me moving in. It is also not a giant apartment complex. It is just made up of 4 units. ","title":"Landlord won't return full deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569613740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da5ja8\/california_meal_breaks\/","id":"da5ja8","body":"Hi,\n\nI'm working a seven hour shift and there is nobody to cover me for a meal break..\n\nMy shift starts at 1030 and my boss is asking me to take my break as soon as I clock in as that's the only time I can get coverage.\n\nIs it legal to ask someone to take a break as soon as they clock in in California?","title":"California meal breaks","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541863102,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vv1yy\/need_help\/","id":"9vv1yy","body":"Hey everyone. I\u2019m in need of your opinion. I\u2019ll be speaking with a lawyer this Tuesday on the matter.\n\nI received a job offer 12\/2017 from a home Health agency. I accepted and began work on 1\/3\/18. The original job offer stated I would be receiving $XXX amount of salary, PTO, Medical Benefits when reinstated.\n\nIn 2\/2018 our company owner and administrator was removed from the company due to not paying taxes. I did NOT know and was NOT informed the company had been in receivership. I eventually found out thru the acting Administrator that the company owed MiLLIONS to the IRS and various creditors. Much to my dismay, this made me panic. I was constantly on edge and even sought out mental health therapy. \n\n3\/2018 my partner was fired thus leaving me to cover both of our territories meaning (job requirements changed). Upon asking for tools I needed to perform my job, I was denied time after time along with raises (that the new administrator said I was long overdue) but could not afford to give me a raise because of the company being in receivership. \n\n3\/2018 - 6\/2018: I was on my own to \u201csell\u201d home care reporting to an interim manager who was Asst Dir of Nursing. The computer system\/application we used to log clients was cut off due to the company not paying for it, so I made my own excel spreadsheets to track my clients. During this time they kept promising they\u2019d \u2018get me help in the field\u201d because I had every account in the city limits (60 mile radius).\n\n7\/2018: Company hires former Sales Manager who was previously fired by old Administrator to be my new superior\/Manager. Job description was changed 7\/5\/2018 and no new non compete signed. Bonus structure also changed (twice!!!). From day 1 this Manager was very aggressive and came with a lot of demands. She made various sexually discriminating comments towards me being \u2018a man\u2019. ( I was the only male in an office of 30 or so women). Over the course of the next few months I made multiple claims directly to my manager and even to the new Administrator that I was very stressed out from the work environment, not receiving bonuses, not being eligible for a raise and still not receiving medical benefits (Was told medical wasn\u2019t being reinstated for \u2018years\u2019 and \u2018company wouldn\u2019t be out of debt for years\u2019). After this, I sought out mental health therapy from a professional.\n\n8\/2018: Began searching for a new place of employment since I have a wife and 2 very young children. I wanted to better our family and felt I was stuck with no room for advancement or potential raise. \n\n9\/2018: Multiple meeting with immediate boss and Administrator regarding my anxiety and stress from the job and my immediate boss not making good on her promises of \u2018helping me in the field\u2019, frustration over no raises and their fighting me when I should be bonusing but then making excuses for it. I couldn\u2019t go to HR since our HR dept lady was on medical leave for surgery. (So I\u2019m sure none of these meeting were ever documented).\n\n9\/12\/2018: I had been experiencing chest pain, anxiety, heart palps and severe depression from the actions of the employer and the thoughts that I was \u2018stuck\u2019 in a dead end job with no way of advancing or making more money for my family or ever have the chance at getting insurance, 401k etc\n\n9\/17\/2018: I accepted new job offer from a Homecare Hospice agency that I began 10\/3\/2018. I resigned from former employer 9\/28\/2018.\n\n10\/2018: Things at new employer were exceptional! Fantastic! Structure environment, everything was better. Room for advancement, bonuses, and the job paid $15k a year MORE! Benefits, 401k, disability, retirement... the WORKS!!!\n\n11\/8\/2018: Served a cease and desist along with my current employer from my current employer under \u201cNon Compete\u201d clause. Mind you, I \u2018Signed\u2019 Non Compete \u201cNot Signing\u201d in a signature that COULD be interpreted as a signature, BUT it\u2019s not my regular signature. I did this to cover my ass. Anyways, I was released from my new amazing employer which they didn\u2019t want to do because we had such a good thing. The Non Compete wasn\u2019t signed where any \u201cwitness\u201d line is BUT it\u2019s signed by the HR lady where it says \u201cBY:\u201d which COULD just mean \u201cfiled by\u201d.\n\nIn my opinion, my former employer is bitter that I left them to work for a competitor and sent both me and my current job letters to simply \u201cscare\u201d us hoping one would fold, which is exactly what happened. My new company that released me plans to keep my position open for me until 2019 in the case I win a Civil dispute in court. \n\nI\u2019m thinking I will counter sue for Mental Anguish, Pain and Suffering, back wages for bonuses I should\u2019ve received and possibly to cover the medical expenses I paid out of pocket for (only if they don\u2019t drop the non compete). I\u2019m not seeking money unless they try and uphold the non compete. All I really want is my new job back so that I can provide for my family. \n\nAlso- the new company I worked for hired me under one of their \u201cllc Hospice\u201d branches and even states this on my paystubs. My old company sent the letter to the \u201cparent\u201d company...\n\nThink I have a chance of at LEAST getting them to drop the non compete???? Thanks! \ud83d\ude0a","title":"Need Help","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553135243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3l1qa\/out_of_state_ticket_in_california\/","id":"b3l1qa","body":"Hey there. I recently traveled out of state to California for a friends wedding and I got a speeding ticket while I was there. I had never driven in California before and was driving an unfamiliar vehicle (a rental). I was driving on the 101 on my way up to Humbolt County when this happened. If anyone\u2019s familiar with this, it\u2019s very mountain-ish and cell phone reception is really spotty. Well, about 2 1\/2 to 3 hours into my drive I was kinda worried and my shoulders were tightening from maneuvering those mountains. I lost phone service, had literally no idea where I was going and my gas was getting low. I was trying to move it some (I was going about 75 in a 65 at this point) and trying to restart my phone to hopefully pick up a better connection. So I wasn\u2019t paying too much attention to my foot and as I made my way down a super large hill\/mountain, I mistakenly kept my foot on the gas and sped up like a dummy going down this mountain. And of course, a highway patrol was sitting there. He said he clocked me going 90 in a 65, which I don\u2019t entirely see how that\u2019s possible but anyway. I explained all this to him (the being lost and not knowing where to go, no cell service and freaking out)and all that. He just told me that if I didn\u2019t want the point I needed to take traffic school. But I\u2019m very concerned because my home state of North Carolina is very strict about this and I\u2019m worried they will take my license. I don\u2019t know what to do. I\u2019m willing to do absolutely anything in order to keep that from happening. Pay the fines, take traffic school, etc etc. I made a mistake and I know that. I just cannot get my license taken as I need to work and go to school. And I really don\u2019t need the point as I need my insurance to not go up. So I\u2019m freaking out. But what do I do? Please help me out, I\u2019ve been a constant ball of stress and worry since this. Should I contest it? Should I try to get a lawyer? If so, how the heck do I find a lawyer from that super small county? (Mendocino I think?) I\u2019m willing to use all my savings for this so I can keep my license. Any advice would help me tremendously and I appreciate it beyond words. Thank you so much in advance. ","title":"Out of state ticket in California.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554773077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb1xb4\/question_about_using_my_rifle_to_kill_a_possum_fl\/","id":"bb1xb4","body":"So first of all I hope I\u2019m not the stereotypical Floridian talking about his guns and looking for an excuse the shoot them. That being said, I have this huge problem with a possible rabid possum that has started to hangout in my back yard. Yesterday I left my medium sized dog outside and maybe 2 minutes later I hear her freaking out so I go to check on things and this possum is cornered in pure day light in my back yard right next to where he has been burrowing under fences. So instead of running away or playing dead it starts holding its ground and showing teeth. I am able to gather my dog up and I go for my gun and it\u2019s gone.  My question is if I were to fire my weapon to kill it would I get in trouble? It just didn\u2019t seem like stereotypic behavior for a possum and it was like 1 in the afternoon and they tend to be nocturnal. What happened if I\u2019m not home and a family member let\u2019s my dog out and both them and my dog get attacked and seriously injured? I\u2019m just looking for the best way to take care of this. If it comes up again I could use my machete but why risk injury to myself? I\u2019ve been thinking of putting up traps but I don\u2019t want my dog to get caught in anything as well. Well, thank you guys for your time!","title":"Question about using my rifle to kill a possum (FL)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568472849,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d466kp\/accused_of_sexual_assault\/","id":"d466kp","body":"I\u2019m hesitant to post because I\u2019m well aware of the stigma that surrounds anyone accused of any sexual related crime. I am going to face trial in the UK magistrates court, on charges that I allegedly touched a female sexually while she was unable to give consent. I have never faced trial before and this whole situation has done nothing more than plunge me into deep suicidal depression. I am incredibly nervous and not sure I\u2019m going to be able to cope without having a total breakdown in court, not to mention if the outcome of the trial is negative. I am not guilty and want to fight for my innocence as much as I possible could but with every passing day I lose hope more and more. I\u2019m not saying this to try and make any reader feel bad for me, just to try and describe my situation better. Does anyone have any advice on how to prepare myself for court, strategies or anything I could use for my defence, or just how to avoid caving under stress and horrible feelings all of this has caused? Thank you very much for taking the time to read this, I really appreciate anyone who feels like helping me, no matter how small or irrelevant you may think your ideas may be, they could help prevent an innocent person from having my life ruined by false charges","title":"Accused of Sexual Assault","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552373185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b04lwq\/tenants_rights_when_landlord_sells_nc\/","id":"b04lwq","body":"Hello r\/legaladvice.\n\nMy wife and I signed our lease and moved into this townhouse in November last year, through the property manager who happens to be my Grandmother. 12 month lease, security deposit. Done. We've paid rent on time and have reported any and all issues as they've arisen, and I'd like to think we've been pretty good tenants, all things considered.\n\nHowever, about a month ago, my grandmother very quietly told us, \"because I have to tell you...,\" that our landlord has decided to put the house up for sale. This entails that we will be given 24-hour notice prior to a buyer visit, in which the house needs to be staged and we need to not be there. She also said that once an agreement has been reached, we will be given our eviction notice.\n\nSo, that being said, and that the main issue, I'm asking what my legal rights may be. I THOUGHT (Granted I'm a mechanic, not a lawyer) that a landlord would offer to sell the house to the tenant first. We'd probably take that offer, consider the house is listed at a price that makes the mortgage payment HALF of what we pay in rent.  But besides that, do I have any right to demand my deposit back in full for early termination? What penalties can be invoked on my landlord for it?\n\nI will admit, I need to read through my lease for an early termination clause (tomorrow, if I have time before class), though I really don't recall that being one.\n\nAnd, although I really do hate to consider it, would I be wrong in taking matters against my grandmother as well? We have had 2 scheduled visits, neither we were consulted about and neither even occurred. The first was our son's birthday. That appointment we refused after being told it WOULD happen, not can it. The second appointment was sprung EXACTLY 24 hours before the appointment, and when my wife had staged and drug the kids out, she was notified 5 minutes before the event that it was canceled.\n\nAll in all, in regards to our property manager, she's been very hush on the sale, and is reluctant to tell us anything on the matter. The appointments and the manner of everything has been at best inconsiderate and rude, and at worst I feel it is sleazy. As for my landlady, I understand the want to sell. Our townhouse is fairly new (5 years) and she is capitalizing on the new houses being built and selling around it. But it seems very backhanded to post a lived-in property for sale well before even half the lease is through, with no consultation.\n\nI know I typed a story, and I'm sorry, but I wanted to air all the information I could think would be asked of.\n\nTldr: What are my rights as a tenant when the house is being sold from under me? And should I be prepping to take any legal action? ","title":"Tenants' rights when Landlord sells (NC)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539178868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mzk1g\/my_sister_is_having_an_affair_with_a_cult_leader\/","id":"9mzk1g","body":"My sister and brother in law love in Florida. They have two children, 7 and 4. My brother in law recently, like last night, found out that my sister is having an affair with a YouTube \u201cpreacher\u201d. He was based in LA but recently moved to Florida to be with my sister. I have watched his YouTube channel and he recently predicted that the end of the world was going to happen in April of 2018. When it didn\u2019t happen he made excuses and now says it will have in 2021. He says things like the worlds laws no longer have meaning and that he must begin to prepare for the rapture with his new soon to be wife and her kids.\n\nHe says things like he will be the new children\u2019s father and they will homeschool the children to teach them his fanatical beliefs. He says that he and my sister are \u201c#1 and #2\u201d in the 144,000 that will be taken in the rapture. He is now soliciting funds from his YouTube followers to pay for a new house, furniture and appliances for a new house for his \u201cnew family\u201d. He doesn\u2019t appear to have any real job and is currently living in a Motel 6. Trust me I could go on. It\u2019s really scary stuff. \n\nAnyways my brother in law and sister are not legally separated and there are no ongoing legal proceedings. He fears for his children\u2019s safety and reasonably so. \n\nCan he leave the state with the children to take them to my mom in Georgia without being accused of Kidnapping? What are his rights? ","title":"My sister is having an affair with a cult leader. What can my brother in law do to get the kids away?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504305848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xi2ey\/pa_academic_information_release_form_by_company\/","id":"6xi2ey","body":"Hello! I just got a new job offer with the company I currently work for. They asked me to sign a form for academic information release: \"I authorize my educational institution to provide any academic information they have regarding me to [REDACTED].  In doing so, I release them and their organizations from liability for any damages caused by providing this information.  The information will be evaluated for purposes of retaining me as an employee.\" \n\nI know my school makes you pay for transcripts and such, so can my company pull my academic records without going through the standard process? What information does this type of form get my company?\n\nEdit: even if I have a FERPA saying only I can view my academic records?","title":"[PA] Academic Information Release Form by Company","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553348499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4jad8\/landlord_is_fucking_me_over\/","id":"b4jad8","body":"So basically I live in a small one bedroom flat in London. It\u2019s managed by a property company on behalf of the landlord. My whole flat is electric, no gas\/oil. When I moved in everything was good, then I started getting electricity bills of \u00a360\/70 a month which was fine. Then they went up to \u00a380. Then when I was away for a month in the US it went up to \u00a3100, then \u00a3500, and now I owe the energy company \u00a3900 for only two months of electricity. I\u2019ve been trying to get it sorted out by the management company for 6 months as there\u2019s obviously an electrical fault and they have literally done fuck all. Paired now with a builder made a hole in the ceiling in the bathroom due to a leak and promising to come back and fix it at a later date however two weeks later this never happened. What are my legal options for the bills ? I\u2019m a student so obviously don\u2019t want to fork out \u00a3900+ for something I don\u2019t have to. \n\nSorry for the long read . I\u2019m in the UK   ","title":"Landlord is fucking me over","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554314420,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b91cdy\/getting_a_title_for_a_vehicle_without_one\/","id":"b91cdy","body":"Not sure if this is the right subreddit or flair for this post so sorry ahead of time if I messed something up. I have been looking for a cheap truck to fix up and I found a great deal but it has no title. What would I have to get it titled and legal to drive? Apparently it had a Georgia title that was lost, the current owner bought it without a title to use as a hunting truck and moved it to NC where I live. The current owner does have a bill of sale. If I was to get it would it be possible for me to legally get a title, and if so how would i go about doing it and what would it cost?","title":"Getting a title for a vehicle without one","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539198108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n2ehx\/quick_question_about_minor_victims_in_il\/","id":"9n2ehx","body":"In 1987, at the age of 4, I disclosed sexual abuse to my father. In the interest of healing and clarity,  I went to the courthouse today and read all 106 pages of scanned documents that had in their system. \n\nHave document protections for minor victims changed in subsequent years? I was able to access these documents without having my id checked, without any kind of order... my full name was all over the documents. \n\n","title":"Quick question about minor victims in IL","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551812866,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axovfn\/california_what_questions_can_employers_legally\/","id":"axovfn","body":"Is it legal for employers to ask if you have received benefits like food stamps or welfare\/other social assistance? Are race questions legal? I moved here from another state so I'm surprised about what I see in terms of questions on job applications.","title":"California: What questions can employers legally ask?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551812122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axoqb4\/director_paid_as_independent_contractor_and_then\/","id":"axoqb4","body":"This might be difficult to explain but I'm going to try and do my best. Within the past year in Ohio, my mother has teamed up with a non-profit organization to start her own organization that uses horses to help veterans with PTSD and other drug and alcohol issues recover. The owner of the main organization is very controlling and sexist and thinks he cannot do wrong.\n\nFirst off, the wording in her contract treats her like and employee and she had to adhere to a time schedule and other employee regulations the organization has. I looked up a list of what makes an employee an employee rather than an independent contractor and she met all of them. \n\nMy mother is also the director of this subordinate organization and it clearly states that. However, she has to pay all of the taxes an independent contractor pays rather than the parent organization paying them.\n\nThis all started to escalate when my mom's boss started getting even more controlling and demanding of her, yelling at her for dumb reasons that shouldn't have been an issue. Just yesterday he fired her for having \"a difference in culture\" and even the board of directors of the parent organization didn't know about what was happening.\n\nUnfortunately, now my mother has put about a year and a half to two years of hard work into this organization and it all crumbled from under her. What can she do about this situation?\n\nTLDR: My mom's sexist boss paid her as an independent contractor even though she was clearly an employee and director of her nonprofit and now he fired her for a \"difference in culture\" after my mom stood up to him for various account of sexism and other things.","title":"Director Paid as Independent Contractor and then Later Fired","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539631869,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ofxng\/signing_a_house_over_but_still_want_a_legal\/","id":"9ofxng","body":"So my sister and I own a house. I currently live in it and my sister owns a house else were. We are 50\/50 owners. \nMy dad wants me to sign over the house completely to my sister but I would like more then just a hand shake that this is still 50% mine. Something so she can\u2019t just throw me out. I pay the taxes and utilities and take care of everything. \nWhat would be a good legal way to sign the house over to her while also protecting myself?","title":"Signing a house over but still want a legal safety net.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1505498571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70bkvr\/man_saying_child_is_his\/","id":"70bkvr","body":"Bit of a long story but my GF has a guy claiming that her kid is his in Alaska. He was a client and they started talking about their family. Next thing you know he starts calling her trying and wouldn't leave her alone. She file a restraining order which didn't pass because the judge is giving his saying his story could have happened. Which is ridiculous in itself. He's saying she was shopping at Home Depot by herself when she was 16 and they met. This time period puts him around 30 years old.\n\nSo during the restraining order the judge was presented a DNA test between the actual father and son which was a 99.99% match. So the restraining order wasn't granted but the judge says you don't need to be contacting her or he will grant it. We think its all done at this point. \n\nThe guy gets another lawyer and says he wants a paternity test to prove he isn't the father. The child and guy got one done and it was a 0% match. Again now we think this is over. Not the case the guy is now saying he wants a 3 way test (the motion for it was granted) which my GF and her child have to be in the same room as him. We had the DNA testers provide a document stating a standard test is just as accurate as the 3-way test and if was never specifically stated which test was to be provided.What are our options here? We don't want the child anywhere near the guy, the kiddo has also already been to 2 DNA tests to show who the father is. It feels like everyone isn't even looking at the documents and it's starting to really hit my GF hard emotionally. \n\nThanks all!\n","title":"Man saying child is his.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442461563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l9do8\/ca_landlord_can_i_limit_the_number_of_adult\/","id":"3l9do8","body":"I'm renting out a small 3 BR apartment. I want to limit occupancy to 3 adult inhabitants. \n\nChildren would not count toward this limit. If I needed to limit total inhabitants, I'd follow the \"2 people \/ bedroom plus 1\" standard, i.e., no more than 7 total people, and no more than 3 adults.\n\nAn applicant responded negatively to this, claiming that according to California rental code, I cannot state an occupancy limit lower than the number of people that would violate fire safety code. (If the fire code allows people to sleep in the den, I think that equates to 11 people.)\n\nI'm in Oakland, and I could find no city guidance on this issue. The adjacent, and usually stricter, [City of Berkeley's rent board](http:\/\/www.ci.berkeley.ca.us\/Rent_Stabilization_Board\/Home\/FAQs_Occupancy.aspx) states \"there is no prohibition against limiting the number of adults provided the purpose is not to discriminate on a protected basis. State and federal law prohibit landlords from discriminating against families with children and landlords cannot limit the number of people in order to discriminate against a family with children. On the other end, the Housing Code limits the number of people per square foot.\"\n\nIt seems like I'm in the clear if I limit adult tenants to 3 and total applicants to 7. Am I missing something? \n\nI replied to the applicant reminding her that my limit applied only to adults and quoting that Berkeley page, as well as also offering that if she could provide any code or other information to support her claims, I'd be happy to accept an application.\n\nFor whatever it's worth, the place is priced low for our market, in part because it is very small. We're not trying to gouge people or use pricing to greatly restrict our applicant pool. (I mention that in case there's any chance that could be construed as having a discriminatory impact.)\n\nThanks for any input you might have!","title":"CA landlord: Can I limit the number of adult occupants?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541094023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tbmjt\/tenant_wont_give_me_rent\/","id":"9tbmjt","body":"I have spare apartment room in new york city which I rent out to this boy. He has been fired from pizza job but I let it slide for a bit. \n\nThis is not first time he has been late with rent, but this is final straw, earlier today I confronted him, he say \u201cYou\u2019ll get your rent when you fix this damn door!\u201d and he slam door in front of me and my daughter. \n\nI want to evict him, but he is normally good boy, he must be in some kind of trouble. What should I do? ","title":"Tenant wont give me rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568613216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4wiq9\/not_specifically_about_me_as_i_have_absolutely_no\/","id":"d4wiq9","body":"I heard this on an ask reddit thread so it\u2019s not the most trust worthy source. I also live in California and the post may have been from a user from another country or state but if it\u2019s true this seems absolutely ridiculous? It\u2019s like buying a prostitute is legal, but prostituting yourself isn\u2019t? Can someone please clarify so I can sleep knowing creeps can\u2019t do stuff like this...","title":"Not specifically about me, as I have ABSOLUTELY NO INTENTION of doing this but I heard that it\u2019s legal to watch Child p*rnography, just not to download or possess it?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571255419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diuoxo\/scratched_someones_car_maybe\/","id":"diuoxo","body":"I parked in a parking lot and got of my car fast and closed the door and ran inside because it was raining. When I closed my door I thought I saw a small scratch on the other persons right mirror, but I wasn\u2019t sure, I got my groceries and come back to my car when I go to get into mine and low and behold, I see a small scratch on his car. I did not realize it could\u2019ve been mine until I got home, I asked my friend in the passenger seat if I scratched his car getting out, and he said I didn\u2019t but I\u2019m still doubting myself. I don\u2019t want to be charged with a hit and run, what do I do? I didn\u2019t hear any sounds and I\u2019m still not sure if I scratched his car or not.","title":"Scratched someone\u2019s car maybe?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552077729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayv28f\/apartment_rent_roomate_leaving_facing_eviction\/","id":"ayv28f","body":"Location: Upstate NY\n\nLease Tenant: my husband\nOccupants: me and my twin sister and my 7 month son\nSubletting against the lease rules\nApartment knows they both worked to pay rent, we did not sneak her in or anything. All of us signed the lease and paid app fees. \nLease is 15 months, were in month 6\/15. 1900 to break plus 1000 rent. \nHusband works 12 hr shifts 6 days a week\nSister never held a job longer than a month\nIm unable to work and applying for disability(once I get that it will help so much later)\n\n\nTo put simply, she left. Lives with her new bf parents. Not sad about it because she was terrible. I have a rant post if youd like background. She is now rid herself of helping with rent. We have a written agreement and she paid through chase bank. We paid late rent monlthly because shed never tell us until last minute she was short and avoided confrontation. \n\nWe cant afford it by ourself, and if we cant get help from welfare or similar company, we will be going back to my MIL basement. We have that as a plan B. \n\nAll I want to know is if we have any recourse. She paid 400(less than us) monthly. Im ready to let it blow over, We both are. If we dont have anything to be done, its fine. I just want to see if we did. We cant afford a consultation with anyone and Ive dug through google with no success finding a similar case in ny to read through. \n\nThank you for your time. If I missed anything important let me know. \n\n","title":"Apartment rent, roomate leaving, facing eviction from low income","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569020307,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d72j58\/sprinkler_system_in_rented_condo_not_working\/","id":"d72j58","body":"I live in the state of Georgia in the USA. \n\nI have just recently moved into a new condo and signed a year long lease. It was not revealed to me that the sprinkler system in the unit was not 100% functional. There are two sprinklers specifically that do not work, as well as other items in the home that may be faulty. There is a bath tub that has mold build up in between the wall and tub itself. This seems to be from the tub not being properly sealed. There are also several GFCI switches that keep popping in the condo. \n\nDo I have any legal recourse and what can I do to get things remedied? Is there any way I can get out of the lease? \n\nThank you in advance for any help you can give.","title":"Sprinkler system in rented condo not working.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568754198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5n6vf\/accepted_an_offer_letter_and_signed_contract_put\/","id":"d5n6vf","body":"I work in a semi niche industry, where 5-10 year contracts are fairly common. \n\nI was approached by a competing company about 3 years ago inquiring when my current contact ends and I told them. They understood and said if I liked that I could contact them closer to my contract ending and we could have some discussions.\n\nFast forward to 6 months ago, my contract was ending in 3 months so I started having serious discussions with them about a change of company. They offered me more money, guaranteed bonuses, moving expenses, more vacation etc. Brought this to my then current employer and asked for them to match it or I would be moving on. This was more of a respect thing to inform them that in 3 months I would be leaving, I knew they couldn't match the offer without seriously upsetting the rest of the staff.\n\nI esign the contract with the new company, get a large advance for expenses, moving etc and have 60 days until my start date. I used all my PTO towards the end for extra time to get things done, sell my house etc so I can report to the new company early and hopefully get a few weeks of slow time so I can jump right into things and the flow once my real start date rolls around. \n\nWell heres where everything ends quickly, I get settled in and contact the person I've been dealing with only to find out he also accepted a new job and moved on. No big deal at first but now I need to find the new person to talk to. Issues immediately popup because no one else seems to be expecting me but they do confirm I was given an advance and I show my contract to them. Everyone seems surprised as no one else seems to know why I'm here and were not expecting me.\n\nI figured this would resolve quickly but the company seems to have gone dark and are no longer responding to emails or returning calls. \n\nMy biggest question is since the guy who gave me the contract while he was employed did have the authority to give out jobs, contracts etc but now that he's no longer there is my contract still valid and worth it to persue legal action? I mean I don't really want to sue my way into a job and I can easily take a different job within the industry easily but I do feel I need to be compensated for the time I've wasted moving, selling my house etc.","title":"Accepted an offer letter and signed contract, put in notice and sold my house\/moved 2000 miles away to show up for my first day to be told I don't work there anymore.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551244309,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av9jwu\/sexual_harassment_question\/","id":"av9jwu","body":"I\u2019m a male, and was sexually harassed at work by a female. She is not in my chain of command, but she is in my (very small) department. She acknowledges she made an error, and has apologized. From my experience, I believe this is not the first time she has approached someone like this. Our positions in the company are different, but highly visible, and close to the top. \n\nI\u2019m not sure what the right thing to do is. On the one hand, I feel like I should report it. But I\u2019m afraid of blowback, and the ripple effect within the department and beyond. I\u2019m not so naive to think it will remain totally quiet. I work with her boss every single day, so at the very least they will know as will her direct reports. I also know other people in the department are fond of her, and her husband and kids. \n\nI\u2019m still pretty uncomfortable with the whole situation, and frankly kind of disgusted. \n\nWhat\u2019s the reality of the outcome, should I report this? I\u2019m in the US. ","title":"Sexual harassment question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569950637,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbwnpt\/single_mom_scared_to_file_child_support\/","id":"dbwnpt","body":"I finally need to file for child support. But I\u2019m worried since I make more money than my ex if I will have to pay him? \n\nI make around 77 a year \nMy ex (child\u2019s father) makes around 40 a year \n\nHe has been paying for half of daycare which is $360.00 a month. \n\nWhen I file will he end up paying less since I make more?\nIs it even worth it to file?\n\nKeep in mind he hasn\u2019t paid for anything else besides half of daycare. My son is with me 95 percent of the time. And he\u2019s 13 months old now. \n\nNever did this before sorry I\u2019m scared, stressed and extremely anxious. \n\n\nWA STATE","title":"Single mom scared to file child support.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539816611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p3hzo\/is_the_insurance_company_wrong_here\/","id":"9p3hzo","body":"Basically I have an 03 Ford Taurus (worth about $1950) and a deer ran into the side of it. I also have full coverage for my car  insurance. The cars fender and door got messed up but nothing beyond repair. The car still runs fine. \n\nInsurance company originally offered to total it for $1950 because they said it would cost more to fix it then it\u2019s worth. They also made another offer verbally saying if you find someone to fix the damage under $1000 they would fix it. We found someone who would for $975.\n\nWe go to tell them we have someone to do this and now they\u2019re saying they\u2019ll pay but it puts my car as a \u201cSalvage\u201d title. I think this is bull considering the same amount of work would be done we just have a shop doing it for cheaper than they\u2019re people. \n\nI\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s listed as a \u201ccollision\u201d, so it won\u2019t be labeled as an actual accident. Can they legally put it as a salvage title, considering the car will be fine? Or am I in the right trying to keep the title as clean? \n\nThe car runs good and I plan on giving it to a family member. I really don\u2019t want it to be a salvage title.","title":"Is the insurance company wrong here?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1444837817,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oqi8t\/problems_with_my_building_management_going\/","id":"3oqi8t","body":"So this will might be a bit of a long and scattered post as I am so angry and annoyed and this has been going on for so long so please bear with me; if you cant bear with me ill put at TL;DR at the end.\nSo I moved in to my apartment complex in January 2015 and signed a year long agreement. We also had to sign up to pay for parking OUTDOORS for $50 a month which is pretty ridiculous in itself but whatever. Anyway, when I went in to get my parking spot I had several discussions with the management office as to where I would prefer the spot as I was 6 months pregnant (I had two options: by the door or the outside entrance) so during this time no one ever notified me that there would be construction happening on the parking lot as of June, so I would only able to use this spot for 3 months. Not only was I (and the rest of the tenants) not notified 3 months prior, we were notified 1 DAY BEFORE WE HAD TO MOVE OUR CARS. First of all, on the lease and parking agreement it says that if any construction were the be done they would have to give us 30 days notice. Second, they required us to STILL PAY FOR PARKING that we werent receiving and third they didnt offer us alternative parking. The alternative parking they offered was: you can park your car in the school yard behind but its on a first come first serve basis, oh and in september when the kids start school there will only be like 10 avaialable spots. As of right now, my husband, 4 month old baby, dog and myself have to hope for a spot on the road near the entrance of our building or else lug everything three blocks away. The building has also given no notice as to when all this will be done, first they said by september, then november, now its up to a year. The problem with that is when it snows you cant park your car overnight on the road as it will be ticketed and towed. Finally, they also never informed me that the construction would be happening DAILY right outside my window, its so loud i cant hear the television (which i dont really watch just to give you an idea) it consistently wakes my baby and gives me horrible anxiety. I emailed the management all my issues and she emailed me back(in a nutshell): Thank you for your concerns, I will call you. To which she never did. \nIm losing my mind with the noise and trying to figure out where to park everyday. I contacted a lawyer for free legal advice but i dont have much money. Also I know I could move but its just such a hassle. Is there anything I could do","title":"Problems with my building management!! Going crazy!!Living in Ottawa,ON,Canada","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553576369,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5ljbm\/i_signed_a_month_to_month_lease_and_paid_the\/","id":"b5ljbm","body":"Hi I live in California.\n\nI was planning on renting a room in a house and I sent my deposit and signed the month to month lease. However, I didn\u2019t pay first month since I owe it the day I move in( April 15th). The lease doesn\u2019t officially start until April 15th. I am not interested in moving in anymore am I able to get my deposit back? There is nothing in the persons lease agreement about the deposit prior to the lease actually starting.","title":"I signed a month to month lease and paid the deposit but didn\u2019t move in yet or pay first month of rent. Can I get my deposit back?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441872328,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kdbr6\/scam_check_liability\/","id":"3kdbr6","body":"I have been trying to find a new job.  I've been on job sites and applying and eventually I got an email asking me to interview over yahoo or google hangouts.  I proceeded out of sheer curiosity thinking it was a scam.  The prospects listed in the interview did eventually intrigue me to follow through with their stuff waiting to be all in (quit current job and so forth) until I received some kind of payment thinking surely a scammer wouldn't risk their own money.  It was also a work from home job which I have never actually dealt with so I naively thought maybe this was normal for this type of thing.\n\nScam is AAC tech thing \nhttp:\/\/www.indeed.com\/forum\/gen\/Job-Interviews\/Job-Hoax\/t474952\/p3\n\nhttps:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/jobs\/comments\/28dmte\/recent_scam_from_indeedcom\/\n\nhttp:\/\/www.ripoffreport.com\/r\/AAC-Technologies\/Changzhou-\/AAC-Technologies-Mr-Peter-Rogers-Scammed-By-Employment-Opportunity-Changzhou-China-1181317\n\nWell they said they would send me a check in order to purchase supplies from their \"vendor\".  I figured a scam group would never actually risk funds for this so if it came it might be legit.  Well the check came and it was for $3,120.  It didn't process right away and they asked me if I could front the funds and consider the check a reimbursement.  This weirded me out straight away and I told them I felt uncomfortable doing that as my current funds are for emergencies and I'd prefer to wait until the check cleared.\n\nI then looked up and found that this is a common scam but my bank had closed by then and I figured it would be fine to wait until tomorrow to call them and cancel the check so I didn't get a bonce fee and I would just block all their contact stuff.\n\nBut the check didn't bonce.  It cleared and now is in my account.  If it weren't for those links this probably would have fooled me and I would have been a lot worse off.  But now I am worried about the legal repercussions of receiving this money even though I haven't signed anything.  However I also don't feel comfortable continuing to deal with a scammer.\n\nI live in Wisconsin, USA if that helps for applicable laws.  And any help is much appreciated.  Also I can provide some chat logs if that helps.","title":"Scam Check Liability","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1445270755,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pd8ya\/is_a_nondisclosure_agreement_my_best_bet_will_it\/","id":"3pd8ya","body":"I am located in Missouri, these events will happen in multiple locations through the US. I currently have an idea I know will succeed, but I will be needing a lot of help to make it work. The idea is essentially a set of specialized concerts for a specific demographic and involves a specific setting and specific artists performing. I'll need investors, sponsor, labor and some other help to make it happen, but I have a network of all those people already. I also have contact with the artists who would preform. The concert series will take several months of planning to execute and I think if I \"pitch\" the idea to the artists or the wrong person to soon they could easily execute the idea without me. It is not  a challenging thing to accomplish and seems like a near guaranteed success.  \n\nWill an NDA allow me to pitch it to the major parties that be without them executing the idea without me? If not do you have any suggestions on how I could prevent this aside from proceeding carefully and only telling those who I trust?","title":"Is a non-disclosure agreement my best bet? Will it even help me?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571351362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djdvg2\/landlord_asked_to_sign_year_lease_with_text\/","id":"djdvg2","body":"I have been living at this townhome for 2.5 years and was under a month to month contract until June 2019 when my landlord asked me to sign another year contract. I told him we didn\u2019t want to sign a whole year because we wanted to buy a home within 6 months. \n\nHe replied with a text saying: \u201cI\u2019d prefer we go ahead and sign a 12 month lease (rather than 6 month) with the understanding I\u2019ll let you out of the lease early if you can purchase sooner - As long as I\u2019m involved and I have a heads-up on what\u2019s happening.\u201d\n\nHe is now saying that he wanted me to use him as a realtor and that he can not just let me out of my lease. To his credit, he is working on trying to get another tenant. Does this text-message conversation count for anything if he decides to come after us for breaking the lease agreement?","title":"Landlord asked to sign year lease with text message saying he would let me out of the lease if I purchased a home. Now he is going back on his word.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444099652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nnpqj\/landlord_refuses_to_return_security_deposit_can_a\/","id":"3nnpqj","body":"I recently moved out of an apartment in Ohio and my landlord gave me notice within the required 30 days time that he was making a claim on the whole of my security deposit ($525).\n\nIn his letter of notice, he notes the portion of the lease agreement that states that the tenants will receive their deposit back if the following provisions are met, one of which is highlighted: the portion about the entire dwelling, closets and cupboards being clean, etc. etc. He writes that this particular section was not satisfied, \u201cas the premises were not left by the Tenants in the manner outlined in the agreement; and a significant amount of cleaning was required to prepare for the new Tenants.\u201d\n\nMy roommate and I cleaned extensively within the unit before we left and to my estimation, left it in the condition necessary to receive most, if not all the deposit back. *After* the 30-day window, I texted him asking what these purported issues were and he mentioned several issues that we had specifically taken care of before we had moved out.\n\n*Even if they were true,* I see no way in which the issues he cited cost him $525 to fix. My problem is, the pictures I took when I moved out in no way prove my story over his. I just don\u2019t have enough detail to answer all of these claims, and so I really don\u2019t have any proof of my story.\n\nThe only issue I can see that might have potential for getting some of the money back is under a technicality, in his notification about the claim on my deposit. Under ORC 5321.16, which governs security deposits (http:\/\/codes.ohio.gov\/orc\/5321.16), I came across this: \u201cAny deduction from the security deposit shall be itemized and identified by the landlord in a written notice delivered to the tenant together with the amount due, within thirty days after termination of the rental agreement and delivery of possession.\u201d\n\nI\u2019m no lawyer, but in my estimation, he did not fulfill this requirement. In his letter he simply notes the section of the contract we supposedly did not fulfill and notes that \u201ca significant amount of cleaning was required to prepare for the new Tenants.\u201d To me, this doesn\u2019t seem like it is \u201citemized,\u201d but perhaps this is too technical to try to go to court over. Was his notification \u201citemized\u201d enough? Do I have any sort of a case here? In general terms, how specific would an \u201citemized\u201d list need to be?\n\nAdditionally, I\u2019m confident that if he had an itemized list of whatever work he had to do in preparing for the new tenants, that it would not add up to $525. Is this relevant? Can he simply make a claim to the whole of the deposit if he says we did not meet the terms of the contract? Or does he have to prove that he spent that much money fixing these purported \u201cproblems\u201d?\n\nI know my landlord is acting in bad faith, but is there any way I can recover even some of my deposit if I don\u2019t have proof for my story? Should I consider that deposit lost? I\u2019m guessing it\u2019s probably the latter, but I figured I\u2019d ask just in case.\n\nTL;DR: Landlord is acting in bad faith. Could a technicality help me get some of my deposit back?","title":"Landlord refuses to return security deposit, can a technicality help me? [OH]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570260640,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddk26l\/bench_warrant_for_no_proof_of_insurance_nevada\/","id":"ddk26l","body":"A family member forgot about the court date on the ticket, which was a couple days ago. They remembered today and want to just go to court on Monday when it\u2019s open with the proof of insurance. Is this a bad idea? This is specifically in Las Vegas. What should they do?","title":"Bench warrant for no proof of insurance (Nevada)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569182632,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7vplf\/someone_recently_decided_to_start_parking_in_the\/","id":"d7vplf","body":"I live in Pierce county, Washington. The following is copied from the Pierce county code website:\n\n\n10.24.030 Parking in Alleys.\nNo person shall park a vehicle within an alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than eight feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, and no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley in such position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property. (Res. 22271 (part), 1980; prior Code \u00a7 46.14.030)\n\n\nThe guy has been parking in the alley for about a week\/week and a half. He doesn\u2019t park in a spot, but up against the fence to the house across from us, next door to the one I\u2019ve seen him walking to (I don\u2019t know if he actually lives there). The problem is that he is parking in front of our garage and making it difficult for my wife and I to park\/leave our driveway, it was already a tight space before he started parking there. We now have to maneuver in a way that avoids hitting his car, each other\u2019s cars, and the garage. We can\u2019t change how we park because even if one of us decided to park in the garage (which is a huge hassle on its own until we get the doors fixed) we couldn\u2019t with where he is. \n\n\nI\u2019m hoping to catch him walking to or from his car so I can talk to him about it first and hopefully come to a resolution without conflict. Before anyone asks, I\u2019m way to anxious and cautious to go to the house because I don\u2019t know what kind of people they are and well this area is known for its tweakers. I can also be a bit of a doormat if I\u2019m being honest with myself. \n\n\nHow do I go about handling this if he refuses to stop parking there or, whatever deity you believe in forbid, one of us accidentally ends up hitting his car?  Does the code above apply in this situation?","title":"Someone recently decided to start parking in the alley way","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569273731,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8d54h\/wiping_chalk_off_my_own_tires_is_illegal\/","id":"d8d54h","body":"Background: I own my own car. My name is on the title. I purchased a one year residential parking permit from the city allowing me to park in two hour parking for 48 hours.\n\nParking enforcement in my neighborhood puts colored chalk on car tires so they can see how long since that car had moved. This is common practice, and I see no issue with it. However since it's my car, and I own it, I see no reason I can't just walk out and wipe the chalk of with my hand. It's my property, I think it's pretty reasonable that I have a right to clean the tires of a car I own. Today a meter maid watched me do this, approached me, told me it was illegal, and I can never do it again(the chalk had been applied earlier that day, and I was still well below the 48hr limit). He didn't give me a ticket, or anything. He didn't rechalk my tires, but he told me I should move my car, or I'd get a ticket later. He never came back to ticket my car. If this happens again, am I safe to politely tell the guy that I have every right to wipe chalk off my tires?\n\nI think there's no way it illegal to wipe chalk off my tires because:\n1. It's my property, I can do what I want with it.\n2. There's no way for me to even verify the chalk came from the city, or is just random chalk\n3.someone who isn't me could wipe the chalk off my car. This would have the same result, and I could get a ticket because someone wiped chalk off my tires? That seems unfair","title":"Wiping chalk off my own tires is illegal?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553713964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b68cpl\/random_drugtesting_in_legal_states\/","id":"b68cpl","body":"I am a part of a rotational program. As such I am being relocated to Oregon, where marijuana is both medically and recreationally legal. I am curious how random drug-testing is represented in law in this situation. I might add that my new position is with a sister company, but I will still receive my salary through the parent company, which is based in St.Louis. Our corporate policy states that I agree to be drug tested upon suspicion as well as agree to random drug testing. I fundamentally disagree with the legality of random drug testing, but I want to know my options given my current situation. Do i have any recourse if I am randomly tested? Please let me know if you need further information in regards to my unique circumstances.","title":"Random Drug-Testing in Legal States","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443036008,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m3qfy\/tn_moving_out_of_rental_questions_about_what_i_am\/","id":"3m3qfy","body":"I am about to move out of a rental house where I was the first tenant after the owners moved and decided to rent the place out.  They lived there for four years before I moved in.  In the Intent to Vacate noticed that I am to sign, they included a cleaning list that stated I need to clean the walls.  The problem is that the walls are flat white paint, the same paint that the contractor used when he painted the house when it was built.  \n\nI received a reduction in my first months rent due to the condition the walls and other areas of the house were in, this is documented via email between me, the first property manager (who no longer manages this property), and the owners.\n\nMy question is, since flat white paint is nearly impossible to clean, am I really going to be held liable for cleaning up what the owners left behind?","title":"[TN] Moving out of rental, questions about what I am required to do vs. what they are asking me to do.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539216572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n4z29\/condo_owner_above_me_is_a_slumlord_and_a_lawyer\/","id":"9n4z29","body":"Hello - I have a problem with the owner of the condo unit above me. I have had problems with leaks from his apartment, which he rents out, for years. This last one was really bad where I had to get a contractor to pull the ceiling down because the leak HAD to get fixed. I thought it was a leaky pipe. \n\nTurns out the pipe connected to his shower is not even really attached, and there is black PVC connected to white PVC that my contractor said wasn't how it's supposed to be done.  I told his tenant he could not use his shower until the problem was fixed, and even told him he could use my shower.  Since that would solve the problem temporarily I wanted the unit owner to have a chance to fix things.\n\nThe unit owner is a slumlord AND a lawyer. I told him he needed to get a licensed insured plumber to fix his pipes. He said his guy is fine and they were gonna just tape it up. I said no, he has to change the pipes because they are all wrong, and he has to use someone licensed because he uses cheap unqualified people to do repairs.  He's also infamous in our building for not paying things he owes.  \n\nWhen I told him he had to do the job right and not with his usual guys, he said if I want it done right I have to do it myself.\n\nDo you have any advice on how to get the work done and get reimbursed? I want to do things in a way that gives me the best chance of getting my money back, if I have to do this instead of him. He uses the worst guys that don't do good work IF they show up, and are super shady.","title":"Condo owner above me is a slumlord and a lawyer","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553102683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ergv\/renewingending_a_lease\/","id":"b3ergv","body":"Is there a standard policy apartments have regarding ending and renewing your lease? I just tried calling my apartments (phone was off the hook) because I plan on NOT renewing my lease but my friend told me last night that most places require a 60 day notice which I was not aware of. My lease would be ending on June 1st. At my last apartments, which were college student apartments and also were not paid for by me, just terminated the lease when it ended. So I\u2019m not sure whether it\u2019s a standard practice or if it varies company to company. I\u2019m in Texas if that makes any difference ","title":"Renewing\/ending a lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445479355,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ppusm\/wi_dealer_did_repair_on_my_car_on_good_faith\/","id":"3ppusm","body":"I bought a car from a dealer and a week later I noticed a few issues with the car. After getting the car inspected I was informed that the car would need repairs up to half of the total cost of what I paid for it. I called the dealer and said I wanted them to help me fix the car. They agreed to take the car and fix it and I agreed I would cover half of the costs so long as I get the car inspected to make sure those issues were resolved. All of this was done on the phone. There was nothing written.\n\nToday, I called the dealership and spoke with the owner. He said that I would have to pay them for the repairs when I go to pick up my car tomorrow. I told him I was going to need to get the fix verified by another mechanic first. He then started ranting about how he's doing this out of \"good faith\" and that I should trust him. I then ask him for an itemized receipt of the repairs and he said he can't provide me with an itemized receipt since he was able to get the repairs done so cheaply. From the way it sounds like, he found a \"guy\" who did the repairs for him and basically I'll be paying for the parts. So, I don't want to pay him for the repairs until I can verify that they actually fixed the issues they said they did. Is there anything I can do to prevent myself from getting taken advantaged of? What's to prevent me from refusing to pay them and then calling the cops to get my car from them? I have the title and all the paperwork.\n\nNOTE: I don't mind paying them since I gave them my word but I'll be stupid to hand over my money without making sure their end of the bargain holds up.","title":"(WI) Dealer did repair on my car on \"good faith.\" Demands that I pay them without letting me get car inspected first. Any advice?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568405356,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3uujf\/i_got_ticket_for_parking_over_2_hours_when_i_had\/","id":"d3uujf","body":"How do I prove that I wasn\u2019t there for 2 hours? I have an alibi for myself but not for my car","title":"I got ticket for parking over 2 hours when I had only been there an hour","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570823894,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgkeb9\/havent_had_working_outlets_in_apartment_for_over\/","id":"dgkeb9","body":"I currently live in Maryland and have lived in this apartment for about 4 years now. I pay my rent on time but maintenance has been a real big issue since the property was bought last year. Currently, none of my kitchen outlets work, and I've had two outlets spark, pop then die even with nothing plugged into them. Slowly the problem seems to be spreading and now my bathroom outlets do not work, and 2 outlets in my living room do not work. Today one more outlet outwardly sparked, made a loud pop noise then died. It has a burn mark on it. I called the emergency maintenance line and was told to turn off the breaker to the room, and they would be out later today. No one ever showed up. The outlet issue has been going on for a month now and I've called numerous times and have put in multiple maintenance tickets. My friend who is a paralegal told me to contact a lawyer and let them take care of it, which I have. So what happens now? I just want my outlets fixed (on top of a few other issues like animals in the ceiling). Thank you in advanced.","title":"Haven't had working outlets in apartment for over a month?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552666735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1gukn\/missouri_caught_driving_without_insurance\/","id":"b1gukn","body":"My boyfriend\u2019s car insurance lapsed and he drove one time during that period, was pulled over for his headlights being out, but ended up getting a ticket for not having his insurance. He then came home and immediately re-purchased insurance. \nHe has the option to plead guilty online and pay a pretty reasonable fine ($230) or he can go to court. Would it be worth it to go to court since he bought the insurance immediately after getting the ticket? It seems like the MO law is to lose your driving privilege until you obtain insurance, but is there a way to show proof of insurance while simultaneously pleading guilty? (Sorry I know nothing about legal stuff) ","title":"[Missouri] Caught driving without insurance","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539276276,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nbm65\/can_i_sue_my_boss_for_not_paying_me_the_agreed\/","id":"9nbm65","body":"So I work at a very small shop of less than 20 workers and we do Wedding Decorations to sum it up. My boss pays 10 dollars an hour and promised to pay $400 when we got to 40 hours. I've worked for over 130 hours that haven't been compensated for and my boss has been only been paying me $300 dollars. She also won't pay me unless I go in to work.\n\nNormally there would be no question as to whether or not I can take legal action. But since I get paid under the table (In cash), I'm not sure that I can.\n\nAny help would be appreciated because I need that 1,300 dollars I'm owed. For local laws, I'm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.","title":"Can I sue my boss for not paying me the agreed amount even though she pays me Under the Table?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540176843,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q9quz\/im_being_falsely_accused_of_sexual_assault\/","id":"9q9quz","body":"I am 18 years old and a 16 year old girl (age of consent in Mississippi is 16) came over to my house for tutoring. About three days before me and her went to the movies and we kissed in the heat of the moment. I told her later on I\u2019d help her with her math if she gave me a ride home from work the days she worked with me. Well she comes over to my house, before she arrives her mom called my dad and asked if he\u2019d be there and he said yes. She came in and we began studying at the kitchen table. I am relatively in wealthy so my living room, kitchen, and bedrooms are all extremely close together. My dad was awake on his phone walking in and out occasionally. Well after about 25 minutes of studying I basically tell her she might need someone else to help her and told her that I don\u2019t think me and her could work on a romantic level. Afterwards we let my dog out in the back porch and my dad had walked into the kitchen when we came back inside. She told him thanks for having her over and she left. Then I get a call a day later from her mom saying she had bruises on her ribs and that I sexually touched her. Then while I was at work a police officer came to my house and asked to see me and when I wasn\u2019t there left his card. He came by Saturday and we\u2019ve called his number but it goes straight to voicemail. What should I do? It\u2019s scared I just got accepted into some different colleges and I have done nothing wrong. ","title":"I\u2019m being falsely accused of sexual assault.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446005085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qinb4\/louisiana_friends_parent_died_with_no_will\/","id":"3qinb4","body":"Asking on behalf of a friend.\n\nFriend's parent married for 10+ years to her step-parent.  Shortly after their marriage, her parent convinced the step-parent to purchase land with the intention that it would eventually be given\/bequeathed\/sold cheaply to my friend and her brother.  The land was purchased in step-parent's name only.\n\nSome years later, friend gets married, and she and husband purchase a trailer.  Parent and step-parent agree to let them put the trailer on the land.  Friend and husband agree to pay $500\/mo for this privilege.  Time passes, friend gets divorced, putting her in a bad financial position.  Parent and step-parent agree to both a) let friend stay on the land and b) purchase the trailer so she wouldn't have the note to pay.  Because of her financial situation, they agree to let her stay without payment until she's in a better situation.  A year or two later, she gets a roommate on the condition that the roommate pay parent and step-parent $400\/mo in rent.  Still no charge for friend to live there.\n\nFast forward to last January, parent dies after a prolonged illness.  Parent did not have a will.  Friend and her brother signed over their portion of parent's life insurance payout to step-parent to \"cover bills they owe\".  She says she and her brother felt obligated to help step-parent out.  She isn't sure if the bills were her parent's medical bills or bills that step-parent had accumulated.  Side-note: step-parent was delinquent on his taxes for many years - they're not so good about paying what is owed to them, which is why there is some confusion on what the bills they paid off with the life insurance money were.\n\nCatching up to the present day.  Appliance in the trailer goes out, and after the repairman left step-parent told friend:\n\n* They intend to sell the property and trailer\n\n* She owes $8000 in back rent\n\nThe questions here are:\n\n* Does she owe back rent with no lease?  The only times rent was discussed was the agreement she made when married and the agreement that rent wouldn't be required upon her divorce.\n\n* Is 25% of the property hers (and another 25% her brother's)?  My basic understanding of Louisiana inheritance law is that without a will, the share of community property owned by the deceased passes in equal shares to the surviving children (if any).\n\n* If she does own a share of the property, what are her rights with regards to step-parent's plan to sell the property?\n\n* The catch-all question: what should her next steps be?  I've told her that she should consult an attorney specializing in the matter and surely there are free\/low-cost consultations available to her.  I'd just like to be able to tell her \"hey, there are several things you should know and\/or can do\".  She's a bit overwhelmed by all of this and hopefully a basic understanding of whats going on will help.\n\nThanks in advance","title":"[Louisiana] Friend's parent died with no will, financial arguments between survivors commence","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505973447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71h727\/dad_hasnt_shown_up_for_weekly_visitation_in_5\/","id":"71h727","body":"Just so everyone can get a feel for what my situation is I typed up some background info. However, if you don't want to read a long post, just scroll to the TL;DR and questions at the bottom.\n\nSo after being taken to court for visitation by a dad who wasn't in my kids life for over a year, he did exactly what I knew he would. He got bored. \n\nWe got the DNA test done, full legal and physical custody went to me. He had weekly visits. Everything was okay in my opinion, and I was definitely holding up my end of the agreement. I didn't feel comfortable with him taking her given his driving history and stuff he posted on social media. A couple or few months into visits, he progressively got more agitated and tried to force me to let him take her. I declined. His last visit was 5 weeks ago. Since then he hasn't spoken to me, blocked me on all social media and disappeared.\n\nRelated (and kind of backtracking) - on the second visit, I went home for a few minutes (there's a park out back where visits take place).. him and my kid disappeared. I texted him, and he didn't reply - then I saw him exit his car with her. He said she asked to go into the car and didn't think our agreement specified that he couldn't put her in his car. It very clearly said AT THE PARK. That's when I started physically sitting at the park for the whole two hours to keep an eye on him. He never had a problem with that, in fact he got mad at me for leaving the second visit because our agreement apparently said I would accompany them for the first 4 weeks. I knew then that he couldn't handle her alone so I just decided that my only true time \"away\" from her was much less important than my concern.\n\nAnyways, progressively things got a little more tense but I still held up my end of the deal, and all of our \"adult\" issues didn't exist when he was having his visitation. \n\nLast visit (5 weeks ago) her friend came and wanted to play with her at the park. In my opinion, he got irritated because she wasn't paying as much attention to him. He started to antagonize her, when she clearly said she wanted space from him. He got in her face and she did what many kids her age do when they're overwhelmed, threw a fit. Cause what she wanted to do didn't matter. He wasn't able to calm her down, so he decided to leave early. This isn't the first time he used her \"attitude\" as a reason to leave early.\n\nWhen I got back home I helped get her wound down a little. When I was able to check my phone he had sent tons of messages saying how we were going back to court and that normal kids don't act that way. He even said he's pretty sure she has autism. And then he said he can force her to go get tested for that kind of thing. (By the way, she's currently being screened by professionals to see if she has any developmental setbacks).. This was surprising considering he has a mild learning disability himself. \n\nAfter that, he disappeared. \n\nTL;DR: sketchy dad vanished and hasn't shown up for visits in 5 weeks.\n\nQuestions 1: Is there something I need to do to protect myself, and more importantly her if he gets bored of what he is doing now and tries to come back? \n\n** I have all of the texts documented, times\/dates of his visits and any concerning info in notes on my phone.\n\nQuestion 2: Since it was never specified to me specifically, can I legally obtain any documents that actually regard his disability, as a mother who wants to know if anything could be passed on?\n\nBottom line - I am relieved he hasn't shown up. I really hope he doesn't decide he wants to be a part of her life again. I am actually extremely stressed and on edge thinking he could come back anytime and say he wants his visit. \n\nMN, by the way.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Dad hasn't shown up for weekly visitation in 5 weeks, is there something I should be doing?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555526064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bebbc3\/can_a_judge_dismiss_or_suspend_community_service\/","id":"bebbc3","body":"Firstly, I appreciate you reading this and taking the time to respond. I'm assuming the likely response is \"they can but they almost never will and you shouldn't try.\" Please objectively take my circumstances into consideration.\n\nThis is happening in Ohio.\n\nI'm a 16 year old juvenile who has been on probation for a year, for breaking into an abandoned home (stupid I know). I've had a couple dirty weed screens, but I have had multiple screens weekly and been clean for 8 months.\n\nI value the lessons I've learned from the experience and I don't, and I mean this truly, ever to do impulsivity induced illegal things ever. My grades have significantly improved, my school attendance has, I have not had a single behavior issue to date since August, every one of my teachers is willing to sign on this. All of my fines are paid off and have been.\n\nThe problem is, I have 60 hours of community service. I work after school ends to 10:00 so I can help my family. My probation officer is absolutely terrible at scheduling community service dates, doesn't respond to emails or texts from me, my father, or my mom. I am unable to schedule days to take off work, instead he insists on picking me up from school spontaneously to do it which I've told him I can't do that.\n\n**Community service not counted against hours and at my own free will**.\nI have made serious attempts at doing things to help the community knowing that it wouldn't effect my community service. For example, I am making a propositional research article for a harm-reduction approach too drug education. I am in contact with the chief of addiction services at the Ohio addiction and mental health services, as well as the state opiate authority dilligently trying to make this happened for my school district. I have proof that I've been trying to lecture my peers about stopping juuling because there's no reason to risk an addiction just for the sake of riding the trend, I've lectured that illicit drugs often aren't bad unless you do them for the wrong reasons. When I started all of this I had no plan to use it to get off community service but my case worker is talking to my probation officer and I may very well have a hearing scheduled...\n\n\nWhat can I do to improve my chances of this potential hearing, if it's possible?","title":"Can a judge dismiss or suspend community service hours sentanced previously if my probation officer, and caseworker agree with it and show up to the (hearing?)?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541608970,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v1019\/is_my_charge_excessive\/","id":"9v1019","body":"I was leaving a bar because I got a ride. When I got to the car I threw my drink (in styrofoam cup) in the bushes because I didn\u2019t want to bring my drink in the car. A cop saw and I went and picked it up. He wrote me a ticket and I had to go to court for littering. The judge just gave me one month probation, a $227 fine, and 8 hours of community service for that... is this excessive or normal?","title":"Is my charge excessive?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570976447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhb5zs\/complying_with_gdpr_as_an_international_web_forum\/","id":"dhb5zs","body":"I am trying to delete myself from a forum I've been posting on for the past few years, and I cannot delete posts older than 60 days. \n\nThere is no option to do this through the website itself.  \nI have asked a moderator to delete my posts and account, and this conversation followed.\n\nMe -\n\n> Hi there,  \n I would like to delete my account and all posts I\u2019ve made. I do not see an option to do this anywhere. \n\nModerator -\n\n>Hey, I\u2019m not totally sure how these forums work, we didn\u2019t make the  software. I\u2019ve got the option to \u201csuspend\u201d your account, I\u2019m not  entirely sure what that would do. Is that okay? \n\nMe -\n\n> Discourse definitely has the ability to remove a user and all posts by them.  \n You maybe simply don\u2019t have access to this. Please ask the forum administrator  :)\n\nModerator -\n\n>It says at the bottom:  \n>  \n>Users can\u2019t be deleted if they have posts. Delete all posts before  trying to delete a user. (Posts older than 60 days old can\u2019t be  deleted.)  \n>  \n>I think you\u2019ve got posts over than 60 days old.\n\n​\n\nBlanket anonymization of my profile would not work, as many of my posts include personally identifiable content.   \nWhat are my options? GDPR summaries are nice, but I don't exactly trust them. I'd rather understand the actual GDPR.","title":"Complying with GDPR as an international web forum","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541459069,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uinvr\/what_are_our_options\/","id":"9uinvr","body":"Our apartment manager sucks. She constantly leaves early making us late for rent all the time. \n\nThe maintenance guy says he is going to show up the next day to fix an issue but never shows up even after giving written notice if our problem. We even went without water for a couple days because some kids destroyed some pipe. The entire complex was without water.\n\n\nI\u2019m tired of this place and want out.\n\nThe lease also says we are to have monthly pest control but that hardly happens. Maybe once every 3 months.\n\nIt\u2019s fucking stupid.\n\nThis is in Oklahoma.\n\nWhat are our options??","title":"What are our options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551731689,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axbzt5\/fake_instagram_account\/","id":"axbzt5","body":"A friend made a random instagram troll account for some girl at our school who is a major b!tch to him, but besides that she doesnt know who made the account but apparently reported it to the police. Would they be able to do anything if he signed up with a fake email address that doesnt actually exist? He said he also deleted it right after he heard she reported it and didn't do anything bad on it. He is very distressed.","title":"Fake Instagram account","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570550118,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df1wy7\/got_my_2nd_speeding_ticket_in_ca\/","id":"df1wy7","body":"How many of you have gone to court and fought a speeding ticket. The officer said I was going 70mph but I believe I was going 60. I won't lie I was speeding , the limit was 55mph. For him to stop me going 5mph over at night though and claim I was doing 70, is ridiculous. \n\nI found a couple of possible mistakes on my ticket and I want to fight it. Can someone explain the process and how difficult it is to over turn a speeding ticket","title":"Got my 2nd speeding ticket in CA","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552077970,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayv3sy\/detective_instigated_a_custody_battle_what\/","id":"ayv3sy","body":"TL:DR A detective started a custody case in order to use family testimony on a very old sexual assult case and my friend has lost her  child in the process. Any options since this doesn't  seem legitimate?\n\nMy friend, \"Karen,\" has been married to \"Nick\" for 3 years, but had her daughter \"Lindsey\" with \"Corey\" 9 years ago. They were never married because he was horrible to her, and never went to court for legal custody. They've been alternating weekends with her, with Lindsey staying with Karen and Nick during the week. \n\nThere were zero problems until Nick applied for a government job last summer, took a lie detector test and admitted to a crime he committed at 14 (he's late 20s now) but was never charged for. The crime has to due with sexual assult but was not rape (that's all I've been told). He then messed up and talked to a detective without a lawyer present. \n\nFast forward to 2 weeks ago, and the detective went looking for Nick to arrest him, but wouldn't give a charge. Nick was allowed to finish his work day and voluntarily went to the station and was held for 2 days and then put on bail via GPS tracker. Nothing was told to Corey and his new family because Nick and Karen didn't think he needed to know, but suddenly they were served with custody papers. After some digging they found out the detective went to Corey and told him he should try to get full custody of Lindsey and being he jerk that he is, sued for it. Yesterday in court Corey was granted full custody of Lindsey without much of a battle and Karen is devastated. She said everything was lies and the judge bought it, but she and Lindsey weren't allowed to say anything.\n\nNick was told that the detective did that because any testimony used in the custody case can be used against him in his sexual assult case even though the other party isn't charging him. Otherwise Karen and Lindsey wouldn't be able to testify against Nick because they're family.\n\nNone of this seems quite right to me, so I was hoping someone could help me fill in some holes.... Like can a detective instigate a custody battle legally, and what options could my friends have? ","title":"Detective instigated a custody battle what options are there?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503348972,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v60ln\/ny_landlord_wants_to_reclaim_an_amenity_in_my\/","id":"6v60ln","body":"Hi, I'm hoping someone can clarify where the law stands on this, I've looked through all the info I could find and have not been able to make heads or tails of things. I am a tenant in a rent stabilized apartment in NYC.\n\nMy landlord failed to provide heat last winter and instead provided a window aircon\/heater unit after a few months of all us tenants complaining and filing for rent reductions. The contractor who installed my unit in February gave me verbal affirmation that the installation was permanent. At the time I was happy to have any heat at all and didn't question the info the contractor gave me. The contractor removed my air conditioning unit in order to instal the new unit. \n\nThis week my management company emailed me requesting that I allow access to my apartment so they could remove the heater\/aircon unit they had installed. There was no agreement that the installation was temporary, and regardless the unit was installed 6 months ago. I am wondering if the heater\/aircon unit is now considered an amenity in my apartment, similar to my refrigerator or dishwasher. I have no intention of moving and taking the unit with me, just as I wouldn't move and take the fridge with me. \n\ntl:dr- Landlord installed a heater\/aircon unit over the winter and now wants to take it back 6 months later. Are they entitled to reclaim the unit?","title":"NY- Landlord wants to reclaim an amenity in my apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554007164,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7jzra\/im_in_love_with_pitbulls_and_hate_seeing_them_in\/","id":"b7jzra","body":"My apartment building has BANNED pitbull breeds. If I were to get an emotional support license\/service dog license, would I be able to keep one in my building? I know in the Fair Housing Act that buildings CANNOT decline service animals of any sort. But would they have grounds to sue or evict us for having one?","title":"I\u2019m in love with pitbulls and hate seeing them in shelters. How can I get past my buildings ban on them?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541713379,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ve9wk\/taking_pictures_at_the_public_protest_today_do_i\/","id":"9ve9wk","body":"I want to take photos of the protest today, and it's a public venue of multiple people. I have no ill intent to slander the protest, more so to show off the amount of people there. So it's not a moral issue I think, it should just be a legal thing. Would I need to give out a PRF to every person I have their face in an image?","title":"Taking pictures at the public protest today, do I need a photo release form?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570987986,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhdmln\/assisting_a_crime\/","id":"dhdmln","body":"A friend of mine helped a girl commit burglary how can that be fined or jail time as a minor","title":"Assisting a crime","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441447506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jq8w7\/got_scammed_when_trying_to_rent_a_flat_and_got_my\/","id":"3jq8w7","body":"So I am currently living in Germany for a year to work as a cook. I am a young Canadian who is relatively new to renting out flats. I had spent 4 months previously in Hamburg and had just recently moved to Berlin for more work. I was recommended a site from a fellow travler to find flats and flatshares to rent. While on there, someone responded with their flat being already rented out, but there friend recently moved to the UK and would be renting his flat so I should talk to him. Over the course of about a week and a half him and I talked about the flat and the whole process. I would have the flat to myself - which was what I was looking for, and it was in a perfect location for where I would find work. We got to know more about each other so that the process would be more stress-free. Unfortunately he was in the UK and I was in Berlin now, so we could not do any exchanges in person. When it was settled that I would rent out the place. He sent over a contract and gave bank details and address details for where he is living - he even gave proof of his passport. The price of rent was 400euros a month and the deposit was 500euros. The agreement was that once there was evidence of the money being transfered through a moneygram he would send the keys over to the hostel I am staying at and provide the tracking code. Once the transfer was confirmed he said that the keys were being sent, but he forgot the slip with the code at work so he would need to wait until the next day to email me the tracking code. However, he never sent the tracking code and the keys have not come at the stated time in which they should. He has also stopped responding to any form of contact and when I went to check the progress of the moneygram - it was withdrawn the day he stopped talking to me.\n\nI figure I probably cannot get the money back, but is there anything I can do or should try?\n\nThank you for your time,\n\nSteven","title":"Got scammed when trying to rent a flat and got my money stolen. What can\/should I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555356266,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdk8u3\/criminal_law_problem_question_uk\/","id":"bdk8u3","body":" \n\nVictor and William agreed that they would go to the market in their town centre on Friday afternoon and take cash boxes from the market traders as they were packing up their stalls after a day\u2019s trading. They agreed that they would go armed with knives although Victor made it very clear to William that the knives were \u2018just for show\u2019. Knowing that William had a history of violence Victor insisted that he sign a note stating that violence was not to be used.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, Victor and William made their way to the market place and noticed Yousef walking towards a van carrying a cash box. As Victor and William approached, William took out his knife and demanded that Yousef hand over the cash box. \u201cLet him have it!\u201d shouted Victor. Victor directed this command at Yousef, but William thought it was meant for him and so stabbed Yousef and grabbed the cash box. Luckily the knife only caused a large scratch on Yousef\u2019s arm.\n\nSuddenly, Zeberdee, another trader stepped in to help Yousef. William produced a pistol from inside his jacket. On seeing the gun Victor shouted, \u201cNo, no, not again. Stop!\u201d and fled the market place. William shot Zeberdee in his leg and took his cash box. Zeberdee was seriously injured, but survived the attack.\n\nquick question no need foe explanation, so viktor would be liable for robbery? and william will be liable for robbery and assault?","title":"Criminal law problem question UK","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553062403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b38gsj\/oregon_noncompete\/","id":"b38gsj","body":"I signed a non-compete coming onto this gig a few years ago, and I am just thinking about changing. Unfortunately, the non-compete is extremely broad and I don't know what to make of it:\n\n\"During the term of the Employee's employment with the Company\/Station and for a period of (6) months after Employee's employment with the Company\/Station ends for any reason, Employee will not, whether directly or indirectly, with or without compensation, enter into or engage in the business of broadcast or digital media advertising or marketing consulting in the Portland DMA.\"\n\n​\n\nContext:\n\n* I work at a TV station.\n* I work in sales.\n\n​\n\nOut of curiosity: **If I worked in Washington instead of Oregon - would non-compete laws still apply across state borders even if the company \"broadcasted\" into that part of the state** [(Portland DMA)](https:\/\/www.thevab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2017-2018-TV-DMA-Map.pdf)**?**\n\n​\n\n**Any tips on finding an employment lawyer to look over this to give final say?**\n\n​\n\nAnd lastly, according to [ORS 653.295](https:\/\/www.oregonlaws.org\/ors\/653.295), section 6:\n\n>Notwithstanding subsection (1)(b) and (d) of this section, a noncompetition agreement is enforceable for the full term of the agreement, for up to 18 months, if the employer provides the employee, for the time the employee is restricted from working, the greater of:  \n>  \n>(a) Compensation equal to at least 50 percent of the employee\u2019s annual gross base salary and commissions at the time of the employee\u2019s termination; or  \n>  \n>(b) Fifty percent of the median family income for a four-person family, as determined by the United States Census Bureau for the most recent year available at the time of the employee\u2019s termination.\n\n​\n\nIF IM READING THIS RIGHT - this is saying, regardless if I fall in the group of subsection 1b and 1d (which I do), **the non-compete is only enforceable if the employer agrees to compensate me for the remaining duration of my non-compete period - correct?** I guess the **\"**Notwithstanding subsection\" wording is messing me up.  \n\n\nThanks for any feedback and help. Just trying to be as educated as possible before going into a meeting and spending $500 on a session with a lawyer. If there are questions, I'll do my best to reply as clearly as I can.","title":"Oregon Non-Compete","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505490023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70amyb\/how_would_i_go_about_deferring_my_student_loans\/","id":"70amyb","body":"As for my reasoning I'll simply state it's due to mental health. I've got a combination of subsidized and unsubsidized Federal student loans, loans through Sallie Mae, and a Parent PLUS loan in my mother's name. If I haven't provided enough information please let me know, it's my first time posting in this subreddit. ","title":"How would I go about deferring my student loans from various sources to take a semester off? Colorado, USA.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539217336,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n52l8\/need_advice_for_a_rental_situation_va\/","id":"9n52l8","body":"Me and my partner invited someone to stay in our house temporarily. He wants to stay but is unwilling to pay rent currently. How long do we have to decide whether or not to kick him out before he is protected by 'living here' requiring a court order to get him out? What is the best way to deal with this situation for all parties?","title":"Need advice for a rental situation (VA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569464997,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9dg6u\/being_shorted_hours_colorado\/","id":"d9dg6u","body":"So, it was just brought to my attention that my manager has been manually changing our hours to make sure we don\u2019t go into overtime on a weekly basis. A coworker saw him doing it to his timesheets (it\u2019s on an online platform, don\u2019t know what else I\u2019d call it) and he called our district manager and corporate. He also told us all this was happening and to check our hours only issue is, those of us with direct deposit don\u2019t get check subs and there\u2019s no way for us to view our hours on the site without the manager printing them out for us. \n\nI\u2019m definitely just gonna start taking pictures of my clock in and clock out times for now but wondering kinda what happens next... never been shorted before or had to deal with management being shady like this...","title":"Being shorted hours Colorado","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1502824194,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6twdyt\/software_copyrighted_artwork_advice\/","id":"6twdyt","body":"Hello, I live in Canada, Alberta\n\nI'm looking for advice on dealing with copyrighted issues inside of my software.\n\nSummary:\nThe software allows users to import their own artwork, which is then used to animate on their livestream. The software-user can set restrictions so that users must be \"subscribed\" to their streaming channel before using. (sort of like a bonus reward for subscribing)\n\nI'm not sure if i'm allowed to post a link to the software on steam, that might help describe the situation, so I won't. It wouldn't be hard to find anyhow. \n(If i'm allowed to link the page please let me know so I can edit the post or comment it)\n\nMy questions:\n\n\n1)\nIs there any way I would get into legal trouble by developing the application with the ability to allow users to make a profit off of copy-righted artwork? (I'm trying to be careful by not including any copyright artwork that comes with the software)\n\n\n\n1)\nAlso, obscure references in pixel art form, for example, If I wanted to make a hat out of a Pokemon, or Mario's hat, is that considered copyrighted artwork, should I avoid including this inside my software?\n\n\n\n3)\nFor the sake of the users of the software, if they imported copyrighted artwork to the software and did live video streaming with it(and potentially earning money because), could they get into legal trouble?\nWould the receive cease and desist, or is it possible the copyright owners skip that and try to sue? ","title":"Software & Copyrighted Artwork Advice","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568718493,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5fejx\/should_i_or_should_i_not_tell_my_employer_that_i\/","id":"d5fejx","body":"In my last posts I wrote about my situation with my employer about feeling discriminated against. I have talked with a lawyer who gave me advice on what to do next. I\u2019m concerned about retaliation or getting fired at this point. I really can\u2019t afford to lose my job. But I also want to stand up for myself and talk to my boss about what I\u2019ve been feeling. Should I tell her I\u2019ll be filing a claim with the attorney general and the EEOC?","title":"Should I or should I not tell my employer that I will be filing a claim for pregnancy discrimination ? Tucson, AZ","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507659226,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75iyfb\/girlfriend_unable_to_obtain_car_insurance_after\/","id":"75iyfb","body":"**Location:** South Florida (Fort Lauderdale\/Miami)\n\n**Issue:** My girlfriend got into 2 car accidents within the past 2 years: the first was in early 2016, which was ruled her fault even though she was hit from behind, then and hit the car in front of her (state of Florida). She also injured her shoulder, opened a claim, and received therapy for her injury.\n\nThe second accident was earlier this year in February 2017. No one was ruled at fault for the accident, and my girlfriend was not injured. However, after reimbursing her for the cost of her car (totaled), State Farm opened a second personal injury claim without her consent.\n\nA month ago, State Farm dropped her coverage and refused to renew. After searching the market to find insurance from several companies the past few weeks, she has found herself repeatedly denied coverage, not even offered at a ludicrous rate. It wasn't until she started asking that they cited her two open personal injury claims.\n\nAfter contacting State Farm, they acknowledged the second injury claim is incorrect, but have been less than helpful in finding a resolution - we're told they can't remove the claim, that it must be handled through underwriting, and we can not speak with the under writing department, only her agent is allowed allowed to contact them.\n\nSo my girlfriend is unable to obtain car insurance based on what I view to be a fraudulent claim opened by State Farm without her consent, a doctors visit, or any sort of documentation. We even have a letter from State Farm acknowledging there were no injuries following accident #2.\n\nIn the meantime, she has incurred hundreds of dollars in uber fees getting to\/from work, and as a senior property manager, she has additional uber charges to perform property inspections and attend meetings.\n\nWe've talked to a couple lawyer friends, but they've admitted they're not aware of any in's and out's to our situation, or if we have any legal recourse to not only expedite the removal of the second injury claim, but also seek any compensation due to lost wages, transportation costs, etc.\n\n**Legal Question:** Would getting an attorney involved help our situation here, or are we at the mercy of State Farm and their painfully slow and erroneous processes?\n\nThank you in advance. [edit: clarity]","title":"Girlfriend Unable to Obtain Car Insurance After False Injury Claim","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555087307,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcfpwk\/tx_usa_landlord_refuses_to_return_full_security\/","id":"bcfpwk","body":"I moved out of my apartment 12\/31\/18. Landlord sent a statement and check on 2\/8\/19 (more than 30 days past lease termination). Some charges included on the bill were beyond what is considered reasonable ($541 for carpet replacement due to damage from Hurricane Harvey which they NEVER REPAIRED despite my numerous attempts to get them to). Because of this and other issues I had with the complex, I decided not to let it slide, and sent a demand letter asking for the full amount of my deposit back, since they did not refund my deposit within the required 30 day time-frame. Just got a letter back saying they will not refund my deposit and that the initial statement\/refund was late \u201cbecause they needed more time.\u201d There was also vague threats to the effect that my security deposit was not actually all refundable and they didn\u2019t notice it the first time but because they are \u201cnice\u201d they aren\u2019t going to correct their mistake. \n\nAm I right in assuming I can now take them to small claims court for 3X the deposit +$100 + legal fees and that I will win? The law seems pretty cut and dry to me- they have 30 days and they didn\u2019t send it in 30 days. Regardless of what they say, they broke the law and in doing so are assumed to have acted in bad faith. I\u2019ve never sued anyone so just want to be sure I have my facts right.\n\nThanks for the advice in advance.","title":"[TX, USA] Landlord refuses to return full security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571516330,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk93ja\/overtime_hours_is_this_illegal_united_states\/","id":"dk93ja","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nI am employed by a moving and storage company as a commercial vehicle driver (Non-CDL, Class C license). This company is small and independently owned, but is also an \u201cagent\u201d for a larger interstate and international relocation company (The largest of these companies include United Van Lines, Mayflower, Atlas, and Allied Van Lines). Being an \u201cagent\u201d for a larger moving company means that we also receive and deliver shipments of household goods that were packed and driven to our local warehouse by workers from other smaller \u201cagents\u201d or by the parent company itself. This larger \u201cparent company\u201d also books jobs for our smaller \u201cagent\u201d company that might be within our local range or just outside of it. \n\nSo this means that sometimes I am either completing a job that was booked by the smaller \u201cagent\u201d company, or by our larger \u201cparent\u201d company. Most of the time, I am completing a job for the smaller \u201cagent\u201d, as I do not have a certification to transport household goods for the larger \u201cparent\u201d company.\n\nHere is where the problem begins,\n\nWhen I look at my paycheck, which is always signed and payed by the smaller \u201cagent\u201d company, my hours can be split into two categories, one as hours for the smaller company, and one as hours for the larger company. This results in me sometimes losing a significant amount of overtime sometimes, and my fellow coworkers have noticed the same thing. It is also sometimes unclear whether the job we are working on is for the smaller or larger company. Collectively, we are all also suspicious that sometimes are employer \u201cmoves hours around\u201d so that they don\u2019t have to pay as much overtime.\n\nI hope this is clear enough to make any sense.","title":"Overtime Hours- Is this Illegal? (United States)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504672462,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ydgun\/got_a_ticket_sort_of_in_a_bind\/","id":"6ydgun","body":"I got a ticket for 256$ due one day after I plan to move into a new place, is there any way I could get an extension?  I've heard people say you can but I'm not sure how to go about it.  I live in the Florida pan handle if that matters.","title":"Got a ticket, sort of in a bind","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446056373,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qlckr\/leases_tenants_abandoned_my_property_and_i_dont\/","id":"3qlckr","body":"I own a home in central California that I leased to some distant relatives (a mom and daughter). \nI did not ask for a deposit or first\/last month's rent because I thought I could trust them.\n\n I went to visit and found out earlier this month that they have shut off some utilities and moved out. \nI talked to the mom and she said that the daughter had told me they were moving out. I told her that her daughter had not told me anything other than that the rent would be late that month. She said to contact her daughter.\n\nNow they are both giving me the run-around and avoiding me or saying to contact the other. \n**The lease clearly stated I would require a 30-day written move out notice.**\nThey were not up to date on the rent and just left without pay or notice. I did not get a 30-day notice, only an email saying they don\u2019t live there anymore and it\u2019s not their problem.\n\nThings get complicated because I had a swimming pool. I showed them how to clean it and I told them only verbally that if they couldn\u2019t keep it clean to contact me and I would hire a pool guy. I found out that the pool needed to be drained last month because they couldn\u2019t keep it clean, so my house has lost a lot of value. *(It was made clear to me that a drained pool won't affect the value of the house, so thank you.)*\n\nI feel hurt and lost, and royally betrayed. Where do I go from here? Can I start to clean up the house and get it ready for sale? Can I recoup lost value of the home? Can I press charges or take them to court for the rent they owe? Who pays for clean up and repairs\/lock changing\/pest control\/etc?\n\nEdit:\nI have only had email contact with one of the renters (the daughter) stating she moved out. The mom has not given me written notice of moving out, she just told me she doesn't live there any more. Should I take the daughter's notice for both of them? They each signed the lease individually.","title":"Leases tenants abandoned my property and I don't know what to do","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539899839,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pdozk\/tenant_law_if_landlord_is_foreclosed_tx\/","id":"9pdozk","body":"So the title pretty much says it all. I have reason to believe that my landlord is under or at risk of foreclosure. (Certified mail from mortgage company and papers being \u201cserved\u201d to the home in an envelope that is sealed)\n\nAt this point I have not confirmed that they are in foreclosure but it seems like the likely outcome and I want to be prepared and know my rights. This is happening in Texas. \n\nAny advice is much appreciated, had trouble finding up to date information online.\n\nThanks! ","title":"Tenant law if landlord is foreclosed TX","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551863099,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axwsz9\/made_an_incomplete_statement_about_massage_parlor\/","id":"axwsz9","body":"Police stopped me driving away from massage parlor.\n\n\"Where are you coming from?\"\n\n\"<some place before the parlor>\"\n\n\"We saw you coming from the parlor. Why didn't you admit that? It's been under surveillance for trafficking and we have you on video, etc. Want to make a statement about what happened in there?\"\n\nStupidly, I did. It didn't include all the details about what actually happened in the parlor. Sounded just like a basic massage.\n\n\"don't lie to us or we'll come knocking on your door since we have your license plate. And we won't tell you when the investigation is over so we may call you any time.\"\n\n​\n\nAm I going to end up with years in jail because I'm not Robert Kraft?","title":"Made an incomplete statement about massage parlor visit","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569718531,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daogoj\/currently_homeless\/","id":"daogoj","body":"My parents kicked me out and won't give me my birth certificate to get a job, they didn't buy the birth certificate (I did) they lost the original and they have blocked my number, I'm still in high school but I'm 18 years old I plan on  being successful but they are making it difficult. As of right now, I sleep in the woods by the school (and that sucks) if I can't find a meal at a friend's house I eat whatever canned goods I have, I've got $40 dollars to my name and that gets less by the day. What do I do? I don't want to get them TO  involved because they're already denying everything they've done and called ME the crazy one and saying that I'm a liar. I have proof of everything they did. They say that I left on my own but if I left on my own, why aren't they letting me have my stuff (that I paid for)? Or letting me back into the house? Or even try to negotiate a way for me to get my stuff.. nothing. They essentially said \"screw off. Good luck with what u have, don't care where you go\" any constructive criticism or tips or anything would help","title":"Currently homeless","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540673176,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rxlcf\/landlord_kept_deposit_for_damages_after_moving\/","id":"9rxlcf","body":"My landlord is claiming: \"marijuana odor and animal odor in home-will need to seal walls and replace carpet in bedroom\" for $500 AND \"evidence of dog and cat in home, plus urine odor damage in master\" for another $500. (This is on top of $640 dollars of carpet cleaning, house cleaning, and miscellaneous maintenance repairs).\n\nI disagree with these claims and want to dispute them because there was no smell or damage. They gave me a written statement along with every 3rd party company receipt EXCEPT for the two $500 charges. When I asked for those invoices, I was told $500 was for damages, and the unauthorized pet fee was outlined in the lease (for $500).\n\nSo I asked for receipts of the damages, and have not received a response in 3 business days. It is now 28 days past the move out day. My suspicion led me to visiting the old house and talking with the current tenant. I have verified that no repairs were made to the carpets or walls in the house.\n\nIs the landlord in the right here? Or is my understanding correct, that since the repairs weren't performed, they weren't necessary, and therefore they should not have charged me?\n","title":"Landlord kept deposit for damages after moving out, but didn't repair what was on the statement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508334165,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/776lzc\/troubled_past_finally_catches_up_fl_wi\/","id":"776lzc","body":"To start, this is a throwaway account I created because I know this situation is beyond screwed up.  Anyways, here goes:\n\nIn 2011, my wife was suffering from Post-Partum (our infant wasn\u2019t even 6 months yet) and I was suffering from severe depression, anger management, and a whole slew of other things.  I was emotionally abusive towards her and I was an all-around piece of shit.  I\u2019ve shared these feelings with doctors, shrinks, etc. since just to be clear and both her and I are both better, have gotten help, and have been improving ourselves as the years go on.  \n\nSo we had two animals - a husky and a cat.  I got mad one day when the cat got too worked up and scratched me, grabbed it by its scruff, and tossed it outside.  One of a thousand problems added onto more when I tossed it too hard and it fell from the second story balcony we lived on and hit the ground, busting it up pretty bad.  I remember the moment only vaguely, like when you drink and black out only remembering moments.  I remember seeing it happen as if I was watching myself from someone else\u2019s eyes.  Like I wasn\u2019t in control.  That\u2019s not the point but that\u2019s how it happened.\n\nThe cat was seen and the cops were called.  I was freaking out and taking it out on my wife then and here comes yet another massive fuck-up on my part.  She took the fall for me.  Our animals were taken and she went to court.  This was in Florida.  It\u2019s on her record now when it should be on mine.\n\nSkip ahead to now and we\u2019ve sought years\u2019 worth of help.  We\u2019re still married, living now in Wisconsin, and we both couldn\u2019t be happier now.  That black mark though is still on her record and I\u2019d love nothing more than to be able to wipe it away.  I\u2019m fully willing to take everything coming at me for it now but I want her life to be clear.  Among one of many reasons is that our kid is school age now and she\u2019s not allowed to chaperone any fun field trips because her background check comes back revealing that.\n\nI am fully aware of what everyone thinks when they hear this story and I\u2019ve spent years and years knowing that the sins of my past can\u2019t be easily purged.  I just want to know how to prevent them from hurting the people I care about now that I\u2019m not who I was back then.\n\nIf you want to insult me, so be it, but I\u2019m legitimately asking for help here.  I don\u2019t know what else to do from here. \n\nEdit:  The charges were animal cruelty.\n\nTL;DR - I hurt an animal in Florida in 2011 and wife plead guilty for me.  I\u2019d like to have that overturned or her exonerated if at all possible.  If I need to be charged, so be it.\n\nUpdate: I\u2019ve called an Appeals Lawyer and they\u2019re looking into what, if anything, can be done.  Thank you so much for the help.  It\u2019s my hope that I can help my wife out this dark time behind her and we can move on and grow together.  Thank you \/r\/legaladvice!  I\u2019ll keep you updated.","title":"Troubled past finally catches up [FL + WI]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553670722,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b61buq\/can_my_mom_rent_out_her_house\/","id":"b61buq","body":"My mom has a single family home and the previous owner turned it into a duplex, adding an entire second unit. This is in a rent control area of Los Angeles. My mom is convinced that if she herself lives in the unpermitted part, she can rent out the permitted part of the house without problems. Furthermore, she said that if the city does ask her to get rid of the illegal second unit, she can simply ask the tenants in the permitted unit to move without having to pay the relocation fee because it\u2019s \u201cher house\u201d and technically the rent control fee only counts when there is a legal second home on the premises. Is there any truth to this?","title":"Can my mom rent out her house?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571284412,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj0wc9\/terrible_allergies_do_i_have_any_rights_here_tn\/","id":"dj0wc9","body":"I recently moved to an apartment in August 1. It\u2019s kind of a dream apartment, or so I thought!\n\nThe past three weeks my allergies have been KILLING me (Thanks tennessee). Basically I have had to stop using candles in my house or anything that could irritate my throat. I use my furnace as little as possible to minimize dust being filtered though. I changed the filter just last week. \n\nHere are my two main questions:\nI have neighbors on both sides of me who smoke. Do I have any rights to tell them they have to stop? They don\u2019t smoke inside their units but they sit outside and do it. Sometimes I can smell the smoke faintly even if I\u2019m inside. I cough like crazy when I smell that and next thing I know I\u2019m grabbing my rescue inhaler for the tenth time. \n\nSecond part: some of the residents here have a small fire pit. It sits about 50 feet from my door. Do I have any power to tell them they have to use this somewhere else? I don\u2019t know if I should tell them individually or contact the landlord. They had a bonfire tonight with it (it\u2019s small and meshed so it fits in with the Nashville burn codes) and I could smell it even inside my house! I was physically irritated so bad. I think it will only get worse throughout the season as we haven\u2019t received a ton of rain. Do they legally have to stop if I complain?\n\n\nMy allergies are so bad I ordered a mask to wear when I leave the house. I have a follow up with the allergist in a few weeks to discuss drops or shots because I am freaking miserable. I\u2019m on asthma medications and I don\u2019t even have an asthma diagnosis. I just switched from a regular inhaler to one you would give a COPD patient. I\u2019m on my second round of steroids and I am so freaking sick \ud83d\ude37. I would gladly leave the state but Nashville is my home \ud83d\ude2d The thought of moving out after just moving in might kill me too \ud83d\ude31","title":"Terrible allergies. Do I have any rights here? (TN)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571764527,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dll0w8\/washington_is_my_shady_workplace_worth_reporting\/","id":"dll0w8","body":"My boss runs a fundamentalist Christian church outside of the company I work for, a company that I\u2019m sure is essentially a stipend for the church. He also employs his 16 year old \u201chome-schooled\u201d daughter full time in one of the most important jobs at the company. Him and his twin brother are patriarchs in their community and employ mostly underage \u201chome schooled\u201d family members or members of their church. I pretty sure they\u2019re being paid under minimum wage too. Also also know we have uncertified workers operating forklifts and I\u2019m sure there are other safety violations. The company culture is very conservative and pays employees for attending Trump rallies instead of working. I\u2019m sick of being lectured about religion, and the sexist and homophobic environment, and being given religious media. One of his nieces confided in me about the oppressive community their family operates. Would it be worth it to report them to L and I or something?","title":"Washington - Is my shady workplace worth reporting?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539019091,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mguuo\/adoption_and_inheritance_tx\/","id":"9mguuo","body":"I'm adopted and my biological grandfather passed away with no will.  My biological mother is deceased as well. What are my rights if any to his estate? I reunited with my biological family about 5 years ago. ","title":"Adoption and inheritance [TX]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554086858,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7wcp7\/i_believe_my_company_is_breaking_ny_state_labor\/","id":"b7wcp7","body":"From my reading of NYS labor law, commission paid to salespeople is considered a wage, and as such, cannot be withheld. \n\nThe new commission plan that salespeople are being asked to sign includes a provision that allows the company to withhold 25% of commission payment (paid to employees in the month following the signature of the contract by the client) if a salesperson\u2019s forecasted revenue for the given month is less than 75% or greater than 150%. That is to say - if I say that I will bring in $100,000 in April and I actually bring in $74,000 (or less) or $151,000 (or more), I will only be paid 75% of the commission I earned on the sale. \n\nIF my annual quota is achieved at the end of the year, then I will receive all back pay. If I do not hit my quota, I will not receive that 25% I missed out on. \n\nIs this legal? If not, what are potential remedies?","title":"I believe my company is breaking NY state labor law.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550112341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqeyld\/direct_manager_drunk_texting_me\/","id":"aqeyld","body":"Back in June my direct manager would keep drunk texting me and eventually telling me he loved me, which would lead to a very uncomfortable work environment, this lead me to quit my job and put me in a financial struggle. Is there anything I can do legally to get compensation? Or is this just a situation where what happened, happened. His drunk texting happened on multiple occasions.","title":"Direct Manager drunk texting me","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503871478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wf41f\/ca_can_i_have_my_firearm_unloaded_and_stored_in_a\/","id":"6wf41f","body":"To the best of my knowledge, in California it is illegal to be in possession of a firearm while on a school campus unless you\u2019re law enforcement. Does this still apply if my firearm is safely and lawfully stored for transport? \n\nFor context:\n\nI\u2019d like to go to the shooting range before class on occasion. However, it is not feasible to return home to drop off my gun between the range and class. ","title":"[CA] Can I have my firearm unloaded and stored in a locked container in the trunk of my car while parked on a university campus?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568900687,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6e99z\/how_do_i_go_about_getting_custody_of_my_9_year\/","id":"d6e99z","body":"My family resides in Florida, I am currently living in Tennessee. Life for my family has always been bad, but it\u2019s gotten a lot worse in the past year. Most recently, my mom hasn\u2019t been working (by choice), my dad has been working however he spends most of his money gambling and the remainder of it on weed and alcohol for himself and my sisters, who are minors. Both my parents and sisters are all very violent. \n\nMy mother sent me a message this morning stating that my 17 year old sister \u201cpulled out a taser and pepper sprayed the girl next door, then slapped her brother and pushed her mom\u201d. This is considered normal in my family; because of this I want custody of my 9 year old sister. My mom says she won\u2019t give me custody because she\u2019s afraid I\u2019ll never give her back. I told my mother that I would sign an agreement stating that if and when she is financially stable and providing a healthy environment I would give her back, she said no as \u201cthere\u2019s always ways around that\u201d aka she isn\u2019t actually willing to work towards that. \n\nI need to work fast as I\u2019m worried that it\u2019s only a matter of time before my sisters go back into the states custody, and trying to get her once she\u2019s already in the states custody will be much more difficult.","title":"How do I go about getting custody of my 9 year old sister without my parents willingly relinquishing their parental rights?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552933890,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2m8s0\/ca_found_my_grandmothers_will_today_and_not_sure\/","id":"b2m8s0","body":"My paternal grandmother died awhile ago, in 2003, but in going through papers in getting ready to move my mother found her will today. My parents have been divorced for 27 years so she didn't realize that she had it. It named my father as the executor and to inherit 50% and the remaining 50% to be distributed to his children in the form of trusts. To our knowledge no trusts were ever set up and he kept it all to himself. I live in Texas right now until I finish school so I am not sure what to do about this. Is this something that we can even take him to court for? Is it worth even trying?","title":"[CA] Found my grandmother's will today and not sure how to proceed","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1504147760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x48u3\/ga_would_i_still_have_a_case_if_i_report_a_sexual\/","id":"6x48u3","body":"(GA) The incident happened on 6\/1 of this year. To make a long story short I went out drinking with a friend(nothing more, nothing less) and he took advantage of me multiple times, but I let last act happen and I don't know why.\n\nWe both had drinks and got really drunk, we went to a fast food drive-thru were I remember being woken up to him kissing me, grabbing & biting my boobs, groping me from my pants & trying to get me to give him a hand job. I remember saying no multiple times and he would stop and start back at it. Once we got to his house, I remember sitting on his couch and being awoken to him getting on top of me, kissing and pulling me forward and positioning my head in front of his penis. I didn't say no....idk why I didn't but I just did it. Once he finished, I remember laying down on the couch and going to sleep next to him.\n\nThere's more to the story but I honestly feel like my case wouldn't go through because I DID that final act, I also waited too long because I thought I could handle the situation (us talk it out in person) but that didn't work, I thought I could just forget about it, I didn't want it to mess up my semester, and a bunch of other things. \n\nNot once was he ever forceful or aggressive. This situation has never happened to me. I'm a virgin and up until this point I've never even kissed or dated someone. I didn't want to make this too long but idk what I should do or what I'm up against, and lord knows a broke college student like me can't afford a lawyer.\n\nEdit: This is someone I go to school with. Also he wasn't nearly as drunk as I was, seeing that he drove to the drive-thru, ordered food and drove home all with no problem. I on the other kept blacking out. ","title":"(GA) Would I still have a case if I report a Sexual Assault 3 months after it happened?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504896004,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ywoun\/ga_made_memes_and_spoofed_twitter_posts_of_an_old\/","id":"6ywoun","body":"They went viral a few months ago, but his name was censored in all instances of the screenshots. You can reverse search the picture on the memes and figure out who he is if you do some digging, but nothing explicitly identifies him in any of the images. Also, it has been reposted to many places, by many people. Could I be in legal trouble for making these image macros and fake Twitter posts?","title":"[GA] Made memes and spoofed Twitter posts of an old high school bully. They went viral. Is this libel?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1506281451,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7276jd\/wa_landlord_withholding_1000_of_deposit_to_pay\/","id":"7276jd","body":"I recently moved into a rental in Washington state. After 5 nights of being there I decided to move out because the unit was filled with mold and I was having an allergic reaction to it. Before I moved in he told me he removed all of the mold, but I ran a mold test that says otherwise. There was also other factors that made the rental a terrible place to live (Loud neighbors, Insects, No Washer\/Dryer). The landlord told me that If I wanted to move out early it wouldn't be a problem. A few days after I moved out and took pictures of every room the landlord (who lives in California) only returned $1200 of my original rent+deposit and withheld $1000 of the deposit to pay for his plane ticket to Washington state and a rental car for him to visit and find a new tenant. Here's his exact words in the email he sent me:\n\n> \"Pursuant to your written (text) request to break our agreed upon lease I have refunded you the October 2017 rent in full for the amount of $1,200. Please check your paypal account.\n> At this time I cannot refund you the remaining $1,200 deposit until I determine what my damages are. Of course, I will try to mitigate the cost to you. This is the reason I did not fly to Seattle this weekend and attempt to re-lease the Cottage. As you know short notice flights are cost prohibitive and you notified me on Wednesday at 8:18 PM that you weren't happy and after speaking to your family you wanted to move out. I agree with you that the $200 to cover the rent for the 5-6 days you actually lived there is fair. \n> Additional monetary damages to me are the unscheduled flight and rent a car I have to take to Seattle to find a new tenant and sign a new lease agreement. I might not be able get someone to move in by the 1st of October which is what I'm shooting for. I had already notified all of the previously interested parties that the Cottage was leased relying upon our signed lease agreement until July 2019. I have reached out to them and see if I can get one of them to take it. This would be the least costly option. I will keep you posted on my progress.\"\n\nI left the unit in much better shape then when I moved in (He didn't do any cleaning) and there's no actual damages done to the unit for the 5 nights I was there. Do I have any legal recourse to get my $1000 back or is he within his right to withhold this money? I appreciate anyone's help because I need this money to pay for a new place and It's very stressful because it feels like I'm being taken advantage of. \n\nThanks","title":"[WA] Landlord withholding $1000 of deposit to pay for his plane ticket and rental car back to the state","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508042178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76h0zs\/tx_my_friend_got_assaulted_by_three_men_at_my\/","id":"76h0zs","body":"My friend (m15)got jumped at school by three men (M17) and in self defense he fought back. The catch is that he also went too far when stopping them. He broke one of their arms, one rib, and a nose.\n\nThe school has decided that the proper punishment for him was to pay a fine of $20,000 or to be expelled from the school. This was all caught on camera in the school and the kids who jumped him were hospitalized and of course deny it all. \n\nWhat options does he have and can he sue the school for this?","title":"[TX] My friend got assaulted by three men at my school and he fought back in self defense.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569775003,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daxixu\/my_boss_gave_me_too_much_money_and_wont_take_it\/","id":"daxixu","body":"About 1 month ago, I got a promotion, however, the paperwork to adjust my pay wasn't done properly and didn't validate. So about 2 weeks ago, they redid it; I'm now getting payed properly but that means they had to file a form to retro-pay me for the two weeks for the difference in earnings. Well there was some kind of clerical error, and I ended up receiving over 10 times the amount I should have. (1.10 difference over 80 hours after taxes is about 65-75$, I recieved 770$) I let my manager know and they said that payroll \"would contact me\" so I could pay back what the difference. Well it's been 3 days and no word- is there a statute of limitations on this kind of thing? How long until the money becomes mine? Or am I just stuck babysitting 700$ indefinitely?","title":"My boss gave me too much money and won't take it back","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570127967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcv3ee\/electricity_in_my_building_has_gone_out_and\/","id":"dcv3ee","body":"Can\u2019t cook, no heat, foods fucked in the freezer, pitch black.\n\nWater leaked onto electricity and shut the electrics down. Turned the water back on but no electricity. Am I due compensation? What can I do? Only been in my own flat for 6 months and this happens. Got to go on a work trip tomorrow too but I live with other people and they\u2019ll struggle.","title":"Electricity in my building has gone out and they\u2019ve said it could be days before it\u2019s back on, what can I do? UK","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443980426,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nh1hr\/tx_can_i_travel_to_another_country_with_my_son\/","id":"3nh1hr","body":"I have sold custody, he's 17 years old, has his own passport, and we want to travel to Argentina for a week. Do I need his mother's permission in order for him to travel with me?\n\n","title":"[TX] Can I travel to another country with my son? More info in description","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505860926,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/716rr9\/subletter_agreed_to_pay_me_for_parking_pass_now\/","id":"716rr9","body":"I assigned my lease to someone recently.  I had to pay upfront for a parking pass for the term of the lease, and to transfer it he needed to pay me directly, not through the landlord.  He said he would transfer me the money using Venmo that night since he did not have another check while we were exchanging the pass and keys.  I have this arrangement in text messages with him.\n\nHe had signed an 'as-is' agreement with my landlord that I did not have to have the carpet (landlord is charging me to replace carpet anyway) and apartment professionally cleaned so that he could move in that day rather than waiting a week for the company to come in.  He had seen the apartment ahead of time and agreed to this.  I do not have a copy of this agreement.  \n\nHe now said the apartment was too dirty so he is not transferring me the money for the parking pass.  My main concern about this whole situation is that he has to sign off that I did no damage to the apartment to get my security deposit back within 7 days of him moving in.  His messages to me have been very hostile and I worry that he may do damage to the apartment and blame it on me so I cannot get the security deposit back.\n\nI have contacted my student legal services but it will be a while until I will actually be able to talk to a lawyer.  The office will be representing both of us as we are both students there.  I have not replied to his message because I am very upset with the situation at the moment and don't understand my rights with this since it was a text message agreement and I don't have the 'as-is' agreement he signed.  \n\nMy landlord is on his side.  I moved because of disputes with them that lead to me reporting them to code enforcement for them refusing to fix dangerous issues in the building.  So basically they hate me.\n\nForgot location: PA, USA\n\n2nd edit:  Looking at [this website](https:\/\/www.rentapplication.com\/pennsylvania-landlord-tenant-laws\/) about my security deposit.  Is it true that I should be receiving interest on it?  My first year was a $550 security deposit and $100 pet security deposit.  Second year they kept that money, and I paid $10 more because rent went up.  They now have $660 for a deposit, and I got a second pet so a second $100 pet deposit.  My third year (this current lease that I'm transferring) I only had a $100 security deposit so the difference was applied to my first month's rent.  They currently are holding $300 in deposits from me.","title":"Subletter agreed to pay me for parking pass, now won't pay","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554839445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbcgj9\/il_grandpas_will_not_filed_w_county_clerk_how_do\/","id":"bbcgj9","body":"**TL;DR Well-off Grandpa said he left half this stuff to my mother. Mother refused to see will while she was grieving. Turns out will was never filed with the court after his death. Step-Grandma says she threw her copy away.**\n\n​\n\n**Backstory**: My Grandpa was an engineer for Caterpillar. As anyone that knows a thing or two about working for CAT can tell you, they make A LOT of money. His wealth didn't stop there, because he was wise enough to invest that money. I wouldn't be surprised if he had a couple millions stored away.  ***He had always told Mother that she would inherit half of his wealth (the other half would go to his wife, Step-Grandma)*****.** \n\n​\n\nWhen he finally passed around this time last year, Mother was stricken with grief. Step-Grandma asked her, after the funeral, if she'd like to see the will, but ***Mother told her she wasn't in the mood to deal with it yet.*** I should mention something about my mother: she has a terrible fear of being thought of as greedy. While he was alive, Grandpa would often ask her if he could help our family financially (he was absent for \\~15 years of her life because of his divorce from my Grandma and wanted to make up for that, plus he had more than enough money already), but Mother would usually decline his help. On the rare occasions that she would let him help, she did so begrudgingly and wasn't happy about it. Her apprehension wasn't because she didn't love him, but rather because she didn't want to feel like she was using him.\n\n​\n\nSo Mother didn't see the will after his funeral. ***Less than 2 weeks later, Step-Grandma informs us that she's hired an auctioneer to value everything on their property (including the farm property itself) and sell it all at auction.*** We weren't happy about the situation because we still hadn't seen the will and for all we know she's selling stuff that should rightfully go to us, but Mother doesn't want to get involved. One of the casualties of this auction may have been a coin collection valued by Grandpa at \\~$500,000 that he told Mother she would inherit. Around this same time, Step-Grandma made a donation to their church of over $100,000 and bought a storefront downtown for a \"worker\" of theirs (I'd never even heard of the guy until after Grandpa was dead). \n\n​\n\nMother only just recently told Father and I that Step-Grandma had thrown away a copy of the will at some point last year. Finally, Mother kinda wants to see the will (mostly because we've been pestering her about it). I checked with the county clerk for the county that Grandpa lived in and... **they told me they had no probate file or will for Grandpa**. If Grandpa had a will (which we know he does because Mother was asked if she wanted to see it), then it was never filed for probate. \n\n​\n\nNow, we have no clue what to do. Step-Grandma threw her copy of the will away and there's no public record of it. **How do we get the inheritance due to my mother and the rest of the family?**","title":"[IL] Grandpa's Will Not Filed w\/ County Clerk - How Do We Collect?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540328711,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qt4ez\/arizona_roommate_pulled_over_charged_with\/","id":"9qt4ez","body":"Posting on his behalf because he's at work. This just happened this morning, is there any silly little way he can use this error to his advantage in court? Thanks.","title":"[Arizona] Roommate pulled over, charged with reckless driving, cop writes down \"10:xx P.M\" on citation, when it happened at 10:xx A.M.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569432904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d96n0b\/what_can_i_do\/","id":"d96n0b","body":"My current home is my parents house. My step dad hasn\u2019t been around in forever and my mom is currently in jail. The house is under both their names. I forged their signatures and signed the house over to me since both were not around. My mom agreed and I couldn\u2019t get in contact with my stepdad. Nobody has been able to reach him since he moved back to his native country. Police showed up this morning looking for them and I told them where they were at. Now that they know that I forged the signature with my moms permission, is there anything that I can do? Other than get a lawyer. My mom is also sending me a letter of her signing the house of to me. Please and thank you!!!!","title":"What can I do?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555471043,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be30y2\/do_i_need_a_business_license_in_this_situation_al\/","id":"be30y2","body":"My company was contacted by a nonprofit to do an event with them. We do throwing sports such as axes, knives, etc on a trailer so we can go basically anywhere. Normally I imagine we would need a business license to go do an event in TN but is it different if the event is for a nonprofit organization like a church, animal rescue?","title":"Do I need a business license in this situation? AL and TN","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539124679,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mttwq\/what_are_my_rights_how_do_i_protect_myself_and\/","id":"9mttwq","body":"I have been living in NYC for about two years now. In December of 2016, I signed a sublease agreement with a person who is also my roommate and who is also the sole leaseholder with the building on a 3 bedroom apartment. My original sublease with the person was set to end in May of 2017. I also put down 1 months rent, or $1,850. May of 2017 came and went and here we are in October of 2018. I am still in the same apartment but I never resigned a new sublease after May of 2017 but continued to live there full time since the original sublease that ended in may of 2017, so technically, we have no agreement in place other than a verbal one that said we will all stay until May of 2019. The sub lessor\/roommate also still has my deposit.\n\nTo keep a long story short, things have not been going well with the main lease holder and myself. I recently told his person that I wanted to move out in January or February of 2019 and they became very offended and angry. I should add that a third person lives in the place and they are also a sub lessee like I am. Things are fine with the third person and myself, however, the third person just gave their notice last week and they are leaving the place without any issues and she is not angry at them.\n\nI am curious what my rights are. I am concerned this person could tell me to move out within a week or less giving me little time to find a new place to live, even though that is what I want. I am concerned they may damage my belongings out of anger. I am concerned I will not get my deposit back because they are angry with me for wanting to leave. Could someone please tell me what my rights are in this situation and what I should do in order to leave the apartment as cordially and timely as possible and also ensure I can get my deposit back. Thank you.","title":"What are my rights \/ how do I protect myself and belongings. Things have gone south with my sub lessor\/roommate in NYC","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555448797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdz7vy\/false_domestic_violence_defense_in_the_state_of\/","id":"bdz7vy","body":"I'm not really sure what to do. I've been falsely accused of domestic violence against my ex girlfriend whom is also the mother of my 9 month old daughter. \n\n  \nThe relationship has been very rocky for months and I had finally had enough, I wanted out. I tried for about 3-4 weeks to break up with her. She wouldn't let me or she would cry and beg me not to leave her. The relationship was so unbelievably toxic I was willing to be away from my daughter to be away from her mother. Last month over an argument I finally had enough and attempted to kick her out of my house. She of course screamed, kicked my dog several times, and then kicked a car door at me while I was putting our daughter in her car seat. A few hours later I was picked up by local PD and arrested for Felony  2 Strangulation and 2 misdemeanors for terrorist threats and simple assault. She then filed for a PFA for her AND my daughter claiming I threw something at her and it hit the baby as well. In her report she claimed that I choked her from behind and told her we all were going to die. Also it was mentioned that I had weapons on the property (they were not, explained below) and that I broke her cell phone.   \nI know it all sounds bad but from my side. No, I did not choke her during the argument. The marks on her neck were from the night before during sex, she is into air play. I never threw any of her belongings, I actually grabbed all of them while she was holding the baby and put them in her car. And finally I never broke her cell phone, I have text messages from her the week prior in which she says her phone screen is broken and I needed to try and fix it. The day before the incident I ordered parts for her phone to fix, I have receipts as well. I'm not sure if I have a defense to stand on with this view, but I there is more.   \n\n\nThis was not the only time the police have come to my house.\n\nIn may of 2018 when she was 7 months pregnant we had an argument in which I refused to sleep on the couch. I filmed and recorded her then reaching to her bed side table and grabbing razor blades and threatening to harm herself and hitting me as well.  I called the police and she was 302'd. She spent 72 hours in the hospital and then was released on the promise of getting therapy. She went to one or two sessions with a therapist and never went again nor, tried to find a new therapist. \n\n​\n\nA few months after our daughter was born we had an argument in which I had kicked her out. She decided that she may need help and went to her OBGYN and go prescribed Zoloft for Postpartum Depression. She failed to consistently take the medication and once the medication was empty she never got another refill. Later during a couples therapy session she told the therapist she was prescribed but she didn't have any more doses, he suggested that she call the doctors office again and get its prescribed again. \n\n​\n\nIn October of 2018, In efforts to have her enjoy herself and hopefully help build a better relationship, she went out with friends drinking. I was a little hesitant to do so but I wanted her to relax and have fun. She does have a prior DUI record from less than two years ago and I suspect she may have a drinking problem, so I made sure she had a driver and everything. When she got home she made some food and we sat in the living room and chatted and hung out. She started to get upset with me about our rocky relationship and our past. It was then she started to hit me repeatedly. I grabbed her arms and held her down yelling to stop. She finally gave up but when I let her go, she hit me again. So I called the police. When the police arrived she immediately ran out of the house yelling saying that I raped her. The police doing their job became very stand off with me ready to arrest me. The officer listened to both sides of the story and there was some evidence involved as well that didn't match her side of the story. A bowl of mashed potatoes was sitting in the living room when she said she was in the kitchen making food and I raped her in the kitchen. The police then took her to the hospital for her to do the rape kit but then she later opted out. In an argument not long after this incident she admitted it was all false and she was trying to get me imprisoned.  I also have cell phone screen shots of this. That night even the officer asked me if she had Bipolar or Multiple Personality Disorder. \n\n​\n\nI know what you're thinking this should have been the end of it, but I wanted to be around my daughter so bad we tried again. \n\nIn the middle of January, we got into yet another argument. Both her and my daughter were living with me but she filed for child support as a knee jerk reaction to everything going on. I felt very betrayed but I knew I still wanted to try making a decent life for our daughter. The day before the child support meeting, she called the police stating I wanted to hurt myself, and that I have guns in the house. I was upset that day, but I by no means wanted to hurt myself. When the police arrived I was given the choice of going voluntarily or against my will. Of course I agreed and was taken straight to the hospital. After speaking with a doctor I was released a few hours later in stable mental condition. As for my fire arms they were confiscated by the police until I picked them up with a judge ordered release. Which they are still there to this day currently.  The next day we both went to the child support meeting. \n\n​\n\nNow currently, Its been over a month since I've last seen my daughter. I have a subpoena for arraignment this coming Wednesday the 24th. This is a continuance from the last preliminary hearing date last Monday. I unfortunately spent all of my money on a private attorney for representation at the preliminary hearing which was $2,500 but no longer have any funds to hire him any longer. I did just get approved for a public defender but I feel with the way that system works they just want to make a deal and get the case over. I also probably won't meet the public defender until the day of the hearing, which makes me feel like he or she will not care. \n\nIf you have read up to this point, thank you so much for reading my story. My questions for you are:\n\nDo you think I have a fighting chance to defend myself in this case\/with a public defender?\n\nWill I be apprehended again after the arraignment hearing? \n\nAny other suggestions on what I may try and work on until then or after?\n\n​\n\nI feel like the system doesn't really help people in my situation, its just an automatic sentence if you're the man.","title":"False Domestic Violence Defense in the State of Pennsylvania","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504065873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wwpmq\/cannl_employer_scheduled_me_for_on_call_shifts\/","id":"6wwpmq","body":"After posting on an r\/AskReddit thread about ridiculous job practices, I was directed here and told to see if you folks had any advice. \n\nMy previous job in retail (just received my last paycheque after putting in my notice earlier this month) made use of \"on call\" shifts about two or three times a week. \n\nThese shifts would be listed on the schedule in advance, but the shift was not guaranteed. For example, the schedule would say \"On call for 2pm\" and I would be required to call in at 1pm to see if I had to work. If I did, I was expected to be ready to show up for the shift on time and cancel any prior commitments. If not, I was allowed to carry on with my day. \n\nThere was no compensation for calling in and no increased pay rate or incentive for working an on-call shift. I brought this up with my manager once and was told that it was insignificant because it only took \"two minutes\" to call in. However, this doesn't take in to account the fact that I had to be ready to work and have my entire day open for a shift that I may not get. Furthermore, even if it does only take a few minutes, it's still a few minutes of my personal time that I'm expected to use to check in with work. \n\nI was told by management to \"treat an on-call as a scheduled shift,\" yet I received no minimum shift payment for any of these shifts. I've been told a lot that a shift of any length must be compensated for a minimum of three hours, but I was never paid a dime for an on-call. If you didn't call in or show up for your on-call, it was considered not showing up for a shift (whether they needed you or not) and resulted in a write-up\/infraction. \n\nOn an unrelated note, at this same job I was also called in for fifteen minutes and then told to leave again and that I would only be paid for the fifteen minutes that I worked. My commute is an hour in total so it essentially cost me more to go to work than I was paid. I have also called in for these shifts and been told to wait an extra hour to see if \"things got busier\" and call back. Again, I was not compensated for that time. \n\nEvery single employee was required to have these on-call shifts (some would only have three on-calls per week and no guaranteed shifts) but the management never did. I've never seen a manager have an on-call because they got to choose their hours. \n\nI've questioned various levels of management on it, from store management to head office, and I was basically told the same thing over and over - \"it's in your contract.\" I assumed that meant I was stuck, but some fine folks on r\/AskReddit recently told me that illegal contracts can be void.\n\nAs a student, it was very difficult for me to organize my personal time outside of work due to having these on calls. It stressed me out so much that I actually had to quit (I just finished working there and put in my two-weeks notice as required).\n\nI Googled it a bit and received no solid answers, but it's pretty clear that many major retailers in Canada do this and it's caused a lot of backlash and controversy. Some companies have phased out the practice but mine didn't, and it was still ongoing when I left the job.\n\nI'm not sure if it's illegal or not, and if so I don't know if it's worth pursuing, but if you have any information I'd appreciate the help. At the very least, I'd love to file a formal complaint to someone who can change this for other employees but I'm not sure where to start. So what do you think, illegal or just unethical?\n\nThanks for taking the time to read this!","title":"[CAN-NL] Employer scheduled me for \"on call\" shifts that I was never compensated for. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539103647,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mqtoz\/can_the_landlord_withhold_the_deposit_if_i_have\/","id":"9mqtoz","body":"Basically, the landlord sent me a text after I moved out that I haven't left my room properly  cleaned (although I vacuumed and did not leave any thrash). The new guy had to clean it apparently. Then the landlord tells me that I hadn't really been cleaning the public spaces such as the bathroom or living room, which is true. Btw the house was already really disgustung when I moved in and the landlord does his business shady, wanting cashonly as payment etc.\n\nHe does not have the right to keep the deposit right? Maybe he can deduct some of it, since I haven't cleaned the room, supposedly...","title":"Can the landlord withhold the deposit, if I have been a \"bad flatmate\"?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540686624,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rz7fo\/possibility_of_accidental_hit_and_run_ca\/","id":"9rz7fo","body":"So I had hit a car the other day and gave him a nasty bang on his bumper, for the most part his bumper wasn\u2019t too messed up but I hurt my car pretty bad. It was my first accident and I realized only now that in my adrenaline rush I forgot to take pictures of the other party\u2019s license and plates. I was afraid to get insurance involved so even though we exchanged info, when he asked to see my insurance, I scrounged my car for any money I had in addition to what i had on me, including my emergency money i keep stashed away and offered $300 for the repairs and so we could avoid getting insurance involved. He was very kind about the whole deal and let me go and took the $300 so now no more problems, right?\n\nNow I\u2019m finding out from family that it may have been a bad idea since he was the one that was hit, he could call the cops any time and report it as a hit and run and i may be at fault since I didn\u2019t go through insurance. \n\nTL;DR- Rear-ended a car and instead of going through insurance, I offered money on the spot and now am worried about him reneging on the agreement.\n\nAm I fucked? Should I consult a lawyer?","title":"Possibility of accidental hit and run?! (CA)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569529450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9pccn\/security_deposit_is_gone\/","id":"d9pccn","body":"I\u2019m 9 months into my lease (3 months to go) and the leasing office has recently advised that they cannot find my security deposit. My roommate submitted the deposit at the beginning of our lease and did not take a picture of the money order, so we basically have no proof we submitted it. We cannot trace the bank statement either since he submitted it in cash. \n\nThe leasing office is now claiming that without proof\/receipt they cannot refund the deposit. It all seems very sketchy, telling us 9 months later they basically lost our deposit (or cashed in rather). Besides, they would have never let us move in without the deposit. I know we don\u2019t stand a chance at small claims court without proof but any suggestions at this stage our welcome.","title":"Security Deposit is Gone","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569851685,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbbwil\/lease_agreement_question_texas\/","id":"dbbwil","body":"I signed a lease 6 months ago for $875 per month with water and internet included. This was a new construction and the landlord did not have the internet hooked up yet. For the first 4 months we had an agreement that since the internet was not hooked up we would only pay $850. Last month the landlord brought me a new lease to sign that was for $850 per month and only included water. I looked into the cost of internet and it will cost me $50 per month for the cheapest and slowest internet. I am trying to get the landlord to make my rent $825 to cover the cost of the internet but he is refusing.\n\nWhat options do I have?","title":"Lease Agreement Question - Texas","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540664642,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rwhvg\/is_it_illegal_for_me_to_record_my_classmates\/","id":"9rwhvg","body":"Same as question above.\n\nI am a freshmen in NH, and there is a serious problem with juuling\/vaping. I have caught two people doing it already, though I'm scared to tell the school because they are popular, know it's me, and I just moved here from California (similar problems back there). I want to have evidence of these people doing it so that if I go to the school they can actually do something. Can I legally record my classmates\/other high schooler vaping\/juuling and breaking the law without breaking any laws myself?\n\nThanks :)\n\nEDIT: Wanted to add context to the \"popular\" remark. A kid at my school (\"Brian\" not real name) was caught juuling in the locker room. Brian was suspended for a day, and came back the next Tuesday. He then took 3 hits of a fentanyl laced pen and was in the hospital until the following Friday (9 in school days). When he came back, everyone joked around a bit but honestly didn't care. All I heard was \"Oh Brian we missed you! We thought you died! We're so glad you're back!\". Honestly happy he is doing fine but an example of how people didn't really care he messed up once and proceeded to do it nearly a week later.","title":"Is it illegal for me to record my classmates juuling\/vaping? (NEW HAMPSHIRE)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571072172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhtet6\/child_support_from_detained_parent_new_jersey\/","id":"dhtet6","body":"Basically, my sister\u2019s ex is being deported. She has a preschool daughter. The cash he had saved he has given to a lawyer for his appeal and my sister is a hard worker but she is struggling to support my niece. His appeal is unlikely to have any success rate and his lawyer took thousands from my sister when they were together, all for naught. She begs him on the phone to have his mother pass her money. How can my sister get the financial support owed to her? He is currently in detainment. I want to find a lawyer for her but I don\u2019t know where to begin or what she can do to file for support.","title":"Child Support from Detained Parent (New Jersey)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505879206,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/718iix\/pulled_over_in_april_for_outdated_registration\/","id":"718iix","body":"Back in April I got pulled over for out of date vehicle registration.  On the ticket it said I need to contact the court in within 7 days (I don\u2019t have the original ticket with me currently so I can\u2019t give hard numbers). I went and got my registration done 2 days later, then went to the municipal court house the same day to pay the fine and be done with it. \n\nWhen I got to the desk to pay the fine the cashier said my ticket wasn\u2019t in the system yet because the officer hadn\u2019t entered it in yet. She said this sometimes happens like in my case if I\u2019m more prompt than the officer. She then took the ticket and put it in the system and said go to court room 8 and wait for the judge to address your case. \n\nI went in, had my new registration paperwork showing I had gotten the registration and the judge said ok, dismissed the case, and told me to pay a 10$ court fee at the cashier. I went and paid with a 10 dollar bill I happened to have and she said ok we\u2019re all done. \n\nOk cool!  I\u2019m good for another year!\n\nWell today, I get a letter from a law firm on behalf of the city stating I have 195$ in unpaid fines, late fees, and court costs! WTF!\n\nI went to the municipal website, put in my info, and the site shows 2 citations, both for the same registration infraction. \n\nOne infraction shows done and complete with a dismissal and a 10$ fee paid, and the other shows outstanding fees totaling 195$. \n\nThe one I got taken care of shows a file date of 4\/28 which is the day I went in. The other shows a file date of 5\/4 which I assume is the date the officer submitted his ticket. \n\nBoth infractions show the same officer, same vehicle info, same infraction. The only difference is on the ticket I went in for shows a ticket number of KTXXXXXXB and the new one with the warrant with it of ticket number of KTXXXXXX. Both ticket numbers are identical except the B at the end. \n\nI don\u2019t know what I\u2019m supposed to do to get this obvious clerical error corrected. Should I call and try to explain it over the phone, or should I go to the court house. I\u2019ve never been in trouble with the law except for a couple of speeding. Like if I walk in and tell them all my info am I going to get arrested for an \u201calias warrant\u201d\n\nLocation is Fort Worth, TX","title":"Pulled over in April for outdated registration, paid the fines two days later and all was good. Today I got a letter about a warrant for an unpaid ticket.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540086376,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pzsio\/joint_inheritance_with_estranged_family_members\/","id":"9pzsio","body":"Sorry for the wall of text, but thanks in advance for reading and providing some input.\n\n​\n\nHere is a quick background: I am 31 y\/o, married with two young kids. My father died when I was young (7 y\/o), at which point I lost most contact with my paternal grandma and uncle (talking to them <10 times over the next 20 years). My grandma had a live in boyfriend since before I was born. Many years ago, while my dad was still alive, my grandma's house burned down and she and her boyfriend collected a sizable sum from the insurance. The story around the family is that my grandma's boyfriend set the fire on purpose, but that is unsubstantiated and he was never charged or anything. Final background detail: when my dad died, there were several items from his estate that \"disappeared\" and I never received (nothing too valuable, more sentimental than anything: pictures, guns, etc.).\n\n​\n\nAbout a year and a half ago, my grandma passed away. In her will, she left half of her property to her boyfriend, 1\/4 to her only living son (my uncle), and 1\/4 to me. This property includes:\n\n\\- The house she and her boyfriend lived in (the house that was rebuilt after their original place burned down)\n\n\\- 4 lots of land along the Mississippi River.\n\n​\n\nI don't know much about the value of this property, but none of it is well maintained (the house is very run-down and not well-constructed in the first place and the river lots are not in a desirable location). Based on what my uncle tells me, the tax-assessed value of the house is around $15k (I assume the market value would be slightly higher than this, but don't really know), and the value of the river lots are maybe a couple thousand a piece. We are likely talking sub-$40k total, of which I own 1\/4.\n\n​\n\nHere is the situation that brings me here. My grandma's boyfriend is essentially refusing to acknowledge that we own any of the property. We initially offered to sign over our portion of the house to him, giving him full ownership of the house, in return for the tax-assessed value of $15k and his portion of the river lots (meaning my uncle and I would each get $7.5k plus half of the river lots each). He initially agreed and asked for a couple months to come up with the $15k. He recently cam back and said he thinks we are taking advantage of him and is no longer willing to make that deal.\n\n​\n\nMy uncle now is wanting to offer to let him live out his life at the house, if he will agree to sign all the property over to us. Basically, my uncle and I would each get 50% of all the property and would, in return, allow him to live out the rest of his life (he is 82 y\/o) at the house rent-free. He would be asked to pay property taxes, clean up the property (it is currently littered with junk cars, boats, etc.), and maintain the property while he is living there.\n\n​\n\nI am nervous about a few things with my uncle's suggestion:\n\n\\- Is there liability for us if we own the property and someone gets injured while he is living there.\n\n\\- What if he decides that he wants to burn the house down (again)?\n\n​\n\nAlthough I am (by far) the youngest one involved in this situation, I likely am the most \"successful\" and have the most assets of the group. I make approximately $110k\/year and have around $150k in assets, including retirement accounts, cash, etc. I don't want to make a decision that will put my family's future in jeopardy. I don't have much trust in that side of my family (even my uncle, who claims to be on my side in this, will certainly put his own best interest before mine).\n\n​\n\nI could simply sign my portion over and walk away, but we are going to be buying a house next year and, while this is far from a life-changing amount of money, it would be a little extra towards a down-payment, if we could get a little something. I could ask my uncle to buy out my 1\/4, but I don't know how much to ask him for or if he would even be willing to do so.\n\n​\n\nI would love some opinions\/advice on how I should proceed.\n\n​","title":"Joint inheritance with estranged family members. Questions on how to handle and what to be cautious of.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1549849604,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apb50c\/can_a_boss_give_employees_negative_evaluations_if\/","id":"apb50c","body":"My sister is a full time college student who works at a daycare after her classes. She told me her boss threatened the employees with negative evaluations if they don\u2019t start covering for more shifts. Can her manager do this?","title":"Can a boss give employees negative evaluations if they don\u2019t cover for coworkers shifts?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571781059,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlp4tq\/how_do_i_get_technical_advice_and_possibly_find_a\/","id":"dlp4tq","body":"Hi!\n\nSo my girlfriend and I came up with an idea to improve on an existing idea, but the technical side of things would require an individual who posses the know how to retrieve data from websites, create\/code an app\/website, etc. \n\nI'm trying to find out the following:\n\n\n1. Would I need to enter into a contract with this person so they couldn't just take my idea and make it themselves?\n2. Where would I hire such a person.\n3. At what point would I apply for a patent?\/Would I even be allowed to get a patent for an idea like this?\n\nI'm sorry if these aren't appropriate questions for this subreddit, but any help would be appreciated.\n\nAlso, to give an idea of the innovation, I'll be vague:\n\n**Certain apps offer a service, but this software based technical innovation would streamline the service for the user. There are multiple developers who make these apps and they all do the same-ish thing, but introducing this innovation would eliminate several steps for the user.**\n\nSorry if that's not detailed enough.\n\nMy main question is how do I find out if my product idea is possible without giving away my idea? (I'm very sick right now so my apologies if some of this doesn't make sense)\n\nThank you!","title":"How do I get technical advice and possibly find a coder to help me with a service I wish to create via an app or website?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569389256,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8yw6k\/greedy_mom_after_money_after_dad_passed_divorce\/","id":"d8yw6k","body":"Hey guys, not 100% sure if this is the right subreddit, but it's worth a shot.  \n\nLong story short: Biological family consists of mom, dad, brother and me. Grew up in Florida. Mom & Dad separated around 10 years ago, but before that were legally married & we all lived in home that was in fathers name (not mom's). Haven't seen Mom since her and dad separated. Dad and Mom biforcated divorce after Dad & us kids moved across country to CA; they finalized marital status 2 years ago. Assets were still up for grabs, which is really just that house that was only ever in Dad's name that was sold 2\/3 years ago & the money is in a trust. \n\nThe issue here is that Dad passed away back in March. In the will, and in the trust, and every. single. document. has my brother and I as legal reps for our dad and ultimately the ones who get the estate, and deliberately specifies that Mom shall receive nothing. But the divorce case never finished the asset distribution. My brother and I are wondering why we even have to finish the divorce case since- 1. who is our Mom even divorcing?  Dad is dead and 2. doesn't it go into probate?\n\nCan't we just dismiss the divorce case? \n\nAnd yes, this is our biological mother. She honestly doesn't have a maternal bone in her body. The long version of the story includes years of abuse, neglect and now greed.","title":"Greedy mom after money after dad passed, divorce case still active.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570735940,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg37do\/fb_beef\/","id":"dg37do","body":"I had a beef with some girl on fb earlier this day .\nShe said I was a donkey \"means you are dumb where i live\" and i told her to go fuck herself .\n\nThe problem is she insulted me with a comment and i insulted her with a DM . \n\nShe said she was gonna sue me and I really dont want to go to jail because I never had any trouble with the law before (not even speeding tickets ) .\n\nCybercriminality laws are fairly new in my country algeria and there is very fww and sparse information I could find is that insulting anyone in real life has a penality of 1 to 3 month of jail and 50 to 100 dollars fine wich is big here .\n\nI deleted my accounts but I know that facebook keeps everything so it was just a hopeless move .\n\nI know that no one here knows anything about my country laws so Im here to know do the police in the US is serious about those types of complaints ? I think I have at least 2 or 3 months before the police knocking on my door .\n\nIm 21 and living with my parents and cant really find a way to tell them , should i go seek a lawyer? Im so afraid  I really do not want to go to jail .","title":"Fb beef","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1446029522,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qjmce\/advice_on_requesting_criminal_records_in\/","id":"3qjmce","body":"I am assisting a gentleman in California with his criminal matter; I am not a US lawyer so am acting in a civilian capacity (for lack of a better term!). I need to receive all of his records; is requesting and paying for these from the relevant County Court in which he was sentenced the only way to do this? Is there a freedom of information type request I can make? I need to ensure everything in relation to his matter is included, would the County Court have all relevant records including police reports etc. or do they need to be requested from law enforcement?\n\nThanks in advance for any advice!","title":"Advice on requesting criminal records in California","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555181265,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bctra8\/did_i_commit_a_crime_michigan\/","id":"bctra8","body":"I\u2019m 18 still in high school but for one of my classes I have health. I was supposed to take health my freshman year but I waited until now. Well in the freshman class I had to pass out pictures of genitals to 14 year olds. Is that illegal since I\u2019m 18?","title":"Did I commit a crime? [MICHIGAN]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571720963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dld2ps\/a_lawsuit_is_being_filed_against_me_by_the_metro\/","id":"dld2ps","body":"Whole backstory:\n\nOn October 30, 2018 at 6:15am I was driving to work and was approaching an \u201corange\u201d light. Basically, I took the red thinking (or not thinking at all) there was no one on the road this early anyway. So a city bus that was already in motion (meaning it wasn\u2019t sitting at a red light, but \u201cgot the green\u201d while still driving) from the other direction ended up T-boning my vehicle on the drivers side. My car was totaled but miraculously I only suffered a moderate concussion, some severe bruising and some glass in my cheek from the window pushing into my face. \n\nI paid the ticket for the traffic violation.\n\nAll my medical expenses are taken care of.\n\n  It has been just about one year and now I am being notified by my auto insurance (Progressive) that there \u201cmay\u201d be a lawsuit being filed and that I should call them. I call, they tell me the Metro Transit Authority wants to sue me for $34,529.92 for property damages to their bus. \n  They offered $10,000 (the max for my level of coverage) but the Metro people do not want to settle for that. Progressive says to call them as soon as I get served so their litigation team can work on the case, but that I should sit tight until that time comes. \n\n  A friend who lives in a house where I used to live called me about 3 weeks ago and told me that someone came looking for me with papers. He had nothing to tell them. \n  I am also going through a divorce and no longer live at the house my ex and I still co-own in St. Paul. Just last week my ex informed me that someone came looking for me there. He also told them nothing. \n  I now live at a friends place in Minneapolis and the only mail I receive is from the sheet metal union I belong to and bills from doctor visits.\n  I\u2019m thinking the next place they will look for me is my work. My boss knows about the situation and is willing to defer them, but also willing to lead them to me if I decide I want to be served already. \n\nThe statute of limitations in Minnesota for property damage is 6 years. It\u2019s been almost 1, so technically if they still can\u2019t find me in 5 more years then I will be safe.\n\nMy questions are:\n\nShould I really just keep on the downlow and avoid answering to people asking if I am who I am?\n\nShould I just seek them out and get on\nwith the lawsuit?\n\nShould I talk to a lawyer now (before I am even served)? What should I tell them other than what I\u2019ve just written here? \n\nWhat can I do?\n\nI hope that someone reads this and can put my mind somewhat at ease with some useful information or advice. I\u2019ve been working insane hours and making such progress in paying off my student loans. This would be such an excruciating financial roadblock for me.","title":"A lawsuit is being filed against me by the metro transit of Saint Paul. They haven\u2019t been able to serve me the court summons because they don\u2019t know where I currently live. Not sure how to proceed...","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552517885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0soe9\/is_the_song_mary_had_a_little_lamb_copyrighted\/","id":"b0soe9","body":"We have this sample we did or Mary Had a Little Lamb just for fun and just for posting on YouTube. Not being monetized or money being made off of it nor will it ever be sold.\n\nWe were just curious if we would get sued for it?\n\nState of Washington.","title":"Is the song Mary Had a Little Lamb copyrighted?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552935200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2mi69\/wife_rear_ended_other_party_at_fault\/","id":"b2mi69","body":"About 3 weeks ago my wife was rear ended while yielding to oncoming cars getting on the parkway. Fast forward to this week, the liable party\u2019s insurance is stating that she must get her car fixed by their choice of mechanic and that it must be done in the next 2 days, no rental available. This sounds like they\u2019re trying to pull my wife\u2019s leg here. What can\/should we do?","title":"Wife rear ended, other party at fault","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569536990,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9r44w\/new_jersey_usa_landlord_wrongfully_sueing_my\/","id":"d9r44w","body":"Dear Reddit community, \n\nThis post is on behalf of my boyfriend. Both of us are international and legally working in the USA but not extensively familiar with the law system and so wanted your support and advice for this case. \nToday my boyfriend received a court notice to appear in small claims court as his landlord (male in his late 60s) sued him for harassment. I've explained the scenario in detail in 2 parts-\n\nPart 1 - \n\nMy boyfriend (28M) moved into a room in an already rented 3BHK apartment near Exchange Place, Jersey City starting August 2019. He signed a 1-year lease and pays $1380\/month as rent (including utilities). \n\nThe day of his move-in, the room he was supposed to move-in was left in a really terrible condition by the earlier tenant and so he took some photos and outlined all the mess in an email to the landlord. \n\nThe landlord responded to that email and told him that he should go ahead and clean the room anyway and he will reimburse him for the hours he spent cleaning. My boyfriend hence documented 3 hours of cleaning and asked $80 in reimbursement. \n\nPart 2 - \n\nWhen the ex-tenant moved out (the guy who lived in the room before my bf moved in), the landlord had asked the other two tenants to find a replacement for the vacant room. Moreover, he told them that he will reimburse them for the time and effort they put in to find a new tenant.\n\nFast forward to August, they found my bf on a FB housing group and finalized the papers. Soon after my bf moved in, they reached out to the landlord for reimbursement. The landlord replied that he will pay them and my bf from the security deposit of the ex-tenant.\n\nThe ex-tenant didn't mind paying my bf for his trouble but was against paying the two tenants for their effort, and why should he? It's not his job to find a replacement after he moves out. He declined and asked for his security deposit.\n\nAs a response, the landlord sued all three of them (ex-tenant and the other two tenants) for harassment. He then called my boyfriend and threatened him that if he wants the money then he should appear in the court along with them (even though he didn't get a court notice) and if he doesn't appear, he will sue him as well. \n\nHelpless, my boyfriend tagged along with the others and went to the court and the landlord didn't even show up. \n\nThe other three people hired a lawyer and she recommended them to file a counter harassment case against him. She also advice my boyfriend to reach out to the landlord and inform him through an email that basically said, \"I did as you asked me to do but you didn't show up.\"\n\nAs a response to that debacle, my landlord now sued my bf for harassment. \n\nWe feel that we are at no fault whatsoever. My bf doesn't even care about the $80 but we're afraid that this might be stretched for a long time without any basis and that a harassment case would reflect negatively on his Visa file. Can anyone help?\n\nP.s. The landlord has been volunteering at the court since the last 10 years and people there, including the court clerk and the judge, know him well.","title":"[New Jersey, USA] Landlord wrongfully sueing my boyfriend for harassment in small claims court","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568417384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3xgiq\/father_of_my_son_moved_across_state_and_we_have\/","id":"d3xgiq","body":"My son's father and I recently went to court in regards to our sons custody. The judge granted me 5 days a week and 2 days a week for his dad but equal say in the big decisions but only until he is one. He is turning one before the end of the year. \n\nThroughout the entire custody battle which his father initiated, he told the court he would pay whatever he needed to pay, get as much time as he could, would create his schedule around our son and was going to stay in the state etc. Well, none of this has happened. He has moved out of state not even 3 months after the courts decision, applied for a higher position within the company in which he was working in, and before that he went more than a month without seeing our son and has complained about having to pay child support to the point where he had tried to get back with me because he thinks he will save money I guess? He makes 70k+ a year mind you. \n\nI spoke with my lawyer and he said that he did all of this after the courts decision so he wouldn't have to pay even more child support and that I should return to court. He also said that he lied to the court by saying his schedule was going to be flexible (he now manages more than 9 stores in another state about 18 hrs from where my son and I live) and he wouldn't move and that now he doesn't want to go back to court because he knows he will lose.\n\nThere's so many more details I've probably missed so please ask me questions if it helps get to an answer.","title":"Father of my son moved across state and we have to go back to court soon.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570036321,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcd7db\/va_instate_relocation\/","id":"dcd7db","body":"What are potential barriers to in-state relocation (100 miles) with regards to custody and divorce?\n\nI\u2019m in an emotionally abusive relationship and I do not think that the finalization of divorce will curb my spouse\u2019s behavior. I\u2019m a SAHM with small children (3.5 and 11 months), and I have cared for them interrupted. Spouse says that I cannot move from our home (he does not live here - it\u2019ll be one year on 01\/02\/20) or he will file for full custody. If I stay he says he will file for 50\/50. I am fully willing to agree to weekends, holidays, and part of the summer if that means that my children and I can have our daily life be safe and free of the abuse. Though this isn\u2019t what I think is emotionally best for them, all I can do is remove myself from the situation so that they don\u2019t have to exist within it. I have substantial proof (1st and 2ndhand) of the abuse, as well as an extensive mental health history that would corroborate the abuse. He threatens to use this same MH history to prove my unfitness, though he tells me that I\u2019m a wonderful mother when he takes the kids out (5 days per week). He will not have a permanent residence until November, about 6 weeks before our year filing date. I know there\u2019s no mental cruelty in Virginia and I don\u2019t even want to file a fault-based divorce. All I want to do is move to where our support system is so that I can obtain a degree and employment to financially provide for the children.","title":"VA - In-State Relocation","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569528117,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ozw5\/northern_ca_employer_overpaid_me_recently_and_is\/","id":"d9ozw5","body":"throwaway\n\nIm an independent contractor with a company that just told its contractors and employees that it will be shutting down. I don't live in California any more, but that is where the company is based. A couple of months ago, I was slightly overpaid \\[nothing crazy but enough for me to care about\\]. I haven't touched the money out of fear, but I have done some preliminary research that seems that they legally can't reclaim it by California law, but they can by my home states law. The fact that they are shutting down is interesting and complicates things\n\nMy questions:\n\n1. Are my rights as an independent contractor based on the law in the companys state, or in my own?\n2. Can I keep it?\n\nThank you","title":"[northern CA] employer overpaid me recently and is now shutting down","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553792469,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6lc5f\/tn_where_to_deposit_a_check_made_out_to_my\/","id":"b6lc5f","body":"My father passed away with all of his assets in pristine order. No will and no estate because everything had been dived up years before he died. We recently received a check from some disability policy he had that had a death benefit nobody knew about including the administrator for his benefits. As such, no beneficiaries had been named so the check, amounting to about $4000, was made out to the estate. \n\nWhat do we do with this? He still has a jointly held bank account. Can we deposit it there where it would flow out into my sibling\u2019s possession through survivorship rights or is there some other process we have to follow?\n\nHe did have a leased vehicle and the company has been pestering us for payment. Honestly I don\u2019t really care who gets the money as long as it isn\u2019t Ford at this point, if that\u2019s at all possible. ","title":"TN - Where to deposit a check made out to my father\u2019s estate?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539898189,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pdgyy\/male_18_texas\/","id":"9pdgyy","body":"I'm trying to get my driver's liscense through the \"parent taught route\". However, my mom is scared I will wreck the car in the process and since I won't have a liscense (or even a permit) or insurance it will be costly. In this case wouldn't her liscense and insurance cover me since she will be teaching me how to drive? What about if I get pulled over?","title":"Male, 18, Texas","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542064396,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wjb1a\/bc_canada_husband_fired_for_pot_in_his_system\/","id":"9wjb1a","body":"I apologize for the long post ! \n\nMy boyfriend worked for a large construction company, he\u2019s a carpenter and he was working on a large industrial project here in BC Canada. He had an injury at work and had to report it, they forced him to take a drug test ( urine drug test ) and a breathalyzer for alcohol. He was told that if he refused to take the drug test, it would be deemed a positive test and he would be fired and denied workers comp and EI.\n\nI want to make it very clear that he was NOT high at work and does not use pot before work. His results came back and he tested positive for marijuana and he was fired with cause, denied severance, workers compensation, and EI. He was also past his 90 day probation period where an employer can fire you for any reason and not have to pay severance.\n\nThis all happened AFTER legalization. The urine analysis cannot prove when he smoked, just that it was in his system. From my understanding pot can show up on a drug test almost a month after use. He isn\u2019t a daily smoker but had smoked a joint the weekend before he was tested (he smoked it on a Saturday and didn\u2019t work until Monday ) and the injury happened on Friday, almost a week after he last used. He was part of a union but they said their hands are tied and cannot do anything to help him.\n\nMarijuana is completely legal here in Canada so it boggles my mind that they can fire people for smoking a completely legal substance during off work hours. The union and the company says that despite legalization, they will fire anyone who tests positive for pot, even though they cannot prove the person consumed pot or was impaired at work. No one suspected him of being high, it is apparently company policy to drug test everyone who reports an injury and deny all claims if drugs or pot are found in their system, regardless of last use, and fire them for cause, which makes them ineligible for EI. \n\nMy question really is, is this legal? Can they force workers to abstain from a legal substance and fire people with cause ? He never signed any type of agreement that stated he would not smoke pot during off work hours or any type of employment contract. I understand if he was using illegal substances or was high at work but that isn\u2019t the case. \n\nWe don\u2019t really have the funds to hire a lawyer to fight this but perhaps someone might know of a recourse for us (if there even is one) because this seems really unfair, especially for people who use pot for medical reasons. This type of policy prevents his work from being held responsible for injuries and seems like an easy out. When a company has an increase of reported injuries, their WCB premiums increase, so it appears to me that this is a tactic to prevent people from being fairly compensated and to keep their premiums from rising.  \n\nUltimately I would like him to be able to receive EI for the time he was out of work ( he now has a new job but was out of work for two and a half weeks) and for his old company to be forced to change their policy to prevent other injured workers from being fired, denied workers comp for injuries, and denied EI.  ","title":"BC Canada- husband fired for pot in his system.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541134525,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9th4se\/lv_nv_do_i_need_2_separate_business_licenses_for\/","id":"9th4se","body":"I\u2019ve recently become both a real estate agent AND a Notary Signing Agent and I need a business license to do either one. I was hoping to come up with a cute name for the NSA work so I\u2019m assuming I need to file a Fictitious Firm Name with my county and I planned on just filing a sole proprietor business for the realtor work with just my name. Would one business license be ok to use for both? i.e. Jane Mary Doe dba Notary Business \n\nIf I nix filing a FFN, does that mean I can\u2019t use \u201cNotary Business\u201d as my company name and would have to use Jane Mary Doe? Sorry if this is worded all wrong but thank you in advance. ","title":"LV, NV; Do I need 2 separate business licenses for 2 separate businesses?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568416770,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3xc1u\/disputing_early_termination_fee_and_security\/","id":"d3xc1u","body":"Background: Was renting home in South Florida with multiple large dead pine trees around home. Going back to March we had made several complaints to the landlord about the amount of falling branches and feeling unsafe with the trees during hurricane season. We were told multiple times that the problem would be taken care of but it never was. We finally put in a 60 day notice, bought a home, and got the hell out.\n\nNow: Received letter from the landlord stating they are keeping the security deposit and are expecting the early termination fee.\n\nDue to the warnings of feeling unsafe in the exchanged emails (including multiple photos for evidence) over the course of 5 months; do I have the ability to dispute the termination fee and security deposit?","title":"Disputing Early Termination Fee and Security Deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568681371,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d59jtd\/ny_might_have_medical_complications_if_nothing_is\/","id":"d59jtd","body":"I have been no contact with my family in a different state and im still on their insurance for some reason even though I have my own 1000 miles away from them. I just gave birth 10 days ago due to a seizure I was having and in the hospital was perscribed 6 different medications for pain, high blood pressure, etc. I can't get that medicine due to it being hundreds of dollars so I tried to contact my families insurance to try and get off of it because its literally useless and would cost me about the same amount of money when Im on it. They said only the insurance holder can make changes to the insurance. even if I did contact them they wouldn't change anything to it. They gave me enployer information and thought they could make changes to the plan but when i contacted the employer she said there was nothing they could do to change it. The pharmacy the medication is at also said my insurance wont pay for it because of the other insurance. I can't walk or care for my children without the medication. My fiance has been helping me most of the time do simple tasks. What do I do?","title":"NY Might have medical complications if nothing is done about this","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555058599,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcb90m\/ny_retaining_anonymity_for_paying_someones_rent\/","id":"bcb90m","body":"Hey so, long story short, I may be coming into a not-indignificant financial windfall. After taking care of the essentials and squaring things away, I've had something in the back of my mind I wanted to address.\n\nNotably, I have a close friend that's from a lower income background trying to make things work at college. They get by, financially, but the family can be described as \"make ends meet every month\". They work hard to do everything they can to provide for their kids, including my friend, and I know that leads to some stressful situations.\n\nI helped my friend find their current apartment, so I know both the landlord and the rent they owe (per semester). My friend has 1 year left, so 2 semesters, and that's about $6k for rent. This friend has done a lot for me, but is the type that would feel massively guilty if I just gave them the money and would refuse it as a gift on \"it's your money, use it for yourself\" grounds.\n\nWhich is incredibly nice and besides the point. I want to have this done as an anonymous gift. Or, if it's somehow permissible, find a way to legally truss the gift up in a way that's not going to put any suspicions on me (unlikely, I know.)\n\nTl;dr: Is it legal to anonymously pay someone's rent for them for the year, given it's  $6,000 in approximate total? Am I obliged to disclose my identity as part of this, outside of whatever tax forms need filing to the government?\n\nThank you in advance!","title":"(NY) Retaining anonymity for paying someone's rent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551564034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awmxva\/utah_landlord_advertised_laundry_in_unit_says_we\/","id":"awmxva","body":"Throwaway because personal information on main account.\n\nWe're moving from Arizona to Utah (Saratoga Springs) in two days for a new job. Two months ago we found a listing for a townhouse that specifically said \"Appliances included: Washer, dryer.\" Then further down under the listing in \"laundry\" section it says \"in unit.\" It fit our budget, was newer and close to work and we made our deposit and first month's rent.\n\nThis morning the landlord texted us saying to check out a certain business for great deals on washers and dryers for our townhouse. We replied that we thought it was included and sent screenshots of the original rental listing showing that washer\/dryer were included. She said that \"no one in Utah includes washer\/dryer in their rentals and I told you this on the phone originally (she didn't). I meant the unit has hookups for laundry but there wasn't an option for that when I listed the rental online so I had to say they were included.\"  \n\n\nWe've never had an issue with landlords before and being in a new state we're flying blind here. I believe it's false advertising but since nothing is mentioned in the lease regarding the laundry what is available to us legally? Are we SOL?","title":"UTAH - Landlord advertised laundry in unit, says we need to buy them","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569588303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9zvwj\/using_images_without_permission\/","id":"d9zvwj","body":"I\u2019m a college marketing student and as a project for my resume I took on doing the social media for a local high school hockey team to build my resume. I do the graphics as well and we no longer have a photographer so I have to get images elsewhere. \n\nMy question is, if I wanted to use a picture of on of the arenas we play in for a background on a graphic, would I need to get permission first? The particular picture is owned by the university (not mine, another in another town). I do not make money off of the social media if that makes any difference.","title":"Using images without permission?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569430981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d966wc\/not_a_problem_i_have_but\/","id":"d966wc","body":"So for my English class my group are trying to prove that Lennie (a character from Mice and Men) is mentally challenged and accidentally kill Carly\u2019s wife \n\nMy group is trying to prove that Lennie is not guilty. Any advice?","title":"Not a problem I have but","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503343421,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v5c88\/bipolar_mom_is_threatening_to_kick_me_out\/","id":"6v5c88","body":"I don't  know if this is the right place to post this, but I'll post it anyway. I am 23 years old and live in Texas with my family. My mom is bipolar and it seems like menopause changed\/worsened the illness. Obviously, our relationship has deteriorated. All her relationships have gotten worse. She only ever wants to spend time with her friends and has started to resent my father, my brother, and me. I've always been close to my mom's family. I spend a lot of time with one of my aunts and my mom hates it. She now wants me to move out because I am never with her and is threatening to change the locks. Can she do that? The house is in both my parents names. My dad pays the mortgage.\n","title":"Bipolar mom is threatening to kick me out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539555485,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o6xvd\/indiana_landlord_is_filing_for_bankruptcy\/","id":"9o6xvd","body":"A couple weeks ago my landlord said he'd be filing for bankruptcy next month. I have never been in this situation before so I am unsure of how things will go. My main concern is after he files, how long will I have until I have to move out? ","title":"(Indiana) Landlord is filing for bankruptcy","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553558024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5ifev\/security_deposit_not_being_returned\/","id":"b5ifev","body":"(Dallas,TX) Me and my roommate lived at a apartment complex for two years and to our knowledge never had any issues or complaints against us. We decide to end our lease and I plan on moving in w\/ my GF. We gave them the required notice, 2 months, and are done moving out. My roommate however, is concerned that they're going to try and be super pretty about the security deposit by the interactions he's had with them recently. He thinks that because some of the things we marked down on our walk through as damaged or not in good condition have gotten worse, cracked grout and tile have now become missing grout and even more cracked tile etc, since they weren't ever repaired, that they'll try and use that against us. I didn't think so, but I've called them twice asking for an update and have gotten two different answers. So I'm starting to reconsider what he's said. \n\nMy question is, is there anything we can do to try and fight it? And is there a timeline for when it has to be given back to us?\n\nI saw a story somewhere on reddit that was similar where the LL's tried to screw the tenant but the law for their state would've been in the tenants favor should they have went to court. Wondering if there's anything like that in my case as well... TIA","title":"Security Deposit not being returned.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569551304,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9u1hy\/ga_trying_to_reopen_traffic_violation_case_in\/","id":"d9u1hy","body":"I went to court 2 weeks ago because of a traffic  ticket. The violation was failure to maintain lane. And it resulted in a minor fender bender. I pleaded not guilty due to the circumstances and requested a jury trial( i was trying to run away from a road rage cituation). The police officer did not care at all about that and gave me a ticket.\n\nAt the municipal court, I was told that i would get another court date within a month or two. Today I called the court and they are saying 6 months to 2 years before they even get my case.\n\nMy problem is that I am in the process of enlisting in The army and I need this to be over with to be able to enlist. \n\nWhat can I do to get my case re opened at the municipal court?\n\nThank you for reading","title":"[GA] Trying to re-open traffic violation case in municipal court, plead nolo and pay the fine so I can enlist in the army","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541126065,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tg6p0\/can_a_godparent_take_custody_of_me\/","id":"9tg6p0","body":"I'm 16 but I'm out of school my aunt is threatening to take me away from my mom if I'm not in school does she have and legal right if she's my godmother","title":"Can a godparent take custody of me","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568478723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d47g3s\/power_of_attorney_for_my_friend_to_use_my_driver\/","id":"d47g3s","body":"Is it possible to have a power of attorney which allows your friend who doesn't have a license to drive your car with you in the car by the use of power of attorney?","title":"Power of attorney for my friend to use my driver license.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1445727013,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q339w\/landlord_refuses_to_sign_lease\/","id":"3q339w","body":"(Grove City, US)\nHi there, my husband and I have been living in our apartment with our two cats since July, and our landlord has refused to give us a lease or take a security deposit. He has threatened to evict us several times even though we have always had his money for him on time, he just hasn't come to pick it up and we didn't have an address to send it to until recently. Where do we stand legally if he tries to evict us but we never signed a lease and he refuses to?","title":"Landlord refuses to sign lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553558359,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5ihnr\/ca_can_my_landlord_keep_my_entire_security_deposit\/","id":"b5ihnr","body":"[CA] I signed a \u201clease\u201d for a room in a 3 bedroom house in Cali that I want to break out of.\n\nA couple days ago, the person I am leasing from (who I will call aggressive roommate (AR)) began yelling and being very aggressive towards one of my other roommates. He was aggressive enough that the situation made me feel very anxious and uncomfortable about continuing to live in the home. The \u201clease\u201d I signed lasts for the next couple of months. However, I would like to move out within the next 30 days. I have some concerns over whether or not I will owe rent for the remaining months; and whether or not I can get my security deposit back.\n\nIt turns out that AR from does not actually have permission from the property management company to lease to others (which I have been told is breach of his lease contract). Is my lease with AR still considered valid considering he technically does not have permission to rent out the room? My contract also states that my security deposit is non-refundable if I break my lease. From the research I have done, it seems that a clause stating that \u201cthe deposit is non-refundable\u2019 is not allowed in California (such a statement invalidates the contract). Is this true?\n\nWhat steps can I take to move out of this house while still getting my security deposit back, and without owing rent? If AR does not give me my security deposit back, would it be worth my time\/money to take him to small claims court?","title":"[CA] can my landlord keep my entire security deposit?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569458756,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9c8jp\/getting_evicted\/","id":"d9c8jp","body":"First off, on mobile so sorry for formatting\/typos.\n\nI live in a decently sized house with my Mom, Dad, and Grandfather. We pay $800 a month, roughly. Im not sure of the actual amount.\n\nFor the past year or so, we have been asking them to fix various things. Namely the floors which are unwalkable in a lot of areas. And ever since Hurricane Harvey, the floors got worse. Its really hard for my Grandfather in particular to get around.\n\nWell the Landlord called today and left a message. That we missed a payment a few months back and that with late fees, we now owe him $2000 by this Friday (The 27th) or else we are going to be taken to court and possibly evicted. My Mom swears that he never called about it beforehand (She's the one who makes the payments) and we are now freaking out. We're very poor with no way to come up with that money and nowhere to go if we are evicted.\n\nHelp. Please.","title":"Getting Evicted","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553599023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5of9c\/nyc_landlord_will_not_give_security_deposit_back\/","id":"b5of9c","body":"The lease to my current apartment expired in May of 2018.  Since then I have been paying month to month without missing a payment and always on time.  This past week a studio apartment came on the market that was too good of a deal to pass up so I quickly jumped on it and signed the lease.  The downside is that I need to move by April 1st.  I called to tell my landlord that I would be out at the end of the month and that I will leave the place spotless. His response was that since it is not a 30 days notice he does not have to give my security deposit back.  \n\nHe has quite the history of being a general terrible landlord and often takes months to fix anything or just ignores our requests.\n\nMy question is, since the lease that I signed was up in May 2018, can he really keep my deposit since that agreement is now expired?","title":"[NYC] Landlord will not give security deposit back","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553827555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6s0u6\/indiana_visitation_when_child_is_employed_and\/","id":"b6s0u6","body":"My son who resides with his mother in Indiana is employed but has no drivers license. I live in Kentucky and up until now my visitation has been cut and dry. However my son is now 17 and has a son and in the parenting guidelines for the state of Indiana it does not say how that is to be handled and it\u2019s already caused tension that\u2019s soon to be and argument. \n\nI was told by a manager of a fast food restaurant that\u2019s been one for 20 years that legally the child is to go visit the parent for the said 7 weeks and the employer by law must hold their employment due to it being a court order. \n\nHowever the parental guidelines don\u2019t confirm how this is to work and I\u2019m not finding any information on Googling multiple phrases. Keeps giving answers about the parents working. \n\nI need to see if any attorneys on here practice family law in Indiana that would happen to know this information or where I could find it? Anyone with experience from the state of Indiana is welcome to chime in too. As it stands per the April 1st letter I\u2019ve send out every year I\u2019ve declared the 2nd half of summer break which is 7 weeks. I\u2019m just not sure how his job should be handled and I spoke with his manager and they honestly didn\u2019t seem like they had much experience as a manager much less handling this. \n\nAny information is welcome and appreciated. ","title":"Indiana visitation when child is employed and distance is a factor","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570482266,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/depqzt\/why_does_anyone_sue_anyone_if_its_so_expensive\/","id":"depqzt","body":"Hi everyone. I had an issue this summer with my car. Without getting into details, my car was damaged badly by a towing company which towed my car incorrectly. My insurance company covered the damage, but decided not to a fix a part that was supposed to be repaired according to the dealership to avoid having to total the car. Later, the car severely broke due to faulty repairs. I spent $5.1k on the car and other costs due to the breakdown (was traveling across country, had to leave it in another state, etc.) after the original repairs. I have a lawyer who demanded that the insurance company give us the value of the car since it should have been totaled originally, the cost of the repairs ($5.1k), his legal fees, and emotional distress. The car first broke at the end of May, and the lawyer got involved at the beginning of August. He is now telling me that the insurance company is refusing to pay for anything besides the totaled value of the car, and we should settle for just the value of the car because suing them would be too expensive. After just a couple weeks I'd already have over $10k in legal fees. I'm wondering if this is true, and if so, how does anyone sue anyone or get justice for what's been done to them? It sounds like only the rich or large businesses can take advantage of the court system if that's the case. Is it only not worth it when I'm trying to get such a small amount of money? How do people pay their legal fees out of pocket until they get money back by the end of the case? I'd love any information on this. I'm new to the world of law and this just doesn't make any sense to me right now.","title":"Why does anyone sue anyone if it's so expensive?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506524134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72ss6p\/nyc_realtor_manager_and_i_agreed_on_a_2_year\/","id":"72ss6p","body":"I live in New York City, around Western Queen\u2019s area, within a pre-war building. My unit is not rent controlled or rent stabilized, it is market rate \/ non-regulated. Around December 2016, the building manager[ texted to me the renewal rate ](https:\/\/imgur.com\/xddGcZw)for my apartment and I agreed to a [2 year lease renewal starting on Jan 1st, 2017.](https:\/\/imgur.com\/Npceven) However, the same building manager texted me yesterday that they were reviewing my file and that my [lease is up at the end of 2017. ](https:\/\/imgur.com\/b78orgi) I told this person that I am confused as we agreed to a 2 year lease. The manager sent me a [picture of a 1 page document](https:\/\/imgur.com\/KLwyA9L) I signed stating the renewal is for one year. Also, the manager stated that [they don\u2019t have text records going that far back and that I should renew as the rates are cheap](https:\/\/imgur.com\/eug73A0) for the area (which is true). Fortunately, I took a screenshot of our agreement we made via text back in December, was able to find it (thank god to dropbox), and sent it to her. [She hasn\u2019t gotten back to me yet.](https:\/\/imgur.com\/DjPIYdf) \n\nWhat I don\u2019t have is a copy of the document I signed, just a picture of what the manager sent me. I do have screen shots of what we agreed via text. I back up my text messages via the Android App \u201cSMS Backup\u201d and I was able to create a PDF of all of our text communication. I also have my tmobile bill for that period and can match the date and time of incoming \/ outgoing text messages of manager\u2019s number to that of my text screenshots \/ back up \/ pdf.\n\nOn one hand, I should have done due diligence and read the document prior to signing to make sure what we agreed verbally \/ through text was what I was signing. On the other hand, I trusted that the document the manager wrote and created was correct per what we agreed. Maybe it was honestly an error, or maybe it was ill intended. The fact that the manager stated they will get back to me makes me believe it was the former and not the latter. However, my trust in the manager has eroded. I like the area I live in, my apartment and overall the rent rate that I am paying. While moving wasn\u2019t a consideration until the end of 2018, what this person is doing makes me not want to renew regardless if they fall back on their agreement or if I have to renew by the end of 2017.\n\nI am still waiting on a response from the building manager but with all that said, what course of action do I have?\n\n\nThe screenshots noted above are [all within my album here](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/i8PTs)","title":"[NYC] Realtor Manager and I agreed on a 2 year lease renewal, but they claim now it\u2019s only for 1 year","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539715034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oqfq1\/athens_ga_apartment_complex_towed_my_car_without\/","id":"9oqfq1","body":"This also falls under parking. I woke up this morning, got out of my apartment complex and saw that every car in my lot is gone because the complex is repaving the parking lot. I did not receive an email or text about this and they always email me and text me about updates. We also have a clip board outside our door where they post printed and written notices. I did not get one. My roommate got a general text message this morning at 8:36, for everyone in the lot to move their car or it would be towed. I did not get such a text message. There were several people who got their cars towed without so much as even a 24 hour notice. Is this legal. What should I do and say when I go to the office? I think they should pay to have my car returned to me. They didn\u2019t even bother to warn us in my opinion. Any help is appreciated. ","title":"Athens, GA Apartment Complex Towed my car without even a 24 hour notice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540777302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s8vty\/ca_going_to_fight_my_traffic_tickethow_does_my\/","id":"9s8vty","body":"I was pulled over 3 days ago by CHP. He claims I made a right hand turn on a red at the exit of a freeway when it was actually yellow. He pulled me over .25 miles after I exited the freeway. I want to argue that it was yellow and ask for proof. Does he have a picture to show that I made that right on a red? If the judge sides with him I want to argue that there is no point in coming to court if the judge is going to automatically side with the cop based on hearsay. Furthermore, I believe that there is a quota in regards to traffic tickets. I passed by the same area again today and saw 3 officers handing out tickets all within a 1 mile radius. They always show up at the end of the month and I want to prove that there is a quota. How would this hold up in court? I'm hoping to delay it and see if he shows up and if he does, I want to be prepared. ","title":"(CA) Going to fight my traffic ticket..how does my defense look?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505580504,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70hx8j\/livein_landlord_admits_videorecording_areas_of\/","id":"70hx8j","body":"My now ex landlady and I are embroiled in a crazy situation where I'm not only being denied my deposit for frivolous reasons, [but she has now admitted to using nanny-cams in the house](https:\/\/imgur.com\/0E5ajS0). \n\nBy chance, I'm reading an article I came across a situation where a landlord was spying on their tenants using a FAKE CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR. While living at her house, whenever we'd have issues, this monoxide detector she placed in the hallway was usually on the frits. I noticed it just show up once, and I thought it to be odd. I got the impression and awkward feeling she was always spying or litening to us. This detector could have totally seen us, as it was placed in plain view of the open door to the room in the hallway. [Take a look for yourself, even Walmart sells these!!](https:\/\/www.walmart.com\/ip\/MOHOO-Mini-HD-DVR-Hidden-SPY-Camera-CCTV-Motion-Smoke-Detection-Surveillance-Sound-Video-Recorder-Cam-Home-Security-Camera-Hidden-Smoke-Detector-Supp\/792214890)\n\nHow should I proceed civil or criminally? I wonder if the police would take this seriously, but I'm already going to have to sue her in small claims court to receive my monies wrongfully withheld as well. I already discussed this over with my daughter, and at least it doesn't appear this landlady ever did anything other than potentially video us in common areas using spy devices. ","title":"Live-in Landlord admits video-recording areas of the house we shared. I think she spied on us in the common areas. [CO]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569282139,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ez22\/just_declined_divorce_decree_do_i_need_to_bring\/","id":"d8ez22","body":"When going to file our uncontested divorce, we were still in Kentucky\u2019s 60 day waiting period. We thought we could just file and after the 60 days it would be finalized. Anyway, we got our decree back in the mail saying that it was declined and now we are going back to talk to a judge on the 30th. I was just curious if I needed to bring a new decree with us to the hearing. Thanks guys!","title":"Just declined divorce decree, do I need to bring another copy to be filed\/signed?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554611957,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bacvos\/mom_runs_a_doggie_daycare_business_out_of_her\/","id":"bacvos","body":"(Not sure I flaired this right)          \nIt\u2019s through one of the apps like rover or something. She gets paid through the app and sometimes not through the app (under the table?). Sometimes she will have 9 dogs in the house and she will leave them alone for up to 6 hours at a time! Non-supervised.     \nWhat happens if a dog attacks another dog and it get injured or dies!?! The owners will have no clue my mom wasn\u2019t there and my mom could lie I guess. It just seems wrong of my mom to be leaving these dogs alone when customers are paying her to watch them.... ","title":"Mom runs a doggie daycare business out of her house. She leaves them alone for hours a day.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553720481,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b69p7w\/suspicious_utility_charges_by_apartment_complex\/","id":"b69p7w","body":"This is kind of a complicated issue, I\u2019ll try my best to explain. I live in a large apartment complex in Maine. I have 3 roommates (4 people per apartment). with 3 apartment units in one building. There\u2019s 22 buildings of various sizes on this complex (some are 3 Roomate units)\n\nOur lease says our rent is 535 a month and it goes on to explain we have an allotted power usage before they charge us for going over. They give us 25$ per room\n\nEver since the first month we have been getting charged an extra 40$ a month each for electricity and the difference never changes. Additionally we get hit with \u201cprocessing fees\u201d (13$) \u201cadmin fees\u201d (8$) and unmarked  \u201cmonthly fees\u201d ($11.95)\n\nTo test our suspicion. During the month of January (our winter break is a 5 weeks) we unplugged everything in the house. The only thing running was our heat (at the minimum it would let us set) none of us were home for a full month. We were still charged the normal amount. And we each ended up paying almost 610$ each. The only reason we chose this complex was because it was the lowest advertised price in the area and the only extra fees that were talked about was the \u201crare circumstance of paying extra for electricity\u201d\n\nMe and my roommates composed an email asking if we could have the raw electric usage bill directly from the utility company for our unit. All our emails were ignored. We went to the main office and we simply told \u201cno, if you don\u2019t like it don\u2019t renew your lease\u201d so we didn\u2019t. We will find another place next year.\n\nAfter this we asked other people that live in the complex if they have a similar issue. And every single person we talked to said the same thing \u201cwe get charged for going over every single month\u201d\n\nKeep in mind the average price for a month of electric in my state is about 80$ a month. While the national average is 115 a month. How can we be paying 260$ a month total? It doesn\u2019t make sense.\n\nAny advise would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Suspicious utility charges by apartment complex, [ME] what can I do to investigate or combat this?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551744605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axefu0\/can_a_workplace_ask_for_proof_of_residence\/","id":"axefu0","body":"Hello. I am unsure if this is the correct subreddit but maybe you can help:\n\nMy friend recently got hired by Walmart Canada. She\u2019s been out of work since September and is very excited. She recently (2months) moved to a new apartment in a new city (my city). She finally got a job at Walmart. Got the email to accept it. She does. \n\nThen she gets a phone call saying she\u2019s been red flagged because it says her hometown on her ID is different from her actual address. She was going to give them a copy of the rental agreement. They said that\u2019s not good enough and she need matching Photo ID, rental agreement and proof she moved. \n\nShe has no money to update her ID and this place is small and definitely not permanent. The landlord is challenging to get ahold of on the best of days and she has 72 hours to produce all this or she won\u2019t be hired. \n\nI\u2019ve worked at like 5 places and never been asked this once. My manager at my job thinks it\u2019s extremely odd and would think the rental agreement should be plenty. \n\nWhat should she do? This seems weird to us both but Walmart is a reputable company. ","title":"Can A Workplace ask for proof of residence?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569258528,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d89gmy\/going_to_court_for_the_license_plate_on_my_new\/","id":"d89gmy","body":"Hi all, I got pulled over this morning for having the tag on my new car belonging to my old one. The old tag is in my name, and I provided the title and insurance of my current car to the cop and ended up getting a court date. The only reason I haven\u2019t registered my current car in my name yet is I\u2019ve been pretty low on money recently, and haven\u2019t had the chance to. I\u2019m registering it tomorrow. My question is, what can I expect when I go to court? Whenever I look online I just end up scaring myself.","title":"Going to court for the license plate on my new car belonging to my old one","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444760776,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3om8ms\/or_toxic_roommate_situation_how_do_i_get_him_out\/","id":"3om8ms","body":"Hey r\/legaladvice, \n\nI have had a roommate who, after repeated months of frustrations, I want out. \n\nA little background: I've started seeking help from depression, as I let my cleaning duties fall by the wayside. I was drinking in excess and I caused a mess in the bathroom a couple weeks ago while I was blackout drunk. I cleaned it up, but I got a vicious text from my roommate telling me that I'm poisonous and I ruin the lives of people around me. I took part of that to heart, and I have started seeking treatment. \n\nHere is the problem: the utilities are deducted monthly from my account. I've been paying the cable\/internet solely by myself for the last 6 months without any help from him ($135). The electricity is not auto pay, and it had been mounting for some months as he was not paying me on time. After all extension, the full amount was 420ish dollars and I paid 320 to avoid shut off. \n\nHe paid 85 but demanded to see the itemized bills before he would pay more. I gave them to him, but he still has not paid the other half. \n\nI get that my drunk night was inexcusable. However, he consistently leaves rotting food on the counter for days, won't do his dishes, there are flies everywhere, and is generally just vile to live with.\n\nThe kicker: he had a guest over from out of town. They started dating and she never moved out. He asked if it was cool if she moved in, and I hesitantly agreed on the condition that I will not pay any more than I have been. She didn't have a job, and he said he would pay all the costs associated. Two months later, she is not on the lease and she has a dog. Management does not allow dogs in our specific apartment. We could be evicted for this. I've essentially been paying for both of their internet and cable and nothing has changed. \n\nMy ultimate question: what are my options to get him out, maybe get some of the money he owes me, and not get evicted in the process? My landlords hate \"drama\" and wouldn't have a problem terminating the lease, as it's month to month. ","title":"[OR] Toxic roommate situation. How do I get him out and keep myself in my apartment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443403474,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mn855\/los_angelesca_the_property_manager_of_my\/","id":"3mn855","body":"I live in Los Angeles in an older apartment complex. The sink in my bathroom stopped working a month after I signed my lease, at the same that the cold water in my kitchen stopped working. I sent multiple work order requests in and was told someone would come take care of it, but no one has. I tried speaking in person to the property manager and she kept reassuring me the property maintenance guy was going to come by and take a look at it. Now my toilet flusher broke, the plastic lever inside the tank. I could easily fix it myself but I put in another work order along with citing the un-usable sink's from two months ago. \n\nIs there any law or county office that I can report to to have them check my apartment out? Am I legally allowed to get the county involved if these things aren't fixed\/or even get my rent back if things are deemed un-livable? \n\nTLDR; my bathroom sink doesn't work, and the cold water in my kitchen doesn't work, the property manager keeps saying someone is going to fix it but for two months no one has. Can I get the county involved to help me get it fixed or get money back from my rent?","title":"[Los Angeles\/CA] The property manager of my apartment complex has ignored my requests to fix the plumbing, not sure what else I can do.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571103762,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di0q06\/interior_lights_in_a_vehicle\/","id":"di0q06","body":"I currently Live In Florida. I have recently purchased a set of interior car lights to spice up my car. They are beautiful lights and really add something to a night drive. However, I am curious as to if these lights are legal in the state of Florida. I have come to understand that maybe if they are not red or blue as those are reserved for police and fire. Overall, are these interior lights legal, and if so, what colors are legal to drive under!\n\nThanks for all the time and helpful advice given!","title":"Interior Lights In a Vehicle","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571138671,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di6i1u\/aus_alcoholic_mother_is_crushing_my_family_i_dont\/","id":"di6i1u","body":"Hi, apologies for the throwaway but a lot of people in my life know my main.\n\nAlso, please direct me if there is somewhere more suited to this post. Sorry in advance for the rambling, this is not particularly well thought out.\n\nMy mother has been a chronic alcoholic for around the past 8 years. This has been a difficult time, I suffered from my own mental health issues but have successfully sought treatment and am finally due to graduate from University in a month. My parents' relationship has also definitely suffered in this time.\n\nMy Dad is a hard-working doctor, usually clocking 60 hrs a week. This has its pros and cons. He feels the need to work so much to support our family, including my sister and I who are both at uni and my mother who has contributed next to nothing in income in probably almost 15 years, and through her addiction has probably spend way way more (and caused damage) than she would have earnt anyway. The obvious downside to the nature of his job is that he isn't home much and so my mother's behaviour can go largely unchecked during the week if she is bingeing.\n\nThe reason for my post is that I am at a loss as to what my family\/dad can do. Apologies if I come across an asshole as I am pretty fucked off at the moment. My dad has thought about divorcing her but my understanding is that she is entitled to half of the assets which would amount to I estimate at least $2 million... is there any way to protect these assets \/ protect her from herself? If she were given $2 mil I hate to think about how fast she could drink her way through it... it would also mean a huge disruption for my dad as he would have to sell our house, give her half of his superannuation (I believe?) and totally mess up his plans for retirement. But the alternative of staying together and living like this for the rest of her life just sounds utterly soul-destroying.\n\nLegal \/ life advice would be appreciated. Can we protect assets? It sounds shady to me and I feel like the family court would not approve, and it makes sense. Should he go through with the divorce even though it would mean almost starting from scratch? What about the ethical implications of this too - giving an addict $2 mil is a disaster (death) waiting to happen in my opinion. I won't lie that I am thinking of myself in this scenario as I want to be able to live in my current city but likely wouldn't be able to without some parental assistance. I know that makes me an asshole but I am mostly concerned by what is best for my Dad.\n\n​\n\nTIA for any input.","title":"[AUS] Alcoholic mother is crushing my family, I don't know what we can do about it.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541824842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vrlba\/illinois_do_you_have_to_call_the_policefile_a\/","id":"9vrlba","body":"My husband is a delivery driver for \u201cpopular pizza joint chain\u201d  and was rear ended on a residential street while on a delivery. His car has little to no damage (few scuffs, small dent) and the car that hit him has more serious damage (bent hood, cracked grill\/bumper, paint damage). My husband and the guy who hit him just exchanged information and my husband took pictures and he went on his merry way because he had 3 orders in his car that were going to be late. \nI\u2019m worried about the police report and his job because he has to file some paper work with the company.  Do you have to call the police every time you are in an accident or file a police report within \u201cX\u201d amount of days at the police station. As for insurance, my husband honestly doesn\u2019t really care about the little damage done to his car it\u2019s a crappy Civic we use only for his job but I\u2019m sure the guy who hit him will want to fix his car. Neither one of us has ever been in an accident so we are sort of clueless. ","title":"(Illinois) do you have to call the police\/file a report after a minor car accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540162072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q7yje\/fianc\u00e9e_is_threatening_to_kick_me_out_but_my_name\/","id":"9q7yje","body":"Not sure how to flair this, so sorry about that\n\nI\u2019m gonna keep this kind of short, but if you need more information please let me know.\n\n\nI\u2019m living with my fianc\u00e9e, both of our names are on the lease. We\u2019ve had no physical fights, just arguing, and she\u2019s resorting to kicking me out as a kind of petty \u201cScrew you\u201d.\n\nCan she legally do this if I\u2019m on the lease? I\u2019m leaving on Thursday because there\u2019s no saving it at this point, but she\u2019s saying I\u2019m not allowed to stay until then.","title":"Fianc\u00e9e is threatening to kick me out, but my name is on the lease. Can she do anything legally? [CO]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569574251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9xlci\/help_with_an_alcoholic_roommate_who_has_only_name\/","id":"d9xlci","body":"So in june i was needing a place to stay. The situation at the time, i was getting kicked out of my place because my other two roommates were fighting and the LL got sick of it.  So a coworker of mine said he had a room i could rent and we verbally agreed on half rent and half the bills.\n\nAbout a month after move in (june 28th-30th) i started having tooth problems so i was not able to pay rent the end of july, for the month of August. (I had paid for the month of july on week to week basis.) The end of august came and had to get car work done so i didnt have rent on sept 1. \n\nIm not sure the day we had the converstation, but it was around the 5th of September. It was in the afternoon (i made sure to catch him before he started drinking) we had discussed that i was 2 months behind on rent and how i was going to fix it. We had decided that i would have rent on the first of October (for the month of October), and pay the  two months of back rent by the 1st of December. (With no set amount weekly just a time line to have it paid by)\n\nIn mid September he took a hunting trip, returning on monday the 23rd. I knew i was gonna be a little late on rent, i would have it paid the 3rd not the 1st. When i got home from work on the 23rd he was already drunk so i didnt get a chance to talk to him. \n\nTuesday afternoon i get an un provoked text from him telling me i better have the rent on the 1st or i gotta be out. I try calling him as soon as i read it to have a talk and he doesnt answer, so i assume he is drunk. When i get home that night i dont see him, and i assume he is passed out in his room. \n\nWednesday morning i wake up and hangout in ny room. Worried about my living situation i post an add on CL saying i need to get out of a bad situation. A few hours later a guy contacts me about a room he has opening up on the 1st. So after i have an orientation for new job we meet and work out a deal for me to move on the 1st. I fet home and agian dont see my roommate to talk to him. \n\nThursday i wake up after not really being able to sleep and meet a buddie for hike.  After the hike i come home and see my roommate before he leaves for work. I pull him aside (co worker was there to car pool) and i briefly try to let him kmow my plans becuase i saw the text. He doesnt say much about it besides how hes gonna pay rent, and leaves for work. \n\nAfter he is home for a few hours drinking he busts into my room threatening me with his friends from his home town. Im not to worried about but i cant stay here anymore. Any sleep i get tonight sill be very restlesss. I have been typing this for an hour now and calmed down a little, even though he has continued to text me threats. \n\nI get i fucked up, but what are my options? Can i just leave my non important things here with a note and my paycheck saying this is the first payment of what i owe you and please dont destory my stuff? \n\nTR;DL\nCouldn't pay rent for few months. Alcoholic roommate who is on the lease doesnt remember, or doesnt care about conversations we had discussing these matters and is now threatening me. I just wanna get out, with or without my stuff. Dont know what i can do. I plan to move what i can into my car when he passes out and leave all the money i have and a note saying that ill pay him and then get my stuff.","title":"Help with an alcoholic Roommate who has only name on lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507656664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75in8s\/michigan_close_friend_was_raped_and_she_wants_to\/","id":"75in8s","body":"The incident happened 3 years ago right after a sporting event she was a part of. Afterwards while hanging out with her team and friends of the team two men took advantage of her while she was in a room by her self and proceeded to undress and rape her. She reported it to the university we both go to. The university said they will forbid them from being in any class with her and make them keep their distance from her using campus police. Over the next 3 years they consistently talk to her sit in public spaces right near her and last semester the school let one of them sign up for the same class as her. The school has always had the same response of \"sorry we will not let it happen again.\" and change the subject as soon as they can. Then she would say she wants to report them and needs them to be away from her. Again, \"Sorry we will not let it happen again\". \n\nEvidence she has:\n\n* Written apology from one of the two men that did the incident\n* The school saying they will keep her sports scholarship without her having to play the sport in writing\n* All of the emails of the school saying they will do something when they don't with many eye witness accounts of it occurring\n* When she told the school she was going to report it they \"accidentally\" removed her sport scholarship and made her do a 4 month battle for it back even with the document of them saying they will keep it in writing from their office.\n\nThings we have found out about the school:\n\n* They are concerned about public image more than their students safety\n* Will gladly offer hush money to keep you from reporting a crime so people will want to fill in their new program which is primarily female dominated\n* If she lets it stay as is, nothing will happen and they will just keep with the \"I'm sorry\" and change the subject like they did to her today.\n\nShe wants to report it but doesn't know how and she asked me so I came to the place where I was sure I could answers to her questions.\n\n1.  How do you report a crime like this when you have a confession so it doesn't become a \"he said she said\" sort of thing?\n2. What sort of action does she need to take to make sure she doesn't lose her scholarship? \n3. What sort of cost will this cause her or her family because she doesn't have the most money in the world as a university student?\n\nIf there is any more information you require to give better advice please let me know. Thank you in advanced for any assistance that can be offered.\n\nI have to go to work in about an hour so I will check in periodically while I'm there and answer any questions that require a lot of thought in about 7 hours.\n\nAs a note she said I could post this as long as I kept everything anonymous per the side bar rule, \"Posting personally identifiable information will get you banned.\"","title":"[Michigan] Close friend was raped and she wants to report it and doesn't know where to start.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555350123,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdiyf1\/school_student_code_of_conduct\/","id":"bdiyf1","body":"So I was looking in my student code of conduct finding a loophole for selling soda in my lunch period (I found one), but I saw underneath the technology section of it something odd. This is copied directly from my schools code of conduct so its not worded differently which can lead to misinterpretation. \"A school administrator may require a student to provide a password or other related account information in order to gain access to the student\u2019s account or profile on a social networking website if the school administrator has reasonable cause to believe that the student\u2019s account on a social networking website contains evidence that the student has violated a school disciplinary rule or policy\". Is my school allowed to require this information, or is the way it's worded just including social media linked to the students school email.","title":"School student code of conduct","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540596113,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rpoeb\/what_is_my_ability_to_negotiable_a_car_settlement\/","id":"9rpoeb","body":"I\u2019m a Colorado driver who was in an accident that was deemed not my fault this past Sunday where my vehicle has been declared totaled by insurance.  My eSurance claims person called me late this Friday informing me that they had a settlement offer that I believed to be lower than similar vehicles in the area that are selling for at this time.  I\u2019m a teacher and didn\u2019t have time today to sit on the phone and ask more questions after they told me their settlement offer, and when I asked that I believed it was a low offer and what I could do to negotiate,  the claims specialist told me It was nonnegotiable. They informed me that if I did not accept the offer in three days that I would lose the settlement offer and would have to take a much lower settlement and maintain ownership of my totaled vehicle.   Worst part was I called back to tell my specialist that I would accept it but I could not get ahold of them during their business hours.  They apparently tried calling back 5 min before they where leaving the office and my phone did not have service and did not receive the voicemail till after their office hours.    They do not open back up till Monday (The day the claims person said my offer expired)\n\n1.) Is it true that I have to ability to negotiate my offer?\n\nAnd\n\n2.). Did I just loose the original settlement offer because I could not get in touch before the end of the day to accept it?  \n\nAsk away for more info. ","title":"What is my ability to negotiable a car settlement with my insurance company? And did I loose my offer because I won\u2019t be able to accept it before it expires?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1442135834,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3krk1p\/can_a_wa_state_landlord_require_that_i_only\/","id":"3krk1p","body":"Location: Seattle, WA\n\nNot finding answers in a lot of other places. It sort of feels like a built in additional cost of renting that wasn't really explained until after I had signed the lease. If I had the option of paying by check, rather than signing on to an electronic payment requirement I wouldn't care. It just seems kind of disingenuous.\n\nHere is a copy of the addendum\n\nhttp:\/\/i.imgur.com\/7ZI0YDc.jpg\n\nEdit: for what it's worth, the portal and payment service are run by the company that manages my property, not a third party service (at least from what I can tell as a user).","title":"Can a WA state landlord require that I only process rent payments via a specific electronic service without advising me in the agreement that I would be charged a $28 fee for doing so? (xpost r\/seattle)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506301349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7296r6\/usa_my_employer_doesnt_pay_me_and_some_other\/","id":"7296r6","body":"This is in georgia.\n\nI'm using a throwaway, so that i can give as much info as possible while not making it too easy to track down the players in this scenario.\n\nI work as a valet for a sizable parking company. They have employees across a few states, and do millions in revenue a year. Since my pay is in tips, I know that it is OK for them to pay me less than minimum wage since I make up for the difference in tips. But there is one lot I work at in particular that is different than the others. Up until last week, the lot had complementary parking. I keep everything I make. Since that lot had such high tips, and the company is greedy, they don't pay the valets there anything. The hours I work show up in the system I use to clock in and out, but I never see them on my time sheets or paychecks.\n\nSo that's the first issue, can the company get away with paying me nothing? Or are they required to pay me something, even if it's a dollar an hour?\n\nThe second issue I have with them involves how they make money from the lot. It's fishy and really greedy of them, but I don't know if it's illegal. My parking company charges the restaurant I work at a set fee per month for my services (which I don't get paid for) and then they just added a shift fee on top of it. Every shift, I have to pay a certain amount of money to the company, regardless of how many cars I park, or how much money I make. And again, I don't see any of that money. It's not a small amount of money either. Today, paying the shift fee brought my total down so that I made less than minimum wage, and I now need to go through them so that they can make up the difference.\n\nIt's fishy and greedy of them, but I don't know if it's illegal. Thanks for reading this.","title":"[USA] My employer doesn't pay me, and some other fishy doings","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568513514,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4ejxj\/co_i_got_a_speeding_ticket_what_are_my_options_to\/","id":"d4ejxj","body":"I got a speeding ticket for going 11 mph over the speed limit, I was unsure of the speed limit so I was moving with the flow of traffic. The 3 cars closest to me were moving faster than me, however I have out of state plate, which I assume lead to me getting pulled over. The ticket gives me the option of entering a guilty plea and paying by mail or showing up to court. The city is over 2 hours away, so I'm not really wanting to show up to court. Do I have any option to see the evidence they have against me before making a decision of paying the fine or showing up to court? The ticket is a 4 point ticket, is there any reasonable way I can get this reduced? I don't mind paying the ticket, I just don't want the points on my license.","title":"[CO] I Got A Speeding Ticket, What Are My Options To Fight It?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569435326,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d977eq\/spent_the_day_being_trained_at_cex_then_got_fired\/","id":"d977eq","body":"As the title says, got fired after a day of training and wondering any laws or some way I could get payed for the day. I'm in the UK if that helps.","title":"Spent the day being trained at Cex, then got fired at the end of the day, can I claim my wages.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1550101329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqd7s4\/quit_my_job_and_they_keep_paying_me\/","id":"aqd7s4","body":"I'll keep it snappy. \n\nI live on the east west coast of Canada. \n\nI worked a job for four weeks, I did not like it and I quit. I was payed out on my last pay cheque for two weeks when it should have only been one. I have now received another full payment cheque. Is there anyway I keep this money or do I have to give it back? I am keen to pleade ignorance as I am pretty cool with this arrangement. Could this just be a fluke in this massive company's payroll that could pay me out till I die? ","title":"Quit my job and they keep paying me","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571325546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj7uho\/an_adult_tried_to_fight_me_i_fighted_back\/","id":"dj7uho","body":"i (13m) live in france.\n\n i was going out of my school since i finished my day, and an adult woman was screaming, and yelling at random students , saying things such as \"fuck off you bitch\" to random students that just came out and were going home.\n\n At one point, i saw her go towards me and told her to go away and turned back to go home, she then grabbed my arm and when i turned back, i saw her ready to hit me, i then proceeded to punch her arm that was hold mine and push her away before other students came and put themselfs between me and her to stop her, i then walked away.\n\n since this was in the school, is there anything i can do and who is in the wrong on the legal side of things?","title":"An adult tried to fight me, i fighted back.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1504115947,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x0y5r\/ma_mishired_on_a_1099_attempting_to_recoup_3\/","id":"6x0y5r","body":"Hello, I'm based in Massachusetts, working remotely for a multinational with their HQ in Boston. \nSeveral months ago, the Attorney General sent out a survey to all MA employees in my department, requesting information on the specific nature of the work we do. Turns out, the agency may have been hiring contractors instead of actual employees. \nIn 2004, Massachusetts passed a 3-point test to determine contractor versus employee status, and I meet all 3 of them. https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Laws\/GeneralLaws\/PartI\/TitleXXI\/Chapter149\/Section148B I am not free from control, the service I provide is 100% in line with the businesses main goal, and I am not working independently from the agency in this field. \nAs of August, the agency switched all MA-based instructors to a W2 contract, including a small stipend meant to compensate for back taxes. I've been with the agency for 3 years, and the stipend was 10% of what I'd paid in self-employment tax.\n\nI contacted a few people with authority, and was told that the company's official stance was that they did nothing wrong and were only cooperating with the AG for expediency. They denied all liability for past withholdings. HR doesn't have an official grievance policy, so I sent an e-mail to HR formally disagreeing. \nYesterday, I was scheduled to have a phone conversation with the department head and general counsel. When I informed them that I was recording the phone call, they refused consent, asked me to restate my complaint, and informed me they would respond via e-mail. \nThey claim that because I agreed to a 1099, they aren't responsible for the taxes they should have been paying on the contract they should have offered me. That still rings hollow, because if they had followed the law, they would have signed me on a W2 instead of a 1099. I can begin to see their argument, they did what the contract stipulated. That the contract they offered me is the wrong one, is a fact they aren't addressing.\n\nI fully expect they'll fire me. I don't have the best statistics in the department, so it's not like I'm invaluable. I fully acknowledge that I'm punching above my weight class, but I've got a background in progressive organizing and am always looking for a good fight. \n\n1) Do I actually have standing, here? Am I actually right about the money? Even by the IRS's 20 point standard, I should have been an employee, but just because they're in the wrong doesn't mean the law will support my claim to back taxes. I don't think the IRS cares who the money comes from, after all. \n\n2) How should I respond when they fire me? I'm not particularly interested in this field of work anymore, which is great because this will probably get me blacklisted either way. \n\n3) The IRS has a form, SS-8, that an employee can file to ask them to formally review their employee classification. (eg, contractor versus employee) What kind of turnaround time does the SS-8 usually have? 6 months? I know reprisal is likely, but what else should I expect after filing?\n3A) Understanding that the IRS informs companies which employees have filed SS-8s, would I open myself to liability if I contacted the other workers in my department, telling them about the SS-8? I'd have to suss them out on linkedin and social media, as we have no direct contact with each other. \nI understand the company is likely to retaliate to any actions I take (like trying to start a union) I'm just curious how far I can push this without actually crossing a line.\n\n4) I've worked other 1099 jobs, not based in Massachusetts, which similarly should have hired me as an employee. How would the law apply there? It strikes me that the location of the business itself would take precedence over the location of the employee, but it would be great if I could go shake a lawyer's letter at my old awful bosses. \n\nOk thanks for reading. Don't let your bosses steal from you, and as always, fight the powers that be. ","title":"[MA] Mishired on a 1099, attempting to recoup 3 years of self-employment tax.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540089818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q0692\/extreme_health_black_mold_and_safety_hazards_at\/","id":"9q0692","body":"My wife works in an extremely old building (from the early 1900s), which was repurposed numerous times in history. There is an old basement portion, which is totally abandoned and has an open doorway exposed to the elements for years. The foundation has significant damage to its structure (floors bowing in) which allows insects (termites and roaches), water, mud and the strong smell of mildew and mold from the first floor. I assume that a ton of water is flooding into the basement when it rains. All the employees in the building have strange health problems and symptoms that match the symptoms of mold poisoning. The ones that have worked there longer have worse symptoms. No one has seen mold but they can definitely smell it.\n\nI won't mention too many details, but the office is a State agency and the higher-ups have not done much to correct the root of the problem. There were termite swarmers spotted coming OUT OF THE FLOOR and they sent a \"handyman\" to come cover it up (it took them forever even to do that). The plumbing smells like sulfur which is indicative of bacteria. They have been aware of the problems for years and they'll send \"a guy\" to come out and look at it and do some token \"repair\" which never addresses the root cause. Whoever is coming out is obviously not qualified to deal with these problems. The basement needs to be totally cleaned out of the mold and (at least) 2+ feet of mud sitting underneath the floor right where my wife works and where dozens of people at a time are standing.\n\nI'm only concerned about the safety of my wife, and of course the many people that are coming in and out of the building daily. Lots of people would be exposed to mold and it's apparent that the State has no intention of doing anything about it. I would really like to force them to do something about this, even if that means the building needs to be shut down and condemned, but I'm not sure if there needs to be a lawyer contacted or what kind of agency I need to contact about this. I appreciate any advice.","title":"Extreme health (black mold) and safety hazards at work (State agency).","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569709462,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/damsfb\/neighbor_vs_our_dog_i_got_a_letter_in_the_mail\/","id":"damsfb","body":"Hello everyone. Need advice if I should forward this to my homeowners or my attorney. And I apologize if I tagged this incorrectly, not sure what this situation falls under. \n\nSo here\u2019s what happened: We live in a small residential neighborhood. Last month, our neighbor was walking his 2 dogs past our house. We have a fenced in back yard, but our 4 year old opened the gate and our dog got loose. Our dog ran out into the street towards the neighbor and his two dogs. My husband yelled at our dog and she ran back to our yard and he put her back in the fenced in yard. \n\nOur dog running out to the street caused our neighbors dogs to go nuts. Our neighbor got tangled up in his dogs leashes and he fell to the ground. Our dog never actually touched the neighbor or his dogs. My husband came back out of the gate after putting our dog back in the yard and the neighbor was already up and walking home. He didn\u2019t get a chance to speak to the neighbor and we didn\u2019t think much of the incident after that. We actually have never even met these neighbors and hadn\u2019t had any interaction with them up until that incident. \n\nA few days later the neighbors wife comes over and accuses our dog of injuring her husband. She tells us that he broke his leg in the scuffle and that our dog is to blame. Firstly, we were completely caught off guard as we\u2019ve never met this woman or her husband. Secondly, we apologized for her husbands misfortune, but explained to her that while our dog did excite her dogs, our dog never actually touched the other dogs or her husband. This angered her even more and then she just started berating us and eventually we had to ask her to leave our property. \n\nA few days later a police officer shows up to our house to get a statement regarding the incident. He informs us that (almost a week later) they are filing a report. Now almost a month later we have received a letter from an attorney asking for our insurance information for their personal injury claim. \n\nI am so confused on what I should do here. Should I give their attorney our homeowners info? Or should I forward this letter to my attorney first? Am I being sued, or is this standard protocol for a personal injury case? \n\nThanks in advance.","title":"Neighbor VS our dog- I got a letter in the mail today and I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019m being sued.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540739627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s3uq6\/my_personal_website_was_domain_hijacked_and_now\/","id":"9s3uq6","body":"That's pretty much it, I was late to re-purchase my domain and someone else scooped it up. It wouldn't bother me except they're using my real first and last name as their business title\/company name. Is there anything I can do about this?\n\nPM me for site link as I don't want to break any post rules.\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"My personal website was domain hijacked and now my first\/last name is being used to sell shoes","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540289925,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qnlpe\/military_law_anyone_bueller_buller\/","id":"9qnlpe","body":"I know this is long. I don't want to leave anything out. Also using gender neutral pronouns to be vague because I'm paranoid about screwing things up \n\nSo I need someone more savvy in military law. Then again, it may all be the same. Idk. No one at CID (criminal investigation division) or DST (drug suppression team) has been very forthcoming with information.\n\nI'm a military spouse and another military spouse stole about 20 (legally prescribed) prescription narcotics from me.\nI reported it to CID, ultimately getting to the DST. They knew this person by name, having a physical reaction when I said it. The investigator even said \"It'd be great to finally nail them\".\n\nThe theft happened and I reported it on 18 July and I have a taped confession from the thief (we're in a single party consent state). The confession was recorded and submitted to the investigators on 26 July. Since then the thief has stolen from at least one more person and apparently has been fleecing the entire area of pills for 5 years. \nI've been told that my investigation is over and that it's with legal as of late September\/early October. They say it's in legal opine and don't have a time table because their part is done. I've been given no contact information for legal. \nThe Captain in charge of making a determination said he'd call me and inform me of his determination, but never did.\n\n\nShould I do anything? Should I contact legal after figuring our where exactly the case was sent to. \n\nThief also threw a Hail Mary to get the heat off them by claiming I was giving them pills \ud83d\ude12\ud83d\ude12\ud83d\ude12. I don't know if DST took that seriously, but I put in my sworn statement that they'd asked me for pills on several occasions and I said no*, which is the truth. \n\nOne last thing: People reached out the her more vocal victim and I have a handful of names of others the thief has stolen from. I started contacting a few before realizing I could screw the cace by looking like I have some sort of vendetta. I sent some screen shots to DST and, in our last correspondence, asked if they wanted more names. No one has answered. That message was sent on 10 October.\n\nHelp! This asshole is also running their mouth online, mocking other victims who'd talked about it, but have no proof. \n\n*Chronic pain patients are getting their meds pulled constantly. I have an incurable and inoperable condition. Without meds I'm a crying lump of pain in bed. I also ended up in the ER when an military doc prescribed me a ridiculous dose of clonidine for withdrawals. I'm salty and hope this human refuse does time, especially with their history of stealing pills from others. Apparently I'm the only one with proof via confession, and all fhe other victims are women of color \"townies\". It's not a stretch to assume what nipped those in the bud.\n\n*Why did I still hang out with this person when they obviously had a problem (and history of addiction to narcotics)? They'd take a taxi to my house and show up on the doorstep, crying, even though I'd asked them to not come over. ","title":"Military law. Anyone? Bueller? Buller?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541686271,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vaaqm\/equal_pay_act_advice\/","id":"9vaaqm","body":"tl;dr White male engineer paid less than his female engineer coworkers of similar similar skill, effort, responsibility, working conditions, and seniority after change of \"establishment\" due to company-requested relocation. \n\nI am a white male engineer, and my company recently relocated me to a different state in a \"hotter market.\" I came across the salary information of one of my female coworkers, which indicated that I am paid \\~15% less than she is (as well as information indicating that I am paid \\~15% less than my male coworkers). Suffice it to say that her job level, tenure, job performance, skill, responsibility, and working conditions are substantially similar to my own. \n\nI went to my managers and stated that I knew I was paid less than my coworkers of the same job level, which they were able to confirm. They agreed that I should be paid as much as all of the other engineers of my level, but stated that their hands were tied by the Human Resources compensation increase process, which is done annually. They stated that they would fight for a larger increase for me next year during that process - which is nice, but still leaves me at a disparity until that time. I also asked if they thought I was performing \"substantially similar\" work as my peers in the same job level, and if my performance met or exceeded their expectations, and they responded in the affirmative to both questions.\n\nFortunately, I live in a one-party recording state, so I have recordings of my managers stating the above facts. \n\nMy biggest beef with this is that since I relocated right after the round of raises for this year I am effectively getting 15% paid less that I \"should be\" for almost an entire year, which is not inconsequential. \n\n​\n\nI have found little in terms of case law for male claimants in equal pay disputes. My question to the sub is should I pursue an EEOC claim? Should I go to HR? Should I hint more forcefully to my managers that equal work deserves equal pay? \n\n​\n\nFootnote: \u00a7206(d)(1) of the United States Equal Pay Act of 1963 states that \u201cNo employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such an establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions\u201d ","title":"Equal Pay Act Advice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447365680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sl4cy\/did_my_landlord_trespass\/","id":"3sl4cy","body":"So, I'm sitting here at home and my two dogs in the back yard start going nuts. I get up and start my way through the house to go see what the fuss is about, and out the living room window I see the landlord with a few workers peeking through the windows. They didn't see me, and I wasn't dressed or prepared to entertain them, so I avoided detection and continued watching what they were doing. None of them ever entered the house, but they did peek through every window of the house, which I find to be a huge privacy issue. I've looked at the Landlord Tenant Act by my state (Oklahoma), and it says the landlord must give 24 hour notice to enter the premises unless it's an emergency. However, I'm not seeing definitions of those words; \"enter\", \"premises\", \"emergency\" and I guess that is what my question is more geared toward. \n\nSome back story goes along with this. This house is in dire need of repairs - has been as long as I've lived here (lived here 17 years and it has never had any major work done, like painting the outside - which is chipping off, new carpet, new roof, etc). The two men with the landlord were workers that will be repairing the windows when I move out in a few weeks. My lease expired back in September. I'd hardly think that coming to measure windows would be grounds for \"emergency\" .. and I'm pretty sure the landlord is not allowed to peek through the windows (you do not have to hold your hands up to the window to block sunlight with your face pressed against the window to measure those windows). There was no notice given.\n\nTo end it all, he left a note in the mailbox for me to call him.","title":"Did my landlord trespass?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445615719,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3px4r6\/existing_support_order_getting_a_raise_at_work\/","id":"3px4r6","body":"I have been divorced (in California) for 6+ years.  I have an existing support order in place (for two minor children - ages 15 & 17).  However, the amount of child support is based on my current salary.  I am going to be getting a raise (possibly significant) from my current employer beginning in 2016.\n\nI do not plan on telling my ex-wife about my raise.\n\nMy question is, will she have any legal grounds to '*retroactively*' increase the support order if say she discovers the increase in 2017 (or later)?  Do I have any legal obligation to advise her (or the courts) of the raise?\n\nMy thoughts are this will never come up and never be discovered.  I'm not going to suddenly be vacationing in Tahiti and driving an expensive car or anything that would make it conspicuous that my standard of living has improved.  However, if for whatever we do end up back in court, and they subpoena my tax records, would they have a sound legal argument that I should have been paying higher support all along, therefore, make a 'lump sum' demand to catch up?\n\nIs there a precedent?","title":"Existing Support Order ... Getting a raise at work.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552621081,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b19yzt\/is_public_school_security_footage_public_record\/","id":"b19yzt","body":"I believe it is however I wanted another source to confirm. FERPA if I am correct says that it is public. So if this is true I should be able to get the footage via FOIA right? I am not entirely sure about whether they have to provide it or not. So if anyone knows about this type of thing I would really appreciate some help.","title":"Is Public School Security Footage Public Record?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553786550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6k3v0\/i_need_help\/","id":"b6k3v0","body":"I'm from Pennsylvania.\n\nIm married but separated for about 9 months. We have a 3 year old son together. When we separated I took my son with me. My ex was emotionally, mentally and towards the end physically abusive. Though, he will claim otherwise. There was also a lot of strange people people who were letting themselves into our house with keys he gave them. He got relocated in his job for drug use. It didn't seem like a safe environment for my son or me. We left and have been living elsewhere for the past 9 months.\n\n\nThere has been minimal contact. In the beginning I brought my son by a few times to see his father and he wouldn't show. Then I'd only hear from him every few months where he'd threaten me with welfare checks and lawyers. My son is extremely well taken care of so welfare checks don't concern me.\n\n\nRecently he's been begging me to see our son. My son does not want to see him. He keeps telling me how scary he is. Also, I don't trust my ex to not pull something on us. He has a history of anger issues and violence. Couple that with the possible drug use and it makes me nervous.\n\n\nSome more history on my ex's behaviors:\n\nAnger and violence issues. He was arrested multiple times and 302d multiple times right before he turned 18. \n\n\nHistory of drug abuse. Most recently relocation in his job for drug use. \n\n\nScreaming at me in front of my son constantly causing my son to sob and yell at his father to stop. \n\n\nGrabbing me and lifting me off the couch by my face. Shoving me with his body into a corner with his body during arguments. \n\n\nHe punched a bed frame and broke his hand but lied to urgent care and doctors saying he tripped. They didn't look like they believed it. \n\n\nI never called police when he put his hands on me because I was afraid of him. So, I have no documentation of this incidents. \n\n\nHe never took care of my son by himself. If I even asked him to watch him while I showered my ex would go outside and leave my son alone. \n\n\nMy questions are:\n\n-Do I have to let him see our son? There's no custody order in place and we haven't started to file for divorce yet.\n\n\n-When it comes time for custody what are my chances of full custody? I don't want to be the person who keeps her kid from there father but unless I know my son will be 100% safe and cared for, I don't feel comfortable. \n","title":"I need help","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554812654,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb7ar9\/can_i_fight_this_speeding_ticket\/","id":"bb7ar9","body":"So I supposedly got clocked going 65 in a 45 but for a few reasons that speed wasn\u2019t even achievable. It was pouring down rain and I didn\u2019t pass inspection because my tire was too bald. No more than 1000 feet before he clocked me I had to slow my vehicle down because the car in front of me had turned into their neighborhood. So with bald tires, in the pouring rain, on a kinda twisty and dark road I\u2019m going to get to 65mph in the span of 1000 feet. Oh also, my eyesight in the dark is lacking so no way I would even be able to keep my car on the road if I was going 65.","title":"Can I fight this speeding ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553046516,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3621x\/class_action_lawsuit_small_business\/","id":"b3621x","body":"So I work at a small business that\u2019s been around for 22 years. They are getting sued for not paying overtime and not giving 10 minute breaks at all. My question is how far back will this case go in terms of them not paying overtime. Will it go from when my coworkers started working 7 years ago and that day forward, or will it be from day 1 that the business became a business ? Because they have never paid a dime of overtime to anyone. ","title":"Class action lawsuit small business","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1504682263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ye4qu\/fl_boyfriend_was_almost_victim_of_employment\/","id":"6ye4qu","body":"Preface: Apologies for mobile and\/or irrelevant flair.\n\n\nLast week Boyfriend [BF] gets job offer \"too good to be true\" and after discussing it a bit with BF, I have BF call the offering company to confirm the terms of the offer letter and as it turns out, company says that the offer is fraudulent. Personally going over the communication with the individual(s) fraudulently representing the company it seems as though the plan was to commit some sort of check fraud through him.\n\n\nThankfully, the only information provided to the company is information otherwise in the header of a resume\/cv: First\/Last, Address, phone number, email. It appears as though they may have originally contacted him through information he made available to recruiters on a job board.\n\n\nThe problem is, the day after this transpires, a check in the mail, drawn on a business and bank not matching the \"organization\" that offered the job or located in the same geographical area, for a few thousand dollars. \n\n\nSo in the interest of due diligence, I've contacted and left a message with the business listed on the check, and will most likely contact the bank if I do not hear back, as the ABA number on the check does match the bank listed. **Is there anything else I should do now?** the check itself mailed with zero supporting documentation, from a nonexistent address, nonsense name, (the return address of the affixed label was actually physically obscured by part of the mailer) and looking up the tracking number to see where the check actually dispatched from yielded zero results.","title":"[FL] Boyfriend was almost victim of employment fraud - now he has a check in hand.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541854882,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vu445\/medical_billing_harassment_clerical_errors\/","id":"9vu445","body":"First of all, thanks for taking time to read this.\nThis whole debacle started about a 2 years ago. After a long bout with back problems and a pregnant wife. I went for lower back surgery which was successful in the sense that it's better than it was beforehand (that's not saying much though). Fast forward 3 months and my beautiful wife gives birth to my beautiful daughter with no issues during gestation or birth YAY!! Two months after our child was born, we decided to go on birth control to let my wife recuperate before eventually having another child. That is where we are presently.\nI have great health insurance ( BC\/BS ) but it's a pre ACA policy ie. Doesn't cover wellness visits, contraceptives, or immunizations for adults. ( I'm cool with that ,but it doesn't make much sense not to cover immunizations or birth control to me).\n\nThe problems I have am\/have been dealing with are;\n\n1) When I receive a bill for services my insurance company does not cover, the facility offers a non insured discount typically 30% off and it gets paid immediately.  Months later, we will receive a letter of from a collections agency for the amount of the discounted 30% ($24). My wife and I both have excellent credit, so that type of notice is a bit scary!\n\n2) Wife's OBG got approval from insurance to have an IUD installed and it would be covered. We went ahead with the procedure and carried on with our lives. Three months later we receive a bill for $2,983.16 for the IUD implant.\nAfter spending hours talking to staff and supervisors at the OBGYN office explaining that their staff had led us to believe the procedure WAS in fact covered, and the rep saying \" there's no way it was\", we asked them to refer to the \"recording\" for \"training purposes\" of the previous call containing the coverage reassurance. \nAfter 15 min on hold, a supervisor came on and told us NOT to worry about the bill as we were falsely misled and we sighned no patient liability.\nThat was in January 18'. We just received another bill this month for the above debacle with an \"account is being considered for collectons\" notice on it... WTF? \n\nThere are multiple occurrences like this that we are dealing with. \n\nI have no problems with paying for any services rendered ( financially or ethically ), but for this to be a chronic problem is extremely frustrating and time consuming. \nMy wife and I have been very proactive in dealing with this.\nWe keep all of our records and payment reciepts pretty tidy.\n\nShould I seek legal advice? \n\nIs this common?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTldr;\nBeing sent to collections over procedure that we were told was covered by insurance. It in fact is not","title":"Medical billing harassment, clerical errors, collection threats for the past 18 months. Should I seek legal advice?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1412639562,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ii48f\/apparently_im_being_charged_for_something_in_my\/","id":"2ii48f","body":"I'm from Ontario, and a bunch of people in my home town are telling me that I'm being charged with trafficking child porn of teenage girls from my home town.\n\nHowever I had nothing to do with it, yet one of the kids involved in this apparently told the cops I was selling him pictures of these girls. \n\nApparently the cops are charging me, however I haven't heard anything from the cops yet. \n\nShould I be worried? Should I contact my local police? Should I contact the police from my home town?","title":"Apparently I'm being charged for something in my hometown, but I'm 3 hours away in college.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554264041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8t97i\/rent_to_own_gone_wrong\/","id":"b8t97i","body":"So I will put this in a nutshell. My parents rented out their house on an agreed rent to own. My parents and the tenants signed an agreement (not with a lawyer however) that the tenants would be responsible for the house (as my parents had to move 5 hours away to live with me as my father was diagnosed with ALS). They would pay x amount every month and x percent would go towards the house. Should the tenants want to make any upgrades or changed to the house it would be at their expense and would not increase or decrease the sale price. The house was to be sold to the tenants within a reasonable time after my fathers dead with the applied x amount that was put towards the house cost every month. \n\nLast month the tenants informed my parents that there was black mold in the basement. They took really shitty pictures so we where unable to actually confirm. They didn't even give us a chance to come over and check it out and get it fixed they \"had to do what's best for their family and move.\" They then proceeded to tell the locals there was a crack in the foundation. Several locals contacted my mother asking to rent or buy the place and that they had already been in to see it. This pissed us off because if the tenants had to move out due to the mold, how can they even suggest that we rent it out to someone else. They where trying to get someone to rent it before we made the trip over to see the house. \n\nThey paid to the end of March. My brother went over to the house to look at it as we had been told that there was damage from snow sliding off the roof. Understatement. The snow pulled the eves and soffit off at the back of the house as well at the chimney, supports and bent the section that goes thought the roof & soffit. There is snow piled up against the house as we know that when it melts, it's going to flood the basement if we don't get it cleared. But we knew this, we were mad but we would deal with it, possibly contact insurance.\n\nBut then we went inside to look at the\"mold\". The short of that is there isn't any and someone just kicked in the wall. But when we went in... We didn't expect to see the hallway completely taken down to the studs. They had taken down the wood paneling and on one side put up drywall and on the other walls... Nothing... Not even drywall, the whole hallway is just 1\/2 drywall sheet and the other just wood studs WTF we didn't know about any of this! Was this why they didn't want us to see the house?!? They had always told us about any changes they made as a courtesy, and we always said sure. But that...how can they leave the house like that?! We cannot sell it like that! My dad passed away on Saturday and this is what we have to deal with by Tuesday already?!? You have got to be kidding me! If there anything we can do for them leaving the house like this? As well as not finishing replacing the doors so the trim and insulation is not put on and you can see the outside through it \ud83d\ude11\n\nThe other thing to note is that because my dad was terminally ill and had mortgage insurance, the mortgage was being paid and we had renters in (apparently this was okay from what my mum understood but I'm not sure) and they had renters insurance? Would they cover this as damage? \n\nI hope this makes sense... I'm trying to make sense of all this as it is. Thanks people! \n\n\n","title":"Rent to Own gone wrong","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554201399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8hiwr\/landlord_attempting_to_overchage_bond_due_to_lawn\/","id":"b8hiwr","body":"Hey redit,\n\nI currently live in Australia and seeking some advice on exactly what I can do if I suspect a landlord is trying to overcharge for repairs after we have left a property.\n\nFirst some background. Originally we were living in WA but circumstances have forced us to move to SA (interstate). Living there we were allowed dogs on a pet bond. While living the we did have about half the lawn die. We attempted to revive it by manually watering it more than permitted by sprinkler and it was slowly working.\n\nWhen we found out we had to move to SA we let our real-estate agent know straight away. We had to leave 3 weeks earlier than the agreement but agreed to pay rent until the end of the lease in order to not break contact.\n\nSince leaving the house we have been told by the real-estate agent that they are invoicing us for $3300 to completely replace the lawn for the front and back, mulch the garden, fix a sprinkler station. This means that we are being charged $2000 more than our bond essentially.\n\nWhen we vacated the property the front lawn was still healthy and the plants alive in the back and front yard. The sprinkler reticulation system also worked. We also found that while were still paying rent for the last 3 weeks after vacating, that the real-estate company were conducting home opens.\n\nI believe that the $3300 quoted price to fix under 50 square metres of lawn is to much and not an attempt to try and minimise costs. I already have an estimated quote of $1700-$2000 from the first person I checked to fix 50 square metres (not under like the lawn is).\n\nMy question is what actions can a take to get the real-estate company to lower the cost to a more reasonable price? Also what are some other actions I can take if they refuse to budge (as I feel stuck due to being in another state)?","title":"Landlord attempting to overchage bond due to lawn damage","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550009228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apyyws\/found_out_i_am_entitled_to_more_adter_looking_at\/","id":"apyyws","body":"Hello all,\n\nThank you for looking at this!\n\nWe had someone from HR scan files and during this time, they pulled my employee contract. I decided to take a look at it and realized that I was supposed to be paid XXX amount per pay period for a health benefit stipend (as their coverage wouldnt be effective until this year).\nI started this job last may 2018, is it too late to go back and collect this?\n\n","title":"Found out I am entitled to more adter looking at work contract (CA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539434501,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nth0h\/how_long_is_custodial_parent_allowed_to_ignore_me\/","id":"9nth0h","body":"She lives in a different state and recently we\u2019ve been having financial disputes. She\u2019s take. To responding to our disagreements by ignoring my texts, calls, emails since Tuesday regarding setting up visitation for my 10yo daughter for Christmas. \n\nNothing in our agreement says anything about responding to messages but surely there must be something I can do or a reasonable expectation of returning communication?","title":"How long is custodial parent allowed to ignore me before this is considered \u201cwrong\u201d.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444331468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o0akq\/california_my_landlord_is_trying_to_change_things\/","id":"3o0akq","body":"On my lease I was promised that there would be visitor parking allowed outside of the parking gated area in my community. Our community has parking within the gated area and then additional spots outside, maybe twenty or so. Each apartment is allowed one parking spot inside the gated area but now the land lord is stating that due to complaints of tenants not being able to find a spot inside the gated area, the tenant only parking is going to be extended to where the visitor parking used to be and that now there will be no visitor parking. This all seems super shady considering that I consistently get home from work well past midnight and there are plenty of spots left every night. This whole situation is a big deal because apartments such as mine that have more than one car will be forced to park on the street which is constantly used by kids from the local college (the second biggest one in CA). Besides that the only parking is a 15+ min walk away which I don't feel like doing late at night and that I really don't want my girlfriend to ever have to do. Is the land lord allowed to just change the parking situation? Also when I asked the manager about this she told me that in the lease it states that they can change the parking situation if they want to, and I found no such thing in it.\n\nFrom the lease: Visitor Parking: Visitors are restricted to parking outside the gates. Any visitor vehicle parked inside the gates in any resident only parking space will be towed at the vehicle owner\u2019s expense.\n\nEmail to manager: I had some concerns with the new parking policy as it does not match up with the policies mentioned with the lease agreement I have signed. Also, it was mentioned when I brought my concerns to the office that somewhere in the lease the management is allowed to make amendments to policies but having reviewed the lease I have not found any such statement. If you could please let me know where in the lease agreement it states you are allowed to change policies it would be greatly appreciated.\n\nEmail back from manager: Thank you for bringing your concerns to our attention. Parking changes do not need to be written in the lease agreement and parking rules are subject to change based on the he needs of the residents. This new parking change is to better suit the needs of the residents. Due to the amount of complaints about no parking in the evening it has led us to believe that we have many residents breaking parking rules and parking more than one car on the premise which is not allowed due to the parking restrictions. We will keep you updated on all changes.","title":"(California) My landlord is trying to change things 3 months into a 12 month lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503089702,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ukqs4\/is_it_legal_to_buy_tracer_rounds_in_illinois\/","id":"6ukqs4","body":"I live in IL but their shipping from KY.","title":"Is it legal to buy tracer rounds in Illinois?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570844457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgoly0\/i_was_put_in_a_psych_ward_for_a_threat_i_didnt\/","id":"dgoly0","body":"WARNING: I don\u2019t know the legality of anything I\u2019m about to talk about. Everything I say is based off of things I\u2019ve been told by lawyers, and other people who were involved with my case.\nDon\u2019t kill me if I\u2019m wrong about something.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-\n\nSo, for context:\n\nMr. Q is my ex-band director. He is a horrible person who has sent kids to the hospital, has touched the kids in his care, has caused many children permanent trauma due to his practices, abuses his authority, makes female students uncomfortable by invading their personal space, and he lies about it all.\n\nMr. K is our principal. He has shown time and time again that he will do anything to uphold the schools reputation.\n\nMany students have reported Mr. Q to Mr. K in the past, but for some reason, Mr. K does nothing. One student actually wrote a very lengthy email detailing every single reported case of Mr. Q mistreating children, along with multiple witness testimonies. Usually if a student makes a claim as serious as sexual assault, the teacher is to be put on paid leave until a investigation is done, however, Mr. K didn\u2019t do that. Instead, he not only defended Mr. Q and his actions, but he also claimed that the students reporting Mr. Q were lying. Saying things like \u201cHe\u2019s a good man\u201d.\n\nNow, on to the story.\n\nSo, a couple of weeks ago, I was just sitting around the house, when two state troopers knocked on my door. They said they had received a call from the school saying that I had sent a terroristic threat to the school.\n\nWhen he said that, I thought he might have been talking about some poetry I had written and someone higher up got a hold of it and saw it as a threat.\n\nHowever, when he showed me the email, I realized very quickly that I didn\u2019t write it. It wasn\u2019t even something I said taken out of context, someone literally just wrote it, said it was me, and gave it to the principal. \n\nAs far as what it said, to sum it up, it talked about me being depressed about a girl. It thanked my friends for being good to me, and it ended with \u201cDon\u2019t come to school Friday\u201d\n\nSo, With no proof that I even wrote this vague threat, they arrested me. I spent the night in the juvenile correctional facility, then in the morning, the judge sentenced me to be put in an adolescent psych ward for evaluation and treatment. I ended up spending eight days in there and was sentenced to six months of probation for a threat they had no proof I made.\n\nI wasn\u2019t even charged with anything really, a petition was never filed. \n\nThe police didn\u2019t even track the IP address of the email, the judge simply said \u201cHe\u2019s gotten the help he needs, I see no reason to press further\u201d.\n\nNow after getting out, I\u2019m starting to wonder who might have framed me. I don\u2019t have any enemies, and I only have a few friends because I have trust issues and problems with opening up to people. I honestly have no clue who it might have been.\n\nThen, someone pointed out to me that it might have been either Mr. K or Mr. Q. I was the one who had all the records of Mr. Q\u2019s actions, and since Mr. K is defending Mr. Q, he obviously ignored my reporting to him.\n\nAnd since Mr. K didn\u2019t take the proper procedures with these claims on Mr. Q, he may very well lose his job if higher ups find out. \n\nSo what does he do to save his job and his reputation? He framed me for a terroristic threat, gets me locked up, and gets me expelled from school and required to stay 100 feet away from any school property.\n\nI\u2019m not to sure about this conspiracy theory, but I\u2019d like to hear what you think.","title":"I was put in a psych ward for a threat I didn\u2019t make and I think my principal was the one who framed me.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569876766,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbi3er\/online_relationship_with_a_peadophile\/","id":"dbi3er","body":"Theres a string of posts I've run into by a user who has spoken about her 32 year old boyfriend, she is only 15. Is there anything someone can do over the internet about this? Or is it just going to stay that way with a story potentially being true. My state doesnt seem relevant here","title":"Online relationship with a Peadophile","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555129982,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcmy8o\/ca_15_years_6_months_friend_will_be_homeless_soon\/","id":"bcmy8o","body":"I have a friend who will be turning 16 this October who will be kicked out of their divorced moms house. Their mom has full, unshared custody of them and isn\u2019t willing to give up her custody. My family is willing to allow her to stay for the long-term. However, we are concerned about the legal implications of doing so. \n\nMy friend does not want to sue or get her mother into legal trouble. They just want a place to stay that is within our town and attend the same school until she graduates.","title":"[CA] 15 years 6 months friend will be homeless soon. They want to stay in our town and we are willing to take her in.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551974530,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aye5tk\/would_it_be_worth_going_to_a_small_claims_court\/","id":"aye5tk","body":"I moved out of my last apartment on September the 23rd last year. They said it would take about 6 weeks get to get my security deposit back, which is $500. I called again on January 15th this year telling them I never received the check, to which they replied they would cancel the check and send a new one, which I also never received. I just don't know what the cost of a small claims court would be and if it would even be worth it in the end to try to get my money back that way. ","title":"Would it be worth going to a small claims court to get my security deposit back?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539134908,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mv4ff\/my_recently_widowed_mother_has_offered_me_a_20k\/","id":"9mv4ff","body":"Using a throw-away because.\n\nI'll try to keep this as brief as possible. I'm not here for therapy but rather for advice on what to do next. Please excuse the sob-story details but I feel its necessary to get the full scope of what's happening.\n\nWe are a southern Ontario family. My mother, \"Jane\", is not a compassionate or generous person. Picture upper-middle class, white British background, comes from prestigious military family, hardcore christian. Jane has always had ample resources and money at her disposal. Jane suffered from postpartum depression with all three of her sons (I'm the eldest) and always refused treatment for her severe anxiety. My father, \"Al\", was usually absent, a career-obsessed high-ranking union boss who traveled more than he was home. Jane had full control over familial matters, Al always went along with whatever she suggested.\n\nJane was very clear to me growing up that she would never provide any kind of financial support for my education, career, or family if I chose to have one. She always told me that giving me money for my education would be a waste since I'd party it all away (in reality I've put myself through college twice on my own, graduating both times at the top of my class). She pushed for me to enlist as infantry and refused to support any other career path. Jane has made financial promises in the past to me or my wife to get attention and appear generous, especially around others, but later on she will conveniently forget about the arrangement and will play dumb if confronted. She has never once made the 40 minute trip to visit her own grandchildren, claiming her anxiety is too severe to travel. She created a boys' room in her house, complete with twin feather beds and rustic art, to show off to her friends... but refuses to allow her grandchildren to stay overnight.\n\nJane treated her middle son, \"Hank\", even worse growing up. We're talking real physical\/mental\/emotional abuse. I've always been close to my brother Hank, we know we have to look out for each other. \n\nShe openly played favourite with her youngest son, \"Gord\", treating him like her baby and spoiling him constantly. Gord refuses to talk or even message me, Jane has full control of him and works to keep us separated. \n\nMy entire life I've fought to stop my parents from mistreating Hank while Gord received lavish gifts, (like a brand new SUV or car), all while I was ignored and left to fend for myself.\n\nWe also recently discovered that my father, Al, abandoned his true first child, a daughter, along with her mother back in the 80's. She was only an infant when he ghosted from their lives. She is now a drug addict and mother of three living in squalor. Somewhere along the way Al opened up a secret bank account for her and was providing her with substantial support, although that came to an end around 2013 and it's all been spent on drugs since.\n\nRight now if you're picturing a more depressing version of the Bluth's then you're on the right track.\n\nWhich, up until recently, I was more or less able to cope with. I've been able to help Hank due to my own career success, and I've been able to help myself through counselling. I've matured and achieved some stability while starting a new family for myself, free from past mistakes. I was finally able to not let Jane, Al and Gord have influence on my future happiness.\n\nAl passed away 20 months ago from cancer. I suspect Jane inherited a sizable estate from Al's life insurance and pension. I don't know the contents of his Will since she's refused to show it to me or my brothers, though I strongly believe she gets full control of everything legally.\n\nLeading up to the funeral, Jane couldn't handle the arrangements, eulogy, etc. due to her anxiety so I stepped in and did everything. While I took care of all the details she repeatedly promised to provide my wife and I with a new vehicle once the dust had settled. We couldn't afford a car at the time and we were struggling to get around with our babies using public transportation. I left my family at home, took the train and stayed with Jane for two weeks to help her out. I felt bad for her and it appeared like she had humbled herself and wanted us to be closer. I paid for all my own expenses and travel.\n\nA few months after the service, once she felt a bit better, Jane did her usual trick of forgetting every car-related conversation we ever had. When I confronted her with a recording of her promise, she refused to acknowledge it. My wife and I had already made financial plans based on her promise and we were stunned when she reneged. Despite being the eldest son I received nothing and my mother refused to discuss inheritance with me. My wife and I have had financial difficulty since. I have three little children aged 1-5yrs (my brothers are both child-less) and we are crammed into a one-bedroom apartment. I broke off contact with Jane, but she doesn't care.\n\nHank was given Al's old work car, a 2008 SUV in rough shape. That's all he received. It broke down last year beyond repair. Hank wants to get married, he's been engaged to the same girl since before my father passed but Jane won't provide him with any more support. They are struggling financially.\n\nIn contrast, Gord has been given a brand new truck, had his wedding paid for, was moved into a duplex down the street from Jane, and she's constantly taking him to dinner, buying him supplies\/food, they're going together on trips, etc. \n\nThe one thing my father Al had always wanted was for the house that he paid for to be divided equally among his three sons. I always suspected his Will clearly states this.\n\nYesterday, my mother shocked everyone by announcing she is getting re-married to a man she has been dating for about four months (she started dating six months after my father passed... they had been married for 25 years). I confronted her about it earlier today. Jane blamed her excessive loneliness for the speed of her decision. She even admitted that she wants to get married so she can have 'relations' without breaking any religious rules. They are planning to marry this December. She said she is going to sell\/rent the house, purchase a RV, and travel around North America with her new husband. \n\nNew guy lives with an adult dependent, his son, who is mentally disabled. There are no real plans on how to set up the disabled son with care or living arrangements. The son is a well-known compulsive public masturbator. They both said he will have to \"grow up and take care of himself\" even though he clearly cannot hold down a job. Everyone else in their family refuses to care for him. New guy has two other kids; a son with a bat-shit crazy ex-wife who loves to sue people, and a daughter with seven kids who despises our entire family. New guy is also recently widowed and owns property which he apparently also intends to sell.\n\nWhen I pressed her, Jane admitted planning to 'sell' the house to Gord and his new wife. She said it makes the most sense to give it to Gord because he lives the closest, spent the most time there as a kid, and is the only one who can afford it (which is a lie, his business is failing and he's selling his truck). I told her I know about Gord's business flunking and him letting go of all his staff. I said it makes more sense to rent the house to my family since we have three kids, need the space, we're both employed, our commute would be quite manageable, and we can actually afford it. She said no because we don't work locally enough.\n\nAt this point, I decided to guess that Al had put in his Will something about a 3-way split for the house. I said I knew about it and that if she gave Gord the house, somewhere down the road Hank and I would demand our shares of the real estate value and Gord would have to buy us out in order to keep living there. That made her pause and re-think her strategy. I must have guessed right about the Will. She said she had a 'counter-offer' for me (her words). She suddenly exclaimed that if I could find a home closer to where we already live, she would gift my wife and I the down payment, up to $20,000. It was heavily implied that this would be a payoff to stop me from going after the inheritance house. I have a skype recording of her saying this. \n\nWhen I asked if she would need credit to cover the 20K, she laughed and said \"I have more than enough stashed away to handle it\", which basically confirms that she has hoarded my father's large inheritance for herself since 2016 and that she was more than capable of providing my brothers and I with fair, reasonable support, but chose not to.\n\nI've since learned that after my father passed, Jane spent thousands upgrading the house, buying pets, and living large with daily yoga\/nails\/makeup\/etc. I believe my father already had money set aside for a down payment for us, but Jane gave it away to other older family members so they could throw a big party. She's also recently donated large amounts to several charities.\n\nI'm at a loss right now, I don't know what to do. On the one hand, I know if I wait until 2019 to roll around, my chances of getting anything at all out of Jane drop to zero. She'll disappear with her fortune and I'll never hear from her again. If I can arrange a mortgage quickly, I will be 20K ahead and perhaps have a suitable home for my growing family. On the other hand, I don't like the idea of trading 20K for what could be ten times that amount if the house were sold properly and I received my third as (probably) stated in the Will.\n\nAny advice? Sorry for the long read. I'm guessing I probably need an estate lawyer or something.\n\nTL;DR: My selfish inheritance-hoarding promise-breaking mother offered me a 20K mortgage down-payment for me to go away and sadly it might be my best option all things considered?","title":"My recently widowed mother has offered me a 20K mortgage down-payment to stop asking questions about my dad's will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540519593,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rgmtz\/hey_can_anyone_well_versed_in_vehicleinsurance\/","id":"9rgmtz","body":"TL,DR at the bottom btw \n\nHere\u2019s the thing \n\nOne night me and my father were discussing insurance stuff. We ended up talking about about auto insurance. He ended up telling me about this story, about this one call he got as a tow truck driver. \n\nPretty much what happened is that this dude, just bought a Ferrari, and as soon as he got the keys and drove off the lot he punched the gas and totally fucked up his brand new car. \n\nHe ended up saying that the dudes insurance company wouldn\u2019t pay the owner the same amount of money it cost to buy the car \n\nI asked why that happened and he said that pretty much as soon as somone owns a car that it\u2019s value drops (from what I remember that\u2019s depreciation) I get that, that makes sense I know that\u2019s true. But he said that if you get your car appraised, it pretty much locks your cars value so it can\u2019t really be depreciated. So yeah if you get your car appraised will it lock in the cars value? \n\nTL,DR \n\nwas talking about insurance, ended up talking about cars and depreciation, and he ended up saying along the lines of that if you get your car appraised it\u2019s value gets locked in so that it can\u2019t be depreciated. Is that true? ","title":"Hey can anyone well versed in vehicle\/insurance law tell me if this is true?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1415779373,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2m20jm\/are_emails_confidential\/","id":"2m20jm","body":"(I Live in Australia) I got sent an email and I posted it on facebook the person is now threatening legal action. I'm not too worried I'm just curious if I or the sender have broken the law. (You have made a BIG BIG mistake!\nYou have taken one of my private and confidential emails and splashed it all over the world via social media \u2013 unfortunately for you that only means one thing \u2013get yourself a tie so you look decent for a court hearing.\nI want you to go to (Inser group name) and delete your post \u2013 you have no rights to take my email and splash it on the internet for everybody to see! Look at what you have done to the people who work for our organisation and it itself -\nYou are now up for slander \u2013 and believe me you aren\u2019t going to like it!! I have friends in all the right places! You\u2019re a silly silly boy and you will regret doing what you have done.\nHow dare you drag work colleagues names and our business through the mud and think that\u2019s ok \u2013 I tell you right now it\u2019s soooooo not ok and you will pay for your BIG mistake.\nI know some people who know you, and luckily for me I found out last night where you live.\nTread carefully and do your best to undo what you have done. Start NOW!!!! It\u2019s only in your best interest.\nI don\u2019t think you realise the magnifications of what you have done by taking my email and using it in such a way to bag our company and the people in it, you are so wrong in doing so.\nSee you in court!!!) This is all because I posted a picture of an email with the captions \"What do you guys think of this\". ","title":"Are emails confidential?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569640795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daasel\/landlord_tx_says_property_owner_does_not_want_to\/","id":"daasel","body":"At the end of July 2019, I reported my landlord to the Texas Attorney General because I had asked her to give me 24 hours notice before using her owners key to show the house; I wanted a record of the incident in case she retaliated. She told me if I could not make myself available, she would enter my residence and if my dog (who I paid a pet deposit for) was \u201cloose\u201d inside, she would call the city to take my dog and to cite me. When I told her not to do this she said I should review my lease. The lease states after attempting to make contact, she can enter the residence at a \u201creasonable time\u201d. Texas Property Code seems to define this as 24 hrs notice, and between business hours, 8A-5P. The landlady texted me today at 1:20P to tell me I needed to make myself available at 5P (after business hrs) or she would use her owners key, and my \u201cdog better be in the back yard.\u201d I frantically tell her there is no way I can make my commute home in 30 min, please delay. She does not answer my calls, but the owner picked up and said they\u2019d be there at 5:30. My roommate was able to get out of work as soon as they saw my text, and were at the residence by 4:30P. By 5:35P, no one had come by. When my roommate texted the landlord to see what was up, she said they wouldn\u2019t be coming in (they instead just went in the residence next door, which is exactly like ours cuz it\u2019s a duplex), but would stop by next week cuz the owner would not be renewing our lease after this year. Given that this came the same day I made my second request to observe a minimum 24 hr notice before owner key use is exercised, could the non-renewal of the lease be considered retaliation (the lease has been renewed without issue every year since 2017; had two parking complaints with two different tenants from the next door duplex but we were not in violation of our lease or city parking code, and in the first instance a judge found we were not blocking the driveways by parking on the street, between residences and provided us with documentation stating so\u2014this piece of paper saved us from a citation the second time around; only 3 work orders in 3 years [rekey {because the landlord didn\u2019t do this automatically}; replace kitchen faucet; fix a leak in the roof]; house is well maintained). Is this a violation of a Tenant\u2019s Right to Privacy? It doesn\u2019t look like cities have advocates or resources for tenants in this situation; do I need to find a lawyer? (Moving when my lease is up is not my first option. The owner originally listed our duplex on Zillow as 1075$ a month, instead of 1275$ and honored this price. This is the starting rent for comparable properties. This would cause the rent for me and my 3 roommates to increase by 50$, which doesn\u2019t sound like much, but we are all young and on very fixed income)","title":"Landlord (TX) says property owner does not want to renew lease in November minutes after I exercised my right to privacy","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542167362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wwgq4\/my_schools_new_policy\/","id":"9wwgq4","body":"So my highschool in Illinois has had major issues with truancy, cellphone abuse during class, bullying and fights. Our principal was removed for about 2 and half months for calling 2 kids gay and he returned today. We had an assembly and addressed these issues. The question I had was he said \"Dropping the F-bomb will be considered disorderly conduct and you will be arrested by the local police.\" (Police are constantly at our school too) What would happen in a court room with that situation? Could you be prosecuted for that?\n\nTLDR school says saying the \"F-bomb\" will lead to being arrested for disorderly conduct ","title":"My schools new policy","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1507562416,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/759qqi\/mom_recently_passed_away_about_6_weeks_ago_step\/","id":"759qqi","body":"(Colorado) My mom passed away suddenly at the end of August. My former step-dad, whom I've never had any kind of relationship with, has been very unclear about what's in her will. We're obviously all grieving, and he's mentioned my brother and I are both in her will, and I'm unsure of what I'm allowed\/should be doing since he's the executor and extremely slow moving through this process. He's definitively said my name is in the will--what should I be doing?","title":"Mom recently passed away about 6 weeks ago, step dad is being shady about her will...not sure what to do.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539820070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p3y0q\/ca_school_grants_monopoly_to_company_for\/","id":"9p3y0q","body":"I am currently a senior at a small public high school in Los Angeles County. Today, all seniors were pulled out of class for ~30 minutes for a presentation about graduation caps, gowns, and other merchandise. This presentation was about 5% important information about getting graduation gowns, etc. and 95% advertising from the representative of the company selling the gowns and other merchandise.\n\nAfter the presentation, I spoke to the assistant principal, who informed me that, in order to walk at graduation, you need a cap, gown, and tassel, which must come from this company and this company only (so that they look the same, he says). Essentially the school has granted a monopoly to this company, and made it so that you need to purchase their products to participate in the graduation ceremony.\n\nIs this legal? Because, I definitely don't think that this is legal.","title":"[CA] School grants monopoly to company for graduation gowns, which are mandatory to participate in graduation","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1538600071,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9l596j\/should_i_be_getting_paid\/","id":"9l596j","body":"My jobs a bit weird, it\u2019s safety and rescue. I\u2019m a contractor (non-union) in the morning, we\u2019re supposed to be at our work between 5;15-6:15a.m. But after getting equipment ready, loading up the work trucks. We commute to our job for the day where it takes 20-30 minutes to get there. Only the driver gets drive time pay, passengers get halftime pay ONLY after 72 miles. We often don\u2019t get into our job sites till 7:00-8:30a.m and we don\u2019t start getting paid until then. Is this legal? It\u2019s like 30minutes to an hour sometimes of time I\u2019m working but not getting paid. I\u2019ve talked to the other guys and they says there\u2019s nothing we can really do about it.","title":"Should I be getting paid?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569786731,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db085l\/what_can_my_mother_actually_do_to_me\/","id":"db085l","body":"My father, who I was very close to, passed away this week. He and my mother had been living apart for a little over ten years, but never officially divorced. He lived in the house I grew up in, which they owned jointly. \n\nHe had very little money\/assets when he died.  He had a checking account with about $3k in it, a bunch of credit card debt, and some student loan debt from when I was in college (I am not on these loans in any way). He jointly owned the house with my mother. He gave me his car shortly before he died, and we got it transferred to me and titled in my name before he passed away.  He had an IRA with about 55k in it and I am listed as his beneficiary on that account.\n\nFrom what I can tell, my mother is entitled to the house and his checking account, and will need to take care of all of his debts, whether they are forgiven or she has some responsibility to pay them. I will get the IRA. I gave my mother information on all of his accounts a couple days ago, except the IRA which I planned to handle as I am the beneficiary on that.\n\nMy mother is mentally ill and paranoid. She thinks I am hiding accounts from her and has asked for information on his IRA. I told her the bank where it was held, because I think she has no legal standing to challenge that beneficiary designation. We are not in a community property state.\n\nUnfortunately this woman is insane and has threatened to get a lawyer but she won\u2019t say what for. Is there anything she can reasonably do to me? Would a crooked lawyer take on her case and aid her in harassing me? \n\nI\u2019m trying desperately to get this woman out of my life and terrified she is going to be torturing me over this.","title":"What can my mother actually do to me?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539622608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oeh54\/leaving_uk\/","id":"9oeh54","body":"I plan to quit my job a week before leaving, do i still get paid my last week?","title":"Leaving UK.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446734190,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rmrvf\/i_was_attacked_and_wrongfully_accused_of_rape\/","id":"3rmrvf","body":"I'm 17, a senior in high school. Right now it's Thursday morning, and on Monday near the end of school, another student came up behind me with a friend and started attacking me and yelling that I raped someone. I never hit either of them, so I'm not in any trouble with the school. However, this particular student has hated me for years, although I have no idea why, and has started multiple false rumors about me and has tried to tell people I've raped other people before. He seems to have it in his head that I can't have any sexual relations without it being rape. He's told his parents, and they and him and gone to the office with the accusations in the past. This most recent time was his 4th accusation. The office had to investigate because he had gotten violent with it, and so they got the names of the students he accused me of raping and contacted them and their parents. 3 of the 4 were totally cooperative and said it was for sure consensual and they were definitely not raped. The 4th, she's 18, but her parents got involved and said they needed to discuss it as a family. I know for sure she was not raped, I snuck her into my house with her knowing we were going to have sex, that's WHY she came over. I havent' contacted her directly, but I'm hearing from people who have that her dad is wanting her to say she was raped and to press charges. I know it wasn't rape, this happened 6 months ago and we hung out the entire day after, her decision, she even went home and came back, so she knows it's not rape as far as I figured. Her friend who knew she went over and what happened knows it's not rape. My friend who knew she was coming over and what happened knows it wasn't rape. But apparently her dad believes it was rape and she's not telling him otherwise.  \nSo I guess the real question is, does anybody know WHY this would be happening, and what I should do? I live in Indiana by the way.  \n\nEDIT: Since some people were asking or wondering, I have no idea how the guy found out about them but he did. He's accused me of raping 4 people:  \n* First: a girl, we had sex, I was 16 she was 15.  \n* Second: a girl, we had sex, I was 16 she was either 17 or 18.  \n* Third: a girl, we had sex, I was 17 she was 15.  \n* Fourth: a guy, we only did oral, I was 17 he was 15 or 16.  \nI don't know if this helps or hinders me, but again, I've already been cleared with the first third and fourth people that it WASN'T rape. The potential charges would be pressed by the now 18 year old, and that happened 6 months ago.","title":"I was attacked and wrongfully accused of rape.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542144581,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wtc9t\/how_much_time_can_you_get_for_involentary\/","id":"9wtc9t","body":"The man who killed my mother is having his court hearing soon and I want to know what kind of time he's gonna face","title":"How much time can you get for involentary manslaughter with a firearm while high in Pennslvania","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503083735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uk3kd\/my_cat_killed_my_neighbours_escaped_snake_now_ive\/","id":"6uk3kd","body":"Okay so this is a bit of a long story so please try to bear with me.\n\n\nMy neighbour came to my door yesterday asking me to keep an eye out for his snake. It was a 3 year old western hognose called Nugget that escaped from his tank during a clean. First thing I did was suggest he set up some traps in his own flat\/the hallway and ask him if he wanted me to do the same but he declined. Next was locking the cat away in her carrier while I did a very thorough search of my flat (was able to look behind\/into everything but the back of my washing machine because I can't physically move it) but found nada. I blocked off the small space under my door and did my best to keep the cat confined purely to my room that night so if she found something I'd hear and I could sweep my kitchen and living room again in the morning.\n\n\nI did another search before I left for work but found nothing, I had to let the cat into the other rooms as this is where her water and things are, but I shut off my room and the bathroom to her. She wasn't pacing around or going mental like she does when she's on the hunt for spiders so I thought I was probably okay. Unfortunately though I was greeted from work by the worst possible image of my smug cat proudly displaying a dying snake in her mouth. Obviously the first thing I do is get it off her and try to take it to the owner, but he wasn't in. Now this snake is injured and very clearly dying, I was in absolute pieces trying to decide what to do, whether I should try rushing it to a reptile vet or just doing the kind thing and trying to euthanise it, but it wasn't my animal and I was so scared about hurting it more. I love animals so much and I cried my eyes out over the suffering of this little one. In the end he passed within the hour and not too long after that my neighbour returned home.\n\n\nHe didn't really react to the news. Said he didn't blame me for what happened at all, I've offered to pay for a new snake, any burial options he might want to go through with or whatever other compensation he might want but he declined. He told me that he understand that these things happen, to focus on my own vet bills and left. \n\n\nNow hognose snakes snakes are *technically* venomous, although the venom is very mild and typically equates to a bee sting. They're perfectly legal to own without a permit, it's pretty rare they bite anyway and if they do it's only dangerous if you're allergic. My cat is currently in the vets overnight for observation. She's only a tiny thing so getting a couple of bites on her (she's an indoor cat and absolutely crap at killing things she catches, Nugget managed to have a good chew on her in several places) was enough to warrant that. She's okay, just in a significant amount of pain and needs to have the swelling monitored\/reduced. The vet took pictures of the bites and swelling on her.\n\n\nI've just received a phone call from my landlord asking if I'll be in tomorrow for a \"chat\". I'm guessing he's reported this to them and they're gonna want to do something about my cat. My previous neighbours were recently evicted because they kept letting their cat in communal areas where it isn't allowed, although my cat hasn't set paw anywhere outside my flat I'm really nervous. Although ESA's aren't technically a \"thing\" here I have a note from my doctor stating that she's benificial for my mental health treatment anyway. This little cat means the world to me, I can't give her away if asked. Nor can I afford to move anywhere because trust me I would've gotten the fuck out of here a long time ago.\n\n\nSo if worse comes to the worst, what are my options? It was honestly a horrible horrible mistake, and I tried my best to prevent it. Although it's tragic that he lost his snake I have actually told him before that the enclosures he uses aren't secure enough so Nugget escaping was sadly inevitable. I also think it's odd that he's reported this even after explicitly stating he wouldn't. Truth be told I think this is either an attention grab thing or a way to scare me into his debt. He's always been a bit weird around me; asking me round into his flat for drinks, coming out into the hall to talk to me if I get back late, even potentially intercepting flowers my boyfriend ordered for me and making sure I didn't get them. When he found out I like reptiles he even offered to breed Nugget so I could have one of the babies? Just odd behaviour that clearly makes me uncomfortable and I try my best to avoid him. But obviously now I can't avoid him and if I want this sorted I have to talk to him. \n\n\nTl;Dr- neighbours snake escaped, tried my best to ensure snake wasn't in my flat but my cat caught it and killed it anyway. Cat is currently at the vets for mild venom, neighbour promised he wouldn't report me but has reported me to the landlord. Potentially shifty reasons for reporting me, landlord has history of evicting people due to their pets and I cannot give my cat up nor afford to move\/be evicted.","title":"My cat killed my neighbours escaped snake, now I've been reported to our landlord. What can I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571244004,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dirwyo\/worried_about_identity_theft\/","id":"dirwyo","body":"Hello, I\u2019m not sure if this is technically the right sub for this, so I apologize if it is and if anyone wanted to point me in the right one, I\u2019d really appreciate it. \n\nMy girlfriend was just offered a job contingent on a background check and she got a copy of the check too, and it had one flag on it because it says she didn\u2019t list one of her places of residence within the last 10 years. This place of residence however is on the other side of the country where she has definitely not lived. She has not noticed any thing else weird about her credit, but it\u2019s also been a while since she\u2019s applied for any sort of loan or new credit card, so I\u2019m not sure she would have noticed anything. She\u2019s freaking out right now, and both of us are unsure of what the next steps would be. It seems preemptive to put a credit freeze on for this one strange occurrence, but I don\u2019t know how she should go about getting to the bottom of this. \n\nAny advice is appreciated","title":"Worried about identity theft","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571360119,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djfq5y\/being_forced_to_leave_with_3_days_notice_pa\/","id":"djfq5y","body":"\\[I live in Philadelphia.\\]\n\nFor nearly two years, I've been living in the spare room of a (former) friend. There is no written lease, but for the past year I have been paying them $200\/month in rent. When I initially moved in there was no discussion of paying rent. I actually had a conversation with her that since I did not have a job at the time, I didn't know how I would pay her; she did not bring up paying rent for nearly 10 months. In that initial ten months, I was without a job for about 2 or 3 months of that time. \n\nWithin the last two months I got a new job and have been planning to move out. Apartment hunting has not been as successful as I'd hoped and I am still touring and looking at places. Earlier this week I got a text from her husband asking what my plans were for moving this weekend. I didn't know how to respond, so I didn't. Today her husband came to my bedroom door to tell me I needed to move out this weekend. I explained I had no plans to move out this week and he said that since I hadn't been informing him that I was looking for places to move to, that he assumed I had found a place and was going to move out. Nothing I said to him changed his response.\n\nBecause there's no written lease, what are my rights here? I'm fairly sure this isn't legal but I'm not well-versed in this kind of stuff. What can I do?","title":"Being forced to leave with 3 days' notice? [PA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568697188,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5ce4v\/please_help\/","id":"d5ce4v","body":"I need someone who can give legal advice with regards to my living situation. I rent a duplex. My wife, my daughter and I were given this house 2 years ago by my mother who transferred the lease over to us and we have kept it ever since.\nWe live in Fort Mill, SC. Four months ago, the neighbor moved out, and her son who was supposedly the handyman let some random lady move into the home. The actual landlord is a slum lord, the heater in the kitchen sparked and basically exploded\/ almost caught fire two months ago, the outlets are coming out of the walls (WHICH IS A RISK TO MY 3 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER) the flooring is constantly needing to be worked on in the kitchen and bathroom, etc. My problem is that the new \"neighbor\" (who from what I know the actual landlord knows NOTHING ABOUT) has brought a host of German cockaroaches into our home. At first it wasn't that bad, the first month we spoke to the landlord about this and he said that it was a summer thing and they would go away. We had seen water bugs in here the previous summer so I took him for his word. He then hired a pest control worker who basically just sprayed underneath the sink, the walls and in the bathroom. Problem is they are everywhere now, in the fridge, under the oven, in all the cabinets, in my computer, in our DRESSERS WHERE MY DAUGHTER CLOTHES ARE,under the bed, in the bathroom, nesting INSIDE  my COUCHES (killed 40 or so after chasing one down, lifting up the couch, and finding them) , in the tv, EVERYWHERE. My mother says that I can file against Whoever the hell is next door but this guy (the landlord) doesn't even know or as far as I know care about who this lady is. I really do not want any harm to come to my daughter(something could crawl in her ear) and we are trying to leave asap. The lease isn't up for at least a year, we need at least 2000 for a new place (which we don't have) and we don't know what to do. Please help me, I need knowledge, anything.","title":"Please Help","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550685806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asrgr0\/office_politics_going_extremely_petty\/","id":"asrgr0","body":"Throwaway account sorry. I Hope you guys can help me out in this extremely silly problem of mine at work. And it goes like this.\n\nI'm working for a WPP company (that giant advertising agency) and recently we found out that a senior copywriter (who's like that creepy super close friend of yours at work) has been stabbing us in the back by running around the office talking shit about us, and took screenshots of us calling her a skank on Skype (in a joking manner, of course things got taken out of context) and showed it to our manager, and managed to delete it right after her lil dirty job. Then we got called into a meeting being asked why we called her such a damaging name and that it pushed her into a depressing rabbit hole that she can't get to focus on working anymore. Well, luckily I managed to pull the screenshots of her calling the whole office names (worst kinds, you name it, skank is nothing to compare, joking or not) even before anything happens cause yeap I have never trusted her, and used them to slap her right back. Well the boss was like 'damn I never thought it could be this complicated, i need a week or two to figure this out'. Alright, whatever. We moved on focusing on working normally.\n\nSadly the story doesn't end there. The last 2 days she undercut that boss and brought drama stuff up to the HR and the GM and the board behind our backs of course (again, taking screenshots without any context) and I'm really curious what kind of stuff that she pulled that now we are technically being threaten with a lawsuit of 'trying to damage company's image' and are passive-agressively forced to resign. We are technically playing defense now, which isn't that effective if you ask me. And the fact that the board and HR took her stories one side without talking to us before making any move is shockingly stupid if you ask me. And maybe it's a fact that our company (around 30 people only) is just a small one of many WPPs offices could really help with how wrong and silly this story sounds. What should I do? Anything could be appreciated.\n\nPs. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post my company's name here. But if it's ok I will reveal it if it would help anyhow. Thank you.","title":"Office Politics going extremely petty","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571514244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk8n18\/automatically_renewing_lease_in_ohio\/","id":"dk8n18","body":"Hey, guys.  \n\nMy wife and I signed a lease in September 2016 to rent a house for 24 months. The lease basically states that unless we give notice, or the landlord gives notice, the lease will automatically renew for a 12 month period at the end of our 2 year term, and will continue to do so until we move out, or the landlord intervenes.  \n\nWe are going to start the process of buying a house soon, and will likely need to be out of our lease before the end of the current term.  \n\nI have no reason to believe the landlord will see a problem with this, as overall, he's been a great landlord. However, incase he does take issue to us needing to leave(with proper notice), I need to know if I'm reading this right. \n\n[This site](https:\/\/www.gertsburglaw.com\/blog\/automatic-lease-renewal\/) says that Ohio law puts a 3 year limit on these kinds of leases if they aren't notarized, which ours is not. However, looking at the laws they've quoted, I cant understand how any of it pertains to my situation. \n\nAre we basically month-to-month now? Would we be okay to leave with proper notice?  \n\nThanks.","title":"Automatically Renewing Lease in Ohio.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571778539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dloiln\/how_to_get_custody_of_child\/","id":"dloiln","body":"My fiance and I have been dating for almost 4 years and living together for almost a year. We live in Missouri and are looking to find a way for my fiance to get primary custody of his 11-year-old child (the child will be referred to as C for anonymity). Right now, my fiance and C's mother have joint legal and physical custody of C, but we believe it C's current living situation is harmful to his well-being.\n\nC's mother pushes 95% of the parenting responsibilities onto my fiance and I. C lives with us during the days that his dad is supposed to have him, but during the days that C's mother is supposed to have him, she typically makes excuses to drop him back off at our house. Because of this, He ends up living with us 80%+ of the time, and when he is with his mother, she dumps him onto the grandparents. Because of this, he is constantly being shifted between our house, his mother's house, and two sets of grandparents; C typically does not live consistently in one house during the course of a school week. We are concerned that it is not healthy for C to be constantly shifted between 4 households. Because C's mother drops him off here during her custody days in a very sporadic manner, there are times when C stays with us for 2 days, and other times when he stays here for 2 weeks. We think the level of inconsistency and shifting between households is very unhealthy and would like for C to live in our house consistently at least during the school week.\n\nIn addition to this, C's mother refuses to take him to the doctor when he is ill because she doesn't want to pay for it, and so my fiance is always the one to take him to the doctor and thus is forced to be 100% responsible for C's medical care, even though C's mother is legally supposed to pay 50%. C's mother shows little regard for C's well-being, for example sending him over in cold weather without a coat, and she is extremely irresponsible with money. She has multiple maxed-out credit cards, has had her car repossessed in the past, has lived in multiple apartments and was homeless for a period of time last year. Despite the fact that she makes a very decent wage (more than double the income of my fiance and I) she blows away her money on random things and then begs for money from everyone and has complained that she doesn't have enough money to feed C.\n\nC's mother's house is usually dirty and C often has boils and skin infections that we suspect may be due to her uncleanly apartment, or her not making sure C is bathing. C has a private medical issue that causes his bed-sheets to be soiled very frequently. We have been trying to teach C to let us know when his sheets become soiled so that we can wash them, but he frequently doesn't let us know and sleeps in his soiled sheets, so we have to check the sheets daily. The level in which C is desensitized to sleeping is soiled sheets is concerning and leads me to suspect that C's mother does not clean C's soiled sheets regularly at her house and so he has grown accustomed to sleeping in soiled sheets.\n\nOverall, we think it would be much healthier for C to live with us full-time. Most importantly, we want C to get out of an environment where he is continuously shifted between four households within the course of a week ASAP, as that is highly unstable.\n\nWe own a home, our lifestyle is stable, and my fiance is the parent that takes C to the doctor, attends C's school events, and shoulders the majority of the parenting responsibilities. The only aspect of our household that can be viewed as a negative is that we make considerably less money than C's mother; however, we are responsible with our money and despite the fact that our income is low we are able to manage our finances and pay our bills. My fiance desperately wants primary custody, but we have no idea how to go about this. I highly doubt that C's mother would agree to my fiance having primary custody, as she is highly confrontational, aggressive, and always rude towards him. We want to find the most peaceful way to obtain primary custody without causing C to get caught in the middle and suffer. Living with us full-time is the best option for C's wellbeing and future, but we don't want C to be hurt in order to get it. Any advice and resources would be greatly appreciated, and thank you for reading this. Feel free to ask any questions if it will help.","title":"How to get Custody of Child","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447034513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s2wip\/how_to_quickly_proceed_with_an_uncontested\/","id":"3s2wip","body":"I have a friend who is the father of children under 18 who is looking to divorce the wife\/mother. Terms have been agreed upon by both Father\/Mother and Mother is willing to give Father full custody. They've agreed on everything else, including the child support amount. Father has filled out divorce paperwork that he picked up from the county supreme court but he was advised that he should have custody and child support filed\/taken care of before actually submitting the divorce papers. Money is, unfortunately, an issue so hiring a standard divorce lawyer is a last resort. Can anyone suggest what the best, lowest cost way to proceed with the divorce would be?\n\nEdit: Married and divorcing in New York State.","title":"How to quickly proceed with an uncontested divorce that includes children under the age of 18? (NY)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503396028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v9zar\/can_bosses_ask_my_colleges_for_my_school_schedule\/","id":"6v9zar","body":"I am in college and I simultaneously work a full time job and I was wondering If my bosses can call up my college and ask them for a copy of my schedule without my express permission or would doing so be considered a breach of privacy?\n\nI live in New jersey.","title":"Can bosses ask my colleges for my school schedule without my permission?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571128945,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di4yzt\/i_want_to_publish_an_illegal_book\/","id":"di4yzt","body":"How To Get Away With Murder.","title":"I want to publish an illegal book","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444663253,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ogl8u\/losing_my_son\/","id":"3ogl8u","body":"My ex wife informed me that another man was trying to contest the paternity of my son. My son is just about five years old. Apparently, her ex boy friend before we dated believes the child is possibly his. My ex assures me that she didn\u2019t cheat and the child is mine.\n\nI found a picture of this man on Facebook. Spitting image of my son. Im a lost for words. I don\u2019t know what to do. I feel like i just lost my son after 5 years. I confronted my ex and she still says he resembles me. Im not to certain, I feel like i have to force myself to find my traits. Last week we conducted an in DNA test and sent it off.\n\nI personally do not want to know the outcome. I feel like I\u2019m better off not knowing. I would have a hard time living with the fact that he isn\u2019t mine. I pay child support, (1100\/mo) but that has never been a complaint for me as I came from a broken home.\n\nI cannot blame this man, if i I was in his position I would want to know.\nIf the possibility exists that my son is this mans and he takes us to court, what will happen? Will i lose my son?\n\nWe are in PA.\n\nEdit: Thanks everyone for the support!","title":"Losing my son.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539901596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pdxr1\/nyc_i_want_to_sign_my_lease_over_to_someone_else\/","id":"9pdxr1","body":"I live in New York City and have had a lease for several months. I found someone on Craigslist who wants to take over the rest of my lease. I contacted my landlord and they said that it is fine, but will charge me $450 for cancelling my lease. I know NYC has a lot of regulations on leasing, and I was wondering if the landlord is allowed to charge me the fee.","title":"[NYC] I want to sign my lease over to someone else, but the landlord says there is a $450 fee","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555296458,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdb31t\/landlord_wont_fix_bedroom_ceiling_that_has_been\/","id":"bdb31t","body":"I\u2019m a college student living in a college town where landlords are known to take advantage of the young students living in the area. I live on the top floor in an apartment building owned by a big company that owns apartment complexes in college towns all over the country. \n\nI studied abroad last Spring for 4 months, and when I came back in June 2018, I noticed there was significant water damage on my ceiling. Chunks of ceiling plaster was all over the floor and there were huge brown stains on the ceiling. The plaster was bubbling in areas on the ceiling. And whenever it rained, I could hear it dripping from the roof onto the ceiling.\n\nI sent a work order to maintenance using the apartment website, and nobody showed up for 2 weeks, even after I called and asked them to send someone. Finally, when they showed up, all they did was put plaster over the areas where the plaster had fallen off. They never fixed the leak.\n\nI go to stay with my parents for a bit because it\u2019s summer and come back in August. The plaster was crumbling off onto the floor again, obviously, because they didn\u2019t fix the leak. So, I sent in a work order. No response. I send in another one a few weeks later. No response. I call the front desk and they finally contact maintenance and send someone up. All he does is put plaster on it and says that\u2019s all he can do, because maintenance isn\u2019t authorized to go on the roof, but that they will call the contractor to come take a look.\n\nI contact maintenance a few weeks later to follow up because it\u2019s still leaking and they claimed that the contractor already came and fixed it.\n\nWinter rolls around and the leaking stops because of the lack of rain. However, it\u2019s Spring now and the leaking has started up again. I contacted the front desk about it this weekend and they called emergency maintenance to come look at it. He literally tells me to put a bucket under it to catch the water because there\u2019s nothing he can do. He said he\u2019ll maybe see about sending a contractor to look at the roof. \n\nI\u2019m at a loss of what to do. The light in my room has been flickering every now and then for the past week or so, and I know I don\u2019t need a new lightbulb; I\u2019m scared it may be caused by the water in the ceiling because the light is only 2 feet away from the leak. \n\nI\u2019m also scared that these people will try and make me pay for this somehow by saying that I never reported the leak. They just created a new website a month or so ago, so all of my previous work orders that I sent in are gone. I\u2019m not sure what to do. I just don\u2019t want my ceiling to cave in, or have my room catch on fire from the electrical wiring getting wet. Any advice would be appreciated.","title":"Landlord won\u2019t fix bedroom ceiling that has been leaking for a year","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505494551,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70b4qx\/rlegaladvice_i_feel_like_im_being_discriminated\/","id":"70b4qx","body":"I'll try to keep it short as possible.\n\nI've been with my company a little over 2.5 years. I started at an entry level position. Around December last year they started training me for another position, I was still at my original wage though. Around the same time the company started training my Foreman's younger brother for the same position as me. He started at the entry level position as well, about a year after me though.\n\nFast forward to about 3 weeks ago. The plant manager gave the other guy a raise. He didn't give me one. \n\nHe didn't indicate why. If it was my production or my quality of work. All he said was \"I'd like to give you a raise, but I can't. Not at the moment.\"\n\nPlant manager is Mexican, my foreman and his brother are Mexican. I'm Asian. I seriously believe I am being discriminated against.\n\nThis is in California\n\nR\/legaladvice want to chime in?","title":"R\/legaladvice I feel like I'm being discriminated against. Your thoughts?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554503682,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9xn84\/dmv_headache\/","id":"b9xn84","body":"On mobile, apologies for any formatting and length.\n\nGosh, what a nightmare. Location is West Virginia, which can be a nightmare sometimes itself. \n\n\nOk, so in my State the DMV sends out letters randomly to check vehicle insurance. It may not be so random as I was late on a payment while changing jobs. Anyway, I received a letter and appeared at my local DMV with my insurance cards. They made copies, and faxed the information to the Charleston office where the HQ is. I assumed all was good.\n\nA week and a half later I received another letter telling me to again, prove insurance, which I tried to do. The person at my local DMV tells me the problem lies in the VIN number listed on my insurance cards. In the letter, the state lists a \"5\" that should be an \"S\" in my VIN number. I go outside look at the VIN and realise it's the state the has the VIN wrong. This changes everything. My local DMV essentially throws their hands in the air and say \" Charlestons problem\". \n\nThe issue is, if I can't prove my insurance in 15 days, they will suspend my drivers license. They say, I need to go to the lienholder, have them contact the state concerning the error, get it all fixed in a little more than two weeks, or lose my licence, all because of THEIR error. WV DMV is notoriously slow, inept, and a regular hot mess. If I lose my drivers license, I will lose my job, and the college tuition promised me for this position. \n\nIt is obvious I have insurance on the vehicle. It's the correct year, make, model, color, style and VIN all except 1 digit from like 20 is wrong.\n\nI guess my question is, if I lose my job, from their error, can I sue for damages? Lost wages? Lost future wages? Lost Tuition? ","title":"DMV Headache.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540592873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rpa1v\/is_it_possible_to_still_be_convicted_of\/","id":"9rpa1v","body":"I understand that legal definitions of manslaughter follow under 2 categories:\nVoluntary manslaughter, killing out of passion or heat the moment with no planning\nInvoluntary manslaughter, an unintentional killing caused from neglecting a law or reckless conduct. \nHowever I've also understand that even if you were following the law and an accidental murder happens you still get in trouble. Example: you are driving at night following the posted speed limit, and a person happens to walk on to the road from behind a parked car. You have attempted to slam on the brakes but still hit the person and they die on impact.  Do you get charged with manslaughter? If not then can you be sued by a family member in civil court, and if so why even though you did nothing wrong?","title":"Is it possible to still be convicted of manslaughter even though you are following the law to the letter?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541394955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uatot\/my_mom_disabled_my_google_account_nvca\/","id":"9uatot","body":"My mother (in CA) and I (in NV) went No Contact about a year ago due to long-standing familial issues. And, for about a year now, she has been attempting to log into my Google account and aquire my contact information. Usually I get a series of text messages or emails , but tonight she disabled my account. \n\nWhile I have been able to brush these things off for a while, her attempts have become increasingly radical. She even drove up to the city I live in a while ago trying to find me. She lied to a friend to try to get my address, but thankfully they gave her the wrong one.\n\nThis is not the first time she's done something like this:  when I was younger, she was excessively restrictive and invasive. Because of this lifelong trend, my anxiety is officially off the charts.\n\nTl;Dr: My mom is stalking\/harassing me. What can I do?","title":"My mom disabled my Google account (NV\/CA)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539281388,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ncd9g\/wrongfully_terminated\/","id":"9ncd9g","body":" So today I went into work and saw my name was crossed out on the schedule. So I sit down with management had a talk with them and they were firing me because I told a coworker that I saw management doing Coke in the parking lot. I live in Illinois so I know that a company can fire you for no reason at all, but they never gave me a legit reason on why they were firing me. I asked him where they fired me for false accusations? But they wouldn\u2019t say. My question is why would they fire me without drug testing management Before firing me. And also, what happened to free speech?","title":"Wrongfully terminated?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570579718,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df8vdt\/wa_employment_law_restrictive_covenant_for_sub\/","id":"df8vdt","body":"Hi! I'm working in Seattle for a contract company on an unspecified length contract for a tech company (I'm not being coy it just kept renewing). TIL the company is making my position a FTE - ok I learned they are posting the position as FTE and I am welcome to apply. I don't know if I can because of this section of my contract:\n\n>**6. Restrictive Covenant \u2013** In consideration of the terms of employment and the efforts and costs incurred by \u201cCompany\u201d, you agree you shall not solicit Client or engage in a like or similar profession or occupation at Client's facility or any other facility at which you are directed to or actually perform services under this agreement, either directly or indirectly, for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days following the termination of your employment under the terms of this agreement, unless specific written authorization has been obtained from \u201cCompany\u201d. You agree that any violation of this provision will result in you paying to \u201cCompany\u201d an amount equal to four hundred (400) hours at the hourly rate as stated in 4(a) above as compensation for \u201cCompany's\" efforts and costs incurred in connection with your employment hereunder. \n\nI just don't have any trade secrets, special skills (unless you count bullet journaling) and I don't make that much. I already had the job offer and had given notice at my job and when I came to sign paperwork was the first time I saw this covenant. But, like what could I do?\n\nIs this enforceable? (Full contract below)\n\nStandard (Hourly) Employment Contract \u2013 Seattle\n\nCompany,LLC (\u201cCompany\u201d) conditionally offers to employ you legalthr0wawayyyyyyy in the capacity of ProjectCoordinator commencing on DATE at its client, (\"Client\") for services with thelatter for a temporary period, to perform such duties and for such hours of work as may be assigned to you during the term ofservice (the \u201cAssignment\u201d).\n\n**1. Ratification** \u2013 You understand and acknowledge that this offer of temporary employment with \u201cCompany\u201d is subject to final approval by the Client and that you shall not be entitled to any wages or employment unless actually hired by \u201cCompany\u201d to work the specific Assignment for the Client pursuant to this agreement (\u201cAgreement\u201d). You also understand that this Agreement does not go into effect until you actually work on said specific Assignment. You acknowledge and understand that your employment with \u201cCompany\u201d is \u201cat will\u201d, with no certain term being offered or promised, and that you or \u201cCompany\u201d may terminate your employment, with or without cause, at any time. You agree that by reporting or remaining at work after signing this Agreement that you have ratified same. In addition, you represent and warrant to \u201cCompany\u201d that your employment with \u201cCompany\u201d will not violate the terms or conditions of any other agreement to which you are a party.\n\n**2. Scope of Employment** with \u201cCompany\u201d \u2013 You understand that your employment with \u201cCompany\u201d will be co-extensive with the Assignment. In other words, your employment with \u201cCompany\u201d begins when you first begin work for the Client on the Assignment, and ends if and when the Assignment is ended by the Client or otherwise. Following the end of theAssignment, while you may remain eligible for future assignments with other \u201cCompany\u201d clients, you will not be with \u201cCompany\u201d unless and until you are re-hired and assigned to another client. You further understand that following the ending of the Assignment, while you may remain eligible for new assignments with other \u201cCompany\u201d clients, \u201cCompany\u201d has no obligation to find you additional assignments and has no ability to compel any client to hire you.\n\n**3. Reporting of Hours** \u2013 You agree to submit to the \u201cCompany\u201d office by 10:00 a.m. on Monday of each week completed time records, approved and verified by a Client supervisor, indicating the number of hours worked. Failure to submit approved hours by 10:00 a.m. on Monday could result in a delay of payment of wage. You acknowledge that \u201cCompany\u201d needs completed time records to obtain payment from the Client, and therefore you will accurately complete, sign and assist \u201cCompany\u201d in gaining Client\u2019s approval and verification of your time records each week. You understand and agree that in the absence of complete and accurate time records, \u201cCompany\u201d cannot accurately determine the number of hours worked and your corresponding wages. You acknowledge \u201cCompany\u2019s\" policy and practice of mandating recordation of all hours worked including recording compensable hours worked for time spent traveling. \u201cCompany\u201d does not permit \u201coff the clock\u201d work or any similar practice of not recording hours worked. Any requests by the Client or other third party not to record all hours worked must be reported in writing by you to \u201cCompany\u201d.\n\n**4. Compensation** \\- In consideration of your services, \u201cCompany\u201d agrees to pay you weekly at the following rates:\n\na) $$ per hour for all hours worked (as reflected on time card records) up to forty (40) per week effective on the day you report to work at the Client and ending on the day of termination, or discharge of employment, regardless of cause or reason for discharge or termination. \n\nb) $$$ per hour for hours worked in excess of forty (40) per week (or as otherwise required by applicable law).\n\nClient-observed holidays, shutdowns, and regularly scheduled days off shall not be considered as time worked forpurposes of qualifying for premium rate compensation. \n\nEmployee agrees that he\/she shall be paid $ per hour for taking any company required training, including Information Security. Your electronic acknowledgment that you successfully completed this training shall also constitute your agreement that this is the pay rate due for this training. The time taken for this training shall be counted toward hours worked in a particular work week, and in the event this training occurs such that it constitutes overtime hours, you will be compensated for that overtime at the applicable overtime rate required by law. Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement or any properly executed Addendum to this Agreement, you acknowledge and agree that you are not entitled to any other compensation or benefits (including, but not limited to, vacation, holidays or personal leave) from \u201cCompany\u201d,\n\n**5. Sick Leave \u2013** If you work in a jurisdiction which requires \u201cCompany\u201ds to offer sick leave, your eligibility and ability to earn, accrue, and use paid sick leave is governed by the applicable law of that jurisdiction, and you will receive additional information regarding the applicable sick leave policy.\n\n**6. Restrictive Covenant \u2013** In consideration of the terms of employment and the efforts and costs incurred by \u201cCompany\u201d, you agree you shall not solicit Client or engage in a like or similar profession or occupation at Client's facility or any other facility at which you are directed to or actually perform services under this agreement, either directly or indirectly, for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days following the termination of your employment under the terms of this agreement, unless specific written authorization has been obtained from \u201cCompany\u201d. You agree that any violation of this provision will result in you paying to \u201cCompany\u201d an amount equal to four hundred (400) hours at the hourly rate as stated in 4(a) above as compensation for \u201cCompany's\" efforts and costs incurred in connection with your employment hereunder. \n\n**7. Confidentiality \u2013** You agree not to disclose to anyone, either during or after your employment with \u201cCompany\u201d, anyconfidential or proprietary information of any kind obtained by you as a result of your employment without the written consent of executive officers of both the Client and \u201cCompany\u201d, and if in the event you are contacted by anyone outside the company including the media regarding your employment with \u201cCompany\u201d or any other matter related to \u201cCompany\u201d,we encourage you to notify your technical recruiter prior to responding to the person. You further agree that on leaving the employment of \u201cCompany\u201d, you will not take with you, without written permission of executive officers of both the Client and \u201cCompany\u201d, any blueprint, drawing, or other reproduction, property or material of any kind. You also agree to execute any forms or documents required by Client with respect to the foregoing.\n\n**8. Information Security Matters \u2013** With respect to any equipment (\u201cEquipment\u201d) used by you in connection with your employment with \u201cCompany\u201d, you agree to use the Equipment at all times in accordance with the applicable Information-Security Policies of \u201cCompany's\u201d customer to which you are assigned, as well as any applicable \u201cCompany's\u201d Information Security Policies. In the event there is a conflict between those policies, you shall follow that policy that bests ensures the protection and safekeeping of the Equipment and data contained on the Equipment. In addition, generally with regard to applicable Information Security practices, unless otherwise directed by \u201cCompany's\u201d customers, you agree: (1) not to store locally on the Equipment any confidential or otherwise sensitive data, including, but not limited to, Protected Health Information, Personally Identifiable Information, or Credit Cardholder Data, as well as passwords, access codes, or any similar information that might be used to compromise network, computer, or account security (collectively, \u201cSensitive Information\u201d), regardless of whether the Sensitive Information originates from the customer or from some other source; (2) to ensure constant control over the Equipment to prevent any opportunity for unauthorized use, including adopting a \"Stand up, Lock up\" practice of locking the Equipment when stepping away, no matter how briefly, such that a password is required to resume use of the Equipment. In the event that Equipment is lost or stolen, any Sensitive Information contained on the Equipment is improperly transmitted or disclosed or other information security incidents or issue arises (\u201cInformation Security Incident\u201d), you agree to notify \u201cCompany\u201d immediately via the following link: [https:\/\/website.net](https:\/\/website.net).  In the event you fail to comply with this section of the Addendum, you agree to indemnify \u201cCompany\u201d for any and all claims, matters, suit or other liabilities that arise directly or indirectly as a result of your breach of this paragraph. Finally, in addition to you completing the \u201cCompany\u201d Information Security Training at the beginning of your first assignment with \u201cCompany\u201d if 12 months have passed since you initially took the \u201cCompany\u201d Information Security Training, you agree as a condition of employment, to take at that time the \u201cCompany\u201d Information Training being offered and at the rate of pay as set forth in Section 4 above.\n\n**9. Ownership of Work Product \u2013** Employee agrees to disclose and assign full and absolute right, title, and interest to theClient of any and all inventions, improvements, or discoveries made by employee for Client and\/or due to the introduction of employee to Client\u2019s confidential or proprietary information, of any kind or nature whatsoever, during the tenure of this agreement. Employee will execute any and all documents and instruments necessary to transfer the full and complete title of any such inventions, improvements or discoveries to the Client, and shall assist in any manner possible in obtaining patent letters in the name of said Client. Employee also agrees to execute any other forms or documents necessary to effectuate this process.\n\n**10. Indemnification \u2013** You agree to indemnify and hold harmless \u201cCompany\u201d from any and all liability, loss, damages, attorney\u2019s fees, or expenses which may be caused by your negligence, willful actions, omissions or failure to perform the Assignment and\/or your obligations under the terms of this Agreement.\n\n**11. Termination** \u2013 You shall give a minimum of ten (10) days notice should you decide to terminate your position with \u201cCompany\u201d You understand that the length of this Assignment is subject to the discretion and needs of the Client and, therefore, a ten (10) day notice from \u201cCompany\u201d may not be possible and \u201cCompany\u201d is not required to provide such notice. Upon termination, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you acknowledge and agree that any amounts owed by you to \u201cCompany\u201d will be deducted from any remaining wages owed to you and refunded to \u201cCompany\u201d. \n\n**12. Notification of Completion of Assignment \u2013** You agree that upon completion of the Assignment with Client, you will notify \u201cCompany\u201d that you have finished the Assignment. You understand that failure to contact \u201cCompany\u201d upon completion of an assignment may affect your ability to receive unemployment benefits. You further understand that at all times between the ending of one assignment and the beginning of another, while you may remain eligible for potential assignments with other \u201cCompany\u201d clients, you are not employed by \u201cCompany\u201ds and \u201cCompany\u201d has no obligation to find you employment or place you with any client.\n\n**13. Benefits \u2013** As a common law employee of \u201cCompany\u201d you are eligible to participate in a variety of available benefitprograms, including programs such as medical, dental, vision, disability and retirement. \u201cCompany\u201d will provide additional information regarding our benefits options including eligibility periods, coverage options and how to enroll. You acknowledge and agree that since you are a common law employee of \u201cCompany\u201d, and not the Client, you are not eligible for any benefit programs that may be provided by Client during your Assignment. By electing to participate in our benefits programs, you authorize \u201cCompany\u201d to deduct your portion of the applicable costs directly from your paycheck.\n\n**14. Acknowledgement of Employment Relationship \u2013** In addition to the rules, regulations and policies of \u201cCompany\u201d, you agree to be bound by any applicable rules, regulations or policies established by the Client wherever you perform services under this Agreement. You recognize and agree that you are an employee of \u201cCompany\u201d and you will look solely to \u201cCompany\u201d for all employee benefits in connection with your employment under this Agreement. You hereby waive any right you have or may have against the Client for benefits arising out of or resulting from employment hereunder, including, without limitation, rights under any medical\/benefit plan, pension plan or vacation\/holiday plan regardless of the length of the Assignment.\n\n**15. Assignment of Claims \u2013** In the event Client has filed for bankruptcy or indicated an intent to file for bankruptcy, you hereby assign to\u201cCompany\u201d any and all claims you have against the Client for any wages earned and owed to you in connection with the work you performed on the Assignment, effective and a result once payment by \u201cCompany\u201d to you of such amounts, which assignment shall be considered as in exchange for \u201cCompany's\u201d payment of such amounts.\n\n**16. Waiver of Client Liability for Workplace Injuries \u2013** In consideration of any offer of employment by \u201cCompany\u201d, I hereby acknowledge, understand, and agree that the following will constitute terms and conditions of any such employment. In recognition of the fact that any work related injuries which might be sustained by you are covered by state workers\u2019 compensation statutes, and to avoid the circumvention of such state statutes that may result from suits against the customers or clients of \u201cCompany\u201d, based on the same injury or injuries, and to the extent permitted by law, I, ON MY OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANYONE CLAIMING BY OR THROUGH ME, HEREBY WAIVE AND FOREVER RELEASE ANY RIGHTS I MIGHT HAVE to make claims or bring suit against any client or customer of \u201cCompany\u201d for damages based upon workplace injuries or illnesses sustained while on assignment with such client or customer of \u201cCompany\u201d. Further, you agree to look solely to \u201cCompany\u201d and\/or its insurer for damages and\/or expenses for such injury, illness or other claims incurred while on assignment. You agree to notify \u201cCompany\u201d if I believe that there are any unsafe conditions at the client worksite or facility.\n\n**17. Limitation of Liability \u2013** To the extent permitted by law, you, on your own behalf and on behalf of anyone claiming by or through you, waive any and all rights you have, or may have, to claim or assert a claim, suit, action or demand of any kind, nature or description, including without limitation, claims, suits, actions or demands for personal injury or death whether arising in tort, contract or otherwise, against Client or Client\u2019s customers, agents, officers, directors, or employees, resulting from or arising directly or indirectly out of your employment with \u201cCompany\u201d, except as to claims you assign to \u201cCompany\u201d under the Agreement.\n\n**18. Attorney\u2019s Fees \u2013** To the extent permitted by law, you agree that in the event of any dispute or claims: (a) arising out of or relating in any way to your employment or relationship with \u201cCompany\u201d; or (b) seeking to enforce the obligations contained in this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorneys\u2019 fees an all costs relating to the dispute or claims and any process through which such a dispute or claims may be resolved.\n\n**19. Entire Agreement \u2013** Except as expressly set forth herein, this Employment Agreement represents the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and any and all agreements entered into prior hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof are revoked and superseded by this Employment Agreement. No representations, promises, warranties, inducements or oral agreements have been made by any of the parties except as expressly set forth herein or inother contemporaneous written agreements specifically identified herein. This Employment Agreement may not be changed, modified or rescinded except in writing, signed by all parties hereto, and any attempt at oral modification if this EmploymentAgreement shall be void and of no effect.\n\n**20. Severability \u2013** In the event any provision or clause of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, all remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. If you accept this conditional offer in accordance with its stated terms, please indicate your acceptance by signing your name where indicated below and returning the signed copy to: \u201cCompany\u201d prior to commencing work.","title":"[WA] Employment Law - Restrictive covenant for sub 60k contract job in Ops?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570095401,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcojky\/ky_usa_dental_office_sent_me_a_bill_for_900_on_a\/","id":"dcojky","body":" I got my wisdom teeth removed early May (5\/9\/19) and had dental insurance. My insurance required $1,500 down, which I paid out of pocket and they were supposed to cover the rest, I had a conversation with them about my coverage prior to the surgery. I received a bill from the dental office who performed the surgery today for $900 with a note that saying my insurance was terminated 6\/30\/19 and the remaining balance was for me to pay. The insurance being terminated makes sense as I got a new job early June and got different dental insurance through a new company. My procedure was done when I had insurance, I paid my part in full the day of the surgery, by the time the insurance was terminated the procedure was long over. Is the dental insurance I had in place during the surgery no longer valid? I\u2019m located in Kentucky. Thanks in advance!","title":"KY, USA - Dental office sent me a bill for $900 on a procedure I had done in May. I had dental insurance at that time.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541438828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ufife\/exboyfriend_abandoned_his_cat_with_me_after\/","id":"9ufife","body":"I said I'd look after my boyfriends cat while he was away on business, 6 months ago. He came back but said I might as well hold onto it as he was going away soon after. I tried to give it back on multiple occasions but he always had an excuse as to why I shouldn't do that.\n\n​\n\nThen he randomly stopped talking to me for a few weeks. Went to speak to him and relationship of circa 1 year now over (have known him for 2). He hasn't spoken to me for about 7 weeks since then. No mention of the cat.\n\n​\n\nCame to light he was likely cheating on me during the relationship so last week I blocked him on social media and phone to avoid being reminded of that. In my view he had plenty of time to contact me before then.\n\n​\n\nI have paid the cats vet bills (ex-boyfriend told me it was male but turns out it was female and needed to be spayed- trans cat!), I've bought food, bed, litter and all the stuff that goes with it all these months. We've also formed a bond, he's affectionate towards me in a way he wasn't with previous owner, who by his own admission said he was incapable of loving another living thing (yikes). \n\nSo I want to keep him but am concerned about what might happen if this guy tried to get him back after all this time. At what point does the cat legally become mine?! He's not microchipped or anything. He's the kind of guy who might do that just to hurt\/spite me in the future and I want to know what the options are. Any advice greatly appreciated! This is in UK.","title":"Ex-boyfriend abandoned his cat with me after ghosting me. I have bonded with the cat, paid vet bills etc. Can he come back in and demand it back?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552860308,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2ang7\/employer_accusing_me_of_stealing_50_out_of\/","id":"b2ang7","body":"Just this past Tuesday I was at work and everything felt like a normal shift. \n\nI have a work study with my university (which shall be unnamed). I work for the parking garages and at events such as football games I sell passes for people to enter the garage. \n\nTo understand this dilemma, let me first explain how my job works. We except both cash and card, and use these iPhones with cases that read credit cards to process payment on an app. Cards are swiped and automatically logged, while you need to hit a button if someone pays cash. You have a pass to lift the gate (your gate lifts are logged), and how many times you lift the gate should match your transactions.\n\nThe dilemma: My coworker, who was working in the next lane was $50 short of what the app reported her revenue should have been. When arriving to work Friday I was pulled into an office with my supervisors and who I assume was their boss. They asked me if I knew anything about her missing money, and they asked me if I had anything to confess. Since I\u2019m innocent of stealing her money, I said no. Immediately after refusing to confess to anything, I was told they have video evidence of me reaching into her register and taking her money. \n\nHow I responded: \nI was very shocked because I KNOW I didn\u2019t do that. I asked them if I could see this video but they refuted because apparently they did not have it on them. I explained any instances that may have made it seem like this. I explained at one point towards the end of the shift I put her work issued handheld(which was located next to the register, NOT IN IT) in my pocket as a joke, which I returned only a minute later(I didn\u2019t turn the phone on and log any cash transactions when I did this). We are not allowed to be tipped, but at one point this nice old guy gave me A DOLLAR so I didn\u2019t think twice about pocketing it. I also sometimes used her pass to lift the gate on a few occasions where someone needed to be let out, and one of my managers that was with me for most of the shift confirmed this.  They seemed pretty certain I was there guy and told me that my university\u2019s police department and the dean were getting involved, and I was put on administrative leave while they investigate this. \n\nI\u2019m honestly not concerned about finding a new job, but I get a $3k grant for having a work study which I have 0 intention to lose over this bullshit. What should I do from here r\/legaladvice?","title":"Employer accusing me of stealing $50 out of coworkers register. This is 100% not true","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1414879484,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2l0h1d\/i_need_help_with_writing_up_a_contract_colorado\/","id":"2l0h1d","body":"My older sister resides in Colorado and she recently moved out of her ex-boyfriends apartment. She had nowhere to keep her things so is keeping them in some guys garage and she hasn't known him very long. \nI am scared that since all of her things are on his property and it is technically his now that he can sell her stuff or refuse to give it back to her so I am trying to help her write up a written contract that states that she is allowed to keep her things at his house and he does not have any rights over them. \nIf someone could help me write up a contract or tell me how to go about it then I would really appreciate it and gift some gold.\nI was also wondering if it would need to get notarized or if the written contract that is signed by both parties would be enough.\nThank you for any help you may give!","title":"I need help with writing up a contract. Colorado, USA.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554584748,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba8y20\/my_boss_straight_up_ghosted_me_do_i_have_any\/","id":"ba8y20","body":"Last month, after leaving the car industry I met a gentleman who is a private contractor\/ electrician. He remodels mostly bathrooms and kitchens and does electrical work. He has his own business, but I\u2019m his only employee. \n\nWhen we met regarding an apprenticeship we discussed the hours would be roughly 30 a week (average 10pm to 4pm) Monday thru Friday. He offered to pay me 15$ an hour for my work considering I didn\u2019t have any knowledge of the business and he was willing to teach me. We discussed me getting my electrician apprentice license and him signing off on my hours as I acquire them. \n\nSo everything is gravy- we do a couple jobs over a 2 week time frame- everything is fantastic. He even mentions frequently im the best help he\u2019s had. Then something happened. Apparently the kitchen we were working on at the time was being \u201cmanaged\u201d by another company, so our contract was with the company and not the customer. I won\u2019t go into detail because it isn\u2019t relevant, but my boss was asked to pack up his tools and leave mid job, causing us to lose the following Thursday and Friday of work as this occurred on a Wednesday. \n\nBoss said no problem- shit happens, we\u2019ll pick up again next week \n\nThat was 3 weeks ago. I repeatedly call him every morning at ten like I always do if i don\u2019t know where we\u2019re working. He spent the first week telling me that we had x amount of time allocated to the job that ended unexpectedly, and we needed time to get another one scheduled. This is the same reply I got for roughly 2 weeks. As of this week, I texted him last Monday morning as always to which he replied \u201cI\u2019ll get with you when I have a solid date\u201d. \n\nHe has sense not replied to any of my calls, texts, or inquiries. My question is- can he do this? Just totally ghost an employee? This feels like an extremely unprofessional, childish and frankly, cowardly way of firing somebody. ","title":"My Boss straight up ghosted me. Do I have any options? [West Virginia]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541095259,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tbt9d\/tx_dad_died_with_no_will_do_his_kids_have_any\/","id":"9tbt9d","body":"We all live in Texas, all property mentioned is in Texas. My dad died without a will. He was remarried and his wife refuses to probate his will. They bought two houses together after they got married. One of them they lived in at the time of his death, both names were on the mortgage, and the bank has already been in touch with his heirs about signing paperwork to sell it. The other house is entirely paid off and they put it in only her name to try to hide it from a child support lien (25 years ago). They weren't able to hide it and it did get a child support lien against it but that was years ago and my understanding is that liens fall off eventually even if they aren't paid.\n\n​\n\nI've tried looking in the tax records for the house to see if my dad's name was ever added to the deed, but it's in the country so it doesn't have a normal street address - they used a PO box. I'll spare the details of the drama, but his wife has already been exceptionally shady about how she is handling things and has not honored a single one of my father's wishes. I wouldn't put it past her to try to sell the house and hope that it doesn't get caught up in his estate if it is still in only her name.\n\n​\n\nI don't really have much money. I am not trying to force her to sell her house even if that's possible. Is there something easy\/affordable I can do so that all of his heirs are included if\/when she tries to sell the house?","title":"TX - Dad died with no will. Do his kids have any legal rights to his property?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551741906,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axdyx2\/stove_burns_is_leaking_property_manager_is\/","id":"axdyx2","body":"This should be short and simple, I just would like to know what the next move is. \n\n7 days ago a burner broke on my stove and leaks in just one burner. I turned to hose connecting to the stove off and called the property manger.\n\nHe gave me an number to call to get it fixed and his guy didn\u2019t answer. I called twice a day for 3 days before contacting the manager again and telling him his guy didn\u2019t answer. He told me he would call and get back to me.\n\nNext day I called manager again and he said he was unable to reach his appliance guy and he\u2019s try again. He called back saying he couldn\u2019t reach him and that he\u2019d call an appliance store. \n\nAppliance guy came by the next day and said he\u2019d order a part and be back in two days. I didn\u2019t hear from them today so I called the appliance store and they said they had received no approval from the manger to buy any parts and would not do so until they got approval. \n\nI just called the manager and he\u2019s acting like he doesn\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about. \n\nMy rental agreement says I\u2019m not allowed to make any repairs myself or I will be liable for all costs. \n\nWhat are my options at this point? ","title":"Stove burns is leaking, property manager is dragging his feet.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444199290,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nt6dm\/in_the_us_can_someone_explain_how_criminal_cases\/","id":"3nt6dm","body":"This is just a general question for how criminal cases progress in the US. I know you get arrested and then go to court where they set your bond but I'm not sure what happens beyond that. Are there more court dates for reviewing pleas? When do those happen if that's a thing? When do they formally read your charges? When does your trial actually start? How many times do you have to appear in court between the bond being set and sentencing? And what are those appearances for?\n\nThe bot told me that i have to add a state so how about in Iowa? I would imagine that the actual progression of cases would be standard? That might be totally wrong, I'm not sure. ","title":"In the US, Can someone explain how criminal cases go through the court system?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541531143,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ur9u0\/my_work_is_breaking_labor_laws\/","id":"9ur9u0","body":"Hi guys, I would really appreciate any advice I can get right now.\n\nCurrently I am a server at a restaurant and the rest of the servers and I have felt abused by the owners for months. We have to do the job of multiple positions all for the low price of server minimum wage. Myself and the other workers don't know how to go about a solution to this. I've tried talking to the owner about this and she said it's all typical server work.\n\nA rundown of some of the major issues we have:\n\n1) Servers do all of the cleaning\/maintenance in the restaurant. Photos of our required cleaning tasks for opening and closing shifts: [Link](https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/sY7H9Sg). We are expected to do these cleaning tasks EVERY shift. Sometimes we get \"side\" cleaning work which for me has involved cleaning the entire crew room or the back storage room. We are paid server wage ($7.50\/hr which is the minimum for servers in New York) for all of these tasks.\n\n2) Closing. After the restaurant closes the server (usually its one, possibly two servers doing this) has to make sure the restaurant is in pristine condition(sweep, mop, take out all the trash, clean bathrooms, etc). It usually takes me a full hour after my last table to clean everything to their standards.\n\n3) No breaks\/we're expected to work during our breaks. During morning shifts there are two people in the entire restaurant. One server and one manager that makes the food. I have been told by my boss that if I want to take a break, I  can sit in the back and come serve people if they come in (typically we all stay clocked in since there is no reason for us to not get paid if we are expected to work if someone walks in).\n\n4) Servers are also expected to input into our POS any takeout orders, this includes people that walk in, the 3 to-go food services they are apart of (Grubhub, Doordash, and Ubereats), and any phone call orders we get. We do not get tips from these.\n\n5) Some random tidbits: Typically my shifts are 6 hours but if we work over 10 hours we are not paid according to the Spread of Hours Law and NONE of our workers rights are posted.\n\n​\n\nAre these things even illegal? Is class action lawsuit the way to go? Should we all cut our losses and quit?","title":"My Work is Breaking Labor Laws","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506799422,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73gwoh\/not_sure_if_legally_i_have_any_action\/","id":"73gwoh","body":"USA\/Virginia\n\nFor the past 6 years, I've been a Quality\/Engineering Liaison between a plastics manufacturer and an automotive manufacturer.  Basically I worked inside the automotive manufacturer facility as a go between for both companies. I'm paid however by the plastics manufacturer. \n\nOver this time, I've obviously made friendships with people inside the automotive plant. One such person was a lady around her late 50's, possibly older.  We always had banter back and forth. She would call me \"young and stupid\" (I'm in my mid 30's), and I'd call her \"old and dumb\". For years this happened. There was never an issue. We would always laugh, talk about families, etc. All of this changed one week ago today.\n\nIt was later in the shift and everyone was ready for the weekend. As she walked by my desk, she yelled \"Hey stupid!\". I shot back with \"Man, you're old.\". Immediately her entire demeanor changed. She started becoming hysterical and screaming \"Does that make you feel better?!?\". This has never happened before, and in thinking I had done something wrong, I apologized immediately. I was holding a water bottle as I had just overfilled it literally to the brim. I went to place my hand on her shoulder as I was apologizing, and a very small amount spilled onto her shoulder.  As you can imagine, this only made it worse. Over the next 20 minutes, I apologized profusely because it was a mistake and not something I would do on purpose.  After everything was settled, she accepted my apology and we went our separate ways. \n\nFast forward to Monday.  I walked into the plant immediately and tried to find her to continue to apologize for Friday night. I found out that she was in Human Resources. After awhile, I'm called to their office and found out she had filed a harassment claim against me. She had claimed that I was bullying her. That she feared for her life around me. And that she felt threatened. She basically told them that everything was one sided and that she never said anything to me at all. Soon after, I'm told that I'm banned from the building. Since I'm banned from the building, I'm unable to do my job and have been terminated. \n\nMonday night and Tuesday night, numerous people came forward to my defense. They told HR that her claims were completely false, with most of them seeing\/hearing how we always joked with one another.  I found out through friends I have in the plant that she had been sent home and suspended for 5 days due to filing a false report to HR. I have waited all week to see if I would receive a phone call stating that I would be allowed access back and continue my job (I had spoken to my manager and he said that if I was allowed back in, the job was mine). Today I was told that even though I was completely honest with them and she was found to be completely dishonest, she will only serve 5 days suspension and I still won't be allowed access.\n\nMy question is this: Legally, is there anything I can do? I feel like I was given the extreme short end of the stick, and she was given a slap on the wrist. ","title":"Not sure if legally I have any action","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568829296,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d61hub\/would_it_legal_for_a_fan_made_game_to_get_a\/","id":"d61hub","body":"I know for a fact that fan games that are for profit are illegal. However, would a game that is incomplete be allowed to get a Kickstarter? Just curious as I am planning on making a fan game myself if I ever obtain the skills.","title":"Would it legal for a fan made game to get a Kickstarter?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1542223665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x38fq\/employer_refuses_to_pay_for_travel_since_offer\/","id":"9x38fq","body":"Hey Guys, \n\nNot sure if this is the right place for this but could really use some help figuring this out as this is way above my league and not sure how to proceed. \n\nMy GF has been interviewing for a small company in OH over the past few weeks. All in all, the owner has been overly transparent in the interview process down to a point where it was almost insulting. For example, he mentioned that she was being considered now only since the first option was not going to be able to take the offer, and saying things like the other person did this assessment better than you, can you retake it. Note that, none of these assessments have anything to do with the actual responsibilities of the job. He then finally asked her to fly out there with a short notice and a tight budget. \n\n​\n\nAfter she managed to book a combination of really uncomfortable flights and bus journey, he expressess concerns of her not owning a car nor having a drivers licence. She said that she would work on it and get a drivers licence and car and survive via uber\/lyft in the meanwhile. She goes in for the interview, everything is fine but she is literally the only one who knows technology there. Considering she has no prior work experience in terms of a FT job, she realizes there is noone to turn to help if she ever goes wrong. \n\n​\n\nShe receives the offer an hour after she leaves and has the weekend to decide if she wants to take it up. She heard back from another company which is in a city, so she decided to not take up the offer with this company in OH. Now the owner says that she turned it down based on the fact that she cannot drive and won't be reimbursing her travel completely which came up to roughly $700. He is willing to repay a flat $300 amount. She wrote back and said that it was unacceptable since he had agreed to pay the whole amount, and she did travel all the way at a minutes notice, and did not even stay back to stick to his budget despite knowing that it would be a horrible journey that lasted almost 20 hours from start to end.\n\n​\n\nNow he refuses to respond to email or text, it has been about a day since she sent out the email. We are really concerned that we are not going to get her money back at all now. If anyone can give us some advice, it would be much appreciated.\n\n​\n\n ","title":"Employer refuses to pay for travel since offer was turned down","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571492801,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk3z3x\/blind_sided_to_the_point_my_jaw_is_now_fractured\/","id":"dk3z3x","body":"(Didn\u2019t know what to flair). It was straight up assault. \n\nContext. \n\nOn a night out, not anything hectic or anything. Friendly get together (with an astounding turnout of people), my buddy got knocked in the nose for being mistaken of doing something, energy escalated into him getting knocked again by the same guy. I step in after seeing my buddy with blood pouring from his face, diffuse the situation and get this guy to stop his aggression towards everyone. At first, I succeeded without force, peacefully and easily (somewhat). I let it go and thought it was all okay. I then find out that he\u2019s doing the same bullshit to other people, and again, the idiot I am steps back in to confront him and talk some sense into him. The tension escalated and turned into his ego and stature being threatened, when that wasn\u2019t what I intended to insinuate. Nonetheless told me to back down or step up, I did nothing but hold my ground. He walked off all pissed and aggressively. Again, I let it go, conversed with some other buddies until the assailant came running back full force, closed fist, straight into the right side of my jaw. Here I am, somehow didn\u2019t fall over, get knocked out or anything, I can feel a gnarly feeling in my jaw and I\u2019m spewing blood all over the street while barely being able to see straight. Well knowing I wouldn\u2019t be able to do anything to defend myself from taking another hit or getting my head stomped, I walked far down the road, my buddy who witnessed tried to do something (not sure what) to keep him from going after me again but had to end up running the other direction. Now here I am booked In the hospital waiting on surgery. My issue is: pressing charges. I know who he is by physical identity, and what he goes by, not any legal name. I know what steps I\u2019m going to take to go through with report, but I wanted to know anything other than what I\u2019m already doing, which is obviously filing a report and giving as much information as possible.","title":"Blind sided to the point my jaw is now fractured into 3 separate pieces.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553618401,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5rz2a\/my_insurance_company_is_trying_to_put_me_back_in\/","id":"b5rz2a","body":"First of all, I would like to apologize for how scattered this sounds. I just got off the phone with the insurance adjuster and I am typing very furiously right now because I\u2019m so pissed and I\u2019m afraid I\u2019m being played and I really need some advice because I\u2019m convinced that this is not safe. \n\nI was involved in an accident a couple weeks ago where I was rear ended at 40-45mph and pushed into the car in front of me (the car in front of me was at a complete stop at a stoplight, I was very close to a complete stop, and there was still a few feet between my car and the car in front of me when the back of my vehicle was struck). My back and front ends were smashed, both the drivers and passengers air bags deployed, and my windshield was busted by the airbag, among many other damages to my car. The shop that my car was towed to valued it at $16,000. They did the estimate, and the damages came out to $11,944 (so far).  By my calculations, this is 74% of my cars market value (based on what the shop valued it at). I asked the insurance adjuster why they are still planning to repair my car when the damages are 74% of my cars market value when the legal amount of damages (in the state of Indiana) has to exceed 70% of the cars market value for it to be considered a total loss... and he said Indiana has no such law. He also couldn\u2019t tell me the amount they (my insurance company, allstate) valued my car at because I figured there would be slight differences. I couldn\u2019t get any more information out of him. That\u2019s all he would say. \n\nI get that insurance companies try to do the most cost effective thing, but I will NOT let them put me back in a vehicle that is not safe and is not worth fixing. I\u2019m sure the shop will do a good job at fixing my car, but when it comes to the airbags and seatbelt locking, I will not play around. Bottom line, you don\u2019t know if those safety features were installed correctly and will function correctly until your life depends on them doing so. \n\nIs he right to say that Indiana doesn\u2019t have a law that decides when a vehicle is considered totaled? Is this even safe? ","title":"My insurance company is trying to put me back in a totaled vehicle.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571690842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl6ofs\/order_to_show_cause_help\/","id":"dl6ofs","body":"I have a legal signed court order to see my son ( 16 ). After my brain injury 5 years ago, it was 2 years before I received SSDI. I took my back pay to get an attorney because she would not let me see him. After 2 years in court I received my visitation rights. For about 6 months I was able to see him, however none of times were what as agreed upon ( I never got any over nights and she severely limited my time with him ). In October of 18 her husband was arrested for domestic violence. In 2019 I have seen my son twice. They forbid my son to talk to me. She will not return any calls or text. The cops or division of family services will not help either. Her abusive husband calls all the shots in the house.  They in fact moved out of the city and my son was diagnosed with tourette's and I was not informed at all, which is also a violation of our court order. No legal aid, lawyer ( unless I pay $2500. I dont have,I make less than 12k a year on SSDI ), disability advocates establishment will help me. There are no law schools near by to help assist me as well. I was able to get an order to show cause form. There is a small space to fill out what my reasons are. With what I said above how would you go about condensing that to fit on 3 small lines? How can I ask for the money I spent on a lawyer, since a court order clearly did me no good? How can I ask for the fee to have her served? I am trying to fit as much as I can on these small lines. My son wants to see me, I desperately want to make up for the time we have lost from my brain injury and this last year we were not allowed to talk. Ty for your time.","title":"Order to show cause help","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569644332,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dabcvq\/street_racing\/","id":"dabcvq","body":"Is it considered street racing if it\u2019s on the highway? Wouldn\u2019t that be considered highway racing?","title":"Street Racing","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539861570,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p8bzm\/website_posted_by_ex_ruined_my_marriage_and_is\/","id":"9p8bzm","body":"I live in Canada and 3 years ago an ex girlfriend of mine decided to post a website devoted to me. She basically went on a tirade and got extremely jealous when she found out I was dating. The basis of the story is that her and I met and after a few months moved in together. It was her house and I had just moved to the province for work. Originally I was staying in a house that my employer had for workers but it was too much for her to keep driving back and forth to pick me up cause I didn't have a car. I had just split up with my fiance a year earlier and she had basically taken me to the cleaners which forced me to work in another province. This girl and I met through a dating website and she seemed pretty down to earth so when she asked me to move in I figured since I work a lot and am always traveling for work it would be convenient for when I was home to see her easier. After a few months of being there she started getting very possessive and always arguing if I wanted to do anything on my own. She would accuse me of cheating when clearly I wasn't.  We would get in huge arguements and I would walk out to calm down. Then her way of dealing with it was buying me something nice and kissing up until I forgave her. After a while I got tired of it all. Then my work gave me an offer where if I used my own truck for work they would pay me milage.  So I went looking for a truck. When I applied they denied me and said I had too much revolving credit out. So she offered to put it in her name.  I was hesitant at first but then realized that it would help make more money and help at the house too. I agreed and we put it in her name.  I paid bi weekly and would email transfer the payment every 2 weeks. A couple months goes by and my work schedule was 3 weeks on and 1 week off. One week they had an incident so they shut down a week early. I came home to her and found a pair of mens jeans in the room and a t shirt. At first I thought maybe her brother stayed over but the sizing was off. Then I started to see her always taking her phone into the bathroom. The following day she tells me that she's pregnant. At first I was shocked because we were protected and she told me she was on the pill. Then she started getting very controlling.  We fought constantly. Eventually I told her it wasn't working out and that I would still be a good father but we would co parent. She stayed nice at first because she was worried I would leave completely.  A couple months later I meet a girl on a job site. Her and I hit it off and start getting romantically involved. She worked for another company but was on the same job site . We didn't do anything while at work but when we had our time off I drove to her to see her. We ended up starting a relationship.  After a while she gave me her resume hoping I could get her into the company I worked for. I still was using the truck under my exes name but paying for it biweekly. At one point I even had my boss call her and ask her to change the truck over to his name but she didn't want to. She said it was fine. Then one day I am with the new girl and her phone goes off and I notice it's my exes phone number. I hear my gf basically just answering her but not being confrontational.  She hands me the phone and I immediately ask her why she's calling.  She had found her resume in my work bag that was in my truck. So she called her to find out if I was with her. Right away I tell her we broke up months ago and she had no right.  She then calls police for her vehicle and tells me I'm gonna a get it. Naturally my gf and I split up and months go by and the whole time I am trying to get the truck changed over and she won't do it. Then the due date for the baby is coming and she tells me that it's been pushed over a week. She tells me she doesn't want to do it alone and asks if I will come and I say of course I will. She tells me she is going for dinner with her father and that she will come to my house to talk after.  I agree to this. Next thing I know a guy shows up at the door and serves me papers . Appearantly she already had the baby and never even told me about it. Papers were for child support.  Moving on a month later I get a text message from a friend with a link to a webpage. On the webpage is me and an entire fabricated story by her ( she doesn't put her name on it though) . Also is a story from the girl I was with who she called.  They had gotten together and created this slam website .I confronted her and she denied being the creator of it. Said it was the other girl. The other girl refused to take calls and last I heard fled the country to go back home. It's been 3 years now and I recently got married in July. 2 days ago my wife tells me that the website is too much and that she wants to leave. My wife is from Mexico and we were in the process of getting her landed papers. Everything was great until last week and now my wife won't answer texts and last I heard has just gone back to Mexico without saying a word. I have been locked isn my room for 2 days depressed and didn't even go to work for 2 days. I should mention that about 8 months ago I hired a company that specializes in website removal. The website now has gotten way more troll stories from people I've never even met before. One from an American girl claiming we got stopped at the border and she left. This was clearly fabricated because I had not been to the states since 2001 and she said this happened in 2008. The site is moderated and they choose what to post up. I have had friends post positive things and stories and they never get posted. Only the negative made up stuff. The company I hired to get it taken down never update me. They said it's $9500.00 to get it taken down to which I agreed and it's been almost 9 months I think now and no progress has been made. I have been turned down for jobs, lost friends and girlfriends and now my wife because of it. I am depressed and suicidal and don't know what to do? I read this sub time to time but finally decided maybe someone else can help. Every day I am constantly reminded and it's getting harder and harder to get up. I'm about to lose my job which is a great job if I dont go to work. I am mentally drained. I need help and fast. Please reddit give me hope! Hope I did this right and sorry about run ons. I know it's a long story but trust me this is the short version.","title":"Website posted by ex ruined my marriage and is driving me to suicide.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570417300,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dedofd\/how_can_woman_declare_a_recording_was_a_threat\/","id":"dedofd","body":"A manipulative \"victim\" seeking revenge \n\nTerroristic Threats stalking horribleeeeee  According to law\n\nBoth know it was not but no one will listen to the \"weird\" defendant stalker guy\n\nGender limits, what can they be done to get it realized and dismissed??\n\nThe \"evil\" intended, was the victim's own! They will never testify. it would all perjury!","title":"How can woman declare a recording was a threat from a stranger when she knows it was an argument with a lover? need help FAST","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541476377,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ul0s6\/question_about_international_copyright_laws\/","id":"9ul0s6","body":"Hello I am Mark, Forgive me if i break any formalities as it is my first time on reddit.  \n\n\nAssuming i made an online game(via a bot in a chatting platform) based off of characters from a certain franchise(Movie\/Japanese Anime). The only content i will use are the pictures available on the wiki fandom. I will not charge any money for the game but i will offer benefits to people who will donate to my Patreon. \n\nCould i get sued for that even though i won't be selling the game and the donation are dependent on the will of the players? If so then could you kindly direct me where i could get more information regarding this.","title":"Question about international copyright laws.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1503349845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v6471\/how_can_my_dad_tell_his_exbusiness_partners_stop\/","id":"6v6471","body":"ex-business partners told a customer last Saturday that my dad still works with them and he was out doing errands but in reality he has his own business opened up and isn't involved with them any more different name and address, he also changed all the information on websites and texted a couple of customers this info already(clearly not all customers) is there anyway my dad can do something legally to make them stop doing this(not suing really looking for anything at the moment) thank you for your time ready this and replying!\n\nEdit: live in Houston, Texas","title":"How can my dad tell his ex-business partners stop telling his customer that he still works with them","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569289857,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8giu8\/how_can_i_live_somewhere_thats_not_with_my_mom\/","id":"d8giu8","body":"So, my dad died recently, and now I'm going to have to live with someone else. There are only 2 options really, my mom, and my aunt Stacy and uncle Tim. And they also live in a different state. Both me and my brother don't want to live with mom, but since he's the closest to us, the court will probably give us to him. She's physically able to take care of us and she hasn't been abusive either. We'd do anything to stay away from her. And she's going to fight for custody of us. How can we stay away from her? I'm 14, and my sister is 11, and we live in Nevada.","title":"How can I live somewhere that's not with my mom?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571594857,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkn9b2\/just_rear_ended_someone_m_24\/","id":"dkn9b2","body":"My first accident ever. We were at the stop light and they were clear to go. They started to go, and then stopped.\n\nI rear ended them as a result. I looked to the left to see no oncoming traffic in the turn lane in preparation of my turn and bam.\n\nHow should I proceed? Just pay my bill deductible or what?","title":"Just Rear Ended Someone [M] [24]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446747851,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rnq3l\/wrote_a_deposit_check_contractor_went_off_the_grid\/","id":"3rnq3l","body":"Never figured I'd be posting here...sigh.\n\nI'm in Illinois.\n\nThe situation at this point is as follows:\nI have his number - he's not picking up for ANY phone calls. I have his facebook personal page (limited), but have a picture of him from there. I have his name, and I have a deposited check with his bank details on there. \n\nFirst things first...I assume I need to go to the police, but not sure what they can do to help me. \nI know for a fact that he moved to a horse farm for free housing in return for watering the horses at night, and handyman work around the farm - which means his DL will NOT have an accurate address. I don't know where the farm is. I know the farm had a horse show this past weekend, but IL is extremely packed with horse farms, and he said the commute from his area somewhere south-southwest of my home is 45 minutes or so without traffic and of course double that when there is. \n\nWith the info I have, would the police be able to track him down? I'm assuming for the amount ($850.00), I'd have to take his ass to small claims. But to take him to court I need to have him served papers. \n\nI'm just at a loss. I know he's NOT gone completely. Not unless he decided to not work ever again with his extensively long clients who recommended him (15+ year relationship). But the man called me, said he'd be ready to work, didn't show up and his phone was off that day. It's been on since, but he doesn't pick up, or respond to my voice mails. \n","title":"Wrote a deposit check, contractor went off the grid","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552401865,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b08ke9\/deposit_question_and_then_some_very_long_story\/","id":"b08ke9","body":"I signed a rent to own lease on a house in missouri Feb 1st. I paid a $1500 deposit. The landlord was out of state (florida) I was to pay the rent from my next paycheck so I asked when she could send the keys since rent was only 300 and she had already received the majority of total amount owed. She said I would have to pay for the shipping of the keys and it would be $170 through fedex overnight. I was never told I would have to pay to receive them. She said she already dropped them off so I couldn't change the method of shipping and that she put a hold on the package until I gave her the money for the shipping. This is when it all goes down hill. \n\n\nI got an email from the website that she listed the house on saying it was possibly a scam. I asked for some type of proof of what she was saying about fedex (tracking number\/ email\/ something)  bc it didn't sound right. She said she didn't have a tracking number bc it hasn't been paid for yet. At this point I knew I had been scammed. She even sent a photo of the package that's the same one that's been going around the web for years now. \n\nSo I called her out on being a scam and asked for a photo ID and proof she owned the house. Needless to say she hasn't provided either. Excuse after excuse. She's still talking to me saying she doesn't have the money and would have to sell the house before she could pay me back. Now she's saying she doesn't have to pay me anyways bc I never fulfilled my half of the agreement by paying rent. However the actual signed lease says if she was unable to give possession then I get a refund of everything paid. \n\nSo do I have any legal standing here? I didn't pay rent but she still won't provide the keys or the proof that she owns the house. After being flagged a scam I wasnt sending any more money until she proved she owned it. ","title":"Deposit question and then some (very long story)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542163020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wvws2\/family_court_question\/","id":"9wvws2","body":"Legitimately for a friend and my own curiosity:\nSo I did look in the search and tried to google and couldn't find this particular question or how to word it if there is an answer. In Ontario, Canada.\n In a nutshell, can a judge (I mean he did but besides that) tell an applicant that the respondent can and will attend the Doctors appointment to tell the respondent if she can or cannot use a breast pump? This would be a breach of privacy\/confidentiality?\n\nAnd even if she could, would the judge ordering it not be in violation of human rights (ordering her to do something with her body that she doesn't want to do). \n\nFor those wondering there are other options such as formula but it gets a bit mess as all these things do so I won't go into details but because of birth complications they would rather stay on breast milk if they can.","title":"Family court question","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445345699,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3phi9c\/help_issue_with_furniture\/","id":"3phi9c","body":"Hi Reddit,\n\n**Location:** Ontario, Canada\n\nHoping for some advice in dealing with this frustrating situation.  In Dec 2013 I ordered a couch from a independent furniture store.  It was delivered in March 2013 and within a few days we began having issues as listed below:\n\n**Issue 1**: Back pillow had a clearly visible seam across the middle of the pillow\n\n**Action**: Returned to manufacturer for repair - returned after 2 months\n\n**Issue 2**: Sectional kept disconnecting and scratched our floor\n\n**Action #1**: Retailer installed a 2nd connector to sectional - This did not resolve the issue\n\n**Action #2**: Returned to manufacturer to install a new connector\n\n**Issue 3**: Seat cushions were not holding their shape\n\n**Action**: Returned to manufacturer where cushions repaired\n\n**Issue 4**: Rear seat pillows began to sag and had visible bulges (caused by the retailer wrapping the pillows with some material during its 2nd return for repair)\n\n**Action**: Issue remains unresolved after 3rd return of couch to the manufacturer\n\nAfter 6+ months of repairs we still have a serious issue unresolved. I have not received a response from the manufacturer other than to be told that the retailer had picked up my couch. We have asked for compensation for the damage to our floor, and to return the couch for a refund, but received this e-mail from the retailer's owner:\n\n>I have inspected your couch and find it to be in excellent condition . Brentwood has done all repairs as necessary and in accordance to they\u2019re  Warranty. *Retailer* and *Manufacturer* have fulfilled their obligations under our contract. Please call the office to book a delivery as soon as possible. If the merchandise is not delivered  by October 31 2015 a $100 storage fee will be charged and every 30 days there after.  As per our contract\u2019  there will be no refunds or exchanges or rebates.\n\nWe still have one issue that hasn't been addressed and yet I am now being threatened with an arbitrary \"storage\" fee that has never been brought up or listed on their sales invoice (the only document we ever signed).\n\nI will be reaching out to the Better Business Bureau (neither company has BBB accreditation), and Ontario's Consumer Affairs department.  \n\nWhat else can I do?  Is this worth going to small claims court for?\n\nTLDR; Couch repaired 3 times in ~2 years, still not fixed, retailer threatening storage fees and won't compensate or refund us.","title":"Help: Issue with Furniture","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552589111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b142n0\/pa_parents_of_fl_son_20_years_old_who_is_using\/","id":"b142n0","body":"My husband believes our son can save money by using our car while he works and goes to school in Florida and not have to pay exorbitant prices for insurance. He has lived in Florida since August 2018 and has a lease but continues to use a PA license and registration in our names. \n\nRecently he admitted that two female friends think it\u2019s funny to open the sunroof and stand up in the rear seat with their upper halves out the roof while going through side streets. \n\nI am livid and apart from explaining all the terrible things that could happen to the girls\/him\/police involvement - I now want to take him OFF our liability and put the car solely in his name because I fear that his lackadaisical approach to safe driving would end up with us losing our home, life savings, and possibly destroy our potential to retire. \n\nMy son isn\u2019t a drinker, doesn\u2019t do drugs, but he is a friend-pleaser who doesn\u2019t enforce safe behavior in his friend group (there was a party at his apartment recently with underage drinkers. We are also on his lease). He\u2019s young, I know, but this situation scares the life out of me. ","title":"(PA) Parents of (FL) son (20 years old) who is using OUR (PA) registered\/insured car and making bad decisions","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1444676173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ohhfh\/i_am_making_an_entertainment_news_website_is\/","id":"3ohhfh","body":"I will be just putting their ratings on my website and quoting what they are saying while linking my content back to their review page. Does it come under fair use? \n\nI am from India, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow. ","title":"I am making an entertainment news website, is quoting critics' rating from websites like Metacritic illegal even if I put a link back to the website?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568475384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d46pyv\/private_instagram_account_and_some_random_mother\/","id":"d46pyv","body":"I have a private Instagram account. Only my first name is visible. My last name is not listed and it\u2019s for friends and family only. I was in a group chat with some friends and a few extras for added into it and turns out I was accidentally conversing with a 10 year old. Nothing sexual or inappropriate was discussed but the mother found out and took over her account and messaged me saying the police were being called and I was going to be punished. I explained I didn\u2019t know she was 10. Can the police really do anything when I apologized in the group chat and to her mom in another message that I didn\u2019t know she was 10? Other people in the group chat left as well when they found out. Also since my full name isn\u2019t listed nor my location would the police even care to bother to investigate this? I\u2019m from New Jersey USA.","title":"Private Instagram account and some random mother calling police","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443918783,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nehts\/renter_stole_my_daughters_jewels_and_clothes\/","id":"3nehts","body":"While I was on a trip, my daughter came to my house to look for missing jewelry and clothes that had gone missing and found some of the missing items in a room  that a woman rents from me. The woman would have had to have gone through storage boxes that my daughter was keeping in my garage. It's obvious the renter had stolen them. We are hesitant to call the police as my daughter went into her room and went through her stuff to find the missing items.  The renter is also a months behind in rent and has a questionable boyfriend.  I am asking if we should call the cops? Or is there a potential that my daughter could be arrested? Or should we confront the renter ourselves? We live in Southern California.\n\n*Resolved: Thanks everyone for the input, we are going to go with cld8's suggestion. Thanks again, this is a fast responding and well managed subreddit. ","title":"Renter stole my daughters jewels and clothes.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569937248,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbtjyx\/possible_repercussions_possible_fraud\/","id":"dbtjyx","body":"Keeping this vague, but should be able to explain:\n\nMy vehicle was hit by someone and damaged while it was parked, they were not driving an automobile. We did not see it, and were not able to resolve it at the moment, due to multiple reasons, and we were travelling. We've been in contact with this person (they left a note), and they would like to say this: that we were at their house, and they hit the vehicle with their lawnmower, thereby allowing them to file a claim with their Homeowner's Insurance. Neither of these things are strictly true. I personally do not care how it is resolved, as long as we don't pay anything out of pocket, and our insurance is not affected. \n\nMy questions are this:\n\nPreviously when we've been in any accident\/fender bender, eventually the offending party's insurance company calls to confirm the details of what happened. Does this also happen with a homeowner's claim such as this? I do not care if the offending individual files this against their homeowners, but I do not want to tell the \"story\" on record that they hit us with a lawnmower.\n\nLet's say we do go along with this for whatever reason, what would be some potential ramifications of doing so? \n\n​\n\nI will try to answer any questions that may arise, but again, I intend to keep this vague. We are located in the southern USA, and were outside our state of residence at the time of the incident.","title":"Possible Repercussions \/ Possible Fraud ??","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540091216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q0brd\/my_employer_wont_pay_for_daily_commute_in_company\/","id":"9q0brd","body":"So I recently started this job for a contractor in the oil and gas industry. When I was hired I was told it would be 12 hour shifts and that we would meet at the office and drive from the office to the well site in company trucks. I was told it would be 6am to 6 pm shifts, but on my first day they told me to be at the office at 4:30 am. The well site was about an hour away so we took the company truck to the site getting there about 5:30 am. I was informed I had to wait around until 6am before I would be payed.  Should I be getting payed from the time I arrive at the office at 4:30am, or the well site at 5:30 am, or at 6:00 am when \u201cwork starts\u201d?","title":"My employer won\u2019t pay for daily commute in company car.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570681172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfsqee\/new_job_bait_and_switched_me_with_benefits_said_i\/","id":"dfsqee","body":"I've been working for a new company for about a month. When I was hired I applied and interviewed with Company A. I had a second interview where they said I was hired. I asked about rates and benefits and hours. They told me the rate and said it was 9-5 M-F and said \"we offer great health benefits and retirement for our full time employees!\" I said great sign me up. They had me go in the next day to meet with HR and get all my paperwork filled out. When I got there I went down the hall to a door with Company B's name written on it. The HR guy there explained that the new hires are temps for a short period and become fulltime after their trial period ends. It's fairly common in my industry to have a trail period and it's typically 3 to 6 months so I accepted. But I found out later that day that this \"temp company\" Company B, hires only for Company A. Their whole company is that guy in Company A's building in that one office. The only other employees are the temps.\n\nToday, I found out that not only are all the lower level people still temps, but some of them have worked there for 8 years. From what I understand only the upper management positions are \"full time.\" Even though I work 40 to 55 hours a week. \n\nMy question is are they with in their rights to not give us benefits?","title":"New job bait and switched me with benefits. Said I would just be a temp for a \"trail period\" I just found out 9 out of 10 people in the company are temps and have been for years. Is this a misclassification?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551477824,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awac39\/is_this_discrimination_apologies_if_wrong_sub\/","id":"awac39","body":"Little bit of background information, I have been suffering from a series of thankfully non-communicable infections since December of last year. I am capable of working, although I occasionally have a cough or wheezing breathing due to said infection compounding with my asthma. Since then, I've noticed the amount of hours I've gotten weekly go on a SHARP decline from 25 down to 15, and now down to 10. When I confronted my manager about it, he said that the hours are cut due to the \"disgusting noises\" I've been making (ie coughing and asthmatic weezing) and not performance. Is this grounds for me to get HR involved, or would it just be easier for me to find another place? ","title":"Is this discrimination? (Apologies if wrong sub)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569613152,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da5en6\/i_just_moved_out_of_my_apartment_and_theyre\/","id":"da5en6","body":"I moved out of my apartment on Sept. 23rd. My complex was purchased by a new company who has been doing renovations since they switched management about 6 months ago. I received an email on Tuesday (the day after move-out), stating that I needed to pay a move-out fee of $90, a carpet cleaning fee of $50, and my final utilities bill. \n\nI went to the complex to return my roommate and I\u2019s keys, and decided to run back to my apartment to make sure I hadn\u2019t left anything behind. When I walked in the door, they were renovating my apartment already and had torn out all of the carpets. I went to the front office and told them that I was not going to pay to clean non-existent carpets. They insist that I agreed to pay that fee in my lease, and it doesn\u2019t matter whether there is carpet or not. This makes zero sense to me, what can I do?","title":"I just moved out of my apartment, and they\u2019re trying to charge me a $50 carpet cleaning fee, but after move-out, I went to check on the apartment and they had torn out the carpets entirely.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568608046,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4vpyh\/michigan_my_friend_needs_help_evicting_a_roommate\/","id":"d4vpyh","body":"Today when my friend got home, the metal doorknob to her bedroom was completely shredded by her roommate trying to get into her room. The roommate has lived there for about 3 months, and has only paid for $200 the entire time she has lived there. The roommate is not on the lease, and is not a sub tenant. The most that they have is a verbal agreement. So she has not paid rent, she is damaging the property, and my friend does not feel safe. \n\nHow quickly can we get the roommate off the property? What needs to happen in order to get her out as quickly as possible? I\u2019m trying to find things online, but I feel like her residency is in such a grey area of being a tenant or not and that is making my search difficult.","title":"Michigan - My friend needs help evicting a roommate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553938764,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b79egp\/if_apartment_surety_did_not_send_itemized_report\/","id":"b79egp","body":"Sorry for another post but I\u2019m still looking for help with this issue.. \n\nAddress was left with apartment office staff upon handing over keys, leasing office declined my request for a unit walkthrough and was told that manager would walk through and send itemized report for any damages found. Received letter from collections 48 days after move out, disputed debt with letter to collections requesting timestamped photos and post dated evidence that itemized report was sent out by surety per NRS 118a.242. Over 100 days after move out collections sent copy of lease and photos of damage as submitted to them by surety. Does NRS 118a.242 help us here at all or does them sending us to collections without an itemized report not matter in this case because we paid for surety instead of security bond? I\u2019m not trying to get any money back I\u2019m just trying to avoid these bogus charges that they\u2019ve sent us to collections for. Someone told me I should negotiate a pay off with collections, is that my best option? This has not yet been reported onto our credit yet so I am unsure how to proceed. \n\nAny help or advice would be so greatly appreciated!\n\n(In case you are interested in why I am not keen on paying for this damage: We are being charged for 1 damaged door that we already paid for in person via money order prior to vacating, another door that was in the condition they are charging us for upon our arrival which I have photo of the day we moved in and they are also  charging us to replace entire fridge which I foolishly have no photos of as this as our first apartments and it looked perfectly fine when we left.)","title":"If apartment surety did not send itemized report of damages within 30 days and instead sent debt to collections does NRS 118a.242 help my situation? - Las Vegas","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541025555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t3qr6\/evicted_with_no_written_notice_in_philadelphia\/","id":"9t3qr6","body":"I was renting a room in Philadelphia, without a lease, for a bit less than a year, and my items have been removed with no written warning whatsoever. I receive mail here, if that\u2019s important. The landlord had mentioned approx. 30 days in advance that they wanted to close this property, but nothing was put into writing. The landlord removed furnishings at the beginning of the week, including beds, and today, my items were on the street. (I was unable to witness people removing my items, but a family member did)\n\n\nI think the landlord was violating some bits of *Partners for Good Housing*, which is some booklet on landlord\/tenant responsibilities I literally just learned about, and was never provided.\nIs this legal? What do I do?","title":"Evicted with no written notice in Philadelphia","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551836665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axt58z\/tx_landlords_maintenance_man_entered_locked\/","id":"axt58z","body":"Background: My rent was due Sunday 3\/3\/2019. I notified the landlord on 3\/1\/2019 that the rent will be late, explained why. They agreed and understood.\n\nMy girlfriend was home alone at 6:08pm on 3\/5\/2019. She heard a knock at the door, saw it was the maintenance guy she yells \"one minute\" and starts getting dressed. He knocks again and immediately after unlocks our door and walks in. My girlfriend is wearing underwear and trying to put on a robe. My girlfriend yells \"Hey what the fuck get out of my house\". He drops the papers notifying us of late rent on the floor and my girlfriend starts pushing him out, when he's out of the place he yells \"well I knocked\" and he walks away.\n\nWe were not given any notice whatsoever that this would happen, on the phone with the actual landlord I was told they would leave a notice clipped outside my door (yesterday). I don't remember my lease agreement stating that they can do this, especially after being advised to wait for her to answer the door. I am trying to obtain a copy of the lease but they're making this difficult (not on website and corporate office couldn't provide one). I called their corporate office and explained the issue, she asked if I had contacted an attorney about this(weird?), I said no. She told me that someone would be in touch with me in less than 72 hours about this.\n\nI also had my GF call 311 and report that this happened to them. \n\nI should also add that the apartment complex offices and maintenance team close at 6pm.\n\nIs this illegal? Can they put something in the lease to allow a random maintenance guy to enter without my permission, when there is no emergency reason?","title":"[TX] Landlords maintenance man entered locked apartment without permission, saw my girlfriend undressed","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539640609,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oha8c\/crazy_school_what_can_they_actually_do\/","id":"9oha8c","body":"Start off with, this is for sure a throwaway, and yes, I am in high school. The school is crap, with corrupt administration who abuse their power, and teachers who can't teach for crap. Today, I came up with a funny idea to make an account on Instagram that would allow people to write in a problem, and I'd post what they say. My friends wrote in some funny stuff, including that some teachers were funny and actually cool people, and including \"memes\" the teachers had created. Other friends decided to write in that the Vice Principal was a \u201cc*nt\u201d (she is and gives out suspensions for the dumbest crap to so many people), or to say that certain teachers should \"stop existing\". Later, on the new account, the Principal used her business Instagram account to say that she found the posts offensive and that she wants to talk. I said \"nah. free speech. I'm just telling the world what the students think!!\". I deleted ALL the posts, screenshotted her message to me, and posted that saying \"Ok, I'm done, looks like someone can't take criticism.\" And then later posted that people should write in constructive criticism instead of saying the \u201cVP is a c*nt\u201d. Obviously, this was all meant as a joke between friends, and I never imagined a Principal would be so unprofessional as to contact a student and ask to talk over social media; I find that rather unprofessional as I wasn't bullying students. It gets much worse. She starts calling people down who were liking the photos, and one of them was my friend. He said he assumes its someone in the friend group, but honestly has no idea, and they called him a liar. They then said that they want to file a lawsuit if there's more posts calling teachers \"c*nts\", before telling him he's not to tell anyone he was spoken to or that this is their intention. My question here is, does the administration of the school, board, or them personally have ANY GROUNDS AT ALL to file a lawsuit over being called a mean name on social media? Like just because I'm under 18, doesn't mean I don't have the right to express my feelings, even if I did personally agree with the friend. I used my own cellular data for this too. I'm well aware that they most likely wouldn't receive permission to issue suspensions or any punishment for expressing my feelings online, but I'm wondering if they really do have grounds for a lawsuit over being called a rude name? I mean... people get called rude names every day... that's high school. \n\nReposted cause mod didn\u2019t like me quoting language used ;-;","title":"Crazy school; what can they actually do?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571781674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlpa69\/company_i_no_longer_work_for_sent_a_letter_saying\/","id":"dlpa69","body":"Basically as the title says. I had a summer internship that ended Aug 31. Today I got a letter in the mail that they payed me for 10 hours that I didn\u2019t work and to send the payment ($230) to an address. I don\u2019t recognize the name of the person and there is no phone number or email that I can contact, but it is on he company letterhead. In my mind this isn\u2019t enough information for me to send a check. There\u2019s no time card, no proof that my time card and hours worked were unequal, etc. The only thing that I can think happened was that I had to project my hours for the last week that I worked and I got to go home on Thursday instead of Friday because I turned in my project. My manager said he would correct my time card since it would be locked for me until Monday (they do this every week, not sure why). \nIf he didn\u2019t correct it then yeah I did get paid a day more than I worked, but I don\u2019t normally work 10 hour days, I don\u2019t have any proof that the time card wasn\u2019t adjusted, and in general am annoyed enough with the company (my team was 12 people and one person a month has left since I started there in May) that I\u2019d never consider working full time anyway. \n\nDo I really need to send a check because I got a letter saying \u201cwe request that you repay this amount\u201d? What can they do if I don\u2019t? I\u2019m back in college and don\u2019t really have $230 to spare because someone messed up. \n\nThanks.","title":"Company I no longer work for sent a letter saying they paid me for more hours than I worked and to send a check to an address.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1412455198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2iay61\/web_software_license\/","id":"2iay61","body":"In March 2006 I purchased some software to run on a hobby web site of mine. At the time this company offered two different packages: the first with a yearly license that offered the current product and one year worth of free upgrades and they also had a perpetual license for more money which I purchased that offered \"access to all future versions\". Fast forward to now and they are in the process of developing a new version of the software but intend to deny anyone with my license access for a myriad of reasons including the license no longer being compatible because they have made changes to the license model, they have rewritten the software from the ground up, and they no longer want to support our license because it adds complications to their back end and we only make up <4% of their current customers.\n\nThe license is fairly simple and only takes up about 2.5 pages in Word with the default font and size. Here are the sections that seem to be the most relevant:\n\n> **TERM**\n\n> [Software Name] is offered under yearly and lifetime licensing. Both license terms feature technical support and service plus access to upgrades to the software as they are available. In the event a one year license expires without being renewed, the software will remain completely functional but will be unsupported and no access to upgrades will be made available. \n\n---\n\n>**SCOPE OF GRANT**\n\n>*You may:* \n\n>* customize the Software's design and operation to suit the internal needs of your web site except to the extent not permitted in this Agreement\n\n>* produce and distribute modification instructions, Skin packs, or Language packs provided that they contain notification that the Skin and Language packs were exported from and originally created by [Software Name] and\/or [Company Initials]. The modifications instructions you personally create are not owned by [Company Initials] so long as they contain no proprietary coding from [Software Name].\n\n>* create applications which interface with the operation of the Software provided said application is an original work\n\n>*You may not:* \n\n>* permit other individuals to use the Software except under the terms listed above\nreverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works based on the Software for distribution or usage outside your web site\n\n>* use the Software in such as way as to condone or encourage terrorism, promote or provide pirated Software, or any other form of illegal or damaging activity\n\n>* modify and\/or remove any copyright notices or labels on the Software on each page (unless copyright output removal license is purchased) and in the header of each script source file\n\n>* distribute the Software\n\n>* distribute individual copies of files, libraries, or other programming material in the Software package\n\n>* distribute or modify proprietary graphics, HTML, or CSS packaged with the Software for use in Software applications other than [Software Name] or web sites without written permission from [Company Initials]\n\n>* modify the software to function in more than instance or location (URL, domain, subdomain, etc.) from a single set of source program files unless each location is separately licensed\n\n---\n\n>**TERMINATION**\n\n>This Agreement will terminate automatically upon failure to comply with the limitations described herein or on written notice from an authorized representative of [Company Initials]. On termination, you must destroy all copies of the Software within 48 hours. Termination of the license due to noncompliance will not result in any refunds of license fees. \n\nThis is the license that was in place when I purchased the software in 2006.\n\nThere doesn't seem to be anything here that would limit the license if they are releasing a newer version of the software bearing the same name that I purchased a lifetime upgrade license for. I have not violated any portions that have been laid out in the license agreement.\n\nTo be completely fair they are offering what they feel is a fair compromise but I don't feel that I should be required to take it if I want to continue using new versions of the software. They are offering a free upgrade to the new license and enough credit to cover two years (using the current pricing) under the new license (they no longer offer a lifetime of upgrades solution). There is no guarantee the pricing structure will be the same in a year and I specifically paid extra years ago to not have to worry about this.\n\nWhen I bring it up on the company forums and claimed that I think what they're doing is unethical at best the CEO claimed that I might have an \"expectations issue\". They only options they are willing to give at this time are the solution offered above or continue using our soon to be outdated version which they will support with security upgrades for up to two years.\n\nAm I completely out of line like the company suggests or should they be required to give the software to me under the license?\n\nMy Location: Illinois\n\nCompany Location: Vriginia","title":"Web Software License","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507866418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7629lm\/wrongful_termination_tx\/","id":"7629lm","body":"Hi!\n\nSorry about the wall of text. I was fired today. I was told I was fired for sending this email. \n\nI sent this email to one of the co owners of the company after he personally came to me and asked what was wrong. I then emailed him my issues and asked for some advice. Here the email:\n\n\u201cFirst, before you say or think anything, I want you to know that I have a hard time typing this email. I've been trying to type this for a while, but I find it very hard to stay awake to stay focused and finish it when I get home from work. I also couldn\u2019t work up the courage to reach out to you, especially a second time. Ive typed this email multiple times now because its hard to keep things short while trying to explain everything, I personally hate the loss of any data because data is everything. But at this point, I'm willing to cut a lot of information out because my situation just gets worse the longer I wait.  Trust me, I hate to bother you more than you hate to be bothered by me. I'm not trying to ask you to do anything for me, that is entirely up to you. I'm really asking for your advice here. The way I see it, you\u2019re one of the only people that CAN be reached out to because, even though you are big in your company, you tend not to get tied up with the Operations side of things too much. I know you\u2019re busy, which is why I'm emailing you something that you can read and think about at your own pace. There's really no fast way to explain this and I truly apologize. \n\t\n\tSo first off, my paycheck was cut in half, plain and simple. While I was unhappy the day I was switched to salary, I understand the company has a right to control how Im paid and how much I get paid. I love my job too much to have made a big deal about it when I signed the paper. In that position, you just accept your fate and hope that one day things will get better or level out\u2026but so far it hasn\u2019t, it only gets worse. Its rather odd why I still have this strange hope that I\u2019ve always had very early on. Theres a very clear downward trend thats been happening ever since I started and I still hope things get better every single day. It is sad, but Ive finally almost accepted that it will never get better until I try to do something about it. \n\n\tI was going to go on and on about how I almost cannot afford anything anymore because of this change. But then I realized that I am not alone with this issue, at all. I also realized that you are also no stranger to this, and I would think it would be insulting for me to complain to you about being borderline poor and insulting to all the other employees at ____ with this same issue. So Im going to spare you that conversation. While being borderline poor is an issue, I like to think of solutions to help with this instead of saying \u201cWoe is me\u201d everyday like ____ does. I took it upon myself to try to look for a second job thats part-time to try to get extra income. I don\u2019t like it, but you have to do what you have to do. The issue here is that my solution won\u2019t work when I literally have to be at ____ all day, every day. I already get up at 3:30-3:50AM so I can get to work on time. I already get home at 6:30-7:00PM. That is only 8.5 hours of being at home- that isn\u2019t even an adequate amount of time to sleep, eat, and shower. I also don\u2019t eat much at ____ because any time I take a lunch, the Warehouse cannot be properly maintained. I am trying my best to create a decent life\/work balance, but it seems impossible at this point. In order to catch up to what I was making, I either have to burn myself out working the remaining 8.5 hours I have during the week days or I work on the weekend, the ONLY time I ever have to get real rest, see family, and take care of normal life errands since I have no time to do during the week. If this is what I have to result to, I just ask myself, \u201cWhat if the point of my life when this is my life?\u201d.\n\n\tNot only is that an issue, another is that Im simply not being paid enough to work this many hours non-stop. They based my salary off a 40-hour work week for the year, yet I am working anything but 40 or under. In fact, I have never worked a 40 hour work week in my entire ____ career to date, with the exception of Holidays and illness. I would understand completely if I had to work alot of hours every now and then to get something done, but everyday? Im almost working for free at this point. I am making less than I did than when I first started here. I am making less than my own employee as of right now. ____ once said that your guys will make more than you sometimes, but he was referring to media techs who make significantly more than warehouse helpers. I am the most important manager, not including regional managers, considering any work that happens at _____ has to go through me and I am making less than 14 dollars an hour with overtime. ____ keeps telling me to switch over to Media because its less stress and more money. He specially made a point to me that this company offers absolutely no incentive to become a manager, which is the complete opposite of how it should be.\n\t\n\tAnother thing I notice is that Im the only manager that has the most work, stays the most hours, has the most responsibility\/pressure, has the least help, and gets paid the least. Not to mention, I have to work in the extreme heat and cold weather. They split up the Regional position into 3 people, lessening the work load for others. They hired 2 extra managers AND an assistant for the wire team, greatly reducing the work load They pull 2 others  on as secondary managers, splitting the load for ____. There are two extra assistants in accounting now. Even ____ is now going to be full time for you. But for me to get a second helper in the warehouse, I had to sell my soul, and even that is not enough help for me. While everyone else comes in later, they leave early. I come in at dark, and leave nearly at sunset. I see everyone else taking vacations all the time, Im not allowed to take time off. Im not even allowed to get sick with Pneumonia without getting threatened to be fired. In my time of working at ____, my hours have increased by about 25%, my duties have tripled, price of living has risen, and my income has plummeted. I drive up in a Kia Soul, everyone else drives up in BMWs, Lexus\u2019, and luxury Ford trucks. Everyone else has kid(s) that they support, while I don\u2019t and could never imagine a future where I could afford even one kid in a million years if I were to stay working at ____, not to mention, I would not have time to raise the child either. \n\n\tThere is me, then there are new-hire sales employees that immediately spend more time buying goods and services through the Employee Purchase Program for their new house than the time they spend doing their actual job. I do realize that Sales bring in revenue, so they get paid invested in more than operations. But what about the $260,000 I am going to be saving in a years time by reducing the Non-Inventory Item usage in half? Thats enough to hire 5 people at $52,000 a year! Even the new guy, who works for the CEO, thought it was ridiculous that Im on salary and have to wait until 3PM to get the tickets to pull from. He knows nothing about my issues, but Im glad to see someone being upset for me from only 1 issue. \n\n\tIve tried to talk to My boss about this. I brought him into the training room, closed the door, and tried to tell him about issues Im having here. He gave me minimal advice, and cut me off because he was so worried about going home because it was 4 PM. I dont have to tell you that I think doesn\u2019t care that much about me or the company, because he already told me he doesn\u2019t straight to my face. Its sad that he gets rewarded, while I suffer and I have an actual care about this company and my job. Let me be very clear, I like my boss a lot. But when it comes to work concerns, he\u2019s not always the best person to go to. Its one thing to ask him how to train me how to maintain the electric forklift, but its a completely different thing to go to him about being overworked and underpaid. \n\n\tSo this is why Im coming to you. Ive tried My boss. Ive tried nee trainer. Ive tried HR. Im worried to go to xxxx when he\u2019s my boss\u2019s boss. Im worried to go to mmmm because he already questions me why I need 2 people in the warehouse for some reason, and im tired of being questioned about very obvious things. Im tired of being questioned like Im a terrible employee, because Im definitely not. Im honest, trustworthy, hard working, and actually care. Im the LAST person to be questioning. \n\nI have some possible solutions for my predicament:\nI only work 40 hours, with occasional overtime\nI get switched back to Hourly\nMy salary gets raised to a proper amount, meaning its created based off how many hours I ACTUALLY work, not by how many people think I work. \nI get to hire an assistant, supervisor\/co-manager. Plus have my hours cut to 40\/week. \nI get switched over to a new position. \n\n\n\tIm just lost here. I don\u2019t know why Im being treated this way. I felt like I was doing so well because I was getting raises and praise from many people, and then it was all taken away. I also don\u2019t understand why inventory\/the warehouse is the least supported department of the company. I don\u2019t know why I have to feel like I have to quit the job I love and enjoy why other people dislike their job and have better working conditions than me.\n\n\tLike I keep on saying to you, I love my job and I love working here. Id rather have my issues fixed than to have to switch over to a new position or leave the company. This may not be the most appropriate comparison, but If someone where to take their own life, I would hope someone would convince them that taking your life is a permanent solution for a temporary problem. It is so exhausting going to work everyday and putting on this fake personality to cover up how miserable I am\n\n\t Im curious to hear what you think about all of this and let know what you think whenever is good for you. But please keep this on the down low. Please forgive me for my complaints. Just know I am eternally grateful what you do for me and the company \n\n\nThank you for your time\u201d\n\nI sent the email to the guy who asked what was wrong and he forwarded it to the CEO to see what our options were. I was fired today. \n\nIs this considered retaliation? In a way, I was complain about how everyone else is treated better than I am and then get fired for it. \n\nIt\u2019s probably not retaliation, but might as well check. \n\nThank y\u2019all ","title":"Wrongful termination TX","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539976253,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pmxgf\/my_public_defender_wants_me_to_plead_guilty\/","id":"9pmxgf","body":"So back in July, I was arrested for Criminal Trespasaing and Simppe battery under the Family Violence Act in Georgia. The victim, my girlfriend, got the no contact order dropped and filed a petition of non prosecution (which basically means she wishes for charges not to be pressed and for them to not prosecute). \n\nIn Georgia, the state automatically picks up any family violence charges, so I know her filing won't necessarily mean it will get dismissed or dropped. I have arraignment on Novemeber 5th, and my public defender told me they will decide then, based on her petition, whether to continue the case or not. If they do continue it, he wants me to enter a guilty plea. Is this the smartest thing to do? Should I plead no contest instead? Thanks in advance.\n\n","title":"My public defender wants me to plead guilty.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568811482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5xeol\/please_help_water_fiasco\/","id":"d5xeol","body":"Hi, I recently kicked my ex out of my home. The water bill was under his name, and about a week after doing so I submitted an online request for water to be switched to my name and it got denied, I called the city and they told me that  there was an outstanding balance of 150$ which is why my service request got denied. (They did not warn of shut off because I think ex terminated account before I could even start my own so it didn\u2019t flag in their system as unpaid) water was shut off, (wasn\u2019t home when they did it) and my mother has a water key and was able to turn back on, there was no paper notice on the thing, or padlocks. so my mother went to the city for me and I gave her the money and she paid off the balance and handed them my new lease while I was at work and I was told everything was good to go. this was a month ago, and I went to sign up for online billing today when it said I needed a account number from my paper bill when I realized I still hadn\u2019t gotten a paper bill, so I called today and they still don\u2019t have me in the system! I will admit I totally did not tell the truth when they asked me if water was shut off at any time , I told them no and that I will be down there to pay for the month of August and start service. I guess I got scared because I\u2019ve never done anything like this. How much trouble could I get In?! And can they see when the meter shuts on and off??? Please help","title":"Please help, Water fiasco","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508271707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/771cd3\/oh_landlord_is_charging_for_complete_buff_and\/","id":"771cd3","body":"Our landlord is charging us almost $8,000 for a complete buff and coat of the hardwood floors in our house. We have lived there for two years and have done no where near enough damage for the floors that we should be charged this full amount. We have photos of the floor before we moved in that show that the floor was just as shitty as when we moved out. \n\nI'm going to meet with our student legal aid to dispute this with our landlord. I've never done this before what do I need to do to prepare?","title":"[OH] Landlord is charging for complete buff and coat of floors when we did not do damage to floors.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503262591,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uy92c\/canada_on_creating_a_receipt_for_tenants_and_tax\/","id":"6uy92c","body":"Hi r\/legal advice,\n\nI very recently started renting my own apartment with my girlfriend, it's a nice place and 2 of our friends asked to move in with us. They have been listed as occupants of the apartment but not tenants. As such, they pay me their monthly rent (not the same amount as mine) and I pay the landlord (a large company).\n\nThey have asked me to produce a receipt each month for their rent, I believe this is totally reasonable. I have read up on the law and have made a proper receipt template for each month. Now, I am concerned about the implications of the following:\n\nThey want this to claim on their taxes, I am not sure how this would work as I am not a company. I have been told this will cause me to be forced to claim rental income. I just am unsure about the tax situation. Am I putting myself at any legal risk?\n\nBe wary, I am probably being overly concerned.\n\nThank you!","title":"[Canada, ON] Creating a receipt for tenants and tax implications","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571786553,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlqfrg\/my_ex_employer_has_not_paid_me_for_32_hours_of\/","id":"dlqfrg","body":"I have access to free student legal services through my school. I want to send a text telling my ex employer that I\u2019m meeting with lawyers to discuss this issue(which I actually am) my only hesitation is that if I do then they will be prepared and possibly destroy evidence that I need to be paid for 32 hours (unlikely I know) but I\u2019m just paranoid and need to be safe. They have been ignoring all my texts regarding my missing pay. So yeah, should I send the text about lawyers or just wait until I meet with the lawyers??","title":"My ex employer has not paid me for 32 hours of work and is ignoring my texts. Should I tell them that I am getting lawyers involved? Or stay silent and then surprise them with lawyers?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570653440,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfmzwv\/wa_state_renters_law_bounced_payment_fees\/","id":"dfmzwv","body":"Hi, I started renting from Windermere Property Management in August. They make us pay through a website that says it normally takes up to 5 days to process payments. I got a notice 7 days later that said my payment bounced and was returned to my account. They told me I had 48 hours to give them a cashiers check for $890 (normal rent plus $15 late fee). If not received by then, in addition to applicable late fees, I will also incur an additional $35 administrative fee to serve another notice to cure this delinquency. This seemed wrong and unfair as we have to spend up to 7 days just waiting for the website to confirm it, and in that time racking up hundred dollar interest fees. I paid the $890 within the on time and the accrued interest showed up on our portal account. I looked up WA renters law and it said the landlord must send the tenant a notice of dishonor, and wait 15 days before imposing the fee. Because I paid on time after receiving notice, am I still being changed? Is this ok even though I wasn\u2019t given notice until 7 days later? Thank you!","title":"WA State Renters Law (Bounced Payment Fees)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540355033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qwjiw\/twitter_account_using_stolen_cards_to_order_pizza\/","id":"9qwjiw","body":"I don\u2019t know where else to post this, but while I was at work I received three different emails for dominos receipts in Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia. Now I know I didn\u2019t order any pizza, but I decided to contact all of the people in the orders. After some not-so-nice words exchanged between us, they pointed me to a user on twitter. In exchange for cashapp or Venmo payments he\u2019s using stolen account and cards to order pizza. I have his handle but nothing else to go on, what should I do?","title":"Twitter account using stolen cards to order pizza for Cashapp payments","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553055051,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b37fyo\/can_my_younger_sister_12_shared_a_nude_of_another\/","id":"b37fyo","body":"I\u2019m sorry for this controversial topic. My heart is shattered and I don\u2019t know what else to do. \n\nMy sister (12) had been exchanging naked pictures on Snapchat with a boy (12) in her class. He asked her to send some, which she did, and he sent them back to her. I don\u2019t know why she agreed to this, she told us she felt pressured when he asked, but here\u2019s where she really fucked up. Although he didn\u2019t screenshot any of her pictures, she screen-recorded a video of his genitals. She told a friend about it, who asked to see the video, and she sent it to her through Snapchat. My sister claims she didn\u2019t send the video to anyone else, and the friend didn\u2019t screen-record the video, but other kids at school were saying that my sister sent it to them. My sister adamantly claims she only sent it to the one friend. I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s lying, my family doesn\u2019t know what to believe at this point. The school administration at their school found out about the video - they can\u2019t tell us how because it\u2019s an ongoing criminal investigation. The police were called to the school to investigate and they basically said if it was found that my sister had spread this video around, she was going to be criminally charged with distribution of CP and faces possible jail time. They told this to my mom as well. My sister also told police she didn\u2019t send it to anyone, even though she HAD sent it to her friend, essentially lying to the police because she was scared and put on the spot, but it\u2019s very unclear how the entire school found out about the video as everyone involved claims they didn\u2019t spread it. The police are investigating and said they might have to go into Snapchat\u2019s records to see where the video went. Either way, even if she only sent it to the one friend, she\u2019s still at fault...\n\nAt this point my mom is in shambles, scrambling to find an attorney. She\u2019s wracked with guilt that all of this happened under her radar. Our laws in Canada are extremely strict about distributing nudes, and I\u2019m so angry at her because I know 100% what my sister did was extremely fucked up and could have ruined this boy\u2019s life. At the same time, she\u2019s my little sister, and now my family is terrified that she\u2019s going to be criminally charged. She\u2019s so young and didn\u2019t even understand the consequences of what she was doing. I also worry she could be completely lying about her part in all of this. It\u2019s extremely unclear how the video even spread if my sister and the other girl involved both deny spreading it around, and the school won\u2019t tell us anything. Is she really facing jail time? ","title":"[CAN] My younger sister (12) shared a nude of another boy (12) and is being threatened by police with jail time","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570194585,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd75kl\/what_do_i_need_to_know_to_start_freelance\/","id":"dd75kl","body":"I\u2019m mainly concerned about reporting any income correctly, but if there is anything else I should know, that\u2019d be awesome!","title":"What do I need to know to start freelance tutoring in South Carolina?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569395164,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8zr45\/if_a_couple_who_had_kids_got_divorced_and_the\/","id":"d8zr45","body":"I\u2019m in a situation I don\u2019t wanna be in and I need to know my family and I will be already if I do have to testify in court.","title":"If a couple who had kids got divorced and the father was incarcerated soon afterwards would child support still be paid? (Michigan, USA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555298659,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdbfcu\/pa_car_damaged_on_neglected_pothole\/","id":"bdbfcu","body":"This is in Philadelphia, PA. We were driving our car on a non-state road and and ran over a pothole that was not marked in the middle of the road. A nearby pothole was marked, but this one was not and it was at night. It caused over 1k of damage to our car. We have tried reaching out to and calling different city agencies, but have gotten nowhere. I am exasperated at this point and have no idea where to turn. Any assistance would be appreciated. TIA!","title":"[PA] Car damaged on neglected pothole","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571525234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkazz4\/unpaid_tickets\/","id":"dkazz4","body":"4 years ago I started paying on a car under my name and that of a co-signer. I was and am still without a license because i needed a car with which to practice. One day my father borrowed my car and got a parking ticket for an unpaid meter which he told nobody about and didnt handle. Later while practicing i ran a red light but the ticket for that went to the wrong address so i didnt find out until it was time to pay my tags and they were locked because of the tickets. I had missed the court date because I didnt even know I had a ticket let alone a court date and didnt have any money to pay a ticket until recently. What can I do to remedy this situation? Will I go to jail? I'm more than happy to pay a fine but if I go to jail I will lose my job and that's a huge problem.","title":"Unpaid tickets","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541466022,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ujm3p\/hurricane_harvey_house_repairs_currently_being\/","id":"9ujm3p","body":"A little over a year and a half ago, my family, like many other Houstonions, was victimized by Hurricane Harvey. The damage to our house was significant, but we were fortunate to only sustain 3 feet of water damage in our 2 story home. Our family is safe and well: we were given temporary shelter by good friends, received the gracious support of our community clearing up the initial damage, and we ate home-cooked meals from strangers. That being said, the amount of mental and emotional damage has nonetheless been draining, and while many homes are blessed to be restored, our house is one of the many that are still toiling to regenerate what was originally our own space in the world.\n\nI don't mean to sound dramatic in my writing.  It has taken me sleepless nights to admit we are still in need of help, but this is the emotional reality my family has been experiencing for the past year and a half. While my dearest sympathies extend to those who have lost everything, at the same time I express humble gratitude towards anyone taking the time to consider reading our plight: \n\n======\n\nI am living my parents who are in their mid 60s. From what I can gather, to the best of my knowledge, my parents have hired an independent contractor to assist us with the repairs. The initial reason they chose an independent contractor was so we can freely appropriate our insurance funds to different parts of the house without following the insurance company\u2019s strict guidelines (Our entire fence which I built with my dad over the course of 4\\~5months was destroyed, so we appropriated labor, materials, and money to fix the fence while we worked inside on the garage)\n\nIt has become apparent over time that our contractor is not an honest businessman and is taking advantage of our agreement we made with him. Over the months, he has proven time and time again that he is frauding us of our money for personal gain. He has misappropriated $70,000+ of our insurance funds by sending us faulty invoices, misnumbering spreadsheets and playing charades when confirming budget prices for materials. The contractor ignores our phone calls and does not respond to voice mail, feigns faulty email communication, and willfully distances himself from the subcontractors he hired in the same fashion.  Because of our self-appropriated insurance funds, my parents are apprehensive of any repercussions that might occur as a result of consulting the insurance company on this issue.  \n\nIdeally, we would like to terminate the contract between us and the contractor.  If we force the contract termination without his consent, however, he will place a place a lein on our home claiming we did not see the contract through to the end.  \n\nThe kicker is, this man visibly holsters a gun in his pant leg. While we fully respect the Texas law of the right to open carry, we are \\*NOT\\* a gun-owning family and generally do \\*NOT\\* feel comfortable associating with strangers who wield weapons. Simply put, my suburban parents are intimidated by a person who walks into our house with a weapon on his hip. While they don't want to admit to it to themselves under the faulty reasoning of \"It's the law and it\u2019s his right to bear a weapon\", when I insist that they apply more pressure to pin down the contractor, their response has been, \"We don't want him going off the deep end because he has a gun\u201d.  We don\u2019t harbor retribution as much as we just want him out of our hair so we can finish building our house.  So while we are desperate to tie up loose ends and agree to end the contract, we are equally paralyzed to pursue a corrupt businessman with a very suspect moral compass. Why my parents initially chose to hire a person who displays a weapon in our home eludes me- I can only guess they went with it because they were desperate to 'get a good deal' at the time and didn\u2019t know who this person really was at the time.\n\nFrom my point of view, it is best we resolve this issue to prevent the contractor for having more wiggle room time and we can safely move on with the repairs, which is what I\u2019m here to ask everyone on Reddit.\n\n===== \n\nWhat I\u2019d like to know from r\/legal is if we have any legal advantage in divorcing ourselves from this parasite of a person.  If we don\u2019t do something soon, I am certain he is determined to bleed us for all we\u2019re worth as much as he can.  \n\nThank you for reading.  If there\u2019s anything I can clarify, please ask and I will do my best to answer.","title":"Hurricane Harvey House Repairs - Currently Being Swindled by a Crooked Armed Contractor","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569096945,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7fn3y\/husband_works_for_an_american_company_has_a_work\/","id":"d7fn3y","body":"What it says on the tin. Dunno how to flair this, if I didnt do it right, let me know.","title":"Husband works for an American company, has a work laptop, wants to travel to Canada with me. Can he work while he's there, or should he take PTO? (WA state to Ontario, Canada)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539197137,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n295k\/our_wedding_videographer_is_going_out_of_business\/","id":"9n295k","body":"We hired our Videographer in November of 2017 and have a signed contract showing that date. Our wedding was in April of 2018. The videography crew showed up, everything went fine. \n\nPer the contract we are supposed to receive our wedding video 6-12 weeks after the wedding, so we were expecting to have it by July. It\u2019s now October and after they ignored multiple emails from us, they sent us an email stating that they would be going out of business and can not get us our wedding video for an additional 3-6 months. They are claiming that they are going out of business due to hurricane Irma affecting their revenue. Even though Irma hit 2 months before we ever approached them or signed a contract.\n\nBased on their current estimates they will be at least 6 months late on what is stated in our contract. \n\nDo we have any recourse here? I told my wife we should ask for a partial refund along with the raw footage so we can take it to another company to be edited. She doesn\u2019t want to rock the boat with them. I\u2019m concerned they will eventually go out of business and never send us our video. \n\nThanks ","title":"Our Wedding Videographer is going out of business - they are violating our contract. Do we have any recourse?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555003085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc2ikl\/oh_landlord_is_trying_to_force_me_to_get_rid_of\/","id":"bc2ikl","body":"Hi Reddit,\n\nI've been living in a townhouse style apartment (two story units, side by side with a patio and garage) for 8 months.  When signing I was told verbally that \"technically grills need to be 30 feet from any structure when grilling, but we don't really enforce that\" although it is in the lease.  I'm fine with this as my grill has wheels and there's plenty of space.\n\nI received a notice today that I need to remove my grill from the property, citing a prohibition against \"grills and flammable substances\" hidden in an addendum in tiny text.  The landlord was aware of the grill before now, and is now deciding to enforce rules that I was verbally informed would not be enforced.\n\n I bought a reasonably small but high end grill (2 burner Weber Gas, plus accessories) under the false information, and will now need to sell it for a fraction of what I paid.  They intend to search my garage to make sure that I get rid of it in the next 48 hours.\n\nI've got 7 more months on this lease, and a buyout would require 60 days notice plus two additional months fee (4 months rent total).  Do I have any recourse here?","title":"[OH] Landlord is trying to force me to get rid of my grill","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570075993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcltct\/i_got_stuck_with_all_the_debt_in_divorce_ex_wife\/","id":"dcltct","body":"I got divorced approximately 18 months ago.  I got hosed.  Wiped me out.  I pay $1100 in CS even though I have 50\/50 custody.  I got stuck with $15k in CC debt.  One large CC was $11k by itself.  I had no ability whatsoever to pay that or even makes ends meet with CS, insurance and taxes.  I had to take care if smaller debts first.  I was taken to court by a furniture store for a balance of $3k for furniture that she got to keep, I might add.\n\nI had to pay that first and she was getting called by the large creditor.  She decided to pay $6k and they would remove it from her credit and go after me for the rest.  I told her I had no options to pay on that card yet as I was already being sued for her furniture and that I was not making any deals with her.  She went ahead and paid it anyway without my knowledge or agreement that I would pay her back etc.  I was planning on settling the big card with a lump sum from commission and tax return in the coming months so she\u2019d have to wait.  She paid it so she could buy a car and have better credit.  \n\nNow, 6 months later, she is saying I need to make arrangements to pay her back or she will file a motion.  \n\nYes, the debt was assigned to me in the divorce, but I made no agreement with her whatsoever and she insisted that she needed to pay it so she could get a car.  What grounds does she have to sue me for this without an agreement?\n\nThanks for reading, she has caused me so much stress and anxiety that it felt good to type this out.  Any knowledge or advice is appreciated as well as similar situations.","title":"I got stuck with all the debt in divorce. Ex wife is now threatening to sue me over debt that she paid when I specifically told her not to.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446171769,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qsg0o\/at_fault_accident_insurer_asked_us_to_speak_to\/","id":"3qsg0o","body":"Massachusetts - My wife was in an accident that she was at fault in August.  Geico, our insurer agreed that she was at fault and accepted responsibility.  Today we received a message from Geico that the other insurer had contacted them with \"updated information\" and they (the other insurer) wanted to discuss it with her.  We are willing to talk to our insurer but we are completely unwilling to talk to their insurer and really feel that the matter is settled.  Are we under any obligation to discuss anything with the other party's insurer?  I just want to get an idea before we call Geico back and tell them we aren't doing it.","title":"At fault accident. Insurer asked us to speak to other party's insurer.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554028580,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7medo\/wv_audio_recording_laws\/","id":"b7medo","body":"I work at an establishment in West Virginia that has a video security system in place, I recently found out that the system also monitors audio as well. Is this legal?","title":"WV audio recording laws","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445361860,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pilqq\/car_totaled_ruled_5050_liability_odds_of_settling\/","id":"3pilqq","body":"My fiance was driving north on an undivided highway, in the center of three lanes. A car from oncoming traffic turned left in front of him. At the time of the accident, the light had just turned yellow - it wasn't red until after the accident occurred. Witness behind fiance stated that the other car turned in front of him. Other driver claims she didn't see him, even though the roadway was wide open. No citations were given, and the police report indicates that both parties disregarded the traffic signal.\n\nDiagram: http:\/\/imgur.com\/zk6hm5K\n\nWe were only carrying liability on his car at the time, because it was given to us by a family member, it's paid off, and we intended to trade it in for a new car in a few weeks. That's obviously not going to happen now. We carry full coverage on our other car, and we've learned our lesson about only carrying liability on paid off cars. \n\nWe're both 22 years old, and we feel like the other insurance company is dicking us around because of our age. It took them 15 days to declare liability. Towing and storage fees are over $600, rental car over $500, and now we might have to come out of pocket for half of the repair\/replacement costs. The value of our car at the time of accident was around $3,500.\n\nWe haven't agreed to anything from the other insurance company. We have a meeting with my lawyer in the morning to discuss this. Here are my questions for you: \n\n1. What questions should we be asking our lawyer? \n2. Is small claims our best bet? \n3. Do we need to extract our car from the impound lot immediately?\n4. Is it advisable to contact the witness to get her account of what happened?\n\nOr, should we just take the 50\/50 settlement and learn our lesson about not carrying full coverage?\n\nThanks in advance for any advice you can provide!","title":"Car totaled, ruled 50\/50 liability, odds of settling for higher? (Indiana)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570642066,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfkbwg\/how_does_my_husband_give_me_authorization_to\/","id":"dfkbwg","body":"My mother-in-law recently passed away. She left no will. She and my husband are estranged and haven\u2019t spoken in years. He needs me to handle everything (claiming body, closing out accounts, arranging cremation, etc). \n\nAs her next of kin, what does he need to do to give me authorization to do all of these things for him? Would a notarized letter suffice? If so, what should it say?\n\nThank you for your help.","title":"How does my husband give me authorization to handle his deceased mother\u2019s affairs? (USA - WA)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568734390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5inrh\/my_boyfriend_25m_had_to_voluntarily_resign_from\/","id":"d5inrh","body":"I'm asking for my boyfriend because he's driving right now and doesn't know where to start with legal advice. \n\nBasically he got hired in to a company as a mechatronics technician. He signed a 4 year contract for the apprenticeship program. On his side, he would have to work 40 hours a week, and attend 1-3 classes a semester at the local community college. On their end, they ensured he would be following electricians, learning from a book ect that followed the guidelines in order for him to get his Journeymen's license. \n\nMy boyfriend had to resign a week ago, and he's been there for a year. Out of that whole year he followed an electrician for a week, when he was supposed to be for the whole time. The company kept telling him \"oh you'll start following someone again soon\" but it never happened. He was only taught to do preventative maintenance and that's all he did for an entire year, while attending classes at community college. What he's taught at work is supposed to go along with his classes at college.  \n\nThe original contract he signed stated that if he quits the apprenticeship program, he'll have to pay for the cost of the classes, which is originally paid for by the company. But after each semester, the contract was supposed to be updated with the total cost of each semester, but it was never updated. \n\nThe company also didn't give him notice about him having to resign from his position, and is expecting him to pay $3,500 in 6 weeks, even tho the contract never stayed anything about a certain payment plan or when it needed to be paid back. \n\nDoes he have to pay if the company never held up their end of the deal? And does he have to pay in 6 weeks?","title":"My boyfriend (25m) had to voluntarily resign from apprenticeship program with no notice. Company wants him to pay $3,500 for tuition in 6 weeks.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553092047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3codj\/crosspost_molested_by_brother_till_i_was_18\/","id":"b3codj","body":" \\*POSTING HERE FROM MY PROFILE BECAUSE I COULDN'T CROSSPOST IT HERE\\*\n\nso im 19(f) now idk where to start honestly, thinking about this just scares me and i feel so numb n stupid but here it goes (its gonna be a long one ) , i got two brother, Nigel (26)now , Brandon (23)now. both not in good talking terms\n\n.\n\n.\n\nthis happened when i was around 8 or 9 years old, it was after school and i wanted to use the pc to yknow play games like barbie or wt not. Nigel was hogging the pc that day. So i asked him nicely if i could use the comp, he said no. Then i waited an hour plus to yknow, let him us the pc. then i asked him again an hour later if i could use it again, he said sure but under one condition. (note: both of us were alone at home) and that condition was to sit on his hand. (my school uniform is a pinafore dress) so without any knowledge of what sexual harassment or molestation is , i said okay and played my barbie game. But 8 year old me was quite weirded out because i was literally sitting on his hand, like i could feel his fingertips from my underwear. and i didnt know what fapping is like but i know now, he was fapping behind me while touching me (with undies on). so i let that slide.\n\n.\n\n.\n\nThe second time was around the same age, it was raining heavily at my area, i was so fking scared of the thunder and i was alone with nigel again. (forgot to mention that nigel was around 16) and i was so scared i ran and hid in his room, just chilling on his bed while he was playing his computer. This was all after school, i still had my uniform on , i then fell asleep on his bed. i woke up by someone touching me and all i felt was uncomfortable. i felt his face, at my crotch, probably smelling me. i tried to turn my body so he would stop but he kept going, and i didnt know what to do. and again, i let it slide.\n\n.\n\n.\n\nthis time was, i was sleeping in my moms room WITH MY MOM, i dont really remember how old was i but old enough to know what he was doing was wrong and that i didnt know how to ask for help. so it was a school night and i woke up by someone trying to pull my blanket away, sounds scary i know but i felt his hand trying to grab my ass, lights were all off but he was sitting on the ground trying to reach for my ass without being seen. i turn the other way so he couldnt reach me. he then got up (i then sees his black figure in the room ) and walks out of the room. i knew it wasnt right but i felt so uncomfortable to tell my mom too so i let it slide again..\n\n.\n\n.\n\nin the year 2014 , i was around 14 and my mom had to go to japan for work. so i was in the house with all boys including my dad, (my parents dont share the same room due to some problem) so i slept at the master room. i was pretty aware that he might touch me again because he knew that i was gonna sleep in the room alone. it was night time, time for bed, (i told all this to my good friend, arief he was very scared that my brother might touch me again so he stayed on a skype call with me) i called arief on skype and he said he would stay up and keep an eye if he hears anything. so i locked the master room door and fell asleep. i while sleeping i head the door unlocked ( the keys were all kept in the store room which anyone can access but i didnt know that, i thought my dad kept it ) then i felt him touching me again, (arief fell asleep smh) (note: room was dark and lights were off but i could see his black figure and i know its him) the way he breathes. so then i screamed at him \" STOP TOUCHING ME WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING\" he just stood up kept quiet and walk out the door. i cried my heart out and i couldnt sleep after that. The day after, arief told my mom for me, because everytime when i try to tell i tear up.\n\nall my mom did was, gave him a talk, told my dad to put a latch in the master room.\n\nstill there was no justice for me. but after that my brother stopped touching me for awhile.\n\n.\n\n.\n\nso LAST YEAR, I REPEAT LAST YEAR 2018, i didnt know he wld hv the audacity to do it again. this time i slept in the living room with my dad. my dad usually go for morning walks around 7:30 am. i woke up by him pulling on my blanket again, my hearts was just waiting for my dad to open the door to see whats hes doing but nothing. i just couldnt scream, all the bad memories just comes back and i started tearing up while he touched me. after he left i got up and look at the time (8:14am) nigel had the balls to touch me in daylight, where anyone could come down to the living room and see whats going on but he just kept going. i felt so sad so broken. i went to work ( an ice cream shop) with tears.\n\ni couldnt stand it. the last time i told myself if he ever does it again i would bring the cops in. i didnt talk to my parents about it this time because i know for damn sure that they wont do shit. so during work break i walked to the nearest police station( 10 mins) to file a report. while walking, i had doubts, like what will happen to my family, will he go to jail, will my mom be sad. so i called my godfather( im very close to him) , i called him and asked if he was free to talk, but he wasnt home and that he will get back with me in the evening, i said ok and ended the call. then i continued walking to the police station and finally i was already there, i walked in and this guy i believe was a cop asked \"hi can i help u\" . i pulled the chair and sat down and started sobbing in from of him. he then told me to remain calm and tell what happend. i told him that i was molested (while crying). he told me that he was very sorry that it happened and then he said the computer system was down and that he couldnt file a report to me. he told me to go to another police station ( its called damai police station) and file a report there. Damai is a 10 minute drive and i had no car. so i walked home, i didnt had the mood to work , i told my boss i was sick.\n\nAround in the evening i got a call from my godfather saying he was home and that i could come over and talk. i walked to his house and he let me in. i sat at the living room and he offered me water. we both sat in the living room and talk, i told him my story from scratch while crying. i even told him i walked to the police station to file a report but couldnt. he told me that my parents should be involved in this because this matter is very serious.\n\nThen my parents came over, first thing my mom saw was me crying and her first sentence to me was \" whats wrong with you\" i basically couldnt talk and cried even more, so my godfather did the talking for me. he explain from a-z of the story. my mom turned into defense mode and said its because of how i wear clothes at home and that my brother would never do such a thing.\n\nshe then calls him on the phone and said \"did u touch ur sister\" in front of me my dad, godfather and godmother. she ended the phone call and said \"he didnt do anything\" basically she thinks that i was lying. Then my godpa said \"hes definitely gonna say no\" and my mom said she wasnt gonna pick sides. long story short we went home, she again lectured my brother to not touch me etc. same shit.\n\n.\n\n.\n\ni didnt get any justice, im still broken, i got no proof because no one witness anything. i dont know what should i do thats why im here on reddit. please help me reddit.\n\n im from malaysia btw","title":"*CROSSPOST* MOLESTED BY BROTHER TILL I WAS 18","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442949071,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lyzr4\/reclaiming_my_fathers_ashes_that_my_uncle_is\/","id":"3lyzr4","body":"Hey guys, I know this post is going to be frustrating because of how shakey all the details are, but I'm going to do my best and even some advice on what step I should next take would be wonderful. So in 2010 my dad died of cancer but was involved in some program that donated his body to science, that after they were done they would send us the ashes. I didn't care much for my dad since we barely saw each other, but he raised my sister so she was really close to him. Now in his will, my sister and I were supposed to get all of his stuff, but due to loopholes and the fact that we were both under 18 a lot of distant relatives got a lot of it, I don't care about that though. However in a similar vein because we were both underage the group that was supposed to send me the ashes sent them to our Uncle instead. My sister has been trying to reach him to get the ashes and I want to help her, but since then our Uncle has been ignoring her calls and everything. Anyone have any idea what the next step I could take should be if there even is one?","title":"Reclaiming my Father's ashes that my Uncle is holding hostage. I'm in Virginia and he's in New Jersey","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554784337,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb3nv3\/would_a_honing_steel_be_considered_a_deadly_weapon\/","id":"bb3nv3","body":"Since the honing steel is basically a baton, would it be considered \"assault with a deadly weapon\" if it was involved in a physical altercation (assuming nobody suffered fatal injuries)....","title":"Would a honing steel be considered a deadly weapon?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570432670,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deg2cv\/dealers_and_hookers_and_trash_o_my\/","id":"deg2cv","body":"So I went on booking.com to find a   Hotel.  I was traveling  up to  Northern California with my cousin for my grandson's 8th birthday party. Had stayed at a red roof inn before ( Not this one)  that was fine, and the pictures at this one looked good.\n  This was a print kind of information, and when we got to the hotel, there were at least 5 cars in a full parking lot with doors open and loud music spilling out. We decided to go to the front desk. The parking lot was filthy, trash everywhere . \nGoing through the corridor to the front  desk, we passed the coffee maker, broken, and the only one out in the open. Anyone could make coffee or whatever in that coffee maker. Next was the ice maker that appeared to be broken, and also said \" do not fill up your ice bucket\". Then a soft drink vending machine, also broken. \n The front desk was basically behind glass and  bell to ring to go inside.  we tried to speak to the front desk clerks through the glass, but they ignored us. Inside the office were 2 rather large gentleman who were very intimidating. We noticed a length of hose right outside the glass window sticking down in a hole and found out later it was because someone had broken out the Slide Box and had left a jagged edge and that was their safety fix ( I assume it would not be osha approved). \n My cousin finally went into the office through the door and was immediately engaged by the 2 men. One said he had been living there for a month, and although the 2 were not  acquainted,  They appeared to be having some kind of  business transaction.\n\nThere was also \"several \" young ladies in various stages of dress  coming in-and-out of the office, and apparently familiar with the clerks. \n My cousin is disabled and the sidewalks outside and parking lot were cracked and pushed up from neglect.   We did not seeing this in the pictures, and let him know that she would not be able to traverse the property.\n\nThe clerk took one day of our two days as penalty, He  told us he had no choice, that booking.com  had already charged it, which we found  later was not true, and that the property was solely responsible for payments. \nWe were happy to just get out of there. But when we left back down through the corridor, we were flanked by the 2 African American men from the front desk. Keep in mind we are 2 ladies in our  fifties so it was disturbing to us,  and doubly disturbing that it wasn't disturbing to them.\n On our way across the parking lot to our car, one of the men began making remarks to my cousin. He approached her and (and this is a quote) told her \"  I'm a big black man and I got a lot of things\",  And then bent down and whispered, offered her weed (Really?)\n\nYeah I get it, It looks like some kind of trashey novel -so it was extra depressing to see at what was going on there. \n We checked out several other hotels and finally found a really nice one, small, family run but safe.\n\nWe then got online and when we finally got to reviews found out that our story is nothing new, and that many people felt there was  shady stuff going on there. I don't know how it continues to go on.  It would almost  be comical If it weren't so serious. \n It's not about getting the money back although legally I think we deserve it. It's about the fact that it seems to be the mass consensus that this has been going on for a long time.  \nWe were fortunate in that we didn't actually stay there, because other people's  written reviews were much worse. Children had stayed there. \n Do we have recourse? Should we tell this to booking.com?  But more importantly, are the authorities turning a blind eye to this?\n Any advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Dealers and hookers and trash- O my !","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541309939,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u17va\/my_mom_doesnt_care_about_me_but_i_cant_have_the\/","id":"9u17va","body":"Lately, I've realized how much of a bad parent my mother is. If you look at my post history you'll see multiple posts about how my mom never cared about me, made fun of me my whole life, called me names, and a bunch more horrible things. If I told CPS, I can't bare the thought of seeing my mom after I do so. If I do see her I literally will become so emotionally unstable that no one could talk to me for days\/weeks. My mom will never forgive me if I did something like this and CPS did nothing at all. Please just give me advice on if I actually should tell them, or what I should say to them, or just anything at all.\n\nHere is something I said in another post of mine that could better help you guys help me:\n\n​\n\nMy mom never likes to listen to my problems, says that they annoy her and constantly yells at me whenever I do. Speaking of yelling, she yells at me a lot that whenever she does I get extremely anxious and scared. She name calls me all the time whenever I don't do something for her (ex. fat ass, dumbass, idiot, asshole, etc.). I have extremely low self-esteem because of all the belittling and the name calling. She's made my suicidal thoughts worse and when I told her I was suicidal she simply told me to go into my room because she didn't wanna hear it. I always see the worse in things, could possibly be because of how my mother treats me. I'm afraid to tell her about my thoughts and I only told her about my suicidal thoughts because I had a tiny bit of hope that \"I'm her son, she should care\" >!(she didn't care)!<. I constantly crave attention, which sounds bad at first, but I just want people to actually care for me because my mom never did emotionally. My mom has this thing wrong with her foot that is preventing her from working and moving around so I have to be the man of the house. My mom, my grandma, my grandpa, my whole family expects me to be fine with it. Never asking how much pressure I'm under or never even batting an eye. I always feel guilty if I do something to my mom or someone in general even when I shouldn't deep down inside.","title":"My mom doesn't care about me, but I can't have the courage to tell CPS","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541119245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tfau4\/car_was_stolen_three_confessions_no_actions_taken\/","id":"9tfau4","body":"At the beginning of summer my friends car was stolen right from her driveway in the middle of the night. The culprits zoomed around Wisconsin essentially destroying her car. It took the police three weeks before they caught them. They caught them in another County. That county charged them with reckless driving, but couldn\u2019t do much more as the car was stolen in a different county. \n\nWhen the car was returned home everything was essentially totaled. The lights were smashed in, her brakes were messed up, the struts, axles and whatever else all needed to be replaced. They also doused her entire car in gasoline, burned holes with cigarettes in the seats and chopped up her child\u2019s car seat. \n\nThere were five 18-20 year olds involved. Three confessed on record of what they did.\n\nWe thought surely there would be justice brought to this scenario. It seemed like an open and shut case. They were brought to court for other charges but nothing about theft of property. They walked away with fines for essentially nothing relating to the actual crime that took place.\n\nSince then, she has been trying to press charges against these criminals and the police department is essentially ignoring her. They play the \u201ccall the DA\u201d game and when she does the DA tells her they can\u2019t do anything because the police are cooperating with them and to \u201ccall her local police enforcements\u201d. \n\nWhy can\u2019t she press charges? What can be done?  ","title":"Car was stolen, three confessions, no actions taken...","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541961599,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w6879\/do_i_have_enough_cause_to_break_my_lease_without\/","id":"9w6879","body":"TLDR: We have lived here for 1.5 years, paying over $2000 a month.  New management complains when we pay rent early.  They also focus on upgrading amenities but not fixing problems.  There is only 1 washer for 120 units.  We get \u201c24 hour\u201d notices by placing a flyer on our door when we are already at work.  Complaints about neighbors do not get resolved.  They do not provide us with consistently hot water.  Is this enough to break the lease without paying 2 month\u2019s rent?\n\nMy boyfriend and I have lived here for the past year and a half.  It was great at first and we planned to stay for a couple more years.  The area is a sketchy part of town but we grew up here so we know where we should\/shouldn\u2019t go.  It is also a 10-minute drive to both of our jobs and a 15-minute drive to our parents\u2019 houses.  It is cheap for the area.  We pay $1,887 for rent and an additional $200 for trash, water, gas and electric.  It was then bought out by another property management and it has gone downhill since then.  We are now desperately trying to get out.  Our lease is up in May 2019.\n\nWe always paid rent 2 weeks early.  This was never a problem with the old management.  The new management complained we paid rent too early so now we pay on the due date.\n\nThe new property management is more concerned about upgrading amenities than it is about fixing the problems.  For example, our laundry room has 5 washers and 8 dryers. For as long as I can remember, only 1 washer works and all dryers works.  Multiple tenants have complained.  There are 120 units and it is impossible to do laundry when there is only 1 washer.  Instead of fixing the washers, they built a gym. \n\nThey also wanted to paint every unit\u2019s front door. This required us to leave our front door open while it dried.  This raised two concerns because my boyfriend and I both work full time: 1. We have a dog. 2. We live in a sketchy part of town. They gave us a \u201c24 hour\u201d notice by placing a flyer on our door at 8AM.  By this time, we both have already left for work.  We discovered the notice at 6PM stating the painters would be there at 8AM the next morning.  We had asked if anyone would be watching the front doors as they would be wide open. They said no.  We scrambled to find a babysitter for our dog and to watch the front door.  Because it was so last minute, no one was available to sit at our apartment all day.  My boyfriend had to call in sick the next day so he could stay home.  The management then rescheduled the painting 3 times: 9\/28\/2018, 10\/3\/2018 and 10\/10\/2018. My boyfriend had to take 3 separate days off for someone to paint the front door. \n\nComplaints about neighbors has also gone nowhere. Our upstairs neighbor smokes cigarettes on his balcony.  He then tosses his cigarettes over the balcony and onto the front lawn. Sometimes, he misses and the cigarettes fall into our patio.  We have to constantly pick them up because we do not want our dog to eat them.  After numerous complaints to both the tenant and management, it still happens. \n\nThe worst problem is that we do not have consistently hot water.  My boyfriend and I both wake up between 4:30:5:00am and are usually out of the apartment by 6:30-7:00am.  The problem started on October 3, 2018.\n\nOn October 3rd, we did not have hot water.  I called in and informed the office and they told me a couple of other units have also complained about this.  We had hot water by the next day. \n\nOn October 10th, we also did not have hot water.  I called and informed the office.  She asked for permission to enter the apartment and I denied.  We have a dog and no one was home.  I also informed her that we overheard our neighbors also complaining about hot water so it is not just our unit.  Our walls are thin so I could hear my neighbors\u2019 conversations.\n\nOn October 18th, no hot water.  I called the office.  I asked what the problem was because this was an on-going issue. She told me it was because everyone was trying to take a shower at the same time.  I told her that we usually take showers between 4:30 and 5am and I do not believe that most of the complex is waking up at 4:30 to shower.  She then told me it was because it takes a long time for the water to get to me because the complex is so big.  We kept going back and forth so I accepted her answer.\n\nOn October 30th, no hot water.  I took her advice and left the water running for 30 minutes.  No hot water. I tried calling the office twice. Left messages and no one got back to me.\n\nOn November 5th, no hot water.  I called the office and left a message.  No one has gotten back to me. \n\nOn November 8th, no hot water.  Called twice.  Left messages.  No one called back.  I emailed management and they assured me that a plumber would be out today and I would not have to worry about this problem in the future.\n\nNovember 10th and 11th \u2013 no hot water.  Office is closed.  Sent two emails.  I suspect that we will not have hot water tomorrow either because no one is here to fix it. \n\nIs this enough cause to break the lease without paying 2 months\u2019 rent (as written in my lease agreement)?  ","title":"Do I have enough cause to break my lease without paying 2 month's rent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540584495,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ro5v2\/unemployment_and_a_job_offer_mausa\/","id":"9ro5v2","body":"Back in August, I was laid off. I took the time to enroll in classes that are part time, and started collecting unemployment benefits while I looked for something else. \n\nMy mother\u2019s cancer just came back (I\u2019m her primary caretaker), and I\u2019m newly pregnant. My husband works from home until 10pm and cannot be distracted since it\u2019s primarily call center type stuff. \n\nI can work a reduced schedule, 6 hours a day 7:30-1:30, while keeping up with family obligations and courses for 30 hours a week. If needed, I could do 5:30-1:30 for an 8 hour day, but that schedule is rough on anyone. \n\nMy old agency wants to take me back on for my previous position, same hours and schedule (9-5), and it simply doesn\u2019t work for me anymore with constant doctors appointments, classes, and my husband\u2019s work from home schedule. \n\nIf they can\u2019t negotiate on hours or schedules, am I allowed to reject this offer and keep my unemployment benefits until I find something that works? Thanks!","title":"Unemployment and a job offer (MA-USA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554997659,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc1fre\/i_rent_a_house_with_my_brother_and_friend_we_have\/","id":"bc1fre","body":"So we found out that our landlord is about to list the house for sale because I heard the yard guy mention something about it (she never said anything about it until I asked). She said she intends to sell it this summer.\n\nThis actually works out great for me, because I will be out of the country starting in June for about 2 and a half months. I don't see any sense in staying and continuing to pay rent for a place I won't even live at when I come back. Being that we are all on 3 separate\/individual leases, should I be able to just end my lease in June? I know this will leave my landlord with a lower rental income and a still occupied house, but I'm just trying to think of what's fair and legal of course.\n\nThanks!","title":"I rent a house with my brother and friend. We have 3 separate month-to-month leases. Can I justifiably end mine two months before they end theirs?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555297828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdbatw\/girlfriends_dad_is_a_serial_cheater_and_abuser\/","id":"bdbatw","body":"Hey all. My girlfriend is the best person I've ever met. Period. However, As the title suggests, her dad has cheated on her mother for the 11th time. (Yup, you read that right.) He literally got caught AGAIN last night. The main reason her mom hasn't left his sorry ass is because he's the sole breadwinner. And a good one at that. \n\nMy girlfriend has 5 siblings and they're living in a massive house and literally bought a new one. Both her parents are arabic, but living in the States. As far as i know, her mom puts up with his shit because divorce is a big no no in Arabic families. (Can confirm. My dad is arabic and I've had an amazing relationship with my arabic family until i decided to side with my mother because my dad is an abusive prick. Thats a story for another day though.)\n\nNot only does her mother not want to lose face, but she's obviously financially dependant on him. She has tried to lawyer up before and he retaliated by destroying a whole closet full of her clothing and emptying out the joint back account. According to my girlfriend, her mother can stay at my girlfriend's aunt's place, so a place to sleep shouldnt post that big of a problem if necessary.\n\nSadly, her father is a real asshole. He has physically abused his wife AND children. Not to mention extreme verbal abuse. This causes her mom to lash out at her for the tiniest things, even though my girlfriend is a full-time college student, does chores around the house and literally does anything her parents ask (a.k.a. demand) of her. \n\nIm getting sick of hearing my girlfriend being screamed at and being belittled by both of her parents. The mother needs to end things, but how? How does she build a proper case? \n\nHappy to provide any information needed.","title":"Girlfriend's dad is a serial cheater and abuser. Mom is too afraid to cut him loose.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568718845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5fgmp\/friends_mom_is_cyberstalking_and_making_threats\/","id":"d5fgmp","body":"My friend was hospitalized, and his mom broke into his phone to harass his friends. This is a message from another friend of his who got harassed. (The mutual friend doesn\u2019t have a reddit account.)\n\nHello my friend is in an abusive situation and had his phone stolen by his mother. She's using his phone to illegally contact people using her own phone and is now using his phone to contact multiple people as well to threaten information out of them. One of those friends is a minor as well, who the mother threatened to find thier location and fly to them to force information out of them, as well.\n\nThe friend who had his stuff stolen is going to an abuse shelter where the mother is unable to contact him. \n\nThe friend is 18 and legally an adult. He basically tried to run away from the situation and his mother basically kidnapped him and had him committed so he's completely unable to even access his email and online accounts to change passwords. \n\nSo far the abuser has threatened to call the cops on multiple people including getting the FBI involved and claiming to have an \"fbi friend\" Though the friend has informed me the FBI spoke to them and doesn't think the mother has a case at all. \n\nMy question is what should I do if she's sending me and multiple people threatening texts ? She's also hacked my friends email and social media accounts. Should I send the mother a cease and desist before reporting her to the PD and the FBI's cyber stalking line ? Some of the threats have included threats to get IP addresses (Which won't do much), Threats to Subpoena the phone company and other places for information.  Threats to illegally obtain information, threats to call the cops on us. \n\nThe mother has also tried to obtain my information from sprint after threatening a subpoena by submitting a payment to my phone bill (Which sprint allows people to do if you have the phone number) trying to obtain my personal information and when it didn't work she filed a charge back.  I found this information out from my friend.\n\nMy friend is in the process of getting as far away from her as possible.\n\nI want to report her for cyberstalking me and multiple friends to the PD and the FBIs Cyberstalking line. My question is do we need to respond with a cease and decist ? We have caps, voice mail logs, and proof of the unauthorized contact.\n\nI was also wondering what steps we could take to help my friend get a restraining order on his abusive mother and step father (Whos involved in this to. It's mostly the mother sending the messages.)","title":"Friend\u2019s Mom is Cyberstalking and Making threats?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507645976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75hf3d\/arkansas_online_will_and_trust\/","id":"75hf3d","body":"Can they be used in court? I know a law office is the way to go but as of this minute financials will not allow me to use. I\u2019m looking to see if they will be good enough to hold us off till we can get to a lawyer. Basically a band aid till we can afford to do it properly.  ","title":"[Arkansas] Online Will and Trust.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554902428,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bblxna\/do_i_have_options_to_recover_inheritance\/","id":"bblxna","body":"Location Alabama, my father passed away without a will and left a sum of money in his bank account. My grandfather was able to remove the money with the help of one of his judge buddies. I'm not certain if he was listed as the pay upon death on the account. \n\nAm I entitled to that inheritance? How do I move forward on obtaining it?","title":"Do I have options to recover inheritance?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553881797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b70dil\/usa_how_can_i_rescind_a_services_contract\/","id":"b70dil","body":"Hello, I was recently offered a new contract from a startup I've been doing various services for since January. I signed the new contract on Wednesday, and received a counter-signed copy today. But after talking with some other people on the team, I looked up the cooling off period and want to use rescission. How can I rescind the contract and how much time do I have to consider? Thanks.","title":"[USA] How Can I Rescind a Services Contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541286341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tym4d\/speeding_ticket_issued_from_douglas_county\/","id":"9tym4d","body":"I was pulled over by a Douglas County Sheriff and received a speeding ticket of 20-24 over the limit, resulting in a 6 point fine in CO(a misdemeanor). This was my very first time passing through the area and traveling downhill. I was radar clocked within 150 ft of cresting the hill and pulled over within 500 ft of the crest.\n\nThe point systems between CA and CO are different. I have plans to pay the fine before the 20 days (early-mid Nov) to reduce the points from 6 to 4, and bring down the CO fine classification to an infraction. I want to know if I have a better course of action since I'm a young driver (20-24) and points+long term insurance rates matter more to me than upfront cost.\n\nI've spoken with 5+ CO traffic violation lawyers on the circumstances; 40% say it's not worth obtaining legal representation due to the inability to speak with a DA for a better plea deal than paying the ticket before the 20 days (going from 6 points to 4). The remaining lawyers I'm willing to work with would charge a flat rate in the $500-800 range. The lawyers claimed they could represent me in court without my physical presence.\n\n​\n\nHere's what I primarily want to know:\n\n* When CO notifies CA of the ticket, what is reported? The points, the speed, or something else?\n* What is a DA and does my ticket classification really present my case to a county clerk rather than a DA?\n* Is it worth pursuing legal representation to reduce the points below 3?\n* Would I be limiting myself for only 4\/3 points if I wanted to plea directly with the officer before the court date?\n* If I fought in court, would the worst outcome be the full 6 points on top of all the other fees?\n* How should I structure the plea if I do it myself with the sheriff?","title":"Speeding ticket issued from Douglas County sheriff in CO, I live in CA","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506281582,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72771k\/motherinlaw_basically_evicted_me_what_now\/","id":"72771k","body":"I've been married for almost five years to my husband. For the time that I've been with him, his parents have loathed me for reasons I'd rather not discuss. Despite this, my MiL offered to rent out a townhouse she owns for us as a late \"wedding present\". So she's been our landlord for about a year and a half.\n\nWell, MiL comes over unannounced whether I'm home or not. She has done things like go through our things and \"re-organizing\" the rooms. One time I came in and she was painting a wall without permission. I'm aware this is against the law in New Jersey which I told her so. She just laughed and dared me to report it. I did, but the cops did **NOTHING** except ask MiL not to do it again and also condescendingly told me not to call them for landlord-tenant disputes.\n\nBecause of this, my MiL decided to evict me for no good reason. She left me a handwritten note stating that I had 30 days to vacate the property. Only me. Not my husband or our infant, even though we both signed the lease. I was outraged by this. First, I called the police, and the officer told me, \"She's the property owner and she's entitled to evict whoever she wants, whenever she wants. I suggest you look for a new home.\"\n\nThen I spoke to my husband, and he assured me he would talk to her about it. Days go by, and he tells me that she will not evict me. On the day I was supposed to vacate, I return home from work to find several of my belongings like clothes, bags, shoes, whatever on the curb where the trash is picked up. I try the keys but I am locked out. \n\nHusband tells me that he is trying to work out a deal with his mother so I can get a key to the home (he got a new one). He suggested I go stay at a hotel until it's sorted out. It's been a week, and no such luck. I have barely seen my child either. MiL will not pick up for me when I try to call her. \n\nAt this point, I'd like to go to court. Do I need a lawyer or is this like small claims court? Do I have a case here? Can I at least be able to return to the townhouse and get out of the lease along with my husband? Or must I finish out the rest of it if allowed back? ","title":"Mother-in-law basically evicted me. What now?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569794512,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db1yxt\/child_custody_agreements_need_help\/","id":"db1yxt","body":"So, in 2016, me and my wife separated and I had to move back to Louisiana(her and my child are in Georgia). Our divorce was final in September of 2017, and me and the mother have kept a good relationship as far as parenting and visitation of my child, 6. \n\nI made trips back and forth, about 5 times a year to go see my daughter, as it was easier for me to travel, and to help keep peace between my ex wife and me. and I been paying child support for about a year, mutually agreed upon amount. I send clothes and other items as well needed for my child. I am engaged and going to remarry soon, and was asking my ex wife about a time where my daughter is on break from school, so I can have her down here for the ceremonies. My ex wife has told me that she will not send my daughter down here for that. I have been told that she \u201callows\u201d me to see my daughter when I come into town, and basically she is doing me a courtesy. \n\nWe never had any child custody agreements, and I am now seeking to get something in writing for my right to parent my child. But I\u2019m not sure how to even start this process. Nor am I sure of what my rights really are. I want to make sure I do this so as to make sure I\u2019m awarded the parental rights I\u2019m deserved. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Child custody agreements, need help","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570248092,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddia9p\/car_accident\/","id":"ddia9p","body":"Hello I got into a minor car accident around 2 weeks ago, I read ended a lady after she suddenly slammed on the breaks, with some damage resulting on her rear bumper. \n\nHer registration was expired since June so she let me go without calling the police so she wouldn\u2019t get in any trouble I presume she said it was fine and we could resolve this ourselves. We exchanged info and I told her we can speak later on that day to discuss the means of repair to her bumper and any other things. \n\nSo I tried contacting her many times with little to no response from her in the last 2 weeks until finally yesterday her and her husband called and started threatening me and saying that they were going to sue me for a hit and run and just started saying all this nonsense. \n\nSo what should I do here? Are they actually able to say I did a hit and run? What are the possible outcomes?","title":"Car accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445919626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qdn6i\/advicehelp_with_child_support_and_custody\/","id":"3qdn6i","body":"Background info:\nWe are in Texas, with their \"Momma's must have their babies ALWAYS!!\" nonsense. -.- \nMy husband had a child with a married woman before we met. Baby was born Jan 2013, he has seen her less then a dozen times since she was born. BabyMomma ran away to somewhere 6 hours away from us and a filed for gov assistance. She was shut down because she was running from court. Husband filed child support on himself in order to acquire a DNA test on the baby. With BM 6 hours away the atty general in her town took up the case from the atty general in our city. We had to take weekends off work to go down there to court on 3 separate occasions until BM stopped stalling and finally allowed the DNA test. Test comes back and obviously, its Hubs kid. Visitation and child support is worked out. At the time we were only engaged not married yet. BM plays nice for the moment, says \"Oh, yea, you can call her and when you come to visit you can spend the day with her and we will go visit the city too sometimes.\" In the long run, she ghosted. She would go MIA for weeks if not months at a time before contacting him with absurd nonsense phone calls and facebook messages about how she was going to take his name off the baby's birth certificate, and how he was going to jail for not paying child support, ect ect. Trying to get a strong reaction out of him. Gets to the point that they are actually talking now and then sporadically. \n\nThen we got married. She drops off the face of the planet, none of her phone numbers work, no answer to facebook messages, nada. She has always been super jealous of him being with someone else, always told him that she was dreaming about him and wanted him back, even while he and I were engaged. In the past 12 months, we have seen the baby 2 times. Hubs is in the process of getting papers on file that will allow me to speak to the court about the case. Which all leads me to my questions. \n\n\n\nShe SAYS they MIGHT be moving back to the city and wants to know if he wants the case transferred to the city or to leave in po-dunk town 6 hours away so he wont be hunted for non payment of CS. (We are of the opinion that everything she tells us is a LIE until one of us hears it directly from the atty-general people.) If she moves back here, will it honestly be easier to enforce visitation rights? Especially since the standard visitation schedule will kick in as soon as the baby turns 3 next year? \n\nIs she required to provide a phone number and address to us? Last time we spoke to the atty general's office they refused to give us her contact information saying they couldn't do that, that we had to have a private investigator go and find her. \n\nHow can we go about forcing her to stop fucking around and allow visitation without playing this whole \"Oh, we are in town... but we are leaving in the morning.\" bullshit? \n\nAny help or resources are appreciated, I wish we could hire a high power attorney to rake her over the coals and call her on all her shit, but that's not in the cards for us. \n","title":"Advice\/help with child support and custody problems in Texas","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443026886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m331n\/me_and_my_family_need_help_understanding_what_to\/","id":"3m331n","body":"I already wrote this out in another subreddit but i think maybe it should have been put here. Here's the gist of the story.  Lived in a house for 2 years (rental), place was prior to us rented out to college students, Live in Fort Collins CO right next to CSU.  When we moved in place was a mess, but we fixed it up pretty good despite it being just a rental because it was our home for those 2 years. After about year 1 give or take a month or two, owner decided to change landlord from this nice company to some angry mean lady landlord.  she tried to get us to sign her lease which had a bunch of stuff we didn't like, and so we found that we were able to stay under our lease we had initially signed, so we did. in the initial lease it was written that the landlord had up to 60 days to refund us our deposit. and again when we went to new landlord we just said we wanted to stay with what first lease was. you could tell she wasn't happy about that, but that's the law we found out so that's what we did.   anyway fast forward to now.  in about 7 days it will be 60 days from moving out, we have not gotten our deposit back,  the lady never had us do a 'damage inspection walk thru' which it said in the lease that she was supposed to do within 72 hours before our lease was up and we had to move out.  she said she was in the hospital and had pneumonia, which i don't fully believe because she is very manipulative, but i guess that's just speculation. anywho.  never did a walk through. i drove by the place one day about a month after we left,  there were workers everywhere, tearing out carpet putting in wood floors fixing up a ton of stuff basically making the house look amazing so they could up the rent from our 1250, to what's now going to be like 1600-1800 to whoever moves in.  we never did a damage walk through or anything though and now she's having all this work done on the house to pretty much completely remodel it and i am beyond scared that she is going to say she did all that work because of us (which i swear to you on everything is not true we completely made that place 10x better than when we first moved in, we were raising our 2 kids in there we had to make it nicer for them since they're young).  this is me rambling i am sorry i just don't know what all I need to tell you guys to be able to have a complete understanding. in 7 days the 60 days is up like i said so i'm really hoping she just sends us our full refund back, but she hasn't called, contacted, anything at all with us for anything since we moved out. the only time there was any communication is when a box that was sent to me accidentally got sent to that house, so i had to have her put it outside the house so i could swing by and pick it up. she wouldn't meet me there to let me in or get the box, she just put it outside and sent a text that it was there.  \n\nthere have been workers in there repainting the place, they redid the floor to wood, they redid the roof from what i saw when i first went to figure out where that package was that was sent to me.  i'm beyond afraid that she's going to keep our deposit and say we did all these damages but we never did the walk thru that we were supposed to do in those last 72 hours before we moved out as it said in the lease... and I just don't know what to do. i have to say thank you in advance, so much thank yous, for taking the time to read this and perhaps give me some advice. i  love reddit for this very reason. you are all great people thank you for your help if you can offer any.  if you have any questions i am an open book i will be completely honest and tell you anything at all. Again I live in Fort Collins, Colorado close to CSU. I think that's what I'm supposed to write to make sure this doesn't get deleted.","title":"Me and my family need help understanding what to do with the landlord of the home we moved out 7\/31 from.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571072087,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhte3y\/il_i_want_my_niece_to_receive_counseling_in_her\/","id":"dhte3y","body":"Hello everyone, \n\nThis is my first time posting and have been thinking about this for years.\n\nBackground: My sister and her former boyfriend had a daughter when they were 17 (I was 14 at the time). After two years of them taking care of her, they decided to part ways and my niece stayed with my parents. 10 years later, her parents have separate lives with their own separate families. Neither have ever tried to get my niece to live with them and she is firm that she wants to continue living with us. Mom still has full custody, and dad pays minimal child support (I say minimal because he hardly works). He sees her at his convenience so maybe once a month or twice if we get lucky. \n\nAnyway, my niece has exhibited behavior that I assume is attributed to her not living with her parents and I would love to get her counseling services (I grew up with my parents and can\u2019t imagine what she must be feeling seeing her parents grow with their children while she lives with her grandparents). I went to her open house this past week and met with the social worker there. She agreed to meet with my niece this up coming week. \n\nI spoke with my sister about this and she said my niece cannot be honest about her living arrangements or else DCFS will get involved (as she does not live with her parents). I understand her position, but a lot of what my niece is going through emotionally has to deal with the fact that she doesn\u2019t live with her parents. \n\nMy question is: should I try to get legal guardianship over my niece so she can be honest with her social worker\/therapist? I\u2019m 24 going on 25, have a stable job with great pay (I make more than both of her parents combined) and she\u2019s been living with my parents and I since she was 2 so it won\u2019t disrupt her living arrangements. \n\nWhat would the process be like and would both parents have to consent? \n\nI only want legal guardianship so I can have more legal authority over my niece (sign her school paperwork\/medical decisions\/etc) since I already do most of that. \n\nTLDR: want to have legal guardianship over my niece so she can be honest with her therapist about her living arrangement.","title":"[IL] I want my niece to receive counseling in her school but she can\u2019t be fully honest about her home situation - legal guardianship\/customary question","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445468336,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pp4yw\/do_i_have_to_disclose_a_nest_cam_to_my_tenants\/","id":"3pp4yw","body":"AB, Canada.\n\nI currently own a home, and rent out 1 room to 2 tenants. I also live in the home.\n\nFor a very long time I've had a Nest Cam in my living room \/ kitchen as a precaution due to a break-in. I'm not sure if they tenants are aware that it is there.\n\nMy question is, do I have to disclose its existence to them? Is a common area in the house that I frequently use fall under \"expectance of privacy?\"","title":"Do I have to disclose a Nest Cam to my tenants?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442098819,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kpwia\/moving_out_and_in_a_place_for_the_first_time\/","id":"3kpwia","body":"Hello reddit,\nI've just moved out of my house and found a room on September 3rd but I didn't sign any contract of any sort. I was just told to pay rent on the 1st day of every month and that was that. Some things came up and I wanted to move out because I didn't like the place so much. I put in a security deposit to make sure my spot wasn't taken since this was long distance. I gave my 30 day notice on September 10th but my roommate that handles all of the rent said I can have the security deposit back if I stay til the 15th of October. There was no written\/signed documents since I was very new to this. Not sure what to do at the moment as I would have liked to leave early. Any advice would be very much appreciated.","title":"Moving out and in a place for the first time problems\/issues","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569480747,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9g0bk\/can_i_do_anything_other_than_be_angry_from_afar\/","id":"d9g0bk","body":"TL;DR at bottom\n\nHey! So I am currently trying to get someone to take over my lease at an apartment complex I loath with my being. \n\nSome background:\nThey had given me attitude before, and changed their leasing policy to \"by the bed\" without giving me any real details of what would happen since I lived in a 2 bedroom x 1 bathroom and there was to be a new person moving into the other room while I \"renewed\" my lease. (Origional lease was to lease the whole apartment, not just the bed)\n\nThey also switched up the roommate on me (who had a preference on who they wanted to live with) which made making a facebook post with details difficult. All of this without telling me or notifying me. [About 4months before the new tenants move in but still was weird calling to ask about the new girl to heaing \"yes Pablo will be moving in on the 15th\"]\n\nON TO THE ACTUAL THING\n\nThey scheduled to clean the apartment shared areas and the new room for the new tenant on the 13th of September. I had told the new tenant I would leave some furniture for him to choose what to do with and he was ok with eithe keeping or getting rid of it. The complex requested that I move furniture against the wall so the cleaning crew could clean. Well, I did that and then they called me to confirm I was all moved out and I believe I responded with a \"pretty much.\" They then asked if they can move some things out of the way and I said sure, but make sure the furniture is there since I promised the new person, and especially the toaster oven.\n\nThey agree and we end the call.\n\nI then go back there that night to pick up something and what do I see? AN EMPTY APARTMENT WITH NO FURNITURE AND NO TOASTER OVEN.\n\nNow, I did not come back so theoretically they could have just moved it out that night and put it in storage to move again the next day. BUT REALISTICALLY WHAT LANDLORD WOULD DO THAT IF THEY KNOW THE OTHER PERSON IS \"ALL MOVED OUT\"\n\nNow I called to ask them about it later and they basically told me the new person wad the one that got rid of everything.\n\nThis is unlikely as he was to move in kn the 15th and they cleaned the apartment.ent on the 13th. The new tenant would not have had access to enter the apartment and throw away my things before I checked since I checked the apartment the night of the 13th.\n\nI am mad and going to die mad, but is there anything I can do other than this?\n\n\n\nTL;DR: apartment complex asks me if they can move my remaining stuff out of the way since I confirmed I \"officially\" moved out but essentially threw away all the things I left there including the toaster oven I specifically told them to leave.","title":"Can I do anything other than be angry from afar?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409160506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eqqmq\/need_an_honest_lawyer_ft_worth_tx\/","id":"2eqqmq","body":"I am looking for a lawyer who will take my case on a contingency basis. The attorney I hired took $7k of my money and then quit on me for health reasons. This case involves my now defunct business that was profitable and doing well. My partner got greedy, took the money and merchandise, effectively shut my business down then re-opened it under a different name with my money and merchandise. The police are useless, saying it is a civil matter. In my eyes, there was fraud, conversion and conspiracy with the accountant who knew every move my partner made. I am in dire straits and close to losing everything I have. I worked hard and invested my retirement into this business. Please I need help. ","title":"Need An Honest Lawyer Ft Worth TX","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1504045480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wus43\/in_insufficient_notice_of_nonrenewal\/","id":"6wus43","body":"So to start things off, let's go chronologically:\n\nSept 1 2016 My husband and I moved in to our current apartment after transferring units. At the time we expressly stated that we would not be renewing at the end of the lease. \n\nMay 2017 I had notified the then current apartment manager that I would not be renewing my lease. She gave me a piece of paper to fill out but did not state that any agreement other than written would not suffice in letting them know of my non-renewal. Multiple times I had been in the office between then and August 1st, the employees mentioned us moving out and our move out date. Again, no mention of written notice was given so I was not aware of the small clause in the lease I had signed 10 months prior stating that the notice must be written. \n\nAugust 1st I go in to pay my last month of rent before moving out since I hadn't received a monthly rent bill and wanted to know exactly how much was being charged. I asked if there was anything else that needed to be done before moving out. I was told no. \n\nAugust 5th we moved most of our stuff out because it was our only free weekend and we figured we could come back this last weekend (aug 26) to clean up. \n\nAug 26th we come back and clean up as planned. My husband went to the office to check once more that everything was good and to grab the mail. This is the day that we found out our apartment complex was going to bill us ~$1100 for \"insufficient notice\". We told them about all the verbal confirmations we had and they told us they would get back to us. \n\nAugust 28th my father and I went in to see the lease because we couldn't believe that it was legal for them to charge us month to month rent without us signing a contract and to try to sort out the situation. They once again reiterated the 30 day notice was required to be written and that we would be fined for not having it. They also said that them reminding us, in any form, was simply a courtesy and not required. They did not care that I had received notices the prior year when we renewed our lease when there was different management (but same owners). We decided to go home and take our time to reread the lease since they were not giving us much space and time to interpret it. We also gave them all the keys except one mailbox key that I need until the postal office starts forwarding it. Before leaving though, we grabbed my mail and in it was our monthly bill from the complex, dated 8\/21 and due 9\/1. The bill included a month to month charge on top of our water fees and was obviously much less than what they had been telling us we owe. \n\nNow to today. Over the night we had found a part of the lease that states they must give us notice of what the month to month rent is prior to it being due. Since it is 8\/29 and it is due 9\/1, we realized that they had not done this and probably were not planning on it. No where on the lease, however, does it state that what we incur is a fee, only that it is month to month rent from that point. We also found some Indiana laws that we (not lawyers) interpreted to mean they have to give us 30 day notice of what the rent is prior to it being due. \n\nSo with this new information we went over to talk to them again to try and figure out what is happening and why we didn't receive the 30 day notice like the law seemed to say we should have. Again they argued it was a courtesy that they did not have to provide. They kept going back and forth between the charge being a \"fee\" and a charge being \"month to month rent\". When I pointed out that they were charging us month to month rent without the required notice, they would flip over and say that it was not rent since I do not have a month to month lease; it was only a fee. When I asked where the lease states that we face a fee totaling $125 plus fair market rent, they would switch back to the section that explains what month to month lease rent is. After this cycled again, I pointed out how they were going back and forth over whether I was paying rent for an apartment I don't have access to or if it was a fee. They then checked with their attorney (we did not get to hear any words from him at all, so what they told us next was their reiteration). The attorney said that since they weren't terminating or not renewing the lease on their end, the part in the lease that I was asking about did not apply as long as they give written notice to me of the month to month rent before the amount is due. I mentioned that I hadn't received that (back up: earlier in the argument they had claimed I received a notice on the 15th of august. I did not, told them I did not, and they had not provided it before I left). She said she could go get the cost of the month to month rent added on to our current bill due 9\/1 and I asked again if that meant I was paying a fee or rent. The cycle continued again until I asked where in the lease it included the fee. Where she pointed never mentions fees for such a thing, only actual rent for a month to month lease. I also asked her if I hadn't caught this debacle before 9\/1 would they still have charged me the same amount despite the lease explicitly stating it must be given before rent is due; she said she would because technically rent isn't late until the 4th (note that the lease states it is due on the 1st but no late fees are assessed until the 4th). \n\nI tried to reason that I would pay the $125 charge on my bill since the apartment is move in ready and on the first floor (which also costs more typically) but they stated they would not negotiate on that. My dad decided to go with them to make sure the apartment is move in ready while I called my schools off campus student services to see if I could get any legal help on this matter. He did get them to sign off that there is nothing that can be taken from the security deposit in those regards. We then left, still without the paper recording the amount they want. So, the only other way for them to get it to me now is through mail before 9\/1 in a town with a horrible problem with mail going missing. We have close friends who work in this sort of field (one of which is a judge) who we are asking along with the school office that was closed by the time I called, but I would really like some help understanding the legal side of this. Is there anything else we can do to fight the $1100 charge? That money is quite a lot to us right now with hospital bills from birth and trying to get a down payment for a house saved up. \n\nThank you all in advance for any help you can give and any education on the matter that you can provide. ","title":"[IN] Insufficient Notice of Non-renewal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412701223,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ikpw9\/performance_review_changed_after_signature\/","id":"2ikpw9","body":"Location: USA\n\nMy place of employment does performance reviews annually. Recently after reviewing copies of reviews I noticed some reviews had been changed after I had signed them. \n\nI received a review last year that seemed to be positive. I had signed it and left with my personal copy. I requested a copy of this review, today after I received what seemed like a unfair review for the current year, and noticed an overall rating had been added and it was overall negative. (There are multiple selections from Good to bad, and mine was circled as the second above the worst rating...) This was not indicated to me at the time of the review and is not indicated on my copy. In fact I am a bit surprised. It was added after I had signed and was sent to the Human Resources department.\n\nI am in management and would never change a document such as this without all parties being notified and even documenting proof they were notified. So do I just let it roll off my back and continue on or should I take some sort of action to resolve the situation? ","title":"Performance Review Changed After Signature...","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1444766621,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3omnnu\/question_about_a_complicated_piracy_scenario\/","id":"3omnnu","body":"This is just hypothetical, but I could see this happening and got curious. \n\nLet's say that Indy Studio created \"A Game\" last year and shared it for free. \nLater, someone bought Indy Studio and after the next update started selling A Game for $60.\nAfter this change, Indy deletes all data of the old version, so the only officially available content is the paid version.\nKnowing the internet though, someone is going to put the installer for the old version on his site and share it, and making a small profit off the ads that are claimed to be used to fund the site. For kicks let's call the site pi.rates.\n\nIndy Studio finds out about this and decides to sue pi.rates, but pi.rates claims that \"Indy Studio never charged for this version of the game, and neither are we.\" The TOA is a basic but strict one that essentially states \"Do not distribute, but you may share footage of the game, as long as it is not for profit.\"\n\n\n\nHow well would this hold up in a US court? If we need a specific state... let's pick Idaho.\n\n(Also, about flairing, is this better under Computers and Internet, or Intellectual Property?)","title":"Question about a complicated piracy scenario","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1410644610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gbjwo\/a_question_on_death_threats_online\/","id":"2gbjwo","body":"So I just had a curious little thought today and would like to see the legal side of this.\n\nIf I remember correctly, it is illegal to make a death threat even over the internet. If I were to post on Facebook that I wanted to stab someone and specifically stated who, I could be reported to the police.\n\nIf that is the case, what makes it ok for someone famous to do so in their own music?\n\n[Tyler the Creator - Yonkers](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw&list=PL77X6Z5ntAvIA0EsvAOM797kGAPl141bi#t=111)\n\n\"I'll crash the fucking airplane that that faggot nigga B.O.B. was in and stab Bruno Mars in his god damn esophagus and I won't stop until the cops come in.\" \n\nIs this not a blatant death threat being displayed over social media (70 million views on Youtube alone). If so what makes that ok to do so legally? \n\nLegitimate question, I'm just curious to see how this works because I'm not certain\n\n**Location for bot: California, USA**","title":"A question on \"death threats\" online.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1446224743,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qv03h\/ca_landlord_asking_all_tenants_to_buy_renters\/","id":"3qv03h","body":"Edited: Thanks for the info everyone! I bought the renter's insurance already, in any case. Just wanted to make sure this was on the up and up!\n\nA couple months ago my apartment complex sent out notices that their own insurance company was now requiring all their tenants to carry their own renter's insurance. I didn't think much of it, bought a policy. When I went to show the office my proof of insurance, they said it was no good--that it had to specifically list \"BlahBlahBlah Apartments\" as \"Additionally Insured\". I'll also be required to sign an addendum to my current lease saying I agree to carry renter's insurance that lists the apartment complex as additionally insured.\n\nIs this legal? Maybe I'm just being paranoid but I'm getting the feeling the tenants are being forced to pick up the tab for the complex's insurance. Can my landlord ask me to sign something new added to my lease?\nI googled this but couldn't find any straight info about tenants in a large apartment complex being required to carry renter's insurance.","title":"CA: Landlord asking all tenants to buy renter's insurance with apartment company name listed as \"additionally insured\". Also wants us to sign addendum to lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570158652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd1o51\/i_was_hit_and_run_by_a_local_grocery_store_semi\/","id":"dd1o51","body":"Okay so before I start, I know this may come off as greedy or whatever but to me this just seems like one of those situations where people get paid... like a wet floor without the sign.\n\nSo I was side swiped by this semi one night and it just drove off. Multiple people followed him, coming back to give me and the police the truck\u2019s info. I provided everything I can to insurance in the claim for my car. My neck has definitely been hurting more these past few days and I plan to call tomorrow to see what I can do. I guess I\u2019m just wondering if there\u2019s anything else I might be able to pursue?","title":"I was hit and run by a local grocery store semi truck and was wondering if there is any way to get money out of this?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504315078,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xiwb5\/for_all_managers_crew_everybody_must_work_on\/","id":"6xiwb5","body":"Quoted exactly as written on whiteboard.  If this is not against the law, I do believe it is against McDonalds' corporate policy, but I don't know what to do.","title":"\"For all managers + crew, Everybody must work on Christmas, December 25, if you call in or don't show up we will take it as you quiting\" This was posted the McDonald's my wife works at in Arizona, is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569406053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d916em\/could_i_or_my_family_get_into_legal_trouble_for\/","id":"d916em","body":"To keep this short, when I was young, Texas courts had ordered my father to pay child support for the rest of my life due to the mental health issues I was having at the time. Now he wishes to end the child support payments to my mother, something we're all on board for since I live by myself and support myself, and he needs a copy of a high school diploma I don't have.","title":"Could I, or my family, get into legal trouble for providing a fake high school diploma in court for child support?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504990612,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z46a3\/co_married_a_friend_of_mine_10_years_ago_for\/","id":"6z46a3","body":"Colorado \u2013 Got married to a friend of mine 10 years ago to share healthcare benefits (I'm gay, she's lesbian). Long story short, we haven't lived together in 8 years and never mixed our finances at all. Also no kids.\n\nI know Colorado is an equitable distribution state, but I just want to make sure that when we get an (uncontested) divorce that we won't be forced to split up our assets since there's no marital property at all. She has her assets and debt and I have mine.\n\nQuestions:\n\n1. If we never mixed our finances and there's no \"marital property\" will we have to split our assets?\n\n2. We've been effectively \"separated\" in that we haven't been living together for 8 years now, nor sharing finances for all 10. Do we still need to file for a legal separation to file for divorce, or are those mutually exclusive?\n\n2. Will we still have to file married filing * taxes next year?","title":"[CO] Married a friend of mine 10 years ago for health care reasons and never mixed our finances. Will we be forced to split our assets when we get divorced?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542051259,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wh935\/roommate_threatened_to_destroy_my_mail_what_can_i\/","id":"9wh935","body":"I have about five more months in a lease with a complete psycho who is constantly tossing out other people\u2019s food, dumping clothes out of the dryer onto the floor, etc. Annoying, but ok.\n\nToday she says via text \u2018get anything you want out of the mail pile, I\u2019m going to shred the rest on Thursday\u2019. I mean aside from the fact that there\u2019s lots of mail from past roommates and even the landlord in this pile, and it\u2019s rude and a federal crime, she\u2019s saying she\u2019s just going to potentially shred my mail even though I still live there. It\u2019s totally uncalled for as I stay on top of getting important items out of the box myself, she\u2019s just doing it to make life more difficult. I want a legal opinion on the situation overall. I\u2019ve never experienced anything like this. Even when past roommates and I didn\u2019t get along, basic respect was maintained.","title":"Roommate threatened to destroy my mail. What can I do if she ever follows through?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505285940,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zsyp3\/misleading_compensation_plan\/","id":"6zsyp3","body":"Western North Carolina, not sure if you guys need to know my county. \nI accepted a job a few months ago (just turned in my two weeks actually)and accepted it because my pay was better. It stated that I was to receive a normal paycheck and then come October, alternates from commission on the 15th and then my normal pay on the 30th. \nStates this:\nSeptember 30th $1250\nOctober 15th % of commission-$1250\nOctober 30th $1250\n\n(The dash $1250 on the 15th was never really explained to me. Wasn't sure if that meant up to 1250 or commission plus 1250. )\n\nWell I received an email in august, that come September that I would be going to 100% commission. Not cool. So I call hr and ask what was up. They look at the compensation plan that my boss sent them. It was different from the one I was emailed and signed on the day I started. They said they would talk to my boss. I informed my boss that I talked to HR. She told me to bring the compensation plan. She looked at it and said that the email was a month early but I would be going 100% commission come October. Still not what the compensation plan said. I also never heard back from HR. So, I'm quitting and having to accept a slightly lower paying job a little further away because I can't live off 100% commission. My sells training was a book and one ride along so I am in no way skilled enough of a salesman yet to go full commission. So do I have case or was I just cheated out of my pay?\n\nAlso not sure if this is the right flair.","title":"Misleading Compensation Plan","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508634910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77xcmf\/oh_my_landlord_never_returned_my_security_deposit\/","id":"77xcmf","body":"I moved out of my previous apartment in March. By email, I gave a move-out date and a forwarding address before my lease expired. He acknowledged receiving both. A ten weeks after my lease ended, I emailed him about the deposit and never got a reply. He never sent me a list of deductions for damages (and there were some damages) and never returned my deposit. \nI recently found out that a landlord in Ohio must return a security deposit within 30 days of the lease ending with an account for deductions for damages. It is my understanding that after that, they must return the deposit X2 plus legal expenses. \nHere is my question: Since it\u2019s been way, way more than 30 days, has my landlord lost the ability to deduct for damages? Am I owed the deposit IN FULL X2 plus legal expenses, or can he still deduct for damages? ","title":"[OH] My landlord never returned my security deposit. Does he forfeit the ability to deduct for damages?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554148315,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b87syl\/illegal_site_popup\/","id":"b87syl","body":"Hello,\n\nEmbarrassing, but...I was viewing some softcore porn via some random websites (those old school click-the-image and get a hundred pop-ups ones) when this forum popped up...well the thread titles on it made me instantly want to vomit\/put me in a shock...without getting into detail, it appeared to be a legit pedo forum. Saw no images, just thread titles.\n\nI feel as if it was a prank. If it is real, wow does a thing like this just pop-up in the regular\/non-darkweb internet? I don't know and will never know because I won't dare visit it. \n\nNow I am freaking out that my IP has been logged or something and I am on some FBI watch-list. I am seriously freaking the f out here. I want to cry.\n\nAny advice?","title":"Illegal site pop-up","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551750004,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axfd2e\/apartment_ceiling_is_leaking_and_smells_like_mold\/","id":"axfd2e","body":"My girlfriend lives in a terrible apt. complex. Had numerous issues before, but this is the biggest one, and I\u2019m not sure about the best way to handle it as now I\u2019m concerned for her safety. \n\nI\u2019ll try to be brief. So in the corner of her bedroom, every time it rains, the ceiling leaks and the water runs down the corner of the wall and soaks the carpet. The paint is chipping away and the corner of the ceiling is sagging. \n\nI put in a maintenance request as soon as we noticed. The maintenance guy came in and told us he called a contractor to come look at it and they would call by the end of the day to give us an update. They never called. A week goes by. It rains some more. Now the apartment smells like mold, which I assume is not safe to breathe. We put in another maintenance request. The office is closed. I\u2019m about to call the emergency maintenance line. They don\u2019t answer and you\u2019re suppose to leave message. I assume they won\u2019t do anything even then.\n\nAny advice on how to handle this situation? Thanks!","title":"Apartment ceiling is leaking and smells like mold. Maintenance won\u2019t do anything about it.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569508455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9kgqx\/security_deposit_not_returned_landlord_sold_home\/","id":"d9kgqx","body":"Hi everyone! I'll try to explain this as clearly as I can:\n\nI rented out a room over the summer in Alabama and held onto my own apartment in my home state. The room was in a house and there is a full contract which mentions the security deposit will be returned. Since I have left I have not received my deposit (this is over 30 days ago) and the landlord has sold her home. My question is, does selling nullify the contract or cause any issues? I ask because an old roommate at the same place is having the same issue and telling me \"It's bullshit because she sold it so now I can't take legal action.\"\n\nNow, I'm not anything near a lawyer, but I have a hard time believing you can just sell a place and wash your hands clean of all financial responsibilities of previous tenants. Do I have any options here or is this really a case where I'll have to bite the bullet? I have emailed her but she refuses to respond.\n\nThank you all for taking your time to read this.","title":"Security deposit not returned; landlord sold home","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555412303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdsjqd\/im_an_american_on_a_working_holiday_visa_in\/","id":"bdsjqd","body":"I'm about 4 months into my 1-year visa. I was working my landscaping job, driving behind my boss who is always in a hurry. He went through a yellow light, so I (stupidly) followed him.  Low and behold a week later a Red light violation letter comes in the mail to his house that carries a $448 fine. My back tire was literally an inch from crossing the white line in time. Since I was driving he is making me pay for it.  It will put 3 points on my license, (which I don't really care about) but as a backpacker, the $448 fine really hurts. I'm curious what will happen if I just let it go and don't pay for it?  This is in New South Wales.","title":"Im an American on a working holiday visa in Australia. What will happen if I dont pay a red-light ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447273739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sg5se\/got_a_speeding_ticket_in_georgia_in_a_rental_car\/","id":"3sg5se","body":"My girlfriend and I live in Washington state.  My girlfriend lives here now but still has a Georgia drivers license with an out of date address.  While on vacation, in a rental car, she got a speeding ticket which we subsequently lost, and since we were just driving along the interstate I'm really not sure what county we got the ticket in (it wasn't from state patrol).\n\nI thought we'd be able to find it in the house, but it's looking less hopeful now...I think the date to pay it is in early December.  We don't know who to call or how to find where we got this ticket.  Does anyone have any advice on how we can find out where she got a ticket from?\n\nWe are going to pay the ticket we just can't figure out how.","title":"Got a speeding ticket in Georgia in a rental car, but lost the ticket and don't remember what county\/jurisdiction it was in. How do I find out where I got the ticket so I can pay it?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570036100,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcd5hj\/what_if_my_wife_cheated_on_me_but_our_mortgage_is\/","id":"dcd5hj","body":"Do I have any legal standing to regain the equity I've put into a home under the assumption that it would eventually be property owned by us as a couple? Or would it just be seen as rent paid to a landlord? Also with the home not being in our name and no formal rental agreement, considering that this isn't a no-fault situation, do I have any standing to insist she leave the home?","title":"What if my wife cheated on me, but our mortgage is in my MIL's name?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553632077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5ut77\/university_may_make_me_spend_more_time_on_my\/","id":"b5ut77","body":"Hello legal parties of reddit. I am a student at a University in Tennessee and recently they implemented a change to my degree requirements. This change forces me and other students in the same department to switch degree sheets. This is not acceptable to me as it forces me to take a course I do not want to take. I didn't agree to the change either. Can they do this or does Tennessee state law forbid this? I am uncertain and we are currently investigating the matter ourselves. Much appreciated.","title":"University may make me spend more time on my degree. I can't allow that. Can they force me to do this? (TN, USA)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554150348,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b88df3\/uhaul_driver_hit_and_run_knocked_the_sign_off_my\/","id":"b88df3","body":"I submitted a claim through Uhaul\u2019s insurance company. If the guy declined their insurance would Uhaul still be responsible for damages? I\u2019m waiting to hear back from them now. I really don\u2019t want to chase the guy down because my employee didn\u2019t get his info before he fled. ","title":"Uhaul driver hit and run, knocked the sign off my business","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555257496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd46ag\/in_what_cases_would_it_be_legal_to_defend\/","id":"bd46ag","body":"United states, I know each state might be different but I'd like to know still.","title":"In what cases would it be legal to defend yourself sigh a knife?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442432081,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l7kg9\/california_parent_died_without_will_need_to\/","id":"3l7kg9","body":"[California] My mother recently died before getting her will together. She is survived by her husband and two children. She had one vehicle that was in her name only that we want to transfer to either my father or one of us children (whichever is easier). We'd like to avoid probate if at all possible.\n\nI've been reading over the [CA DMV site](https:\/\/www.dmv.ca.gov\/portal\/dmv\/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:\/dmv_content_en\/dmv\/pubs\/brochures\/howto\/htvr2) but remain pretty confused on what exactly needs to happen.\n\nDo I *just* submit a REG-5 form? Or do I need to submit the form cocktail of REG-227, REG-5, REG-256, and REG-262? Can I show up at the DMV with all these forms and reasonably expect some help?\n\nIf you've had the misfortune of having to go through this process, perhaps you could provide some advice?","title":"[California] Parent died without will, need to transfer car ownership","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569365020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8uq2e\/tenant_is_living_rentfree_and_wont_leave\/","id":"d8uq2e","body":"We asked them to move out a while ago but they won\u2019t leave; they are also threatening to sue. CA","title":"Tenant is living rent-free and won\u2019t leave","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540781087,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s9buo\/fell_outside_my_housing_complex_am_screwed\/","id":"9s9buo","body":"So earlier today I fell down the outside stairs that lead to the parking lot at my complex. Their large steps and most don\u2019t have handrails.\nAnyway in a perfect world I wouldn\u2019t even be asking this. But I\u2019m self employed primarily (I fucked up on not having a private policy I know)and my side career doesn\u2019t give short term disability. \nI\u2019m in healthcare so I can\u2019t work until I\u2019m cleared 100%. I may be able to work at my place but it\u2019s a stretch and I have no way of getting there. I am non weightbearing can barely get in and out of my house and can\u2019t drive because of this injury. \nI have no way to pay my bills and rent unless I dip into savings. I was told I also may need surgery due to the severity of soft tissue injury as well. I could be out 6 months or more...\nI\u2019m at a loss. I need help on what I need to do. Things to expect if I do bring this up to my landlord and or file a claim, any advice on short term disability when you\u2019re already hurt and anything else I could consider here. \n","title":"Fell outside my housing complex, am screwed because I can\u2019t work.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553625098,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5tcwd\/va_school_is_trying_to_hold_me_back_for_missing\/","id":"b5tcwd","body":"In September of 2018 I was involved in a head on collision, I lost both legs from the knee down and was in a coma for 2 weeks, and recovery for 3 more weeks. I went back to school in early November and was quite immediately greeted by none other than the principal, who, while I was in a wheelchair and quite obviously not in the best condition, yelled in my face - \"SARAH! (fake name) DO YOU REALIZE YOU HAVE MISSED 31 DAYS OF SCHOOL? THATS TRUANCY YOUNG LADY!\" And stormed off. I was expected to make up all work that I had missed and resultingly failed that quarter due to a 5 day return limit. I took the truancy up with the school board and wasn't even allowed to speak at a meeting about my case. Only 10 days were excused absences due to a dumbass limit, and I was informed that I would be held back by this. Is there anything I can do to fight this decision or policy","title":"(VA) School is trying to hold me back for missing school, I was in the hospital","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1549929084,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apmrsy\/mi_wifes_coworker_was_fired_the_next_day_the_boss\/","id":"apmrsy","body":"My wife\u2019s coworker was let go by text message the other day. The next day at work the boss announces that his wife is quitting her job so that she can come and replace her. He claims she should be able to do a good enough job, even though her former job and the new job aren\u2019t similar. \n\nAre there potential issues with wrongful termination \/ nepotism?","title":"[MI] wife\u2019s coworker was fired, the next day the boss announces he is replacing her with his wife.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569554760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9uo54\/my_friend_and_his_brother_need_dire_help_in_a\/","id":"d9uo54","body":"Hello fellow redditors, so cureently, my 14 year old friend is in a middle of a legal battle between his step mom and biological father, he doesnt like his mom, she is satan in his eyes, he has suicidal thoughts because of her, she makes false claims against his dad, which has sent him to jail 3 times. the recent court ruling was in favor of his mom, which is making him suicidal, him and his little brother dont want to end up with their mom, im not sure about the details, but he told me that in a week, he can send a letter to the court as an official statement, and it can give his dad 100% custody of him and his little brother, but the chances are ver, VERY slim, he also cant go through emancipation because he lives in north dakota, please reddit, is there anything that can help my friend?","title":"My friend and his brother need dire help in a family court","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568429083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3zlwl\/my_ex_is_flat_out_not_paying_child_support\/","id":"d3zlwl","body":" Essentially what the title says. My ex owes my child $330 a month in child support. Originally he only owed $300, however the court ordered him to pay more in order to cover for missed payments. The last payment I received was a partial payment in early July. Normally it would not be a big deal, I know how bad he can be at finances, however he has been avoiding taking our son due to \u2018working all the time\u2019, and our child is growing out of everything he owns, as well as potty training, I do not make enough to finance all of this on my own, and he refuses to pay for it otherwise. The amount he pays was 100% chosen by him. I don\u2019t really want him to go to jail, I just want him to help take care of his son. \n\n I did some research, but nothing really pointed me in any definitive direction, any advice or links are much appreciated.","title":"My ex is flat out not paying child support. Looking for options [NC]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506094163,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71rq3y\/can_i_take_money_out_of_rent_if_my_landlord\/","id":"71rq3y","body":"Hey guys, so I\u2019m sorry if this is a dumb question. I\u2019m just gonna get straight to it. \n\nThere\u2019s a lot going on with this place as well(black mold on our ceiling and such.)\n\nSo a month ago our a\/c unit in our converted duplex\/converted garage(no doors separating the rooms except the bathroom) went out in the main room of the house. Landlord finally replaced it yesterday. The unit is below a window. About 10 inches or less from the ground. \n\nMy landlord finally puts in a smaller unit and just puts drywall in between the wall to hold it in place nothing else. I didn\u2019t realize this since I did not watch him do it. My wife & I come home from work on lunch and discover a hole next to the window unit where the drywall was, and our dog is outside. The neighbors keep their back door open 24\/7 and their Doberman likes to sit behind our back door window(next to the wall unit.) and growl at our dogs. The drywall you can tell was pushed inward, so I think the other dog might\u2019ve been the cause of it. There\u2019s nothing supporting the drywall that was there. The landlord took two pieces of wood, and just laid it against the wall next to the opening. There\u2019s nothing behind it, no wood, nothing.So after freaking out and making sure our dog isn\u2019t bleeding. I decided to stay home and watch the dogs until my landlord answers the phone, and fixes this. (Have nowhere to put the dogs. Couldn\u2019t risk them getting out.) \n\n\nHere\u2019s where the question comes in. I hate missing work. Since I had to leave early today. Not only did I lose pay for 3.5 hours, I am also going to be losing what would\u2019ve been my bonus for this month. So I\u2019m not going for what would\u2019ve been another $250-$300 bonus, but am I able to take the money I would\u2019ve made working today out of my rent? I\u2019m so through with this guy. But it\u2019s hard to find a decent place to rent that allows dogs. Also since this has to be fixed ASAP and I\u2019m capable of putting wood in to actually hold it in place, can I fix this shitty job he did himself and take that out of rent? \n\nThank you in advance for your time and reading this.\n\n","title":"Can I take money out of rent if my landlord causes me to miss work? (FL)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538869546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m0qic\/ca_wage_claim_or_sue_companyowner\/","id":"9m0qic","body":"My husband took an at-will job that required us to relocate to California. He hasn't been paid for 8 of 12 weeks of work. He has stopped all work for the employer and is owed around 25K plus associated health care costs reimbursements.\n\nI know we can file a wage claim but should we look into sueing the owner? I left a high paying job in our home state, our expenses have doubled as we are now in southern Californian and we have 9 months left on a lease that we otherwise would have never needed and we will now be forced to give up our nonemployer sponsered health insurance or pay the extremely high costs. \n\nBefore he accepted this job I specifically asked the owner what kind of financial runway we were working with as I wanted to be sure he could pay my husband for at least a year. He ensured both of us that it would not be a problem. I may have that I writing somewhere although there was never a contract, just your typical offer letter. We were really mislead and the financial ruin now goes beyond unpaid wages (may need to break lease to move to a LCOL area for employment, moving expenses, fees and interest, etc). I'm wondering if we can somehow be compensated for that as well or is that wishful thinking?\n\nWe appreciate any insight, good or bad :)","title":"CA - Wage Claim or Sue Company\/Owner","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444260079,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nwjom\/teacher_keylogging_snooping_in_personal_files_on\/","id":"3nwjom","body":"Hello \/r\/legaladvice. I am writing because I have encountered a problem. I am currently 15 and in a Maryland High School taking a ITE course.\n\nMy ITE teacher has recently revealed to the class that he has secretly been keylogging us and knows all of the information we have put in to the school computers including passwords for non-school related sites that we were permitted to use, such as pandora radio and gmail\/hotmail.\n\nThe teacher also said that he has been secretly snooping around in our portable USB devices that are a required school material. He threatened to report us to the authorities if we had any proxy servers or something that could bypass the county's school firewall, regardless of if we use them. (In my case the flashdrive is not only a school material and I need it outside of the school as well. I also use the proxy server as a tool in many out-of-school places.)\n\nAfter some reading in the school policies it doesn't appear anywhere to mention students being keylogged is okay. If any further information is required I would be happy to supply it, just leave a comment or send me a PM.\n\nEDIT: Or don't PM. Just leave a comment asking for more information and I will reply. :)","title":"Teacher keylogging \/ snooping in personal files on flashdrive. Student-Privacy help?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541270412,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9twj8g\/can_a_lawyer_charge_for_their_time_stuck_in_a\/","id":"9twj8g","body":"My friend is going through a divorce, and her lawyer got stuck in traffic for two hours, delaying the court. They then charged by the hour for the time they spent stuck in traffic. She doesn\u2019t have a ton of money, and I\u2019m curious if this is legal. \n\nThe lawyer also did some other shady stuff, like beginning to offer legal advice to the other party in the divorce part way through. ","title":"Can a lawyer charge for their time stuck in a traffic jam?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554395884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9f2d6\/is_it_legal_to_send_spam_bots_onto_account_s\/","id":"b9f2d6","body":"Now I think I should explain as in spam bots that only send mildly annoying e-mails none that would actually hurt the person.","title":"Is it legal to send spam bots onto account s","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539709640,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9opldk\/ny_gettin_married\/","id":"9opldk","body":"I'm getting married summer of next year. We'll be 29 & 30. First marriage for us both, no children. No property. I'm a union freelancer, he's got a great 9-5. After my parents' divorce turned from sad to mean and nasty over how to split property, we've decided to get a prenup.\n\nWhat would you advise practical young people do pre & post nuptials to be most protected and proactive about legal issues? What mistakes have you seen young couples make that were easily avoided?","title":"[NY] Gettin' Married","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570215094,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddbnc3\/my_parents_landlord_has_neglected_repairs_and\/","id":"ddbnc3","body":"I'll try to keep it short. They have lived there 10 years. The landlord never did repairs, just had my parents take it out of the rent. They, of course, notified everything verbally. My father became ill became and couldn't do repairs. They've not had a working stove for months. There is old mold on the kitchen ceiling.  \n\nA month ago the sewer line burst and water flooded the front yard and neighbors yard. They were without AC due to this as well. He did little, despite knowing my dad was there in Hospice care. Our whole family was there while my dad died in a sweltering house.  \n\nIt took him 2 weeks to get the line repaired. The city turned on the water during repairs and flooded the living room. \nThe water was cleaned up but he refused to clean out the vents, or repair the moldy drywall. He just had the drywall removed. His reason is that he is selling the house.  \n\nMy stepmother is moving next month, but is there any way she can at the very least ensure that this jerk won't keep her security deposit? Are there any other things she is owed? The poor woman has very little money after the medical expenses, so if she needs a lawyer that will be rough.  \n\nThank you.","title":"My parents landlord has neglected repairs and half-assed repairs, and left my stepmother in a house with water in the vents and mold.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445182966,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p8je2\/or_3rd_apartment_inspection_since_may_1\/","id":"3p8je2","body":"My wife and I rent an apartment along with our two children. We moved in on May 1st. Our rent is paid on-time or early, in full, every month. We're good tenants, no problems caused. We were able to afford a deposit due to our previous living situation qualifying us for a Department of Human Services loan. The property was recently purchased, and the bank that carried the loan also carried a loan for a substantial remodel\/renovation of the complex. \n\nA month or so after we moved in, DHS conducted an inspection of all the units in our complex. We were given full 24 notice as required by Oregon tenant law. A representative of the property management company was there as well, to provide keys and such. This inspection went well, and was really cursory.\n\nLess than a month later, we get a notice of a 2nd inspection. This time, the bank is sending a rep to verify that the remodel has gone well, that all of the goods & services were actually provided, basically just checking their investment. Again, a rep from the PM will be there.\n\nDue to a paperwork error in the office, however, we get the wrong inspection date. Our paperwork says the 21st, their rep is there in the 11th. Thankfully I was home, and when they knocked on the door, I showed them the 24 hour notice which showed a much later date. Admittedly, it was odd they delivered a 24 hour notice of inspection more than a week in advance, but figured, hey, I'm not the one running the place.\n\nBank rep and PM show up, I show them the form, complete with date, and they say \"Huh, must have been an office glitch. Well, have a nice day,\" and they leave.\n\nThis was a few months ago.\n\nFriday, dropping by the on-site to check mail, the office manager (a really nice lady) lets us know that the bank is planning to conduct a second inspection sometime in November. Again, a bank rep and a PM rep will be there.\n\nThis means that we'll be inspected (or atleast notified of an inspection) 3 times in less than 6 months. To me, this seems rather excessive, given that Oregon law since they can do one inspection every 6 months. Its a major irritation, and a damned inconvenience.\n\nI should point out that none of these three inspections have been initiated by or for the property management, but some relevant third party with a vested interest in the property. Can they legally do this? ","title":"[OR] 3rd apartment inspection since May 1.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554238451,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8os0h\/high_school_diploma_held_because_of_lost_book\/","id":"b8os0h","body":"The title makes it sounds justified but hear me out. I graduated 3 years ago, I have never received my Diploma because a book was never returned. The books work where every book is assigned a number and then every student signs the book and they keep a log of who has what book. It was a science book that I left in my locker. Assuming it was fine to leave it in there for it be found since it had my name in it and they should have that logged. That didn't happen and this is where it gets shady, they don't know which book was mine. They don't know if the book is truly lost or if its still being used in the school. **They directly told me they don't have the logs of which students had what book anymore for that year.** Should I dispute this because their record system is inadequate or should I just pay the $170? I would love to fight this because it sounds like they are in the wrong here, I wanted to ask you guys if you think they are in the wrong before I go in there hot and toasty on Friday. ","title":"High School Diploma Held Because of \"Lost\" Book","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1508452895,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77hzf1\/wife_fired_for_discussing_her_salary_with\/","id":"77hzf1","body":"So, my wife was called into her boss's office this afternoon, and told her employment was being terminated because she had \"broken a confidentiality agreement.\" When she asked the details, my wife was informed that it was because she had talked with a co-worker about their respective wages.  IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that's illegal, but I don't know how to proceed.  She was employed by a family owned real estate office as a listing coordinator, if that's important. ","title":"Wife fired for discussing her salary with coworkers (Michigan)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442007591,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3klf62\/my_isp_admitted_throttling_my_upload_because_its\/","id":"3klf62","body":"Hi, forgive my lack of knowledge regarding this subject, I'm just working off of what my roommate told me and my shoddy internet research.\n\nI'm 19 and I recently moved into a new apartment complex. They provide us with internet here (50 dollars a month, which is overpriced for what we are receiving) and it states that we are not allowed to use another provider. I stream video games on the platform twitchtv, and I make money through donations, I am not partnered with them.\n\nWhile the internet is not as good as I would like it to be, it's still fine for streaming. However, I would get kicked off the server roughly every hour, and forced to log back into the internet and restart my stream. I emailed the people who provide wifi to my complex (it is shared among all the residents) and they admitted to throttling my internet. Here is exactly what they said from the email: \n\n>Regarding your application, the system is designed and \"tuned\" for residential use and not a commercial application like the one you are describing, and we specifically monitor and \"throttle\" use that looks like peer-to-peer traffic as it is especially consumptive, so if you are trying to stream to more than one party, then the service will be throttled (btw, Comcast of any other carrier would do the same).   Unfortunately, if we were to allow you to stream many simultaneous sessions, then there would be no bandwidth left for other residents.  In your case, as a commercial enterprise, we would suggest you host your service with a third party internet service provider whose business is to do exactly that. For us to do anything different than the standard service would require the property management to change policy and creae an exception for you, so perhaps you should contact them.\n\nI'm not entirely sure what I can do. There was nothing in my lease about bandwidth restrictions. It did say that I cannot run a business from within my apartment, and before I contact the people who manage my property I'd like to make sure that this in no way can be qualified as commercial, considering that's what my ISP perceives it to be. \n\nSo basically what I'm asking is, is it legal to do this? I know about net neutrality but not the specifications of what it entails. If it is legal, how can I go about asking property management for more leeway without insinuating that I'm running a business, because I don't believe this counts as one, however I could be wrong.\n\nNot sure if it's matters legality-wise, but I live in the state of Colorado. Let me know if there's any other information I can provide that would help out and I'll do my best to dig it up.","title":"My ISP admitted throttling my upload because it's too consumptive of bandwidth.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540319287,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qrpl5\/or_car_accident_earlier_this_year_passenger\/","id":"9qrpl5","body":"(On mobile, sorry for formatting)\n\nIt\u2019s currently October. Back in March of this year, a friend of mine who had just gotten her license (she was driving before anyways) was taking me home. While exiting to another freeway, she lost control of her back right wheel (traction failed) and panicked. She jerked the wheel left and slammed on her brakes causing her 97 Volvo hatchback to do a complete 180. My side (passenger) slammed into the barricade on the left. It\u2019s hard to explain but this made us face traffic. There was an extra ~10 ft of space so we weren\u2019t in immediate danger there. Car was totaled. \n\nSome details: \nHer 18(ish) month old daughter was in a rear facing car seat in the back seat. Baby seemed to be okay, really upset that her nap was so terribly interrupted. Mom (my friend) was too freaked out to even talk to police so I stepped in there and helped make sure the car was removed from the exit in a timely manner. \n\nI went to urgent care the next day. Doctor did the bare minimum in making sure I was okay (moved my arms around - literally that was it). I am planning on seeing a chiropractor this month to see if there was any damage to the right side of my body. For clarification, I\u2019ve been having a lot of issues with my neck and shoulder on that side (particularly my trap muscle) and my arm. \n\nI don\u2019t know if she even had insurance, which will either make or break this situation. If she doesn\u2019t have insurance, I am NOT going after her as she will most likely be put in jail and I\u2019m not that petty. If she does have insurance I am almost certain she did not report the accident and I am planning on making a claim. \n\nMy question is what constitutes as personal injury? Do I need to go to a medical practitioner for proof? Would speaking to a lawyer even help me in this situation? \n\nI don\u2019t drive and have no idea how to even begin to approach this. All advice is greatly appreciated. I will update with further info if this post gets any attention. ","title":"(OR) Car accident earlier this year (passenger) wondering if I\u2019m entitled to claim personal injury?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541807462,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vpm40\/counterclaim_for_emotional_distress\/","id":"9vpm40","body":"I\u2019m currently being sued in Texas for an absurd amount of money over a wreck that was not my fault. I\u2019m already extremely anxious as it is, and having to deal with the possibility of going to court and everything else is escalating it and causing problems with my schoolwork. Is it possible to counterclaim to get them to drop this ridiculous case, and if so, how would I go about this? Thanks","title":"Counterclaim for emotional distress?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555125747,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcmeqo\/eviction_notice_for_noise_memo\/","id":"bcmeqo","body":"Hello guys, so I'm in a situation in which I believe a landlord just wants me out. For background, A neighbor came to my good accusing me of stomping all night but I was just walking in the floor. After a small argument they neighbor has been complaint in an attempt to get me out as they are friends with the property manager.\n\nAnyway, after 4  untrue memos I received this notice. I don't think this is fair and from what I've searched I at least should be able to gain compliance.\nIs this the proper notice to quit that is required in Ohio? And should I fight this or just leave like they want me too. Thanks.\n\n\n\n[picture](https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/dlD55bS?s=sms)","title":"Eviction Notice for noise memo","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552695792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1mb29\/lawyer_mailed_personal_property_inherited_from\/","id":"b1mb29","body":"Alright, the situation is partially resolved. But here it is.\n\nMy grandmother died and part of her estate and will was to distribute property in her safe deposit box. In this box we\u2019re a number of semi-valuable items.\n\nMy cousins(3), sibling(1), uncle, and dad were all recipients of these items. We had a lottery, drew and evenly distributed them. We do not communicate outside of this with my uncle\/cousins and probably have not in the last 10 years. We are also divided into 3 separate states.\n\nThe lawyer had his assistant mail the items to each individual as assigned with insured and signed mail. In this process the assistant placed and mailed one of my items to my cousin.\n\nI received my items, identified that there was one missing, took a picture of everything, mailed the layer. They identified who it went to, got in contact with him, and he emailed that he would send it to me.\n\nI sent an email to the lawyer saying that I was disappointed in the handling of my personal property, and wanted them to ensure it was mailed to me.\n\nThe lawyer just said to me that it seems like my cousin is going to mail it and what else do I want him to do.\n\nDo I even respond? Should I send more emails outlining what he should do to ensure it is sent? I am just dumbfounded in the lack of care and incompetency that was put into this. What would you suggest?","title":"Lawyer mailed personal property inherited from dead relative to wrong person- what to do?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551304885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avj1lx\/criminal_record_affecting_employment\/","id":"avj1lx","body":"I am in California and have a misdemeanor on my record from 5 years ago, Domestic Battery without injury is the charge that I advised was on my record. \n\nThe staffing agency ran a criminal background check on me before ever submitting me to a client for an interview or even discussing an opportunity. This is a first time for me, usually I get the interview, hired then background check. Nonetheless the results came back which what I told them and they said they can\u2019t even represent me for employment.\n\nNo other agency within the 5 years said it was an issue but this agency won\u2019t even consider any job, not even a entry level minimum wage position as an example. Is this even legal for them to do? ","title":"Criminal Record affecting Employment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540394241,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r0ke9\/is_this_considered_wrongful_termination_and_can_i\/","id":"9r0ke9","body":"I didn't think I'd need to ask at any point on here, but hey, it happens to everyone. I'd like to start out saying I work 2 jobs and as of today I have been let go from one of them (we'll call the big guy Miles, supervisor Amy, second supervisor Billy, a co-worker Kyla, one of the leads is Tim and third person can be Grover). I'd also like to point out that everything we do is recorded and that it's two issues in one.\n\n​\n\nThey are claiming I had falsified information concerning a report due to Grover and Billy saying I had not informed them of a previous issue with a person involved in the report, yet they could not actually prove whether I did or not other than just he said she said. I was not aware until Monday (15th) that I was supposed to have done an incident for this report as Amy had told me \"Due to it being considered an accident, no incident is needed.\" when Miles had sent an email asking where the incident was. Amy claimed she never said \"It's not an incident due to it being considered an accident\", yet, that alone proves she failed to do her job properly (leads and up are supposed to proof read anything we do and ensure any and all information is provided and accurate) as she closed out the report without an incident attached and did not inform me for two days (Saturday and Sunday, both of which we worked) that there needed to be one done. I tried to ask how any of this even falls back on me when Amy is the one who didn't do her job but they did not give me a straight answer and then proceeded to go off topic to another matter. Come to find out (they don't know I talk to other people in and out of our department and am still aware of things going on despite being suspended pending investigation for the past 6 days), someone had deleted the phone calls received for the day of the report being made (Friday the 12th) during my SPI, which seems really fishy to me and is just backing up that I'm not the one hiding anything or falsifying information.\n\n​\n\nIssue 2, which I don't even understand why they made this an issue when it's obvious that the supervisors failed to communicate properly. I had requested PTO for the 19th-21st of October, and those days were approved all the way up to the first week of October. I had (they threw it out when they emptied my locker and wouldn't let me have it) a printout of the October schedule that Tim had printed out for me that showed I had those 3 days approved. Come the 13th, one of the other shift supervisors had made the statement that the schedule posted on the wall was not printed out correctly or even labelled (apparently it was supposed to be Octobers schedule, but whoever printed it out did it all wrong). That following Sunday (14th) I looked at the newly printed schedule and it suddenly showed I no longer had the 20th and 21st for PTO. Amy, prior to the schedule being reprinted, had asked me if I was sure I had enough PTO hours to cover all three days and I explained the math and showed her my PTO hours at the time and all that (I had enough PTO hours) and said she would look into possible solutions in case I didn't (not sure why when I proved I had enough hours). They are also saying that I was being let go due to being considered untruth worthy since they are claiming that Kyla never said she would cover me for my PTO request day (Sunday the 21st) due to being short people that day (they knew a month and a half in advance of my PTO request and it was approved all the way up to the beginning of October), as well as Amy saying she never told me Kyla would cover for me that day. No one ever brought it to my attention that my days suddenly changed (not a surprise that there was a lack of communication, it's a huge issue at that place) and I was left to speak to Miles on the 14th about it asking why I suddenly didn't have these days off. Miles makes the statement that the schedule Tim had printed out for me wasn't legitimate (trying to say I faked it, when I don't have access to the schedule in any way or the software matching their schedule program to be able to do something like that) but didn't want to look at the time frame I gave to review the footage (cause again, we are recorded the entire time). I don't understand why this whole PTO thing was an issue when it's obviously a lack of communication.\n\n​\n\nTDLR; They are trying to say I falsified information for a report\/incident without any factual proof and they made an issue over my PTO days due to a lack of proper communication from higher ups. Is there any kind of claim I have against this place (wrongful termination, so on so forth)? I have no intentions of wanting to return to that place as a worker, but I would like to go for lost wagers and anything else that is applicable. Thanks for any help.","title":"Is this considered wrongful termination and can I pursue anything if so?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1411132073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2guvtu\/us_nd_negligent_use_of_pii\/","id":"2guvtu","body":"Hello from North Dakota,   \nHypothetically, if there is a company storing PII (SSN and Driver's License copies) in plain format on a non-secured computer that is available to anyone in the office building, are there any breaking any laws?\n\nSecond, if HR has been notified more than once about the PII and no action was taken is the company now negligent in some way?\nTo what legal agency would this be reported?\n\nThanks for your time.","title":"US - ND Negligent use of PII","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554009637,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7kaog\/would_this_be_lible\/","id":"b7kaog","body":"About 18 months ago I was kidnapped by fraud from a hospital. The police refuse to investigate despite evidence of a crime and multiple victims with similar stories.\n\nAnyway, I'm trying to get the community to become aware of the dangers of our local hospital and for the police to take this seriously.\n\nMy plan is to print out flyers with 2 pictures of her from facebook with something along the lines of: \"WARNING KIDNAPPER\" then listing the crimes she committed against me, specifically administering drugs she was aware I was allergic to, signing an unethical 10-13 (she admitted she knew I wasn't suicidal or a risk to myself or others aka kidnapping by fraud), listing medical malpractice and negligence (both provable through medical paperwork) and maybe a few others.\n\nI was wondering since I know that she committed these crimes, I have proof of these crimes, I've reported these crimes, and other victims have come forward if this is considered lible. \n\nI can provide additional details if needed. Thanks!","title":"Would this be lible?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447113978,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s7ctq\/summer_job_still_owes_me_money_hasnt_responded_to\/","id":"3s7ctq","body":"Hi Legal Advice,\n\nThis summer I started my first job (I am 15) at a summer camp in NJ. I was told (and signed a contract) I would be paid semiannually $650 in 3 payments. During that camp, I was also chosen to help out by being a \"bus monitor,\" which I was told would get me another $100. This whole \"bus monitor\" thing seemed pretty informal -- it consisted of my boss walking up to me and going like \"hey you want to help me be bus monitor and you get $100 added to your pay\" and me being like \"yea sure.\"\n\nI've only been paid $600 of that, and no one has responded to multiple emails or phone calls. Apparently I'm not the only one too...several of my friends are in similar situations with this camp, but many of them have just told me to \"forget about it\". What is my next step here? Is it even worth going after that least $150? I feel like there's a really obvious answer here, but honestly all of this is so confusing to me.\n\nThanks for any advice","title":"Summer job still owes me money, hasn't responded to any communication...what do I do now? (X-Post from Personal Finance)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570931110,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh48i6\/is_pet_rent_still_legal_in_oregon\/","id":"dh48i6","body":"I am a landlord in Oregon of a small 2 unit duplex. Currently I rent to someone who used to have a pet in the apartment, and charged a monthly pet rent.  The agreement was entered into in June 2018, and since then the roommate who had the pet moved out. Now the person living there wants to get a new roommate and this potential roommate has a small pet. \n\nSince the passing of the rent control\/housing law in Oregon this year (2019), am I legally allowed to still charge pet rent? If I don\u2019t make up a new agreement and rather do an amendment is the old pet rent amount valid still? I have done my best to make sense of the law and am still confused on if this is legal.\n\nAny help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I want to follow the rules, but without pet rent I don\u2019t think I want to allow pets anymore.","title":"Is pet rent still legal in Oregon?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570427213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/defaof\/doctors_note_requirements\/","id":"defaof","body":"Hello!\n\nI hope I'm posting in the right place. I'm a freelance AV tech and I recently had to cancel some days for a medical issue. I had a seizure 3 weeks prior to my dates, my right should dislocated itself, then reset itself during the event, and for several weeks if I overworked it it would hurt to a point where I needed to sling it up.\n\nWhen I called out they requested a doctor's note, which I did not provide because I'm not going to spend money for them to prescribe me opioids (I live in Florida, it's a huge thing) for something I just needed to let settle. \n\nFlash to today and I found out that that is being held against me and they're not booking me much anymore. I know it's there prerogative to not hire me but my question is:\n\nI thought I've heard that if a company is not providing sick days or medical benefits that they can't request doctors notes, is this true or was it gig talk.\n\nAlso important to note: my freelance contract with the company makes no mention of requiring medical notes.","title":"Doctor's Note Requirements","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551847755,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axuvte\/nv_my_mom_and_dad_are_getting_a_divorce_and_my\/","id":"axuvte","body":"Long time listener, first time caller. Sorry, this\u2019ll be a little long. \n\nLocation is Nevada. My parents are currently married but separated, and my Mom was just served divorce paperwork yesterday. The terms set down in the paperwork aren\u2019t *insane*, exactly, but they very obviously (to me) favor Dad more than they favor Mom, to an unfair degree given our financial and living situation. \n\nA few things for context\/information, because I don\u2019t know what info is important and what isn\u2019t:\n\n\u2022 Dad has been living full-time in Puerto Rico for work reasons (I think specifically tax reasons?) for what must be around three+ years at this point, traveling back to Nevada or to somewhere in the continental United States every so often for the minimum length of time that he can to be considered a resident of Puerto Rico *and* a resident of Nevada\u2014but he doesn\u2019t even stay in the house we live in, he gets a hotel or an Airbnb while he\u2019s here and we have no idea how often he actually is in town or traveling. We only know what he cares to share with us. \n\n\u2022 I don\u2019t know if our Nevada house is in his name, but my mom\u2019s car is not (I believe), nor is the car my middle brother uses (technically his girlfriend\u2019s car, that\u2019s a whole long story). Mom was hoping to save money for all of 2019 in order to downsize and buy a smaller, one-story 3bed house to move out of our rented two-story 5bed house with an office (for Dad) and a ton of other space we just can\u2019t afford anymore. This divorce is likely going to prolong those plans and necessitate our living here, considering the cost of moving, despite staying being the more expensive option long-term. \n\n\u2022 The divorce is entirely Dad\u2019s idea; he voiced his desire to Mom, and though she was heartbroken, she\u2019s strong and has accepted that it\u2019s happening and is okay with it happening. Despite this, he has been very cruel and unsympathetic to her (in my opinion) for \u201cdragging her feet\u201d with it, etc\u2014even while she was recently in the hospital (for a non-life threatening but urgent situation), messaging her about it. Mom suggested they do couples therapy at first to try and reconcile for the sake of not forcing us kids to \u201cchoose\u201d, etc, but it went nowhere because the therapist kept agreeing with my mom and my dad didn\u2019t want to hear it\u2014and I\u2019m not even saying that Dad didn\u2019t have *any* fair points, but Mom at least acknowledged his points and tried to address them. Dad was only interested in blaming Mom and her \u201cfaults\/mistakes\u201d for the reasons he wanted a divorce. \n\n\u2022 In fact, being in Nevada at all was his idea\u2014it was for work with a company he\u2019s not even with anymore. We used to live in a totally different state and our family uprooted from there when I was in third grade in order to be supportive of his job and make it possible to fill a promotion here. It was his idea to move here, like it was his idea to leave that industry when it started failing, and like it was his idea to invest in cryptocurrency and other side-projects, and like it was his idea to take the job in Puerto Rico. My mom has been absurdly supportive of Dad, possibly supportive to a fault, for the majority of the time I\u2019ve been alive. \n\n\u2022 Dad makes significantly more money than Mom does. Mom is a teacher and pays for the family bills in Nevada and Dad does online advertising hosting and pays for his bills in Puerto Rico (which was verbally agreed upon before the divorce talks were even conceived of). Mom pays for NV house utilities and rent, groceries for four\/five people (three kids and herself\u2014and our three dogs who we\u2019ve had for years), her car, teaching supplies, and anything unexpected, like most recently an unexpected and important but thankfully not life-threatening medical procedure. Dad pays for... whatever expenses he incurs as a functionally single man who rides a bike to and from work in Puerto Rico (see next point). Mom\u2019s income is something like three hundred dollars above poverty level in this state, because Dad was the primary breadwinner for the entire time we\u2019ve lived here. \n\n\u2022 We have *no idea* what he is up to or what his expenses even look like in Puerto Rico. He has his own secret accounts and cards there, invisible to Mom. We don\u2019t know where he\u2019s living, what he makes from his job, etc. I skimmed the divorce paperwork and *discovered*, for instance, that he has a cryptocurrency wallet and a car that I didn\u2019t know anything about\u2014and, thinking about it, I seem to recall Mom telling me that he said he *didn\u2019t* have a car there, so that\u2019s either him lying to us or me misunderstanding her\/the order of events. \n\n\u2022 Mom is very forthcoming about how much she makes and how much things cost here, because Mom has to ask Dad to send money for bills pretty regularly. She characterizes it jokingly as needing to remind Dad how much his family costs to feed and house, but it does feel like that sometimes. All we know about his situation is circumstantial or based on vague statements from him. For instance, we know that Dad flies himself to and from work events\/conventions in places like New York and Las Vegas regularly, staying in hotels while he\u2019s there. And we know he flies himself to and from Nevada semi-regularly, always splurging on events or things to do while he\u2019s here to try and win some favor from his kids\u2014but meanwhile he never invites Mom to any of these things, and Mom can\u2019t even barely afford to pay a maintenance person to come look at our heating system for our house, so we just wear more\/less layers. I\u2019m wearing the same pair of glasses that I\u2019ve had for what must be now over ten years because it costs so much to get a new prescription and order contact lenses\/new glasses. My current glasses lenses have scratches and chips in them, they\u2019re so old! I\u2019ve had them since before I was a freshman in high school! (This might be me just venting a little, haha)\n\n\u2022 Mom is a breast cancer survivor with near-constant neuropathy in her feet and in her back, and Dad is able-bodied and healthy as far as we know. Mom regularly describes her back pain as feeling \u201clike being stabbed in the back with a knife\u201d. This is why Dad was the primary breadwinner for so long\u2014while she had cancer, Mom couldn\u2019t work as a teacher, so she needed Dad to support her for that time. She only recently asked for her job back when Dad told her he wanted a divorce because she didn\u2019t think she was physically strong enough to go back before\u2014frequently she can barely keep her eyes open at home after her school day. She teaches like eight or nine hours a day, and she\u2019s incredibly determined despite her medical issues to help her students succeed. She bragged to us about a student of hers who won a prize for the subject she teaches lately, for example. \n\n\u2022 Mom is goddamn terrified that Dad is gaslighting her about things she thinks she clearly remembers. Mom\u2019s short-term memory is kind of shoddy due to chemotherapy, but only to a degree where she will sometimes need to ask the name of a street or a hotel once or twice extra to get it to stick. I mean\u2014she\u2019s *currently a teacher*, that should speak to her mental acuity. She\u2019s not amnesiac or brain damaged or anything. Dad is insinuating he had historically told her specific things at specific times (to build his narrative, we think), but Mom *knows* she would\u2019ve reacted strongly to hearing those things at the time (specifically regarding financial stuff). And, he only said \u201cI told you this, don\u2019t you remember\u201d once Mom caught him and discovered the thing recently. So that doesn\u2019t add up\u2014either Dad is lying, or Mom truly doesn\u2019t remember, but she is adamant she would remember something so significant because of the impact it would\u2019ve had on our daily lives\/finances at the time. I try to reassure her that logically if she reacts this strongly to *re-discovering* this stuff, surely she would have reacted strongly *initially* to hearing it, and that if she doesn\u2019t remember doing so there\u2019s no reason to believe that Dad is telling the truth. But, you know, it\u2019s gaslighting, and she doesn\u2019t know for sure her own mind isn\u2019t betraying her, which causes a ton of stress. \n\n\u2022 Despite all of this, the terms in the divorce paperwork include:\n\n1). no alimony, period,\n\n2). child support for only the minor child for only until he\u2019s 18 (he\u2019s in high school now, so not very much longer) despite me (21) and my middle brother (18\/19, I forget) both still being dependent on Mom for the time being, \n\n3). six weeks of custody with my minor brother in the summer (which wouldn\u2019t fly with my brother\u2019s summer plans in Nevada with his friends, given that Dad lives far away in Puerto Rico), among other visitation things, \n\n4). Dad only paying for Puerto Rico stuff and Mom paying for all of the Nevada stuff, \n\nand 5)., the most comedically tone-deaf thing in my opinion, that we pay all his attorney fees and his legal fees for filing for divorce. Like, *come on, man.*\n\nAmong a few other things we have issue with\u2014again, I only skimmed the documents myself. \n\nMom has characterized the terms as \u201cwanting to make a quick, clean break\u201d from our family, but that\u2019s not gonna work for us because we depend on his money to, uh, *continue to live*. \n\nWe\u2019d like to get a divorce attorney to fight\/review some of these terms and argue in defense of our position\/family, and we feel we may have a good case to do so, here\u2014we don\u2019t even want to like force him to pay for *everything*, we just want to make sure he is supporting us and not pulling a fast one with these terms. I only post this asking for help because Mom was just asking me if she could borrow money until she could get paid in order to retain a lawyer sooner rather than later, because the retainers she was looking at are so damn expensive. I work and I\u2019m helping as much as I can but I have student loans currently in repayment, so we don\u2019t exactly have thousands of dollars to throw at this and I don\u2019t want us to get stuck and run out of money halfway through proceedings. From the dramas and the tales I\u2019ve read on this sub, that could financially ruin us, for the foreseeable future. \n\nSo, my questions: \n\n\u2022 What should be our next step from here as far as looking for a divorce\/family lawyer\/representation?\n\n\u2022 Is there any way to lessen the personal cost for representation? I really don\u2019t want this to bankrupt us, for my, my brothers\u2019, and my mom\u2019s sake. \n\n\u2022 Are there any resources you can point us towards to help us through this?\n\n\u2022 Is there any guidance you can offer at all, as a legal expert or as a person who has dealt with divorce, to help us?\n\n\u2022 and finally\u2014and this is a serious question. I\u2019m not sure how to ask this. Am, uh... Am I, like, hallucinating, or misunderstanding anything significant, here, in your opinion? I\u2019m not a lawyer, nor do I even have a passing knowledge of how divorces work. I\u2019ve tried to describe the situation as factually as possible here, and to me it seems like there\u2019s a good case that the terms are unfair, but I just feel so clueless as to the reality of divorce laws\/divorce proceedings in general\u2014does my family have a good case to make in this situation, in your opinion? Or would we be laughed out of the courthouse for something I don\u2019t understand?","title":"[NV] My mom and dad are getting a divorce and my mom is concerned we can\u2019t afford a retainer for a divorce attorney, but the terms of the divorce are very one-sided in our opinion. Per NV law, we have twenty days to get a lawyer (starting yesterday) before the judgement defaults to Dad\u2019s terms.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444660650,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ogf7n\/saskatchewan_canada_matrimonial_home_splitting\/","id":"3ogf7n","body":"Hello,\n\nI am getting a divorce and I have a quick question in regards of property splitting. The house is on my ex's name but it was purchased during our marriage. So as far as I know I own half of the matrimonial home. Now my question: How does the splitting of the matrimonial home work? Do I get half of the money that has been paid into the mortgage or do I get half of the value of the house? When we bought the house 2 years ago the purchase price was $140k. I dont know the current value but lets just take the $140k for the example. \n\nWill I get $70k if my ex decides to keep the house or how does it work?\n\nThanks for your advice and happy thanksgiving\n\n","title":"[Saskatchewan, Canada] Matrimonial home splitting during divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505512448,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70d1rt\/va_how_do_i_get_a_minor_out_of_a_bad_living\/","id":"70d1rt","body":"My younger sisters friend is 16. She lives with her father in VA. Her mother is sorta in the picture in Florida with some drug issues and maybe a step up from her father. Her father is a piece of shit to put it lightly. Since I've known this young girl she's lived in absolute filth that was capped off with the lights going off in the home this past week leading her to bolt. She often stays at my house (I own the house my father and sister stay in though I don't live there) over the weekends basically every weekend.\n\nWithout overly going into detail the young girl doesn't want to live with her father because of his living situation and other issues. She doesn't want to change schools being so close to graduating by moving to Florida.\n\n What's my best course of action to take to allow her to legally live with us. We aren't seeking money for her to live with us from either parent (that's her father's biggest object I feel) and we just want her to have a safe \"normal\" place to live and finish school.","title":"[VA] How do I get a minor out of a bad living situation?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570296028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddq69q\/uk_do_i_have_any_way_of_fighting_what_seems_like\/","id":"ddq69q","body":"Hi all, as I've mentioned I'm a UK resident. \n\nSo basically, I was recently arrested for being accused of sexually assault of my gf's son. Subsequently, all charges against me have been dropped when I received a letter from the police confirming charges have been dropped and I don't have to go back for any bail hearings - as I have discovered unofficially since, her son admitted it was another family member who assaulted him.\n\nAt the start when I was first arrested I was put on \"gardening leave\" at work. I've been there just over 5 years. Once I received the letter, I gave it to my employer and my boss has scheduled a meeting for this Monday with him, regional managers and HR to determine if I still have a job. Basically, their argument is that even though I am no longer facing any charges, my accusation\/leave had leaked out online and they say that it may hurt their reputation having me as an employee and I no longer have the support of my colleagues which they need to consider if it's going to affect the business long term. As it is, several colleagues have removed me from social media (in recent days I've come off anyway but this was before) and have been \"ghosting\" me socially. \n\nDo I have any recourse? I really don't want to lose my job, my money's really good and I have a lot of perks (company car, phone allowance etc) and not only that I've worked really hard to get where I am. If I lose my job, there's a really good chance eventually I wouldn't be able to afford my mortgage and I'd have to sell my house. If I do lose my job, I have no idea what sort of reference I'd get and would hate to have to start again from scratch elsewhere or in a job in minimum wage. \n\nWhat can I do?","title":"UK. Do I have any way of fighting what seems like an up and coming dismissal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570129175,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcvdbx\/complex_didnt_repair_ac_all_summer\/","id":"dcvdbx","body":"I sent a maintenance request in May and a certified letter in June to request that my AC unit be repaired or replaced because it wasn\u2019t running correctly and it was keeping my temperature at 80\u00b0 while also racking up my utility bill to the $300s (which is insane for a 1 bedroom, 400sq ft place). They ignored my requests or told me that the apartment was old and to deal with it because that\u2019s just how it is.\nThey only got around to truly fixing it last month (September) on the 11th, and there was definitely something wrong with the AC, it wasn\u2019t just an old apt. I spoke with the new maintenance supervisor (he had just been hired) and he explained in detail the issues with the AC and that it should have been fixed in may but that the crew must have been incompetent. The utility bill went down by $100 for last month. If the AC had been working properly ALL month then the bill would have been even lower based on KWH usage.\nI could have saved hundreds of dollars over the course of the summer if it had been fixed properly in the beginning. Do I have any recourse? Or can I try to get compensation for the incompetence of the apartment complex?\n\nI am in TX for reference.","title":"Complex Didn\u2019t Repair AC All Summer","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540275761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qma0p\/car_dealership_wants_more_money_for_a_vehicle_i\/","id":"9qma0p","body":"My wife and I decided to trade in her vehicle. After test driving and researching we decided on a specific make, model, trim, and add ons. We went to the dealership and told them exactly what we wanted, they said they did not have one at that location but they could find one at another location for us. They soon found the vehicle we were looking for and we negotiated a price over the phone on 10\/20\/2018 (Saturday). The salesman asked us to come in and sign the paperwork (buy the vehicle) that day even though the dealership did not have it in their possession. We had concerns about buying a vehicle that was not there, but against our better judgement, we went to the dealership, signed all the paperwork anyway, and they put us in a loaner car. The vehicle was supposed to be delivered to the dealership today 10\/22\/2018, but instead we got a phone call from the salesman. He said that the vehicle we purchased had a $6000.00 ad on that he was not aware of. He said we could pay the remaining $6000.00 or he could find us a similar vehicle to buy. To save the time I\u2019ll just say we were not happy with the way the salesman handed the situation, he basically made it out to be our problem and he was not willing to do anything extra to make it right for us to go back and buy another car because of their mistake. I told him I wanted the vehicle we purchased and he said I could not have it unless we payed the 6 grand. I really don\u2019t want to deal with them anymore, I just want the vehicle I bought. All of the paperwork is done for the purchase, we even have the vehicle insured. I told them they can take the $6000.00 ad on off, I don\u2019t care, I just want the vehicle I purchased. How much of a legal right do I have to that specific vehicle?","title":"Car dealership wants more money for a vehicle I already bought, but it is not in my possession yet.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570235626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddg5vx\/bad_ceo_made_me_work_on_maternity_leave_what_can\/","id":"ddg5vx","body":"I gave birth less a year ago. I was pressured by the ceo to work during my maternity leave even though my maternity leave was only 6 weeks. Two particular instances were the most upsetting. Less than 4 days after giving birth he made me an essential attendee to a meeting that clearly was not urgent. Since he was the CEO, I clearly could not decline. Then only three weeks after birth he tried to schedule travel arrangements to pitch to investor.  During those six week of maternity leave I often worked 20+ hrs. \n\nThe HR team was appalled but could not control him (They have now left due to frustration with the way leadership treats their employees). I continue to feel discriminated against as a young mother even though my performance is very good and I take no special hours. Only older males are getting promotions and so many other things. I have decided to resign but feel that I deserve more. This leadership team has so many sins including recently laying off a person in a wheelchair. I think that someone should take a stand so that they cannot keep treating people this way. \n\nIs it too late for me to do something?","title":"Bad CEO Made me work on maternity leave. What can I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571451055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djxlkp\/can_a_landlord_impose_a_fine_on_a_tenant\/","id":"djxlkp","body":"I live in a mobile home park in Texas, where the company in ownership of the property regularly sends notices to tenants regarding things like lot maintenance or warnings about eyesores. I recently received one such notice requesting me to \"remove weeds [from my lot] to avoid [a] $50 fine,\" as the notice phrased it. I intend to comply anyway, but I would like to know if the company can impose such a fine if I failed to remove my weeds.\n\nAdditionally, I'm referring to typical yard weeds. There are no illegal plants on my lot. If it helps, I am the owner and purchaser of the physical mobile home, and I pay a monthly fee to rent the lot. Other mobile homes in the park are owned by the company and are rented together with the lot.","title":"Can a landlord impose a fine on a tenant?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555639838,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/betwrv\/hello_i_was_looking_for_some_advice_and_i_would\/","id":"betwrv","body":"Easiest way to do so would be without having to pay a fortune in rights. I always see people 3D printing and painting figures as well as creating pictures that could be sold to people who would like to use them. I also see a lot of logos and emblems that are on products via Etsy that are also being sold. I strongly don\u2019t believe that most of those average working people can afford to pay a fortune in rights just to create a 5$ bracelet. So how do they do it and how can I create my t shirts without getting into legal trouble? Thank you!","title":"Hello I was looking for some advice and I would like your most honest polite answers plz. (If your going to be rude please don\u2019t comment.) anyways I wanted to create some naruto shirts as a hobby but also fuel my hobby by making some money selling them in the process. I wanted to know what the...","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553736672,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6cqmm\/i_was_hit_by_an_uninsured_motorist_help\/","id":"b6cqmm","body":"On the 25th I was struck by a motorist who was 100% at fault. There is considerable damage to my vehicle, and I've discovered that they had a lapse in coverage, and will be dropped from their insurance company. This situation leaves me with a 1000$ deductible on my full coverage insurance. I'm without my vehicle at the moment because I'm worried driving it may cause more damage. I need a rental car, and sadly my insurance plan doesn't have auto rental coverage. How can I get this other person to take responsibility, and pay for my deductible? Please, wizards of r\/legaladvice help me get through this difficult situation. ","title":"I was hit by an uninsured motorist, help!","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506371213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72f89b\/can_i_get_my_money_back_from_this_utility_payment\/","id":"72f89b","body":"I am in Atlanta and have just gotten off a frustrating call with Georgia Power.  The situation is that I moved out of an apartment on September 4th and forgot to call to 'close the account'.  So, they charged me money all the way through the 22nd, when the next tenant moved in and connected power in their name.\n\nNow, I know that there is no way Georgia Power can know that I left the apartment without me contacting them to close the account.  However, they were providing me a service that it was impossible for me to use.  Additionally, between the 4th and 22nd, the apartment was in possession of the owner.  Therefore, the owner of the apartment was using service I paid for.\n\nMy question is this: Is there any way I can get my money back?  It should not be possible for me to be charged for a utility that someone else uses without my permission.  Should I request to be reimbursed by the property owner, and failing that, take the issue to small claims?","title":"Can I get my money back from this utility payment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554766406,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb0se8\/felony_thefttexas\/","id":"bb0se8","body":"I\u2019m an RA at college where campus carry is permitted. School policy allows residents are allowed to store their firearms in their dorms under strict conditions: it must be locked in a steel safe tethered to a piece of furniture. \n\nOne of my residents has a concealed carry permit so one day after I saw him leave I decided to do a health and welfare inspection of his room to see if he was in compliance. There was no safe in his room, so I looked to see if he was storing it elsewhere against school policy. So I searched his wardrobe and found a locked hard shell case that looks like it would be used to store a gun. I immediately notified the resident hall manager and called the police and the resident. The campus police arrived and told me that while it might be a breach of contract it wasn\u2019t actually against the law, the resident arrived and the police officer pulled him to the side. When they came back the officer informed me that since I searched his personal belongings and took the case from his room I had committed felony theft and could be arrested. \n\nShould I be concerned? I only removed the gun from his room for safety since it wasn\u2019t stored properly. Also I\u2019m confused I thought theft under $1500 was a misdemeanor,  I looked up the gun and it\u2019s only worth $500.","title":"Felony Theft-Texas","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571669169,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl1ksu\/quick_question_about_overtime_for_hourly_wages\/","id":"dl1ksu","body":"My boyfriend is a PRN transporter (he transports hospital beds around the hospital) and worked 44 hours last week, and 43 hours the previous week. He just found out that He will not be getting overtime, is this legal?\n\nThe state is Florida","title":"Quick question about overtime for hourly wages","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568780119,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5sh3i\/will_geico_cover_someone_keying_my_car_and_then\/","id":"d5sh3i","body":"(MD) Someone keyed my car on July 2, and I tried to fix it on Aug 8 by wet sandpaper and touch up paint. I messed up and now theres blobs. \n\nWill my insurance Geico pay any amount to get it done or do I have to pay in full?","title":"Will Geico cover someone keying my car and then me trying to fix it and messed it up even more?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506645601,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/734dl8\/illinois_how_does_inheritance_proceed_when_there\/","id":"734dl8","body":"My father died last January and didn't leave a will.  In Illinois his estate is then inherited by his spouse, Em (not my mom), myself, and my two sisters.  I have heard nothing about anything since his death until two days ago.  My sister called me after talking to a lawyer somehow involved in his estate.   I will talk to this lawyer too to find out what is going on, but I thought I'd get some background info first.\n\nEm has been made the executor and, according to the lawyer, is taking actions that are not in the best interests of all inheritors (i.e. my sisters and I).  The lawyer is noisily removing himself from the proceedings so this can be brought to the attention of a judge and another executor can be selected.\n\nThe specifics of what she is doing is a little rough as I'm getting it via my sister.  Em has tried to make one of her sons executor.  Assets apparently have also disappeared.  Again, I have heard nothing from anybody until now.\n\nSome questions I have:\n\nCan someone provide a description of what should be happening?\n\nAfter these nine months, shouldn't this have settled by now?\n\nShouldn't there, by now, be a list of assets?\n\nMy sister is willing to be the executor.  All of us kids have had essentially no contact with my father for decades.  Can my sister be effective as executor?  None of us kids live in the area anymore.  Or would it just be better to pay someone local to do it?\n\nAnything else I should know or ask the lawyer about?\n\nEDIT:\n\nShould I talk to Em or her son?  What information should I get from them?","title":"[Illinois] How does inheritance proceed when there is no will?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552728496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1qniw\/ontario_landlord_trying_to_charge_me_200_for_a\/","id":"b1qniw","body":"For reference: $200CAD = $155USD\n\nTrying to keep it short and sweet. I live in an apartment building that uses key fobs for the front\/back doors as well as underground parking and gym access. Yesterday my keychain broke at some point and I lost my key fob (key to the actual apartment was on a different ring so I still have it). To have the fob replaced the building management wants to charge me $200, however under section 134(1)a of the Residential Tenancies Act the landlord cannot charge any more than what the replacement fob costs. \n\n1. Would it be reasonable to believe that a single key fob costs $200?\n\n2. Assuming the answer to Q1 is no, how should I go about bringing this issue up with the building admin? The building itself is 36 floors with 8 sizable apartments per floor so it doesnt have 1 specific landlord; I would be dealing with a building rep or someone like that.","title":"(Ontario) landlord trying to charge me $200 for a new key fob","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569848486,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbb7oz\/i_think_i_was_fired_for_my_religious_beliefs_can\/","id":"dbb7oz","body":"I live in a very Christian part of the south (NC) and I had been working in a large grocery store for about 6 months. \n\nI practice Satanism and I try to keep it low key (I don\u2019t try to hide the fact that I practice Satanism but I don\u2019t  go around yelling it from the rooftops, if you know what I mean). \n\nI was fired recently due to \u201cnot properly representing the company\u201d\n\nI was pretty surprised about this because I had never been in trouble at work before and now I was fired. \n\nI was just wondering if I can do anything, legally about the situation. I literally know nothing about the law, but I would think that if I practiced another religion (Judaism, Hinduism, etc...) I could be able to do something (legally) about it, I just don\u2019t know if Satanism is as protected as other religions. \n\nThanks for any help :)","title":"I think I was fired for my religious beliefs. Can I do anything about it?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551753756,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axfzye\/do_i_have_to_quit_my_job_nc\/","id":"axfzye","body":"Hey everyone, thanks in advance for any help and I attempted a TLDR at the bottom. \n\n\nI recently started at a new role within my company where a large portion of my job is to provide reporting to the federal government. Shortly after starting I discovered errors on two of these reports, both produced by our IT group. \n\nI was able to quickly find the coding issues, resolve and manually provide corrected files to our risk group in the interim, but still needed to resolve the issues with IT. When I reported the error and asked them to resolve, the IT manager insisted the issue was with our original request and would require a new request. When I pointed out that both errors were tied to illogical assumption, my manager initially agreed with my position but then changed his tune, aligning with IT manager\u2019s position in both cases. \n\nSince that point, I\u2019ve met all requests but my manager and the IT manager have made my work life unpleasant- including putting a written warning and a \u2018not meeting expectation\u2019 review of my 2018 performance, summarizing all of my contributions as this issue. \n\nI believe the issues escalated originally due to the IT manager\u2019s desire to avoid listing an error\/fix on her sheet, instead wanting to add request. This is understandable but undermines the systems our company have in place for allocate risk-mitigation resources.\n\nI tried to work with our corporate HR prior to the most recent escalation but they boiled my complaint down to \u2018word choice\u2019 and the \u201ccoaching\u201d only furthered the escalation. \n\nAt this point I understand corporate HRs incentives are different than mine and I\u2019m concerned about escalation in the meantime or as a result. \n\nDo I have any recourse or do I have to find a new job and eat any financial loss?\n\n\n\nTL DR: Started a new job within company. Found errors in process and insisted they be called errors in resolution, to support tracking procedures. This led to an unpleasant work environment and a lack of faith HR.\n\nThanks again for all assistance. ","title":"Do I have to quit my job? (NC)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539842451,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p6j32\/restraining_order_from_usa_to_europe\/","id":"9p6j32","body":"Hi, \n\n​\n\nPlease help.\n\n​\n\nWife has a batsh\\*t crazy ex that went to the police asking a restraining order against me?!\n\nWife is from states and i'm from Europe.\n\n​\n\nQuestion is:\n\nCan he do that? Ive never threatened him or harassed him(ive never even seen the person face 2 face) & i don't have a green card to states, could this affect my traveling?\n\n​\n\nSo far i know that my mother in law got a call from local pd telling that this guy has visited the station to file a restraining order against me, personally nobody has contacted me, sounds weird to me that local pd would call mother in law to tell this?! I'm grateful if this is a heads up from the pd cause that guy has some serious mental issues, but how does this proceed in legal way?\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Restraining order from USA to Europe","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571336105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djaawj\/adult_mstranger_sent_me_f_17_unsolicited_nude_pic\/","id":"djaawj","body":"It was through Instagram direct message and it\u2019s in my requested messages because I don\u2019t follow him AND my age is in my bio. What are my rights? Can I take action?","title":"Adult M(stranger) sent me (F, 17) unsolicited nude pic.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570650829,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfme5e\/is_my_contract_still_valid\/","id":"dfme5e","body":"Is a rental contract still valid after the year is up? I moved in on April, 27, 2018. On April, 13,2019 I asked my landlord if we need to renew a contract and she said you could or go month to month and I just I wanna do month to month and she didn\u2019t reply and we didn\u2019t sign anything new. I\u2019m wondering if my contract here is still valid? My landlord isn\u2019t the greatest person and I\u2019m moving out cause I can\u2019t handle it here anymore. When I told her I\u2019m leaving she said okay let me know when everything is out and we will do a walk through. I have a feeling she\u2019s going to nip pick at everything and the contract has some silly things in it like if I don\u2019t put new batteries in the smoke detector I will be charged $200. So I\u2019m hoping I can get some advice on what to do in this situation. \n\nI live in Freeport IL","title":"Is my contract still valid?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504137252,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x3a82\/have_a_court_date_set_for_a_domestic_battery\/","id":"6x3a82","body":"Lawrence, Kansas USA. i got a letter in the mail, no return adress that had 5 hits of what i assumed were lsd and I took one and it turned out to not be LSD it was something else that gave me a very very bad reaction to the point i had to contact 911 and go to the hospital, i am not on diversion or probabation i just remember there was a no contact and refrain from drugs\/ alcohol. the police did get my name and address.\n\ncan a bench warrent be sent out for this or will i get in trouble at all? thank you. i understand the stipidity of my actions. i literally hate myself. so i dont need to be preached at how stupid this was.\nwhat do you think will happen?","title":"have a court date set for a domestic battery charge, was told to have no contact and to refrain for illegal drugs\/alcohol, well,","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552683586,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1k4u9\/coworker_told_boss_my_mom_quit_she_also_told_my\/","id":"b1k4u9","body":"\n\nMy mother has a coworker. They work on real estate together. They had a huge subdivision assignment, lots of money they were going to split together. Her coworker asked if her daughter could join , another realtor. My mom said yes, they could split it evenly. Coworker agreed. Coworker then went to their boss, and told them my mom quit. She at the same time told my mom that she had been fired from the subdivision. This devasted my mom and she lost out on a very large amount of money. She has not been fired from her real estate company but has been taken off the subdivision because her boss thinks she quit even though she has not. This was a month ago  She just reached out to her mentor and asked why she was fired. Her mentor said she was not. But her mentor made no action towards her coworker who betrayed her. He works closely with the real estate company my mom works for. What can my mom do to get potentially back in with the subdivision or find a way to get back the huge amount of money she was going to get. Her coworker also said lies to her boss before this big betrayal like the fact that my mom doesn't take real estate seriously, she's bad at her job, and more. My mom takes her job super seriously and is absolutely devasted and we needed this money. She did not contact anyone for a month because she thought she was fired from the subdivision  Any help would be appreciated. We are currently in the middle of another seperate legal dispute not related to real estate and our lawyer for that dispute charges us huge amounts any time we talk to them so we are afraid to ask for more help from them with this real estate issue. ","title":"Coworker told boss my mom quit; she also told my mom she was fired. How to get the job back?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504135249,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x337h\/roommate_moved_out_early_and_wants_deposit_back\/","id":"6x337h","body":"Hello \/r\/legaladvice!\n\nMy roommate and I co-signed a year lease at my current apartment, and she decided to move out at month 9 before the lease is up. Luckily my landlord is pretty lax and allowed me to stay in the apartment without her. However, the issue is the lease we signed says that the deposit stays with the apartment, not with the tenant. \n\nNow the roommate has given me a slew of problems over the last 9 months including:\n\n* She only gave a two week notice prior to move out date\n* Did not clean or completely vacate the premises by move out date (she left stuff in every room)\n* Improper care of my property\n* Improper care of shared property\n* Her boyfriend who twice stayed over for a month straight (against terms of our lease) without my consent and without paying rent\n* More drama than I care to get into\n\nThe landlord said that any monies regarding the deposit is between us. When I told her she isn't getting her full deposit back due to these listed reasons she threatened to take legal action against me.\n\nAm I responsible for fronting this money until I move out? And if so, am I in the wrong for not wanting to give her the full amount? The lease we signed explicitly states that the deposit is returned when all tenants move out. \n\nLos Angeles, CA","title":"Roommate moved out early and wants deposit back","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540252488,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qjgzx\/overworked_wife\/","id":"9qjgzx","body":"My wife spends works for a Tech company and spends 12-18 hours per day at work.  She used to work from home but now she is in the office 8 -10 hours per day and they still keep her on conference calls at night.  This has been going on for a year now.  She hasn\u2019t had a raise in 3 years and the job description changes every 6 months.  She has 3-4 different supervisors who all ask her for different work.  Frickin help please!","title":"Overworked Wife","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569192413,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7xsob\/giving_proper_credit_to_copyright_owner\/","id":"d7xsob","body":"Hi All,\nI am looking to sell photos of celebrities online as reprints\/posters. How do I give proper credit to the copyright owner?\nI just did a Google search on the specific image I wanted and found the copyright owner's name but don't really know where to start in terms of giving them credit for it. Please help, thanks in advance!!","title":"Giving proper credit to copyright owner","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541451534,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uhjq3\/close_friend_cant_get_custody_of_her_son_virginia\/","id":"9uhjq3","body":"Ok, this is a long one.\n\nMy best friend (guy) started dating a girl (let\u2019s say her name is Natalie) and Natalie has a son that\u2019s 1.5 that she doesn\u2019t have custody of. Natalie is adopted and her parents are abusive. Her mom was a social worker and lost her job because Natalie\u2019s teachers found bruises all over her and reported it to CPS where Natalie revealed that she was beaten every night.\n\nNatalie and her abusive ex who raped her had a son together. The son was taken 3 months after birth because Natalie\u2019s mother convinced her to give custody to her mom so that her son would be safer. However, Natalie got out of the situation and wanted her son back once she had stable housing and income 3 months later. Her mother is guarantor on the lease.\n\nHer mother has decided that she is no longer allowed to see her son (even though there is court ordered visitation) and won\u2019t even send pictures of him most of the time. So Natalie decided to file to get custody back. Natalie lost the court case last week and was told it was because her mother said she didn\u2019t have stable housing. However this is not true because her lease is not up until March and she will be renewing her 1 year lease without her mother and with my best friend.\n\nWhat can we do to prove she has stable housing? Additionally what can we do to prove that her mother is lying in court?\n\nAdditional info: I have personally met her mother and she is absolutely psychotic and she tried to convince us Natalie was insane and on drugs and went back to her abusive ex when she was just getting her sons documents. Her mother sees this as revenge for getting her fired. ","title":"Close Friend Can\u2019t Get Custody of Her Son [Virginia]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553648706,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5y0kf\/my_school_showed_my_linkedin_photo_to_hundreds_of\/","id":"b5y0kf","body":"My university's co-op department held a presentation to my program's graduate students (over 200 students), and in that presentation showed a full-screen picture of me taken from my LinkedIn profile with large text saying \"AVOID\" and proceeded to explain to students that my photo was unprofessional and to avoid posting photos like mine on LinkedIn.\n\nI'm an undergrad student so I wasn't at this presentation. I had several students contact me and send me a photo of the slide asking me if I knew about it (I did not). My own department that I pay tens of thousands of dollars to attend publicly shamed and embarrassed me to hundreds of classmates behind my back.\n\nWould this qualify as defamation of character? I don't feel that it's worth taking legal action, but I'd like to let them know that I could. I don't want to just do nothing. They're also going to post the slides online.\n\nI don't believe this is a coincidence that my photo was used. My school is relatively small. I'm one of the most well-known students at our school - I'm the VP of our student society and have had tremendous success with co-op\/internships. I've met with the co-op department personally several times before and I'm assuming they're out to get me because I quit the co-op program after finding better positions on my own and have publicly advocated against the necessity of our co-op program and the advice they give. My LinkedIn is literred with my school name since I study AND work there as a TA.\n\nWorst part about it is the photo is just a close up of me smiling in front of a background of mountains.","title":"My school showed my LinkedIn photo to hundreds of students as an example of \"unprofessionalism\"","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555597652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bem6t8\/my_mom_sold_a_dog_under_a_contract_that_had_a_non\/","id":"bem6t8","body":"So long story, around like 2 years ago my mom sold a dog to this lady under a non breeding agreement. This lady bred the dog a little while ago around Christmas and tried to hide it from my mom and of course she found out. \n\nThe contract says that she owes us $1500 per puppy born. It also says that breaking the contract costs 5x the original puppy price (the price we sold the dog for two years ago). And that she covers legal fees and whatever else. It also says that if any part of the contract is broken, that my mom or an agent my mom sends can come and take the dog back. \n\nSo two days ago, my mom sent this guy over to get the dog. (Another break in the contract because the dog was supposed to stay with the lady unless she had written consent from my mother). From my knowledge, everything went smoothly and the guy who had the dog gave the dog and the two puppies that he still had. He had been the one taking care of the dog and had been the one raising the puppy. There were also pictures of the dog on the guys Facebook of the dog looking very under weight and skinny (another break in the contract). He had been selling the puppies on Kijiji for around $200-500 and was selling them as young as around 2 weeks old. \n\nThe lady we sold the dog to called the police and said we had broken into her house and stolen her dog. The police found out that she was lying and that the dog is legally ours. She also said that she never signed a contract but we have the contract signed and she was given her own contract. \n\nMy mom doesn\u2019t want to go to court because the lady is on permanent leave from work so she only gets $1000 per month. I told her that she should try and take her to court but my mom thinks that the judge won\u2019t make the lady pay anything and my mom will have to pay court fees. \n\nShould my mom take the lady to court? Or should she just let it go?","title":"My mom sold a dog under a contract that had a non breeding agreement and the lady bred the dog","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552998609,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2wtjx\/went_on_short_term_disability_for_3_months_and\/","id":"b2wtjx","body":"TL;DR\n\nI live and work in NYC. I am a salaried employee. I work for a health insurance giant. I went on short term disability leave for just under 3 months (late October - Mid January) as directed by my doctor. I appropriately communicated this in writing to my manager (I have documentation) and via phone call to the disability office, which triggered my leave documents to be sent. My manager didn't appropriately mark me on leave in the system, which paid me in full for the entire duration of my leave. Now they are trying to recoup wages plus taxes and pre-tax benefits but not submitting.\n\n​\n\n1. Now that I am back to work my company is trying to recoup the wages in full, calling it an overpayment, despite the fact that it was a company mistake that I was paid and not a personal mistake. Do they have rights to do this? \n2. For my 1 month of 2019 wages they are willing to adjust my 2019 income and accept the NET payment. Should I pay this amount?\n3. For 2 months of my 2018 wages they are only allowing me to pay the GROSS amount, which means I'd have to pay back federal, state, and local taxes along with all pre-tax benefits I received like 401(k), healthcare, etc. Note: Because I can't draw the pre-tax benefits out of the accounts they are in or request the government to pay my company back the taxes, I instead have to pay out of my post-tax bank account. \n4. They are refusing to adjust my 2018 wages beyond FICA (Medicare and Social Security) in the form of a W2-C or mark my repayment towards my wages on my 2019 W2, meaning that my taxes are stuck with the government, essentially requiring me to pay taxes twice. I have called the IRS and they have said that my company should be offering me an adjustment for either the 2018 or 2019 tax year because those are wages being repaid. The IRS noted that they only know what is reported to them so they are unable to help unless my 2019 W2 does not include my repayment and I keep documentation of the repayment in 2019 to submit for corporate tax fraud.\n5. My short term disability would have paid out at 80%, making my repayment smaller, but I am still unclear on its status despite numerous calls. My doctors sent additional information December 17 and the disability office keeps saying it is \"processing.\"\n\nWhat are my rights? Does my company have rights to recoup these funds if it was a company mistake? I've been planning to quit my job early April, do I have more or less rights as a current employee? Should I quit now?","title":"Went on short term disability for 3 months and was accidentally paid in full by my company, now my company is trying to recoup all wages (plus taxes and pre-tax benefits)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569853356,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbca10\/is_it_illegal_to_jailbreak_escooters\/","id":"dbca10","body":"On my campus there are a ton of these escooters parked everywhere ( illegally, last year they impounded and scrapped all the scooters parked on campus) I've seen threads of people buying them from impound lots and then converting them to personal. If I find a scooter on campus am i allowed to jailbreak it myself or do i need to go through some way of buying it from the impound lot?","title":"Is it illegal to jailbreak e-scooters","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552261994,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azm8sa\/my_18m_girlfriends_20f_landlord_will_not_get_in\/","id":"azm8sa","body":"My girlfriend lives in a house in Ottawa KS. When her roommate and her first moved into this place around a year ago the glass window in her roommates room was broken they tried to get into contact with the landlord and made several phone calls to let him now but their efforts were futile. They just gave up and let it be and put cardboard and plastic over the window. They keep complaining about it. I had enough of hearing them because it was jacking up their utility bill the rent I also don\u2019t like being over there because they have mice and a skunk underneath which makes the house stink and I don\u2019t want my work clothes smelling. not many mice just a few so my gf just stays at my apartment most the time. How would they go about repairing the window what are the options?","title":"My (18m) girlfriends (20F) landlord will not get in contact with them about a broken window.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540455510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r8d15\/idaho_retaliation_for_informing_coworkers_of\/","id":"9r8d15","body":"So, New owners bought my work a couple of months ago, and there have been issues.\n\nMost recently they had issues making payroll, and paid us 3 days late. They had posted a note by the time clock that said that they were paying us late. I posted beneath it a page from a FAQ about the Fair Labor Standards Act and how it requires us to be paid on time.   \n\n\nThey thought a coworker had posted it and tried to write her up. They realized it was me after reviewing CCTV. Can they write me up for this? What can I do if they do?","title":"[Idaho] Retaliation for informing coworkers of their rights.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570414070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ded30y\/intermittent_smell_for_17_months_landlord_wants\/","id":"ded30y","body":"We have been in our townhouse for 21 months. 4 months after moving in we came home one day to an awful odor that filled up the entire place. \n\nWe called our landlord who couldn't come immediately, which is understandable. When he came the smell was gone and he sort of acted like we were imaging it. We have had the smell for 17 months now, on and off, and last summer the landlord happened to be here when the smell came on and he admitted to smelling it in front of several people that were here. \n\nAfter smelling it he suddenly acted really worried about it and kept saying he couldn't have us living with such a terrible smell.  He rented a camera to inspect the vent pipe and had a trap installed on the main pipe in the crawlspace. It didn't help. \n\nAfter doing those two things and then not helping he started saying that there was nothing left he could do, and that he couldn't spend anymore money on an odor he hadn't smelled. I reminded him that he'd admitted to smelling it several times and he told me that he was \"being polite\" and that what he smelled \"was a fart\". I pressed him on it, not letting him skate by with pretending he didn't smell it and accused us of making it up and told us we were great tenants and that he hoped we'd rent from him for years, but if we were going to insist there was an odor issue that we should just move because he wasn't spending more money on it.\n\nIn spite of this, we like our home. He refused to hire anyone, so we hired an HVAC specialist, an electrician, a plumber, and had the gas company inspect. All 4 believe that it's an issue with plumbing and 2 (including the plumber) suggested we do a pressurized smoke test. I told our landlord their findings and he said he'd schedule a smoke test. \n\nA few days later he text me that he's set up a non pressurized smoke test and that we will get a bill for it. I told him non pressurized wouldn't work and that we were done paying for things he was bound to cover per our lease. \n\nHe canceled the non pressurized test and sent a follow up text telling me pressurized smoke testing would be in the $500 dollar range and that we would have to pay for it unless it found a problem. \n\nHe hasn't hired a single licensed professional to look at the issue and refuses to. He's trying to make us pay for diagnostics when the lease states it's his responsibility. He's saying we need to pay for it all because he can't confirm that there is an odor (after acknowledging it) and keeps telling me \"when  you find it I'll fix it\". \n\n\nHe's put most of this in text, which I have copies of..\n\nWhat should we do? \n\nThanks in advance for any help!","title":"Intermittent smell for 17 months. Landlord wants us to pay to investigate and tell us to move","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553528836,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5caal\/divorce_laws_ca\/","id":"b5caal","body":"Hi so I\u2019m new to this and honestly haven\u2019t ultimately made a decision but would like some feed back. I changed the state in the caption since my husband uses reddit some times and I don\u2019t want him\nto look thinking it\u2019s me. I\u2019m in OH and we have 2 kids together. He owns our family vehicle which he got after we married. He owns our house which he got before we got married. I only work part time so I don\u2019t make enough to support the kids and I. I know I can go full time and get assistance for child care. I wouldn\u2019t have a ride to work though. Also my credit sucks so getting a vehicle without breaking the bank would be very difficult and getting a place wouldn\u2019t be easy. So my name isn\u2019t on anything that we share. He also may be filing for bankruptcy soon which probably complicates things as well. So what are my options? How do I get a new living situation with barely any money? I\u2019m looking into this in case I feel divorce is what is best. ","title":"divorce laws (CA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506904435,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73pi9w\/leaving_my_husband_pregnant_with_newborn\/","id":"73pi9w","body":"My husband no longer wants to be married to me. But he has asked me to stay until our unborn child is at least 2. I can\u2019t do that. I want to leave but I\u2019m not sure how. I\u2019m thinking of leaving before the baby is born. If I do this, what happens to the baby after it is born? Can I take it home with me? What if I leave after the baby is born. Like from the hospital or after we have been home for a few weeks? Since the baby has lived at a shared home do I need to first go to court? We live in Maryland. ","title":"Leaving my husband pregnant\/ with newborn.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553214856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3yd3u\/i_got_married_using_one_passport_now_im_getting_a\/","id":"b3yd3u","body":"I got married to a Brazilian in Brazil using my Russian passport. We never registered the marriage in Canada. Now I'm getting a divorce and planning on going back to Canada, where I also have a passport. Can I still consider myself single in Canada or must I now tick the divorced box on official forms?","title":"I got married using one passport. Now I'm getting a divorce. Am I still considered single in my other passport?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555353989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdjrlc\/legal_steps_to_take_before_seeking_investors_in\/","id":"bdjrlc","body":"\\[Virginia, USA\\]\n\nMy co-founder and I have a fairly developed idea for a web based company (to keep keep it as vague as possible, think of something like Reddit). We already have a business plan and wireframes and material that we can present to investors, which is what we would like to do to raise some capital, rather than building the platform solely by ourselves. So far we have taken no legal steps. We have not formed and LLC or Inc., but we have done some research as to how to do those things, but it doesnt look like we can do them ourselves. We also have a name nailed down, but we dont know if we should file for a trademark ourselves or do it before we incorporate or after.\n\n​\n\nOur main question is: What legal steps should we take before we seek investors, and in what order should we take them?\n\nSecondarily: Is there a good source that I can go to to get these kind of questions answered? Is there a kind of lawyer I should be looking for that can help us set up a company and trademark things, or just ask them questions in general at an hourly rate?\n\n​\n\nThanks Reddit","title":"Legal steps to take before seeking investors in our company?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539146331,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mwfj3\/what_can_i_do_if_apartment_landlord_does_not_stop\/","id":"9mwfj3","body":"There may be nothing legally I can do, but a month ago, I made an official complaint to my landlord about my upstairs neighbor who made loud stomping noises after midnight and before 6am. Within a day, the noise got louder and more often throughout the day. I made another complain as it was disruptive not just at night but during the day. Nothing has changed and my landlord makes it sound like they cannot advocate for me. I asked if I can deal directly with the neighbors and I was asked not to. I have video footage and documented times of the loud sounds. Any advice? ","title":"What can I do if apartment landlord does not stop neighbors noise?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554919399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbp7bk\/would_i_go_to_court_for_this\/","id":"bbp7bk","body":"So basically I got a criminal infraction would I still have to go to court they did not send me a notice yet.Im hoping for a fine since i am a minor and can cover it but will they send a court notice ? Also they never took me to jail or anything like that they police just said I was free too go.\n\n\nI\u2019m in Minnesota btw Thank you","title":"Would I go to court for this","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553654851,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5z200\/iowa_dsl_thief_neighbor_has_been_running_up_my\/","id":"b5z200","body":"I'm still investigating how far back this goes, but basically my neighbor has been plowing through data and mediacom has been billing me.\n\nHow much proof do I need to have in what I hope will be small claims court, depending on how much money this turns out to be? Did I have a responsibility to notice I was using more data than I should have been? How do I prove the offending devices are my neighbor's and not mine? I have logs of my neighbor's 2 tivo DVRs downloading like mad, but I don't know how to prove those aren't mine. We have automatic bill pay and a few months of huge bills went by without us investigating.","title":"[Iowa] DSL thief neighbor has been running up my quota overage fees.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554754546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bayk5w\/trying_to_get_best_offer_on_vehicle_trade_in_can\/","id":"bayk5w","body":"I bought a vehicle 3 months ago (2019) and after driving it for 3 months, I absolutely hate it. Dumb on my part, but I cannot deal with this vehicle anymore. \n\nKBB said the trade in value is $55K. I took it it to CarMax and they offered me $50K. \n\nI\u2019m at another dealer and they said it\u2019s \u201ctoo new\u201d to put a number on but asked what CarMax offered and I lied and said $55K and showed them the KBB valuation. \n\nThey said they wanted to see the CarMax sheet and then they would make an offer. Would I get in trouble (or is it illegal) if I \u201cphotoshopped\u201d the $50K CarMax offer to $55K and showed it to the dealer I\u2019m negotiating with?","title":"Trying To Get Best Offer On Vehicle Trade In - Can I Get In Trouble?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1442262357,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kydra\/ny_trust_fund_is_losing_money_what_can_we_do_to\/","id":"3kydra","body":"Hi, all. Husband (let's call him Dave) has a trust fund set up by his grandfather who is now deceased. The trust is currently being managed by two separate brokers - one who is a good friend of Dave's estranged brother and the other is the ex-husband of Dave's sister. The trustee is NOT related but seems to be getting advice from either FIL or BIL (or both). The trust is currently losing money and has (from Dave's perspective) broker's fees that seem excessive for the amount of money in the trust. Dave receives a monthly disbursement and will be receiving it for the next 15 years until the trust is turned over to him. \n\nThe issue at hand is that the trust is now spending principal. There is enough in the trust that even with the market corrections, it should be making enough that the principal remains intact.\n\nDave has his investments at another brokerage and while they are substantially less than his trust, his rate of return is much better. He has asked the trustee to move the trust to his broker because he feels his broker would be more involved and take better care. Dave believes the relationship the current brokers have to his family (and the fact that the trustee is getting advice from other members of his family who are NOT trustees) is having a detrimental effect on the trust assets. The trustee has said he will review and make a decision later this week. We are interpreting that as \"Let me check with your dad and brother first.\"\n\nIf the trustee says no, I think the next step would be to sue the trustee for something like failure of fiduciary responsibility? We know that all legal fees for the trustee will end up coming out of the trust so this is sort of the last resort option.  We do need a lawyer anyway to review the trust and give us our options. I've been looking for a lawyer and am confused about the best one. Probate? Wills? Estate planning?\n\nTL:DR We believe the trustee of Husband's account is not handling the trust correctly and would like to change brokers. Trustee doesn't seem inclined to make the change because we believe he is being unduly influenced by Husband's estranged brother and father (not estranged, just strained). What should be our next steps? And what kind of lawyer would be best?","title":"(NY) Trust Fund is losing money. What can we do to force trustee to move the account?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571578249,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkjmqe\/employee_was_threatened_off_property_by_a_customer\/","id":"dkjmqe","body":"Me and my mom were walking to work today when a regular customer drove up beside us and yelled out to my mom \"ARE YOU READY TO DIE TODAY?!\" laughed a bit and followed us for two whole blocks. We went straight to our shift manager when we got in to work, and she said nothing could be done.\n\nNotes: This lady has been harassing employees in store for a few weeks as well. It started when my mom brought it to the manager attention, that the customer left her large and very obviously overheated dog in the car with the AC off, no water and no windows cracked when the temperature was over 80 degrees for over an hour and a half. After that, she kept coming in yelling at everyone.\n\nWas there anything that could have been done? Even something as simple as letting the police know that there has been issues going on?","title":"Employee was threatened off property by a customer.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571702501,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl9dm5\/my_friend_and_her_teacher_worked_on_a_piece_of\/","id":"dl9dm5","body":"My friend and her teacher worked in some art together. She put in as much work as the teacher did but she is not receiving credit because the teacher wants all the revenue that will come from the art piece. She may try and record the teacher saying it again as that is the only possible proof she can gather since there is no other proof she worked on it. Does anyone have any advice?","title":"My friend and her teacher worked on a piece of art. The teacher is saying he will not give credit and is threatening to fail her if she tells anyone.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1507574257,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75b5cz\/fl_my_ex_isnt_holding_up_her_end_of_the\/","id":"75b5cz","body":"My ex-wife and I drafted a separation agreement last year which included a detailed debt repayment plan since she skipped out on the rent and bills when she left. Our divorce was filed and completed 2 months ago in NC and the agreement was incorporated into the divorce. As of today she is behind 2 payments and not replying to my texts. \n\nAt what point should I do more than sending text messages about the money and what would that \"more\" be? Right now the payments are $200\/month  (behind $400 now) but the amounts are scheduled to increase to as high as $1,200\/month. Will it costs me more to try and recoup the $400 than it's worth right now? \n\nAlso, the months she does pay she is almost always late (sometimes a few days to a few weeks to now almost 2 months). Is there anything I can do when she is late since the agreement specifically says to pay by the last day of each month? \n\nNeither of us live in the state our divorce was filed in anymore. ","title":"[FL] My ex isn't holding up her end of the separation agreement and divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571766406,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dllhqd\/ia_i_backed_into_my_vehicle_while_in_a_work\/","id":"dllhqd","body":"I work for a city government, and while driving a city vehicle, i backed into my personal vehicle, causing about $10,000 in damage to my personal vehicle, none to the city vehicle. I filled out all of the appropriate paperwork my employer requires, and already had my 2 days of unpaid time off, which is the punishment per our union contract. \n\nWhen asked for insurance information, they denied to provide me with it, and through searching, have found that the city is self-insured (essentially they pay out of the general fund). I realize that it was me that did the damage, but from an insurance standpoint, will my personal insurance go after the city, because it was technically a city employee driving a city vehicle that struck my parked personal vehicle? I\u2019d much rather pay my $500 deductible than the full repair.","title":"[IA] I backed into my vehicle while in a work vehicle","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541582965,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uy0of\/got_in_a_car_wreck_no_fault_state_other_driver\/","id":"9uy0of","body":"So I was driving home at 6:27 pm. I got to a 4 way that only has yields on my side. The other side comes off an extremely busy freeway and had no yields\/stop signs. I slowed and looked over and didn\u2019t see anyone so I went. Before I knew it, someone rammed into my passenger side\u2019s wheel. While my car wasn\u2019t totaled, I couldn\u2019t drive it and it was considerable damaged. I got out of my car and went to the other car. A man comes out and panics, saying he has no insurance and has a warrant. I have liability, so I was worried about possibly having to pay for this guy\u2019s car. I had no idea what to do other than call the cops. A woman came up and said she witnessed it and gave me her address that was really close by. The cops came and asked for my information. After the shock, I realized that the other man and a new person were talking to the officer for a long time. They seemed light hearted and joking around. The officer comes to me and tells me it was technically my fault since I didn\u2019t yield. My witness told him that I did and after I did was when I was hit. He kinda shrugged her off, I don\u2019t even think he got her information. I just moved to this state and it\u2019s no fault so I am thankful for that in this situation. The strange part was the other person didn\u2019t receive a ticket\/wasn\u2019t arrested for the warrant they apparently had. I didn\u2019t really think about that until later and was focused on my car and how to get to work. The tow person said it\u2019s fixable before towing it. I am filing a claim tomorrow and figuring out my car situation, but my question is what is going to happen next? Was there someone I didn\u2019t do right? Will I be summoned randomly or sued for medical\/other reasons? I have never been in a wreck and I\u2019ve heard tons of horror stories. ","title":"Got in a car wreck, no fault state, other driver claim to not have insurance, cop says it\u2019s my fault. What next?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1508348195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77875j\/having_issues_with_a_property_manager_im_a_renter\/","id":"77875j","body":"Hey there. I rent from a property management company who then runs everything by the home owner. So if I have an issue it normally takes a few days and recently I've been living with water heater issues and it's been going on for a few months. So the issue is off and on no hot water and little to no water pressure. I live in Utah specifically Ogden county if you need to know. My question really is: is this considered inhospitable living and if so what kind of compensation or what can I leverage. I finally told them I'm not getting any hot water which is true and it makes laundry, showering and dishes a big difficulty. Today they decided to take it seriously and contacted a plumbing company which then got a hold of me. This makes me believe that they have not cared for the past couple months and makes me very angry. Thanks for any help. ","title":"Having issues with a property manager (I'm a renter)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553140417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3lwr3\/parking_ticket_from_a_place_i_havent_been_to_in\/","id":"b3lwr3","body":"So I live in Urbana, IL and got a text from my dad saying a parking ticket came in the mail. It says my car was double parked on Feb 23, 2019 in the city of Chicago at someplace called AllPort St at 2254. \n\nThere\u2019s a couple of issues there: I haven\u2019t been to Chicago in a couple of years, I work third shift as my work schedule and clock-in history from work can prove, and I was at my job at the time on the \u2018parking violation\u2019. \n\nI\u2019m planning on contesting but is there anything I should be aware of in that regard?","title":"Parking Ticket from a place I haven\u2019t been to in years","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1444438590,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o62i6\/lawyer_ignoring_me_how_do_i_check_the_status_of\/","id":"3o62i6","body":"I am from Canada (Ontario) and got in a domestic violence thing with my ex-girlfriend (February 2014)\n\nI hired a lawyer and paid the retainer fee. I did a men's anti-violence program. \n \nI was on probation for a year; and had to report to the office once a month. \n\nIt's been months since I have heard from my lawyer (I had court in like April) and then I was supposed to have a mental health diversion  or something.. anyway. Called my lawyer + texted her + left messages countless times over the past 3-4 months and have still not heard from her...\n\nWhat do I do!??!?! \n\nI am ready to move on with my life and I need to get my case settled... I need to leave the country soon....\n\nShould I go ask the police? court? :(\n\nthanks...","title":"Lawyer ignoring me, how do I check the status of my case?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507991423,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76cewj\/2_year_contract_signed_with_40hour_week_terms\/","id":"76cewj","body":"I'm halfway through a 2 year contract and recently they have suddenly removed me from my previous schedule and have basically given me a random schedule that changes every week. Which has been stressful but my schedule is not laid out in the contract, we only verbally agreed on it before starting. I noticed now that for the next month that I am only scheduled for 32 hours a week. I am salary and they offer hourly overtime but it says in the contract that if I don't work 40hours they are not going to pay me for the hours that I do not work. One week awhile back they had suddenly changed my scheduled, not upon my request, and I was missing 4 hours so they took it out of my paid vacation. If they were to do that and keep scheduling me for 32 hours, I'd be out of vacation very quickly. I have contacted the administrator twice and she refuses to answer me. We have already had a confrontation about the initial change in schedule and I believe this is retaliation for questioning her decision to change me. Also, there were a couple of issues before with them not paying us on time. In our contract it says every 2 weeks but they switched and pushed back the paychecks so it was 3 weeks for a couple of them. I was given a raise after a year which is outlined in the contract that she conveniently forgot until I had to keep asking her about and the new 32hours would basically put me back at where I was before the raise. Which is another reason that makes me believe this is intentional.\nSo my question is, is it a breach of contract to not give me the 40 hours? Or can they decide what they want and what they need? Is not paying me the every 2 weeks a breach? I'm really just wondering if this is even worth taking to a lawyer or if it allows me to get out of this terrible work environment. \nFyi, my employers are not new to screwing people over and they have multiple problems with multiple employees. I would've left a long time ago but according to the contract I would have to pay them to leave which is not an option. \nI forgot to mention, this is in Texas. \nThanks to anyone who can offer any insight.","title":"2 year contract signed with 40hour week terms, employer is cutting hours to 32 hours and will cut pay","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1445110760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p59ex\/hey_there_rlegaladvice_we_over_at_recr_need_some\/","id":"3p59ex","body":"Long story short, we over at \/r\/electronic_cigarette have come to find about a very shady situation going on with a vendor. A high percentage of orders going through their system have ended with credit card charges ranging from tens of dollars to even thousands. This has been going on for months, and it took until the community began calling fraud departments  to even get any kind of response from them. Their response was more or less that they \"now know of the security breach and have completely fixed it in July,\" yet there are people still coming up and saying their credit card info was stolen from an order as recently as last week. One thing that really has us concerned is that after some digging around, we found that the owner of the company has a criminal past that includes theft, drug posession, burglery, and 2nd degree murder. A lot of people are assuming that the owner is possibly behind this whole scam, but we have no way to prove anything. Also, for several months if you called about the issue, they would simply tell you that it was not their fault what-so-ever, and that their security is fine.\n\nThe company is based out of Florida which apparently has some super strict 30-Day law about credit card issues like this, and with people having reported stolen info months ago, I'm pretty sure that they should be in some big trouble, but they don't seem to be.\n\nPeople in the subreddit are all discussing back and forth random things like getting a class action lawsuit in motion or something, but no one is really sure what to do? We just want this problem to stop, as the company has lied to our faces about fixing the issue, and more and more people are becoming victims. This company does make great products, so a lot of people are continuing to buy from them daily, as not all of their customers browse forums and know about this issue.\n\nWhat can we do with this situation? Is there anything we can do as a community, or is this going to just end up as a situation where one person needs to hire a lawyer\/attorney to get the ball rolling? Any help would be greatly appreciated.\n\n**EDIT:** Personal info removed. Sorry about that!","title":"Hey there \/r\/legaladvice! We over at \/r\/ECR need some advice for a situation effecting a LOT of people!","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1442192324,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kunvi\/friend_20_m_getting_ddosed_every_single_day\/","id":"3kunvi","body":"[Rhode Island]\nLong story short this guy hates my friend and will DDOS his IP whenever he tries to do something on the computer.  He has been having this for 2+ weeks and cannot stop this.  We know where this person lives and his first and last name.  What can we do to stop and punish the man doing this?\n\nAlso he is harassing him and his girlfriend with death threats, saying he will commit suicide if they don't talk to him, just non stop harassment and it needs to stop this man is a psychopath.  \n\nEdit: Have proof in texts of the person texting my friend telling him he is DDOSing him.","title":"friend 20 [m] getting ddos'ed every single day, cannot stop the person doing it","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551917344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay60r1\/girlfriends_roommate_is_trying_to_get_out_of\/","id":"ay60r1","body":"Sorry if the flair is wrong.\n\n As stated in the title my girlfriend has a lease that ends on June 1st and is sharing the apartment with a roommate. Her roommate is trying to have me come in and take over the last month of rent from May to June. She has now requested that I move in sometime around April 20.  In addition to me moving in earlier I would obviously be expected to account for the last 10 days of that rent for the month.\n\nI said no to which she countered with asking me to move in on the 27th to which I said no again. She has now emailed my girlfriend about asking the landlord if she can move out earlier than my girlfriend. \n\n Up till this point none of this discussion has involved the landlord as I would basically just be subletting. The other slight snafu is that the landlord will be moving back into their apartment once they both vacate and had previously offered to let them both end the lease early if they agreed to that.\n\nSince this is a bit nuanced when factoring in the landlord's plans, I wasn't sure if her roommate was doing anything wrong, other than being a pain in the ass.\n\nThe confusing part is if the roommate does receive confirmation that the landlord is happy to have her move out earlier, will my girlfriend have to pay the extra rent for the month of April?\n\nIs this something that is purely at the discretion of the landlord? They pay rent at the top of the month, so this has all felt rather silly considering her earliest date to leave is April 20 and she would have paid that rent already.\n\nWe are in Washington, DC if that matters.","title":"Girlfriend's roommate is trying to get out of their lease early","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569948314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbw3rv\/i_worked_14_overtime_hours_last_week_my_job_is\/","id":"dbw3rv","body":"I worked 54 hours last week and my job is only paying me for 7 out of the 14 overtime hours I worked. Not only that but the overtime pay I did receive, was far less than it was supposed to be. I talked to HR but they told me that they only pay for half of the overtime hours I worked. I\u2019ve looked at both federal and Georgia state laws and everything I see says that employers must pay overtime for every hour exceeding 40 hours per week. \n\nAre they in the right here and if not is there anything I can do?","title":"I worked 14 overtime hours last week, my job is only paying me for 7.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1408740841,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eb87o\/usa_ky_is_being_promised_a_specific_payment_for\/","id":"2eb87o","body":"Someone I know works for a man who is not very kind to his employees and the concern is that this man requested my friend do a job that wasn't part of their job description in the 90+ degree heat. The job was tedious and nothing like what their job description actually is, but being tight on money they agreed to do the job during work hours for a specific payment per hour. It seems now that the employer is reneging on the deal for payment and is just going to pay them their usual paycheck. To me this is hardly fair, it seems like abusing people who are strapped for cash when you're very wealthy and it's wrong.\n\nI'm trying to get this person to stop working for this man as he works them to death, back to back shifts, working on their time off and then having them come back in early the next day. It's wrong, wrong, wrong. But anyway that isn't the point of the question. I was arguing that it seems borderline illegal to be promised a payment for a service and then to have that person go back on that deal simply because it isn't in writing. It's definitely insulting and said person is going to quit assuming it happens. So I don't know if hypothetical, this may happen soon, kind of questions are allowed but I want to know what the legality of all this is.","title":"USA, KY - Is being promised a specific payment for services and then not receiving that payment illegal?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1442885754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lvs3d\/indiana_getting_pets_back_before_divorce\/","id":"3lvs3d","body":"Friend is getting divorced, but doesn't have money for a lawyer ATM. Her and her husband bought two dogs before they were married, which they both paid for(or at least nobody has a record of who did), but she did the whole process in purchasing them from the breeder. He hasn't been listed on a single veterinary matter or anything pertaining to the dogs, so she's confident she would get the dogs in the divorce, as its the only \"property\" she wants. BUT the husband currently has the dogs in the house he won't let her re enter(stole her key) She's worried about their well being as he hasn't so much as walked them in the years they had them. Is there any way to get the pets back from him before a divorce is finalized? Can she get the police involved or anything?","title":"(Indiana) Getting pets back before divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542238115,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x5gaj\/eviction_question\/","id":"9x5gaj","body":"I'm going to make this question to the point and as thorough as possible.\n\nThis is in Minnesota.\n\nDad owns a house who he is renting to a family friend and her daughter (30 years old), under an oral rental agreement. They moved in June of 2017 and have been paying rent, although late at times, every month until August, which they stopped paying all together. After numerous attempts to contact them for payment, they disregarded and continue to still live there.\n\nWe went over to the house to ask her for payment and she refuses to leave. \n\nSo my questions are, do I need to go through the court system to have her evicted and pay the $300 that they are demanding, and after that, can I sue her for that $300 and the 3 months of rent that wasn't paid, plus late fees? \n\nTIA","title":"Eviction Question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503159187,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6upwua\/i_hit_a_car_and_fled_the_scene_and_now_i_have_to\/","id":"6upwua","body":"Throwaway for obvious reasons. I'm really ashamed. I know I'm a piece of shit for doing this so please don't be rude to me; I am sorry every single day and this is one of my biggest regrets. \n\nI live in New York and I am a new driver. I've only had my license for five months. A month ago I was trying to park my car and I hit the car next to me while being distracted by something that was going on outside. I didn't even think. My mind went blank and I just put my car in reverse and sped out of there as fast as I could. Later I pulled over and I knew I needed to go back. But I was too scared to because I felt like a huge piece of shit for leaving in the first place. I ended up just driving away and pretending it never happened. \n\nA week later a cop showed up at my house and gave me a ticket for leaving the scene of an accident. He told me that I'd just have to go to court and pay a fine. My dad and I tried to go yesterday, but the teller said the cop was wrong, and that I'd have to appear before a judge in September. We looked it up and punishment for leaving the scene here can range between $250 fine and 2 weeks in jail. \n\nI am getting a lawyer, my parents are asking a lawyer friend of theirs to recommend somebody, so I do have that covered.  \n\nI guess I'm just posting here because I have two questions. The first like I said in my title is what can I expect? I have no experience with this kind of thing at all. In school I'd never even gone to the principal's office. I've never been in trouble like this. What will it like to be in court? Can anyone here predict how the judge will sentence me? I'm fine with doing anything to make up for it like community service. I'm just terrified of going to jail. \n\nMy second question is how much will this affect my life? I'm already getting mail from lawyers offering to represent me so I guess this is on some kind of record. Will future employers do background checks and find this? Would I be able to get this expunged somehow? \n\nI guess these are questions I could ask my lawyer but I don't know when I'll get one and my stomach is in knots. Thank you so much for your advice in advance. ","title":"I hit a car and fled the scene, and now I have to go before a judge. What can I expect?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555680639,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bez4cv\/opt_out_document_in_conflict_with_their_own_terms\/","id":"bez4cv","body":"Lets start off by saying that this is in the netherlands.\n\nSo a few months back I signed up for a gym membership. I purposedly chose for a flexibel plan of 1 month membership so I could opt out any moment without having to pay for a full year. \n\nWhilst signing up they said with the flex plan I could opt out any moment, but didn't mention a single word about their terms & conditions when you opt out. Basically when you opt out you'll have to pay for 1 more month after quitting the gym membership.\n\nNow a few weeks back I signed the papers for ending my subscription. At the botom of the paper it said: \"You will be charged for 1 more months notice when you decided to quit the membership, if you have a 1 or 2 year subscription.\n\nNow they are saying I owe them 1 month's notice because that's what their terms & conditions says. However I feel very conflicted about that since the sign out document stated differently.\n\nMy question now is do I just pay up or hold my ground. If so, what can I do against them so they stop contacting me I owe them?","title":"Opt out document in conflict with their own terms & conditions.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541458026,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uiijm\/recently_got_an_email_about_a_position_that_i\/","id":"9uiijm","body":"\nDear current or former delivery driver at X locations:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI represent current and former delivery drivers at X locations in an action seeking to recover unpaid wages. You are receiving this e-mail because X's records indicate that you are eligible to participate in this lawsuit and your rights may be affected by its outcome.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nClick this link\u2014LINK\u2014to view the Notice regarding the collective action against X recently authorized by the Court. The Notice explains the steps you need to take if you want to join. You should also be receiving a copy of the same information via U.S. mail.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAfter reviewing the Notice, if you would like to opt in to the case, you can complete the form at the link to sign your consent form electronically.","title":"Recently got an email about a position that I used to work that is involved in a lawsuit, is it legit?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540679203,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ryc4q\/promissory_note_clauses\/","id":"9ryc4q","body":"Hello, I am looking to draft a promissory note for the sum of $50,000. \n\nI am looking to get insight on what are the best clauses to include, I already have a Fees and Costs clause, and an Arbitration clause. \n\nI have been looking in to Arbitration services and they are all pretty pricey, the other party is also located in AZ so as I understand I would need to have an attorney over there file the paperwork for an award should the note be defaulted on. \n\nAre there any other specific clauses where I won't get stuck with any out of pocket expenses if and when legal action is needed to enforce the note?","title":"Promissory Note Clauses","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569331548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8n64a\/red_light_camera_ticket_in_new_orleans_what\/","id":"d8n64a","body":"I received a red light ticket from a camera for one of my vehicles in New Orleans. I was not driving the vehicle and was at work in Baton Rouge on that date. Should I contest it or just not bother? I know it doesn\u2019t go on my insurance but I wasn\u2019t sure about my credit. Also, we are moving out of Louisiana in a few months. Thanks in advance!","title":"Red light camera ticket in New Orleans - what should I do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542136309,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ws22i\/termination_of_lease_with_sale_of_rental\/","id":"9ws22i","body":"The single family house we rent is being sold. Our landlord gave us notice when he accepted an offer in writing (per law). In the letter it stated \"I'm terminating the lease and you need to vacate by the end of November\". We were month to month and he sent us this letter before the end of September - all on the up and up here.\n\nHe just called me todag screaming that he was in his way to court tk have us evicted because the place is a mess (we have stuff everywhere as are actively moving stuff out) and we should have been out in October.\n\nI reminded him his letter said November and he acknowledged that but was \"shocked\" we would need that long to move.\n\nHere is my question he told me that the CLOSING is the on the 23rd and the sale is contingent on the house being empty (us out\/no tennant) I know legally he has no leg to stand on in regards to evicting us as we kept his letter - but can he legally go after us in fashion if the sale falls through? His idea was that we legally only had through oct 31st since it was a month to month lease (original year lease is long expired) and that by saying end of November gave him flexibility to have us move out any time. Apparently he gave us notice before he recieved their formal written offer and just decided to accept it based on the dollar amount as he had it listed that tennants would be out prior to closing.\n\nReally at a loss and of course last thing I need to while moving is make a court apoearance for something stupid.","title":"Termination of lease with sale of rental","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539329617,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ni8h5\/tried_to_pay_my_rent_was_refused_got_served\/","id":"9ni8h5","body":"This is in Arkansas. Apartment complex I resided at for two years. This story references all dates in the month of September.\n\nI will be upfront and honest immediately: I knew I was late on my rent last month (September), due to health issues in my family. An immediate family member who has an ongoing condition was hospitalized. I was out of town and out of work for a few weeks (in and out) to be with him. I knew I would be late on rent, I went to talk to my apartment manager and she told me it was fine, just to pay by the 21st (my rent was usually due on the 3rd). \n\nOn the 20th, I was able to make all of my rent money - plus almost $200 in late fees - and made a money order out to my apartment management. I walked over to deliver it and the woman (not my manager) accepted the payment. I went home, and not even five minutes later, I got a knock on my door. I was served with \u201ccomplaint in unlawful detainer\u201d - civil court papers - from my apartment complex\u2019s corporate office, saying that I had been served eviction papers on the 6th, and had until the 10th to vacate the premises. I walked back over to the office, asked about the papers and she tells me she can\u2019t accept the money order, gave the money order back to me, and told me to contact corporate. \n\nThe papers included a copy of an eviction notice, signed by my apartment manager, which I never received. I immediately sent an email to the corporate office letting them know I had the rent and late fees ready for them, asked if we could settle this outside of court, and they declined. I contacted them multiple times trying to resolve this outside of court.\n\nI had no idea this was coming. While I was out of town, the apartment manager posted a lease renewal on my door, dated on the 10th - which is, coincidentally, also the date that the lawsuit claims I was supposed to vacate. She also posted a ledger on my door, dated on the 14th, that detailed my rent and late fees, and says \u201cmust be paid by Sept 21st.\u201d So I came home to both of these notices on my door, while out of town for two weeks, but I never saw this alleged eviction notice posted on the 6th.\n\nSo my question(s) are ...\n\n1. How exactly was I served? \n2. Why was I asked for a lease renewal if I were being evicted? \n3. Why would I get a ledger detailing my late fees, asking to be paid by the 21st, if I were evicted? \n4. I have since moved out, but was I unlawfully detaining this residence?\n5. I have paperwork detailing all of this, is this evidence enough to fight it?\n\nI am more than happy to supply pictures of any of the paperwork mentioned, but I am afraid of being identified, so if there\u2019s some way I can post them without identifying information, please let me know.","title":"Tried to pay my rent, was refused, got served papers. (Arkansas)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443734927,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n5i7j\/fl_landlordtenant_dispute\/","id":"3n5i7j","body":"So, I may might be able to give all the information on the situation because this is happening to a family member and not myself. Anyway...\n\nAbout nine weeks ago, my family member (FM) found water damage in the kitchen. Apparently a pipe was leaking or something. Called the landlord. Landlord sent repairmen to look at it and they tore up the floor, removed cabinets, and turned off the water for a week and a half. \n\nThe apartment was left in this state (basically having no access to the kitchen although water was turned back on) for seven weeks. The landlord claims this is because they waited for insurance money before starting the repairs again, although until that point they claimed the materials had been ordered and they didn't know why it was taking so long. \n\nA week ago some repairmen came and tore up the floor in the living room, damaged some furniture, and turned the water off again (without notice. IIRC you have to give seven days notice before turning off a utility). So my FM's response was to change the lock on the apartment so the landlord no longer had access and started looking for a new place to live. The landlord has given my FM a  [notice of non-compliance](http:\/\/www.floridabar.org\/TFB\/TFBResources.nsf\/0\/C90DA70E5A47F497852577370049F722\/$FILE\/FORM%202.pdf?OpenElement) on the claim that my FM refused to let the repairmen back onto the property to finish their repairs. Once the seven days are up, what happens? Is there a way for my FM to delay the eviction until they can move out?\n\nJust going off my knowledge of the law, I assume that after the seven days are up the landlord will have to go to the court to get a writ of replevin before my FM can be physically evicted which would give them enough time to move out since the courts are slow as molasses, but I'm not 100% sure on this.","title":"[FL] Landlord\/Tenant Dispute","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554124534,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b828ll\/landlord_issuedidnt_even_try_to_reach_me_before\/","id":"b828ll","body":"My wife and I started renting from an old friend of mine last November. I am only person on lease.Had no issues before. The heat went out about a month ago for the upstairs \n\nMy wife texted him for weeks about heat with no response. \n\nHe finally shows up this past Saturday and gets all pissy with my mom who was watching my son while my wife and I were out shopping. \nHe sends me a threatening Facebook message saying he has been trying to reach us for weeks. \n\nNumber one I never got any messages from him until this past Saturday. He had my phone number and could have messaged on Facebook. He said he was texting my wife but I checked my phone logs and we had no incoming messages from his number.Then he came by yesterday and said he put an eviction notice on our door this past Wednesday. I never received anything. I had no idea anything was wrong until my mom called me on Saturday.  \n\nJust really upset. He didn\u2019t try to reach me personally before going to eviction.  My wife isn\u2019t on the lease since she was out of town when deal happened so even if she was texting him he needed go come to me directly since I was on lease. Was I properly served? I didn\u2019t get any notices and was totally blindsided ","title":"Landlord issue-didn\u2019t even try to reach me before allegedly serving eviction notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445886401,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qbet2\/is_there_recourse_against_a_person_who_sold_land\/","id":"3qbet2","body":"A father transferred title to property in Lebanon to his son. The intent was that the transfer would be temporary but before the son transferred the title back, the father died. The son wrote a power of attorney in Lebanon to another person but included a requirement that the proceeds of any sale should be divided between three parties (US citizen and Canadian citizen).\nThe son died and the person with the power of attorney sold the property but did not distribute the proceeds.\nWhat recourse is there against the person (a US citizen) who sold property in Lebanon but did not distribute the proceeds? Would the jurisdiction be Lebanon or is there jurisdiction in the US?\n","title":"Is there recourse against a person who sold land in Lebanon but did not distribute proceeds?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554833767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbbbe9\/i_got_a_ticket_for_using_a_cell_phone_while\/","id":"bbbbe9","body":"Location: New Jersey\n\nOffense: 39:4-97.3 use of hand-held wireless telephones \n\nToday driving to work, I pulled my cell phone out of my pocket to put it on a mount I have on my car vent. I did not actually operate the phone.  I simply pulled it out and sat it in the mount. An officer pulled me over and gave me a ticket for that, with a mandatory court appearance. I did not argue with the officer, as I did not want the situation to escalate and I was late for work. I was polite and accepted the ticket. \n\nI tried reading up on this NJ law and I\u2019m just a little confused about what involves \u201coperating\u201d a phone, and if this ticket is justified. If it is *not* a justified ticket, is it actually reasonable to try to get it dismissed? And how would I do so?","title":"I got a ticket for using a cell phone while driving, however I wasn\u2019t actually using it. Can I get this dismissed?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442250781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kxjpb\/if_one_were_to_start_a_service_for_selling_social\/","id":"3kxjpb","body":"I understand Facebook, Instagram and the like, won't do anything other than their standard procedure of warning\/removing you, because after all, you only violated their TOS. But what if one would potentially make hundreds of thousands of dollars on such a service? Would the social network sue them for the damages? \n\nLocation: California I suppose, for most of the more popular social networks.","title":"If one were to start a service for selling social media accounts, would one suffer any legal consequences?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540404588,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r24zy\/apartment_complex_under_charged_me_by_accident\/","id":"9r24zy","body":"Hello,\n\nNever thought I'd see myself here. But my apartment complex called me and told me the last 2 months instead of paying $900, they were charging me $600. A trainee of theirs made a mistake in the ledger they said. They're asking for $550 in return. They were VERY apologetic but I'm still stunned at this.\n\nHow I didn't notice? I bought a brand new car with a shiny new payment of $300 a month (including insurance etc.) At the SAME time this mistake happened. And my bills pay on the same day.   \nI'm most likely going to start up a payment plan but all my friends are telling me not to pay them as its \\*their\\* mistake but to me its still \\*their\\* money.   \nWhat are my options here? I'm a very non confrontational person and would pay it anyways, but I'm a student and now I'm terrified about my bills. ","title":"Apartment complex under charged me by accident-- they now want their money.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506130454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71vgz9\/i_am_a_renter_received_notice_today_our_house_is\/","id":"71vgz9","body":"Hope I tagged it right, am on mobile. \n\nEdit: am in North Carolina. Wake county. \n\nI've rented a townhouse with friends since April 2016. Renewed the lease this year with no problems, even dropped the price some. \nHowever, recently our property manager asked us to write the checks to her business instead of our landlord and then suddenly papers show up at our house requesting our landlord's presence in court because a lien has been placed on the house and it is now being foreclosed on. Never thought I'd be in this situation. \nI asked my dad and he said it would take a while to actually foreclose on the place but I'm still a little worried. I can always go back to my parents but this is ridiculous. Where has our money gone this whole time? What will happen to us if it does end up in foreclosure? What steps do we need to take to protect ourselves or make sure that nothing happens to us or our possessions? I may be overreacting but I've been in a very financially-stable family my whole life and have never dreamed of hearing the words \"foreclosure\" so close to me. \n\n(Ironically enough if it means we can break our lease I'm actually happy for this, I was looking for an excuse to get a place on my own.)","title":"I am a renter. Received notice today our house is being foreclosed on. What happens next?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441735009,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k4dhf\/unbeknownst_to_me_i_am_part_of_a_family_trust_and\/","id":"3k4dhf","body":"Good afternoon everyone,\n\nI\u2019m not really sure how to phrase these questions best because I have absolutely no background in financial matters like this. I also have no idea who to ask about this, so I figured Reddit might be able to offer some advice\u2026\n\nBasically this is the matter as I understand it\u2026 Today my dad gave me a legal document to sign (along with my younger two siblings). It is a document titled \u201cDISSOLUTION OF [LAST NAME] FAMILY TRUST\u201d. I have no idea what this is.\n\nFrom the very poor explanation I\u2019ve received from my dad, it looks like my grandfather set up a family trust many years ago in my name, along with my two younger siblings. We were all well under 18 when this was created, and I had no prior knowledge of this trust until today.\n\nApparently this trust was created for \u201ctax purposes\u201d, though I\u2019m pretty sure it was some sort of scheme for my grandfather to get out of paying taxes. He used to own a business, though he has reached a settlement with his former partners and is no longer part of the business.\n\nAnyway, on this legal document, my siblings and I are listed as \u201cthe beneficiaries\u201d. We do not really have a relationship with my grandfather nor his wife. They have given us each of us birthday gifts (usually around $50CDN) for the past several years, as well as a Registered Education Savings Plan worth $2500 each. Beyond this, we have never received any sort of money or gifts from him.\nNow I am being asked to sign this legal document that I have no idea what it is, and I feel really uncomfortable. My dad said something about \u201cthere are risks if I was to get rich in the next ten years\u201d\u2026 what does that mean? I doubt this is going to happen, but I am concerned about if I try to start my own business or trying to buy a house, etc.\n\nI am a student with no money, so I don\u2019t know about \u201ccontacting a lawyer to look into this further\u201d. I am super uneasy and upset about this document. It was a total surprise to me, and I didn\u2019t know I was involved in something like this. Am I making this into a big deal when it isn\u2019t? Should I sign the form? Basically I don\u2019t want the government coming after me in 5-10 years saying I owe them money or I was involved in some sort of illegal scheme from which I personally benefited (I did not).\n\nThank you for your help!","title":"Unbeknownst to me, I am part of a family trust and being asked to sign legal documents - please help! (Ontario, CAN)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552685011,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1kequ\/child_support_with_my_parents\/","id":"b1kequ","body":"So my parents are divorced and my dad has been paying child support since. Makes sense, he was making more money at the time. But my mom has recently gone back to college to finish, as she has now finished and has gotten a job, she now makes just a little less money that my dad. \n\nI now feel it\u2019s appropriate to explain both sides. My dad now has re married and has had another child with my step mom. Absolutely adorable baby girl. Anyway, my mom has gotten a boyfriend who helps her to pay for food and whatnot. So after doing a little digging I found out that if you take my dad and step moms salaries and compare them to my mom and her boyfriends salaries, they are fairly similar, only about $3000 dollars of a difference. So should my dad stop paying child support to my mom? I\u2019m fairly unaware of laws being only 16 but I feel like he shouldn\u2019t have to pay. I live in Wisconsin by the way.","title":"Child support with my parents","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569203482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7zxos\/va_cant_cash_out_our_security_deposit_anymore\/","id":"d7zxos","body":"I could be mistaken but our previous landlord just told me and my roommates that if we didn\u2019t cash in our security deposit check within 60 days of receiving it, we can\u2019t get the money anymore. Is that a thing?? \nNowhere did it ever say that, and yes we should have cashed it in earlier, but can the landlord just pull that kind of stuff?","title":"[VA] Can\u2019t cash out our security deposit anymore","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508535339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77p9j5\/work_schedule_posting_manitoba_canada\/","id":"77p9j5","body":"Is there any law for when an employer has to post a work schedule? I'm receiving mine Sunday during the day for a schedule that starts on Monday, giving me less than a day to organize the upcoming day\/week.","title":"Work Schedule Posting (Manitoba Canada)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553481078,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5516y\/nj_is_it_legal_for_a_teacher_to_grab_a_students\/","id":"b5516y","body":"These happened in 5th grade and I want to get the teachers fired for their shitty behavior","title":"(NJ) is it legal for a teacher to grab a students backpack and pull them\/also is it legal for teachers to insult a student on their personality and physical appearance","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569790717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db14xx\/would_this_be_considered_trespassing\/","id":"db14xx","body":"In October 2016, I visited a nearby spa and sauna. While I was there, a staff member discovered me engaging in sexual relations with another guest. The staff member brought me to the manager\u2019s office, and the manager told me (in broken English), \u201cNext time, no.\u201d\n\nI was unsure if I was simply ejected from the premises or completely banned, so I never went back. Now my friend (who\u2019s unaware of the incident) wants to take me to that spa, and I\u2019m concerned that I could be charged with trespassing.\n\nAlthough the incident was three years ago, I recall seeing the staff member copy down information from my debit card before giving it back to me, and the spa website says they require government-issued photo ID upon check-in. \n\nObviously I would never engage in that same behavior again, but am I putting myself in danger simply by attempting to enter the business?","title":"Would this be considered trespassing?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542057915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wibpw\/mum_was_scammed_how_do_we_take_legal_action_uk\/","id":"9wibpw","body":"My mum borrowed a \u2018friend\u2019 \u00a31500, now she has gone MIA,  is making up lies and excuses such as she\u2019s in an \u2018immigration centre\u2019. She has blocked my mums number and refuses to take her calls. They worked together in a hospital. How can we locate her and take action? ","title":"Mum was scammed, how do we take legal action? (UK)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539109878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mrqc2\/nj_my_mom_is_going_to_try_and_contest_my\/","id":"9mrqc2","body":"Foremost, thank you to any who can help in advance. \n\nSo. My mom is going to dispute her fathers Will. It was drastically changed right before his death. My Mom and her sister are named beneficiaries. Split 80\/20 in my aunts favor. She is also Executrix.\n\nMy question regards her power as executor. Does this woman get to decide what the equivalent of what 20% equals regarding what my Mother receives from his Estate? Not simply monotary assets, but also physical as well, such as items in his home, i.e furniture, my grandmothers jewelry, what was inside his safety deposit box such as CDs, stocks, bonds, etc? All before she has an account of everything? .\nThat being said, she has asked family members who are not Beneficiaries if they want anything from his home which is where all his personal property is. My Mother has yet to see anything and my aunt has already put most into storage. Most furniture she has decided to give to het daughter. \n\nProbate is not closed and she has given my Mother a bag of old pictures containing a hand written note telling her to \"Have a nice life.\" She considers that to be the end of contact with my mom even after accounting for the estate which we have no way of knowing when she does. \n\nIs she allowed to do this as Executor? My mom is not allowed to see or have anything that belonged to her parents even when he left her 20%? \nIs this even legal? \nIs my aunt being negligent as executor? \nIs she allowed to just give his stuff to anyone before the beneficiary even seeing anything? \nAnd finally, does anyone think there is an actual case worth fighting here? \n\n","title":"[NJ] My Mom is going to try and contest my grandfathers Will. It is currently in probate. Have questions regarding the powers an Executrix has.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539371674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nn6q0\/school_dress_laws_ontario\/","id":"9nn6q0","body":"So there are 2 things I want to inquire on, \n\nWhy is a school allowed to ban clothing pieces even if they are not \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d and I say this with quotations marks because it is obvious that it\u2019s targeting women\u2019s clothing and then banning men from wearing similar items. How can a school, under the provincial government that has to up hold the bill of rights, ban someone\u2019s freedom of speech?\n\nSecond question, why cane students be reprimanded with suspension if they refuse to identify themselves on school property if prompted by a teacher or administrator. Doesn\u2019t this create a loop hole for discrimination and unreasonable stops? Why can\u2019t it be that the teachers bring you in if you refuse but you don\u2019t get suspended for it...","title":"School Dress Laws Ontario","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1441824594,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ka2ng\/ny_parents_death_occurred_in_ny_im_from_out_of\/","id":"3ka2ng","body":"How can I\/Is it possible to find a lawyer to handle probate for me? How do I go about finding someone reputable and reasonable cost? Will the court appoint someone?","title":"(NY) Parent's death occurred in NY. i'm from out of state and have found myself unable to handle probate and now its over a year.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540677381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ry3zs\/are_my_college_roommates_and_i_being_scammed_by\/","id":"9ry3zs","body":"My three roommates and I live in a 4 bedroom house with all utilities included, although our landlord will only cover 75$ max for our water and electric. If it goes over we have to pay the difference. Within the first two weeks of college and only a couple times using our washer and dryer, our dryer completely breaks. (Side note: our washer size compared to our dryer is comical. You can maybe fit half a load in their if that.) So my roommate who last used the dryer called our landlord and told him the situation. \nSo he came over and looked at it and told us that we overstuffed it and that\u2019s why it broke. (Though I have never heard of a dryer breaking because it was overstuffed, and also like I said our dryer is comparably small compared to our washer). So our landlord called a maintenance man to come fix it. The problem was that underwear (specifically a thong) somehow got stuck inside the dryer. The next day our landlord came and dropped the bill into our mailbox. The maintenance bill came out to 137.80 (40$ for labor, 90$ for a service call, and 7.80 for tax). \n\nWe were all pretty confused on why we had to pay because how can we prevent underwear from getting caught in the dryer, and theirs no way we can overstuff it because of the size of the dryer. I\u2019m currently studying criminal law\/justice in college and one of my professors is an attorney. So I had her look over the lease and told her the whole situation. She said it we could possibly fight it and talk with them about it, but it\u2019s probably a good idea that we don\u2019t get start a bad relationship with our tenant so early on. Also because our lease don\u2019t specify anything about the utilities that they provide getting broken,So we sucked it up and payed the bill, the price between all four of us was about 35$ so it wasn\u2019t that bad, but money out of college students pockets that we already don\u2019t have. \n\nThat was back in September and just yesterday my roommate text me while I\u2019m out and says the dryer is not working again. So we\u2019re not sure what to do because if we \u201coverstuff\u201d it\u2019s our fault (technically you cant because our washer only holds so much) but if we were to do smaller loads it would run our water bill up and have to pay the difference either way. ","title":"Are my college roommates and I being scammed by our landlord?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569939614,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbu2c8\/moved_to_a_state_where_marijuana_is_illegal_pa\/","id":"dbu2c8","body":"For the past four years I have lived in Oregon, where recreational marijuana has been legal. I used marijuana while living in Oregon, seeing as it was recreationally legal.\n\nI just moved to Pennsylvania, where recreational use is illegal. Many of the jobs that I am interviewing for require a drug test in order to get the job. \n\nIf I take a drug test for an employer, and they find marijuana in my system, can they decide not to hire me based on something I legally did in a state where it was legal to do it?\n\nIt doesn\u2019t make sense to me that an employer in Pennsylvania can refuse to hire me for using a substance legally in another state. I wasn\u2019t a resident of Pennsylvania when I used marijuana in Oregon. \n\nThanks for any advice!","title":"Moved to a state where marijuana is illegal [PA] after living in a legal state [OR]. Question about employer drug testing.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445897675,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qc8fh\/crazy_apartment_manager\/","id":"3qc8fh","body":"I am living under the thumb of a crazy apartment manager and I need help! About a month ago the faucet in my bathroom was dripping and keeping me awake. Finally I had enough! Although I don\u2019t pay for water it was still annoying. I talked to the apartment manager at about 4 pm on a Friday. She said she didn\u2019t want to pay for a weekend rate plumber to come in and so she would schedule it for Monday. I spent the whole weekend in my apartment with the drip. \n\nMonday comes around, no plumber. I went down to see the manager Tuesday before I left for school. She said there was a mix-up and she told me it was scheduled for Wednesday at 10 am. I continued in the apartment with the drip. When I came home Tuesday night from my hot yoga class the faucet was finally fixed but no cat! WTF? Mittens was nowhere to be found. I immediately called the apartment manager and she would not answer or return the messages. I ran up and down the street calling for my cat. I knocked on doors. No cat. After an hour I went back into the apartment and the cat was there! I called up the apartment manager and this time she answered. She claims that she had found the cat the previous night and kept calling and I did not answer. I know this is ridiculous because I know when my cat is in my apartment! I did see that she had left many messages on my landline but she knows I have a cellphone; I was talking on it to my dentist when I went to her apartment to complain about the faucet. So why did she call my landline?\n \nI really don\u2019t understand what is going on. After I talked to her I was so upset I could not sleep. The next day I felt worse. I was so stressed I was unable to take the oral test in my Cultural Anthropology & Human Diversity class. I believe the whole situation was intentional on the part of the apartment manager.\nMy question is fairly straightforward. Can I sue the apartment complex for the situation with the plumber and the apartment manager \u201ccatnapping\u201d my cat? What about their actions interfering with my school work? Can I legally withhold rent? All suggestions on how to proceed are appreciated. My dad\u2019s girlfriend is a lawyer and I will ask her, but I was hoping for some basic background on how to get this started before talking to her.\n\nP.S. I know people here can be really quite mean. If you are not mature enough to answer me like an adult then I would prefer that you didn\u2019t answer at all. I have enough stress in my life right now. Thank-you in advance.\n\nEdit: This is California","title":"Crazy Apartment Manager","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552692552,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1lrdk\/it_looks_like_i_hit_and_ran_but_i_didnt_do_any\/","id":"b1lrdk","body":"Apologies for formatting, I\u2019m on mobile. \n\nI backed up in my car and tapped someone\u2019s side mirror a little bit, enough to where it closed just a bit. I got out to inspect and there wasn\u2019t any damage to the mirror at all, it was moved on its normal rotational path. There was however a giant ass scrape on the door under it. There was no paint anywhere on my car at all, no damage to my car, no signs of that scrape being my doing. Our vehicles are drastically different colors so it would have been obvious. The mirror also wasn\u2019t pushed in enough to where my car would have touched the body of the car. I should have left my info anyway but I didn\u2019t think about it as I was in a hurry and left. I realize now that anyone watching would have thought I did the damage and just left. When I went back to leave my info the car was gone. \n\nIf someone saw and took a picture or took down my license plate and the police call me, should I tell them right away what happened or get a lawyer?\n\nI\u2019m worried about either the owner not knowing about the scrape before hand and thinking it was me (their car was parked illegally making it difficult for vehicles to pass by or back out, hence me bumping them, so the damage could have easily been done not long before I bumped them), or they did know about it and see this as an opportunity to get someone else to pay for it.  \n\nThank you for any help, I\u2019m scared I\u2019m going to get charged with a hit and run...","title":"It looks like I hit and ran, but I didn\u2019t do any vehicle damage, what do I do if I\u2019m called by the police?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570574028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df7kj2\/my_college_wants_me_to_return_part_of_my_private\/","id":"df7kj2","body":"Hello! I am a college senior (3rd year at university school after transferring from community college) and am set to graduate this year. This is my third private student loan I\u2019ve taken out with Discover Student Loans so I understand the process by now. I took out $15,000 for this year which includes this Fall semester in which I\u2019m taking 6 credits (so I\u2019m halftime) and this upcoming Spring semester in which I\u2019m back to being full time. The prices per semester vary a ton depending on how many credits you\u2019re enrolled in which is why I took out as much as I did to accommodate the semester where I am back to being full time, even though I did specify in my loan application that I am going to be half time. Long story short once my loan was disbursed I received a direct deposit refund of a little over $4,500 to my personal bank account, now a month into the semester I get an email from Office of Student Accounts telling me I\u2019ve been \u2018over-awarded\u2019 by $1200 and I will need to return this amount to the school who will then return it to the lender who will then account for the larger disbursement rate for the Spring semester. I asked why and the school told me the disbursement amount of $7,500 is based on full time attendance and as I am only half time they have to accommodate for that. I\u2019m wondering how is that my problem? \nThe school has since lowered my disbursement amount of Fall and raised my amount for the Spring, so the total amount still adds up to $15,000. I asked why all of this is happening since I put in my loan application that I was going to be half time and the school had to approve my loan amount before it was disbursed and have not gotten a straight answer from anyone. I also asked what will happen if I don\u2019t pay it back and they said I may have to pay a late fee and may not be able to enroll next semester. I\u2019m just wondering if I legally have to pay them $1,200 of money from my private student loan? It all seems very weird to me and neither of my parents went to college so they have no idea what to think of this. Any help would be very much appreciated!","title":"My college wants me to return part of my private loan refund to them because they thought I was going to be full time?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541465499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ujjl3\/from_london_uk_does_postal_rule_apply_to_an\/","id":"9ujjl3","body":"\n","title":"From London Uk - Does postal rule apply to an invitation to treat?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1507521651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/756my6\/is_it_illegal_to_watch_videos_of_illegal\/","id":"756my6","body":"For instance snuff films, gore, rape etc.","title":"Is it illegal to watch videos of illegal activities in the US?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568772309,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5r0zs\/employer_deciding_if_they_accept_my_immediate\/","id":"d5r0zs","body":"A couple of days ago, my employer decided to suspend me for misconduct. I felt this was unfair, but made a few mistakes by admitting fault thinking that it will make them happy. I realized shortly after the interview that I may be fired, even though they didn\u2019t mention anything like that. So the next day I gave them my resignation effective immediately. The HR woman accepted it, and I told her thank you for a wonderful two years. It seemed to have broken off on good terms. I get a call today from a union representative I\u2019ve been in contact with. He tells me that the higher ups are discussing whether or not to accept my resignation. The HR woman I spoke with told them they she will try and push for them to accept the resignation. I\u2019ve never heard of an employer not accepting this, and as far as I know I wasn\u2019t going to be fired. I was a union worker in the state of Washington. My union rep told me if they don\u2019t accept my resignation, we will file a grievance. But he seemed confused as well, he has never heard of an employer having to accept a resignation, when in lieu of termination.","title":"Employer deciding if they accept my immediate resignation?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443494392,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ms9cc\/if_i_changed_a_standard_contract_and_everyone\/","id":"3ms9cc","body":"This is completely hypothetical.  I am not trying to do anything illegal.  I have just always wondered this and I'll give an example to explain.\n\nPeople hate HOAs.  When I eventually buy a home, when it comes time to sign the HOA agreement, could I just change the agreement so that it doesn't apply to me or is less shitty?\n\nAgain, I understand doing something like this with money could get me in a ton of trouble.  I'm just wondering how legal it would be.\n\nLocation: Anywhere.  I live in California but I'm in the military.","title":"If I changed a standard contract and everyone signs it, is it legal?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553528263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5c642\/how_can_i_protect_my_dads_assets\/","id":"b5c642","body":"Backstory: My dad is currently in the hospital with a neurological disease, Guillain-barre, and I am worried it could reach his brain and he could die. His best friend\/business partner (B) and myself have been taking care of him nearly every day (I work in their office, so I have a flexible schedule). His wife (K) (2nd wife, not my mom) has shown very little caring for him. She is an alcoholic, wakes up in afternoon and when she comes in for her turn to watch him, she doesn't update us nor does she seem to pay attention to his health. She is a housewife and has no obligations elsewhere. B has caught her multiple times just sitting there just on the phone. This has caused a stir-up between dad and wife, he doesn't trust her to watch him and has expressed this to us. \n\nSuspicions: I am suspecting she is up to something as well. She is on her phone constantly, and I am suspecting her parents are grooming her to take over the business after he dies. Her mother talked to B a sad story about her husband and son hating their jobs and wanting for the business to hire, which B shut down. The mom has also been giving her self-help business books. And, according to B, my cousin has overheard the mom telling K to learn all she can about the business and what she can get out of it. \n\nI don't care if I do or don't get anything from my dad's death (God forbid), but I want to make sure his assets (the business, the house) are protected and don't fall into the wrong hands. \n\nWhat can I do?","title":"How can I protect my dad's assets","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552938500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2n5wv\/k1_income_for_indiana_child_support_calculation\/","id":"b2n5wv","body":"I am part owner in financial services company and receive a k-1. Part of my child support is based on my regular pay\/draws\/distributions. I get a year end bonus paid the following year. The second part of my child support is 11% over a fixed amount which approximates my regular pay. \n\nI am required to show ex wife final pay stub and K-1. My k-1 has higher amounts for income.  It also shows my distributions grossed up for health insurance and the companies\u2019 portion of profit sharing contribution. \n\nExample: distributions on k-1 are 120k less $20k health insurance and profit sharing = my net pay and my pay stub shows only $100k. \n\nWhat basis does the additional child support get calculated from? K-1 items (I doubt it) or my distributions? Does child support take into account health insurance and profit sharing contribution my company made?","title":"K-1 income for Indiana Child Support Calculation","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552070265,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aytnca\/divorce\/","id":"aytnca","body":"My separated wife just called to see if I had any money to pay for plumbing repair to the house.\nWe have been renting this place to a friend of hers for over two years.\nI was kicked out with enough to pay rent last Christmas. \nHow do I make sure I'm not getting more taken from me than has been already? \nWhat can I expect in losses should this make it to court in the divorce? ","title":"Divorce","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541186807,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tn8gm\/revocable_trust_question_oklahoma\/","id":"9tn8gm","body":"I've got to deal with something that I really hate to have to deal with. I'm 47 years old and this has been my life the last 20 years. I'm in a situation that nobody will believe is real. I've been diagnosed and made to believe I am mentally ill over it, but please suspend disbelief for a moment and hear me out. My father is a now retired FBI Agent who last worked on one of their surveillance squads.  I was adopted at birth and I believe I have been more or less subjected to being sacrificed as some kind of 'surveillance experiment.'  This includes my father and now deceased mother having been deeply and directly involved in helping to make me believe I am mentally ill.  \n\nI was run out of my employment working for the state government for 8 years and I'm now financially dependent on my father who has benefited from my maternal grandmother's mineral rights income being split up and him receiving a substantial share. \n\nHe has provided to me a 'revocable trust' of his assets that would provide me with an income that I could survive on and possibly hope to relocate from here to somewhere that is not so corrupt.  Everyone here seems to know that this is a lie though and they are all bragging about his estate going to my father's brother, niece, and nephew.  My own father has many times commented to others right in front of me that he's lying to me about it. People have actually confronted him in front of me and he persists that it's his 'right' to do this. \n\nThis financially motivates my father's brother and his family to try to get me out of the way upon his death. I have no doubt that they would do everything possible to try to have me committed or imprisoned. My father is 77 years old now and he is overweight and he could die at any time.  So, this is all something that can happen at any moment. \n\nEveryone in this state knows what is happening. They're all trying to force me into whatever rotten job they think will silence me if I want to live and not be sent to prison.  It would not be believed how corrupt it is here and just how little anyone here cares if the 'law enforcement' acts lawlessly. It's just 'the system' to them or whatever cliche they can think up. \n\nMy question is if the estate might possibly be held up from being granted to my uncle under these circumstances if there is substantial evidence that my father has purposefully intended to cause as much damage to my life as he could while he was alive and leave me financially devastated in his death by lying about this trust being valid and providing me with income I might rely upon.  \n\nOtherwise, is my only choice going to be to attempt to pursue legal action against my father for 'personal injury' perhaps? I frankly feel as though the financial motive to a law firm to pursue action might be my only option to prove that I'm actually not mentally ill and keep me from facing false imprisonment or being committed after his death.  It might also open up a pandoras box of other legal issues that I believe might lead to liability of others involved that aren't so clearly defined as my father's role. I've hoped that something else would happen before I was forced into this position. \n\nI also don't believe there is much chance that a jury in this state can rule fairly on any matter that involves me.  I did go to high school and college in a small town in this state and I question if there is a chance I might have a better shot with a jury in that town than the city where I am now. ","title":"Revocable Trust Question Oklahoma","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540051341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pv9tt\/i_need_help\/","id":"9pv9tt","body":"Im 18 and im struggling, but studying for my ged test. \n\nI was homeschooled (religious exemption) from 1st-7th grade and stopped after that because we couldn't afford the books. Sadly, I've had adhd all my life and never truly processed any of the stuff I was taught. Not to mention no high school at all so Im in a bit of hell. Also I had to \"teach myself\" all the stuff I learned. But, this isn't about me.\n\nNow, I have 5 cousins who are also being \"homeschooled\" (all their lives) with a religious exemption. The oldest is 14 and can't add 15 + 15 (non of them were taught anything. ANYTHING.). The others can't read nor write or even wipe their own butts when they use the bathroom. They have no one to be around (they're isolated like myself) and they are living in extremely bad houses (drugs).\n\nSadly, the drugs the parents get are \"legal\" (though they sell and snort them). As for being homeschooled, nothing legally can be done about a religious exemption in my state. So, I don't know what to do. \n\nThey're suffering and will have absolutely nothing in life. They're growing up like I did (except my parents weren't on drugs) and its killing me to see. I could call the police about the drug selling, but I can't risk my cousins coming here to live as they wont get an education here either. My parents are also very old so they can't physically take care of kids. Everyone one in this family (besides me and my parents) are bad druggies so they can't go there.\n\nThis is so much to deal with, honestly. I feel so much guilt for not doing anything... Does anyone at all have any advice for what I should do? \n\nCan I call social services and tell them to not let my parents have them? Not to let any family have them? Do i just deal with the guilt and move on? \n\nIll take all the advice I can get. Ill also be making a posy about my own nightmares about being homeschooled here soon.\n\nAlso, Im personally okay at home. Its my cousins that aren't.\n","title":"I need help.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1442521299,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lcg9c\/contest_a_will_missouri\/","id":"3lcg9c","body":"It has been 25 years and my father put a Trust in the will for me (Age 66) and I would like to contest it and receive the money's from it just like my 2 brothers and 2 sisters did when it was settled back then.  Is it possible? ","title":"Contest a Will (Missouri)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554828778,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbab1h\/what_can_i_do_about_my_brothers_abusive_unsuited\/","id":"bbab1h","body":"Tl:dr Extremely unsuited mother is withholding my brother's kids and won child support from him today. We want full custody, what can we do? Can I take any of these steps by myself, or does my brother need to be directly involved? Location, Pennsylvania.\n\nMore details here. I'm gonna be calling her \"Susan\" for ease of reading (apologies to all Susans out there). My brother had two kids with Susan, both of which are now elementary school age. Bro and Susan split informally after he found her cheating with his best friend and she became progressively nastier. They aren't divorced but live in separate houses and only really interact when the kids are directly involved. There's no custody agreement- not a formal one at least- but typically my brother would have the kids for 3 days out of the week. It was like this for ~2 years.\nAround three months ago though, she stopped bringing the kids over. She didn't even let her daughter see her dad on her fucking birthday. From what I heard, both kids are EXTREMELY distressed about this. Said daughter broke down crying when someone remarked that her brother \"looks just like your dad!\". \n\nMy brother talked to Susan shortly before she started keeping the kids from him- he wanted to totally pay for their extra curriculars, clothes, food, you name it, and have the kids put on his insurance, _but_ he wanted definitive proof that she would be spending the money he give her on the kids. Not on shit for herself, which she would undoubtedly do. She refused, and began withholding the kids. We haven't seen them in 3 months. \n\nJust today, Susan, my brother, a state mediator (if that's the term), Susan's lawyer, and a little fucking posse Susan procured (her parents, boyfriend, and new baby, who's unrelated to my brother) met because she was going after my brother for child support. She won. She'll now be getting what sums to ~half of his paychecks, and god knows where that money will actually go.\n\n\nI'll list some heinous shit Susan's done so you can get a better picture of her.\n\n-Hit my brother and their kids on more than one occasion, attacked my mother in our home after a brief verbal bout.\n\n-Got herself a tattoo the same week she \"couldn't afford food\" for herself and the kids.\n\n-Has a record of leaving her kids unattended at home (even when they were pre-elementary age)\n\n-sold my brother's dogs without his consent\n\n-killed all 5 of her cats because she \"forgot to water them\" \n\n-may be tampering with some hard drugs, not sure which. my brother suspects this because of certain behaviors, slurred speech, etc.\n\n-severely downplayed her income to get more money from my brother's child support.\n\n-when we were still seeing the kids weekly, when they were dropped off, they were either overly hyped on candy, or complaining about not being fed.\n\n-overall shit person, I know I'm forgetting other things she's done. \n\n\nI'm appalled at the whole situation. My brother's... Well. He talks about doing things, but it takes him forever to get to it. He wants full custody. _I_ want Susan to face some sort of justice for all the deplorable sit she's done. _We all_ want the kids fucking away from her because she's a horribly irresponsible, selfish, and abusive person.\nI have money saved up. I want to do something about this because I don't know how long it'll take my brother and I'm tired of this feeling of dread that weighs in my gut every time I'm reminded of what my niece and nephew are dealing with day to day. What steps can I take? Can I even do anything since I'm not directly involved in the dispute? \n\nI'm in Pennsylvania, as is everyone involved. All responses will be appreciated. Thank you for reading.","title":"What can I do about my brother's abusive, unsuited wife not letting him see his kids and milking money from him? I need steps.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551923521,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay71no\/my_name_is_spelled_wrong_on_legal_documentation\/","id":"ay71no","body":"the property management suck and are being assholes to me they charge unfairly and i recently discovered my name has been spelled incorrectly on almost all legal documents and bills, can i use this to my advantage at all? ","title":"My name is spelled wrong on legal documentation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571643412,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkwz52\/dismissed_from_college_after_suicide_attempt\/","id":"dkwz52","body":"A friend of mine tried taking her life last month at our college. Realizing she didn\u2019t want to go through with it, she contacted a friend who took her to the hospital where she stayed inpatient for about a week or two. After being released she returned to school and saw a counselor on campus who cleared her and told her that she was well enough to return to classes, but advised her to speak to the Dean so that her missed classes would be excused which she did. Three weeks pass by of her going to class and living in the dorm before she\u2019s told by the Dean that she can\u2019t live on campus, isn\u2019t allowed in or around any residential buildings on campus, and gives her three days to move off campus with no warning. My friend appealed the decision giving evidence that she\u2019d be seeing a therapist regularly, was given a proper diagnosis and medication to treat her illness while hospitalized, and created a plan with her therapist to demonstrate the follow through for her treatment that would take place for a sufficient period of time. The appeal was turned down and the Dean gave her no reason or explanation as to why aside that she had to leave. \n\nShe cannot commute to campus so she no longer can attend the college.  Is this legal? Especially if she was cleared by a mental health professional who said that she was stable and okay to return to the college?","title":"Dismissed from College after suicide attempt","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555366482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdm1d5\/ca_options_for_a_minor_seeking_therapy_services\/","id":"bdm1d5","body":"So my friend (a minor, in high school, living in California), is seeking a therapist. They lived in Nevada for most of their life, and their parents were divorced a few years ago in Nevada. As per the divorce, both parents have to agree to doctors and such. Her father, who still lives in Nevada, won\u2019t sign off on a \u201dreal\u201d therapist (he insists on a religion-based therapy approach, but that\u2019s another topic). What are their legal options regarding seeking therapy services on their own? I know California law allows them to seek mental health treatment without parental consent, but does CA law apply here, since the divorce was finalized in Nevada? Do they have options, or do they have to wait until they\u2019re 18 to see a therapist who will actually help them?","title":"(CA) Options for a minor seeking therapy services; divorce complicates things....","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539059836,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mm6gb\/indiana_going_on_three_weeks_without_a_bathroom\/","id":"9mm6gb","body":"Moved into the apartment in mid July. Three weeks ago, I got a call from my down stairs neighbor saying there was a puddle in her floor. Talked to maintenance and they re-glued the drain on the tub. Which required not using it for 48 hours total. (Before and after). \n\nThat didn't work. Had to wait until the next day he was in (maintenance and the land lord are only on site Monday, Wednesday and Friday. )\n\nHe then tore out my bathroom sink and put it in the dining area so he could have access to the pipes for the tub\/shower. After waiting another 24 hours I attempted to take a shower with the same results. So my 15 year old daughter and I had to wait another two days. That night while I'm cleaning I end up hitting one of the toilet bolts and it's \"loose\". After messing with it and the other one...it isn't just loose it is not bolted in at all...they're just sitting there. \n\nI text the maintenance guy and land lord and let them know this...with photos. \n\nFriday comes around and he finally fixes the issue with the leak  but couldn't confirm until 24 hours had passed and took a shower. He said he'd come back to fix the toilet but never did.\n\nIt worked. Called and texted maintenance and let him know. The following Monday...no contact...no responses from asking if they were going to put everything back and put the new wax seal and rebolt the toilet. \n\nI have messaged him from my job and even tracked them both down last Friday. They said they'd get on it Monday (yesterday). \n\nMessages. Calls. It all went unanswered. By time I got off of work they're gone. My downstairs neighbor cannot even use her tub because they tore the ceiling down and it is all inside of it for some reason. \n\nOur bathroom is starting to stink and it is starting to leak out into the house because the toilet isn't bolted. I'm afraid of it toppling as well. I've tried to bolt it myself but cannot manage it for some reason. We still have no bathroom sink and I'm unable to shave and my daughter is unable to do her normal cleansing and such. \n\nI have tried to be patient but this is asinine. \n\nAdvice?\n\n\nTL;DR: Tub\/shower leaking into downstairs apartment. Maintenance and land lord work Monday, Wednesday and Friday only. Took a week to get issue fixed which required ripping our bathroom sink out. Start of second week notice that the toilet isn't actually bolted in. Make them aware of the issue. Three weeks from initial issue the sink is still ripped out and laying in the dining room and the toilet is still unbolted which is now causing a sewerage smell to seep throughout the apartment. Several promises to fix it all have been met with \"missed appointments\".\n\n\n","title":"[Indiana] Going on three weeks without a bathroom sink and a toilet that is not bolted down...this stinks...literally...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539576570,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o9f9u\/customer_using_loaner_as_a_lyft_car\/","id":"9o9f9u","body":"This is in Texas\n\nI work in a ford service department. Yesterday a customer dropped her Focus off and insisted to get a loaner. After an hour of paperwork she drove off with a Fusion.\n\nShe came by today throwing a huge fit, saying we tampered with the gas gauge and made it say it had more gas than there actually was. Along with a rant on how it suddenly stopped on the highway, forcing her and her 8 year old daughter to push it to a gas station to fill it up with gas. She insisted we pay $42 for the gas, yet when we asked for the gas receipt she \u201cgave it to her daughter to hold onto, but she lost it.\u201d There was absolutely no way that the gas gauge would malfunction unless she tampered with it herself, and her and her kid definitely couldn\u2019t push that car miles to a gas station.\n\nI went to check on the car, seeing if it got damaged. Noticed a \u201cLyft\u201d sticker on the window, and that she had put 120 miles on it in a single day. I pulled my boss over to the side to tell him, and he said to not confront the customer about it today.\n\nShe left in the same loaner, refusing to let us put her in another one. We decided to look into the contract we have customers sign for loaners. There is no specific rule against using it for rideshare services, but it does say that the trucks can be authorized for commercial use.\n\nWe don\u2019t know if this is against Lyft\u2019s policies for drivers. But we do know that the car has to be under the driver\u2019s insurance (which we found out her\u2019s ran out in June). So if she gets in a wreck in the loaner, we pretty much have to pay for it. Do we take the loaner from her, report her to Lyft?","title":"Customer using loaner as a Lyft car","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569852689,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbc4gr\/interstate_child_support_arrears\/","id":"dbc4gr","body":"My ex husband currently owes 20k+ in arrears. It is an interstate case and my state is asking his state to enforce orders\/arrears. \n\nIt looks like he may be selling his house. I have been fighting with his state for 3 years and now they are requesting that we file everything again. \n\nCan my state put a lien on his house? He has listed it for sale.","title":"Interstate child support arrears","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539475365,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nyiyz\/walmart_refusing_employees_to_get_drinks_and\/","id":"9nyiyz","body":"As the title says the Walmart ( Cleavland County, OK) that I work at is not letting us the associates go to the water fountain. We have to go to the rear bathrooms to get to the only working water fountains but they are threatening consequences if we do so. They are also treating the same if we keep personal drinks in the backrooms other than the break room, which we're not allowed to be in unless on our scheduled breaks. A couple people were already fired due to it. I feel that it won't be long until they start threatening if we need to go to the bathroom. I was wondering if this is legal? Are they allowed to do that? If so, why? That sounds inhumane, and possibly dangerous.\n\nP. S. Sorry if it doesn't quite makes sense, this is the first time I've posted. ","title":"Walmart refusing employees to get drinks and going to the bathroom.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568720317,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5fpoy\/help_i_was_accused_of_rape_a_year_ago_by_my\/","id":"d5fpoy","body":"Long story short, one of my close friends accused me of sexual assaulting her a year ago. I spoke with a  detective who got a warrant for my DNA, took my phone to make a copy  (to retrieve video evidence, nothing is on the phone btw) and told me he was going to reach out to me no later than 6 months.\n\nThis girl blocked me from all social media but in May unblocked me from everything, but then went private a month later. I got a new job during that time and my manager said nothing popped up in my background check. I also moved into a new apartment this month and it was clean. Should I call the county clerk for updates? Should I call the station to see if anything has popped up? I blocked her on Facebook, should I block her everywhere? What should I do?","title":"Help! I was accused of rape a year ago by my friend, I haven\u2019t heard back from the detective or county","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570967222,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh9kei\/quit_and_facing_severe_reprisal\/","id":"dh9kei","body":"The Background,\n\nMyself [ M.O] and another contractor who will be known as T.W. are government contractors. We work for the military as civilians, and are considered at will employment. We are currently contractors in Afghanistan and have worked 13 months. Typically the contract companies want you to work for 6 months to a year.\n\n\nSo myself and T.W are facing derogatory retaliation in regards to leaving an at will contract. We spent 13 months on contract [only\u00a0 6-12 is expected] and decided to leave because of workplace harrassment, medical, and family issues. Because we were so severely bullied and harrassed, we left our work positions without giving our two weeks notice. We knew if we stayed after giving our notice, the soldiers would start harassing us worse and try to target us. So we went to our company and informed then we are quitting and quit the same day.\n\n\nWell immediately after our resignation the military and contracting company began using reprisal and retaliatory attacks against us. Including intimidation, and banning us from contracting overseas and that we won't be allowed on future contracts. [This happened 3 days after we quit]\n\n\nThe reasoning we have been given so far is that we made the company look bad quitting, and that it was unprofessional to quit without giving two weeks notice. So we gave our rebuttal, and got denied saying we are leaving on derogatory terms. Now we never had any work performance issues, and didn't have even one complaint while working for 13 months.\n\n\nSo to explain the work place harrassment I have been faving. I have getting teased and made fun of for health conditions and disabilities. People laugh at my for having ulcerative colitis and having a bleeding anus. I also have a detoriating issues with my legs and can't run or walk very long, thus making my on the heavier side. So my name in the unit has been \"Husky Mike\", \"Fat Fuck\", and \"blubber\". Our packages have been stolen, or stabbed\/defaced from soldiers who openly dislike contractors. We had such an issue with thievery, that we had to create a locked and keyed space to deter thievery.\n\n\nThe unit also called T.W \"Metro Mike\" because they say he looks like a \"queer\".\u00a0\n\n\nNow the Military and Civilian Contract Company are mad that we quit without giving a two weeks notice, that we are banned from overseas contracting, and that we reflected poorly on the company so BAE is refusing us to transferring within the company.\n\n\nNow some other intimidation tactics used by the company and military. I gave a sworn statement in assistance with an investigation. Essentially what happened is a NATO partner force held an American at gun point by multiple Romanians. They drew there guns on him because his badge was clipped to his waist. While the American civilian was being held at gun point on an American base, he requested they retrieve the American MPs. The NATO partners refused. There was over 20 witnesses incident. When colonels, and generals heard I gave a sworn statement to Counter-intelligence department [CID], they panicked. I was approached and emailed by multiple people including colonels, majors, and generals that I need to keep my mouth closed, or else I would pay with my career and livelihood. [Video of NATO incident is available]. I become uncomfortable in my work place environment.\n\n\nBoth myself M.O\u00a0 and T.W witnessed war crimes while on contract in Afghanistan. The incident was beginning of the new Task Forces deployment. During a deliberate operation, the Ground Force Commander cleared apaches to engage a potential hostile bed down location. Well, the apaches engaged the wrong building which resulted the deaths of innocent civilians. After realizing the mistake, the Apaches engaged the correct building. When editing gun tape to submit to the JAG about the engagement, the soldiers and command edited the tapes to make it look like a valid target and cutting out the convo of the mis-engagement. we were forced to remain silent. [Willing to take a polygraph, and may be able to pull the video if given access, as well as other witnesses]\n\n\nFraud: while working, we were forced to work over are allotted hours. Being force to commit time card fraud. We were only allowed 76 hours a week. But being forced into working 84-98 while only being paid for 76. I was personally never able\/allowed to get chow. Because I couldn't leave I ordered and spent thousands on food from Amazon, just to have something to eat.\n\n\nI tried to leave and quit for medical issues previously, and was refused medical treatment, saying it could cost my my job if I leave country to get treated.\n\n\nT.W was sexually harrassed, with soldiers thinking it's funny to put their hands on his chest and butt.\nI was physically assaulted with soldiers putting their hands around my neck, or putting me in a headlock while I was sitting at my desk.\n\n\nWe felt so unsafe, that we decided we need to quit before we are seriously hurt. Now we are facing reprisals for quitting. We are being threatened with our careers and livelihoods. I been doing this work for 10 years, and now everything i worked\u00a0 is in jeopardy.\n\n\nWe quit on 11 October 2019, and are being forced to stay in Afghanistan till 24 October 2019. The military and company are making us stay in country to harrass and scare us into keeping quite while punishing us. We do have many more recorded issues but I don't want to write a novel. We have a lot of evidence of the abuses and claims.\n\n\nSo my questions are this.\n\ncan I pursue legal actions?\n\nDo i pursue legal actions against the company or the military? Or both?\n\nWho do I report all these issues too? Because the company and military are against us.\n\nWhat type of Attorney and\/or Lawyers do we need to contact?\n\nCan I release any of this to the media?\n\nIs there anything I can do with this information?\nHow to I protect my career and my family from backlash and more reprisal?","title":"Quit and facing severe reprisal?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1550106765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqe3kd\/hubbard_management_at_work\/","id":"aqe3kd","body":" Hi, my wife is working for a company that has given her a Hubbard  Management book. After some brief research and some reflection on the  company we are pretty sure they are members of WISE if not full blown  Scientologists. I am wondering if she has a legal leg to refuse to read  the book since they are trying to push religion in the workplace. Also  if they fire her for not doing it what can she do as well. ","title":"Hubbard Management at work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553287626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4a8le\/hoa_is_fining_us_100_for_excessive_noise_after\/","id":"b4a8le","body":"Florida\n\nCurrently live in a condo in FL and there is an HOA here. \n\nWe recently were notified that we received noise complaints as we were reportedly on our lanai and making excessive noise after quiet hours.\n\nThe date listed on the complaint is from when we were out of state in New Hampshire visiting family. \n\nI told this to the management company, and they\u2019re saying that the complaints are valid and \u201cwhy would someone file a false complaint?\u201d \n\nI asked for proof of the said noise, and was told they have none.\n\nWhat are my options here?\n\nI don\u2019t want to pay a fine for something we couldn\u2019t have possibly done. I understand if we were actually making noise...but we were 3000 miles away lol \n\nThank you!","title":"HOA is fining us $100 for \u201cexcessive noise after quiet hours\u201d when we were out of state.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569454303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9bcos\/va_breaking_an_illegal_sublease\/","id":"d9bcos","body":"Found out I was subleasing without the landlord\u2019s permission. I want *out* (the roommate is crazy). Can I just walk away from the least without any issue, since she wasn\u2019t supposed to sublease in the first place? I\u2019ve already found another place to live, I think, so I just want to be gone as soon as possible. \n\nMy plan is to let her keep my security deposit (one month\u2019s rent) and pay rent for the month that I think I\u2019ll be moving out in. I don\u2019t want to give 30 day\u2019s notice because she is *fucking crazy* and I worry about my safety when I\u2019m here, and she\u2019s already told me of instances where she\u2019s kicked other tenants out and not let them back in for their things. I plan on moving out during the day while she\u2019s at church and then coming back and telling her that I\u2019m leaving, but she can keep the security deposit. \n\nSome other factors: \n\n1. I don\u2019t have a bedroom. I was supposed to be renting a bedroom upstairs, but there\u2019s another tenant living there while there\u2019s mold in the basement \n2. The other tenant is violent, according to her. As a smaller female, I think that this can constitute a danger to me. \n3. She\u2019s fucking crazy \n4. She\u2019s not supposed to be subletting to me, something she only told me *after* I signed the lease \n\nSo. Can I just cut and run?","title":"[VA] Breaking an Illegal Sublease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542132987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wrjbp\/needing_advice_on_how_to_move_forward_after\/","id":"9wrjbp","body":"Hello, r\/legaladvice! Long time lurker, first time poster, on a throwaway account, as the context of this story is pretty illegal to begin with. \n\ntldr; my boyfriend got robbed in my apartment while trying to sell weed to a friend of his. he was duct-taped and had a gun held to his head, while everything in my apartment was searched through. they only took his weight, his wallet, and the cash on hand in the safe. I want to break the lease to move to a new apartment ASAP, but I'm afraid of the ramifications on my credit in doing so. What options do I have? Subletting is not an option my building will give me. \n\nI've inquired to my landlord about breaking the lease, but there's no real way to convey the sense of urgency I have about why because;\n\na. we did not file a police report, given the nature of the crimes at hand \n\nb. there are no signs of forced entryway into the apartment, so it's not like we got \"kickdoored\" and robbed randomly \n\nc. i have no idea who this person is and have no way to provide identifying information. \n\nI can understand I'm pretty much mediumly fucked when it comes to reporting the crime of robbery, and I'm really not here to get advice on that. Breaking the lease will cost me 85% of one months rent, and every month's rent until my lease is up in March. This is a huge financial burden by itself. What I need help with is understanding the necessity of moving: will it harm me more financially (and legally) if I break the lease and move on, or will it behoove me to do so? I am in a metropolitan area of Texas, as far as location bot goes. Let me know if this is the wrong sub to post on, and I will move to another. Thanks again y'all. \n\n​\n\nOh, and for what it's worth: no, I will not be allowing these dealings to happen here again or at any other place I live at, ever. Learned my lesson the hard, stupid way.\n\n​","title":"Needing advice on how to move forward after robbery; breaking lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570889756,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgvoxj\/can_i_still_get_sued_if_the_case_was_already\/","id":"dgvoxj","body":"About two years ago, I got into a car accident at a two way stop. Everything was settled in court and I ended up with a reduced fine and no points on my license. Today, I got a court summons from the state Supreme Court, saying that the party that was in the accident is filing a lawsuit against me. They\u2019re requesting my insurance documents, but I\u2019ve switched policies since then and I don\u2019t know how this all works. Any advice would be welcome, because I have no idea what to do.","title":"Can I still get sued if the case was already settled? (NJ)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553090899,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3cgi4\/tn_daughter_being_bought_out_of_house_questions\/","id":"b3cgi4","body":"Hello,\nMy dad and I are both on the deed for a property of the house in which he currently resides. He is the sole person on the mortgage.  My dad and I do not get along and in an effort to be done with him I want to be bought out of the house. I doubt he will do this amicably, so a couple questions. What type of lawyer should I speak to in order to pursue this? Should I expect 50% or less?  What happens if he trashed the house to decrease the value? (There is a decent chance this will happen) \n\nThanks in advanced!","title":"TN Daughter being bought out of house questions","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1410328068,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fzd6g\/rental_agency_trying_to_shake_us_down_for_money\/","id":"2fzd6g","body":"My current roommate and I signed a one year lease last February, and now she is moving out of the apartment. We already found a new tenant to replace her, and when we contacted the rental agency who deals with the property, they told us that we would have to pay extra to add this new tenant. The two options they gave us were - Pay $250 to get the old roommate removed from the lease, and add the new tenant, or rent will be increased by 10% every month, as they will be counting it as an additional tenant being added on.\n\nThe problem is, in our lease agreement, there is nothing that says there are any additional fees to be paid during this process, and that the only thing required for us to do is inform the landlord of a new tenant being added on, so that the landlord can approve of it, and then sign an addendum to the lease. If we don't inform the landlord of bringing in a new tenant, then they have the right to terminate the lease. But, again, there's nothing that says we have to pay any extra fees for adding anyone.\n\nLast year, my current roommate (the one moving out) were both added onto a lease of the prior tenants (me in July, her in October), and we didn't have to pay any fees for being added onto the lease, nor did rent go up at all. Today, we were informed that the only reason there were no fees was because all fees were waived both times. We had no idea there were any fees, because there has never been anything in writing to say so. It was literally just sprung on us. This is why I believe it to be a total shakedown.\n\nI've contacted the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, but they were closed, so I left them a message about it. I don't know if there are any other agencies I should try contacting about this.\n\nI should also add that this puts me in a bit of a pickle, because my lease ends in February, so I'm pretty sure if we cause them any problems with this, they can just turn on us next year and not renew our lease. The rent here is super cheap, and the location is great, so of course I want to hold onto the place, but I don't enjoy the super shady business tactics being employed by the rental agency.\n\nAny advice would be awesome, as we are trying to figure out what to do before my roommate moves out at the end of the month. Thanks!","title":"Rental agency trying to shake us down for money [Los Angeles]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550673170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asoz36\/missing_work_comp_dr_appt_due_to_weather\/","id":"asoz36","body":"Location: Missouri\n\nI rescheduled a work comp doctor appointment because of the weather. I live 2 hours away from the doctor they sent me to and our roads were aweful. I called my caseworker and she said \"good, i was hoping you would\" because I'm on crutches and shouldn't be out in the ice.\n\nRescheduled for the earliest appointment they had (2 weeks later than first appointment) and we got another snow storm. This time the roads where I live are completely packed down with ice. MODOT says the roads are even worse where the dr. Office is. \n\nI tried to go out for this appointment. I really want to go back to work. But since I can't drive myself and the roads were aweful we ended up turning around and going back home. I rescheduled the appointment again (this time only an 8 day wait) and left a message with the caseworker that this had happened AGAIN. \n\nSo will the caseworker be understanding with this again or should I be wary of having to reschedule twice already? I've made it to all of mt PT appointments except one when the PT called me and cancelled due to weather.","title":"Missing Work Comp Dr. Appt due to weather?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410011252,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fmxn0\/liquor_liability_in_massachusetts_wedding\/","id":"2fmxn0","body":"The venue is very hands off - they are offering their venue, and that's it. We have hired a caterer for food only. We would like to purchase alcohol ourselves and allow guests to self serve for free.\n\nThe venue thinks we can do so without issue. The caterer thinks that we need some sort of liquor liability insurance for the day in case someone got too drunk and something bad happened.\n\nWe're trying to save as much money as we can, but obviously this is the kind of subject not to be messed with.\n\nDoes anyone have experience with this? Let me know if you need more information.","title":"Liquor Liability in Massachusetts - Wedding","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570919086,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh1wfn\/question_about_adult_website\/","id":"dh1wfn","body":" \n\nSo a couple of years ago i decided to post some nude pics of someone i knew (I was young and stupid) but now i really regret what i have done, i can't really sleep well or think about anything other than all those posts i made saying horrible things.\n\nSome of the posts even have some contact info i often use with which people can easily identify me since a simple google search can lead to my full name and some other info.\n\nI would definitely delete the pics and all the shit i've posted but apparently you can't really take them down unless you pay a fee and even if i do i'm not sure if everything will be deleted from the website.\n\nIs there a way to take the pictures down from a website legally that doesn't involve the person in the pictures taking them down herself? The Website also hosts a vast quantity of illegal content.. mostly with minors so is there a chance that i could report the website over hosting that kind of content and take the whole thing down?","title":"Question about adult website.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1408929855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ehog7\/california_roommate_moved_his_girlfriend_in\/","id":"2ehog7","body":"So, my roommate is the only one on the lease (actually, I think he may be on the lease with his EX-gf, I really doubt he ever informed the landlord of their split and my subsequent moving-in).  However, I've lived here for about 6 or 7 months and paid him a 50\/50 share of the rent, utilities, and internet (granted, I've been paying him directly in cash, which in retrospect might have been a mistake).  \n\nDuring that time, his girlfriend has stayed overnight usually for at LEAST 25 -28 days out of the month, and her four year old daughter has stayed here for about 10 days of each month.\n\nAt first I was patient with him and didn't bring it up, but at some point about two or three months ago it became clear to me that she had officially moved in to the living space; she brought over many of her belongings, began staying here literally every single night out of the month (not always with the 4 year old, who I believe stays with her grandma primarily), and even would stay at the house almost all day long and use the kitchen and living room while my roommate was away at work.\n\nAbout a month ago, my roommate gave me an informal verbal \"30 days notice,\" and I said, and I quote, \"Yeah, I'll probably wanna get out of here in about 30 days anyway.\"  Nothing in writing, however, as at the time we were still relatively friendly, and I wanted to get out of there anyway.\n\nNow, as the 1st approaches, I kindly asked him if he could give me about 5 extra days into September when I'll get paid that Friday, which I need to be able to afford to move into a new place.  He was adamant that I be out by the 1st because \"[he's] already so stressed about everything and [his girlfriend] is so mad every night [Editor's Note: she's upset because my girlfriend and I stay up late watching movies and talking quietly in my room, which apparently has thin walls; we've only been dating for about 5 or 6 weeks though] which could potentially be hurting my baby.\"\n\nIt's my understanding that even though I'm not on the lease, I have \"roommate's rights\" that mean that in order to start the eviction process, he has to get the court to serve me a 30 day notice.  Is this correct?  Basically as far as I know I have the right to stay here as long as I want until he serves me those papers, right?  I have plenty of proof that I've been residing here, such as billing statements to this address, and lots of mail and stuff.\n\nAlso, now that the gloves are off, I proposed to him that I want back rent from his girlfriend for at least as long as she's been living here officially.  The rub there is I don't know if I have any legal right to demand that.  I figure maybe if I could prove that at some point she was no longer paying for her own separate residence, that could constitute her becoming a \"roommate\" at this new place?\n\nFinally, I think if things really get unreasonable, I might contact the landlord or property management company (who presumably doesn't know that I exist) and tell him\/her\/them all about the situation and see what happens.\n\nWell, I guess that's about it.  Do you think I have any legal recourse to try to get some form of compensation for the time she's lived in the house without paying a penny toward the rent or any of the bills?  Or get him to pay her share, at least?  Thanks in advance.","title":"[California] Roommate moved his girlfriend in without consulting me. Now he wants me out by the 1st. What are my rights?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447565698,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sv96w\/north_carolina\/","id":"3sv96w","body":"I was hoping someone might be able to steer me in the right direction of what I should be exploring next. I live in a college town in a house with five other girls. We all split rent and utilities equally. However, because of a city law, only four non-relatives are allowed to be on the lease (otherwise it is considered a brothel). This means we have two girls technically not on the lease but still paying for their portion of the rent and utilities. This was known by everyone when joining the house. \nNow, one girl has been neglecting to pay her rent and utilities, and her debt is slowly increasing. She continues to promise to pay, but again, fails to deliver. I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s gotten to the point we will have to threaten something legal in order to get the money. She\u2019s not on the lease though, and we didn\u2019t have her sign anything because it wouldn\u2019t have been legal anyways since we cannot sublease any rooms under our lease. Is there anything we can do to ensure that she pays? ","title":"[North Carolina]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551633064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awvzl0\/received_large_discretionary_bonus_suspect_it_was\/","id":"awvzl0","body":"Hey all,\n\nI work as an intern at a company in Nebraska. With my last paycheck, I received a discretionary bonus of almost $4000 gross. This bonus is almost a third of my 2018 wages.\n\nI suspect that this bonus was a mistake, as I'm not positive if interns are eligible for bonuses, especially ones that are this large. Should I:\n\n1. email HR asking if this was intended?\n2. email my HR \/ boss saying thanks for the bonus\n3. keep quiet\n\nPart of me wants to keep quiet, but are there any legal ramifications of doing that?","title":"Received large discretionary bonus, suspect it was a mistake","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447339538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sjdwb\/im_a_software_developer_working_for_a_canadian\/","id":"3sjdwb","body":"My work contract is from a generic template, states that I can't work for another company without approval, or can't work for\/own another company in the same business. There's a nasty problem there: they don't define their business precisely. Worst case scenario is \"any software development\", or mobile\/web development.\n\nHowever, my business idea has no competing products with my employer. They develop for other companies, whereas I would develop my own idea.\n\nSo, first step would logically be \"talk to them\", which I intend to do, but I want some kind of legal backup as to how this can be done and counter-arguments to their foreseeable refusal.","title":"I'm a software developer working for a Canadian company who wants to start a side business. How can I circumvent my non-compete clause?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542297895,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9xcgvt\/can_i_get_in_legal_trouble_for_abusive_pms\/","id":"9xcgvt","body":"I am a bit unclear on the laws of harassment and cyber bullying, and have not been able to find a question or situation similar to mine via Google. Before I get into it I would like to preface by saying I am an alcoholic, and I will be admitting myself into treatment today for the next 60 days. So I would appreciate it if you could reserve your judgments because yes, what I am about to divulge is an incredibly evil thing to do.\n\nBasically I got really drunk on this particular night, like sloppy drunk. I had been into a couple minor arguments with a user of a forum in the past. I don't know him in real life, and he doesn't know me. We just argued briefly over differing perspectives before, and on this night he caught me when I was irrationally angry. I then proceeded to spam him with abusive PMs (private messages) over and over again throughout the course of that night.\n\nI know some of you may be thinking, \"Well that's not bad at all\". Well, when I looked back upon sober reflection, I was appalled. I didn't threaten to hurt the guy, but I sent him two long essays in separate messages trying my hardest to explain to him why he's a waste of life and should feel bad about himself. THEN, after those first two messages went out, I sent him a comprehensive list of specific, well-thought-out reasons why he is a waste of life. The list was so long and specific that it spanned over 3 more messages. It was message after message of intense, often times disturbing, line-crossing verbal and emotional abuse. Disparaging him and ridiculing him for personal traits that he had posted about before (his weight, his job, his girlfriend leaving him, etc).\n\nI never told him to commit suicide or harm himself, but I heavily insinuated that it wouldn't make a difference if he was dead or alive. I can't believe some of the sentences that I typed out. I couldn't even believe it was me. Horrible, toxic, nasty and vile attacks on his character and chastising him for things he can't control. For example, one of the messages had a section where I told him \"if he didn't have such a tiny and ineffective male appendage, his girlfriend might have been able to overlook his terrible sense of humor and lack of personal hygiene and try to white-knuckle the relationship for another couple of months.\" Or there was also a part in there where I told him he disgusts me and he \"deserves to be in jail for the amount of emotional duress he puts his mom under every day for making her wake up and keep being his mom\".\n\nI promptly sent him one final PM, where I apologized and explained to the best of my ability why I lashed out with such abhorrent and sickening messages. He hasn't replied, and I don't expect him to. The best thing I can hope for is that the poor guy isn't taking anything I said to heart, and his day isn't ruined.\n\nThe only thing is, I know there are some cyber-bullying laws that exist. Is anything I did specifically a crime that I could be looking at a punishment for? I already know I'm banned from said forum, but I mean legally speaking. Could I be fined or placed under arrest?\n\nThanks","title":"Can I Get in Legal Trouble for Abusive PMs?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539560835,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o7lkf\/death_with_no_will\/","id":"9o7lkf","body":"To try to sum things up. My stepfather passed away just over 3 years ago and things have still not been settled. He left behind a rather large amount of money, with no will. He has one daughter, who was released from prison for selling drugs shortly after his passing. Just last year she was arrested for one of the biggest fentanyl busts in Canadian history. And got served a massive sentence (over 10 years) stolen cars, weapons, and large sums of cash were seized. \n\nMy moms lawyer has been doing his best to contact hers, to finally settle this after 3 years. But she\u2019s constantly fighting for more money and personal belongings. The amount of money spent on lawyers has been ridiculous and she just keeps dragging it out. I haven\u2019t been involved in any talks with my moms lawyer so I don\u2019t know all the fine details of everything, so I just have a few questions I\u2019m hoping to have answered here.\n\nHow can someone that has a lengthy criminal record involving dangerous drugs and weapons be entitled to any money, period? \n\nIs there anything my mom can do to try to fight this? It\u2019s been dragging on and costing a ton. Can she take any legal action against his daughter? ","title":"Death with no will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539126686,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mu3ez\/extortion_scam\/","id":"9mu3ez","body":"So I can't post all of this because well it might be real but its also suspicious.\n\nMy friends mom is a paralegal and helping me out irl to so here it is.\n\nI received a call from a police officer this morning. Informing me I might be charged with a crime akin to sexual assault (involves unsolicited nudes, i checked the number seems to be real) the father involved has offered to drop the charges if I pay for sexual abuse counselling only under the condition it is through a walgreens or cvs green dot card. I got a late start so I cant talk to any lawyers in town today. It seems suspicious is all. I'm in Colorado if it helps","title":"Extortion scam?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445080465,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p3mub\/storage_unit_question_loc_sc_ca\/","id":"3p3mub","body":"I have a storage unity in South Carolina with my stuff in it. It is only in my name. Only I have made payments on it. An ex boyfriend left some of his stuff in there. We have since lost touch. I am moving to California next week and was planning on donating his stuff to a church. Is that legal? Or do I HAVE to separate it out and try and reach out to him? What are my legal rights as the renter of the unit? ","title":"Storage Unit Question (Loc: SC & CA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539700732,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oo7kl\/we_withdrew_our_adult_coed_softball_team_from_a\/","id":"9oo7kl","body":"Our coed softball league used to be a great one... that is, until the league coordinator resigned, and they appointed a new one. Communication with the new coordinator is extremely poor, and as a result, our team was not made aware of a double header we were supposed to play in week 1. This resulted in us starting the fall season with 2 forfeits.  This is after we showed up to play a game, as scheduled, a few weeks prior, just to find standing water on the fields and games were cancelled.  We are frustrated, and since we play in multiple leagues in the city, we just decided to drop this one.\n\nNow I am receiving emails from the league coordinator that we still owe the $200 dues, as we did not withdraw our application until after the first scheduled game. \n\nI reread our application, and it does state:\n\n\u201cRESPONSIBILITY: Submission of this form constitutes the senders agreement to be personally responsible for payment of all League fees and Umpire fees. Withdrawal of your Registration is allowed without any payment due if it is received prior to registration deadline (per the website). However, any withdrawals after this date will require full payment from the responsible party.\u201d\n\nI did not sign this form. In fact, there is no area on this form that requires a signature. Only my name, email, home address, and phone number. I emailed this form to the coordinator from my work email, so they have that too.\n\nIs this enforceable?  What is the worse they can do if I don\u2019t pay?","title":"We withdrew our adult coed softball team from a league after the first week but before paying our league dues, and now the league coordinator is demanding we pay the $200 league dues.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571677194,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl3gh6\/old_tenant_has_chosen_to_squat_in_my_new_house\/","id":"dl3gh6","body":"Old Tenant is refusing to move out and I cant move in to the house that I've been waiting for.\nThe landlords gave her a verbal eviction notice (idiots) and are currently drawing up a contract for eviction but I'm told that could take months... the old tenants contract is finishing at the start of December and she has refused to move out... what can I do?","title":"Old Tenant has chosen to squat in my new house","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1549997367,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apwpoo\/sexual_harassment_in_the_workplace_california_us\/","id":"apwpoo","body":"A close friend of mine moved from the East Coast to my town here in California a little over 10 months ago. She works at a small company of 6 people. Since she started the owner has put his hands on and touched various parts and places on her body as well as touching himself on intimate places on his body in front of her. All unwanted and with zero consent or initiation from my friend. For instance last week he came up behind her quietly while she was doing something and ran his hand all the way down her spine; putting his face right next to hers and requesting her to laminate something. Apparently things like this have been happening for almost the entire time she has worked there. She has stated to her boss that she is not comfortable nor is ever inviting him to touch her. He has not listened. Her co-workers have all made it clear they are either aware of whats going on or are actively ignoring it. They are all also highly impressed with how long shes stayed there as the company apparently has a history of a high turnover rate with female employees. She has not been raped or anything as intense as that however the frequency that she is being touched is increasing and she is looking for help. \n\nWhat are her options and what can she do? ","title":"Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (California, US)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542140497,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wspnt\/sister_has_put_down_2000_down_on_a_4000_horse\/","id":"9wspnt","body":"Firstly, let me give you some background information on the issue. My sister decided a couple months ago that she wanted to buy a horse. The barn that she goes to semi-regularly had a horse up for sale. I believe the horse was $4,000. My sister doesn't have that kind of savings lying around,so she entered into a contract with the barn owner to purchase the horse. To my knowledge this is what the terms of the contract were. She would make $400 monthly payments on the horse as well as for the boarding of the horse at the barn. \n\nAs of today she had $2,000 down on the horse and the owner contacted her telling her that the sale was being terminated. She was told that she would be reimbursed for the $800 that she supposedly put down on the horse. The owner choose to keep $1,200 as payment for boarding the horse. In addition, why do you need to pay for boarding for a horse you don't own technically and was already residing at the barn? The other portion would not be refunded as the owner claimed that that was for boarding the horse. In the contract that my sister signed it was stated that she would pay $400 a month till the horse is paid off. There was no specific value for boarding, the payment in the contract was $400 flat. \n\nThese are some of the issues I seem to have with this situation. Firstly, my sister did not receive the contract or a bill of sales for the animal. Secondly, there was no mention the price of boarding per month she just choose that number($1,200) arbitrarily. Thirdly, and this brings me to my original question did owner of the horse violate the contract when she terminated it without just cause voiding the contract therefore my sister should be entitled to the full amount($2,000) she paid her?  \n\nThank you guys for your replies this is the most info I could relay as I'm in college and not home with her and the fam. I felt like I just had to do something cause this whole situation feels like my sister is being taken advantage of. ","title":"Sister has put down $2,000 down on a $4,000 horse, seller cancels the contract and will only give her $800 back. Is there anything she can do?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539362285,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nlts9\/mi_per_diem_pay_cut_hours_unchanged_need_advice\/","id":"9nlts9","body":"I am on mobile, so I apologize for any errors.\n\nTl;dr: IC paid per diem, company says it overpaid me, and cut my pay to 4.75 hrs\/day, no change in schedule.  Also, I am a company now, apparently. \n\n-----\n\nI picked up a second job as an independent contractor for company A, as a driver.  I was told I would be working M-F 8h-17h30 at company C, and paid weekly by company B.\n\nI am paid a $100\/day diem, with no taxes taken, no lunch, et al, of which I presume is standard. Company B takes between $20 - $40 in fees*, and gives me the rest.  \n\nI had informed both A and C that I need to leave by 17h00, as my son's daycare closes at 17h30.  Both companies seemingly had no issues. \n\nI received a call yesterday from A, informing me that they discovered that they were overpaying me by half an hour each day, and this were going to cut my pay to 4.75h\/day.  The cheque I recieved today had a whopping $72 on it.  (Wtf.)\n\nBoth companies A and B are in NY, and myself and C are in MI.  \n\n\\*Company B takes various fees, ranging from drug testing, insurance checks, state compliance checks, and more.  They also claim to have incorporated me, and they are paying my corporate fees, and taxes.  (Getting any info from them is like pulling teeth from an angry ostrich.)\n\nSo, my questions are, is this legal?  Can they just take part of a per diem like that?  Can they work me 9 hours, but \"pay\" me for 4.75? Does that work retroactively?\n\nIf not, what state do I complain to?  Is it even worth it?\n\nAlso, how can I find out what state I am incorporated in?  What is the best approach to take to protect myself from the tax man?  What type of lawyer will I be selling my kidneys for?\n\nAlso, I sometimes had to deliver propane, map gas, and other welding gasses intrastate, but my hazardous materials endorsement expired 8 years ago.  Is that going to be on me, or company A\/C?\n","title":"[MI] Per diem pay cut, hours unchanged, need advice, please.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553334653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4hex8\/what_legal_services_i_can_take_to_help_my_brother\/","id":"b4hex8","body":"Note: If anyone knows any subs I can also post this too please let me know, I'm not sure if this is a good place for this.\n\nMy parents are fighting again sadly to my brothers horror he's stuck in the West Coast and I'm in the South due to getting the fuck out of there asap. \n\nI guess last night was a nasty one... my mom forgot to buy frozen hotdogs after a 12 hour shift at work, because he was too lazy to buy some after his 12 hour shift! (I've seen them nearly kill eachother and rip eachothers hair our over having no paper in the printer, even though the paper was in the other room.)\n\nMy dad's threatening to kill himself because of this, which he has never ever ever done. Don't get me wrong I hate my dad, but fucking Christ I don't want him to die. He's been off his medication since I was born, and he has extream Bi-polar disorder and MDD (like me.) So I know how it is to be not on that medication. \n\nIs there anything BESIDES cps I can do to help my brother, cps is my last option. I just need someone to step in, and if it helps the location of this is in Nevada.\n\n(My older sister called cps once and they belived my parents not my sister, and when they left my parents nearly killed her, she's a cps agent now and I'll talk to her tommorow but she doesn't listen or care about talking about family at all)\n\nI just don't know what to do :\/ I'm worried for my brothers sanity, he's got two more years in the house. This is just wrong...","title":"What legal services I can take to help my brother?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555220185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bczovj\/quick_question_about_knives\/","id":"bczovj","body":"I was checking out a r\/entitledparents post and it made me wonder. If I got mad at EM or whoever and flicked my knife out towards them to scare them away but not actually harming them or anything, could I still face any consequences?","title":"Quick Question About Knives","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444559188,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3obgpt\/how_screwed_am_i\/","id":"3obgpt","body":"Currently in Alaska. \n\nI am in a situation of abuse and trying to get out. Long story short, this is the second time now I have been abused by my SO in 2 years. Cops were called both times, did nothing both times, other than take our statements and tell us it was my word against his because there were no witnesses. This time, I was asleep, he went through my texts, because we are living together still, even though I broke up with him 2 weeks ago and he tried to break up with me 3 days ago, to which I pointed out, \"You can't break up with me, we're not together, I broke up with you 2 weeks ago.\" Anyways, he saw me texting a coworker that I missed him and couldn't wait to be back in  the state we came from in a planned visit at the end of the month and lost his shit. He grabbed my neck and forcefully turned it sideways to look at him, while I was still asleep. Then threw me off the bed and bit my ear, held me down so I couldn't grab my phone to call 911, and covered my mouth so I couldn't scream for help, all while telling me what a manipulative lying cheating whore I am and how he's going to kick me out and make my life a living hell until I'm gone. I managed to wiggle enough to get a hand free and push his face, luckily poking his eye enough to get him off of me to call the cops. Well, he told the cops that I was stringing him along, that we really were together, even though he took the engagement ring back, and that I head butted him to initiate the fight. I was like, \"I was asleep, you can tell because the only thing I'm wearing is a bra and underwear, standing half naked in front of you, how could I have possibly started this fight?\" They took pictures and basically said my word against his again. Then told us that the hotel we are renting as an apartment will likely kick us out for the noise, anyways, so there's no use in fighting over who goes and who stays. They tried to tell me that even though I have physical damage on my body and he doesn't, they could take both of us, and find both of us at fault, even though I was just sleeping! I am beyond broke from moving up here with him in the first place  ($5000 in debt on my credit card). I might be able to get some friends to wire me money back home, but from the legal stand point, can I even leave the state? Or will they come back regarding charges? He claims he'll let me take my stuff and my animals, and won't hurt them or break my stuff, despite finding it okay to throw me about like a rag doll and bite me, so do I have a stand point on that either? Can he like take my shit and claim it's his, even though it's not? Can we get kicked out for the domestic violence? I don't even know where to begin, I need so much advice. The last abusive relationship I was in, the guy just let me go, but I get the feeling, given how much this guy lied to the cops and his promise if making my life living hell, this one won't just let me go. \n\nAlso, he's multiple personality, so I'm terrified he will try to use that as an excuse for his behavior towards me and get off lighter. ","title":"How screwed am I?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540857527,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sipru\/wi_child_placement_case_father_pov\/","id":"9sipru","body":"My ex and I had a mediation agreement in place that lasted for a little over six years. In the agreement we both had 50\/50 placement. However, she is now pursuing primary placement of our 8 year old daughter.\n\nMy ex has been out of work for going on 5 months now and I know she wants to move out of the current town we are in and out of the current school district my daughter is in. \n\nShe wont admit to that but her primary basis shes used in her affidavit is that she feels my home is \"unstable\" due to my relationship with my now fiancee whom I've been with for over 4 years. \n\nAdmittedly, in 2016 there were two fights that occurred in our home shortly after we had our son, and my daughter overheard one of the altercations and witnessed another. In these fights there was some swearing and yelling and in one instance my lady went to push me out of the way and caught part of my chin and I stupidly overreacted and said \"hit me again\" and my daughter overheard it\n\nAlso, I used the word \"alcoholic\" because I was angry and my lady had been hitting the wine pretty hard for awhile. My ex is claiming my daughter shows signs of PTSD in regards to alcohol now. Since the event we rarely have alcohol in the house and very occasionally consume small amounts for special occasions when we have the kids. \n\nIn between the two events we spent a total of 2 nights with my parents due to wanting to allow the situation to cool off. \n\nShortly after we went to a few couples therapy sessions and we haven't had any episodes like that since.\n\nMy ex, (unbeknownst to me) put my daughter in therapy. I never had an opportunity to meet this therapist and have no idea what type of narrative has been played out for her.\n\nThis therapist I haven't met has written a letter saying she feels my daughter shows signs of confidence and development flaws and doesnt feel loved in our home.\n\nMy ex  also lists reasons such as \"we give her (the 8 year old) appearance issues\" because we dont always allow her to dress herself. Reasons being she doesnt always pick weather appropriate clothing or sometimes doesnt match. Also my fianc\u00e9e (who is a cosmetologist)does her hair and helps her to use a little make up. Which my daughter always seems so proud and excited when she is all done.\n\nMy ex has all these dates of any time she and I have ever talked and either of us ever got excited or worked up and makes exaggerated claims that I've \"screamed\" and swore at her. While I fully deny ever screaming at her, I know I do sometimes get a sailors mouth when I start getting worked up. That being said I haven't ever come at her and called her names or used the curse words directly at her. \n\nShe also claims that my daughter dreads coming to my house and argues not to go. However the last few drop offs I've recorded my daughter sprinting to the door smiling and yelling for her little brother and being an excited ball of energy when she gets in the door.\n\nShes always seems like such a happy well behaved kid when shes with me. We almost never have to scold her.\n\nShes always very loving to me and her brother as well as my fiancee.\n\nShes doing awesome in school. And all the staff I've contacted has told me shes always smiley, full of energy, respectful to students and staff.\n\nI was really taken back by all these claims because I truly feel we provide a nice loving home for our kids. We schedule all of our family activities around when my daughter will be with us so she doesnt feel left out. We're always involved with her activities and always make sure we interact with her. \n\n----\n\nWell today my ex and I had a mediation session and I felt like the whole time the mediator was totally against me and made me feel pretty bad about the whole meeting and told me \"this really doesn't look good for you\". Which seemed unprofessional from a party that was supposed to be unbiased. The mediator also accused me of saying something I truly dont recall ever saying.\n\nShe claimed I said \"my real family is..\" and listed my fiance and son implying I dont consider my daughter family. I asked when I said that and she starred at me and said \"you did..\". \n\nThe whole time I felt like she treated every word my ex said as Gospel. And more or less made me feel like I'm an awful parent.\n\nThe whole event made me feel pretty horrible and quite scared. \n\nI do have an attorney and I speak with him Thursday, but I'm sort of panicking on the inside. It just feels so unfair because I know some real pieces of work that have their kids and I feel like I'm just doomed because of this. \n\n\n","title":"[WI] Child Placement Case (Father POV)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554853643,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbf5st\/employer_claims_that_i_voluntarily_quit_and_my\/","id":"bbf5st","body":"I accepted a job I found from ZipRecruiter, find out its through an agency, I still accept the job because I was unemployed. Im happily learning my new job when me and most of the hired class was fired.\n\n​\n\n I received a call while walking home from work one day from the agency that I was no longer \"required to go to work\". I knew this wording was odd, and she started talking about how other available positions. I was still concerned about the job that I was let go from, as the employer was praising me for how well of a job I was doing, and was talking about my career path with the company. Long story short I was fired and in need of a job. \n\n​\n\nThe job offered to me from the agency was about 7 dollars an hour LESS than what I was making, in a completely different field and way out of my commute. \n\n​\n\nI told them I could not accept this position and they let me know they will continue to try to find a job for me.. ok. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nAfter a few days of angered confusion, I call the DES to ask them how I should file for unemployment. They said I could continue the existing claim from before I was hired. \n\n​\n\nThats what I did, I was on unemployment for about 2 months until I my weekly claim is denied. \n\n​\n\nLuckily I was set to start a new job two weeks later, so I wouldnt be without funds for too long. \n\n​\n\nI then get a letter in the mail saying I owe the DES $1500 as they marked my unemployment claim as fraud. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nOk, after about 2 months of communication through physical mail  I had a phone hearing. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nI \"won\" the case and I do not have to pay the $1500, ok thank god.\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nMy question is this:\n\n​\n\nThis whole ordeal was incredibly stressful and unfair in my opinion. This company traps you contractually, and is intentionally vague about their practices. They deny everyone's unemployment benefits and will fight tooth and nail that the employee voluntarily quit. I was lucky because I had a job lined up and it worked out. But I cant help but think that if i didnt have a job lined up, this would have potentially made me homeless. Without my unemployment benefits I would not have been able to pay my bills, and they tried to take that away from me. Would the DES be responsible to pay back the money that I was denied because of this? I just feel like I shouldnt have to suffer because of this discrepancy. \n\n​\n\nSorry if this is not the right place to ask, or if it is too specific, or if im just ignorant to the whole situation. I just wanted some input from an outside perspective. I can answer any further questions you may have.","title":"Employer claims that I voluntarily quit and my unemployment benefits were taken away. Won the appeal. Now what? US\/AZ","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569904294,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbo3dh\/neighbors_stealing_parking_md\/","id":"dbo3dh","body":"I live in an apartment complex on a very narrow street. It\u2019s a small complex and it\u2019s around townhomes. Parking is very limited so I was grateful to find out that there was parking for tenants in a lot out in the back. The lot is very small; as of right now it only fits 3 or 4 cars. Two of the spots are reserved for tenants who live in the apartments right where there spots are, and I was able to grab one of the unclaimed ones.\nOur neighbors live right next to the apartment building have time and time again lined their cars on a small patch of gravel next to their building that\u2019s part of their property. That\u2019s always been fine. But sometimes they park one of their cars on the actual lot, in MY spot. It\u2019s been happening frequently and what makes it particularly annoying is the fact that when they park there, they do not pull all the way back which then obstructs the tenants who actually live and park there from being able to back out their vehicles.\nI took a picture of the vehicle, it\u2019s license plate and emailed them to my landlord but they take forever to respond. There is also a giant sign posted on the side of my building stating that unauthorized cars can and will be towed. I was wondering if there was any way I could have their car towed off the lot so they can FINALLY get the message that they are not allowed to park even a SINGLE car on the lot.\nThe property lines are pretty clear too. There\u2019s no mistaking it.\nThank you I\u2019m advanced!","title":"Neighbors stealing parking [MD]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570482384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/depryr\/grounds_for_a_restraining_order_during_divorce\/","id":"depryr","body":"I'm going through a divorce right now. He's refusing to move out, has cut all money off, let the phone bill, internet bill, cable bill expire. He hardly buys food and goes out saving and spending his income on himself neglecting me and our two children.  \n\n  \n\nAs well as this he whispers abusive things almost non-stop, he told me he's going to kill me. I woke up in the night and he was sneaking around my bedroom. He drove stoned and ran over our little girl, he took our son out and he came home with stitches because he makes stupid mistakes because he smoked weed 24\/7. The problem is he's give up the weed on the advice of his lawyer so if there's a blood test it'll come up negative.  \n\n  \n\nIn the meantime it's NON-STOP verbal abuse, strange lies and threats. I'll admit sometimes I reply back out of anger but 90% of the time I stand there absorbing it.  \n\n  \n\nHe hacked my email and got in touch with a guy I've been talking to online, got his address (which is on google if you know his details) and has started catfishing guys and sending them to his place. He's been spying on me, going through my personal items when I'm out, going through my phone and computer, he stole a microphone I bought to talk to people online and smashed it. Then when I ordered a new one he intercepted it and stole it and again, smashed it.  \n\n  \n\nRecently his parents asked if they could take the children, they asked me to sign a form granting them permission to make medical decisions. Later that night he sent me a text saying \"Haha, you signed your children away. There was a custody form in there that you signed without reading.\"  \n\n  \n\nI was shaking thinking he'd actually done that. He's cut off all internet and phone so I can't speak to anyone, gas has run out in my car so I can't drive anywhere. I have no family whatsoever and that's part of why he's cut the money off, because I have nowhere to turn. He has plenty of family and we agreed he'd move out and stay with one of them while I get back on my feet. The verbal agreement was that over the next year I'd go to school, get my massage license back and then I'd be independent.  \n\n  \n\nHe very suddenly changed his mind and has since done all of the above. I'd just leave and stay with family if I could be I can't. I have none. I have nobody who will help me and he knows it. We had a support hearing today to see if I could get him to pay the bills while I get back on my feet and he had a lawyer, I didn't obviously because I'm broke and he's been saving the wages he used to spend on bills.  \n\n  \n\nI can't get a job because we have two children, that's why I was supposed to go to school, if I can get my massage license back I can afford child care AND work. If I get a minimum wage job there's nobody to look after the kids, they're too young. In the court he lied and said his parents (who are in a different state) would look after them and will move here to look after them. That's not happening, he lied. He also brought up the fact that after we separated I've been talking to a guy online, first as a friend and a few months later (after he agreed we could see other people) we got a little more serious. He brought this up in the court too, said I \"masturbate to text messages\" in the middle of a support hearing while he goes out every night and sleeps with women.  \n\n  \n\nThe reason I got a divorce is because a lot of these things would happen during the marriage, being controlling of the finances, stoned literally 24 hours every day, smoking weed in the other room with the smell and smoke coming into the room where the children are etc. I'm in Pennsylvania. What are my options and chances of getting him legally removed from my home? I just want a year to get on my feet and independent but he's made it impossible. I feel completely trapped.  \n\n  \n\nSomeone please help, I feel like my only option is to get back with him at this point which is what a lot of the threats were about \"get back with me or I'll cut the money off and stop paying the bills\". Then he did it because I refused. And now I'm trapped, no family and seemingly no way out legally. I have a lawyer but because I'm broke she does the bare minimum for me and she wasn't there today.  \n\n  \n\nAny help or advice, any way out of this. Please help. What are my chances of getting a restraining order against this maniac?","title":"Grounds for a restraining order during divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554169417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8cr1c\/non_compliant_ex_paying_for_items_explicitly\/","id":"b8cr1c","body":"Florida- divorced shy of 2 years.  Pay child support this the state disbursement for my protection.  Payment is over the state calculated total by perhaps $100 per month.  \n\nIn return MSA states she is to pay for\nClothing\nField trips\nSchool supplies \nExtracurriculars and uniforms \nSchool pictures\nChildren\u2019s birthday gifts.  \n\nThe question I have is what is my best course of action because she basically refuses to pay these things? I Venmo her and she will decline it.  \n\nShe would not give me any school pictures. I buy my own and Venmo request her. Declined. \n\nField trips. She will pay half the amount.  MSA states that cost is on her. \n\nExtracurriculars (states these must be agreed by bothe parents) she agrees to nothing and will pay nothing.  Again I have to pay or the kids won\u2019t be  in anything. \n\nKids birthday parties.  Again pays half, not what the contract says.  \n\nDo I just save these up and file a suit for contempt when it\u2019s worth it?  She has a good job, lives with a boyfriend so has no bills really. I\u2019m not trying to drain money out of this woman but I feel I\u2019m being played the fool here and put in a place where my kids will miss out on being kids because she\u2019s playing some money game. \n","title":"Non compliant ex paying for items explicitly stated in MSA.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505157578,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zhmgg\/sr22_question\/","id":"6zhmgg","body":"In Dec 2015 I was in an accident while my insurance policy had lapsed. I ended up receiving a suspended license in Mar 2016 as a result, and I was able to go to the DMV and receive a restricted license with an SR-22. In Mar 2017 my restriction was lifted and I have maintained my SR-22 since then with my insurance policy. \n\nMy family just sold my car so that I can get a newer model. I was told that I needed to cancel my insurance policy on my old car. My question is- if I cancel the insurance am I violating\/breaking the SR-22 even though I am not driving any cars? Should I wait to just transfer the insurance to the new car once I purchase it and pay for the insurance policy on my old car until then? I don't want to violate my SR-22 by cancelling my insurance. \n\nAny advice is appreciated, thank you!","title":"SR-22 Question","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506239430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/723uq3\/so_i_got_a_ticket\/","id":"723uq3","body":"I was going 66 on a 45, it was at night on an empty road, my first ever traffic offense, I wasn\u2019t paying attention and lost track of my speed. This has been giving me a lot of anxiety lately, should i just pay the fine and do the driving course or fight it , this happened in broward county, florida.","title":"So i got a ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553126618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3jiwz\/fl_can_i_petition_for_custody_of_my_niece_and\/","id":"b3jiwz","body":"My brother-in-law (wife's brother) and his wife recently divorced.  Trying to keep this short, the kids (11 and 6) have gone through a lot and are not in a great situation.  They are with the mother full time (per the court), but don't want to be there.  The mom has issues, putting it mildly.  Last year she attempted suicide and was arrested for child neglect, however the charges were dropped for some reason.  During this time, the father took custody, and things were good.  Then she got out of jail, the divorce was finalized and the court gave the kids back to the mother.\n\n​\n\nThe mother still neglects the kids.  They are living in her \"boyfriend's\" house, and her boyfriend seems to take better care of the kids than the mother does.  He takes them to school, goes to teacher meetings, etc.  The mother doesn't take the kids to the doctors, didn't take them to the dentist when they truly needed it; the father had to drive 2 hours to get them to get them to the doctor and dentist.  \n\n​\n\nTonight I just found out that the mother was fired from her job because she had an open alcohol container in her purse.  She is a drunk.\n\n​\n\nMy brother-in-law is a good father, but he is not a fighter.  He didn't get a new lawyer when we continually told him that his lawyer sucked and wasn't working in his best interests, and even now when he sees that his kids are in a bad situation, he doesn't want to \"rock the boat\".  Also, he works full time, in hospitality, so he works odd hour\/days, making being a single parent hard for him.  Which could be part of his hesitation.\n\n​\n\nMy wife is a stay at home mom, so she is more than capable and available of taking care of the kids.   I just don't know if we have a leg to stand on since the dad is still in the picture, and I don't want to just call CPS only to have the kids end up \"in the system\".\n\n​\n\nIs there a way to go around the parents and petition directly to get both of the kids?\n\n​\n\nThanks.","title":"(FL) Can I petition for custody of my niece and nephew?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569119052,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7kgi1\/i_need_help_locating_someone_whos_been_arrested\/","id":"d7kgi1","body":"I\u2019m seriously hoping this is the place to post this, otherwise I\u2019m at a loss for what to do. I posted a similar post on the advice subreddit and got nothing. I\u2019m hoping this will turn out different. \n\nLong story short, I was friends with Matthew Bernard. I\u2019m not going into detail because it\u2019s not important. I knew him, I am trying my best to find where he is right now and I\u2019m finding absolutely nothing. I don\u2019t know anything about how anything law-crime related anything works. \n\nIs there any way for me to find out where he is right now? \nIs there any way for me to contact him in any way? To at least write him a letter or something? \n\nLiterally any advice, answer, anything will be helpful. I\u2019m running in circles and rereading articles that are old and help me in almost no way. I\u2019m so desperate at this point to just get some help and I have no clue who to ask or anything. \n\nAnything will help. Thanks","title":"I need help locating someone who\u2019s been arrested. He was a friend and I\u2019m hoping there\u2019s a way for me to contact him. I\u2019m having trouble finding him. Any advice would be helpful at this point.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569999231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc6mmm\/my_roommate_took_my_security_deposit\/","id":"dc6mmm","body":"last year I rent an apartment with 3 other friends. The security deposit was 2200$ and we each put in 550$. Me and 1 other guys' name were on the lease. Now yesterday when they sent the deposit back to him ( because he is still in the States and I am not), it was 700$. He decided to split it by 4 but I disagreed. Since I was practically the one who moved out last, I did all of the cleaning, my room were spotless and their room were like a cave. They didn't even clean their rooms and the toilet (shared) when they moved out. They left garbage in cabinets, rotten food in the fridge, useless things that they don't want to take with all over the house. The guy even left a big bookcase back without getting rid of it (for which I know going to cost us hundreds of deposit since they have to have a truck to come and pick it up). I am asking that apartment to give me a detailed report on how and what did they charge from the deposit. I am still waiting. \nWhen I told him it was unfair for me, he got pissed and told me I owned him 70$. He said it was from the time when I paid the electric bill late, (he was in charge of the electric bill and I was in charge of paying the rent), so when the electric company charged him, it made his accounts balanced go negative, in which BOA charge him 35$. Now, I think it does not make any sense, I have friends who use BOA and she said they will give you about 10 notices before eventually have to charged you. Moreover, he has to notice his own accounts if it has the potential to have a negative balance, so it is not my fault. \nAnyway, I don't want to fight so I tell him to give proof of that charge BOA charged him and I will pay him then. He said he \"does not have time to do such bull shit\", his time worth more than 70$, I have to pay him ASAP, or he will deduct that into my share of the security deposit. He even said, either I take my share now ($100), or he \"will not give me anything at all\". \nI was really mad, since our name is both on the lease, it is weird how he can deposit the check without my consent. Even if he does, is there any rules that can protect me from this? I worked really hard when I moved out and I will not bare this unfairness. \n\nThe apartment was in Washington state but I moved to Vancouver and he moved to Texas","title":"My roommate took my security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554601627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/babia6\/got_into_an_accident\/","id":"babia6","body":"Hello all, my dad was recently involved in an accident where he was hit from behind by someone not paying attention  and was pushed into the car in front of him who strangely took off. The person who hit my dad was given a citation and took fault for the accident so we thought everything would be ok. My dad's car is his personal car that he also uses to drive to construction sites for his job. He carries the tools he needs in the back and takes them out when he gets there and the morning he was hit he was actually driving to work, he does not own a business himself but he works for someone. The person who hit him's insurance provider is Allstate and for a week after the accident they were strangely dragging their feet as much as they could in not providing a rental car, in fact he still doesn't have one. Fast forward to today and my family gets a letter from Geico, our insurance company, saying that he was \"engaged in business at the time of the loss which is excluded under section 1- liability coverages and section 3- physical damage coverages in the A54FL amendment.\" We've honestly been at a loss for words after receiving the letter because it's just not true, how can you engage in business on your drive to work and how can someone who doesn't own a business or company car even have a business vehicle? Any help or advice as to what we should do next would be appreciated.","title":"Got into an accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541084948,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ta8ze\/question_for_distribution_and_licensing_of\/","id":"9ta8ze","body":"I am working on a video game currently. I plan on releasing it for free when I finish. \n\nFYI: I do not want to get a copyright or hire a lawyer because I am 14 and that costs money I think. I also don't need a copyright disclaimer from anyone.\n\nThe game itself and it's assets are under GPL license, so modification is allowed. Anyone can modify it and even sell it. In the game files(that are open to everyone to see)I have two important text files. One, 'license.txt', which contains the GPL, and two, 'readME.txt'. the readME is written by me, stating who made the software, other info, and specific instructions to NOT modify these two text files. \nAlso, I am using an installer creater. I will have a setup .exe that installs the game and has a license agreement scree. The LA says that by clicking accept, the user agrees to not modify 'License.txt' and 'readME.txt'.\n\nMy goal: to make the game modifyable but still give credit to me and include the GPL. \n\nDoes this all work legally?\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Question for distribution and licensing of self-made software.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551734414,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axcjfu\/pipes_froze_landlord_made_us_run_a_heater_half\/","id":"axcjfu","body":"Just like the title says. Our electric bill ended up about $150 more expensive than average last month. Instead of hiring a professional to come thaw the pipes, they made us run an inefficient heater nonstop which made no impact other than on our electric bill. We disputed it and they declined to reimburse for the difference in the bill. What can we do?","title":"Pipes froze, landlord made us run a heater half the month straight instead of hiring professional. WI","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539348223,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9njy0c\/questions_about_unused_pto_time_when_you_are\/","id":"9njy0c","body":"Hello all,\n\nSo about two weeks ago from today I got notice that I was terminated from my job, no write ups\/written warnings ect.  My manager and I were both let go on the same day as part of some corporate restructure thing. The company is mainly located out of state with us being one of two locations out of Mass (total of six locations). \n\nSo I am in the understanding that as an hourly employee I was due both my final check and all my saved vacation time that day I was notified. So my paperwork from the company said I was terminated two Thursdays ago, I was not notified on Friday, and found out that following Monday.\n\nIt took one week from date of termination for me to receive payment for my hours worked, and I have yet to receive my 10 days of PTO time.  \n\nIn my handbook it states that I will only receive 75% of my PTO time during termination, PTO is issued in a block from your anniversary.  As far as I know it is a single block of time used for sick days and vacation. Is it legal in MA for them to not pay the full amount owed?  I poked around online and was unable to figure this out on my own. \n\nMy main issue is how to proceed from here, I have not been in contact with HR regarding this issue yet; should I contact their HR first and follow that channel or should I contact the MA Attorney General right off the bat?\n\nThank you.","title":"Questions about unused PTO time when you are terminated - MA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571165980,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dick1i\/whats_my_notice_peroid_contract_advice\/","id":"dick1i","body":"Hey all,  \nI've just been offered another job for a closer commute and something i'll  love so much more, i'm super excited but the second most nervous thing i  find to having interviews is handing in my notice. In UK btw locationbot. \n\nI'm looking at my  contract and am struggling to see what exactly my notice peroid is:  \n\"*Your   employment  shall  continue  unless  terminated  by  either  party   serving minimum written notice of two month, although this will not  affect any statutory right to a longer notice period to be provided to  you by the Company (currently one week per completed year of service, up  to a maximum of 12).*\"\n\nCan anyone  clear this up? For context i've been working there for roughly 5 months  or so. Is my notice period 2 months? The new job wants me to start asap  and i don't want this to ruin my future. Do i have any grounds to shorten my peroid?\n\nUltimately i know the only way i'll find out is by talking to my boss, but having a expectation beforehand would give me peace of mind before i have the dreaded chat.\n\ntl;dr: I'm struggling to tell what my notice peroid is based on the contract extract above? Appreciate the help.","title":"What's my notice peroid? - Contract Advice","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554742999,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bawahk\/waus_partner_gaslighted_me_into_changing\/","id":"bawahk","body":"I suffer from depression and anxiety, but had them under control thanks to an antidepressant. Late last year, my partner began telling me that I seemed withdrawn and\/or agitated all the time. They thought it was because my antidepressants were not working anymore. They also told me the kids were scared of my mood swings. I was shocked that this was happening, but trusted my partner.\n\nMy doctor said the medication could have lost some effectiveness, so he suggested changing medication. For four months, I tried different combinations of medication and I suffered significant side effects and withdrawal symptoms  including suicidal ideation (something I had never had before). I finally found a medication that seems to be working as well as the original one. \n\nOn reflecting on the experience, I realized my depression and anxiety were not having any impact on my daily functioning when I switched meds. Nor were my children actually worried or scared about my behavior. I got gaslighted into making a serious medical decision that caused me harm and potentially great harm. \n\nIs this domestic violence that can be reported? My partner has never been physically violent, just emotionally abusive. This feels like a dangerous escalation and I am kind of paranoid about it. Emotional abuse isn't generally something that will support legal action like a TRO?","title":"[WA-US] Partner gaslighted me into changing antidepressants leading to serious health impacts. Is that domestic violence and physical abuse that I should report?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555642180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beu9r6\/or_collection_notice_from_old_apartment_first\/","id":"beu9r6","body":"Hey r\/legaladvice!  \n\nI\u2019m in Oregon. Today I received a letter from a collections agency that I owe a few hundred dollars to an apartment complex I moved out of in Dec. 2017. \n\n- I left a forwarding address when I moved and believe I can track down proof of that. \n- I was having my mail forwarded appropriately.\n- I watched the mail for two months after moving out for any final bill from them.\n- I did not do a move out walkthrough (no one available in the office the day we moved out to do one) but we have pets and honestly, if we\u2019d received the bill within a few months of moving out I\u2019d have just paid it because there was some pet damage. But it\u2019s been more than a year. Also, they were gutting our apartment after we moved out to renovate it. \n\nQuestions: \n\n1. I should send a letter to the collection agency requesting debt verification, right?\n\n2. I should not reach out to the apartment complex; they\u2019ve sold the debt and won\u2019t care, right?  \n\n3. If they provide the verification, do I still have to pay if they never contacted me? I can\u2019t prove they never contacted me of course, but I never received anything.  \n\nThanks!","title":"[OR] Collection notice from old apartment; first notice of debt.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541812491,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vq7ux\/wrong_vehicle_put_on_loan_agreement_nj_what_to_do\/","id":"9vq7ux","body":"Hi guys. My fianc\u00e9 leased a 2017 Nissan Altima about a year and a half ago. He had owed $7k directly to the dealership for handling a situation for his old car. Or so he thought. \n\nTurns out that they documented on the loan that he was leasing a 17 Maxima NOT Altima. \n\nHe has been paying a payment of $550 a month  (yes astronomically high for situations with his prior lease) + insurance which is a pretty penny as well.  He discovered this because he went to another dealer to see if he could get a cheaper payment with another vehicle. So obviously this isn\u2019t a good situation. \n\n1. He has been paying more than he should per month, as the bank loan is based on a different higher model than his. \n2. Same thing with insurance payments\n3. His registration and insurance card have different VIN #s (that belong to the Maxima) \n4. Someone bought the Maxima - so he is insuring a vehicle and driving a vehicle that isn\u2019t his (and could be classified stolen if he is pulled over?)\n\nHow should we begin to go about handling this situation? Is this necessary to get a lawyer involved? Any sort of advice in general in all aspects of insurance, dealership, DMV etc. \n\nSorry for poor formatting as I\u2019m on mobile. Will edit with further info needed. ","title":"Wrong vehicle put on loan agreement (NJ) what to do?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1447280437,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sgmn3\/howard_county_md_i_moved_out_of_my_previous\/","id":"3sgmn3","body":"I moved out of an apartment back in June and made sure to do a walkout with the apartment manager.  The manager said everything looked good except the carpet was dirty but they would try to clean it before they determined they would charge me for it.  I gave them my address so they can send me any charges in writing.\n\nFast forward to today (11\/11\/15), they call me out of the blue stating they want to charge me $500.00 for carpet replacement.  They were unable to send me anything in writing because, through their own admission, they lost my address.  Although I cannot prove it, the apartment was immediately occupied after I moved in.  My apartment was fairly visible from a busy road so I saw a new family moved in just a few days after.\n\nIs there some sort of statue of limitation that prevents me from paying this?  I did not get anything in writing during the walkout and have not gotten anything in writing now.  I did take pictures from the actual walkout itself.  Do I have any options or do I have to pay the $500?\n\nEdit: I should also add that I asked them why they ended up changing the carpet but the manager could not determine why stating 'I don't have your file' I then asked more details such as who replaced it and when but they did not have the answer.  I ended the conversation by telling them to send me an itemized statement.","title":"Howard County, MD: I moved out of my previous apartment in June of this year but now they want me to pay $500 for carpet replacement.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502990450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ubhrj\/speeding_ticket_when_i_wasnt_actually_speeding\/","id":"6ubhrj","body":"The location of the alleged infraction is Nevada in Pershing county. Simply put, I was tagged allegedly going 97 mph in an 80 zone. I was going 85 with cruise control but there was an individual in the left lane blazing right by me right as I noticed a police cruiser going the opposite way turning his lights on. I laughed, expecting the other guy to get pulled over. Lo and behold, it was me! \n\nI've been driving for 17 years and never have had a moving violation. He told me I was pegged at 97 but he was going to write me a ticket for 90. My dumb shit passenger proceeded to say dumb shit things and the officer walked away before I had an opportunity to make a case for myself. Unrelated but I am still livid about my passenger.\n\nQuestion time: As I see it, I could:\n\n1. Pay the fine, take a defensive driving course to knock the point off, and hope my insurance company doesn't pull my driving record for the next few years.\n\n2. Go to court (4 hour drive away) and hope either the officer doesn't show or the judge takes pity on me.\n\n3. Hire a traffic lawyer.\n\nI'm not concerned about the cost of the fine, just the potential impacts to my insurance. Does anyone have any feedback on the above or any other options I haven't thought of?\n\nEdit: yeah yeah, I was speeding a little, just not anywhere near the magnitude with which the officer claims to have tagged me. Sorry for the oversight, I drive around 2K miles a month and I apparently unconsciously don't consider 5 over speeding.\n\nAlso, is there any way for the officer to provide concrete evidence he actually clocked me specifically or is it just his word against mine?","title":"Speeding ticket when I wasn't actually speeding (Nevada)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1409006400,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ekmsx\/worked_at_a_cafe_for_the_summer_they_hired_me_on\/","id":"2ekmsx","body":"http:\/\/imgur.com\/irGXQih\n\nI'm in Wisconsin.\n\nLong story: I worked there for 3 months and during that time they hired me (no contract, my mistake, I 'trusted' them) to make them a website,  so I did. I finished it, put it up to host, and shortly afterwards quit because the boss was emotionally abusive. I asked, after the fact, for $290 (40hr\/$7.25(the wage I was paid there)), but as there's no contract there's no way I can enforce it. They're going to pay me $85 instead.\n\nThey claim in the email that I hosted the website without their permission and that it wasn't completed to their specifications, and both claims are completely false, and I have no idea why they're claiming that. They want me to come in and sign this e-mail as a contract saying that I'll sell them their domain in October (because I can't transfer it to anyone for another ~40 days), but I really just want to abandon the domain (causing it to either go up for sale again or be stuck in limbo for a ~a year or more) and tell them to go fuck themselves. Because they suck, and I'm bitter because I didn't draw up a contract.\n\nI don't really know what advice I want because I know I screwed myself by not making a contract, so this is more of a rant than anything. I'm kind of stuck between wanting to try and get more money out of it, just signing the contract and getting my $85, or telling them to shove it and not taking their gross money. I'm just kind of pissed that they went to an attorney over this and are treating me like I'm some criminal for making them a fucking website for stupid cheap.\n\nEDIT: If I just forfeit the domain (effectively it's able to be bought by someone, or unbuyable for the remainder of the subscription, October 2015) without signing the contract or accepting their money, can they 'take legal action' against me?\n\nEDIT: Decided to take the high road and not give them any fuel. Sent a reply that literally just said \"Please mail my paycheck to this address:\" Probably going to keep the domain (but with nothing hosted) until they bug me about it.\n","title":"Worked at a Cafe for the summer, they hired me on the side to make a website, and are getting legal on me after I quit (because they're assholes).","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1506110572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71tkx2\/how_do_wills_work_house_part_of_estate_willed_to\/","id":"71tkx2","body":"(New York). So let's say five people each own 1\/5th of this house now. If one dies, can they give their 1\/5th away, or is there some sort of reversion to the surviving legatees? \n\nWill in question only mentions what happens if people died before the testator, which is not the case here.","title":"How do wills work? House part of estate willed to multiple people. Can legatees later will their portion of the house to their children?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553139995,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3lucx\/tx_a_water_line_above_my_ceiling_broke_and_dumped\/","id":"b3lucx","body":"inb4 yes I checked my lease, and yes I see the \"unless otherwise required by law\" part. \n\n​\n\n>**Loss.** Unless otherwise required by law, we\u2019re not liable to any resident, guest, or occupant for personal injury or damage, loss of personal property, or loss of business or personal income, from any cause, including fire, smoke, rain, food, water leaks, hail, ice, snow, lightning, wind, explosions, interruption of utilities, pipe leaks, theft, vandalism, and negligent or intentional acts of residents, occupants, or guests. We have no duty to remove any ice, sleet, or snow but may remove any amount with or without notice. Unless we instruct otherwise, during freezing weather you must for 24 hours a day: (A) keep the apartment heated to at least 50\u00b0 Fahrenheit, (B) keep cabinet and closet doors open, and (C) drip hot- and cold-water faucets. You\u2019ll be liable for any damage to our and others\u2019 property caused by broken water pipes due to your violating these requirements.\n\n​\n\nThe question is: Is there any point in trying to get my building to reimburse me for damages \/ inconvenience \/ health issues? Are they on the hook legally or is my best bet to be incredibly nice and hope they compensate me?\n\n\\*\\*\\*\n\nMy upstairs neighbors' toilet was leaking into my bathroom ceiling, so I told building management about it. They checked it out within an hour and scheduled a contractor to come 10 days later. \n\n​\n\nToday they worked all day in my upstairs neighbors' apartment to fix the leak. It was super loud but I was glad to have the problem fixed. Somehow the contractors instead managed to break a water line for the building, which poured water through my ceiling vents for 25 minutes.\n\n​\n\nI ran upstairs to let them know what was happening as soon as it started. They explained what had happened and I think said something about the pipe being damaged. They attempted to triage the situation in my bathroom with towels and a guy standing under the main source of water with a bag, but water went absolutely everywhere. The adjoining carpets are soaked. Boxes that were on the floor of the attached closet are soaked through.\n\n​\n\nThey've set up an industrial dryer in the bathroom now, and the room won't be useable for at least 24 hours. The dryer is incredibly loud, so the building is letting my partner and me stay in a \"guest suite\" in the building instead\u2014though they acted as though they were doing us a huge favor by giving us a habitable place to sleep.\n\n​\n\nTL;DR: Master bathroom's unusable, master bedroom is un-sleepable due to noise, lost a few things in the flood, the rest of the apartment is similarly incredibly loud (and I get migraines so this part is particularly bad). There will be workmen in my apartment for another day or two at minimum (and I work from home). This whole thing is a mess.\n\n​\n\nSo. I posted the relevant lease passage above. Do I have any legal footing as to reimbursement? I'm not interested in suing them, but rather using any legal violation as leverage to get them to do the right thing and throw some money at this problem (in the form of a few day's rent reimbursement\u2014I'm not expecting thousands of dollars).","title":"[TX] A water line above my ceiling broke and dumped water into my bathroom for 25 minutes. My apartment is essentially unusable right now. Lease says they're not responsible for any damages.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540034404,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ptcxt\/workplace_bullying_nz\/","id":"9ptcxt","body":"I work in Healthcare, since beginning a year ago I have been bullied by two specific colleagues. They've said plenty to my face (you never do anything, we can never find you blah blah), but they've also run to my manager with streams of bs complaints about my work ethic and dissappearing during shift to the extent that for a period of time I kept a written record of where I was, who knew etc.. After being approached again (second time in a week) and showing this to my manager i didn't have anymore complaints and stopped writing it down like I was. About a month ago I met with HR about my sick leave and we agreed to reduce my hours (sick leave because my mental health was so bad from work). Before the meeting my colleagues had been 'celebrating' me leaving (I wasn't) and when they found out I hadn't been put into a casual position in a different department they ramped things up again. Long story short I have a meeting with HR over my 'poor work ethic', which btw wasn't an issue until they found out I wasn't leaving. While I've been with my team they've actively excluded me and continued to berate me and make me feel worthless to the point where I attempted suicide. I went to manager after being there a month or so and she sat there defending them telling me they're just strong personalities, implying the issue was my perception. Not only that but everyone found out I'd gone to her and began bitching and encouraging the way they had been treating me. Basically it made things 100x worse so I never went back, and she's continued to allow their behaviour to go on at the very least. This latest tidal wave of bs is the last straw, I simply cannot go on working in this department. I'm going to HR about the bullying in the hopes that can help. Basically I refuse to go back to my department, I do not feel safe within myself nor do i think I would be able to brave face it knowing what's happened. I'm going to ask HR for transfer to literally anywhere else, but in the meantime I cannot face work, like if they won't transfer me Ill have to quit.\n\nMy question is whether I can be fired for saying I can't continue on the ward because of the bullying and need a transfer? Like I'll take a cut in pay, hours or whatever, I just can't go back because I'm genuinely afraid of how it will impact my health.\n\nAlso I feel like she's gone behind my back to speak with staff about me and these 'concerns' without informing me at all or hearing any rebuttal I have. Are they allowed to do that? Investigate me without actually telling me, especially when there isnt anything I could tamper with or any other risks.\n\nAnyhow, I'm basically screwed. It's me against my manager and a bunch of staff, all who want me gone. There isn't another hospital for me to work at and i love my job just not the people. If I do request a transfer in light of everything can they just refuse and make me choose between staying or quiting?\n\nLike it's so bad I'm having to receive psych care. I've put up with it for over a year and I just can't anymore which is why I'm going to tell HR. Essentially of they refuse and try make me go back ill have to just quit because I know even one shift could push me over the edge.\n\nSo yeah, sorry for rambling its all a mess so I'm sorry if it makes no sense! ","title":"Workplace bullying NZ","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555096754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bchml5\/ca_someone_i_know_defended_himself_physically\/","id":"bchml5","body":"So i know someone who feels defeated from his situation and i want to see if i can help. \n\nHe was with this girl that we now believe has mental problems. She was abusive with him verbally and physically for months. He wouldn\u2019t do anything back. Finally she attacked him again and he ended up defending himself. He\u2019s afraid he might have used too much force. She has photos and now she\u2019s claiming she\u2019s the victim and threatening to go to the police. \n\nOn top of that she has told her family members and new boyfriend who are now calling threatening this guy based on all the lies she\u2019s telling them. What are his options?","title":"[CA] Someone i know defended himself physically after being attacked by an EX. Now she\u2019s threatening him","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553346455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4iz36\/my_school_wants_to_go_through_phones\/","id":"b4iz36","body":"Yes I\u2019m aware I\u2019ve posted something similar before but I\u2019ve heard more information\n\nApparently we signed a paper at the beginning of the year. It was an AUP which are yearly that say we can use the school computers. Apparently it said that they can go through our phones at any time. The paper this year was the same as it was when I was in 7th and 8th grade so my parents just blindly signed it (to my knowledge they did. I came back late in the year after trying online homeschooling for two weeks and my mom had to stay at the school and sign my paperwork.) The person I heard this from is a known idiot, to be frank so I\u2019m not sure if I believe that they\u2019ve even put that in there. The teachers have talked about how they have to collect phones at the beginning of class (however only my math teacher has gone through with it). She said, her words almost exactly, \u201cListen guys I really don\u2019t want to go through your phones and see what\u2019s on their but I have to.\u201d She never did. \n\n(not sure if this is necessary as it doesn\u2019t seem like a long paragraph but tl;dr my school wants to go through phones, apparently it\u2019s in the aup that they can)\n\nIs my school allowed to put in the AUP that they can go through phones at any given time?","title":"My school wants to go through phones","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539378649,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9no5qs\/all_sorts_of_trouble_with_our_landlord_illinois\/","id":"9no5qs","body":"Hi legaladvice. I read the rules for posting and tried to do a search to see if other people had posted similar questions. I live in Illinois and recently (in June) moved into a rental property. Several things have been sketchy as Hell, right from the get-go. About a month into living there, I find out that this property was gutted by the owners and rebuilt by the owner's handyman friend that had NO licenses for gas, electric, or plumbing (and is really, really, bad at building anything.) I'm poor, though, and it's hard to find affordable housing in our area, so I thought to myself that maybe things won't be so bad. Not to mention, of course, that now that I live here, I can't afford to relocate.\n\n​\n\nThe list that follows contains the sketchy things that my landlord has done:\n\n1) As I mentioned, the person that did the work on the house has little to no real experience with construction. He did the gas, the electric, the water, everything. No permits, no licenses.\n\n​\n\n2) We practically have to BEG for a lease. We eventually get it two months into living there. However, they keep the only copy until we keep showing up at the owner's work and house. They finally gave it to us, like, last week. The owner's adult daughter was defensive as Hell about forking it over, too.\n\n​\n\n3) Before they gave us a copy of the year long lease, the owner's wife came in from out of state about a month ago and tried to tell us that we'd have to move in a month so that she could move in to our house. My mom got pissed and said, um, no. We've got a year lease. The owner eventually piped up that yeah, we're going to be living here for a lot longer than another month.\n\n​\n\n4) They have known since they let us move in that furnace didn't work. It's an ancient POS and they said they'd be sending a licensed HVAC guy to work on it, but it's now been 4 months, it's starting to get cold and we have no heat. They keep giving us the run around, saying that they'll be over to work on it at 8AM on such and such day, then at 1PM someone will text and say, sorry, but they can't make it. A friend of the family who does HVAC work said that it has been entirely replaced by a HVAC person, but the owner's \"handyman\" keeps saying that that doesn't need to be done by someone with a license (it does) and that it doesn't need replaced (the family friend said it will fucking explode if not done correctly).   \n\n\nAdditionally, from what I understand, there are approximately 0 working vents in our house, too. So, there's a lot of work that needs done with HVAC system and my landlord doesn't care at all. He hasn't even dropped any heaters by and doesn't seem concerned about the possibility of the pipes bursting\/toilets getting screwed up, etc. when it first freezes. (Given that it is 45 degrees where I am today, that's not far off. Update. It's snowing here rn.)\n\n​\n\n5) My landlord actually got pissed with us when we called the power company about smelling gas (we called him first and everyone blew us off for weeks, when it was only getting stronger), saying that it would have been cheaper for him to have dealt with it instead of having to hire an actually licensed plumber to fix the 19 pipe leaks caused by his \"handyman\" doing the gas lines himself. To put it in perspective, it took the licensed plumber \\~18 hours to fix all the damage that had been done. We went 2.5 weeks without a stove and without any hot water. Did not receive an apology or a discount on the rent, despite its inhospitable conditions.\n\n​\n\n6) We have no dryer vent. From what I understand, that is a fire safety hazard. However, with having no furnace being our biggest concern, we have kind of given up on getting this dealt with at all.\n\n​\n\n7) They store things in our garage and in a trailer on the property and will come and remove things all the time, with no prior warning. They told us to try and look out for their stuff, but they'll bring groups of random people by, presumably to help move stuff or whatever, but it sketches me out. Like, one morning I come out of the shower in my robe and there's about 8 or 9 random dudes chilling on my back porch @ 7:30AM. The owner's wife also brings people by the property to \"show off her house\". \n\n​\n\n8) There are more minor problems that are really just inconveniences, but once they start piling up, it's annoying. The garbage disposal is broken and before we moved in, when it was just his handyman in the place, he crammed a bunch of gross shit down there. He screwed up the system so bad that you literally can't remove it without breaking the disposal, so it can't be emptied and just contains rotting food that draws hundreds of fruit flies. The kitchen has several unfinished cabinets and drawers that are just gaping holes that can't be used. There isn't a doorknob on the main bathroom, so the door won't stay shut. There are DOZENS of teeny tiny holes in the floor and between windows and window ledges where bugs\/pests get in and the landlord refuses to pay for pest control. We have mice.\n\n​\n\nThere are probably more, but I can't think of them off of the top of my head. I have no money to move, no money to fix the problems, and no money for a lawyer. I've tried contacting the tenants union for my city, but I live just outside city limits. What can I do about this messed up stuff? Do I have any right to sue? Is it legal for them to even rent to us with no heat? Does it matter that my mom is a senior citizen?","title":"All Sorts of Trouble With Our Landlord (Illinois)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539477111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nypz6\/interpretation_and_clarity_on_a_related_entity\/","id":"9nypz6","body":"I wanted to understand whether these two clauses would have any different meanings based on changing the position of a few words. I've seen some serious wrong doing that I am thinking of potentially reporting because in my opinion, it is quite harmful to consumers, but I am unsure if this is a serious wrong doing. \n\nThe first clause, my interpretation is that the arrangement still has to be within the Act's limitations, but it can be outside of the related entity's permitted arrangements . The second clause, my interpretation is that the arrangement can be outside of the Act's limitations regardless. \n\nThe enterprise's insolvency is based on a flip of a coin at the moment on a huge cash amount dispute that will finalized next year. \n\nI think this maybe a wrong doing, because someone is using the second clause to mask the financial health of a financial distressed enterprise to allow it to continue to provide critical and valuable services to consumers. My understanding is the directors who approved these arrangements will be liable such arrangements if it don't work out; however, in a scenario where it doesn't work out, would their D&O insurance provide such coverage? e.g., what I am somewhat seeing is non cash unsecured pledges tied to volatile assets to provide more capital to the enterprise to keep it going. \n\n1. An enterprise may with the approval of the Commissioner enter into an arrangement with a related entity of the enterprise that would otherwise be prohibited by this Act if the Commissioner is content that the arrangement is in the best interests of the enterprise and is not harmful to the interests of the stockholders and enterprise\u2019s obligations to consumers.\n2. An enterprise may with the approval of the Commissioner enter into an arrangement that would otherwise be prohibited by this Act with a related entity of the enterprise if the Commissioner is content that the arrangement is in the best interests of the enterprise and is not harmful to the interests of the stockholders and enterprise\u2019s obligations to consumers.","title":"interpretation and clarity on a related entity clause - reporting a wrong doing","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571764305,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlkyvw\/rear_ended_4_cars\/","id":"dlkyvw","body":"So the other day I was at a red light when the car behind me rammed into me causing me to run into someone else. Turns out I was car 3 in the chain reaction. \n\nCar 1 (guy at fault) was going pretty fast. My car is totaled and Im assuming so are all the other ones.  In the accident, I cut my head on the steering wheel and also received a large bruise at the base of my skull. And obviously... the whiplash is horrible. \n\nIm confused on how to proceed. Im not the guy to fake an injury for money but I am the guy that would like to be compensated for a number of things. \n\n1. My injury is preventing me from participating in events I already paid for.  (Boxing, Flight Lessons)\n\n2. I have already missed a couple days of work due to a mild concussion and neck pain. So money is missed there \n\n3. Im a recent graduate who is in the middle of trying to find a full time job. I now have no car to get to work, or anywhere for that matter, nor do I have the money to buy a car. \n\nI do not have collision on my NJ registered car.  \nMy worry is that im going to receive an underwhelming amount of money from the insurance for my 2003 volkswagen that was worth way more to me than it probably seems on paper. \n\n\nSince I don\u2019t have collision, it is up to me to go after the insurance company for compensation. \nIs it in my best interest to sue for bodily harm and among other things such as inconvenience?","title":"Rear Ended (4 Cars)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541569512,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uwq3o\/relatives_inhibiting_nieces_education\/","id":"9uwq3o","body":"I apologize if this post doesn\u2019t fit r\/legaladvice, if there is a better place to ask please fill me in. \n\nMy girlfriend\u2019s niece, let\u2019s call her Kay, is currently in the process of transferring back to the private school that she used to go. Her parents had to pull her out due to financial issue but they are now in a better position.  It has been a grueling process of 2 weeks and the reason for that is her aunt, let\u2019s call her B....B\u2019s child also goes to the same school and has expressed that ever since Kay left... she now has more friends and doesn\u2019t want Kay to come back. \n\nWell as the crazy over protective parent as she is... B tried to convince Kay\u2019s parents that her child will suffer if Kay goes back to school with her child.  Kay\u2019s parents disregarded that reason. Afterwards B said that the school is so expensive that they\u2019re going to pull their kid out and that they can\u2019t afford it also. Well they only pulled their child out for 1 day and brought her back. It was all a scheme to have Kay\u2019s parents to pull her out to some other school and bring their child back. \n\nCoincidentally, Now we hear that the principal brought Kay into their office saying that there has been reports from 5 different parents that if they were to bring her in, that these 5 parents would pull their kids out. Their reason is that  these 5 parents have reported that there has been an incident with Kay and that bringing her in will jeopardize these students.  They would not explain what incident. What\u2019s absolutely infuriating is that Kay is only 11 years old and to be told that by administration extremely unprofessional. They could have talked to Kay\u2019s parents instead.\n\nWe are absolutely sure that the aunt is behind this. That she rallied 5 parents together to conjure an incident against Kay so that she won\u2019t be admitted. All so that her child can keep her friends. \n\nIs there anything that can\u2019t be done about this situation? Can there be corrective action taken upon the school? Mind you Kay has been absent for school for 2 weeks now and the first day she came to class, this drama unravels. The sadness and rejection this poor girl experience is so devastating, especially at her age. \n\n","title":"Relatives inhibiting niece\u2019s education","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1550117420,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqfq14\/work_policy_charging_250_out_of_pay_checks\/","id":"aqfq14","body":"I apologize in advance for formatting issues I\u2019m on mobile.\n\nTL;DR: work posts notice of charging employees $250 out of their pay checks.\n\nSo I work for a private ambulance company in Maryland that does inter facility transports for hospitals and nursing homes. Anyways the company just posted a notice stating the following:\n\n\u201c EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY IF YOU LEAVE A UNIT BATTERY SWITCH ON YOU WILL HAVE A $250 JUMP\/SERVICE CHARGE DEDUCTED FROM YOUR CHECK\n\nWHEN BATTERIES ARE LEFT ON CAMERAS CONTINUE TO RECORD- WE WILL KNOW WHO THE LAST DRIVER WAS\n\n-MANAGEMENT \u201c\n\nWhat it\u2019s stating is that if the battery that runs the back of the ambulance is left on over night they will charge the driver directly from their paycheck. It doesn\u2019t state that they will be billed for the actual cost of the jump or replacement battery just a flat fee of $250.\n\nSo what I want to know is, is it actually legal for them to deduct money from our pay checks for that, or at all for that matter?","title":"Work policy charging $250 out of pay checks","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554148909,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b87z0l\/i_got_a_speeding_ticket_in_the_mail_7_years_after\/","id":"b87z0l","body":"Back in 2012 I was caught in a speed trap in New Mexico.  It\u2019s one of those roads where the limit decreases VERY quickly with a series of speed signs. While I was decreasing my speed, I must have missed one of them and was caught going over that limit. If I remember correctly I decreased to 55 and missed the 45, so by the time I got 35 I was going to fast. \n\nI was in a rental and managed to forget the citation in the glove box. Also, I am not from New Mexico, so my DL was out of state. \n\nI then spent the next two years trying to pay the citation, but every time I called, there was no record of it. I never got anything in the mail either. At the time, you could only look up tickets on their website using your New Mexico drivers license or citation number. I had neither. \n\nNow...seven years later I finally got a letter from an attorney requesting payment  for it. \n\nMy question is: since my ticket clearly WAS on record and I never paid it, am I in any legal trouble? Is there a warrant out for my arrest or something crazy like that?\n\nIf they\u2019ve had my address all along, why did it take so long to get this in the mail, and why did New Mexico never have a record of my citation?","title":"I got a speeding ticket in the mail 7 years after the fact. How much trouble am I in?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569594699,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da18w3\/question_about_landlord_keeping_our_security\/","id":"da18w3","body":"My friends and I have a somewhat weird situation here. Since January we rented the upper unit of a duplex with the top and bottom floors being the separated units. We ended our lease early since our AmeriCorps term ended on the condition that we find new tenants (which we did because the new people entering our program need housing) but if we didn\u2019t, we would continue paying rent until the lease ended (in February. \n\nYesterday we received the final inspection and the landlord is keeping our entire security deposit with it listed as \u201cLease fee for releasing unit\u201d.  Move-out charges were listed as $500.58 (sec\/deposit was $1225) Also, our September rent overlapped with the new tenants new lease (started on the 11th) so we got refunded the rent for the 11th through the end of the month (since the new tenants paid that). From that refunded rent, they subtracted $92.25 for the inspection fee. (Totally fine with that)\n\nMy question is this; are they legally allowed to keep our entire security deposit or can we fight it and get refunded the security deposit ($1225) - move-out charges ($500.58)? \n\nSorry if I didn\u2019t clarify everything! I\u2019m on mobile.","title":"Question about landlord keeping our security deposit!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554356052,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b98rtz\/parking_violations_phoenix_az\/","id":"b98rtz","body":"I park my car next to my college campus on a city street, and so do hundreds of other people. There were no issues until about a month ago and I got a parking ticket. Ever since then, Phoenix PD comes through about every week and gives out parking tickets (what seems to be at random to cars parked on that street). Today I got another one (had one two weeks ago too), but am very confused because there is no \u201cno parking\u201d sign or red curb. Legally it seems that I have the right to park there, and I\u2019ve heard from campus security that neighbors complain about so many cars being parked that the police come and give tickets hoping less people will park there. The last two violations I got were not actual tickets, just a notice of violation saying my car will be towed in 48 hours. The violation I had to weeks ago said it would be towed but it was there several days past 48 hours and was still there. But the most interesting part was that on the violation I got today, it said \u201cabandoned on a right of way\u201d. The other ones I\u2019ve got all said \u201cillegally parked\u201d and that is also what the other cars violations said today. I\u2019ll attach a link with pictures of where I was parked. I just need to know if there is any legal reason I can\u2019t park there, and if I can park there how can I get Phoenix PD to stop giving me violations. I have nowhere else to park my car while I\u2019m in school. \n[Parking ](https:\/\/m.imgur.com\/a\/j6C0Jfi)","title":"Parking Violations Phoenix AZ","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570578613,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df8miz\/california_full_time_employee_working_for_10_days\/","id":"df8miz","body":"Useful information:\n- regular schedule is Tuesday-Friday (12-12-8-8)\n- reason for working extra was for OT approved by supervisor through text\n\nThe days consisted of the following shifts:\n\nDay 1 - 12hr shift (Tuesday)\nDay 2 - 12hr shift\nDay 3 - 8hr shift\nDay 4 - 8hr shift\nDay 5 - 7hr shift\nDay 6 - 4hr shift (Sunday)\nDay 7 - 7hr shift\nDay 8- 12hr shift\nDay 9 - 12hr shift \nDay 10 - 8hr shift","title":"[California] Full Time employee working for 10 days straight without a break, is this okay ?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551236353,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av89x3\/workplace_discrimination_and_hate_speech\/","id":"av89x3","body":"Last night my coworker proceeded to yell at me calling me a faggot, over and over again; at least 5 times. He did this in front of the rest of my coworkers, as well as all of the customers in the store. I am in fact gay and all of my coworkers know I am. So from what I understand this falls under hate speech and harassment. This morning I went to talk to my general manager, and she said she is going to talk to him. She really didn\u2019t see this as a big deal. This is not the first time that management has not taken action against discriminatory behavior. I told my general manager in October 2018 about my bipolar diagnosis, because I take medication that prevents me from working early in the morning and I needed my schedule to accommodate that. Approximately one month later I was made aware that a shift leader had told the other  employees about my diagnosis, and told them that I am crazy. My general manager was the only person I told about my diagnosis. I immediately went to my general managers boss. I had a meeting with her boss as well as his superior, they assured me that this kind of behavior wouldn\u2019t be tolerated and that they were going to take care of it. However no action was ever taken against the shift lead for disclosing my medical information. I am amazed at their blatant disregard for employees privacy, and well being. Is my only option to quit my job?\nMy location Sacramento,Ca ","title":"Workplace discrimination and hate speech","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552863728,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2b938\/friend_plugged_in_rice_cooker_electricity_in_the\/","id":"b2b938","body":"Basically, my friend was trying to cook a rice, plugged in rice cooker and their house (she rents it with 4 other students) blacked out. She tried to turn on switches (like it sometimes happens) but it didn\u2019t work. She called landlord and he came and tried to fix it but it didn\u2019t work. He called the repair man and now he wants my friend to pay for that. We live in the UK. \n\nI\u2019m not sure but I don\u2019t believe that it is her fault that a house cannot deal with a rice cooker and something might have been wrong already because there is no way plugging in a rice cooker would do such a mess. She doesn\u2019t know what to say as she already said few times that she won\u2019t pay it but landlord and her flatmates are pressuring. What should she say for now? What can be done? Is this possible that in their contract there is something about damage like that? Is it possible that it is really her fault? ","title":"Friend plugged in rice cooker, electricity in the whole house went off, landlord tried to fix it but it didn\u2019t work, now he wants to make her pay - UK","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445309679,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pfw59\/ia_overpaid_landlord_they_credited_my_account_but\/","id":"3pfw59","body":"I'm not really going to do anything about this, since it's pretty much cleared up and my landlord is a decent company. I'm just curious.\n\nIn 2014, my landlord and I signed a lease for 2015 with the rent, utilities, and pet fee specified. My landlord also gave me a summary sheet with those amounts on it. On the summary sheet, the amount listed for utilities was about $40 higher than it was in the lease.\n\nFast forward to now and I've been paying the landlord an extra $40 a month all year. They've been taking the money and giving me a credit on my account which is now a few hundred dollars. But they never told me about the credit until now, when we were talking about the lease for 2016, they mentioned that my utilities would be going up, and I said that the 'new' amount was what I've been paying.\n\nSo here's my question: If I wanted to raise a stink about this, have they done anything wrong? Could I sue them for the amount of the credit plus interest or some such thing?","title":"[IA] Overpaid landlord, they credited my account but didn't tell me about the credit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539544511,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o5g60\/my_brotherinlaw_and_his_wife_are_meth_heads_can\/","id":"9o5g60","body":"Getting straight to the point, my BIL and his wife (SIL) are truly awful people. They are both drug addicts as seen from the title and as far as I can tell from online research are both sociopaths.  The only good thing my BIL has done is bring beautiful little girl into this world (who Ill call Sarah and she is 3.5 years old now).  Sarah was born from a previous relationship BIL had. The birth mother is not involved with Sarah and signed documents to completely relinquish custody. SIL adopted Sarah officially about a year ago. SIL does have one daughter from when she was younger and at some point had that daughter taken from her by DSS. As a precursor, BIL has long history of substance abuse and without family help would likely be in jail\/dead. SIL also has a long history of substance abuse and no family support.\n\nThis whole thing started about a year ago not long after SIL adopted Sarah. BIL and SIL were fucked up but at least stable because my wife's parents were basically propping them up financially. SIL had BIL arrested for domestic violence. Things started going down hill fast and as a family we were trying to help BIL and Sarah. The DV charge was fake and later dropped. SIL was basically trying to get divorced and force BIL to pay her child support because she though money would magically appear.\n\nDuring the last year, BILs mental health deteriorated into basically some form of schizophrenia. He has seen therapists and psychiatrists because work has forced him to or he is going to be fired for being unfit to perform his job. He will not admit he has a problem. That is a whole separate thing. We have a failed drug test from SIL for meth and we have a lot of documentation of BIL being aggressive and becoming increasingly unsafe to be around.\n\nBIL and SIL have been going through a divorce but BIL has moved back in with SIL and is now blaming my Wife and I plus her parents for causing him all of these problems.\n\nLong story short: My wife and I are setting up an appointment with a lawyer next week. What are our rights to file for custody? What do lawyers need to know in a situation like this? Any help would truly be appreciated. I can try to provide context for anything above if someone has a question, I just didn't want the post to be to easily traceable.\n\n​\n\nTL;DR My BIL and SIL are meth heads. My wife and I want to file for custody of our niece.","title":"My Brother-In-Law and his wife are meth heads. Can my wife and I file to take custody of our niece away from them? (South Carolina)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1441822044,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k9vv2\/if_i_get_married_in_one_state_but_live_in_another\/","id":"3k9vv2","body":"I am getting married in GA soon but live in WA state. Do GA state laws apply to our marriage or WA laws? Do I need to get married in Washington as well? Thanks in advance!","title":"If I get married in one state, but live in another, which marriage state laws apply? [GA\/WA]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571315729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj5rri\/government_charging_for_whatsapp_calls\/","id":"dj5rri","body":"The lebanese government will start to charge 20 cents for the first whatsapp call every day, this means that it is 6 USD \/ month.\nThey consider it as a tax.\nIs this legal considering whatsapp's ToS where they state\n\n> Harm to WhatsApp or Our Users.\u00a0You must not (or assist others to) access, use, copy, adapt, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sublicense, transfer, display, perform, or otherwise exploit our Services in impermissible or unauthorized manners, or in ways that burden, impair, or harm us, our Services, systems, our users, or others, including that you must not directly or through automated means: ... (g) sell, resell, rent, or charge for our Services;","title":"Government charging for whatsapp calls?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555211038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcykdq\/girlfriend_taking_baby_without_discussion\/","id":"bcykdq","body":"I'm unsure if this is the correct sub for this, but I'm seeking advice regarding child custody.\n\nLong story short, my girlfriend has developed a habit in which she chooses to stay at her parents' house with our baby girl instead of staying at our own house. This occassionaly turns into multiple days and nights in a row.\n\nI work overnights which makes it difficult for all of us to spend time together. I don't know if it matters or not, but I'm also the \"bread winner\".\n\nI suppose my question is is it okay for her to take our daughter wherever she wants whenever? I've never taken our daughter to my parents house to spend the night or taken her elsewhere without my girlfriend present or giving approval.\n\nIt should be noted that I also established paternity, claim her as an independent, and pay for medical insurance.\n\nThank you in advance for any input.","title":"Girlfriend taking baby without discussion","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554917455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbosws\/a_mild_problem_but_i_applied_to_an_internship\/","id":"bbosws","body":"I\u2019d still be eligible for the job whether I\u2019m in the degree or certificate program. However, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s considered falsification if I switch programs mid-application and the official copy of my transcript says I\u2019m in a different program than the unofficial transcript I already used to apply. Should I want before switching to the degree program, or does it not matter because both programs still leave me eligible for the internship?","title":"A mild problem, but I applied to an internship that required me to turn in a copy of my transcript. That transcript stated that I\u2019m in a certificate program related to my major. However, I was already discussing with my advisor the possibility of switching to an associates degree.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550945472,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aty7yj\/pre_employment_medical_exam_in_illinois\/","id":"aty7yj","body":"I am in Illinois. I have an upcoming job interview for an administrative assistant position at a white collar company.\n\nI am reviewing the job application they provided that I\u2019m supposed to complete before the interview and there\u2019s a place I\u2019m supposed to sign off on that gives me pause.\n\nIt\u2019s worded: \u201cI understand, where permissible under applicable state and local law, I may be subject to a pre-employment medical examination after receiving a conditional offer of employment, and must meet the qualifications for the position, with or without reasonable accommodation, before being permitted to start work.\u201d\n\nI have never heard about this for an administrative assistant type job before. Is this legal? I have some preexisting medical conditions, none of which affect my ability to perform the job as per the job description, but I am concerned they would use a medical exam to disqualify me for employment because I would be expensive to insure.\n\nHow do I proceed? I\u2019m uncomfortable at the prospect of a pre employment medical exam, to say the least.","title":"Pre Employment Medical Exam in Illinois?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569259881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d89stb\/potential_landlord_said_i_was_signing_a_rental\/","id":"d89stb","body":"For starters, this is in California. I've been looking at places to rent, and I found a good potential apartment. Guy showing me (he would be the landlord) the apartment seems a little laid back. Says he doesn't require background checks (I know, red flag #1), and if I want to apply, he will send me the application. \n\nI leave, things continue over text. He asks me for normal info, like my potential move in date and email, all the while referring to the application as a \"contract\". This was super confusing to me, because we never discussed a lease - I haven't even applied yet! So I call him, he assures me it's just an application, makes it seem like he's just saving time and using a rental contract format. All throughout these text messages and emails, I refer to the document as what I believe it is - an application, but he flip flops between calling it a contract and an application. \n\nThere's a section in it that states that the lease will terminate at a date that is a week from now, so I figured that just meant that that was when the application was no longer valid. I also was not worried because I thought if it were a lease, the termination date would be in 2020. I initial the form, give it to him. I have NOT given him any payment\/deposit.\n\nFast forward to this weekend, I let him know that I have found a cheaper place and will not be leasing his'. He freaks out and says that I have entered a legally binding contract (a 1 year lease) and that I cannot just simply get out of it. He says if he cannot find new tenants, that I will owe him money in lost rent. \n\nI know you guys probably can't tell me much without seeing the application\/potential contract, but I just want to know how f\\*cked I am.","title":"Potential landlord said I was signing a rental application. however, when I told him I was signing with another place, he claimed it's a legally binding contract.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446154726,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qrcv0\/how_can_i_make_my_photography_for_free_public\/","id":"3qrcv0","body":"I am an amateur photographer, I just do it as a hobby.\n\nI'd like to open my own website where I can offer my photos (I took the photos, and it's my camera) for free to people who would like to download them. The photos are mostly of landscapes and cityscapes, with no identifiable persons in them. Some of the images are of famous structures, 'tourist traps'.\n\nI'm in Canada, and I have no releases (property or person) signed on the photos. And I will be having ads on the website.\n\nI have browsed around on other websites and have found that free stock photo websites are all very different in terms of their licensing and methods of offering their photos for free.\n\nWhat is the best way? Should I just offer up my permission with no licensing? Offer a license? Limit usage to editorial, include commercial use?\n\nI have seen some people offer their photos under the CC0 license, but I'm not sure whether that's too 'open'\n\nAny help would be much appreciated.","title":"How can I make my photography for free public download? (Licensing & Availability Advice Needed) - Canada","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553554031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5hogx\/i_called_out_a_company_for_a_minoradult\/","id":"b5hogx","body":"I called out a small business for posting a 15.5 year old getting kissed by a 19 year old and told them it was disgusting and called it pedophilia. I\u2019m a minor, so I\u2019m not sure about all the laws. I need help on laws and regulations on Age of Consent and Sex Offender laws in NJ and Slandering rules and regulations. Is there anything I can do to stop this or is it just something I have to go through? Please help ASAP. \nAlso to note: I don\u2019t live in the same state as them and I\u2019m not living with the guardian they\u2019re contacting. \n\n","title":"I called out a company for a minor\/adult relationship post on their Instagram and now I was threatened into getting sued for slandering. (**OP MINOR**)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1508527165,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77odgc\/il_cosigning_a_rental_for_my_wife_possible_divorce\/","id":"77odgc","body":"Married with kids and we have agreed to a trial separation to see if the time apart would help any. Currently we are on amicable terms and neither of us have spoken with an attorney.\n\nI'm currently the only income but my wife is actively applying for jobs and apartments. She intends to move to an apartment while I stay in the marital home and we have already worked out a schedule regarding the kids. Her potential employment prospects will not be enough to qualify for an apartment on her own, and I've told her I am willing to co-sign for a year while we work on our relationship and we see where things go from there.\n\nRelationship advice aside: Am I placing myself on the hook for anything *besides* being liable for the full rent on the lease or any damages associated with it? As in, would me doing this impact me negatively should we eventually divorce?","title":"[IL] Co-signing a rental for my wife, possible divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504744485,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yjrkv\/ia_landlord_lied_to_me_and_i_no_longer_want_to\/","id":"6yjrkv","body":"Hello. This is my first time here, but I need some help with a situation\n\nI moved in mid-August after discussing terms of the lease earlier that day. I was told the room I would be living in is already taken for the spring, and it says on the lease to renegotiate November 1st to discuss whether I can take the room for another 6 months. (They said the kid could potentially be going abroad for the semester) I was told this before meeting with the house manager (the landlords son) to sign the lease. \n\nI paid 5 months rent in advance upfront after signing the lease and instantly have trouble with the tenants. Nothing rule-breaking or abusive, they are just people who are extremely tough to live with.\n\nI have never talked to the landlord personally and everything I have heard came from the house manager. \n\nHowever,I recently heard that my landlord lied to me about the kid reserving the room for the spring. There was no person that signed for the room but hadnt paid as i was told. Apperently this was in case no one in the house liked me, they can use that excuse to reject an offer or extend the lease allowing me to stay. \n\nNow, after hearing this, and being treated like shit for a month, I definitely won't be staying that long. However, I want to move out now and possibly get my money back since I didnt like being lied to initially. Also, I dont trust the landlord wouldn't be lying or will lie again in the future. I hate how I gave him my money and told his son to lie for him.\n\nI guess my question would be is there any way I can get my money back and gtfo of this place as fast as possible.\n\nEven if everything that has transpired was perfectly legal, and I cannot get my money back, I felt it was very unprofessional to be lied to like this and will never rent from him again. And I dont want others to fall into his trap as well.","title":"[IA] Landlord lied to me and I no longer want to live as his tenant.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568980573,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6tti3\/i_wanted_to_become_a_cop_but_i_now_have_a\/","id":"d6tti3","body":"So there is a lot to unpack here. First off I lived in Virgina at the time. This started when I got my first speeding ticket (going 9 over in a 70, this is important later)ever a few months back. Along with this were my plates being expired by 1 day. I freaked out a little bit but I ended up going to the court house and contesting both tickets as long as I went to a drivers improvment course. No big deal, I payed the court fees for contesting and went on my way.\n\nSo I went and did the course and thought everything was figured out as the course people are supposed to report to the dmv that the course was complete and then the charges would be dropped all together.\n\nAbout a month later I moved to Ga where I live now, which I still have a Va ID and address(my parents home). Everything was all fine and dandy until I get a call from my mother a couple weeks after the move saying she got a letting in the mail stating I missed a court date and that I had to pay a fine for missing it. I was quite confused as I dont know anything about a court date that I was supposed to be attending. My mother ended up paying the fine with he money out of my savings and I just went on with my life. \n\nAnother couple more weeks go by and I call my mother to see how things are going and she let's me know that she recieved another letter in the mail telling me to pay for my tickets. This shocked me as I had contested both of these tickets in court and took the course which should have releived me of any penalties on my record. She the informs me that she went ahead and payed them for me. Which is an admittance of guilt to something I thought I had gotten passed. \n\nThen the next shock was  her informing me that the tickets were of course for the expired stickers, and a 10 OVER SPEEDING TICKET. If no one is aware of Va law. Going 10 over in a 70 is considered Reckless Driving and is a Misdemeanor.  As I stated before, the original ticket was for going 9 over, not 10. Which is just a normal speeding ticket.\n\n I for a fact know is was a 9 over because not only did the cop inform me of this when he wrote my ticket, but because it was the same exact ticket I contested in court. And because my mother paid the fines for me without asking. I dont know what I can do to get rid of these marks on my record. \n\nEspecially considering I wanted to join the police force myself and informed them when I got my application that I had contested these tickets when I had the chance. This will also hender me from getting a normal job because I have a misdemeanor  on my record now, which in all of my previous applications to places ( I cant join the police academy until next year when I turn 21), I had always stated that I have no misdemeanors or felony at all. Which makes sense now as to why I havent even gotten a call back from employers. \n\n\nThis said. I want to hear from someone on here if there is any way I could possibly fix this if at all as I truly want to be a cop but with this, I dont think  I'll be able too. I worried about finding work in general and this just puts a huge damper on my future plans. I honestly feel sick from stress because of this situation. Any advice at all would be appreciated. Please help me.\n\nThank you.","title":"I wanted to become a cop but I now have a misdemeanor I didn't commit on my record because my mother payed the ticket I contested without telling me first.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554675956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/balys4\/how_safe_are_release_of_liability_waivers\/","id":"balys4","body":"Hypothetical scenario:\nI want to make money mowing lawns. I don\u2019t have a sole-proprietorship, not an LLC, the mower isn\u2019t insured BUT I have my customers sign a release of liability that makes them assume all risk of my services - how safe is that?","title":"How safe are release of liability waivers?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540866982,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sjxqc\/gm_of_company_wants_me_to_switch_locations_with\/","id":"9sjxqc","body":"Just to get a couple things out of the way. \n\nThis is happening in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.\n\nThe company I work for provides in-house services to 4 other companies at different locations in the city. So let's label them A, B, C, and D.\n\nI signed a contract which states \n\n\"The role of is primarily located out of the Company A, but \r\non occasion you may be required to provide support to the Company\u2019s other clients which will \r\nrequire you to work on premises at Company C or Company D\"\n\nThe GM wants me to swap positions permanently with an employee at Company B. The employee and I are the exact same level. This is just a \"simple\" swap from a business standpoint...for no particular reason...\n\nIf i swap with this employee I will incur about an additional hour of commute time on top of my 2 hour daily commute and additional cost to myself.\n\nI signed the contract and agreed to the salary based on the people, location, and work environment at Company A. Nowhere in my contract is Company B even mentioned.\n\nIs this legal? Can I refuse the move?","title":"G.M. of company wants me to switch locations with another employee. However this was never mentioned or stated in my contract.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540606106,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rqryy\/boyfriend_needs_to_evict_his_brother_who_is_not\/","id":"9rqryy","body":"My boyfriend has a severe disability (he was born with no arms and uses a wheelchair as his legs are malformed). He has a supplemental needs trust as a result of a wrongful birth lawsuit. When he was a teenager, his then-trustee arranged for him to have this specific apartment (the one he\u2019s in now) because the building is wheelchair accessible (which is fairly uncommon in NYC). He lived there with his family (mother, younger brother, step-father) until his parents moved out to allow him to have this apartment to himself. He allowed his brother to stay with him (his brother was 18 and the time and very difficult so his parents were not keen on taking him with them) out of kindness. Shortly thereafter, his brother got his girlfriend pregnant and moved her and the baby in, as well. His brother worked for about a year and then was promptly fired for sleeping. That was two years ago and he hasn\u2019t worked since. Brother\u2019s girlfriend started working to pick up the slack. I moved in around the time his brother was fired to help with bills. I am also disabled and only receive SSI at the moment. \n\nThey have never paid the light bill and they don\u2019t allow us to use the living room and we cannot use the kitchen because they are always in one or both spaces and refuse to allow us to have our own time there, usually using their son as a crutch\/excuse (he needs his space to play, etc...). His brother hates me because he wants to control my boyfriend and continue mooching off of him rather than get off his ass and find a home for his own family and goes out of his way to make our lives as miserable as possible short of physical violence or threats. We are confined to our bedroom. A few months ago, my boyfriend told his brother that he wanted to put his game system in the living room, and his brother actually said no, and that, coupled with his brother\u2019s worsening treatment of me, became the last straw. From that point on, they began withholding rent (and they had only just started paying rent a few months prior) in addition to their continued nonpayment of the electric bill, which they run up like no one I\u2019ve ever seen. \n\nSo, here\u2019s the issue. My boyfriend is the only one on the lease. The building recognizes that the rest of us live here but the only one with any claim to the apartment is my boyfriend. Under New York State Law, you have to give rent-paying roommates one rent cycle to vacate. But they aren\u2019t paying rent, and we aren\u2019t sure how to actually go about getting them out since we are not landlords. But they have to go, they are essentially abusing us and this is not their apartment. They pay no rent and no utilities. They are living off of us for free.\n\nThe environment is truly making us sick. ","title":"Boyfriend needs to \u201cevict\u2019 his brother who is not on the lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553585456,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5mrb6\/tx_my_girlfriend_suspects_her_university_club\/","id":"b5mrb6","body":"\\[Background\\]\n\nMy girlfriend \"Sam\" is currently in 2 clubs at her university. One of the clubs requires that you pair up with another member for all the club activities and Sam happened to be paired with the clubs president \"Chloe\". Right off the bat Sam was telling me how Chloe seems vindictive and likes to talk about people behind their back and would also regularly miss club activities. A couple weeks later Sam heard that Chloe had been talking about her negatively to other people behind her back, most likely because Sam had been trying to get Chloe to participate more in their group.\n\nAnyways, Chloe happens to be an officer in Sams other club. Sam applied for an officer position in both clubs this semester and was rejected by both. I was surprised by this as Sam was more than qualified for both positions (Served 2+ years in both clubs, was an active member, has a perfect school record\/4.0, Community\/Resident Adviser for 3+ years, and is a genuinely nice person). We believe Chloe spread misinformation about her to the officers of both clubs to intentionally hinder Sam's application. Tomorrow Sam will be speaking to the president of the other club to find out why her application was denied.\n\n\\[Legal Advice\\]\n\nIf Sam does find out that misinformation about her was spread by Chloe to intentionally hinder her application is there anything Sam can do?\n\nIf so what are the steps required?\n\n​\n\nSide Note: The second club is directly related to her major and as such being an officer would help her be accepted into the graduate school. ","title":"[TX] My girlfriend suspects her university club president of slander","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551820657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axqcsc\/employment_how_to_collect_unpaid_commissions_from\/","id":"axqcsc","body":"Hello everyone, thank you to everyone with years and years of studying law taking their time to come here and review posts and provide feedback, I think that's awesome and it's very special what we have on this subreddit.\n\nThat said \u2013\n\n**TLDR: I am seeking to obtain monies promised as part of a sales commission plan from my previous employer; this company has a history of short-changing employees in different ways, including a recent $1mil+ class action lawsuit which was settled in favor of employees who brought the case forward.**\n\n**Because the employer only really cheated** ***me*** **out of this particular bonus, should I contact the lawyer from the class action lawsuit mentioned above, or should I seek other counsel?**\n\n**If so, what sort of lawyer would you recommend, and what legal action should I take to reclaim these wrongfully withheld sales commissions I earned while working for said employer?**\n\n​\n\n\\*I have attempted to leave out as many personally identifying information as possible while still giving an adequate explanation\\*\n\n​\n\nSome more detail, which is actually the TLDR of a much longer summary I can provide if any lawyers would like to actually become my attorney for this. -\n\n​\n\n**BACKGROUND:**\n\n\\-Worked at a large company in sales for about a year, was **offered incentives** to sell equipment (**i.e. commission**) which never materialized.\n\n\\-**Only stayed on program due to promise of bonuses**, but found out towards end of year they had **no intention of paying the promised bonuses and I quit**.\n\n\\-I would have transferred to a more lucrative\/less stressful program about 5 months prior had they been upfront with me, but I was **compelled to stay on the program** due to completed\/in progress sales\/commissions that were either still in progress, or whose commissions had not been paid out.\n\n​\n\n**FAST FORWARD TO NOW:**\n\n**-I filed for unemployment, and was initially denied** (based on lies given to the adjudicators researching my separation from this company)**\u2020**\n\n\\-Fortunately, **I appealed that decision and my** **appeal was successful.**\n\n\\-Because the Administrative Law Judge **ruled in my favor, UI benefits have been reinstated**; ***but*** ***I have*** ***still*** ***not been paid*** ***any bonus*** *and the employer made it clear they* ***had no intention of paying me*** *the roughly* ***\\[4 figures\\]*** *that they owe me.*\n\nI have **mounting evidence**\u2020, including a **changing story from the employer** as to why they are unable to pay me, and now (after this UI Appeals Hearing) actual statutes the employer was in violation of. As I mentioned in the TLDR, **this employer was also recently successfully sued as part of a class action lawsuit**, wherein the ***complainant*** **(a former employee)** **received \\[5 figures\\]** **for unpaid wages** (logging into systems 4 minutes before\/after shift but not being able to punch in) \u2013 **the** ***lawyer*** **in that case** **received** **\\[$100k-$1mil\\]** for being counsel to said former employee.\n\n​\n\n**\u2020Annotation indicates I have solid, contemporaneous of most of the claims I'm making here; this includes emails,** ***Word*** **documents,** ***Excel*** **spreadsheets, and even contracts between my former employer and the company we were contracted to.**","title":"[EMPLOYMENT] - How to Collect Unpaid Commissions from Large, but Shady B2B Telecomm Service Company","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570117491,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcsoez\/surgery_mishap_caused_mother_to_miss_work_now\/","id":"dcsoez","body":"Hello, I'm posting on behalf of my mother.   \n\n\nBasically my Mom had eye surgery at the begging of this month, and due to an accident during the surgery she is still unable to work. (She has a doctors note)  \n\n\nThe corporate office called her today and said if she has a 30 day period with no work, she will be let go, and will have to re apply for her position. (With no guarantee of her being hired) \n\nThe issue is that her doctors note says she cannot work for another few weeks, and my Mothers employer <b>wont allow her to work<\/b> until she provides a doctors note saying she is clear to come back.   \n\n\nI feel like there has to be some sort of legal issue here. Does anyone have any advice on what we should do, or what sort of protection she has?  \n\n\nThank you so much for the help","title":"Surgery Mishap caused mother to miss work, now employer is threatening to fire her. [Kentucky]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571087419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhx5uf\/phone_from_insurance_provider_isnt_performing\/","id":"dhx5uf","body":"I apologize if this doesn\u2019t belong here, but I greatly need help with these issues, to see if there is any way I can get my money back. If this not fit, I will take it down. \n\nI have an iPhone 7. I had my first one for two years starting in 2017. Earlier this year I started experiencing problems which caused me to go to my insurance. \n\nMy insurance charged me the copay for the replacement phone. As soon as I got the replacement phone I started having issues. (Camera not working, phone projecting from the side, light coming out of side of phone.)\nAt the time, I didn\u2019t know this, and was just happy to get a new phone. The next day I realized I was having issues constantly with the phone, but I could not do too much with it as I was leaving out of the country for 3 weeks. \n\nThought the 3 weeks, I noticed my phone was slowly starting to project from the side, and I was having constant battery issues. \nWhen I came back I called my insurance 3 times to try to get a new replacement phone. The person on the phone the 3rd time sent me an iPhone 7 128GB, but I requested that it be changed just in case I would get charged for more. She told me it didn\u2019t matter and they would send me the 32GB phone anyways.\n\nI went through and they sent me another iPhone 7, but it was the 128GB. I then sent the original replacement phone, only for them to send it back and charge me +$500 for the phone. Now I am currently having issues with THIS replacement device where I can\u2019t even answer calls, as the audio IC isn\u2019t working correctly, and refuse to go through the process again, but I would like to not have to buy another phone, while I have these two broken phones.\n\nAny help would be helpful. I\u2019m just confused and want to see if there is any way to get my money back, or get any help for this issue.","title":"Phone from Insurance provider isn\u2019t performing correctly. [Pennsylvania]","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555076773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcdqwe\/at_what_point_does_the_normal_postbreakup_trash\/","id":"bcdqwe","body":"\nIn early 2012, I met a girl who we will call \u201cJane.\u201d Jane was extremely nice and had a good job, she was a tad older than me but was still young at heart. We fell in love fast and moved in together just 3 months after meeting. (I know) After a few months of living together, I realized she was extremely possessive and manipulative so I began looking for a way out. I saved up enough money in secret to be able to rent my own place and then broke it off with her in December of 2013. She didn\u2019t take it well at all.\n\nWhen I first broke it off, she started sending texts and Facebook messages to all our friends saying what a horrible person I was. She told most of them that I had hit and choked her so she kicked me out. Thankfully, those who had known me for a long time knew it was a lie but nonetheless my reputation suffered and I received many threatening messages from her family\/friends.\n\nFor the next couple years she continued to harass me with every given opportunity. She downloaded a text app where she can change her number at will and often sent me multiple messages per day from different numbers. She made alternate accounts to harass me on Facebook and Twitter and never stopped telling her friends what a \u201chorrible person I was.\u201d\n\nThe worst thing she would do was send random messages trying to make it seem like I was cheating on my current girlfriend. Sometimes she would send nudes she would find online making it seem like I was seeing someone else. At random times in the night I would get messages from a random number saying things like \u201chey, when are you coming over?\u201d Or \u201cWhen are you going to slip out?\u201d Or sometimes just a random \u201cI love you, too.\u201d\n\nThis stuff went on for several years after we broke up. Sometime last year she stopped harassing me and I thought she had moved on. I haven\u2019t heard from her directly since about August. Yesterday, I decided to check her Facebook profile from an alternate account and now I realize that it\u2019s far worse than I thought.\n\nJust last week she posted that I had stolen her credit card info and was buying things in her name. A couple months before that, she claimed I had been seen outside her window peeping in and that I was a pervert. A little before that, she said that I was stalking her to work and she had filed a restraining order against me. (She has not) all these thing and many more are not only on her Facebook page for her friends to see, but they are also public so ANYONE can see.\n\nShe is creating this narrative where I am the psycho Ex and she is being harassed. Several of her posts have other guys asking where I live so they can go \u201cdeal with me\u201d and others suggesting she sue me for stealing her identity. I have let this go on far to long and now I don\u2019t even know where to begin... I feel like she will never stop doing this unless I take action, but I also don\u2019t want to stir the bees nest because she is obviously crazy and I don\u2019t want to escalate the situation. \n\nPlease, somebody tell me what needs to be done because I am seriously about to panic. I just want her to go away.","title":"At what point does the normal \u201cpost-breakup trash talk\u201d become harassment and slander?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552921933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2juvh\/va_domestic_violence_victim_trying_to_get_a\/","id":"b2juvh","body":"One of my relatives has been suffering from DV from her spouse pretty much since they married a few years ago. Last week he was strangulating her so the police came and took him to jail. She was taken to the hospital to be evaluated. Now, she just wants to divorce and be far from him. She has tried all the places that offer services for DV victims, but none of them will help her with the divorce (One of them even say that she has to wait to be separated for a year!). They only offer help with the DV case. She doesn\u2019t have the resources to pay for a lawyer. We are all trying to collect some cash so she can move out of the apartment before he is released. He has a restriction order but we don\u2019t think that will stop him. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here can shine some light on this case. They have been married for three years, no assets, no debt, no children. Can she file divorce w\/o an attorney? Will it be easier for her since she\u2019s a DV victim? Does anyone here know a pro-bono lawyer that helps with divorce in Henrico, Virginia? ","title":"[VA] Domestic Violence victim trying to get a divorce.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552011797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aykzhl\/is_this_website_legitimate\/","id":"aykzhl","body":"To preface, I was in this discord server that is currently shutting down, but it's still up. The owners have made several announcements on the server about how they are starting this website that makes questionable claims, and the person I messaged has given little evidence, but it's worth investigating, because hey, who knows? They may be telling the truth. Anyway, this guy says that through \"*a small team of stragetically organized stock handlers\",* they can double your money in a \"minimum set time of 24 hours with a max of 2.5 days\", but they get a 2.5 percent cut wether it's doubled or not. Of course, I was extremely skeptical, but I decided to look further into it. I messaged the guy who put up the post (the owner of the server) and asked him about it. He says it's not all a 100% chance, but it's provably fair. He claims to have made $15 up to $200 in three hours, and I asked him to give evidence, so he gave me this: [https:\/\/cdn.discordapp.com\/attachments\/553392610941599745\/553393801134342174\/unknown.png](https:\/\/cdn.discordapp.com\/attachments\/553392610941599745\/553393801134342174\/unknown.png)\n\nI'm not exactly a genius when it comes to investigating this kind of stuff, but my question is, does this seem legitimate? Or should I completely disregard it as a scam? Thanks!","title":"Is this website legitimate?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571756680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlj6g8\/apartment_woes\/","id":"dlj6g8","body":"After working out an (unofficial) payment plan with your former landlords, is it legal for them to send you to collections without any notice and after receiving the first installment of that plan (which the tracking number can prove got there)? Thanks for your help, I can give anybody more information if you need it. This apartment complex is in Texas as well.","title":"Apartment Woes","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541759074,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vjch4\/abusive_father_about_to_be_released_from_prison\/","id":"9vjch4","body":"Need some legal advice concerning my girlfriends family relations. Her sister recently reported her husband to the police for having abused her on numerous occasions. They have two little kids together- one six year old and one eight year old- and I believe they\u2019ve both witnessed and been subjected to abuse by their father. He got arrested after she filed the report and is currently in prison. However, he is to be released May next year, and I\u2019m very concerned for both the kids and for my girlfriend. She told my that he has touched her inappropriately many times and expressed interest since she was very young. I\u2019m planning on taking self defence classes, sort of as a last resort. I\u2019m also concerned that the mother isn\u2019t strong enough to keep him away from her and her kids, despite the abuse and death threats. \n\nI live in Sweden and I\u2019m 22 years old with not so much capital to burn through, if that\u2019s relevant at all. Thanks in advance","title":"Abusive father about to be released from prison","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505318187,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zvgfe\/landlord_attempting_to_charge_me_after_i_have\/","id":"6zvgfe","body":"PA Landlord\/Tenant Law advice.\n\nAugust 1 put my notice in. At the end of August the landlord did a inspection of the apartment. September 1st I signed to end the lease. Sepember 6th I got my security deposit back. Yesterday September 12th the landlord called saying thats thiers fleas in the apartment and that I broke my lease and im expected to pay for the exterminator. Its possible that when moving out fleas got inside but they did an inspection and i signed off the lease so how can they legally charge me?\n\nJust looking for some advice. If i recieve a bill should I take it to small claims court? What should I do? ","title":"Landlord attempting to charge me after I have moved out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542041623,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wfobi\/mother_has_power_of_attorney_for_my_grandfather\/","id":"9wfobi","body":"89 yr old Grandfather has (at least) stage three dementia, diagnosed by a doctor. My Mother has the power of attorney. Mom lives in SC, Grandad lives in FL. My mom's sister (my aunt) lives full time with my Granddad as his care taker. She lives there for free, doesn't pay rent, gets a monthly allowance and uses a combo of his and her money for food, as well as drives his car. Mom pays the bills out of my Granddad's accounts. \n\nRecently my Mother noticed a change on my Grandfathers credit history. My Aunt used my grandfathers credit to take out a $20,000 car loan. We're not sure if both of their names are on the loan or just his. I'm not sure of the general power of attorney rules, but my Mom would have never allowed him to sign for this loan. He's on a fixed income, and I am assuming if he passes away, the estate becomes partially liable (if not completely) for that loan, especially if my Aunt's name is not on the loan paperwork. My Aunt is also now asking for more money each month.\n\nWe're planning on contacting a couple of lawyers in Florida, but wanted to get a sense of what others have done in this situation. What were your outcomes? Was this legal to get my Grandfather to sign for a loan?","title":"Mother has power of attorney for my Grandfather, Aunt took out 20K car loan using his credit","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1411530381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2haqdt\/someone_bought_an_item_from_me_on_ebay_faked_a\/","id":"2haqdt","body":"I opened an Unpaid Items Case with eBay, which, if it closes in my favor, will get me 10% of what the item sold for (being $98.50, the item sold for $985). He had me ship it to MyUS, which is basically a shipping middle man, and had them ship it to him. I have records and emails stating that he would pay me, but never did. I have my PayPal Transaction History showing that I never received a payment. I contacted MyUS and they told me that he closed his account in September for Fraud. I'm not sure what I should do now. If it matters, I live in the Detroit area, and MyUS is located in Sarasota, Florida. I asked MyUS for the address of the guy who scammed me, and they have yet to reply. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Someone \"bought\" an item from me on eBay, faked a PayPal email so I would send the item, and never paid me. It was a $1000 item. Is this theft? If not, what is it, and what can I do?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555033951,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc843q\/sc_how_to_take_a_business_to_small_claims_court\/","id":"bc843q","body":"Two years ago, my family and I visited Charleston Sc and ended up going to one of those presentations of a travel discount club.  It's one of those agencies that claim to save you thousands on vacation travel and we really wanted to have more vacations together and save money.  It was $6,500 to buy into this and came with a guarantee that if we didn't recoup that over 5 years through savings we'd get our money back. This is in a written contract. \n\nI've booked 6 trips since getting in with them, and of course, the savings aren't there. Our first trip booked through them was a $3k Bahamas cruise where we saved a whopping $140.  I've called and complained twice about our experience and just get the run around. Since our first trip, each time I look to book something I do my homework and first search popular public travel sites.  I do just as well on my own as I can through them, sometimes slightly better on the exact same properties. I've pointed this out numerous times and they offer rebates but their checks have yet to reach my door. \n\nI'd like to first make a request in writing to whoever has the authority to refund my money and cite all of the experiences we've had and how they repeatedly come up short. Then, if I have no response, proceed with small claims court.  I have no idea how to do this with a corporation though.  Specifically, who would be named the defendant?  \n\nAny help is appreciated.","title":"[Sc] How to take a business to small claims court?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568832102,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d625o4\/my_landlord_is_taking_advantage_of_me_and_might\/","id":"d625o4","body":"Hello guys, I am seeking your guys help with my current situation because I really don\u2019t know how to deal with it. I feel like the woman I rented from is taking advantage so I\u2019m going to jump right into it. It\u2019s going to be long but I need you guys to know everything in order to help me.\n\nI am a University student who was seeking for a short-term rental (September to December) in Toronto for the fall term. My landlord (now) then reached out to me for a room available that she will be renting out and I can come check it out. The apartment was really good and was in a good location, I loved the room and she was renting it for cheap about $950\/month. My boyfriend and I really liked her personality and we both were there for three hours having a conversation. During which she complained about her current tenant being disrespectful and that she\u2019s going to \u201cdrive her out by testing her limits because that way I can still keep my money\u201d, which she successfully did. \n\nI didn\u2019t think of it as much, just some major tea spilling and told her to send me the contract soon. (Since my lease started on on September she rented her place out for a month to another tenant and complained about her as well and told me she would drive her out as well. ) The contract was a room rental agreement and I read it over and signed it. I\u2019ll be attaching the contract. \n\nWhen I first moved in, it was good we got along really well and I got to know her on a personal level. She is unemployed, always in the house. Everyday she vents about her life to me for hours and I would just listen. She vents about her son not calling her, her being 500 pounds, etc. it was emotionally draining. \n\nIn conversations she would keep mentioning that she charges me less and that I should feel lucky that I\u2019m paying less rent for downtown Toronto. She also keeps mentioning how she\u2019s not strict with me as much as she was with her previous tenants. \n\nOne day she mentioned she had sleep problem and I told her that maybe it was because majority of her time was spent indoors and that causes her to not get tired in the end of the day. She got really offended and attacked my age and lack of life experience basically saying that I don\u2019t know shit, it was really offensive. I did apologize numerous for offending her though. I told her that from now on we should keep it professional and she said \u201cprofessional? I\u2019ll show you professional.\u201d And said that she will be giving me a list of rules that she gives to guests who stay over through Airbnb (which I am not). \n\nBecause she never leaves the house she told me that I don\u2019t require that access pass to get into the apartment building and that she will buzz me in every time but just a few days ago when I was returning after a wonderful weekend I was waiting for a long time because she wouldn\u2019t answer her phone. She did mention on the first day when we were cool that I could take the card and she can always buzz herself in. She would only need it when she had to do laundry. Since she already did her laundry and I having access is my right,  I took the key and let her know that I did and the reason why, even mentioning the time she didn\u2019t answer her phone. She said that I have no right to take the pass and that I need to pay a deposit to get the pass (which isn\u2019t mentioned in the contract). \n\nShe also got mad at me for turning the TV off because she said I have no right to do so. She wasn\u2019t home? And it was blasting music. She also condescends me for having a job saying that it\u2019s not hard work right when I told her it\u2019s a senior level job and told me that anyone can do that. \n\nI need as much advice I can get before I head home and discuss things with her and she\u2019ll \u201cspeak her truth\u201d.","title":"My Landlord is taking advantage of me and might harass me when I get back home from work","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541252561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tu684\/south_africa_is_this_contract_legal\/","id":"9tu684","body":" \n\nI'm unfortunately not very versed in what is and what is not legal regarding contracts. My employer drafted this contract recently for new employees and some aspects seem off to me. (This is for bartender work).\n\nCould you experts maybe help me please?   \n\n\nLink to google doc in comments. ","title":"(South Africa) Is this contract legal?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570247520,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddi71q\/someone_gave_out_a_school_he_thought_was_real_to\/","id":"ddi71q","body":"Okay so, a friend of mine, let's call her Cookie, was talking to someone on the internet. Cookie gave him a fake school when he asked. Once she blocked him, he made a rant video where he gave out Cookie's \"school\" at the end. Could Cookie sue?","title":"Someone gave out a school he thought was real to the internet. Could the victim sue?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1550442325,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arpwgj\/my_job_has_suspended_me_without_pay_for\/","id":"arpwgj","body":"[Louisiana ] If I say the machine that I broke, it will be obvious where I work and I prefer not to disclose that information. I was messing around with a co-worker and we accidentally broke a piece of equipment that according to my manager costs well over $10,000.  My boss immediately sent me home and told me the next day that I am for now \u201csuspended without pay\u201d. She also said she is planning on pressing charges but i didn\u2019t break any laws. Can they do this to me? I would like to sue them since this job is my only source of income. I haven\u2019t been fired yet but the way they are talking, it sounds like they will be firing me in the very near future. ","title":"My job has suspended me without pay for accidentally breaking equipment. Can I sue them for this?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540937666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ssofd\/regarding_an_insurance_check\/","id":"9ssofd","body":"Hi all, I\u2019ve tried searching for articles on the interwebs regarding this particular situation, but have come up empty handed. So now I turn to reddit in hopes that someone may be able to shine some light on this situation.\n\nMy girlfriend received a deposit in her bank account from her car insurance company. When she contacted the car insurance company, they said it was a reimbursement to her health insurance company. When contacting her health insurance, they said that someone would be in contact with her with 24-48 hours to instruct her on how to send them the money.\nIt has now been a week, and after calling both insurance companies multiple times and having her questions escalated, she still has not been contacted.\nShe is now curious as to what would be the ramifications were she to spend the money. I\u2019ve been able to find multiple articles on insurance company paying a policy holder to pay a provider, but nothing regarding insurance to insurance.\n\nThanks in advance for any help you guys and gals can provide.","title":"Regarding an insurance check","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571165858,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dicj03\/should_i_ask_my_father_whom_ive_never_had_contact\/","id":"dicj03","body":"I live in North Carolina. Through some recent internet research, I found out that my father is pretty wealthy. As far as I know he has never paid child support, as my mother is homeless. My mother's mom (whom I live with) and mother have never mentioned money relating to him. Should I just go to a family lawyer and request child support?\n\n\nRight now, my age is what's stopping me. I am 17 now, and will be turning 18 in the next 6 months. Im in school now, and will be able to get a job, but with my accelerated work load at school, I might not be able to support myself. I can't live with my mother's mom much longer due to personal reasons. Another thing, my mother is mentally ill, and possibly an immigrant. Is there such a thing were my mother could receive all of the money owed through the years? \n\nThanks for all replies.","title":"Should I ask my father (whom I've never had contact with) for child support","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555512243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be8meh\/waterpossible_mold_issues_in_rental\/","id":"be8meh","body":"We've rented a house for 5 years and are planning on being here, realistically, another year or two. More than likely the longer end of that. It would be a big PITA to move (money, low rental availability) and we don't want our special needs kiddo to have to change schools. \n\nWe've suspected it has water or possible mold issues for a while. There's a sour musty smell I can't get rid of, recently many carpenter ant sightings, shingle grit coming the gutters, a broken shingle in the yard, and there is definitely leaks\/moldy looking wood on unfinished garage ceiling. We had one leak in the house last fall (the landlord fixed by caulking the roof), but I don't know what the attic crawl space looks like and I'm a bit scared to find out given how the garage looks. We noticed the roof does look a bit bowed over the house. \n\nWe just brought up our concerns and he said that he plans  to just patch the roof and wait to replace it until we move because he wants to remove the fireplace then and doesn't want to have to redo part of the roof. \n\nI don't want to destroy our relationship with our landlord, but I also hate the thought of our children living in a house with water issues. I'm unsure of how to press the issue.","title":"Water\/possible mold issues in rental","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551744926,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axehxa\/am_i_being_paid_under_the_table\/","id":"axehxa","body":"So 4 months ago I landed a job opportunity that I have since then been working approximately 1-25 hours a week. They did not ask me for my social or any other Information or Identification. They log my hours(I can see them) and they pay me with checks. \n\nIs this an example of being paid under the table?\n\nI am concerned because I need security at this job. I want it to be legally known that I work there. I don\u2019t feel comfortable with the idea of being paid under the table and I\u2019d like a W-2 so I can pay my taxes. \n\nSo far I don\u2019t even know if they take money out of my paycheck to pay taxes before hand (much like any normal job). \n\nI can clarify on any other questions you have that may help clear this up. Thanks. ","title":"Am I being paid under the table?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571570371,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkicz6\/am_i_overeating_or_not\/","id":"dkicz6","body":"( I live in New Zealand ) So to start things off I am 13\/ I know what y\u2019all are thinking but I would say I am more mature then that, so I saw a post from a old classmate who is now 13, smoking, soo this violating the insta TOS, I dm\u2019d her mom to tell her that her kid was smoking, and a few dm convo\u2019s later, her mother didn\u2019t give a shit, I also found a post of her underage drinking what looks to be gin, what do i do is it illegal\/considered child abuse if she is supplying her daughter with such things","title":"Am I overeating or not","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571173533,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diegco\/would_a_church_have_any_legal_grounds_for_firing\/","id":"diegco","body":"8 work in a church that my parents attend. I'm about to move out and cut contact with them. The administration guy at the church is decently good friends with my parents. Would the church have any legal grounds to fire me if I were to cut off contact with my parents?\n\nI worry too much and I know it's most likely illegal for me to be fired on these grounds, but I also know that there are some laws that may be a bit different with employment at a church.","title":"Would a church have any legal grounds for firing me if I move out of my parents' hose and cut off communication with my parents (Arkansas, USA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571553837,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkg4c1\/is_it_against_the_law_to_distract_from_the_pledge\/","id":"dkg4c1","body":"I'm a highschool student here wondering if its really against the law to distract others from the pledge. Let me say in advance that I know my first amendment rights as far as being able to protest the pledge in school.\n\nFriday morning I left class to get my laptop charger 5 minutes before the bell rang. The bell rang while I was walking back down the hallway that my classroom is in, which promptly started the pledge of allegiance. I kept walking because I didn't want to be too late since we were doing something important, and i was only about 5 or 6 feet away from my classroom. Its really important to note that this hallway was nearly empty: there was one girl a ways ahead of me and two teachers at the very end of the hallway. One of those teachers yelled at me to stop walking. I ignored her and kept walking, which I was right in front of my classroom now. She yelled at me again and I stopped and said \"you can't make me\". In the middle of saying this to her, the pledge stopped and the moment of silence was happening. I walked back into my class and sat down. What I did made this teacher really mad, so she barrelled down the hallway and into my class to yell at me. I'm not submissive by any means, so I was very angry and disrespectful towards her. \n\nShe called an administrator (basically just the vice principal) and he came in and took me out of class. His reasoning for writing me up was that I basically just broke the law by distracting others from the moment of silence by quietly walking down a near empty hallway. He didn't think that this teacher distracted anyone during the moment of silence, only me.\n\n I'm just wondering if this really is a law, because I've never heard about it before. I think this whole situation (disregarding my bad attitude) was very unfair.","title":"Is it against the law to \"distract from the pledge\"?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554693561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baortf\/landlord_not_paying_property_taxes\/","id":"baortf","body":"I live in a rental house with a couple roommates. We just received 2 letters addressed to John Doe and Jane doe from our county stating the property owner has not paid property taxes. The letter is a \u201cFinal demand\u201d saying the property will be foreclosed on in 14 days. The letter is dated March 29th. For starters I would like to know if I need to worried and be prepared to search for another place of living? Please let me know if you need anymore information. ","title":"Landlord not paying property taxes","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539183638,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n07rk\/advice_on_getting_new_plates_ne\/","id":"9n07rk","body":"My car was purchased in KY where I am from. My mom is the the main person on the lien. I moved to Nebraska to go to college. Due to being a student and living in the dorms, my main residence was KY until now that I have graduated and decided to stay here for a job. I just got an apartment here and I applied for my NE drivers license and received it. My plates (expiring next month) and insurance are still KY. From what I understood I have to get the plates replaced within the month and move my insurance to NE to be able to do this. I am on my parents insurance (deal until I graduated) but am moving to my own policy due to being a big boy now. \n\n​\n\nHow do I do this? What needs to happen first? How much can I expect to pay? I cant find very much information on the DMV website and I work 9-5 so I cant exactly take a trip down there to find out.  \n\n​\n\nI would like to figure this out asap before I have to pay for a ticket.\n\n​\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"Advice on getting new plates? (NE)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571335136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dja2od\/photographer_has_failed_to_deliver_full_album_60\/","id":"dja2od","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice! Thought I\u2019d post here, see if I could get some help. \n\nTL;DR: Had engagement photos taken 8\/18\/19. Photos promised 9\/18\/19. Photographer has been unresponsive when texted and it\u2019s now 10\/17\/19 with no recent contact and no full album. \n\nSo, my fianc\u00e9 and I set up an engagement photo shoot with a photographer I loved who happens to live on Maui. We live in Portland, OR. She was going to be in Seattle visiting a friend one weekend, and said she could fly to Portland and we would go to the coast for our pictures. I signed a contract with her on HoneyBook that stated we would pay $350 for pictures and she would deliver a full online album within 30 days of our shoot. \n\nNow, the weekend of 8\/18 comes up and we offer to pick her up at her hotel, drive her to the coast, and drive her back. We also paid for her dinner. We had a great time, and she shoots exclusively on film, so I knew it would take about 3 weeks to get film scans because she has to send them off to get developed. \n\nThree weeks come and go, still no word. So I shoot her a text (9\/19) to check in 32 days after the shoot. She responds the next day (9\/20) saying she switched film labs, and we would have our scans in 5-7 business days. Great! Just needed to wait another week. \n\nWell, another week goes by, and nothing. I text her again 10\/3 and she says she got word we would have our album on 10\/4. On 10\/4, she did send me 31 pictures from the Dropbox folder from the film lab. She then said these were just straight film scans and she would need to \u201cspruce them up\u201d but would email me the full gallery. \n\nOn 10\/10, I texted her again saying I know she\u2019s busy but wondering if she had any idea when they\u2019d be ready. No response. \n\nThis brings me to today, 60 days after our shoot and 30 days after we were promised pictures. I just sent her a text saying:\n\n\u201cHey girl. Would you mind responding with a tentative date? I hate to be *that* client and I know you\u2019ve got other stuff going on buuuuut it\u2019s been 60 days now and I\u2019d love to be able to quit bothering you about it.\u201d\n\nThat was a half hour ago, still no response. She\u2019s also been very active on her family photo Instagram page and using her wedding\/couple Instagram page to view my Instagram stories this whole time. \n\nI\u2019m considering disputing the charge on my credit card since I haven\u2019t received the full services that we signed a contract for. Is this something that would be okay? Or any other tips or advice on how to handle this?\n\nThanks!","title":"Photographer has failed to deliver full album 60 days after shoot.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1507611649,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75evol\/ma_legal_terms_for_exiting_an_apartment_lease_due\/","id":"75evol","body":"My partner and I recently extended our lease to August. When we extended, we requested a new copy of the lease multiple times (in writing) and it has not been supplied. \n\nAdditionally, the property company has begun a large construction project directly behind us and has left the back of our building in shambles. Most importantly, they have removed the railing to our third story deck, so there is immediate risk of falling, both for us and our dog. We have requested that this be addressed twice (in writing) and have not received a response. The deck is also structurally damaged, and provides access to our back door and the laundry room. This is the primary issue we are dealing with, however there have been a number of other safety concerns during construction, including construction crew knocking on our door and asking to walk through our unit to gain access to the deck, without prior written notice from the landlord. When we signed a lease extension in January, none of this was taking place. \n\nDo we have any legal grounds to abandon the lease, especially if we only have a copy of the original lease and not the lease extension given that this has not been provided? What kind of legal leverage do we have in this situation? \n\nThanks in advance for help and advice. ","title":"(MA) Legal terms for exiting an apartment lease due to unsafe living conditions?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408594052,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e5f14\/ca_speeding_ticket_punishmentfine_question\/","id":"2e5f14","body":"Earlier today i got a speeding ticket for going 44 in a 25 (Not smart, I know). No where on the ticket does it have a fine and I was wondering what my likely fine would be and if I could end up having to do community service or have my license suspended. If it matters i'm 17. Thanks for the help. The vehicle code number is 22350","title":"[CA] Speeding ticket punishment\/fine question","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540885615,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9slrzl\/should_i_report_my_rapist\/","id":"9slrzl","body":"So just around three months ago I was raped. Obviously one would immediately want to report the perpetrator and receive justice, which is something I want to do very much. However, I feel like the odds would be against me.  \n\n​\n\nSo firstly, we met on a gay hookup app. My bio on it mentions that I like movies, and this individual (let's name him Barry) messaged me asking if I wanted to come over to watch a movie and cuddle. Now, as someone who often went on hookups, I had no problem with meeting up with strangers as I felt like I could make decent judgements and sense if any danger was to occur. I told Barry that I had to shower and get ready, and would be about an hour. He seemed a bit irritated by this as he said his parents or siblings might be awake by then. Therefore, I tried to be as quick as possible and then made my way to his. When I got there, he said we'd go to go get McDonalds first; so he came out of the house and we went in his car. He seemed really nice at first, was very attractive and I really liked his company. We had common interests in music and movies so I thought things were going pretty well. \n\nWe got back to his place and he led me around the back of his house; he lives in an upstairs area that is accessible from the back. We went to his room, ate food and watched TV and everything seemed to be going fine. As we were watching, we cuddled for a bit. Then he suggested that I take my pants off which I was open to; I had done hookups before so it was not a strange request to me. We partook in some touching of each other's genitals, moreso him requesting me to touch him. Then he used body language to indicate he wanted me to perform oral sex on him. I was intimidated by his size but did it anyway; however, I got super uncomfortable when he forced my head down and held it there, essentially causing me to gag. I obviously hated it, but made the assumption it was a kink of his so I didn't protest. One thing led to another and he said he wanted to have anal with me me. This is when I said no; I used the genuine excuse that I had not prepared\/cleaned for that to occur, and I was still new to being in a bottoming position (being penetrated). He told me it would be good and that I'd enjoy it, and I kept saying no. This is when he began to pin me down and 'tease' by moving his penis around my anal area (but not penetrating yet). I gave in at this point and said that if he wants to, he can do it and use a condom. \n\nHe then brought out some AMYL and asked if I wanted some. I had never used it before so I didn't fully understand it's effect and didn't want to risk anything. He proceeded to pressure me into taking it, which I said no. At this point, he shoved the bottle under my nose, giving me little to no choice but to inhale it. He then proceeded to have anal with me. By this point, I had given in and so was partially enjoying it and giving evident signals to him that this was the case (dirty talk, moans etc...) After he finished, I thought everything was over and I wasn't too disturbed.\n\nHowever, about 10 minutes later, he began to want to do it again and this time he didn't have a condom on. I was being quite adamant here, saying no again and again, because I don't want to have unprotected sex. He didn't listen to me, but only had me pinned down and went on to penetrate me without a condom - which freaked me the fuck out. However, in the moment, I pretended to enjoy it because I didn't know what else to do. I remained polite afterwards and left. For some reason, at the time, I didn't even think anything of what had just happened. I just assumed he was quite dominant in bed and that was all. I also think my judgement was clouded because I was physically attracted to him. When I got home, I sent him a text thanking him for the day, and that was the last we spoke.\n\nAs months went on, I realised more and more how bad the situation was and how I was essentially raped. However, I never considered reporting him since I had pretended to enjoy it and even thanked him afterwards. It was only until I was talking to a fellow gay friend who's younger then me that we realised that we had seen the same guy, and the same thing happened; he brought food for my friend, put on a movie and then proceeded to have unprotected sex, despite my friend also saying no to condom-less intercourse. This is when I realised my scenario wasn't a one-off and this guy has a technique. \n\nIt's really freaked me out now, and I am heavily considering reporting him to prevent any future boys being taken advantage of and to also give myself closure as my mental health is quite poor now as a result of all of this. \n\nHowever, given the fact that a) I pretended to enjoy it and b) thanked him afterwards and this can easily be used as evidence against me, I don't know whether it's worth reporting. The last thing I want is to go through an ordeal like this and lose a court case due to a lack of evidence. \n\nBy the way, I am an Australian citizen residing in Australia; if that helps with anything. ","title":"Should I Report My Rapist?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570142327,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcyhb0\/duncannon_pa_my_friend17f_and_her_father_are\/","id":"dcyhb0","body":"She says that they've been having difficulty making rent, but their landlord hasn't given them an actual eviction notice nor specifically stated that that's the reason for the eviction. Originally, their landlord told them they had to leave by tonight, with only a couple hours notice, and then rescinded that saying that they had 24 hours. I know that if they were renting a house they'd need at least a ten day notice if not making payments were the cause for eviction. Is this short notice eviction legal? This is my first time posting here, so lemme know if more info is needed.","title":"[Duncannon, PA] My friend(17F) and her father are being evicted from their motel apartment with little notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541237960,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tsu00\/landlord_withholding_security_deposit_waiting_on\/","id":"9tsu00","body":"Some background: I live in MN and my landlord sent me a letter stating that they \" are waiting on a receipt to provide my security deposit\". The letter was mailed initially on the 20th, returned to them for some reason, and remailed after the 28th. I still have not seen any of my deposit. My questions are: is this a specific reason to withhold? Does the mailing not getting to me until after the 28th break the 21 day legal guideline? Is this something I should bring to court?","title":"Landlord withholding security deposit \"waiting on receipt\"","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504954287,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z13cn\/us_colorado_speeding_ticket_questions\/","id":"6z13cn","body":"I just received my first speeding ticket (yay me) and I just had some questions about it before I talk to a lawyer\/make the decision to talk to a lawyer.\n\n\nFor reference, the Reason for stop is listed on the ticket as: 10.5.104D - Exceeding Speed Limits (20-39 Over) and the \"Fine\" is mandatory court. \n\n\nWhile everyone says that they didn't do it, I sincerely do not believe I was going as fast as the officer said I was, she said she clocked me at 67 in 40. I was coming down a hill that I know is there 100% so I always make sure I'm basically coasting and keeping to only 5MPH over while driving down the hill. The hill is a 45MPH Zone and right at the bottom is when it changes to 40MPH, the officer was behind the 40MPH sign. I was going around 50MPH on the hill and once I saw the 40MPH sign and the cop car I began to start my slowing down, but there wasn't a lot of space to do so. I passed the officer going what I saw as around no more than 50MPH. I was pulled over and told I was clocked at 67 MPH. After running all of my info and whatnot she came back and told me she put it down to 60 (Otherwise I would be in Jail...) which I am very thankful of, and that I would lose 6 points and have to appear in Court. \n\n\n\nSo onto my questions: In the description box on the ticket it says \"Exceeding Posted Limit, 60MPH in a 40 Zone (Actual Speed 67)\". Will the judge that I appear before see the \"Actual speed\" part that's in the parenthesis on the ticket? Or just what the officer marked it down to?\n\n\n\nIf the Judge sees the Actual Speed part what is stopping him\/her from throwing the entire book at me and more to make a point\/example of a College Student who messed up? \n\n\n\nDo I actually have any options\/hopes of appealing\/challenging the ticket?\n\n\n\nLastly, do they do payment plans or anything like that for the fine (That I will undoubtedly get in court)?\n\n\n\nWill the cost it takes to insure me on the car insurance rise because of this? \n\n\n\nAgain you may not believe me that I didn't do this, but I'm not dumb (Not that any of you are calling it me it, even though you 100% have the right to...) there was a fair type thing going on in the area (Obviously with tons of booze, hence why there were so many police officers out tonight), it's a Friday Night\/Early Saturday morning. I absolutely would not speed, and definitely would not speed this badly in this situation..\n\n\nI'm still really shocked by all of this and scared to death of the phone call I will be receiving from my mother soon about all of this so if I messed up anything in the post I apologize.... Thanks for all the advice in advance guys... It means a lot...\n\n\nEdit: Formatting","title":"[U.S. Colorado] Speeding Ticket Questions","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503339297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v4tei\/rental_company_possibly_screwing_me_over_a_little\/","id":"6v4tei","body":"Location: Massachusetts \n\n1. When I moved into my apartment, I asked about parking and was told that there were spots down a side street, and that I would need to obtain a $80 yearly parking permit. \n\nAs it turns out, the permit only allows overnight residential parking. There's nowhere to park during the day, and I need all day\/all night parking. To get around this, I've been paying a friend of a friend $100\/m in order to use their driveway, and I have to Uber to\/from their place (one town over).\n\nA friend suggested I deduct this expense from my rent. I don't think I have a case because this communication was verbal. I will look over my lease to find exact wording, but I'm pretty sure I'm SOL as far as this part is concerned. However, I am not the only tenant that has been misled about the parking.\n\n2. In late June, my fridge bit the dust. The fridge part stopped working, and the freezer started working overtime. Due to miscommunication on the part of the maintenance man, I went a total of 18 days without a fridge. Not only did I lose (and have to replace) a ton of food, but I also had to buy a lot of takeout\/lunches at work, which is an expense I don't usually have. My electric bill for the month of July was through the roof, as well, which I think is from the fridge trying to work so hard. It IS summer, so I run the a\/c a lot, but I did compare July's numbers to August, and July's are definitely much higher. \n\nI sent an email to a higher up at the leasing office but never heard back. When I mailed in my last check, I included a note re: the electric bill, but I haven't heard back.\n\nA friend suggested that I simply deduct my electric and food costs from my next rent check and include a note stating that that is what I'm doing. Would this be reasonable, or put me in hot water, legally?\n\nTl;dr: should I listen to my friends and pay less rent to recoup my losses? ","title":"Rental company possibly screwing me over a little - how can I proceed?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553571787,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5kugr\/ca_my_15_year_old_daughter_is_pregnant_and_i_dont\/","id":"b5kugr","body":"I have two children. My son is off at college. The youngest is 15, turning 16 in May, and still lives with us and attends high school.\n\nA week ago, she sat my husband and I down, and told us she was pregnant and that she was planning on keeping it. It took us both by surprise. We didn\u2019t even know she had a boyfriend. Apparently, he isn\u2019t even her boyfriend, just someone that she was \u201ctalking\u201d to\/ dating. Note, I  always made importance of condom use and of birth control in my house. I told my children that when they were sexually active, they could come to me and ask for forms of birth control, no judgement. \n\nI\u2019m extremely against the idea. She has no income. Her \u201cjob\u201d is to get straight A\u2019s and maintain her room in a neat manner. She still follows her chore chart. I drive her to dance class. At least to me, she\u2019s still a child. She\u2019s not emotionally or financially ready for a kid.\n\nFor the past week I have tried to convince her that terminating, or at least putting the child up for adoption, is the best choice for someone in her situation. I have made her watch teen pregnancy shows, showed her statistics, showed her the cost of raising a child. She refuses to budge even with all this information. I think she has this dumbass believe that having this kid will anchor the guy who got her pregnant to her. I told her that won\u2019t be the case, and that it\u2019s real probable for him to drift away. I have told her that her lifestyle won't ever be the same. No dance class, no going out with friends, no shopping trips, no road trips with her brother during the summer. Going to college will be even harder.\n\nWith her deciding to carry on with the pregnancy, I have made some decisions myself too. I know I can\u2019t force her to abort, or give her child up for adoption, but I am done raising small children. I have told myself from early age that I was only having two children and that\u2019s it. I refused to baby proof my house. When the girls were old enough to not have everything be a death trap, I redid the whole house. I don\u2019t want it riddled with baby locks, baby gates. I got the blessing from my son to turn his old room into an art room for myself. It\u2019s stripped bare. Youngest daughter said that could be a nursery. No way. Though we are not struggling financially, I do not have the budget for a child. I have planned my life financially to be able to retire early and live comfortably. I do not want to hear a yelling baby at 4 in the morning. And as heartless as it may sound, I essentially want absolutely nothing to do with a baby for a long term period. Even if it\u2019s my own grandchild. I made it very clear to my kids that if they decide to have children in the future, it will be their responsibility, and I will only step in during times of dire need. \n\nWith that being said. If my daughter decides to give birth and keep the baby, I do not want it staying here. I know I legally have to care for my daughter, but I do not want to house a baby. I do not want an infant in my house at all. \n\nWe have no relatives living close to us. \n\nWhat can I legally do?\n\nAlso, is it my legal responsibility to drive her to OBGYN and other prenatal care appointments?","title":"(CA) My 15 year old daughter is pregnant and I don't want anything to do with it.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504834928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yrq8w\/la_porte_tx_apartment_complex_refusing_to_fix\/","id":"6yrq8w","body":"I rent an apartment in La Porte. We are on our 3rd lease. Every time we have a big rain (tropical storm our first year, Memorial Day floods our second and now Hurricane Harvey) we get water damage in the same three places. \n\nAt some point last year during the floods we noticed the rain was coming through our wall, and going straight down it, into the carpet. We've reported it every time, and the managing office's response is to spray bleach on the visible damage, then paint over some (not all) of it. \n\nWe've asked them multiple times to check the walls for mold, and to actually fix our roof. They won't. They also won't replace our carpet because we have pets. \n\nNow, due to Harvey we had (they painted over them today) visible spots of mold. \n\nMy concern is that there is more than likely mold growing in the walls, and getting worse with every rain we get. \n\nWhat can we do? At what point does our home become \"uninhabitable\"?\n\nWe aren't in a position to move anywhere, and we like our place (mostly) but this mold issue is now 3 years and counting. I'd rather make them fix it, and stay here. TIA!","title":"(La Porte, TX) Apartment complex refusing to fix water and mold damaged walls","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554694926,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baoyx7\/found_out_general_managers_daughter_makes_more\/","id":"baoyx7","body":"I started work at this radio station a little over a year ago. I got hired on working weekends and a night shift once a week at 8.50 an hour. After 90 days I would be moved up to 9 dollars an hour. It was a pretty simple job of being a board operator. It's shit pay but I was desparate for a job after moving back from California. My friend who has worked there for 3 years helped me out and got me an interview. \n\nAbout two weeks after I started, the GM's daughter was hired on with a weekday position being a board operator as well. It was said around the office that she was given a salaried position but the CEO said no and she was given an hourly pay rate. I just found out that she has been getting paid $15 an hour. \n\nShe is 22 and her prior job expierence entails basically only waitressing. My friend who is the shipping manager and the main board operator, only makes $11. My past job experience has a ton of customer service experience and I used to train doctors and nurses on medical recording software. Him and I both have 5+ years of job experience on her. \n\nWe live in Idaho, which is a right to work state, so we're wondering if we have any sort of chance for this being labled as discrimination. ","title":"Found out general manager's daughter makes more than me and coworker who has been working there for years.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552383388,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b05sxo\/which_is_my_best_option\/","id":"b05sxo","body":"Looking to get my things in order but not sure which one works for me or where to start. Any insight is appreciated ","title":"Which is my best option?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505413357,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7044ir\/need_some_advice_regarding_an_nda\/","id":"7044ir","body":"Living in Alabama, probably gonna deal with out-of-state peoples but  I doubt it would do much in this case. I'm going to be writing out an NDA for a project I'm undertaking alongside others. Is there anything special I need to write out, other than the usual contract requirements (Parties involved, Terms, Result of breaking Terms, and date\/sigs of both parties)\nWill I need to have the other party print out, sign, and re-send the signed copy of the NDA or will E-Signatures be valid?\n\nSome details:\n\nNot a company, just some indie-game devs doing our first project with people outside our tight-knit group.\n\nNot sure what else may be needed, but thanks in advance!","title":"Need some advice regarding an NDA","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1447386571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3smewc\/texas_return_of_security_deposit_question_details\/","id":"3smewc","body":"I am in a bit of a tricky situation: \n\n-I am a tenant leasing home in Texas. \n\n-Recently the home was put up for sale and sold. \n\n-The original contract I signed expired 2 years ago, and I have been paying month-to-month since.\n\n-The original contract had a security deposit.\n\n-The new owner is continuing to lease the house to me, I signed a new contract, and paid a new security deposit.\n\n-In the last few months, before the home was sold, I was letting a friend and my friend's dog live with me. \n\n- This was a breech of my original contract.\n\n-After the sale was final, I contacted my original landlord for the original security deposit.\n\n-Today I received a letter in the mail from the original landlord for half the amount of the security deposit. The landlord claimed to be deducting because I sublet my friend, and because I did not pay a pet deposit. \n\n-After looking a bit at Texas laws, I am unclear as to how to approach this situation. Under Texas Property Code Sec. 92.104 RETENTION OF SECURITY DEPOSIT;  ACCOUNTING I see that an owner can deduct for breech of contract, but this was done after the home sale was final. \n\n-According to Texas Property Code Sec. 92.105.  CESSATION OF OWNER'S INTEREST - The original landlord is supposed to transfer the security deposit to the new owner.\n\nI am not sure what to do here. Should I send the check back to her? Should I demand the entire amount? Should I lawyer up for small claims?","title":"[Texas] Return of security deposit question. (details inside)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553542233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5f6nd\/what_information_about_a_pet_can_apartments\/","id":"b5f6nd","body":"I read that apartment complexes cannot require certification per say for service animals, but they can require proof of disability and proof that the dog is a trained service dog. \n\nSo what\u2019s the general policy with regular dogs? I have her adoption papers which has her vaccinations and everything on it, along with a photo. I may have edited her breed and weight so that she meets the requirements...\ud83d\ude07 yes, I\u2019m aware it\u2019s lying. Yes, I\u2019m aware I could be evicted if they decide to show up at my door with a scale and demand to weigh my dog. Don\u2019t think that is going to happen. Someone on a post of mine mentioned them requesting information other than the vaccination and adoption papers.. can they legally require that I have a vet send them information or anything like that? Just want to make sure. \n","title":"What information about a pet can apartments legally request?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540780054,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s97ip\/mo_possible_career_sabotage_not_sure_what_to_do\/","id":"9s97ip","body":"I work for a quasi-governmental organization and recently applied for a promotion. My current supervisor (I'll call her Manager 3) is very supportive and has told me and her boss that I could do much more. I believe that based on my skills and experience I have an excellent shot at getting the promotion.\n\nLate last week however, my boss said that she said that she had spoken to one of her peers who had said that I shouldn't bother applying for any positions until a specific person in administration was no longer there. (I'll call that person Administrator 1.)\n\nNow, my current supervisor is the third manager I've had since I started this job. When I was hired for the position I'm currently in, I was hired by Manager 1 who reported to Administrator 1. Manager 1 left after approximately 4 months and was replaced by Manager 2. Manager 2 and I did not get along. She was a poor communicator, repeatedly called other staff members names behind their backs, and her lack of professionalism, management style, along with a lack of management altogether, made me very uncomfortable. I tried discussing this with her repeatedly and nothing made our relationship better, so I went to HR hoping for something. Advice, mediation, something. The HR rep then took my statements to Manager 2's boss at the time, who was Administrator 1. Administrator 1 told the HR rep that I needed to talk to Manager 2. Well, the entire purpose of me talking to HR was that I was constantly uncomfortable with Manager 2 and talking to her was not working, so I did nothing. Thankfully, Manager 2 got another position within the organization, Manager 3 was hired, and began reporting to a different person in administration (who I will call Administrator 2). \n\nI don't really care that much that Administrator 1 doesn't like me, but what does concern me is that she doesn't like me enough that other managers know about it, and know enough to tell my manager that I shouldn't bother seeking promotional opportunities. Administrator 1 is retiring at the end of the year, which is fine, but the position I applied for won't be open that long. \n\nFrom what I can tell, this doesn't meet the legal definition of retaliation, but it certainly seems to have an unfair impact on my career. I'm not a perfect employee, I make mistakes, but I'm good at my job and I believe that I can do more. My supervisor told me that she would talk to her boss about this, (Administrator 2, who, due to restructring, is now Administrator 1's boss) but I don't know if I have any actual recourse at this point. It seems like it would be safer to not rock the boat and just let it slide until she's gone, but if my name has been working it's way around at levels above me as someone not to hire, that will stick, and I'm concerned about my future promotional opportunities. If I do decide to do something about it, I'm concerned about being known as someone who creates drama, and no one likes that person on their team.\n\nThankfully, I really like the job I have, but now that I believe I can do more, I'd like the opportunity to do more based on my skills and experience and not on one person's personal dislike of me. What am I actually able to do in this instance? If anything?","title":"[MO] Possible career sabotage. Not sure what to do.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1414609449,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2kpb10\/item_on_etsy_was_taken_down_for_copyright_yet\/","id":"2kpb10","body":"So I recently put up some Nuka-Cola bottles from the game fallout up on etsy, I had made a couple of sales but today when I went to my shop I received an email that my item was taken down due to copyright reasons. I'm no expert to legal mumbo jumbo but I had thought it would be ok since I had seen numerous pages of Nuka-Cola and fallout items listed. Is there anything I can do to allow me to post the itemt? I'll be heading out to work but I will be back later tonight.\n\n\n**The notice said**\n> ZeniMax Media Inc. is the owner of the copyrights and trademarks related to the \u201cFallout\u201d video game franchise. These copyrights and trademarks (including \"Fallout\" \"Fallout: New Vegas\" \"Vault-Tec\" \"Vault Boy\" \"War, War Never Changes.\" \"Nuka Cola\" - Serial Numbers: 85818163,77841625, 77934276, 77841630, 77618670, 77979092, 77976725, 77976663, 85075201) are protected around the world under U.S. and international intellectual property law. According to the notice, certain material on Etsy is not authorized. <\n\nIllinois, US","title":"Item on Etsy was taken down for copyright yet similar items stay listed.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570121085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcti2i\/city_water_seeking_fees_from_8_years_ago_landlord\/","id":"dcti2i","body":"So, not exactly sure what to say here. My mother received a certified letter last week from the city I used to live in, till 11\/2010. It was a \u201cnotice to file lien for delinquent fees\u201d. In the letter, it stated that from 8\/10 to 2\/11, the service period had not been paid and I now owe money. This is in WV and according to the quoted state code 55-2-6, they have 10 years to collect. I have not, to my knowledge received any prior notice over the 8 years until now. \n\nI was informed by our landlord at that property, that he was unable to retain the property I was living at, and would be foreclosing on the property and told us we needed to be out by 11\/2010. \n\nIs there anything I can do or do I not have any legal footing to fight this?","title":"City water seeking fees from 8 years ago. Landlord foreclosed on property before the date","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571277523,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dizkra\/property_issue\/","id":"dizkra","body":"Hey all! The wife and I just bought our first house in PA and it was a rental unit before we purchased it and the landlord let the trees overgrow and some leads are on top of our roof as well as our neighbors roof. I do have people coming out and giving me quotes next week but I am wondering if she has any grounds to sue us for damages? Because right now we have that coastal windstorm coming through PA. Thank you all in advance!","title":"Property issue","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1503346905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v5rvz\/idaho_brotherinlaws_ex_wife_added_stuff_to_their\/","id":"6v5rvz","body":"Hello. \n\nMy brother-in-law has a problem. Let's call him Fred and his ex Dee.\n\nAbout a year ago, Fred and Dee split up. Three kids. She got full custody but he has rights to have them for Thanksgiving and Christmas every year. Thing is, she moved from Idaho to Hawaii. \n\n- She didn't tell him\n\n- In the divorce papers, it's stated that she can't move more than 300 miles away, in official typing. He signed it. However, just viewed his papers with an attorney and it looks like she added another zero to the end of 300 to make it 3000 miles, so she could move to Hawaii with her now-husband. \n\n- One of the kids is **most likely** not his; he doesn't believe she is his and she looks nothing like him. Most likely going to send a paternity test. She even asked to sign away his rights to just this child, not the other two. \n\nRight now Fred's girlfriend is having her uncle (attorney) look at the papers and see what should happen. \n\nIs there anything else we should do? If you have any more questions please ask. \n","title":"[Idaho] Brother-in-law's ex wife added stuff to their divorce papers after he already signed.. more info below","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553739420,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6d6zu\/my_boyfriend_and_i_were_involved_in_a_hit_and_run\/","id":"b6d6zu","body":"Hi, my boyfriend and I went to a small store to grab supplies for our new apartment. We parked in front of the store. Went inside and came out. While backing out my boyfriend hit a woman's car that was parked way too close behind his car and not in a parking space. We have no proof that she was parked inappropriately and I don't know if there were any cameras around. Granted this was our fault and we should have stopped went inside and told her or left a note with our contact information. But instead he freaked out and got scared and sped away. \n\nTurns out the lady's brother in law is a friend of my boyfriend and he asked my boyfriend if that was him. He said yes and that he'll give him his contact info and agree to any consequences that may come from this. His friend said she already filed a police report and that the police will be on their way. \n\nI'd like to know how serious this is and what may happen. \n\nA couple of things you may need to know.\n\n We live in NC.\n\nThere was no one in the lady's car and it was just him and I in his car.","title":"My boyfriend and I were involved in a hit and run. (We ran)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445642441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pyvwc\/advice_about_my_dental_bill_and_insurance_not\/","id":"3pyvwc","body":"My husband and I had been holding off on going to the dentist for years because of lack of insurance. Last year we finally got dental insurance and made an appointment with an onsite provider at my husband's work. We live in the silicon valley area so most jobs have onsite dentists there. I told my husband to look online and find out our coverage. He emailed me that we have PPO. We then email the onsite provider and ask her to make sure that we are covered because we have PPO and want to be covered. She says yes that we are covered if we have PPO and asked if we wanted an appointment. We make appointments and have no necessary-at-the-time work done, just redoing some old fillings. A month passes by and we get a bill from our insurance for $1000+ each. Our insurance says we are dhmo under delta care but we remembered signing up with delta dental ppo. We call our insurance provider who transfers us to delta care and says we are dhmo and they are not going to pay any of our bill. We talk with HR and make a claim saying that we had delta dental. They respond that there is nothing they can do.  So now we owe $2000+ for dental work that was not necessary and our insurance wont cover anything. Is there any legal options for me or am I going to have to get my bill sent to the collection agency? I don't have money to cover the bill (I am a student and my husband is an intern and full time student). Do I have any options? I just feel like crying about it all. ","title":"Advice about my dental bill and insurance not covering anything. (USA)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1442357862,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l3o9m\/my_personal_image_and_identity_are_being_used\/","id":"3l3o9m","body":"TL;DR: my personality and identity are being used to con customers on a website that 'sells' phone advice to prospective students.\n\nBoth myself and the site are based in the US. I'm in Washington state and the company's virtual address is in New York\n\nBasically, I was contacted about a month or so ago regarding an opportunity to be an alumni consultant for a site that connects prospective students with current and past students of their preferred school. Prospective students find people who attend(ed) their school of choice, then they can set up a call to ask questions etc. I would submit some basic information about myself and then schedule calls with potential students for my school and discuss any questions they had and my experience; the student pays the site per call, and I get paid (less) per call. He alluded in our phone conversation that he had gotten my resume and contact through my school's recruitment program so I went along with it as legitimate.\n\nWell some few weeks later I've not gotten any further contact regarding setting up my portal account he said I'd have, but my information has been published. I (stupidly) finally start looking at the company. Turns out it's a scam. They trick people like me into providing free content. For what purpose? I'm not sure. Perhaps they take the calls, posing as the students and take all the money. Frankly I don't care. There are thousands of users on the site. Many of whom now appear to be fake profiles, but many more that look like people like me.\n\nI'd like my content removed from the site, and I've emailed him a formal request to do so. But he claims that I'm bound by the ToS that I was never made aware of nor agreed to when I emailed him my photo and bio. But more than the fact that I want my content removed, I don't want my identity used to scam others. I'm not employed by him, and he's using my content to make it appear as though I am.\n\nI don't know what to do next that isn't going to dig myself into a grave with this. I feel like I, and dozens others, have a case for identity theft and fraud but I have no idea where to take this next.","title":"My personal image and identity are being used against my will on an online call service site. [US - WA]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1443456610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mpq9n\/owi_charge_in_wisconsin\/","id":"3mpq9n","body":"I was arrested for an OWI charge this past Friday, but when taken to the jail I was not held on the OWI charge and was allowed to leave the facility after posting bail. I found this to be a bit strange, how can one be released from jail on his own accord if he presumed to be under the influence? ","title":"OWI Charge in Wisconsin","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553525120,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5bjq1\/nj_food_delivery_service_help\/","id":"b5bjq1","body":"I work at a pizza place, it's a small business, not corporate. Door Dash took it upon themselves to \"partner\"  with us. The owner has no idea when they did this, and never signed a contract with them. He doesn't know how to get them to remove us from their website and app, and it is hurting our business. They only deliver to people in our delivery range, charge more, have the wrong menu, and mishandle the food when it is picked up. Is there anything he can do?\n\nThe owner\/manager definitely didn't sign anything, nor did a previous one (it's been the same person for the past 22 years).","title":"(NJ) Food delivery service help","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1550196528,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqrn0d\/was_fired_from_spectrum\/","id":"aqrn0d","body":"I was an employee at Spectrum in the Dispatch department, I worked there for about 4 months I was fired due to my mother creating accounts in my name when I was young and spectrum demanded I pay them. I was only 8 yrs old when 1 was made and 14 when the other was made. I submitted fraud paper and was told my birth certificate was fake and if I submit another one I would be turned in. I accessed my account to get the info and pay amounts. I paid them over 800$ then the next day was fired taking my badge and saying I was in administrative leave then the next day on my day off I was told over the phone I was fired and that all my equipment that I bought personally I wasn\u2019t aloud to get they were going to mail them to me. ","title":"Was fired from Spectrum","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554212510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8jdlv\/apartment_complex_in_california_took_all_of_my\/","id":"b8jdlv","body":"I put a security deposit of 1400 on an apartment  last year. This year I found a much cheaper apartment but I had to move in on March 15th. My lease at the other apartment isnt up until April 14th. But I paid all of march\u2019s rent. I talked to the landlord about the situation and she said that we could leave early and still get our full deposit back. But she would need someone to be home while we still lived there so she could show the apartment to future tenants... which she did. \n\nThree weeks later I get my security deposit check in the mail and it was only for $366! $325 for painting and plastering, $100, and $600 for leaving the lease 13 days early. I cleaned the apartment and did a walk through with the landlord the day I moved out. There was no damage. But I didn\u2019t take any pictures since I didn\u2019t think there would be any problems. The landlord was too busy trying to get me to stay because she didn\u2019t feel like renting it out again. \n\nCould I at least get back the paint and mastering fee and cleaning? Those were just normal wear and tear if anything. I know it may be hard to prove she said we could break lease and still get the deposit and they have the lease to back them up.  I should also mention the landlord is just a lady they hired. The company itself has zero info online and I can\u2019t even contact them. ","title":"Apartment complex in California took all of my security deposit except for $360","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552110440,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az09r2\/power_of_attorney_legal_guardianship\/","id":"az09r2","body":"Obligatory: apologies in advance. I\u2019m on mobile and I\u2019m exhausted so this will not be the most well put together post. \n\nBackstory\/ Relevant information:\n\nI am a 25 year old female. I am currently in college and going to Pharmacy School. I live with my significant other and our three children. We are not married. \nI have a younger sister who is 21. She has been on drugs since the age of 13. She started meth at the age of 18. She her drug dealer got her pregnant, she stayed off drugs for 75% of it. I wasn\u2019t aware of the drug use, but I was told after he was a year old. After her was born she was in and out of his life. She would be around for 3 months, gone and on drugs for 3 months. She lived with my parents at the time. Up until a year ago, she has never lived anywhere but with my parents. She has never had a steady job and barely finished high school. A year ago, she was gone for 5 months. She finally showed up and begged to be taken to rehab. She looked to be about 80 lbs at 5\u20197\u201d and like she hasn\u2019t slept the entire time she was gone. My parents sent her to rehab and kept her son. She did really well. So well that after 6 months, they got her an apartment 2.5 hours away from everyone she knows, gave her a car, and a phone. She got a job and we eventually gave her back her son. She appeared to be finally getting her life together and was even talking about going to college. \n\nFast forward to today. I got a phone call from my mother saying that my sister\u2019s boyfriend (SB) called Wednesday night and said that he has been watching Sisters Son for a week now, by himself. He works a job that schedules him 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. He had to go back to work the next morning. My sister had finally came home but she was doped up on some sort of drug. **Side note* My sister\u2019s boyfriend was surrendered to the foster care system by his parents because they wanted to do drugs more than they wanted to be parents. He is very against drug use of any kind** My mom told him that we would pick him up on Friday (today). We showed up unannounced. I told my mom to wait in the car and I would handle it. The door to her apartment was ajar, so I walked right in, took her phone and car keys. I put my things and her phone in the car. I walked back in and finally got a look at things. What I saw was absolutely gut wrenching. The bottom shelf of the pantry was empty. There was food everywhere, obviously ripped open by a child. Jars of food with tiny little hand markings showing that he had been eating with his hands. Cigarette butts were everywhere (it\u2019s a no smoking apartment). Three burners were turned on on the stove. My nephew (who turns 3 at the end of this month) walked out from hiding, naked from the waist down. He had been fending for himself since my sister\u2019s boyfriend left. My sister was out of it in her room. My mom and I started packing his things. I told my sister that she has until tomorrow to get her stuff and get out. She no longer lives there. She loses her mind and tries to fight me. I tell her that her son is now my son. She has lost all privileges of being the mother to such a sweet, loving, smart little boy. She replies \u201cF*cking take him. I don\u2019t want him anyway.\u201d \n\nSo I did. Now I am laying here not knowing where to go from here. She\u2019s gone. I doubt we will be able to find her. She\u2019s in Oklahoma City without a phone or vehicle. \n\nHe is now going to be my son and I am going to give him a stable life. My parents are too old and too ill to take him. \n\nWith that, my question is: How do I obtain guardianship? I really need to take him to the doctor and have him checked for anything and everything. God knows what has happened to him with drug addicts filtering in and out. I can\u2019t do that without being his guardian. ","title":"Power of Attorney\/ Legal Guardianship?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570145887,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcz8ej\/new_owner_of_company_in_north_carolina_demands_we\/","id":"dcz8ej","body":"I\u2019ve been working at a valet stand part time while going to school for about a year now. There\u2019s not really any salary as we\u2019re paid in tips but I usually make 50 to 60 dollars a night when I work so it hasn\u2019t been a problem. A guy just purchased this company and announced that soon we will have to download an app tracking our locations. We only move 50 to 100 feet at most when parking cars so I don\u2019t see any benefits of him doing this, except for maybe if someone went for a joyride. A manager is always on duty though, they would know if we took too long and could obviously see us pull out the parking lot so I don\u2019t see any benefits from this. I never signed anything saying they could track my location is there anything that can be done?","title":"New owner of company in North Carolina demands we download an app to track our location.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1549579681,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ao9pgb\/boss_wont_talk_to_me_about_schedule_if_im_not\/","id":"ao9pgb","body":"Hey all,\n\nSo I\u2019ll get straight to the point. We\u2019re changing our schedules at work and I just logged in to my computer to check the schedule and my emails. \n\nI noticed the schedule I was given is not what I discussed with leadership so I called my boss and asked to discuss it but he said that he\u2019s not able to discuss scheduling changes unless I\u2019m clocked in so he\u2019s asking to speak to me about it tomorrow when we\u2019re both in the office and clocked in. He also advised me not to check, send, or open emails if I\u2019m not clocked in. I\u2019m an hourly employee just to let you guys know. \n\nIs this an actual thing? Do I have to be clocked in to discuss the schedule changes with my boss? I thought I could just call and discuss work related things as long as I\u2019m not actually doing my job duties. Since he said I\u2019m not supposed to be checking emails or calling the work line to discuss work related things am I potentially creating legal risk for the company by doing what I\u2019ve been doing when I\u2019m not clocked in? ","title":"Boss won\u2019t talk to me about schedule if I\u2019m not clocked in. (MI)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446773124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rpfnv\/california_la_county_rear_ended_and_the_at_fault\/","id":"3rpfnv","body":"I was rear ended 2 weeks ago. I collected all of her information (Name, Drivers' License number, phone number, license plate and home address as shown on her Drivers' license) except for her insurance (she claims to be insured, but I have no proof of it). At the site she said she didn't have it on her, and afterward in the brief communications that occurred she has claimed that she wanted to settle outside of insurance. \n\nI reported the incident to my insurance. They called her many times. When she finally answered, she admitted fault, but still refused to provide insurance information. She told them, as she told me, that she intends to settle outside of insurance. But she is not returning my calls. \n\nAt this point she's proven to be completely untrustworthy, and I have no interest in a personal arrangement. All I want is to collect her insurance info if it exists. \n\nMy question is... what recourse do I have? Can I report her to the DMV? To the authorities? Is there anything I can do to help my insurer collect? \n\nI'd like to leave one last voicemail or text, perhaps detailing my intentions in a last effort to get things settled appropriately through her insurance... if it exists.  \n\nWhat should I do? \n\nEdit: I'm told by a friend who works at a California DMV: \"If the damages totaled over $750, you are required by law to file an accident report. Without her insurance information, her license will be suspended. If she provides DMV insurance information, her license will be released and you will have access to it but if not, she will have a one year suspension and will have to carry an SR 22 (a special type of insurance) for three years afterwards\"\n\nI think that may be \/thread.  I'll leave it up for future searching Redditors.","title":"California, LA County. Rear ended and the at fault party wont share insurance info.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568710690,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5e95w\/employment_dispute_harassment_lawsuit_future\/","id":"d5e95w","body":"After college I was hired at a tiny family-owned business. At the beginning it was ok, I wanted to stick it out to fund grad school. Some red flags were that the only HR was my ex-boss, I was slowly being phased out of my actual job to be his assistant, and constant workplace harassment over my ethnicity. I consistently made complaints but it was my first job and my ex-boss always dismissed my concerns as our team being so close-knit we should be able to joke around. I kept as much evidence as I could.\n\nI sent in my resignation after a period of escalating harassment and a couple of instances of being asked to retain competitor information and manipulating a document so our client could be sued without the company\u2019s liability. Both instances were incredibly unethical but maybe not illegal. I tried to save as much evidence in case my resignation was not taken too well. My ex-boss fires me after my resignation citing breach of contract. On my employment record it says termination but no reason, but does provide a contact for more information. However, we parted terribly and I was accused of a lot of things.\n\nI was hospitalized that day and afterward I immediately hired an employment lawyer. Everyone tells me that I have a textbook harassment and human rights case, and I should pursue it. I have substantial medical records showing how much this harassment has taken a toll on me. \n\nHowever, all my life I\u2019ve battled severe anxiety and although I know now that what I experienced is absolutely wrong, I really don\u2019t think I have the mental strength for a lawsuit which would be public in my country. All these problems I have now I can deal with privately with my doctor through therapy. Knowing my ex-boss, I know he will make my life miserable if I take him to court. I particularly want to protect my health, and I don\u2019t know if a lawsuit helps me heal or derails any progress I\u2019ve made.\n\nMy fundamental concern is how do I deal with this employment record:\n\nMy goal is grad school\u2014>academia\/tenure position. This job has nothing to do with the field I want to go into, but will employers conduct thorough background checks of non-relevant work experience?\n\nIf not so extensive background checks, if I am involved in a lawsuit, wouldn\u2019t I be unnecessarily publicizing information about myself?\n\nWhat happens if he retaliates when he sees this human rights case and I get pulled in an breach of contract suit? \n\nI\u2019m so worried that if I don\u2019t mitigate this, I\u2019ll have to explain this employment record for the rest of my working life. If I get to explain at all, assuming I don\u2019t get automatically disregarded for having a termination on my employment record. Yet if I do try to do anything, I feel potential employers might not want to touch me with a ten feet stick just for being a part of an employment dispute.\n\nI\u2019m in Canada. I wish to work in the States for my career. I\u2019m within the time limitation to initiate a harassment\/human rights suit.\n\nThank you.","title":"Employment dispute, harassment lawsuit, future employment stress","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554733802,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bauhfz\/ceiling_damages\/","id":"bauhfz","body":"22(F) College Student living in Indiana.\n\n​\n\nI have a ceiling tile above my toilet that has been soaked through by a water leak above. A month ago I contacted my rental company about this issue and continued to ignore it until a few days ago when they simply had maintenance push the tile back into place. Less than 24 hours later, the ceiling had caved in again. This issue had presented itself in the evening and I chose to go to bed before dealing with the issue in the morning. When I woke up, my ceiling had collapsed with large pieces all over the bathroom. My rental company has disregarded my safety several times with other issues and have continuously disregarded other maintenance requests until the issue had escalated (i.e. not acknowledging my concerns about my fridge not working until all my food had spoiled). What legal approach can I take at this point? Or what can I do at this juncture. If I had been using my toilet when the ceiling collapsed, a large piece of cement would have landed on me and I would have surely died, I've expressed my concern for my own safety and property safety and they continue to ignore me.","title":"Ceiling Damages","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555035214,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc8bka\/housing_issue\/","id":"bc8bka","body":"I\u2019m going to the local community college this fall, and they have 2 housing buildings. One is coed, the other is men only. So because of this, just because I\u2019m a woman, I have 1\/3 the chance of getting housing as a man does. Is this legal? Like, at all?","title":"Housing issue","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553622829,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5svdt\/my_mom_wants_me_even_thought_i_hate_her\/","id":"b5svdt","body":"I hate my mom but she says she has legal custody over (my mom and dad split 50\/50 time). I am 15 and in Colorado do I have a say in where I stay? She is a felon, alcoholic, and abusive to my brother (never me) can I do anything? Please help","title":"My mom wants me even thought I hate her","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553258338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b44ks2\/chicago_parking\/","id":"b44ks2","body":"Hey Reddit, i recently got my drivers license and now I am able to drive myself to school. I was told to watch out for parking near the school as I might get towed or ticketed. So my question is how do I make sure if I need a residential permit to park? ","title":"[Chicago] Parking","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555008981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc3o2x\/michigan_up_and_coming_restaurant_chain_is\/","id":"bc3o2x","body":"First post here.\n\nI recently began working for a restaurant chain and have been hearing horror stories about servers having to pay for walkouts as well as mistakes made that cause food to be sent back. There have been alleged incidents where the costs have been so high that a server has had to go to the bank to withdraw money to pay.\n\nIn Michigan, as far as I know it\u2019s illegal for an employer to take a server\u2019s tips under any circumstances especially if they are under a tip credit where we\u2019re paid less than minimum wage. \n\nI have yet to experience this situation personally, but if I do, I want to know what courses of action are available. I don\u2019t care about this job, it\u2019s not my main source of income so I\u2019m willing to be fired\/quit over this issue if I can make a complaint with the department of labor or bring up a lawsuit to get them to stop. I don\u2019t want this employer to continue breaking the law and treating their servers like they do.","title":"[Michigan] Up and coming restaurant chain is charging servers for walk-outs, item mistakes, etc. Directly from their tips and\/or personal funds.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571162394,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diborv\/uncle_has_threatened_to_no_longer_allow_brother\/","id":"diborv","body":"First time posting here so let me know if I need to provide more information.\n\n​\n\nMy Grandfather was shot and killed in 2001 which obviously wasn't an expected death. He had a Will that did not include my Father in it and everything was left to my Uncle. Uncle sold our Grandfathers house and put the money into education funds for each grandkid (later adding my other brother as well as 2 of his daughters that weren't born at the time). He has always been in control of this money and when I was in school I would call him each semester and ask him to transfer the money that I needed for that semester.\n\n​\n\nAnyways, my Brother just transferred to a University from a community college and moved about 16 hours away from home to finish a career in forestry. About a week ago my Uncle reached out to my Brother on facebook to ask him about his political beliefs. The conversation seemed to be fine (it is all public in the comments), they are clearly on very opposite sides of the political spectrum but they were just discussing their different opinions and it didn't ever get nasty or in any way turn into a shit show. Fast forward to this morning my Uncle sends my Mom a text telling her that he is no longer comfortable funding Brothers education because of his political views. He doesn't put any money into the account himself, however the original amount of money was left to him which he decided to put into the college funds (I believe they are 529 plans).\n\n​\n\nIs this legal? Do we have any legal ground to fight this? Our Father wasn't very present and passed away last December so I am just really shocked at this point. I don't have any knowledge on 529 plans and how that works since he is in control of them but my Brothers name is on the account.\n\n​\n\nETA: Uncle is in Arizona and Brother is in California","title":"Uncle has threatened to no longer allow brother access to his education fund over political differences.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540830109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sejpz\/mn_insurance_company_telling_me_im_sol_even_with\/","id":"9sejpz","body":"Let me preface everything here by saying - the title of the car and the insurance policy are still technically under my fathers name. so i have not spoken with the insurance company personally and may not have answers to specific questions right away  \n\n\nLast week on my way home from work i was T-boned by a vehicle turning into a gas station. I was hit with such force that my car was pushed laterally up onto the curb. other car proceeded to pull into parking lot.   \n\n\nAfter the crash i was approached by a 3rd party witness and several co-workers joined me as we waited for police  \nThe other driver became somewhat hostile sanctimoniously blaming me for the accident as well as reminding me \"MN is a no fault state\"  \n\n\nOther driver was very sensitive to having photos of his face or his car taken and attempted to threaten me to dissuade from taking more photographs. Other driver remained hostile even after police had arrived and continued to try and approach me to the point i had to request the officers to keep the man away from me.  \n\n\nWhile I waited for a tow I was told by the responding officer that the other diver was uninsured, and they **could not issue a ticket because he was currently on private property** (gas station parking lot)  \n\n\nMy car was towed\n\nI was given a card with a case number on it and told to call the insurance company and provide that number to them and they would sort out the rest  \n\n\nLegally the car is owned by my father and the policy is under his name although i am the only driver of the vehicle; so he called insurance to report on my behalf. He claims he was told by our insurance company that **despite having full coverage + uninsured driver coverage on my vehicle I am only covered for medical expenses and our ability to be compensated for the vehicle was contingent on the insurance company being able to recoup losses via a lawsuit against the other part.** This sounds very suspicious to me considering i am supposed to have full coverage on the car itself along with an optional package specifically for the purpose of ensuring we are covered even if the other driver is not  \n\n\nTLDR: can my insurance company refuse to cover my car simply because they don't think they will be able to recoup their losses \n\n​\n\n​","title":"[MN] Insurance company telling me i'm SOL even with uninsured driver coverage","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553269386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b46l4n\/how_ugly_can_a_divorce_be_was_i_naive_thinking\/","id":"b46l4n","body":"My husband and I (Texas) are divorcing after almost 10 years (1\/31\/09). We have 4 children ages 1-9. Our oldest has health issues that require multiple visits every now and then. I would use too many sick days so I've been a stay at home wife for 2 years. Husband also started a new position that required longer hours and the pay was great enough that we didn't need my income. \n\nI thought it was going to end smoothly but I spoke to him last night and I think he's going to be vicious about it! I have no idea why. We spoke earlier this week and it was fine. But last night he was telling me that he was seeing his lawyer today so I said I still needed to choose one. He was pissed! He started screaming asking why did I need a lawyer. He said that all we needed a lawyer for was to file paperwork, that we wouldn't go to court once we agreed in mediation. I told him that I didn't think that was right. I kinda don't feel comfortable about not having a lawyer. What if we don't agree? Especially regarding finances. He's pretty upset. But what if we don't agree on child support or what I believe he should pay for? How do I know his lawyer wouldn't screw me and I just signed my life away because I didn't know what I was agreeing to. I don't want to him inside the house with me but he's sleeping on an air mattress in the living room because his lawyer told him not to leave the house. I don't want the house, shit's expensive. I told him I wanted to get my own place this weekend and he texted me about how I was going to get in trouble if I spent unnecessary expenses. He was already talking to his lawyer. He literally bought a new truck a couple weeks ago without me knowing but whatever. But that scared me into thinking that things might get ugly. How do I make this go smoothly? Do we have to hate each other? Do I have to stay in the same house as him until it's finalized? That sounds horrible and awkward. What should I NOT do? I want to be prepared. \n\nI just picked a lawyer and called. I meet with her on Monday. I'm terrified.","title":"How ugly can a divorce be? Was I naive thinking that things would go smoothly?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552970500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2szx6\/my_grandma_wants_to_force_my_grandpa_into_a_home\/","id":"b2szx6","body":"Hi! I\u2019ve never posted on here, and I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not a fourteen year old you see very often..\n\nI\u2019m going to start with a little background. My grandpa is 93, and is doing freaking amazing for a 93 year old. He walks around on his jogger (what we call his walker) and only needs his speedster (his wheelchair) when going on long walking trips across the neighbourhood. He\u2019s in great shape. I would also like to mention, I don\u2019t want to paint my grandmother as a villain, and it breaks my heart to do so, but her actions at this point are just cruel.\n\nNow my mom is probably the nicest person to be birthed. She\u2019s so nice that when people say their mom is the nicest I make them meet my mom to prove a point. She\u2019s incredibly supportive and works incredibly hard to make sure things work out and are the best for everyone, and I mean everyone.\n\nNow I don\u2019t know the timeline very well as I have only been involved seriously for a year, nearing two. From what I understand it\u2019s been an uphill battle for ages when it comes to my grandpa. For as long as I can remember she\u2019s always been finding excuses to try and put him up in a home. ( I believe my mom said it started before I was even born, so over 14 years ) About a year ago she complained that it was difficult for her to cook for two, so my dad started cooking extra so we could drop off a well made dinner every day. ( It started only a couple days a week, then grew more. My dad is a really good cook so these were good meals. ) \n\nAlso, my grandma had this helper who would come every night to help my grandpa get pijamafied. My mom found her to be sketchy and other people in their building (it was a primarily elder community) had problems with her. My mom explained the issues with this woman but my grandma let her in her life anyways. So my mom wanting the best care possible took over this woman\u2019s job. I think she was a worker, because I remember my mom telling me they stopped services with her because they didn\u2019t have the money, but in a more recent convo when I asked when they would have enough money to bring her back that it was the woman my mom had issues with, the worker. So I\u2019m not sure if it was a cover up for me because I was younger or.. Anyways my mom took over her job. Across the year the more my grandma complained the more we took on to simplify their lives and provide the best care.\n\nFast forward to a year. They are now moved into our neighbourhood. They used to live a 15 minute drive away so nightly care was tough. But my mom convinced my grandma even though she was strictly against it because her condo wouldn\u2019t be \u201cfacing the river\u201d, to move into our neighbourhood. Now this was amazing. They are a 2 minute run and 5 minute walk from our house. So at any moment one of us can pop in for additional care on top of our list of ordinary care.\n\nNow this list grew majorly. At 7 in the morning someone, me, my little brother or my older brother deliver the paper and take care of any other things. They are most likely still sleeping. Then at 5PM someone delivers their dinner, serves it and makes sure it is nicely set. Then comes the night. Now the night is rough. I\u2019m going to give you a couple things that we do. Now remember, we are not workers, we do this out of love and care. We provide the same level, if not better, of care FOR FREE. Scoop the cat box, pijamafie my grandpa ( that includes cleaning his junk and making sure he\u2019s ok on that side ), serve tea and night snack, take out garbage, do laundry, pill and feed the kitty and more, plus the additional stuff my grandma needs us to do. My mom and I go every night, sometimes my dad comes. My little brother will go on days where I am very homework heavy. My mom does the hard and grosser stuff and I do the simple and child force field against grandma stuff.\n\nNow on to the drama. Now that you understand the level of care we provide, here\u2019s our problem. My grandma has been really pressing the gas and insisting my gramps needs to go into a home. For a year we have been successfully fighting it off. It has always been my grandpas decision at the end of the day and we\u2019ve always protected him against my grandmas constant bullying and belittling of and against him. Every time he falls, by the way, I can count the times he\u2019s fallen in the past year on my hands but I cant count the amount of times she been in the hospital in the past year, she finds a way to twist it and try and get him into a home. She is constantly trying to get him to be assessed to be put into a home, BUT THESE PEOPLE HAVE ONLY MET HIM ONCE AND MY GRANDMA IS FILLING THEM WITH LIES. \n\nLast night at 11 o clock my grandpa got confused and fell and hurt his head. I\u2019m not going into detail because this is long enough and you\u2019re probably really annoyed. And today at our visit we find out my grandma is trying to get him assessed again, this time by their doctor, who had been pro him being in a home for TEN YEARS. He was fine then, and is fine now. My mom and my grandma were arguing a lot tonight and as we were leaving I was talking with my grandma. \n\nShe knows I\u2019m against it and she thinks my mom is filling my head with nonsense. Here is how the convo went more or less. It started off with me saying that at the end of the day it was my grandpas decision, and he\u2019s stated he wants to stay home.\n\nGM: Well it\u2019s all our decision.\n\nMe: But at the end of the day it\u2019s his decision.\n\nGM: Well it\u2019s mine too and the doctors.\n\nMe: But it\u2019s his at the end of it.\n\nGM: Well I have power of attorney over his care.\n\nUp until then as far as we were concerned my mom was in charge of his health. On the elevator ride down I asked my mom what that meant and she said that we lost and that it was over. That my grandma said it no longer mattered what my grandpa wanted. She was in charge. I kept assuring her that there has to be a way, like to take this to court or something but she said we can\u2019t do that. I don\u2019t want my grandpa in a home. We had a close friend who was in great health forced into a home by his shitty kids and he passed in a couple of months. \n\nThere is nothing I can do because of my age. But is there anything I can help with, like for my parents. Who should we contact about this? My parents seem to have it covered and assured me we would fight this. I know this sub isn\u2019t for venting but this seemed like the best fit for me right now.\n\nOne of my grandmas main arguments is that we don\u2019t live with him 24\/7 and know the hardships. First of all we do everything for you, and you have other workers too. But we have been consecutively visiting every night to provide personal care for 1 year. Go to breakfast regularly (has since slowed down due to budget and my mom not wanting to deal with her) and since the move has had regular visits. My mom and I have also spent nights at their old apartment with him when she\u2019d go on trips.\n\nSo my question, what can be done? He doesn\u2019t have much longer anyways, but I would hate to see him go in this way.\n\nI\u2019m also on the younger side and am eternally grateful for my parents and trusting me and allowing me to be a part of this conversation. My grandma has ideas that kids should grow innocent and think it\u2019s wrong that I\u2019m caught in the middle of this,  but I like being respected and involved in the conversation. So, my second question, what does this all mean? At the end of the day I\u2019m in confusion.. is it over? This battle back in forth ended just like that?\n\nAnyways thank you if you bothered to read this, thank you if you provided help and thank you for respecting me, despite my age.\n\nSorry this was long lol","title":"My grandma wants to force my grandpa into a home.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554237639,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8om3d\/have_to_talk_to_juvenile_officers_because_i\/","id":"b8om3d","body":"Recently, I had recorded one of my friends breaking 6 windows. The friend who had broke the windows told me to take out my phone and just record something ( I had thought it would be like something funny) he ends up smashing the windows. He was sent to Juvinile detention (He is let out now) and I now have to speak to an officer. Any tips\/things i should do or expect?","title":"Have to talk to Juvenile officers because i recorded the breaking of windows. I dont know what to expect. State is Missouri","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540507985,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rf7q9\/i_need_help_figuring_out_how_to_get_temporary\/","id":"9rf7q9","body":"In January of this year I became a Twitch affiliate, left my '\"normal\" job, got a small personal loan, and decided to invest in becoming a full-time streamer\/work-from-home artist. Soon after a foreign family friend approached me about working only on weekends for cash under the table because all the other employees are family, which I didn't mind doing because it was just a little bit more of my time to help them out and put a bit more consistent cash into my pocket. As far as the State of NY and the IRS is concerned, I only work from home on my own time under my own business and will pay my own wage taxes at the end of the year etc.\n\nFast-forward a bit to late July of this year, where working at said side job started becoming painfully difficult one day. I went home early and then went to see a doctor the next week. Looooong story short, I have a pinched nerve in my elbow that requires surgery. The process of diagnosing and treating this has taken up until today, which is when I met a specialist and scheduled the surgery for December 14th. \n\nThe problem is that financially my husband and I have been struggling because I not only can't work the part-time job, but doing anything art-related (or even typing right now) causes me significant pain and eventually numbness in my entire hand and forearm. My desktop streaming computer also broke last month, and between warranty claims and my own ineptitude I still have not been able to repair it, so I've been on a laptop since. To be fair, I only make between $15-30\/month right now streaming anyway so that isn't a huge loss. However, not being able to accept or work on commissions or even make original art to sell at local markets has been really hurting me financially and mentally. If it wasn't for my supportive and generous mother helping us a bit, we would have already lost the car at least.\n\nAfter talking with my therapist, I have decided it's worth the effort to apply for some sort of temporary disability. Due to misdiagnoses I had not been willing to do so until now because I was constantly being told it would be better in less than a month. **However,** **the internet is confusing and difficult and I have no idea which programs I am even qualified for, nevertheless how to apply for what I need or if I have to go through an attorney.** Here are the most important legal facts I can think of, but please feel free to ask me anything else if you're willing to seriously help.\n\n* I am married and we live with his parents in New York, and do not pay rent\n* He works full time for a large company and gets about $350\/week after taxes and insurance\n* We have monthly bills of \\~$1,050 (including credit card debt and my loan) before things like food, gas, copays, prescriptions, or other regular expenses\n* I am the sole proprietor of my business which is set in Pennsylvania but have not filed yet as an LLC or anything of that nature\n* I have not worked for a corporate company December 2017 but I was setting aside a percentage of my profits with the artwork in expectation of owing it for Social Security\/Medicare when I file taxes this coming year\n* I have been considered non-working since early August due to medical reasons\n* I have seen 4 different MD doctors in the process of diagnosing my pinched nerve (my therapist said neither she nor anyone below a PhD or MD can help get me accepted for disability, not sure of the accuracy?)","title":"I need help figuring out how to get temporary disability.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505855932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/716851\/massive_student_loans_from_a_forprofit_college\/","id":"716851","body":"My name is Mike Nelson and I am the Federal Student Loan Discharge Specialist here at Alumni Protection Solutions. We are an organization based out of Beverly Hills, California here to assist and service as many students as possible regarding discharging their federal student loans. Chances are the reason why you are receiving this email is because you have attended a for profit institution at one point that has undergone lots of investigation and has been added to a list of Institutions by the Department Of Education that have been guilty for certain malpractices and have consistently preyed on students.\n\nI can tell you that these institutions are slowly but surely finally coming to an end with the rise of federal programs that can discharge the debt accumulated at these for profit institutions. \n\n-  Have the institution or institutions you attended mislead you or fail to tell you important information about promises of future employment, likelihood of finding a job, and any statistics regarding how many students have graduated or their earnings after graduation?\n\n-  Did they mislead you on the total cost of tuition, how much you would end up paying for your education, the terms of your loan repayment, and anything else regarding the finances of your education?\n\n-  Have they misled you about the availability of job placement and\/or the schools connections to employers within your field of study?\n\n-  Lastly, have they ever pressured you into enrolling into their institution? \n\n\nIf any of these questions apply to you in anyway with any of the institutions that you have attended then you can potentially be eligible to file for a Cause of Action Grievance Discharge. That means you can file a claim against the institution\/s and in a matter of 12 to 16 months be completely rid of your federal student loans and reimbursed of any voluntary payments you have made to the loan thus far. Not to mention your credit score will restore back to what it was prior to these federal loans existing meaning any credit damage associated with these federal loan (e.g. rehabilitation program, collections activity, payment delinquencies, etc\u2026)  will be erased as well as the loans themselves.\n\nIf this applies to you, it is in your best interest to contact me as soon as possible to check your eligibility and for us to review your case in detail in determining if we could provide this service to you. Call me or email me at your earliest convenience so we can schedule a phone interview.\n\n844-588-2654\n\nAlso, please check our website and our accreditation by the AFSLR (Association for Federal Student loan Relief) at the links below in my email signature. This way you can familiarize yourself with the service we provide and our organization.\n \n\nMike Nelson\n\nLoan Discharge Supervisor\n\n\n\n\nSo these questions pretty much all apply to me. I'm worried about falling for a scam but this could be life changing for me. I know I fell for the \"colleges\" stupid scam and that's my fault, but I would also feel like shit for taking advantage of an opportunity like this if it was true. My apologize if this isn't following all the protocols, this is my first time here.","title":"Massive student loans from a For-Profit College, and I receive this email.. (California)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552093763,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayxwci\/can_a_seventeen_year_old_get_an_apartment\/","id":"ayxwci","body":"i live in texas. i tried googling this already, but got mixed answers. some said i can, some said i can't, some said it requires parental consent, others said it doesn't require that. im really confused right now. im sixteen and about to get a job. going to save up for a place and hopefully move out at 17. can i do this?","title":"can a seventeen year old get an apartment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541476284,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ul0at\/wanc_do_noncompete_clauses_that_dont_say_they\/","id":"9ul0at","body":"I signed an employment agreement when I started working for the company I just got let go from, and it has a non-compete element. Previous agreements I have signed explicitly state both the period of non-compete and the fact that the non-compete sections survive termination of the agreement.\n\nThis agreement does state a period of non-compete but does not explicitly state that the non-compete sections survive termination of the agreement. It does have language that says that the employment agreement terminates at the last day of employment.\n\nNow that the employment agreement has terminated, does that mean the non-compete clauses are gone since they don't state survival of termination of the agreement? Or is the tendency to state survival of a clause simply stylistic?\n\nI am in WA. Company is in NC.","title":"(WA\/NC) Do non-compete clauses that don't SAY they survive termination of an employment agreement ACTUALLY survive termination of the agreement?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539802315,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p1hgt\/driving_without_insurance_violation\/","id":"9p1hgt","body":"So, I recently returned from a hearing regarding a traffic citation out in the Pittsburgh, PA area.  I was pulled over in early August regarding an expired license and also driving without auto insurance.   I renewed both on the same day.  \n\nFast-forward to after the hearing today, I was advised by the judge to make an appeal because a mandatory 3-month suspension was the penalty for being found driving without auto-insurance coverage.  I'm in the process completing the appeal request and getting a lawyer, but was wondering if anyone could give me a realistic outlook on this situation.  I have no realistic means of getting to work or doing much of anything with such a suspension.","title":"Driving without Insurance violation","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505737688,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70unw7\/wa_oldest_daughters_rent_has_gone_up_500_in_the\/","id":"70unw7","body":" My oldest daughter is renting an apartment the lease was up 3 months ago. The management company has been raising the rent every month. Originally the rent was $1100. a month now it's over $1600. and she has been informed that due to \" fair market value \" they plan to raise it to $1800. by November. This seems really off. Is this legal? \n\n Also they have told her she couldn't renew her lease unless she and her roommates all went back through the whole process including new application fees and a new deposit. No explanation on what would happen to the original deposit. And also that the any consigner has to make at least 5 times the rent. She said that they weren't happy when she told them that wasn't a issue. \n\n They have lived there over a year and she does have a consigner. They have never been late on rent and paid all there bills on time. She went to give notice that they were moving and she ended up having to sign some type of document that stated they would have to pay October's rent and all the damages by payment plan even though they gave more than 30 days notice. And there aren't any damages other than normal wear and tear. Oh and that they are keeping her deposit. \n\n Yes I know she shouldn't have signed anything. She is petty young and doesn't do well under pressure. Unfortunately I live across the country and was affected by Irma last week and she couldn't get ahold of me. \n\n Edit : Thank you all for the information. I'll let her know. Honestly she just wants out at this point so I'll let her know about the deposit information. I just wanted to make sure that we had all the facts of what is legal before she did or didn't do anything else. Thank you for your help. ","title":"WA oldest daughter's rent has gone up $500.+ in the last 3 months. Not Seattle.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551914258,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay5hcx\/city_is_upset_with_my_deer_friends_abd\/","id":"ay5hcx","body":"So I moved to the outskirts of San Antonio about 6 months ago, found a house with a semi large backyard that opens into a huge water runoff that unless it is raining and storming is just pretty much a field. \n\nWhile it's still very much in the city outskirts and lots of businesses\/roads\/houses there are a large amount of deer that seem to live in this run off\/field behind all the houses here.\n\nOne day I left my back gate open after mowing and dumping the bagged grass back there and woke up to 4 deer just chilling in my backyard. I thought that's pretty cool and continued to just leave my gate open because why not?\n\nI checked all the local city ordinance and there is absolutely nothing about \"baiting\" deer and since I never plan to shoot them since I'm in the city and not really a hunter that \"baiting\" even at the natural resource level didn't apply to me either since it wasn't for hunting in anyway. Double cool, I can feed my deer friends and maybe one day pet them if they become friendly.\n\nHere is where it gets interesting, one day local PD shows up and I spot them alongside my house looking into the backyard so I go out to meet them and I'm informed trapping deer in my backyard is illegal. \n\nI point out the gates open and I never close the gate on them so they aren't being kept. They are entirely free to come and go as they please, they just often decide to stay. This kind of satisfied them and they left.\n\nI ask my neighbors if they have an issue with the deer or not and if they do I'll start shutting my gate, trying to be a decent neighbor. However they don't care and actually enjoy the new close up deer friends. \n\nAftering feeling good about talking to the neighbors and the cops leaving I just forget about the whole thing for about a week. Then more cops show up and briefly threaten to arrest me before I tell them to leave the property immediately or arrest me and show me the ordinance\/law I'm breaking.\n\nThey leave after a few words and I decide I'm going to fight for my new deer friends because one is to the point of eating apples from my hand and she will one day let me pet her. I've gone through the city and state ordinances several times and don't believe I'm actually breaking ant laws. Just for some reason I seem to be pissing off someone who doesn't like my new deer friends.\n\nI live in Converse Texas just outside of San Antonio. Am I going to need a lawyer or am I good to keep my new deer friends?","title":"City is upset with my deer friends abd threatening criminal charges but I'm fairly certain I'm doing nothing illegal","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555570388,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beih9x\/sudden_death_of_guardian_what_is_next_for_my\/","id":"beih9x","body":"I M25 have two younger half brothers (same mother) 21 and 16. Today their father, who has been the sole guardian of the 16yo, unexpectedly died of a heart attack. Our mom has been out of the picture with raising them since the divorce 6 years ago. She is an unsable addict with no permanent address.\n\nI am wondering what is going to happen next, particularly regarding custody of the 16yo brother. His full brother has a year of college left. I have a good stable job and a house where he can live with me. The nightmare would be for our mom to get guardianship as she is the living definition of an unfit parent. I could probably convince her to authorize me to take custody, but she is incredibly unreliable.\n\nWhat should my first move be? (Im assuming its to find a qualified lawyer). Anything i should know moving forward? Thanks for any help.\n\nBtw, the father left behind no will, advanced directive, or any type of request regading custody or guardianship.","title":"Sudden death of guardian, what is next for my minor half brother.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555012411,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc4bx8\/high_school_dean_removed_student_from_class_and\/","id":"bc4bx8","body":"Background: this high schooler (we'll call him A) was wrongly accused of harassing someone (we'll call her B) but the deans have displayed great bias and took B's side. They proceeded to print out a No Contact\/Harassment\/Bullying\/Cyberbulling Contact with all the information of A filled out already with the exception of the signature. This contract basically says \"I will not harass the person involved and if I continue to be involved in such activities I will be suspended.\" It is not stated like that word for word, I shortened it otherwise it'd be two paragraphs long. \n\nThis makes it seem like A has been and is currently still harassing B, which he hasn't. Signing this would almost admit to guilt it seems, yet the deans tried to force him to sign it. \n\nI just think like this school's staff is being incredible unfair towards A, and it feels very wrong to humiliate him by obnoxiously calling him out and taking him to the deans office, then spending almost half an hour trying to get him to sign this contract. \n\nHe is not the harasser. He is the victim of false accusation. I understand that the school does not know that and they must take safety measures, but they are being way too unfair. \n\nThis school's staff also constantly lies to the parents of A, claiming there is no report of harassment and there is no ongoing problem, which is obviously false considering the occurrence of this event. \n\nIs all of this actually allowed? (Mostly the attempt at forcing A to sign a contract and lying to the parents) \n\nPlease help. Thank you for your time.","title":"High school dean removed student from class and attempted to force them to sign a contract?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571511928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk84yi\/what_steps_should_i_take_to_receive_compensation\/","id":"dk84yi","body":"I was fired from my job in the state of California, and if I researched this correctly, I am entitled to my pay within 24 hours. Every day for up to 30 days that I am not paid, I\u2019m supposed to compensated as if I had worked those days. They didn\u2019t pay me for the entire 30 days. To add insult to injury, they misspelled my name on the check. What steps should I take (in orange county, ca) to receive my compensation. Some help would be greatly appreciated!","title":"What steps should I take to receive compensation after being fired?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552862820,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2b3cd\/internstaxes_what_can_i_do\/","id":"b2b3cd","body":"Throwaway account. New to this stuff. \n\nWorked for a non-profit this past summer in CT. 20 years old. Rising Junior in college. Didn\u2019t know the rules for taxes and stuff while working for a nonprofit. Silly of me. \n\nSigned on for $3,000 for the summer. Yes very low but I really wanted a music business internship. Worked 35-40+ hours a week. Did essential profit bearing things for the non-profit. Also got a gas stipend (which was less than half what the state recommended for employees). \n\nGot my tax info from my former employer. They gave me a 1099 MISC, saying I was a non-employee. On top of it they added on top of my 3k the other 500+ dollars from my gas stipend (which is non-taxable to my understanding) to the total MISC income I owe taxes on! Yet in my correspondence in getting hired they called me an intern. In the agreement letter it says interns get 3k.\n\nNow I was totally ok with the $3000 for the summer but now this is just ridiculous. Sometimes they paid me with cash, other times check. They itemized my mileage payments outside my base 200 per week on my paychecks. \n\nWhat recourse do I have? If I file with the Dept. Of Labor would I have a good chance of compensation? Thank you all so much","title":"Interns\/Taxes (What can I do?!?)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554319051,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b92c6q\/had_medical_complications_doctor_offered_no\/","id":"b92c6q","body":" \n\nI had a medical abortion about a month ago that resulted in a lot of prolonged pain and hemorrhaging that made it very difficult to stay at work during the recovery period. My doctor offered me a three-day note to cover my immediate recovery, but that did not nearly cover the two weeks of recovery I ended up needing.\n\n​\n\nI had a sizable amount of PT to cover my initial absences and the times the doctor's note covered are not counting against me. I still have unused vacation time, but it would have had to be approved in advance and so couldn't have been used for me to go home early. I essentially went home unexcused because of the amount of pain and bleeding I was experiencing. My doctor claimed all of this was normal, so I did not go to any clinics during this period except for my check up two weeks after the fact.\n\n​\n\nI was back seven minutes late from lunch (dealing with -you guessed it- bleeding) while on a final for the other absences and the termination process started. My boss tried to get HR to work with me but my work has a strict three-strike policy and since my doctor refused to give me any additional paperwork for my complications I had no leg to stand on to fight it. I'm being fired Thursday.\n\n​\n\nI live in Arizona- an at-will work state. I'm pretty sure I don't have a leg to stand on, but I thought I'd get another opinion.\n\n​\n\nI'm just very upset at all of this and can't help but feel that I'm being fired for something I couldn't control and would like any ideas on where to go if there's any case to be made here.","title":"Had medical complications, doctor offered no paperwork for the complications, now I'm being fired for attendance violations. What do I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551693164,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax5f6s\/motel_room_infested_with_cockroaches_dirty\/","id":"ax5f6s","body":"Location is Northern California, USA. \n\nIt\u2019s the 3rd night that I\u2019m staying in this motel room and I just saw a baby cockroach on my pillow. I flipped the light switch on in the bathroom and there was a big cockroach on the ground and many small baby ones on the floor and wall. I have taken pictures and videos of them both. I did see some scurry across the room floor and wall and I could not pull my camera out quick enough to take pictures of those ones. Additionally, the furniture and walls in general are considerably dirty, which I could look passed if there weren\u2019t cockroaches everywhere. \n\nI\u2019m writing this post because I am terribly afraid that this motel manager may try to take advantage of me here or refuse to compensate\/move me to a different room based on the way he interacted with me when I checked in. I need help in figuring out what steps I can take to protect or stand up for myself in case the manager will not do the right thing tomorrow morning.\n\nWhat I know about is the Better Business Bureau, where I can file a complaint, the department of consumer affairs, and California department of public health. But which one is the proper local health department that I should contact in the event that I need help? I made my reservation through a third party website, should I contact them?\n\nCould anyone please help point me in the right direction? Thank you so much for taking the time.","title":"Motel room infested with cockroaches, dirty. Planning to complain to the manager in the morning. What can I do to legally protect myself?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571748416,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlhfnz\/am_i_defying_a_court_order_by_claiming_my\/","id":"dlhfnz","body":"My ex-husband and I have a modification where our time sharing is 50\/50. Due to circumstances in his home, he has decided to forego his timesharing except for every other weekend. In our modification it specifies that we alternate claiming my daughter - obviously due to us splitting time with her 50\/50. This year would be his, but now the number of overnights has drastically been reduced at his house. If I claim my daughter (since all the IRS cares about is number of overnights) on the year that he is supposed to be able to, am I violating my court order? If so what are the potential consequences?","title":"Am I defying a court order by claiming my daughter on my taxes? [Florida]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506563194,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72wzpz\/impersonation_of_a_teacher\/","id":"72wzpz","body":"This is the weirdest thing I\u2019ve ever had to ask, but here we go.  Michigan. \nSomeone that went to my old school (a private school) created a Twitter account that had a photo of a certain teacher.  The account was made under his name.  No where in the description of the Twitter was there a disclaimer about the account being fake.  However, several tweets implying it was a parody account were made. \nThe account posted absurd things making fun of the teacher, for example: \u201cMy wife has left me and taken the kids #cant #pay #my #bills\u201d \nCall me immature, but the entire thing was hilarious. \nWhoever made the account is deactivating tomorrow because people of \u201chigh status\u201d are threatening trouble if the account stays up.  I\u2019m pretty sure that means that a teacher found it and threatened detention or something. \nSo that\u2019s where I come in.  The account was hilarious, I hated that teacher, and it had a decent following.  I\u2019m not affiliated with the school anymore.  \n\nCould I get in trouble, legally, for remaking the account under the teacher\u2019s name + pictures even with a disclaimer?  ","title":"Impersonation of a teacher","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568402089,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3u31c\/tx_ac_has_been_leaking_and_now_there_is_mold_in\/","id":"d3u31c","body":"To make a long story short, our AC started leaking about a month ago. We submitted a ticket when it happened and then about a week or two later after our carpets were soaked and the doors started to warp from all the water. Not until yesterday after going down the the office did they send someone over. We had to remove everything from my one roommates room as the entire carpet was soaked. When moving out the furniture we discovered mold on a wall, in the carpet, and in the closet.\n\nMaintenance \"fixed\" the problem by vacuuming out our AC but that did not fix the problem, the AC is still leaking and the carpets are already getting soaked again. My roommate went to talk to them today and they even tried to argue it wasn't leaking anymore and was fixed even though the problem persists. We told them about the mold and the maintenance man saw it when he came by but they haven't mentioned anything about it.\n\nI'm not a mold expert by far, but it can't be safe for my roommate to move back in, especially if it keeps leaking and getting worse. Nothing has been done today besides the third party carpet man came by, but he couldn't continue as the carpet was just wet again and he needs for it to dry out. Maintenance is notorious for dragging their feet around (took us over a month to fix our fridge after it went out) and I'm worried they will just ignore the problem for as long as they can. I know in Texas landlords have to keep the apartment safe for the tenant, is there a time frame we can make them complete this and the mold removal? Honestly any advice will help greatly.","title":"(TX) AC has been leaking and now there is mold in our apartment, what is the best course of action?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502756539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tqo9e\/can_i_make_him_not_go_through_his_lawyer\/","id":"6tqo9e","body":"Edit: North Carolina\n\nI'm divorced. That's a good thing. It's all done, settled, over.\n\nMy lawyer's office just called. My ex's attorney called them because my ex wants a copy of a document. I'm happy enough to give it to him, but now I have to pay my attorney's office to respond to his attorney's office. This isn't the first time he's gone through the lawyers for something so banal.\n\nI've always responded quickly when he's asked for copies of things or made similar requests. I've forwarded all his mail, even though the forwarding order has long since expired and some of these are things I have to put in an envelope and pay postage on. I've transcribed and forwarded voicemail messages left at this house for him. When he's been late\/short with child support or expense reimbursement, I've contacted him directly and courteously. I'm not patting myself on the back; I'm explaining that he has no reason to think I would require a legal kick in the butt and the subsequent bill to be a decent human being.\n\nIs there any way that I can make him contact me first before having his lawyer call my lawyer? Or make him responsible for those lawyer fees? Our divorce agreement states that we must go to arbitration before litigation, but that doesn't seem to quite fit here (and I don't really want to pay an arbitrator any more than I want to pay a lawyer).","title":"Can I \"make\" him *not* go through his lawyer?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552577493,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b11pc2\/as_a_firsttime_professional_game_developer_should\/","id":"b11pc2","body":"I'm near the end of making a deal with a board game company to convert one of their games into a computer game, and someone told me that I should form an LLC to avoid risk to my personal assets if I get sued. The first questions that come to mind are, am I really that likely to get sued over a small-time computer game, and would an LLC even guarantee any protection if I did? A cursory Google search indicates that it's still possible to lose personal assets if you have an LLC, and they do cost money. Since I don't know yet whether the game is actually gonna make any profit, I'm apprehensive about taking on additional expenses. \n\nWhat protections will an LLC offer to an \"independent contractor\" type like me (just working by myself, not actually managing a company), and how risky is it to go on without one?","title":"As a first-time professional game developer, should I get an LLC for personal asset protection?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553604099,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5p7u3\/nyc_is_it_legal_for_my_high_school_to_not_have\/","id":"b5p7u3","body":"My school had renovations done a few years ago and put in a new central air system, but this air system only gives out cold air. The radiators are ancient, next to the window, and give out no heat. Everyone agrees that the school is constantly cold and we all freeze in class. I go to a Catholic school and I\u2019m fed up that it\u2019s freezing outside and there\u2019s no heat indoors. A couple of students want to talk to the administration, but my question is are these conditions even legal?\n\nI would approximate that the temperature in the building is at around 55 degrees Fahrenheit if this helps at all. ","title":"(NYC) Is it legal for my high school to not have heating?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1508207219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76vl3w\/restaurant_credicard_machine_was_down_had_to_turn\/","id":"76vl3w","body":"[Illinois] I work at a restaurant and our credicard machine was down so we had to use tose old fashion credicard machines that transfer the numbers to another paper. Anyways, at the end, a customer took the wrong copy and left us with the custumer copy which was a bit harder to read the numbers. I was told i had to give the cc tip back because it was my responsibilty the guest didn't leave with the wrong copy. Our managing parter was on hollyday, so the manager on duty said she had already texted the reginal manager about it and there was no point because she would never side with me. Do i have to give the money back?","title":"restaurant, credicard machine was down. Had to turn in my tips.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571231927,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dip7l6\/i_am_active_duty_military_in_the_usaf_i_am_in_ga\/","id":"dip7l6","body":"Like I said I\u2019m in the state of Georgia. Now my military dental facility on base states that they have a very strict policy that THEY have (NOT United Concordia who is the dental network that administers our dental insurance...). This policy is that they only do ONE dental cleaning per 12 months. And this includes referrals for cleanings using a civilian dentist. Their reasoning for this policy is that they do not have the capacity to do cleanings twice per year. To which I stated that that is why a referral is needed, to offload the work to a civilian dentist.\n\nMy dentist told me that I do not have United Concordia... But I\u2019m pretty sure that I do since anything we get a referral for is handled by them.\n\nSo I called United Concordia and asked them directly. They said that they do, in fact, cover 2 dental cleanings per year and they they are the ones who cover Active Duty Service Members. The representative I called said that my Military Dental Facility is the one who determines how many cleanings are necessary, but that ultimately they can definitely give me a referral for a cleaning if they do not have the capacity.\n\nYet my Military Dental Facility is still denying me anymore than 1 cleaning per year. \n\nCan I fight this legally somehow? My military dentist (who is an officer) was being very rude to me and lecturing me about how \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t come in here and tell me how to do my job.\u201d","title":"I am Active Duty Military in the USAF. I am in GA, and covered under Tricare Prime and The Tricare Dental Program. My Military Dental Facility says they will only do one cleaning per year and will do, nor give a referral for a second cleaning.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555366064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdlyha\/my_car_was_hit_by_a_navyarmy_recruiter_and_i_have\/","id":"bdlyha","body":"A bit of background information...\n\nOn my way to my University campus, my Lexus was hit by an Army recruiter back in February (I live in Minnesota) on a really, really snowy day. It was at a stop-light with a lot of cars in front me. I was completely shocked because I've had this car for maybe a month as a gift from my dad. He then got out of his car and apologized and said he was a recruiter. I was still trying to process everything, but really couldn't. \n\n​\n\nHe told me he was going to call his command lead and see what he had to do since it was a government vehicle. I just waited in the car for what felt like ages, and then he came back and handed me accident forms to fill out. I filed them out, but a lot of questions didn't really make much sense to me. He then told me he had called the police. We waited for 30-45 minutes with a lot of passerbys honking (it's a two lane local road and we were parked to the side). He said he was still on the phone with his command lead and wasn't sure what the process was or what he had to do. \n\n​\n\nI'm extremely naive, never have been in an accident before and not even sure what to do just went with whatever. I asked if I could have his insurance information and he repeatedly told me it was a government vehicle and he needed to see if it was okay with his lead. At least 30 minutes passed and there were no cops arriving at the scene. He then told me that the cops told him, \"it's a really snow and icy day, there's a tons of car accidents so if yours isn't that major, we're not sure if we can come out there\". I was a bit confused and told him that I'd call the cops, but he told me he'll try again. Another 20-30 minutes, and he told me he has a parking spot nearby that we can go to so we wouldn't be blocking the road. I stupidly followed. Once we got there, he said he has all of the info down and can give me his name and number. He said I should expect a call from the government or his command who deals with the paperwork in a week, the latest a month. I ended up agreeing with it and just left.\n\n​\n\nLooking back, 2 months later I can't believe I was this stupid. I do have the government vehicle's licenses plate and I have texted him (which he has replied). I told him I have not received a response from anyone and he proceeded to give me a number. Every time I call the number no one picks up but there's a voicemail proving that it is indeed an army number. I've even looked it up and it's all on the army website. My insurance company has also reached out to the guy who has hit me and he actually picks up the phone, but it doesn't seem like anything is getting done. What can I do at this point? The accident isn't that huge, but there's definitely paint and scratches on my rear bumper. \n\n​\n\nI still have the text message history where he doesn't deny that he did in fact hit my car. Can I do anything with this or is it too late?","title":"My Car Was Hit by a Navy\/Army Recruiter and I Have Not Heard Back?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1505762669,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70xbic\/tnmy_girlfriend_received_financial_aid_and_now\/","id":"70xbic","body":"A few days ago my girlfriend received financial aid for college. We expected her to get around 800-900, instead she got about 2000. She figured it was one of her scholarships or something and so she's spent a decent amount of it. Today they called her and left a voice mail saying they messed up and she has to pay all of it back. Is there anything we can do, because we have no way to pay that extra money back.","title":"(TN)My girlfriend received financial aid and now, several days later, they're telling her to pay it back.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571432664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djttz0\/landlord_cancelling_and_reissuing_a_lease\/","id":"djttz0","body":"My roommates and I found a listing for a house that was $X a month online. When we showed interest in the house, all of the information that was given to us showed the lease as $Y a month so we assumed that they messed up the listing and signed on the place. The $Y amount was included on the lease that we signed and the online portal to pay the rent. We signed and moved in during July.\n\nWe just got a message, 3 months after we moved in, from the management company that they \u201cmessed up\u201d the lease and will be sending us a new lease for $X a month and that they will be collecting our \u201cunpaid\u201d rent from the months that we have been paying $Y.\n\nWe would like to know what our options are here and if they can force us to sign the new lease. Any other advice on how we should proceed is welcomed as well. Thanks.\n\nLocation: Washington, USA","title":"Landlord cancelling and reissuing a lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506228527,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7237qi\/mold_from_the_walls_damaged_items_in_my_closet\/","id":"7237qi","body":"I am moving out of my apartment this week and opened a storage closet (in my unit under the stairs) that I haven't opened in 2-4 weeks. When I opened it there is black mold on the walls and ceiling and a lot of it got on the things I have in there including camping equipment and an expensive vacuum.  Everything in there is damp. It also might be relevant that I'm allergic to mold and that even having the closet door open when my mom was moving things to the balcony was already starting to make me cough and get watery eyes. \n\nI called the manager who talked to the maintenance guy who said that it was most likely just mildew and they would come wipe it off as soon as possible. I told the manager that I don't really care what they do because I'm moving out but I don't think it's \"just mildew\" because it is covering the whole closet and some of the stuff that was in there is furry. I have also been living here for over 2 years and have never had mildew issues, but I have had water leakage issues on the ceiling of my bathroom which is above the storage closet.\n\nMy question is: what are my rights in regards to the things that were damaged? I had to purchase renters insurance as part of my lease but I don't feel I should have to pay my deductible because it's their shitty plumbing that caused the mold. I have pictures of everything.  \n\nThanks!\n\nTLDR: Mold in my closet damaged items I own. Does my landlord have to pay to replace damaged items?","title":"Mold from the walls damaged items in my closet (California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568476001,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d46uo6\/crazy_landlady_slanders_my_mother\/","id":"d46uo6","body":"Hi! Excuse my grammar if there are any mistakes as I'm french.\n\n For this situation, a little backstory is necessary. My mother and I moved out on the 4th of September after our lease for the flat ran out. The landlady didn't contact us throughout the whole final week of us staying there, and my mother called a few times a day and texted her. She told us she had no connection as she was in Cuba, but I don't really see the probability of her not having connection but hey I'm not saying she's lying. About a month ealier, my mother, my stepfather and I were messing and playing and he closed the door on my mother and I to not let us out of my room as a joke. The door jammed and we were trapped so he spent 15 minutes trying to open it, and eventually resorted to getting a hammer to dent the door to allow us out. It wasn't like the door was completely broken, it just had a dent about the size of a hand. \n\nMy mother organised SEVERAL meetings with the landlady to discuss what happened and to pay for the damage, but she cancelled each and every single time. She then returned to the flat whilst we were out at work\/school without contacting us and sent us 36 claiming that the flat was in horrendous state and that we were not allowed to return to pick up the rest of our stuff. The door was a thing that she sent, which is very understandable, but the rest of it was just photos of walls which had absolutely nothing on them. One other photo she sent is the back of the dishwasher. This dishwasher was faulty since the day we moved in, and we tried explaining that to her but we have no proof that we have as it was verbal and she just brushed it off. We did get her to replace her fridge that wasn't working though. We eventually did pick up our stuff behind her back after consulting a legal person (apologies, I don't know what they are called in English) who told us that we had every right to get our stuff as the contract wasn't up and she couldn't stop us from getting our stuff. We couldn't take everything as we didn't have a lot of room in the van, so we left behind a sofa.\n\nSo this afternoon she let us pick up the sofa. We knew it was going to be a pretty awkward time there, but it was a lot worse than we expected. As soon as we got there, she refused to let us into the apartment and screamed at us and said \"D\u00e9gagez! On n'en veut pas de vous salope!\" (which roughly translates to \"Get lost! We don't want you here bitch!\") after literally asking us to come. The next door neighbors are lovely (they know us as I've babysat for their child a few times), and let us come into their appartment. My mother was crying as she is quite a sensitive lady and the landlady was being cruel. We came back out afterwards to help the movers that we hired that are family friends, and she yelled at my mother for 8 minutes straight, slandering her about how the flat was a tip etc. I stepped in because things were getting quite nasty, and calmly explained what happened to the door. She didn't believe us and we have nothing to back this up with. She then said that my mother was \"an incapable 40 year old woman who still doesn't know how a washing machine works\", she called her stupid and everything. She then even went on to say \"Je comprends pourquoi votre ex-mari a abandonn\u00e9 votre fille et vous\" (\"I understand why your ex husband abandonned your daughter and you\") and\" Je suis pas choqu\u00e9e qu'il ne vous paye pas les frais de parents\" (I'm not surprised that he doesn't pay child support). She also then went on to say \"Au moins je suis honn\u00eate quand je dis je m'en fous de votre vie et que j'avoue que je vais garder votre contrat jusqu'\u00e0 que \u00e7a m'arrange\" (\"At least I'm honest when I say that I don't give a shit about your life and I'm going to keep your contract for as long as I want\") after my mother asked her for her contract. I have video proof of her admitting to theft and withholding a contract and all of the other stuff she said. My mother does not know what she should do, but she knows that she will go to the police and get legal advice. \n\nWhat exactly can we report her for? Also, could we get reported for anything? \n\nThank you if you've read all of this, my apologies for the length.","title":"Crazy landlady slanders my mother","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506560866,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72ws0u\/another_car_backed_into_my_stationary_car_in_the\/","id":"72ws0u","body":"WISCONSIN. So I'm pulling out of a parking lot and stop my car to get something from my purse. Another car backs into my car and destroys one of my back blinkers. Since the damages didn't seem that serious, I didn't call the police to file a report (which I realize now was a huge mistake). I did however get video from a security camera of them backing into my stationary car. \n\nI call the other person's insurance company to get them to pay me and they say that them hitting my stationary car was 50% my fault because the other person apparently called in and said I stopped my car after they started backing their car out! \n\nWhat should be my next course of action? Do I have any leverage against the other party and their insurance company to take responsibility for what they did?","title":"Another car backed into my stationary car in the parking lot and their insurance company is saying it's 50% my fault.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551849014,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axv2h6\/airbnb_and_eviction\/","id":"axv2h6","body":"I was staying at an Airbnb house while on vacation.  While at my stay, the renter that I was renting the place from lost the house. A guy came by to tell us to leave the property in 30 days. We explained that we only were guests here and that he would be off talking to the landlord. He said ok at took our names.  We let the landlord know he said that it was a minor misunderstanding and that he\u2019s gonna take care of it.  We didn\u2019t think much of it. \n\nNow I am being served a summon of eviction (sum-130). We left the property about to months ago. The landlord is still renting out the place. \n\nWhat should I do? How do I clear my name. Will I have an eviction on my record now? Thanks ","title":"Airbnb and Eviction","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552582590,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b12qfz\/landlord_will_not_let_me_out_of_my_contract_in_a\/","id":"b12qfz","body":"I am a U.S. citizen, but current student getting my master\u2019s in Brussels, Belgium. Because of this, I am less informed as to the general legal avenues I can take for this housing\/apartment rental issue.\n\nThis may be a bit lengthy so I would appreciate it if you bear with me\u2026 I would also like you to bear in mind that my landlord has been relatively amicable previously and seemed like a nice guy when I first rented this bedroom in a shared flat.\n\nI arrived in Brussels in September 2018 and rented a room in a shared apartment around the corner from my university. Again, the landlord seemed nice enough, the place seemed like it was in decent shape, and I knew it was only going to be a 1-year lease anyways.\n\nIn late 2018, a water spot began to develop in my room above my bed. Additionally, the humidity level in my room seemed a bit high, but nothing that was too concerning considering I would just open a window. I informed my landlord about this. He then went in and believed the problem was with the shower above my room. He informed me a general contractor changed the leaking pipes and fixed the problem from above.\n\nBut the problem began to creep back slowly over time and resulted in a chunk of plaster from the wall falling on to my head while I slept. It really was not a big deal. I was not hurt, but there were chunks and pieces of plaster on my bed while I slept that night. I informed my landlord about this and he profusely apologized, saying he would fix the problem as soon as possible. He came once again, and a general contractor scraped off excess hanging plaster from the wall above my bed and said he would paint over the issue at another time when the new plaster dried. It was still livable, just looked like a big ugly spot above my bed. I\u2019m a neat and clean guy, but when it came to this I was understanding and did not think it was all that big a deal regardless of how ugly it looked.\n\nFast-forward to the beginning of  early February, I had not noticed it at first, but it seemed to gradually get **much** worse, spreading across the wall and to the other side of the room. Again, I informed my landlord of the water spot \/ peeling plaster problem spreading drastically above my bed. They came in, scraped off more plaster from the wall again, and applied wet plaster thinking the problem was solved. My landlord and the general contractor thought the pipes in the shower above were leaking again so they fixed god-knows-what in the shower above me and said they would paint the wall when the plaster dried.\n\nFast-forward two weeks, again in February, my concrete wall is disgusting at this point, the water spot and peeling plaster has spread further and further, and my room has started growing **BLACK MOLD** in the top right corner. When I say it is bad, I mean it is ***BAD***. I inform my landlord that this is no longer livable. I had been staying at my girlfriend\u2019s place for a small portion of the time in February knowing that my place was unlivable, but still had to sleep in my room despite this health hazard. Knowing that the issue required immediate and thorough intervention, my landlord had the general contractor come by and *completely tear off* the ceiling of my room and tear into the walls to see the problem. It seemed like he had found the source of the problem finally, so my landlord called me on the phone to propose a deal.\n\n**Here was the deal**: Before I could even tell him that I wanted the month of March free from rent, he told me that he would not make me pay for the month of March. Okay seems good at first. Now considering that I physically could not live in my place safely, he made a **verbal agreement** with me that he would have an insurance guy come and inspect the room, would investigate the problem with a specialist who would fix it, and then have the problem fixed by March 15th. If by March 15th the problem was not solved and my room was still not livable, then I was free to cut my contract and receive my security deposit back with no strings attached for the rest of the month of March so I could find a new place if need be. This call took place on February 20th, so I was naturally concerned with this deal at first because I had little faith that the wall and ceiling could be fixed by March 15th. I told him I needed to think about it and called him back the next day. I expressed my concerns on this front to him over the phone when I called him then next day, and also told him that I could not just stay at my girlfriend\u2019s house for 3 weeks straight considering she lives in a cramped student housing situation (side note: I had to sleep on couches and friend\u2019s floors in a sleeping bag for a few nights these past few weeks). He ignored this and just assumed that I could just stay at hers the whole time. Completely unprofessional.\n\nAfter this second call, my landlord assured me it would be done by March 15th and not to worry. My landlord had still seemed like a stand-up guy, so I confirmed the verbal agreement.\n\nNow, over the past 3 weeks, my room has had the heaters on full blast, making it a sauna in there to dry out the moisture. Whenever I walk inside, I immediately break out in a sweat. It smells, its hot, and my belongings have been sitting in this smelly heat for 3 weeks now. They tore off even more of the walls, and bits of the ceiling have been falling off periodically just due to its instability. Completely not livable. For 10 days they had the windows stay open saying they needed to let the humidity in the room out as well? Makes no sense. Additionally, whoever has come into my room (I assume the specialist, general contractor, or my landlord himself) had flipped over my mattress onto my belongings, spread some other belongings from my desk all over my tipped mattress, and completely disrespected my possessions and my space when wheeling in a big heating machine pointed directly at my wall. Needless to say, I\u2019m fed up with this. I have been taking videos and picture evidence in my place every day or two to keep track of progress and have pictures from 2018 and 2019 that show the progression of the problem.\n\nLast week (2 weeks after our verbal agreement had been made keep in mind), I sat in on the inspection by the insurance guy he had come over, and although the insurance guy spoke French primarily (my French is shaky at best), I did hear him say \u201ctrois mois\u201d: three months. **THREE MONTHS**.\n\nAfter the inspection (which was in French mind you), my landlord and the insurance guy told me that the level of moisture in the room currently made it \u201clivable\u201d if I had a window opened (yet they have been blasting the heat to dry out the walls, so the windows were closed previously?) and only if the wall and ceiling had been sealed. Literally in the middle of this meeting between myself, my landlord, and the insurance agent, a small piece of the ceiling fell from above and landed between them. This insurance agent should be fired in my opinion if he considers it livable.\n\nNow my landlord says that my place would be livable by the 15th if the ceiling and wall are sealed up, and that it would just take 2-3 months to paint the walls after sealing. I told my landlord in private after the insurance guy left that this is unacceptable. He promised the 15th that it would be done and livable. My landlord said since it would still be done by the date March 15th, he pins on me the standard clause in our contract that if I cut the contract early for some reason he keeps the security deposit. What the hell?? First off there is no way it\u2019s getting done in time, and secondly he made an agreement if it is not done in time the contract is moot.\n\nIt is now March 14th, and the hole in my ceiling is still there. The room is still hot as shit. My room still stinks, and this place is completely unlivable. This place is not going to be fixed for another 2 to 3 weeks I assure you. For record, they did not wheel in this big anti-humidity heating machine into my room until after the insurance agent came. But there is no way in hell that this is done by tomorrow, and I believe my landlord will not let me cut my contract without taking my security deposit. I honestly am so exhausted by this whole process that I want to leave with my security deposit and be on my way. I want to cut this contract but have no idea what avenues to take here in Brussels, Belgium.\n\nI did a bit of research, and according to EU and Belgian tenant\u2019s rights (if I\u2019m not mistaken) my landlord is given 40 days to fix the problem or else the contract can be cut (correct me if I am wrong please?) It\u2019s been WAY more than 40 days since the beginning of this problem. Knowing this, my landlord told me that he had 40 days from when we spoke in February and when my ceiling was torn apart regardless of our verbal March 15th agreement. Additionally, my landlord tried to hold it against me the fact that he did not have to give me the month of March free and that he did it out of \u201ckindness\u201d, but according to the tenant\u2019s rights I have I could have requested the month free of rent anyways, which I would have. So him pinning this on me is completely unfair. I also know he is trying to develop a deal with my university to have the university funnel students from abroad to his apartments for rent.\n\nI also do not have renter\u2019s insurance unfortunately. This was something I overlooked when I first arrived in Brussels, and completely forgot to get it after getting my national ID which already took months to get due to Belgian bureaucracy. I am going tomorrow to get renter\u2019s insurance.\n\nI am at my wits end with this. I want to just have a private space, a bed to sleep on, and not to sleep on floors and couches anymore. All I want is my security deposit back and to leave this hell hole of a place\n\nAgain, I have progression pictures and dates of these photos as proof (I have been going to my room every day or so to document the non-existent progress), as well as text messages and phone call dates.\n\nCan you help me r\/legaladvice? What legal avenues can I go about to get my security deposit and cut this contract immediately? Keep in mind I am a broke master\u2019s student with little to no money to hire a lawyer... unless I can maybe find pro bono work? Sorry for typos or if any of this is unclear. Thank you.","title":"Landlord will not let me out of my contract in a clearly unlivable room - U.S. Student in Brussels, Belgium","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553163543,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3otxq\/ive_been_pumping_heat_into_the_attic_for_two\/","id":"b3otxq","body":"The heat in the living room wasn\u2019t working, and I was turning the thermostat all the way up, nothing was working. So I called my landlord and she had somebody come look at it. The furnace itself was ready to burn out, and whoever had installed it didn\u2019t connect the insulation right, so it came completely off the living room vent and it was heating the attic like crazy! I looked at my utility bill and it is over $400!\n\nWill my landlord be responsible for this? How do I go about asking her to with pissing her off and hating me? Is it my fault for not realizing something was wrong earlier?\n\nI\u2019m in NH by the way \n\nThanks in advance everybody! ","title":"I\u2019ve been pumping heat into the attic for two months; does my landlord have to reimburse me?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505745974,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70vgi2\/can_a_college_backroll_a_studentfulltime_worker\/","id":"70vgi2","body":"United States, Texas, for location information. My GF started working full-time at our college after about 3 years of part-time student work. Her going full-time came with a discount, but only after a year of working full-time. She started full-time last February. Supposedly, being here for 3 years counts as a full-time employee for only sick days and vacation, but nothing else (we didn't know the \"nothing else\" part at the time). When she started her summer class, it clearly stated she was getting the discount from being a full-timer, and we thought nothing of it. \n\nWhen college started back up in August, she was told she could not get the discount as she had not been full-time for a year. Today, she was looking at her account to submit her hours for the last two weeks, and noticed she owed money. She found out that they are charging her for the summer classes without the discount now. \n\nI realized we should have asked and not assumed. However, it seems slightly shady to be charged several months after the semester\/pay day have already past. We have the money to take the hit, so we will be fine. Just mildly infuriating that their screw up and our ignorance on university policies is going to cost us now. \n\nI guess the question is... is this legal? If it is, it still seems really shady, but I will accept it. If it isn't, what can we even do? ","title":"Can a college \"backroll\" a student\/fulltime worker for a semester that is already over\/paid for?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552162305,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az7jix\/ca_understanding_tenant_rights_pertaining_to_pets\/","id":"az7jix","body":"TLDR: Owner wants $500 refundable plus $75 a month for a dog; only wanted $500 refundable for cat.\n\nNot trying to get legal revenge against our landlord or anything of that nature. Just validating or invalidating my interpretation of tenant rights and seeking advice on presenting an argument to our property manager.\n\nMy wife and I are currently renting a townhouse in Southern California. When we found the house, it was advertised that dogs and cats were okay. We listed that we had a cat and agreed to the $500 refundable pet deposit which is listed on our pet addendum. We made it clear that we were in the market to adopt a dog as well, which we were told would not be an issue.\n\nWe renewed our lease in the winter of 2017 with a $50 rent increase. Then were presented with another lease renewal in December 2018 with another $50 rent increase.\n\nWhile renewing our lease, we advised our property manager that we were adopting a dog as an ESA, and to please add it to our pet addendum. We immediately get a renewal cancellation and are told we must vacate by March. The reason being that the landlord may have family moving to the area.\n\nThe adoption for the dog fell through. We notify the property manager that we will not be adopting and are immediately presented with the lease renewal once more.\n\nFast forward again to this week. We find two more dogs that we are interested in adopting and notify the property management. We receive a response that the owner wants a $500 refundable deposit, $75 a month for pet rent, and that she wants to personally see the dog to approve it. We counter with a $500 non-refundable with no pet rent and the owner refused. Deposits must be refundable in California; however, we made the offer out of goodwill.\n\nMy wife sends an email to the property manager explaining that the $75 a month pet rent is a little unfair as we are not brand new tenants and have been keeping the house is excellent shape. The property manager responds, \u201cI am sorry you feel that way but unfortunately, the owner isn't approving your request at this time. I apologize for the inconvenience. \u201c\n\nTo my understanding, landlords must be consistent when it comes to pets deposits and rents. But are the standards allowed to be different between dogs and cats? I fully understand that the owner can easily come back and say we owe $75 a month for the cat as well. However, it does say that for $500 we can break our lease with 30 days notice, which we will promptly do if the owner charges pet rent for the cat.\n\nSome data:\n\nMove in costs - 2017\n$2395 for first month\u2019s rent\n$2395 for deposit\n$500 pet deposit for cat\n$70 application fee\n\nRent increase - 2018\n$2445\n\nRent increase - 2019\n$2495\n$500 pet deposit for dog (not yet added\/paid)\n$75\/mo pet rent for dog (not yet added\/paid)","title":"[CA] Understanding Tenant Rights Pertaining to Pets","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540057491,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pw3ih\/my_employer_is_pressuring_me_to_resign_what_can_i\/","id":"9pw3ih","body":"My employer gave me two options\n1) Take 30 days to find a new job whether internally or externally. If i choose this route I will sign document from legal that after 30 days if I don\u2019t have a new job I will have to resign. \n\n2) Put in disciplinary action on my job expectations with both soft and hard skills. If I do not meet the standards I will then be fired.\n\nWhat is my best course of action? My job is in PA, USA with big box software company. I have been a high performer for over two years but have struggled this year (entire team has) because of bad management. \n\nPrior to this I emailed my manager requesting a lateral move because of team dynamics and how dysfunctional it was. I didn\u2019t think they\u2019d try and fire me over it. ","title":"My employer is pressuring me to resign. What can I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550808132,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atct03\/ive_been_advised_to_look_into_an_attorney_for_my\/","id":"atct03","body":"I\u2019m in pa. \n\nI really wasn\u2019t going to go this route but I\u2019ve had second thoughts after speaking with a few people. I\u2019m typically not the spiteful type or looking for a pay out but this place has caused me a ton of stress, arm function, possibly deformation of character once I begin applying to new jobs because all are aware of what goes in there.\n\nI worked for a drug\/alcohol rehab from July 2018-January of this year. In October, I fell at work and injured my wrist. After conservative treatments failed, I needed surgery. I got surgery in January and resigned from my job right after. This is now strictly insurance business. \n\nI roughly have a 6 month recovery ahead of me. I\u2019ve been in pain every single day. I can\u2019t use my arm until I\u2019m cleared by my surgeon. I\u2019m miserable. \n\nI was speaking to a customer at my current job who asked if I have an attorney. I told him no, I\u2019m just trying to get this done with. He then proceeded to tell me I should look into a lawyer and go after them for everything I can, pain and suffering.. etc. \n\nHere\u2019s where it gets interesting: I know my previous employer is committing a ton of insurance fraud and is doing a disservice to everyone. \n\nThey were extremely understated because no one was willing to put up with their bullshit. Actual policies were nonexistent. They \u201cLOST\u201d my incident reports. I could go on and on. \n\nHere\u2019s my questions: \n- if I hired an attorney would I be strictly be dealing with the wc company or the employer?\n- how much more can an attorney get me?\n- is it worth looking in to?","title":"I\u2019ve been advised to look into an attorney for my workman\u2019s comp case","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505157077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zhkfs\/child_support_stops_at_18yo_or_end_of_school\/","id":"6zhkfs","body":"LOCATION: Louisiana, USA\n\n________\n\nMy wife had papers done up for her now-senior daughter.  The paperwork does not specify a termination date of child support payments.  Do they stop when she turns 18 (in February) or when she finishes school (in May)?\n\nWe are trying to determine if we need to save up more to cover her tuition for Feb-May.","title":"Child Support Stops at 18yo or End of School?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554278234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8v350\/if_i_suspect_a_business_of_laundering_money_is\/","id":"b8v350","body":"Without the business knowing it was me? This is in Australia if that helps.\n\nIf this question isn't right for r\/legaladvice, please let me know and if you know where I can get this info.\n\nThis business has a few stores. They don't earn much money and have been going for years. With shop rent, even customers question how they're still going with so little sales.","title":"If I suspect a business of laundering money, is there some way I can report my suspicions and have the authorities conduct a search?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1506461652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72nnab\/abusive_exboyfriend_repeatedly_stalking_and\/","id":"72nnab","body":"I am so frustrated, defeated and hopeless and I don't know what to do anymore. My ex is stalking me using the last 4 of my social to get into my AT&T account, my bank accounts, and has been eyeing my every move. He knows I'm dating someone else but he will repeatedly ask me to sleep with him, then when I refuse he verbally harasses me via voicemail. It gets relentless and usually after a couple days he will stop for about a day or two, and then it picks right back up. \n\nI have successfully gotten him arrested before for aggravated harassment but with immense pressure from his parents who are prominent in our small Caribbean community, I dropped the charges since they promised my parents they would have him leave me alone. That was two years ago and he is now calling both my work phone and my cell phone at least 40 times an hour. He threatens to report me to my job under false pretenses and he blames me for him experiencing the worst night of his life cause I was the reason he got locked up. I'm scared that if he gets arrested again he will come back out with a vengeance. \n\nWhat can I do? Is there a way to get a restraining order without him being arrested? I'm also aware that he is really out of his mind and a restraining order won't completely keep him away from me because when I had one last time, he kept calling me from jail. I'm really scared for what will happen to me after I go to the courts but I can't keep living like this. Sorry for the rant this is my first real post.  \n\nEDIT: I guess my real questions are when I go to the police, how do I describe what it is that he is doing? What can he be charged with? My first restraining order lasted three months, so how can I ask for a longer one?","title":"Abusive ex-boyfriend repeatedly stalking and texting me 400+ times within 24 hours (New York)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570999735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhgccf\/i_got_scammed\/","id":"dhgccf","body":"I live in Oklahoma. I was looking for Lana Del rey's concert ticket. All the tickets were sold out. I found a guy on twitter, who was willing to resell it. We had a good chat and he agreed to sell 2 for $235. I asked him to ship me the tickets, he asked for money first which (I thought ) was fair enough so, I tranfered money using VENMO. Now, after money was sent. He doesnt show any sign to send me tickets. He replies late. I dont know if he is busy or prenting to be but doesnot reply me for hours. Is there anyway I can take legal action on him? Or do anything? Please help!","title":"I GOT SCAMMED!!","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551842065,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axu0i8\/landlord_doubled_utility_fee_two_weeks_after\/","id":"axu0i8","body":"We're in California.\n\nMy friend and I recently signed a lease to our first apartment exactly two weeks ago. Today, we received an email from our apartment complex with a scanned copy of our lease and addendum for the 2019\/2020 lease term. In addition, the email says, \"While auditing your file, we noticed the following: Initial Change on Page 15 of Addendum Packet: Utility Fee Incorrect - The first line should be $40 instead of $20 for the total utility fee for the unit.\"\n\nOn the scanned copy of the addendum, the $20.00 (written in pen) has been crossed out and replaced with $40.00, with \"KN 3\/5\/19\" written next to it.\n\nWe are in a 1BD1BA flat. I have a friend who is also leasing with this complex in a 1BD1BA with loft (so it's larger), and their utility fee was also set at $20.00, but they haven't received such an email yet, if they will at all. Since it's my first lease, I don't have much experience, but I'm assuming they can't retroactively change a signed agreement, even if it's their original mistake. I plan to email the complex tomorrow with questions, but I'm just worried I won't phrase it correctly and they'll pull something out to make us pay.\n\nDo we have a legal foot to stand on? What are the chances we'll still have to increase our utilities to $40 a month on top of the $20 per person charge? What's the best way to approach this issue in an email?\n\nThank you!","title":"Landlord doubled utility fee two weeks after signing lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553131651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3kf3s\/can_he_be_arrested_under_suspicion\/","id":"b3kf3s","body":"(Background info) So, a long time ago I was talking to this \u201colder man\u201d. A no contact order was issued against him saying me and him couldn\u2019t talk for 5 years, no contact what so ever. Under assumption, when I ran away to his residing state, they questioned him but nothing really happened. So I was sent back home. Well recently I have been playing my video game. My mom has been ease dropping me and asking me every second if I\u2019m talking to him. I say no and I try to move on. When she begs me for proof My friends won\u2019t talk to her because they find it creepy. Well tonight I said \u201cI love u\u201d to someone and that I was talking to on the mic and she was behind the wall listening and accused me of talking to said ex with the no contact order. I tried to explain to her I wasn\u2019t and she kept saying I was and so I lost my temper and released my anger on the wrong person. It caused a huge fist fight but me and that person are cool now. Well due to these series of events she suspects I\u2019ve Been talking to him due to my suicidal thoughts. (BOTTOM LINE, the question time) She wants to call his probation officer and report him for violating the no contact order, even though we haven\u2019t even been talking. It\u2019s under suspicion and I haven\u2019t admitted to it because I haven\u2019t been talking to him but she suspects I have been. Can he get arrested, charged, etc under \u201csuspicion\u201d? And can I be charged as well? ","title":"Can he be arrested under suspicion?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569440507,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d98f55\/can_my_friend_be_paid_under_minimum_wage_il\/","id":"d98f55","body":"My friend and I are both high schoolers, working at different jobs. He works at a flower\/plant store, however they pay him $7.75 and not $8.25 (IL min wage). This sucks as well because he is in a coop program for school and currently can\u2019t leave this job yet. Can they legally pay him that amount? It\u2019s not a seasonal job, and he\u2019s basically an average retail crew member.","title":"Can my friend be paid under minimum wage? IL","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1549346500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anb8ht\/department_manager_checking_cameras\/","id":"anb8ht","body":"I'll just say it right here, no one likes our new department manager. He criticizes almost every worker for not doing things fast enough despite having only 4 people working most days. \nAs we unload the truck in the back sometimes we check our phones when there isn't anything in our department to take. Everyone does it, even the other department managers. \nAnyway, this has been happening a lot, he has written someone up for missing a day of work, when they changed his scedual without telling him. Someone else was written up for not doing anything, when they waited for something. \nAnyway, most of this is caused by the new department manager checking the security cameras.  I've been informed that department managers aren't allowed to check the security cameras, is that true? \nWould really help here, thanks!","title":"Department manager checking cameras","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505401817,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/702tvn\/divorcechild_support_agreement\/","id":"702tvn","body":"Wisconsin:\nCurrently going through a divorce I have 2 kids 5 and 2. I take them roughly 10 days a month as of right now. Due to my work schedule and the time in which we can drop the youngest off at day care. This schedule equates to about 18% of my gross pay. \n\nIs it crazy for me to ask my wife's lawyer to put into the settlement that after my youngest starts school (kindergarten 5 days a week) we will change to 50\/50 and adjust child support at that time to a set amount? \n\nI currently do not have a lawyer but if my (ex)wife and I can't  come to agreeable terms I'll have to hire one. I preferred not to as I do not have the money at this time and I'd like to avoid credit card debt if at all possible. \n\n","title":"Divorce\/child support agreement","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553733555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6c7i7\/neighbor_daughter_keeping_waking_us_up_at_night_wa\/","id":"b6c7i7","body":"Hello, \n\nMy sister, two young nieces, and I are living on the bottom floor of an apartment complex. After a month or two a family moved into the complex above ours. Soon after, we have been awaken by loud screaming, banging, and sometimes clapping between the hours of 10:00PM and 2:00-3:00ish AM. After a couple days the father of the family upstairs came to our apartment and explained to my sister that his daughter (maybe 10 or 11) is on the spectrum and bangs on walls and make a lot of noise. He also said that they try to give her medicine to sleep at night. My sister told him that she understand, but also ask him to do his best because she has two young daughters that needs their rest for school. I was not there for the conversation, but according to my sister, the conversation ended on a good note. \n\nThere was a small window where the late night disturbance did subside, but continue again between the same hours mention above. Still tired of being waken up in the middle the night, my sister and I decided to talked to our apartment managers to ask for their assistance to put an end to our continuous late night disturbance. When we were making the complaint, base on how the conversation went, it sounded like we weren't the first one to complain. Prior to finding out about the daughter being on the spectrum, I did keep some notes of the date, time, and duration of the screaming\/banging. But did not continue the note keeping after reporting to the managers the first time. The managers said they will contact the apartment to about the noise. The managers contact did lower the frequency of the disturbance, but they are still happening in the middle of the night and sometimes lasting 20 plus minutes. \n\nNow this has been going on for months and my sister and I feel like we are trapped in an endless loop of being waken up and complaining to our managers. We file another complaint a few weeks ago, and the managers provide a security phone number that we can call at night to have the security guard to come knock on their door to ask for them to be quiet. However, it just seem to do very little fixing the problem. \n\nWe received an update today from the managers stating that nothing can be done because the noise are being cause by a disable person. However, my sister and I are asking if we could move into a similar unit as our because we, I know it sound childish, were there first and the noise have been disrupting our sleep at night. My sister have anxiety and have trouble getting sleep as is. I too have anxiety, but luckily it is not difficult for me to go to sleep at night majority of the time. My nieces are also having trouble focusing in school because of the noise. \n\nOur lease doesn't end until November, but my sister and I enjoyed the location of the complex because it is close to my neices' school and daycare, close to our mother apartments, and metro service. \n\nAlso, my sister and I are kinda getting worried that if we keep complaining, it will look we are harassing them, which we try our best to make them not feel the way. We do not mind the noise during the day, but we do mind around 9:00ish PM because that is when we are going to bed. We smole and say hi to them when we run into each other. We are just getting tired of waking up to loud noise. \n\nMy main question is is there another Avenue my sister and I can peruse to resolve the issue or are we SOL until our lease is up and just have to move to a different apartment complex\nOut of respect for the apartment complex, I will disclose the name, but it is located within King county Washington. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. \n\nAlso, please forgive any typos or great issue. I am writing this on the bus on my way home. ","title":"Neighbor daughter keeping waking us up at night [WA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555000336,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc1yp0\/add_public_toilets_in_app\/","id":"bc1yp0","body":"Hi, I\u2019m developing a Toilet Finder app (it\u2019s for a school project\/meme) and I don\u2019t know if I can add public\/private toilets to the app. \nThe users can add photos and directions on how to get to the toilet, could this lead to a privacy problem?\n\nI\u2019m only going to add toilets from my city.","title":"Add public toilets in App","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1550930764,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atvtpm\/amazon_ada_discrimination_fl\/","id":"atvtpm","body":"Back in September 2018 I requested accommodations at an Amazon fulfillment center for my Epilepsy. \n\nBefore I requested them I was scheduled to interview for a tier 3 position within the company(like assistant to the manager) when I requested the accommodations I was put on a type of leave called \u201ccertification of fitness\u201d(CoF) they basically gave me 7 days to get a doctor to say I wasn\u2019t lying. I was told I could still do the interview.\n\nDuring the CoF leave I came back to the site for my interview. A member of the HR team refused to let me interview saying, and this is a direct quote, \u201cif you want to do the interview you have to withdraw your accommodations request.\u201d \n\nSince I wanted the opportunity I withdrew my request. I did the interview, I was inclined to the position by the interviewer but did not get it. \n\nFast forward to November I have a grand mal seizure during my shift. Amazons doesn\u2019t call 911 per policy for about 20 minutes. I had a head injury because of where I was working.(something my accommodations would have protected me from) \n\nI was forced to go on leave after this and complete he accommodations process. This took from November to Nearly February to complete. I was out of work the entire time. Amazon had all the paperwork, unfettered Access to my medical records and my doctor via releases by December 6th But still needed to get clarification on the smallest things like \u201cwhat does your doctor mean when he says you can\u2019t climb ladders?\u201d Silly questions like that to delay the process. \n\nI\u2019ve tried to use amazons open door policy and work this up the chain of command but HR is gatekeeping our General Manager. I\u2019ve emailed Jeff to no avail. The EEOC is no help nor was Amazons ethics hotline. \n\nNow They\u2019ve placed me in a dead end position with no opportunity for promotion or growth. What are my options? Have they violated the ADA? Or are they towing the line enough to be legal but still fuck with me? \n\n\nAlso kind of related but not really. \nThey have 3,000 parking spots I understand they should have at least 60 accessible parking spots available. They have them. But only about 25 are available to park in. The rest are blocked by traffic cones. Is that an ADA violation? Technically they have the parking but you can\u2019t access it due to road blocking cones. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Amazon ADA Discrimination [FL]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569091734,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7ehjg\/husband_owned_house_before_we_married_we_sold\/","id":"d7ehjg","body":"My husband purchases a house ~10 years ago and had it paid off. We then sold that house after living in it for two years to buy a bigger property together. Both our names are on the house and I have contributed to purchases and bill payments for the house and will likely be the sole caretaker for our children once the dust settles. He is stating that his lawyer told him that I would have been entitled to half of the old house my name WASNT on but now that we purchased a home together I somehow am only entitled to half of whatever is left over once my husband gets his full investment back from selling our previous home. For example if we sold for 300K and bought a new one for 700k I would only be entitled to half of the 400k difference which would be 200k. Is this correct?","title":"Husband owned house before we married, we sold that house and bought a new house and are now getting divorced. Am I entitled to half the property?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551205213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av2n1o\/another_apartment_leasing_post\/","id":"av2n1o","body":"I moved into a unit June of 2018 and signed a one year lease. There is a homeless camp nearby that comes into our parking lot to dig through the trash and to shine lights into cars looking for items. Since we\u2019ve moved in, all 3 of our cars have been broken into. I constantly hear glass breaking in the parking lot. Multiple reports of the laundry room getting broken into and clothes stolen. One time a maintenance guy entered our unit to fix something that was certainly not considered an emergency. We even asked him to come by when we were home, but he ignored this and came in anyways. Also heard reports of homeless people entering other tenant units. Days before our cars were broken into, the property management changed over night. All new landlords and maintenance.  I reported the breakins to the new landlord and she claimed she would be putting locks on trash doors and increasing security. The first weekend she moved in, she herself had to call the cops multiple times. None of the things she claimed was going to happen was done. This is 3 weeks later. No response from the property management company (the landlords boss). The landlord herself has ignored our calls multiple times and doesn\u2019t return them. I\u2019m trying to find someone to take over the lease, but management company isn\u2019t getting back to them and making it extremely difficult to get out of this situation. It\u2019s says in the lease that if we want to break early, we need to give 30 days plus 3000. However, civil codes have been broken here by the property management company which I feel makes the lease irrelevant. Would this rule in my favor in small claims ? I\u2019ve moved into a new unit and I want to drop the keys off at the leasing office and be done. If they go after me for money, I\u2019ll fight it in small claims. Sorry for the rambling! ","title":"Another apartment leasing post","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550080363,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aq9b1b\/suspended_from_work_bc_of_employers\/","id":"aq9b1b","body":"I was suspended without pay because my employer failed to report to the state (Nebraska) of my employment with my employer, and so my license was put into lapsed status by the state. State policy does not require hospital CNAs to have an active license status but my specific hospital does. I was out of work for 16 days due to HR's incompetency, refusal to help (e.i. expecting me to report my own employment), and multiple errors when filling out the required forms.\n\nI was hired as PRN status due to me being in school needing the schedule flexibility as opposed to FT (no PT positions available), but I have to work at least 40 hrs a week just to pay my bills. Due to me being PRN status (min hrs a month being 12), am I able to seek financial compensation for their error or am I SOL?","title":"Suspended from work bc of employer's administrative error","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554756468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bayxqk\/office_wont_turn_on_ac_units_until_late_may_when\/","id":"bayxqk","body":"My apartment is over 80 degrees inside and it\u2019s only April. I emailed the office to inquire about the central air use. The manager suggested I open a window to help with relief. If this persists living conditions will be unsafe for children, elderly, and pets. I have spoken to other residents who are miserable as well and have complained to the office. I pay for utilities and it is not stated in the lease about limited use of central air.  My issue being I work nights. I don\u2019t get home until 5:30\/6 in the morning and things start to heat up. I also don\u2019t want to leave my windows open all night when I\u2019m not home just to try to cool it off for my arrival. Is there anything that I can do? The only ceiling fan here is inconveniently in the dining room. Is the office in the wrong?","title":"Office won\u2019t turn on AC units until late May when temperatures are consistently above 50 degrees at night","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553186786,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3sts4\/roommate_breaking_my_things\/","id":"b3sts4","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice,\n\nI\u2019m a college freshman that has been living on campus in a dorm room with a roommate since August. Me and my roommate weren\u2019t ever friends, but we never didn\u2019t get along. We were able to live together and there were no problems. All of a sudden about a week ago these angry sticky notes were left on my desk that said \u201cBe FUCKING quiet when I\u2019m sleeping\u201d. This was left on my desk at 3 in the afternoon. When I asked what the reason was I was told that I was slamming the door. I like to think I am a considerate person and I could see he was sleeping so I was doing my best to be quiet. I said I would try and be quieter but I guess this wasn\u2019t enough. A week later I get 3 more sticky notes all telling me to be quiet and that he\u2019s a light sleeper so I have to be quiet. I asked him what I was doing now and why he hadn\u2019t said anything to me. He said my belt and keys jingling while I got ready in the morning was inconsiderate and unnecessary noise. Keep in mind I haven\u2019t heard any complaints all year, and all of a sudden he\u2019s extremely mad. When we had a talk with the RA for mediation my roommate said I have been waking them up all year. I haven\u2019t heard about it until now. \n\nNow around the time of that first sticky note my Bluetooth speaker randomly broke. The charger was cracked and I couldn\u2019t fit it back into the port. I was bummed but, I figured I must\u2019ve knocked it over and just didn\u2019t remember. Then a day or so later, the cassette machine that I had in the room is unable to use an aux chord. The chord won\u2019t fit into the remote mic jack. Now it\u2019s a little weird, I figured i must\u2019ve don\u2019t something but I really couldn\u2019t remember. Then a few days go by and my phone charger is completely broken. It doesn\u2019t charge any of my devices, and the usb part will NOT come out of the brick. It is completely stuck in there, almost like it\u2019s glued. This is when I started getting weirded out. Then I went to watch a movie, and the charger for my laptop wouldn\u2019t fully fit into the computer and now it won\u2019t charge. I was starting to get suspicious because I don\u2019t abuse my technology so I was confused how these eerily similar damages were happening. Then a few days later, my Bluetooth headphones aren\u2019t able to charge anymore. The charger just doesn\u2019t fit into the jack. There\u2019s also a slight residue on the outside. Then after the 3 sticky notes were left, a few hours later, the charger to my 8 track recorder was destroyed. The prong on the charger block was blatantly bent and busted off. Then I go to look at the actual charger spot, and it\u2019s visibly filled with glue. I can see the residue and the glue inside. I wanted to write these off as a coincidence but I can\u2019t anymore. I can\u2019t afford to replace these items and I\u2019m scared to leave the dorm because I don\u2019t know what will get broken next.\n\n I talked with the RA for our dorm and told him my concerns and he said we couldn\u2019t really prove anything. This is why I am coming here, is there anything I can do to get reparations for these things? I\u2019m already petitioning to move rooms, but I\u2019m still here for a few more days and I\u2019m scared more will get broken than already has. ","title":"Roommate breaking my things","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553958468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7ca8u\/can_a_company_refuse_to_interview_me_because_im_a\/","id":"b7ca8u","body":"I\u2019m 20 years old from Michigan and in college. My friend recently got an internship at a company for the summer and upon entering realized there\u2019s another open position that the manager is having trouble filling. I have some experience in that field so I told my friend to recommend me. When he did, the manager replied to him and said \u201cunfortunately that\u2019s not what we\u2019re looking for. We need more diversity in the workplace, so we want a woman in that role instead\u201d. Is that allowed? I\u2019m truly curious because that feels like a type of discrimination.","title":"Can a company refuse to interview me because I\u2019m a male?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542073114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wkire\/lease_agreement_vs_company_policy\/","id":"9wkire","body":"My lease agreement states that my move in date (start date) is December 8, 2017 and that the 12 month lease term begins that date. However, the manager states that their company policy says that it begins at the end of that month. So it would be December 31st.\n\nThey are selling the house so idfk why they are being dicks about less than a months worth of rent but I'm not paying it either way. I'm assuming I should pro-rate the rent myself, pay that and wait until their 30 day time frame to return my deposit is up and take them to small claims for the $2100 deposit, but I'm kinda lost and a lil nervous.","title":"Lease Agreement vs Company Policy","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540769197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s7v1j\/rent_payment_didnt_go_thru_online_didnt_find_out\/","id":"9s7v1j","body":"Events occurred in Washington State.\n\nTimeline of events:\n\nTenant of Apartments since July 7th. All payments have gone through previously without incident and on time.\n\n​\n\nOctober 1st: Attempt payment on apartment rent payment website. It isn\u2019t really working. Tried several times. But I click \"submit\" and receive the confirmation web page. No email confirmation, though. \n\nOctober 5th: Leave town until October 18th.\n\nOctober 16th: Receive voicemail from Landlord about not receiving rent. This is the first I've heard that it didn't go through on the 1st. She states she has put two notices on my door. Send her a text saying I had no idea it didn't go through - I've been out of town. Send payment again with late fee of $150. It goes through. She texts back that she will try and reimburse the late fee if I can find concrete documentation that I attempted payment on October 1st. I say I will try. I could not procure proof. \n\nOctober 18th 6:30PM: Receive eviction paperwork. Deadline for written response is October 31st. Court date on November 1st.\n\nOctober 19th 12 noon, 3 minute phone call: Telephone the Landlord. Landlord says she didn't expect the eviction paperwork to be sent and that it isn't usually that fast. Told me the eviction can be cancelled if I pay lawyer\u2019s fees of $500. I agree. We hang up. \n\nOctober 20th at 10:05am 9 minutes: Telephone the Attorney. He answers, it is his personal cell number listed at the bottom of the paperwork. He says I can pay his fees and he will reverse the eviction paperwork. Said he could legally charge me for this phone call, and that, \"Why should Landlord have to pay the $500?\" Said he will speak to his client (Landlord) on Monday (October 21st) and get back to me.\n\nWEEK OF OCTOBER 21 - No word from either Attorney or Landlord.\n\nOctober 28th: Call and leave voicemail to Attorney explaining I have been waiting for payment instructions. And will pay ASAP.\n\nOctober 28th: Call and leave voicemail to Landlord. Text message her as well. \n\n​\n\nThe lawsuit paperwork states I must submit a written response by October 31st at 5pm to Attorney's office via facsimile. \n\n​\n\nI just don't know what to say in the facsimile? I have no problem paying the fee, I just don't know if they want to pursue this in court and that is the reason neither of them are responding to me even though they said I could pay the fee? ","title":"Rent payment didn't go thru online. Didn't find out until two weeks later. Was sent eviction notice. Attorney & Landlord says it can be stopped if I pay attorney's fees. No word back from either of them after a week.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503710354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w2s32\/12680_lab_bill_from_health_fair_at_work_tn\/","id":"6w2s32","body":"On mobile so I apologise for formatting issues.\n\nGirlfriend's work place had a \"Health Fair\" last month.  She got a couple of swabs taken and her finger pricked. The vendor tells her she will call or email her if they use a lab outside of her network.   Just now she texts me and tells me she got five different bills totalling 12680 from a lab not in our network.  What can we do?  \n\nCan we lawyer up?  Talk to her HR?  Her workplace set this up and she gets insurance through them.  Talk to the lab or insurance?\n\nAny advice is greatly appreciated.\n\nEdit:. We are in Montgomery TN if that is helpful\n\n\nEdit 2: Well it looks like we are going to have to wait until Monday to get any kind of answers.\n","title":"$12680 Lab Bill from Health Fair at work TN","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1442595133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lgavk\/how_to_figure_out_who_to_file_a_claim_against\/","id":"3lgavk","body":"I rented a house in Dallas from company called B and the lease expired in May. Company T  began managing it in April, and they are who I dealt with after April. T failed to return $250.00 of the deposit or explain why. I talked to multiple people on the phone and was told it would be fixed, it wasn't and now I get passed around and they fail to respond. I sent a written notice to a P.O. Box in California requesting the return as well as a written notice to their email listed at their website. No response.\n\nI'm looking into filling a claim in small claims in Dallas area but I need to file against the actual owner of the property? The Tax record website (http:\/\/www.dallascad.org) still indicates Bowns the home. I'm pretty sure the T parent investment group actually owns the property though. Related Articles:  removed upon advice.\n\nHow do I figure out who to file the claim against? Also if there are any Lawyers that read this in the area that accept Hyatt I have a plan ;)\n","title":"How to figure out who to file a claim against after management company failed to return deposit?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571604007,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkphtf\/who_has_legal_rights_to_an_engagement_ring_if_the\/","id":"dkphtf","body":"My ex fiance called off our engagement a few months ago. She elected to keep the ring since it was insured under her name. A friend of mine is currently speaking with a lawyer she knows and brought up my situation to him. The lawyer states that if the engagement is called off, the ring is no longer considered a gift and I have legal claim to the ring. Is this true? Also, is this still true even if she insured it in her name? Is this the type of matter where taking legal measures are warranted to get it back\/recoup the value? For reference, I live in New Jersey and my ex lives in New York.","title":"Who has legal rights to an engagement ring if the engagement is called off?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540269756,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qlnkp\/lying_about_age\/","id":"9qlnkp","body":"In the hypothetical situation below is there any legal concern? :\n\nYou (over 18) are in  an online community. In that community you must be 18+ to even enter and you have to agree that you are 18 or older due to the nature of the sexual nature of the community. You meet someone who says they are 19 and you talk to them privately and have an explicit conversation with them about sexual acts toward eachother, and then you dont talk to them again. No images or videos, only a short conversation.  Months later  the person is banned from the community because it's suspected that they are under 18.\n\nIf they actually were under 18 would you be at any legal risk?","title":"Lying about age","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568915376,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6hmb3\/so_moving_out_of_her_apartment_lease_question_la\/","id":"d6hmb3","body":"My S\/O is moving out of her apartment and into mine, and her landlord is trying to intimidate her into getting her carpets professionally cleaned. I am aware that in our state you are not legally able to withhold security deposit funds to professionally clean carpets. Her landlord did not include a carpet cleaning provision in the lease and she isn\u2019t liable to clean the carpets beyond stains from her cat or drinks (which have already been cleaned with a rental carpet cleaner). We are wondering what could and could not be upheld if she were to be brought to court, since they only provided her with a small portion of the lease and the entire document does not have both hers and her landlord\u2019s signatures. If she\u2019s brought to court, could she realistically have the terms of the lease that she never signed voided?","title":"S\/O moving out of her apartment, lease question (La Crosse, WI)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445984250,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qhaw3\/roommate_bailed_after_signing_lease\/","id":"3qhaw3","body":"Hi, I'm in Hayward, California.\n\nSo back in July me a 3 friends I've known for at least five years signed a one-year lease together for a new place. Then about a month later one of our roommates just up and left. He claimed his family was having issues and that he was going to stay with them for a bit. We eventually find out that he's moved his bed and a lot of his stuff out of his room and one evening his mother and sister come to pick up his stuff. At this point he's cut us off and avoids any sort of communication and when we do try we wind up talking to his mom or sister who accuse us of harassment. So its been about three months now and we have seen no effort on his part to remove himself from the lease so we can move someone else in without crossing our landlord. I'm hoping someone can help us with what to do next. I'm wondering if we can take him to small claims court to get the rent he owes us since while he stopped living here, he was still legally renting it with us. \n\nThanks for reading this.","title":"Roommate bailed after signing lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568827152,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d60ze8\/friend_got_a_speeding_ticket_in_nc_fir_driving\/","id":"d60ze8","body":"She has a court date assigned in November.  What can she do to \n1) Avoid points added on her insurance?\n2) Avoid the fine entirely (if possible)? \n\nAlso, another question:\nI've heard of prayer for judgement and improper equipment violation conversions which don't affect your insurance points in my state.  Maybe there's something that can be utilized with those options?\n\nWould hiring an attorney be advised?\n\nThanks!","title":"Friend got a speeding ticket in NC fir driving 1mph over speed limit on bottom of Hill.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445003792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oznyi\/tenant_issue\/","id":"3oznyi","body":"I live in Oldsmar, Florida in Pinellas County. Our apartment complex has been re-facing our buildings over the last few months and now they're on mine. When it all started they gave me a one time notice that they would be in and out of my apartment over the next couple months with NO WARNING as needed in case the construction crew needed to do something inside the apartment. I called and asked to receive at least a 1 day notice in advance before anyone entered my apartment so that I could have someone here whenever it happened as I didn't like the idea of someone in my home when we're not here. They said they would let me know \"if they could\" however they need 24 hour available access. Four days later I came home from work to find most of my furniture moved around and all my curtains\/blinds taken down and clear plastic sheets over my windows so now anyone and everyone can see into my apartment and i have absolutely zero privacy. The only room where I now have blinds\/curtains is the living room because they weren't working on the balconies\/patios. So, we move our sleeping area into the living room so that we can sleep without feeling like people are watching us. We've both missed so much work because the construction crew keeps hitting water mains so the water gets shut off or because the power is out. The construction starts around 7-8AM and we can't sleep through it so, even though we work late evenings and don't even get home till after 10PM we're absolutely exhausted all the time now. The construction crew has also managed to halfway destroy the wall coming into the apartment from the outside and punch holes through it and destroyed the window sill and left debris scattered across my apartment. The dust and debris are causing us both to have severe allergies and feel sick. The adhesives they're using to fix the water lines are making the water undrinkable (we've gotten sick several times after drinking the water when they've hit the lines) and we also can't cook with it because its basically poisoned. I've had the apartment manager come out and look at the damage and living conditions and was told there was nothing they could do and we'd just have to deal with it. I've sent an email to the management asking for them to at least discount our rent because this is an unlivable situation and all I get told is \"we'll look into it.\" I'm seriously at my wits end and have no idea what I can do about this but I can't keep living in this situation. \n\nHere is the letter I wrote to our complex:\n\n<Apartment Manager>,\n\nThank you for coming to look at the apartment. With all of the construction causing a hazardous living environment and the fact that this has become stressful beyond belief, we\u2019d like to request a discount on our rent for the time period since construction began running through whenever it will be completed. We can\u2019t even sleep in our own bed because we are afraid of flying debris and someone looking in our window since we\u2019ve got no substantial covering for the windows. Our home is no longer a home at the moment and we\u2019ve already lost multiple days of work due to the constant water and power outages. We have no expectation of privacy since there\u2019s no way we can cover our windows and people will walk in any time they choose without prior warning though we\u2019ve repeatedly asked for notification a day in advance before entry. We have no expectation of even having basic utilities at this point since the construction crews seem to be hitting water mains repeatedly. There is so much dust and debris in our basic living environment that it\u2019s hard to breathe and we can\u2019t even walk around our own home without wearing shoes for fear of stepping on a sharp object. We also cannot even cook because the water is fouled constantly with adhesives where the water lines are being repaired.  The last time we drank water here, we both got sick. There are nails coming through our walls and holes in the walls in other places. There\u2019s so much noise we can\u2019t sleep and can\u2019t talk or think or do anything really. Why are we renting some place we can\u2019t reasonably live in?\n\nThank you,\n\n<Me and My Husband>\n\n\nI've taken pictures of a lot of the wall damage and lost hundreds of dollars in pay because of some of it where we couldn't leave the house in some situations. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do?\n\nPictures of some of the damage can be found here including pictures of some of the debris littering the floor where they've damaged the walls and nearly destroyed one of our computer systems:\n\nhttp:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/Ns3cS\n\nCan anyone give me advice on what to do with this? I'm really not sure what to do and this is seriously causing us both to have health issues and depression as well as issues at work.\n\n****Edit**** They came in and duct taped most of the holes and then knocked the wall out around the power outlet and sent sparks about 4 feet into the room. There's still been no response to my letter except to state that management here cannot authorize that and they had to send it off to their management office. \n\nhttp:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/biPcN ","title":"tenant issue","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539832742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p5h87\/school_attendance\/","id":"9p5h87","body":"I'm really scared, you guys. My parents were sent a letter that was printed at 10\/3 that according to California law, I might have to go to court or Juvenile Hall or some \"alternative education\" because of my \"habitual truancy\". I have supposedly been absent and tardy for more than 3 days.\n\n I have been late to some classes since that date. I fucked up - big time. I have been late to class because I have a shitty schedule and morning routine, and I hope my unexcused tardies can be cleared somehow by my parents, but I doubt it. As the name suggests, it's inexcusable. I think it may depend on the goodwill of my counselors. I have never been absent for ANY of my periods save one time because of a dentist appointment, and my mom didn't phone in that absence. I don't know if two saturday schools can really clear all my tardies and \"absences\" under 30 days. The number of truancies are unknown as of today, but I'll have that info as of tomorrow.\n\nI am scared. I'm only 16 and I don't want this to ruin my entire life and career path to becoming a doctor. I had no idea it affected you that badly. I hate the stress it put on my parents to see that letter. My mom will take me to my counselors tomorrow, and depending on how that goes, some absences\/tardies may be cleared, but I don't know how that may work out. I have good grades and my worst grade is a D+ in AP US History. All else is As and Bs.\n\nIf everything turns out for the worse, just tell me what to legally expect and how to handle it. I have never been in this situation before. If something can be negotiated so that the law and court may be avoided, I would REALLY appreciate it. If not, at least someone in the comments tell me everything will be okay. I am panicking. Someone out there, please help me. It would be of great help. I'll make updates in case I need further legal help. Thank you.","title":"School Attendance","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554711913,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bar8v6\/i_am_the_victim_of_defamation_and_i_need_to_know\/","id":"bar8v6","body":"I am an 18 year old in his freshman year of university, and the past eight months have been a living hell. Starting early in the year, I began facing false rumors that seriously harmed my otherwise pristine reputation. These were rumors of sexual assault\/rape as well as recklessness, though the stories change depending on who you might ask. I've mostly been taking these rumors lying down, allowing them to hurt me, because I don't know how to counter them and it upsets me to even think about it. I am planning to drop out of my college to get away from them as every time I remember these rumors I feel sick to my stomach. I fear that I may not have legal course because the rumors were transmitted along the grapevine and while I have ideas of who made things up and spread it, I have no way to prove that certain people said certain things about me - except for one individual. He's the topic of this post.\n\n​\n\nI should state I know very little about the law. For most of this year, I've assumed that I had no course for a defamation lawsuit just because I don't know how to prove who said what. But recently, I gained direct proof from a guy I took a class with who hates me. He texted me saying \"Hey a few girls told me that you masturbated in front of them haha\" -- This, obviously, was not true, and I instantly recognized that he was the one who made it up because there is no way that a girl, let alone several, would make that story up and tell it to him. He didn't admit that he lied but I saved his message. A week later, he passed by me on campus, and shouted at the top of his lungs \"You're a goddamn pervert \\[my name\\], you're absolutely sick\" which caused everyone around us to stop and stare at me. I believe that he has since further spread the lies about me that were already circulating as well as the lie that he came up with himself. For context, he's a real sketchy dude in general, and I've seen him commit small crimes like shoplifting. I don't know if he has any criminal record but I'm hoping he does as this might discredit him in court. \n\n​\n\nSo going forward, even if I'm unable to sue anyone else, I would like to file a lawsuit against this person. I haven't told my parents or really any adults close to me about all this because it would upset them (and  me), although if I have a case here I may have to. I want to review my legal options and see if I have any grounds to sue this guy and try and reclaim some of the dignity I've lost, and I would really appreciate any and all help. \n\nThank you for reading","title":"I am the victim of defamation and I need to know if I have enough evidence to sue","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541788717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vn0tu\/college_is_trying_to_charge_for_a_class_that_i\/","id":"9vn0tu","body":"I tried to register for classes for spring term back in March\/April. When I registered online, I immediately got an email saying that I could not register for classes, as there was an advising hold on my account (have to meet with an academic advisor annually). I had been contemplating taking the semester off anyways, and was really busy and didn't have time to go meet with an advisor, so I didn't. \n\nA few months later, I got a bill in the mail for the class that I never took. I tried going through the appeal process to get the charge removed from my account, but part of that process required having written confirmation from the teacher of that class that I didn't ever attend. Unfortunately, that teacher was away on vacation or something and unavailable to give that approval, so I submitted without. I never heard back from the college on whether or not my appeal was approved.\n\nFast forward to last week, I got a letter from the school stating that if I don't pay off my debt or set up a payment plan within 5 days that they would send my case to collections. I tried emailing them explaining the situation, and they said that I was registered for the class because supposedly i registered on April 1st at 1PM and the hold wasn't placed on my account until April 1st at 10PM. They also said the hold was lifted on April 26th (I never met with an advisor, so I'm not sure how this happened). \n\nBasically, where I'm at right now is they sent it to collections, and told me it's out of their hands. Is there any way out of paying for this class, or do I just need to suck it up and take the hit?\n\nThis is in Oregon, USA.","title":"College is trying to charge for a class that i didnt take","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571229760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dios2v\/txus_landlord_charging_excessive_amount_for_late\/","id":"dios2v","body":"I rent an apartment in a unit of 10 apartments and informed my landlord my rent would be late this month due to be paying on a new schedule. My lease states rent is late after the 5th but on the 5th is still on time. I will be paying on the 18th in full plus the late fees. My original lease from 2015 states the late fees are $50 initial and $10 day thereafter until rent and late charges are paid in full. My rent is $650\/month. My landlord would like me to pay $175 in late fees on the 18th with my rent.\n\nhttps:\/\/www.texasmha.com\/news\/featured\/new-texas-law-on-landlord-late-fees-effective-sept-1\n\nThat link contains the update to the laws.\n\nSo I asked for a breakdown of the late charges when I was told my fee would be $175. My landlord sent me a poorly cropped picture of a lease section from a random lease agreement with another tenant with different amounts shown. $25 for the initial and $10 for the day, also shows it being late after the 3rd. Through text. Said \u201cHere You Go\u201d and that\u2019s where we are at.\n\nFrom that link, it would seem to me the max he can charge me is $65 at 10% of the rent being the max. As his \u201cbreakdown\u201d of the charges is just the initial and daily and the new law changes that amount to have a limit I\u2019m not seeing where I\u2019ll be owing more than $65 for the late fee. So where do I go from here?\n\nDo I drop him a check for $650 and a check for $175 and have to go to court to get the extra back(I expect to be doing this for my deposit on move out next July as well) or do I drop him a check for $650, a check for $65 and a print out of the law update?","title":"[TX-US] Landlord charging excessive amount for late fee, seems to be ignoring Sept 1 update to law. How to proceed?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540326868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qsuhy\/landlord_is_driving_me_crazy_very_long_backstory\/","id":"9qsuhy","body":"Hello everyone, this is my first post on reddit. I hope some of you are able to offer me some advice on my landlord situation. The background info is very long, so please excuse that. Also: please don't advice me to just move out. My financial situation at the moment isn't the best and I really need to keep this flat for as long as possible. \n\n​\n\nLast April I moved into a nice, old and very tiny 1-bedroom flat that is near to my workplace and university campus. I thought I had found the perfect place, the rent was way cheaper than for other flats this size, the neighbourhood is clean and safe and it has excellent public transport connections. At that time, the fact that my new landlady and her son, who the house actually belongs to, were going to be my direct upstairs-neighbours didn't bother me. They seemed like nice, good people. The mother is already retired and her son doesn't go to work because he lives off of what he makes with all of their rented-out properties (They have several houses in the area that they rent out to students). The son always seemed a bit \"off\", but until recently I only thought that he was just overly bubbly and too talkactive. \n\n​\n\nAfter living there with no incidents for a few months, the other students who live in the house kinda warned me about the landlady\/landlord. They told me to never get on their \"bad side\" because they always have someone in the house that they love and someone that they loathe (we're a total of 6 students in different flats). The person they loathe gets bullied out. They can't legally throw you out that easily so they make your life a living hell until you move out. I didn't think too much of it, since there's always two sides to every story. If something needed to be repaired, they always did it quickly and without asking questions. You could banter with them, have a nice conversation etc. \n\n​\n\nAfter about 6 months I noticed that the son clearly has some mental issues. He keeps retelling stories over and over again, apparently forgetting that he told you the same stuff about 4 times already. He also gets more and more persistent about meeting up with me just to have \"some conversations\" etc.\n\nOne day, his mother goes off to \"vacation\" and his whole behavior changes. What seemed a little odd at first suddenly becomes very creepy very fast. I keep my door unlocked (he has a spare key anyway) and he constantly starts to show up at my flat. He always needs to \"check on something\" because he noticed something from upstairs. He bursts into my room telling me that he saw that my window was broken (it was in fact) but he never called beforehand or used the doorbell, he just came in. I was highly embarrassed because my flat looked very messy at that time and I had just come home from work. I tell him that I don't want him to come into my flat whenever he wants, to which he responds:\n\n\"Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I was being a good neighbour and friend, I didn't want to disturb you.\" \n\nThe apology seems good enough so I let it slide this time. But then he starts to check on everything. He goes \"Oh don't worry I'm not trying to control you or anything\" WHILE he runs through the flat to check every faucet, the toilet flushing, the kitchen sink. Once he starts opening drawers IN FRONT OF ME I tell him that he needs to leave NOW. \n\nAfter that we don't talk for a while. I'm busy working and he does god knows what upstairs. One thing the other students and I notice tho: whenever we gossip about him, he seems to know. In three different instances we gossiped about him not having a job, his mental state and his lack of friends. All times we did so in one of the flats and everytime he locked us up in conversations the next day, casually explaining on the way why he doesn't work, why he doesn't have people over and actually telling us, that he has a 30% disability card. The other tenants and I are so creeped out by that, one girl even checked her whole flat for bugging devices. \n\n​\n\nHis mother comes back, he's normal again. Once again I don't think too much of it. Then I learn that his father and mother are actually still married and very much in love, the father just moved out because he and the son can't be near each other without constantly screaming and fighting with each other. The mom and him (son) also fight a lot. The walls are thin so I notice everything. The mom goes \"on vacation\" more and more frequently. She told me that she's actually visiting her husband and living with him from time to time. Once again: as soon as she's gone, the son becomes creepy. \n\n​\n\nMy fridge broke and I asked him to replace it. Big mistake. He uses me asking him as a reason to constantly come into my flat without ringing first to check on the fridge and see if he really can't repair it. He comes inside, takes one look at the fridge, actually doesn't do anything and talks to me until I have to literally throw him out. One time I came back from my boyfriend's place and left my car there. So I come home at about 1 am and was just changing into my pajamas when I noticed that someone was unlocking my front door. I already had my phone in hand to call the police when I run into the hallway and switch the lights on. Who do I see? Landlord. He sees the light turning on and quickly rings the doorbell, even tho he already unlocked my door with his spare key. I ask him what the hell he was thinking coming in late at night and he goes: \"Oh, I'm so so sorry, I noticed your car was missing so I figured you were gone for the night. I was so scared about the broken fridge, I couldn't sleep, I was afraid the whole house might catch fire\". So I ask him what he intended to do and he just looks at me and blantly tells me that his plan was to sit beside the fridge until I returned to make sure it wouldn't start burning. He didn't just leave after I caught him, he tries to be all buddy-buddy with me again until I have to throw him out at 2 friggin am.\n\n​\n\nOne day later, we (the tenants) gossip about it and once again he talks to us about it the next day, trying to excuse his behavior. Since then, he has started gossiping about me to one of the other girls. He told her that he has started to write down the times I let my light in the hallway on at night and that he plans to give me an official warning about it. \n\nCome on! I pay rent, I pay my electricity bills, what is he even supposed to warn me about? I can leave my light on all I want. Also: This was ONE incident, where I fell asleep with the lights in the hallway still on. I am more concerned that he actually checked from god knows where all through the night to write down if they were still on. He noted that I switched them off exactly on 7.30 am, which is true, because that is the time I got up for work. I don't know how he knows this, but it's making me paranoid and I'm terribly afraid that I am on his \"bad side\" now. He's clearly pissed because he starts to get the message that I do not want to be around him, I don't want to be his gal buddy and I don't want him constantly in my flat. \n\n​\n\nDo I think that he intended to sniff around my flat while I was gone? Absolutely. Do I think he wanted to do creepy stuff in my bedroom? Actually no. I think he has some kind of mental illness, control issues and possibly some form of autism or OCD because he always needs to know excactly what is going on. I think he was dead serious about the fridge fire thing. I also think that the only reason his mother hasn't moved out to be with her husband yet is because he needs someone to watch him. Whenever she's around, he's perfectly normal, just a bit awkward. As soon as she's gone, he gets weird. He's probably bored because he doesn't work all day and never has friends over.\n\n​\n\nI'm so sorry for this long backstory. Please, what can I do besides moving out ?? I love love love the place. The flat is beautiful and nearly the only thing I can affoard in the area. It's even cheaper than most flats being shared by students. I'd hate to look for something different, but the guy creeps me out and his mother announced that she plans on moving in with the father soon. Can I legally change the locks or something ?? What can I do to prevent him from constantly entering? If he does try to bully me out, what steps can I take? I just want to be left alone... ","title":"Landlord is driving me crazy - very long backstory","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504317027,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xj2ay\/college_canceled_loan_without_notification\/","id":"6xj2ay","body":"My big question is if this is legal, as it really doesn't seem like it should be to me. This occurred with CSUB, California State University  of Bakersfield. \n\nMy father is a Navy veteran and so I qualify for VA assistance to cover my tuition costs from CSUB. The VA and CSUB already had all the paperwork sorted out. I know this because I had already received a letter from the VA affirming this, many weeks ago. However, I still need money to cover transportation costs and fee's not related to tuition. Once I had all my classes charged to my student account and had completed all the necessary documents to receive student loans 2 options were awarded. I was able to take a ~3,500 subsidized loan for the year and up  to I think $5,000 subsidized. I decided that I would take out the max for my subsidized loan for the first year and I could take out more later if I needed it. So I accepted the loan and the math had come out to around ~1,735 after a loan fee, per semester. In the next few days is where the actual issue comes from. They deducted around $700 to pay for fee's (as is standard) and then two days after that refunded the remaining money to my personal bank account. However, a few days after that I see that not only are the $700 of fee's  back on my account there is now a future negative balance for the rest of the loan. I called the financial aid office and they told me that once my VA benefits had kicked in my expected need had dropped and disqualified me from subsidized loans. They didn't back charge my bank account for loan size and to my knowledge they hadn't notified me that my loan had been canceled. So now on top of my initial $700 of fee's I owe them an extra $1,000 from the loan. This is an issue because I ordered books with the money and now don't have the $1,000 total. Had they notified me or canceled the direct deposit I wouldn't have spent it. Shouldn't they have known that the VA benefits would have disqualified me before even allowing me to take out the loan? ","title":"College canceled loan without notification","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541460946,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uixev\/need_assistance_with_writing_an_agreement\/","id":"9uixev","body":"Locale: Colorado  \nBackground: My spouse is about to get a settlement as the result of a situation that happened long before we were married. As it predates our marriage, we've agreed to treat it as her sole property, as opposed to something considered community property, and are attempting to write up a contract to that effect. Neither of us is a lawyer, however, and I've been unable to find any helpful information online outside of \"what to do when getting divorced\" (we aren't getting divorced), or simply \"ask a lawyer\" (which doesn't sound very cost effective in this case). I've tried looking for free legal advice resources, but everything I've found is either for low-income (which we are not) or very specific services that aren't applicable to this situation.  \nSo the question is: Does anyone have any insight or resources to be shared for writing an agreement relinquishing claims over a spouse's settlement that isn't related to a divorce or separation?","title":"Need assistance with writing an agreement","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552488957,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0mx3s\/i_accidentally_infringed_on_copyright_laws\/","id":"b0mx3s","body":"I\u2019ll try to keep this as short as possible. \n\n(17M) I live in the USA (NJ, if that even matters,) and I was a using a movie streaming app and was watching movies on it. I\u2019ve been using that same app for 2 years and never had a problem with it.  But about an hour ago I an email from my internet provider that I had infringed on copyright laws and they reminded me of DMCA laws I had agreed to follow. Yes, I realize this is stupid of me to use an app like that, I realize that now.\n\nMy question is, should I be concerned for any legal recourse, or is there any precautions or measures I should take at this time?","title":"I accidentally infringed on copyright laws.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570998823,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhg4sl\/hit_run\/","id":"dhg4sl","body":"Hi all, username relevant.\n\nSo at a light, this lady cuts across 2 lanes of traffic to get into my lane (everyone is crawling along at a red light). She gets in front of me very tightly, so as is custom, I proceed to lay on the horn for approx 2 seconds. In those 2 seconds, she stops short, well behind the cars in front of her, and I gently tap her (going 3-5mph max).\n\nHotheaded, I immediately jump out of the car & run over to her window to see what kind of brainless fool cuts over two lanes then stops short. I mouth 'what the fuck were you doing?' she mouths back 'you hit me?' and shrugs.\n\nI turn around and see that theres absolutely NO damage to my bumper. I run back to my car and see that theres also NO MARK on her car. I think you can see where this is going... I jumped back in my car and just left. As i passed her, I see her yell \"OH NO YOU DON'T!\" while taking her phone out.\n\nMy questions are: If there is no damage to either car, and she has no video evidence of me very gently bumping her bumper.. is this is a hit & run? My opinion is yes, but because there's no damage, is there really even an accident? To be honest I'm 90% sure she took her phone out too late to get my plates or anything, and I'm not really the one freaking out.. I had someone else in the car who can't have any legal repercussions.\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Hit & Run??","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1410020981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fnanp\/landlord_is_being_negligent_we_need_help\/","id":"2fnanp","body":"Backstory: my housemates and I are students at a fairly nice school in the upper northwestern part of Pennsylvania and for our senior year we decided to rent an off campus house. Some of our friends had lived there previously with no real issue. There are eight of us. \nThe problem: yesterday morning we awoke to find that our downstairs bathroom had developed a few large puddles of red liquid and a large crack running the length of the ceiling. We contacted the landlord and requested that they solve the problem. She sent her maintenance guy who fixed the broken pipe in our ceiling and that was it. He left so we called her again and told her that the ceiling was going to collapse if it wasn't fixed soon. She essentially told us to shove off and that her maintenance guy would get to it in a couple of weeks. \nA couple of hours ago, roughly twenty-four hours from our initial call, a large crash was heard in our bathroom. A large portion of the ceiling collapsed. It was a large enough segment of the ceiling that it would have harmed one of us considerably if we had been using the toilet or taking a shower. \nNow we can no longer use the the bathrooms in our house because we cannot trust what is left of the floor upstairs. If the landlord doesn't fix it immediately we will be pressing charges but we don't know what to press. Help?","title":"Landlord is being negligent. We need help.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541399042,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ub83j\/friend_got_beat_up_by_strangers_they_ran_away\/","id":"9ub83j","body":"One of my friend got beat up by strangers at a bar last night.\nHe was trying to break up a fight between them and one of his friends.\nWhen police arrived at the scene, strangers ran away.\nBut we have the footage of them swinging at my friend and we also know the person's identity. One of the person who got beat up is checked into hospital.\nWhere do we go from here?\nAlso, we are international students on Visa and those strangers are US military individuals. Would this make any differences in building a case...?\n\nThanks in advance.\n\nEdit: Adding location, Seattle WA","title":"Friend got beat up by strangers, they ran away when police arrived but we know the person","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551937035,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay949s\/14000_in_seven_days\/","id":"ay949s","body":"So, basically my mum and her husband got into some financial trouble and my mums husbands parents lent them around $14k and now that my mum and her husband are not together anymore but still technically and legally married they\u2019re demanding my mum make the full payment and not her kind of ex husband even though the money was put into his bank account. \n\nSorry for the bad formatting I\u2019m on mobile.\n\nSo what\u2019s the go? ","title":"$14.000 in seven days","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553590388,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5nbao\/my_federal_agent_husband_lied_to_the_cops_and\/","id":"b5nbao","body":"We\u2019re about to start the separation and he wants custody of the kids. This was his way of doing it. \nThe cops came and asked me if I was suicidal, I told them, no, just depressed. Considering that my husband was abusive for months and it\u2019s torn my family apart, it\u2019s not strange for me to be depressed. When I told him I was depressed last night, he told me he was moving out.  Part of his abuse was scaring me with his guns. So I asked if he had removed all the guns, and he said he was leaving the shotgun. He proceeded to grab two large red bullets and told me they weren\u2019t buckshot and would put a big hole in me. \nI was crying upstairs when he was moving out and he asked me if I was going to hurt myself. I said no, I was just depressed but fine. Over and over and over, he asked. He said he didn\u2019t believe me and I asked him to leave me alone. I said he was making it worse by asking and asking and pressuring.  He called 911, and told the dispatcher that I was holding a shotgun and I was going to kill myself. I\u2019m in the background saying no I\u2019m not. I went back to bed and asked him to hang up, I was not going to hurt myself. Next thing I know, there\u2019s a cop yelling up the stairs for me to put the shotgun down. I come out and say I don\u2019t have one, never had one. They handcuffed me and searched me. I was crying again at this point because I\u2019m terrified. The last time the cops came because he had abused me, they threatened to arrest me.  They never even questioned me. They spoke to him outside and when they came in said I was lucky to be let go. \nThis time they said that I would be taken to the hospital to be evaluated and then they would decide if I was going to be held for 72 hours. I sat in the ER in handcuffs for four hours, and then they told me I was already on a hold. I was never evaluated. \nThis is a marital dispute. He wants the kids. I have no thoughts, plans, intentions, etc., to hurt myself. I don\u2019t know what to do. How do I get out of here? How do I further protect myself from him? \nThey might take my phone. I have no idea how this works. I\u2019m sorry if I\u2019m all over the place. My life is upside down and it\u2019s hard to think straight.  ","title":"My federal agent husband lied to the cops and said I was going to kill myself. No proof. Just him. How do I get out?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1415902683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2m79gq\/i_am_having_a_really_bad_time_getting_fiat_to\/","id":"2m79gq","body":"I am running out of things to try.. what should I do? I do have a secondary warranty but they said they wont cover it unless the car has 50k miles because the factory warranty is still in effect :(\n\nLocation: Dallas, TX (Dealership is at McKinney, TX)\n\n**What Happened to my Car**\n\nOn the morning of 11\/11\/2014 I was driving my normal commute to work on an open stretch of Dallas North Tollway cruising at normal highway speed in my 2012 Fiat 500 Sport. I was in the 5th gear in the far left lane driving at consistent speed.\n\nI heard an airy sort of pop sound and then a sound as if something were dragging underneath my Fiat 500. It was as if I had run over a block of Styrofoam in a shopping cart and were dragging it underneath. Immediately my Fiat 500 lost engine power followed by several messages on the HUD: Low Oil Pressure; No Oil Pressure; See Handbook.\n\nUsing my roadside assistance with my insurance provider, I had the car towed to the nearest Fiat Dealership.\n\n**Dealing with Fiat**\n\nAfter they inspected the damage to the vehicle. The General Manager informed me that the engine needed to be replaced ($5,700) but that regrettably it would not be covered by the factory warranty. The reason for the warranty disqualification was that the computer indicated that the maximum engine \u201cover-rev\u201d reached a value of 7,300 a total of 26 different times.\n\nFiat vehicles \u2013 like most modern vehicles \u2013 are equipped with engine safety features which limit engine revolutions to acceptable values. My car was equipped with such a \u201cRev Limiter\u201d. In my experience with the vehicle, it is not possible for one to reach engine revolution speeds of 7,300 per minute. I have never reached that RPM in that vehicle.\n\nI asked the dealership to provide me documentation of the data which was retrieved from the computer. Later I received a copy of the diagnostics captured using a wiTECH Diagnostic System and it shows 3 pieces of data: Total Over Rev Counter = 26, Max Engine Over Rev RPM = 7320, Total Time Exceeding Max Engine RPM 0.0 seconds.\n\nIf it says that the total time over Max Engine RPM is 0.0 seconds, how is this possible if it indicated 26 times? Since this is valued in total seconds, if for some reason the times added up to 0.0444 - which would be the maximum value possible before rounding up to 0.1, that means each of the 26 over rev instances would have lasted 0.0017 seconds. Even if going at 7320 RPM, the Fiat 500 engine can only go 12.44 revolutions in 0.0017 seconds. There is no way that it could be measured this accurately. There is something wrong with the data or the diagnostic tool used.\n\nWhen explaining the thrown rod in more detail it was said that the thrown rod went through the \u201cPower Control Module\u201d. I assume that the technician meant the \u201cPowertrain\u201d control module. If for some reason the Power Control Module were damaged, it could be the case that this could cause invalid data to be either generated or recorded. This data might be data which was not caused as a direct action of the driver but as a result of the damage to the electronic components of the vehicle which control the powertrain itself.\n\nNevertheless, I can attest that the engine was not revved up to any unsafe or unacceptable level at any point during the commute to work. For at least a 10 minute timespan before and up to the breakdown I was in 5th gear and holding RPMs which are normal for a cruising speed. I was not having to hit my breaks or go down in gear for any reason, nor was I speeding up. The car simply made a noise and stopped functioning normally.\n\n**My Thoughts**\n\n* The computer recorded RPM levels which were invalid or wrong and the car did not reach RPM levels in excess of 7,000 at any point.\n* If for any reason the RPM levels recorded were actually transmitted for recording it was a result of output during the failure of the engine which caused damage to electrical components that record and generate data or it was the result of data which was inaccurately measured due to the failure of the engine.\n* If for any reason the RPM levels did reach 7,300 in the engine (which they did not) it would be a result of faulty engine safety features in the vehicle including the \u201cRev Limiting\u201d features built in to the car by Fiat. The \u201cRev Limiting\u201d feature of the car should limit the engine from being able to reach the unsafe RPM levels that were recorded by the computer. The \u201cRev Limiter\u201d has a documented RPM limit which is less than 7,300. If the RPM reached 7,300 it would be the result of a failure of a Fiat safety feature with documented constraints.\n* It was explained to me by the Fiat USA Customer Service case manager I worked with that if the pressure in the engine was increased the RPM could go past the limit. This \u201cPressure\u201d in the engine to me sounds like the cause of the Fiat engine failure and this indicates to me further that the failure occurred before the RPM levels were recorded and also indicates that the RPM levels recorded were not the cause of the engine failure but a result. The RPM levels indicated during the incident on the Tachometer were normal levels throughout the ordeal. If for some reason increased \u201cPressure\u201d were being applied in the engine past the RPM limit, that pressure would have been caused by some means other than my foot on the gas and would be, in a car with under 36,000 miles, a defect in the power train.","title":"I am having a really bad time getting Fiat to cover an engine replacement for a 2012 Fiat 500 with only 35,000 miles. What should I do?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569266148,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8bcqo\/my_mother_passed_away_in_2015_i_just_discovered\/","id":"d8bcqo","body":"To go more into detail, my grandmother adopted my siblings and I back when I was in middle school- legally she's my mother. She passed away in October of 2015 and after some scrabbling to avoid my siblings and I being separated into foster care, my biological mother's sister and her husband were granted guardianship of us. In May of 2016, a month after my eldest sister received her share of the policy, my money was taken from the policy. I'm also assuming the same about my younger sisters- the agents could only tell me about mine specifically. My older sister was convinced by them that they needed her money as well as $19,000 more to pay off some debts my grandma had left. \n\nI'm now 20 and my other sister is 18- we just found out about all of this and it's throwing me in a whirlwind. The amount of money that was meant to be gifted to us would have changed my life for the better when I would have needed it the most. I never knew it even existed and was never asked if they could take it or received any kind of documents or notifications that my share was removed. I'm not too educated on the matter and have a decent amount of questions. Any advice would be appreciated.","title":"My mother passed away in 2015, I just discovered that she left money for my sisters and I, but my guardians at the time took the money. Is there any way to get it back?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571239064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diqq8e\/wage_garnishment_credit_acceptance\/","id":"diqq8e","body":"Short story I got a letter saying they are going to start garnishing my check because of a car that got repossessed 4 years ago I didn't go to none of the court hearings and now I don't know what to do they didn't say how much they were taken out but my job already signed off on it is there a away to stop it from happening or I'm just stuck having to let them take it out my check? Can I get the payments lowered or file for bankruptcy or just let it run its course and pay it off? I still owe over 8 but under 9 thousand I only make 400 a week. They  didn't start taking it out yet.","title":"Wage garnishment credit acceptance","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555446040,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdyopi\/money_vs_company_location_and_liability\/","id":"bdyopi","body":"If a company, for this example let\u2019s say a vpn company, has its servers based somewhere where governments (UK\/USA) can\u2019t ask for them but it takes money in one of those countries, would it be possible for the government to ask for the records to work out who people are etc?","title":"Money vs company location and liability","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570107976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcqmsp\/a_simple_question_about_amber_guyger_case\/","id":"dcqmsp","body":"as we all know she was sentenced to 10 years with parole after 5 years\n\ndoes that mean she will get out in 2024 ?\n\nI read something about 5 % plus time served can you please explain it to me\n\nsome people said she will get out in 1 and a half year even if she did not win any appeals is that right ?","title":"a simple question about Amber Guyger case","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555324816,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdehnt\/getting_sued_for_using_an_image_another_site_used\/","id":"bdehnt","body":"Location: Germany\n\nI have a small scraping site that collects data from a shop and presents it in a way that benefits users (similar to CamelCamelCamel). No sales are done on my site.\n\nFor this site I also use small scale, cropped pictures for easier recognition. These are obtained automatically from the original product page. I can\u2019t be expected to check all the images manually.\n\nNow it so happens that I scraped a picture that the original store doesn\u2019t have permission to use. The copyright owner contacted me and asks me to pay or wants to drag me to court. \n\nAm I in the right because scaled it down to thumbnail size (400x400)? My site basically functions as a search engine and I know google previously was cleared of being responsible for their thumbnails. What defines a search engine?\n\nThank you for any help!","title":"Getting sued for using an image another site used without permission","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569713137,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/danhfa\/received_collection_notice_from_traffic_ticket\/","id":"danhfa","body":"I live in County A, which is next to County B (where I did live in 2003). Superior Court of County C (300 miles away) \u201cc\/o County B\u201d sent me a collection notice for nearly $500. \n\nI called both the number on the notice, as well as the phone number for collections listed on their website. Based upon case number on the notice, said it was an outstanding traffic ticket from County B from 2003 (not a typo). \n\nObviously going to call the court in County B on Monday, but until then wondering if this is a thing or if I\u2019m being targeted by scammers? I mean, it\u2019s been 16 years!","title":"Received collection notice from \u201ctraffic ticket from 2003\u201d","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442738043,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lno8g\/landlord_in_virginia_refuses_to_pay_back_full\/","id":"3lno8g","body":"During university, a total of 4 of us rented a home in Virginia. Our contract included a $600 security deposit, to be returned after the completion of the contract, pending no damages.\n\nBy my reading of [Virginia's State Code regarding security deposits](http:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/virginia\/2006\/toc5500000\/55-248.15c1.html), the landlord had 45 days to notify us of damages and pay back our security deposits, less any proven cost to her of repairs.\n\nFor a period of over two months, the landlord repeatedly (every week to two weeks) told us that she had sent us checks, which turned out to be a lie. She made absolutely no mention of the fact that she had removed $120 from each resident's deposit, only sending us $480 per person. These $480 checks arrived 78 days after the termination of the contract, still with no explanation of damages.\n\nWe followed up and she made some more specific claims - but I don't believe that she can legally claim these costs of repairs from our security deposits due to the 45-day provision. In an email reply to us, she claimed \"There technically does not to be prior notification for security deposit deductions,\" which I do not believe is true. She then clarified the deductions for the first time on September 7, nearly 100 days after the termination of the contract. Some of these deductions are suspect, as they are not accurate reflections of the state of the house upon our leaving, although we don't have a way to prove that.\n\nDo you think we have a legal case to get our full deposit back? Thanks!","title":"Landlord in Virginia refuses to pay back full amount of security deposit despite missing deadline - do we have standing?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444771647,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3on0r1\/san_diego_ca_car_dealership_claims_right_to\/","id":"3on0r1","body":"UPDATE 10\/17 - The finance director still hasn't called, but the salesman did and asked me to come in today. I'm at the dealership now, and he said they are looking at an older model with less value to try to get me approved for. I really need a car, but I don't want to get screwed over again. Should I tell them to give me my down-payment back and walk away, or let them play the game? \n\nOriginal post:\nA bit of back story: I have bad credit (sub 500 FICO score), 2 reposessions, several delinquent accounts in collections, and 2 wage garnishments. Not proud of this, but it is what it is. Trying to rebuild at the same time have a semi-normal life.\n\nSo, on September 27th I worked out a deal with a local car dealership to purchase a 2015 Nissan Versa Note S, the cheapest car on their lot based on MSRP. It took a bit of effort to get all the financials cleared, some numbers seemed fudged from the salesman's side of things, and I am sure some predatory lending practices were used now that I look back on it. That's beside the point, though. We settled upon me providing a deferred down payment by providing 2 checks dated 9\/27\/2015 but with a separate \"promise not to deposit until\" document which allowed the dealership to deposit the checks on 10\/5\/2015 and 10\/17\/2015 (the next two paydays).\n\nAccording to my bank, the first check was deposited on 10\/6\/2015 and my account deducted the same day. All good, so far.\n\nOn 10\/10\/2015 I received a letter in the mail, certified. It was hand-written as signed on 10\/5\/2015, and the postmark of the letter was 10\/8\/2015. This letter was a notice that the dealership is executing their right to rescind the purchase, due to their inability to find a suitable financial backer for my loan. The notice asked me to contact them immediately. It was after 10:00 P.M. when I had checked the mail, so I waited until the next morning to call.\n\nI called the number on the notice on 10\/11\/2015 (Sunday) but the person I was to speak to was out of the office for the weekend. I tried again on 10\/12\/2015 (Monday), and spoke with their Financial Director as the notice instructed. This person informed me that they were \"working on it\" and that they would call back that evening with an update, then hung up abruptly. \n\nBy 5:00 P.M. on 10\/12\/2015, I had received no call, so I called them myself to follow up. I was told that the Finance Director had left for the day, but that there was a note that my issue was still being \"worked on\" and that I would receive a call the next morning to discuss it.\n\nIt is now 2:24 P.M. on 10\/13\/2015, and I have not received a call. Before I call them back, I would like to know if this delay and apparent refusal to schedule a return or acknowledge the notice will have any bearing on the timeline or requirement for me to return the vehicle.\n\nAny assistance would be greatly appreciated!\n\n(TL;DR: dealership says they want the car back immediately, but is not cooperating with scheduling the return and\/or any additional information -- do I need to return it still?)","title":"[San Diego, CA] - Car dealership claims right to rescission, but won't let me return the vehicle yet","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568469030,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d45f84\/usa_tennessee_client_contract_negotiation_advice\/","id":"d45f84","body":"I\u2019ve hit a roadblock with a contract while renewing a longtime client. Her lawyer has pushed back on 2 clauses. The client has a history of threatening lawsuits and flying off the handle, so I\u2019m weary of giving up too much control. Still, I\u2019m trying to compromise to get this deal done. Thank you in advance for this subs valuable input!\n\n1)  Applicable Law\n\nShe crossed out Tennessee (my company\u2019s location) and wrote California (client and her lawyer\u2019s location). Pretty standard move. In an effort to find middle ground, I responded by accepting California as governing law and identifying Tennessee as having jurisdiction.\n\n\u201cThis Agreement shall be governed by, interpreted, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California without regard to conflict of laws principles. Any dispute or claim arising out of or relating to the Agreement or claim of breach hereof shall be brought exclusively in the courts of the Tennessee county in which Vendor\u2019s headquarters are located and Parties waive any objection to such jurisdiction or venue.\u201d\n\nHere\u2019s the resulting exchange...\n\nLawyer: \u201dThis agreement can't be under two different laws.  You are being hired in California and we need to remain in California jurisdiction.\u201d\n\nMe: \u201cIf you insist California be the governing law and forum for disputes, then I will require my travel and accommodation expenses be paid for by the Client in case a dispute arises that requires me to be personally present.\u201d\n\nLawyer: \u201cIf you were in breach why would my client pay anything? I am not understanding what you are getting at here. This is never an issue. Do you plan on breaching the agreement? If not then I do not see the issue. We are not doing it.\u201d\n\n\nIs there another creative approach to this to mitigate the Client\u2019s eagerness to sue?\n\n\n\n2) Limitations of Liability\n\nLawyer wants to remove this entirely:\n\n\u201cWith respect to the Services provided hereunder, except with respect to indemnification obligations or violations of applicable confidentiality obligations, in no event shall the liability of Vendor, or any of its present and former officers, employees, agents, or contractors, exceed two times the amount of fees Vendor receives for the Services performed under this Agreement.\u201d\r\n\nHere\u2019s what she said: \u201cLiability can't be limited. It's a warranty provision. Both parties represent and warrant their work and any damage they cause to another.  It is the basis of the entire agreement.\u201d\n\nI\u2019m hopeful there is a middle ground between unlimited liability and enough liability to serve as a deterrent. Am I thinking about this incorrectly?\n\n\nThanks again!","title":"(USA - Tennessee) Client contract negotiation advice needed!","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551735673,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axcshx\/ga_mother_passed_away_and_named_my_uncle_her\/","id":"axcshx","body":"As we understand it, he still has to be officially appointed executor by the courts in order to manage the estate.(Probate courts, I believe?) The attorney who worked with my mom to draft the will said it would cost us about $1500 for him to handle it for us. Meanwhile, my sister-in-law\u2019s sister (my brother\u2019s wife\u2019s sister) is a paralegal, and said she could handle the process for us.\n\nWhile we\u2019d like to save as much money as possible, this doesn\u2019t sound like something that a paralegal could do. Furthermore, I\u2019m a little concerned about using family for this sort of thing. ","title":"[GA] Mother passed away and named my uncle, her brother, executor of the estate. Do we need to hire an attorney for this process?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571365708,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djgvxa\/father_passed_away_his_pension_is_in_ex_ex_wifes\/","id":"djgvxa","body":"I have a feeling everything is pretty sealed but I figure I ask the internet first before taking it to an attorney. \n\nEssentially, my father recently passed away very unexpectedly. He had a pension he was more than proud about having. There is no doubt in my mind he would have wanted me and my brother to have it. We are the beneficiaries of everything else.\n\nWhen talking to the office who deals with filing claims for these benefits, we were told to our shock that his ex wife (he was married before him and my mother were married) was on file. This was done in 1994, and he switched hospitals about 3 to 4 times after working at the one which he filed this. \n\nTwo things to consider: my mother remembers going in with him to have it switched into her name, years ago. She was even awarded a portion of it in the divorce which she never claimed for reason I\u2019m unsure of. \n\nSecond thing, about two years ago he went to update his beneficiaries for his retirement account & he had signed a paper naming my brother the beneficiary of life insurance through his work. This is life insurance he had stopped paying into years before. So, why would he sign a paper for insurance he doesn\u2019t have? Possibly because the insurance and the pension are labeled something incredibly similar. \n\nIt doesn\u2019t help the woman helping us with the filing and whatnot is a complete, total moron. Though, she told us the man who signed off on the paper for the useless insurance that he didn\u2019t actually have, is a complete moron, if you can gather what I\u2019m getting at. Does anyone see any roundabout solution to this? The woman who the pension is awarded to is pretty much a snake in the grass and I know my dad would be more than crushed, as would we obviously, if she were awarded it.","title":"Father passed away, his pension is in ex ex wife\u2019s name, wrong paperwork most likely filed, what to do?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1443933464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nf6jt\/accounts_created_using_my_email_addresses\/","id":"3nf6jt","body":"Lately, there have frequently been more people using my email address and email addresses with my domains to create accounts at websites.  Some of them require you to login to unsubscribe.  Is it legal for me to reset the passwords for these accounts and change the email address?\n\nLocation is in the U.S.","title":"Accounts created using my email address(es)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568708993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5e1lu\/expanding_ecommerce_site_internationally\/","id":"d5e1lu","body":"I am a director of a consumer to consumer eCommerce site and my partners want to expand to another country (Australia if relevant). They are saying that we need to register a company in Australia and are going to give shares to someone in exchange for them being a director so that we can register (Need a local director). As far as I can tell, we don't need to legally register a company in Australia.   \nCan someone confirm this or tell me that I am wrong?","title":"Expanding eCommerce site internationally","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540591079,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rp1mu\/looking_to_go_after_my_previous_employer_but_not\/","id":"9rp1mu","body":"Several months ago, I worked at a financial planner's office as a member of the firm's support staff (ie. filing account paperwork, taking client requests as they needed, non-revenue generating stuff at a fixed salary). The position was not as advertised (a more analytic role vs clerical) and discrepancies started showing up on day one when my bonus potential listed in my welcome packet was half of what was listed in my offer letter. Subsequently, I was given scheduling duties and other secretarial responsibilities, and finally my title was changed to a clerical role. This was all during my orientation, ie. before I began doing any work at all. As I had just left a more senior level job, I felt embarrassed, betrayed and stupid. After trying to make the situation work for several months, I decided to leave the firm and pursue other opportunities. My intention initially was to leave things in the past, but I am now getting harassed and threatened by their business partner, a broker-dealer they use, who are demanding I pay for services I used while working for my previous employers.  \n\n\nI was not an independent contractor, sole proprietor, or small business owner. I did not hold a franchise, agency, nor was I involved with selecting this hostile firm to work with. My hours were fixed, my duties were non-revenue generating, my salary was fixed, and the firm states clearly in their disclosure they are not owned by, controlled, nor a part of the business of said broker-dealer. Any activity I engaged in with this firm was to support the business of my employers strictly.\n\n​\n\nI emailed them several days ago explaining this explicitly, but have yet to receive a response. The changes to the job were made before I began actual work, less than four days from my start date. They stated these changes were to boost morale of stagnant employees, and it was abundantly clear it was there intention to make these changes (without my knowledge) from before I was hired. These fees were not disclosed to me, nor was it  disclosed that I would have any obligations to a business partner they selected to facilitate their financial sales practice. I feel these people have committed fraud, materially damaged my career and standard of living through calculated deception, and now I am being harassed by their hostile business partner as a result of fees they neglected to disclose.\n\n​\n\nI would like to report their activities to a government agency and\/or speak with an attorney, but I really do not know where to start. These issues are not related to discrimination or sexual misconduct, and it seems this it was most advocacy groups focus on. Also the company is small, less than 15 I believe, and many agencies only focus on larger businesses. Before it comes up, I created this throwaway account because I do not want to disclose my identity. My former employer could easily connect me to this post and I would like to maintain anonymity with my primary reddit account, for obvious reasons. Thank you!","title":"Looking to go after my previous employer, but not sure where to start","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443662680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n1n65\/apartment_manager_not_allowing_tenants_to_use\/","id":"3n1n65","body":"My apartment has w\/s\/g and trash included in the rent. I got rid of a dresser and put it by the dumpster that we normally put our trash in, and the apartment manager just told me that I have to get rid of it myself because \"they have to pay for the trash services.\" Is she in the right? I'm a tiny female without a car that can drive it to the dump and assumed this would be covered under my lease. I'm moving out soon and don't want to start a fight with her in case she tries to give me a bad review at the next place I apply at. Should I chop it up into pieces and throw it in the dumpster?","title":"Apartment manager not allowing tenants to use trash services-Idaho","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540772438,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s8afp\/college_application_process_please_help\/","id":"9s8afp","body":"So my parents came to America in 2000, had me in June of 2001. They were applying for citizenship but after 9-11, it almost eliminated any chance of that happening. (They have tried to gain citizenship since but unfortunately they still haven't been able to go through the whole process. They dealt with scam lawyers and stuff like that too.) I am a legal citizen, under the legal guardianship of my aunt, but she provides no financial help to our actual family, and I would never consider her my \"parent\".\n\n\\*17 years later\\*\n\nI'm in 12th grade now and you know what that means: COLLEGE APPS! I can obviously get through the essays, questionnaires, and anything about myself but then I got to the FAFSA and CSS. What do I put for all the tax forms, financial aid, and income sections for my parents? (I have W-2 and legal documents for my aunt but I don't think she's my \"parent\") I can't even get to the next section of CSS without completing this part. Please help ","title":"College Application Process (please help)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539311636,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ngggb\/2_weeks_of_parent_observation_in_classroom\/","id":"9ngggb","body":"Some context: I'm an NJ teacher, and I have a particularly nasty student. Mom refuses to buy that her sweet angel could possibly do wrong, and has taken issue with her daughter getting ISS for damaging another student's personal property. After a few negative conversations, mom shows up to parent teacher night, accuses me of not being in my classroom during the incident, and schedules to observe my entire class everyday for 2 weeks with the counselor. At this point, it feels like a vendetta\/harassment. Is it legal for her to be in my classroom everyday like this, especially without a background check? Can the school legally allow this?","title":"2 Weeks of Parent Observation in Classroom","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554379347,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9btil\/work_forcing_me_to_take_pto\/","id":"b9btil","body":"So I just heard some unofficial news at work that the plant I work at, in Maine, will be closed the week of July 4th. Plants shutting down that week are not unheard of with so many people asking for time off anyway. My question arises from them saying I will HAVE to use what is left of my PTO for this. Is that legal? Can the company give me 2 weeks of vacation and then tell me I have to use it that week? It seems like they shouldnt be allowed to.","title":"Work forcing me to take PTO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553886047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7188u\/need_help_fast\/","id":"b7188u","body":"Can a cosigner sign on my contract for financing a car without getting their credit check?","title":"Need help fast","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554506831,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9y6ck\/uncle_stole_items_from_garage_that_were_legally\/","id":"b9y6ck","body":"As stated my uncle was in my home and stole property. I had evicted him in September and through Nebraska legal routes I evicted and served him with notice of property abandonment that the items were no longer his after October 1, all on the legal up and up. Items have been here since, I was holding them to offer him the chance to buy them back because they're specialized tools he needs for his import car. My mom is disabled and had him over today and he removed the portion of the items worth money. I contacted the police and filed a report but the officer wasn't sure if there was anything that can be done. I spoke to the police with this very concern about a week ago even.\n\nDo I have legal recourse here to file charges if the officers seem to not want to? \n\nHe's caused my mother and I such misery (I'm her caretaker) and I've been so diplomatic and he took advantage of her inability to move to steal these items back. I'd given him a reminder not two weeks ago as well the property was forfeit. He was not given permission to take the items. ","title":"Uncle stole items from garage that were legally mine, NE","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541093906,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tblxa\/what_happens_if_i_cant_pay_a_settlement\/","id":"9tblxa","body":"My insurance only covers up to 10k for two injured persons and there was a third injured. The third is asking for 10k within 30 days. What happens if I can\u2019t pay? Does it go to court?","title":"What happens if I can\u2019t pay a settlement?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551810729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axogo5\/is_it_a_crime_to_sublease_shorter_than_what_the\/","id":"axogo5","body":"Our landlord has misinformed potential roommates and done some shady stuff before which apparently is illegal to a few people I've talked to. Maybe not necessarily illegal, but a person could win in court against him due to the misinformation he gives. \n\n​\n\nSo I want to move out entirely, HE wants to move back into the unit for good in a few months.  My contract states the end of the lease is at the end of the year, but HE wants us to find a subleaser for only 3 months. Now... apparently when that subleasers term is over, I could potentially be liable to still keep paying for the remaining of the contract. \n\n​\n\nPretty much our landlord is making us find a subleaser for a few months until the landlord can move back into the unit. This landlord has told previous roommates that they would be the only ones living in the unit (with us) but right after that he finds another person to take the den. \n\n​\n\nIs it wrong what he is doing? To my knowledge, we should ignore what our landlord says and to find somebody to take over our entire lease completely. ","title":"Is it a crime to sublease shorter than what the contract states?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568399505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3thi3\/employee_classification\/","id":"d3thi3","body":"Question about my husband's situation. He has worked over 6 months for a company that services and installs large items. The company has either service technicians or installers. Service techs make $X\/hr plus commission on whatever it is the customer agrees to (buy and replace a new widget, buy the whole thing, 3 hrs of work to fix the thing, whatever). Installers make $Y\/hr (about 50% more) because they never have the opportunity to make a commission, plus the large items being installed are extremely heavy and the work is done mainly outdoors. \n\nHusband was hired as a service tech and has been sent out on service calls almost exactly never (I just went through his paystubs for the entire time he's worked there and there's only a commission on the most recent one and it's low). So basically, he's an installer who they're paying like a technician. Everyone but the boss, including other managers acknowledges that my husband is getting screwed. He's asked the boss about it and he's said just to be patient and he'll start getting service calls and after months of that, he's said that my husband isn't getting a \"raise\" no matter what and he's not having the conversation again, period. (Is it a raise if you're asking to be paid what the job you're actually doing pays?)\n\nLegal or not, this is some bullshit and this plus a multitude of other issues (they do not schedule time off to eat even though they schedule them for 12+ hour days and yep, this is legal in Virginia, checked that already; they change the schedule for the next day at 1 and 2am sometimes, so then you get in trouble when you're late for  your first appointment after they've moved your first appointment up 2 hours).  So he's actively pursuing other opportunities and hopefully one will come through soon. \n\nMy question is: is there anything we can do now or in the future? I've calculated the lost income to be $1000\/month, conservatively (I took his regular and overtime hours and multiplied by the minimum of what the installers make, took the difference from his gross pay and came up with that). I'd like that money, obviously. If the company would just pay him for the job he does, MAYBE he'd deal with the schedule stuff and just eat while he drives to appointments or something, but this is just really not a situation he can deal with for much longer. If it makes any difference, it turns out that this company has been sued in the past for what sounds like wage theft (my husband is unclear on the details)-- changing hours, moving time to other days to avoid overtime etc. They're clearly a shady lot and I wish he'd never taken this job but here we are.","title":"Employee classification","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570405920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/debia2\/abusive_parents_trying_to_hunt_me_down_and_now\/","id":"debia2","body":"Utah. USA. My abusive parents have apparently gone to the police in an attempt to track me down. I fled them some years ago, but they refuse to leave me alone (typical abusers). Someone identifying themselves as the police has somehow gotten my phone number, which I never gave to my parents, and has been calling me, saying they want to do a welfare check. The number does not match the police department\u2019s, and I have suspected that my parents have used a PI to track me before. My parents do creepy things like show up to my work when I\u2019ve told them to stay away and calling HR to ask about my status when I\u2019m not around.\n\nI don\u2019t know what info these supposed police might be looking for from me, even though they say it\u2019s a welfare check. Should I call them back? What should I say? If they ask where I live, I don\u2019t want to tell them. But I also don\u2019t want to lie. Am I within my rights to not tell them?","title":"Abusive parents trying to hunt me down and now using police to do so","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569780507,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dayscb\/missouri_wife_cheated_and_took_money_for_drugs\/","id":"dayscb","body":"I found out yesterday that my wife of 7 years cheated with another man and took money from our bank account for drugs. She was recently in a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. She was out for about a week or two and decided that she didn\u2019t want to stay in our home. We currently live with my parents due to me being the only one who works. She has been a stay at home mom since last June when our second child was born. \n\nShe was upfront and honest about what\u2019s going on with her. She\u2019s also been self harming with cutting and using weed (that I know of so far) to try to cope. She took the last $40 in our account for the weed and has been impulsively spending for the last week so I had to borrow money from my parents for gas, groceries etc. I\u2019m concerned that when she gets paid again that she will try to take more money to get high and numb her pain. \n\nThe situation she was in the other night sounded like something out of a movie. The guy she cheated with was someone she met in the hospital who was recovering from drug abuse. Apparently from her story, his child died, and his brother overdosed on fentanyl and almost died while she was there. It\u2019s obviously not a good situation to have our kids around in her current state.\n\nSo my questions are: Can I open a bank account in my own name to send my next paycheck to so she can\u2019t access it? I don\u2019t want it to seem like I\u2019m cutting her off because I feel like this could be used against me down the line but I don\u2019t want her to keep taking money so I can\u2019t pay bills and support my children. My other question is, can I keep her from taking the children? I work full time and she was staying at home. I\u2019m very concerned that she would try to take them even though she doesn\u2019t want to be around them. She said she can\u2019t handle them in her current state. I have their car seats and given the situation she was in as I described, it is not safe for her to take the kids. Just to be clear, she still isn\u2019t in our home. I have people I can rely on to watch the kids while I\u2019m at work. \n\nI appreciate the advice in advance.","title":"Missouri - Wife cheated, and took money for drugs","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570753877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg7824\/can_a_public_university_take_away_legal_rights\/","id":"dg7824","body":"This may be a dumb question, but as a dumb college student, I feel like I must ask. I attend Purdue University, a Public school in Indiana. Recently the Purdue administration created a amendment to the school rules that if any student was caught gambling on Purdue sports teams, would be subject to expulsion. Now, sports gambling just became legal in Indiana, so I was wondering if the state law would be able to super-cede school legislation.","title":"Can a public university take away legal rights?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1441589132,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jx57w\/canada_on_landlord_shrinking_my_room\/","id":"3jx57w","body":"My landlord has decided to remove ~18sq feet from my room that I rent from him to expand the adjacent room.  Would it be within my rights to ask for renegotiation of my rent?  So far he only has oral consent to do so (with no witness) and it was decided post-lease signing.\n\nEdit: I can't maths","title":"Canada ON, Landlord Shrinking my room.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541767168,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vk2wo\/rent_issue\/","id":"9vk2wo","body":"My girlfriend and I rent a studio apartment in Kentucky. Our rent is due every month by the fifth. She paid them online like she always has and got a confirmation email saying they got the payment. But when she looked at her account they hadnt taken the money yet and now we both got an email saying it's late. I'm going to their office when they come in at 9 but was just wondering if maybe anyone has had an experience like this? Thank you!","title":"Rent issue?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553878641,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6zqh0\/ca_forced_to_take_non_required_non_ap_highschool\/","id":"b6zqh0","body":"I am currently attending a public high-school in the bay area that is currently requiring me to take a homework assistance class despite the fact that I have not failed a class throughout my entire highschool career and am easily on Pace to meet the schools graduation requirements. I absolutely don't want to take this class and am worried they will attempt to push me into taking it next year.\n\nThe school I'm attending is currently ranked in the top 10 for average SAT scores by school in the bay area, but the school has gone to complete shit with my class size shrinking by nearly 25% since freshman year. I'm thinking the highschool may be tricking me into thinking I need this extra class to Garner extra tax dollars for the school, but I'm not sure if that's how it works, just a theory. \n\nIm fairly certain my school can't legally require me to take a homework assistance class when Im going to easily be able to graduate and would like to know what I should say (if anything) to get out of taking this bullshit class that most of my fellow passing peers aren't required to take. \n\n- I have asked to drop the class along with multiple other class mates to no avail, looking for more of a next step.","title":"[CA] Forced to take non required non AP highschool class","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552609915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b185yq\/higher_education_law_in_tx\/","id":"b185yq","body":"Okay so long story short, I\u2019m in an allied health program and am supposed to be in my final semester. Wellll in my third semester, I was placed on a \u201cbehavior contract\u201d for being late to a clinical and was told that if it happened again, I would be held back, and if it happened another time after that- I\u2019d be kicked out of the program. I signed a contract on that day and forgot about it. \n\n\nWell fast forward to 4-5 weeks ago and I was 3 minutes late to a class. I was sent home and told I had to drop the course and repeat it next semester. My professor did not show me my contract at this meeting but said something along the lines of **italics**\u201dwell you remember what your contract said right?\u201d **italics** I did not- but I was pretty sure it said what I mentioned above. \n\n\nSooo- I found the contract a few days ago and it says if I break any rules I\u2019d be given a zero for **bold**THAT DAY**bold** only and would not be allowed to make up the experience. (There are 9 clinical days and I could still pass the class even with a zero for that day). It does not mention anything about getting kicked out or held back. Do I have any kind of case here? I have had **bold**A LOT**bold** of issues with a few professors in this program consistently singling me out and punishing me for things that other students do constantly. I would really, really like to graduate in May. \n\n\nAny advice would be appreciated! ","title":"Higher Education Law in TX","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570816134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dginux\/car_accident\/","id":"dginux","body":"Arizona \nMy husband was in a car accident and was cited to be at fault. The other driver was supposed to have an interlock device but did not have it in the car. Since the other driver was technically driving illegally, shouldn't he be partially at fault? \n\nHe was driving a super nice car and I am worried our insurance won't cover the full amount to replace their car. In the event that we have to go to court, I wondering if there is anything we should do to prepare or documentation we should have on hand.","title":"Car accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1412899752,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2it5t4\/my_mom_accidentally_hit_a_guy_with_her_car_and_he\/","id":"2it5t4","body":"I don't know where to start since this my first time posting. We live in England.\n\nShe accidentally hit him going below the speed limit because the sun blinded her as she was pulling down the sun visor. We had literally just bought the car 2 weeks ago so there was no possible faults with it. The police have had her car in custody for 5 weeks. When he died it was escalated to \"Serious crimes investigation\" and she hasn't heard anything at all since then (Even when she contacted them asking for details). \n\nToday she received a letter saying a lawyer has been hired\/instated? for her and it will be paid by her insurance, also that the coroners results came in. Should we be worried that she will be charged with something? She has spoken to an attorney and they said not to worry about charges but now this letter has appeared.\n\nThe man was awake and speaking at the scene and suddenly got a chest infection in hospital and was put into intensive care, from there he passed away a week later. His injuries were a broken shoulder, head injuries and a fractured leg.\n\nIf anyone wants links to the news articles I can PM them.\n\nThank you.","title":"My mom accidentally hit a guy with her car and he died 2 weeks later. Can charges be pressed?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539381622,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nol8h\/driving_on_a_restricted_license\/","id":"9nol8h","body":"I'm applying for restricted driving privileges in Virginia (and holy shit is the process for extortionist). I have a letter from my boss. How broad is this? Like can I stop for groceries or to use the gym or to pick up a friend on the way home? They're both legitimately on the route I take. \nAlso, because I'm currently driving to and from work (among other necessities) and can't really stop that and continue to function as a member of society (my insurance lapsed because I was pretty broke for a few years, not for an actually important reason), what exactly is likely to happen if I get pulled in the meantime?","title":"Driving on a restricted license","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447001380,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s0qma\/trying_to_appeal_a_rail_ticket_fine_they_say_i\/","id":"3s0qma","body":"Hi all -\n\nTo start, this is a fine relating to Southern Railway in the UK.\n\nA couple weeks back, I was given a fine for not being able to present a ticket when I go off at my regular train station on a Tuesday morning. I always order my tickets for the coming week on a Sunday, but on Monday morning the train station I get on at (I'll refer to a Station A) did not have a working ticket machine to college the tickets from like it usually does. \n\nI'm not sure if the ticket office was open, but I wasn't aware that you could collect them from there. On Monday afternoons, I finish college at 4.15pm, meaning I have to rush to get my train at 4.27pm. This mean't I not only had no time to collect my tickets from Station B, but also completely forgot as I'm used to having my tickets at that point in time.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, the same happened, and I was fined when arriving at Station B.\n\nThe guy that gave me the fine understood all this and told me I could just appeal and it would get thrown out, and that he just had to give me the fine anyways as policy says so. I even showed the guy a confirmation email - which you use to collect the tickets from the machine - but he said I wasn't allowed to collect them from the machine as he had to fine me. I supposedly \"should've already had the tickets at hand\".\n\nWe did appeal, but I didn't write the appeal (I trusted a responsible adult to write the appeal), so I'm not sure if it explained the story well enough, so they rejected the appeal. They say we can continue with the appeal if we really believe I was wrongly fined.\n\nNow.. what should I do here? I've been a paying & regular customer for almost 6 years now - taking the same train from the same rail company every weekday. I had also paid for the tickets and had proof of payment, but because I didn't have *the* ticket, I have to pay a fine. It's a small \u00a320 fine, but no way are we paying it if I can get it thrown out.\n\nHopefully that's all worded well enough for you to understand. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide :)\n\nEDIT: Wasn't sure what flair to give this, so please change if you're unhappy with it.","title":"Trying to appeal a rail ticket fine. They say I should've collected my pre-paid ticket, but I couldn't.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554591326,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baa03z\/friend_got_suspended_for_drawing_a_pepe_and_i_was\/","id":"baa03z","body":"How is it legal for them to do that?\nWhat is the best way to protest?(without getting suspended)\n","title":"Friend got suspended for drawing a pepe and i was wondering if they can do that legaly","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553017547,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b30g7k\/pa_making_changes_to_a_will_changing_executor_and\/","id":"b30g7k","body":"My family is currently going through probate on my grandmother's estate, so we're learning a lot about the process that we were not aware of when my parents made their will. I'd like to know if the following changes need to be drawn up by a lawyer, or if they can be done on our own (or perhaps with a notary):\n\n* **Change from traditional to self-proving**: My parents' will wasn't notarized and neither was my grandmother's. This added an extra step to the probate process since one of the witnesses at the signing of my grandmother's will had since retired. Luckily, I'm familiar with my grandmother's signature and was not a named beneficiary, so I was able to sign an Oath of Non-Subscribing Witness. My parents are concerned there won't be anyone who can sign such an oath when they pass away.\n* **Switch executors**: My uncle is named as executor in both my grandmother's and my parents' wills, but is having a lot of trouble with the process. Now that my sister and I are adults, it makes more sense for one (or both of us if possible) to be named executor instead (my parents' wishes, not something I'm demanding).","title":"[PA] Making Changes to a Will - Changing Executor and Making Will Self-Proving","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1444245654,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nvkwj\/mi_well_pump_on_our_rental_is_also_providing\/","id":"3nvkwj","body":"My boyfriend and I are in the process of moving out of a rental property, and haven't been in the house for several days. I was at the house today loading up a couch and walked over the well enclosure, and heard the pump humming. I found this odd, as we hadn't used any water and didn't know of any leaks. I went inside to confirm that there wasn't any water running, and there was not. I sat and timed the pump running, and it stayed on for over 20 minutes before finally kicking off. My curiosity got the best of me, and I pried off the cover of the well enclosure to see what was up. Inside, I see a T splitting the water - one going to our house, one going towards the house next door that's owned by the same landlords. A walk around the neighboring house also showed that there's no well anywhere on their lot. The electricity powering the pump is coming from our house, and we pay the bill in full, as it's in our name. We approached our neighbor to see what their electric bills were like, as I always thought our were unusually high. Sure enough, theirs are about $80\/mo lower, despite them having an A\/C unit as ours not.\nSo basically, we've been paying for our neighbors to have all the water they could want. We've also experienced random issues with low pressure, which now makes perfect sense. I can only imagine how many tenants before us have unknowingly been paying the extra as well. I checked the lease, and verified that there is no disclosure of this.\nI feel wronged, and I'm shocked that this can be legal. Do I have a basis for anything? Are the tenants who occupied the house before us also have grounds for any kind of legal action or compensation? If nothing else, is this at least grounds to cancel the lease?\n\nAdvice would be greatly appreciated!","title":"[MI] Well pump on our rental is also providing neighbors with water, landlord never said anything about it!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553310190,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4e5gr\/la_legality_of_having_a_cctv_inside_of_a_short\/","id":"b4e5gr","body":"The owner of the house installed a camera inside the front entrance of the house, no where else in the house. It\u2019s a tiny room you walk in that leads to a stairwell that connects it to the rest of the house - so no bedrooms\/ bathrooms\/ living rooms nearby. They rent it out short term and wanted to see who is coming in the house due to past damages\/ people lying about the number of guests staying there. Do these guest have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the front entrance of a house once they walk in the front door? Should the owner have a sign that they are on camera or remove the camera completely?","title":"[LA] Legality of having a cctv inside of a short term rental house entryway.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445005660,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ozrxa\/pa_can_a_senior_housing_hud_complex_refuse_to\/","id":"3ozrxa","body":"I'm asking for an elderly friend. She's in physical therapy rehab since July and ready to be discharged and return to the apartment she has been renting. It's a private apartment within a HUD-funded 62 and over senior apartment complex. Her rent was paid through the first month she spent in rehab. Then the apartment started refusing her rent and told her daughter to come pick up her furniture because they \"don't want to be bothered\" since she has called for an ambulance multiple times. They have not gone through a formal eviction process, they're just telling her she can't come back. \n\nThe apartment has not been rented out to anyone else yet but it has been two months and I'm afraid that if they do rent it out she's stuck. She has been ready to be discharged for a few weeks but without a definite place to go she is afraid she will have to go into a nursing home. At first I was trying to help her find a room for rent, but I figured maybe it's possible for her to go back to the home she's lived in for a few years. \n\nI spoke to a lawyer at a free legal service clinic and he said if she was a private tenant she could just go back since she hasn't been evicted (and the reason given about the ambulance sounds like disability discrimination if she can prove they said that), but he didn't know if that's the same for publicly funded housing. He referred me and her to another legal clinic but they don't do intake until Tuesday and this might be an emergency if they rent out her place. So I'm just trying to find out whatever I can, thanks.","title":"(PA) Can a senior housing hud complex refuse to allow tenant to return due to too many ambulance visits?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552428963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0dx5d\/conflict_of_interest\/","id":"b0dx5d","body":"BACKGROUND: i work at a claims adjuster for workers comp injury claims. part of my job is to have conversation with an injured worker about eventually returning to work once their injuries have resolved. \n\na year ago i handled a claim for a guy who was a custom metal fabricator and there were no issues in his claim\/injuries resolving. he told me he was thinking of not returning to company he was hurt with, rather he would start his own business. eventually his claim closed in the summer of 2018. \n\nNOW: i am looking to hire someone to fabricate a stair railing for my house. a couple of people quoted me way out of my budget, and that\u2019s when i remembered the guy whose claim i handled. i did some searching on the internet since i remembered his name, found his business instagram page and sent him a message. he agreed to take on my project for about 20% cheaper than other people had quoted me but i think that is due to him building a portfolio, not because of me specifically. \n\ni let my boss know since i thought it was great how this had come full circle. she let me know that she escalated the scenario to HR as a potential \u201cconflict of interest\u201d and proposed several slippery slope\/hypothetical situations that *could* happen by hiring this person. again, his claim has been closed for several months at this point. \n\njust looking for some opinions on if my ethics were skewed in this scenario or if this would constitute a conflict of interest?\n\nTL;DR: i handled a workers\u2019 comp claim for a guy and am hiring him to work on my house now that his claim is closed. ethically, is this wrong?","title":"Conflict of interest?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539967663,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pllsi\/ticket_technicality\/","id":"9pllsi","body":"Hello folks,\nYesterday I was issued a speeding ticket in a small town in Illinois. Officer claimed I was going 44 in a 35 and I won\u2019t argue with it. I had my eyes on the road not the speedometer.  \nThe rest of the stop was different from other stops I\u2019ve had in the past.  The officer did not ticket me for violating the state speeding law, where you\u2019re ticketed and pay the ticket via mail or in person at the county courthouse.  He wrote me a ticket on a \u201cvillage ordinance against speeding\u201d.  The fine was $50 instead of $75, and the cop told me instead of paying at the county courthouse I should just drop my ticket and payment in a dropbox outside the town hall.\n\nHere\u2019s the technicality:  I was born in \u201879. He wrote my DOB on the ticket as \u201872. Is this enough to get the ticket dismissed?\n\nI tend to doubt it but thought I\u2019d check, worth a try.","title":"Ticket technicality","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569552858,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ubv0\/got_hit_by_another_truck_driver_says_he_doesnt\/","id":"d9ubv0","body":"This happened like 30 minutes ago. I was driving home from work and the guy was stopped at a stop sign and as I drove by (I didn\u2019t have a stop) he started driving and clipped the back of my truck leaving a dent.  He asked if I was alright and when I said yea he was basically like \u201c OK you have a good one\u201d. Right away I thought, fuck this dude probably ha no insurance, but I asked him for it anyways. He said he didn\u2019t have the info on him and that his wife had it. He tried calling her but she didn\u2019t answer. Anyways, I told him I want my truck fixed so I need that info. He said he didn\u2019t want to go through insurance because it would make his rates go up. He said he\u2019ll pay for the repairs himself on Monday. I got a pic of his license and license plates. The guy even took me to his house and showed me a bill with his name matching the license so I could trust him. Is there anything else I should do or just wait until Monday?","title":"Got hit by another truck. Driver says he doesn\u2019t want to go through insurance and he\u2019ll pay for repairs out of pocket. Should I trust him?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1442901793,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lwlil\/ca_3_day_notice_to_quit_for_tenant\/","id":"3lwlil","body":"I live in California and am renting out the casita of my main home. The tenant has been causing problems lately, most notably having his friend stay over and live in the casita for roughly 3 weeks without informing me. His friend also brought in a dog, which I was never informed of until I saw it in person. Our contract explicitly states that no pets are allowed without the landlord's consent. One night, the police showed up to our door and was banging on the casita's door because my tenant's friend locked himself in there after an encounter from the police (fled after the police grabbed him). I gave the police the key to the casita and let them do their thing. Later that night, they informed me that my tenant and his friend will be taken to jail and gave me a case number. They also found a crack pipe inside the room and told me to hose down a white powder substance that was on the ground in front of my driveway due to safety concerns for the public. The next day, my tenant was released from jail and that was when I verbally informed him that he needs to move out. I was going on vacation in a few days at that time, so I told him that I'm giving him two weeks.\n\nFast forward to after I get back and his two weeks were up, I wrote up a 30 Day Notice to Quit informing him that our month-to-month contract will no longer be renewed for the upcoming month.  I also wrote up a 3 Day Notice to Quit and included all the reasons mentioned above in the first paragraph. However, when I tried to serve the two notices to him, he was not at the room so I just taped it on his door. I could not mail him a copy since the address is mine and he does not have access to the mailbox. I did mail a copy of the two notices to his co-signer though. I also tried contacting him by calling every single number he put in the application, whether it be his personal, co-signer, or references. None of the phone numbers got me anyone. Most of the numbers were no longer active and the ones that did work did not know who I was trying to look for. I'm assuming they're fake at this point. At some point between the notice being posted on his door and the final day of the 3-Day Notice to Quit period, he arrived at the casita and took down the papers. However, when I knocked on his door at the end of the 3 day period there was still no one answering. I waited a few days for him to come back, but he still has not come back for roughly a week. I want to speak to him in person, but I think he is dodging me on purpose. His stuff is still in the room. At this point, should I just go to the civil court and file for unlawful detainer, even though I have had no contact with him at all? How would I serve the UD notice to him if I cannot reach him? Any thoughts on this would be great since this is my first time going through civil court regarding an unlawful detainer.","title":"[CA] 3 Day Notice to Quit for tenant","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554573508,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba7155\/our_apartment_flooded_because_maintenance_failed\/","id":"ba7155","body":"We live in an apartment in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Last week, our washing machine had a rather large leak and we contacted maintenance to fix it. Someone came by and said they fixed it but left us with the task of cleaning up the huge spill which took over three hours. Last night we came home from an art class and nearly the entire apartment was flooded. Not just a little leak either, but 90% of all carpeting was soaked to the point of being able to splash in it. Wooden furniture has been sitting in soaking wet carpeting and it has already ruined parts of our bed frame, dressers, and storage containers. The bottom moulding along the tile kitchen floor became extremely warped and started to crumble. We discovered this around 8 pm last night (a Friday night) and they sent one maintenance man with a shop vac and two fans to try to clean it up. It got up a lot of the standing water, but the carpeting is still so soaked that it splashes when you walk across it. They left and said \"sorry, the carpet cleaners can't come until Monday. You'll need to talk to us then.\". \n\n​\n\nThe next day, they called me and said that a carpeting company was coming that morning to fix it. Instead of replacing the carpeting, they used a slightly better machine to suck up water through the carpet (a carpet cleaner used typically for dirty carpet) and they added 11 commercial sized fans and two professional dehumidifiers. Aside from our things and furniture being piled up on the only dry parts of the carpet and the tile, the apartment is unlivable even without the fans and dehumidifiers. The machines are so loud that it is breaking 100 decibels of sound (85 is enough to damage hearing, and we already had to sleep with the initial two fans last night). They are not replacing the carpeting or any of my furniture that was damaged. They are also not replacing the washing machine or carpeting and just \"fixed it\" again. We just want somewhere to stay in the meantime, if nothing else, or to transfer to a different unit. \n\n​\n\nWhen we went to the apartment office they essentially tried to make it sound like it was our fault and asked if we overloaded the washer (it was barely 1\/4 full of clothing). This was also the first time we had used the washing machine since the first leak that they \"repaired\". They said that they couldn't get anyone to help us move any furniture around and tried to back out of responsibility as much as possible. The carpet cleaning company also instructed us to turn the heat up to 90 degrees Fahrenheit and said it should take 3-4 days to fully dry with the heat turned up, fans, and dehumidifiers. This apartment is entirely unlivable and the apartment complex has done next to nothing to help us fix this issue. We have nowhere to sleep for the next few nights and our property is damaged due to their negligence in fixing the washing machine when we reported the initial problem. \n\n​\n\nWe have seen the apartment office manager berating her employees and other tenants in the past (we have lived here over 3 years) and she seems very difficult to work with. We do not have renters insurance (I know, big mistake) but luckily not a ton of our stuff was damaged, and that is not our concern. Any advice on what to do from here in order to get to a livable situation would be greatly appreciated. All we want is a safe place to stay and for this problem to get resolved. I know Arkansas has some of the worst laws for renters, so I'm rather worried about the outcome. We are also worried about how crazy the electricity bill will be and would like to be reimbursed for that, not to mention how we are having to pay full rent for a month that we couldn't use our apartment. \n\n​\n\nHere are some photos and videos of all the damage and the current setup (sorry about the rushed video, IMGUR has a 30 second limit): [https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/1dRqQYV](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/1dRqQYV)","title":"Our Apartment Flooded because Maintenance Failed to Fix Washing Machine. USA-AR","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552257031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azldzp\/michigan_the_landlord_will_not_fix_a_leaking\/","id":"azldzp","body":"I have been living in this studio apartment since August, 3 times (as of last night) since I have moved in, I have had to call my landlord due to a severely leaking ceiling. \n\nEach time, I am told that they're sending someone to fix it. Once, I even stayed home for the supposed roofer to show, only to have them tell me they're coming the next day with the maintenance crew. I gave them 2 chances, now that this is the third strike, I'm done. I want out. My bed has been soaked. \n\nSince it is a studio apartment, I do not have the space to move my bed around, and the leak is right above the bed. \n\nThe city has inspected once already, to make sure that the landlord fixed the leak, but since they visited on dry days, there was no evidence to show a leak, other than some missing plaster on the ceiling. I have documented the leak each time, on video, and of course their texts to me, and my emails to them. \n\nThe city is coming to inspect again in April or may, but I can't hold out that long. \n\nIs there any legal recourse I can take to get out of my lease early, and are they responsible for my water damaged bed? (Normally I would claim with renters insurance, but this is land lord negligence,) \n ","title":"(Michigan) The Landlord will not fix a leaking roof\/ceiling. What can I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541455736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ui65c\/they_talked_about_me_in_the_most_disgusting_ways\/","id":"9ui65c","body":"I overheard some classmates talk about all the heinous and disgusting things they would to do this girl. I realized it was me based on the shared classes they mentioned. One even said they already had sex with her, prompting more creative, disgusting things they would do to me. It was horrible, and I felt so degraded and hurt and I never wanted any of it. They didn't realize I was there until I left to go to class. I'm a minor and this was in school. What can I do? I don't think they should get away this. Do I have any course of action for this? I realize the state matters, but I've already given specifics in this. Please PM for it if what I can do is directly based on it. ","title":"They talked about me in the most disgusting ways at school","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571742928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlgfhw\/got_a_dog_landlords_want_to_kick_us_out\/","id":"dlgfhw","body":"So my wife and I have been living in this house since March. When we moved in we had a cat and we read though the lease and it said we could have pets. It would require a $300 deposit and $25\/month. So we paid the deposit and the extra monthly rent and it was all fine. \n\nThis last weekend we got a dog. It\u2019s a St. Dane. We knew that we would have to pay another $300 and and extra $25\/month because that\u2019s what the lease says. \n\nOur landlords come to our house yesterday, without warning and tell us that we have three option (none of which are in the lease). They say we can buy the house, get rid of the dog, or move out. Saying our dog is too big and they would never allow that. \n\nBut my understanding of the lease is that we are allowed to have dogs we just have to pay extra. Nowhere in the lease does it have a size restriction. The thing we did do wrong was not pay before bring the dog home, but we got it on Sunday  and this all happened Monday. \n\nI also asked if we just paid the deposit and the extra rent if we would be okay and they said that if they would have known the type of dog they wouldn\u2019t have allowed it. They said if it was a smaller dog like a beagle then it would have been fine. \n\nSo my question is, do they have the legal right to kick us out because our dog is too big, even though the lease does not specify size of animal, and since we didn\u2019t pay the deposit before bringing the dog home.","title":"Got a dog, landlords want to kick us out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553619118,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5s4at\/how_much_time_does_youtube_have_before_being\/","id":"b5s4at","body":"Article 13 passed today, and how long does youtube have to change things before they are punished by the European law?","title":"How much time does youtube have before being punished by Article 13?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540395826,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r0skk\/making_malware\/","id":"9r0skk","body":"Hey,\n\n​\n\nI'm a second year Software Engineering student, with lessons on Cyber Security. In my free time I started writing small malware applications just for fun. I do not intent to use these apps and they are purely for educational purposes. \n\nAt Cyber Security I learn about hacking, data and the law. I own a lot of hacking tools and programs given by school. Everything we do is done in a safe environment, with lessons about responsibility.\n\nI was just wondering what steps I could make to \"proof\" that these apps do not intent harm. I already have a pop-up asking if you want to enable the app. Are there any other steps to prevent trouble when I get caught with it?\n\n​\n\nNote: I live in Holland, where owning malware is illegal (I think).\n\n​\n\nThanks!","title":"Making malware","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571472707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk0u20\/is_it_illegal_to_trash_the_house_or_take_the\/","id":"dk0u20","body":"So I basically decided that if the landlord is being an asshole and keeps my one month of deposit (1800) when there was only some minor damage to the furnitures, can I just trash the whole place and take his furnitures away?\n\nI\u2019ve rented this place for 3 years.","title":"Is it illegal to trash the house or take the landlord\u2019s furniture if the landlord decides to take my deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504287837,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xg605\/got_pulled_over_and_ticketed_for_no_insurance\/","id":"6xg605","body":"Sorry for the long post, but I'm pretty worried about this. So to fill everyone in on the details, I was driving from Atlanta down to Florida to visit home and got pulled over for speeding (I was in a speed trap on a country road). I got ticketed for speeding and for no insurance. I was unaware that I had no insurance. The reason I didn't know is because I got insurance with Geico after getting a new car 3 months prior. Back in December of 2016, I was arrested and charged with DUI. I'm an idiot, I know, but I learned my lesson and I'm very against it now. Anyway, Georgia law requires a suspended license from a DUI, however I was able to get limited driving privileges (work, church, school), but it is still a restricted license. When I got coverage from Geico, I informed them of everything and they still covered me at a VERY high premium. At the time, everything was good to go and I had coverage, however they ended up dropping me. I didn't know this until I got pulled over. The officer was very helpful and allowed me to call them and figured out what happened before calling a tow truck. They informed me that they dropped me because I wasn't able to provide proof of a valid driver's license, even though this wasn't an issue before. I was under the impression that I was fully covered. When I asked them to re-cover me, they told me they don't cover anyone with a restricted driver's license. I ended up calling a smaller auto insurance company and got coverage while still pulled over, so the officer didn't tow my car. He did still give me the ticket for no insurance though, because I wasn't covered at the time of the stop. He did tell me that since I got coverage on the spot, if I continue to have that coverage by the time my court date rolls around then it will be reduced to \"No proof of insurance\". Can I trust that this will happen? Is there any advice on what I should tell the judge about everything that happened? My biggest concern is that I get full driving privileges reinstated next month, but a ticket for no insurance in Georgia can result in a suspension. It's also a $700 fine. I have a mobile office and drive for work, so I would lose my job if this happened. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ","title":"Got pulled over and ticketed for no insurance. Advice?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552412959,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0aqhk\/question_about_using_a_trust_to_pay_initial_rent\/","id":"b0aqhk","body":"Hello, first time posting. My aunt is a trustee for a trust in my name, and I'm just wondering if I'll run into any problems with her writing a check out of my trust to a landlord. She told me she can only write a check for the initial rent and deposit fees, and that it must be a company. I'm just wondering if anyone has any insight on something like this. Is a landlord considered to own a small business? Thereby meeting the requirements of writing the check out to a company? Any help would be appreciated, thank you. ","title":"Question about using a trust to pay initial rent and fees associated with moving to nyc","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570753386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg74gq\/asbestos_exposure\/","id":"dg74gq","body":"My workplace was remodeling recently and discovered that the carpet is backed with asbestos. My colleagues and I have been walking over asbestos filled carpet for several years now. Testing of the fibers came back positive and after a few hours we were notified and evacuated. Is exposure enough for a legal claim or class action? Maybe this falls under workmans comp...or maybe we actually all have to get cancer before we can sue (which can take years to develop). What are our rights here if anything?","title":"Asbestos exposure","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571499303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk5apc\/doing_work_in_a_different_statecalifornia\/","id":"dk5apc","body":"Hello r\/legal advice! I am a contractor in the state of Oregon, my specialty is tile flooring, bathrooms, showers and such.\n\nI\u2019ve been doin business with a company renovating and flipping small homes for a couple years now. They have been mentioning that they would like me to do some work out in California where they are originally from.\n\nThe thing is that it takes some time to set up a contractors license down here, a little longer than the timespan when they would like me to start the project.\n\nMy question is what are the legal parameters\/ ramifications of working unlicensed under the umbrella of their company? I know I should have asked them this, but I didn\u2019t want to backpedal out of a good deal. \n\nThank you in advance.","title":"Doing work in a different state(California)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1444514523,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o9ksx\/citation\/","id":"3o9ksx","body":"I have been given a tresspassing citation on 10\/10\/2015, while taking photographs of the old bakers hotel in Mineral Wells, TX.\n\nI am currently 17, but tomorrow on the 11th I will be 18.\n\nThe number I gave on my ticket was my mothers number, and I am wondering if they call the number on the ticket, and if I can call ahead, and change the number to my own cell as I will be an legal adult. I am willing to work to pay off my fine, community service etc, but I am also more inclined to wonder if they will \n\n1) contact my mother,\n2) if I will be able to change the number to mine,\n3) will I be charged as an adult or a minor, given I was citated as an minor, but my hearing will be when I am 18?","title":"Citation?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568634948,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4zm62\/terminated_over_payroll_error\/","id":"d4zm62","body":"I just need to know if I have rights in this situation. \n\nThursday, I was fired unexpectedly. Payroll has been erroneously paying me extra each paycheck since I started with the company. I never noticed as it\u2019s been a consistent amount throughout the time I\u2019ve been there. I didn\u2019t even think about it. After finding out, I figured we would just do a payment plan and call it good. But they then fired me, seized my final wages and vacation accruals, and said I was obviously doing this on purpose and it\u2019s my fault for not auditing my check and bringing it up to them sooner. \n\nI have never stolen anything, and I\u2019ve never been fired. I have no way to pay them $10,000 in 30 days like they\u2019re saying. They keep threatening me if I don\u2019t send them an amount I can pay them. \n\nI could care less about the job. The company sucked. But I care about my name being associated with theft. I care about the HR director smirking at me the entire time and calling me a liar. I was fully prepared to set up a payment plan but now I have no assets as they\u2019ve seized my final check and the hours I worked before payroll was cut. \n\nI have a call with an attorney later this week, but I have a lot of anxiety over this. I just want to make sure I\u2019m not missing something or if this is even an okay thing to do with someone. I feel so embarrassed and mortified. \n\nPS: I have been there for 4 months and already had a promotion. I was working both jobs while salaried in order to help with the transition. I\u2019ve never been written up, warned, fired, or even talked to about behavior at ANY job, so this is jarring.","title":"Terminated over payroll error","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552330511,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azx6nn\/i_am_subleasing_from_a_friend_his_landlord_barged\/","id":"azx6nn","body":"As the title says. My friend is gone for a while and I paid him to stay at his apartment. This morning while I was still sleeping his landlord barged in while filming with his phone. He was agitated, narrates himself while he inspects the living room and kitchen, and proceeds to enter my bedroom and filmed me, yelling \u2018who are you\u2019 and proceeds to film my bedroom. He then films the rest of the apartment and left, threatening to call the police. \n\nMy question is, is this even legal? What are my recourses? I\u2019m planning on moving out within the week but can he throw out my stuff or sue me?\n\nThank you in advance for your response. ","title":"I am subleasing from a friend. His landlord barged in this morning into the apartment and then into the bedroom filming with his phone while screaming at us. Is this legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1410110813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fqdfx\/nc_highway_patrol_refuses_to_add_my_car_to_an\/","id":"2fqdfx","body":"Last Tuesday I was driving down the highway and a truck from the opposite side of the road drifted into oncoming traffic. I managed to swerve around the truck but unfortunately it struck another vehicle next to me, killing the driver. Debris (glass and such) from the collision hit my car but I was not hurt (I explained this in the 911 call). I immediately pulled over and called 911 and explained what happened and asked them to send EMS.\n\nOnce EMS arrived I took a quick glance at my car and saw no apparent damage, and truthfully from a distance you cannot really tell, but I was very shaken up at the time. I could see the person that was in the vehicle next to me appeared to be unconscious. I witnessed the EMT approach the vehicle, check his vitals and walk away (which confirmed that the person was dead). I frequently have anxiety and panic attacks, so sticking around the scene would have most certainly resulted in me having a full blow panic attack (that could have been me). I gave the 911 operator my name and phone number if they needed anything else and told them that I had to leave. They didn't instruct me to stick around or anything.\n\nThe following morning I noticed that there was a crack in my windshield (near the bottom, easily missed), as well as many small scratches on my car. No big deal really, I'm just happy to be alive. At the same time though, I need to get my windshield fixed and the scratches and dings from the flying debris will cost a bunch of money to fix. I opened a claim with my insurance company and provided them with a statement (which took several days). My claims adjuster told me I needed to get in touch whoever filed the accident report to get my car added to the accident report in order to receive coverage (which took another day or two).\n\nI met with the trooper who reported the accident yesterday to provide my account of what happened and hopefully add my vehicle to the report. He was quite rude and disrespectful the entire time and acted like he couldn't be bothered to deal with me even though I was nothing but polite with him. He gave me a pen and paper to provide my statement, which I filled out and returned to him. He glanced at it and said that my account of the events did not add up to what the other witnesses said. I had him elaborate and he said that the other witnesses claimed the truck was in the inside lane when I said it was the outside lane. He said that he wouldn't add my car to the report.\n\nI already felt pretty awful for having to file a claim for something so small considering that someone else lost their life in this accident and now he's acting like I'm trying to cash in on some free repairs. I tried to explain myself again and remind him that I was the one that called 911 so I was most certainly at the scene but he wasn't having it. I thought he would be appreciative of having an additional account of the events but he was not at all. He got very aggressive with me while I was trying to explain, and eventually got in his car and told me to get away from his car and drove off. I thought I was being a good citizen by calling 911 and waiting for EMS to arrive but he made it clear that he thought I was stupid and a bad person for leaving the scene.\n\nAgain, I'm happy to be alive but I'm just hoping that I won't have to pay for most these damages out of pocket. I know paint jobs can be quite expensive and I believe my insurance will only cover one of the cracks on my windshield. I think I may be out of luck but I'm coming here for advice.\n\nI had assumed that my 911 call would be enough for my account of the events. They had my name and number at the time. I also took a picture of the wreck and sent it to my girlfriend shortly after it occurred, so there are timestamps for both of those things.\n\nIs there anything else I can do or am I pretty much screwed over? I imagine that if I speak with his superior officer that I won't get anything out of it. I don't want to mention any of this to the claims adjuster as I assume they will see it as an excuse to not bother pursuing my claim any further.","title":"(NC) Highway Patrol refuses to add my car to an accident report","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571374027,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djii8f\/our_car_was_stolen_sort_of\/","id":"djii8f","body":"So recently my family sent one of our cars to a repair shop because the engine got a giant hole in it from getting over-filled with oil (thanks Jiffy Lube). It would be 8000 Dollars to repair it, and we can\u2019t afford that. We opted to just sell the car to a junk yard for 800$. They were supposed to call us today to come pay us and get the deed, but when we called the shop where our car was located at, they informed us that someone stopped by and told them we already gave them the deed. And so, the shop gave them the keys to our car and they loaded the car up and took it without paying us or getting the deed from us. More than likely it was the same junk yard we were selling it to, and they just didn\u2019t want to pay for a deed just to destroy the car. But as of now that car is still under our ownership. The shop realized their mistake after we called them about nobody getting the deed from us, and they are going to get us the security tapes to see the license plate on the tow truck that took our car, and we are trying to track it down from there. With these circumstances, can we report the car stolen? Can we press charges against these people for taking our car even if we were already planning to scrap it?","title":"Our car was stolen (sort of)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553913296,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b763ls\/i_havent_been_paid_for_4_months_what_should_i_do\/","id":"b763ls","body":"Hi I\u2019m a salaried employee of a financial services company and my boss has not paid me for 4 months. His partner owns a wealth management company that has a dba that they used to sign advisory mandates with our clients (our source of revenue)\n\nCompany that pays my salary is an LLC. My boss has mentioned that the company has cash flow issues and more employees are in the same situation (case value may be over $100k not including personal injury and damages)\n\n I heard going for demand letters through an attorney, mediation, small claims court, retaining a lawyer to file a more structured  lawsuit, filing complaint with FINRA and other organizations, etc. \n\nCan anybody help me with the most effective way of pressuring my boss to pay? Can I go after my boss and his partner personally and the companies that are involved for the trouble they caused ?? If the Company files for bankruptcy before I file a lawsuit, what are my chances? \n\nReally looking for some clarity on how to move forward. Thank you so much!!","title":"I haven\u2019t been paid for 4 months!! What should I do? How can I get him to pay?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503822064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wb500\/happy_birthdaynow_what_turning_21_and_have\/","id":"6wb500","body":"I'm 21 now! Today is a Sunday, so tomorrow (Monday) I will go in to get my license renewed considering it's expiring today. However, I am going to Las Vegas on Thursday. I'm afraid that they are going to give me that receipt thing and that it's not going to cut it. If I can expedite my license, I will if that's an option (?) but if not, are there ways of speeding up this process to have a solid card of a license to show Vegas bouncers? Are there any other forms of ID I can use? (I am not military and I would rather not have to use my passport if I can avoid it. I going to be getting back my visa for China in the next two days and if I lose my passport I'm FUCKED.)  What are my options!","title":"Happy Birthday...now what? Turning 21 and have several inquiries about driver's licenses. Johnson County, KS","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443577410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mwtos\/may_have_gotten_a_girl_pregnant_what_are_my\/","id":"3mwtos","body":"Hi legaladvice you're probably looking at my post and saying \"wow, this kid is a dipshit.\" Well you're fucking right but this post isn't to get a lesson, get yelled at, or told off. I'm asking for legaladvice not ridicule. Yes I know I fucked up, yes I should've used protection but I already fucked up so you might as well help me. Anyways, she may or may not be pregnant and she's 15 and I'm 16, I told her to get a pregnancy test ASAP. The first time we had unprotected sex was the 19th or the 20th, next was I think the 23rd and recently this Sunday, no pill will really work in that time frame. She won't get an abortion, she wants to keep it and I don't. What exactly am I legally obligated to provide if this child is mine and what are my options of severing contact and being out of her life. I know her parents are very poor so they wouldn't just make her cut contact, they would need me to provide. I need to reiterate, I don't need you all to tell me this is a life lesson, or it's time to grow up, I need legal help. I don't care if this sounds douchey or irresponsible or immature, I don't want a child and if she is pregnant, I don't want to be involved in that child's life. Yes I fucked up real bad but child support what the fuck ever, I just don't want to have to raise a child at 16.\n\nEdit: I am in Colorado \n\nEdit again: This bitch, talked some more and apparently she's been having signs for A MONTH. What the hell, she was dating this loser and he must've got her pregnant, I'm a good student, have life goals and he doesn't. I'm guessing she wanted me to support her and the baby. Anyways thanks for all the advice but this isn't my child. Oh and I deleted her number, unfriended, unfollowed, everything. Like I said thanks for everything and I definitely learned my lesson haha.","title":"May have gotten a girl pregnant, what are my rights and what are my obligations. 16\/M","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539038866,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mjoqt\/small_claims_court_help\/","id":"9mjoqt","body":"Good Evening All!,\n\nMy landlord is taking me to small claims court tomorrow for unpaid rent which I am indeed at fault for and he is also seeking an additional$880 for damages due to nonpayment(Which also happens to be about my security deposit). We have been in contact and I have told him that rent will be paid tomorrow(had to take out a cash advance over the weekend instead of paying this Friday as planned). \n\nThis court date was originally established last month when I was late(didnt end up paid until 28th) due to payroll issues and he insisted on filing  being normal procedure and it would be cancelled when I paid the total plus late\/court registration fees, which I did and have records of. The original due date was October 5th and I'd be paying October 8th. I will have the late rent tomorrow and could pay it first thing in the morning however the landlord has insisted on the hearing now.  \n\nWould there be any way that this works out that doesn't end in eviction for me and how likely am I to pay  full damages here? Thank you for any and all help you could provide!!","title":"Small Claims Court HELP","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408842126,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eeq8n\/i_got_caught_stealing_at_target_live_in_virginia\/","id":"2eeq8n","body":"I went to Target and wanted a specific pair of earrings that came in a pack of about 7, so instead of paying the full $10 I thought I'd get away with stealing just the one pair of earrings. I almost made it out and then they ran after me saying \"Target security, come with me\" and took me to the back where they asked me if I knew why I was back there. I was very compliant and honest with them, and all they said was that they had to do a price check (ended up being $10 like I said) and that if it was over a certain amount they'd have to call the Sheriff. Obviously, they didn't. Then they had me write out what happened on a piece of paper, and had me and a witness sign it. They also took my ID and did some stuff on the computer (don't know what). They told me to not come back to the store, but I'm not really sure how strict they'd follow that? I also don't know if I can go to any other Target, and I'm afraid to walk in and find out. What's going to happen to me, am I just banned from that one Target, or all of them? Is there going to be any follow up repercussions? Is this going to be on my criminal\/personal background (i.e., will I be able to get a job, I know that may be overreacting but I'm freaking out)? I wasn't really told any information. So any advice or comments are appreciated.\n\nEDIT: Wasn't sure what flair to add.","title":"I got caught stealing at Target. (Live in Virginia)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542118421,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wpe13\/survivorship_deed_or_tod_estate_planning\/","id":"9wpe13","body":"Hello!  I am located in Ohio, USA.\n\n​\n\nI purchased my home in 2016 with the use of a mortgage.  I met and married my husband after the purchase of the home.  I want to protect him and would like the house to be transferred to him if something were to happen to me.  I've tried to contact the title office but they are some of the most difficult people I have ever worked with and have not been helpful.  I need to know if I can get a survisorship deed or if I have to get a transfer on death (TOD).  \n\n​\n\nThe title office told me the SD cannot be done because I have a mortgage, but a good friend has an SD on her home for her husband and also has a mortgage.  I do not know if she created the SD at the time of purchase, though.  When I asked the title company how to complete the TOD they told me they could do it but it would be a costly and long process and that I should just go to an attorney for it - no other information was provided when I asked.  Now, I assume an attorney would be just as costly, if not more.  No prices were given.  Honestly it just sounds like they were not interested in helping me. \n\n​\n\nIs it possible to get an SD or do I need to pursue a TOD?  Also is this something an Estate Planning attorney could assist me with, or is there a different title?  Thank you in advance!","title":"Survivorship Deed or TOD - Estate Planning","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539333179,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9niinm\/my_older_brother_m_20_bit_me_m_15_for_trying_to\/","id":"9niinm","body":"For some backstory me and my brother aren\u2019t really on the best of terms and have come to blows before but afterwards we both apologized and went on with life, but this time he just bit me for no apparent reason. \n\nMy father was very abusive to my entire family but my brother was exposed to it the longest and I am getting worried because he (my brother) is starting to act like my father used to. I don\u2019t want to push my brother away or get him arrested because he is the only father figure I\u2019ve ever had and I love him, but I am worried it will get worse if I don\u2019t do something.\n\nP.S. sorry if this is the wrong subreddit for this I just needed to rant a bit and wanted some help and wasn\u2019t sure where to post this \n\nP.P.S. Me and my family are in no immediate danger so please don\u2019t wig out ","title":"My older brother (M 20) bit me (M 15) for trying to grab a squirt bottle out of his hands.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571073953,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhtusa\/can_someone_take_out_a_life_insurance_policy_on\/","id":"dhtusa","body":"I was living with my manipulative grandmom for a short while when I had nowhere to go. During that time she suddenly came to me and said she\u2019d taken out a life insurance policy \u201cfor\u201d me. I told her I didn\u2019t want her to. I\u2019m 28, I was 27 at the time. The beneficiary is my autistic younger brother, who lives with her permanently. My husband is not named. I\u2019ve tried to change this but she won\u2019t give me the paperwork \u201cin case I lose it\u201d.\n\nIs this legal? It can\u2019t be, right? Can I file for fraud? I never signed anything.","title":"Can someone take out a life insurance policy on me without my consent?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540807184,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sbq9k\/paid_lawyer_almost_2000_retainer_hasnt_returned\/","id":"9sbq9k","body":"I hired a local lawyer in early September to file for  custody of my child. I've met with him twice for consultations, less than 2 hours in total. In the second meeting we discussed filing a motion to enforce[have joint custody and the mother was refusing visitation] in which he told me to wait until my next scheduled days, if she was still refusing he would file immediately. On my next scheduled days she was still refusing visitation. I called him that morning and left a message, showed up at his office later that day[got there at 10am and hung around till after 2], and have called and left messages twice a week since. I feel like I've been screwed. What are my options at this point? Do I call the bar association? Should I just keep calling and showing up at his office until I can get a partial refund so I can hire a different lawyer? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Paid lawyer almost $2000 retainer, hasn't returned my calls in over 3 weeks","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503421329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vcely\/old_forum_posts_containing_personal_info\/","id":"6vcely","body":"I used to post on the official forums of a show over 11 years ago, and I have since forgotten about it - until recently. When I Google'd my real name, I saw a post from said forums pop up, which was none other than my old account. I made the rookie mistake of mentioning my real name in an \"introductions\" sort of thread, which is how I found it again.\n\nNow, this would be nothing more than a nostalgia trip, if I wasn't a complete dickhead back then. How do I remember that I was a dickhead? Well, apperently, even if the forums ban a user, not only do the posts remain, but you can also check the post history of *anyone* - even long-dead accounts like mine, in one single click. I attempted to log into the account, but as it was banned, it would not let me - it would just say that the user \"doesn't exist anymore\".\n\nI live in Central Europe, and the forum is on a US domain. Do I even have the legal standing to contact the administrators of the forums, and ask to remove the account, or at least the posts associated with it? I fear that as I try and apply to jobs, my would-be employers would Google my name and see those... well, less-than-flattering posts, and that would be at least one reason why I've not recieved contact from a lot of companies. (And for clarification, my name is pretty unique in its own way, so I would hardly be mistaken.)\n\nOr, if that is not possible, maybe some input on whether my fears are completely overblown and misplaced or not - I have a tendency to stress about the dumbest things you can imagine. It doesn't help that my teen self has placed this baggage on me.\n\nEDIT: Thanks for the answers. I won't let this thing bother me too much.","title":"Old forum posts containing personal info","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553722459,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6a453\/estateassets_distribution\/","id":"b6a453","body":"Estate issues.\nVA\n\nAlmost a year ago my two other siblings and I lost our mother. Before her passing she had been in charge of my late fathers estate.  \n\nShe had left a will written on a piece of paper.  There was not much on the paper\/will but the courts are willing to accept it.\n\nPrior to the courts accepting the Will my siblings and I had a massive fight.  It came down to money.  A family member had loaned us money to take care of my mothers final burial expenses.  I told this family member we would pay them back (as siblings), in front of multiple other family members.  The family members were proud to hear this. (My mother had enough money to take care of her expenses but at the time we did not have access.)\nThe falling out occurred when I brought up to my siblings that we would need to pay back our family member.  My siblings went on to say \u201c no we don\u2019t it was a gift\u201d, I explained to my siblings no it is not a gift, mother left more than enough money for us to pay back our family.  This led to a large fight about doing the right thing.  I ended up being cursed at, put down and ridiculed by my siblings for wanting to pay back our family member.  This led to my siblings and I not talking for a month along with me paying back the family member out of my own personal asset shares from the estate.\n\nFast forward to now.  Things were getting better, but my siblings want to rent the house out with my help by starting a business together.  I want to sell the house and I do not want to be in business with them, due to mistreatment from them.  I have told my siblings that I want to be bought out. Since I have brought this up to them their bad behaviors are starting to flare up again. \n\nI was told by my siblings and my aunt who is the executor of the estate, that if I want to be bought out I must do the following steps.\n\n1) Get an assessment of the value of the house at the date of death.\nEx: 300,000\n2) Subtract the 70k left on the loan of the house from the 300k\n3) Take the 230k that is left over and multiply that by 4.5% for a thing called a Realtor fee. This would be $219,650.\n4) minus the cost of repairs to the house to make it rental ready and or sell this cost is going to be $17,000.\n5) This comes out to $202,650\n6) Divide this by 3 because of my siblings and I.\n7) Finally my share would be $67,550.\n8) They want to pay me out over years.\n\n\nThe process they gave me seems odd,  and I am getting a weird feeling that they are trying to be greedy again.  \n\nAre these steps normal in buying someone out of their share?\n\nIs there a particular part of estate law that deals in dividing up assets?  What is it called?  Do attorneys specialize in this? Do these payouts go on for years?  \n\nAny help and advice will be appreciated!\n\nI need direction","title":"Estate\/Assets distribution","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571176103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dif2ly\/traveling_to_mexico_with_my_child_do_i_need\/","id":"dif2ly","body":"I (25, F) will be traveling to Mexico with my husband (27, M) and my child (5, F) to visit my husband's family. We are in Texas. \nMy child's father (we were never married) is no longer in the picture and hasn't seen her since she was 2. However, she has his last name and we have never been to court. There are plans for my husband to adopt my daughter, but they haven't been set into motion yet. I have not yet applied for any travel documents, but plan to do so very soon. \nMy question is, will I need my ex's permission to take my child out of the country, and will I need him in order to apply for her travel documents?","title":"Traveling to Mexico with my child, do I need permission from my non-involved ex?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1408495585,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e1ctc\/us_canada_is_my_company_violating_antispam_laws\/","id":"2e1ctc","body":"I work for a well established software company headquartered in Silicon Valley. Recently, management has been tasking us with email campaigns that seem kinda sketchy.\n\nNormally, when the company launches a new product or hosts a web seminar, they email-blast our customers and contacts who have subscribed to receive marketing material. What they've been doing on top of this has me worried.\n\nThey pull large lists of contacts who have not \"opted-in\" to receive marketing, from database sites like data.com or onesource, and then proceed to pull a similar list from our list of contacts who have \"opted-out\" aka clicked the \"unsubscribe\" link.\n\nThey then hand these lists to the sales reps, along with an email template cooked up by marketing, and tell us to email-blast them, using a mass-email tool.\n\nTheir thinking is that it's a clever loophole, because while these people have elected to not receive \"marketing\" emails, it's still fair game for a sales rep to email them on a one-on-one basis. However, that's not what's happening, they're basically just getting spammed from a different email alias now.\n\nIs this in violation of CAN-SPAM? If so is there a way for me to blow the whistle anonymously?","title":"[U.S., Canada] Is my company violating anti-spam laws?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1442775570,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lpfwe\/mother_initiating_divorce_need_advice_us\/","id":"3lpfwe","body":"Hello, I'm posting this for my mother who is trying to start the process of filing for a divorce from my father. She plans to contact a lawyer, but I was hoping to get a little guidance beforehand. This is in the US. They've been married 30+ years but this has been a long time coming - they've grown apart, kids are all grown up now, so it's just a matter of going their separate ways. The problem is that my mom now suspects my dad of some shady financial tactics. He is involved with the family business in another state and my mom has long suspected that he has been hiding income from it. She has noticed income on past tax returns that he explained away as \"going right back into the business\" but has recently discovered more evidence of distributions coming to him that she never saw in their joint accounts. She's run a credit report on him and found multiple credit cards with reasonable balances (maybe $15-20k total). He has his own checking\/savings accounts but I'm not sure how much cash is in there. \n\nShe has NOT discussed any of this with him. So the question is, what order should she proceed? Should she talk to a lawyer first, before confronting my dad? She's worried that he'll further try to hide money and is wondering if she should start putting money aside now, not to hide it but to keep him from it.\n\nEven if the consensus advice is to go talk to a lawyer first, any other advice or experience would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Mother initiating divorce, need advice (US)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541684445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9va25r\/care_agenciesemployment\/","id":"9va25r","body":"I'm not sure if this is the right sub for this, but I'm hoping it will be or that you could possibly direct me somewhere that is.\n\n​\n\nI live in England and have been providing care for my disabled mother for about 8 years - for context, she has chest-down paralysis and requires assistance with most daily tasks. I can elaborate further on this if needed, but essentially she needs someone with her the majority of the time.\n\n​\n\nCurrently, we make use of two local care agencies who supplement the work I do on a daily basis, however this has always been less than ideal because they are often unreliable and understaffed. For example, we regularly get phone calls the night before someone is due to visit, to let us know that nobody will be coming, and therefore I have to step in. This severely restricts any freedom I have because I am always 'on call' for want of a better phrase, and despite having a contract set up for myself now, I work far more hours than I am officially contracted to do. They are also more often than not, unable to provide any extra or emergency visits which means I find myself struggling to ever have time off. If I do take a holiday, its incredibly stressful and a lot of hassle to organise.\n\n​\n\nWe would like to explore employing our own team of private carers outside of an agency. I have researched this lightly and am unsure as to the best way to go about this. From a legal standpoint, should I be aiming to set up my own 'agency' and take on a managerial role, or is this something that would be nonviable due to there only being one client? I am unsure as to how things like health and safety laws would work and what the difference would be between establishing an official 'agency' or just employing people privately. The rough plan I have would be to take on 5 carers to work with myself, and establish a shift pattern so that between us we were able to provide 24hr care, but also allow for cover during sickness\/holidays. I know very little about the world of business as I was thrown into being a full time carer at age 18 and have never been able to do anything else, so any advice about setting up a better solution for ourselves would be greatly appreciated. Again, apologies if this is the wrong sub, thanks for reading this far.","title":"Care Agencies\/Employment","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571324482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj7lnn\/usfl_i_had_showed_public_records_to_team_members\/","id":"dj7lnn","body":"So I ended up looking at the local online newspaper 1 morning before we opened and happened to see 1 of the servers had been arrested. I showed afew other people that I was having a conversation with at the time and the store manager that had seen us grouped up and asked what was happening so I showed her what we were looking at. The store manager looked at it and commented, then moved on. I dont know this server, and didnt bad mouth or bash him at all or in any type of way. Just showed he had got arrested. Shouldnt we have a right to know who the people are we are working with and aside? Today they came to me and said the server was mad and that he had problems he was working through. He filed a report on me for showing people. I've worked there a little over a year and had never had a problem with anyone like this occur.  Any thoughts on this? \n\nRecap - I showed public record that included a servers mug shot to my team members and got suspended for 3 days and possibly fired.","title":"[US-FL] I had showed public records to team members and was suspended for 3 days and possibly dont have a job at Olive Garden anymore","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551220428,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av5kia\/can_a_company_demand_an_employee_to_come_in_if\/","id":"av5kia","body":"Hey Legal advice I currently work for an advertising company that is short staffed for my branch area. They fired two people last year for problems unrelated to the one I\u2019m asking y\u2019all about. I just got back from the doctor and tested positive for the flu. I work outside in the elements and after telling my doctor this she advised me to stay home until Friday. She also provided me a doctors note as well, when I told this to my manager his response was \u201cWe have no one to cover you, you\u2019ll have to come in.\u201d \n\nI really don\u2019t want to get pneumonia (had it before) and we have a cold front blowing in over the next few days. Can my manager legally make me come in? Is this something they can fire me over? ","title":"Can a company demand an employee to come in if they are sick and have a dr. Note? (Texas)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541366306,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u7818\/breaking_a_lease_early_due_to_noncompliance_and\/","id":"9u7818","body":"Quick backstory: In August I moved to Omaha for a job.  I only had two weeks to find a place and had to take the first place that accepted me.  I flew out before the move, and before signing the lease, to look at the home.  During the showing it appeared that the person showing the home had a friend show up to act interested and he supposedly had another appointment after mine. I was rushed and missed a lot. As in,  a lot was wrong with this home.  In my defense,  a lot of this you wouldn't have noticed during a walk through.  For example,  the toilet not being screwed into the floor and leaking into the garage after being flushed (read fecal matter), the dishwasher not being screwed in,  etc. \n\nThere are several banisters missing from the staircases in the home as well. I mention this as it's not only a code issue but I fell down the staircase from my room and broke a bone on top of my foot. I had a MRI that shows this. They couldn't find the missing bone that chipped off.  The boards on the stairs are also cracking.  \n\nI notified the rental agency of every single issue the first week I was here. This included 70 photos of everything that was wrong.  They have made little to no effort to fix these issues.  The only real issue they fixed was a spider and grasshopper infestation.  A serious infestation.  \n\n\nSo,  said job did not work out and I need to break the lease to move back home. I notified them that I would be breaking the lease and would come in to discuss why. They do not want to meet and only want to communicate through email.  They are claiming I will owe until it is rented out again.  I know this is legal but due to their noncompliance on fixing these issues I want out without doing so. I have left the home in a better condition than what I walked into and now have an injury. Their contract also has an \" as is\" clause. I cannot find anywhere that shows the legality of this.  \n\nIs the \"as is\" legal? What legal steps can I take to protect myself and not get sued for breaking the lease and not paying the full lease? \n\nAny advice will be greatly appreciated. \n\nTldr: rented a terrible home,  need out.  May have to pay the full lease even though there's a potential case for noncompliance and injury. ","title":"Breaking a lease early due to noncompliance and injury, Nebraska","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541621221,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v2upc\/got_onto_a_hit_and_run_i_was_hit_on_oct_4_didnt\/","id":"9v2upc","body":"Hi, someone hit me and fled, I tried getting his plates but it was too dark and he sped off. I was going to report it but I didn't because the damage to my car was minimal and I didn't feel hurt. 2-3 weeks ago my lower back started hurting and I'm afraid it's because of the impact. Will I get into criminal trouble for not reporting to the police, even though I was the victim? Wil my insurance company deny my claim now (State farm) or will they even allow me to submit my claim? Any other advice would greatly be appreciated. Thank you!\n\nLess\u00a0\n\n\n","title":"Got onto a hit and run (I was hit) on Oct 4. Didn't report it, now my lower back hurts?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1444668613,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ogy7z\/i_messed_up_and_sent_nudes_to_a_fake_snapchat\/","id":"3ogy7z","body":"Title. I'm in Boston and I recently got involved with a fake account on tinder and that evolved into me sending videos on snapchat. I know that this is a very dumb thing to get involved in. I had a lapse of judgement.\n\nI don't even know if they saved them or if they have malicious intent. I'm not sure yet, but I'm going to assume this is the worst case scenario and they're planning on posting the videos i sent online.\n\nIs there any way I can stop them from doing this?\nWhat's my next step? Should I confront them about being a fake profile? Should I claim that I am below age? (I'm not, but maybe I can scare them into deleting the videos by telling them I lie about my age on tinder) \n\nThey don't know I know their profile is fake yet.\n\nThanks in advance. I know this is dumb.","title":"I messed up and sent nudes to a fake snapchat profile, what now?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540921691,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sq91h\/tx_on_hate_speech_the_1st_amendment_and_public\/","id":"9sq91h","body":"My family works with a client who has a daughter attending a DFW area public high school.\n\nFriday of this past week their daughter attend a sleepover party with other high school-aged girls at a local hotel. Sometime during this party, the girls recorded a video of themselves chanting \"n***r\" over and over again. They posted this video on Twitter. Other school friends witnessed the video, showed the video to their parents who shared the video with other community members, and now the video has become the talk of the community.\n\nThe public school has announced the students violated the Student Code of Conduct and will be punished accordingly - citing punishment for engaging in racially motivated harassment and disrupting the school environment from the news articles I read.\n\nIt goes without saying recording and participating in a video where girls chant \"n***r\" over and over again is highly condemnable behavior, especially in light of growing racial tensions across the United States.\n\nWith this said, I am surprised a public school can punish students for actions conducted both off school property and not within a school-sanctioned event. \n\nSo for the betterment of my own education, here are my questions:\n\n1) Is hate speech not incentivizing violence or harm protected by the 1st Amendment?\n\n2) Are public schools required to uphold federal constitutional law like any other government entity?\n\n3) Can public schools (even if morally right) sanction students for actions taken both off campus and not within a school-sanctioned event, assuming such actions are protected?\n\nThese seem like simple legal questions covering a specific legal situation, but since this case is not impacting me directly, I can understand if this post is more suited for LAOffTopic. Please let me know if I should post these questions there instead. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read and comment!\n\n\n\n","title":"[TX] On Hate Speech, the 1st Amendment, and Public School Sanctions.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552714130,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1p0of\/child_support_modificationwa_state_135yo_f\/","id":"b1p0of","body":"Uncontested dissolution of marriage, WA state. Agreed upon parenting plan, including child support based off both of our incomes at the time. That was 2012 and our daughter was 5. Now she is almost 14. I make less than I did before, he makes more. Retired from the Army, full time deputy, the works. He lives in another state. We\u2019ve never gone thru child support enforcement because at the time we agreed to pay to a joint account and it would be instantaneous. He deposits, I withdraw. We\u2019ve always split her plane tickets in half, and I agreed to this due to the military moving him there. He\u2019s no longer active duty and has chosen to retire there and start full time work as a deputy. Now that he\u2019s no longer active duty, and he\u2019s chosen to stay there I don\u2019t feel like I should have to pay half for HIS visitation. When he\u2019s purchased tickets, because I don\u2019t have disposable income at my finger tips to pay half right away, he takes my portion out of child support the next month. I already only receive 400 a month for our daughter. If I want to impose a modification, I have to open a case with Child Support Enforcement: they state that since it\u2019s across state lines, he\u2019s instantly told to stop paying child support and it can take upwards of 6-8 months to start collecting from him. (This way he doesn\u2019t take it from the support the next month). I can\u2019t financially survive without the support. Teenagers are expensive. Any suggestions? He\u2019s dumb enough that if I file a modification in court vs administratively through CSE, he\u2019d pay it but he\u2019s always stated that if I ever chose to get more money out of him, he\u2019d file for full custody. (Not scared of that so much as the court costs) opinions on filing through court or opening case through CSE? Even with the online worksheet his support would almost double. \nAlso, at what age in this state does a minor have a say so on how long her visits with her dad are? She\u2019s 13 going on 14, getting ready to start high school, and out parenting plan says he gets 5 wks in the summer. I\u2019d been lax on that due to him being newly married years ago and I think it\u2019s important that they had that time together. So sometimes I\u2019d let her stay 8-9 wks. Now that she\u2019s older, she wants to spend her summers with her friends and try out for cheer. He doesn\u2019t listen when she says something about it, he just says to her that \u201cshe\u2019s going to kiss out on precious time with him since he\u2019s not always going to be around.\u201d He guilt trips her relentlessly and she\u2019s crumbling under the pressure. She caves and then cries after they get off the phone. I don\u2019t want her to hurt but I also know it\u2019s going to be a battle because I was lax about the time the last couple of summers. I\u2019m so all over the place and don\u2019t know what to do next. \n","title":"Child Support Modification-WA state 13.5yo F","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539008415,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mf990\/college_is_forcing_students_to_vote_for_their\/","id":"9mf990","body":"Hello this is a throwaway account because of many reasons.\n\n​\n\nSo there is a university in serbia (a private one) which founder is now in politics since about 2 years. The whole time u could already feel the politics there but not as now. \n\n​\n\nNext voting for local mayor are coming and the founder has somehow gotten in the election list.\n\nTo come quick on this, without giving away much information, the university is holding sanctions if anyone is against them for that, they hold classes and call students to come to some kind of sessions with them where they mostly explain how we the paying students have to give something back to the private school (2nd most expensive here) in the way of voting for them. At this point im already pissed like most and just quit on them fully, they seem to felt that and came back with another shot by telling us we're gonna \"Change\" a lot of stuff here if u dont vote. So the first thing they did was give their undergrad son a subject to teach to every student whichever class u are to control you with that. And by knowing them i dont think thats the end.\n\n​\n\n i never been in this situation before i have tons of proof of everything but no idea where or how to send this to any authority or can i even do anything against them with all this. Please if someone has any ideas or has experience with this help us all out here. ","title":"College is forcing students to vote for their party, threatens with punishment","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552754638,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1ufcs\/trademark_of_my_company_name\/","id":"b1ufcs","body":"Dear everyone!\n\nI have a question regarding having my company name trademarked.\n\nIf I send an application to get my company name trademarked (federal trademark), and the application gets approved. Will I be able to report a company that is using a name that's exactly the same as my company name? I was not able to find any trademarks by the company that has exactly the same name as my company. The company is a lot older than mine, it's from around 1990s.\n\n​\n\nI live in Denmark, but I'm looking for information regarding trademark laws in the United States.\n\nHope you can help out\ud83d\ude4f","title":"Trademark of my company name","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570810415,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dghe9y\/any_legal_action_to_be_taken_for_continued\/","id":"dghe9y","body":"I have a friend (yes it is my friend and not me) who has blocked a man on social media and phone number. Over the weekend he sent her a payment on Venmo. He has friend requested and messaged me, my friend's mother and sister regarding her. He has also had his mom message her. I told him previously she wants no contact. Now after this latest weird contact I messaged him as she does not want to unblock him. Can she get a no-contact order? He continues to say how do I know this is what she wants and why can't she tell me? We are in Massachusetts.","title":"Any Legal Action to be taken for continued unwanted contact?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552331123,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azxb2c\/girlfriend_suing_boyfriend_for_rape\/","id":"azxb2c","body":"My opinion of her used to be that she's extremely immature and now I believe is an actual sociopath.\nThey have a kid together.\nAnyway.\n\nSo here's the story from my friend's side.\n\nMy friend's relationship isn't going well. Nevertheless him and his gf went out at a party or something is Saturday and at some point they went to the toilet to have a talk. \nAt some point for unknown reasons she started screaming rape and her friends broke the door and beat him up. He run away went home and first thing in the morning took their 1yo kid and went to another city to visit another friend. While there he received a call from his retired cop father that she sued him for rape and child abduction. He then went to the bus station to catch the bus home and was apprehended by the police. Police sent him to his town's department where he's being held ever since. The court is tomorrow.\n\nMy questions are: \n1. why isn't she tested for rape yet? (Even though she agreed to do it?)\n2. What's the procedures and what can be done in order to prove her lying? (Assuming she is lying)\n3. Any chance she can fake having being raped?\n\nThanks","title":"Girlfriend suing boyfriend for rape","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555083905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcf2bg\/soon_to_be_ex_doesnt_want_kids_to_go_on_vacation\/","id":"bcf2bg","body":"So my husband and I just officially called it (as in this week). Haven't been to court yet, still figuring things out.. now we have a huge family cruise with my whole family next month. He was never going because of work, but the kids and I were. He text me last night and said he no longer feels comfortable with them going on a cruise with me and my family... I just responded that we would need to speak this weekend, but if the kids did not go on the vacation- he would need to figure out daycare for all 3 of them for the week and cover that cost himself. He said he spoke to his brother (does title law or something but not divorce) and his brother told him since I am the primary care giver during the week, it would be my responsibility to stay home with them...\nSo I don't want to take the kids without his permission, but if he truly said no to them going, would I be forced then to stay home? Or would he need to figure out child care?","title":"Soon to be ex doesnt want kids to go on vacation, and i have to stay home with them?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555035793,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc8evv\/no_will_small_estate_tx\/","id":"bc8evv","body":"My sister recently passed without a will. No descendants or spouse. My father is elderly, and my sister lives out of state - both are fine with me handling and distributing her (small) assets. I am listed as beneficiary on most accounts, but her main bank account with a large national bank has no beneficiary. \n\nI cannot access her account, but I assume she has less than $20k in it. Possibly less than 2k. I talked to the bank, and they\u2019ve requested probate documents. \n\nLawyer is saying it will cost 3,500 to file in probate for executor. \n\nWhat\u2019s my best move here?","title":"No Will, small estate, TX","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569965524,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc07ni\/i_gave_my_bank_account_login_information_to_a\/","id":"dc07ni","body":"I was in contact with a fraudster who convinced me to open a bank account so they could transfer money to me.\n\nI opened an empty account with a bank and gave the fraudster my user name and password and even verified them with the text code that was sent to my phone when they tried to log in.\n\nThey deposited a check for $2,000 in my name and asked me send them gift cards. I thankfully realized it was a scam at this point and didn\u2019t send them anything.\n\nThe bank called me not too long ago telling me there was a fraudulent check deposited in it and they are shutting my account down.\n\nAm I going to get in trouble for attempted check fraud and\/or be black listed from other banks?\n\nWhat do I need to do?","title":"I gave my bank account login information to a fraudster","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569467130,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9duhw\/apartment_manager_wants_to_fine_entire_building\/","id":"d9duhw","body":"Helly everybody,\nI hope someone can help me with this, I live in an apartment complex in Texas. I recieved a notice on my door today stating that apparently the sewer pipes had been blocken because one or more people flushed things that they were not supposed to, over a longer period of time. According to the notice the apartment manager had to get a plumber contractor to fix the issue. At the very bottom if the notice it states \u201eFrom now on every time we contract out a Plumber to remove any items listed above from the drain, the bill will be divided by the tenants in the building and an additional $50 fine will be added to your account.\u201c. Is that legal? Can they just punish me for something I did not even do? It does not say anthing about a fine like this in the lease I signed.\nThanks for helping me, in advance","title":"Apartment manager wants to fine entire building for one persons mistake","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551842685,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axu3ws\/california_is_it_legal_for_my_dad_to_install\/","id":"axu3ws","body":"Hello Everybody\n\nSo I\u2019ve posted here a few times about my parents and stuff, and with the help of Reddit got my abusive mother away from me and my brother, but now we\u2019re left with very restrictive parenting of our father.\n\nI was wondering if it was legal or not for my dad to install spyware on my phone and computer.\n\nHe said it\u2019s to protect me from...\n\nPorn - seen it, like who over 10 hasn\u2019t?\n\nHacking Software - so... like iTunes to reset my phone? Closest thing I\u2019ve used to anything involving coding is khan academy\u2019s coding.\n\nPirating - yeah I did that once or twice but I don\u2019t really watch movies because they take too long\n\nIt\u2019s to \u201cprotect me from myself\u201d.\n\nIdk and I feel like I\u2019m being indirectly punished for calling CPS in the first place\n\n","title":"(California) Is it legal for my dad to install spyware on my phone and computer?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539095979,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mppby\/if_i_get_fired_for_pregnancy_related_issues_will\/","id":"9mppby","body":"Ever since I told my coworkers I was pregnant, there has been a major shift in how they treat me. One of them, the unofficial office manager(O.M), has been very aggressive about the whole thing. Demanding that I keep her informed of every situation and the progress of my pregnancy. \n\nI was told when I started that this was a family oriented place, and my appointments and anything that may come up with my 4 year old, wouldn't be a problem to accommodate. And that was pretty much the case until I got pregnant.\n\n Now they treat everything like a major inconvenience, they make me feel guilty for things that I genuinely can't control. The biggest and most recent incident is why I believe I am going to be fired. \n\nI had been having pretty severe pain in the left side of my face, jaw, ear, and neck for about a week. I put off going to the Dr because I already had an appointment last week that kept me out of work for 2 hours, I had a root canal done & came to work straight after, but I knew they'd get mad if I had to go somewhere again. So like a dummy, I put it off. \n\nThe pain got worse every day until last Thursday, I was unable to sleep because of the pain and it was so intense all I could do was hold my face and sob. It was seriously unbearable. I drove myself to the ER & was there until around 4:30am. I had to work the next day so when I still hadn't been seen at almost 5am, I decided to leave. I called my primary Dr and spoke with her through the on call service, where she told me to come in as soon as the office opened.\n\n  I slept for 2 hours & got to work at 8am. I told my coworkers what was going on & was told I could go to the Dr when my other coworker returned from an appointment she had. At the Dr office, my blood pressure was extremely low 50 over 70, something like that, I looked awful, and after doing some tests, my Dr diagnosed me with trigeminal neuralgia, which is an extremely painful condition that has no cure & I can't take the meds normally prescribed because of the pregnancy. My Dr said she wanted me out of work for 1 week, because I was putting my body through too much & could endanger the baby. \n\nI went back & gave O.M the note & was told that this was a really big inconvenience on her & that she understood I was pregnant, but the office needs someone there from 8-5 no matter what. I was told that I couldn't come back until I got the Dr to change the date and over the weekend texted back & forth with O.M who continued with the \"I understand you're pregnant, But\" and pressured me to go get the note changed first thing Monday or they were going to find someone to replace me for the week. Or however long.\n\nSo, I did, even though I was still in rough shape, and yesterday when I got to work, they were so cold & nasty to me. Even though I did what they wanted. My co-worker who has decided she's my boss (she isn't) put these weird new rules in place for me that I can only ask her when I need someone to cover the phones, nobody else. And she shut her office door all day so that I couldn't.\n\n They're having a big meeting tomorrow, with the owners & I think they're going to fire me. They have put me through so much stress. I hate when people are mad at me & give me bad attitudes and I'm always scared of doing something wrong. I've tried to not be an inconvenience but I can't change the fact that I'm pregnant & I do my job very well. If I get fired, will I be eligible for unemployment until I find a new job? I'm so worried because I'm 20 weeks now & I'm afraid it's too late to find a job that will hire me when I'm pregnant. ","title":"If I get fired for pregnancy related issues, will I be eligible for unemployment?[New York]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570658432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfo6dy\/how_would_i_go_about_reporting_a_law_being_broken\/","id":"dfo6dy","body":"Hey I live in Tennessee and I recently discovered it is illegal to obtain locksmithing tools without a license. \n\nhttps:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/tennessee\/2010\/title-62\/chapter-11\/62-11-104\n\nSo I learned that a part store in my area do this without requiring a license, am I suppose to report them? I learned only one does while the other stores tell me it\u2019s illegal to do so. So I am left to wonder, if I am suppose to report this, how do I report this?","title":"How would I go about reporting a law being broken in a store?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441890298,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ke7uz\/certification_statement_of_disinterest_help_needed\/","id":"3ke7uz","body":"Hello! My mother passed away back in July, and in her final days she has gave me her car.  Luckily, in Michigan, vehicles of deceased people don't have to go through probate.  The next closest kin can transfer the vehicle into their name.  \n\nMy mother was divorced, so my brother and I would both be eligible to have the car registration moved into our names.  My brother has no interest in the car and has told me that I can have it. (We've made other arrangements through the estate)\n\nThe Secretary of State Website says this, \"If there is no surviving spouse, and there are several closest next-of-kin (e.g., multiple brothers or sisters), all share equal inheritance. *Those with no interest in the vehicle may complete a certification statement to this effect.\"* \n\nThis may be a silly question, but what exactly do I write in terms of the certification statement? Any help would be greatly appreciated.\n\n","title":"Certification Statement of Disinterest Help Needed","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1447113695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s7c4n\/california_gym_lied_and_scammed_me_now_saying_i\/","id":"3s7c4n","body":"Hello,\n\nLast month I signed up for a 5-day trial at a local gym. Prior to signing anything, I asked the employee signing me up if I would be charged after the five days. He confirmed that after the five day trial was over, I would need to go in and confirm that I indeed wanted the membership before I would recieve any charges and that what I was signing right now was just for if I wanted the membership it would already be out of the way.\n\nI never went back in to confirm the membership as I didn't like the gym. But, sure enough, I was charged today by the gym. Contrary to what the employee told me. I've called them today asking for a refund. They told me \"we don't know what are employee told you but you're signed up for a membership.\"\n\nOkay, so the employee lied to me and now they're refusing to refund the money. Well, I've asked both over the phone and over email that I want this membership terminated. They refused. They said I must go in to the gym and sign more papers to cancel my membership to avoid further charges. I'm terrified to sign anything else by them as I very well may be ripped off more as I'm not too knowledgable on legal things.\n\nI have filed a claim with my bank. \n\nObviously, this company is not being ethical. But what my question is, is what they did illegal and am I entitled to a refund? If so, how would I go about getting my money back and getting my membership cancelled?","title":"[California] Gym lied and scammed me. Now saying I must go in sign more papers to cancel membership","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540338476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9quhnk\/i_lost_a_restraining_order_hearing_today_because\/","id":"9quhnk","body":"**TL;DR** Judge allows ex to play audio from a clip taken later in the evening, using my statement of \"You're recording me?\" from an earlier time in the night when we weren't fighting at all. This second audio clip chronicles a freak accident that ended up with her being struck in the face, and that audio clip convinced the judge to give me a 2 year restraining order in the small town I live in, effectively ruining my social standing with everyone I know and disallowing me from going basically anywhere I want to in fear of seeing her and having to leave. **Lawyer says I should press charges for being unlawfully recorded and then appeal the verdict about the 2 year order of protection, but I can't tell if this is an exercise in futility or if I actually have a chance. He also seemed confident leading up to today and during the hearing, so I question his assessment of the situation.** \n\n​\n\n I was in an abusive relationship with my now ex girlfriend. Verbally abusive toward her, and she was physically abusive toward me. She made an incredibly embellished upon and false statement for a temporary order of protection, one filled with a bunch of her word vs. my word events that never happened.\n\n​\n\nToday was the hearing. She represented herself. She went up to the stand and stuck a thumb drive in with 4 files on it. She said I consented to being recorded. She could not remember where it was at in the clip so she began searching around for it, and by the time she found it she basically had played an entire clip. \n\n​\n\nDuring this clip I was talking to her calmly and she to me. At one point I see her phone and say: \"You're recording me? You weirdo... with an incredulous tone in my voice. She then responds with: \"I don't know if anything weird is going to happen.\" I can't remember if I said anything with regard to that, maybe like \"Oh\", or went back to telling my story immediately. She proceeds to use that to convince the judge to allow her to play audio that was recorded at a later time when I did not know or consent to being recorded. This audio that I did not know exist corroborated my statement of events, it's just that he ruled the hit was intentional.\n\n​\n\nShe had my computer in her backpack, I was on her bike not allowing her to leave with it. She pleaded with me to leave for several minutes while I pleaded with her to go back inside. She put her hand on the handlebar and began to yank it, and as I removed her hand with mine she pulled her hand down and I lost my grip and my hand went up and struck her face. She claims again that it was intentional, so again, her word vs. mine, but that audio evidence convinced the judge to rule that a restraining of 2 years was necessary to \"keep both of us away from each other, because we obviously don't want to see each other ever again.\" The second part of his sentence was true, that we won't ever want to see each other again, but why did he have to make the duration two years? \n\n​\n\nI live in a small town and she's the type of person that will start going to locations I frequent just to fuck with me so I have to leave. \n\n​\n\nMy lawyer was surprised about him letting her play the later audio clip, and was surprised that the verdict was for more than two years.\n\n​\n\nHe suggested I: 1. press charges on her for unlawfully recording me without my consent and 2. Appeal the verdict and try to get another trial. \n\n​\n\nWhat are my options, r\/legaladvice? \n\n​\n\nThank you for any and all input. \n\n ","title":"I lost a restraining order hearing today because the judge allowed my ex to play audio that was recorded without my consent. My lawyer wants to appeal it. Do I have a case? Does my lawyer have my best interests in mind?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542246170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x6j7n\/uk_my_brother_got_beat_up_outside_sainsburys_and\/","id":"9x6j7n","body":"Let me clarify, the CCTV identified the attack but not my brother. An officer told me this during a house visit a little after the assault.\n\nMy brother was 16 and did provoke the guy with hand gestures, but the guy did come over, shout then suddenly headbutt him followed by repeated kicks and punches. He was about 19-21\n\nMy brother only got minor head\/hearings injuries and some cuts and bruises.\n\n\nI got the letter saying it was cancelled around a week ago.\n\nI don\u2019t think there\u2019s much I can do and I know in my area the worst case for this is community service from a court visit provided by witness protection but I want some closure at least. I\u2019m losing faith in the local justice system if this guy can get away with assault scot free.","title":"(UK) My brother got beat up outside Sainsburys\u2019 and even with video evidence and 5 testimonies the court hearing was cancelled the day before for a \u2018lack of evidence\u2019","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551298870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avhx7c\/i_am_going_to_get_kicked_out_of_my_apartment_for\/","id":"avhx7c","body":"For reference, I am a university student in Texas.\n\n​\n\nI live in an apartment complex with individual leases where up to 4 people can all share an apartment with each bedroom belonging to each person, while the common areas are shared. My current apartment is really close to campus as well as major bus routes so it is really easy for me to travel around the city as I need since I don't have a car. But my apartment manager reached out to me saying they would have to move me to either a different complex farther away (presumably a smaller unit since rent is cheaper) or terminate my lease.  \n\n\nHowever, after reviewing my lease it states that outside of Fire\/Catastrophic damage or demolition, they can only terminate my lease on the condition that \"performance of needed repairs poses a danger to you\". When I reached out to the manager, they had stated their reason for me not being able to stay in the unit is because of extensive liability and labor during the repair. Are they legally allowed to terminate my contract or is there anything I can do to fight this?","title":"I am going to get kicked out of my apartment for repairs, but I don't think it's legal.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555202076,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcxaiq\/my_mothers_business_many_other_businesses_and\/","id":"bcxaiq","body":"I apologize if any of this post makes me sound like English is my second language. On Mobile.\n\nMy family runs a small business and the property is owned by Mr.Businessman. The building we are renting has uneven heating\/cooling so the back room is usually unbearable to work in. When my family read the lease, it told us that we were responsible for everything inside while Mr.Businessman was responsible for everything outside. So, assuming that the AC\/heating unit was defined as outside, we contacted his company. \n\nThey said that nothing was wrong with it and put some freeon in it. The unit went back to being crappy not a month after. \n\nAfter a few repeated calls, the lease was changed so that the renter was responsible for everything on the inside, including the AC, waterworks, wiring, etc. In other words, we were responsible for the costs. \n\nWe can't take him to court because Mr.Businessman practically owns half of our farming community, and no one can cover the legal fees necessary to take him to court over an AC unit. \n\nBut I have heard other horror stories from him. \n\nHe will charge you $65USD for a lightbulb should one be broken when you turn in your keys on any of his properies; will take away your deposit if you talk bad about him; and is known to purchase at higher prices to drive away competition. \n\nI have been considering a class action but everyone is too afraid to take him on. \n\nI just want this to end. Can anyone help me?","title":"My Mother's business, many other businesses, and rent-payers are at the mercy of a power hungry businessman and something needs to be done.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569492825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9hma2\/getting_a_vehicle_with_no_title_out_of_impound_at\/","id":"d9hma2","body":"Okay, this explanation is necessary for context and clarity.   \n\n\nI bought a truck from a co-worker in order to give to my mother who was out of a vehicle at the time. I received the title and signed it over to her from the original owner. She failed to register the car immediately and kept driving around her rental car for the time being. She ended up going to jail in a different county in our state and the truck remained at her boyfriend's house still unregistered and uninsured.  \n\n\nWell, when she was bailed out of jail she explained that she had lost the title while in that other county and that she was unable to retrieve it so she had no way of registering the vehicle. I told her we need to just sit on the truck and use it for parts or sell the parts. I explained numerous times not to drive the vehicle unregistered.  \n\n\nShe had a bad break up with the boyfriend recently and began relapsing hard into drugs and ended up driving the truck anyway and crashed it. She fled the scene of the accident and was eventually pulled over.   \n\n\nThe truck was obviously impounded but because she never registered it was considered stolen and the police ended up calling my co-worker who is now FURIOUS at me. All I have personally from the original sale is the bill of sale but the truck is currently impounded and I foresee no way at all to get it out without any information. I don't have the VIN, no insurance on it, no title, nothing.  \n\n\nI've researched getting a bonded title but that requires inspections of the vehicle and no shady history on the vehicle but I am worried that it being reported stolen by the police definitely constitutes shady activity.   \n\n\nI do not know at all what to do about this, how to get it out, and even if I can get it out the required steps are gonna take so long the impounding fees are  gonna shoot through the roof and frankly I just don't make that much money so I'm completely flabbergasted at what I'm supposed to do here.  \n\n\nPlease offer me any assistance I'm desperate enough to ask reddit, please hivemind of the internet help me in someway!","title":"Getting a vehicle with no title out of impound??? (at wits end)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506130339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71vgmp\/hud_inspection\/","id":"71vgmp","body":"Located in Colorado. \n\nI just got a notice at my door for a HUD inspection that I'm required to do next Thursday. I live on a section 8 property but I am not section 8. I pay full price for my apartment. The letter says at the bottom: \"Please consider this your notice of entry. We are required to open any units selected for inspection; no exceptions will be granted. Privacy locks need to be opened upon request for inspection; not allowing entry could be considered a violation of your lease.\" \n\nAm I required for this inspection even though I'm not section 8? Thanks. ","title":"HUD inspection","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1411782995,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hkzqj\/weird_case_with_33_year_old_lawyer_with_16_year\/","id":"2hkzqj","body":"So I saw [this post](http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/relationships\/comments\/2hf2li\/my_gf_16_f_cheated_on_me_19_m_with_a_lawyer_over\/) over at r\/relationships. For those who have not read it a 19 year old was cheated on by his 16 year old girlfriend. However the man she cheated with is 33 year old lawyer who was also her ridings leader for the political party she was involved with. Which she continues to give sexual pleasure to.\n\nThe comment section is full of people claiming what he is doing is illegal and the OP should message the local authorities.  I was just curious is it actually illegal and what should OP do?","title":"Weird case with 33 year old lawyer with 16 year old (Canada)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540232968,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qgkd6\/id_name_and_gender_change_as_executor_of_estate\/","id":"9qgkd6","body":"Hi legaladvice, this one is kind of a doozy, and I'm curious to see if anyone has thoughts or experienced this or something similar. Thanks in advance. \n\n\\*\\*\\*I have a lawyer to be clear, just wanting to get an idea of things before bringing it up with them\\*\\*\\*\n\nSo I'm a transgender woman and in the process of transitioning. Around the same time, my dad died suddenly and left a considerable number of debts, bills, and financial burdens still floating around. Back taxes, medical bills, questionable-to-shady business stuff, and so on. I knew very little about this beforehand, but after a lot of talking with family, my lawyer, and thinking, I became the executor of his estate. We don't have any extended blood family worth mentioning, and my mom died when I was younger. My big question is how much of a nightmare would it be to change my name and gender on ID\/SS forms\/passport while the estate is still in probate? The tricky issue is that we're still waiting for the debts to be fully assessed and weighed against what's left of the estate (my dad didn't really tell anyone that he had all these issues, and we're still learning about more debts well after his death), so the estate hasn't been closed and won't be for the foreseeable future. What would the process be for changing my name while having it attached to a number of legal documents for the estate? I'm currently living in MA but the estate is in MD. How does this impact things? Has anyone done this before for either a gender related name change or via divorce\/marriage while an estate is still in probate? \n\n​\n\nAs people may (and should) know, the current govt and cultural climate in the US is far from kind to trans people and the looming threat of further legal barriers and potential threat of violence is one that I'm obviously impacted by and nervous about. ","title":"ID Name and Gender Change as Executor of Estate (USA- MD, MA)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571200377,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dik5bi\/serious_question\/","id":"dik5bi","body":"I was sexually abused as a kid (9-13). I kept quiet for a long time. I only told my mom when I was 16. I was in therapy for a couple months. This happened in 2 states. Obviously there is no DNA evidence or any witnesses (at the time). What's the good that filing a police report can do. Can this person actually be prosecuted. They are a family member and I don't want to destroy my family if nothing even comes of it.","title":"Serious Question","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554328697,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b94bs3\/car_scratcheddamaged_in_parking_lot\/","id":"b94bs3","body":"I went to the grocery store and parked in the middle of the lot, there were no cars next to either side of me. When I returned, there were a couple 2-3 foot long, deep scratches under my door, as well as a door ding to add insult to injury. The car parked next to me (same side as the damage) didn't match the color left on my door. The grocery store will only release surveillance footage to police. I hate going to the police with something so minor, but is that what needs to happen? I am only 16 and this is my first car so I'm really frustrated.\n\n​\n\nThank you.","title":"Car Scratched\/Damaged in Parking Lot","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552087353,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aywuv4\/my_friend_knows_a_psychopath_what_should_he_do\/","id":"aywuv4","body":"My friend knows a psychopath who most like will kill someone if he hasn't already. There is video evidence of him torturing animals and people, including his family, know that his is a danger. What legally can he do?","title":"My friend knows a psychopath what should he do (California)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540659978,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rvuyd\/daughter_offcampus_apartment_falling_down_but\/","id":"9rvuyd","body":"Daughter (22F) signed lease and moved into apartment in house off campus (New Paltz NY) 4 months ago. What had been a tiny crack underneath the staircase to third floor is getting wider. Landlord says not to worry - blamed previous tenant shoddy paint job. After seeing the crack, I walked all around house and was horrified - back deck falling off and not to code, leaning metal supports in the basement that hold up load bearing beams, water leaking through basement foundation walls.  I am not a builder but I know enough about construction to know this is dangerous. I\u2019m guessing the house was built in the 1940s or 50s.\n\nI want my daughter out of there before the thing collapses. Landlord won\u2019t let her out of lease. I called Albany but they differ to local jurisdiction for housing problems. Local building department said they don\u2019t have any complaints on that structure but admit they don\u2019t monitor the rentals. It\u2019s a small town and it seems landlords, town people all know each other so town is reluctant to get involved. \n\nI even asked campus housing department if they could do anything (they have on online bulletin board for landlords to promote available rentals) but they won\u2019t get involved. \n\nAny feedback would be welcome. The rent is $650\/month and there is security deposit plus she would have rent in a new place so we\u2019re talking about some real money here.\nThanks in advance!!","title":"Daughter off-campus apartment falling down but landlord won\u2019t let her out of lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551126707,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aupy1c\/boston_apartment_heat_has_not_been_working\/","id":"aupy1c","body":"Hey there! Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this and for the advice. A bit of background:\n\nI placed a maintenance request with my landlord to fix heating issues in my apartment **79 days ago**. Our \\~50 year old HVAC cannot keep up with the cold temperatures outside and, even when operating for hours at a time, the temperature falls. The temperature will continue falling until it eventually reaches a low enough temperature to kick on the emergency heat, which does not work at all. The temperature in the apartment is has been between 50 and 67 degrees this winter using our heating system.\n\nIt took a month for them to say it was anything other than user error of the thermostat on my part before a contractor was finally called. He spent 6 hours rewiring the unti and, after restoring mild functionality of the HVAC and bypassing the broken emergency heat coil to save us on electricity, he said it needed to be replace immediately. Upon being told that the unit needed to be replaced my landlord emailed me stating that everything was working correctly. After I waited to make sure the issue was still happening I emailed again and was told that the unit blowing cold air \"was not abnormal\". \n\nI called the contractor who worked on our unit up after hearing this and they confirmed per their invoice that the technician recommended an immediate replacement. Finally after much convincing and hiring another contractor for a second opinion they agreed to replace the unit and sent someone in to take measurements. At this point (about 2 months in) I was provided two space heaters to cover the two floors of my apartment. While the upstairs space heater works OK after warming up for an hour or so the downstairs where the bedroom is remains in the 50s generally due to brick\/stone walls and no insulation. Since using these heaters my electric bill has been raised 70%.\n\nAfter a few more weeks of unanswered followups I was finally told  that the measurements had been taken and there was a day work would begin. This day  was subsequently canceled at the last minute twice until I was promised today would be the day repairs were made. This morning two repairmen showed up, remeasured the HVAC closet, said the unit would not fit, called their boss who said not to repair anything, and left. \n\nI have not heard any updates from my landlord about further plans for repairs or explanation of how this could have happened (he was there measuring the unit with the contractor). I am hoping to spend another year and a half at least in this current apartment so I have been quite patient with them so that my lease will be renewed, but I have lost faith that these repairs will happen any time soon unless I act.  \n\nAll of the above is documented with emails and pictures. My questions are: \n\n* Can I deduct the increase in my electric bill from using the space heaters and emergency heating coil the past 3 months from rent?\n* Can I begin withholding rent, and if so approximately what percentage?\n* Should I reach out to the city inspector to come and review the situation?\n   * I am fairly certain they would find there to be issues since 68 degree minimum is required here in Boston and I cannot achieve that in half of my apartment with my current HVAC and external space heaters, but this could potentially lead to my lease not being renewed\n\nThank you again!\n\n​\n\nTLDR: Landlord has been promising heating repairs for almost 3 months and has continually failed to deliver.","title":"[Boston] Apartment heat has not been working correctly for months","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569257735,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d899ez\/going_to_a_wedding\/","id":"d899ez","body":"On behalf of my cousin, I'm posting and looking for advice.\n\nMy wedding is this weekend in Vegas ( Well, nearby). My cousin wants to bring her kids as they are in the ceremony.  She served her husband with divorce papers and they haven't gone through any custody litigation yet.\n\nHer ex is threatening to have her arrested if she takes the kids with her on this trip. \n\nThere are no restraining orders or anything like that... Is she good to bring them with? Her lawyer seems to think so. Just wondering if anytime out there is familiar enough with Texas laws ( home state) to give some advice on this.\n\nThanks!","title":"Going to a wedding.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542218963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x2ipw\/13_yr_old_stepdaughter_took_and_returned_a\/","id":"9x2ipw","body":"My Step daughter was diagnosed with ODD many years ago, and she has been in therapy as well as having a close eye kept on her since then. We have made a lot of progress with her in that time. She recently began to hang out with a new friend from school, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. We discovered recently that this friend and my daughter took a teachers phone and attempted to hide it. Eventually my daughter broke down, told the truth, and returned the device. The school suspended her (which I feel was warranted) but the teacher is now pressing charges. My daughter is the type of person who actually can learn rather quickly from mistakes, but basically has to make the mistake. I reached out to the school principal and she seemed very callous and not at all concerned for my child\u2019s welfare, and more interested in protecting the teacher. The teacher is supposed to call me today, and I really want to work out something with her to drop the charges. I\u2019m in Ohio, and I was never asked to meet with her, and the police never spoke with my daughter, only the other child. The other child is also apparently not facing any punishment, as she was seen leaving the school yesterday. My daughter has zero history of theft. What can I do? I have been thinking about going to the local paper and talking about the situation. I guess I just expect more from an educator and a child care specialist when it comes to these types of issues. ","title":"13 yr old stepdaughter took and returned a cellular device from a teacher now she is pressing charges.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1444699638,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oj12s\/california_accidentally_took_a_counterfeit_100_at\/","id":"3oj12s","body":"My friend was on a shift at a major lego store and accidentally took a counterfeit $100 during a transaction. He said that they are not provided counterfeit detecting pens because they \"don't work\" and was advised during training not to hold up $100 bills to not offend customers because they are fairly common. \nHe said that he's now either going to be fired or going to be docked the $100 in his pay. \nAre either of those legal?","title":"California, Accidentally took a counterfeit $100 at work.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553141044,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3m08l\/lawyer_mailed_inherited_item_to_wrong_family\/","id":"b3m08l","body":"I am wondering if this item is not sent, would this be considered malpractice? Or report to bar?\n\nI inherited some semi-valuable items from my grand mother. Me, my brother, dad, uncle, and cousins were awarded items in a lottery. We were assigned these items, and it was recorded.\n\nWe live in different states, so they were mailed to each of us in secure, signature\/receipt required packages.\n\nThe layer\u2019s assistant put one of my items in the wrong package and mailed it off.\n\nI received my package, signed, identified the missing item, notified the lawyer. The lawyer confirmed the assistant misplaced it. Got in contact with the recipient, recipient said they\u2019d mail it to me.\n\nI\u2019ve emailed a week later, it has not been sent, the lawyer has made no effort outside of forwarding my emails requesting that my cousin be reimbursed and that the cousin provide a tracking number. \n\nI am just frustrated because it seems unprofessional how the item was handled, there was a lack of care, and the communication is in professional. I feel like I\u2019m going to have to nag until I get the item. I posted before, but didn\u2019t know how to phrase the question. Is it worth getting into?","title":"Lawyer mailed inherited item to wrong family member (USA)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445216259,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pan0q\/landlord_living_in_same_residence_having_issues\/","id":"3pan0q","body":"I am currently a resident in a 5 bedroom home with 2 other tenants, the landlord and the landlords golden retriever. The dog barks a lots even at night it probably wakes me up 2-3 nights a week from its barking. Often in the morning it comes and scratches my door and wakes me up as well (around 6 am). When this happens the landlord yells at the dog to be quite which only encourages it more. She is aware of the issue and has recently been keeping the dog in the basement but it still barks at night and wakes me up often. \n\nI have talked to her about it several times and The landlord keeps saying \"she's going to move out soon,\" she owns a condo and is currently building a house. She originally said when I moved in, September 1st 2015, that she would be out of the house in 4-6 weeks. However she is still here and doesn't seem to be packing anything up or getting ready to leave. \n\nAlso she forces the three of us to pay for common food that she insists on buying and despite 2 of us saying we don't want to pay for common food she says \"we have to, we don't have enough space for everyone to have their own food.\" The house is cluttered with food left over from previous tenants and a lot of their own food which isn't common. She also insists on buy all the common food and supplies even if I'm already going to the store to get my own groceries.\n\nMy question is if she still living here wouldn't she have to contribute to common food if she is making us pay for; currently it is split 3-ways despite the two of us not wanting to be part of it. And shouldn't we have a choice over the common food we buy? shouldn't we be buying among the three of us, if we have to do it?\n\nAlso she leaves notes around the house telling us to go rake the leaves or mow the lawn, I have never seem her help with any of the choirs around the house; she doesn't even clean up the dog hair all over the house. I have no problem helping out but I'm not paying to clean up her house or after her. \n\nI am wondering what are my rights and obligations in these situations, how would I best attempt to resolve these issues, and what can I do as a tenant if we can't resolve the issues? \n\nLastly I have a 8 month lease but I have not signed it nor has she asked me too, I am waiting for her to make changes to the lease before I sign it: she spelled my name wrong a couple of other clarity issues. This would make me month to month, I believe. \n\nTLDR: Loud dog, not moving out when she said she would, not contributing to household, how do I resolve this?\n\nThanks, for your time! \n","title":"Landlord living in same residence, having issues (B.C., Canada)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1409442310,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f1lho\/memphistn_ticket_for_looking_down_at_phone_at_red\/","id":"2f1lho","body":"Came to a stop at a red light, glanced down at my lap to make sure my phone screen was off (battery has been draining lately and i was a hour away with no charger). I look back up, light still red. I look to my left and see a state trooper. He rolls his window down and says go ahead and pull over. I pull into the mcdonalds parking spot. He asked me do i know why im being stopped. I said no. He asked, what were you doing looking down. I said making sure my phone was off. Told me about it being illegal to text while driving. I told him i wasnt texting.\n\nMy dilemma. I pretyped a text message to my lady, saying \"Coming past mcdonalds\". I hit send at the previous light saying i was coming past the mcdonalds i was stopped at. I wasnt texting when he saw me, i really was making sure my screen was off. My folks suggested i get my phone records showing that I wasnt texting at the time he pulled me over. My thinking is theyll see the previous message and disregard me sending it minutes before.\n\nWhat should i do?\n\nI had a speeding ticket that was going to be dismissed as long as i didnt get anymore moving violations...this one fucks me because it makes both stick to my record. I want to keep my clean record......\n\nEDIT: The pink ticket i received is unreadable. I havent got a clue what he wrote on the narrative part.","title":"[Memphis,TN] Ticket for looking down at phone at red light","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1441830839,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kaklw\/how_would_a_divorce_work_with_a_rich_parent_who\/","id":"3kaklw","body":"Like let's say a man and a woman got married. The man's father is a millionaire and pays for everything for years, then the couple decides to divorce. The house is in the father's name and he gives his son an allowance and charges him rent from that, so that there's no squatter's rights or anything. Neither the son nor his ex-wife have ever worked a day in their life, and nothing is in either of their names.\n\nThe father says he will not give the ex-wife any money, and the son has no money to be able to be taken directly from him for alimony. If the courts were to try to take it from his \"allowance\", the father would quit paying that altogether. The couple are both middle-aged, but have no work experience, or even an education beyond what was required by law when they were school-aged. In essence, they've basically lived their whole lives like children where everything was taken care of for them, but nothing actually belonged to them.\n\nWould the ex-wife in this scenario just be left with nothing?\n\nThis is purely a hypothetical situation, so feel free to mention how it would be treated in any location.","title":"How would a divorce work with a rich parent who pays for everything for the wedded couple?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569201056,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7zh26\/adopting_my_fianc\u00e9s_son\/","id":"d7zh26","body":"So my fiance has a 7 month old son, the father is not on the birth certificate. I understand he can order a dna test and gain rights. But if he never does this am I able to adopt the child?","title":"Adopting my fianc\u00e9\u2019s son.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570293146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddpizw\/abusive_mother\/","id":"ddpizw","body":"For years my mother has been verbally and physically been abusing me so much that now I have social anxiety and I had enough and was wondering, what can I do more than go to family court and file a restraining order?","title":"Abusive Mother","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571597637,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dknxnj\/online_tshirt_shop\/","id":"dknxnj","body":"Im a graphic designer in the United States IL wanting to start an online shop but I have no idea legally what I need to acquire to make that happen besides the material and website. \nWhere can I get more information?\nDo I pay taxes if i make over a certain amount profit ?\nDo I have to have a bussiness license?","title":"Online Tshirt Shop","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571285569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj13l6\/does_other_party_have_to_disclose_that_they_have\/","id":"dj13l6","body":"**Hearing TOMORROW AM. I just checked the court docket and my \"pro se\" ex-husband has an attorney listed.** When I filed pro se, he responded pro se as well. Motion for Order to Show Cause in Divorce - motion to enforce orders. *Can  I expect an attorney to be there representing him tomorrow morning? Can I change the hearing date if he has representation and I do not?*","title":"Does other party have to disclose that they have an attorney? [UTAH]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552175415,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az9qx5\/new_hampshire_privacy_law\/","id":"az9qx5","body":"I recently found out that two companies operated my the same board of directors used one of these online background check websites to obtain information about me. Turns out the information they paid for was wrong. Today I was talking to a police officer about different things. We were just talking about life, nothing more than small talk. Some how we started talking about privacy law and I told him my story. He said they violated privacy law and that it was illegal to download my information, wether it was correct or not. Without my consent, it was illegal.\n\nHere are some of the details. We were looking for homeschool options for our daughter. This place is a home school and community organization. So we went to one of there open house events to see what it was about. We asked regular questions and it was an uneventful evening. One of those days where you meet way more people than you could ever remember. A few weeks go by. We decided to go the public school option. Didn't give it another thought.\n\nThen one day a guy calls and is asking me about the open house. I am answering his questions and we are talking a bit. He tells me we are a consideration for membership and he had some questions. I said okay because he had my interest.  He starts asking me questions about where we use to live and work, it was like he was going through a checklist. After a few minutes I started getting some of the answers wrong. He was asking about things from 10 years ago when my husband got out of college and I was getting the dates mixed up. As it turns out this guy has a ton of information about us going back decades. I was extremely insulted when he admitted to paying for an online background check and he was just verifying the information. I became irate with him. We didn't fill out an application or anything and he had this information.\n\nMy battery is dead. I will update with more information in a minute. Brb","title":"New Hampshire Privacy Law","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505242343,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zp0mx\/stepmother_is_trying_to_evict_me_and_my\/","id":"6zp0mx","body":"Me and my girlfriend(GF) moved in with my father(F), stepmother(SM), little brother(B), and step-sister(SS) in April of this year, rent and utility free. This is in Washington state, USA. Over the course of the last few years their marriage has declined and in late May of this year they decided to get a divorce. SM and SS promptly moved out. Custody of B was shared. In late June F has a drug relapse and overdoses. SM, suspicious of his behavior the day before, comes to the house, finds him unconscious, calls the police, performs CPR, and saves his life. During F's recovery they tried to reconnect and save their marriage. SM moved back in. During this time CPS investigation is started against F and SM but they are eventually determined to be fit enough parents. By early July they are again going forward with divorce and SM again moves out. For the remainder of July and most of August SM lived with her own mother. In mid-late August SM acquires her own apartment. F, GF, and I help her move in. At the end of August there's a confrontation between SM and F. F kicks, punches, and strangles SM. GF and I call police. Police haul F to jail. SM goes to ER. Social worker calls a couple hours later saying SM asked if GF and I could stay with her in ER because she's feeling scared and alone. GF and I drive to ER immediately. SM can't drive for a few days because of mild concussion. Following days GF and I drive SM around town to pick up pain medication, pick up B and SS from school, speak to domestic abuse advocate, buy pepper spray, etc. I sleep in SM's new apartment as safety measure during this time because we don't know what F is capable of. F uses house he owns as bail collateral and gets out early September. F calls me saying he's going to lose custody of B and go to prison, says SM has taken everything from him. Following day receive word F found dead in Oregon. Likely suicide. SM proceeds to move back into house F owned, where GF and I have been staying. Two days ago SM tells GF and I we need to prepare to move out, implies within next couple months. GF and I offer to help with property tax, maintenance, utilities. SM declines offer and says she wants GF and I to move out. SM also begins selling F's belongings on craigslist that day. GF and I tell SM we need time to think things over. Yesterday SM calls us into kitchen where her and her large male friend (LMF) are waiting. LMF starts yelling at GF and I, hurling insults. LMF says we have 4 days to remove all our belongings, if we don't or if we cause trouble says he will send over some friends of his with lead pipes who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty. SM says little during this but stands by LMF. GF and I leave and call non-emergency number. GF and I return to house with officer couple hours later. LMF is gone. SM explains her side, GF and I ours. Officer says because GF and I weren't paying rent or utilites we're technically squatters and SM has the right to make us leave in as little as 3 days but tells SM she should give us 14 days and to write an eviction letter. SM, GF and I sign eviction notice. (I'm thinking that was dumb of me.)\n\nAddition Info:\n\n-I have a sister 1 year younger than me from the same mother and father, whom I am very close with. She hasn't seen or spoken to our father in years.\n\n-My father told me he changed me to the sole beneficiary in his will a week or two before his death. Stepmother claims he had no will. I don't trust my father or stepmother so don't know who to believe.\n\n-Stepmother created a very manipulative and deceitful crowdfunding page claiming to speak on the behalf of our entire family. Claims she and my father were loving and devoted to the end. My father hated her in the end. Claims he was loving to his granddaughter. He never met his granddaughter because my sister wouldn't let him. Stuff like that. Has gathered over $2000 on it. I suspect she's using it for personal gain.\n\n-My father's house was purchased solely by him prior to marrying my stepmother. He is the only person on the house's title.\n\n-My girlfriend, sister, and I are completely broke any services we use must be free or next to free.\n\n-I'm going to contact a volunteer lawyer today.\n\nQuestions:\n\n-Is there anything I can do about the lead pipes threat against my girlfriend and I?\n\n-How do I find out if my father had a will?\n\n-Is there anything I can do about the crowdfunding page?\n\n-What can I do about my stepmother selling my father's belongings? No one has spoken to us about what goes to whom.\n\n-Is the eviction paper valid? Does my stepmother have the authority to evict me and my girlfriend less than two weeks after his death and before any of my father's assets are divided?\n\n-I'm worried for my step-sister and little brother. I'm worried my stepmother may be using drugs and\/or alcohol. I question her mental stability. I'm worried about the influence she has over my step-sister and little brother. When the CPS agent asked my little brother who he feels safest with he began to say my name and then switched over to my girlfriend's name. Is there anything I can do for them?\n\n-My stepmother is coordinating my father's memorial service. I do not want LMF to be there. Is there anything I can do to stop him from attending?\n\nThank you to everyone who reads my post. I know it's long and poorly formatted. I welcome any advice on the subject even if it doesn't pertain to my questions.\n\nEdited for some formatting.\n","title":"Stepmother is trying to evict me and my girlfriend from my father's house less than two weeks after his death, is threatening us, and is selling off his belongings before assets have been divided. (WA, USA)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1508504376,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77lwji\/pa_gave_two_weeks_notice_my_second_to_last\/","id":"77lwji","body":"I gave my two weeks notice at my current employer, yesterday was my last day. Today I checked my bank account for my weekly direct deposit and it was for $36. Before taxes and any commission it\u2019s $400. No reason was given and I haven\u2019t heard back from my old manager. \n\nI received no notices of any deductions at any point leading up to this. The general manager is, in my opinion, a scumbag. I gave this company 8 years of my life and he didn\u2019t even acknowledge me after I gave notice. It was my understanding that in Pennsylvania wages cannot be withheld unless the employee is notified 10 days in advance in writing. But I read that online so who knows. Any advice would be appreciated. \n\nEDIT: Heard back from my old manager. He said it\u2019s to cover my sons health insurance through the end of the month (which was a deduction I have taken out weekly). \n\nIs this normal practice? I was not told in advance, but I am happy to learn we have health insurance until my new position starts covering us.","title":"[PA] Gave two weeks notice, my second to last paycheck is 1\/10th my normal pay","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446222240,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qutj8\/ny_lease_on_apartment_is_up_soon_and_we_havent\/","id":"3qutj8","body":"My two roommates and I originally signed a one year lease for an apartment (not in New York City if that matters) and now that lease is about to come to an end. I've talked to him a couple times about a new lease and he is fine with us living here some more, he just hasn't sent a new agreement yet.  I asked him if this is something we should have done before our existing one ends and his exact words were \"It should but don't worry all is good with you guys.\"\n\nNow to be honest my roommates and I aren't to worried about anything this, its just a thought and I also do not like how he keeps reassuring us without actually doing anything.  We were never late on rent and we had one complaint ~8 months ago because we left our recycling out to long.\n\nSo is he able to kick us out if he wanted to? Is there really anything he can do on such short notice in terms of our living conditions? Again I don't think anything will ever really come of this its just a worst case scenario type of thing that I would like to know more about. Let me know what you guys think, maybe there is something I haven't even thought about yet. If you need more info let me know.","title":"[NY] Lease on apartment is up soon and we haven't signed a new agreement yet. What can he do if we dont have a new lease before the current one ends?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571256784,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/div0um\/can_i_use_power_of_attorney_to_enroll_my_child\/","id":"div0um","body":"My husband is getting out of the military and we are moving to a new city in Southern California. The school district that we are going to be in is rough to say the least. The school we will be eligible to send our son to with our address is terrible academically and has issues with bullying. My son has excelled in school so far and we are very worried about enrolling him at a school with such issues. \n\nWe have contacted several schools but they are not open to inter district transfers. We have looked into private schools but they are all Christian and we don\u2019t want him to be forced into religion just to get a better education. \n\nMy in laws live about 20 minutes from us and are in an excellent school district. Would giving them Power of Attorney allow them to enroll my son in the school their address qualifies for? Are there any other options?","title":"Can I use Power of Attorney to enroll my child into school? (California)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540773833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s8gky\/is_this_a_legal_traffic_maneuver\/","id":"9s8gky","body":"Background:\n\nI live in the state of Washington. A few days ago I was leaving from a location onto an avenue.  It was around 8:00 or 9:00 PM  and there was very little traffic. There was a traffic light on the way out of the location so I waited. I waited for about three or so minutes and it did not turn green. I looked left and right to see if there was any oncoming traffic and I did not see any in either direction. I proceeded forward through the red light and made a left turn. Now the the road  is split up into two one-way streets One going one direction and the other going the other direction. I turned left onto a one-way street but by doing so I had to cross over another one-way street to get there.\n\n​\n\nHere is a picture I drew of my maneuver.\n\nPurple arrows: The direction of traffic\/the road.\n\nRed Arrow: The maneuver I did\n\nGreen Block. The road divider. \n\nTraffic Light: Where the traffic light\/lights were. \n\n​\n\n[https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ETzNw2e](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ETzNw2e) \n\n​\n\n​\n\nExtra Information:\n\n​\n\nAccording to this website, [https:\/\/www.drivinglaws.org\/resources\/traffic-tickets\/moving-violations\/running-red-lights-and-stop-44](https:\/\/www.drivinglaws.org\/resources\/traffic-tickets\/moving-violations\/running-red-lights-and-stop-44), in the state of Washington you are allowed to make a left turn  on red when you are going onto a one way street. I am wondering if this is a truly legal, and if what I did was also legal. I made a turn onto a one-way street, but it from a parking lot and not a road. Would I get a ticket for this or is this a safe--and legal, move to make with my car.\n\n​\n\nAny information helps,\n\nThank you\n\n. \n\n​","title":"Is this a legal traffic maneuver?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540710529,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s1ex2\/medical_device_accommodation\/","id":"9s1ex2","body":"I work at a Call Center that doesn't allow any form of personal data device (cellphone,tablet,data-watches,etc). However I recently was put on a long term heart monitor that records my symptoms on a cell phone. However the cellphone can't call out can't take pictures can't bluetooth between anything other than the monitor on my chest.. but does any of that matter? Isn't it discrimination if they don't accommodate me. They have to right? By the way this would be with in Illinois law? ","title":"Medical Device Accommodation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541546677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uto2q\/i_was_wrongfully_pulled_over_for_speeding_what\/","id":"9uto2q","body":"Earlier today I was pulled over while driving to work. I had just turned onto the street after waiting at a traffic light and was going the speed limit of 35mph. I had multiple cars in front and beside me. When the cop pulled me over he showed me a radar with a speed of 54mph. This is a congested street and it would've been incredibly difficult for me to have just turned onto the street and already be going 20mph over the limit. After taking my license he came back with a ticket and acted like a nice guy, telling me he's only giving me a ticket for 9mph so it's not as expensive. I have no way of proving I wasn't speeding, but are there any options for me to get out of this ticket? Is it worth taking the ticket to court?\n","title":"I was wrongfully pulled over for speeding. What are my next steps? (FL)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541229529,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ts8jj\/job_offer_rescinded_after_late_bad_reference\/","id":"9ts8jj","body":"Hawaii. I was recently offered a job with an E-mail welcoming me to the team which included my salary, start date, benefits, etc with attachment to follow up on which I signed and sent over to them. From that point, I thought it would be safe for me to file my two week notice. A few days before I would start the new job, I get a call from the head of HR of my potential new employer that due to a last minute bad reference check and the information that was provided to them, they will have to rescind my job offer. I was shocked. I have no record of any disciplinary actions and my references would typically say good things about me. I left all my former jobs in good standing. I attempted to withdraw my two week notices with my old job, but told it was too late and now I am unemployed. Neither my former employer or this potential new employer would provide any assistance to me other than that I could apply to other jobs with their companies. \n\nWhat can I do? How could I check that this bad reference is valid? They said that information is confidential. I mean, how often are references accepted after a job offer is made? None of what I am going through right now makes no sense. \n\nI have a letter in writing that they withdrew my job offer due to a late bad reference. \n\nThis is my first topic with reddit. Please bare with me. ","title":"Job Offer Rescinded After Late Bad Reference","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569065548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d79cyi\/should_i_go_to_small_claims_after_i_was_in_a\/","id":"d79cyi","body":"Two days ago I was struck by a speeding truck that ran a red light while I was turning left. The truck sped off, but was apprehended about a mile down the road. Luckily, I was unscathed physically, although I was and still am very shaken up by the entire ordeal. \n\n\nUnfortunately, I only had liability as the car was old and I honestly couldn\u2019t afford anything more comprehensive as I am already fully insured on a new vehicle that I recently purchased. The driver on the other vehicle appears to be uninsured as the police report makes no mention of their insurance. \n\n\nWith that being said, my car has a lot of functional damage and it would likely cost more than the car is even worth to get everything that was damaged in the accident fixed.  \n\n\nObviously, I am very frustrated that this happened and I would like to sue for the damages to my vehicle so that I will be able to at least partially repay myself for having to unexpectedly purchasing another car.\n\n\nShould I file? What are the necessary steps I should take? Any and all advice welcome!","title":"Should I go to small claims after I was in a non-injury hit and run with an uninsured motorist that basically totaled my car? [OH]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568861833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d67zro\/my_old_landlord_is_claiming_that_i_destroyed_his\/","id":"d67zro","body":"I never got on well with my landlord and landlady. While my landlady was pregnant, she accused me of stealing their snacks late at night when really, it was just her and her late night cravings. They also accused me of never showering, which was a pretty weird\/obvious lie that I didn't understand the point of. Then they accused me of stealing their house key, which I didn't need to do since I had my own, and I didn't even know where they kept their keys. Super weird, unnecessary lie. Then they accused me of siphoning gas from their car, which I also had no reason to do since I didn't own a car while I lived with them. Then it was a wild one. They thought I was making a mess in my kitchen, picking it up, and using my mess to mess up their kitchen. They literally couldn't admit that they were messy. They would also leave food out all over my area of the house, and blame me when it went bad. \n\nThey would always make really sexually explicit jokes towards me, and demean my body a lot. I'm not unfit, but I did gain about 10 pounds while I lived there, and they commented on it all the time. They were also hoarders, and left garbage and food out in the open, everywhere, all the time.\n\nSo to get to the point, I got a picture message from my old landlord earlier this week. It was a picture of my old room, completely ruined with black mold (which I had mentioned to him while I lived there, but it was so small that he chose to ignore it) and trash, as well as bug nests, and some kind of electronic junk. He then sent me a text saying \"WTF DID YOU DO!!!\" \nI figured this was a scam attempt, given their previous behavior. So I ignored it and blocked his number.\n\nToday, a police officer shows up at my apartment, and asks me if I used to live with them. My thought is that they took all their trash that they had been hoarding into one room, took pics, and are trying to pin it on me now that the room has been ruined by black mold. I showed the officer time stamped photos I took of the room the day I moved out. I told him that I had never been back and never wanted to go back. He sighed, and said that they told him I would have \"fabricated\" photos of the room to use as evidence. I didn't know what to do at this point. What are the police supposed to believe? That they never opened the door to my old room for seven months or so, and then just discovered the room trashed after all that time? Does that even seem believable? \n\nSo like, am I good? Also, how the hell did they get my address. I told them I was going to live with my parents when I moved, and told my parents not to tell them any different. The only thing I can think of is that they stalked me? No one else that we knew mutually know where I live now, I covered all my bases.","title":"My old landlord is claiming that I destroyed his basement. His claims come more than half a year after I left.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554781673,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb39zy\/how_do_i_enforce_parenting_plan_police_wont_help\/","id":"bb39zy","body":"GF sons Father ignores parenting plan in Florida. Supposed to be sharing her son half the week every week, it's judges orders. Yet he just keeps him. Has no regard for the child's desire to see his mother. Actually said one day when she was trying to pick him up from school,\" you're not his mother anymore!\"  We feel he has the kid brainwashed as he's only 12.  What is the point of a parenting plan if there is no one to enforce it. She's losing hope and talking about suicide and I don't know what to do.","title":"How do I enforce parenting plan? Police won't help!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446697727,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rl7vm\/colorado_renting_room_on_month_to_month_basis_as\/","id":"3rl7vm","body":"Hello all, \n\nFirst time posting here so let me cut right to the main points. I rent a room from the main tenant of the residence. We have a verbal agreement on everything only, I have never signed anything to live at the residence. I pay every months agreed rent and utilities to the main tenant in cash. We recently got into a verbal fight and in this fight the question came up, \"when was i going to move out?\". I replied the 9th of November, which i intend to do.\n\n The Landlord sent me a message today saying that we had a verbal agreement of 30 days Notice before i can move out. That i am responsible for 1 more month of rent and utilities. The landlord has requested that I pay to fix any damages they believed to be caused by me, and that i must shampoo the carpets of my room after i move out. I did not agree to any of this verbally, and certainly never signed anything.\n\nI have never made a single payment to the actual landlord for anything, only to the main tenant. The only service\/utility tied to me at the residence is internet Bill via comcast.\n\nI have looked up a few laws regarding subtenants on NOLO, which states i only need seven days notice before leaving a subtenant situation.\n\nWhat can i do to protect myself from being sued? What can i do to put this situation behind me? Must i abide by the landlords demands? First time ever renting a room, not really sure what to do.","title":"[Colorado] Renting room on month to month basis as subtenant. I plan to leave ASAP, Landlord has other plans.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540922969,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sqgo9\/motherinlaw_is_being_abused_by_her_husband_and_is\/","id":"9sqgo9","body":"My wife\u2019s mother has been in an abusive marriage for 20 years, I have only been in this family for 8.  In July her husband pushed her across a room, breaking her back.  She has been out of work and recovering since then.  There were no criminal charges filed at the time because she was unconscious and he lied to paramedics and later to the social services investigators.  She is too scared to speak up and as of right now nothing is going to happen to him for hurting her. \n\nNow for the financial questions.  My mother-in-law comes from an upper class background, has a very good job and some inheritance, assets and investments.  She makes $128k.  Her husband has never had anything, no education, no career and only barely a real job. He makes $40k.  In the last year or so he has started making moves on her money, trying to get her house put in his name, demanding that she sign over her upcoming pension to him, telling her she needs to write a new will because he has some requests to put in.  He also wants power of attorney over her and has been pushing her to do that.\n\nShe is 64 years old and plans to go back to work.  But she is increasingly having memory problems and both her parents had Alzheimer\u2019s.  He has already mentioned (several times, to several people) that she might need to be hospitalized soon, as in \u201cnursing home\u201d.  I could list a hundred other ways it seems like he has a master plan here: to get everything of value in his name, then send her away.  He isn\u2019t really trying to hide this either.\n\nShe can\u2019t bring any charges against him for the incident at this point, and will not consider divorce right now for religious reasons.  BUT, we had a breakthrough this weekend: she will meet with the family attorney and her two daughters (my wife and her sister).  She has agreed to financially protect herself from him.  This is huge, because it will define how the rest of her life goes.\n\n**THE MAIN QUESTION HERE:** What can we legally do and how can we protect her from being financially destroyed by this man?  What questions should we ask at this attorney meeting?  What documentation do we need?  What specific language or terms need to be included?  What else are we missing?  Any other advice for this situation?\n\nWe will be looking into the following things:  \n\nHer upcoming pension \/ retirement checks (what happens to them if she becomes mentally disabled or passes away), the house (currently in both their names i believe), her investments (stocks \/ mutual funds), the two college funds she set up for my children (he has suggested before that he should be allowed to invest that money somewhere else), her possessions (some old jewelry, valuable furniture, paintings, car), her inheritance bank account (a trust, which currently goes to her daughters upon her death) and life insurance.  My wife is really hoping she will be given power of attorney to help manage the estate; mom is still on the fence about this for whatever reason.  But under pressure from him (and fear) she might one day just sign it over to him \u2014 which would be a disaster.\n\nA few other notes about him that might be important:  he is a drink-every-day alcoholic, works from home and is very active in his church which protects him.  He is the kind of person who believes women should be subservient to men and that he is superior to her.  He also has a history of physical threats toward my wife and her sister, and I have witnessed many verbal assaults by him - including rampages directed at me on several occasions.  We have not seen him in 2.5 years, since he drove drunk with my 4-year-old son in the car.  He monitors his wife\u2019s phone calls and emails and threatened to call the police if we ever visited her mother\u2019s house.  He is mentally and verbally abusive, which is very real but hard to prove. \n\nSo it\u2019s really great news that my mother-in-law has finally decided to do something about this.  We can start by protecting her legally and financially until she is ready to leave him (she\u2019s seeing a therapist and starting to come around on that).  She is afraid that any mention of divorce will set him off, and that her filing for divorce will result in him suing her and possibly worse. \n\nThank you very much.\n\nnote:  they live in Memphis, TN.  we live in Virginia.  \n","title":"Mother-in-law is being abused by her husband and is trying to protect herself from him financially.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554844976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbdksl\/wrong_information_on_parking_ticket\/","id":"bbdksl","body":"At a public university in Michigan I parked in a motorcycle parking area in my prius V. The ticket incorrectly states my vehicle as a prius. These are two distinct vehicles. Is there a way to beat the ticket? I think the ticket was issued by a police officer. Also, I have seen university vehicles park here as well, could I use this as a defense?","title":"Wrong information on parking ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507437838,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74ztpr\/is_an_impound_lot_allowed_to_keep_a_car_if_it_was\/","id":"74ztpr","body":"My ex wife claims that an impound lot won\u2019t give her car back, they picked it up when it was stolen. Long story short....I don\u2019t believe it was stolen as it doesn\u2019t seem legal for them to keep a car this way.  She swears they are racking up fees daily and will sell it at he end of the month?  I feel like there has to be more to this story, ie my ex doesn\u2019t have insurance\/registration which is why they\u2019re keeping it?  Or can they legally do this?  \n\nI googled the laws and can\u2019t find a reliable source but it does sound like the lot can bill her but not keep her car since it was stolen. ","title":"Is an impound lot allowed to keep a car if it was stolen? Ca","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554084189,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7vwjw\/i_was_fired_from_a_marketing_firm_for_singing\/","id":"b7vwjw","body":"I used to work for a marketing firm in Kansas City, Missouri.  The account I was on was for a large cigarette company.  My job as a Field Agent was to drive my car from bar to bar to bar passing out the cigarette gift certificates (coupons).  \n\nOne night I walked to an Adult Only Facility (bar) and saw they doing karaoke.  I absolutely love to sing so I decided to risk it and sign up to sing even though I knew I was working and I could probably get in trouble.  After my song, I started moving from table to table giving Adult Smokers my pitch and guess what!  They were way more receptive to my message than at any other place before.  They said \u201cI saw you sing, you were great!  What are you selling? Tell me more.\u201d  They were MUCH more willing to receive my gift certificate after the recognized me from my song.\n\nI realized that singing karaoke before I started trying to pass out the coupons would actually Endear me to the clientele.  So I kept doing it.  I was performing awesome for the company and my numbers were really high.  The wanted us to pass out as many coupons as we possibly could. \n\nOne night, someone from the bar video recorded me singing and posted it in the bar website.  The next time I went to check in for my weekly check-in with my manager, he took my bag and equipment and said they were letting me go.  Wouldn\u2019t tell me more or why.  About a week later, headquarters called me and told me I was terminated because they had seen a video of me singing karaoke online when I was supposed to be passing out gift certificates.  I told her why I sang as it had always given me better results with the Adult Smokers but she did not care, and I was fired.\n\nSeveral months later, I was at a karaoke bar having a drink when two field guides from that company walked in.  They headed right for the karaoke DJ and signed up for a song.  After one of them sang, they began to make their rounds to find Adult Smokers to give their gift certificates to.  When they got to my table, I had more than a few questions.\n\nThey said that they were new to the job, and that they had been instructed by the bosses during training to sing karaoke and basically do whatever it took to \u201cendear them to the clientele\u201d (my exact words).  I couldn\u2019t believe it.  The very thing I was fired for, the firm had now begun to incorporate into their new training manual.  How is this fair or just?  I feel like I should have gotten my job back, or something.  They literally stole my idea that they had fired me for doing.  I realize I broke their policy at the time, but I kind of feel like they changed their policy because of me.  And they threw me out.  I really loved that job, I was great at it, and it paid well.  \n\nDo I have a case for anything at all?","title":"I was fired from a marketing firm for singing karaoke on the clock. Now they actually encourage employees to sing karaoke on the clock....the very thing I was fired for doing.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504034909,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wtlq2\/received_notice_of_certified_mail_from_brantley\/","id":"6wtlq2","body":"My fianc\u00e9 was driving my car back from the beach and I have read that it will not be put on your driving record but it could go on your credit on one website( but u can't believe everything you read on the internet) what should I do??  Brantley, alabama speed trap","title":"Received notice of certified mail from Brantley speed safety but I wasn't home to actually receive it. Should I pick this up since they have no actual way of condemning me? In all actuality we weren't even speeding! We were within the 10 mph over bracket so they shouldn't have sent anything.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443662135,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n1lwu\/legal_advice_regarding_security_deposit\/","id":"3n1lwu","body":"Hello everyone. \n\nMy girlfriend (20 F) and I (25 M) recently leased a room in a townhome in Colorado. We lived in that townhome for 18 months ((3) full length, six month lease periods), with our landlord as our roommate. \n\nAbout a week after moving out, we asked him about our deposit and whether there would be anything that he saw that would count against it - to which, he responded with a 'no'. After messaging him about it again yesterday (approaching the 30 day legal limit), he responded in a passive-aggressive way, claiming that by his accounts, we had exceeded our deposit in damages by $10, and would in fact need to drop the difference off. Naturally, I asked him for an itemized list of deductions, as he had yet to get one to us. \n\nToday, he emailed me with a list claiming that he needed to replace his entire toaster oven as well as (2) of his oven racks, as well as charges to replace the wear and tear of his dinnerware, pots and pans - totalling to $85 above our deposit (a sudden increase of $75).\n\nI guess, I'm kinda at a loss about how to handle this. We lived in his townhome with him and were quite careful about the stuff in the home, aside from a single broken glass, over the course of 18 months. In regards to the toaster oven and his oven racks, these were shared commodities that were very much in an operable state and that he used as well. \n\nIf anyone has a moment, we could really use some advice on how to proceed with this, as it feels like we're being taken advantage of.\n\nThanks everyone, and sorry if this seems a bit too much trouble. We've just moved into a new place and our deposit was going to go towards saving for a trip we're making soon, so it seems like a bigger deal than it may be.","title":"Legal advice regarding security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504739097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yj8yo\/tx_sending_child_out_of_state_for_visitation\/","id":"6yj8yo","body":"So first of all I am writing this on behalf of my fiance and soon to be step-son. So I have no biological relation to him but when I say \"my kid\" or \"our kid\" I obviously mean him.\n\nAnyway, I am hoping to get some advice here because I feel at such a loss for my family and we are living in a nightmare dealing with my fiance's ex. But I guess I should start from the beginning. For privacy I'll call my fiance Sue and my son Joey. So Sue's ex (we will call him Bob) has always been a hot-headed and abusive person. When she was young and stupid he had put his hands on her multiple times (even when she was pregnant) but somehow still ended up with joint custody when she had Joey. Keep in mind they were never married. When I met Sue she had Joey going to be with Bob only the weekends and that was court ordered. He paid his child support every week but never communicated with her about anything whenever he had Joey with him. Joey was only 2 at the time when I was first coming around and I remember how upset Sue would get whenever he was there because he couldn't even just keep her posted on how he was. Joey was so young but Bob never cared and always used Joey as a tool to get to Sue. That was clear from the start. As time went on we heard stories from other people of Bob doing stupid shit. Driving drunk with Joey in the car, got DCF called on him because he was being abusive to his girlfriend's son who is a year older than Joey, he would move around and refuse to tell Sue his new address. Just would make everything so difficult. But none of this was ever able to be proven so nothing ever changed. Where we used to live Sue had to share a bedroom with Joey. Which wasn't that big of a deal when he was really little but as he got older it was a real pain and we felt it was bad for him to grow up sharing a bed with his mother. We just do not believe in that. We both worked hard but our jobs didn't pay very well. One day around when Joey had just turned 4 I got a really good job offer in Texas. This is over a thousand miles away from the state we lived in at the time and the state Bob still lives in. It paid so much better than any job I ever had and I knew we would be able to afford a place of our own. So I took the job and Sue had to talk about with Bob because obviously he wouldn't be able to see Joey every weekend anymore. He didn't really fight it at the time. They agreed Joey would skype him at least twice a week and he would go there every other Christmas and every summer. Sue and Bob discussed not needing child support but when they got to court the court insisted that he still pay child support and pay for half of school and medical bills. So the visitation changed with us moving but not custody or child support. So this was almost 2 years ago now and he has not paid a dime in child support and didn't contribute anything the 15 months he was in preschool. So all together he owes Sue and Joey around 14,000 dollars. Sue has still been holding up her end of the deal and sending Joey there and putting him on skype, but we are at our last straw here. Not just because he doesn't pay for shit, but because today Sue received some texts and a call from Bob's girlfriend (the same one I mentioned before) that he strangled her and broke her rib during a fight and she is pressing charges and he is getting arrested today. We know for a fact this isn't the first time they have fought like this because Joey would come home telling us stories but we have never been able to prove it. Joey is supposed to be going back there for Christmas this year and we do not want to send him. We have never wanted to send him but we are legitimately scared for him to be under this man's care. According to the girlfriend (who was living in the house this past summer while Joey was there) he also keeps drugs in the house and is constantly yelling and screaming at the kids and breaks shit when he gets mad. We are at the point where Sue wants to file for sole custody but isn't sure where to even get started because we live in Texas now and the court order is from the state we used to live in. \n\nSo to sum it up Bob is verbally and physically abusive to the people around him and we have proof from his girlfriend and her mother and son and from Joey who we just had a talk with about it. He doesn't contribute anything to Joey and lied to us about buying a house because he doesn't want Sue to think he has money to support Joey with. Anytime Sue tries to talk to him he lies and argues with her about everything and tries to make her out to be a bad mother, being manipulative with Joey like he always has been. And we feel Joey is in danger and we no longer want to send him there to be in Bob's custody. We have no idea where to even begin. I am just so fed up with this man, and I use the word man lightly because no real man would act this way or put his hands on someone like this. It's so upsetting to me he can't put his son's safety before anything else. I know legally there is nothing I can do, but I love Joey and Sue more than anything and want to do whatever I can to help and protect them and want Joey to grow up happy and healthy. Like I said any advice on where to even begin with all this is appreciated. ","title":"[TX] Sending child out of state for visitation because of custody agreement but concerned about their saftey","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569279628,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8egww\/evicting_former_partner_from_house_without_lease\/","id":"d8egww","body":"This is advice for a friend, not my own. Below is what she\u2019s written:\n\nWe dated for 3 years and he generally paid 1\/2 the utilities or less, no rent. No rent ever. \n\nI was recently potentially raped And I have no memory of it. He was not there for me. He did not care for me at all. We were supposed to be friends. We said we would always care for each other in our time of need. So I told him that I wanted him out. He has 48 hours for his stuff but I want him out. I can\u2019t live with someone who hurt me so bad. \n\nI let him stay in the house so he could find roommates and be in a better place. So there was never a written agreement. There was no time limit. But I asked him several times where he was on the moving out front. He won\u2019t leave. I can\u2019t live with him in my house.\n\nHow can I legally have him out of the property as soon as possible?","title":"Evicting former partner from house without lease [GA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555295848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdaz16\/housing_fees_in_washington_state\/","id":"bdaz16","body":"I have a companion animal - dog (I know that some think those are BS but you are entitled to your opinion). I was waived the pet deposit due to him being an emotional support animal. I did pay the normal one month's rent deposit and cleaning fee. Now that I'm moving out my landlord is nitpicking everything in the house. There is no damage, but she's saying that the several days work I put into cleaning the place was pointless because it doesn't meet her standards. I told her to give me a reference for a cleaning service for which I would pay if that would satisfy her. \nNow she's saying that the deposit I put down is going to go towards deep cleaning the carpets because of my dog. Is this allowed? Is she allowed to take my deposit due to my having a companion animal? If there was damage and such, then yes I would understand, but she is only taking this money because of my dog. If anyone can give me a clear answer that would be so appreciated.","title":"Housing Fees in Washington State","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538514314,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kumnh\/offered_new_job_prior_to_maternity_leave_when\/","id":"9kumnh","body":"My wife was offered a position at a competing hospital.  She is 1 month away from having our second child.  Her new employer is happy to wait until after she returns from maternity leave for her to start.  The question is...legally, when should she give notice to her current employer.  Right now we are leaning toward going back to current employer after leave and then giving them 1 month notice (in day 1 of return).  Is there anything stopping us (besides company policy) from giving notice during FMLA leave instead?  Have we chosen the best route to get the benefits that she earned and still give good notice to her current employer? We just don\u2019t know what we could be opening ourselves up to legally.  ","title":"Offered New Job prior to Maternity Leave. When should I give notice?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553462781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b51sl3\/before_break_a_professor_broke_my_laptop_and_i\/","id":"b51sl3","body":"I'm not sure if this is a school related issue tag or a civil tag sorry about that.\n\nI'm a Junior at a state school and the day before break a professor who was carrying a box down to the front dropped it on me which then went forward and send the laptop to the side and down a few stairs. He apologized a lot and said stay after class and we can work it out.\n\nAt first I wasn't upset, accidents happen and he was really sorry and wanted me to find a direct replacement on Amazon and email it to him over break with the promise that he would have it for me the first day back. I thought great, not ideal but I have a solid state drive in mine so it shouldn't really matter much for getting everything off of it.\n\nIt's not the best laptop in the world, just what I could afford between working full time and weekends and paying for my own school and taking on loans and what not. I don't know what he thought laptops cost but he must have been thinking about little Chromebooks or something in the $150-$200 range. What I sent him is the direct replacement, I even sent him the original Amazon order screenshot from my account.\n\nThe replacement is $998 and actually cheaper than when I bought it. He sent me an email with a link of what he is going to replace it with and it's a $166 HP stream laptop that I can't even put my SSD into to get what I need off of it.\n\nHe scoffed at me not accepting this and just doesn't care about my situation, like I'm paying for my own school, I work almost full time and weekends and rent a room from an awesome couple but losing the laptop is a lot. Like I used it for everything, school, entertainment etc just everything.\n\nI've forwarded the emails to the department lead and he said this is a personal matter not really directly school related.\n\nWhat do I do? I need a replacement as he originally agreed to because it's totally just dead. Screen half off, keyboard doesn't seem to work and even plugging it through HDMI into the TV gives me no signal. I would try to negotiate repairs but I'm fairly certain it's just no longer going to work or even work fully if repaired plus he's already agreed to replace it and now wants to replace it with the cheapest laptop I think he could find on Amazon. I live in Texas ","title":"Before break a Professor broke my laptop and I was emailed telling me pretty much \"accidents happen, too bad\"","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539115504,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9msje9\/renting_a_one_bedroom_aptbut_it_has_no_windows\/","id":"9msje9","body":"First, I live in NJ on a second floor of some type of multihome-type thing. Second there\u2019s like a foyer area thats maybe about 48sq ft. That has one window. Then that leads into the kitchen. The kitchen has two windows, one of which has a fire-escape. So that\u2019s cool. But then the kitchen leads into the bedroom. The bedroom has no windows. There isn\u2019t central air in the apartment either. From the bedroom leads into the bathroom. There is a window in the shower, but it\u2019s small. I\u2019m small, and I wouldn\u2019t be able to fit through it in case of emergency. So like the bedroom is toward the center surrounded by the other rooms mentioned. \n\nAlso, I live in a place where everything seems to be built out of cardboard because all these buildings are always burning down. I swear. So a fire happening is definitely on the table.\n\nI have been living here for five months, paid rent for five months, and have a 12 month contract. I just found out today that this might now be legal, but I don\u2019t know if its by state or like a national thing.\n\nWhat are my options?\n\n","title":"Renting a one bedroom apt...but it has no windows.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570651737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfmlrl\/ticketed_for_speeding_in_a_school_zone_that_wasnt\/","id":"dfmlrl","body":"Is this worth fighting in court or paying the ticket? \nEarlier today I pulled onto a main Street from a side street. I cruised down the street going 29mph (speed limit was posted as 30) and noticed a school. I hit the brakes hard because it was 2:54pm. It was too late though because an officer near the end of the school zone already clocked me at 29 in a 15. The thing that gets me is the only school zone signs are on the main Street and the one nearest to me was a street over from where I entered and had no warnings on the back of it.","title":"Ticketed for speeding in a school zone that wasn't marked when entering the road.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1411508313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2h9oj0\/reading_while_on_a_bicycle_is_it_illegal\/","id":"2h9oj0","body":"I live in Oregon, and things are pretty loose here legally, is cycling while reading allowed? Has it's legality even addressed officially? ","title":"Reading while on a bicycle, is it illegal?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553403048,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4smau\/nj_local_police_officer_pulled_me_over_but_didnt\/","id":"b4smau","body":"In NJ, I was pulled over. Was doing the speed limit, and did nothing against the law. He pulled me over, so I pull off the highway into a parking lot. He walks up to my car, and asks for license, registration, and insurance. \nHe does not say his name, what town he is police for, or a reason he stopped me. \nHe then goes to his car, and comes back with citations for my lights being out. \n\nMy question is: Did he break protocol by not saying his name and reason for stopping me?\nDo you think this will get me out of the tickets if I take it to court?","title":"NJ Local Police Officer Pulled Me Over, But Didn\u2019t Say His Name or Reason for Stopping Me When He Reached My Car","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1550965876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/au1s2c\/violation_of_lease_by_tenant_due_to_mold\/","id":"au1s2c","body":"Thanks in advance to everyone in this sub for their advice.\n\nI live in Denver in a townhouse with four college aged males. \n\nWhen I first moved into my townhouse in 2016, there was black mold on the upstairs bathroom ceiling. Late that year, we got the shower retiled the mold removed. It came back early 2018 and has been there since.\n\nNone of us who live here knew of any of the health issues that come with the black mold and it hasn't been much of an issue for us over the years.\n\nYesterday, a mantainence guy from the rental company came into our place. After fixing our dishwasher (what we had put in a work order for) the guy noticed the black mold in our bathroom and said he was going to notify management.\n\nA few hours later, received a notice on our door stating we were in violation of our lease for negligence of not reporting the issue. It stated we would have to pay for all the repairs done.\n\nIs there anything we can do to not have to pay? Obviously it was our fault for not reporting this but we were unaware of the severity of situation. A new management team took over about six months ago and we are considering saying we reported it to the previous management team and they never did anything to remedy the situation.\n\nThanks again for your help and have a great day.\n","title":"Violation of lease by tenant due to mold","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441680289,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k1np8\/leaking_apartment_roof_possible_mold_austin_tx_us\/","id":"3k1np8","body":"Hello everyone!! Hopefully there is someone who could offer some advice for me :)\n\nI have only been living in my apartment since August 1st. \nThere has been consistent leaking from the ceiling since before 8\/23\/2015 unfortunately not sure the exact date because I called it in rather than filing it with our online maintain request system. I have however been filing online about the leak to them since the 23rd. \n\nNo one was responding to our request (Aug 23rd) until we sent one that we were considered about the possibility of being exposed to asbestos because our apartment complex was built in 1971. Finally they sent someone out that day (25th) to look at the leak, they said they called the complex and confirmed that there was no asbestos (I'm assuming they tested another unit at some point because they did not test our unit) . They removed a large portion of the ceiling that was damaged from the leak that day and placed a humidifier and fan in the room to dry out the ceiling. They said someone should be out either Thursday or Saturday to patch the ceiling and that the leak was from the A\/C of the apartment above us and that it was now fixed, however the leak continued again on the (29th). Which we notified them of, however no reply was given again. \n\nI filed another maintenance request yesterday (Sept 6th) that the leak is still there, someone picked up the humidifier and fan, but no one has come to patch the ceiling yet. Here we are today (7th) No contact has been made with me, I understand it's a holiday so perhaps they will contact me tomorrow. I worry that there could be black mold growing on the damp wood from the leak. Also the leak seems to also be happening in the unit next to us.\n\nIs there anything that I can do to have this taken care of once and for all, rather then yeah we'll send someone out that will claim to fix it and really have done nothing. I worry about the structural and health issues this could pose if they keep putting off proper repairs.\n\n\nThank you for taking the time to read all that I have posted, I'd be happy to provide anymore information that I missed that would be helpful!! \n\n\n-----UPDATE-----\n\nThere is black mold growing on the wood in the exposed ceiling \n","title":"Leaking Apartment Roof - Possible Mold (Austin, TX, US)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553199790,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3vi4g\/my_sisters_husband_is_verbally_and_mentally\/","id":"b3vi4g","body":"My sister lives in another state (OK) and she and her husband have 3 kids together. He\u2019s been controlling and mentally abusive to her for almost their whole marriage. Recently, he caught her talking to a guy friend and he flew off the handle. \n\n\nHe now checks their phone records every hour and makes her explain who every text message or phone call was to. He\u2019s taken her off their bank account so she has no money. He gives her cash to go grocery shopping and she has to give him the receipt after so he can make sure she didn\u2019t buy anything \u201cshe wasn\u2019t supposed to.\u201d He wants her to block every guy that she\u2019s friends with on Facebook. He\u2019s called all her friends and family and told them that she\u2019s a cheating whore. \n\n\n\nI told my sister if she\u2019s able to, she and her kids can come stay with me for a while. We live in California. She told him I said this and he called me and starting saying that I better not let her move in with me and he\u2019ll call the police on me for being \u201can accessory to kidnapping.\u201d Now my sister is too afraid to leave because he\u2019s threatening to take her kids away from her and make it so she can never see them again. \n\n\nMy sister has told me that she\u2019s afraid for her life and if something sinister ever happens to her, to have the police look into her husband. I\u2019m afraid for her but I can\u2019t convince her to leave him. She\u2019s too afraid to call a lawyer because he\u2019ll see it in the phone records. \n\n\nWhat can she do? Is she allowed to leave the state with the kids? I feel like she\u2019s in danger and I have to help her. It\u2019s hard though because she\u2019s understandably terrified of him. ","title":"My sister\u2019s husband is verbally and mentally abusing her. She\u2019s afraid of divorcing him because of their kids. What can she do? Can I help her at all?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540429524,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r5mop\/take_roommate_to_court\/","id":"9r5mop","body":"I\u2019ve never thought I would be in this  situation but my roommate fucked me over. I signed a lease an apartment.  My roommate, xxx, told me that I will get sign on bonus and he will  give me half of the referral check when it comes in the mail. I\u2019ve asked  him about the referral check and he kept telling me that he didn\u2019t  received it. I didn\u2019t believe until after a few weeks of signing the  lease because he never brought it up. Also, he did a low blow last week.  Our apartment was listed, without him telling me, on airbnb. The  strangers were in my living room and the VACANT room and xxx\u2019s room was  rented out to the folks. They told me that \u201cCharles\u201d left the keys on  the counter. I didn\u2019t know who Charles was. Long story short, my  roommate xxx had his friend or whoever list my apartment, that doesn't  live there, on Airbnb. I had to find out from the GUEST that they were  staying at MY apartment that weekend. The listing is STILL up, after  I\u2019ve asked my roommate to take it down. This is a **student complex apartment** so I know you can't do airbnb especially when you don't have rights to the vacant room.\n\nThe  reason I know he got the check and a fucking liar, I went to the office  and asked one of the desk people and he told me that xxx received BOTH  checks few months ago. Before that, I texted xxx and told him that we  need to talk, no response, and then I texted him, or we can meet up  somewhere. Then the text message went green so you know that what that  means.\n\nI\u2019ve  reached out to him multiple of times and I still haven't gotten a  respond. Should I take him to court to get my money?  I'm suppose to get  $1,000 for putting his name down but since he referred me he got the  whole check but I have messages that he said he is going to give me half  of it, I just want my money that's all.\n\nxxx = is my roommate","title":"Take roommate to court?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569967882,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc0s74\/brother_died_quit_working_immediately_and_had_to\/","id":"dc0s74","body":"I was working at a pretty average fast casual restaurant at my college campus for a couple of weeks to pick up some money. My brother died unexpectedly, and due to the circumstances with my family, I had to immediately drive back and essentially drop out of school for this semester.\n\nI notified my employer and she said do what you need to do to take care of yourself and the situation. However, I just got a notification that my direct deposit was \u201caltered\u201d likely meaning that they deactivated it, and I will have to get the check in person. This is not an option, obviously, because i would have to drive 6 hours to come back and pick it up. If they refuse to mail it to me, can I make a legal advance? \n\nThey also want \u201cevidence\u201d that my brother died, which is extremely disrespectful to me and I doubt that\u2019s legal either.","title":"Brother died, quit working immediately and had to drop out of school and move back home. Employer of 2 weeks refuses to pay.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571183592,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/digs97\/my_exroomates_stepmom_is_threatening_to_sue_me\/","id":"digs97","body":"So, from the end of April to mid-September this year, I was living in this two-bedroom apartment with my now ex-roomate. I had two cats and they did end up scratching the carpet up in the corner of the living room. My ex-roomate and I had an agreement that I'd pay him the $300 pet deposit by the end of October (this month). \n\nHis step-mom is now demanding I pay the $25\/month fee for having pets for the 5-ish months I was there, a total of $125, in addition to the pet deposit. She said that she'll file to sue me if I don't pay it. \n\nI was never on the lease; I just handed $400 in cash to my ex-roomate each month for rent. Can she really sue me for that? A lot of my friends, family, and co-workers said that she can't, and that I don't even, legally, have to pay the pet deposit since I was never on the lease, but I wanted professional advice just in case they were wrong. \n\nAnyone I've talked to said it's a he-said-she-said situation where, for all anyone else would know, that the cats were my ex-roomate's and he's trying to get money out of me or something. It makes sense, but, again, I'd like professional advice. \n\nSo, thanks in advance for reading my post!! I really appreciate any time and effort put into the reading and responses! My anxiety has me getting little sleep over this. Haha... \ud83d\ude05","title":"My Ex-Roomate's step-mom is threatening to sue me. Can she actually did it?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571701221,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl936w\/ca_living_in_a_rented_house_infested_with_roaches\/","id":"dl936w","body":"\nI live in the US in California to be more specific. Sorry if this post is a bit all over, I will try to explain the situation as best as I can.\n\nIt\u2019s pretty much as the title states. I live with both my parents and my two younger siblings, we live in a rented house.\nIt\u2019s sort of a connecting house, the building itself is directly connected with our neighbor to the right but neither of us have access to each other\u2019s home if that makes sense. Our front door is the only way in to our side and their front door is the only way in to theirs, but yeah it\u2019s pretty much one big building.\n\nAnyways, we\u2019ve been living here for maybe the past 10+ years and since day 1 we have had a bad roach infestation. They are literally everywhere but it has always been worse in the kitchen.\n\nBefore we moved in the house the roach problem was really bad, but my dad has fixed up the place a lot, with the landlords permission of course. It\u2019s really getting annoying though, so I\u2019m looking for a bit of advice on what to do.\n\nAt first my dad didn\u2019t mind it that much because rent is high in most places around here, and the landlord used to charge him only about 600$ a month. However around the end of last year the landlord told him the rent would be increased the following year so he\u2019s been paying about 1000$ a month since then. Now since he\u2019s paying a bit more, my dad would like the landlord to try to be more reasonable about the roach problem the house has.\n\nThe real problem is that my dad has brought up the issue to the landlord in the recent past, but instead of fumigating or something the landlord just gave my dad a cheaper version of the Raid roach killing spray. We don\u2019t even use that stuff, we buy actual Raid roach killing spray because it\u2019s the only thing that can even help -_-\n\nAnd over the past few years we have also come to realize the house may have a possible termite problem. We see them more around late summer\/fall I think. He hasn\u2019t mentioned the termite thing to the landlord as they don\u2019t actually come here very often, except on the rare occasion to complain to my dad about things, but he did want to mention it to them next time they come by in person.\n\nMy question is, who is responsible for dealing with fumigation? Would that fall on my dads shoulders? Because like I said before, I\u2019m pretty sure if we had the house fumigated our connecting neighbors would have to do it too because the house is literally one big house so We know they also have a roach and bug problem. Or is that the landlords responsibility, to have our (and our neighbors) house fumigated? \nI also wanted to know if it ultimately is our responsibility, how would that sort of play out? Would our neighbors have to pay half, and what if they refused? Do we need to inform the landlord, I assume so but I\u2019m not sure. \n\nSorry for all the questions, we are just tired of living in a roach house, and tired of being ignored about it. And I am tired of getting sick all the time, tbh.\n\nIf you read all of this, thank you for taking the time. \n\nAnd I\u2019ll try to answer any follow up questions below, as best I can!","title":"[CA] Living in a rented house infested with roaches. Any and all advice is welcomed.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503593484,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vs5kf\/game_server_hosting_i_canceled_my_subscription\/","id":"6vs5kf","body":"I was stupid and wanted my own game server in college. Had it for about a year with bi-yearly payments (Every 6 months). I canceled my subscription after a year, and thought I was good to go. Since I am terrible at keeping track of my finances, I just now realized PayPal was charging money from my account to my account to this server hosting service (2.5+ years later with an automatic recurring payment). My (server) account now has $500 on it. I have no subscriptions activated on it. So now I have $500 sitting in an account for a subscription service I have zero intentions of using again. I submitted a support ticket 2 weeks back and had no response.  The question is: am I entitled to my money in that account? Or is it up to them?  Thanks in advanced. Located in Minnesota","title":"Game Server Hosting, I canceled my subscription, Yet Paypal continued recurring payments. Can I get the money back from my account?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540953722,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9suucj\/tx_how_do_we_go_about_water_in_the_apartment_with\/","id":"9suucj","body":"We had a leak due to them not cleaning the gutters and want to know how we navigate replacement and health concerns.\n\nI posted to \/renting and here is the link\nhttps:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/renting\/comments\/9surlo\/leak_in_closet_due_to_negligence_what_should_i_do\/?utm_source=reddit-android\n\nThanks ","title":"[TX] How do we go about water in the apartment with management?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539997200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ppt01\/how_legal_is_this\/","id":"9ppt01","body":"I've seen a lot of shops on Instagram that sell handmade accessories. They usually have something to do with Disney, Hello Kitty, or Studio Ghibli. \n\nAren't these things copywritten? A lot of people buy stickers and make things out of them that must be lisenced, but there are people all over that sell molds for copywritten stuff and I'd bet my life they aren't lisenced.\n\nI'd like to start selling stuff like this, but I don't want a lawsuit.","title":"How legal is this?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1538441645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9km5up\/job_might_let_me_go_after_a_year_of_taking_care\/","id":"9km5up","body":"Im not sure if this is the place to post this, but thought it was worth a shot-\n\nSo my husband was diagnosed with cancer in January of this year (he was my boyfriend at the time). We were all in shock, I immediately filed for FML leave at my job and took a month off to care for him while he got chemo. I currently work for a state job in California. I\u2019ve been working here for 2 years now & became exempt this past March (after a promotion).\n\nEverything was working out smoothly, we got married & he was going to go back to work, until complications arose and my husband had to receive more treatment... I continued to work intermittently, until my FML ran out this past August. Through this job I have health insurance for the both of us and I have employee housing.\n\nMy work decided to let me telecommute until November 1st. It\u2019s not approved but they decided to \u201csee if it would work.\u201d My new FML year (meaning I can apply for FML again) starts November 25. I was told by management that most likely they will not be able to support me through November, because if they do then they will have to support me for another year, which is hard for business. Plus, telecommuting isn\u2019t \u201capproved\u201d so it\u2019d be hard to allow for just me, and not everyone else.\n\nI understand.. they have done a lot for me.. I just want to make sure my ass is covered. What things do I ask for if they decide to let me go? What\u2019s the wording I should look for on documentation so it doesn\u2019t look bad for my next job? Also, I\u2019ll most likely need to apply for government assistance & I don\u2019t want to shoot my self in the foot by trying to not make it a big deal..\n\nThanks in advance for ANY help \ud83d\ude4f I\u2019m so lost","title":"Job might let me go after a year of taking care of my husband.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542118585,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wpet3\/considering_suing_for_breach_of_privacy_via\/","id":"9wpet3","body":"I have received multiple messages from someone on reddit who I will not name. They have recently threatened me telling me that they have tracked my IP down and found my Reddit linked to three accounts. This is because I have been diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, and I find it easier to filter my different personalities through different accounts. Sometimes my personalities bleed into different accounts, so that proves my questionable history. I have previously been a lawyer, so I know my stuff. \n\nAny advice that could help me in my case of suing would be greatly appreciated ","title":"Considering suing for breach of privacy via internet and illegal IP tracking.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568945457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6o6rs\/playing_a_violin_in_an_apartment\/","id":"d6o6rs","body":"I just moved into an apartment, the lease agreement says this:\n\n\"QUIET HOURS COMMENCE AT 10PM AND CONTINUE UNTIL 7AM. TENANT, guests, or other\npersons under Tenant's control shall not play upon or allow to be played any musical instrument, or operate or permit to be operated any phonograph, radio, television set, or other amplified sound system on the premises during quiet hours. No radio or sound system shall be operated in the Premises except at a low and acceptable sound level. No offensive or loud noise, voices, language, or behavior is allowed. The use of fireworks, firecrackers and any type of firearm in or around the Premises is strictly prohibited. In multi-family buildings, loud noises will carry from one unit to another. If Tenant plays musical instruments, radios, or televisions loudly enough to disturb neighbors, this shall be deemed a violation of this Rental Agreement.\nMulti-unit Tenants agree to refrain from using the washer and dryer during quiet hours. Tenants agree to first attempt to resolve noise disturbances between themselves. If disturbances and or nuisances continue, Tenants agree to notify the local authorities and file a report for said action and forward a copy of the police report to the Landlord within five (5) days. Tenant(s) agree not to move in or out of Premises during quiet hours.\"\n\nSo am i allowed to play it inside of quiet hours? Can they kick me out if i play it? Or does she have to deal with the police regarding a noise disturbance during non-quiet hours? I have a new awful neighbor who complains about me or leaves notes constantly. Haven't been able to play since she moved in, but i just got my violin back from the shop so i'm expecting she'll complain (she complains my cat is meowing loud enough to wake her up, but i doubt thats possible for even a very vocal cat, which mine isnt)","title":"Playing a Violin in an apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554391624,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9e4xz\/dad_is_in_nursing_home_for_3_years_and_mother\/","id":"b9e4xz","body":"I'm not sure where to start. My dad has been in 24\/7 care in a nursing home under medicare coverage in New Jersey. My Mother isn't too keen on the complicated legal jargon and I'm hoping to get some advice on what I should do. She simply wants to buy a home, but is worried that by doing so while her husband is in the nursing home, that they might put a lien  on the home later on to cover the leftover medical bills, if he was to pass away.\n\nFor the sake of establishing a home for her kids she has come to realize if she has to divorce her husband in order to obtain a home, she would do so. So is it smart to consultant a divorce lawyer about this matter first? Or is there someone else we can probably consult with to get further legal advice. We are worried of the consequences of not doing anything before it's too late.","title":"Dad is in nursing home for 3 years and Mother wants to buy a home.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571748548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlhgmq\/out_of_state_car_insurance_help\/","id":"dlhgmq","body":"A couple months ago I was pulled over for a taillight. I didnt have proof of insurance, but I do have it. The officer wrote me a ticket saying if I showed my proof of insurance in court, the ticket would be dismissed. \n\nMy issue is that i have out of state insurance, because I forgot to switch it over when I moved. \n\nI'm working on getting it switched over, but they need the proof sooner than I can get it. Is this going to cause me issues?","title":"Out of State Car Insurance HELP","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504846331,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yso8i\/landlord_wants_spray_my_apartment_for_bugs\/","id":"6yso8i","body":"I live in a small apartment complex in VA. They try to come do preventative treatments for bugs, which we've always opted out of on account of our young son, and other reasons. Now that we've been here a year, they're saying once a year is mandatory. Heres the relevant bit of the lease:\n\nAll apartments will be exterminated periodically by management. The resident's full cooperation with the scheduled extermination is required. Any resident that is not prepared for mandatory pest control exterminations will be billed $25.\n\nWe have no bug problem, and I have no desire to have insecticide in my home. I will try to talk them down to inspection only and treatment only if they find something, but our new manager is not the type to make reasonable allowances. Any advice?","title":"Landlord wants spray my apartment for bugs (preventative). I'd rather they not. [Virginia]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502757956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tqt2q\/ga_trademark_reproduction_question_about_a_plaque\/","id":"6tqt2q","body":"Georgia - Long story short, I'm interested in making a copy of a plaque at the start of the Appalachian Trail to make keychains and other memorabilia for hikers. You can see the plaque here:  https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/originals\/81\/b0\/5a\/81b05a1f20d799c6247be9ad5ffbb9a9.jpg The question arises whether or not that falls under the copyright of the GA Appalachian Trail Club's logo. Registration here:   http:\/\/www.trademarkia.com\/georgia-appalachian-trail-club-inc-1930-85021953.html The plaque was placed on the mountain back in the 40s I believe.  \n\nThanks!","title":"[GA] Trademark \/ reproduction question about a plaque on a mountain.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569129618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7m767\/ohio_does_a_contract_mean_anything_these_days\/","id":"d7m767","body":"I have no legal issues, I completed credentialing application, signed employment agreement, completed all necessary pre-employment requirements successfully with the exception of the final credentialing process. Before the actual credentialing meeting though, my \"offer\" was \"rescinded\" because I \"lacked the appropriate qualifications\". Following up with HR, I was told specifically that as a physician assistant I need to have worked for at least a year with a physician in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in order to then work in the ICU......and that this is state law....(not to my knowledge or to the knowledge of physicians I know). Also, my contract was terminated without 90 days prior written notice, as required per signed, executed agreement. I also have not received any form of payment, not even for orientation which I should have received for that at least. Questions: 1.) Are physician assistants in Ohio able to go right in and start working in the ICU without any special prerequisites? I have tried to find an answer and cannot, pending reply from medical board. 2.) Is this is a breach of my contract if I am actually qualified and considering no notice was given? 3.) Or is this possibly wrongful termination?","title":"(OHIO) Does a contract mean anything these days?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552519026,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0sw4x\/one_week_after_moving_in_apartment_started_to\/","id":"b0sw4x","body":"My S\/O and I moved into an apartment about a week ago. Management said there\u2019s still repairs to be done but they\u2019ll be doing so soon. Surprise, still nothing. \n\nThe apartment was decent when we were inspecting it and writing down damages. There were plenty of little imperfections already but nothing that would have made us turn around and run. \n\nA week has passed and I noticed more and more of a nasty odor coming from the corner of the living room. It was very unnoticeable at first (we noted it smelled a but but thought it was coming from the outside or it was cleaning chemicals or something), but everyday the odor became stronger. I moved my furniture, and lo and behold everything in that part of the room now smells like cat piss. It is now spread across the whole place, the whole room smells like cat piss. We do not own any pets. \n\nOn top of that, the bedroom\u2019s ceiling started leaking when it rained. There is a crack in the ceiling and the leaking nearly damaged our electronics.\n\nThe repairs they said they will get to include a rusted bathtub, messed up blinds, and nasty counters in the kitchen. \n\nWe live in Phoenix, Arizona. \n\nAre these things reason good enough to break lease? I would go to the management but it is very apparent that nothing will be done, as other tenants have voiced and the fact that the apartment wasn\u2019t fully ready for us. \n\nAny advice appreciated. ","title":"One week after moving in, apartment started to smell like cat piss and the ceiling is leaking... enough to break lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554310979,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b90m6o\/i_accidentally_stole_money_from_my_job\/","id":"b90m6o","body":"My old employer called me and accused me of Fraud. \n\nI was trying to route money to pay something off, and I googled how to to do it, and it said to use the numbers from the bottom of your check. I didn't realize I was supposed to have my own checks, not the ones you get from work. I told my employer this and he said he believes me, but the cops will still contact me. \n\nAm I going to get in trouble? ","title":"I accidentally stole money from my job","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554303151,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8yygy\/tips_for_contract_jargon\/","id":"b8yygy","body":"Hi everyone! So I'm refinancing my car. I finally was offered a good rate, yay! \n\n​\n\nThey've given me the paperwork and everything like that, but I want to be sure I'm not getting screwed. I'm also not entirely sure what to be looking for when it comes to this. \n\n​\n\nDoes anyone have advice of who I could speak to or web sites I can go to that can help me go through this contract to make sure I'm not getting messed over? I'd go to a bank, but if I'm not getting the loan through them, most likely they won't help me. Is this something I would have to pay a lawyer to do, or accountant? \n\n​ \n\nThe legal wiki says to get a \u2018local attorney\u2019, but so I need one just to go over it with me? Is it expensive? Can a web site assist, and if so, does anyone know any that are legitimate? I'd google myself but I don't want to get wrong information by mistake.\n\n​\n\nThanks in advance. \n\n​\n\nTL:DR Who do I speak or is there a good website to go to to just understand a contract? ","title":"Tips for Contract Jargon?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551984374,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayg3cf\/is_it_worth_it_to_request_for_a_change_in_the_way\/","id":"ayg3cf","body":"Do I have grounds for requesting my ex pay more in uninsured medical bills? \n\nGeorgia, USA. \n\nOur custody order is very broad. I pay 70% of uninsured medical expenses. I cover health insurance. I personally choose to cover dental as secondary because it\u2019s only 10$ a month for me to cover our kid. \n\nLast year, I took our daughter to the dentist for the very first time for an exam and cleaning. \nThis was during a one week visitation with me. \nThey informed me she had 2 cavities that would need to be filled soon. We couldn\u2019t get them filled then because it would need to be a separate appt., and since it was during visitation, there was no time. \n\nSo, I let my ex know about the cavities so she could get them filled when my daughter got back home. \n\nInstead, my ex took several months to get the cavities filled, and by then, my daughter had 8 cavities instead of 2. \n\nThis racked up a $1500 dental bill. For 8 cavities and conscious sedation on a 4 year old. Insurance covered about $1200. \nI have to pay 70% of rest. \n\nI understand my obligations and have always met them, but I think it is extremely ridiculous to be stuck with such a high bill simply because my ex did not take care of our daughters dental hygiene after I warned her. I have never heard of a child having so many cavities at such a young age. And the fact that it\u2019s started this early means it will only get worse. \n\nI want to request a modification that the payment percentages get changed due to my ex\u2019s negligence. Do I have any grounds to do this or is this just a waste of my time? \n\nAre there any other methods\/splits I can suggest to a judge that may have a chance? \n","title":"Is it worth it to request for a change in the way medical bills are split?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568724638,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5giqq\/friend_has_been_indirectly_threatened_and_is\/","id":"d5giqq","body":"Okay, so this is a bit of a weird situation and I'd like no one to pass judgment on my friends as its a very complicated story that I do not want to get into.\n\nI have two friends: Girl and Boy. They have been friends for about a year now and I have known them both for most of that time. Girl and Boy were both is serious relationships with other people until recently. In the last two months both have broken off their relationships (for many reasons I don't want to get into). They have now started casually dating.\n\nWell the x gf of Boy is not taking this whole thing well. When boy first broke up with her she made it basically as difficult and painful as it possibly could be. She harassed him non stop with calls and texts cussing him out, guilt tripping him, and saying things that were way out of line. She basically blames Girl for Boy leaving her. Claiming Girl seduced him away. She did not, they were just platonic friends until after both relationships ended. Well x gf has basically gone to the extreme. Boy did everything he could to reason with her, but the calls got so bad that Boy blocked her number, so she started creating new numbers. There have been a total of 12 different numbers she has used in the last two weeks. 50 missed phone calls at least and an un-countable amount of text messages. Boy had to change his number to get it to stop. Then x gf started using Boy's CC to pay for things (that situation has been legally dealt with) when she discovered he changed his number. She paid a wifi bill, bought herself some stuff off amazon, ordered food, etc etc...Enough to make it obv she is f\\*cking with him.\n\nSo to the point. x gf has in her many texts to Boy threatened harm to Girl. Saying \"I wish she was dead\" \"She deserves what's coming to her\". x gf has not directly contacted Girl and threatened her, but Girl is worried that she is going to show up to her place of work and physically attack her. (x gf knows where she works as its the same place as Boy works). Girl is afraid of not only losing her job but also if it comes to a fight getting arrested with assault charges and such. Girl is a generally really sweet chill human and would try to deescalate the situation before it got physical, but she is also not afraid to defend herself. So I suggested she make a police report documenting the threats in case it does escalate to that she can claim self defense. But I'm not an expert on this and was wondering if anyone out there could offer advice or thoughts on the matter.\n\nThank you.","title":"Friend has been indirectly threatened and is wondering if she should make a police report before things escalate?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444594478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3od9i2\/i_have_an_idea_for_a_social_network_how_much_do_i\/","id":"3od9i2","body":"I am currently learning web development in order to build this niche social network. However I will eventually need to bring on people to my team to help me build, as said people will probably have more experience. I would like to avoid the case where one of them agrees that it is a good idea, but decides to go off and assemble his own team and build it despite me. \n\nHow much of the website do I need to have built or what do I need to have in order for said website\/idea to be legally considered my own copyright, and for any action such as discussed in the scenario above to be considered copyright infringement?\n\nI am in the UK. ","title":"I have an idea for a social network. How much do i need to know\/build\/draft in order for that idea to be legally considered mine?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444319434,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nzgtt\/tx_i_think_my_isp_might_be_scamming_me_is_there\/","id":"3nzgtt","body":"BACKGROUND\n\nSome background first. I live just outside of a medium sized college town in a small community with 12 or so houses on my street. Besides that its mostly rural land out here. When we moved here we signed up for internet service with a local WISP here in town. The service wasn't perfect, but it was all that was offered in the area. They were usually very good about dealing with any issues that we were having, and I always felt like they were actually doing their best to meet the service standards that they agreed to.\n\nAfter about 2 years with this service one day my internet goes down. I call them and nobody answers. Turns out they had been bought by a large national WISP (Jab Wireless) and had been rolled into a new umbrella subsidiary called \"Rise Broadband.\" I was without internet for about 2 weeks during this unexpected transition period. They fired almost everyone in the local office here in town and shut the doors on that location. I was finally able to get service restored. I contacted their billing department and was reimbursed for the time that we didn't have access.\n\nI was ready to let is slide since they made good on the service interruption. In the 6 months since the acquisition of my old provider, there have been a few other outages that have not been handled in a timely manner, and they have also credited my account for those outages. However, the quality of service has gone down tremendously during this time. I am a business customer on a 5\/2 plan (5mb down, 2mb up). It has gotten to the point that in the evenings especially, I have to quit doing work (as a web developer) because I cannot maintain my vpn connection long enough to upload code changes. Streaming media, which was never a real problem before, will consistently stutter and eventually fail in the evenings. I have contacted them about this and they have said that everything looks good on their end from the tests that they perform on the equipment.\n\nEND OF BACKGROUND\n\nToday I received an email from a customer service rep from Rise Broadband saying that they now offer \"fully guaranteed services.\" \"This means if you sign up for a 5*5 you get 5*5.\" This is not included with my current service and would be an add-on feature. This feels to me like a scam. Slow degradation of agreed upon services and then they ask for more money to \"guarantee\" the service I'm already paying for? Is this a common scam for service providers? Is there anything illegal with this? The contract that I had with the old ISP was guaranteed on a \"best-effort\" level. It doesn't seem to me that Rise is maintaining this level that I had agreed to. When Rise bought the old ISP there was no additional paperwork for me to sign and no renegotiation of any contracts. Is it safe to assume that since they bought out my old ISP and their accounts that they would need to notify me of changes to my service, including the best-effort guarantee that I had?\n\ntl;dr - Internet service has gone down the toilet since acquisition and now the new company is offering me \"guaranteed service\" as an add-on to what I'm already paying. Is this a scam?","title":"[TX] I think my ISP might be scamming me. Is there any legal recourse?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553119936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3i9br\/michigan_cousin_masturbated_on_camera_with_a_girl\/","id":"b3i9br","body":"This is happening right now. He didn\u2019t realize the girl was actually a guy and was masturbating on camera. Guy came on said give me 200 dollars or I\u2019ll release this. This is completely illegal right? Who does he even report this to ","title":"[Michigan] Cousin masturbated on camera with a \u201cgirl\u201d who turned out to be a guy that\u2019s blackmailing him to pay him or the guy will release the video. This is completely illegal right?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445463498,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pot4q\/uk_need_advice_on_landlords_obligations_re_bedbugs\/","id":"3pot4q","body":"My friend recently discovered a bedbug infestation in her room. She has never had bedbugs before and had been living in the flat for three months by this point. Two of her flatmates said that they had (for some reason) slept in that bed at some point in the past and that they were bitten. Point is, its very unlikely she was the cause of the infestation.\n\nHer landlord has told her that *she* has to be the one to research and organise pest control, particularly if she wants to use methods that 1. will not risk ruining her remaining belongings (she threw away a lot of her clothes and bedding once she realised she had bedbugs) 2. will not massively interfere with her \/ her flat.\n\nShe has been sleeping on my couch for the past week, despite the fact that she is still paying rent for the room she is not using. She works full time and has very little time to research pest control during the day.\n\nSurely this is NOT her responsibility, and the landlord should be the one who researches and organises this, considering it is his property? Can anyone help me out here?","title":"(UK) Need advice on landlord's obligations re: bedbugs...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538154183,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9joqyf\/payroll_dispute_situation\/","id":"9joqyf","body":"hey guys, i really hope this is the best subreddit for my questions. I didn't know what to use for my flair but employment law was the closest. \n\nTLDR- my job direct deposited money into the wrong bank account, when I specifically told them not to and it's gone.\n\nokay, so the long part. my job has direct deposit like most places. I recently, I switched bank accounts because my checking at BOA was over drafted about $500 because I encountered lots of financial kicks in the balls. and I suck with money, etc. So I switched my direct deposit to a brand new savings account with a federal Union. that was a month ago that I switched. I've since received my paycheck into my new account no problem. \n\nfast forward to this week. my father passes away, and I go to my home state to the funeral. today is scheduled to receive my paycheck, and a separate ACH deposit of $400 in bereavement pay. they sent my paycheck to my good savings account. and they sent the $400 check to my overdrawn account- the one that I told them not to use ever again. the one that I specifically said if my paycheck or any of my money goes into that account- I will seriously be fucked. \n\nI told them they put it in the wrong account. I called my bank, and my bank said they can't do anything about it. they said that my job has to call their bank to fix it. that process is still pending. however, my human resources says if they can't get the money back, then I am screwed. they can't do anything about it, and will not give me my bereavement pay.  they put the money in the wrong account, and are saying because it's my fault that it's overdrafted that they are not liable to pay me anymore. this money is meant for me to return home after my father's funeral. I'm being scolded and being told it's my fault, all while I'm dealing with the death of my dad. it may be my fault that the account was negative. but I made very damn clear that nothing was to be deposited into that account anymore. \n\nif you have any advice on whether I should just shut up and agree with human resources. or whether they are legally obliged to correct the action, please let me know. I'm sorry if this isn't really a legal matter. I don't know what to do, and this is just another thing on the pile of shit which is my month of September.","title":"payroll dispute situation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508461454,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77ist7\/usa_wa_landlordtenant_landlord_charging_for\/","id":"77ist7","body":"I'm usually on the other side of these posts, so this is strange.\n\nBasically the situation is that a friend of mine and her husband have a signed multi-year lease on a rental. The landlord came in for an annual inspection, then charged them for damages to the unit. They have a paid deposit to cover damages once they move out, but the landlord wants paid now. I know that the lease will ultimately dictate, but I'm curious if it is legal to charge a deposit and then demand extra payments during the lease. Unfortunately googling anything related to landlord\/tenant law and damages only brings up information about after the lease is terminated.\n\nAlso, no \/u\/AutoModerator, the Landlord tenant wiki doesn't help with this, so don't bring it up.","title":"[USA - WA] Landlord-Tenant - Landlord charging for damages during course of residency","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504127422,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x29nc\/ca_my_sisters_addict_husband_is_nowhere_to_be\/","id":"6x29nc","body":"I'll try to keep this short and to the point. My sister is still legally married to a man who ended up being a deadbeat. They are not together romantically (separated about 5 years), and my sister is living with her boyfriend, with whom she shares a 4-year-old son. She has a daughter from Deadbeat. \n\nBefore they broke up, he became abusive and an addict. Mostly pills, but we suspect harder drugs. He was never able to hold down a job and was in and out of his parents' house. The last I heard about him, his mother had paid for him to get treatment out of state and to live at a group home of some sort, I don't have exact details. He ended up breaking the rules of the home and was kicked out, we haven't heard of his whereabouts since then. He isn't accessible by phone or Facebook, his mom doesn't even know where he is. \n\nAt this point, my sister and our family are done with him. She has never received any child support money from him because he doesn't have any income. She is given a few dollars here and there from Deadbeat's Mom out of guilt, but it's not a formal arrangement. My sister just wants to be free to continue her life without being legally tied to this man, perhaps marry her boyfriend. This is hard to do without knowing where he is, plus she doesn't have extra money for an attorney. Are there any options she could explore? Can she divorce him without papers? There must be recourse for situations like this. I just want my sister and my niece free of this scumbag. ","title":"(CA) My sisters addict husband is nowhere to be found. Is there any way she can still divorce him?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539805000,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p1vdo\/how_to_legally_cover_my_bases_in_terms_of\/","id":"9p1vdo","body":"Hey legal people! I\u2019m on mobile so obligatory formatting apologies. I posted this morning on r\/AmITheAsshole about some unfortunate behaviour on the part of my fraternity. Some of the responses included people stating this was hazing.\n\nI looked it up and legally it looks like they\u2019re right. And apparently me and all my pledge brothers as well as the other members of the fraternity could be liable as well. \n\nI\u2019m looking for advice on the best way to go about reporting the situation, specifically the issue with the president berating the girl directly. She apparently screamed at her and cussed and humiliated her in front of the group to the point where she left the organization. Legally this is hazing.\n\nThere have been other instances of humiliation in front of the group you can find the other post here for reference: \n\n[LINK:](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AmItheAsshole\/comments\/9p0ptm\/aita_for_not_supporting_my_fraternity_whose\/)\n\nI need to know what me and my friends within the organisation can do to protect ourselves against potential legal ramifications. \n\nThank you in advance! ","title":"How to legally cover my bases in terms of reporting hazing","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541544309,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9utbm0\/renter_looking_for_legal_advice_on_tenant_rights\/","id":"9utbm0","body":"I want to start by summarizing the basic situation I currently find myself in and am looking for advice regarding anything I can do to remedy it, as I currently feel pretty helpless to stop it.\n\nPlace: Long Island, NY, (Suffolk County)\n\n​\n\nSituation:   This past spring my girlfriend and I moved to long island. As we didn't know exactly the good and bad areas or where we wanted to live we ended up renting. We gave the landlord first, security, and paid the realtor the broker fee and we moved into the house.  I won't go through every detail, unless asked, but basically the land lord was still fixing this as we moved in, he stated they purchased the house 7-8 months ago and they were almost dont fixing things and after the first three weeks (triming trees, insurance agent coming to do a walk through things like that) we would stop seeing them. \n\n  \nWell fast forward 6.5-7 months now and we have seen them consistently every other week sometimes multiple times in a week. We were annoyed but  figured at least they are fixing minor issues instead of ignoring them. Then it all came to a head about 3 weeks ago and has been getting worse ever since. The landlord came over to drain the irrigation system and winterize it. While he was there he was asking how my job was going and making friendly chit chat. Then the conversation turned so quickly I didn't really know how to respond. It says in my Lease I am responsible for \"lawn maintenance\/snow removal\". That's exactly how its written. So I have kept the grass mowed and trimmed all summer. He stated I was violating my lease because I was supposed to be fertilizing the lawn 3-4 times a summer. I also was responsible for killing all the moss and replanting the grass in the backyard (which was there when we moved in! Caused by the the sprinkler system he requires to be run every other day in a fully shaded back yard). While walking around telling me this he finds some mole mounds in the back yard and says those are my responsibility as well! I told him i did not understand that  to fall under the realm of lawn maintenance. He told me it was and I am going to be held to it.  \n\n​\n\nAfter that uncomfortable encounter things have been getting steadily worse. They are giving us hours notice on when they need access to the house, and planning repairs such as sealing the driveway and they we need to park elsewhere with as little as a day or two notice. On top of that it they want to re-side half the house, which in Late November is going to drive up our heating costs (which we pay).\n\n​\n\nWe aren't looking to take legal action against them. We just want to know a few things:\n\n1. Can they hold us accountable for the lawn and take us to court saying we ruined it (which we by no means have it looks the same as the day we moved in)\n2. Can we stop the constant intrusion for repairs we did not request? Or are we simply at their will when it comes to these thing? \n3.  We are good tenants, and have given no reason to believe we destroy the place. We are young professionals and always pay rent two weeks in advance. We would simply like to live our daily lives and not have it feel like we live in a house under construction. ","title":"Renter Looking for Legal Advice on Tenant Rights","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540756545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s6609\/my_mum_just_received_a_letter_demanding_over_6000\/","id":"9s6609","body":"\nI will try to edit with a link to the letter after I have edited out all names and details. In January of 2017 my mum was in an accident on a small bridge in a village near where we live. I was in the car and so was my dad but my dad is fully blind. The bridge is narrow so only one car can fit over it and you cannot see over the other side. You therefore need to drive very slowly over it. A lot of people honk there horn but on this occasion my mum didn\u2019t honk the horn. She was however driving very slowly. When we were half way up the bridge, we saw another car speeding towards us and my mum was driving slow enough to stop the car. The other car was driving too fast and could not stop and went into us pushing our car back. I distinctly remember saying to my mum \u201cthat car is going to hit us\u201d there was damage to both cars and my mum took pictures of this. The lady apologised and told my mum she should have honked and we both said that she was driving too fast and therefore it wouldn\u2019t have mattered whether my mum did or not.\n\nNeither party accepted responsibility for the accident and so the insurance companies split responsibility 50\/50. My mum has an email stating this from her insurance company. My mum has protected no claims so luckily this hasn\u2019t affected her insurance much.\n\nWe just received this letter yesterday, nearly two years after the accident, demanding the money for the accident and claiming that it was my mums fault. Does this have any legal standing? Will they take my mum to court if she doesn\u2019t pay? The lawyers are no win no fee. I\u2019ve told my mum I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s just a threat but she is very worried.\n\nThanks","title":"My mum just received a letter demanding over \u00a36000 within 7 days from the insurance company of a lady she had accident with in January of 2017. They are claiming she is liable but the accident wasn\u2019t her fault. What shall we do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443996509,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ni2af\/rental_application_questions_ks\/","id":"3ni2af","body":"Have a quick question in regards to a rental application form I have received. \n\nI had a showing a week ago for a rental home that is owned by an individual. The place was exactly what I have been looking for and the potential landlord was very nice. That said, I think she is new to renting as she seemed a little overwhelmed by some of the questions I was asking. When she handed me the rental application, it is simply a template belonging to leasing company that she printed off the internet. Almost identical to the following: [application](http:\/\/www.griswoldremgmt.com\/uploads\/files\/application-to-rent.pdf)\n\nI know this is required information if looking to rent an apartment or from a leasing company, but I feel a little concerned about giving out some of the info to an individual (social security, checking account #'s, credit references). Am I reading to much into this or should I be concerned? How should I go about applying for the place?\n\n  ","title":"Rental Application Questions (KS)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552906061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2h6u1\/is_my_work_allowed_to_pay_me_whenever_they_want\/","id":"b2h6u1","body":"I work at a bingo hall in Ontario, Canada. It's offiliated with OLG but owned by a construction company. We get paid twice a month, but I was told the direct deposits could be up to a week late. I have time sensitive things I need to pay (bus pass, internet bill, etc) and this has screwed me over more than once. Are they allowed to do this?","title":"Is my work allowed to pay me whenever they want? (Ontario)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504196228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x7uoa\/how_to_know_if_your_leasing_agent_is_legit\/","id":"6x7uoa","body":"I am currently going into my last year of college and looking for an apartment. I have lived at student housing apartments the last 3 years and this year I have been looking for something outside of student housing. I am currently talking to someone with a great deal on an apartment, he claims to be a leasing agent for the property, has 10+ pictures of the inside of the house and everything has seemed legit up to this point. The only thing is we have only communicated through phone and email and he has now sent me the lease agreement through email. I just want to know before I go any further if there's any way to tell if this guy is 100% the real deal and what I can ask him to prove it. Thanks in advance, in Texas. ","title":"How to know if your leasing agent is legit?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445804636,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q6txi\/il_selling_burial_estates\/","id":"3q6txi","body":"I am going through some financial hardships since I am not currently employed. My father handed me the deed to two estates (four spaces per estate) in a Jewish cemetery based outside of Chicago and gave me permission to sell the plots since they no longer live in Illinois and they have already gotten new graves in Virginia. The deed is made out to five people: my parents, my two older sisters, and myself in joint tenancy. The deed was executed in 1985 for the amount of $2,400.00.\n\nDoing some basic research online, I need to have the permission of my two sisters before I can agree to sell it. Also, since it is a Jewish cemetery, it is recommended that I speak with the cemetery first since I can not just sell to anyone online as the purchaser may not be Jewish.\n\nAssuming my sisters grant me permission as well, what steps should I take to facilitate this type of transaction? What costs or surcharges should I expect? Can I adjust the selling price based on inflation? I apologize if this is less of a legal question and more of a financial query. I also apologize in advance if the flair selected is not correct. I am a Reddit newbie, but I can handle it if you're a little rough!","title":"(IL) Selling burial estates","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443443243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3moxfr\/az_would_i_be_able_to_get_any_type_of_custody_or\/","id":"3moxfr","body":"A little background: My 4 yr old daughter's father, D, isn't apart of her life. He met someone else after we split and got this other girl, B, pregnant and now they have a 2 year old little girl together. But what they also have together as well is a drug addiction. I've recently found out that their daughter (and also B's youngest son who has a different dad but she only recently confessed to this) had become wards of the state for reasons I wasn't told in detail (other than CPS was called by the parents of B.) (B also lost all custody of her OTHER oldest child a couple weeks ago in an emergency petition to the court where the father was granted sole custody with B having no contact) So here's where I could use some legal advice\/help: The parents of B called CPS, CPS took the kids, B's parents were given temp custody of them after they were taken away BUT NOW B and D are living with B's parents. D has a warrant out for his arrest for violating parole. And it makes no sense to me why the parents of B would allow them back around the kids since they called CPS in the first place PLUS allowing someone in their home knowing they have a warrant out?! I don't know what to do or if I can even do anything. But since D has no family here whatsoever and B's family has me seriously concerned with what they're doing... do I have any chance in getting anything along the lines of guardianship or even fostering for my daughter's half-sister even though she's not related to me? \n\nAlso, who do I contact about knowing where someone is living who has a warrant out for their arrest?? \n\nAny advice or help is greatly appreciated! thank you!!","title":"(AZ) - would I be able to get any type of custody or guardianship or provide fostering for my daughter's half-sister after CPS took her away the mom and their dad?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554441195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9n5bc\/on_canada_what_can_be_done_if_a_merchant_doesnt\/","id":"b9n5bc","body":"I made a purchase using a Paypal guest account. The merchant did not follow through with the service as promised and agreed to pay me a full refund. After spending a gruelling amount of time arguing with an online representative, they agreed in the chat to refund the money. I had the representative say the company name as well as the amount and had the transcript of the conversation sent to me. They said the refund would be sent within 5 days but just based on how much they tried to get out of providing the refund I have anxiety about it. I'm asking as a precaution (if they dont pay me back) what are my options? ","title":"ON, Canada - What can be done if a merchant doesn't follow through with a refund?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554594705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baaih3\/australia_remove_current_executor_of_will\/","id":"baaih3","body":"Looking for advice. My grandmother passed away 4 years ago, leaving my aunt as executor of her will. My aunt hasn't done anything, as in she hasn't applied for probate. Although her (non) actions are illegal, there aren't many ways to make her comply with the law that I can see. Myself or another adult grandchild could apply to have her removed as executor, and one of us appointed instead but there are some considerations: my aunt has the only copies of the will, my aunt has moved and left no forwarding address, none of us know the whereabouts of my grandmother's bank accounts, and the biggie - none of us have much spare cash to pay a lawyer to commence this process, and we are guessing that my grandmother did not leave any substantial assets to offset this. It rankles, but we are thinking we may need to just let my aunt get away with this. Would appreciate anyone's advice\/ideas. Thank you.","title":"Australia: remove current executor of will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570850499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgppo6\/bizarrely_high_fine_for_failure_to_yield\/","id":"dgppo6","body":"I recently received a citation for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, in this case a cop car, in Hall County, Georgia. Everything I\u2019ve read online says that the maximum fine for this in my state is $500 but today when I called to find out how much it was I was told it is $678. There was no accident, I wasn\u2019t speeding, there was no other violations involved and the lady I talked to couldn\u2019t tell me why it was this high or if this was normal for this kind of ticket. I am in college so I don\u2019t have the time or money to deal with a lawyer or anything but could anyone venture a guess as to why my ticket costs more than the $500 maximum and whether it would be worth me attending my court date rather than paying it.","title":"Bizarrely high fine for failure to yield","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541431340,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uee77\/can_i_be_legally_charged_with_trespassing_if_i\/","id":"9uee77","body":"I have recently had confrontations with a cashier at a local convenient store in which I express my dissatisfaction directly to said cashiers in a overt way. Because of this confrontation I have avoided the cashier, but continued to go to the store, even befriending some of the other cashiers. On this particular night I had entered the store to get cash, and got into yet another confrontation, and this time asked to leave the store, to which I complied, but did not have much manners while doing so. As I returned to my vehicle police arrived and asked me for identification. I complied with that as well. The police officer had a camera recording or interaction. He wrote me a ticket for trespassing on the premises. I was highly inebriated as well. Can I fight this ticket, seeing as a verbal command to leave was only issued by the cashier and not by management? Does this cashier have the right to issue a ban, and does the fact that he asked me to leave and I complied have any pull? ","title":"Can I be legally charged with trespassing if I was told to leave a business and I complied?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541435680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uf16o\/insurance_wont_fix_my_sunroof_after_an_accident\/","id":"9uf16o","body":"So I was in a car crash a month ago (other driver was at fault) and my car was repaired. When I got it back I could hear that the sun roof sounded as if it was open a crack (I checked and it was not) and I could feel air coming in. I was hit head on and my roof was damaged from the impact. I called my insurance agency to tell them my car was not fixed. They tried talking their way out of it, saying the car must have had prior damage (I got this car brand new less then a year ago and it\u2019s been regularly serviced form tayota and it was in perfect condition).  this weekend I was driving on the highway going 65 and my whole sunroof (glass and sliding interior door) was ripped out of my car and flew into the highway almost causing the man behind me to crash!! It was clear there must have been a crack or imperfection from the \u201crepair\u201d cause an air tunnel at highspeeds resulting in my sunroof collapsing. Anyway my insurance agency keeps saying they have never heard of anything like this\/ trying to place Blame on me and my family but what\u2019s frustrating is the car was perfect before this guy hit me! I\u2019m so annoyed I feel that my insurance agency is failing me and I\u2019m left with a car that has a massive hole in the roof! What are my options here? ","title":"Insurance won\u2019t fix my sunroof after an accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541454066,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uhx7g\/looking_for_a_good_source_of_information_about\/","id":"9uhx7g","body":"I've recently stumbled upon topics like smart contracts, marketplaces, e-discovery and such. Can anyone recommend websites, youtube chanels or similar sources about LegalTech? \n\nIm a second year law student in europe and these topics (especially blockchain in general) seem to be a very interesting development within the legal world but arent discussed in any lectures.\n\nThanks in advance. \n\nHave a great day.","title":"Looking for a good source of information about LegalTech.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551852188,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axvi6e\/massachusetts_my_landlord_is_kicking_me_out_this\/","id":"axvi6e","body":"I don't think he ever did anything technically illegal, but the way he runs his property basically amounts to a giant ripoff. Everyone living in this building is unhappy with the way things are here for one reason or another. \n\nI'm the only person I know of who has constantly put pressure on him to fix things when they are broken, and as a result of this he doesn't like me very much (I suspect this is at least part of the reason he's making me leave).\n\nSo I'm pissed, finding a new home in March is difficult (on my budget, at least), and my soon to be former roommates who I love, would very much prefer there being fewer people living here for their own benefit. Is there anything illegal about posting ads online warning others not to come live here by sharing some of my experiences, so long as I don't lie about it?","title":"[Massachusetts] My landlord is kicking me out this month, and he treated me very poorly in various ways. So long as I don't lie, is it legal for me to post ads online warning others not to move here?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540312505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qqnwj\/threat_for_action_for_disturbance_of\/","id":"9qqnwj","body":"First and foremost I apologize for any inconvenience cause be the fact that my native language is not english. I'll try my best to explain the issue. \n\nI live in Austria, Vienna and I have been renting an apartment from a construction company for a year now. I parked my moped (on the property of the construction company) next to the parking space for bicycles (I wasn't blocking bicycle parking spots). It was a dead space that nobody in the entire building complex used besides another guy that also parked his motorbike there. Other people that have rented apartments from other construction companies in the area do the same. A few months ago a neighbor noticed a sheet of paper (which was attached to my moped a few days prior) and told me about it. When I looked for it the following day I found it on the ground in a corner near my moped (it was a miracle that it was still there and readable considering the weather conditions). It was a letter from the construction company that basically threatened me to file action for disturbance of possession\/tresspassing if I don't remove the vehicle immediately.  It was dated about 2 weeks prior so I parked the vehicle in our community cellar (which is a huge area for bicycles and strollers and sent an email to the construction company (email adress was on the letter) and told them that I didn't see their letter earlier because it wasn't attached to my moped properly and I only knew about it because a neighbor saw it earlier and had notified me. I then suggested that they should put such letters on the big notice board in the buildings because that way i would have seen their letter sooner. They thanked me for my advice and that was it, or so I thought.\n\n Today I got a letter notifying me that I have to pay 200\u20ac because I parked my moped in the cellar. Most of it for \"cleaning costs\" (for 3 separate cleaning incidents on different dates each about 3 weeks apart) and the rest because they had to identify the driver. If I don't pay they are threatening to file a action for disturbance of possession\/tresspassing. I also just found out that they had apparently put up a letter in one of the other buildings (there are 4 on this building site) but I obviously didn't see it because the entrance to my apartment is in another building. \n\n1. The cleaning coats (about 55\u20ac each) was ridiculously high. That must have been a quick wipe on the floor (as they stated it was because of \"draining liquids\"). It wasn't anything that stains or isn't removable within a few seconds and some water.\n2. They knew the moped belonged to me but they are still charging me for the identification of the driver.\n\nI am furious. I tried calling but they aren't available until next week. \n\nDo I have to pay the whole sum? Can they really take this to court?\n\nI know 200\u20ac doesn't seem like much and I should probably just pay it and don't conplain but I'm a student and I simply don't have that much money  to spare so it is a lot to me.\n\nTLDR parked my moped in the cellar of the apartment I'm renting now the construction company is charging me for unnecessary cleaning costs and a driver identification even though they knew it was my vehicle and they had my contact information.","title":"Threat for action for disturbance of possession\/tresspassing from my property management","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569940033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbu5v2\/passed_stopped_school_bus_north_carolina\/","id":"dbu5v2","body":"Hi guys, just looking for any advice I could get on a ticket I received for passing a school bus.\n\n\nShort back story, early one morning I passed a stopped school bus unintentionally, as in I didn\u2019t realize it was stopped. I was then pulled over by a cop and given a court summons, for Oct.31.\n\n\nNow, in NC it\u2019s a pretty big deal to pass a school bus. $500 plus points on license and insurance. Any advice I could get for handing this would be appreciated.\nI may look into a lawyer, although I really don\u2019t have much money, being a student and a single father.\n\n\nI already plan to not come up with excuses in court. There\u2019s no question really whether I passed the school bus. And I realize it\u2019s a big deal, i would never want anyone to pass a school bus my 5 year old son was in. So any info or help would be appreciated. Thanks","title":"Passed stopped school bus (North Carolina)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554859669,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbg64z\/foster_care\/","id":"bbg64z","body":"So now my mom wants to put me and my sister into foster care, what should we do. We have older siblings can they adopt us? How does foster care work?","title":"Foster care","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503058783,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uhftz\/mn_usa_my_exwifetobes_therapist_thinks_shes_being\/","id":"6uhftz","body":"It's been about two months since my spouse (of about three and a half years) and I started discussing the end of our relationship. We agreed that we both wanted to do our best to remain good friends, and to work together in raising our four-year-old. We have not yet filed the relevant divorce paperwork. \n\nUnfortunately, largely for financial reasons, obtaining separate housing is not a simple proposition. We are still living together, though in separate bedrooms. This had been a good idea, but her constant refrain lately has been about needing space. The last time we had talked about physically separating (maybe a week ago?), the timeline she proposed was three to six months, but last night she was pushing much, much harder on it; and she told me that her therapist felt she was \"being the bigger person\" by not simply kicking me out, because \"most people do\". \n\nWe live in a small trailer. We have both been living here for eight years - she one or two months longer than me. She purchased the trailer (outright, prior to moving in), and because she makes about three times as much money as I do, she typically pays the lot rent, though I do pay it fairly regularly as well. \n\nI don't know how restraining orders work. We have had some fights, and they do sometimes get pretty shouty, typically on my part, but that hasn't happened a lot super recently, and it's something that I believe I can keep in check. There has of course been no physical abuse between us, in either direction. \n\nUnder what circumstances can she force me from my home of eight years? What can I do to protect myself from those circumstances? What recourse do I have if she does try to forcibly remove me? \n\nThanks very much, I appreciate it.","title":"[MN, USA] My ex-wife-to-be's therapist thinks she's being a bigger person than she needs to be by not simply kicking me out. Can she even do that?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569686905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dahy84\/copyright_help_on_music_on_videos_for_patreon\/","id":"dahy84","body":"Hello\n\nMy friend has a Patreon account he make drawing videos. \n\nCould he put film or game or any song ost on the audio track as background while he is drawing, and then put his video on His Patreon (The drawing process)???\n\nI think he will put as Youtube unlisted or just the mp4 file ready to dodwnload...\n\nCould be this possible or this will be not good for copyright??\n\nthansk","title":"Copyright help on Music on Videos for Patreon","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552577407,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b11opd\/oh_does_an_apartment_being_too_hot_count_as\/","id":"b11opd","body":"Front of my apartment has a window ac unit. It doesn\u2019t have enough power to cool our whole apartment. The two back bedrooms, mine and my 6 month olds, are ridiculously hot, like at least 80+ degrees. We have box fans going at all times and all doors open. We can\u2019t open the windows because they screens don\u2019t sit properly\/ have holes in them. I don\u2019t want to move out (middle of our lease) and I don\u2019t want them to not let me renew my lease when it is up. I want to know what options I have to cool my apartment. If I buy a stand alone air conditioner can I be reimbursed? Is there a certain period of time I have to give them to fix the problem? Can I withhold rent because of this?","title":"[OH] Does an apartment being too hot count as uninhabitable?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554255757,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8rxsa\/person_purchased_car_over_a_year_ago_havent\/","id":"b8rxsa","body":"So i already know there will be a maximum fee of $125 for the late title transfer because of how late it is here in WA state. \n\nMy question is would the person in question of the late title transfer be able to just state that the title was transferred this week instead of a year ago? or is it already on record when it was sold? \n\nthis person has the signature from the seller already and is waiting to transfer, all they have to do is dare the letter. \n\nthey just waited too long and forgot. now they need tabs and want to avoid the late title transfer fee on top of tabs. \n\nis it possible or would they get screwed in the end? ","title":"person purchased car over a year ago haven\u2019t transferred title yet help","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507344584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74sf7o\/ca_car_insurance_refusing_to_believe_associated\/","id":"74sf7o","body":"Long story short, car insurance adjuster is refusing to acknowledge damage caused by a recent accident. He claims the damage is from a previous accident years ago. This car was bought this year and the damage that was caused from this recent accident was not there. He's saying that this damage is old because rust has formed as a result. This accident occurred in August. Adjuster officially inspected it about a month later after the accident. What can be done? ","title":"[CA] Car Insurance refusing to believe associated damages","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540291693,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qnsb0\/uk_abusive_ex_partner_wants_custody_of_daughter\/","id":"9qnsb0","body":"Let me begin with this, this is about a close family member. She has no money so it\u2019s not possible to get the best lawyers etc. I understand some law firms work with pro-bono but I\u2019ll check more on that later. \n\nFull story, this family member we\u2019ll call her Rosa, gave birth to her daughter (Lily) 8 years ago with this guy named Patrick. Their past has involved him abusing her and choking their daughter. When she found strength to leave, they went through social services and mediator because he was sending her threatening messages cause she took their daughter to live with her. She has tried her best to let him have his daughter for visits etc but whilst the daughter was with his family, they were brainwashing the daughter about Rosa\u2019s family. \n\nFast forward 5 years later, Rosa married a man named Joshua. With this marriage they moved further away, she has made Patrick aware that they\u2019ll be moving. During this, she allows Lily to visit her family which allowed Patrick to see Lily only a few times throughout the 1st year of this arrangement. After all this, Rosa did not provide Patrick with her address, but managed to let Patrick meet her 10 miles away from her home to spend the day with Lily. Which only happened once as Patrick complained that it was too expensive to travel to the area Rosa chose. \n\nToday, Rosa told me that Patrick has filed a court notion to demand reasonable contact and to know their location, adding that Rosa has no rights to take Lily outside of the country without his permission. He has also stated that he believes Rosa lives in another country because he doesn\u2019t know their current address. \n\nWhat legal ways can this be dropped? \n\nI\u2019ve advised Rosa not to be too hysterical as she suffers from depression (which all started due to the abuse Patrick inflicted on her). ","title":"[UK] Abusive ex partner wants custody of daughter?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554753204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bayaei\/access_to_deceased_peoples_bank_accounts_in_texas\/","id":"bayaei","body":"Four years ago my husband passed unexpectedly. We have a son together. My husband and I were separated at the time of his death, but not legally. He was caring for his ill mother. His mom was not very nice and there were many conflicts over the funeral between his family. So much so that his family requested police to attend the funeral to keep fights between his mom, dad, and siblings controlled. And of course, all of this against our wishes. \n\nAfter his death, his mother moved to a nursing home. Because of the family disputes, I backed away from them all. Four years have passed and I have not heard anything from anyone, until today. My late husband's mother passed in early March. No one even bothered to tell us. My FB is open and my son is her grandchild.\n\nNow his family is asking for the death certificate for my late husband. They say there are joint bank accounts with him and his mothers name. I had no idea that these accounts existed. I have not responded to their messages. My questions are: \n\nCan his family(brother and father) close these accounts with only the death certificates?\n\nDo I or my son have any claim to what is in those accounts?\n\nThey are in Texas, how do I find her will\/estate\/bank accounts when they are not giving me info? Also, I do not want to alert them that I am asking or questioning.\n\nThank you so much!","title":"Access to deceased people's bank accounts in Texas","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554852000,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbevlg\/issues_with_apartment_complex\/","id":"bbevlg","body":"Hello legaladvice,\nI do apologize about any formatting, I am posting via mobile.\n\nI live in apartment complex with 4 roommates. Parking is scarce, so we pay for an additional parking garage. \n\nWhen we moved in we took over the lease formally from the original tenants. After paying for the additional garage for the past 5 months, the complex has decided to evict us since none of us are the original tenant. Legally are they allowed to do this? If so why did they allow me to pay for the garage for the past 5 months \n\nThe whole management team here is shady, and in the past has left us with leaky ceiling for three weeks. So it can be hard to trust anything they are telling us.\n\nI was just wondering if there is anything in the terms of the law that they are doing wrong.\n\nThank you in advance.","title":"Issues with apartment complex","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569527406,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9otiw\/boss_wants_me_to_update_social_media_without_pay\/","id":"d9otiw","body":"I work in marketing for a startup clothing company in Mississippi. My boss wants me to tag products on our Instagram, put up stories, etc, without pay on my off hours and weekends. \n\nEach employee has a weekend set for them to do this. She says that since it only takes a small amount of time it should not be a big deal, but I have issue with it because my time is my time. It causes me to interrupt my life to make sure there are stories throughout the weekend. \n\nWhat should I do?","title":"Boss wants me to update social media without pay on my off time","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568812151,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5xjwe\/first_offense_3rd_degree_assault\/","id":"d5xjwe","body":"Facing the above charge, as well as endangering the welfare of a child and criminal mischief. I'm in New York State. What are the chances of only getting probation or something?","title":"First offense 3rd degree assault","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569420926,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d93vu8\/my_landlord_signed_nothing_more_than_a_short\/","id":"d93vu8","body":"As read above. I originally intended to stay at this place for a longer period of time, but the landlord turned out to be an insufferable walking midlife crisis with the conflict resolution skills of a petulent manchild, so I am moving out after only a month.\n\nHe has been acting increasingly passive-aggressive in our communications (mostly over text as our schedules mostly do not line up) and even did petty things like turning off the stove while I was making myself dinner and walked away for a moment, or pausing what he was watching and stomping away to the balcony to smoke because I DARED to use the kitchen while he was in the living room.\n\nI suspect he might try to screw me out of my down payment, and wanted to ask how likely I would be to win if I were to take him to small claims court over it.","title":"My landlord signed nothing more than a short contract stating that I have paid a down payment to be returned to me upon my vacation of the room I am renting. No rental contract, nothing else. The payment was even in cash. Does he have any ground to stand on whatsoever if he tries to withold it?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568442134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d41luf\/ny_can_you_be_forced_to_give_up_dashcam_footage\/","id":"d41luf","body":"Two questions actually, I was wondering if I caused an accident, (which I have no plans on, I'm a safe driver), would I have to give anyone the footage my dash cam recorded? \n\nSecond, in most states you can't have anything obstructing your vision, would a dash cam count under these rules?","title":"NY - Can you be forced to give up dashcam footage that could be used against you?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1502884848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u1jp9\/making_software_for_my_school_it_project_i_am\/","id":"6u1jp9","body":"Location: Melbourne Australia\n\nI am 17 and in highschool. My major Software development project this year was to create whatever software we wanted to, that would solve a real world problem. At the end we show out product and send our code over to the teacher. I am thinking my product is so good that I am going to turn it into a startup and try to make money. My teacher today said if I pull this off I will make money from it, he also said that he may want to use it(running my code on a server) as an example of what a high achieving student can do. He also mentioned something about legal stuff with me creating this for a school project and then me use it as a business. So do I have the full rights and protection for me to use my product as a business and the school not come after me? PS. I have not used any school computers while developing my software. Thanks for anyone who gives me advice :)","title":"Making software for my school IT project, I am also going to make it an actual product and a startup. Do I own the full rights to the IP?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551033381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auawvb\/ca_former_employer_waiting_a_pay_cycle_to\/","id":"auawvb","body":"I was a salaried, non-exempt employee working remotely for an out-of-state company.\n\nI gave two weeks of notice to the company that I would be leaving. My last day happened to fall on the most recent payday, which is also the first day of a new pay cycle. My final paycheck included all compensation for time worked in the prior cycle, but no compensation for my last day or for unused PTO. This is a substantial amount, I had almost 4 weeks of PTO hours banked.\n\nI have in writing from HR that they intend to pay this out on the next pay cycle in 2 weeks.\n\nMy understanding of California Law is that employers are required to compensate employees for accrued but unused PTO, and that this compensation is due as part of the final paycheck. I also believe that as long as the employee gives adequate notice, the final paycheck is due on the last day worked. As I understand it, CA law provides penalties of one day\u2019s pay for every day the final paycheck is late, up to 30 days.\n\nI may be wrong about all of this, so please set me straight if so!\n\nI know I can wait and see if they pay me as promised and then be reactive, and that pursuing any proactive route is likely to burn bridges. With that in mind, what are my full set of options here?","title":"[CA] Former employer waiting a pay cycle to compensate accrued PTO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540314846,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qr1cl\/if_i_know_that_someones_breaking_into_my_home\/","id":"9qr1cl","body":"My coworker watched a video of this man who broke into his home and ate his food and left. The man in the video thought it was his girlfriend so he setup security cameras in his home. So I asked that if he just sat downstairs and killed the person after he broke in, is it premeditated murder?","title":"If I know that someone's breaking into my home every night via security cameras. Is it premeditated murder if I kill the person when I know he's going to break into my home again?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554968436,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbx3ee\/help\/","id":"bbx3ee","body":"I was on my way to work from the gym last afternoon and I hit an animal, I honestly don\u2019t know what it is. I didn\u2019t stop. I was scared and terrified and my adrenaline was pumping. I\u2019m not trying to make excuses for me not stopping I was honestly terrified. I got to work and checked the car and my front fender was messed up. I filed my insurance claim and just told them it was a deer. I\u2019m filing a police report once I get out of work. I honestly don\u2019t know what to expect if anything. I\u2019m in NY","title":"Help.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555427558,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdv2cf\/divorce_fair_and_equitable_property_distribution\/","id":"bdv2cf","body":"Throw away account\n\n​\n\nMarriage: 15 years, two kids, want 50\/50 joint custody\n\nGoal: Amicable Separation\n\nHim: Career entrepreneur \n\nHer: Stay at Home Mom\n\n​\n\nIs there a way to educate ourselves better on fair and equitable? Specifically around spousal support.\n\n​\n\nWe both have representation but are receiving different information. Stickler point seems to be alimony. Her lawyer is asking for 8 years to equalize for her not working, his lawyer is recommending 4 years if she wants to go back to school, and suggesting that none may actually be needed given that her gain from community property, if split 50\/50, is already in the 7 figures. Child support is suggested by the WA guidelines, and comes to $2.5k\/month.\n\n​\n\nDo we get second opinions? How well does mediation work? Seems as we are being pitched against each other by the attorneys and that creates a harder situation to find a middle ground. We want to both feel good about the split when it's all said and done since we will be coparenting and want to do that successfully.","title":"Divorce - Fair and Equitable Property Distribution [WA, USA]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571708354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlankp\/landlord_giving_issues_about_a_security_deposit\/","id":"dlankp","body":"I\u2019m going to try to to make this very simple but the situation is a little complicated. \n\nBasically, my family and I(17) lived in a home for 4 years and we rented from an individual owner. We cleaned the house thoroughly but there are of course normal wear and tear (carpets becoming dirtier, paint chips, etc). There was also a pool, and a large backyard with fruit trees. This is where the issues arise. \n\nThe pool had become green. \nWe complained numerous times that the pool system was not working, and despite us running the system and spending 100s of dollars on chemicals to kill the algae the pool still looked terrible. \nWe drained the pool and refilled it and it still wasn\u2019t great, but it was a lot better. \nWhen we moved out the pool was still slightly green but the rest of the house was ship shape (much cleaner than when we moved in). \n\nAfter the walk through our land lord told us (in writing) that we would be receiving our pro rated rent ($1225) and a portion of our security deposit. We had originally paid a $2000 security deposit but would only be getting back $950. After the debacle of moving we decided that we would agree on that number and not really fight it. \nNow a week later he informed us that he believes that \u201cthe pool and yard were severely neglected...the trees hadn\u2019t been watered in months...I will not be returning any of the security deposit.\u201d \nThis is all BS. The trees have been watered and still make fruit, the pool hasn\u2019t been neglected by US but by HIM, since he was informed of all the issues but chose to do nothing about it when we lived there. \n\nCan he do this? Do we have any legal standing?","title":"Landlord giving issues about a security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446340626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r1892\/father_died_and_left_115k_in_debt_his_bank\/","id":"3r1892","body":"Hi My dad died Tuesday and left a financial mess behind him. He had a car lease that still had 2 years to go and a combined credit card debt spread across 15 cards of $115k, he was 65 and died from Cancer. He had about $50k in his bank account that is in his name and his wives name. Besides that there is the condo my brother lives in that is 50% owned by my dad and 50% by his kids (us). He doesnt live in that condo, he lives in his wives house that is on her name.\n\nHe also owns a small business between him and his wife that barely surviving.  \n\nEverything I have read so far says we are screwed about the car lease, (they will take it, auction it, and charge the rest to the estate), any recommendations?\n\nWe are in the process of looking for a probate lawyer.\n\nHe has a will but according to a friend its not really legal, since its just a document with his signature.\n\nWhat should I know about? The only thing I am worried about is not losing the apartment were my brother lives and make sure his widow is helped as much as possible.\n\nI read about Survivors Benefits from Social Security but didnt fully understand it. \n\nAlso about Homestead Protection: http:\/\/www.alperlaw.com\/asset-protection\/florida-asset-protection\/homestead-protection\/\nBut didn't understand it fully specially since he didn't live there, my brother does, and even though I am in the deed I don't live there either. (so I dont know if homestead protection actually counts for us)\n\nHow do I find out what other debts he had?\n\nThanks\n\n\n\n","title":"Father died and left $115k in debt, his bank accounts are in his and his wives name (Florida)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540416844,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r3yps\/texas_how_much_will_a_hold_harmless_agreement\/","id":"9r3yps","body":"I'm looking to start a small, IT-centric business soon. One of the services I plan to offer will be data recovery from old\/broken hard drives and such. I am in the process of drafting detailed \"Hold harmless\" agreements to have potential clients sign and agree to before any work is done on their drive; my fear is that someone will ask for data recovery from a drive that holds sensitive information (Personally identifying info, personal photos, etc), and will try to blame me for mishandling their data in the event of identity theft or some other data breach. In short, the agreement would indemnify my company from any responsibility in the event of any data leak. Before launching my business, I intend to have a lawyer examine these agreements, to cover any holes I miss, so to speak.\n\n​\n\nI intend to have several safeguards in place to prevent any of their data from ever reaching the wild from my operations, which I intend to transparently advertise. My questions boil down to this: How much will such an agreement protect me and my company, assuming I do not compromise the data during my operations? Also, how much will such an agreement protect me if there is some sort of data breach on my end that results in client data leak (God forbid)?","title":"[Texas] How much will a \"hold harmless\" agreement really protect my IT business?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554294277,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8x9zl\/landlord_letting_dudes_in\/","id":"b8x9zl","body":"I\u2019ve been living at my place in Savannah, GA for about 9 months now, and multiple times my landlord has given out my door code to allow repairmen into my townhouse. I have emailed and texted requesting notice for when people were coming so I could be home to let them in\/ I wasn\u2019t in any kind of indecent situation when they arrive. But she has continually ignored this request and I would love to know what steps I can take to get this take. Care of legally! HELP!!","title":"Landlord letting dudes in...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540097838,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q108g\/canada_girl_accused_me_of_rape_in_front_of_almost\/","id":"9q108g","body":"There has been an Instagram account blowing up in my city recently. It has been up for 2-3 weeks and has over 18 thousand active followers. \n\nA girl runs the account and she posts pictures\/DM's she gets from other girls with stories of men that have raped them.\n\nShe posts about 30 of these stories a day and today she posted a story about me. I dont know who sent this story in but they sent in a picture of me and a message that detailed how I showed up to her house and raped her.\n\nI have been in a relationship for almost 2 years with the same girl and prior to that I was a virgin. Her story is impossible.\n\nPeople have been reporting this instagram account since it was created and it got taken down but Instagram put it back up a few days ago. \n\nI'm scared. My family and friends, even my boss could see this. There was absolutely no proof sent in and the story is entirely made up. It was posted about an hour ago. \n\nWhat can I do? I've reported the account and contacted instagram but I doubt that this will do anything. \n\n","title":"[CANADA] Girl accused me of rape in front of almost 20K people. Please help.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1409602731,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f71nn\/michigan_custodial_rights_situation_biomom_in\/","id":"2f71nn","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nWe are in a situation where my sister-in-law (\"J\") is in jail for a few months. She has 4 children, and sole custody of her daughter, \"A\". A's father signed off on all rights years ago, and our family has made an effort to keep her paternal grandparents in her life. \n\nSIL has been in jail for the past month, and between the maternal grandparents and us, we have registered her for school (which starts tomorrow) and have moved all of A's stuff between both houses. My household is a backup to bring her to school when the maternal grandparents have to work early. J has signed over temporary custody for the school year for A to the maternal grandparents.\n\nWe have been working with the paternal grandparents to have them pick A up every weekend to spend time with her before school started. The grandfather was on board for our plans for the school year, as far as he told us. Yesterday, when we were supposed to meet to pick her up, the grandfather called to inform us that they are keeping her at their house (45 minutes away) and have registered her for school, and that \"we can't have her.\" \n\nDHS hasn't been involved - which I would imagine would have to happen to look at the living situation she would be in. We believe that they are acting on the advice from the lawyer the father hired.\n\nThe father doesn't have a home of his own, works seasonally and rents a room with many other men during the summer. During the winter months, I assume he lives with the paternal grandparents. \n\nWe are beside ourself with the whole situation. We have been trying our hardest to keep the 4 children together. I understand that grandparent's have minimal to no rights, but I'm wondering that since the father signed off 100% on his rights, and J signed over temporary rights to the grandparents, if they have any leg to stand on and if they should look into getting an attorney. \n\nThank you in advance for any advice, and sorry for any typos - I'm heartbroken right now. \n","title":"(Michigan) Custodial rights situation: Bio-mom in jail for a few months, father terminated rights years ago. Paternal grandparents are trying to keep her.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554856440,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbfmpl\/roommatetenant_keeps_turning_down_thermostat\/","id":"bbfmpl","body":"I rent a townhouse and sublet the rooms. Both tenants have a lease with a flat rent, utilities included. Ive always controlled the thermostat, but now that spring has begun, my new (young and spoiled) tenant keeps messing with the thermostat every time I turn my back.\n\nI spoke with her about it today, explained that I pay the electric, and she said it was too warm. Thermostat is at 75, I'm in Maryland, and it's barely spring. Suggested window liners, a fan. As she walked out the door heard her say (she didnt realize I could hear) that she'll do what she wants if she's hot.\n\nMy question is, theres nothing about temperature either way in the lease. Is it within my rights, or legal, to put some sort of lock on the thermostat, or a lockable programmable thermostat? Maryland tenant law doesnt seem to say anything but that heat has to be functional.","title":"Roommate\/Tenant keeps turning down thermostat","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552620795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b19xgm\/is_what_my_new_employer_doing_legal_and_can_i\/","id":"b19xgm","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nLet me provide some background here to the title. I am currently in transition between jobs before I move to a new city and today I received a job offer for a paid sales internship at a small start-up in California. However, before I accepted I asked to speak to an employee that had been an intern before to ask how their experience was only to find some disappointing news. The former intern along with some other former interns I walked to said the following points:\n\n* Though this is described as a \"paid\" internship that they plan to pay you based on commission and no hourly wage\/salary.\n* They do not issue you end of the year tax documents and from what they described they pay you under the table via Venmo.\n* No intern has ever signed or been offered any sort of contractual agreement before starting their work there, but they took the job anyway to fill up their resume. \n* They often had to beg to be paid for weeks by the two owners (CEO and CFO) and they would often not receive the commission that they should have received. The amount was always short of what they should have been paid even if taxes were withheld. \n\nEven after hearing all of this, I accepted. I know, I should not have but I wanted something to bide my time before I move. Sure enough, a week or so into the job all of the testimonials given by the former interns were accurate. That being said, what should I do? Should I just quit\/not go back? Or am I on the grounds to report them to the state labor board as what they are doing seems illegal or at least questionable? \n\nSide note: if I flared this wrong I apologize. ","title":"Is what my new employer doing legal and can I report them to the state labor board?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446608047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rg3gz\/wi_landlord_withheld_security_deposit_past_the_21\/","id":"3rg3gz","body":"My landlord took 48 days to return the security deposit on my apartment in Wisconsin (and only did so after having to repeatedly demand payment of said deposit). I did eventually get the full amount, but WI state law says that I'm owed twice that amount: \n\"Any person suffering pecuniary loss because of a violation by any other person of any order issued under this section may sue for damages therefor in any court of competent jurisdiction and shall recover twice the amount of such pecuniary loss, together with costs, including a reasonable attorney's fee.\"  \n Wis. Stat. 100.20(5), Wis. Stat. 704.95  \nhttps:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/statutes\/statutes\/100\/20\/5  \n\n\"Timing for return. A landlord shall deliver or mail to a tenant the full amount of any security deposit paid by the tenant, less any amounts that may be withheld under subs. (1) and (2), within 21 days after any of the following\"\n Wis. Stat. 704.28, 2011 Wis. Act 143, Sec. 22  \nhttps:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/statutes\/statutes\/704\/28\/  \n\nI don't feel the landlord was acting in good faith; I believe they were intentionally trying to withhold my security deposit. Is it probably worth my time\/effort to seek out a lawyer under Wisconsin law? Have I technically suffered a loss since they got the deposit to me, albeit after much effort and late? My intent would be to sue for amount of the deposit (so 2 x the deposit - what has been paid). \n \nTLDR timeline:  \n\"Signed\" a verbal lease for apartment on 3\/20\/2014 starting 4\/1\/2014, the lease was month to month but a request for a 60 day move out notification was given. \n\nI signed a lease on a new apartment with a new landlord on 5\/31\/2015, on 6\/1\/2015 I provided written notification of my intent to vacate as of 8\/1\/2015 with my rent payment. In that notification I gave my new address to send the security deposit to.  \n\nI moved out of my unit and had the premise cleaned on 7\/31\/2015. I left a written notification of my forwarding address for the security deposit with the keys in the unit. I also texted this information to building manager.\n\nOn 9\/16\/2015 (40 days after move out) I texted the building manager asking about the status of my security deposit, including mentioning my intention to pursue legal action. He responded the next day with a message saying that he had no intent of returning my deposit and if I had a problem with that I should contact the building owner. I reiterated my intention to pursue legal action.  \n\nI received a voicemail later that day from the owner telling me to call or text her my address and she would send the deposit in full. I received a check for the full amount of the deposit a few days later, it was dated and postmarked 9\/17\/2015","title":"[WI] Landlord withheld security deposit past the 21 day deadline","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568966174,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6rmwf\/citation_for_trespassing\/","id":"d6rmwf","body":"Hi Everyone! Quick question on if I can be legally charged and what my options are.\n\nI went to a local calzone shop this evening and tried to order something, the owner told me it wasn\u2019t available and tried to sell me a calzone that was sitting on the side of the counter. I said no and ordered something else.\n\nNot believing that the initial item I tried to order was out of stock, I left the restaurant and ordered 2 of the items. The owner told me it would be ready in 10 minutes. I went in 10 minutes later to pick up the item, at which point I confronted the owner that he had previously lied. He threatened to call the police and I called his bluff. He asked me to leave his store but as an employee was trying to get me to leave he said no let him stay and wait for the police.\n\nDuring this time, I exited the restaurant and the owner followed me out. He was cursing at me and threatened to tackle me if I tried to leave the area.\n\nI waited for the police to show up and explained the story. After hearing his side, they are going to look into a simple trespassing charge.\n\nI am fairly confident based on the video they will review that I will be found innocent, since I left the property in a  reasonable time frame. But is there any legal defense I have in this situation?\n\nThanks in advance for any advice:)","title":"Citation for trespassing","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554082488,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7vmfw\/cigarette_butts_outside_the_apartment_buiding\/","id":"b7vmfw","body":"Hello! First time poster! Sorry if I do this wrong!\n\nI live in a professionally managed apartment complex on the second floor. When I got home today from my weekend away, I noticed that there was a note taped to my door saying that management noticed an abundance of cigarette butt in front of the balcony area and \"if this issue is not remedied immediately I will have staff clean up and you will be charged $25 per cigarette butt.\" I don't smoke. I don't have friends who smoke. There is no way that the cigarette butts are mine but I'm afraid that management is going to try to pin them on me and try to extort money from me. \n\nWhat I want to know is if they can legally charge me for this without proof that they are mine? Can they evict me over this? Thank you!","title":"Cigarette butts outside the apartment buiding","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552331877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azxgoc\/tx_parental_rights_and_child_support_question\/","id":"azxgoc","body":"I was recently sued to establish paternity, talked to a lawyer and got the whole process done with. I was determined to be the father and child support was agreed on and I waived any right to visitation. The mother and I were in a very toxic relationship that had a large amount of mental abuse directed at me, which is behind my reasoning to not have anything to do with it once this was all done and said. I also have never had contact with the child, and want no contact with it. \n\n​\n\nHowever, I'm now getting quite a few people saying that I can give up my parental rights to completely distance myself from the child and also to not have to pay child support. Is there any truth in this and\/or is this something I can easily do? My lawyer didn't mention anything about that during the whole process, and I'm unable to get a hold of him currently, so I'm not sure what this is all about. I'd love to be able to not have to pay it since I have no connection to the child, and the relationship with its mother was a very toxic one. If I can't, that's fine, I'm just really confused on what this is about.","title":"[TX] Parental rights and child support question.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504320116,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xjbph\/mn_my_mom_wants_me_to_file_a_claim_with_the\/","id":"6xjbph","body":"Background: When I was four, I was bit in the face by a friend's dog, on the left side of my face (I've been told the dog was a Visla, if that means anything?). The bite was so bad that some of my tissue was missing, and it severed the nerves- I didn't feel it happen. \n\nNaturally, I got a hell of a lot of stitches all over that side of my face. They were done by a (still practicing) plastic surgeon my mom (an oncologist) knows while I was under anesthetic (20+ stitches, so I'm assuming it took a bit of time to do), and overall it's not very visible- there's a line under my eye, and although I can feel in that area, it is noticeably less responsive to sensation. Generally, it looks like a natural feature of my face, if one side of your face had a permanent curved line on it that always made you look a bit tired?\n\nTheir dog wasn't put down- they gave it up to a man who lives in northern MN, who apparently takes in aggressive dogs (that's all I know).\n\nI'm 19 right now, so this is a long time ago. \n\nFast forward to about two weeks ago, and my mom tells me that she \"just learned\" (her actual words) that I'd be able to file a claim with their home insurance company for financial compensation for what happened to me- and it's a lot of money. Apparently, I can file until I'm 20, and then I can't. I turned 19 in late June, so time isn't much of an issue right now. \n\nedit: I'm pretty sure she said it was their homeowner's insurance. I don't know if that means anything, but there's that. \n\nI don't know the first thing about any of this, but I want to get my legal questions\/ ducks in a row before I even think about pursuing this, and info for if I do end up pursuing this. \n\nExtra info:\n\nI live in a Minneapolis suburb, and it happened in the same suburb I'm currently in. \n\nIt is a visible scar, but that's it- I actually scared the daylights out of my parents because I ran over to pet the next dog I saw (about a week after the incident). Likely, this is because I didn't feel it. \n\nSo, I have questions:\n\n1.) Is this even true? If so, how is this done?\n\n2.) There is documentation of the bite via a police report, and I'd assume in my medical records. The plastic surgeon who did it is also still practicing, and would likely be able to provide information if asked (it's not everyday you stitch up the hell out of a four-year old kid's under eye area, after all). \n\n3.) What kind of lawyer would I need to find, and how would the claim be handled? How long do cases like this usually take?\n\n4.) This was over a decade ago. What does this mean for the case?\n\n5.) Although this is more of a financial question, how would I go about putting the money in an account and such? Legally, I'm assuming this is my money, but I have no clue how that procedure happens. \n\n6.) How would this affect the family whose dog it was?\n\n7.) I know my face is the evidence, and I'm assuming proof is needed- would the reports be enough, or are before\/during\/after images needed?\n\n8.) She (mother) was very interested in this- why the fuck would she not know about this before now? (Although I trust my mom, she's very self-serving. I want to make sure she's not just trying to funnel the money to her somehow, which unfortunately is a small, but good possibility).\n\n9.) Does me not having any lasting psychological trauma play into this?\n\n10.) Are there any general long term, short term, etc. effects\/ repercussions\/ etc. I should know about?\n\n11.) I'm probably forgetting something here, so please add in any extra info that might be important?\n\n\nIf you need any extra info, please let me know!","title":"[MN] My mom wants me to file a claim with the insurance company of a family who had a dog that bit me.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505321340,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zvter\/can_i_record_my_roommates_in_the_living_room\/","id":"6zvter","body":"Background: I'm in Kansas and the city I'm in says no more than 4 non related tenants can be on the same lease.  There are 5 of us on the lease, one of which is a minor (U21)\n\nSo basically one of my roommates is a narcissist and I use that word in the sense that she's manipulative and has no understanding for anyone else's feelings. So she's pretty much a loose cannon and has said some threatening things along with trying to assault another one of our roommates,who is also my girlfriend. I physically had to stop her from hitting my girlfriend. \n\nNow I want to get some footage of one of her episodes to send to the property management as an account to why I feel unsafe in my own home. I'm not looking to show the police or get the law involved, I simply want to provide proof to my landlords that I do not feel safe with her living there. I have not brought up this issue to the property company because I don't want to bring up any other events. It's best for everyone else if I have the proof before I make any claims. \n\nI'm looking for legal advice as to how to go about this, if I should whip out my phone when it's happening or if I can use a security\/hidden camera to accomplish this task without getting anyone's consent","title":"Can I record my roommates in the living room without their permission ?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445290672,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3penxb\/tx_dealing_with_insurance_adjuster_for_car\/","id":"3penxb","body":"A couple months ago I was home sick when my complex did some work on an adjacent apartment. During the course of this work they got a large amount of sediment sprayed all over my car. Instead of notifying me or attempting to clean it up it was all left to bake in the Texas heat. I've had it washed and detailed and still the damage remains. I had an adjuster come out from the insurance company but he is trying to say I'm not obligated to receive OEM parts. I know this may not sound like a huge deal. But this was my first car I purchased new and barely a year old. What options if any do I have? Or do I have any choice in the matter? Thank you in advance for any advice you may have.","title":"[TX] Dealing with Insurance Adjuster for car","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505691371,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70r53w\/does_a_property_manager_have_to_refund_rent_for\/","id":"70r53w","body":"I am a student living in a third-party dormitory that has some special agreement with my university in Florida. We were mandatorily evacuated from the building a week ago by the landlord \"Until further notice.\"\n\n\nThey sent out emails throughout this entire week saying that residents were not able to return, due to damage throughout the nine story apartment complex. Students were allowed to return to retrieve belongings, but not allowed to stay anytime after 8:00 PM. Here is an excerpt from the email sent today:\n\n> Today, Sunday Sept 17 until 8pm, students will be able to come in for a short period of time (30-45min) to get personal belongings for the week and school supplies. Students will need to be out of the building by 8pm and will not be allowed into the building thereafter. Monday, Sept 18, and until further notice, students will be allowed to check into the building to get personal belongings between the hours of 10am and 5pm. Visits will be limited to 30-45 minutes only.\n\n\n\nSo as they are directly stating, we must be out of the building today if we are retrieving belongings. One of my roommates was in there and saw absolutely no damage, but the baseboards were removed all around the entire four-bedroom quad. Nothing else was damaged. Tile was fine, counters fine. The real danger they seemed to indicate was that the water was not purified and must be boiled, which was apparently the reason why a management isn't letting anyone return. University, not the apartment complex, has set up a miniature shelter for students affected by this dormitory damage. It is literally a ballroom where people come to sleep on the floor. \n\n\nWith all of this said, do they have to refund our rent for removing us from the building until further notice? They make absolutely no clarification in any of their emails what will happen as a result of us being blocked out of our rooms that we pay $989 a month for. Pre-paid my rent for the semester at the beginning, totaling some $4500. I feel like I've been cheated out of my money though, as I can't even go back in there for several weeks! ","title":"Does a property manager have to refund rent for preventing tenants from returning after a disaster?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553956077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7bve2\/please_help_child_support_issue\/","id":"b7bve2","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nSo I have two boys. An 8 year old and a 6 year old. Their mother and I have gone back and forth numerous times in court. For a majority of their lives we have had 50\/50, but my ex wife definitely knew how to take advantage of me. Several times when they were younger she moved for better job opportunities only to return within a few months. \n\nFast forward the past 6 months. 6 months ago she claimed she got a school offer to go to nursing school completely paid. She moved from our town to Raleigh NC. I certainly didn't want this since we had 50\/50 at the time. I knew going to court could take time and since the courts still favor women heavily I would probably lose. \n\nShe agreed to give me one child and take the other. I know that is horrible but I agreed and we go the courts to approve the modification. As part of the new agreement she agreed not to file child support since I ultimately did not want this, but I did agree to buy things the kids needed myself and give them to her like clothes and shoes etc.\n\nAlmost a month after moving she moved back because her bf refused to move. She moves back finds out he cheated on her and decides to marry him. He is a three time felon with a 25+ page criminal history btw and I did try to get custody a few years back when they started dating and the courts still gave her 50\/50. \n\nAnd now she is calling me a piece of shit for not helping even though I've spent over $500 on clothes in shoes in the past few months. She demanded $300 a month in child support. I agreed but asked her to submit it since he lives 20 feet from the court house and I live an hour away. She agrees.\n\nA month later she tells me she can't figure it out and is just gonna file through the state. We argue I agree to pay $400 and file the paperwork for her. We do a VSA and I turn it in and even though we both signed and notarized it they are making us go in front of a judge. The paperwork states the support would begin may 1. \n\nShe is upset that it doesn't start in April and know claims she will ask the judge to ignore the order and factor in her income and backdate the child support to January. \n\n\n\nAt the end of the day all I want is at least 50\/50. I've spent over $10k on attorneys in the past and never get any where and I know if I try to represent myself I would probably lose. \n\nAll of our conversations are in email. \n\nAny advice? Im scared the judge will side with her. ","title":"Please help. Child support issue.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569772297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dawwut\/documentation_for_custody_case_tx\/","id":"dawwut","body":"Sorry this is long and full of questions. Parents are at their wits end. \n\nTimeline of events, as follows \n\n\u2022non parents filed for custody of children (3f & 5m) with outrageous claims, no evidence\n\n\u2022temporary hearing, married parents were present, unable to take stand. Non parents presented zero evidence, everything they said was lies (parents have evidence against every claim) \n\n\u2022temporary orders set with 4 people sharing custody, parents being primary, despite present parents not allowed to take stand, per their own lawyer \n\n\u2022parents fire lawyer, due to believed incompetence \n\n\u2022kids continually suffer emotional abuse and physical\/emotional neglect from non parents during the visitations (1st, 3rd, 5th weekends & every Thursday overnight, alternating holidays, etc) \n\nHow should parents be documenting everything? What all should parents include in documentation? Parents have taken pictures of children before every drop off and after every pick up, communication has been limited to text, any in person interaction has been recorded, everything the children have said has been written down, every time non parents were late, that was written down, reflected in recordings, etc. \n\nAre the parents missing anything? \n\nHow is best to organize all of this? \n\nIs there a way for the parents to shed light on the ongoing events for the judge?\n\nAre there any resources to help the parents in this situation?","title":"Documentation for custody case (TX)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571196799,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dijhmf\/i_have_a_serious_question\/","id":"dijhmf","body":"So i was using a site called niteflirt which if you didn\u2019t know its a phone sex operator site where you answer calls and get paid for the minutes . Okay so i met a girl on there another phone sex operator like me, and we were talking and she was telling me all about her life and she gave me her password to her site and asked me to do some html coding to make her site look nicer and that she would pay me $120 for it and then buy me some thing off of my amazon wishlist. She never did and she only paid me around $65-70 but i let it slide. Later she started telling some of the customers on niteflirt not to talk to me and only to her and i know this bc she always tells me to go thru her chats and her photos and to look at her prices so i can learn to be better at my job because she did in fact make more than me and she was probably better at it than me, well she never admitted it but made it obvious that she was also having her client click on my listings and not interact which costs me money per click, so i lost $55 in clicks in one hour. So i got mad and changed her password and made a new email and changed the email to her acct and also linked her direct deposit from the acct to my  bank acct. my question is HOW illegal is this and how bad did i fuck myself over. She has no information on me AT ALL and never had my real name or address and i catfished on the site so that my boyfriend wouldnt get mad","title":"I have a serious question","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568488248,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d49k8e\/shared_branch_bank_deposit_mistake\/","id":"d49k8e","body":"My main bank is in another city, a few hours away and I don\u2019t have time to always go there to deposit checks. In the city next to mine there a \u201cShared Branches\u201d that I can deposit money like it was my main bank. This is in Texas btw. On the 27th I deposited a check from an insurance company for ~$5,000. Today I checked my account and they deposited that check twice for a sum of ~$10,000. I called my main bank and they said they couldn\u2019t do anything because the shared branch had to do their process. It\u2019s been 19 days since POSTED. Obviously it\u2019s not mine but have they adjusted last months books and are no longer aware? Any timelines that banks have to follow to correct mistakes? Don\u2019t burn me either these banks handing money of others need to pay attention to what they\u2019re doing.","title":"Shared Branch Bank Deposit Mistake","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1409319572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ex16v\/moved_based_on_twc_availability_to_find_out_that\/","id":"2ex16v","body":"I just completed moving into a new apartment, I called TimeWarner Cable to verify availability at my new address and was told it was.  Once I signed the lease to the new place, management said TWC was not available.  I called TWC 4 more times and got a resounding yes each time. I asked them if there were TWC customers in that building and was also told yes.  They sent out a technician for the install and discovered that TWC was not available. The only service that is available there is ATT DSL at 6Mbps which is rather unacceptable (coming from a 100mbps line from TWC). I have 7 wired devices (servers, NASs and others needing remote access) and 4 roaming wireless devices.  Do I have a case against TWC? I'm planning on breaking my new lease as soon as I can afford it to move yet again.\n\nThank you.","title":"Moved based on TWC availability to find out that it was not available (LA, CA)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444145761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3npuxa\/ctusa_help_me_with_these_charges\/","id":"3npuxa","body":"I AM NOT CHARGED WITH THESE\n\n\nHowever, my ex is. I am just curious on these charges and how many years can he get, if you guys can. Thanks so much\n\n\nLarceny -5th degree- Class B (2 counts? I saw it twice)\n\n\nForgery -3rd degree- Class B (Also saw twice)\n\nAttempt to commit forgery -4th Degree- Class A\n\n\nAll misdemeanors","title":"[CT,USA] Help Me With These Charges","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443454266,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mpko1\/ny_error_in_salary_on_my_contract\/","id":"3mpko1","body":"Hi all,\n\nI could use some advice as to how to handle this situation I've been thrown into. My contract states I have a certain amount annually, and then says this translates to a certain amount monthly. When I signed the contract I had a look at my monthly wage and thought it was good. Turns out they didn't know there were 12 months in a year and my monthly salary is going to be 15% lower than expected. They want me to sign a paper acknowledging their error and that I should get paid less. \n\nWho is at fault here and what kind of steps should I take to ensure I don't lose 15% of my salary? \n\nThanks!","title":"[NY] Error in salary on my contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1507666041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75jrc3\/passing_of_accounts_in_ontario_canada\/","id":"75jrc3","body":"Hello,\n\nI'm the power of attorney for my mom who lives with me and my husband. We passed accounts for my mom and the legal bill was almost $10,000! \n\nWe asked our lawyer if the money comes out of my Mom's estate. He mentioned that there may be an upper limit as to how much of this my Mom pays and that if we did pay it from my Mom's account, in future passing of accounts, this payment could be subject to review and if found unreasonable, we would be expected to pay back the difference.\n\nOur feeling is that these are my Mom's accounts and we shouldn't be expected to absorb part of the costs just because we are taking care of her. Is it likely that a courts would find this to be unreasonable  if subjected to review and make us pay for a portion? ","title":"Passing of Accounts in Ontario, Canada","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554247226,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8qh24\/hit_and_run\/","id":"b8qh24","body":"(Asking for a friend) \nSo, two weeks ago a friend of mine purchased a classic used car. Yesterday while he was backing out of a driveway a woman drove right into his bumper\/the back of his car. He saw her before she hit him so he stopped backing out before she reached him but she still hit him and kept driving. Thankfully he has evidence that she hit him  and his boss (who witnessed the whole thing) knows who the person is. My friend actually found the woman to talk to but she flat out refused to give him any insurance info.\nWhat should he do? \n\nThe estimated damage on the car is roughly $5000. ","title":"Hit and Run","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541631030,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v4bjh\/ca_i_left_abusive_so_26m_in_2017_now_want_to\/","id":"9v4bjh","body":"Hey there, I think my flairs correct, let me know if it isn't and I'll change it. I hope fake names are okay here. We'll name my ex Kyle. \n\nLong story short, I was married from 2013-2017 to a horribly abusive man. Kyle married me for a greencard and I didn't know, I genuinely loved him in the beginning, and stayed way too long. I had a son from a previous relationship, but he has no rights to him and never adopted him. When I finally left Kyle I was so happy to be free that I didn't want to press charges or deal with the trauma of the last 3 years. Just leave and focus on my son and my safety, and Kyle left us alone after leaving so my divorce lawyer told me to just let sleeping dogs lie. \n\nHowever I have over 100 pictures, videos, text messages etc, documenting the abuse. They go from maybe March 2016 - April 2017. \n\nI haven't heard from Kyle in over a year, and it's been great. Last week though I was contacted by a former business associate of Kyle's, let's call him Jason. They apparently met in late 2017, after Kyle and I had parted ways so I never knew Jason. But he informed me that Kyle had scammed him in a business capacity, and in their dealings Kyle had also admitted multiple times to abusing me, which is why Jason contacted me. \n\nNow I'm stronger mentally and emotionally, and I'm furious that my ex is doing the same thing again. I don't want to let sleeping dogs lie anymore. \n\nMy question is, what are my options for justice? Jason is eager to work with me to bring Kyle to justice as well. Criminally do I have a case? What about civally? He's still on his green card, should I write a letter to immigration and hope they don't renew his green card? Or just post on social media and be happy exposing him for who he is and leave it at that? Oh and I read that you can have one party consent in CA if you reasonably believe a crime will be committed, which I did each time I was attacked and filmed it or recorded it. Sometimes Kyle even knew I was filming. Are these legal or could I still be in trouble?\n\nTL;DR my ex beat me for years, and now that I'm safe and stable and happy I want to pursue justice if possible. Do I have any options available? And what can I do with the evidence I have?\n\n","title":"[CA] I left abusive SO [~26M] in 2017. Now want to pursue justice and unsure what my options are.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571576203,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkj9m0\/is_my_dad_eligible_for_bond_on_sunday\/","id":"dkj9m0","body":"BROWARD COUNTY SOUTH FL PREFERRED \nI want to know since I\u2019ve been getting mixed information on everyone and everything and to get a lawyer to help me is $2,000 at least. My dad never had anything criminal happen to him and this is the first time he has anything on his record. He\u2019s a doctor at a hospital and he has a domestic battery charge from me (daughter 18) . I want to know what can I do more as his daughter to get him out of this mess? What are his rights to get bond? Should I call first for dropping charges and everything or will they have to call me? since they don\u2019t have evidence to present to the judge also because the video never sent to the officers nor do I have any injuries will this be over with soon? I also should mention I have a history of mental illness so would they take that into consideration?","title":"Is my dad eligible for bond on Sunday?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552316727,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azuhgz\/fallen_victim_to_a_scammer_and_chase_bank_is_not\/","id":"azuhgz","body":"In December of 2018 I received a call from 800-242-7338 which is in my phone contacts as Chase Bank. The caller claimed to be from Chase Bank and had my full name, home address, and last 4 digits of my bank account number. The caller told me they were calling about possible fraud on my card. The experience was very much like any other banking call I have experienced. After he typed a bit to access information he said he would send me a code that I should read back to him to prove my identity before they could close my account and set up a new one. It was the end of a long work day and so I read the code. After all, my other banks have this same system in place. As I read the last digit I had a strange gut feeling so I logged into my account through the chase.app. It kept logging me out so I went to my desktop computer to find my password no longer worked for my login. So I used the forget password to get in and found that several thousand dollars was sent to an email address (unknown to me) via Chase Quick pay. Chase has closed the investigation stating the transaction came from my IP address. The IP address they gave me is located 10 min away from me. How could someone spoof my IP? How did they get my user ID, account #, name, phone number, home address? I don't know anyone that tech savvy. Please help me understand so I can fight this. The transaction was certainly not authorized by me and I won't let the scammers win. I'd also like to uncover this so that it doesn't happen to anyone else going forward. This is a high level type of scam that is unlike someone calling randomly. This was a targeted attack and I am wondering if it was perhaps an inside job at Chase. I've tried everything to get Chase to do a proper investigation. Now I am trying to contact Google to find out who holds this email address that was used to transfer the money. Zelle banking is super vulnerable and there needs to be better security.","title":"Fallen victim to a scammer and Chase bank is not doing a proper investigation","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539801275,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p1c5y\/i_work_at_the_ymca_as_a_camp_counselor_on\/","id":"9p1c5y","body":"Pretty much the title. State is Florida ","title":"I work at the YMCA as a camp counselor, on Saturdays I work from 8am-12 as a soccer referee, instead of hourly pay, they\u2019ve been paying me per game. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553450514,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4zblb\/youtube_account_terminated_fraudulent\/","id":"b4zblb","body":"- my brother and i share the same YouTube account separated into 2 channels so I could keep an eye on what he views on YouTube\n- He being naive and new to YouTube video Uploading and unaware of copyright laws, foolishly uploaded a part of Audiobook he had, to YouTube as apparently he \"saw\" them being done by various  other YouTuber Channel and tried to immitate it.\n- Strangely, Copyright strike however didn't get applied for a while so i was unaware due to no emails.\n- Even though the video was not monetized, He got thousands of views in that upload.\n- He noticed another channel re-uploaded the exact same edit sample of the audiobook. He got angry.\n- Then finally one day when the video got copyright claimed by the actual company, he blamed that other YouTube channel that re-uploaded his video was the one responsible for it. \n- He found the closest reply button, filled in dummy datas and responded to copyright strike assuming its that other YouTube Channel messing with him.\n- Unaware of all of this i was one suddenly encountered with Google account being suspended and youtube being terminated. It was due to the \"false information\" he gave that led this. I couldn't be much angrier of him. Due to him both our channels suffered. He is an imbecile but what about my old videos. Why can't I retrieve them. Is there a way to work around it?","title":"YouTube Account Terminated: Fraudulent Behaviour\/Information.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541760950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vji03\/how_to_structure_financing_legally_for_trailer\/","id":"9vji03","body":"I've talked with a few reliable manufacturers of horse trailers and caravans (with a strong business history and reputation) and a few are interested in providing financing to their customers. This is something they all don't currently do. I've also talked with an associate of mine that is a financial advisor and he is willing to connect me with the right people to provide this. \n\nWhat's the best way to set this up to do it as a personal investment\/earning (like a strategic partnership agreement)? Or do I have to do it as a business (like a joint venture)?  \n\nObviously, there are complexities to this on a case by case basis but in the most GENERAL and simple way possible, once some profit comes in I am more than happy to lock in some more things if needed but for now, I am trying to bootstrap this opportunity as much as possible.\n\nMy ideal outcome would be to approach the manufacturers, offer them financing so that they can sell more of their product and I take a certain cut of the deal either as a flat monthly amount or percentage. \n\nI'm starting small but likely could grow this more in the future, I could even branch out into other things like tiny homes for example. How could this be done so that I can set these deals up in the simplest way with the best structure and legally? ","title":"How to structure financing legally for trailer business\/partnership?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569812723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db5isw\/md_how_likely_is_it_that_auntsuncles_get\/","id":"db5isw","body":"This is not my family, but a friend. Long story short, the child tested + for drugs when first born. Aunt and Uncle agreed to take on the kid as a foster instead of going through the system. Parents got clean, but kid remained in their life. Put kid through pre-school. Bought clothes all the time, kid had disability so brought them to specialty therapies and innumerable doctor appointments. Watched kid every summer, sleepovers throughout multiple weekends during the school year. Bought more gifts for kid than their own at Christmas time. The works. Kid is now ~12. \n\nGrandpa died and kids parents didn\u2019t think they got their fair share, among other drama. Using kid as pawn and not allowing literally anyone see kid, and kid even switched schools this year so no one has even seen kid to see how they\u2019re doing. \n\nConsidering lawyer for visitation, but not sure it\u2019s worth it. There is suspicion parents are using again, but Aunt\/Uncle are unsure. There is a lot of family turmoil at the moment and going to court is a last ditch effort. Aunt\/Uncle aren\u2019t doing well over this. What\u2019s the best recourse to take? Aside from probably not going to therapy as kid should, I don\u2019t see any overt\/provable detriments to them keeping her away aside from mental anguish... is that enough to go to court and have a fair chance at winning?","title":"[MD] How likely is it that Aunts\/Uncles get visitation rights?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541191161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tnvun\/ca_lunch_break_rules\/","id":"9tnvun","body":"California. Small (under 40 employees) car dealership. We have a relatively new employee who's already caused a few problems and will likely not last long past hiring replacements. All employees are told they can work as many hours as they'd like and we have an 'open floor' policy as long as you show up in regularly scheduled hours. All employees can take up to an hour for lunch. Lunches have to be taken when there is adequate coverage for the lot, ie another available rep.\n\nToday this employee said they were leaving for lunch and all I said was, \"There is somebody available?\" They got very defensive saying they didn't like taking lunches because they \"get harrassed over it\". I said as long as you have coverage it's fine and to take the hour. I was told another manager was doing this person's timeclock and told the employee they'd failed to clock in\/ out for their lunches and they needed to adjust the time clock for lunches. The person had allegedly told this manager they hadn't taken lunches those days and if their time clock was adjusted for time they had supposedly worked those days they'd contact the labor board.\n\nNow, I know some employees, myself included when I was sales, would choose to work through lunches and sit and email\/ call customers at our desks as we ate or skip it entirely. We were never told to or encouraged to do this. It's just a typical behavior for them. Many never leave premises but nobody is given a hard time for leaving or taking their full hour off-premises. Another manager will often ask people if they've eaten and if the answer is no tell them to go and take their lunches.\n\nThe employee has been a problem person before in the short period they worked here and repeatedly had multiple confrontations with managers when told to do their job a certain way, such as not quoting customers with discounts they do not qualify for to get them in as they tend to walk right back out.\n\nHow would this best be handled for a very small business? No other employee has ever tried to not take lunches like this. We make it expressly clear all employees, even sales reps, must take a minimum thirty minute lunch and can chose to take up to an hour and should work amongst themselves to arrange coverage during those breaks. It's in hiring paperwork. It needs to get handled and quickly.","title":"CA lunch break rules","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446569603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rdew2\/if_i_have_majority_custody_10_months_of_the_year\/","id":"3rdew2","body":"I am locked in a child support argument and he's telling me that when he gets my kids for the summer he becomes the custodial parent. Is that true? He gets them one week after school ends and I get them back 2 weeks before school starts. I also get 2 weeks and 2 weekends of the summer with them. The rest of the year he gets them 1 or 2 weekends a month with some holiday time. I carry their health insurance 100% of the year.\n\nHe will be paying for summer care for the duration that they are with him. I don't have to pay for child care expenses.\n\nCase is grounded in Pennsylvania.","title":"If I have majority custody 10 months of the year and my 2 kids are at their dad's for the summer, does he become custodial parent for that time frame?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549509745,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anzcce\/my_company_messed_up_my_401k_rollover_and_it_has\/","id":"anzcce","body":"Hi All,\n\nThis is my first Reddit post usually a consumer but, I was hoping to get some advice from the group. My company was purchased and subsequently we needed to roll over our 401K to a the new company my HR has a history of messing up my 401K so I followed everything to the letter, but they still messed it up. They did not notify me that it wasn't rolled over, I just noticed that it was withdrawn. After multiple follow ups they told me that it was rolled to a Trust which means I have missed out on the market ralley since the beginning of the year which would have been almost $40K of earnings. Do I have any recourse here? Obviously a touchy subject to have to go after my existing employer who would probably get upset with me if I did anything. \n\nMy company is MA based but I work and live in Hong Kong. \n\nThanks for any input.","title":"My Company Messed Up my 401K rollover and it has cost me $40K","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570904136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgyqz0\/indiana_theft_of_money_from_food_service\/","id":"dgyqz0","body":"I work for a food service establishment and was training a new manager. We discovered a shift manager processing fraudulent refunds through the POS system in order to pocket the money after the cash drawer was counted down for a shift. We called the police to be present during her termination to issue her a Trespass Notice and be witnesses if she confessed. I am currently pulling video footage as far back as possible to build a case to turn over to a prosecutor, but wanted some opinions from people that know more about the law than I do.\n\nHere is what I have so far.\n\nI have time stamped video of her at registers over multiple occasions completing manager functions (our system requires manager swipe cards, however the screen itself is not visible on camera) The video shows her standing in front of the register and sliding her manager card. Pushing several times on the touch screen register and then the cash drawer pops open and prints a refund receipt that she immediately throws away. She quickly closes the cash drawer and then swipes her manager card again to process the Ringout for said register. She then takes the cash drawer to a different counter (still on camera mind you) and counts the drawer down to the starting bank amount. She takes the cash less bank amount and brings it into the office (where there is no camera footage available) to count the deposit. \n\nThe back office sales paperwork does not show any cash overages for the registers that were counted as would occur if a refunded dollar amount were left in the register. \n\nI have a back office computer generated report of all manager swipe card functions performed (Time\/date\/function\/location). We are a national chain, so these reports are not user created tracking spreadsheets.\n\nThe total amount of fraudulent refunds processed will total more than $750, making it a Class 6 Felony under IC 35-43-4-2\n\nWould this be sufficient evidence to satisfy a prosecutor?","title":"(Indiana) Theft of money from food service establishment, by manager.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505147206,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zgh69\/la_my_employer_broke_my_back_im_only_in_my\/","id":"6zgh69","body":"I currently work for a Law Enforcement Agency in northern Louisiana.\n\nDuring our training, I ended up getting hurt. Workers Comp was filed, they're covering all medical and I'm still getting my 80 hours per paycheck. \n\nI had an MRI and it shows that I have 3 disc obstrusions. I meet with a specialist on the 29th (it's the earliest they could see me).\n\nObviously I am on light duty until then for sure. But my questions follow,\n\n1. If I have surgery and I end up having to stay on \"indefinite light duty\" that means I won't be able to perform my job duties. Does that mean they can fire me? I'm not protected by civil service since I've only been here 10 months. \n\n2. If I am fired, do they have to assist me in getting another job? Or is there anyway they help provide a paycheck until I can find another job?\n\nI got a bachelor degree in Sociology and I know it'll be tough to find another job with hurt back being on my file.\n\nI wouldn't want to sue, but would I have grounds if I needed too? My employer would have limited my ability to work and earn a living for the rest of my life. Then they fired me after I couldn't perform duties from THEIR fault.\n\nI'm just worried that my law enforcement career is going to be over and I wont able to find another job.","title":"[LA] My employer broke my back. I'm only in my twenties. I might lose my job.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539804962,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p1v6f\/coworker_indirectly_threatening_to_kill_meoffice\/","id":"9p1v6f","body":"I\u2019m a new hire at a rather large company that operates internationally, one you\u2019d all recognize. I only say this because I know HR operates differently when it comes to large organizations. \n\nSince I started I\u2019ve had a coworker (whom is gay, I am not) sexually harassed me with explicit comments since day one. And most recently, threatened me indirectly along with my coworkers via Skype, I have saved the messages and sent them to HR. He blatantly says \u201cWhen you understand it will be too late for you\u201d, and \u201cWhy would  I want you to call in sick the day I decide to off you\u201d in response to me asking when he\u2019d take action. Those are only two excerpts from a long list of threats that could be perceived as jokes, but they\u2019re far too many to ignore. \n\nI have a feeling HR is going to do nothing and just move  him elsewhere in the building, which isn\u2019t great because he said at one point, \u201cI\u2019ll just illuminate you all instead\u201d, which is grounds to suspect a mass shooting. What can I do legally if he\u2019s not terminated? I have all of this in screenshots so he can\u2019t deny any of it. \n\nThank you for the help!","title":"Coworker indirectly threatening to kill me\/office","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568613059,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4whtl\/had_to_pay_for_emergency_plumber_at_rental_what\/","id":"d4whtl","body":"Texas\n\nI rent a home from a property management company based out of another city in Texas four hours away. They are super slow to maintenance calls (in fact, I have two open in our app that have been unanswered for three weeks). So tonight around 9:30 PM I hear the downstairs toilet bubble. I go to look to see it is overflowing with nasty yellow water. I immediately turn off the water and shop vac up what I can, but even with the water off it is still seeping water out from the base of the toilet. I searched up and down and our resident portal and maintenance app (and my lease) have no emergency contact for maintenance issues. I had no choice but to call an emergency plumber because my family needs access to running water and bathrooms. I had to pay $400 out of pocket to find that there is a damaged section of pipe in our mainline and it has a ton of roots in it. Plumber was able to clear them out for the most part and I was able to mop up and we can use the bathroom again. \n\nI'm obviously calling the PM in the morning (already left a midnight voicemail) about needing this to get fixed asap as it is only going to get worse. My two questions are 1. How do I get reimbursed and if they say they won't, what, if anything, can I do legal wise, and 2. What do I do if they refuse or delay fixing this serious issue?","title":"Had to pay for emergency plumber at rental - what are my options to recover money?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1549975233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apsxc0\/texas_friend_works_for_a_really_sketchy_gym_child\/","id":"apsxc0","body":"So, my friend works at a gym that's just opened in Texas. She's worked there for a few weeks now, and has yet to receive her full paychecks. This paycheck, she received pay for 41 hours when she worked 81 hours in the last pay period, and her checks are coming late by one pay period. So, after working three weeks, she got her paycheck for the first week. Her paycheck for those last two weeks was halved. Their pay scheduling is weird, they get paid on I believe the 10th and 25th oh, and the way her scheduling worked out she should have gotten paid on the 10th and paid on the 25th but the checks are coming in entire pay period behind.\n\n There are also people who haven't been paid since December.\n\nShe works in the kids section of the gym, like a daycare, and some of their practices seem super shady to me, and I know a few are illegal.\n\nOne, the room that they have any baby that can't walk in has one employee in at all times. Caring for 10 or more babies under the age of 2, because a parent filed a complaint that if there was more than one worker in the baby room they were just wasting time and being lazy. They are also not allowed to sit their entire shift, even while holding children. I understand that you can't expect to sit during work, and it's not a requirement by law, but saying that I can't sit down while holding a 30 lb infant is absolutely ridiculous to me. \n\nIn addition to the pay issues and the disproportionate carer to child ratio, yesterday a three-year-old boy made an outcry of abuse- 'my daddy hurts me' while holding his private bits. when she asked her supervisor, she was told by no means is she allowed to report it, she will be fired and liable if the company is sued if she does. \n\nThis seems absolutely heinous to me. They are responsible for children. I understand it is a gym, not a daycare, but if I were babysitting a kid and he said that I would a hundred and 10% report it. \n\nMy questions are, is anything the gym is doing illegal? Where can we report this? I know obviously the abuse can be reported to CPS when she manages to find the kids file to give them the parents name and address, but how can we report her being told she's not allowed to report? Or the employees not being paid?\n\nThe gym just opened in January, and that's their excuse for all of this, even though it's part of a chain. ","title":"(Texas) Friend works for a really sketchy gym, child abuse being hidden?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554588933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba9mmv\/ca_usaonly_female_at_work_and_boss_put_security\/","id":"ba9mmv","body":"I\u2019m the only woman at a very small company. And the only one with a office. Every other employee is a man and works out in a shop. \n\nCameras were installed about a year ago out in the shop. \n\nNow my boss has put one in my office. He can watch it live from his office. And I think from his phone. I think it can also record audio or allow someone to listen in. \n\nIs there anything that can be done? Is this legal? \n\nI\u2019m going to be looking for a new job ASAP. But in the meantime what do I do?","title":"[CA, USA]Only female at work and boss put \u201csecurity\u201d camera in office?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571158263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diao5i\/missed_court_date_that_i_was_not_aware_of\/","id":"diao5i","body":"\u201cThe defendant failed to appear. Order of arrest to issue. Bail is set in the amount of $(ineligible).\u201d\n\nThat is the first sentence of the document that was emailed to me from Turbo Court NH. Apparently the judgement was passed on 9\/27 and I had no idea I was supposed to appear then.\n\nThis is a tenant landlord case where I was evicted earlier this year and have to pay $4000. I am currently unemployed and unable. Am I going to be arrested? What can I do..\n\nThanks","title":"Missed court date that I was not aware of...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506387188,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72gvo1\/sc_is_my_employer_obligated_to_pay_to_replace_my\/","id":"72gvo1","body":"I have worked for a fast food restaurant for over a year and I need replacement shoes. When I was hired, the restaurant was in a transition period and I was hired by corporate. They provided me with two shirts, two pants, one belt, a name tag, and a pair of shoes. The only other things that are required are an undershirt and black socks. Since then the restaurant technically closed and reopened under a franchisee owner. I was not provided anything else because I still had my uniform (in fair condition with about five months of use). However, my shoes have started to fall apart. I was hired at, and still make, $7.25, minimum wage.\n\nBased on my research, it is illegal for employees making minimum wage to pay for a uniform required by the employer. \n\nhttps:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/regs\/compliance\/whdfs16.pdf\n\nI am one of their best workers and have a very good relationship with everyone so I want to verify that I am in the right before I start mentioning laws. While I\u2019m here, I am also planning on asking for a raise soon because I make less than people that I have trained and people hired after me and I have worked at this business for nearly a year and a half. If my employer pays for replacement shoes now, can it be deducted from my paycheck later, (a month or so from now) if I receive a raise, essentially negating the raise (at least for a little while)?\n\nMinor update: My employer just responded to my request saying that the shoes are the only thing she requires employees to purchase and that I can purchase them from multiple places, not just [shoe brand] {see below}. Some information I think might be relevant from our policy manual (which is selectively followed, but whatever):\n\n\u201cYour uniform consists of [company] pants, [company] shirt, [company] belt, [brand of shoes], and a name tag. ... You will be furnished the above (except for shoes) at no charge. ... You will be required to purchase black [brand of shoes].\u201d","title":"[SC] Is my employer obligated to pay to replace my uniform?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553742647,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6dpr8\/seeking_work_related_legal_advice\/","id":"b6dpr8","body":"I recently discovered my employer taking pictures everyday of each group of employees that comes in for the morning and evening shifts on their personal phone. They have been real hush about it.  They never made an announcement or asked for consent. I only knew it was  happening because they started posting them on a third party website called Trello. We use Trello to help communicate and delegate tasks in the store.  Trello can be accessed by our store and our other location across town. After I found out, I confronted my manager and her defense was that it helped them keep track of who was showing up to work.. my argument back was that we have a time clock system that\u2019s a few feet away from the managers desk also their is a weekly schedule posted  as well. It should not be that hard to keep track of employees whenever 5-7 show up for morning and evening shifts.. The manager had no argument and replied that they would warn me so that I can step out for the picture...I feel that my privacy has been violated and I\u2019m now questioning what else they might be doing behind my back.  I\u2019m also afraid that they will fire if I question it any more. Advice? ","title":"Seeking work related legal Advice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550175978,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqo73t\/hours_cut_without_notice\/","id":"aqo73t","body":"I work full time at a bar in the state of Michigan that is open from Monday- Saturday . Tuesday I was informed 2 hours before my shift to not to come into work because from now on the bar will only be open from Thursday- Saturday. Are they legally allowed to do this without any kind of notice? Please help ","title":"Hours cut without notice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569962504,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbzhao\/tx_how_do_i_get_my_security_deposit_back_its_been\/","id":"dbzhao","body":"Located in Austin, TX. I lived in an apartment complex and my previous lease ended on July 31st, 2019. I moved out and returned my keys by the deadline. I received my final move-out statement on August 21st, detailing all utility charges to be deducted from my $100 deposit and I am owed $53.56.\n\nI emailed the general manager last week on September 24th, after no reply I wrote in again on the 27th. I got a reply and the GM told me she would reach out to corporate and get back to me either that same day or Monday (September 30th). I didn't hear from her yesterday so I called today and she told me that it's been approved on the apartment property's end but that corporate still hasn't approved it. \n\nI asked for this information to be sent to me by email as I hadn't received a reply from her previously. The GM then said \"well  since I just contacted corporate yesterday it's probably not likely that the status would change by tomorrow\" and that she will send me an email when she gets an update. I can't trust her word that she'll remember to contact me since she forgot to email me yesterday. I just want the current information she told me today in writing via email for my records. I told her I would be calling back again next week to see if anything has changed.\n\nIt just occurred to me today that it has now been 63 days since I moved out. Is there anything else that I can do to get proceed forward with this issue? Thanks for any insight!","title":"TX How do I get my security deposit back? It's been past 60 days","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571154611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di9sn9\/is_1500_for_a_lawyer_for_a_speeding_ticket_the\/","id":"di9sn9","body":"I have a cdl. Its in the rural south. It was in my car.  I was going 70 in a 55. \n\nPlease don't just tell me to not speed. Ive been beating myself up over this.","title":"Is $1500 for a lawyer for a speeding ticket the norm?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542252400,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x7cvj\/can_a_jail_legally_place_you_in_seclusion_for\/","id":"9x7cvj","body":"I have a family member who is in jail awaiting his next court hearing. He is type 1 diabetic and has had a lot of low blood sugars as of recently. A few days ago he was abruptly placed into some sort of seclusion where he is only allowed out for one hour every 47 hours. He was there for sometime before anyone told him what he had been placed there for, completely by chance honestly as a guard asked him why he was there and he said he did not know. A passing nurse overheard and said it was because he had refused medical treatment by the doctor. My family member replied that he had no idea that the doctor had even been at the prison (apparently he only comes by every few weeks and the full time medical staff are nurses) and that he was not offered a chance to even deny the doctor if he would have. The nurse ignored this and told him that he is to remain in this lockdown until the doctor comes back to make adjustments to his medication (insulin) so that they can monitor him until then. \n\nOur concern is that he is essentially in a completely bare cell with just a pencil (this is all they gave him) waiting for the one hour of stimuli that he gets after NOTHING for 47 hours. He suffers from depression and anxiety, and as I am a mental health professional I am extremely concerned that this waiting will lead to serious mental health harm as well as a higher likelihood of self harm\/suicide attempts. \n\nAn even bigger concern that I have is the nurses keep telling him that once the doctor comes back and does whatever adjustments to his medication that he deems necessary, that my family member can (read SHOULD as they are really pushing it) sign a medical waiver that removes the facilities medical liability of him. I fear that they did this so that they can remove their liability of him should something happen to him as the facility is under a number of lawsuits and several diabetics have died in prisons and jails due to inadequate treatment by the staff. As conspiracy theorist as it sounds, I worry that they are attempting to scare him into submission so he will sign the paper. \n\nWhat are his rights to medical care and are they able to hold him there until the doctor comes back which could be several weeks? Is a document waiving his rights concerning medical treatment even legal? Further as a concerned family member is there any legal way that my family and I can work to make sure they are properly monitoring his diabetes? I am truly afraid that he will die in jail so I understand if my story may come across as disjointed. \n\nI'm not sure if this is relevant but:\n \nHe is a recently legal adult, his parents do have paperwork that allow them to talk to medical staff about him (no one has responded to their calls)\n\nHe has not been convicted of anything as of yet, only charged. \n\nHe does have a lawyer who is court appointed but is from a law firm that took his case pro bono. The lawyer has been good but is difficult to reach outside of court hearings, most likely because it is not a paid case. \n\nAny advice is welcome, even if it is to tell me I am making this into a conspiracy theory. ","title":"Can a jail legally place you in seclusion for \u201cmedical concern?\u201d (KS)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571689460,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl6ch6\/girl_filed_police_report_because_of_my_response\/","id":"dl6ch6","body":"I can not believe I have to do this, but here it goes. \n\nI (20M) am in a sign language class. Four members and myself are in a group chat for our study group. Three are girls and one is NB. One of the girls is 19 the others are 14, 15 and 16.\n\nLast week the 14 and 16 year olds started singing a song that went something like this. \n\u201c... I can talk to girls. I\u2019m not a bottom, I am a top, someone please make my anxiety stop. I can talk to girls.\u201d After the conversation moved to confidence. (I should mention that I\u2019m the only straight person in the group so we all like women) this led to them explaining how they can tell who is what and the difference between a top\/ bottom and a dom\/sub.\n\nThe other day I found a picture on reddit that was poking fun at doms\/subs\/switches. I sent it in the chat because if I waited the almost a week to show it in person I would forget. The 19 year old (who hasn\u2019t liked me since an argument we had the second week of class) texted me separately telling me I can\u2019t make that kind of joke around kids. I. My mind they aren\u2019t kids, I know they aren\u2019t adults but they\u2019re definitely not kids, and I\u2019m not the one who started the joke I just continued it. I responded with that and said that if she had a problem with it she could tell me as much without trying to blame her actions on the others in our group, who found it funny.\n\nHer response seems to have been to file a police report with the school. Now I haven\u2019t done anything illegal or wrong, but I\u2019m sure I\u2019m going to have to go deal with this at some point. If anyone could let me know what I should expect and what could happen just for being blamed for something could have one me, as well as possible actions I could take back at her (probably won\u2019t but it\u2019s nice to know) I would greatly appreciate it.","title":"Girl filed police report because of my response to her complaint.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539705479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ooxn3\/virginia_car_accident_other_driver_100_at_fault_i\/","id":"9ooxn3","body":"Was on my way to work when another driver ran a stop sign and hit me I currently have no insurance what should my next move be ? ","title":"(Virginia) Car accident other driver 100% at fault I have no insurance what should I do ?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571718849,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlcpjo\/financed_wheels_from_a_offroad_store_but_i_didnt\/","id":"dlcpjo","body":"Last weekend I financed some wheels. I gave them my social and all the information needed to finance these wheels and I was approved. I checked out and the sales person printed out the receipts and I was on my way. I picked them up today but as I was looking through the receipts I saw the unsigned agreement to pay the amount above and terms of finance. They haven't asked for it or even mentioned it. Am I still liable to pay for the wheels?","title":"Financed wheels from a off-road store but I didn't sign the contracts but still received the wheels","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554182777,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8ex5w\/ia_employer_tries_to_coerce_me_into_paying_them\/","id":"b8ex5w","body":"This is long, I\u2019m sorry!!!  I work for a corporation that changed payroll systems last fall. After the switch, they told us they supposedly overpaid many employees on August 17th and would be withholding the overpaid amount over 4 paychecks. The company sent a letter specifying which dates in late September and early Oct. to expect those deductions from our checks. We were told to submit questions to a specific employee in Payroll. \n\nI could not figure out how they calculated the overpayment and reached out to the Payroll guy to ask for a breakdown. He never responded, so I tried again and then again. I also made sure my boss and his boss were aware that I needed help, but we had all been told that guy in payroll was THE guy who could help. \n\nMonths pass and nobody gets back to me. Boss and his boss tell me they\u2019re sure Payroll guy is very busy as many employees were impacted. (As it turns out, the new payroll system does not have the capacity to calculate the special rate of overtime we sometimes get. Not correctly, anyway. It assumes that payment was an accidental overpayment). \n\nI keep telling my boss nobody will help me. One day, a guy from the payroll call center contacts me, says I was overpaid on the 6th of September and wants me to sign an authorization form to let them hold the funds. I explain I have been asking for help for months with no response, ask why I was told the overpayment occurred 8\/17 before,  and point out they\u2019ve already withheld the money from my pay. Not from 4 paychecks, as I was told, but they deducted the full amount out of 1 pay check the 8th of September. The call center employee emails back and tells me I am wrong, they credited back that same amount on the same paycheck to counter the amount subtracted. I am doubtful - paystub shows the amount subtracted, but no credit in the same amount. I say and I\u2019m very willing to sign off, but I want them to walk me through their numbers, I can\u2019t get to the amount I was allegedly overpaid and I also have questions about my vacation time, which isn\u2019t adding up. He tells me I need to go over my paystubs and it will make sense, along with an attachment he emailed to me. Said attachment is a screen shot of another employee\u2019s pay info. It\u2019s not even MINE. Horrified, I told my boss I couldn\u2019t deal with that individual again, as they were not only refusing to provide an itemized breakdown, I was also worried they\u2019d send someone else MY personal info by mistake.\n\nBear in mind I\u2019m very, very busy. Working mandatory overtime at a high rate for 3\/4 of the year. I refuse to go over my paychecks at work - it takes time away from my tasks and our customers, so I\u2019d spend hours at home pouring over everything. Never made sense. I\u2019d text my boss in frustration, begging him to help me figure it out the next week, asking him to make some time to help. \n\nHe doesn\u2019t. Eventually he emails Chief head honcho of payroll, asks for help, honcho promises a guy will contact me in a few weeks to straighten everything out. Nothing. \n\nMonths later, I get a letter in the mail saying I\u2019m being sent to collections and being referred for disciplinary action related to non-compliance. I punch back and get a payroll head honcho to contact me and promise to help. He gives me a different date of original overpayment, and emailed a word doc  he himself typed numbers into that made it look like his math works and is supporting documentation that I was overpaid. One of the numbers is a really big random number and I ask where that number came from - the rest I can verify with my paystubs. He says that\u2019s what they owed me in overtime before switching to new system and they have no supporting documentation to explain where that number came from or to show the \u201ccredited\u201d amount that supposedly cancels their illegal and unauthorized deduction from my paycheck. He says they haven\u2019t sent me to collections yet but they are proceeding with a disciplinary hearing bc I\u2019m refusing to payback money I didn\u2019t earn. All I am asking for is the documentation that shows it. If they really did credit me back funds later, my whole breakdown that I spent months working on is wrong, which suggests that maybe I was underpaid somewhere.  Now disciplinary HR rep is trying to arrange a meeting. These HR reps are the most sneaky and dishonest of all the people in the company. They are not interested in giving me a fair shake and I don\u2019t want to give them all my docs as I\u2019m considering filing a complaint with the state and I don\u2019t want to show my hand, especially when I can\u2019t work out the math completely. By law, they had to give me the breakdown I asked for months ago within a certain number of days, but didn\u2019t. They withheld $ from my check illegally (supposedly they credited it back, but I can\u2019t see it). Now they\u2019re coming after me for their payroll mess and want me to let them withhold money they can\u2019t prove I owe and are trying to bully me with disciplinary hearings and threats of collections. If I thought I owed it, I\u2019d pay them for it. I just want them to explain the number to me so I understand. I could get a lawyer, but 4 hrs of legal fees is the equivalent of the amount they want me to pay, so it\u2019s not worth it unless someone wants to take me on as a contingency.  But if I pay this time, what\u2019s to stop them from coming back in 3 months and saying I owe more?  Btw, my coworkers who were supposedly overpaid had $ was taken illegally out of their checks too. But the company says that wasn\u2019t credited back, that it counted as a repayment, and most of those people are not being harassed, though there are a number of us who are..but I don\u2019t know who those people are and they\u2019re likely spread across various departments. \n\nAppreciate any advice you\u2019ve got. Btw, the dates in my examples are random - I didn\u2019t use the real dates, so if I put in a Sunday or a holiday or something as an example, that\u2019s why. My apologies. ","title":"(IA) Employer tries to coerce me into paying them for undocumented \u201coverpayment\u201d","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553476908,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b54bxc\/nyc_roommate_intends_on_not_renewing_lease_but\/","id":"b54bxc","body":"I'm currently renting an apartment with two other women and essentially one of them will not be renewing the lease when it ends.\n\nWe  are a couple of months away from that and are being asked about lease renewal by our building management. They send us over the new lease but we remind them her name is still in this new document and she intends on leaving, which is why we're still waiting on signing it up to this  point.\n\nThey get back to us, suggesting we have to each pay a fee to just basically remove her name from the new lease. Attached to the email is a document clarifying what the fee  means.\n\nThis is what document stated:\n\n>The lease replacement option alters the original lease and removes the  leaseholder to add a new lessee. The leaseholder is removed from the  lease and relieves themselves of all responsibilities and terms of the  lease.  In turn, a new lessee is added onto the lease as a leaseholder  and takes on the responsibilities and terms of the lease. The new lessee  must apply (each application comes with a fees) and be approved by the  management company. Once approved a lease addendum will be drawn up for  which all original leaseholders and new lessees will have to sign to  acknowledge the change. A $250 lease addendum fee per tenant is required  to alter the lease and finalize the swap. This option is recommended as  it relieves the original leaseholder of all responsibilities and  liabilities.\n\n\"The lease replacement option alters the original lease\" and from my understanding this sounds like a *breaking lease fee*,  which is not the case here. As stated, the roommate who will not be renewing in question is living out the rest her time up to the current  lease's end.\n\nAre they trying to intentionally confuse us or is this a legit legal fee? I'm just a little perplexed as to the justification to each pay this fee *for simply removing someone's name from a text document that has not even gone into effect.*  At the moment, I am also wondering if there is a miscommunication. I indeed have followed up and additionally clarified again that my  roommate is seeing the rest of this lease through and she is not leaving immediately. Again, she is simply not choosing to renew and thus will leave open a vacancy, but I am still waiting their reply back. There is also nothing on this suggestive of a fee when it comes to a name removal or change *at the end of the lease term* in our current lease. \n\nI have tried looking this up but I have found little to nothing on it regarding besides some cases in NZ and Europe.\n\nUltimately, if it turns out not to be a miscommunication - is this a valid thing? If it isn't, what are the steps to challenge this?","title":"(NYC) Roommate intends on not renewing lease but she is finishing current term through, yet we might be billed this 'tenant-swap fee'?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539465936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nxepc\/got_rear_ended_in_a_hitandrun_in_a_rental_car_out\/","id":"9nxepc","body":"Hi, I\u2019ve never been in this kind of situation and I\u2019m really not sure where to go from here. Any advice is appreciated. \n\nI live in Washington state and currently working this week in Minneapolis, MN. I was renting a car from Avis using a corporate contract and last night (10\/12) I got rear ended on highway I-84. Unfortunately the other car drove away and I didn\u2019t get plate or description information. I called 911 and told them what happened and they gave me an event number that indicates I called them. They couldn\u2019t do anything without plates\/description. \n\nThis morning I was not feeling very well, pretty stiff and I would like to see a dr for precautionary purposes. My employer said he thinks I should use my personal insurance but I\u2019m not sure if this is correct. \n\nSo basically I\u2019m unsure what I should do with the damaged rental besides fill out their incident report, and also if I need to use my own medical insurance to see a dr. I use Kaiser Permanente and I could not find any urgent care that is in their network in Minnesota. I don\u2019t go home until Monday, 10\/15 and idk if there\u2019s a time limit on when to see a dr after a car collision. ","title":"Got rear ended in a hit-and-run, in a rental car, out of state. Was suggested by employer to use personal medical insurance to see doctor.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505584892,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70icc3\/or_landlord_kept_160_of_deposit_wont_say_why\/","id":"70icc3","body":"Hey all,\n\n\nNew to Reddit, but found this place and was hoping you might be able to give some input. I moved out of a place July 24th, and when my security deposit check arrived $160 out of the $500 were missing.\n\nI contacted my landlord and asked him what I was charged for to which he replied:\n\n>Each renter was charged for carpet cleaning, rekeying, washing down walls and base boards, sanitising bathrooms, and general area cleanup.\n\nThere are a few things that I find fishy about this:\n\n1. I turned my key in on time, yet apparently I was responsible for paying for the re-key? Nothing like this was specified in the rental agreement afaik\n\n2. There were 4 of us living in the house so that would be a total of $640 that he kept to clean the house\n\n3.   A lot of this stuff just seems unnecessary. The house was in good condition. No stains, no marks, no holes. Cleaning walls? Sanitizing bathrooms? And what is \"general area cleanup\" supposed to mean?\n\nI've asked him three times now to please provide an itemized list of the charges and a copy of my rental agreement but he's just ignored me every time.\n\nI'll admit I should've dusted a little and vaccuumed the carpet before I left but I was thinking it'd maybe be $20-$50 tops to leave that to him.\n\nHow much cleaning am I financially responsible for?\n\nOregon law requires the landlord to give \"written accounting that states specifically the basis or bases of the claim\" when deducting from a deposit, would his text count as a \"written account\"?\n\nThank you for any advice you have.","title":"[OR] Landlord kept $160 of deposit, won't say why","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571756134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlj1yl\/tx_i_work_for_a_business_owned_by_the_same_person\/","id":"dlj1yl","body":"I tried searching for the answers but this situation seems too unique and all the keywords lead to different questions. So while I mainly work at the first business (convenience store) close to 40 hours a week, but I work next door a few shifts a week at the restaurant owned by same person. I get paid say 10 bucks an hour when I work as a cashier at either place but when I work as a server I get say 3 an hour. I don\u2019t get overtime if I work 40 hours at the main and 20 at the restaurant, but I do if I work 60 hours at the main. \n\nThey are separate LLCs but me and the restaurant employees get our check from the same checking account, usually from the restaurant but sometimes from the store (sometimes one account doesn\u2019t have enough, idk about owners financial finagling but she balances them and supposedly separates everything after the fact). When I get my check the my stub has the hours counted separately (like 12 hours place A x $10, 6 hours place B x $10, and 5 hours place B x $3) then added together and taxed for one check. I asked and I will be receiving one w2 from the main job only for all hours worked. I understand the pay rate difference for the server job but is it legal to not give overtime when I\u2019m getting paid only by the same business for all hours and only have one w2?\n\nThis is a little complicated ik that\u2019s why I haven\u2019t found good answers yet, so if I need to clarify anything let me know","title":"(TX) I work for a business owned by the same person who owns a complimentary business next door that I work shifts at occasionally, my overtime is separate for each but I still get one w2","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505493113,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70az3v\/wa_exgirlfriend_threatened_to_void_existing\/","id":"70az3v","body":"Backstory: I'm going through a break-up after a relationship that lasted nearly 3 years, and my ex girlfriend and I shared NFL Season tickets as well as season tickets to the local theater. We have no shared bank accounts or credit card accounts, but we did live together. Our finances were kept completely separate, save for paying for our living situation and the cell phone bill.\n\nFirst, the season tickets to the theatre. The season included Sound of Music, Aladdin, Bodyguard, Elf, Love Never Dies, Les Miserables, and Hamilton. \nThe plan was for both of us to go to all showings this season. She paid for the season tickets and I paid her for my half.\n\nSecondly, the NFL games. The arrangement was for us to sell the tickets to the NFL games we don't go to and split the revenues, and to go to the local theater events. The NFL tickets are in her name, and I controlled everything else about them. I physically held the tickets and was responsible for selling them, shipping them, collecting the revenues, and distributing her share of the revenues. The sales and payments were recorded on a shared spreadsheet. This process was kept for 2 full years and was to be kept for this year as well. So far this year, half of the home games had been sold. \n\nAfter an argument with a mutual friend where I cut off contact at the end of the conversation, I messaged the ex letting her know that I was not happy with how she was lying to the mutual friend, and I sent her a screenshot of one of the ex's family members telling me (in a conversation in May) that the ex \"does lie to herself and convince herself of a truth, passing it to others to affirm he desired view of a matter.\"  (There's more to what the family member said, but this was the relevant passage). The ex's immediate response was \"I'm buying you out of the broadway and raiders tickets. If you have any of them listed on any account of yours, you need to remove them.\"\n\n(I have screenshots of this entire conversation saved)\n\nAfter she sent that message, I mentioned the existing agreement where I did the work and split the ticket sales. I said I would continue that work. She reiterated her demand for me to remove the listings, asking where the tickets were listed. She said \"I am not negotiating this. I can have the tickets invalidated... Alternatively I will sell them and send you the money. you no longer have control over them.\"  I asked for that in writing. She said \"If you do not provide me with proof of which tickets are sold and the removal of any tickets listed by 3pm today I will be invalidating them all.\"   Knowing her dishonest history, I responded saying \"I want it in writing, not via text. I want specifics of the arrangement, not a vague promise. She continued \"You don't have any power here, you are in no place to negotiate. If this is not enough for you, you'll be bought out at face value and all current tickets are invalidated.\"\n\nInvalidating ALL tickets after I had sold and shipped half of the home games would have resulted in serious economic penalties from Stubhub, which charges what I was paid for the sale plus a 40% penalty. Considering that sales as of today have totaled over 1000 dollars, I was looking at $1400 in remuneration to Stubhub if I didn't agree to her arrangement. This doesn't include the losses from losing access to the Broadway tickets, including the showing of Hamilton included with the season ticket. Having to buy the Hamilton ticket alone on the secondary market as of today would cost me no less than 650 dollars after fees, bringing the total economic penalty for my not conceding to her demand up and over $2,000. \n\nOut of fear of having to pay all these costs, I asked for a written contract and said I would sign it with all the stiuplations in writing. I again reminded her that there was a prior (unwritten) agreement a history of sales and good-faith actions based on that agreement. I said she was extorting me into changing the agreement by threatening the validity of sales already made. She modified the contract to read that I had until 12:01 am today Friday Morning to sign or else I she would invalidate the NFL tickets.\n\nAn unsigned and redacted copy of the contract she drew up is [here](https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BxfjFXnOVXOzc1FjckNPakh3UlU\/view?usp=sharing). I signed the contract around 10pm yesterday and verbally let her know it was under duress. I did not write \"under duress\" next to my signature or the date signed on either copy of the contract. \n\nI have screenshots of the full conversation above and other conversations where she claims that her reality must be accepted as truth even if it doesn't match any facts of actual events. \n\nI understand that consideration was provided by her in the contract, however, I am wondering if I would have a case for invalidating the contract being that it was signed under threat of economic duress with potential losses + expenditures totaling more than $2,000.  Please help.","title":"[WA] Ex-girlfriend threatened to void existing ticket sales unless I signed a contract signing permanent control of two sets of season tickets over to her.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443310575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3miskg\/apartment_community_is_advertising_amenities_that\/","id":"3miskg","body":"I live in a luxury high-rise that I've posted about here a couple times. They have been slipping big time and completely neglecting certain aspects of the property and many residents are very dissatisfied. However, today I heard something that may border on criminal, and I'd like to get a sense for what I can do.\n\nI was in a common area with a neighbor today watching TV when one of the leasing agents came through with a tour. We heard her explaining to these prospects that the building has a complimentary shuttle service that will pick you up at he airport or drive you to destinations with a 15 mile radius of the building.\n\nThe problem is that the building informed residents in writing 3 months ago that this service was being discontinued, and it has been gone for almost 2 months now.\n\nBuilding management here is super shady, and even though this particular thing doesn't directly affect me, I really want to stand up for people who may be getting suckered into a lease based on false information.\n\nWhat can\/should I do?","title":"Apartment community is advertising amenities that no longer exist. [TX]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502838140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6txxj5\/caregiver_for_mentally_ill_mother\/","id":"6txxj5","body":"For the past 8 years, I have been living with my mother as a caregiver. She has episodes 3 to 4 times a year characterized by mania and paranoia. During one of the episodes last February, she apparently filed legal proceedings to have me evicted. The judgement was signed on February 12. The episode soon ended, and everything went back to normal. I continued living there since then. She is now experiencing another episode and believes that the judgement from February would still allow her to have me physically removed by the police at any time. Since I have lived here in TN residence for more than 6 months after judgement, am I correct in assuming that I have reestablished residency here, and she would have to go through eviction process again?","title":"Caregiver for mentally ill mother","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541190459,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tns6d\/family_member_suing_the_trust\/","id":"9tns6d","body":"My grandfather died in March and left behind a will. He pretty much paid for everything for my mom's younger brother. But he still wants more, and is apparently suing the trust because he was on the will but after my Grandfather learned he was scamming him over the years, took him off the will a few months before his death.\n\nI'm not really in the loop for all the smaller details and he said she said stuff, but I'm really confused on what exactly he is suing about. He maybe claiming that he wasn't in a good state of mind when he took him off, but is that sueable? \n\nIt's really causing a lot of family tension and stress because nobody can even think about grieving when this mess has been going on since my grandfather's death. We even had texts and voicemails and documents about what he's (the brother)  said, threatened, paid for, etc.\n\nSorry I don't know all the details , I just want to see what I can figure out about suing a trust .","title":"Family member suing the trust","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568881296,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6b1hd\/in_the_state_of_ohio\/","id":"d6b1hd","body":"I have a daughter and sometimes I pick her up or her mother and her boyfriend, we\u2019ll the other day they started video recording my wife and my self when they came to our house on are property and we told them we don\u2019t consent to it and they still proceeded to do so , then today I go there their house to pick up my daughter and my child\u2019s mother boyfriend started recording me I again told them I do not consent . I know in Ohio you can record in public without having to have consent what about what they are doing on private property. We don\u2019t have a RO or court order for this . Is it legal what they are doing","title":"In the state of Ohio","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571428541,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djsw8k\/rented_apartment_is_at_85_humidity_building\/","id":"djsw8k","body":"Been here for about 4 months now. I keep my apartment at around 70 degrees, because Florida. Never noticed the humidity levels until I went to retrieve a pair of leather shoes which were COVERED in mold. During the original walk through the manager mentioned that \u201cit just feels moist because no one lives here, ac hasn\u2019t been on, etc.\u201d  I did some research turns out all sorts of mold(including black mold) starts to grow at about  60% humidity. We\u2019re at 85% year round, surely this is not healthy long term. I\u2019ve been considering reaching out to the city to come and check for mold but I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s the best way to go about it.  What is the proper course of action here?\n(Florida)","title":"Rented apartment is at 85% humidity. Building manager said it was ok, she \u201cdidn\u2019t smell anything moldy\u201d and left.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542231880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x4ipt\/stuff_left_behind\/","id":"9x4ipt","body":"Moved into an apartment. The person that moved out is the owner and now my landlord they left a lot of stuff and came to get some things out of the apartment which was agreed apon  but left a lot of things behind and has not returned to claim or made arrangements to store. What can I do with this stuff","title":"Stuff left behind","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554327605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b944cg\/hr_claim_on_coworker_for_sexual_harrassment\/","id":"b944cg","body":"One of my managers (let's call him Pete) has been sexually harassing my coworkers and I in forms of verbal and physical harrassment. He has made lewd comments to his subordinate such as myself and others. It's not uncommon for sexual jokes to be made at my workplace but he tends to cross some lines as far as people being comfortable with his jokes. He has even gone as far as to, for lack of a better term, rubbing his dick on my coworker and when she had a problem with it he told her, \"her ass shouldn't have been in the way.\" As for me, he made a comment I was uncomfortable with and I told him he needed to stop. I don't remeber exactly what he said because i was really flustered and it just didn't stivk but it was enough to make me tell him to stop. This prompted him to tell me to \"keep both pairs of lips shut\" to which I told him that he wasn't being funny, then he mocked me pretending to call HR by putting his hand up to his ear like he was on the phone and said \"Hey, HR? This is Fname\" and so I did. \n\nIt's been about two weeks since the initial complaint went through to HR and I was given a time to go to our training center to talk to a representative. During this meeting I was told that telling the truth was the best way to go. We talked very shortly about the situation that had occurred those short weeks prior and more so about my relationship with the manager who reported the incident and also Pete. I was also asked questions seemingly made for self-incrimination. Such as, \"Have you ever made a comment that has made someone uncomfortable?\" which of course i have and i assume most people have but it's normally fixed by a quick \"I'm sorry\" and not bringing the topic up again. I was also asked if I have ever shown any lewd photos to anyone at work. Again answering honestly I told the representative about a time a coworker and I were talking about piercings and she had asked to see my nipple piercings so I showed her, no ill intent, certainly not against anyones will and under request. Reflecting I know that that was innapropriate for a work place setting and regret doing it.\n\nAt the end of my meeting I was told that based on my answers to those questions the representative could tell I was telling the truth, but that there would unfortunately have to be disciplinary action on me because I showed another female associate a lewd picture. I was told that my representative would have to dig through case files to find an instance where somebody in my position did not get fired in order to save my job. The representative told me nothing about disciplinary action on Pete.\n\nI assumed the meeting I was going to with HR was going to soley be about my problem with Pete and not an interegation. Especially considering I've not given management any reason to question me in the past or even now. The situation with the picture was only brought to their attention by me in that moment. I've had the same job since I was 16 but have been taking my job very seriously since graduating school because I'm trying to move into managment. I made ot clear I didn't like what he was saying or doing to me. That to me is a line that should never be crossed and I'm certain I have never crossed that line but I am being considered for disciplinary action up to and including termination for sexually harassing people at my workplace. \n\nI'm not sure what to do in this situation and I was hoping you guys would be able to help if there is any legality problems in my case. \n\n\n","title":"HR claim on coworker for sexual harrassment turned around on me as a seperate investigation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447187637,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sbhjs\/landlord_harassment_or_just_annoyances_that_ill\/","id":"3sbhjs","body":"EDIT: Location is Indiana, PA. Forgot to add that the first time. \n\nWarning: this post is going to be rather long. Sorry!\n\nHey everyone. So I posted here a few weeks ago about a dispute over a water bill with my landlord. This is the link to that post, for reference:\n\nhttps:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pht6y\/landlord_is_attempting_to_force_me_to_pay_a_water\/\n\nThat issue was eventually resolved basically by ignoring it. I never responded to her texts, and she never said anything else about it. However, my roommates and I (there are five of us in total) have been having some other issues with her that have persisted since we moved in around the end of August.\n\nOur situation is that we live in student housing, and share a house with our landlord and her husband. They live separately from us, but can enter our part of the house at any time if repairs need to be made, etc.\n\nOur landlord is extremely difficult to live with. If we do anything she does not like, we will get several long text messages about it, even if we are not violating any terms of our lease.\n\nI'll start by describing my own issues that I've had with her. There was the water bill issue in the post I linked above, to start with.\n\nThen there's the windows in my room. There's very few sources of light in my bedroom (no overhead lighting at all), so during the day I pull up the blinds and make the most of the natural light. The house we live in is very old, and my landlord is convinced that letting direct sunlight into the room will \"damage the wood\". She has ordered me to keep my blinds closed at all times, even though it turns the room into a dungeon. I have received several messages from her on the subject if she notices that the blinds have been opened.\n\nThis week, I am out of town with my family. I have two parakeets in my bedroom, and when I have to leave for a few days, one of my roommates usually takes care of them. None of them were available to this week, so I asked a friend of mine who lives elsewhere to do it. She agreed, and I gave her my house keys to be able to get in and out while I am gone.\n\nMy landlord happened to see her entering the house, and flipped her shit. She demanded my friend's phone number, and tried to make her sign something about feeding the birds. She has since started sending text messages to my friend as well, and has sent me several messages asking how many people I have given my keys to (I only have one set, so unless she thinks I made copies, this seems like an odd questions), when I will be back, etc.\n\nAt the same time this is happening, she and I are having another issue as well. I am the only one of my roommates with a bedroom on the first floor, and my landlords live on this floor as well. There is a small foyer separating my bedroom from her living room, which she and I use for storage. There is also an outer door to the foyer that separates it from the entrance to the house that my roommates and I use. I have the keys to this door, but do not usually lock it.\n\nToday, my roommates supposedly went into the foyer and began looking through my landlord's things for Christmas lights. I had no idea they were doing this, as I haven't been home for four days. My landlord sees them, and sends me a message that I need to keep the foyer door locked, because I am (she claims) responsible for the possessions she keeps in there. This, along with all the other complaints she has leveled at me, are nowhere in my lease.\n\nShe has ordered me to get the lights back from my roommates and return them to her, despite knowing that I am out of town and won't be back for another week.\n\nMy landlord also decided that she no longer wanted me to store any of my things in the foyer, and moved them into my bedroom, which she entered without giving notice or acquiring permission.\n\nThese are just the incidents between her and I. There are more involving all the rest of my roommates.\n\nI'll spare you all but the most recent one. Essentially, my roommates and I have decided not to renew our lease with her for next year, for obvious reasons. We informed her of this, and she has been showing the apartment. She usually gives us notice, and this is fine. My issue is that we have received several messages telling us that she will be coming through to inspect that we have cleaned the house to make it look good for prospective tenants. My roommates and I have all agreed that it is not our responsibility to help her find people to rent to. The house is very old, not well-kept, and was disgusting when we all moved in. If she wants it cleaned for showings, she can do it herself.\n\nI think that's all I have for now. If anyone wants screenshots of her texts, let me know and I can post them. I don't have some any more because I broke my old phone (can't see the screen at all), and had to get a new one, but I'll be happy to post the ones I do have.\n\nI guess I'm just wondering if there's anything I can do to make my living situation a little more tolerable. I'm not even sure that my landlord is doing anything wrong. I mean, being annoying is not the same as harassment, but it's getting to the point where we can't even walk up to our door without being accosted by her and scolded for something. I just want a calmer place to live, but I'm not sure how I can make that happen. I am pregnant, and this lady is sending my stress levels through the roof!\n\nThank you in advance for any advice you have. Even if there's nothing I can do about my situation, just venting it all here has helped me feel a bit better!","title":"Landlord harassment or just annoyances that I'll have to deal with?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568482051,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d486su\/local_towing_scam\/","id":"d486su","body":"So Context:\n\nAt about 10:30 last night I was over to a friend's house watching a movie.  I attempted to leave just after midnight and my car was gone!  At first I thought it had been stolen because I didn't think there was literally any reason my car was towed.  But just to be safe I checked with the apartment complex the next morning and they said they towed visitors that didn't have parking passes.  I checked in with a friend and this is absurd for a couple of reasons:\n\n1. Parking passes are only valid the day they are provided and their apartment's offices close early on Friday and aren't open at all on the weekends.\n2. There's nothing in his lease that says visitors can't park in the area.\n3. He has a much earlier dated email from the office saying that visitors can park in the area for under 24 hours.\n4. There are no posted signs anywhere near the parking area to indicate towing.\n\nAfter literally calling up the management chain to the actual managers of the property I got the contact information for a local towing company and pointed towards a \\*single\\* \"no parking without valid pass\" sign that was probably no bigger than 16 by 22 inches (the legal minimum) towards the entrance of the complex behind some foliage (not reasonable visible from the road).  Mind you this is a complex with probably 20 to 30 \\*buildings\\* with a single hidden posted sign for parking?\n\nRegardless of all that, the towing company they use was even worse.  It's literally a 4 or 5 man operation on the bad side of town that broke the law in three separate ways when I tried to get my car back (this morning, less than 10 hours after the tow).  I live in Virginia, so it's state law that:\n\n1. No towing fee can exceed $150  ( [https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/title46.2\/chapter12\/section46.2-1233.1\/](https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/title46.2\/chapter12\/section46.2-1233.1\/) )\n2. No storage fee can be charged for the first 24 hours of storage. ( [https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/title46.2\/chapter12\/section46.2-1233.1\/](https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/title46.2\/chapter12\/section46.2-1233.1\/) )\n3. They must accept some valid alternatives to cash as payment.  ( [https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/title46.2\/chapter1\/section46.2-118\/](https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/title46.2\/chapter1\/section46.2-118\/) )\n\nOnce I'd cited the law to them (not a good idea in hindsight) the owner tried to strong arm me into paying even more, invoking even more shady practices such as \"oh, well we're going to close early today so you'd better have that cash here by then\" or \"I know the law too and I can just start slapping charges on at my discretion.\"  etc. etc. \n\nBy the end hour 2 of this nightmare, I decided to cut my losses and gave the guy the maximum legal value in cash and took my car back.  I got a legal receipt from the owner itemized for just the towing charge at the maximum amount, so at the end of the day the only really illegal thing they committed was refusing to take any payment but cash.\n\nHonestly, I'm still a bit shook about the whole ordeal but I'm lucky enough financially that I'm not in desperate need to get money back from these terrible people.  But I would definitely like to see this super sketchy\/predatory business fined or blacklisted.  What really convinced me to do this is the fact that the reviews for this towing company are literally all one stars, and all complain about the same predatory practices and even blatant racism that this company is performing, so this isn't a one off deal.\n\nUnfortunately, I know I don't have enough (any) hard evidence to go to small claims court with because I wasn't smart enough to walk in prepared with a hidden microphone and I definitely felt too threatened to start recording anything in there with my phone.  However, as I understand it, these people are still breaking the \\*law\\* in some regard.  I filed a report with the BBB.  I also reported their terrible behavior to the original apartment management chain, but based on their reactions they are either aware of it or encouraging it.  \n\nIs there any course of action I've overlooked?  Should I be calling the non emergency police line? The local law enforcement? Is this a special case because of shady practices by two separate businesses that could lead to predatory towing?","title":"Local Towing Scam?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541623394,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v36ou\/girl_18_accused_me_17_of_lying_about_a_sexual\/","id":"9v36ou","body":"During the months of June and July I began having a sexual relationship with a female classmate, let\u2019s call her K. K and I hooked up by my count 20 times over the two months and eventually decided to quit seeing each other after we caught feelings for one another. Nothing was ever explicitly said that we weren\u2019t going to talk about our relationship but I decided to just keep it to myself and not share with my friends. Well last month (October), in one of those \u201coh shit I shouldn\u2019t have said that\u201d moments, I revealed to one of my friends that I had sex with K. This very quickly made it back to K and according to my peers, she denies the whole relationship. My friends obviously asked for details and I respectfully declined to tell them and asked them to not bring it up again. They agreed and apologized. Fast forward to today and I get an email asking to come down to the student dean of discipline. One of my friends that works in the office says K filed a report against me. \n\nI want to clarify K isn\u2019t accusing me of rape or assault but rather making up the whole thing. Nothing has been said about this for about 3 weeks so this came out of nowhere. I have messages and screenshots proving we had a sexual relationship and I want to know where to go from here. Did I break any laws? Can I get in trouble from the school? If I could get in trouble, would screenshots count as proof against this false accusation? \n\nThanks\n\n","title":"Girl (18) accused me (17) of lying about a sexual relationship with her. Can I get in trouble for this?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1504394749,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xpqqt\/is_this_considered_blackmail\/","id":"6xpqqt","body":"So I've made a few posts this past week seeking advice. \nLong story short: \nFianc\u00e9 is made aware he is most likely being [misclassified](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wjn6v\/independent_contractor_misclassification_advice\/?st=J73XBDX9&sh=b532e257) and confronts his boss. Boss gets angry and says W2 is not an option. After a few days of negotiation, he says he will make him a W2 employee. \n\nPayday comes around and boss does not pay. When fianc\u00e9 asked why he has not been paid for his services, he says he is [withholding](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xmr59\/withholding_last_paycheck\/?st=J73XCATF&sh=84b87ed5) last paycheck in order to pay back taxes that weren't paid since he was an independent contractor. All of this was done without my fianc\u00e9 signing any documents or filling out a W4. My fianc\u00e9 informs this is highly illegal and he will be taking him to small claims court and reporting to the appropriate authorities. \n\nThis morning my fianc\u00e9 received a text from the boss saying I will give you your last weeks pay if you sign a waiver (that he won't sue or report any of his illegal activities to the government), but my lawyer needs to draft it and he will be in on Tuesday. \n\nIsn't that blackmail? Withholding his pay that he's already entitled to anyway? This has us extremely strapped on cash as our rent is due. If I sign this just to get the money to pay my bills will it even hold up in court? \n\n\nIllinois","title":"Is this considered blackmail?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570867932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgs9t8\/supposedly_ran_a_stop_sign\/","id":"dgs9t8","body":"I was riding my motorcycle through a college town where there are masses of people in the streets and allot of foot patrole police.  As I am riding down the street I come to a stop sign and cops surround me and make me give them my keys.  They tell me that I ran a stop sign, which I never did.  And the one who saw me was on foot.  Since there is no dash cam footage or anything proving that I dident run the stop sign and that I stopped at it, is it just their word versus mine or is it worth going to court over?","title":"Supposedly ran a stop sign","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1441909059,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kfnrd\/help_with_tos_if_it_says_xy_and_z_with_exposed\/","id":"3kfnrd","body":"if its written  x,y and z with exposed elements, does exposed elements refer to x and y or just z?\n\n\nheaters,coolers and kettles with exposed elements, australia\n\n","title":"help with TOS. if it says x,y and z with exposed elements, does exposed elements refer to x and y or just z","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570554293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df2vzx\/trying_to_find_answers\/","id":"df2vzx","body":"Hi! This might be a weird question with an obvious answer but I've tried googling and I couldn't find anything so I thought I'd try Reddit. Also, if this is the wrong place to ask, forgive me I'm trying to learn how Reddit works. \n\nSo my parents are separated at the moment (though my mom plans to get a divorce) and I live with my mom. When i was about 4, she called the police on my dad for putting his hands on her throat, pinning her against the wall, and threatening to beat her. I was there and I saw it happen with my own eyes. I vividly remember watching the police handcuff my dad and take him away as I bawled my eyes out (now, thanks to that memory, I have a panic attack every time I see a cop). The weird thing is, I remember seeing him maybe a week or two later. He wasn't arrested and he was able to see my sister and I on the weekends.\n\nNow I'm a senior in high school and I always think back to that day. I have so many questions that I've asked both my mom and my dad. Of course, they both have completely different stories - my mom says that he always choked and threatened her even when she was pregnant and my dad says she is making it up and she lied to the police and she always threatened to get him arrested. Now I'm starting to question what really happened. I saw him hold my mom against the wall with a raised fist, so how was he not in jail? How was he able to see my sister and I? If she really did lie (which i highly doubt she did), why didn't the police arrest her? Why would she get custody of her kids? There are more details, this is just a quick summary, but I've come to the conclusion that the only way to know what happened is to find any court documents or police reports or anything relating to the incident. Am I allowed to see those? If so, how do I get it without my parents knowing? What is the process? I don't know anything about things like this or what is and isn't normal and things about my parent's case seems off, so if you have any knowledge or input about cases like this please let me know.","title":"Trying to find answers","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1410355588,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g04ks\/would_it_be_legal_for_a_kidnapped_person_to_kill\/","id":"2g04ks","body":"Im not saying this particular situation applies to me, or anyone I know, but just speaking hypothetically.\n\nIf a kidnapped person has the impression that he\/she will not be let go. Could they kill the kidnapper and not suffer any legal consequences?\n\n(For any location you are familiar with)\n\n(Backstory: I just watched 'The Elizabeth Smart Story' and could help but wonder why she didnt craft any sort of weapon to kill her kidnappers in their sleep. A simple rock would be do the trick, right?)","title":"Would it be legal for a kidnapped person to kill his\/her kidnapper in order to escape?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570622468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfg0dd\/can_i_go_to_jail_for_this\/","id":"dfg0dd","body":"Backstory:\n\nMy fianc\u00e9  receives SSI benefits, and I am her representative payee. I\u2019ve only been her payee for a year and she\u2019s had SSI for 5 years now. I have a phone review coming up regarding her case, which is normal. But, as it is my first time doing this review, I decided to do some research on SSI and what it means to be a payee.\n\nDuring this, I stumbled upon some rules that a payee has to follow. I am following them to almost perfection, except for one rule that I was previously ignorant of. Payees aren\u2019t supposed to transfer SSI funds into their own personal account. \n\nSee, at my fianc\u00e9\u2019s request, whenever she gets her payments direct deposited into the SSI checking account, I always go ahead and transfer everything that she needs for her immediate benefit into my account and essentially take care of all of it right away. This usually leaves a small amount left over in the SSI account for extracurricular stuff.\n\nI am only using the money for her benefit like I\u2019m supposed to, but I had been using this method ever since I became her payee ignorant of the fact that I\u2019m not supposed to be transferring the money.  \n\nI\u2019m not going to transfer the money like that anymore after uncovering this rule.\n\nIs this fraud? Can I go to jail? I\u2019d rather not go to jail because I need to be at home to take care of her as she can\u2019t do it herself.","title":"Can I go to jail for this?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541027740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t41tf\/us_ma\/","id":"9t41tf","body":"Worked as a contract employee for an employer. Performed services, was paid. Then worked under contract again for the same employer, was not paid for services rendered. Had to leave and listen to them tell me they\u2019d get me paid in full asap. Still no payment, and would like to pursue legal action to get paid. I was an hourly employee, with signed work agreement documents, past IRS pay stubs, and a detailed documentation of hours worked and the dates i worked them. \n\nWhat are my options? ","title":"[US - MA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508268570,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/770z7s\/my_wifes_salary_is_supplemented_through\/","id":"770z7s","body":"She has the potential to make upwards of $10k per quarter extra, however she has said to me that \"president just doesn't like to pay commissions.\" Every year they agree to a new target plan for her and payout scale which she always reaches, but since the president of the company has to approve each payout, it never happens. \n\nShe is a manager of a team, and this boss has also drastically reduced (or completely ignored) expected payouts for her team. \n\nIf they agree to and sign off on terms of targets, she should absolutely be paid based on her perform, no?","title":"My wife's salary is supplemented through target-driven commission. She consistently meets or exceeds these targets yet the top brass continually denies the payout or makes abrupt changes to deny these bonuses. (New York State)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570591421,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfb9tg\/my_apartment_has_a_water_leak_and_they_havent\/","id":"dfb9tg","body":"So we've received 3 notices from the local water authority that we have a leak and high usage is being reported to our apartment. We've notified our landlord each time. They have sent maintenance men to look, including a plumber. They have yet to fix it. The water bill just came in at about 168 dollars for the month. It should be closer to 50 - 60 dollars per our friends throughout the complex. What should I do? I dont know where I stand legally. What should my next step be? Sorry that this is kinda boring. \nBartlett, Tennessee","title":"My apartment has a water leak and they haven't fixed it yet","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1414125430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2k63md\/nonconditional_contribution\/","id":"2k63md","body":"Hello.\n\nI have a law question regarding intellectual property and online sales\/donations.\n\nI own and run a server for a video-game that is available to the public for everyone to play. The rental-cost of this server is well over 100 USD\/month which is takes a toll on my wallet.\nAs such, I am now looking into ways of funding it. One way would be to ask the players for a monetary donation and in return give them access to in-game items that would otherwise take several hours of play-time to earn. As an administrator of the server, I can easily grant anyone anything with the flip of a switch.\nI would like to underline that I am NOT interested in making a profit - I am just seeking financial support to pay for the server.\n\nThere is a problem with this idea however. The game is under a NonCommercial-ShareAlike license and the creator of the game has explicitly stated that they do not condone such monetization scheme.\nMore specifically, the following is stated under their FAQ on their website:\n\n*\"Making the \u201cdonation\u201d as part of a condition to receive access to\/or getting any part of offered content would be in breach of the License Agreement. The content you create must be available to all whether they donate to you or not.\nThe fact that you are getting donations is not a problem, but they must be provided voluntarily, i.e. not providing donations must not prevent anyone from accessing the content, download it or store it in another place and operating it there.\nTo avoid misunderstanding, all access or the content has to be free of any charge.\"*\n\nThe above gives me the impression that the only problem here is giving contributors access to exclusive items; items that would aren't be accessible unless you pay. \nSo would it be possible to grant contributors just a short-cut to non-exclusive assets? This seems to be meet the criteria of (1) having all content free-of-charge and (2) not preventing anyone from accessing the content.\n\nAdditionally, is there any way these contributions could be considered as donations instead of an exchange if I explicitly state that any and all contributions are unconditional?\n\nIs there anything that can be done to be \"in the clear\"?\n\n(links to the games' licenses):\n\nhttps:\/\/www.bistudio.com\/english\/licenses\n\nhttps:\/\/www.bistudio.com\/english\/community\/game-content-usage-rules\n\nThanks.\n\n --- I reside in CT, USA.","title":"Non-conditional contribution?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541477681,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ul71b\/what_information_must_joe_shmoe_include_in_his\/","id":"9ul71b","body":"Just like the title says. I\u2019ll try and keep it simple.  \n\nIn the last two weeks I\u2019ve had two documents that I have to sign in front of a notary. \n\nI am starting a job up in Washington and it\u2019s a bigger job than I am normally around.\n\nI am a local flooring contractor, and the majority if not all my jobs up to this point have been a word of mouth agreement with each client, they agreed and then paid at the end. No problems.\n\nThat being said those have been residential jobs. I will be starting a 6 month job with a contractor renovating a commercial job. \n\nWe have agreed upon price, and payment. A verbal agreement.\n\nI have a contract that outlines our agreements and would like him to sign it. However I\u2019ve heard of stories of people still being screwed over by \u201cbigger fish\u201d so to say and not get paid what they agreed upon.\n\nThis is why I want to take the proper steps and have a notary worthy document for the contractor to sign.\n\nLike I said I\u2019ve dealt with two notary signings in the last week. A Labor and industries form for my business today, and for an insurance bond last week. \n\nAt my first signing I spoke to the notary person with a similar question (less detail than this post) and asked \u201cwhat will make a contract notary worthy?\u201d\n\nShe mentioned how people look up proper verbiage on google. I\u2019ve had 0 luck finding this verbiage and wanted to ask you guys on here.\n\n Is this [generic acknowledgement form](https:\/\/www.dec.ny.gov\/docs\/lands_forests_pdf\/acknowledgment13.pdf) form it?,what information must the document contain concerning both parties? Address? Social? Drivers license number? Bday? \n\n\n\nThanks in advance, let me know if I can provide any other information to she light on the situation.","title":"What information must joe shmoe include in his business contract for his employing contractor for it to be notary worthy?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1444155625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nqk0h\/wa_landlord_is_trying_to_charge_rent_after_lease\/","id":"3nqk0h","body":"I'm posting this for a friend who doesn't have a reddit account but would like your advice:\n\nMy friend and her husband are in the Navy and relocated from WA to CA a few weeks ago. They were renting an apartment in WA and broke their lease halfway through due to the military relocation. They moved out September 24 and paid for all of September's rent. The landlord knew of their intent to vacate since late July and was given all the appropriate documents regarding their Orders (so they weren't penalized for breaking the lease).\n\nWhen they were moving out, they lost their keys to their apartment.\n\nAs of yesterday (October 5) the landlord is attempting to charge them rent for the month of October, stating they are still tenants.  And since it is past the two-day grace period for rent, the landlord is also charging late fees that go up each week. Meanwhile, the landlord is also cleaning and remodeling the apartment (I live next door, so I can see\/hear all this) with full intentions to rent it out when it's done. My friend asked if she and her husband could just pay for the cost of changing the locks but the landlord refused. It looks like the landlord is attempting to get double rent and is hoping my friend won't know because she is now out of state. The landlord is not returning emails and only answered one phone call, where she told my friend to \"call back tomorrow,\" but then never answered her phone.\n\nMy friend was hoping to resolve this peacefully, but due to the landlord's less than stellar behavior in this situation, she is now considering a military lawyer.\n\nAny advice on what she should do from here would be greatly appreciated.","title":"[WA] Landlord is trying to charge rent after lease ended and occupants moved out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569354854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8sfxv\/got_video_taped_driving_recklessly_am_i_in\/","id":"d8sfxv","body":"Here\u2019s the deal, I had a small race with someone in an area with a 25 mph speed limit, and I probably just got up to around 45mph. Someone on the sidewalk pulled out their phone and started recording and yelled something about going to the cops. Should I be worried? Is there anything I should do? And yes I know it was stupid, it won\u2019t happen again. Any input would be welcomed, thanks.","title":"Got video taped driving recklessly. Am I in trouble? Would really appreciate quick advice.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506140434,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71w8nn\/child_support_modification_question_or\/","id":"71w8nn","body":"I live in Oregon.\n\nI receive child support under an established order in, based on the parenting plan that was agreed on at the divorce (finalized in Feb 2015). For all of 2016, and (so far) 2017 my ex has not been using his parenting time. No overnights, and only casual email\/facebook contact. I think he had one or two lunches with her in 2016.\n\nI'm wondering if I can file the forms to request a modification in the child support amount, on the grounds that he has had no overnights, and so the calculation should be redone using a value of 0 overnights.\n\nDuring this time, he has earned a degree, though I have had no significant contact with him, so I don't know if he has an income. The original calculation was done based on the amount of alimony he is receiving from me (the judge declined to impute minimum wage to him, and instead basically said he should just go to school full time). \n\nAs well, over the last couple of years, my own income has increased by almost $2000.\n\n**My questions:**\n\n1) Does the child support calculation have to rely on the parenting time in the parenting plan? (i.e. will I need to get the parenting plan revised before I can change the child support amount?)\n\n2) Is there a chance that asking for a modification would result in him having to pay *less* child support (should I let sleeping dogs lie?)\n\n3) What if he has a job and lies about his income? Will the state be able to tell if he's hiding income? \n\n4) Does \"he has no overnights\" and \"he has a degree now but I don't know if he has a job\" constitute a significant enough change in circumstances to warrant a revision in the child support order?\n\n5) I can have my child support order reviewed after 35 months, and not have to show a \"significant\" change in circumstances. What is the start date for this period?  I have a letter that says that the payments were ordered to begin in 2014, which was before the divorce was finalized (part of a temporary support order, I think). But my account was established in the computer system in 2015, a couple of months after the divorce was finalized. ","title":"Child support modification question [OR]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570567041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df5uc8\/what_are_my_chances_of_receiving_insurance_for\/","id":"df5uc8","body":"Hi, so my parents shipped my pc from home to uni. The PC was well secured (the thick cardboard box had additional wooden support inside, the contents weren't moving and PC was wrapped in multiple layers of bubble wrap). The thing is, that once I opend the package, taken the pc out and unwrapped it I realised that it was heavily damage. What I asssume happened, is that my package was thrown, which damaged the case and thus made a heavy CD Tray lose, which in turn damaged the MOBO and I assume GPU, although I haven't had the chance to test it.\n\nI took photos of the damaged parts, as well as I have the original packaging (though the pc was taken out of it). My parents provided UPS with the correct value of the contents and they told me that it was insured. I've yet to submit the claim but I want to know what do you tthink are my chances of receiving the insurance? The package was sent from Poland to UK. The items were purchased for around 250-350 GBP however, some of them are quite old.\n\nThanks for your help!","title":"What are my chances of receiving insurance for damaged contents of package?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1417237381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2nqe6b\/inspired_by_a_subredditdrama_thread_is_it_legal\/","id":"2nqe6b","body":"[This](http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SubredditDrama\/comments\/2nos0h\/rpcmasterrace_user_orders_an_ssd_gets_10_returns\/) thread links to a really bitter argument over someone getting extra hard drives shipped with his order. \n\nI thought I had read something here a while back about you are NOT legally entitled to accidentally-free items sent to you by an online retailer; but for the life of me I cannot find it. \n\nIf you do get multiples of an item you ordered from Amazon, is it yours? My thinking is that you didn't pay for more than one, so any extra aren't yours. What about in the case of ordering an item and getting a random unrelated thing as well? \n\nThanks for your time. \n\nEdit: I just read waaaaaay down the thread and someone linked to the FTC site that explains it. I missed it the first time around. Sorry! I also fixed the link. Thanks again. ","title":"Inspired by a Subredditdrama thread: Is it legal to keep items that were accidentally shipped to you? [USA]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552604242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b174zb\/just_quit_my_job_and_have_a_question_is_this_legal\/","id":"b174zb","body":"So I recently left my old job for a better opportunity that pays more with less hours, my question is can my old job hold my check that they owe me because I have paperwork (runs) out that still need to be corrected by me? I have about 25+  runs out. ","title":"Just quit my job and have a question, is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554571260,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba6mox\/how_do_drivers_license_points_transfer_across\/","id":"ba6mox","body":"**Background:** I recently got pulled over in Kentucky for going 16+ mph over the speed limit. Assuming I don't fight it or take traffic school, that's 6 points by Kentucky's system. But my driver's license is Pennsylvania, where that same violation is counted as 4 points.\n\nTo make matters more complicated, I'm going to briefly have a Kentucky drivers license before moving to Indiana and getting a license there. The same violation is also only 4 points in Indiana.\n\n-----\n\n**Question:** Will my 16+ mph violation (6 points in Kentucky where it happened) be applied to my current Pennsylvania license as 6 points? Or will it only count as 4, as if the violation had happened in Pennsylvania? If 4, will it jump up to 6 when I get my Kentucky license and back down to 4 when I get my Indiana license?","title":"How do drivers license points transfer across states?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1550443879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arq5rn\/nondisclosure_agreement_should_i_be_worried\/","id":"arq5rn","body":"I worked in a salon and put in my two weeks to pursue other opportunities in the beauty field however my boss did not like this and immediately fired me and threatened litigation because she claims I signed an NDA (Not a non compete she specifically said NDA) and it would prevent me from working in the field somewhere else and I can\u2019t take any of my clients. I was very careful (IMO) and let my clients know I was leaving and if they\u2019d like to stay in touch to find me on social media but she claims these clients are clients of the business per the supposed NDA. I asked for a copy because I do not remember signing such a thing and she hasn\u2019t produced a copy yet. I\u2019m assuming it\u2019s a scare tactic but how enforceable are NDA if I did indeed sign one? I figured because I did not take any actual client information and clients have gotten in touch with me themselves outside of the work place if I did in fact sign an nda would this be a breach of such a contract? ","title":"Non-disclosure agreement. Should I be worried?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570108155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcqo61\/i_rent_a_private_basement_of_a_single_house_can\/","id":"dcqo61","body":"25 F here.\nLocation : Virginia \n\nI rent a one bedroom , one bathroom basement space from a single house in which a family (landlord) uses the rest of the house.\nThe door to the first floor is locked from their side and I cannot open it.\nThe only time I can physically be where they live is when I do my laundry, which I do only after getting a permission since they need to unlock the door for me. \nThere is no. \"Common space\" other than washer\/dryer or parking area.\nThe entrance is also separate so this space is very private.\n\nI  had a friend who lost a key (a guy)to his house  so I let him sleep in my space last night since I was the only one awake by the time he was coming back from the bar (3am). So he came at 4am and is sleeping in my living room space right now. \n\nI think the landlord saw my friends car since the only available parking is the curb in front of the housem\n because I just got a text from a landlord if I can refrain from letting my bf stay overnight.\n\nI apologized, explained the situation and that he is not my boyfriend but just a friend in trouble.\nNo replies until noe. \n\nIve never had any other guest before him so the landlords response is kind of...surprising?\n\nI understand the difficulty from the landlords point of view since she has two daughters and having an unknown man in the house may be disettling. I respect that and dont have overnight parties\/multiple guests for obvious reasons.\n\nBut Im confused. Does this mean she has right to restrict any guests i bring to this unit? \nCan they legally restrict guest in the basement units? \nIt wasnt written on the lease and I feel uncomfortable reporting every single guest i May have at my space. \n\nPlease provide me with some advice\/info","title":"I rent a private basement of a single house Can your landlord control your guests\/overnight visitors?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551510299,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awf3ml\/my_rights_in_an_appartement_with_an_emotional\/","id":"awf3ml","body":"I recently got a puppy that is an ESA (emotional support animal). My landlord is withholding my right to have him because he is under the age of 6 months. I\u2019ve been told that ESA\u2019s cannot be discriminated against because of breed, age or weight unless it puts a large burden on my landlord. Is what they are doing legal? I live in North Logan, UT. ","title":"My rights in an Appartement with an emotional support dog","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550416577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arlecm\/employer_stealing_tips_read_post\/","id":"arlecm","body":"First and foremost- I am not looking to sue\/get a lawyer. The employer is my personal friend and I'd rather quit and keep the friendship than sue for the lost income. I am more interested in educating and fixing the issue than taking the legal route.\n\nLocation: Indiana, USA\n\nBackstory: So a friend of mine opened a coffee shop that I am a barista at. It is not my primary source of income I am just helping him out until he gets the business stable. I make above the federal minimum wage and am part time 10-20 hours a week.\n\nAt this coffee shop there is a tip jar and as people do, they put tips in. However, the tips do not go back to the employees or the baristas on that day they go directly to the owner. The original message the employees got was that the tips would be used for company parties and indirectly benefit the whole staff so that everyone benefitted and not just the primary baristas on shift would make the tips. There wasn't a formal agreement when I was hired relating to tips at all- the tip jar was added after I began working. It has been over a year now and nothing has come out of the tip jar for the employees. \n\nFirst off, is this even a legal practice? None of the employees have a problem if the tip jar does find parties but I doubt that's a legal practice.\n\nSecond, if it is illegal and there is potential for a suit against the employer what is the best way for the employer to 'fix it' and make amends. Again,  I do not want to sue but if one of the other employees does I want my friend doesn't \"lose the farm\" over something that I truly believe is not malicious. I'm not going to excuse him for stealing the tips and try to justify it but I have known this guy forever and I want to have his back.\n\nI understand that this might be a bit outside the scope of r\/legaladvice as it deals with a potential ethical\/moral issue but I hope that you all can understand where I am coming from and can help with the legal questions.\n\nThanks!","title":"Employer stealing tips: READ POST","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554231478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8ncfe\/i_need_to_know_my_rights_im_located_in_va\/","id":"b8ncfe","body":"Obligatory throwaway account.\n\nMy (ex) boyfriend and I have been together for a little over 7 years. We have 2 bio children but I also have 3 children from a previous relationship. All, except one, live with us (the eldest moved out last year). In September 2013, EX purchased a house to accommodate all of us. Due to my credit, the mortgage is solely in his name, as well as all the utilities except for the cable. That\u2019s in mine.\n\nOur relationship has slowly declined over the last few years and for the childrens\u2019 sake, we\u2019ve tried to make it work but to no avail. Shit finally hit the fan today and that resulted in him kicking me out. I know I have technically 30 days but do I have any other rights considering we have children together and this has been my other 2 children\u2019s \u201chome\u201d for the past 5.5 years? I don\u2019t have anywhere to go and about 95% of the stuff in the house is mine. I told him I need time to sell what I can, (since I\u2019ll need the money) donate what I can\u2019t sell and find other living arrangements. His response, \u201cthat\u2019s not my problem\u201d. \n\nAlso, \u201cwe\u201d had bought my dads business officially on the 1st of this year. I had been my dads employee since 2013 and he wanted to sell the business to me and EX but due to reasons, I have no ties to the business on paper. EX said there is no \u201csplitting\u201d the business. It\u2019s either I have nothing or I have to buy it from him. I don\u2019t do physical work in our business because EX wanted me to stay home with the little one so we didn\u2019t have to pay for a babysitter. Although, I do administrative work so I still have a role in it. I don\u2019t get paid, per-se, either. He said he can\u2019t afford to \u201cpay\u201d me directly but what I do \u201cearn\u201d he puts towards our bills. \n\nI know I\u2019ve fucked myself. \n\nPlease tell me I\u2019m not powerless. \n","title":"I need to know my rights. I\u2019m located in VA.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551341616,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avont8\/signed_a_new_contract_with_3_month_notice_period\/","id":"avont8","body":"I left my employer for a short while last year for a new venture that didn't work out. They were happy enough to have me back (which I am grateful for) but they put a 3 month notice period in my new contract which I hadn't noticed.\n\nI've now got a new job in the pipeline and this is a sticking point so I'm wondering what my options are as there are a few extenuating circumstances. I'm already underpaid for the job I do in the area I work in, I spend two hours a day commuting. The new job pays 50% more and is 50% closer.  \n\n\nThe company has a second office which is 2 minutes down the road and my department will be moving there at the end of March. My contract doesn't have any clauses to say I can be relocated, there is no on-site parking so I will have to park on a road and am going to check how this affects my insurance. I think is my best argument.  \nMy options as I can see them are:\n\n1. Negotiate (read: demand) that I either get a pay increase to account for the extended notice period, to reduce the notice period or I hand in my notice now.\n2. Leverage the office move and my lack of mobility clause to refuse to move, this could allow me to take redundancy or simply end my contract but could backfire and leave me left at the old office, potentially unable to do my job. I could also combine this with option one as an additional reason to amend my contract.\n3. To hell with them and hand my notice in and work as much of it as I can before the new job starts.\n\n​\n\nI fully understand this has been bought on myself so am prepared to deal with it if I have  to, but is there another way I can deal with this?\n\n​","title":"Signed a new contract with 3 month notice period without noticing","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447337975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sjaq9\/any_legal_way_i_can_receive_mental_health\/","id":"3sjaq9","body":"(I LIVE IN NORTH CAROLINA! NO BOT FOR ME!)\n\nMy mother can be nice when she wants to. Picks me up from club meetings, makes brownies, the like.\n\nBut when I started showing signs of mental health problems (misophonia is the loosest term for it) the school counselor tried to call her and request I get outside help.\n\nShe screamed in the counselor and I's faces for about 10, 20 minutes before the counselor finally ended the call.\n\nNow, the problem has only worsened, and my life is greatly suffering for it. I really will not graduate if I do not get outside help, but she won't okay it.\n\nIs there any way I can get around her? My dad is not an option either.","title":"Any legal way I can receive mental health treatment without parental consent \/ by order of some legal person?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568481032,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d47ytj\/oklahoma_is_a_right_to_work_state_but\/","id":"d47ytj","body":"So I am a working breastfeeding mother. My shifts are 12 hours each day I work and i got no breaks before I came back from maternity leave and I get 3 breaks inconsistently with my feeding schedule now. I have to pump in a dusty bathroom and I get complaints if I take over 30 minutes to empty. This has caused me to drop in supply exponentially and I can no longer feed my baby on my milk alone. I still do not receive normal breaks such as lunch break but I'm honestly not sure what I can do. This is a right to work state so they can fire me at the drop of a hat. I like the job position I'm in but how can I go about getting my breaks in without getting constant complaints that I'm inconveniencing them?","title":"Oklahoma is a right to work state but....","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503116242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6un1zc\/i_was_told_to_ask_if_this_policy_was_legal_for\/","id":"6un1zc","body":"The policy on my schools new Ipad policy reads \"Students who already own an Ipad 2 or newer may use it for class. Please note, students still subject to the Ipad Acceptable Use Agreement. You must allow XXX School District to install its Mobile Device Management software on your device. District insurance is not required.\"\n\n This is for a school district in Oregon, USA. The part that another on Reddit asked me clarify was the installation of \"Mobile Device Management software\". As far I as I can tell, nothing is changed in the IPad Acceptable Use Agreement. If further questions are brought up, I'd be happy to PM someone the full agreement PDF. Thanks for your help, and if I did something wrong in my description please let me know, I am new to this sub. Good day to all.","title":"I was told to ask if this policy was legal for this school.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1447140477,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s8wsw\/in_a_situation_regarding_being_kicked_out_with_no\/","id":"3s8wsw","body":"Hi hello okay so my situation is a little weird. I am in Hennepin County, Minnesota, Bloomington specifically.\n\nI've been living with my boyfriend for the last seven months. Recently a situation happened where he was very sick (in the hospital, vomiting, diarrhea, no solid food in him for days, on morphine) and after he came home he was really not himself and the way I reacted to it hurt his feelings. Like. A lot. Anyways, so in his hurt, sick, and coming-down-off-hella-narcotics stupor, he decided he wanted to end our relationship (spoiler alert: he didn't actually so we didn't break up but in the interests of his education and our relationship decided we shouldn't live together at this time in our lives) and he vented to his parents about being so hurt by me (which I totes understand) so they decided to arrange my entire moving from this apartment. (ex. Your cats need to go immediately, you need to go immediately, you need to get your stuff out ASAP, you don't have to lift a finger my dad will hire a moving truck for your stuff we just need to know where to send it, my mom will help me pack all your stuff up blahblah)\n\nLook without going into too many details I can totally leave this apartment and shit I just had no notice. Zero. This was all arranged before he even had the to-be-a-breakup conversation with me. Okay this is where things get kind of weird probably: I wasn't paying rent, his dad is paying the rent (boyfriend is a college student with parents who are able to do this type of thing for him) and it was all known that he and I would be living together and everything was fine. I did sign a lease thing - just a signature saying that I would be residing there and that I would have keys. \n\nFucking hell. All I want is to not show up at friends' and relatives' doorsteps at all hours of the nights, get everything arranged and settled with my parents so that I can go back there (kill me. but seriously, the room I used to have is literally uninhabitable right now, I'm working on it but I need a few more days), and I just want to fucking sleep. Food would be nice, too. I have a neurological condition that makes all of this even harder to deal with than it already is.\n\nAm I not entitled to a thirty day notice or anything? Do I just have to fucking sneak around and let these assholes have their way with me? I really ideally don't want to go to court with anybody, especially not his dad, I just want to know what my rights are and if I can sleep in a stable fucking place until I am able to actually move.\n\nTL:DR - Am I legally entitled to any kind of notice when the person who was paying rent for the place I was living at for seven months decides they don't want me there anymore? You know. So that I don't have to struggle to find places to sleep while trying to get my shit sorted out?\n\nReally sorry if this is too wordy or if there are details missing or ones here that don't need to be I really am very stressed out and don't know if I sound like a fucking idiot right now please help.","title":"In a situation regarding being kicked out with no notice - not seeking to sue anybody or anything, just wondering about my rights if there are any.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505845828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7150vb\/shop_owner_refuses_to_return_my_rightful\/","id":"7150vb","body":"Early on around March, I decided to send a few of my wire wrap pieces to a local glass blower's consignment shop. I wrote up a receipt including all pieces i had brought into the shop that day, and also wrote an identical copy as to gauge their own prices for a turned profit. After months of time, I returned to find a majority of my pieces sold, as well as noticeably bloated prices on what was still located on the shelves. This is their own business to price merchandise at however much they so desire, I can understand this. After asking for my cut of the profit, I'm told there's no way possible to have my money upfront, and that I'll need to have it wired to my bank account. I give them the benefit of the doubt as they run a rather small shop. They tell me I'll have it sent before the week, as I was leaving state and there was virtually no way for me to retrieve it myself. As I assumed we've squared our business away, the shop keep at that particular time then proceeds to offer me cannabis for sale, busting out this jar teeming with flora. I understand that in order to distribute cannabis in Alaska you have laundry lists of certifications and licenses to keep up with in order to maintain such a business, so I understand that was inappropriate for him to have offered, even more so as I am not legally eligible to consume such a product yet. I immediately decline and go on about my day.\n\nIt has been more than two months since that conversation, and dozens of denied requests of contact on their end led to no avail. After leaving so many calls I suspect the main owner now has my contact blocked. On our last mobile conversation they left their spouse's number for me to contact as well, in which she avoids answering. Can these individuals face legal repercussion for my lost items? ","title":"Shop owner refuses to return my rightful commission (AK)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1444446302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o6gd2\/nh_verizon_block_c_footnote_502\/","id":"3o6gd2","body":"Following a complaint with the FCC being defended by Verizon on the grounds that footnote 502 allow for locking bootloaders, I have created the enclosed response. I am wondering if it is worded correctly and whether or not it addresses and invalidates their argument as it appears in the second enclosed document uploaded by a 3rd party who encountered an identical response (I didn't feel like going to the library and scanning mine in.)\n\nMy response so far: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1t3GlJ6Eup0nUUvqsllhEAshw5w2a_OEBFV_zmRY-phw\/edit\nResponse from Verizon as to the issue: https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BxwYn8K9RD7Zdlc3VUJPejdQV0E\/view?usp=sharing","title":"(NH) Verizon Block C footnote 502","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540237293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qh8yh\/free_labor\/","id":"9qh8yh","body":"Im a courier for Amazon I deliver hundreds of packages to a large apartment complex. Im being forced to deliver packages to their mailroom. We have our own Amazon branded lockers in which I am paid to deliver to. They have a 3rd party locker system and will not accept packages unless I physically put the packages in the 3rd party locker I am not compensated for this labor. Can I sue for unpaid labor this locker service that they have installed is an amenity that they provide to tenants it is not provided by Amazon","title":"Free Labor","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569982677,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc3xp3\/just_got_served_how_should_i_proceed\/","id":"dc3xp3","body":"I, along with my siblings, invested in a restaurant with my cousin and two partners.  One of the partners got divorced a couple years ago, and his ex-wife has subpoenaed all the business records for the llc that my siblings and I created to be the partial owner of this restaurant.  My partner has no interest in this holding company, and no payments have been made to or from him to this holding company.  So what responsibility do I have to turn over these documents?  Or what steps can I take to address this?","title":"Just got served, how should I proceed?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1411804620,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hlniq\/im_a_civilian_employee_of_a_local_law_enforcement\/","id":"2hlniq","body":"The title really says the bulk of it. This has been burdening me for most of the 10 years I've been with them and I'm polishing off a bottle of bourbon trying to decide whether to push send on an email to a local news outlet or whether there is a better way to go about this. I've thought about getting in touch with an attorney in the area but I'm concerned about pre-existing relationships and whether I might say something to the wrong person. Same for other levels of law enforcement.\n\nI've seen a bunch of shit that was easier for me to let slide off my conscience because it didn't really hurt anyone in particular: pieces of evidence not ending up where they were supposed to, public funds being used in ways they should not, etc. A culture of indifference and even a degree of pride in this sort of behavior has begun to develop, to the point that some people will make jokes about corruption and the things they are doing wrong. There have been literally dozens of examples over the years that have just been building up, but even though I've been a little uncomfortable with it all, nothing has seriously nagged at me until now.\n\nA couple weeks ago I was in the bathroom with the stall door closed playing on my phone when I heard two people come in and start joking around about some guy they fucked over having just gotten sentenced. They didn't know I was in there. I was feeling nosy after so I pulled the court records for the last name they mentioned. Based on what I read and on what they said, I am pretty sure one of them planted evidence and that they went out of their way to target this guy for some personal reason.\n\nI recognized their voices and laughs and I know exactly who they are. I don't know of anything wrong they've done like this in the past but I also get the vibe that they are a part of this general \"fuck the rules\" mentality that seems to exist around here. That all said, I don't have any proof of any of this. I could point to a few procedural and administrative issues I know of that could probably result in some disciplinary action, but that's about it. I'm confident that a through investigation of our office would uncover much more, but I don't think I have enough to bring about such an investigation and am worried that any attempts on my part to restore some justice around here would just push evidence of any malfeasance further under the table.\n\nWho can I talk to? Am I protected under whistleblower laws? Is the FBI a viable option? District Attorney? City Hall? Mayor? Commissioner? Should I try to collect more evidence before I do anything? If I submit something anonymous to the media or even to the FBI, can it be taken seriously?\n\nIf anyone has experience with anything like this I would really appreciate some general guidance.","title":"I'm a civilian employee of a local law enforcement agency where I am aware of some pretty serious corruption and illegal activities. (Ohio)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568424647,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3yu4m\/hidden_cameras_in_house_to_monitor_ex_husband\/","id":"d3yu4m","body":"Backstory: my girlfriend currently holds joint custody of her child with her ex-husband. Due to financial constraints, they rent a house together. She has recently found marijuana and prescription medications put in the open. Beyond that, she suspects him of further neglect and is wanting to install a couple hidden cameras in an attempt to collect evidence of such. \n\nQuestiong: what are the laws in florida regarding hidden cameras in shared living spaces, where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy, as there would be in a bathroom or bedroom?","title":"Hidden cameras in house to monitor ex husband suspected of child neglect. (FL)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570203668,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd92fl\/parents_trust_and_divorce\/","id":"dd92fl","body":"Hi All,\nI am getting married in December. Very excited and loving our relationship but always have to think about the worst. My family is wealthy and I have no siblings. They worked 70 hour weeks and worked their way up from literally nothing to heads of major companies and invented right. My parents have everything in a trust and their will states I will ultimately own their entire estate. They are also in their late and mid 70s. When I get married, should we ever divorce, does she get half of their trust? I wouldn\u2019t want an ex wife to get half of everything my parents worked all their lives for. Or frankly anything of my parents. Obviously if we both purchase something (half\/half) I\u2019d want her to have half of that, not the big trust though. I hope that makes sense. How do I protect myself and this? Also to make matters a bit more interesting is that her sister is a local attorney. \n\n\nThank you for your time.","title":"Parents Trust and Divorce?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1446321941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r04yg\/california_unpaid_speeding_ticket_unable_to_pay\/","id":"3r04yg","body":"Hello legal advice! \n\nI received a speeding ticket in Roseville, California on July 2, 2015. The officer issuing the ticket informed me that I would receive a notice in the mail with the amount of my fine, and the options I can take to resolve it. I currently live in Reno, Nevada attending university, so dealing with this in person would be difficult. \n\nFast forward nearly 4 months later. I never received a mailed notice, and had forgotten about the ticket. I am visiting home for the first time in about a year, and my father tells me I received a notice from the court; dated 10\/7\/15 and advising me that I have been found guilty by written declaration, and that a 300$ late fee has been assessed bringing my total fine to  $603. A notice at the bottom states that the $300 civil assessment can be removed if contacted within 20 days. \n\nWell, here I am receiving the notice from my father 4 days too late, on a Saturday. I am a full time student, and would be hard pressed to pay a $300 fine, let alone $603. I understand that the fine is deserved (I was speeding), but there is no way I can afford the given amount. What are my options here?","title":"[California] Unpaid speeding ticket, unable to pay.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552355296,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b01y3i\/impeaching_a_witness\/","id":"b01y3i","body":"How does impeaching a witness due to their previous criminal record work if they are accusing someone of a crime that cannot be corroborated? \n\n\nNE location","title":"Impeaching a witness?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554049656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7pj31\/am_i_allowed_to_hire_14_year_olds_in_pennsylvania\/","id":"b7pj31","body":"For some background, I run a few medium to large sized retail businesses, and I\u2019m currently unsure wether or not I can hire 14 year olds, as I get many applications for cashier or organizer shifts. I did do my research, and found out I can hire them, but I\u2019m worried there will be some complication or technicality I overlook which may get me in trouble. It\u2019s not usually very labor inducing, and my businesses are the typical first job type of places many high schoolers and college kids apply for.","title":"Am I allowed to hire 14 year olds in Pennsylvania? If so, are there any complications involved that might need attention?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508266702,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/770r8m\/housing_deposit_check_bounced_for_guy_who_took\/","id":"770r8m","body":"At my old place in Bozeman Montana, the guy who took over my lease, signed the papers, got verified by the leasing agency's put a stop on his housing deposit check to me.\n\nFor this particular housing agency, the deposit \"stays with the house.\" So if someone moves out and someone else moves in, the person moving in pays the person moving out their part of the housing deposit. \n\nThe guy, after signing the papers and before I had deposited the check, e-mails me and says \"I don't want to pay the whole thing, let me pay less.\" I say \"no, that's not how it works.\" He claimed the \"house was damaged.\" I said \"normal wear and tear.\" and \"my room is in the exact same condition as when I moved in.\"\n\nHe then puts a stop on the check. In the meantime, I've moved to Canada, so it's very hard for me to deal with this. My bank just called me and said that the check was stopped and the debited my account, taking me into the negative. \n\nI sent him an e-mail saying \"Pay it or get kicked off the lease.\"\n\nWhat can I do? Small claims court? Can I get reimbursed for travel expenses for small claims court if I have to drive back down there?  (~100 in gas.)\n\nThe amount is only ~$400. (I had more money in another account, I just haven't finished transferring my US money into CAD, hence why it took me into the red.) However, I'm not going to let someone get away with not paying me money I'm owed. I will pursue this even if I only end up with $20 in the positive. \n\nEDIT: I have friends still in town, can I have them do things like send certified mail for me or do I have to do that through the canadian post office?","title":"Housing deposit check bounced for guy who took over my lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571284470,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj0wr6\/cp_and_a_lot_of_sketchy_shit_at_my_school\/","id":"dj0wr6","body":"To start this off I want to say this is really hard for me to speak out about but my friends and I need help... We go to\/went to (some of us unenrolled and got out of there but some of us are still there) a private democratic school where they handle broken rules with in school court hearings run by students and there's been a lot of occasions where illegal things have occurred but they kept it all within the school.\n\nOne of these occasions was last year two students were found consuming child probography and attempting to purchase drugs and weapons on the dark web and they chose to ban these students from using technology for the year instead of contacting the authority's... There's been other cases of thing happening including abuse and harassment but I don't want to say too much because I'm already scared enough of making this post.\n\n\nMy friends and I are trying to make plans to travel a couple towns over to a payphone since there's so little of them around so we can file an anonymous report and what my friends are afraid of is getting in trouble for reporting it somehow.. Will we be safe or because we also didn't report this stuff sooner out of fear could we get in trouble?? Not only that the school is really divided and cultlike in the way its supported and we're scared that if we report it some of the older kids who run the in school judicial stuff will lie and the little kids won't understand\n\nWhat should I do? Is it safe to report this? As an ex student who has beef with the school will I be safe? Can we be protected as minors?","title":"CP and a lot of sketchy shit at my school","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570628797,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfh9sr\/15_yo_cousin_blackmailedchild_porn_nc\/","id":"dfh9sr","body":"My 15 YO (female) cousin was blackmailed into sex. She had been hooking up with a guy for a while, at a party one of his friends video taped them and she is clearly identifiable. That friend blackmailed her with it to sleep with him and she complied. Obviously he kept trying to do it over and over. His ex girlfriend found the video on his phone and airdropped it in the cafeteria at her school. My cousin tried to take her own life and failed. Now there\u2019s the issue of charges. \n\nObviously I\u2019m recommending going after the friend for child porn distribution. But questions I have are:\n\n- Can the initial guy she was hooking up with be charged (he knew about this happening)\n\n- Are there rape charges involved in this situation for the friend?\n\n- How harshly can they go after the ex girlfriend?\n\nI\u2019m free to answer any questions.","title":"15 YO Cousin Blackmailed\/Child Porn [NC]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507219815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74gz1m\/canada_bc_yellowpages_is_charging_me_for_an\/","id":"74gz1m","body":"Today i got a call from yellowpages saying that i owe them for a whole year of their services. They claimed that i \"signed\" a vocal contract with them over the phone. I remember getting a phonecall from yellowpages but making it clear that i did not want their services.\n\nI called customer support about this issue and they said that I DID sign the vocal contract. Despite me telling them \"no I do not want your services right now\" at least a dozen times, they said that at the END of the phonecall, the yellowpages sales person said something around the lines of \"how about I reserve a spot for you and you can call me back if you change your mind?\" and I said FINE because i was very busy at the moment and I REALLY didnt want to talk to this pushy person.\n\nThis leads me to my current problem. I just got billed an entire year for a service that i didnt know I got and I didnt want. I asked them for the original audio of the conversation but they said I would need to get it from the INVESTIGATION TEAM. The investigation team is sopposed to call me in a few weeks to \"sort this out\"\n\nThis is all very sketchy to me. First of all i didnt give them any visa or banking numbers, so how are they going to force me to send over the money?\n\nAlso, a vocal contract seems almost illegal. What if I was drunk or on medication when this \"contract was made\"? Because i think i might have been. And how did they determine that i fully understood what i was signing? I did not have a clear understanding of what exactly they were sopposed to do for me at the time, and i was too busy to care.\n\nThis sounds like a bunch of baloney. What do I do?\n\nEdit: also yes this call was from the real yellowpages. I know because they know which emails i got from yellowpages\n\ncustomer service informed me that the sales rep promised me things that i never got, so i kindof have a case there\n\nEdit: *promised me some things that i never got\n\n","title":"[Canada B.C] yellowpages is charging me for an entire year of services that i said I didn't want","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553185055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3sgwb\/mnl_please_help\/","id":"b3sgwb","body":"My late sister died 5 years ago, she left a monthly insurance for her disabled daughter, now she\u2019s 21 (I am her legal guardian now) the insurance company doesn\u2019t know about her condition. So now, they are asking for a letter request fo re-adjudication for tagging an incapacitated child.\n\nI don\u2019t know much about writing request letters to a insurance company. And can anyone explain what re-adjudication actually means? I googled it and I am in all honesty confused. I know I sound dumb but I have no idea how to write this letter request. \nIf anyone can give me an idea hiw to write this letter. Thank you!\n\n","title":"(Mnl) Please help!!!","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552956902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2qpi6\/teacher_forcing_us_to_to_either_pay_or_stay_back\/","id":"b2qpi6","body":"So sorry for formatting am on mobile \n\nSo quick background, I am in Pre-IB at a  Highschool in Virginia, and I have a problem with my English 10 teacher \n\nSo every year she does a service project in class for the community which is fine. But this year she decided to make Paracord baggies for the troops and inturn make our service project test either A) Donate an object for the bag (must be new) or B) Stay back after school during our offtime and assemble the bags. She provided no option for us to take them home or give us class time for this. I have not the funds but I do have the time, but I would have to take time out of my sport, I would be ok with doing this normally but the fact that it's a forced thing gives me an off feeling\n\nI went to my principal and he said since I have the means to participate he wouldn't do anything but I know of some kids who have neither the funds nor the time and they are S.O.L \n\nMy question now is, is what my teacher doing here legal or do you think I have a case against her with my school board as we are being graded on our ability to give money or stay back on our off time something no other class then band is required to do.\n\nPS. I'm in VA, USA","title":"Teacher forcing us to to either pay or stay back after school for a test grade","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551977846,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayeszp\/father_rights_texas\/","id":"ayeszp","body":"My boyfriend has a 9 yo daughter. His ex and him barely see eye to eye but have come to certain agreements. As per their custody agreement he gets her every 1st, 3rd and last weekend of the month.  However they do not follow this. My boyfriend and I pick up his daughter every Monday, Wednesday,  and Thursday from school so she can use our computer and get help with her homework. Her mother picked the days and we agreed. Yesterday, on Wednesday his daughter was working on her homework and her mother called asking for us to take his daughter to her place of employment   because she wanted to take their daughter to Mexico for something. My boyfriend said no and that he would take her home after his ex got back from Mexico. Now she's saying we cannot pick her up from school or have her at our house. We've tried explaining how she doesn't get help at her mothers house and they don't have internet there. Previously when her mother was picking her up, her grades dropped significantly.  Can she prevent us from picking up his daughter? Can she legally take his daughter to Mexico even though my boyfriend has said no? We currently do not have money for a lawyer, are there free resources we can utilize to fight for custody?  ","title":"Father rights [Texas]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445142604,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p6zny\/nm_child_support_question\/","id":"3p6zny","body":"My ex wife lowered her hours a year before the divorce so when the time came she was required only to work her 20 hours as we had a child under 6.  Now she hit 6 years old I filed the request to change it as it supposed to be calculated now based on her potential income if unemployed or underemployed.  I have been begging for enough money for at least a small christmas or to afford to change my cell phone.  I thought they would use her $15 wage but no they used minimum wage?? and said no change was needed...  She has been planning this for years and I thought I had some hope when my kids were all in school but my hopes are crashed.  They were already closed for the weekend when I got the letter but I am calling monday is this all correct is there any rights for the father.  I work 40 hrs a week in a low paying job I hate and I don't even have enough money for a doctor's visit let alone anything fun for the kids how does anyone do this. ","title":"NM child support question","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446167486,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qs6vs\/home_improvement_contract_includes_timeline_but\/","id":"3qs6vs","body":"I am in North Carolina and having some home renovations done. contract specifies that the work will be completed between 6-10 calendar days. We are at day 11 and wont finish until Monday (day 14) at the earliest. We picked a higher bid on the job because we liked the contractor and he had the fastest completion time. Now that it is taking longer we could have picked a lower bid. The delays were due to his subs being tied up at other jobs. Do I have any options here?  ","title":"Home improvement contract includes timeline, but no penalties. What are my options now that they are behind schedule?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553007204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2yd1f\/payment_issue\/","id":"b2yd1f","body":"Hello r\/legaladvice!\n\nSo, my workplace gave everyone the day off PAID because of the \"Cyclone Bomb\" that recently hit the Denver Metro area. Because I had a laptop with all of the required programs, they requested that I remotely access the office and with, since everything was getting backed because HQ is closed.\n\nMy job will only be paying me for an 8 hour shift on this day. I feel since they are compensating everyone for their scheduled shifts that day, that I should receive 16 hours of pay for the day, since I worked remotely for 8 and was scheduled for 8. I assumed this would be the legal requirement, but my company's HR insists I should only get 8 hrs pay.\n\nAm I being cheated? Am I being entitled asking for what I worked for as well as what was given to the rest if the company? Seriously just lost. . . \n","title":"Payment Issue?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570219083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddcl33\/so_im_describing_someone\/","id":"ddcl33","body":"So someone has been harassing people at my school and they are a complete sociopath so I made an account on Instagram and wrote about the persons personality. Just. Their. Personality like I called them heavily religious and a complete manipulator but I didn't describe their appearance or say their name or anything about them other than the personality traits .So can I get in any legal trouble?  I can put the Instagram account for reference if needed. This is kinda urgent","title":"So I'm describing someone...","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1502943918,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u7moh\/apartment_complex_is_making_tenants_pay_fee_for\/","id":"6u7moh","body":"Hey everyone! I live in AZ. I somewhat recently moved out of a 2br cheap apartment in a bad area. I lived there for 2.5 years. I did everything a tenant should do before move-out-- I had the carpets cleaned, and I personally cleaned the apartment top to bottom. Right before I handed in the keys, I took around 100 pictures and 3 videos of my own walk-through since the office staff refused to do a walk-through with me. A month later I get a bill in the mail for $1000 just stating \"carpet replacement\" and \"cleaning fee.\" That apartment was spotless, and (I don't believe, I could be wrong) cheap carpet minus the \"usable life\" (2.5 years) should not equate to $900! Especially since the carpet was left in good condition with the exception of 1 noticeable stain. Obviously I didn't agree with the charges so I sent a letter via certified mail stating my disagreement and rationale with attached photos of the condition of the apartment upon move-out. I never heard back from them after that and I never gave them money. \n\n\n\n\nNow, today, I learned for a fact that there is a new tenant in that apartment and the carpet has NOT been replaced. Upon looking at the apartment reviews, it looks like they charge most tenants this cleaning\/new carpet fee upon move out. But the landlord isn't actually replacing any carpet-- they are pocketing the money!!! Is this legal? \n\n\n\n\nI understand that this doesn't directly apply to me since I refused to give them money for their bullshit charges, but they are taking advantage of other lower class tenants and bleeding them dry paying for new carpet that never gets installed. I feel like I should do something-- this isn't right or fair and this issue needs to be rectified. Any ideas? ","title":"Apartment complex is making tenants pay fee for \"new carpet\" upon move-out-- then they never replace the carpet. Is this legal? [AZ]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552574801,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b116g6\/can_i_sue_manufacturing_company\/","id":"b116g6","body":"Not sure if anyone would be able to help. \n\nSo I had a pre workout powder manufactured...\n\nThey told me the label would be fda compliant yadda yadda and i would get a sku. \n\nI am a small company mind you. \n\nI got my product and it didn\u2019t have a sku, and isn\u2019t FDA compliant so I can\u2019t sell on Amazon. \n\nAm I entitled to compensation etc? \n\nThanks. \n\nTldr; manufacturer screwed me ","title":"Can I sue manufacturing company?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1447435101,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sokq5\/tx_inheritance_administrators_deed_and_a_whole\/","id":"3sokq5","body":"My grandfather died about a year ago. I was naively under the impression that the land that was intended for me was automatically transferred to me upon his death. Upon finding out that it hasn't been I am in a bit of a panic to figure out how to get it under my control to managed taxes and to sign a lease for the tenants that farm the land. I have an Administrator's Deed that states : \n\n\nKNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: THAT I, XXPAPAXX, Dependent Administrator of the Estate of XXRELATIVEXX, Deceased, for and in consideration of the distribution of estate assets; have GRANTED and CONVEYED, and by these presents do GRANT and CONVEY unto XXPAPAXX for life, with remainder over to MRGNB, whose address is 123 Wtf Way, Townsville, County, Texas 78000, all of the following described real property, lying and being situated in Country and Brush counties, Texas, and more particularly described as follows, to-wit:\n\n followed by the legal description. \n\nThis conveyance and hereinafter warranty are made expressly subject to any easements, rights of way and prescriptive rights, wether of record or not, all presently recorded restrictions, reservations, covenants, conditions, oil and gas leases, mineral and royalty severances and other instruments that affect the property; rights of adjoining owners in any walls and fences situated on a common boundary; and discrepancies, conflicts, or shortages in area or boundary lines; and any encroachments or overlapping of improvements. \nTO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above described premises, together with all and singular rights and appurtences thereto in anywise belonging, into the said XXPAPAXX for life, with remainder over to MRGNB, their heirs and assigns forever. \n\nSinged dated notarized and filed in the county of his death. Along with a death certificate and a copy of the will that he inherited the land from. I displayed these documents to the county clerks office in the county the land is situated with and they seemed to have no idea what to do with it. PLEASE HELP! I just need to be pointed in some direction.","title":"[TX] Inheritance, Administrator's deed and a whole lot of confusion.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569288963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8gcc3\/previous_landlady_accuses_us_of_stealing_has_no\/","id":"d8gcc3","body":"Sorry for formatting. I'm on mobile.\n\nIDAHO. \nMy daughter, husband and I moved in with an older lady temporarily because otherwise we would be homeless. We informed her it would maybe be for a couple of months and she was fine with that. Rent was $500 for us to have two rooms, daughter slept on an inflatable mattress. \nShe was going through a nasty divorce where her ex tried to shoot her and stomped on the stump of her amputated leg. So the money was helping her pay foe her lawyer. She offered to give us stuff like the extra wii she had with wires but no controllers. Which was cool. \n\nShe swore that whole we were living there she wouldn't smoke(weed) in front of my kid. We'll, she did smoke it around her AND she offered some to my 14 year old kid! \nAfter we gtho she accused us of stealing her wii. \n\nOn our way out I had grabbed it (no wires though)because she said we could. We'll, my husband saw it and put it back. So we don't have it. Like at all. She was saying we had also taken controllers and games and wires and that we still owed her money. \nNo lease was drawn up, everything was paid in cash. \n\nI'm having anxiety about this idiocy and just need some advice. Would she have a case at all against us? Thank you all for your time.","title":"Previous landlady accuses us of stealing. Has no real proof. Would she have a case against us?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550446825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arqmsd\/uk_got_a_graduate_job_offer_for_jan_2019_they\/","id":"arqmsd","body":"I got the offer around September 2018. It was a perfect role for me. Closer to November\/December time, I heard nothing so enquired and was told we've pushed it to March. I was pissed but I could accept it.\n\nSo it's approaching March soon and I heard nothing again, so enquired and they said we've pushed it to either July or September 2019. So they've pretty much made me wait a year for my job.\n\nSurely this is illegal? I've had a side job but I feel I could have progressed so much more in my career if they had either took me on when they initially promised, or just been honest with me from the beginning so I could apply somewhere else.\n\nI have a friend working there and apparently they're having financial difficulties due to brexit uncertainty which I can totally understand but they shouldn't be messing with the livelihoods of people just because they're not making an extra buck or two.\n\nAny advice? Do I send a strongly worded email or should I go Saul Goodman on their ass? ","title":"UK - Got a graduate job offer for Jan 2019, they pushed it back to March 2019, then they pushed it again to 'either July or September 2019'","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445558078,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pu9xp\/waca_mother_has_a_longstanding_judgement_against\/","id":"3pu9xp","body":"Hi everyone,\n\nIt's my first time posting in this subreddit, using a throwaway account for my own legal\/financial security. I'll try to make this as clear as possible, and sorry for advance for the length -- it's a crappy situation leaving me with a bunch of questions and no good answers. Any advice is greatly appreciated!\n\nMy mother (60s, F) and her husband had a fairly lucrative business in the 90s, which they lost in a settlement around '00. In the mid-2000s, they hired a family friend who was an attorney (let's call him George) to represent them in a new business venture. After a few years, this venture shut down and barely made any money. I'm not sure on the specifics, but from what I understand, George was promised to make a percentage of their profits, rather than being paid a flat fee for his services. At this time, everything happened in California.\n\nThings fizzled out around 2007 and my entire family moved up to Washington state to focus on other things. Almost all the money they made from their settlement (~$3M) was gone by 2010, leaving them fairly tight in their savings with little to no income. As a side note, my father is much older than my mother and is a veteran, so they've lived comfortably on a simple life with his social security income. \n\nFlash forward to 2012 and all of a sudden I get a call from my mom. $20,000+ was taken from her savings account and the other accounts were frozen. Come to find out, George had filed a lawsuit against her because he wasn't paid \"what he was owed\" for the business venture in the 2000s. He filed this through California and whatever court summons were sent her way never reached her -- she had no idea this was happening. I'm guessing the timeline here is 2008 or 2009. Because she never showed up in court, George was able to get a judgment against her for over $300,000. \n\nAt this time, my mom had no idea what to do: her cash savings was almost wiped out by the $20k he took, and she couldn't afford a decent lawyer. She had an old business partner (who was a lawyer) respond to George to say that it was fraud and that they'd countersue if he took further action, which stopped him for a while. It was a bit of a bluff, though, since she couldn't afford her friend's expensive services. We didn't hear anything for a while and my mom basically ignored it, hoping that was the end of it (she has a bad habit of hiding from confrontation).\n\n---\n\nJump to now, which is the main point of this thread. George is back; she got a letter in the mail saying her account was frozen again. Ever since 2012, she's kept what small assets she has in cash to, you know, survive. What complicates things now is my dad's health is failing every day and just last month we put him in a full-time care facility. She can't afford it on her own, so my brother and I are covering most the costs. Her plan, before George came back, was to sell her house (valued at $350K, she owns it all in cash), buy something much cheaper, and use the extra to pay for my dad's care.\n\nHere are my questions -- 1) how safe is my mom's house? I heard there are homestead laws, but it sounds like he can still get a lien on the house if he wants. 2) how safe is her car \/ other basic necessities? 3) what legal action can she take to defend herself if\/when she is served?\n\nAnd, the big one concerning me here is 4) she is considering \"gifting\" me her home so that he can't put a lien on the house, and then having me sell it. (I just bought my first home this year, as an aside). This makes me feel that it's going to screw up a ton of things for me, like my taxes. I don't want to implicate myself at all in this, financially\/legally. \n\nThis whole judgement was filed on the assumption that they made $~2M+ during the time George worked for them in the 2000s. In 2012, when the judgement came to my mother, she had to release her financial records which proved she did not make much money at all. This leads me to believe she can counter-sue him for fraud (or for *something*, but that's also going to be a time-consuming, expensive process, and her health is getting worse and worse from the stress.\n\nAny help you can offer, however general it may be, would be amazing. Thanks so much!","title":"[WA\/CA] Mother has a long-standing judgement against her from an ex-attorney; need advice on her options","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554678351,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bamdxh\/speaker_got_stolen\/","id":"bamdxh","body":"So, on monday my speaker got stolen at school during sport. I left it in my bag of which was closed and came back to it open with the speaker missing.\n\nIf there is anything i can do to get it back or a way to get money back to buy it again.\n\nBtw, i have already informed teachers and this is in UK.","title":"Speaker got stolen","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1503012161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6udwt4\/us_internet_law_with_the_recent_trend_of_internet\/","id":"6udwt4","body":"This is something I've never been 100% clear on - by my understanding, to qualify for Safe Harbor provisions as a \"mere carrier\" a company must NOT curate content transmitted over their service in any way. If they do curate, then are't they theoretically liable for any copyright infringement by their users?\n\nFurthermore, is the answer different for a company like Twitter vs. a domain registrar like GoDaddy? Or is this something that ONLY applies to ISPs? Am i just completely mistaken?\n\nEdit: Okay, after some further reading, it looks like https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/17\/512 says that curating content is okay as long as it's via an *automatic* process. My question still stands, I guess?","title":"[US internet law] With the recent trend of internet companies banning white supremacist content, are they at risk of ruining their DMCA Safe Harbor status?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1505675610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70pjf6\/fl_unwritten_agreements_for_residential_space\/","id":"70pjf6","body":"I\u2019m sure you all get a million of these a week, but here\u2019s the short and simple;\n\nI am currently residing in a house owned by a friend. There is no written\/signed agreement regarding how much rent is or when rent is due. There IS communication between us about paying rent but the landlord wants to increase rent now that we, essentially, \u2018make more money.\u2019\n\nBecause there is no signed agreement specifically stating that we pay $1625 for the house a month, can the landlord reasonably require us to pay $1800 a month for the house?\n\nEvery which way I look at it, she could easily just evict us from the house solely because we do not own the house or have a written statement allowing us to live in the house.\n\nWe are fully prepared to move out if it comes to it, but I wanted to get my legal background before going into any sort of conversation with her about why increasing our rent is a ridiculous idea based on the premises of us getting a raise in salary.\n\nEDIT 1: The landlord does not live in the house, but she does do everything a landlord would do (pay for lawn services, exterminators, plumbing issues, etc.) \n\nEDIT 2: fixed inaccurate rent amount","title":"[FL] Unwritten Agreements for Residential Space","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570930127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh426u\/california_law_is_there_a_law_against_false\/","id":"dh426u","body":"As in making a false claim to any person that an act of terror is currently happening?","title":"California law: Is there a law against false terror reports?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442196540,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kuw9o\/landlord_wants_to_put_a_door_into_my_bedroom_as_a\/","id":"3kuw9o","body":"Today my landlord informed me in passing that he plans to put a door in my current bedroom, and that he has scheduled the work to start on this project in a few weeks with no real further explanation as to why, besides that it will be a fire exit. At the moment I live in a 2 bedroom apartment with a roommate above a future business that my landlord will be running. It's important to know that we currently have 2 working fire exits, one to the balcony and one to the downstairs business. Another thing is that this building was built sometime in the 1940's from what I know, and because of this there is a strong chance for lead and asbestos to be present inside the walls. My question is can my landlord legally force me out of my bedroom to do this? Do I have any rights or say? I really don't want to have this work done now as I have asthma and worry about getting exposed to something harmful. When I signed the lease to my apartment on September 1st of this year, I was not told about this construction work. In fact, I specifically asked the landlord if there was to going to be any work done, and was told in person with a family member of mine present that the only project left that would effect my roommate and I in anyway; was outside work. Any help is greatly appreciated! \n\n\nUpdate 1: Firstly, thank you to everyone who has reached out to help me with this - I really appreciate your aid! Unfortunately the situation has gotten even trickier than I first thought. It turns out that there is a technicality to this. Because my landlord is changing the bottom of the building into a business, the top has to have different safety restrictions to meet code, which unfortunately involves adding another door. The way this was explained to me is that an additional fire escape needs to be added because the bottom floor no longer provides a safe corridor to exit the building since it is now zoned for commercial use.  My question is how would this apply to my lease? Is my landlord legally allowed to go and change the bottom of the building and enforce this or would this breach the current lease agreement that was signed? When I signed the lease, the entire house was residential.  It has now been divided into two parts \u2013 a residential apartment on top and a business on the bottom floor. Would this constitute a legal justification to have the lease broken? My landlord claims that he did not know about the requirement for an additional fire escape when I signed the lease; however I am looking into this further. I am talking with the city contractor who handled this to find out the actual date that the landlord was informed about the requirement for the third fire escape. I believe that may landlord may have known about this before I signed the lease and purposely kept the information from me.\n\n\n\n","title":"Landlord wants to put a door into my bedroom as a second fire exit. Currently, there are two fire exits in my apartment.(WI, USA)(Any help is greatly appreciated!)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551335720,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avnwdc\/fighting_landlord_for_security_deposit\/","id":"avnwdc","body":"Hi! So my husband and I moved out of a rental property about a month ago. We were the first tenants after the owner had renovated the house. While living there we treated the house as if it were our own (ex. no shoes on the carpet, no smoking, no food on the carpet etc). When we moved out I had my husband fill all the holes in the walls from hanging  things, we hired someone to come professionally clean the house, and we replaced 3 sets of blinds. Our landlord is now trying to keep almost $1,000 of our security deposit because the person we hired to clean forgot to clean the inside on the kitchen drawers, to shampoo the carpets, and to touch up the paint. I sent him a formal letter saying we don\u2019t accept those charges and unless he responds within 10 days We\u2019ll be taking him to small claims court. Do I have a case against him? I was under the impression that the carpet and walls would have been normal wear and tear. We also never did an initial walk through when we first moved in and were not given the opportunity to do a walkthrough when we gave our 30 day notice to see what needed to be done to the house. ","title":"Fighting landlord for security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541286191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tyldf\/fianc\u00e9e_is_pregnant_and_moving_in_with_me_at_the\/","id":"9tyldf","body":"My fianc\u00e9e is pregnant and moving in with me at the end of her semester. She\u2019ll finish Out the school year and then we\u2019re moving back to my home town because it\u2019s a better place to raise a child. Her parents haven\u2019t taken the news well, and have been sending me threatening text messages telling me they\u2019re going to essentially kidnap her from my apartment and beat me up, calling my employer and telling them I\u2019m a rapist, that I \u201cabuse\u201d (I absolutely have not, and never will) their daughter, and a bunch of other insane nonsense. They\u2019re angry because she\u2019s choosing to have this baby and commit to me. Our age difference isn\u2019t that big, but it\u2019s enough that they\u2019ve decided I must be some horrible person, looking to corrupt some young girl. This is not the case, I love my girlfriend very much and my family already treats her like family.\n\n When she moves in with me, what can I do to ensure they stay away from my property? Are the text messages enough to get a restraining order? Can they legally make her come home if she\u2019s still a public school student? She does not want to drop out and I\u2019d like to do everything I can to ensure she gets to finish all of her educational goals. Her dad has threatened physical harm on more than one occasion, would filing a police report be a good idea? I only have one explicit threat in text. I just want to know what I can do to keep the stress and dysfunction to a minimum while we are preparing our lives for big changes. ","title":"Fianc\u00e9e is pregnant and moving in with me at the end of the year, parents harassing me and threatening to kidnap my fianc\u00e9e when she leaves. What can I do legally to mitigate the situation?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542235620,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x530o\/should_i_get_paid_for_this_texas\/","id":"9x530o","body":"So my job consists of getting paid as soon as i get a call from work telling me to drive to a location, up untill tye last stop at work. Millage is included because I use my own vehicle (.25 a mile)\n\nNow here is the problem. I thought I got paid from door to door, but I just learned that once I am done with my final stop, I no longer get paid for the time driving home. \n\nIs this legal? Also, what about the time it takes to do my final close out? I was told to do my close out at home while not getting paid. ","title":"Should i get paid for this? [Texas]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446731937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rmnak\/do_i_need_to_pay_back_tuition_reimbursement_to_my\/","id":"3rmnak","body":"I live\/work in PA.\n\nI interned for my current company for a few years. As an intern, I wasn't eligible for my company's tuition reimbursement. They had a pretty nice deal, something along the lines of 75% paid if you work two years after payment. If you quit or are fired before two years, you have to pay the money back. Pretty standard as far as these things go.\n\nA few years ago I got offered a full time position while still in school. I took the job, hoping for the tuition help, but the day before I was hired, they changed the policy to pay out a lot less money for a lot more time worked. It's actually so obscene, I don't want to post it here because I'm pretty sure I'll get recognized.\n\nAnyway, I begrudgingly took the money because I needed it. I'm not stupid, I'm pretty sure they changed the policy because they knew I'd lean on it, and they didn't want to pay as much. Which is fine, they can do that. It's a dick thing to do, but they're within their rights. \n\nHere's where my question comes into play:\n\nIn the employee handbook, the terms of the tuition help are outlined (grades needed, amount paid, time worked after, repayment terms, etc.). In this section, there is also a statement along the lines of \n\n>The employee will need to sign an acknowledgment of these terms before any reimbursement is granted.\n\nI was given money for a few semesters and never signed anything.\n\nNow I did sign an acknowledgement that I received the handbook and that I understand it is my responsibility to read and comply with the policies inside. The acknowledgment I signed also states that:\n\n>I acknowledge this handbook is neither a contract of employment or a legal document.\n\nBefore anyone says anything, I took the money with the full intention of paying it back. I still plan too. However, I'm sensing that things may go sour with this company, and they'll use the terms of this tuition program to keep my salary low and just treat me like garbage in general.\n\nIf things do go sour, I'd just like to know my options. Under these circumstances, do you think I'd be able to leave free and clear if I needed to?","title":"Do I need to pay back tuition reimbursement to my employer if no contract has been signed?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539555758,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o6z3y\/rollover_wreck\/","id":"9o6z3y","body":"Yesterday someone t-boned my 2 month old car with my 14 year old son and I in it. We flipped in air and were transported to hospital. We were sent home last night after being checked by x ray and ct scans. The driver at fault has old American mutual insurance. I have farmers. I would like to hire an attorney to recover everything I lost. Will my insurance take care of me as well as an attorney would? Should I hire an attorney?","title":"Rollover wreck","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571513251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk8fd0\/best_route_in_breaking_a_lease_due_to_secondhand\/","id":"dk8fd0","body":"For background, my boyfriend and I have lived in this \"luxury\" apartment building for about 4 months. It is a 100% \"smoke-free\" building and every tenant is required to sign a no-smoking addendum in their lease. Secondhand smoke is a huge problem for us here, I'm a 100% P&T disabled vet while my boyfriend is a chronic asthmatic requiring multiple medications to control symptoms. While the secondhand smoke aggravates most of my conditions, there is no direct evidence I can show in court proving such harm has been done - and same for my boyfriend, he just has asthma medication prescriptions he takes. There are 0 \"no-smoking\" signs in the entire complex - including the elevators. The building is staffed and there are employees present most hours of the day. I have taken pictures of people actively smoking on their balconies and submitted it to management twice - they apparently \"talked\" to them about it but they continue to smoke. Management promised the first time we wrote them that they would send out an email and post signs; they even acknowledged the photo of our neighbor actively smoking and did nothing. A month later and there was no change. Matter of fact, a dude across the courtyard is ripping on his bong as I write this.\n\nLast week, I submitted a 30 day intent to vacate due to the landlord's negligence in curing these issues; it's all just a big health hazard. Not to mention, the landlord is not conducive in fixing the problem even though they advertise the building as \"smoke-free\". The building manager replied and told us we can't break our lease and that if we leave we'd be responsible for the remaining lease. Instead of handling this himself, the manager passed the issue to his assistant manager, who then had us meet with a leasing agent, which made no sense but we figured they'd allow us to transfer to another unit away from balconies. We met with them this morning and they told us they'd be happy to transfer us to another unit but we would have to pay back concessions ($8600) and pay the transfer fee (\\~$5000). They even explained how we'd be responsible for the remainder of the lease (\\~9 mo x $4400\/mo) if we chose to just leave. MA has no statewide law prohibiting smoking but the City of Boston does, I just can't find the exact law. We are desperately trying to get out of this apartment without having to pay through the nose in ridiculous charges, not to mention the possibility of an eviction being filed if we \"abandon\" the unit. What are our options? Can this be handled without an attorney?","title":"Best route in breaking a lease due to secondhand smoke (Boston, MA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542138948,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wsgz8\/estate_lawyer_has_yet_to_contact_the_trustee_ca\/","id":"9wsgz8","body":"I apologize in advance if the important information isn't organized well or if I put any unneeded info. I think it might be best if I tell the story exactly how it's going from my perspective. \n\nSeveral months ago, my grandmother passed away. A couple months before she passed away, she talked to me about being the trustee for my mom's half of the estate (the other half going to my aunt), due to my parents' history of financial irresponsibility. I told her I would do it even though she warned several times it would likely be a lot of work, since I don't want my parents burning a decent amount of money. Also note this is a dynasty trust, so whatever is left over once my mom passes away will go to me. \n\nStarting 2 months after my grandma's funeral, my mom started telling me that she and my aunt were having a meeting with the estate attorney (who was appointed by my grandma). I didn't think this was a big deal at first, but after about a month my mom says that they're actually meeting almost every week, and there are some disputes coming up. Note that I still have heard nothing from this lawyer, no phone calls no emails no letters, nothing. Here's what's laid out in the will, to my knowledge, from what my grandma told me and what my mom has said:\n\n- My mom gets the house she's living in which was originally owned by my grandma. \n- My mom and my aunt get 50% each of my grandparents' house. \n- Grandparents had a small business and a building in a commercial\/industrial (not sure which) area. The business is in one of the three office spaces in the building. The other two office spaces are rented out to other people. The business goes 100% to my aunt. The office building (all three office spaces) go 50% each to mom and aunt. Here's where the problems start. My aunt wants my mom to give her the other 50% of the building because she feels my mom's house is worth more than her business. However my mom says that my aunt is unwilling to get an appraisal for the business to see if that's even true. My mom says she wants to sell her 50% of the building to my aunt to just get out of the situation and avoid more conflict. So my mom told my aunt to get an appraisal for the value of the building. Months later (now), neither appraisal has happened, and my mom says that both my aunt and the lawyer are pushing her to either sell her 50% at an arbitrary value, or to just give her the 50% for free \"because the rest of the will wasn't balanced.\"\n\nMeanwhile, this is all information coming from my mom, whom I'm supposed to be trustee for. I've asked my aunt twice over the past several months if I should be doing anything for the estate or contacting the lawyer, and she says that I don't have to get involved yet, and the meetings they're having are just to fill out paperwork. My mom keeps asking me for advice on what to do or say in these meetings, and all I keep telling her is that I think the lawyer should be including me on this information before any decisions are made, if I'm supposed to be the trustee. I've also been trying to do some research on all this and think that there might be \"breaches of fiduciary duty\" if I don't start getting included, or if my aunt keeps avoiding getting appraisals. \n\nMy questions are:\n1. What do I do to legally protect myself from potentially be \"ignoring fiduciary duty\" when it's not even my fault the lawyer and my aunt are excluding me from these meetings? Do I really need to get my own lawyer? \n2. Is anything \"wrong\" even going on? I want to believe what my mom has been telling me about these meetings, and it sounds like she's telling the truth. But maybe there's some truth to me not having to be included yet even though I'm \"trustee\" since I don't even know what my responsibilities are supposed to be yet. \n3. What's the best way to handle this argument over the office building? My grandma told me that she doesn't want my mom selling them because they can provide regular rental income, but it's sounding like either she sells them to my aunt or my aunt is going to make it near impossible for my mom to even get that rent because she's under the impression the whole building should be hers. Ideally my mom would keep her 50% of the building and get rent from all 3 businesses in those office spaces, including my aunt's business. (This is why my aunt thinks it's unfair, because she doesn't want her business to have to pay rent to my mom). Also, apparently because my grandparents owned the business and this office space, my mom says they never bookkept that the business paid rent to the building owner. What's the legality or information on that? \n\nThanks to anyone who helps. Sorry again for it being disorganized, it was hard to remember everything important to mention since I'm typing this from work in the bathroom. ","title":"Estate Lawyer has yet to contact the trustee [CA, USA]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554462423,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9pt8d\/how_far_can_nintendo_go_with_pokemons_fan_made\/","id":"b9pt8d","body":"Brazil\n\nHello guys\n\nI'm a Brazilian programmer, I'm about to end college and I'm specializing in games and also VR applications to healthy.\n\nBtw, I'm working on my final course project and it'll be called \"PokeVR\", I've already modeled all the first 151 Pokemons and 4 battle scenes, it'll be basically the Pokemon Stadium from N64 but with Unreal graphics and the most important, the application of the Rift Oculus to play the game just like you're in front of your Pokemons when you're battling, seeing the Pokemons on real size.\n\nMy worry is that Nintendo is famous to take out fanmade projects, I'm not planning to publish the game and of course, I'll give all the game rights to Nintendo and the Pokemon Group. Actually I just want to use it as a portfolio and end my course using my two favorite things: Pokemon and VR...","title":"How far can Nintendo go with Pokemon's fan made developer ?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1443177261,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mbjwq\/is_this_blackmail_uk\/","id":"3mbjwq","body":"So I've lived in my rented property for over 3 years, shorthold tenancy (deposit secure) The property got sold to a new landlord a few months back who issued me with a section 21 notice period. Due to wanting to build an extention and make my room bigger (small bedsit) I agreed to move out etc.\n\nHe failed planning permission and then asked if I wanted to stay I agreed and continued paying my rent as usual everything was fine. During this period he did some building work which resulted in my bedsit having it's own bathroom rather than sharing. He then sends a new tenancy agreement through but the rent has increased by 70% and he's given me less than 1 months notice of a the rent increase. I find this way to expensive so I decline and make a counter offer which he ignores. He turns up one day and says I either pay the increase or move out. \n\nI then say ok I'll move out and give him a leaving date, which was end of October which he agrees to but then keeps emailing me about paying extra rent for my \"New facilities\". I decline and state that I've never agreed a new rent and the fact I'm moving out because I don't agree to the new rent and it's innapropriate to ask for more money on top of my rent.\n\nHe's just emailed me back and stated that unless I pay a \"contribution\" to the new facilities I have to move out by September 30th which is in 5 days. legally I know this isn't right but now I feel liike he's threataning me with homelessness unless I pay extra money which surely constitutes blackmail?\n\n","title":"Is this blackmail? (UK)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554748482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baxcze\/corporate_luring_people_into_pharmacy_with_pay\/","id":"baxcze","body":"So as the title says CVS corporate or at least the district manger is lying to employees promising them raises of they get licensed as pharmacy techs . however once the employee mis certified the dm says company no longer offers raises for cross training and pharmacy certification. This has been going on for over a year and half since new DM came in. Do we as employees have any recourse? HR is a no they have already said this is not policy and we won't get the raise.","title":"Corporate luring people into pharmacy with pay raise promise","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568767228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5pzu7\/friend_likely_being_fired_for_posting_nude\/","id":"d5pzu7","body":"Location is Arizona, US\n\nhi everyone, i\u2019m posting on behalf of a friend because their social media is currently being monitored by their employer. \n\ni have a friend that supplements their income by creating & selling independently created porn. they advertise heavily on social media (mostly twitter). their employer found their twitter account & called them in to say that management is \u201cinvestigating\u201d but it\u2019s been heavily implied that they\u2019ll be fired for this. i know that arizona is an at-will state, but this seems like discriminatory action as they\u2019ve done nothing illegal and the account in question is completely anonymous. there\u2019s no reference to the employer or the employee in question and there\u2019s no location on it. i\u2019ve advised them to get everything from the employer in writing in the meantime, but they\u2019re understandably concerned about being fired but also facing harassment at work because of this. \n\nmy friend would like to speak to a lawyer about the issue, but they\u2019re worried about contacting a lawyer that isn\u2019t sex work\/er friendly. any (legal) advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"Friend likely being fired for posting nude pictures on social media","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552174697,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az9mv4\/ga_usa_landlord_refuses_to_give_back_our_deposit\/","id":"az9mv4","body":"My family and I have lived in an apartment for 3 years. We've always kept the apartment extremely clean, and it is in fact cleaner than when we arrived.\n\nAround two weeks ago my father had an altercation with the landlord. After looking through the apartment he said he was impressed with how clean it was. My father then asked when he could expect the ($1100) deposit back. The landlord then suddenly switched gears and refused to give any money, saying it was actually filthy. The landlord then tried to intimidate my father by standing as close as possible to him and  yelling.\n\nMy father called the sheriff, and when the the sheriff arrived he looked in the apartment and said that it was a civil dispute and the landlord should give my father his money.\n\nI have photos of the apartment before we moved in, showing that it was filthy. Unfortunantly I did not take any photos when we moved out.\n\nWe've just recieved an e-mail from the landlord, and he says the apartment was so filthy they were unable to stay inside. He says he has had to hire a cleaning team, and any costs from that team will come from our deposit. According to him, if the costs are beyond $1100 we will be billed for any extra costs. I messed up really bad by not taking any photos.\n\nCan the landlord bill us for a cleaning service that isn't needed? Can we defend ourselves?\n","title":"GA, USA. Landlord refuses to give back our deposit ($1100) because of cleaning costs even though the apartment was left cleaner than when we arrived. He says he can bill us for cleaning services.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569135310,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7mzzi\/i_have_a_case_number_for_a_conviction_but_that\/","id":"d7mzzi","body":"Really frustrating that I can't look into this any further. It's the St. Louis County District Court. I have all the information (name, dob, Statute, court file number and more) but when I punch in the case number... nothing.  \n\n\nAm I missing something here?","title":"I have a case number for a conviction but that case number cannot be recognized by the county court website.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443202775,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3md0dk\/two_break_ins_in_a_week_can_we_hold_the_landlord\/","id":"3md0dk","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice,\n\nI live in Chicago and this week I had the misfortune of having my apartment broken into twice. Only one item was stolen each time, Monday a Macbook Pro and yesterday a guitar. My question is can i hold the landlord responsible for the theft? We learned this morning that the front door bolt and lock can easily be opened by a pair of household scissors because of the way the door is sitting on the frame. Also the front door does not have a peephole which we now know is required by Chicago code. We're requesting a copy of the work order to have the locks rekeyed from the last tenants (we moved in Sept 1st. ) because we aren't ruling out that they are entering with a key. Besides being beyond frustrated i feel that our, and my dogs, personal safety is at risk. I'm 99% sure that the thieves in question came back last night. There was a knocking on the door late at night when we weren't expecting anyone and since we don't have a peephole were unable to see who it was. When we asked through the door who it was they said they were looking for someone and then left. We had a side window open and we also heard them say \"check the back door\" so I don't think it was a simple case of the wrong house. We have police reports for each time and sadly do not have renters insurance (although we're high tailing it there). \n\nEven if we can't hold him financially responsible are these ground to break the lease? I'm sorting through tenants rights and landlords responsibilities and any advice on how to legally approach this would be fabulous. \n\nEDIT: Thank you for all the fine comments, friends! We went and got renters insurance this morning and will tell our tale to our children in hopes that they'll listen and heed our warning. But- they'll probably be like us and wait for some shit to get stolen and then go get it. Landlord is currently working on replacing the locks as we speak (type?). And after speaking with my roommates lawyer cousin we've found that since the door is not up to code (not having a peephole is against Chicago's code) if its not replaced in the next 15 days we'll be able to walk away from the lease without worry of legal repercussions from the landlord.  \n\nTl;dr: Got robbed twice in one week. Turns out because of the door's position on the frame you can easily slide the locks open. Wondering if we can hold the landlord responsible and or break the lease? Get renters insurance. ","title":"Two break ins in a week- Can we hold the landlord responsible for theft by means of lack of Safety?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552281630,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azpfay\/legality_of_constructing_playground_to_disqualify\/","id":"azpfay","body":"Please don't downvote me.\n\nThis week a few members of our HOA board of directors were warned through the grapevine multiple times that a house in our community would soon be inspected for approval to house (as a rental) a soon-to-be-released violent sex offender.  We did some investigating and we have identified the residence in question and it turns out the grapevine chatter is legit. We are in a panic. \n\n​\n\nWe noted on the state's sex offender registry FAQ that he may not live within 1500 feet of a playground or recreational facility utilized by minors.  I have looked at our land maps and the HOA owns a plot of land 300 feet from the residence on one side and a larger plot of land 1000 feet on the other side.  Would it be possible to prevent this individual from renting in our community if we built a playground on either of these two lots?  The release date for this individual has been pushed back about a month so we have enough time to construct a legitimate playground\/park area and designate it as such in our meeting minutes prior to the home being inspected by the officer. We are hoping the playground will disqualify this residence as it pertains to housing this man.\n\n​\n\nAs an aside, our covenants, rules, and restrictions prohibit homes in our HOA from being rented, but we have had some homeowners side step this condition by leasing to own their property, to tenants, which has generally resulted in bad outcomes.  The couple who owns this property might \"lease to own\" their house to this guy to circumvent our CC&Rs if we went this route.  They hardly ever visit their cabin here, but a quick look at the transaction logs for our security gate indicates they have been coming in very frequently in the last two weeks, presumably to ready their house for tenants.\n\n​\n\nI understand this man has repaid his debt to society, but he wreaked havoc on this community and left a trail of broken lives in his wake prior to his incarceration and he just can't live here. We are desperate to protect our community.","title":"Legality of constructing playground to disqualify residence from being used to house paroled violent sex offender. (Mississippi)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570682786,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dft06b\/our_lease_is_up_for_renewal_in_a_few_months_and\/","id":"dft06b","body":"There are 3 of us sharing a large house, my other two roommates move in February and signed a year lease. One roommate is chill but the other never cleans up, always slams doors at all hours, has guests over beyond the agreed upon dates, and smokes pot on our patio even though our lease explicitly states we can\u2019t do that within 20 yards.   We have told our landlord of the issues plus have constantly asked\/reminded the roommate about the expectations we all agreed to. We have had in person conversations plus have texts and a google doc documenting when reminded the roommate or when the behavior occurred. Just concerned she\u2019ll somehow be able to renew even though the landlord also doesn\u2019t want the roommate back.","title":"Our lease is up for renewal in a few months and we won\u2019t be asking our roommate back to renew, will they have any right to renew? (California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447168747,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sa4m4\/sc_questions_on_annulment_and_divorce\/","id":"3sa4m4","body":"Hi everyone. Without going into my sob story too much, I'm trying to figure out if I would be able to get an annulment from my husband. It seems like the best option for us, but I'm not sure what our chances are of being granted that. We were married for less than a year before separating, and have been separated for almost 3 months now. A month and a half after we got married, my husband told me that he had not found me attractive for the majority of our relationship, but didn't want to tell me because he \"didn't want to hurt me\". I had also had an affair, due to having a sexless relationship before this - I guess I thought getting married would fix this. We had sex twice during our marriage, but that's been it. Do I have grounds for an annulment? I know in SC we could get a quick divorce, solely on the grounds of my affair, but I think we would both prefer just to have an annulment and legally have never been married. Thank you so much for your help. ","title":"[SC] Questions on Annulment and Divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568905285,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6f9jh\/us_ca_preschool_teacher_had_to_switch_classes\/","id":"d6f9jh","body":"I\u2019m currently writing up a whole essay of what and how but the general gist goes:\n\n- (January) first paid job in preschool, very baby. Hired as an assistant teacher to a three year old class.\n\n- (June) coworker learns that I\u2019m not straight \n\n- (July) coworker slowly ramps up controlling\/abusive tendencies until I can no longer work in that classroom. I have to BEG the office to no longer work with her. \n\n- office transfers me to two year old class. I am unhappy there. Office and co workers tell me to stop being a doormat. (relevant later)\n\n- (August) office cuts my hours and transfers me to infant room.\n\n- (September 17) office fires me for giving attitude to coworkers (established personality as doormat), not knowing the headcount (a problem that was relevant maybe four months ago), and making two big mistakes in the infant room (worked there ~3 weeks with NO training or prior experience).\n\nAbout the toxic coworker:\n\n- been told by other coworkers that she is friends with the owner\n\n- no consequence for saying homophobic stuff in front of the kids\n\n- no consequence for harassing and verbally abusing me for about a month in front of the kids (I\u2019m pretty sure she didn\u2019t even get a stern talking to)\n\n- has a history of being toxic with other workers. To the point where no one wants to work in her class and she has permanently kicked out or driven off four other teachers.\n\nMeanwhile I get fired for \u201crolling my eyes and sighing\u201d (established reputation as a doormat!!!!) and having no formal training after three weeks. ):\n\nWhat should I do?","title":"[US, CA] \ud83d\udc4b Preschool teacher. Had to switch classes then got fired for having no training with infants. (w possible LGBTQ discrimination and harassment on the side)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571603419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkpcv2\/oregon_potential_stalkingcriminal_threat\/","id":"dkpcv2","body":"A while ago, I [19f] was romantically involved in (for the sake of this post) Sora [28m]. The relationship did not end well, and we have not spoken for a few months. He was never abusive toward me, but he does have a history of violence. He has been to my college campus before; he does not know which dorm I live in, but it's a very small campus. \n\nToday he messaged me on Facebook (I have his number blocked) accusing me of saying some unclear gossip about him to his friends. I told him this wasn't true, and he said that he would \"come [to my campus] now\" and that he \"could give me a reason to be scared of him\". I don't know if he'll act on it or not, but I can't physically do anything to prevent him from casing me harm if he did come. \n\nIs this interaction grounds enough to report him to the police or to campus security? If not, at what point would that become appropriate?\n\nThank you for your time","title":"Oregon -- Potential Stalking\/Criminal Threat?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571760384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlk1m5\/tx_landlord_is_selling_property_will_lease\/","id":"dlk1m5","body":"My landlord just let me know they are selling. My lease will end in January and I wanted to renew. He says they are closing in December. From reading previous similar posts I was under the impression the new owner would still need to honor my existing lease and after would be up to them if they want to renew with me or not. My landlord is telling me a new owner does not need to take over the leases generally but that doesn\u2019t sound right. I\u2019m just nervous about having to possibly find a new place but I\u2019d prefer to stay where I am.","title":"TX. Landlord is selling property. Will lease continue?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541693301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vba61\/do_i_have_right_of_first_refusal_for_my_pet\/","id":"9vba61","body":"I am 23, from the state of DE, US. \n\nMy ex and I broke up about a year ago. We were together for 5 years and jointly adopted a puppy together that was about 3 when we split. \n\nI left my ex for my safety. I say this because I left while she was out with the dog and I packed only what I needed in a trash bag and fled to an undisclosed location. I absolutely did not want to leave the dog, but I had to. \n\nA couple days later I went back to check on everything because it seemed off, and she had OD\u2019d and the dog hadn\u2019t been fed.. long story short, police had been called and the dog was staying temporarily in the care of her parents while she was in the hospital and I was looking for permanent living arrangements. \n\nMonths later my ex was harassing me and sending me suicide threats saying \u201ctake good care of the dog, I\u2019m sorry for what I\u2019m about to do\u201d etc. tried comforting her, called the police. She was bluffing. But I made clear a few times I\u2019d be happy to take the dog if she couldn\u2019t and that I very very much wanted visitation. Again, I have a lot of texts from her telling me to take the dog. But then wouldn\u2019t allow me to see her when I requested or tried using the dog as a pawn to gain other things from me. \n\nIt\u2019s been about a year and she surrendered the dogs care to her parents, I wasn\u2019t contacted nor considered. I feel like I should have RoFR, but I\u2019m not looking for custody. Only visitation. \n\nI messaged her mom, who I am on decent terms with, about visitation and her mom asked her daughter and is letting her daughter, my ex, decide. Which I don\u2019t think is right, because she surrendered care of OUR dog. I am okay with the dog staying with her mom, as much as it breaks my heart. She is retired while I work full time so for the dog\u2019s best interest it\u2019s best for her to stay where she gets love and attention 24-7. But I do feel I am entitled to visitation, and not just with my ex\u2019s blessing. \n\nThank you for reading. ","title":"Do I have right of first refusal for my pet?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569177578,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7ujze\/nyc_got_a_ticket_for_crossing_a_red_light_in_a\/","id":"d7ujze","body":"I was biking today in NYC and was stopped by the police for crossing a red light on a bicycle. What are the steps I should take for pleading not guilty and either reducing the $88 fine? This is my first infraction.","title":"[NYC] Got a ticket for crossing a red light in a bicycle","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506276368,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/726n7o\/il_given_a_speeding_ticket_for_going_95_in_a_70\/","id":"726n7o","body":"I just moved to IL 2 months ago.  Today, I was pulled over on I-355 for going 95 in a 70 and given a $140 fine. \n\n**A few things about that** -    \n1) When I saw the Cop I looked at my speed, it was 70-75 tops. It definitely was not 95.    \n\n2) The speed limit on that [section of I-355 is 65.] (https:\/\/mapstreetview.com\/#ot1ri_-1gepdz_9g.n_-5d20). The ticket says 95 in a 70 and that I'm not required to show up in court. \n  \n3) I never passed the cop. In fact the cop had to hit the brakes to get behind me and at which point I was at 60mph with cruise control on.  \n   \n4) I have an 8 minute video of our interaction. 7 minutes of it is just me waiting as she asked for my license (and only my license) and then came back 7 minutes later with a ticket and told me to be safe. No \"Why were you speeding?\" or \"Do you know how fast you were going?\". Maximum of 5 sentences were said.  (Not sure if this is relevant)      \n\n5) I have out of state plates.   \n\n\nI was looking online and found a few police\/lawyer forums saying that if they estimate your speed in their side view mirror, it usually doesn't hold up (which is why I brought up that she got the speed limit wrong) and same with bouncing the radar off the side view mirror. I was never directly behind the officer or in front of them until she hit the brakes to get behind me.\n\n**Questions**  \nA) If the notion that estimating speed via side mirror\/bouncing radar off side mirror doesn't hold up in court, Should I FOIA her dashcam footage to prove that I never passed her or was ever in front of her?     \n\nB) As a 20 year old, should I just pay the fine or do I have legitimate case to get this fine\/ticket dismissed?  \n   \nC) If I have a case, should I get a lawyer or will FOIA footage and demonstrating that the speed limit is wrong be enough to get out of it alone? (I've never done this before. I've been driving for 4 years without a ticket or accident). \n\nThank you!","title":"IL - Given a speeding ticket for going 95 in a 70 but I was in a 65.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539848731,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p74qi\/client_not_paying_for_freelance_website\/","id":"9p74qi","body":"Hi,\nI'm a freelance website developer. I use a freelance platform to get clients. About a month ago I worked for a client through the freelance platform to do some basic customisations to their website, it went perfectly, client was respectful and paid me as soon as the job was done. The client asked me to contact them on their email so that we can discuss further work, this is pretty normal and I've done this with many clients before. \n\nThe client asked me to redo their website according to the functionality that they wanted, I made it clear to them that it would take approximately 1 week and will cost them $300, they agreed. They wanted to to wait a few weeks before starting and I was happy with that. \n\nAbout 2 weeks later they emailed me let me know I can start. I worked throughout the week on the website, I let them know if I needed any information and replied to their emails. Towards the end of the week, they started throwing up wild accusations at me, for example 3 days before the week ended they emailed me and told me to stop work on the website, since they didn't see any progress on the website since the day before (I took a day off, since it was the weekend). I was confused and explained them that the deadline wasn't until another few days and that I am still willing to complete the website. They agreed to continued, though didn't seem very happy. \n\nThe next day they sent me an email asking if I had created users on the website, I did indeed create a few users for testing the login\/register functionality of the website, I explained that to them. They said that they considered it \"inappropriate\" and asked for me to stop working on the website. I questioned them how it was inappropriate and again explained that the accounts are for testing functionality. I agreed that work should be stopped on the website and sent them an invoice for $300.\n\nThey said that I needed to amend the invoice since not all work had been completed. I agreed to reduce it to $270 (90% of 300) since the website was about 90% complete and only a few minor cosmetic changes were needed. \n\nI received no response for 2 days and asked them to pay the invoice. They said they were verifying the work that I had done. After another day of back and forth, I sent them another invoice reminder and asked them to pay it by the end of this week. They thought that this was \"insulting\" and that they have found another developer to rebuild the website. I let them know that they were pretty much stealing from me and that if I was not paid by the end of the week that I would delete the website. They offered me $100, and I told them that I wouldn't accept anything below $270. They told me to delete the website now, why wait until Sunday.\n\nThis is the situation as currently. Please let me know what rights I have as a web developer, I read online that I'm allowed to delete the website upon non payment.\n\nThanks","title":"Client not paying for freelance website development services","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553744186,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6dy3x\/help_with_student_loan_providerma\/","id":"b6dy3x","body":"After graduating with a B.S.  in Biology, my girlfriend decided to go back to school for her nursing undergrad. She called the loan providers she had to request deferment since she will be in school full time and not have any income. All but one provider granted her deferment (MEFA\/AES).\n\nThe last few months AES has called looking for payment and each time my Girlfriend has been told no payment is required and her account has been marked as full time student. Well then she got hit a 4 months of past due on her credit report. When she called AES, they told her it was a mistake and to complete a credit dispute form. We did that. \n\nThen today they called again looking for a payment and after spending about a few hours on the phone and multiple 45 minute holds, she was told they can\u2019t do anything since she\u2019s in a income based repayment plan. Before leaving work she was only making $600\/wk (roughly $1500\/month after deductions) before taxes. So her payments were $500\/month. With no income the representatives and her supervisor said they ran her \u201cnumbers\u201d again and came out with a repayment even higher than the original $500. \n\nSo now we\u2019re in a tough spot where she needs another loan in September for the second half of her program (16 months accelerated program to get ABN)\n\nI\u2019m confused why AES keeps telling us everything is okay and then the next month they call again looking for money and we do the dance all over again. \n\nWhat are our options, we don\u2019t have any available funds to even out towards this one loan. \n\nTL;DR \nMEFA\/AES confirm with confirmation number account is okay, then they call us again looking for payment. Girlfriend received credit hit with 90 days past due and was told to fill out credit dispute then told they can\u2019t do anything and expect to be paid anyways. ","title":"Help with Student Loan provider{MA}","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569352536,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8rwig\/lawfirm_continue_to_harass_me_over_past_due\/","id":"d8rwig","body":"​\n\nI am sorry if this is the wrong sub.\n\nThe beginning of 2018 (January) I went into a local law firm that Id found online. I was having issues with a garnishment from a repossessed car.  I needed help figuring out how to resolve this issue as soon as possible since I was hit with this garnishment out of nowhere. My checks were getting cut back by the $200-$300 range. I couldn't afford rent anymore or food. I explained all of this to the attorney who was helping me.  During my consultation he agreed to contact the other law firm and get back to me with any advice. I stressed that my main goal was to lower the amount taken per check or come up with a settlement amount.  He agreed to do this work for $100 and then we would go from there.\n\nI didn't sign anything and paid the full $100 the following week. I have the receipt. \n\n I waited 3 months for a response. He texted me once and asked for a phone call I agreed and he told me he got the information from the other law firm. He told me there was nothing he could do.  In June he mailed me a letter saying the same exact thing in his phone call.  In short, continue to work and take the garnishment as is so that you are able to pay this down quickly. Everything they have done is lawful and of the norm. Starting in August I started getting email invoices requesting an additional $80. There is no listed reason for the $80. Ive been receiving these email invoices for a year now. \n\n​\n\nI went out of my way to solve this issue on my own since this attorney was literally just crap and had no good advice and was just wrong in all aspects. Also I needed to eat. I called the law firm holding the garnishment against me and they agreed to a settlement of about half. I paid it and my problem was solved.\n\n​\n\nHow should I approach this attorney. I don't want to pay him and the last email they sent me was more aggressive then the previous ones. I also don't want this on my credit if they try and throw me into collections.","title":"Law-firm continue to harass me over past due balance.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541294216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tzkrh\/custody_rights_as_a_stay_at_home_dad\/","id":"9tzkrh","body":"Im a stay at home dad. I live in PA in the US. I know the laws are very favourable towards the mother, but my situation is different than most around here. I have taken care of my son since the day he has come home from the hospital. His mom works full time. I was attending tech school when he was born and couldnt get a job that was even close to replacing her income or insurance. Shes threatened to kick me out before and still talks about getting rid of me. Im tired of living in fear, trapped in this house wondering when\/ if ill be homeless with no money and no way to take care of my son.  Im wondering since im the primary care giver and she works full time, do i have more rights to our son? Is child support somthing ill have to worry about? If she kicks me out can i take our son with me to my parents an hour away to live? Thanks in advance","title":"Custody rights as a stay at home dad.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554234070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8nvr0\/school_and_bus_company_loses_my_8_year_old\/","id":"b8nvr0","body":"04\/01 \nto anyone who reads this: the following is a detailed account of what happened i just need advice on how to handle that situation because i dont really know what i can do. \nmy mom(speaks spanish only\/also has schizophrenia) is waiting for my little brother ( who is autistic ) to get dropped off by the schoolbus. he is normally dropped off around 3:50pm-4:20pm ish. sometimes they drop him off late but whatever not that serious. \neveryday my mom goes downstairs to wait for my little brother around 3-3:20pm. at around 4:40pm today my mom calls me telling me she is concerned bc they have yet to drop off my little brother. i call the school  4 different times. the first 3 times it instantly hangs up and the 4th time it rings then goes to voicemail.  my mom is extremely worried at this point, so i tell her to wait at home incase they brinf him and ill go to the school.\nI'm an 18 year old female and the school has let me pick him up before with a state ID. \ni get to the school and theres a security officer that is not letting me inside.\nso i tell her \" i need to speak to someone from the office \" \nS(security): well the office is closed whats ur issue\nmyself: my brother is missing. weve been waiting for him since 3 and the bus never came ( it was currently 5:20pm) \ns: well uhh hes not here. the office is closed. only after school kids are left. all the buses are gone. idk have u called the bus company? he already left school grounds\nme: the bus DID not bring him. i called the school repeatedly. can i get the number for the bus company (osse) please?\nshe gives it to me and i call them. they basically tell me i cant call because im not on his profile. so i call the police..\ncall goes as follows\nme: \"hello my brother is missing ..\nperson: yes miss whats his age \nme: 8 \nperson: where are you at now?\nme: im at his school\nperson: where is the parent?\nme: shes at home waiting incase they bring him. i came to the school to find him in which they told me he isnt here\nperson: well go home and have ur mom file a missing persons report\nme: im his sister, can I not make the report myself \nperson: i understand but ur parent has to make the report\nme: he is MISSING \nperson: yes i understand but ur mom has to make the call\n*hangs up*\nso im just crying\n my brother was  missing and unaccounted for 2 hours.. someone couldve took him,  no one is really interested in helping even the security kinda brushed me off like well he isnt here so not our problem even though a child was missing.\nwhile im on my way home my mom calls me its 5:45ish now almost 6 and she says he was brought home by 2 strangers ( he has a specific driver that picks him up and drops him off everyday ) \n2 random women who shes never seen before. \nmy brother is crying he is obviously stressed about something but due to his autism he lacks communication skills.. he cant really tell us what happened to him or where he was. the women DID NOT provide an explanation as to where he was for the past 2 hours. i get home and my little brother is saying \" ouch ouch hurt \" and i ask him what happened? ( he can kinda communicate ) he shows me his finger which there is kinda a dent like scraped off skin. its red and bleeding. i ask him who did that? and he kinda gets his own anxiety.. so i ask \" did the lady bus driver do that ?\" and he nods yes. (his old school used to \"abuse\" him too. hed come home with bruises &  injuries. nobody wanted to take accountability) I call my mom to get a band-aid and i take a photo of his finger for proof. \nwe call the osse  bus company  to put a complaint but bc my mom has schizophrenia its also hard for her to properly communicate.\nwe call and at first they say it has to be the parent and they'll provide an interpreter\nshe asks them if  she can give permission for me to explain instead  but they say no \" thats why the interpreter is here\" \nso my mom doesnt really explain the gravity of the situation correctly.. she says that her son was brought at 6pm he gets out of school at 3:15pm and 2 strangers brought him. the phone operator  RUDELY says \" well they aren't strangers, they are employees\" in which i chime in \" that isnt the point. the point is he has regular scheduled  bus drivers and he was clearly misplaced nobody knew his location for 2 hours. \" in which she replies with more sass * sigh *  the call honestly got us nowhere. we got a complaint number and supposedly an investigator will call us back.\nmy mom really had a hard time trying to explain to the bus company what the problem was and they wouldnt allow me to help her. at one point my mom is just like \" please i just want a guarentee this will not happen again bc its not the first time they bring him late without explanation. i have schizoprenia so i get worried and anxiety imagine scenarios that hes been kidnapped or even raped i just need this not to occur again \"\noperator: uh ok no comment to that. \nme: wtf you cant even relay that information to ur superiors? \noperator: i cannot guarantee that it wont happen again ( which i understand completely but her response was so off.. ) \ni asked for the names of the bus drivers incase im able to do anything legal about this but they said the investigator would let us know.\n\nim not sure if anything legal can be done about this but who knows what those women were doing to him for 2 hours?! all we could do is file a complaint... he has no clue or understanding what really happened. any advice on what i could do about this situation? i dont want them to \" get away\" with it\n\nthank you to anyone who read the entire thing i just cant believe no one cared a child was missing.. please anyone give me advice on what im able to do.","title":"school and bus company loses my 8 year old autistic brother for 2 hours. no explanation as to where he was or what happened to him. need help please","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568820236,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5zcsh\/company_ethics_code_states_that_it_can_be_changed\/","id":"d5zcsh","body":"I work at a tech company that is fully owned by a major US corporation. My company sent out an Ethics Agreement for employees to sign, and at the end of the document, it states\n\n> This Ethics Code does not create a contract between the Company and any Associate, Officer or Director and no promise of any kind is made by the Company in this Ethics Code. **The Company is free to change the terms of this Ethics Code without having to consult with or obtain the agreement of any Associate.** Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Company and an Associate, each of the Company and our Associates continue to have the authority to terminate the employment relationship at will, and the Company has the authority to change the terms of an Associate\u2019s employment, in each case with or without cause and with or without prior notice. This at-will status can only be modified if such modification is in writing and signed by both the Associate and an authorized officer of the Company.\n\nClaiming they can change the agreement that I am bound by, without letting me know, seems ridiculous. \n\nIs this an unusual clause in an agreement between employer and employee? I am heavily inclined to refuse to sign it.","title":"Company Ethics Code states that it can be changed at any time without notification to, or agreement of, the associate (employee)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568863702,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d68cdv\/bar_customer_has_terminal_cancer_having_severe\/","id":"d68cdv","body":"I want to start off with saying we really care about this regular and I don\u2019t want this to come across as heartless. \nI bartend at a strip club that serves alcohol. We have a regular who has starting coming in who has terminal brain cancer and only has about 3-4 months to live. He has about 1-2, sometimes 3 seizures a night and they are becoming more severe. He has instructed us to let him have them. He is in a wheelchair. They are starting to become longer and he will almost slide out of his chair. We check on him after but there isn\u2019t much we can do. \nWe are starting to worry he is going to die in our bar. \nShould we have him give us a notarized DNR? Or some form of paperwork that releases us from liability in case this happens? \nAs much as we love him, we also need to protect our business, employees and also our two certified nurses who don\u2019t want to lose their licenses. \nWhat can we legally do to protect our business and employees from a potential lawsuit, etc.?","title":"Bar customer has terminal cancer, having severe seizures while there, worried about passing in business","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539127738,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mu8bz\/property_management_company_refusing_to_fix\/","id":"9mu8bz","body":"My wife and I live in Ohio and we are facing an issue with an uncooperative management company that is not doing anything to help us with maintenance issues. So we have lived in our current apartment for 2 months now. We have had two maintenance requests in for almost a month (one for 5 weeks for a window that will not stay open unless there is a pipe or tension rod holding it up, one for a sagging ceiling that was being caused by the previous technician using JB Weld on the shower drain instead of plumbers putty or an appropriate alternative). \n\n​\n\nThe issue really revolves around the second request mentioned above with the drain that was They came out 3 weeks ago, cut a hole in the ceiling where it was sagging, and said they would be back out later that week to fix the drain and ceiling. Until then, we were not to use the bathroom that they had cut the hole in (where the ceiling was sagging) or the master bathroom's shower (where the drain was improperly installed). 3 weeks went by and I followed up with them yesterday. They told us that they didn't have any maintenance people currently under their employ that could complete the work order at this time and they had no estimated time for it to be fixed. I remained calm and said that I would appreciate it to be completed soon because we were unable to use one and a half of our two bathrooms for 3 weeks. They again said there wasn't any guarantee they could make, as it was not something they could control since they had no maintenance technicians available to help.\n\n​\n\nI feel like them not having maintenance employed to complete this issue is profoundly and decidedly not the problem of the tenant. Do I have any options to put pressure on them to complete their work? Is it legal in Ohio to hire a contractor and pass the bill on to the management company? I've heard a couple people mention that escrow might be the way to go, but that seems like it might be a bit extreme. What would you recommend?\n\n​\n\nThank you in advance for your help!","title":"Property Management Company refusing to fix maintenance issues - Ohio","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570252655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddiz2i\/towed_in_lot_with_unclear_signs\/","id":"ddiz2i","body":"Parked in a paid parking lot earlier today in Texas. Noted my parking space number and went over to a deposit box where I slip in dollar bills to the numbered slot that matches my parking spot. I paid what $2 which is what I thought the parking fee was. \n\nI return to the lot later and find that my car is gone and upon calling the company they say it was towed because I didn\u2019t pay the correct amount. However, the [sign](https:\/\/imgur.com\/QVsVDXt) is very faded and hard to read. It shows a very faded out number \u201c5\u201d as well as the outline of a white number \u201c2\u201d that, to me, looked like it had been plastered or placed over the number \u201c5.\u201d So, to myself, I thought the parking fee was $2 however they say it was $5. \n\nSo because of the failure to maintain the parking fee sign that had two numbers just sitting on top of each other (2 was on top of the 5) I was left to just guess which number was correct and most updated. There is too much room for interpretation and guessing and the sign isn\u2019t specific. Do I file a complaint against the tow company or the owner of the parking facility that didn\u2019t maintain a clear and specific parking fee sign?","title":"Towed in lot with unclear signs","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553017546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b30g7h\/my_ex_is_pregnant_if_the_baby_is_mine_should_i_go\/","id":"b30g7h","body":"My ex is having a baby. It could be mine possibly but I broke up with her cheating and lying to me. I\u2019ll know for sure after I get a paternity test but that probably won\u2019t happen until the baby is born. Her and her parents aren\u2019t keen on the non invasive test. \n\nShe wanted to stay out of the courts. So if the baby is mine...should I try to settle out of court or is court the way to go?","title":"My ex is pregnant. If the baby is mine, Should I go to court for (custody, child support, etc...) or settle outside?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552621218,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b19zru\/aunt_filed_for_tpo_with_husband_have_questions\/","id":"b19zru","body":"We reside in Nevada and she currently is staying with me and my wife. She filed for an Emergency Temporary Protection order against her husband 2 weeks ago and a week ago and it was granted. She was too afraid to live there as she has two kids(from him) and he is violent and is back on hard drugs. The order gives her full rights to the children and that he doesn't return to the house until the next court date specifies else. She had to call the house leasing company and end the lease because she couldn't pay the rent anymore(she's always paid all of the rent he's never gave a dime) they granted it but everything has to be out by Sunday. \n\nSo my question is, can we legally move everything out of the house seeing as that's our only option. It is a community property state and she knows that and we are just making sure we are covered and it's not theft. ","title":"Aunt filed for TPO with husband, have questions.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551828023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axrpup\/grandma_wa_hospitalized_bed_bug_squatters_and\/","id":"axrpup","body":"I'm in Florida, Grandma is in Washington State.\n\nMy Grandma was hospitalized, last month, for pneumonia. Grandma is now in the rehabilitation wing. Grandma is on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and she'll be able to stay in the rehabilitation center as long as it will be paid for.\n\nMy grandma was living in a subsidized apartment with care takers coming to help her out.\n\nIn the meantime, my Dad, (who lives in Idaho) and my brother, (who lives in Washington) have been visiting and going to her apartment to clean it up, (Grandma was raised by parents who lived through the great depression and has some hoarding tendencies). \n\nAccording to my brother, Grandma's apartment has a very bad bed bug infestation. Brother has said he's spoken with management, (not the only thing he's had to deal with) and they're not keen on doing much. \n\nOn top of the bed bug infestation, (which is my primary concern right now) the last state provided care taker my Grandma had took it upon themself to use my grandma's bank account to pay themselves to the tune of around $160, causing my grandma's bank account to go into negative balance and accrue overdraft fees.\n\nGrandma does not have anyone assigned to be Power of Attorney, as far as I know. I have talked about it with grandma in the past. Grandma has long been an independent badass that hasn't needed anyone to do anything for her. I didn't think it was in her best interest for me to be her POA since I'm on the other coast, I thought it would be better to have someone close by. \n\nMy dad is a recovered alcoholic who is one month sober, my brother is also a recovering addict, one month sober. My mom is a narccistic hypochondriac, (I feel like that's slightly redundant but it paints a picture).  They're all trying to help but I am concerned.\n\nMy brother is currently taking charge of trying to eradicate the bed bugs from our grandmas apartment with bug bombs. He wants me to give him 48 hours and I  want to let him try but, having read horror stories about bed bugs, and after hearing how bad the infestation is, (they're in ziploc bags that my grandma uses to organize paperwork and I am now even more terrified of bed bugs) and how they easily spread, I think it's best I make a calls to the apartment complex and escalate.\n\nWhile I'm glad my brother is the feet on the ground, he's got a lot to deal with. \n\nI want to make sure my grandma has a safe, clean place to return to. I want to make sure the apartment complex can't kick her out, especially since she's an elder and on government subsidized insurance and housing. \n\nThat is my priority right now but, if you have any other advice to share to help on any other matters regarding my grandma, I am wide open for it. \n\nI want to make sure my grandma is taken care of and safe and has a place she can feel both in. I want to move her to Florida but that depends in her, first and either or not it's in her best interest second. \n\nTIA. ","title":"Grandma, (WA) hospitalized, bed bug squatters and care takers who pay themselves.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551598756,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awrv7z\/help_workplace_bullying_sydneyaustralia\/","id":"awrv7z","body":" \n\nHello,\n\nI just need some advice if possible, even if it's the right place?\n\nSome  background, I have had ongoing work place bullying incidents at work  since November last year, one of them took place after i reported the  first incident.\n\nI have been off work, using my own sick leave, my GP acknowledging in my med certs that my condition was related to bullying.\n\nI  know HR's first duty is to protect the company, but I have reported it  to HR and gone through those channels, basically HR sees this not as as  bullying just as a grievance between 2 people has been the result.\n\nI  have a meeting with HR this week and by the tone of the correspondence  with them, i will have to return to the workplace with the bully.\n\nI  work for the NSW government BTW and have used up my EAP. I am female, i  know this makes no difference, but it is why i am so afraid of him.\n\nMy union is no help, i can not face this man again so it looks like my only option is to resign. HR's decisions are final.\n\nI  cannot face this man again, i can't sleep properly and am an emotional  mess, i am being treated for anxiety and depression and suicidal  thought.\n\nWhat can i do, resignation is the only answer.","title":"Help, workplace bullying. Sydney,Australia","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540340077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9quozw\/i_need_a_lawyer_but_no_one_is_calling_me_back_or\/","id":"9quozw","body":"I currently have three open misdemeanor\/traffic cases. One case is set for trial where I am representing myself pro se (even though I requested an attorney), and the other two I keep showing up to court telling the judge I am trying to find an attorney, but can\u2019t. Then the judge schedules another appearance about a month out, and I continue to come back with the same result. In these two cases, there have been no plea offers made to me. I have only said I am not guilty.\n\nI applied to the state to be appointed an attorney in March, and was declined. I am a veteran, stay-at-home dad, and student. My income comes from the VA alone. I was told they wanted me to include that income, but that it would not count against the income threshold for representation. \n\nSo I was given a list for the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar attorneys who do pro bono or sliding scale work. First of all, the attorneys on that list that I have talked to are not agreeing to work pro bono or on a sliding scale. And the ones who ask for the documentation I have to consider, never call me back or send me a letter saying they can\u2019t take my case.\n\nI\u2019m at a loss of what to do, I am facing jail time, can\u2019t afford an attorney, and on top of all that I\u2019m Autistic which is basically the reason these cases became anything at all (I am not polite to authority figures if I feel trapped or in danger).\n\nCan anyone help me figure out what to do?","title":"I need a lawyer, but no one is calling me back or taking my case; what do I do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541080146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t9kld\/landlord_breach_of_contract\/","id":"9t9kld","body":"I need some help figuring out the best course of action here in Michigan. I feel that I can no longer live in my apartment. I have been here for roughly 4 years but for the last 6 or 7 months my water has turned brown. I have requested help so many times and they usually send someone out but they either have an excuse, try something and it doesn\u2019t work. One maintenance person said I need a new water heater but the landlord hasn\u2019t replaced it. I have started taking pictures every day because sometimes it\u2019s worse than other days. But overall I don\u2019t feel safe drinking it and it smells. \n\nTo break my lease early I\u2019m supposed to give 60 days notice, and after paying rent for 60 days I have to pay an additional 2 months roughly $1,700. I have started searching for a new place to live with cleaner water and have found something. I don\u2019t mind even having to pay for the sixty day notice but this landlord absolutely does not deserve the extra two months. I have had to constantly buy fresh water to drink and cook with because it\u2019s so gross here. \n\nI don\u2019t have a ton of records of work orders because I mostly called them in, but do you think I can break my lease here and avoid most penalties?\n\nI\u2019m not trying to be a bad tenant but this place has gone downhill quickly. \n\nThanks!","title":"Landlord breach of contract","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503083126,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uk159\/should_i_make_a_parent_company_and_then_start_my\/","id":"6uk159","body":"Colorado - As above, I've been working on a project and now I need to get an LLC so I can sell the goods. But in order to protect my brand and it's goods, should I make the LLC the parent company? And then file separately for my brand as DBA (doing business as) and get its separate EIN (employer identification number)? \n\nOr should I just create the LLC, name it what my brand name is, then call it a day? \n\nI'm also wondering if I picked the latter, if I could later create the parent company LLC and put the brand underneath it. \n\nThanks in advance, on a break from law school and haven't quite covered these things yet. ","title":"Should I make a parent company and then start my brand under it as a DBA?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541872548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vwblw\/luxuryapartment_complex_always_has_something\/","id":"9vwblw","body":" A little back story. We signed a 6mo lease at this \u201cluxury\u201d apartment complex. It is a big company that owns a lot of complexes in our state and a few others I believe. We wanted to rent through a company since we got screwed hard by our last landlord. We chose this place because we were in a tough spot and needed a short term living situation to figure things out, could afford it, and they had a huge dog park\/are very pet friendly. Our dog is my boyfriends esa so finding places that will accept us with a dog isn\u2019t a problem but this place is super pet friendly, most people here have dogs, and there is a giant dog park right outside our apartment. Finding a dog park in an apartment complex is rare and they are usually tiny little plots. When our 6mo was up we decided to sign again for a 16mo and upgrade to a 2bd to buy us more time (we are preparing to buy a house) since we would only have to move our belongings to a new unit instead of full on moving with moving trucks and other expenses. Now, during our first lease we noticed inconveniences with amenities but figured it was just some bad timing and random events. We have been here almost a year and it seems it is literally one thing after another there is a constant gap in these expensive luxury amenities we pay for in our monthly rent. \n\n I\u2019m dropping some common examples and none of these are one time incidents. They rotate and overlap in occurrence since we have moved in. So many other scenarios have occurred but were one time problems so I\u2019ll save your time a little. \n \nThere is a trash service that takes your trash from your doorstep to the dumpster that you cannot opt out of. It\u2019s an additional charge tacked on to our rent automatically. I would say almost half the time we use this service our trash isn\u2019t taken. Either our entire building gets skipped or there is some sort of excuse like it being too heavy or not wrapped up properly according to the guidelines, which I am very careful to follow as I am sick and tired of it not getting picked up. We usually just bring our trash to the dumpster ourselves since we don\u2019t feel like letting it sit out all night just to have to do it ourselves the next morning. I hear other tenants from all across the complex regularly complain of the same thing. When I complain to the office they drop the fee for leaving it out during day hours and say they will talk to the company and I never hear about it again. I have stopped using the service almost completely but still pay since I can\u2019t opt out. \n\nWe have a gate system in place as a security measure. There is an entry and exit gate by the main office and there is one more exit gate on the side of the complex. The exit gate is often broken (usually stuck closed but sometimes stuck open) creating a pile up of people trying to reverse and turn around to get to the other exit. Not to mention when it is broken it makes a beeping alarm noise which I\u2019m sure is fun for the people who live near it. People complain about the gate being broken and it seems they just \u201crepair\u201d it instead of doing what needs to be done and replacing it. \n\nThere\u2019s a cute little walk way from our complex to a bar which was another nice little bonus to living here. We could walk over grab a couple drinks and walk back home no worry of driving or getting an Uber. It made for fun little spur of the moment nights out (we are not big drinkers nor do we go out often so we kinda appreciated our little bar runs from time to time). The path has been closed due to city construction since maybe March with the expected reopening announced to be Dec-Jan. We found out it was pushed back to summer 2019 (our lease is up in the fall). Our office seems to be hiding that fact as they don\u2019t really say anything when people ask about it. I know it\u2019s not their fault but it was a hot talking point they highlighted when we signed our first lease. Upon move in we got a coupon for a free appetizer at the bar as a welcome from the office. We were looking forward to dog walks along that path in the nice weather, another reason we resigned. \n\nSometimes packages are dropped off at our door step or in the mail boxes but mostly they are dropped at the main office. They are supposed to send an email notifying us we have a package. With what we do for work we receive packages a lot. I have stopped getting emails entirely and my boyfriend only gets them sometimes, or hours or days later. This results in us constantly stopping by asking if we have packages which is annoying to them and us. I asked what happened to the email system they said they still do it but our package must not have been processed yet. It was signed for at 3pm the day before, their office closes at 6pm opens at 9am and we checked in at 12 the following day with no email.\n\nA few months ago a neighbor mentioned a new charge that showed up on their rent bill and sure enough we have the same one. It is for the lights in common areas to stay on ie computer center, lounge, things like that. When I brought it up to the office she told me it was for those areas and street lights around the complex as it\u2019s a safety hazard to have it unlit in the dark. When I asked why we never had those charges before they said it\u2019s because every unit in the complex had been lived in making the rules different some how. I guess before every unit is occupied the complex is under some category and after they are all lived in they are under another and that makes different fees go into effect? That\u2019s basically what she told me. It\u2019s like an extra $20 a month so I shrugged it off assuming it was something I agreed to in my lease. We had a terrible land lord before this place so when we signed the 6mo lease I read the entire thing thoroughly and don\u2019t recall seeing anything about this. When we signed for 16mo I skimmed the lease and it seemed identical to the first one and I called it good (stupid I know). \n\nAfter people repeatedly complaining about these issues on our online community forum we were informed a month ago that the forum was to be kept positive and any issues we had should be emailed to the office and not complained about on the public forum. \n\nHERE is the big one that really just pushes me over the edge. A few weeks ago there was a terrible mosquito problem at the dog park. Now I know the city in AZ doesn\u2019t really have much mosquitos but I am from the sticks in New England, I know mosquitos and this was just crazy. My boyfriends head and neck (his only exposed skin) had 10+ on it within 1 minute of entering. Our dog was chomping at her skin like she had fleas she was so bitten up from going. People complained and it took a week to get someone out to take care of it and it took several weeks to fix the problem. Now last week the dog park has a lock around the fence with a note stating no one can use it they are caring for the grass. Granted the grass was turning brown a bit but you\u2019re telling me none of the groundskeepers noticed it and it had to get to this level before trying to fix it? It is still locked up today. A neighbor told me last time this happened it was closed for over a month. It JUST stopped being hotter than hell here in AZ now that the ground won\u2019t burn my dogs bare paws the dog park has been unusable. We have to drive her to a near by park which isn\u2019t a big deal but the whole reason we live here is literally for that park. \n\nI don\u2019t need or even really want the other amenities. We resigned here strictly for the dog park because we were not ready to buy a house just yet and having a big play area right outside our door was worth paying for the \u201cluxury complex\u201d \n\nThere have been so many little petty stupid things like this that I feel so ridiculous complaining about. They are things I could totally live without, things I have lived without my entire life before I moved here. This place boasts about being \u201cluxury\u201d and we pay a lot to live here and to have the amenities that I really am just sick of fighting to have. Saving for a house would be a lot easier if we moved to a cheaper place but I don\u2019t want to do that. I want to keep our lease. I don\u2019t want to have to fight and get a lawyer like with our last landlord I know AZ is not in favor of tenants.  I want the shit we pay for and I want it without being the nasty tenant who is in the office complaining every day. It\u2019s exhausting being that person. I know my boyfriend doesn\u2019t want to move and while he agrees it\u2019s annoying he thinks I\u2019m being over the top in feeling entitled to compensation in some form. Am I being an entitled princess?\n\n\nTLDR: we pay a lot more than we need to to live in a \u201cluxury\u201d apartment complex when the only amenity we care about is the dog park. Other amenities are often unavailable with no compensation but now the dog park is totally unavailable. Can we be compensated in any way? Don\u2019t really want to have to break lease over stupid stuff. ","title":"\u201cLuxury\u201dapartment complex always has something going wrong with expensive amenities now the main reason we signed here is unavailable can we ask for compensation? [AZ]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554841415,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbcv5c\/does_this_rental_seem_fishy\/","id":"bbcv5c","body":"Hi there r\/legaladvice !\n\nI am looking to move to a new city this summer and have been looking at rentals on various sites, including Craigslist. \n\nI found a rental on CL that looks awesome, however I'm wondering if this email back sounds a little fishy. \n\nTypical rent in this neighborhood is about double, but the owner explains that it is nearly half of the neighborhood average because they moved away for a job and, \"just need someone to help take care of the house while \\[they\\] are away, It's not about the money but about finding someone that will take care of the house like they own it,\". I'm not sure if this is a common scam or not. \n\nMore details in the email exchange below. Maybe this isn't the perfect sub for this, but wasn't sure where else to go. \n\n[https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/FAoydYR](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/FAoydYR)","title":"Does this rental seem fishy?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554055015,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7qk3y\/was_denied_a_promotion_that_i_was_guaranteed\/","id":"b7qk3y","body":"Hello,\n\nRecently, I quit my job at a call center.  I was denied a promotion that I was guaranteed by two supervisors. I even asked if there was any doubt to which my direct supervisor said \"No\". I have extreme phone anxiety and came to this company because I was told of a chat team. I got into this chat team for the holiday season and was put back on the phones. Due to performance, I was on a very short list of immediate candidates to put back on the team. Fast forward and a position for IT comes up. THIS is the job I was guaranteed. It wasn't until a few days after I was told I got the promotion that HR blocked my promotion for being on a corrective. Before, I had a team lead tell me this was due to an error on our supervisors side that can't be fixed. That's OK, my performance will bring it back up. When I was denied the position, I brought my direct supervisor into a room to explain my frustration and disappointment. He told me that I was on a corrective for a completely different issue than I was told before and basically said \"I wouldn't be comfortable with you in this position.\" The position he had personally told me I had, and had supported my development into getting into this department. Chat team was hiring when IT was and word got around that I already got IT so they gave the position to someone else. When they told me I would be staying on the phones, my anxiety kicked in. I quit the job that day after having this conversation. I felt I was done incredibly wrong by this company. This has sent me into a depression unlike I have seen. I don't know if I have a case.. But what they did was wrong.\n\nThank you for reading this. Sorry for the wall of text. It just makes me feel all dirty and is keeping me up at night. \n\n","title":"Was denied a promotion that I was guaranteed.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554107094,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7zftc\/crazy_aunt_money_good_times_help\/","id":"b7zftc","body":"My Grandpa died in November. There are some issues with my aunt (executor of his estate and his caretaker while he was still alive) and we think she is hiding the will from my mom and her other siblings. \n\nSo... I'll try to keep this short, but we'll see how that goes\n\nMy aunt took care of my Grandpa in his final years of life. They lived on the same property (different houses) and when he got sick and needed in-home help, she moved in and took care of him. That sounds great and wonderful and like anything a child would do for their parent. But my aunt always had dollar signs in her eyes. ALWAYS. \n\nWhen my grandma died in 95, she did everything she could to pad her inheritance (she was executor for her estate too and was the main person there as my grandma was receiving cancer treatment near her). She told my mom that since she and my grandma each paid half for the home they shared that my mom could keep the house (this was before my dad got remarried to the woman I call mom, my bio mom died when I was young) but money was coming out of her share to pay for it. That money should have gone back into the estate, but it went to the aunt.\n\nA few years ago my aunt came to visit my hometown... And pick up a new truck for my grandpa. My aunt was heard getting super excited because now SHE gets my grandpa's pretty much brand new truck.\n\nWhen I was in talks to go see my grandpa shortly after finishing college, we had discussed how he would pay for my ticket... By getting my aunt to send me a money order to cover flight and rental car plus gas. I got together all the information and let him know. My aunt called me a couple days later saying there was no way he was sending a money order for that amount and that I needed to just let her book the ticket. I was fine with that until she said that I didn't need a car while I was there and that I was only coming to take care of him... I didn't need to leave the property or have anyone else come. I had to pull out of those talks because my aunt was making the whole thing stressful. I have 3 others of my mom's siblings and their families that live nearby and my grandpa and I had talked about me visiting them as well.\n\nMy Grandpa took a turn for the worse at the beginning of October and was moved into hospice. I had a job where I could afford to buy a ticket at this point and, since I had never met him in person, I wanted to make sure I got that chance and that he knew I would be there for him. So I went. \n\nI found out that my aunt had told the doctors that no one else was allowed to come see him. My uncle showed up to see his dad and they turned him away. When Grandpa found out, he told the hospice center that he 100% wanted people to come see him. My aunt wasn't happy. \n\nShe kept upping his pain meds after I left.... Telling the nurses that he was in too much pain and needed it. They gave it to him. He was pretty much asleep the last 3 weeks of his life.\n\nAfter he died, someone made a comment about seeing the will... My aunt lost it. She said it wasn't anyone's business and that it was \"locked\" in the office and they lost the key. \n\nMy parents and I think she's trying to hide the will from everyone so she can keep all the money. We don't care about if we get anything... We just want what my grandpa wanted to happen with his stuff to happen. My Grandpa had money and almost no bills, so we know there's stuff there. \n\nIs there any way we can make her give us a copy of his will? He was in North Carolina. I've done some research but the Clerk of Court's website isn't really clear. I know in some states you have to put out a public notice so any debtors can come forward, but I don't know if that's the case where he was. \n\nTL;DR Grandpa died and left aunt in charge of his estate. Family has reason to believe aunt is hiding the will. Can we do anything?","title":"Crazy aunt + Money =\/= good times... Help!","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539383859,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9novi9\/i_need_help_please\/","id":"9novi9","body":"(Repost from r\/povertyfinance)\n\nThe situation is this: today two people have come to my mother's shop\/bazaar, they came saying that my father is in debt for (one) of them, namely for 12000\u20ac.\n\nDetails: my parents moved to Spain when I was about 3 years old along with my older sister. They set in a town (less than 10000 people) and started working in a shop\/bazaar which was a relative's property (now my parents'.) The rental is pretty expensive and plus other things we have just enough for living and some whims such as this smartphone. And my father's been spending on slot machines since we came here, losing most of times.  \n\nToday, two people came to the bazaar, they came claiming that my father owed them (actually one of them; explained later) lots of money, between lines I heard it was 12000\u20ac [1].  \nA man and a woman: the man owes money to the woman because of a favor, and my father owes the man for some reason. The woman and the man are (apparently) supporting each other to claim my father's debt.  \nMy father's been missing the last two weeks somewhere (in the country I hope), and doesn't respond phone calls (probably has phone turned off\/changed number) nor messages. Last year two people have come to the bazaar looking for my father, the first one; which may be the same man as this time's, but I'm not sure because I don't remember his face (likely isn't), and the second one. They both came asking for my father, which only the second one I know for sure came asking for money (which my mother has paid).\n\nBut this time I don't know why did they come, they just said that he owed the man that much. The thing is, they argued with my mother (which doesn't understand Spanish very well, just basics for selling products) and threatened to call someone [2] that would make us close (they said \u201cdismantle,\u201d I don't know an accurate translation for that) the bazaar (basically, end it all) and make us pay even more than what we would have to if we agreed to pay them before that.\n\n1] They said (he, precisely, twice or three times) that that was the quantity my father owed them. But, again, I don't know why. No one lends 12000\u20ac to someone (my father, in this case, which the man continuously stated that was his friend until now, I assume it's a lie) who is not very familiar with. Leading to the possibility that the man knew since the beginning that he could end up doing this (the threat.)\n\n2] They never mentioned who, just someone that would come and make us pay no matter what. They didn't mention lawyers, judges or whosoever of that kind, just _someone_. This is the part I most fear, I fear that it is someone who will make it end with blood, and even if it's not that they say someone may _dismantle_ the bazaar if wanted, I want to think it was just to make it seem more terrifying or threatening, but still.\n\nI'm their son (14, male) and I'm asking for any kind of help; solutions, other sites to ask, etc. They offered us to pay if we wanted in terms of weeks or months, but not too long or little.  \nThey asked (threatened) us to contact my father for tomorrow or otherwise in a week they'll do what I already said. He doesn't respond calls, looks like his number has changed (when the man and woman asked my mother to call him [and not responding] they said that the number my mother called to was his old, that he has a new one now).  \nThey also said that they saw him around the town before yesterday (likely another lie). And kept (only the man said the following) saying that what my mother was saying about my father's whereabouts were lies and only lies. At some moment they (he) asked me when was the last time he came home, I said \u201cone month ago, more or less,\u201d to then, say that my mother was indeed lying (given that my mother said, without me hearing in that moment, \u201cabout 14 days). I wasn't sure of it, just said what I believed it was without thinking much.\n\nAnd finally, I've recorded the audio of what happened from almost the beginning, the only part that is missing is the moment they went out to argue. I thought in alerting the police if something were to go wrong but I don't know what to do. Please help me, even if it's the least thing you think it could help.\n","title":"I need help please","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539466942,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nxj54\/how_would_spiderman_breaking_into_a_drug\/","id":"9nxj54","body":"I just wanted to know, legally how Super-hero\u2019s or vigilantes beating up people at a crime scene would work? \n\nIf Spider-man webbed up people at a scene with obvious drug production and called the cops would that affect the case? ","title":"How would Spider-Man breaking into a drug operation play out","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553463061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b51uib\/fl_osceola_county_expired_plates_6_months\/","id":"b51uib","body":"Hello, just curious what to expect:\n\nWe moved down to FL had some big budget house repairs and wife unable to find a job, while pregnant. I was up several sleepless nights questioning my decision to take this job since another kid was on the way and my wife couldn\u2019t find any work (still not employed). Then we had kid #2. Between all of this and work registering the car just wasn\u2019t on my mind.\n\nI got cited for having not registered my car for > 20 days, but less than 6 months. Got car registration done ASAP. The fine was $119 (which is fine), but now  I have to appear in court.\n\nAre they going to tack on anything else in court? I have no other citations ect. Just no time to do all this and don\u2019t want to have some knowledge going in what to expect.\n\nThanks!","title":"[FL] Osceola County - expired plates < 6 months","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570581777,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df9c5g\/homeowners_insurance_cancellation_usca\/","id":"df9c5g","body":"I recently changed Insurance companies, thinking it might be good to bundle my auto along with my Homeowners insurance.\nI did this in August of this year and just last week I received a notice of cancellation citing:\n \u201cUnderwriting Action: The risk is not eligible for the program as an adverse condition or hazard has been identified. The dwelling roof has granular loss, lifting and\/or buckling, patched, and is in need of full replacement\u201d.\n\nI was quite shocked as my roof is in good repair. I called the insurance company and asked for a copy of the inspection report (which was emailed to me).\nUpon review, I see the following comments in the report:\n\nExterior\nRoof Hazard\nGranule Loss: Roof shingles show signs of granule loss on the front side of the risk. Patched \/ Repairs Evident: Roof shingles patched on the front side of the risk.\n\nThere is no mention of the roof having \u201cgranular loss\u201d only that there has been granule loss on just the front side.\nThe report only has two pictures of a very small portion of my roof and the inspector didn\u2019t even look at the entire roof.\n\nMy question, do insurance companies have the right to cancel polices citing verbiage that they misinterpreted? I was on the phone with them trying to explain my point and they refused to budge. It seems like an unfair practice that could now posts to ally leave me uninsured due to someone at the insurance company to being able to understand the difference between \u201cgranule loss\u201d and \u201cgranular loss\u201d. I now only have 30 days to find a new insurance company and if it is canceled before than, it might be challenging to do so when not in the voluntary market.\nI was also told that they do not have an appeal process and the agent refused to transfer me to a manger or higher authority.\nI realize this might be a blessing in disguise but feel I should press this based on principal.","title":"Homeowners Insurance cancellation (US-CA)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553806333,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6o5om\/need_some_info\/","id":"b6o5om","body":"Hi, I wasn't sure where I could ask this so I'll try here.\n\nMy husband is in the military and we're trying to break the lease to our apartment in Sacramento with his military orders but they won't let us since it was issued to him back in October 2018 and that they needed \"more recent orders.\" His orders state that he's going to be at his current post for 2 years and the reason he didn't have me move in with him sooner is because the past few months, he was undergoing a selection process for a specialist position. We weren't sure if he was going to fail it and get reclassed at another base so he told me to stay put until we were sure.\n\nWe've talked to the leasing office on site several times and they keep refusing and the manager avoiding us because no one else there knows how to help us or do their job. Manager would just keep telling us she can't use his orders and give us no other information about what else we can provide so we can move forward, but she would shoehorn often the option for us to pay to break the lease which is what we want to avoid.\n\nIf anyone can give us some info on how to move forward here, that would be much appreciated .\\_.","title":"Need Some Info","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504535565,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y0ncq\/if_an_nba_player_has_a_show_deal_with_nike_is_it\/","id":"6y0ncq","body":"[US] Is it legal for him to sign with me during, after his contract?  Am I even allowed to talk to him about that?","title":"If an NBA Player has a show deal with Nike is it legal for me to ask him to sign with me?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446759332,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rojrj\/client_wants_to_change_fiduciary_services\/","id":"3rojrj","body":"I am a case manager and a client had inherited a trust governed by a fiduciary service. Last year the trust ran out of money at which point the fiduciaries sold her house as a source to replenish funds. My client is now homeless and while there is money in the trust for housing she is uncomfortable contacting the fiduciaries because she no longer trusts them. She has come to me to help her print out emails so that she may bring to an attorney in the hopes that she may find a new trustee. The problem here is that I am unsure that emails between her and the fiduciaries will not be helpful and it has already taken 4 days to find and print out these correspondences. I have tried to find a better more efficient way to work with her but she is very resistant. Meanwhile she has printed out over 100 emails and continues to insist on printing more and more. My question is: are these emails necessary? What is the proper way to find a new trustee? Is it even possible? Are there non-profit attorneys that will help her for free?\nThank you!","title":"Client wants to change fiduciary services","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1550100930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqd5cz\/az_boss_telling_us_we_have_a_mandatory_work\/","id":"aqd5cz","body":"My SO and I just had a premature baby who is a week old now in the NICU. My boss scheduled a work dinner she\u2019s decided is mandatory between my coworkers and I, but I\u2019d much rather be with my daughter in the NICU. My boss is saying I NEED to show up regardless of this. \n\nThe thing is, this is after my scheduled hours and I won\u2019t be paid for this. Is this technically legal?? ","title":"[AZ] Boss telling us we have a mandatory work dinner off the clock; is that legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541866593,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vvi4f\/i_have_a_minors_counsel_thats_misrepresenting_me\/","id":"9vvi4f","body":"My minors counsel is not doing what is in my best interest, strongly sided with one parent and had me removed from my home to live with my grandparents and refused to change orders to allow me to move home. I\u2019m 17 and I can\u2019t deal with her anymore, she was supposed to be released this month but she changed the court date because she claims she was busy. Is there any way I can file a motion or something to get rid of her myself?","title":"I have a minors counsel that\u2019s misrepresenting me in my parents custody case and ruining my life","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570501658,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dett6d\/what_is_required_to_be_disclosed_as_part_of_an\/","id":"dett6d","body":"As a  condition of employment, my daughter (25) is required to pass a physical examination. Her first day was today and they gave her a form asking the typical health questions, like does anyone in your family have high cholesterol, cancer, high blood pressure, etc.  She has a job where she is required to travel locally using her own vehicle while performing onsite school administrative support. This is not a physical job, like firefighter or police officer. Does she have to disclose our complete family history and every ailment she's ever had? Is there a downside to holding back that she had a backache two years ago, an appendectomy, or recently had a ganglion cyst removed?","title":"What is required to be disclosed as part of an employer-mandated physical in CA?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538855071,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lyvmx\/am_i_legally_obligated_to_give_back_money_that_my\/","id":"9lyvmx","body":"Apologies if this is the wrong flair. This is a complicated story so TLDR at the end.\n\nTo give some background....\nI was hired at a small business two months ago but have since left due to the employer making every interaction extremely uncomfortable and since I was in charge of marketing, I had to act as a messenger between some very questionable transactions between the business and advertisers that included propositions for bartering or avoiding paying bills as long as possible. However, my boss is nowhere near poor or even middle class, he was just extremely cheap and had terrible business practices and terrible reputation. The job itself was an over-glorified part time job with full time hours, though you could really come and go as you please.\n\nNow for the situation dealing with the money, he gave me $200 to buy new shirts as the ones I was wearing wasn\u2019t up to his standards and the \u201cstandards for the jewelry store.\u201d He gave me this money in cash, under the table, and was effectively a gift that he said I could pay him back for, and I quote, \u201cwhenever.\u201d I continuously refused to accept the money for about 10-15 minutes but he wouldn\u2019t take no for an answer and pressured me to ultimately accept it. I have not spent the money and have no intention to. Needless to say, I moved on in my career to an established business. I put in my two weeks, he did not mention me returning the money. Due to sudden circumstances, I had to leave 3 days earlier in my two week notice, while he was on vacation. I thought nothing of it since previous employees that I knew in my two months of being there, have quit on the spot, over email, or left a few days after putting in their 2 weeks. Once he returned from the vacation, he sent me an email saying he had my \u201clast paycheck\u201d and wanted to speak with me, which immediately was a red flag for me as I have always been direct deposit. He then withheld my paycheck for roughly 5 days after I would have normally gotten paid and confirmed with a coworker I still talk to that they had gotten paid. I am unable to physically go back to that store as I live on the opposite side of a large city and work hours that match my previous job\u2019s. I strongly believe that he changed my direct deposit to a physical paycheck to get me to come back in the store and talk to him face to face which would just equate to an extremely long guilt trip and him trying to make me agree to \u201cremote work.\u201d He did also ask when I planned on repaying him that $200. I plan on mailing it back to him, but my coworker warned me he might try to say he never received the money back, which I believe he would do. \n\nMy question is, am I LEGALLY OBLIGATED to return that money to him or in theory am I free to keep it\/wouldn\u2019t have to prove I gave him his money back if he claimed he never received it? \n\nTLDR: My Ex-boss would not let me refuse $200 that he gave me under the table. I left the job and he\u2019s asking me to repay him. Are there legal repercussions if I don\u2019t return the money?\n\nThank you for reading! ","title":"Am I legally obligated to give back money that my ex-boss \u201cleant\u201d me but pressured me to accept?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1408665675,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e8b6x\/ca_thought_id_resolved_a_vehicle_citation_months\/","id":"2e8b6x","body":"I was citied by an LAPD officer back in June for driving a recently purchased used car without displaying license plates (the dealership sold me the car with dealer plates and told me the DMV would send my registration plates. I accepted this without questioning it, only to discover when pulled over that the car had actually been sold to me with the dealer plates obscuring the already-installed registration plates - the first of two mistakes on my part).\n\nThe citation required me to present my car to an LA county sheriff vehicle inspection station and pay a small fine. I did this and received a certificate of vehicle correction, which I immediately folded and placed in the glove box of my car without bothering to read it closely (second mistake).\n\nToday I received a notice from LA Superior Court, informing me that as a result of my failure to appear in court over my citation I must either pay a bail of $889 or schedule an arraignment. Naturally, I immediately ran and grabbed my correction certificate, which I hadn't looked at since receiving it, intending to call the court house and explain that they'd made a mistake. That's when I noticed, written across the bottom of the certificate: \n\n\"You must take this certificate of correction to the clerks' office to clear the citation. Failure to do so may result in a warrant or additional penalties being charged.\" So, even though I did attend vehicle inspection, I now realize I failed to provide evidence of that to the court.\n\nIt seems my choice now is to either pay the bail within ten days (which will result in a $300 civil assessment fine being waved, bringing it down to $589) or to request a court date. I'm hoping that if I go to court and show a judge that I did correct the problem and attend vehicle inspection, the fine will be cancelled and the matter cleared from my record, but I have no idea if that's a realistic expectation.\n\nI'd be really grateful if someone here could give me a sense of what my best option is.","title":"(CA) Thought I'd resolved a vehicle citation months ago; just received a Failure to Appear notice.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571098806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhzqrl\/possible_consequences_of_giving_my_two_weeks_to\/","id":"dhzqrl","body":"I work for a small locally owned business in the state of Georgia. I know it is an at-will state. I\u2019ve been working here since late July of 2018 and have the most responsibility in the shop out of the 5 employees. But I don\u2019t have a different title or higher pay. I\u2019m just the oldest at 25. This job is not my end goal, there\u2019s no room for growth or pay increases, and she doesn\u2019t give me nearly enough hours to cover all of my expenses. I have been applying for other better jobs and have an opportunity for two different ones that offer higher wages, benefits, and pto. My issue is that my boss (the owner of the company) is a bully and behaves unethically all the time. In the past when a long time employee gave her a two weeks notice, in the form of a signed letter and as a text message, my boss deleted the message and threw away the letter and told her she wasn\u2019t allowed to quit, then gave her her schedule for the following week. \nWhen she did finally manage to quit she told my boss it was because she was moving (she wasn\u2019t). When that happened my boss told me I better not be planning to quit and when I do I need to provide at least a months notice. I\u2019m now planning to leave and will give her two weeks notice to be respectful, but am worried if anyone tries to call her for a reference she will act like I was the worst employee. Even though I\u2019ve never been late, have always been available to cover shifts, and as far as I know have never been in any kind of trouble with her. Is there anything I can do in this situation? Or am I just at the will of this woman?","title":"Possible consequences of giving my two weeks to my boss?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503028384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ufdxm\/subcontracting_does_subcontractor_provide\/","id":"6ufdxm","body":"MA\n\nClient (party A) wants to contract party B to create a software product. A and B agree on price, term, and B creates an agreement that A signs to commence work. \n\nNow B doesn't actually know software development. B just has a network that he uses to sub-contract work to another independent contractor (party C) who will create the works for hire. C is not an employee of A or B. \n\nMy question is, similarly to B and A, does C create a similar agreement for B to sign after price\/term\/scope have been agreed on?\n\nIn this case I'm C, but B gave me _his own_ agreement, despite giving one to A too. Shouldn't C be responsible for providing a separate agreement to B since B is technically C's client (despite that the work is really for A)? \n\nOr is there some legal requirement that says B provides the agreement specifically because C is a subcontractor?","title":"Subcontracting - does subcontractor provide contractor with an agreement, or vice versa?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569213379,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d81p2h\/looking_to_buy_a_condo_and_rent_out_extra_room\/","id":"d81p2h","body":"Hey guys,\n\nI am in a weird situation with looking to move out and have roomates. For reference this is in Alberta Canada\n\nCurrenty, I am a 19 year old in university, at which I also participate in school sports there. Because of this, I don\u2019t have a job during the school year and live off scholarship money and money I save during the summer. My school is being covered also, so I have a decent amount of money. However, I also have a large sum of money from inheritance that is currently in a tax free savings account. It\u2019s enough to put a decent sized down payment on a condo\/starter home. \n\nIn about 2 years, I am looking at moving out. At this time I will still be in school and living off of scholarships and summer savings throughout the school year. \nWill I have to co-sign with my parents on a mortgage  due to my lack of consistent income?\nNext, I plan on engaging in an agreement with a roommate (my girlfriend) in which I put a down payment on the house and she pays me back (half) monthly as she will be able to have a job full time. \n\nWhat sort of legal document would have to be arranged?\n\nLastly, we want to figure out if one of our friends could rent out some space in the condo, what are legal steps we would have to take for this?\nThanks in advance!","title":"Looking to buy a condo and rent out extra room.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551869971,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axxlo1\/landlord_is_losing_battle_to_cancer_and_wants_to\/","id":"axxlo1","body":"Hello, this is in Maine. Our landlord lives in California and has late stage cancer and wants to sell our 1br1ba condo (225k) before he passes on. He uses a rental company, which is whom we pay rent (1,365+) to. My partner and I (24F, 25M) just moved in 4 months ago. Looking at the lease, we don't seem to have any protection if the landlord sells the building, that I understand. The lease is for one year. I met the man (realtor?) selling the condo and he explained to me that he wants to try and find someone who will let us stay till our lease. He also explained to me that I must leave during apartment showings, which are starting to accumilate to two a week. \n\nThis is our first place together and we adore just about everything about it, it is perfect for us at this time and we even wanted to stay another year if possible which it probably is no longer.\nHonestly, finding this place was the best things that's happened for us, we worked hard and put just about every dime we had into moving in. I am scared of getting evicted and starting all over at this time. Do I have any rights during this process? What can I do if the new owner evicts me? Also interested in knowing what would happen if the landlord dies before the apartment is sold?\n\nThank you.","title":"Landlord is losing battle to cancer and wants to sell the condo we rent, what are our rights?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542153487,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wumq1\/when_can_or_should_you_withhold_your_rent_in_an\/","id":"9wumq1","body":"So we\u2019ve lived in these apartments for 2 years & i first noticed this dark spot on the wood, looked only like an oil stain on shirts but on wood. Meant to bring it up to maintenance but life I don\u2019t drive have a toddler and am trying to find a new job among a million other things. So I finally made a list of all this shit that\u2019s wrong with the apartment. Missing a floor tile. No second rack in the oven since we moved in. Most closets need new track or whatever due to always coming off since we moved in and were gentle. The dishwasher has only ever worked on \u201cheavy wash\u201d setting nothing else & now it\u2019s started backing up like nasty af. Needed a new front door he said last time he was here. No power to back porch light since we moved in. And I\u2019m sure way more and we\u2019ve complained about everything numerous times. I have called the office with my list initially about 1&1\/2 to 2 months ago. Came out, put new seals & Said he\u2019d be back with a new door in a week. Well I called again a week later and he said he\u2019d have it in a week. Well like a month later I call again about a leaky sink and he finally came out & fixed the sink, new door, fixed the bathroom fan, and looked at the mold & dishwasher. Keeps saying they don\u2019t know what the mold is trying to completely brush it off. I say it needs to be fixed. They say they\u2019ll have someone come look at it in a few days. Well a little over a week later the newer maintenance guy shows up & I say wtf and he says he\u2019s only there to take a picture of the dishwasher so they can buy a new part ???? (Random and irrelevant af not nearly my biggest complaint) he says he doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on ask the main maintenance man. That was like yesterday. Now I\u2019m pissed. Can i withhold rent? What should I do? We\u2019re also signing a new lease next month and have already paid this month \ud83d\ude12","title":"When can or should you withhold your rent in an escrow account?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571181729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/digd8y\/retailer_slipped_in_insurance_papers_without\/","id":"digd8y","body":"I live in British Columbia, Canada. A little under 1 year ago I purchased some furniture from a retailer. The process required me to take out a credit card, which was fine as I never planned on using it. The retailer helped me set up my monthly payments and had me sign the necessary forms. Everything seemed fine. \n\nFast forward to 3 weeks ago and I was informed by the credit card company that I owned them around $600 due to missed payments. After investigating the issue with them I learned that the monthly payments were going through properly, however I was being charged for insurance that was essentially doubling my payments. What wasn\u2019t being paid off with my monthly payments was being charged on my credit card.\n\nAs it turns out the retailer must have slipped in the insurance forms without me noticing and I signed it without realizing. I absolutely would have declined the insurance had I been told. The fact I was making all my monthly payments (not including the insurance) is further evidence. If I was told about the insurance\/had I agreed to it, my payment plan would have been set to the proper amount. Now the insurance company insists I owe them a lump sum because they have my signature.\n\nIs there a way to get a refund? Or am I legally obligated to pay this off?","title":"Retailer slipped in insurance papers without informing me and now have my signature","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539487418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nzrxr\/didnt_know_i_had_my_own_living_trust\/","id":"9nzrxr","body":"In March 2011 my father died and had his own trusts last amendment done and finalized that names my half brothers trustees of that trust. Unbeknownst to me around the same time I apparently transferred my property to and signed and created my own irrevocable living trust that also names my half brothers as trustees  and only is amendable by all our signstures..my half brothers say my father had me sign deeds to the property that I didn't know was in my name personally at that time into the trust...and therefore had it created ... the attorney who wrote his trust says she was asked by my dad to write my trust. My trust is a big problem for me as my half brothers and I do not get along and terms allow no withdrawal of principal just hems money in trustees discression ...I was never even shown a copy or given any documents on it until 2017 ... There are a number of different questions I have but most important how do I know that my half brothers aren't the ones who created it? They get the money if I were to die but also I think can use monies to do as they please pretty much and also they can name successor.trustees.... I can't fire them ","title":"Didnt know i had my own living trust","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551219653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av5f9v\/land_lord_is_making_me_pay_300_for_the\/","id":"av5f9v","body":"This happened in the Netherlands. Apologies if any terminology is wrong. I barely speak electricity in my own language, let alone in English.\n\nA couple of weeks ago on Saturday, the electricity in my studio went down. I left one light and ran an errand, thirty minutes later it's all dark. This was only in my apartment, no one else in the building had any trouble.\nI have a small fuse box specific to my studio. Nothing I did in there, fixed it.  The problem was probably in the main fuse box. \nHere's the thing. My land lord leaves the door to the main box locked. He's the only one to have a key. He lives 50 km away. I had no access, there was literally no way for me to fix this, even though it's probably the flick of a switch.\n\nI called my landlord. He made me run through the process of flicking the switches again, and asks me to try to the door to the main box again. Still very locked. He's unavailable to come himself, he's going to try and work something out for me. \nSkip to 45 minutes later, he calls to tell someone is coming. I'm delighted. Electrician goes to pick up the key with the land lord, drives to my place, opens the door and behold! All that needed to be done, was flick the damn switch. He ran some tests because \"he was there now anyways\" and everything was fine. Turned out a bulb in the light I left on blew, and triggered the short circuit. This dude was literally in my house for fifteen  minutes. \n\nToday I receive an email from my land lord containing the bill for the electrician, with a request for me to transfer them the amount. This bill added up to a whopping \u20ac280\/$320! For essentially just picking up a key! The dude charged double because it was the weekend, and had over an hour in driving time because of that damn key. If I had had access, I could've flicked the switch myself and no one would've had to come in. \nIf something in my own studio had been the problem, I understand me having to pay. But I had no way to fix it, because the land lord had the door locked with no key available nearby! I've been through my contract, but it's unclear to me and honestly anyone else I had read it if this is covered in one of the clauses. Said clause seems to cover only government induced charges, like taxes, but I'm honestly not sure.\n\nI plan on emailing them all of this (and the suggestion for a key safe with a code, to save any other inhabitants the trouble) but can he do this? Is this not inflicted by him because he keeps the door locked with no key available, making it unfair(unjustified?) to make me pay? \u20ac280 is nearly half my rent and as a student I don't have that money out of the blue. ","title":"Land lord is making me pay \u20ac300 for the electrician that was basically called to pick up a key","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552502627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0plnr\/oregon_marijuana_smell_in_hallway_is_being_pinned\/","id":"b0plnr","body":"Hello, \n\nI got a noise complaint recently and a member of the staff knocked on my door. I answered and came out to the hallway, closed the door behind me. The noise complaint was at 10:26pm quiet hours are at 11pm. The conversation ended and I returned to my unit and got everything quiet. \n\nToday I got a letter saying I\u2019ve violated my lease by the noise complaint and it\u2019ll expunge in 12 months. And I got an email from the site manager explaining that the staff member smelled smoke coming from my unit. \n\nA little background. I live in a housing unit for college students, it\u2019s not a dorm though. The whole place literally reeks of weed all the time. I don\u2019t smoke, I and my son who lives with me have asthma, but our hallway always reeks. That\u2019s why I\u2019m so shocked the staff member is 100% certain it\u2019s our unit. \n\nI just want to know how the \u201csmell test\u201d holds up legally and what the ramifications are from the smoking violation, also if the noise violation is even a violation given it wasn\u2019t in quiet hours. \n\nThank you. ","title":"[Oregon] Marijuana smell in hallway is being pinned on my unit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571271455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diydb3\/my_exfriend_wants_me_gone\/","id":"diydb3","body":"So I moved in with my friend (let\u2019s call her Ally) and her wife (my best friend) back in June to their new house. We were under the oral agreement that I would pay $150 a month to live there. \n\nWell.... Ally went fucking nuts. She\u2019s super abusive to not only her wife, but to me. When her wife isn\u2019t around, she takes her mental abuse out on me. She tells her friends that she wants me gone and finally said she wanted me to move out. I don\u2019t feel comfortable leaving my best friend behind because of how insane she is. \n\nI pay my rent on time, buy groceries, take care of her animals, clean the house, etc. I\u2019ve invested well over 1,000 into this place. Which is a lot compared to how much I make. \n\nCan she legally make me leave without a notice since I\u2019m not on the mortgage paperwork?","title":"My ex-friend wants me gone","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412639824,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ii4r3\/selling_a_used_car_and_wanting_to_hold_onto_the\/","id":"2ii4r3","body":"I'm looking to sell a car to one of my brother's girlfriend's workers rather than scrap it. He wants to make payments on the car and register it. I want to hold the title until it's paid off but I want him to take it away and not leave it sitting in front of my house while he pays it off. \n\nCan anyone suggest what the contract should say as well as give some advice as to whether I can actually hold the title and let him still register with, perhaps, a bill of sale? ","title":"Selling a used car and wanting to hold onto the title but still allow the buyer to take possession and register the vehicle in the state of Oregon.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1550085191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqa7vd\/manager_says_they_are_not_obligated_to_give_us\/","id":"aqa7vd","body":"Background: I work with middle school children in a school setting for a non-profit organization. Location is NYC.\n\n​\n\nLong story short, we work 8-4 during camp days (eg, summer break, mid-winter and spring break, holidays, etc) and 11-7 on Fridays. On camp days, we are with the children 100% of that time. Last year, we were given 15-30 minute breaks for each day we worked over 4 hours, but I assumed because we were understaffed this year, those breaks were taken away. I asked if there were plans to give us breaks as we are now of sufficient staff, and was told that legally they are not required to give us breaks, and if we ever got breaks previously, it was because of cuts to our budget. In short, the answer is no, we wouldn't be getting breaks, nor would ever be getting breaks unless we need to cut back on our budget.  Some of the staff have resorted to eating their lunch in the classrooms with the children, and have been disciplined as a result.\n\n​\n\nIs this true or are they obligated by NY law to give us breaks on days we work longer than 7 hours?\n\n​\n\nI was told that the break requirement legally speaking only applies for retail and factory workers, and as we are neither, the break requirement doesn't apply to us. This sounds wrong to me, but I am aware that employment law isn't always in the employee's favor. Any advice? ","title":"Manager says they are not obligated to give us breaks during 7+ hour shifts because we are not retail or factory workers. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505774335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70ymkf\/my_ex_landlord_has_a_real_estate_friend_and_she\/","id":"70ymkf","body":"Long story short, in Virginia, can I be held responsible for my previous landlord's elective renovations based on this clause in the lease?\n\n\"If tenant fails to comply with any provisions of Lease, Landlord may use any part of or retain all of Security Deposit for the payment of the following: Rent, any unpaid late or other charges, utilities or any other amount Landlord may expend because of Tenant's non-compliance with the Lease, including any damage or deficiency in the rental of the Premises, whether accruing before or after re-entry by Landlord\".\n\nLonger version:\nMy landlord is refusing to give me back a large portion of my security deposit and said that if I pursue legal action, she'll come after me with the total cost of her (100% elective) renovations. Immediately after I moved out she replaced the carpets with hardwood and had her condo completely repainted including ceilings and trim (she had casually let me know this via email, no mention of damage or issues or any liability to me). She never informed me of a move-out walk through and what I thought was the move-out walk through she claims is not. In the first itemized deduction list (given to me outside the 30 days) I asked for documentation for one of the charges, a $500 ozone odor treatment performed after her renovations, since I did not think I was liable, though I was willing to split the cost if she provided documentation that it existed prior to the renovations. She proceeded to void the existing return check, gave a new deduction list which dropped my return by an additional $400, and threatened the full renovation cost if I pursued legal action since I was in breach of the contract.\n\nShe wanted to replace the carpets before I moved in but I asked her not to since I have a cat and didn't want to be liable for her new carpet. A clause was added to the lease that there was existing damage and I am not liable for the carpets.\n\nDue to that, I didn't steam clean them before I left (she reaffirmed this in an email prior), though I did have professional  cleaners come through. I also didn't treat the house for fleas and ticks since there weren't any.\n\nShe's using these two items as her basis for my non-compliance and also deducted the costs from my security deposit currently based off a google search (though she never had either service performed). \n\nThere are other details by my question is: Can she come after me for the cost of those renovations based on the clause below?\n\n\"If tenant fails to comply with any provisions of Lease, Landlord may use any part of or retain all of Security Deposit for the payment of the following: Rent, any unpaid late or other charges, utilities or any other amount Landlord may expend because of Tenant's non-compliance with the Lease, including any damage or deficiency in the rental of the Premises, whether accruing before or after re-entry by Landlord\".\n\nThank you\n\n***********Update**************\n:\nSo it says on my lease that it's not covered by the Virginia Residential Landlord Tenant Act but in reading that, I think a couple sections do apply to me based on this excerpt (last line is the important part) from the 2017 landord-tenant handbook :\n\n\"B. \"... landlord may opt out of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (\u00a7 55-248.2 et seq.) by so stating in a rental agreement with a tenant. Such residential dwelling units shall be exempt from this chapter and the provisions of \u00a7\u00a7 55-225.01 through 55-225.48 shall be applicable.\"\n\nSource: http:\/\/www.dhcd.virginia.gov\/images\/Housing\/2017%20landlord-tenanthandbook.pdf\n\nIf that's true,Virginia Code \u00a7 55-225.19 \"Security Deposits\" should still apply to me. Subsection A of \u00a7 55-225.19. states:\n\n\"....The landlord shall notify the tenant in writing of any deductions provided by this subsection to be made from the tenant's security deposit during the course of the tenancy. Such notification shall be made within 30 days of the date of the determination of the deduction and shall itemize the reasons in the same manner as provided in subsection B. Such notification shall not be required for deductions made less than 30 days prior to the termination of the rental agreement. If the landlord willfully fails to comply with this section, the court shall order the return of the security deposit to the tenant, together with actual damages and reasonable attorney fees, unless the tenant owes rent to the landlord, in which case, the court shall order an amount equal to the security deposit credited against the rent due to the landlord\" \n\nHowever it also states:\n\n\"....In the event that damages to the premises exceed the amount of the security deposit and require the services of a third-party contractor, the landlord shall give written notice to the tenant advising him of that fact within the 45-day period. If notice is given as prescribed in this paragraph, the landlord shall have an additional 15-day period to provide an itemization of the damages and the cost of repair. This section shall not preclude the landlord or tenant from recovering other damages to which he may be entitled under this chapter. \"\n\n \".....Following the move-out inspection, the landlord shall provide the tenant with a written security deposit disposition statement including an itemized list of damages. If additional damages are discovered by the landlord after the security deposit disposition has been made, nothing herein shall be construed to preclude the landlord from recovery of such damages against the tenant, provided, however, that the tenant may present into evidence a copy of the move-out report to support the tenant's position that such additional damages did not exist at the time of the move-out inspection.\"\n\nSource: https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/title55\/chapter13\/section55-225.19\/\n\n\nSo it sounds like without a move-out inspection notification or report, she doesn't have much ground to stand on to make me pay for her renovations. However, the middle paragraph sounds like it could bite me since she could send me invoices. She still has no proof of the damage though. In short, I am still unsure what she can do.","title":"My ex landlord has a real estate friend and she thinks she's can force me pay for all of her renovation costs because she claims I'm in breach of contract","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554681964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bamz16\/question_about_release_of_liability\/","id":"bamz16","body":"I live in California and I\u2019m looking to start a service based business.  I\u2019m looking to register as a sole proprietor but I have a question about the risks.\nWould having my clients sign a release of liability waiver protect me from any accidental damages?","title":"Question about release of liability.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553642537,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5wwby\/forced_to_move_out_of_apartment_without_24_hour\/","id":"b5wwby","body":"We recently had an apartment fire diagonal to are apartment. We took some heavy axe damage to the 2nd bedroom and everything was classified as unlivable. The apartment complex booked us into a hotel for a few nights until then. Now that we\u2019ve signed a lease to a new unit we were originally given a week to move stuff. We got a call today at noon to vacate by morning so I had to leave work early.\n\nIs it legal for them to force us to move so quickly after telling us we had a week?","title":"Forced to move out of apartment without 24 hour notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553732230,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6bzcq\/ive_wasted_my_time_on_a_app_with_promise_of\/","id":"b6bzcq","body":"It may sound dumb but I was promised a 10$ paypal card from a app called Rich you - Dreams come true. There is no terms of service anywhere in the app and I have no idea what to do. As I've wasted a fair amount of time with the app and have gotten nothing for following what the app said. I don't know what to do, I either 1. Sue the developers or 2. Get it taken down from the app store. Is there anyway I could do so?","title":"I've wasted my time on a app with promise of getting a paypal card","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570150875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd07gk\/10_month_old_house_foundation_is_screwed\/","id":"dd07gk","body":"# Background\n\nLocation: Alabama, US\n\nWe closed on a new build home last November. Throughout the past year, we've had cracks on the walls that the builder came and patched up. However, the painter didn't use the same color so it was very noticeable. In the process of just staring at the wrong paint and talking about how the builder hadn't responded to our messages to come fix it, we noticed that the same areas had cracked again. We knew our one year warranty was closing in and consulted our relator from our purchase of the home (a close friend) what we should do. She said she would help and to send all the photos of the cracks. When she saw the cracks, she knew something was wrong with the home. \n\n# Contacting the builder about problems\n\nWe contacted the builder with our concerns through our realtor. He came over with a structural engineer and said everything was normal and that there was nothing to worry about. Obviously we didn't believe him, and got our own unbiased specialist to come look at it.   \nOur specialist knew there was something horribly wrong and did many in-depth tests around the house, in side and out.  He came to the conclusion that the house was settling heavily unbalanced and this should NOT be happening after ten months if the foundation was done correctly. I don't think i need to get into details, but he was very very certain the foundation was terribly screwed. He sent us his proposal and report with all his photos and documentation.\n\n# Why I'm here\n\nWe are preparing to send the builder a certified letter in the mail with the proposal and also over email to make sure this is documented that this is happening within the one year warranty. Even though i think it is clear this was just ton terribly wrong and the warranty shouldn't even matter if it wasnt done correctly from the start.\n\nI just want to make sure that we go about this letter the right way. **Is there a certain layout or anything i need to use to do this? I have been documenting all communication with the builder in case we need it in court.** \n\nAny other advice will be greatly appreciated.   \n\n\n# TL;DR\n\nWe bought a brand new house ten months ago and the foundation is screwed. We are trying to get the builder to have to pay to fix it.","title":"10 Month Old House Foundation is Screwed.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550973390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/au2zib\/employee_with_aspergers_isnt_good_at_his_job\/","id":"au2zib","body":"There is an employee who works at the same restaurant as I do, he has a disease called aspergers which affects his behavior in some ways, this behavior makes him a bit different.  When he was hired a few months ago the management was not informed of the condition.  His performance at work has been and is substandard, due to this he was not scheduled for a period of about two weeks.  During this period his parents called in and I don't know the details but they complained about his lack of scheduling and informed the manager about his aspergers.  Management wants to let him go now, due to poor job performance, and probably wouldn't have hired him if they had known about the disease in the first place.  My question is would we be open to any sort of lawsuit if we did fire him? \n\nThis is in Indiana USA","title":"Employee with aspergers isn't good at his job.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555627366,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bert8p\/md_probate_question\/","id":"bert8p","body":"My father recently passed away without a will. He is survived by his wife (my stepmother), my two siblings, and myself. My siblings and I are all over 18. \n\nMy stepmother is acting as the Personal Representative of his estate. My father and my stepmother had a house as joint tenants but the mortgage was only in my father\u2019s name. My stepmother\u2019s attorney is using a large amount of my father\u2019s estate to pay off the mortgage, because it was in his name. \n\nIs this proper? I thought that my stepmother would receive the house subject to the mortgage but the estate did not have to pay it off. The property is in Maryland.","title":"[MD] Probate Question","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552689175,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1l6a7\/college_cheating_scandal_class_action_suit\/","id":"b1l6a7","body":"This may be a different issue than the ones typically asked, but I was wondering how I could get involved or at least compensated for the application fee I paid to apply to several universities involved in the college cheating scandal. Would eligible applicants actually be compensated for their actual application fee or would we just get a fraction of what we paid for? ","title":"College Cheating Scandal Class Action Suit","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554242964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8pot8\/school_food_poisoning\/","id":"b8pot8","body":"     A few years ago I went to a school which my sister currently goes to. I witnessed them finishing their food hours before they served it. My best friend for food poisoning three times from it. I unfortunately fondly remember another friend struggling for five or so minutes to punch macaroni out of a styrofoam bowl and when he got it out, it didn't change shape at all. Is there anything I can do even though I left the school years ago?","title":"School food poisoning?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1411310572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2h1bsu\/can_a_company_use_a_waiver_to_absolve_itself_from\/","id":"2h1bsu","body":"My child is going to a fun zone place and we have to sign a waiver where we agree to not ever go after them if our child gets hurt or dies even though it is the result of \"damages caused or alleged to have been caused in whole or in part by the negligent acts or omissions of (company)\".\n\nCan they do this?\n\nManitoba Canada\n\nedit: I found this if it can help. Does this mean the clause above is invalid?\n\n> However, the appellants in LOYCHUK also advanced an argument based on recent Law Reform Commission reports which had expressed the view that commercial recreational operators should not be immune from personal injury liability once a release form has been signed if their own negligence leads to injury. Frankel J.A. summarized these reports as follows:\n\n>(...)THE SECOND IS THE MANITOBA LAW REFORM COMMISSION'S WAIVERS OF LIABILITY FOR SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL INJURIES (JANUARY 2009), WHICH RECOMMENDED THE ENACTMENT OF LEGISLATION TO PROHIBIT COMPLETELY THE USE OF WAIVERS OF LIABILITY FOR PERSONAL INJURY AND DEATH RESULTING FROM NEGLIGENCE IN SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES: P. 43. IN THE ALTERNATIVE, THE MANITOBA LAW REFORM COMMISSION RECOMMENDED THAT SUCH WAIVERS BE PROHIBITED EXCEPT WHERE THEY ARE \"IN ALL THE CIRCUMSTANCES ... FAIR AND REASONABLE\". THE CIRCUMSTANCES TO BE CONSIDERED IN DETERMINING WHETHER A PARTICULAR WAIVER IS FAIR AND REASONABLE INCLUDE: (A) THE REPRESENTATIONS MADE TO THE CONSUMER AT THE TIME THE WAIVER IS OBTAINED; (B) THE STEPS TAKEN TO BRING THE WAIVER TO THE CONSUMER'S ATTENTION; **(C) WHETHER THE HAZARD CAUSING THE INJURY OR DEATH IS EXCLUSIVELY UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE OPERATOR;** AND (D) THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONSUMER AND THE OPERATOR: P. 44.\n\n[source](http:\/\/www.fraservalleyinjurylawyers.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/25\/court-appeal-upholds-liability-wa)","title":"Can a company use a waiver to absolve itself from its own negligence?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568697796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5chej\/asthmatic_with_vapingsmoking_neighbors\/","id":"d5chej","body":"I live in Washington state and I am an asthmatic who lives on the top floor of my complex. There are three or more units below me that vape and smoke tobacco products and marijuana. The smoke and vapor rises to my unit's balcony and the bedroom window. It gets very hot in my unit, which has no AC and the rules on smoking and vaping is only that you can't do it inside the unit. I feel that the vapor and smoke is encroaching on my health and ability to fully use my unit, as I would like to be able to garden on the balcony and hang dry my clothes (the washer and dryer is coin operated). I have had to use my inhaler a lot, just from the smoke and vapor. I know that they will possibly try to say that I am encroaching on their ability to enjoy their units, but I think that it is fair to assume that health risks outweigh comfort in priority. I only ask that they smoke\/vape at least 15 ft away from the building, if they must do so. I don't know which units are smoking and vaping, and I don't want to knock on every door and possibly either be wrong or trigger an asthma attack from talking to a smoker (my asthma is triggered by third hand smoke as well, meaning smoke on clothes). I would like to talk to my landlord about it, but I don't know how to proceed, especially if the landlord decides not to do anything about it. (Before anyone asks why I chose a \"smoke friendly\" complex, I didn't really know and I was desperate for a place to live because I was in a really bad situation before. This was the most I could afford.) How should I proceed and is there anything I should know?","title":"Asthmatic with vaping\/smoking neighbors","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554319566,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b92gb4\/delaying_car_payment_due_to_medical_reasons\/","id":"b92gb4","body":"29\/M\/US (California, San Jose area)\n\nSo I recently purchased a car since both my girlfriend's and my girlfriend's mom's cars crapped out on them. I've had the car for three months now, and I've been paying off what I need to owe monthly (60 month term). Due to medical reasons, I won't be legally able to drive the car until I recover from surgery in the summer. What legal leg do I have to stand on (if any) about asking my dealer to delay car payments due to medical reasons? The car won't be driven by me until I recover from surgery, which would be late summer of this year.","title":"Delaying car payment due to medical reasons?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570459952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dekia2\/accounts_hacked\/","id":"dekia2","body":"My twitch account was hacked over a week ago, I followed all the usual options l, contacted support and assumed this would all get cleared up pretty quickly and easily.\n\nTwitch replied and asked to prove it was me who's the genuine owner of the account, I sent my IP, email address, proof of purchases on the account and waited for a reply. \n\nGot a reply back from twitch essentially saying they can't prove the account is mine and there's nothing they will do, I obviously reply back trying to get more help as the account is mine, I get no reply. I've emailed around 10 times now and gotten no where each time. \n\nIs there any legal actions I can take? My PayPal is on the account and whoever has hacked the account has already tried giving themselves money, I have no idea what I can even do at this point and I'm really annoyed with twitch with not helping me what so ever.","title":"Accounts hacked","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507232099,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74id61\/can_an_employer_check_what_my_prescriptions_are\/","id":"74id61","body":"[CA] I was prescribed adderall for years but didn't take it all the time. I have a lot of it left over and use it occasionally, but no active prescription and I can't go to the doctor who gave it to me anymore because I changed insurance.\n\nIf I told my employer that I'm taking it before a drug test, would they check if I have an active prescription or just take my word for it? I have the bottles with my name on them, would that suffice?","title":"Can an employer check what my prescriptions are?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538243771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jz2du\/was_hired_to_me_a_manager_am_now_being_told_that\/","id":"9jz2du","body":"Hi all, first off I'm from Ireland (just in case it makes a difference) \n\nI hope someone can please help me, as this is pretty urgent. \nHere goes:\n\nI interviewed for a job 2 months ago for a supervisor for a restaurant where I live. The restaurant itself wasn't open at the time as it was a new property to come to the town. \n\nI was offered the job and was happy to wait the 2 weeks* I was told it would take to open. \n\nDuring this time, my boss, would ask me to come in and help but also named me as **manager** to everyone and told me I would be doing ordered, taking stock, rostering and all managerial things. This was more than what I would have to do as a supervisor but I didn't mind. More responsibility meant more pay. \n\n* it has now taken the restaurant 2 months to open, which is again fine by me as my boss said that I'd be paid for when I came in and helped set up. \n\nNo contracts were written up at this time. \n\nNow my boss is telling me that because I never gave him a hard copy of a work reference that he can't give me a contract or roster me for monday (our open day)  because I never gave him this reference. Yet he has numbers for where I used to work before and could get a verbal one. \nI said that I can have a reference by tomorrow but he said that it's too late and that he can't roster me this week and we'll sort something for next week. \n\n\nAll this feels very dodgy to me and I hope some one can help me work out what's going on! ","title":"Was hired to me a manager, am now being told that because I don't have a reference that he can't roster me. (long)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540123262,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q2zjx\/is_it_wrong_to_want_tobhace_sex_at_16\/","id":"9q2zjx","body":"My dads a cop and Im in highschool and I get bullied because I'm a virgin, just about everyone has done it. Once i was alone with my gf and she tried to do it with me but i said no because I wasnt sure. ","title":"Is it wrong to want tobhace sex at 16?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540776693,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s8t4v\/lease_question\/","id":"9s8t4v","body":"I signed a year long lease for an apartment. I was promised (in text messages that I stupidly didn\u2019t save) that I would be in a 3rd floor apartment. After I signed the lease I was shown to a 1st floor apartment and told basically \u201coops, if you want to move in today this is all we have\u201d. I had no choice but to move in. About 2 months after I moved in a new neighbor moved in upstairs who is a nightmare. He regularly screams and pounds on the floor and stomps around so hard the stuff in my apartment falls over and my walls shake. My cats live in constant terror due to the amount of noise he makes. He sometimes does this literally all night, he will start at 6-7pm and will still be going when I leave for work at 7am. Our lease has \u201cquiet hours\u201d from 10pm to 8 am. The apartment manager knows this is going on and refuses to do anything about it. Is there any way I can get out of my lease due to this behavior? I have an ESA due to a debilitating cocktail of mental health diagnoses and this whole situation is causing health problems due to anxiety. I am terrified of this neighbor, I have not gone in to great detail about his behavior but it is flat frightening and I can\u2019t continue to live like this. Thanks in advance for anyone who reads this or has any advice. ","title":"Lease Question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443901186,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ndj03\/libertymutual_is_insisting_that_i_owe_them_a\/","id":"3ndj03","body":"I am seeking general advice: I sold my car to a dealer (who does not have title transfer yet) on Sept 1. I called my insurance on Sept 3 that I sold my car and I need to cancel my policy. They say okay, and few weeks later, I receive a letter that my insurance was cancelled effective Sept 3 (even though I requested them Sept1) and I owe them some money. \nI called them on Oct 3 asking that why I owe them money (around 43 bucks), they said for a day or two of sept 1-sept 3. I asked if they can waive that amount, they said let us check. After the check, they told me that I didn't cancel my plate registration yet and so under MA law, we cannot cancel your insurance because your plates were still active and now you owe us whole Sept's premium. I do realize it was my mistake of not cancelling my plates, I did that immediately online. But they they still insist that I owe them a month of premium (around 160). I have all proof of cancellations and reinstating my policy which I didn't give them permission for. Are they right? I think I was misled. Do you think I should press this case more with small claims or BBB? Please advice!","title":"LibertyMutual is insisting that I owe them a month of premium, even though I have proof that they cancelled it a month ago and re-instated my policy without my permission [Massachusetts]","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540068763,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pxot4\/my_aunt_wont_put_her_children_in_school_what_can\/","id":"9pxot4","body":"Hello. As a side note I'm a teenager so pardon if this isn't as well written as some of the other people's posts, or not as concerning of an issue. All parties involved live in Wisconsin, in the US. \n\nMy aunt has two daughters, and was recently made the legal guardian of her 3 grand kids as well ( cps got involved with their mother- two are elementary school aged, one is in preschool ). The older cousin should be in high school and the younger should be in middle school- But my aunt refuses to put either child in school. Wisconsin allows you to put your child in 'homeschooling' and doesn't ask for evidence of this, and my aunt has chosen to abuse the system by not putting them in any form of schooling at all. I know that this is against the law because it isn't for any religious purpose- My aunt just likes having my older cousin as a built in nanny for her 3 grand kids. The older cousin hasn't been in school since 8th grade, and the younger one was just taken out of school last year. Myself and the rest of my family are concerned, but my aunt doesn't care about what any of us say- I'm afraid for their futures because they're both... *very* lacking in the intelligence department, and the older one has become such a recluse she hasn't left the house in months and has no friends, as well as I'm aware.\n\nI want to know what my legal options are in this situation. No one can convince my aunt to put the girls back in school, and I thought that we could pressure her by contacting someone who could scare her into doing this-- But I don't know WHO to contact nor HOW to contact them. I also don't want things to go to far and result in her losing her kids...\n\nThere's also the issue of remaining anonymous, because if my aunt found out that I was the one who reported her, me and my mother would be disowned from the family. \n\nI don't really know if this strictly falls under legal advice but I wasn't sure where else to post this, so if it doesn't fit here if anyone could direct me to a more fitting subreddit please do. Honestly any advice at all would be wonderful, I'm really at a loss and i'm really concerned for my cousins. They both have told me they hate living like this and I can't stand to see it get any worse...","title":"My aunt won't put her children in school, what can I do? ( USA, Wisconsin )","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553174135,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3qecn\/former_employer_still_hasnt_sent_me_a_final\/","id":"b3qecn","body":"On March 1st, I put in my two weeks notice at a job I had at a corporate phone store. I noted on the letter that my last day would be March 15th, however I only ended up working until the 7th as I had already scheduled vacation time for the 7th to the 15th. My normal payday is Wednesday, so I expected to have my final paycheck by then, however I just received my normal paycheck. If my understanding is correct, they still owe me commission for February and March, as well as some fraction of the 60 unused vacation hours I had. How long do they have to pay me for the rest? Normally I wouldn\u2019t get that commission until the week following the last day of the next month, but I assumed they had to pay me sooner. ","title":"Former employer still hasn\u2019t sent me a final paycheck. What do I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570472394,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deneg3\/false_rental_collections_how_to_remove_from\/","id":"deneg3","body":"Hey guys, I don't want to make any rash decisions but I need help. \n\nI lived at a slum apartment for about 5 years, and the rental company has many terrible reviews.  As backstory, we told them we were moving verbally 2 years prior, and followed up every month. November, we switched to a month to month lease (and incurred an additional 175$ charge per month) because they told us that by going month to month, we can move out at any time. We asked if that was all, and they informed us yes. (We have a copy of the month to month lease) So, January came around and told them the move was going to finalized in April. Throughout all that time, they said they understood (as the apartment was too small for three household members) and, that they'd work with us. \n\nI admit fault that I should've worked harder to get that response in November via email, but they had began ignoring our emails. We finally moved in April,  and turned in the keys. Then, they said that we owe them 850$ rent for not signing a move out notice two months prior (which mind you, we asked If we needed to do anything else in November, and reminded them verbally that we were moving. Unfortunately again, I did not get it in email)\n\nThey has no decency to even attempt notifying us that we needed to sign said notice! So, in the end we took it to a legal aid, it's been a lengthy process (we can't afford a lawyer) and now its in collections on our reports.\n\nNeedless to say,  how would I go about disputing this? Should I make a civil matter and take the rental company to court and then show the final verdict? Or call the credit bureaus and explain the situation? \n\nIf this helps: I'm in Texas. We tried to settle the matter legally with a meditator, but the rental agency refused.  The legal aid seemed to push more towards paying off the debt at the moment, but we haven't heard much of anything and are looking to follow up.\n\nAlso: If I decide to leave the issue alone on my credit report (I believe Texas stature of limitations is 4 years) and move to another state after 4 years, will they legally be able to collect from me or will other states with longer stature of limitations view the derogatory marks that expired in Texas as an impediment on my report?","title":"False rental collections? How to remove from credit report and clear name from case?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569650821,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dacaia\/landlord_is_doing_illegal_things_to_get_us_out\/","id":"dacaia","body":"TL\/DR at the bottom\n\nI've been living with my mother and her boyfriend for the past year and a half to two years.\n\nAll times mentioned are in EST.\n\nSo this has been going on since early September and our landlord has filed for disposessory against us for several reasons. We were never given a notice, which meant by georgia law the disposessory should have been dismissed, but the judge went through with it. My mother's boyfriend filled a pauper's affidavit, an appeal, and turned in an invoice for services he made to the house with our landlords approval to serve as a way of paying legal funds. He should have gotten a hearing the judge over the matter to discuss the pauper's affidavit, but the judge denied everything, filed the paperwork on a Friday after court hours, and had a constable come to the house to hand us the paper which told us to be out by that Sunday.\nWe talked with the landlord and got a week, and then another extension to last Wednesday night. That night he was at the house he rents out next door at 10PM MOWING THE LAWN, and then proceeds to start mowing our yard without our permission (which is criminal trespassing because we still live on the property) and then sends a text to my mother's boyfriend saying he was going to change the locks at 12AM ans we would no longer have any access to the house (considered a DIY Eviction and illegal). My mother goes and talks to him, getting 6AM so we can get the rest of the stuff out and while she's talking she asked \"what about things we can't get before 6am?\" And he responds with \"then it becomes mine\" (paraphrased and considered theft by taking when there's a whole process he would have to go through with our stuff). So we get things ready and have left at 7am Thursday morning when my mother's boyfriend gets some texts from the landlord that say he's giving us to Saturday at 8am to be out of the house (STILL ILLEGAL, no evictions can take place on weekends or legal holidays)\n\nWe're all trying to figure out what to do. We don't have anywhere we can go, and any interaction with the court has just ended with unjust practices. We cant trust that if we call the cops and say our landlord is doing these things that they won't consider us to be trespassing and arrest us. \n\nTL\/DR: Court and Landlord have broken laws to try and get us out and we don't know what to do.","title":"Landlord is doing illegal things to get us out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568929283,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6ksnc\/can_tenant_sue_landlord_for_unlocking_door\/","id":"d6ksnc","body":"Wisconsin. My roommate is planning on trying to sue our landlord because he unlocked her bedroom door while she was away. We asked him to unlock the door because she took and locked our belongings in her room, but we didn\u2019t tell him it was her room. There is no record on the lease of who owns what room because it\u2019s a shared lease. Can someone please explain to me if it is even plausible for her to try suing him?","title":"Can tenant sue landlord for unlocking door?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554415312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9j0v3\/question_about_writing_a_contract_for_clients\/","id":"b9j0v3","body":"Hello all. I'm part of an in house ad agency through my school. Recently a client came in for work and they were very adamant about using a specific font. I looked it up and you need a license for commercial use. The client told me that he had purchased the font before but had no receipt for payment. The font had multiple licenses to choose from and the one that I thought he would need(I'm no lawyer and I took my best guess) was only 8 dollars so he just paid for it again to prove to us that he purchased the license. \n\nMy fear is that he purchased the wrong license and that could potentially come back on our agency\/college. I wrote up a contract to have him sign. \n\n\nI _________ have informed The Northway Group that I have purchased the license for ___________. I hereby take full responsibility for any and all unlawful or negligent use of this product. The Northway group is in no way responsible for any unlawful use of any of the designs that they provide me. \r\n\r\nClient signature______________________________            Date_________________________________\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nManagement signature________________________           Date_________________________________\r\n\n\nIm wondering if this contract would protect my organization or not. If not is there any contract that would or does it just always come back on the agency? I'm also asking for future reference when I get a job in industry. \n\nThanks for any replies! ","title":"Question about writing a contract for clients","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540266861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qlbeo\/adding_20_to_my_tab_qhen_i_forgot_my_card_at_a_bar\/","id":"9qlbeo","body":"I was running a tab at a bar and forgot to get my card when my uber arrived. I retried my card the next day with a reciept where i was charged an additional 20%. When i asked why the bartender pointed to a sign that stated \"if you walk out on your tab you will be charged an additional 20% for a tip\" is this legal? Jacksonville Florida","title":"Adding 20% to my tab qhen i forgot my card at a bar.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1408604779,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e5rzg\/entire_residential_neighborhood_is_towing_zone\/","id":"2e5rzg","body":"TL;DR got towed from a residential street privately maintained by HOA. Writing letter to HOA to appeal the towing costs which I refused to pay when retrieving my vehicle. Largest and most visible sign missing, other two signs not properly maintained.  Help tweaking letter to be more convincing? Is what they have done legal? \n\nHere is the letter that I am intending to send to the HOA for review. It outlines the entire situation. I would like to know if there is anything that I should add to this, and if what they did was legal. I have already called the city and verified that the HOA pays a private party to maintain these streets and that they have no coding requirements for their towing signs by the city of Mesa. Apparently I can request for the HOA to send me their most recent CCNR's which are documents that outline their guidelines, but essentially they get to make their own ridiculous rules. I meed help fine tuning and maybe any legal stuff I may be able to throw in here. \n\nTo Whom it may concern,\nOn the evening of August 4th 2014, my vehicle was towed from in front of the light pole two homes south of ADDRESS REMOVED at 11pm. I was visiting a resident at this address. The resident is not the renter and was not aware of the towing zone. Her father, the renter, was not present during the time of my visit. This was my first visit to this residential neighborhood. My intentions were to be there for 2-3 hours to visit my friend. I arrived around 9pm and entered Signal Butte Manor by traveling North on MAIN RD REMOVED, taking a right onto W STREET Ave, and taking a left onto Z STREET. When I parked I even flipped a U Turn so I could be facing the right way on the street because I had heard from friend about getting towed for parking the wrong direction. \n\nWhen I went to leave her residence and drive 55 miles back to my home in CITY REMOVED to breast feed my infant who would be waking soon (my daughter is exclusively breastfed and will not take a bottle), I discovered my car was missing. Long story short, after an hour of searching for answers, we figured out that my car had been towed.  At that point after many phone calls from my fianc\u00e9 with my frantic hungry daughter screaming in the background, I finally made contact with TOWING COMPANY REMOVED. After speaking with them I learned that this seemingly normal residential street, was all a towing zone. This came as a shock to both my friend and her boyfriend who regularly parks there in the evening. In fact, his car was parked on the street two houses down during the same time and was not towed. I called all my card companies to try to get an emergency increase on my credit limit to pay a $250.00 fine to release my vehicle after a meager hour of having been towed, however was not able to receive the funds. At that point I had one last option and was going to have to ask family for help and was told by the towing office that they would not take a credit card payment over the phone. So that was no longer an option. \n\nMy friend ended up having to drive a two hour round trip to get me home to feed my daughter, when she had to work at 6am. The next morning my fiance had to call off work and miss an entire day\u2019s pay because we only have 1 vehicle and things are very tight ( I lost my job in January). Then at the advice of my father who works for Phoenix PD, I called Mesa PD only to find out that TOWING COMPANY REMOVED could not legally hold my vehicle if I went to get it. This is after I was told the night before by the clerk at ACT that I could not claim my vehicle until I paid. So I had to have my grandparents drive 33 miles from CITY REMOVED to pick me up. Then drive 55 miles to Mesa from my home to help me pick up my vehicle. I had to refuse to pay because I did not have the funds available. \n\nI went back to the neighborhood to look for the towing signs because I was so upset that I hadn\u2019t seen them and because of this my family and friends had to waste 200 miles in gas and my fiance had to miss an entire days pay at such a difficult time. When I went to the neighborhood the afternoon of August 5th I discovered the following:\n\nBoth X STREET and and Y STREET (two left turn streets before Z STREET) have large metal signs that are placed on the right corner of the street at such an angle to be illuminated by your headlights and easily seen, only when turning onto one of these two streets.  These signs are not visible when traveling E (on the far right side of the Rd) on W STREET in the evening. \n\nIt is apparent that there is supposed to be a similar sign as observed on the above streets, at the entrance of Z STREET. There is an empty metal pole identical to the other two street\u2019s signs, however, the actual sign is missing. There is also a large Garage sale box impaled on the pole and filled with rocks. It appeared that this box was well worn and had been there for a while, perhaps showing that the sign had been missing for a while. \n\nI have enclosed pictures showing all of the above clearly.\n\nI also discovered that there is a 7x4\u201d pasted sign on the light pole I was parked next to. However, I fully believe that the state of this sign was not adequate at the time of the towing. First off, the sign is flat and wraps around the pole at 7 feet into the air. As a 5\u2019 4\u201d woman, this is far from eye level. The other problem is that there was a garage sale sign pasted to the pole below the actual towing notice. So at first glance when going by this pole in the evening, it appears that this is a regular street pole with community signs on it. What I am saying is, unless you know what you are looking for, this sign was not easily visible that evening and not maintained (sale signs pasted between eye level and the towing sign). \n\nI have attached photos of this in the day time, and also one from the towing company showing that there was a sale sign posted on the evening that I parked there. Please keep in mind when you look at the photos that this was in the evening and I believed this was a typical residential street, saw other cars parked on the street as well, and had no idea that I should be looking for a towing sign.\n\nThe last and final sign was a proper sign placed above the mail boxed. This sign would have been excellent if placed at the entrance or if there were not large trees blocking it from view of anyone who is not checking the mail and directly in front of the boxes. Unfortunately, to get to my friend\u2019s home, I did not have to pass these mail boxes and I\u2019m not sure if the sign was obscured so much that it would have been missed anyways or not. \nI spoke with a manager in the HOA and was told that you had hired an independent company to place 10 signs throughout the community to notify people of the towing zones. I hope that you would take into consideration that these signs need to be replaced when missing and properly maintained to be visible to non-residents. Under normal circumstances, I would gladly make a payment arrangement with ACT and take responsibility of myself blatantly missing towing signs. However, between signs missing and not being maintained, and in light of the missed pay, and wasted gas that my struggling family has already experienced, I am asking that you waive the $250.00 towing fee that we now have from TOWING COMPANY REMOVED. \n\n\nI am trying to load the images but imgur is taking forever. I think the story is clear even without them. The street i entered was a long street (4th)  with three left hand turns. Friends street is third an final left turn. two turns before that had signs. \n\n","title":"Entire residential neighborhood is towing zone according to HOA?!?!?! [Mesa, Arizona]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568700185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5cty4\/job_is_limiting_free_speech_in_the_workplace\/","id":"d5cty4","body":"FedEx Office makes everyone use four key phrases when talking with customers (Illinois, USA) in every conversation or else the employee will be written up. \n\nWhat brings you into today\n\nTell me about your project\n\nI recommend...\n\nAre you aware...?\n\nAre there any laws against this sort of Orwellian control over the use of language in the workplace?","title":"Job is limiting free speech in the workplace","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553374825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4o6pr\/electrical_clusterfuckdodgy_landlord_need_advice\/","id":"b4o6pr","body":"Three months ago or so my roommates and I noticed our power bill nearly tripled in a month, and we had flickering lights and parts of the apartment losing power without any breakers flipping. Our landlord finally got some electricians out and they said the outside circuit box providing power to our building was hanging on by a thread and they had to replace the entire thing. We are 3 20-something year olds and now have a $550 power bill we can't afford in addition to rent, and I would like advice on where to go from here in regards to reimbursement and such, my roommate does have renter's insurance, but we are all inexperienced in renter's rights and financial processes. Anything is appreciated!","title":"Electrical Clusterfuck\/Dodgy Landlord. Need advice on where to go from here","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539743716,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oujn8\/what_to_request_in_a_separation_agreement_when\/","id":"9oujn8","body":"My employer has committed several acts of retaliation against me for FMLA leave (untruthful accusations in the form of a written warning with infractions that I was able to disprove, inappropriate verbal remarks about my time off, being told I am a burden to my team and attempting to deter my use of FMLA).  My manager has put rules in place for me as far as my use of PTO and flextime that don't follow the Employee Manual and which only apply to me.  In fact, everything that they have done hasn't followed their own Employee Manual.\n\nAt any rate, I've been there 3.5 years, have never had negative remarks or reviews about my work and have received praise for my knowledge and accuracy.  I've never in my 22 years of total industry employment had a bad review or even a discussion on anything construed in any way as negative.\n\nSo, I listed out the things I believe they have violated  and advised I don't see a way to reconcile our relationship after how wrong this situation is and the lies they made up against me.\n\nI advised that I don't want to drag this out and asked if they would like to discuss a separation agreement in lieu of me going to the DOL and EEOC.\n\nThey agreed and asked me to put together my demands.  I make $75,000 a year.  In this area, there are few to no open positions doing what I do.  If I find a job in the same industry, it will be about $20-$25,000 less than what I make now or could take months or up to a year to find a role doing what I do now for what I get paid now.\n\nConsidering this isn't just a separation, but also in avoidance of actual complaints\/charges and litigation, do you have any ideas on what to include or what is appropriate to ask for, as well as what is a reasonable number of months salary to request? I reminded them that had they not given me a warning based on lies, I wouldn't be in this position at all and had no intentions of leaving.\n\nThank you for any thoughts or advice.\n\n\n\n","title":"What to request in a separation agreement when employer has violated FMLA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506044223,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71nuce\/2_moving_violations_in_alabama\/","id":"71nuce","body":"I need help. I got a speeding ticket for 16 mph over the limit, which is a 2 point violation. A couple weeks later, I got a ticket for following too closely, which is a 3 point violation. What should I do? I know I can take driving school for one, but not both right? I don\u2019t really think there\u2019s any ground to contest these tickets either. My main goal is to keep my insurance premiums down and maybe get out of paying one if possible. Help me please!","title":"2 moving violations in Alabama","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570228215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddenbg\/catfishing\/","id":"ddenbg","body":"Alright, so just to preface this i know it\u2019s morally wrong and i am an asshole. \nokay so i just graduated and i need to pay bills and student loans. working two full time jobs and a part time job isn\u2019t cutting it so i decided to join a sugar baby website. i didn\u2019t want to use my own photos because the internet is a scary place. I also put in my bio long distance only because i didn\u2019t want to meet anyone, stranger danger. \nSo i used a woman\u2019s photos i found on a fetish website, and have been talking to this one guy and he\u2019s ready to send me 500$ a month for an online relationship, he thinks i travel for work. i just need to sext him and send him dirty photos.  I also said i would meet up with him in january, when i move back to the city he\u2019s in. when that time comes i\u2019ve decided that i\u2019ll tell him that i found a boyfriend and he doesn\u2019t want me to continue to be a sugar baby. \n\nI\u2019ve been undecided whether to accept because i know i shouldn\u2019t be taking this innocents mans money but i really need money to pay bills. \n\nMy question though, is it illegal to take his money posed as someone else? even if i give him what we agreed on ( sexting and photos). \n\nagain i know i\u2019m the asshole, just wondering if it\u2019s legal.","title":"Catfishing","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552663107,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1g5ro\/a_question_about_support_animals_and_pet_deposits\/","id":"b1g5ro","body":"Awhile ago I got two kittens, I\u2019m in the process of registering them as support animals for mental health.  My landlord found out and I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll be able to finish the paperwork in time.  \n\nI read online that for my state (Utah) I won\u2019t have to pay for pet deposits once they\u2019re registered because I\u2019ll be protected under the \u201cAmericans with disabilities\u201d act.  I want to make sure that\u2019s correct before I go through with this.  \n\nRight now the pet deposit for the two animals would drain my savings completely.  I don\u2019t want to continue with the paperwork and registering them right now if I need to pay for the deposit.  I won\u2019t have the money to do both.  \n","title":"A question about support animals and pet deposits","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553756236,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6fkl8\/pennsylvania_parents_going_through_divorce_dont\/","id":"b6fkl8","body":"this is my first post on reddit, and i am also on mobile. dont be too harsh. im praying this situation isnt too specific.\n\nso, my father is not a good man. he is not transparent whatsoever, and uses phrases like \"why would i lie\". in short, he's very manipulative. i was once under his spell, but now ive realized, and i dont want to see him anymore. i want to stay with my mother, full time. they have shared custody, and i know for a fact he wants us full time.\n\ni have heard before that theres a \"magic number\" in the states (it supposedly varies) where a child has rights in a divorce custody situation. i'm 13, old enough to have reddit, dont worry.\n\nive tried to do research of my own, looking for this so called \"magic number\" in my state of PA. so far, nothing has come. that's why im posting here.\n\nmy question is: do i have rights in this situation? if so, what are they? its been very rough on me, and im really on the last straw here.\n\na bit of a bonus; my parents have been legally married for a very long time, almost 3 years, though theyve been separated. they will be legally divorced shortly, as my mother tells me. will this affect the situation?\n\nthanks for any and all help!","title":"[Pennsylvania] parents going through divorce, dont want to see dad. what can i do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540241953,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qhy71\/landlord_says_no_adhesive_on_walls\/","id":"9qhy71","body":"My landlord recently told us not to use any adhesive on the walls. This is not in our lease, and adhesives such as tape and command strips had been placed on the wall before. Can she enforce this rule beyond not returning security deposit for damages? And is she allowed to come in and remove things like adhesive hooks etc.? ","title":"Landlord says no adhesive on walls","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553553627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5hli4\/i_think_my_girlfriend_was_targeted_by_a_scam\/","id":"b5hli4","body":"She was applying some places and one called Virta Health. After some online research, they didn't seem to be too fishy aside from the whole \"work-from-home\" thing. So she had an interview over the phone\/texts this morning where the bank asked for her personal Account Name, Password, and Bank Location instead of a routing number.\nShe realized it got too sketchy and cut it off.\n\nI then suggested to make a report to the BBB, to the means of 1) getting some money if it's a legit company asking shady questions or 2) warning the streets of another scammer that looks like a decent business online.\n\nIs it proper to report this to the Better Business Bureau just in case? And how do we file a proper report? She has the numbers they contacted her with and saved&screenshotted the messages.\n\nAny help is appreciated, thank you.","title":"I think my girlfriend was targeted by a scam business, and I need confirmation on somethings before making a report to the BBB","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539135724,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mv857\/canada_sons_father_has_every_other_weekend_cannot\/","id":"9mv857","body":"Three things before I get started, let me know if I should be posting this in the canadian sub; Second, this is not some spiteful mother looking to take away what little rights my son's father (herein known as SF) has, and at this point in my life I am in a great spot, with a great husband, and our two kids; I' am at a very different spot than when I met SF 6+ years ago.\n\n**Backstory:**\n\nWe started keeping our (husband and I) son from his father when we noticed a few times that when he came to pick him up (with his mother driving I might add) he looked really twitchy and pale and all around really 'out of it' (he has past drug issues, he extensively (tried to hide himself) doing drugs when we were together and I knew the signs), so we ordered a few home drug tests and when he came the next time, we called him enroute to let him know he needs to use one before he leaves with Son. This leads to an explosive phone call where he admitted that he 'used mdma once at a party the other weekend', whatever, admit low so you don't have to admit what you're actually doing; it's enough for us to stop the visits and start the court process.\n\nThe custody order states that SF gets my son (5) every other weekend, supervised at his mother's house; she is in charge of picking him up Friday evening, driving 30 minutes out of town and dropping him off Sunday around the same time. Our lawyer that we chose for the whole court ordeal was a very kind woman, albeit very soft and believed that people can 'get better' from their lifelong, drug addicted ways. The order says he has to be clean 24 hours before his scheduled visits, I think it's bullshit because 24 hours is not enough time to 'come down' from 2 weeks of free reign drug use.   \n\n\nThis was over a year ago, it was wrapped up much less than that. Not long after all is said and done we hear SF is dating someone new, nbd, that obviously doesn't matter, maybe she can keep him clean. Now, a few weekends ago, after SF's mom came to pick him up, we ran into SF and his new lady here in town, they don't drive, they had no intention of going to the weekend visit, to be completely honest, he looked rather panic-ed when he realized we were walking up to him. That Sunday, I asked my son if his 'other dad' (his words) is ever at grandmas house, and he said no. Alright, I prefer that, grandma is far from my favourite person but I'd rather SF not be there, he is a terrible role model for my son.   \n\n\nFast forward a few weeks to tonight, I get a message from someone just letting me know that SF's new 'boo' was trash talking me all over the internet, I don't use social media, and honestly I don't care what is said about me on the internet. She was talking about how horrible his parents (myself and my husband) are, she mentioned one time I painted his nails, saying I was 'making the kid a fag', said I 'obviously' deserved to be beaten by him (dw, I beat him back much harder, immediately after). I also found out through the person informing me of all this that this girl is only 15. About 11 years younger than SF; in fact, she is closer to my sons age than SF's. The age of consent in Ontario is 16, I've heard they make exceptions for people 14-15 if the other person in the relationship is within 5 years. SF is the kind of guy to without a doubt pick any girl that will give him the time of day over just about anything.   \n\n\nIn summation and the reason I'm posting here, I plan to start the court process again, this time on my own dime rather than the legal aid system of Ontario; Sure as hell he is not going there this Friday. I can deal with a lot, but not if that's the kind of person my son is going to be surrounded with.  Lawyers of reddit, what can I do? ","title":"[Canada] Son's father has every other weekend, cannot continue sending him in good conscience.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554883590,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbjfqr\/outstanding_court_case_and_warrant_from_2014\/","id":"bbjfqr","body":"In 2014 I was was arrested and charged for a few crimes in another province. I was released on bail and returned to my province. I asked my lawyer if we should transfer the court case here to my home province to deal with the outstanding matter but he told me I don\u2019t need to worry as long as I don\u2019t go back to the province where the crime occurred. I\u2019m concerned that I will get in trouble for not dealing with this case. Does anyone have any advice? Is he correct or should I push for it to be transferred here? I don\u2019t need anymore additional charges\/ and or jail time. (Canada)","title":"Outstanding court case and warrant from 2014. Lawyer says I don\u2019t need to worry about it?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553187906,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3t1yp\/ca_can_an_employer_take_overpayment_of_benefits\/","id":"b3t1yp","body":"It seems from California Labor Code Section 221 that an employer cannot take an overpayment of salary out of an employees paycheck.  For example, if my employer gives me an extra $500 in my paycheck, they can ask me to pay it back, but cannot automatically take it back based on Section 221.\n\nHowever, my situation is a little different: I have technically been working as a part-time employee, but my employer had been incorrectly giving me benefits that a full-time staff would receive (e.g., contributions to retirement funds, payment of health benefits).  They are only just now, after a couple of years, realizing that they have been overpaying these benefits, but I don\u2019t believe that I made any mistake, nor should I be required to pay it back.\n\nIs there another labor code in California that supports this scenario?","title":"[CA] Can an employer take overpayment of benefits out of an employees paycheck?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552347045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b00i5n\/lawyer_dad_died_unexpectedly\/","id":"b00i5n","body":"He was practicing law until he passed away of a heart attack last week. His closest family has all been pitching in trying to figure out what to do with the practice. He was a sole-practicing attorney for the last 30 years and has a thriving client base. Mom was managing the business side of the firm for the last six years. She is extremely knowledgeable and has kept everything organized so the outstanding case load is fairly buttoned up at the moment. As mentioned, it was unexpected, so we\u2019re trying to figure out next steps. Dad named a successor who has expressed his commitment to transitioning the practice. However, he is semi-retired and of counsel to another firm. He no longer litigates. We have a second attorney who is a litigator and interested in at least taking on the existing clients.\n\nWe have two known options: close down the practice with the help of the two mentioned attorneys or sell the practice for a lump sum. I\u2019m wondering if there is a third option; Mom is named as the \u201cowner\u201d of the entire firm but she\u2019s not an attorney so she can\u2019t give legal advice or obviously do anything with the clients herself. We want to make sure she gets the most out of the whole situation financially as she\u2019s healthy and, although she has some savings, we would all feel best if we could keep some sort of ongoing income for her as long as possible.\n\nHas anyone dealt with this before? Any creative solutions?\n\ntldr Dad died and left his legal practice to mom who is not an attorney; we\u2019re trying to find creative solutions to help her keep running it.\n\n*sorry for misspellings and brevity, I\u2019m on mobile","title":"Lawyer Dad Died Unexpectedly","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571438076,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djv0ib\/pretty_sure_im_still_on_the_lease_can_the\/","id":"djv0ib","body":"Okay, so here's my situation. My ex and I broke up back in March, and I moved out in June. I had already talked to the office of the apartment we lived in, and they said we had to sign a roomate release form. That never happened. I want the last of my things that are in the apartment (the holiday stuff we mutually agreed to deal with later on because it was too emotional for us), but I'm pretty sure he's blocked me on every form of social media plus texts, as he hasn't responded (when our last conversation, he told me to keep in touch, but whatever, this isn't the place for that!).\n\nWhat I'm wondering is if I go by there, knock, and neither him nor his roommate (who I don't have any way to contact, I don't know his name) are home, am I legally allowed to ask the landlord to let me into the apartment? I'm 99% sure I'm still on the lease as we never signed the roommate release agreement, and I still get texts from management about apartment activities, maintenance, etc. And how can I get myself off the lease that doesn't rely on him? Thank you all so much!","title":"Pretty sure I'm still on the lease; can the landlord let me into the apartment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408505787,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e1t20\/is_my_housing_department_committing_fraud\/","id":"2e1t20","body":"I live in low-income\/income-based housing in Riverside County in the State of California. I suspect they are using possible illegal practices to get more money from their tenants, but would very much appreciate some advice.\n\nThey were calculating my expected rent for my rental application renewal. They do this annually to make sure they are charging based off your most current income, which is expected and normal. They collect:\n\n-Previous year tax return and W2\n-Previous 6 months of bank statements\n-Previous 6 months of pay stubs\n\nI then saw something that I may not have supposed to see. My previous year tax information says I made roughly 26,000 gross but they had a form that listed my income of 26,000 PLUS an additional 2,000 of 'unverified income', which put me at 28,000 gross income that is a higher rental bracket. When I asked what that meant, the office worker explained they go through my bank statements adding any cash deposits to my income as 'unverified income' and this is what I suspect may be illegal.\n\nShe even showed me an example of a 200.00 cash deposit on my bank account saying that they assume that was extra money I made. When I even pointed out that two days before there was a 200.00 withdraw. This was because I loaned my mother money and she paid me back. My mother borrows money a lot but is always good about paying me back. But now I am being penalized for helping my own mother.\n\nThe staff member said they count any cash deposits because of tenants that may have tipping jobs and that if they made an exception for me they would have to make an exception for them.\n\nMy ONLY source of income is my job which is salary and everything is reported from my employer to the IRS. Therefor I am getting penalized by my housing department for 'unverified income' which is just the same money they are already counting as income. I suspect they are doing this to put tenants into a higher income bracket so they can skim more money off each renter.\n\nThis is also even worse for said tipping job employees. I know there are some that do not claim all their tips. But if a tipping employee were to claim their tips, their employer submits that as income to the IRS and would be reflected on their W2. The employee gets to take this cash home with them that day, but will be paying taxes on it at the end of the year. If this employee made 100.00 in a shift, that 100.00 would be added to their W2 as income. If they then put that money in their bank account my housing department would then count it again since it was a cash deposit to their bank account. Essentially a tipped employee that made less than 100.00 after taxes would be considered to have made 200.00 by my housing department.\n\nIs this legal?\n\nIf you need additional information or need something explained, please ask. I am very concerned as my complex has 400+ apartments and is owned by the city, but managed by a private management company. Being in a separate income bracket can mean 100+ dollars in extra rent for each tenant. That is over 40,000.00 a month, 480,000 a year in stolen money from low-income families.","title":"Is my housing department committing fraud?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571343444,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djc1a5\/usacamom_paid_rent_with_a_check_from_my_closed\/","id":"djc1a5","body":"Basically I just want to know what I should do to protect myself and if I have any obligation to pay her rent. \nI just moved out of my mom\u2019s last month after she put hands on me, she was stealing money from me and owes me over well over 2k. She stole checks from me and paid the full rent amount with them for August and September, and tried again for October. I closed that account as soon as I left to avoid her from draining my bank account again. I haven't had contact with any of my family since immediately after I left my mother tried to use my 14 year old brother as a mouth piece. \n\nThe landlord called me this morning saying she needs her money, and that she can't get a hold of my mother as she is in the hospital.\n\nI never signed the lease, but I\u2019m worried that the landlord will try to make me pay her rent somehow since I lived there for almost 2 years, or that my mother forged my signature on the lease as she had been doing with the checks.","title":"[USA\/CA]Mom paid rent with a check from my closed account, landlord called me asking for the money","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538571888,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9l0yv8\/mandatory_on_call_and_no_pay_for_redraws_oh\/","id":"9l0yv8","body":"\n\nMy friends work in traveling phlebotomy. They go to different facilities, drawing blood which is taken back to their lab. Their established hours are 3am-11am mon-fri. They get paid per facility, not hours worked. They have the option to start earlier to be done earlier, but often work well past 11am at least two days a week. Most don\u2019t care about this, because the money used to be good. The prices per facility have been decreased, but I feel like that\u2019s within the company\u2019s right. \n\n\nLately, a lot of changes are being made. \n\n\n1) if something is wrong with a specimen, no matter if it\u2019s phlebotomy\u2019s or techs fault, the Phelb who originally drew it is required to redraw it, no matter what time of day, if they are at home, doc appointment, no matter what.. without pay. This can be up to an additional 50-100 Miles they have to drive. There are always other \u201crunners\u201d that are available to do this. \n\n2) they are now required to be on call Mon-Fri with no pay unless they are called to do another blood draw until 3pm (So basically a required 12 hour shift, 5 days a week).\n\n3) employees hired after a certain date have to work every other weekend. The shift was Saturday 3am to 11am, it has now changed to Saturday 6pm to Sunday 6am on call. Again, no compensation what so ever if they don\u2019t do blood draws, and they do not qualify for overtime per the company if they did do the full 12. \n\n4) they drive their personal cars, and instead of being paid mileage, are only taxed on 70-80% of their income. \n\nAre these things legal? My friends are currently looking for other jobs obviously, but this seems to me to be ridiculous. Basically every other week would be a 7 day work week, at 72 hours with no overtime, or reasonable compensation.  \n","title":"Mandatory on call and no pay for redraws [OH]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541447353,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ugwc2\/awful_school_district\/","id":"9ugwc2","body":"I am a student at a school district that seems to be incompetent of providing the students with a safe environment. Our school has had mold for many years. The district is aware of this yet has yet to take and action. Recently we spent $1.4 million instead of even starting to take action. Our school also has cockroaches and rats with the same issue. A recent occurrence however is the fact that the school busses are over filled. Children are sitting on THE FLOORS of the busses. The district has even been cutting back on the sizes of the busses. I'm not sure there is much I can do as I am a student (not adult yet). Is this type of treatment legal? The teachers are amazing but the district appears to be incompetent.","title":"Awful school district?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568853122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d669pl\/can_my_ex_take_my_daughter_out_of_state_aop_birth\/","id":"d669pl","body":"Hi - \n\nMy ex is wanting to take my daughter from Texas to Colorado without my consent. We were never married, but I signed an AOP and I'm on the birth certificate. We do not have a custody agreement and have never been in court. I have given her money here and there (not monthly or consistently) and nothing official each month and she doesn't really ask. My daughter is 20 months. I just had a son with another woman, Sept. 7th, so leaving the state is out of the question for me.","title":"Can my ex take my daughter out of state? AOP & Birth Certificate","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571771644,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlmsai\/mom_wants_my_sin_for_life_insurance\/","id":"dlmsai","body":"Hi all. My biological mother whom I have not seen for many years and have not talked to in many years is now asking for my SIN to be added to her life insurance so when she passes it gets paid out to my sister brother and me.\nMy sister and brother have already given theirs but I\u2019m just wondering;\n\nIs it safe to give to her ? Should I?","title":"Mom wants my SIN for life insurance?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570634809,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfim8r\/how_do_you_start_a_prenup\/","id":"dfim8r","body":"My future husband and I are trying to come up with a fair prenup. Basically, we are trying to talk it through before we bring it to a lawyer to see what would be a fair compromise, so that we are not bouncing back and forth for hours between lawyers over a prenup neither of us will sign.  He has a condo worth $170,000. I have school loans worth $310,000. I have a job starting now that will pay $480,000. His earning potential is closer to $60-$120,000 (I am asking him to move for my new job and leave his $120,00 to likely get a job making $60,000). As it stands, what would be a typical starting point? What % or amount is reasonable for spousal support and the division of retirement? I am not trying to screw him over, but I also do not want to be left paying 1\/2 my income to him if he decides he wants a divorce (after giving up the first 30+ years of my life in education). Someone please help with a starting point for discussions between my future husband and myself.","title":"How do you start a prenup?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445444357,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pnf5v\/living_trust_notarization_signature_dates_dont\/","id":"3pnf5v","body":"I am in California and I am setting up a living trust and LW&T.  I configured these documents and obtained them from legalzoom.  I went to our local UPS store to have them notarized and noticed a few days later that I had placed the wrong date on all of my signatures.  I was off by one day from the notary's signatures.  Is my document still legal if I now correct the dates and initial my changes?  Or do I need to order new docs from legalzoom and pay for another notary?  Thank you in advance!","title":"Living Trust Notarization - signature dates don't match. Start over?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1549499490,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anxqzw\/californiagetting_a_promise_of_fmlastyle_job\/","id":"anxqzw","body":"I live in California and a potential new employer is based out of Oregon. I'm currently in a position where I have worked for over a year and the company has more than 50 employees. As such, I would be eligible to use Paid Family Leave and have job protection through FMLA in California.\n\nI brought this up to my new potential employer and was told that they would offer me that protection even though they have less than 10 employees and I would be taking this leave for a new baby in July after working only a few months with them.\n\nIf I were to get this job protection in writing from the new employer, is it even enforceable or could they just say I was let go for another reason if they chose to let me go after my leave? Is it worth pushing for a promise in writing?","title":"[California]Getting a promise of FMLA-style job protection when I don't qualify","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541198116,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tovcd\/car_accident_resulting_in_total_loss\/","id":"9tovcd","body":"I was recently in a car accident with a rental car agency(Reach now). Not my fault, going straight in an intersection and the guy opposite of was going left and failed to yield. Hit me diagonally and got my car towed to wife's auto shop for storage. I been hard trying to reach the insurance (voyager insurance) adjuster since they live on the east coast. I live on the west coast. I didn't have insurance at the time of the accident. I do have GAP insurance. The insurance been saying that they will take the car for further inspection but I gave him all the information regarding what it would take to fix it. About 24k. Wife says they can't car the car without giving me how much they will give me the money first. The car is on a lease BTW. I'm on the final year of my contract and was planning on keeping the car. I am as well very late on payments almost 3 months. Due to other financial trouble. This is the first accident I been into and no idea what my rights are. The insurance tell me this and then my wife tells me that. Then insurance says something that they have to take the car to give the actual numbers of how much it could be. ","title":"Car accident resulting in total loss","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570130178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcvlrm\/co_divorce_with_children_been_separated_7_years\/","id":"dcvlrm","body":"My soon to be Ex and I have been married since 2005.  We split in 2012 and for the last five years he has been living out of the country.  I have had the kids and stayed in the house.  He made no effort to call or see the children or send any money during those five years.  He came back in July and I immediately filed for divorce.  \n\nThe house is in both of our names.  It was purchased for $38,000.00 approximately 10 years ago which was paid by check by my family.  Originally we were supposed to pay said family member back.  We both signed a paper saying so, but I cannot find that paper and the person who would know where it is has sadly died. I have in writing that ex agrees that we were to pay back the money.  \n\nI have a divorce lawyer and he has said that we have a very slim chance of winning the house where so much time has elapsed.  I have everyone else in my life saying that is not right.  Do I have a chance to keep the house?  I do not have the money to buy him out and frankly don't have the money to be paying rent on a new place.  I might add also, I am not impressed with my lawyer at all.  He has not prepared me for any steps in the case and I feel like I could have done everything up to this point on my own.  The only thing they have done is fill and file paperwork.  We just had mediation this week and my lawyer did not even talk to me about it.  I am open to finding a new lawyer, but if it won't help in any way I'll just stick with what I have.","title":"[CO] Divorce with children, been separated 7 years, he wants half the house that my family paid for.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571225786,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dio1dj\/someone_is_stalking_me_online\/","id":"dio1dj","body":"Hello everyone, I have a bit of a rough situation to ask for help on.  For a little backstory, I became really good friends with someone here on reddit. I talked to them every single day for a few months for hours on end, I thought we were relatively close. I told this person a lot, they did the same, so they know about various mental disabilities and living situations. They have even been to my house. After a while, we began to fight and have different opinions. I had a bit of a mental episode and made a reddit post, never once released the person's name or contact info, no one would be able to know who they were. This person found out and I apologized, offered to take it down but they said it wasn't a big deal and that they understood I wrote it in a clouded state of mind.   \n\n\nA month passes and out of nowhere I am blocked on every account of contact with the person. They went complete no contact with me, and I was in shock. I messaged them a bit until they gave me an explanation, it was a long drawn out text about how I was a horrible person, blah, blah. At first, I felt bad but quickly got over it, wrote another post, again never revealing names or contacts. The person came after me, I blocked them after that on everything. Next thing I know, I have paypal claims against me for no reason, I'm being spam reported on reddit, and clearly stalked through online accounts. I ended up reporting them to reddit and no longer see the account active, paypal called bs on the claims and they were denied. \n\nJust now, I got random messages from people I don't know on Discord about something on 4chan. They made a post about me, with a picture of me, saying things about my mental health, my service animal, that I was suicidal, and told people to talk to me. They also tagged my Discord contact in the post. I have pictures to prove it. I have never used 4chan before so it was a complete shock. I reported it but it is yet to be taken down. This has been going on for the past month, and I'm not sure what else to do. I've tried reporting them, blocking them, and clearly warning them to stay away from me. They live in another state so I am not that afraid of them coming to my home, but they are going way beyond what I thought. Is there anything I can do? What do I do if this gets worse? I am thinking about calling the local police to ask the same later.","title":"Someone Is Stalking Me Online","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555024147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc6imz\/my_ex_boyfriend_says_i_owe_him_40k\/","id":"bc6imz","body":"Hey all, first time on this sub but this question had been bothering me for a while. \n\nSome context. \nI live in Australia. \nI had been with my bf for about 7 years when we bought a house together. I had been working 2 jobs, 60 hours a week to pay the entire deposit from solely my funds. Both our names are on the lease. He began to pay the mortgage himself as I dropped back to one job and paid groceries, bills and did all the cooking, cleaning, washing and sometimes packed his lunches. During this time he got a payout and wanted a new car. I gave him the last of my savings to get it. The car is in his name. \n\nI lost my job and was diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression and while I applied for work I kept on with the housework. I ran out of savings but still managed the money side of things. \n\nI walked out after about 3 years in the house because he was toxic, abusive, and just so horrible to be around. I moved to the other side of the country (nearly 2 years ago now). I left my dog because I wasn't able to get her on the plane with me, and about 10 months after I left I went back for a few weeks to get my things. He kept gifts his family had given me, small things like some appliances and movies. But he also kept some artwork I painted. I didn't want him to keep it but with his mother there making snide remarks, verbally attacking me and him having 'banned' my family from coming into the house, I was not willing to argue at the time. \n\nInitially I tried to get him to sell the house or pay me out, he refused. Then I filled out a draft consent order for him to sign so he would take my name off the mortgage and I could be done. (This time I asked for no money) he refused and did not want to put any details on the form. After going into hospital to deal with my mental health, I decided no, I deserve some compensation. In this time I have applied to legal aid but it's been dragged out and nothing has yet to happen. \n\nLast I spoke to him I asked for approximately $20k (for the deposit, his car, my dog, cats and artwork all of which he is keeping) and he responded that I owe him $40k+. He gets this number from half the mortgage payments paid SINCE WE GOT THE HOUSE. (I was contributing even after I moved out, until I got advice that told me to stop) \n\nHere are my questions:\n\nAm I in the right here? Does he have a leg to stand on asking for that money? And knowing he is determined for me not to see his details, and any mediation is likely to be difficult if successful at all, what can I do? I want him out of my life financially! \nAny advice or insight would be great.","title":"My ex boyfriend says I owe him $40k+","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569249173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d87br0\/commission_to_cover_base_salary\/","id":"d87br0","body":"Can company in CA use my commission to cover difference in minimum base salary?\nCan I owe the company money if my commission doesn\u2019t cover the minimum base salary?\nCan the company legally deduct my future commission to pay for $$ owed from past pays where my commission didn\u2019t cover the CA legal minimum?\n\nI am in Los Angeles, CA. So this company I work for in Sales pays me a base salary and commission. That is what we agreed on when I came on board. \nLately I found out that when CA raised the minimum salary, the company has been covering my salary difference with my commission. And if my commission during the pay period doesn\u2019t cover that difference, I have a deficit to my account and they will pull the money I owe out of any future commission. Is this legal???? \nAlso what would be my based salary if I am based in Los Angeles, CA? Or is this common practice in sales?","title":"Commission to cover base salary","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552028838,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aynduf\/my_information_is_being_posted_online_without_my\/","id":"aynduf","body":"Multiple users on social media has been posting private information about me and my family. They have posted my real name, my spouses name, my income and tax information and pictures of my spouse and two underaged children. They have also somehow found my age and my spouses age as well. They also somehow know about my children's ages as well. They've been making false claims about me. I don't know who to contact in a case like this. I live in the united states. I have never met these people in my life and I'm honestly beyond terrified.","title":"My information is being posted online without my consent","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1445606353,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pwjkf\/landlord_making_unreasonable_demands_among_other\/","id":"3pwjkf","body":"Background: I'm a graduate student, living in university-owned housing which is managed by an outside company. I am located in New Jersey.\n\nThe property management company (who I will refer to hereafter as the \"landlord\" but I want to make it clear that this is a company, not just a guy) has informed the residents of my complex that they will be performing MONTHLY damage inspections of the units. That's a pain in the ass, feels like a real violation of privacy, but whatever, right? But here's the kicker: if you have a pet (which a large percentage of us do) you are required to be present for the inspection, which is scheduled for some time between 9AM and 6PM. So you are required to take an entire day off work, with 48 hours notice. This is simply not possible for ANYBODY, let alone graduate students who work 60-80 hours a week. I would get fired so fast if I did this.\n\nMany many many people complained, and the landlord finally offered a compromise--you don't have to be present if you put your pet in a cage. OK. I cannot put my cat in her carrier (the only \"cage\" I own) which does not have room for her food, water, or litterbox for 14 hours while I am at work. That is animal cruelty. It's not OK. Otherwise I have to go buy a HUGE dog crate (which I have no space to put anywhere and can't afford anyways. Grad student, remember).\n\n\nI spoke to the front office and offered some compromises: a shorter window of time that I could be home, locking the cat in my bedroom. They refused every idea I had, and said I would be fined if they came for the inspection and I was not there \/ the cat was not caged.\n\n\nIs this legal? What are my options? They have been incredibly dismissive of me every time I've brought up problems (and there have been loadssss of problems. The heat does not work, I've had maintenance out twice now, and they just look at the thermostat and say it's working. It was 64 degrees in the apartment this morning. It is not working. They also fail to lock the interior door [which I do not use, ever] EVERY time they come into the apartment. I found it unlocked again this morning, which means it was unlocked overnight. GREAT. When I brought this up, they blamed me. A sprinkler pipe burst a few weeks ago in the hallway outside the unit, and a fuck-ton of water flowed into my apartment. I was out the country, was not informed of anything, and came back to an apartment smelling of DEATH MOLD and a destroyed rug. They have been coming and going all week to check for additional water damage, leaving the door unlocked every time. They are also illegally sub-metering the electricity, but the university has found out about that and is investigating.)\n\nSo my questions are:\n1.) Is the monthly inspection legal? Are there any laws about invading the privacy of tenants that would apply?\n\n2.) Can they really fine me for going to work and not committing animal cruelty? What are my options?\n\n3.) If they continue to ignore basic problems (like the heat and the unlocked door) how can I get them to listen to me? Badgering hasn't worked, obviously. Are there any legal \"buzzwords\" I can say to scare them into taking me seriously?","title":"Landlord making unreasonable demands, among other issues (USA, NJ)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554015860,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7l019\/manager_threatened_to_search_my_phone_and_claim\/","id":"b7l019","body":"Sort of a long story...\n\nA while ago, a co worker and I had a relationship. We ended up ending things and things were not very positive for a while. \n\nRecently, we got back in touch (last couple months), and the other day I found out they were doing some pretty messed up things that really hurt me (not illegal or anything). So what happened was we argued and what not, outside of work and off the clock. The next day they came in, with an upset mood, and eventually cried during the shift. I also was working the same shift but we did not have any contact with each other that was not work related during the whole period. \n\nApparently they told another co worker what happened and then the person they told then told management. The reason being was I said some hurtful things and they were still in a bad mood from it.\n\nManagement then approaches me, saying that due to my co worker crying at work and being affected from me saying hurtful things, I am considered harassing them. Keep in mind that nothing was said while at work. Management then said that in order to prove that nothing was said at work, and that my co worker was not crying from me texting during work hours (because they saw me on my phone texting someone else) that they would take my phone and read through my messages to see if it was true (not a company phone).\n\nThis did not sound like it was at all a common thing and seemed like a major invasion of privacy. \n\nI told management that I did not contact the co-worker and that everything happened outside of work. Management said that even though it happened outside of work, if they come in affected by it the next day, it still counts as me harassing them.\n\nI made the point that the co-worker was just thinking back on the moment or something and got sad, so technically any time they cried after this point over the problem that would then mean that no matter when, I could always be told I am harassing them? \n\nIt does not seem fair that management is making this claim. It happened outside of work, and not even the same day, but yet still said it\u2019s a valid case. Searching my phone and reading all my messages also didn\u2019t seem out of the ordinary for them to do.\n\nShould I take action? Is management in the right?\n\nIf any further questions are needed feel free to ask.","title":"Manager threatened to search my phone, and claim harassment and hostile environment.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570736844,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg3fog\/hospital_suddenly_comes_calling_after_three_years\/","id":"dg3fog","body":"I\u2019m going to just start out with the facts of what\u2019s going on right now:\n\n6\/26\/16 I went to the ER because I thought I was having a miscarriage. I spent maybe 5 hours there and did not get any medication or IV only had a ultrasound. I pay the $150 co-pay upon leaving and thought that was it. I never got a bill in the mail or a phone call regarding this visit at all. I moved away from the area about 9 months later but kept the same number and made sure to forward all my mail.\n\nAround March of this year I received a phone call about it from the hospital and the woman was not clear about what the problem was so I told her that my last name had changed and maybe that was the hold-up because I had a problem like this before with the insurance sending a refund to my estranged biological father who was still claiming me on his insurance and it was due to last name issues (I had been adopted and when I got married my name changed for a third time so there was apparently some confusion happening on the insurance side). She simply said \u201cokay\u201d and hung up and I thought I would hear about it again if it was a problem. I contacted my insurance as well and they said they would keep me updated when they were contacted.\n\nTwo(ish) weeks ago I received a call from said hospital saying that they need my insurance to reprocess the claim as out of network because the hospital is out of network or I would be on the hook for a 10k bill. I called my insurance who explained to me they \u201cupgrade\u201d everyone\u2019s benefits when they go to the ER because they don\u2019t want the patient to worry about if the hospital was in network or not. So therefore the claim was processed as in network and They paid the bill, the hospital apparently submitted an appeal which my insurance then denied. This was in 2017. I was still in the same area as the hospital at this time but, again, never got anything in the mail or any phone calls. \n\nSo now my insurance and the hospital are currently fighting about this. The insurance suspects they let it slip through the cracks until they audited their files and that\u2019s why it\u2019s been so long since they pursued any action. The hospital says the insurance has reprocessed claims outside of their supposed 180 day limit. The hospital tells me if my insurance won\u2019t reprocess the claim I have to pay them 10k and the insurance told me they are going to take several steps to prevent this including having me submit a denial. \n\nIs there anything I can\/should do legally to protect myself? Are there any time limits or anything about hospital bills? I would have definitely taken care of this had I even known about it and from what the insurance company told me the hospital has no records of attempting contact after 2017. I only changed my number (maybe) a year ago so I figured if they were desperate enough for their money I should have definitely heard about it way before now. I\u2019m going to go through my medical file I have of all my papers upstairs and double check but I\u2019m 90% I won\u2019t find anything but discharge papers. I know that I\u2019m on my own here as neither the hospital or even the insurance truly care about what happens but I definitely don\u2019t want to shell out 10k for a five hour hospital visit because I thought I was having a miscarriage.\n\nAlso, and I\u2019m not sure if this is relevant, but I check every few months on my credit to see if there\u2019s been any loans taken out in my name or and large amounts of money that I owe because we\u2019ve had some scares about identity theft where our information may have been compromised due to hacking of other companies. Nothing has been there since my student loans. Can a hospital bill pop up on things like this? How would I prove that they didn\u2019t reach out to me or bill me for this otherwise?","title":"Hospital suddenly comes calling after three years","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1539624515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oes6b\/mo_shareholder_in_a_family_business_and_company\/","id":"9oes6b","body":"Hi everyone, here\u2019s a short explanation of what\u2019s going on \n\nMy family owns a crystal retail store. The company has been around since the 80s and I own a little more than 10% of the entire business. My 3 siblings own the rest of the shares and run the business operations on a day to day basis. Unfortunately, my siblings hate me for family reasons and want me out of the company because of how hostile they are to me. They recently shut down the corporation, saying it wasn\u2019t profitable, and want to buy me out for 1 dollar a share. \n\nHere\u2019s the kicker, same inventory, same staff, same everything. One day they say they are closing the store, and legit the NEXT DAY they announce they are reopening at a new location. How a failing business can close and then re open just to kick me out and take my shares baffles me. My son is a finance guy and has been trying to get me the books to put a price on the stock won\u2019t give the books to me or my son. They even put a note on the door of the previous location saying \u201cthis corporation is closing due to shareholder conflicts\u201d \n\nI feel like this is illegal. How can they randomly put a price of 1 dollar on the stock when they have tens of thousands of dollars in inventory sitting in each of their basements. Is their a place I can call and force them to get the books? I have asked a lawyer for help but they won\u2019t even give him the books. Can anyone give me some advice?","title":"[MO] shareholder in a family business and company books are not given to me.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570672433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfr4y1\/friend_bought_a_small_business_seller_did_not\/","id":"dfr4y1","body":"Hey. In Florida, friend bought a small business, a bar of sorts.\nThe previous owner did not disclose the amount of gift cards purchased. And did not even disclose that gift cards are even offered by the company.\n\nCustomers are now coming in and using gift cards and the new owners are losing money, My question is what recourse do they have? I feel like it was deceptive and hopefully illegal to sell the business that had this outstanding money without disclosing it.\nI can provide more info if needed. But I would like to know to help them out.\n\nThanks!","title":"Friend bought a small business. Seller did not disclose gift cards already purchased before sale. Amounts to over 10k","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554180395,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8ekds\/should_i_file_rape_allegations_against_my_teacher\/","id":"b8ekds","body":"Ok so my teacher told me to put my phone away, should I file rape allegations?","title":"Should I file rape allegations against my teacher?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541533857,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9urp51\/public_school_forcing_7th_graders_to_watch\/","id":"9urp51","body":"I just found out my kid\u2019s school system is making them watch republican only speeches and propaganda in class. \n\nThat\u2019s illegal, right?\n\nThat mess shouldn\u2019t be in a 7th grade class, period... much less one side only (regardless of the side.)\n\nAm I wrong? Can I do anything about it? I\u2019m furious! \n\n(No political discussion please, it would be just as bad if it were dem only propaganda.)","title":"Public school forcing 7th graders to watch republican speeches and propaganda.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1441423705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jpbuv\/looking_for_advice_for_a_friend_in_a_bad_leasing\/","id":"3jpbuv","body":"A friend of mine has become involved in a lease with a seemingly shady company and wants out. Posting on her behalf in hopes of gaining any advice or knowledge on the rights of renters.\n\nHer story:\n\"We got our keys to the new apartment. We walked in and the place was a mess! There were marks over all the walls, dirty window ledges, broken blinds, yellow paint was dried up in the tub, broken disposal, and to top it off there was mold on the ceiling in the kitchen.\n\nWe told them about it the next day since they had closed after we checked it out. They basically said they would send maintenance again to fix stuff and send a cleaning crew. We felt a little better about the situation. We checked the place out again...and it was still a mess, they did nothing but cover the mold. The fact that they charged a $200 cleaning fee...was driving me crazy because the place was disgusting. \n\nWe still haven't moved anything in because we are unhappy. The guy then sends me a messaging saying they can't find the lease I signed (and (boyfriend) never signed it cause these people are dumb and I talked back and forth with them for two months...what normally takes a day any other time I got an apartment. That should've been one of my red flags...I feel stupid for moving there and signing the lease. Plus, it's a TWO year lease. We thought since they couldnt find out lease we could maybe get out of it...but then as soon as we sent a message the next morning (9-4-15) about wanting our deposit back and splitting ways...telling them how unhappy and unsafe we felt. Then they wrote us back and said that they happened to magically find our lease! So convenient.....and said we should've said if we were upset...he wouldve fixed things..which seemed like a joke to us because we had told him several times.\n\nWe are trying to figure out ways to get out of it. Boyfriend knows a lady that works in the leasing department of a bigger management company...and she is going to take a look at our lease and see what our options are. We think they stole the lease cause one of the lines says some paper must be signed by a neighboring, unrelated rental company. So maybe that will make it invalid...we don't know. To break the lease you have to have lived there for 6 months and pay 1.5 months rent, at least.\"\n\nAny advice is appreciated.","title":"Looking for advice for a friend in a bad leasing agreement (Michigan)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444862192,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3os748\/husband_was_supposed_to_inherit_money_from_his\/","id":"3os748","body":"My husband's aunt passed away and left us some money. Her brother is her benefactor and instead of calling us, sent my husband and his sister an email asking for our banking information to transfer the money. We found out today he sent this email to the wrong address. We can't get a hold of the brother. If the stranger who received the email sends their banking information and the brother sends the money before we get a hold of him what can we legally do?\nThe brother is from the UK and my husband is in Canada if that helps.","title":"Husband was supposed to inherit money from his aunt however her benefactor sent email to wrong address","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1443208103,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mde95\/im_owed_my_last_months_rent_back_as_my_current\/","id":"3mde95","body":"My landlord recently sold my apartment. I knew it was for sale when I moved in.  It recently sold and he didn't give me the full 60 days notice to end tenancy, nor did he serve me the signed document (60 day notice to end tenancy).  I am owed my last months rent back as per the Residential Tenancy Act of BC.  He refuses to pay it and even called my new landlord to confirm that I'm still moving out as planned... I refuse to simply let him keep money that is legally owed to me. what can I do?","title":"I'm owed my last month's rent back, as my current place was sold... my landlord won't give it to me. In BC Canada","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555622680,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beqxz9\/breaking_a_lease_in_central_ca_with_3_months_left\/","id":"beqxz9","body":"Title is basically the nut of it. Didn't intend to break the lease, but we were able to buy a house before the summer market increase, and the lease states :\n\n A \"30 Day Notice to Vacate\" from tenant to So and So Property Management MUST be provided in writing, oral or other notice will not be recognized. Tenant departure prior to lease expiration requirements are:\n\n(1).\u00a0 Pro-rated rent for the month in which departure takes place must be paid on or before the 1st day of that month.\n\nAND\n\n(2). \u00a0An amount equal to\u00a0two months' rent must be paid on the 1st day of the month in which departure occurs.\n\n​\n\nSo... number (2) looks like a non-refundable fee to me ($4000 fee at that!) which I believe is illegal in CA? I want to be sure before I give notice. Also, my plan was to give an extra week notice so they can easily re-rent, rentals are currently going very quickly and they can likely rent for more than we are paying so I am not concerned about paying the remaining 3 months - it will be re-rented before we are out.\n\nI can't find the definition of terms for the statute about non-refundable fees, so that I can determine if a \"lease-break\" fee, as I think this would be called, is considered part of that limitation.\n\n​\n\nThanks for the help!!","title":"Breaking a Lease in Central CA with 3 months left - Can they charge 2 months as a fee?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569528283,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9p1gc\/cant_open_a_company_because_of_an_nda_i_had_to\/","id":"d9p1gc","body":"I'm kind of new to this subreddit so I am not sure how to start this but long story short I have been in the construction industry for a couple years now as a laborer in roofing. I live and work and Texas and my ultimate goal was to work as a laborer for a few years to gain enough knowledge and experience to later open up my own contracting company for roofing. Now the problem is the company that I have been working with to gain this experience made me sign paperwork when I was hired as any company would have, but in that mountain of paperwork there was an NDA I was unaware of that I signed and at the time I had no clue what an NDA was and now I am screwed bc it basically means I cant open any sort of company in construction operate or run one without being screwed with a lawsuit.\n\nI don't know what to do know bc that was my ultimate plan and goal and it seems now I am screwed and cant do anything. Is there anything I can do here or am I just screwed?\n\n​\n\nTL;DR: I wanted to open a company in my trade but the place I work at had me sign an NDA and now I cant.","title":"Cant open a company because of an NDA I had to sign","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541504201,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9unl2s\/what_do_you_do_if_you_think_someone_you_know_from\/","id":"9unl2s","body":"If I believed someone I knew on Xbox Live or PlayStation Network were in danger, where would I go for help? Would I contact the authorities myself and explain, or contact Microsoft\/Sony and have them contact authorities? \nThere is a girl that I play with on Xbox, she lives with a couple of friends (and she is pretty young I\u2019d say probably 17 or 18) and recently the last couple of nights she\u2019s been either really drunk or really drugged (I can\u2019t tell which one). If something were to happen over microphone to somebody over a game, where would you report it? ","title":"What do you do if you think someone you know from gaming online is in danger?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539828185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p4y3g\/california_tenancy_question_on_cleanliness\/","id":"9p4y3g","body":"Important information prior to beginning: upon moving in the \u201clease\u201d I signed was some chicken scratched hand writing saying nothing more than \u201cYou will pay this much rent monthly\u201d.\n\nThe owner only guided me through my room and never gave any indication upon their expectations.\n\nI moved into a room inside a shared family home, long story short I am now getting kicked out for accidental damages and inability to maintain cleanliness (my bad, slight damage I made was accidental) I never payed a security deposit and I am worried that the damages they are saying are much worse than I did.\n\nThe other day when they were telling me about my damages so I ended up cleaning everything, but then when I came back to tidy, they were making a mockery of my cleaning (I mean I haven\u2019t finished yet so okay) and was told that the cleaning I did damaged their property even more (shoot I guess alcohol wipes are bad on wood, nobody told me, they just told me I needed to clean)\n\nWhat are my rights as a tenant, obviously I went to do my best to clean and repair everything but I\u2019m afraid they will over claim as to the the accidental damages I made.","title":"California Tenancy Question On Cleanliness","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446602002,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rfpl9\/phantom_plate_in_washington_state\/","id":"3rfpl9","body":"Awhile back I bought one of these and installed it on my car, https:\/\/www.phantomplate.com\/photoshield.html\nBasically there's a small strip of reflective material that covers the majority of the license plate and is designed to reflect camera flashes, rendering the photo unusable. It also slightly obscures the letters at angles (See product pictures)\n\nWell, i've had this on my car for quite awhile and have been all over WA state and haven't been pulled over or warned about it. About a month ago I was pulled over by Seattle Police and immediately issued a \"Obstructed license plate\" ticket and was charged $130 for it.\n\nSeeing how it would have cost me more money to take a day off of work to fight the ticket, I payed it.\n\nSince then I've kept the cover on, and have had cops come up behind me (Including sheriff and state troopers) and have not been pulled over for it.\n\nI started to read about license plate laws a little more and came across this,\n\n\"(c) Use holders, frames, or other materials that change, alter, or make a license plate or plates illegible. License plate frames may be used on license plates only if the frames do not obscure license tabs or identifying letters or numbers on the plates and the license plates can be plainly seen and read at all times;\"\n\n--http:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/rcw\/default.aspx?cite=46.16A.200\n\nBut I've also been told that as long as it's completely visible from the rear, it's legal, which it is.\n\nAny thoughts? ","title":"Phantom Plate in Washington State","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553641567,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5wpza\/paternity_child_support_cut_communication_ks_and\/","id":"b5wpza","body":"My boyfriend sure has run into a pickle. Before we were together, he once had casual sex with someone he had went on a date with. This woman got pregnant. \n\nFor 8 months of her pregnancy, she insisted he was the father even though she said herself that she was also sleeping with other men. My bf has been trying to get her to do an NIPP test for a majority of the pregnancy, but she has refused. Now that the baby is almost due, she says that she lied and there is no chance that the baby is his. Now she is refusing to do any paternity testing at all after the baby is born. And she has cut off communication and blocked him and his family on all social media. \n\nMy bf doesn\u2019t want to get screwed over with child support down the line and honestly he wants to know if he is the father of this baby so he can do the right thing and be involved in the child\u2019s life. What are some steps he can take to make this woman legally have to let him have a paternity test done? We can only find information for if the potential father refuses, not the mother. It\u2019s crazy that it even has to come to this. Thanks to anyone willing to help out here. I\u2019m at a loss and so is he. ","title":"Paternity, child support, cut communication (KS and MO)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554772813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb1vpw\/help_with_how_to_safely_contact_someone_who_is\/","id":"bb1vpw","body":"Hi all, looking for some advice. \n\n​\n\nMyself and my SO (unmarried) had an informal written agreement for $XXX to stay with an old friend (referred to as \"friend\" to avoid gender and details.) for a short period where we both agreed on the dollar value (referred to afterwards as \"A\" to make it easier.) The agreement was to split the difference between the rent of a one and two bedroom apartment for the year lease term in the same complex that \"friend\" was looking at. We both agreed on \"A\" in a chat log, which I have a screenshot of. \"Friend\" went with a more expensive apartment, in a different complex, and decided after we moved out that we owe them several times \"A\", (dollar value \"B\",) still comparing the new apartment rent to the cheapest apartment they could find. There was no further discussion on payment at this time, and my understanding was that \"A\" still held up. My SO paid a certain amount of \"A\" very shortly after moving out, and I never paid them anything, although I have recorded evidence of trying to reach them for banking information to send money directly, which they never provided. I stopped chasing them down for their information to pay them back after a few months.  \n\n\nI would like to clarify at this time that we were never on a lease nor did dollar value \"B\" ever get discussed before or during our staying there.  \n\n\nNow, well over a year later, they decided to suddenly come after me claiming I owe them \"B\". I informed them that I would not have agreed to \"B\", as it is an outrageous sum, but am happy to discuss paying \"A\". They do not have a written agreement NOR a verbal agreement to \"B\", and has said as such in an email. They also made false claims in the email stating that I told them I had no intention of paying. They threatened a civil action, and I immediately ended contact and haven't spoken to them since that time in an effort to avoid incrimination. they have since called my SO (not me) several times, and my SO hasn't responded.  \n\n\nI believe they sent emails with claims of me refusing to pay and calling my SO in order to set up a scenario where we are dodging them, and I feel the need to take steps to mitigate this. My plan at this point is one of two options;\n\n​\n\nA) never contact them, wait for civil action, or lack thereof.\n\n​\n\nB) send them a notarized, certified letter to them, offering to pay \"A\" and put the issue to bed, if they will send a notarized letter back stating that they will not pursue me for \"B\" if I pay them the amount.  \n\n\n**Do either of these work? What are my options? Is my silence, in itself, incriminating?**","title":"Help with how to safely contact someone who is pursuing me for money.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551891094,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay0ys3\/ca_do_the_intended_parents_for_whom_i_am_a\/","id":"ay0ys3","body":"I\u2019m a gestational surrogate for a couple who are the intended parents, one of whom is the sperm donor\/bio father. I\u2019m implanted and successfully carrying the fetus.\n\nRecently they have discovered (through my neighbor) that I have been inviting guys over to my place. I meet guys through apps like Tinder and Bumble and we hookup. The intended parents finally approached me to ask about my sex life, and I told them I don\u2019t use protection 100% of the time. They\u2019re now demanding that I stop having hookups, and at the very least use protection 100% of the time.\n\nThere\u2019s nothing in our agreement about my sex life after successful implantation. I brought this up in another post because I felt the intended parents were overstepping their bounds. Some suggested that they might be able to take legal action against me for having sex, even though nothing in the contract prohibits that.\n\nSo now I\u2019m curious if this has happened to gestational surrogates before where their private sex lives have been curtailed by legal action. Do the intended parents have grounds to take legal action?","title":"[CA] Do the intended parents for whom I am a gestational surrogate have grounds to take legal action against me for having sex after implantation?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445404664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3plhlv\/tx_soim_going_to_have_a_kid_what_do_i_need_to_do\/","id":"3plhlv","body":"Quick background: The girl and I have only been dating for a couple of months and somehow she's pregnant, probably due to holding hands too intensely.  She and I aren't together right now, taking some time while we figure out what we want\/need to do with pretty much everything, but we're still getting along really well.  \n\n\nMy questions (with my intentions\/desires):\n\n\n1. What should I do about child support?  Do I need to get this setup before the baby is born, or do we have to wait until after?  I think that what I want to be sure of here is that we have a legal agreement on what I will pay in child support.  I have a decent job, and I fully intend to be an active parent in my child's life, so I will almost certainly pay more on my child than mandated by a court, but I want to be sure she can't come after me for money I'd paid and she may say I didn't later down the road (if there was no such minimum agreement in place that's tracked).  \n\n\n2. What do I need to do for custody?  Again, it's like child support, right now she and I are good so I know we can work something out without any legal agreement, but I think I want some legal agreement that gives me a minimum amount of time with my child.\n\n\n3. Do she and I need a lawyer to go to court to make arrangements?  Right now we're talking a lot about our plans, and I know she'd rather not have any legal agreements, but I know that you don't need legal agreements for when times are good.  After the baby is born I don't want an issue to arise and I'm not prepared.  Knowing her for such a short time definitely plays a role in this whole thing.\n\n\nSorry if I have too much here, it's my first time posting in this sub.  I appreciate any help\/advice you folks could provide.  Houston, TX if that makes a difference, but I suspect it's state laws that will affect me.","title":"[TX] So...I'm going to have a kid, what do I need to do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1410006335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fmsnd\/tenants_are_paying_what_are_his_choices_tx\/","id":"2fmsnd","body":"So my dad was renting a trailer to a friend. There were no formal lease or anything. Well that friend past away. His daughter  (and husband) wanted to stay, so my dad was okay with it, since him and the friend were tight. The first few months they were paying okay. Just a few months ago they're late and this month they ceased payment. \n\nWhat can he do, to get them off their property?","title":"Tenants are paying, what are his choices? (TX)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540017535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9prwsj\/woke_up_to_landlord_standing_over_me_with_a_hammer\/","id":"9prwsj","body":"I am a 35F. I woke to my landlord (lady in her 80\u2019s) standing over my bed wielding a hammer. She berated me for not having much furniture and seemingly not cooking (I\u2019m a chef and don\u2019t usually feel like cooking after work) I\u2019m newly divorced and this is the first time I\u2019ve lived on my own. I have a felony stemming from an incident that happened 15 years ago when I was defending myself against an abusive boyfriend, (I took the felony without seeking legal advice or understanding the implications) so, it was really hard finding an apartment, and I\u2019m comfortable and don\u2019t want to move. This is not the first time she or her husband have broken into the apartment. Is any of what they\u2019ve done illegal? (I live in MI)","title":"Woke up to landlord standing over me with a hammer.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540349848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qvxw2\/i_got_into_a_car_accident_and_it_was_my_fault_now\/","id":"9qvxw2","body":"This happened in Iowa. I\u2019m 21 years old and today I got into my first accident. I was driving home around 5:20 from work on one of the busiest streets in our city. I was behind a woman who was stopping frequently because the flow of traffic was moving slow. She started moving quickly, and I started to drive behind her. The sun was in my eyes so I decided to put down the sun visor, next thing I knew I was rear ending her car. I pulled over to the side street and she pulled into someone\u2019s driveway. The first thing I did was asked if she was okay, and if he passenger was okay. She said they were fine. Her passenger called the police and we got each other\u2019s insurance information. Once the office showed up she immediately started saying that her neck was killing her, her back hurt, her head was throbbing and she was shaken up, however when we offered to call an ambulance, she declined saying she was okay. I was fined for failure to maintain control of my car. My car is totaled, but she was able to drive off just fine. The police officer basically left me there and told me I could leave my car on the street for 48 hours. I was taken home and filed a claim with my insurance. I have liability on my car. It covers $15,000 for her car, $20,000 for bodily injury for each person involved. I called her, because I felt like I needed to check up on her since she\u2019s older. She said she was fine but still complained of back, neck and head pain. I said I filed a claim and my insurance should be contacting hers. I decided to do some digging and on Facebook she posted pictures of her car and my car and is complaining of neck pain. Her passenger posted pictures of the car saying I didn\u2019t know how to stop and I was texting and driving, which I wasn\u2019t. She texted me pictures of damage of her car, and she asked what made me hit her, and I told her it was because I put my sun visor down, and that I thought I had time to stop but I didn\u2019t. It was an honest mistake. All her friends are telling her not to sign off on insurance because she\u2019s not going to know if she\u2019s okay for at least a week. I\u2019m freaking out because I don\u2019t want to say to much to where she can get money out of me because it\u2019s money I don\u2019t have. I just started a new job, and my family is barley making ends meet. If anyone can give me any reassurance on this whole thing that\u2019ll be awesome! ","title":"I got into a car accident and it was my fault, now I\u2019m super worried the woman is going to sue me.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552039335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayol7r\/i_have_a_new_landlord_that_gave_two_different\/","id":"ayol7r","body":"The new landlord gave us a contract that was in English but my family requested the same contract in Spanish so we can better understand the terms and conditions of the lease. After months of requesting a Spanish version of the English contract. The new landlord decided to give us a whole new different contract with different terms and condition of the lease in Spanish. My question is we requested him to translate the English contract in Spanish, however he end up revising the contract and giving us different terms and conditions just because we ask him for a Spanish version. Does he have the right to change the first contract he initially gave us and give a drastically different contract?","title":"I have a new landlord that gave two different contract for a lease agreement.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552957568,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2qtw3\/unethical_hr_help\/","id":"b2qtw3","body":"Hi there, My HR at work talked to my coworker (non-manager) about my timeclock history from last week. They never approached me to talk about it. Is this confidential information? Is there anyone to call to report her talking to non-management about my employment records (when I punch in and out). I'm not a fan of gossip, and this doesn't seem ethical. Should I approach her about it? Are there laws to protect me working for a private non-union at will job from HR complaining to my peers about my information without my consent? The time clock is non-accessable for employees. Only accounting and HR have access, so it's not company accessable information by default. What do I do? Thanks :)","title":"Unethical HR Help","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571274766,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diz19b\/i_strongly_suspect_someone_i_know_is_trying_to\/","id":"diz19b","body":"So for about 3 years now this person has been trying to hack my accounts like steam, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter and etc., and has been successful a couple times. \n\nI\u2019ve gone through 4 different email accounts and I\u2019m getting really sick of the password reset spam. I have reason to believe it\u2019s a person I used to know and no longer speak too, who used to use my same usernames on steam and Xbox in the past. I think it\u2019s this person because they accidentally signed up for indeed.com with my email instead of one of his emails, which the only difference is a capital letter, and I saw his name in the email. \n\nIs there anything I can do to stop him from doing this? I\u2019ve been reluctant to contact to the police or anything cause I don\u2019t know if they would be able to help.","title":"I strongly suspect someone I know is trying to hack my online accounts and spamming my email with password reset requests, and impersonates me online. [FL]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1443586367,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mxbkv\/tx_landlord_charging_fees_for_paying_rent\/","id":"3mxbkv","body":"Hi, my landlord just sent out an email about starting to charge a $5 'processing' fee for checks and money orders. You can also pay online for a $5 'processing' fee through bank draft, or a 3% 'processing' fee for credit card payments. They do not accept cash. \n\nIs it legal to force us to pay the fees?\n\nEdit: they knocked it up to 3% for CCs.","title":"(TX) Landlord charging fees for paying rent.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504360643,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xm2d6\/question_about_eviction_law\/","id":"6xm2d6","body":"I was recently trying to find out how to find record of an eviction I had in 2015 in Indiana so I could attempt to eventually pay the amount owed.   While trying to find information on where I could look this up,  I found two separate website a stating that if you willingly vacate before eviction is filed,  that an eviction cannot br filed.   I am wanting to find out if this is actually true because this is what we did (vacated before eviction was filed).   Though im not sure that we have any proof unless I can get a record from the following landlord of when we moved in.    We did inform the landlord that we would be vacating before eviction was filed and they ensured us they would still be filing because it was (how they operated or their policy or something).   \nIf there is any way to prove that we had vacated and if this fact I read is true,  is it possible to have the eviction removed from our (mine and my wife's)  records and credit history?   Or is it too late since we didn't argue against it when it was filed? ","title":"Question about eviction law","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542135555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wrxr7\/do_i_have_a_workers_compensation_issue\/","id":"9wrxr7","body":"Not sure if this is where I should post this but I just am trying to figure out if I should contact an attorney or seek legal help regarding something.\n\n​\n\nI was recently hired (about 1-2ish months ago) by a company and prior to being hired I was informed that the hours are kind of weird. Basically even though it is an hourly position, we are guaranteed a certain number of hours (27.5) so if we work all 5 days in a week and only reach 20 hours, we still get pay for 27.5, BUT if we work over 27.5 hours we get paid for those additional hours, so it isn't necessarily a salary.\n\n​\n\nNow prior to being hired, I and several other people who were hired around the same time that I was, were all informed that we would get overtime (time and a half) for hours worked past 27.5 in a week. Obviously that was a big consideration in my decision to go work at this establishment over another, and I'm assuming it was a large part of the decision of others. NOW they're saying that no one ever said that was part of the package prior to us all joining and that overtime does not kick in until the regular 40 hours a week. I'm wondering if I have a case because multiple were told by several staff at this establishment of the overtime past 27.5 hours. In addition, my friend was talking to a woman in HR who verified this, so I went to also speak with her and actually recorded her saying that there was overtime past 27.5 hours for our position. My question is do I have a case since I have proof they stated this was part of the offer when we joined, and it wasn't just one person making a mistake, it was several people making these claims. Also I live in a single party record state so I believe the recording was legal since I obviously consented to doing it.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nThanks for any help and if anyone knows any worker compensation lawyers who are good or may have any experience in cases like this in Colorado, feel free to PM me their name =)","title":"Do I have a workers compensation issue?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410018842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fn7if\/my_ex_disappeared_with_my_son_and_i_have_no_idea\/","id":"2fn7if","body":"I am in Texas and we have court ordered standard visitation agreement, we were never married and I was looking to modify it to get 50\/50 and I had a pretty good chance of getting because of her abusive history, but she skipped court and moved to another state. I was accused of sexually molesting my son in order to keep me away from him while she prepared for her escape, CPS and PD saw through her ruse and she was looking to get into more trouble with the court for using the system to help her case. Her lawyer says she lost contact with her and her family says they don't know where she is at. It has been 4 months since I've seen my son. I believe she may have moved to Delaware, because of her family ties.\n\nTo be honest I don't know if my lawyer is good enough for the situation that developed from all this. Is there any organization that can help?, can I approach the police?, Can CPS help me?.\n\nI am so lost...","title":"My Ex disappeared with my son and I have no idea where they are!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503679704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vzpdv\/subcontractor_with_nonsolicitation_agreement\/","id":"6vzpdv","body":"I worked for a sub-contractor. When my contract ended with the Company I was sub-contracted to, I was terminated. I have a one year non-solicitation agreement that states I cannot solicit or attempt to solicit business from the Company I was providing services to. The Company contacted me with a job they would like me to fill (unaware of agreement) but they are no longer working with the sub-contractor because of unethical behavior on the part of the sub-contractor. It has not been one year. Can I work for the Company without legal ramifications since I did not solicit the work?\n\nEdit: Location is Northeastern USA","title":"Sub-contractor with non-solicitation agreement contacted by contracting Company to work as a contractor. Can I?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551923977,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay74ew\/work_keeps_assigning_me_just_under_the_time_to\/","id":"ay74ew","body":"I am working for a large international catering company and get paid by the hour.  State law requires them to give me 1 paid 10 minute break per 4 hours worked and 1 unpaid 30 minute break for every 5 hours worked.  I am frequently, but not always, assigned 4.5 or 9.5 hours.  The schedule is sent out weekly and I am typically assigned 4-18 hours a week.\n\nThis seems legal to me, but I also remember reading somewhere that this wasn't.  If it is not legal, what should I do about it, especially since I otherwise am happy working there.","title":"Work keeps assigning me just under the time to give me another break. Is this Legal? (WA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506633877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7337x0\/moving_company_damaged_antiques\/","id":"7337x0","body":"The moving company we used stored and damaged two old antique lounge chairs of ours. With only .30 a pound insurance the total compensation from the company is $21. The cost of repair for both is close to $500. Am I shit out of luck? \n\n*Illinois*","title":"Moving Company damaged antiques","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1443411140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mnne6\/kyin_cross_state_visitation_nightmare\/","id":"3mnne6","body":"Hello \/r\/legaladvice,\n\nI am in a tough situation and having a lot of difficulty finding help. I have cold called attorneys, reached out to both the Indiana and Kentucky Bar Association and contacted my employers legal help line to no avail.\n\nI was surprised with paternity and child support papers a little over a year ago. The mother lives in Indiana and I am from Kentucky. She used an interstate law to file in IN but the child support and paternity were established in KY. The attorney who handled the paternity suit did not feel the need to immediately set up support and visitation at the time. I had very little money to my name and was basically pay walled out of establishing my rights immediately.\n\nI have been actively searching for a lawyer who could help since March in both states. The mother moved four hours away without any sort of notification. I literally received a text informing me the day before I was supposed to spend time with my daughter. \n\nThe attorneys I have spoken with in KY have told me that I could file and get a court order here, but it could not be enforced in IN. She could violate it freely with no ramifications. The attorneys from IN have informed me that they are unable to file a motion since paternity and support were established in KY. My daughter is legally under the jurisdiction of my home county. I have asked about filing visitation independent of child support but was told that this was unheard of. \n\nThe mother is whittling down my time week by week to almost nothing. I was seeing my daughter for four hours a day twice a week before the move. After the move I was only allowed four hours bi weekly. I am lucky if I get four hours every three weeks now and have to fight for it. The mother is unwilling to even discuss extending my time after spending eight hours on the road to see my little girl. This has been absolute hell and I don't know where else I can turn. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"(KY\/IN) Cross state visitation nightmare","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553806785,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6o8z5\/held_at_border_in_canada_for_a_supposed_crime\/","id":"b6o8z5","body":"Hello, \n\n​\n\nI am from New Hampshire, USA. I went to a concert in Canada two nights ago. ON my way back from Canada I was told I couldn't go through the border because when my info was entered it said I was reported for a crime. Guy at border wouldn't tell me what crime it was for. I asked him when this was entered and he said it's been there since 2016 of January. No police ever contacted me saying I was accused of anything. No police ever came to my house. I've been pulled over recently for a speeding violation and officer at that time in 2017 didn't say anything when he ran my license. I was held at the border security offices for 24 hours. I'm finally allowed to leave today but how was I entered into their database as a false crime? I don't get it. Clearly if I did something I would of at least known about the issue from the police. I'm concerned and scared of what can happen next. \n\n​\n\nThanks ","title":"Held at Border in Canada for a supposed crime.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552319176,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azuxrl\/need_help_3days_evicted_notice\/","id":"azuxrl","body":"In my apartment complex is evicting me with 3 day notice for defending my self with my legal gun against an home invasion  involving 6 gang members and convected felonies  and my question is  don't I have 30 days to leave? Location arrowhead point apartments Albuquerque new Mexico 87123 ","title":"Need help 3days evicted notice?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552285131,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azpxod\/identity_theft_in_ca\/","id":"azpxod","body":"Hey! Does anyone know about Unauthorized Use of Personal Identifying Information of Another? I know someone being charged for using someone else\u2019s checks. It was an activity he practiced for maybe a few months? I\u2019m not sure on the details. He and the guy had used the same financial institution, so I guess that made it easy for him to do this. Anyway, he was caught, and he ended up having to pay it all back with his own money. Can he still be committed for it all even if he had already paid it all back?","title":"Identity Theft in CA","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553726287,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6awby\/received_a_speeding_a_ticket_ca\/","id":"b6awby","body":"In my 11 years of driving I received my 2nd speeding ticket yesterday with my first one in Nov 2015. I ended paying the fine and doing traffic school for my first ticket but it\u2019s been a while since dealing with that stuff. But on my way to school yesterday, (which is like 5 miles from my house) the cop pulled me over and said there were moments you were driving excessively fast on this particular stretch of road. I told him I didn\u2019t even notice I was driving fast and that I was pretty much going through the everyday routine\/motion of driving to school. Also that I wasn\u2019t driving my normal car because my father asked to use my truck(he pulled me over in a Prius lol). He eventually wrote my ticket going 52 in 40 mph zone which he mentioned that he gave me a break on the speed so the fine would be in a lower bracket. \n\nI was whatever when he gave me the ticket, but throughout the day I progressively started to get bummed\/pissed off about it. This post is seeking some advice on how this will effect my driving record and whether to go to court about it. Mostly my concern is about my record and insurance. I really don\u2019t want any points and having a second speeding ticket listed on my record. Also paying more for my insurance. I don\u2019t mind paying a fine since I already accepted my fate but would it be smart to go to court and ask them to lower it more.  Or even trying fight this ticket to see if the cop will show up? Thank you to whoever reads this and gives advice. I really appreciate it!","title":"Received a speeding a ticket. CA.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445353221,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3phzch\/pressed_charges_for_theft_against_an_old_roommate\/","id":"3phzch","body":"Its a bunch of old clothes and bs, the only potentially valuable item is an old flatscreen tv. I live in a bk apartment where space is limited ","title":"Pressed charges for theft against an old roommate, left his stuff here for over 8 months. Got notices he would come by 3 separate times, never showed, can i chuck his stuff??? Brooklyn, NY","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568452240,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d42x5a\/need_advice_on_a_winter_rental_that_we_moved_into\/","id":"d42x5a","body":"(Massachusetts) So this story is kinda weird story and i know i\u2019m an idiot...\n\nSo a couple friends and I \u201crented\u201d a house. The supposed landlord posted it on a know apt\/houses app and that\u2019s how my buddy found it. He went and saw it and talked with the lady. She liked him and said he can move into the house the next friday. This is where it starts where it gets weird! She said we could move into in the house and only had to pay first and security and wed pay extra money each month towards the \u201clast.\u201d So we move in on friday and we don\u2019t have to sign anything or pay anything (should of been our first red flag but we figured she was busy and she\u2019d stop by in the next couple days and we\u2019d pay her and sign the lease...My buddy tries calling her and she answers sporadically and other times just responds by text (A family member wS in the hospital so we just figured she was stressed out was dealjng with family thinngs. She texted us we could move in on the \u201cThe day we moved\u201d We kept trying to get her to come by so we could pay her and so we could sign a lease and get everything in writiting saying we\u2019d pay her back \u201cX amount\u201d a month extra to cover the last month rent we didnt have to pay upfront. But she kept making up excuses. She was supposed to come by yesterday (friday) but instead she called my buddy, friday morning and told him that we had an hour to pack our shit and get out of the house because she didn\u2019t have the right in the first to rent the house because it was her mothers and that supposedly her family was coming to house and that theyd call the cops if we were there...Since we never actually signed a lease or payed rent we didnt think that we had any renter rights so we just did that. Problem is none of us have anywhere to go! We\u2019re all homeless now! Since It\u2019s kinda hard to find a place to live in an hour, at least if we had 30 days we could find another place to rent! We were under the impression we had this rental house until march...\nSo did we or do we have any rights? Like could of we stayed at the house and if the family called the cops would we have been trespassing? We have texts messages sayjng we could moved in and other text messages talking about how much rent was etc etc...We honestly just didn\u2019t want to deal with the cops, but a part of me feels like we should of just stayed and saw went happened! Because kicking us out with an hour to pack and leaving us homeless was just plain fucked up! Like it\u2019s not on us that she shouldn\u2019t of been renting the house and was being shady! Like either she new this was going to happen and was just trying to make some quick money or she\u2019s just plain stupid!!! Either way, my friends and i are homeless now with no where to go!\nWe\u2019re currently at a horel trying to figure out wtf to do!\nLike i know if we woulda signed a lease or payed rent we would of at least had 30 days or at least squatters rights? But is there any action we can take against her for pretty much scamming us? Like honestly everything seemed legit at the beginning but it just started to become odd that everytime we asked her to come by so we could pay her\/sign a lease she had an excuse! But legit Friday (yesterday) she said she\u2019d come by! And then just out of the blue called my buddy and told him we legit had an hour to pack and get the fuck out!!!\nLooking back i wish we just stayed and had her family come to the house and explain the situation and if they called the cops, then explain the situation to them...Like I honestly doubt they would of charged us with trespassing but we just didn\u2019t want to have to deal with being arrested or refusing to leave and the family shows up with little kids expecting to sleep at their grandparents house so they could visit their grandparent in the hospital which from what out \u201cLandlord was saying, wasn\u2019t doing so well...\u201d\nBut like wtf lady you\u2019re like 50 years old! What were you thinking, renting out a house that\u2019s not even in your name, as a \u201cwinter rental\u201d \nAlso i know we\u2019re idiots for moving into a place without even signing the lease first...\nAny thoughts or ideas, because we\u2019re just confused and well now homeless...","title":"Need advice on a \u201cWinter Rental\u201d that we moved into and was told yesterday morning that we had an hour to vacate the property","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541797481,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vo9r2\/landlord_wont_return_part_of_deposit_ct\/","id":"9vo9r2","body":"I moved out of my apartment July 31st, 2018 and handed in keys the same day. The apartment was spotless and nothing was left behind. As far as I knew everything was perfect. \n\nMy roommate left a month earlier but still paid her last month of rent, and we mailed off both checks together in one envelope (we split rent in half and for the entire time we lived there paid with two checks). \n\nWe received our security deposit back MINUS a half month of rent, a late fee, and my $500 pet deposit was taken (because the apartment smelled like cat they said). So in total $575 (half a month of rent), $120 (late fee), and $500 were deducted from the security deposit. We never received any notice that any rent was unpaid.\n\nI called and explained that no rent was unpaid and they said it was a clerical error, someone was filling in that week and entered in only one of the checks. We sent in proof that both checks were deposited. After emailing proof I cannot get in contact with the rental company anymore. I've been calling and emailing for two months and nothing has come of it and I dont know where to go from here. \n\nWhat can I do? I live in CT and this was at a large apartment complex. ","title":"Landlord won't return part of deposit [CT]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571096097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhz5za\/tx_leasing_office_turned_off_autopay\/","id":"dhz5za","body":"Hi Y\u2019all, \n\nI turned in my keys to an apartment 2 days before my lease ends. They told me there will be a clean out fee charged on the last day of the lease. \n\nI had set up autopay through the rest of my lease, but they closed the autopay account\/system when I turned in the keys without telling me. This caused the fee to go unpaid going to collections. \n\nMy questions are: \n-What organization should I report the leasing office for turning off auto pay without a written notice? \n-How would I get this clean out fee to not be on my credit report? \n\nThanks for any advice or help.","title":"[TX] Leasing Office Turned off Autopay","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552319928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azv312\/a_funding_firm_from_ny_got_my_email_and_is\/","id":"azv312","body":"So this person from a funding firm in NY keeps sending me marketing emails about their funding to my business email. I used this email on a local college board for recruiting purpose. I\u2019ve asked him how he got my email but he just replied that he has me unsubscribed now. Thing is, I never signed up for his mailing list.\n\nIs this legal?","title":"A funding firm from NY got my email and is sending me marketing emails without my consent. I\u2019m in GA.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541524957,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uqaqf\/can_i_get_in_trouble_for_going_filming_undercover\/","id":"9uqaqf","body":"I'm thinking of joining Herbalife as a \"distributor\" and filming some of the interactions for a video, but was warned by a friend that maybe there contract has a clause against this.  I looked into it and sure enough in the distributor contract they have this clause:  \n\n\"Confidential Information: During the term of your Distributorship, you and your spouse will hold in strict confidence and trust for the exclusive benefit of Herbalife any trade secrets, formulas, business plans, customer lists, Distributor information, or any other confidential or proprietary business information, and any other information of commercial value provided by Herbalife (\u201cConfidential Information\u201d). You acknowledge and agree that you will not use Confidential Information, directly or indirectly, for any purpose other than the conduct of your Herbalife Distributorship and you will take reasonable care to protect Confidential Information. \"  \n\nHere's the question, if I record the meetings on film and then quit the organization and post the results to Youtube, can I be sued to have the video taken down?  Is there any way to get around this?  I'll link the full distributor agreement in the comments.","title":"Can I get in trouble for going filming undercover in a pyramid scheme (MLM) because of tight contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541731784,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vgpor\/update_children_returned_mil_arrested\/","id":"9vgpor","body":"I am now under advisement to limit what I publicly say. I just figured I should update that yes I do indeed have my children safe and sound at home now. They will be with my sister tomorrow and until the court date.","title":"[UPDATE] Children returned, MIL arrested","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539497645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o0obz\/mandated_reporter_question_tx\/","id":"9o0obz","body":"Hi! I live in Texas.  I am a mandated reporter because of my job.  \n \nI recently broke up with a man who I was dating for 6 months. He has a pending felony case for indecent exposure to a minor, that I was 100% certain was based on lies. All of the evidence seems to point towards his innocence. However, he had recently gotten more and more sexually violating towards me, using coercion and physical overpowering me to get what he wanted. I am over 18, so I know that  no one is required to report what happened to me. However, because I have knowledge that seems to suggest that sexually irreverent behavior is a pattern & would help the prosecutors build their case against him for offenses involving a minor, am I obligated to report it? I have no direct knowledge of anything that happened to a minor but I would not be surprised if the allegations are true. \n\nAdditionally, he wants to work with kids for a living. \n\nMorally, I know that I should report what happened to me but to be honest I am very scared and confused and overwhelmed by everything that has happened to me. I\u2019m sorry if this makes no sense ","title":"Mandated reporter question (TX)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542057803,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wib3i\/i_fell_down_the_stairs_at_my_apartment_and_broke\/","id":"9wib3i","body":"I live on the 4th floor of my apartment building and was walking down to my car. I slipped on my second or third step of the second-to-last flight of stairs and tore a tendon and broke my foot.\n\nThe second and third flights don\u2019t have working light bulbs and I was walking down at 11:30 pm. The stairs are covered in broken bits of leaves because there is no vacuuming done, they just sweep the carpeted stairs. They also recently replaced the carpeting and it\u2019s slick.\n\nLiving on the 4th floor, it\u2019s excruciating to go up and down the stairs now (broke foot Friday night). We have (had) an elevator, but the apartment complex took it out about three weeks ago to replace it. We knew they would spend six weekends replacing the elevator when we moved in, but that was supposed to be done starting in August. On the 4th floor, our place is next to the elevator, and the only time I\u2019ve heard it being worked on was when they removed the old elevator parts.\n\nWhat are my options here? We\u2019d really like to move out to a first-floor apartment somewhere else and have our current landlord pay us back some rent so we can pay for movers. ","title":"I fell down the stairs at my apartment and broke my foot.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569438326,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d97ww2\/got_a_speeding_ticket_doing_91_in_a_60_and\/","id":"d97ww2","body":"Ok so I was taking my sister back to Kent state univ on Labor Day evening. \nMy gf and sis were in the car. We\u2019re all talking. I didn\u2019t know I was going so fast honestly.  I\u2019m looking at the road I see the police car zip into the first or second lane and get behind me. Pulls me over.  Tells me I was doing 91.  Show him insurance.  He says he was giving me reckless op because traffic was heavy. I\u2019m huhhh. It\u2019s Labor Day late evening almost 7pm eastern. There were 2 other cars around me. That\u2019s it. No traffic.  My cop friend told me it\u2019ll be hard but I should plead not guilty. since he lied about traffic. But since I was going so fast it\u2019ll be hard to get not guilty or that reckless thrown out. Should I plead not guilty or at least no contest and try to reason with the judge. I can\u2019t afford this ticket. I was out of work almost 2 months. I\u2019m broke. I literally just started working last week. I\u2019m in college getting ready for nursing school. Any help?","title":"Got a speeding ticket doing 91 in a 60. And received reckless op","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504601629,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y6qw9\/arizona_or_california_labor_law_help\/","id":"6y6qw9","body":"First off, this is a throwaway account due to the personal nature of this post.\n\nMy wife has been working with this company for 6 years in southern California. Recently, 3 months ago, the company relocated to Arizona due to the owners health issues and was taken over by his daughters. All the employees were offered relocation packages including my wife. My wife was the only one to take the offer under the condition that I would be offered a position as well so that I wouldn't have to worry about finding work. The move went well and we settled in. My wife was doing her job and the jobs of everyone else that didn't relocate.\n\nFast forward to present day...\nThe owners (Father and two daughters) started bickering about how money was being spent and things got ugly. The father is taking the company back and relocating back to California as soon as possible. My wife and I were both told of his intents in a meeting and he made my wife a relocation offer. I would receive a severance package because he wants to bring back the person that had my position in CA. I will be without a job in CA now because I am positive my old employer will not take me back. There will be no negotiations with my wife's job. The owner made it very clear that it is a \"take it or leave it\" deal. \n\nI feel like my family got screwed over in this family feud between the owners. We aren't sure what my wife's relocation package will include until it is written up. Our son just started school here and we signed him up for baseball. Signed a 1 year lease on a house and put a down payment on a new car with the first relocation bonus. We really like it here in AZ and only moved because the opportunity seemed promising. By retaining our CA wages here in AZ (lower cost of living) it was like we moved up a class and it was a rewarding feeling.\n\nMy wife really doesn't want to accept the offer because of how the company will now be run. The two employees that will be coming back on board in CA were the worst and made my wife's job stressful. One was fired prior to the AZ relocation for using company money to fund a side business and passed all his work onto my wife. The other refused to relocate to AZ and deleted all her client data before quitting which caused my wife to have to spend weeks recovering. The alternative is both of us being unemployed in AZ.\n\nNot sure what I'm looking to gain from this post now that I'm done but something just doesn't seem right about this whole situation. What do you suppose we should do? Are we owed some sort of compensation if my wife declines the offer? Is this something that I should contact an attorney?","title":"Arizona or California Labor Law Help","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554740870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bavves\/was_told_i_was_not_getting_rehired_due_to_a\/","id":"bavves","body":" Okay, so basically at the end of February I made the decision to give notice at my job to drop to part time (starting April 6th) and focus on my personal business. I gave plenty of notice because I am a manager at a well known retail brand and it's been hard to find\/keep\/train staff, so I wanted to be sure that I was leaving my job with as much support as I could. After the 6th, I would drop to PT and support from there, but work fewer hours and not take home the job the way I had been.\n\nFast-forward, the company realigns and we lose our District Manager and get a new one who doesn't really know me the way my old one did, etc. So, when a manager drops to PT, the salary goes through the DM and he wasn't willing to pay me very well. (Going from $20.90 to $12.75 when I knew our cap for PT was $15). Reasoning being that our average hourly pay was high due to having an extra manager over the holidays. So, my General Manager and I agree to have me leave for a week, then reapply and she could decide my pay without having to run it through the DM ($14.85).\n\nWhile all of this is happening, we have a very eager (pushy, rude, bossy, unwilling to listen, but usually gets the job done, but not always well) person who wants to move up. She is a keyholder and wants to apply for an open GM position, but they deny her, so once I put in my notice, they offer her the position. It is here that I believe my GM makes a huge mistake and early promotes her to my role while I still have 4 weeks left.\n\nShe basically railroads me out of my position, telling me she wants to know how to do everything so she never has to be in my position (the merchant) again and can just become a GM. I try and train her, but she is very stubborn (even my GM had to talk with her about not taking the wheel before she's ready) and refuses to listen to me. She just goes about things her way. Fine. So for a week, I feel like I'm being run out of town while I still have 3 weeks left in my role.\n\nMy GM goes to a conference for all GMs and 'leaves me in charge' but I'm left with this new person who doesn't really listen and my counterpart breaks his darn ankle and can't come in. So, this new person so of takes over decision making and it becomes a frustrating mess. Between that, and the fact that my counter part didn't leave enough information around for a new hire orientation during the week that I now am running and the changes upcoming in my life (dropping to PT and starting my business and a wedding) I start to feel my PTSD\/anxiety kick in.\n\nOn Tuesday of the week my boss is away, I have a true mental break. I tried showering to get ready for work and started shaking, crying, etc. I end up cutting myself, crying, making a bed out of my bath tub and curling up in there, falling asleep. My fiance got home around 1pm--an hour after I was due at work. I missed calling out. This has \\*never\\* happened to me before in my entire 2.5 years there. In fact, I've only once called out due to my anxiety despite how terrible I've felt in the past.\n\nSo, finally my boss had to leave her conference room meeting to call my fiance and check in. I truly didn't speak with her, but he comes back saying that I'm good for today and tomorrow (Tuesday and Wednesday). I don't reach out. I turn inward and try for those 2 days to get back on my feet.\n\nI show up Thursday for work at 8am and no one is there with me. I enter the building alone, and around 9:15am the new manager shows up with an employee, surprised to find me there. I tell her what I was told, which wasn't communicated to the team at all and we move on with our days.\n\nFriday, my GM comes in and just before store open, pulls me into the office. She asks me how I am and I tell her that I am frustrated with the new situation and that I now understand why when I was getting promoted, my old GM made we wait until the person in my place was gone before giving me the job. Nothing from her to recognize that this is an issue. I tell her about how stressed it has made me and with the other changes in my life and the pressure from here I had a full on break down--something I haven't had since my divorce, over 3 years ago.\n\nFinally she says to me that it was a tough decision for her, but on Wednesday one of my other managers called (not that it really matters, but someone I had become decent friends with and worked to get promoted) and lost it about how I wasn't reliable and that I cracked under pressure, etc. He was apparently screaming with anger and she, again, had to leave her conference area to talk to him. I told her I was sorry, but my PTSD\/anxiety was set off and I, too, lost it, just differently.\n\nShe told me that it was the hardest decision of her job, but she wouldn't be hiring me back PT due to the fact that I cracked under the pressure. In addition, with the new manager job duty changes, the pushy woman taking my place and my counterpart would be working closely together and they don't get along so she didn't think I would be able to take orders from them (barking orders as she put it), in addition, to not being able to keep my mouth shut if they made merchandising decisions that were wrong.\n\nShe said that I could work out the rest of my shifts if I wanted, but if not, no punishment to me, so I didn't because I couldn't believe how insensitive my coworkers were being and how they viewed me.\n\n​\n\nI have no history of not coming to work due to my illness--just this one day. I explained to my GM why I broke and that I do feel she made a terrible decision in moving this person up before I left because she steamrolled over me. The whole point of dropping to PT was to leave the stress at work.\n\nI have no history of insubordination. There is not one write up on my file for anything like it.\n\n​\n\nFirst, I don't know if I should call our Code of Business Conduct hotline for discrimination due to having a mental illness because it \\*feels\\* like I am not getting rehired due to the fact that I had a major PTSD \/anxiety induced attack. I don't know if I have a legitimate case because it's basically my word against theirs.\n\nThe other thing is I don't know if I can file for unemployment because technically I wasn't fired--I had an end date of April 6th and a plan to reapply a week later due to the salary issue.\n\n​\n\nAny advice\/support is welcome.","title":"Was told I was not getting rehired due to a mental health flair up & I'm not sure if how everything went down was illegal or not.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568965536,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6rjs2\/i_have_no_health_insurance_at_the_moment\/","id":"d6rjs2","body":"Hey for a little bit of context I'm 18 years old and my dad is my only living parent. After mom passed, my grandma convinced my dad to let me be on my stepmom's insurance. That's how it was for awhile and I've been using it to receive treatment for my injured shoulder. \n\nNow the problem is that my step mom without me or my grandma knowing took me and my brothers off her insurance. So unknowingly I've been receiving treatment without any insurance. I don't know what to do? Or how much money I could possibly owe? Am I skrewed?","title":"I have no health insurance at the moment","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555306153,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdcf2g\/should_i_disclose_to_a_ll_that_i_have_3_fish_tanks\/","id":"bdcf2g","body":"The sizes that I'm planning on owning are; 75gal (in the process of constructing), 20gal (betta community), a 5gal for aquascaping, and a 7gal storage container turned indoor mini pond. I plan on keeping the two larger tanks on tables and the two smaller tanks on matts or a small stand. I'm pretty clean with tanks and change the water so they never smell and never leave supplies out. I'm in the process of getting renter's insurance to cover the off chance that one of the tanks were to malfunction. Due to the fact that a lot of people don't refer to fish as pets I've avoided stating that I have any on my renter's resume - i figured that a LL's main concern would be a pet that would scratch floors, ruin carpeting, chew ho stuff, etc; but if the question arises about fish I will be honest. If it comes down to it I'll have no problem putting down an extra $300 on the security deposit. \n\nAlso I've never rented before and I have an awful relationship with my parent (reasons unstated), what would I be able to do for a reference?","title":"Should I disclose to a LL that I have 3 fish tanks?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508337811,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/776zsr\/court_date_as_stated_on_my_traffic_ticket_was\/","id":"776zsr","body":"I received a traffic ticket in Richmond, VA a couple months ago. The date to appear on the ticket was today, 10\/18, at 1130am. About an hour ago, I checked the online court system to double check the time and date to appear, and saw that I was found guilty in absentia on 10\/13.\n\nI'm sitting in the courthouse parking lot right now, what are my options at this point?","title":"Court date as stated on my traffic ticket was 10\/18, case was settled on 10\/13","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1410557382,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g8kbg\/404_terms_conditions_not_found\/","id":"2g8kbg","body":"I have to agree to codes of conducts as well as terms and conditions via an online web page. The webpage says the following 'I agree to the code of conducts' with code of conducts being a hyperlink to a webpage with all the details, same goes for terms and conditions. However both of these links go to a 404 page and has done for several days. Now if I agree to the 404 page am I required to follow the actual terms or the 404 page? Either way I agreed to them and took video evidence just in-case. \n\nThanks!\n\nP.S I'm in the UK","title":"404 - Terms & Conditions not found","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568459963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d43wzt\/can_you_get_in_trouble_for_posting_on_a_private\/","id":"d43wzt","body":"Can you get in trouble for posting images (memes) directed toward another individual on an account that is private and had that individual blocked? \n\nSome of the memes did contain the face of the individual they were about.","title":"Can you get in trouble for posting on a private account?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442620621,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lhxz1\/nc_advice_on_getting_a_phone_from_evidence\/","id":"3lhxz1","body":"I've been living with a friend for about a year now and said friend really loves Marijuana, so much so that hes been known to buy extra for his friends. two months ago one of his friends got caught up in something and ratted on him so naturally our home was raided under the assumption that he was a big drug dealer when in fact all they got was almost three ounces. I was awakened by police at which point I put only my phone in my pocket. I was handcuffed and put in a room downstairs with a different officer while a sweep was preformed. In that room my phone was taken from my pocket by an officer. I was never given a voucher stating they had my phone for evidence, my name was not on the search warrant, I was not arrested, and I was not charged or subpoenaed in anything relating to his trial. In my two attempts to contact the lead detective he has told me he was waiting for a warrant to search my phone the first time, and the second time he told me that he was keeping it for references made about marijuana in my text messages. Both times he contacted me was through voice messages so I wasn't able to question him on particulars. I don't suspect they want it under civil asset forfeiture because its an old galaxy s3 and because they left the nearly two thousand in cash I had in my bedside drawer (I don't deposit the money I make from tips in case i ever need it quickly, reckless I know). So I was wondering if anything under the fourth amendment or other statutes could help me.   ","title":"[NC] Advice on getting a phone from evidence","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539735324,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9otce1\/i_keep_losing_jobs_because_a_girl_i_dated_for_a\/","id":"9otce1","body":"So this is a long story and one I have been dealing with for the past 2+ years. It has also traumatized me very greatly so I appreciate anyone who responds to not immediately look at me as a man guilty of something a woman has said about me.\n\nTo start off I want to say when this happened I was apart of the comedy community in Los Angeles. I took classes and was an intern at Upright Citizens Brigade, which is an improv comedy theater. And looking back, I was mainly taking these classes to improve my social skills rather than make it as a comedian but at the time I wanted to be a comedian.\n\nI met a girl, lets call her V, at another theater which is now closed because of sexual harassment scandals. We connected because we were both kind of awkward and nice and it was fun for me especially since I didn\u2019t have a lot of experience with women even though I was 23 years old. We dated for around a month but she got jealous when I started talking to another female comic on twitter about maybe making a sketch. She invited me to a standup show which I said yes to and bought tickets for both me and V. \n\nBut the day of, V and I got in a fight about going. Later I found out it was because of jealousy but on that day we fought over what a 2 item minimum was. She was arguing it was a 2 drink minimum and didn\u2019t want to go. It was an Italian restaurant in the Valley so I assured her it was food and drink so it would be fun date. The argument got heated and I ended up going alone without her. And it WAS fun. Will Friedel was in the audience for some reason too and he was one of my favorite actors growing up.\n\nThis woman invited me to meet her after the show, but I didn\u2019t meet her because of how V responded to me. Later I found out she was older than me and also in a relationship so really nothing could have gone wrong here. and to this day I have not met her although I have had plenty of opportunities to if I had wanted.\n\nV and I broke up the next day and everything was fine except for when I heard from other comics about how she would always talk about how she hated me. But they would say it was a good thing because she finally started getting somewhere in stand-up.\n\nA year later I was dating a new girl and we went to a movie theater to see a movie about 2 people who wanted to commit suicide that was playing because of some film festival. I had forgotten V worked film festivals and was surprised when I saw her there from afar. She of course saw me too with a new girl (obviously something a girl I used to date wants to see). That night was fine, it was also the night I asked that new girl to be my girlfriend.\n\nAnyway after that my UCB internship suddenly came to an end and I was awarded intern of the month for no reason. I later found out V had made a facebook post about how I was stalking her with my new girlfriend in private comedy girls only facebook group. This turned the whole comedy girls group against me and I was put on a list of \u201cpotential predators\u201d, banned from 2 comedy theaters and from then on girls looked at me differently.\n\nI was eventually ostracized from the comedy community and anyone I tried to talk to about it would not respond or if it was a woman, respond hatefully. I even did background work on a friends sketch and because I was in the background women complained and my friend had to disassociate himself from me.\n\nLast year I got a job for Rhett and Link at Good Mythical Morning until one day a girl from the comedy community was hired. I was fired same day and when I asked why the producer said, \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d\n\nThis year I got another job for Defy Media and the same exact thing happened. I met a girl from the comedy community who worked there and again it was my last day.\n\nI had one other job in between the 2 jobs at the Laugh Factory. There the owner Jamie Masada is crazy and will fire anyone for any reason. He fired me because I wanted to do the open mic since I worked it every week and he didn\u2019t want comics to work for him. Somehow the girls comedy world got a hold of the fact I was let go and put me on a list of banned people for sexual harassment and it says I was fired from the Laugh Factory for sexual harassment which isn\u2019t true. But women look at this list every day and now see me as a predator even though I am not. And yes I have confronted people who claim they have evidence I did things but when I ask what the evidence is they say it\u2019s not their place to say.\n\nThis has been a terrible past few years and I have no idea what to do anymore. I can\u2019t keep a job and I\u2019m constantly worried, thinking about the events and how I can get out of it. I\u2019ve seen therapists, talked to people and tried to wait it out but it won\u2019t go away. \n\nEven though I have been hurt by these women, I don\u2019t hold ill will towards them. I just want to clear my name and move on with my life. Is there anyone who can help me or anything I can do? Please and thank you.\n\nMason","title":"I keep losing jobs because a girl I dated for a month 3 years ago emails the company I work for and tells them I sexually harassed her.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568915036,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6hjkn\/bike_was_stolen_couple_days_ago_building_door_to\/","id":"d6hjkn","body":"My bike was stolen from my building\u2019s garage where the bikes were stored. It\u2019s supposed to be closed off and you need to have an electronic key fob to open the door to the garage or open the door to the front entrance. I called 311 and reported my stolen bike to the police and informed the building of the issue as well. The next day, I saw that if the door doesn\u2019t have enough force then the door will not lock properly, so anyone can just pull on it and it\u2019ll open. I asked the front desk receptionist today about this and they told me that it\u2019s not the building\u2019s fault, it\u2019s other people\u2019s fault for not closing the door properly. I could understand this if the door was propped open by someone, but my issue is that if an electronically locked door doesn\u2019t always close properly, that\u2019s a pretty big security issue. What can I do from here?","title":"Bike was stolen couple days ago. Building door to garage and bike storage doesn\u2019t always close properly. Front desk says it\u2019s other people\u2019s fault for not closing the door right. What can I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442600286,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lgnrl\/ky_losing_custody_because_were_poly\/","id":"3lgnrl","body":"So, the worst nightmare is happening. I have a daughter who is 5.5 years old, with an ex-girlfriend. I currently have a wife, who I have been with for five years. I also have a girlfriend, who I have been with for slightly more than a year and who has lived with us for about 6-8 months.\n\nMy ex is from a rural and fairly conservative area, and has expressed her displeasure with our poly relationship and especially my girlfriend moving in with us. She said that our daughter is \"confused\" and \"anxious\" because she doesn't understand the living arrangements or relationships when she visits me.\n\nThat was about 4-5 months ago. We haven't had any problems since then. My daughter loves my girlfriend, and they get along great. My daughter has a wonderful time on visits and sometimes doesn't want to go home because she's having too much fun. We have explained to her that we've chosen to be a family, and that the most important thing is that we all love her (my daughter) very much.\n\nWell, last week my ex said my daughter keeps saying \"Daddy is going to marry GirlfriendName\" and is \"still very confused\" about things, and that she's furious because I assured her this wouldn't be a problem. She has retained a lawyer, and is going to file affidavits requesting a modification of custody because we're \"upsetting\" our daughter.\n\nHelp? Please? Anyone have any information on this legal issue, especially\/specifically as it pertains to KY law? We can't afford a lawyer, does anyone know of resources?","title":"(KY) Losing Custody Because We're Poly","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1410999406,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gpool\/if_someone_steals_my_phone_can_you_use_my_phones\/","id":"2gpool","body":"Today I realized my phone was missing at work.  Look all over can't find it, calls go straight to vm so battery is most likely dead.  Talk to security and they say that they will look into it.  A phone had been found at the punch clocks, but no one knows where it is.\n\nAfter a while, I remember it's 2014 and my android phone tracks my every move.  Google tracking history shows it was last located at the home of the employee who found phone at punch clock.  They say they left it at the store.  I'm pretty sure they are lying.  \n\nWhat recourse to I have?  I live in CT","title":"If someone steals my phone, can you use my phones tracking data to press charges? [CT]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571495262,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk4gkd\/can_i_legally_file_for_sole_custody_and_perhaps\/","id":"dk4gkd","body":"TLDR backstory: Marine husband moved us to the middle of the woods. Basically left us there - lots of wasps, minimal internet, fuzzy electricity. There was also lots of yelling, mocking, etc. Told me he wanted me to get out, divorce, and refused to pay child support. Y\u2019all advised me to go to JAG and complain. I\u2019m now moved out and have child support monthly.\n\nWhere the story continues:\nMy ex didn\u2019t contact me or ask about the kids at all for a month and a half (the time we separated). Then out of the blue, he tells me he is going to pick them up for a visit. Great, he wants to be a part of their lives!\n\nFor 24 hours, he turned his phone off. I couldn\u2019t call to ask what time he was coming back. He always gave vague hours anyway (sometime in the day or evening idk - is his default answer). No responses to texts. Phone right to voice mail (I tried on 3 numbers he didn\u2019t know). He KNOWS this bothers me because when we were married he\u2019d say he\u2019d be home by 9 and come home at 3am while I stayed up worried. No courtesy text to tell me he\u2019s detouring to a bar or something. \n\nI ended up calling the police to do a wellness check.\n\nHe drops them off around 9pm. My children smell of tobacco smoke and he didn\u2019t get his story straight. I asked them where they slept. He said on the floor. Then my older son says \u201con a bed\u201d and ex says \u201cyeah a bed.\u201d My younger son says \u201cwe slept in our car seats all night.\u201d My sons are 6 and 4 for context. Then they said they \u201ccouldn\u2019t remember\u201d what they did with their father and \u201cjust stuff\u201d when I asked. Then \u201cother people were at his house\u201d and \u201cno we didn\u2019t see anyone else\u201d and \u201cwe drove around all night.\u201d They we\u2019re gone for about 30 hours, so it\u2019s not like it\u2019s a huge window.\n\nI kept everything open ended - \u201cWhat did you do over the weekend?\u201d And my kids told me a bunch of random vague stories that didn\u2019t make sense. And NO DETAILS either!! No \u201cwe watched a movie\u201d or anything.\n\nMy ex texts me an hour after he drops them off and says \u201cWhy is our son repeatedly telling me he\u2019s going to grab my weewee? If I find out you or your boyfriend is molesting him, we are done.\u201d I was shocked. \n\nP.S. Boyfriend has stepped up where father never did - takes my kids and I to medical appointments, spent money to help us move out, reads them bedtime stories, homework help (he\u2019s a former teacher). He also knows I wouldn\u2019t hesitate to throw his ass out if my children even mentioned they don\u2019t like him, let alone that he hurt them. \n\nI ask my son about it and he says \u201cno I didn\u2019t do that.\u201d I call my ex and make them talk. Ex immediately accuses me of coaching my son and my son starts crying because he swears he didn\u2019t.\n\nI believe this is what happened: They were tickling each other and my son often says \u201cI\u2019m going to get your face\/neck\/armpit\/etc.\u201d before he does it. My sons also don\u2019t see the penis as a \u201ctaboo\u201d area because I teach them it\u2019s just a body part. Keep it hygienically clean and only whip it out in your room when no one else is around. I don\u2019t want them growing up thinking their dicks are \u201cdirty\u201d body parts. So I can see him saying \u201cI\u2019m gonna get your weewee!\u201d Thinking it\u2019s fair game in a tickle fight.\n\nEx comes over and I call the cops to mediate. When all was said and done (I recorded the whole visit btw on audio) my son confirmed he was just trying to tickle his father. \n\nHe spent the night terrified and I am going to get him a therapist.\n\nAlso, not sure if relevant, but I found my ex\u2019s dirty underwear and hygiene gear (toothbrush, etc) in my son\u2019s backpack. I asked him about it in front of the cops and he said it was his, he showered at a gas station (??? Wtf? You don\u2019t have running water?!)\n\nCops seemed really bored and didn\u2019t want to be there. They left joking around with my ex (my ex always bonds with cops cause they\u2019re all uniformed). \n\nI also left the room (left it recording) to let the cops, my son, and my ex talk in private so they can\u2019t accuse me of coaching him.\n\n\u2014\n\nWhen we were married, my ex would corner me and yell at me. I\u2019ve called the cops on him once for it. I almost checked myself into the mental hospital because of him (I said nevermind at the last minute at the emergency room). I made multiple wellness calls because he never communicated with me and would tell me he\u2019d be home early and come home super late cause he detoured at a bar or party.\n\nWhen I first started dating my boyfriend my ex called him and said \u201cyou know she\u2019s schizophrenic right?\u201d And I was yelling in the background for him to give me my phone back. He says, \u201cDo you hear her screaming? She\u2019s so crazy\u201d while laughing. \n\nThe worst part is that he literally makes things up (like the molesting thing) about me and every time I\u2019m accused of something I am blind sided. I want to think the best of him for the sake of my children but I don\u2019t think I can do this anymore. \n\n**Summary of things:** I\u2019m scared. First time I\u2019m admitting, I\u2019m terrified. But the worst part is he doesn\u2019t hit me so I can\u2019t just show some bruises and prove what is happening. \n\nI have plenty of recordings but I\u2019m not sure what will hold up. I have emails from my kid\u2019s doctor saying my ex doesn\u2019t bring him to his appointments (when we were married, my son has chronic joint issues). I have pictures of our old living conditions. Recordings of him admitting to leaving his guns out and \u201cI don\u2019t care if the kids get to them.\u201d I can probably get the police to corroborate all the calls I\u2019ve made over the years.\n\nI\u2019m at the point where I want full custody and a restraining order. The military said they need proof of physical abuse before doing a military protective order - so what can I do in the civilian world?\n\nI can barely afford a lawyer but I will take out a loan to do this. I\u2019m terrified not only for me but for my children.\n\nIf anyone has any options let me know.\n\n(P.S. I\u2019m in therapy and have a psychiatrist so I\u2019m taking care of myself - have been for years, and my previous therapist said she\u2019d attest to my mental health and fitness to parent).","title":"Can I legally file for sole custody and perhaps get a restraining order? (NC)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569847629,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbb1fc\/october_starts_this_week_but_our_rental_has_no\/","id":"dbb1fc","body":"We live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. \n\nIn short, the central air \/ HVAC has been broken since we moved in (June), and the landlord has repeatedly told us it will be fixed soon. But it seems to keep being pushed off. We have repeatedly asked but now have not received any update on the situation in weeks.\n\nOctober starts Tuesday. To my understanding, landlords legally must provide heat in the winter months (Oct through mid-May). We have old baseboard heating downstairs but absolutely no means of heat upstairs with the HVAC still not fixed. \n\nAre we in the right to withhold rent now? How exactly does that work? ...Or is there a more appropriate course of action here?\n\n\nJust FYI (if it makes any difference), this is not the only thing the landlord has put off fixing\/etc, but it is the biggest deal.","title":"October starts this week, but our rental has no heat upstairs. (PA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445029951,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p1fl1\/question_about_transportation_and_the\/","id":"3p1fl1","body":"So, I got a non binding quote from a moving company to pack and move my stuff. They packed everything up today and are way over the quote so far (double what the packing quote was). My worry is that they are going to be double the moving portion of the quote as well. I know -INTERSTATE- movers can't collect more than 110% of a non binding quote (which is the type I got) but I'm doing a local move. I live in northern Colorado, and I can't find any relevant state or local laws so my question is; would the provisions in Title 49 that limit collection of non-binding quotes to 110% of quoted price apply in my situation?","title":"Question about transportation and the jurisdiction of CFR Title 49","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554341445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b96k7i\/dad_might_kicked_out_of_apartment_for_almost\/","id":"b96k7i","body":"So my father who is 75 has been having a ton of health issues lately, one that has made his living situation very complex. He had some kind of medical issue that caused him to become incoherent while he was cooking, and whatever he was cooking caused the fire alarms to go off. \n\nHe lives in central Indiana, in a low income old folks home (no nurses or anything), and I got a call today from the manager lady telling me he was in bad shape and was in the hospital. She then proceeded to tell me that this is a major issue and when I come see him \"we need to have a talk\". I think they are planning on kicking him out, and this lady is very unkind to my father.\n\n Problem is I'm still in college and working so I don't have time to take care of my father, and can't afford to put him in an assisted living home. I am basically on my own with this aside from my aunt who lives by him in Indiana. (His family isn't around and my mom isn't around either)\n\nMy question is, can they really kick him out after something like this? I am not really sure what to do. ","title":"Dad might kicked out of apartment for almost causing a fire after medical issue (IN)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1413417191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jdap5\/buyer_paying_return_shipping\/","id":"2jdap5","body":"I live near San Diego, California, USA.\n\nI bought a jacket ($180) from www.Etsy.com and paid through PayPal. On Etsy the order states it would be shipped from the USA to my address. When I had received the jacket it was completely different from how it was shown in the pictures. The seller admitted to purposefully sending a different style of the jacket and claimed 100% responsibility (I have the conversation saved on Etsy). However I'm being told I have to pay return shipping ($60) to send the jacket back and receive my refund.\n\nI've spoken with both Etsy and PayPal and they already refused to credit me for the return shipping and the seller has declined to pay it as well.\n\nWhat can I do? I don't believe it's right for me to have to pay for a mistake that was not my own. If PayPal and\/or Etsy have knowledge of fraudulent activity and let the seller continue to operate could this become a class action lawsuit?","title":"Buyer Paying Return Shipping","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540001136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pq98r\/lease_and_car_towing\/","id":"9pq98r","body":"Both of my cars are listed on the lease. But one was threatened to be towed. If not moved daily. This isn\u2019t stated in the lease if they tow my car what\u2019s my recourse?","title":"Lease and car towing","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503747213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w52mz\/one_of_sisters_housemates_stole_her_stash_of\/","id":"6w52mz","body":"I'm not sure how to go about this. I'm very angry.\n\nMy sister has been living in a house with other tenants for about a year. At first they were all friends, but apparently had a falling out. The other housemates also use my sister's food and toiletries without her permission, and aren't sorry about it. One of the housemates sometimes gets drunk and physically assaults my sister too. Sometimes things like shoes or clothes go missing from her room and magically appear again after some time. They are a bunch of jerks who don't clean the house, don't help with housework, and use my sister's resources. They're just a bunch of trashy people living in a trashy house. I may sound biased, but my sister is generally a forgiving and generous person. She's always happy to share with people.\n\nMy sister is a veteran, has lupus and cervical cancer, and she hadn't been working for years until recently. She is still super tight on money. However, she has recently started to get her life back together and is currently working a full time job. She has a regular work schedule now, so her housemates know exactly when she is or isn't at home. \n\nMy sister has finally had enough of them and is moving back in with us to save money and continue to get her life back on track. She is currently in the process of packing her belongings. She is taking her TV with her (since it was hers from the beginning) so they won't have a TV anymore. And all they do is sit around and watch TV. \n\nToday, while packing, she found out that her hidden stash of 600 dollars in emergency cash and her 15k$ engagement ring from a previous marriage was missing. She doesn't want to accuse anyone of theft yet, but no one else is in the house except for her housemates and there was no obvious break in and no one else's items are missing. All the rooms do not have personal locks, so they are open for anyone to go into. I'm 99% sure one of her housemates have stolen it. One girl who has a habit of going through my sister's room for her clothes and shoes is the first person that comes to mind.\n\nMy sister has already contacted the police and they will be there tomorrow to file a report.\n\nMy sister is more level-headed than I am and does not want to confront her housemates about it. I just feel extremely frustrated for her and I cannot understand how awful people can be and I wish I could just tear up her housemates rooms to find her belongings. Literally NO ONE ELSE could have stolen them. It sounds so easy to do so but I know it has to be illegal. I don't want my sister to go through any more stress. \n\nI'm not even sure what I'm asking. I think it's just desperation for help for my sister, who has already been through hell multiple times. That cash and ring were going to help her start her life over again. Is there any legal way for my sister to do ANYTHING to find out who the thief is or get some kind of justice?\n\nOr do I have to plan some petty revenge plot..","title":"One of sister's housemates stole her stash of money ($600) and her $15k engagement ring","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412892432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2istfv\/being_set_up_to_fail_need_advice\/","id":"2istfv","body":"Part of the job profile I have states that I need to process a minimum of 48 invoices per hour = approx 400 per shift.. however I was recently given a lot of reports and emailing to do that does not count towards the amount of invoices processed. I estimate the amount I'll be able to do now is appro. 300 per shift.\n\nI'm worried that management will have me do this work for a month, then try to fire me due to not meeting the minimum number of invoices processed. Should I protect myself by having them declare in writing that I'm required to meet the 48\/hour minimum when completing these other functions?\n\nLocation: New Brunswick, Canada","title":"Being Set Up to Fail - NEED ADVICE","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568459148,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d43t0i\/signed_an_offer_letter_with_benefits_that_the\/","id":"d43t0i","body":"I am going on a short term assignment, and it was discussed that they will not provide accommodation. It was agreed and I have no issues with it. \n\nThen they gave me a formal offer letter to sign, and because per policy they\u2019re supposed to give me housing, they kept the language that they will give me housing on the letter. The person I am dealing with kept on saying this is a standard form and they can\u2019t change it and the accommodation is provided but the budget is just $0 (The $0 budget part is not on the letter). I feel like I was talking to a wall and going in circles. I expressed my concern that I don\u2019t know what else on the letter that they have $0 budget for that I just don\u2019t know about (ie, it says it\u2019ll give me health insurance, how do I know if there\u2019s a $0 budget?)\n\nI am ok with the original arrangement, but I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s right for them to keep that on a letter just to make them \u201ccompliant\u201d. I told them that\u2019s doesn\u2019t sound appropriate, but given that I wanted this assignment, I signed either way. I think this is HRs doing and the Legal team doesn\u2019t know about it. \n\nCan they do this (NY jurisdiction)?","title":"Signed an offer letter with benefits that the employer said they have $0 budget.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570264054,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddkjhy\/ut_i_think_my_employer_will_try_to_not_pay_me_for\/","id":"ddkjhy","body":"About a week and half ago I put my two week notice at my current company. In order for me to get my vacation hours paid out, according to the employee handbook, I need to work every scheduled shift with no absence during this 14 day resignation period.\n\nMy last scheduled shift is tomorrow and the last day of the 14 day notice lands before my next work week would start. My employer has tried to get me to verify that my last day is before the 14 week notice day. This, and other penny pinching measures, leads me to believe that they're going to try to screw me on my, *rather ample*, vacation payout. \n\nI want to protect myself in case they attempt some shadiness. This is what I've done so far.\n\n* Copy of current employee handbook with resignation policy clearly outlined\n\n* Screenshots showing days scheduled during resignation period\n\n* Screenshot of exact time punches from HR pay software during resignation period\n\n* Copy of my written two week notice email\n\n* Copy of Boss's email acknowledgement of written notice\n\n* Copy of second authority figures email acknowledgement of written notice\n\n* Forward email of Boss explicitly instructing on how and where to view schedule\n\n* Video and picture of logging into the timeclock to see accrued vacation time(only place I can actually view it)\n\n\nIs there anything else I should do or pay attention to? Thank you!","title":"[UT] I think my employer will try to not pay me for my accrued vacation time upon my resignation.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551923036,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay6ysj\/repercussions_of_a_reinforced_mailbox\/","id":"ay6ysj","body":"This is a hypothetical question. I see these posts regularly pop up in the \"revenge\" type subreddits where some toolbag has been going around and wrecking peoples' post mailboxes, and after it happens two or three times, OP's grandpa or someone decides to rebuild  out of a railway tie or steel bar set 10' deep into three tons of concrete. Toolbag comes around that night, and bam, you've got yourself a wrecked pickup, three teenagers, six broken arms, and\/or various other \"they deserved it\" type outcomes. My question is this: can grandpa be charged with criminal intent or anything else in this type of case, whether because of the intent or something else? It reminds me of the cases where someone poisons their lunch because it keeps getting stolen at work. Could there be a civil case? Just curious. NAL and I don't have a mailbox.","title":"Repercussions of a reinforced mailbox?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540780619,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s99xl\/potentially_terminally_ill_friend_wants_to_leave\/","id":"9s99xl","body":"Using a throwaway due to the fact that my main account has my name publicly displayed - and this is a sensitive topic. \n\nMy wife worked in a restaurant in Oregon for well over a decade. She made great friends there, and all of these friends watched each other have families and kids etc.  My wife and I have three kids of our own ranging in the ages of 17-11. At the beginning of this year, we left Oregon and bought a house out of state. \n\nPrior to leaving Oregon, one of my wife\u2019s friends took a nasty fall in the restaurant out of the blue - and she hasn\u2019t been well since. This friend has a daughter who is 14 or 15, and since the accident, the two have been living with friends to make ends meet. \n\nToday my wife got a call from the friend and was told that the fall was due to more than just exhaustion or simple illness - and she let on that there was something seriously wrong with her health. In fact, she took the conversation so far as to say that she wants to leave a notarized statement that if she should die, she wants us to take her child in to raise until she is out of high school. \n\nNow that we own our home, we have become the most stable people she knows, and she wants her daughter to be well cared for. Also should add, father is long gone out of the picture. I have a feeling that if we lived closer, she\u2019d probably be living with us at this moment.  \n\nSo here\u2019s my question: how would we go about making this decision for her stick should she pass away?  We still don\u2019t know what her illness is, maybe she\u2019s coming to terms with it herself. But she\u2019s still mentally sound enough to make this decision, and I told my wife that we would honor her request if at all possible. \n\nBut is a signed last will and testament with a lawyer enough to make sure this change of custody happens should she pass?  Or will the state intervene and take the child into foster care if something critical isn\u2019t done beforehand?\n\nI\u2019ll be retiring for the evening, but I\u2019ll respond back to any follow up questions as soon as I\u2019m able. Thank you all in advance for your time. ","title":"Potentially terminally ill friend wants to leave her daughter to us should she pass away","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552453435,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0i1k8\/is_it_possible_to_sue_a_company_that_has_just\/","id":"b0i1k8","body":"This is in CA.\n\nThe company my boyfriend work(ed) at shut down today, all employees found out through text. The company is now claiming they are not paying any of the employees the commissions owed to them for the prior month, which was due on March 20th.\n\nWould it be possible to sue for the money owed to not just my boyfriend, but all of the employees they fired?\n\nAny help is greatly appreciated!","title":"Is it possible to sue a company that has just recently shut down?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541989535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w9xu5\/international_travel_with_minor_with_joint_legal\/","id":"9w9xu5","body":"My ex and I share joint legal custody, I have primary physical custody, and ex has visitation. In the past, ex refused to sign a passport application so I had to get a court order allowing me to get a passport for our kid without ex's signature or consent. Now we (child and I) have the opportunity to travel during a school break and I'm drawing a blank. Is there a state or federal law or code requiring *consent* vs just notification of both parents before a minor travels internationally with a parent? I do not see it in the custody order and actual travel is not addressed in the followup passport order. I've googled and all I can find is \"Well just don't sign the passport application!\" types of answers, which is a moot point in my case since I already have child's passport. Many thanks!\n\nState: California","title":"International travel with minor with joint legal custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551458446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw6xph\/estate_agent_ghosting_me_after_deposit_pay\/","id":"aw6xph","body":"We\u2019re looking at this rental property; after viewing and talk everything through, they said they would need me to come in with the landlord reference, and accountant to show income for me being self employed oversea.\nBut since I\u2019m the whole contract in full in advance, for the whole year rent plus deposit, they said they would not need to do finance check but I offered to have my accountant on file for the Landlord piece of mine. So the agent told me to make the deposit via bank transfer which I\u2019ve done with references stating the deposit for such property. Since then, I cannot get through to her: First time, she was on the phone, her second time was being busy with another client, then they kept saying she was not in, that was four days ago on Saturday when I made the deposit. And today, they said she\u2019s on annual leave and return work tomorrow. \nWhat can I do?","title":"Estate Agent ghosting me after deposit pay","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569124077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7lbjq\/i_run_a_small_but_active_website_ive_owned_the\/","id":"d7lbjq","body":"Without linking my website or naming the company, the name is fairly obscure (set of letters with no actual word spelled out). Think something like like \"mikioser\", so no real word or anything. \n\nI've owned the .com,.net and .org domain for 8 years and has pretty much been in its current form with various updates etc and is a forum dedicated to a fairly niche hobby. \n\nA company that I've looked up only became a company in the past 6 months from what I can tell and was only granted a trademark 3 months ago for the same exact name as my domains. \n\nLast week I received an email from what appeared to be a random gmail account to the admin@domain email asking me only a one sentence question \"Would you be interested in selling your domains?\". I responded no. I received no response.\n\nYesterday at 4PM on Friday I received an email from an attorney (yes I checked their website and around on Google and they are a legitimate lawfirm). Demanding immediate turnover of the domains based on their trademark, failure to do so will result in them bringing suit to defend their trademark.\n\nCan a company that didn't even exist 8 years ago sue me for my own domain names? Should I respond as such before getting an attorney or just wait to see if they actually sue me? I don't see how they would have an actual claim to them since I had no way of \"squatting\" the domains since they didn't even exist before about 6 months ago","title":"I run a small but active website, I've owned the domains for 8 years. A company that recently came into existence is threatening to sue me.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444431341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o5ou2\/california_are_judges_allowed_to_do_this\/","id":"3o5ou2","body":"Before I post anything, I just want to say I am completely ignorant when it comes to the law, so I apologize in advance.\n\nA buddy of mine and his baby's mother were going to go through a mediator for custody. The mother had decided on 50\/50 two weeks prior and at the last minute says she wants full custody and that my buddy is an unfit parent.\n\nThey see a judge two days later. My friend told the truth and said what he had to say. According to him, she sat there and lied the entire time. Also, the judge believed her entire story. As an example of one of her lies, he says, and I quote, \"When she left my house she left on her own free will. She told the judge I kicked her out and didn't let her take the crib or any clothes and told her to take the baby. Judge looks at me and says \"you think stuff like that is gonna get you custody of your daughter\". 2 minutes later he had his fucking mind made up. Told him it wasn't true and that she left on her own terms and be didn't seem to care\"\n\nHe says he printed out their exchanges through text message as proof, but according to him, the judge wouldn't allow him to show anything. \n\nAgain, I am ignorant when it comes to the law, even more so when it comes to custody hearings, but is there anything my friend can do? I'd appreciate some suggestions. Thanks in advance.","title":"[California] Are judges allowed to do this?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1411703890,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hhxsq\/should_i_cash_some_checks_after_not_hearing_from\/","id":"2hhxsq","body":"A few months ago I did some tutoring work for a client and was paid by check. Per the client's request, I (stupidly) agreed to delay cashing the last few checks while the account cleared (Previous checks had gone through without an issue). Since the work ended, I haven't heard back from the clients about when and if I can cash the checks, despite multiple attempts at contact. \n\nIf a few more attempts fail, I plan on going to small claims court (I'm in NYC). My question is whether I should attempt to cash the checks before doing so. Obviously, if they go through, the issue is mooted and I won't have to go to court. On the other hand, I'd rather not pay the associated fees if they bounce. Legally, is whether or not I cash them relevant? Could I be undermining - or helping - my case be doing so?","title":"Should I cash some checks after not hearing from their delinquent issuer?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554058670,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7r9d1\/younger_sister_is_in_an_emotionally_abusive_home\/","id":"b7r9d1","body":"Some backstory;\nEm is 13, and lives with our \u2018aunt\u2019 (our deceased grandmothers partner\u2013 not blood or lawful relative). Our grandmother had custody of us but passed away in 2016 due to an unexpected stroke. Em and I found her half dead. Our mother is deceased, and Em\u2019s father has had almost no involvement in her upbringing.\n\nI\u2019m 19, and to put it bluntly, have a rough situation myself right now. I\u2019m not in a great place financially and don\u2019t currently have a car. I know as of right now I have no leg to stand on in a custody battle other than being related by blood. That being said, I\u2019m working to try and improve my situation, and a big part of this is for Em.\n\nOur aunt is incredibly emotionally abusive (ranging from gas-lighting to guilt-tripping) and has health problems she often refuses to medicate\/seek treatment for (heart condition and diabetes) that leave her at risk for strokes, seizures, and heart attacks. She\u2019s in her sixties. All of these factors combined, I\u2019d argue there\u2019s a very good chance Em will find our aunt dead if this continues.\n\nEm herself is pretty hard to deal with. She has autism and due to our prior living situation with our mother, PTSD and depression\/anxiety. She often lashes out and has a history of violent\/self harmful episodes. Because of this, none of our extended family is able to handle her. I grew up with Em, I know how to calm her down and how to handle her when she isn\u2019t calm. \n\nI don\u2019t want her to find our aunt dead, or for this emotional abuse to continue, as it\u2019s caused Em to lose it on multiple instances. I lived with our aunt most of my life and know that she is not fit to be a guardian.\n\nDo I have a leg to stand on in a custody battle? What living situation would I have to be able to provide for Em before this is possible? ","title":"Younger sister is in an emotionally abusive home situation, and I want to get custody. Do I have a case? What do I need to get custody? Indiana","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1538925569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m5suf\/had_a_baby_6_months_ago_wife_and_i_just_seperated\/","id":"9m5suf","body":"Its sunday. My only day for a few days. If anyone could take the time to answer a few questions and concerns  before i get a laywer itd be appreciated. I apologize ahead of time, i dont have spell check and am running on 5 hours of sleep. \n\nLike the title says we just got married, and then seperated. Big mistake. We had a kid prior to marriage. We split her 50\/50. We arent really friendly since she wont cancel TANF. The state is asking me to pay child support to her now. Me and my ex wife are both working 40 hours a week for minimum wage in oregon. I pay union dues. Only my wife is on government assistance. Shes currently on SNAP TANF and WIC. Its killing me because she has told me she'd cancel TANF and the case worker from the DOJ says it will drop my child support order. She didnt cancel and the deadline is up in three days. \n\nI hate to complain about giving her money but it hurts giving my ex wife 1\/4 of my monthly income probably just to blow on herself. Anyone know what ill likely end up paying? OR does anyone know what I can do? \n\nAlso is it too late just to call off our marriage? Someone told me you can just drop a marriage before a couple months.  Anyone know that timeline?\n\nThank you very much for your time. ","title":"Had a baby 6 months ago. Wife and i just seperated after 3 months of marriage. Help?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540319874,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qrsor\/death_threat\/","id":"9qrsor","body":"So my roommate is a weirdo wannabe Communist and views me as a honorable foe for whatever reason even though we're \"comrades\". He has for some time now been non shalantly saying that he is going to kill me someday. Now I wouldnt always get angry or upset if somebody said this in a joking manner wherein I do something to upset or annoy them and they say it non maliciously. With him though it comes off as malignant and troublesome. I'm no weenie or weakling, but I cannot seem to get past the constant reassurance of his. It is very troublesome and angering to me and I'm just not sure what to do about it. I recently read up on death threats and they are illegal in most jurisdictions. I have even come back and tried to discuss this with him that he doesn't really mean it but he insists hes going to kill me someday.\n\nI plan on moving out as soon as I can and finding myself another place to live for this reason alone but I have a multitude other reasons as well but this is enough as is. So I'm just wondering if any of you have any advice on this topic? And if anybody on here knows the law a little bit better than my light reading on death threats gave me?","title":"Death Threat","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555122610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bclz3c\/husband_left_for_another_woman_months_ago_and_has\/","id":"bclz3c","body":"Hi there. \n\nI\u2019m not really sure if there is any legal advice y\u2019all could give me or even if there is anything I could legally but I didn\u2019t know where else to turn. \n\nMy husband and I got married on April 27, 2018. We were fine until he started cheating on me in July of 2018 while refusing to work and living with my parents. After we moved into my friends house where I was the only one working and paying the bills, he started going on weekends with his friends. \n\nToward the end of September 2018, he stole money from me (around 200) and took off with his friends. Then he called and said he wanted a divorce over the phone. When he came to get his items, he told me he was leaving me for another woman and her kids. \n\nWe signed the papers in October of 2018 under the assumption he would be filing them immediately. In November and December of 2018, I reached out to him as well as his mother multiple times and offered them many options to give me the papers including mailing them to me. All they would say was that I could give him cash or write him a check. I wasn\u2019t going to do that based on his past history of lying to me and blowing money. \n\nIt\u2019s now April of 2019,  he and his mother both refuse contact with me and haven\u2019t filed the paperwork. So, is there anything I can do to make them file the paperwork?\nThanks","title":"Husband left for another woman months ago and has no contact but won\u2019t file for divorce (Ohio)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541447836,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ugyyq\/unintelligent_law_of_the_land\/","id":"9ugyyq","body":"Good Afernoon! I am pivoting to those more contractually intelligent than I for enlightenment! We are currently renting a home (3 bed, 2 bath) for 2K a month plus utilities & providing our own washer\/ Dryer (extra $400 expense of our own). There is currently only 2 occupants (Occupying 1 room.. not that that detail really matters). A friend of ours from out of state asked if it was possible for us to add him to the lease being that we have 2 empty bed rooms. When we brought this matter up to the landlord she said, \"There is not enough parking in the cul-de-sac for one more person to move in\" So..... we adressed the parking and pointed out the obvious. \"We have a 2 stall attached garage and 2 parking spaces which is 4 spaces and only 2 vehicles. Said individual will not be parking within the cul-de-sac.\" \n\nDoes said landlord have the right to deny us the opportunity to have 1 more individual on the lease simply because of \"Parking\" that is actually not a parking issue at all??? \n\nTHANKS IN ADVANCE!!","title":"Unintelligent Law of the Land","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571445970,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djwn8s\/my_granny_was_in_a_car_accident_with_minor\/","id":"djwn8s","body":"so my granny was in a wreck (neither insurance company could figure out who was at fault) and had to go to the emergency room and her medicare\/medicaid paid for the visit and so did the car insurance. The medical bills were overpaid and they sent a refund of the overpayment to my granny does that money belong to her?","title":"my granny was in a car accident with minor injuries. (overpayment of medical bills)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1443041301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m440t\/nyc_signed_lease_on_apartment_movein_date_pushed\/","id":"3m440t","body":"**Short Version:**\n\nI signed a lease in NYC. I gave 1.5 month's rent up front. The move in has been pushed back over and over, and is now at least 1.5 months from the original date. I don't have a copy of the lease.\n\n**Long Version:**\n\nI signed a lease in NYC at the end of July for an apartment that is having construction done on it. The move in date was August 15th. I signed the lease, and was told I'd get a copy when I moved in, and that is common practice in NYC.\n\n* At the beginning of August, I was told the move in date was now September 12th. I had already booked a flight to NY, so I lost the money on it. \n\n* At the beginning of September, I was told it was now moved to September 15th. We had to go on the 12th for other reasons, so we still went, and got a storage unit for all our stuff.\n\n* On September 12th, as soon as I fly into NYC, I call and am told it is moved back to at least the 21st. We get a hotel. \n\n* The 21st comes, and I am told they just need to have one more inspection done. Move in will probably happen at the end of the week. More information in a few days.\n\n* We search online and find out the reason they are pushing back the date is that the building keeps failing inspections, and doesn't have a Certificate of Occupancy. \n\n* Today, I am told the move-in date will be no sooner than October 2nd.\n\nI would like to look for a different place to live, since I don't want to be in a hotel room until next Christmas. Do I have legal grounds to get my money back and break the lease? If so, how should I go about it?","title":"[NYC] Signed lease on apartment, move-in date pushed back 1.5 months. Can I get out of this lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539642517,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ohkjc\/my_mom_inherited_a_land_parcel_in_florida_but\/","id":"9ohkjc","body":"Hi all, my mom inherited a piece of land in Florida (Levy county) from her sister but she doesn\u2019t live there. I want to help her figuring out what she needs to do to put that property under her name so she can sell it. My aunt wasn\u2019t a Florida resident either.  The property has its taxes up to date. \n\nWhat\u2019s the process like and where to start? \nDoes she has to go to Florida?\nIs an attorney required? ","title":"My mom inherited a land parcel in Florida, but doesn\u2019t live in Florida. What to do?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1550991354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/au5gx9\/roommate_situation\/","id":"au5gx9","body":"I feel like I may already know the answers to my questions, but I figured it wouldn\u2019t hurt to explain my situation and get some feedback.\nLate January my roommate of a year and a half told me they were putting in their notice to move out. We were on a month-to-month lease together. I had been living in the apartment for about four years with roommates coming and going, and I could not afford the place on my own. So I decided it was in my best interest to move out and find a smaller, more affordable place. I did just that, before the beginning of February.\nFebruary first comes and the money I was going to use for last month\u2019s rent was not in my account yet due to a late check and a delayed bank transfer. All the time I had been living in the apartment I paid anywhere from the first to the fifth, with no late fees. I had already gotten most of my stuff moved out, and my roommate texts me asking if I\u2019m going to pay rent. I tell them yes, but not until the money reaches my account. On the second, they pay my remaining portion of rent and then claims I owe them money. I talked to the property manager and she said that roommate disputes are out of their hands. From former roommate disputes I know that as long as rent is paid, it doesn\u2019t matter how it is paid or who pays it.\nFor some reason the roommate assumed I would not pay it since it wasn\u2019t paid right on the first and I wasn\u2019t living there anymore. \nAfter this, I get messages from a family member of my former roommate requesting money from me saying I owe my former roommate money. Then they request money from a family member of mine, who doesn\u2019t live in the same state and knows nothing of the situation. \nI\u2019m curious as to whether this is a situation that can be taken care of legally and who would be in favor by the judge in small claims court.\nI\u2019m aware of the tenancy laws in my state, and I won\u2019t give away my state right off the bat, but if anyone could give some input that would be appreciated.\n","title":"Roommate situation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571443223,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djw3vl\/i_just_learnt_some_unfortunate_new\/","id":"djw3vl","body":"A former tenant of the building I\u2019m living in has informed my mother we will get a notice to leave. The only reason the other tenants left because they got a notice so he could fix up their old apartment. I know it his build but can he kick me and my mother out?","title":"I just learnt some unfortunate new","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569623098,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da7jvm\/united_states_hearsay_and_the_whistleblower\/","id":"da7jvm","body":"Many are claiming the whistle-blower's report related to President Trump's call with Ukraine is \"hearsay\" because, according to his or her statement, the whistle-blower was told of the incident and didn't directly witness it. \n\nIs this hearsay? Does hearsay prevent an investigation from occurring?","title":"[United States] Hearsay and the Whistle-blower","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555037023,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc8lrw\/wy_my_bfs_landlord_is_getting_aggressive_about\/","id":"bc8lrw","body":"My bf has a lease that ends at the end of this month. We've had other legal issues with his landlord, and we've both been trying to get a copy of his lease from this landlord in part because of these issues. The landlord provided my boyfriend a copy of the lease when he first signed on, but that was \"lost\" a few months ago (in quotes because of suspicious circumstances, but for the sake of this post I'll just say it was lost).\n\nI tried talking to the landlord today about getting a digital copy (he has said that he won't give my bf a new copy because his \"printer is broken\"). This is the first time I've talked to the landlord directly. He called my boyfriend and became extremely aggressive and refused to give him a new copy.\n\nIs he legally required to give my boyfriend a new copy of said lease? Should I be suspicious at the fact that he's so aggressively unwilling to give up a new copy?","title":"(WY) My bfs landlord is getting aggressive about giving him a new copy of his lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503611341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vu5fo\/custody_issue_in_ny_involving_a_death\/","id":"6vu5fo","body":"Posting for a friend. \n37 year old woman died recently, she has 2 daughter's, 9 and 11. Her ling term boyfriend is the father of the 9 year old but has raised the 11 year old since she was a year. Her actual father is either deceased or unknown. There was no legal adoption and as of now, no will to be found. The 11 year old does not know that her Dad is not her Bio-dad. \nThey'll be contacting a lawyer hopefully as soon as possible, but would like a bit of info on what to expect. \nShe has biological family on the mother's side, but as of now, none are talking about seeking custody. \nWill her \"Dad\" just be able to file for custody in this case without having the daughter involved? (They're worried about her mental health with losing her mother and now finding out she's been lied to her entire life) Would a judge take into consideration the fact that he has raised her, was her primary parent (school functions, Drs appointments and such)\nIf there's any questions I can try to find out the answers for you. Thanks in advance.","title":"Custody issue in NY, involving a death.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570461521,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dekv7z\/noisebanging_from_upstairs_neighbors_kids_caused\/","id":"dekv7z","body":"We\u2019ve had a slew of other issues with these fuckers, but that\u2019s in my post history. I won\u2019t delve too far into that. \n\nI\u2019m paranoid that if they\u2019re causing enough commotion and banging around upstairs to dislodge a light fixture, that they could cause the one above the area we keep our pets to do the same. I don\u2019t want anything to happen to my pets, of course. \n\nThey\u2019ve refused to open the door for us, for management, for the courtesy officer, and even for the police (non emergency line called, they refused to open the door). \n\nI\u2019m terrified of my pets getting hurt or killed, and concerned for the safety of my belongings and us. \nWhat can we do, in regards to the office, management, whatever the case may be, to get this taken care of? Our lease doesn\u2019t run up until June, so until we find somewhere else we can\u2019t really go anywhere.","title":"Noise\/banging from upstairs neighbors\u2019 kids caused my light fixture to fall and shatter into my tub.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551045740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aud6hk\/my_bathtub_cracked_during_shower_water_damaged\/","id":"aud6hk","body":"I\u2019m a tenant leasing a town house in Florida. I took a 10-15 minute shower per normal routine, dried off and got into bed. \n\nI heard what sounded like water downstairs and I live alone so I went to go check and found water pouring from the light fixtures and the ceiling was sodden and the floor was wet.\n\nI immediately panicked and shut off the water to the house and called my landlord and started throwing down towels and anything to soak up the water. \n\nNext morning, a mitigater arrives and does emergency water drying and removed the floor and carpet effected etc. We generally think some sort of pipe broke. Washer\/dryer upstairs and built in fire sprinkler system in the ceiling. \n\nI spent the night at family\u2019s because the house was inhabitable. Today I was clearing the wet towels I left to dry and cleaning my bathroom from the mess  and found a decent crack on the tub wall about 2\u201d off the ground of the shower\/bathtub.\n\nI\u2019m 270lb male, I never saw it before today and it was definitely not a long term problem I didn\u2019t notice or not fix. I have photos giving my dog a bath in the tub two weeks ago with no crack in the same spot. I didn\u2019t WWE my bathtub and negligently cause a crack obviously. \n\nAm I liable? Landlord has insurance and all that coming this week. I want to be prepared.  ","title":"My bathtub cracked during shower, water damaged from second floor (FL)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554962718,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbwfhz\/crazy_roommate_refuses_to_move_out\/","id":"bbwfhz","body":"We have a very unstable roommate in our house who has caused so many problems that it\u2019s become a hostile environment\/living situation. Here are some of the things that they have done:\n\n\n1. They almost burned the house down. YUP. One night, before they went to bed, they decided to light some candles before they went to sleep. After they lit the candles, they passed out. The next morning, there was smoke all inside the house causing people to cough excessively. There was a fire in their room, and a few of our other roommates went into the room to put the fire out. While our roommates were trying to put the fire out before it spread any further, the unstable roommate woke up and basically told everyone to get the fuck out of their room. Didn\u2019t even say thank you or apologize for causing the fire. Their only excuse was that they were on Xanax. \n\n\n2. They have caused damage to the house multiple times, they have caused altercations in the house MULTIPLE TIMES. They have even assaulted one of our other roommates, and had their friends help assault the roommate as well. We called the police for that incident but the police told us there was nothing they could really do about the roommate. \n\n\nI am truly scared for my life, and I just want this person to go away. I want to know how I can speed up this process, please give me any and all advice. If it helps, we have screenshots of this roommate talking about killing us. And the roommate also has friends that often come over (mostly squatters) and when we aren\u2019t home, they talk about \u201cred dotting\u201d us (apparently that is slang for shooting us in the head with a red dot\/laser beam gun) Please someone tell me there is something we can do.","title":"Crazy Roommate Refuses To Move Out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553730183,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6bmca\/should_i_report_someone_filming_me_on_the\/","id":"b6bmca","body":"I apologize sincerely if this isn\u2019t the right sub, if it isn\u2019t I\u2019d really appreciate if someone could steer me in the right direction. \n\nI honestly don\u2019t know what I did to this guy, but for he was following me for many miles filming me from both behind my car and even pulling up text to my window to film into the cabin twice.  I won\u2019t lie,  I drive pretty fast sometimes and wedge into gaps that I probably shouldn\u2019t, though I don\u2019t recall doing anything like that leading up to this.  Even then, if I was being aggressive, this man was insane.   He was flying back and forth between lanes, no signals, accelerating and decelerating randomly, and he was even edging into my lane as he was filming me. \n\nI just returned home.  I was considering calling the police on the highway, but I wasn\u2019t sure about it.  I memorized his license plate, the model of his car, and a physical description.  \n\nIs it worth it for me to leave a tip to the police?  How would I even do that?  ","title":"Should I report someone filming me on the interstate to the police?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568859297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d67im8\/apartment_with_fleas\/","id":"d67im8","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice. I moved in to my new apartment in August. Everything was fine for a few days until I noticed I was acquiring a lot of bug bites near my feet. I did some research around, set some traps, and low and behold, I find a few fleas. I didn\u2019t bring them in to the apartment for sure because I\u2019ve never had an encounter with one before moving in, and I\u2019ve been using the same bed and belongings for quite a while now. \n\nI just figured out yesterday that our next door neighbor\u2019s cats have fleas (according to what the pest control told me) and the pest control was saying they think the fleas on their cats were crawling to my room because our rooms are connected (my room is the far one in my apartment and the neighbors room with fleas is the far one in theirs, connecting ours). \n\nI\u2019ve been dealing with the fleas thinking the treatments that the pest control guys were doing in my room were gonna help. This has been going on for over a month now, accumulating over 100 bites.\n\nWhat do I do? \n\nI currently sleep in the living room trying not to get bit anymore. \n\nAny advice on how I should deal with maybe getting compensation or breaking the lease?\n\nMe and my mother have asked the landlord a couple times to be relocated while this was being treated so I wouldn\u2019t get anymore bites and all they tell me is \u201cwe will continue the treatments til they are gone\u201d.\n\nI personally find this whole situation fucked. \n\nThank you in advanced.","title":"Apartment with Fleas","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553556125,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5i2yz\/got_pulled_over_for_not_signaling_but_i_did\/","id":"b5i2yz","body":"sorry for bad grammar. \n\n​\n\na few days ago i was went to get some TEC sandwiches with my friend (people from NJ know what I'm talking about) and then i pulled into an apartment complex to eat it. as i was leaving a noticed a cop parked up the road. i proceeded to flick my turn signal on and go on my way. the cop immediately sped up towards me. i pulled up to a stop sign and flicked my left turn signal on to continue home. i got maybe 100 ft and then he turned his lights on. i pulled over, he came to the window and asked the good old \"drivers license, insurance, and registration.\" i obliged. he then asked what i was doing in the apartment complex (with the tin foil TEC wrapper in my lap and my friend still eating hers) I replied \"i went to \\*bagel shop down the road\\*\" and even showed him the receipt and followed by saying i was on my way home. \n\n​\n\nthis is where it got weird. he told both of us to get out of the vehicle without saying why\n\n​\n\nthe cop told us to stand in front of the patrol car and said he was going to get the drug dog to search my car.\n\nthe dog walked around my car and made no visible or verbal tick that would result in the cop saying \"the dog got a positive hit on the car and I'm going to search it now\" but that's what he said. i was watching the dog the entire time.\n\ni proceeded to ask why i was being pulled over and i just got ignored.\n\nthe cop eventually found a small baggy of marijuana witch i was unaware it was in the car (it belonged to my friend who has this really bad habit of smoking i guess) anyway it wasn't mine and felt pretty f\\*\\*king stupid saying \"there is nothing in the car why are you searching me\".\n\n​\n\nhe never told me why i had to step out of the vehicle or anything like that. i felt as if he was just doing whatever he wanted\n\n​\n\nthe cop arrested my friend and i offered to pick him up from the police station. but the cop gave me a ticket for failure to signal a turn witch is a 2 point ticket. \n\n​\n\ni used my turn signals and that would be proven on the dash cam of the cop car but I'm not sure if the cam is always running or if it only runs when the lights go on. i also have this intermittent wiring issue with my back left signal. when i go over a bump its a 50\/50 if its going to work or not. but i assured the officer i used my signal.\n\n​\n\nanyway how should i go about this in court i am definitely pleading not-guilty for this","title":"Got pulled over for not signaling but i did","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569472541,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9es4l\/not_sure_if_this_is_just_an_ethical_issue_on\/","id":"d9es4l","body":"I cannot put my head around this and where or what to do about it... So need some great advice from you reddit brains. Sorry for long post. \n\nBackstory... Been at job for going on 7 years. A year ago, applied for and received a promotion. The job is normally a salaried nice paid position... I knew of others with the job title in the Co. I was not offered salary, and barely a bump in pay. I could not get them to take salary but countered at a bit smaller amount hourly. For a year, have tried to get boss to make it salary and all I got was a 30 cent raise. Said it was a benefits decision blah blah blah.\n\nRecently, a person in our small department retired suddenly. I was offered the position, with a 5k raise and salary. I accepted. New guy is hired, he's supposedly got over a decade of experience in the job. Come to find out, he had a very very small portion of this jobs responsibility and had the title. Old job was cushion, easy job. This job is not, it's way more advanced. He lied about his skill set with excel.... Needed to be very advanced and he's barely able to copy and paste. 5 weeks of training and he's barely where I was at 3 weeks. His Facebook says he's went to college but it's in a completely different field... A mechanic kinda certificate degree and we are in business field. I have a business management education. \n\nSo here's my problem ppl. I accidentally found out that new employee.... New to company, new to this type of business and has no experience in this field.... Was hired on at salary. Making 7 grand more than I was after a year in the position. MAKING 2 GRAND MORE THAN I AM IN THE PROMOTED ROLE. He told them he wouldn't take the job if he wasn't given salary. I am pretty upset. I don't know if I should speak to my boss or HR. or if it would do any good. The company does not want employees knowing others pay rates at all.... But I didn't find out on purpose. This feels like a sexist move paying this guy more. I'm female BTW. Suggestions?","title":"Not sure if this is just an ethical issue on behalf of employer (and down right wrong) or a legal issue of sexism?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504064559,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wwlpy\/az_targeted_bullying_at_work_eventually_leading\/","id":"6wwlpy","body":"Back in June I moved from Vermont to AZ so I can continue school and earn my Degree. I worked at a retail company in VT and upon learning that I was able to transfer to my same position in AZ I decided to do that. Before transferring my manager contacted the District Manager in Arizona to make sure I would have the position even with my school schedule, which started at the end of August. \n\nHe said I would have the position and wasn't sure to which location I would be transferring to and would call me back within 3 days. The third day came by and I still did not receive a call from the DM, so I talked to my manager, who called his boss and talked to that DM about it, seeing that this was also the day before I started my drive from VT to AZ. Eventually I got my location and drove to AZ. \n\n A couple weeks after working my new location we got a new Store Manager there. Upon the arrival of the SM the DM was there as well and gave the SM a tour of our store. When the SM and DM arrived to my department to talk with me they were immediately giving me grief about my sales numbers, which were totally fine, they were lower than target by 2% when other stores were as low as 8%, and how I wasn't going to be able to handle this position let alone going to school as well. I have had this position for 1 year and a half before transferring to AZ location and before hand my number were excellent and I received a lot of praise from my superiors. \n\nThese sort of interactions continued throughout the course of the months that followed. When I would close the store manager would constantly belittle me through a condescending attitude or at times a blunt manner. Several of these interactions were so bad that I cried in the bathroom or had a panic attack from the stress of it all. Seeing that I moved here with no family or friends, they were all back east, I became friends with one of the other managers at this location. We continued to be friends throughout the next couple of months.\n\n Last week the SM calls me into the office saying \"I have something to show you.\" When I get into the office the SM has the DM on the phone and they are confronting me about being friends with the other manager at work and that I was going to lose my manager position because of that. I told them that we were just friends and nothing else and that managers of our level can be friends outside of work and that the handbook does not forbid it. They said it does not matter and that any relationship between managers is not allowed. By this point I was fed up with arguing between the two of them and just asked what was. Now they said because of my school schedule and how it was impacting work and making more work for the other employees, which was not noted or said by any of the employees themselves, I had 30 days to either quit or receive a pay cut and take a Part Time position. Even tho I had told the DM that I was going to be going to school and he agreed beforehand, now the DM says \"I never received your school schedule before you transferred.\" I told them that I could not survive on a PT position and they just said \"Sorry.\" So that is pretty much the jist of it. \n\nPersonally I think that because the DM handled my transfer so poorly that I had to talk to my VT SM about it who called his boss to have to talk to the DM might have been the reasoning behind me being targeted like this. So I am just wondering if their actions were justified? Is there anything that I can do or do I just have to accept it and move on?","title":"[AZ] Targeted Bullying at work eventually leading to Demotion\/pay cut","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539019334,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mgw71\/france_boss_hitting_an_employee\/","id":"9mgw71","body":"Writing on behalf of my partner:\n\nPretty simple, they work at Starbucks and their boss hit them in the back of the head with her hand, no witnesses around. Today, the boss hit them again with a notebook, my partner asked her to stop hitting them, she said no. There was a witness for today. No injuries\n\nIs there any legal action even worth taking or should they keep this in the company?","title":"[France] Boss hitting an employee","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504301681,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xhndh\/landlords_sold_property_need_clarity_about_the\/","id":"6xhndh","body":"I live in a 3rd floor apartment of an old home in IL. My original Landlords lived in the 2 stories underneath.\n\nIn the original lease there is a clause about my deposit. And in my original lease (signed in 2015) it explained they would pay all utilities. \nUnder the \"services\"\/ utilities part of this original lease Wi-fi\/ Internet is listed. In the most recent lease it simply states that Landlords pay all utilities. \n\nMy current concerns are, does this lease transfer over? The new home owners and I have not signed anything. I obviously have my signature on both the original and most recent lease. But the new landlords haven't signed any lease, so how does this work?\n\n\nUnfortunately another point of contention has been internet provision. I asked them to provide it for me (they do not live on the property yet), and they said it wasn't a utility. I explained that though it's not a traditional utility it was part of the original agreement, and is listed with the other utilities in the original lease. \n\n\nI can totally understand where they're coming from, why would they get internet on the property when they don't even live there, and when it's not explicitly listed in the most recent lease. \n\nHowever, I have since asked them to draw up a new lease or sign my copy of the current one just to protect what's in place and they have been unwilling to do so. \n\nWhat are my options? Do they legally have to provide internet? If not, since the new lease states nothing about my original deposit, where does that lie? Am I being an unreasonable starving artist to ask for a discounted rate since they won't be providing me with internet anymore (which will likely cost me $30 to $50 a month)? \n\nAny and all advice is super appreciated!   \n\ntl;dr: What details from an original lease carry over in a transfer of ownership? And am I right to request a new lease with my new landlords for the remaining 6 months of my original lease?","title":"Landlords sold property, need clarity about the status of my lease. [IL]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541019234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t2t33\/are_verbal_wage_agreements_binding\/","id":"9t2t33","body":"I work at a reasonably large company with lots of independent offices. The one I work at is in Maine. We have a union. The collective bargaining agreement expired at the start of 2018. The union bargaining team and company reached a new tentative agreement but the employees voted it down in January 2018.  I wasn't hired until May of 2018. After the interview, when I was offered the job I was told that since no collective agreement had been reached yet I would be paid minimum wage, but, when a new agreement was ratified whatever new hourly wage they went to would be applied retroactively back to my hire date. This made sense to me, I took the job and signed all of the paperwork without reading it. Collective bargaining negotiations went on for a  long time and the details of a new tentative agreement just came out.   I'll make about $1.15 more per hour if it is ratified, which equates to around $1,000 in retroactive pay. What worries me is that the email explaining the new agreement said that since contract negotiations had gone on for so long the company had refused to agree to retroactive pay raises and instead agreed to give a bonus to all employees who have been with the company for over a year (I haven't). I asked one of my supervisors how they could do this since I figured the retroactive pay was a condition of my hiring. I was told that the retroactive pay was actually part of the tentative agreement that had been voted down a couple of months before I was hired and that I should just be grateful that I would be getting a raise. At no point in my hiring was it ever stated to me that the retroactive pay I had been told I would get was part of contract negotiations and wasn't set in stone. What should I do? Do I have any legal standing to request that money? The only proof I have of that conversation is the word of another employee hired at the same time who says he was told the same thing. Do I wait for the agreement to be ratified before making it an issue or should I be pro active? Should I approach the manager who hired me first or contact my union representative? What do I do if they say no? Thanks for any and all advice. ","title":"Are verbal wage agreements binding?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505871549,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/717tah\/passing_stopped_school_bus\/","id":"717tah","body":"Hello, this has had to be one the most dumbest mistakes I\u2019ve ever did. I understand it was my fault as I was totally not paying attention as I was leaving school (Comm. College). \n\n I was cruising past a stopped school bus dropping off High School\/Early College Students. I was going about 6-10 Mph passing the bus not realizing that I had to stop. \n\nI guess I\u2019m more used to buses being in main roads and not at a community college??\n\nAnyways, the Community College Police dinged me as he was right to my right when I passed the bus, gave me a citation for passing a school bus while flashing red lights etc. \n\nHe wrote down this:  \u201cC.S. 20-217(a)\u201d but I believe it\u2019s supposed to be \u201cG.S. 20-217(a)\u201d for Passing stopped school bus In North Carolina? Would that be considered a mistake that could be thrown out? (Doubt it) \n\nAnyways, what are my options if I get a lawyer & what possible fines\/penalties, etc am I looking at? I don\u2019t want this on my record period. I\u2019m willing to do community service or anything to avoid this from hitting my insurance or driver record. Thanks again! ","title":"Passing Stopped School Bus","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554696164,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bap5gw\/my_wife_gets_angry\/","id":"bap5gw","body":"My wife has an incredible issue with people telling her what to do or what she is doing wrong. I'm trying to be there and be a father and a husband but she still finds a way to get upset with me. She doesn't trust me with out 2 old daughter, she doesn't allow me to go out with her, she doesn't allow me to take her to the park. The only way I can go out with my daughter is after the fact when my wife can do anything about. \n\nMy question is: Is she allowed to keep my daughter away from me or prevent me from seeing her? Since we are married and as long as I don't pose a danger\/threat to our daughter and never have, can she do anything to get in the way of being with my daughter? Or what can my wife try to do to keep her from me?","title":"My wife gets angry","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569471064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ej9l\/sc_my_friend_got_into_a_pretty_bad_accident_the\/","id":"d9ej9l","body":"So long story short, me and a bunch of friends were out driving stupid in our cars the other night. One of the friends has a dashcam that is always rolling. After we were done fooling around we went back to our hangout spot and hung out for the next 4 hours. I left at about 230 a.m. and my buddy with the dashcam left at 330 a.m. Upon leaving my friend with the dashcam crashed into a tree and had to be taken to the hospital with some pretty bad injuries. Chances are the dashcam footage will be confiscated and reviewed to see what caused the accident.\n\nIf the police review the footage and happen to see the footage from earlier in the night (hours before the accident occured) where my buddies and I were acting stupid, can they use that footage to give us tickets?\n\nLocation is USA, state is SC","title":"SC - My friend got into a pretty bad accident the other night and he has a dashcam. Said dashcam may have footage of me and some friends driving stupid in our cars. Can this footage be used against me even though it's not related to the accident?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506562008,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72wvtv\/postnupcustody_agreement\/","id":"72wvtv","body":"My husband and I got married in February, in New Hampshire where we live. While we are happy now, I want to protect him in the future. I am currently 35 weeks pregnant and watching the documentary \u201cThe Red Pill.\u201d (Bad combination, 0\/10, would not recommend.)\n\nI was thinking about just typing up an agreement that it pretty simple, in case of divorce, we would split everything we acquire together 50\/50 (as in sell or if we can actually spilt something it will be even) and that we would spilt custody 50\/50 as well as her, and future other children\u2019s, expenses, no child support or alimony. Then getting it notarized at our local bank. \n\nMy question is, is this enough to be legally enforceable in a court if the time comes?  \n\nWhen it comes to divorce, people are angry and hurt, I want it to be a smooth and equal as possible. ","title":"Post-nup\/custody agreement?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551814269,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axp4y0\/someone_is_using_my_ssn_for_employment\/","id":"axp4y0","body":"I found out recently when I was renewing mine and my daughters Medicaid that someone is using my name\/SSN for employment. I have the number for the company but is there anything I can say to them for them to take me seriously? I googled the number to see if it matched a company but nothing came up. I can't quite remember the name of the company but it was something like Honey Ham. Also depending how long\/how much this person made using my name\/SSN how will that affect my Fasfa? I dont have a job\/income so filled my FASFA as such.  \n\n\nIs there anyway I can find out what my social is used for besides a credit report? (I checked my credit report and its still blank\/no credit). \n\n​\n\nAlso Idk how much this matters but I want to add it just in case. There is another person out there with my same exact name, birthdate, time of birth, and our SSN are off by one number. She lives last I heard in the city 20 mins south of me and throughout my childhood we were mistaken for each other often and went to the same pediatrician. If I went to the dentist the dentist would bill her insurance stuff like that.\n\n​\n\nTexas","title":"Someone is using my SSN for employment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444777637,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3onf43\/tx_parents_bought_a_car_and_dealership_added\/","id":"3onf43","body":"Hello r\/legaladvice, this is my first post here so apologies ahead of time if I'm missing important info or if this is sloppy.\n\nI'm posting on behalf of my parents who are unaware of how to use Reddit and this sub. They asked me to keep their info and amounts left out unless they are required.\n\nMy parents bought a new 2015 Toyota Prius from a dealership on October 10th. They bought it in a suburb of the DFW area where we live.\n\nMy parents got it marked down from its retail price, which is why they purchased the vehicle to begin with; however my Dad was asked by the finance officer who was writing up the contact if he and my mother \"wanted the MPP (maintenance protection program)\", which my father refused to purchase any extended warranties verbally to him. But within the contact there listed under other charges is an MPP in addition to the other fees and costs of the vehicle. Additionally there is a separate item that my mother and father ended up paying for that is not listed under any options or itemization of the contract. It is product warranty program called \"ZAKTEK\" which in the small print appears to be a warranty of a treatment that was added to the exterior paint of the vehicle. \n\n**My father verbally refused these items 3 times to the salesman.** \n\nImportant to note for clarification: \n\n1. My mother has signed the contract for the sale of the vehicle and has signed and the ZAKTEC product warranty form customer copy. I have the customer copies of both items.\n\n2. The ZAKTEC form has both the 'yes' and 'no' boxes for the interior protection option (this is in addition to its basic coverage) marked, as the salesman\/finance officer did not explain this form well to my mother. The boxes that ask if they would like to purchase the ZAKTEC coverage for 3 years or 5 years are not marked at all.\n\n3. The email listed on this ZAKTEC form is not of my mother's or my father's they do not know who's email is typed on this form, it seems to either random or someone else's even though it is supposed to be of the person filling out the form.\n\n4. The ZAKTEC cost is not listed anywhere on the actual vehicle purchase contract as an option or extra fee. (It\u2019s been grouped in with the cost of the vehicle)\n\n5. The MPP is itemized as an option in the vehicle contract.\n\nMy Mother and Father would very much like to know if there is anything they can do to void this contract of purchasing the car based on these costs for which they did not want. Is there anything they can do to receive their money back for these two items, taking into account what I have posed to you here?\n\nThank you so much for your time and consideration, r\/legaladvice we could really use some help.\n\n*Edited for better formatting.\n\n","title":"[TX] Parents bought a car and dealership added fines and fees for which they refused. What are our options?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569077878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7bj1h\/uncle_is_being_sued_for_paying_under_wage_and_my\/","id":"d7bj1h","body":"Location NYC.\n\nI\u2019m so confused right now by his dumbness thinking he\u2019s smart. Anyways he wants to divorce my mom and sign over every possession to her and sign our uncles business in his name because our uncle is getting sued for paying under wage by one of his workers. He thinks by doing this he won\u2019t have anything else to give even if our uncle loses the case. I so lost right now and honestly don\u2019t know how to talk him out of this. He\u2019s known to be an idiot and probably brainwashed by everyone. My mom is telling me to talk some sense into him but he\u2019s telling me it\u2019s a genius idea and is already preparing the papers. So is this a good idea or will it backfire?","title":"Uncle is being sued for paying under wage and my idiot Dad wants to sign the business to his name by divorcing my mom.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553991743,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7hvlw\/my_new_boss_refuses_to_put_me_on_the_schedule\/","id":"b7hvlw","body":"So i\u2019m a 21 year old college student and i work part time at minimum wage job. I live in Maryland. I have been working at subway since September 2018. Since I\u2019m a full time college student, i work there part time. Also, i get to and from work by public transportation. Since i abide by the times of the buses, I work 5.5 hour evening shifts. Also i only work 2-3 days out of the week. \n\nWhen i first started working there, the boss was Ms. B. When i was having my interview to be hired for the job, I explained my situation about how i\u2019m in college and i go by the buses to work to Ms. B and she informed me that the usual shift time is an 8 hour shift, but she still understood my situation so she scheduled me for 2-3 days in the evening. **The woman who HIRED ME ** did so with the understanding of my availability being 5.5 hours shift and only 2-3 days out of the week. \n\nThen Ms. B quit, and our new manager was Ms. Kj. \n\nMs. Kj didn\u2019t like that i worked 5.5 hour shifts out of 8, and she even questioned why I can\u2019t come in earlier. I explained to her that the bus that comes earlier conflicts with my class time, bc i have classes in the morning\/ afternoon. So i take the bus that comes later. She was annoyed by it but she still managed to schedule me 2 days out of the week. \n\nThen Ms. Kj quit, and the new manager now is Ms. T. She\u2019s been there for 2 weeks so far. \n\nMs. T has purposely left me off of the schedule for 2 weeks now because she claims she \u201csimply just doesn\u2019t have the availability for a 5.5 hour shift\u201d. She says that the only shifts available are 8 hour shifts. \n\nNow i will say that after i was informed by Ms. B that subway usually has 8 hour shifts, i completely understand that me being hired was a privilege, not a right. I appreciated that she made space for me even though the shift was usually 8 hours. However, I assumed that this was a preference, not a requirement. I didn\u2019t know that I was not allowed to work at all if I wasn\u2019t working an 8 hour shift. \n\nAlso, if i was hired *WITH THE UNDERSTANDING OF MY AVAILABILITY, WHICH WERE EVENING SHIFTS AND 5.5 OUR SHIFTS* and there has never been an issue SINCE SEPTEMBER 2018 WITH SCHEDULING ME , then How come Ms T  is saying she doesn\u2019t have any availability for me? The thing that confuses me the most is that the normal evening shift is 4pm- Midnight and Ive been working from 6:30 to midnight. Was this time change really that big of the deal to the point where I can\u2019t work at all? Ms. T says she will only have space for me if my availability is 4pm-midnight. Ms. T is the only manager that has had a problem with this issue since September 2018. \n\nIs there anything i can do legally? Is it legal to have her withhold me from scheduling me? \n\nShe said i wasn\u2019t fired though, she just said she doesn\u2019t have the space for me.\n\nWhat do i do? ","title":"My new boss refuses to put me on the schedule because she claims she \u201cdoesnt have any shifts for my availability\u201d even though my old bosses have found space for me on the schedule since September 2018. What do i do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554683113,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ban5ln\/illinois_can_work_force_unpaid_breaks\/","id":"ban5ln","body":"Ok I\u2019ll explain I work at movie theater the rushes are extremely busy and the downtime is really slow. So slow it seems like a waste to have so many people working. That being said I\u2019m at work to make money.\n\nThe theater will often try to force you to take breaks to \u201cget off the clock\u201d I understand they need to give at least 20 min break for 7.5 hours but can they force extra breaks? \n\nThey will have you take a 15min breaks whenever they have the chance as a way to play employees less. ","title":"(Illinois) Can work force unpaid breaks","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505953477,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71fher\/nc_boss_sexually_harassing_so\/","id":"71fher","body":"My SO works at Walmart and she has been complaining about her boss flirting with her. He is now acting aggressive towards other employees who talk to her, and staying over schedule to clock out at the same time as her. This is obviously creating a hostile workplace for everyone, and especially for her.\n\nAny advice for how to proceed?","title":"NC boss sexually harassing SO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553030975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3365k\/car_sideswiped_now_what\/","id":"b3365k","body":"About 2 weeks ago my car was sideswiped. There were witnesses, and we got photos. The dude even had the gall to go into the restaurant and eat until confronted by management. Police wouldn't come because was in a parking lot.\n\nI have since found the name of the registered car owner, who was present with the guy who actually hit me. I don't want to go through my insurance because I don't have $1,000 to fork over for something like a sideswipe, hoping Geico can get it back for me.\n\nI found her on Facebook, and that's it.  Is it harassment if I message her? Can I tell her she can pay for the repairs and we don't have to go through insurance? Is that coercion\/threatening\/whatever?  If she doesn't respond or whatever, how do I find out who her insurance carrier is?","title":"Car Sideswiped- Now What?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1442419592,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l6pol\/neighbours_and_noise_problem_loud_music_in_early\/","id":"3l6pol","body":"I live in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia and am 29 years old.\nFor the past few weeks, well, since mid-August at least, my neighbour, a 43-year-old lady, has been playing loud music.\nIt's been a mixture of the following songs:\n\n* Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead (repeatedly overplayed, sometimes even at 3-4am in the morning)\n* Staying Alive (Bee Gees)\n\n* Disco Inferno (The Tramps)\n\n* Fire (Arthur Brown, IIRC ??)\n\n* Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus)\n\n* Who are we (The Who, isn't that the CSI theme tune?)\n\n* Hot Stuff (Donna Summer)\n\n* Shake it Off (Taylor Swift) (repeatedly played at full blast)\n\nI complained to my neighbour, politely asked her to turn it down, but she said to me \"Fuck off, you're gonna have to accept it, assholes, I play what I like.\" and tried to buy me off with an offer of getting multiple double-doubles for me.\nThe next door neighbour is on the dole, she wears tracksuits, and smoke a lot. I've also caught her sitting in my garden in a bikini, on the grass, she admitted \"I climb over the fence and sit in a bikini in your garden, no bigdeal really, you should do it sometime\".\n\nIt's keeping me awake and causing me stress, I'm struggling to cope, and it's making me feel ill.\n\nLegally, what can and should I do? If I go to the cops or get the mounties in, she'll probably complain anyway and may cause a neighbour dispute or something like that.\n\nI'm not friends with my neighbour, but not enemies either, really.\n\nSeeking advice before this escalates any further.\n\nNot sure what to do. I made a throwaway here for my own privacy, just had to genericise information for privacy since I work in a professional job in the city.\n\nEdit: Not really sure what flair to add, since it's about a neighbour next door and not a landlord, we both have driveways, so not sure if its relevant even but mentioning anyway.\n\n","title":"Neighbours and noise problem - loud music in early hours (Vancouver, British Columbia)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555109799,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bck0fq\/can_i_still_ask_for_child_support_in_this\/","id":"bck0fq","body":"I\u2019ve been fighting for full custody of my just-born son from my ex-boyfriend. We\u2019re both 19. He wanted to be a part of our child\u2019s life but I didn\u2019t want to deal with him. I finally got him to agree to full custody for me because he doesn\u2019t want to deal with this anymore and he couldn\u2019t afford to pay a lawyer anymore. Now that he did that, am I still able to ask for child support even though he said he didn\u2019t want to keep fighting over it or is it done once I have full custody? We\u2019ve never been married. This is in WA state.","title":"Can I still ask for child support in this situation?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553224695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3zzxw\/using_their_childs_ssn_for_housing_mi\/","id":"b3zzxw","body":"Recently had a chat with someone who bragged they got approved for their rental home by using their (3F) toddler's SSN. I know that their SSN starts with a different set of numbers than their child...  single parent, I saw the lease and it is indeed not their own. Their credit is horrible, multiple evictions and outstanding debts and constantly on the verge of being evicted from this home. Is this illegal? Is there anything I can do to save this child from a life time of ruined credit? I'm not involved personally in any way, but I feel this is very wrong and I don't know who I would go to for this sort of report.","title":"Using their child's SSN for housing? MI","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571260665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/divz3i\/pa_friends_locks_were_changed_and_all_of_his\/","id":"divz3i","body":"My friends locks were changed after he didnt leave his apartment in time due to eviction. All of his belongings are still inside, including his pets. Landlord refusing to let him grab anything and says it's all his stuff now.\n\nCourse of action? I cant find anything online.","title":"(PA) Friends locks were changed and all of his belongings are inside, including animals.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505320007,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zvo13\/landlord_tells_me_2_weeks_before_move_in_that\/","id":"6zvo13","body":"Okay so here's some backstory:\n\nI am moving into a 4 bedroom house with 3 of my friends in Los Angeles in about 2 weeks. We signed the lease 3 weeks ago and have finalized pretty much everything except for changing the utilities to our name. There is a back unit that is separate from the house that the landlord had been renting to 2 people for a couple years now. The landlord is the owner of the house and is moving out to the east coast, but since he's the owner he has been paying the entire water bill. Before our phone calls yesterday it had already been established that we are paying for our own utilities, but it was not told to us that we would have to be paying the water bill for the entire property (the back house and our front house as well). I just said okay and hung up, but after talking it over with my future housemates we have decided that it wouldn't be fair for us to pay for another tenants water.\n\nWhat should I do and how should I go about handling the situation so that we don't end up paying the water bill for the back house on top of our own? ","title":"Landlord tells me 2 weeks before move in that there's is only 1 water meter on 2 unit property, so we have to pay for back units water bill","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552680792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1jls8\/car_insurance\/","id":"b1jls8","body":"I scraped my car on a guardrail Monday and I was just going to get it fixed by a mechanic (just a few dents and paint work) and he told me I need it report it to the police. When I report it to the police, is my insurance going to be notified? Because I don\u2019t want my rate to go up. ","title":"Car insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552619125,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b19o1p\/ma_i_17_have_been_in_and_out_of_high_school_over\/","id":"b19o1p","body":"I was out of school last year, my junior year for about a month in December, and then again around February- this was all medically excused. This year, I was out of school and in the hospital for about a month as well, and then a couple more weeks after I got out. This was medically excused as well.  \n\nBecause of the way my school is, if you miss more than 15 classes in a term, you get an \u201cN\u201d in that class. This means you do not get credit for that term. I have gotten \u201cN\u2019s\u201d for terms 3 and 4 because I missed the back en of term 2 and the start of term 3. Now the thing is, if you get 2 consecutive \u201cN\u2019s,\u201d you lose credit in that class for the whole school year.  \n\nThe school is now saying that I do not have enough credits to graduate because of all of the time I have missed. They are refusing to give partial credit for the time I was there (term 1, and the possibility of term 4, as well as the start of term 2 and the end of term 3).  \n\nMy guidance counselor recently withdrew me from all of my classes because she said there is not point in me staying in them since I cannot earn credit. I, however, wanted to stay in them. The day after the changes were made, I went to my classes as usual, but every time, the dean of students came and made me leave because Im no longer in those classes. BUT I WANT to be in those classes.  \n\nInstead of going to my classes, I am supposed to sit in a room and do online classes, because I can still earn credit from them (since there is no attendance requirement). The school also won\u2019t let me take more than 4 online classes. There is absolutely no reason for me to go to school right now because I am not in any classes and can do my online classes at home. Also, they are not going to let me walk at graduation, which is understandable, but still upsetting.  \n\nI have looked through all of the relevant sections of the student handbook and cannot find anything about this stuff. I tried looking at the state laws but there are so many and I don\u2019t know how to find what I am looking for.  \n\n\n\nNow my questions:  \nCan the school withhold my credits for the time that I have not been there, even though my absences are medically excused?  \n\nDoes my guidance counselor have the power to withdraw me from my classes even if me and my parents do not want me to be withdrawn?  \n\nIs there any way that I can still graduate on time (this June) when I am missing 28.5 credits (pretty much a years worth of classes)?","title":"[MA] I (17) have been in and out of high school over the past 2 years for mental health reasons. Now the school is withholding credits.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1506318054,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72aho8\/tx_need_help_taking_the_necessary_steps_to_get\/","id":"72aho8","body":"Here\u2019s a little background, I moved in Sept. 3, 2017. Im currently in a hotel due to a rodent infestation. This is the second major health incident in the three weeks that I have lived there. First, there was mold in the kitchen cabinets and they appear to have put in a new board on the bottom but spray painted over the rest of it. Now, we have a rodent problem. My roommate swears to me that she has heard things in the walls since we moved in but I didn\u2019t really believe her until we found droppings and a candy wrapper under her shoes in her closet. This prompted  me to check my room, and much to my surprise I found droppings in my bed. We checked the rest of the apartment and found a hole behind the fridge. I emailed the apartments as soon as I found these droppings and I didn\u2019t receive a response back the next day so I went to speak with them in person. We have found droppings in the master bathroom, the guest bedroom\/bathroom, kitchen, and laundry room. Anyways, the apartment sent exterminators 9\/22. The exterminator put out two lousy traps and sprayed some deterrent. I witnessed the mouse get through the tiny trap, so I went to buy my own and caught one. There are holes in my clothes and I have found droppings in my underwear\/sock drawer. However, I have not slept in 3 days and now I am in a hotel for the time being. I am in nursing school and have two tests this week. I don\u2019t have time for this but I want to make sure I handle it the right way. To be quite frank, I want out. I don\u2019t want to be moved to a different unit, I want to move out and find a better option. I have sent two emails to the property manager about the situation, and one email to corporate because I have not found a number for corporate. My lease states that I need three written notices and ample time to rectify the situation. Does email count as written notice? What should I do in this situation? ","title":"[TX] Need help taking the necessary steps to get out of my apartment lease. Does email count as written notice?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553027869,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b32jji\/i_have_a_citation_for_parking_at_a_church_and_not\/","id":"b32jji","body":"I drove all the way to Oregon from Illinois so I could establish myself as a 29-year-old in a city (Portland) I thought would be easygoing and a way for me to afford to live on my own as an artist. I didn't bring that much money with me, I didn't think it was necessary. I had to spend most of it on motels while the weather was too cold to sleep in the van. And when I got to Portland, I could barely do anything legally unless I had a lot of money (like renting a house, what I originally intended on doing). I drove south from Portland for miles to find somewhere warmer and cheaper to live, and this time I got in trouble for parking outside of a house I was sure I was going to rent. I never took out a loan before, but my credit is still good after paying it off (I only bought an Oculus Rift with it and used the credit for nothing else). I called LendingTree and almost got finished with getting a new loan through a local business they directed me to. Then my minutes ran out on my TracFone and the called dropped. Shortly after that, the police at this new city\/town told me to go to the homeless shelter nearby, and I did, and there was nothing there to accommodate my dog and I. We'd have to sleep on a cold floor in a dark room with unstable strangers, and my dog would have to be in a cage. There was no food. I went back to park by the rental house, and then I saw someone park in the driveway and walk in. I still stayed there afterwards just to make sure they weren't just the last renters taking things out from the house. I was tired of either having to urinate in a cheap travel urinal I got from Amazon or walking back and forth to the gas station that was about a mile away just to urinate, so I went behind a bush that seemed disconnected from any houses or anyones' view at night. I got in trouble for that, too. I was told to leave this new and foreign (to me) town I was in, my GPS wasn't working, I had no idea when the town started or ended, so I saw a church and thought it would be okay just for me to stay there for a day or two until I could figure out what I was going to do next. I had used the power inverter I purchased to take with on the trip in the parking lot to charge the phone and laptop I had with me, but didn't know it would stop the van from working if I charged the electronics with it without the engine running. The van wouldn't start, so I couldn't leave the parking lot without having to pay for a tow and repair (which I did). I was given a $2,500 citation. There's no way I can pay this off. Please help me. ","title":"I have a citation for parking at a church and not being able to leave due to my van malfunctioning.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568845158,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d64mj6\/i_moved_out_but_my_roommates_stayed_now_i_cant\/","id":"d64mj6","body":"Hi everyone, I hope someone can give me some advice on what to do here, as I am at a complete loss. From July 20, 2018 - August 1, 2019, I lived in a house with two roommates in Austin, TX. We were all three on the lease, and the owner of the house is a realty company rather than just an owner leasing out their property. \n\nI moved out at the end of the original lease. Both my roommates and I made the owner of the realty company (Landlord) award that I was moving out. On June 10th, I sent him a written correspondence through his online resident portal stating that I was leaving at the end of July and asking some general moving out questions, one of which was how to get my name removed from the lease. He responded on the June 17th, stating that once the new tenant taking my place was approved, he would execute a lease renewal and a tenant change amendment. As far as I know, the new tenant was approved, but neither me nor my roommates received any additional paperwork. I have since moved into a new apartment, and am completely unsure of how to make 100% sure that I am no longer financially responsible for the property in ATX. We have all tried to call, email, and send messages through the resident portal to no avail (I am still listed as a resident on this website, and the new tenant is not).\n\nI have looked at our original lease, and it does state that once the original term is up, the lease will move forward on a month-to-month basis and that any notice of intent to vacate has to be done in writing, no exceptions. My roommates were told they were now operating on an \u201cat-will\u201d leasing situation, which makes sense given the original lease, but none of us know if I am still responsible and the Landlord will not respond to us at all.\n\nI have a few questions regarding this situation. Does the message I sent him through the tenant portal (and his subsequent response) prove that I gave written notice at least 30 days before the lease was up? I asked him very clearly what he was expecting from me regarding moving out, and he never once mentioned that I needed to provide any additional written intent to vacate notices. And where do I go from here? I live 8 hours away at this point, the Landlord does not have an office, and he uses a PO Box for all correspondence. I am concerned that if I sent certified mail, he will just continue to ignore me. Any advice is appreciated. I have tried to call the Austin Tenants Council about this as well, but I can never get through to them. If you need any additional info or clarification, please feel free to ask.","title":"I moved out but my roommates stayed, now I can\u2019t get my ex-Landlord to respond about taking me off the lease - TX","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552992556,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2vx1k\/parking_ticket_question\/","id":"b2vx1k","body":"Hi all,\n\nGot a parking ticket saying I parked for longer than indicated on the sign (4 hour limit), although the ticket states the offence occurred between the times of 3:01pm and 3:01pm (obviously less than the time indicated on the sign). What\u2019s my best way to dispute this?","title":"Parking ticket question","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443033551,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m3kbp\/massachusetts_eviction_question_over_missed_rent\/","id":"3m3kbp","body":"I'll try and keep it short. My buddy and four others he lives with who are for all intents and purposes his family (not biological) are being evicted. They were served a *14 Day Notice to Quit For Nonpayment (LEASE) paper.* It states the amount owed, and at the bottom says, \"Please be advised that any money paid to the landlord after your receipt of this notice is accepted without waiving any right to re-acquire possession of the premises, and without any intention of reinstating your tenancy or establishing a new tenancy.\"\n\n[I came across this calendar for 14 day notices of eviction for my state](http:\/\/www.masslegalhelp.org\/14-day-notice-to-quit-timeline) \n\nHere are my most pertinent questions, though any advice on the matter is appreciated!\n\n* According to the calendar (link) I posted, does this mean that they will have **roughly** a couple months from the day their 14 day notice hits day 14 before they will be legally forced out of the house? As it stands this Friday will be the 14th day.\n\n* Some of the tenants have disabilities, clinical depression, and psychosis. Does this change anything? \n\n* Based on the wording of the lease, quoted above, does the lease imply that paying the missed rent will cancel the eviction? ","title":"Massachusetts Eviction Question over missed Rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571604471,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkplsm\/wife_tried_to_kill_me_and_i_want_a_divorce\/","id":"dkplsm","body":"Hello all, I thought I'd ask you all for some advice. First off, I'd like to state that this is about my parents. I'm in my mid-20s, as is my sister, so we're not really worried about custody or anything like that.\n\nI think the best way to start off is to tell you the facts: my parents have been (were?) Married for 25 years. Over the years, they've had separations and even one previous divorce they later annulled. Things have always been rocky and earlier this year they decided to get Therapy. Part of the therapy was to give each other a letter asking for forgiveness for everything they can remember doing to each other that might've hurt them. It turns out they had both been unfaithful at different times. Both incidents were prior to 2002, and happened while they were separated.\n\nMy mother had mentioned this to my father years ago, but my father had not. Last week, he finally told her as part of the therapy. It did not go over well...\n\nFor about a week, she basically lived in what used to be my sister's room and they had zero contact. Last Sunday, he went back to ask for forgiveness one final time and she lost it. It got bad enough that she verbally threatened to kill him and threw a knife at him. The police were called, she confessed on camera, and promptly went to jail for 2 days until I bailed her out. She has a felony charge for assault with a deadly weapon. My father didn't not wish to press charges and really only wants to move on from this nightmare.\n\nThe final hearing isn't until next month, and she's not living at home. My father is understand shaken by the event and does not wish to stay married. His main concern is her taking half of his assets, including an inherited beach front property.\n\nLawyers on reddit: how probable is it that my mother takes half of his assets? Is there a way the felony charge could figure into the divorce?","title":"Wife tried to kill me and I want a divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1410081047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fpgud\/debt_recovery\/","id":"2fpgud","body":"Back in 7th of October 2010 an online payment processor dissolved where I had approximately $30k sitting in my account. The owner of the company lives in LA and is a prominent independent film producer who has released several films featuring very notable actors. He has been uncooperative in paying back any of the money. \n\nI have had email contact with him whereby he says he will start paying me (albeit in installments) if I take a website about him down and\ntransfer the domain over to him. I have been careful to not put anything slanderous on the site except the facts which I have substantiated. A number of people having cases pending with him and AFAIK few have got their money back. Why I am not sure.. either he doesn't have it or the court is having trouble determining whether he is to blame or needs to pay? \n\nMy understanding is the statue of limitations in these matters is 4 years? (breach of contract). I have heard but have not been able to confirm, that the statute may be extended to 4 years from the date I got the email correspondence from his saying he will pay? I spent years trying to reach him and it was only until I put the website up which got his attention in early 2012. I am not into extortion, that is not the reason for the website, but rather to warn others.\n\nI have not started legal proceedings against him due to shortage of funds and no guarantee of success (i.e. people I have been in contact with who are owed substantially less than me have not to my knowledge been reimbursed). I was hoping he would eventually develop a conscience and do the right thing and the website might encourage him a bit. Now with the SOL coming to a close he might take that as an opportunity to silence me for good knowing I have absolutely no leg to stand on after that and remove the site. If you google his name my site appears on the first page and so do several others, i doubt he wants that exposure forever. What are my option if any? Thanks\n\nI need to mention I am in Australia and he is in LA which obviously makes things more difficult. Few debt recovery agencies here do international for independent clients","title":"debt recovery","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539227285,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n69lt\/michigan_my_aunt_came_home_to_a_note_on_my_door\/","id":"9n69lt","body":"It says \u201cNotice of Pending Action\u201d and then below it \u201cService of Civil Process. It wasn\u2019t in an envelope or in my mailbox, but just a white half sheet of paper attached to my door. I would call to see what they want but it says \u201cNO INFORMATION WILL BE PROVIDED OVER THE PHONE. Should it become necessary, due to your failure to respond, a court order may be issued for these documents to be affixed to your door for Service to be completed\u201d\n\nNow my aunt did co-sign on an apartment for my cousin and now they are about to be evicted. The landlord said that if they moved out immediately he wouldn\u2019t file any charges, we don\u2019t speak law so I\u2019m sorry if that\u2019s incorrect. I know that\u2019s not a legally binding agreement but we don\u2019t believe it\u2019s him. No one has tried contact my aunt about any legal documents AT ALL,  isn\u2019t this a bit informal for a legal notice? \n\nCan anyone explain what this could be? ","title":"[Michigan] My aunt came home to a note on my door, not sure what it means or where to go from here","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540582723,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rnwqr\/update_autistic_11_yo_vs_colorado\/","id":"9rnwqr","body":"Good news! I was successfully able to get the media involved. Two news stations aired our story in Denver last night. With the media inquiries the DA dismissed the case against my son before the news even aired. The DA also confirmed that the sheriffs department did not supply all the relevant information about my son. \n\n\n1: didn\u2019t mention he\u2019s autistic. \n\n\n2: didn\u2019t mention he had an attorney. \n\n\n3: didn\u2019t mention the reason the case was dismissed at the municipal level. In fact they straight up made up a reason which was that I\u2019m crazy and the prosecutor didn\u2019t want to deal with me. However, I never actually had any contact with the court system except to ask when his court date was scheduled for. All other contact went through his attorney. Plus, if that were the case then why would t that prosecutor actually have given the case to the DA? \n\n\n\nAll said, it sounds like it was the SRO and the detective, who I\u2019ve never actually met, that was really trying to go after my son. Since they made up a story about me I suspect it has to do with them simply not liking me. I have no idea why though. I had just moved to that town about a month prior. For now I think it\u2019s over however, my son will never be going to Adams county for any reason whatsoever. ","title":"Update: autistic 11 y\/o VS Colorado","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1414010318,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2k11j2\/question_about_drivers_licenselearners_permit\/","id":"2k11j2","body":"Not sure if this is in the right subreddit, but here goes.\n\nI'm a sixteen-year-old from NY(not the city), my stepfather recently got his license suspended. I have a learner's permit. How legal is it for me to drive him around?","title":"Question About Driver's License\/Learner's Permit","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541691980,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vb34b\/new_york_city_roommate_with_guarantor_stopped\/","id":"9vb34b","body":"Hi I need your help. My girlfriend lives in a place where she signed a lease with 3 other people. She, and the others all had to get cosigner's\/guarantors to sign their lease. She was there for like 8\\~9 months as of now and have always paid her share and on time. However, one of the roommates stopped paying their share of rent a few months ago (owes like over $4000 now). They seem to believe that they are legally responsible for him not paying. Is she in legal danger of anything like owing that money or it affecting her or her cosigner's credit score if the roommate has a cosigner\/guarantor of their own?\n\n​\n\nMy girlfriend talked to the landlord, and he is well aware that she is paying her share of the rent, but is trying to get them to help him get the guy to pay his rent. He said she shouldn't worry but that it might legally affect her. Is he trying to bluff\/manipulate them into helping get his money or is there danger? Both the other responsible roommate and my gf are really freaking out and are considering trying to get replacements and move out (one of them already moved out and the nonpaying roommate got his boyfriend to fill the spot).\n\n​\n\nIf in the case that she IS legally responsible, whats her best course of action?\n\nThanks so much.","title":"[New York City] Roommate with guarantor stopped paying rent. Is there Legal danger?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539464773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nx9b6\/i_accidentally_moved_into_a_trap_house_and_need\/","id":"9nx9b6","body":"I recently moved into a new college town in California as I am currently working on my undergrad at a school known for its party culture. Now, I am a 25 year old non-traditional student so my reasoning when deciding which university to attend was more so focused on the academics rather than the party scene. I made the mistake of assuming two things; that my paperwork for my on campus housing had been approved and that I wouldn't let the drug crazed atmosphere affect my education. \n\n​\n\nI didn't bother to follow up with the school's Housing Department as I had been told we wouldn't be hearing from them until about two weeks before the school year started. Well, a couple weeks before the Housing Department's announcements were set to go out, I finally caved in to my anxiety and decided to call the school the check on the status of my housing. Something happened where the school required extra documentation but the deadline had already passed. I began calling apartment complexes in the college town adjacent to the campus but as the school year was right around the corner, I knew finding a place was going to be difficult. In hindsight, I should have spent more time doing research, however, I was excited to finally find a place with availability. It was a good $300 over budget but I was happy to not be stressing about having a place to stay so I signed all the paperwork and was ready to start my move. Little did I know how short that joy would last. \n\n​\n\nTurns out, two of my room mates don't attend school and happen to be the towns suppliers of, let's just say, several drugs. Ive been living here for about a month and I thought dealing with the fact that room mates are drug dealers wouldn't be all that bad as I would be doing my thing doing best to stay of their way. However, being that their \"work schedule\" requires them to be up all night, my high \\*rent, and the fact that \\[this\\]([https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/g9FhXqb](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/g9FhXqb)) is what our kitchen currently looks like make me really want to find a way out of this lease.\n\n​\n\nIs there any way to get out of my lease without blatantly telling the apartment complex I don't want to live with drug dealers? I understand that is probably my best bet to get out of the contract but I would rather do so in a way where I wouldn't have to piss these guys off, if possible. \n\n​\n\n\\*What im paying to share a a room in a two bedroom apartment is what people pay for a single bedroom in the more desirable part of town.","title":"I accidentally moved into a trap house and need help finding a way out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505352674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zz51l\/sticky_landlord_situation\/","id":"6zz51l","body":"I recently moved into a house in Boulder, CO. I've been here about two months now, and have not had a good experience with my landlord so far. First, I just very recently even seen the lease. It wasn't provided to us on move in day, and I haven't signed a thing so far. Before I go further, I should explain that we had been using one of my room mates as a sort of middle man between us and the land lord. He has lived at the house for a few years and is the one who made the ad online and showed the house. I have only seen the land lord on one occasion in passing as he was doing repairs one day. Anyway, this slowed things down for sure. I asked about the lease, and it was in \"Oh, I'll send that to you guys\" limbo for a couple weeks. Then he emailed it, but wrote my email down wrong, then took a while to get the new email sent (I live with college kids in Boulder, its fun) While I was busy not signing a lease my land lord was busy violating the lease. There is a hot tub that was in the ad and the lease all of were told would be operational when we moved in that is an excellent leaf collector right now. He has written into the lease that he can \"store\" things on a specific part of the property, but its just a soggy pile of hoarder shit that has over flowed into our parts of the back yard. Its not like trash, just old furniture and stuff. He was also using our dining room as a storage spaces for repair supplies for stuff that should have been done before we moved in (and still isn't fixed). Also, he took the liberty of doing the damage walk trough without informing any of us, and with only the one room mate he has been using as his middle man. So, I guess I just want to know what my options are. I am not currently tied down to the lease, but I would rather stay here and work things out. He is very rude about addressing me and my room mates issues and tries to turn things around on us anytime I bring them up. I had a hole in my door from the previous tenant, and he tried to pin it on my dog until I got the middle man to straighten things for me. Also, will my room mates be on the hook for the rent if I do leave, even though the lease was never actually completed? Do we have a right to do the walk through with the land lord? Help!","title":"Sticky landlord situation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541270108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9twhr9\/if_someone_who_worked_in_a_pharmacy_used_their\/","id":"9twhr9","body":"Just a thought that came to my mind while I was in class. From my limited knowledge, insider trading is only related to an individual who looks through company data and\/or has knowledge of company activities and uses such knowledge to trade with that company\u2019s stock. I was just wondering if it would expand to this particular area. ","title":"If someone who worked in a pharmacy used their knowledge of healthcare based activity to purchase pharmaceutical stocks, could that be classified as insider trading?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554241535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8perm\/is_it_legal_for_an_employer_to_seek_information\/","id":"b8perm","body":"I\u2019m not sure if I added the right flair, and I\u2019m new to this so I\u2019m sorry if my formatting is wrong. \n\nI missed a day of work and provided a doctor\u2019s note to my employer. They called the medical clinic to see if I was actually there that day and to ask questions about my medical limitations. My question- is this legal? Thank you. ","title":"Is it legal for an employer to seek information regarding my medical appointments?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551414378,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw0ixm\/landlord_wont_evict_potentially_dangerous_tenant\/","id":"aw0ixm","body":"A friend of mine and his girlfriend are currently renting a room in a multifamily house. There are about 5 individuals who live in this house. \n\nOne of these individuals has on multiple occasions: attempted to break into my friends room, successfully broke in and stole items and $200 cash, has attempted to sexually advance himself onto my friends girlfriend. Oh and threw a vacuum cleaner at her twice just today which finally convinced me to see what can be done.\n\nThey told me that on a few of the occasions the local police were contacted and apparently said that they were not able to do anything. I was not there for these calls so I can not say what actually happened here. \n\nThe landlord has been informed about these events and refuses to do anything about it. I'm pretty sure the landlord and the problematic tenant have some kind of history together. Otherwise I can't understand why he would defend this asshole.","title":"Landlord won't evict potentially dangerous tenant. What can be done?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446154915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qrdbk\/i_got_arrested_and_charged_with_disorderly\/","id":"3qrdbk","body":"Went to a concert on Labor Day weekend at an outdoor facility with some friends and ended up running into my younger sister (16). Some guys in between my group of friends and her group of friends started to shove each other and it looked like a fight was about to break out, so I moved to block my sister from the impending fight. Some guy turned around, made eye contact with me, and head butted me in the face. My friends dragged me away before I could retaliate and took me outside the concert to clean up my bloody face. On our way out I was stopped by police officers, or sheriff deputies I'm not sure, and questioned as to what happened. The guy who headbutted me walked out shortly after so I pointed him out to the officers. He was taken away and questioned as well. Soon after being told I would be able to give a statement (which I never did), I was handcuffed and put in the back of a squad car, taken in and processed and officially charged. My Omnibus hearing is in about a week and I'm not sure what I should be expecting. \n\nTL;DR Got headbutted, didn't fight back, still arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, omnibus hearing next week\n\nEdit: forgot a few details:\nHappened in Montana\nAlcohol was a factor, but over 21","title":"I got arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. I didn't do anything wrong and I'm not sure how to proceed.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539989187,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pot0f\/can_i_get_out_of_my_lease_louisiana\/","id":"9pot0f","body":"Hi! I signed a lease on a townhome two weeks ago with my boyfriend. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, he lost his job and we are unable to live here with my my monthly wages alone. The date in our lease agreement states that the start date of the lease is 11\/1\/18. We only paid a prorated rate for October and our maintenance deposit which is non refundable. I\u2019m not asking landlord for money back, just need some advice on if it is possible to break the lease.\n\nTIA!","title":"Can I get out of my lease? Louisiana","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552268237,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azn9zi\/what_are_the_legal_stipulations_to_restrict\/","id":"azn9zi","body":"Hello all. This is my first time post! \n\nI am currently pregnant with my first born, due in May. \nI was married to my husband in May, and he has a beautiful son whom I care for as my own. \n\nTo cut through the bullshit, his family, especially his biological father and sister are toxic and incredibly hateful people towards me. My SIL has degraded me since we\u2019ve gotten married and is best friends with my husbands ex wife, which doesn\u2019t bother me, except for the fact that I pay for EVERYTHING for my stepson (another issue entirely). Since announcing my pregnancy, my SIL has talked shit to my husband AND my stepson about how I\u2019m going to be a shitty mom. My stepsons mother has also mentioned several times that my baby is \u201cfake.\u201d \n\nI do NOT want my SIL around my child. \n\nAT. ALL. \n\nI want to see if she has any legal rights to see my child. I also want to know if I can get anything signed to restrict access to her, as well as with my MIL and FIL, because they might be moving in with SIL and frankly, if they bring my child around my SIL, I don\u2019t want them to be able to see him either. \n\nI know this might sound incredibly petty but trust me when I say this woman is not beneficial to my child and will be toxic to my child, and to my relationship with my child. I just want to know what rights they have, what rights I have, and what I can do to prevent them from even seeing my child when he\u2019s born. \n\nThank you in advance!! ","title":"What are the legal stipulations to restrict access to my children in North Texas?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506873375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73mel4\/home_warranty_company_refuses_to_replace_furnace\/","id":"73mel4","body":"I need some help\/ advice regarding a home warranty company and my furnace and AC. \n\nI bought my house in August of 2016 using a VA home loan. Prior to the purchase, I had a home inspection done that documented my furnace and AC were working (although the AC was not working the greatest). Fast forward to July 2017, and my AC isn\u2019t blowing an cold air at all. I called my home warranty company and they sent out an AC service provider that they chose to inspect my equipment. The service provider inspected both the AC and furnace and deemed them both unsafe for use. The furnace has a broken heat exchanger and leaks carbon monoxide into my home. The service provider also contacted my energy company to inform him that he  \u201cRed Tagged\u201d the furnace as unsafe.\n\nThe home warranty company was advised of all of this information and was even given the \u201cRed Tag\u201d number for the furnace. My service provider requested that the furnace and AC be replaced and *not* parted out. The home warranty company gave 5-7 days for equipment delivery. I waited and called and waited and called both the warranty company and the HVAC guy but wasn\u2019t getting any information. I finally got in touch with the warranty company and they said that they sent the replacement PARTS to the HVAC guy. I argued with them about sending parts instead of appliance replacements and my case was bumped up to a supervisor who would \u201clook into it and get back to me.\u201d I still haven\u2019t heard from them. \n\nI decided to file a complaint with the insurance commissioner but I haven\u2019t heard anything from them yet either. \n\nI live in Western Montana and it is starting to get cold and I don\u2019t have any way to heat my home. I have tenants and don't want to have issues with not being able to provide adequate housing. I am a veteran and do have access to VA services but they are often slow to replay and can take months to get rolling.\n\nDo you guys have any advice for me? I\u2019m not really sure where to go from here or if I even have a case? \n\nThank you!","title":"Home warranty company refuses to replace furnace and AC after they have been deemed unsafe.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506092829,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71rkx1\/mo_is_my_employer_allowed_to_dock_my_pay_as_a\/","id":"71rkx1","body":"I have been unable to meet a required amount of meetings to be scheduled between my employer and our customers and my employer just threatened me that if I can't meet these requirements he will dock my pay $100 each pay period (bi-weekly) that I haven't met that quota. Is this legal?","title":"(MO) Is my employer allowed to dock my pay as a disciplinary action?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504284453,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xfs7u\/ca_usa_the_other_insurance_company_wont_let_my\/","id":"6xfs7u","body":"Long story short, I was in a car accident, the other party admitted fault. My car was deemed a total loss by the other insurance company. I never signed any paperwork but now the other insurance company will not let my insurance company appraise the car at the tow yard. Can they do this?","title":"[CA, USA] The other Insurance company won't let my insurance company see my car for another appraisal","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1445898701,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qcaz0\/breaking_a_lease_despite_having_paid_7months_rent\/","id":"3qcaz0","body":"Hey All,\n\nI moved into an apartment in Vegas over the summer. Upon getting into town, when we did the walkthrough there were several issues and things that needed repairs. Most importantly, the baseboards under the dishwasher were coming off\/falling apart, we noticed a lot of bugs inhabited our home and the tile in both bathrooms was so gross to the point that the shower in the guest bahtroom is completely unusable.\n\nI'm starting to get exceptionally irritated with this place. The toliet in the masster bath has also broken many times and they always take 3-5 days to fix it.\n\nAs for the bathroom tile, we've been trying to get it repaired since we moved in. There's been a lot of phone tag and miscommunication. Finally, Friday they came over at 10am, which wouldn't be so bad but we had specifically told them we could not allow entry at that time seeing as my boyfriend works a graveyard shift and that any time after 12 noon was acceptable to come by. \n\nSo, naturally when maintence arrived at 10am to assess the damage I informed them they needed to come back in 2hrs. They ultimately refused to do so citing policy that they don't schedule repairs around the tenanets availability and that they were short staffed.\n\nNow, we've been told that the tile is so bad that when they repair it, no living thing can be in the house for 48hrs. Consquently, we scheduled a trip out of state for this Tuesday\/Wednesday. They were closed through the weekend and unavailable all of Friday after they came by and were denied entry, despite attempting to reach them. \n\nThe maintence guy is insisting that this is my fault justifying the work not getting done because, \"You don't answer the phone,\" (He never answers either I had to walk to his office in person to get something going) and \"We can't work around your work schedule,\" and that, \"You choose to deny entry.\" \n\nI'm thinking at this point I'm going to need to break the lease. The thing is they forced us to pay 7 months worth of rent + a months worth of rent as a security deposit. I actually am beggining to think what they requested of us is a bit illegal. \n\nThe reason they cited for us moving in with rent upfront was that neither of us had a job at the time and my boyfriend had poor credit.\n\nMeanwhile, my credit is excellent, 720+ last I checked. I also have a rather large inhertiance and that is reflected in my tax returns. So, it was obvious I could afford the place month to month but they weren't having it and us being on a tight schedule easily complied with an upfront payment & I cosigned for my boyfriend. \n\nDo I have a case to move out and take them to court for a return of the lease money? Or, can I bill them\/take them to court for getting us out of the house for 2days or when they actually do get around to repairing the bathroom and making the place unlivable for a few days are they responsible for our housing arrangements? (Like paying the hotel costs?) \n\nAdvice and guidance here would really be appreciated. ","title":"Breaking a Lease Despite Having Paid 7Months Rent Upfront [Las Vegas, NV]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555271328,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd6qw0\/is_designating_a_beneficiary_on_life_insurance\/","id":"bd6qw0","body":"I am 30 and healthy. I am not in danger. Located in Indiana. I have been partnered for the better part of a decade with no legal ties to each other. We do not live in a common law state. He\u2019s listed as my beneficiary for 100% on both accounts. Is that enough to keep my funds away from my money grubbing mother in the event of my demise?","title":"Is designating a beneficiary on life insurance & 401k enough to be sure it legally goes to the beneficiary only?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1508378255,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77bfve\/mechanic_has_taken_over_a_month_to_fix_my_car_and\/","id":"77bfve","body":"I hope anyone may be able to provide me with some guidance on this as it has been very difficult to deal with. And I want to thank you all in advance for taking the time to read this. \n\nSo on September 15th I was involved in a car accident and had significant damage done to the front of my car. Luckily no one was hurt, but sadly it was my fault and insurance did not cover it. The day of the accident I had the car towed to my local mechanic who has worked on my car before and is a decent guy (he is not the problem in this situation), he recommended me to his next door neighbor who has a shop and fixes cars also. I ended up speaking with this guy and he got a good look at my car and said it will be fixable since it is not totaled and it still runs. \n\nI explained to this mechanic I am a college student who has a part-time job and pays student loans, credit card bills and what not just so he was aware of my financial situation. He said just by looking at the damage, parts and labor included, if I were to take it to some auto body shop they would usually quote around $3500. I asked him to work with me and be generous. \n\nA few days go by and I go back to his shop after he takes a good look at the damage and quoted me $2400 including labor. I took the deal since I had no other option. I can't take the car to another shop to get a different quote because that would cost $100+ just to get it towed there since it was not drivable. I explain to him I will make payments little by little since I did not have enough in my \"emergency\" savings to pay it in full. He is hesitant about it but agrees. \n\nSo the first week I gave him $500, the second week I gave him $300 and the third week I gave him $1000 in total he now has 1800 out of the 2400 promised. Between the 1st and 3rd week I check in with him approximately twice a week to get a status on how close he is to completing the job. His response is always the same, and tell me that \"he still looking for parts\" or \"he has not gotten the time to go to the junk yard to look for parts\" or \"he has been busy with other jobs and for me to check in next week\". So last week I tell him he will get the remaining amount once the job is done. Now here we are, 1 month later and the job has not been completed which to me seems a little absurd that it has taken this long. I hope I don't come off as arrogant since I did request for him to try and avoid buying new parts for everything due to my financial situation and the fact that the car has a book value of $6000.\n\nI went to make a visit over to him as I do every Wednesday to get the update but this time I had a stronger tone and demanded he provide in writing the parts he bought and the parts that he is still looking for, with the prices listed, along with an expected date that he plans to finish the job, in other words, an invoice. He still gives me the same excuses as the past three weeks but this time he added that he has \"been tired and didn't work on it\", along with \"I know I should have spent more time on it but he there is a lot of work\". He claims to have hired a guy that is helping him work on it but I don't know how valid that is.\n\nDue to the fact of not having a car I have had to make adjustments to my daily life as far as getting to work and school. I will mention he did not provide a loan car, I did inquire him about one, he said he does not have an extra car. Understandable. I had a rental for 1 week and could not afford it for more than that which came to about $190. I been essentially having to rely on my mother to drive me to work and school Monday-Friday and it takes a lot of time from her day to do so and not to mention next Monday (10\/23) she is going in for breast surgery since she was diagnosed with breast cancer. So starting next week she will not be able to drive me to work\/school due to the fact she will be in recovery and I have mid terms coming up. If it was any other time I would have no problem missing a week of class and just doing the work from home.\n\nI am sure as some of you read this, questions will come up. Please feel free to ask or give your opinions on my options if there are any available. Thanks again for all your time. ","title":"Mechanic has taken over a month to fix my car and still has no end date to do so. [MA]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569737239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dargbe\/i_believe_my_ex_posted_review_about_me_online_can\/","id":"dargbe","body":"Hi Reddit long time user first time poster, throwaway because privacy reasons.\n\nTLDR: Called it off with ex because I just didn\u2019t have feelings for him the same anymore. Ex post a bad review about me on yelp as an employee at my job. I\u2019m very embarrassed about the review not because it\u2019s true, but because people whom I work with are seeing it. I would like to protest Yelp to have remove this. I feel like it should be considered libel or slander, but I don\u2019t know how to approach yelp about this.\n\nSo I called it off with my ex of 3 and a half years about a month and a half ago. I thought things were fine, we were still cordial with each other, but not seeing each other nearly as much as we used to. Then a couple days ago I find about a review about me and my work ethic. It wasn\u2019t vulgar except for one instance I was referred to a \u201cdouchebag\u201d. The rest of it reads about exaggerations. I\u2019ll list them, the first will be the review statement, the second is what my opinion of it is.\n\n1. he never greets anyone when they walk in\n2. It is best practice to welcome people in when the step through our doors. I literally greet everyone, so much so it\u2019s second nature. My mind is tuned to the door chime I just automatically say something unless I hear someone say it before me, but I\u2019m usually the first. \n\n1. he is always on the computer.\n2. I\u2019m an assistant in a retail environment where I\u2019m required to check emails and submit inquiries every so often. So yes I\u2019m on the computer but I would say I\u2019m definitely on the floor over 50% of the time.\n\n1. I walked in one day in need of assistance and guidance and asked her for help and she was to busy on that computer and instead sent another employee that was busy at the time to help me. He needs to work on customer service.\n2. This is probably the only part that gets me annoyed. I do send my other employees to help our customers because, guess what I\u2019m the manager and I have to reply to customer service requests while making sure everyone in the store is also helped if they need it. I \u201cmanage\u201d the store. I probably did send someone to help him but I don\u2019t know how someone to see that as rude. I ask for help all the time when I shopping especially department stores, it\u2019s not all uncommon for someone to tell you \u201chold on while I get someone who can help you\u201d. I can\u2019t imagine someone who would be upset enough to leave a review like they did.\n\nThose are the most important parts because that\u2019s what people are talking about at my work place now.\n\n\nThis is why I think it was my EX\nIn the review it mentions me by first name and 5 other of my associates by first name and one by a nickname. Unless it was a regular I don\u2019t see why someone would remember that many names. \nThe review was posted by an account with that review as it\u2019s first. \nMy ex knew about the review before I did. I found out by talking to him about it and then he said \u201coh yeah I saw that\u201d. That\u2019s peculiar  because he would have at least mentioned it, him and I are friends of some of my coworkers. We liked to gossip so that would have been a big juicy thing he would been like \u201cbet you can\u2019t guess what I heard about you\u201d. Instead he kept quiet about it for an entire week.\n\nThe only thing I think that could have triggered this was when him and I had a conversation about respect and boundaries. I told him that he could talk to me like he used to had that the tone should change. I told him I\u2019m going to have boundaries and he would need to respect them.\n\nThis review is under my skin because \n1. It\u2019s annoyingly untrue in my eyes.\n2. My coworkers are cracking harmless Jokes but I\u2019m the butt of them. I would just prefer not to be the topic of conversation.\n\nIs there a anything I can do about this?","title":"I believe my ex posted review about me online, can I protest it and get it removed?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1542215567,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x1zym\/international_guardianship\/","id":"9x1zym","body":"What is the process to get it set up that my child would go to family that live in a different country if anything were to happen to my husband and I?\n\n We live in the US. My brother lives in Germany. We do have other family in the US but they would not raise our child the same as we (or my brother) would. \n\nAlso, is there a way to prevent someone from ever getting rights or visitation to my child. I do not have a relationship with my parents and my daughter doesn't either but they are very manipulative and if anything were to happen to us I know they would try to fight for her. They were extremely abusive and  neglectful. We live in a state where grandparents rights can be issued if one of the parents dies. Is there a way to also set it up so that they cannot try to claim any rights if I were to die? ","title":"International guardianship","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571081136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhvl6i\/a_driver_hit_my_moms_car_and_was_ruled_100_at\/","id":"dhvl6i","body":"\\[Florida\\]\n\nMy mom was at a 4-way stop when someone ran the stop sign and t-boned her. The police arrived, and ruled the other driver as the faulty party. She has a copy of the police report. Both her and the other driver use Geico insurance. \n\nWhen Geico called my mom, they told her they wanted to find both her and the other driver at fault 50\/50 (they have not seen and appear to have no interest in seeing the police report). She has not accepted any offer from them yet. \n\nWhat can she do in order to not be unfairly implicated in the cause of an accident that was solely the fault of the driver who ran the stop sign? Is the police report from the scene of the accident of any relevancy?","title":"A driver hit my mom's car and was ruled 100% at fault by police. Now Geico wants them to split the fault. [USA]","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541003461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t0da7\/leaving_a_controllingabusive_spouse_va\/","id":"9t0da7","body":"Obligatory 'throwaway because reasons' and 'for a friend' notes. \n\nMy best friend got pregnant and subsequently married a man she barely knew because she forgot it was 2018 and not necessary. Fast forward - Baby is now 8 months old, and BFF is a stay at home mother. Husband is extremely controlling, emotionally\/mentally and borderline physically abusive. His main avenue of control is financial. He's constantly questioning the money that she spends, often flipping out first and asking questions later. He tells her that it's 'his' money and she has no right to it, that she does not contribute to the household at all (despite the fact that she cooks, cleans, does laundry... oh right, and RAISES HIS FUCKING CHILD). If they get into an argument, he takes his debit card from her so she can't go anywhere. He tells her that she's fat and disgusting since having the baby, that she needs to get back to pre-baby weight before he can even bring himself to touch her.  He will often yell at her in front of the baby, though she does her best to remain calm and shield him from it as much as she can. I asked point blank if he's been physically abusive, and she said that he pushed her once but \"probably wouldn't hit her\" (I'm sure your eyes just rolled as hard as mine did when I heard that gem). She's told him that she's unhappy and that she thinks they should separate - he tells her that he'll take the baby away from her, that there's nothing she can do, he'll tell everyone she's an unfit mother who can't even support the baby because she doesn't have a job. Once, she tried to go to her dad's house so they could have some time apart after a particularly brutal fight, and he physically snatched the baby from her and said she could leave but he's keeping his child. Wouldn't even hand him back to her so she could breastfeed him. She has been trying to secretly record these outbursts (VA is a one party consent to record state, hallelujah), she's saving text messages from him when he berates her. She's hiding money away (her grandmother has given her cash, I've added her as an authorized user on my credit card and she knows I can Venmo her however much she needs in an instant, but of course she's hesitant to accept). She's over an hour away from her family, and three hours away from me (we're all in the same state though) so she's essentially alone in an emergency situation. He is in school, courtesy of the military (no longer active duty) so he's not actually working. He's a ticking time bomb, and I'm so scared her window to safely escape is becoming more and more narrow by the day. \n\nShe knows she's going to need to leave while Husband is gone, as he'll never let her leave with the baby. Please, tell me what she needs to do to protect herself and baby. I'm terrified she'll leave, and not have enough evidence to prove she's leaving a toxic situation and be charged with kidnapping or something crazy. I told her to gather as much evidence as she can and to find a lawyer before she even hints that she's leaving him. She wants to go to the courthouse to get divorce paperwork and custody paperwork pre-filled out so she can just be ready to go. I read a lot of books, but I know next to nothing about protecting yourself with the law. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Please help me save my friend from becoming a statistic. ","title":"Leaving a Controlling\/Abusive Spouse - VA","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553918877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b76wi9\/20k_in_child_support_arrears_is_there_a_way_to\/","id":"b76wi9","body":"State of Illinois\n\nMy ex-husband and I have been divorced since 2008. At the time of our divorce, he falsely claimed to have very little income and the judge awarded only $60\/week in child support, plus half of our daughter\u2019s medical, dental and daycare. At that time, the child support amount was the state minimum. He earned a fair amount of money, but he is self-employed so his tax returns are...fiction.\n\nDespite the small amount of child support, he has infrequently paid and is now almost $20K in arrears. He does not acknowledge that he owes any money unless I bring it up and then he will wait a few more weeks before writing me a check. The arrears keep climbing. \n\nFortunately, I am more than capable of supporting our daughter on my own, which is probably part of the reason he doesn\u2019t even acknowledge child support unless I bring it up. I don\u2019t need the $20K. But I also can\u2019t help but feel like it\u2019s total bullshit that he can ignore his obligation.\n\nBecause he\u2019s self-employed, his wages can\u2019t be garnished. My understanding is that if I take him to court, the best they can do is award a judgement and if he doesn\u2019t pay, suspend his license.\n\nI\u2019m debating taking him to court, but I don\u2019t want to spend the money on it if there\u2019s really nothing material that can be done. Our daughter is now 14 and I\u2019m sure he won\u2019t make any attempt to pay the arrears after she turns 18 so the clock is ticking. \n\nDo I have a fighting chance (legally speaking) or should I just continue trying to collect from him directly and then write off the arrears when she turns 18?","title":"$20K in Child Support Arrears - Is there a way to collect?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443652331,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n0zc3\/trying_to_leave_hostile_roommate_in_michigan\/","id":"3n0zc3","body":"I live in Michigan and the current living situation I'm in is a bit dicey. I had to move out of my nice apartment because my old roommate needed to go to college and I had no one to take up the spot. No big deal. The only place I found was a craigslist ad. A guy said I could stay and it was simply paying rent for each month I was there in advance due on the first. No lease. Only a small security deposit just in case. Once again, no big deal.\n\nHowever, recently the roommate has become increasingly hostile over everything. If I leave literally one dish in the sink overnight, he freaks out. It got to the point where he was not only denying me internet access, but also to the kitchen and laundry facilities. He then got a \"Demand for possession Health\/Hazard to Property\" notice this month on the 8th because I kept a small garbage can in my room because he doesn't allow me to use the kitchen. It wasn't overflowing or stinky or anything. I take out my garbage twice a week. I even had outside opinions as well confirm it wasn't disgusting or even smelled. This was basically his way of trying to threaten me and get me out since it specifically says on the notice that I either fix the problem or move out within seven days or that he would consider taking action. Empty threats to be honest.\n\nNow I am getting sick of him freaking out all of the time and stressing me out so I finally got my own apartment that I am moving into tomorrow. Before then, he was stalking any ads I had posted on Craigslist regarding roommates and would send nasty replies or post letters on my bedroom door regarding it. I decided it was best to leave so I don't have to pay another month worth of rent and deal with it but I didn't give him any notice since that notice I mentioned before said to move out. I'm getting help in the afternoon to make sure he doesn't start anything and moving out in one swoop. From my understanding, that notice combined with a lack of any lease means I do not need to give any notice when I leave. The only thing I would be losing out on is the return of my security deposit, which he wouldn't even give back after all is said and done due to his attitude.\n\nHe said that if I don't give him rent tomorrow that he'll call the police. Should I be worried? I'm contemplating calling a police officer to keep the peace so I can get the help I need getting out of this hostile place? I just want to make sure he can't do anything to prevent me from leaving.","title":"Trying to leave hostile roommate in Michigan.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442521169,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lcfxj\/or_landlord_hasnt_returned_security_deposit_yet\/","id":"3lcfxj","body":"Long story short, significant other and I lived in an apartment for a little over a year and the landlord was not the most prompt or communicative sort. Moved out a month ago, after providing required 30 days notice , leaving it in good condition, and everything. Talked to him on the phone, tried to set up a time for a walkthrough to check for damages, but he just said he'd schedule one later. That never happened, despite a few different letters from us. We provided him with our new address and he has both our phone numbers, so it's not like he has trouble getting in contact with us.\n\nNow, [ORS 90.300](http:\/\/www.oregonlaws.org\/ors\/90.300), as I read it, requires him to return the security deposit within 31 days (that deadline passed yesterday), and requires him to give us a written accounting of any damages or else he doesn't get to withhold any of it. What's more, in my understanding, (16) requires him to now pay us double the original security deposit. **My question is this**: are we correct in our understanding that we can now demand double and take him to small claims court if he doesn't pay?\n\nLocation is Oregon, since Mr. Bot seems to be struggling with postal codes.","title":"[OR] Landlord hasn't returned security deposit yet; going to threaten to take him to small claims court over it and want to make sure I'm understanding things correctly","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571320292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj6olx\/my_father_got_a_parking_ticket_and_the_cat_is\/","id":"dj6olx","body":"I\u2019m his son and want to go on his behalf to get it reduced. It\u2019s already late. I\u2019m in New York btw. Does he have to go or can I go?  Also, how would they find the ticket if it\u2019s not under a license?","title":"My father got a parking ticket and the cat is registered and insured under his name as well. Can I goto traffic court and try to get it reduced for him?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445577544,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pvddn\/broke_my_leg_in_a_cemetery_us_ga\/","id":"3pvddn","body":"I broke my leg in Georgia, in a cemetery, jumping over a gravestone. (I know it was stupid and I hate myself for it.) The headstone wasn't cemented down and it fell on my leg crushing it. When I got to the e.r. I told them I broke it jumping off a porch. A month later and I'm back home in Ohio and my insurance wants to know the details of my injury. I'm tempted to lie and tell them I broke it rock climbing in a state park down there just so it all goes away and they don't go after someone else to pay for it. Is this as bad of an idea as I think it is and why? Any advice is greatly appreciated.\n\nP.s. shitty formatting cuz mobile","title":"Broke my leg in a cemetery [US, GA]","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571458276,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djys7g\/convicting_my_english_teacher_of_commiting_war\/","id":"djys7g","body":"Alright, so I'm (non-legitimately) convicting my English Teacher of commiting war crimes.\n\nBackstory:\n     *Had a substitute teacher on Tuesday, October 15.\n     *Three students caused a disruption in class. Note from substitute to my teacher: 7th period English was very loud and disrespectful. Student X threw an item at the wall. Students Y and Z were fighting over a phone. After telling the three students to stop, they say down and began speaking very disrespectfully about me.\n     *On Thursday, October 17, we arrived back in class. The (actual) teacher had moved our seating, told us we were not allowed to speak, then forced us to write a summative 3-4 page descriptive essay of what happened that day in class and a 1 page apology letter to the substitute.\n     *When one student asked why everyone was being punished the teacher responded saying that since we were present in the classroom, everyone was responsible for what happened.\n\nNow to the Conviction:\n\nI would like to convict my teacher of commiting a war crime and refusal to obey Article 33 of the Geneva Conventions.\n\nArticle 33 of the Geneva Conventions states:\n\n>Individual responsibility, collective penalties, pillage and reprisals. No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. ... Under the 1949\u00a0Geneva Conventions, collective punishment is a war crime\n\nI now conclude my argument and request assistance from you lovely folks on how I would go about writing a letter or petition against these horrible crimes.","title":"Convicting my English Teacher of Commiting War Crimes","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551297651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avhon7\/ny_current_tenant_has_not_moved_out_of_the\/","id":"avhon7","body":"TL;DR I\u2019m moving into a place on friday without having signed a lease, and suspect the landlord might be present and the current tenant might not have moved out, do I have legal right to call police with just texts from the landlord confirming the move-in date? \n\nI\u2019m supposed to be moving into a new apartment on Friday 3\/1. The current tenant has been difficult throughout the entire process. Basically, we viewed the lower apartment that we found through a listing at the end of January. We fell in love with the place and the landlord seemed very nice and reasonable. We said our move in date would be 3\/1 and he said he has other applicants who would take the lower apartment on 2\/1, but the upper is basically identical and would be available to us on our date. We said yes because it was a good location, in our budget, and a really nice neighborhood in our city. It even comes with a washer\/dryer and a dishwasher, and is cat friendly with no extra deposit!\n\nWe haven\u2019t been able to see the unit whatsoever because, in his words, \u201cthe tenant is being difficult\u201d. That was fine, but we had some anxiety that she might have trashed the place and that\u2019s why she\u2019s being \u201cdifficult\u201d. Anyway, fast forward to last weekend, and he says she\u2019s going to be moved out by Tuesday, which was yesterday. He said he\u2019d have the lease drawn up by then so we could meet to go over it and sign it then. \n\nYesterday we still hadn\u2019t heard from him since, so we texted him (most of the communication has been over text) and he didn\u2019t respond until about 30 minutes ago, 36 hours later, during which time we grew increasingly worried that he was going to ghost us and we\u2019d be left with no place to move into, and we *have* to be moved out of our current apartment Friday. \n\nWhen he finally texts back, he says the current tenant is again being difficult about leaving. He is still tied up in NYC (about 7 hours away) and asks us when we need to move in, which we established over a month ago. When we say we\u2019re planning on moving in friday morning, he says \u201cshe\u2019ll have to be moved out by then\u201d, which clearly hasn\u2019t mattered to her in the past. He asks if we can wait until 3pm (an annoyance since I work overnight and was hoping to be done by then so I could sleep before work, but that\u2019s besides the point). If he can\u2019t get there on Friday, he says he\u2019ll have the tenant leave the keys and we can just sign the lease on Monday when he returns. \n\nI have every reason to believe that the tenant might still be there when we need to move in on Friday. I\u2019m trying to be optimistic, but also preemptively plan for the worst. If she\u2019s still there and refuses to leave, would I have the legal right to call the police for assistance even if I haven\u2019t signed a lease yet, but have the text history showing that we\u2019re approved to move in at that time\/date?","title":"[NY] Current tenant has not moved out of the apartment I\u2019m moving into Friday, and landlord is out of town","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441552358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jv2ps\/neighbors_many_illegals_causing_terrible_smell\/","id":"3jv2ps","body":"We have a renter house next door in Austin Texas and the landlord has consistently over 8 years rented to people who are straw renters (renters who are not on the lease). Now we just have a group of Mexicans who moved in, and I normally would not care, but they have the worst smell I have ever smelled and I am ready to move out because of it. I want to know what my options are. For example, I meet a lady on the first day that spoke English, but ever since then I haven't seen her but about 5 other adults and a child (its either a 3\/2 or 2\/2; its 1,037 sq). I know they are all straw renters and the land lord is renting a 3\/2 to one person and not caring. The problem is this\u2014the smell coming from their house is so strong and nasty I can't go outside anymore. Thats the whole problem. \nWhat are my options? Can I go after the land lord legally for knowingly renting to illegal immigrants? Can I go after him for renting to straw renters? Can I do anything about the smell? Thank you in advance. ","title":"Neighbors- many illegals causing terrible smell","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446749061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rnt68\/child_custody_for_out_of_state_trips_pennsylvania\/","id":"3rnt68","body":"I am married and legal resident of PA.  If I wanted to take my children out of state against my spouse's wishes, is this legal?  ","title":"Child custody for out of state trips Pennsylvania","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507759326,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75si9p\/california_car_was_hit_while_stationary_in\/","id":"75si9p","body":"Hey,\n\nSo this happened a week or so ago. Basically I was at Costco and stopped, and out of my vehicle in the travel lane approx 1.5 car lengths behind a parked car. I opened my trunk to get something out. While outside the vehicle, the parked car reversed out of its spot and hit my vehicle. Now while I am aware I shouldn't be stopped in the lane, it is the burden of the driver to make sure the surroundings are clear when backing out correct? I filed a claim with their insurance and was told I am liable for 50% of the damage. Nobody was in my vehicle, and it was stationary. The other driver reversed into my car.\n\nWhat are my options here?","title":"[California] Car was hit while stationary in parking lot","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505259562,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zqv4b\/landlord_refusing_to_treat_termite_infestation\/","id":"6zqv4b","body":"My fiance and I have rented this home since May 2016.  We are in Southern California\n\nA couple of months ago the landlord replaced the entire roof as we were having roof leaks during the rains during the winter and wanted to replace before this winter. We noticed a wooden stump we had out front (decorative, came with the house) was removed without notice, so I was curious and asked why. Landlord said it was because there were termites.\n\nAt that time I was like, oh great. I figured they might need to treat the home or at least have someone come inspect (it's an older home). I heard nothing and then yesterday I noticed about 30 termites crawling around in my laundry room at the rear of the home. \n\nI immediately told the landlord.. and asked if they could have someone come out asap to take care of this, because we have a 1 1\/2 year old who likes to crawl around and eat everything and I do not want him picking up and eating termites, or them biting him.\n\nMy landlord was not happy I brought the problem to her attention (via text) and told me that I knew this was an old house when we moved in, that termites are not a health hazard and we were welcome to give notice. What?! So, they are basically refusing to treat the problem and we are not in a financial position to move until next year at the earliest, which she knows. She said her father (who owns the property) is out of town and he will be mad when she tells him we are requesting pest control, but she will ask him. What time frame legally do they have to address this problem or let me know what will happen?\n\nToday, I saw 5 in the bedroom which my son sleeps in too (1 bedroom house). Not happy to say the least. I fear they are going to be crawling on all of us when we sleep.\n\nIs there anything we can do short of moving? If we have to, we have to but I am hoping that there's some way into forcing the landlord to take care of it. ","title":"Landlord refusing to treat termite infestation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443987701,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nhhy4\/car_insurance_sending_me_to_collections_for_an\/","id":"3nhhy4","body":"I was involved in an car accident in which the other party agreed to not pursuit insurance claims.  It was his fault but there were no visible damages on his car.  A few months later, I received a bill from his insurance company.  Unfortunately, my insurance declined to cover since I was using the vehicle for work and did not have specific commercial insurance.  Now the other party\u2019s insurance is sending me collection notes with increasing bills, and refusing to explain any of the charges. I call and they hang up.  How I can fight this charge? Is small claims court a good option to look into? ","title":"Car insurance sending me to collections for an accident that is not my fault. How can I fight a charge on my own?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551340773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avok35\/ca_im_renting_out_a_room_in_a_house_security\/","id":"avok35","body":"Is it legal in CA to have a security camera in your room (when renting out a room in a home occupied by the owners) if it only records your room and not the common space?  My lease stipulates that my room is private, if that means anything.  \n\n\nBACKGROUND\n\nRecently, the owners have been pulling some shady shit, and the other day they tried to enter my room while I was at work-- little did they know, my girlfriend was sleeping inside.  She woke up, they saw her, got spooked, and quickly shut the door.  Since then, I've put a security camera in my room.  Today, on video, I caught one of them opening my door and kicking my cat. After kicking my poor kitty, the bastard stared right into the camera, so I know they know now.   \n\n\nI'm wondering if:  \n\n\na) this footage could be submitted as evidence if I decide to press charges for animal cruelty.\n\n​\n\nb) they could press charges against me for recording them entering my room.","title":"[CA] I'm renting out a room in a house-- security camera legal in my room?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507763155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75swij\/trying_to_break_my_lease_in_pa\/","id":"75swij","body":"My girlfriend and I moved into an apartment with 3 of our friends. My girlfriend and the other 3 are all in college which is located very close. Recently, we have found out that my girlfriend is pregnant. We want to move out and find our own apartment. An expecting couple lives a very different lifestyle than 3  single college guys. We have talked to our landlord, and he says that we need to find a new tenant to take over our lease. However, I don't know how we are going to find someone to move in with 3 college guys. We have about 7 months left on our lease. Any help is appreciated.","title":"Trying to break my lease in pa","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553295483,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4bqsz\/ga_employer_is_taking_tips_from_employees_to\/","id":"b4bqsz","body":"A little background: I (17M) work at a popular ice-cream franchise and recently we had our manager quit and the store management has been taken over by the owner\u2019s daughter. She also manages two other stores so she appointed three people at our store to assistant manager, they each handle small parts of operating the store. \nRecently, some people have been complaining about inconsistent hours and those who work more than 40 hours aren\u2019t being paid overtime. \n\nA few hours ago I received a group message from one of the assistant managers stating that one of the drawers was under by $15 and that it will be coming out of the people who were working that shift\u2019s credit tips. I did some research into wage laws and I am pretty sure this is illegal. \nIs there anything I should do like talk to the owner or consult a lawyer? ","title":"[GA] Employer is taking tips from employees to cover register shorts.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571777484,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlo95w\/delivery_truck_hit_our_car_and_left_called_and_hr\/","id":"dlo95w","body":" \n\nThursday of Last week my girlfriend was working in her office, her window looks over the street where her car is parked (on a slight hill, with the wheels turned to the curb). She heard a loud bang and stood up looking outside, seeing a delivery truck just past her car driving off. She didn't see any damage to her car so she went back to work. Before dinner she went to go do errands and her steering was all messed up. Her and I inspected the car and found a bent steering rack arm and a split along with a smudge mark on her weeks old new tire (outside of the driver side front).\n\nShe called delivery trucks HR who said they would call her back in 24 hours to start the claim. We waited 3 days with no call, so she called them back and after getting routed through 4 different people she finally spoke with a regional lady who said she was going to see what trucks were in the area and if any trucks have damage. It has been another 24 hours, I understand things can move slow but this is starting to feel like the run around. replacement cost for damaged car parts are expensive before labor, and in the mean time she has been without a car.\n\nIs there any other recourse we can follow other than waiting for HR to get back to us?","title":"delivery truck hit our car and left, called and HR has left us hanging. Ohio, USA","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539307365,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nfy1a\/does_tapping_no_anime_pictures_onto_a_locker_mine\/","id":"9nfy1a","body":"^ Title","title":"Does tapping \u201cNo Anime\u201d pictures onto a locker (mine) count as vandalism?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1444879172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ot836\/california_us_living_trust_or_will\/","id":"3ot836","body":"My parents 50M and 50F are setting up a living trust and\/or will.  Anyone have any experience on which is better? And how much did you pay for the services?  My mom states she was quoted that these services would cost at least $1000. We live in California, US.  Thanks in advance!","title":"California, US - Living Trust or Will?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555557269,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/begrqm\/can_pediatricians_test_minors_for_drugs_by\/","id":"begrqm","body":"The title pretty much says this, can you request that your pediatrician test your child for drug use without their knowledge? Is this something that many pediatricians offer?\n\n*I have no need to get involved with any kind of debates about ethics, trust, etc. I have that covered and I'm simply looking for facts, please. Thanks!","title":"Can pediatricians test minors for drugs by parents' request? (TN)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568620112,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4xhif\/employer_charging_for_late_time_sheets\/","id":"d4xhif","body":"(MN) Really just a quick question. My employer charges 15$ for late time sheets, claiming they have to do them for us if we don't turn them in. We still have to complete the timesheet, even if we've already been charged. Is this legal? If not, what can I do about it?","title":"Employer charging for late time sheets","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409531184,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f4klb\/collection_notice_on_behalf_of_tow_truck_company\/","id":"2f4klb","body":"Hi guys, need some advice. I sold my old car through a private sale here in Toronto to a guy last November. \nWent through all the proper steps, got a used vehicle information package from the MTO (Ministry of Transportation in Ontario) and signed over to him. Also completed and signed the Application for Transfer on the back of the vehicle portion of the registration permit. I missed the last part where I was suppose to take my plates off the car. I knew I was supposed to take them off but gave him the benefit of the doubt.\n\nTwo days later police came to my house as the car I just sold was spotted in suspicious activity. They tracked the plates and came to my house but I explained that I had sold the car already. The next day I went to MTO to get my name removed from the plates through giving a police report number. \n\nThey caught the guy a couple days later and found out they impounded the car at a tow company. I didn't care as it wasn't my car anymore by signing the registration permit and used vehicle package even though the buyer didn't register the car with the MTO. I got a letter from the tow truck company a few days later saying that I must pay to get the vehicle back or else will result in legal action. \n\nI was told to ignore it as I had legally sold the vehicle. The tow truck company was aware of the situation when they sent me the letter as the cop that arrested the guy had explained it to the tow truck company. But they insisted the car was mine unless I had the used car vehicle package (that was not recovered and always gets taken by the buyer of the car anyways). The police did recover the vehicle portion of the car registration permit though (given back to me a month later).\n\nIn April I got another letter from the tow truck company about the car and an unpaid balance of over $4000 now. So I called them and sent them a scanned copy of the car registration permit which showed the car was sold to the other guy before it was impounded. I got a reply back in email saying thanks and that the name and address on the file has been changed and his name will be on any collections in the future. \n\nI thought this ordeal was over then but this friday I got a letter from a collection agency on behalf of that tow truck company for the $4000 balance. They want me to pay or else the debt will be sent over to Equifax Canada or Transunion to be recorded on the credit file. I called them to explain the situation but the phone rep was saying how the car was still mine since the guy didn't register it with the MTO. I will contact the tow truck company about this again after labour day but I have a feeling they couldn't find the other guy and want someone to pay for this. \n\nSo my questions are,\n1) Are the collection & tow truck companies right in saying that I am still the legal owner of the car even after I signed the documents? I have the signed vehicle permit with me but not the used vehicle package. Note the used vehicle package always goes to the buyer anyways so the seller wouldn't have a copy unless photocopied.  They're saying the guy didn't register with MTO but the guy had no intention of registering from the start as he wanted to use the car for a crime. I had to go in for a statement at the police station as well. \n\n2) How do collection agencies send info to credit agencies? All they have from me are my name and home address. No SIN number or other personal info. I am most worried about them sending the debt info to be recorded on my credit file. \n\nThanks\n\n","title":"Collection Notice on Behalf of Tow Truck Company for a Car I Already Sold (Ontario, Canada)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569502779,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9jb0r\/i_was_pulled_over_but_what_prompted_it\/","id":"d9jb0r","body":"I was pulled over this morning on a main road in my town. Officer asked for license and registration. I gave them to him after politely asking if I could reach into the glove box, etc. No issues.\n\nHe runs my paperwork and comes back saying I was pulled over because, while the stickers on my car are still valid, the car needs to be inspected again because it was sold after it's last inspection date.\n\nNote: In my state you have to have a car inspected within seven days of purchase.\n\nOkay, oops. My fault. This car was \"sold\" to me for a couple bucks a few months ago from a family member and because it was such a casual transaction we both forgot about the inspection rule.\n\nI apologized and said I will get the car inspected this week. He offered a verbal warning and I was on my way.\n\nHere is my question: I realize I made a mistake, but why was I pulled over in the first place? Did he run my plate and see this error? Did he pull me over randomly and happened upon this error when he ran my paperwork?\n\nAll my visible stickers are valid dates, I have no previous record, and I was not speeding or driving erratically. I had only been on the road for about two minutes after leaving my house when this occurred so I'm trying to figure out what the reasonable suspicion was or if he was just running plates at random. I was too nervous to ask. I accept my mistake, just genuine curiosity.","title":"I was pulled over but what prompted it?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508414545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77dxac\/being_charged_with_grand_larceny_and_credit_card\/","id":"77dxac","body":"[MS] I owned a personal training business for 3 years and was ready to do something else because even though the money was great, it was inconsistent. I decided to sell the business to the gym owner. After we reached and agreement that I wouldworking for him as an employee for 30 days to help with the transition and he would assume all liability for the training sessions I had sold in the past and any issue that would arise, he fired me on the 24th day because clients caught wind of my departure and no longer wanted to train under the new program. Shortly after my firing , I started to  receive text from the gym owner about \"client issues\" that he was having and that it was all my fault .Afteronth or or two of not being there I start to get messages from the gym owner saying that he wasn't going to pay me my last checks because so many people had cancelled even though we agreed to pay me hourly + commission on all the deals I sold. I explained to him that the cancelling had nothing to do with me and he told me that \" he had deep pockets and a temper\" and he would sue me into the ground if I didn't stop even though I had been gone and kept no communication with clients. A week later I received a notice via email\/mail that the lawyer who had previously represented myself and the gym owner in a similar case was dropping me as a client and would be representing the gym owner against me. A few conversations back and forth and the lawyer decided that there were going to be no more action against me. 3 months go by and I find out that they now have 3 cases against me ( 2 from clients , 1 from the gym owner) who claim I committed credit card fraud and the gym owner is saying I committed grand larcerny. What should I do? The clients who claim credit card fraud both had issues with their billing and I left before it was resolved and the new owner did not resolve them and is now trying to put them on me ","title":"Being charged with grand larceny and credit card fraud","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540582285,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rnugm\/can_the_judge_order_you_to_pay_a_child_support\/","id":"9rnugm","body":"My Dad's ex-wife is taking him to court over child support. When they got divorced they verbally agreed to spilt custody and that my dad would help with money whenever he could. They had two kids, one is now 18 and in college and the other is 14 years old. \n\nOn my dad's Federal Income Tax report, it shows that he had a gross income of $6,909 for the year. The Child Support lady said that he needs to pay $590 a month for my 14-year-old brother and because he refused to settle on that amount we are going to court. My Dad's ex-wife has been playing the old parental alienation card and the kids don't stay over anymore even though my dad tries to convince them to come visit. \n\nHe has been paying $250 for the past two years and before that it has varied. He is a handyman and has his own business, so sometimes he has work and other times he doesn't. She claims he has money to go on vacation and buy a car, so he should have enough to pay child support. What she didn't know and now knows because I confronted her is that I paid for the vacation that I took him on and I paid for most of the car he has, and all the other cars are in my name. \n\nI got accepted to an out of state university and I got a scholarship that pays 3\/4 of my tuition for the 2019 year starting in December. Since my dad can't afford an attorney by himself I will help him pay but I won't have enough to get me to college if I do help, so I will have to forfeit my scholarship. What scares us or at least me is that we don\u2019t know how that child support lady came up with $590 a month for one child. We asked to see her worksheet to see how she came up with her calculations, but she didn\u2019t let us see it. \n\nAnother thing is because of this parental alienation thing she\u2019s doing my dad\u2019s ex-wife has been hiding all the expenses of the kids and then when she gets angry she tells my dad he owes x,xxx amount of money for the bills that she\u2019s been paying but that he doesn\u2019t know about. She has remarried and has a husband so she\u2019s not by herself. My dad has not remarried and the only family he has that can help him is me, also my older brother but he\u2019s in Idaho for school. ","title":"Can the Judge order you to pay a child support amount you can't afford, even if it is evident on your tax report? (NC)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444623438,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oew3d\/bait_and_switch_job_pay_sc\/","id":"3oew3d","body":"So my old full time job had been trying to get me to come back since I had to leave two years ago. [I left to study abroad, there were no hard feelings or anything] I was already starting to consider it as my new part time wasn't paying enough to cover all my bills anymore now that I've graduated. However, I'm job hunting for a career job and didn't feel right about going back to the old job since I would [hopefully] be leaving it soon. But the area manager spoke to me on the phone and said he understood that I would be leaving once I found another job and that they would be happy to have my help for however long they could get it. Then he sealed the deal by offering me $11\/hr. I was making $9.22\/hr at my part time. So I quit my part time and started back with them. \n\nFast forward to now, and I've just gotten my first paycheck, and its a little low. So I pulled up the payroll, and I'm being paid $10\/hr, not the $11\/hr I was promised. I figured that it was just HR or something, so I called the area manager, and told him that my pay was wrong, thinking he would fix it. [He'd fixed a pay rate issue for me back when I was working with them before, and had been really great about it, so I figured he would just do that again this time.] But he laughed at me and told me that nobody got paid over $10\/hr, and that he didn't know where I'd come up with $11\/hr. But he's the one that had offered it to me! But I don't have any proof that he did - it was all over the phone. I just didn't think to get it in writing because I trusted him from my experience working under him before. I did get it in writing from the store manager, but when I told her what the area manager had said, she said there wasn't much she could do - she can submit all the pay raise requests in the world for me, but he's the one that approves them. So I'm not sure what good having it in writing from her does me when he can veto her. I was thinking maybe I could submit the written offer from her to HR or something? But I'm worried that since this is an at-will employment state, they'll just fire me for causing problems. I would like to think that they wouldn't fire me since they tried so hard to get me back... but I dont know. What can I do?\n\nTl;dr - was offered $11\/hr for a job over the phone, but now am being paid $10\/hr. The area manager [who made the offer] is telling me that nobody offered me that and that nobody in my position makes more than $10\/hr.\n\nEdit - wasn't sure what to put for flair... But employment is a contract, soo Contracts? Somebody tell me if there's a better flair for this post.","title":"Bait and Switch Job Pay [SC]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1507750177,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75rh5b\/got_arrested_for_driving_with_a_suspended_license\/","id":"75rh5b","body":"I was arrested a few months ago for driving with a suspended license \/ expired tag. My license had been suspended as I had not appeared in court to deal with being ticketed for my expired tag. My court date for this incident is the 24th of this month (October).\n\nI've tried my hardest to minimize my driving at all costs, which is only an option because I'm self-employed and can work from home. However, Monday night I went to the store to get some medical items (I have untreated Chron's disease) and was pulled over for running a red light by accident. I had never run one before, but I saw the left turn lane turn green and... yeah.\n\nAnyway, I was bailed out of jail and am now set to appear in court tomorrow afternoon. My questions are:\n\n1. If I don't have time to find legal representation before tomorrow afternoon, can I show up by myself and plead not guilty? Will I be able to have a lawyer at the next court date if I don't have one at the arraignment?\n\n2. If anyone here is familiar with Georgia law, how likely is it that I'm facing the [10 days of jail time](http:\/\/www.mygeorgiadefenselawyer.com\/georgia-criminal-offenses-penalties\/suspended-license\/) for a second offense? And how likely is it that a lawyer can get me out of said jail time?\n\nThanks in advance. I can provide more info if needed!","title":"Got arrested for driving with a suspended license... for the second time. [Georgia]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570978576,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhbl8g\/forced_out_of_my_job_for_being_dyslexic\/","id":"dhbl8g","body":"I have recently been asked to leave my work and offered a settlement agreement. No actual reason has been give however they mentioned my dyslexia and mental health as issues that have caused it. \n\nI have also been asked to sign an NDA and a contract. \n\nNot sure where to go from here.","title":"Forced out of my job for being dyslexic","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552891528,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2fe5s\/is_this_freaking_legal\/","id":"b2fe5s","body":"This happened to my sister(13 and I'm her legal guardian)\n\nShe has a debit card that she received so my parents and now me could manage how much money we gave her and when she had no money\n\nMy sister went to local super market and she saw the deadpool video game for pc (my birthday was near and I love deadpool) it was cheap so she grabbed a copy of the game to give me, the game is marked 8.99 and it also says\n\nALL video games are 8.99\n\nShe goes to the register she got a set of star wars legos \nAnd then the cashier says the total \n\nFucking 70\u20ac\n\nMy sister asked what was so pricey since the lego set was 10\u20ac\nAnd the game 8.99\u20ac\n\nMy sister pointed the tag saying 8.99\u20ac\n\nThe cashier caller one of her colleagues and the colleague that came insisted that someone replaced the tag which was impossible because of the anti robbery protection \n\nMy sister after 7 minutes gave up and bought only the set\n\nMy sister decided she should buy a game key using payshop \n\nshe goes into the line to the payshop which also sells cigarets,that's where people would bet and play the lottery so big line\n\nMy sister waits and she presents the code and the lady who was that colleague that the cashier called insisted that minors couldn't use payshop\n\n(bullcrap because CTT the ones who brought payshop to my country stated that any purchase bellow 50\u20ac could be done by anyone older than 10 years) \n\nMy sister walked away in defeat and she wasn't in the mood to go to the CTT since it's a long walk from our home to the ctt \n\nMy friend also said that the part of charging more for the game that what was listed could be considered a scam is this correct? \n\nShould I take them to court since they tried to scam a 13 yo and refused to provide a service they claim they provide? \n\nI really am in no position to risk to lose a case in the court and I need any advice I can get\n\n\n\n","title":"Is this freaking legal","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1508151654,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76ppud\/tx_just_got_my_car_towed_from_my_apartment\/","id":"76ppud","body":"Apparently about a month ago my neighbors got a notice posted on their doors about a new towing policy\n\nSaying we needed to go down to the office and get a permit for our car\n\nThat\u2019s all fine and dandy\n\nBut, Both my roommate and I never got the notice\nI don\u2019t know if it blew off the door or some one thought it would be funny to take it\n\nBut my question is\n\nDid my apartment complex legally do enough to inform me of their new policy?\n\nI\u2019m thinking they could have easily put the notice in my mailbox or slid it through my door\nBut I want to know if I have any legal ground to try to get my $293 in towing fees back from them\n\nThank you for any advice you can give","title":"(Tx) just got my car towed from my apartment complex, was not informed that towing was being enforced or that a permit was necessary","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540434515,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r698u\/need_advice_on_signing_a_will_or_trust_after_a\/","id":"9r698u","body":"Long story short, my husband and his brothers father passed away 10 years ago. His dads father (their grandfather) left a will splitting stuff between his kids, so their father and his three siblings. What struck me as odd is my husbands aunt kept the death from the family for months and didn\u2019t let anyone know until a month ago, along with papers to sign. Since my husbands father is deceased, he and his brother are to \u201ctake place\u201d of what their father was supposed to receive and split it between the two of them instead. She is coming over this weekend to have them sign \u201cthe will\u201d as she has put it. She\u2019s also stated some kind of trust needs to be signed, but as far as this weekend, she\u2019s bringing the will over for them to sign, not the trust. \n\nMy issue is that there seems to be a lot of mistrust and deceit with all of this. Does a will need to be notarized? How are they signing the will after the death? If it\u2019s a \u201ctrust\u201d they\u2019re signing instead, doesn\u2019t that need to be notarized as well? I\u2019m hesitant to get involved as this has to do with his family, not mine, so I don\u2019t want to create unwarranted tension in the family. Something just seems off about all of this. What can we do or need to look out for in whatever document it is that my husband and his brother are supposed to be signing? I\u2019m not privy to anything of this nature and don\u2019t really understand how all of this works. Does this seem like it\u2019s going the way it\u2019s supposed to or does something seem wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. ","title":"Need advice on signing a will or trust after a family member has passed","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445290393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pen9l\/seeking_clarification_of_quiet_enjoyment_clause\/","id":"3pen9l","body":"i am attempting to find a flat once the lease on my dorm runs up but have been running into significant problems as i wish to store firearms in my rental and every property manager i have spoken to has turned me down because of it. I have the appropriate paperwork for all of them and have never run afoul of the law, my interpretation of the \"quiet enjoyment\" clause is that i am allowed to participate in any legal activity within my rental provided i do not disturb neighbors or other tenants or damage the property. Can somebody please clarify this for me?\n\nthanks","title":"seeking clarification of \"quiet enjoyment\" clause in tenancy agreement (NZ)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553805156,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6nx83\/can_your_responses_to_discovery_in_a_civil_case\/","id":"b6nx83","body":"[ohio] I have a friend whose business recently went under after being sued by some customers, amongst other things. \n\nWell, sometimes when it rains, it pours, and now he\u2019s being sued by the Ohio attorney general for bad business practices. He\u2019s consulted with his attorney but even he is unsure about whether or not the OAG can turn right back around after the civil case ends and end up filing charges against him.\n\nHe wants to remain cooperative but also doesn\u2019t want to incriminate himself. I think that the opposing counsel can compel his responses eventually but IANAL.\n\nIs pleading the 5th a thing in this case? If anyone could advise that would be great. \n\n","title":"Can your responses to discovery in a civil case be used against you in a criminal case?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568477947,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d47a5g\/i_have_one_month_to_move_out\/","id":"d47a5g","body":"(UK) Lunchtime yesterday, I got a call from my landlord who told me I have 1 month to move out. I have an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST) agreement that started a month ago. She says she's in financial trouble and has to sell the house. I am not behind on rent although other tenants allegedly are. She says she's entitled to end the agreement as she plans to move in with her family. I'm not sure if this is sufficient cause. I have not received DPS information either. \n\n​\n\nLet me know if I can provide more info...","title":"I have one month to move out...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570840319,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgntz4\/wa_state_can_i_be_forced_to_take_custody_of_my\/","id":"dgntz4","body":"My older cousin is currently 23, and has a series of significant mental health issues (schizophrenia and chemical use disorder, to name a few). Due to the severity of his mental health issues, he receives public assistance, and is in the custody of my Aunt (his mother), who works as a social worker. His mother can read the writing on the wall, and knows that he will likely need a person who has custody over him for the rest of his life. He's already been convicted of several major crimes (DUI, possession of illegal drugs, and grand theft auto), and is currently on parole. \n\nI do not view myself as a suitable guardian due to an incident in childhood where he assaulted me (this has not been legally established, but is well known within the family). Because of this situation, I do not feel as if I can be a caring and responsible guardian. \n\nMy Aunt is planning on retiring soon, and does not want to have to have custody of her son. She wants to force me into taking custody of her son, and has asked my mother on numerous occasions (indirectly) if I would take custody in the future. My mom has always dodged the question and has not said yes or no directly, but has stated that I would not be a suitable guardian. \n\n**My question: Can my aunt force me to take custody? If my aunt legally puts me forward for taking custody, will I need to show up to court and\/or get representation to avoid taking custody?**\n\nThanks for your time, this has really been bothering me and my attempts to research the situation have not answered my question.","title":"(WA State) Can I be forced to take custody of my cousin?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570746011,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg5jnw\/arizona_usa_coworker_recording_private\/","id":"dg5jnw","body":"I posted this to AskHR\/reddit as well. \n\nI know that Arizona is a one-party consent state in terms of recording conversations. I also know you need to be part of the conversation in order to record said conversation.  Here\u2019s what happened;\n\nI had a coworker come to me saying that coworker A had recorded a conversation between me and coworker B. Coworker A offered to play this audio recording to this coworker, of which he declined and later informed me of soon after. \n\nApparently while me and coworker B were having a private conversation, coworker A came around the corner, already recording our conversation. My guess was that she overheard me and coworker B talking about something and decided to turn her audio recorder on and then proceeded to jump into our conversation. In fact, I wasn\u2019t even aware of coworker A involved or remotely near us during this conversation, but apparently she was supposedly close enough to hear and record it. \n\nFor the record, our conversation was absolutely appropriate for the workplace and didn\u2019t contain anything that could be deemed as a violation of our workplace. I also wanted to note that this particular coworker has a history of recording conversations at work. I have informed my supervisor but so far, after a week, nothing has been done. \n\nWhat further steps should I take and are any of them to go to HR and filing a complaint against this coworker? \n\nI also wanted to say that we belong to the union as well. Should I bring this up to our local steward?","title":"Arizona, USA. Coworker recording private conversation she WAS NOT apart of.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542252606,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x7dtg\/legal_apt_security_my_package_was_stolen_from_my\/","id":"9x7dtg","body":"Tl:Dr can I set up hidden cameras inside my apartment(of course I can), can I put one in my door in place of the peep hole? Hidden and disguised? Can I film anything in the hallway? Can I legally hold my apartment management company responsible for my safety by adding security features while living in section 8? Can I set somebody up, legally recording in my apartment or hallway, and use that as evidence? Can I place a decoy package with an rfid tracker in it to see who brought the package back? What if I put a baggie of powdered laxative in there, or powder in a large envelope not in a baggie, just spilled all over? Can I leave my keys in my door, with a note on the door telling the postman not to leave a package at my door and I'll return at 5, hide in the cuboards, and record them on legally hidden cameras in my home and pop out and defend myself with a legal taser and legal pepper spray? Can one antagonise somebody verbally just a little, even by playing stupid very well, and legally defend yourself with mace or a legal defense weapon?\n\nI just moved into my first \"section 8\" apt run by a very large company, they own probably 100 complexes in the area, 2 accept section 8. I was just awarded a voucher through community mental health, and it's a blessing in this market....almost.\n\nWhen I called manager about the package and tried to discuss different ideas, even an official sign for the postman not to leave packages outside of a mailbox anywhere in the building, it became obvious I couldn't exactly ask for security cameras because I feel unsafe--or much of any thing else. I don't even know what to ask after that convo, even to the housing authority. I also am not sure drawing attention to myself would be intelligent. I asked those questions just to know while I'm here.\n\nNow the part that is bad here... I literally have apartment trauma, paranoia, and I can hear my neighbors who let window knocker \"Rick\" in through the backdoor every night chatting it up till at least 2am(I fall asleep by then). The noise is whatever until I get anxious or paranoid, which is just another opportunity to use my coping skills. \/s\n\nThe paranoia does cause significant stress, I mean I feel like my every move is known, including private things. Literally. I thought it was rather sound proof at first and had no problem being a weirdo talking to myself. Now... -_- I hear my neighbors and think they talking shit about me, even though I know they probably think I'm barely home and have never seen me. I've only met a few and I don't believe the people below me.\n\nIs there any advice one can offer?\n\n","title":"Legal apt security - My package was stolen from my front door inside my apt cmplx, since the last time I left the house, someone wrote FUCK on my door, homeless\/druggies linger, etc","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446091556,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qns6q\/az_im_an_independent_contractor_contracted_to\/","id":"3qns6q","body":"I'm an independent contractor, and the company I might start working with has a non-compete they want me to sign.  They don't want me to solicit their clients (which is understandable and something I have no intention of doing), but they also have this language inserted into the contract, which I am concerned about:\n\n>For a period of 12 months after the termination of the non-compete clause the independent contractor will not compete with the company without prior written consent of the company.\n\nI read this to mean they are telling me who I can and cannot work with.  I'm not their employee, and I don't want to be.  As I read this, I need to ask their permission to go work for someone else for a year after the agreement end.  Is this enforceable?  Could I be considered an employee instead of an IC if I sign this?\n\nThanks!","title":"[AZ] I'm an independent contractor, contracted to perform services for a client, they want me to sign a non-compete clause.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552996875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2wjok\/mississippi_i_think_someone_is_using_my_phone\/","id":"b2wjok","body":"Over the last day and a half or so I've gotten several texts from unknown numbers asking to be \"removed from the call list\" or something similar.\n\nI have no such call list set up. I wouldn't know how to if you asked me. \n\nThey're starting to get angrier about these calls. The last one threatened to call the police if the calls keep coming.\n\nI haven't replied to any of the texts for fear of them escalating the issue.","title":"(Mississippi) I think someone is using my phone number to robocall people. Do I need to worry about legal issues resulting from this and is there any way to stop it?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1415231409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2lf53y\/franchise_ripped_me_off_and_now_theyre_trying_to\/","id":"2lf53y","body":"I purchased a \u201cWhite Collar\u201d franchise about 5 years ago. I ran the business for about a year at which point it became clear that it wasn\u2019t going to work the way the franchisor had promised it would. The franchisees that were making money had to completely change the business model from what it was intended and this involved investing a lot more money. I had no interest in doing that so I told them I was done and walked away from the business. \nI had every mind to make attempts at getting my initial investment back as they had flat out lied to me but I quickly became busy with other ventures and dismissed the idea.\nNow, many years later, this franchise is threatening to sue for all of the monthly minimum payments that I have obviously not made amounting to about $30 000.00. My initial investment was about $60 000.00 and when I decided to walk away I really just assumed they would be happy with the fact that they swindled me out of this money and let it be, but now they want more. \nWhat I want is for them to release me from the franchise agreement. How might I go about doing that?\nAlso, if I did decide I wanted to go after my initial investment, what might my chances of actually seeing any of that money back?\nthanks\n","title":"Franchise ripped me off and now they're trying to get more. Ontario, Canada.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569049012,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d779nd\/nc_is_my_landlord_allowed_to_show_property_and\/","id":"d779nd","body":"I\u2019m currently renting a condo in a college town where rentals primarily run on an August-August lease and a lot of properties are leased ~6 months in advance.\n\nMy first lease here ran December-July and expired this past July. I renewed my lease and signed a new lease, expiring July 2020. \n\nIn my current lease it states that I must provide at least 60 days notice before lease end if I don\u2019t want to renew. It also states that the landlord \u201cmay begin showings 60 days before the end of your lease, depending on market conditions.\u201d My previous lease required move out notice by 9\/24\/18, but I moved in after that date and that lease expired.\n\nMy landlord says that I must provide notice by 9\/24, even though it\u2019s not mentioned in my current lease. Also, that they want to begin showing as soon as there\u2019s interest since there\u2019s a college town (as soon as now - 9 months before my lease ends). I have pets and am uncomfortable not being home during showings due to the pets.\n\nIs my landlord allowed to start showings this early and require this much advance notice? What should I do if they push the issue?","title":"[NC] Is my landlord allowed to show property and require more renewal notice than stated in lease due to the market (college town)?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571082129,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhvuey\/rental_rant\/","id":"dhvuey","body":"I'll preface this by saying this is more of a rant than a request for legal advice but if what my homeowner's association is doing is illegal, I'd love to know. I live in Florida. \n\nYesterday afternoon, I got a notice taped to my door which states that starting Monday (today) at 6am, all cars need to be off the premises until a repainting of the parking lot is finished. No one knocked although I was clearly at home, they just left a note taped to the door. I still see some notes on doors so some of my neighbors don't even know it's happening. I completely understand needing to repaint. The notice did not come with any time frame of when it would be completed or alternate parking places. Basically, it said move your car or be towed. \n\nSo I got up this morning to move my car, I have no place to park where it won't be towed or I'd have to pay for transportation back home (and back to the car whenever I wanted to leave home). I spent my day going from place to place and I pass my complex to see the progress to find out that they are repaving the entire parking lot. \n\nSo I need to either pay to park somewhere or risk being towed.","title":"Rental Rant","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553098834,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3dzod\/recently_my_teacher_has_said_something_that\/","id":"b3dzod","body":"She explained how a snake kept coming into her yard and hissed at her. She then proceeded to cut the snake in half. It was still alive. so she kept hitting it. It still wasn't dead, so she ran over it with her car 3 times. She also told us to take from the lost and found which is very close to theft in my opinion. My vice principal and principal don't care, and I want to make sure she gets what she deserves. Snakes are still animals, and it barely did anything to her.","title":"Recently, my teacher has said something that disgusted me","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552802196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b225hm\/stolen_property_what_now\/","id":"b225hm","body":"Florida.\n\nHello,  I purchased a handgun from a friend sometime between \u201809-\u201811.  Not positive on the exact date but in that range.  \n\nI had wondered from time to time over the years what the provenance of the item was just as a matter of curiosity.  But there was no way to check such things other than perhaps approaching a police officer. \n\nI discovered recently that Florida now has a website that you can input the serial number to see if the gun is listed as stolen within Florida.  I was like, oh cool lemme check it out.\n\nWell, to my great consternation I find that it shows as being stolen in \u201808.\n\nI don\u2019t know if my friend stole it.  Or if he even knew.  I certainly didn\u2019t know.  \n\nBut what do I do now?  My first instinct as a law abiding citizen would be to go to the LE agency listed in the database so I can get the gun back to the rightful owner.  \n\nBut I quickly realized I may be in legal jeopardy here.  \n\nI didn\u2019t know the item was stolen and definitely paid market value.  It wasn\u2019t like I got a $500 gun for $50 which could lead a reasonable person to believe the item may be stolen.  And as far as I can tell from my cursory understanding of Florida\u2019s statute of limitations laws I\u2019m not in jeopardy for buying stolen goods as a matter of time. \n\nIf my primitive understanding of that is correct then great.  But I guess beyond confirming that stuff to be true (if it is) I would like to know how I go about turning in the gun without getting arrested for being in possession of a stolen gun.  \n\nIs that even possible?  Or will I get dragged into the back of the station and interrogated till I crack.  \n\nI just want to get rid of this thing, preferably by getting it back to its rightful owner, and without breaking any more laws or getting jammed up in the process of trying to do the right thing here.\n\nPlease help me understand my situation and how to best proceed.\n\nThank you kindly in advance for any advice.\n\n\n\n","title":"Stolen Property. What now?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552107402,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayzv03\/grandma_cut_dad_out_of_the_will_not_sure_what_i\/","id":"ayzv03","body":"(California)\n\nFound out today that my grandmother cut my dad out of her will, which means my sister and I will be inheriting her money (possibly up to $1m each) when she dies. My dad is 50 y\/o with literally $0 in savings because he\u2019s apparently just been banking on that inheritance his whole life. So basically when I inherit the money, I have to give it all to him or else he\u2019s screwed. I wouldn\u2019t have a problem with that, except for 2 things. 1. My dad owes me money 2. My stepmother\n\n1. If the whole 50 years old with no savings or retirement didn\u2019t tip you off, my dad is irresponsible with money. That\u2019s none of my business except that he owes me $65,000. My grandfather left that much money in a bank account to pay for my education and when the time came, it was all gone. It had all been spent by my dad on shit like boats and motorcycles and guns with the promise that he would pay for my education out of his own pocket. I assume he thought he would have inherited the money by now, but my grandma is still alive, and having no savings, when it came time for me to continue my education he couldn\u2019t pay for it. He\u2019s already talking about the new gun he wants to buy when he has some extra money so I know he\u2019s not planning on making any changes. How do I make sure I at least get to keep the money he owes me?\n\n2. My stepmother - she\u2019s 10 years younger than my dad and will likely outlive him. Shes also exactly the type of person who, once she takes control of that money, will abuse the power that comes with it. My sister and I will have to suck up to her or be cut out. Even if we don\u2019t piss her off, she\u2019s likely going to try leave most of the money to her own family. And that\u2019s if there\u2019s any money left when she\u2019s done with it. She is a compulsive shopper, even now there are amazon packages of literally useless shit being delivered every single day. My grandfather made that money, and he wanted it to be passed down to his own family. Is there any way I can give this money to my father without allowing her to run off with it when he dies?\n","title":"Grandma cut dad out of the will, not sure what I should do.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569575565,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9xrxt\/i_shoplifted_from_walmart_but_felt_guilty_so_i\/","id":"d9xrxt","body":"I know I'm an idiot and scum. I have learned my lesson and will never try something this stupid ever again. I can't change what I did but deciding into madness. I haven't slept or eaten in the past three days. I'm just hoping I don't go to jail or can have this rectified in court.\n\nI'm in my late 20's with no prior offenses and shoplifted a large amount $50. 3 pairs of pants. I was also buying a ton of groceries so I just paid for all the groceries but then bagged the pants because \"I forgot\" to scan them. The guilt was just eating away at me and possibly of them having me on camera was too much for my dumbass to handle.\n\nI called around noon two days later saying I was going over my receipt and realized I was never charged for my pants. I said, I had no idea what happened and want to come and pay for them. They took my name and asked what time I was there. I didn't give them an exact time but about 30 minutes after I was there. They told I could come to the service desk to pay for them. I went in after work so around 530. I paid for the pants and the lady wrote down the time I came in. I asked of they wanted me to speak to anyone. They said no so then I left.\n\nIt has become increasingly clear that I basically incriminated myself and they went back and got the footage of me stealing. They have my name so now I guess I'm waiting be arrested.\n\nIs there anyway I could avoid a spontaneous arrest so I don't miss work and get fired? What's the likely hood of me serving jail time or getting this down so it's not a misdemeanor charge?\n\nI'm planning on contacting an attorney today for legal advice.","title":"I shoplifted from Walmart but felt guilty so I went back and paid.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505347318,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zyn2g\/ohio_time_to_exit_contingency_contract_for_home\/","id":"6zyn2g","body":"I was told by my insurance adjuster that I would have 3 days from the day he came out to get out of a contingency contract with a roofing company, even if I already signed a contract. I had signed the contract a week prior when I needed my roof tarped, not realizing what I was getting into. The roofing company is saying I had 3 days after signing the contract, not 3 days after the adjuster was on-site and wrote the check.\n\nIs there a definitive answer on who is right in this case?","title":"[Ohio] time to exit contingency contract for home insurance repairs?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541427703,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9udvpt\/voluntarily_disclosed_an_arrest_to_an_employer\/","id":"9udvpt","body":"I applied for a contractor job at a nuclear power plant earlier this year. I've provided them with all the information they've asked for, and I've arrived at site and this'll be my third week working under a temporary clearance badge. My proper clearance badge has been held back because of incompetent investigators who have repeatedly called me for more and more information after telling me they had everything they needed. Now that the contractor company I work for has approved me they sent my file to the company who operates the plant proper, and now my badge is being held back because they want me to provide details about a sealed criminal case whose arrest I voluntarily disclosed. I don't know what to do, I don't think it's right for them to ask this. The previous nuclear plant I worked at only wanted to know about the arrest, charge, and resolution of the case (dismissal), but these people have already asked about my relation the the plaintiff, where I was held during my trial, how long I was held, and why I was held so long (unable to post bail). I really need this job so I really want to be as forthcoming as I can but I feel like they're asking inappropriate details now. I really need help. ","title":"Voluntarily disclosed an arrest to an employer, now they want me to provide details about a sealed court document. I don't know what to do.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571491809,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk3sht\/am_i_being_taken_advantage_of_by_my_lawyer_wi\/","id":"dk3sht","body":"Earlier this year I hired a lawyer to help me with a contempt case against my ex husband.\n\nMy ex and I divorced 8 years ago. My name is still on the loan for the property we owned. I want him to sell or refinance the house so my name can be removed. My ex is in bankruptcy.\n\nHere is the issue with my lawyer. I made her aware of the bankruptcy before I signed the contract. She consulted with her firm and said we should proceed with the case and she would ask his bankruptcy lawyer\/trustee to release the home to be sold.\n\nWe get to our court date. The judge reviews the case and says that the home needs to be placed on the market immediately. Then my ex tells the judge that he\u2019s in bankruptcy. The judge looks at my lawyer and asks if she knew about this prior to which she responds, \u201cNo we just learned about it this morning\u201d. \n\nThat was untrue. She knew that he was in bankruptcy prior to our court date as she looked up his records online. The judge goes on to say that it will be difficult or probably impossible for us to have him sell the house while he is in bankruptcy. The judgeTold my ex that he needs to give my lawyer full disclosure to contact his bankruptcy attorney and communicate with him about the situation.\n\nIt\u2019s been about five weeks since that court appearance. I got an email from my lawyer saying that she would be closing my file because there was no matter pending but she would continue to help me resolve this issue in the future.\n\nI am left dumbfounded. I feel as if there\u2019s been no real resolution here. I felt as if I was led on to believe that they could resolve this case but after speaking with the judge it seems that was not possible. My lawyer also didn\u2019t tell me any details about if she ever spoke with my ex\u2019s bankruptcy attorney.\n\nI feel as if I just wasted $3000 taking a case to court that should never have gone. Where do I go from here?","title":"Am I being taken advantage of by my lawyer? (WI)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446180673,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qswuc\/speeding_citation_help\/","id":"3qswuc","body":"Im coming from Washington state, specifically the Tacoma area. I was driving along 512, a freeway here, and was pulled over for going 82 in a 60. I had noticed though that my speedometer is off, as its from a different car. I purchased the car used a couple months ago. I am curious what the best means I could go about to possibly drop this entirely, if not, to lessen it's debt as it is a $250 charge.\nThank you!","title":"Speeding Citation (help)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569621215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da75xa\/insurance_expired_sooner_than_notified\/","id":"da75xa","body":"It\u2019s a long story I\u2019m sorry. I called my medical Insurance provider (United Health Care community plan) to find a physical therapist in my area that is covered under my plan. Which took place around late July. The customer service rep told me that there\u2019s a hospital that provides physical therapy and she also notified me that my insurance expires October 1st. I also made an account on the website after this phone call and it also said my coverage ends in October 1st. So I made an appointment at the hospital and I did one session of physical therapy around mid August. Then I received a phone call from the hospital saying that my insurance expired (still mid August.\n\n The hospital told me they can\u2019t make a second appointment because I don\u2019t have insurance and at this point they did not mention anything about an outstanding balance. So I call my insurance provider and they said that my insurance expired July 31st. I never received any notice of this  \nSo they said I have to make an appointment to and see if I still qualify . So I said ok and I made an appointment and I no longer went to physical therapy. \nFast forward to today and I receive an outstanding bill for ONE SESSION of 30 mins of physical therapy of 750$. I called and they said the insurance is making me pay. \n\nPlease help I don\u2019t have that kind of me money, please and thank you.","title":"Insurance expired sooner than notified","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554616401,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bade0r\/weird_charge_in_new_rental\/","id":"bade0r","body":"Hello, recently I moved into a new apartment. I just received a letter in the mail saying I owe $1200 on top of my monthly rent and appliances. It says it is called a OSP IRD payment, i was never told about this and I am totally confused by it. Could it be a letter accidentally sent to me meant for my landlord? Any help would be greatly appreciated. ","title":"Weird charge in new rental","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570040302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dce3ur\/domestic_assault_and_undocumented_parents_custody\/","id":"dce3ur","body":"**My main question is: How do undocumented people gain custody of their children?** \n\n​\n\nHello everyone! \n\nThis is not my case, but I'm assisting my uncle as he does not speak English. I'm going to be as detailed as possible and I hope I make sense, since my writing is mediocre.  Thanks in advance, Reddit. \n\n​\n\nMy uncle had 3 kids with a woman, he is no longer involved with. When they separated, They had settled on a joint custody arrangement without any involvement from court. I must add that both parties involved are undocumented. (Please no hate it's not going to help with the situation. I need real advice, guidance, and understanding.) Because of this my uncle is nervous about seeking help regarding his children, but is fearful for their lives. \n\nThe children's mother met a new man about a year ago and they decided to move in together.  Mother and her new boyfriend had relationship issues and one day it escalated. This man pulled out a gun on their mother during one altercation and shot at her. The mother was able to get her and children out of their home and called the police. The man barricaded himself inside the apartment. SWAT was called and the standoff lasted for a several hours. This happened near the end of 2018. He was arrested and charged, but was released on bond about a week or so ago. \n\nI do not know what the terms were for this man's bond but what I understand is that he was not allowed to come near the mother and my young cousins. I also believe he was not allowed in the state, but I could be wrong. *\"Allegedly\"*, the mother of the children had allowed this person to return to their home and was seen with him publicly, after his release.   I say allegedly, because she tells a different story. Only she and the kids know what really happened. My cousins are scared to speak out, I'm not sure what happened to them or what was said during the days the man was released. The mother's sister was the first family member to find out about this, and called my uncle to tell him. He lives near by so he went to check it out and verify the information. The man spotted my uncle and ran off. My uncle, the children, and their mother ran from the apartment. As they were running, my uncle was dialing 911, there was a neighbor- my guess was they were looking out- who shouted \"He's calling the cops!\" That's when someone else assaulted my uncle and had him on the ground. A lot more events took place. 30 neighbors, friends, and relatives of the assailant got involved! They were screaming, recording event, rioting almost, and not allowing the police to do their work. It was utter Chaos!! The one who assaulted my uncle was arrested, but the ex-boyfriend got away. Sometime while the assault was taking place the mother of the children fled. We could not find her and her phone was shut off. I arrived on the scene after the mob dispersed and spoke with the officers and was able to complete the report.\n\nThe children are elementary and preschool age. They witnessed both events and who knows what else. My uncle wants to gain custody, especially if this woman really put her children in danger. He would like to leave with them and go somewhere safe. Because of the events that happened in the neighborhood both parents are being relocated. This is where things are a little complicated. ( I think) Because he is undocumented, I do not know what his rights are. I do not know who to turn to and I do not know what to do next.  I've been calling attorneys in my area and the earliest I can speak with someone is Oct 14th. The mother verbally agreed to sign over her rights during the heat of the moment, but is now changing her mind. \n\nThe 2nd event took place last night. The kids did not go to school today. I want to get them help. I do not believe they got therapy for the event in 2018 and both parents do not know how to navigate through America. Because of the unexpected relocation my uncle and cousins are living with me, and their mother is staying with a friend. Anyone know of any resources I could used to help these children out too? Therapy, clothing, etc. How do I handle this situation with the children? Should I notify the children's school?  As of this moment the assailant has not been found, but I will be updated by police.","title":"Domestic Assault and Undocumented Parent's Custody Battle- Georgia","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570577221,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df8b1w\/upstate_ny_help_my_landlord_is_changing_property\/","id":"df8b1w","body":"Background: Married couple (+dog and cat) renting duplex in upstate New York. Renewed for a full year in July, originally signed lease in July of 2018.\n\nWe received a letter today, 10\/8, post-marked 9\/30, that our out of state landlord has decided to change property management companies, targeting the changeover starting 11\/1. The letter states that the existing lease will be honored, with the same end date. The new property management company requires an inspection of the property.\n\nContacting our current PMC, he expressed significant displeasure with how this has been handled, stating that he had been asked to reduce his fee only a few days ago, but chose not to. He was not aware that the landlord had moved forward with a new PMC. His personal opinion is that the new company is a \"discount\" PMC and taking over as many rentals as possible while not delivering quality service.\n\nWe have been burned before on bad landlords. We quite like our current PMC, and trust him. The urgency to this situation has us concerned. For the square footage and location, we are paying on the low side of rent (\\~15% below commensurate properties). However, the place is very outdated and was in rough condition when we moved in.\n\nWhile things could work out fine and the current lease is honored fully, we have a bad feeling on this.\n\nQuestions:\n\n1. What are our rights as tenants regarding a lease changeover (break)? Specifically regarding rent, security deposit, and pet provisions.\n2. What is the possible timing on all of this? Do we have any obligation to sign by November?\n3. How legal is his handling of this (contacting us, setting a timeline, etc.), considering we have a PMC that the lease is handled through?\n\nThanks for all of your help.","title":"(Upstate NY) Help, my landlord is changing property management companies mid-lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445146655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p75x4\/my_wife_and_i_want_to_sell_lip_balm_what_do_we\/","id":"3p75x4","body":"My wife and I want to start selling lip balm on the side and want a very professional product. What type of things do we need to know before we can sell a cosmetic product like this?\n\nIm assuming there are some FDA guidelines we have to follow but is there anything else we need to know that I might be unaware of?\n\nWe are in the USA, Missouri to be more accurate although I'm not sure the state really matters in this situation.","title":"My wife and I want to sell Lip Balm what do we need to know?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552533215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0vaks\/can_comcast_refuse_my_elderly_mother_a_0_hi_one\/","id":"b0vaks","body":"My mom lives in suburban California. She asked Comcast to help with her spotty reception. Comcast said the cables to her house had been damaged by a tree root. They discontinued her service and said they would need to lay new cable. A few weeks later, they said my mom's neighbor didn't give them permission to lay the cable, so they will not reconnect her phone line, internet or TV. They said they don't have to because TV is considered a luxury, not a utility. Is this legal? My mom is nearly 70 years old and she has been at home with no phone or internet.","title":"Can ComCast refuse my elderly mother a 0 hi one and internet line after removing her old one?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571554174,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkg5zq\/question_regarding_inappropriate_contact_between\/","id":"dkg5zq","body":"Please forgive the formatting as I\u2019m on mobile.\n\nSo here we go.  I live in Florida and I\u2019ve read some information on the topic but I want a more clear picture on how this would be handled if it were to be discovered by law enforcement.\n\nA friend of mine who is younger than 18 but older than 15 is having a romantic and sexual relationship with someone in who is older than 24, I know the adult in this situation as well not that it really matters.  Allegedly the parents of the minor are aware and have given their blessing.\n\nCould the adult in this situation get in trouble despite the parent\u2019s blessing?\n\nIm not going to give details to protect their privacy and I\u2019m not I\u2019m not looking to meddle in their affairs at this point in time but knowledge is power.","title":"Question Regarding Inappropriate Contact Between a Minor and an Adult","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570390265,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de82lz\/im_a_19_year_old_whose_dad_died_i_need_help\/","id":"de82lz","body":"Hey reddit. My father passed away in Nov 2017, my senior year oh high school. When he died he was in medical debt so the estate wasn\u2019t opened until nov 2018 (to make sure the debt cleared). To this day, my mom hasn\u2019t discussed the estate with me after asking numerous times. My father barely had any money so I assumed I wouldn\u2019t be inheriting much anyway, but there are a few things that I\u2019m curious about. When my parents divorced in 2015, the house was split between mom and dad. It was supposed to be sold shortly after the divorce with my parents splitting the $$$ halfway. Unfortunately the house had a major problem that had to be fixed and ultimately never sold. So, with my dad passing away, my siblings and I (3 in total) have been told that we are entitled to 1\/6 of the house each because it is our estate, with mom keeping her other half as normal. While the house situation seems legit, other things don\u2019t. \nMy dads two main assets were his car and vintage gun collection. He didn\u2019t have a house\/property to leave behind because he was renting at the time. We (as in my immediate family) are still in possession of the car, and my mom plans on selling it in a few months. She plans on using the money to buy my sister a car which I\u2019m fine with, even if I\u2019m entitled to some of the profits (which I\u2019m still unsure of because I haven\u2019t seen the will). My mom got the gun collection appraised and found out that it was worth around 30k. So, this past weekend, she sold all but two guns (and likely profited over 25k) and immediately used the money to pay off her personal credit card debt. I have MANY questions about this. 1) was she supposed to get written permission from me and my siblings before selling some of my dads estate? 2) is this even legal? 3) am I entitled to the profits from the sale? As you can see, there is so much uncertainty with my situation. My mom still won\u2019t show me a physical copy of the will, and I\u2019m pretty sure she\u2019s doing something she\u2019s not supposed to do. One of my best friends mom died and got scammed out of her entire inheritance because of a greedy family member and I want to prevent this from happening to me and my siblings. \n\nPS: she plans to take money off the top when the house sells for some reimbursements from my dad. Can she do this since they\u2019re divorced? Also, I\u2019ve been told by my mom that \u201cHis will was not signed so it automatically goes to you, which includes your share do of property taxes and other expenses related to the house. There is no executor and he was ruled intestate.\u201d\n\nI just need someone to help me understand if I\u2019m being scammed or not. My mom won\u2019t talk to me about it and all of my grandparents are dead so I don\u2019t have another resource within my family to discuss this with. \n\nTL;DR:\nDad died, mom is acting sketchy with his estate and isn\u2019t being clear. I need help with the legalities of this situation. I\u2019m in the state of TN if that helps.","title":"I\u2019m a 19 year old whose dad died. I need help understanding my inheritance, and if there is some monkey business taking place. Please help","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1504414602,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xrc6p\/squatters_rights\/","id":"6xrc6p","body":"My brother lives in LA. He lives in an apartment complex near his work and he got into a relationship about a year ago. His significant other moved into his apartment about 5-6 months ago and at first he was paying for some of the utilities but he suddenly quit his job and stopped paying for anything. They fell out of love and my brother is paying for a roof under this guy's head and apparently due to California's squatter law after 30 days the guy is legally a resident. The guy drives my brother's car whenever he wants and when my brother tries to stop him he threatens him by saying he will completely burn all of his possessions. My brother is unable to leave his apartment complex when his lease is up either because if the guy refuses to leave when the landlord evicts him the landlord can sue my brother since the guy is my brother's responsibility by law. Is there any loop hole in the squatters law system or is my brother doomed to be confined into this apartment complex. If you need any other information please let me know. I really need some legal advice since we already consulted a lawyer and they said there's nothing he can do unless the guy decides to leave willingly. ","title":"Squatters Rights","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506073753,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71pypv\/how_to_guarantee_my_bipolar_husbands_child_rights\/","id":"71pypv","body":"In a nut shell: located in Ontario Canada. Happily married to my husband of 10 years. We have a 2 year old son and a daughter due any day now. My husband is Type 1 bipolar. Unable to work, but stays home to raise our son and is for all intensive purposes the primary homemaker. He is also listed as my dependant due to his bipolar. He is a wonderful father and husband.\n\n\n\nHowever, my mother in law has been escalating her justnomil behaviors over the past year. Yesterday I learned she has made a comment to a friend that should I die, she would fight at any cost (monetary, lie) for custody of our children.\n\n\nWhat do I do, if anything, to ensure that does not happen. My parents support my husband and my mother is currently sipping a big glass of told-you-so as she predicted mother in laws batshittery last year. I know that in a situation should my husband need hospitalization (usually 2-3 days once a year) my parents would support and help him and the kids 100% as they have before.\n\n\nLooking for direction. I need to ease my husband (and myself) and be confident he won't be screwed if I die.","title":"How to guarantee my bipolar husbands child rights should I die. Do I need to do anything?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539923007,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pghwf\/sexual_harassment_punishment\/","id":"9pghwf","body":"Hello all, I work for a large retail company. Over the past year I have been sexually harassed by a woman at my work. I am in a position of management, and was able to shrug some of it off for a while; however within the past month it has become unbearable. I recently brought it to the attention of my direct supervisor who followed the correct avenues and called Employee Relations.   \n\n\nI had accused this woman of unwanted sexual jokes and references, unwanted advances, and even touching. I cannot even begin to list all of the occurrences, but some include \"that's not the only warm thing I like going down my throat\", \"would you ever have an affair with me?\", and slapping of my butt on two separate occasions with commenting on my body. I did not have video evidence of the touching when I accused her of this; we do have a camera system, I just cant recall the exact date and times.\n\n​\n\nAfter Employee Relations were contacted our loss prevention representative came in and interviewed both of us. He did not ask for any witnesses, nor did he ask for any other opinions. He asked if I had video evidence of her touching me, and because I had not spent hours scrubbing through the video footage; I had nothing to show him. He got statements from both of us and I found out later down the line that she denied touching me ever, but had admitted to everything that I had quoted her saying.\n\n​\n\nThe next day the woman was put on suspension, and I didn't see her for several days. Finally this past Tuesday I heard news she was expected to return to work. This was a surprise to me because I was never informed of the outcome from LP or Employee Relations. It turns out, she was put on suspension because she \"attempted suicide\" after we were interviewed by LP, and was told she couldn't return to work until she could prove she was attending counseling. I was then told that Employee Relations had reviewed our statements and recommended a Record of Discussion. Not a written warning, not a final written warning, she was given a recorded discussion about her actions.\n\n​\n\nI am now forced to continue working with this person, and even though retaliation is prohibited, I have already been retaliated against in-front of our *direct* supervisor. I do not feel the outcome was satisfactory. I don't know where to go from here. Both sexual harassment and retaliation are \"Zero Tolerance\" in my workplace, yet both have happened to me with minor consequences. Who do I turn to when my superiors and HR department will not help?","title":"Sexual Harassment Punishment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538083700,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jgwmu\/ia_how_long_does_an_employer_have_to_issue_a\/","id":"9jgwmu","body":"My husband started a new job last month and abruptly left his job after only 3 weeks. It was a small business, only 8 other employees, and the manager was an incompetent alcoholic. After my husband had to drive his inebriated boss back to the office after lunch and finding the office refrigerator stocked better than a fraternities one day, he realized this wasn\u2019t going to work out. He did not give notice. \n\nIt\u2019s been about a month since he left, and he still hasn\u2019t received his final check (their policy is to mail it). I was under the impression that his paycheck should\u2019ve been mailed out by the next regular payday. It\u2019s now the 2nd regular payday since he quit, and still nothing. My husband called several times but never got a call back, so I used my phone to call them today to ask if there was an issue or if he needed to pick it up in person. \n\nI spoke directly with his manager and he informed me that my husband never called them, and that he\u2019s actually been trying to get in contact with my husband (husbands call logs show this to be untrue, and the company number is not on his block list), and that my husband has one of their key fobs (he does not, he was never issued one and had to continue to type in his code to clock in. He never signed the paperwork for one to be issued to him, either). I informed him that my husband did not have their property, and that regardless, he can\u2019t withhold a paycheck for the. He told me he wasn\u2019t withholding anything, that he knows the law and is well within it, and that he\u2019ll mail it when he\u2019s legally required to. \n\nWhen is he legally required to mail the paycheck? We\u2019ll deal with the key fob issue later, but we\u2019re not in a position to be missing $2000 checks right now. ","title":"IA- How long does an employer have to issue a final paycheck?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552755922,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1unn8\/its_just_a_small_accident_but_i_want_to_know_what\/","id":"b1unn8","body":"So I was in a car driving down US-27 going North and I was at an intersection. Northbound and southbound lights were blinking yellow, and eastbound and westbound were blinking red. We kept on going and a car turned straight into our lane from the left side (they were turning left into us) and  didn\u2019t stop after we honked to alert them. They crashed into us and sent us off the road. Minor damages and no injuries. Their car had no damages. I just want to know what to do now. The car is insured and we exchanged insurance numbers.\n","title":"It\u2019s just a small accident but I want to know what to do.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555108134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcjq6t\/i_have_a_year_old_street_racing_charge_in\/","id":"bcjq6t","body":"I have a year old \"street racing\" charge that I got for doing a small burnout leaving a car show. That part isn't important I don't think.\n\nHowever. My question is, is it possible to have my driving record cleaned or cleared to any degree in Pennsylvania? I ask because clearly, the charge is prohibiting me from getting any jobs that require driving, whether it be Uber Eats and Door Dash or any more professional job that revolves around driving.\n\nI went to court to argue the charge while is was happening, but mistakenly went to court to argue the license suspension I got for receiving the ticket, whereas I was later told I needed to go to court to appeal the ticket. I was told that too late.\n\nSo tldr, is there anyway to amend my driving record so thag I might be able to take on jobs that require driving?\n\nI appreciate any and all advice and please get me know if I can provide any more details. Thanks for reading.","title":"I have a year old street racing charge in Pennsylvania.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1413609395,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jl30q\/ma_us_im_being_extorted_online_can_someone_help_me\/","id":"2jl30q","body":"I paid someone in an online game to play on my account to raise my ranking(which is against the rules and I know is wrong), and now the person is threatening to DDOS me and get my account banned if I don't pay them more money. I only have the persons Skype and that they say they're from Canada(which may not be true). I have their e-mail(not personal email though), and it had a name attached to the paypal but I don't know if it's their real name.  Is there anything I can do? \n\n\n  I have Skype logs of everything.","title":"[MA, US] I'm being extorted online, can someone help me?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1502909929,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u4901\/the_not_a_security_deposit_deposit_and_how_i\/","id":"6u4901","body":"The second part of the title is a work in progress and mostly irrelevant.\n\nWe are in Ohio.\n\nMy girlfriend \"Allison\" found an apartment she liked, but it wasn't quite ready. The precious tenant was still living there and I would need some minor repairs. She fell prey to high pressure sales tactics (these go quickly, someone's coming to look later today, etc.) and was convinced to put money down in order to temporarily \"hold\" the apartment for her. The \"hold\" was a full month's rent, in this case around $900.\n\nShe didn't sign a lease, this was only to prevent someone else from taking the apartment while she waited for the apartment to finish being cleaned and repaired and for the current tenant to move out.\n\nThe woman representing the landlord (RL) refused to allow her to view the apartment after several requests and I got more suspicious as time went on. RL was slow to return calls and emails and was curt when we could get a hold of her, so I advised Allison to find a different place, which she did.\n\nNow, RL is saying she is under no obligation to return the money for the hold, and since she's only giving Allison anything back as a favor that she will probably take some time to return it.\n\nAllison now realizes she was silly with how she went about things, but she's starting a new job and money is tight, so this is money that she could really use right now.\n\nWhat are her options to get this back, and how quickly can we hope to make this happen?\n\nThanks for reading and for any help.","title":"The \"not a security deposit\" deposit and how I learned to love myself again.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553645859,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5xhw1\/fighting_a_traffic_citation_with_dashcam_footage\/","id":"b5xhw1","body":"Made a new account for this so that's why I have this name. \n\nThis last weekend I was out with my friends taking them from the restaurant to a bar. On the way to the bar I get pulled over (literally right in front of the bar). I was given a DUI sort of test where the officer did the flash light finger thing and I pass with flying colors. After I pass the test the officer tells me he is giving me a citation for running the stop sign. I have dash-cam footage from my car of the stop occurring and I had definitely came to a stop for at least a full second but then went because another car had came up to the intersection at the right after and I had right of way. This was an intersection in a bar strip-mall area in a not so busy part of the city in Texas I am in. Even for a Saturday night. \n\n​\n\nI had only had 2 beers and the first was at 8:30pm when I was pulled over at 12:20 am. The second beer was at about 10:30, and they were both around 5%. Not drunk at all, and completely safe to drive in my opinion. Anyhow, like I said I passed the DUI test so the only thing I received a citation was for Disregarded Stop Sign (545.151). \n\nMy question is do I try to fight this with the footage to prove it? Do I have to wait for my court date to show evidence to the judge? Is this worth my time trying to get out of a $114 fee for defensive driving? How do I go about showing dash-cam footage to a judge? I have never had another ticket or citation in the 9 or so years I have been driving. \n\n​\n\nTL;DR: Citation for not stopping when I did, have dash footage to prove it, how do I prove it?\n\n​","title":"Fighting a Traffic Citation with Dashcam Footage","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570499340,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/detdd4\/hit_by_a_car_while_on_bicycle\/","id":"detdd4","body":"About a week ago I got hit by a car while on my bike. I was about to cross the street when a car that was turning right didn\u2019t stop correctly and hit me. Thankfully I was fine, but my bike wasn\u2019t. I wrote down their license plate and their phone number. I later called them and told them that I didn\u2019t want to take this to the authorities because that would just cause headaches. And that they could just pay me for damages and we where good. They said they where fine with that but I would have to wait until Friday because thats when they get paid. So on Friday I called and they didn\u2019t answer so I waited, the next day I called again they still didn\u2019t answer, then I on Sunday I called again and they still didn\u2019t answer. I don\u2019t know what to do, should I make a police report, please help this was in California btw","title":"Hit by a car while on bicycle","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553813993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6po6m\/i_have_been_signed_off_by_the_doctors_my_boss\/","id":"b6po6m","body":"I have been at my job for 3+ years, based in the head office of a corporate company. In the last week of January i was signed off work by the doctors with stress & anxiety as i had been throwing up everyday and had lost my appetite completely. A few months prior to this, the doctor had previously advised signing me off a couple of times due to me still throwing up at work, my emotional state etc. but i had refused as i didn't want to let people at work down, i was concerned about how much my workload would increase in my absence as it was already too much etc. \n\nIn this time, me and my boss have only communicated via text messages. Last month i had asked him what happens to my pay due to the circumstances and he said i would be on full pay. He also advised he now has someone in to help going forward as my workload was too much. \n\nI continued to update him as i followed up with doctors etc. \n\nNow, I have checked my payslip for this month and it doesn't even seem to add up to the SSP minimum. \n\nI text my boss to tell him what i have received from my payslip & that i don't understand as 1. I was told i was on full pay. 2. If it was SSP, the amount payable to me isn't even covering that. So how has this worked out? \n\nHe responded to me with company policies & that personally there is nothing he can do & that i can email HR. \n\nI responded that i hadn't been told any of this and due to him saying i was on full pay i was obviously under the impression i was getting full pay. I said if i had been informed about this i could have made arrangements to cover my monthly bills at least. I asked who is responsible for letting me know when there are changes like this to my pay & can i at least use my annual leave to be paid. \n\nI simply got a reply to my annual leave query with he will ask tomorrow in office.  \n\n​\n\nSo whilst i am signed off by doctors due to stress and anxiety at work, i now have to tackle this issue with them. \n\nHonestly, when this all first happened today i couldn't stop crying. Despite the financial difficulty this has now put me in i am more upset by the manner of it and the issues i now have to raise with HR..\n\nI considered my boss a friend and i know he would say the same about me but if this is beyond him i have no choice but to raise this with HR but i would have to be using my boss's words against him.\n\n​\n\nBy whom\/should i have been informed formally about a change in my pay?\n\nAre the text messages saying i would be on full pay classed as legally binding? \n\nShould i have received full pay?\n\n​\n\n​","title":"I have been signed off by the doctors & my boss told me i was on full pay.....","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553469592,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b531li\/what_to_do_when_non_custodial_parent_disappears\/","id":"b531li","body":"Located in Utah. My best friend has primary custody of her 2 children. When they first separated, the kids stayed with the father. He was caught and charged for smoking meth with them in the room, and both children tested positive on a hair follicle test. \n\nSince then, there were visitation arrangements made. He showed up for a little while, and then disappeared. He has not made any attempts to contact my friend or their children since November of 2018. He has been active on social media, but hasn\u2019t responded to calls or messages about the children. \n\nIs my friend able to have his rights terminated, or is there anything she can file in regards to child abandonment (and at what point)? She is currently in the process of moving to a new home, but she will have the money for an attorney in the next few months. She is just trying to find out what steps to take next. TIA!","title":"What to do when non custodial parent disappears? (Child abandonment)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553559801,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5irk1\/in_girlfriends_summer_job_not_allowing_her_to\/","id":"b5irk1","body":"My girlfriend (F20) recently accepted a summer position to work at the public university she attends in Indiana. As part of this position, they have weekly meetings between now and the end of the school year. However, they informed her that she is not allowed to clock in for these meetings and they are withholding paying her for them until May. The reason they cited for this is that she currently works a 20\/hr a week campus job already and they do not want to pay her for any more than 20 hours per week. Other employees of the same summer job are allowed to clock in for these meetings and get paid every two weeks on a normal pay schedule. This seems dubious to me. Is there any action we can take that would allow her to clock in and get paid on a normal pay schedule when she is attending these training meetings or are they within their rights to prevent her from clocking in and withholding her pay until May? \n\nAny advice would be appreciated.","title":"(IN) Girlfriend\u2019s summer job not allowing her to clock in for weekly training and withholding pay until May","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570144068,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcyv3o\/friend_of_a_friend_arrested_staying_until_december\/","id":"dcyv3o","body":"So one of my friends good friend got arrested a few days ago. She was arrested for stealing from two small stores in their small town. She is from out of state, but here for college.\n\nShe was arrested and no one has been able to contact her yet. They are requiring your name to be on a list. None of her family is answering. They are saying that she will not be able to see the judge until mid December.\n\nThis doesn\u2019t seem normal that she\u2019s in there so long for stealing items a total of less than 200 dollars in value.\n\nIs this the norm ? Trying to help out but I\u2019m lost.","title":"Friend of a friend arrested, staying until December","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507591407,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75d1ve\/wa_usaemployer_has_discrepancies_with_safety\/","id":"75d1ve","body":"Firstly, thank you very much for taking the time to read over what is now becoming a lengthy tale. The situation has begun to concern me and I fear for my continued health and safety. I don't really know what to ask, so I apologize for lacking a more direct question. Any input is very much appreciated. Otherwise, I hope you have been having a good day. :)\n\n\nI work(ed) at a large warehouse and got injured on the job which has led me to being on L&I for over a year and a half. I have had just about every form of treatment ended by L&I due to the treatments (PT, Chiro, Massage) apparently not being curative. I have had to fight legally to get another (now current) set of PT appointments, am fighting to have a paired claim reopened (which, as it was told to me, was only closed due to a clerical error), and am feeling a potential closure of my claim due to an upcoming Independent Medical Examination (IME), my second for this claim.\n\n\nPer my Attending Physician (AP), I am permanently injured and unable to return to the job of injury. This led to a Vocational Counselor (VC) being assigned to me so they could assess my skills and recommend suitable jobs while considering my physical limitations. During this process my VC tried to clarify some details regarding what I stated we had to do on a daily basis, including but not limited to weights we had to move. My employer was not very helpful in this regard, unfortunately.\n\n\nThe information from the employer differed heavily from what I had provided, which caused my VC to attempt to once again clarify the actions which I stated were occurring regularly and which they (employer) stated should never occur at all, or only under certain conditions. It was around this time that I first thought something was amiss.\n\n\nAfter several unanswered e-mails my VC got a few responses which were either entirely unhelpful or completely irrelevant, to the extent that I had to question what my VC had been asking them for in the first place.\n\n\nI have since reviewed the documents and communications myself. Right off the bat, I noticed the images depicting the \"loads\" we might encounter as being off. The pallet would almost never be loaded in the manner shown as it would not utilize the available space while also placing undue stress on certain items. There are also various pallet types that come into play (plastic, wood, w\/ or w\/o attached walls) which would change how they might be loaded. At the same time, the differences in my reports and their provided weight limits and measures could never be explained except for the \"That would never happen.\" response. As far as I can see, the only explanations for their inability to give a straight response to the question is either incompetence from one or more individuals or the company, or attempting to withhold something pertaining to the question. But, of course, I may biased.\n\n\nPart of the issue here is that I am still very much injured. I have nerve damage which causes a great deal of pain from my back to my toes. Yet, if they are able to state the work loads are at such an unrealistically low level, such that it is close to the limitations my AP has set, I could end up being sent back to this place, which could very well be trying to hide a safety issue.\n\n\nI have considered trying to get a job elsewhere so I do not have to worry about what might happen if I get put back in that place, but it is tough to get job offers in my field (IT) with my current restrictions. It's not openly discriminatory, some people simply don't respond a lot of the time, and I don't really blame them too much for it. And yet, it has been the only thing I can think of to try to save myself from further injury.\n\n\nUltimately, I do not know if I have a legal issue here or not, I suppose that is part of the question. Is there anything here that sounds particularly off to you and have an idea for how I might be able to look into it? Found a typo? Literally anything is better than the lack of direction and options I seem to have at this point. Is it illegal for them to be reporting these weights and duties when they differ from what we were actually made to do? Is this something to consider suing someone for? (As much as I hate to bring up that topic)\n\n\nOnce again, thank you very much for you time.","title":"(WA, USA)Employer has discrepancies with Safety Guidelines (Warehouse) regarding weights to be moved. Now permanently injured (spine) due to repeatedly heavy loads.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539736577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oti4j\/rent_increase_what_can_i_do\/","id":"9oti4j","body":"I am the head of household living in a 2B2B Apartment. In December I will have lived here 2 years.  When I started my lease I had gone through a landlord that owned the building and was not directly connected with the main apartment office.  Midway through my first year they sold to the complex and here is where my nightmare began.\n\nThe apartment has several issues which at the cost of rent I was willing to stay and live with them.  Floor is uneven and possibly causing damage to my furniture, the bathroom faucet is very difficult to open and close to name a few issues.  \n\nThey took over and began to make threats about being evicted if I did not sign a new contract immediately. I did some research then and stuck to my word and did not renew til the current term expired. They never followed through with their threats.\n\nNew contract had an automatic loss of $100 of my original deposit and no matter how hard I fought they refused to change that condition.  Rent also went up $40.  When summer came I made sure to play by their rules and sent several communications in writing about the AC.  We live in Texas and the summer can be very long and hot. I have 3 kids ages 5,2, and 1. Some maintenance was performed and they went from saying a complete replacement of the AC would be done within the month to saying a hole needed to be patched, and ultimately to saying the AC was fine and the issue lied within the \"old buildings insulation\".\n\nThe work was scheduled but the contractor never showed. In hopes of making things right the apartment manager made a deal to cover the light bill in August and September. The work would immediately be  scheduled or it would  be delayed til after  summer if I would renew my contract for 1 year and they would throw in a free month rent for my pain and suffering. When I denied to renew she sent me a release of lease notice and said I could leave if I wanted to. When I asked about when the work would be done she said they would go with their preferred vendor in winter.\n\nToday I received a notice that my lease will expire and I could renew or go month to month. Rent is going up by $60 with additional based on my renewal term. 9M $25 6M $50 3M $75 month to month meant an additional $100 (a $140 increase in rent). \n\nI feel this is retaliation for being persistent about them fixing an issue they still won't address.\n\nI am having a tough time with this because money is tight and I am the only breadwinner between my wife and 3 children. (I know it's a bit too late for birth control)\n\nAm I screwed or is there anything I can do?\n\nTL;DR I was released from my lease when I failed to renew another year in order for maintenance to be performed. Now they are trying to raise my rent by $140. I feel this is retaliation, what can I do?\n\n","title":"Rent increase what can I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551066080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aughhi\/forced_to_pay_rent_for_someone_who_is_squatting\/","id":"aughhi","body":"Posting this for a friend of mine...\n\nFriend 1 has an apartment in his name in NYC. He had lived there for a while. He decided to move away a couple years ago but wasn\u2019t sure if it would work out.  A \u201cfriend\u201d of his offered to stay in his apartment and sublet from him on the condition that if he needed to move back, she\u2019d move back out.\n\nHis move ended up working out and he has no intention to return to NYC. His friend took advantage of him and continuously missed rent payments\/utility payments sporadically over the course of almost two years. She has been a total pain in the ass. He had told her he wouldn\u2019t be renewing the lease and that she would need to leave after the year was up because he was not renewing the lease. She had nearly a year to work things out and set herself with somewhere else to stay. She didn\u2019t. She\u2019s now threatening to squat in the apartment and not leave at all.\n\nFriend 1 is fully aware that he broke a law by subletting. NYC has very strict and unique squatting laws from what we gather that makes it appear he will be fully responsible for her rent regardless of the fact that he terminated the lease. The girl has paid some of the rent from her own account and has text message exchanges that would confirm the subletting.\n\nHe\u2019s terrified and doesn\u2019t know how to proceed. Everything we\u2019ve read seems like he\u2019s screwed. Is there anything he can do?","title":"Forced to pay rent for someone who is squatting in my apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568966960,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6rqrk\/arkansas_employment_practices\/","id":"d6rqrk","body":"Question: How do I to handle HR\/compliance issues when the boss throws you under the bus?\n\n6 months ago, I got a new director. 8 months before that, I was the interim manager while corporate people looked for a person to take the role.\n\nSix months in and my new director still has me doing the majority of her job, despite me showing her multiple times how to access different things. She's asked me to keep all her passwords, in case she forgets them. She's asked me to monitor her email, and notify her of something important. Some tasks, she specifically has me do, which require me to log into the system as her. \n\nSo, I've been doing this. However, she recently asked me to make a change in the system that I don't have access to, so it would require logging in as her. I've done this twice before, while showing her how to do it. So this time, I wanted to have her handle the controls while I only talked her through it.\n\nAnother two projects were for the dept budget, and a business plan to overhaul the dept. re-writing job descriptions, etc. For the budget, I asked her to provide the salary data. While I was interim, I had access to all this. So I know what everybody makes; don't care. Director said we'd do a percentage increase, so I was wanting to get those figures set.\n\nA few weeks have gone by. My director is often not available. In six months, she hasn't spent an entire week in the office yet. (Monday) So I'm working up business plan now. I never got salary data. So I go and pull it out myself. The error: I used her login to get the data, as she's required me to do before.\n\nI spent an entire day turning her one-pager with two graphs into a thing of beauty: multiple pages, sections, cover sheet. This is a GOOD presentation she can give to HR\/corporate to justify the changes she's talked about making over the last six months. She's out of the office (again) the day I do this.\n\nShe returns the next day, and I had her my 10+ page report with colored tabs, plus all the updated job descriptions, plus an additional presentation on succession planning I wanted her to review to see if she thought we could incorporate any ideas\/concepts to strengthen the plan. I tell her exactly how I got the salary data: with her login.\n\nShe tells me it's fantastic, how excellent it is, how great it looks, and we go into her office to discuss some of the changes I proposed (in addition to what she'd mentioned). We don't get far into it before we are interrupted for a meeting.\n\nAs we are walking out of the office, she stops and looks at me, and then hugs me, and pats me on the back. I feel I've done a good thing, and exactly what she wants: to make her look good, when there are still things she doesn't know about the job.\n\nWe try to get through the whole thing, but are interrupted 3 more times during the day. Which is typical because 18 people need her, and she's rarely available. We have to share what time we get.\n\n(Thursday) She emails HR about how I have access to salary information that she doesn't have access to. I know this, because she is in the middle of writing this email to respond back to HR, when she calls me into her office to help her with a problem with her email. This email she's writing about me is on the screen. I ignore it, and help her with the separate issue. Then return to my desk and write all this up and email it to corporate compliance. I include to compliance that I've been looking for another job for 6 months, as this director told me she wouldn't give me the job my prior boss set up for me. [Background on that: Job Interview](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/bipolar\/comments\/c8ncko\/job_interview\/)\n\nI have also heard my new director tell three different people that there's nothing for her here at this company and she's not moving from out of state after all. \n\nSo I feel like I've been trying to make it easy for her to transition in, by still doing most of her job, and hopefully changing her mind and getting her to stay. She's very smart. She's just not the manager I need, if she won't let me grow. And now she's passive aggressive about the jobs she's tasked me to do for her.\n\nI spent this evening writing out 7 pages of the events over the last week leading up to this. I really am not sure what to do now, or what to expect will happen next. I'll have to talk to HR or corporate compliance, certainly. But what can I expect? What do I need to make certain HR\/compliance understands about this situation? \n\n(Part of her email was her suggesting to HR I was doing inappropriate things with the data, not what she tasked me to do, which isn't true.)","title":"[Arkansas] Employment Practices","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555083744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcf17f\/window_laws_philly\/","id":"bcf17f","body":"Are there any specific laws about the size of windows in basement apartments\/dorms? My school is building dorms in our basement that have no windows. I want to know if that\u2019s allowed.","title":"Window Laws Philly?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553366499,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4mluz\/suggestions_in_my_defense_against_trademark_bully\/","id":"b4mluz","body":"I purchased a domain a few months back and that domain had someone else's trademark in it. I bought the domain for selling. I had no idea that my domain was someone's trademark. The trademark's owner is a very big company. We do not even earn 1% of their salary. The company contacted me and asked me to terminate the use of the domain name and asked me to transfer it to them or they will take legal actions on me.\n\n​\n\nAfter talking to them, I decided to negotiate with them with some amount. I did not ask them that I need this much amount of money but I told them that if they want the domain to transfer it to them then they will have to pay me an amount and I will put the domain on sale and that the domain will be sold at fixed price. But they are ignoring my **Email** and **Letters.** Whenever I try to do something on my website they send me warning letters. But whenever I send them letters about negotiating they do not reply. They are forcing me to listen to their demands. They want me to transfer the domain to them for free.\n\n​\n\nThe company is forcefully trying to take control over my domain and want me to give up on my domain. The company is making false cyber squatting statements on my website. Even though the domain has their trademark, the statement **\"Cyber Squatting\"** on my website is false.  I feel like I am being bullied. Bullying in an expert manner. I am an individual and I do not have money to fight in the court. I am new at these. ","title":"Suggestions in my defense against Trademark Bully.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568395906,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3snht\/louisiana_filming_on_a_business_without_consent\/","id":"d3snht","body":"This hasn\u2019t happened too often (thank god) but I\u2019d like to be able to tell someone if\/why they can\/cannot film inside my workplace if they\u2019re upset. It\u2019s posted on the entrance to the building but in the few instances it has happened 3 times in my nearly 7 years. Guests won\u2019t listen unless I can quote a law or rule aside from the one clearly posted right next to the sign that states that the interior of the building is under surveillance, and by entering they are consenting to that. Yes 1 of the instances of this happening the guest in question tried to twist that to mean that he could film us.","title":"(Louisiana) filming on a business without consent.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1550984127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/au4jui\/landlord_sold_unfinished_apartment_as_1bedroom\/","id":"au4jui","body":"Denver, CO, USA\n\n​\n\n**tl;dr:** I signed a lease for a 1-bedroom, but there was no door on the bedroom. Lease term hasn't begun, so I asked to break the lease. Landlord got defensive and said he was putting a door on the room. This appears to break city codes for a \"habitable room\", but I'm struggling to find a specific code for Denver, only state and surrounding cities. **Do I have any grounds for voiding the lease, based on his description of the unit as a 1-bedroom?**\n\n​\n\n**The Setup**\n\nI recently toured an apartment unit that the landlord said was a 1-bedroom. The room was still being wrapped up when I toured it, but was finished enough that I was satisfied and signed a lease for March 1 (almost 2 weeks in the future, so the lease term has not yet begun). A friend is a tenant in the same building, and had nothing but good things to say about the guy, so I let my guard down. I *assumed* that because the apartment was unfinished (tools laying around, shower head not installed, small things like that) that the door on the bedroom would be installed, and I didn't ask about it. \n\n​\n\nI also noted that the bedroom did not have any windows, which a friend later pointed out is probably against building codes. I got the keys, checked out the place again, and realized there was still no door on the bedroom.\n\n​\n\n*I know what you're thinking. I made some mistakes along the way and didn't ask all the questions I should have. It was a mistake, and I won't make it again...*\n\n​\n\nAt this point, I'm regretting getting involved with this landlord. Either he lied to me about this unit being a 1-bedroom, or he's breaking housing code by renting an apartment without ventilation or a means of egress. Neither scenario shakes out clean, and I decided to try and break the lease.\n\n​\n\n**The Phone Call**\n\nI contacted the landlord to tell him I was expecting a door on the bedroom, that the room feels like a studio and that's not what I signed for, and that I wanted to cancel the lease. He got upset, explained to me that this is what contracts are for, used some sarcastic insults about being an \"amateur\", threatened to get a lawyer involved and making me pay $25k for the entire year's rent. Says he doesn't understand why I'm \"so upset about a little door\", and that it feels like it is something else.\n\n​\n\nI held my tongue and let him do the talking, knowing that I didn't have much leverage other than forfeiting a month of rent (lease details down below). I didn't mention housing codes or anything.\n\n​\n\nFinally he makes a reasonable offer: \n\nEither he puts a door on the bedroom and I stay for the length of the lease (1 year), or we write a new lease for 3 months and then I'm done. \n\n​\n\nI tell him I need to think about it, but the 3 month lease sounds most appealing. He gives me until Monday to decide. A few hours later I get a text telling me they will be there Monday to install a door. \n\n​\n\n**Next Steps:**\n\nMy hope right now is to find the exact city codes that describe a 1-bedroom, or prove that the window-less room is not a habitable room without a point of egress. \n\n​\n\nI assume that a bedroom needs a door, but only because I've never seen a door-less 1-bedroom before. I've always assumed a studio has no door separating the rooms, but I can't find any relevant codes to describe this distinction. \n\n​\n\n**City Codes:**\n\nI've found very clear codes describing habitable room size and window requirements for the state of Colorado, and separate codes for nearby cities. The closest I've found for the city of Denver refers to \"sleeping rooms\" as \"any habitable room room with a closet\", but I can't find a definition of \"habitable room\" that is specific to Denver (I assume it is the same as the state's definition, but I'd like to be 100% certain).\n\n​\n\nThe other rooms consist of a bathroom which is off of the \"bedroom\", which seems up to code as it has an electric fan vent as a point of ventilation. The living room and kitchen are in the same open area, separated only by a countertop. I don't think that the living room and kitchen can be considered two different rooms, but I can't find anything defining what a \"room\" is. \n\n​\n\n**Resources:**\n\nI've tried to collect all the documents I've been using as reference. It is pretty hard to get a sense of the true codes in effect today, because the documents seem to be fragmented between amendments, but the two most relevant documents are here:\n\n[Sec. 27-20. - Minimum standards for light, ventilation, heating, and insect and rodent control.](https:\/\/library.municode.com\/co\/denver\/codes\/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIIREMUCO_CH27HO_ARTIIHOCO_S27-20MISTLIVEHEINROCO)\n\n[Colorado Code Regulations](https:\/\/www.sos.state.co.us\/CCR\/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=415)\n\nI have also found the unit listed on some apartment websites as a 1-bedroom, which are pulled from a database only accessible by realtors. \n\n​\n\n**Details of the Lease:**\n\nThis is a really long post already. The lease agreement is pretty standard. If anyone is interested, I can post some key points later.\n\n​","title":"Landlord sold unfinished apartment as 1-bedroom, but finished unit does not have a bedroom door, nor a window. More details in post...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554646520,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bagn84\/texas_mom_passed_away_early_saturday_morning\/","id":"bagn84","body":"My mom passed away. I was the only estranged and the youngest daughter. My siblings are saying it\u2019s my responsibility and I have the most money to pay for her funeral costs. I\u2019m not even in her will I don\u2019t think (which I do not believe she had one). Are they being unreasonable? Am I even legally mandated to pay? I\u2019m not going to the funeral. She did too many awful things to me. ","title":"[Texas] Mom passed away early Saturday morning. Siblings are trying to put the funeral costs fully on me.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445861114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q9qwm\/not_being_paid_on_time_and_practically_being\/","id":"3q9qwm","body":"I'm from Ontario Canada, working at a Mac's retail store. I got hired on as a CSR (cashier service rep), and at first everything was perfect! I was being paid monthly, on time and despite having to budget my money really well I couldn't complain.. It was a job...\n\n4 months later my boss decides to \"ask\" me to be paid under the table at 10 dollars an hour because of taxes and such. I knew he was just trying to avoid paying taxes and stuff, but I needed a job badly and where I am there's no jobs available. So I reluctantly agreed to it. \n\n2 months after that he decided that he couldn't pay me 10 dollars an hour and basically forced me to take a pay cut to 9 dollars an hour. I didn't like this one bit and told him that I couldn't really afford to lose out on that much money a month. He told me that he could hire someone else and cut my hours. So I agreed, but made him pay me half full wage ($11) and the other half under the table ($9)\n\nAbout a month later he started paying me bi-weekly with out telling me, started being late with my pay (sometimes a week late), and asking me to work less than an hour at a time and paying me only an hour. \n\nThat's when I had enough and started looking for another job. But like I said above, there isn't anything around me so I haven't been able to find another job and now I've been working in this hell hole of a store for 1 year.\n\nWhat are my options?","title":"Not being paid on time and practically being forced to work under the table.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1410121108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fquis\/hiding_income_to_avoid_alimony\/","id":"2fquis","body":"Posting for a family friend. Location is Phoenix AZ. \n\nShe had been married for 26 years I believe, had 2 children. During this marriage she worked for free for his business. What I mean by this is she didn't earn any official income. About 5 yeas ago he asked for a divorce, which came as a total shock to her. However he was fully prepared and signed over the majority of his assets to business friends and one of her sons. She hired the best lawyer she could with her measly personal savings, but even after she was awarded alimony he immediately started skipping, or only paying a portion of it. He claimed business was down and he had no choice. She tried to take him to court again, but he just tried to stall\/appeal and she couldn't afford the lawyer to fight him any longer. So now, years later, he is still skipping\/only paying a portion of what he is supposed to. \n\nShe already tried getting the one son to reveal to the courts how much he signed over to avoid claiming, but since the son is basically getting a big financial gain for holding them he has turned his back on her. \n\nShe says there's nothing she can do about it, but I am personally disgusted by his tactics and want to know if there is really anything that can be done. Would hiring a forensic accountant help? How much would that cost? Any advise would be great. I'll keep an eye on this to answer any questions. Thank you!","title":"Hiding income to avoid alimony","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570893675,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgwi4y\/ca_living_trust_questions_and_spousal_rights\/","id":"dgwi4y","body":"My spouse and I are drawing up a living trust together. I live in California and am named the beneficiary on all financial accounts and we share property titles. \n\nMy question is, does the living trust override California\u2019s law that the spouse inherits everything after death? \n\nWe named his relative as the main beneficiary in our trust should we both die, but the lawyer said that upon just my husbands death all assets get split 50\/50 and his beneficiary cannot be altered or deleted by me. \n\nDoes that mean that because our accounts are now owned by a trust that I\u2019ll have to ask his beneficiary for access to our accounts or sell our properties? The attorney briefly mentioned that I could do what I want with his half even though it\u2019s split 50\/50 upon his death and drain accounts Etc. Not my plan, I just don\u2019t want to have to ask permission from a relative after my spouse dies. FYI I also named a beneficiary for my half after I die.","title":"CA: Living trust questions and spousal rights","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552158405,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az6usd\/renter_in_pa_no_access_to_fuel_tankfuse\/","id":"az6usd","body":"So I have lived in the same \"apartment\" for 6 years now, in PA. I put apartment in quotations because it's a house and we get the top level, underneath is the water treatment area for the trailer park behind my home. The landlords have changed hands 3 times since we have moved here, they were all pretty sketchy. \n\nWe have oil heat and the tank is down stairs in their little water treatment facility, where we do not have access to..also my fuse box is down stairs as well. They are CONSTANTLY down there, banging around, talking all extra loud at 4am and on. Downstairs is locked and we cannot get to it... so we never know what level our oil tank is at, we just get a random heads up when the tank has about an 1\/8 left of fuel... leaving us with a few days to scramble to come up with the money to heat our home.... \n\nonce upon a time one time burned up in my washer and filled the house with smoke, I was horrified and about 7 months pregnant, called 911 and took my 4 year old outside with me to wait for the fire department...they asked me where the fuse box is and I told them it was in the basement where I don't have access....they were about to break down the door when my landlord showed up finally and opened the door and cut the power.. I have no idea if landlord got in trouble or not for those reasons.... \n\nThe \"water treatment facility\" is the basement level where they have the well, pump and these big vat things that hold chemicals..the one out of three times in was down there there was this weird white fluffy substance I wasn't sure if it was from the big chemical things. If it was mold.  Idk what the heck it was.. our water was purple for a looong time and we would lose water pressure all the time!\n\nwe have complained that ceiling tiles were falling down\/bulging and they said they would take care of it when it finally fell..... if you look at the tiles they are outlined by what looks like a dark colored ...something..they instructed me to NEVER go into the crawl space because they dont know what's up there(I'm thinking mold\/water damage they dont want to deal with) ..the walls are wood panel and never hold heat...the windows dont latch and have a bit of a gap that you can see light through... some outlets dont work...and one outlet is missing the plastic \"face\"(where you plug in things, it's just exposed wires, freaking terrifying when you have kids) and theres this electrical plug thing sticking out of the carpet in the living room I am pretty sure is not okay by standards..\n\nThe vents where the heat comes from pull up and out and my two boys are autistic and pull them out and look down into the hole..it looks like the ventilation pipes that come up from the basement are falling off.. I'm terrified my boys are going to stand in the damn vent and fall into the basement... (for whatever reason they REFUSE to let us screw down the damn vents to stop the boys from lifting them up)\n\nWhat I am asking is...\nShould we have access to our fuel tank and fuse box?\nAnd should I contact the township to do a walk through? \nWould I be liable for all these things that are going on in here ?\n\nSorry for the long post!\nTLDR: basic repairs aren't done..no access to our fuel tank\/fuse box...should in contact township to come and tour and will I be in trouble if they find something not to code ","title":"Renter in PA, no access to fuel tank\/fuse box\/sketchy landlords.. (sorry this is long and I am new to posting)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540331166,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qthet\/question_are_my_teachers_allowed_to_hold_me_after\/","id":"9qthet","body":"Are my teachers allowed to hold me after the bell has rang as a punishment or to finish a lesson? One of my teachers usually holds my class for up to 15 minutes after the bell has rang and physically blocks the exit. Is she breaking any laws and if so what are they? Location: Central Texas public high school.","title":"[Question] Are my teachers allowed to hold me after the bell?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541489928,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9umeiy\/if_i_have_medical_issues_due_to_work_related\/","id":"9umeiy","body":"So I don\u2019t know how general or specific I would need to be for this sub to help, but I hope I don\u2019t need to reveal anything identifying about myself or my company today (it\u2019s only about 100 employees, but i would rather not this be linked to me). I\u2019m starting to get suspicious that I may be entitled to something and I am unaware of it. I get this feeling by the way my bosses and HR are treating me. I\u2019m also worried that the opposite may be true and it\u2019s that I\u2019m doing something wrong and they\u2019re just keeping closer tabs on me. Sorry this is long, it takes place over multiple events in 6 months and I really don\u2019t know what will be found relevant or not. TL;DR exists at the end. \n\n- - -\n\n**Backstory** in a nutshell\n\n* our department head at the business retired this year\n\n* we have been a little lower on staff than usual to run and manage things, this is because the company decided to wait before we replaced some staff that left around the same time so the new boss could do the hiring \n\n* the new department head came in from another business of the same nature as ours\n\n* the new boss has, since the first weeks she came on, been making loads of changes and adding new projects. She\u2019s ambitious but doesn\u2019t seem to sympathize with learning how we already do things, and her changes have been disruptive and added more work company wide in the name of a better business overall. \n\n* she has this method of asking to review our work, documents and such, in a group. She will sign off or criticize the work and make us redo it. I am aware that I have a personal nervousness about criticisms, especially in front of my peers. I approached her about this nervousness right away. She said she hoped she didn\u2019t sound so mean critical, she just needed things done in a certain way, which is in her right to ask. \n\n* at this point in our personal 1 on 1 supervision meeting, I shared with her about my nervousness of feeling in trouble with her about my work, and that due to being short staffed I had taken on to cover running a lot of projects until we could hire new staff to help again. I told her running these projects take a lot of my time and it affects my personal work I need to get done. She acknowledged me, and said she would work on it. \n\n* as time goes by, she hasn\u2019t hired new help, and as I got rid of running the projects I was covering, she added new ones for me. I told her again I was uncomfortable having this many extra projects to run, and she promised she would delegate these projects to other staff soon. The issue is because we are short staffed, all of us in our department are running this many projects, and no one is comfortable adding more. Yet we are promised new hires soon, and the new employees will be able to take over some of this load. \n\n* On top of that, when our business takes on new clients, it is our department that is the only ones qualified to do an intake process due to our level of education and licensure. The state mandates that the intake process be within 24 hours now, so the company took one of us and made that employee in charge of a new intake department (with higher pay, higher status in the company, etc.) since the new position was filled with an employee from within, we have one less person in our department now. \n\n* the person who now is an intake department chair, does all the intakes in days she works, however, she worked Monday-Thursday and I work Tuesday-Friday. So I have been delegated with any intakes that happen on Friday on top of my other growing responsibilities from the new boss. I am also the only person in my department who works Fridays, and that makes my personal work responsibilities very busy on that day without the intakes. \n\n- - -\n\n**So now essentially the stress began effecting my health.** I have been calling off sick more than ever, as I drive to work I get a knot in my stomach many days. I was warned by a friend to get checked out for an ulcer. When I went in and told my doctor the story, she checked me out, and told me that due to my stress levels my stomach acid could be eating the lining of stomach, which could evolve into lifelong health issues if untreated. I was given a prescription medication I have to take in the morning. She suggested I need to see a therapist or quit my job if something could not be done. \n\nI let my boss know that work stress has gotten that bad for me, and she seemed very sympathetic. She promised me that soon she\u2019d hire new employees to help me, and she\u2019d be helpful if I needed anything. I was pretty assertive that if we had more help that it would help me, and help us help her make her ambitious changes. \n\nWell, 3 new hires have come on since then, however they\u2019ve been sent to other buildings\/facilities to work and thus none of the projects I run can be delegated to them. There\u2019s even employees that have been hired for specific days of the week that don\u2019t coincide with the days the projects need to be run on. \n\nThe new boss also created these team meetings, interdepartmental, to discuss our clients. These meetings are two more precious hours of my work week, and with my multiple projects and my intakes on Friday, my primary personal responsibilities were beginning to be put on the back burner to manage. My coworkers felt the same way, and we sat with our boss to explain these 2hour team meetings were not necessary for us in our department, during which we could have some helpful input maybe 10% of the time *as needed* while the rest of the time we essentially watch the other departments doing their work together. \n\nOur new boss was not happy with us for saying this. She said she felt that since we were her people in her department that she felt the most betrayed that we didn\u2019t want to help her make our company a team. She also deflected our complaints about time management with these added ventures into a \u201cwell the other department has all this work and paperwork\u201d as a way to invalidate our concern (clear logical fallacy. We do drastically different work, comparing apples and cucumbers at this point). At this point my coworkers and I have each other a look and knew this was a lost cause and gave up.\n\nSo it wasn\u2019t until a few more weeks after this that two things happened. \n\n1) we were asked by this boss to come to department team meetings, but not answer any of her questions. Long story short, this strategy makes sense because our theory had become that since the people in our department come from grad-school level education, the other departments had developed a learned helplessness where they wanted us to give all the answers and believed they didn\u2019t know as much as we did (untrue, they are excellent at what they do). So by not answering questions in the meeting, the other staff would have to answer them and then we could praise them for good answers to show they\u2019re don\u2019t need our help for everything. However, once or twice there were questions that the boss asked that only people in our department would know, and when she didn\u2019t get an answer from us she\u2019d publicly say something about how we \u201c*really should have known about that*\u201d making us look incompetent in front of the other staff departments, even though we were asked not to respond to her questions. Now this happened multiple times, even after we clarified if we were supposed to answer if she had questions related to our department. One of these times happened to a coworker and it was worse than the other times. She talked back to the boss that she didn\u2019t appreciate that and the boss took her aside and nearly yelled at her for it. So she went to HR about it the same day I did. \n\n2) my Fridays had become a nightmare, we suddenly had 2-3 times as many intakes as ever before scheduled for a Friday, and I was still covering a project and trying to catch up on my personal\/primary job responsibilities for that week. My anxiety got to me and on my breaks I cried in my car and talked to my mom on the phone, she was saying I needed to call in sick but she was afraid I wouldn\u2019t calm down enough to drive home. I was so scared that this would be the time I let my bosses down, something was going to go unfinished, and it would cost the company. I thought I\u2019d be yelled at. I calmed myself down, did all my primary duties, and at the end of the day emailed everyone involved with intakes why I was unable to complete more than half of them by myself before I needed to go home for the weekend. I went to HR the next week to say I didn\u2019t appreciate doing the intake\u2019s job (suggesting because they pay someone more to do it, and I don\u2019t get paid more for Friday) but focusing on my concerns that my primary duties hit the back burner due to the excessive projects I run and the intakes on Fridays. I let HR know I wanted to focus on my stress and did not want to work the Friday schedule any more *due to my medical condition from work stress.* I let the HR staff know my boss knew about it and that it had been months without promised relief, only knew projects and new responsibilities. \n\nThe results of having reported to HR was an email from the CEO saying my department would no longer be given intake responsibilities, only the intake coordinator or our boss can do them. The other result, although HR had promised to keep it secret I went to them, was my boss suddenly remembers to ask about my stress levels *Every. Time. We. Talk.* and that if I ever need help she will help me. HR staff have also been very kind to me, such as even though they\u2019ve gone on maternity leave for their first baby, they\u2019ve told me *specifically* that I can call or email them and they\u2019d respond to me while on leave. The final result was a few weeks later our department was asked to participate in a time study. \n\nThe time study is this form where we write what we did for every half-hour in our work day to get an idea of what we do all day for the company. We were told it was for our benefit, but It feels like a major no-win situation. Especially since a new project has been proposed to us, and two new duties have been added to all of us during this time study period, but we turn it in this week regardless. \n\nSince going to HR a few weeks ago, things have been backsliding again. New hires aren\u2019t able to take over my projects, and we are being asked to run other projects. Our boss even got permission to delegate intakes to us again if our boss only if we had time to do them in our day, which as resulted in group texts at 11 am such as \u201cI have emailed everyone about 3 intakes already, why have none of them been done?\u201d So apparently we are expected to drop everything to do the bosses job in the bosses time but not get behind. Last week in team meeting I decided to pass time by filling out some Christmas cards I had purchased, afterwards my boss said it was distracting and not to do it again, which even though I didn\u2019t think it was distracting I agreed I\u2019d not do it again, but today I got an unprompted email from the Boss with HR cc:\u2019d to it saying as a follow up to that conversation that I would be allowed to write notes, doodle, or write cards since I\u2019m not distracting. And tonight I was emailed and asked to take on a brand new project to run, I said I would speak to them in person about it tomorrow because I fully plan to say no (which also concerns me because the last time we said no we were scolded for not being yes-men\/team-players).\n\n- - - \n\n**TL;DR**\n\nSo to sum it up, I got so stressed by the added work from the new boss this year that I take medications to regulate my stomach acid so I don\u2019t burn a hole in it and\/or create an ulcer, and I began going to therapy to help learn to manage my stress. I let my boss know why I was so stressed, and was promised relief that has never come. More responsibilities were added to my overworked workload, and after avoiding a panic attack I spoke with HR (as did other coworkers for various reasons) there were immediate responses from the CEO and now HR and my boss have been way extra kind with me...even though my workload continues to be expanded. \n\nAm I missing something? It almost feels like I\u2019m suddenly being catered to as if I could sue the whole company at any minute so they\u2019re trying to be careful. Even when I make mistakes, like doing a non work thing during a staff meeting, it turns around to be okay for me, or an HR staff telling me she will answer to my beckon call during maternity leave. Are they just kind? Am I paranoid if I think are they building a case against me by asking for time-studies? \n\nClearly I need to just find a new job, and hopefully I can leave while I\u2019m able to say I left due to furthering my career opportunities rather than because of any type of altercation. Thank you for helping. ","title":"If I have medical issues due to work related stressors, am I entitled to anything? After saying something about needing to take medications, my HR department is treating me extra kind.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443192805,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mcblp\/my_landlord_didnt_disclose_that_my_apartment\/","id":"3mcblp","body":"Hello Everyone! I am living in Massachusetts and am currently having an issue at the new apartment I recently moved into.\n\nFor security reasons I place sensors on my door so that I would be notified when someone was entering my apartment while I wasn't there. Yesterday I began to receive notifications that someone was entering my apartment numerous times. I called the maintenance line and asked if my apartment had been scheduled to receive maintenance (if not, then that meant someone was breaking in). A few minutes later I received a call from a maintenance person, who said they were in my apartment because they'd received a call that the hot water was not working. \n\nNote: I had put a \"do not enter\" request on my apartment, which meant my boyfriend or I had to be present for maintenance visits. Additionally, I had received no notification that someone was going to be entering my apartment. \n\nWhile on the phone with the maintenance person, I learned that my apartment houses the hot water and heat for all the other apartments connected to mine. This meant that every time there is ever an issue, maintenance has the right to enter my apartment.\n\nThis was not disclosed to me, and was not mentioned in my lease agreement.\n\nIs this legal? What are my rights in this situation? My boyfriend and I were thinking of asking to be relocated to one of the nicer apartments but at our existing rate, or asking for a significant rate reduction as compensation for this inconvenience and lack of disclosure. Are these good starting points?\n\nMany thanks for any advice!","title":"My landlord didn't disclose that my apartment houses heat\/water for all units, maintenance comes and goes without notifying me (Massachusetts)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569001589,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6yglm\/landlord_wants_us_to_move_out\/","id":"d6yglm","body":"This is in Long Island, NY. We're students living in a house and our lease expired in september but our landlord let us stay 2 more months (paying obviously) since we let her know in advance. We thought we would have to move because one of our roommates said he was leaving so we needed to go to a smaller and cheaper house. Turns out he's staying after all.\n\nLandlord said new tenants already signed the lease and gave a security deposit so we have to move out by October 31st. We said we wanted to stay and keep paying rent. What are our rights here? Do we have to move out or can we stay in the house while paying rent? \n\nWhat would happen if we just stayed in the house while paying rent and refused to leave?","title":"Landlord wants us to move out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552674302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1ic71\/my_boss_threatened_me_with_another_employee\/","id":"b1ic71","body":"So I\u2019ve been at POE (place of employment) for two months as a warehouse employee. I\u2019m the only warehouse employee so it\u2019s all on me to make sure the warehouse and its inventory is being maintained as best as possible; however, I can only do so much when my bosses refuse to provide training and technicians don\u2019t use any sign out sheets like they are supposed to. I\u2019m doing my best and my bosses have been pleased with my work (from what they have said) considering I\u2019m figuring things out for the first time all the time. And my relationship with the technicians is friendly as well, although I only see them when I\u2019m dropping off\/picking up materials. \n\nGetting sidetracked, sorry. Yesterday one of my bosses (Operations Controller, HR, Finances; it\u2019s a small business so she wears a lot of different titles, let\u2019s call her T) came up to me and told me that the technicians are mad at me for comments and notes I\u2019ve been putting around the office. She claimed I wrote in my notes (which she rifled through) said the techs were dumb and I\u2019ve been leaving passive aggressive notes around the warehouse. 1) I have those notes she is referring to still and nowhere did I disparage or infer a coworker\u2019s intelligence (though she claims to have made copies of them) and 2) I haven\u2019t left any notes around the office so that\u2019s a straight up lie. \n\nT then went into how the techs might start messing with me, and how one is notorious for screaming people out til they cry, and overall harass me and my work area. And to top it all off she said if they did start messing with me it would be considering defending themselves so she couldn\u2019t do anything to stop it beside slap their wrist. \n\nI plan on having a sit down with T and B (my other boss who has been out of the office for a week) on Monday to discuss this honestly flabbergasting conversation. Any advice on how to handle this or what agency to report this? Thank you in advance ","title":"My boss threatened me with another employee","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539904885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9peddr\/landlord_tenant_issues_legal_advice_denver\/","id":"9peddr","body":"okay, so I am trying to find the best way to write this while staying somewhat anonymous. This situation is so unique, however, I am sure if anyone close to it read this they would know exactly who I am. oh well, here goes.  \n\nI have been living in this house in Denver for about 7 months.\n\nIt was a strange set up, with someone else living in the \"mother in law\" house separate from the main house I occupied. keep in mind, this is a single family home, it is not metered separately as individual houses. That was my first red flag. I have to split utilities with the lady living in that back house? she was nice enough, so it didn't bother me horribly. until the City showed up at my door.\n\n \"do you live here?\" yes. \n\n\"does someone else live in the back?\" yes.\n\n\"really wish you didn't tell me that\" OK?\n\nThat was when the City inspector went on to tell me it was a single family home, it was against the zoning and regulations of my area for it to be rented to separate renters and I legally had to have \"unobstructed access\" to the entire property. She also served the owner violations and provided me a copy. It turned out a large part of the inspection was the permit for the kitchen in the back house was expired and did not carry over to the new owner.\n\nso at this point the back renter had already put in her 60 days notice and was leaving anyway. convenient right? well, no. the owner is greedy and expected to get two separate rent checks for this one property every month. The property manager need a way to fulfill that for the owner.... so here goes the start of 7 months of hell.\n\nFirst, the property manager wanted me to sign a lease with a complete stranger. She wanted me to just tell the City we are roommates and that would be the end of it. FUCK THAT. I am not going to be held financially responsible for a stranger so you can make more money and not to mention be apart of your defrauding the City. Should be simple enough right? no. This is dragged on for MONTHS. She then starts demanding us to find someone to rent back there. There is so much in between all of this but ill keep it short (ish)\n\nShe started letting her \"maintenance\" people use the garage as a staging area. Even with what the City told me, that I HAD to have access, she took back the Garage key and locked me out.. telling me \"this was not my property\" and I never was meant to use the garage or back yard because it wasn't \"part my lease\" . Sorry lady, you don't get to just decide what pieces of a property I can utilize and what I can't. \n\nNow we are here. SHE STARTED A FUCKING PREP KITCHEN IN THE BACK HOUSE. Not only is a ENTIRE BUSINESS being ran in my back yard... it is a FOOD prep space for a home delivery service. WTF. I have random men walking in and out of my back yard. LOOKING IN MY WINDOWS. cooking in that house. THAT I AM PAYING FOR THE UTILITIES OF.  as far as I am concerned.. It is dangerous. I do not have a list of \"approved\" people that can be there. What if a man off the street walked back there with malicious intent? how would I know?  I have a small child.. it is SO fucked  I am scared to be home alone. \n\nThis whole ordeal has basically ruined my relationship with my SO. I have been living in a constant state of stress. my anxiety is PEAKED and my job is being effected from it now. \n\nthe City is aware of this. probably just going to give her violations and a ticket. won't effect her bottom line. However this has GREATLY effected me. \n\nI am moving at the end of this month. obviously I would like to get my deposit back.. prob will have to go to court for that as well as damages because this has been the worst experience of my life.\n\nany advice is appreciated! \n\nany local attorneys want to take this young single mothers case on contingency?  ","title":"landlord tenant issues\/ legal advice Denver","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412829239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2iqczc\/the_calculus_of_lawbreaking_by_companies\/","id":"2iqczc","body":"I'm not entirely sure this is the best place to post this, but it's a question of both law and business, so I thought I'd try here. \n\nBut to the topic at hand: it seems to me that whenever I read a headline in the news about a major US company breaking the law, the punitive damages they have to pay is usually only a small fraction of the estimated actual damage (profits) they gained through such activity. The damages never seem break even, let alone surpass the profit gained (through an illicit activity) to punish the company for any additional harm to whatever other party was involved, or even just to account for inflation\/interest of the total amount.\n\nThe logical conclusion of this assertion seems to be that every company (that can payroll high-quality lawyers) should break the law as frequently as opportunities present themselves, insofar as they can profit from it, since the penalties will only be a small portion of the gains.\n\nBut this doesn't seem to be the case in reality, as far as I know. Why not? Is there some other hidden cost that is not immediately obvious, such as public relations fallout? Or increasingly steeper penalties for continued breaches of law? Blacklisting from government contracts? Persecuting government agencies or politicians not wanting to generate hostility against powerful lobby groups? Or are these high-profile headlines just selective reporting by journalists, and heavier penalties tend to be dished out for most companies?\n\nI'm hoping that there's a lawyer out there who has experience on what goes on behind the scenes.","title":"The Calculus of Law-Breaking by Companies","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1445874293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qaiqr\/sublet_an_apartment_3_years_ago_rental_company_is\/","id":"3qaiqr","body":"3 years ago I lived in a studio apartment in St. Paul, MN. I broke the lease early with a 60 day notice (what was said in the lease) and paid an additional month's rent which I was told covered me until the sub-letter moved in. I was told that the sub-letter was to take over the lease (I did not know them, the rental company found them) and that I was no longer responsible for rent. ~1 year later, I received notice from them saying I owed $4,000 for the remaining rent that I backed out on. I called and told them that I was told a sub-letter had been found, and that I was no longer responsible, but I do not have any of that in writing. I did not hear from them again until this morning, when I received a summons. I have my 60 day notice and may still have the lease filed away in my paperwork. \n\nAlso, the summons gives me 20 days to respond or I forfeit the case, and it is dated Oct. 8. However, I only received it this morning. \n\nI don't know what other info to include, but if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them. ","title":"Sublet an apartment 3 years ago, rental company is now suing me for broken lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554846453,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbdv1a\/widow_is_going_after_irrevocable_trust\/","id":"bbdv1a","body":"Hello Legal advice!\n\nAround 2012 my father purchased some real estate, put it into an irrevocable trust, named a good friend as trustee, and me as beneficiary. \n\nHe got married in 2017 and passed away at the end of last year. \n\nFrom 2012 up until the time of his death the trust received rent from this property. My dad, being the financially dubious person he was, took that rent and kept it. \n\nNow that he has passed, the property in the trust has been transferred to me. However, since he was paying himself out of the trust during his life, his widow is claiming that the trust is part of the estate and she is owed half of its contents. \n\nInternet research has showed me that an irrevocable trust is irrevocable regardless of what my dad did. Is she right? Does she have a legitimate claim to half?","title":"Widow is going after irrevocable trust.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1504375017,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xnny7\/pa_speeding_ticket_advice_for_an_idiot\/","id":"6xnny7","body":"I got pulled over for speeding, driving my parents' car, while also being on my parents' insurance. The cop did me a solid, I was going much faster than what he cited me for (21 over). I also got cited for not having proper insurance info (dad didn't put in the updated version, so all I had was an expired one). I've never been pulled over before so I have some stupid questions: \n\nThe cop said if I plead not guilty and provide proof of insurance at the hearing I'll get off on that charge, is this accurate? \n\nI see online it says I'll get four points on my license since I was \"21 over\", is this accurate as well or is this subject to change, for better or worse?\n\nDoes anyone know how this is going to affect my parents? I am 23 years old, and in the process of getting my own car\/insurance so I know it will suck for me, but I'm really hoping this doesn't affect them in any way so I don't have to tell them. I don't plan on contesting the speeding ticket, since he really did do me a favor. \n\nIf it does affect them financially, will it still affect them once I am off of their insurance?\n\nI'd prefer to just pay the fine and not mention it to them, but if they are going to be affected I will obviously have to tell them. Thank you in advance! ","title":"PA Speeding Ticket Advice For An Idiot","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571749686,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlhozw\/breaking_my_lease_qld_australia\/","id":"dlhozw","body":"Breaking my lease? QLD\n\nI live in a pretty bogan area, in fact as I\u2019m typing this down right now, there\u2019s someone yelling straight up nonsense outside. \n\nI\u2019ve been renting this apartment unit for a bit over two years now and I\u2019ve resigned my lease for another 6 months (ends March 2020), however about a month ago, my car got broken into and I got my stuff stolen. It was parked in the underground car park which is gated in my assigned spot. Now the situation is, I left my car unlocked, however the thief shouldn\u2019t have been able to get in to the car park in the first place right? \n\nPolice report has been filed already and the incident is on CCTV. \n\nI just want to know if this gives me enough of a reason to break my lease with minimal consequences. Would I keep my deposit? Would I have to pay until they find a new tenant?\n\nThank you.","title":"Breaking my lease? QLD Australia","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555283538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd8ymk\/my_family_and_i_moved_from_ga_to_fl_on_our_own\/","id":"bd8ymk","body":"As the title states, I received an excellent job opportunity in FL (originally from GA). I accepted the job to secure a better future for my family and we dove into our savings and made the move.\n\nIt took us forever to find a rental home in our price range and once we did, we agreed to sign an 18 month lease at the owner\u2019s requests (at the owner's request to catch PCS orders - military town). I have made payments early and on time for the 3 months we have lived here. I receive a call from my property manager today stating the owners want to sell the home and the lease allows them to break the terms under the current circumstances.\n\nWhat can I do?! I cannot afford another move nor can I afford to buy the home. We honestly put house hunting and moving on the back burner as we did not think we would have to do it again for at least 18 months.\n\nTL;DR. We moved from state to state on our own dime to secure a better future for our family. Signed an 18 month rental lease and the owners want to sell the home after 3 months breaking the lease and kicking us out. Help!!!","title":"My family and I moved from GA to FL on our own dime for a better job opportunity. We signed an 18 month rental lease (at the owners request) and after 3 months the homeowners want to sell the home and kick us out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553125916,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3jegb\/next_of_kin_inheritance\/","id":"b3jegb","body":"I\u2019m not a rich person, but I do have some assets (pension, deferred Comp, savings, valuable items\/property). I\u2019m concerned that if I died, these assets would be awarded to my estranged mother. She is extremely abusive, and I cut off all contact with her several years ago. The last I heard, she was homeless, doing drugs, and abusing other family members (financially manipulating them). What steps do I have to take to make sure 100% of my assets go to my brother? If I make no mention of her, can she take legal action against my \u201cestate\u201d? (Do I specifically have to say \u201cthis person shall be awarded nothing\u201d?) \n\nCA.  Thanks in advance. ","title":"Next of kin inheritance","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1443067585,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m5qn4\/castepmother_abandoned_her_2_sons_to_the\/","id":"3m5qn4","body":"I'm assuming since this is a casual forum where all legal advice is unofficial, doing this second-hand on the stepdaughter's (my friend\/pseudosister) behalf is fine. She's busy dealing with the immediate repercussions of having a 14 year old and an 18 year old dumped on her when she's in her early 20s with no support.\n\nQ1: She has explicitly refused to accept them going into foster care. She is determined to keep both of her brothers in her personal care until forced to give them up. What does she need to do to protect herself and gain official custody of them?\n\nQ2: What kind of financial aid is she entitled to in this situation? She is already receiving EBT(Food Stamps), but has some pretty hefty medical bills of her own to deal with as well as no official job (she is a busker\/balloon twister\/facepainter\/etc)\n\nQ3: What kind of action can be taken against the stepmother. She is offering to pay a small amount of money ($500 a month) in order to make the whole thing go away, but that's not enough to take care of 2 people. She can't be relied on to pay that anyway.\n\nQ4: The older one (18) has autism. He is not high-functioning. He may legally be an adult but he requires supervision and regular care. Does this change anything?\n\nQ5: No transportation is available for the multiple town commute (including a toll bridge) required to get them to school. They are truant until this is solved.","title":"[CA]Stepmother abandoned her 2 sons to the unofficial custody of her stepdaughter.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445360168,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pih93\/help_in_north_carolina\/","id":"3pih93","body":"I am a spoiled only child last week my mom had a stroke\/blood clot event. I am devastated to say the least I am and always will be a mama\u2019s boy her medical care is ongoing but for now she is completely catatonic no speech no movement to speak of. The problem aside from this tragedy is there is no living will or power of attorney we all (me, wife, 2 kids) lived together in a house that was in her name and we drive cars that are in her name all the utilities are in her name\u2026..you get the point. My wife and I both work and we have just always pooled our finances and lived our lives, mom was a part of everything. The question is are \u201cTHEY\u201d going to kick us out of her house and take the cars we have been driving or is there some way to get some legal document to prevent that ?","title":"Help in North Carolina","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1505431505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7060r5\/is_my_parking_ticket_legit\/","id":"7060r5","body":"So I work for a giant online retailer and at the particular warehouse I'm at, there is one usable entrance. The parking lot is comically small compared to the amount of associates working per shift so most people have to park elsewhere. The parking lot is completely enclosed aside from a gate with a guard post. I parked in a handicap stall(I realize this. Plz don't just say it in the comments). The stall in question tho is over 1000 feet away from the entrance to the building. It is clearly marked. \nI'm asking if anybody knows the specific amount of handicap stall the building should have as well as how close they are required to be to the entrance of the warehouse.\n\nI got the ticket in Moreno Valley CA. \nI would just pay it but it's $432.50 and I don't have that kind of Mahoney lying around. ","title":"Is my parking ticket legit?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503528816,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vmpd3\/pennsylvania_car_accident_officer_told_me_he\/","id":"6vmpd3","body":"I was involved in a three car crash in PA. The car in front of me(we can call it car A) merged into my lane and then slammed on their breaks because the person in front of them(car B) was breaking. So car A hit car B and then I hit car A. Car A ended up fleeing the scene, but I managed to get their plate and the officer was able to pull up his information. It turns out he had a warrant out and that's likely why he ran. \n\nThe officer told me that he couldn't confirm what had happened and said that he had to issue a citation to me, but that he \"could be more lenient in court\" if I choose to contest the ticket. I was cited with \"following too closely\". Personally I just want to avoid the points, though I have a clean record and I'm not someone who speeds or drives recklessly so it's not the end of the world for me if they do end up on my record.  Here are my questions. \n\nDo I contest the ticket?\nIf I do, how should I plead?\nDo I need a lawyer?\nIf they do decide I'm guilty, would the fine\/points be worse than if I just pay it outright?\n","title":"[Pennsylvania] Car accident, officer told me he could be more \"lenient in court\" if I contest the ticket. Should I?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540915533,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9spbg5\/i_need_help_or_advice\/","id":"9spbg5","body":"Hello Reddit community wish to ask for some help since I'm an idiot 17 year old kid. Situation is this, I'm a horny kid and was desperate for nudes, I got hit up by a random kik girl, i verified they weren't a bot and then she stated she wanted to share nudes, she asked me to send a full pic of my face as well as my body, me being the idiot I was went along with it. Now with that pic she looked up on Facebook, my friends and everything for it wasnt privatized yet. Then everything went into a 180 from nudes to threats about sending her money in order to not have nudes sent to family or publicly posted, I bought me some time, but still she has gained my family and friends accounts and threatens to send them to them if i dont pay, i took some steps like deleting my account and making a new private one with no pic Now I'm stuck wondering what do I do? She says if I pay up the money she will delete the photo but I cant trust her you know? Need help asap btw she is 21 year old woman, I kinda loved and said I was 18 cuz I'm an idiot, she thinks I'm 18 as well I know where her real name and that she may be from the Philippines at the least but I'm stressing. Any help is appreciated and thanks.","title":"I need help or advice","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541731231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vgn4r\/questions_about_contract_law_specifically_leases\/","id":"9vgn4r","body":"Hi legal advice I find myself in a difficult position that I would like some clearing up on. I live in New York.\n\nSo in may I signed a lease for a house with 5 guys in a college town for school. Over the summer I changed my major switched schools leaving the town that the house and previous school were in. I never made a down payment, or received a key, or copy of the lease( I was told I'd be emailed a copy).\n\nNot having the landlords number when I decided I was not going back in middle of august I asked the other guys and did not receive the number from them. However the group of guys had a 7th man lined up to just live in the house for free that was not brought to my attention till I asked for the number and if they knew anyone looking for a place. With him I said if I can't find a person I guess we can split the rent for the months you are there.(he was very opposed to signing the lease and paying the full price) \n\nJump to today my father was contacted by the other guys in the house. And said the landlord was looking for the money from me and that I needed to pay it. Now I know if you sign a lease you have to pay unless it's broken by the land lord. I know have her phone number from this contact between my dad and the guys in the house.\n\nQuestions I have are, \n\nHow binding was the lease?(I've read places that a consideration must be given, and an exchange given for a contract to be binding.) \n\nWhen I contact her tomorrow and tell her I have no intention on moving in. Is it her job or mine to find a new person to take the place?\n\nAnd lastly is there a problem with instead of me being contacted by the person directly my father was indirectly?\n\nThanks in advance.\n","title":"Questions about contract law. Specifically leases.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443032658,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m3i4d\/tx_landlord_refusing_to_return_deposit_claims\/","id":"3m3i4d","body":"Hi, \nFirst of all, I will be calling our city's free Legal Line on their next available date. I was looking for possible steps in the meantime. \n\nAugust 2014 - Signed a lease with our former landlord. He said he didn't have his standard lease on hand and had us fill out a temporary month to month lease. He asked if we would want a 1 or 2 year lease. We said one year. \nHe never followed up with an updated document that specified the term of 1 year. So we continued on a month to month lease.\n\nLate July 2015 - We give the 30 day written notice of moving out. He says he will keep the deposits  (both home and pet - 2,200) because we broke the two year lease. I ask for the lease he has on file showing the two year term. He sends an non-executed contract (no signatures and a paper we have never seen before). \n\nI speak with him a few times on the phone and it appears that we have both lost copies of the signed lease. (Brilliant, right? I will be kicking myself until kingdom come for that one.)\n\nI've sent him a certified letter reiterating our conversation\/progress. He also claims that he can keep our deposits because of leftover pet hair in the home. He said since he's a good guy, he would return 800.00 of the $2200 deposits. I told him we never agreed on a 2 year lease and leftover dust and pet hair should not account for 1400 dollars in damage. \n\nWhat are my next steps? Small claims? Hire a lawyer to contact him directly? Do I really have any course of action since neither of us have a valid lease?\nHe has claimed that since I want the deposit back, I am responsible for proving that we did not sign a 2 year lease.\n\nedit: Forgot to add that he said our entire pet deposit (300\/pet) = 900.00 was always meant to be nonrefundable. Our pet agreement (which I still have) has two sections: Pet Security deposit & Additional Pet Fee. Both have 300.00 specified as the amount per pet, but only the Pet Fee says that it is nonrefundable. ","title":"[TX] Landlord refusing to return deposit; claims lease broken.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571364336,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djglw8\/pa_i_just_got_a_fine_in_the_mail_telling_me_i_owe\/","id":"djglw8","body":"I rear-ended someone a few days ago and was charged with \"following too closely\" but was never issued a ticket or anything. Only an exchange of information between the man I hit and I issued by a state trooper. On that paper it stated I was charged with following too closely but I was never physically given a ticket. Do I have to actually pay this fine if they didn't ticket me at the time of the crash? Thanks for any help.","title":"[PA] I just got a fine in the mail telling me I owe $20 plus another $120 in \"fees\" for following too closely","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570115430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcs7xm\/is_pacing_admissible_evidence_of_speeding_in_the\/","id":"dcs7xm","body":"Additionally, where I\u2019m from, if your speed is detected by radar you have the right to see radar calibration records. Is the same true in Alabama?","title":"Is pacing admissible evidence of speeding in the (US) State of Alabama?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553217696,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3yufa\/rent_help\/","id":"b3yufa","body":"DISCLAMER: This isn\u2019t for anyone to judge, just to give me legal advice. I would very much dislike and prude or immature comments.\n\nSo basically I\u2019ve been living at this rented out house. I\u2019ve been paying rent for the past year as well. Basically people have left and it\u2019s been harder and harder to pay rent. I\u2019m moving out in a week, but I (and some of the new people who are living here and leaving as well) haven\u2019t paid rent in 3 months. We are all basically cleaning the entire place up, top to bottom and leaving the house. We will pay for the utilities we\u2019ve used, but not for the rent. \nThe reason why I\u2019m posting this is that I\u2019m not on the lease, nor have I ever met the landlords in person. \n\nMost the information given to me was through old roommates who used to live here (where to drop off money and what their numbers are). We don\u2019t know what could happen to us. We don\u2019t just want to leave without knowing the safest route to take. If anyone has some sort of advice to give, please help!","title":"Rent help","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551373595,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avtg26\/in_unemployment_insurance_adjudicator\/","id":"avtg26","body":"I was contacted by an unemployment insurance adjudicator about a claim I submitted before a determination is made on my claim, which seems normal and something I anticipated. The question I have is in regard to two questions they are asking which I have included below. \n\n1. What was the reason for your separation?\n2. Was there a final incident or incidents that lead up to the discharge?\n\nI fully understand Indiana is an At-Will employment state. My question(s) I have is that I in no way want to be deceitful in answering these questions and believe I qualify for my claim to be approved. My employment was terminated on the grounds of \"performance issues\" which is what I would answer for the first question. I was told a list of four reasons by my former employer of what led them to making this decision. I happen to disagree with all of them and shared that during my termination meeting. \n\nWill the adjudicator only want to hear the reasons I was told, my perception of my termination\/reasons, or a combination of the two? \n\nDoes it also matter that there was a severance agreement signed by both parties including language that both parties not discuss the reasons for separation? \n\nMy goal is to be honest and give the information they are requesting, unsure of exactly how to answer questions in regard to reasons given even though I disagree with them. ","title":"[IN] Unemployment Insurance Adjudicator","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506535451,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72u335\/ca_can_you_evict_sibling_living_in_home_you\/","id":"72u335","body":"Parent 1 who has passed, left their house to Child 1 in their trust, and other items to Child 2. Child 2 is currently living in that home, paying nothing and refusing to leave all while Child 1 has paid the property tax for years. Once the deed title was transferred in their name, Child 1 finally sent out a notice to vacate to Child 2 via certified mail (following appropriate CA notice) on a Friday,  and that following Monday Child 1 received a copy of court papers that Child 2's attorney had filed a petition to challenge the trust (they didn't agree with the distribution, and are claiming undue influence among other things). My question is this: does Child 1 still have the right to evict Child 2 now that the trust is being contested, given that the deed is in fact in their name now? If so, should Child 1 use an attorney to file an unlawful detainer (assuming child 2 refuses to vacate at end of their notice), or is that something they can do themselves? Thanks in advance for any help!","title":"[CA] Can you evict sibling living in home you inherited if sibling is contesting the trust?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1540266176,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ql8ky\/ri_can_my_new_landlord_demand_full_months_rent\/","id":"9ql8ky","body":"I live in Rhode Island and I am a renter of an apartment with my family that is in a two family home. Our former landlord stopped paying the mortgage and the house was auctioned off.\n\nIt was in limbo for a while and everything was just finalized between the lender and the new owner.\n\nOur new landlord is saying he wants rent for the full month of October, despite having just now come into legal possession of it.\n\nCan he do this? Or is he only permitted have us pay a pro-rated amount?","title":"[RI] Can my new landlord demand full month's rent when he hasn't owned the house for the full month?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570480141,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dep8u2\/help_with_this_odd_email_pls\/","id":"dep8u2","body":"I don't know of this post goes in this sub (of not, pls tell me where to post it) but the thing is that just a few minutes ago I was browsing my spam mails and I found this weird email where this person claims to know my password (and it was one of my passwords so I think it's serious) and if I don't send him $1400 he will upload pictures and videos of me pleasuring myself, I want to know the vericity of this email and of so, how could I proceed","title":"Help with this odd email pls","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552703465,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1ni7v\/evicting_abusive_father_in_family_of_three_pa\/","id":"b1ni7v","body":"(I\u2019m 18) For years my mother and I have gotten into verbal and physical altercations with my father. We\u2019ve called the police on him multiple times, each time they\u2019ve let him stay, advising us to find somewhere else to stay. My mother and I have little money. Our family car broke down with transmission problems and we have nowhere to go and obviously nowhere to really get away. We moved into this apartment about 3 years ago. From what my mother says, the lease was for a year, then became a month to month lease. Since my father was originally on the year long lease, he was carried over onto the month to month leases yet he hasn\u2019t paid a dime towards rent nor utilities in ages while my mother (who\u2019s also on the lease) pays it all. What can we do to get him out of here as soon as possible? Sorry for the format. Thank you ","title":"Evicting abusive father in family of three (PA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444933684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ovzgm\/damaged_in_shipping_done_by_customers_dog_ct_fl\/","id":"3ovzgm","body":"I recently shipped a handmade wood kayak to a customer. I bought insurance from the shipper to cover any damage during shipping.\n\nAfter the customer received the kayak, they called to say the boat was damaged. Part of the seat backrest had visible damage.\n\nThey sent me a photo to confirm. It looked like it took a bullet. It was not the kind of damage I associated with shipping, but they said it was. I said I would fix the damage.\n\nI called the shipper to initiate a claim to cover the cost of the repair.\n\nA few days later, I get a call from the customer. The kayak had been chewed on by a dog (4 MO lab). They sent pictures.\n\nThere were two damaged spots, one at each end of the boat. Deep divots as you would expect from a dog chewing. The damage looked strangely familiar. \n\nI arranged a local kayak builder to do repair work on the boat damage and set him up to fix the backrest damage while he was at it.\n\nThe kayak was shipped in a fabric boat cover. I asked the local builder to take some more photos for my insurance claim. He sent me more of boat and backrest damage. He also sent photos of the damage to the boat cover. The cover had three areas with holes in them. The two spots at each end were ragged fabric with saliva stains around them. The spot where the backrest had a similar ragged hole with similar saliva stains.\n\nI contacted the customer to point out the similarities and to ask if they had anything more to add to fill me in on the shipping damage. I noted that if the damage was not done in shipping that they would have to pay for the repair.\n\nI got a quick, terse, note back saying the shipping damage was done before the kayak was put in with the dog and if I don't handle the cost of repair that I would be hearing from their lawyer.\n\nThe chances that the backrest damage is coincidentally exactly like the other damage to the boat is nearly zero. The dog chewed the seat.\n\nOK, so the cost of the repair doesn't justify any kind of legal action - on either of our parts - but I would like to be paid for my work.\n\nI have not talked to the shipper since initiating the insurance claim. Note that the insurance claim is only for the damaged backrest.\n\n**Should I continue with the claim, even though I know to an almost certainty that damage was not done in shipping?** This seems like fraud, but I am basing the claim on taking my customer at his word.\n\nIs there anything to be gained in having the insurance company determine the dog did it so I can go back to the customer and bill them for my repair work.","title":"\"Damaged in Shipping\" Done by Customer's Dog (CT -> FL)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1409800225,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ff6cc\/roommates_power_play_in_massachusetts_apartment\/","id":"2ff6cc","body":"**tl;dr: MA landlord hires roommate as building manager; roommate claims authority to force tenants to abide by additional rules beyond what's in the lease.**\n\nI'm writing this on behalf of a friend who recently signed a six-month lease for an apartment in Massachusetts. \n\nOne of her two roommates originally appeared sane, but whipped out the crazy not long after my friend moved in. Stuff like refusing to start paying the electric bill and demanding that nobody use the power so that she could delay transferring it from the landlord's name for as long as possible. They finally brought the apartment back into the 21st century, but now the roommate is making another power play. I'm 99% sure she has no legal ground to stand on, but I'd really appreciate r\/legaladvice's input.\n\nEssentially, the roommate got the landlord to hire her as some kind of overseer\/manager\/superintendent type of thing for the building. She's now trying to use this position to force everyone in every shared apartment to sign and abide by a \"roommate agreement\" that she wrote herself. She claims that the lease empowers her\/the landlord to enforce this agreement \"in legalese\" (her words, repeatedly), and that my friend is required to abide by it even if she refuses to sign it. She apparently kept saying that the lease totally definitely said that, and that my friend was misinterpreting it because she has no legal background.\n\nI read the lease and I don't see anything in there about requiring tenants to abide by an additional contract. The \"roommate agreement\" includes many restrictions that are not present in the lease.\n\nThis is bullshit, right? Am I crazy, or is there no way that a lease could require someone to abide by additional, tighter restrictions set forth in a document they weren't shown until after they signed the lease? And what steps should my friend take to deal with this? Will my friend have legal recourse if the roommate uses her position as the landlord's employee to retaliate against violations of the \"agreement\"? My friend is going to talk to the landlord at some point tomorrow.\n\nI have copies of the lease and the \"agreement\" if that helps and if it's within the rules for me to share them. Thanks!\n","title":"Roommate's power play in Massachusetts apartment: Can she legally enforce a \"roommate policy\"?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551657178,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax0b13\/normally_at_my_work_we_are_not_allowed_any_breaks\/","id":"ax0b13","body":"I'm a minor from the state of New York. I work as a busser in a small town diner. Everyone works at least 8 hours a day with no breaks including lunch breaks. The cooks rarely even get bathroom breaks, they have peed themselves before because they had to work 10 hours without any breaks. \n\nUsually, we are allowed to order and eat towards the end of our shifts or at the end of our shifts. If anyone gets up though, we have to get right back to work. So, no breaks with the exception of one or two bathroom breaks, at least for bussers. \n\nHowever, today our manager was in a bad mood and we were busy (as we usually are), and she said that none of us were allowed to eat today. She claimed that the cooks said we weren't allowed to eat due to how busy we were. But the cooks came out eating food, completely clueless when everyone started yelling at them. They told us they never said we couldn't eat. Our manager overheard and came over yelling at them to try and shut them up. Very quickly, everyone realized our manager made it up because she was in a bad mood. Obviously, everyone including myself were very pissed. It's one thing to choose not to eat, it's another thing to be told that you're not allowed to eat. \n\nI vented to my mother and she said that it's illegal for us to work 8 hours and not be allowed any breaks. Especially since I'm a minor. \n\nSo, is this illegal? And if it is, is there anything I can\/should do about it? \n","title":"Normally at my work, we are not allowed any breaks, but today really upset me since we weren't allowed to eat. Isn't that illegal to not allow us to eat\/take breaks?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553111595,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3gjyl\/are_you_allowed_to_sleepout_without_parental\/","id":"b3gjyl","body":"This morning my mother and I (16F) got into a argument which resulted in her kicking me out of the house. My boyfriend (16M) offered to let me sleep at his house, as opposed to going to a shelter (I\u2019ve heard they\u2019re dangerous). \n\nCan I legally sleep at my boyfriend\u2019s house? If I were to stay there, am I putting his parents at legal risk? ","title":"Are you allowed to sleep-out without parental consent at age 16. (NY)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505145270,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zg9lk\/co_questions_on_1099_vs_w2\/","id":"6zg9lk","body":"Hello all, \n\nI have a side gig that I work 15-20+ hr weeks for, and I'm convinced my boss is misclassifying myself and other employees as independent contractors. I would like to confirm before I accuse him of breaking the law.\n\nI work in a very niche industry, which we'll call bean counting [sorry, real industry is small enough that it's easily identifiable]. Counters are paid a flat rate per hours spent at an Event: either $200, $250, or $300 depending on if the Event took less than 5 hours, 5-10 hours, or 10+ hrs *day of*. Total commitment for an event ranges from 15ish hrs to about 40 hrs + travel time.\n\nReasons I think we're not independent contractors:\n\n* **[Integral to Employer's business](https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/regs\/compliance\/whdfs13.htm).** We are a bean-counting company. The entirety of our service is providing bean counting services; everything we do is either counting beans or prepping for the Counting Event.\n\n* **[Training](https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/businesses\/small-businesses-self-employed\/behavioral-control)**: the bean counting hardware and software are incredibly unique and purpose built. We were trained by the company on how to use it: 8+ hours of unpaid initial training to become an assistant bean counter, and then 10-20 days of on-the-job training on how to operate. Then, as I became a lead bean counter (responsible for my own Events, with the help of an Assistant, who are assigned and paid by the company), there were weekly phone conferences to review my code. Several of these would be 4-6 hrs (unpaid). Code would be rejected by manager. No one would know how to operate this equipment unless they already worked with this Company or one that already uses this exact hardware\/software.\n\n* **Equipment**: Company owns all equipment. I am not expected to supply any equipment. Any equipment damaged under my watch is replaced by company, so:\n\n* **[Profit or Loss](https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/businesses\/small-businesses-self-employed\/financial-control):** I do not share any opportunity for loss.  I get paid the same, regardless of whether I count beans accurately or poorly. \n\n* **[Non-compete](https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/businesses\/small-businesses-self-employed\/independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee)**: I sign a yearly contract, complete with non-compete, saying I won't count beans for anyone else, for one year after the end of the contract (say, Dec 31st 2017). The IRS says *\"IC is generally free to seek out business opportunities.\"*\n\nThere's a lot more to be said, but very short: I like the company. The pay is usually OK, balancing out to $12-15 \/ hr for very stressful but fun & rewarding work. (And less for travel Events... oh well). We are reimbursed for mileage over 100 roundtrip ($0.50 \/ mi). We only drive only our vehicles to get equipment to and from Event. \n\nUnfortunately, my state's DOL says that misclassification can result in a $25,000 fine *per employee*. We have more than ten employees. A quarter-million dollar fine might not destroy the company, but it would come pretty close. I don't want that - but I do want to know that if I hurt myself climbing on ladders, required for work, that I would be covered by worker's comp.\n\nAnyone have thoughts on Independent Contractor vs. Employee, and ... you know, how to talk to my boss about it? (I know this isn't relationships...) Thanks for you time!","title":"[CO] Questions on 1099 vs W2","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540298595,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qolfw\/va_can_a_landlord_have_a_door_to_the_house_that\/","id":"9qolfw","body":"I know Virginia is a pretty landlord-friendly state, but I also couldn\u2019t find anything by googling this. So for my situation, front screen door is kept locked and I often have to ring the doorbell to get into the house, even though I have a key to the deadbolt of the front door. I\u2019m just curious if I have a legal right to a key to the screen door or for it to not be kept locked.\n\nI honestly really like my landlord and wouldn\u2019t make a stink either way, I guess I\u2019m just curious. ","title":"[VA] Can a landlord have a door to the house that is kept locked but the tenant is not provided a key for?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553092914,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3cu6y\/one_of_my_roommates_is_moving_out_early_and\/","id":"b3cu6y","body":"When I moved into my house I was on a sublease with three other roommates (a couple and one other person). This lease went through August and the landlord was aware. When the girlfriend of the couple moved out due to visa troubles, the remaining roommates and myself agreed to split her rent costs amongst us. Fine. \n\nLease ended in August and we have been asking our landlord for a new 1 year lease since then, and we still haven\u2019t signed anything so we\u2019ve just continued to pay rent. \n\nNow, the single roommate has taken a job in a different city and wants to move out. She tells us she\u2019ll pay through May, but after that it\u2019s our responsibility to cover her cost of rent through our supposed lease of August. Since no one is on a signed lease with the landlord (and getting the landlord to make one isn\u2019t an option - she ignores our emails it\u2019s weird) can our roommate make us responsible for her portion of the rent? \n\nThis is in California.","title":"One of my roommates is moving out early and breaking our \u201clease\u201d. She claims we need to takeover her rent, can she do that?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553236832,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b41p06\/fired_for_being_transgender_girlfriend_fired_for\/","id":"b41p06","body":"Hello r\/legaladivce. This is a bit long winded so I apologize. \n\nUntil January 2019, I was employed at a Starbucks in Pennsylvania. \n\nI am ftm transgender and was scheduled for top surgery in late March, using sbux\u2019s insurance. My store manager (SM) and district manager (DM) fired me because they did not want to give me medical leave. I have other employees who have overheard their discussions saying as much, but that was not their direct reasoning to me, or on any forms, so I do not have concrete proof. \n\nWhen my SM and I had a discussion about my medical leave before I officially requested it, she insisted that I had to be back within a week. I told her that, as per my doctor, it had to be three weeks. She then tried to tell me that I couldn\u2019t request it, because I had to do so six months in advance and that it was too late. She got very upset when I corrected her. \n\nEverything was fine until I scheduled the consultation for my surgery. As soon as I did so, my SM started giving me write-ups for things that were blatantly false. I signed them because she forced me too, and I believed I had no choice but to do so. There is a statement on company write-ups that claims your \u201csignature does not necessarily imply agreement, but acknowledges receipt of this form.\u201d\n\nThe write ups include stuff like not cleaning the floor drains on my closes, which I always do and have witnesses too; \u201ccreating a toxic workplace environment,\u201d but not telling me how when I asked; working off the clock when I came to visit on one of my days off; etc. She also wrote me up for creating a toxic workplace after she learned I emailed my DM about her breaking company policy on am unrelated matter. They claim to have given me a final but I do not remember signing it or seeing it at all. \n\nTwo days before I got fired, a guy tried to come in our store before we were open. He had sent is mobile order to the incorrect store. I told him if he gave me a few minutes, I would finish putting the espresso machines back together, let him in early, and make his drinks. He said no, he would wait until we opened. I told him to show me his phone when he got back and I would make his drinks, no problem. That is what occurred. He then wrote in a complaint that I \u201cgave him attitude and rolled my eyes.\u201d This is what my SM used as a final straw to fire me. I honestly do not know if I rolled my eyes or not, but I was very polite to this man. \n\nMy SM has exhibited transphobic behavior since she started in July. Her sister is trans, and transitioned almost 30 years ago. My SM has derailed entire manager meetings complaining about how she doesn\u2019t like trans people. She has continued this behavior after I have asked her to stop. I know baristas have reported this behavior to ethics and nothing became of it. She has ridden my ass about everything little thing I\u2019ve done, while letting huge things slide if done by the other shifts. It got so bad even customers would comment on it. I did my best to take it in stride and consider it constructive criticism, but there were admittedly a few times I got fed up. \n\nI was not bad at my job. I was not perfect, but I don\u2019t believe I\u2019m bad enough to get fired. Our other partners liked working with me and don\u2019t understand what happened. Our usually customers loved me. I always did my shit and kept everything clean and organized. \n\nI contacted sbux Ethics hotline and they did nothing. I gave up caring about them firing me for a bit, because I got a new, better job quickly. I also got a new surgeon, and started seeing a former coworker romantically. \n\nNow, all of this is coming back on my girlfriend, Z. Today, the SM and DM fired her as well. Starbucks has a clear no retaliation policy, and I believe this may break it. I believe she was fired because she is dating me, however yet again, this was not an official reasoning on any paperwork.\n\nThe SM\u2019s reasoning was that Z wore earrings that were against the dress code three different times and texted to call off during an emergency. The earrings were hoops, all three were different pairs, and they fit the dress code as per the official literature from the company. \n\nZ had worn said earrings multiple times before with no issues, and had removed them when the SM asked. The SM had also told Z \u201cnot to worry about\u201d the times she had texted to call off, as it was an emergency, and the SM did it herself many times. No one else who has done this has been punished to my knowledge. \n\nZ had been at the store for three years, with no prior customer complaints or documented write ups. I would like to stress that NOTHING romantic or sexual happened between us until AFTER I left the company, although we were friends. \n\nWe went into the store together a few times as customers to get drinks and the SM saw us together. The SM has complained about the two of us being together to other baristas. She complained about us being friends, as well. Again, NOTHING happened between Z and I while I was still employed, but the SM is DEAD CONVINCED that we had been sleeping together, despite Z being in another relationship at the time. The SM was also convinced we were \u201cconspiring against her.\u201d\n\nIn addition to all of this, Z was the only person of color employed at the store. We were told by a barista from another store, that when our SM when through that non-bias \u201cthird place\u201d training the company did back in May at their store, she spent the meeting saying rather racist things. \n\nThe SM had taken no action against Z until she saw us together. We have contacted Ethics about Z\u2019s firing as well, and are waiting for a response. \n\nI know that PA is an at-will state, and one can be fired for basically any reason. \n\nBut do we have any legal recourse here? Is it worth going to talk to a lawyer with the paper trail of the write-ups? \n\nThanks in advance. ","title":"Fired for being transgender, girlfriend fired for dating me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541656317,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v7gio\/relentless_bullying_school_not_helping\/","id":"9v7gio","body":"Location: PA\n\nMy younger sister has been struggling with depression lately and has been seeking help, but can\u2019t seem to catch a break. I\u2019m completely across the country and can\u2019t physically help, so I\u2019m hoping to at least try to get some advice that I may be able to give to her \/ my family. \n\nMy younger sister is a senior in high school. This past year, she was diagnosed with depression and has been at the doctors frequently trying to initially diagnose and now treat it. It\u2019s gotten progressively worse as time has gone on, and she\u2019s doing everything she can to keep from having to be hospitalized for it. But between other students, teachers, and the school itself, things are only continuing to go downhill. \n\nStudents: She\u2019s been bullied pretty heavily for years now; dropping hotdogs down her shirt, social media posts \/ rumors about her, told to go kill herself, etc. Her house was egged this year (they live down a random ass dirt road, wasn\u2019t by coincidence). She\u2019s gone to the school countless times and they rarely do anything if at all. Just a few days ago, a couple of kids started texting her telling her to kill herself and that her and her best friend should go back to the psych ward and strings of other comments. She went to the guidance counselor and then spoke to the principal and was told that if they did anything else that then they\u2019d look into it. Today, the one made a comment about how it\u2019s good she didn\u2019t say anything to anyone because \u201csnitches get stitches\u201d, presumably meaning they weren\u2019t even spoken to. My parents ended up yelling at her for not blocking them from texting her sooner. \n\nTeachers: Due to the process of being diagnosed, changing doses, treatments, etc, she\u2019s missed a good bit of school (all doctors excused). One teachers has been just awful about it, even though she does all the work she\u2019s supposed to. She consistently makes comments about how convenient it is that she was absent. How she must have a doctor that will just wrote her a note whenever she wants one, so on and so forth. \n\nSchool: She\u2019s has problems with kids for several years now, and the school never does anything about it. She\u2019s worried they won\u2019t do anything about it this time either, or that if she got police involved nothing would come of it, as one of the kid\u2019s dad is a cop. Her friend has had to get an RFA against one of the kids because of his harassment. It\u2019s ridiculous. A kid killed himself when I was in school there years ago and they cared about bullying for about two weeks and called it a day. \n\nWhat can she do? The school won\u2019t help her. It\u2019s at the point she\u2019s ready to be pulled from school, but she graduates in January. Frankly, I don\u2019t know if she can \u201cjust deal with it\u201d too then. She\u2019s called me crying countless times the last few weeks. I told her to try to get a teacher there I knew and got along with well to help her out with it all but I don\u2019t know if anything will come of it. Any advice is greatly appreciated. ","title":"Relentless Bullying - School Not Helping","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1443412135,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mnpat\/possible_violation_of_protection_order\/","id":"3mnpat","body":"ETA: We are in Texas\n\nMy dad is under a mutual protection order with his soon to be ex-wife. Both orders state the following:\n\nThe Respondent is ORDERED DIRECTED AND COMMANDED:\n(A) To refrain from committing acts of family violence against the Applicant or any member of the Applicant's family or household.\n(B) Not to communicate nor attempt to communicate with the Applicant or any member of the Applicant's family or household in a threatening or harassing manner.\n(C) Not to communicate a threat nor attempt to communicate a threat to the Applicant or any member of the Applicant's family or household through any other person.\n(D) Not to communicate nor attempt to communicate with the Applicant or any member of the Applicant's family or household.\n(E) Not to engage in conduct directed specifically toward the Applicant or any member of the Applicant's family or household, including following the person, that is reasonable like o harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, or embarrass that person.\n(F) and (G) refer to physical distance that must be maintained.\n\nMy Dad got the stupid idea to send a text to a mutual friend thanking said friend for letting him know what his ex-wife planned for him and telling her that he was planning on suing his ex for slander once everything was said and done. I think all that is above board. What I'm worried about(the stupid part), he added at the end that if ex did anything else to hurt his dad(my grandfather) that he would cause distress to her dad.\n\nUnfortunately, I don't have a direct quote of the text. He realized what he did as soon as he sent it and deleted the text and I've been trying to recover the texts using data recovery programs for the last hour but its not showing up for some reason. Anyway, we're calling his lawyer tomorrow to let him know what he's done but my question I guess is, does the text break the protection order? The mutual friend showed my dad's ex the text and she's posting all over Facebook how my dad broke the order or how happy she is that this has happened. If he did break the order what can we expect to happen? I'm just trying to get a little information before we talk to the lawyer. Any help, clarification, advice is appreciated.","title":"Possible violation of protection order.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1447083127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s55dw\/victoria_australia_after_an_argument_on_facebook\/","id":"3s55dw","body":"Late on Monday night and early on Tuesday morning I was in an argument with someone on Facebook. It by in large ended when neither of us continued posting replies, but about 20 minutes after it ended I was sent a message by the person I had been arguing with. The message was a link to a post by a page, one liked by over 200,000 people, with my profile picture on it and defaming material. It said I was a wanted terrorist and child rapist. It recommended that people call the police and crime stoppers. The person proceeded to threaten with publishing the material to a wider audience, saying that he had political contacts, contact with the police and access to their database. After this the post was removed, and they gloated that their wording in our conversation meant that they can't ever be tied to what happened and also that they didn't actually threaten me.\n\nI have screenshots of our conversation, and have been supplied screenshots of the post by that page before it was deleted. \n\nThis person clearly likes the current state government we have, and is constantly posting about them online but I can't possibly know whether threats are real or not.\n\nIs there anything I should or can do? Or should I just leave it?\n\nEDIT: Looking back through it, he also says he works within government.","title":"(Victoria, Australia) After an argument on Facebook I was threatened with the posting of defaming material about me to thousands of people, with other threats too.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551486975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awbtuv\/working_as_part_timetemporary_but_averaging_50\/","id":"awbtuv","body":"I'm currently working as a temporary storefront setup worker in Virginia. The job description said the job was \"part time temporary\" but the first two weeks I averaged 45 hours, not to mention that next week I'm scheduled for 60. I'm currently getting $10.45\/hr, but the full time pay is around $15.75\/hr. I'd assume that because of the \"temporary\" status that they can assign me whatever they want, but I just want to get a clear understanding.\n\nAlso, are they required to grant me overtime even as a temporary worker? I haven't gotten my first paycheck yet (biweekly) but I will keep an eye out.\n\nStore is non-union but I live in a Right to Work state.\n\nThanks!","title":"Working as \"Part Time\/Temporary\" but averaging 50 hours\/week","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446921698,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rwyl8\/finding_active_warrants_on_someone\/","id":"3rwyl8","body":"State: Georgia\n\nI understand that warrants are public records, so what I don't get is why it's so hard to find out if someone has any. \n\nI called the county clerk and they refused to give me any info, then redirected me to the sheriff's office. Called the sheriff's office, and they refused to tell me info over the phone, and stated that only the person with the warrant could come to the station and inquire about them.\n\nIs there another way to find out if someone has an active warrant? Can I go to the courthouse and look through records myself?\n","title":"Finding active warrants on someone","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503428997,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vdahg\/atfault_driver_lied_about_having_insurance\/","id":"6vdahg","body":" I live in KY and a few weeks ago while going through an intersection another driver ran a red light and hit me, destroying my car. There is absolutely no question he is at fault. A cop was actually across the intersection and saw it happen.I only have liability insurance, but figured that wouldn't be a problem since I wasn't at fault. \n\nThe problem, however, is he lied about having insurance. He had an insurance card that he gave to the police, but the insurance company claims that he had stopped\/failed to make payments and the insurance wasn't active on the day of the accident. \n\nSo now I have no car and get no help whatsoever.  So is my only recourse to sue the guy? Can he go to jail? Should I go talk to the cops? Is it possible the insurance company (geico) is lying to avoid payment? I'm honestly more angry that he destroyed my car, almost killed me, and is apparently walking around with no consequences at all than I am about the car\/money. ","title":"At-fault driver lied about having insurance.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506210749,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/721trh\/received_speeding_ticket_need_some_legal_advice\/","id":"721trh","body":"I got pulled over for going 60 in a 30 zone today and I just wanted to know what my punishment would be. I took traffic school earlier this year for another ticket I got in July of 2016. But I was a minor at the time I took the traffic school course. Now I'm 18, would me becoming a legal adult make me eligible for traffic school again? What would my punishment possible be?\n\nLocation: California ","title":"Received speeding ticket, need some legal advice","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569878966,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbin17\/va_apartment_complex_saying_we_owe_money_for\/","id":"dbin17","body":"Recently moved out of my old apartment about a month ago. Received a letter in the mail stating that we owe over $500 for the carpet replacement that needed to be done. We left this apartment in great condition and a replacement was by no means necessary. \n\nI even opted in for a \u201cClean Sweep\u201d where I basically paid them before final move out so they would clean the carpets and the rest of the apartment before the next tenant moves in. \n\nIs there any way I can dispute this? What happens if I refuse to pay?","title":"[VA] Apartment Complex Saying We Owe Money for Carpet Replacement Following Move Out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539876910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pacgx\/i_got_a_parking_ticket_for_facing_the_wrong\/","id":"9pacgx","body":"\nFlorida \n\nDowntown Fort Myers and I parallel parked. I was 100% facing the correct direction, and on the ticket is a picture showing my car facing the correct direction. I was within the lines, and it was a perfect parking job. I was literally one of only three cars parked on this road and all of us were facing the correct direction...yet I didn\u2019t see tickets on their vehicles. \n\nBut my issue is...why the ticket? How should I go about fighting this? Only info listed on the ticket is how to pay it online. There\u2019s no way to contest it.\n\nAny information is appreciated. \n","title":"I got a parking ticket for facing the wrong direction when I was facing the correct direction...and there\u2019s a photo directly on the ticket showing it facing correct direction. How should I proceed?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503119876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6unb26\/mi_am_i_responsible_for_my_parents_credit_card\/","id":"6unb26","body":"Hi.\nSo, my father is soon to die. He has a credit card that he is only making the minimum amount due each month on. He owes a large amount of money on it (hospital bills). I did not co-sign nor am I on the credit card. Nobody else lives with him. My mother (who is probably still on the account) is also dead. I have a different last name than him because I married and took my husband's last name. What happens to the credit card debt? Am I responsible? Also, I am in Michigan. Any advice would be helpful and thank you for reading.","title":"[MI] Am I responsible for my parent's credit card debt?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1443671820,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n26uf\/mn_usa_advice_on_fixing_apartment_smell\/","id":"3n26uf","body":"A month ago, I went to an apartment viewing. Only, the apartment I viewed was not the same one that I was looking to rent. When asked if there was any difference between the two, the rental office staff member said they were the exact same. I signed the lease without seeing the actual apartment because they say it's under construction and I need a place to live. When I go to move in the next week, the place absolutely wreaks of smoke, as in cigarette smoke. The apartment complex says in the lease you can smoke in the unit as long as you dispose of the smoke accordingly. I go to the manager, who admits there's a problem and agrees to try two treatments which I agree to. It has now been a month and the smell persists. Actually, the apartment now smells like chlorine (because of one of the treatments) and smoke. I have not been able to move into the apartment because of the smell (I've moved several things in such as a dresser, some clothes and dishes, if that matters).\n\nMy questions are:\n\n1) Do I have a leg to stand on?\n\n2) What should be my next step?\n\nLet me know if I've left out any details. ","title":"[MN, USA] Advice on fixing apartment smell","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541187056,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tn9sx\/surprised_with_a_500_medical_bill_from_a_visit_my\/","id":"9tn9sx","body":"i understand issues like this are very common in the united states (where i live), and that the charge may not seem like a lot from other standpoints. however i am a 19 y\/o college student with basically no parental monetary support.\n\nfrom july to september i was experiencing severe back pain. it was getting to the point where it was difficult to walk, stand, and do my job as a restaurant server. i have health insurance through my mom but she does not really make enough money to provide me with a lot of financial help, as well as being a single parent of a 10 year old. she works in the healthcare industry so from what i understand we have three levels of care. the top level are facilities that are directly associated with her employer- we get great coverage at these but they are few and far between. i live about 45 minutes from the nearest facility. the next level are in-network facilities that are covered by my general insurance (aetna, if it matters), and then the lowest level are out-of-network providers.\n\nsince i am kind of far from the top level coverage, i spent HOURS on the phone with my insurance trying to find local care for my back somewhere that would accept my insurance at a decent cost. on the phone, they told me that an in-network provider that was not associated with my mothers employer would be a viable option, and i would receive treatment in exchange for a $40 copay (at the employer associated facilities, the copay is $20)\n\ni went to the appointment on 9\/24. the doctor was somewhat unsure of what was wrong with my back, they ordered a urine test, blood test, and an x-ray. previously, i have had these lab tests done but they were at the facilities associated with my mom\u2019s employer, never at the basic in-network coverage facilities. these tests had always been covered by my insurance in the past. since i was told on the phone i would be covered by my copay, they ran the tests.\n\nthe doctor diagnosed me with scoliosis from an x-ray and referred me to hospital\u2019s physical therapy center. i thought that sounded expensive so i never made any plans for PT, thankfully.\n\ntwo days ago (10\/31) i received three bills in the mail for this visit, totaling $530.70. one is a doctors bill (total $63- original $782, with my insurance paying out $719), second is a \u201cradiologic services\u201d bill for $9.77 (adjusted by my insurance from $40), and the final most devastating bill is a hospital bill for $458.02 for \u201cdiagnostic radiology\u201d (adjusted from $540.75 by my insurance). \n\nnever during the visit was i informed that i would be receiving care from an out-of-network provider. i also was not informed that the tests they ran would be any additional charge to me by the hospital, or by my insurance in the many phone calls i made before the appointment. a few days before the appointment the hospital told me that all of their doctors were under the same tax code so my insurance would apply the same to all care providers.\n\ni really, really, really do not have the money to pay these bills. especially considering that i did not receive any sort of treatment and this back pain is still an ongoing problem for me. i already pay my own rent, education expenses, living expenses, food costs, car costs, other medical bills, phone bill, and basically everything else possible except my health insurance. is there anything i can do? i\u2019m willing to make whatever phone calls necessary as long as i know they will be constructive. right now i just feel so hopeless because i have to pay all this money and i have not even really gotten any treatment- which makes the money i would have to fix my back problems and also eat even thinner. even getting these bill down to around $200 dollars would be so much more attainable.\n\ntldr: visited the doctor for back pain and got fucked with a $530.70 charge after being told by both my insurance and the provider my visit would be covered by a small copay. looking for solutions, loopholes, anything really to help reduce the cost to me.","title":"surprised with a $500+ medical bill from a visit my insurance told me would be nothing more than a $40 copay","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1441868550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kd5a5\/cobb_county_ga_wife_rents_place_using_airbnb\/","id":"3kd5a5","body":"Hi all!  I was hoping for a little (lowercase-a) advice.  Sorry if this is long; I fear my fingers create trouble more quickly than my brain can dispense with it.\n\nMy wife took a job a few hours from where we live, and while we're working on transitioning she's using airbnb.com to rent an apartment leased to a guy we'll call, uh, Kneebiter (K for short).  K doesn't use the apartment and leaves my wife alone (great for everybody).  It's been a cheap, easy, and effective arrangement for the past few months.\n\nThere was a sign of late payment on the door maybe two months back, claiming a past due rent -- K blamed the apartment complex changing ownership or somesuch (a situation I've encountered myself).  It appeared to go away quietly.\n\nHowever, about a week ago, there was [this](http:\/\/imgur.com\/zUsFwZn) piece of artillery attached to the door, which looks very serious.  My wife immediately got in contact with K, who says the amount is taken care of and the leasing office is merely slow to respond.\n\nNow, I've known landlords to be aggressive just to force an issue, but I find myself unaccountably not-crazy about the idea of my wife's stuff getting thrown out on the curb, and she's inclined to agree.  I've tried to do some research on Georgia tenant law as it relates to this, but it's hard to develop confidence in an answer.\n\nSo, easy, talk to the leasing office, right?  Well, after consideration, we're not sure she's even allowed to be there -- it doesn't seem like the type of place that would be ok with subletting, and we don't want to trigger the eviction we're trying to evade.  We could ask K again, but having your knee bitten *hurts*, y'know?\n\nSo I guess I have 3 major questions:\n\n1. Is there a way to verify that this isn't going to blow up without talking directly to the leasing office and forcing the subletting question?\n\n2.  If this does blow up, when does she need to secure her stuff by to avoid 'donating' it to the neighbors?\n\n3.  If her stuff does get 'donated', can she show damages and\/or is this possibly covered by renters' insurance?\n\n\nI'll get my wife to read this as well and edit in any additional details.  Thanks just for reading; any insight gets *extra* thanks.\n\n*****\n\nTL;DR:  Wife rents apartment through airbnb leased to Dude; dispossessory notice on door; Dude says ok, we're nervous, what do?\n","title":"(Cobb County, GA) Wife rents place using airbnb, dispossessory notice, supposedly handled, how to sleep at night?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569016505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d71r6r\/waiting_time_penalty_questions_in_california\/","id":"d71r6r","body":"\n\nHey all, I\u2019m looking for some advice on the Waiting Time Penalty in California for unpaid wages after termination. \n\nHere\u2019s the current situation. \n\nBasically, my employer has been negligent in paying us on time multiple times (late consistently in our paychecks for up to a month after they\u2019re due). \n\nAs of last week, I got an offer for a new job and promptly quit my current job with no notice. (I quit this past Monday 9-16 in the morning). \n\nWhen I quit, I was still owed 2 pay periods worth of money, and it still has not been paid to me as of today, Friday. I know that the waiting time penalty is supposed to start counting 72 hours after termination, but I was wondering if since I\u2019m still owed for a month before that it would instantly go to the maximum penalty of 30 days? Or does it start counting Thursday morning?\n\nI also wanted to know a couple logistics for calculating the penalty : do I count weekends in the calculation if I was working a m-f 9-5 job? Are the waiting time penalties taxed? Do they go directly to me or do they go to the government? How do I ask my previous employee for these penalties? What can I do if they refuse to pay them?\n\nAlso, can I claim some other kind of penalty for the late payment of multiple paychecks in the past? Can I report the company somewhere?\n\nThanks in advance for any help!","title":"Waiting time penalty questions in California","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539465896,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nxejz\/help_cost_of_getting_license_back\/","id":"9nxejz","body":" \n\nSo this is about my Father in law (FiL) and brother in law (BiL). The cause of the problem is that my FiL and BiL share a name. FiL being a jr and BiL being the third.\n\nThis all started when my BiL got into a car accident and he didn't have insurance at the time. A letter came in the mail a few days later saying his license was suspended but the name on the letter was for my FiL not my BiL. After going to check with the police, my FiL license was indeed suspended and my BiL was fine. After speaking to lawyers and the court over the past few weeks, they finally realized their mistake and said my FiL will get his license back sometime this month (October). Now the insurance company have told us that my FiL has to pay $5,000 to get his license back. They are saying the $5,000 is the cost for the accident that my BiL got into. My BiL is 30 and not a dependent of my FiL, so we don't understand why my FiL has to pay back the money to get his license when my BiL is responsible. $5,000 is a lot of money and we are at a complete lost. If someone could point us to the next step we could or should take I would really appreciate it.","title":"Help!! Cost of getting license back","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555089902,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcg8n3\/old_landlord_trying_to_charge_me_for_water_bill_a\/","id":"bcg8n3","body":"This is my first post on Reddit ever so bear with me friends. My fianc\u00e9 and I lived in a house for 2 years that we were renting. This was the first time the owners had rented out property. They bought the house, fixed it up, and then started renting it out and we were the first tenants. Our lease for both years stated we were responsible for paying water. When we first moved in the wife said we\u2019d need to contact the water company to set up the account in our name. My fianc\u00e9 called the water company and was told we actually have well water. They sent him an email with a screenshot of the info and he sent this to our landlord. She didn\u2019t know it was well water but that\u2019s great because we don\u2019t have to pay. \n\nFlash forward to the end of our 2nd year lease when we\u2019re moving out. She asks us to take our names off the account. We remind her that the water company said it\u2019s well water. We even contacted them again to confirm and they sent another email for proof. This was last May. \n\nNow they are trying to sell the house. They have a buyer but somehow now discovered that there was a water meter on the property. We never noticed this meter in the 2 years we lived there. She said she contacted the water company and found out that the County had incorrectly listed the property as having well water when in reality it really was hooked up to the water company\u2019s lines (not sure if I\u2019m using the correct terms). \n\nThe owner calls me and tells me that we potentially owe thousands of dollars for water usage for those 2 years. I tell her that doesn\u2019t make any sense since we contacted the water company twice and were given documentation that it was well, so it should not be our responsibility for something that was the County\u2019s fault. I also don\u2019t think it would be the owners\u2019 responsibility to pay the usage at this time either. \n\nI guess she spoke with the water company again. Today she emails me a bill and they are only charging her service fees for the time that the property was incorrectly marked with well water. She wants us to pay for the 2 years, so it would be $387.74. \n\nI want to fight this because it does not make sense in my opinion for a tenant, who made multiple good faith efforts to set up a water account, to have to pay this charge. \n\nPlease help me with advice. Thank you in advance!","title":"Old landlord trying to charge me for water bill a year later due to the county\u2019s mistake","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569698895,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daklmq\/i_was_not_at_fault_in_a_minor_accident_do_i_still\/","id":"daklmq","body":"A guy backed into the side of my car at wallmart, no one was hurt, and only minor damages all around. I dont want to file a claim because i had totalled a car in april and dont want my rates to go up any more, plus my current car isnt the best body wise and i dont think its worth trying to fix. Can anything legally come to me if i dont report it? I think its a very easy case for me to be proven not at fault but idk if the guy will still try to get a claim, we exchanged insurances and went on our way.","title":"I was not at fault in a minor accident, do i still have to report it. (CA)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569024449,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d73bxq\/corporate_corruption\/","id":"d73bxq","body":"Throwaway & minor details changed to protect identity. I work for a large multinational with a publically traded parent company. We bid for contracts in a competitive market, mostly private sector and 9 figures per contract. A successful bid is handed over to a delivery team. I'm part of a delivery team. Shortly after award of a recent contract I've discovered discrete arrangements are being made to make a 6 figure payment to the company who awarded the contract. The payment is going via a front company I know to be owned by key players involved in the bid. The reason offered for the payment is nonsensical, almost laughable. I'm front line on this, the payment goes through me. I've voiced concerns amongst close colleagues and consistent feedback is generally incredulous amusement. A colleague and I raised it in a meeting with some company directors who either feigned ignorance or chuckled and deflected. The value of the payment requires multiple layers of approval, one of which is me. So on Monday my options are a)   go along with it and incriminate myself b) gently refuse and force them find some other way to make payment c) blow the lid off. B and C will make me some powerful enemies and I'd ultimately be forced out, eventually, for seemingly unrelated reasons. I have no doubt it will harm my career. If i choose A and just go along with it nothing will probably happen, life will go on business as usual. Any opinion or comments, informed or not,  would be appreciated.","title":"Corporate Corruption","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568562449,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4m6c0\/ukuae_cannot_access_my_dads_bank_account_due_to\/","id":"d4m6c0","body":"My dad is currently living in the UK suffering from brain cancer and has a life expectancy of around 2 months, his motor and mental functions have declined rapidly meaning he can no longer speak. I am his only son and living in Dubai with my mum. My dad has a bank account with HSBC in both the UK and the UAE and my mother is not a signatory on the UAE account, we have requested the UK branch verify his identity at the nursing home he's in so that she can access the funds in his UAE account but they have refused. This now means that no one can access this money to pay for my education or living expenses and he is also about to receive his end of service into this account. We have tried asking family in the UK to help us sort this but they are being stubborn and refusing.","title":"(UK\/UAE) Cannot access my dads bank account due to his illness","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445105572,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p4xz5\/what_exactly_does_the_money_i_pay_a_lawyer_used\/","id":"3p4xz5","body":"I once was paying a lawyer to represent me in a gun charge case. .long story ...i have a felony conviction from 11 years ago for battery on law enforcement.  Wound up serving one year. Almost ten years later i move into a room that my sister is moving out of and she has left some clothes and stuff there.  She also left her 9mm in the closet i knew its location  but it was in a locked box.  Six weeks prior i had been denied the sale of a gun for my prior felony conviction.  Apparently when you are denied the sale alot six weeks layer the ATF may come search your house to make sure someone else didn't go buy that gun for you.  Any way to m y real question , what did the 5000 dollars i paid my lawyer actually do?  He definitely in a subtle way suggested that if i had maybe  3-5 more thousand the charges might be dropped but that for his standard 5 i could possibly expect some prison time in a bad scenario but most likely a couple years probation.  How does more money equate better defense or lighter sentencing?   I wound up with 2 years probation. Is that like rounds of golf and ivory back scratchers for the judge and D.A?  I live in North west florida. ","title":"What exactly does the money i pay a lawyer used for?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570555989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df3aal\/notice_to_vacate\/","id":"df3aal","body":"My apartment complex (SLC, UT USA) was recently bought by a new company. I have a year lease signed through the previous owner that doesn\u2019t end until June 2020. The new owners decided they want to renovate the complex, so they just served every tenant a notice to vacate, giving us 30 days to move. My lease does not have a clause allowing management to forcefully terminate the contract for \u2018renovations\u2019. \n\nCan I sue for my deposit and moving expenses as breach of contract?","title":"Notice to Vacate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553480650,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b54ylv\/no_parking_sign_covered_by_plants\/","id":"b54ylv","body":"I got a parking ticket the other night that I am planning on contesting but am generally curious if there is a legal rather than common sense argument here.\n\nIt's a pretty simple story, I went to a restaurant and parked outside. A few minutes into the meal the server told me a police was calling a tow for my car. I ran outside and found the cop right as she was calling in the tow. She agreed to not impound but gave me a ticket. I contested that there were no signs indicating that it was a tow zone at which point she pulled back branches of some overgrown plants to reveal the no parking sign.\n\nThis sign was completely invisible if you did not pull back the branches. I protested but she claimed it's my responsibility to know it's a no parking area and that she was doing me a favor by not towing me.\n\nQuestion is, can a completely covered sign be enforced? ","title":"No Parking Sign Covered by Plants","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570593372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfbmfq\/landlord_rescinded_our_parking_spot_after_signing\/","id":"dfbmfq","body":"Hi there, as the title said, we viewed the place and were shown the exact parking spot we\u2019d get. We chose this place specifically because it provided parking in a location where it\u2019s hard to come by and would be most convenient for our commute.\n\nThe day before we move in, we were emailed and told we no longer had the spot and if one opened up they would give us 6 months free (only 4 spots and a waiting list so doubt that\u2019ll happen).\n\nIs there anything legally we are able to do? Our lease states that we are provided 1 parking spot. We already paid for it for the first month.\n\nThanks!","title":"Landlord rescinded our parking spot after signing lease that included it and paying for it \u2014 it was the main factor of deciding this place. [Seattle, WA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570809213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgh4e0\/trucking_company_wants_me_to_pay_outofpocket_on\/","id":"dgh4e0","body":"Got hit at a weigh station with a random DOT inspection passing through North Carolina a few days ago. One of my tie downs had apparently torn about a quarter inch during transport - it was fine before I left with my load.  They hit me with a 393.130, even after the officer told he didn\u2019t personally feel like the load wasn\u2019t secured. Boss informed me at the end of the day yesterday that I would be responsible for the associated fine, that I would need to write a check. \n\nI don\u2019t feel like it is legal to tack an equipment fine on me. I started this job a few weeks ago, not sure if that matters. This just feels shady.","title":"Trucking company wants me to pay out-of-pocket on an equipment citation I received. Not sure if that\u2019s legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571324242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj7jpt\/how_does_the_deadline_to_return_a_security\/","id":"dj7jpt","body":"The 30 day mark (not specified otherwise) for a previous lease passed recently. From the research I had done regarding Seven Day Demand Letters and next steps, I composed a letter regarding the security deposit, and sent via Certified Mail, as directed the the state of Colorado. However, the day I sent the letter, the 33rd day after our lease ended, I received the deposit, dated for the day of the 30th. At this point, I am unsure if the 30 day limit is for the landlord to mail the deposit, or for the tenant to receive the deposit.  Would someone be able to clarify if the demand letter holds water legally? \n\nUltimately, the amount difference between the full return of deposit, and the itemized-deducted deposit is not significant, but I would like to be fully aware of my rights either way.","title":"How does the deadline to return a security deposit operate (CO)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553960302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7ckvk\/cyberstalking_and_online_harassment_including\/","id":"b7ckvk","body":"I\u2019m based in California and my boyfriend and I have had a crazy stalker who endlessly harasses him and has for about 2 years now. It\u2019s only been online harassment, but there was some physical stalking during our high school graduation ceremony. I was wondering if we could pursue any legal actions? We just want this to stop, and want to pursue the best route to do that or the most punishing route for our stalker. ","title":"Cyberstalking and online harassment, including wishes of suicide, have continued and been documented for over a year- including time when the harassed were minors; can I do anything to stop this?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553283759,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b49gzw\/i_got_a_towing_warning_on_my_car_today_saying\/","id":"b49gzw","body":"I live in Henrico county, in Virginia. An officer left a sticker on my car's windscreen that says that it will be towed tomorrow, is there anyway that i can stop it?\n\nMy car has up to date taxes, tags, but it is not inspected. I had it parked on the front of my house in the curb. I had to get a couple of things fixed on it before inspecting it but I'm short on cash right now.\n\n​\n\nThe sticker says:\n\nNotice: This car, a 2001 Honda Accord  \nWill be towed from \\[my address\\]  \nIn 48 hours from this date 3-22-19 and time 1040 hours  \nAnd disposed in accordance with the Henrico County Motor Vehicle Code.  \nICR# \\[the number\\]  \nOfficer\/Inspector: \\[Officer's name\\]  \nFor information call the Henrico police dicivion \\[phone number\\] or  \nHenrico county maintenance \\[phone number\\]  \nPlacement of this vehicle upon private property could violate HCC section 10-3\n\n[Here is a link to HCC section 10-3.](https:\/\/henrico.us\/pdfs\/countyattorney\/Chpt010Environment.pdf#page=3)\n\nFrom that code:\n\n\" *(a) Restrictions. It shall be unlawful to keep more than one inoperable motor vehicle outside a fully enclosed building or structure on property zoned or used for residential purposes, or any property zoned for, commercial or agricultural purposes. For purposes of this section, the term \"inoperable motor vehicle\" means any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, as defined in Code of Virginia, \u00a7 46.2-100, which: (1) Is not in operating condition; (2) Does not display valid license plates; (3) Does not display an inspection decal that is valid; or (4) Displays an inspection decal that has been expired for more than 60 days.*\"\n\nI might be misreading this, but I think it says that I can keep one inoperable car in a residential area. However, I left it on the curb, and I don't know if that counts even tough everyone in this neighborhood keeps their cars on the curb as well.\n\nDoes any one know if I can somehow keep my car? It runs perfectly, it just has a problem with the front lights. Any advice would be much appreciated.\n\nI already called, and was told that the officer was going to call me back when he was available. I'm still waiting on a call after 4 hours.","title":"I Got A Towing Warning On My Car Today, Saying That It Will Be Towed Tomorrow.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506921842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73qx6i\/dad_would_like_to_split_house_and_into_the_3_of_us\/","id":"73qx6i","body":"So I need to know if its possible this way.\nAnd the right people to talk too.\n\nDad wants me and 2 sisters to get the house when he passess, 33% each.\n\nThe same goes for his money, 33%.\n\nWho are the right legal people to talk to?\nAnd any input from your experience if you have would be nice.\nHes not dieing, just preparing.\nEdit- location San jose California\nAnd i read the rules too :(","title":"Dad would like to split house and into the 3 of us.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1504700613,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yfahb\/tx_employer_doesnt_offer_overtime_pay_for\/","id":"6yfahb","body":"I apologize if I screw up the formatting or if this is the wrong place to post this question. First time here. \n\nI work for a craft brewery in Texas that self distributes our product. Currently I'm paid hourly but I'm supposed to talk with our owner soon about salary. Our duties primarily include delivering the product (kegs and cases of bottles and cans) but also include occasionally being a draft technician for clients (cleaning beer lines and swapping tap and coupler hardware) as well as cold call salesmen (load up the truck with beer and drive around to accounts and sell for immediate delivery.) I know that being on salary doesn't mean you don't get overtime, and I believe we qualify for overtime pay on salary, but I want to be sure. Let me know what other details are needed or direct me to the right place. I appreciate everything in advance. \n\nEdit: the other two drivers have received salaries of $32.5k","title":"[TX] Employer doesn't offer overtime pay for salaried delivery drivers. Do we qualify?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569101360,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7gmgz\/my_mothers_rights_to_her_deceased_husbands_house\/","id":"d7gmgz","body":"My mother and stepfather live in PA. Earlier this year, my stepfather passed away suddenly from a very aggressive form of cancer. My mom and stepfather were only married for about 7 years and in that time she was never added to the deed or mortgage of his house. Unfortunately the cancer so was quick moving once they got the diagnosis- they didn\u2019t have time to add her to the deed, etc. before he passed a few short weeks later. \n\nThis issue is what rights she has to this house. She is currently still paying the mortgage, but she will be moving in with me shortly, in a different state. This house is in disrepair, and is in an area with a very depressed housing market. Because this house is technically not \u201chers\u201d, I want her to walk away from it. She is retired, has no income aside from social security and a small life insurance payout from my stepfather. She does not have the money to sink into a house that is probably worth 50k (or less) to get it in selling condition. Plus there\u2019s still about 14k left on the mortgage. \n\nShe wants to know if she sells the house, would it need to be through an estate - and would the proceeds from the sale be liquidated to pay off his personal debt and medical bills?  Or would she be given the money, minus the difference of the remaining balance of the mortgage.   \n\nI personally feel it\u2019s not worth it to sell a house that she does not own if she would not benefit from it - and would possibly lose money in trying to make the house sellable. She is supposed to contact a local attorney to inquire about this, but has been dragging her feet for weeks because - well this is obviously a difficult time for her. \n\nThanks for any insight.","title":"My mother\u2019s rights to her deceased husband\u2019s house?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1446664049,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rj111\/my_car_insurance_company_is_trying_to_bully_me\/","id":"3rj111","body":"I live in Oregon, in the United States. My Volvo's engine died in August 2014, my father and I found a drop in engine to replace it with but in the meantime he lent me his Mazda Miata for every day use. I added the Miata to my insurance company September 2014, it was insured alongside my fiance's Nissan Xterra.  Flash forward to February 2015, my Volvo is finally fixed so we call the insurance to drop the Miata and add my car back. The woman I spoke to was very helpful and told me that she removed the miata and added my volvo, no problem.  Flash forward again to August 2015, our insurance agent calls us to check if we still have all 3 cars insured, which we obviously do not. He says he will remove the Miata and work on getting us our refund of roughly $1,200  dollars within the week, as long as we can provide declaration pages from my parents stating that the Miata has been insured by them after it was back in their possession. We get him all the declaration pages he needs proving that indeed my parents did have it and it was insured. \n HERE'S MY PROBLEM: They have been stringing us along since August. I finally called them today (for about the 20th time) and we get this story about how their parent company won't issue a refund, because the multi-car discount we got was greater. He then went on to say that if we pursue this we could end up owing more money to them without the \"discount\" they have been giving me. What can I do about this? I'm already in process of filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau, but is there anything I can actively do to get my money back?\n\nTL;DR my insurance company is trying to charge me 8 months of insurance for a car I borrowed and gave back to my dad, and is now giving me the runaround about getting a refund","title":"My car insurance company is trying to bully me out of a refund I deserve. Help r\/legaladvice","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568601557,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4uliy\/they_caught_the_person_who_burgled_my_house\/","id":"d4uliy","body":"My apartment in New York City got burgled when I was sleeping and they found the guy who stole from me. He's in possession of my laptop and my credit card. They couldn't prove that he burgled my house so he's only charged with a felony not a burglary. Two questions:\n1. Is there anything else I can do to provide evidence that I got burgled?\n2. I'm to appear in front of the court next week. I've never been to a court before, what's the process like, will he get to see my face? I'm a bit nervous about this.\nThank you so much in advance.","title":"They caught the person who burgled my house","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554159765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8atz2\/md_i_am_being_sued_by_a_former_creditor_i_failed\/","id":"b8atz2","body":"Just as the title says. Apparently the case was open on 5\/2017 (yes that\u2019s correct). I found out about it because I found it on the judiciary case search. They have changed the trial date multiple times and the next one is scheduled for next Thursday. Few questions:\n1) Can I get a bench warrant for failing to appear? \n2) Why haven\u2019t they been sending the mail to my new address?\n\nThanks! ","title":"(MD) I am being sued by a former creditor. I failed to appear because they have been sending the court papers to my old address despite me changing it with the Post Office and the MVA. What can happen?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540388180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qzpwi\/sold_a_car_with_a_lien_to_someone_and_now_i_found\/","id":"9qzpwi","body":"So I sold a car recently to a buyer. I filled out the the proper spots on the pink slip to transfer the title and the lien to them and they just hand over the cash and drive off.\nNow a few weeks later I\u2019m getting calls from the bank saying I\u2019m behind on paying and risk repo. I explain the situation to them and that didn\u2019t help much. I don\u2019t have a bill of sale or anything else other then a phone number and their first name. What do I do?\nWhat happens if the car is found or not?","title":"Sold a car with a lien to someone, and now I found out that person didn\u2019t register with the DMV. Help?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554770030,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb1f3z\/nightmare_student_threatens_to_shoot_up_school\/","id":"bb1f3z","body":"First of all, obligatory warning that I\u2019m on mobile so I apologize for any formatting or grammar errors. Also the obligatory \u201cthis is not about me\u201d it centers around my mom. Also TLDR for story at bottom as well as my actual question.\n\nSo my mom is a 5th grade teacher in Ohio and teaches at a lower income school. As the trend of lower income schools go, there are a lot of kids that act up and are generally awful. There\u2019s also a history of kids being physically aggressive and even doing permanent harm to a teacher, but that has been taken care of and not the issue I\u2019m concerned about. There\u2019s also a history of kids being moved around between classes due to verbal\/physical threats against teachers and other students. This paired with a terrible principal\/vice principal duo who neglect to actually administer punishments (dismissing the 5th offense with a warning, \u201cjust write down what you did wrong then go back to class\u201d type occurrences) has my mom looking for a different place of employment.\n\nSo that all leads up to today\u2019s incident. While walking her class down to an assembly she sees from a crowd of three boys a pen go flying and narrowly miss another teacher. She, of course, goes to find out who did it because she couldn\u2019t tell and none of them ratted each other out. She tells them the usual \u201cwell we\u2019re going to have to figure that out over recess together then\u201d as a way to take away recess as a punishment. Still nothing. The walk down continues and one kid starts telling other students that \u201cMrs. (My Mom) needs to die. I\u2019m going to bring a gun to school tomorrow\u201d (this is also one of the aforementioned 3 boys who said this). My mom hears, of course and with the guidance counselor in tow takes this kid out of the assembly and talk to him. Here\u2019s how it went:\n\nMy Mom (MM): Do you have anything to tell me?\n\nNightmare Student (NS): Nope\n\nMM: Did you threaten to bring a gun to school tomorrow and shoot people?\n\nNS: Yep\n\nJust like that, one word answers, confirming what he said. The guidance counselor calls over the Vice Principal (VP) as the principal wasn\u2019t there. Fortunately school shooting threats are one of the things that the administration takes seriously and the kid is suspended for 4 days now but there\u2019s also trouble brewing. My mom has a hunch that she\u2019s going to be targeted for disciplinary action that would go on her record, a record which would have to go to any potential new employer and possibly prevent her from getting a new job. Like I said before my mom also has had a lot of kids leave her class or her teaching partners class (she does math and science, the other teacher does social studies and English) and her teaching partners already on the \u201cshit list\u201d as my mom calls it of the administration not liking her for some arbitrary reason and because the principals husband is rich and other teachers want in on that life style so they blindly go along with everything she says. It reads like a bad high school movie, I know.\n\nI\u2019ve told my mom to document everything, even start recording private meeting (with both parties knowing) and if anything escalates, to contact her union rep, but my question is; is there anything else that she should do or worry about? I\u2019m worried about her getting a new job if things go sideways like they\u2019re predicted to do.\n\nTLDR: student of low income school threatens to kill my mom at school the next day. My mom, his teacher, reports him but has the feeling that administration might turn it around on her and get something tacked onto her teaching record to prevent her from getting a new job. My advice so far has been to just record everything.","title":"Nightmare Student Threatens to Shoot Up School and Nightmare Administration Might Try to Pin it On Teacher. (Long)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1504327050,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xjsls\/can_a_mother_take_money_from_me_other_than_from\/","id":"6xjsls","body":"I have been going to court for five years trying to get custody of my son. The mother has filed numerous false dcf claims which were thrown out because it was found that she was lying. She has withheld him from me over a dozen times for at minimum 2 weeks, up to 6 months. She was found in contempt every time, but the court won't give me custody and just slaps her on the wrist. My father passed away 3 years ago and left behind his only house which my family currently resides in. We are in the process of selling it, and she is posting on Facebook saying I don't pay my portion of child support (it comes directly out of my check, and I am current) and she is going to have her attorney go after the money from selling the house since she needs more because she isn't working. Can she do that, or does child support only get taken from my working wages? ","title":"Can a mother take money from me other than from my wages\/income (Boston, MA)?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541014862,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t24oa\/my_moms_boyfriend_al_had_his_head_bashed_in_with\/","id":"9t24oa","body":"Name changed for privacy.\n\nHe was at a bar in SWEDEN (so only Swedish legal advice please) 6 years ago when a very drunk man that he knew from before came in and verbally assaulted him. Nothing too big. Man comes back 10 minutes later, even more drunk, and bashes Al in the head from behind with an axe. Al\u2019s like \u201cwtf\u201d and begins to bleed like crazy. luckily for him, a different guy hit the attacker on the head with a stool. This caused the attacker to fall, and Al and the other man pinned him down until police came. Keep in mind that while pinned down he tried to hit Al again. This was 1st degree attempted murder by a drunk man, Anyways, he received compensation. 12k euros. This wasn\u2019t in court, however. If he brings the case to court how much money can he get? Feel free to ask for clarification.","title":"My mom\u2019s boyfriend \u201cAl\u201d had his head bashed in with an axe 6 years ago. He\u2019s okay now with no brain damage, but he has permanent skull damage. The guy went to jail for 5 years and the victim received 12,000 euros. That\u2019s definitely not enough money. If he sued the man in court how much would he get?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554222500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8lg5t\/dad_ditches_family_and_lies_in_court\/","id":"b8lg5t","body":"My dad is a child abuser and my mom is divorcing him. He made the court think that I was lying about what he had done and about all of this. He is trying to get custody of me and my younger brother and I\u2019m afraid of what he will do to me. I need help, so someone please tell me what I should do. ","title":"Dad Ditches Family and Lies in Court","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553637150,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5vuk1\/evicting_an_abusive_brother\/","id":"b5vuk1","body":"Posted this a few minutes ago but i just wanted to redo it and include some more details. My gf lives with her mom and her brother, who is over 18. Her parents own the house. They want to evict him because he\u2019s verbally (and in a couple cases physically) abusive because of his huge anger issues. I read up a little on eviction in alabama and all im seeing is eviction due to not paying rent. Well the problem with that is he doesnt pay rent, but he does pay bills so hey feel they cant really charge him rent. Thats not the issue anyway, i iust thought they could start charging him rent, and when he refuses to pay, kick him out. \n\nWhat im really looking for is anything that has to do with eviction because of his abusiveness in alabama. And the problem with just getting him arrested for the abuse is, like i said the physical abuse is rare, and even when it does happen isnt too bad so there arent a whole lot of marks to show. And the problem with the verbal abuse is that theyre afraid the cops wont be able to do much with them just saying he yells at them a lot so they don\u2019t really know what to do. \n\nWe\u2019re all at a loss here and just really want him gone. Anyone know what can be done here?","title":"Evicting an abusive brother","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1415928461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2m8nq5\/are_nfl_gifs_legal_houston\/","id":"2m8nq5","body":"1) So my full question is what is the legality of creating an NFL gif? If I create the GIF, I assume that the NFL still owns the rights because it's their materials.\n  \n2) Assuming that the answer to 1 is \"not legal\", how do websites that post them get away with it?\n\n3) Does the fair use doctrine [found here](http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/fls\/fl102.html) apply to these situations? I'm looking at a website like [Draftbreakdown's disclaimer for example.](http:\/\/draftbreakdown.com\/disclaimer) Would it stand up in court?\n\nThank you so much for your help!","title":"Are NFL Gifs legal? - Houston","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554833739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbbb7d\/my_birth_father_is_stalking_me\/","id":"bbbb7d","body":"About a year ago I contacted my birth father for the first time since he lost visitation rights when I was two years old and since then he\u2019s developed extreme stalking behavior. He posts statuses about me on Facebook multiple times daily at this point because he\u2019s angry at me for cutting off communication with him. I spoke to a woman about getting a ppo (she told me she was the head of the department) and I was informed that getting a ppo would do nothing because if he violated the ppo it would result in a court case then he\u2019d be free to go, he would get in no trouble at all, just a slap on the wrist. When I spoke to a police officer yesterday he told me that was wrong and that the first time he violated the ppo he would get arrested. \nMy \u201cfather\u201d is currently living in a homeless shelter because he moved from South Carolina to Michigan. The city I live in to be exact. After I cut off contact he moved here because he tracked my area code. He stays less than ten miles from my house. I\u2019m afraid to leave my house because he makes posts on Facebook about seeing me in public and how pretty I am and he never comes up to me because he just wants to see how pretty I am from a far. He posted [this on Facebook recently](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/Ykh6jRp) (the order is from last picture to first sorry) and shares it multiple times daily. Other people are sharing it as well. \nYellow highlighted is false information he\u2019s spreading to guilt people and make them think I\u2019m in danger, which I\u2019m not. \nRed highlighted is him stating motive. He just wants to meet me. He just wants to get close to me. \n\nI\u2019m concerned because these posts list my name, birth date, current job, and my boyfriends name. Can I get a ppo and would it help? I don\u2019t know who too believe about the ppo, the head of the department who maybe just didn\u2019t wanna do paper work or a police officer that might not know. What should my next steps be?","title":"My birth father is stalking me","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539019882,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mgz94\/slumlord_landlord_wont_fix_washerdryer_in_college\/","id":"9mgz94","body":"Hi all. Some preliminary info - I'm M\/23 and live in WA state.\n\n  \nSo I moved into a shitty slum house this year as I really had no other options. The realty company has 50+ one star reviews on google from people who previously had to live in one of their houses, talking about how bad and slow they are for repairs, how the front office lady is not only massively incompetent but a raging b\\*tch, how the houses are always in total disrepair. Great.  \n\n\nWell anyways, last week our clothes washer broke, which is a single connected unit with the dryer. It broke on Thursday 9\/27, so we immediately submitted a work order request. It's now Monday, 10\/8, over 10 days later (rather, on the 10th day) after submitting the work order request. On Thursday of last week, 10\/4, the landlord called my roommate (who doesn't know how to handle these things) and told him it would be another week at least before someone could come out to fix the washer and dryer, and he basically said \"uh ok call me whenever I guess.\" (I facepalmed hard there.) That's unacceptable, so I went in on Friday and told them we need someone out this weekend. I thought I got somewhere, because RB (raging bitch) made a call and said they would get it figured out, only for me to discover on Sunday, after getting no call all of Saturday, that the realty company was closed on the weekends, so she basically just did nothing and hid all weekend.  \n\n\nWell just now, this morning, I was woken by a repairman coming to our house with NO notice (isn't that illegal too? or is that just for the actual landlord?) to look at the window I need repairs on in my room - this guy wasn't here for the washer, he was here for a totally separate repair that I also needed. Still haven't heard anything about the washer\/dryer. So I called the realty company, pretty justifiably pissed off, and told them we need to have someone come out today. RB tries to feed me bullshit about their contractor is super busy so I'm on the list, to which I say I don't care, that's not our problem, hire another contractor because you need to fix this. RB tries to feed me more bullshit, says \"Well its not our fault our contractor's x\/y\/z died\/got in a car accident\/is sick, so they only have one repairman.\" (I'm not shitting you, she actually did that with those excuses). Again, I say that's not our problem, so hire another contractor because this is the 10th day after submitting a work order request, and you need to fix this now or I'll call a professional repairman and have them do it and take it off my rent payment for next month. RB gets pissed at that (and probably her own complete incompetency) and starts saying \"You can't speak to me like that! We told you we'd get a repairman out as soon as we could and being rude to me isn't going to get you anywhere!\" to which I say, \"Well I tried being nice for the past week and a half, and it also didn't get me anywhere.\" RB then tried telling me I couldn't hire someone and take it off my rent with their approval, and I said yes i can, do you want me to read you the RCW, and she said no you can't and blah blah blah, it went on for this for another minute or two before she said \"Ok we're done here u\/InfiniteSpoons\" and hung up on me, after I dragged a vague assurance out of her that a repairman would be calling and coming out today. I really don't think that's going to happen.  \n\n\nSo I know I might've been a little incorrect about the whole taking it off my rent check thing, but from what I can see on the RCW, I don't need the realty company's approval, I only need to give them notice before I hire someone to repair it and take it off my rent. So I guess my questions are, 1) is that correct, I only need to give them notice? and 2) is this the route I should take? Give me general legal advice (or even non-legal advice) for my situation, what should I do? It also might help that my dad is an attorney, so I could  ask him draft up a letter to scare the shit out of them. But I definitely can't afford a real lawyer.  \n\n\ntl;dr - slumlord landlord won't repair washer dryer in appropriate amount of time","title":"Slumlord landlord won't fix washer\/dryer in college house","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569008222,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6zz4l\/havent_received_final_work_check\/","id":"d6zz4l","body":"Hello all, \nSo I recently quit my job about two weeks ago. Last week on Thursday is when we are paid I haven\u2019t had a chance to go in and ask for my check so I had a fellow former coworker look for it for me. Today he said he could not find my check this has now been a week for me waiting to get my check. I\u2019m wondering if there\u2019s any legal advice or action that should be taken. I love in Illinois where you cannot withhold an employees check. Please comment if you need any more information, I\u2019m sorry for the sloppiness but I\u2019m at my new job at the moment.","title":"Haven\u2019t received final work check","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506108281,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71tbzg\/my_soon_to_be_ex_wife_has_possession_of_my_car_in\/","id":"71tbzg","body":"Okay so I don\u2019t think I provided enough information. This is my first time posting here, sorry. \n\n\nSo both car and truck loans are about the same amount. (Roughly $12k). \n\nI\u2019m stuck with my name on 66% of that $24k debt hole. \n\nWe have no property and not really much debt if anything. She\u2019s having a baby with the guy she cheated on me with, and we\u2019re not even divorced yet. ","title":"My soon to be ex wife has possession of my car in California, while I have the truck that\u2019s in both of our names here in Washington. If I swap vehicles with her; what responsibilities would I assume seeing as my name is on both the truck and the car, and hers is only on the truck?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551735401,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axcqjw\/should_i_pursue_payment_in_lieu_of_notice_after\/","id":"axcqjw","body":"Not sure where to ask for advice but I guess this is a good start. I\u2019m based in the UK.\n\nI have been an assistant manager at my (previous) place of work since November. I signed a contract stating some conditions of termination; these conditions were that if I wished to terminate the contract then I must give one months notice, if the company wished to terminate the contract then I will receive one month\u2019s wages (note that it wasn\u2019t stated that they must give one months notice).\n\nMy contract was terminated on the spot (via text message) after missing a meeting. There is some confusion around the meeting in that I say that I verbally mentioned I wouldn\u2019t make it and they say I didn\u2019t.\n\nIn a follow up meeting, the company has stated that my contract was terminated after multiple breaches of contract (not following job description, lack of timekeeping, phone use at work). The contract states that, for breaches of contract, the first warning is a verbal one, the second a written one, and the third is cause for possible termination. I have received \u2018some\u2019 verbal warnings, however no written ones.\n\nIn this meeting, the company brought their copy of the contract wherein they had removed said paragraph regarding termination. After showing them my copy, I was offered one week\u2019s wages to drop this matter \u2018as an act of goodwill\u2019 (their words).\n\nWithin the document, I have only signed and dated the front page, which states that conditions of termination are in a following document. The following document was not signed.\n\nI should add that I am close friends with the director of this company, and have been long since before I started working there. I would like to know how to go about this whilst burning as few bridges as possible.\n\nI think I\u2019ve included all the information I can, am I entitled to more than one week\u2019s wages or should I just suck it up, accept the offer, and learn from it?\n\nThanks in advance","title":"Should I pursue payment in lieu of notice after being fired on the spot?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571325215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj7rts\/fired_for_theft_any_repercussions\/","id":"dj7rts","body":"Hey, \n\nIf you are fired for theft, is there any defense you could put forward in attempt to either stay with the company or make the transition a little smoother? If a drug dependency was involved does that change things?? Or are you pretty much at a loss there? I imagine you couldn\u2019t do much but I\u2019m not sure. \n\nThank you!","title":"Fired for theft. Any repercussions?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409192087,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2es9or\/refiling_for_child_custodysupport_al_ky_oh\/","id":"2es9or","body":"I am currently in the military, and separating (honorably) at the end of my enlistment, March 9th 2015. My ex-wife and I have a great relationship, and will be meeting to discuss custody arrangements within the next week. We got married and divorced in Alabama. I am a current resident (home of record) of Kentucky, and she is a resident of Ohio, and currently is the custodial parent of our 3 year old child. We got divorced in September of 2012. When I get out, I want truly 50\/50 custody with her, and \"primary\" custodial rights. I want to be able to choose where she goes to school, have her either mon\/tues, wed\/thurs\/friday morning, and every other weekend. I will also be in school full time to pursue a degree, and will have only the income that the G.I. bill will provide for me. I will be living in Kentucky once I get out.\n\nI would like to ask for some advice, or the best direction to be pointed in based on the above information. ","title":"Re-filing for child custody\/support. [AL, KY, OH.]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507599187,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75dsr3\/california_my_apartment_company_says_they_need\/","id":"75dsr3","body":"I tried to keep the title simple, but I just received a notification saying that starting a week from today, there will be a construction project INSIDE of my apartment and workers will need access from 8 am - 5 pm, Monday through Friday, for about a month. They offered to reduce my rent by about 10% during this time (which doesn't make up for what they're asking IMO). This is a remodeling type of project as far as I can tell, and not something that urgently needs to be done while I'm living in the unit. \n\nI am currently a student who works odd part-time hours (often at night) so this arrangement doesn't work for me at all. I think they're assuming all of their tenants have a 9-5 and will be away during these hours, but that's not the case. I also have a dog (who I pay pet rent for), who gets extremely anxious when people enter my apartment. \n\nI'm planning on talking to them tomorrow and possibly asking to be moved to a different unit while this is going on. Otherwise, Im not sure what my options are. I'm usually home for about half of the time they're asking for access into my apartment and I'm not comfortable with that, especially on such short notice. On the days that I'm not working, I really have nowhere else to go or bring my dog all day.\n\nI'm wondering if anyone has experience with this or knows what my rights are in this situation before I talk to them tomorrow. I live in a large apartment complex and rent from a company that manages multiple properties, if that makes a difference.\n\nEdit for anyone interested: After speaking with them, the apartment company offered to let my dog and I stay in another unit (furnished so I don't have to move all my stuff, thankfully) during the construction at no extra charge. I was anticipating an argument, but they offered the other unit right away and it ended up being a painless conversation with the solution I was hoping for. Thanks to everyone who offered advice!","title":"(California) My apartment company says they need access into my unit all day for a month","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409990372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fmg5h\/chicago_ilim_a_guy_a_female_friend_is_telling\/","id":"2fmg5h","body":"**TLDR: Recovering alcoholic \"friend\" is telling people I raped her, when we had consensual sex. I feel she is saying that so that for once, SHE could be the victim and have everyone's pity. She never filed nor pressed charges for this \"rape.\" Nothing documented that I raped her but she is still telling people I did.**\n\n**Can I simply go to her local police department, have them call her and tell her she cannot say I raped her if there are no charges? I feel she can say she was raped but she shouldn't be naming me since there are no charges.** \n\n**Or do I need to go the expensive route and hire an Attorney just to call her and tell not to say I raped her, or I can sue her.**\n\nThrowaway..... I've been feeling sick since I heard about this. And it's a long story. I have (had) a friend that is a recovering alcoholic. She recently relapsed. Her parents were helping her detox at home but they caught her drinking and they are done with her. Completely! They told her they never want to hear from her again, unless she is checking into a detox facility.\n\n\nHer father did reach out to me and asked if I wanted to try to help her. She had lied to him, and he thought I was a friend that had known her for 10 years, and that I was also an alcoholic. In reality, I have only known her since December, less than a year.\n\nI tell her father sure, I will try to help. After all, I'm just going to be watching her and helping her when she gets the urge to drink.\n\nIt starts fine. She cries a lot. Telling me about a guy she is dating and why doesn't he go see her and help her? She would do it for him. I tell her I don't know. Sounds like her doesn't love her.\n\nThis was all going on last weekend.\n\nDuring the week, Tuesday night, I think she is fine. Alcoholics are great actors. We are cuddling on the bed. She tells me I'm so great to her. She grabs my crotch and we make love. Later than evening, I take her to the ER to get her checked into a detox facility.\n\nBut they don't have rooms. So she is discharged.\n\nNext morning I show up to her place (I had to go home and couldn't spend the night) and she's kissing me more, telling me how great I am to her... we end up making love again.\n\nThen this guy she is seeing calls her. She is yelling at him \"Tell me you don't love me if that's the case.\" Then I see her sneaking away and drinking some more.\n\nI tell her that a relationship doesn't matter if she will be dead in a few days or weeks. She needs to get to detox! She yells at me, tells me to leave her alone and let her die.\n\nShe calls someone and tells them I'm hitting her. That person calls the cops.\n\nCops show up and I'm questioned and so if she. I tell everything. Everything I typed here plus more details. I even start to cry. I was in the military. I've carried my dead brothers off the battle field. I do not want to carry a dead friend that died for alcohol.\n\nCops are all on my side. None of her stories make sense, they are always changing.\n\nThen she chugs a bottle of listerine while being questioned by the cops. Not cool. They call paramedics. Now she is scared that she will be forced away.\n\nAgain, cops question me and see I'm just a guy trying to help.\n\nBut then they ask if I had sex. Huummmm... yes why? Why does that matter?\n\nThen they ask if it was consensual? Wow. Of course it was.\n\nThey ask me for written statements. I give them. I'm free to go.\n\nShe calls me the next morning from the hospital to say she is sorry for everything. I tell her that her words no longer mean anything. She should SHOW me she is sorry and not say it.\n\nShe calls me Friday at about 3am. I didn't answer, she didn't leave a message.\n\nLater that evening, I hear from one of her AA friends, that she is going around saying I raped her. WHAT! THE FUCK!\n\nI tell him everything. And even he believes me! I've met this guy twice in the last few weeks. She has known him for years. And he thinks she is BSing because her story changes.\n\nMy \"friend\" is a teacher. She called to work saying I raped her.\n\nOf course, she is using this just to \"buy time\" from having to go to work because she needs to detox.\n\nOh! And a few weeks ago, she got a DUI. Her face is bruised from an officer slamming her head on the hood of a car. (so she claims.) But she didn't tell her principal that she got a DUI. She said she got into a car accident. The bruised face is from her face hitting the air bags. \n\nShe is telling lie after lie just to cover her own ass.\n\nBut now, her parents think I raped her? \n\nI'm up late because I can't sleep. It's eating me on the inside. I feel.... weird.... lightheaded..... like... jetlegged.... where I'm tired because I've been through a long day, but I can't sleep. I lay in bed and all I can think about is how will this screw me over.\n\nCan I simply go to her local police department, have them call her and tell her she cannot say I raped her if there are no charges?\n\nOr do I need to go the expensive route and hire an Attorney to call her and tell her the same?\n\nMy apologies for the book. I just felt some information was important to consider.","title":"(Chicago, IL)I'm a guy, a female \"friend\" is telling people that I raped her, even though I did not! There are no charges against me. Nothing was even filed against me. How can I get her to legally stop saying I raped her?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570108155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcqo5x\/i_rent_a_private_basement_of_a_single_house_can\/","id":"dcqo5x","body":"25 F here.\nLocation : Virginia \n\nI rent a one bedroom , one bathroom basement space from a single house in which a family (landlord) uses the rest of the house.\nThe door to the first floor is locked from their side and I cannot open it.\nThe only time I can physically be where they live is when I do my laundry, which I do only after getting a permission since they need to unlock the door for me. \nThere is no. \"Common space\" other than washer\/dryer or parking area.\nThe entrance is also separate so this space is very private.\n\nI  had a friend who lost a key (a guy)to his house  so I let him sleep in my space last night since I was the only one awake by the time he was coming back from the bar (3am). So he came at 4am and is sleeping in my living room space right now. \n\nI think the landlord saw my friends car since the only available parking is the curb in front of the housem\n because I just got a text from a landlord if I can refrain from letting my bf stay overnight.\n\nI apologized, explained the situation and that he is not my boyfriend but just a friend in trouble.\nNo replies until noe. \n\nIve never had any other guest before him so the landlords response is kind of...surprising?\n\nI understand the difficulty from the landlords point of view since she has two daughters and having an unknown man in the house may be disettling. I respect that and dont have overnight parties\/multiple guests for obvious reasons.\n\nBut Im confused. Does this mean she has right to restrict any guests i bring to this unit? \nCan they legally restrict guest in the basement units? \nIt wasnt written on the lease and I feel uncomfortable reporting every single guest i May have at my space. \n\nPlease provide me with some advice\/info","title":"I rent a private basement of a single house Can your landlord control your guests\/overnight visitors?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540323714,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qsdbc\/is_there_any_way_i_can_get_a_job_with_a_warrant\/","id":"9qsdbc","body":"I have one due to getting a driving while license provoked, and then not appearing in court (I forgot about the ticket, I know, im an idiot). I have a lawyer working my case right now. He says to anticipate 40hrs of community service and I\u2019m done with that, yet my case is still working to be resolved. I really need a job right now, but I dont think anyones going to hire me with a warrant for my arrest out.","title":"Is there any way I can get a job with a warrant out for my arrest?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568867452,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d68zpz\/are_there_laws_specifically_outlawing_the\/","id":"d68zpz","body":"Or laws outlawing people preventing doctors from carrying out their duty","title":"Are there laws specifically outlawing the prevention of paramedics from performing their duty?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503089753,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ukqz8\/i_shoplifted_and_was_releasednow_what\/","id":"6ukqz8","body":"Hello, I'm from Ontario, Canada. I'm 21, currently a student. \n\nI lost my job at the beginning of summer and have had a very hard time finding a new job. My money got really tight between rent and tuition, and basic necessities. \n\nI needed food badly and went to the nearby Loblaws and bought some food, but also shoplifted other food that I couldn't really afford. Probably the sum of stolen foods would have come to 60 at the most, an assortment of vegetables and a package of razors. \n\nI got rightfully caught on camera and the manager(I'm assuming the manager) brought me into the security officer when they monitor the store via cameras. They took back the food that I had stolen, he went to call the police and took my address. I signed forms for release and then I was let go. No police ever came, no one took my picture. \n\nI was incredibly stupid and I'm aware of this. I was desperate and did something wrong, but I'm so embarrassed and worried about what comes next. They have the stolen goods back, but they also called the police-will this go on my record at all? Will I have to pay a fine? I can't afford to pay anything right now. I just want to know if anyone has any ideas of what I should be expecting. Also how long will this last via statue of limitations wise?\n\n","title":"i shoplifted and was released-now what?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569940076,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbu68w\/property_manager_is_trying_to_screw_me_over_after\/","id":"dbu68w","body":"Hello Reddit! This is my first post and quite new, please bear with me. I had recently moved out of an apartment that my SO and cat have lived in for a year. Moving out we cleaned the best we can amd handed the keys this last Saturday. I did a walk through on Monday with the PM amd all was good until she tore the carpet (which was newly installed when I moved in) and pointed to a little yellow spot stating that the whole 200 sqft of carpet needs to be changed now. There was no visible damage on the top of the carpet and only the PM claimed to have smelled it prior tearing the carpet. I'm looking at $1,100 in repairs and $900 is for new carpet and installation, it's under 200 sq ft of carpet. The rest are mandatory cleaning fees. is what the PM doing legal and reasonable? I did have a scuffle with them before over wrongfully towing my GF's car but that's a totally different story.","title":"Property Manager is trying to screw me over after moving out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552595102,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b15ape\/job_now_requires_247_availability\/","id":"b15ape","body":"New York, US\n\nSo my boss recently decreed that the expectation for us if our compang cellphone rings is for us to answer it 24\/7. If we do not answer it we will be written up eventually leading to termination.\n\nGiven our field it is reasonable that we have someone available 24 hours a day but our staff rotates who is on call.\n\nTo be clear I am an hourly employee, not salary as if that should matter.","title":"Job now requires 24\/7 availability","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506634772,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/733be2\/im_making_a_parody_documentary_about_pyramid\/","id":"733be2","body":"I am lightly aware of the \u201cone party consent\u201d clause. But very unfamiliar about anything else dealing with this situation. The documentary is meant to be taken as satire but we actually got involved with a Pyramid scheme and recorded voicemails\/ conversations. We will not reveal any names but we want to see if we are allowed to publish those recordings in our film. If so do we need to change the voice? Remove certain information? Etc. (Oregon)","title":"I\u2019m making a Parody Documentary about Pyramid Schemes and recorded audio of a phone conversation. If I change the other party\u2019s voice am I allowed to publish it?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1505221312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zmsm4\/ontario_can_the_landlord_make_rules_like_no\/","id":"6zmsm4","body":"It's not on the lease, but they're starting to make these rules now. \n\n\nI also share a room with the landlord's daughter if that makes a difference. \n\n\nUPDATE: I JUST CAME HOME(UNEXPECTEDLY) AND FOUND HER EATING DINNER IN BED. WHENEVER I'M HOME(DURING BREAKFAST) SHE NEVER EATS IN THE ROOM. ","title":"(Ontario) Can the landlord make rules like \"no eating in your room\"?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552584089,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1324m\/question_about_insurance_agents_after_car_accident\/","id":"b1324m","body":"Hi all, Living in Minnesota, Accident occurred in Minnesota as well.\n\n​\n\nI was recently contacted by the Agent of the other driver involved. He's asking about pictures of the accident, and my side of the story. I was not at fault, the corner was cut by the other driver, and I ran into the back of his front left wheel well. The police were called, and the other driver told the police I pulled out too far, so the stories conflicted. As stated earlier, the Agent for the other driver is contacting me and asking me for information. Should I keep my mouth shut, and let my agent deal with their agent? Or am I okay to talk with him. \n\n​\n\nThanks!\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n ","title":"Question About Insurance Agents After Car Accident","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554231329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8nbb4\/step_dad_attacked_my_mom\/","id":"b8nbb4","body":"This just happened, we moved to grandmothers house. What's the next step?\nHe started breaking things, he hit my mom and tried to hit me and my brother?\nI'm currently in shock","title":"Step dad attacked my mom","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1441737024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k4igs\/ms_unbalanced_extenant_drawing_out_process_of\/","id":"3k4igs","body":"I had a tenant at will (without a lease or contract) that was renting a room in my house for the past four months and they chose to move out two days ago on the 6th.  This tenant threatened my life with a gun and I had to call the police.  The tenant has stated that they have thirty days to move out due to laws.  Due to this person threatening me with a pistol, I do not feel safe with the tenant having access to my property for 30 days.  I am wondering if I can move her stuff out to my car port, which has a roof but is open on both sides.  The person is also refusing to give me my key and the cops will not make her.  \n\nI mention the tenant was unbalanced due to the gun incident but as well as previous experiences.  I was unable to have any conversation about electricity usage or water usage due to the tenants outbursts.  It seemed like she used her anger to try to control the conversation, exploiting my timidness.\nThe tenant would also seemingly take on different personalities, talking in different tones and speech patterns.\n\nI have video of my interactions with the cops and tenant. \nHowever the cops refused to listen to my side of the story and seemed to side with the tenant due to a size difference between us and because I was appearing antagonistic due to an anxiety disorder that was extremely triggered due to the tenants actions.\n \nOne of the cops suggest I barricade my door to keep her out.  Off camera, the same sergeant suggested that I should be able to defend myself from the tenant due to a height difference.  My limited knowledge of firearms would have me believe that a gun can kill anyone, regardless of stature. \n\nBefore this happened, the tenant let another person move into the room without my knowledge.  I could not confront the tenant about it due to the angry outbursts that would happen from the slightest question that the tenant did not like.  The tenant has also damaged my room.  I felt like a prisoner in my own home.","title":"[MS] Unbalanced (ex)tenant drawing out process of relocation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554901396,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bblr4n\/posted_before_about_my_creepy_landlord_good_news\/","id":"bblr4n","body":"Basically, my landlord lived in the unit above me and frequently violated my privacy by barging into my apartment or just knocking on my door to \u201csee what I was doing\u201d I detailed some of this in a post a few months ago. He didn\u2019t stop being creepy, and I was able to move out. I found someone to replace me on the lease and was freed from the lease. \n\nThe landlord said that I would get the deposit back. I asked him to mail it to my workplace. This was a few weeks ago. Now the landlord is telling me that he will not mail it to my workplace and will only mail it to my new address. Won\u2019t let me pick it up in person either. \n\nHe cited a law in Pennsylvania which says that I must provide my former landlord with my new mailing address or forfeit my deposit. I looked it up and this is a real thing. But wouldn\u2019t my work address count under this?\n\nThe law seems to be real but I don\u2019t see how it is. I moved out because this guy frequently violated my privacy and is extremely creepy. I REALLY do not want him to know where I\u2019m living now. I mentioned the neighborhood to him once and he said \u201coh I\u2019m over there all the time maybe I\u2019ll see you.\u201d I\u2019m terrified that he would ring my doorbell one day. \u201cOh I just happened to be around.\u201d But I also REALLY need my deposit back. The fact that he\u2019s being so insistent about getting my new address is scary to me. Why wouldn\u2019t he just mail it to where I work? Who cares?\n\nHow can I get around this without giving my new address? What is the ACTUAL law regarding this? Do I have to give it to him or can I give my work address? I thought of giving a friends address but I don\u2019t want him to go to my friends house either. Augh. Can\u2019t wait to put this behind me.","title":"Posted before about my creepy landlord. Good news: I was able to move out! Bad news: he\u2019s being super weird about returning the security deposit. What can I do? What are security deposit return laws in PA?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571003397,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhh4sy\/i_was_promoted_from_hourly_to_salary_a_year_later\/","id":"dhh4sy","body":"I work as a journalist. Last October I was named editor of a new magazine that my company wanted to start. The publisher increased my rate of pay and placed me on salary. I signed nothing. It was a verbal agreement and within the week I was placed on salary. \n\nThe paper I work for belongs to a large company that owns many papers, I was told that the rate of pay I would be making is on the level with other magazine editors in the company. \n\nLast week I was told, without warning, that what that publisher had done was against federal regulation. To clarify, that publisher was let go about four months ago for separate reasons. I was informed by the new publisher that I was being returned to hourly because federal regulations said I had to be directly supervising other people to be on salary. \n\nThis was immediately fishy to me. I know plenty of people that are salaried that have no subordinates. I brought this up and was told not to worry about other companies because they weren't following the regulations and this was illegal. \n\nMy first thought was that, if this were true, they were clearly  trying to cover their own ass since they had made the change in the first place with no oversight. \n\nMy next thought was to look into the federal law. Here is what I found. There are three levels of exempt employees: executive, professional and administrative. Executive employees do need to supervise at least 2 other people and make a certain amount of money to qualify. I didn't make anywhere near the amount required to be in that category. The professional level, however, covered writers, journalists and editors. So clearly that was what I should be classified as. \n\nSo I went to my publisher and asked if I was being classified wrong. He shot me down saying he'd been in the business for 40 years and federal law didn't recognize writers as being able to qualify for salary. \n\nAt that point I didn't know what to do. I was pissed. I had just finished reading the laws and he had straight lied to me. \n\nSo my question is, is this legal? I feel like it's clearly shady and underhanded, but is it legal? \n\nTl;dr I was taken from hourly to salary and then my company back-pedaled for apparently BS reasons. Help?","title":"I was promoted from hourly to salary, a year later I was told this was against federal law and I was being returned to hourly. Is this legal.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551156647,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auv7xz\/my_tenant_refuses_to_move_out_and_im_halfway\/","id":"auv7xz","body":"(Tl; dr at the end)\n\nI own a house in the UK and I want to sell it. My tenants have lived there for about 10 years now. So, in December 2018 ,the processes for selling the house started. A tenancy agreement is in act ,which lasts until October,2018  The tenant, then ,agreed to move out of the house,but she did not say a date on which she would leave. \n\nLast month, I completed all the forms but did not exchange the contract with the buyers. I received an email from the solicitors that they wanted an exact date on which the tenant would move out. So, I gave the tenants a 2 month notice to leave the house(so, on or before the 1st of April). \n\nYesterday, I contacted the tenants,to check the progress on the hunt for their new house, and now they seem to have a consulted their legal advisor,and they are saying that they have the right to live there until the tenancy agreement ends. \n\nI have no idea what to do. She promised to move out in the beginning but now she says she won't.\n\nWhat should I do?? The buyer definitely does not want tenants in the house, as he intends it to be for himself. If I back out of the sale now, will I incur any fines??\n\ntl;dr - I am in the process of selling my house and now my tenants refuse to move out. ","title":"My tenant refuses to move out, and I'm halfway through selling my house.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541104622,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9td8st\/i_have_a_voice_recording_of_my_landlord_admitting\/","id":"9td8st","body":"Hello everyone,\n\n​\n\nI'm a college student and my friends and I live together in a house near our school. We've enjoyed living there, except for the fact that our landlord is literally insane. He routinely violates the lease. Long story short, during one of his visits today, we got him to admit on a voice recording (he consented to be recorded) that he set up more cameras on the property than we agreed to. In total, we think he's set up three more than we signed off on. There were supposed to be four, I found seven. Here's a list of all the lease violations we know of:\n\n1. Set up cameras without our permission. His claim was that he made an \"executive decision\" that adding the cameras would be better and didn't feel like had to ask us. Additionally one of the cameras is facing into our courtyard and not into the garage like he claimed it would. \n   1. I also think the cameras record sound. \n2. Showing up without 24 hours notice (He's done this a lot and we have it recorded)\n3.  He threatened to charge us a \"$1000 restitution fee\" because he claims someone peed on our house during a party.\n   1. He claimed a neighbor called him about this and he had camera footage, but when we asked him about the footage he never spoke about it again\n4. He charges us $75 dollars everytime we get locked out of rooms\n   1. Here's the backstory on this one: We don't have keys to our own rooms, just house keys. We have faulty locks that sometimes lock on their own. About three times now, he has had to come over and won't unlock our doors unless we sign a piece of paper that says we will pay him. \n5. He comes into rooms when we're asleep\n   1. This happened once. He showed for an inspection and came into one of my friend's rooms. \n6. He made 'repairs' without our consent \n   1. He claims that there were scratches on the floor that we caused. We think they were there when we got there and that this is his way of making a quick buck. \n   2. He had a contractor come today and fix the scratches and is now telling us he will deduct $150 from our security deposit. \n7. His lease says that he will inspect the property every three months in one section and then in another, he will inspect 1 a month.  \n   1. In reality, he's there twice a month, whenever we have our twice a month cleaning. \n8. He threatened to charge us if we didn't clean our garage. \n\nWe're considering legal action against him. What exactly can we do about this? I know CA has strong tenants rights laws. I honestly just want to be left alone. It's a huge stressor on us. He expects us to be robots who do nothing, but breathe and pay rent. \n\n​\n\nI will likely add to this post about other stuff he's done when I get back to my computer. ","title":"I have a voice recording of my landlord admitting he violated the lease. What should I do? (CA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441575312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jwej9\/my_exgirlfriend_cheated_on_me_with_her_friend_who\/","id":"3jwej9","body":"So basically 6 months or so ago my (23) girlfriend's (20) lease was up on her apartment. She was living with her younger brother (18) as their dad passed away about a year ago. Her younger brother's best friend (22) was there as well. Apparently the brother and the friend didn't have anywhere else to go. I didn't really know either of them that well at the time however none of them could really afford their own place so I let them crash at my place. Well for about the past month or so my now ex-girlfriend started going places alone with the friend and acting really suspicious. Long story short she was cheating on me with him.\n\nObviously I hate both their guts right now but I talked to the cops and they said because I let them stay with me for an extended period of time I cant just kick them out I have to go through the eviction process. None of them are on my lease or anything so I gave them a notice to vacate which said they have a month. They said they would leave but at least this way if they don't I should be able to evict them.\n\nNow I cant stand seeing them every day and it is driving me insane. Seeing them just is a constant reminder of her cheating on me. My ex has also threatened to steal or break all my shit and I try to avoid the guy but I don't exactly feel comfortable with him in my house. Is there anyway I wouldn't have to wait a whole month to kick them out? Like even if just the guy were to leave it would make my life so much less stressful.\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated.\n\nI am in upstate New York if that matters. ","title":"My ex-girlfriend cheated on me with her friend who I was let crashing at my place.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540184941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qaoib\/searched_a_word_that_i_didnt_know_what_it_meant\/","id":"9qaoib","body":"I searched a NSFW word which I didn't know what it meant ('nymphet,' I have never heard of this word before) on Tumblr (stupid, I know). It brought me to things I doubt are legal and I am real anxious of getting in trouble for just a dumbass mistake. I didn't report what I saw as by the time I realized what I think I saw, I nope'd off. Now I am real afraid of repercussions of this. Should I be worried? ","title":"Searched a word that I didn't know what it meant...","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507723888,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75omt1\/philippines_employment_contract_has_a_clause_that\/","id":"75omt1","body":"Sorry about the location being so far off, but I need some help. \n\nMy friend recently took up a new job here in the Philippines, but didn't read the employment contract she signed. I know. In it, it states that if she decides to quit the job before a certain amount of time, give or take 3 years, she has to pay the company tens of thousands of PHP, roughly hundreds of US dollars.\n\nNow that she actually works there, she found out why the company had such a clause. People had been leaving left and right because of how shitty they treat their employees and how much work they expect for such little pay. Instead of fixing their business, they just want to lock people into employment.\n\nIs this legal? If my friend quits, will she be held accountable to pay the company?","title":"[Philippines] Employment contract has a clause that will force my friend to pay an enourmous sum to the company, is this enforcable?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569847749,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbb2e7\/can_employers_use_cultural_fit_to_conceal_age\/","id":"dbb2e7","body":"U.S.A.\n\nThis case involved Google, but it can apply anywhere.\n\nA longstanding problem in age discrimination litigation is that federal\u00a0 courts\u00a0 permit employers to discriminate against older workers with superior qualifications based on subjective criteria like\u00a0 \"cultural fit.\"\u00a0\n\nCultural fit is subjective. \n\nIt could involve hiring a younger male\/female who exhibits more \"compassion, empathy or softskills\" over a person who may be older with different cultural features.\n\nCultural aspects are subjective.\n\nIt sounds like in some cases, EEOC is allowing that to slide in the face of potential age discrimination cases.\n\nIs that accurate?","title":"Can employers use \"cultural fit\" to conceal age discrimination and keep a youthbased workforce?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551010085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/au7e5l\/scared_or_roommate\/","id":"au7e5l","body":"tldr; locked roommate out, scared of how he\u2019ll react\n\nrenting house in Georgia. let this dude move in last May, he\u2019s not on lease and I don\u2019t have an official lease w\/ landlord. (signed lease first year, after that she said we can just go monthly and to give her notice before I move out)\n\nhe hasn\u2019t paid rent in 2 months, not answering my texts. went to confront him last night but he wasn\u2019t in his room. What was in his room was my credit card and some of my other things.\n\nmost of his stuff is gone, but his bed tv and 3  cats are still here. I sent him a text saying to let me know when he\u2019ll be by to get the rest of his stuff\n\nlocked all the doors, he doesn\u2019t have a key. Basically I\u2019m afraid he\u2019s gonna try to break in or hurt my cat. He has a temper and his ex girlfriend got a restraining order against him. He\u2019s made alarming comments (kinda like edgy jokes but it was scary) like he\u2019d put sugar in my gas tank and he made a joke about acid attacks (this was like 6 months ago but still)\n\nim gonna get deadbolts and cameras. Don\u2019t know if I have enough of a case to get a restraining order. Considering moving back in with my mom back in the Midwest. But the house I\u2019m renting is cheap and i like my job. Idk if I\u2019m over reacting. Considering just bagging up his shit and leaving it on the front porch. Idk what to do","title":"scared or roommate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569603116,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da35yk\/my_husband_23m_didnt_use_a_safety_shower_when_he\/","id":"da35yk","body":"Hi Reddit! Just warning you this is a long store. This happened last week. My husband works in a laboratory and received an acid exposure that day. He is ok, but here is some more background info. \n\nHe has been working in the lab for almost one year. His employer, who I\u2019m going to be as vague about as possible but it is a public institution, is blatantly disregarding OSHA laws. The safety shower in the lab he works in puts out ~2 gallons of water a minute when it is supposed to be putting out 20g per minute at 30lbs of pressure per square inch. It is far from that and he has let them know that it was not up to standards multiple times and they have not done anything about it. \n\nMy husband received a chemical exposure that covered (not soaked) roughly 3\/4 of his body. He immediately took off the affected clothes. He didn\u2019t use the safety shower because it wasn\u2019t up to standards and therefore would not be affective at removing the acid. He did wash off his arm and came home about an hour later and washed off in our shower at home. We went to the doctor and they said he was fine. \n\nHis employer is now claiming that he should have used the safety shower no matter what, despite the amount of water that was coming out or the pressure. They have essentially threatened to fire him by saying \u201cI need to know that if a student was covered in acid that you would do anything in your power to help that student. If you wouldn\u2019t do everything in your power I need to consider if you are right for this position\u201d Of course my husband would do everything he could! He just wouldn\u2019t use the safety shower because it isn\u2019t functional. What he said to me is \u201cif there was a fire and if I knew the fire extinguisher wasn\u2019t charged, I wouldn\u2019t use it. I would use other means to put out the fire. I didn\u2019t use the safety shower because it wasn\u2019t up to code and I used other means to get the acid off.\u201d\n\nIf they fire my husband, do you think we could sue for wrongful termination?","title":"My husband (23M) didn\u2019t use a safety shower when he was exposed to acid. Seeking advice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441890666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ke8qo\/ncchild_support_i_think_my_daughters_father_lied\/","id":"3ke8qo","body":"We had a child support hearing and he claimed that he isn't working but that contradicts everything he's told me. From what he's said to me he's laying carpet\/tile and managing a band. He clearly gets money from somewhere to pay for his car but I think he might be getting paid under the table. Is there anything I can do, he was only ordered to pay 50$ a month which doesn't even cover 1\/5th of daycare a lone...","title":"[NC][Child Support] - I think my daughters father lied about his income.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507852626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76121r\/oh_seeking_advice_on_removing_my_firearm\/","id":"76121r","body":"Hello all, I am a convicted felon for marijuana distribution. I was only sentenced to probation, but have been finished with my sentence for a year now. I was able to find a law that states you are able to get your firearm disability removed and a link to that is here http:\/\/codes.ohio.gov\/orc\/2923.14\n\nI called up my county clerk of courts to ask about it and they had no idea. I was referred to their \"records\" department and they also had no idea. Apparently you have to fill out some sort of request application and submit it to the court, but if they all had no idea about it, how am I supposed to start that application process? do any of you have experience with restoring firearm rights for felons? what can I expect with all this? is hiring an attorney absolutely necessary or is this something I can file on my own? any idea of the cost, length of process, and likelihood of getting approved? any insight would be appreciated.","title":"[OH] Seeking advice on removing my firearm disability","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569174235,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7tsf3\/would_it_be_possible_to_put_in_ones_will_that_one\/","id":"d7tsf3","body":"Would it be legal in the US to state in your will that you wish to be taxidermied and put on display?","title":"Would it be possible to put in one\u2019s will that one wishes to be taxidermied postmortem?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551061464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aufrdq\/when_can_a_landlord_raise_the_rent\/","id":"aufrdq","body":"Group of 6 friends in a 2 apartment house (3 on each floor). \n\nTwo of my roommates left for military deployment earlier this February (1 from each floor). They informed the landlord before moving in and sent him a letter weeks prior to leaving.\n\nTonight the landlord emailed us informing us that rent will be raised from 775 to 1162.50 to compensate and asked for information on our new roommates even though we never got any or planned to get any. \n\nWe were never told or reminded about the rent being raised and now he\u2019s telling us 5 days before rents due.\n\nIs this legal? Is there nothing I can do?","title":"When can a landlord raise the rent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568649329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d52ma0\/va_executor_of_mother_inlaws_estate\/","id":"d52ma0","body":"I didn\u2019t know what else to call it, but here is the story so far.\n\nMy father in-law passed several months ago. His estate was never fully settled. My wife was in the process of helping her mother finish closing the affairs. Her mother passed two weeks ago. When the wills where discovered, they were found to be not up to date, were written before my wife\u2019s sister, who is now in her 30\u2019s, was even born. In the will, mother in-law\u2019s father, my wife\u2019s grandfather, was named executor.\n\nNow since the wills were drafted, this side of the family has become estranged from the wife\u2019s grandfather. My wife and her mother were in the process of changing wills and making my wife executor. Sadly her mother passed before that could be done. We spoke to a lawyer, and he said it would be an uphill battle unless we could get the grandfather and my wife\u2019s two siblings to sign a piece of paper. The siblings are all on board, the big question mark was the grandfather. My wife spent three hours with her grandfather yesterday and explained everything to him, and he signed the paper. \n\nThen today the crap hit the fan. At 6am, her grandfather calls us, yelling that he has no clue what he signed yesterday, that he wants to see the wills and wants an explanation. In trying to get an appointment with the lawyer, we are now told that all these signatures need to be notarized, which we were never told about in the first place. So now I have no idea what to do.\n\nMy question is, what should be our next course of action in order for my wife to be named executor per her mother\u2019s verbal wishes. If I have not put enough information, I do apologize, let me know and I can answer you and edit the post to include said information.","title":"(VA) Executor of Mother in-law\u2019s Estate","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541208265,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tq5gx\/my_dad_sold_furniture\/","id":"9tq5gx","body":"He kept money he should not have for himself. He\u2019s a plant manager, currently on suspension. He\u2019s been with the company for a long time, I\u2019m not exactly sure. He was caught in the act, during a hearing where the company was terminating another employee. \n\nWhat\u2019s going to happen? I\u2019m very concerned for his immediate future, and my future as well. \n\nI will add more details as I ask\/know about them. \n\nPlease help. I have absolutely no idea what could happen.","title":"My dad \u201csold\u201d furniture.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555219817,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bczn9y\/my_roommate_is_ruining_my_life_and_the_lease_i\/","id":"bczn9y","body":"Basically, this is what happened. I live in Arizona. About four months ago, I was hired by a company very far away from my old residence and my lease was about to end. I was talking to one of my friends and he told me \u201cmy coworker is an awesome guy and needs a new roommate\u201d. He sent me his number and we started talking\/texting. Turns out we had a lot in common and I decided to move in with him. We\u2019ll call him Jake. \n\nJake own the place and actually gave me a great deal on rent. It\u2019s about 250 a month lower than units in the same area. Jakes father assured me I was getting a great deal and made me feel comfortable about signing the lease. What I didn\u2019t do was read it throughly and missed a section about a \u201crent responsible clause\u201d.  Basically I\u2019m responsible for rent if I try to cancel the lease early and try to move out. \n\nJake is the worst roommate I\u2019ve ever dealt with. At first it was fine, he was fun to hang out with but I quickly realized he was a lazy slob. Never did dishes, ate all my food, drank all my beer, used my detergent, ect. Now I\u2019m a very upfront with people and we\u2019ve had multiple discussions about it. The last ended with a massive argument where he told me basically he was going to have me evicted. \n\nWell that never happened, jake never spoke to his father. I bought a mini fridge and started keeping everything I buy in my room. After another month I started noticing things going wrong and for a while I thought I was going crazy. Some examples, my keys were never where I left them. I\u2019d put clothes in the drier overnight and they would be wet when I woke up. My car battery would be dead before I went to work even thought it\u2019s fairly knew. My tire pressure was low even though I\u2019d filled them a few days prior. The list goes on and on. \n\nBasically, I was over 15-30 minutes late to work 2-3 times a week for an entire month. I was reprimanded and could of lost my job. So I started taking pictures of things before I went to sleep. That\u2019s when I finally put the pieces together - my roommate was doing this.\n\nThe first thing I did was call his father. Since he\u2019s the landlord, I wanted to get out of the lease. He asked why and I made up so bullshit excuse instead of telling him what actually happened. That\u2019s when I found out about the clause. I decided to tell him what his son was doing, big mistake he pretty much called me a liar. So I confronted my roommate who denied everything. \n\nSo my hands are bit tied right now. I\u2019m not really sure how to proceed.","title":"My roommate is ruining my life and the lease I signed was a mistake","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443656636,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n19g9\/how_long_from_pti_completion_till_dismissal\/","id":"3n19g9","body":"Edit: Florida\n\nSo my probation office has been handling my PTI without much care.  I was supposed to have completed the program in August, but the PTI officer who was leaving that month didn't send in the paperwork to the courthouse that I had completed.  On Sept 1st, I went in and spoke to the new PTI officer, who informed me that I should have already completed the program and said she would send in the corresponding paperwork right away.\n\nTomorrow is Oct first, and my case has still not been dismissed.  I keep asking my lawyer to contact the prosecution and he either doesn't respond to my emails\/returns my calls or says they haven't spoken with him yet.\n\nSo the question is how long is standard from completing PTI to the case being dismissed?  I'd like this to be over with so I can get it expunged and proceed with my life.","title":"How long from PTI completion till dismissal?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554760383,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bazoo0\/are_you_required_to_stop_at_an_intersection_if\/","id":"bazoo0","body":"If I were driving to an intersection and we're trying to turn left or right I would be required to stop for the crossing guard. \n\nIf I wanted to continue driving forward and not turn would I still be required to stop for the crossing guard even if the guard is on the left or right crosswalk instead of the one in front of me?","title":"Are you required to stop at an intersection if there is a crossing guard on the left\/right crosswalks and not on the crosswalk in front of you?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569956445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbxzxq\/alcoholic_owner_is_wanting_to_evict_everyone_in\/","id":"dbxzxq","body":"This is my first post here, so if there\u2019s anything I missed please let me know. I currently live with my boyfriend and his family. We were evicted on the 17th of last month and had to move back in with them as we had no where else to go.\n\nI\u2019ll give you some background on the person who is technically the owner of the house. She\u2019s an alcoholic and has only gotten worse in the 3 years I\u2019ve known her. She\u2019s to the point where she hasn\u2019t returned to work from her FMLA since April or May, so she hasn\u2019t been paid really since then. They wanted to approve her for short term disability for alcoholism so that she could get help and still have a job. She has yet to turn in the paperwork from her doctor to her employer, so they\u2019ve denied her claim 2-3 times. She insists that she\u2019s done everything, they just aren\u2019t processing it. She\u2019s done nothing in the 3 weeks we\u2019ve lived there but drink. We took her to the ER the first night we moved in because she was threatening suicide and she went to rehab and came out and seemed to be better for about 5 days, then started drinking again. She\u2019s been back to the hospital twice since then for alcohol poisoning (which happens every single night as she drinks a half gallon a day). \nSo, the whole reason of that explanation is that when she\u2019s either extremely drunk or about out of alcohol, she gets EXTREMELY angry at everyone in the house. It\u2019s me, my boyfriend and her mom that all live there. She\u2019s threatened at least 20 times in 3 weeks that we have \u201cx\u201d many days to get out before she changes the locks and stuff. She hasn\u2019t paid the bills the last 2 months, her mom has been paying them with her retirement check. She\u2019s drank my alcohol (literally every drop, even the bottles that have been in my room for this very reason). She claims that she\u2019s never drank my alcohol or that she\u2019s never said this or that. \nWhat she doesn\u2019t know is that I have recordings of interactions with her. When she\u2019s been hostile, and when she\u2019s nice. I have on recording that we are fine to live here until we get back on our feet and are able to live on our own again. She called the police on Friday (09\/27) stating that we had marijuana in the house, neither of us has jobs (clearly not true), and that I beat her up (also not true). When the police arrived, they basically just put her in the house and explained whenever she came back out (multiple times) that they were going to arrest her for PI. After they left, she threw a hissy fit and said \u201cfuck y\u2019all\u201d (sorry for the language but). It\u2019s been so up and down in the last four days. We\u2019re all on the same phone plan and she turned off all the phones besides hers and the internet so that we can\u2019t iMessage anyone. Since we\u2019ve moved back in, she\u2019s been trying to either prevent me from going to work or prevent me from contacting anyone. \n\nMy question in all of this is, what rights do I have? What are my options and what can I do to help this situation? We just moved in and honestly, I don\u2019t have anywhere to go yet because of financial situations. Does her mom have anymore options or a say in who\u2019s in the house since originally she was the owner (she gave it to her daughter, she didn\u2019t sell it to her if that helps) and she\u2019s been paying the bills for 2 months now? Also, is there anything I can do to help my side of this whole thing?\n\nTLDR; I live with my boyfriend, an alcoholic and her mom. She isn\u2019t trying to get better and hasn\u2019t had her own money since April or May and she\u2019s trying to evict us out of the house. What can I do?","title":"Alcoholic owner is wanting to evict everyone in house including her own mom","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508394875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77cq7j\/california_getting_away_from_world_financial\/","id":"77cq7j","body":"Around 10 days ago I was drawn into working with an \"associate\" of World Financial Group. Because this person was a trusted friend at the time (and long story short: I was pressured into doing a bit of a favor), he got me to the point where I signed on and paid a $100 \"non-refundable administrative fee\" to get started. A few days later when I got to speak with other \"associates\" I picked up that this was a MLM scam and I'm now deciding on the actions to take to get out.\nI haven't done anything else besides signing on and paying the initial fee. Is anyone familiar with World Financial Group or its parent companies Transamerica and Aegon?\nDoes anyone have advice on any specific steps I should take to quickly get away and minimize any kind of damage? I also paid the initial $100 fee with a credit card. Would there be anyway to recover that? Possibly by disputing it on the card? Thanks in advance!\n\nHere is a link to the agreement if anyone is curious: https:\/\/www.mywfg.com\/Media\/Default\/Tools\/RecruitingAndBuilding\/AMA\/AMA-US.pdf","title":"[California] Getting away from World Financial Group (MLM Scam)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555513073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be8ryy\/indiana_possible_jail_time_for_credit_card_fraud\/","id":"be8ryy","body":"Legitimately asking for a friend who does not reddit. I\u2019ll try to keep it brief and down to important details. \nPast history- misdemeanor trespassing 2016.\nCurrent- 1 count credit card fraud (6) and 3 counts theft (AM).  Total of purchases made with credit card- less than $300. \nOutstanding warrant in Indiana but doesn\u2019t live in the state. Lives in bordering state about 30 minutes outside of Indiana. \nTheft occurred in September 2018. Charges filed March 2019. No form of correspondence from Indiana has been attempted even though the correct living address is on file in the warrant. \nTraffic court on 4\/24 for an unrelated matter.\nSo one- will my friend be arrested\/jailed on 4\/24 at traffic court? \n2. If so, possible bail?\n3. If and when this goes to trial, will my friend get jail time since he has a previous misdemeanor? If so, for how long? \nAny additional thoughts, suggestions, comments sincerely appreciated. Thanks in advance!!","title":"Indiana- possible jail time for credit card fraud?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441901934,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kf2zm\/roommates_are_moving_out_but_were_all_on_the_lease\/","id":"3kf2zm","body":"I'm a student in St. Louis living in an apartment with two roommates. We are all three on the lease cosigned with our parents. The lease is from June through May. We had a fight and my roommates wish to move out. Our university has provided them with temporary housing while this gets settled. I received a letter today explaining that the three of us are jointly and severally liable for the full payment. I have paid my rent this month and am not sure if either of them has. Up until now we had been splitting equally. Can someone explain exactly what the legal language means and what I can expect with respect to payment? Will I be forced to cover their obligation?","title":"Roommates are moving out but we're all on the lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554839158,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbcei9\/what_to_expect_when_getting_my_cat_registered_as\/","id":"bbcei9","body":"Hi, first for a bit of back story. \n\nI have had issues with depression\/anxiety since I was young. I used to be in therapy but switched to another provider due to a job change. I don\u2019t know the terminology well but my previous psychiatrist had diagnosed me with Major Depressive Disorder and GAD. I also have severe Crohn\u2019s disease (in remission but still have many issues due to missing part of colon\/side effects of medication\/disease).\n\nI work full time in a office. I am not on any kind of disability, I make well above the cut-off for assistance.\n\nI have panic attacks. Sometimes I get really depressed after and thinking about hurting myself. I hate it and don\u2019t understand it. I got a kitten last year and he really helps.\n\nI had a doctors appointment related to my Crohn\u2019s disease recently and I got one of the depression\/anxiety surveys. I scored high I guess and have an emergency psych appointment scheduled for later this week. I want to talk to them about getting my kitty registered as a support animal. \n\nI\u2019m pretty confident I can get him registered, I\u2019m not so worried about that part. I\u2019m just wondering how to bring up an ESA to potential future landlords? \n\ntl:dr What to expect when bringing up an ESA when looking for rentals?","title":"What to expect when getting my cat registered as an Emotional Support Animal? (CA, USA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539044884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mkfne\/a_minor_making_a_contract\/","id":"9mkfne","body":"I am 16 and own an eSports Organization. I was wondering if I could have my players sign contracts. I tried researching the legal aspect of things, but I couldn't find much on minors issuing contracts.","title":"A minor making a contract.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570031372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcc26z\/apartment_in_new_mexico\/","id":"dcc26z","body":"We being charged for damages that were documented on our move in damages sheet because the landlord prior never fixed the damages. Half way through our time living there they would  sell out to a different company and now when we\u2019re moving out they\u2019re charging us for the damages that were never fixed but admittedly reported to the previous company. Do we really have to pay for their negligence?","title":"Apartment in New Mexico","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540952034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sumqx\/i_20f_have_faced_harassment_and_in_another_case\/","id":"9sumqx","body":"(trigger warning for drug abuse and sexual harassment)\nI moved into an apartment with 3 other people. None of us knew each other upon moving in together and I chose the place mostly out of desperation- I could not afford anything better and had recently withdrawn from college. During and before moving in with them I was a heroin addict and am now 3 months sober. Only one of my roommates knows about this now (let's call him Jim). Jim found out about my addiction a while back in June because I passed out on the floor and he found me. Since then, what had been a semi friendly relationship became much more distant (there had been no sympathy on his end). My relationship with all the roommates Jim(28m), Bill(27m), and Kelly(25f) (all name's changed for anonymity), had been distant but not unfriendly. For some context on Jim, Bill, and Kelly, all of them are a bit older than me and in their late 20s. Also, they are all one race and I am another. I feel that this is important information because it seems like sometimes part of their unfriendliness to me is racial. I also feel like they try to take advantage of me\/don't take me seriously because I am younger than them even though all of us are independents and support ourselves. Throughout my time living here I have noticed various things of mine being taken. Sometimes food and drinks and none of it was replaced. I also provided a good deal of communal cooking and bathroom appliances but all of that had been overlooked. More recently, people, especially Bill and Jim, have been openly antagonistic towards me and accusing me of not doing anything regarding household chores. All of us have separate schedules\/work hours etc. so it is very difficult to know who does what; however I know I do my fair share. I'm not claiming to be an avid cleaner or mop everyday by any means, but I do my part to the extent that everyone does their parts. None of us are extremely clean or anything but I clean up after myself. I have consistently been blamed for full dishes and flooded sinks that I have had no part of. When I was shooting heroin everyday I was a bit of a slob and I've owned up to that, but that doesn't change that a lot of recent issues are not my fault. A lot of the accusations feel extremely hypocritical. I feel attacked, singled out, and frankly incredibly uncomfortable being in my apartment. Kelly is much less of an issue but I have a feeling if it came down to taking sides, she would side with Bill because they are friends now and she also likes Jim. Even beyond the current issues, there are past things that I need to mention as well. When I was still in college (and this is part of the reason I withdrew from college) I was raped. None of my roommates know about this, but I have a troubling story of something that happened when Jim and I were still on good terms. One night he came home late drunk and saw that my light was on so he came to my room. I don't have a door so he just came in. He seemed extremely plastered and asked me if he could lie down in my bed so I let him. It seemed innocent to me because I viewed him as a brotherly figure because of our age distance. I was also in bed. Then he proceeded to turn towards me and grind into my back. I got out of my bed and told him to get out of my room and he then made a disparaging remark about not wanting to touch me and stayed put in my bed. I asked him to leave again and he would not so I went into the kitchen and sat on the floor (we don't have furniture) until he sobered up enough to go to his bed(about 4 hours later- most of the time I spent pretty miserable and crying). The following day he gave a half-hearted apology and I accepted at the time because we were otherwise friendly and I didn't want to make a big deal of it. He also made inappropriate remarks requesting that I look at his penis and tell him if he was above average size because \"I should have no problem with it as someone who had taken figure drawing classes.\" I did not and felt pretty awful for him asking and being somewhat insistent about it. I felt like if I did anything I would be overreacting and he didn't deserve me doing that to him. That was probably about 8 months ago and before he knew about the heroin, but nevertheless it's inappropriate. I feel bad calling him out but it did bring back a lot of trauma from my assault and technically what he did is sexual harassment. I feel mildly harassed across the board by Jim and Bill (for different reasons as previously stated). I contacted the landlord a while ago and told him I need to get out of the apartment for medical reasons (which is true, the heroin rehab has been extremely physically taxing and I know I need to be in an inpatient facility & I have other health issues). As it is I work 2 jobs to afford rent and my doctor's visits and medication. I have 2 doctors who could back up my claims of needing to leave the apartment but it has not yet gotten  to that. The landlord's a response was that I need a subletter or else I will still be responsible for rent and that it is solely my responsibility to find someone to take my room. There will be no support from the landlord's end in me moving out. I have not had any luck yet in finding a subletter and I have been looking for a couple of months now. I really can't take this anymore I need to get out of that place. Any advice on how to handle my roommates or if there is a way for me to break my lease because of these situations would be extremely appreciated. Thank you for reading all of this.\nP.S. sorry if this is an inappropriate place to post this but I tried other advice pages and they removed my post because it referenced rape :(\n\nTLDR: My roommates take advantage of and antagonize me (including past sexual harassment) and I can't seem to find a way out of my lease to get away from them. ","title":"I (20f) have faced harassment and in another case unwanted sexual advances from a roommate. I dont feel comfortable living in my apartment anymore. Is there a way to use these situations to get out of my lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541284484,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tydtg\/juvenile_reckless_driving\/","id":"9tydtg","body":"So I got pulled over today for going 21 over (cop tagged it as 66 in a 45 but I swear I was only going 60 but I digress), and I am a minor (17). I also had two non-family passengers in my car which in my state is against the law and I\u2019m only supposed to have 1. The officer dropped the extra passenger but I\u2019m still on the hook for reckless driving and I\u2019m due in court in 10 days. \n\nIs there anything I can do to get this reduced to a regular speeding ticket?, because I\u2019m worried what a reckless driving can do to my license\/history\/insurance, etc... Also I\u2019m not completely sure what this will effect since it\u2019s my first offense and I don\u2019t know what the implications may be, so any insight to that is appreciated.","title":"Juvenile Reckless Driving","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568902054,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6ejw0\/written_offer_resigned_job_employer_pushed_start\/","id":"d6ejw0","body":"After going through a stupid long hiring process, including 3 weeks between verbal and written, I received a written offer with start date 18 days away (9\/16) and gave my 2-week notice at my employer. I gave myself a 3-day weekend to reset, so my last day at my previous position was 9\/12.\n\nOn 9\/13, I was informed they would need to push my start a day because of hardware availability. No big, 4 day weekend, woo. Mon-Tue this week all found the day getting pushed again, until yesterday when they let me know my new start date is now 9\/30.\n\nMy family was not planning on being without a paycheck for 2 weeks and it's doable but this wasn't what we agreed to. I could have stayed at my old job for another 2 weeks.\n\nDo I have any recourse?","title":"Written offer, resigned job, employer pushed start date 2 weeks IL-US","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571047907,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhoj81\/problems_with_lettings_agency\/","id":"dhoj81","body":"Hello,\n\nWe (students) have moved out of our rented student accommodation on the start of September this year. We deal direct with a Lettings agency (have never met the landlord) and they have been withholding our deposit for quite some time. After pestering them, we received word today that we would be charged \u00a3375 for cleaning. We cleaned the property and left it cleaner than what it was when we arrived.\n\nOn top of this, we have been told another \u00a3155 would be getting deducted from our deposit as we didn\u2019t maintain the garden. This is disputed the provided lawnmower breaking when we first went to use it and it not being replaced before we were due to move out.\n\nIs there anything we can do to stop them from taking this money?","title":"Problems with Lettings agency","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570393313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de8sen\/could_a_judgement_come_back_to_haunt_us\/","id":"de8sen","body":"Location is Kansas.\n\nAbout 10 years ago, my (now) husband received a letter from a law firm stating there was a judgement against him and he owed $8500. The story is that about 6 or 7 years prior to that he was living a guy named Dave, at the end of his lease on July 31st of that year, my husband moved out and entered a new lease. Dave stayed in the apartment, signing a new lease, but several months in stopped regularly paying rent and also utilities which fell to the landlord to pay. I am not sure if he was evicted but on the statements the law firm gave us, it seemed he paid just enough to linger until the lease was up then moved out. Dave then moved to a different state. The landlord sued Dave for $8500 but apparently couldn't find him so ended up suing my husband, my husband was never served because the papers were sent to an address he had lived at several years before the suit. In abstentia (if I am using that term correctly) my husband was sued and the landlord won, handing down a judgement on my husband. My husband's name was no where to be found on any of the documents showing the debt and he had proof that he was in another lease at the time. At the urging of a friend in law school (we were all in college at the time) we sent an unofficial cease and desist to the law firm showing his name is on none of the \"proof of debt\" they had and that we had proof he was on another lease. \n\nThat was it, we haven't heard anything else since that time. We assume that since it was pretty cut and dry that my husband wasn't involved and wasn't the right guy to go after when they couldn't hunt down Dave. It has never been on his credit report (I'm not sure if that is something that would show up) and it seems like it is all water under the bridge. We did consider maybe Dave had forged my husband's signature on the lease and were gearing up to take Dave down if he did, but since we never heard anything back, we thought maybe it truly was a mistake. \n\nMy question is, what is the likelihood that this issue is really done and gone? I have read enough on LA that a judgement is not easy to over turn and it seemed almost too easy that it went away. \n\nI hope this makes sense and I am not leaving out anything important, its been 10 years since it happened but I read something on LA last night that reminded me of it and I laid awake thinking about it for a couple of hours. We are married now and have a mortgage and children and I still kind of live in fear of an $8500 debt popping back up when we least expect it.\n\nThanks so much for any insight","title":"Could a judgement come back to haunt us?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553200826,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3vpkt\/lawsuitpaying_for_medical_bills_after\/","id":"b3vpkt","body":"3 years ago, I was sexually assaulted by a staff member at on off-set location during an underage party.  I let him give me a shoulder and neck massage and let him rub my chest for a few seconds and then I got scared someone would walk around the corner. When I tried to i get up fast he grabbed my arm real hard pulled me back and I tore ligaments. When this happened I screamed and fell, he told everyone the next day that I was clumsy and fell dancing. The injury gives me emotional and phsical pain every day, i have to still go to physical therapy every week and wear corrective gear to help my arm. I have nerve damage in my arm and can't hold a pencil for more then 5 minutes without intense pain\n\nI quit working there two months after it happened, what really happened is they \"let me go\" due to scheduling conflictions like my physical therapy and my anxiety making me miss days.\n\n​\n\nIm 16 now almost 17, my dad is deceased and my mom is alcoholic n depressed and we cant afford to keep paying the medical bills. We had enough money until a few months ago when everythin got worse. Ive been told to file workers comp but once I signed 3 confidentiality agreements when i started working there and on the day they fired me. When I tried to stop by my old office they escorted me out of the building and then I got a restraining order against me, because my mother was there and was drunk, causing a disturbance.\n\nIve thought about a lawsuit but i have no money or knowledge. \n\nWhat can I do?? \n\n​","title":"Lawsuit\/Paying for Medical Bills after Confidentiality Agreement, and Restraining Order","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568693320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5bsn6\/in_florida_curious_about_employer_hiring_me_at\/","id":"d5bsn6","body":"So I have a question.\n\nI am currently in a training class for a large telecom company.\n\nI have worked here over a year and got promoted to sales. A lot of people in here are off the streets, but about 10 of us are internal transfers.\n\nWe are making our old rate, but the new hires are making the correct rate.\n\nI have been advised that due to the way they change pay rates (only the 1st or 15th) they choose which ever date is closest to the position change. \n\nMy date changed on 8\/26 so my pay rate change is effective 9\/1.\n\nIs this legal?","title":"In florida, curious about employer hiring me at one rate, but not paying me that rate delayed for one week, even though I am performing said duties during that period .","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445714612,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q2bg4\/do_i_have_a_legal_right_to_wear_unclaimed_clothes\/","id":"3q2bg4","body":"Hey guys, this concerns laws in the state of: New York. \n\n**Background:** \nI am an undergrad living off-campus in a privately owned fraternity house. It's a large mansion that houses 43 brothers total. \n\nWhen clothes are found around the house or in the laundry room, our elected house manager will place them in a lost and found bin in our lounge. Our house policy is that no clothes may be taken out of this bin that are not yours; uncollected clothes are sent to the salvation army at the end of the month. On the day the clothes are to be brought to the collection center, brothers have the option of taking unclaimed clothes (including clothes that are not their own) out of the bin for themselves.\n\n**Issue:** \nI take advantage of collecting clothes from the donation bin at the end of the month (I have done this twice). I am by and far the least wealthy brother in the fraternity, and the only one who does this. The majority of brothers in my house have parents in the highest tax bracket, meaning that I often find high quality name brand clothing that I subsequently collect and add to my wardrobe. It's a pretty sweet deal as far as I'm concerned.\n\nYesterday I was confronted by a brother who noticed that I was wearing a shirt of his that I acquired on the last donation day.\n\nMy logic is this:\n1. I adhered to house policy and did not take the clothes from the bin before I was allowed to. This particular brother did not check the bin on or before donation day.\n2. Had I not taken the shirt, it would still be out of his possession, and would have ended up at the salvation army.\n3. Because of 1 & 2 I am entitled to the shirt.\n\n**Question:**\nDo I have any legal claims to the shirt? I gave it back because a stupid shirt isn't worth a fight, but I do not want to walk around with the perpetual fear that someone is going to call me out for wearing their clothing; it's a little embarrassing to be called out for it and I don't want it to develop into a fight or argument.\n\nIf I gather from the responses here that I have no legal right to be wearing this clothing, regardless of my houses policy, I'm just going to put the clothes I have collected back in the bin and be done with it.\n\n**tl;dr** took clothes from our lost and found before they were going to be donated, brothers now asking for clothes back after they failed to claim them","title":"Do I have a legal right to wear unclaimed clothes acquired from a lost and found?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553901440,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b745xh\/ca_how_long_can_an_insurance_company_drag_out_a\/","id":"b745xh","body":"6 months ago, a teen and 3 friends were running from the police and hit about 5 cars on my street, mine being one of them.  This car has been deemed a total loss by the appraiser who came out due to obvious frame damage.\n\nHow long can the insurance drag out this claim? The car is pretty much just sitting there at this point as it does not run and I just want to get it on it\u2019s way and close out this claim.\n\nAt first, we were told that they needed a copy of the police report which they received 5 months ago, and now we are waiting.\n\nAny advice or info is appreciated!\n\nThanks!","title":"[CA] How long can an insurance company drag out a claim?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1409725604,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fc2u8\/i_am_from_alberta_canada_and_running_an_online\/","id":"2fc2u8","body":"I make apparel for various types of sports teams. I am wondering what the laws are in regards of making designs similar to professional league apparel. I have seen many different jerseys with the exact same design but with different logos etc. Is it alright to use the same designs and alter the logo a bit so it is not the same as the original. For example instead of \"Oilers\" written in their logo it could be \"Spoilers\" I have heard people tell me it is fine to do that but am still weary about it.","title":"I am from Alberta, Canada and running an online customized sports apparel business.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1445581655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pvjwg\/urgent_advice_on_accusations_in_southern\/","id":"3pvjwg","body":"Uncle is being accused by his daughter's mom for violating his daughter (she is now about to be 14, she claims it started when she was 10). He was arrested a few weeks ago but is out on bail. Court date is on Monday, what can happen on this day? \n\nHe has two daughters, both separate mom's. As of today, both moms are now accusing him of being physically abusive with thme during their relationships (hitting, not sexually). \n\nUncle says he did not do any of that. \n\nSerious replies only, thank you.\n","title":"Urgent: advice on accusations in Southern California","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505446046,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/707c48\/manitoba_canada_can_my_landlord_prohibit\/","id":"707c48","body":"I came home recently to find a notice taped up in the foyer of my apartment building. The gist of it was that no overnight guests are allowed and all guests must be out by 10pm. I'm not sure how they plan on enforcing it as there are several building in my complex, but should they try to, is it enforceable? I've been able to find some related information pertaining to other provinces, but not Manitoba. Any help would be much appreciated!","title":"(Manitoba, Canada) Can my landlord prohibit overnight guests?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539343097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nje9i\/is_it_legal_to_seek_othether_employment_while_on\/","id":"9nje9i","body":"I know it breaks my company's rule , disqualifying me from fmla if they found out. But is it against any law forbidding me to do so?","title":"Is it legal to seek othether employment while on FMLA from your current employer?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441844892,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kbojx\/rochester_ny_landlord_trying_to_renege_on_giving\/","id":"3kbojx","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice,\n\nI'm a bit peeved at the moment so I wanted to get my ducks in a row here and ask for some advice. We recently vacated an apartment that we were at from June 2014-July 2015.  Our original lease ended on May 31st 2015, but via email on March 3rd 2015, I asked if we could have a lease extension until August 1st 2015. He agreed so on March 29th, I said we would officially like an extension and asked if there was any extension paperwork we had to sign.  He said there wasn't any.\n\nAt the beginning of June (4th), he informed us that he would be selling the house.  The realtors came in on June 8th and asked questions about our lease terms and I said I didn't have an official lease or any extension paperwork but that we had mentioned we would be vacating by July 31st. They said to write an official notice email anyway on June 15th which I did on June 16th. The house sold and both us and the downstairs tenants had to vacate before the closing date of August 15th.  \n\nWe did the walkthrough on July 31st at which point, he said that he would be going out of town and would mail us the security deposit when he got back. We texted him on August 26th to ask for an update and he replied on August 27th that he was still out of town and would get the receipts and send the balance when he got back. We texted him again today for an update and he said that we didn't give 60 days notice per the lease and wanted documentation of that, indicating to me that he doesn't want to give the security deposit back. \n\nSo in summary:\n\n* I have email proof that we asked for extension paperwork and he said there wasn't any.\n* I have email proof that I gave 45 days notice\n* He didn't give indication at the walkthrough or in the update text that there would be a problem\n* The house was sold well before the end of our lease term. \n* The apartment was also spotless (just wanted to make that point)\n\nAre we SOL here or is there anything I can do? I don't know if it matters, but he was generally a crap landlord so it makes sense that this would happen. I have email proof that we were without a stove for a few weeks in the winter while he was \"out of town.\" He also didn't make repairs to the downstairs neighbor's apartment until he was forced to for the inspection. So I'm just angry and was hoping to get some clarity on the situation. Thanks in advance!\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Rochester, NY: Landlord trying to renege on giving security deposit back.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540119413,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q2oa4\/can_i_get_it_dismissed\/","id":"9q2oa4","body":"Okay so I\u2019m a high school student and was with a relative at Walmart and I wasn\u2019t paying attention to what they were really doing at self check out. Well they thought they scanned everything but didn\u2019t and we both got sent to the back and the people started yelling at us and I tried to explain like hey look I literally didn\u2019t touch anything or bag anything. And they said well I was standing awfully close to my relative and that I apparently looked dead into the camera. The thing is though I have ADHD so my attention isn\u2019t the best so I will zoom in and out a lot. But I literally didn\u2019t touch anything and when I tried to explain all that and started to have a panic attack they told me to get over it and that I better stop before they make sure I go to jail and they were very threatening towards me about jail time because I just turned 18 and said if I tried to fight it then they would make sure I go to jail. Can they do that even though I basically just stood there??  They called the cops and charged both of us and even the cop looked confused on why I was getting charged. ","title":"Can I get it dismissed?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540920072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sq02x\/tx_was_in_a_minor_car_accident_yesterday_no_one\/","id":"9sq02x","body":"We were in a minor head on collusion last night. We were turning left out of a parking lot while another lady was turning left out of a parking lot catty corner to the left of us. We met in the turning lane and both of us were ticketed for failure to yield ROW and both parties considered at fault. I agree with all of this but the issue is that I was the passenger and I was given the ticket. We talked to the municipal judge this morning and she said we needed to talk to the officer who gave us the ticket or a supervisor. Officer won't be back on duty until Thursday evening which doesn't work with our work schedules. Is there anything else we can do?","title":"(TX) Was in a minor car accident yesterday. No one was hurt and only our vehicle was damaged. Only issue is they gave the passenger (me) the ticket. What do we need to do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555364266,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdlm02\/landlord_is_cross_country_and_mia_are_we_required\/","id":"bdlm02","body":"Our landlord hasn't responded to calls, emails, or texts in 2 months. We didn't need to speak to her before that, so it's been close to a year since we've been in touch. She moved to CA, we are renting in CT. The rent is deposited into her bank account every month. We've received letters from the bank\/city saying she's upside down on the mortgage. Our lease is up Sep 1, we don't plan to renew. We payed an additional 2 months security deposit upfront, so are we required to pay for July and Aug?","title":"Landlord is cross country and MIA. Are we required to pay last 2 months rent (equal to initial security deposit)?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550258578,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ar06ei\/boss_wants_to_deny_me_unemployment_benefits_for\/","id":"ar06ei","body":"I current work full time in a company that I've been at for 3 years (5 years total my industry) and decided that I didn't want to be there since wages aren't good for those who have been there for 5+ years. I casually looked for jobs and have been applying but my boss got word of it because I made a post in a Facebook group and an employee shared a screenshot of it to him. The boss pulled me aside one day and told me he was aware and had the screenshot and said that if I was fired and did apply for unemployment (I'm not trying to live off it, just better safe than sorry) that I would be denied it because he states that the proof of me looking for a job is enough to not get unemployment benefits. Basically curious if he's telling the truth or if he just has a good poker face","title":"Boss wants to deny me unemployment benefits for job searching (Oregon)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447293297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3shgas\/in_a_bind_with_the_rental_car_company_is_this\/","id":"3shgas","body":"Good evening folks. I am located in Boise,ID United States. The date of events are laid out in parenthesis. \n\n\nSo July 2nd a buddy needed to rent a car to visit family but he didn't have the money. I offered to cover it for him using my credit card as payment. Since I used the credit card I declined the collision damage waiver. On the return trip he ended up hitting a dear (July 5th). He was ok but the car was trashed. They got him a new car and he finished the return trip. At the checkout counter the teller said since he was not at fault we just had to pay the rental fees and we were good to go (July 6th). Last friday I get a surprise letter in the mail from a company representing the rental company demanding almost $12,000 for repairs (Oct 3rd was on the letter head but I didn't receive it in the mail until last week).\n\n\nI called the credit card company and they said since it had been over 45 days since the accident they would not cover it. I called my insurance company but they said I only have liability so they won't cover it. I called the company that sent the letter and they said it's not their problem that I didn't get any notice of this until over 90 days later and that I should have filed a claim the day he got back.\n\n\nI am now searching for a local lawyer who can give me some guidance but I'm hoping someone here has some input on what I can do, if anything?","title":"In a bind with the rental car company. Is this legit and how can I fight it?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504869439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yu4xr\/therapy_pet_disclosure_timing\/","id":"6yu4xr","body":"1. Am I correct in stating that legally, in the state of Massachusetts, as long as I have a letter from my doctor (which I do) stating that I need an emotional support therapy cat in order to manage my severe anxiety and depression, a landlord cannot refuse to allow my cat even if the building has a \"no pets\" policy clearly stated...? I'm not skilled enough to read the legalese itself, but this is what I have gleaned from reading news articles covering lawsuits on the subject. I would love to have either the specific section of the law itself or a specific case with a judge's written opinion to point to, should any trouble arise. The more plainly transparent the legal language in the point of reference, the better.\n\n2. And if I am correct about #1, when in the application process should I disclose this? Basically, I want to know (a) how late is legally allowable, and (b) what disclosure timing would an attorney recommend as best practices, if different from (a)? \n\nI became permanently disabled in college so this will be my first time apartment hunting ever, not just with a therapy cat in tow. I'm currently in an abusive home situation with family, and I am reliant solely on SSI disability in order to live, so I don't want my health issues or the existence of my therapy cat to jeopardize what is already an extremely difficult apartment search due to the time and budget crunches. (My biggest reason for not going to a domestic violence shelter was that I was told they would not take pets, and I would become actively suicidal if I had to surrender my cat even temporarily to the local MSCPA services.) I know there are laws against housing discrimination due to disability, but when I'm renting from one random guy who owns his own building rather than a company with a network of buildings, it's difficult to prove -- on top of the fact that I need a place to live, not to be stuck in my abusive house still while launching a pointless lawsuit if I'm rejected for disclosure up front. Is it okay legally to wait to disclose until after I've already signed the lease? But at the same time, I'm afraid of being evicted at the first possible chance if the landlord gets angry for me waiting too long to disclose. Reprisals are hard to concretely prove. \n\nIf it matters, my cat is 16 years old, weighs approximately 7.5 lbs, and I have papers from her vet certifying that she has been spayed and that she is fully up to date on all her state-required vaccinations, including rabies. She is not declawed (because that's just barbaric -- in human terms, it's removing the whole first knuckle, not just the nail), but I am happy to non-toxically glue those little plastic nail covers on her to prevent any scratching-based damage should the apartment feature built in wall to wall carpeting. My cat is very well behaved (99% snuggly 1% frisky), and extremely friendly towards strangers -- almost like a puppy, due to her tiny stature -- so I am sure she'd make a good impression on any landlord she met in person. I'm happy to pay an extra $100 security deposit against any potential cat-damage; Though obviously, I would photographically document the apartment conditions before moving in, and get the cat security deposit written into the lease as refundable.\n\nTL;DR -- What are the exact laws for tenants with doctor-prescribed therapy animals? When am I legally obligated to disclose the existence of\/need for my therapy cat in the (first-time) new apartment application process and what timing would an attorney recommend as best practices? ","title":"Therapy Pet Disclosure Timing","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540331220,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qthpg\/reckless_driving_ticket_in_colorado\/","id":"9qthpg","body":"Some background information:  I am from Colorado and am 35\/M.  I have a ticket from last August for 15mph over.  I have no other tickets or infractions.  I have no criminal history.\n\nI was late for work this morning, driving out in the middle of nowhere at 3:30 A.M.  I was on a long straightaway in a 40mph zone.  Nobody around.  I was going 93.  (53 over) Got pulled over, went to jail and bonded out.  I have been doing some looking and it looks like I am facing 10 days in jail as well as a pretty significant fine.  I work at an airport and I am required to drive for my job.  I know it was stupid, that I shouldn't be doing it and that it was a bad decision.  I sat all day in jail thinking about that.  \n\nThe police officer at the station suggested that I don't need legal council and that I should just be truthful to the judge and ask for leniency. \n\nI was going to have my employer provide me with a letter stating that I am a valuable asset to the company etc. and that he needs me for the job.  Good idea?  Any thoughts on what to do?  Thank you!!","title":"Reckless Driving ticket in Colorado","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1442645583,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lj4dm\/signed_a_bad_leasenow_paying_for_it\/","id":"3lj4dm","body":"Hi, all. I'm a young college student who signed a lease with two other college students in May for June 2015 to June 2016. This is in New Jersey. \n\nLandlord initially seemed nice and reasonable but has since been a serious pain in our lives. She threatens to increase our rent because she believes that an additional person is living with us (roommate's girlfriend). She visits often but she certainly does not live there. \n\nLandlord has been harassing us lately because we requested that she gives reasonable notice before she comes over (We see her at least 2x a week and reasonable notice is in the lease). She doesn't force her way into the apartment but she will bang on the door and ring the doorbell until we answer. \n\nAny question we ask is met with hostility. The latest drama is that she revoked the use of our driveway because she saw an unfamiliar car in the driveway (and wanted to get back at us for forcing the issue with regards to reasonable notice before visits). Use of the driveway wasn't a given right in the lease but we were given keys and access and to have it taken away is a major inconvenience. \n\nI'm also concerned that she is spying on us. She states that the \"owners\" of the property (she is a property manager) have noticed non-tenants using keys to enter the apartment, and have seen people leave the house very early in the morning. She also has stated on numerous occasions that we have no right to privacy and that there are cameras everywhere on the street (we live in very close proximity to a elementary school). \n\nFurthermore, she often complains that we leave doors unlocked which I don't understand how she would know one way or the other (she doesn't live in the building). \n\nThe lease has a clause that says \"A guest can only stay five days cumulatively for the whole year.\" We were told in May that this was simply NJ law and wouldn't be a problem once the lease started. We were understandably wrong. We have had e-mail exchanges about all of these issues and have received very rude, often incoherent replies. ( Saying be good tenants or get the hell out, you have no respect, accusing us of drinking, lying, and \"documenting bullcrap\" informing us we have to pay for driveway access now etc)  \n\nNow we are being told that we are being given a notice to quit because of our abusive behavior. Legally, is there anything we can do in this situation? Sorry if this is unnecessarily long; I am completely lost in this situation.","title":"Signed a bad lease...now paying for it","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570218763,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddcigw\/my_exlandlords_are_demanding_i_pay_rent_for_the\/","id":"ddcigw","body":"So, I told my landlords I was going to be leaving around mid-August. I was on a month-to-month lease along with my roommate, with 30 days' notice of moving out. To be a good sport, I agreed to pay my half of September's rent- the full $700.  I moved out all my furniture and belongings on September 1st. I wasn't on great terms with my roommate, which contributed to my leaving, and so once I finished moving out all my things, he demanded I return my key. I just wanted to move on and be done with it, so I obliged. I also never pushed the issue of my security deposit.\n\nOn September 26th, the landlord texted me saying I owed another $800 for October. I told him that I was under the impression that once I gave him 30 days' notice, I was no longer bound by the lease. I also stated that I would need my security deposit returned. He texted back saying that he would think about it.\n\nNow, on October 4th, he texted me *again*, saying I never gave written notice that I was moving out, and thus owe rent. I've asked for a copy of the lease to review, and he has since not gotten back to me.\n\nThe grace period for rent owed is 5 days, and I'm certain he deliberately waited until the 4th so he could try to incur another penalty fee on me.\n\nWhat can I do here? Obviously, I find it ridiculous that I need to pay even more rent for a space that I haven't even had access to for the last month.","title":"My ex-landlords are demanding I pay rent for the month of October, when I haven't been living there since September 1st","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571679873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl432i\/illegal_retaliation_layoff\/","id":"dl432i","body":"I have been seasonally hired year round for the past 2 and a half years with a public parks department. I had made it clear throughout I was working to be made full time to eventually transition into a park ranger position. I was working as a parks janitor with some parks maintenance.\n\nI had been accused of multiple things without proof (not doing the full job (I had asked for 2 years to take before and after photos, no follow up), \"snooping\" in my bosses office (he found my water bottle on his desk, likely left by a janitor) and not filling out time sheets for 1 week (as I had seen another worker my boss liked hadn't been doing it for weeks.) For the last issue he tried to give me a warning and I wrote that the other employee had not done it for months, it turned out to be weeks. \n\nAfter those accusations I asked my boss if someone else could be present from now on when he called me into his office. He ignored that the next time I went in and refused when I asked about it in person. When he asked why I wanted it I told him that I thought he was trying to lay me off\/fire me on false premises, which made him angry. This entire time I was trying to smooth things over and so I went along with it. \n\nDuring this time I helped an old lady in a electric wheelchair cross over a sidewalk she was stuck on outside of the parks premises. It turned out she was the main legal disability advocate in my area, and so I was comended multiple times by his boss infront of our peers and was included in a district wide presentation on \"what it means to be a good (district) employee\" aka going above and beyond.\n\nAt the beginning of this month he wanted me to come into his office, again alone. He decided he wanted to go home so he said to come in first thing the next week. When I did he spent 10 minutes talking about how he used to be a runner (as he knew I was interested in longevity), and at the very end told me he would be laying me off in 2 weeks because \"the department could not afford to keep anyone on seasonally\". When I asked how long he had known this to only give me 2 weeks notice he said it had been \"for a while.\" We settled on 3 weeks from then when as \"the department couldnt afford any longer\". \n\n*I found out he replaced me with another seasonal worker who had never done the job previously and had just started working that season.*\n\nI have asked him 3 times now (politely) why I was replaced by another seasonal worker when he told me the reason for my layoff was because the district could not afford  to keep anyone on seasonally, and he has avoided the question every time. \n\nDoes it seem like I have a case for a retaliation layoff?\n\nTLDR was falsely accused, asked for someone else to to be present from then on during meetings (easily accommodated request), he refused, I was laid off one month later with the explanation the district couldn't afford to keep anyone on seasonally and was replaced by a seasonal hire in a completely different field who had only started just that season (ala he lied). Boss has avoided answering questions, saying theres no open positions and to apply elsewhere.","title":"Illegal retaliation layoff?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1408634903,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e6qvz\/apartment_bait_and_switch\/","id":"2e6qvz","body":"I've been looking for an apartment in the LA area, it took a while but I found one that fit my needs for a reasonable price. I contacted the leasing office who took an application fee and I filled out the application. The application was approved and I have email confirmation from them that the apartment is mine. The email details the monthly rent and move in fees. I knew the apartment was undergoing renovations, and was told it would be ready around September 1st. I viewed the apartment during the remodel and got to speak to one of the workers who thought the place could be done well before that date but confirmed that was their initial project deadline. I virtually stopped looking for an apartment and let other leasing agents know I was no longer interested. Well now the original leasing agent (who has ducked a few phone calls) and claims to be out of the office a lot, told me the apartment may not be done for a while (end of September or beginning of October). I tried acquiring what was taking so long and they said the project fell behind. I stopped by the apartment a few days ago (I still had the lockbox code) and the work is nearly finished. Today the leasing agent contacts me and says after seeing the apartment the landlord wants to raise the rent (about $300). I'm wondering if this falls under bait and switch (same apartment though) or if I have any legal recourse. The lease wasn't signed yet but that's because the leasing agent kept giving us the run around or not being available. She did offer to refund our application fee. My girlfriend and I really like the apartment so we would like to lease it at the originally rate we were told. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks!","title":"Apartment bait and switch","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554043300,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7ognn\/my_landlord_kicked_me_out_and_now_is_threatening\/","id":"b7ognn","body":"I tried looking on the Texas tenants website but couldn\u2019t find anything dealing with this and need proof because he will call the shelter tomorrow","title":"My landlord kicked me out and now is threatening to trash my things and call animal shelter on my cats- Texas","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570057719,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dci93q\/ca_employer_refuses_to_pay_for_working_remotely\/","id":"dci93q","body":"I am in a sales role and was recently switched from commission only to salary plus commission. After the switch, I took two days OOO for travel. During these two days, I was receiving and making work related calls and emails. I closed deals and submitted contracts (non-commissioned contracts)\n\nEmployer docked me for two days from my recent paycheck, despite the demonstrable proof I was conducting company business during this time. Their response was \u201cWe\u2019d rather you completely shut off from work while not in the office\u201d\n\nDo I have recourse to get paid?","title":"[CA] Employer refuses to pay for working remotely","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571439219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djv9i5\/grandmother_passed_away_cousin_now_executor_of\/","id":"djv9i5","body":"Hi, apologies as this may be rather long but is something my family has been going through for the past 5 months or so.\n\nFirstly a bit of backstory, my grandmother passed away in may this year, since then my cousin - now the executor of the will has ignored every single bit of correspondence from the family, including her own mother. I have personally messaged her a polite message when my grandmother passed away, asking for access to my grandmothers house. Reason being because she had ignored her mother, sisters, my fathers requests to be able to look at the house, go through her things, photos, memories etc that sort of thing. \n\nMy father was in fact the previous executor of the will and estate, when both my grandparents were alive, (him and my grandfather were extremely close, dementia got the better of him unfortunately and he passed away in 2013). During the that stressful time in our lives my father looked after all of their bills, accounts, bills and generally their finances. \n\nI believe my grandmother resented my father due to their close relationship and she often spoke ill of my him, and when money went missing (my grandad was a very proud man and a provider, so to keep him busy my dad would take him out, do general odd jobs with him which included taking my grandfather to the bank to get money out, due to the dementia he would often hide this around the house, and in due course my father was accused of stealing money. After my grandfathers passing my cousin all of a sudden started seeing my grandmother more regularly (nothing wrong with this) but since this point my grandmother started being more aggressive towards my father, accusing him of stealing the money, and telling the rest of our family that he was doing this. My cousin somehow got my grandmother to change my father being the executor of the will, and she is now the person with said responsibilities, after this point the will was then changed, she became the executor of the will and took control of my grandmothers finances, along with her girlfriend\/partner (we believe she is very manipulative and controlling my cousin but that's another story). During this time my grandmothers will was also changed, but no-one knows what the details of said will are.\n\nPreviously the will stated that my father would received 50% of the estate, and my aunt - grandmothers daughter would receive the other 50%. My cousin had been telling all of the family that if my aunt were to pass, he would have received 100% of the will, which simply was not true, I have seen the will with my own eyes, it would have then passed down to my two cousins (her daughters, one of which is the point of this topic). They did believe this and for a long time all thought everything stated about my father was true. Having witnessing the will myself recently as we have a copy of the will as it was before it was then changed I know this not to be true.\n\nSince the passing of my grandmother my cousin in question has ignored every single person (including her own mother) for the past 6 months, and will not share the will of my deceased grandmother with anyone. Instead she has blocked every means of contact with her. We believe she is waiting for the will to pass probate, which having looked generally takes around 6-9 months\n\nA side note - after my grandfathers passing and the cousin took control of everything, checking with land registry my grandmothers house was re-evaluated in September of 2014. This so happens to be during the time my cousin started her IVF treatment, after speaking with my other cousin she did say that the cousin that is the point of this topic (her sister) was going through money troubles and has been for a while, and IVF is rather expensive, maybe a coincidence maybe not, I don't know.\n\nAll of the rest of the family are now close again, and are aware that my father wasn't guilty of doing any of the things he was accused of.\n\nI am unsure what to do or how to proceed, in the UK a will goes into probate in generally 6-9 months, and as of yet that hasn't happened as I checked with the UK GOV website.\n\nHow can we proceed? If we have all been removed from the will, which we believe we have, is there anything we can do? I honestly believe my cousin has manipulated my grandmother into doing this but we have no-way of knowing if that is true.\n\nAny advice would be much appreciated, and if there are any questions that need clearing up I will be happy the answer.\n\nThank you.","title":"Grandmother passed away - Cousin, now executor of the will ignoring the entire rest of the family, what to do?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554872920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbi58h\/my_cousin_has_an_ankle_monitor_on_and_keeps\/","id":"bbi58h","body":"I\u2019m in California. He\u2019s 19 and faces a felony knife charge. never been to jail (first time offender) and has a history of mental health issues. He usually shows up 30minutes late or up to 50minutes. I keep telling him to come home but I don\u2019t think he thinks it\u2019s that serious. He\u2019s done it about four or five times. I\u2019m supposed to be the one that\u2019s trying to help him and I feel like shit because I\u2019m failing constantly. What can happen to him? He\u2019s been on the monitor since December so he\u2019s I think he just doesn\u2019t see the repercussions? Any advice would really help me. Thank You","title":"My cousin has an ankle monitor on and keeps showing up late to the house","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551128715,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auqcqf\/my_boss_fired_me_while_im_away_for_my_grandpas\/","id":"auqcqf","body":"I headed out friday last minute because my grandpas health turned and I wanted to see him before he passed. I text my boss well before I left, it was as soon as I heard the news and when I didnt get a text back I called him. He said \"I got your message, it's not like I can ask you to stay, I mean that's your grandfather, but that's a lot of dishes for me to do\" I said I was sorry but I really needed to see him. I left for iowa and my grandfather passed just before I got there. I've been keeping him up to date and as soon as I got the schedule for the funeral and visitation I told him, and he never would text me back. Visitation is Tuesday (tomorrow) and the funeral is Wednesday. I just got a text today telling me I'm fired because I missed too many days. Can he do that? It's for a funeral. I couldnt drive back the next day I got there and come over again on tuesday, it's a six hour drive. I dont know what to do, this is so much right now. ","title":"My boss fired me while I'm away for my grandpas funeral, IL","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503617404,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vuqw3\/ticket_for_not_having_insurance\/","id":"6vuqw3","body":" This is my first traffic violation ever so I'm completely clueless. Last month I was pulled over and received a ticket for not having insurance. Due to financial stress my insurance lapsed for more than 30 days. I recently found employment that allowed me to afford it. \nI have purchased, in full, 6 months \nI need to find a way to avoid the SR-22 because I drive company vehicles for work. My company won't allow me to drive if I've been labeled \"high risk\" because of insurance to cover me as a driver. \nI'm not sure what other information would be helpful to give so I'll answer any questions you might have.\n\nEdit: I live in Boise Idaho ","title":"Ticket for not having insurance","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553052351,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b370ut\/car_warranty_was_voided_after_request_for\/","id":"b370ut","body":"I purchased a used car and extended warranty from a dealership in NV in 2017. I then moved the car to my home in CA. The car has a V10 engine, and the extended warranty covers 4 years\/48K miles. A few weeks ago, my car wouldn't start and ended up at a CA dealership for repairs. The dealership wanted almost $12K to get the car running (including a short list of additional repairs), which are all covered by my warranty. The warranty company then sent an adjuster who said they'd be in touch within a few days. \n\n​\n\nA couple of days ago, I got a letter in the mail alerting me that the warranty was terminated because \"the car has more than 8 cylinders.\" They then sent me a check for less than $300 because they had been billed for previous repairs. My questions are: \n\n1. Are there laws around voiding warranties? \n2. Was it legal for them void my contract after knowing the car was a V10 when I purchased it? \n3. Would I have a case to get the full amount I spent on the warranty (3K total)? ","title":"Car warranty was voided after request for extensive work was placed from dealership (CA\/NV)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570663535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfpbev\/az_seasonal_part_time_and_i_regularly_work_more\/","id":"dfpbev","body":"I get paid overtime for over 40 hours but I got hired as part time and expected to work less. The position is seasonal and I am aware that part time is an average of hours worked in a week over a year or something like that. I get no benefits or sick time. Is there a tipping point when I'm no longer seasonal or can collect benefits or at least work fewer hours? It almost seems like the \"seasonal\" designation give them carte blanche for slave labor. I think it's a muddy situation so thanks for any feedback here.","title":"[AZ] Seasonal Part time and I regularly work more than 40 hours.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551912445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay54xi\/ny_small_claim_court_need_advice_and_what_should\/","id":"ay54xi","body":"Situation: \nTLDR; After communication and waiting for the security deposit for 120+ days I sued the apartment management company for the full amount.\n\nDetail: At the end of my previous lease I moved out from the apartment, a day before the lease end, informed the management company and they acknowledged and is aware of this lease termination. \n\nOn the contract I signed it states the security deposit will be returned in 5 weeks. I received nothing in the first 30 days so I emailed the management company and received a response says it\u2019ll take me approximately 45 days to receive the security (to me it sounds like a breach of contract since 45 days > 5 weeks, 35 days). I wasn\u2019t happy but was ok with it as long as I\u2019m getting my security deposit back. \n\nOn the 50th day I still didn\u2019t received the security deposit so I respond back to the previous email and asked where\u2019s the deposit. This time I was told by the leasing associate \u201cI received confirmation that it was mailed today. You should be getting it in the next couple of days.\u201d I wasn\u2019t happy but again, as long as I can have my security deposit back. Received nothing in the following days.\n\n17 days later, on the 67th day I emailed back and informed them I still haven\u2019t received the security deposit. Attached my address and asked them if they can confirm the security deposit has been send to the address. No response.\n\n3 days later on the 70th day I send them another email, with a more formal tone(like a demand letter) and ask for returning my security deposit. This time bunch of people from the build management team was CC\u2019d and one of them, possibly from finance, said the security deposit has been send back and attached a usps screenshot with a tracking # in it. Again, I wasn\u2019t happy but at least there\u2019s a tracking # now. Based on the tracking info they did send out the security deposit on the 50th day but it\u2019s on the road forever!\n\nI was waiting and constantly checking the tracking info. 21 days later, on the 91th day, when I checked the tracking info again it\u2019s showing that the mail was delivered to an address that has the same zip code as their address (hence their own address I\u2019m guessing). Being as frustrated as i could I immediately wrote back and asked if I could pick up the check from the front desk of my old apartment. I was immediately rejected by the same leasing associate. So I wrote another demand letter, stated the situation and informed them I\u2019d take this to small claim court if I don\u2019t receive the security deposit in 4 days.\n\n3 days later, on the 94th day, the same finance guy emailed me and said they \u201creceived the envelop back from the PO and mailed on the same day to zip code (my zip code)\u201d. Like last time, he attached a screenshot from usps with tracking number included. Guess what? Few days later it was delivered to their address again. No word from them even after it was delivered.\n\nAs a result of not receiving my security deposit on time, on the 96th day I filed a claim to the small claim court, received the hearing date 2 weeks later. What\u2019s funny was that on the same day I received the notice about the hearing date, the manager that\u2019s been in the email thread told me \u201cthe mail keeps returning to the office\u201d and asked me if I want to pick it up.\n\nFacts: \n1. There\u2019s nothing wrong with my current address\u2014 it\u2019s valid and I\u2019ve been receiving mail from the usps mailbox for our apartment without a problem. \n2. Both tracking info has the status listed as \u201cdelivered\u201d rather than \u201creturned to sender\u201d.\n3. Still haven\u2019t received the deposit as of today(156 days later).\n4. All conversations happened in email, no phone calls and I\u2019ve saved a copy of everything on hand.\n\nOn the initial hearing date, their lawyer presented and spoke to me privately, asked me if we can come to an agreement for an adjournment because he didn\u2019t have my previous apartment address AND he said will ask for a compensation from the defendant so we can possibly come to a settlement, if not go back to the small claim court on the next hearing date. \n\nMy questions are:\n1. Did I made a bad decision by agreed to the adjournment?\n2. Is my case a strong case or a weak case? I\u2019m only asking for the full security deposit, not tripled. Including my time spend on the case I think what I\u2019m asking is reasonable.\n3. What should I expect next? \n\nIt was my first experience in court, I did as much research as possible but still struggled on decisions.\n","title":"NY small claim court - need advice and what should expect after this adjournment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447514467,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ssc9s\/accidentally_scratched_a_car_door_left_a_note\/","id":"3ssc9s","body":"This morning I was getting out of my car and the wind caught my door, throwing it open. It scratched the door of the car next to me. I panicked for a few minutes but eventually went into my office, grabbed some paper and left a note under their windshield wiper with what happened, my name, my number, and saying I would pay for the damage. What do I do now? Do I contact my insurance company? Wait for them to call and see what they say? And what do I do once they go to get it repaired? I've never been any sort of accident before. Live in the U.S. in Massachusetts.","title":"Accidentally scratched a car door, left a note, what do I do now?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1502988651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uba6c\/ny_roommates_trying_to_not_allow_someone_to_move\/","id":"6uba6c","body":"Hi, I'm posting this for a dear friend of mine. This takes place in Central NY, not the city.\n\nMy friend has been renting a house with two women - only one of whom is on the lease with him. Not getting into detail, but they have severely mistreated and abused him, and are trying to control when and how he leaves the house for work. Not to be dramatic, but he's basically a paying prisoner in his own damn home. They've also kept him from having any method of contacting the landlord by not giving him the landlords phone number or email address. \n\nHe's set up a place to move into so he can get away from these psychos permanently, but they still will not give him any method of contact for the landlord, and are stating that they're going to attempt to force him to stay the rest of the lease (he has the money to pay to break it) because they \"can't afford the house on their own.\"\n\nHere are my questions:\n\nIs it legal to force someone to stay on a lease?\nIs it legal for the other roommates to make it impossible for him to contact the landlord?\nIs my friend SOL until his lease is up?","title":"[NY] Roommates trying to not allow someone to move out of the apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541756625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vj52n\/got_beat_up_accused_of_breakin\/","id":"9vj52n","body":"So two weeks ago I was walking home from a party drunk when I had a few beer muscles and ended up getting in a street fight. Literally a street fight, I woke up after being knocked out in the middle of the street and now the guy that kicked my ass is saying that I broke into his girlfriends house that was conveniently close to where the fight was, but not super close. I was still about 100 yards away from that apartment and I know for a fact I never went there at all. But now I\u2019m sitting in a position where I\u2019m outnumbered and drowning in medical bills. I\u2019ve contacted the police already I\u2019d just like to see what you guys have to say about this. Thanks in advance.","title":"Got beat up, accused of break-in","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570667434,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfq4pa\/my_mother_is_stuck_in_ny_and_is_struggling_to\/","id":"dfq4pa","body":"Hey y'all. I was hoping to get some help with a problem. This is sort of long, but I'll try to cut out as much as I possibly can.\n\nSo, after some long custody disputes, my father and mother legally divorced, and she moved to NY to take care of her dying parents. She met a guy, and had a baby with him. Unfortunately, that relationship didn't work out, and they fought for custody. My mother becomes the primary guardian, the child visiting his father every other weekend. \n\nUnfortunately, her finances take a downhill turn. I do not know the exact details. She now is stuck living off of savings in a studio apartment, and cannot find a job. She refuses to give up the child (my cute 'lil half-brother, to clarify). She is unable to move out of state, because of the father's visitation rights.\n\nShe's struggling, emotionally. I am genuinely concerned for her well being, and the well being of my bro. I live 1000 miles away, and feel powerless. Is there anything she can do? I would be happy to work with anyone to find a solution.","title":"My mother is stuck in NY, and is struggling to survive.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554016715,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7l3g7\/im_think_being_cyber_stalked_and_im_not_sure_what\/","id":"b7l3g7","body":"I met a guy, let\u2019s call him Andrew, on tinder three years ago. We hung out once, I didn\u2019t feel a connection and let him know I wasn\u2019t interested in pursuing a further relationship and stopped talking to him. He continued to message me on Snapchat, Facebook messenger, and IMessage . I proceeded to block him on all after he began to send me very sexual messages that were just completely inappropriate. \n\nI got a new phone a few months later but same number. I didn\u2019t post anywhere I had received a new phone but I started to get messages that matched the area code of where Andrew was from but when I asked who the \u2018mystery\u2019 texter was, they wouldn\u2019t answer,  just played coy saying it was \u2018someone special who thought a lot of you\u2019. I blocked the number and let it at that. \n\nA few weeks ago, I got a text from an unknown number that was flirty and made me uncomfortable. I was out with my long term boyfriend and he suggested I block the number which I did however the final text I got gave a very identifying characteristic that Andrew himself talked about the one time we hung out and I knew then that it was him. So at this point he still had my number, and despite changing his he kept mine and was still trying to contact me.\n\nI have Andrew blocked in all social media, everyone with a similar name just in case it\u2019s an alternate account. And recently I\u2019ve been gaining a larger following on Instagram and YouTube so my socials are fairly public. I don\u2019t want Andrew posting those inappropriate comments on my posts or videos. \n\nAs recently as tonight he made a new Instagram and posted an edit on the account of two of us professionally photoshopped in a marriage ceremony. I reported it to Instagram and am waiting for it to be removed. I blocked the account and have had several followers DM me about whether or not I was cheating on my BF with this random guy (Andrew). \n\nIs this considered Cyber Stalking? Is there anything I can do to legally to prevent him from interacting with me? Or am I at the mercy of being public on the internet? ","title":"I\u2019m think being cyber stalked and I\u2019m not sure what I can do. [Canada]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541291617,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tz9gx\/son_8_does_not_want_to_return_to_his_mothers\/","id":"9tz9gx","body":"So a little back story, me and his mother dated for about 2 years then amicably separated. Few weeks later we found out she's pregnant, tried getting back together \"for the kid\" but it was clear to both of us that it wasn't going to work so we have just been parenting together for the past 8 years. I am on the birth certificate because I signed the voluntary form, and have never gone through any courts for custody or child support because we've just been doing the right thing, working together to make sure he has everything he needs and some of the things he wants.\n\nDuring the school year he lives with his mother because she lives in a way better district than I do. During summers he kind of goes back and forth, we even have holidays and vacations together. Even now during the school year he's not just here on weekends and often I take him to and pick him up from school.\n\nYesterday he wanted to come over for the weekend so I just went and got him today because I didn't have off yesterday (third shift). He brought two bags with him as opposed to his normal one bag. I didn't think much of this, however when we got here he went to his room for a lot longer than usual to unpack. Turns out he brought a bunch of clothes because he has decided he no longer wants to stay with his mother. Her boyfriend, \"Uncle\" spanks him as a punishment and we never really have spanked him. They've been dating for around 10 months and are getting more serious, I guess he's taken it upon himself to begin disciplining our child physically.\n\nFrom talking to him it only happens when he's alone with him, and he hasn't told his mom yet. He is very adamant on staying here and has said if I take him back, he's going to tell his teacher that he is getting hit. I've checked him, and he has no marks or anything so I'm guessing it's just light spanking but I really don't know.\n\nI'm not going to force my child to go back somewhere he doesn't feel safe and doesn't want to go back to. Since we have no custody agreement or court orders, can I just keep him here like he's asking? \n\nAlso the relationship with his mother and I have been getting a bit more strained ever since they started dating, he seems to think of me as a threat I guess. I mean yes we love each other and have a kid together but in terms of being together we just don't really work well. \n\nWhat do I do here to begin protecting myself from her siding with the boyfriend and potentially becoming vindictive and trying to get sole custody? From what I've been able to research, making a police report and beginning to document everything is the best route. Is this true? This is in North Dakota. ","title":"Son (8) does not want to return to his mother's after the weekend, \"Uncle\" spanks him","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539795875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p0iyg\/does_title_ix_at_university_have_to_respect_and\/","id":"9p0iyg","body":"Hi there, \n\nI\u2019ve been diagnosed and dealing with major depression\/anxiety for the past 10 years. Recently some things occurred at school that is exacerbating my symptoms significantly, specifically related to bullying in one class. \n\nMy school has done nothing to protect me from this bully despite meetings with the dean and title ix. \n\nI am at a state school in California. My doctor has been in the know about the problems I\u2019m dealing with at school and after having an absolute mental collapse in her office yesterday, she decided to write me a note to give to title ix saying that I need to be put on independent study\/modified schedule. \n\nBecause I have no faith in my university\u2019s system, I need to know if my title ix officer HAS to legally accept this note from my doctor? Is it a legal issue if she refuses to accept it? \n\nThanks for any help. ","title":"Does Title IX at university have to respect and accept a doctor\u2019s note?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540610825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rr95x\/i_pay_my_exhusband_alimony_and_im_losing_my_job\/","id":"9rr95x","body":"Three years ago when my husband and I divorced I agreed to pay him alimony for 10 years. We were married for 26 years. We have three wonderful children in college. He was a stay at home dad and a good one. There were other stipulations to the alimony agreement that favored him. Also the agreement says the amount is unchangeable. It\u2019s basically a terrible agreement that I agreed to in mediation. I\u2019m losing my job and want to renegotiate the agreement. I made an offer to pay him a lump sum and also take on the full burden of paying the kids\u2019 college costs, but he\u2019s come back to say that\u2019s not good enough. We are the same age and similar physical condition except I have been an executive type and he is a creative type. He still isn\u2019t working although he is trying to start a business. I do have a lawyer of my own but I\u2019m interested in opinions here as well. We live in Pennsylvania. How ironclad is that alimony agreement if I\u2019ve now lost my job and I\u2019m saying I no longer agree to it? I was still under his emotionally abusive spell when I agreed to it and essentially was buying my freedom and now want it changed. Do I stand a chance of getting this agreement thrown out in court and replacing it with a new one based on my current circumstances? I don\u2019t want to make life choices now about what I do next on the basis of having to give him money, I will get a severance payment and some stock when I leave.\n\nTLDR:  do I stand a chance of getting my alimony agreement changed now that I\u2019ve lost my job?","title":"I pay my ex-husband alimony and I\u2019m losing my job and he still wants more; what recourse do I have?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569805582,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db45ge\/my_employment_was_terminated_while_i_was_on_an\/","id":"db45ge","body":"First time posting here so sorry in advanced for anything missing or bad formatting.\n\nEarlier this week I went to my employer to bring my HR dept. a copy of the prescription my doctor had given me. I work for a large manufacturing plant and entry into the plant is through turnstiles that require a company ID, which is also used to clock in. I was allowed in around 1pm like normal and was allowed to leave like normal but immediately after, my company ID was switched off I went to security to ask why it was not working and was told I was terminated that morning. \n I then called human resources who I just spoke to, who not 30 minutes prior took and copied the prescription from my doctor to find out what's going on.\n I was told that my employment was terminated because I was listed as AWOL for the days of the 12th an 13th even though I had physically brought in a copy of the doctor's instructions to be execused from any duties from the 12 to 28th.   To both HR and my supervisor on the 13th.\n I was physically there on company property on the 12th, I left before the shift started, due to my own medical concerns, and both my immediate manager and supervisor were made aware I was there and would be taking an attendance point for leaving early.\n Their reasoning for me being flagged as AWOL was because I failed to call into a automated line those days, to report i would not be there, so basically a call in line. Which i do admit i did forget about automated line.\n But they only mentioned the 12th and 13th I was there on the 12th and Informed my two bosses I was leaving.\nAs for the 13th I do admit I failed to use the automated line due to simply not remembering to, but as i said before i brought both HR and my supervisor the doctors note that day, so i did not think about the call in line.\n I tried to respectfully and professionally speak with the human resources staff about any options or anything possible to continue my employment or at the least find a way to not have my employment history there end with a AWOL termination. The only answer I've been given by them is \"there is nothing we can do\". And they are unwilling to have any dialogue regarding the AWOL status.\n I dont know if there is anything legal I can do or not but those close to me, and multiple co workers are all saying that what they did was not right and I agree with them, so I'd like to know what I could do if anything.","title":"My employment was terminated while I was on an excused medical leave. MO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505276991,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zsdfz\/ks_question_on_ability_to_get_a_speeding_ticket\/","id":"6zsdfz","body":"So I was pulled over on my way home from school today, and they caught me going 19 over the speed limit (I know, it wont happen again, I swear) But the thing is, the officer handed me a ticket with wrong information: The car's Make, Model, and Year were all wrong, and I was not asked to sign the ticket. The car is a 2007 Red Toyota Camry, and the car on the ticket is a 2003 Honda Civic. Is this grounds for me being able to waive the ticket if I take it to court? I never admitted guilt while talking to the officer, and the only correct thing he got about my vehicle was the license plate number.\n\n[Edit] To pay the ticket and to have it Diverted would cost me $367, should I just take the hit and move on or should I fight the ticket? That's about half of my savings and my parents are making me pay for it myself, I still have gas to pay for and college to save for.","title":"[KS] Question on ability to get a speeding ticket waived for wrong information?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568522698,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4g243\/i_was_recently_fired\/","id":"d4g243","body":" \n\nHi All,\n\nThis  is honestly embarrassing to admit but I was recently fired for the  first time in my life. The situation in my opinion is a bit shady and I  was hoping to see if anyone knew if it was legal.\n\nI  worked in a recruitment\/sales environment for four  years when a  competitor sought me out, they offered me a bridge in salary\/commission  for one year as well as better health insurance. This company was on the  other side of the country and required I did a 2 week training period  in said state. After dropping my bags off at the hotel, I witnessed a  murder.  I was in the state for less than an hour. I requested a change  of hotel and it was denied. I was made fun of for the trauma.\n\nI  shrug this all off and go home to where I work remotely, I worked for a  period of 2 months before termination. My best friend\/only friend and  family member died. I was taking care of her medically during the time.  In my contract it stated they could not pick and choose who my  bereavement is for and I can take as much time as desired.\n\nI  took off two weeks, they were so accepting about the time. THEN, I  return and my pipleline for sales is dismembered. All of the candidates I  had in the final stages were passed off to others. EVEN when some of  the candidates personally reached out to me and said they did not like  their new recruiter and wanted to work with me. On these occasions I  reached out to management who advised I call (a more senior person) and  let them know the situation as which they could decide. EACH time the  more senior person choose to keep the client even though the client had  expressed disinterest (and also eventually stopped working with the  company).\n\nI had expressed to  management multiples times (in the two weeks I was employed after the  death,) that I felt mentally unstable for the time being and needed  mental help for grief. They offered up the resources they had, felt very  robotic and not genuine. One week after being back at the job they gave  me an employment \"plan\" which stated that I needed 1 submission by the  end of the week and one close by the end of the following week or else I  would be terminated. I did not agree and did not sign, however I did  not mention that to them and did go above and beyond and did 6  submissions that week. I felt confident in the work I did, 6 submissions  vs asking for one. The next Monday they called to terminate me with  reasons being the submissions did not seem up to par (never in my  initial agreement). I bid them adieu as clearly this was not a good fit.\n\nWere they legal in terminating me?\n\nThank you!","title":"I was recently fired.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568611433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4w957\/is_it_illegal_to_pay_someone_to_assault_someone\/","id":"d4w957","body":"So like a 'hitman' but not murdering..\n\nWould appreciate if people could shed some light on this topic with regards to US, UK and Canada.","title":"Is it illegal to Pay someone to Assault Someone?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539303567,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nfh6f\/landlord_asking_me_to_sign_a_new_lease_only_4\/","id":"9nfh6f","body":"South Carolina \n\nMy boyfriend and I moved into our place in May. We rent from an individual, not a company. We pay her directly every month with no issue. A man showed up at my back door one day 1-2 months after moving in asking when we moved in saying he was the co-owner. I told him about when we moved in but gave no other personal information besides my first name. I informed my landlord and she explained that it was her brother, he was indeed the co-owner and they have a very bad relationship. He wouldn't have any direct contact with her but she kept his half of our rent in the bank, she alone handled the property taxes this year so everything was good on her end. She mentioned recently that his lawyer was requesting a copy of our lease but again, nothing to worry about.\n\nI just received this text from my landlord tonight, \"My brother ------ and I am wondering if you would sign another rental contract with both our names on the new one?  He would like his half made out to him and mailed to him each month.  He will provide envelopes.\"\n\nWe feel like it shouldn't be our responsibility to split our rent payment, it should be handled between them, but we could be wrong. That's why I'm asking. I feel like this is an incredibly abnormal situation. What happens if we say no? Do we need to worry about sending rent through the mail even  if it's a personal check? Just trying to cover all of our bases before giving an answer. Our lease ends May of 2019. We want to stay living here through this lease period and would love the option to renew so keeping this situation under control and non-contentious is our ultimate goal","title":"Landlord asking me to sign a new lease only 4 months into a 12 month lease to include a third party","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568913108,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6h3mk\/canada_british_columbia_i_want_to_move_to_the_usa\/","id":"d6h3mk","body":"BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA\n\nHey!\n\nSo, I got charged with theft under $5000 in may septemeber 2018, I attended one court date, and then missed the next one, and kinda avoided it. I was in a really emotionally abusive relationship at the time with my ex partner, he was controlling, and that was part of the reason I 1. committed the crime and 2. I missed my court date\n\nFast forward to now, I have left my abusive ex, met somebody new, and we would like to get married as soon as possible.\n\nHe cannot come to canada due to legal reasons and past criminal history.\n\nI am currently unemployed, and have been for the passed 1.5 years and cannot exactly afford a lawyer. I am also not recieving any government assistance.\n\nWhat are my best options right now? I was about to go down to the court house and just turn myself in this morning, but I also feel like I should seek some legal advice before I do that...\n\nThanks!","title":"Canada, British Columbia - I want to move to the U.S.A and get married to my partner who is an american citizen, but I have a bench warrant out for theft under 5000, what is the fastest and best way I can do this?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554275338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8uq95\/australia_qld_tenant_has_been_in_property_for\/","id":"b8uq95","body":"Other than not paying rent on time (or at all) for weeks and never paying the bond, she keeps the house in immaculate condition and has even replaced the old water damaged carpet with apparently new carpet (I have yet to view this), bought new pot plants and placed them around the yard and even fixed up the rear fence without asking for reimbursement. \n\nI informed her several weeks ago that due to the rent (at the time) and bond not being payed that I would most certainly not be renewing the lease and gave her  a \u2018Notice to Remedy Breach\u2019 to inform her that she has 7 days to pay in full or she will have a week from the end of those 7 days to move out. Ultimately she paid up to date at the time in rent but did not pay bond. So we notified her that she needs to vacate the house by the 4th of April (happened to line up perfectly with the end of the lease). She then said that she wasn\u2019t going to renew the lease anyway. \n\nShe tried to tell me how it was unfair and she had taken such good care of the house (which she has) and that she just wants one more chance. I told her no, as the only reason I had given her that many chances originally was because he grandmother had died just after she moved in and she did indeed take good care of the house. But that was 2 months ago and I had given her every opportunity to pay the rent and bond, even offering to pick it up at the house, meet her in public or anything else she wanted to do. She made promise after promise (even promising on her grandmothers grave on two occasions) but it was always, \u201cmy phone battery died and I forgot where to go\u201d, \u201cmy boyfriend and I broke up again so I don\u2019t have a car\u201d, \u201cthe banks are stuffing me around and saying I don\u2019t have access to my account\u201d etc etc. \n\nThe excuses piled up and became more and more unlikely. At this stage I am waiting for her Aunty who she borrowed money off of to show up at my place to pay me. That was yesterday but her Aunty was \u2018too busy\u2019 to come. So I\u2019ve told her I am home from a certain time today and will not be leaving the house. If she wants she can give me her Aunties number and I can contact her directly and meet up somewhere else if she isn\u2019t comfortable with coming to my home. So far no reply...\n\nThere is a lot more nitty gritty to it but I\u2019d be repeating myself a lot. My legal question is as the Title  states; Could I legally get in the shit for warning all of the real estate in town (My girlfriend used to work at one in town for 6 or 7 years so we know a lot of them personally) and posting to Facebook or Facebook groups warning the private landlords etc about her?","title":"(Australia QLD) Tenant has been in property for almost 3 months (3 Month lease), yet to pay $800 Bond and was (up until a week ago) 4 weeks ($800) behind in rent. Could I be open to legal action if I went and warned all of the Real Estates and private landlords around town about her?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507124546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7487fb\/girlfriends_landlord_unlocked_door_and_let\/","id":"7487fb","body":"This happened at 2:30PM today (4th October 2017) \nMy Girlfriend lives in a private student accommodation flat. She has lived at the premises for 13 months now, this is the first instance of this event occurring (to her knowledge). As she was getting dressed today after showering she received a knock at the door, due to her being half dressed she was not able to immediately answer the door and so took a second putting on her robe. Before she could get to the door, she heard it being unlocked and so she panicked and ran to the door and blocked it to stop the person from entering her apartment and seeing her when she was not decent.\n\nAfter seeing that someone was inside the apartment and blocking the door a man spoke out from behind the door and said \"sorry can we just have a look around a second, I'm the owner of the building.\" To which she replied (while in shock of the situation) \"the place is a bit of a mess sorry\" and so the man then said \"oh not to worry\" and left. \n\nThis has left her feeling very confused and upset at the fact that she was literally mere minutes from being fully exposed to a complete stranger who had not announced their entry. She worries that this could have happened while she was asleep, while she was *in* the shower or when she wasn't present at the apartment at all, free for strangers to rifle through her belongings. \n\nShe checked her email and found no notice of a planned visit by the landlord, as far as she is concerned this was completely random and could have happened at any time. Obviously, she is stressed about the situation and doesn't know how to safeguard this from happening again, both of us being students at University, we have no idea how to handle something like this so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!\n\n\nEdit: Will specify this occurred in the UK!","title":"Girlfriend's Landlord unlocked door and let himself into her apartment to 'look around' without any prior notice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551144375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aut6v8\/albany_ny_usa_living_with_a_very_active_skunk\/","id":"aut6v8","body":"My roommates and I (all mid-20\u2019s) moved into a house at the end of August owned by a property manager. When we first did a walkthrough of the house the previous tenants had mentioned there was a skunk issue but maintenance had taken care of it immediately- to show how responsive the company was. Mid-October was the first skunk spray we experienced but since we\u2019re all from the country we didn\u2019t think much, just figured it would go away on its own but after the second we told the property manager and maintenance swung by and sprayed something (no idea what) and we didn\u2019t have any issues for a few weeks.\n\nOnce the weather got colder (December-ish) the spraying got worse and more frequent. The skunk HAS to be in our basement because when you walk up to the house you smell nothing- its only once you open the door you\u2019re hit with the stench. We kept complaining and they eventually put up a cage and we crossed out fingers. But it just kept getting worse\u2026. By the end of January\/ beginning of February we were experiencing 4 spraying a week AT MINNIMUM and its so strong our eyes water and we can\u2019t sleep. We don\u2019t do ANYTHING downstairs, our food gets ruined, our clothes smell like skunk and its slowly ruining all of our furniture. On top of all that our jobs are on the line- we have all been questioned at our jobs if we smoke weed or go into work high because we smell like skunk EVERY DAY.\n\nStarting in the beginning of February I DEMANDED they hire an exterminator and started keeping a paper trail via email (I follow up every call with an email and email them EVERY time there is a spraying) and that almost worked. An exterminator\/pest control guy came and checked the house out- unfortunately I wasn\u2019t able to stay for the whole assessment as I had work so any solutions he suggested were only heard by the building manager. February 16th a skunk was caught in their cage and we were ecstatic and we thought our problems were over. But that wasn\u2019t the only skunk\u2026\u2026we\u2019ve had a spraying the past 4 days in a row and I\u2019m at the end of my rope. Because their cage finally worked after 5 months that\u2019s the only solution the property manager will agree to and I don\u2019t think they understand how dire of a situation this is (or maybe its because we\u2019re all still young-ish??).\n\nI\u2019ve contacted the United Tenants of Albany for help but because they are so understaffed they haven\u2019t gotten back to me yet. From my understanding of the law a landlord MUST provide a habitable environment and we are faaaaar from that now\u2026.but idk where to go from here. I\u2019m not sure skunks qualify for code enforcement and outside of the smell we don\u2019t have a much solid evidence.\n\n \n\nTl;dr: Have skunks and the landlord won\u2019t do shit\n\nThe question: Do skunks qualify for code enforcement officials and if not who should I contact? ","title":"Albany NY USA -Living with a very active skunk since Oct and landlord won\u2019t help","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505720731,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70tivr\/apartment_wont_let_me_move_in_and_isnt\/","id":"70tivr","body":"So I recently moved to a new city (St. George, UT) for a good job that I got and found an apartment that was much cheaper than anything else and also brand new and supposedly really nice. I drove past and it looked like a very nice place, not quite done with construction, but really nice. They told me that it wouldn't be ready until six days after I got there, which I said would be fine because my grandparents own a crappy rv that's permanently in this town, and I could temporarily sleep in it until they opened. About three days after I moved in, I called them because I hadn't gotten any emails about the apartment. They said they were still waiting for a 'certificate of authenticity' from the city and were going to be opening two days later than usual. That was fine, but I was confused as to why they hadn't told me yet. Whatever, though, right? The next day, I got an email with a link to the lease and contract and I (very stupidly) read it and signed. When I was done, nothing else happened, no other email, no instructions on what to do next. I drive there and it seems to me that there's more construction equipment than before. It doesn't look ready to live in at all now. I call them and they assure me that it's fine, and would I like some help finding a hotel while it's not finished? I remind them that on their website and in the contract it says I should be able to move in TODAY and they tell me that the Fire Marshall still hasn't looked at it. It has now been four days since then. I haven't paid any money but I did sign that 8-month contract and they still aren't communicating with me. If I get told one more goddamn time that 'you'll be getting an email tonight with an update on when to move in' I'm going to scream. I can't take it in this rv anymore and I'm pretty sure when they say 'help me find a hotel room' they don't mean pay for it. I realize I fucked up super hard signing that contract so please don't give me any shit, I'm just looking for future guidance.\n","title":"Apartment won't let me move in and isn't communicating.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552529935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0us2r\/car_was_erronously_towed_fought_citation_and_had\/","id":"b0us2r","body":"So about a month ago my car was towed for apparently blocking a driveway. Luckily I had a gps tracker and camera in my car so I was able to fight the citation online and have it overturned. Once I had my citation overturned I thought I'd get refunded the release and towing fees however it turns out I need to have a traffic officer authorize the refund of release and impound fees. The police department has a voicemail to reach out to the traffic officer but it's been almost a week with no response and when I go down to the station they refer me back to the voicemail.\n\nSo I'm out $235 for paying the vehicle release fee and $230 for impound fees. Is there anything I can do at this point?\n\nFor reference I'm in California.","title":"Car was erronously towed, fought citation and had it overturned. City won't respond to refunding vehicle release and impound fee.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1408908981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2egsj8\/ny_is_email_documentation_enough_for_court_in_a\/","id":"2egsj8","body":"Sent the slumlord email on the 19th concerning a major health problem in the apartment. Via email, he told me to deal with it, so I might need to go to court. Is email documentation enough for the judge or will I need a certified letter in New York? Anything else I should do?","title":"[NY] Is email documentation enough for court in a landlord\/tenant dispute?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540834256,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sf7zx\/options_when_other_parent_wont_disclose_address\/","id":"9sf7zx","body":"North Carolina. I have a custody order that says the other parent has unsupervised visitation every  other weekend. Recently the other parent moved and will not disclose the new address. I have a DVPO against the other parent so I prefer to keep communication limited. I also have a CPS worker investigating false claims made against me by the other parent during a failed attempt to file. DVPO against me and she would like to close the case because it was denied and dropped, but she wants to have contact with the other parent and see their home environment first. Our child has spent two visits at this new location and states that \"parent's bed is at work\", which is an automotive shop... I suspect they may be homeless or staying there. What are my options to ensure that the environment is safe and help CPS obtain an address? If the other parent will not return their attempts to investigate can I withhold visitation? ","title":"Options when other parent won't disclose address","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540763471,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s743f\/i_forgot_my_phone_inside_an_uber_car\/","id":"9s743f","body":"Hello,\n\nMy cousin forgot his newly bought iPhone inside an uber car in New York City. He contacted the company and they gave him the uber driver's phone number. He called him and asked him about the phone. The driver said he found the phone in his car and will deliver the phone back to him, this was yesterday. My cousin keeps calling him today but he won't answer. He called the company and they said offer him money in exchange for the phone. When he did that, the driver answered immediately. The driver stopped responding to my cousin after he offered 50$ for the phone. Any idea what to do next? ","title":"I forgot my phone inside an uber car.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541359666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u69bw\/is_my_marriage_invalid\/","id":"9u69bw","body":"Short:\n\nI married a man 8 years ago. Got the license, had the judge fill it out and return it to the registrars office, got our \u2018commemorative\u2019 copy. Two witnesses. \n\nTwo years later, I found he had already \u2018married\u2019 another woman, but the bride bribed the officiant to let bride turn in the license down the line (not legal). However, it was never turned into the registrars office. \n\nDoes this make my marriage invalid, and my husband a bigamist? Can I annul this marriage? \n\nI have googled non-stop, and it\u2019s 50\/50 that my marriage is valid, 50% it isn\u2019t.  Some attorneys say that I\u2019d there is a ceremony, gathering of family and friends, and an exchange of rings, it\u2019s valid. Others say without the license turned to the county clerk, it didn\u2019t happen at all. \n\nThoughts? Any are appreciated. ","title":"Is my marriage Invalid?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555269413,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd6dsy\/washington_considering_severing_ties_with_my\/","id":"bd6dsy","body":"Hey All,\n\nWe recently moved to WA from CO for a job only to find that it'll be taking us back to CO. My mom and family live up in WA so it seemed like a great fit for us. \nI've been away since 2008 and had a baby this past summer in Colorado. It was with a lot of hesitation that we left but bc it would give me the opportunity to work again, see family, etc., it seemed like a great option. However, now that we prepare to go back, I'm having some serious thoughts about my relationship with my mom.\n\nComing back as an adult and now a mother myself, it really has made me see the horrible faults in my mother. It's not just petty occasional mom behavior. She's manipulative, impulsive, & narcissistic. In the past, she was abusive and an alcoholic. She also had substance abuse problems and got a felony for stealing money from her employer. Her and my dad had a horrendous divorce where my siblings and I were used as pawns to hurt the other, the majority of it being my mom hurting my dad.\nThis was all unknown to me until a couple of years back when my dad told me everything. I asked her and she vehemently denied it all, calling my dad a liar, etc. I dismissed it all and figured since I'm not there, it can't really bother me.\n\nAll in all, I work tediously to break the cycle. I'm very anxious around my mother and she yells in front of my child, which I want no part of. I don't want my daughter growing up with the same anxious behaviors I have. \n\nMy question is if she'll have any grandparent rights after we leave state. She works in a sector of the law (formerly paralegal, now court administrator) and I'm sure she'll try almost anything to intimidate me...this is why I'm worried.\nI plan to cut her off in all ways, shapes, and forms. I have already worked out how this might effect my own child but found that the pros heavily outweigh the cons and she'll still have spouse's parents and my dad and stepmom.\n\nThanks all.\n\nTL;DR - Wondering if grandmother has an grandparent rights if I decide to close off relationship.","title":"Washington - considering severing ties with my mother. Can she legally still see her grandchild (my child)?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568432433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d405z9\/illinois_would_it_be_illegal_to_purchase_a_sign\/","id":"d405z9","body":"Earlier this week, my dad was taking out the trash and noticed that in our backyard, one of the lights (Motion detector) was smashed. I checked it out today and saw the glass was in the grass and a rock below. I noticed some other things as well like some of the items in the backyard were moved around. I was wondering if it would be legal to purchase a sign that warns that use of fire arms will be used or one of those Home security lawn post?  I fear that someone might be attempting to break in but that is just my fear. I have been robbed at gun point close to my home.","title":"[Illinois] Would it be illegal to purchase a sign that mentions firearms are present in the house when there aren\u2019t?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1503732773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w4c7p\/brother_was_hit_and_killed_by_a_negligent_driver\/","id":"6w4c7p","body":"Used criminal law as the flair, hope that's correct. \n\nSo almost 2 weeks ago my brother was riding his bike on the shoulder of the road and was hit and killed by a truck that swerved out of his lane. The driver had a suspended license and no insurance. He wasn't arrested at the scene, and my family has been kept in the dark about the process since. We thought he would be charged with something serious considering his previous history and the seriousness of the case. We were told he wasn't arrested that day because they still needed to do an investigation that way they can charge him with the most correct charge as possible. Well today my sister calls me to tell me the prosecutor told my mother that the most that the man can face is 90 days jail time. How is this possible? No matter what the case someone died. I am shocked that this is all that can be done and the 90 days is not even guaranteed. This man has a long list of past violations including driving with a suspended license (multiple occasions), and warrants out for hit and run. I told my family we could possibly try to have a civil case against him, but I honestly have no idea what this could bring us. I want to do something that can get this man behind bars, because if 90 days is all he'll get, he'll be back on the road for sure. Can anyone tell me what I should do and how to advise my parents what to do next? If a civil case is the best we can do under the circumstances the info on the mans past records could help us win the case right? Thank you for all information and advice given. \n\nTl;dr brother was riding bike on shoulder of the road, was hit and killed by a man with a long record of suspended licenses and other offenses could only face 90 days jail time. \n\nLocation: Washington state ","title":"Brother was hit and killed by a negligent driver with a suspended license and could face max 90 days","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552625206,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1akz9\/father_was_arrested_and_jailed_for_two_months_for\/","id":"b1akz9","body":"Very very long story. So basically, my father was arrested at our home 2 years ago after a police report was made by someone who intentionally wants to see my father suffer because of her fathers (my dads brother) wrongdoings unto her. She is falsely accusing my father of molesting her as a child. His trial date is this Friday. We are about 20 thousand dollars in the hole because of this whole shitshow. My father was placed on probation which required an ankle monitor and restrictions on travel outside of our county (we are contractors and this hurts us so bad financially). We have been struggling very bad, going so low as to have to apply for government benefits. No investigation was done before the arrest and jailing of my father. Due to Hurricane Harvey, my father suffered 2 months in terrible conditions in jail. We have suffered greatly. My father lost out on HUGE contracts that we were already started on. Totalling about 300k in lost wages and legal fees. I need to know if we have a case against the city of houston for not conducting an investigation before causing this horrible situation for us. We have suffered and been dragged through the mud for two years . Please let me know if you think we have a case to take to a lawyer here. ","title":"Father was arrested and jailed for two months for a crime he didn't commit. I need to know if we can do anything about this. (Houston, TX)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504352718,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xleqi\/compensation\/","id":"6xleqi","body":"So, I work for a small company in New Orleans, Louisiana that owns a few hotels. I originally started at two of their hotels making 10.50\/hr. as was advertised in the ad. I worked there for like 6 weeks then the company was scammed and had to do a bunch of legal stuff and lost a property. They fired me and my last paycheck was cash out of the owners bank account and we signed our checks over to the owner. \nThey called me up and wanted to hire me back. I did the interview, got hired and then started working like two days later. My next paycheck was for 9.50\/hr. everyone working at the hotel was making 10.50\/hr. I was doing the same position and work as before, but being paid a dollar less per hour than everyone working there and a dollar less than when I originally worked for them. I confronted them about this and it took them and they did nothing. I confronted them again and my general manager heard I was only making 9.50\/hr and jumped on my side and was very angry that they had chosen to underpay me.\nThey conceded and gave me a raise to 10.50\/hr. However, this does not make up for the fact that I lost close to $1500 in wages. Would I be able to take any legal action? Or could I threaten to take legal action? Or am I better off just waiting for my one year anniversary here and negotiate for a much higher raise because of the lack of compensation from before?\n","title":"Compensation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539975190,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pmrf5\/a_question_about_dismissals_and_convictions\/","id":"9pmrf5","body":"If your case is dismissed after arraignment, does that mean you are still convicted? I was under the impression, until today, that a dismissal means they completely stop pursuing the case. It doesn't meant guilty or not guilty. I know it may still show up on your background checks and CORI\/Board of Probations Report, but does it mean you were convicted?","title":"A question about dismissals and convictions. (Georgia)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541183880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tmsvn\/separation_in_ontario\/","id":"9tmsvn","body":"Common law spouse and I separated a week ago. We currently rent in a co-op. He is not on the lease. He refuses to move. What are my legal rights? 30 day notice? 7 day notice? \n\nThanks ","title":"Separation in ontario","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570202076,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd8plr\/legality_of_expected_corporate_volunteering\/","id":"dd8plr","body":"Is it legal or even ethical for a CEO to pay for a disability project then volunteer their employees to take part, in conjunction with an NPO, in the project? Espeically when the CEO won't commit to said volunteerism their self. Its not forced but is heavily implied and will no doubt lead to reciprocity if not fulfilled by an employee.","title":"Legality of expected corporate volunteering","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1503254524,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uxg0p\/mn_what_can_i_do_visitation_related\/","id":"6uxg0p","body":"Okay so just a little backstory. Dad was only interested in being a part of kids life when we were together. After I told him I wanted nothing to do with him, he disappeared from kids life for about 2 years. He'd get lonely time to time and that's when he \"wanted to see kid\" and was \"taking me to court\"... after 2 years he finally went through with what he said. \n\nSo we went to court, I got full legal and physical. I offered him all this time (holidays, etc) when we sat with mediator but since he isn't mentally capable (he has a court appointed guardian, and his mom is obligated to be there when he sees his other kid) he spoke to the mom on the phone and she said no thanks. \n\nSo with that taken into consideration, he got a limited time one day a week at a designated place. Depending on how it went we were gonna expand time. After a few weeks he started looking for an excuse to leave earlier and blaming me. Admittedly they are having a hard time bonding. He gets mad and says were going back to court. \n\nI looked over everything we have and I haven't broken the agreement at all. I asked him if he was coming last week and he didn't reply or show up. (I waited)\n\nHis next time is in a few days. If he misses it with no notice, what do I do?\n\nEdit: forgot to include a big reason why he's gotten so mad. He wants to take kid on his own but I am not okay with that. He has posted videos where he is driving, possibly intoxicated. He tells me that's irrelevant what he does when he isn't around kid. But he thinks he has a right to take kid, which is not what we agreed on. ","title":"MN: What can I do? (Visitation related)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539367934,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nmnco\/california_esa_letter_not_approved_by_apartment\/","id":"9nmnco","body":"I got an Emotional Support Animal letter from a therapist licensed in my state. I was molested as a child and suffer from PSTD. When I went in to submit my paperwork, my apartment claimed they sent my letter to their corporate office. I got an email saying it was not approved, claiming it was not legitimate. I called them today to ask about the letter and why it was not approved, they said they have an automated system at their current location to checks the letters immediately. And they need to send the letter to their corporate office to re-verify. They lied to me the first time saying they had to send my letter to the corporate office to begin with and wasted time. I believe the law says all I need to submit is a letter from a licensed therapist. I sent a complaint to HUD but still haven't heard back. I already made accommodations for her to move in, because I expected my apartment to approve my letter. Is there anything else I can do?","title":"California- ESA letter not approved by apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542233352,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x4qyg\/question_regarding_affordable_care_act\/","id":"9x4qyg","body":"So, earlier this year, around 9 and a half months ago, my boss approved me to work 32 hours per week, to earn more money at a part time job I'm working at. I only make around $12.25 per hour at said job, as an IT \"help desk\" associate, despite being capable of doing much more than what would normally be expected of an help desk employee. More on that later. According to people in my family, such as my sister, what my work was doing was in fact **illegal**, because they hadn't been offering me *any* employee-bundled health insurance at all, despite working at over 30 hours a week; which is what the Affordable Care Act states is considered full time, even if you aren't officially full time with your employer. After hearing from my sister, the limit of hours is either 30 hours, which I was definitely past, but other sources (my dad has been asking around as well), the limit is 20 hours, in which case its been illegal for up to 3 years since me being hired. If any of this is incorrect, correct me and let me know whats wrong, cause I've been uninsured for **quite** some time, and I'd like to have this nagging feeling that I'm being mistreated to go away. Let me know your thoughts!","title":"Question regarding Affordable Care Act","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1508372371,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77aw04\/ca_landlord_withholding_security_deposit_to_pay\/","id":"77aw04","body":"TL;DR: Landlord did not return ($2,500) security deposit or provide itemized receipt or invoice within 21 days of us vacating property.  After 30 days and no answer to email, texts, or phone calls, I sent a certified letter requesting the return of security deposit. Three days later I receive a certified letter from landlord indicating that \"they're not returning the security deposit and will be using it to replace carpet.\"\n\nHere are the details (it gets weird...).  \n\nI've lived at the residence for 9 years.  Landlord replaced carpeting in the whole residence 2 year into our tenancy.  (7 years ago).  The last 2 year at the residence, we were month-to-month.\n\nAbout a year ago, black mold was found in the residence; bathrooms, closets, and hallway to the main living area (all carpeted).  We assume this was causing health issues with some of my family members in the residence (breathing issues and diagnosed asthma).  We asked the landlord, due to the discovery of black mold and the age of the carpeting itself, if we could remove the carpeting (about 800sqft) from the main living areas and hallway\/closet where mold was found.  She agreed and indicated that in the future, she would be installing vinyl flooring at a later time.  Part of this agreement was that we would pull up and disposed of the carpeting ourselves (I offered to do this as to save her the cost of labor). I was happy to oblige since we were removing one of the sources of irritation of health.  All correspondence regarding the carpeting removal was done over text messages and we have all text messages backed up and saved.   All was good, or so it seemed. \n\n6 months ago, she notified us that she would be selling the house by the end of the year.  We gave our 30 day notice shortly thereafter.  \n\nHere's where it gets weird.  \n\nShe basically went bats hit crazy about us moving out.  She became extremely upset and irate, calling us multiple times crying and cursing us out citing the fact that we would not be staying in the residence until she sold.  We indicated that we have kids in school in the area and can't jeopardize not being able to rent in the area and needed to be secure. Long story short, she indicated to us that she was no longer able to speak with us directly and used a family friend to represent her.  Fine, no problem. We moved out 30 after we notified and left the residence in the same condition it was give to us in (actually left it better than when we moved in - I replaced all screens which some had been torn originally, filled all nail holes from pictures, etc., vacuumed and shampooed remaining carpeting which was not previously removed). That said, accounting for normal wear and tear, the residence was good as when we got it.\n\n21 days after move out, and after not receiving any information from the landlord or the landlord's representative, we sent emails, text messages, and left voicemails\/phone calls to each asking for the status of the security deposit. No response from either.  \n\nWe then waited until 30 days after move out and sent a certified letter requesting the security deposit be returned.  5 days later, we received a certified letter in the mail from the landlord indicating that she will not be returning any portion of the security deposit because she will be using all of the security deposit to replace the carpeting since we removed the carpeting ourselves. \n\nMy question is not what to do now, it's how to go about doing it.  I've already compiled the timeline and supporting documentation\/evidence and am planning on pursuing this through small claims.  Now, would it be prudent or recommended to ask for 2x the amount of security deposit plus filing fees given that the perception was that the landlord had no intention of returning the security deposit, nor notifying me that she intended to keep the security deposit (thus essentially acting in bad faith by not returning the security deposit nor responding to emails\/texts\/phone calls)? \n","title":"[CA] Landlord withholding security deposit to pay for carpet replacement with a twist (need advice).","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441850018,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kc1tb\/death_in_the_family_will_complications_what_will\/","id":"3kc1tb","body":"Hello everyone, this issue is from Australia, but I guess that anybody can have valuable input.\n\nMy mother's cousin passed away a few days ago. He has no siblings, no wife, no children, and both of his parents have also passed away. His mother died in 2013. My mother and him were quite close, and we always considered him an uncle. After his mother died, he moved to change his will to leave his home, cars, belongings etc to us. His father died when he was a teenager, and whilst there is family remaining on that side, they are all quite distant.\n\nLong story short, when he met with solicitors to change his will, only a draft was made. His solicitor died during this process, and it seems like the will was forgotten about in this time, whilst my uncle thought that it was complete. The firm has this new draft on file, which names my mother executor of the will, and where he wants his stuff to go etc. However, the solicitors have said that we need to find an original copy of his will in his house (which we have gone through whilst organising his things, and it is not there). His last 'official' will names his mother as the executor and the recipient of his belongings. \n\nMy question is, is the draft enough to constitute a will? In it, his intentions are clear, but the death of his solicitor and my uncle's death being in rather close proximity has hindered the process. Furthermore, he has another cousin, but he is a substance abuser and is in no way fit to carry out the funeral preparation etc.\n\nThank you for your input.","title":"Death in the family, Will complications - What will count as the final will?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554456156,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9oyou\/how_far_nintendo_can_go_after_a_non_published\/","id":"b9oyou","body":"Brazil\n\nHello guys\n\nI'm a Brazilian programmer, I'm about to end college and I'm specializing in games and also VR applications to healthy.\n\nBtw, I'm working on my final course project and it'll be called \"PokeVR\", I've already modeled all the first 151 Pokemons and 4 battle scenes, it'll be basically the Pokemon Stadium from N64 but with Unreal graphics and the most important, the application of the Rift Oculus to play the game just like you're in front of your Pokemons when you're battling, seeing the Pokemons on real size.\n\nMy worry is that Nintendo is famous to take out fanmade projects, I'm not planning to publish the game and of course, I'll give all the game rights to Nintendo and the Pokemon Group. Actually I just want to use it as a portfolio and end my course using my two favorite things: Pokemon and VR\n\nTaking that on count, how far Nintendo can f*ck me ? ","title":"How far Nintendo can go after a non published college final work fanmade Pokemon game ?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1443631764,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mziq6\/advice_on_divorce_decree_virginiatexas\/","id":"3mziq6","body":"Please forgive me if I'm not posting in the right place.\nBackstory: My husband and I currently live in Virginia and have done so for the last 5+ years: I've lived here since '94 and him since early 2000s.\nHe was previously married and resided in Texas. After the divorce was finalized, he relocated to Virginia.\nHe has 2 minor children with the ex-wife (14 and 13) and 2 minor children with me, only one being biologically his (3 years old)\nHe currently pays child support for his children in TX as is required by his divorce decree. The issue at hand and my question is this:\nA family member recently passed away and left some money for the TX grands, not stipulated in the will, but it was always understood and agreed to by ALL parties that it was to be used for college expenses for the grandkids. \nThe divorce decree has a clause that states that both parties will contribute to college expenses and the ex-wife has been texting recently trying to collect on the money. Even the daughter is asking for it going so far as to warn that lawyers may be contacted. \nWe are in no way trying to withhold the money from either of the kids but it would be foolish to just hand over this amount of money to either of them and I'm not entirely sure the ex-wife wouldn't think twice about using it personally. Is that clause of the decree enforceable? \nObviously, we will do what we can considering we have much younger kids to take care of but if that money didn't exist, could the court(s) force payment for college expenses for adult children?\nAny and all help or insight is much appreciated!!!\n","title":"Advice on Divorce Decree (Virginia\/Texas)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570033998,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcco52\/27_pay_period_for_nonexempt_employees\/","id":"dcco52","body":"Next year is a 27 pay period year for my friend.  My friend is hourly non-exempt in Pennsylvania.\n\nThe employer has informed everyone including hourly employees that their yearly salary will be the same in the coming year and the hourly rate will be adjusted.  This is going to result in a ~4% reduction in hourly rate.  The rate change will go into effect at the end of 2019 to match with the first pay period of 2020.\n\nI see this as a clever way to hide two weeks of wage theft prorated over one year.\n\nMost of the advice I\u2019ve found on this topic applies to salaried employees.  Is it legal to consider hourly employees in this way?\n\nIs it legal to unilaterally decide to give everyone a 4% pay cut next year for no reason other than calendar dates?\n\nThank you for your help.","title":"27 pay period for non-exempt employees","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447091904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s5rtg\/property_management_company_says_they_didnt_get\/","id":"3s5rtg","body":"I live in Arizona. I sent out my rent on the second and they say they didn't get it. I verified the address with them and I sent it to the right place. They want to charge me almost $100 in late fees because someone lost it, either them or the mail service. I've talked to them and they refuse to remove it even though I can prove I withdrew the cashier's check on the 2nd (there's no reason I wouldn't have mailed it out same time as well, right?). I also have to give them a new one and they were unclear about what would happen if they then get the one that's already in the mail.\n\nMy apartment has been horrible from the start. 4 months now of issue after new issue and I'm fucking sick of it. I made a previous post which unfortunately got no responses, but if you read it you can get an idea of what I've been having to deal with. I'd *like* to get the fuck out but I don't have a termination clause in my lease to make it simple for me.\n\nDo I have any options? A way to get them to undo the late fee or better yet, get out of my lease?","title":"Property management company says they didn't get my rent payment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570217295,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddc5w2\/aita_for_telling_my_roommate_she_cant_move_out\/","id":"ddc5w2","body":"Long story short my ex and I lived in a two bedroom apartment and he decided to move out when things ended. My current roommate F(22) which also happens to work with me moved in 3 months prior to my lease ending. We both decided that we wanted to stay in our apartment so we resigned the lease in July only thing different is that she\u2019s on the lease with me now. \n\nShe told coworkers she was moving out before she told me and then when she did she said she wants to be out by the end of the month. It\u2019s great that she\u2019s giving a month to figure things out but this isn\u2019t fair to me. Her reasoning for moving back home is because she can\u2019t \u201cafford\u201d living there anymore. However she eats out for lunch and dinner everyday which is around $400 on just eating out. She refuses to get a better job or a second job even though she\u2019s always complaining that she needs a new one. \n\nI told her she can\u2019t move out because her name is also on the lease and that this is super unfair to me. We just signed our lease in July, she should have already known she couldn\u2019t \u201cafford\u201d it before signing on with me. \n\nDon\u2019t know if I should take her to small court claims or just be an asshole.","title":"AITA for telling my roommate she can\u2019t move out?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568758542,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5o5us\/florida_do_i_have_a_case_for_stalking\/","id":"d5o5us","body":"I am 35 year old female with two children from a previous marriage ages 6 and 2. I share custody with my ex husband. \nWhile going through my divorce earlier this year, I decided to cut some toxic family members out of my life that were emotionally abusive. Namely my mom and her new boyfriend. My ex husband has kept up with them and has allowed them to see our kids during his time. \nWhen I cut off contact with my mom, her and her boyfriend called me 40+ times after I texted them and asked them to stop. They then showed up to my house and went inside when I wasn\u2019t there- sliding glass door was unlocked. A friend of mine was upstairs that they then interrogated her about where I was. \nMy children have been coming home lately and giving me verbal messages from my mom and boyfriend (nothing threatening)- I asked them to stop using my kids as messengers. My mom\u2019s boyfriend replied stating that he hates me. Multiple friends of mine have said that they have been contacted by my mom\u2019s boyfriend asking about me. \nAbout a week ago, I received a text from the boyfriend of pictures of myself from when I was a child that I did not ask for nor do I know why he is looking at them. I again asked him to stop contacting me. \nWhat more can I do from here? I feel like I\u2019m always on edge and want this to stop.","title":"(Florida) Do I have a case for stalking?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506490828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72qarc\/california_i_need_help_moving_out\/","id":"72qarc","body":"Hi everyone. I'm currently renting a room and my landlord has slowly started getting tyrannical with his power over the house. Instead of arguing with him I'm deciding to move out, but I have a sort of different situation. I've been living here since February and I have not signed a renters agreement. I moved in with just a security deposit and I've been paying regularly, no problems paying rent. I need to know what my options are and how to go about doing this the right way, I just don't know where to start with research. He has a Renters Agreement ready for me but has not given it to me yet. I'm trying to have everything ready by Friday before I pay this months rent, or before he gives me my RA.","title":"[California] I Need Help Moving Out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555610473,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beony0\/judgement_creditor_wont_accept_payments_for\/","id":"beony0","body":"Pennsylvania:\n\nBack in December 2016, my friend borrowed my vehicle for the night and ended up crashing it. My insurance company, at the time, screwed up my policy, so none of the damages were paid for by them - which is a whole separate issue:  \nI had a vehicle I scrapped but didn't want to have a lapse of insurance so they set the policy up as if it were in storage so that when I got a new vehicle they would just add that to my policy and remove the other one. Well...I got the new one and found out the day my new car was crashed that the geniuses didn't put state minimum coverage on my policy...instead they just changed the vehicle, so it was still set up as if it were in storage...lovely right? Claims department said that they weren't paying anything out even though they screwed up, and \"can't re-open that claim since they said 'No'\".\n\nMy bills were $1800 for towing and them having to use a winch, $4860 for an electric wire (Owned by Penelec) and $5000 for the pole the wire was on (owned by Verizon). When I got my tax return in 2018, I was able to pay off the towing bill and ended up having to scrap the new car. Electric company sued me and my friend, got a judgement against us, and PennDOT scheduled a suspension for our licenses for Unpaid Judgement, scheduled for September 2018. I filed an appeal, got the license suspension pushed back to May 15, 2019. I have to go back to court that day to prove to the judge that I'm paying on that judgement or petition them to bring them back to court.\n\nMy issue I'm having is that I contacted Penelec to try and pay off the judgement for months and months, and they keep saying the same thing - First it was \"We want $600\/month or nothing!\" Now it's \"We want $2500 down and $300\/month after that or nothing!\" And when I told them how ridiculous that is because I don't have that kind of money or a credit score anymore because of the whole crash incident, they said \"Too bad, find a way to acquire some money.\" So I can't get a loan, I have nothing to sell, I live paycheck to paycheck, I don't have rich family members, my current vehicle is required for all the delivery services I do, and so is my license for that matter.\n\nI don't know what to do now. They won't even accept any payment whatsoever unless it's the $2500 down, $300 a month after that.","title":"Judgement Creditor Won't Accept Payments for Judgement, Driver's License Pending Suspension","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553322884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4fzmk\/question_about_tenant_rights_in_florida\/","id":"b4fzmk","body":"Hello! I received a note on my apartment door this evening stating that workers will be entering my apartment sometime between the 25th and the 29th of March, at anytime between the hours of 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, and that they will be shutting off water to the apartment at that time. Apparently it's to perform repairs\/updates on the sprinkler system\/fire alarm system that they tested over a month ago. \n\nI understand that in Florida, they have to give you at least 12 hours notice to enter unless it's an emergency. However, can they just give a 5 day period without narrowing it down? I can't exactly put my life on hold for over 40 hours trying to guess if the shower is going to work when I wake up for work. Is there any requirement in Florida law for them to give a specific day?\n\nThank you.\n\n","title":"Question about tenant rights in Florida","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570578821,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df8o8j\/friends_friend_beaten_in_prison_potentially_at\/","id":"df8o8j","body":"My friend\u2019s friend was recently savagely beaten in a prison facility, for the purposes of anonymity, under the jurisdiction of the North Carolina DPS. A day before the beating, he unintentionally observed a prison guard engaged in oral sex with the inmate, who noticed that my friend\u2019s friend had noticed the sex act. A day later, he was jumped by a group of inmates, causing a broken jaw, multiple broken ribs, and ultimately being confined to a wheelchair. Heroin was planted in his cell, but he was exonerated due to passing a drug test. He has now been placed in solitary confinement, for \u201chis own protection.\u201d I am unaware of the confidentiality status of this information. My question for this subreddit is what steps can be taken to ascertain government employee involvement in this crime, and upon finding this out, what steps can be taken to hold the individual(s) responsible?","title":"Friend\u2019s friend beaten in prison, potentially at the behest of prison staff","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554916195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbojkg\/a_windstorm_blew_down_identical_sections_of\/","id":"bbojkg","body":"Last night, a windstorm blew down a single section of my townhome rental unit's PVC fence. As a result of the opening, the increased wind speed through the small-ish opening blew my Weber grill through the opening and into a rocky area between my unit and the adjacent unit - damaging it extensively.\n\n​\n\nAt first, I thought that the wind had blown my grill *through* the fence - but I found out this morning that two other units in my complex have damage to identical sections of their fences. Same exact panel, same location. The two other units did not have large items blow through the gap in the fence.\n\n​\n\nTo me, this situation was caused due to defects in the fencing construction when considering identical damage occurred to other units. I'm concerned that my property management company will state otherwise, potentially leading me to pay a $500 deductible towards my renter's insurance to cover the damage. Who is \"at fault\" in this scenario?","title":"A windstorm blew down identical sections of townhome fences, leading to personal property damage. Who is liable?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568613446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4wjtc\/paid_less_than_the_state_min\/","id":"d4wjtc","body":"My friend came to me and asked if I could help her out. In the state of Arizona, with a job that does not include tips, what are the options for someone getting paid less than $11\/hr? Obviously, one is to talk to the boss, but she fears getting fired over that (I guess this place has a sketchy past). Reporting it doesn\u2019t seem ideal either, especially since it\u2019s not a huge difference and she thinks they could still find an excuse to fire her. She\u2019s currently working 2 jobs to pay for her last year of college, so she does not have much money at her disposal and the difference does add up after a while. I thought this subreddit would be able to give some good advice about what she can do.","title":"Paid less than the state min $$","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569109461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7ij15\/whos_responsible_for_the_ticket_here\/","id":"d7ij15","body":"This one comes of way of my dad. He is the titled owner of a car that my sister primarily uses (she's in college, he's financing the vehicle). She passed a stopped school bus going the opposite direction. She was caught on camera from the bus. However my dad got the ticket in the mail. \n\nWho's responsible here? There's no proof one or the other was driving (other than my dad was at his office job). Does the ticket go against his record or is it just a fine with no penalty other than the fee assessed. My sister has agreed to pay my dad\/the court for the ticket but he's concerned it goes against him due to being registered to his name.","title":"Who's responsible for the ticket here?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553872990,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6ylxq\/pa_polive_officer_siezed_my_electronic_devices\/","id":"b6ylxq","body":"Prefacing this by saying i do not have money for a lawyer but i need to know what legal course of action i can take on this or if this is normal.\n\nMy roommate has been under investigation since july of 2018 (im not sure what he is under investigation for since the case does not involve me)\n\nJanuary 2019 the investigating officer came with a warrent and seized pur electronics, the following list are my electronics (it becomes stranger towards the end of the list)\n2 desktops, 2 laptops, modem, router, usb harddrives, 2 cellphones, xbox one, xbox 360, psp, 3ds, monitors, monitor cables, keyboards, mice, ethernet cables, power cables, laptop chargers, phone chargers, headsets, headset cables, game controllers, printer, printer cables, gamecube.\n\nSince january my roommates lawyer (not contracted to me so can not assist me\/speak to me) has tried reaching out to the investigating officer, for the past 2 months no one has been contacted by the investigating officer and he has not updated the case in that 2 months.\n\nI have made attempts to go down to the police station and speak to him but each time im told he is not in and the receptionist says she will send him an email.\nI have spoken to the police chief and his claim to me is that because he is not the investigating officer he has no information on what is happening.\n\nAgain because i can not afford a lawyer (litterally 0 money so a payment system with them wont work i have tried) what are my options for what i can do about this.\n\nSide question is this normal","title":"[PA] polive officer siezed my electronic devices and is refusing to give me information because im not the one under investigation, my roommate is.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551128458,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auqaqm\/british_columbia_landlord_made_us_pay_an\/","id":"auqaqm","body":"Hi all, almost two years ago, my family (husband and kids) began renting a new place. We were made to paid the amount of a full month's rent as a damage deposit, (we have since been told the legal limit is half that amount) and when we came to the place for the \"walk-through\" with the landlord, they e-mailed us saying that we could take pictures and they were not coming. We sent them pictures but never had anyone with us for the walk-through and therefore, a condition inspection report was never made, signed or given to us. They did however, get us to sign a piece of paper that looked like it was made in wordpad, (not a legal\/official document), which only had our names, signatures, date and my notes that I, myself,  added regarding previous damages we noticed. They did not sign this made up form either since, again, they were never here. We are moving on the 1st, and even though they were never here and never did a proper condition inspection report, they insist that they come for a end-of-tenancy walk-through to determine how much of our illegally doubled damage deposit they want to pay us back on the 27th.  \n\nIs there anything we can do to ensure we get our deposit damage back? ","title":"[British Columbia] Landlord made us pay an illegally high security deposit?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552907247,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2hddu\/ohio_if_someone_was_parked_in_the_middle_of\/","id":"b2hddu","body":"I was pulling out of a parking spot in my apartment complex lot and there was a car parked in the muddle of the lot. It looked like there was enough space so I started pulling out. Turns out there wasn't. I was leaving for work so I left all of my contact info with the other driver and left. I didn't even think about getting her info.  While on my way to work I called (using my car Bluetooth) my issuance and the police so my side would be on file in case she reported it. Now I'm thinking she might be at fault but I have no clue who she is. I'm new to the area and I'm not familiar with the neighbors yet. ","title":"Ohio: If someone was parked in the middle of parking lot and I hit them who is ay fault?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568895230,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6d5un\/my_boss_has_lied_to_hire_ups_and_caused_me_more\/","id":"d6d5un","body":"So I've been signed off work the past couple months due to severe depression, while I've been away my boss has made many digs towards me and my mother (works with me).\n\nOn the 26th of August I took an intentional overdose and was in hospital for a couple days, 14 hours after I was dismissed, I was mid meltdown and it was very obvious to see. I wrote out my resignation and gave a months notice. I handed it to my other manager and was crying and all out breaking down in the office when my boss came in and and read my resignation. \n\ni was so obviously not in my right mind that my notice shouldn't have been accepted \n\nafter my overdose my mother has been signed off with anxiety and i've had to witness my mother cry because of what he's been doing and that hurts me so much and makes me fucking fuming.\n\nafter this happened my mother contacted HR about the situation and they gave me 7 days to retract (which I did) but my boss had already put through my resignation and said in that i gave no notice at all.\n\ni know this to be true as my P45 came in the mail yesterday and I have a copy of what my boss sent off thanks to my other manager. \n\nI have copies of everything and caught him in his web of lies but HR's incompetence still believes he shits rainbows even though the evidence is there.\n\nI'm angry and hurt and all this is effecting me at a time where i should be healing.\n\nDo I have a case at all?","title":"My boss has lied to hire ups and caused me more stress and pain","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540998418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9szl40\/doctor_unpaid_wages_il\/","id":"9szl40","body":"I covered for another doctor\u2019s emergency sick leave. The practice owner and I had a verbal agreement (and email exchange record) for a per diem compensation. \n\nI covered their practice for the week, and haven\u2019t received many payment for a month. The owner now claims that I didn\u2019t bill out as many codes $$$ as he hoped, and will no longer pay me the agreed per diem compensation, only pay me a percent of the codes I billed. \n\nI feel more disgusted than angry about the lack of integrity in my colleague. \n\nFor 5k of unpaid wages, should I file a small court claim? Should I also file a \u201cwage claim\u201d with the IL department of labor? ","title":"Doctor unpaid wages (IL)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444366286,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o2c41\/need_a_lawyer_now_mi\/","id":"3o2c41","body":"Sorry, I'm not sure if this is the appropriate sub for this, but I need to find a criminal defense lawyer immediately, like by tomorrow. I've found a lot of lawyers with great reviews, but I'm young and live on my own and I'm afraid I won't be able to afford the services up front. Are their any known firms that would take this into consideration while still being able to defend me appropriately? What should I do? ","title":"Need a lawyer NOW (MI)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568756438,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5np57\/mn_my_rental_property_has_a_wasp_nest_ive_tried\/","id":"d5np57","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice\n\nI have a rental property in Minnesota that has had a wasp nest for about 6 weeks.  When it first appeared, I went over there and sprayed it as best I could on August 1st and then later on August 13. Since the first application didn\u2019t work, I also covered the area with anti-pest foam.  \n\nUnfortunately, that didn't work and the wasps returned about a week later.  At that point, I called an exterminator and they came out on August 20 and sprayed.  That worked for about 10 days until they came back.  I had the exterminator come back on August 30 for a second application.  That seemed to work for another two weeks until they returned again with a report from one of my tenants on September 15.  I have the exterminator returning on September 20 for a third application (this was the earliest availability they had after I called on September 17).\n\nI feel like I am being responsive to my tenants and trying to solve this problem with a professional rather than cutting corners to save money.  However, I'm also concerned that this has now been longer than a month since the initial report and I don't want to cause any potential problems.  Our lease doesn't directly address pests.","title":"[MN] My rental property has a wasp nest. I\u2019ve tried three times to remove it. Am I still holding up my end of the bargain?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550543870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/as5e2s\/help_with_estate_planning\/","id":"as5e2s","body":"Hello,\n\nI'm clueless when it comes to estate planning and wills. I'm 34, married, and have 3 kids. I own two houses, two cars and have about $100k in a 401k plan. \n\n​\n\nI basically just want to make sure that a) my wife and kids (in that order) are taken care of when I'm gone or b) make sure my kids are taken care of if my wife and I both die in a plane crash or something. \n\n​\n\nCan someone ELI5 the steps I need to take to set up a will \/ estate plan? I'm not looking to \"go cheap\" on this, but also not looking to spend tons of money on legal fees. ","title":"Help with Estate Planning","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570809879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgh9st\/landlord_says_i_owe_them_almost_1700_months_after\/","id":"dgh9st","body":"\nI moved out of my old apartment in late March. I've told building management over a month in advance, had the walk through before moving and turned my keys in before the end of the month. Now unfortunately I didn't get a receipt before leaving the office after turning in my keys though I did take a picture of my keys on the front desk with a sticky note of my apartment number and address on it. I returned ten days later however on a hunch and sure enough the keys was never documented as being in their possession ( The gentleman I gave the keys to had quit in the meantime) So I was able to get time stamped documentation that they received the keys only on April 10th and the supervisor who I was speaking to said I had to email the District Manager to see if he'll grant me my full security deposit back rather than only part of it.\n\nAfter getting the run around for a few weeks the District Manager finally said he'll arrange the refund but fast forward a few more weeks and nothing has happened. By now its mid August and after a few more emails ( calling the office is an excise in futility) I said if I didn't hear word from them in 10 days I would have to take them to small claims court. A few days later I get cc in an email with him telling the supervisor that this needs to be resolved \"asap!\". Finally after a week and a half I get a letter in the mail.. promptly saying not only did I gave them the keys on April 15th but demanding that I pay almost $1700 in back rent which my security deposit reduces to \"only\" $890.\n\nOn face value it would look like I have to take them to small claims court but this whole thing has been exhausting. work for me is really time consuming and the last thing I want is to go through a court battle. Is there another recourse I should take or should I just get this over with? I live in NYC if that makes a difference.\n\nTLDR Landlord owes me my security deposit but counters by saying I owe them almost $1700 months after I moved.","title":"Landlord says I owe them almost $1700 months after moving out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571364052,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djgjmx\/child_told_to_go_to_principles_office_tomorrow\/","id":"djgjmx","body":"After class our child was waiting for us to pick her up in the playground. A teacher approached her and stated she needed to be at the principles office first thing in the morning. We called the school offices and asked why, they said they don\u2019t have to tell us why our daughter is being told she\u2019s in some sort of trouble and has to go to the principle tomorrow. \n\nCan we tell them no can do, not without us present or knowing what\u2019s going on? I find it odd they are allowed to do this. Granted we would not be present every time a child is sent to the principles office but this feels much different as she was approached after school and told her she was in trouble and then denied us an explanation. \n\nWe are thinking we should accompany child into the office. Would this be presumptuous of us?","title":"Child told to go to principles office tomorrow. They won\u2019t tell us why!","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551966756,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayctus\/abusecruelty_and_divorce_fam_court_canada\/","id":"ayctus","body":"I\u2019m in Canada and just trying to avoid a hefty bill for asking this question to my lawyer if it\u2019s a waste of time. \n\nShort story is, i was abused horribly by my ex during our marriage. I\u2019d like to appeal for early divorce on grounds of cruelty instead of waiting the year (separation). \n\nIs this going to cost me an arm and a leg? Documentation is not an issue. I can easily prove cruelty and also have a protective order in place so cohabitation is actually impossible . Just curious if this is a waste and I should just wait out the year...\n\n","title":"Abuse\/cruelty and divorce (Fam court) - Canada","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540255150,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qjucm\/girlfriends_roommate_is_kicking_her_out_of\/","id":"9qjucm","body":"Some background info (I used pseudonyms strictly for brevity so I hope that's ok) :\n\n   My girlfriend Sarah is 18 and living away from home for the first time  for school purposes in Toronto and I live with my uncle. She found an ad on Facebook back in mid August of this year for the basement apartment in question that  her roommate Cassandra  listed for $750\/mo. Sarah responded to it and moved in August 19th.\n\n Sarah and Cassandra started on good terms, and instead only  had issues with the integrity of the apartment, such as mold formed through flooding, and lack of communication from the actual landlord. However things quickly turned pretty sketchy, when Sarah realized she never had to sign a lease agreement or go through any legal procedure at all with anyone to rent the property. Everything was done exclusively through Cassandra, and her roommate would be vague and dismissive when Sarah inquired about pretty much anything regarding tenant rules and responsibilities.\n\n  Things got progressively worse as Cassandra started behaving rather strictly towards Sarah and in a pretty hypocritical manner. This includes, complaining about the tidyness of the apartment without keeping things tidy herself, and having company over, specifically myself overnight inspite of her bringing hookups over. Sarah and I are quiet and unintrusive,going as far as going out to eat so we wouldn't disrupt Cassandra by cooking since Cassandra's room is part of the living room with screens as walls since it's only one bedroom. Cassandra would eat and discard Sarah's food and touch a lot of her stuff far more often than not without permission. Inspite of this Sarah decided to ignore all of this for the sake of school and because of the location of the apt. being convenient. \n\n Jump not far ahead to today where Cassandra, through text message, is now asking Sarah to move out before the new year simply because she no longer feels like their personalities match and because she isn't comfortable with me specifically spending nights because she doesn't like couples. Sarah is currently looking for new places since Sarah doesn't seem to have any legal ground to argue. She paid rent through e-transfer and doesn't have any documentation of payment.  Is there anything she or even I could do or should do about this or is she really just screwed? \n\nTl;dr: Girlfriend rented basement apt. W\/o going through any legal procedure, paying rent only to her roommate. 2 months later girlfriend is being evicted with 2 months to find a new place because roommate doesn't like couples. \n\n  ","title":"Girlfriend's roommate is kicking her out of basement Apt. with only 2 months to find a new place to live.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554227114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8mfku\/gray_area_in_regards_to_recovering_my_vehicle\/","id":"b8mfku","body":"Florida\n\nMy divorce was finalized several months ago. In the Final judgement, the judge ordered my ex to return one of my cars to me by a particular date. My ex refuses to return the vehicle to me and has passed the deadline. The car is titled, registered, and insured in my name alone. I am the only person on the loan I have made all of the loan payments. \n\nMy lawyer has advised me that I am legally allowed to recover the vehicle myself if I were to spot it on public property, but that I cannot trespass onto private property to do it.  I recently became aware of a likely location of the vehicle in question: parked on the street inside a gated community. \n\nMy question is this: can I recover the vehicle from inside the gated community (private property) if I have permission to be there?  What if I were not trespassing but were inside the gated community legally? For example, if another resident of the gated community invited me in or if I rented a condo for the weekend within the same gated community. \n\nI\u2019m not sure if the private property stipulation exists to keep people from trespassing in general, or if recovering a vehicle from private property under any circumstances is illegal. ","title":"Gray area in regards to recovering my vehicle from my ex.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442170773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ktc3q\/oh_usa_possible_mold_in_rented_house_wondering\/","id":"3ktc3q","body":"Long time lurker of \/r\/legaladvice, first time poster-\n\n\nI am a college student in Ohio. \n\nOur landlord is known for being difficult, but so far we have had good relations with him. The house is beautiful, although it has many problems-- mostly minor annoyances. However, since we moved in, we have all noticed more active allergies than usual. At first, we assumed this was due to dust being kicked up in our move (we moved lots of stuff into the basement) but a month later, it's still an issue, on and off.\n\n\nSometimes, when the AC unit kicks on, we smell something that is best described as \"earthy\". We suspect mold. We are planning on having a guy come out and test the air quality (on our dime), but we are curious as to what our landlord's obligations are if we discover that there is an issue. Does he have to at least attempt to remedy the situation? \n\nThank you so much for any help, you guys are all amazing.\n\n\nTL;DR: We think there is a mold issue with our student rental.What are our landlords responsibilities? ","title":"[OH, USA] Possible mold in rented house, wondering what landlord's responsibilities are.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506034279,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71mwdm\/canada_upstairs_neighbor_possibly_unstable_what\/","id":"71mwdm","body":"We live in a condo and the upstairs neighbor has a history of drug abuse. He's damaged multiple other units before (just recently we had to stay in a hotel for months due to the damage he caused to our property). Yet he's still living there. Is there a certain point where he can be evicted? I'm worried for my safety. Where can I go from here?","title":"(Canada) Upstairs neighbor possibly unstable. What do we do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507596355,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75dj2p\/bay_area_ca_landlord_begins_major_renovation\/","id":"75dj2p","body":"My wife and I live on the 2nd floor of a triplex in the south bay.  We have only one set of stairs as a point of egress.  My wife is 9 months pregnant, and due to give birth any day now.  \n\nWe informed our landlord of the pregnancy several months ago, and they started planning to have the stairs up to our apartment refurbished (likely to help minimize any future liability with a small child around).  The landlord vetted multiple contractors over a period of at least 3 months.  \n\nLast Wednesday evening, we got a call from the landlord saying that work would start the very next morning and we would not be able to leave (or enter) the property during work hours- quite literally, as the stairs would be being dismantled.  \n\nThe work has gone further than the day or two expected, as the balcony and stairs were apparently rotten.  There is enough of a staircase put in place so that we are not trapped overnight, but we are trying to take care of the last minute preparation of having a baby while trapped for 9 hours a day in our home.  \n\nMy wife is becoming increasingly upset by this and of course it is inconvenient to say the least.  We are not sure why they chose this week, our due date week, to actually begin work.\n\nSo, my questions: 1) in California, what sort of notice are landlords required to give to tenants before major work is done on a rented property?  We got about 12 hours.   2) we are thinking of packing up our birthing supplies and renting a hotel for the duration of this work- would we have grounds to pass that charge onto our landlords?\n\nThanks in advance for any advice!\n\nEdit: changed 'informed our landlord of this' to 'informed our landlord of the pregnancy' and 'not prisoners' to 'not trapped overnight'","title":"Bay Area, CA- Landlord begins major renovation during week when wife is scheduled to give birth","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568946908,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6ogxt\/questions_about_the_wording_of_a_pet_adoption\/","id":"d6ogxt","body":"Hello! My partner and I are in the process of adopting (hopefully, pending approval) an adorable \\~3 year old dog. The dog would be adopted from Jefferson Parish in Louisiana and we are located in the Greater Baton Rouge area. We have some questions about the application\u2019s wording. We spoke to the individual who sent over the applications and he basically said that it\u2019s to make sure that the animal isn\u2019t going into an abusive home or a home that ends up selling or giving the pup away. I 100% understand the need for this and we fully intend to care for the dog to absolute best of our ability and would never tolerate abuse or neglect of any kind.\n\nThe two phrases that struck us as strange are copied verbatim below:\n\n\u201cI agree to provide the adopted or placed canine with all necessary care and medical attention at all times and to withhold or deny the adopted canine any and all necessary preventative medications and or treatments will be deemed and considered animal neglect or abuse and will be prosecuted to the full extent of prevailing laws in the state in which the canine resides.\u201d \n\nAND\n\n\u201cI authorize my vet\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ or clinic, located at \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ to release and send to \\[ADOPTION AGENCY NAME\\] any and all treatment updates for this adoption to the following address: \n\n\\[AGENCY ADDRESS\\]\u201d\n\nBasically these are our questions: Is this typical language for an animal adoption contract? Will our vet actually be required to send over a copy of anything related to the pup? What if we change vets? And to throw in a hypothetical, say the animal ends up having cancer (God forbid :'( )and the options are to euthanize or to have an expensive surgery that may not result in the cancer going away anyway, and we decided it was more humane to euthanize - could we get in trouble for that? Or say if the dog in the future ended up requiring an extremely expensive unforeseen surgery that we couldn\u2019t afford, could we be in legal trouble? My partner said it sort of sounds like they\u2019re leasing the animal to us, and I\u2019m not sure if I agree, but I see where he is coming from. Any help or advice is welcomed and appreciated. TIA!!!","title":"Questions about the wording of a pet adoption contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569853397,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbcabc\/reopening_a_child_support_case\/","id":"dbcabc","body":"I (F51) now live in Florida with 19 y\/o son. Non custodial father lives in California. We were married (in Cali) for 10 years, had 2 amazing sons. Got divorced. Son #1 is now 21 and in the US Army. Father stopped paying CS in 2014 bc he was 'done paying' (boys were 14 & 16). During that time I was in a horribly abusive marriage and did not legally persue it as I was trying to deal with keeping us alive. Sent husband #2 to prison and divorced in 2016 (no kids thank god!). Moved to Florida in 2017. Finally got my shit together and filed for back payments. Found out that my case was fraudulently closed at MY request in 2014. No wonder he stopped paying. I did not request this. Had no idea. My case has now been reopened. I have a ft job @ $11\/hr. Son wants to go to college. He struggles from the abuse we went through but he's awesome and I fully support his path. I cannot afford an attorney on any level. I'm hoping my power isn't shut off before I get paid Thursday. That's how broke we are. Is there anything I need to know about opening a case for back pay? He owes 2 years for both boys and 2 more for #2 @ $505\/m per original stipulation in 2001. That's a lot of money we could certainly use towards sons education. #1 doesn't want nor need the money and has relinquished all rights to back pay giving it all to his brother. We talk about it all. They are adults. They love their dad but stand by me to follow through on this. Advice??","title":"Reopening a Child Support case","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508371634,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77at8v\/nyc_former_employer_refuses_to_pay_what_can_i_do\/","id":"77at8v","body":"Hi reddit, I was an independent contractor working at a company for a few months for $7000\/month. In August I was given a job offer there for $8000\/month, but they never increased my actual paycheck. I was fired Sep 5th. I sent them an invoice requesting $2333 ($1000 for August and $1333 pro-rated for September 1-5). They have refused to pay, saying that I was not available over Labor Day weekend (I was), and that I was not doing my job. What are my options to get my money?\n\nEdit: I have an email from when I first started stating $7000 for the first month and they kept paying that rate the subsequent months. The job offer letter is dated August 1, signed by the CEO, and clearly states $8000\/month.","title":"[NYC] Former employer refuses to pay. What can I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553180182,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3rhlu\/boss_paid_for_health_insurance_until_dec_1_2018\/","id":"b3rhlu","body":"My boss is the  president of the company  and said we would have coverage until the new year. Early December I had to go to urgent care.  They told me there they didn\u2019t see that I was covered. Called my boss and he told me he went and paid it so we were covered. \n\nThey still saw me and I got everything taken care of.  I checked on my providers website to see what I owed and they told me that my claim was denied because we weren\u2019t covered at the time I went in. \n\nBoss told me to talk to them and tell them that we were covered. That didn\u2019t help anything. I told him he would have to do it because I was getting no where.  He said he would handle it for me. He told me to ignore the statements they were sending me until he got it figured out.  Yesterday I got notice that I was put into collections. Almost 4 months later and I still have no idea on what I should do.   \n\nSorry if this is worded poorly. I would be happy to explain further if need be.\n\nAny help would be appreciated \n\nAlso not sure if this is the right flair. ","title":"Boss paid for Health Insurance until Dec 1, 2018. Says he paid through the New Year.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1447006117,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s120p\/fl_car_insurance_question_can_i_be_insured_in_one\/","id":"3s120p","body":"If I was in Florida for less than six months a year, and my ID was from New York state, is it possible for me to get my Florida license to establish residency a year ahead of when I make a permanent move? I would like to go to college in FL and neither I nor my family are rich.","title":"[FL] Car insurance question: Can I be insured in one state while my driver's license is from another?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552316009,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azucof\/providing_my_landlord_a_service_in_exchange_for\/","id":"azucof","body":"I live in Michigan (United States) and would like some advice about making a deal with my landlords.\n\n​\n\nMy apartment complex is family owned, about as Ma-and-pa as it gets. It's surrounded by \"chain\" apartment complexes, or at least complexes that are a lot bigger than the one in which I reside. My apartment is a two bedroom, and I've lived there for almost two years. I'm interested continuing to live in the same unit despite my roommate moving out (I'm financially stable enough and the apartment is cheap enough to swing paying two people's rent).\n\n​\n\nPreviously, the apartment complex has asked me for help with their marketing. They know I have experience, and they don't have the funds\/network to consult with a firm. I want to offer my marketing services in exchange for a discounted rent rate. It's my plan to present them with different details about my background, expertise, portfolio, etc. and see if they're interested.\n\n​\n\nSo, I'm wondering:\n\n* Should they agree to it, what would be the best way to formalize an agreement? With an amendment to the lease? Or a different type of document (if so, what type of document)?\n* If there is to be an amendment to the lease, how should I go about procuring one? I work full time as a technical writer and have experience with creating documents. Should I use a template from online? Should I create one from scratch? Or should I create one using a template as a guide?\n* Moreover, should I contact a legal professional for this? If so, about how much should I expect to pay?","title":"Providing my Landlord a Service in Exchange for Discounted Rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571202651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dikj9u\/new_landlord_takes_over_lease_and_tells_me_to\/","id":"dikj9u","body":"Location: Ohio (Franklin County)\n\nI am renting an apartment that recently got a new landlord after it was sold. The original lease was for June 2019 - June 2020. \n\nI got a notice that I have to move out in 30 days. The notice cited a line in the original lease to justify terminating our lease early (as typically leases have to be maintained by new owners): \u201cThe Lessor reserves the right to transfer the lease to a new owner in the event property ownership changes for any reason, at such time leases may be renegotiated.\u201d Does this give the landlord justification to tell me I have to leave immediately, and do I have grounds to negotiate with them to stay in the apartment a few more months or until the original lease was going to end? Also, does it sound like I can ask for the new landlord to cover moving expenses or compensate me in any other way for this move I was not planning on and frankly don\u2019t have the money for?","title":"New landlord takes over lease and tells me to leave","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552419165,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0bz10\/submitting_revised_custody_agreement_nj\/","id":"b0bz10","body":"Good morning, my daughters father and i have been going back and forth about changing our custody agreement. Specifically his parenting time. We finally came to an agreement and i am wondering how to go about submitting the updated agreement to family court so it is on record. I wrote it out exactly like our current agreement with the changes and he said he\u2019ll sign it this weekend  when he\u2019s picking her up so after that I\u2019m wondering how to go about submitting it. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Located in NJ","title":"Submitting revised custody agreement NJ","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1502914623,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u4sgv\/employer_wants_me_to_sign_nondisclosurenoncompete\/","id":"6u4sgv","body":"I have worked for the same company for about a year and a half. About 3 months ago, they asked me and a few other employees to sign a non-compete\/non-disclosure, saying there was a mix up and we should have signed them when we started(every other employee has signed). Discussion and redefining terms took a very long time, and in that time I have accepted an offer from a new company. I now have two days left and my employer still wants me to sign this agreement before I leave. I don't see any benefit to doing so (I have also been working remotely in my new city, so the agreement would cover the new city as well), and I wonder if signing could be detrimental to starting my new job. Is there any legal action my employer could take against me if I don't sign?\n\nEDIT: Location is DC, Agreement is under VA law","title":"Employer wants me to sign Non-disclosure\/non-compete as I'm leaving","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568791708,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5u9ei\/advice_on_australian_loan\/","id":"d5u9ei","body":"I'm based in Australia and I'm looking for some legal advice . I have a business\/personal loan essentially with a loan shark type company.\u00a0\u00a0My car is used as a caveat on this loan.\n\nThe loan was for $5K, and I have paid $7.6K on this.\u00a0\u00a0I still have $3.6K to pay.\u00a0\u00a0I want to find out is it legal to even have a caveat on my car for this loan, I just can't get anywhere paying this off with the exorbitant interest and charges.\n\nMy major concern is losing my car.","title":"Advice on Australian Loan","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1443561185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mvt8o\/ma_fighting_a_landlords_deduction_schedule_on_a\/","id":"3mvt8o","body":"Hello \/r\/legaladvice!\n\n**Background:** I'm a student in Boston, MA who paid to rent an off-campus apartment for the past two years. Our landlord was pretty invisible during my stay except for a little, as-needed maintenance and the occasional strongly-worded email targeting other groups of students living in the complex. I graduate in December, so I moved out in August to avoid signing another inflexible one-year agreement in favor of on-campus single-semester housing. \n\nMy roommates and I were prepared to expect some unwarranted deductions from our security deposit. Ultimately, we were charged $700 from our initial $2700 security deposit, some of it well-deserved and others unreasonable, though we don't have any proof to debate the charges. Lessons learned, which I fully appreciate.\n\nThat all said, we were charged $300 to paint over the walls in one of the bedrooms. The photos provided by the landlord show discoloration where gray paint was presumably used to cover marks on beige walls. We do not have our own photos from when we first moved into the apartment, but that was the condition in which we received the apartment. What we *do* have is an email that I sent the landlord upon moving in that specifically points to this discoloration on some of the walls, to which he replied that he would not repaint them as it was, and I quote, \"a natural depreciation item\".\n\n**Questions:** Am I right to push back on this $300 charge? I understand we should've taken photos, but is our email exchange from two years ago enough grounds to demand that the painting of the walls be removed from the deductions schedule? Am I missing any details in this case that I could use to leverage my position against the landlord? \n\n**TL;DR:** Being charged my security deposit for the conditions of an apartment that existed when I first moved in, and I have a bit of evidence to support that. How do I proceed?","title":"[MA] Fighting a landlord's deduction schedule on a returned security deposit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539963632,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pkz73\/school_dosent_allow_bathroom_use_in_between\/","id":"9pkz73","body":"My high school, due to the vaping epidemic, has closed off use of bathrooms during passing periods and only allows 1 person in each bathroom at a time. There are over 500 kids in my school using 3 bathrooms. \n\nIs this legal? I haven't been able to go to the bathroom because I don't want to miss class material and some one is always in front of me. \n\nIf it is legal, could I stop them from doing this? I'm just kind of stressed about having to miss important class material to wait on a bathroom line for 15 minutes.","title":"School dosent allow bathroom use in between classes. [NY]","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1538020736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9j9lhw\/my_girlfriends_place_of_work_puts_a_13_year_old\/","id":"9j9lhw","body":"This will be rather vague and I am presenting facts solely based off of what my girlfriend tells me in great detail each day when she gets home. There is also no legal action going to be taken, however, I am just curious about this type of behavior in a workplace because it has been blowing my mind. My girlfriend\u2019s bosses son is 13 years old and is told that he is in charge (of a hibachi\/sushi restaurant) whenever his mom goes on break or leaves the building. Her son on a daily basis calls my girlfriend fat and ugly during work hours and demands that the other employees need to do their work and tries to separate adults from talking to one another during their shifts because \u201cthey need to be working and not talking\u201d. He also claims that he technically is not legally employed since he is only 13 which makes me question how okay all of this is for her boss to do? My girlfriend is now quitting her job because of her bosses unemployed 13 year old son. I\u2019m sure I just sound like I\u2019m complaining but maybe there is something to this, I don\u2019t know. There is a lot more to this but what I have here is the bulk of my question.  ","title":"My girlfriend\u2019s place of work puts a 13 year old boy in charge when the boss is out or on break.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445297664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pf4ku\/divorce_attorneys_who_work_with_people_leaving\/","id":"3pf4ku","body":"I\u2019m asking for advice beyond just legal professionals in my state. This goes out to anyone who has experience helping people in abusive relationships get completely free of their abuser in this digital age we live in.  **What legal advice would you give to a client in these circumstances to help her overcome these obstacles and secure a successful and safe divorce?**\n\n\n**Situation:**\nMy friend is in an abusive marriage, which includes verbal, mental, and physical abuse that continues to escalate. Children are involved. As far as I know they have never been physically hurt, but they are definitely suffering emotional trauma that will require therapy. Guns are present in the home. He has done things, especially recently, to indicate he is not mentally healthy.  He actively tries to keep her as alienated from anyone else in her life as possible. He does not currently hold employment and lives off his well-off family. \n\nShe is currently saying she is ready to leave and has taken more active steps to free herself of any obligation or reliance to him than ever before.  However, she still remains living with him, and doesn\u2019t really have a solid plan on how to leave.\n\n**Currently this stagnation seems to center around a few obstacles she does not know how to deal with:**\n\n**1) Privacy:** The main one is privacy. He doesn\u2019t work and she does, so he is often alone with any and all of her devices, whereas she has no alone time away from him. So if you tell her the old stand by advice of keeping a log of what\u2019s going on she immediately says, \u201cBut where could I even safely keep that? There\u2019s nowhere I could safely hide it in my house and he keeps tabs on my movements. \u201c At this point she assumes he knows all her passwords and monitors all her digital activity. **What can she do in this situation to either gain privacy and\/or build a solid case for custody\/divorce?**\n\n**2) Safety\/Stalking Risk:** Coupled to this is the whole tracking issue. A big concern of hers is if she did leave him or even simply lied about her whereabouts in order to get time to make preparations to leave, he would be able to track her. Anyone who has ever seen google\u2019s location services map of their own movements clearly delineated out and searchable by day and time can imagine how terrifying seeing that map is if you are someone like my friend. **What steps can you take to secure your phone and other information from being used against you by a stalker?**\n\n**3) Money:** Though my friend is making her own money, her husband is actively doing everything he can to prevent her from being able to put any of it aside. The details of how he\u2019s doing that I feel would reveal too much in a public thread, but suffice it to say, a lack of resources is a big barrier for her leaving.  I think she might be giving cash to a \u201ctrusted\u201d coworker to hold for her, but it\u2019s a fraction of what she actually makes and an unrealistic strategy for saving up any kind of money in a reasonable amount of time. **\"How best can she go about securing a solid divorce attorney if her husband stands in the way of her finances?\"**\n\n\n\n**Secondary Question:** I know the most obvious thing is she needs to call the cops next time he goes crazy, but is there anything she should be aware of in order to protect her own custody if\/when she does that?\n\n\n\n**Additional Background:**\nWe do not live near each other, so I would ultimately like to find a lawyer near my friend I could at the very least point her towards and offer to pay the initial consult. It\u2019s why I am here. I am out of ideas of how else to find help because all the standard advice on those abuse websites seems woefully behind the times.\n\n\nThere is more detail to this situation I would love advice on. Unfortunately, I would not be willing to share with anyone who does have a legit posting history and only by PM, **which appears to be against your posting policy.**  I am only listing the state to keep my post from being auto-deleted, but even that level of detail makes me very uncomfortable. I myself do not get a lot of free time and have been wanting to make this post for a while now. I have put a lot of thought into it and tried my best to make it conform to your posting rules, succinctly explain the situation, and ask what I want to know, while protecting identity. I would very much appreciate your time and consideration.\n\nEdit: For clarity I have bolded the part where I say I know you don't do PMs here. \n","title":"Divorce Attorneys who work with people leaving abusive spouses; my friend in TN wishes to leave her husband but feels hindered from taking solid steps by a total lack of privacy or freedom due to his monitoring of her devices and is unsure how to proceed.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540835284,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sfeah\/does_an_act_if_god_clause_have_to_be_written_into\/","id":"9sfeah","body":"Basically, I filled out a W9 with an employer along with their own contract as an independent contractor. In the contract it states that there should be no interaction with media without prior consent of the company (of course this wasn\u2019t said explicitly stated in training. We didn\u2019t even know that we couldn\u2019t post on social media or have other people take photos.)\n\n\nSo something happened which would absolutely be considered an \u201cact of god\u201d in a public place that could have never been foreseen. I was a witness and interviewed live by a local reporter briefly about the incident. I sent my supervisor the video after my first shift saying that the freak accident gave us some extra press, lol. It actually got positive feedback on the news stations Facebook profile, received hundreds of shares and tens of thousands of views. I briefly mention my affiliation with the company at the beginning of the video (why I was there as a witness) but kept the focal point in the story of what had occurred. \n\nThe next day I was fired. They apologized for not having touched on the details of the contract but because I had signed it...you get the gist. Of course they reserve the right to terminate my employment at any point yada yada. \n\nI\u2019m just curious if - because the contract does not mention an acts of god clause, if the company could consider my breach of contract as an exception under that provision.\n\n","title":"Does an Act if God Clause have to be written into a contract in order to apply?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539990676,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pp03f\/got_sent_home_from_work_today_for_not_cleaning\/","id":"9pp03f","body":"Alright so I work at a wholesale store at the member services desk. Today I had heard that someone had shit and diarrhea'd all inside a bathroom floor in a stall. Maintenance wasn't here today. My supervisor asked me if I would clean it up, in which I told her I'm uncomfortable doing that, as well as I don't want to get shit on my clothes, we dress business casual and my washing machine has been broken for four weeks and my complex has been taking too long to fix so I don't want to afford ruining my clothes. \n\nShe goes and tells a manager, call her Alisha, that I refused to clean up the shit. The manager Alisha brought me into the office and said since I'm being insubordinate I'm to go home. I didn't argue with her, so I got my keys and left. I called my other manager, call her Tonya, who was off work, and she said what Alisha did is illegal and said In the policy only maintenance and managers are required to clean up human waste. Another side note is that you aren't allowed to send people home, unless under extreme circumstances. Tonya said they legally have to pay me for a minimum of four hours, and that she'd give me more hours this week to make up for it. Why should I work extra for being sent home under Alisha breaking policy? \n\nI'm going to speak with the store manager and the other managers tomorrow about the incident. She told me they're highly upset with her actions and that Alisha is digging herself in a hole in their group chat. \n\nIs it worth seeking legal action? ","title":"Got sent home from work today for not cleaning human shit","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571722624,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dldd7j\/urgent_family_matters_and_need_advive_asap\/","id":"dldd7j","body":"[URGENT] I dont know where this belongs but i have to try somewhere. This doesnt involve me directly, but its my mom and her elderly mom i am deeply worry about. I have a cousin who im not sure i should identify him but he is a psychopath, just like his dad. And his dad would get violent and used to beat and rape my moms sister. Now hes beginning to harrass my mom and nana because shes been there helping her fix the house to sell since her husband and daught passed away. He sees it as shes getting special treatment for no reason and does nothing when really shes repairing and remodeling the entire 5 bdr house alone, as well as fixing all the holes he keeps leaving  in the walls from smahing them on purpose.\n Hes already been in trouble for keying an exes car and threatening her with a knife, but she dropped the xharges because she was afaid hed come after her if she didnt. Weve had cops by the house before because of his behavior but the cops only shrugged and said its a family affair and they cant do anything about it. I call bullshit cuz my brother got carried away plenty of tings for similar things. \n He destroyed the house when they werent there and threw furniture everywhere and even stole me moms boxed wine  (seriously, who even does that). He was supposed to have left when he was told to leave but its a big house and they think hes hiding somewhere inside. This is some next level psychoshit. He messages that he can hear them in there talking about them and im terrified for their safety. \nCops dont seem interested unless someone is stabbed or shot and im not waiting for that to happen. I told them to grab a knife and get somewhere safe. My nana still doesnt think this is severe enough to get him lock away. He got a slap on the wrist for what he did to the girl and they are pretending nothing is wrong. What can i do? Cops dont understand how seriously deranged this boy is and are giving  him a free pass (this is dumbfuck alabama). I could release he mugshot but i dont want to look like im inciting violence. I just want to protect my family and i cant with 3 kids in another state. There has to bo something that can be done that would get him into an institution so he can get medicated. Im really scared guys and i dont know how yr supposed to handle family affairs like this. We're terrified if we take him to court, he'll just walk again becauss we cant afford a lawer he might attack everyone out of spite all. Please anyone been through this or have any advice im all ears. I dont want anything to happen to my mom and nana.\nTL;DR: psycho cousin threatening my mom and her mom. They are terrified and the coos wont help cuz its a family affair and no ones been hurt physically yet. Need advice ASAP.","title":"Urgent family matters and need advive asap.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1410303873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fybwx\/contesting_mobile_device_usage_in_traffic_in\/","id":"2fybwx","body":"I was at a stop sign and pulled my phone out to look over a list of tasks I made for work in my Notes App (iOS). I pulled up my data and text usage to show no use at the time of, hour before, and after being cited. I feel I have strong evidence against the ticket and what defines mobile usage. Will this be enough? What other statutes could the prosecution\/officer present to negate my statements?\n\nStatute I'm up against:\n\nhttps:\/\/www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us\/statutes\/?id=169.475\n\n\nEDIT: Sincere thanks. I felt so incredibly confident up until reading these and will be preparing myself to settle with knocking down somethings.\n\n+ Will having a very good driving record be something worth presenting?","title":"Contesting mobile device usage in traffic in Minnesota","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555591846,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bel66m\/mismanagement_of_rental_agreement\/","id":"bel66m","body":"TX-US: I live in a rental property with three other guys. One of them is the son of the landlord and does not pay anything out of his pockets directly. I\u2019ve been crunching the numbers as the 2018\/2019 contract comes to a close and I found something interesting. Starting around Christmas time (or even before) the landlord was splitting the utilities not into 4ths and covering the cost of the son, but just into 3rds, essentially making me and the other two pick up his tab. This difference could amount to a few hundred USD. How can I begin a legal investigation into this discrepancy?","title":"Mismanagement of rental agreement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443315876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mj2m9\/ca_i_moved_out_26_days_ago_landlord_emails_today\/","id":"3mj2m9","body":"Hello!  \nI've been waiting for the letter from the apartment complex, haven't received anything.  I was going to wait another week just to make sure things haven't been taking a while in the mail when I receive an email from the apartment rep stating that the bill will be due in 2 weeks else it will go to collections, with a letter stating this is how much I owe (this letter is dated today, the 26th) along with the inspection stuff, dated on Sept 8th.    \n\nI respond stating this is the first I'm hearing of the bill, but since they are waiting to send this to me after the allowed 21 days, I should be refunded my full deposit.\n\nThey respond stating that they did send me a letter, don't know why I didn't get it, they didn't get certified mail for the letter, and want to confirm my address.  They note that the bill was dated on the 8th, (although what I'm arguing is that they did not send me the bill- either via mail or email), and that they want me to pay the bill.\n\nI wanted to ask you- is \"the bill was lost in the mail\" a valid reason for them to have an extension on the 21 days they are supposed to be giving me the bill?  I'm not sure if the burden of proof is with them or me.\n\nI found code section 1950.5 but it doesn't mentioned certified mail as a requirement, so I am not sure if they need to prove that they mailed it on time.\n\nAlso of note, they include the inspection, however when i was with them for the inspection, the gentleman just wrote things down on a pad, and I did not get a copy or sign anything.  The copy of the inspection they include is dated for the 4th, 4 days after I moved out, and has a space for my signature, but does not include it of course- I'm not sure if it is required that I get and\/or sign a copy of that, just thought I'd through that info in there in case it's relevant.\n\nAny advice is very much appreciated.  Thank you!","title":"[CA] I moved out 26 days ago, landlord emails today with a bill, i would like my deposit back","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505006667,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z5kcj\/oregon_traffic_violation_costs\/","id":"6z5kcj","body":"Hi there,\n\nI just have a few general questions for you guys.\n\n(In Oregon) What is the cost of:\n\n-violating a crosswalk\n-running a stop sign\n-violating lane integrity\n-running a red light\n-not using a blinker when changing lanes\n\nIf you only have an answer for one of these, that is better than none!  Please feel free to answer any of these.  I'm just a high schooler looking to find out the cost of these violations, just for my own knowledge!\n\nThanks :)\n\n","title":"Oregon Traffic Violation Costs","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541796885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vo6r6\/landlordtenant_dispute_need_advice_on_whether_i\/","id":"9vo6r6","body":"We are currently in a dispute with our landlord and they are not budging. We would like to take them to small claims court to get the issue resolved. However, we discovered a mediation clause in our lease agreement which essentially says you can\u2019t sue and have to mediate an issue first with a maximum exposure of $1,000 for attorney\u2019s fees. We were advised from a relative who works in real estate that this clause may not actually be enforceable. So basically, we want to know if we can in fact take our landlord to court or if we won\u2019t be able to because we signed the lease containing this clause.","title":"Landlord\/Tenant Dispute - Need advice on whether I can bring to court or not.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539996835,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ppria\/dispute_between_a_couple_over_getting_out_of_a\/","id":"9ppria","body":"I am posting for a friend. \n\n\u201cI recently signed a lease with my now ex-boyfriend and a roommate. Long sorry short, the rental wasn\u2019t ready and we didn\u2019t move in until 2 weeks into the month. We\u2019re being prorated for the 2 weeks of rent, plus cleaning supplies. So the landlord is giving us about $1605 back. Two days after moving in, he broke up with me and made me leave. I asked if I could stay short term to figure out another living situation since I\u2019d paid for rent and a deposit. And he refused and said he\u2019d involve the cops if I didn\u2019t leave even though I\u2019m on the lease. (I have an ESA that I cannot bring with me to my friends house and I\u2019ve been stressed about having her there without me.) Next I asked for my deposit + rent + the cleaning supply money back if he won\u2019t let me stay (1333.33 + 850 + 240 = $2423.33) He tried confusing me and saying he\u2019d only give me my deposit and cleaning supplies ($1573.33) so I clarified that I am not going to lose the rent money and I\u2019d like the full amount. He agreed to pay me $2500. I have a screen shot proving it. Now he\u2019s saying he\u2019ll only give me $1998.33 and that I can sue him in small claims court if I\u2019d like to. I paid for all of the furniture and supplies so I\u2019ve been in the process of returning as much as I can so I can find a new place to live. \nCan he legally keep me out of the place I signed a lease on? I haven\u2019t been a threat in any way and have been trying to be cordial, so can he get law enforcement involved? Also, I\u2019ve asked for the landlord\u2019s number a few times and he refuses to give it to me. I\u2019m not sure what to do. I\u2019d like to be free from financial responsibilities and get released from the lease since it\u2019s only been 3 weeks and I stayed for 2 total nights.\u201d\n\nShould she get an attorney involved?\nAny advice would be appreciated. ","title":"Dispute between a couple over getting out of a lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569788908,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db0pye\/old_landlord_is_charging_my_housemates_and_i_a\/","id":"db0pye","body":"Last year 4 friends and I rented a house through a company, the house was very poorly kept when we moved in. We did not take as many pictures as we should have to fully document the extent of the state of the house. Halfway through our lease another housing company bought the property we lived on and then charged us $3,000 on top of our insurance deposit for very vague \"cleaning fees\". My next door neighbors had the same issue and are choosing to not pay anything extra, but I do not know how legal this is. Is there any way I can get out of some of these charges without going to small claims court?","title":"Old landlord is charging my housemates and I a huge amount of money for cleaning fees after we moved out. (Oregon, USA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542162125,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wvse9\/awaiting_a_knock_on_my_door_from_the_police_for\/","id":"9wvse9","body":"So i know what ive done is stupid, foolish, gross. On a Reddit account, i would take girls social media pictures that they publicly posted and post them to subreddits where you show off girls that are hot and talk about them in sexual manners, (not to get too detailed). The pictures i used were posted by them. They contained no nudity or sexual acts in there (which one would assume since they posted the pictures themselves). Anyways i did this for several months because well i was a fucking idiot. The girls are all over 19 (most are 20 i think) however in some of the pictures they may have been 17\/18 (i didn\u2019t care to look at the date, but the pictures weren\u2019t nude and again were publicly posted by them)\n\nAnyways, 3 months ago back in August i recovered a PM from an anonymous Reddit account saying basically that they went to their family lawyer and contacted the authorities and regardless if i delete the posts or not they are still coming after me and that ill end up in prison.\n\ni have no idea how true any of that is because i personally don\u2019t know what i did was illegal or not. So should i just move on? \n\nNew Jersey, United States ","title":"Awaiting a knock on my door from the police for stupid actions on Reddit, should i actually be worried or move on?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444904029,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ou94h\/early_access_to_a_trust_fund_inheritances_uk\/","id":"3ou94h","body":"so about 7\/8 years ago a member of my family died on m y grandmothers side, i am not sure of what relation he is to me but over my child hood i did see him and i did have a good relationship with him.\n\nwhen he passed away he left me a portion of his assets, but under his will the unlock timeline crazy, in short this is it so hold on:\n\nthe interest from the fund goes to my grandmother etc, if they die it gose to my mum and uncle.\n\nat age 25 i start to get some of the interest with the bulk still going to my grandmother or mum.\n\nevery 10 years my share goes up and theirs down.\nat the age of 45 the full amount unlocks to me alone.\n\nthe issues is we have zero say over where it is invested, how under uk law can we unlocked the full amount now or how can we gain control over how  its invested as the bank now dose that and its had issues in the past with poor investment.\n\nTL;DR how can i get control of the funding when i don't get the full amount until im 45, even if my family have it in holding tilli come of age i don't care we just want control    ","title":"early access to a trust fund\/ inheritances UK","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539148427,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mwmzo\/hitting_a_boulder_woth_my_car_on_walmarts_property\/","id":"9mwmzo","body":"I hit one of walmarts landscaping boulders with my car. It was my mistake of not seeing it. It's just laying on pakring lot road now,instead of on the small island of wood chips","title":"Hitting a boulder woth my car on walmart's property.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540326667,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qstg8\/us_rearended_while_driving_a_rental_car_filing\/","id":"9qstg8","body":"Hi everyone,\n\nI was rear-ended last month while driving a rental. I am using the credit card insurance coverage and need help with who to make it payable to on the claim. There are two options, payable to me and payable to the rental agency. I'm confused at how this would work out... if i make it payable to me that means I have to pay the rental agency and then will get reimbursed? if its made payable directly to the rental agency do i have to worry about anything? just trying to figure out which decision is the best choice.\n\nI did hear that the rental agency could potentially charge my card on file regardless of if I make the CC insurance payable to them. Is this true and if that was the case would i be reimbursed by the rental agency?\n\nSorry for all the questions just don't know who\/where else I can ask.","title":"(US) Rear-ended while driving a rental car, filing through credit card insurance, need help","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504246352,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xcqnq\/my_exinsurance_company_is_chasing_me_for_money\/","id":"6xcqnq","body":"I've been buying house insurance every year for a few years now, but recently decided I didn't want to keep buying from the same company because they raise the price every single year, to the point that it is now $3500 for a year of insurance. Let's call this company, company H. My renewal date was March 30, but I didn't get a renewal letter in the mail until end of April, to which I promptly gave them a call and told them I would be cancelling and would no longer be buying insurance from them. I have since purchased house insurance from a different company, but this previous company has been sending letters every week stating that they covered me for 2 months of house insurance, and that I have to pay $800 for those two months. $3500 divided by 12 for 12 months only equates to about $300 a month, so I assume they are charging a $200 cancellation fee. I have been ignoring their letters and phone calls for a few months now and they recently said they would stop chasing me. However, the company that distributes insurance to company H has recently sent me a letter stating that they have cancelled the insurance that company H was providing for me, and also stated they have covered me for 2 extra months and that I need to pay $1300. I'm not sure what to do since I can't afford to pay for this when I have already purchased insurance elsewhere. What do I do? Can I just ignore them and hope that they stop chasing me? Or is it possible I could get into legal issues?","title":"My ex-insurance company is chasing me for money after I cancelled, and they stated they covered me for 2 months, what do I do? (BC, Canada)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568852169,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d662wj\/my_friends_mom_is_making_her_sign_a_roommates\/","id":"d662wj","body":"Long story short friend has a crazy mom who is forcing she and her sister (both young adults 22&19 respectively) to sign a contract that she basically plans to use to guilt and control them later on. They have already signed the contract, but are there any loopholes you see that they could use to prevent the contract from being used against them?\n\n(Sorry pics are in reverse order)\n\nhttps:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/XIz0usn","title":"My friend's mom is making her sign a \"roommates agreement\" and it seems like a way to \"legally\" control her any loopholes?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569935474,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbt6dp\/rampant_nepotism_at_my_girlfriends_job\/","id":"dbt6dp","body":"GF - girlfriend\n\nAM - area manager\n\nSM - GF's store manager\n\nGD - grandaughter\n\n\tI'll try to be concise.  My GF has been working at a store for almost 2 years now and has seen co-workers come and go. Her SM is related to the \"area\" (2 stores) manager.  The AM employs her own daughter at the other store and now her GD works at the other store with my GF.  GF was told when she started there that holidays were a 3-way split between the employees, yet the GD has somehow had the last 2 holidays off.  Last night the GD came in, spent 30 minutes in the bathroom and then left sick.  GF called the SM and let her know, SM said she'd have to stay because last night she was shopping around for a storage unit for her mother and her son had a ball game.  Her suggestion was to switch Saturday with GD.  That, however, would actually give GD more hours than GF.  I just found out that the SM is only paying her 14.5 hours for yesterday because the GD was there for .5 hour (in the bathroom).  This is not unusual behavior, GD has called off several times in the past and GF gets hosed routinely.  GD is never reprimanded or punished for this behavior and I'm trying to keep my cool and not call the main store and start ripping people a new one.  Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.","title":"Rampant Nepotism at my girlfriend's job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541172114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tl18n\/accident_report_written_by_police_officer_was\/","id":"9tl18n","body":"Good morning. I was in a car accident one morning a few weeks ago. \n\nA gentleman was parked in the middle of the road. Half of his car was off the road half of his car was on the road. His black car was 90\u00b0 to the road. He was not moving.\n\nI was driving down the road about 45 miles an hour. It was pitch black outside. Before I could stop by saw his car immediately in front of me. I crashed into his car and injured myself. It was my first airbag accident.\n\nThe gentleman told the police officer who showed up that it was my fault because he was turning into the spot and I was going too fast and ran into him.\n\nWhen the officer wrote up the accident report he blamed it on the gentleman who I ran into, but he wrote up the accident report as though the gentleman was moving making a left and I ran into him. The officer did not see the accident, he wrote it up from what the other driver told him.\n\nThe insurance company said I wasn\u2019t to blame. But they did ask me why my testimony differed from the drivers testimony. I said the person was parked in the middle of the road. The other driver said he was turning left.\n\nI have a witness who 10 minutes earlier saw the car parked.\n\nShould I get the traffic accident report changed to indicate that the officer was writing what the driver told him rather than what the officer saw?\n\nI was injured in the accident and it\u2019s not stopping here. I was in Maryland. ","title":"Accident report Written by police officer was what the other driver told him and was incorrect. Should I try to get it changed?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1414525077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2kllca\/my_friend_may_be_losing_everything_and_needs_help\/","id":"2kllca","body":"I wasn't sure if there was a reddit for legal help, but sure enough there is! hopefully someone can help.\n\nMy friend, we will call him Joe (because its his real name), is in dire straits at the moment and has been in a bad financial situation for over a year now. A quick backstory of the situation is that his father is a financial genius and taught Joe from a young age how to invest money. His father set up a stock portfolio\/account for his son at a young age. Both of their names are on the account because it was created when Joe was a minor. When Joe reached adulthood he invested his own $10,000 into a variety of stocks and turned it into a net worth of $900,000. However, Joe is a very generous guy. He gave out loans to friends and family while never really expecting to be paid pack in full. Joe's father caught wind of this and decided to \"punish\" his 32 year old son by freezing the account and all of his assets. Joe pretty much lived off of his stocks and never had a high paying job. without access to his main source of income his bank account has dwindled and he has been unable to pay rent for some time.\n\nJoe originally thought his father's \"lesson\" would end sooner and so he did not seek out a lawyer until this summer at my urging. His lawyer has charged Joe highly for any meetings together and now has completely stopped responding to Joe's phonecalls now that the funding is gone. Also, the lawyer expected his fees to amount to around $400k of the total $900k. Now Joe is seemingly without legal help and running out of options. He has spoken to his father over the phone. His father wants him to take a deal where Joe would receive $20k every 6 months for the next 5-10 years. Joe has refused and will continue to do so.\n\nIn addition to this, Joe's affluent Uncle passed away recently and left a large sum of money to Joe. After 6 Months, through his previous lawyer, Joe was able to see that his unle left him over 200k, but that its a trust set up for when he turns 40. The executor of the deceased Uncle's estate is also Joe's father.\n\nSo, my questions are basically what can be done? What can Joe do to reclaim the the investments he built up? is there some way Joe can get his inheritance now or soon due to his hardship? Please help with any information you can provide or any resources that you can point me to.\n\nAlso, Joe is a resident of Connecticut, while his father is a resident of New Jersey. I don't know if that is necessary information.","title":"My friend may be losing everything and needs help","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571410940,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djoqov\/subleasing_question\/","id":"djoqov","body":"My partner and I have been looking for a new apartment for several reasons:\n\n-\tcurrent apartment doesn\u2019t allow dogs (we have been planning, saving and really want one)\n-\tcurrent apartment doesn\u2019t have W\/D or a dishwasher\n-\tcurrent apartment doesn\u2019t have parking\n-\tcurrent apartment is very expensive \n\nWe found another apartment that is in our price range that satisfies all of our needs as well as providing several other quality of life improvements. \n\nOur current lease ends in August 2020. The lease for the new apartment starts in January 2020. \n\nOur lease states:   https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/0Rj8g1v.jpg\n\nMy partner and I are considering telling our landlord that we don\u2019t want to live together anymore to make it a \u201cchange of life event\u201d\nI don\u2019t know that this is the best course of action, but the apartment we found and were approved for is perfect for us and we don\u2019t want to lose it. \n\nWhat recourse do we have to amicably and truthfully get approval for subletting our apartment?","title":"Subleasing Question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1411932349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hpy92\/what_are_the_laws_pertaining_to_disclosing_stds\/","id":"2hpy92","body":"Let me start this with: I have told\/am absolutely going to tell every potential partner. I just think it's smart to know the law as well.\n\nI was diagnosed with low-risk HPV that has now been treated (but not cured) about a month ago. \n\nI tried googling the answer to this question and all I could seem to get was totally contradictory information. You all have served me well in the past, so I'm here to ask you.\n\nAlso, can you be sued if you don't tell and then they catch it?\n\nThank you! ","title":"What are the laws pertaining to disclosing STDs to future partners (Indiana)?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554108994,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7zolu\/employee_was_awarded_supervisor_contract_7_years\/","id":"b7zolu","body":"I\u2019ve recently taken over as a manager of a laboratory in the UK. One of my employees is a bit of an \u2018old boy\u2019 (people from the UK know what I mean). He was employed 15 years ago and around 7 years ago, an eager senior manager awarded him a pay rise in the form of a \u2018promotion\u2019 to senior lab technician\/supervisor. He didn\u2019t actually start to do anything he wasn\u2019t already doing, so his actual job role hasn\u2019t changed at all. I\u2019ve recently taken on extra work and don\u2019t currently have anyone performing any supervisor duties, and need that role to be filled. The company I work for are reluctant to allow anyone else to fill this position as they feel they are currently paying someone already for this. \n\nI already know that he will be very unwilling (I\u2019m not even sure he would be capable if I\u2019m honest) to perform any of these duties. Does he have any rights with regards to \u2018regular duties\u2019. By that I mean, because he is currently being paid that extra money and has been for 7 years, can he claim that he doesn\u2019t have to do the supervisor stuff as he hasn\u2019t had to before? I seem to remember reading about a similar situation before and just want to prepare myself before I approach the subject with him. ","title":"Employee was awarded \u2018supervisor\u2019 contract 7 years ago, but his duties didn\u2019t change beyond a technician, does he have a legal leg to stand on should I ask him to start performing the \u2018supervisor\u2019 duties?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539735936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9otf8l\/sc_wa_parents_withholding_inheritance_if_i_change\/","id":"9otf8l","body":"I'm 22 and am a resident of Washington (Seattle, if that makes any difference.) My parents live in South Carolina. \n\n​\n\nFor some back story, my parents are kind of crazy, abusive, and we're not exactly on great terms- the extent of our communication is emailing and I've seen them twice in the past four years.  I'm 100% independent, have a full time job, pay for my own health insurance, taxes, rent etc etc. I found out earlier this year at a funeral for one of my grandparents that my great aunt (who I was very close to) who died when I was 16 left me a savings bond (supposedly somewhere between $5k and $12k, which isn't \\*that\\* much but hey- I don't make that much money) when my dad mentioned it offhand. Of my four grandparents, three of them have also died in the past year, one in November 2017 and two in the spring of this year. After finding that I had an inheritance that I didn't know about from years ago, I found it very suspicious that I didn't inherit anything from any of my grandparents, especially because I was the favorite of one of them. I tried to check their wills online, but the SC online records only showed that my mom was the executor (two lived in SC when they died, one lived in Kentucky- I didn't check that one). My parents are extremely greedy and think I am a disgrace to the family because I'm LGBT, so it wouldn't surprise me if my grandparents did actually leave me something and are withholding it like they are the savings bond.\n\n​\n\nI also want to legally change my name, but I've been holding off because I'm afraid that it will render my entitlement to whatever I have been left in the will(s) to become void.\n\n​\n\n1. Can I change my name and still receive my inheritance?\n2. Is there any way for me to determine whether or not there is any additional inheritance or any legal basis for it to be kept from me? \n3. How do I got about getting said inheritance (even just the savings bond)? I guess the obvious answer is \"hire a lawyer\" but I don't have lot of expendable money and I know for sure that I can't afford to spend thousands on a lawyer.","title":"(SC \/ WA) Parents withholding inheritance, if I change my name will I still be entitled to it?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553835165,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6t4lu\/after_i_cracked_the_door_police_pushed_it_open_on\/","id":"b6t4lu","body":"[https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5q6ha\/after_i_cracked_the_door_police_pushed_it_open_on\/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app](Original Post)\n\nBackground before yesterday\u2019s post:\n\nSo, December 2018, I had a fall and fractured my wrist.  It turns out, when police forced in the door on me, combined with cuffing me, he refractured my wrist.  I\u2019ve attached a report from 3\/26, the day, the incident occurred.\n\nSo, to summarize:\n\n1) I cracked the door open about 2 inches.\n\n2) 2 police officers, with no paperwork in hand, when I asked \u201cwhat are the warrants for?\u201dsaid they\u2019d have to go check.\n\n3) arrived at my door stating I \u201cmay have outstanding warrants.\u201d\n\n4) I told them 3 times, In a runaround conversation,   me: \u201cwhat are the warrants for?\u201d,  and they \u201cwe don\u2019t know\u201d and me: \u201cI will call the police station and if I have warrants out I\u2019ll turn myself in\u201d, and they: \u201cno ma\u2019am you need to come with us.\u201d\n\n4) Upon my fourth request for the warrants and statement I\u2019d turn myself in, an officer pushed the door open on my body by force, with my right hand on the door.\n\n5) that same officer, agitated, then cuffed me by force, although I didn\u2019t resist.\n\n6)! During this time, my right wrist was refractured.\n\n7) During this time I was a female in under pants and t shirt, which I had already mentioned to them repeatedly.\n\n8)  I stated I had some warrants three weeks ago but did not mention that I added already been arraigned on the charges (meaning quite a bit of time for the paperwork to update passed I had been arraigned a full week earlier).\n\n9) The officer who forced the door asked for my SSN.  After some calm questions I provided it.\n\n10) After radioing in my info, I was  uncuffed, as it was discovered I had turned myself in 3 weeks before for these warrants.  The officer apologized \u201cit had to go this way.\u201d  I indicated that I\u2019ve been researching my rights as a citizen and I had no idea they could burst in that way.\n\n11) the officers left with polite pleasantries.  \n\n12) shortly after the adrenaline wore off, I noticed the pain in my wrist.  \n\n13) later that say I went to a local medexpress and found my wrist had been refractured.\n\nSo, with no warrant and ultimately asking for nothing more than my SSN, officers broke my wrist forcing my door in on me with not a stitch of paperwork allowing them to do so.\n\nI\u2019m beyond angry.  I cannot believe that these cops could behave so egregiously they not only completely ignored the 4th amendment but they basically started me completely over on the healing of my wrist.\n\nIf anyone has comments, I guess i should maybe share on r\/bola or r\/legaladviceofftopic?  Not sure which.\n\nThanks to all who commented fairly on my original post.\n\nMy proof:\nhttps:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/FwzdM8p\n\n","title":"After I cracked the door, police pushed it open on me (VA, USA) UPDATE","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504756136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ykt7a\/my_employer_wants_my_signing_bonus_back_but_i\/","id":"6ykt7a","body":"I'm in need of some help. If any of you are lawyers or have been in a similar situation I would greatly appreciate your advice. This is my first time posting so forgive me if I have any formatting issues.\n\nSo I received a call from my former employer asking me if I wanted to help him with his next business venture (Company B). I accepted and signed a contract with him.  In this contract, it had a signing bonus of $2,000 which was for any preliminary work it took to get the business open. During this time, I still stayed at my old job and helped him out after work so that I didn't have to quit just yet. To my dismay, my employer asked me to do a majority, if not all of the work it took to get this business started. This was fine by me. However, not too long ago my employer asks me to design something for a separate company (Company A). When I asked him what this company was he stated that Company B would be under Company A. I let him know that me doing work for another company was not what we agreed on in the initial contract. I further asked him if I would need to be doing work for Company A as well going forward. \n\nHe then told me forget it and then asked me to round up how many hours I worked so far for Company B and what my rate was. He said he would pay me for those hours and that I would need to return the remaining amount from my signing bonus. I have financial responsibilities so I had to use that bonus to pay for my debts. I let him know that I don't have the money, but he threatened to pursue legal action. \n\nMy question is, in California, would he have a strong case? He has no proof that he ever paid me, nor did we ever sign a repayment agreement. In the contract it only states that this bonus would be given upon signing. To add, it is him that did not want me to finish the work. There's no where on the contract that says that if the work was incomplete that I would have to forfeit the bonus or repay part of the bonus back. \n\nI'm sorry if this post seems all over the place, I just have a lot on my mind. Please let me know if I need to clarify anything. Thanks for your time. ","title":"My employer wants my signing bonus back, but I don't have it.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1410028402,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fnm6d\/north_cali_my_dog_caused_several_thousand_in\/","id":"2fnm6d","body":"Northern California\n\nI've been renting a room in a house for the past 6 months from a person off craigslist. the last 1 month of those 6 months I offered double the rent to stay because I was supposed to move out on month 5 (they are in the process of selling the house. also during month 5 I was the only tenant) but couldn't find a new place to live (hard to find somewhere that will take a dog). There has been no contracts or lease agreements between either of us. I paid in cash for 5 months then for the last month paid with a check.\n\nI went out at night and then came back at about 9am to find my dog had shut herself in the bathroom. Apparently she also chewed a hole in the sink piping (it is exposed, not covered by a cabinet) that was made out of some woven material so it could be punctured. The water ran all the way down the hall and into the bedroom. A company has already come to inspect it and the preliminary estimate is about $6k. I've tried to get my renter's insurance to cover it but it seems like they won't. I've asked the homeowner to get his homeowner's insurance to cover it but he said he won't because it will raise his rates (I offered to pay the deductible and the rates increase difference) \n\nBoth the real estate agent and homeowner were called by neighbors at about 4am complaining about the dog howling and that they could hear running water (the bathroom is at the front of the house). Neither the real estate agent or homeowner called to inform me of this)\n\nWhere do I stand legally with this? I'm trying to make it right, but if I can't get insurance involved somehow it will just cost too much. I've been contacting several lawyers but it's the weekend so I can't get any consultations. \n\nThanks so much!","title":"(North Cali) My dog caused several thousand in water damage to a house I was renting (without any lease paperwork involved) and homeowner won't use his insurance","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539841400,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p6f8u\/losing_my_job_because_of_my_stutter_what_are_my\/","id":"9p6f8u","body":"Hi everyone\u2014new to this sub, so nice to meet you all and here\u2019s hoping I'm following the sub rules.\n\nSo I\u2019ve had a stutter since I was really young, I\u2019ve done speech therapy etc., and it\u2019s helped the severity but hasn\u2019t gotten rid of it. I\u2019ve mostly learned to roll with it with a sense of humor, but I have my bad days.\n\nAnyway, today, despite being 30 and having worked since I was 16, I had my first time losing my job thanks to my stutter. I\u2019ve been working as a hostess in a high volume well-known NYC restaurant since August 1st. I was called into the manager\u2019s office today\u2014the first time I\u2019ve ever gotten feedback beyond \u201cDon\u2019t put \\_\\_ in \\_\\_ place\u201d\u2014and they told me that my stutter was a problem, and the implication was that they would fire me if they could. However, since 1) stuttering is considered a disability under NY State law, and they don\u2019t want that kind of lawsuit, and 2) I\u2019ve been a really hard worker with a good attitude who always helps out the team and has never had attendance issues, i.e., legit reasons they could fire me, they\u2019re trying to make me take a role that pays much less and is less communications based. It's my only option, and it pays half of what I was making as a hostess. I\u2019d try to keep my current position (hostess), but more than likely, if they want me out of the job, they\u2019ll cut my hours down to next to nothing and force me to find another job that way. So my options are take the demotion or hit the pavement and work elsewhere.\n\nI\u2019ve worked in restaurants in NYC before; I\u2019ve worked in corporate companies, everything in between. I\u2019ve never been treated like this before because of a physical problem I have literally no control over. It was deeply humiliating. (Also how did it take them 3 months to bring this up???!)\n\nI'm guessing I don't have any routes for legal recourse since they're making \"accommodations\" for my disability (the lower paying position), but any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks!","title":"Losing my job because of my stutter, what are my options?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569938645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbtuj8\/is_this_considered_harrassmenthostile_work\/","id":"dbtuj8","body":"   \nI have been having issues with my manger for a few months, i made a list of the stuff he does for HR \n\nSexual Comments\n\n​\n\n\u25cf Has a tendency for saying extremely inappropriate stuff, such as bringing up his he has seen \u201cmagnum condoms in a tenant\u2019s room before and now he wants to be \u2018friends\u2019 with them\u201d\n\n\u25cf Talks about how some presumed \u2018gay\u2019 tenants don\u2019t like coming to me because they\u2019re \u2018afraid\u2019 of women?  \n\n\n\u25cfHe was brought up in the offices how many sexual partners he has or has had, and he has also made in appointment while in the office because he was concerned about one of his \u2018partners\u2019 bringing up that they may have an STD  \n\n\n\u25cfHe was at one point talking to me about our apartment store shirts, I asked if they were unisex and he said something along the lines of no, but the female ones make boobs look amazing!  \n\n\n\u25cf He constantly talks about random guys who come into the office, or about people he or we all know and how they can \u2018get it\u2019 he has even said this about Joels brother\u2026.  \n\n\n\u25cf He was having a conversation in the office with the maintenance guys about how many sexual partners he has had and does have, and made a comment saying \u201cOh,  Well Rachel gets around\u201d  \n\n\n  \nDemeaning Comments\n\n\u25cf I say that my gram is really ill and, in the hospital, so if I seem a little off my game that is why\u2026 His reply was \u201cHow would I be able to tell? There won\u2019t be a difference haha\u201d  \n\u25cf Has said several times and that Joel and I disappoint him every day as a \u201cJoke\u201d  \n\u25cf He will randomly remove tasks from my responsibility if he feels like he could do faster himself, or if I'm asking too many questions.  \n\u25cf Instead of redirecting or correcting mistakes he will passively-aggressively announce when someone does something wrong.  \n\u25cf He often uses me as a way to say no to residents or make me look like the bad guy. Like telling me there is no way we can do something for a resident, due to company policies, and I will tell them that we can\u2019t do anything for them then he talks to them and says oh yeah that\u2019s no problem we can definitely do that for you, making it seem like I don\u2019t know what I'm talking about.  \n\u25cf That also causes me to not know what answers to give residents on most questions because he has given so many answers to each question, depending on what seems to be his mood that day.  \n\u25cf It doesn\u2019t seem like a team environment where a manager is invested in seeing his employees do well and grow, I feel you should always be able to go to your manager for mentorship and support, and I feel I get that complete opposite from him like I'm a burden to his work.  \n\u25cf When I walk in in the mornings, before I even have time to sit down or even clock in he starts anxiously telling all the 10 things he needs me to do, in addition to what i normally do like checking the general contacts, and work orders received, and then he gets highly upset when I forget those things and passive-aggressively asks me if he needs to go over how to do those things again  \n\u25cf He will also ask one of us to do things and then before we can even lock our computers and stand up he goes \u201cnevermind I'll just do it\u201d.  \n\u25cf Often acts like we can\u2019t handle small tasks, talks over us when we are trying to talk to residents and tries to tell us a bunch of stuff while we are talking to someone on the phone because it seems he doesn\u2019t think we can handle doing this stuff on our own.  \n\u25cf He is almost never positive and encouraging, every small inconvenience is always made out to something huge, and world ending.  \n\u25cfThis is my screenshot from when I did my FIRST full unit inspection, he felt it took me too long and I was asking too many questions but this is one of the times where these people got special treatment, and we were supposed to get rid of their garbage and items left in the apartment, rather than writing they were left in the apartment on the inspection, as i was trained to write them down on the inspection sheet, I think I had reason to be confused. (see below)   \n\n\n\u25cf When bringing up to him that he can be a little insensitive and sometimes passive-aggressive, all we get back is that he knows he can be, in the moment he says he will try to do better but nothing ever changes.\n\n\u25cf9\/17\/19 8:45 I was working on word orders, I had to stop in the middle of one to answer the phone call, when I got off the phone,  he immediately says \u201cThat work order has no labor on it\u201d I let him know that I was in the middle of the work order when I answered the phone, I then started getting emails that he was editing the work orders that I was working on, because again he didn\u2019t believe I could handle a simple task.  \n\u25cfHe let me know that I forgot to clock back in from lunch yesterday, So I went into paylocity just to double-check that everything was updated correctly. I noticed that my clock in from that morning didn\u2019t go through, and I now had 3 clock out and in for lunch, I tried to tell him about the mistake and before I could even get half of what I was saying out he cuts me off and says \u201cRachel I already updated and fixed your timesheet.\u201d I again repeated myself and told him there was still a mistake and admitted it was his mistake and fixed it, but it is often that he cuts me off before I can even say what I\u2019m trying to say. \n\n\u25cf 9-19-19 1:50 a resident came in stating that he didn\u2019t get an itemized receipt with his refund, He obviously didn\u2019t think i could handle anything and interrupted me and helped him instead.  \n\n\n  \n\u25cf Prints out my work before I'm even done with them before I get a chance to double check and circles my mistakes and rewords stuff","title":"Is this considered harrassment\/hostile work enviroment??","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569303244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8itd4\/can_i_sue_the_quick_change_artist_that_cost_me_my\/","id":"d8itd4","body":"I know his full name and where he's from, and there is video, documentational, and witness proof that he committed this crime. Can I take him to court for causing me to lose my job? If the company won't call the police, and I get fucking fired because he scammed me, then is this a feasible course of action? Would he even come to court? What if he doesn't? Thanks. I'm in Ohio.","title":"Can I sue the quick change artist that cost me my job?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570271338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddli8u\/backed_into_a_car_on_our_private_property_the\/","id":"ddli8u","body":"Early in the morning around 2-3 am, one of our drivers (D) backed his 18wheeler into a car parked behind him. In the car there was man (M) driving and a prostitute(P). There where eye witnesses (D\u2019s mom and daughter) there who saw the car shake and her leave after the accident. They where able to snap poor quality picture of P and there are also camera around the lot that could have seen her walk out. I called the police and informed them about the car accident, after saying it wasn\u2019t an emergency, she told me they don\u2019t send officers out for those reasons. I regret not mentioning the prostitution, but I was rushed off the phone. \n\nThe driver of the car has asked us to pay for his repairs. Yet I don\u2019t know who is to blame here. The driver of the car was on private property and soliciting prostitution. I\u2019m not sure what to do as in he has threatened to get lawyers involved.  Would he be in the wrong and could we fight this in court?","title":"Backed into a car on our private property. The other car was hidden in the dark with a prostitute","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554774193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb23x7\/autistic_daughter_had_an_incident_at_school\/","id":"bb23x7","body":"So, I'm going to say outright that I'm not quite sure what to so. I've asked advice from a few of my friends, most tell me to sue, others tell me to go directly to the school, but I've decided to ask here so I can get a completely unbiased opinion on the situation.\n\nMy daughter is three and has autism, craniosynostosis, and sensory processing disorder. She started school in February, and although she's still far behind I definitely feel like the consistency and peer interaction is helping her. Genuinely. She's in a program with neurotypical children as well as special needs, with a teacher and teacher's aid that I like immensely!\n\nHowever, today there was an incident.\n\nI got a call from the school nurse. I set my phone down for just a second, missed it, and called back almost immediately. She told me my daughter had a fit today, normal for autistic children, and had a \"slight bump on her head\". \n\nI first asked which side it was on, as she had skull surgery at 10 months and I wanted to make sure she couldn't have potentially harmed the reconstructed side of her face. She told me it was the left, and it wasn't bad. I calmed, thought it was no big deal... But she immediately started pressuring me into obtaining a helmet for her.\n\nNot only does the type of surgery she had prevent her from wearing a helmet, it could damage her growth from the reconstruction. I tell her this, and she ignores me and pipes back \"she's only with us a few hours a day. Contact him (her surgeon) and call me back.\" \n\nThe whole interaction she seemed defensive and snippy. I'm sitting here like *I* did something horribly wrong, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm thinking that, even if I could convince her surgeon to allow it, she's nonverbal autistic with cognative issues. Forcing her to wear something she doesn't like will cause sensory overload, and possible psychological damage. So I'd be shelling out extra money I don't have to get something she might or might not wear. (My best guess is *not*) \n\nI was confused as to why the nurse was so adament about this... And then my daughter came home.\n\nNot only did she have a bruise and bump on the top of her forehead, she had a busted lip and crusted blood in her nostril. I open up her bookbag, and there's a report that states: \"When it w as time to clean up, [your daughter] was prompted to clean up. She became vert upset and began to cry and lay on the floor. She began hitting her head on the floor. **A pillow was placed under her head but she hit it so hard blood and redness was found on her foreheas, nose, and upper lip.** We applied ice and took her to the nurse.\"\n\n\nOkay, so here's my issues:\n\n\/1) Why did the nurse lie to me by omission? She said it was a \"small bump\" of which I have on a voicemail of the first missed call, and during the phonecall. Why was I not made aware that she bashed her face so hard that she was bloody? Not only is it a head and those injuries are dangerous, this child has prior issues with reconstructive surgeries on her skull amd face. This is something she **absolutely should have told me on the phone, and she did not.**\n\n\n\/2) How does a child bash herself bloody through a pillow? I'm sorry, but why were they able to stop her after she became bloody, but not before? It doesn't make sense to me. At all. \n\n\/3) These people were supposedly trained to deal with autism, and autistic fits are common, why are they at a loss of what to do in this situation?\n\n\nAt this point, I feel scared to send her back. What if this happens again and she *really* hurts herself next time? Why does it feel like they're trying to place liability in the parent and force a helmet which, could possibly cause more problems then it can prevent. Why did they not fully inform me of the situation? \n\nDid something more sinister happen? I don't know, maybe not. But it makes me feel like it did because they neglected to fully explain what happened on the phone, initially. I feel like lying by omission is an attempt to cover something up. My daughter can't tell me what went on, she's nonverbal and lacking the cognative issues. \n\nSo where do I go? The school had already lost an autistic child in 2015 who ended up crossing the street due to their negligence, which made me nervous but the teachers were reprimanded, so I figured it would be okay.\n\nBut I'm honestly at a loss at this point. I'm wondering if they even care. Do I go to her IEP team? An advocate? The school itself? A lawyer? Do I send her back tomorrow? I'm truly and utterly scared now.\n\nMy daughter is okay, she's got a doctor's appointment tomorrow to sus out the damage... But what happens if she seriously hurts herself next time? What if another child gets hurt?\n\n\nI'm just scared and confused.\nThank you for your time.","title":"Autistic Daughter had an incident at school?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568854374,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d66iz0\/cops_like_to_set_up_in_my_workplace_parking_lot\/","id":"d66iz0","body":"South Dakota. \n\nWondering is my workplace parking lot is considered private grounds because I don't want these cops in my company's parking lot after hours. Wondering if I can just go up to their vehicles and let them know they're not on public grounds and that they ought to egress. \n\nThanks in advance.","title":"Cops like to set up in my workplace parking lot after business hours with their lights off to catch speeders. Can I kick them out?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569447568,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9a03b\/weird_traffic_stop_legal_was_it_even_an_officer\/","id":"d9a03b","body":"It happened this morning and since ive had time to think about it.\nWashington state. \n\nI was driving on a county highway. 45mph zone. Doing about 40. I was driving towards a construction zone so i was slowing down. The zone was at an intersection and the light is flashing red so i was already stoping. As i stopped for the light a police officer with neon vest comes jogging up to my car. So i stayed there and rolled down the window. \n\nHe said \u201c i just wanted to say you need to slow down. You were going 50 mph and theres people out here we dont want anyone to get hurt\u201d ( there was no one there besides him). \n\n4am me replied, \u201c50? I was doing about 30 slowing down for the light.\u201d  \n\nHe immediately asked for my license and registration and wrote down the info on a notepad. Pocket sized. Told me i can expect a ticket in the mail. \n\nI didnt sign for anything. I didnt get his name or number. I really just wanted to comply and leave. I didnt want to antagonize the already confrontational officer. Hindsight i should have. Now im worried about him lying about the situation or forging mu signature on aticket. What if he wasnt even an officer? Just someone dressed up as one. \n\nIm not sure if i should ignore the whole situation or call the police and talk to them about it. Maybe file a complaint? \n\nP.s. car was running in drive the whole timeut. I was blocking traffic (but there was none at all). \n\n\nShortened: officer on foot stopped me in a construction zone. Didnt like my reply to his initial complaint. Took my info and told me id get the ticket in the mail.","title":"Weird Traffic Stop. Legal? Was it even an officer?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538937896,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m7k3w\/caught_my_employer_shaving_hours_off_my_check\/","id":"9m7k3w","body":"I am currently working at a company (which I won\u2019t name) but I am in the process of completing my two weeks, my final day is Wednesday (10\/10).\n\nI get my check, and I notice it\u2019s definitely a bit short. I check and it says 39 hours, which is definitely not right as I was scheduled 44 hours. Now this is never spot on, as since it is a food place sometimes we get out earlier and I had two 30 minute breaks.\n\nI go back on my time card and see that Tuesday (9\/25) somehow I was clocked in at 3:30-9:38 when I was scheduled 5-10 and worked that shift. I then find that my 3 hour shift for Friday (9\/28) is missing entirely. Call my manager and he claims he doesn\u2019t know what happened, and that he\u2019ll add 1.5 hours to the shift I had just finished. I am absolutely positive I clocked in correctly on those dates, what should I do? Did I catch them red handed?","title":"Caught my employer shaving hours off my check, what should I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553628897,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5u5ht\/my_apartment_complex_is_pulling_shit_out_their_ass\/","id":"b5u5ht","body":"So, I am 18 years old and live in a very nice apartment complex in downtown Grand Rapids. I do not pay for this, my parents do, I go to school right down the street. Anyways, the apartment complex have given me 2 noise complaints now due to my odd school and work hours, if I get 3 noise complaints there saying they can evict me. They also complained about my friend putting their stuff in my apartment while they were moving apartments for only about 3 weeks. I also have state legal stress dog, with a doctors note and all the paperwork, which they told me at the beginning of my lease that it\u2019s no problem and I wouldn\u2019t have to pay the pet fine every month due to this. It\u2019s been 6 months and their still not letting me have my dog live with me. Also, the apartment complex has horrible maintenance service. My key fob on my door has been broken for over a week now, making my door not being able to lock at all from the inside or out. These kind on things have been happening the whole time I\u2019ve been living there. I know it\u2019s hard to help with this kind of situation without seeing the contract, but they haven\u2019t given me a copy of it either. Please help before they evict me, for no good reason!","title":"My apartment complex is pulling shit out their ass...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554344451,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9724g\/oregoncoparent_isnt_abiding_by_the_law\/","id":"b9724g","body":"Since it's late I can't call any numbers tonight.  I basically want to know what my next steps should be.\n\nCo-parent lives a block away and still not buckling our 6 year old in his car seat for the duration of the ride.  He buckles him up front.  I even had to get him to buckle In the first place.  \n\nHe refused to buy a second carseat (switches between his car and his girlfriends car with one carseat) so my mom gave him hers.  \n\nWe agreed in the parenting plan to buckle him in his harnessed carseat at all times and had I not been waiting outside for him to pick up our child, I would have assumed he was abiding by the agreement.  \n\nHe said \"it's a treat to ride In the front seat, it's only a block away\".  The route is behind a grocery store. But the corners don't have mirrors to see if anyone is coming.  \nHis other excuses are; \n-you are the one who suggested it in the first place (I had just moved and I suggested it the first time and made sure I said that it was a one time thing)\n-nothing bad has happened (I've stated that it only takes one time) \n\nI've stated the law for child care safety.  Sent a video of a simulation of a child in an accident up front vs in a harnessed seat in back.  \n\nHe refuses to discuss safety concerns and doesn't take them seriously because it's coming from me and I don't know what else to do.  \n\nOur child is special needs and will probably need a special carseat to keep him harnessed as he gets too big for standard seats.  He's on the spectrum and very squirrelly in the car.\n\nGuys...Im not willing to sacrifice my sons safety and I don't know the next steps I need to take.  There are also other safety concerns like he leaves his medicine bottles on his desk and bong\/other weed paraphernalia on his desk.  I've also asked to have those things locked away when he has our son.\nI feel like all of this is common sense and I'm within my rights to take legal action if he refuses to take our sons safety seriously.\n","title":"[Oregon]Co-parent isn't abiding by the law","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553890635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7253f\/guarantor_duties_california\/","id":"b7253f","body":"I'm looking to move in with a friend, and they recently told me that they had bad credit because of some issues when they were a teenager. They told me that their parents would co-sign the lease with them, and I trust them, but I just want to cover my bases. With their parents being the co-signers\/guarantors, if they miss rent and I pay my half, will the landlord go after me or their parents for the second half of the rent? Is there any way to legally establish that our rents are separate and make sure that I'm not liable for their half if they don't pay? Like I said, I trust them to pay, I just want to make sure that I'm as protected as possible. ","title":"guarantor duties [california]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443462930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mq661\/wheres_my_child_visitation_rights_if_any\/","id":"3mq661","body":"Try to keep these condensed as possible:\n\nI reside in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. This past MARCH, my wife and I were officially divorced via annulment. We were married for roughly 2 years, and had one child together.\n\nFoolishy, I never responded to the court documents during our divorce process (visitation preference schedule, and child support).\n\nA few months ago, Child Support Services started deducting money from my paycheck, and sent documentation in regards to it. \n\nSo I was wondering: do I get any visitation with my child, ever?","title":"Where's my child visitation rights (if any)?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568825664,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d60mt4\/can_i_legally_leave_all_my_earthly_posessions_to\/","id":"d60mt4","body":"Pretty much what the title says. Is it legal in the US to write into your will that you leave everything to your killer? I'm genuinely considering this, I know it sounds stupid. What if I get killed in a car crash that's my fault? I couldn't help them and properly apologize if I'm dead. What if physician-assisted suicide is legalized eventually and I want to leave my doctor a final \"thank you\"?\n\nThis is half-hypothetical at this point, since I'm only 19, but judging by my current life expectancy as stated by my cardiologist, I need to start thinking about this kind of stuff.\nI know this is a weird question, but maybe someone could dignify it with a response?","title":"Can I legally leave all my earthly posessions to whatever kills me? (Serious)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1447176674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3saogq\/ontario_canada_questions_regarding_applicability\/","id":"3saogq","body":"My father owns a detached property in Ontario, Canada. He does not live there, but I do. Myself and the other people living in the house (who are not family members) share a kitchen. Does this exempt this living arrangement from the Ontario Residential Tenancies Act?\n\nAlso, how do lease agreements work when the Ontario Residential Tenancies Act is not applicable? For instance, what weight do signed lease agreements have if my father wants one of the occupants to leave?\n\nThank you for any information.","title":"[Ontario, Canada] Questions regarding applicability of the Ontario Residential Tenancies Act","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552716127,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1p9f7\/do_i_need_to_hire_a_lawyer_to_help_me_look_over_a\/","id":"b1p9f7","body":"I'm about to enter a contract agreement with a company who will edit, upload, and distribute (tags, keywords, etc.) my video content on stock footage sites and then split the profit with me 50\/50. I've looked over the terms and agreements closely and everything seems to make sense or be appropriate (aside from a few things that I would need some clarification on) but is there a way to get clarification without hiring a lawyer? Or if it is necessary what would the legal fees for something like this be more or less?","title":"Do I need to hire a lawyer to help me look over a contract before entering it?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555378251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdo339\/late_term_abortion_harassmentorder_of_protection\/","id":"bdo339","body":"F(24) I\u2019m in my second trimester. The father of the baby m(24) Is not involved. Today I had a checkup appointment, while waiting for my doctor to come into the room and ask me if I have any concerns about the pregnancy so far I decided to check my email. While scrolling I saw an email that was titled appointment reminder. It was an appointment request from a clinic in town to have a late term abortion. The time and date for my appointment was requested for me, and the email stated my information saying I requested the information. My heart sank as I scanned through the email. This is not something I\u2019m considering and strongly believe the father of the baby or his new girlfriend requested this information. I have been crying for hours and I\u2019m just upset anyone would do this. Is there anything I should do?  Should I contact anyone regarding this event?\n\nHere\u2019s a little background on my situation.\nI was dating the fob for 3 years. Like many relationships things started great we were happily in love and things sort of just dwindled down. He was emotionally and  physically abusive for about 2 out of the three years. We lived together for about a year before I moved out in January. \n\nHe knew I was pregnant in November when I found out. That\u2019s when he became more emotionally and physically abusive towards me. He would constantly harass me about getting an abortion. He would say that he\u2019s too young, that I\u2019m not mature enough, that it\u2019s not his, that if I have the baby he would take it away from me and I wouldn\u2019t see him\/her, but he would say that and then also state he would want to be at the delivery. I have a university degree and work as a nurse. I do believe that I can do this on my own. at the time I was living with him I truly believed I couldn\u2019t tell anyone what was going on and had to make it work with him to be happy.\n\nAt the end of 2018. He would accuse me of cheating on him which wasn\u2019t true . One day I couldn\u2019t emotionally handle being at work bc the day before he harassed me about not having a baby and I came home early. I saw him and a girl I have never met walk out of our apartment attempting to take our 10 month old puppy to the park.  I remember seeing a photo of this girl when I met him and explained he went on a date with her before he met me. \n\n I attempted to grab our dogs leash and asked them to leave together but leave the dog at home. Even though he was both our dog I took care of him more, took him to training and slept with him by my bed at night. He called the police saying I was harassing them. I wasnt preventing them from leaving. I just grabbed the leash and ask her if she thought I was ok to start dating a guy who lives with the girl that\u2019s going to have his baby. And which she stated yes I\u2019m in love with him. In disbelief of what was going on a man I was dating for three years.. being 9 weeks pregnant and dealing with his physical and emotional abuse i finally decided to move out..\n\nThe police asked him to take a couple of his items and allow me the rest of the day to pack my things. I called a friend and my sister to help me gather all my things, while we were packing up my ex and the girl came back and went into his room and started also packing his belongings. The police came back, this time they asked me to leave for an hour and come back since my ex wanted to get some more of his things. we grabbed food and came back an hour and a half later they were still there. I asked them to leave, after about 5 mins she left the apartment and stood outside while he was walking about the apartment. I saw he was shuffling through some of my albums and asked him politely not to touch my things.. I stood in the hallway talking to my sister who was packing up the items in the kitchen. He came up to me and shoved me out of the hallway. My sister asked why he did that and he stated I was blocking the entire hallway, which wasn\u2019t accurate bc I was literally just standing outside my bedroom door. Which gave him plenty of room to walk by without making contact. \n\nI moved back to my parents and two weeks later I received an order of protection from both my ex and his new girlfriend. I went to contest the accusations but hey both being a witness for each other lied on the stand saying I was attacking them. He emailed me a couple of weeks later stating that he did want me to have an abortion and I deserved getting served by them and that he wanted to be at the delivery but wanted to take a paternity test after the baby arrived. When I lived with him I would tell him to take a paternity test bc I didn\u2019t cheat and am 100 percent sure he\u2019s the dad. In which he would say nvm, I don\u2019t even care it\u2019s mine.. Nervous he would show up at my home or to the delivery I ended up getting an order for domestic violence against him. He ended up contesting the order but I brought pages of text messages from him asking me to abort and even setting up an appointment for an abortion, pictures where he hit my face, statements on how he would treat me around the apartment, and I brought in my sister as a witness to state what she saw on the date we moved my things out. The judge kept my order of protection active and I have not seen or have talked to him since. \n\nI don\u2019t plan I\u2019m asking him for child support when the baby is here. I don\u2019t want him around me or the baby. \n\nOn top of all this. He\u2019s taking me to small claims for last months rent.. saying I owe him $760 dollars for 15 days of Februarys rent even though I moved out on Jan 19th and never went back. I attempted to pay feb. rent twice online on feb 1st but since the payment was for the total rent not just half which I was only responsible but I canceled the payment. I went Monday morning to the apartment office on the 3rd to pay my half but he already paid the whole amount. I talked to the apartment and they broke the costs at my costs would have been $300 max. Im reluctant to pay even this since he took my special edition game console that\u2019s worth 400, the couch and the dog which I paid half for and after checking my card statements the 500 dollars I spent on dog vaccines, dog training classes,  food and snacks. \n\nSorry for all this info.  But what is the best thing I could do to protect myself and my baby.","title":"late term abortion harassment\/order of protection\/ breakups","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1410898794,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2glck4\/refund_money_sent_to_me_by_accident_verified_that\/","id":"2glck4","body":"So here is the story.\n\nI got a new home owners insurance policy.  My mortgage company wrote 1 check for two policies to the company that I was leaving, that company sent me a refund check for the total that the other policy had.\n\nI called and asked them if it was correct that I get this check before cashing it, they said yes.  I cashed it and used it to pay off some loans and stuff not really sure why I got it but sweet!\n\nA month later the old company calls and says they sent the refund check in error that they didn't realize the single check that was sent to them for my account was for two accounts.\n\nWell fuck, I spent that money already because they said it was mine!\n\nWhat can I do?  I don't have that kind of cash laying around and they said it was mine when I called them before I cashed the check!\n\nEdit: sorry I didn't put my location: Texas","title":"Refund money sent to me by accident, verified that it should be correct that I get the money, then a month later they tell me to return the money as it was sent on accident.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554770124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb1fn7\/swim_took_out_a_speed_limit_sign_and_fled_the\/","id":"bb1fn7","body":"He lost control of a vehicle in the rain, took out the sign, and just drove off. He said that no damage was done but there were witnesses.","title":"SWIM took out a speed limit sign and fled the scene. What are the chances off a cop showing up at his door?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1441655275,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k0b74\/landlord_chargers_the_repair_fee_that_the_damage\/","id":"3k0b74","body":"[U.S.  WA] So I was an international student studing in Seattle until June this year. And I rented a house with my friends near the campus. I was the last one to move out and leave U.S. Just earlier, the landlord sent me an email about the repair and cleaning fees, and i noticed that one of them is repairing the window. Since i was the last person to leave, i should be the one who knows the condition of the house right before the house became empty and i have no memory about any broken window. What should i do if the landlord keeps saying that i need to pay that fee? Will i get in any trouble if I am not willing to pay for it? ","title":"Landlord chargers the repair fee that the damage is not done by me","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553202617,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3w2ed\/mt_my_deceased_uncles_vehicle\/","id":"b3w2ed","body":"my uncle lost his title to his pickup then died. He had no kids so I assume all his stuff belongs to my grandma now.  I want to ask my grandma if I can have his truck so how would she be able to get a new title for it?","title":"[MT] my deceased uncle\u2019s vehicle.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571289546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj1r6g\/was_tailgating_a_slow_car_trying_to_switch_lanes\/","id":"dj1r6g","body":"I was tailgating a slow car going below the speed limit trying to get around them when they slam on their breaks causing a collision. They even stated it was because of my \u201ctailgating\u201d that they did that. It was a green light up ahead, no one in front of them, no right turns anywhere near, 2 witnesses in my car, as well as dash cam footage. Am I in the wrong? If I am, how fucked am I? How do I proceed with this? Any help is appreciated greatly.","title":"Was tailgating a slow car trying to switch lanes to go around them when they proceed to slam on their breaks because of my tailgating.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569453596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9b7ij\/applied_for_a_job_a_month_ago_got_ran_around_then\/","id":"d9b7ij","body":"Not sure if this is the place to ask this. In midwest if it matters\n\nI've worked in the law enforcement field for several years and recently had to move for family reasons to a place outside my jurisdiction. As many know, most agencies are short, so it's not hard to find jobs in this field at the moment. \n\n8\/21\/19 I applied for a local sheriff office. This opening was posted on both Indeed and a local statewide website for LEO type jobs, among other places. \n\n* After two weeks of nothing, I called to check the status of it and was sent to the voicemail of who's in charge of hiring, left a message after being told he was on that evening. He didn't.\n* Another week goes by. I call again, say I never heard anything back and ask if this job is even open. I'm told yes, sent to the voicemail again, leave another message. \n* Another week goes by, still nothing. I look up and call the HR person in charge and ask if this job is even open, explain what I've done prior to this, calling and not hearing anything back. HR person says yes, they're short and probably busy which is why it's taken so long. They said they would e-mail the guy in charge of hiring for them with my info. \n\nWhich leads up to today. I still hadn't heard anything from them outside of me making first contact. I decide to call and speak to the Sheriff himself, and do. I introduce myself and explain the already mentioned. I applied, waited, called a few times and still have yet to hear anything back and would like to know the status of things. I'm informed that there's no opening, the guy who does hiring has been out on vacation for weeks and will not be back until the end of next month, so maybe around November to expect a call. I asked why would I get a call if there's no opening, like the hiring sites say. I'm told that it's to keep a list of people incase they need to fill a spot quickly. I again re-iterate that there's no opening, that the interview won't be for at least 2 months, and it's for a spot that isn't open. He says yes.\n\nMy main question is this. Can an elected office post job openings that are not actually open and say nowhere in the application it's for a spot on a list, instead coming off as an actual job opening. It feels extremely misleading and just wrong to me. But maybe I don't know enough about it. Hence, this.\n\nI'm not saying I should or shouldn't get this job. I've other applications out I'm also hoping go forward with employment. I'm all for going through every hoop and I'm sure I've lit that hoop on fire with this one now that I've been a nuisance about it. But I feel a month of no communication is unacceptable for any business that says it's hiring now for open positions. At this point, I'm looking more for grounds to have them take down that they are hiring when they are not so others don't fall into the same month of runaround I've just been through.\n\nAgain, not sure if this is the right place for this. If not, my apologies.\n\nTLDR: Applied for job over a month ago, call multiple times and am told it's open, call the head boss after further silence and am told there's no opening, interviews are in two months, to be put on a list to maybe get called even further in the future. Multiple job posting where none of that is mentioned.","title":"Applied for a job a month ago, got ran around, then told there's no opening, just interviews for closed positions and \"maybe someday\".","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554118960,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b816va\/employer_using_tips_to_balance_out_deposits_at\/","id":"b816va","body":"Located in Florida. I am a manager at a franchised ice cream place. I report directly to my district manager. We have to report whenever our deposits at the end of the end are over or under x amount. When the deposits are significantly under she tells me to \u201ctake it from the tip\u201d. I am never comfortable doing this because it doesn\u2019t feel legal nor right. I have asked her if it is legal and she said \u201cOf course they made a mistake so we take it from them!\u201d\n\nIs this even legal and how else can I approach if it isn\u2019t? Also, me being the manager and actively taking the money from the tips to fix the deposits does it bring me into some legal trouble as well?\n\nAs for the second question, I am also instructed to edit time of the employees, by 1-2 minutes if they leave late or don\u2019t take their break in time. \nI know this is not legal and brings me to the same question as to will I be in legal trouble if someone blows the whistle? ","title":"Employer using tips to balance out deposits at the end of the night and editing employee time","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444421972,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o54td\/new_york_i_signed_an_nda_for_a_project_that_has\/","id":"3o54td","body":"Some time ago I worked at a company that was doing a large project and the project was released a while after I left. The text of the NDA doesn't mention anything about what happens after the information is no longer confidential but it's interesting enough that I want to tell people I worked on it. I don't want to discuss any of the details about the development of the project. I only want to maybe post something about it on Facebook to the effect of \"I worked on this\" as well as \"I signed an NDA\" and mention it to my friends. Is that permissible?\n\nSide question: What, if anything, would potential future employers think if they were to see a Facebook status that said \"I had to sign an NDA for ____\"?","title":"[New York] I signed an NDA for a project that has since been released publicly. Is it permissible to tell people \"I worked on this\" and \"I signed an NDA\" in person\/online?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554440606,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9n2fi\/us_nc_university_covering_up_sexual\/","id":"b9n2fi","body":"I live in North Carolina, and for fear of being retaliated against further, don\u2019t wish to disclose which university. My Fianc\u00e9 worked for guest services for the university (we are both students), and another student employee who worked for payroll consistently came by during her shifts and made sexual remarks, crude comments, and aggressive advances towards her. As he worked for payroll, he knew her phone number, schedule, etc, and began stalking her. We reported him, and came to find that he did this to many other female student employees. I was given 15 hours of community service for reporting him, and my Fianc\u00e9 was fired. \n\nFast forward a couple of months, and there has been a string of sexual assaults in the past couple of weeks, by a handful of students, along with a growing list of sexual harassment claims. The university is refusing to address any of them, and is threatening expulsion of any student who tries to take it further. Three Community Directors have quit over the scandal, and an entire building of RAs is on strike. Several of us (victimised parties) are wanting to file a class action lawsuit against the school, but are unsure of how to start that process or if a class action suit is even the proper type of lawsuit. How many people are needed for a class action lawsuit? Is that the proper type of lawsuit for this situation? ","title":"[US, NC] University covering up sexual assaults\/harassment and punishing victims\/witnesses for reporting.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554337860,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b95ype\/will_medical_insurance_pay_for_a_school_fight\/","id":"b95ype","body":"A friend of mine (R) was involved in a fight at school. During school hours on school property. R was checked out by a doctor afterwards and there was a fracture and R had to have surgery. Will insurance cover the medical expenses? The other student didn't have any injuries and has not contacted us.","title":"Will Medical Insurance Pay for a School Fight?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1507153055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74beyz\/evil_sf_property_management_takes_security\/","id":"74beyz","body":"I hopped onto a lease 1 year ago for a place in Oakland and left it a few months ago.  At the end of the lease, they took the original 3k+ security deposit and charged us an additional 4k+ in fees for repairs like flooring, walls, lights, on top of these late fees, property tax, and just a bunch of other stuff.\n\nThe original lease lasted 3 years so there should be 3 years of wear and tear, but this management charged some crazy ridiculous fees.  they decided to offer a *discount* of $1000 some dollars if we pay the fees and decide to never contest the fees.\n\nI admit, the place had minor damages and wasn't in the same original condition when we left of course, but we didn't do anything ridiculous outside of wear and tear. some things that broke were just because things were old and the property management NEVER responded to our requests to fix anything throughout the year and then they charged us for all the *damages.*\n\n***here is the problem.***  I contacted the new tenants that live there and they provided me pictures and videos on things the management was supposed to fix and they didn't fix 85% of the things they charged us for.  they did replace some non-functioning lightbulbs and some light touch ups with paint on some scuffs, but that's about it.  the other 3.5k of damages or so wasn't spend and just pocketed.\n\nHere is more bad stuff from a little google-fu with their names, this property management group have been involved in at least 3 lawsuits for doing the same exact thing and have lost each time.  They have been doing real estate stuff in San Francisco and Oakland and taking advantage of their tenants for at least 10 years.\n\nI'm talking about class action lawsuit waiting to happen bad.  These landlords were the worst of the worst and never fixed anything and never responded to our problems, issues, and requests.  some examples include claiming our checks never mailed out and charging us a 5% late fee (we had to start verifying our mail after this bullshit), not fixing a single important request when needed and we had to pay for all problems as crazy as that sound (talking about months of ignoring the problems), using a FAKE NAME as our contact to hide himself since our real contact is publically on record for lawsuits similar to this (I can DM these if you care).\n\nMy questions are:\n\n1. Due to a group decision, we have paid these fees before realizing the new tenants evidence of still broken parts in the apartment because we wanted to move on. however, learning that they stole our money and didn't fix it for the new tenants, we are fuming.  Are we able to contest these fees despite it saying that if we paid, we can't contest those fees?\n\n2. one of the guys involved in the property management is a lawyer and he strong-armed us into paying this by threatening to report us to credit agencies if we didn't pay their crazy fees.  is this legal?  can they take more than their security deposit ignoring the fact they pocketed it.\n\n3. despite it being in the past, does taking them to small claims court actually allow us to contest them for the negligence when we were living there?  there was water damage and potential mold problems that we requested to be repaired 9 months ago and that never received attention\n\n4. since these guys are crooks stealing money for their tenants at the end of every year, is it possible to find other people that live in their spaces for a class action lawsuit?\n\nsome additional information: I do have e-mail records of have little they ever responded to us and proof from the current tenants of the condition they got into the apartment.  we are scared to do anything since we know that the lawyer that works with the property management is going to lawyer up.  the property management has at least 10 businesses under their name with multiple LLCs, entities, and trusts to individually manage all their investing, purchasing, renting, and doing their business transactions.  It seems the lawyer guy that works in the property management shrouds the real owners with all these different companies to avoid getting sued.  It seems legal, but does that make it even more harder to take them down.  is it worth the trouble?","title":"Evil SF property management takes security deposit and charges extra 4k only to pocket the money according to new tenants [CA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555691948,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf18sj\/boston_ma_landlord_taking_portion_of_security\/","id":"bf18sj","body":"Moved into a really poorly managed apartment. Emailed landlord to fill holes in the wall in the bedroom I rented and out it in the condition statement. Never responded. Subleased apartment and she is now charging me for the damages I didn't cause. I have videos of the apartment from before I moved in showing the holes. How should I proceed.","title":"Boston, MA landlord taking portion of security deposit for damages. How can I prove the charges are wrong?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552769956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1x9h0\/mixed_family_house\/","id":"b1x9h0","body":"So, there is a house in my town with 7 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. My friend is worried that if he shared a house with that many people, the court would rule against him having custody of his son. I dont see how that would be a red flag, but I dont know squat about family law.","title":"Mixed Family House","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553712323,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b680kw\/ga_divorce_pro_se_questions\/","id":"b680kw","body":"I am filing a divorce against my husband of 6 years here in Georgia while he still lives in California. He claims he is homeless and living in a tent, therefore having no physical address nor a mailing address. His mom is his only family I know of in the area he frequents, but she lives in a mobile RV and has no physical address and only a PO Box.\n\nMy husband and I have 2 kids together, so this is why this is difficult to file. Otherwise it would be easy to file an uncontested divorce by getting a request to run a legal notice in the local newspapers in the area he may be living (Alameda County, CA, is all I know for certain). While he has claimed he doesn't want any divorce, despite me leaving him while I was pregnant with child #2 and moving across the country over a year ago. He also posts on social media that he is looking for hookups and sex and even posting his phone number which he did before I left him and he still does today.\n\nThe children make it difficult to just be able to file a legal notice in the newspapers in his area for him to respond to (I doubt he will respond). He pays no child support even though he already has been ordered to for the first child. He lives off of general assistance (welfare basically) and food stamps, and that's all I know. He also is a drug addict and may be selling pills and drugs, too, still. So while I have solid grounds for a divorce here in Georgia, the free legal aid lawyer who helped me fill out the paperwork, told me that local judges do not ever really grant the right to just do the legal notice thing for a divorce when someone is unlocatable in another State, mainly in part bc they want to establish child visitation rights and child support or whatever.\n\nAnyway, I am on SSDI myself, so I can't really afford the cost of a lawyer nor the divorce fees, so I am trying to file all of this \"pro se\" (it was known as \"pro per\" in California, as I already tried to serve him in CA before I left but I couldn't get him properly served there either). This means I have to watch a video over an hour long and get the certification at the end. I also have to file the \"pauper\" fee waiver ( I swear I have to jump thru hoops here in GA when CA made all this legal stuff so easy to file for free) which is pages long.\n\nSo my questions are:\n\n* How important is the Pro Se video to watch in order to get the certification? I cannot find the time to sit and watch it with my 2 kids in my custody! I have seen the beginning and it is a lot of really slow discussion on the steps on filing a divorce as an individual representing him\/herself. Can I just skip the video and print the certification?\n* I tried filling out the form to get the legal ad run anyway to \"serve\" him somehow, but it asks a lot of questions about how I have tried my best to locate him. I cannot afford a private investigator to track him down. I literally don't have much info to give, since he hasn't been on a lease for as long as I've known him (he moved in with me on my lease and stayed off of it) and so there is no past landlord to contact nor past address I know he lived at. How can I really get a judge convinced to allow me to file a legal notice anyway? How else in the world could I get him properly served?\n* Since he is a drug addict, homeless, and unwilling to pay child support, how could he maintain his rights to see his kids? He hasn't even seen his child #2 since I gave birth here in GA after I left him. He also has some schizo-type symptoms and delusions\/hallucinations, so I cannot imagine them ordering he get any sort of visitation. I want sole custody. What can I do to really ensure that this child issue is really a waste of time trying to establish?\n* Are there any issues I am overlooking? I want to file this ASAP but am stuck on getting the Pro Se certification and finishing the pauper's waiver thing. It asks for my debts and creditors and stuff, and I have no idea about all of that, as I do have things in collections, but bc I am being garnished already due to student loan debts, I cannot afford the payments. How can I establish this in my filing without looking like I am unfit to raise my own children? BTW - I am staying with my parents who really are a big help with my kids, so I don't have rent or utilities, and so far things have been stretched to the limit getting my kids the best stuff they need, and my parents pay for a lot, too. \n* Any other advice for getting this kind of complicated divorce filing done in GA? Does it matter what County I file in? I live in Columbia County but I think I can also file in Richmond County. Not sure? Would another part of Georgia be easier to file in for these issues?\n\nI know this is a lot to read, and for that I thank you for any patience and time. I really want to be cut loose from my deadbeat crazy husband. He seemingly is openly looking for another female to live with or be with, so it isn't like he is faithful. So I can't understand why he says he doesn't want a divorce. But I can't see him getting served and being able to contest things. Wouldn't he have to come to the hearings out here in Georgia?","title":"GA Divorce Pro Se Questions","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552842225,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b27am3\/i_found_an_underage_non_consensual_intimate_photo\/","id":"b27am3","body":"The other day I made a pretty shocking and devastating discovery. A picture of me in my mid teens. One wardrobe malfunction and one sick freak ready to take a photo. I reverse image searched the photo and it\u2019s.. somewhat popular. Lots of websites have it, it\u2019s on tumblr multiple times, one with over 10,000 reblogs. I\u2019m of age now, so I think I would be able to handle this without my family finding out.. I do NOT want them to know. The only person I have told so far is my boyfriend (my rock). \n\nIf I head to my local police department, what can they do? Can the police handle this discretely? My other concern is that since I\u2019m relatively \u201colder\u201d in the photo.. will they do anything at all? It is clearly me; I immediately recognized it, but it\u2019s not \u201cclearly underaged\u201d. How could they ever find all of the tens of thousands of people with the photo... \n\nFrom a victims standpoint, I\u2019m not doing very well. This is pretty upsetting for me as I\u2019ve encountered sexual abuse & harassment in the past. I also had a pretty serious stalker a couple months ago and there was some sexual harassment involved in that too. So my last question: Is going to the police worth it? How involved are they going to be and how.. shameful is this going to be for me? Maybe you guys can\u2019t answer that last one & that\u2019s okay. But as a long term and recent sexual assault survivor, how am I going to be able to do this. Will they really be able to help me? Will they be able to take this off the internet?","title":"I found an underage, non consensual, intimate photo of myself on the internet. What can the police do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540945300,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9stqv6\/is_this_school_violating_ferpa\/","id":"9stqv6","body":"In 2015, I attended a cosmetology school and did not complete it. I requested a 2 week leave of absence from my director because my dad was extremely sick. The director said I should just worry about my dad now and not school, meaning it would be best I no longer attend. \n\nMy father passed away in 2016 and now, since September of this year, I began attending community college. I have no parents or help from family so without financial aid, I won\u2019t be able to attend school anymore. \n\nBecause I didn\u2019t finish cosmetology school & dropped out of college in 2014, I have an \u201cunusual enrollment history\u201d according to Financial Aid. I had to submit a few documents, including a transcript from the cosmetology school. I have satisfied all requirement to receive financial aid except for the transcript.\n\nWhen I called the cosmetology school to request it, they said I can\u2019t have it because I owe them money (for the time remaining after speaking with the director of that school) and the woman listen to what I was saying and hung up on me. I can provide my college with an unofficial transcript from cosmetology school  in order for financial aid to be disbursed and the hold taken off my account.  This is all I was asking for and they said no.\n\nI read online according to FERPA if a school withholds your official transcript, they must provide an unofficial transcript. I haven\u2019t been able to find the actual law that states this but I\u2019ve read other people saying it.\n\nIs this true? What can I do to go about getting my transcript from this school?!","title":"Is this school violating FERPA?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554821174,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb8shu\/am_i_able_to_terminate_my_lease_due_to_these\/","id":"bb8shu","body":"Hi I live in an apartment complex in far north Dallas, TX. I started having issues really only a couple weeks after I moved in, but the issues have started piling up quite a bit in the last couple months. \n\nI have three main issues I\u2019m dealing with. They are: renters insurance, maintenance requests, and my ESA. \n\nThe most recent issue was that I switched my renter\u2019s insurance to a policy that is much more affordable for me because I\u2019m trying to cut down on costs. I submitted the new paperwork to the front office the same day, as required by the lease agreement. A staff member emailed me back saying they do not accept this provider. However, I looked over the lease carefully and there are no restrictions on which provider I can use as long as there is a $100,000 personal liability coverage included in the policy. I responded to the staff member, stating that I did not see any restrictions, that I was told I could use any provider when I moved in, and that I had not received any notification or documentation since I moved in that there was a change in which providers were accepted. She stated that \u201ctheir policies can change at any time, that they inform everyone about this before they move in\u201d and that they will not accept the insurance I switched to. I kept all of my paperwork from when I moved in and I have nothing stating they don\u2019t accept the provider and they haven\u2019t had me sign a new and updated lease with this policy change. \n\nThe second issue is maintenance requests. Before I moved in, I was told certain things (mostly cosmetic) would be repaired before I moved in. I moved in and they were still the same, so I filled out(in great detail) the sheet they give upon move-in to write a full inspection of the apartment and turned it in within the 48 hour time limit. Nobody came for a couple weeks, so I placed a maintenance order in writing. On the maintenance order request form, there is a place where you have the choice to give permission for them to enter while you\u2019re away. I did not give them permission, yet someone checked the maintenance request as \u201ccompleted\u201d and the description of what was done had nothing to do with my request, and nothing I listed was actually fixed. I not only filled out a survey about it, but also emailed them back stating nothing was addressed and I was not satisfied. Nobody responded, so I called the front office to notify them and they said they would get on it. I waited months and nobody came. In addition to this issue, I pay an extra $25 a month for valet trash. The service runs Sunday through Friday in the evenings. But, there have been many occasions where I have put my trash outside my doorstep and it is left there for 3-4 days before being picked up. Another maintenance issue was when a neighbor moved out and left a HUGE mess outside their doorstep, blocking the walkway to my apartment and also left toys and trash all over the parking lot. I called and reported it to the front office, but it was never cleaned up, and despite there being trash runs 6 out of the 7 days a week, the mess was left there for over a week. There is also an issue with their only on-site laundry facility. I don\u2019t have a washer a dryer so I depend on this facility to have clean clothes. You have to pay with a credit\/debit card and there has not been a single time where the machines work properly for me or many of the other residents who use them. I contacted the office about it and all they said was that it\u2019s a different company that manages the facility. Finally, I decided to look over my lease again, and there\u2019s a section titled \u201cResponsibilities of Owner and Resident\u201d where it explains the property\u2019s responsibility to maintain certain things such as cleanliness of property and maintenance requests. It states that if a maintenance request is not fulfilled within a reasonable time after the second written notice is sent, or if they are not maintaining the property and amenities as promised, the resident may immediately terminate the lease by sending a final written notice. I sent the same maintenance request in again last week explaining the circumstances and still have not been contacted yet. What would a \u201creasonable amount of time\u201d be defined as before I can terminate? \n\nThe third main issue I\u2019m concerned about is my dog. She is an ESA but I didn\u2019t realize her letter had expired. A staff member saw her on property one day last week and I got a violation fee. I immediately paid the violation fee and now I\u2019m making the necessary steps to get a renewed letter for her ESA certification, but the office said they\u2019re going to charge me $10\/day until she is off property even though I informed them of the situation. This happened last Friday so I haven\u2019t been able to get an appointment because of the weekend. I just set up my appointment today and will have to wait at least 24-48 hours after the appointment to have my letter for the office staff. My friend had a similar issue with her complex when she certified her cat. She told me that once I have the renewed letter, they have to remove the charges. The office staff here has been completely rude and is never helpful or understanding. If they refuse to release the charges once I have the letter or if they try to deny the letter, would this be probable cause to terminate my lease, as well? \n\nIf any of these situations are probable cause for me to terminate my lease, what is the best way to write a final written notice for termination?\n\nThanks for taking the time to read all of this, any advice is greatly appreciated! :)","title":"Am I able to terminate my lease due to these issues? [Dallas, TX]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503331584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v3wvl\/roommate_trouble\/","id":"6v3wvl","body":"Forgive me for my formatting, this is an angering subject. I live in North Little Rock, Arkansas. My wife and I had our own apartment a year and a half ago. A friend was kicked out of his house and was allowed to live in our one bedroom apartment rent free until we decided to help him and all get another apartment together. \nOnce moved in, we very politely allowed him to pay 1\/3 our rent and the water bill in his name. We paid the other 2\/3 rent, internet, and electricity. Not once did he buy groceries. The water, in a years time frame has been shut off four times because he \"just forgot to pay it.\" One of the times he made us pay it and has still since not paid us back.  \nHe has been out two months now, this month being the last hes obligated to pay. He has since told us he doesn't intend to pay that portion of his rent. Same with the water, that is currently shut off for the last five days. \nHe's off at his dads house doing god knows what while we're stuck in an apartment with no water, and short on his portion of his rent. His things have still been left in his room, and after talking to him for over a month he still hasn't come to get them. What legal actions can I take? Would it be illegal for me to pawn the things from his room for the money to pay the debt that is owed? ","title":"Roommate Trouble","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571342859,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djbw6h\/california_security_deposit_uses_cleaning_etc\/","id":"djbw6h","body":"I think I know the correct answer to this, but here goes:\n\nI recently moved out of an apartment in San Diego; I was in there for 5.5 months. I left the apartment in excellent condition, with only a couple of new scuffs\/marks on the walls.\n\nOn my last month, the apartment complex didn\u2019t take the full rental amount, so even after taking into account the full return of the security deposit, I still owe them money. That\u2019s fine, I\u2019m happy to pay.\n\nBut they also want to charge cleaning and painting fees, totaling $150. Yes, they provided receipts. Obviously, I don\u2019t want to pay extra (and in general, I\u2019m happy to pay reasonable fees), but minor scuffs feels within scope for wear and tear.\n\nI queried the charges, and was told \u201cCleanliness and painting are not considered wear and tear on the unit\u201d, which I find to be a difficult sentence to parse. They shared photos from the unit after I left which show the space was ... abundantly clean.\n\nSo, what to do? I owe them money in any case, so it\u2019s not like they\u2019re holding my security deposit. Should I pay just the remaining rent + bills, or should I accept my fate and pay the cleaning etc charges too?","title":"California security deposit uses; cleaning etc?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569700434,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dakyds\/my_friend_was_explicitly_fired_for_not_being_a\/","id":"dakyds","body":"One of my friends was recently asked in a job interview if she was a Christian. She ended up getting the job even though she said no, but shortly thereafter they called her to let her know that they were terminating her because they had found someone else for the position who *was* a Christian. \n\nThe position was not with a religious organization, so I would assume that's not something they can ask in a job interview? She also did not display any \"non-Christian\" behavior that might have given them a good reason to fire her, she was specifically told she lost the job only because of her faith. This is in California if that matters.\n\nDoes she have any legal recourse? What laws, if any, did they violate?","title":"My friend was explicitly fired for not being a Christian","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446002129,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qiheh\/binding_contract_sydney_australia\/","id":"3qiheh","body":"Hey there reddit, I recently split with my partner (not by my choice) she moved out and admist all the heartbreak she got me to sign a contract that stated I was going to pay for all the stuff we bought together and give her bond money etc. There are parts of the contract I'm not okay with but I've already signed it so im screwed on that, but that's not why I'm here. She's coming over in a few days alot of her stuff is still here I want to draw up a contract that dictates that she has to remove everything of hers and remove any damages and mess she has left behind and to cover any cost of the damages if needed. for example she left a ring shaped mark on the roof of my bedroom from her x-pole and she has left a bunch of mess in the spare room thanks to her pet rats. So my question is if anyone would be able to help me write up a tight contract that she won't be able to avoid doing these things if it comes to it\/ if I can get her to sign it. any ideas?","title":"Binding Contract Sydney Australia","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1506537474,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72ubkn\/fraud_accusation_by_company_that_buys_and_sells\/","id":"72ubkn","body":"(Location is Louisiana)Hello \/r\/legaladvice I live in louisina. About 3 months ago I sold a Runescape account to a website\/company that buys and sells all sorts of gaming accounts. Yesterday I got an email stating that the account had been recalled and that I would be given 24 hours to return it or they would do a credit card chargeback and told me that internet fraud is a crime and that they will submit a police report in my area (i had to give them a picture of my ID to sell the account). The problem is that I did not recover the account. I do not see how they could prove that I recovered the account and I do not see how they can prove that the buyer of the account did not give out the information to anyone once he got it from the company. How would filing a police report on me affect me and what can I do to protect myself from any legal issues?","title":"Fraud accusation by company that buys and sells gaming accounts","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569892025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dblle9\/what_do_i_need_to_do_to_go_live_with_my_dad\/","id":"dblle9","body":"My parents separated and got a divorced 4 years ago and I've been wanting to live with my dad. I'm a freshman in high school now and i'm going through things that i need him to be around for more than a couple weekends a month. He recently got a well paying job and is going to move into a house soon and I would love to be living there with him. What would I need to do for me to be able to live with him?  ( I live in Texas if that helps with anything, and i'm homeschooled )","title":"What do I need to do to go live with my dad?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554260714,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8sr3g\/can_you_operate_a_religious_non_profit_out_of_a\/","id":"b8sr3g","body":"We are a 501(C)(3), religious non profit. For over a decade we've been located in a large residential apartment. We have morning and evening services (3-6 people) and larger meetings on the weekend (15 people). A member of the group lives on the premises (the current one has been here for five years, the prior one for eight) and the lease is in the name of the leader of the group. The caretakers are indicated to the landlord on other forms in the lease, those asking who lives on premises. All of the checks to the landlord come from the corporate checkbook with our non profit name, so there's no deceit between us and the landlord. There's also never been any trouble with the landlord. We pay our exorbitant rent on time and they paint every couple of years.\n\nMy question is how legal all of this is. Are there any zoning laws that would apply to us? Is it something that is simply at the discretion of the landlord? Does it matter that the person on the lease doesn't physically live there?","title":"Can you operate a religious non profit out of a residential address New York City?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540049732,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pv2co\/ct_property_rental_question\/","id":"9pv2co","body":"Hi all, \nNew throwaway account here, sorry if it\u2019s breaking any rules. I\u2019m a student in CT (house is in Fairfield CT) renting a house from September 18-May 19. Our landlord stops by constantly with potential future tenants, often times with little warning (~30 minutes). The other day he sent me an angry text after he showed the house, since I was showering and he couldn\u2019t show them the bathroom. I don\u2019t want to make this too confrontational, but I was wondering if there was anything I could say to him about giving us more notice when showing the house. I don\u2019t see anything in the lease or addendum about this. I\u2019ve tried to look up rules about this but I couldn\u2019t find much. Thanks!","title":"CT Property Rental Question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540920495,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sq2hg\/reasonable_accommodation_for_ptsd_by_landlord\/","id":"9sq2hg","body":"I have been diagnosed with PTSD from an event where an intruder attacked me in my home. Recently I have moved into a rental home.\nThe landlord sends notice when the handyman will stop by, but it is vague ie. Monday-Thursday 9am-4pm. The last time the handyman stopped by  I had a PTSD flashback because he used the back door (which has an entryway) and I did not hear him knock. I was surprised by him entering my home. \n \nIve requested with the landlord that the handyman be asked to either use the front door (with the doorbell) or send me a text before he stops by. My landlord says she will talk to him but I am getting resistance from her and the handyman to change the way they do things. I am under the impression my landlord has to give me a \"reasonable accommodation\" due to my diagnosis. \n\nI live in Minnesota. Would like to know how to request an official \"reasonable accommodation\", what documentation do I need, and does this qualify as a \"reasonable accommodation\"? ","title":"Reasonable Accommodation for PTSD by Landlord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505080608,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zb6r8\/ca_getting_confused_about_acquiring_a_motorcycle\/","id":"6zb6r8","body":"I'm 16, almost 17 in a month. I've had my regular driver's license for almost a year (no accidents or anything).\n\nI know I need to pass the CHP CMSP in order to get my license, but do I have to do that *before* or after I go to the DMV for a permit? Do I need to fill out DL 44 again?\n\nIn the \"OR\" part of [this webpage](https:\/\/www.dmv.ca.gov\/portal\/dmv\/detail\/dl\/dl_info#MINORMC), it says to just bring my license, pay the fee, and pass the vision and knowledge test for motorcycles. Do I have to fill out any forms for this or just show up with those things?\n\nSorry I'm a bit confused.","title":"[CA] Getting confused about acquiring a motorcycle license.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555289889,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd9zf8\/my_landlord_wont_give_me_back_my_security_deposit\/","id":"bd9zf8","body":"I just got out of a lease and did no damage to the property and returned the keys and paid everything on time. I dont have a copy of the contract but i know my landlord does. However, he blocked me and i think he just ran with the money. \n\nWhat can i do about this?\n\nIm in Vancouver, British Columbia btw","title":"My Landlord wont give me back my security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551804495,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axn931\/i_need_to_move_out_of_my_apartment_orange_county\/","id":"axn931","body":"Long story short is that I want to move out of my apartment but my roommate wants to stay. Both of our names are on the lease. Can I get someone else to take over my end of the lease? What are my options ?","title":"I need to move out of my apartment [orange county, California]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539760328,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9owdgr\/i_cant_sleep_in_my_own_apartment_loud_busted_gate\/","id":"9owdgr","body":"I am 4 months into a 12 month lease. I signed my renewal in July.\n\nThis was a non-issue during my last contract. I used to sleep with the windows open when it was nice and cool outside. I live right above my apartment gate so I hear all traffic coming in and out. I've heard several crashes into the gate and so on and so forth. The gate has now been so heavily damaged that it makes a cranking noise when it opens and shuts. There is plenty of grease so that's not the issue. I've taken several videos of the gate as well as recorded the noise in my room. I've asked them to come and listen to the noise from my room as well and was flat out told no, they were too busy to come. \n\nI've contacted their corporate manager who will not return my calls.\n\nI have several emails back and forth between the leasing office, a log of all the phone calls, the videos and recordings, and I even recorded my last conversation with the leasing office. I have already pointed out that not being able to sleep in my own apartment is a violation of my lease contract. They responded, \"No one else is complaining.\" \n\nI know I have a case BIG TIME. It's 2 am and I can't sleep because of all this noise. My issue is, most of the time the answer is to terminate the lease contract or transfer you to another apartment. I however do not want to transfer or move because it would be a huge hassle and my roommate would have to suffer the consequences as well. she has also documented her complaints but because she's her window is not directly above the gate she doesn't have nearly as many issues.\n\nI just want to sleep in my own room. What can I do?","title":"I can't sleep in my own apartment. Loud busted gate outside my wondow.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541810290,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vpyme\/oregon_during_my_freshman_year_of_high_school_im\/","id":"9vpyme","body":"Background: During the first semester of my first year of high school, a classmate of mine posted a video of my teacher yelling at me and tried to portray what happened as something that it wasn\u2019t. The way it lead to this happening was as follows: we were studying for a quiz or a test by using the platform kahoot, and in this platform you can create a username that says anything you want. Our class was separated into group tables and I sat in the front with two others at a desk. The students who were sitting in the back of the class kept on putting up the N word with the hard R and everything. The teacher kept on removing the usernames, as they were obviously inappropriate, but unfortunately he didn\u2019t know who had actually created the usernames. Me, a relatively innocent kid who was into memes decided to put up the user name \u201cNig nog\u201d after recently hearing it being used a meme that I enjoyed. I had no idea what the word actually meant. I had searched it up before, and I saw 1 definition for it but it was on Urban Dictionary.... you can guess what happened. I didn\u2019t know what the Urban Dictionary was, so I thought it was just some website that provided a source of factual definitions. The definition said \u201cThis phrase has absolutely _no_ racial dimension, despite appearances. It is a Northern British (e.g. Yorkshire) term referring to a silly person. It does not derive from nigger and should not be considered racist at all.\u201d And I genuinely believed it. I didn\u2019t know that it was a satirical nor false at the time. Because of this, I asked my teacher why he also removed  nig nog from the username list and then he stood up and started scolding me believing that I was the individual who had put up the other racist & demeaning terms. This is right around the time when the student\/fellow classmate decided to start filming. He posted it onto YouTube and slandered me as a racist. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe school at the time had around 1160 students I think and the video now has more than 7 thousand views. I was framed as a racist for an innocent mistake and my reputation was ruined. Shortly after this happened my grades plummeted, and I fell into a deep depression. I eventually became so depressed that I considered committing suicide. Since then, I\u2019ve seen a therapist and I\u2019m better than ever, but now left with missing credits and a bad name for myself.\n\n\n\n\n\nI begged my counselor to do something about the bullying and the video and he said that there was nothing that they can do about it because it was the internet. Looking back at that now I call BS because I named the student who posted it and they didn\u2019t even call him in. After the heated  yelling from my teacher, he sent me to one of the vice principals and said that I was going to get suspended. I talked to the vice principal about what happened and explained my side. He said that there wasn\u2019t any evidence that I didn\u2019t mean any harm, but also vice versa. He gave me a lunch detention and let me go. ","title":"[Oregon] During my Freshman year of high school (I\u2019m now a junior) A classmate in my science class filmed a video of me getting scolded by my teacher. The video was out of context and labeled something that wasn\u2019t true to the reality of the situation. Can I sue the student or the school?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551195915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av0twh\/as_a_tenant_do_i_have_any_rights_when_it_comes_to\/","id":"av0twh","body":"I moved into this place in May, and really liked it until about a month ago. Since then, at 7:15 every morning, M-Sat, I have been woken up by the sound of construction. They decided to remodel the apartment directly next to mine and have been using some kind of power tool that sounds like a jack hammer, blasting music, and overall just being really loud. This goes on all throughout the work day and I can get no peace. It\u2019s so loud that even ear plugs don\u2019t work because the walls are so thin in the building I can literally feel the vibration of whatever power tool is being used.\n\nThis is so frustrating because I\u2019m a student and hardly get enough sleep as is. I would be fine if it was only M-F but Saturday too? I am going crazy here and don\u2019t know what to do. It isn\u2019t going to be ending anytime soon apparently, and I can\u2019t take it anymore! I can\u2019t afford to move out or break my lease early. Help me! ","title":"As a tenant, do I have any rights when it comes to construction noises?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571110406,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di20xi\/friends_professor_accidentally_kept_friend_in\/","id":"di20xi","body":"Now my friend is bragging about how he's gonna get an easy A because that's highly illegal; ie, he's gonna blackmail the professor.\n\nNow, I know very little about law regarding student teacher relationships. Is that illegal?","title":"Friend's professor accidentally kept friend in email where she made fun of my friend.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569558224,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9v9xc\/help_me_break_my_lease_without_consequence_cook\/","id":"d9v9xc","body":"We signed a 24mo lease for an apartment with a larger management company that owns multiple buildings. The lease expires March 14, 2020 and it is a pretty \u201ciron clad\u201d standard lease. So medical issues in the last few months caused me to quit my FT job to take care of my kid. We own an inexpensive cottage in another state and I manage it as a rental property. Now we just want to get out of our lease and go live there and focus on the kids. Anywho, sob story aside, we desperately want to get out of here ASAP - definitely by the end of 2019. The rent is crazy expensive and without my FT income and we are going into debt! \n\nThe building charges a full month rent to allow sublet so I asked if they could just list our apartment for regular lease and we would get out immediately when they find a new renter. The apartment has been on the market now for over a month with no interest! It is seriously stupid ridiculous expensive and this isn\u2019t the best time of year for new renters...I\u2019m terrified that they won\u2019t find a renter before our lease is up. \n\nI think my next move will be to ask them to \u201csplit the difference\u201d on the last 4 months and let us end our lease at 22 months. That would be so helpful for us and not a huge loss for them...hopefully not enough to prefer to take us to court over...Unless there is anything else I can do????\n\nI know we are idiots for signing such a long lease and thinking that nothing like this could ever happen to us, but please help if you can!","title":"Help me break my lease without consequence! (Cook County, IL)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570976327,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhb56o\/minor_here_what_are_the_consequences_for_running\/","id":"dhb56o","body":"I was sitting on some benches with a couple friends last night, and we were drinking some beer. This is in NJ, USA, so we are all below the legal drinking age. The cop then sees a beer in the backpocket of my friend, and he has to pjt it on the ground and sit to the side. My other friend gets searched, and same story really. Then, its finally up to me, and I book it away into the neighborhood, where I hide out until i geg back to my house about 10 miles away. Can the cops still get me in trouble because i ran away with my backpack on?","title":"Minor here, what are the consequences for running from the police in my circumstance?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1417197480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2nomam\/bought_a_ps3_on_ebay_for_220_accidentally_gave\/","id":"2nomam","body":"As the title says, I bought a PS3 on eBay for $220. I set up my address and waited for it to arrive in the mail. I waited for about a week until I realized that I failed to put my apartment number in the address.\n\nMy apartment complex said that it would have gotten returned and when I finally squeezed a tracking number out of the seller, I saw that it had already been returned to their (seller's) local post office.\n\nI contacted eBay and they said they can't intervene at all considering it was a wrong address on my part and that it was entirely on the seller.\n\nI know that it is illegal to purchase something and not receive something in return, even if something does go wrong in shipment. They could easily pick it up from their post office and resend it (I've offered to them to pay for the shipping back).\n\nThey haven't responded to any of my messages and eBay gave me a phone number which they have never returned my calls or voicemails. They're not answering any of my eBay messages either.\n\nWho do I talk to to get this resolved. I don't care if I get the $220 or the PS3 at this point. I just want something out of this. Sidenote: I paid for it about a month ago now with little to no results in trying to contact them. Thanks to anyone willing to help me out with this one.\n\nEdit: I live in Arizona, US. Didn't think it would be relevant, considering it was an online venture... Sorry.","title":"Bought a PS3 on eBay for $220, accidentally gave wrong address, returned to sender, didn't get money back","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570306491,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddsmqa\/wondering_how_you_would_interpret_these_signs_and\/","id":"ddsmqa","body":"Decided to park here as 1. The sign was barely legible, 2. The was I interpreted the sign is no parking 4pm-6pm Friday through Sunday and 3. The arrows are in the direction of 20ft left and right not in front or back. Any help would be greatly appreciated the location is Southern California.","title":"Wondering how you would interpret these signs and if I have a chance fighting the parking ticket I got.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552363956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b03cqx\/tx_i_was_fired_for_taking_off_too_much_time_for\/","id":"b03cqx","body":"I was working for a company for several years in Texas and had a baby last year. I took my mandated 12 weeks of FMLA and had 6 weeks of that paid through short term disability. When I left, I had stored two weeks of PTO for future use knowing I would have an infant in daycare and with daycare comes illness. My company was always very accommodating to parents taking time off to care for sick children so I didn't think twice about it. I even answered emails and remained available via Slack or phone if needed.\n\n​\n\nMy baby got two \"big\" illnesses that required me to be out of work for three days at a time, about two months apart from one another. The first time no one said anything and there didn't seem to be any issue. During the second bout of PTO\/illness, I was contacted by HR and was told I was being let go due to \"excessive absences\". \n\n​\n\nI had followed all \"out of office\" procedures, had available PTO and entered it correctly, was available via several communication channels (despite me being just as ill as my infant and barely able to function) and was never given any kind of warning about anyone being upset with my absences.\n\n​\n\nI understand Texas is an \"at will\" state so they can fire for basically any reason but there are still some situations that must fall under \"wrongful termination\" right? I've already gone through my unemployment benefits and still am unemployed. What else can I do? Would a lawyer in Texas even bother with a case like this?","title":"(TX) I was fired for taking off too much time for my sick baby but had PTO","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446565975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rd58n\/virginia_identity_theft_employer_garnishment\/","id":"3rd58n","body":"A crook got a hold of my brother's SSN and placed a court ordered garnishment summons with his employer. My brother found out recently that garnishments are being taken from his paychek by-weekly of around $200. In the summons it is written that the crook is FKA (formerly known as?) my brother's name.\n\nWhat should my brother do now? He hasn't been alerted to any other fraudulent activities but who knows what may be in the works. Any advice regarding his specific case? \n\nMy brother lives in Northern VA, and the court ordered garnishment request came from VA beach.\n","title":"Virginia - Identity theft - Employer garnishment summon","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570584561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df9xb1\/my_landlord_neighbor_is_playing_music_too_loud_at\/","id":"df9xb1","body":"Hi all, I live in a 3 story house with about 7 apartment units within. I live on the first floor and my landlord is the only other person that lives on the first floor. Depending on the night, he blasts music way to loud as late at midnight. \n\nThis is starting to become unbearable since I have to be up ~6 for work. What\u2019s the best way to approach this situation?","title":"My Landlord \/ Neighbor is playing music too loud at night","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507173106,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74dbz2\/my_25f_sister_16yo_wants_to_come_live_with_me_but\/","id":"74dbz2","body":"My teenage sister and my mother don't get along. My mom gets along fine with the other people in the house, and so does my sister, but the two of them are awful to each other. It's to the point where I'm seriously scared they might hurt each other physically or psychologically. I told my sister that she can always stay with me if she needs to, but she wants to straight up move in with me next year. Finances aren't a problem. My husband and I could afford to have her for a couple years. But our mom doesn't work, and my family lives off of disability and child support. Losing my sister's child support would be detrimental to their finances. On top of that, my mom says that SHE would have to pay ME child support if my sister lives with me. My disabled brother and 10yo sister are cared for by my mom, so I don't want to fight for child custody of my sister and risk her losing the other two. So, is there any way around this? Can I have, like, co-guardianship over her or something? Or have her live with me during the school year and send her back for breaks? Is there any legal win-win outcome that I'm not seeing?","title":"My (25f) sister (16yo) wants to come live with me, but mom (45yo) doesn't want to lose child support [Arizona to Colorado]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551670926,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax2i16\/is_the_compamy_i_work_for_required_to_give_us\/","id":"ax2i16","body":"I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit for this question, but it's all I could think of, so any help would be greatly appreciated! I work at a fast food restaurant as a service person, and us service people are responsible for doing the dishes. However, the dish sanitizer eats away at all of our hands. It leaves little cuts all over them, makes them red and itchy, and causes them to hurt whenever anything (even just water) goes over them. Is there something that I can demand be done about this? Like, does the company have some sort of responsibility to get sanitizer that isn't painful? Or, can my boss make me do the dishes even though I have this reaction to the sanitizer? Basically, is there any law that regards employers making sure that their workers aren't being caused pain by doing something like dishes? I live in Missouri, if that matters.","title":"Is the compamy I work for required to give us safe dish sanitizer?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505275598,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zs9gp\/is_the_cancellation_policy_of_suns_up_tanning\/","id":"6zs9gp","body":"I was wondering if the cancellation policy of Suns up tanning is legal. The terms required me to have a 60 day notice of cancellation. I cancelled on 9\/12\/17. They will bill me on 9\/15\/17and 10\/15\/17. The part that sounds sketchy is that I am only able to use the services until 10\/14\/17. This means the are billing me on 10\/15\/17 for a months worth of tanning but not allowing to use the service I was charged for. Is this legal? I currently reside in Portland, Oregon","title":"Is the cancellation policy of Suns up tanning legal?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570746128,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg5knl\/i_just_got_served_with_a_notice_from_the_hoa_to\/","id":"dg5knl","body":"For the past 3 years I have been renting from my landlord (a property manager) and paid my rent in full, on time every month.  \n  \nFor the past couple week we have been getting letters from an attorneys office addressed to someone who does do not live in my condo (it's just me and my boyfriend on the lease). So we have sent them back because we figured it was meant for someone who lived there before us.  \n  \nOn Saturday we got one addressed to \"Unknown Tenant\" so we opened it. It was a letter from an attorney demanding us to pay our fees in full (amount was not disclosed) immediately to the HOA (attorney worked for the HOA). I called my landlord and let them know what was going on, they said they would call the owner. I sent pictures of the letter and the orange slip from the post labeled \"FINAL\".  \n  \nFast forward to today when a legal server came to my door to deliver a 3-day notice legal letter to pay all dues up front to the HOA immediately (amount still not disclosed). My name was not on the letter, in fact the guy asked my name and then wrote it on the letter. He said if we did not pay within 3 days they would begin with eviction proceedings. I let him know I do not own the condo. He said he was just a contractor and just had to serve the letter.   \n  \nI called my landlord right afterwards and they said they would immediately call the owner. Apparently the owner pays the rent for the year in one payment (to the HOA) and might have forgotten? I'm not sure for we were just speculating. My landlord suggested we get proof of payment for the rent we paid for October in case. He didn't say in case of what, but I assume it is in case of eviction.  \n  \nMy questions to the community are:  \n  \nWill the eviction go on my record even though I paid my rent always and on time?  \n  \nWhat can I do to protect myself? I feel like I should not have given my name to the server.  \n  \nSome background:  \nI have rented for 3 years in good standing from this landlord. I have records of my rent payments as well. My HOA is VERY uncommunicative. We had a roof leak we needed them to fix and it took them almost 10 days to get back to us, despite attempts from both me AND my landlord trying to reach them.","title":"I just got served with a notice from the HOA to pay my dues in full for the condo I'm renting from or they will begin the process to evict me. Problem is, I DID pay my rent to my landlord.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409738010,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fcdw3\/uk_pms_requested_for_company_investigation\/","id":"2fcdw3","body":"My company is conducting an investigation and have requested PM's and conversations that I've had on FB AIM etc. these are my personal accounts rather than a work specific messenger account.\n\nI have nothing to hide but feel uncomfortable with them asking for this, are they actually entitled to do so?","title":"[UK] PMs requested for company investigation","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541253130,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tu8mx\/how_do_i_fetus_deletus\/","id":"9tu8mx","body":"I need to yeetus a feetus or deletus that fetus","title":"How do I fetus deletus?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570368968,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de3bpr\/va_the_hr_manager_at_work_steals_and_cheats_the\/","id":"de3bpr","body":"Our HR manager was recently on vacation and I had to fill in and do the payroll for her. That included adding everyone\u2019s hours to a spreadsheet for the two week pay period and adding any vacation hours people had turned in. While doing it I noticed that HR lady (I\u2019ll call her Hanna) did not clock out for lunches the week before. I thought maybe it was just something she fixed manually each week and she forgot that week. I investigated further and NOPE, she had never clocked out for lunch. Hanna was basically getting paid for an extra hour each day while she goes to lunch. I also noticed while reconciling the vacation hours that she had a suspicious amount of vacation time left for it to be near the end of the year. I decided to do an audit the vacation for the year which involved looking at the vacation hours taken for each two week pay period. I discovered that she had paid herself for 56 vacation hours without actually deducting them from her allotted vacation. My problem is, since Hanna is the HR manager, who (if anyone) should I tell about this?","title":"[VA] The HR manager at work steals and cheats the company, and I don\u2019t know who to tell about it.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570318237,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddv7th\/recording_and_publishing_conversations\/","id":"ddv7th","body":"Here in South Carolina, it is permissible to record an in person meeting so long as one party gives consent.  I recorded an HOA meeting where both myself and my husband gave consent and were a part of.  We want to upload that recording to YouTube and provide a link for our residents to have.  We know it\u2019s legal to have recorded it, but I can\u2019t find anything about publishing it.  \n\nReference: S.C. Code Ann. \u00a7 17-30-30(C)\n\n(C) It is lawful under this chapter for a person not acting under color of law to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication where the person is a party to the communication or where one of the parties to the communication has given prior consent to the interception.","title":"Recording and publishing conversations","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444867366,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3osiqn\/ca_apartment_complex_has_frequently_shut_off\/","id":"3osiqn","body":"**tl;dr**: Leasing office has sporadically shut off water to apartment complex for days on end with very little notice (most cases less than 12h). They claim it's routine to do so but I'm getting tired of paying so much for no services. What rights do I have? What should I look for?\n\n---\n\nI'm in California, I have to pay very hefty bills for water every month to a separate service. I have not received any credits for the number of times the water had to be shut off (and this can take anywhere from one day to three days) in the past few months (for the record, it was shut off several times in May, July and August). Sometimes they don't turn the water back on.\n\nThe water is once again going to be shut off tomorrow. They put a letter on the pool entrance door. When I left this morning there was no notice on my door about water shutoffs. As of writing, there still isn't a notice.\n\nThe notice claims that it's \"routine maintenance\" but it's never been on a set schedule whatsoever.\n\nI'm trying to get out. I heard that there are laws in California saying I can give up rent if a place can not offer utilities. What would my rights be, what should I look for and where can I read up on this in a manner I could understand?\n\nThank you!","title":"[CA] Apartment complex has frequently shut off water for \"repairs\" for several days on end","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555693657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf1kyo\/assault_charge_guilty_or_not_guilty_advice\/","id":"bf1kyo","body":"Hey\n\nSo I've recently been charged with assault, I'd prefer not to go into detail but yeah i did it and even in the interview i said i did it because I was calm and just thought as a first offence I would just get a warning but it was all too late when I realised it was going to be taken a lot more seriously.\n\nI was first arrested for assault and then it was changed to an affray charge later when I was released on bail it was changed again back to the final decision of making it a \"common assault\" which is the lowest possible offence charge for assault in the UK contanty to section 39 of the criminal justice act 1988.\n\nSo my question is seeing as I said I did it in the interview etc should I just come out and say a guilty plea?\n\nTake in mind when responding, I'm going to get a solicitor and I'm only asking now for a bit of peace of mind but with the solicitor I'm going to argue I was going through a lot of stress leading up to the incident, my mental health problems, being provoked and emotionally abused \/ bullied by the victim so hoping that will mitigate some of the seriousness of it.\n\nI'm also going to see if I can get a character reference from a good professional working friend from the college I attended that my behaviour at the time isnt who I am, I'm not aggressive or violent, I had just reached my tipping point and snapped.\n\nThat's a lot to read and take in and I know theres not specifics but I really don't want to go into detail for someone to potentially judge me for it when they dont know me, I'll take onboard anything you advise. I'm just stressing out at the moment with my anxiety and need a bit of advice on the matter.\n\nCheers.","title":"Assault charge, guilty or not guilty advice","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1412623439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ih6bk\/virginia_pursuing_legal_assistance_for_a_wedding\/","id":"2ih6bk","body":"My (now) wife and I recently had to cancel arrangements made with a three separate contracted vendors: A wedding venue, caterer, and photographer. I was transported to the ER and admitted to the hospital by 3:00 AM the morning of the wedding (4 October 2014). I was instructed that I was likely to be held overnight. The wedding was scheduled to occur at 5:00 PM.\n\nActions were taken to cancel with various vendors starting at approximately 7:00 AM and all vendors were notified of the cancellation before any of them arrived at the venue.\n\nI was eventually discharged from the hospital at 3:00 PM on 4 October 2014--too late to attempt to salvage any of the cancellations. The vendors were notified that I was discharged but that the time constraints would prevent the event from taking place.\n\nFast forward to today and we have been notified by those three vendors that they will not be providing any reimbursement of any costs and that all money paid (constituting 100% of the quoted and contracted costs). The contracts do stipulate that cancellations must occur within a time frame of which 24 hours is outside of. As such, they are refusing to reimburse or refund any amount of payment on those grounds. ***Edit:*** The vendors indicated that we could reschedule the wedding but the marriage license has since been executed. We had a permit for a one-time officiant that had to be executed within a certain period of time so rescheduling the wedding is not even remotely on the the table.\n\nI realize that these contracts exist for and are written in such manner for a reason but I am still here looking for any suggestions--legal or otherwise--to get something back from these three vendors. For context: The sum of the amount paid to these vendors is in excess of $10,000. We would like to see something back, of course, and are beginning to look to see what our options are. \n\n***Addendum***\n\nDoes anyone think its even worth considering small claims or any other legal action for even a portion of the lost money at all whatsoever or are we just subjecting ourselves to hardship for no possible gain?\n\nTo that end: I have some broader questions about our own legal liability should we choose to do that. I believe there is some language in the contacts for these vendors that say we are liable for \"legal fees\" incurred should we opt to pursue any sort of legal action against the contact. Is that something that is typically enforced in contract law?\n\nI'm more than willing to take the time from work and life to deal with them in small claims for a reduced amount but I have no idea what we may be opening ourselves up to if we go down that path.\n\nI figure that the outlook is not good but I am hoping that someone has some idea for where to start. We've called all vendors and let them know exactly what happened and asked for accommodations and none have been made.\n\nI would like to avoid discussing the \"should have dones\" such as wedding insurance or other forms of advance coverage. We were not aware of these things until after the fact and I'd like to stay focused on what I can do to salvage some amount of money that was paid for services that were not received. Thank you\n\n***Edit***: Thank you to everyone who talked me off of a ledge. I realize that any legal action would be frivolous and unfounded. This was what I came to hear and I highly doubt I'll be going down that way.","title":"[Virginia] Pursuing legal assistance for a wedding cancelled due to hospitalization","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569969391,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc14qv\/airbnb_considered_leasing\/","id":"dc14qv","body":"Hi,\n\nI am the owner of a condo and have been hosting thru Airbnb. I still technically live on the property (tho I usually leave when people come). Anyhow -- I received an email from my HOA asking me to immediately stop as I am in violation of the rules.  The most pertinent restriction I found in the by laws were the following:\n\n \"No unit may be leased or subleased for transient or hotel purposes\". \n\nFrom a legal standpoint, is Airbnbing considered leasing? I want to know my rights here before just succumbing to their request, since it has been a nice side income for me. \n\nNote: I know some of these regulations can also be affected by the local jurisdiction, so if it is helpful I am located in a big city in Missouri. \n\nThank you for your help!","title":"Airbnb considered leasing?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569386633,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8yh9e\/can_my_conviction_be_downgraded\/","id":"d8yh9e","body":"This took place in Illinois.\n\nIn 2008 I foolishly lied to a police officer about my name, claiming to be my older brother, when I was caught with cigarettes (I had just turned 17 at the time). The officer eventually figured out I was lying about my name, arrested me, and charged me with felony Obstruction of Justice. It blew my young mind because I had classmates that had lied about their names and were only charged with a misdemeanor; I didn\u2019t have a previous criminal record and was an honors student. My friend insisted that it\u2019s because their parents shelled out for a good attorney, but since my family couldn\u2019t afford it I had a public defender.\n\nAt any rate, I took a plea agreement at my public defender\u2019s recommendation and received first offender probation, which would have been No Conviction had I successfully completed it. Unfortunately I fell pretty far behind on my fines and after months of threatening to revoke me for not following the payment arrangement (150 per month for 24 months), she revoked my probation after I quit my job and told her I had no intention of actively seeking employment since I was a full time student, but she insisted I needed a part time job to at least pay off my fines. I told her that working was hurting my grades and was affecting my ability to participate in school sports and functions, and I would pick up a new job during the summer before leaving for college to pay off my fines. The judge refused to revoke my probation based on that.\n\nHer and I did not get along well after that and she started doing daily check ups on me, imposed a 9pm curfew and insisted I get rid of my (pocket) knife collection. Long story short, I didn\u2019t do well with the 9pm curfew and after finding my Swiss Army knife she petitioned to revoke my probation again. This time it went through and I was convicted and placed on regular probation and an additional 12 months was added to it. My relationship with my probation officer continued to decline over the following months until finally I requested to be taken off probation and serve a prison sentence instead, figuring I would serve my sentence over the summer and be able to start college that fall. My probation officer couldn\u2019t have been happier to send me off.\n\n\nThe judge agreed and sentenced me to 365 days in IDOC, back in 2009. I served less than three months, was released on parole, and started college that fall. It was there that I really realized how drastically that felony conviction would impact my future.\n\nFast forward to yesterday, one of my coworkers confided that he was on court supervision. When I asked what he did he said he gave a cop a fake name when he was pulled over for public intoxication and was charged with \u201cObstructing Identification\u201d, which is a class A Misdemeanor.\n\nAfter a little GoogleFu I learned that in 2010 Illinois reduced the crime of giving the police a false name to a misdemeanor only offense.\n\nSo my question is, since the law changed and the crime I committed is no longer a felony, is there any chance my conviction can be retroactively reduced to a misdemeanor? If so, how do I get the ball rolling?\n\nThank you for your time!","title":"Can my conviction be downgraded?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554657848,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bainer\/neighbors_trespassing_onto_our_back_porch_trying\/","id":"bainer","body":"Hi there, I\u2019m gonna cut straight to it if that\u2019s alright!\n\nMy roommate and I live on a third floor apartment. We have a back deck which connects to our neighbors. Again, we are three floors up.  We had previous experience in which I was home and heard someone in our apartment knowing both my roommates weren\u2019t home. I called out hello, and heard something knock over. I had thought maybe it was our cat, as he came into my room and went under the bed afterwards. Something he does when he\u2019s bad. Still kinda spooked, I left the house. When I returned that night I couldn\u2019t find our cat.\n\nMy roommate and I searched and finally found him on the back porch. He had been under my bed. And my roommate did not put him out. We called the cops and they said potentially someone had entered through our back door as it didn\u2019t lock properly. \n\nTwo months have gone by and last night my roommate comes banging on my door yelling for me. I run out and there is a commotion happening outside. Our neighbor is on (their?) back porch screaming. We\u2019re listening, and it sounds like they\u2019ve fought with someone and maybe that person has locked them out. \n\nThen, we very clearly hear them climb onto our back porch and start beating on it. Obviously we\u2019re not going to answer it, they then begin attempting to break down our back door clear as day. The entire apartment was shaking. I have video proof of this. Eventually the person who was beating on our door just stopped, right as we were about to call the cops. They have a report from last time we can follow up on but since they didn\u2019t physically enter our premises, do we have grounds for trespassing being as we rent the property?\n\nI\u2019m linking to an Imgur post where you can see a video of them beating the door and a fist dent in our door and wire we have set up for our cats being messed up on the fence too.\n\nhttps:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/M4sACNS","title":"Neighbors trespassing onto our back porch, trying to open door to our apartment? Do we have rights to claim trespassing on a property we don\u2019t own?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1414373661,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2kf8r1\/legality_of_certain_scene_in_animated_webseries\/","id":"2kf8r1","body":"I live in Michigan, USA, since the big red text above told me to mark my location. Anyhow, \n\nI'm making an (web) animated series about a bunch of teenagers going through some crazy shit. I may or may not animate it, so I can't make any promises, but in the script I'm writing there is a scene where one of the characters (16 years old) gets raped by his father and I'm trying to find out how much of it I can show without it being illegal. Or if it's legal to show it at all. \n","title":"Legality of certain scene in animated webseries?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569193855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7y2wk\/disciplinary_proceedings_taking_place_over_my\/","id":"d7y2wk","body":"Hey guys\n\nSo to start I'm based in the UK.\n\nI've worked for a company just short of 2 years and a couple of weeks ago I was pulled in for a disciplinary meeting as I'd hit 3 absences in 6 months (this is fair and I don't dispute that.)\n\nDue to me having fibromyalgia I have a separate line of sickness for that and ended up having a fibro migraine last monday and taking the day off (it was clear from the call I made to them that I was not in a state to work) I have had various health issues over the last year because of it and the stress this job has put me under. (High workload, no special adjustments and despite advice to, no formal workstation assessment!)\n\nI came in for a RTW the next day and my line manager followed that up with \"friendly advice\" by telling me I needed to sort my life out, lose some weight otherwise my illness would beat me and I'd lose my job. I complained to our HR about this as i wasn't happy about that and during that meeting i asked if there would be a disciplinary for the migraine (this would take me to stage 2 meaning a single absence would cause me to lose my job) and was told no.\n\nI received an email from my line manager on friday stating that as I'd had a day off that id be having a stage 2 disciplinary, despite it being related to fibro, on monday 23rd September which I received after I'd got home\n\nIs this allowed? And if not what can I do about it?\n\nSorry","title":"Disciplinary proceedings taking place over my disability","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554904753,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbmcif\/easter_visit\/","id":"bbmcif","body":"Hello,\nMy husband and I have custody of my stepson for Easter weekend. It\u2019s written in the papers that we pick him up from his mothers residence at 6pm the day he is released from school. No problem there. It\u2019s then written that the noncustodial parent of the holiday may have the child from 3pm-6pm and pick the child up from the residence in which he is currently at. Since we have him for Easter his mother is supposed to pick him up from our house at 3pm and her normal time begins at 6 so she gets to keep him until our next weekend with him. At drop off the other day she said she didn\u2019t want him to miss out on whatever we do and they didn\u2019t want to make the other children in their house miss out of anything there so they were going to let us keep him until 6 And meet at the halfway point (about 1.5 hours for both of us) but now she\u2019s saying we have to bring him back to her house (a 6hour round trip) because it\u2019s a holiday.\nIs that true? I would think our holiday ends at 3pm Sunday, and she\u2019s now forfeiting her holiday so it switches to a normal weekend visit and we should meet at the half way point right? Or should we insist she picks him up at 3 at our residence? I know she\u2019s presenting it as a favor or whatever but really she\u2019s manipulating the situation to fit her so she doesn\u2019t miss out on things there and use a ton of gas to come get him. I\u2019m all for compromise when it benefits both of us but letting us keep him until 6 only benefits her. We would still have to leave our house at 3 in order to have him back to her at 6 which is basically her coming to us to pick him up at 3 like the papers say.","title":"Easter visit","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549668216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aomgmx\/letters_of_administration_question\/","id":"aomgmx","body":"My Mother-in-law died very suddenly in December intestate. She lived and died in California and we live  in Oklahoma. She was not married and my husband was her only offspring. Do we have to physically be in California to file for Letters of Administration?  \n\nThank you!","title":"Letters of Administration question","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1442518156,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lc87s\/alberta_canadachild_supportthanks\/","id":"3lc87s","body":"Does the amount of child support paid increase when the person who is paying it has a pay increase?\nMy ex is refusing to help with our daughters extensive dental work and up until now (since 2007) he has paid the same amount of support monthly.\n\nI'm quite sure his salary has increased...I've never asked because I was always okay financially but now that he's being a jerk I'm also wondering about retroactive payment.\nThanks so much!","title":"Alberta Canada-Child Support...thanks!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1413493005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jgcta\/need_legal_advice_i_tried_to_outrun_a_cop\/","id":"2jgcta","body":"background: im 18 and i still have my provisional license in the state of NJ. ive had 2 tickets so far, one for failing to put on my turn signal, and another for being out past curfew.\n\ni was going 60 in a 45 and passed a cop that was in the opposite lane, i saw him starting to turn around and since im a complete idiot i didnt just think to take the ticket. i was about a mile away from home and gunned it thinking i could get home before he caught me. well i pulled in my driveway, and so did he... the cop then asked for my license and registration ect. he also told me a few things i really cant remember and that i was going to lose my license for 3-4 years possibly along with tons of fines. He left and told me he would be in touch, but didnt give me anything at the time. Now im panicking and i have no idea what i should do. ","title":"need legal advice, i tried to outrun a cop...","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552934480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2mcyj\/uk_24m_ive_recently_been_issued_a_fixed_penalty\/","id":"b2mcyj","body":"To start things off, I parked in a spot that had caused a bit of an issue with the police.   \n\n\n1. You do not need a permit to park there.\n2. There are no yellow lines preventing me from parking there.\n\nThe issue at hand is that I essentially caused an \"unnecessary obstruction\" and the ticket I had said it was non-endorsable. There was no cost shown on the ticket, no photographic proof to show this.   \n\n\nI've been sent a letter today then stating that it is endorsable and will cost me \u00a3100 as well as 3 points on my license which will then lead to me losing my license and having to redo my test once again.   \n[https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ETe98B4](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ETe98B4)\\- Photo drawn in paint to give a rough idea as to where my car was.\n\n​\n\nShould I contest this? I wasn't parked in front of any drive, there was plenty of space for people to get around me. If push came to shove people would just have easily been able to cross the road as not that far along the pavement ends regardless and they would have to cross otherwise they'll be walking on the road at that point. \n\nI really can't afford to lose my license.","title":"[UK] [24M] I've recently been issued a fixed penalty notice that will put the nail in the coffin for my car.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503315740,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v2cs0\/changing_of_childs_last_name\/","id":"6v2cs0","body":"I recently went to court for my child's last name to be changed and the judge granted for her last name to be changed but her fathers last name to be kept on it. The judge said her official last name is my last name. On the court papers it says her name, middle name, fathers last name and my last name. Now how would I indicate to her school that her last name is my last name? And where do they expect me to put her fathers last name (middle name) or where? So confused.... \ud83d\ude2b\ud83d\ude15\n","title":"Changing of child's last name...","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568677390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d58qub\/my_tenants_mother_was_assaulted_by_an_owners\/","id":"d58qub","body":"I\u2019m an owner of unit in a condominium with an HOA. My tenant was recently out of town and her mother was watching her dog. Her mother locked herself out of the building and waited in the lobby area to be buzzed in via my tenants mobile but her phone died so it was a wait. The assaulter (who is the in-live boyfriend of another owner) used their fob to let themselves into the building from the lobby and she followed after them. This kind of thing is the norm in this building and I\u2019ve done it many times with no problem. He lives on the 5th floor, my tenant lives on the 4th floor so they both entered the stairwell and that\u2019s where this guy punched and kicked my tenants mother for no apparent reason. There was footage of them entering through the lobby but no cameras in the stairwell. \n \nA police report was filed and apparently they\u2019ve come by a few times but he won\u2019t answer the door. But last night he was in the parking garage, in their storage unit (where he stores a pillow and blanket and likely sleeps from time to time) and apparently they won\u2019t come out if anyone is in the garage so the HOA president who knows about this issue stayed in the garage and stall them and my tenant called dispatch. They were finally were able to catch him in the garage but he wouldn\u2019t give a statement, or take off his mask. Yeah \u2013 if you haven\u2019t gathered this guy is a total weirdo he always wears sunglasses, a hat and a tan fabric mouth\/nose mask to cover his face. The owner\/his girlfriend is weird too and her only contact information provided is an encrypted email address (eye roll). HOA has no info on her live-in boyfriend not even his name, I assume the cops collected this information when they confronted him last night.\n \nHOA president says they\u2019ve had previous issues with this guy but there\u2019s no HOA policy on violence.\n \n1) Is there anything that can be done to get this guy evicted? Maybe a fine for the owner?\n\n2) I\u2019m not sure I understand why this guy wasn\u2019t arrested upon failure to provide a statement and these accusations? Not enough probable cause?\n\nThanks in advance to all who respond.","title":"My tenant\u2019s mother was assaulted by an owner\u2019s boyfriend. Can the HOA evict? Why no arrest?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570519778,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dewobv\/which_country_doesnt_require_a_license_to_give\/","id":"dewobv","body":"Preferably looking for a country that doesn\u2019t require any licenses in order to give investment advice. \n\nSingapore? Hong Kong? Malta?","title":"Which country doesn\u2019t require a license to give investment advice and be compensated for it?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569964146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbzvfs\/does_anyone_know_the_rules_for_public_housing\/","id":"dbzvfs","body":"[WV] My friend and her son have lived in public housing in WV for 5 years. She has 2 sons and one moved out years ago to live with his father leaving her and her other son in a three bedroom unit. Her housing manager recently told her she was going to have to move to a two bedroom apartment and she doesn't get to choose where she goes. They said wherever they have an available unit she HAS to move there. Her neighbors are her only support system she has in her life, she has no vehicle, she has numerous emotional and physical issues, no family, and extreme anxiety. She has lived at the same apartment for 5 years, the same complex for 12. She cannot really afford to move and by moving she loses her support system. She cannot afford a lawyer. Can they really force her to move bc she has a 3 bedroom and it's only her and her son? Especially without allowing her to have a chooce of where to go. That is her home, her support system gone and they refuse to give her a choice to where they will place her. Many of the other apartment complexes are overran with drugs and have really high crime rates. I think it's ridiculous that she is being forced out of her home and wanted to see if anyone knows if there is anything she can do about it. Thanks in advance.","title":"Does anyone know the \"rules\" for Public Housing occupancy?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553876057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6z7uf\/my_ac_has_been_shut_off_for_months\/","id":"b6z7uf","body":"I live in an apartment in Arizona. My roommate and I pay a flat rate which includes ALL utilities.  AC was the big one and largely the reason we chose this place despite other drawbacks since it can get up to 120 during the summers and the ac here is so expensive. \n\nI\u2019ve lived here for two years now and every winter they shut off the AC since our apartments are naturally cooler. However, they ALWAYS leave it off for longer than they say. I get turning it off when we don\u2019t need it, but last year by the time they turned it back on it was almost May and damn near 95 outside. It\u2019ll be 91 next Friday and my apartment is already 80 inside. They said it won\u2019t be turned back on for another couple of weeks. Is it legal to keep it off this long ESPECIALLY in Arizona? Our apartment and others around us are climbing to almost unlivable temperatures. ","title":"My AC has been shut off for months","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504647782,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yb7tq\/nv_girlfriend_is_on_medicaid_living_with_her\/","id":"6yb7tq","body":"So our current situation is, she lives with her family, who is on Medicaid through UHC HPN because of their income level. She needs the Medicaid for psychiatry and other important medical expenses. She has no income, and goes to college on grants.\n\nI live in a house that I own, and I have a job that pays a decent salary and average insurance. She is here so often that she may as well live here, but is afraid to change her address due to Medicaid. If we were to join a domestic partnership together, she would be eligible for my insurance, but it would be a significant financial burden on me, because of her medical bills.\n\nWould her moving in with me allow her to continue being eligible for Medicaid, or would my income affect her 'household' income as unmarried house mates? I don't understand enough about Medicaid to figure this out.\n\nEdit: The reason she wants to change her address is because her parents live a 30 minute drive from me, and she has to rely on public transportation to get to her appointments. She would prefer to be referred to doctors that are closer to my house than to her parents house. Also, so medical mail gets delivered here.","title":"[NV] Girlfriend is on Medicaid living with her family. Will she lose eligibility it if she moves in with me?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506413911,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72iz9s\/apartment_flooded_definitely_cant_go_back_and\/","id":"72iz9s","body":"What the title says.\n\nOur upstairs neighbor had a pipe burst in their apartment. Note that this is the fourth time that their apartment has leaked into ours. Not to this extent, but it has leaked into our apartment three times previously.\n\nThere was water coming out of the WALLS y'all. Flooded my roommate's closet and bathroom, our utility room, living room, and the kitchen.\n\nWe have renter's insurance so our stuff is replaceable. However, can the apartment force us to pay last month's rent?\n\nEDIT: We are in Texas.","title":"Apartment flooded, definitely can't go back and live there and we only have a month left. Will the apartment make us pay rent for the last month?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553669596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b616j9\/boyfriend_kicked_my_vehicle_and_left_a_sizable\/","id":"b616j9","body":"As the title states, he kicked my truck and damaged it, and I\u2019m quite upset about it. Obviously the damage could have been worse, but I\u2019ve put a lot of effort into maintaining this truck and its looks. I guess I\u2019m really wondering if this is something that insurance would cover, as I\u2019m not well-versed about how insurance works (I\u2019m quite young, only had this vehicle for about 1.5 years.) I\u2019m not sure how to prove it, either, aside from the damage itself. Is this even worth contacting insurance about, or should I just let it be and ask if he can come up with the finances for the damage? ","title":"Boyfriend kicked my vehicle, and left a sizable dent and some paint damage behind.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569906061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dboebi\/my_parents_55f_53m_want_to_send_me_18m_to_a_youth\/","id":"dboebi","body":"So I know this sounds disgusting, but I really am in need of advice. I\u2019m 18 and I have no access to a lawyer, so your advice would be helpful if I choose to take this to a higher power.\n\nSo since around the age of 8 I have had the drive to put toads in my mouth. I do this because I feel as if the toads are dry, and so I must put them in my mouth and suck on them in order to cover them in a layer of slime. I know this sounds crazy, I\u2019ve been told that a thousand times over. I am entirely normal in all other regards, I just enjoy helping toads. I\u2019m only here for your legal advice.\n\nMy parents have been able to force me to go to psychiatrists and other facilities before when I was still a minor, but I recently turned 18, and they recently found me with a toad in my mouth about a week ago. Now they want to send me to a \u201cyouth program\u201d to shut me off completely from toads.\n\nMy question for all of you is if I can fight this. I want to move out so I can live in the national park and suck toads on my own, but they believe they can force me to go to this toad free facility. Can I fight this in any way so I can be free as an adult.\n\n**TL;DR- I enjoy sucking toads, and my parents want to send me to a facility in order to stop me from doing so. I am 18 and just want to move out and suck toads and live a normal life.**","title":"My parents (55F, 53M) want to send me (18M) to a youth program for putting toads in my mouth.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552773628,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1xwjw\/custodypoakinship_advice_for_16_year_old\/","id":"b1xwjw","body":"I have a couple questions regarding POA\/Custody of my 16 year old niece (E). \n\n16 year old female in Ohio. Currently resides with her maternal grandparents in Columbus. Her mother lives in Toledo. Her father has never been involved and may be incarcerated.  He owes a wealth of child support. \n\nHer mother lived in Columbus, and moved to Toledo to live with a super questionable guy. Collectively we decided E would live in Columbus with her grandparents due to wanting a safe and stable life for her. Her mother has a history of drug and alcohol abuse along with a suspended drivers license due to a DUI. \n\nBecause her mother was in agreement with the plan, there was never any legal work other than giving power of attorney to my parents for medical and educational services. E receives Medicaid. My parents receive no benefits for providing her a home.  She has been with them for 8 years. \n\nIn thinking about life after high school (E is a sophomore) I realized that she will lose her Medicaid once she turns 18.  She will most likely enroll in college.\n\nMy parents are in their late 60\u2019s. My mother does not work and gets Social Security benefits. My dad works a part time janitorial job and also has a pension from GM\/Delphi.  They get their health care from GM through an Aetna run Medicare.  \n\nMy husband and I do not have children, have employer based healthcare, and financially support E as much as we can. \n\nI am concerned that she will not have healthcare once she finishes high school.  She has several mental and physical health concerns. \n\nHow do we make sure we can support her as she gets older? Should we look into filling for custody of her? She has been away from her mom for 8 years with no argument from her mom.   \n\nCould she somehow be covered under my parents insurance? Or could she be added to my husbands insurance plan? Would we need to file for custody to do that?\n\nI appreciate any advice. This is a world that I have no experience in,","title":"Custody\/POA\/kinship advice for 16 year old","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446942689,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ry9n8\/me_entrepreneur_advice_best_way_to_protect_myself\/","id":"3ry9n8","body":"I live in Maine and I've been doing electronic repairs since February 2015. It's mainly on the side but has been picking up a bit. I eventually want to do everything that is necessary to make this a legitimate business, but until then I want to know how I can protect myself. Any \"contract\" that I write up won't be legally binding, correct? How can I make sure a customer doesn't stiff me? Right now I have a customer who is giving me an old iPhone she had me look it, but I'm still waiting on the payment for analyzing the phone, if she just doesn't pay me, do I have a legal leg to stand on? Sorry if this is really abstract, or if it breaks the rules about contracts and such. Thank you.","title":"[ME] Entrepreneur advice, best way to protect myself?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505534836,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70ewhl\/need_help_wording_a_simple_memorandum\/","id":"70ewhl","body":"I'm a film student in the development phase of making my first feature-length film. I got permission from a band to use one of their songs in my film. Their agent agreed to let me use it without having to pay money, but also said \"I would consent on the master side, with a written provision that if the film blows up commercially that compensation would be forthcoming.\" The agent told me \" think a memorandum of agreement \u2013 a simple one \u2013 describing what we have agreed to, will suffice [in lieu of a contract].\" The agent told me to write it, saying, \"It doesn\u2019t have to be legalese.  Just a simple, well-written document that lays out what we talked about.\" I don't really even know what a memorandum is. Can someone help me write this? ","title":"Need help wording a simple memorandum","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553115476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3hcog\/court_claimed_i_failed_to_appear_but_i_did\/","id":"b3hcog","body":"I was ticketed first time for speeding last December, and as an international student at NY, I was freaked out and did not take a photo of the ticket before I sent the plea of not guilty via certified delivery.\n\nI appeared at town court on the date wrote on the ticket, and the judge said he never received the filing from the police and nor my plea... I was shocked. After searching, they concluded that I was not charged and I was dismissed. i asked for confirmation and the judge said I should not worry for it...\n\nI thought it was the end, until I suddenly received a letter like this:\n","title":"Court claimed I failed to appear but I did","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551767157,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axhxk7\/blatant_gender_discrimination_or_valid_point\/","id":"axhxk7","body":"I had a conversation with my boss today about my salary. I recently received a raise and thought it should be more, so I asked for more and provided length of time with the company (4 years) and excellent annual reviews every year, among others, as evidence that a higher compensation is deserved.\n\nMy boss indicated that I wasn\u2019t where I wanted to be because of my lack of field work experience. He said that, although I\u2019ve been with the company 4 years, it really has been only three years, since I\u2019ve taken two six-month maternity leaves, and which has caused me to miss out on opportunities to perform field work. He also stated that it\u2019s the company policy not to allow pregnant people to perform field work, so that\u2019s another year of field work experience I have missed out on. I told him that maternity leave is federally protected leave and also protected by the state of California, and it cannot be considered a factor when reviewing compensation or promotions because that is gender discrimination. He sounded a little alarmed after that and told me he would talk to the CFO about a salary increase for me.\n\nI should mention that this isn\u2019t the first time my maternity leaves have been discussed outright in the open in the same breath as salary or promotions. Last year, right after I returned from maternity leave, I was due for a biannual review. My supervisor asked me if I was expecting a salary increase. I said yes, I was, because I deliver projects like nobodies business and it had been 2 years since I received a raise. He said I shouldn\u2019t be expecting a salary increase so soon after coming back from maternity leave. \n\nI need a second opinion. While my boss does have a point that my maternity leaves caused me to miss out on field work opportunities, it also feels like gender discrimination. By default, a man can\u2019t get pregnant and wouldn\u2019t be passed up on salary increases and promotions because of such long stretches of leave and the concomitant missed field work opportunities. Can someone weigh in? \n\nIf it is blatant gender discrimination, what should be my next course of action?\n\nThanks in Advance. ","title":"Blatant Gender Discrimination or Valid Point?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554149828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b888d1\/mb_canada_roommates_cat_ripped_apart_my_purse\/","id":"b888d1","body":"Title says most of it, but the door to my room doesn\u2019t close properly all the time so you have sort of lift the handle to make it click. I talked to my landlord and he said neither him or the other roommates admitted to opening the door while I was gone (obviously) but my $200 purse is now ruined. My landlord is convinced I didn\u2019t close the door properly and that\u2019s how the cats got in but I always push on it to make sure it\u2019s closed. Is there anything I can do about this?","title":"(MB, Canada) Roommates cat ripped apart my purse while I was out of the house, my door was closed when I left.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552720183,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1pqr7\/harassment_sexual_from_a_professor\/","id":"b1pqr7","body":"**Questions:** What are my options for a professor harassing me? How do I identify sexual harassment vs. harassment (in legal terms)? Will the university protect him, as staff, over me (a student)?\n\n**For context:** I am a graduate student, 23, and female. He is a professor and a leader of a major department at my University.\n\n**Examples of his harassment:**\n\n\\-He constantly comments on my appearance like \"That color looks good on you\", \"I don't know how you wear a shirt that tight\", \"I like your hair up.\" \n\n\\-He tries to isolate me from my other classmates. If I have a question, he forces me to wait to talk to him after class, even if another student has the same question, or is also curious. The class ends at 9:30 pm and if I have to meet with him for a question, then it will only be him and I in the class, alone.\n\n\\-I have caught him looking me up and down in a very sexual manner. \n\n\\-He makes sexual jokes, or will bring up sex whenever talking to me. For example, he asked if I wanted a \"tip\" for teaching, which he said that by erasing the board a certain way so that his \"bits\" don't shake. However, he then proceeded to shake his shoulders and indicate that he was talking about boobs. \n\n\\-He wants everyone to call him by his first name. Once I called him \"Dr. (name)\" and he got very angry with me and asked to see me after class. Then he gave me a lecture about how he is my \"friend\" and his reasoning was that I am a graduate student. Therefore, I am closer to his \"level.\" \n\n\\-He began to touch me in a non-threatening manner. He would touch my arm, hair, or back when he walks by my desk. He is more brazen when we are alone. He put his arm around my shoulders when I was asking him a question after class. However, the other day crossed the line. I got caught in the elevator with him and he was casually talking to me and then put his arm behind me and grazed my butt. \n\n\\-He belittles me all the time, which is very confusing, because he is also very nice to me. One minute he is smiling and teasing me, and the next he is trying to disprove any valid point I make in class. If I smile at him and play his teasing game, then he is happy. But if I offer anything intelligent to the conversation, then he shuts me down. He has told me privately that he likes it better when I \"talk less.\" \n\n\\-He wants personal information about me, such as my ethnicity, knowledge of my work place, my relationship status, and where I live. He also gave me his number and told me to call him \"anytime.\" \n\n\\-One night after class he started walking with me and he walked me all the way to my car. I thought it was normal because he parked there also. However, I found out that his wife picks him up. \n\n\\-He keeps wanting me to meet him outside of class. \n\n\\-Other students have commented on his behavior toward me. One of my friends, who was in the army and who I trust, called him a predator, which I can totally see, as all of his \"favorite students\" are female. They are always in his office alone with him. \n\n\\-I should also note that there is a woman with disabilities is in my class. She has a captioner who writes down everything that is said, and identifies when the professor in the notes. It is like a transcript of every class. I am thinking of asking her for a copy.\n\n​\n\nThose are the main examples of his harassment. At first, I thought he was just weird. I was willing to go along with his teasing, but his behavior has been escalating. The touching, belittling, and desire to see me outside of class has made me beyond uncomfortable and actually scares me. He has been escalating in behavior. For example, the elevator incident happened the other day. He keeps wanting to meet me outside of class and I keep refusing, but he is getting angrier each time I see him. I tried to talk to him about it once toward the beginning of the semester about his behavior, but he got really mad and said I was disrespecting him. I'm at a loss, because I can't stand him, but I need his class and this is my last semester. ","title":"Harassment (sexual?) from a professor","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569477645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9fk4z\/apartment_parking_garage\/","id":"d9fk4z","body":"I\u2019m not sure if this is the right flair but we really need some advice. A few weeks ago in the parking garage of our apartment (NE) my roommates car was broken into and his subs were stolen, he reported it to the management and they said they\u2019d get back to him. Just tonight his MacBook was stolen out of his *locked* car. He went to them again and they said that the spot his car is parked in isn\u2019t visible to the cameras. Should he be able to be compensated or take legal action?","title":"Apartment parking garage","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441907563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kfj9o\/received_the_deed_and_acknowledgement_certificate\/","id":"3kfj9o","body":"I received a \"warranty deed\" (dated in the 60s) from my great aunt who is no longer planning to use this plot (she relocated to Dallas) along with a notarized \"acknowledgement certificate\" from 2008.\n\nI'm not sure what information or additional paperwork I need to sell this space to somebody or a third-party. My great aunt is still alive, and I can have a notary come in for any additional paper work, but I just don't know where to start.\n\nI'm located in Dallas, TX, and the plot to be sold is in Waco, TX.\n\nedit: I just called the cemetary for a little information, and asked what I would need to do, and they said I would have to come to their location to fill out paper work and pay them $125. This kind of seemed like a money-grab on their part, and I asked them what specifically I would receive for that $125, and they said that I would basically get a \"transfer of property\" item that is notarized. Is this something one of our local notary publics in Dallas can do? She can't travel to Waco.","title":"Received the deed and Acknowledgement Certificate for a plot\/space in a cemetery in Waco, TX. What do I need to do to make sure I can sell this space?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1507418389,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74y90b\/undisclosed_marital_property_discovered_post\/","id":"74y90b","body":"About a week after my divorce was final, I received a title deed for my ex-husband's house. It was sent to me by mistake, and from reading it, I know that my ex-husband lied to HUD regarding his marital status at the time of purchase (stated he was a single, unmarried man, and at the time of purchase we were still married.) \n\nHe also did not disclose the purchase (using marital assets) during the divorce proceedings.\n\nI have discussed this aspect with him, as Kentucky is a community asset state, but he does not seem concerned.\n\nMajor questions:\nIs he in contempt of court for failing to disclose the asset?\nIs there possible repercussions for him or I regarding the HUD fraud?\nWhat legal rights would I have in regards to the home? \n\n\n\nMay not affect much, but we had a prenuptial agreement- basically that we would split marital assets 50\/50, and that anything owned prior to marriage would be retained (hence the reason I was able to keep my home).\n\nI'm concerned now because I don't want unresolved legal issues from that marriage causing problems in a future marriage.","title":"Undisclosed marital property discovered post divorce- Kentucky","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569890602,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbla3x\/is_this_workplace_harassment\/","id":"dbla3x","body":"Hi,\n\nI\u2019m struggling to figure out my next move, but I\u2019ve been \u201cbullied\u201d at work without receiving a negative review for two years. Not all situations are explicit. My manager and his right hand man often speak in code, but clearly directed at me. \n\nIn short, I\u2019ve been told my my manager that he can make jokes about certain people because they\u2019re not a protected class (I\u2019m Latino and gay)\n\nI\u2019ve been removed from projects without explanation \n\nI\u2019ve been called a red headed stepchild \n\nI\u2019ve been excluded from events \n\nA senior staff person close with manager implied I should kill myself with manager present. He left the room. \n\nI\u2019ve been yelled at in front of colleagues for small errors \n\nIt has been implied that work I did was not done by myself (assumption is I am incompetent) \n\nThey have stigmatized me within the office\n\nA manager has used coded language to say that only reason I have a job is because I\u2019m cheap. He\u2019s talking about a \u201ccontractor\u201d he has and another saying he should fire him but he doesn\u2019t because he\u2019s cheap. \n\nBoss in a meeting said you\u2019d only do x if you\u2019re worried about a law suit, looks at me and laughs. \n\nI\u2019ve had multiple coworkers make comments to me about discrimination law suits and them damages punitive, me being excluded, or workplace bullying. I like the work, so I\u2019m torn what to do. \n\nDoes this sound like a case? I am new to this industry so I\u2019m not perfect (only 25), but this seems over the top.","title":"Is this workplace harassment?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571107065,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di1djs\/cyberstalking_across_state_linesi_am_in_south\/","id":"di1djs","body":"Hi!  I love reading posts on this sub and I\u2019ve learned a lot. Now I\u2019m finding I need a bit of advice. My issue isn\u2019t severe yet, but could be later and I want to be proactive. \n\nMy siblings and I are dealing with a mentally unbalanced family member that cyberstalks and harasses us. My sis gets it the worst, most likely because she witnessed what he did when they lived in the same town. He had a breakdown and did a lot of crazy stuff. \n\nHe has decided that I\u2019m the new target. Happy to explain what happened in the comments but it\u2019s not pertinent to the legal issues at hand. \n\nUnfortunately he\u2019s also quite intelligent and usually stops short of anything criminal like threats. His tool of choice is the book of faces. He is blocked, but the site won\u2019t suspend him.   Blocking him usually causes him to move on to another family member, telling them how horrible we are and the cycle starts all over with them. Ugh. I didn\u2019t have him blocked until today so I could document what he was saying about my sister in case there was anything actionable. \n\nNow that I\u2019m his new target, is there anything else I should do?  My biggest concern is that he made libelous statements about my sis the last time that could have caused her to lose her job\/license as a public health nurse. I teach, and even an accusation of wrongdoing could permanently affect my career. He is a former agent for CPS and knows precisely how to jerk me around. I have notified my workplace that he is active again.  \n\nWhat else can I do?  I\u2019m documenting incidents but I doubt I can get a restraining order as the last time he did this I wasn\u2019t the victim.","title":"Cyberstalking Across State Lines-I am in South Dakota-Crazy person is in Oregon","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554307392,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8zujl\/fianc\u00e9e_is_getting_ruined_by_previous_landlords\/","id":"b8zujl","body":"So this is a very simple timeline.\nYear-long lease, $650 a month, paid in cash each month by fianc\u00e9e.\nThey wouldn\u2019t release the deposit after she moved out in January, and she recently tried to get it from them. Even tho she cleaned the apartment out, left no damage (I can vouch for it), got out before lease ended, and paid everything on time for the entire year, they are refusing to release deposit.\nThey\u2019re claiming a bunch of really outlandish things like that she got all her money from Walmart, that she never paid for the energy bill for the last two months, that she left the carpet in a state requiring cleaning and are now charging her a shit ton of money.\n\nNo pictures were taken of the inside because we didn\u2019t foresee this being a thing.\n\nIs there anything we can do about this to either get the landlords to just fuck off or to get them to give her deposit back? We don\u2019t want to go to court over it, so we\u2019re trying to ...scare them into submitting by way of our staggering legal knowledge.","title":"Fianc\u00e9e is getting ruined by previous landlords","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570748856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg666i\/dashcam_of_fender_bender_shows_driver_switching\/","id":"dg666i","body":"I got into a minor fender bender (not my fault at all) and I have a Tesla with cameras all over blah blah. I submitted the police report (which clearly states the other driver merged into my car) and the videos to the driver's insurance company and they're \"investigating\". The insurance adjuster got me a bit pissed off on the phone, claiming that the videos show him cutting me off but not showing the impact. There's photos of the damage etc I'm not too worried about it. But that got me looking at the rest of the videos I have from the scene and it turns out, clear as day, the person driving at the time of the incident switches seats with the rear passenger on the opposite side. You can see the guy getting out of the car, going around and then changing seats with a woman. I have this footage and I am now fired up to get this guy in trouble for probably letting a non licensed driver operate his vehicle. On top of it he lied to the cop, saying I sped up and hit him. The cop didn't buy it because I showed him the videos on the scene. Do I contact the police and add this to the report somehow?","title":"Dashcam of fender bender shows \"driver\" switching with passenger. What now?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1550695714,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/astj10\/ny_issues_of_employment_potentially_due_to_gender\/","id":"astj10","body":"Please note that this is civil service in local government, not state or federal, if that makes a difference.\n\n\nI have been in civil service for almost a decade now. I was in another department working under a lower grade title for around 8 years. I took exams while in that title to move up in other areas. Late last year I got a phone call for a test that I had taken, did the interview(s), all the background and other tests, and came out A-Ok. I started around 4 months ago in this new department.\n\n\nDue to being \"new\" in this title, I am subject to probation which lasts 6 months in total. So, 2ish months to go.\n\n\nWhen I started my new job I was told that several (3) women were the \"supervisors\" of the teams. They all seemed nice enough. Please note the entire unit is quite small, probably around a dozen of us.\n\n\nAs time progressed I noticed one woman had very unprofessional and biased behavior towards men. For example, one day there was a car accident. One girl walked in late and all was fine; a mere minute later a male walked in and she started screaming at him. They went back and forth, with her having been nasty to him before. She also is nasty to the other guys, but is nice to me to my face for the most part.\n\n\nWith her being a \"supervisor\" and me being on probation, I get monthly reviews. My first two were OK but had really weird negative statements, like me eating breakfast before morning work was done (untrue), using white out on reports (needed, and everyone does that), etc. The first reviews were with one boss above us; today was with another new boss that took over. \n\n\nI was taken by surprise when the new boss talked to me today about the review and said it \"didnt look good,\" which was surprising to me since I have been pretty good at asking questions, doing my work, doing more work to go above and beyond, being on time, etc. Basically, it was said that I didnt take initiative and so on and so forth.\n\n\nThe woman that has issues with men has always been the \"gold nugget\" that bosses have used since the bosses dont sit even on the same floor as us. So, she almost openly hates men and has tried to get them fired before. And like I said, her behavior towards men is definitely... aggressive at times. I did defend myself as best I could.\n\n\nWhen I came back down I talked to another one of the \"supervisors\" who had said only good things about me, as had the other one (she wasnt in, nor was the bad one, but she told me who said what). She said theres nothing really better I can do. Other coworkers chimed in and were supportive, with them telling me she has done stuff like this before and she has a vendetta against men, essentially. \n\n\nAll in all, this woman is trying to sabotage me by not getting me to pass probation. I do the job well... but not by super star means. We all make mistakes and I am working on things, but that is one of the points of Probation. With everyone else saying only positive things, it most definitely is about gender.\n\n\nIn addition, this woman is NOT technically a supervisor by civil service title or power. We have the same exact title (slight variation, but nothing that grants her supervisory power). In all honesty, it may be against civil service law for her to even do reviews for all I know.\n\n\nOne coworker even went to the bigger boss who talked to me and said good things. Another one of the supervisors said good things about me via email and verbally. I just truly like my job, but I feel I am being blatantly discriminated against.","title":"(NY) Issues of employment potentially due to gender","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571502585,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk612n\/how_can_i_own_a_esa_dog_in_condo_if_its_a_nodog\/","id":"dk612n","body":"My therapist and I have been discussing getting an ESA dog for help with my anxiety and depression. I own a condo in a high rise building that is dog-free I knew this when I bought the place a while ago).\n\nMoving and finding a pet-friendly building would be a great undertaking and even cause my anxiety to get worse. I love where I live and I don\u2019t want to leave but I also want to improve upon my therapy and my mental wellbeing.\n\nIs there anything legally that my building must comply with under the ADA to allow me to have a dog?","title":"How can I own a ESA dog in condo if it\u2019s a no-dog building?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506639503,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/733son\/michigan_apartment_maintenance_is_leeching\/","id":"733son","body":"I live in a 4 bedroom townhouse where my roommates and I are responsible for ultilities. Utilities is in my name and I can see online how much energy we use daily which is nice. Well, last few weeks I have noticed that our usage was extremely sporadic (Will jump up to 50-60 kWH per day). Between my three roommates and I, we average about 10-20 kWH a day. The strange thing about it is that it would happen on weekends when only one roommate was home. I initially chalked it off as them having a party but noticed that the unit under us, which was being used as a makeshift maintenance office, always has thier lights on. We also noticed that there were only 4 meters attached to our building (for the 4 apartments being used for rent).\n\n\n\n\n\nI ended up calling the city to see what is going on and they called our landlord, who prompty sent out their maintenance supervisor. The supervisor initially said \"there is no way we are hooked into your power\" but then redacted his statement when he showed us his office under us. Once he noticed that they could possibly be on the same ultilities as us he rushed to the leasing office, only to come back with Subway gift cards and a apology.\n\n\n\n\n\nWas told from him that they are using the same meter and he will be sending electricians to put us on different lines. Being suspicious about the whole ordeal, my roommates and I go to the housing office where the manager was already working on a new rent agreement where they would credit us a very small portion of our rent becuase \"it is too expensive to put in another meter\". We did not agree to anything yet because my roommates are considering taking legal action. I am split on whether to take thier rent credit or argue for another line to be put in. They are currently running a couple computers down there and have an AC unit attached to the office (which probably explains the huge spikes in energy usage). Thier office is roughly the size of a 4-5 bedroom apartment that they rennovated for their use.\n\n\n\n\n\nTL;DR - Apartment maintence is running their whole office off of our ultilities. They are offering us rent credit instead of fixing the issue (adding another meter)","title":"[Michigan] Apartment maintenance is leeching ultilities from our apartment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541647826,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v6iut\/tinder_profile_not_pics_of_me_but_have_permission\/","id":"9v6iut","body":"Would it be legal to make a tinder profile where I am not the person in the profile, but I have permission from the person in the pictures, to essentially manage this account of theirs? Second, would it be legal to put \u201csend $$$ and see what happens\u201d in the profile description and put a venmo in there like many other girls on tinder? Finally, am I fine to not use their real name with their pics (go by an alias). Essentially Im managing her account with verbal permission and we are trying to see if people will send money. Is there any legal issues with me taking part of the money, again with permission? Not asking about morality but you guys can talk about that too. Mostly wanna know if its legal","title":"Tinder profile: not pics of me but have permission","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1506447954,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72m26r\/azus_my_ex_employer_is_denying_my_bonus_is_there\/","id":"72m26r","body":"The company I used to work for has performance based bonuses that are decided around the end of the year. The wording in my contract is as follows. \n\n> After each year of continuous service after the Start Date, you may be eligible to receive an annual performance bonus of 10% of the average Cash Compensation received in that given year (\"Annual Performance Bonus\")\n> \n> You and the director of (Department) will develop \"Annual Objectives for the Fiscal Year\". This annual objectives document, defined or determined by you and the Director of (department) for the corresponding fiscal year, shall also include award criteria guidelines. \n> \n> The Company may pay the Annual Performance Bonus, at the CEO's sole discretion, in (a) cash; or (b) option to purchase shares of the Company's Common Stock, which will vest immediately after they are granted. \n\nMy performance review was held in December of 2016 for the 2016 fiscal year and I was awarded 95% of my maximum 10% bonus. (I still have the performance metrics and my peer review from this)\n\nIn late January the company laid off ~25% of it's workforce and gave all departing employees their full bonus as a faux severance package. \n\nIn early February we (the remaining employees) we're told by both the CEO and Department head multiple times that our performance bonus was for the previous years performance and would be paid out to all employees in the room when the company received funding. We were told that this would be paid out to us regardless of our current employment with the company. This was video taped but the company has since deleted the video\/blocked any current employees from viewing it. \n\nAt the end of April I left the company since they were moving my department across the country and that didn't fit with my current goals. When I asked about my bonus during the exit interview all I was told was that i'd have to talk it over with my department head when funding came through. \n\nThe company received funding in late June and has not paid out bonus's to myself or 4 of my coworkers at the time of this writing that all heard the same thing. There is probably another 10-15 employees in other departments that are in the same situation we are in. \n\nWhen I contacted the company about this I received the following reply. \n\n> Dear Reddit user, \n> \n> This email is in response to your inquiry about whether you will be receiving a bonus based on your performance in 2016 at COMPANY.  Our CEO exercised his discretion and decided that individuals who voluntarily terminated their employment prior to the date that COMPANY declared it would be paying out bonuses for 2016, are not eligible for any bonus.  Because you left COMPANY prior to that date, you are not eligible for  a bonus.  \n> \n> We appreciate the work you did for the company during your employment with us and certainly wish you the best in your future endeavors.\n> \n> \n> Very Best,\n> \n> HR Lady\n\n\nI've heard from multiple people that there are 2-3 employees that left around the same time as me and the other 4 mentioned above that DID receive their bonus. The company has been unwilling to confirm this fact with me however. \n\n\nIs there anything I can do? They've been ignoring my E-mails asking them to clarify what they told everyone in February vs what they are telling people now. \n\nThank you for all your help. ","title":"[AZ][US] My ex employer is denying my bonus, is there anything I can do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444946247,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3owv8n\/ca_looking_to_start_a_business_and_have_a_few\/","id":"3owv8n","body":"Hi there, I'm looking to start a small business (just myself) in the state of California and had some questions before I go any further with it. \n\nFirst off, the business will be a travel planning\/consulting business to help people plan their trips. It includes weekend trips or short\/long backpacking trips, or other kind of trips. I'm also planning on offering my services as a personal tour guide\/chef\/photographer to accompany them on their trip, for the cost of the trip itself (not expecting much interest in this). \n\nDo I absolutely need to file as an LLC or Incorporate before I do any business? In the state of California, there is an $800 tax minimum if I were to do either, and I'd rather not pay that right now. I have no problem paying taxes on my income, but I don't know if I'd even make enough money to cover that, especially in my first year, and don't want to lose money. \n\nIf I don't file, how liable am I if something goes wrong on someone's trip? I've spoken to some people about this and they expressed some worry that people could blame me if something goes wrong, which I think would be ridiculous, but I could see it happening. Would a waiver or some kind of Release and Hold Harmless that they sign be enough to prevent legal action taken against me?\n\nIf I don't have to incorporate or file as an LLC, what am I limited to doing? Can I have a website, facebook page, can I advertise? \n\nI think that's it for now, and I appreciate any help given. I may think of more questions later and may add them here if that happens.","title":"[CA] Looking to start a business and have a few questions.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554528228,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba14rq\/im_at_a_loss_if_power_at_the_moment_in_a_state_of\/","id":"ba14rq","body":"Long story so strap in.\n\nBackground: I live in an extremely small town that just barely meets the requirements of being listed AT ALL as a town. And this problem is everywhere but I feel like its the worst here and In a lot of small towns. YOUR FUCKING LAST NAME!!!!! Anyway I'm kinda not well known and have some pretty concerning Medically Diagnosed Mental Disabilities when it come to Suicide. \n\nSo I started high school nearly two years ago. Since then I've been bullied into a state where I honestly feel nonthing at all not even physical pain due to me not even caring anymore or wanting to be alive. So I've talked many times to school authorities about it and everytime it gets dissmissed and I get told to basically kill myself so that they don't have to deal with extra work of my disabilities. And I've even tried going to the county court and it was dissmissed because of me not really having proof of this other than a video that when I tried to tell them that if I didn't get help that this video on my phone will ruin them at which they proceeded to call in me saying that I was making belligerent threats and that I needed to be detained and the school cop basically beat the shit out of me took my phone and made sure that it would never work again. So I now have nothing mind you my parents also hate me for extra work and that I was a mistake and I wasn't supposed to happen. Also told to me by my parents was that they don't give a damn about my mental state being so fucked and that I could kill myself anytime so they could get my money for being dead. Basically I can't do anything AT ALL for help. Also as more reference my school has deleted ALL evedence of me being this way or any of this even happening. I dont know what to do anymore. Help me.","title":"I'm at a loss if power at the moment in a state of Suicidal Thoughts and such in school. I need help guys it is a huge burdon.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555364462,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdlnaj\/question_about_probable_sentencing\/","id":"bdlnaj","body":"As of yesterday my life changed. Long story short, what I thought would be a normal day turned into a nightmare. About 2pm yesterday I heard my 7 year old sister tell me that my mom\u2019s boyfriend had performed oral sex on her on Friday and twice the last few months. Immediately I called the police and explained everything to them. Her molester (mom\u2019s bf) fled the city and tried to hide from investigators, but eventually found him not to far from my house. I want to know how long he could go to prison for doing this to my little sister. She is better now, but still undergoing psychological treatment. I\u2019m devastated and confused. I can\u2019t stop thinking about it and I can\u2019t sleep anymore. My house doesn\u2019t even feel like it\u2019s mine. As of now I\u2019ve been informed that he has four charges. Although I\u2019m not sure what they are for, but I want him to receive his maximum sentence for ruining our lives. If anyone knows how long he could be in jail for I\u2019d gladly appreciate it. Thank you all. \n\nTLDR; My mom\u2019s boyfriend sexually molested my sister. She is safe now and receiving psychological help. How long could he go to jail for? Thank you","title":"Question about probable sentencing","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553207231,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3wymi\/venmo_frozen_account_funds\/","id":"b3wymi","body":"I have a frozen venmo account with $250 on balance. How can I get my money from venmo? Can venmo keep my $250? What do they do with the funds?","title":"Venmo Frozen Account - Funds","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541533329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9urm5k\/can_my_employer_read_my_text_messages_on_my\/","id":"9urm5k","body":"I'm in middle Georgia,  just south of Atlanta.   I have an app on my phone which allows me to receive my company's emails when I'm away from my desk. That is the only company issued\/ sanctioned app I have on my personal cellphone. Recently, there have been rumors of individuals being asked to hand over their personal phones and that some have been fired due to personal text messages. How is that legal? ","title":"Can my employer read my text messages on my personal cellphone and fire me","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569544762,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ss36\/appeal_request_help\/","id":"d9ss36","body":"Hi all, \n\nPosting for a friend. Their currently in a situation where one of their employees (This is a corner store) sold tobacco to a minor. They were offered the chance to appeal. The store owner is trying to understand what is the best way to go about this appeal. It would be a 30-day suspension. This suspension could put the entire business at a troubling standstill. They are looking for an effective way to either reduce or remove the suspension. But, after research online. There has not been much help. \n\nAny suggestions are welcomed. Their terrified they may lose their business after a dramatic rent increase. \n\nTIA.","title":"Appeal Request Help.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1445799774,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q6i3k\/subleasing_conflictconfusion_in_florida\/","id":"3q6i3k","body":"I am renting a house, month-to-month, started 10\/5. Before moving in, it was understood that I would be renting the house and subletting each of the other two bedrooms. The lease requires me to get written permission to sublet, and written permission for one sublet does not count as permission for another (I need permission for each person).\n\nMy landlord is requiring me to run the applicants through a background and credit check service and send her the results before giving me permission.\n\nWeek of 10\/12, I found one subtenant and did the application, got an email (written permission) saying I could sublet to him. He moved in 10\/19. I scanned and emailed my landlord the sublease agreement.\n\nYesterday, 10\/24, landlord left me a voicemail and sent me an email telling me that the sublease is invalid because it has me listed as the Landlord and him as the tenant, instead of the tenant and subtenant, respectively. She requested (\"we will use...\") that I use the master lease and an added addendum as the sublease instead. The sublease agreement she sent basically just refers everything to the original lease, except of course, for a different amount of rent, security deposit, and utilities split.\n\nI am having trouble finding information online, as most resources are talking about subleasing entire places, but this is just one room (and access to common areas). Online things that do talk about one room seem to assume that the landlord owns the place, so it's not subleasing.\n\nSo is she right that the one I signed with the subtenant (who has now been living there for a week already) is invalid because of the terms lisitng me as landlord and him as tenant? I thought that's what a sublease was.\n\nIf it is invalid, can I just slightly revise the (sub)lease I signed with the tenant, or do I have to use the one she 'suggested'?\n\nFinally, what should I do? If it is my right, I think it would be best to have my own lease with the subtenant (provided all clauses are within the law governing said relationship). However, I also need to rent out the other room, and the landlord would probably not give me permission if we do not come to a mutual agreement on this issue.","title":"Subleasing conflict\/confusion in Florida","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569258395,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d89ffb\/ussc_tenant_in_a_terrible_situation_would_like_to\/","id":"d89ffb","body":"I am currently 2 months into a 12 month lease with a leasing company in SC. About one month ago, fleas began to appear in my apartment, and I contacted my leasing company to send out an exterminator. Three days later, a member of the company came out to spray outside of my apartment and then left. I continued to try to get in contact with them to mediate the issue, but the fleas persisted, and they did not send another exterminator out until a week ago. Both the exterminator and someone from my leasing company admitted that the issue was severe. The fleas are still present in the apartment as of today. I am currently staying in a hotel, and I have a verbal promise from one of the managers at the company that I will be reimbursed. I would really like to be out of this lease, what are my options\/best plan of attack?","title":"[US]-SC Tenant in a Terrible Situation- Would Like to Terminate lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570791964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgdkmf\/would_an_employer_be_required_to_allow_police\/","id":"dgdkmf","body":"I'm willing to concede that even though it is private property, smoking is regulated by the government and certain areas must be designated for smoking.\n\nBut after a report by a former employee, is the employer forced to allow police access to this private property so that they can look for further infractions?","title":"Would an employer be required to allow police onto the property randomly after being reported for having employees who smoke outside of designated areas?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446649877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ri0dq\/pennsylvania_landlord_is_jamming_me_up_on_a\/","id":"3ri0dq","body":"Hi all, I don't even know if this is being posted in the proper subreddit; but I need some help. Back in February of 2014, I moved into a duplex that was owned by someone both my roommate and I and our families knew fairly well. We never signed a lease, and instead entered into a verbal; month-to-month agreement.\n\nI recently moved out, and I gave my landlord almost two full months notice out of courtesy to him that I would be leaving but that my roommate however would be staying. I let him know on Sunday that I was fully moved out and asked when I could drop my keys off and pick up my security deposit. He finally got back to me last night and said he will give me back my security deposit once he gets a new one from the person that moved in in my place which effectively breaks me from my lease.\n\nWhat I'm confused about is why he needs to do that? We never signed a lease, in fact, I asked him numerous times over the course of the first four or five months that we lived there to sign one. He either forgot I asked to do that or just didn't care to write one up. We were always on time, if not early with rent, with the exception of once when my roommate had a car wreck. However, we did pay in cash every month for the rent, which, I know is not the greatest way of doing it but it was the easiest way for us and he preferred it that way. \n\nI feel that a large part of this foot dragging comes from the fact that my roommate had two cats that he brought in to the apartment without talking to my landlord first about it. And I feel that I'm going to suffer and ultimately lose out on the $600 deposit I'm owed. I was also told that a security deposit is supposed to be put in escrow after a year? I'm really confused as to what exactly is going on, if I need to pursue some sort of legal action or if my old landlord is legally within his rights as a landlord? Thanks again everyone.","title":"[PENNSYLVANIA] Landlord is jamming me up on a security deposit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550729092,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aszmvk\/can_i_ask_my_employer_for_monetary_help_to_move\/","id":"aszmvk","body":"TL;DR my direct manager is crazy and his newest attempt to intimidate me has me looking to move. Can I ask work to help with these costs? \n\nSo, I can\u2019t really get into all the specifics of my situation because the company just started investing my case and they\u2019re big enough to where I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they were on all these boards. However, to make a long convoluted story short, I was disciplined for something at work that I was successfully able to argue down to pretty much nothing and my manager got upset over it and has been slandering me to other coworkers and managers since then not to mention finding reasons to get me into other trouble. To the extent that I had to speak with the VP of our division. The part I can share is that my roommate (being the low-self esteem and easily gullible type) started what she thought was a relationship with said manager whom I\u2019d been having issues with at work. She secretly invited him over to our house on three different occasions (during the height of our battles) and then (surprise, surprise) he realized she was my roommate and stopped the relationship. \n\nThe problem is that he knew she was my roommate because I\u2019d spoken about her on multiple occasions over the course of ten + months and she\u2019d told him so herself as well. So he lied to her (although lie isn\u2019t the appropriate word given that she absolutely knew that he knew as well) and now I\u2019m absolutely terrified and extremely concerned about his willingness to do such an incredibly perverse and invasive thing. \n\nI am extremely concerned about what will happen when he gets fired or disciplined. I know for a fact, that he will face repercussions and that he\u2019ll know the complaint came from me because there\u2019s really no way to keep that sort of complaint anonymous so I\u2019m in the process of trying to move now and have reached out to my current leasing company about options. \n\nMy question: would it be a possibility for me to ask this company to help me with costs related to breaking my current lease and the costs associated with moving to include any deposits my new place would request? They are arguably the most recognizable name in the world (hence my reticence to give all the backstory here \u201cin public\u201d) so there isn\u2019t a concern about it being outside their realm of abilities to help. Given that I wouldn\u2019t have to move if this person of power hadn\u2019t crossed some serious lines and made me question my safety and that the company put him in such position over me and others, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d be out of line asking for this but I truly have no idea if that\u2019s 1) legal to do 2) something that anyone here would have experience with at all and 3) if I can make this sort of request, how would you suggest I go about doing so? \n\nTIA reddit","title":"Can I ask my employer for monetary help to move?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541713144,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ve8ob\/pennsylvania_landlord_had_inspector_come_in_while\/","id":"9ve8ob","body":"His landlord has always been a massive b!tch but now she had an inspector come in and when he found safety hazards she blamed my dad. The smoke detectors are electronic I believe that hook up into the ceiling\/no batteries. They were not hooked up since he moved in which has been probably over two years now. The outside of the fridge is rusted which, again, was like that when he moved in. Also we\u2019re now taking in the hamster we got him for Christmas last year because she\u2019s that strict about no pets... It\u2019s an effing *hamster* which isn\u2019t hurting anything (I get no pets is no pets but come on). Finally, the heating in the building is broken and she refuses to fix it yet the inspector\/landlord said he has to get rid of the space heater he has. She has constantly been refusing to fix\/do things that I know landlords are supposed to be responsible for (I forget what she has done for snow removal in the winter but of course being in PA we can always expect snow, I don\u2019t think my dad had to shovel but he is in very poor health and should not be shoveling!) Like I said she has always been insufferable (and is lucky I\u2019ve never met her), but I know there is no way to prove that the detectors\/fridge were like that when they moved in. I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair. Is there anyone we can call? I\u2019m scared of my dad being evicted which I don\u2019t believe she would have a problem doing if he snitched her out (I\u2019m sure we\u2019d be able to fight that too but hopefully that\u2019s a step that won\u2019t happen). Does my dad just have to deal with this?? I don\u2019t know if they expect him to do anything or replace the fridge\/detectors. I\u2019m just wondering if there are any steps we can take.","title":"Pennsylvania - Landlord had inspector come in while my dad wasn\u2019t home, blamed him for safety hazards that were from prior to him moving in - anything he can do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571056333,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhpwmd\/broke_parking_garage_arm\/","id":"dhpwmd","body":"So I was going to pull out my parking pass to open the gate and accidentally rolled into the gate at the parking garage. It\u2019s a pretty beat up arm and it only snapped at the wood. Anyway, I reported it to the parking garage and they took down my information. Name, phone, email. I apologized but I feel like that doesn\u2019t do much. Any advice on what to expect or anything else I could do moving forward is greatly appreciated.","title":"Broke Parking Garage Arm","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570035491,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcd0bm\/work_made_a_mistake_on_paycheck_for_7_months_and\/","id":"dcd0bm","body":"For many years I was a trainer at my job in Kansas (I believe the state might be important). It is a state job. Back in March, I was taken off of trainer status and a memo was put out to everyone via email stating such. We cycle trainers every so often. Apparently I've still been getting paid a training bonus since then and they want me to pay it back before the end of the year. It's not a crippling amount, but the holidays are coming up. I haven't looked at my pay stubs because I haven't noticed anything extraneous to warrant a closer look at my check, so I never noticed the training pay still on there. I assumed they fixed it like they're supposed to. Do I have any rights or am I screwed? Thank you to anyone who takes the time to answer =)","title":"Work made a mistake on paycheck for 7 months and wants me to pay back.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568913199,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6h4e0\/negotiate_severance_in_california_when_quitting\/","id":"d6h4e0","body":"I plan to quit my job due to discrimination, likely defamation, and possible retaliation. HR substantiated the claims, but to my knowledge, only went so far as to speak to the person involved, rather than taking action like termination. The person in question is my manager and is thus in charge of my ratings, my standing in the company,and paycheck.\n\nAs a result the environment is truly toxic and I need to leave. But the reason I'm leaving is not on my own accord. Without having been victim of these behaviors, I would have happily stayed for several more years. I feel that I am being been pushed out against my will and I will be giving up a very good overall compensation solely due to the perpetrator's behavior.\n\nIn a situation like this, is it possible to negotiate some severance to make up for any of the damages (mostly emotional up to this point, but also the loss I'll take on stock vesting and future wages)? \n\nIt's a very large company and an attorney has told me that if I were to be fired, I would have a case. But I think they're smart enough not to fire me and wait me out to leave.","title":"Negotiate severance in California when quitting due to discrimination?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506542415,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72uvya\/british_columbia_my_boss_has_added_a_new_rule\/","id":"72uvya","body":"Is it legal for them to take a phone from someones pocket even if they're not using it? ","title":"[British Columbia] My boss has added a new rule that if they see a phone in a pocket they will take it away","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552804825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b22glp\/friend_arrested_for_out_of_county_warrant\/","id":"b22glp","body":"Okay so the arrest happened in cherokee county, Georgia but the warrant is for Bartow county, Georgia. The warrant was for living out of county I assume it\u2019s a probation violation but don\u2019t know what they were on probation for. I was wondering if there is anything I can do to get them out. They told me they would be in jail for 61 days but for such a minor offense I assume there has to be bail bond.  I have called the facility they are at and they said they can\u2019t release any information for a 72 hour period for whatever reason. Is there anything I can do to avoid as much jail time for them as possible?","title":"Friend arrested for out of county warrant","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542118450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wpe5u\/pa_divorce_question\/","id":"9wpe5u","body":"In PA if one person files for no fault divorce and another person files for at fault divorce under adultery how does the court decide which path to take? ","title":"PA divorce question","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508025653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76fpqn\/landlords_lawyer_is_claiming_my_apartment_unit\/","id":"76fpqn","body":"So basically I've been told I need to move out by the end of the year and they are giving me the option of a similar apartment or take the relocation benefits payment of about $10k. No one else got this letter (I got it by email from their lawyer). Are they just trying to lie to get rid of me? \n\nIf thats the case, what are my options? Can I ask for proof from the lawyer? I already emailed back asking if it applies to just me or other tenants in my building and the unit numbers. The letter does say it applies to people in their other buildings as well where the unit used to be a 2 bedroom but was separated into a 1 bedroom and a bachelor (studio with no kitchen). I live in a bachelor and not the 1 bedroom portion.\n\n\nEdit: Also, I tried calling the LAHD and they are completely worthless. They transferred me between several different people including an inspector and they still couldn't tell me if they were changing the rules and if my unit was unable to be registered.","title":"Landlords lawyer is claiming my apartment unit isn't register-able anymore and I have to move out. Same units in building haven't gotten the letter I have. Any idea on what my options are? LA, California","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539193100,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n1n05\/teslakna_misrepresenting_statements_in_employment\/","id":"9n1n05","body":"Hi Guys,\n\nI left a job to work for Tesla through the KNA Solutions (Recruiter). KNA advised it will be a 90 day contract and the option to get hired on permanently after the 90 days. The contract less then 30 and the recruiter has not returned my voicemail. \n\nThe contract (which is in Florida) does state \"at will\" employment. But the emails\/text messages I've kept from the recruiter guaranteed 90 days. I left my former job because it was less pay and a deadend and I wanted to take the chance with a good company.  Is their anything I can do?","title":"Tesla\/KNA Misrepresenting Statements in Employment Contract","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554919335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbp6uf\/ordering_records_from_court\/","id":"bbp6uf","body":"What exactly is contained in the court records when you purchase them? \n\nWhat exactly will it tell me about the case? \n\nWill it tell me about any psychological evaluations done in said case?\n\nWill there be testimony? \n\nI'm about to fork over $100 or so to order these.","title":"Ordering records from court.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569861964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbed6o\/mo_need_some_help_clarifying_some_issue_being\/","id":"dbed6o","body":"So a month or so back a cousin of mine (more like a sister in relationship wise) passed away unexpectedly leaving behind her estate, husband of 6 years, and her 16 year old son. Unfortunately the relationship with her husband has always been strained with our family, she met him shortly after he got out of jail for a felony unlawful use of a weapon. Now I will give him that he has turned his life around but he has always had a strained relationship with both our family and her son. \n\n​\n\nShe unfortunately passed away without a will so I know that the estate will have to go through the probate process. The problem is I feel that he doesn't have the best interest of her son in heart and I want to make sure that he gets everything he is entitled to. At the time of her death he hadn't worked for close to a year and had been mainly living off of her money. In the estate I know there are investments, a house that only her name was on, as well as several other personal belongings and valuables. Now I understand that under the law both he and her son are entitled to half of the estate each. \n\n​\n\nThe problem is he was just appointed the personal representative of the estate and all of us including her son (and his bio dad, current guardian) don't feel he should be for a number of reasons most importantly we feel he won't execute the estate fairly and continue to live off of funds that aren't his while the process is going. What if any are the ways we can go about challenging him being the personal representative of the estate and protect her son's interests in this matter.","title":"[MO] Need some help clarifying some issue being faced after the death of a close relative","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1542136922,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ws5mo\/world_financial_group_signed_a_document_for_me\/","id":"9ws5mo","body":"So I was asked by a friend yesterday to go with him and check them out, had a meeting with an agent, asked me to enroll for $125, i said yeah and told him i\u2019ll send him my card info when i\u2019m home and i only have a debit visa currently. Sent it 2 hours later and took all my money out of chequings after a change of heart. I just got an email that i signed a document and the agent signed it with my name. Is this legal? Google WFG scam if you\u2019re unfamiliar. They\u2019re basically a LML company, not exactly a pyramid scheme but much like it\n\n","title":"World Financial Group signed a document for me, Canada, BC","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569350676,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8rguo\/my_landlord_is_trying_to_keep_my_deposit_and\/","id":"d8rguo","body":"California here. I moved out of that apartment on Aug 31st after living there for three years.\n\nSo on Aug 14th I received a text from the property manager (we will call her Syd)\u00a0 just confirming how the owner of the property will be there on friday to walk to the property to \u201csee if the carpet needs to be replaced and take measurements.\u201d Syd states she will also be there as well. Well on friday I get a text from Syd saying how she nor the owner of the property is going to be able to make it out to view the property. She then also says how a flooring contractor will contact me directly to take measurements of the flooring.\n\nSo after I got that message, it seems like the carpet was going to be replaced anyways, so I thought I wouldn\u2019t have to worry about the cost coming out of my deposit and I didn\u2019t want to worry about having it cleaned if they were going to remove it anyways.\u00a0\n\nSpoiler alert, the guy never came to take measurements of the floor, nor did Syd or the owner of the property come by to do a move out inspection. And I have all the text messages stating this.\n\nThe day of my move out rolls around and Syd stops by to pick up the keys, my mom and my boyfriend were there as witnesses. I asked her to come in and look around, Syd seemed hesitant but came in anyways. She told me not to worry about cleaning the walls since she was going to have them repainted anyways and tells me not to worry about the carpet since it would be replaced. She asked for my new address to send the deposit back and that was that. Unfortunately that conversation was verbal, so I have no proof besides my boyfriend and my mom.\u00a0\n\nWell, I checked the mail today and I got an itemization of security deposit.\u00a0\n\nI was charged for some damages I knew about (door, blinds, final cleaning).\n\nThere was also:\n\nCarpet replacement 2 out of 5 year economic life - 792.80\n\nOwner tried cleaning carpet but it was too damaged so they had to replace - 130\n\nHaul away removal of personal items - 60\u00a0\n\nFirst, I will state the carpet was dirty but I would have paid to get it cleaned, but she said it was going to be replaced so I didn't worry about it. Now I am being charged cleaning and replacement. Also, I know the carpet was not new when we moved in. When we first moved in, we had a different property manager. He told us he had the carpet \u201cdouble cleaned\u201d since he did not like how it came out the first time. So that would make the carpet at least 4 years old at this point, not 3 years like it says on the security deposit itemization. The entire cost comes out to 1602, my security deposit covered $1050, but I still owe $554.\n\nShe is also trying to charge me to haul away items. I never got a notice saying I left items behind, like Civil Code 1983 states to do. So can she actually charge me to haul away the items when I never got a notice saying I left items behind?\n\nDo I have any fighting chance here about not having to pay for the carpet or the removal of items, or am I screwed? And no, I did not take any photos. But at least she kept her word and didn\u2019t charge me for paint!\u00a0","title":"My landlord is trying to keep my deposit, and charge me an extra $500 after I moved out. I need advice.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570049336,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcgaiv\/hostile_work_environment_my_boss_demoted_me_for\/","id":"dcgaiv","body":"[Texas] I just need some help. \n\nShort version: My boss had a very emotional, personal reaction to finding out I was looking for another job and demoted me. Can I quit and still collect unemployment due to the business being a hostile work environment?\n\nBackground: My boss is very lazy and has no passion for her own business. She was handed everything she's ever had including her business. She has no sense on how to run said business and that was why she hired me. I became her manager and reorganized her entire store, leading to more effeciency and productivity, and less waste. Essentially I have been running her business while she does little piddly things that really don't concern her or her time. She also wanted me to be responsible for growing her business, marketing, and attracting customers (all things she said she would be in charge of), on top of all my duties as manager. And all for far too little money. It came to a time where I felt I wasnt being challenged, or appreciated, and I thought it would be good to look for something new. Somewhere that I applied to called the shop asking about me. When my boss found out, she was furious and gave me 3 days to hand in my resignation. I was unable to do so because I've been searching for jobs for 6 months with no luck. I really hadn't even thought of when I would be able to leave. I told her I wasn't quitting, but assured her I would be happy to work hard for her and give a proper notice should I find anything different. \nShe responded to this with a contract. The contract stated I would have to snich on any rumors I overheard from my employees, adhere to a sales quota, and give a 1 month notice if I ever decided to leave. None of these terms were ever stated when I was given the job and I did not feel comfortable signing the contract. She said the role of manager was \"contingent\" on the signing of the contract and therefore I could no longer have the role. So she demoted me to a front of house cashier and cut my pay. \nThe following week, she tried to get me to be an 'assistant' to the business which had half the responsibilities I held when I was manager. I told her it was not fair and that I wanted to stay FOH like we had discussed. That was when she cut me down to 18 hours per week. All of this was simply because I was just LOOKING for another job. I was really good at what I did too, she literally praised me as a manager and said she was 'sad to see me go' after I announced my demotion to my team. Already, things have started to fall though the cracks and things are reverting to exactly the way they were when I got there.  Anytime I have tried to discuss pay with her, she says she already pays me above industry standards (she barely pays me a livable wage) and she's insulted I would even ask her. When I told her I was unable to resign, she threatened me with multiple lawyers. She tried to get me to quit so she wouldnt have to pay unemployment and she's deliberatly interview new canidates in front of me. She's a bully. She barely talks to me, she spreads rumors about me to the other employees, she's created an extremely hostile work environment for me. She's very angry with me and has even turned one of my co-workers against me. I used to love my job and now I'm so depressed I can barely get myself out of bed for my 3 hour shift. I am actively looking for work but I'm still unable to find anything. \n\nSo here's my question: \n#1 - How can she get away with all this? I know Texas is a right to work state but wtf .... Are there no rights for workers? \n#2 - Can I quit and still be able to collect unemployment?","title":"Hostile Work Environment; my boss demoted me for very personal reasons and now I hate my job","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568645381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d51pi2\/root_warranty_woes\/","id":"d51pi2","body":"Hi all,\n\nI'm creating this post a bit ahead of time as I may not have problems, but I am expecting it. Long story short, I rooted my device and then it had a hardware failure while still under warranty. The company I'm sending it off to can randomly be iffy about providing under warranty repair for rooted devices. I was wondering what the best course of action is? Should I pay the repair fee and then try to recoup in small claims, should I try to push my luck and bring up the law about warranties and rooting if they bring it up, or even some other course of action?  \n\n\nRegards","title":"Root Warranty Woes","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571562022,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkh72k\/possible_estate_negligence\/","id":"dkh72k","body":"About a month ago, my two sisters and I became aware of our grandmother\u2019s passing. We were not informed or told by any family, but we found out through the obituaries. At the funeral, our great uncle Jimmy told our mother that we were in the will and we were to get everything. \n\nNot sure if this was true or not, I called the county clerk to see if the will had been given to the courts. Luckily, they had just been filed and the clerk gave me a copy. It does indeed state that we are to get everything (of course what\u2019s left over after all her debts and taxes are paid). \n\nMy sisters and I do not want to sell the home, but the Personal Representative, our great uncle, states that we absolutely have to sell the home and liquidize everything. \n\nWe setup a meeting with him to talk about some details and get some questions answered. He was less than forthcoming with information and refused to answer any questions that had to do with how much we were dealing with in terms of money. He also refused to give us his attorney\u2019s name. We asked why and he just simply said \u201cI\u2019m not going to\u201d.\n\nAfter going to my grandmother\u2019s home, the entirety of it had been picked through and several things were gone. We found out that my great uncle and great aunt had an estate sale last weekend without telling us. The listing for the sale is on garage sale sites online. \n\nLong story short, he lied to us several times during our meeting and kept contradicting himself. So, my question, what do we do? There are several more details that I didn\u2019t add in, but ultimately shouldn\u2019t he be working with us instead of keeping us in the dark and if we all agree about the house, why does it need to be sold? The will doesn\u2019t specify her assets have to be liquidized. \n\nSorry if my thoughts are scattered I\u2019m just a bit frazzled from the meeting. I also wanted to mention that we are in the US.","title":"Possible Estate Negligence","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1504055633,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wvsc5\/single_llc_for_multiple_endeavors\/","id":"6wvsc5","body":"As the title states, I plan to start an LLC in California for a couple of business ideas.  One has more legal risk than the other.  If something goes south with the riskier efforts, ie. I get sued, would I be forced to end everything tied to the LLC?  I could see restarting the single safer business but would rather avoid doing so.  ","title":"Single LLC for multiple endeavors?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569616756,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da67g0\/need_to_kick_out_the_terrible_human_ive_been\/","id":"da67g0","body":"He's lived here since June. He doesn't pay rent, or pays it extremely late. He leaves his dog for me to watch 4 days a week and if I dont, he'll give his key to God-knows-who to come do it instead. Someone came in last week while I was home alone in the shower and I have no idea who it was (I'm a young woman, it was terrifying). He is a chronic liar and I want him out so I can get someone in who pays their bills.\n\nMy 70-year-old mother has had to use her social security to cover for his half of the rent because I cant afford it. I'm the only one on the lease. Please tell me how to kick him out. I've been under so much stress ever since he moved in and I already have serious mental health issues as it is. \n\nThis is in Portland, OR.","title":"Need to kick out the terrible human I've been subletting to","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541200938,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tp8ox\/can_his_employer_make_him_pay\/","id":"9tp8ox","body":"My boyfriend is a delivery driver for a grocery store in NJ. Last week on a delivery he left a credit card machine on the back bumper of the van and it got lost. Another delivery driver lost one two months back and they told him don\u2019t worry about it. Today the other delivery driver got called into HR and signed a paper saying he would pay $50 from each paycheck to reimburse them $450 for the credit card machine. My boyfriend is scheduled to come into work tomorrow and he will be pulled into HR for the same reason. I told him not to sign any papers until he speaks to his union representative. Is this legal for them to make him reimburse them? Other employees have damaged these machines in the past and just now they are making employees pay it back. Does anyone have any advice for this situation? ","title":"Can his employer make him pay?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446314915,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qzo8c\/california_my_brother_31_has_full_custody_but_he\/","id":"3qzo8c","body":"Hey all!\n\nI'm hoping to get a bit of advice. My brother has two kids [6,8] and he lives at home with my parents because he doesn't make near enough to live on his own. He does what he can but my parents obviously contribute their time\/money to help him because he has full custody. Their mother is like textbook crazy and she has had CPS called on her, does drugs, and rarely sees the girls (she's kind of [read: COMPLETELY] the worst). \n\nMy problem is he thinks it's a waste of time to fill out the paperwork for child support since he's a dude. Plus, the legal fees for hiring his lawyer and the paperwork she'll have to complete. \n\nIs there some substance to this? From what I understand she's unemployed but her husband works and is the breadwinner for her and her other two kids. Would he still not receive payments and they'll come after her for the money later? Mostly, I just think it's crap that my parents are footing the bill for the kids and he's deadest against taking money from the baby mama.\n\nI'm aware it's not really *my* problem but the sooner he can get on his feet the better. He's been back home for 6 years, now...","title":"[California] My brother [31] has full custody but he won't the seek child support he clearly needs.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551832981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axsjw8\/30_day_notice_for_tenant_manhattan_ny\/","id":"axsjw8","body":"Good day!\n\n  \nI am a tenant and have a civil court case next Monday and I would really appreciate a little bit of help regarding two very specific subjects:  \n\n\n1. I was coerced by my landlord (using threats and intimidation) into signing away my stabilize apartment lease and was told I had only 21 days to return my keys and evict the apartment. I was told by one judge and several lawyers that it is customary to give 30 days notice before evicting a tenant, my question is : Where is the law that actually says that. I need to quote from it to the judge and I would love to see the actual law \/ regulation that says tenants should get at least 30 days to leave.\n\n​\n\n2. I am making the claim that if it wasn\u2019t for this wrongful eviction, I would have stayed in the apartment for at least 3 more years and thus should be awarded the difference in rent for that time. For example, if the rent was $1500 and I\u2019m now paying $2000, that\u2019s a $500 difference, times 36 months is $18,000. This amount is also punitive to discourage landlords from using the same shady and threatening tactics in the future. I know I need precedent of some other case, preferably in NY that has done something similar or was awarded a similar amount.\n\n​\n\nI apologize if I\u2019m being vague, but this is a very long story and I don\u2019t want to waste your precious time with the entire thing, if there any details you need I\u2019d be happy to provide them but at this point this is what I need to go in front of a judge.\n\n​\n\n**Thank you.**","title":"30 Day Notice for Tenant? (Manhattan NY)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554647440,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bagsfn\/at_fault_driver_wo_insurance_trying_not_to_lose\/","id":"bagsfn","body":"In a no fault insurance state, I was in an accident where I rear ended someone on the freeway at the time of the accident I gave over what I thought was my insurance but it had ended a few days before. I talked to my insurance they said i didn\u2019t have a policy through them so they can\u2019t cover anything...well won\u2019t.\nI didn\u2019t get any ticket at the scene the other driver said they have insurance and she had neck pain. We both went to the hospital\nSo I get a letter in the mail from ___ law firm that I had been found at fault and had to pay for her damages.\nI called some lawyers, one got back to me and said I\u2019m better off filing bankruptcy, but he \u201chighly wouldn\u2019t recommend it\u201d (so why would he say it \ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffe\u200d\u2640\ufe0f)\nI called them and said I didn\u2019t have insurance at the time. They said they\u2019d send me an affidavit of no insurance so that they can go through her own insurance for her damages.\nThey sent the affidavit, but if I sign what will it mean for me?\nI\u2019m only 20 years old struggling already to pull myself out of student loan debt. The only \u201casset\u201d I have it my apartment that I rent.\nWill they sue me after I sign the affidavit for what they paid?\nWould they even try to sue me since I don\u2019t have anything for them?\nWhat does it mean for me since I didn\u2019t have insurance?\nI didn\u2019t get a ticket but will my license be suspended?\nHELP","title":"At fault driver w\/o insurance trying not to lose my mind!","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1550021059,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aq0y98\/can_i_report_my_old_boss_to_the_irs\/","id":"aq0y98","body":"backstory: I worked for a company back in Florida for a little over a year. quit, moved to Ohio, had all my mail forwarded to my new address. I received my W2 forms from the two other companies I worked for that same year, but not from this particular company in question. my leaving wasn\u2019t on good terms as my old boss has me blocked on social media, so i contacted my old co-worker and asked her if she received her W2 yet. she said she got it at work and maybe mine just hasn\u2019t gotten to me yet because it takes longer via mail. okay, fine. so i waited 2 more weeks, and still nothing. i contacted the same old co-worker asking for my old boss\u2019 boss\u2019 email so i could contact him and ask him what\u2019s going on. she said \u201ci just asked [insert previous employers name] and she said it\u2019s on [insert previous employee website].\u201d problem is, i no longer have access to this website. i emailed them asking for help getting into it and am currently waiting for a reply.\n\nmy question is, has anyone else experienced something like this? is this how things are supposed to go?? and also, if i still have further problems accessing my information, could i report my old boss to the irs for this?\n\nthanks in advance.","title":"Can I report my old boss to the IRS?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569555589,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9uteb\/client_wont_pay_for_a_job_performed_even_with\/","id":"d9uteb","body":"I made some goods for a client as they asked me to be a sponsor to their event. I agreed over email so I had it written, and we discussed details over many months. The time came for me to deliver said goods and to my surprise I am told that they went with another supplier, completely out of the blue. I\u2019m guessing they found a better deal and went with it, totally leaving me footing the bill for the supplies and time to produce the items.\n\nNow, I messed up because I didn\u2019t take a deposit. They are refusing to pay stating we didn\u2019t have a \u2018contract\u2019. Literally, I have an email chain where client specifically asks me if I would be a sponsor and my reply of yes, followed by 30 subsequent emails back and forth laying out each of our duties. \n\nAnyway, I could take them to small claims but it\u2019s not an amount worth doing. However, I\u2019d like to try and scare them into paying. My thought is to send them a fake letter from a made up legal team stating charges will be coming if payment isn\u2019t made. Sounds sneaky but is it illegal?","title":"Client won\u2019t pay for a job performed even with written agreement.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540247736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qit7e\/what_are_my_options_if_my_landlord_doesnt_provide\/","id":"9qit7e","body":"Long Beach, CA\n\n​\n\nI've lived here a bit over 4 years, never had heat. I'm a bit of a weenie when it comes to cold so the first couple years I thought maybe there was low (building-wide) heat and I was just being a wuss. When a new management company came out to evaluate things I learned I was suppose to have a heater. They never did it before being replaced by another management company a few months later. \n\n​\n\nI put in a maintenance request in Nov of last year, emailed the maintenance coordinator a couple weeks later after no response, they had a company come out in Dec to give an estimate (\\~$1000 plus I'd probably need a new breaker). Emailed maintenance coordinator in Jan after not hearing anything, no reply. Submitted another maintenance request a month ago, electrician came out today. They'll have to run another line in addition to installing the heater. It sounded like it'd be pricey and he was trying discourage me\/encourage me to use a space heater.\n\n​\n\nBasically, my apartment is somewhat cheap (<$900 for a studio) and I think they are going to stonewall be and not put it in due to cost. I'm nervous about getting kicked out or having my rent hiked beyond what I can afford. I don't really have time to deal with a move and 90% likely I'll be moving this summer. Do I have any options beside just sucking it up for a few months?\n\n​\n\nTLDR: No heat - don't think company will put in heat due to $$$ - options?","title":"What are my options if my landlord doesn't provide heat?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538030078,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jahpg\/legality_of_an_arcadebar\/","id":"9jahpg","body":"Hello,\n\nI am a person below the age of 18 in Washington state hired by a bar & arcade. (Same business and building.) I was employed at this establishment since sometime around late July, 2018. My role was to bust tables, clean floors, set up for parties, repair some arcade machines to the best of my ability, wash dishes, as well as cleaning  the grounds outside. One major part of my job was to clean up after the customers which entailed gathering empty or full bottles of alcohol left about on tables or around the main and sub floor at arcade machines. Mind you, I'm below the age of 18 and after some research I've done myself that's, to my knowledge still correct and accurate, pointed toward this being unlawful for an employee such as myself. Information regarding this can be found [here.](http:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/wac\/default.aspx?cite=314-11-040) Although I was never asked to stock or sell alcohol, I was instructed to clean up after customers by disposing of alcohol bottles. In this establishment what I found a bit confusing from the start is that both children of all ages and adults who may purchase alcoholic beverages are allowed all around the building on the main and sub floor with said beverages. While we had an area we would call a \"bar area\" customers were not required to keep their drinks there. With these aspects in affect it would be dangerously easy for a child or minor of any age to pick up a bottle left either as trash or by a distracted customer and consume it. From what I could tell, alcoholic beverage distribution in a restaurant environment is only permitted if there is a designated and enforced bar or \"alcohol only\" area in which opened bottles may not leave and minors would not be permitted to enter this area. If this is incorrect, please do correct me. The only warning given to our customers is reminiscent to \"please do not leave your alcoholic beverages lying around, we don't want kids to get a hold of them, thank you.\" along with a \"please don't bring outside food or beverages into our establishment and please do not take any alcoholic beverages you purchase here outside.\" As of writing, yesterday afternoon I had received a call from the owner, who also acts as a manager and my employer, that I would be laid off immediately due to them \"trying to obtain their liquor license.\" Now, as this was a brief phone call, this could either mean that they hadn't had one to begin with or they needed to renew it. I'm leaning toward the former option as it had not been an issue for me to be employed there before this event. From my own readings, by the looks of it, a business is required to have an [active liquor license](https:\/\/lcb.wa.gov\/licensing\/apply-liquor-license) to sell alcoholic beverages of any kind. If I am incorrect about this please correct me. It was explained to me that this was the reason I was laid off and they can not allow a minor to be employed their once they've obtained said license. In Washington state an employer may fire you for any reason or even for no reason. This I understand however my worries are more so about the legality and legitimacy of their business practices rather than my termination. I would like to know if anybody reading this could give me any advice on how to treat this situation or if anything can be done at all. I've yet to have the need to look into legality and such aspects about a business before and I deeply apologize if this is a waste of time for not only the reader but the sub-reddit in general.\n\n\t\n\nI look forward to hearing from anybody able to assist me in any regard.\n\n​\n\nThank you for your time.","title":"Legality of an Arcade\/Bar","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568598141,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4tygf\/ca_legal_right_to_install_an_electric_vehicle\/","id":"d4tygf","body":"I have been asking my landlord, via letter, for permission to install an electric vehicle charger in my parking space. I have sent a letter to him at the first of the month since may, but have never received a written response. He did tell me in person that I would hear from his attorney regarding the request, but that was two months ago and u have yet to receive anything.\n\nCalifornia has laws specifically addressing a tenants right to do this, but I can't get the landlord to even say no. What are my options to get him to engage my request so I can get the ball rolling? Do I need to take him to court?","title":"CA legal right to install an electric vehicle charger in apartment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447044890,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s3hqz\/fl_the_business_i_work_for_is_holding_a_raffle\/","id":"3s3hqz","body":"At the place where I work one of the owners has recently come up with an idea for bringing customers in: for every $50 a customer spends on our goods\/services, the customer gets a raffle ticket. They fill it out, hand it back to us, and we put it in the bucket to be drawn for a big prize in the future.\n\nI've seen raffles before, but every time it's been \"no purchase necessary\", which I have always presumed to be because of some kind of gambling laws or something. When customers act suspicious about it or say things like \"why can't I just buy a ticket?\", I don't know what to tell them.\n\nI feel weird about the situation whenever I hand someone raffle tickets and would like my mind put at ease, or else to be able to approach the owners about it before things get out of hand, if it isn't legal.","title":"[FL] The business I work for is holding a raffle where you earn tickets by making purchases. Is this legal?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568819049,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5z2ip\/injured_at_work_need_advice_thank_you\/","id":"d5z2ip","body":"Basically I rolled my ankle on the job, it\u2019s pretty bad. I can\u2019t really put weight on it at all it\u2019s been about 2 weeks. They said they will pay my medical bills but I wanted to know if there was anything else more I can do in order to get paid somehow because I just had a daughter and my girlfriend can\u2019t work right now. I also researched it a bit and I also never filled out an injury claim or any form like that the day I was injured at work. Sorry if this post seems like a mess first time posting on legal advice. I also don\u2019t have many sick days I assume because I just started this job about 4 months ago. I also live in Chicago Illinois if that helps. Thank you very much. I would include pictures of my ankle but I don\u2019t know how to set up links. \nLss: rolled ankle, my boss said he\u2019ll pay my medical bills but didn\u2019t mention anything about me getting 2\/3 of regular pay or anything. Can I do anything about that? Wife isn\u2019t working because we just had our child and she needs to recover from her c section.","title":"Injured at work. Need advice thank you","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570765358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg9hvq\/can_the_police_track_an_instagrams_posts_ip\/","id":"dg9hvq","body":"This kid put his password in his bio on Instagram, so me and my friends thought it would be funny to log into it and make a few posts and stuff. now his parents are involved and i think the police are too. The posts are gone now, but is it possible to track me having anything to do with it? i made a few posts at home, a few at school.","title":"can the police track an instagrams posts ip?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1412636268,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ihxph\/simple_battery_he_said_she_said_nevada\/","id":"2ihxph","body":"I am (22) pressing charges against a guy who sexually assaulted me in a club in Nevada. It was a horrible experience which I am still experiencing the effects of months after. I do not live in the state but was told that if I do not show up for the trial date they will drop the charges (simple battery). The night that it happened the guy was arrested and taken to jail. I am having a huge amount of anxiety regarding what kind of questions the prosecution and the defense will ask me. Bottom line I just want to know what to expect in the courtroom. ","title":"Simple Battery he said, she said (Nevada)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553264752,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b45ot0\/can_my_school_watch_my_screen\/","id":"b45ot0","body":"My school just rolled out an application that will let teachers and the like watch our computer screen whenever. They never warned us about it. Just told us and did it 10 minutes later. Is this legal? I'm in North Carolina by the way.\n\n\nIf this is a dumb question I apologize.","title":"Can my school watch my screen?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554741708,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baw1ir\/have_no_idea_whats_going_on\/","id":"baw1ir","body":"Hi Reddit! Wanted to ask for help on this situation \n\nOctober 11 to present-lost my car in an accident, so I have been using my dad's truck but only for commutes to work, home, and shopping. I do not stray far now because I'm scared of another accident. \n\nGot something in the mail from an insurance agency that read like this \"we are writing to let you know that we're processing the claim against our insured, BLANK BLANK....\" \n\nI have not gone to the area that is cited, and I was actually working that day in the evening till night. I have no recollection of going into the area with the vehicle that is in the claim. What can I do to defend myself?","title":"Have no idea whats going on","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1550809502,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atd0iy\/boyfriend_got_fired_from_retail_job_for\/","id":"atd0iy","body":"So my boyfriend was just promoted to the assistant manager position at a retail store by a previous store manager who got fired the day after his promotion. The store then got another manager from another location who is very inexperienced. Both the new and old manager let employees wear merchandise that is for sale while employees are working in the store, and we\u2019re not sure if there\u2019s any rules or protocol anywhere in the company policy about that. He was wearing a hoodie while working and he had closed that night with one other staff member and he only realized that he was still wearing the sweater when he got outside of the mall. He communicated with the other person closing he was going to bring the sweater back the next day. The next day another employee who had seen him wearing it the previous day and hadn\u2019t closed with him texted him and asked him where the hoodie was and he explained the situation, and the other staff member told the manager. We don\u2019t know what he told the manager and neither does any of the other staff that he is friends with, but the new manager is very uptight and nervous due to her inexperience and she called the district manager immediately and when he came to bring it back that day that he had communicated he would she terminated him on the spot without hearing his side of the story. He\u2019s still not sure what the staff member even told the manager was the truth or not.  \n\nIt was an honest mistake and he wasn\u2019t told exactly what company policy he had broken but was accused of theft when there\u2019s a witness saying it wasn\u2019t and there\u2019s proof that he is a trustworthy employee since he had just gotten promoted to assistant manager. Is there anything he can do?","title":"Boyfriend got fired from retail job for accidentally wearing merchandise outside of the store (Toronto, Ontario)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507596729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75dke4\/baltimore_received_bond_after_violating_pretrial\/","id":"75dke4","body":"3 weeks ago, I was arrested for 2nd degree assault and released on personal recognizance with supervision. Among the conditions set forth for my release, I was ordered not to be charged with a crime or have contact with the alleged victim. \n\nThe alleged victim was a roommate of mine, and had intentions of moving out after the incident. They did not intend to press charges, and helped split the bill to retain a lawyer. After we paid to receive legal representation, we did not have enough money to buy a short-notice plane ticket so we bought one for this past weekend. \n\nThis past weekend however, my roommate went out with friends to say good bye and came back drunk. After returning home, my roommate became emotional and demanded that they wanted to stay. My roommate pulled a kitchen knife and threated to harm themselves. I tried to call the police, but my phone was broken in the process and I was cut with the knife in multiple places. The neighbors overheard screaming and called the police. The police showed up, and my roommate who feared they would receive a charge with a deadly weapon, stated that they wanted to leave. \n\nI did not have the opportunity to give a statement, and I was arrested for false imprisonment. A public defender, got me out on an unsecured bond then next day. When I briefly spoke with my attorney about it, he stated he was incredibly surprised that I was released after violating the terms of the initial supervision agreement and it could have been a mistake on the part of the police commissioner. \n\nI may not have an opportunity to speak to my attorney who is not present before this Thursday, and I forgot to ask him on the phone: but, I still have to meet with the supervision agent on Thursday who generally asks about any new arrests or if there was contact between my roommate and I. Obviously I cannot lie about these questions, but if I answer yes then I fear he will take my statements to the judge that day and my bail will be revoked. Is there a particular way I should I answer his questions? Will my bail definitely be revoked? Can I tell him that since retaining my lawyer, my lawyer advised me not to speak about the pending case, and in the case of the supervision meetings, have the agent's questions directed towards his phone number?\n\nSorry for the long post and rambling, but I appreciate any thoughts and advice.","title":"[Baltimore] Received bond after violating pre-trial supervision conditions. Worried it will be revoked this Thursday","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441835640,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kay8v\/question_regarding_contributing_to_delinquency_of\/","id":"3kay8v","body":"Springfield, VA\n\nA few weeks ago I was caught hanging out with some people three years younger than me, because of the age gap and my age they were minors and I was an adult. We were all hanging out at a park after dark and a cop came and gave me a ticket for trespassing & for contributing to delinquency of a minor (because the minors were trespassing). The cops searched us (i refused to search my car but my door was left open when I exited the car so the cops could basically see everything they needed too and neither of the cops that came smelled drugs, saw drugs, and no one was intoxicated)\n\nThis was my first time hanging out with these people, and I ended up getting a lawyer and etc. etc. Come to find out, both kids said we went to the park to smoke weed and that I bought weed with them. I was blind sided by this, because it didn't happen. Seriously, this is a throw away I'm completely anonymous I don't need to lie, but no drugs were involved. The kids told the police officer that three days later when he went to their houses to give them a summons (since they need to be there for my trial). There was no proof of drug use and etc, however these kids are saying I bought drugs and we were going to smoke weed. \n\nHow is this going to affect me? I'm going to tell the truth, but what is going to happen to me? Am I going to get drug charges or a worse punishment? Could I be convicted of something that is just hear-say? The girl had texted me while the cop was questioning her and told me to \"play along\" and \"lie\", so I've got proof that she is deceitful if that'll help me out. I'm being told that they could've possibly been cohered or scared into saying that. After all the cop did seem mad that nothing illegal was going on the night I was ticketed. Can I be charged with stuff that was accused of me days after the incident even though the cop saw that no one was high and there was no evidence of drugs anywhere? I have no criminal record and I'm very worried about going to jail over all of this. I saw that giving marijuana to minors is a felony and that contributing to delinquency of a minor could also land me up to a year in jail.. \n\n\n\n\nI'm typing this out on my phone, so I apologize for the bad formatting. I start school (university) next January, and I feel like I may have ruined my entire life over a night at a park with people I was trying to make friends with. I just recently got injured during basic training and I'm trying to pick my life up. I don't know what to do but I'm very worried. I've got a note from an elementary school principal thanking me for multiple years of volunteering, my job wrote a note saying that I'm respectable and hard working, & I've got my military forms proving I was injured during the army. I'm not sure if any of this will help me out. ","title":"Question regarding contributing to delinquency of a minor","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552879719,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2dsxk\/potential_problem_with_rental_company\/","id":"b2dsxk","body":"In my apartment I have an election stove in the kitchen. We had it replaced about 6 months ago because the old one stopped working, but the repair man who installed the new one installed it incorrectly and didn't apply any epoxy to keep it in place, so it would slide back and forth across the counter. Today it shattered and sent a crack through the entire glass cover, rendering the entire stove very unsafe to use. What options do I have here? Is the rental company at fault for not installing hardware properly? How should I address this issue with the company?\nThank you.","title":"Potential Problem with Rental Company","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540437921,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r6nv4\/former_coworker_told_me_he_wants_to_sue_company_md\/","id":"9r6nv4","body":"A coworker of mine was let go during his probationary period for not being a good \u201cculture fit\u201d. I was friendly with him and we had lunch together a few times. The other day I ran into him in public and he told me that he believes his firing was discriminatory (he is openly gay and married) and he has been speaking to a lawyer about taking the employers to court. Apparently he approached his supervisor about some shit they said that rubbed him wrong and he was fired shortly after. I was not party to this before he told me after his termination.\n\nHe was also abrasive and hard to work with, always on his cell phone, and rude to his supervisor who he thought he was smarter than. I witnessed his bad behavior a few times and I know that he alienated about half of the office. I\u2019m also openly gay and have had no issues stemming from that, but we did not share a supervisor.\n\nDo I have any legal obligation to keep this quiet for him? Do I have any obligation to tell my employer? My instinct is to keep my head down and mind my business, but if this suit goes forward and it comes out that I knew, can anything happen to me?","title":"Former coworker told me he wants to sue company (MD)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553541825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5f3f5\/landlordmi_tenant_doesnt_pay_rent_moves_out_early\/","id":"b5f3f5","body":"Tenant was issued 60 days notice. She failed to pay rent the second month so was issued a pay or quit notice. She moved out on the final day. \n\nI deducted unpaid rent for the days that she was living in the unit (15 days) and returned the Left over amount of $175. She took me to court.\n\nWhile in court, she and her boyfriend essentially verbally attacked me, interrupted me constantly, called me a liar after everything I said.\n\nThe magistrate fully understood that they didn\u2019t pay rent. Yet he still awarded them 50% of the security deposit!! How is that legal?? I followed the book to the T. \n\nI incurred expenses having to fly out and rent a car just for them to win a bullshit suit against me. What can I do? Countersue? Appeal? \n\nAny help is greatly appreciated.","title":"[Landlord-MI] tenant doesn\u2019t pay rent, moves out early, yet still wins a suit against me for deducting unpaid rent from security deposit. Wtf!!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570745442,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg5fe1\/got_fired_for_not_taking_drug_test_can_i_sue_afaf\/","id":"dg5fe1","body":"So a friend thinks he can sue his job because they randomly asked him for a urinalysis. They had the suspicion he was under the influence of drugs for the past weeks before they let him go.  He thinks that he can get a lawyer and sue for thousands of dollars. He clearly didn't take the drug test and they fired him right after not taking the urine test. Can someone please tell him the reality of the situation? Also he thinks just because a lawyer will take his money he will have no problem getting money.","title":"Got fired for not taking drug test, can I sue? (AFAF)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568871126,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d69kyv\/landlord_not_taking_our_rent\/","id":"d69kyv","body":"We\u2019ve been living in the same house with the same landlords for ~6 years and have always given them resent the same way at the beginning of the month (via a payment app.) last month we sent it over like usual and 2 weeks later we got a notification that the payment had expired as it hadn\u2019t been accepted in 14 days. Same thing happened this month. Haven\u2019t heard anything from the landlords.... what are our rights in this situation?","title":"Landlord not taking our rent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571622821,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dktgyw\/woman_slanders_former_workplace_after_being_fired\/","id":"dktgyw","body":"A few days ago, a girl was fired from my girlfriend's work place for being rude to customers and her co workers. She was also not doing her duties as an employee. \n\nThe former employee went onto the business' facebook page and wrote a false review that was very slanderous. She came into the workplace and screamed at the other employees, using very foul language. All of this is posted on social media. Screenshots have been taken and videos she took telling them how much she hates them have been posted.\n\nThe former employee is using personal pictures of employees at the workplace as an attempt to slander the company. Pictures of a gay employee at music festivals have been posted trying to defame the image of the company.\n\nThe former employee even went so far as to create a fake facebook account to post a second slanderous review of the same nature.\n\nWhat action can be taken to help the slander be reversed, and any legal action that might be taken against the individual that has attempted to slander the company?","title":"Woman slanders former workplace after being fired. Need advice on course of action.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569978629,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc342i\/person_a_askes_payment_for_a_service_that_person\/","id":"dc342i","body":"Not exactly court related, but I hope people here knows enough about contracts and legal stuff to give a proper answer. Our friend group chat are going up in flame due to this.\n\nMy friend (PA) owns another friend (PB) $6.  PB has an art class next to PA's locker, and thought that PA's locker would be a great spot to store her art supplies and some other miscellaneous items for art class. As PA constantly forgets to repay his debt, PB told PA:\n\n\"If you let me use your locker I'll forget about the 6 dollars\"\n\nPA (allegedly) told PB the location of the locker, and the lock is a fingerprint lock with PB's fingerprint stored on it. If PB finds the locker, she'll be able to access it with no problems.\n\nPB forgot the location of the locker (there are more than 2200 students in this school, so there are a lot of lockers) and also forgot to bring up to PA that she forgot the location. PB decides to annul the agreement and receive her $6 back, but PA argues that he no longer is in possession of the debt since it is not his fault PB forgot the location. PB demands that she gets her $6 back while PB refuses to pay.\n\nWho is correct in this case? I'm in highschool and don't know about legal contract related stuff to determine a clear winner. PA and I debated but PB also have a point.","title":"Person A askes payment for a service that Person B didn't receive","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541010320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t1fls\/want_to_pursue_legal_action_against_facebook_for\/","id":"9t1fls","body":"So about a month ago, I went through and unliked every page, revoked access from almost every linked account, opted out of every ad preference, removed all ads interacted with etc etc. I went through the ad preferences and scrubbed them clean. As far as I can see on my end, the only thing attached to ad preferences is Ghostbusters, because I love Ghostbusters. Yet I am still getting ads based off preferences that I have removed or blocked. I even go through about once a week to make sure things haven\u2019t been added, I had \u201cpeople who visited cafes frequently\u201d on there today so I removed it. At this point, it\u2019s starting to feel like the opting in and out are fake, securing my personal preferences are for nothing, and it\u2019s an invasion of privacy. Given all the resources available via Facebook, and removing them, should have some impact and I\u2019m not really seeing it. Is there a case here? Shouldn\u2019t there be results in removing the ad preferences and settings to block most of them? ","title":"Want to pursue legal action against facebook for ad practices.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542143468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wt68l\/ee_mobile_phone_contract\/","id":"9wt68l","body":"Hello,\n\nJust asking for some legal advice from the community as it looks like somethings come up and not sure on how to deal with the situation from here on...\n\nEE UK called me today stating that they are removing the discount from my EE contract as it looks like I am out of contract and according to the terms and conditions of my contract signed on the 6\/2014, it enables them to do this with 30 days notice. They have told me that they are unable to do anything on their end on helping me continue this discount other than offering a upgrade \/ providing me a PAC code so I can leave the network.\n\nCan somebody help me with this? I have asked for means of escalation and they have said they cannot help me, I also escalated further to the \"Exec\" team and he said that there is nothing they can do. I asked for a \"Dead Lock\" letter so I can escalate to the ombudsman.\n\nProblem is, he stated and so did the woman before, that they are allowed to do this due to the fact it's stated in my terms and conditions. I read the terms and conditions I signed in 2014 and I cannot see any mentions of it, see here: [Contract in 2014](https:\/\/ee.co.uk\/content\/dam\/ee-help\/Help-PDFs\/EE-PAYM-Network-Terms-v02.pdf)\n\nI cannot see a mention of discounts anywhere in the terms and conditions, does this mean that they are stating and making things up as a scare tactic to force me to move to another price plan? I'm only making this much effort due to the fact that this contact was signed \/ purchased in 6\/2014 and I was out of contract 24 months after that period so I'm just rolling on. Also when my contact was 24 months up, I called in for a upgrade but was advised to stick to what I have as they cannot ever match what they've already given me and discounts I have were set as indefinite and they have no end date.\n\nAnyone got any pointers or help?","title":"EE Mobile Phone Contract","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540162101,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q7ynx\/is_there_anyways_to_have_a_similar_trademark_as\/","id":"9q7ynx","body":"So I have filed a trademark for a clothing company I\u2019m in the process of starting up.\nThe trademark search came back and there is one that has my brand name in their logo.\nIt was made quite a while ago. And a completely different looking logo than mine.\nAre there any situations in which I could have a trademark if there\u2019s one that could possibly interfere ?\nI know this sounds so dumb, but I\u2019m wondering if region, inactivity, looks, or anything not that sort could play a role.\n","title":"Is there anyways to have a similar trademark as someone else? SC, US","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571524702,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkavoy\/i_have_a_5050_share_in_a_company_the_other\/","id":"dkavoy","body":"I have a 50\/50 share in a company, the other shareholder wants to do something I don\u2019t.  For example, the other shareholder wants to buy a company car, whereas I do not.  Thanks for any advice.","title":"I have a 50\/50 share in a company, the other shareholder wants to do something I don\u2019t.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571626530,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dku74j\/accidently_visited_a_cp_site_how_much_trouble\/","id":"dku74j","body":"Was browsing 4chan and clicked on a link and it sent me to something called a \"vola\" which now i know is a cp thing. It was some type of chat room which didnt post to.\n\nI was curious and clicked on one of the image links and it started downloading a video to my phone. I deleted the video immediately and left the site. I was on it less than 5 minutes before i realised what it was.\n\nHow much trouble could i get in?","title":"Accidently visited a cp site how much trouble could i get in?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553135180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3l1ch\/ca_my_friend_has_not_renewed_registration_since\/","id":"b3l1ch","body":"What can happen? \n\nI don't know the reasoning. I believe it's because he hasn't made payments of the car? Or maybe taxes? Idk tbh, what can it be?\n\nIn California, cars have the new blue 2020 registration stickers, and my friend still has the registration from 2017. \n\nAny insight would be helpful","title":"(CA) My friend has not renewed registration since 2017, what are the penalties?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539036363,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mjck3\/job_wont_give_me_a_bonus_with_my_promotion\/","id":"9mjck3","body":"Some context:\n\nI've worked off and on for a movie theater for many, many years. A few years ago, I was promoted into management. Around two months after my promotion, the company started issuing bonuses to newly hired managers. Because I was hired before this was implemented, I did not receive the bonus. Irritating, but what can ya do.\n\nAfter working in management with them for around 1.5 years, I decided to leave after my grandpa's health went downhill. I had saved up enough money to get by on, and I also had some freelancing work to support myself (this is neither here nor there).\n\nFast forward a few months after my grandpa passed, and I was back with the company as floor staff. Once a position in management opened up, I took it.\n\nToday though, I was recently told by my GM that HR has informed her that because I worked as management before, I wouldn't be receiving a bonus. Since I never got the bonus the last time, I'm a bit more than peeved. My payroll history with the company can also prove this.\n\nI'm already in the process of contacting HR about this, but if I'm still denied a bonus, do I have any options? Can a bonus be denied if I can prove I never received it during the last time I spent in a promoted position?","title":"Job won't give me a bonus with my promotion, because I worked in the position a few years prior.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447425296,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3snyg9\/custody_of_children\/","id":"3snyg9","body":"How easy\/difficult is it for husband to be granted custody of children in Pennsylvania? What if there are no issues with the mother it's just that as a father I want custody.  There may be anargument that the mother has unresolved issues related to being an adult child of an alcoholic.","title":"Custody of Children","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540819743,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sd35j\/conflict_of_interest\/","id":"9sd35j","body":"I was doing some case searching online for an ethics paper I\u2019m writing for my college course. I found many cases of Company X vs. Air Force or other military branches and the military always won out, but when I dove into the cases, I could see where it seemed that Company X didn\u2019t seem to be at fault because they had done all their legal inspections etc.\n\nMy question comes down to: would it not be a conflict of interest that the U.S. Courts are ruling for the specific branch every time over Company X?\n","title":"Conflict of Interest","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555304181,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdc6bv\/ny_car_totaled_by_uber_driver\/","id":"bdc6bv","body":"Today when I (18 y\/o) was driving, an uber driver who I am nearly certain was distracted, hit and totaled my car. I may have a concussion and possible back injuries. Can I get Uber involved in this case?","title":"[NY] Car totaled by uber driver","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1443566575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mw680\/fl_tenants_damaged_common_property_how_does\/","id":"3mw680","body":"I'm a property owner and have tenants.  These tenants recently have damaged common property(spray paint along common areas) in the apartment complex belonging to the association.\n\n\n\n\nI'm having issues with their cooperation regarding payment to the HOA for the fees to repair the damage caused.\n\n\n\nIf they don't pay or only pay partially am I in any way responsible for the remainder of the fees?\n\nFurthermore, what discretion does the HOA have in determining the quality of repair to be done?  Should I be the one dealing with the HOA through this process or is it the duty of the HOA to discuss this with my tenants?  I'm trying to figure out what role if any I have to play in this situation.\n\n\n\nI've skimmed: http:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Laws\/Statutes\/2012\/Chapter83\/All, and am not able to see anything regarding liability.  I'm probably looking in the wrong place, but any help from you folks would be greatly appreciated.\n\nThank you.","title":"[FL] Tenants damaged common property, how does liability work?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541004476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t0j29\/some_random_user_is_accusing_me_of_being_a_hacker\/","id":"9t0j29","body":"View my last post for more info. I\u2019m really worried because I didn\u2019t do stuff and I don\u2019t wanna be involved. He could be bluffing, trying to scam me. Idk. i\u2019m a minor but i reported this anonymously to the FBI. What do I do? I don\u2019t know where to post this. ","title":"Some random user is accusing me of being a hacker (I\u2019m not) and he\u2019s threating to commit suicide in front on an FBI building","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541717441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9veuso\/legal_question_for_a_story\/","id":"9veuso","body":"I have a question about certain legality for a story I'm working on, that I'm not quite sure about and want to be as accurate as possible. Figured this would be a good place to ask:\n\nIf someone is spending time with(but not necessarily hiding) a wanted criminal, and doesn't turn them in, even though they know they are wanted, is that a crime? \n\nI know in a lot of US states, it's not a crime to not report a crime. But if you know someone is wanted and you don't alert the authorities, is it a crime?","title":"Legal question for a story","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570484883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deqd34\/how_do_i_remove_myself_from_a_llc\/","id":"deqd34","body":"I want to be withdrawn from a LLC. I never signed paperwork but my name is attached to a LLC. Originally a business proposition for 50% ownership so the LLC was formed but not funded. After more background searching I realized this person is having legal troubles and I don\u2019t want anything to be associated with it. I never actually signed it it does have my name and information printed on it.","title":"How do I remove myself from a LLC?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443290966,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mhnrr\/my_little_sisters_father_refuses_to_pay_child\/","id":"3mhnrr","body":"\n\nHello \/r\/legaladvice , first time poster and I'm in terrible need of some advice. My 7 year old sister (US citizen, also Romanian citizen, living in ROMANIA)'s father (US citizen, living in CALIFORNIA.) just called my mother today and told us he refuses to pay any kind of child support. \n\nHim and my mother have never been married but have been together for 10 years or so. He lived & worked in the US, we lived in Romania and he came to visit twice a year. He has been verbally, emotionally and physically abusive the whole time, not to mention invasion of privacy when he decided to setup security cameras which he could access remotely and look at what we're doing anytime. \n\nLast year, he called my mom one night and said he found someone else, so they broke up. That was a big relief for us. They agreed that our little sister would live with us, and that he will send us money. That was it. He sent $1000 dollars every month to cover expenses. He makes a ton of money (works in IT, has 3 cars, huge house etc.). My mom is an artist and isn't making much from her work and I'm still in high school and cannot get a job at the moment, so the money really helped. \n\nToday, the call came. He said that he will stop sending money and he just doesn't care anymore. How can we take legal action against him, \/r\/legaladvice? \n\nAny help would be appreciated. Thank you.","title":"My little sister's father refuses to pay child support. He's a US citizen, we live in Romania. Please help us.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555200910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcx4ju\/us_university_didnt_accommodate_my_dietary\/","id":"bcx4ju","body":"I was invited to interview for a state funded university special program. Prior to attending they asked to send in dietary restrictions and implied they would take care of it. I keep kosher so put that down. Besides for being hosted on Saturday (which would disqualify any Orthodox Jews from interviewing), there was no kosher food for me to eat. This left me with a massive headache, weak, and shaking throughout the event until we had off (9-4:30). Besides physically I felt mentally alienated sitting at a table I couldn\u2019t eat anything at and just uncomfortable. Is there any case here?","title":"[US] University didn\u2019t accommodate my dietary restrictions","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569154305,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7pll3\/my_father_is_nearing_the_end_of_his_battle_with\/","id":"d7pll3","body":"It\u2019s been a long 3-year battle and he\u2019s put up a hell of a fight, but he recently went on a clinical trial that sent him spiraling downhill. Within 2 weeks he lost all appetite, started vomiting when he hadn\u2019t before, dropped 40 pounds and had a fall out of a recliner that put him in the ER a week ago. Since then, it\u2019s been a steady decline and now it\u2019s just a matter of days as he hasn\u2019t eaten or taken fluids since Monday. \n\nBecause of how quickly things went downhill, none of us were prepared to discuss things like a will, advance directive, etc with him. Several of us had mentioned the need for a will but he never got around to it. He doesn\u2019t have very many possessions, just a truck, some furniture at his twin sister\u2019s house, a 401k and IRA (which I\u2019ve been named beneficiary), and then a couple bank accounts. \n\nMy questions pertain to what I should expect with the finances since 1) I don\u2019t have a full picture of his assets and 2) his sister has been mostly handling his banking since she works for a large bank. She did call me last year to get my social to add me as beneficiary but I\u2019m not honestly sure if she did it to all his accounts or just the 401k\/IRA. \n\nShe tends to be pushy and wants to be in control. The whole process so far has been her \u201cgetting my input\u201d but still assuming she\u2019s making all the important decisions. There\u2019s no power or attorney either, which makes the situation murky, but I am aware that as next of kin the decisions should ultimately lie with me. \n\nSo how does probate work when there\u2019s no will?","title":"My father is nearing the end of his battle with cancer and he doesn\u2019t have a will.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1414626611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2kqb2k\/what_should_i_do_when_i_have_a_false_dmca\/","id":"2kqb2k","body":"This should be in a mish-mosh of subreddits, but, I'm coming here to r\/askreddit. So, I've recently had my cryptocurrency \"ImperialCoin\" shut down due to a DMCA complaint from another developer. He owns a trademark on the name \"Imperial Coin.\" Not \"ImperialCoin,\" without a space. Not only this, but, his trademark is of his own scrypt-based cryptocurrency, not a multi-algo like mine. Administrator of the official Bitcoin forum as well as moderator of the Altcoin section theymos emailed me last evening with the takedown notice. In it, he also included his intent to get the domain taken off the web. So, as the title states, what do I do? I'm in no way infringing on his trademark. It clearly states in the official trademark that I am not (linked below.)\n\nAlso, 1 more note. I started my coin on March 1, 2014. The trademarking process started March 7, 2014. Is this technically illegal?\n\nWait. 1 last one, I promise. I've been told I could sue if I found this to be a fraudulent claim. Could I?\n\nTrademark: http:\/\/tsdr.uspto.gov\/#caseNumber=86214943&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch\n\nLocation: USA","title":"What should I do when I have a FALSE DMCA Takedown Notice from an open-source cryptocurrency developer issued to me?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1503471798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vhars\/usa_oakdale_california_trial_by_decleration\/","id":"6vhars","body":"Ok so on a long country road , no traffic in sight. Stop sign ahead of me I stop before the limit line about six seven feet away. (Still can clearly see the other 3- ways with out obstruction ) I make a fast stop like one second. Accelerate fairly fast and a cop was to my right on the right hand shoulder if you were coming to the intersection. The cops says I ran the stop sign as he didn't see me due to some trees in the way . But gave me a ticket . Anyone know how to go about fighting this possibly any examples of trial by decleration answers ( trying not to go to court , I have work and am busy alot) . Anyone know any good online ticket fighting services ? Cannot afford this on my record . Thanks alot","title":"(USA, oakdale, california) Trial by decleration questions pertaining to hiring an online service?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553006730,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2y9x7\/usma_larceny_charges_affording_a_lawyer_vs_public\/","id":"b2y9x7","body":"Throwaway for anonymity & on mobile so I apologize for whacky formatting\/spelling errors. \n\nI was fired from my retail job for larceny of what they say is ~$2500 of merchandise. They claim to have had me on camera & made me write a statement alleging all the things I stole, asked me about how many of certain items I stole & then determined prices for those items even though on camera I assume they couldn\u2019t see exactly what I took & what the price of it was (since they didn\u2019t just outright say the prices of things, they guessed). I was made to write that letter & sign a restitution agreement. I was told by the police I\u2019d be receiving a summons in the mail.\n\nI cant afford a lawyer at the moment & am trying to find a new job. This all happened yesterday-if I apply to jobs now, how soon would this issue show up on a background check? What type of jobs could I possibly get with this potentially on my record (whether it\u2019s dismissed or if I\u2019m not charged, will the whole issue still show up on background checks?)\n\nWould it be worth it to borrow money from someone for a lawyer or take my chances with a public defender? I have no criminal convictions\/history (was arrested without probable cause last year & my case was dismissed. This was sealed from what I know). I did a free consultation with a local lawyer who immediately seemed to think he could get me off with no criminal conviction, & I\u2019ve read several of his cases similar to mine where the people got off & cases were dismissed. Upon receiving the summons I\u2019m going to call him back & ask about his rates in order to determine whether I should risk a public defender or not. Will a private lawyer really be better than a public defender? \n\nWill the confession I signed matter? They didn\u2019t make it clear that I had a choice to talk to them or not, & I suffer from anxiety & dislike confrontation so I didn\u2019t feel I had any choice. Not sure if that matters. I feel I fucked up signing that letter, but will it matter that they basically made up the prices of items stolen & just guessed? Will a lawyer\/public defender be able to help me get off paying restitution or lower the amount? Without being able to get a job I have no idea how I\u2019ll be able to pay it back.\n\nI\u2019m 22 & planning on going back to school so I can get out of the retail rut, & I\u2019m not sure what my job options are going to be in the short term.  I don\u2019t know how or where I can get a job now. I made really stupid choices & without going too deep it was an emotional issue that led me to make bad decisions that I\u2019m now taking many steps to deal with those emotional issues. I know I\u2019m so much better than this & capable of so much more, & I\u2019m disappointed in myself for allowing myself to have done something like this & I feel like I just epically ruined my life.\n\nI guess I\u2019m just wondering what my best options are. Any advice is welcome.","title":"[US-MA] larceny charges? Affording a lawyer vs public defender?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554820666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb8p4b\/communication_requirements_of_legal\/","id":"bb8p4b","body":"The company I am a part owner of hired a law firm for ongoing legal representation mostly on corporate matters. \n\nOne of the other owners who owns a majority stake and is CEO has been communicating directly with them and refuses to share correspondence. At the end of last year we asked the law firm, both the partner and associate on our account, to include us on all future correspondence.  The request was acknowledged and agreed too. \n\nWe have now have clear and documented evidence that those discussions and communications have continued unabated without including the other directors and owners as requested and agreed to. \n\n​\n\nIs this illegal? unethical?  What are our options?  What should we do?","title":"communication requirements of legal representation to other owners\/directors","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553515952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b59x1c\/can_i_prevent_landlords_realtor_and_potential\/","id":"b59x1c","body":"Ill try to sum up quickly. In wisconsin. Landlord is selling property that I am currently renting, my lease expires 6\/1 and I am planning on moving when it's done. The realtor has specifically said they dont want renter there when showing. Is there anything I can do to prevent random people I dont know from having access? The landlord suggested I put up cameras, but that's not really an investment I want to make right now. Thanks.","title":"Can I prevent landlord's realtor and potential buyers from access?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552853789,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b29gnd\/hit_pedestrian_help_asap\/","id":"b29gnd","body":"So, im a 17 year old male and I accidentally just hit a pedestrian... i was at a red light waiting to make a right on red. I start rolling once i see an opening and all of a sudden i hear a bump on the hood of my car... when i look up it\u2019s a younger couple in front of my car. The guy looks pissed and the girl appears to be laughing. He looks at me funny and then they continue waking... this was about 30 minutes ago and I\u2019m really shaken up, so you\u2019ll have to excuse the sloppy writing... any advice is appreciated... Thanks!","title":"Hit Pedestrian help ASAP","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571080733,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhvhjj\/usaca\/","id":"dhvhjj","body":"Hey redditors I need some advice.\n\nI recently started this new contract job.\nThe duration is 12 months to hire based on performance.\n\nUpon arriving to the job site we (me and another employee that where from the same agency told the same exact thing) went through the meet and greet, walk through at task assignments.\n\nAfter all of that the director asks if we know our duration, we both said yes 12 months. Which he replied oh no... only til the end of the year, March at the latest. \n\nNow I left a full time job under the guise that I was going to be getting paid more and my hard work would get me hired.\n\nNot only this but I was hired as a desktop support but am now being told we are just extra help for equipment installs because this project requires it.\n\n\nWhat are my options?","title":"[USA-CA]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540745057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s4km3\/renters_and_verbal_agreements\/","id":"9s4km3","body":"My mother currently has 2 renters who never pay on time and been paying 450$ a month  which is way below the base line for any apartments out here(usually 1k and up). They don't pay utilities and have access to all essential private commodities(kitchen, bathroom, yard,they got thier own washer\/dryer . Its been six years and  im coming back home and enough is enough.  I want them out and i already advised them about it. Im giving them 2 months without them having to pay  rent.  Im in California and need to know what else can i do if they refuse to move out. They have no physical lease just verbal agreements.  ","title":"Renters and verbal agreements","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551219862,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av5gog\/security_deposit_question_california\/","id":"av5gog","body":"Hello, we just moved out of an apartment in San Francisco. We lived there for about 7 years. When we arrived, the landlord acknowledged the crummy carpets and bad countertops and the old bathtub, and basically said \"yeah, we should replace all this stuff soon....\" but that was it. We didn't push it because we didn't care.\n\nNow it's 7 years later and we've moved out, and the landlord wants to withhold our entire security deposit because of the carpet, counters, bathtub, etc that were terrible when we moved in. [There are other issues but those are the specific ones they have cited.] We have definitely damaged them further over 7 years, but I am skeptical that we have any responsibility to pay for repairs. \n\nI am having a little trouble interpreting the legal stuff I've read in terms of if\/when they are obligated to fix stuff like this, and who is responsible. Can anyone help me navigate this?","title":"Security deposit question - California","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506648901,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/734onj\/oklahoma_da_declined_to_press_charges_any_way_to\/","id":"734onj","body":"Throwaway for obvious reasons. \n\nBasically, my friend was recently physically and sexually attacked by someone she knows well. There were a lot of injuries and it was a very traumatic experience. She did everything right. She called the police and filed a report that night, got a rape kit done that night, had photos taken of all her injuries, turned over all text messages, etc. She has an overwhelming amount of evidence, including DNA from the rape.\n\nFor whatever reason, about 2 weeks after it happened, the DA decided he was going to decline to press charges for \"lack of evidence.\" Even the detective was baffled due to how much evidence she has. \n\nIs there any way to make him reconsider this decision? Anyone to appeal to? Or is civil court the only option she has left to hold him accountable? ","title":"(Oklahoma) DA declined to press charges. Any way to make him reconsider\/appeal to another prosecutor?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553927220,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b781w8\/roommate_and_i_discovered_that_one_of_the\/","id":"b781w8","body":"Our lease ends May 31st, and I've been searching for a new apartment. Some of the units I've seen have had obviously illegal bedrooms, so I started doing some research and discovered that a legal bedroom is 80 square feet. I realized that there's no way my roommate's bedroom is that size, so we measured and sure enough it's 59 square feet. \n\nOur lease doesn't specify a bedroom number, however the streeteasy listing that we found the apartment through says 2 bedrooms. The main issue is that the building number on the listing doesn't match our building number (a common NYC broker \"tactic\", not sure why they do this) however the pictures are obviously our apartment. I still have the texts from the broker on the street easy listing for viewing, applying, and signing the lease. \n\nThere is also a section that waives our right to a trial by jury against the Landlord for any matter concerning the lease or the apartment. \n\nI'm not sure how to proceed. We'd like to file a report with 311, however we're worried that upon inspection we'll just be told to share my bedroom, or worse (for me) she'll be evicted and I'll be responsible for the entire rent. Do we have grounds to withhold rent\/take any type of legal action? Both of our names are on the lease, and obviously I'm happy to answer any other questions. ","title":"Roommate and I discovered that one of the bedrooms in our apartment is illegal [NYC].","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570527832,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dexpoz\/isnt_it_illegal_when_a_company_makes_a_11_airpod\/","id":"dexpoz","body":"I would like to understand if companies like these are breaking some rules, and of couse, if it\u2019s forbidden how can they have Facebook page, website, and even a TM mark with no consequences?","title":"Isn\u2019t it illegal when a company makes a 1:1 airpod, but just changes properties like the colour or battery time for example?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1444071395,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nlwj5\/trying_to_get_a_rent_credit_water_shut_off_for_a\/","id":"3nlwj5","body":"I live in a big apartment complex run by a management company in South LA. It's a nice complex and I pay more than I probably should, because I feel safe and I'm a bit to lazy to move. It is a nice area though, and I pay enough that I expect things to be run well and handled efficiently. I've lived here for about 3 years and I've had several small issues with management being very heavy handed and having an attitude, but things have always kinda gotten done, so I haven't made a big deal out of it.\n\nA week or so ago I got a notice on my door that they would be shutting off my water from 9am-5pm, in two days time, which seems like short notice to me, but whatever I wasn't going to be home at those hours. When I got home at 6 my water was still shut off, which irked me so I went down to the leasing office, which had closed by now. At 7 my water still wasn't on, so I called our 24\/7 maintenance line (for the first time ever), and was told that they had a lot of buildings to turn on and my water would be on shortly. By 9am the next morning my water was still shut off, I called the office at lunch and they said they had heard complaints from my building and turned my water back on, when I got home it was working again.\n\nNow I feel that I pay enough money that management should give me more than 2 days notice before shutting off my water for the better part of 2 days. Even more so I feel that if I pay for 24 hour maintenance when I call for the first time in 3 years it should be dealt with and I should not be lied to. \n\nI have been trying to get a hold of the leasing management for the last 5 or so days to ask for a rent credit for this month (I asked for $50-$100 credit, not unreasonable IMO), since their maintenance was sub par, but the lady has been avoiding me and my calls, and did not call me back. I'm not sure if it is coincidence that today is the last day I can pay rent without being late, but she basically said she could not give me a rent credit and refused to work with me, so I walked out without paying, but I don't really know what to do:\n\nAm I being stupidly petty? I don't want to just cave to this company steamrolling me, but if I am in the wrong here I will. Should I withhold rent? Reduce it by an amount I feel is correct? Should I pay and deal with it next month?","title":"Trying to get a rent credit, water shut off for a day. Los Angeles CA.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540803118,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sbdto\/mom_wants_to_change_life_insurance_contract\/","id":"9sbdto","body":"  \n\nHey guys, I need your help.\n\nMy parents are getting a divorce, probably next year. They got a life insurance contract for both of them (it ends in 2024). Now out of the blue my mother wants to change the contract, so that she is owner of the contract, has the right of benefit and is beneficiary. My father would then have the third right. \n\nIs this ok? I am afraid that my mother will screw him with this and get all the money out of it. \n\nI am from Germany, I hope it is understandable.\n\nHope anyone got an advice. Thank you!","title":"Mom wants to change life insurance contract before divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571116174,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di31eq\/california_rolling_stop_but_have_nj_license_how\/","id":"di31eq","body":"As said in title, I'm living in CA, but still have an NJ license (I know, was in the process of getting my CA license). Was given the violation VC22450(a) without traffic school option, which I'm not sure why as I meet all the requirements ([https:\/\/www.courts.ca.gov\/cms\/rules\/index.cfm?title=four&linkid=rule4\\_104](https:\/\/www.courts.ca.gov\/cms\/rules\/index.cfm?title=four&linkid=rule4_104)). Do CA traffic school rules only apply to CA licensed drivers? NJ seems to automatically add 2 points to your license from out of state moving violations - does that get masked once I take the CA traffic school? If I get my CA license before I pay the fine, do points only apply to my CA license, in which case does NJ never see those points? Insurance is already super expensive, and I'm not sure if I can afford to handle an increase right now.\n\nLots of questions and there doesn't seem to be a lot of answers out there outside of straight up hiring a lawyer. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!","title":"California \"rolling stop\", but have NJ license. How do I mitigate points and hiked insurance?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1441992933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kkflw\/just_found_out_my_wife_is_entitled_to_a\/","id":"3kkflw","body":"[CT] So about three year my wife grandfather died, and just last year, her grandmother died as well. We were told by a family member who is also the Executor of the will that everything was left to them. Yesterday, we got a email from the family letter asking us to confirm that we giving up rights to the estate. This was quite a surprise to us, as we were told everything was going to them, and we were not entitled to anything. We contacted the Attorney and found out we are entitled to half of the entire estate!\n\nMy question now is, where do we go from here? How do we make sure we give half of the assets? How do we know what assets there was?","title":"Just found out my wife is entitled to a inheritance","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1508462282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77ivjw\/ca_contesting_a_violation_of_posted_orders\/","id":"77ivjw","body":"Hello everyone.\n\nSeveral weeks ago, I got a ticket stating \"CCR 4326(a) -I- VIOLATION OF POSTED ORDERS\/SPECIAL PERMIT PROHIBITED\" for being present in a park with my car after the posted park hours. \n\nThe ticket is under the jurisdiction of Santa Cruz County, CA and I was given the ticket by a park ranger.\n\n\nWhen I was given the ticket, I was in the parking lot with my hazards on, standing next to my car. Along with this, my friend, who had also gotten the same ticket, had his car's hood popped. We had pulled over for a short while (at most 5 minutes parked there) because he wanted to check his oil due to an anomaly in his car's performance (truth be told we were driving in the mountains [although this may be used to strengthen my position, as his car's performance\/reliability in the mountains can be directly related to the safety of [our] lives]). \n\n\nI have no pictures for the evidence, but I feel as though this has the possibility to be a winnable case if we argue using an \"emergency parking clause\" due to my hazards being on and my friend having his hood popped. I was also wondering if we could request the ranger's dashcam footage to defend this statement. When the ranger commanded me to shut off my vehicle, all I did was simply reach into the cabin and turn off the hazards.\n\nI'm nervous about defending myself in court, and I would like any advice I can get to prepare myself.","title":"[CA] Contesting a violation of posted orders infraction ticket in court.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555476096,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be3qmn\/i_tutor_for_free_i_accepted_money_a_student\/","id":"be3qmn","body":"I tutor through an informal arrangement with a new local store that sells art supplies for students at the nearby college. I was told that I would be compensated with store coupons for every session of tutoring. The student I work with offered to pay me cash for the sessions, but I declined. She sent me tips ~($15) a few times throughout the semester as a thank you. I average about 7-10 hours a week of tutoring with this student, and we\u2019ve been tutoring for a month and 2 weeks now. \n\nRecently my student needed more help with a project and said (paraphrasing) \u201cCan we meet extra days, I can pay you.\u201d I didn\u2019t say anything about the payment and agreed to do the extra hours. A few days later she mentioned the money again and I didn\u2019t say anything again. \n\nA few days after that she asked if I had any friends she could pay for more help. I then reminded her about the money she offered for the extra help we did over the previous week.  She asked me how much I wanted and I thought charging $2\/hr would be fair. She was happy to send it and we continued tutoring as usual.\n\nToday I got a message from the woman who organizes the tutoring, accusing me of scamming this student by asking her for money in order to tutor. I explained that the student had offered the money and asked me to set the amount, but the woman said it was unethical and against policies (of which there are none at all) and that I needed to return the money immediately. I refused and said I would if the student requested it from me personally as the arrangement was between us. The argument got heated as she called me unethical, a scammer, shameful, etc, and I told her I would not be tutoring for her anymore.\n\nShe then told me all of the coupons I had received as compensation would no longer be valid at the store, and that I needed to return the money I had received to the student. I tried to speak to the student but she hasn\u2019t replied yet.\n\nMy questions:\n\nDo I have any legal obligation to return the $30?\n\nDoes the woman who organized the tutoring have any legal right to revoke all of the coupons I had received as compensation?\n\nCan I pursue getting compensation in any other way for the hours that I worked?","title":"I tutor for free. I accepted money a student offered for working extra tutoring hours. Now I\u2019ve been fired, and am being ordered to return the money, and all my previous compensation has been made invalid.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568522399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4g0fw\/what_to_do_if_i_get_fired_for_a_relationship_with\/","id":"d4g0fw","body":"Summary: my boss got fired and they took his company phone. if they go through it, they will discover a sexual relationship which was my reason for employment there in the first place and I don't want to get fired for it. \n\nHe apparently always used his company phone to contact me. I always used my personal one, but i don't think the numbers are differentiated in contacts in his phone. The company is fairly unorganized And small. We never signed terms of use or employment policy guidelines. At all. For use of company property (phones) or otherwise. I was essentially hired under the expectation that I slept with my superior. The job I was hired for didn't exist before he proposed it and got approval to hire me. I'm qualified for it and do well in my role, but the circumstances surrounding his support are a little unethical. It continued to happen because he would exclude me from training experiences when he was upset with me after j was hired. He tried many times to initiate at work, but I at least prevented that much because I really like the job that I have and I was absolutely not comfortable doing anything in the work place. This was not reported although I was approached about his inapropriate behavior, but I said I didn't have anything to say. If they knew or not then, they will definitely know if they go through his phone. \n\nI also violated an order to not speak to him while they were investigating something unrelated to me. Again, I was worried that I would be excluded from training and therefore advancement in my role. It ended with him being terminated essentially because he is hard to work with. He was advocating for me and fighting for my advancement, but now I think I'm in trouble. From what I found, they aren't allowed to ban us completely from talking about what's happening at work.. but I also didn't expect this to happen either. \n\nIn an old version of the 'handbook' (almost 10 years old.. 2011) it lists the superior as being responsible for telling management of the 'relationship' and basically that the subordinate would be moved to another department or someone would be terminated 'if necessary'. Is this any sort of protection if it wasn't signed or presented to me? It was found on the server, but never formally brought to my attention.  It's a right to work state, so I'm assuming that it's not a protection. I don't want to stop working there. Is there anything that I can do now to make sure that I don't get fired?","title":"What to do if I get fired for a relationship with my boss? Az","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506741384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73cpfh\/ca_huge_disagreements_between_llc_partner_and_i\/","id":"73cpfh","body":"Business partner and I have been in business for 2 years now. We have been good friends for 10 years and always got along.\n\n2 months ago we not only moved in together as roommates, but also officially opened up our shop. We were previously working out of our homes but got large enough to support a move to an office.\n\nAnyway, the move to the new shop was not well planned and has really screwed us. It has been really stressful for both of us and things are going downhill fast and not looking good. Not only business-wise, but we have gone from 2 good friends to not getting along at all. We have lost clients because of the move, and with the moving costs have amassed a $45k debt. (This includes expensive equipment needed for our work, such as welding equipment and testing equipment, construction, etc.)\n\nThere was a lot of hope for this business but it doesn't look like it is going to last, and I want to prepare myself. I don't distrust him and would hope that we can split up peacefully and still be friends, but I want to be on the safe side. What I hope and think will happen is that we will both probably stay in the same business and support each other, just be separate.\n\nThere are a few issues though: Most of the debt is on our company credit card. But I was the one who opened up this card (American Express) and they have me listed as the owner, and he has an \"employee card\". I know in LLCs the members aren't entirely liable, but I'm pretty sure I'm a guarantor on the card so if we don't pay off the debt my personal credit will get wrecked. I have also transferred $15K of the debt onto my personal credit cards in order to avoid high APR interest.\n\nThe other thing is - what happens to all of our equipment and supplies we have purchased with our company name? If we close the LLC does it get auctioned off and go towards our debt, and we split any profit? Another thing is I have put a lot of my personal money into the company account in order to cover bills, whereas he hasn't.\n\nI am going to talk to a lawyer of course once it looks like the end is near, but I just want to prepare myself for the worst. Again I don't think he will do anything to screw me but I just want to make sure I am covered.\n\n\n\n","title":"(CA) Huge disagreements between LLC partner and I, things are going downhill fast, and I'm not sure what to do.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571241981,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dirf2v\/mym17_girlfriendf18_might_be_getting_scammed\/","id":"dirf2v","body":"Throwaway from a long time ago. \n\nSo my girlfriend is an aspiring model and is currently part of a small modeling agency. Recently she got an email from a professional photographer who asked her measurements, name, adress, and phone number and proceeded to send her a check of 500 us dollars. (Which she hasnt received yet). Something came up and she can no longer make the shoot, she has informed them of this and they have said she needs to send them 500 dollars immediately via a yet unknown payment method. They say it has to be done immediately. Here is everything they sent:\n>\n\nOn Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 10:12 AM Gerardo Ponce <skystars751@gmail.com> wrote:\nHello,\n\nThanks for reaching out in regards to the upcoming shoot notice, It would be an honor to work with you.  Boden Agency is into Fashion Advertising Photography, working in North America & Europe, Toronto. Montreal. Vancouver. New York. Berlin. London. Paris. New York specializing in Fashion Photography \/ Advertising Photography \/ Automotive Photography \/ Editorial Photography \/ Beauty Photography \/ Portrait Photography \/ Celebrity Photography \/ Studio Photography \/ Location \/ Catalogs \/ Magazine Editorial Assignments Fashion & Advertising Photographer \/ Art Director \/ Director of Photography \/ Creative Director. And here we are again, calling for an upcoming commercial ad shoot to market collective New sales catalog for attires, Bags, Shoes and Purses for our reputable client (WildBerries) who believes in fashionable life style.\n\nAbout WildBerries\n\nWildBerries\nIndustry : Retail\nFounded : April 1998\nHeadquarters : Russia\nNumber of locations : 1006 stores\nArea served : Worldwide\nProducts:  Clothing\nRevenue : Increase \u20ac1,664 billion\nParent : Inditex\nDivisions : WildBerries Dise\u00f1o, WildBerries Log\u00edstica\nWebsite: www.wildberries.ru\n\n\nWildBerries is a retailer and part of the Russia Inditex group (who also own the brands of Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear, Oysho, Uterq\u00fce, Stradivarius and Zara Home). The company was created in April 1998 as a new store and fashion concept, aimed at a young target market. It now has over 1000 stores in 71 countries around the world. The sales made from WildBerries represent 10% of the Inditex group. On 6 September 2011, the company (alongside its sister brands) launched into the online market in France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, China and United Kingdom. The Commercial Photos Is For What ? This project is aimed at featuring a large collection of designer Bags, shoes, apparel and accessories and other items from various designers and manufacturers, to be displayed in an online Media ad and Electronic billboards nationwide and around the continents for promo works. Our obligation in respect to this piece of project is to generate some marketable commercial advertisement to feature these items, where all models will pose with the various items and exhibit a commercial character to attract consumer's attention. It\u2019s very simple and works the same as any typical promotional or commercial advert shoot. The end product from the commercial shoot is an online Media ad, Electronic Billboards and Network Medias that would convince the public to make these collection a top choice among others.\n\n* The event Date :  Event Date 1 : October 19th, 2019 and October 20th, 2019 in case that is not a convenient day for you we can reschedule for October 26th, 2019 and October 27th, 2019\n* Time : 10 A.M. - 3 P.M\n* Nudity : No\n* No level of experience is required. (Free Model Coach available upon request).\n\n*Compensation : The Total money pay for the jobs is USD 8,210 (Tax deduct-able) and you will get $500 as your advance\/upfront booking fee and balance of USD 7,710 will be payed immediately after the completion of the shoot and this $7,710 also covers for the right of WildBerries and Boden  Agency to use all your Commercial videos\/Commercial Shoots made for our own commercial interest for the period of 3 months. That means WildBerries and Boden  Agency are entitled to use the produced shoot for advert work for the period of 3 months only and this will be backed up by a contract. (Advance\/Booking ($500) + Usage rights and Services ($7,710) = $8,210\n\n*Location\/Venue of event : The shooting will hold at a rented studio in your location - (we shall arrange a suitable Studio and convey its detail to you)\n\n\nWe'll be responsible for your hair do, Make Up artist and transportation, except for your wardrobe\/costume that will be shipped to you directly from a contracted fashion stylist in charge. Also, note that the payment for your wardrobe will be made available by us and your clothing measurements has to be forwarded to the fashion stylist, REASON being that, the payment for your wardrobe has to be made or billed to your Name\/info as requested and acceptable business terms by the Fashion stylist, to ENSURE a tallied customization and label to be printed on your costumes. (Read this Paragraph again Pls)\n\n\n\nIn addition, an advanced deposit\/upfront pay of $500 shall be mailed to you to insure your engagement on the upcoming cast with us in line with our business ethics. However, you will NOT only receive a paycheck of $500 but also an EXTRA amount that you will use to pay for your wardrobe\/Costume bills which you will forward to the Fashion stylist in charge of your Wardrobe\/Costume along with your measurements, In other words , Boden  Agency and WildBerries will provide all financial materials as regards this gig is concerned and you don't have to pay for anything.Actors\/Models may attend the shoot with their choice of Friends\/Parents\/Manager\/Spouse\/Guardian (maximum of two) and should not arrive audition not later than 9:30 a.m. to commence make-ups and attend a brief introductory class about the proposed project and shoot starts by 10:15 a.m. This shoot is going to be fun as different acting characters maybe involved, which is the real sense of this project. Take the courage to participate in this paid and legitimate offer as we look forward to a successful working relationship with you.\n\nFinal Note : we recommend that you read the content above OVER AGAIN. Actors\/Models are selected based on their willingness to participate and their agreement to the content of this Paid Event and readiness to work hard with us. Below are the required Payment and Sign-up details you are to forward to us for filling and, to mail you the aforementioned Paycheck for your Upfront and Wardrobe bills:\n\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nMODEL INFORMATION\n\n1. Name on check:\n_____________________________________________\n2. Complete Mailing Address\/ Include Apartment Number If Any.:\n_____________________________________________\n3 City:\n_____________________________________________\n4.State:\n_____________________________________________\n5.Zip Code:\n_____________________________________________\n6. Phone#:\n\nStage name :\n\nHeight :\n\nWeight :\n\nAge :\n\nYears of experience :\n\nMeasurements :\n\nDress Size :\n\nShoe Size :\n\nSkin Color :\n\nHair Color :\n\nReference :\n\nOther Websites where we can find your online profiles ?\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\nI hope to read from you as soon as possible and we look forward to working with you on this project next week. Have a\n\nwonderful day ahead!\n\nWarmest Regards,\n\n\nRamirez Ponce\nManager (Bookings)\nBoden  Agency\u00ae\nhttp:\/\/www.bodenagency-usa.com\/ (under construction)\n<\nAs well as\n>\"The only thing to settle this a bit is by paying the stylist $500 to get things going with the clothing process for their shoot so as not to delay things if this can\u2019t be done am sorry they will be calling for your arrest\" \n<\nWhat do we do?","title":"My(M17) Girlfriend(F18) Might be getting scammed.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569782755,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dazavt\/uk_my_dad_has_been_made_redundant_however_the\/","id":"dazavt","body":"My dad has worked for a company for more than 20 years, however in the last 12 week period he has not received a solicitor and has had to get one himself privately. \n\nThere is no HR there and it's at a main branch of the company. However there has been no contact throughout the whole time during the process until the last 2 weeks before he leaves. \n\nOne of the directors has been pressuring my dad to leave a few weeks early the whole time which would cause him to lose the right to redundancy pay.\n\nMy dad is wondering if this is discrimination and if there is any way to get back money from the company for paying for a private solicitor since everyone else got a solicitor for free from the company during the process.\n\nIf we can do something, who do we go to","title":"(UK) My dad has been made redundant however the company has given a solicitor to everyone else but my dad.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1442722251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ln3lb\/want_to_buy_father_a_car_dont_want_mother_to_have\/","id":"3ln3lb","body":"Louisiana\n\nI want to buy my farther the sports car he's wanted all of his adult life. Him and my mother are still married legally but they have been separated more than 15 years now.\n\nIf my farther where to pass away I don't want my mother to be able to take ownership of it because she'd sell the car and spend the money on completely useless stuff, she does not know how to handle money.\n\nIs the a way for me to protect against this?","title":"Want to buy father a car. Don't want mother to have any sort of ownership.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1446920627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rww7g\/does_a_state_university_ny_have_legal_dominion\/","id":"3rww7g","body":"Hey r\/legaladvice,\n\nI live in state university housing where it is prohibited to hook up your router to the university network due to the obvious security implications.\n\nRecently however, this policy has been expanded to include all detectable wireless networks, including ones that are completely independent of the university network in an attempt to 'reduce interference'.\n\nNow, I have good reason to believe that they're using some sort of wireless intrusion prevention system to indiscriminately target and kill any wireless network that is not their own. (I asked a related question over at r\/asknetsec, which you can find [here](https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/r\/AskNetsec\/comments\/3rvusf\/can_a_wips_be_used_to_maliciously_target_a))\n\nBased on a [recent FCC advisory](https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/warning-wi-fi-blocking-prohibited), which explicitly prohibited similar practices by the Marriott Hotel (who blocked people's personal hotspots to get them to pay for hotel wifi), I'm inclined to believe that this practice is illegal.\n\nThe advisory references [47 U.S. Code \u00a7 333](https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/47\/333), which states that \"[n]o person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter or operated by the United States Government.\"\n\nMy questions are as follows:\n\n1. Is what they're doing legal?\n2. Would an entity like a state university be exempt from the above advisory?\n3. What's the best recourse? I have no intention or desire to 'sue', though I am frustrated by the situation. Should I file a complaint with the FCC?","title":"Does a state university [NY] have legal dominion over the airwaves on their premises?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553781468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6j3wd\/mother_of_my_child_wants_a_paternity_test_im\/","id":"b6j3wd","body":"My child\u2019s mother is a mess, 5 DWIs, multiple CPS cases opened on her, time spent in jail, etc. After years of pleading with the AG office I finally lawyered up and asked for custody. I was told no, so I gave my child\u2019s mother an option, I would pay child support and she would have to pay for the insurance and day care or let me be the custodial parent with some stipulations in a written agreement. This was significantly less than the costs. Child support was about $565 a month, those expenses together were over $700 so she agreed to sign since she hadn\u2019t obtained for for over a year at that point other than teach an aerobics class twice a week. \n\nThe document we presented to her and the judge was basically an agreement we both had to follow or one could lose rights to the child. This was the only way the judge would allow me to be named custodial parent. There was a lot of basic clauses like who had the child on what days, how medical bills were to be paid for, holiday sharing, etc. The important issues I wanted to resolve was her not drinking when she had the child, no more DWIs, and I couldn\u2019t move 60 miles from the elementary school. This was put into place so I wouldn\u2019t run off with her which was never my intention I just wanted the child to have a more stable life. \n\nNow she\u2019s demanding I take a paternity test, there\u2019s a small chance that maybe I\u2019m not the father but my child is 9, we split time, I pay for the medical insurance, medical bills, I\u2019ve followed the agreement, I\u2019m involved with school, she\u2019s in my eyes my child. I\u2019ve been there the entire time supporting her and loving her. In my mind it\u2019s Impossible theres no way our our child genetically is not my child, however there\u2019s that tiny chance. My question is what\u2019s my rights here in Texas? I did some research but I just don\u2019t understand the legal terms and it\u2019s all confusing to me. ","title":"Mother of my child wants a paternity test, I\u2019m custodial parent-ish, whatsmy rights (TX)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541788846,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vn1jt\/tn_moc_arrested_for_heroin_and_and_felony_child\/","id":"9vn1jt","body":"A little background. The mother of my child was arrested on felony possession and aggravated child endangerment. Apparently her and the father of her six-month-old were found unconscious on the ground next to the car with baby in the backseat and the doors open. They were arrested and jailed. Now we have a 5 year old some who stays with me full time except maybe 1 or 2 days a month. We have joint custody but I am the primary parent in the custody plan and she doesn\u2019t exercise her right to visitation. I was planning on getting full custody (for obvious reasons) but at court all the charges were dismissed by the state. \n\nSo I still have a case? I know TN is hard on dads about stuff like this but I\u2019m just worried about my sons well being. I don\u2019t want her showing up demanding that she gets him for the week. ","title":"(TN) MOC arrested for heroin and and felony child endangerment then charges get dropped.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540320807,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qrxhs\/landlord_harassing_my_disabled_mother_do_i_have\/","id":"9qrxhs","body":"Let me preface this with profoundly apologizing for my lack of comprehension of tenant law. I'm still learning about it and what rights tenants have.  \nMy mother rents a condo on the edge of town. When she first rented, it was very clear it used to be some kind of trap house complete with bullet holes in the windows\/walls and cigarette burns all over the wooden floors. But that was more or less okay for the cost of the rent, so she let it go.  \nShe is very sick; liver cancer among other serious things, and is in and out of the hospital frequently. I moved in with her as her caretaker to watch over things, and as time went on, I noticed several things that don't seem right to me:  \n\\- The landlord is extremely aggressive about rent; she told my mother she can only pay by dropping cash in an envelope in her mailbox across town. My mother isn't always in town, her hospital is 200 miles away and she has offered to pay an easier way multiple times.   \nThe landlord refuses and threatens to slap a late fee on it instead. From what I read, my mother being disabled means the landlord has to make accommodations for this and for a long while I was very confused as to why she was so insistent on only paying this way. I found out later that this is because she is an under the table landlord. In this small town, she is a realtor at a bank, and moonlighting is strictly forbidden. She is also advertising properties that she turns around and somehow landlords over. If her bank knew what she did, she would lose her job. Hell, maybe they do know and choose to not look, I have no idea. I don't know what that would mean for my mother's rights as a tenant.  \n\n\n\\- She is constantly complaining the porch is either too empty\/or has tiny plants on it that my mother bought and will pound on the door without any prior notice then harass her through texts.  \n\n\n\\- I am moving my mother to a different complex tomorrow and the landlord won't stop showing up at the house, without notice, nagging for a walkthrough that she never bothered scheduling, making it very clear through texts my mother will not get her deposits back, that my mother \"must hire professional cleaners for the apartment and professional carpet cleaning\" even though it has been over 2 years that my mother lived in it, threatening late fees(???for what I don't know) telling her over text she is costing her \"significant monetary loss and making the neighborhood look bad\" for...having moving boxes and a Uhaul in our parking space(\"I peeked through the drapes and your house looks like a disaster! Leave asap\"), etc. The neighborhood is on the edge of town near all the sex offenders and smells like hobo pee, I doubt us moving makes it look bad and I don't know how one goes about moving without having boxes everywhere like a normal human being.  \nMy question is: is there anything I can do or my mother can do against her, for the constant barrage of harassment and blatant discrimination of my mother's disability? Does it matter that she's not a \"real\" landlord(or whatever you call what she's doing because I have no clue). I already know she will not give us back the deposit at all. If it helps, we are currently under CA tenant housing laws in this area.  \nWe're moving out anyway and I'm going to make sure she's situated before I leave her again but I'm really furious at how she has been treated.","title":"Landlord harassing my disabled mother; do I have anything?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443654458,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n14eq\/injured_my_back_while_working_as_a_cna_workers\/","id":"3n14eq","body":"In August 2014 in West Virginia, I sustained a workplace injury while working as a nursing assistant that sent me to the emergency room.  I was rolling a heavy patient in their bed when I felt a pop in my lower back followed by intense pain.  I requested the appropriate paperwork and went to the emergency room.  There I was diagnosed with a lower lumbar sprain.  When I raised concerns over a possible slipped disc, due to nerve pain in my legs and feet, the hospital took x-rays and said there was nothing they could see, despite herniated discs not being visible on x-rays, only MRIs.  The ER prescribed me medication and gave me a note excusing me from work for three days.\n\nAfter those three days I had to return to work.  I requested light duty, but was just told that if I could not handle my workload that I should ask one of my already overtaxed coworkers, who had little time or patience to spare for me.  The facility is staffed at minimum, and the CNA's workload is very intensive and high acuity.  The company fancies itself as a no-lift facility, but if a CNA is going to meet the expectations and requirements of patient care on schedule, then lifting patients is the only option.  Too slow and you lose your job.  I had to go back to the same workload as before or possibly lose my job.  Unable to deal with the pain, I left the job about a month later.\n\nAfter a few months, I was still experiencing pain and impairment, so through email I contacted the workers compensation company that serviced the facility where I was injured and handled my injury claim from the start.  They refused to open my case, saying I was discharged from care the day I walked out of the ER.  I requested in writing a copy of their policy concerning reopening cases, which was ignored.  I had no choice but to pursue treatment through my insurance.  My doctor did not want to order an MRI due to concerns of my insurance denying the claim since it was workplace-related.  Instead I was prescribed drugs and physical therapy, which was not effective and became too expensive to pursue on my own.  A year after the incident, my doctor ordered an MRI as conservative treatments did not resolve the issue.  The MRI showed herniation of my L5-S1 disc to both sides, bone-on-bone contact between vertebrae, and significant degeneration of the disc.  All of this explained my persistent pain and impairment.  His professional opinion was this was the result of my workplace injury, and might have been exacerbated by the prolonged time between the injury and the identification of the cause.  It would not be the result of age, as I am only 29, nor due to weight, as I am on the low-end of normal weight for my height.  The doctor is referring me to a pain clinic for management, and if that treatment fails, surgery is on the table.  (\/rimshot)\n\nI feel I am in the state that I'm in due to a workplace with dangerous staffing and safety issues, and the workers comp company refusing to reopen my case, causing more time to elapse before I could get the MRI I needed to accurately diagnose the cause of my persistent pain.  Obviously, I need to contact a lawyer.  On that, though it's after business hours now so I won't hear from anyone until tomorrow.  I still have the emails that plainly state that they will not authorize any further treatment because I was discharged from care when I left the ER.  My doctor is pissed because he feels the extent of the damage could have been avoided if I had been able to address this earlier, and volunteered to write a professional opinion if I need it.  My husband is pissed because I've been in agony for a year, and he's worried how I will tolerate it when I get pregnant.  I'm pissed because I'm saddled with this bullshit and can look forward to gimp life. \n\nAny advice is welcome here.\n","title":"Injured my back while working as a CNA. Workers comp paid for only the ER visit and the prescriptions given to me there. They refused to reopen my case, delaying treatment and the right diagnosis. Left with extensive damage.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553991926,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7hwls\/company_has_termination_and_written_warning_files\/","id":"b7hwls","body":"So as the title says basically. \n\nI work at a retail chain and was going through local store files on one of the computers on the sales floor looking for department related materials and found unencrypted HR files that had one of my written warnings and multiple others as well as termination reports openly viewable by anyone that uses the computer. \n\nIs this a breach of confidentiality and do I have grounds to sue, and if so what evidence should I gather?","title":"Company has termination and written warning files accessible for all employees to see on terminals around store","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568911263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6gnw7\/fired_for_bathroom_breaks_texas\/","id":"d6gnw7","body":"My sister-in-law got fired from her job today for \"using the restroom too much\" by the owner of the business. \n\nThis is her 4th day on the job, and all employees have complimented her how fast she's learning and performing well. \n\nShe went in to work today at 8:00am, and was feeling slightly \"off\" in her stomach\/digestive area. From 8-11 she used the restroom 4 times. After her 4th restroom break the owner approached her and claimed she was abusing company time by using the restroom too much (she did explain her stomach was feeling a bit upset) but to no avail. \n\nWhat legal actions can she take? This seems like a violation of basic needs.","title":"Fired for bathroom breaks - Texas","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446575738,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rdvnm\/utah_is_my_company_at_risk_for_unknowingly\/","id":"3rdvnm","body":"My company, up till now, has purchased all of their Microsoft software licenses (MSDN, Visual Studios, etc.) from a website that sells them for (suspiciously) cheap. After doing some digging I've verified that they are reselling volume licenses, which Microsoft prohibits.\n\nI'm trying to make a case that we need to use a different vendor, and need to get a better grasp on the severity of the situation and the risks we're at so I can make a recommendation on where we should go from here.\n\nWhat kind of risk does this put our company at, if any? Do we need to immediately purchase valid licenses, or can we phase out the old, illicit ones and replace them as they expire?","title":"(Utah) Is my company at risk for unknowingly purchasing MSDN subscriptions from a volume license reseller?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508008706,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76e4wt\/maryland_what_are_an_adult_childs_legal\/","id":"76e4wt","body":"The parent has 2 adult children.  They're both on the same page for this.  If it matters, the parent lives in Carroll County.  ","title":"(Maryland) What are an adult child's legal responsibilities when an irrevocably estranged, destitute parent dies?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551833946,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axsphb\/will_questions\/","id":"axsphb","body":"my Grandpa (my mother's father) passed a little while ago in Mississippi and he didn't have a will. My mom is the oldest of the three siblings, but my aunt is the only one that lives down there still. She has muscled her way into all of the money and property and is planning to sell\/keep a great majority of it for herself. My uncle doesn't care about what happens to the family land, but my mom would like to keep the portion she is entitled to within the family (since the land was passed down to my grandpa from his grandparents). My question is, what type of lawyer handles these types of cases? Also, should she seek a lawyer local to Mississippi or one in Colorado where she currently lives? ","title":"Will questions","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554840663,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbcpom\/do_my_bosses_have_any_legal_claim_to_my_artwork\/","id":"bbcpom","body":"Some context! From 2013-2016 I worked at a very small business. It was a decently successful screen-printing and embroidery shop that we will call ABC. I loved the job and I was close with my boss who we'll call Rick. I launched an Etsy page where I sold t-shirts. Rick and I split the profits 50\/50 and it was a lot of fun. We made some extra money and we learned a lot about online sales. He helped me with ideas and we worked together to get shipping costs lowered, we celebrated every sale. It was, all in all, a positive experience. \n\nFast toward to now. I've been working at a larger screen-printing business for about a month. We'll call it XYZ. When I interviewed at XYZ, one of the owners (we'll call him John) mentioned starting up an Etsy and the fact that I would get a %. He was on my ass about getting the Etsy started but would not help me in any way. He wouldn't print sample shirts, wouldn't order stock, wouldn't sit down with me to input shipping information or bank\/credit card info. His wife (the other owner, we'll call her Jessica) is also pretty consistently on my case about things relating to Etsy. When I ask them questions pertaining to the online store, they have no interest. In addition to the Etsy, it's a typical walk-in, word-of-mouth local business so most of my day is spent doing the normal stuff -- answering phone calls, taking orders, making art for those orders, etc. We had a small fire in the workshop that slowed down the day-to-day orders and production and I used that time to really set up the Etsy page. And in the first two days, I sold a dozen t-shirts. Pretty cool since they were all 100% my designs and I'd spent an entire week (at night, after work) doing market research and making polls and figuring out pricing and ideas for new designs and finding new ways to advertise, networking, things like that.\n\nYesterday, before starting production on those 12 orders, I approached John and said, \"Hey, before we continue with Etsy, we should talk about how we're going to split up the money, what my percentage is going to be, how we're going to calculate costs, things like that.\"\n\nHis exact words were, \"If you come to me with this attitude, you're not going to get anywhere.\" That SOUNDS really odd but this guy is a little unhinged. He is constantly screaming. I took video on my phone to show my girlfriend an you can hear him screaming himself hoarse at a customer two rooms over, behind two closed doors. Earlier yesterday, he screamed in my face about a shipping error that was ultimately his own fault. (More on this later)\n\nObviously I was perplexed and so I mentioned that at my last job, Rick and I split the profits. But John insists that Etsy is part of my hourly wage. I told him that the majority of my work for Etsy is done off-the-clock and he simply said, \"Don't do it off-the-clock then.\" I tried to explain but he cut me off and said that HE pays for the machines and HE pays the rent so unless I also start paying for those things, I will not be receiving anything from Etsy. When I tried to ask more about that, he told me to follow him into Jessica's office. He shouted something at her in Russian, then there was a pause and she said (translated) \"He says you want to be partners?\"\n\nIt was all EXTREMELY confrontational and unprofessional and it made me realize that I DO NOT WANT TO WORK FOR THESE PEOPLE. They don't actually give a shit about the Etsy but for me, this is my baby. I have done a lot of work on it. All the designs are 100% mine. I made them on MY paid Photoshop subscription (because they would not purchase their own) using MY own Photoshop resources. Yes, some of them were worked on using the work computer but does that make them their property?\n\nI want to leave this business entirely and take my designs back to Rick where I know he will sell them properly (there's a serious quality control issue at XYZ and shirts are going out to paying customers that look terrible) but I am confused about whether or not this art is legally mine. They seem to think that everything having to do with the Etsy is inherently theirs (hence the pocketing of the profits and the laughing in my face about it.) Is it still mine? Am I free to remove my designs from Etsy, leave XYZ and sell these shirts with Rick?\n\nTL:DR: Part of my new job was supposed to include an Etsy store AND a commission but now that my bosses are making money off my designs, they're refusing me that commission. Are my designs (made on my Photoshop with my resources but sometimes on the work computer) my property? Can I take them down, leave the company and sell them elsewhere? Or do they have a legal claim to them?)\n\n(Also any advice on how to quit without getting red-face screamed at and threatened would also be appreciated.)\n\nTHANKS IN ADVANCE TO ANYONE WHO READS THIS!","title":"Do my bosses have any legal claim to my artwork?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570787967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgcx6o\/mothers_rent_controlled_apartment_manager_has_not\/","id":"dgcx6o","body":"My mother (50's) has lived in a rent controlled apartment in the central valley of California for around 10 years. Zero complaints against her and her rent has always been on time.\n\nHer apartment complex is rent controlled and they receive funding from the Government to cover the \"market value\" of the units. In exchange, they have inspections every so often to ensure the money they are given is used properly. But it's not.\n\nPrior to the new manager who took over around a year ago, any repairs or maintenance was done in a timely manner and very effective. Now? Not so much. Here are a few examples:\n\n\\- The light fixture in the upstairs hallway (only light that hits the stairs) has been out for nearly 10 months and she (mother) has been told she is not allowed to replace it herself.\n\n\\- The fan for the air conditioner (central heat\/air) turns on all the time, even when the control unit is set to auto. Bill has increased nearly $40-$50 per month with similar usage.\n\n\\- Filter for the AC hasn't been changed even though a scheduled maintenance notice was sent to her. \n\n\\- Roaches coming in from other units. Pest control was sent out today and she was supposed to have her unit sprayed but they never showed up. She found the gentleman who was spraying and he was told only to do one unit, which happens to be the managers unit in the same building as her, even though the manager told my Mother that all the units were to be sprayed. She spend days gathering everything up and putting it into boxes in the middle of the rooms, as specified. And now she has to move it all back as they cant spray again until the second thursday of next month.\n\n​\n\nWhat has me worried is that during a government inspection (5 months ago), they selected her unit and they saw the issues mentioned above (fan\/lights) and the manager told the inspection people that he gave her light bulbs to replace it herself and he had someone come by already and inspect the fan and order new parts. My mother objected immediately as neither were true. He wasn't too happy about that. The next day she gets a call saying that he (manager) never received rent the previous week. Thankfully she keeps receipts and verified (in front of him) that it was cashed on so and so day. Immediately he says, oh yeah here it is. From then on he has ignored repeated repair requests. \n\nOn top of her bill being a lot higher, she's fearful of retaliation as you can see from the previous paragraph. Yes retaliation is illegal but proving that is near impossible in a lot of cases. Who can she speak to about this? She can't afford a lawyer or most legal help. The property group that owns the complex has an email but it forwards directly to the on site manager.","title":"Mother's rent controlled apartment manager has not performed necessary repairs in nearly a year. Who can we contact to file a report\/complaint? (California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569463339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9d4qs\/rental_coverage_after_an_accident\/","id":"d9d4qs","body":"Background, I own a half ton pickup that is equipped to tow almost 10k pounds. I tow trailers regularly, and rely on my truck to do so.\n\nMonday, I parked the truck in the parking area just off the street at a house, and carpooled with my cousin (we work together). We returned to pick up tools a few hours later to find a woman had veered off the road and smashed my truck. The damage is significant and it had to be towed to a shop. Her insurance already accepted 100% liability. When I spoke with the claims rep the first time, he set up a rental for me. I told him it needs  to be capable of towing, and he told me he completed a form and I was approved for a large pickup with tow capabilities. The rental agency told me that he had accidentally selected a small pickup, and upgraded me. However the small price apparently became listed in the insurance claim as the price of a large pickup so they are refusing to pay the full price (about double what they are agreeing to pay now). \n\nI stand to lose 1 to 2 thousand dollars in the next two weeks in lost deposits and such if I do not have a vehicle that can tow. \n\nBeing that the other driver is at fault and the insurance accepted full liability, and told me that I was approved for a tow-capable truck, are they allowed to now refuse to pay the actual price?\n\nAre they not required to provide me with a vehicle capable of continuing my daily life until repairs or replacement?","title":"Rental coverage after an accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505930491,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71cwi5\/my_grandpa_left_me_and_my_brother_an_annuity_with\/","id":"71cwi5","body":"Hello, I believe I\u2019m using the proper flare. \nMy grandpaw died when I was 15, I\u2019m now 21. When I was about 8, my mom and grandpaw told me he had an account set up for me and my brother each to have money when he passed. He always paid my parents bills, for our school, etc because my parents are in massive amounts of debt and can\u2019t save money to save their lives for various reasons. \nWhen he passed, I asked my mom to let me pull $1000 out to get myself some new clothes, my now fianc\u00e9 a birthday gift, and a new phone. She agreed and said we should get some for my brother out too.  It took a while to get the money because we were both under 18, my mom had to prove she was my mom legally and biologically, prove my grandpaw died, and that she had power of attorney. \n\nAfter this, we moved a few times and misplaced the paper work. My mom couldn\u2019t remember the annuity company because she was in such a state of grief that she kinda blocked that part of our lives out because it was so hard. \nFast forward to maybe three months ago, and I asked my mom what was taking so long because I found the papers in storage (in the first fucking box I opened too, mind you...). She works as a waitress day in and day out, so I get that she\u2019s busy. I got impatient with her one day and told her, \u201cI\u2019m trying to get ready to pick a venue for the wedding and we don\u2019t have a car. I need my money. I\u2019m not trying to assume or blame you, but I need you to tell me what the fuck is taking so long and why I haven\u2019t gotten it. What are you hiding if you are?\u201d\nShe confessed to me she pulled 500-1000 (I don\u2019t remember right now) extra out of each of our accounts to pay bills. I wasn\u2019t mad because I expected it. I told her she would be paying it back, but I wasn\u2019t mad because if she had asked me I would have let her. Our lives have always been hard and I love my family. But damn it.. \nShe then told me about a week or two after her confession that she talked to them (it\u2019s always a small convo of like two sentences being exchanged each time) and they said my account looks like its been turned into a life insurance policy for my mother.. which makes no fucking sense because I DID NOT SIGN THAT. there\u2019s no way she could even change the name on the account, even me being a minor then and her being POA, to her name because that wasn\u2019t an account she created, right? She said she\u2019d try to make sure that was false, and if it was changed to a life insurance policy to see if she could change it back to my annuity account. I\u2019m so lost, hurt, ANGRY...\nPlease help me understand the possibilities of where **I** can go from here, how I can make them talk to me, etc. she apparently is the only one they\u2019ll talk to about the accounts but I\u2019m so unsure. \n\nEDIT: we are located in louisiana***\nEdit: I know that it\u2019s slim any or all of my money is there, I just want to figure out the way to contact the company and tell them what\u2019s going on and know if I can get any info on what she\u2019s done to the account because she obviously isn\u2019t telling me the correct information. ","title":"My grandpa left me and my brother an annuity with $13k in it when he passed. My mom is the only one who can touch it because we were minors when he passed, she\u2019s his next of kin and was appointed his power of attorney (or something).","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570395598,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de9bh2\/uninsurable\/","id":"de9bh2","body":"Long story short applied to work at an auto garage and after the job ran my info they said they could no longer offer me the position because I came back as \u201cuninsurable\u201d according to them. Im assuming uninsurable under the business insurance. I have never had this happen before, does anyone possibly have any insight? Thank you.","title":"Uninsurable","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552656547,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1eyyv\/someone_who_i_went_on_a_date_with_stole_a_phone\/","id":"b1eyyv","body":"I am currently in South Korea and I went on a date with a guy as the title says, he took me to a clothes shop and stole an iPhone, I was a little bit drunk and I can\u2019t remember much and the cops are saying I was making suspicious eye contact with him and saying I could get charged with accessory. They have the cctv file of me making eye contact that I can\u2019t remember.\nThe cops said I chased after him after I left the store, I assume I followed him because I was on a date with him. \nI have to go to the police station tomorrow and give my statement, I haven\u2019t spoken to the guy since but I\u2019ve recently been trying to get a hold of him to sort this situation out.\nI am really scared and worried that I\u2019m going to get into trouble for this .\n\nI am korean and the guy is a foreigner.\n\nI don\u2019t know what to do or what\u2019s going to happen.\n\nIf they use a lie detector is it 100% accurate? Could I get wrongly accused?what could happen to me since I wasn\u2019t aware of the crime being committed until now, what can I do.\n\nWhat if they think I was helping, I don\u2019t believe I was, I can\u2019t remember, I was drunk.\n","title":"Someone who I went on a date with stole a phone and I\u2019m being investigated","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569316579,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8kna1\/police_have_lost_my_statement_from_5_years_ago\/","id":"d8kna1","body":"I made a statement 5 years ago and the police have recently contacted me to reopen my case as somebody else has come forwards.\n\nThey can't find my statement or the recorded interview they did with the offender from that time either.\n\nThis means I'll have to go through it all again.\n\nIt seems hard to believe they could just lose something like that when it's all computerised now. They said they had a change of systems at the time this was all going on. \n\nHas anybody else been through this? \n\nLocation is UK.","title":"Police have lost my statement from 5 years ago. Has this happened to anybody else before?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541796011,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vo2dx\/got_a_traffic_citation_out_of_state_but_no_fine\/","id":"9vo2dx","body":"I got a traffic citation in the Town of Iowa in Louisiana back in September.  No fine amount is listed on the ticket, though it instructs me to pay the fine online, by phone, by mail, or in person prior to the court date (December 13).  When I try to call the court directly, no one picks up.  When I call the number on the ticket to pay the fine by phone, they are unable to get in touch with the court or find the fine amount by other means.  Online fine lists are not available for the Town of Iowa, so I can't pay online at the website given on the ticket either.  Can't mail in a payment if I don't know how much to pay.  \n\nI don't live in Louisiana.  Appearing in court on the date given on the summons is therefore rather inconvenient if not downright impossible.  What do now?","title":"Got a traffic citation out of state, but no fine amount is listed on the summons and the court won't take my calls","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1416320090,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2mnyvf\/sc_a_friend_and_i_want_to_start_a_business_making\/","id":"2mnyvf","body":"I had assumed we would be, but the more I read, the more it seems like seasonings and similar food stuffs are not covered by the Cottage Food Law. We would abide by all of the other requirements for the law (only sell in state, on location or at a market, less than $15,000 net sales\/year, etc.). If our activities aren't covered by this law, what do we need to do in order to legally conduct business?","title":"[SC] A friend and I want to start a business making infused salts and sugars along with other seasonings. Are we covered by the SC Cottage Food Law?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570193642,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd6yxa\/landlord_holding_my_security_deposit\/","id":"dd6yxa","body":"I took a job in New York in February for a company I was working for. The company was run horribly but basically they sent me out to NY with no money and paid for one month of me living out there. \nFast forward to a few months ago I find this airbnb and book it for a month and a half. After the airbnb stay was up, the homeowner asked if I\u2019d like to stay longer and we made a verbal agreement for $950 a month. So I handed her a check for a months rent plus security deposit and she handed me a receipt that read \u2018Sep and Security Deposit.\u2019\nThe end of the month is near and I get a call from my work saying we are no longer contracted in NY and I would have to pack up and come back with all the company equipment immediately. So next day I packed up and called the homeowner to let them know due to circumstances that I have to move out. \nThe homeowner said I was putting them in a bind but would return my deposit within 7 days. It has now been 8 days and they are no longer responded to my text and calls.\nMy question is, because it is a verbal agreement and I didn\u2019t give 30 day notice (which is standard but never said was required by the homeowner) does the landlord have any right to keep my security deposit? \nWhat are circumstances where they would be able to keep my deposit?\nWhat can I do to get my deposit back? \nIs there a legal route I need to take?\nAny and all information will be greatly appreciated.","title":"Landlord holding my security deposit.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571264520,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diwvy2\/probably_a_really_stupid_question\/","id":"diwvy2","body":"So I pick up my sister from school everyone Tuesdays and Thursday, and the parking is always full, and today when I parked my cars rear was kind of in-front of someone\u2019s drive way. So the homeowner came out and saw me and he looked right at me so I just put my car into reverse to back up to let him leave, then I turn around and he\u2019s gone. So I just assumed he was just getting his mail so I pull back up. He then comes stomping towards me with his phone out trying to take a picture of my plates. So I just drove away and just parked farther away. I was parked for maybe 3 minutes and was in the car while it was running. What would have happened if he called the cops on me or towing or whatever?  I just think he over reacted people park in front of my driveway all the time and I never think much of it because I live near a school so I just expect it, and if I need the car I just ask them because most of the time they are sitting in it.","title":"Probably a really stupid question","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1549415750,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anl83d\/my_coworker_threatens_me_and_sexually_harassed_my\/","id":"anl83d","body":"I work in a small family business in buffalo, ny. One of my coworkers has threatened me with violence three times as of today. When my now on maternity leave girlfriend was still working he would pull his basketball shorts up to his nipples so his junk was fully outlined and put one leg up on her desk and stretch so his junk was in her face. After multiple attempts by her to get him to stop this and multiple other behaviors, such as touching her hair or body, I said something to him directly. This was the first time he threatened to punch me. One thing to bear in mind is we work in a small office (about 20x20) where everyone can see everyone else. However he did stop. The second time he threatened me I had tossed him a part to sell to a customer in front of him and he fumbled it and after selling it got in my face and threatened me again. Today after months of claiming he's \"the guy\" because he has the most sales a customer came back with a huge order that he both wrote up wrong and handed out completely different parts from both what he wrote up and what they were supposed to be. During a lull in customers he was talking with the boss about it and I said \"Who's the guy now?\". He said \"you need to shut the fuck up or I'm gonna punch you in the face. I said \"It was a fucking joke.\" I had been referring to The New Guy. He responded \"You joke too much womenbeater.\" All of these incidents happened in front of the boss. After going to the bathroom and coming back him and boss were talking about wrestling. At this point I left.\n\nNow for the complications.  My girlfriend is bosses daughter. Boss refuses to actually deal with any issues between coworkers. I have talked to boss multiple times about this coworkers behavior because this is just the worst of it. He generally insults, degrades or yells at me and our other coworker who is in his 60s for not being fast enough. \n\nWhat can I do?\n\nWhat should I do?\n\nApologies for formatting and grammar, on mobile and still furious. ","title":"My coworker threatens me and sexually harassed my gf","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554496737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9wctf\/my_3_year_old_cousin_is_not_safe_with_my_aunt_and\/","id":"b9wctf","body":"(US, CA and TX)\nSome backstory:\nMy immediate family and I live in California. My Dad\u2019s parents live in Texas, and so do my aunt and step-uncle who have my 3 year old cousin. My aunt and her ex-husband have a daughter who is 15 and goes to boarding school.\n\nLast year a lot of things happened, and basically my aunt and step-uncle left California to go live in Texas near my grandparents, neither of them have jobs, and now have moved in with my grandparents (since they were evicted from their apartment). My older cousin used to live with her mom, and long story short she goes to boarding school since she was not safe there. Her biological dad helped her and while she was retrieving her stuff there was an incident and police were involved. \n\nAnyways, here\u2019s the problem. They have custody of the 3 year old and my step-uncle is not mentally stable. Both of them do drugs. My step-uncle has been arrested 3 times (1 DUI in CA, and 2 other unknowns), and my aunt once (shoplifting in TX) Already they have been destroying things around the house and my step-uncle has been treating them like shit and like he owns the house. They will also leave for 2-3 days at a time with their 3 year old, and we don\u2019t know where they go. My grandparents seem to be pretty oblivious to the situation and how this environment is not good for a 3 year old to be living in, and my family and I are worried. We have talked about it and since my sister and I (11 and 15) are old and mature enough, if something were to happen we would be open to taking custody since we would be next in line. \n\n\nIs there anything we can do? Anything my grandparents can do? Would we be able to get custody of the 3 year old? Would we need evidence?\n\nLater this week we scheduled to call my grandparents. Any advice will be appreciated! Thanks.","title":"My 3 year old cousin is not safe with my aunt and step-uncle, what can we do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570673833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfreoo\/i_want_to_leave_my_sons_father_and_move_states\/","id":"dfreoo","body":"What do I need to do in order to be able to bring my son with me? We live in Florida. We are not married and court\/DCF\/child support has never been involved. \n\nI would be more than happy to work out a custody deal, but he won\u2019t have it. He doesn\u2019t want me taking him at all and says he\u2019ll have me put in jail if I do leave, help me.","title":"I want to leave my sons father and move states","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446960128,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rz63s\/gave_daycare_deposit_without_signing_anything\/","id":"3rz63s","body":"Hi everyone.  First time here, read the guidelines, hope I don't screw this up.  Just looking for some basic info\/advice on my situation.  I reserved a spot at a daycare, got a new job, and it's schedule no longer met my needs.  I only ever filled out one form which was a basic info sheet (phone no., name, address) that was a basic application.   At the bottom of this sheet it said I owed a non-refundable $250 deposit fee to hold my spot.  I paid that, no problem.  The problem lies with the tuition for December that I paid in June.  The daycare also told me that with the non-refundable deposit, they always had clients pay a month's tuition that would cover December.  I paid this and the deposit mid-June, withdrew mid July, and never sent my child there which would have started mid-August.  When I asked for the refund of December's Tuition ($840), they told me that was only refundable if they filled my spot with another child.  I was patient and didn't push thinking I could keep a good relationship and that this would definitely happen (as their accountant told me it wasn't \"an issue of if there would be a refund, but when.\"  Come early November, this hasn't happened and I straight up informed them that wasn't my problem and I had been patient and that they should refund me.  They said that I should have known about this policy as it was included in the policies sheet I received when I got the tour, which was a week before I accepted to holda  spot and dropped off the checks.  When I dropped them off, nobody met with me.  I dropped the checks in a tuition box and they cashed them the next day.  I have no receipt, they have no contract, though they of course admit to having the money and what it was for.  Also, the info sheet listing this other policy they claimed I received was in our tour packet and also had the pricing listed on one side.  The pricing was out of date which we noticed during the tour and they told us the sheet was last years sheet and to ignore it and we would get an updated one.  So do I have a case?  I signed nothing, the only form I filled out just says there is a $250 non-refundable deposit, and I was never informed about this policy, though it is listed on their website?","title":"Gave daycare deposit without signing anything, refusing refund, next step? Out of Georgia","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568915858,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6hq85\/how_to_pursue_a_reimbursement_from\/","id":"d6hq85","body":"I live in a large condo complex and park my car below, in the parking garage, from a notoriously bad rental agency. It costs me $130 CAD\/month to park there, crazy expensive (I am not in Toronto). Their workers were cleaning the parking garage with pressure washers and brooms and sprayed my car with muddy, dirty water and has left spots on three sides of my vehicle. I would like a reimbursement for a carwash, so I emailed the agency on September 16 with this message, along with hello and whatnot: \n\n>\"I'm a resident at \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_, I just stopped by the office to ask about the parking garage cleaning. My car was parked in the garage on Saturday and Sunday night. As of Monday at 4 PM, I saw that my car had been splattered with what appears to be muddy water on three sides of it. I think the cleaning personnel must have accidentally sprayed my car with dirty water. I am requesting that \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_, or whomever was supervising the cleaning, reimburse me for a carwash. I have attached photos as proof.   \n>  \n>At 6 PM, I spoke with an employee at the \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ office who instructed me to email to request reimbursement for a carwash. Please let me know how we can proceed to resolve this issue.\"\n\nI have not received a response, nor have I heard back from a voicemail I left. This is in SW Ontario, Canada. I'm looking for advice on how to get a carwash reimbursement. Thank you!","title":"How to pursue a reimbursement from pressure-washing overspray","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550709976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aswdk8\/teslaallied_security_lowering_pay_of_security\/","id":"aswdk8","body":"So I\u2019ll try to be short but as detailed as possible. \n\nAllied recently merged with US Security services and took on the contract out at the Tesla Giga factory. Before the merger we were told that there would be no change to our current pay (19.80\/hr). However a few weeks after the merger we were now told that they would be lowering our pay (16.50\/hr) starting March 1st.  This has a lot of officers in a panic and talking about jumping ship as this impacts our lively hood and has many of us very frustrated being lied to. I\u2019m just wondering what the legal implications of something like this are?  What options do we have?\n\nOther facts:\nAllied took on a 3 year contract that is still in it first year.\nOur supervisors aren\u2019t clear on whether this was a decision by Tesla or Allied. (I\u2019m assuming Allied since they are calling a breach of contract out on Tesla)\nWe do not have a workers union for this position.\nTesla is far out of the way and most people took this job because of the good pay. (The previous contract holder could not get employees to stay out here due to the long drive and especially during adverse whether conditions)\nSupervisors have been scrambling to take down the paper that said there would be no change to our pay. ( I have a photograph of this paper)","title":"Tesla\/Allied Security lowering pay of security employees. What are then legal implications?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552507195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0qjuj\/my_roommate_will_not_pay_his_portion_of_the_rent\/","id":"b0qjuj","body":"We are joint and severally liable for the rent. I am considering just paying it all off to avoid any legal trouble (we are liable for legal costs per our lease) and then taking my roommate to small claims. \n\nDoes anyone see any issues with this plan? ","title":"My roommate will not pay his portion of the rent because he doesn\u2019t like that the landlord won\u2019t let him out of his contract. I don\u2019t want to have any legal issues with the landlord. If I pay for my roommates portion, what are my chances for recovery in small claims?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570897577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgxbve\/i_got_a_ticket_for_turning_left_on_red_but_i\/","id":"dgxbve","body":"I live in PA and when I first got my car a year ago, I always got so anxious about turning on red. At first, i was too scared to do it but one time, it was a good moment to turn right on red but I was worried someone could hit me if i even did and got some people honking at me. I\u2019m getting used to it now but I always worry still when I think I should, even when there is a cop around. Yesterday however was different.\n\nI was turning right on red when I was heading to work and I noticed a cop was close-by but luckily I was fine. After a long stressful day of work though, when I was heading out, I made sure there was no traffic for like 10 seconds before I could turn left on red, however a cop was behind me and pulled me over. I got a $25 fine plus other stuff I have no idea what it means which all equals to $142. Even though the officer said to his partner that I was making a big deal out of it, he said if I plead not guilty, he can help remove the points off.\n\nAccording to the PA LAW, I can only turn left on red if i\u2019m doing it on a left lane into a one-way street. It was a left lane and there was no sign saying i can\u2019t turn on red but it wasn\u2019t a one-way street. I didn\u2019t know about the one-way part honestly but I just got so anxious about the people behind me waiting so impatiently so I just risked it all for nothing. I\u2019m not sure what to do since I am 20 years old and I never went to court nor have I gotten a ticket. Any advice on what should I say in my defense? It\u2019s been a real stressful year so far so I don\u2019t want make it worse since i\u2019m at a point I get heart pain because of my stress.","title":"I got a ticket for turning left on red but I really didn\u2019t mean to. Should I plead not guilty?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1550614298,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asg552\/advice_for_a_workplace_harassment_discrimination\/","id":"asg552","body":"In Alabama \n\nGonna say before you read sorry it's long and I do plan on finding another job soon, but being the sole income earner in the house I have to go back to work asap.\n\nSo bit of back story, I work for a retirement home, senior community home type place. Now my direct manager is a complete idiot, how he's managed to keep his job neither I nor anyone whose worked there has any idea. This is his first manager job and for a man in his late 50s it shows. He has no idea how to run a kitchen(the area I work in) and refuses to ask for help, take advice etc. He also hates when someone knows more then he does and unfortunately it's not hard to do.\n\nNow I went to Culinary school and have 10 plus years experience in kitchens, it's why I was hired. Others and I have tried to help when he had no idea what he was doing and all its lead to he begrudging any and everyone. This dislike includes him tryin to mess with people's hours, going from worker to worker talking all kinds of mess to stir up problems and then claim innocence, let people not only come to work high on drugs but let's them get high while at work and refuses to acknowledge that it happens much less do anything about it, to getting in people's faces and screaming and cussing them out. And these are just some of the things he's done.\n\nNow my problem is I went thru all of this except the screaming and cussing, he knows outright jail be damned I'd punch him. The second week of January I went of maturity leave. I have worked there over a year and both him and his managers knew about the pregnancy as soon as I knew to tell them. My doctor has released me to go back to work and they're giving me problems about coming back.\n\nNow before I left, I talked to the Director of the senior home about the latest drama my manager had started with me. Which was going worker to worker talking about an incident that happened months before any of these workers started, where an ex-employee threatened both me and other workers and my manager refused to do anything until I threatened to call the police. My manager was going around telling these new employees that myself and the other workers involved didn't like the ex-employee and just pushed until he got fired for no reason.\n\nNow that I'm trying to come back to work the Direcor and HR lady are wanting to have a meeting in the morning to discuss where things left off before I went on maternity leave. Pretty much they're wanting to cover for my managers ass and are trying to threaten me to keep my head down. And I'm not looking to come back to work to make problems but I refuse to be treated like crap because of an ass on a power trip and I'm one of the few willing to stand up for myself because I'm old enough and been around enough to know this is discrimination and harassment. \n\nSo what I'm asking advice for is how to go into this meeting without sounding to threatening, because I know I'm going to come of somewhat, while making it clear that I don't plan to make problems but I won't be treated like crap? ","title":"Advice for a workplace harassment\/ discrimination problem","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554933628,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbs0cl\/my_mother_uses_80_of_my_child_support_on_herself\/","id":"bbs0cl","body":"I [17M] am turning 18 in a month and my mom is having the child support extended. When I asked about her giving it to me for new clothes she said no. She's given me 30-45 every month and I need clothes, shoes, school supplies, etc. I also realized I could've saved up for college and a car but she has spent every penny up until now. I don't have anything in savings and I think the last year's worth should go to me. She doesn't see this. She sees it as hers and won't give it up (she buys flashlights, candy, weed, and cigarettes) and I don't know what to do about it anymore. I talked to my dad and I'm calling DCSE tomorrow to try to have it switched into my name but I've never done anything like that. My grandma supports me for the most part and I live in her house. My mom lives with us but doesn't pay any bills and doesn't do anything around the house. She also hasn't done anything for me since 2014. My grandma and Aunt take care of me and I think it'd be in my best interest that she doesn't have it. I asked her about just giving it to me and she laughed and blew me off. I feel like I'm being robbed.","title":"My mother uses 80% of my child support on herself","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552798626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b21pjl\/my_partner_is_moving_from_nj_to_nc_to_live_with\/","id":"b21pjl","body":"(Wasn't sure which thread to put but I'm pretty sure this is correct)\n\nI live in North Carolina currently, and am looking forward for welcoming my partner of a year and some change in mid-May. As we're ironing out the final details of everything, their father brought up issues he has with them bringing the car down. Currently the car has roughly $3k left to pay off (roughly a year's worth of payments) and is on a State Farm insurance plan.\n\nDad's insisting that the car be paid off in full (via taking out a small loan if necessary) before letting my partner bring the car down. The worry he has is that the insurance company wouldn't allow us to insure the car due to it still having money owed on it. I know (at least based on what I've read) that with things like title transfers the car typically has to be fully paid off before that transfer can be done, so I understand the issues to an extent.\n\nHowever, when my family (and later myself) moved to completely different states I was able to keep the car and continually insure it no matter what state I was in despite my current car being in a different state from my parents as well as the title technically still being in my mother's name. Insurance company's typically just require a drivers license. The last 2 times I've gotten insurance quotes I wasn't even asked for plates or anything of the sort, so I'm truly confused on what issues dad sees.\n\nHe has claimed that if my partner were to get into an accident before the car is paid off that the car wouldn't be covered and that the insurance company's would resort to \"going after his house\" to get the claim money. He's also vaguely said that (as mentioned above) the car wouldn't be able to get insured in a different state.\n\nI dunno, it just all seems like nonsense to me. I wish he himself would just call the insurance company and \/ask\/ them what's going on, but he's really taking his sweet time and I'd like the air to be somewhat cleared.\n\nDoes a car that still has money owed on it have issues being driven in other states? Our original plan was to simply have the car stay with my partner as they pay off the monthly bill until its paid off, all while simply getting a new insurance policy for NC. Whether that new policy would remain on dad's current State-Farm account or would be a quote we would make separate from dad we weren't sure.","title":"My partner is moving from NJ to NC to live with me in 2 months. Their father is iffy on letting them bring the car due to what he perceives to be insurance issues.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554758149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baz9w0\/iowa_us_is_this_considered_24_hours_notice_by\/","id":"baz9w0","body":"I want to be sure I understand correctly before I talk to management. \n\nThey are doing construction on our building including changing the AC units. They left us one notice saying,\n\n\"Construction will begin 3\/25, but will be exclusively outdoors, however they will need to enter every apartment later so we will post a second notice at that time.\"\n\nLast Thursday I received another notice,\n\n\"Starting Thursday 4\/4 we will need to enter every apartment in your building\" and then requested personal items be moved away from the AC. \n\nI expected them to come in Friday but no dice. I heard them working Saturday, but nothing. Today, Monday 4\/8, they tried to come in - I never received another notice. \n\nI said no and got into an argument with the construction worker who tried to come in anyway until I lost it. \n\nNormally perhaps I would have been more accommodating but,\n\n1. We work from home and take related phone calls. With notice we can plan around that, but not without.\n\n2. We're a young lesbian couple and my partner leaves on an extended business trip tomorrow. We live in the Midwest so walking on eggshells on our last day together to avoid being gawked at by the construction crew is not how I planned to spend it. \n\nOf course we'll accommodate whatever we must with proper notice, but I don't believe we received that. \n\nI am livid because we have dogs that we lock up if we get notice for entry when we won't be home, so if we had been gone they would have entered anyway with our dogs unsecure. \n\nAm I in the right? And in either case, how do I approach this with our management company?","title":"[Iowa, US] Is this considered '24 Hour's Notice' by landlord?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408999885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ekbat\/child_custody_question_in_the_state_of_missouri\/","id":"2ekbat","body":"My brother resides in Florida and his wife (the custodial parent) resides in Missouri.  I've pushed him to try to get primary or sole custody and he says that in Missouri if the mother cannot afford an attorney in a custody battle (which would be the case) than it would be his responsibility to pay for her attorney.  This sounds over the top to me and wanted to know if there was any merit to it whatsoever.","title":"Child custody question in the state of Missouri","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446138429,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qq5mz\/ca_knife_laws_seem_not_to_restrict_open_carried\/","id":"3qq5mz","body":"I've searched high and low on this one and haven't seen anything that suggests a sword should be illegal to open carry. There is *technically* a difference between a sword and a long knife (for instance, the [Langes Messer](https:\/\/talhoffer.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/22\/an-introduction-to-the-long-knife-langes-messer\/)), as swords make use of tangs and knives are riveted, among other things.\n\nI'm sure I'd be hassled by police, but, out of curiosity, if I felt like carrying [this](http:\/\/rabenbanner.com\/hhrb2014\/images\/product_images\/popup_images\/399_0.JPG), would it be illegal?\n\nShould mention I'm in the SF Bay Area.\n\nEdit: Added criminal law flair, too. If that's not right, let me know and I'll change it!","title":"[CA] Knife laws seem not to restrict open carried fixed blades. Is there a law against open carried swords?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1538145777,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jnjpb\/i_think_i_was_overpaidpossibly\/","id":"9jnjpb","body":"I ended my employment in a commission based role on August 14th, and thought I received my last check on Aug 31st, in the amount of $33.12. It seemed like a \u2018last check\u2019 type amount. \n\nToday, I thought I\u2019d check my bank account for funsies (*\u201dlol what if i got paid anyway\u201d*) and behold, there was like 37% of a check there ( much more than $33 this time). \n\nI\u2019m #pretty sure this is just backpaid commissions that I\u2019m owed technically, but what happens if it\u2019s...not? If they messed up and paid me, will I owe them later? ","title":"I think I was overpaid...possibly.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539735037,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9otazz\/question_about_a_house_i_possibly_inherited\/","id":"9otazz","body":"So I've been stewing on this one for about a year now and tbf I'm not sure if i should pursue it or if it's worth the price to even try and get to the bottom of but here we go. My father and I have never been close him being a deadbeat and all but he likes to randomly pop up out of the blue usually cuz he's trashed and feeling guilty but occasionally to let me know he sent my kids presents in the mail or something like that. So imagine my surprise when he calls me to cry yo me about how bad he feels he's not apart of our lives then in his drunken\/high as a kite state let's it slip out my grandfather on his side was dead. \n\nAt first I didn't think anything of it because he was 100% absolutely trashed and he's also a compulsive liar so I figured he was making up some stuff to try to guilt me into doing the work to fix our relationship for him. Well turns out not only is my grandfather dead he died *almost 2 years ago* and no one bothered to tell me. I'm not close with any of that side of family really but my grandparents were the ones I was closest to even though we didn't speak more than maybe 2-3 times a year if that.\n\nNow I found this out by fb messaging my aunt, my dad's ex-wife (not my mom) and a few other people because what he said was bugging me for some reason despite me assuming he was lying. To take matters one step further, not only was grandpa dead but he'd also left me his house in his will and again none of them bothered to tell me.\n\nThe legal part is this, after finding this information out I also found out my dad let some half sibling i didn't even know existed move into the house because \" I  told him it was okay.\" So now there's some house I haven't been to since I was like 3 out on the wild, under my name with people I've never met living in it and I'm not sure where to go from here. On one hand I'm like well screw it, my life is no different now that I know from when I didn't I should just let them live there since I'm not getting hit up for property taxes or anything like that. On the other...I own a house out in the frickin middle of nowhere North Carolina with no idea how this could bite me in the ass down the road.\n\nLong story short, how does one go about reclaiming ownership of the property or whatever and if I do decide to just let them continue living there what am I legally responsible for? Does this make me their landlord? If someone gets hurt on the property can I be sued? Not really sure what to do with this situation.","title":"Question about a house I possibly inherited","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571598233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dko32j\/oh_landlord_refusing_to_refund_security_and\/","id":"dko32j","body":"So long story short I recently moved out of my apartment about 6 weeks ago and still have yet to receive any itemized deductions from the property manager and has since stopped responding to my text messages. I haven given them my email to send the list to but they have always tried to avoid the conversation and bring something else up. I had also been hearing from other tenants that they didn\u2019t do any cleaning and they had to when they had moved in and found cat litter on the floor and other small damages that they assumed would be done by the time they had moved in. \n\nCorrect me if I am wrong but I believe Ohio law is that it need to be refunded after deductions within 30 days or else I can sue for triple damages but I would prefer not to and just be done with the whole issue\n\nPlease let me know if any additional is needed as well, thanks","title":"[OH] landlord refusing to refund security and itemized deductions for repairs needed","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568765208,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5pkqa\/ct_what_are_some_key_bits_of_knowledgeknow_how\/","id":"d5pkqa","body":"I will soon become the POA of my mother due to ailing health. I am interested in any \u201ctips & tricks\u201d for someone becoming the POA of finances and healthcare. TIA","title":"[CT] What are some key bits of knowledge\/know how you\u2019d advise a POA.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1447188945,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sbku0\/question_raleigh_nc_can_i_make_a_waiver_binder\/","id":"3sbku0","body":"As a recommendation from a friend, I'm visiting \/r\/legaladvice because I had a question regarding the feasibility of arguably the easiest way to manage participants in my sidejob.\n\nI am an extreme sports videographer, so the problem I face is if an individual who I am filming messes up and then gets hit by me. I'm basically drafting a waiver to have them agree that they are liable for themselves and any damage done to myself or property, barring a mechanical failure on my part that could be considered negligence.\n\nThe problem is, these guys don't want to have to wait and read through a bunch of documents, nor do they really care, and that wouldd be okay if it weren't for the fact I would have to \"trust\" them or their family not to re-neg should something happen.\n\nFor this reason, I envisioned creating a binder like the one in my shitty attached picture I made in paint. Waiver with an ID number, i.e. 1A, on one side, page with numbered lines for print and signed name with date on the other that says \" I, the signing party, have read & agree to the terms of Waiver 1A.\" This means that I'm referring to a specific document which they stated they've read and agree to.\n\nYou guys think this will fly??\nPic Here: http:\/\/imgur.com\/hjT17Ov","title":"[Question] | [Raleigh, NC] Can I make a \"Waiver Binder\" for an event with many registrants and very impatient individuals (Shitty Pic for Example)?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541192398,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9to23a\/damaged_car_running_over_a_brand_new_small_median\/","id":"9to23a","body":"First time posting in r\/legaladvice, so please ask for any information I've left out!\n\n​\n\nLast week I was coming home and ran over\/flew over a pedestrian safety median (probably 30 ft length) that was put in the turning lane I veer into to turn left onto my street. It was not there last time I took that way home and I never saw it being installed. There were no cars coming in the oncoming lane, so I was going about 35 mph and only saw the median once it was feet away. I'm very lucky I was okay and could drive my car a block up the road to park at my house.\n\n​\n\nThe damage wasn't terrible after performing numerable tests, but my left tire was popped and the right wheel was broken and needed a new part. The total for fixing it comes out to about $700.\n\n​\n\nThe weird thing is, an hour after that happened to me, one of my close friends ran over it too turning into the gas station that's next to the street I was turning onto. He had three tires popped and stayed on the scene for a while. There was another man there who had also run over it. And I know us three weren't the only ones, but my point is that multiple people ran over it that night.\n\n​\n\nWhen I first got home after this happened I went down to the road and took pictures of the median without cones or reflectors. I had to collect my wheel well that had broken off my car too. The next day there were cones up. And who put them up? The restaurant that looks out at the median. Not our city's transportation\/road department!\n\n​\n\nThat night I also called our city's emergency damage hotline since all other related offices were closed. The lady on the phone took my account and information and said she'd send a report to two offices that she thought would be able to help me. So far I have not received any contact - this, again, was a week ago.\n\n​\n\nSo now I'm wondering where to go. Ideally, I'd like to be reimbursed by the city, does that even sound like an option to you guys? Do I sue the city? That seems extreme. Are there any other actions I should be taking that I haven't thought of yet. I plan on calling our transportation department on Monday since I still haven't heard from anyone and letting them know about this issue.\n\n​\n\nThe only last thing I think is worth mentioning are details about the road. The road is probably one of the most popular ones in our city, it's a straight shot from downtown to the suburbs and intersects with interstate exits and many other major roads. There are four lanes with a turning lane - nowhere else is there a median for any reason. I do not see many people walking along the road or even trying to cross is as traffic is dense and the speed limit is 40 mph. There are no pedestrian crosswalk lines leading to and from the median. It just seems so unnecessary and uncalled for the city to have put the median up in the first place. Everyone I talk to about it who has seen it thinks it's very bizarre that it's even there.","title":"Damaged car running over a brand new, small median at night that had no cones or reflectors in metro area.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551679799,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax3ss8\/planning_to_publish_apps_on_the_play_store_need\/","id":"ax3ss8","body":"Should I post it as an individual or open up a company through which I shall post?\n\nPls give advice with respect to both scenarios where I plan to make the app freely available and run ads on it and the other where I don't run any ads.\n\nI don't think ppl get sued over there(not that I am planning to infringe any copyrights) but how to protect oneself?","title":"Planning to publish apps on the Play Store, need advice regarding how to publish it while keeping one safe.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1571105107,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di0zcl\/my_mothers_job_is_refusing_to_pay_her_ot_and\/","id":"di0zcl","body":"My mother is a Nurse and over the past 2 weeks or so has put in some crazy hours. today they told her that were unable to pay her OT because they \"couldn't afford it\". For her compensation they are offering her \" days off whenever she wants and just paying her 8 hour days when she needs\". However that doesn't compensate the time and half she was supposed to receive. What are her options here? Any help would be much appreciated.","title":"My mothers job is refusing to pay her OT and instead offering her days off for compensation.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503507635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vkc5t\/ireland_eu_accepted_a_job_now_want_to_leave_it\/","id":"6vkc5t","body":"Recently got a new job at a big company. I received the job immediately after the interview and was asked to start the following week. I signed a contract that included none-compete. meaning I can't work for competing companies for at least six months after resigning or getting fired.\n\nBefore accepting the position for my current job, I had another interview for a company that's included under the none-compete section in my contract. It has been a month so I assumed I didn't get the job but they emailed me saying I got the job. It is a completely different position than the new position I hold now. I would rather take that job than the job I just got, however, I already signed a contract.\n\nI am still in my first week of the new job and I have not received any training. All I did so far was do a sexual harassment and security exam. I asked HR about the issue and whether the contract can be ignored if I was to leave within the first week or two. They just stated that if I decided to leave for the other company, they would be willing to meet with me. So given that it wasn't a direct no to joining the other company, there is a chance?\n\nNote that -\n\n* I only been with the new company for a week and have not done anything work related.\n\n* The other job is a different position.\n\n* The other company is listed under the non-compete in the contract I signed.\n\n* There is a probation period and I can leave anytime I want after giving a weeks notice - none-compete still applies I think. \n\n* Both companies are in tech\n\n* Ireland is the country so we're talking Irish and EU laws.\n\nWhat are my options legally? Can I leave my current company given that I was only with them for a week? Is my contract finale?\n\n","title":"[Ireland - EU] Accepted a job & now want to leave it for another company that's listed as non-compete in my current contract - What can I do?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554092933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7xbj1\/mi_can_i_break_an_automatic_renewal_clause_in_a\/","id":"b7xbj1","body":"I am the landlord and I have inherited tenants who are currently living in the other half of my duplex. They seemed like good tenants at first. They were paying month to month and didn't have any problems paying rent until they signed the lease, then everything went to hell. I have had to file paperwork twice and actually take them to court once just to get the rent I was owed. They haven't paid on time in 8 months, but thanks to daddy's deep pockets, they come up with the rent after papers are served or the judge orders it. Not to mention that I have repeatedly told them not to smoke in the house, but they still do. I have a clause in the lease that states the lease automatically renews unless the lessee express interest otherwise (again, they were good tenants before they signed the lease and I'm relatively new to this).\n\nBut now I'm at the point where I don't want their money, I want them out of my house so I can move on and start fresh with new tenants that I can screen myself.\n\n​\n\nMy question is, what are my options as a landlord as far as an automatically renewing lease in Michigan? I'm certain they are not going to pay rent this month and I plan on proceeding with a possession only claim so they can't pay to stay, but in the event that they do pay, I was wondering if I had any other options? If anyone has had a similar experience (in Michigan or otherwise) I'd like to hear it.","title":"[MI] Can I break an automatic renewal clause in a residential property lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552519132,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0swwz\/can_my_mom_legally_kick_my_adult_sister_to_the\/","id":"b0swwz","body":"I flaired this with family but it may actually be more of a tenancy issue?\n\nMy 22y sister (I will call her Jane) and her 29y girlfriend (Kate) are living with my mom. They had previously been living with Kate\u2019s parents, but after Kate\u2019s dad \u201cflipped out at them over nothing\u201d (doubtful) they moved back in with my mom. My mom has let them take over her bedroom because Jane only has a twin-sized bed in her room. My mom has been sleeping on the pull-out couch for 4 months.\n\nJane and Kate are basically leeches who have historically refused to buy their own food, drinks, pay their way toward any bills, etc. even when employed. Now Jane is working part time and Kate was recently fired for calling out because she had friends over.  So basically my mom is working herself to the bone while they mooch off her. The icing on the cake came today when they purchased costumes for an anime convention next month. Can\u2019t afford to help out with the costs of living there, but can afford to go to anime conventions.\n\nNow, my mom never told them they *had* to pay anything in exchange for living there. She has asked for help, but that\u2019s all (and they refused anyway). My mom wants to kick them out but she seems to be afraid that she can\u2019t legally do that and intentionally leave them homeless. My understanding is that because they pay nothing and have never been required to pay anything, that they are guests and not tenants, therefore it\u2019s their own problem if they\u2019re homeless and not her. But of course I don\u2019t want to encourage my mom to kick them out if she can\u2019t legally do so. \n\nSo. Can my mom legally dump all of Jane and Kate\u2019s shit in the front yard and change the locks? Or does she need to go through the whole eviction process with the court?\n","title":"Can my mom legally kick my adult sister to the curb? [MA]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447574466,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3svli2\/chicago_il_i_was_just_attacked_by_a_girl_and\/","id":"3svli2","body":"This was my 3rd date with a girl I met online. We were both at my place, and were planning to go to a club later in the evening. I started feeling a little uneasy, a bit of a headache and nausea, so I asked her if it would be okay to call her a cab to take her come, and let me sleep it off. At this point she refuses to leave my apartment and starts acting erratic. Marches down to my refrigerator and grabs a bottle of vodka, proceeds to chug it. When I tried to take bottle away from her she starts hitting me, biting me, and trying to swing the bottle at me. I restrain her by putting my hands on her neck and call 911. The result of our tussle was a number of deep scratches, bruises and bite marks on me, and a bruise on her collar bone. When the cops arrived they told us that the way they see it, we both have bruises and should both be arrested. No arrests were made. I made a call and she took a cab back home, I stayed behind and had to explain to the cops what happened. When I get back to my apartment I see that she had already called me twice, and texted me as if nothing even happened. She left me a voice mail that in short said \"Thank you for calling me a cab, this psycho tried to choke me!\" even though it was me who both called the cab and put my hands on her in self defense. There are more details to this story but I'm still shaken by what happened. I just want to let bygones be bygones, but I don't want this to come back and backfire on me. Help? Advice?","title":"[Chicago, IL] I was just attacked by a girl, and called 911, do I need a lawyer?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554140083,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b85kem\/ca_need_advice_on_unemployment_pay_for_probable\/","id":"b85kem","body":"Hey all!   \n\nSo I have an amazing vacation lined up for tomorrow that cannot be rescheduled and that I will not miss.  \n\nMy vacation request was not approved and my boss's boss sent an email today reiterating that I'm expected to come to work. \n\nShould I politely reply to the email stating that I was verbally told not to submit my vacation request until xyz happened and I will be going anyway (respectfully, of course), or should I just send a text\/call my boss and let her know I won't be in? \n\nMy boss is awesome and knows that I'm definitely taking the vacation. \n\n\nPS, I do NOT want to work for this company any more. I'm more than happy to be fired if I can get unemployment while I find a better job. ","title":"[Ca] Need advice on unemployment pay for probable termination.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552685433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1khjy\/washington_state_residency_lawslease_violations\/","id":"b1khjy","body":"So, I need help with the legality of asking my roommates to move out. The only people on the lease are myself and my girlfriend, but the couple staying with us has been here since around November. I\u2019m not sure if they have residency rights or what any of that entails. I\u2019m asking them to leave because, despite being the worst amalgamation of r\/badroommates and r\/grossroommates you can imagine, my apartment is effectively destroyed as well as several personal items. One has relapsed on heroin, stolen the other\u2019s debit card (vehemently denying it) and brought a big H dealer that I had to contact 911 to remove from my apartment. I\u2019m terrified of living here. I let myself get guilt tripped again by her and agreed that she can stay if she completes an inpatient rehab routine but I really want them gone by June so I can rip up the carpet in the bedroom and clean all the fucking used needles out of there. None of our agreements have been written, all are verbal, and they are helping pay rent, electricity, and internet. What are my options for getting them out? I\u2019m terrified to live in my own apartment and I\u2019m now out a $3,000 deposit that roommate swears she\u2019ll refund, but doesn\u2019t have a job to do so. ","title":"Washington State Residency Laws\/Lease Violations","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570388946,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de7rt5\/is_this_sex_discrimination_what_are_my_options\/","id":"de7rt5","body":"I\u2019ll try to keep this brief:\n\nI am a male cosmetologist. I just started a new job at a spa on the property of a large resort. Within my first two weeks, I\u2019ve had two people not want me to preform services on them because I was a man (A manicure and a pedicure). The first client was actually a VIP celebrity guest and became very upset when he was told that he would have to pay for the service in full. After that, they have started asking gender preference to people calling in for all services, including nails and hair. Prior to this, they only asked for massage, facials, waxing or other \u201cprivate room\u201d services, for somewhat obvious reasons. I\u2019ve asked other people, and nobody else has heard of gender preference for hair and nail services being a standard question at booking.\n\nIt\u2019s been about a week now that they have been asking gender preference and my bookings have dropped dramatically. The other service providers there, all female, are getting full bookings while I have hours long gaps in my schedule, which sucks because I get paid commission. I talked to one of the front desk coworkers and she said that for nails some women have started specifying they want women while some just say no preference, but for hair she said most women have been requesting women. My argument here is that if they weren\u2019t asking, most people wouldn\u2019t have an issue.\n\nThe one service I am getting more of is Men\u2019s Cuts, which sucks even more because I don\u2019t really do men\u2019s cuts in any level beyond the basics and have minimal skills and interest in them as well as that men\u2019s cuts are one of the lowest revenue per minute services offered. A men\u2019s cut is a 30 minute service that costs $30, compared to even the cheap nail services for for $50 for 25 minutes, in addition to the reality that while you can upsell nail services and women\u2019s hair services, it\u2019s very difficult to get men to purchase additional services or products like deep masks or take home, which further dampens my paycheck. \n\nTLDR: Front desk asking gender preference for every service is affecting my pay and I want to know if that\u2019s sex discrimination. \n\nWhat should I do? I am afraid of going to my manager and saying anything because I just started, and I don\u2019t wanna fly the coop straight to HR and put a target on my back. Am I overreacting? Do I have any options here other than deal with it or quit? It\u2019s a great paying job but it feels extremely unfair to be booked and consequently paid less than everyone else simply because I\u2019m a man.","title":"Is this sex discrimination? What are my options?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1414182420,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2k89fm\/contract_termination_advice_im_in_california\/","id":"2k89fm","body":"I realize I'm probably screwed but I need to ask.\n\nI bought a house in March of this year.  The house came with a security alarm system from ADT and part of our purchase agreement with the house was that we would take over the contract.  That whole process was an enormous pain in the ass but we got it done.  And for several months now we've been paying ADT for our service.  \n\nOver the summer there was an error noted on our paperwork and Safe Haven (the company that installed the system) had to have us complete some paper work.  This took time to complete because I was out of town and their guy was late getting everything to me.  Because of this delay ADT dropped my contract and handed it over to Safe Haven.  So I am still supposedly getting the same monitoring service but now I'm supposed to start paying Safe Haven. This whole thing has been a huge nightmare and now I want out.  \n\nDo I have any legal footing to terminate this contract since it isn't what I signed up for and was changed without warning?  ","title":"Contract termination advice (I'm in California company is in Missouri)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570254382,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddj7ue\/got_a_traffic_citation_for_driving_thru_a_traffic\/","id":"ddj7ue","body":"Basically, I was coming upon an intersection. The light was yellow, so it ruined on my blinker and went left. No opposing traffic was coming from the left turn lane. \n\nA cop appeared to be pulling into the gas station at the corner and immediately pulled me over. He stated that there is a sign that states \u201cNo right turns on red\u201d. Which is fine, because it wasn\u2019t red. However he states that he saw red lights and that the left turn lane had gotten its green light; therefore, I turned on a red. \n\nI believe that he was pulling up through the back entrance of the gas station and saw the light and then saw me turning and assumed I turned on the red light. Is there any way to request his dashcam footage? Could that prove that he didn\u2019t see enough of the scene and made an error and assumed I was violating? I unfortunately don\u2019t have a dash cam to show that the light was yellow for me.","title":"Got a traffic citation for \u201cDriving thru a traffic control device\u201d AL","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569525375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ocqi\/tx_employer_told_transgender_employee_to_use\/","id":"d9ocqi","body":" \n\nMy fiance is a trans- woman and works for a State government agency, they have been aware of her transgender status throughout her employment, and they even hired her on full time from a contractor position.\n\nthe further she gets into her transition she more uncomfortable she is using the mens room and will always use a family restroom when available. the issue is her work place does not have one and she HAS to use the mens room, this has resulted in her to have almost Debilitating anxiety when shes at work\n\na few months ago she asked her superiors if she could use the women's restroom they said no BUT she could use the bathroom at the gas station across the street during her break. \n\nshe did try this once but fun fact, the gas station bathroom was covered in vomit when she used it and it takes her whole break and then some to go back and forth.\n\nfast forward a few months and she is allowed to temporarily work from home, because of a different issue. when she goes back to work she asks if she can continue to work from home part time so the bathroom situation is an issue they continue to say she cant until she's off 6-month probation after being hired on. \n\nheres where we are today, Monday she gets her first gender affirmation surgery and it wont be any question anymore that she is female, shes fed up and is going to just start using the female restroom.\n\nso here are my questions\n\n(I am aware Texas is at-will employment and she can be fired for anything)\n\n1) Is there anything we can do about them asking her to use the gas station bathroom? despite it being degrading, what if something happens to her on the way there or back, and should she still be paid for the time it takes?\n\n2) Are there any legal consequences to using the female restroom without permission \n\n3) Is there anyway we can push for them to accommodate her, because they have a very easy solution in this with allowing her work work from home they just refuse to do so\n\n4) I am aware Texas is at-will employment but if she is fired or reprimanded for using the bathroom she wants is there ANYTHING we can do?","title":"[TX] Employer told Transgender employee to use bathroom across street","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570239024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddgrtr\/how_can_my_father_acquire_full_custody_of_me\/","id":"ddgrtr","body":"Basically throughout my life my mother has been having custody of me, but throughout the years she has been becoming more hard on me, and to that point where I figure it\u2019ll be considered abuse, during my life I been having regular relations with my father, I was wondering if there was an way for him to acquire full custody of me, any help will gladly be welcomed. This is taking place in California and I am 17","title":"How can my Father acquire full custody of me?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539810358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p2nf2\/what_happens_if_i_show_up_to_court_for_traffic_by\/","id":"9p2nf2","body":"I got a moving violation ticket for using a BIKE scooter on a certain part of campus at UCLA. i'm new and didn't know there were dismount zones. I wasn't in danger of hitting someone at all, but anyways. My ticket specifically says BY january 3rd. And it may be online before that to pay there. But my question is, what happens if my ticket is not online and i show up near the due date to the court house and they still don't have anything there either? A lawyer said the office only has until january 3rd to file it and beyond that, it's too late. Is that true? And if so, do i have to appear on january 3rd absolutely to cover all my bases? ","title":"What happens if I show up to court for traffic by due date but there's no info?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570850661,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgpql1\/paid_retainer_to_traffic_court_lawyers_to_fight\/","id":"dgpql1","body":"in california\n\nI used this website that specializes in fighting off traffic tickets in my area. I\u2019ve used it before to clear a ticket i got in the past. i recently got a ticket for speeding, and went back to use their services again, and got the confirmation email they accepted my case, and in the email they stated \u201cAs always, there's nothing you need to do.  We will take it from here!\u201d I never received any follow up emails about my case, like my previous time, and i assumed the case was ongoing. Today i got the original speeding ticket back along with an infraction for not appearing in court.  what should i do?","title":"Paid retainer to traffic court lawyers to fight my case, was told i wasn\u2019t needed at court, but got charged with failure to appear","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539659684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ojsmo\/should_i_call_the_police_on_my_ex_boyfriend_and\/","id":"9ojsmo","body":"When I was in high school (10 years ago) I dated a boy who was very disturbed. He has tried to contact me every year since then, and I always told him to leave me alone, until this year. I\u2019ve been trying hard to work on myself, and I thought I should give him the time of day.\n\nWe talked for two weeks, and he seemed perfectly normal. Then, he asked me if I\u2019d go out with him if he asked me again now, and I said yes. After that, he proceeded to tell me about how he had cut the head off of a baby bunny, and how after I\u2019d broken up with him when we were kids, he had an elaborate plan to murder me along with the person who had abused me throughout my entire childhood, and throw our bodies in a ditch together.\n\nWhen I got upset, he laughed, and said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to murder you anymore, silly. That was 10 years ago.\u201d\n\nHe also claimed that the car accident we were in as kids was done on purpose; that he had intended to kill me and get morphine for himself.\n\nI\u2019m very shaken up, but I didn\u2019t think I was in any danger anymore. I thought he was just bullying me. When I showed our conversation to two friends, though, they insisted I call the police, because they think my life is in danger.\n\nIf I do call the police, do i even have sufficient evidence to give them? I have everything in text messages except for the murder plot, which he told me over the phone.","title":"Should I call the police on my ex boyfriend, and do I have sufficient evidence for them to be able to help me?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568815610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5yan7\/house_owneship_issue_uk\/","id":"d5yan7","body":"So me, my sister and mother inherited a house after my grandmother moved into care (1\/3 each). I, along with my family moved into the house and have lived in it for about 18 months. The house wasn't really livable for a family before and have spent around 20k to get it into livable and sellable condition. The issue is when it comes to selling I want the money I put into the property back. The money spent has made the property actually appealing and raised the value (New kitchen, small extension, outside decking w\/ hot tub, floors,... basically everything needed redecorating). Other 2 parties don't want that really and want the 1\/3 split regardless of the money I have spent. Would like it resolved without legal means but am I entitled to that money if it goes down the legal route?","title":"House Owneship Issue (UK)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570617646,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dff84d\/need_help_urgently\/","id":"dff84d","body":"I and other people I love are in danger. Someone with info on KY laws please pm me. Thx.","title":"Need Help Urgently","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541378760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u8we3\/pennsylvania_getting_my_drivers_license_suspended\/","id":"9u8we3","body":"Hi everyone, here\u2019s backstory: on 10\/09 I got a speeding ticket for 50 in a 30, but also it was an active work zone so double points. The officer told me he was writing it as a normal ticket and he wasn\u2019t giving me points. I pay the ticket (6 days later, because cop didn\u2019t enter it into the system) and move on with my life. Then got a letter from Penn DOT that my license is getting suspended for 15 days and I\u2019m getting 5 points on my license. \n\nSO I heard that I can get work\/school restriction on my license so it\u2019ll be suspended but I can still get to school. I graduate in January and if I can\u2019t get to school I won\u2019t be able to get my hours needed to graduate (esthetics school). \n\nShould I go to the civil court downtown to appeal the suspension? I understand I did wrong like I was speeding, but I need to finish school. So do I civil court appeal and stand in front of the judge or can I just file something at the dmv? \n\nPlease help and thank you in advance!!! ","title":"[pennsylvania] getting my drivers license suspended, should I go to civil court or dmv?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570257885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddjoue\/in_alabama_i_got_a_traffic_citation_for_turning\/","id":"ddjoue","body":"In my defense, the light was yellow, but the cop was very insistent on me turning on red. \n\nAm I allowed to ask for the cops dash cam? Are the required to give it to me?\n\nI really want to see his point of view and see if he had a good POV of the situation","title":"In Alabama, I got a traffic citation for turning right on a red light that doesn\u2019t allow right turns on red.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555418507,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdth44\/how_can_i_move_to_another_country_to_expand_my\/","id":"bdth44","body":"I want to move out of India soon and am thinking of starting an online clothing store (I am a fashion designer) here. How do I get my store to sell in London or do online stores have people buying from everywhere? (this sounds stupid but I really wanted to know)","title":"How can I move to another country to expand my business there?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552921313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2jqmw\/our_last_months_rent_overlaps_with_new_tenants\/","id":"b2jqmw","body":"We currently rent an apartment in Boston, MA and our lease expires June 1st.  \n\nAt the beginning of the year, we informed our landlord that we were hoping to buy a house and leave our apartment around the time our lease is due to end. He was totally cool with this, and said that breaking our lease would not be an option. Regardless of when we end up leaving, he expects all months' rent left in the lease to be paid.  We agreed and said we'd definitely pay.\n\nIt was difficult to line up house-buying with the end of our lease perfectly. We will be moving out sometime in April.  We'll pay April's rent like usual and already paid last month's rent, so as far as our landlord is concerned, we're good to go. \n\nHowever, something caught our attention today. Our landlord just advertised our apartment with an availability date of May 1st. So, he'll be getting our last month's rent and the new tenant's first month's rent.  \n\nCan we argue that we should get our May rent back if he gets new tenants? Or are landlords in Massachusetts well within their rights to do this?  \n\nI ask because I've known people who have left their leases early but because they found other tenants immediately, the landlord didn't ask for the balance of the unpaid rent.  Is that standard or just an example of a nice landlord? \n\n","title":"Our last month's rent overlaps with new tenant's first month's rent (Boston, MA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553356568,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4kosx\/can_they_do_this\/","id":"b4kosx","body":"hi i'm a six grader so don't judge me for spelling mistakes. at my school we have to work, now i no its not horribly just doing dishes, serving food or cleaning the cafeteria for every once a week but this all starts when you get to 4th grade or 3rd and we don't get any thing from it. heck we even lose some if not all recess to do this. i'm not sure if they can do this and i don't really fell like i have any say in this so if some one could help that would be awesome. thanks <3","title":"Can they do this?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553661328,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b601y6\/hit_while_changing_lanes_am_i_atfault_and_do_i\/","id":"b601y6","body":"Hello r\/legaladvice\n\nI was in a car accident yesterday in Michigan, in which I turned out of a parking lot (after being stopped at a stop sign) into the right lane. I then executed a lane change to get into the left-lane. The road has a 40 mph speed limit. I properly signaled and checked my mirrors. There was a car approaching, but it was sufficiently far away at the beginning of the lane change. Unfortunately, I was rear ended at the end of the lane change as the car from behind was speeding (though I can't prove that), and failed to slow down. My car was flipped up and spun and landed on the median. It was significantly damaged and will most likely be totaled. Thankfully, no injuries for myself or the other driver, but I will be seeing my doctor tomorrow.  \n\n​\n\nThe police officer that arrived on scene gave me a citation stating \"right of way\". I attempted to explain the situation that my lane change would have been safe provided the other driver had been driving at a reasonable speed and slowed down accordingly, but he responded that I should go to court. The other driver, a college student, apologized prior to the officer's arrival, but reversed course upon the arrival of his father and the officer. There was only one witness at the scene and did not provide much useful information.\n\n​\n\nI am trying to decide if this is within my ability to argue in court, if I should seek out a lawyer, or just deal with it (i.e. unlikely that the court will be swayed in my favor). I am also curious about whether my insurance will cover me, should the other driver claim injuries\/damages. I have full comprehensive and liability coverage with a 100k\/300k policy. Would a lawyer be advisable should my insurance agree I was at fault, or if they side with me?\n\n​\n\nThank you in advance for your advice!\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Hit while changing lanes. Am I at-fault and do I need a lawyer?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568579597,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4q3f1\/leasing_company_not_fixing_air_conditioning\/","id":"d4q3f1","body":"\\[US - IA\\] I'm living in an apartment that used to be owned by leasing company 1, but has recently been switched to leasing company 2 (Will refer to them as LC2). Friday 9\/6\/19, our AC stopped working. I called on Saturday 9\/7 at the end of the day. They said their emergency maintenance team was busy, so they'll \"get to it when they get to it\". Monday 9\/9, they still hadn't showed up, so at 3PM I called and asked what was going on. They said they'd look into it and call back. 20 minutes later, maintenance showed up. The guy checked the wiring, reset the breaker, looked at the unit, then said something along the lines of \"If it isn't fixed later this week, call us back.\" \n\n​\n\nI think I gave it a day or 2, then went into the office and asked what was going on. They called the maintenance guy that came on Monday, and he told the office that it was on a list to be replaced, so they're waiting to just replace it. Catch is, it's a third party doing the replacement, so they can't say when it will be replaced.\n\n​\n\nEvery time I talked to them about it, I asked if there was anything they could do for us, like bring in fans or anything like that. Finally, either Wednesday or Thursday night, my roommate mentioned that when this happened over the summer(I was not living here over the summer), they temporarily installed a window unit. So The next day I went into the office and asked for them to put a window unit in, and the lady at the office said something along the lines of \"When I called the maintenance person yesterday, he said there were no fans or anything we can do, so the window units must not be available.\" \n\n​\n\nFriday, 9\/13 I finally asked for any form of reimbursement, like money off on rent or for them to pay our utilities bill because we're running fans non-stop, I got sick because the temperature dropped 20F overnight one of the nights, and we're having stuff in our pantry melt. They said they can't give credit on rent, and to save on utilities, we should turn the AC off since all it's doing is blowing hot air.\n\n​\n\nToday, 9\/15, I went in to ask for the lease paperwork. According to the lease paperwork, If it takes them more than 7 days to fix the issue, we are legally allowed to move out with no repercussions and they owe us unused rent and our security deposit.\n\n​\n\nWe're not in a position to move out right now, but is there any leverage that we have to get them to do anything? Since it's been more than 7 days since the maintenance request, can we threaten to move out and see if that will give them motivation to compensate us?","title":"Leasing Company not fixing Air Conditioning","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539129992,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9muifb\/tenant_rents_room_in_owner_occupied_condo_may_be\/","id":"9muifb","body":"This is in Massachusetts.\n\n​\n\nPartner and I recently purchased a condo and have rented out one of the rooms to a friend of ours. In the lease, there is a no pet's clause, however, roommate has indicated that his therapist may be prescribing him a therapy dog. As we understand it, in MA, landlords must make reasonable accommodations for peoples with service and assistance animals, however, we have been unable to find any guidance on if the apartment in question is owner occupied. There does seem to be an owner occupied exemption to the fair housing act in Massachusetts that would allow one to turn down potential renters, however, we're unclear if this has any bearing on someone who already lives in the apartment and is receiving a new diagnosis that was not previously (at time of lease signing) there. Are we able to say no, or are we required to accommodate?\n\n​\n\nJust want to make sure we fully understand the law around this issue and make sure we don't run afoul of anything. Appreciate the help!","title":"Tenant (rents room in owner occupied condo) may be requesting emotional support dog, does owner exemption apply? (MA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541797001,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vo7av\/texaslit_fireworks_on_a_school_football_field\/","id":"9vo7av","body":"my highschool has a 40 year old rivalry with the neighboring high school. the night before the football game inbetween school A and school B there is a long standing tradition, \u201csenior stake out\u201d. basically we do stupid shit to each other\u2019s school and\/or students. as a stupid 17 year old, this year i brought fireworks, pissed on the field and lit the fireworks on school B\u2019s football field. there were about 40 people in the parking lot but only four went into the field. upon arriving to school the next day, i was told by administration that i could expect a felony for \u201corganized crime\u201d. what should i expect? ","title":"[TEXAS]lit fireworks on a school football field, what should i expect!?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570742143,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg4oi3\/probably_a_stupid_question_involving_being_banned\/","id":"dg4oi3","body":"okay, i probably know the answer to this, and i'm sure this is going to sound stupid. just bear with me and treat it like a serious question, because i seriously need the answer. okay... so, let's say a website bans you, and they make the accusation that you did something that violated their policy. however, you didn't actually violate the policy, and in fact, made sure you weren't. the staff member handling your ticket only keeps repeating that \"breaking our policy won't be tolerated,\" but they don't actually explain what or how you violated it, and you are confused, upset, and under the suspicion that they are just trying to use their power to get you off the site because of their own bias. they also won't let you talk to a different member of the staff.\n\nremember, this is a serious question... can you sue the company that runs the website? i just feel like SOMETHING about this has to be illegal. i don't want to reveal the name of the site, i just need to know the answer from someone who understands laws revolving around the internet.","title":"probably a stupid question involving being banned from a website","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553019371,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b30try\/is_it_possibly_for_a_custodial_parent_to_force\/","id":"b30try","body":"In NY, can the parent with residential custody force the other parent to pay for tuition at a private school for no other reason than that it\u2019s closer to her house and she wants to put her hand in your pocket?  My husband has joint custody (joint decision making) with his ex (never married) and she has physical custody about 80% of the time.  He pays child support, and childcare\/extracurricular expenses are divided 66\/33 with my husband paying the majority because BM refuses to work more than part time.  The custody order states that the child (5F) will attend school in the mother\u2019s school district.  There was no full day pre-k option in her school district so after daycare, she went to pre-k in a private Catholic school that is not in BM\u2019s district but is close to her home.  Now BM is claiming she\u2019s going to enroll the child next year at this private school, which was never part of any agreement, and that we will have to pay thousands in tuition every year.  The child is developmentally normal is is performing at or above grade level according to her teacher, so she has no special needs that would require an alternative setting.  The public school district in which she resides is fine academically and in terms of safety, and BM admits that it\u2019s fine.  We have three other kids, while BM only has this one, and this tuition would mean we can\u2019t afford childcare for our other kids.  She has a history of trying to pursue exorbitant amounts of money\u2014she asked for $2-3k in child support a month because my husband used to support her after he broke up with her until he found out she was on drugs.  She also petitioned for $1k a day until the child was returned at one point when she claimed he was withholding.   These requests have never been granted and she\u2019s been reprimanded by the judge repeatedly for her greed, but I\u2019m concerned about the possibility of having to pay tuition for the next 8 years which will prevent our other kids from having a lot of opportunities to the poi t that we won\u2019t even be able to afford an after school nanny for the ones who are with us full time.  Is it possible for her to force this?","title":"Is it possibly for a custodial parent to force the noncustodial parent to pay for private school despite no special needs?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541669098,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v8l2g\/exhusband_owes_me_over_32000_in_child_support_and\/","id":"9v8l2g","body":"I've been doing everything I can to get child support enforcement all the information they need to go after this guy.  I've even written letters to state representatives and even the governor of Missouri but no one seems to be willing to take any action.  I pointed out that with the amount he owes and how long it's been since he's paid anything this should have been turned over for Federal enforcement, only to be told that child support enforcement has to exhaust all efforts before turning it over but they really aren't making any efforts.  What makes it even worse is that he lives in a different state it took being in contact with some people who are in high positions in my state's system to get Missouri to contact the other state about it.  Is there any legal action I can pursue against Child Support Enforcement to get any real action from them?  Or is there anything more I can do myself in an effort to get him to pay? ","title":"Ex-husband owes me over $32,000 in child support and child support enforcement is not being any help","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1549848942,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apb1l8\/im_a_california_employee_that_constantly_travels\/","id":"apb1l8","body":"I live in California and our office is in California. However, I work most of the year traveling and working in other states. I do work some time in our office, but not as much as I'm traveling. My question really is in regards to overtime\/meal penalties. California law is any time worked in a day past 8 hours is paid at time and a half and, after 12, double time, any hours worked past 40 in a week to be paid time and a half, and any hours after 8 on the seventh consecutive day in a single work week to be paid at double time. California also states that if a meal break is not able to be taken after 5 hours incurs a penalty to be paid at one hour of the normal rate of pay for that employee, and after ten hours of work on the day, unless waived by an employer\/employee agreement, but not to be waived after the twelfth hour if a second meal break is not able to be taken.\n\nMy question is, when I am traveling to other states, and am working in said state, as an employee should I be paid for meal penalties\/overtime in accordance with California law, being a resident and having my office there, or am I subject to the overtime laws\/meal break laws in that state? I've been trying to do research on this matter, but can only find information about non-residents of California traveling to and working in California, not the other way around.\n\nAny advice or information on this matter would be extremely appreciated! Thank you!","title":"I'm a California employee that constantly travels to different states for days\/weeks at a time. What employment laws govern my work while I'm in each state?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542149764,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wu3y1\/breaking_a_lease_tx\/","id":"9wu3y1","body":"Hello, I moved into my Apartments in late August just as school started. Before I moved in there was several repairs and changes that were noted to the landlord verbally to be made to my apartment. These included replacement of all smoke alarms which are not working, the addition of baseboards to my bedroom, and fixing a broken baseboard in the bathroom. When none of these repairs happened I continued to speak to the office managers. So far I've spoken to them four times, the most recent being today, and I finally got a copy of a work order saying that they know all of these repairs need to happen. I would really like to break my lease with this apartment. My neighbors are loud and fight all the time, and it turns out the heater has been broken all fall ( a friend and I just now noticed because it's gotten so much colder lately). Are these legitimate grounds to break my lease? I would be looking to move out in December after my finals (I have a 12 month lease). Thank you. ","title":"Breaking a lease (TX)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506462344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72nq0n\/is_it_safe_to_give_away_last_4_digits_of_ssn\/","id":"72nq0n","body":"In signing lots of contacts and paperwork, I have realized they ask often about the last 4 digits of your SSN. Sometimes I worry that the paperwork may get in the wrong hands. Can people do anything with this or do anything bad with it?  California, USA ","title":"Is it safe to give away last 4 digits of SSN?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551049966,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/audx52\/working_2_government_jobs_at_the_same_time\/","id":"audx52","body":"TLDR: Offered a remote job as IT Support separately by 2 boroughs of NYC. Wondering if I can do them both since they're the same job duties. Would do both jobs 8:30-5 Mon-Fri so same time. Want to know if there's going to be any issue for me for doing so. ","title":"Working 2 government jobs at the same time","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409324888,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ex9ku\/florida_tenant_trying_to_sue_me_due_to_mold_in\/","id":"2ex9ku","body":"I am scared to death, so any legal advice will be greatly appreciated.\n\nIn the beginning of August, the new tenant moved in. A couple of days in, the tenant complained of mold. I was surprised that there was mold because my husband removed all the mold infested walls. But I still called in for a mold inspector to be sure, in hopes that we can work something out from there. The mold inspector came in the 20th of August and confirmed there was mold but only the outside of the front door entrance, not inside the home. But we just need to vacuum the inside of the home thoroughly because there was mold spores in the air.\n\nI called the tenant recently and told her I will return the security deposit only, but can she please move out in the mean time so we can fixed the home. But she demand back not only her security deposit, but also the rent of August and not to pay the rent of September. I, as the landlord, say it will be a breach of contract because she still inhabited the home during August (so she still needs to pay the rent), and we are going to fixed the mold later this week. But she demands us to meet all her requirements, or she will sued us on the stance that during the time she lived in the home, the mold has made her and her family greatly ill and went to multiple hospital trips.\n\nI'm trying to work with her as much as I can, but she is not listening to the mold inspector, nor me. And I really don't know what to do. ","title":"Florida: Tenant trying to sue me due to mold in the home[landlord]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1417031338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ni9ux\/belgiuminternational_using_gpl_licenses\/","id":"2ni9ux","body":"This is about programming. I am interested in creating an application using a library that is licensed under the MIT license. However, this application makes use of other third party libraries, of which some are licensed under GPL3.\n\nI don't really understand how this would work. Am I allowed to create an application and distribute it as closed source, as long as I don't modify the source of the GPL library? Or do I have to distribute the source of my application as soon as I use a GPL library?\n\nThe library in question is [bgfx](https:\/\/github.com\/bkaradzic\/bgfx) and one of the libraries it depends on is [edtaa3](https:\/\/github.com\/bkaradzic\/bgfx\/tree\/master\/3rdparty\/edtaa3).\n\nAs a related question, what would happen if I were to use a library that is legally breaking some of these licenses? I'm asking because I think the author of the bgfx library forgot to include some of the licenses of the libraries they used. Would I be in danger too?\n\nThank you!","title":"[Belgium\/International] Using GPL licenses","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1504191399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x7csa\/fl_initiated_case_against_property_company_in\/","id":"6x7csa","body":"Hello Reddit.\n\nSome months back my partner and I attempted to rent a property in Florida through a nationwide real estate company. As we were moving across the country, we were only able to do a video tour walk through of said property prior to moving. Everything looked fine until we physically arrived at the house.\n\nThe home looked as if it had never been cleaned or maintained. There were large rusted nails protruding from the walls in multiple spots, dead and live spiders were all over the apartment, there was several places where large quantities of ants were visible inside the property, pubes and urine stains were present on the toilet, the fence around the yard outside had a large hole in it which a dog could easily fit through which the property management company merely \"addressed\" by stacking plastic lawn furniture in front of (one of the reasons we rented this house was due to its large fenced in yard - we wanted a yard for our dog), a broken window pane, and more.\n\nIt took us roughly four to five hours of phone calls with various agents and managers at said property management company before they finally offered to release us from the lease. I'm unsure if it will matter in the grand scheme of things, but on the day we arrived at the property and on the first day this company agreed to let us out of the lease, originally the real estate agent we were dealing with told us to merely dispute the charges on our credit card (we'd paid all the property fees, deposit, etc with our credit card) and that would be the end of it. That sounded very fishy to us, so the following day we drove to the property management company's office and spoke with a manager who had a new lease document typed up which nullified the prior lease. The part that jumped out at us was at the bottom of the nullified lease there was a line which read something to the effect of we \"would be reimbursed for all expenses incurred and all monies paid would be returned to us.\"\n\nThroughout this debacle we were forced to put ourselves up in a pet-friendly hotel for the weekend, however we were unable to find a replacement property in the area before the U-Haul truck had to be returned. At that point we contacted the closest friend we had to that area, geographically, and ultimately wound up driving to our friend's house in a neighboring state so we could unload our belongings into our friend's garage and return the U-Haul. This meant once we found a local property we then had to rent a second moving truck.\n\nEventually we wound up sending them a letter requesting reimbursement for our hotel expenses, our gasoline expenses, and our moving truck expenses. We never heard anything back despite giving the company months to reply.\n\nRecently we initiated a lawsuit in small claims court for the expenses we incurred in moving (gasoline, moving trucks, hotel stay). Two days ago I received a voice mail message from the real estate company's attorney which came across as passive-aggressive intimidation more than anything. He continually mentions seeking reimbursement for his attorney's fees if this goes to court, and encourages us to contact him at our earliest convenience.\n\nWhat is our next step here? The pre-trial date is in two weeks, is there any point to calling their attorney back or should we just ignore him and attend the pre-trial?\n\nAlso, has anyone been to a pre-trial hearing before? What was it like, and what do you wish you'd known prior to the hearing?","title":"[FL] Initiated Case Against Property Company In Small Claims Court, Their Attorney Is Trying to Intimidate Us","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505949004,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71f1cb\/california_does_pregnancy_as_a_protected_class\/","id":"71f1cb","body":"Without going in to a lot of detail, I was fired this week from one of my jobs. When I asked my boss for the exact, specific reason, he said (direct quote, this was over text):  \n>...[customer] got really mad when you tell them back \"I don't plan to have a kid\".\n\nI said this in response to a customer saying something beginning with, \"One day, you'll have kids...\" So I replied how I did to correct her assumption, and her reaction was to say that was a good thing. (Really pleasant, right?)\n\nWhen I told this to my boyfriend, he said that this could be interpreted as [wrongful termination](https:\/\/ask.superlawyers.com\/california\/wrongful-termination\/can-i-sue-a-company-for-wrongful-termination-in-california\/a9654c11-ca45-46be-9339-5dd6fd02618a.html) due to \"pregnancy status.\"  \nIf I try to agree with him, I think: when I was explaining to my boss (pre-firing) why I said what I did, I explained that it bothers me when people assume such things; for all the woman knew, I *did* have kids, or I was pregnant, or I *couldn't* have kids despite trying. I want to clarify that I did not say I didn't want kids, I said I wasn't planning on having them. So I imagined how angry I would be if I was infertile, so I tried to point out how inappropriate the comment was, they said it was good I wasn't having kids, and then I got fired for it.  \nOn the other hand, I'm pretty sure \"pregnancy\" as a protected class doesn't mean the binary state of either being or not being pregnant and plans or complications of either...just [being pregnant](https:\/\/www.hg.org\/article.asp?id=35715).\n\nSo, do I actually have \"wrongful termination\" leverage here? Or is my boyfriend horribly misinterpreting things, as usual?\n\nedit: thanks for confirming y'all!","title":"[California] Does pregnancy as a protected class include NOT being pregnant?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568567055,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4n82v\/getting_hit_with_8000_early_termination_fee_from\/","id":"d4n82v","body":"I received a \"3 day notice to cure breach of covenant or quit\" due to noise complaints about 3 months ago from my dog while I'm at work.\n\nI consulted an attorney and he said: \n\n1 - a termination notice is not binding because I have a 1-year lease agreement.\n\n2 - worst comes to worst and I do get eviction notice, he said the judge that oversees these civil cases at the local courthouse is fair and if I were to explain I have moved out and returning the apartment in rent-ready condition\" and I am actually out of the place and simply want my deposit back (so long as there are not substantial damages, subject to wear and tear) then I have a strong case with the judge for no eviction and she will judge fairly and release me- he said he has witnessed it many times. \n\nReceived 60 days notice \"notice of termination of tenancy\". Today 15 days out before the last day of the 60-day notice, and management is telling me I must pay an early termination fee of $8000. I completely moved out of the place and performed all minor touch ups required, and passed initial inspection with no comments for maintenance manager. I am not paying them a single dollar and expect to get my refund back, but I know they will withhold it and charge me more.\n\nI do not care if I get evicted because renting this place was a luxury to be closer to work. Even if it stays on my record for 7 years, I will not be renting for the foreseeable future anyway - I do not need to rent. \n\nSo I want to stand in front of a judge. How I do get this done?\n\nShould I got back to the same attorney? \n\nConsult a different attorney?\n\nBe a nuisance to force the eviction notice so I can face a judge?","title":"Getting hit with $8000 early termination fee from landlord (CA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553885652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b715e7\/camera_traffic_tickets\/","id":"b715e7","body":"So what is the rule for receiving a ticket in the mail from a camera? I have read multiple places that I don't have to pay but I would like to hear it from people who are more experienced than me. I received a letter from a city in Tennessee. They do not have evidence that I was the driver at the time. All they have is my tag number and pictures of the back of my car.","title":"Camera traffic tickets.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541203808,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tplhm\/a_shady_deal_mn\/","id":"9tplhm","body":"Long story but our current landlord was selling his house so we had to move. We found a place and were going to go with this landlord we found but another guy comes through and said he could get us a better house. We backed out of that contract easily cause not all the roommates signed. This new guy, I'll call him Mr. Green,    finds us a house we like. Things are looking good, then he says that house we like can't be finished in time to move in so we have to move into this other house he has. We look at it and it's ok, we don't like it but it'll work for now once it's fixed up. So we sign the lease and write him a check for half of money and tell him we'll get rest of money to him in a couple weeks. Something seems fishy so once we are done we start looking at the numbers and learn that we're actually paying a $1000 more than we would have at our original place. Then when we go to move in the place work is still being done and it smells, when he said beforehand that it would all be done and odor free. So my friend who wrote check cancels it before it is cashed. Just wanted to know if we have a case? Any questions are welcomed","title":"A shady deal MN","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540950705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sugnf\/is_there_a_dress_code_in_court\/","id":"9sugnf","body":"Going to court tomorow to see it for the first time is it okay if i wear athletic shorts?","title":"is there a dress code in court?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569902786,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbntl0\/how_to_get_out_of_a_dorm_agreement\/","id":"dbntl0","body":"I'm asking for a friend who felt to prideful coming here for advice, but she asked me to make a post. Apologies ahead of time if I'm muddy on the details. \n\nBasically, without having all the details at hand, she's living in the student housing at California State University, Northridge (as a freshman). \n\nLiving there requires that all students purchase a meal plan per semester and that plus the living expenses is putting her in the red financially. Her family can't help with much and at this time shes not working. \n\nShe says she can afford to live in a shared student appartment, and went through the process of applying to a couple, but the issue is the school isn't letting her leave the dorm. Shes tried several times to appeal only to be denied and now she wants to know what she can do.\n\nSo tl;dr the university is leeching money from her by not allowing her to leave the housing. Does she have any legal options.","title":"How to get out of a dorm agreement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552058177,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayrdbd\/perverted_builder_confronts_me_through_window_on\/","id":"ayrdbd","body":"U.k.\nMy girlfriend was in her apartment doing dishes at the sink by the window which extends all the way to the floor from the ceiling. She moved to a higher floor to gain more privacy initially. However a building being build has now reached to her floor. A group of builders\/labourers were staring at her in her dressing gown. She alerted me and was very embarrassed. \n\nI came over to look at them as if to \u201csay stop looking\u201d. They looked away immediately, bar one who held my gaze. I put my arms out to my sides as if to say, \u201chave you got a problem?\u201d.\nIn response he then started shouting abuse. I told him I would meet him downstairs, and went down. \n\nWhen I got down, the building site manager greeted me with hostility. I proceeded to tell him that this is not a shouting match so he can stop waving his arms and lower his volume. He told me he moved the man to another part of the site. \n\nI told him that he should tell his employee it is unwise to confront someone on their doorstep as whether either of us like it or not, we will most likely come face to face eventually. \n\nI then said I\u2019m willing to drop it, and let it go.\n\nNow I am wondering is there any laws which protect my girlfriend in this case? 8 stories up yet she still has a group of workers perving through her window. How should I best deal with this situation? Again, I am in the uk. Both me and my girlfriend are in our late 20s, students in university. \n\nP.S. this is a separate building they are working on. However the entrances of each building face each other.","title":"Perverted builder confronts me through window on 8th floor!","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541087825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9taojs\/thrown_out_of_class_for_not_pledging_alliance_to\/","id":"9taojs","body":"There was a substitute for my regular teacher today and she told me to get out her class for not wanting to pledge allegiance to the flags.\n\nNot sure if she\u2019s allowed to do that.\n\nVery confused on what to do now.\n\nI have her again tomorrow and probably gonna get thrown out again.\n\n\nI know it was about the pledge because \nShe said \u201cNo Pledge no Class, Get Out\u201d.","title":"Thrown out of class for not Pledging Alliance to the Flag. [TX]","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1444882284,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ote4a\/landlord_is_retaining_part_or_all_of_my_deposit\/","id":"3ote4a","body":"Paid a deposit and moved into a place for one year and moved out 14 days ago, landlord is retaining part or all of the deposit because the oven wasn't fully cleaned and she cleaned the carpets,  according to washington state landlord tenant laws she has to give us a reason for retaining the deposit up to 14 days by certified mail or in person (she did neither) there's no real paper trail on either side for repairs or damages (she didn't do an initial walk through with me) so could I get my deposit back?","title":"Landlord is retaining part or all of my deposit after moving out and didn't notify me until after the time limit, can I get it all back now?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568689198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5b2pc\/work_harassment\/","id":"d5b2pc","body":"Hello, my apologies for any mistakes on posting format and its length. Male (28) Arizona\n\nThe harassment started about eight months ago at my job at a nameless Fortune 500 company. Someone stole about 80$ USD worth of spices i.e saffron, turmeric, pepper, and i reported it to my boss. He then took it to our building admin, who told him it\u2019s my fault for leaving it their and that they are not responsible for personal items stolen. Okay, I get it my fault. Then flash forward to about two-three months ago and for a week straight someone came into the men\u2019s room and kicked my stall door in four times in one week and ran out, I was unable identify their shoes. I reported this each time to my boss and he messaged the admin again and i never got a response. Then I came I to work this last Friday and my middle drawer in my desk, someone came in and emptied all my tea in my desk drawer and in my top drawer smashed all my papers and turned everything upside down. Now I met with HR and my boss today and they asked if anyone was out to get me or if I messed with anybody, I said no, im very to myself and none of my work friends would ever do something like this. They said well we have no cameras in the area if you don\u2019t know who it is and we have no cameras near that bathroom hallway so we can\u2019t help you on this really. You\u2019ll just have to report this as it happens and hope someone says something if they see it. The admin said no keys can be handed out to lock my drawers because it\u2019s my fault for bringing personal possessions into the workplace. I don\u2019t feel like these are random acts and I\u2019m told to take them seriously but they pretty much tell me keep an eye open.Am i over reacting, or should i seek legal counsel? (Not seeking referrals)\n\nTLDR: I feel like workplace harassment is happening, I just feel like my work is steamrolling me and blowing me off.","title":"Work Harassment","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571097144,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhze5n\/il_leaving_an_abusive_marriage_with_child\/","id":"dhze5n","body":"My sister is in an abusive marriage and she's trying to leave. Her only problem is she's afraid that if she leaves and takes her son with her that her husband with report her to the police as kidnapping their child. Is there anything she can do that can prevent that?","title":"[IL] leaving an abusive marriage with child","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541614932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v1vrc\/friends_google_account_was_stolen\/","id":"9v1vrc","body":"My idiot of a friend went and bought a \"FREE FORTNITE\" ACCOUNT from eBay despite me telling him it was a scam. Turns out I was right and the scammer stole his Fortnite account as well as his Google account which he also sent with password and everything. What legal action can he take against the Scammer and how can I help him. (He already contacted Google to get his account back and we are waiting for an answer)","title":"Friends Google account was stolen","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1446819017,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rrit0\/legal_issues_about_translating_a_book_and_doing_a\/","id":"3rrit0","body":"There's a book about Exercise Science that I really like. It's very detailed, and the best book on this subject available. However, the book is only available in Italian, since the author doesn't speak English well enough to translate it. I was thinking about hiring a translator ( I don't speak Italian, I translated what I could while reading the book), and offering the author to translate and market the book. I believe it has a lot of potential, and the book right now, even in Italian, has 0 marketing. I was thinking offering him 50\/50 in the profits. Perhaps it's a little bit too low for him, but the book is 4 years old, I don't think he has the resources to make the book in English, or he just doesn't want the trouble of doing it. Plus, I'd have the work of doing the entire marketing of it and pay the translator, which I'm guessing is gonna be very expensive (the book is like 700 pages).\n\nAnyway, the reason why I'm posting this is how do I make this whole thing legal? I'm 20 years old and I know zero about this, I guess I have to make a contract with all the conditions and so on, but is there a specific way to make the contract? Does it have to follow a certain template? How do we sign it and make it legal? (He's in Italy and I'm in Portugal).\n\nAny help is appreciated. ","title":"Legal issues about translating a book and doing a contract","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568443412,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d41s8e\/my_little_sisters_ex_recorded_her_having_sex_with\/","id":"d41s8e","body":"So my sister's boyfriend initiated a break up and she wasn't too phased by it. I'm guessing he didn't like that she wasn't begging him to come back because what he did next was appalling. \n\nHe first told her through text that \"he cheated\" and that's why he broke up with her. She just non chalantly wrote it off so he took it a step further. She posted something on Instagram about getting back into the dating game and letting go of him. That pissed him off so he decided to comment under that saying that she \"was never his girl\" that he \"used her to smash\". He sent her direct messages too. She responded to calling him \"insecure\". He responded by saying that \"he's not insecure just because [she] says\" followed by \"use this to remember me by\" and proceeded to send her a video. The video was her having sex with him and the camera behind both of them. \n\nShe was not aware that this video existed. I did some research and Florida is a 'two party consent state' meaning that in order to record anything video or audio, you need to have the consent and knowledge of both parties. This is not only embarrassing for her and infuriating to me, but illegal. The punishment according to the research I've done is either up to 5 years or up to 10 years in prison, not sure which, and a $100,000 fine. She took a screen shot of the conversation, including the video thumbnail. I'm trying to help her get everything together to press charges. Should she go directly to  the police or lawyer? Are there any lawyers or such that know the law better than I do here? I'd appreciate your help.\n\nP.s. he has a warrant for paying for a ticket for riding in a car with an open bottle of alcohol.\n\nTL;DR: My sister's scumbag Ex sent her a video of them having sex without her consent or knowledge. We are going to press charges but need to know to do, how, when, and if she has a case in the first place.","title":"My little sister's Ex recorded her having sex with him without her knowledge or consent","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444641810,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ofl5r\/need_help_with_a_lawyer_re_divorcecustody\/","id":"3ofl5r","body":"I live in the Carrollton, GA area and will be in need of a lawyer soon I fear. I'd prefer to not share specific details, but I'm currently in a low wage job and am unable to afford the $3000 retainer fee.\nMy wife is a bad girl and has been involved with DFACS, with a protective order placed against her and her current beau for the safety of our son (wife and I) and their daughter (bf and her).\nI would love to find a lawyer either for cheap, pro bono, or a benefactor. I fear for my sons future in her care and just need some help. I've tried every organization that advertises help to no avail. The lawyer appointed me for this recent fiasco agrees that he should be in my care, as does the judge, and every DFACS member that's been involved thus far.\nI am wiling to share every detail regarding this situation, just not publicly.","title":"Need help with a lawyer re: Divorce\/Custody","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507142149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74a5wt\/dcf_fair_hearing_advice\/","id":"74a5wt","body":"I feel defeated today. Basically, I messed up.\n\nDue to the restraining order I filed against my soon-to-be-ex, DCF (dept of children and families) was automatically involved since he was abusive to me in front of our son. As I expected, he spun a much different story to the case worker. So, we were both found with neglect against our son. From what I'm able to gather from the report, this finding is based on us arguing and him swearing at me in front of our son. I don't know what I was specifically found with neglect. Seems awfully vague.\n\nHere's where I blew it: hearing is next week. I thought it was the 20th and had put it into my Google calendar as such. I had been looking for an attorney for this, but with the assumption I had more time. Guess what I found this week? The paper with the correct date, the fucking 10th.\n\nGuess where else I blew it? I CAN'T FIND AN ATTORNEY ON SUCH SHORT NOTICE because DUH. I've emailed the DCF fair hearing unit requesting a continuance, which are not normally granted. But JFC, I need to catch a break already!\n\nFrom the numerous lawyers I've spoken with, it seems it may be an uphill battle and will more than likely lose the appeal. I would be trying to get a large organization to admit they are wrong, which is not bound to happen. I was also advised it may be wiser to simply save the money for the attorney fees I would have accrued for DCF and use it for the divorce.\n\nI'm concerned how it would appear if I didn't try to appeal it. I have no risk of losing my son, the case has been closed, and DCF has no desire to take any further action nor have they offered any services to me. I worry that my ex will use it as leverage against me during the divorce proceedings. \"She didn't even try to appeal, she must be a neglectful mother.\"\n\nHas anyone else been here? Any words of wisdom? Advice?\n\nMassachusetts\/USA","title":"DCF fair hearing advice","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1410808610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ghirt\/miusa_offered_fulltime_position_still_under\/","id":"2ghirt","body":"A few months ago, I came out of college and moved back home and continued my search for work. Nothing was coming up for a while until it all happened at once. \n\nI accepted a Contract position with a company based out of NC that employed me until Dec 1st 2014. It mainly is just a weekend job that gets me to places around the country. In the contract it never states how I am able to terminate, except it does mention that at any time they may terminate for the following reasons. \n\nOn top of that, I also work locally during the week at two part-time gigs very sparingly (5-10 hours). Because of all this random scheduling\/unstable work, I've been pursuing multiple positions in my spare time. Recently, an amazing position opened up and within a few weeks they offered me the position just today. Before I moved forward and say \"Yes\" I really need to know how I can get out of my contract?\n\nDoes anyone have an idea of how this works or if they've been in a similar situation?\n\nThanks!\n\ntl:dr Have a working contract, offered full-time elsewhere. I desperately want to accept the full-time positon. Can I?","title":"(MI,USA) Offered full-time position, still under contract with different company (NC,USA). How can I terminate and accept full-time position?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551776074,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axj1az\/my_work_is_micromanaging_me\/","id":"axj1az","body":"I work in customer service. I was recently flagged and given a written warning for not doing the proper task. (Customer service has emails\/phone\/chats.) (Like Amazon customer service) I've been mostly doing emails because we were backlogged to ~4-5 thousand emails (we are a pretty big company). I wasn't told to perform any other tasks, I was also not trained on the phone either.\n\n\nToday was the next shift I had after the warning and boy I am starting to feel the micro-management. I went to the bathroom for 10 mins and when I got back to my desk, a \"support expert\" was there asking where I went because I was not answering calls for the passed 10 mins. (If you need to go somewhere you will set yourself to \"away\" or \"do not disturb\" status so you won't get any calls. Which I did.) [Here are the ranks](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/tC5MUHZ.png) \n\n\nI said that I was in the bathroom, and he didn't believe me. It seems like after the one warning everyone in the higher positions are looking and waiting for me to fuck up so they can fire me.\n\n\nLater tonight, the \"lead support\" pulled me into a meeting and wanted to \"set expectations\" for time management.\n\n\nI have mild\/severe anxiety problems and can't be harassed or be worrying about the small little mistakes I make whenever I'm on shift. This will stop me from doing my job. \n\n\nRemember this was just one day after the warning, and I can feel myself being dragged down and feeling unwell because of it.\n\n\nIs there anyway for me to have them stop this? Should I contact HR? What if they don't believe me? What if I get fired because of it?\n\n\nIs there any legal ramification I can do to prevent this treatment?","title":"My work is micro-managing me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444799315,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ooom5\/i_was_rearended_about_two_months_ago_ive_been\/","id":"3ooom5","body":"California, United States\n\nI am an uninsured driver that is driving a car that is insured under my parents. Unfortunately, I am not covered by my parents policy and was struck by a car a few months back. \n\nI was in the 1st lane, in congested traffic as an accident occurred earlier. I'm on my way to my college and decide to pull over on the highway in the shoulder lane to make a quick stop. As I begin to pull over I notice a car speeding along the emergency shoulder lane. I stop merging and wait hoping the car passes by or at least sees me. The lady does not and strikes me on the right side of my bumper. I was stationary when I was hit.\n\nWe pull over to the side. She was a bit hostile about the situation. We exchanged information and what information I did have which was my parents policy and my license. Take pictures of the accident. We leave. No police report was filed.\n\nI really don't want to have to go through this. I don't feel as though I am at fault. I also am in the middle of my semester and am at the risk of being dropped from some of my classes if I miss school. at the same time, I don't feel as though this is my fault. Any advice.\n\nEdit: I guess if its important to note, the lady and her father involved had said that she was in the first lane and I was in the second and that I had cut her off. Which is a complete lie.","title":"I was rear-ended about two months ago. I've been sent a statement saying that I am liable. I am uninsured.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1542254575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x7muo\/should_i_report_someone_who_has_admitted_to\/","id":"9x7muo","body":"I have a friend that goes to High School with me and recently told me about how he\u2019s making loads of money on the weekends (up to $120,000 a week). \n\n\n\nI didn\u2019t believe him at first because it seemed obviously fabricated but he opened up his bank account app on his phone and showed multiple deposits ranging from $10,000 to $90,000. I was shocked and instinctively asked him how he was making so much money. \n\nHe didn\u2019t go into much detail but simply said, \u201cI won\u2019t explain too much but I can tell you I do something called \u201cSIM Swiping\u201d.  \n\nI looked it up and found this: https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/mobile\/sim-swap-fraud-explained\/\n\nClearly, this is very illegal and can get him in lots of trouble, however, I\u2019m not totally sure if he\u2019s being honest with me. I\u2019ve considered reporting it to the authorities but I don\u2019t want him to be lying and call me out for snitching on him, plus if he\u2019s already committing mass credit card fraud, I can only imagine what else he\u2019s doing. ","title":"Should I report someone who has admitted to committing mass credit card fraud?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569341710,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8pekr\/strange_police_phone_call\/","id":"d8pekr","body":"I am currently the respondent of a Title 9 investigation. There have been no legal charges filed though\n\nHowever, today I received a very short (5 second) phone call from a local number. The caller cut off the call before I could even pick up my phone.\n\nAfter research I learned this is the number of a Sgt of the local police department. He left no voicemail, or message, I have no mail or email, and no one has shown up to my house yet (It is been 45 minutes in a small town). \n\nWhat could that phone call mean. Am I about to be charged?","title":"Strange police phone call??","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542133288,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wrl0s\/taking_on_wifes_debt_in_divorce\/","id":"9wrl0s","body":"Throwaway due to potential legal issues.\n\nLet me start by saying that I love my wife, we have just had our first child together. We both want a few more and we are not thinking of getting divorced to get away from each other. We live in Oregon and have been married for just over one year. \n\nSo three days ago my wife asked me if I would be opposed to getting divorced for this reason:  \n\nMy health insurance through my work costs 721 dollars a month for our family. If I was the only one on my insurance it would be 28 dollars a month. During the pregnancy her doctor said to her that if she wasn\u2019t married she would qualify for Oregon Health Plan (my wife is a stay at home mom). \n\nI am not opposed to that at all. As long as they have good coverage I will be more than happy to do that. Plus the difference in what I would pay over four years is around 33k. \n\nSo I started thinking and wondering if there were other ways this might be advantageous. \n\nMy wife had about 30k in CC debt when we met. She had a hard period in her life in her early twenties and was working part time at Wells Fargo. They gave her tons of credit over time and for a while she had to use it to pay her car payment\/rent\/car insurance. She has never been late on a payment and we are slowly paying it off. She has a great credit score. We would like to buy a house one day and she probably could if her DTI ratio was lower. \n\nI on the other hand have never had a credit card, I have about 2,000 in debt and a shit credit score (mid 500\u2019s).\n\nIs there any benefit to me taking on her debt? Is this legal? \n\nSorry for the lengthy post. I am sure that I have missed some details. If you need more info just ask. \n\nThanks in advance! ","title":"Taking on Wife\u2019s debt in divorce.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508593975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77th1s\/what_is_the_legality_of_someone_being_a\/","id":"77th1s","body":"Can a company in Chicago, IL you already work full time for hire you as a sub contractor as well?","title":"What is the legality of someone being a subcontractor and a FT employee for a business.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568995883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6x4ve\/even_on_the_internet_an_adult_cannot_date_minors\/","id":"d6x4ve","body":"This site keeps telling me its ok for all these 19+ year old guys to date all these girls 16 and under. I keep telling them that it's not and that it's illegal but they're an admin and I'm just a user. So, should i just stop using the site?","title":"Even on the internet an adult cannot date minors correct? (Usa)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569987456,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc4u3m\/do_i_have_the_right_to_ask_for_a_paycheck_given\/","id":"dc4u3m","body":"I got employed as a baker\/donut maker at an apple orchard. I worked 2 days and then didn't show up to the third shift and texted my boss saying I'm quitting due to being in pain as I had worked 9 hours both days with no breaks because we were told to \"eat as we work\". I'm not sure if not having breaks is illegal, but my feet and legs felt like they were going to fall off. \nI turned in W-4 paperwork and everything else that was needed and some documents that had my social security number on them but failed to be able to show them proof of residency due to my passport and social security card being in a safe which the batteries had died and couldn't be replaced til my dad came home from a trip. Aside from my license I never showed them the other required \"proof\". \nShould I be getting a paycheck from them? Or will they not be able to put my name through their payroll system due to not showing them my passport\/SSC? \nI only worked 9 hours but $16\/hr is a lot and I would like to be paid for my time there. \n\nTLDR; I want to get paid for working 18 hours but didnt give the employer proof of residency, are they required by law to still pay?","title":"Do I have the right to ask for a paycheck given certain circumstances?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539785950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oz2e3\/should_this_be_hill_i_die_on\/","id":"9oz2e3","body":"I work in Texas. I\u2019ve been an administrative assistant at my company for 1 year. I\u2019m one of very few females that work here. It\u2019s a trucking company. When I first started I was in charge of ordering uniforms. We had a bunch of loaner uniforms in different sizes and they would try them on until they found the fit and then tell me their size. Recently, we have had problems with uniforms and they are trying to switch to their own uniforms instead of using an outside source. This is where my problem starts...\n\nThey (by they I mean corporate) sent me and order uniform sheet yesterday. The only directions sent along were to have everyone fill one out. The form has spots for you to write down all your sizes and spots where you can write down your measurements chest, stomach, crotch-ankle, and it will tell you what size you need. We have no seamstress tape for anyone to use so I figured I\u2019d just pass them out and let them put the size they are. \n\nI come in this morning and my boss emails me to hold off until I go get some measuring tape so I can measure everyone to make sure they have the correct size. I told him I would go get the tape- assist and instruct them how to do the measurements but I did not feel comfortable doing the measurements on them. Being the only female at the location and hearing some of the already borderline sexual harassment things I\u2019ve heard the thought of having touch near their stomachs, crotch and legs makes me extremely uncomfortable. That aside I\u2019m naturally a person who doesn\u2019t like touching people or having people touch me due to past traumas and sexual abuse. I told the managers (they aren\u2019t my managers) in my office that I didn\u2019t feel comfortable but didn\u2019t explain personally why because I don\u2019t talk about that with my coworkers.I just told them it seemed inappropriate and I didn\u2019t want of them making weird comments or trying to accuse me of touching them in a weird way so it was best if I don\u2019t do it. My manager and them pretty much told me I had no choice. That the whole \u2018not my job\u2019 thing doesn\u2019t fly around here. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s not my job and I have no problem assisting and guiding them I just do not feel comfortable getting close and doing the measurements for them. \n\nThe drivers here having Stop Work Authority pretty much meaning if an employee feels like an unsafe situation can lead them to an unwanted event they can say no and not face consequences for it. I don\u2019t know if my situation could apply here. \n\nI haven\u2019t pushed it yet because I\u2019m still thinking it all through. Do I HAVE to do it? I think Texas is an at will state so they can fire you for pretty much whatever but if I was fired over this could I retaliate in any legal way? Should I have my own proof of how the situation unfolds just to be safe? Or am I making a bigger deal about this then needed? \n\nany advice would be greatly appreciated!! ","title":"Should this be hill I die on?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571634742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkvnlv\/i_was_told_to_remain_neutral_and_not_pick_a_side\/","id":"dkvnlv","body":"Hey y\u2019all, so I live in Chicago and if you may know there is a teacher strike going on. Currently I attend university and Im doing my student teaching - think of it like an internship except for teachers. Because of the strike my uni told me I would need to attend a community organization in lieu of my regular placement since there are no students and I would be working with kids that weren\u2019t in school. I was fine with this because I was still fulfilling the amount of hours needed to graduate. \n\nWell, I show up to the community organization and I saw a news truck but didn\u2019t think much of it. Come to find out that the mayor would be dropping by in an hour to do a photo shoot with a bunch of the kids. Cameras start showing up and walking around the hallways then they shuffle us into a room where the mayor was going to come and read a story to the children. Meanwhile, I was texting my university supervisor asking what to do and she said I was to not \u201cpick a side\u201d but remain neutral. This bugged me because I felt that by putting me in a room where the mayor was going to take a photo op they were essentially using me as a token. I exited the room once the mayor got there because I didn\u2019t agree with the whole thing. Either way I guess my question is did I have my first amendment rights violated? I don\u2019t really want to pursue any legal action but I\u2019m genuinely curious if by my publicly funded university planting me in a room with the mayor during a strike and telling me to remain neutral and not pick a side is a violation of the first amendment. \n\nI appreciate y\u2019all! \n\nTLDR: university puts me in a room during a photo op with the mayor during a strike and tells me that I cannot pick a side and to remain neutral - did my uni violate 1st amendment?","title":"I was told to \u201cremain neutral and not pick a side\u201d while I was shuffled into a room for a photo op with the mayor.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1507989488,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76c8fm\/gas_station_pump_didnt_turn_off_after_initial\/","id":"76c8fm","body":"TN. \n\nWent by the station this morning. Talked to the supervisor and she said he indeed pressed the wrong button and she doesn't know why he demanded $22. Says he has a history of being rude to customers and will be dealt with accordingly.\n\n I payed her the difference because i again have no intentions of stealing gas. Police were never notified. \n\nThanks to the people whom gave me solid advice and grow up to the people whom insulted my personal being. ","title":"Gas station pump didn't turn off after initial payment, attendant wrote tags down and turned into police. [Update]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539376561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nnuvf\/what_should_i_do_school_parking\/","id":"9nnuvf","body":"So my school in Ohio requires me to purchase a parking pass for \u201cx\u201d amount of money, which I\u2019m fine with.  Now here comes the trouble, I purchased a pass at the beginning of the year but never picked it up (usually they deliver it to students when it\u2019s ready), so the parking pass isn\u2019t in display of my vehicle.  Just recently the resource officer has been checking for passes in the parking lot and they have put multiple stickers on my car in notice that my license plate isn\u2019t registered for a parking pass (I have the receipt).  Said stickers could not be fully removed from my vehicle and has left 2 smallish areas where my window is covered in the paper.  Now I\u2019m in a position where my car window needs a replacement or I have to have someplace try and remove the rest of the sticker without scraping my window.  \n-Should I even take this problem to the school or what can I do if anything??","title":"What should I do (School Parking)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569280596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8enk8\/update_some_quotes_from_k\/","id":"d8enk8","body":"Do things like victimizing herself when I went to the hospital for cutting help. I went to the hospital for cuttomg the year before last in March and she made me feel guilty cuz \"she didn't raise me like this\".After I got home from the hospital for cutting and stuff she straight up told me that \"I'm faking and it's all in my head\".When I had my hair cut short she always made comments about how I look bad with short hair.","title":"[update] some quotes from k","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570863941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgrrfk\/just_got_a_ticket_for_headlights_being_off\/","id":"dgrrfk","body":"I currently have a learners permit and am taking my road test on the 25th. I was using my dads car when this happened. My friend was in the car and he has a valid license and is 20 years old, which  means I wasn\u2019t allowed to drive because my accompanying driver has to be 21. However the officers didn\u2019t say anything about that and were more concerned with the weed.\n\n I was pulling into a fast food drive thru when a officer pulled me over, he said he smelled weed in the car and I admitted to having. Luckily, I didn\u2019t get a ticket for the weed(3.5g)  however my friend who was with me took the hit. \n\nShould I plead not guilty? Will the officer bring up the weed or permit thing c up? he didn\u2019t say anything about my friends age during the stop, and should I hire an attorney?\nI\u2019m in buffalo NY btw. This is the first time this has happened to me, and I\u2019m freaking out any help would be greatly appreciated!","title":"Just got a ticket for headlights being off, officered seized marijuana in the car but I didn\u2019t get a ticket for that, what should I do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570030274,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcbsz7\/spoiled_owners_son_not_informing_employees_of\/","id":"dcbsz7","body":"A friend of mine works at my previous workplace. It\u2019s a small company (about a dozen employees), and the vp of the company is the owner\u2019s son. He\u2019s got a serious case of fail-son, and is unethical and incompetent. Fail-son recently sent my friend (who works in the warehouse and does deliveries) to one of his personal rental properties to move furniture from one rental to the other for a tenant. This was done with the company truck, during friend\u2019s shift hours, and it was understood to be an order from the boss. Friend wasn\u2019t compensated outside of his hourly pay.\n\nDuring the furniture move, my friend had a severe asthma attack and almost fainted on the bathroom floor. \n\nThrough some fortunate circumstances, the tenant is one of my brother\u2019s clients and during a chat, tenant tells my brother that he has had a terrible month. His wife had to be hospitalized and they found out it was due to black mold exposure, but his landlord was being really great and apologetic about the black mold, and sent some of his guys over to move furniture from one rental to the other. \n\nFail-son never informed my friend of black mold. He didn\u2019t provide any equipment either. He used company resources; did he make the company liable? Could they be sued for this?","title":"Spoiled owner\u2019s son not informing employees of known danger","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569791617,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db1ccl\/a_big_metal_door_opened_on_my_car_while_at_the\/","id":"db1ccl","body":"Yesterday while I was in queue to get my car washed. A metal door that shuts to cover the trash area swung open by the wind. It scrapped the passenger side of my car because it opened as I moved forward. I asked to speak to the manager but she was out for the weekend. I talked to my insurance. They said to pursuit the owner of the carwash to pay for damages. How should I confront the manager about how I should get it fixed? Nothing like this has ever happened to me so I have no experience. Anything helps","title":"A big metal door opened on my car while at the car wash. What should I do?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571055105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhpohi\/my_wife_was_terminated_for_not_coming_in_on_her\/","id":"dhpohi","body":"Like the title says, my wife was terminated for not coming in on her day off. She was the general manager of a fast food store and salaried. We know NJ is an at-will state, but the reason they terminated her was because, according to her boss, she was unable to be reached for 3 hours on her day off. She had a day off, the opening manager never showed up, her boss called but wife was sleeping (was baby sitting a family member 100 miles away, didn\u2019t get home til 2am, didn\u2019t wake up till 11). Was asked to come in the next day to a meeting where she had her replacement waiting and fired her for it. \n\nDoes this constitute a wrongful termination?\n\nFeel free to ask any questions for anything I left out.","title":"My wife was terminated for not coming in on her day off (NJ)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540759792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s6m32\/online_exboyfriend_is_harassing_me\/","id":"9s6m32","body":"So, I\u2019ve come here because I have no idea how to handle this. \n\nLong story short:\nI dated my ex online a few years ago (around four), wasn\u2019t working out, broke up with him and since moved on and have been in a new relationship. My ex started talking to be recently and I thought some casual conversation wouldn\u2019t hurt (current bf knows about this). My ex starts acting weird and starts getting mad if I don\u2019t reply to a text, talks about things we used to talk about when we were together, and starts looking on social media sources if I was online. I told him it\u2019s got to stop, I\u2019m not interested, and basically to fuck of as this all irritates me like no other.\nThis morning I woke up to screenshots from friends of a message he\u2019s been sending people on my friends lists (Instagram and Facebook), saying that I need a psychologist and saying I\u2019ve been cheating on him with my boyfriend (I\u2019ve been with my current bf for 3 years... have not spoken to my ex until recently). \nI\u2019m worried that this will affect my professional image if he speaks to the right people. \n\nI have not replied or reacted to this. He is blocked on all my social media accounts and I\u2019ve hidden profiles as best as I could, but I think he has made separate accounts and is still contacting people I know. \n\nAlso, I live in Canada. He lives in Texas. ","title":"Online ex-boyfriend is harassing me","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1549585180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aoamn5\/how_much_legal_leverage_do_you_have_to_negotiate\/","id":"aoamn5","body":"My GF just got laid off (due to restructuring after merger) from her job at a marketing agency and received a severance package of 2 weeks pay. \n\nAs her pay is already quite low and we live in a very high cost city (SF), which means the payout barely covers her for finding another job. \n\nAdditionally, the company delayed bonuses this year even though she worked the full fiscal\n\nHer performance was solid and it is really putting us in a tight spot - wondering if there is any legal leverage we have or is it just take it or leave it?\n","title":"How much legal leverage do you have to negotiate a crappy severance package?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505523457,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70e17d\/husband_wrongfully_accused_fired\/","id":"70e17d","body":"[INDIANA]\nMy husband, \"Jeff\", was wrongfully accused of stamping work completed on his time card without completing it. He has actually done the work, though there's no way to prove either he had or had not done it. It is his word against his managers word.\nHis manager decided that being deceitful was an unwelcome trait in the workplace and fired Jeff over text after he had left for the day (added to story because what the hell kind of immature move is that??). Jeff is distraught and confused with how to proceed.\nI know that it's legal to be fired for no reason, but is it legal to be fired due to wrongful accusations? Can we do anything about this?","title":"Husband wrongfully accused, fired.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504828469,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yr4yj\/co_just_received_a_laser_speeding_ticket_but_im\/","id":"6yr4yj","body":"Long story short, I was speeding and was pulled over. The officer used a laser gun. I was the first in a line of cars- the one behind me being right behind me in tight packed traffic. There were a few cars about 10-15 feet ahead of me. (tight packed behind me, a few gaps in traffic ahead) I was moving with the speed of traffic. Another car was pulled over shortly after I was, I would say within the minute. It seems there were multiple officers pulling anybody they could over. My ticket says 53 in a 30 zone, but I'm positive I wasn't going over 45. Is there any chance of me contesting this ticket based on these facts? What do I need to do to benefit myself before my court date? ","title":"[CO] Just received a laser speeding ticket, but I'm positive I wasn't going that fast.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570847641,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgp74q\/can_i_get_in_trouble_for_a_fan_film\/","id":"dgp74q","body":"Hello all, I\u2019m a film student in New York. I really want to create a Spider-Man fan film. Like the corridor video called: Spider Man: Cake Day. I really would to create something like that beforehand, I just want to know if I could get in some legal trouble doing something like that. Please let me know, thank you.","title":"Can I get in trouble for a fan film?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553121652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3ilib\/our_landlord_evicted_us_in_a_way_we_think_is\/","id":"b3ilib","body":"My boyfriend and I started renting from a lady in August 2018. There was no legal contract. She was charging us $700 a month in cash to essentially stay in a shed\/room in her backyard. We had carpeting and lighting, but no heat, AC, running water, toilet, etc. The bathroom was in her house. \n\nSometime around December 10, she told us that inspectors had come by, as she runs a childcare facility in her home. She said they told her she needed to make renovations so our shed would be up to code, and they would return in January. She told us we needed to be out by January 2, the day rent was due. That gave us 3 weeks to be out. \n\nNeedless to say, it was incredibly stressful for us to find another affordable place to live, especially during Christmas and New Years. She assured us it was only temporary, and that she would have the renovations done within 2 weeks after we left, so we could move back in by February 1 or maybe even sooner. \n\nBecause it was only temporary, we ended up moving in with some of my relatives an hour away. It\u2019s an incredibly inconvenient situation, but hey, it was only a month. \n\nWe moved the last of our things on January 2. She was frustrated because she said she had wanted to start the renovations that day, and we were flustered and stressed with the move, but that was that. We left under the impression that she would be calling us when the work was finished in a few weeks. \n\nAfter that, we never heard back from her. Our texts and calls went unanswered. We were kind of screwed, not having the financial resources for yet another unplanned move to a different place since she screwed us over - so we are still living with my relatives. \n\nSince she wouldn\u2019t answer our calls and we thought we had left an important document there, we recently showed up at her house to ask her if we had left it. During that conversation, she told us she hadn\u2019t liked our \u201cattitude\u201d on the last day, and had decided not to go ahead with the renovations. Okay, fine. We were never rude, just stressed and rushed, but it\u2019s whatever. \n\nHowever, she never called us to inform us that she no longer wanted to rent to us, after previously having advised us to only look for a month-to-month situation so we could come back. Because she told us that, we passed up several great year-long lease opportunities. She never informed us that her intentions had changed, and didn\u2019t answer the phone when we called to ask. \n\nDo we have a case against her here?\n","title":"Our landlord evicted us in a way we think is illegal. Do we have a case?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552591078,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b14gw0\/complex_case\/","id":"b14gw0","body":"What is a complex case?","title":"Complex case","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445615344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3px3v1\/georgia_public_records_requests_for_emails\/","id":"3px3v1","body":"I work in the IT department for a local government in the state of Georgia. \n\nI have been told by my superior that if we sync a personal cellphone with our exchange server such that it receives email from the user's government email address, anything on that cellphone is now subject to a records request. \n\nI've also heard that if we have a government email address forward emails to a personal address, any emails on the personal email address, whether they are from that government address or not, are also subject to records requests.\n\nAre either of these statements accurate? I want to make sure I'm giving my users the best information I have and I am not sure about these.\n\nThanks in advance for any advice\/direction!","title":"Georgia, Public records requests for emails","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552676395,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1iqyt\/my_friend_got_hit_by_another_vehicle_while\/","id":"b1iqyt","body":"The story:\nJohn (a good buddy of mine) was test driving a car that was for sale (from CraigsList) with the seller in the passenger seat. They were stopped at a stoplight when the car was hit from behind by a driver that wasn\u2019t paying attention. He was going fast enough to total the car that John was driving. They waited for the police to arrive and record the incident. John suffered a neck and back injury that he had to go to physical therapy to correct for about a month. \nHe later found out that the police faulted John for the collision even though he was completely stopped when he was struck from behind by the other car. Because of the police recorded the incident incorrectly not only does John\u2019s insurance not cover or support him, but now he\u2019s being billed by the seller (his passenger during the collision) to cover his medical bills. \nBasically my friend is being fucked even though he didn\u2019t cause the accident. \n\n\nTLDR: My friend got hit by another vehicle, the car was totaled and now he\u2019s responsible for repairing the car he was driving and the passenger\u2019s medical bills because the police faulted him for the accident. \n\n\nHe\u2019s reached out to lawyers but every one that he contacted doesn\u2019t want to touch the case because \u201ca police officer is considered a professional witness.\u201d\n\n\nIs there anything that he can do? Or is he proper fucked?\n\n(Please excuse my poor grammar and punctuation)","title":"My friend got hit by another vehicle while stopped at a stoplight, the car was totaled and now he\u2019s responsible for repairing the car he was driving and the passenger\u2019s medical bills because the police faulted him for the accident. Is he screwed?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571368688,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djhi6s\/my_girlfriend_is_constantly_getting_harassed_and\/","id":"djhi6s","body":"Some anonymous people repeatedly leak her nudes and send her threats on Instagram, each time with a different account. Today they posted it to a porn site. Can anything be done? Or is the only option to completely delete social media?","title":"My girlfriend is constantly getting harassed and her nudes are getting leaked online. Can anything be done?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551386491,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avvx36\/landlord_is_taking_my_electricity_without_asking\/","id":"avvx36","body":"My Landlord has recently just started plugging in extension cords into my outlets, which he is then using to charge up his various vehicles. He did not ask me whatsoever if he could or for that matter even tell me what he was doing. \n\nI do pay the electrical bill for my apartment. \n\nI unintentionally caught him, I was coming home from work and was getting out of my car and I asked him if he knew who the cord belonged to (I was pretty sure of the answer) and he immediately starts going \"well.... I'll pay you if you really want.\" I didn't really respond to his offer (or whatever you like to call it) but at this point, just considering the disrespect, this seems very much like theft.\n\nAm I in the legal right? What can I do?\n\nThanks guys.","title":"Landlord is taking my electricity without asking. Legal Action?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540246519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qimnd\/i_feel_as_though_im_being_disciplined_for_being\/","id":"9qimnd","body":"My supervisor and I have had a pretty fine working relationship up until recently. At the end of August I was reprimanded for some behind assessments for clients. (I\u2019m a social worker at a non-profit) this was entirely my fault and since then I\u2019ve taken appropriate steps to remedy this. However, I\u2019m also pregnant and have a high risk pregnancy to contend with \u2014 I\u2019ve had to take off a lot of time for doctor visits \/ a hospital visit \/ being sick in general for September and October. I have not, however, gone over my 40 hours allotted time. My assessments that are currently behind are due to my pregnancy and being unable to schedule clients when I\u2019m taking sick days as of right now. \n\nLast week my supervisor asked me what my plan was for being sick\/my pregnancy. When I asked her to elaborate, she stated this was because I\u2019ve taken a lot of sick time lately and how do I plan on moving forward with visits\/do I plan on using FMLA soon\/ discussed me even going down to 30 hours if I wanted to and the company would allow it. I told her I was unsure of my future plans as I\u2019m seeing various doctors, that day specifically I had my cardiologist. My boss then said \u201cOh what\u2019s he looking for?\u201d Before acknowledging she shouldn\u2019t have asked me that and moving forward. \n\nToday in our Supervison, my supervisor reprimanding me on not filing away notes done in clients\u2019 chart immediately. This has never been an issue with her the notes are kept in a \u201cto be filed\u201d folder on my desk. She stated she needed to make a plan with me to make sure I\u2019m doing my job, however I had to ask her if this was disciplinary action as she did not say that herself. She sent an email later with the following:\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cStaff has performed below policies and procedure standards in the following ways: Home Visit Notes have not been filed within the 72 hour timeframe per policy. Previous chronic instances of contact logs not being up to date. Contact logs are currently up to date. Supervisor sent chart check to Staff for 10\/19\/18 2 9:30 am for week 3 charts. These charts were missing HV notes from October and these charts did not meet program standards. Assessments for families and the submission are more than 30 days overdue.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nHowever, these late home visit notes and chart contact logs were not up to date as I was sick and instead of using sick time to do Notes, I used it to lie in a hospital bed\/go to important doctor visits. I feel as though I\u2019m being disciplined for being ill; the days I\u2019ve been able to come into work I\u2019ve committed to giving quality service to clients and doing notes\/updating charts. My boss acknowledged this was going well and I was doing a good job, however now I\u2019m receiving this.  \n\nI don\u2019t know how to feel after she sat me down and asked me if I \u201chad a plan\u201d for being sick and to consider thinking of one. I don\u2019t know how to proceed with this. Should I talk to HR or my program director? Should I talk to my supervisor? Or am I just being a baby? ","title":"I feel as though I\u2019m being disciplined for being sick; (AZ)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554497260,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9wgdr\/just_curious\/","id":"b9wgdr","body":"I was punched by a crazy lady on the train a few weeks ago. I ran away from her after she punched me, didn\u2019t want to get involved\n\nAnyways the police have pressed charges against her, but if I had punched back, could I have been charged with assault? Or is defending yourself not assault?","title":"Just curious!","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542252963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x7fjm\/looking_for_concrete_answer_on_exempt_salaried\/","id":"9x7fjm","body":"Hi,\n\nI've searched quite a while for specific guidance on Exempt status in my state and have arrived pretty much nowhere.  [NH.gov](https:\/\/NH.gov) says to reference the FLSA for exemption requirements, but I can't understand the FLSA - it's just a bunch of legal nonsense.  According to some sites, you have to make >46K to be exempt, but some other sites say the minimum is only $26k.  Another site even claimed \"computer workers\" are automatically exempt from overtime laws.  So I'm hoping you fine people can help me straighten this out.\n\n* I live in New Hampshire.\n* My position is Network Designer.\n* I have a mandatory 45 hour work week, *every week*.\n* My salary is $37K.\n\nDo I meet the requirements to be considered exempt?\n\nBonus question:  What exactly is the benefit of exemption supposed to be for the worker?  It just seems like legal slavery...","title":"Looking for concrete answer on Exempt Salaried position vs Overtime law.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441488950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jsfrp\/dads_friend_is_going_through_divorce_clearly\/","id":"3jsfrp","body":"(located in Alberta, CA)\n\nAn old friend of my dad divorced from his ex-wife a few years ago. They were married for over 20 years and had 5 kids together. Recently, I went home to visit my dad and this guy was over. He was laughing\/joking about how much he hates his ex wife and how he is keeping everything in cash now as much as possible and moving the money into accounts that are titled to others. He sold his Mercedes and now drives a beat up car that can't have cost him more than a couple grand and rents a small apartment.\n\nI do know that she has been going after him for money, which I think is completely fair given that (as far as I could tell growing up) she put a lot on hold for him and bore\/raised five children (all grown up now though). \n\nIs there anywhere I can report this (hopefully anonymously)?  What lengths do people go to in order to determine how much money a person has during a divorce settlement?","title":"Dad's friend is going through divorce, clearly hiding money from ex-wife, is there anything I can do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540365462,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qxj8c\/identity_theft_to_obtain_iphones_im_the\/","id":"9qxj8c","body":"So in 2010-2013 I had a store in Texas. I bought and sold phones and prepaid service. One man I met along the way was \u201cChris\u201d. I liked Chris a lot. He made me a bunch of money. He would bring me new Iphones every week. I would check the imei (electronic serial numbers ) and all would come back CLEAN. So I figured there was never an issue. We did so much business together, We actually formed some kind of friendship and even ended up going to Vegas together with a couple of coworkers at some point. So everything was fine and dandy until Chris\u2019 personal life went to shit. He got with a stripper that sucked him dry ( figuratively and likely literally). So this guy started to go off the deep end, partying and just all around bad stuff . I never engaged in any of this extracurricular activities as it\u2019s not my style. We grew apart since we were headed down different paths, he decided at some point to move back to his home state of Louisiana. Almost a year passed without me hearing from him. I randomly get a call\/txt to meet in Houston and he would have some product. I met the guy in a public place, we did a pretty quick transaction and I never heard from him again. \n\nWell, fast forward to 2018. I make contact with local PD. They inform me I have a outstanding warrant in LA for larceny. I told them I\u2019ve never even been to LA let alone committed larceny there. They advised I call the state and get it cleared up. \n\nI began my journey into finding where in LA my warrant was and exactly what was it for. I swear that state is a mess. I called PD from just about any Louisiana city I can think of and they said I\u2019m clean. I was advised to call the state police. They said I was clean. They advised to start calling each parish (I think they said there was about 100!) so I started calling. It was so time consuming and some didn\u2019t even want to help. I finally gave up and hired a PI. They assured me they have access to whatever warrant the PD was able to pull up through the national criminal database since they\u2019re practically law enforcement but they work for themselves. So I went with it. They informed me a week later not to worry about it and I was clean as a whistle. I paid them and went along with my life for about 2 weeks. Then it dawned on me, why don\u2019t I just call the officers that initially pulled it (it was a small municipality). I talked to the lady that answers their phone and just like that, bam! I got the city it was out of. Wishing I had done that to begin with, feeling like a moron, I said thanks and hung up the phone.\n\nSo I call this PD in LA. I leave a message ... multiple days.... finally sometime a week later I get a call from detective Joe Schmo. He asks me if I know \u201cChris\u201d. I said, sure do. He was one of my good customers. He\u2019d sell me phones for a good price. He moved to LA. Well, Chris plead guilty of theft by computer, identity theft, theft over xyz amount yadayadayada.... I said \u201coh wow, well I didn\u2019t know that but what\u2019s that have to do with me\u201d? Well, Chris said you were the one that had a store. He said you instructed him and coached him through this and you would ship these overseas to someone to sell. So I argued how ridiculous this was for a few moments and he finally said \u201clook, this is a non extradition warrant. We aren\u2019t going to beat down your door in Texas but I can assure you, this isn\u2019t going away by itself. So take a drive down here and let\u2019s get this handled because that\u2019s the only way you\u2019re going to clear your name. I told him I\u2019d have to contact council. Since then, I\u2019ve had a brief convo with one attorney and he asked me what proof this man would have against me. I assured him that at most, he\u2019d have text messages discussing buying phones and that\u2019s it because I had no part in whatever identity theft crap he had going on. He said that sounds weird and if what I say is true, he finds it insane that they\u2019d file those charges based solely on his word. And hinted it must be a weak case. \n\nSo my question is this: this lawyer told me I\u2019d want to get this taken care of stat because if I don\u2019t , I risk getting pulled over by the wrong cop on the wrong day and they can technically detain me for 30+ days until Louisiana decides not to get me.  I cant be detained for 30 days specifically because I have 2 little ones (3\/9-older one has autism)  without a mother and I\u2019m their only care giver. I can\u2019t risk being away from them a month+. I\u2019m not sure what would happen. Well, besides contact being made with the officer that alerted me to this, I\u2019ve also made contact with the bexar county Sheriff and San Antonio police department for traffic tickets and even a domestic incident once ... no one has ever mentioned this! Even though this warrant was from 2013. I find it crazy that New Orleans along with a slew of other parishes said I was clean as well as the state police. Why can a little tiny county see this but not state police or neighboring Biloxi or N.O? Is this lawyer using a scare tactic? Why might the other officers I\u2019ve gotten traffic tickets from in the passed 5 years  not have said anything? Did the one that did indeed see it do me a favor ? Could he have locked me up for a month and called LA to come get me? I don\u2019t plan on ever visiting LA. Can I let this sit till my kids are old enough to care for themselves and maybe take care of this in my older age , before I might ever plan on going to their state? Being that this has been active 5 years, Will this ever likely  turn into a extradition type warrant? All the info you can give would be greatly appreciated! ","title":"Identity theft to obtain Iphones - I\u2019m the mastermind... (according to Slidell, LA )","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1502809820,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tupmk\/tn_ra_went_into_my_room_unannounced_found_drugs\/","id":"6tupmk","body":"At a public university I was moving between rooms (from one floor to another). I checked into my new room at 4 PM and began moving my items. The layout of both rooms is as such, A living room and four individual single occupancy rooms. The other rooms were all vacant at this time. \n\nI put my things on my bed in my new room and go out to dinner (@~7:50PM on Sunday). I come back to find two forms stating that they went into my room seized 2 grams of marijuana, 5 tabs of acid, and 5 pills of modafinil. They said they were checking vacant rooms to make sure they were ready to move. \n\nWhen I asked them why my room showed as vacant they said the RA must have had an outdated roster. Also the Head of housing emailed me on Friday telling me to be moved into the room by 8PM on Sunday. The RA found the drugs at 8:30PM on Sunday. \n\nThere are no criminal charges but I meet with the conduct board in about thirty minutes. I plan on referencing Smyth V Lubbers which shows students have the same 4th amendment rights as other citizens in their own homes and that students are unable to waive that right in a housing contract. I also intend on referencing State V Houvener to show that the living room was a part of my private property and when the RA saw my belongings there he was knowingly violating my 4th amendment by continuing to my room. \n\nAny help would be much appreciated. Thank you guys so much.","title":"(TN) RA went into my room unannounced found drugs","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1408649185,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e7hwy\/may_have_accidentally_seen_a_possible_case_of_cp\/","id":"2e7hwy","body":"I was looking at (legal) porn and think I may have seen CP (on motherless.com). As soon as I realized what happened only seconds into watching, I closed out my browser window. I was very confused at what I saw and was unsure what to do. This morning I filed a report on the US Cybercrimes website anonymously. I wasn't able to find a direct link to the content, so I just submitted the report to the general site I never had any intention to be in this position. I did not download any content or distribute etc. I'm scared as to what I should do. I live in Tx. \n\nThe DoJ says I should report this to the FBI field office. Could this land me in trouble? I'm totally lost as to what I should do.","title":"May have accidentally seen a possible case of CP....","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555187368,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcuvib\/america_florida_someone_copied_my_friends_account\/","id":"bcuvib","body":"My friend wants to know if this counts as identify theft and what if any legal action can be taken against this person.\n\n-we don\u2019t know who it is\n\n-my friend already has an account \n\n-my friend could get in massive trouble as Edmodo, if you don\u2019t know is a school messaging board","title":"(America Florida) Someone copied my friend\u2019s account on Edmodo and is pretending to be my friend. The copy account has been used to post porn on the website.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1504548342,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y20c8\/as_a_canadian_business_that_drop_ships_products\/","id":"6y20c8","body":"Hi\n\nI run a small tshirt company in Canada. We sell tshirts on Shopify.\n\nOur tshirts are printed and shipped by our printing partner in Colorado USA. We have no presence or employees in the US.\n\nDo I need to register my business in the US? \nDo I charge US sales tax on US orders?\nDo I charge Canadian sales tax on Canadian orders?\nWill my customers in Canada be subject to import duties even if I charge Canadian sales tax and the tshirts are shipped from the US? ","title":"As a Canadian business that drop ships products in the US to the US, do I need to register as a US LLC and charge sales tax?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569098982,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7g40h\/is_it_possible_to_get_some_sort_of_no_contact\/","id":"d7g40h","body":"Utah USA. The title says it all. He has called me over 63 times in the last 2-3 days. I want him to have as much contact with our son as possible, however, I feel he is harassing me. If I don\u2019t answer his texts he calls and doesn\u2019t stop calling, and he says some pretty mean things. Thanks in advance.\n\nEdit: none of the calls mentioned above were in regards to our son. If I don\u2019t answer his calls, he even calls me from his moms phone.","title":"Is it possible to get some sort of no contact order so that my sons father can not legally contact me unless it\u2019s about our son?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552581700,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b12jsn\/what_to_do_when_ex_wont_communicate_about\/","id":"b12jsn","body":"Alabama, USA. \n\nI\u2019m going to visit my daughter for a weekend soon so I can see her perform in her music class. I would be picking her up the day before, and bringing her to her practice and then continuing visitation afterwards. \n\nI\u2019ve asked my ex several times about information on the music rehearsal (where to go, if she has a uniform, etc). And she has refused to acknowledge my questions and acts as if I never asked. She continues onto other topics, so I know for a fact she has received the message. My daughter is 4, so I can\u2019t ask her for the info obviously. \n\nWhat should I do here? Do I send her the questions one more time with a time frame of when I need her reply? Or just show up and see what happens? Or?\n\nShe only speaks to me one day a week for about 10 minutes over text, so it\u2019s very hard for me to get any communication done at all, and it\u2019s becoming incredibly frustrating. \n\nI do not need her approval for visitation but I DO need all the info about her rehearsal so I can actually get my child there. I don\u2019t want to be the ass who had to make my kid skip her event because her mother would not give me info. I also don\u2019t want this to be turned around on me and get in trouble with a judge if we end up in court again. \n\nWould appreciate any advice \n\n","title":"What to do when ex won\u2019t communicate about visitation schedules?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570839518,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgnoix\/unpaid_wages_from_company_california\/","id":"dgnoix","body":"Well to sum up how I quit.... I was working at a job where I was an assistant manager in a department at a store(hourly).  I found a new job and decided trying to hold two jobs was a strain on my body. After my shift I went to my other job, worked then came back and told the closing manager I quit.  He was a new manager at the store and we have not met or formally been introduced to one another.  I told him (more in depth) Im one of the assistant managers and I quit and I\u2019m not coming back.  I proceeded to give him my store key (while I was telling him that) and I left. During that week I worked and was supposed to get paid the following week on Friday.  The day I quit was on a Friday and the upcoming week I did not get paid. I had direct deposit so it should have dropped into my account that next week. Issue here is that I did not get paid by direct deposit nor check in the mail. I know in California you are given 72 hours to be paid if you don\u2019t give a two week notice(unless I was misinformed).  \n\nEither I\u2019m thinking I was terminated and my check was sent to the store and they are withholding it to be petty or there might be a misunderstanding. This happened at the beginning of September.  I gave it sometime to give the benefit of the doubt people got busy. I called the companies HR today and told them what happened. \n\nWould there be any legal actions I can take? I was hoping to get my money I worked for(regardless if it was a full week or half week) within a few weeks but it\u2019s been over a month now. \n\nSide note: another company I worked for I recently quit and they had given my final paycheck within a week in the mail.","title":"Unpaid wages from company. (California)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540675673,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rxwpx\/license_suspension_advice\/","id":"9rxwpx","body":"I live in Washington state.  On the 8th of September, I was driving my girlfriend\u2019s car and I got a speeding ticket that was far away from my residence location (but still in state).  I got charged for going 11 over a 70, but he said he\u2019d write it as going 5 over because it was my first time.  He took the my license and  my girlfriend\u2019s car registration.  He came back and gave us the license and registration back without a copy of the ticket.  He said the ticket would be sent to my town\u2019s court.  We went on with the trip.\nAbout 5 days later when I got back home there was no ticket in the mail, and we never got one at all.  Now (Oct. 27) I got a notice of suspension and I have until Dec. 2 to get it paid.\nDid the court\/police do anything wrong? Is there anything here that seems wrong?  Or should I just pay the ticket and take the insurance hit?  I\u2019ll update the post with any information that I know (I\u2019m a college student that\u2019s using my parents\u2019 insurance).","title":"License Suspension Advice","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569130705,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7md0n\/desperate_can_i_oklahoma_sue_my_out_of_state\/","id":"d7md0n","body":"My landlord is wrongfully withholding my security deposit of $1500 for normal wear and tear issues and other outrageous reasons and will not respond to messages. He's withholding $500 for painting, $400 for a door frame crack (?), and charging us for more outrageous fees. He's been an unresponsive landlord since the beginning and he claims that he lives out of state (Arkansas). He's done ridiculous things since such as sending his friends over to mow the yard and charging us $400 for lawn care services, which he took from the security deposit, and this is not on the lease agreement. He also has written that he has a remaining balance of $300 that he will not give to us in his RE: Security Deposit Letter?\n\nI'm a university student in Norman, OK. As I'm writing a demand letter, I am checking my lease agreement and he has written that \"**Choice of Law**: Although the property in agreement in Agreement is situated in the State of Oklahoma, the parties herein agree that this agreement shall be governed and constructed in the the State of Arkansas.\"\n\nWe signed to this lease without acknowledging this final statement. It's been signed and notarized and as I can remember, in some states we can't file a small claim in a state that we are not residents of. When I checked the disputes similar to this, I assumed that this would be an *in rem jurisdiction*, since the real property lease signature and agreement was done in Norman, OK, and the property is in Norman, OK. Does this change since he's written it in the lease?\n\nHe's literally positioned himself where I can't reach him. He claims that he owns multiple homes and that he lives in a different state. He hardly responds to messages and we tried to civilly debate the security deposit deductions and he completely ghosts us. We've been asking for 2 months after moving for the security deposit and he became rude and just told us to take it to court, but it would have to be in Arkansas? Can he do this? He's leasing homes in different states and making himself untouchable by stating he's living in a state that doesn't allow non-residential people from different states from filing small claims.\n\nWhat can I do? This is so unfair and he's abusing his power as a landlord. We left the place spotless and even begged him to do a run through with us before we moved out, which he never did and basically waited for us to move out and inspected the home by himself and started ringing up all the problems in the home.\n\n​\n\nPlease help!","title":"Desperate! Can I (Oklahoma) sue my out of state landlord (Arkansas)?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569295959,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8hnkl\/my_ex_is_pregnant_with_my_child_because_she_raped\/","id":"d8hnkl","body":"My ex was drunk one night last month. She wanted to have sex, but I refused multiple times. She grabbed a knife and held me down forcing me to have sex. As soon as I got the chance I left and haven\u2019t seen her since. \n\nI went to the police station the next day to report it. They couldn\u2019t press any charges because there was no evidence. I kept debating with them but we never got anywhere. The case would be a \u201che said she said\u201d scenario and the officer warned me that the case could be easily turned the other way around. He told me that she could claim I was the one who raped her and it would not end well for me. I didn\u2019t even bother going back. I just was so frustrated that nothing would happen and it could easily turn against me.\n\nI get a text from my ex a few days ago saying that she\u2019s pregnant and it is mine. We used protection before and this was the only time we didn\u2019t use birth control so there\u2019s no way that this child was conceived before she held me down. She told me that I\u2019m not allowed to be in his\/her life and she said that if I did then she would say I was the one who held her down.\n\nI\u2019m very scared for the future of my child and myself. Is there anything I can do to gain custody and consequently not be falsely accused?\n\nI live in California if that will help.","title":"My ex is pregnant with my child because she raped me. She refuses to ever let me ever see him\/her when they are born and if I try anything she will claim I\u2019m the one who raped her.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542213739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x1puu\/fired_from_work_and_i_think_it_was_illegally\/","id":"9x1puu","body":"So since I work at a phone store. There are different things we get paid for as a store. One of them is features like insurance or extra data for the line or a hotspot etc. For the month the store was low on them so in order to hit the numbers so the owner would get a bonus. He told our manager to make us put those feature on people's accounts without asking them. So I had a new customer come in and I set them up with their new account and everything, but my manager told me to go back and open that account up when they left and put features on they didn't ask for. It was going to be a decent amount of money more each month. So I did but the next morning when they came in to finish everything up, I left a note in the customers bag telling them what was up and how to remove the features themselves. Some how that got back to my boss and he fired me. Oh and I've also not had any previous write ups or complaints or warnings.\n\nI know there are a few things going on here. It just happened to me so my head is sort of still spinning from it all.\n\nI was fired over a phone call from my boss that lasted no more than 2 minutes. He asked if I had done the above and then promptly stated I was fired. After that I gathered my belongings and my manager escorted me out of the store. \n\nMy manager had previously stated when I added these features that if I did not do it. The store would not get paid and that 'someone would have to be let go' as she spoke directly to me and motioned at me.\n\nAnother time after this, I was not comfortable still with adding on services that weren't asked for so I still was pitching the said services to the customers in order to give them a choice but the assistant manager pulled me to the side and told me to stop asking people and to just add the features. \n\nWhen I was fired, I was given absolutely no paper work or documents or even a sit down or a review of reasons I was fired or a series of policies I had broken. I'm in my early twenties and this is my first time being fired. This just feels definitely wrong and off.","title":"Fired from work and I think it was illegally.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445484410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pq6cx\/texas_my_exwife_has_primary_of_our_daughter_she\/","id":"3pq6cx","body":"Hello. First off according to our agreement I get my daughter every other weekend. In reality I keep her for one week then she does.  I still pay child support and don't really mind since my ex-wife uses it to support herself. Our agreement states she is to provide health coverage through the government is she or my daughter qualifies.  I know she does.  If I could afford to put her on private insurance I would in a heart beat, in fact I imagine in a years time I can and will.  She will not sign her up. \n\nI have offered to sign her up with all of her information (Provided she give me permission in writing). I have offered to drive 2 hours and take off work to walk her through the process. My neighbor works for Health and Human services, I deal with similar problems at work. (Small company I am I.T, A.P, H.R and Drug Tester.) \n\nAt this point she hasn't even given me any medical records. I have no idea when her check ups are. She is 3 and I don't even have proof of her dental checkups.  I have rights to all of this(I checked). The problem is if I push it to far she will stop letting me have my daughter week on week off.\n\nI don't like the idea of medicaid, chip, wick, whatever it may be, If I didn't have to pay child support I would put her on my insurance. Is there a polite way to make her do this? Certified letter? \n\n","title":"Texas, My Ex-wife has primary of our daughter. She won't put her of medicaid\/chips. How can I make her?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552389752,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b06mt1\/am_i_getting_the_right_breaks\/","id":"b06mt1","body":"Based in Ireland. My boss is a cheap douche, but I am not sure if I\u2019m understanding the laws around breaks correctly. Today I work 12pm - 9pm, and he gives one 15 minute break halfway through the 9 hour shift. Is this right? I don\u2019t think it is but I want to know I\u2019m right before I raise a stink.","title":"Am I getting the right breaks?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571770555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlmidv\/txtricked_into_contract_with_an_electric_company\/","id":"dlmidv","body":"A couple days ago I was approached by someone at a mall that could help me with my electric plan. I am always a skeptic so just allowed them to do their speech tried to find the catch. They told me they could cut out the middle man for electricity and take out the delivery charge from Oncor on my energy bill. It sounded good and I at least wanted to get more info on it. I told them to email me their stuff and I signed a waiver to let them email me. Though now I am thinking that was them getting a signature for the contract because today I finally got around to checking that email. The \u201ccontract\u201d rates were way too high and I wanted to simply ignore it then but I noticed there was no where to sign which got me thinking maybe they used my waiver signature on the contract already because I received a confirmation number like if the contract was now I\u2019m effect.\n\nI immediately called to company and told them to cancel the switch which they did and provided me with a cancellation confirmation number. They were still in the process getting things switched over and not yet giving service the lady said.\n\nI also called the electric company I am with to make sure nothing happened to my account and they confirmed nothing has been changed and I am still their customer.\n\nMy big question is that the email they sent me said there is a $99 early cancellation fee. The contract had not gone into effect and the lady told me that it would have taken a week to actually take effect so I am hoping they can\u2019t try to get $99 bucks out of it. But considering that they were real scumbags about everything else I am worried they might try to anyway.\n\nHere are a couple details I think are important.\n\nThe company in question is called Constellation energy.\n\nI never gave them my social. They did ask for it but the sales guy told me to substitute my birth month and birth day instead of the last 4 of my social the app was requesting.\n\nI never got a copy of the contract with my signature on it. The pdf file they sent me just had average rates, my rates, and a couple extra details on electricity but it was far from being a contract. It did not have my signature on it.\n \nThe cancellation confirmation number they gave me was the same as the confirmation number they sent me when I received the email.\n\nAm I liable for anything? If they send me to collection for refusing to pay me them will they affect me even if they don\u2019t have my social?","title":"(TX)Tricked into contract with an electric company.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541121013,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tfj4b\/my_apartments_screwed_up_our_move_in_day_by\/","id":"9tfj4b","body":"I need help with my apartment complex. I think they are fucking me over but I don\u2019t know what leg I have to stand on. It might be a long post to explain everything but please if anyone knows renter laws in COLORADO please read. \n\nSo me and my bf just moved to Englewood. Super nice, fancy complex. \n\nWe were scheduled to move in in September. We went to the apartments ONE THE DAY WE WERE SCHEDULED TO MOVE IN. The guy who signed us for the apartment and had been in contact with us, let us know when we ARRIVED (ready to move the fuck in \u2014 it was MOVE IN DAY.) he told us the apartment he signed us up for was ADA (I think?) (handicap apartments) so we toured it and it was WAY different than what we wanted. Which then pushed our new move in day 2 weeks back because they had no available apartments ready. \n\nWe moved in. Everything was great, we payed prorated rent for the 10 days and got the first night free!! We were super happy with how they took care of us after the bump that was their fault. \n\nFast forward to the first month we were supposed to pay a *FULL* month rent. \n\nWe kept checking online and it was only saying $600 not $1450 we should owe. So I called the leasing agent and talked to a new lady, she said it looked like they credited us rent and that was all we owed but because she was new she wanted to verify before telling me that. I never got a call. So I went to the office the next day (my day off) and talked to the OG guy who rented us our place. He looked everything over, even DOUBLE CHECKED and said yes they credited us all that rent except we did owe another $300 for a pet deposit that they didn\u2019t take out of our prorated rent for whatever reason. So o said great! We payed the $900 rent last month. Today we payed them $1600 in rent (we had extra because we lost our key, and rented the pool house out for next weekend for our little nieces birthday party) \n\nWELL today they call my boyfriend and say the credit was an error and was for someone else and we actually owe them $400. \n\nWhen I check online it does have a $400 bill - but it\u2019s says for a PET DEPOSIT?! \n\nI have nothing in writing stating that they gave us a discount but I do have a screen shot of the posted rent of $600 for that month. And prof we paid it, on time. And they admitted over the phone to my boyfriend that they discounted it but it was their error. \n\nI don\u2019t understand. \n\nShould I email OG dude asking for the $400 explained in writing? Or do I message straight to corporate for an explanation? \n\nDo we even have a leg to stand on? \nThey really have been treating us right until now. The leasing agent even called my bf and said \u201chey Dude!\u2019 I have some good & bad news. Well really it\u2019s bad news for you but...\u201d which I think is totally rude. \nThanks for reading if you came this far. I\u2019m just so upset. Idk what to do! ","title":"My apartments screwed up our move in day by trying to move us into a handicapped apartment, credited us rent to makeup for it and is now saying the credit was a mistake and wants us to pay $400 back.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554313540,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b915sh\/california_private_property_lien_question\/","id":"b915sh","body":"Okay so i have a 2001 chevy truck sitting in my yard since 07\/01\/2018 .  \n\nI bought said truck for $1000 from guy named bill (name changed) and he said he would get the paper work on the truck . \n\nBad idea already i know. So after not getting the paper work for this long a few days ago i used a company called asap lien sales to perform a lien on the truck for me so i could get the papers on it . \n\nCome today i get a call from bill saying that i fucked everything up and that im going to get a bad record put onto a wrecking yard and that i have to pay $1000 to the wrecking yard to get the paper work they started on it apparently. \n\n\nAnd said wrecking yard is saying that if i dont pay the money to them they will call the cops and have the truck towed to there yard and have charges pressed on me. \n\n\nSo main things are can they press charges if they dont have the pink?\n\n\nWouldn\u2019t they just have to object to the lien and pay my storage fees im charging for the truck remaining on my property for so long ? \n\n\nWhat legal ground do i have ?\n\n\nThis sounds like extortion to me from how this is playing out. \n\n\nAny help i would appreciate! \n\n\nI will respond to comments as fast as possible! \n\n\nAlso any lists for a probono lawyer would be nice ! ","title":"California private property lien question!?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554788196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb467y\/my_friend_got_his_phone_stolen_out_of_his_locker\/","id":"bb467y","body":"A little background: I\u2019m 14 and in 8th grade, I live in california, Berkeley to be exact and recently my friend got his locker broken into while he was out at lunch. The robber took his phone, a pack of gum and the $4 in his wallet. The school\u2019s vice principles tell kids to keep their phones in their lockers during school hours. However, the lockers are extremely outdated and don\u2019t really lock, I have a video of my friend opening 20 lockers in a row in the span of 60 seconds. \n\nInstead of doing spanish for my 6th period I chose to do a IWE witch means I work for a teacher of my choice, I chose the receptionist in the office because my family is friends with her\u2019s but 3 weeks in to the IWE she goes on maternity leave so the school calls in a sub for the time she is gone, this new sub Isn\u2019t  experienced with working in the office so She basically just dose the stuff that a 14 year old can\u2019t do. Your problem wondering why are you telling me this, well it\u2019s because throughout my time working in the office I\u2019ve gotten to know the missing item system pretty well, our school has 1500 Kids and I about 1 kid gets their locker broken into per week. When a kids phone is stolen the come into the office an two things\n happen \n\n1) they fill out a slip of paper where the write their name, the thing that got stolen, what their locker number is long with the date and estimated time of when the item is stolen, this paper then gets one copy emailed to the school district supervisor and a copy is filed into a box that only gets opened when a new slip is being added. In my eyes this slip feels like an excuse. It seems like something the school just hands out to make it feel like they care about your missing property but in reality I doubt it dose anything at all.\n\n2) The vice principle of the students grade will say \u201cI\u2019ll check the security camera footage\u201d but I asked my friend who used to be the secretary and she says that the vice principles don\u2019t have access to the security cameras. I took a look at the cameras and the layers of dust covering the lease of the camera prevent the camera from actually recording anything\n\nI\u2019m thinking I do one of the two, other I go back into the box of reports track down some people and find out if they ever got their stuff back. Or two, I go to one of the vote and ask to physically see the security camera footage.\n\nWhat do y\u2019all think?\n\n(I doubt there is anything we can do, it seems like the school knows what their doing when it comes to getting out of paying for little kids phones but who know, it\u2019s my first time on the sub and i wanna see what happens )","title":"My friend got his phone stolen out of his locker at school","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1508275365,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/771rq7\/california_i_keep_receiving_collections_calls_for\/","id":"771rq7","body":"I live in northern california, bay area. I worked at a coffee shop for a good while, and while working there re-opened a back injury I'd sustained at a previous job at a thrift store. \n\nThe day after I came back from that injury they fired me (stated reason being about my social awkwardness problems), this was over a year back now I'd say and for about half that time I've been getting collections agency calls on this telling me to pay. I've been trying to get the coffee shop to talk to them (I've called several times to the location I worked at. AND to various management people, been ignored and hung up on almost every time) but to no avail.\n\nAt this point I'm thinking about just hiring a lawyer, they've been calling me during work at my new job now and I've had quite enough of this.\n\nIf anything needs clarification, please let me know. What options do I have here? Should I proceed straight to a lawyer? Is there a step I've missed?","title":"[California] I keep receiving collections calls for a worker's comp injury that my employer never paid","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552103510,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayzbe9\/my_cousin_is_suing_me\/","id":"ayzbe9","body":"If you are left something in a will in Texas,  how long do you have to get the possessions? My dad and cousin were left items in 2014. The items were supposed to be divided evenly. My cousin took 3 out of the 12 that were supposed to be divided. Now that my dad is dying, he gifted my son with what was left. My cousin is now suing me. I have no problem handing over what\u2019s legally his. My question is that at what point do you have to get what you were awarded? Was there a time limit that he would have had to get the items before it was forfeited. He let them sit for 4 years. The items he wants I don\u2019t think are in our possession. I think my father sold them. Thanks ","title":"My cousin is suing me","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555461870,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be1j3r\/apartment_repairs\/","id":"be1j3r","body":"Using a throwaway account because friends use Reddit. If this does not fit in this sub then please direct me to the proper one. I am in Illinois and security deposit was $250.\n\nI moved out of an apartment a few weeks ago after living there for apx. 1 1\/2 years. \n\nI just received a letter in the mail from the old complex stating I owed for a set of blinds ($8), a sink stopper ($2), and then the whopper: Carpet replacement ($1334.80).\n\nThe carpet was in decent shape when I left. There were some smooth spots from where the furniture sat that I brushed back up and a bleach stain. I'm assuming the bleach stain is what they are complaining about, haven't talked to them yet as I just got home from work and their office is closed. This stain is essentially isolated in a roughly 4x2ft area and could easily be patch repaired but it seems they are wanting to replace the entire apartment's carpet (carpeting in living area, one bedroom, and a walk-in closet) which if my math is right is only 573 square ft.\n\nI called Lowes for a low-mid grade carpet pricing and it's roughly $1\/sq ft., $92 installation and whatever other small charges such as cutting at odd angles etc. Total cost would come several hundred dollars short of $1334.80.\n\nSo my question is what course of action can I take to fight this charge, or can I even? Like I stated, a patch repair is easily doable but it looks like they're wanting the entire thing replaced and if so, those charges are quite a bit more than what I'm estimating. I took pictures of every room once all the furniture was moved out if that helps any. \n\nIf they are wanting to replace the entire carpet due to the areas where the furniture was sitting, is there any recourse there?\n\ntl;dr apartment complex charging me for an entire carpet replacement because of a small isolated stain. The replacement cost sounds outrageous. \n\nThank you for the time.","title":"Apartment repairs","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443405920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mnd0z\/ma_mom_found_out_cleaning_person_stole_from_her\/","id":"3mnd0z","body":"Last year, my mother was paying a woman to come in regularly and help take care of my grandmother. She noticed money missing from her purse a few times but she wasn't 100% sure it was this woman and didn't want to believe it.\n\nYesterday, she hired the same woman and her husband to help clean the house. She took a picture of the money in her purse right before they arrived. Twenty minutes after they showed up, she checked the purse and found $40 missing. Nobody was in the house except for Mom, my father, and the woman and her husband.\n\nMom called the police. They took statements and stuck around long enough to make sure the woman and husband left the property. Both of them denied taking the money and the police didn't arrest them. The woman showed the police only the contents of her wallet and pockets. They didn't check her husband, her car, or her person. \n\nI don't think Mom cares about getting back the $40, and I doubt she has any way to tally the money that was previously stolen. But is there any chance that this woman could actually be prosecuted for the theft, and if so, what steps does Mom need to take to increase the chances of that happening? She is feeling pretty down that this woman took advantage of her trust.\n\nThank you for listening, and thank you in advance for any advice you have.","title":"(MA) Mom found out cleaning person stole from her purse. How should she proceed?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553609460,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5q6ha\/after_i_cracked_the_door_police_pushed_it_open_on\/","id":"b5q6ha","body":"USA, VA\nA few weeks ago, while I wasn't home, police from my county knocked on my door (according to family).  No one answered the door that day. I live in a county surrounding a neighboring city, so I called both to see if I had outstanding charges.    I did have charges in the city , so I went to that police station, turned myself in, was booked and released on a PR bond.\n\nTwo  county cops showed up again this morning.  I cracked the door and they said I needed to come with them because I \"may\" have outstanding warrants.  I said, \"ok, I'll call police station and if I do I'll turn myself in.\"\n\nAfter 3 times of this, one of the police pushed in my door, cuffed me with no resistance, and told me they needed my SSN to see if I had taken care of it.  After some calm discussion, i gave it to them, and as they were checking my info, i said I had taken care of charges a few weeks ago.  I'm assuming they also heard that I same info over their radio (i didn't hear anything like that), and he quickly uncuffed me and they left.\n\nI know they can enter the house with a warrant, but what made this a legal entry?  Did my opening the door cause them to be able to, or is just the possibility of outstanding warrants allow it?  \n\nI know I have the right not to open the door at all, but if I hadn't, could they have made entry anyway?  Run into the house and cuff me for my SSN?  The charges a  misdemeanor and class 5 felony.\n\nSeems odd to me and I'm just generally curious about the entire episode, as neither my SSN nor my booking would have been difficult for them to find another way.  Thanks.","title":"After I cracked the door, police pushed it open on me (USA, VA)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508598162,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77ture\/navigating_aggrivated_menacing_charges\/","id":"77ture","body":"Friend of mine got into some trouble recently in the Ohio area and I'm trying to figure out if there is any way to get him out of there is anything he can do about it.\n\nEssentially, he and his friend signed a lease with some toxic room mates. Toxic in the sense that the room mate refues to clean up after himself, and in one instance kicked a box of his dirty dishes down the stairs in a refusal to clean them. \n\nAfter falling behnd in rent, the toxic room mate borrowed money from the other room mates then refused to pay them back when requested to do so.\n\nToxic Room mate then put up a video of him playing with money and joked about how he wasn't going to pay back the others. My dumb friend then proceded to grab a knife and a belt and chase TR around for a short time, all while TR was recording him doing so.\n\nTurns out TR is very close to a lawyer who is now suing my dumb friend for aggrivated menacing. Is there any workaround or countersuit that can be pursued?\n\nFor example, if the video could reasonably expained away by being \"kids fooling around\", or a countersuit for the delinquent loan payments.\n","title":"Navigating Aggrivated Menacing charges","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541014469,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t22ja\/trying_to_file_a_police_report_on_ex_involving\/","id":"9t22ja","body":"(IN) Alright so a little back story, i left my ex on 12\/25\/17, he kept my daughter from me (and since we had no custody papers cops did nothing)\nAnyways once i filed divorce papers he found out where i was and came to my residence at the time with our 2 yr old child and threatned my life with a gun. Forward a little and hes currently in the process of being charged with a lvl 5 felony intimidation with a weapon but the hearing doesnt start till February 2019. Ive had no contact with him and visitation is primarily through great grandparents since his parents are nothing but hostile towards me. \nNow for the new issue and reason for the post, on saturday i received a facebook message from one of his friends who stated my ex had started contacting his gf and he is wanting to pretty much tattle on my ex for things he is doing. \n1. One thing is he has a shotgun in his possesion which goes against his bail agreement, i guess my ex \"sold\" it to his parents but got it back after his residence was searched.\n2. He also has been opening my mail, going through it, and showing it to his lawyer.\n3. At his house there were 6 people living in a 2 bedroom house, and they are openly doing drugs\n4. He has recently gotten a girlfriend and has already started hitting her.\n \nHe also has his parents old house as his listed address but it was taken by the city for nonpayment of taxes on the 15th, but was living at the house we were in together but his friend told me he left it to live at his parents new house because the electric was cut at the pole since it was illegaly turned back on. And i have no idea where the parents new residence is but he supposed to state his exact whereabouts to the court and hasnt.\nI took screen shots of the messages and sent them to my divorce lawyer and victims advocate. \nThe victims advocate forwarded the info to the prosecutor and they want me to file a police report. So for the past few days ive been trying to do that but i keep getting told by the city i live in that it needs to be filed with the city his original crime occured , while the city where the crime originally occured is telling me it needs to be filed where i live.\nAnd just to explain while i did live in the city the crime occured in i have since moved from there and am in the same city as my ex... But as far as i had been aware i was on the opposite side of town... But who knows at this point. \n\nTldr: how can i file a police report and have this  activity looked into when two different cities police wont file anything?","title":"Trying to file a police report on ex involving illegal activity, but keep getting the run around between police and jurisdiction. INDIANA","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569793911,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db1u3d\/excompany_has_not_paid_me_last_paycheck_they_owe\/","id":"db1u3d","body":"So I worked for this company who was super shitty with paying me even while I worked for them. Didn't get a paycheck on time. I was laid off September 3rd and my last day was supposed to be September 10. Now mind you, I have not been paid since July 31. That was the last paycheck I got. \n\nThe entire month of August + remaining September days I'm still waiting on. Still. I've reached out to the manager and he says they're waiting on funding to pay me? I'm not even a current employee anymore why do I have to deal with this shit? I've decisions pending based on when I get my paycheck! What options do I have here? I do have the email of them entailing that I'll get my paycheck + whatever is left of what they owe me. Please help.","title":"Ex-Company has not paid me last paycheck they owe me in over 60 days.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569810223,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db51qd\/personal_liability_when_renting_an_event_space\/","id":"db51qd","body":"Washington State. My friends and I are planning a small party, and have a room reserved at a reputable restaurant\/bar. The friend who's been mostly handling the planning received the contract, and he's concerned about the wording. I don't have the exact phrasing, but his dad's a retired lawyer and summed it up as: friend would be 100% liable for all damage and injury, with no responsibility falling on the location at all.\n\nIs this normal? And what does this actually entail?  My friend is worried that if someone trips and breaks a nose he'll be held liable and be required to pay for medical, even if they trip because of a loose floorboard or something we as the guests have no control over. If someone dies, does my friend get held accountable, since he signed for the room? How worried should he really be?\n\nThanks for the help!","title":"Personal liability when renting an event space?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569036501,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d75fu5\/my_cat_was_approved_as_an_esa_after_my_landlord\/","id":"d75fu5","body":"Hi, everyone -\n\nI'm recovering from a panic right now, so I'm so sorry if this is a god-ugly terribly-worded long post. I'm just very very very scared right now.\n\nMy landlord found out about my cat, and issued a formal letter to have her out by 9\/20 or I will be evicted. I didn't register her as an ESA until LL's letter because I'm a broke college student who lives alone and pays for her own rent, food, utilities, etc. NOTE: All of which I pay on time and\/or early.\n\nI adopted my cat in May, and her lively spirit and unending love has had such a profound impact on me. **I didn't realize how much I  ABSOLUTELY NEED HER until the threat of her being taken away from me**.\n\nI know this is dramatic, but I'm dead serious: If she goes, I go.\n\nIf anyone makes me return her to the shelter, I will return myself to the fucking dirt. She is the only thing that has ever shown me true love. I grew up with parents who neglected me. I grew up with depression, and was recently diagnosed with BPD. I have no friends or family to turn to, except my cat. And you know what? I think she needs me too, because she's 7 years old, overweight (we're fixing it), and she was dumped at the shelter when her owners couldn't care for her anymore. **I WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN TO HER AGAIN.**\n\nAnyway... Landlord found out about her, and wrote the formal eviction warning letter dated 9\/17. I didn't check my mailbox until tonight (9\/20) as I was about to run errands, so I don't know when the letter actually arrived.\n\nI went online within the 5 minutes of reading the warning to do whatever I could to protect myself. I paid for my cat's ESA certificate, and spoke with a doctor who signed a written form consenting my cat as an ESA animal. I did this on a whim on the US Support Animal (US-SA) website and paid around $250. (I also have a doctor that I regularly see regarding my mental health medications, and I can speak with her to provide another form consenting my ESA).\n\nI emailed my landlord around 8PM tonight (9\/20) because today was my last day to re-home her AND the day I read the letter. I'm scared I went about this incorrectly because of my emotional rush to fix things (BPD sucks)... I sent a professionally worded request (**addressed from myself to LL)** to provide reasonable accommodation, I sent a copy of the US-SA doctor's approval of my cat as an ESA, and I typed an honest, truthful confession about my personal struggles in the email itself. \n\nI think my openness might not have been the best approach, but I wanted to emphasis that I'm not taking advantage of the broken system. I GENUINELY NEED MY ESA. I know there are people who abuse the ESA system, but I'm not trying to do that. I'm trying to stay alive. \n\nI know I ruined my reputation with my landlord by not disclosing my cat, but I'm moving out in May 2020 after I graduate from college... \n\n**My biggest concern is that the tenant who will be taking over my lease has a major allergy to cats, so does my landlord have the right deny my ESA if the future resident is allergic? Can I offer to pay the cleaning charges?? How can I save myself?**\n\nPlease help, I don't know what will become of me if they take her. I'm so fucking scared. I will drop out of school, quit my job, and move home to my shitty parents to keep her with me. \n\n**I CANNOT let anyone take her away from me, or I don't know what will happen to me.**","title":"My Cat Was Approved as an ESA AFTER my Landlord Found Out About Her","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570337934,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddyucq\/lawless_v_steward_health_care_system_llc_mgl\/","id":"ddyucq","body":"Hope this post doesn\u2019t get removed - put The Wage Act specific name in title to avoid that from happening.  \n\nI got fired from a minimum wage job in Massachusetts.  MA is an employee-at-will state which means I could be fired at any time for any reason - even no reason at all.\n\nI was fired on September 1st, 2 hours after my shift had started.  When I picked up my check the following week, it had stated on the actual statement I was being paid 1.97 hours.  My shift that day was supposed to be 6 hours.  Also, I worked opening shift with my boss that day, and he had the keys to open the doors but he arrived late since he woke up late, so I didn\u2019t get to clock in on time which should have happened.  \n\nI didn\u2019t exactly have a mutual standing with my former boss.  There were issues involving professionalism and judgment, especially since the store I worked at was newly opened and I had more maturity than him despite being 3 years younger (he is 22 years old and constantly vaped inside the store around the food products while simultaneously having his phone out).  The day before I got fired, I tried talking with my boss to see if I could be scheduled shorter shifts but he wasn\u2019t having it (before the conversation took place, I put in online a request of not being schedule for the next two weeks since I figured if he wouldn\u2019t be understanding about my shifts compared to anything else, I might as well quit B\/C it was getting to be too much drama and conflict).  I ended up writing a 2 week notice when I got home and printed it out that night to turn in AFTER my shift had ended the following day.  \n\nThe next day (day I got fired), I accidentally burned a food item and it made the back of house (BOH) smell like burnt food.  My boss got mad (despite he himself burning the same exact food item in the past and joked about it by offering us a bite of it) and lectured me.  Once he was done speaking he said, \u201csleepinginthewoods, can you say something so I know you heard me?\u201d  I said, \u201cYup, got it, I heard you.\u201d  and that was the end of the conversation.  30-45minutes later, one of my coworkers clocks in despite being schedule for a couple hours later.  Once she finishes clocking in, she leaves to go from the BOH to FOH.  After that happens, my boss come to the BOH from the FOH and says to me, \u201cWell sleepinginthewoods, this is the end.  You can clock out and leave right now.  Your paycheck and tips can be picked up next Tuesday.\u201d  I asked him, \u2018what do you mean \u201cthis is the end?\u201d\u2019  He replies, \u201cThis is the end, you can leave and pick up your paycheck and tips on Tuesday.\u201d  I then proceeded to leave and he shut the back door behind me.  Although, when I went to the train station afterwards, I saw one of my coworkers (the shift manager who is best friends with my employer before the store even opened), so I gave him the 2 week notice I still had on me with the work shirt to give to my former employer.  \n\nI was thinking of writing a professional email for a request to be paid in full since I am a broke college student who doesn\u2019t have the money to sue.  I don\u2019t know what to do.  \n\nNote - here is a draft of the email I was thinking of sending.  \n\nDear (former employer\u2019s name),\nI am writing to you because it has come to my attention that while although Massachusetts is an employee-at-will state, it does have a wage act where employers must pay the terminated employee the full wage amount of what they would have earned had they worked the whole shift that they were scheduled.  It is not only fair but actually legal that I be paid the amount due to me of working a full six-hour shift.","title":"Lawless v. Steward Health Care System, LLC MGL c.149\/148 - Got fired but didn\u2019t get paid in full","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571185059,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dih3ac\/roach_infestation_and_apartments_say_we_cannot\/","id":"dih3ac","body":"We've had a roach infestation that came through our water heater for about two months. We notified them maybe a week after they appeared when our attempts didn't get rid of them. After a month of nothing we tried to break the lease, and they told us we had to submit three written tickets first. Well fine, we did that with 7 days in between. Still nothing. We tried to break the lease again then but they changed their story and said we can only go through someone else to get them removed and if they refuse to pay us back we can sue.\n\nI'm exhausted at this point. The roaches are getting worse and our effort to destroy their nest just drove them out to our bedrooms. My roommate is the closest to the water heater and has woken up with them on her and now has trouble falling asleep. I just want out of these terrible apartments.\n\nI combed the lease and the only thing I could find was a section saying this:\n\n\"Generally we'll act with customary diligence to:\nd) substantially comply with all applicable laws regarding safety, sanitation, and fair housing\"\n\nThen\n\n\"If we violate any of the above you may possibly terminate this lease and exercise other remedies under Texas Property Code Sec. 92.056 by following this procedure:\na) all rent must be current, and you must make a written request or remedy of the condition-after which we'll have reasonable time for repair or remedy\nb) if we fail to do so, you must make a second written request for the repair or remedy (to make sure there is no miscommunication between us) - after which we'll have a reasonable time to repair or remedy; AND\nc) if the repair or remedy still hasn't been accomplished within that reasonable time period, you may immediately terminate this lease by giving us a a final written notice.\"\n\nThis seems to immediately contradict what the office is trying to tell us. The manager told us that per Texas law cockroaches aren't something worse breaking the lease over and not a sanitation hazard (even though our water heater is covered in dead roach bodies and droppings) despite us submitting the written requests a week in between we still cannot break it.","title":"Roach infestation and apartments say we cannot break lease (TX)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507142882,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74a8v7\/landlord_may_be_using_last_rent_check_as_security\/","id":"74a8v7","body":"Ok, so basically we have had a horrible landlord throughout 2 years of renting a condo. (We stayed because it was super convenient and priced very well). But I will not get into that drama. \n\nNow we bought our own house!! Yay!! Anyways, our lease was month to month and we gave ample notice (formal letter) and our last rent checks along with that.\n\nWhen we signed the lease, we paid the security deposit (equal to a months rent) and first and last months rent. Our last month is this month, October, so this month has been prepaid. Our landlord has still not cashed our last required rent checks (September's). I sincerely believe he will not cash them and then say that he doesn't have to give us the security deposit back because he never cashed our last checks. He is that lazy, not even joking or exaggerating on this... or he's that stupid.. or cunning? I don't know. \n\nIf this happens to be... and he owes us, legally, our security deposit December 1st.. and still hasn't cashed our September rent checks. What do we do? If we cancel \/ stop payment on those checks we're putting out extra money in a fee to do that plus I'm scared it will bite us in the ass legally... like that is an actual, valid rent check we stopped payment on... you can't do that right?? I'm thinking he can come after us down the road for that. Do we tell him he has to cash that rent check, and must issue a new check for our security deposit (less any damages\/repair obviously) ? ","title":"Landlord may be using last rent check as security [PA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554856665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbfo1u\/pa_can_i_take_control_of_529_account_in_my_name\/","id":"bbfo1u","body":"So I have a 529 educational savings account started by my parents before I was born. This account is for college expenses and bills related to education.\n\nMy parents divorced several years ago and my mother was assigned as the administrator to the account.\n\nAs of late we have not been on good terms and she is holding the account hostage (I cannot make withdrawals to pay for my expenses). \n\nAm I, as the account holder, able to make myself the administrator and remove her so she no longer can control the account?","title":"[PA] Can I take control of 529 account in my name?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539110414,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mrt2i\/what_to_do_sc\/","id":"9mrt2i","body":"Hello legal advice,\n\nPost on an alt! \n\nI have a question\/inquiry regarding websites and outdated information. A little background: I was charged with a felony back in 2017, had it reduced to a simple misdemeanor, and did PTI. It was expunged and I have the order of expungement. I\u2019ve had a few interviews with places where it showed on the background, and after contacting the data companies, it was fixed and removed. However, websites like atlas public records (big one) and truth finder still hold my information. \n\nIf I google my name, atlas public records still has the original charge as pending. I\u2019ve emailed them twice already within the last month. There\u2019s an email address to email with proof and they will remove it. It is also stated. But no replies and the link is still up. I haven\u2019t investigated truthfinder yet. \n\nIs there any way to get these to disappear off google? I\u2019ve been sober for a long time now, and as I start my professional career, I don\u2019t want potential clients seeing this on google. They\u2019ve ignored my requests to take it down. What can I do about this? ","title":"What to do? [SC]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444156771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nqmvf\/apartment_owner_wants_us_to_sign_lease_before\/","id":"3nqmvf","body":"A roommate and I saw an apartment in Queens, NY for rent last Friday 10\/2. We liked the space but it is currently being cleaned and fixed so it was an absolute mess when we went to go see it. We eventually put in a $500 deposit because we like the apartment space and so that we could see it after it was cleaned and fixed.\n\nYesterday (10\/5), the broker tells us that the owner wants us to sign the lease this week, saying that he doesn't want to take it off the market and have us back out in the end. We are a bit skeptical to sign the lease plus give 3 x rent (1st month\/security\/and broker fee) without seeing the end product that we would move into on 11\/1.\n\nWe told the broker that we need a signed document stating that the 3 x rent that we are giving would be fully refundable until we have seen and approved that apartment's condition after the fixes are complete. Do you think it is safe for us to sign the lease with this document? What are your opinions on what I should do?","title":"Apartment owner wants us to sign lease before fixes are complete","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553921412,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b779nn\/how_critical_of_evidence_is_it_for_the_police_to\/","id":"b779nn","body":"Without physical evidence otherwise, how important would it be?","title":"How critical of evidence is it for the police to get statements directly from the suspect?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541010328,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t1fnm\/vehicle_with_no_reverse_al\/","id":"9t1fnm","body":"Is there anything in Alabama law regarding driving a vehicle with no reverse gear? I got hit today because a guy tried to parallel park on a hill with no reverse (he said it to the responding officer and anyone else who walked by). If its prohibited I want him to face the punishment because I can no longer use my son's car seat and my brakes are messed up. ","title":"Vehicle with no reverse (AL)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445392930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pktp9\/aus_am_i_being_overly_paranoid_about_this\/","id":"3pktp9","body":"I'm in Australia. I'm negotiating an employment contract at the moment, and in the section on sick-leave, there's the following paragraph:\n\n> If the Employee takes sick leave, the Employer at any time may require the Employee to be examined by a doctor or other health professional chosen by the Employer, and ask that person to report to the Employer about the Employee's illness or injury. If required, the Employee agrees to provide a specific consent for that health professional to report to the Employer.\n\nI'm quite protective of my privacy, and I *really* don't like the idea of anyone besides myself having control over who I see for medical issues. Am I being paranoid, or is this clause actually as bad as it seems on the surface?\n\nIf it matters, this is a 9-5 desk-job.","title":"[AUS] Am I being overly paranoid about this contract clause?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553059514,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b382v6\/landlord_waiting_months_to_repair_washing_machine\/","id":"b382v6","body":"I recently moved to Seattle and got an apartment with a roommate. It was a great place for a good price, but a few days in I had trouble getting the washing machine to work. \n\nI informed the management company on February 24th. They sent out a repair guy who said the motor was bad and that replacement parts are hard to get, making it likely that the owner would opt for a new appliance (he did not know for sure).\n\nAfter two weeks, I emailed my account manager at the property company and told them that I had tried to be patient but either wanted a timely repair or a credit towards my account as compensation.\n\nMy account manager said that the replacement motor is on back-order and should be coming sometime in April, and that I will have to wait until it arrives. She also said that the company does not issue credits, and there is a clause in the lease which says this.\n\nI looked at Seattle's laws about renter rights and it does say that landlords have an obligation to begin repairs of advertised appliances within 10 days of being informed of the problem.\n\nMy question is whether or not 'waiting for the part to ship' is a legitimate reason to delay repairs, and is it worth it for me to put more pressure on the company? Also, can they actually enforce the 'no credits' clause in the lease if it conflicts with Seattle law?\n\nAny insight is appreciated, thanks.","title":"Landlord Waiting Months to Repair Washing Machine","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505646427,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70mw4e\/wa_state_i_manage_a_motel_and_it_is_being_sold\/","id":"70mw4e","body":"First and foremost, Myself and my s\/o have managed a motel in Washington State for a year now.   The motel is being sold on a lease basis imminently.    \n\nWe out of the blue are being told to get out.    The owners filed a 20 day notice to terminate tenancy.   This notice informs us we need to vacate by the 30th of Sept, or eviction proceedings will commence.\n\nThe sketchy issues here.     \n\nWe receive a salary and on site housing in the manager quarters, free of charge.\n\nThey refuse to recognize this notice sent by their lawyer that states we need to vacate by the 30th , and demand we are out by the 19th or 20th,   (that varies by day) or they will withhold our bonus and pay.\n\nOur last stated day of work day of work was the 15th of Sept.   Once that hit they started making demands that unless my girlfriend or I continues to work the office and train the new owners, they will charge us a 65 dollar a day rental fee until the day we vacate the unit.    Irregardless of the notice to terminate tenancy being up on the 30th,  they are demanding rent where none existed in an attempt to get us to work for free,  and are attempting to force us out when they want us out.\n\n\nIs any of this illegal?    our contract which they never had us sign has nothing in it what so ever about anything like this, and we were not fired so much as the motel is changing hands and the lessees will be running it.\nI have perused the laws and can find nothing like this situation at all in the WA landlord tenant laws.\n\n\nIts late,   im worried, and not thinking very straight  if you need any clarification dont hesitate to ask.\n ","title":"[WA State] I manage a motel, and it is being sold. Some claims the owners are making seem highly illegal.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554418114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9jj40\/how_bad_is_a_status_offense\/","id":"b9jj40","body":"i got arrested a little over a week ago (my mom requested it) because i \"ran away.\" besides this i don't really have anything to hide but now im scared people will think im bad. will this show up on a background check? will it look too bad? will people not want to hire me?\n\ni don't know much about this so please don't be rude. i really don't know anything. ive tried googling but nothing is really coming up for what i want.","title":"how bad is a status offense?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569135450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7n0mf\/can_a_company_successfully_sue_a_topperformer\/","id":"d7n0mf","body":"A company has a manager who helms several key projects, and he has done an excellent job of keeping his clients happy and ensuring the projects deliver on all milestones.\n\nThen it's revealed that he sexually harassed multiple interns. He is promptly fired. The company isn't stupid of course so they make sure there is a transitional period in which his deputy managers and other TLs are handed the reins.\n\nUnfortunately it turns out this scumbag was also exceptionally gifted at his job, and the replacement managers and TLs simply aren't up to the task, resulting in a loss of several million due to the project failures.\n\n1. The scumbag manager didn't hold any key information back or sabotaged the projects after his firing. He simply was that good and he had built a unique rapport with his clients\n2. The replacement managers aren't incompetent on a technical level. They have also had experience in handling other projects. They tried their best to take over these new projects\n3. Firing the scumbag was never in question. The company has a no-tolerance policy for sexual harassers\n\nCan the company successfully sue the scumbag for their loss of income? They would never have lost millions if he didn't commit sexual harassment","title":"Can a company successfully sue a top-performer they fired for loss of income if the firing was justified?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551315975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avkzdt\/fl_taking_my_landlord_to_court_over_security\/","id":"avkzdt","body":"Huge property management company. Didn\u2019t get it back, haven\u2019t gotten a reason yet but staff at their office said the landlord is out of town right now and they can\u2019t reach her.\n\nWhile I wait for an answer, I need to start planning to take her to court which it may come to given their reputation in my city.\n\nI\u2019ll probably have to represent myself. What do I even do? My only experience in court is a disputed traffic ticket. And I lost. Point is, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing. Any and all advice is welcome.\n\nI hired a cleaning company to make it spotless and there\u2019s only two minor damages, a broken door handle, a window screen is missing, you know, minor stuff. I have photos of the entire place after I moved out.\n\nEveryone I talk to who rents from this company says they never get their deposits back.\n\nWhatever I need to know, any advice you have, drop it here.\n\nThank you","title":"[FL] Taking my landlord to court over security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568910432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6ggy8\/sold_a_car_as_is_and_it_started_having_problems_a\/","id":"d6ggy8","body":"I\u2019ll make this as quick as possible. I\u2019m in the used car business and have been for over 20 years. This is the first time I\u2019ve had a customer attempt to sue. \n\nI had a vehicle that had been on lot for awhile, and a customer test drove and made a cash offer, no note to be held. We made the deal and I expressed that I was pretty much breaking even to unload it and he was quite satisfied with the deal. Filled out all the proper paperwork: purchase order was listed AS IS, signed a warranty disclaimer stating AS IS, and also signed an additional form that explicitly states AS IS. \n\nLong story short, the vehicle started having problems a month later (which is unfortunate and I do my best to prevent these situations but it happens), customer came back to complain. I stated I would refer him to my mechanic to get work done cheaper, he got very nasty and demanded money back. I can\u2019t do that, so he left and also left the vehicle. I have not touched the vehicle and it is just as he left it. \n\nAnyway, 3 months later I get a summons to court. He\u2019s suing for his money back. I can\u2019t see how a lawyer would take the case seeing as how the vehicle was sold without a doubt AS IS. \n\nAny advice is appreciated.","title":"Sold a car AS IS and it started having problems a month after purchase. Customer suing for money back.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1444071875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nlxt8\/can_i_clone_settlers_of_catan\/","id":"3nlxt8","body":"Hi,\n\nI was wondering if you can help me with this question.. I have started to make a clone of \"Settlers of Catan\" as there isn't a good version out there to play online. Is it legal for me to do that? Even if I don't plan on making any money with it but do that just for the experience and improving other people experience playing it online in comparison to current playcatan.com\n\nI want to use the same game rules, mechanics etc. If that's not possible then how much I should change for it to be legal? \n\nWould using my own graphics\/music\/sound\/code would be enough?\nDo I need to change mechanics or add additional functionality that their game\/site doesn't provide?\n\nThanks in advance for the answer.\n\nP.S. I'm from UK but game would ideally be available to anyone in the world.","title":"Can I clone Settlers of Catan?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1411427744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2h6bi9\/preincorporation_contracts_and_personal_liability\/","id":"2h6bi9","body":"I am part of a company that has yet to be incorporated (United States), but we would like to bring on a contractor to do a bit of work for us. From what I can tell, this seems to fall under pre-incorporation contract law, and I just had a few questions about how this works:\n\n1. Most pre-incorporation sources I have found are state laws. If you plan to incorporate in Delaware, do the pre-incorporation laws from Delaware apply to this contract?\n\n2. While I understand you are personally liable until incorporation, are there any future risks that may arise even after you sign a new contract to transfer liability? Does signing a pre-incorporation contract set a precedent for \"acting as the company\" and somehow make you more liable for the company itself?\n\n3. What is the process for transferring liability to the company (say an LLC)? I read about something called a 'novation' but I'm not sure what that is. Would signing a brand new contract be fine?\n\n4. Do you need to add special language to a pre-incorporation contract stating that the corporate entity has yet to be created?\n\nSorry for all the questions, but it'd be great to learn more about the topic. (I am in California currently, but we are split across multiple states, planning to incorporate in Delaware).","title":"Pre-incorporation contracts and personal liability.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552598068,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b15wj1\/can_apartment_manager_prohibit_tnr_of_feral_cats\/","id":"b15wj1","body":"Since moving this this complex a few months ago, there's been this ongoing nuisance.\n\nMy neighbor is a very sweet lady who \"owns\" several cats, some she calls her own but some are just feral cats in the area. She leaves bowls of cat food outside near her door, so those cats can come and go as they wish. I don't dislike cats, but I do have an issue with people who let their unvaccinated and unfixed cats roam (and it'd equally upset me if it were dogs). Feral cats causing extinction of wildlife aside ([https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms2380](https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms2380)), it's sad that people don't consider that by helping to raise more feral kitten they're contributing to the increase of feral cat population. My other concern is when I walk my dog through the neighborhood I have to be really careful so my dog doesnt eat the cat food in the bowls or on the ground and catch a disease. I've spoken this to the neighbor and the apartment manager, but they both think that \"because they're cats\" it's they should be allowed to roam around, but \"they're not my cat\" so they're not responsible for trap-neuter-return (TNR) and vaccination. \n\n​\n\nToday I suggested the TNR and vaccines to the apartment manager, he immediately tells me it's \"banned\" on property (but it's not on the lease) and that it's \"illegal to harm animals\" -\\_-;; when I tried to explain that it's not \"harming\" them, but just trapping them to get neutered, he refused to listen and reason. Also stating \"feral cats help kill the rodents\" which is true but they also spread all sorts of infectious diseases (I am a medical doctor, but it shouldn't take an MD to know that....).....\"but so do the birds (in spreading diseases)\", well, wild birds arent generally in direct contact with humans and domesticated animals....\n\n​\n\nAnyway, my questions \u2013 what can I do in this situation? Can the apartment complex really ban use of traps for cat TNR? How can I go about finding the person above the apartment manager on the management group website? or how can i find out who the landlord is and contact with regards to this? I believe this is the management group website: [https:\/\/www.castlegroup.com\/](https:\/\/www.castlegroup.com\/)\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Can apartment manager prohibit TNR of feral cats?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506999639,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73xrck\/first_time_arrested_need_serious_advice\/","id":"73xrck","body":"Okay, so I'm in a bit of a panic here. Saturday night I was at a bar with a friend. Somewhere in the 10 minutes it took me to walk home, I was arrested and charged with vandalism. I recall none of what happened in-between the bar and home, but I'll give you my best interpretation of what I can piece together.\n\n\nAccording to my roommate and the police, I left the bar around 9:45 PM. I tried to get into my apartment building. When I was unable to do so, I went into the restaurant below and obtained a meat cleaver. I apparently used this meat cleaver to destroy their plates. The police were called and I was arrested. I woke up in a jail cell.\n\n\nSo this is my first time ever being arrested. I have no history of violence nor a criminal record. This is literally the exact opposite of anything I would ever think of doing. I am on medication for anxiety and depression. I'm in California and have no idea what to do right now.\n\nIf you need anymore information, please don't hesitate to ask. I'm desperately seeking help or any information I can use to help me out.","title":"First time arrested - need serious advice","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569973685,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc2361\/driving_history_report_fees\/","id":"dc2361","body":"I went to an interview with a company that required a printed driving report to be submitted along with I.D. and current certification in the field. Not a huge deal but it cost 15$ out of my own pocket, kind of had me thinking about some of the other applicants that showed up. I can afford to absorb the cost, and will look in to adding it as a write off on my taxes, but maybe not everyone can. Is it legal for potential employers to force you to pay for things like this without reimbursement there is no guarantee of employment? In Washington state.","title":"Driving history report fees","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554347349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b97in2\/divorcehes_robbing_me\/","id":"b97in2","body":"I am a 35f and I bought my own home when I was 28.  Since I bought my house, I have done a lot to it \u2014$12k worth.  Shortly after buying my house, I met a guy.  Very shortly after we got together he found out he had cancer in his leg and had it surgically removed.  I realized a while later into our relationship that he wasn\u2019t paying his medical bills.  So, since we were serious and I\u2019m pretty sure he was living with me at that point in time, I started paying the bills that came in (which ended up totaling $4k). \nHe proposed in 2015 and we married in July of 2016.  I have a really great job and my parents and I paid for the beautiful wedding, which was more than likely combined, $34k easily.  I also paid for my own wedding band.  Shortly after we married I pulled our credit and my new husband had over $4k in collections (which I also paid) from the medical bills he hadn\u2019t paid.  \nWe went to cash our wedding checks and put my name on his checking account.  After we paid for our honeymoon, he had $3,500 in wedding money in his account (that I never touched) to do whatever he wanted\/needed to do.  About 8mo-1yr later I wrote him a check from my account for $1k because he was always close to overdrafting.  \nWe then bought 2 mopeds with money that my family gave us for Christmas.\nIn June of 2018 we put a new roof on the house and the one car detached garage and also sided the garage \u2014 with my money.\nHe paid $2k in stone for the front flowerbed, which he never finished.  \nWe struggled throughout our relationship and marriage.  He would say to me \u201cI\u2019m not going to be married to someone who________.  Even before our marriage he would \u201cthreaten\u201d me with those words.  \nWe talked about divorce on at least 2-3 occasions, with the last time the week prior to me finding out he was cheating.  He said he couldn\u2019t imagine a life without me, that he loved me.  He asked if I loved him and I couldn\u2019t answer.  The next day he had a golfing day with friends.  I thought all day and upon his return I told him that I did Iove him and that I wanted to work it out.  Little did I know, not 5 hours later, he was sexting with a 20 some year old temp he used to work with who has 4 kids and her tubes tied.\nSo in October of 2018 after 2 years and 3 months of marriage, while I was using his phone I saw all of the messages and photos, and I was officially DONE.  \nHe left that Sunday night with baskets of clothes and returned the following morning.  I told him I wanted it to be amicable, that I bought the house before him, he could have his moped, I wanted him to have his 401(k), his car, it just didn\u2019t work out and we go our separate ways.  He said he wouldn\u2019t mess with my house.\nWell, he\u2019s been begging me to come back to him and go to counseling, but I\u2019m done.  His best friend has told me that he has never seen someone love someone as much as he loves me, however, he wouldn\u2019t sign the agreement to go our separate ways and is asking for $20,000 cash.  Not only is he asking for $20k cash, he is asking for the snowblower, the lawnmower, the weedwacker, the backpack leaf blower (all of which I am sure I paid for) and the tv and surround sound.  He is living back at his parents house..where he was when I met him.\nHe paid for internet, cable, and groceries\/restaurants, while I paid for everything else.\nThe state I\u2019m in is a 50\/50 state and I have a lot of equity in my house with all I\u2019ve done to it and due the market we are in right now.  \nHe wants $10k now and the rest of the $10k in 6 months or by the end of the year.\nI don\u2019t have that full amount of cash, so he is leaving me to live paycheck to paycheck after I have worked so hard and paid for everything along the way.  \nI cant even describe how this makes me feel, I am so angry.  With him and myself...for being so generous trying to live our life together.\nHis last words to me were, you said there are consequences to your choices and this is the consequence for divorce..........\ud83d\ude21\nI\u2019ve already written him an email explaining all of the things I paid for to no avail.  He has a good job making good money so it\u2019s not like he can\u2019t afford to live.\n\nHow do I get through to him and his attorney?\n\nI\u2019ve already spent $5k in attorneys fees and we haven\u2019t even gone to mandatory mediation.","title":"Divorce...he\u2019s robbing me","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541539611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9usljo\/needing_advice_on_renting_with_an_emotional\/","id":"9usljo","body":"Believe I got the correct flair, if not tell me I'll fix.\n\nSo my girlfriend has been staying in this rental that normally doesn't allow pets. Shes had this emotional support dog since before moving in there. Shes lived there close to 2 years or so. She has the certificate for the emotional support dog. Recently the office for the landlord gave her a letter stating that she needed to give them an updated prescription for said emotional support dog. This was about 3 weeks ago. Now about 3 days ago they gave her another saying if she doesn't within 10 days, they will start the eviction process. We haven't talked to a lawyer yet, and cant really afford it. What should we do?","title":"Needing advice on renting with an emotional support animal(OK, US)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568396883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3svqw\/restraining_order_court_case\/","id":"d3svqw","body":"My girlfriend is attempting to file a restraining order against her abusive father. We cannot afford a lawyer, and he most definitely can. He was also a lawyer in his home country, so I am reaching out to reddit to see if anyone has any experience or advice regarding the court case for a restraining order. The biggest thing that we are struggling with at the moment is focusing on proving why she still has reason to believe and fear that her father is a physical threat to her. She lives constantly on edge, panicking at every doorbell or doorknock, and even every text or phone call she gets, as it could be her father. He has shown up at our home on several occasions, even when we have made attempts at keeping our new addresses secret. He has assaulted me in the past, and abused her throughout her entire childhood. He continues to call, text, and harass her, and also calls the police repeatedly to appear at our home for \u201cwellness checks\u201d, which is something we have been told that we cannot stop, and is incredibly upsetting to me. \nI\u2019m worried that the judge might not care about all of the emotional abuse and consistent harassment that makes up the most recent encounters with her father, as the physical abuse stopped for the most part when she left her home. The restraining order would give my girlfriend peace of mind that her father will not continue to randomly show up at our home, and will no longer be on the other line of the constant attempts to call her cell, and will allow her to begin to live her life truly free of fear. Any advice or experiences to share would be incredibly welcome! Thanks!","title":"Restraining Order Court Case","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570128891,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcvb02\/trying_to_get_deposit_back_from_landlord\/","id":"dcvb02","body":"First time I\u2019ve done this. Sorry if it\u2019s not 100% clear. \nMy mom and I moved to a house in April here in Iowa. The house wasn\u2019t completely finished but we made an exception since the landlords said they would get it fixed fast for us and they seemed nice. Repairs were a lot of little things such as new mirrors, lights, taking out a counter space, painting the house and some rooms, and etc. There was one big issue though that was needed to be replaced ASAP. They had old furnace vents that covered up halfway up the wall,like them old furnaces used to look like when they were attached through the wall. They took them out and patched up only one side of the wall. Making the other half completely wide open with a huge hole in the wall. My mom watches my nephews so they could easily hurt themselves because they could easily hurt an ankle or a body part playing around the hole. Very unsafe for them or even me and my mother (which my mom walks with a gimp because of a previous surgery) \n\nIt was August and the repairs were still not done besides a mirror being replaced. In this amount of time the Landlords(Husband and wife) got into a domestic case and end up being separated and a whole bunch of other stuff happened between them. One of the landlords decided to close all of their accounts and moved it in their name. Therefore they touched our escrow deposit account and moved it into a different account. Again they still didn\u2019t fix really anything they said they would and touched our deposit and moved it into a different account. Both of the landlords decided to try to get us involved in the middle of the dispute by saying that we need to pay this person and the other landlord was saying we need to pay them. We ended up sending a check to the mailing address on the lease. Still really don\u2019t know who ended up getting the check. \n\nBy the middle of August we sent  them a letter stating they have 7 days (really 11 because of mail service) to fix the repairs or we or voiding the lease. They got the mail and said they didn\u2019t have the money to fix the repairs because of the domestic dispute. So therefore the lease was voided because of repairs not being done to the house. We moved out right away. We sent them both our forwarding address to our new address so we can get the deposit back. They\u2019re now claiming since we voided the lease that we aren\u2019t owed a deposit back because we didn\u2019t finish our lease. We explained to them we would have finished the lease if all the repairs were done  like they claimed would be done. \nWas wondering are they legally able to keep the deposit because the lease was voided? Or are we legally obligated to receive our deposit back because they didn\u2019t hold up to their end of repairing the items that they said they would?","title":"Trying to get deposit back from Landlord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571046659,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhocnk\/assaulted_disneyland_by_stormtrooper_101319\/","id":"dhocnk","body":"(Serious) physically assaulted at Disney by a Stormtrooper. how do i move forward?\n\nHi today i was physically assaulted by a working stormtrooper at approximately 4:57 pm.\nI went to Disney guest services and filed a police report against the assaultee.\nI immediately left Disney land after i filed a police report with Anaheim PD and i\u2019m supposed to call 714-781-1220 (guest relation)\nwith details tomorrow explaining what happened so i can \u201cpossibly\u201d receive a refund.\nDisney should be trying to make this right; not a lot of people can say they were physically abused by a stormtrooper. i\u2019m thinking of lawyering up. the spot had cameras and I\u2019ll have video evidence from the park. What do you guys think? i\u2019m very hurt emotionally and a little sore physically from the attack.\nalso: i have a large (very) large following online; I will be making a post about this so Disney will see.\nhonestly i\u2019m kinda embarrassed too but i will SHARE with my followers if it means JUSTICE.\n#DisneyAssault","title":"Assaulted @ Disneyland by Stormtrooper 10-13-19","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504064593,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wwlto\/usnv_new_landlord_wants_home_warranty_addendum\/","id":"6wwlto","body":"Hello,\n\nBackground: I've rented my home from the same owner for 2.5 years. We have always just added an addendum to the lease, extending it by one year. My home was recently sold to another owner. The new owner wants me to sign an addendum regarding repairs to the home.\n\nMy current lease states the following: \"TENANT shall be responsible for any MINOR repairs necessary to the Premises up to and including the cost of $100.\" \n\nThe addendum the new owner is asking me to sign states the following: \"A home warranty has been placed on the property to assist in covering any needed repairs: Fideltiy Home Warranty 1-800-to-cover. The Home warranty is to be called first for all covered repairs. The co-pay (service call) fee of $75 for the year 2017, will be the responsibility of the tenant. All other uncovered repairs will fall under the terms of the lease agreement.\"\n\nI interpret the current lease terms to mean that if a repair costs more than $100, than I do not pay anything. If a repair is, $100 then I pay the cost of repair. \n\nThe new addendum will require me to pay at least $75 for any repairs done to the house. \n\nCan the new owner interpret the cost of repair as the $75 co-pay, and charge me for the repairs under the current lease terms? I don't feel that I should sign this, and have told her so. However she doesn't seem to understand that I don't feel I shouldn't be paying for any repairs that cost more than $100. ","title":"[US-NV] New landlord wants home warranty addendum.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446068344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qm9gb\/british_columbia_paying_the_damage_deposit_before\/","id":"3qm9gb","body":"I'm from Germany and I am currently searching for an apartment to live in from December in British Columbia, Canada.\n\nI found a place on craigslist I like and I already spoke to the landlord and we agreed on terms (rent and security deposit). Now I am supposed to wire the security deposit (1\/2 rent) before getting a signed lease and the landlord will sign once he receives the amount... Is that normal?\n\nWhile I am fairly certain the landlord is not a scammer (I wrote with the current tenant who is also German - funny coincidence that some nigerian princes probably couldn't arrange) I am still worried because well... I'd be wiring money to a bank account to a stranger from craigslist and the only prove I'd have would be the wiring reason I submit and the emails.\n\nI imagined I'd sign a lease contract first that says something like \"the security deposit is to be paid by the 5th november 2015\" and then I pay the amount.\n\nHow is this normally handled? Should the contract be signed first or is it normal this way?\n\nThanks for any advice!","title":"[British Columbia] Paying the damage deposit before signing anything","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555043464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc9ij3\/i_think_i_may_have_signed_away_my_rights\/","id":"bc9ij3","body":"I was laid off about 4 weeks ago and forced to sign a document in order to get severance for being laid off. In the document it states I will not sue under a whole bunch of reasons including age discrimination. Which the more I think about it is why I was laid off I'm not sure what I can do but all I know is each day I'm getting more and more closer to worrying about my life and how I'm going to survive. is it legal to have me sign away my rights like that?","title":"I think I may have signed away my rights","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1538572015,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9l0zgi\/employee_hand_book_where_some_things_do_not_apply\/","id":"9l0zgi","body":"For instance,  in the handbook it states employees get time and a half on labor day and the day after. I was excited to be working those days until I was told that some of the things in my employee handbook do not apply for the farm as they would at the plant.  I had to sign for this handbook,  acknowledging i received it and would abide by it. \n\n Im an at will employee, also this is a new handbook that came out when people were trying to start a union,  my company had to squeeze in a page or two with their \"philosophy\" on why they are against unions,  which imo has no place in a handbook. \n\nOn another note,  the bosses always pick a choose the rules they wish to enforce. If they break it and it benefits them,  nothing said. \n\nIs my employer breaking any laws doing this? ","title":"Employee hand book where some things do not apply to my department but does not say this in the handbook","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539814825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p39ma\/nursing_school_kicks_nursing_student_out_for\/","id":"9p39ma","body":"Was curious of the legalities here because it *sounds* wrong...but I also couldn't find anything online about it being illegal. I won't say the name of the school, but it's in the United States and is private. ","title":"Nursing school kicks nursing student out for sexual orientation - is this legal?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541454953,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ui1vc\/ia_apartment_managernot_landlorddenying_parking\/","id":"9ui1vc","body":"***posting for my non-redditing friend***\n\nLocation: Iowa, USA\n\nMy friend, T, has been dealing with an apartment manager giving her a hard time for over a year now. T has lived in this apartment for a few years and was intending on renewing her lease for 2019-2020. The apartment manager has \u201clost\u201d T\u2019s rent check(s), repeatedly provoked her dog by taunting it outside the door then giving T noise warnings, and texted\/called her after 10pm multiple times. The apartment manager lives in the building.\n\nT\u2019s boyfriend, K, came to visit one evening. He parked in a spot that was labeled as private and warned that cars without permits would be towed. The towing company was called.\n\nT & K go downstairs to sort out the situation after looking out the window and seeing tow trucks pulling into the lot. They go down and see the car has been dented on the hood and has stickers on the rear and front windshields. The towing employees had not hooked up the car yet.\n\nK calls the apartment manager and requests a guest pass. The apartment manager says no. Per the lease, guest parking passes can only be denied on home game days, which this was not.\n\nK then asked who the property owner is the apartment manager refused to tell him and then hung up. T & K got in the car and went to a drive elsewhere to cool off.\n\nA few minutes later, T received a call from the apartment manager. They argued for a few minutes and then the call ended.\n\nMinutes later, T received a text from the apartment manager informing her she will not be allowed to renew her lease for 2019-2020, giving no reason.\n\nIs there anything that can be done, whether it be getting a guest pass that should be allowed per the lease, getting the name of the property owner or the apartment manager\u2019s boss\/employer, paying for the damages she caused to K\u2019s car (if this can be proved), and\/or allowing T to renew her lease for next year?\n\nTL;DR: problematic on-site apartment manager denied a parking pass that should have been allowed, (probably) damaged a car that was parked illegally in the apartment lot, then refused to disclose then denied tenant the ability to renew her lease without giving a reason.","title":"[IA] Apartment manager\u2014not landlord\u2014denying parking pass allowed via lease and prohibiting tenant from renewing lease without reason","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553964396,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7d9t1\/do_i_have_any_legal_recourse_or_any_options_to\/","id":"b7d9t1","body":"So my complex currently doesn\u2019t have cameras in our parking lots. There has been many cases of vandalism to cars in the 2 years I\u2019ve lived hear and this month my tires have been slashed twice. I suspect am being targeted by a guy I rejected, but without actual proof the police can\u2019t do anything, but now I\u2019m absolutely terrified and I can\u2019t afford to keep repairing these tires. \n\nDo I have any legal option for getting cameras in my apartment complex?","title":"Do I have any legal recourse or any options to get my apartment complex to set up security cameras.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551912757,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay5710\/employment_verification_gone_wrong\/","id":"ay5710","body":"Oregon State.   During the new hire process, the prospective employer contacted my old employer.  The old employer stated to the prospective employer that I was on a do not hire list, now the prospective employer is \"reviewing\" the situation with the manager.  Can my old employer legally divulge that information when verifying Employment? ","title":"Employment verification gone wrong?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571784513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlpyo1\/was_in_a_car_crash_recently_other_driver_is\/","id":"dlpyo1","body":"We were both going the same way on the highway.\n\nThere was only one lane going each direction.\n\nI was behind her. She pulled into the shoulder and turned her blinker on. I though she was going to let me pass. Either way, without apparently checking to see if anyone was behind her, she whipped her car around and attempted to do a U turn in the middle of the highway. I slammed on my brakes, honked, and tried to veer left to avoid hitting her, but I still crashed into her drivers side door. We ended up on the other side of the road, she drove into the grass, her and her boyfriend crawled out, I pulled over on the other shoulder. My truck\u2019s bumper is fucked up, but she still definitely got the worst of it. She got out and was bleeding out her nose, probably from hitting her airbag, and was rushed to the hospital after I called 911. The last I heard, she was doing okay, just very sore. I felt very bad for her but she made a very stupid decision.\n\nI got myself checked at the hospital (even tho I didn\u2019t get the worst of it, my truck is from the 90\u2019s and doesn\u2019t have airbags) and only ended up suffering minor whiplash.\n\nI just got a call from her insurance agency to get a police report which I didn\u2019t have, and they said their might be a dispute about liability. I asked if the driver said it was my fault and she said she can\u2019t disclose her statement but yes. She says it\u2019s apparently because I veered left into her. (Like I said, I veered slightly left in an attempt to avoid her. It\u2019s not like I would have NOT hit her had I stayed straight..)\n\nI have been freaking out. I already got in a minor fender bender earlier this week that I was liable for and my rates are already about to go up.\n\nIt seems pretty goddamn obvious it\u2019s her fault, but based on the story and the situation, could it be possible that I end up being liable because she said it\u2019s my fault?","title":"Was in a car crash recently. Other driver is trying to say it\u2019s my fault even though it seems pretty obvious it wasn\u2019t. Is there a chance I\u2019ll be liable?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553017478,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b30fp7\/girl_from_school_possibly_faking_neck_injury\/","id":"b30fp7","body":"So my friend was driving and as we approached a yield he rolled into someone going maybe 15km\/hr this accident was very minor and almost nothing was felt from us inside the car. Pulled into the nearest parking lot checked for damages and then found out that there were none and she was about to be on her way when teenage boys start joking about neck injury. After going home she texts the driver asking for insurance saying her neck hurts. She didnt take photos or have any evidence it even happened is there a way to avoid this? Canada if that makes a difference. ","title":"Girl from school possibly faking neck injury after very minor car accident!","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570753641,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg76da\/enterprise_rental_is_threatening_to_sue_me\/","id":"dg76da","body":"Roughly around 3-4 months ago. I rented a car from enterprise for 3 days with the car insurance on their website. The next day when I had parked the car in the hotel parking lot, a guy hit my car when he was trying to pull out his car from parking lot. The hotel owner called me immediately and the guy gived me his license and car information and accepted his fault for the hit. At the time I took the photos and videos of everything. He said that car was also a rental car. And he didn't have the rental car insurance with him but had the insurance of his own car. So after that I contacted enterprise and they said at first to pay me $1000 because my insurance from enterprise doesn't cover full money of the accident and they will get the money from the other guy later And return it. And after that I send the photos and videos to their damage and recovery unit. After some time I contacted them to enquiry about the case and they said they are still trying to contact other guy. At the time they were sending car repair bills to me. And now I receive a email saying that they have tried multiple times for payment to me and I haven't paid. and they are going to go over attorney. What should I do now.","title":"Enterprise rental is threatening to sue me","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540335306,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qu2bc\/landlord_trying_to_impose_a_fee_per_person_going\/","id":"9qu2bc","body":"Hi there, guys. Sorry if the formatting is weird - I\u2019m on mobile. I\u2019m also in Maine, if that clears things up. \n\n\nRecently, my roommates and I have decided that we would like to move closer to where we\u2019re going to school - however, we are in month 5 of a 12 month lease. We decided to ask our property manager (called PM from now on) to see if we could sublet our place so we wouldn\u2019t have to break lease. They approved, however they want us to pay a $250 administration fee per person (which would be $750 for all of us). Curious (and a little shocked), I decided to look into our lease to see if there was a place that outlined this fee. Sure enough, in our lease it states:\n\n*\u201dTenant agrees not to assign or sublet the premises, or any part thereof, without first obtaining written permission from management. Management has absolute discretion to deny permission. If permission to sublet or assign is granted, there will be a $250 administration charge\u201d*\n\nNo where does it say *per person*. I thought this was odd, and believed that we should not have to pay the fee per person. I contacted a lawyer, showed him the lease, explained the situation, and he agreed that the language was ambiguous and made it seem like that it was a flat $250 fee - not per person. So, I contacted our PM and explained that we believe $250 a person is wrong, and that we contacted a lawyer about it and they agreed. Our PM, however, did not agree. They said that because the lease is on an \u201cindividual basis\u201d that we\u2019re all subject to the fee. **However** there is only one lease. All of us only signed a single, master lease, so this argument doesn\u2019t make sense to me - and I told them that. PM went on saying that \u201cgiven the circumstances\u201d they have decided to not honor an assignment agreement. \n\nI\u2019m curious as to what my next steps would be. I have all the texts showing this back-and-forth, and the campus lawyer I contacted said that court *usually* go against the party that wrote the contact if there is ambiguous language. I wouldn\u2019t mind taking them to small-claims, however I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s worth it. I\u2019m not sure I could afford a lawyer (seeing as I\u2019m a college student), but I also don\u2019t want to be pushed around by our PM and pay more than we need to. \n\n**TL;DR: Want to sublet apartment to move closer to campus, property manager approves, but only for $750. Lease term goes against property manager, but property manager is not backing down.**","title":"Landlord trying to impose a fee per person, going against lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554161220,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8b5fl\/got_demoted_at_my_job_because_customers_complain\/","id":"b8b5fl","body":"I work as a bartender. I got demoted today because I have a hearing disability and customers complain that I ignore them when I really can\u2019t hear them. What can I do? I\u2019m losing a lot of money. ","title":"Got demoted at my job because customers complain I ignore them but I really can\u2019t hear.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569108001,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7i6sy\/usava_my_parents_want_to_establish_an_llc_under\/","id":"d7i6sy","body":"Throwaway account for *fairly* obvious reasons. United States, Virginia.\n\nI don't want to get into the parental\/filial\/whatever ethical concerns. Purely legal advice please.\n\nMy parents think that I need some sort of leadership opportunity and thus think that establishing a for-\"profit\" LLC would be a good place to show this. I'm obviously against this (it's not true to me) but, hey, what can I do when I'm under their roof and under 18?\n\nMy parents have done this before (they aren't lawyers) for someone else (won't name), and according to them, it's just a \"sign on the dotted line\" matter. But I'm worried that they're going to set me up for trouble in the future. Especially since I'm under 18, I'm not sure if I can even do this. They say that they \"looked it up\" and I could but whatever. What are the legal implications for me, if any, once I turn 18? The minute I turn 18 can I make it like this never happened?\n\nPlan is to show some sort of income (whether legitimate income or not). What about bank accounts\/taxes?\n\nThanks!","title":"[USA-VA] My parents want to establish an LLC under my name, an under-18, for the purposes of making it look like I have some leadership opportunity for college applications. Any legal implications?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542206569,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x0o4z\/is_my_landlord_allowed_to_do_this_new_jersey\/","id":"9x0o4z","body":"​\n\n​\n\n  Thank you so much for your time. Here is a little backstory to help you understand the situation I'm in.\n\n​\n\n I currently an renting a location in New Jersey and have been for the last three years. My landlord is the family member of a co-worker who helped me out when I was going through a bad breakup and helped me connect to the landlord. It's an old beach house, with terrible 50's windows, bad carpet and a terrible yard. I managed to make the place nice and comfortable for myself and a roommate. The process of getting into this place was like applying at Trump palace (the landlord needed so much information, called so many people and had way more questions than any location I've ever rented). Part of this is because they live in Tennessee and hardly get to the see the place--but my coworker is their stand-in and is a reasonable person despite the landlord's bit of anal retentiveness and intensity. \n\nI moved in and they did me the favor of it being an emergency situation and didn't really prepare anything for me. No painting, etc. The doors were very old. There were holes in the framing of the doors to the outside. Fans needed to be replaced, etc. It took two years for them to fix the doors, when they said it would be within the first year. And recently a fan fell out of the ceiling and it's been about two months. They, obviously, aren't the best landlords--but because they're far away and because they're my co-workers family, I've given them a break. And, in essence, they did do me a favor getting me into the location swiftly--despite the quality of the environment. \n\n​\n\n I did them the favor of moving in as well, as the location has been vacant for 2+ years so...technically, I was a godsend too.\n\n​\n\nNow, the problem:\n\n​\n\n I moved in with the landlord stating that the yard was my sole responsibility and needed to be maintained by me. I questioned this, indicating that I've never lived in a location in NJ where the landlord didn't take care of the yard. This yard is vicious--there are massive trees that dropped about 100 bags of a leaves last year--the weeds in the Summer are Jurassic and difficult and pop up like none I've ever seen, there is poison ivy and normal ivy that is difficult to control. It's been hell. I bought a weed wacker and a lawnmower to battle this stuff. It's the worst yard I've ever been in.\n\nI thought it was weird that they wouldn't take care of the lawn and were adamant it was my responsibility but I agreed because I needed the place and didn't realize how much work went into the yard. It's small...but man...it's a vicious yard.\n\nI told my girlfriend it was my responsibility and she laughed at me. She informed me that she is pretty sure it's the landlord's responsibility unless there was a written agreement or it's in the lease. I combed through the mostly hand-written lease and the only information regarding the property is this:\n\n​\n\n CARE OF THE PROPERTY: The Tenant has examined the property, including all facilities, furniture and appliances and is satisfied with the conditions. The Tenant agrees to maintain the property in as good as it is at the start of the Lease except for ordinary wear and tear. The Tenant must pay for all repairs, replacements and damages caused by the act or neglect by the Tenant or the Tenant's visitor. The Tenant will remove all of the Tenant's property at the end of the lease. Any property remaining at the end of the lease is subject to being thrown out.\n\n​\n\nThere isn't anything in the Lease indicating lawn care. \n\nBecause of this, does this mean it is the Landlord's responsibility to take care of the lawn and I've been busting my ass for the last three years taking care of it for no reason? lol\n\nAny advice you guys have is graciously appreciated. Forgive me as I am about to go to work so I may not be swift with replies, but know that you're helping me a great deal.\n\n​\n\n​\n\n \n\n​\n\n​","title":"Is my landlord allowed to do this? (New Jersey)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570547603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df1bvo\/does_twitter_allow_you_to_make_money_off_someones\/","id":"df1bvo","body":"Conceptually, I have a program in mind that takes the recent **public** tweets of a user account, finds a specific string of text in that tweet, then uses that string in a different website (to which isn't relevant to my question). My question would be does Twitter explicitly not allow a program like this to be made in the first place and\/or used for commercial purposes?\n\nThanks!","title":"Does Twitter allow you to make money off someone's Tweets? (USA)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570894242,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgwmff\/medicaids_approved_parents_didnt_know_they_were\/","id":"dgwmff","body":"Fianc\u00e9 was approved for Medicaid and didn\u2019t know she was supposed to be taken off her parents within 31 days, it\u2019s now a month and 16 days into having Medicaid and she\u2019s pregnant, parents cannot drop her from their plan until January (open enrollment) and last day of February is baby due date, for future ultra sounds and doctor visits should she be using her Medicaid or parents insurance basically what should she do to not have some form of insurance fraud.","title":"Medicaid\u2019s approved parents didn\u2019t know they were supposed to drop me from their plan within 31 days","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1541955911,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w5eg2\/how_illegal_is_it_to_impersonate_someone_over_the\/","id":"9w5eg2","body":" \n\nCan you be prosecuted or sued for using someone's employment information over the phone for purchasing at staff discount and then reselling at profit.  \nTalking tens of thousands of dollars. Less than 100,000$ though.\n\nSecondly if you have authorization from this person to call on their behalf are you still liable?\n\nThanks","title":"How Illegal is It to Impersonate Someone Over the Phone for Discount Abuse","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570545398,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df0tsq\/should_i_put_my_handle_on_my_street_art\/","id":"df0tsq","body":"Hiya, I\u2019m an artist and I recently made a bunch of stickers of my art that include my social media username in the lower corner. I\u2019m a student in NYC and this is just for fun. \n\nIt dawned on me that this could be a way that police could figure out it was me putting stickers up.\n\nIs this actually something I should worry about legally? Getting caught doing the act is one thing, and I doubt that would happen. But would they actually go as far as searching my social media handle on the stickers? Is that even legal?\n\n( I\u2019ve seen other artists get in trouble for similar situations, like Shepard Fairey in Boston, but nothing handle related)","title":"Should I put my handle on my street art?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541704901,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vd0ju\/i_work_for_a_company_where_i_know_for_a_fact_a\/","id":"9vd0ju","body":"I picked up a part-time job at a local retail store. Within weeks of working there I became familiar of a heavy drug presence at work. Many of the associates, coordinators and supervisors share drugs amongst each other; often times they will show up to work just after taking them. Is this professional or accepted? ","title":"I work for a company where I know for a fact a majority of their employees\/supervisors go to work inebriated. Is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550655328,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asmeti\/soon_to_be_former_employer_setting_conditions_not\/","id":"asmeti","body":"State is Wisconsin\n\nI'm an owner\/operator which means that I own my semi truck and lease onto a company that dispatches me. I'm leaving the company and went through my contract to see what to expect.\n\nThere are a few relevant things in my contract:\n\n1. \"Surety bond will be forfeited if 30 days notice of cancellation is not given by Contractor.\"\n\n2. \"carrier shall pay Contractor 76.25% of the gross... amount shall be paid within 15 days after delivery of documents by Contractor.\n\n3. Under the Security Deposit section there is a subsection that says \"Upon termination of this agreement, and after Carrier has made all appropriations authorized herein, Carrier shall provide Contractor with a final accounting and shall within 45 days after termination, return the balance of the security deposit to Contractor.\" and.\" In the event Contractor fails to make additional deposits Carrier may withhold funds from gross revenues due Contractor in amounts sufficient to meet these requirements.\"\n\nThis is really everything pertaining to pay, notice and the security deposit. I asked about the \"surety bond\" because having looked up what that is I don't recall doing one and it is not the same as a security deposit. The email response I got was that if I gave 2 weeks notice I would get the deposit of $500 back but that they would take 60 days to send me the pay I'm owed which right now is at $9,000 and will be over 15,000 by the end of this weekend.  \n\n NEITHER of these things are in the contract at least as I'm reading it. The appropriations in point 3 are specified as being against the security deposit and if the deposit doesn't cover whatever then the contractor is asked to make additional deposits (not simply withholding from pay). I asked for documentation on the surety bond and was given none, it wasn't even addressed in the email I received. \n\nMy questions:\n\nAm I reading this correctly? As there's no surety bond I could give whatever notice I want and should legally receive pay 15 days after they get the paperwork and my deposit 45 days after I leave? \n\nIs it worth pushing for them to follow their own contract, as supposedly I'll get everything within 60 days? What bothers me is that I know of other people who left and lost the security deposit. There are maybe 6 other people who will be following me out in the next month or so as well and it would be nice to make things easier for all of them. \n\nIf this is a battle I should fight, is it lawyer time now or should I communicate with them myself referencing the contract and ask where they're seeing the 2 weeks \/ 60 days stuff? I've been through the contract and there is NOTHING ELSE about pay or notice, and the rest of the security deposit section is about the amount, they can charge against it for expenses and advances and if that happens the contractor is asked to put more money in. \n\nThanks in advance for anyone with the knowledge and expertise to point me in the right direction here! \n\nAnd yes, I know I should just set up my own authority. I'm working on it. If you see \"Chow Hound Express\" on the road in a year or so smile and wave!\n\n","title":"Soon to be former employer setting conditions not found in contract","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541732446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vgsgz\/i_think_my_employer_has_broken_several_laws\/","id":"9vgsgz","body":"Recently my boss has been extremely hostile towards me when she is actually around. Sometimes, she says things or does things that I feel may have broken some sort of law or infringed upon my rights as an employee. I could really use some help in knowing the legalities of these situations and if there\u2019s anything I can do about it. I will list the incidents with some background info below. \n\nI started nearly a year ago (Nov. 27th) and have gone above and beyond in my department. About halfway thru the year, when my company was doing reviews and giving out raises, it was discovered that the outsourcing company we use for Payroll and Benefits had made a keystroke error and increased my pay by $1 per hour. At this point I had worked enough regular and overtime to accumulate roughly $1300 in over payment. After a very abrupt and insensitive meeting, I agreed to pay it back over time in retro pay. Around the start of Oct this year (2018) I was given the opportunity to change departments, to which I took. I have now been in there a month and training has not gone like it has in the past. The process is very \u201cspur of the moment\u201d and very lackluster at times. I have weekly meetings with my boss and each week she has crossed further over the line of unprofessional and recently said things that I think have gone too far. \n\nJust to be clear, my director, my old supervisor, and my coworker listed are all female but separate individuals. When I refer to my boss, I am referring to my Director. \n\n1) Several of my coworkers have refused to speak about benefits, deductions, wages, etc. All reciting the same line, \u201cIt could get us fired.\u201d I know this is typically against the law, but most resources have stated its for the rights to unionize, which we don\u2019t have nor does our type of work have a union. \n\n2) In my last meeting with her, she brought my coworker in (who is not a supervisor) but she is training me in the new department. She disclosed a possible termination of my employment in front of my coworker as well as saying she was revoking my ability to work overtime because I had abused it.\n\n3) During this same meeting she stated that she was \u201cGiving me overtime so that I could repay my loans,\u201d referring to the overpayment. I was told by my HR director I could not discuss this, how was she able to bring it up under a lie, and also put my financial situation out for my coworker to hear? Even IF I did have loans, I feel as though that my employer should not be able to talk about them in front of my coworkers. \n\n4) She is claiming that I am abusing privileges and lying. Literally every incident she cites is a matter of someone telling her I did or said something with no factual evidence. For instance; I was talking to a coworker off the clock, outside of the building about the situation and another coworker overheard it and reported it to her. Every incident she uses against me is what someone else has reported, with no evidence than word of mouth. \n\n5) My previous supervisor and I had a friendship previous to us working together. A lot of the time, she would cross over the professional line and say things not only unprofessional, but also against HR policies and federal laws. When I reported this to our director she stated that she couldn\u2019t do anything because of friendship. Mind you, I gave very clear cut examples, incidents, and listed witnesses. Some of the things she would say would be a very clear threat of violence over mistakes, hateful remarks, and at times she would question the intelligence of my teammates. I remember several times she asked if my coworker had a learning disability behind her back. \n\nIf any of this in fact does infringe on our rights as employees, or breaks any clear cut laws, I would greatly appreciate it if you could explain it and cite them if possible. I am in need of help. ","title":"I think my employer has broken several laws regarding employee rights","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540431253,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r5ui2\/leasing_office_opened_and_attempted_to_cash_my\/","id":"9r5ui2","body":"Upon letting go of a job, my latest paycheck was mailed to my apartment. Rather than the mail going to my assigned mail-box, it was delivered to the leasing office due to the mailman not having the specific key to the residents mail room. Unaware of this, I walk out of my front door one evening to find my paycheck in an envelope attached to my door. The paycheck has been opened, pulled from the pay stub itself, stamped with my apartments insignia on the endorsement line in an attempt to cash the check. The property manager signed a note attached to the envelope explaining the situation and implying forgiveness be given. What can\/should be done in this situation? Is this a criminal offense? The check now cannot be cashed, & to be reissued a new check I must pay a fee which makes the check practically worthless. ","title":"Leasing office opened and attempted to cash my personal check \u201cassuming it was a rent payment.\u201d","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553200073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3vk4q\/autoinsurance_company_refusing_to_pay_for_full\/","id":"b3vk4q","body":"I was rear-ended about three weeks ago on my way home from work.  The other driver admitted fault and everything was done through their insurance company.  Their insurance set up a rental car for me to use while my car was being fixed.  I dropped my car off with the repair shop at the dealership where I purchased it. The insurance company gave an initial estimate for repair cost and time based off of photos from the time of the accident.    \n\n\nTheir initial estimate was that it should only take 2 days for the repairs.  I dropped my car off for repairs (and picked up the rental car) on 3\/5\/19. My entire bumper needed to be replaced and so the repair shop had to order it and have it delivered.  Because of the bad weather in my area, there were several delays in having the bumper delivered.  The insurance company approved 2 extensions for the time it took and the additional labor that the repair shop requested.  I received my car back from the repair shop on 3\/15\/19 and returned the rental car same day.    \n\n\nI got a call from the insurance company yesterday saying that I was only approved for the rental car for 2 days and they extended it out to 3\/11\/19 as a courtesy but that I now had to pay the cost of the rental car from 3\/12\/19-3\/15\/19.    \n\n\nI told them that was unacceptable and I would not be doing that.  The person I spoke with kept repeating the same line over and over that the repair was only approved for 2 days and they weren't responsible for the extra time it took.  I asked to speak with a manager and he initially refused before offering to transfer me to a voicemail.  The number he transferred me to said I had to enter an extension to leave a voicemail for a specific person, so I ultimately couldn't leave a message.  I intend to call back today but I want to know if they are allowed to do this, or if I have any ground to stand on since they approved the extended time for the repairs and I was never given an option to return the rental car sooner to avoid the cost. ","title":"Auto-Insurance company refusing to pay for full rental car cost - Minneapolis, MN","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554819395,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb8gl2\/oklahoma_air_conditioner_is_not_working_properly\/","id":"bb8gl2","body":"We put in a maintenance request on 3-25 because our AC wasn\u2019t working properly, we had it set to 68 and it hadn\u2019t dipped below 73 for a few days so we called it in. I got a call from our property manager the next day (3-26) and she told me that they weren\u2019t going to be servicing any AC units until we got \u201csome consistently warmer weather\u201d. Another week or so went by and the temp had stayed the same inside the apartment so we set the thermostat to 65 and the temperature inside has now risen to 76 degrees. I put in another maintenance request on 4-7 and haven\u2019t heard anything back yet. If she refuses maintenance again what are our options? It\u2019s supposed to get up to 90 degrees today, and I\u2019m already having trouble sleeping with it as warm as it is inside.","title":"(Oklahoma) Air Conditioner is not working properly and apartment landlord has not done anything about it despite multiple maintenance requests.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568495500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4b3vp\/is_it_legal_for_an_employer_to_call_a_previous\/","id":"d4b3vp","body":"I\u2019m in SC (so is my employer) and the job is in NC. \n\nI recently started a concrete demolition job. They didn\u2019t ask for my employment history when I was being hired. This is a job that just needs to be done as soon as possible, so I was just taken through training and put to work. \n\nThis is a medium-sized company and they\u2019ve been around a while. \n\nDuring a casual conversation WHICH MY BOSS INITIATED, I told him where I was before when he asked. (My previous boss did not like me at all.) But we spoke for a bit longer and then I went back to work. It really just felt like two guys chatting. \n\nThe next day I received a call from the same boss telling me to stay home the rest of the week because they wanted to move me somewhere else. \n\nThe problem is that no other site has as high of pay or as many hours. I was hired for this specific job. I\u2019d already completed my two weeks at my last job. I also already dropped a large sum of money buying equipment so that I could work this job. \n\nI was very smart about how I carried myself on the job so it\u2019s not really possible that I became a problem. I would know. There was no warning with this. It came out of left field. No one even mentioned anything I was doing wrong. \n\nAssuming he contacted my previous employer, is this legal? Feels like I\u2019ve read that they need permission to contact previous employers.","title":"Is it legal for an employer to call a previous employer without my permission?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552664835,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1ghjr\/my_friend_gets_donations_for_his_time_can_he\/","id":"b1ghjr","body":"Hello,\n\nMy buddy makes something like $200k in cash donations, what\u2019re the chances he could spend it? Is it considered illegal funds? Is it illicit to make such an amount? If not, how does he go about spending it? ","title":"My friend gets \u201cdonations for his time\u201d, can he spend his donations?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553235179,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b41hc9\/california_i_just_started_a_new_job_three_weeks\/","id":"b41hc9","body":"The medical procedure I\u2019m having done will probably start in three or four weeks, at which point I\u2019ll only have had the job for six weeks or so. In recovering from this, I won\u2019t be able to work or even drive for four weeks.\n\nI\u2019m told that I\u2019m entitled to take an unpaid medical leave and I can\u2019t be fired or be replaced, so my job will still be there when I come back. Is that true?\n\nThe job is part-time, 26 hours a week. I don\u2019t know if that makes a difference. ","title":"[California]: I just started a new job three weeks ago and a sudden medical issue has come up, requiring me to take a month off work. I\u2019m not asking for any kind of paid leave or disability benefits, but I do want to keep my job. What are my rights in this situation?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539795791,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p0igc\/ny_right_to_raw_materials_from_work_created_by_a\/","id":"9p0igc","body":"Ironically, the second issue I\u2019ve needed to come to this sub for in the past week. I run a small video production company and recently did a project for a large client where I outsourced GFX work to a company based in PA.  While my agreement with the large client is clearly defined as a \u201cwork for hire\u201d.  I merely signed a credit card authorization form for the GFX company for them to do the work.\n\nThe project was completed sufficiently and the client asked that all raw materials including footage, project files etc to be collected and sent to them in a hard drive. This is not uncommon and I\u2019ve dealt with this kind of thing in the past. I prepared my files and when I reached out to the GFX company they said that goes against their company policy and their raw materials are property of theirs even if the final video is property of the client.  This is highly uncommon for me and I\u2019m not sure what to do as technically I could be in breach of my agreement with the client if they can\u2019t receive all materials.  Also, the work this company did was using the clients \u201cstyle guide\u201d (which means their logos, brand colors and proprietary font). \n\nI don\u2019t want this to become a big deal, But I feel like they are being incredibly unreasonable considering I didn\u2019t sign anything that stated that they would own the raw materials (Which in that case I would not of hired them).  Can I legally pursue this if I needed to or am I SOL?","title":"[NY] Right to raw materials from work created by a sub-contractor","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554167146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8cbq4\/how_long_should_i_give_someone_not_on_a_lease_to\/","id":"b8cbq4","body":"Hello, my roommate and I are currently living in Spokane Valley, Washington, in the United States\n\n​\n\nWe have two other roommates, that there have been growing issues with them, and it finally came to a head this past weekend. My roommate and I have had a discussion, and have decided that rather than us leave the home that we were the first to move into, that we would tell them they need to move.\n\nMy roommate is the only person on the lease, even I am not on the lease. The landlord knows he and I, and will come by every month to pick up rent and to also fix little problems around the house. He doesn't even know the other two at all. He knows OF THEM, but they never bother to interact.\n\n​\n\nSince the other two are not on the lease, do we still need to give a set amount of days for them to move out? Also, do we still need to have our landlord an eviction notice?\n\nThank you for your time","title":"How long should I give someone not on a lease to move out?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571248564,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dit1bf\/pedophile_catfishing_as_friend\/","id":"dit1bf","body":"We have a pedophile catfishing as my friend on facebook, what do we do about this situation. They Managed to snag a picture of my friend from another social network. She has never had a facebook account, how do we go about correcting this. Can we send in a report to take the profile down? does facebook allow us to do that or do we need a court order or something?","title":"Pedophile catfishing as friend","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551075433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auhwzf\/heirs_seeking_guidance\/","id":"auhwzf","body":"WA state.  My (47 yo M) 90 year old Aunt passed away 3 months ago in FL.  She left everything to me and my Sister (so her house and assets and whatever else.)  I\u2019ve been receiving offers from \u2018real estate investors\u2019 in FL offering to buy \u201cmy home\u201d So apparently my name must now be on the deed?  \n\nAnyway I was under the impression that my late Aunt made arrangements through an attorney to have her assets dispersed to her heirs (me and my Sister) but no one has contacted me\/us.  We have no information as to whom that person is if in fact there is such a person at all. \n\nWhat is protocol here?  Is someone going to be contacting me\/us?  Should I reach out to some governing body?   What should we do next?  \n\nThanks in advance. ","title":"Heirs seeking guidance.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553714663,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b68hs7\/can_my_job_refuse_my_modified_work_duties_alberta\/","id":"b68hs7","body":"I tore a ligament two weeks ago in my wrist and had a doctors note saying I am fine to work I just can\u2019t lift anything too heavy and need to wear my wrist brace until my ligament is fully healed and my job has been canceling all my shifts since then with all of these excuses:\n\n1. Your arm isn\u2019t that bad you\u2019ll be fine by tomorrow you don\u2019t need a brace\n\n2. We don\u2019t think you\u2019re okay to work even though you have a doctors note saying you are\n\n3. We don\u2019t want customers seeing someone whose injured working\n\n4. \u201cWe really need you to work, I don\u2019t think your arm is that bad\u201d \n\nEtc...\n\nAre they even allowed to do this when I have specific orders from the doctor that I am allowed to work as long as I wear my brace? And does it count as discrimination for them to say they don\u2019t want me to wear a brace because customers will see that I have an injury, they don\u2019t like the way it looks? I\u2019m running low on rent money very quickly.","title":"Can my job refuse my modified work duties? Alberta, Canada","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569948610,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbw68d\/wife_just_put_in_her_2_week_they_just_said_they\/","id":"dbw68d","body":"She has about 50 hours of vacation left.  She put in her 2 weeks notice about 2 hours ago.\n\nShe was just told they would not be paying her remainder of her vacation hours.\n\nIs this legal?  It\u2019s the first I\u2019ve heard of it.\n\nWe are in Missouri.","title":"Wife just put in her 2 week. They just said they will not pay her remaining vacation hours.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410900575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2glg4e\/partners_trying_to_dilute_me_florida\/","id":"2glg4e","body":"Basically we have an existing operating agreement and I have talked with two lawyers now that have reviewed the operating agreement and nowhere does it say they can dilute me without my authorization. Also our website has been running for two months now and I just filed it under copyright for myself (nowhere in our agreement does it say the company owns the code). So they sent me a email yesterday with the \"new terms\" and it takes me from 22% to 7%. \n\nI was advised by both lawyers to first copyright the code (did this morning). Then they said to inform all members that I will not be diluting my shares and if they try to do so they are in direct violation of the agreement and will be sued. On top they said I can get a court injunction since they are using my copyrighted code without a license to do so. \n\nMy goal is to just get out of this company but I won't do so without being bought out. \n\nIs there a good way to communicate this to them? I know a letterhead with a lawyers name on it will hold a lot more value but I want to give them a buyout price to license the software for life, and to buy me out fully of my position. \n\nI know I haven't provided all the details but based on this short description is there a good way to word what I just said into a threatening letter?\n\nEdit: It seems you guys are confused on exactly what I am looking for...What is the best way to contact the members and tell them I don't intend to allow them to dilute me? Email or letterhead.","title":"Partner's trying to dilute me (Florida)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539465745,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nxdvv\/have_to_attend_court_for_inattentive_driving\/","id":"9nxdvv","body":"Hey guys,\n\nI received a citation last month for inattentive driving and have a court date on Monday for said ticket. I\u2019ve never been to court and have only received a couple speeding tickets in my younger years. \n\nI was at a red light, glanced up and the light had turned green, looked down to adjust my GPS and let my foot off the break and proceeded to roll (literally. My foot never touched the gas) into the vehicle in front of me. The vehicle in front was a tow truck with a steel bed so it did not incur any damages and my car was drivable. \n\nI know little to nothing about this stuff so I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m in for as far as court goes. All I know is that when I called about it, they told me the fine was $200. I will say I definitely don\u2019t have the resources to hire a lawyer even if that\u2019s the optimal move. \n\nThanks in advance, guys! ","title":"Have to attend court for inattentive driving ticket. Need advice.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539016550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mgglw\/my_apartment_is_chargeing_me_a_250_fee_fee_i\/","id":"9mgglw","body":"I have lived here for 21\/2 years and when i moved in i paid the pet fee for my small dog. Now there are new managers and she says i never paid it and is saying if i dont pay I will get evicted. They are saying I need to show proff I paid cause they either have no record or lost record of it. Can they do this? What can i do?","title":"My apartment is chargeing me a $250 fee fee I already paid. I been living here 2 1\/2 years.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568997879,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6xl9x\/security_deposit_ca\/","id":"d6xl9x","body":"Moved out of my first apartment last month. I was told that I would receive my security deposit after 3 weeks at my new address. Tomorrow is day 21 after we handed back the keys, and I haven't gotten anything.\n\nWhat happens if they don't send it to me? Some websites say they aren't allowed to take any of the money if they don't get me the remaining amount back within 21 days. Is that true? If I get it on the 23rd day but it was mailed on the 20th day, does it count as within 21 days?\n\nDifferent websites for California law are saying different things, so I could use some legal advice.","title":"security deposit (CA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553345372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4it37\/looking_for_advicehelp_with_buying_a_vehicle_that\/","id":"b4it37","body":"USA, North Carolina\n\nHere\u2019s what I am doing:\n\n-Going to seller\u2019s home in nearby state w\/Mechanic\n\n-Complete BOS w\/ Notary present\n\n-Hand over check from bank\n\n-Have the seller mail me a physical copy of the digital title from their bank within 90 days\n\n-Register vehicle in my state with title and BOS present\n\n-DMV will pass title to bank once I report it has a lien\n\n\nHow safe am I if seller fails to send me title? Will a BOS ensure the return of my loan in a court of law? \n\nI understand at that point I will receive no help from the bank, and only from a court of law. \n\nSorry if this is the wrong subreddit for this. Thank you everyone.\n\nAlso, should I use a BOS from the state I am registering the vehicle in, or the state I am buying it from? ","title":"Looking for advice\/help with buying a vehicle that has a lien, with a loan in a different state.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1506699050,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/738k1n\/tx_mental_health_parity_act_question\/","id":"738k1n","body":"Reposting from last night for greater visibility since I didn't get any comments on the last one. \n\nHey guys, I have a question about the mental health parity act.\n\nSome relevant facts: \n\nI have a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan PPO policy through my employer. My co pays are $25 for GP office visits and $40 for specialists. Mental health coverage is included. \n\nI go to a clinic that specializes in ADHD. It's a medical clinic, there are no psychiatrists, only MDs. ADHD is the only thing they do, but they focus on treatment via medication, not therapy. \n\nI am prescribed a schedule two drug, so I have to go see the doctor to get refills, I can't call in. I believe the longest prescription they are allowed to give is 90 days, because I am new I have to go once a month for now. After a while they may allow me to pick up a prescription without seeing the doctor (I have heard this, but am not sure), but for the time being I see the doctor every time. \n\nAfter the first couple of visits where they were establishing a diagnosis (ran some tests that I had to pay for bc my deductible wasn't met), my visits are now just to chat with doctor about how the medicine works to see if they need to adjust the dosage or switch to a different medication (How are the symptoms, side effects, etc). This takes less than five minutes. It is an office visit. \n\nBefore I started going to this clinic they ran my insurance, as is their policy (and a good practice). I was told that the initial couple of visits would be a little expensive because of the tests they had to run, but that my ongoing office visits would be covered by a $25 co pay. I have had several of these ongoing appointments, and they have collected the $25 co pay each time, as they were directed to do by my insurance company. \n\nStory:\n\nToday, I go in for a visit to pick up my refill. As they are collecting my co pay, they told me that my insurance came back from the first refill visit, and that I owe them some money. We were both confused because of the conflicting information. I have asked them to look into on their end, and I called my insurance company. \n\nMy insurance company told me that while the claim is covered, it is being viewed as mental health treatment. Because of this, I am responsible for the charges until my deductible is met, and after it is it would be covered at 80% as coinsurance. Under my insurance it says that outpatient mental health treatment is covered as they say, and outpatient medical services are subject to he same requirements. \n\nHere is where my question comes into play. If this were being viewed as a medical visit instead of mental health visit, it would undoubtedly be an office visit, which would be subject to a co pay. Therefore, their assertion that this was a mental health visit subject to my deductible and coinsurance seems to be a direct violation of the mental health parity act. \n\nMy reading of it says that insurance companies cannot have different billing practices\/restrictions\/requirements on mental health coverage than they do with medical coverage. It seems that my insurance company is trying to say that I am billed differently for mental health office visits than for medical office visits. This seems to be exactly the kind of thing the act is designed to stop. \n\nIs my understanding of this correct? \n\nI personally don't think that this should be considered a mental health treatment because it was a visit to a medical doctor, and I am not engaged in any therapy. If I had received a prescription through a psychiatrist as a result of counseling sessions, that would be one thing, but that is not the case. However, I do see their point that ADHD is technically a mental condition. That being said, I'm not sure that the distinction even matters for the reasons above. \n\nOn top of this, the insurance company is refusing to show me documentation on how the visit was billed (other than the EOB), and they will not provide me with a copy of the section of my policy that they based their decision off of. They directed me to go through HR to get the policy information, HR told me to go through the insurance company. \n\nThe insurance company told me that I can appeal the decision, but I find it outrageous that they expect me to appeal to a kangaroo court without even having detailed information about the grounds on which my claim decision was made. \n\nMy HR rep was on the phone with me during the phone call where they refused to give me this information, and we are going to look into it more tomorrow. \n\nWhat do you all think of this? What are my options? \n\nTLDR: My insurance company says my monthly office visits to a MD to pick up my ADHD prescriptions are a mental health benefit and therefore subject to coinsurance coverage of 80% after my deductible is met. I have a PPO plan, so I pay either a $25 or $40 co pay for medical office visits. Am I correct in thinking that this is a violation of the mental health parity act? \n","title":"[TX] Mental Health Parity Act Question","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1555172587,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcs7lz\/water_damage_in_our_ceiling_landlord_is\/","id":"bcs7lz","body":"Me and my 2 roommates have lived in an apartment in Chicago for about 2 years. It\u2019s a great spot and almost a perfect situation. \nHowever about a year and a half ago, A small water spot appeared in our living room. We reached out to the landlords and they reached out to building management (building management refuses to talk to non-owners). They said they\u2019re was a leak in the roof and they needed to fix it. This leads to a year long ordeal where they maybe fixed it (management won\u2019t talk to us) after it got so bad our ceiling was dripping. \n\nAt this point, it doesn\u2019t seem to be getting worse, but our landlords are very hands off and have ignored a few messages about getting the ceiling fixed a few months ago. They\u2019re nice people, but we want it fixed. We\u2019re scheduling a call for next week to discuss and plan at the end to tell them we\u2019re sending a written notice that in 2 weeks we will begin withholding rent based on an inspectors evaluation of how much the damage devalues the property. We believe there in noncompliance with CRLTO 5-12-110 and that\u2019s listed as one of course of action we are allowed to take. Is this a good move? We also want to know our options for withholding rent during repairs as it will affect our space. The damage has spread along the sheet rock seams and we assume repairs might be substantial. \n\nWe hesitate to play it too hard because one of the landlords is a lawyer, but we\u2019re assuming any action he takes we be against the management company and not us. \n\nPlease help us get our ceiling fixed. It looks like shit.","title":"Water damage in our ceiling. Landlord is non-responsive.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441947028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ki5ht\/ont_canada_university_dorm_room_is_way_too_hot\/","id":"3ki5ht","body":"So this may seem petty, but you try living in a room that's anywhere between 31-33C (88-90F) and you tell me it's petty.\n\nSo I moved in on Sunday. It was already at the temperature it currently is when I moved in. I couldn't tell anyone on Sunday or Monday because of the weekend\/Labor Day.\n\nOn Tuesday I spoke in person to the housing coordinator. She sent an email to maintenance. No one showed up on Tuesday. I sent an email myself on Wednesday. I get a reply back saying someone will be coming by that morning to fix it, no one came.\n\nI told them no one came, I get another reply back that they adjusted the temperature this Thursday morning, and to expect it to lower in a few hours.\n\nIt's now 12:50 A.M. Friday morning and it's still 88F.\n\nDo I have any legal standing on this or am I just going to have to deal with this incompetence until they maybe eventually fix it? ","title":"[Ont, Canada] University dorm room is way too hot (31C\/88F) maintenance keeps saying they are\/will fix it but nothing has been done to my knowledge.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502869966,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u0k3f\/i_need_some_advice_about_reporting_apartment\/","id":"6u0k3f","body":"My ex-fiancee had ordered me to leave our apartment after cheating on me with my best friend (her new boyfriend). He has been living there for the last month as an illegal sublet and there is a dog there without a pet deposit.\n\nI just gave my 30-day notice yesterday. While I don't have a key, I know I'm still allowed access to the apartment. Can I report him and the dog and not have this effect my record? What would likely happen to her?\n\nI currently have a $1250 deposit out of $1500 total invested in the apartment.\n\nWe're past our 1 year lease and we're paying month to month.\n\nThanks!","title":"I need some advice about reporting apartment contract violations (California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502933997,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u6rrq\/landlord_wrongly_trying_to_sue_us_but_we_have\/","id":"6u6rrq","body":"Hello Reddit! Long time lurker but joined because I would like some advice because I've seen a lot of helpful comments on this sub before. \n\nLocation: North Little Rock, Arkansas \n\nFormer landlord is trying to sue us saying we moved out without notice - that she came over and the place was empty. We have text message proof that she was well aware and we let her keep deposit due to us relocating before lease was up. She was fine with this and even had a realtor come show the house to new tenants before we moved out. New family was in the house in just two weeks after we moved out. \n\nWe have proof she not only knew but agreed to it. We sent this proof to a lawyer today. He thinks we have a solid case. I don't know what all other details to give so please let me know if I left anything out. \n\nMy questions are - what are some possible outcomes? With the proof we have will the case likely be dismissed? Is there anything else we should do? I'm asking here because this sub has a lot of great advice and I would like to cross my Ts and dot all my I's and get other input even though we did contact a lawyer today. \n\nOur landlord is basically trying to get money out of us - she wasn't exactly the smartest with money and we even had suspicions that had we finished the lease we wouldn't have gotten a deposit back because she seemed a little shady. So we know she's trying to milk us out of more money that we don't owe her. If anything I'm tempted to counter sue because of what she's trying to do. ","title":"landlord wrongly trying to sue us - but we have proof - what are options or likely outcomes?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552618967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b19n3n\/can_my_employer_entirely_change_my_job_duties\/","id":"b19n3n","body":"Is it illegal for my employer to change my job description so dramatically, that it is no longer the job that I signed up for, all without a new job title (or raise)? \n\nThey have added on additional duties over the past couple years, which was tolerable. \n\nHowever, they are now wanting me to learn an entire other job (for which people have already been hired and are doing), and do that stuff ON TOP OF my current responsibilities. \n\nThis is literally two different jobs they want me to do at once. They have to train me for the new job, so it's not like it's massively similar or \"in my purview.\" \n\nAre they able to do this, legally? I asked them a new title for me and my departmental coworkers (they want us all to do this) and whether they would propose raises for us. They initially said they would ask corporate about it, now there seems to be no hope of either. \n\nAlso, they have quite dramatically changed my schedule as well. I used to get off work at 8 and now I'm here until 11 at night. :( \n\nI feel like if they want me to do this they need to pay me for the 4 years of experience I have, just like they would ANY new hire coming in to do the new \"combo\" job. As it is, they're playing me like I only have 1.5 like I had when I got here 2+ years ago. \n\nAnyone have any thoughts on this? I'm already applying for new jobs because the whole thing is depressing me horribly (almost an understatement), but I'd like to know if there's something I can do legally or with HR... Thanks. ","title":"Can my employer entirely change my job duties without giving me a new title?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539461745,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nwvv7\/il_eli5_what_i_just_got_in_the_mail\/","id":"9nwvv7","body":"I was in an accident on 9\/1 and I was at fault. I had liability insurance on the vehicle. There were 2 parties in the other vehicle. I thought I had everything squared away but today I got something in the mail for both parties from an attorneys office saying they wanted a reasonable contingency fee for both party 1 vs. me and party 2 vs. me. What is this? Am I getting sued? Will my insurance provide me with a lawyer?","title":"[IL] ELI5: What I just got in the mail","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539880514,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pavx1\/buying_a_business_that_didnt_record_cash_revenue\/","id":"9pavx1","body":"So I am in the process of buying a business. It doesn't sell inventory or products. It offers clean up services for businesses and home developers. \n\nWhile I was looking over the balance sheets and other financials. I noticed that the business income doesn't add up with the area that the owner lives. The area the seller lives in is very rich and pricey. \n\nWhen I brought this up to my future business partner who is splitting the cost of the purchase she said that the seller gets paid a lot in cash and doesn't record it. This immediately made me freak out. She said that as long as we record all future revenue after the purchase we will be fine. The business has been in operation for 5 years. \n\nMy biggest question is how does the business tax filings affect me after our purchase? \nCan I be held responsible by the IRS for the businesses previous filings?\n\n","title":"Buying a business that didn't record cash revenue.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555542122,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beebbd\/landlord_is_going_through_our_mail\/","id":"beebbd","body":"We have lived in this unit for 2 years (Florida). We receive a ton of mail addressed to previous tenants and occasionally ones addressed to our landlord's wife or children. I usually write \"return to sender\" and drop it in the outgoing mail. \n\nBF got a call today saying the landlord is expecting something in the mail and it should have been here a week ago. I told him I write \"return to sender\" on anything that isn't ours, which he didn't seem to be comfortable telling our landlord. I told him I haven't checked the mail in a week since we were out of town, which he told the landlord. Landlord responded \"don't worry. I'm almost there to check.\" This obviously put us on edge because it feels a little invasive to have someone going through your mail.\n\nIs he allowed to go through our mailbox? Is there something else I can do outside of talking to the post office -- they advised me to write \"return to sender\" on mail that isn't ours.\n\nI don't want to hold onto any mail that isn't addressed to us because I don't want to be liable for anything being lost\/mishandled. \n\nTL;DR - Landlord still gets mail at the unit we have been leasing for 2 years. He went through our mail today to find something he was expecting.","title":"Landlord is going through our mail","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504260484,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xdl8r\/got_in_a_small_fender_bender_just_found_out_my\/","id":"6xdl8r","body":"I'm sure someone has asked about this before, but given the circumstances around this particular incident, I hoped it might warrant a thread? If not, I'll take it down.\n\nI tried to fit into a tight parking spot at work and inadvertently nicked one of the adjacent vehicles. I was running late, so I notified my supervisor, he told me he'd find the other driver, and I clocked in and hoped for the best. Turned out the vehicle belonged to a co-worker, and the two of us can't stand each other. I met him in the parking lot on my break and we surveyed the damage. A small scuff mark on the edge of the front bumper near the wheel well and a nick in the rim of his tire. He insisted on replacing the entire rim and said it would cost *at least* $500, so I took pictures and gave him my insurance card.\n\nToday I found out my insurance company--which I've been with for eight years--stopped underwriting policies in my state. The policy didn't automatically renew, and I didn't catch it. They tried to contact me via e-mail, but the mail was auto-archived, and now I'm 20 days late, no grace period, and considered high risk. I got coverage with another auto-insurance company immediately, but my insurance has now skyrocketed. I can barely afford rent.\n\nI understand that I'm liable for the damages, but I get the feeling this person is going to deliberately play up the extent of the damages, and I have no idea what to do. A few of my friends, people who know a lot more about cars than I do, have claimed that he could easily get the mark buffed out...but these are my friends, so I can't really trust their judgment. \n\nWhat can I do? \n\n  ","title":"Got in a Small Fender Bender, Just Found Out My Auto Insurance Lapsed","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571348616,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djd90l\/landlord_failed_to_make_repairs_until_44_days\/","id":"djd90l","body":"Throwaway here. \n\nDetails:\n\nPennsylvania, 1 year lease. Where I am, landlords are required to supply heat from Sept 1st to April 30th. It took him until Oct 14th to get to it.\n\n​\n\nAt this point, we just want out. We can be gone as soon as next week, but I need to know how to do it properly.\n\n​\n\nWe have all the text messages showing he's known about the issue (among other housing code violations), and we've repeatedly followed up with them.\n\n​\n\nHis defense is \"well I'm not a lawyer, how am I supposed to know these things\" (which we have in text messages). \n\n​\n\nIs this as simple as giving him a 15-day notice saying we are terminating the lease on the grounds of housing code violation [xxx.xxx](https:\/\/xxx.xxx)?\n\n​\n\nI'm pretty heating still so I'm sorry if this is rushed. Happy to answer any questions.","title":"Landlord failed to make repairs until 44 days after required (4mo after being told)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539449950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nv9t9\/what_do_i_do_in_case_of_a_traffic_collision\/","id":"9nv9t9","body":" Hi all,\n\nso  I recently became a car owner for the first time in my life. Further to  that I was never involved in a traffic collision in my life as a driver  or passenger. Now one taught I have is what do I do in case I am  involved in a traffic collision.\n\nDo I  call the police right away, where do I leave my car, do I even have to  interact with the guy I had the collision with, how are the damages  paid, how is responsibility determined, what strategy should I take or  what information should I gather in regard to my counterparty, in which case if any can one expect the situation to degrade into a legal battle, is there  any special paperwork that needs to be filled out (From observation of  some after-traffic collisions I see the drivers are filling out some  paperwork on the spot of the crash), perhaps any additional  considerations that are often overlooked?\n\nAs  you can see I am pretty ignorant of the topic (we have never learned  about this in driving school) and I would really appreciate an (A-Z)  clarification. An added bonus would be to have the assumption that the  cars that collided are registered to different countries, given that I  am underway a lot in very international areas \/ other countries this  might very well be the case.\n\nI am asking  specifically for feedback from EU drivers as these are the roads I am  normally using and I would assume there are some common standards. I  know that for example in the US car insurance is not always obligatory  and in Russia you would prove culpability with dash cams which are  mostly banned in the EU,  so I don't think the feedback would really be  helpful when referring to these legislatures.\n\nThanks for any feedback.","title":"What do I do in case of a traffic collision (geographic context: EU)?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551381229,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avuxda\/rental_lease_early_termination_mi\/","id":"avuxda","body":"My lease ends on Aug 31 and I\u2019d like to move out on April 31st. Lease agreement mentions that early termination with a 60 day notice results in a fine of 2 months rent. \nI did some online reading and Michigan\u2019s tenant rights law mentions that on early termination of a lease, the tenant is on the hook for up to 2 months rent but the land lord has to make reasonable efforts to rent out the property and if they do rent it out before, no payments are due. In this case is the lease agreements mention of the fine valid? How do I get the landlord to adhere to the state law over what\u2019s written in the lease?","title":"Rental lease early termination [MI]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539570344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o8po6\/alienation_of_parental_affection\/","id":"9o8po6","body":"TL:DR. Arkansas. Husband's step mother alienated him from his biological mother (returned all mail\/gifts\/checks, rejected phone calls, and constantly told him that his mother abandoned him). We have proof she did this but he's 28 now. Is there any legal action we could take?\n\nMy husband is 28. His dad and mom divorced at 3 and his dad got remarried. Step mom returned letters and gifts, told hubby and his brother that they weren't wanted, and would not let the boys talk to their bio mom without step mom listening and coaching them what to say. We have a box of proof of all the 'return to sender' and step mom sending back copies of bio mom's letters with step mom's notes in the margins. (Example if bio mom wrote that she missed the boys, step mom would photo copy the letter, circle the section and write 'you don't act like it', and send it back to bio mom without the boys (or her husband) knowing.)\n\nWe are finally getting the entire story out and reconnecting with bio mom. She's planning on taking step mom to court over all of this. Is there any legal way my husband could do the same even after so long? Step mom and dad have been divorced for over 10 years.","title":"Alienation of Parental Affection?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541571383,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uwxhs\/selling_an_idea_and_accompanying_design_of_said\/","id":"9uwxhs","body":"I\u2019m interested in selling an idea and accompanying design of said idea, just as the title states. I was wondering what would be the most effective way of approaching this? \n\nI\u2019m not fully sure how patents work but from what I know I\u2019d want to steer clear of them as they allow others to gain information on things. ","title":"Selling an Idea AND accompanying Design Of said idea.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539108713,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mrkah\/nj_looking_for_lawyer_to_contest_a_will_hoping_to\/","id":"9mrkah","body":"Foremost, thank you to any who can help in advance. \n\nSo. My mom is going to dispute her fathers Will that was changed under 2 months before his death from 50\/50 between mother and her sister to 80\/20 in favor of sister. It was changed while under care of my mothers sister. The deed to his home was also suddenly put in her name around the same time the Will was changed. \n\nBefore my question: Long long overly dramatic story short. My aunt cut off all contact between my mother and her father after the last time my Mom had spoken to him only 5 months before his death. Phone numbers were blocked with no way to reach him that way. She was not updated about his illness of when he was admitted to hospitals  Her name as well as her children's names were alsovremoved from the gate of his 50 and over community preventing them from physically visiting him. \n\nAll that said. She is now also Executrix of the Will which is also now in probate.\n\nMy question regards her power as executor. Does this woman get to decide what the equivalent of 20% equals regarding what my Mother receives from his will, not simply monotary assets, but also physical as well, such as items in his home, i.e furniture, my grandmothers jewelry, what was inside his safety deposit box such as CDs, stocks, bonds, etc? All before she has an account of everything? .\nProbate is not closed and she has given my Mother a bag of old pictures containing a hand written note telling her to \"Have a nice life.\"\n\nIs she allowed to do this as Executor? My mom is not allowed to see or have anything that belonged to her parents even when he left her 20%? Is this even legal? Is my aunt bring negligent as executor? And finally, does anyone think there is an actual case worth fighting here? \n\nWilling to give more details if needed. I'm Doing everything I can to find a lawyer. We don't have much to attain one if at all . His estate is large, his home alone is just under 1M. Assets around 500K. Which is why we were hoping for contingency if possible. I'm just about spent. Anything any of you guys\/gals may know would help . Thank you so much! ","title":"[NJ] Looking for lawyer to contest a will hoping to find someone willing to work on contingency due to size of estate (to pay him a percent of settlement) But, have questions regarding what the executor of the Will can decide and not decide. Help please!","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1542070641,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wk666\/can_someone_clarify_some_of_this_legal_stuff\/","id":"9wk666","body":"I\u2019ll get to the point. Had sex with a stripper under the influence. I\u2019m 20. I didn\u2019t pay her the ridiculous amount she wanted. She stole me phone.\n\nGot police involved. Was gonna set her up to meet us but she picked the spot out and the owner warned her ahead of time. Fucking bs.\n\nThe cops left and I was just gonna go to the career store report it stolen and pay the deductible for a new one. God damn $300 deductible.\n\nMet up with the stripper at a gas station and got all the info on her. Phone number license  plate etc. Told her give me phone now or give to me when the police comes to arrest her for theft.\n\nShe told me because I had sex with her with the intent money was to be paid that\u2019s prostitution and if the cops come to her she will tell them that. Now I guess she\u2019s right about this.\n\nShould I just tell the cops just drop it, or have them get my property back? If they do get the phone back I wouldn\u2019t have to pay the $300 deductible for a new one. I don\u2019t want to get caught up on a prostitution charge though. \n\nWhat should I do r\/legaladvice","title":"Can someone clarify some of this legal stuff","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539428022,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nsx7c\/how_do_i_get_my_remaining_salary\/","id":"9nsx7c","body":"I worked for a small gym in February 2018 for 1 month. I was fired as I couldn't meet my target which was okay with me. We did not decide on my salary before joining hence I was told we would get back to it later which never really happened. I asked the gym owner for my salary which he said he would give me once he has enough money as he had none due to me not being able to sell enough membership (I think it's bullshit as he has enough money to get 2 latest phones and shit). To make it clear, he was aware that I'm a fresher. After leaving the job, what followed was months of me asking for my salary and him berating me saying \"I did nothing\" and that I HAD to wait etc. Nearly 2 month back after months of nagging and me threatening him that I will go to the cops, I got 75% of my salary (which I decided upon considering if it would have been up to him then he would have went as low as he wanted) that he promised me that he would give it to me after a few days as that's all he had. This went on for some weeks and now today I texted him as a final warning since he was ignoring my texts since few days. He texted back saying how much sale did I do for his gym and stuff basically try to prove I did nothing (which is untrue and the situation was shitty and he used to put a lot of pressure which made me feel horrible). I texted him back giving all the reasons why I was unsuccessful which pissed him off which is when he asked me to \"shut up\" and shit. Basically, I think he blocked me from What's App. Honestly, I'm so over this and really frustrated considering how much I have to cry to get what I rightfully deserve.\n\nTL;DR - My ex employer refuses to give me my remaining salary even though it's been 7 months since I worked there. He also probably blocked me from What's App.\n\nAny and all advise is appreciated.\n\nAlso, I'm based in India if it helps.","title":"How do I get my remaining salary?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569193422,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7xzu9\/girlfriend_17_didnt_see_someone_and_they_swerved\/","id":"d7xzu9","body":"My girlfriend was pulling out of a lot and checked both ways but the visibility there is awful so she didn't see the car coming. They swerved off the road and bumped into a sign, but the speed limit is really low in that area so there was no damage. They said there was no damage after inspecting their car, but asked her for her license plate number, name, insurance number (which she didn't know), and driver's license number. They said they'd call her later, and we're not too worried about any claims being made because they themselves said there was no damage. The only problem is if my GF's parents find out they're going to murder her if they find out. Is it likely that they'll file something that will alert her parents, or more likely that they'll just call and tell at her for a bit? Also side note she doesn't think they realized that she was a teenager. If it's likely that they'll file something she should tell her parents even though they'll probably still be insanely mad and not let her drive the car for months which would be awful because they're never home to give her rides, but on the other hand if they won't then telling her parents will only make things worse.","title":"Girlfriend (17) didn't see someone and they swerved, no damage but they got her information, what will likely happen? [WA State]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1441610259,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jy47v\/discovered_security_issues_with_my_local_utility\/","id":"3jy47v","body":"I am in Virginia, US.\n\nI noticed something odd when looking at my billing statements on my local utility company's website.\n\nEventually this led me to discover:\n\n* If I pay my bill with a credit card, I can set the convenience fee to whatever I want.\n* I can access the billing statements and billing history of many other customers, including the city itself. This information includes:\n  * Full names\n  * Phone numbers\n  * Addresses\n  * Bill amount\/history\n* I can see bank account information for those that have automatic billing set up. (Checking account #s)\n* I can change the account # associated with my login, effectively becoming another customer.\n\nThe things that I have done for testing (or rather to satisfy my curiosity) that concern me are:\n\n* I paid some small amount (~$1) with my credit card, with a reduced fee.\n* I viewed the information listed above belonging to other customers.\n\nIt looks like this same system is used in another state as well, though I'm not poking at it.\n\nI want to disclose this but I'm concerned about repercussions. Should I report it anonymously and hope for the best?","title":"Discovered security issues with my local utility company's website. May have gone too far down the rabbit hole.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570344463,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddzppc\/underage_niece_kicked_out_to_live_with_me_and_not\/","id":"ddzppc","body":"My (29F) niece (17) was kicked out of her mother's house (in CT) over the summer and came to live with me in Michigan.\n\nSince then, she has started school and I believe her mother sent them something saying that I can make educational decisions for her. I know she did, because the school wouldn't let me until they found whatever it was her mother sent over.\n\nNow that I've had to make her doctor's appointments I'm getting confused. One Doctor (general practitioner) just asked me if I was her guardian. I said yes, and there were no problems. Now I just tried to make her an optometrist appointment, and they said I need something saying I'm her power of attorney? \n\nWhen I asked her mother about this, she said that she would send me a picture of a piece of paper with her stating and signing that she gives me permission to make medical decisions for her daughter..But the optometrist said that they'd need something more legal.\n\nMy question is, do I have to be her power of attorney to be able to make medical and educational decisions for her? If so, then how was I able to sign her up for high school?\n\nAlso as a follow-up question.. I know that my niece receives social security from my brother, her father who passed. Rather, her mother receives the social security for each of her children that belonged to my late brother. I've asked her if she could start sending that to me, since she is now a part of my household. She made it clear that the social security will only go to my niece once she's 18 (in 3 months) but only until she graduates highschool? and will continue to go to herself until then. I know that that is not morally right (she's sending me $100\/month for living expenses currently...)  but is it legal? \nI really would like this to remain as little messy as possible, especially because my niece will be 18 in 3 months anyways.\n\nI'm just worried some big medical thing could come up and I won't be able to help her.","title":"Underage niece kicked out to live with me and not sure where I stand legally (MI)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446170345,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qsczx\/got_into_a_multicar_accident_caused_by_a_elderly\/","id":"3qsczx","body":"today around 11am I was involved in a multi-car wreck cause by a elderly man who was pulling out of the local Hospital's ICU where he was getting treatment for some form of aneurysm. my car is likely totaled, I'll find out for sure tomorrow.\n\nthe elderly man is 100% at fault and as far as I know his insurance is taking car of everything, however I don't feel he should of been released from the ICU in the poor mental\/physical state he was in, he could hardly talk much less drive a SUV. don't Hospitals have policies in place that required recently discharged patents not to drive themselves home directly after a a major treatment?\n\ndo I have any legal options here? he also hit 2 other cars. I'm the only one that got  pushed for 10+ ft into oncoming traffic and as far as I know I was the only person that suffered any type of injuries (I just got out of the ER a few mins ago) \n\n","title":"got into a multi-car accident caused by a elderly aneurysm patient discharged moments before the wreck. (florida)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568683963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5a2jx\/landlord_demanding_money_after_they_returned\/","id":"d5a2jx","body":"Hello,\n\nI lived in a student apartment at college for 4 years, and moved out back on May 1st. My lease technically went until June 11th. About 2 months after my lease ended in mid August, I received my security deposit back from my landlord... A whopping $10 from what was a $500 deposit. They claimed I stained the mattress blue ( makes no sense), didn't attempt to clean my apartment (although I did), and because of that I got $10 back. While upset, I took my $10 and moved on.\n\nNow more than a month after I received my security deposit back, and more than 3 months after my lease ended I have received a letter from the landlord saying I owe them $200 because they found a crack in the garbage disposal under the sink and had to replace it. How should I respond to them? I was already upset about some of the other bogus charges but dropped it. I certainly will not be handing them a check for $200 willingly now. If important for legal reasons, this apartment was in Virginia.\n\nThank you in advance for any advice!","title":"Landlord demanding money after they returned security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412819964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ipz48\/canada_friend_turning_himself_in_to_police_next\/","id":"2ipz48","body":"This is in Ontario.\n\nThe police have called family members asking them to tell him to call them. He believes he's facing theft over\/under and breach of trust. \n\nWhat can he expect when he turns himself in?\n\nHe knows to not answer any questions the cops ask even the most mundane.\n\nHow likely is he to be released on a promise to appear vs having to post bail?\n\nNo prior record, he had one diversion for shoplifting years ago but other than that nothing. \n\nTurning himself in so obviously not a risk to flee or anything.\n\nHow long do they generally keep people detained for?","title":"[Canada] Friend turning himself in to police next week, what can he expect?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505607044,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70kdog\/ny_am_i_likely_to_get_in_trouble_for_speeding_to\/","id":"70kdog","body":"My brother was severely injured by his lawn tractor 3 days ago and was bleeding heavily, I thought I could get him to the hospital quicker then calling 911 and I was concerned about him bleeding to death because his leg injury was so severe. So I got him into my car and floored it the whole way to the hospital. I ran several red lights and close to the hospital (about 3 miles from it) a city cop tried to pull me over, I didn't stop or slow down and kept driving until I was at the ambulance bay\/carport of the hospital then ran inside and got a nurses attention before I was arrested. \n\nI got put in handcuffs and put in the back of a police car for about an hour and a half. Several other cops showed up during this time and they all stood around talking and I guess explaining to the others what happened. Then the cop that arrested me took me out of the police car and took the handcuffs off and told me I may receive a summons in the mail and he emphasized how lucky I was he wasn't going to arrest me right now. Although I think what I did was justified I told the cop I made a mistake, I panicked, An I'm sorry.\n\nIs he just deciding if he should charge me or was he just being nice to me? Does he HAVE to charge me? Or is he just choosing to do it later so I could be with my brother? \n\n\n\n\nLuckily my brother did not bleed to death but I asked his ER doctor how long he may have lived if I didn't get him here myself and he said \"not long\".\n","title":"[NY] Am I likely to get in trouble for speeding to the hospital?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571345234,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djch1d\/my_insurance_provider_and_doctors_office_are_in_a\/","id":"djch1d","body":"Earlier this year, my child's pediatrician referred us to a specialist to be fitted for corrective medical equipment. After seeing the specialist and going through consultation, we decided to get the equipment and were told that our insurance would only cover about 65% of the cost and we would have to pay the rest out-of-pocket. We paid our portion for the equipment and then completed the therapy after a few months.  \n\n  \n\nYesterday, I received copies of all of the paperwork involved in a case that had been filed by the specialist's office against my insurance provider (this was the first I had heard about it). They filed a complaint against my insurance company for claim delay due to their refusal to submit the portion of the payment that we were told would be covered by insurance. According to the paperwork, 6 months went by with the specialist's office reaching out to my insurance company for payment and them getting the runaround.  \n\n  \n\nAfter the specialist's office filed a complaint for the claim delay, my insurance company finally responded with a denial of coverage due to the equipment being considered cosmetic according to their medical policy. My insurance company attached a peer review of the included documents which upheld their denial.  \n\n  \n\nIf the final appeal decision is made in favor of my insurance company, will I then end up owing the specialist for the amount not paid?","title":"My insurance provider and doctor's office are in a dispute over an insurance claim. Could I end up owing money?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1538061082,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jdouv\/company_posted_a_job_requisition_but_is_telling\/","id":"9jdouv","body":"I assumed a public posted vacancy means anyone can apply. Is management allowed to refuse internal candidates apply since they know who they want already?","title":"Company posted a job requisition but is telling people not to apply because a candidate is already pre-identified","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1409285696,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ew2p5\/landlord_problems_security_deposit\/","id":"2ew2p5","body":"**EDIT: I have realized that I was wrong, and have taken appropriate action to make the situation right. Thanks \/u\/rhubey, \/u\/desertrat13, and \/u\/34569**\n\nLincoln, NE: I lived in a privately owned apartment complex for two years. The first year I signed a 12 month lease. The landlord and I agree to lease month to month from then on, and I never signed another lease, but stayed there for over 1 year doing it this way. As this apartment complex is close to UNL's campus, and is primarily populated by students, the landlord and I agreed that I needed to either sign another year lease or move out before school started. Everything looked as though I'd be staying, but I never signed another lease. Last minute, well, July 27, a great opportunity arose, and I seized the moment and accepted it. I worked very hard to move out before August 1, and achieved my goal, leaving him just over 3 weeks before the semester began to fill the unit. \n\nI found out today that he won't be returning any of my security deposit(~$400), attributing the cost in an itemized deduction list as rent for August. However, I was completely moved out before August 1 and never signed anything saying that I'd be staying during that month. Remember, I'd been renting month-to-month for over a year. I understand that it's unfortunate that he will probably not have a renter this semester, but I don't think we are legally required to pay rent for a space we weren't using, didn't have keys to, and didn't agree to use for that time. And I don't think he can legally withhold it from us.\n\nWe always had a very positive relationship with the landlord, and we worked hard to be great, helpful tenants. Quiet, clean, and we even referred 5 friends to his units. \n\n[Here](http:\/\/uniweb.legislature.ne.gov\/laws\/statutes.php?statute=76-1416) is Nebraska law on the issue. \n\nDo you think I would win in small claims court? I really don't want to go that route though. Is this money rightfully mine? And if so, how can I get it?\n\n*Thank you for reading and responding!*","title":"Landlord Problems: Security Deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568934016,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6lujg\/my_father_ca_was_threatened_to_go_to_jail_or\/","id":"d6lujg","body":"Some background; My dad has been working for Cal-Trans for 17 years, in his time there he has been offered to move up multiple times, yet he has declined for personal reasons. He has gone through several bosses during his time there as well, having good relationships with some, and somewhat rocky relationships with others. \n\nNow to the issue (Rewind 2 years to 2017), one of my dads bosses had him change the tires on one of the work trucks, my dad noticed that the tires were still in decent condition (he\u2019s super cheap) so he asked his boss if he could keep them. Obviously his boss said yes, because they were going to throw them away regardless. (Fast forward 2 years to 2019, my Dad has a new boss who he doesn\u2019t get along with quite as well. His new boss \u201cnotices\u201d the tires on his personal car had the tires from those years ago.\n\nHis new boss has proceeded to use this as the perfect leverage to force my dad into an early retirement at 64. They called the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to press official charges unless he filed for early retirement. \n\nMy parents are confident that they could make it work, but they really planned on my dad working a few more years before retirement; he\u2019s the most active hard working man you\u2019ll ever meet, waking up at 4-5am every morning without alarm, and doing hard labor all day even on his days off, he is a very skilled craftsman. I only point out his habits\/work ethic to show he isn\u2019t being lazy by any stretch of the imagination, any problem his bosses may have with him is personal and shouldn\u2019t be held against someone in the work place. This whole thing is putting a big financial burden on my parents, if anyone has any idea on any avenues I may use to get justice I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you all for reading.","title":"My father CA was threatened to go to jail or retire early for supposed \u201ctheft\u201d I need any and all advice, thanks in advance everyone.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505129871,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zetax\/what_kind_of_lawyer_would_be_able_to_assist_in\/","id":"6zetax","body":"I am mainly curious about Japan, however knowledge on the U.S. is also helpful!","title":"What kind of lawyer would be able to assist in the paper-work and legal know-how of setting up a Bitcoin ATM?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1550284238,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ar4ay7\/nyif_someone_is_made_executor_of_an_estate_before\/","id":"ar4ay7","body":"My mom was made executor by my grandma before my grandmas death but then a will was found naming my uncle. But wouldn\u2019t it be invalid if it\u2019s done while the person is alive since that\u2019s the newer request?","title":"[NY]If someone is made executor of an estate before their death but their old will says someone different, is the will valid?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568594393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4t8qb\/update_need_advice_on_a_bedbug_situation_north\/","id":"d4t8qb","body":"Link to original post: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3j035\/need_some_help_regarding_a_bedbug_situation_in_my\/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app\n\nSo my property manager and an inspector came to my apartment and determined my room was deeply infested.  An exterminator was called and my room\/living room were sprayed with heavy chemicals yesterday. I know it\u2019s going to be hard to prove that the bedbugs were there when I moved in, but I have a pretty good case compiled and a lawyer provided by my university. While this exterminating process is happening (I technically cannot sleep in my bed or go much in my room for a week), my property manager told me she would not provide me with new housing or a hotel for the meantime. Is this a legit case for calling to question why I\u2019m paying $29 a night\/$680 a month to sleep in my bed when I am physically not able to? I am having to find my own housing in the meantime while attending college full time.\n\nSecond question: I brought a very expensive mattress pad upon move in and since the infestation, I have had to throw it out. Do I have a case to ask for a replacement if I can prove the bed bugs were there when I moved in?\n\nLastly: my apartment complex had a problem with this two years ago where residents were not being treated correctly and they went to the news. \n\nhttp:\/\/www.wral.com\/college-students-told-to-continue-living-in-apartment-with-bedbugs-\/16918764\/\n\nWe have the same property manager Ashley and in her statement to the news she promised that all roommates would get new mattresses and bedsprings while the whole apartment would be deep cleaned. I\u2019m still in a fight with her now to just get a new mattress and have the same treatment done and she\u2019s flat out denying it. What can I do?","title":"Update + Need Advice on a Bedbug Situation (North Carolina)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541724725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vftie\/my_brother_and_sister_in_law_girl_15_and_boy_11\/","id":"9vftie","body":"I\u2019m in the USA for starters.\n\nI\u2019m dealing with something having to do with my siblings and I have no clue what to do about the situation I\u2019m in. These kids live in a run down house with hillbilly narcissist overly religious controlling neglectful poor parents and these kids are depressed and they need help. Sorry this is a bit of a rant but it\u2019s a cry for help more than anything. Idk what route to take. They\u2019re not exactly physically abusive but they sure are f****** idiot parents with way too much say in what their child does. The kids have a lot of family that can help out with this but I\u2019m wondering what are the legal options for rescuing these kids out of these conditions.\n\nRant: the dad especially is so dumb he can\u2019t even take proper care of his teeth. He\u2019s down to about two left. He blames his oldest sons wife for his sons schizophrenia and won\u2019t sit next to him because he\u2019s afraid the devil will get him. He blames my wife and her sister for (girl 15)\u2019s depression even though my wife and her sister moved out years ago. The dad hates his job and can\u2019t handle money and their mom is deaf and the dad refuses to learn sign language to communicate with his own wife. Meanwhile they attend church and defend their idiot interpretation of the Bible with great zeal. They think almost anything is \u201cof the devil\u201d yet they themselves are neglectful, overweight, don\u2019t spend any time with their kids, and avoid them and go upstairs. The actual location of these kids house is even worse. They basically live in the side of mountain in a house that\u2019s basically a hole in the wall. The front door leads directly to a winding turn where people speed over 45 around there and you can\u2019t see them coming. You literally cannot leave the house without being able to drive. They don\u2019t live within 10 miles of anybody that even goes to the same school as them. They\u2019re stuck and it\u2019s really sad. ","title":"My brother and sister in law (girl 15 and boy 11) have neglectful parents and also those kids have horrible living conditions, aren\u2019t allowed to leave the house\/physically can\u2019t leave, can\u2019t make friends and are depressed.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571767356,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dllq39\/departing_roommate_thinks_we_are_responsible_for\/","id":"dllq39","body":"Currently I live with 2 roommates... \u201cJohn\u201d and \u201cTyler\u201d and we signed a 1-year lease ending November 31. Tyler and I get along well while John can be difficult.\n\nJohn got engaged this summer and is looking to move out Nov. 1 so he can move in with his fiance. In August he mentioned verbally he was thinking about moving out early but never confirmed a move-out date. He followed up 5 weeks ago with a group text which you can see here mentioning he \u201cmight leave Nov 1\u201d: [Sept. 17](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/UBSxpzg)\n\nIn addition, in late September I asked him when he was planning to move out as I had a couple of suitable potential subleasers who could be interested but he said he wanted subleasers willing to sign before giving a move-out date which made the process even harder for me. [John \u201cplaying both sides of the fence\u201d](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/GffUErm)\n\nWe have been working hard to find people since Sept 17 but have had a lot of people choose another apartment due to location, room size, bad luck etc. He thinks  it \u201c[seems fair](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/0nSixUG)\u201d for us to pay his share of rent.\n\nIs it fair and legal that he wants to move out a month before the end of the lease and that he expects us to pay his portion? He makes great money so that\u2019s not the concern. He claims he gave two month advance notice but there is no record of a move out date, just him saying he\u2019s thinking about it and he would like us to find a replacement.\n\nThanks for your help.","title":"Departing roommate thinks we are responsible for paying his last month\u2019s rent!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540062593,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pwuf9\/former_employer_screwing_with_payroll\/","id":"9pwuf9","body":"So to start with I\u2019ll give the usual apologies for my ignorance but I\u2019m just looking for some guidance, I guess. For LocationBot, I\u2019m in Florida but don\u2019t want to be more specific than that (hence the throw away) because I don\u2019t want this coming back to me.\n\nSo: first and foremost I want to make clear that I\u2019m no longer employed with this company and some of what I am saying has only been heard second hand, so I\u2019m not 100% sure of the accuracy. I know what was happening when I was employed there but it\u2019s only what I\u2019ve heard from former coworkers that I know now.\n\nBack when I was employed with this company our paychecks were regularly late. Sometimes only a few days (paid Monday instead of Friday) other times almost a week. But never more than a week until I left the company. My final check was almost 2 weeks late. Personally, though, I never had a check bounce. But I also know they have asked some higher level employees to wait before depositing (likely to avoid bouncing any checks).\n\nI also know at least a few times where our health\/dental insurance lapsed. They would deduct the premiums from our checks but then someone (myself and other employees experienced this) would go to an appointment and were told that our insurance was not active. This was always fixed and appointments were covered (depending on your doctor this might have meant a canceled appointment and reschedule once the insurance was reactivated, though). At the time, from trusted office sources, I understood the issue to be that the company hadn\u2019t paid the insurance premiums on time, despite having been deducting this from our checks each pay period.\n\nNow I have heard worse - that the company is doing the same thing but with 401K contributions (deducting money from employee payroll for your contributions but not sending the contributions to the company that the 401k is through). If this is what\u2019s actually happening then it has to be HIGHLY illegal, right? Is this fines level illegal? Jail time? Who would this be reported to? Would it have to be reported by someone currently employed at the company or do I have some sort of obligation to do so (other than just morally)?\n\nThe only hesitation is that I still know people working for this company and I worry about who would get caught in the fallout. If this is something jailable - who is liable? The owner? CEO? CFO? Does it matter why they are doing it (lining their pockets vs. moving money to cover bills)?\n\nSo in short, I guess - do I have legal obligation to report this? Can I even report it given what I know vs. what I have heard? What laws are they breaking and what would the consequences be\/who would be liable in the fallout?\n\nThanks.","title":"Former Employer Screwing with Payroll","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539715408,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oqhvz\/i_was_in_an_accident_on_911_and_i_find_out_today\/","id":"9oqhvz","body":"Backstory, I was in an accident on 9\/11. The guy rear ended me, we gave insurance information to the cops etc. I call to setup an inspection on my car and no dice. I couldn't figure out why. Looking at the police report, I notice that the officer didn't have a policy number written down for him. So I called the insurer listed to setup an inspection. All is well. \n\nWell, the day of the inspection comes and goes and no one has called. The insurer sends a letter a few weeks later, stating the guy has no active policy with them. Ok...\n\nI contact my insurance who did digging and found his actual insurance. Nope. He doesn't have them either. He doesn't have insurance at all. So now I'm left without a car. Can he still be ticketed or something afterwards for giving false insurance information?","title":"I was in an accident on 9\/11 and I find out today the guy gave the wrong insurance information. Can he still be ticketed afterwards?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571273109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diypc8\/bad_housemate\/","id":"diypc8","body":"I'm currently in a housing situation with 3 other tenants, bound into a one year contract. \n\nOne of our housemates refuses to clean up after himself, consistently leaving our kitchen and bathroom a mess 1-2 days after cleaning it. He denies this and seemingly doesn't care about our concerns whatsoever. \n\nMy other 2 housemates agree this is an issue.\n\nWhat are our options here? Can we somehow force him to move out if he doesn't clean up after himself?","title":"Bad Housemate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570905496,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgz1h7\/roomate_not_paying_rent_alberta_canada\/","id":"dgz1h7","body":"Hey, just wanted advice. Basically one housemate (who isn't on the lease, but the landlord knows of him living here) has not paid his portion of the rent (12 days late). My other roomate and I, as well as our landlord, have spoken to him about him paying his rent multiple times. At this point we're unsure if hes even planning to pay. My other roomate, who is on the lease with me, moved out this month and I'm planning to move out next month so the lease would be cancelled, so everyone would need to vacate the house. We have  told him about this at the end of Sept so he can figure out what he plans to do. So I was wondering if there's anything I could do about this, or am i just SOL and I would have to pay his portion of the rent.","title":"Roomate not paying rent (Alberta, Canada)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570289933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddosjx\/do_i_need_a_lawyer\/","id":"ddosjx","body":"I want to make sure my wife gets any inheritance I'm going to receive as well as anything we have if something happens to me. Do I need a lawyer to figure out how to do that, or is this a relatively \"straightforward\" thing to do with some sort of legal website? I live in Washington state.","title":"Do I need a lawyer?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568791937,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5uaj0\/i_quit_my_job_and_dont_think_i_will_be_paid\/","id":"d5uaj0","body":"I put in my 2 weeks notice for my job  It's a commission based job and because of the way we get paid, it can be 12-18 months after completion that my employer actually sees any money. One of the reasons I'm leaving is because they have been super sketchy when it comes to paying me. It will take me months to get them to send me collections reports. (I have to request them and will watch my email get a read receipt and they won't respond)  I get paid monthly and they have \"forgotten\" to pay me on 3 separate occasions. \n\nI don't expect that I will see anything but 1 more check after I leave despite how long billing can take. I know that they legally have to pay me my commission but making them actually do it after I leave is another story. I've been with the company for 5 years and things have gone downhill in the last 1-2 years after one individual was given more control. I know the advice is likely going to be, get a lawyer but I'm not sure the cost to benefit would be there. I guess I'm looking for advice to what to say\/ write to my employer to put a fire under their ass. \n\nI also plan on going to the labor board after my 2 weeks are up for other things that have happened in the last couple of years (failure to pay overtime, failure to pay contracted bonuses, etc.). For context I am a w-2 employee and not a 1099. Are their any other organizations I should contact? Or things I can do to make sure I get paid?","title":"I quit my job and don't think I will be paid commission for work I've already done (NJ-USA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1502868530,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u0gyb\/gifted_and_talented_services_tx\/","id":"6u0gyb","body":"Like all states, Texas has laws requiring services be provided to students who are identified as GT. Part of what Texas allows is for school districts to use AP or honors courses as their GT program, which is what my district does. I also understand, but am not completely certain (only found info from TEA on fact sheets and guidebooks, nothing 100% solid to me), that in order for those courses to qualify as the GT program they must meet certain requirements:\n1. GT students must participate in projects and discussion with other GT students, and must be given additional work above the typical requirements of the course.\n2. The teacher must be trained to teach GT students (it is my understanding that AP teacher training qualifies).\n3. The course can be offered to any student in the school, but a section\/class period of the course must be offered solely to GT students.\n\nMy school is most definitely in violation of number 1, if it\u2019s hardcore rule and not just directive that I had seen in a guidebook. Number 2 I think they\u2019re following, and number 3 (if it\u2019s actually a rule, I\u2019m having trouble recalling if I actually read that) they\u2019re also violating. \n\nDoes anyone have any more solid knowledge on this? Any course of action for this? I\u2019ve considered speaking to the school board during a meeting, as well as filing a complaint with the TEA.\n\nEdit: [Here](http:\/\/tea.texas.gov\/Academics\/Special_Student_Populations\/Gifted_and_Talented_Education\/Gifted_Talented_Frequently_Asked_Questions\/) is the GT FAQs on the TEA website. This is where I've been able to gather information from regarding the GT requirements. I now realize that the number 3 item isn't something that is mentioned on the website, only that if classes are integrated with GT and regular students then there must be additional content for GT students.","title":"Gifted and Talented services (TX)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1442433761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l7oj9\/wv_can_i_give_an_eviction_notice_for_longer_than\/","id":"3l7oj9","body":"I apologize for the simplicity of the question. I have been looking up WV laws on tenant and landlord rights, and my situation (friend) seems to fall into either Month-to-Month or established residency. The largest amount of notice I can find is \"for 30 days\" or \"30 days in advance\", but not \"at least 30 days in advance\". I know that laws are tricky and my guesstimate would be yes, however I very much would like to verify this beforehand. I have searched here for \"WV\", \"WV evict\", \"WV notice\", and \"WV eviction\". I would like to do a 60 or 90 day notice, as it is more for them \"getting their s*** together\" than \"you suck, gtfo\"; simplified but succinct.\n\nEdit: I forgot to clarify that while I said eviction notices, I was thinking of eviction notices, warnings, and those quit things. This changes things a bit, but the \"30 days or more?\" question is still relevant. I edited for future reading use and in case any other comments besides the 1 I have received are posted.","title":"[WV] Can I give an eviction notice for longer than 30 days?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569445191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d99igk\/can_you_m_compel_a_prenatal_paternity_test\/","id":"d99igk","body":"Hope this is the right place for this. I was contacted by a girl I worked with, and briefly slept with over the summer, saying she is pregnant. That was last month. At the time, she mentioned that while I wasn\u2019t definitely the father, there was a possibility. Although she was using (diaphragm) birth control, I still pulled out every time. \n\nSince then, every time I\u2019ve asked for a paternity test, there has been some reason why it can\u2019t happen. First it was too soon, so I waited. Then it was too expensive, so I offered to pay ($2K). Now she is saying that she doesn\u2019t want to know until after she gives birth (late March from my guessing). \n\nI don\u2019t know who or how many other dudes are in this race, but wouldn\u2019t she want to know?\n\nMore importantly, if I am the father, I want to be involved with this kid\u2019s life from the very start. I\u2019m talking ultrasounds, diaper showers, everything she\u2019ll allow me to do. What happens if at the end of all that it isn\u2019t me after all? I\u2019m not an emotional guy, but I don\u2019t think I could handle that. \n\nIs there anything I can do? Part of me thinks that she might be hedging her bets, as I have a great job now in a promising field. But I can\u2019t understand why she wouldn\u2019t want to know?\n\nHelp.","title":"Can you (m) compel a prenatal paternity test?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569270333,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8ccu3\/my_landlord_keeps_trying_to_throw_away_my\/","id":"d8ccu3","body":"I'm living in Boston and my landlord keeps trying to throw away things I've got stored in the basement under the reasoning that they are \"fire hazards\" things like cardboard boxes and wooden shelves. She will move the things out of the basement and store them outside under the porch while she waits for them to be taken away as trash. Sometimes we get less than a days warning if we're lucky, sometimes we get no warning at all and our things simply disappear. She claims that there's nothing in them but this last time she tried to throw out boxes containing winter clothes and computer parts as well as containers with labels specifically asking her not to throw them away. What action if any can I take to prevent my landlord from relocating and throwing away my belongings?","title":"My landlord keeps trying to throw away my belongings.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569164081,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7rgvj\/third_parties_in_divorce_court\/","id":"d7rgvj","body":"Throwaway account. Leaving out as much identifying detail as possible just in case.\n\nStates involved: PA and NJ\n\nI was on an anonymous chatting app (first mistake) and was talking to this guy. We had crossed paths a couple times on the app before and I rebuffed his requests to meet up. This time our paths crossed on the app I had come down with a cold and was vulnerable and agreed that he would come over, bringing me a few things to help me feel better (second mistake).\n \nI requested to move the conversation to text (third mistake) and gave him my address on text. He suggested we talk verbally on the phone instead of text since it was easier than texting that info. We talk for a couple minutes and hang up, anticipating our meeting.\n\n20 minutes later I get a text from an unknown number, using the nickname I had texted the guy, and telling me that this guy is married and I will be subpoenaed by her (presumably wife\u2019s) lawyer to appear in divorce court in a state over to testify, unless I send her screenshots of our conversation on whisper. At this point she had sent me the address that I had sent the guy. I refused to send screenshots of the conversation he and I had on the app.\n\nAfter communicating these threats to the guy I had met, he said he was separated and working on a divorce and that his wife had access to his texts via their shared phone plan.\n\nAre these veiled threats from a scorned woman? Aside from my obvious mistakes, is there any reason for concern?","title":"Third parties in divorce court?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552511638,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0rg8e\/ny_narcissist_mother_is_keeping_me_from_my\/","id":"b0rg8e","body":"Is there some kind of family visitation? Anything I can do to see my little brother? I basically raised this kid, every time CPS came to the house we lied our little butts off because we were afraid of the consequences. Now she won\u2019t let me [30f] see him [14m]. She is a toxic person and I don\u2019t want any contact with her but want to be there for him.  Any advice? \n\nI know the flair doesn\u2019t really fit but I\u2019m not sure what else his could be considered! ","title":"[NY] Narcissist mother is keeping me from my youngest sibling in an effort to manipulate me. Do I have legal standing?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539884548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pbht3\/deferred_adjudication_record_seal\/","id":"9pbht3","body":"In Texas. \n4-5 years ago, I was with an abusive ex. We went to a big chain store and apparently the times he was going there alone he was stealing.  We went together one day and I had walked away from him to get a few things for myself, it was a college town and we rode the bus so we had backpacks to carry stuff.  My backpack was in the cart with his backpack and he had the cart when I walked to another aisle (reminder that i did not know he had been stealing). \n\nWe went to checkout and I paid for my things.  As the bagger finished bagging my ex put the bags in the backpacks so we could go back to the bus stop. \n\nAs we walked out, in between the entrance from outside and the entrance to the store,  my ex was stopped.  I didn't know he was stopped until I was outside.  I was not stopped. I assumed he had to go to the restroom and that he would catch up so I headed towards the bus stop. He calls and tells me to go back in the store.  I ask why,  he said \" just go back in they want to search your bag\".  I, being young and naive, went back inside to prove I had nothing,  I even had a receipt for what I paid for. \n\nThey searched my bag and found men's items at the bottom. Sizes that were way too big for me. My ex had stolen things (>$50<$500 , it was about $180 when they scanned everything after searching his bag and mine excluding what I bought) and put them in my bag as well as his. I offered to just pay for everything and showed my receipt to show them that I didn't steal anything.  They didn't  want to hear it. We were arrested. I spent a night in jail until a family member bailed me out. I was going to leave ex there, but he called and threatened to do violent things if I didn't  help bail him (again young,scared,naive). After that i tried to distance myself. I went to court,had no attorney whatsoever it was only me, judge said he felt sorry for me and felt that I was in a bad situation with a bad person and I was advised to plead \"no contest\". They told me it would be deferred adjudication and that after the requirements are met it should not show up on anything. I did probation, community service, and for some reason they made me do a class over alcohol and drugs with a creepy guy. It shows up as a Misdemeanor B theft. \n\nFast forward to now. About 5 years later. I have amazing kids, my amazing boyfriend (not the ex) and I are planning to get married, my life is settling down. I want to one day have a good-paying career. We want to get a better apartment or a house and I feel that this is coming up on background checks because when we applied for two apartments previously together and we were denied because of something on me. When he applied alone at a different apartment,he wasn't  denied. Either it is this or an unfair eviction due to my ex. I can still see the court records and the jail bond publicly online. The arrest is gone though. I had issues applying for jobs also before, I don't know if they could see but during 2 years of applying I only had 1 university job hire me and only a few interviews.  \n\nI have no income. We can't  afford thousands at the moment. I have no other car to use to get to legal aid clinics (they're  all during when boyfriend works) so I've  been trying to find one that will do an intake over the phone to get rid of the public information and seal it from employers and apartments. How can I get rid of this? Do I ask for an expunction or seal?\n\nAlso I tried a legal aid agency before and the attorney I was set up with requested to be released from the case because the county and him wanted me to go 2 hours away to be in person at court. Even though from the start I told them I could not do that and I was told that the attorney could be there for me. ","title":"Deferred Adjudication record seal","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553563353,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5jfch\/my_boyfriend_m26_is_having_a_lot_of_medical\/","id":"b5jfch","body":"For some more context he left the company on the 13th of this month and had been going to urgent care during his time there. He went to the hospital ER a couple of days after he left the company due to some severe headaches. \n\nThat\u2019s when he\u2019s been told that he no longer has medical insurance. But the medical bills dated back when he was still in the company and should still be insured! \n\nI advised him to get as much proof he has before getting a lawyer. (Money deposits, payroll) but that is all I can think about. We still don\u2019t know what exactly is wrong with him and it\u2019s very frustrating to see him still in pain. Any advice is welcomed thank you. ","title":"My boyfriend (m26) is having a lot of medical issues recently and can\u2019t pay medical bills bc of his past employer. He wants to sue his old employer, bc they\u2019ve been taking extra money out for medical insurance he never had for months. Need some advice before taking legal action.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1441950134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kiak2\/question_about_rights_of_beneficiaries_of_a_will\/","id":"3kiak2","body":"My grandmother (GM) passed away 6 months ago. She owned 2 homes. GM has 3 daughters. I have a copy of GM signed will. In it she instructed home #1 (which she had lived in) to be sold and the proceeds to be divided by all three daughters.\nGM left home #2 as a life estate to daughter #1. \nGM also said for all remaining property both real and personal to be sold and proceeds divided between all 3 daughters evenly.\nDaughter #1 is executor of the will.\nDaughter #1 has not filed the will for probate yet and says she does not want to.\nDaughter #1 has taken all furniture and items out of home #1 and placed them into home #2 in an attempt to hide them from an inventory when the will is finally probated.\nDaughter #1 has also sold much of GM personal property and kept the money.\nI have read up on Texas probate and homestead law.\nI have contacted the attorney who drew up the will and he first said that daughter #1 has up to 4 years to submit the will for probate. I knew that but I feel she has disqualified herself as executor for the reasons above. The will hasn\u2019t even been submitted to the court yet to be deemed valid.\nThe lawyer later said that he will submit the will himself and deduct his fee out of the estate, but that was 3 months ago and he still hasn\u2019t done it. While daughter #1 continues to sell off GM assets or hide them at her life estate home.\nWhat are daughters #2 and #3 to do?\n","title":"Question about rights of beneficiaries of a will.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539131880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mur17\/nc_when_our_computer_system_at_work_crashes\/","id":"9mur17","body":"Our system crashes about once a month and if you load our work program shortly after a crash you have complete access to everything about everyone. I checked my own file and no one else\u2019s. How bad is this? Is there any course of action if someone were to steal my information from a technically unprotected file. I can also at that time change my privileges to access it any time I wanted. This is especially problematic because there are so many disgruntled employees because they treat us like garbage but it\u2019s all legal.","title":"(NC) when our computer system at work crashes everyone on the server has access to every employees file including SSN, address, phone number, wages, etc","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1441830303,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kaiyi\/reasonable_timenumber_of_guests_per_new_mexico\/","id":"3kaiyi","body":"I'm having a problem with my landlady and found out that a clause in my current rental agreement is not allowed under state law. (New Mexico).\n\nThe law states that an owner (landlord) may not charge for a \"reasonable number\" of guests staying for a \"reasonable length off time.\" (Full quote below).\n\nI can't (yet) find any case law on the subject that would give a more succinct definition, or a way to approach the situation.\n\nThe exact statute: **NMSA \u00a747-8-15 (E)**\n> E. An owner may not assess a fee from the resident for occupancy of the dwelling unit by a reasonable number of guests for a reasonable length of time. This shall not preclude charges for use of premises or facilities other than the dwelling unit by guests.\n\nAny idea of where to look for case law, how to define reasonable time, number, and how does number affect time, etc.? \n(Is it reasonable, according to the statute, to have one guest overnighting longer than multiple guests staying?)\n\n(The situation comes not from long-term or out-of-town guests but rather, someone who lives near by, spending the night.)\n\nEDIT:  Here's the exact wording of the clause. Italicized is that which was written in at the time it was signed.\n\n\"The owner will charge an extra $5.00 a day to the renter for each visitor that stay (sic) overnight, over 4 nights. This $5.00 is for the use of the water and septic tank.\"","title":"\"Reasonable\" time\/number of guests, per New Mexico statute","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570743458,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg4zga\/tx_questions_related_to_the_gun_control_act_and_a\/","id":"dg4zga","body":"I am trying to complete research related to The Gun Control Act codified at 18 USC 922(g) which \u201c\u2018makes it unlawful for certain categories of persons to... possess firearms... to include who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.\u201d\n\n1) What is legally a mental defective?\n2) What does it mean to be committed to an institution? Is it admittance to a hospital? Diagnosis code? Is there a database that keeps this information? With HIPAA I\u2019d imagine it\u2019s almost impossible to keep this. \n3) is this status permanent or temporary? \n\n\nI come from a healthcare background but I\u2019m going into law. I know what this means from a healthcare standpoint but I want real world application to the legal system. \n\nI\u2019m basically trying to figure out what this law actually means and practical application of the law. This is non-partisan research- I\u2019m not using it to push an agenda but to only understand what it means and how it\u2019s used\/applied currently. If anyone can help me I\u2019d greatly appreciate it! \n\nI\u2019m in Dallas County, Texas, USA looking for whatever is relevant to the county and state.","title":"(TX) Questions related to The Gun Control Act and a \u201cmental defective\u201d person","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441851203,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kc4uw\/update_aunt_and_uncle_want_utma_account_back\/","id":"3kc4uw","body":"Original post [here.](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/personalfinance\/comments\/37513p\/aunt_and_uncle_want_utma_account_back\/)\n\nI know this wasn't a hugely upvoted post, but I really enjoy when OP provides an update, and I thought it might be helpful for anyone going through a similar situation to hear how this worked out.\n\nTo briefly recap, my Aunt and Uncle set up a stock account with both my name and my uncle's name on it under the Uniform Transfer to Minors Act (they did this for my sister too). This account was set up with 75 shares at first, but eventually it was worth about $15,000. I paid all taxes on this account and tried not to touch it, but my wife and I intended to use it to help put a downpayment on our first house. I didn't realize that additional paperwork needed to be filled out with the brokerage before cashing any of the stock. When I contacted my uncle to get the paper stock and submit the forms required, he told me that he didn't want to give me the full amount \u2013 that he only wanted me to have about $5000, and the rest was just \u201ctheir money\u201d that they put in the account temporarily and never got around to taking back out. Here's how things played out after my last post:\n\n1. I contacted 2-3 local attorneys (I was bounced around as a referral between a few, since my situation was fairly unusual, and not many people in the area specialized in the legal field that would cover this kind of situation). I saved EVERYTHING, phone calls, emails, paperwork from the brokerage, and kept it all in a big envelope. Turns out I didn't need it (more on that later), but it felt good to stay organized \u2013 kept me from feeling too powerless.\n\n2. Before I could get the necessary paperwork into the brokerage, my uncle contacted them first. As I mentioned in my previous post, despite putting numerous notices to them, asking for notes to be put on the account, and requesting that they cancel the paper stock and convert it to electronic stock (since my aunt and uncle refused to return the certificates), their official position was to turn a blind eye and treat the account like a custodial account. This was my worst case scenario, because now this was an actual legal issue and not just dealing with the convoluted process of the brokerage. Logging in and seeing all zeroes was probably the worst moment of my life up to that point (although one has topped that since, but only barely).\n\n3. I notified the brokerage of the issue (this was a huge frustration, because at this point I felt like the right hand didn't know what the left was doing from them, since I had made it VERY clear that I was not a minor, and was working on getting all transfer paperwork in), and I asked them to elevate the situation to their legal department. I continued to save everything, and let the attorney know that I may have to actually file suit. I didn't want to do this for a lot of reasons \u2013 not fun to do to a family member, costly, and extra complicated since the brokerage is on the east coast, the account was opened in the south, and I live in the midwest \u2013 where would we even file a motion to the court?? Side note: My wife was on the verge of a meltdown at this point, and was about 7-8 months pregnant. Life was not fun.\n\n4. I continued to call the brokerage, and eventually had a mini-breakdown \u2013 I told the rep that I knew it wasn't their fault, and to transfer me as high as they could because I was going to chew someone out, and they didn't have to deal with that. When I reached a supervisor for the customer service department, I blew up a bit. I ended up chewing them out 30 minutes straight about how frustrated I am at how they've completely failed to handle the issue and have potentially cost me a lot of money. I didn't yell, but I did lose my cool a bit (I recorded this call, and I'm not gonna lie \u2013 it makes me a little bit happy now to re-listen to me going HAM on the company. It was cathartic.). And while this is not the best strategy, it also must have ended up making a bit of a difference, because...\n\n5. I was emailed by a paralegal in the legal department immediately at start of business the next day. The supervisor must have finally understood how big an issue this was to me (and potentially how much of it was the fault of brokerage \u2013 I had recordings of me providing proof of my age over the phone, so they really couldn't claim to be ignorant about the fact that I was not a minor), and made it her mission to ensure that SOMEONE got back to me. This paralegal was able to freeze the stock that my uncle transferred. Since he hadn't cashed it, only moved it to his brokerage account at the same company, they still had easy access to it. The stock was taken out and then frozen. But it wasn't all good news. Because now they wouldn't just take forms from me to unlock the account \u2013 they needed either notice from me AND my uncle in agreement, or needed a court order.\n\n6. Getting a court order, if my attorney even COULD get one, was going to be at least a couple thousand dollars as I was quoted. I have no idea if that's a fair price, because I didn't have a lot of options as my case was unusual. But I still had two last options \u2013 first, I contacted the paralegal and asked her to call my uncle and explain the fact that he was 100% wrong, and second, I sent [this email](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ompKHCa.png) to my uncle with [this attachment](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Nu1JZI3.png). As you can see, I pulled out all the stops on the legalese...I wanted this to sound threatening, because threats are free.\n\n7. Apparently it worked, because before the paralegal I was working with could call my uncle, he called HER, and arranged for all the stock to be released fully as I saw fit. She created a new account for me on the spot, and everything was free and clear. Much rejoicing was had.\n\n8. Some things I found out after the fact:\n\n* My uncle was lying when he said that they put \u201cextra money\u201d in the account. The only investment ever made was the initial investment, everything else was just reinvestment and stock splits. He was essentially just trying to lay claim to the profits from stock he bought for me as a gift.\n\n* My aunt and uncle are either bitter or ashamed, because they haven't spoken to me since. I don't want to contribute to bad blood, so I still sent them an announcement and pictures when my daughter was born, but from them \u2013 nothing. This wouldn't bother me, but they also were supposed to bring my g-pa\/g-ma up for a trip at the end of the summer to see family, and they canceled, which is sad for me and my parents.\n\n* The company that the stock was held in took a dive, so I lost money just by waiting to cash out either way. Such is the nature of the market.\n\n* Nice attorneys are happy for people even when they don't get money out of it. The firms were very glad to hear how the situation played out, even though that meant I didn't need their services.\n\n* My wife is much happier when we don't have financial issues :) Okay, I already knew that one.\n\n**Aside from that minor family drama, now everything is good. We bought our house with part of the stock, and the rest is still sitting (waiting for the market to recover). My daughter is 1.5 months old now and is beautiful. Here are some tips for anyone with a similar situation:**\n\n**LESSONS LEARNED**\n\n1. No matter how stupid and bureaucratic a company is (and this company was pretty stupid), it is still made up of people. People can be compassionate, and people are nice if you are nice to them. The biggest help was when I made them understand my frustration, and when I started getting to know the paralegal and working with her. Even people who you are FURIOUS with can be helpful when you keep calm and treat them nicely. By the end of this I knew customer service reps and supervisors on a first name basis.\n\n2. Saving everything, which is standard advice from Reddit, is great if you end up filing a case\/going to court. Otherwise, for small consultations from lawyers, no one will bother to read all your emails\/listen to your calls. Just keep that in mind in the early stages of a legal situation. It was good to have my huge, organized, exhaustive manilla envelope, and it made **me** feel a LOT better to cover my ass, but it stayed unopened throughout. Just be aware.\n\n3. Money really does make people assholes. My aunt and uncle were already on the assholism scale in the past, but they were ready to cut contact with me for $15,000. For perspective, my uncle was VP of one of the worlds largest corporations. He is now retired and referees professional tennis for fun. $15,000 is not monumental to him. But it is to me, and he just didn't care.\n\n4. A lot of financial documents require a \u201cmedallion signature guarantee.\u201d You financial institution can usually supply these, but if you bank online, like I do, this can be vary hard to find. [Park National Bank](https:\/\/www.parknationalbank.com\/Pages\/default.aspx) was the ONLY bank I found willing to do it for non-account holders. **IF YOU BANK ONLINE, GET AN ACCOUNT AT A LOCAL BANK IF YOU DON'T ALREADY HAVE ONE.**\n\n5. Your local bar association can provide a referral to a lawyer to handle your situation. That lawyer might not actually handle that type of law, but they can refer you to another lawyer, and so on and so forth. It might take a few tries.\n\n6. Business hours are a bitch to work around. Don't try to handle any issues on the weekend, it won't happen.\n\n7. Reddit provides great advice and is great to calming you down and making you feel justified, but don't forget to talk to lawyers IN PERSON, and to try to work things out without legal steps if possible. It's a hell of a lot easier and more expensive if everything can be worked out without cases\/court.\n\nAnd that's it. Hope this can help someone!\n\n**TL;DR: Everything worked out okay, but aunt and uncle are incommunicado. My daugher is awesome. My house is great. I got my $15,000 back and life is okay.**","title":"[Update] Aunt and Uncle want UTMA Account back (x-post from r\/personalfinance)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552413409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0atoo\/apartments_trying_to_fine_me_for_issue_with_my\/","id":"b0atoo","body":"Apartment complex in Idaho trying to charge late fee and insufficient fund fee despite being given a copy of my bank statements that show no transaction tried and that there was more than enough in the bank and an actual letter from my bank stating that no transaction had been attempted since November. They even attached a copy of the November transaction when I paid Decembers rent early. \nThey are trying to say my bank statements were not sufficient because it doesn't show how much was available after everything transaction. But they have a letter stating the transaction didn't even come through. \nThey said two and a half weeks ago that they were going to give me a higher level banking transaction number that would show if the transaction went into my bank and got rejected before it reached my account. Which would mean my bank would have to pay the fees.\nIf its been a month and a half we've been arguing with them now about this. And two and a half weeks since we were told about the higher level banking transaction number which we have not received. \n\nDo I have any options here legally? any advice would be great. Does this higher level banking thing even exist?","title":"Apartments trying to fine me for issue with my rent being paid despite no transaction attempt went through my bank","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554097284,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7y0k5\/unpaid_job_training\/","id":"b7y0k5","body":"My niece just got a job and they had her attend 3 days of training (8 hours each day) before she could actually do her job (she's cleaning people's homes in the area). They told her the training was unpaid and she was fine with that because she's getting a pay raise by switching to this job and she gets paid mileage on top of an hourly wage. They said after she works 250 hours, she'll get $150 and she assumes that's for the training but with her hourly wage, she should get over $250 for those days training. From what I've seen I don't think the company can not pay her for those hours because it wasn't voluntary training (she couldn't do the job until she did the training) and it was directly related to the job she was doing. Is this actually legal? If it's not, what should she do?","title":"Unpaid job training?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552891170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2fcmj\/paint_thinner_in_my_office\/","id":"b2fcmj","body":"Hello all,\n\nI have a question. I work for a large Corp that everyone has heard of here in Washington. The other day they were cleaning the HVAC system and we were here working over night which is my normal schedule. Well the cleaning team ended up using paint thinner and caused our office to be full of it and blowing whatever is in the vents at us (night crew). Ever since I\u2019ve had a headache and not sure what to do from here.","title":"Paint thinner in my office","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542056948,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wi684\/sc_what_to_do_if_a_police_report_has_the_wrong\/","id":"9wi684","body":"A little over a week ago I hit a deer on the interstate, called the police, everything was normal. Got the FR-10 form. When I got home after all of this I looked at the FR-10 form and realized I had accidentally handed the officer my hold insurance card, as I had to pull the new one out of its casing in order to call the roadside assistance number. Since then I\u2019ve been playing phone tag with the officer trying to get him to correct the issue, but I\u2019ve been unable to get a hold of him for a few days. I\u2019m concerned about submitting the police report with incorrect information on it but if I don\u2019t send it in to the DMV in the next several days I face the risk of losing my license. What exactly can I do about this right now?","title":"[SC] What to do if a police report has the wrong insurance on it?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571155634,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dia1fu\/collision_at_fault_ma\/","id":"dia1fu","body":"hi guys, so this just happened to my sister. sorry for any formatting\/grammar as im on mobile.    \n\nshe was pulling into a parking spot and the car next to her opened their door into the parking spot while she was pulling in. she ended up hitting the person\u2019s open door. who would be at fault in this situation? her car was completely in between the lines of the spot, and the other car opened their door into the spot next to her. \n\nthank you!","title":"Collision At Fault? (MA)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552179514,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azadfz\/landlord_did_not_advise_tenant_to_move_out\/","id":"azadfz","body":"So my dad (landlord) failed to advise tenant that they have one more month left until their one year contract agreement ends and that the tenant would have to move. \n\nIt is now past the one year agreement and the tenant has to pay for the thirteenth month of rent and move out by the next month. \n\nMy question is, could the tenant pursue this legally by saying the landlord did not advise them about moving out before the contract ended and that they wouldn\u2019t have to pay? \n\nI asked my dad about this but he didn\u2019t answer... \n\n\n\n\n\n","title":"Landlord did not advise Tenant to move out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503344963,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v5jb1\/i_was_offered_a_temporary_work_contract_that\/","id":"6v5jb1","body":"This is in Ontario, Canada. I'm currently pregnant and was just offered a temporary work contract that terminates shortly before I am due to give birth. There are special clauses that state that the contract can be terminated early if I am unable to be in the office due to any medical issues relating to my pregnancy. I have been working here since last year and this is an extension of my previous contract. Several times throughout my employment here I (and everyone else here) have been allowed to work from home on occasion, typically due to medical reasons. I'm questioning the legality of this contract and am not sure I should sign it. I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable can help me out.","title":"I was offered a temporary work contract that specifies \"complications due to pregnancy\" as a reason to terminate contract early","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541434025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ues6e\/mother_keeps_getting_spammed_and_harassed_by_texts\/","id":"9ues6e","body":"The midterms are around the corner and those companies are sending out texts and calls.  My mother has been getting those texts a lot. She has unsubscribed multiple times. It\u2019s those \u201cwho are you voting for?\u201d texts.\n\nWhat can we do?\n\nWest Virginia, U.S","title":"Mother keeps getting spammed and harassed by texts.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1443082951,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m6d7i\/ca_served_tenant_notice_to_pay_rent_or_quit_but\/","id":"3m6d7i","body":"Hey all you legal experts.\n\n\nOne of the room renters in the house we live in has missed 2 months of rent, and is soon approaching a third deadline (usually by the 5th of each month). I'm assuming it would be important to include that he's claimed that he's been out of work due to a skin condition that he developed just shortly before going on leave\/laid off (I don't remember which). He didn't tell us this until about a month ago.\n\n\nToday, my father attempted to serve him the **notice to pay rent or quit** in person. It seems he was actively avoiding us by staying in the bathroom for about an hour, and then ran into his room and shut the door after briefly acknowledging my father waiting just outside of the bathroom. After multiple attempts of knocking on his door and trying to hand the guy the notice, he eventually took the notice and ripped it up in front of us.\nWe were a bit generous by giving him 5 days on the notice (we left its remains in front of his door), but including weekends, it's basically like we were giving him a week. Now we want him out ASAP.\n\n\n Since he ripped up the notice, is it now void? Can we print a new notice with only the minimum 3 days and tape it to his door? If he comes up with the money, can we refuse it at this point (I'm assuming not, but I'm asking anyways)? What would be the best\/fastest way of getting him out? It would be super awkward to have to use a 30 day notice, to wait for this asshole to leave.\n\n\n*EDIT* Sorry, another question: Does giving 30 day notice still require him to pay rent for that extra month? Obviously we want to minimize the amount of money we're losing. We've already been burned pretty bad once before.\n\n*UPDATE 09\/25\/15* Thanks for the responses, everyone! My parents are going to consult with an attorney today. The renter also threatened to sue us for his skin condition, but can't say for sure until we see the papers.","title":"[CA] Served tenant \"notice to pay rent or quit\", but he ripped up the notice. Now we want him out ASAP","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569802210,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db3i0n\/possible_eviction_situation_does_the_owner_have\/","id":"db3i0n","body":"IMPORTANT! I receive public funding for my housing. For the past two years I have diligently notified my buildings office manager and placed several requests for my leaky window to be repaired or replaced. On their end there was no acknowledgement, even after explaining the leak was beginning to cause water damage to both the management company and office manager. There has been no communication on their end for the majority of this time. It was not until I requested an inspection from my housing authority (that they recommended I do), and rent payment was being delayed that a manager of several properties owned by the company came by to examine my window.\n\nHe stated my window and patio would be replaced. A month and a half went by after this despite being told the ordering of parts would take two weeks. Contractors came by a day or so ago, installed the new patio and prepared to do the same with my bedroom window. No one told them about the water damage or lead paint (my building was constructed in 1975). I was told the work would need to be done in steps and that they would return tomorrow (which they didn't). My patio and window did not pass the housing authority inspection, which is a condition of the contract signed by myself and the owner (by proxy, the office manager).\n\nToday I received a call, and had a conversation with my office manager that was definitely a veiled threat. She was pressuring me to sign paperwork essentially stating the work was complete, and multiple times stated if it was not signed, I would need to find a new place to live. Until the repair is finished, my rent will not be paid, that is literally what the barrier is. I told her I needed to communicate with the housing authority about the situation before signing off and ensuring that both parties are communicating with each other.  What I want to know is, can I be evicted? I want to state I live in the U.S. and in the state of Minnesota.\n\nI am so stressed, have done nothing wrong and until I moved into this apartment, I was homeless for an entire year and before that a domestic situation. I am just so afraid of being displaced again. I am reviewing my lease agreement, and although I've only skimmed it for now, seems the company is in the wrong legally. Many MANY thanks in advance for reading, I hope someone can help me.","title":"Possible eviction situation, does the owner have grounds?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569613130,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da5eid\/job_puts_up_a_list_of_best_and_worst_cashiers\/","id":"da5eid","body":"So my job, sams club, has put up lists of the top and bottom cashiers they employ at our store. I\u2019m not sure if this breaks any kind of harassment or ethics laws or something but it feels wrong and everyone in the store hates it. [here is a list of the board with names covered to preserve anonymity](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/8DXsFYF.jpg)","title":"Job puts up a list of best and worst cashiers.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552594412,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b155lo\/slovenia_slo_eu_eruopean_union_brother_had_money\/","id":"b155lo","body":" First day at a fairly large retail store, my brother was left alone at  the checkout and was missing 20 euros in the cash register. No big deal.  On the third day, he was missing 70 euros, and was told he needs to pay  it back out of his own pocket. His reasoning was, that someone came  back claiming he didn't return enough money, even tho he did, and was  told if that happened he needed to shut down the cash register so  everything could be counted. This was the third day and second time this  happened when he was told this mind you. Now the employer claims he  needs to pay back the money by next day or he might get fired. \n\n​\n\nWhat I want to know is, If this is legal in Slovenia (or any other european union countries, as our laws are similar to them). As far as I know, companies have to have mandatory insurance for this sort of things? Is there any legal obligation for him to actually pay out of his own pocket\/paycheck?","title":"[Slovenia] [SLO] [EU] [Eruopean union] Brother had money missing in the cash register at the end of the shift, now he needs to pay back out of his own pocket.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551640125,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awx9xp\/new_property_management_new_lease_usa_california\/","id":"awx9xp","body":"So the owner of the house I\u2019m renting has decided to switch property management companies, mid lease. The new management company wants me to sign a new lease and it may be a typo but it looks like it will be a month to month lease. Can they do this? ","title":"New property management, new lease? USA, California","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569509649,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9kq0s\/terminated_due_to_fmla_paperwork_going_missing\/","id":"d9kq0s","body":"I broke my arm back in mid August and called it in like your supposed to. I got a packet in the mail from my employer with all the paperwork they wanted filled out and faxed. I brought the paperwork with me when I went in for surgery and a nurse took it from me and said it would be taken care of. I wake up from anesthesia and go home. \n\nI checked my email and my employer still hasn\u2019t gotten my paperwork so I called got an extension on my deadline and got another packet.\n\nI try again I bring it in and got it filled out and confirmed it was faxed as instructed. Still my employer didn\u2019t receive it, my case for leave was denied, and  I have been assumed to have abandoned my job. \n\nI\u2019m gonna pick up a copy from the doctors office today maybe try scanning and emailing it but It might be too late. Sucks I did everything right and still loosing my job.","title":"Terminated due to FMLA paperwork going \u201cmissing\u201d","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447688150,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t13gh\/will_executor_and_beneficiary_live_out_of_state_i\/","id":"3t13gh","body":"Hello, Here's my situation:\n\nSingle person living in WA state.\n    Significant financial investments, all of which are stock market type items (mutual funds, 401-k, etc.)\n    No real-estate.\n    Low-value personal belongings (furniture, electronics, office equipment, sporting goods, older car, etc.)\n    My executor (father) lives out of state.\n    My main beneficiary (mother) lives out of state.\n\nMy Wishes:\n\nI want my Mother (out of state) to get all the money from my investments.\n    I want my various friends who live in WA to get all my physical belongings if they want them (car, books, cd's, etc.)\n    I don't want my Mother or Father to be bothered by having to come to WA to do the cleanup of things here, i.e. liquidating my belongings, etc.\n    I do have a local friend who is willing to be that person who will distribute my \"stuff\" and donate the rest, clean out my apartment, etc.\n\nHERE'S THE QUESTION:\n\nCan\/should I create a Will designating that EVERYTHING goes to my Mother, with an attached letter indicating that I RECOMMEND\/REQUEST (legally binding?) she work with my local friend to liquidate all my stuff? And part of that attached letter would be a list of all my local friends to be contacted to see if they want any of my stuff.\n\nNOTE: I've spoke to my Mother about this and she is fine with handing off the responsibility of liquidating my stuff to my local person.\n\nI'm leaning this way for the sake of simplicity, i.e. everything goes to one person for the sake of legality, as opposed to making the Will much more complex by stating that the $$$ goes to my Mother, kayak goes to so-and-so, books and music goes to so-and-so. That just seems messy.\n\nAlso, I would like the local friend to get X amount of money for their time and effort in liquidating my stuff. Should this be an explicit line item in the Will? Or should this also be something dealt with in my attached letter where I \"recommend\" that the beneficiary hand over responsibility of liquidating my stuff, (which again would not be legally binding) if not explicitly part of the signed Will.\n\nAm I making this too complex? I'm trying to keep this simple and relatively pain-free for all involved.\n\nAny advice you may have is appreciated.\n\nThanks!\n","title":"Will Executor and Beneficiary live Out of State (I live in WA). How to reduce hassle to both?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569196818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7ynph\/partner_hit_by_car_as_pedestrian_what_recourse_do\/","id":"d7ynph","body":"My partner was in an accident today in a parking lot. She was crossing the street on foot when a turning car hit her and knocked her back onto the concrete, hitting her head in the process. While there were no major injuries, luckily, she is not going to work tomorrow and taking one of her few paid time off days. \n\nThe police that were there took all of the information from the other individual. We had an ambulance ride and an ER visit, with several tests at the hospital. What can we expect the individual\u2019s insurance to pay for and what steps do we need to take on our end?\n\nThis is in the USA","title":"Partner hit by car as pedestrian... what recourse do we have?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1542038124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wf5qz\/parents_are_attempting_to_divorce_mother_is\/","id":"9wf5qz","body":"My mother has fallen ill and has a %30 chance of survival according to doctor estimates. We are attempting to prepare for the worst and have come across a possible issue.\n\nShe wants to leave me her home, but my parents are attempting to divorce and are still legally married until May. From what we understand, if she does pass, all property decisions etc. Fall to my father.  \n\nWe do not want this due to the fact the divorce is happening because of abuse and financial issues. My father is awful at finances and manages his money terribly causing us to almost lose our home in past years before the separation. \n\nIf she passes and he receives\/is able to take what ever he can he will. He has already started telling me that when she does I'm not to let ANYONE back into her home without his permission. Even though he is no longer loving there. \n\nIs there anything\/recommendations to get around this fact since they are still legally married? I dont want to send my father to jail but if he does return home and has access I know we will lose it due to his inability to manage money.\n\nI suppose I should add that my mother has no life insurance and is on disability so there are no monetary amounts being left for anyone. Just the home and its property. ","title":"Parents are attempting to divorce. Mother is terminally ill. Question on housing and will.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551769051,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axi6j9\/i_have_a_suspicion_someone_at_my_school_stole_a\/","id":"axi6j9","body":"I\u2019m not sure if I have the right flair, if not I\u2019ll gladly repost this.\n\nAt my college I hang out with a group of people that like to play video games, are in a video game club of about 200 people, they\u2019re pretty cool, they like video games, I like video games. We all have a fun time.\n\nWe normally meet around noon in the basement floor of the commons building where they have a bunch of games set up (video games, pool, air hockey etc.) Were in the middle of just hanging out when this big guy comes up to us. None of us know him except for one guy who had a class with him last semester. He says he recently got his hands on about 30 unopened ps4 slims and  near two hundred and 50 sealed ps4 games and was looking to sell some of them. This immediately made me suspicious so I asked him how he got them. He said not to worry about it, that he got them really cheap online and was selling them for a bit higher. This isn\u2019t 100 percent impossible but it seems a bit improbable. We want to know, before any of us think about advertising for this guy in our club, if we should look into if he stole these things or not. Even more so if we can do it anonymously as, if it turns out he didn\u2019t steal them, we don\u2019t want him to think we\u2019re a bunch of assholes or anything and lose his business. How should we go about this?","title":"I have a suspicion someone at my school stole a bunch of video game systems.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507054064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7427gs\/contacted_a_company_that_violated_our_nda_what\/","id":"7427gs","body":"I am in the process of starting up my own business. I used to work for a company that used a certain vendor. I contacted them, and they said I could talk about my product without having to worry they would reveal or steal the product, so we signed an NDA. \n\nMy product is exactly like the one my old job used to have, however, there is no patent, and they have no rights to it.  Nevertheless, after telling the vendor what I wanted to produced, the vendor I contacted, reached out to the old company I used to work for and told them what I was doing.\n\n\nThey contacted me and tried to threaten legal action, and I told them to hit the road. They started their company exactly the way I did, they worked for a company that did exactly what they are doing, and they decided to go off on their own and do it for themselves.\n\n\nThe vendor was the only company that I contacted it at the time, so no one else would have know. They clearly violated the NDA, so what are my options?\n\n\nA few key notes:\n\n* I am not in a Non compete agreement\n* The product is the same, but the name, packaging and everything else is different.\n* They have no intellectual, patent, or copyright to it. \n\n\n[Boston, USA]","title":"Contacted a company that violated our NDA, what are my options?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1447045726,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s3jfi\/friend_charged_with_larceny_in_nc_days_before\/","id":"3s3jfi","body":"Long story short my old roommate was out with his little brother and a friend of his and his brothers friend got caught shoplifting in Walmart. The police were called, all three changed with \"LARCRNY - NO TEXT\", nobody went to jail. My roommate was three days away from moving to a different state for a new job. He tried rescheduling his court day and they didn't have a day soon enough for him to attend, he contacted two lawyers and both told him they couldn't represent him unless he was physically there, and he called the court house and asked if he could get the case transfer to his new hometown and he was told no. About a week after his missed court date the police come to my door to ask if I knew where he was. I told them he moved away for a job and didn't have anymore information, they never came back.\n\nIt's been almost 3 years since this happened. I stay in contact with him through Facebook and video games and recently he's told me he's been having a lot of anxiety rethinking this situation. The police haven't been in contact with him, he's called the courthouse to ask if there is a warrant out for him but he's told they can't tell him over the phone, he'll need to come in. My friend is concerned about what he should do from here, he wants this resolved. Will he be okay as long as he doesn't go back to NC? Does he have any worries about being arrested in is home state? What is the first step he should take if he wants to get this resolved?","title":"Friend charged with larceny in NC days before moving out-of-state for a job. Has been 3 years, does he need to worry?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442681502,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lkpe1\/uk_is_it_possible_to_disown_or_do_anything\/","id":"3lkpe1","body":"So my mother is marrying her boyfriend who will become my stepfather, he cheated on her once and she forgave him. But I will be unable to handle him being part of my 'family' so to speak. I don't care if it hurts her feelings, she hasn't considered mine. So is there any way I am able to disown (or anything like that) to him befor\/after they get married?","title":"UK. Is it possible to disown or do anything similar to a step parent?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551982771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayfs62\/nj_sharing_a_dog_in_a_divorce\/","id":"ayfs62","body":"My parents are getting a divorce. My siblings, my dad, & I are estranged from my mother who has the family dog. This is a divorce based on cruelty towards us all from my mother. So, no contact after the divorce is probably the way this is going to go. Can there be shared time with a dog in a divorce? And can it be court ordered? I know dogs are considered property, and you probably can\u2019t share property. Still asking just in case.","title":"(NJ) Sharing a dog in a divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541993864,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wagi0\/my_phone_number_home_address_and_ip_address_has\/","id":"9wagi0","body":"I was playing Rainbow Six Siege competitively when someone on my team and in my party decided to get a little too mad and pull my IP address and home address and then proceeded to tell me to check his Twitter. So I did and he posted my name, home address, and IP address.","title":"My Phone Number, Home Address and IP Address has just been tweeted online by a guy from Xbox Live","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541533288,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9urlxq\/someone_took_a_photo_of_me_and_slandered_me_on\/","id":"9urlxq","body":"So a little background, I work at a breakfast restaurant as a host. I seat people, take payments and what not. I\u2019m 18 years old and don\u2019t do much else other than work and sleep. \n\nToday while at work a customer comes in and asks to be seated. I had just gotten off break and wasn\u2019t sure what tables we had available (we\u2019re a little old fashioned when it comes to keeping track of what tables are available, and we are often busy to where there\u2019s a constant wait time). I tell him I\u2019m not sure what we have open currently, and ask to take his name and whether he wants to wait for outside or inside. \n\nAfter about 5 minutes or so one of the other hosts takes him outside. After about 5 minutes he gets up, walks back to the front, and takes a picture of me on his way out. I think he was trying to be conspicuous but it was so blatantly obvious that I\u2019m not sure. I knew something was up because he seemed irritated and no one just takes pictures of me while I\u2019m at work. \n\nMy first instinct was that he was going to make a Yelp review and complain about us (the hosts). So I quickly check Yelp and look to find the most recent reviews and behold a picture of me and a lengthy paragraph explaining how I\u2019m a \u201cracist POS weasel\u201d and that he\u2019ll never come back as long as this \u201cracist POS weasel\u201d is still working here. He posted that publicly on the internet for everyone walking into my job to see. \n\nI should make a BIG DISCLAIMER THAT I AM IN NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM RACIST OR IN ANYWAY AFFILIATED WITH RACISM, and I feel very offended to have been called that publicly in any way. Now anytime someone checks yelp before they walk in the restaurant they\u2019ll see me and think that. I\u2019m deeply hurt, and I know that somehow that\u2019s not right legally, so I need help ASAP. \n\nWhat\u2019s the best way I could go about handling this as soon as possible? Please any help would be appreciated. Thank you. \n","title":"Someone Took a Photo of Me and Slandered Me on Yelp","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1446088050,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qnl53\/just_a_quick_question_about_lockpicking_in_alberta\/","id":"3qnl53","body":"I was thinking about getting into lock-picking as a hobby, but when I was searching if it was legal or not, the information I found said yes they are illegal and no they are not illegal. So i would like to know if they are illegal  or legal in Alberta and why.","title":"Just a quick question about lock-picking in Alberta","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506012964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71khqm\/tenant_rights_is_it_legal_for_a_rental_company_to\/","id":"71khqm","body":"Long story short, I need an emailed copy of my rental agreement, which I was told I would get when I moved in - my rental company said they'll give it to me for $5. \n\nObviously I heavily question the legality of charging for a rental agreement, and can't find much about it online. I read [in California civil code 1962](http:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=1962) that they're required to provide it, but charging for it seems to not be covered. Probably because it's ridiculous. \n\nThis company also refuses to give me a receipt of my rent, which I pay with cashiers checks since they take 2-3 weeks to deposit, sometimes waiting until a few days before next rent is due. In order to keep myself sane\/keep track of my finances I decided to pay this way. They say they 'dont do receipts,' which I absolutely know is not legal if you pay with money orders, but I'm not sure if that translates to cashiers checks as well. \n\nDoes anyone know the legality of these things? They're so specific that I'm having trouble pinning it down completely. My dad works in housing and immediately pointed me to California civil code, but I'm still not sure if it's all fully illegal. \n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated! ","title":"Tenant rights: Is it legal for a rental company to charge me for a copy of my lease agreement? (California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444760197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3om71g\/new_york_forming_llc_with_2nd_party_form_dos1336\/","id":"3om71g","body":"Concerned that we may have to submit the filing fee twice if we complete the form incorrectly.","title":"[New York] Forming LLC with 2nd party - form DOS-1336 doesn't indicate multiple organizers\/filers. What is the correct way to complete the form?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1507592298,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75d4zy\/usa_so_needs_access_to_email_account_for_business\/","id":"75d4zy","body":"Posting from the USA here. So as per title, my SO is trying to finalize closing down a failed business that was made in SO's name. The business was made in SO's name because their business Partner had bad credit (and is scum). This whole deal has wrecked SO's credit and is being a lingering pain in the ass. A big part of that is that SO's Partner wont give SO the password to the email that all the accounts etc. was made with. \n\nIf anyone could tell me what key words I am even looking for I can probably search through the laws in my state, but I don't know where to start. Is there a chance what Partner is doing is illegal?\n\nCan I send Partner a little thing on letterhead that says \"cease and desist\" or whatever? Can I make them scared of a lawsuit without paying for much in the way of lawyers? \n\nIf anyone has any advice or can tell me a better way of going about this I would really appreciate it. ","title":"[USA] SO needs access to email account for business in their name. Previous business partner is withholding password. Any recourse?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551878563,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axyrmx\/custody_issues\/","id":"axyrmx","body":"I have four children with my ex wife. Two of them are living with me full time. This is contrary to our divorce agreement. These children are not happy\/do not feel safe with their mom. \n\nThere has been documented abuse by one of my ex\u2019s partners and she is emotionally abusive. \n\nMy ex refuses to adjust child support payments and I\u2019m having my wages garnished to make maintenance payments for these kids who live with me. \n\nI have applied for legal aide but \u2018make too much money\u2019 even though I am completely underwater as a result of over paying child support for these kids. \n\nI have a dialogue with CPS who agrees the kids should be with me but don\u2019t seem to be doing anything to force the custody issue. \n\nShe is also preventing me from changing their schools so they are not attending schools close to my home. This results in them missing or being late for school frequently. \n\nI\u2019m trying to do the right thing for my kids but am finding I\u2019m being blocked at every turn and don\u2019t seem to have a straight forward path to get the custody arrangement changed since she is blocking and I cannot afford a lawyer. \n\nI am in NS, Canada. ","title":"Custody issues","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568590945,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4sl65\/landlord_failed_to_disclose_that_they_live_on\/","id":"d4sl65","body":"Hi there. \n\nI moved to Florida for an internship and found a house for rent on craigslist. Nothing on the ad said that they also lived on the property. They did not inform me when I asked if the place was furnished. They did not disclose that they reside there when I asked about other tenants. \n\nNeedless to say, I found out when I arrived and was absolutely uncomfortable. However, I had 0 choice because I didn't want to be homeless and needed a place to stay. \n\nThis couple keeps the house at 80 degrees, demands I never have guests over, and refuses to let me put any belongings in the garage, while also required me to tell them whenever I'm leaving and arriving. \n\nShe forced me to write a 975 dollar check to pay for half of this month and next month in advance.  They didn't want me to sign a lease and I'm month to month. \n\nI'm obviously working on getting out of this house and moving very soon. What legal rights do I have in this situation?","title":"Landlord failed to disclose that they live on rental property.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569105980,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7hpn6\/sos_my_roommate_doesnt_pay_rent_so_i_changed_the\/","id":"d7hpn6","body":"He's not on the lease and is 2 months late on rent (hes only lived there 3 months total). I don't have the money to cover him so he needs to go so I can get someone in that I can rely on to pay their share. \n\nSo I changed the locks because Ive tried everything else and he just lies and manipulates me. I also changed the locks because he constantly leaves town and has randoms come into our apartment and walk his dog without telling me who they are or making sure they are safe, trustworthy people. I was in the shower the other day and someone came barging into my place to take the dog out- I have no idea who it was or who had access to the key to my apartment. As a young woman, I'm not stoked on being naked and vulnerable while strangers are in my house. Isn't it a safety issue at that point?\n\nFirst I thought about keeping his stuff until he pays back rent but everyone keeps telling me that its illegal to have even changed the locks. It sounds like he has more rights than I do and I'm so overwhelmed and stressed out. What can I do?\n\nThis is in Portland, OR  by the way.","title":"SOS My roommate doesn't pay rent so I changed the locks","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571380651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djjjxc\/destruction_am_i_allowed_to_destroy_someones\/","id":"djjjxc","body":"Guys kink is to see his Brand new 2018 Jeep get trashed. Cant find people to do it cause it's too nice.\n\nHe wants to masturbate while doing so..\n\nShould I worried about some sort of insurance fraud\/scam here?\n\nI'd love to do it.","title":"Destruction: Am I allowed to destroy someone's vehicle if given their explicit consent?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504175311,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x61dc\/being_charged_for_a_water_bill_from_the_last\/","id":"6x61dc","body":"This is my first time posting so I'm really sorry if it's wrong in any way.\n\nSo 3 of my friends and I are about to move into a 4 bedroom house renting it as 4 students. 2 of the tenants about a week ago received texts from the local water company saying our water bill was overdue and we needed to pay \u00a3370 by 7pm otherwise it would affect our credit scores, now I said we needed to go straight to the letting agency because this was a landlord matter but unfortunately I was not on this bill for some reason meaning one of the friends' dads went to the water company and the company that splits our bills. This meant he managed to negotiate it being paid in instalments with \u00a374 start payment. They only rung the letting agency after who said they were sorry for this mistake but they couldn't do anything. This is a bill from the last tenancy so we will be paying for our water and the last tenants' water!\n\nWe seem to be able to do nothing about it, I'm about to go to the letting agency now to get my key for the property (we haven't even moved in yet!) is there any advice on how to handle this or what to do? Thank you.\n\nEdit: sorry I did this in a panic and rush as I'm off to the letting agency now my location is Wales (UK)","title":"Being charged for a water bill from the last tenancy","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539903880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pe8ri\/rear_ended_while_driving_a_rental_car_1st\/","id":"9pe8ri","body":"Apologies in advance if my situation is not clear or if i need to add information, but this is the first time I've ever had to deal with anything like this... \n\n​\n\nI was rear-ended while driving a rental at the beginning of September. The CHP was called and a report was made, the other driver was 100% at fault. We got his insurance information and turned in the car the next morning where they did an inspection and completed paperwork. We reported that there was a police report and gave them the other drivers insurance information. I had used my chase cc so that i could use the insurance in the event of an accident but don't know how to go about that process (which is a whole other question in itself, which if anyone can message me and walk me through that process i would greatly appreciate). \n\n​\n\nNow I'm getting letters from Enterprise asking for me to pay $8500 in damages. Why is this happening if the other driver was at fault, what do I do next? ","title":"Rear ended while driving a rental car, 1st accident, absolutely no idea of what to do next","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571675025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl2y17\/apartment_complex_wont_turn_on_heat_due_to\/","id":"dl2y17","body":"I was sent this email a couple of days ago - \n\u201cDear Valued Community Members,\n\n\u201cAs the weather is getting cooler, we are aware that many of you are awaiting for the AC to switch to heat. Due to specific governing codes, the weather has to be below 50 degrees for te consecutive days, before we are able to make the switch. We will notify you all on the date that we are able to make the switch. Please call us at XXX-XXX-XXXX with any questions or concerns.\n\n\u201cRegards,\n\n\u201cManagement\u201d\n\nNow, there have been days where it was below 50 degrees, but not three consecutive days. I was out of town this weekend, so it didn\u2019t affect me, but my roommate was so cold a couple of nights that he was unable to sleep. Are they allowed to do this, or are they just trying to save a quick buck and hoping no one catches onto it? What governing code are they referring to? We\u2019ve discussed getting a heater, but aren\u2019t sure if the week or two before the consistent cold weather is worth investing into a heater for.","title":"Apartment Complex Won\u2019t Turn On Heat Due To \u201cGoverning Codes\u201d (Atlanta, GA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569064942,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d799tn\/support_modification_in_oklahoma_ex_lying_about\/","id":"d799tn","body":"Joint custody. Ex is using DHS to modify support. Hearing is in 6 weeks. I have searched Reddit for answers and there is very little to be found, which surprises me.\n\nEx works as a \"financial\" manager for a pyramid scheme (Transamerica, Primerica) and according to the DHS paperwork claims she makes minimum wage. I have a old text message between her and an ex business partner where my ex is telling the partner to not deposit cash in the business bank account because it shows as income. However, this text is 5+ years old and ex has a different job now.\n\nEx is shady AF, lying about her income so that I pay more support and I need some advice.\n\nWill this ancient text between ex and business partner be worth anything in court? Enough maybe for the judge to agree that further discovery should be done?\n\nWhat would the discovery process look like? Tax return, subpoena her current employer, subpoena old business partner, subpoena her text records, hire forensic accountants?\n\nIf anyone has had to go through this, how did it turn out? Am I going to spent 10k+ in lawyers and at the end still get screwed? I know no one can answer that but I would love to hear from people that have had similar issues and what their experience was like.\n\nI work a regular job, get a W-2 and am squeaky clean. Faithfully have paid my child support for 11 years now. Ex has alienated the child from me, but that is a whole other issue.\n\nThanks for your time","title":"Support Modification in Oklahoma - Ex lying about income","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550896792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atrfwz\/my_workplace_told_me_that_i_have_to_change_my\/","id":"atrfwz","body":"Throwaway because I'm still employed here for another week or so. This is in Washington state.\n\n​\n\nI'm in the midst of leaving my current employer for some personal and professional reasons. My last day with them was supposed to be Friday, March 1st. I submitted my letter of resignation two weeks in advance - so about a week ago - and have been wrapping up my projects and responsibilities since then. \n\n​\n\nToday, a member of our HR department stopped by my office and asked me to meet with them. In our meeting, they informed me that they are changing my last day of work to be earlier than my letter of resignation states. I have health, dental, and vision insurance through my employer, which is paid for through a deduction from my paycheck each month. Pretty standard stuff. The HR rep I spoke to stated that their reason for having me leave early is \"because the day you'll work in March doesn't cover the cost of your insurance for the month.\" I was not given another option; I was simply told \"you're leaving on the 28th of February now.\" I stayed calm and professional throughout the meeting and did not, at any point, give the impression that I was okay with this change. I stayed non-committal and made statements like \"I see,\" when the change was brought up.\n\n​\n\nWashington is an at-will employment state, so I understand I may be limited in my options, but here's the kicker: this policy is not documented ANYWHERE. There's no record of it in our staff handbook, my supervisor has never encountered it, and no communication has been sent out since the last changes to the staff handbook suggesting that this was a new policy. \n\n​\n\nFurthermore, I ran the numbers once I got back to my office and the one day I would work in March more than covers the cost of the health insurance for the month by a comfortable margin - i.e. even with taxes I'd still have enough. I won't share my exact pay and costs here, but to give a ballpark, let's say I make around $45,000 a year and the cost of insurance is roughly $120 a month. \n\n​\n\nI sent an email to the HR rep I spoke to after running these numbers to request that they A. confirm the stated reason for my departure and B. send me their calculations for the cost of insurance vs my pay for one day of work. \n\n​\n\nHere's what I'm wondering about: if the stated reason for having me leave early (I wouldn't make enough to cover the cost of insurance) doesn't hold water (I do make enough to cover the cost of insurance), and the policy that I'm being asked to leave under isn't documented, can I do anything about that? If so, what steps do I need to take? To be clear, I'm not being terminated. I'm voluntarily leaving for a new job and now being told that I need to leave earlier. My new position, which offers insurance, won't start for about ten days after I leave, so I'd really like to have health insurance during that time.","title":"My workplace told me that I have to change my last day of employment due to an undocumented policy regarding insurance","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503493968,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6viuzi\/california_i_lost_a_ticket_and_want_to_know_if_i\/","id":"6viuzi","body":"I just barely missed a red light and got flashed crossing the intersection. I was finally ready to pay it but realized that I had no idea where my ticket was. I've been looking everywhere for it and have had no luck, is there any way that I can receive a new ticket? Or will I have to appear in court?","title":"(California) I lost a ticket and want to know if I can somehow get a new one.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568696940,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5ccrc\/my_father_has_locked_me_out_with_my_cat_and\/","id":"d5ccrc","body":"I live at home and my father got mad at me and locked me out of the home after attempting to throw my personal belongings outside. I left before he could become violent. I left for 3 hours and sat at a fast food resturant. When I returned home, I could not get him to unlock a door since he changed the code, locked all of the windows, and refused my phone calls although he is awake and moving throughout the home. I called the police for their help. They called, knocked on windows, banged on the door, etc. But he refused to speak or acknowledge them. My drivers license has my previous residence on it. All of my bank statements and other means to prove residency are locked inside the house. The police told me I could speak to a magistrate judge regarding this tomorrow if I could prove my residency. I cannot even get clean clothes to wear to go to see a judge or anything. \n\nHow do I prove my residency if all of my belongings are locked inside the home I'm trying to get access back into?","title":"My father has locked me out with my cat and belongings still in the home (GA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571058976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhqf7b\/im_gay_can_i_be_fired\/","id":"dhqf7b","body":"I work in a Catholic High School in Illinois.\n\nI keep my personal and work life 100% separate. It wasn't until a few weeks ago when a old co-worker who became close friend ask me to open up and I could trust them. I came out to her and she told me how immoral I am and she fears the safety of the students being around a gay male. She is threatening to tell my administration and the diocese that I am gay. Hiring, firing, reprimanding people etc based off of their sexual preferences is illegal right? Or could I be fired for breaking the morality clause?","title":"I'm gay can I be fired?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445647186,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pz5t8\/us_can_i_please_get_an_eli5_explanation_of\/","id":"3pz5t8","body":"I don't want to get too deep into this. I haven't been here that long but feel uncomfortable.","title":"[US] Can I please get an ELI5 explanation of whistleblowing and what the repercussions are (for someone in public sector)?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569350094,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8rc0u\/my_apartment_co_olex_hasnt_fixed_my_carpet_in_3\/","id":"d8rc0u","body":"I live in an apartment complex in Oklahoma. The water heater started leaking about 3 weeks ago, and they had it replaced within a few days. The maintenance person was really nice and helpful, and got the job done quick.\n\nThe issue is that the leak got into a large portion of our carpet and they had to rip out the padding, then stuck the carpet back down. It's been this way for three weeks and we've asked then weekly when they plan to fix the carpet. All they say is that they submitted a work order.\n\nThe carpet has a mildew smell, and without padding the concrete is revealed. The carpet was also loosely put back, so there are rolls the we have to straighten out. The big issue is that it's in a hallway that leads to my toddlers room and their bathroom, so they have to run through this area and have tripped a few times on the carpet and hit the concrete. So my wife and I have had to block off the hallway from use. \n\nIs there anything we can do to make them speed this up, or are we just stuck with it?","title":"My apartment co olex hasn't fixed my carpet in 3 weeks. [OK]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553883126,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b70nbo\/is_it_legal_for_a_school_administration_to_refuse\/","id":"b70nbo","body":"Hey all, I'm actually asking for a friend of mine up in Canada. She is a junior in high school. The school is a conjunction school, so it has grades K - 12. Earlier today she explained in our Discord server that no high school students were allowed to use the bathroom during any class time whatsoever due to certain students getting caught smoking in the bathrooms. They are allowed to go during short breaks. This seems reasonable at first, but since it's a small school each bathroom only has one toilet and the breaks are not long enough for everybody to go. To make matters worse, the elementary and junior high kids are allowed to use every bathroom at all times, even though they're also getting caught smoking and writing on the walls. I just wanted to ask if this is legal?\n\n​\n\nThanks. :)","title":"Is it legal for a school administration to refuse to let all students use the bathroom?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1504311559,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xil27\/filing_a_motion_to_reopen_estate_of_deceased\/","id":"6xil27","body":"As title indicates I'm wanting to reopen each of my parents' estates. I've recently become aware of unaccounted for assets (Roth ira accounts and unclaimed funds held by the state). I've completed all the forms but also need to file a motion with probate court. I don't really know how to format this to the courts satisfaction. Are they particular about formatting etc.? What info needs to be in the motion? Should I just pay an attorney to do it? The lady at the county has been pretty helpful with the forms but sort of suggested I hire an attorney for the whole process. My rationale is if it works I save some money, and I can always hire counsel later if it doesn't. \n\nWe paid 30k to an attorney to handle all of this 16 years ago, which is cause for my reluctance to pay one now. I'd also like to no if is there any recourse against that attorney for not handling this at the time? My sister is pretty sure that all statements and documents went to him in the interim before the estate was closed, but we lack documentation. Other accounts at this financial institution were settled, but there are now 2 iras and a custodial account that weren't. The custodial account was settled 2 years ago since my name was on it. \n\nThis is all in Ohio if that helps. Thanks to all who provide assistance. ","title":"Filing a motion to reopen estate of deceased parents.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1571077905,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhut41\/parents_20_year_life_insurance_policy_dwindled\/","id":"dhut41","body":"  \n\nMy parents started a life insurance policy in 1975 with Prudential. They purchased a rider with it. Until approximately 1998, they put $46\/month into the life insurance policy, and $30\/month into the rider.\n\nIn the late 90s (\\~1998) they had some financial hardships and stopped contributing to both policies.\n\nFast forward to 2011, they received a letter from Prudential saying they have 30 days to come up with $6,000. If they can\u2019t do it, their policies would be closed. Apparently, the funds had rapidly declined since 2009, and went down to zero.\n\nNow here\u2019s the kicker: in September 2009, the personal insurance agent my Dad worked with (who owned a small, local insurance agency in a small town) was arrested. He went on to serve almost a year for charges unrelated to insurance fraud (the charges included cultivating and unlawful trafficking of marijuana). My dad had a \u201cgood\u201d relationship with the agent where the agent had always assured by dad that if any big changes would occur, he would call my dad, keep him aware of what was going on, etc.\n\nNow, in 2019, my Dad treats the situation as a closed book. Like it\u2019s one that he refuses to re-open for some reason. He never consulted legal advice and refuses to do so now. He claims he \u201cfought\u201d with Prudential but they told him that they had no obligation to inform him of the sinking ship that was his policy, and that ultimately, Prudential was not at fault.\n\nMy question is this: is it worth it for him to speak to a lawyer now? Is there anyone out there familiar with this kind of situation who could shed some light on this? I\u2019m trying to convince him to just speak with legal counsel but he thinks it\u2019s too late, it happened too long ago, he doesn\u2019t have the money to see a lawyer, and the best thing to do is just forget about it and move on (even though my parents are facing significant financial struggles at the moment, and might lose their house).\n\nThanks in advance for any helpful information.","title":"Parents' 20+ Year Life Insurance Policy Dwindled Down to Zero","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1507136839,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/749jzc\/legality_of_employer_withholding_paycheck_az\/","id":"749jzc","body":"I deliver pizzas and we get biweekly paychecks or direct deposit. Last week I forgot to fill out my Tip Sheet for tax withholdings and the small local pizza company I work for didn't have my check on Friday and instead said that I needed to go to their corporate office which is almost an hour round-trip drive away to pick up my paycheck.\nJust curious if this is legal or not. I work two jobs and over 70 hours a week and I just don't have time to go do this. I'd have no problem with them emailing me and doing an electronic signature in the rare instance that I didn't get my tip sheet in but this is ridiculous and a huge inconvenience.","title":"Legality of employer withholding paycheck. AZ","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443630883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mzggg\/our_landlord_is_charging_us_parking_but_nobody\/","id":"3mzggg","body":"I live in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. \n\nI have recently found out that we are the only tenants in the building who are being charged for\/paying the $15 parking fee. It is written in the lease that the fee is to be paid, but nobody else is being charged this fee. \n\nWe stopped paying it for the past 2 months, but obviously still pay our rent on time. She just emailed me saying we owe her $30. \n\nIs there any way I can argue this or am I SOL because it is written in the lease we signed?","title":"Our landlord is charging us parking but nobody else in the building.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550237097,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqwivo\/employer_holding_paycheck_an_extra_day_for_a\/","id":"aqwivo","body":"My wife works for the local Sheriffs Office as a Detention Officer. For the last 3 years they have submitted her paycheck as normal allowing my Bank (USAA) to post the check in our account a day early (On Thursday). At the beginning of the year they sent an email stating that anyone receiving their paycheck early will no longer be receiving it on Thursday and will now be deposited on Friday. I can only assume they are using the routing numbers to identify employees with accounts at financial institutions that allow early deposit, because my Bank has the right to deposit a check when they can.\n\nNormally I don't care if it Thursday or Friday, just as long as the check hits the bank. But Because of this new rule they have put in place, Her check doesn't Hit the bank until late, Sometimes after 5pm. Which creates issues because we are tight on money already and i cant pay some bills that week because the recipients close at 5 on Fridays and will not reopen until Monday the following week.\n\nI do not know anything about the legal system nor what I can do to try and rectify this issue. I don't know if what they are doing is discrimination against employees  with a bank account at USAA. \n\nMy Thought on it is, If the US Gov. allows early deposit then why does the local entities have to hold certain employees checks for an extra day to make the said check arrive on Friday. They have no bearing on my Financial institutions practices. Am I just being petty or do I have a right to have the paycheck sent to the bank the same day as other employees.\n\n​\n\nJust for clarification, USAA is a Savings bank, Only offered to Military, Ex-Military, and Family of the previously mentioned.","title":"Employer holding paycheck an extra day for a number of employees because their bank allows early direct deposit","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555428430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdv8mq\/wa_medical_insurance_wont_pay_for_an_mri_if_i\/","id":"bdv8mq","body":"So as the title explains, I went to the doctor yesterday with a suspected muscle tear in my bicep from rock climbing. The doc wants an MRI to confirm the diagnoses because some of the symptoms say yes, others say no. It could also be tendon issues as well. The lack of clarity is the reason for an MRI and why he wants to confirm the diagnosis. My left arm is basically useless for now. \n\nOur insurance company won\u2019t pay for it right now because they want 4-6 weeks of PT before an MRI. However, since the doc can\u2019t diagnose the issue properly without and MRI, sending me to PT would mean he\u2019d effectively be guessing on the diagnosis. He\u2019s trying to fight it on the phone but it hasn\u2019t gone anywhere the last 2 days. I\u2019m in the army reserves and leave out of state next week so I can\u2019t afford to have this dragged out. Any thoughts?","title":"[WA] Medical insurance won\u2019t pay for an MRI if I haven\u2019t had physical therapy for a month but I can\u2019t go to PT without an MRI to diagnose the issue.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551115635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aunr2q\/security_cameras_monitoring_employees\/","id":"aunr2q","body":"My employer wants to put security cameras on all employees to ensure they\u2019re working. The cameras are in obvious places but my employer has emphasized not telling employees they can always be watched. It\u2019s the employer\u2019s business. Certainly they\u2019re allowed to ensure folks are working. However, don\u2019t the employees have a right to know they\u2019re being monitored regularly? They have suggested keeping things discrete and not mentioning this.\n\nI\u2019m having difficulty finding concrete info for this. Please advise.","title":"Security Cameras Monitoring Employees","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541122810,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tfre3\/an_officer_informed_me_i_have_a_benchmark_warrant\/","id":"9tfre3","body":"I was involved in a minor accident last week, and after running my license, an officer informed me I apparently have a benchmark warrant from February 2018 for a traffic violation out of a town I\u2019ve never heard of, let alone been to. \n\nI am 100% certain, without a shadow of a doubt, that I did not do this and this leads me to believe they were given my info by someone who was not me. The only possible explanation is that my brother, who is same height and looks very similar to me, gave them my info in an attempt to not get in trouble. He has done shady things in the past, and let\u2019s just say that he is very capable of doing such a thing. He denied doing this when my parents asked him. \n\nI don\u2019t know where to go from here. Who should I contact to get more info about this? What steps can I take to get this resolved? Also, if someone did give my information to the police, what can I do about this? Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this, and hopefully I can get some good advice. ","title":"An officer informed me I have a benchmark warrant for a traffic violation in early 2018. There is absolutely no possible way that I did this, and I think someone falsely gave them my information. [WA State]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503090722,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ukuo3\/question_about_illinois_sex_offender_laws\/","id":"6ukuo3","body":"Hello everyone, \nI was sexually abused by a 16 year old male cousin with FASD and a bunch of other problems when I was 8 years old. This happened in 2004, and I am now 20 years old. He was arrested shortly after because one of my other cousins that he had been molesting spoke up and he was sent to a juvenile facility. \nI was just wondering if he would have been let completely off the hook when he turned 21. My mom has been telling me that he would have been released and wouldn't have to register as a sex offender and has his arrest record sealed so that it won't show up online. \nMy mom is full of shit and I don't really take what she says seriously. I've been trying to figure out the real story as a means of finding closure as this event has plagued my life since it happened. \nIf anyone can help me or direct me to where I need to go to find out more information, I would really appreciate it! Thank you so much in advance and have a wonderful day :) \n\nWas posted on r\/illinois first but someone suggested here would be better","title":"Question about Illinois sex offender laws.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504740851,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yjf4n\/legal_for_parents_to_open_your_mail_from_another\/","id":"6yjf4n","body":" My parents are divorced and i gave my mom a paper to sign for school and she drove by and dropped it in my dads mailbox a few days later (thats where i was). Before i even saw it he had taken it and opened it and i got it back 5 days later. I know its not illegal for him to open my mail, but it was from a co-parent so i was curious as to whether or not it was illegal ","title":"Legal for parents to open your mail from another parent?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554652134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bahllr\/pulled_over_for_the_first_time_recieved_a\/","id":"bahllr","body":"On an interstate highway where the speed limit is 70 mph I was clocked at going 87 mph.\n\nI feel an overwhelming amount of guilt here, which is obviously going to work against me if I decide to fight this. Of course if I would decide to fight this, I wouldn't know where to start.\n\nI'm thinking my best bet would be to make a plea bargain. I would really appreciate any advice, this whole situation has me really anxious.","title":"Pulled over for the first time, recieved a speeding citation","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555339606,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdgtbo\/insurance_settlement_questions\/","id":"bdgtbo","body":"Hello Legal savvy Redditors\n\nSo in August of last year I was in a car accident with my boyfriend. We were T-boned, I was in the passenger's seat, and had pelvis fractured as a result. Thankfully insurance (my health and his auto) have covered all of my medical expenses. His insurance company is giving me a settlement payment for wages lost at work as well as to help compensate for the fact that I should have graduated from college this semester, but due the accident my grad timeline had to be pushed back a year \n\nHere is my question(s): is the settlement I receive taxable? If so, roughly how much of it should I set aside to cover the taxes? Is this a question I should be asking the insurance adjuster I've been working with?","title":"Insurance Settlement Questions","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571171159,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/didusy\/the_hiring_manager_fcked_up_and_im_worried_about\/","id":"didusy","body":"So here's what happened...\n\u2022I applied for a job.\n\u2022In the interview, I explicitly stated my availability, and even watched the interviewer write it down.\n\u2022I got the job!\n\u2022I decide to turn down a job that would pay over 60% more by the hour because I want to diversify my resume.\n\u2022I go in for 2 days of training, and then I don't hear back for over a week on when my next shift will be.\n\u2022I called them and was ONLY THEN informed that they were apparently hiring for a shift that was blatantly outside my availability, and are now saying they don't know if they can schedule me.\n\nWhat legalities should I be aware of when they call me back about this? I live in Georgia, in case that's relevant.","title":"The hiring manager f*cked up and I'm worried about my employment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540051945,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pvcrz\/i_need_help\/","id":"9pvcrz","body":"Im 18 and im struggling, but studying for my ged test. \n\nI was homeschooled (religious exemption) from 1st-7th grade and stopped after that because we couldn't afford the books. Sadly, I've had adhd all my life and never truly processed any of the stuff I was taught. Not to mention no high school at all so Im in a bit of hell. Also I had to \"teach myself\" all the stuff I learned. But, this isn't about me.\n\nNow, I have 5 cousins who are also being \"homeschooled\" (all their lives) with a religious exemption. The oldest is 14 and can't add 15 + 15 (non of them were taught anything. ANYTHING.). The others can't read nor write or even wipe their own butts when they use the bathroom. They have no one to be around (they're isolated like myself) and they are living in extremely bad houses (drugs).\n\nSadly, the drugs the parents get are \"legal\" (though they sell and snort them). As for being homeschooled, nothing legally can be done about a religious exemption in my state (as far as I know). So, I don't know what to do. \n\nThey're suffering and will have absolutely nothing in life. They're growing up like I did (except my parents weren't on drugs) and its killing me to see. I could call the police about the drug selling, but I can't risk my cousins coming here to live as they wont get an education here either. My parents are also very old so they can't physically take care of kids. Everyone one in this family (besides me and my parents) are bad druggies so they can't go there.\n\nThis is so much to deal with, honestly. I feel so much guilt for not doing anything... Does anyone at all have any advice for what I should do? \n\nCan I call social services and tell them to not let my parents have them? Not to let any family have them? Do i just deal with the guilt and move on? \n\nIll take all the advice I can get. Ill also be making a posy about my own nightmares about being homeschooled here soon.\n\nAlso, this is purely about my cousins. I got a great mom who I love lots","title":"I need help","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554351816,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b986e0\/rental_car_crash_while_on_work_trip\/","id":"b986e0","body":"Hey Reddit had to make a throw away account because you never know.\n\nToday I went on a business trip to a location which required me to rent a car for the day.\nWhile working I was involved in a minor car accident.\nThe details are as follows:\n\n- In parking spot, look over right shoulder and it looks clear\n- start to back up and back up camera is clear \n- out of nowhere I am hit by an oncoming car\n- we get out I make sure person is ok(we both are)\n- person goes on to tell me they did not see me and that they are sorry.\n- Person makes excuses as to why they did not see me and how they\u2019re so sorry\n- I call my insurance to see what I should do.\n- I take picture of my car and their car\n- get persons name and phone \n- person claims to have insurance but did not have it on them \n- we both leave with the assumption that it was her fault and insurance will take care of it.\n\nA few additional details \n- Police was not called because meeting was in a short time \n- I was dumb and did not ask to see her ID\n- I was on the clock for work \n- person called me few hours later to confess they gave me incorrect phone number\n\nMy questions to you Reddit:\n\nWill I have to submit this through my insurance or should work insurance handle it?\n\nShould I expect any thing from my employer in terms of hostility because of this incident? \n(Never been involved in a crash, just worried)\n\nI\u2019ve read online that parking lot incidents are almost always caused by person backing up but in my case I feel it was the other persons fault, what is re-edits opinion?\n\nI apologize for the formatting (Mobile)\nAnd I have given all info related to this situation as honestly as possible.\n\nAny help would be great, thank you!","title":"Rental Car Crash while on work trip","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540281213,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qmsgo\/car_broken_into\/","id":"9qmsgo","body":"My car got broken into earlier today. I am not quite sure how to handle this. All that got taken was a coin of bags, but I don't mind that got stolen. Its more the fact that they broke my window to get into my car. Any advice?","title":"Car broken into","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540590955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rp13g\/not_sure_what_to_plead_for_a_citation_for_driving\/","id":"9rp13g","body":"I received a citation for driving in violation of a license restriction (ORC 4510.11). The restriction on my license says that I need to wear corrective lenses when I drive, but I was unaware that I had this restriction on my license as my eyesight is not bad enough that I need glasses to drive. I went into the BMV the same day I received this citation and asked to retake the vision exam without my glasses to get the restriction removed and passed. I no longer have a code b restriction on my license and I do not believe that I did anything wrong by driving without my glasses. I know that by definition I violated the law because of what was on my license, but the restriction should not have been there in the first place. \n\nI am not sure what my best option is to plead in this case or what I might get for a guilty plea vs a plea of no contest.","title":"Not sure what to plead for a citation for driving in violation of a license restriction?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504660025,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ycdnx\/letter_from_claims_recovery_following_injury\/","id":"6ycdnx","body":"A couple months ago I injured my knee while on someone else's private property. I am a Wisconsin resident and my injury occurred in New Mexico. I was staying at an Air B&B out in the country and I slipped in a muddy pothole on a dirt driveway at night and dislocated my knee\/tore a ligament. My injury did not require surgery but I did get an MRI and I have been receiving physical therapy. My HMO just sent me a letter from the claims recovery department seeking more information about how I was injured. The letter says a response is required. The couple who hosted me at their Air B&B were wonderful people and I really don't want to cause any issues for them. I feel like my injury was an accident and no one is at fault. Will I be throwing them under the bus by responding honestly? Are there consequences if I just don't fill out the form? Advice would be appreciated. ","title":"Letter from claims recovery following injury","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552594357,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1556q\/divorce_in_texas_usa_simple_question\/","id":"b1556q","body":"I understand I can't get legally binding advice but this question to me see straightforward to me. \n\nWife and I are amicably divorcing and doing it online. The form describes property to be divided and debt to be divided in separate sections. I am taking the house and refinancing to remove her at a later date (asap really). \n\nMy question is: should I list house as property even though it's mortgaged or debt since it's a debt that needs dividing (which will be spelled out in the provision)?\n\nBoth sections in this online service list a home as an example saying community property is usually divided equally, suggesting you spell out the details in the provision. \n\nTo me this house seems like a debt and a property would be one that is paid off, and potentially sold and divided. Am I right?","title":"Divorce in Texas, USA, simple question.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551446399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw4t4k\/employer_asking_for_doctors_note_when_its_not\/","id":"aw4t4k","body":"Hey all, looking for some help here in dealing with a cruddy employer and what my options here are. \n\nI\u2019ve been sick all week with whatever flu and cold has been going around. Despite this, I\u2019ve worked all week as we\u2019ve had a pretty busy week where I work, however I did get sent home one day as I actually threw up in front of a coworker and they said something to our manager. \n\nI woke up in the middle of the night throwing up again, and I have yet to consistently stop, so I called off to my boss (I texted him as it was around 2 am and I wasn\u2019t going to actually call) and eventually fell back asleep. \n\nI woke up to a text ranting about how busy were are with projects at work, etc and that he\u2019s now demanding me to come in tomorrow on my weekend, specifically saying in his text not to interpret that as a request, and also to make sure I bring in a doctors note when I come in tomorrow.\n\nMy question would be whether or not he legally is allowed to do this under normal law, I assume he can demand me to work the weekend under some sort of mandatory overtime stipulations, but specifically under company policy it states that doctor\u2019s notes are not needed unless you are out sick for 3+ consecutive days. \n\nI\u2019m genuinely sick, so I\u2019m not worried about the note, but being as we live in the US, and healthcare is expensive, I\u2019d rather not shell out the money for a doctor\u2019s visit for a note that says that I\u2019m sick, as this is viral and can\u2019t be treated anyways. \n\nIf you need more location or employer specific information, please feel free to message me, I don\u2019t want to post that specific info freely on reddit, and I appreciate anyone\u2019s time. ","title":"Employer asking for Doctor\u2019s note when it\u2019s not required in company policy","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571453650,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djy1nz\/gym_moving_location\/","id":"djy1nz","body":"So my Golds Gym has a very subtle 250 dollar cancellation fee. We understand that the contract is binding; however this golds gym is moving locations. My question is, is this 250 dollar fee voidable due to the fact the gym is movin, and we were never aware of it when signing the contract that the gym was going to move.","title":"Gym Moving location","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1446080469,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qn3u8\/tx_question_about_becoming_both_the_sole_trustee\/","id":"3qn3u8","body":"Hey guys, kind of a quick question, but I haven't found anything online that was clear about this. Here's the background. I'm in Texas, and when my dad died several years ago, his will called for the creation a trust to be created (upon his death), with my brother and I as equal beneficiaries. The will and trust were created in Texas. Once my brother and I were both at least 25 years old, the trust created upon my dad's death would dissolve into two separate trusts, one with my brother as sole beneficiary and one with me as sole beneficiary. An older relative has been the sole trustee of all these trusts up to this point. Now we're at a crossroads, where my brother and I are both at least 30, and my dad's will allows for us to become the sole trustees of our individual trusts, if we elect to do so.\n\n\nConsidering Texas law, I haven't been able to find a clear answer to what the legal consequences are to a person becoming both the sole trustee and sole beneficiary of a trust (that they inherited, not created themselves), as far as whether the trust can still provide asset protection from creditors and such. The trust does have a typical spendthrift clause, but it seems there's a grey area on whether the spendthrift clause still protects in the case of the sole trustee and beneficiary being the same person. The assets of the trust are purely financial, no tangible\/real property. \n \n\nAs a little follow up, can co-trustees agree to delegate different functions to one another? Say I became a co-trustee with a corporate trustee. Could I set it up so that I manage the investment of trust assets, while the corporate trustee handles the record keeping and taxes? Distributions of trust principal would still require both trustees' approval. Another thing I haven't found clear language on.","title":"[TX] Question about becoming both the sole trustee and sole beneficiary of an inherited trust. Are trust assets still protected?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570205461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd9gzb\/advice_on_someone_using_private_messages\/","id":"dd9gzb","body":"My wife has just found out that someone had had access to her Facebook messages for the last few months and had been going back through her messages to as far back as February. We found out because this person had printed out conversations between my wife and some of her work colleagues then sent them anonymously to their boss. \n\nThe content of these messages comes down to gossip and some work related things that shouldn't have been shared around, but their boss said she will not do anything about it because the information was obtained illegally. \n\nRegardless of the content, someone has had access to my wife's private conversations for months. We feel violated. We believe we know who it was because my wife has a work colleague that allowed my wife to sign into messenger to contact me while they were having a few drinks with some other work friends.\n\nWhy this person would go on to try and ruin my wife's and other people's careers is beyond me, but some of the messages printed out contained conversations between my wife and a colleague complaining about the woman we believe to have done this. Out of all the other people they had discussions about it was interesting that this was one that was cherrypicked to send to the boss. \n\nOther clues as to it being this woman is that the sign-in log that Facebook keeps has an iPhone 8 (my wife and I have Samsung's) recently signed in from a nearby suburb. Both of these match the suspects phone and location of residence. The suspect has also completely cleared my wife and hers conversations over messenger. \n\nNot sure what we can do about the whole situation as we have no solid proof that it is who we believe it is but would love to hear some insight from other people.","title":"Advice on someone using private messages","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570722891,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg014h\/two_llcs_or_one\/","id":"dg014h","body":"I\u2019m starting two businesses in unrelated fields; the first is a brick and mortar business and the second is a consulting business. Is it recommended to have two separate LLCs or one LLC with multiple DBAs?","title":"Two LLCs or One?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540476063,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rak3a\/renting_in_hoa_that_doesnt_allow_renters\/","id":"9rak3a","body":"Hi there. I have a kind of odd predicament going on right now and I'm looking for advice. I'm not really law savvy. \n\nMy husband and I move to a new city due to  his promotion. We owned a house in our old city and needed somewhere to rent while waiting for our home to sell. We found a rental, the landlords seemes really laid back and they allowed our dog. We own a pit mix and it's hard to find pet rentals in our area. We signed the contract rhat said we would pay the full amount of the year's rent if we broke the lease. All of that is fine and expected.  \n\nThe hangup: \n\nThis rental is in an HOA that does not allow renters. We only found that out when we were physically moving in and the landlord mentioned it. This has causes my husband and I a mild panic. We've been looking at homes for sale as ours is under contract. The elderly neighbors have asked us about renting and said they were going to look at the HOA handbook. The landlords warned us they like to call the HOA over minor grievances. \n\nMy question is this. Is the contract we signed still binding or can the HOA evict us? Does the HOA rules override the contract we signed? I'm really not sure what to do here. \n\nWe also found a house for sale we really like and our offer was accepted. We are waiting to make a further move due to the uncertainty with the rental. This whole thing is a mess. \n\nIf you took the time to read, I thank you. \n\nTLDR; found a rental, as we were moving in the landlord verbally informed us the HOA does not allow renters. Does the HOA override the lease we signed? ","title":"Renting in HOA That Doesn't Allow Renters","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568685302,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5ac3o\/can_i_get_an_order_to_prevent_certain_people_from\/","id":"d5ac3o","body":"Hello, I am a photographer and about a year ago this girl who I don\u2019t get along with anymore sent me to court claiming I was with three guys involved in trying to stalk her and she wanted a restraining order put on me. Well I had documentation from my another job I was doing that I wasn\u2019t in her state the evening she claims I was with these other guys. Flash forward to about two days ago and I get 10 messages from other people connected to her who all say they know I\u2019m a stalker and they will do their best to ruin my life. I already blocked them on their social media\u2019s a year ago but they made new ones just to harass me. I had proof in court I did nothing wrong and the girl was obviously pissed that I didn\u2019t get no order out against me. Is there anyway to prevent people from talking about me? It\u2019s ruining my reputation and my business for photography. I am originally from NJ but currently reside in New Hampshire. I\u2019ve also gotten messages various times from random people about the same subject and it\u2019s honestly making me feel like I can\u2019t continue my business which I\u2019ve worked very hard at achieving.","title":"Can I get an order to prevent certain people from mentioning me?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442562518,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3len9e\/oakland_ca_im_a_subtenant_main_tenant_is_moving\/","id":"3len9e","body":"I'm living in an apartment right now as a subtenant, not on the apartment lease at all.  The lease is a month to month agreement.  What are my rights if the main tenant moves out?  Can I be forced to move?","title":"[Oakland, CA] I'm a subtenant; main tenant is moving out.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443126358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m8szl\/or_so_and_i_considering_petitioning_for_full\/","id":"3m8szl","body":"Apparently the abbreviation for Oregon is unknown to LocationBot. Or I was supposed to put it at the end of the title or something. I don't know. \n\nI posted [this thread](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Parenting\/comments\/3m7kt5\/surprise_im_a_guardian_now_i_am_in_no_way\/) in \/r\/parenting and they recommended I talk to you guys. **The TL;DR: troubled kid who hasn't been in school is finally on the right track, but his mother is flighty and threatening to derail everything. We're dumb and don't have a written parenting agreement and don't know how to ask for it without risking losing the kid completely.**\n\nChris is 10 and hasn't been going to school consistently for the past 2-3 years. My SO (Aaron, 28\/M) and I (30\/F) believe this is completely unacceptable and managed to convince Susan to let Chris come live with us so we could enroll him in school. He's been going for a few weeks with no issues so far. Susan does not currently know that we wish to make this permanent. I believe she is under the impression that this is temporary and only for the school year. \n\nChris' mother (Susan, 27\/F) wanted to give him up for adoption when Chris was 4 years old. Aaron said no and that if Chris was too much trouble he would assume full custody. Susan flipped out and reported Aaron to the police for physical abuse of Chris. Fortunately, Aaron was able to provide documents and evidence that this was purely retaliation on Susan's part and it went away. \n\n\nWe cannot afford for her to react this way again now. A written parenting agreement has never been established between Aaron and Susan so I'm anticipating that might be one of the challenges we might face. She doesn't yet know that we are investigating this option, so getting information from her regarding school\/medical records could be difficult. \n\nMy mother has offered to pay for us to have a consultation with her family lawyer but I'm not sure what kind of information we should prepare beforehand to get the best bang for our buck. \n\nI've been told that without a custody agreement she could flee the state and there'd not be much we could do about it. That's terrifying. I'm not sure I can even articulate a specific question about this. It feels so big and out of my control that I don't know where to start. We do have some saved text messages showing her flakiness and I know Aaron has \"a briefcase full of stuff\" from years past. \n\nCan someone help talk me through the process? Maybe make suggestions about ways we can prepare for this? ","title":"[OR] SO and I considering petitioning for full custody of his child. What resources\/preparations\/challenges might we expect to encounter or need to be aware of?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570112204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcri6n\/ga_residential_lease_agreement_question\/","id":"dcri6n","body":"Moved into property April 17, 2011. Have been month-to-month since May 1, 2012. Landlord now requiring new lease be signed to take effect Nov 1, 2019. Have a question concerning EARLY TERMINATION clause. I have two options here...\n\nA. Resident may terminate this agreement prior to previously stated TERMINATION DATE by doing all of the following: a) Giving Management sixty (60) days written notice, b) Paying all monies due through new date of termination, c) Paying an amount equal to the aforementioned MONTHLY RENTAL as an Early Termination Fee, d) Returning dwelling and premises in a clean, ready-to-rent condition, and e) Paying a prorated portion of expenses for repainting and cleaning based on the ratio of the number of months then remaining in the initial term to the number of months originally in the initial term. Any notice for early termination must be signed by all residents.\n\nB. In addition to any other obligations established under paragraph 6 \\[return of security deposit\\], in the event of termination by Resident prior to completion of the original term of the Agreement, Resident shall also be responsible for lost rent, rental commissions, advertising expenses, and painting costs necessary to ready Premises for re-rental. Landlord may withhold any such amount from Resident's Security Deposit.\n\nI'm honestly not sure which one to choose. Any help would be much appreciated.","title":"[GA] Residential Lease Agreement Question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551326998,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avmp1u\/new_york_city_what_are_a_guarantors_rights\/","id":"avmp1u","body":"I'm agreeing to be a guarantor of a studio apartment lease for a friend in NYC.  But the specific of the agreement seem  fishy to me.  Specifically one clause that says: \"This Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect as to any modification, extension or assignment of this Lease.\"  I'm concerned that I'm now obligated financially to a contract I have no control over.  Although very unlikely, my friend could stop paying rent, and I would be obligated to pay for it (I'm willingly agreeing to that), but my friend could then renew the lease at a higher monthly rate and then continue to not pay, and I would still be obligated to pay.  I'm not willing to agree to that.  Is that legal?","title":"[New York City] What are a guarantor's rights regarding the change, renewal of a lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409962364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2flj6v\/illinois_grandparents_visitation_rights\/","id":"2flj6v","body":"I'll be as short as I can, unless more details are needed.  My mother-in-law has begun to be psychologically abusive to my wife and I.  She has a history of depression and bipolar disorder.  After dozens of emails, facebook messages, texts, and voicemails, we have asked her to not have any contact with us or the kids.  She still didn't back off.  We filed a police report.  She showed up at our house and wouldn't leave.  We had the police come and remove her.  She then stalked one of my 10 year old sons.  We filed a restraining order (court is on Wednesday).  She is now swearing that she will hire the best lawyer that she can in order to pursue visitation or even custody.  It's likely an empty threat, but she does have money and could find a good lawyer if she really wanted to.\n\nOf course we have documentation of all of her actions and I really would like to think that her behavior has negated any chance she has of getting near my boys.  But I still have to wonder; does she actually have any rights to my children?","title":"Illinois Grandparents Visitation Rights?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553659079,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5zpr3\/problem_with_grandfathers_will_wisconsin_i_live\/","id":"b5zpr3","body":"My grandfather passed away and the will that was read was not valid. My uncle's lawyer said he needed to contact the lawyer that had the valid will but refused to give us his name but continued to say that everything was left to my uncle and proceeded to sign paperwork. My question is if he knows the will he read want valid why even read it? Also, why did my uncle start filling out paperwork, and if he never read the updated will how does he know everything goes to my uncle?? Also, can he keep the lawyers name from us?! I have so many questions that were left unanswered.  The lawyer happens to be close friends with my uncle since they come from a small town so I automatically felt suspicious since my uncle has a history of moving stuff around since he and my grandpa hadlve the same exact name\n\nAlso, when I called the probates office in Elkhorn they laughed at me and said, \"Good luck finding that will\". As if they knew something I didn't. I dont know if I'm being overly suspicious  but overall I feel this situation is very weird and I dont even know where to start. What kind of lawyer should I hire? If the valid will  isn't turned in to the probate  office what will happen with everything my grandfather owned?? Will the will that is not valid suddenly become valid??","title":"Problem with grandfathers will Wisconsin (I live in California )","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1414363063,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2keqht\/uk_seeking_advice_about_shared_ownership_of_llc\/","id":"2keqht","body":"I've searched and searched on Google but cannot find anything close to the answer I'm looking for. \n\nI work for a company as a contractor and there's been talk of shared ownership, the company is a limited liability company in the United States (Utah). I live in the UK (London specifically). There appears to be no information anywhere about shared ownership of overseas companies which I find really strange in todays age. Does anyone have any useful links or information or is it really that rare\/unheard of and will I need to seek very specialist legal advice?","title":"(UK) Seeking advice about shared ownership of LLC in the US (Utah)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555376003,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdnpim\/orusa_shared_car_insurance_policy_opening_myself\/","id":"bdnpim","body":"My boyfriend and I are both needing to get our own insurance policies for the first time (we've been on our parents until now). He's 26 and I'm 25. \n\n​\n\nAnyway, I've been getting lots of insurance quotes and calling around to get information. I like the insurance agent I have used since I've been licensed because he explores and shows me all of my options, but I want to make sure the one he's suggesting doesn't open me up to any scary liability in worst case scenario situations. After playing with all of the options for my own plan, he suggested looking at an option for us together. It ends up saving me, personally, $400 per year, to have him on the plan so we qualify for the multi-vehicle discount. I've been with my boyfriend for about nine years so I don't see us splitting up, so that's not a worry. We're also not going to get married anytime soon, if any of you were wondering. I do have a much more sizable amount of money than he does. My net worth is about 85x his. My main concern is protecting myself and not making any decisions that could be financially\/legally risky. \n\n​\n\nAnyway, I'm getting quoted for a 500\/500\/500 insurance plan and having him on the policy would reduce the yearly cost by over $400, just for me alone. \n\n​\n\n**I emailed the agent the following question (names changed for privacy):** \n\n​\n\n>Tom,   \n>  \n>  \nI know we just talked, but I just wanted to double check on a few things. I can be slow to process sometimes.\u00a0  \nWould David technically be on my plan? Would we have separate policy numbers?\u00a0  \nUnder a worst case scenario situation (maybe David were to cause an accident and be at fault where multiple people were severely injured or died and the cars he hit were the most expensive ones to damage), how could that impact me under this plan if someone was sue happy?\u00a0  \n>  \n>  \n\\-Audrey\u00a0\u00a0 \n\n​\n\n **Here was his response:**\n\n​\n\n>No problem Audrey,  \n>  \n>Getting back to you. So yes David would technically be on your insurance and he on yours.\u00a0 You would have separate policy numbers rather.\u00a0  \n>  \n>So I'm no lawyer (nor do I play one on TV) however, since you were not owner of his vehicle, nor were you driving or had anything to do with the accident it would be hard pressed that they would go after you as you have no Insurable interest vehicle.\u00a0 So I have never scene anyone who didn't own or was operating a motor vehicle (that was involved in an accident) ever be charged.\u00a0  \n>  \n>As far as rates increasing etc.\u00a0 You have accident forgiveness, however, should there be another accident (2) and (David was at fault) then the policy would increase (which we would give you those increased rates). As long as he were with Farmers Insurance the increase would follow him not you (if he left).\u00a0 Hope this helps a little.  \n>  \n>Thanks,  \n>  \n>Tom\n\n​\n\nSo I am here to ask real lawyers what your advice is--what risk am I opening myself up to by having him on my plan? Also, I have no idea if it's relevant or not, but both cars are paid in full. Mine's a 2012 and his is a 2000. I have only my name on the title. He bought his car from his dad (I don't think he ever changed the title). That being said, he's certainly not on my title and I'm certainly not on his. We don't drive each other's vehicles, either (seriously, never--not even occasionally). \n\n​\n\nThanks so much for any and all responses.","title":"[OR-USA] Shared Car Insurance Policy - Opening Myself up to Liability?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553271987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4741s\/dumb_kids_posting_tests_in_my_discord_server_tx\/","id":"b4741s","body":"The gist of my post is in the title. \n\nBasically, i run a Discord server for freshmen in my school to ask for help with homework and stuff. Someone sent a picture of a geometry test in a Discord server that I own, but he deleted the image before anyone from the mod team could see.  I spoke with an assistant principal who asked me to monitor it more. I don\u2019t think that I got in trouble, but is there anything else that I should be worried about in the future?","title":"Dumb kids posting tests in my Discord server [TX]","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1504925575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yzf0c\/us_lost_money_to_forfeitureseizure_of_3rd_partys\/","id":"6yzf0c","body":"A few years ago an online service was shut down by the US government, one that allowed for storage and transfer of money without any verification process, with 3rd parties as an extra layer of indirection between depositors and the actual site. As part of the seizure by the US Attorney's Office, all assets and stored money appears to have been seized them.\n\nLess than a month before this shutdown, I deposited $2000-$4000 - I have the exact number - to the site via their circuitous route of [WIRE TRANSFER BUSINESS] -> foreign exchanger -> [WEBSITE]. The money was completely clean, with a very solid paper trail, and was intended to purchase Bitcoin.\n\nAt the time, I assumed there would be an eventual claim process like in a previous and similar case. By now it looks very unlikely that there will ever be the claim process that I originally expected.\n\nAny suggestions for how, or whether, I can pursue this? I am located in Oregon, the forfeiture and criminal cases are in New York. The relatively small amount makes me doubt that a lawyer is worthwhile, but it's enough that I'm willing to put in some leg work on this.\n","title":"[US] Lost money to forfeiture\/seizure of 3rd party's assets","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552917954,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2j4kw\/will_i_get_a_ticket_for_giving_someone_the_middle\/","id":"b2j4kw","body":"I\u2019m so pissed right now so I\u2019m sorry if something doesn\u2019t make any sense or if my grammar is off. This entitled, uptight beotch in a Cadillac just tried cutting me off so bad I was forced to move out of my lane and into the opposite lane.  We\u2019re in a two lane that eventually merges into one lane. I was on the right and she was on the left. I\u2019m minding my own business, just another \u201clovely\u201d Monday morning when I notice out of nowhere her car getting super close to mine. I couldn\u2019t tell what was happening because I had no idea if she was just losing control of her car or if she was just trying to get me to literally move out of her way. I had no view of her backlights so I don\u2019t even know if her signal was on. There was a line of cars behind me and we were all going about 45mph. It all happened so suddenly I couldn\u2019t just break. So at first I moved slightly away from her and then I beeped and beeped to get her attention cause she was clearly going mad. I ended up not being able to give her room so she was forced to break and stop her nonsense. I finally am able to get back on my lane. I look back and there\u2019s a car between her and I. Then at a stoplight she has the audacity to take a picture of my license plate. Here\u2019s where I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll get into some trouble..when I saw her do that I rolled down my window and gave her the middle finger. Now I\u2019m kinda freaking out because I did nothing wrong yet she took a picture of my license plate to try and report me, plus a picture of me giving her the finger. So will I get in trouble? I\u2019m in NJ. I don\u2019t know if giving someone the middle finger is more than enough to get a ticket ","title":"Will I get a ticket for giving someone the middle finger?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555043171,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc9h44\/ia_average_sentence_for_domestic_violence\/","id":"bc9h44","body":"What do those who commit domestic violence usually get as a sentence?\n\nAlso what's the worst, best case you've seen?","title":"IA - Average sentence for domestic violence?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507133793,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7497jb\/custody_issue_in_pennsylvania\/","id":"7497jb","body":"Hello,\n\nIn an effort to keep this brief and to the point, I'm going to try and give information that I think may be relevant. If there is any other info needed I can prov8de that info no problem. \n\nMy wife and I haha a niece that we take care of every other weekend, and have done so since I got out of the military and moved back to the area a year ago. If it's relevant, we do spend money on her for clothes\/hygiene supplies, food, and other necessities that she does not get, or does not get enough of at home. \n\nThis time is supposed to be with her father, my wife's brother, but he is unwilling to spend this time with her, and unable to spend this money on her. I'm not sure of the exact details of the custody arrangement (child support, etc.) But I do know that these weekends are supposed to be with him, but he doesn't want them, so we take her. \n\nLong story short, my wife's brother wanted to sign over his rights to my wife and I, but apparently both parties (mother and father) must apporce of this, and my nieces mother wants my wife's brother to sign over his rights to her boyfriend, which he is unwilling to do. She is now apparently taking him to court to have his rights revoked, at which point she will allow her boyfriend to \"adopt\" our niece. \n\nThey are both typical trash, she has no job, he had a very low paying hob, they both live with her parents in a very cramped and crappy situation. My wife and I are terrified that our niece will no longer be allowed to come over. \n\nMy question is this: do uncles\/aunts have any rights as far as at least visitation goes? We were originally hoping to get 50\/50 custody until we found out that the mother would not approve of the transfer of parental rights from the father to us, now.we are just hanging on to hope that she won't be able to fully keep us from at least being in our nieces life in some way. We are speaking to a Lawyer, but the process is slow and we are anxious to know if we even have a shot at this. \n\nThank you!","title":"Custody Issue in Pennsylvania","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541734825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vh2ww\/pa_landlord_gave_notice_to_have_viewings_of\/","id":"9vh2ww","body":"Posting for a friend on a throwaway. It\u2019s in rental in PA. \n\nFriend had lease on upstairs apartment and when the downstairs people left the landlord offered her that apartment but a new lease was never presented or signed but she has been living there since. They have paid rent on time ever since and without any idea things were wrong. \n\nShe had a neighbor who was weirdly attentive and constantly came over with gifts and food. When she moved in her gf, he changed to angry and hostile. They repeatedly complain to landlord with lies as the neighbor was her out now. \n\nThis past weekend we visited and were a witness to their verbal and threat of violence. The only way we got them to leave was by yelling at them they were trespassing in hopes that they would be afraid of the police. \n\nPolice were notified and a report made. But since then the landlord contacting asking to speak but after being asked 4\/5 what it was in regards to prior to agreement he refused each time. On the 6th he stated it was about lease renewal. \n\nIt has been 5 days since that point and since then he came and taped a notice to show the apartment to people. \n\nIs this legal? What can they do? I am from NYC so I know rental rights are completely different in PA so i don\u2019t know what advice to give them...","title":"[PA] Landlord gave notice to have viewings of apartment without providing tenants eviction notice or tenants giving notice to move out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554955655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbvp06\/how_can_i_protect_myself_from_harassment_by\/","id":"bbvp06","body":"I was walking by landscapers in my neighborhood who were using gas-powered blowers, which is against local ordinance (Los Angeles) within 500 feet of a residence. I politely let a landscaper know (I was on public property) that it was against the local laws. He and his coworker came off the private property onto public property, yelling \u201cbitch\u201d at me and repeatedly demanding to know where I live. They were clearly trying to intimidate me. They later seemed to follow me in their truck. I got photos of the two men and their truck, plus video of them initially following me on foot. I don\u2019t feel safe in my own neighborhood because of them. I called LAPD and they didn\u2019t want to take a report because I wasn\u2019t physically touched. The house is for sale and I spoke to somebody from the broker\u2019s office, who apologized and said she would tell the owner of the property. I was later informed by a random neighbor (who I showed photos) that this broker seems to employee the same landscapers at another nearby property they represent for rental units, and that other neighbors have had trouble with the landscapers. I feel unsafe even walking out of my home now, and even more troubled that the police didn\u2019t seem willing to take a report. I have a name and phone number from the side of their truck, but they don\u2019t seem to be listing themselves online and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll have luck with the state contractor license board (but will keep looking into it). What else can I do to protect myself?","title":"How can I protect myself from harassment by landscapers in my neighborhood?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1570445561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dehsqv\/holding_personal_legal_documents_as_insurance_usa\/","id":"dehsqv","body":"Ex-roomate owes me over $1300. I evicted him in mid August *gave him 3 weeks of notice in writing that we both agreed was fair* and he left all of his things. A couple weeks later he had still not picked them up so I offered to buy something from him so he had the gas money to retrieve his stuff. After making 2 trips, he said he couldn't grab anything else and was going to leave the rest for the time being. I informed him that they would be on the porch for him to pick up later (mere incentive to do so, I did not actually put things out.) He asked me specifically to not put a filing cabinet out and I said I would comply.\n\nLate September came and I still had the things with no indication from him about retrieval. I began putting things on the porch as originally stated because it had been over a month. Fast forward to 3 days ago, we have been in contact now and he wants to pick the filing cabinet items up soon. I told him that he can pick them up when he pays me the amount that he owes me and he believes \"that's not how that works.\"\n\nMy question is as follows: Am I legally allowed to withhold the documents in the filing cabinet until he pays off what he owes me? (Random medical and old tax documents, a yearbook, and his diploma)","title":"Holding personal legal documents as insurance (USA, KY)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555113553,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bckm7w\/atlanta_ga_car_accident_lapse_payment_on_car\/","id":"bckm7w","body":"May of last year I was in an auto accident that left my car totaled. I happened to find out at the time of the accident that my insurance had lapsed earlier that week \ud83d\ude12. The process during the accident was screwy, but that\u2019s a separate situation. \n\nBefore the accident, I had already not been making my payments on my car. I got it through Carvana, and I was under a loan with Go Financial. I had seen that the company changed names, and the customer account I had on the website had come up as nonexistent. I tried calling a couple times, and no success. They still haven\u2019t attempted to contact me. I\u2019m assuming that my account didn\u2019t show up because it went to collections, but I haven\u2019t gotten any letters for that either. Nothings hit my credit report for it. \n\nMy cars currently parked at a friends place, but I\u2019m going to need to move it soon. How do I get rid of this thing, take the L and make payment arrangements for the money I still owe, and move on from this ton paper weight....","title":"(Atlanta, GA) Car accident, lapse payment on car lease for over a year, and no insurance at time of accident. How do I get rid of my car if the loan company hasn\u2019t contacted me?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569865525,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbf99f\/traffic_ticket_for_visibility_distorted_broken\/","id":"dbf99f","body":"I was given a traffic ticket in Harrison, NY because of a 8 inch or so crack on my windshield coming from the bottom and the officer claimed it obstructs my view. \n\nThe officer informed me the ticket will be dismissed if I can get it fixed before the court date which is in November. After going online and getting an estimate, I would most likely have to replace the entire windshield costing about $250-$300. \n\nI have been planning to purchase a new car next month and don\u2019t see the point in paying $300 to repair the windshield if I\u2019m just going to get rid of the car next month. I could use that $300 towards the new car. \n\nThe ticket does not state how much the fee would be if I plead guilty\/don\u2019t repair the windshield and I was wondering if anyone has gotten a similar ticket and the results in choosing to plead guilty. \n\nWill I be paying less than $300 or receiving any points if I plead guilty? Am I stuck paying the $300 to repair the windshield if I am going to get rid of the truck next month anyway?","title":"Traffic ticket for \u201cVisibility Distorted Broken Glass\u201d","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540793864,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9san7v\/mn_received_speeding_ticket_by_state_patrol_is\/","id":"9san7v","body":"I just want to explain my case in the hope that the fine could be reduced and\/or the ticket not be reported to insurance. This is my second ticket in two years. I was cited for going 85 on a 70. The officer said I could set up a court date. I did. I got a letter confirming my hearing date. Apparently it'll be in a court room with a judge and the state trooper..?\n\nI thought I would talk to a hearing officer in an office one on one, but doesn't seem to be the case. I believe I have been assigned a public attorney by the court who is CC'd on the letter I received. Is this process worth it? Do I have any chance?\n\nI know that traffic violations are more \"negotiatable\" than other violations or crimes. Part of me thinks I should just go and the worst that could happen is I'll have to pay my ticket fully. Do I have any chance of getting a stay of adjudication?\n\n","title":"(MN) Received speeding ticket by State Patrol, is contesting worth it?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504900460,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yx5qp\/plea_offer_for_speeding_ticket\/","id":"6yx5qp","body":"I got a speeding ticket in Cook County Georgia.  I requested to dispose of case in Absentia.  I got a letter in the mail from the solicitor's office proposing I plead to Defective Equipment.  I think this will not go on my driving record but is there anything else that i should consider before agreeing to this plea?  \n\nEdit: 18 over, 88 in 70","title":"Plea offer for speeding ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569261847,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8aa0r\/rear_ended_by_a_driver_w_no_insurance_and_license\/","id":"d8aa0r","body":"I (23 m) got rear ended on 9\/19\/19 by a driver (18-21 m) with no license and no insurance. I have a copy of the police report stating it was the other drivers fault. He got a citation for no license, no insurance, and speeding. And the car he was driving got towed. The car\u2019s tag belongs to the driver\u2019s mother. \n\nMy car was driveable afterward. I drove it roughly half a mile to my work after the wreck. It was making a weird squeaking sound that was not normal. My drivers side taillight\/brake light is busted and does not work. I now only have 1 working taillight\/brakelight. I told my insurance it was driveable, but the taillight is busted and I do not feel comfortable driving it. On their report, they listed my car as driveable.\n\nI did go to urgent care the evening of the 19th for some neck and shoulder pain\/soreness from the car impact, but I have no broken bones or serious injuries.\n\nAfter sending pictures to my insurance company through their app, I received an approved estimate from them. The damage itself is way worse than what you can tell looking at pictures, and their estimate for repairs after the $1000 deductible is extremely low. According to the approved estimate from my insurance, I should take my car (2007 2dr Jeep Wrangler) to a body shop of my choice to begin repairs immediately, and if the shop determines it will cost more than my insurance quote they will work with each other to ensure the damages are repaired. I plan on taking it to a body shop close to my house just to get an estimate for now. I believe there is a chance my car will be totaled. The impact broke some welds in the rear quarter panel and I\u2019m not sure if there is any damage not visible (suspension, control arms, track bar, etc...). \n\nIf I end up getting screwed by my insurance somehow and not getting what i believe I deserve, what chances do you think I would have taking the driver and\/or his mother to small claims court for damages, loss of use, and medical charges?\n\nApologies if I left anything out or there are errors. I\u2019m typing this on mobile.","title":"Rear ended by a driver w\/ no insurance and license. Is small claims court a good option if my insurance screws me?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569366196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8uyr2\/i_work_at_a_small_bar_in_tennessee_and_the_owners\/","id":"d8uyr2","body":"Okay so I\u2019m hoping the title is good enough to where people will understand and try to help me. I\u2019m sorry if it\u2019s not, I\u2019m just frustrated. I work for a small bar in Tennessee that employees 7 people. We have computer registers that we clock in and clock out on, as well as do everything else on. (Ringing stuff up, tabbing people out, etc.) I\u2019ve worked there for five months without giving them any issue. I worked Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I was off for Friday through Sunday. On Tuesday and Wednesday, I forgot to click \u201cprint\u201d when I clocked out, which is just a quick screen that comes up and gives you the option and it prints the time you came in until you got off. I was in a hurry and was counting down the register next to me to help them since we are short staffed and I forgot to click the print clock out receipt. The next night I worked, my manager actually clocked me out for me since she wanted me off the clock, since it wasn\u2019t busy and we were \u201cdraining the owners money by not needing to be in the clock\u201d and she forgot to hit print as well and claimed she would go back in and get it, which apparently she never did. I got a text today from the owners girlfriend, who does payroll, and she said that I would not get paid for those two days that I worked 16 hours all together since I had forgotten to print it off. I had informed them that I had forgot to print it off as well and they knew I had worked both days, PLUS I\u2019m sure it\u2019s still in the computer what days and hours I was clocked in for etc AND it was written down in the folder that we write down our times in (which is where we put the clock out receipts as well). I mean come on, I\u2019m sure it\u2019s on there, it\u2019s a brand new 10000 dollar computer system according to the owner who brags about it all the time. Regardless, is it legal for them to not pay me for the 16 hours I worked for since it wasn\u2019t printed off?","title":"I work at a small bar in Tennessee and the owners girlfriend, who does payroll, claims I won\u2019t get paid for the two days that I forgot to print off my clock out receipt.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570465297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/delqd4\/im_an_employee_of_a_car_dealership_in_ca_my\/","id":"delqd4","body":"As stated above, I work in CA. My employer banned vaping on dealership property even in the smoking areas. But then they allow cigarettes? It just doesn\u2019t seem fair. Now i\u2019m forced to quit nicotine. \nSo with that in mind, I know private companies are allowed to pretty much do what they want. Plus, vaping might set off a bad image of the dealership overall. \nI\u2019m curious though, what statute gives private companies the ability to enforce any rules they want? \n\nThis post is less about advice, merely because I doubt I can fight this. It\u2019s more about education.","title":"I\u2019m an employee of a car dealership in CA. My question is, why can my employer ban vaping but not cigarettes? (More info below).","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444594293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3od938\/wv_dmv_legal_heir_affidavit\/","id":"3od938","body":"My mother passed last month, leaving no will or guardian to split things up. My brother is okay with me having her vehicle. I called the DMV and then said I would need the Title of the vehicle with lines 1, bottom line of 5, and 7 filled in, a death certificate, proof of insurance, and this legal heir affidavit to prove that no one else is making claim over the vehicle.\n\n[The .PDF form is listed here.](http:\/\/www.transportation.wv.gov\/dmv\/Forms\/DMVForms\/DMV-185-TR_Legal-Heir-Affidavit-wf.pdf)\n\n\nMy question is on the affiant information and certification. Do I just fill that part out? And the Additional Heirs part. Does my brother sign that only and not me? Since the vehicle is being inherited by me?\n\n\nAny help is appreciated, as this is all new to me. Thanks","title":"[WV] DMV - Legal Heir Affidavit","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445650988,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pzd9t\/tnan_online_store_changed_my_credit_card_info\/","id":"3pzd9t","body":"So I had a yearly subscription with a website. The card I used has since expired.\nI received an email another day from the company saying that my renewal transaction failed due to insufficient funds or an expired credit card. The card I used was expired. I didn't think much about it because I was busy. Well a few days later (today), my wife ask me about a transaction on our current card. The online company changed the expiration date and tried it again. It went through. The billing address has changed since then. So the address they have is wrong. The expiration date they changed it to is wrong. And it still went through. Also they yearly subscription fee increased by more than double. Is it me or is this screwed up","title":"[TN]An online store changed my credit card info without my permission. Is this normal?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569084853,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7d0bf\/wa_hoarder_problems_parking_over_the_line\/","id":"d7d0bf","body":"Hello team!\n\nI\u2019m trying to put together plans of action to improve the state of my neighborhood. I live next to a hoarder and apparently this neighbor has been causing problems for the neighborhood for many years and I want to see what I can do to help. \n\nFor years everyone has been asking him to clean up his yard and to keep the street clear. I\u2019ve asked as well but I\u2019m not seeing anything move out from the front. \n\nWe live on a private road and everyday he or the people that live with him park on the side of the street that belongs to another neighbor. My other neighbor has told him repeatedly that he can\u2019t park there, but that hasn\u2019t worked. \n\nThese cars are parked off the gravel and into the grass on the side of the street, I think 20 ft from the center of the road and might be technically off the road easement. Is our hoarder neighbor parking over the line and can my other neighbor call a tow company?","title":"[WA] Hoarder Problems: Parking Over the Line","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446779292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rpszg\/is_it_worth_it_or_even_possible_to_contest_a_sex\/","id":"3rpszg","body":"Hello,\nThis is in California. A close family member has recently been found guilty as an accessory to a sex crime. From what I understand, he supplied alcohol to some underage people who then went on to commit statutory rape. This has put him on the sex offender list for life. Unfortunately our family has very little money, and no assets to leverage, so hiring a lawyer will be very difficult. He was represented by a public defender.\n\nMy question is, is it worth it to pursue this with a paid lawyer, or would we be spinning our wheels? My best guess on how we would pay is by taking out some type of unsecured loan or maybe credit cards.","title":"Is it worth it, or even possible, to contest a sex offender decision?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1408462798,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2dzoen\/is_there_anyway_to_submit_proof_of_insurance_with\/","id":"2dzoen","body":"I got pulled over for \"running\" a stop sign today and on top of that my insurance card was expired by a few days. So I got a court summons to show I had insurance. Court costs are a scam and I want to know if I can avoid them by submitting my proof somewhere other then court.","title":"Is there anyway to submit proof of insurance with out having to go to court? (New Castle. DE)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1507292730,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74n9kv\/i_might_have_property_in_puerto_rico\/","id":"74n9kv","body":"So after Maria killed Puerto Rico, my mom decided to tell me that my brother and I might have property in Puerto Rico. A while back my grandfather (on my mom's side) left the Island and left the property to some friends and allowed them to stay rent-free as long as they up-kept the house. Around that time he asked for our SSNs, so he could put the property in our names, but she did not give them to him because she did not trust him. She does think my Dad might have given him our SSNs though. How would I go about looking to see if there is any property there in my name or my brother's? I'd want to see if the family is ok\/still living there to see if I could help them out in any way, and see if the land is large enough to maybe have a home there for myself in the future.","title":"I might have property In Puerto Rico?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1504369822,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xn279\/west_virginia_rent_an_apartment_bed_bugs_showed\/","id":"6xn279","body":"My girlfriend and I rent an upstairs one bedroom apartment in a city in West Virginia. We have not stayed anywhere other than our apartment recently, and we make sure to keep it very clean. About 3 weeks ago we noticed a bug crawling across our bed, caught it, and after doing some research determined it was a bed bug.  We immediately put the apartment on lock down, not transferring any items into or out of the room to try our best to prevent them from spreading. We tore apart the room and discovered 2 more, a fully grown adult and an incredibly small nymph bed bug right beside it, between our mattress and box spring.\n\nWe called our landlord first thing the next morning, and told him what we found. He is a pretty nice guy, and sounded shocked when I told him about it. He said nobody else had reported noticing any to him yet.  We talked for a bit about it, and at one point he mentioned that the previous tenants directly below us had bed bugs, but he didn't say how long ago that was. At some times it sounded relatively recently, and others like it had been a long time ago.  I never thought to ask him specifically when I was on the phone with him then. He asked if we knew any way they could have been brought in, but honestly we have no clue where they could have came from. It may have been on us when we came home one day, or they could be in another apartment that spread to us, and those tenants don't react to their bites, so they haven't seen any evidence yet.\n\nThe landlord said it can be pretty expensive to deal with bed bugs, and from our research I can agree. He also thought because we had only seen one or two, it was just the very beginning of an infestation so we could probably get away with treating it ourselves. He recommended we try to set off some bed bug\/flea killing foggers and that would do the trick, but I was pretty skeptical. From what I had read, they seemed pretty ineffective for bed bugs, and common sense told me they would just leave my apartment and move to an adjacent one until it had dissipated.  He also said we might need to do it a couple of times to be sure we've been rid of them, which makes sense to me. We ended up bagging up all of our clothing and linens, removed them from the apartment, spread diatomaceous earth around the edges of the rooms and inside the electrical outlet covers to keep them from escaping, and sprayed a spray designed specifically to kill their eggs all over the floor, the mattress\/box spring (the bottle said it was safe, we checked beforehand) and in the dressers and night stands. We did this process for the entire apartment just to be safe, set the foggers off, and left to go to a laundromat to wash all of our clothes. Since this first popped up, we have repeated this process each week, a total of three times with the most recent being last night. We've been absolutely paranoid from the first moment, constantly reapplying spray just to be sure we're killing everything.\n\nThis morning, I wake up to see a fully grown bedbug crawling across the pillow in front of me. I killed it, and that's where I am now.  My question is: now that its obvious that an exterminator is going to be needed, who is supposed to pay for it? From what I can gather online, it seems like if the tenant brought them in, they are responsible to pay, if they came in from elsewhere it is the landlord's responsibility. We have no clue where they've came from, but am I right to think that its pretty much impossible to determine it?  Also, if the exterminator treats our apartment, it seems to me he would have to treat all adjacent apartments as well to prevent them from spreading. If that ends up being the case it is unlikely we could pay for all of that. Has anyone else had any experience with a situation like this? Any suggestions? I have to call him this afternoon to let him know what is going on, but I just wanted to be informed before I do.\n\nTl;dr: A few bed bugs have shown up in our apartment, the landlord recommended we try to treat them ourselves before an exterminator gets involved.  Multiple treatments were ineffective. Now that its obvious we need an exterminator who is responsible for the cost, the landlord or tenant?","title":"[West Virginia] Rent an apartment, bed bugs showed up recently. Who should foot the extermination bill, landlord or tenant?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505654350,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70nfjn\/ca_does_anyone_knowexplain_what_this_means_pic\/","id":"70nfjn","body":"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/bznT86L.png","title":"[CA] Does anyone know\/explain what this means? (pic inside)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540599062,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rq0ii\/il_dealership_disputing_extended_warranty\/","id":"9rq0ii","body":"I purchased a used car in 2013.  It was about 7 months old with 10k miles.   I purchased the extended warranty which under the contact term states 72 months or 100k miles.   The plan was preferred wrap and the manufactures in service date was blank.   They checked new vehicle under the plan and told me this was because the vehicle was a company car and I am the first owner.  If we added the 6 years to the purchase date it would carry over into 2019.   \n\nFast forward to now I have about 3k in service needed that should be under warranty.   Go to process the claim and the warranty company says I do not have coverage anymore.   This is because the 72 months applied to the day the car was made not from when I purchased and is now expired.  \n\nDealership was not wanting to take ownership initially made it sound like it was my fault.  Until I showed them the original paperwork.  ( which clarified the facts above).  They now want to go over this with management.  \n\nThis is in Illinois and was wondering if anyone had any experience with this type of issue?  \n\nSorry for formatting posting  from phone.  \n\n\n","title":"[IL] Dealership disputing extended warranty","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1442958301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lzm63\/how_to_safely_sue_someone_while_being_extorted_ca\/","id":"3lzm63","body":"[29M]My licensed attorney ex-gf[28F] ran up $4-5k on credit cards I had authorized her to use, but explicitly allowed only for food\/basic necessities, and stole my phone & laptop the night before leaving too. She is threatening to give private (medical) information to my company that would jeopardize my career if I try to get my money back from her. **Is there a way to protect myself from her releasing that information, or is it invalidated if revealed unlawfully somehow?** Also, do I have to sue her in my county or in Atlanta?\n\nI am an engineer, with a medical mj card in CA, which is legal, but still technically against my company's policy since we're owned by an international Fortune 500 company. **Is there any precedent for protecting employees with legal mj cards?** I know, I should just cancel it and keep clean anyhow. I don't know much about the law but have begun contacting attorneys, and I may not even be able to hire one for anything beyond sending her the Demand Letter since this will likely end up in Small Claims Court (no representation allowed).\n\nLong story short is... my ex-gf moved from Atlanta to CA in Feb 2015 (after 9 months long distance) and we broke up just as she completed the CA BAR exam July 31. She thinks I said I would pay for her move back (and with her legal head up her ass is saying I'm \"violating verbal tort agreements\") but I don't think I've ever texted or written her saying so, let alone said that. Since she was moving without a job, I paid for all our rent and nearly all expenses: $1100\/mo for 6months, her relocating costs, and even 1\/2 of her Bar registration! So her moving back to ATL cost $3100 and she charged my card for her car windshield and even a flight to London!\n\nShe has recently contacted me after a month of no communication, so I don't know if I should reply to her or if she is just probing to see if I'm up to anything since I called her out on extorting me when she did it. She denied it of course. I haven't taken any action yet besides filing a police report for my laptop\/phone, but I didn't name her there yet either.\n\n\"TL;DR - Attorney ex-gf extorting me for about $5k for relocating and other extraneous expenses after breaking up moving back East.\n","title":"How to Safely Sue Someone While Being Extorted [CA]?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1508125941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76nzja\/ontario_provincial_colleges_union_opseu_walks_out\/","id":"76nzja","body":"So, as of midnight, Oct. 16, 2017, OPSEU, the union representing all Full-time and Part-time Teachers for all provincial colleges in Ontario has gone on strike. The exact reasoning is unknown but from what i understand, which to be quite honest is very little in regaurds to the strike, is that certain colleges were forcing teachers to teach to unrealistic or out-of-date standards. Again, i have no idea if this is what is the actual reasoning, but it's what's being passed around.\n\nNow, several full faculties at around half of the colleges are prepared to strike for AT LEAST 3 WEEKS, but from what i was told by my course director, there is enough \"Strike Insurance\", to last till the end of January. Our semester ends December 16th. Me, and my classmates being in our Year 2 out of 2 in our program (we're studying computer science) have an unusual predicament, primarily depending on how long the strike lasts. It would force those of us graduating into a CO-OP position to not have access to that CO-OP due to schooling be pushed into summer (CO-OP term begins May 2018 and Ends September 2018)\n\nTo further the issue, being a Computer science student, i'm expected, if and when we return to school after the suspension, that anything missed will be crammed into a single week, whether it be midterms, finals, term projects, or other work. The expectation is that in one weeks time, we fully understand enterprise database controls, entire languages and application development to standards that are highly unfeasible given the time constraint and conditions.\n\nThis leaves us at a very bad edge. We can't feasibly apply for work positions or co-op while not fully understanding the tools of the trade. We'd never get a position. We'd be discarded post haste. The colleges took our money to render teaching services that it now fails to provide, while giving us absolutely no recourse. They broke a contract between us, the government of Ontario through OSAP (Ontario Schooling Assistance Program), and themselves.\n\nThe question i have is, do we have any legal recourse? can we even file a class-action lawsuit, or at the very least, arbitration (which i'd rather not seeing as we'd get the sever short end of the stick)? Where do we go from here?","title":"Ontario Provincial Colleges union OPSEU walks out due to bargaining dispute with Ontario colleges. Several Classmates suggest we file a Class-Action lawsuit against said colleges for Time\/Money Lost\/ Breach of contract. Where do we go from here?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570072825,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcla2p\/employer_screwing_us_out_of_money\/","id":"dcla2p","body":"I'll try to keep this simple.\n\nWe work 48 hours straight (4) 12's and have 4 days off. One month we only get 3 days per week and one month we get 4 days per week.\n\nWe've brought it up to them that it doesn't make sense but they reassure us it evens out. It just doesn't add up, we never get the overtime for a month straight even though we are working it and when we finally get all 4 days it's just the hours we worked that week nothing is carried over. They are using the pay week to justify not paying us the 4 straight days every week even though we don't get a choice on the days we work it's set by them. \n\nI'm in Colorado if that helps.","title":"Employer screwing us out of money?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551551102,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awkmts\/have_a_trust_but_merrill_lynch_doesnt_accept_a\/","id":"awkmts","body":"Upon advice from a financial advisor my father in law had a living trust created upon which my wife is the trustee (executor) and her and her sister are the only 2 beneficiaries.\n\nWe are in this bind because Merrill Lynch informed us that they do not do beneficiaries for the IRA and would have to submit our claim and death certificate.  We were told after his death that we couldn\u2019t transfer the account bc we weren\u2019t listed as beneficiaries and this should have been done before he passed. \n\nThe trust was drawn up by a lawyer that includes all his assets and we have used it for all his other accounts, house sale, etc.  We sent it to ML and their legal team won\u2019t accept trusts. They want a judgement of probate or an \u201calternative form of judgement\u201d.\n\nFirst question is what would an alternative to probate judgement be?\n\nOur understanding is that for probate you have to post the ad in the newspaper of his death for creditors which I think was a 3 month deal so they can come and claim anything owed.  Prior to this, per our advisors advice, we\u2019ve replied to a few hospital bills, a rehab bill and a credit card that he does not have an \u201cestate\u201d to which they have forgiven the bills.\n\nOnce we open a probate anything such as the debts above can come make a claim we believe.  Here\u2019s the part we aren\u2019t sure of: if for instance his IRA we are seeking judgement on has $10,000 in it and through opening probate we come to find out he has $25,000 in debts being claimed, will the whole trust (we have a trust bank account with money from the sale of his home) be responsible for paying the remaining balance not covered by the IRA?\n\nMy understanding was that once probate is opened then everything is exposed to it, including any money\/assets in the trust.  My wife thought that only what wasn\u2019t protected in the trust was up for grabs if probate was opened.  What is the case?\n\n\u2014 we have emailed the lawyer and financial advisor about this but I just wanted to see what the thread had to say\n\nTL;DR Merrill Lynch won\u2019t accept a legal trust to disperse funds to the beneficiaries of the trust, requiring a probate judgement.  Will opening probate expose funds protected by the trust to anyone claiming debts owed by the deceased (medical bills, credit cards, etc.) to be claimed?  Or are things in the trust still protected by the trust if probate is opened on something like this IRA?\n\nThanks\n\n","title":"Have a trust but Merrill Lynch doesn\u2019t accept a trust - requiring judgement of probate or alternative of probate - Michigan","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569790585,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db13wz\/former_employer_claims_they_overpayed_emloyee\/","id":"db13wz","body":"Someone I know worked at FedEx for a short time. In that time, they had two or three paychecks that were \"lost\" by the company, and they had to wait several weeks to get their checks, at one point they were given two checks at once, one for backpay and the other as payment for that week. Now they no longer work there for several reasons (the missing paychecks being one of them), but now they have a letter in the mail that is FedEx claiming they owe ~$250 because they were overpayed. I advised them to find their pay stubs, but they no longer have access to them, and were not given the payroll contact information in the letter, just the number to call and pay.\nWhat should this person do in this situation?","title":"Former Employer Claims They Overpayed Emloyee","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552154908,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/az6874\/i_work_at_subway_and_my_employer_wants_to_start\/","id":"az6874","body":"We often will mess up on the bread baking because we are understaffed. We have to help customers and since he only staffs 2 people at a time. Is this legal to charge us for mistakes like this?","title":"I work at subway and my employer wants to start charging us 50 cents for every bread loaf we mess up on","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539726651,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9os6kj\/child_support_questions\/","id":"9os6kj","body":"My girlfriend has a real asshole of a father who skipped out on her pretty much the second she was born. She has told me that her mom filed for child support against him but the Canadian government was not able to locate him due to the fact of him moving out of the country and around so much. He\u2019s back in Canada now, In fact, he is living quite close to her. Is there any way to take legal action against his non payment of child support the entirety of her life? Does she stand any chance on getting what\u2019s owed to her and her mother? ","title":"Child support questions","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570739146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg3zh3\/ca_renter_question_about_process_to_leave\/","id":"dg3zh3","body":"Posting for a desperate friend...(in California; San Bernardino County)\n\nBack story - Friend is sharing an apartment with a soon-to-be-\"non-friend\".  Both parties are piss-poor and barely survive each month.  It's a very toxic environment with a lot of gas-lighting and back-stabbing.  RM is a complete slob (I would categorize as a hoarder), has really bad personal hygiene, and is an alcoholic.  Their one-year lease has already expired, so Friend and RM are month-to-month.  A few months ago, a new management company took over.  \n\nFriend goes to pay the rent this month (each person pays with separate MO's but must be paid together and in full) and inquires about getting a copy of their current lease because she wants to move out and needs to know what type of notice she must give and how much time is required (RM says SHE signed a new agreement but friend has not been presented with anything).  Management says the old company stored everything in the cloud and cannot access it.  \n\nFriend then goes on to ask about the process of moving out and they tell her ask her both of them initially presented employment and pay verification (they both had to apply and be approved as individuals).  It's obvious that RM cannot afford the apartment without Friend, so they tell her that she cannot simply give minimum notice (30 days?) because that would \"harm\" the RM and would possible get RM evicted.  (note - numerous times, RM has not been able to pay her share of the rent and they have incurred huge fines in late payments, as well as received several 3-day notices...).  They said that Friend would need to make sure RM has someone else lined up and approved by Management, before Friend vacates.\n\nI don't know how to help my Friend or even what resources to point her to (this is her first rental).\n\nAny advice?","title":"CA renter - question about process to leave","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553123668,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3iz7y\/health_insurance_am_i_being_scammed_by_the_dr_he\/","id":"b3iz7y","body":"So I had surgery several months ago and I opted to go to an out-of-network surgeon because, frankly, he is the best for what I needed done. I had to pay out of pocket upfront for the surgery. However, my insurance will cover it and my claim is currently being processed. My insurance is great and will cover 80% of out-of-network procedures, and they will send a check directly to me to be reimbursed. Here's where the confusion comes in. \n\nMy surgeon's office called me today to say they had sent the final piece of documentation (codes and breakdowns) to my insurance company. The woman at my doctor's office  told me that my next step would be, once I get the check, to sign the check payable to \"Dr. John Smith\" (name changed for Reddit reasons) and send it priority or certified mail. The Dr will then take his taxes and fees out of the check and then credit whatever remains on the credit card that they have on file for me. She went on to say that some patients are not good people and don't send the check. And that it's not very fair because the Dr has to pay taxes and if we (the patients) don't sent the checks then the doc has to pay out of his pocket. She said that she's worked with a few people who have my insurance in the past and 2 of them haven't given the check and she said that the Dr stated if that happens again he will no longer accept my type of insurance and he might just not accept any insurance all together. She somewhat schmoozed me and said that she thinks I'm a good person and I'll take care of it. But that there's bad people out there that don't. She said that everyone who uses insurance signs a contract that states they must send any reimbursement checks to their office so they can take money out of it. \n\nAll my red flags were triggered. First of all, why talk about the morals of people if this is simply a legal obligation that all patients have? Second, if two people that have my insurance have not sent the check in the past, why was there no penalty for those people? Why is the Dr just considering not working with my insurance anymore if he can recover the checks legally? And third, I just felt overall steamrolled during the conversation. She wasn't mean or rude, just very assertive and fast talking. \n\nSo I called my insurance company because frankly idk anything about insurance and neither does any of my friends\/family. I gave the insurance company an overview of the conversation with the doctor's office and she said she's never ever heard anything like that. She put me on hold to talk with her supervisor and came back on to say that no one there had ever heard of such a thing. I asked who I could talk to about what I should do and she didn't know. \n\nSo here I am. Am I obligated to sign the check over to Dr Smith? I am looking through my paperwork now to see if I signed a contract that states that I have to sign it over. If I did sign it, is there anything I can do at this point? \n\nPossibly worth noting: the Dr required me to pay $50 twice in order for me to try to use insurance. Also, I paid the same exact amount for the surgery as anyone who does not use insurance. ","title":"Health insurance - Am I being scammed by the Dr? He wants my reimbursement check.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551807329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axnspm\/i_was_asked_to_pick_up_my_boss_from_jail_after_my\/","id":"axnspm","body":"Thank you in advance for reading this, I have a really tricky situation and I\u2019m looking for advice on how to proceed. \n\n\nI [27F] started my first day of work yesterday, it was a new sales role (I am an Oregon based employee with a company up in northern Washington). My day included travel to train up in northern Washington, and then travel back down to Oregon. When I got home, my new boss [44M] called me to tell me he was coming down to Oregon tonight (originally was going to come down tomorrow) and asked to get dinner. I felt very tired from the drive and didn\u2019t particularly want to go through another social event after a long day, but he pleaded with me to make it work and offered to get me a hotel room close to the office (I only live 20 min away) if that was easier. I sort of laughed and told him that of course I wouldn\u2019t be needing to get a hotel room. He mentioned that he offered so I could \u201clet loose\u201d if I wanted to since after this week I\u2019ll be working hard getting my sales numbers. I told him no again and that I wouldn\u2019t be drinking since we have morning meetings, but picked a restaurant fairly close to my side of town that had a casual atmosphere. When my boss called me, he mentioned he was 30 minutes out, so I sent him the address and made my way over to the restaurant. \n\nFlash forward two hours, and my new boss was a no-show at the restaurant. I called a few times and at that point was worried that maybe he got in some kind of an accident. I texted him and called, telling him I was going home but to text me to let me know he made it to Oregon safe. I resolved to call the office in the early morning if I did not hear from him. \n\nAbout an hour later, I was woken up by 5 phone calls in a row from a phone number tied to a town in southern Washington. I realized it could be a hospital, so I answered the call. It was my boss asking how far away I was from this town, and asking if I could pick him up from jail. He said that he got picked up for speeding but because he had been drinking they took him in. He mentioned that this secret needed to stay between us, and asked me not to tell anyone from the company. He said that if I do this, we could start at a later time tomorrow. I wish I didn\u2019t, but I hesitantly agreed to pick him up, I suppose I felt some pressure that he was my boss and felt that I needed to deal with today and I could have a conversation with him tomorrow about it. I jumped in the car but started feeling terrible about the decision and called my best friend. My best friend offered great advice, told me to turn around and go home. I did that and then called my boss to tell him I would be removing myself from that situation, that it was too late in the night for me to be driving that far, and that it was inappropriate for him to have asked his employee to do that. \n\nWhen my boss got his phone back a couple hours later, he called me at every hour of the night multiple times, texting as well. He asked me to call him back and told me what time we would start more training in the morning. Around 6am when he was calling again, I blocked his number and resolved to resign. I sent a very brief email to HR and left HR a voicemail describing a little bit of my unsafe situation that resulted in my resignation. \n\nI did speak with HR later this morning, letting them know the story. She begged me to not resign, and I told her I would have to think about it. I cannot afford to be unemployed but left my job to be at this new company. Can I potentially get some kind of severance pay for the time period I will spend looking for a new job? \n\nThank you for your advice. ","title":"I was asked to pick up my boss from jail after my first day of work - Washington State\/Oregon","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551990393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayh97v\/what_can_i_do_forsend_to_a_friend_in_prison\/","id":"ayh97v","body":"A good friend is in jail for a few months, what can I do to support him?  What is a good thing to send that won't get him into more trouble or look suspicious?  I am looking to support him and remind him he is cared for without causing anything that could extend his stay or make him a target.  ","title":"What can I do for\/send to a friend in prison?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542208492,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x0xql\/my_mother_wants_to_take_time_off_to_be_there_for\/","id":"9x0xql","body":"Hopefully this is the right subreddit for this,\n\nSo for some background, I'm transgender and have my top surgery coming up early next year. The original date was April 26th, but I have to be in Vegas the day after (got my dates mixed up) and have to reschedule. \n\nThe hospital is possibly offering me an earlier date, but my mom wants me to wait until after May 21st because she wants to be there but doesn't have any vacation time left and doesn't want to get fired.\n\nSomeone suggested to me that she apply for family medical leave, and I'm just wondering if taking care of me for my surgery qualifies her for it? Or is she going to have to choose between me and keeping her job?\n\nWe live in Michigan ","title":"My mother wants to take time off to be there for my upcoming surgery but is worried she'll be fired. Could she qualify for FMLA? (MI)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541471292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ukbcq\/my_employer_is_withholding_my_tips_as_punishment\/","id":"9ukbcq","body":"So I'm a valet, at the property we can only accept cash tips. These tips get put into a box and then split evenly with everyone on shift. Just my luck didn't say the full script to a mystery shopper. As punishment I am now not getting tips for 3 days. My question is this illegal if my employer isn't keeping my portion of the tips for himself and instead denying me being part of the tip out.","title":"My employer is withholding my tips as punishment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542131974,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wrdg8\/wa_termination_notice_without_a_reason_for\/","id":"9wrdg8","body":"I was fired from a job in August of this year. It was unclear for what reason(s) and there is no statement on my termination notice that says why either. I was wondering if that's legal and how I tell that to other employers I'm applying for if it is.\n\nThe main issue here has to do with recording conversations in the workplace. My manager was very emotionally abusive toward me so I thought it would be smart to discreetly record a time when they explode at me. I sent the recording to a higher-up and they sympathized with me until they were brought into a meeting with me and the owner of the company. The owner said I could be fired for the recording but they won't (I don't even know if the owner even heard the recording). They also said that they would talk to my manager about the behavior. Later down the road I was fired because my manager has a grudge against me and always reports negatively of my behavior to our boss.\n\nI did some research between then and now and came up with some laws in Washington state about \"expectation of privacy.\" Washington is an \"all party consent\" state for private communications. Got it. But many courts have said there is little to no expectation of privacy in the workplace... So I need to determine whether my recording was made in a manner that could be considered \"private.\"\n\nFor some context, I worked in a warehouse and the recording happened inside in an area that any person on the property could access. So not a person's office, nor a bathroom or conference call.\n\nThe recording was of an altercation that happened over something I did wrong that I wasn't properly trained on. I was yelled at, called an idiot and cussed out left and right while I calmly tried to explain why I couldn't perform the duty to their liking. You can even hear a pen being thrown at the desk I was standing at. I honestly felt emotionally abused and threatened.\n\nI was going to email the company about the whole issue, but I didn't want to do it while upset about the whole ordeal and everything else in life that had my attention. Now I basically want my ex-manager to get what she deserves, whatever that may lead to.\n\nCan you guys help me out?","title":"[WA] Termination notice without a reason for termination and recording conversations in the workplace.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551638407,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awwyix\/students_given_intranet_admin_control\/","id":"awwyix","body":"Alright I need some help on this one guys. Anon account but I've always appreciated the advice of this sub.\n\nIntro:\nThe school system was hired a software company to handle cyber security\/safety, and to create a admin dashboard for the entire school system's intranet. They seem to have accidentally let all students be admins, instead of regular users. One student used the admin privileges without really understanding what was happening. Said student is in high school and has been given a juvenile court summons by the local sheriff's office(not date set yet), and has been given out of school suspension, with just a few days to appeal. \n\nDay 1:\nAll high school students receive an email from the software company to user their own standard usernames\/passwords to login to the new system to setup their account. Student does not wish to use the embedded link in the email and finds software company's website and logs in from there. Student proceeds to setup their account and change various settings\/filters for two days. This is a fairly generic(I believe) list of filters, like video sites(like YouTube), pornographic\/adult sites categories, whitelist field, blacklist field, etc.. Any changes made did not appear to affect student or friends(probably due to existing firewall rules and a lack of complete rollout of the new system). \n\nDay 3: \nSchool IT group takes away students school issued laptop without explanation.\n\nDay 5:\nStudent is pulled from class and brought before an administrator and an officer from the county sheriffs office. They question, verbally harass, and generally \"shakedown\" student, accusing said student of distribution of pornographic material to thousands of minors(citing count of all students who use an electronic device on intranet). Several hours later they contact student's parents to come get him, and inform them of the situation. The parents are give a school suspension notice and a juvenile court summons.\n\nMy thoughts: The school and software company have made a mistake, and want to pin the blame on a minor with no track record of issues.\n\nI would like to know what will\/should happen next. Sorry for being a mobile user and the long post. ","title":"Students given intranet admin control","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1551852579,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axvk6h\/my_daughter_works_for_an_apartment_complex_who\/","id":"axvk6h","body":"My college student  daughter works for her apartment building. She gets her hourly pay and $25 for every lease she sells. The first two months of work they sold to another company, and weren\u2019t paying her the commission. She told them it\u2019s illegal and she\u2019s owed and needs the money. They gave her 3 visa gift cards total..$50, $50, $400. The $400 card is fake & approximately 3 months late. \n\nI have looked up the laws regarding commission but I see nothing of this nature. Is it even legal to pay commission like that? How long does an employer have to pay commission. How does she get her money while not losing her job? Can anybody give me advice on what she should say to her employer? Please and thank you so much!! ","title":"My daughter works for an apartment complex who paid her $400 commission late with a fake visa gift card","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553988729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7hf5q\/my_ex_is_stalking_me_sort_of\/","id":"b7hf5q","body":" Just for background knowledge, I'm a single mother of a five year old, who is my ex's son. I got a restraining order against him a few weeks before my son was born. Recently, he's been reaching out to me on Facebook and Twitter, and I've seen him walking around outside my apartment building. He works nearby, so I'm not sure if the restraining order applies there. One of his friends is a parent at my son's daycare, who recently called CPS on me for no reason. Somehow my ex found out and his sister told me that he's trying to get custody. Is this a violation of the restraining order? He was a really violent person in the past and I don't want my son around him.","title":"My ex is stalking me, sort of","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446497616,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r9d1c\/other_party_in_contract_doesnt_want_to_pay_due_to\/","id":"3r9d1c","body":"Hi, I'm posting on behalf of my partner.  She needs some legal advice on what California law says about contracts\/failure to perform\/refusal to pay.\n\nThe story:  Non-profit hires her to help with their event doing guest registration.  She and the non-profit discuss what needs to get done and when she needs to receive guest information from them to complete the job on time (and do it well).  They were supposed to provide guest information a week before the event, but instead waited until the night before.  She did her best to complete the job regardless, but there wasn't enough time to get it done properly and now they are blaming her for not performing and don't want to pay her.\n\n The contract detailed what her responsibilities would be, how many hours she is expected to work on the project, and that any disputes regarding the contract will be resolved through arbitration.  It did not specify when the information needed to perform the job would be given to her, but they discussed it when she took the job and there is written proof of that understanding.  The written contract states that only the terms included in it are part of the agreement.\n\nThanks in advance for any advice you can give!  I've searched around but haven't been able to find a solid answer for her.","title":"Other party in contract doesn't want to pay due to performance issue, but they didn't supply materials in time. (Event planner) [California, U.S., Contract law]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553275305,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b47r2u\/is_there_a_name_for_a_contract_or_clause_that\/","id":"b47r2u","body":"USA. My company wants to protect all of our data from a potentially hostile IT worker. I searched \u201cretaliation,\u201d \u201cintellectual property,\u201d and read through many NDAs, but couldn\u2019t find an example of an employee contract that specifically addressed deleting files or data that is company property. \n\nIs there a type of law, case, or agreement that I should be searching for? \n\nThank you!","title":"Is there a name for a contract or clause that says an employee cannot sabotage or delete data as retaliation?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1503278978,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uzqyu\/wrongful_termination_iowa\/","id":"6uzqyu","body":"I was terminated from ryder truck rental and leasing in Des Moines Iowa. I applied for unemployment and Ryder appealed it. I had the appeal over the phone and administrative law judge ruled. \n\"On April 28, 2016, employer terminated claimant's employment for violating it's policy regarding use of cellphones on the shop floor and during company time.\"\n\"May 13, 2016 (reference 01) unemployment insurance decision affirmed. Claimant was separated for no disqualifying reason. Claimant is eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits, provided claimant meets all over eligibility requirements.\"\n\"At the onset, it should be noted that while employer's policy prohibits use of cellphones on the warehouse floor, it does not notify employees they are terminated immediately in all cases for violating the policy. Furthermore, a determination as to whether an employee's act is misconduct does not rest  solely on the interpretation of application of the employer's policy or rule. A violation is not necessarily disqualifying misconduct even if the employer was fully within its rights to assess points or impose discipline up to or including discharge for the incident under its policy.\nThe conduct for which claimant was discharged was merely a isolated incident of poor judgement. Inasmuch as employer had not previously warned claimant about the issue leading to the separation., it has not met the burden of proof to establish the claimant acted deliberately or with recurrent negligence in violation of company policy, procedure, or prior warning. An employee is entitled to fair warning that the employer will no longer tolerate certain performance and conduct. without fair warning, an employee has not reasonable way of knowing that there are changes that need be made in order to preserve the employment. if an employer expects an employee to conform to certain expectations or face discharge. appropriate (preferably written), detailed, and reasonable notice should be given. Training or general notice to staff about a policy is not considered a disciplinary warning. \nBecause claimant is qualified to receive benefits, the issues regarding overpayment are moot and will not be discussed further.\"\n\nSo the question i am asking is i able to receive any financial compensation due to my wrongful termination?","title":"Wrongful termination Iowa","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443575716,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mwq17\/landlord_wont_let_me_terminate_my_month_to_month\/","id":"3mwq17","body":"Hi Reddit, sorry for the incoming wall of text. \n\nBack in April when it was time to renew my lease my company was going through layoffs.  I had been planning on moving out anyway, and I wasn't sure about my job, so I decided to go on a month to month lease.  When I talked to the leasing agent about it, she told me the terms: I would pay an extra $100 a month premium, I had to give 60 days notice, and I had to give notice of my plan to vacate by October 31, otherwise I would not be able to from November 1st through January 31st.  My job ended up being fine, and I decided to take the extra months to find a better apartment.  \n\nI finally found a place, and gave my apartment complex notice on September 16th that I planned on leaving mid November, as my new lease started on November 1st.  I was told that the paper I signed and agreed to stated that I had to move out by October 31st, not give notice.  As such I would not be able to move out after November 1st as I planned.  I immediately called the leasing office asking for her to contact the corporate office and see if anything could be done, as her wording had been vague.  She said that the paper I signed stated that I was incorrect, and that I could not move out after October 31st.  A week and a half later I received an email saying that they would not change the rules for me, but attached the Lease Re-Rental form.  \n\nI thought it was pretty crappy that they told me they are unable to rent apartments during the winter, but are willing to take a half month's rent plus a $150 fee for finding a new tenant, on top of me continuing to pay the rent on the apartment until they do find someone.  Or I manage to find someone to take it over I still have to pay the $150 fee.  But I'm trying to keep a good attitude about this.  \n\nHere's the kicker though, the Lease Extension Agreement form they are holding me to is not in the their offices.  It's sitting right next to me.  They left it taped to my front door with instructions to sign and return it, but I completely forgot to do so.  So technically I never agreed to these terms?  I have been paying the extra premium on the lease though.  \n\nI have every intention of moving out next month.  I don't want my credit score trashed though, and I can't afford to pay the lease until they get around to finding someone.  Also I live in Pennsylvania.   \n\nTL;DR: my landlord is holding me to a lease agreement I technically never signed?  Am I fucked?","title":"Landlord won't let me terminate my month to month lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409607342,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f79bt\/landlord_has_not_returned_security_deposit_and\/","id":"2f79bt","body":"Location is St. Louis County, Missouri.  Lease ended on July 31st of this year, landlord knew since May we were not renewing.  On July 29th, we emailed the landlord to inform him we were completely moved out, and would like to schedule a time with him to do a walk-through inspection as soon as possible.  He called my husband the next day, stating that he was out of town and would have someone else do the walk-through, and would let us know when the person was available.\n\nWe heard nothing more, so we emailed him again on August 14 to ask when we could do a walk-through.  No response.\n\nEmailed him again on August 29th, including our forwarding address (which he already had, but just in case I sent it again) and asking if he would prefer to mail the deposit to us.  No response.\n\nI found the following info: \n\nhttp:\/\/www.thelpa.com\/Missouri-Landlord-Tenant-Law-booklet.pdf (see pages 13-14)\n\nWhat is the best course of action from here? I'm not sure I really want to initiate some small claims case at this point.  I could write him a formal letter myself, have an attorney write him a formal letter, or I could go in person to his office and request the deposit.  I'd prefer to do the last one (at least I'm guaranteed some response if I see his face rather than nothing), but not sure if that's wise.  I'm also not sure if I should request only the deposit amount or exercise what seems to be my right (?) to double the deposit if more than 30 days have passed.  I don't want this to be hostile, but I also don't want to get screwed.\n\nSince it's been more than 30 days, did he forfeit any of his rights to inspect the property and deduct for any damages?  If not, and he inspects the property and starts getting picky about minor damage, then can I use the \"I can sue you for double the deposit\" threat? ","title":"Landlord has not returned security deposit and won't respond to emails [MO]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555693961,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf1n8j\/tx_abusive_ex_hasnt_completed_mediation\/","id":"bf1n8j","body":"I divorced my ex-husband several years ago. About a year later, he was arrested for harassment, as he spent months sending me threatening and harassing texts and emails. During the harassment case proceedings, which took almost a year to complete, he was not allowed contact with me, which affected our visitation agreement. \n\nPer my current attorney\u2019s recommendation, I filed for a TRO on behalf of the kids until we could work out how visitation would be handled moving forward. We held a mediation in which he agreed to take several actions in order to reinstate his visitation rights, none of which were unreasonable and most of which I agreed to pay for. \n\nHe did exactly zero of these things and as such has done nothing to move toward visitation. Since then he has also been brought to court twice for non-payment of child support, but he has been paying this mostly on time for the last six months. \n\nIt\u2019s been three years since the mediation. I\u2019ve remarried since the divorce and my kids call their stepdad \u201cdad\u201d. They have all, unprompted, asked him if he can adopt them. Furthermore, I am locked into a geographic restriction until my youngest is 18 (another 11 years), which has more than once been a barrier to career growth for both myself and my husband. \n\nMy attorney\u2019s advice is to let it sit. For now, he can\u2019t see them and clearly has no intention to hold up his end of the agreed upon mediation outcome. \n\nHe was terribly abusive towards all four of us, but his attorney at the time managed to keep the evidence I had out of court during the divorce proceedings, which was incredibly frustrating. This evidence included audio recordings I made of him verbally berating me and the kids, hospital records, and his psychological evaluation which was not favorable for his case. (Since my lawyer at the time absolutely dropped the ball on this point, I fired him and am now working with another one who has a stronger grasp on this situation and how to protect me.) Ex has, for your awareness, been \u201cfired\u201d by two different attorneys himself, one stating to my current lawyer that \u201che is crazy, and I\u2019ve done this too long to be lied to by my clients.\u201d\n\nI have been diagnosed with PTSD from the marriage and am in therapy. All three of my children are also in therapy and their therapists are prepared to give statements that the children are happier and healthier now than they were when they were in their father\u2019s part time care. \n\nThe reason I post this now is that my ex has been posting some very concerning and frightening (and public) statements on twitter and Facebook about me, including vague (but not direct) threats and ranting about things I did not do but that paint me as deeply immoral or a criminal. He does not use my name, but does use his, and it would not be difficult for anyone, including my children, to find them. \n\nI would like to be able to move on with my life, and while I think my attorney\u2019s advice is sound, I am curious if an abandonment case could be brought, since it has been on him for three years to do what he needs to do for reinstatement of visitation rights. \n\nTl;dr: Abusive ex had visitation temporarily restricted after harassment charges. He agreed to complete a few tasks to reinstate visitation, the bulk of which I agreed to pay for. He has not done these things, but continues to spread lies and rumors about me online. I am wondering if there is a case for abandonment.","title":"[TX] Abusive ex hasn\u2019t completed mediation requirements and hasn\u2019t seen kids in years...can I claim abandonment?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508420975,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77ehkr\/some_get_pensions_others_dont\/","id":"77ehkr","body":"I live in AL but work in TN.  I work for a fortune 50 (fifty) company.\n\nI started as a part time hourly employee in 2009, worked 9 months in that role, then transitioned to a full time hourly employee in 2010.  In 2012 I was promoted to a full time salaried manager employee.  Sometime between my original hire date in 2009 and when I was promoted into a management position in 2012, the company stopped offering new to the company salaried managers a pension.  Basically, if you were hired before X date as a manager you are eligible for the pension and if you are hired after X date as a manager you are not eligible.\n\nHourly employees followed the same rule.  At a certain point when new people hired in to the company they did not offer a pension for those people, but the current hourly employees keep their pensions and they still continue to grow under the old guidelines.\n\nOne thing to note is the company did not stop or freeze the pensioned managers pensions, they still are growing.\n\nAlso to note, I have had continuous service with the company and have never broken my employment for any period of time.  \n\nThe reason I am now pursuing this is because the HR person that handled my transition from hourly to salaried manager was later found out to be completely inept in their role and I have personally dealt with some horrible things this person did when they left the company.\n\nDo I have the right to the pension for manager employees?  Who would be an external expert in this type of matter?  I'm not looking to sue or anything like that, as I feel the company will make it right if the right people find out this happened.\n\n","title":"Some get pensions others don't","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555093836,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bch1il\/car_totaled_by_random_debris_on_the_highway_can\/","id":"bch1il","body":"First time poster but, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever needed any legal advice until now.\n\nMy mom was commuting to work two days ago when she spotted something in her lane on the highway. It was too risky to swerve out of the way, so she drove over it. It was a chunk of metal (possibly dropped by some other car a little earlier) and it tore up the whole bottom of her car. Two other cars hit the same debris and my mom took plenty of pictures of her car, the damages, and pictures of the other cars. \n\nThe insurance company decided to give her total loss on her car, but right now she\u2019s using a rent-a-car from the dealership to continue working. We\u2019re basically grasping at straws, but is there anything we can do beyond what has already been done ?","title":"Car totaled by random debris on the highway, can anything else be done ?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445143244,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p70o6\/gf_decided_to_get_a_foster_child_now_bio_mom_is\/","id":"3p70o6","body":"I (22 M) am in a long distance relationship with my GF (22 F) who is in Texas. She runs a home day care and through a long chain of family\/friends she ended up watching a child (15month M) who was then taken by CPS from his bio-mom. The fucked up thing is that bio-mom was also taken by CPS from bio-grandma. Bio-mom is only 17 at this time. the only thing we know as to why they were both taken is that it was drug related. Bio-mom has spent the last few months in the state hospital, but has recently come back to a local rehab center. At the time of her return CPS granted her two, two hour visitations weekly. To say the least the visitations have been horrible for every one. the child will now no longer sleep through the night, does nothing but scream during the visitations, and has started exhibiting unusual behaviors IE: pulling hair, hitting, biting, etc. The last visit he had with bio-mom was about a week ago and was cut short by an hour. were not sure if it was because he, the child, couldn't handle it or bio-mom couldnt handle it. Bio-mom had till april to \"get her shit together\" or the court would take her parental rights. In order for her to have her \"shit together\" she would have to be 1) Sober 2) have a job that could sustain both her and the child 3) have a place to live where every one could pass a drug test. 4) have her GED. There is probably more things but that is the list I can come up with for now. To reiterate she had until April to get all of this done. However things have now changed quite drastically as not only have the visitations stopped but, as we have learned from reliable but not official sources, is because she has attempted to commit suicide and has been moved to a behavioral health hospital. My GF and I are planing on getting married sooner than later however this has thrown a wrench into plans. She wants to adopt him and so do I however I plan on joining the military and will be stationed anywhere in the world when she cant leave her current county with out permission. I know i'm going to have to wait to marry her till after she adopts him or has to give him back to the state. Given that we hope it WILL happen. How long till it COULD happen? Also what are the chances of everything going according to the way we want it to? \nI apologize that this was a long and probably confusing post, if you have any further questions, i'm more than willing to answer them.","title":"GF decided to get a foster child, now bio mom is having issues and not quite sure how the whole legal process for child custody goes.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571110470,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di21d7\/fl_school_wont_let_sister_back_without_her\/","id":"di21d7","body":"My family has a history of seizures. Due to this, we can\u2019t have that one vaccine. Her school knows she can\u2019t have it medically but won\u2019t back down. It\u2019s a public florida school.","title":"[FL] School won\u2019t let sister back without her getting a pertussis vaccine (whooping cough). She can\u2019t have it due to medical reasons. They\u2019ll kick her out if she doesn\u2019t","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555176205,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcsull\/pennsylvania_can_anyone_tell_me_what_laws_worker\/","id":"bcsull","body":"WC company operates out of a different state. Meaning their main office of operations isn\u2019t in Pa, but company that pays them is in Pa. \n\nI\u2019m specifically looking for information in regards to the WC company paying someone weekly for many weeks then,  without notice, just stopping to pay the injured worker. (Even though the injured worker had a lawyer). \n\nWC company has done this twice already leaving injured worker on the brink of losing everything. \n\nFrom what the lawyer has said, they said a WC company (regardless of where they are based out of) who is paying a worker in Pa, must give notice to the workers lawyer and to the worker in order to just stop sending the weekly payments. \n\nIve researched and looked up the pa law code lawyer gave worker and lawyer was correct on this BUT then why does the WC company repeatedly do this? \n\nWhat I can\u2019t seem to get a straight answer on (to give to the worker) is why the WC company keeps doing this every few weeks and what can be done to remedy the repeated occurrences. \n\n\n\nThank you","title":"(Pennsylvania) Can anyone tell me what laws worker compensation company\u2019s must abide by in Pa?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554247924,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8qliz\/mechanic_backed_into_my_car_and_caused_damage_to\/","id":"b8qliz","body":"Title says it all. \n\nI pulled into the garage driveway to park my car, a mechanic who works there backed into me with someone else\u2019s car and caused some major damage on my passenger rear door. I was late to work after this and had to call an uber. \nMechanic also immediately dropped multiple F-bombs at me and was yelling, so that\u2019s cool. Did not call the police as I did not think it was a big deal at the time (mistake, I know). \n\nI got the insurance information of the person who owns the car, but not the garage\u2019s information yet. They keep side-tracking me and will not hand it over, though I have asked multiple times. \nThey currently have my car in for repairs (check engine light). \n\nWhat can I do about this situation, besides file a claim? ","title":"Mechanic backed into my car and caused damage to it, what are my options if any?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570762884,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg91li\/promoted_4_months_ago_with_no_raise_nj\/","id":"dg91li","body":"Hi, all! Throwaway account because I talk a lot about my job on my main account. \n\nI've been a cook at a small restaurant chain for five years and after I graduated this past May, finally took a promotion to shift lead. It's a step below assistant, like a mini manager. I took it specifically because this is my career and I needed to be making more money. \n\nAfter I finished training, my manager sat me down and told me that I already make a little more money than the average cook, so they wouldn't be giving me a raise immediately. They said they wanted me to train someone below me really well, so I could trust them while I did manager stuff. Then I would get my raise. Okay. \n\n4 months later and I finally see a raise in my paycheck. 25 cents. I brought it up to my manager, who was shocked. She said that she had told my district manager (her boss) specifically not to give me a raise until she said so. So while I was offended at working more hours and having more responsibility for a measly 25 cents, she was offended he had \"gone against\" her and given me anything at all.\nApparently I wasn't supposed to have any raise at all.\n\nI guess my question is: how long would she had been able to keep me working as a manager without a raise? I know NJ is an at will state, so I've always felt that the answer to any work problem is usually \"tough, they'll just fire you.\" Was it even okay that I worked for 4 months without anything at all? I was out of training in June, I've been a full fledged manager for 4 months now. I'm just curious if I'm owed that extra 25 cents on my wages from this summer. I'd probably never go after them, tbh, but I'd like to know if I could. Thanks for your time !","title":"Promoted 4 months ago, with no raise? NJ","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568994727,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6wv25\/can_a_landlord_make_a_charge_if_its_not_in_the\/","id":"d6wv25","body":"I recently transferred from one unit in my complex after my lease expired into a new unit. When I went to pay rent this month there was a $200 transfer fee. When I asked where it was in the lease I received back \"This charge is not in the lease, and was communicated with residents by the leasing manager\". I do not recall ever being told about this fee and am wondering if this is something that they can force me to pay.","title":"Can a landlord make a charge if its not in the lease?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539434466,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ntgw5\/ia_3_day_notice\/","id":"9ntgw5","body":"Ill try to make this short.  Recently my family had the opportunity to move from an apartment to a house. Without going into detail, very very necessary that we move out. Not currently in any lease agreement with old apt.\n\nLast week on thursday(4th) my girlfriend met someone who had a house for rent at the same price as our apt. And said, after the application that we'd be sure to pass, that we could move in on monday(8th) and pay first months rent in november and that theyd work with us on deposit. To be honest we have heard the song and dance of \"you for sure will get accepted\" only to be turned away. So I wasnt really expecting an actually to good to be true situation. Well we were accepted and as of Tuesday been moving stuff in(they ended up have to do last minute touches of the place). \n\nNow the gist of main question. We had a payment plan agreement (not written) with our past landlord since we had a money problem in september but we'd be caught back up in the beginning of november.  Well when application process for unexpected to good to be true housing called for reference landlord messaged \"so you guys are moving out\", to that we didnt reply. We have paid $210 at the beginning of the month. As agreed. And hadnt paid the next portion which was agreed to be at the end of the month. Well on thursday(11th) while moving noticed we had a 3 day notice on the door. I know we dont have to have everything out by the 3rd day. But if we are to have everything out today (13th) are we going to have an eviction on record? And are we able to use most of today to get the rest of the stuff out? ","title":"(IA) 3 day notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551804069,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axn61w\/broken_lease_and_shady_property_managers\/","id":"axn61w","body":"# Summary\n\nI broke my lease last fall. I signed a document from my property manager\u2019s office saying that they could market the apartment before I vacated, but after I left they didn\u2019t seem to be doing that. Multiple website listings for the unit contained incorrect information, and no number of emails seemed to get them to change it, let alone even respond. I had people call looking for units that were similar to mine and and they were not told it was available. \n\nI stopped paying the rent after a few months of silence from them with no evidence that it was being advertised as an available rental. They continued to have incorrect web listings for the unit and to not recommend the unit over the phone for another month and a half until it suddenly had showings scheduled for the first time in four months of vacancy.\n\nNow, they want me to sign a document which changes the lease to have ended in the past and charges me $500 for the change.\n\n(For context, I live in Wisconsin).\n\n\n# Questions\n\n- Is this even legal to sign? \n- I\u2019m under the impression they don\u2019t have the right to charge me for a lease change. Is that true?\n- Can they change my lease to have ended in the past? \n- Does the fact that they seem to have found a tenant (or are claiming they have to release me) negate the leverage I feel like I had for not paying the rent regarding the evidence that they weren\u2019t mitigating damages? \n- Do I have a reasonable amount of evidence to suggest they were not properly mitigating damages, or am I just fooling myself? (This is probably more easily answered if you read the full context)\n- Is there any way I\u2019m likely to get out of this without paying the unpaid rent and\/or that $500 lease change charge without trashing my credit or some other horrific legal\/financial consequence? \n- What happens if I don\u2019t sign this? Can they still rent it to the new tenant? I\u2019ve dawdled on it for close to a week now, past the start of a new month, and no one has reached out.\n\n\n# Full context (if you feel like reading)\n\nI live in Wisconsin. Early last fall, I broke my lease because I bought a house. I had been told when I moved into my apartment that when tenants buy houses, they are let out of their leases. When I brought this up after finding the house, the staff told me that I needed to have signed some lease addendum I was never informed about, that they can\u2019t add after the initial lease signing, and even if I had signed it, they only honor this with a few months of notice during the summer. Great.\n\nShortly before I closed and officially vacated, I signed a document that said they should market the unit and that if they found a tenant, my lease and therefore my responsibilities to the apartment complex\/unit would end (as opposed to subletting where I\u2019m still on the hook). This document did mention that I\u2019d be charged $500 for this, but they never charged me at the time so I didn\u2019t think too much about it. I\u2019d pay rent until it was filled, of course. I figured this wouldn\u2019t be too long since it\u2019s a nice place in a popular location. \n\nAbout a month after I\u2019d vacated, I looked up the unit online to link it to a friend of a friend looking for a place. My unit, while listed on their website and other apartment advertising websites, had totally wrong information regarding the square footage and floor plan. I sent the staff an email informing them of the incorrect listings and asked them to fix it. They never replied and nothing changed. \n\nA week or two later, I checked back and realized that the availability dates were actually wrong too across all the website listings. They were showing it as available after my lease would have ended in the summer. Really great. I emailed again, told them about the mistake and asked them to fix it. They never replied and nothing changed. \n\nI emailed once or twice more after this point and they never got back to me. I asked my dad to call pretending to be a prospective tenant looking for a place that fit my unit\u2019s description and he was told by their staff that the only units available now are the \u201ctwo on their website.\u201d There were only two units actually listed as \u201cavailable now\u201d on their site, and mine was not one of them. Super great.\n\nAfter it\u2019d been about two months since I\u2019d vacated, I wrote a letter telling them that I know they are not properly renting my place (I reiterated all my past email points about the incorrect listings and not telling prospective tenants my unit was available), and explaining that I won\u2019t be paying any more rent for the unit. With the letter, I packaged printed copies of all the previous emails, the unit keys and garage opener (they told me I could keep the keys until it was rented, otherwise I would have returned them earlier) and dropped it all off in their office mailbox. No one reached out.\n\nEventually, I got a rent delinquency warning email from the central office of my property management company, not the actual building staff I\u2019ve been trying to talk to. Since they had no context, I assumed, I replied explaining the situation again. For the first time in months, someone from my building actually replied, telling me they are definitely renting my unit because my unit is on their internal vacancy list and that they would talk to their marketing person about getting my unit listed on the website. \n\nNone of that made sense to me, so I replied back questioning why her staff are using the website as availability reference (as they did on the phone with my dad) if they have an internal list, and asking to clarify what website she is talking about, as it is already listed on their website, albeit incorrectly. A few days go by and then I got a short email from the same staff member which addressed none of my questions, telling me essentially to be patient and that I could try advertising the unit myself. She also repeated that she would speak to the marketing director. \n\nNothing changed on any website listing. The only emails I got from them for a close to two months were reminders to pay my rent\/utilities. I ignored them.\n\nAfter a number of weeks, I checked the website again to find that something had in fact changed. Nothing had been corrected, but the availability date for my unit was now a day later than before. That seemed like an odd adjustment to me... Now, I was worried they were purposely trying to rent my unit for the summer. I had a family friend call looking for apartments, and this time they were only told about units in a different affiliated building down the street.\n\nShortly after and out of the blue, I got two emails in one week from the office staff, notifying me of multiple showings for the unit. This was the first time I\u2019m aware of that my unit has been shown in 4 months of it sitting empty and 5+ months of them knowing it would be available. I didn\u2019t think too much about the showings, but then I realized I could ask when the interested parties were looking to move in, to try and confirm my suspicions that they were renting it for after end of my lease (which was a little more than 3 months away at that point).\n\nI sent an email asking about their intended move-in dates and just after it left my outbox, I got a different email from the office staff telling me the showing went well and that they\u2019ll know more next week. I quickly replied asking the same question in that chain directly. I got no response to either email. I asked again a few days later. And again the day after that. \n\nFinally, they replied last week to my fourth email telling me they were sorry for the delay, but they needed some signatures in place before they could reply. They sent me a document they wanted me to sign. \n\nIt\u2019s a lease addendum template that contains many sections of possible lease changes that could be made where you check which ones are being done and fill out the details for that section. The lease date change section is checked and filled out to change the date to have ended a few days in the past. A rent change section is filled out with an incorrect starting rent amount that they are reducing a bit due to a few days from February being removed from lease, however the section is not checked. It also states I will be charged $500 for changing the lease.\n","title":"Broken lease and shady property managers","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553157037,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3o1yu\/traffic_citation\/","id":"b3o1yu","body":"I just received my first traffic citation tonight for speeding. I have a clean driving record, I have never received a citation (let alone been pulled over while I was the one driving). I just want to point out I am not fighting the reason i was pulled over. The officer said I was going 10 miles over the speed limit, but it was actually 5. I was very nervous during it all and everyone has always told me do not argue with a cop especially for something minor. i admit that was a valid reason to be pulled over. I could tell the officer definitely was new; he was nervous, shaking stuttering. I turned my car off, turned my dash lights on placed my hands on the steering wheel. I\u2019m a young woman, fairly small I posed no threat or gave him a reason to be uneasy. Even when he returned with my license he didn\u2019t really know how to explain the citation, didn\u2019t give me any further explanation other than my court date and the address of the courthouse. He was stuttering and shaking so much he almost dropped my license, and didn\u2019t know what to say as he left. That\u2019s all besides the point but his behavior led me to think either he didn\u2019t know what he is fairly new and didn\u2019t really have much experience in what he was doing yet, and that this ticket was a bit of a reach. \nAgain, I don\u2019t want to fight that the police officer was wrong and i didn\u2019t deserve a citation, I thought maybe the full story would help a little more. \nI just wanted to get further clarification on what is to come possibly from someone who has gotten a first time speeding citation as well. Should I expect anything else in the mail? Do I just wait for my court date? Does this go on my record? Is there anyway of removing it if it does? Thanks in advanced! ","title":"Traffic Citation","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554135600,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b84j8i\/chances_of_getting_speeding_ticket_reduced_ruined\/","id":"b84j8i","body":"Some background:\n\nDecember 18th I was coming back from a concert in a different state. I was going a reasonable speed the whole way except for when I got stuck between two tractor trailer trucks. Large truck are notorious for not seeing small cars such as my own late at night. So I went into the third lane and attempted to pass them for my piece of mind. I miss calculated how fast I would need to go in order to get around them as they were already exceeding the speed limit. Anyway I got a ticket my first ticket for speeding at 19, a pretty hefty one 400$. \n\nMy mom had me plead not guilty and a month or two ago they provided a sheet of paper and asked if there was any additional information we\u2019d like to provide. We provided a (better) written copy of that story along with my scholarships to my school and information along the line that an expensive ticket like that would burden me financially. \n\nFast forward to February I got another ticket during the day for the identical reason, but this time only 100$. This was after almost being hit by a rubber-necking tractor trailer driver in the morning. I explained to the officer what had happened earlier in the day and he took pity only giving me a failure to obey the speed limit, 100$ rather than an expensive ticket. I decided not to inform my mom of another ticket and paid this one on my own figuring there was no way to fight this one anyway. \n\nDid I ruin my chances of getting the first ticket reduced by getting another one? Will they see it in court and bring it up? ","title":"Chances of getting speeding ticket reduced ruined?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554594638,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baai3b\/landlord_is_threatened_to_increase_rent_in_my\/","id":"baai3b","body":"I know there are laws regarding things like this so I\u2019d like to specify that she lives in South Florida. My aunt was telling us that another family wants to move in and wants the exact apartment that they live in. One of the guys the tenant hires to manage the complexes told my aunt the other day that they plan to increase rent in their apartment until they move out so they can give it to another family. Is it possible she can take legal action against this? Just to specify this is after a change of management and the new management plans to make multiple upgrades to the apartment.","title":"Landlord is threatened to increase rent in my aunts apartment until they move out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444316220,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nz92v\/utah_have_a_hoarder_tenant_but_never_a_formal\/","id":"3nz92v","body":"My wife and I have a mother-in-law's apartment which we rent out, but we've never had a formal agreement and may not even be zoned for subletting, so obviously those were mistakes on our part. She's lived there without issues for a couple years.\n\nRecently in the past 6 months or so, she's not spent any time here, instead living with her boyfriend, and she's been late with her rent so we've had to hassle her to make payment each month and we've become fed up with it.\n\nWe decided we wanted to get a new renter so we checked downstairs to see what condition it's in, and while we knew she was messy and even knew she was an alcoholic, the level of hoarding wasn't something we were prepared for. Hundreds, maybe even a thousand, empty beer cans, clothes everywhere, even a couple of used maxi pads. Clothes, towels, dishes and a few other things of ours that she took without notice, strewn everywhere.\n\nThe worst is the bathroom where we discovered there was a plumbing issue causing a bowling ball sized hole in the ceiling. There's likely mold and the whole bathroom will need to be remodeled.\n\nMy questions are:\n\n1) since there was never a contract, do I have to give a certain amount of notice before kicking her out?\n\n2) we intend to give her a chance to get her belongings. How much time do we need to proceed?\n\n3) Is there a way for us to hold her responsible for the damages? I've already taken pictures and video of the current condition and will keep receipts from plumbers, contractors etc.\n\n4) Is there anything I need to be careful of to make sure legal action can't be taken against us? She has no money (we've received default notices from payday loan places recently) but she has police in her family.\n\n5) This is probably a terrible idea, but I really want to give her a deadline to get it taken care of, otherwise I would post the pictures to facebook where we have many friends in common. Is there a way to do this safely? ","title":"[utah] Have a hoarder tenant but never a formal contract, what are my options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569184001,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7w0s3\/can_my_short_marriage_be_annulled_what_are_the\/","id":"d7w0s3","body":"Hello everyone! Thank you to anyone who reads this. I need help\/legal advice. \n\nSo, I got married on August 2nd 2019 and communicated separation from my husband on August 23rd 2019. I caught him cheating. In all honesty I did not want to get married to him but he kept forcing me to do it telling me I owed him a marriage and a child. I gave in and married him thinking he would change. I realized he never will which is why I separated from him. Our marriage is a short one and I want to get an annulment. We have no children. We don\u2019t own any property together. I had my own debt before we got married and he had his own as well (and I believe it is payed off already). I have no evidence to the emotional abuse he\u2019s caused me. He\u2019s done all of that verbally to me. What are the chances the judge will give me an annulment? I want to try this option before I do a divorce.  Any advice is greatly appreciated.","title":"Can my short marriage be annulled? What are the high chances?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553313105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4el7b\/looking_for_advice_on_buying_an_out_of_state\/","id":"b4el7b","body":"Here\u2019s what I am doing:\n\n-Going to seller\u2019s home in nearby state w\/Mechanic\n\n-Complete BOS w\/ Notary present\n\n-Hand over check from bank\n\n-Have the seller mail me a physical copy of the digital title from their bank within 90 days\n\n-Register vehicle in my state with title and BOS present\n\n-DMV will pass title to bank once I report it has a lien\n\n\nHow safe am I if seller fails to send me title? Will a BOS ensure the return of my loan in a court of law? \n\nI understand at that point I will receive no help from the bank, and only from a court of law. \n\nSorry if this is the wrong subreddit for this. Thank you everyone.\n\nAlso, should I use a BOS from the state I am registering the vehicle in, or the state I am buying it from? ","title":"Looking for advice on buying an out of state vehicle that has a lien, with my loan. Looking for holes in my logic.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568917786,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6i6dk\/had_2_incidents_happen_at_work_sexual_harassment\/","id":"d6i6dk","body":"So I was out on comp for 2 surgeries for a year, went back in July, a month back and a coworker that always made me uncomfortable came up to chat for a minute and while joking around put his hands around my neck and shook me, a few days later came up behind me while I was bent over and smacked my butt..... I've worked there for 9 years and not one to typically put up with a whole lot from the guys there (factory setting, and mostly all men) these 2 incidents were caught on camera. I was pissed off and uncomfortable enough to finally say something, nothing was done essentially. I started to suffer from major anxiety and panic attacks to the point I was starting to miss work which I got a write up for, I explained what had been going on health wise I even had to be sent home twice because it got so bad, HR told me I had to come back with a note from the hospital... which I reluctantly did since I hate hospitals. Got a dr appointment as well. I pleaded with my supervisor, HR, and the owner to move me back to my old dept so I wouldn't have to come into contact with that individual and they never did, I ended up completely snapping at work from the meds I was put on, the stress and constant crippling anxiety and got fired. Is there anything I can do about this?? I'm now a week away from losing my apartment because of all this so now my son and I will end up homeless. And I'm honestly at a complete loss in all senses.","title":"Had 2 incidents happen at work (sexual harassment and basically assault done against me) but now I'm without a job and don't know what I should do or how to go about finding a lawyer for this especially in my area.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507551292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/758nuo\/legally_what_date_is_the_move_out_date\/","id":"758nuo","body":"I know that a landlord has a certain timeframe to get either my deposit back or an itemized list of deductions from my deposit of things they did to the unit.\n\nI sent a letter of my intent to vacate on the 31st of August. Due to my landlords schedule, we had to wait to do a walkthrough on the 8th of September. That is the day I turned my keys over.\n\nLive in Ohio.\n\nWhich date, in legal terms, is my move out date?","title":"Legally, what date is the 'move out' date?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502916817,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u51js\/question_regarding_trademark_rights_georgia\/","id":"6u51js","body":"There is a company that has a trademark on the singular form of the phrase my company would like to trademark. Our logos would not look similar and we don't sell similar products. If we trademark our plural version of the phrase, would we be ok?","title":"Question regarding trademark rights (Georgia)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571040336,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhni05\/disability_discriminationwrongful_termination\/","id":"dhni05","body":"Long story short, my case has been investigated by the state and the next step is mediation. \n\nIs there a template I can use to calculate damages? I\u2019m still disabled and unemployed after getting wrongfully terminated during protected leave, so I\u2019m not sure how that effects lifetime wages. I\u2019m in California.","title":"Disability discrimination\/wrongful termination headed to mediation: How should I calculate damages?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571139971,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di6q29\/advice_desperately_needed_housing_situation\/","id":"di6q29","body":"This post is about a friend of mine who has given me permission to post this as she is desperately in need of advice. Names have been changed for privacy. \n\nTL;DR: Friend lives with mum who has taken in a random guy, who doesn't pay any rent or bills or contribute in any way, and is making everyone feel constantly uncomfortable in their own home. Wondering if there is anything she can do to alleviate the situation. \n\nShe (Megan, 25f) lives with her fiance (James, 36m), her brother (Jake, 28m) and her mother (Ellen) in her mothers house.\n\nMegan is not currently in a position to move out with James into their own place. \n\nIn August, Ellen went to hospital to visit a friend (Claire), and Claire had a guy (Daniel) living with her. They had met at the hospital, he had been attacked and he had a shoulder injury and she felt bad for him, as he was living on the streets. He had been living with her for a couple of weeks when Ellen went to visit Claire in the hospital. Claire asked Ellen if Daniel could go and live with her instead because she was starting to struggle a little, plus with herself not being well now she couldn't really cope. \n\nSo here is where the problem started. \n\nThis was back in August, and Daniel has been there ever since. At the time, Ellen had said Daniel could stay for a couple of days, a week at most. He has been there 24\/7 ever since. He doesn't pay rent or bills, he doesn't contribute to the household in any way, shape or form. All he does is sit up in his room\/Ellen's bedroom. As a side note, due to the house having 3 bedrooms and Ellen occupying one, Jake another and Megan and James the third, Daniel is sleeping in Ellen's room, in the same bed. They claim it's for convenience (Ellen does have a boyfriend who either does not know or does not care about this situation), but why he couldn't sleep on the sofa or something is beyond me. \n\nHe doesn't contribute to any bills or the rent. Megan and James pay \u00a3450 per month for the rent and bills, Jake pays \u00a3225 per month, all inclusive, however Ellen has\/will not provide them anything itemized showing exactly what things cost and where the money goes. A 3 bedroom house in this area costs about \u00a3550\/\u00a3600 per month to rent, plus they rent from the council so it could be a little cheaper. Daniel receives Universal Credit which can vary in amount depending upon what he is entitled to, however he won't be entitled to the housing element of it as you need to be on a tenancy agreement to receive that, which he is not. Ellen has taken him to the council offices a couple of weeks ago to see what could be done about Daniel's housing situation. The council have said they are happy with Daniel to stay with Ellen while they try to find him somewhere. And that's it. \n\nI have explained to Megan (I used to work for the Civil Legal Advice Service helping people with housing problems) that if he went to the council and declared himself homeless, the council legally have to put him in temporary accommodation (b&b, hotel) for 60 days while they investigate and deem him either intentionally (he jeopardised his living situation (didn't pay his rent for example) and basically it's his own fault he is homeless) or unintentionally (through no fault of his own, landlord was selling up for example) homeless. If he is found to be intentionally homeless, the offer of help will be rescinded and he will be asked to leave the temporary accommodation. If he is found to be unintentionally homeless they will find him a permanent residence, keeping him in temporary accommodation until they do. Ideally, Ellen needs to write a letter saying that she can no longer accommodate Daniel, which he will then take to the council and *should* be deemed unintentionally homeless. However she will not so this. \n\nEllen is very very defensive if either Megan, James or Jake attempt to talk about the situation with her. Since all 3 of them live there permanently and all pay rent\/bills, they have a right to know what's going on with the living situation. Daniel is there all the time. Ellen goes out sometimes to craft clubs etc, and sometimes Daniel goes with her, and sometimes he stays, and although he stays in the bedroom, Megan is expected to 'mind' him. Ellen has also left him there on his own before, when nobody else has been in. I have advised Megan to get a lock for her bedroom door asap, and a lock box for her room to keep valuables in when she isn't there (Ellen takes her things of value when she goes out and leaves Daniel alone, plus he has been taking money and fags out of her bag without asking).\n\nEllen is thoroughly enjoying having someone to 'fix'. I went round a couple of weeks ago (first time for a month or so, so first time I had met Daniel or even heard of him) and he introduced himself (I decided that even though it was a shitty situation and Megan had told me horrible things I would give him the benefit of the doubt) and shook my hand. Shortly after that Ellen, Daniel and Ellen's granddaughter (Bee) took the dog for a walk. This in itself was a bit of an issue as Ellen had not been bothered at all about seeing Bee since Daniel had moved in (Bee has severe autism and struggles with new situations, new people and communication), and Bee asked to go on the walk with Ellen and Daniel. Bees mum wasn't happy about this as she didn't know Daniel and knre that Bee would possibly struggle with being around a new person. All was fine in the end but Ellen did a proper sob story about why Bee should be allowed to go on the walk, putting Bees mum in a horrid position, making her the bad guy if she said no to Bee. When we had dinner (Ellen had done a roast as it was sunday, and there were 8 of us so a lot of food and it was SO good) Ellen offered to CUT UP HIS FOOD FOR HIM, because it his shoulder injury (which hadn't affected him all day). He declined but the looks that went round the table were...yeah. After dinner he went upstairs, claiming he wasn't feeling well. Ellen went out that evening to see her boyfriend and left Daniel in the bedroom, with Megan and Jake expected to mind him while she was gone. \n\nThis is how it is all the time. Since he has been there, Megan has become withdrawn, quieter and edgy\/jittery all the time. This isn't her, she is a very outgoing, chirpy, happy person usually, despite having some mental health issues. She is seriously struggling with these now, due to her feelings about the whole situation being ignored by her mother, and constantly feeling uncomfortable in her own home. She is always on edge. As I said, every time either Megan, James or Jake try to talk to Ellen about it she gets defensive and combative and they back down to save causing trouble. \n\nNoone (not even Ellen) knows about this guys past, however they do know that he has been to prison, for car tax\/insurance fraud. \n\nI just wanted to know if there is anything she, James or Jake can do to maybe help themselves, or alleviate the situation in some way. She is really really struggling, and although I have given her all the advice I can, she feels as though her hands are tied. \n\nThank you for reading if you got this far, I would appreciate any advice you can give.","title":"Advice desperately needed- housing situation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1412646851,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2iiils\/canada_breach_of_trusttheft\/","id":"2iiils","body":"A friend and former coworker is possibly facing charges including theft from employer which goes hand in hand with breach of trust.\n\nHe worked in a small store retail environment and each employee there knew everyones login information to do transactions on the systems. He guesses that probably 60-70% of the employees there did things with various logins that could fall under the charges as well, however as he has moved on and the shit hit the proverbial fan, of course the fingers are only being pointed in that direction.\n\nPolice have asked him to call them but I told him he should not try to contact them himself and should first contact a lawyer.\n\nHe is stressed to the max so I thought I would reach out and see if I could get some advice to give him in regards to what happens and how serious things are and what might possibly happen. \n\nHe has not contacted a lawyer as of yet but the police have called his family twice, once a couple weeks later and are leaving threats that things will be very bad if he does not contact them.\n\nHe has one previous diversion in his past for shoplifting but other than that, no history or criminal record. \n\nWhat can I tell him?","title":"Canada - breach of trust\/theft","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553964371,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7d9nl\/age_employment_discrimination_for_my_grandmother\/","id":"b7d9nl","body":"My grandmother is 68 years old and a legal immigrant. She is currently working at a retirement home in Missouri. In the recent months, her hours have been cut significantly and given to another worker who has been there one year less than my grandmother. She has had repeated problems with the manager who makes the schedule, and the worker who got the hours has been trying to take jobs that my grandmother has done for a long time. She has not been spoken to about any wrongdoing. Do I have a case to bring to the Dept of Labor in Missouri for age or ethnic discrimination? ","title":"Age Employment Discrimination for my Grandmother","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568485075,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d48ux0\/ohio_i_live_in_a_duplex_thats_uninhabited_on_the\/","id":"d48ux0","body":"As the title says, there is maintenance going on in the opposite side of our duplex that essentially leaves me and my roommates listening to loud banging, music, and yelling typically 10 am to 6 pm every day. The walls are thin and it\u2019s hard to focus on studying or getting anything done due to the fact that they are destroying the ceiling and walls with hammers and drills (this is literally what they\u2019re doing). Is there any legal recourse I have here to prevent them from doing this maintenance until we move out so it doesn\u2019t serve as such a disturbance all the time?  The landlord doesn\u2019t even notify us when the maintenance is going to be done","title":"[Ohio] I live in a duplex that\u2019s uninhabited on the other side and the property management company is doing loud maintenance on the opposite side for a majority of the day","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539868783,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p96zy\/ohio_drove_by_school_bus_as_stop_sign_flipped_out\/","id":"9p96zy","body":"I\u2019m 17 and last week I was coming up to a school bus in the opposite direction, once I got close, the yellow flashers came on. I didn\u2019t have time to stop and if I did I would\u2019ve been in the way of kids getting out and crossing the street. I tried to make it through and as I was side by side with the bus, the sign flipped out and the driver honked at me. There was an officer a little bit down the street and had a clear view of what happened. He didn\u2019t pull me over so I thought I was fine or he didn\u2019t notice. The bus camera took a picture of my license and now the police are trying to get in contact with me. What are the possible consequences for this? Did I make it through? Could I be issued a citation even after explaining my point of view (I can\u2019t lie to them since they have a picture). Looking for any feedback thanks.","title":"(Ohio) drove by school bus as stop sign flipped out","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570236690,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddgcx8\/whats_a_good_way_to_respond\/","id":"ddgcx8","body":"\ufffc\n\n\ufffc\n\nDivorce and Custody\n\n\u00a0\n\nWhat is a good way to respond?\n\n\n\nSo my ex got served with paternity papers this week. I haven't been letting him pick up my son for the past 2 weeks because he sent some messages threatning me because he thinks I have a boyfriend (I don't) . He had been saying I was going to regret what uw as doing to him that it was the biggest mistake of my life. Although he has never been physically abusive , it still worries me that he might take my son and not return him to me. That being said, now that he knows that I have opened a court case he sends me a text saying \"can i go pick up my son tomorrow? If not can you send me an email at \"\" explaining why not and the reason I was not told in advance until now that I am asking\"\n\nI'm not sure how to respond to that in an email. Any advice is appreciated.","title":"What's a good way to respond?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506061967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71p8wo\/doesnt_there_have_to_be_some_kind_of_cleaning\/","id":"71p8wo","body":"So I work at a restaurant in NYC it's a pretty formal place with restaurant supplied formal jackets that they charged me $25 dollars for. Which I get back when I turn the jacket in when I leave the company, supposedly. Now I have worked jobs like that before and I was under the impression that there had to be some kind of cleaning stipend by law since you are taking care of the uniform yourself and not the company. Does anyone know if that is true\/ have more info?","title":"Doesn't there have to be some kind of cleaning stipend?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569975697,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc2ijr\/just_trying_to_get_my_stuff_back\/","id":"dc2ijr","body":"Some background first. I recently came home from active duty military. When I came home\nMy parents offered to let me stay at their house rent free and their condition was I went to school which I was planning on doing anyway. I still helped out around the house since I didn\u2019t want to be a free loader. After awhile I realized my mom was just entirely to controlling and I planned to move out. I informed them of my decision but I didn\u2019t really give them any more info because my mom had a specific plan for me hat my first residence was supposed to be like and I was not doing anything close to what she wanted. I picked a place and payed the down payment and signed the lease papers. That same day my mom contacted me saying she wanted to be a part alit the process and said some very insulting things about my girlfriend basically calling her a freeloader who was trying to just get pregnant by me and to not have her sign ang of the paperwork with me( my girlfriend had a degree and makes more money than me btw). I asked her not to say these things about her and finally told her it\u2019s too late the paperwork was signed. The move in date for the new apt was a month later however. I got home that night to find all the doors locked. I knocked and got no reply for over 10 minutes. I assumed no one was home and I went in through a window. Turns out they were home and were just ignoring me knocking. An argument ensued about me coming in the window and my mom said she needed my schedule so they could leave the door unlocked when I needed to be home. I thought it was ridiculous but I was moving in one month so I gave her the schedule and left it at that. I called the next day when I was headed home and I was told they wouldn\u2019t be home when I was there so I had to arrange to come by later. Now I was working 2 jobs and going to school at the time so if I didn\u2019t go home then the next time I would be able to would be the next day. When I told my mom this she replied that I would be fine. I didn\u2019t want to go back to school\/work wearing the same clothes and unshowered so I called my workplace told them I was going to be late and I asked my brother to come over and help me figure out what was going on. When we went in the house my mom refused to address the problem and my dad wouldn\u2019t even come downstairs. He finally came down to yell about how he was tired of us disrespecting my mother and when I tried to ask what he meant he said he was talking and I could talk afterward. When he was done however he just left and went upstairs. My brother told me it was pointless and that we should just leave. I figured there was slim to no chance they would open the door for me until they calmed down so I went upstairs to grab some clothes. While I was upstairs I saw my dad vacuuming and I told him he said I\u2019d have a chance talk so why didn\u2019t I get a chance? He just kept yelling at me to leave. My brother eventually came upstairs with my mother and he told me just leave just leave so we left. I heard nothing from them for a week and every time I went over all the doors were locked with no reply. At this point I went it henpolice because all my stuff was there and it was my legal address. The police told me my parents had both taken out orders of prelotextion against me. They told the judge I came in and demanded they talk to me and that I had said some nasty things to my mother and pinned my dad against the wall during this confrontation. I was prepared to defend myself since my brother had been present during this whole thing and could cop irate that none of it had happened but when we got to court and the judge offered a dismissal in contemplation my parents seemed to want that option so I said I\u2019d go along with it. Afterward I attempted to contact them to get my stuff from the house and they ignored my attempts for a month straight. Family court said they couldn\u2019t help because I was over 18 and when I went to ask about a landlord tenant situation I was told it didn\u2019t apply because I wasn\u2019t paying rent. The police told me they couldn\u2019t escort me there because of the history there. They\u2019ve now told me they\u2019ve moved my stuff to a storage unit and are demanding I pay them movement fees and storage fees otherwise my stuff will be put up for auction. This includes my military uniforms and documents (I\u2019m still in the national guard) . I\u2019m wondering if any of this was legal. They basically lied to get an order of protection and had me removed from my legal residence effectively making\nMe homeless for a month and they\u2019re now holding my stuff including personal information hostage. Is there anything I can do here besides just paying them?","title":"Just trying to get my stuff back","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540501914,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9red62\/i_have_never_seen_or_had_access_to_my_deceased\/","id":"9red62","body":"My mother passed away 5 years ago from cancer. Before she died, she told me there was money stashed away for my brother and I and where to find it. I looked for it but I couldn\u2019t find anything. When I brought it up to my dad, he denied everything and said that my mom was delisional before she died and there was no money. I know there was because my aunt also told me my mom told her about it. \n\nAfter talking to my brother about this recently, I realized I have never seen my mom\u2019s will. I never asked my dad for it but I do know that my brother and I are on the will signed by her and my dad to inherit the house should he pass away. Is there a way I could get her will without having to go through my dad? ","title":"I have never seen or had access to my deceased mother\u2019s will [Ohio]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1441677495,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k1ino\/xpost_i_have_been_dating_a_girl_who_has_a_kid_for\/","id":"3k1ino","body":"Me and my girlfriend Emma have been together for 4 years. She came into the relationship with a 3 year old daughter Bree. I love Bree with all my heart. When I met Emma she was using drugs but stopped when we became serious (or so I thought.) Shortly after we met Bree and Emma moved in with me and my family and eventually we got our own place together. \n\n\nI loved Emma and have been very involved in Brees life. They literally don't have any other family. Brees dad is a drug addict and Emma's parents are dead and didn't have any siblings. Bree calls me dad. I work full time to support them. I am in shock right now. But I found needles in our bathroom and subtly checked Enmas arms and she has marks that look like she has been shooting up.\n\n\nEmma has recently got a \"job\" at a bar so I have been watching Bree at night, most nights. I don't think this job exists and when she goes to \" work\" tonight I am going to call and ask for her.\n\n\nI snooped threw Emmas phone to try and find out how long she has been using. I found evidence that she is still sleeping with Brees dad and that she probably never stopped.. Brees dad is in his 30s and has been in and out of jail.. Typical scum bag piece of shit meth head. Emma told me they broke up because he beat her when she was pregnant. \n\n\nEmma doesn't know I know. I plan on keeping it that way. I spoke to Bree secretly ans asked her if Emma was acting weird. She said that Emma had been spending lots of time in the bathroom and has been really tired from her new job.\n\n\nI think I have been watching Bree while this bitch goes and fucks that scum bag and gets high. I love Bree. I love Bree. I love Bree. I want custody. I want this bitch out of my life, but I want Bree. I am the closest thing to a decent parent she has in her life. I make enough money to support both of us. I have lots of family and support. I Would never hurt her.. I don't trust her biological dad and her drug addict mom not to hurt her.\n\n\nI can't believe I didn't notice that Emma was running around on me and using drugs. I have had other issues with her (crazy moods, hitting, tantrums, being mean to Bree) but stayed for Bree. But I can't stay with her after this. I could go into it more.. But honestly Emma is a piece of shit, I wouldn't have stayed this long if not for Bree. I refuse to leave Bree.\n\n\nI am stuck. Could I leave the country with Bree and go live with my sister in Europe and not tell Emma where we have gone? Could I get proof of what a piece of shit Emma is and actually win in court? If I marry Emma will that give me legal rights to Bree? If there is no way to keep Bree I can't leave this relationship..I can't leave my daughter behind with that junkie bitch.\n\n\nTl;dr accidentally dated feral junkie who was still fucking her feral junkie boyfriend probably the whole time. I love their biological daughter and consider her mine and want custody of her. I believe they will hurt her and ruin her life. What do?","title":"Xpost I have been dating a girl who has a kid for 4 years. Found out she's on heroin and now want to leave her and get custody of her daughter.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570218463,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddcfnw\/tx_ceiling_has_caved_in_in_two_parts_of_the_house\/","id":"ddcfnw","body":"Hello there! In February of last year my family moved into a relatively small house. The house had it's small problems that I'm sure a lot of houses have. However, in september of last year, a small part of our roof caved in which now leaves a hole connected to the outside. \nBecause of this hole, my cat has been able to get outside despite being an inside cat only. We contacted the landlord about it who said they'd send someone to fix it but never did. We eventually put a tarp under the hole to prevent pests from coming in and the cat getting out. \nWinter wasn't all that cold so we managed but a few days ago another part of the ceiling caved with it now being in my parent's bedroom. Thankfully it happened in a small isolated corner and doesn't lead outside but it's still there. My mom wants us all to move but my dad thinks we'll break our lease agreement if we do. Would Texas tenancy laws protect us if we were taken to court over this?","title":"[TX] Ceiling has caved in in two parts of the house. Mom wants to move and dad doesn't think we can","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553452130,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4zn5s\/question_about_the_difference_between_custody_and\/","id":"b4zn5s","body":"Obligatory apology for the formatting since I'm on mobile. I've been having some personal issues lately that have kept my daughter with my parents, in her best interest. I am doing what I need to do to get back on track and be there for her, and in the meantime they have paperwork for a medical power of attorney, so in case of an emergency or something they do have the right to seek medical care for her and take her to doctor's appointments and things like that. However they recently informed me that they have hired an attorney to pursue guardianship until such time they feel I can be a more responsible parent for my daughter. I don't know what the difference is, if there is any, between custody and guardianship. I also don't know if they get guardianship if that means I would lose my rights, or if we would both have them.\n\nThey have known that at any point I could have come and taken her because I do have custody, however I know that it's in her best interest to stay with them and not be uprooted, because we have both lived with them from the time she was born until I left about a month ago. Until I am more stable (if all goes well, 3-4 months), I don't want to make her life more difficult. I think that having her remain at their house and ensuring that she can be taken care of medically if I'm not present shows that I do have her best interest at heart, and have told them that I am perfectly willing to sign a temporary joint guardianship. I'm not sure that they are willing to do that at this point, so I'm just trying to figure out exactly what this all means. They will be able to serve me with court papers, but because of where I'm going I won't be able to attend a court date and I'm not sure that that will look great if I don't even show up.\n\nI have tried looking online and I can't get a straight answer. If anybody on here has any information that might be able to help me I would really appreciate it. I'm just trying to get a better understanding of what we're facing, and how long of a process it might be to get my rights back if I do in fact lose them.\n\nThey are in a position to hire a decent attorney, and I am not, so I'm not sure how that will negatively affect my case either.\n\nTl;dr: my parents are trying to get guardianship of my daughter and I don't know if that means that I will lose my rights or if it means that we will both have rights. She is living with them for the time being and I don't dispute that that's the best place for her for now. It will only be a few months before I'm in a position to properly care for her again, so what does this mean and how do I protect both of us?","title":"Question about the difference between custody and guardianship","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553467372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b52n9b\/contract_for_student_work\/","id":"b52n9b","body":"Hello, At first I want to apologise for my grammar. English isn\u2019t my native language. I recently started working in a bar for a student job. The owner is great and does everything by the law (putting in the amount of work I have done, pays cash correctly). My problem is that I didn\u2019t sign a contract and never got one. It is my first job and i want everything to be correct but I am afraid to lose the job if I keep bothering the owner with it. Is it rude to ask again for a contract or make one my self? Or shouldn\u2019t I be worrying so much?","title":"Contract for student work","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568936591,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6me6o\/can_i_use_emails_sent_to_me_as_reviews_on_my\/","id":"d6me6o","body":"Nevada based online business. Customers often email nice things to me and I want to put them up as reviews on my website. Can I use their first and last name in reference? Should I include this in my privacy policy or terms and conditions?","title":"Can I use emails sent to me as reviews on my website, stating the person\u2019s first and last name?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539706373,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9op2v1\/is_it_legal_to_remove_time_from_playtime_in\/","id":"9op2v1","body":"Hi, i'm a teenager from Argentina, i want to know if this is legal.","title":"Is it legal to remove time from playtime in higschool?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1570927555,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh3ku2\/landlord_wont_pay_to_clean_vents\/","id":"dh3ku2","body":"Hello all. I (19) just moved into a duplex. Townhouse? My mother, brother, and I have just occupied a home sharing a wall with another residence, one month ago. \n\nOur most important issue with this house is the state of our ventilation system. It has never been cleaned since the property was built and our landlord has refused to pay for its cleaning. We\u2019ve gone and paid for a base cleaning as we have allergies and, as such, we haven\u2019t used the ac or heat. The cleaner told me it is basically unlawful to force the tenant to take this responsibility. \n\nI haven\u2019t yet found any building code for the state of Wisconsin pertaining to my particular matter. So I can\u2019t say for certain, and provide proof, that he must have them cleaned. This is why I\u2019ve written here.\n\nUnfortunately, my mother paid out of pocket for the vents to be vacuumed, and hasn\u2019t gone out of her way  dispute. Her only justification for not doing so is that our landlord is a real estate lawyer, and that it\u2019s not worth trying. I disagree. I haven\u2019t yet seen the lease agreement. \n\nYou can see from the picture that the procedure we paid for, a base vacuuming, only removed any loose dust and debris. An additional, extensive procedure is necessary to remove what\u2019s left, and costs at least $300.\n\nI haven\u2019t yet read the lease agreement. But I know he has obligations as a landlord and I don\u2019t think he\u2019s meeting them. What can we (I) do? Can I request him to have an inspection performed? Thanks in advance.","title":"Landlord Won\u2019t Pay to Clean Vents","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506478577,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72pb7y\/maryland_parents_forcing_me_to_move_out_male_23\/","id":"72pb7y","body":"After a series of disagreements, my parents are forcing me to move out. However, I have a lot of questions regarding the legal details behind this move. Here are some details: \n\n- I am 23 years old, state of Maryland. I have zero debt, and a substantial salary close to six figures. Government\/military contractor if that matters.\n- Parents invited me to live with them to save rent money. No written agreements of any kind. \n- Using my own earned money, over the past year I bought a lot of stuff like computers, TVs, chairs, etc. Total worth around $5,000 to $10,000 estimated. \n- I am under their wing for telephone bills.\n- I am under their wing for car insurance. However, I paid for my portion last year. \n- My mother has given me many gifts and presents since I was 18. She gave them to me, and reasonably assume that they are my possessions. \n- Yes this is my legal address.\n\n----------\n\nHere are the questions: \n\n1. What is needed to legally evict me? Written notice, or just verbal consent? \n2. Can they take away or destroy any of my stuff? My stepfather has a very short temper and I would not be surprised to one day return to destroyed property. But since my property is located in their house, what happens if he destroys it? \n3. Would there be any court of law on my side considering I have not paid any rent or utilities or a reasonable portion of my bill for the past two years after graduating college? Six years total if you include college. \n4. Can they take back any gifts? \n5. Can they make any demands for my property or my money for rent, utilities, previous bills? Take back any gifts given? etc. \n6. How long do I have to move out? \n\n-----------\n\nSeparate issue here. If you can answer please help. \n\nMy mother divorced my father many years ago. They jointly owned a house. My father owned a separate house in China as well (I don't know if it was jointly owned). \n\nIn their divorce agreement, it was stated that I am to receive half of both houses. My mother sold the house without my father's permission but he did not fight it. She still retains the money for it. \n\nAre my parents legally bound to give me anything? Is my mom able to keep the money? Is my dad able to keep the money? What happens if they refuse to give me the rights to half the house or the house itself? \n\n------------- \n\nP.S. I know I sound like a spoiled brat here. It's a very sensitive situation. My stepdad is very passive aggressive and emotionally abusive. My mom is most likely a narcissist to some degree and is also emotionally abusive. I grew up without being even remotely close to my mother. I'm grateful for everything they did for me over the years to help out, but that doesn't permit them to be emotionally abusive towards me. If they're so passive aggressive that they want to cut me out of their lives without even giving me a reasonable chance (and I can go into way more detail here), then I have no problem doing everything in my power to take what's mine and cut them out. ","title":"[Maryland] Parents forcing me to move out (Male, 23). What are the legal boundaries to this?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550594429,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ascc8u\/pay_out_my_vacation_time\/","id":"ascc8u","body":"Not sure if this is the right place to post this. My employment ended at a job as it just wasn\u2019t for me and I\u2019m looking for other paths. I get two weeks vacation time every calendar year and I was told they have to pay my vacation time in the last check. I live in  upstate NY and when I google it people say that they have to do it in my state. I\u2019m just trying to get other people answers here to be sure because I imagine someone here has actual legal knowledge and can assist me. ","title":"Pay out my Vacation time","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446610931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rg9k9\/job_offer_and_background_check\/","id":"3rg9k9","body":"I have signed a job offer to work for a very large company. They have outlined the terms of pay, provided me with benefit information, and scheduled a start date.\n\nI will not be starting with them for a few months, and I am pretty certain I will have a traffic related misdemeanor on my record (failure to report an accident) by that time. (I have court in 2 weeks) This happened in Michigan, but the location of the job will be set closer to the start date in June.\n\nLegally, can they pull the offer if the job is not related to driving? ","title":"Job Offer and Background Check","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570823380,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgka49\/game_conpany_keeps_asking_for_my_government_id_in\/","id":"dgka49","body":"This company is based in the US, and I am also in the US. So the age of being an adult is 18, which I have not reached yet.\n\nI won't name drop the company, but I will say that they specialize in developing and selling games (especially online FPS games and MMOs)\n\nI'm not going to name the company, but I will say that they are a company that develops and sells video games (including MMOs and multiplayer FPS titles)\n\nI didn't agree with their business practices, and I never really used the account anyways, so I wanted to close it. However, they asked for photo ID of some kind to \"know that it was me that was closing the account.\"\n\nNeedless to say, I was very uncomfortable with the idea of giving away my information to a company that I didn't trust. Not only that, but I never had to deal with something like this when dealing with other game stores.\n\nWhat should I do?","title":"Game conpany keeps asking for my Government ID in order to delete my account. I'm a minor. Is this legal?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541030089,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t4dbi\/california_not_being_paid_for_internship_after\/","id":"9t4dbi","body":"I am in San Francisco. I turned down regular work and 2 other internships that were all offered to me because I liked the concept of this new company. I signed a contract for a remote internship based out of LA. The contract said \n\nMy tasks would be blogging and communicating with vendors and influencers on social media. (Not limited to)\n\nStart date September 20, 2018, end date \"TBD\". \n\nNumber of work hours per week: 20\n\n\"Salary\/Stipend: Your salary for 2 months (to be paid November 20th $1,900)\"\n\nIt is a new company with only a couple employees. The first task I was given was to write the mission statement for their company. Job description was way off, but okay. I completed it and a few other tasks.  I was then told to create a sponshorship deck but given no outline, images, etc. I worked on it for hours a day. I was not confident with the finished product as it was out of my skill level. (I am only a teenager, this was known upon hiring). I told the CEO I didn't feel like I could complete that task and they said it was completely fine and that they would get back to me with something else. I reached out a few times since then asking for more tasks and they said they would work on it. Today they finally responded and said they decided they did not need an intern and that they would give me $50 because \"it seems like the tasks would've only taken 4 hours\". However, all tasks were completed except the last and it was communicated that it was fine and the task would be replaced with something else more reasonable. There is no way to prove how many hours I worked. What can I do here? I did not turn down other jobs to get $50, and I feel like they should have let me go sooner so I could find other work instead of not contacting me for weeks while I continued to do research and fulfill my hourly commitment while waiting to be given tasks.\n\nHelp?\n\n","title":"(California) Not being paid for internship after contract was signed?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539042525,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mk59z\/our_puppy_tore_up_some_carpet_in_our_apartment\/","id":"9mk59z","body":"Hi there! Pretty much what the title says but here is more detail. \n\nOur puppy tore up some carpet right against the door frame. It\u2019s very thin- mostly 1\/2 an inch to an inch. It stretches for 6 inches. It\u2019s easily patchable. We fear if we tell our complex, they will want us to replace the entire floor, which would be much more expensive.\n\nCatch we patch it without telling them and see if they notice? The carpet is already 5 years old, and we will be in this apartment for another 2 years-  we don\u2019t want to make a big fuss of it.\n\nIs there anything they could do for changing the carpet? I feel like the worst thing they could do would be to make us replace the whole floor which they would have us do with this year anyways. Ideas? ","title":"Our puppy tore up some carpet in our apartment. Could we get in trouble for patching it without letting our landlord know?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554751386,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baxxmi\/ebay_scam_where_seller_ships_from_another_country\/","id":"baxxmi","body":"Okay, this is a long post. So about a month ago I bid on an xbox one x on ebay. The seller was new and had his account set to Port Orchard, Washington U.S.A. I won the xbox for $375 and I paid using paypal. 2 maybe 3 days go by and the thing didnt ship yet so I contacted the seller. He responds in broken english \"dear friend, sorry product not ship yet, I have issue with U.S warehouse, I ship ems China post in next day\". I start looking at the pictures, they're blurry, the whole thing screams fraud so I contact paypal which opens a dispute and gives the seller 10 days to respond. Well, he ships it anyways from China, I even sent him another email saying I didnt want it before he even shipped it. He responds to the paypal dispute and paypal decides in my favor and gives me my money back. Days later he sends me an email stating \"I see refund. I suffer huge losses, I send product, why you no like China product?\" I ignore him. So I got tired of ebay and paypal after havi g this happen before, I closed my paypal and ebay account. Fast forward to now, I decide to check the tracking number and it arrives tomorrow, the contents say \"small packets\". What do I do with the thing whether its fake or real? Do I take it up to the post office and refuse it??? Is there legal repercussions?","title":"Ebay scam where seller ships from another country","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552621654,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1a25t\/complex\/","id":"b1a25t","body":"What is a complex case in simple words? Arizona","title":"Complex","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1538150714,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jo8zu\/inconsistent_drug_testing\/","id":"9jo8zu","body":"I work for a small manufacturing company, in NY\/NJ. I work primarily on bids\/purchases from various government agencies. Most of the workers in the manufacturing plant are black or Hispanic and men. I think they all have to take drug tests when they are hired. \n\nThe people working in my department have mostly been white (Men and women), but the coworker who is leaving is a Hispanic woman. The new hire is a Hispanic man. He is the first person working in my department to be asked to take a drug test at the time of hiring. None of us have ever been asked to take a drug test.\n\nIs this legal?\n\nIt feels racist. I asked my (departing coworker) and she agrees it seems really racist but maybe it\u2019s a new policy? She was hired about two years ago.","title":"Inconsistent Drug Testing","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569267408,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8bo7s\/stuck_with_unwanted_roommates_tenant_charges_me\/","id":"d8bo7s","body":"I rented an apartment near college in the US because its closer. The lease I signed was for a whole year - I was fine with that. The lease had also a part where I was supposed to show my \"preferances\" to match me with roommates(such as no smokers). I filled all that out and signed a 4 bedroom in which each of us have our own independent lease. \n\nIt was nice and things were going well until one of our roommate started doing things in which I did not agree to. He violated the preferences by smoking, partying, and bringing his pets even though I marked \"no\" to all those things.\n\nI contacted the landlord right away and he wants me to snitch on the person so he can warn him, but I was adviced not to since it can bring me problems by multiple people. I told him I couldnt then proceed to tell me I could transfer but I have to pay a fee even though it was an issue I did not cause nor did I agree to. \n\nHe did not seem to change his opinion even though I explained him many times that this never was under my control nor I agreed to it. So I asked to move out.\n\nAs soon as I left him a notice that I want to move out, he tells me I have to pay the whole lease unless someone replaces me. \n\nI do not want to live here anymore nor I want to pay for the rest of the lease when the initial agreement was broken due to roommate(s). What can I do?","title":"Stuck with unwanted roommate(s). Tenant charges me for transfer and move out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554427292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9l25t\/i_need_help_im_stuck_in_a_marriage_and_i_am\/","id":"b9l25t","body":"I have been with my husband for almost 11 and married close to 3. I am very unhappy and I feel stuck.  I regreted marring him from the very beginning. I guess I was hoping that marriage will help him grow up. \n We are both 35 at this moment and he acts like he is still living in his old apartment, playing video games.  He played them the whole time we were together and on the beginning it was fascinating to watch, because I have never played myself. Now gamming consumes him completely. He spends every day, every free minute playing games, neglecting everything else. \n He does work and makes far more than I am at this moment, but I am the one responsible for majority of the bills, often me having to swallow my pride and ask him to cover what I can't. He usually has no problem with doing so, but sometimes he is just very irresponsible with his money. Like buying a huge 700$ tv without telling me, even though we had 5 tv's already and I didn't feel like it was needed.\nI bend over backwards for his birthdays and Christmas's. He gifts me things \"for us\", as an for him to ruin and give them back to me, and that is if he gets me anything. Few years back I took him for this amazing trip to Chicago for his birthday and that same year for my birthday I got \"sorry, I forgot\", and than prcede to drill holes in walls to feed cables to the basement, day after I have spent 8 hours cleaning the whole house, ( note, he has never finished patching up the holes, it's been 2 years now). Which brings me to the fact that he doesn't respect anything I do. Leaves messes everywhere and just steps over them until I come around and pick them up. \nFinally, here is the part that hurts me the most.  I have history of sleep walking that I never grew out of, and when it happens I don't remember any of it.  Few months ago he admitted to having sex with me while I was having my episodes. I should say here that I didn't consent to sex since August of last year. Learning all this makes me feel dirty and used, and I cry every time I think about it. I might be overacting here, but this has left me very jumpy when it comes to interacting with him. I don't let him touch me and every time he makes a comment about my body, makes me run out of the room.  \nBefore I learned that last bit, I did suggest couples counseling, but he said that I probably should go see a counselor, by myself and figure out why am I so unhappy. I know why I am unhappy... I don't need someone with a degree to tell me, what I already know.  \nAll this brings me to the question of can I divorce him? The house is in my parents name, so he has no right to it... He honest can take anything he wants with him.  Only thing I'm really depended on is his insurance. I am in a process of finding a job, that does offer it (my current one doesn't).  We have no kids and the pets are his really. Can please someone tell me what to do? I can't stand living like this, trying to raise a 35yrear old manchild... ","title":"I need help. I'm stuck in a marriage and I am unhappy","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541771446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vkkj4\/canada_qc_renting_a_room_as_an_exchange_student\/","id":"9vkkj4","body":"Hey,\n\nI'm a student from Europe and I'm going to do an internship in Canada next year. I looked for rooms over FB and found one that looked good to me and I skyped with the person (who is also a student) and saw the room and now they're offering me a contract of sublet. They're going to send me the contract this afternoon and they asked me to transfer the security deposit with signing the contract (so before I'm in Canada). I have a couple of days to read the contract and to ask questions.\n\nTo me, it sounded all pretty similar to the process of renting rooms where I live. For me, it's obviously a risk to transfer the amount of money before I saw everything with my own eyes but at the same time I understand the person subletting their room - if I only sign the contract without transferring any money, I might back out.\n\nAnyway, my questions are:\n\n1. Does the process I described sound common to you? Are rooms usually rented like this?\n2. Let's assume that after I sent the money, I won't her back from them and everything is a fraud. Do I have the chance to get my money back? I assume that the police does probably not spend time on lease agreements etc., I would probably have to hire (and pay) a lawyer?","title":"[Canada, QC] Renting a room as an exchange student","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570804734,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgg3t7\/how_can_i_fully_explain_the_circumstances\/","id":"dgg3t7","body":"\nStory background:  I got charged for Fake ID and Underage Drinking back in May, it was a Misdemeanor. However, my lawyer got it dismissed in June, now I only have a Civil Infraction for MIP. \n\nWhen I was applying for a program at my college online this morning, they were asking my background. I said I have a Civil Infraction Judgement (which is true), but the next page wants me to fully explain the circumstances. Should I tell the original story about how I got arrested and the charge was dismissed, or only mention the Minor Possession Civil Infraction judgement. I want to be honest, but I am not sure which charge should I put there. \n\nHave any of you had this kind of dilemma? Or any advice you\u2019d like to share? \n\nAny piece of advice would be really appreciated!","title":"How can I \u201cfully explain the circumstances\u201d","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550365348,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arfc2c\/trouble_regarding_an_on_the_job_injury\/","id":"arfc2c","body":"Hello, I am dealing with a work place accident and workman's comp issues that I hoped I could get some advice about. \n\nOn February 2nd I was working at my job, a national coffeeshop chain, and while making a beverage I had a large amount of hot espresso slung into my eye. I was taken to the ER, where they flushed my eye and recommended I see a follow up doctor asap. At the ER they diagnosed me with corneal burns and first degree burns to my chest and arms. \n\nAfter a few days, despite the fact that I still could not see out of my right eye, I returned to work. I was extremely light sensitive and was having bad headaches. The next day I went to work when our district manager stopped by our store. We talked for a bit, then insisted I go home and not to return to work till my eyesight had been restored. When I explained I was not financially able to take that much time off work he assured me that workmans comp would pay me for the time missed. \n\nWorkman's comp at our company is handled by a third party company. This company has been extremely slow to get anything done on my claim. For example, I was prescribed some eyedrops that I had to wait almost a week before the company approved the amount. \n\nI has now been over two weeks since the accident. I got my paycheck on Friday and the hours I missed were not included on the check. \n\nMy attempts to contact my case manager regarding all different aspects of my treatment have been mostly unsuccessful. When I finally was able to get in touch with my case manager I answered all the questions he had for me. The next day my case was transferred to someone new. I have not been able to get in touch with the new case manager. \n\nI have decided to return to work on Tuesday. I cannot afford to wait for any longer. I have already planned to speak with the new case manager on Monday when she is back in the office. \n\nI still cannot see out of my right eye - at least anything more than vague shapes. \n\nIf I return to work, am I going to jeopardize getting reimbursed for the time I missed and further treatment? The amount of time that has passed and the leveling off of improvement in my eyesight make me believe it will not ever go back to normal. \n\nShould I seek out a lawyer to help me deal with this third party company? ","title":"Trouble Regarding an On the Job injury.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541528104,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uqswg\/negotiating_end_of_contract_issue\/","id":"9uqswg","body":"Long story short, I got into a contract with this company GHS Securities L.L.C for a home security system on my house I just bought. After installation though I realized the tech was negligent and cut wires on the previous system I own, and made a big mess of the wall.\n\nOnce I called in they showed no interest to fix it, so I escalated to requesting canceling my contract the day after I signed it. They told me no, to pay out the full. I brought up the Home Solicitation Act. They were not phased.\n\nSo I filed a complaint with BBB and a complaint with my State Attorney General. Now they\u2019ve called back agreeing to cancel my contract, but will not be fixing any of the negligent damage, or damage left from installation, and want me to pay $200 for labor. \n\nShould I just eat the $200 fee and make the repairs myself? Or should I decline their offer and go another route, or wait for a rebuttal from them? ","title":"Negotiating End of Contract Issue","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539291438,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ndv3u\/can_my_company_force_me_to_work_on_my_day_of\/","id":"9ndv3u","body":"I am a devout Christian and believe that unnecessary work on Sunday's is wrong. As of now, full time employees of my company are required to have open availability, meaning I can't ask for every Sunday off. \n\nI asked my managers and they say that they can TRY to not schedule me but if they do I'm required to work it. I have expressed that it's because of my religion. Can my company force me to work on Sunday's? If not, who can I contact?\n\nI work and live in Texas","title":"Can my company force me to work on my day of worship?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569606795,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da3zon\/employer_wants_a_selfie_to_clock_in\/","id":"da3zon","body":"My employer is requiring a selfie to clock in and out\n\nMy employer wants a selfie for clocking in\/out\n\nOur company sent an email saying they are implementing a system where we take a selfie and punch in punch out of work. \ud83d\ude33\n1.  We usually just send our timesheets in every week without a punch in punch out schedule. \n2. I\u2019m a girl that\u2019s very uncomfortable with selfies. This is so awkward, and I don\u2019t want my picture saved day after day, twice a day, and viewed by god knows who. I feel like this is an invasion of privacy. I don\u2019t even have Facebook or Instagram, and I don\u2019t post selfies anywhere.  What happens if they fire me if I won\u2019t comply?\nThanks for reading.","title":"Employer wants a selfie to clock in?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504103030,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wzgro\/can_i_cancel_an_insurance_policy_to_get_another\/","id":"6wzgro","body":"I recently purchased insurance for a year long trip that I'm taking. It was a little unexpected, so I asked my doctor for some prescriptions I have for a pre existing condition and he decided that he would tweak them a bit. This counted as a \"change in medication\" so now I am not covered for my pre existing condition. I'm not too worried, but if I remain stable for sixty days I saw some policies would cover me. I don't want to go without any insurance, so I have purchased emergency medical. But if I want to change companies partway through to get the pre-existing condition covered (about sixty days after I arrive-I know world nomad begins policies when you're already away) can I do that? I know I won't get my money back after the ten day review period, but will they cancel the policy so I can go with another company? ","title":"Can I cancel an insurance policy to get another one? (Canada)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541374692,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u8djb\/ridiculous_town_ordinance\/","id":"9u8djb","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nSo just for some background I go to college at a small school in Rhode Island. It is not a big school and the partying is very minimal which is not a problem with me. The prices for on-campus housing are so expensive (12k for minimum meal plan) so when most kids are juniors they move off campus. It is the smart decision financially and people also like to do it so they can throw house parties...\n\n​\n\nSo recently I was looking for a house in the area and when figuring out where I wanted to live, I was informed of an ordinance in the town of the college that fines tenants for noise complaints. A lot of people buying houses now are concerned about the expensive fees they will pay if they have a few people over. The house I am living in is a town over so It does not affect me. Obviously fines for noise complaints are necessary as everyone needs their quiet time but I thought this ordinance was a little targeted and excessive.\n\nIt is for \"Unruly Gatherings\" of more than 5 people. What constitutes an \"Unruly Gathering\" is noise, illegal parking, visible alcohol, more than 5 people on a property etc.\n\nWhen the police department arrives at said gathering. They will first leave a notice of the town ordinance and if it is violated again within the time period than penalties will ensue\n\nThe time periods are September 1st to May 1st, so the school year.....\n\nThan it says that the penalty for violating the ordinance for the second time is $500 to each **RESPONSIBLE PERSON**\n\nA responsible person consists of the person who owns the property, all tenants who currently reside at the property or **persons residing on or otherwise in control of property where such gathering took place**\n\nThis means that you can be fined for each person at the gathering I believe which is outstanding, also\n\nIN ADDITION THE DEAN OF STUDENTS AT \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ UNIVERSITY WILL BE NOTIFIED OF ANY STUDENTS WHO WERE AT SUCH GATHERING\n\n​\n\nLink of the actual ordinance [https:\/\/library.municode.com\/ri\/bristol\/ordinances\/code\\_of\\_ordinances?nodeId=906046](https:\/\/library.municode.com\/ri\/bristol\/ordinances\/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=906046)\n\n​\n\nI understand clearly the town does not want to have parties but this seemed a little out of control to me and even a few professors. The town next over has a fine of 100$ to the tenant(s) for a noise complaint. This is reasonable and is pretty standard with noise complaints. In the town mentioned above, a gathering of 20 people could cost thousands of dollars.\n\n​\n\nMy legal studies professor agreed that it seemed a little excessive. I asked her how we could change it and she was vague and did not want to get involved but it seemed like it could be done.\n\nWhat I want to know is if there is any way to reverse or just change a town ordinance? It seems super targeted to students and the fines are not reasonable at all. I know it would involve the town and a vote probably but was just wondering what could be done? Even just a change in price would be a victory I just don't think that this is right at all. If anyone knows of any similar situations information would be appreciated.\n\nTL;DR: Town I go to college in fines people $500 a person at your house if the police show up, how can this be changed.\n\n​","title":"RIDICULOUS Town Ordinance...","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569800330,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db34wo\/ontario_someone_slashed_my_tires_but_they_lost_a\/","id":"db34wo","body":"Am I liable for any of their injuries? They slashed 3 of my tires for some reason. I heard a loud bang and when I went outside some guy was bleeding. I called an ambulance and so on. But will I be liable for this?","title":"[Ontario] Someone slashed my tires but they lost a finger because of the resulting explosion","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553899467,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b73t1w\/fiance_went_through_child_development\/","id":"b73t1w","body":"My fiance has completed all the requirements for a CDA for 2 year olds. She has proof of everything, payed the fee via scholarship, has taken and passed the exam, and has had her classroom observed. The state mandate will require all lead teachers to have this certification by July. We have been trying to contact these people for about 2 years and they have been in contact with us. However some \"glitch\" in their system has prevented her from being certified. She has proof of the exam, observation from their company and scholarship.  She has just had her classroom observed by them this month.   \n\n\nThe CDA Council for Professional Recognition is putting my fiance's career in jeopardy, they said today was the last day and everything she has done will be for nothing. She spent countless hours in classes, doing a portfolio, and studying for this exam. But more importantly she would have been making more money and gotten a tax credit had she received her certification.    \n\n\nA representative from my fiances daycare said all they have to do is refresh a portal and she would have the certification, they have called everyday including today but today was apparently \"the last day\".  \n\n\nWhat are our options? She needs to be certified by July, or she could lose her job. Her daycare knows she has done everything, she has proof she has done everything, but the Council for Professional Recognition refuses to \"refresh their portal\" and apparently she will lose everything she has put into this since she wasn't able to get certified by today.","title":"Fiance Went Through Child Development Certification Program and is being denied certification [LA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503434796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vdylz\/getting_nonrefundable_preschool_deposit_back_in\/","id":"6vdylz","body":"Hey everyone. I am in law school and have a daughter in preschool. My husband works full time. We have only one car. I paid a nonrefundable $1,600 deposit to a preschool that was walking distance from my new place. There was a flood there and I was informed yesterday that when the children start school in September at least for the first couple of weeks they will be on the other side of town. That's will not be workable with my commute and I will struggle to get to school on time. The contract I signed said that the deposit is nonrefundable but it also said that she would be attending the campus that was closest to my house. Now they want to have the kids from both schools go to one campus until all of the repairs are made. I emailed the director and she hasn't gotten back to me. Meanwhile a spot has opened up at a school that is very close to our place but they need an answer within the next couple of days. If the director says that we can't get our deposit back would we have a good case to make them give it back? We are in the San Francisco Bay Area.","title":"Getting nonrefundable preschool deposit back in light of campus change","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553273617,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b47fc5\/contacted_by_rental_companys_lawyer_offering_a\/","id":"b47fc5","body":"I moved into an apartment in Pennsylvania late summer and since moving in I\u2019ve had nothing but constant issues. I called a month ago about our bathroom flooding and they never sent anyone from maintenance, which resulted in the problem only getting worse. Due to this and their overall horrible maintenance of the building I would like to move out early or somehow get out of the lease. I contacted them about this and their counsel sent me a letter informing me that they would be willing to let me do a buyout of the unit so that I can move out before the end of my lease. I then received a call this morning from the manager and he said that they\u2019re no longer willing to do this, and that they\u2019ve documented all of my calls and emails to maintenance and that they\u2019ve all been responded to. This isn\u2019t true at all, and I do have proof that I called on this particular day along with pictures of the issue on that day and the damage it caused to my apartment. This whole thing has been nothing but a mess since I moved in. I\u2019d like to know if they\u2019re legally allowed to go back on their word after offering me the buyout to get out of the lease early. I do still have the letter that was sent to me from their counsel and it was also signed by them. They\u2019ve also requested that I have a lawyer call them on my behalf.","title":"Contacted by rental company\u2019s lawyer offering a buyout of our rental to move out early and to let her know and she will draw up the papers. This morning the manager of the company called and said that he\u2019s no longer willing to do this.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552520730,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0t7ho\/exs_boyfriend_paid_for_my_childs_medical_bill_and\/","id":"b0t7ho","body":"Alabama, USA. \n\nLong story short: \nI pay 70% of uninsured medical expenses. \n\nMy ex has no job and lives off of her new boyfriends income, including carrying and using a credit card in his name. She has claimed she has no links to any bank accounts, so I assume it is entirely 100% his card. \n\nFrom a recent visit, I owe some money for some medical procedures for my son. \n\nThe receipt states that her boyfriend paid for the entire bill with his card. But my ex is requesting I write the reimbursement check (my 70%) to her and not him, and claims that she is the one that paid for it. \n\nDoes this actually matter? I feel like writing her a check is not the right thing to do, and it should be written out to him because his name is literally on the bill and that would be important for records. But then again, that doesn\u2019t seem right either since he is not a party in this case. Isn\u2019t him paying the bill considered a cash gift? \n\nReally confused. Just want to do the right thing and save myself any legal\/bank trouble. ","title":"Ex\u2019s boyfriend paid for my child\u2019s medical bill, and she wants me to write her a check instead?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570497345,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/desyyi\/currently_on_a_leave_of_absence_just_got_a_job\/","id":"desyyi","body":"I\u2019m on leave with a company but just got a job offer with another company that I want to join. I have one week left on leave. I do plan on putting my last two weeks in as I don\u2019t want to burn any bridges. \n\nDo I need to wait for my leave to be over before accepting the job offer? Should I cancel my leave early and then sign? Or can I sign, finish my leave, and then finish my two weeks with my current company?","title":"Currently on a leave of absence. Just got a job offer with another company. What do I need to know?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552335950,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azyag5\/moving_states_as_a_legal_guardian_of_a_minor\/","id":"azyag5","body":"US, MT.\nI was granted emergency legal guardianship of my son after CPS took him from his mother due to severe neglect back in August. I will be filing for full permanent custody in the near future. I was granted this guardianship in the state of Nevada, was told it was going to be transferred to Montana when I took him home, CPS or the state never contacted me and it\u2019s been about 6 months. I accepted a job in California and plan on moving soon. What do I do as far as legality is concerned, nobody from the state will call back. \nThank you ","title":"Moving states as a legal guardian of a minor.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568573946,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4osuw\/i_got_scammed_out_of_100_online_through_fake\/","id":"d4osuw","body":"i know, i know. eye roll. i can\u2019t believe i was stupid enough to fall for an online scam. \n\nthis happened on friday. someone on twitter was selling concert tickets. i\u2019ve bought tickets through twitter before which were legitimate. i\u2019d been on a few accounts who were also selling the same tickets and discarded those who i thought looked bogus. after a while of exchanging messages discussing ticket information, why they were selling etc i asked for proof that they weren\u2019t a scam. they sent me information, reasoning and a picture of \u2018their\u2019 driving license to prove they were a real person. of course the person in the picture was a real person, and matched the name and location they were using. but that wasn\u2019t who i was speaking to. \n\ni guess i wanted to believe they were legitimate so much that i sent the money to them anyway, knowing they could have been a scammer. \nthey sent me a screenshot of their bank showing my name and that the transaction of \u00a3100 was \u2018arriving\u2019. they weren\u2019t going to transfer the tickets to me until it had \u2018arrived\u2019 in their account. \n\ni called them out when i hadn\u2019t heard anything for a while, they said they were waiting for a call back from the bank about why the money hadn\u2019t gone through. earlier today, the name and picture on their twitter account changed to a female from a male. i called them out on this and they said it was their \u2018brother\u2019 who i had been speaking to before, who used her account to sell the tickets. \n\nalarm bells fully started ringing in my head so i told them to send me my money back. haven\u2019t heard from them since. \n\ni contacted a police officer who told me to contact action fraud, and have put a report in with all of the above details. i also contacted the bank who the person was using, which i believe to be an overseas company, who i\u2019m waiting to hear back from. i also contacted my bank, who said there\u2019s not much they can do. i also contacted twitter reporting their account. \n\ni found the person who\u2019s identity had been stolen on facebook, they informed me that they were scammed themselves into sending a picture of their drivers license. the scammer then assumed their identity. other people who have been scammed by his fake profile have been threatening to turn up to his address, which is obviously on the picture of the license that the scammer sends to prove they are \u2018legitimate\u2019. the bank account information that i sent money to and bank account that another person who had been scammed got given are different. this makes me think it\u2019s probably an organised thing or more than one person running this. \n\ni know my money is gone and i won\u2019t get it back. luckily it was from my savings, so it\u2019s not going to cripple me. lesson well and truly learned. i\u2019m just grateful that i didn\u2019t send any more money to them or revealing information. all they have is my name and email address. \n\ni\u2019m only posting this to see if there\u2019s anything else i should be doing, either to get this resolved or stop it from happening to anyone else.","title":"i got scammed out of \u00a3100 online through fake concert tickets","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1569833533,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db8ou9\/please_help_asap_i_lied_to_the_police_and_i_wanna\/","id":"db8ou9","body":"I lied and i wanna get out of it\n\nSoo i hit something in a parking lot and drove off i then called the police and said it was a hit and run he said he cant do anything as i fled the scene. He gave me a report id tho.I filled a insurance claim (i filled it as a hit and run).I wanna get out of this mess what do i do?\n\nI am in texas\n\nPlease help me i need someone to talk to i am just 18 please I really need help i don\u2019t want to go to jail or prison.","title":"Please help asap i lied to the police and i wanna set it straight","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554568668,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba65k4\/ne_employer_cut_my_and_a_lot_of_coworkers_hours\/","id":"ba65k4","body":"Hi all, apologies as I am on mobile\n\nAs the title states my employer has cut a majority of employees hours to under full-time over the past 2 months, even though a lot of us are full-time employees. Specifically for me, my hours were cut from 38+ to 28 or less.\n\nSome background:\n\nI work for a grocery store chain that was bought by Amazon. When Amazon raised it's minimum wage to $15 back in November 2018, that included the grocery chain as well. At that time, we were told there would be minimal if any changes to our hours, but that we would lose a lot of benefits, like gain-sharing and part-time health insurance. Since then, Nebraska has had a rough winter and our stores sales dropped significantly due to the many snow storms and flooding. Employees were informed that leadership would be cutting hours to save on labor. Cut to mid-February 2019, all of the sudden full-time employees that were working 35+ hours one week are scheduled to work 16 hours then next. Employees are reassured it's only temporary and that they will return to their normal hours soon. It's now early April 2019 and nothing has changed, leadership has actually tacked on more duties, cut hours so that there aren't enough closers to shut down the store at night, and have informed employees that the schedule is now semi-automated using an algorithm. \n\nI have already confronted HR about my individual case, and I am working out how to help my fellow co-workers. My questions are:\n\nIs there any legal recourse for them cutting full-time employees to below full time?\n\nCan I report to them DoL for this? If so, how?\n\nShould I get OSHA\/FDA involved, since these cuts have forced employees to cut corners on food and occupational safety? \n\nThank you so much","title":"NE Employer cut my (and a lot of coworkers) hours to under full time","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443379339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mlrm7\/california_i_paid_most_of_rent_upfront_but_the\/","id":"3mlrm7","body":"Hi folks, I'm in California and I signed a one year sublease on June 14th and paid 6 months upfront and agreed to pay the rest within 5 months. The tenant told me she was renting out her aunt's house for her, and that the tenant occasionally stayed in the attached studio, which I was OK with. The tenant had her real estate friend to make everything kosher, and the signed lease actually named his Nevada-based LLC as the landlord. It did not mention that it was a sublease. He signed it as the officer of the LLC. I assume he has a real estate license but can't be sure. There was no signature from landlord. In early June, the tenant took a deposit from me, and she signed a handwritten lease note (it says something like 'deposit received for [my address], with total rent being due by bla bla'), and I also have one receipt signed by her for the first month I paid (I forgot to ask for receipts for July and August). \n\nSo, fast forward to yesterday, the landlord comes over, and she chats with us and finds out that our tenant is charging us double what the tenant pays to her, and the landlord is mad at tenant for that, and also that the landlord is not her aunt. The landlord said she gave verbal permission to tenant to sublease the studio. (.. but I was rented the house). The landlord tells us that the tenant is actually only on a month to month lease so she's not going to renew the tenant's lease in November, but that she likes us and feels bad but she's going to have to charge us rent. She tells us not to pay the tenant at the end of this month but to pay her (the landlord) or she'll evict us, too. \n\nI've only been there for 3.5 months, so the amount the tenant owes me for the 8.5 remaining months is over $10,000, which means I can't go to small claims court. I have a feeling she probably spent most of it or doesn't have it. Could I pursue her in court for the money even though the 'official' lease is between her real estate friend's LLC's name and me? I do have those hand written notes signed by her.\n\nCan I fight an eviction from the landlord with the potentially invalid sublease I have with the tenant? Or am I just out of luck and I have to pay rent to the landlord while pursuing the tenant in court for monies paid, assuming she doesn't pay me.\n\nI don't know what to do. I'm going to talk to a lawyer tomorrow but I can barely sleep.\n\nAlso, how do I find out the owner of the property I am renting?  California's county appraiser website won't display addresses. I want to make sure this landlord is the actual owner. ","title":"California - I paid most of rent upfront but the tenant I have a sublease under was month to month and is being evicted. Weird circumstances. Can I be evicted? How do I get money back?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539445618,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nupfd\/wifes_boss_degrading_and_insulting_her_over_text\/","id":"9nupfd","body":"I just want to say my wife does a stellar job when she\u2019s working, and always tries her best even though she\u2019s very pregnant and getting ready to go on leave. However, she has a lot of dr appointments and medical things going on that requires her to leave occasionally. Her boss will text her afterwards and say things like she\u2019s a \u201cpest\u201d and \u201clazy and useless\u201d, not to mention he has insulted her appearance multiple times as well. \n\nOn top of that, my wife has slipped and fallen in a wet area that wasn\u2019t marked with a wet floor sign, and her boss caused it and admitted it, stating he had spilled water and left it. He refused to file a report or anything to document it stating that she was perfectly fine even though she\u2019s pregnant and fell and was in fact in pain and sore afterwards.This occurred around 2 weeks ago.\n\nToday, my wife was working for an extensive period of time on her feet this morning and experienced intense pains all throughout her sides in the stomach region. She was on the floor in tears and her boss refused to let her leave to go to the hospital, stating she was \u201cmaking it up\u201d to leave, even though we are sitting at the hospital now and she is in immense pain. After she had left anyway, her boss texts her stating not to come back along with various insults, to add to injury. Now my wife is jobless because her boss is a legitimate asshole.\n\nI\u2019m just incredibly frustrated with her boss at this point, I\u2019d love to have a few words with him but that will do me no good. Other than obviously switching jobs, is there any recourse here? She\u2019s got a massive paper trail with his behavior from hundreds of text messages. \n\nUS\/IN if that helps at all. ","title":"Wife\u2019s boss degrading and insulting her over text and on the job, amongst other issues","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539907987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9per9z\/cainland_empire_roommate_breaking_lease_help\/","id":"9per9z","body":"This has turned into a huge mess. Very anxiety producing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Apologies in advance if this all sounded like a rant\/vent. First time dealing with this situation and not sure how to proceed.\n\nI live in a 2br 2bath apartment with my gf and another roommate. My gf and I share the master bedroom and Roommate#1 has his own private room. We are on a month to month lease and all three of our names are on the lease with the rent being due the 1st of every month. Roommate#1 has his gf over all the time and she pretty much sleeps over 4-5 days a week. They usually stay in their room and only come out when they cook so we didn\u2019t have any problem with it as long as we split the utilities in half-which he agreed to. And everything is fine for the next 11 months or so we thought\u2026\n\nLast Tuesday, my gf and I bumped into our landlady on our way out and she asks us if our roommate had spoken to us yet. Apparently when Roommate#1 had turned in his rent for this month, he had told our landlady that this would be his last month here. We end up confronting Roommate#1 a few days later since he had made no attempts to notify us and we urgently needed to find a replacement. He basically made excuses as to why he didn\u2019t say anything to us: \u201cdidn\u2019t seem like the right moment, didn\u2019t want to do it over text, our work schedules were different, etc\u2026\u201d We then found out that he had already been considering moving out at least two months ago but \u201cwasn\u2019t 100% positive\u201d so he didn\u2019t say anything to us. He also went to say that even though he told the landlady October was his last month, he probably wouldn\u2019t be officially moved out until Nov 13th. He also didn\u2019t give her his 30 day written notice until this past Saturday. We have someone who might be able to move in but they won\u2019t be able to move in until January so we definitely don\u2019t want to pay any more than we have to in the meantime. \n\nAll of that to get to my questions...if you\u2019re still reading. \n\n1. Since we have to turn in the rent on the 1st of every month, **is he legally responsible for paying his portion of the rent for the** **entire** **month of November** **since his 30 day notice was given in the middle of the month (Oct 13th)**? I\u2019ve read about pro-rated rent but I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019ll apply to his case? If he had found someone to take over for him, we wouldn\u2019t mind but that\u2019s not the case and he\u2019s made no effort to search either. We really don\u2019t want to have to also pay his half of the rent. Especially when he screwed us over. His portion of the rent is $700\/mo.\n2. I\u2019ve been spotting him for utilities for the last two months (Aug & Sept) and he says he\u2019ll pay me back but every time I bring it up, he says he\u2019ll have the money for me \u201csoon\u201d. I\u2019ve spotted him a few times in the past and he\u2019s always paid me back two or three weeks later but with him moving out now, I\u2019m worried he won\u2019t pay me back at all. We also won\u2019t be billed for Oct\u2019s utilities until the 8th of Nov. **If he does end up staying til Nov 13th, how do I make sure he pays me back for the 3 months (Aug, Sept, Oct) of utilities and half of Nov\u2019s?** \\~$350\n3. We have one assigned parking spot and another garage spot. Normally he\u2019ll park in the garage. During the 11 months, he had somehow managed to break the hinges on the garage so it doesn\u2019t open\/close all the way and ran into the back of the garage so there\u2019s a huge hole in the wall. He also put a dent in our hallway one weekend when we were gone. All this was probably done when he and his gf would go out drinking and come back plastered. We\u2019ve brought it up to him in the past and he said he\u2019d have it fixed but never got around to it. **Should we demand that he fix all the damages he and his gf caused before he leaves or just take it out of his $400 deposit?** \n4. As far as deposits go, we had a roommate before Roommate#1 and Roommate#1 paid our ex roommate his $400 deposit when Roommate#1 moved in. Now that Roommate#1 is leaving, he is asking me for his $400 back. I told him that once our new roommate moves in, he can get it from them but that\u2019s only after our landlady goes through the apartment and deduct any damages caused by him. **He can't get the $400 deposit directly from our landlady right**? \n5. Last question, **should I get him to sign any paperwork to guarantee that he\u2019ll pay me back for the utilities, rent and anything else to cover our backs**?\n\nThanks in advance and sorry for the long post. First time posting so let me know if I\u2019m missing anything.","title":"[CA-Inland Empire] Roommate Breaking Lease? -Help!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540282685,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qmx43\/backed_up_into_a_car_but_not_sure_whos_really_at\/","id":"9qmx43","body":"Just had my first experience of backing up into an oncoming vehicle. Both of us were mainly confused as to what to do in this situation. We called the cops to help sort out the situation however this all took place in a private parking lot so it\u2019ll have to settled amongst us. The person I hit was pretty nice about and she didn\u2019t really make any assumptions. I said sorry about all of this happening and we\u2019ll let the insurance company handle it. Because I backed up into her, I felt like instantly lose this situation and I\u2019ll be shelling out for my damages and hers; but I\u2019m still not sure.\n    \nA couple of things to note:    \n1. She was on her phone(talking but not sure if texting too).    \n2. She was driving on the left side of the road however there were no center lines to divide traffic.    \n3. Collision was on the very rear left of my vehicle and the front left of her vehicle.    \n4. The vehicle isn\u2019t mine but rather my girlfriend\u2019s.    \n    \nThe main question is here is I\u2019m afraid she\u2019ll claim injury for a minor wreck or possibly seeing if maybe I\u2019m not completely at fault. Any advice?","title":"Backed up into a car but not sure who\u2019s really at fault.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446562760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rcx9n\/my_father_left_money_in_a_trust_for_me_and_my\/","id":"3rcx9n","body":"Hey from Michigan here. So long story short, my father passed away many years ago and left each of us a share of his money in a trust. There were equal disbursements as each of us turned 30 years old. He left my eldest brother in control of the trust. As I turned 30 I asked that my share be kept in the trust so that it could accumulate interest and accrue gains from investments. It was agreed that I would receive disbursements when asked, but no more than three to four times a year, as not to inconvenience the executor.\n\nRoughly three weeks ago, an argument ensued between the family member and I. This resulted in the family member sending extremely malicious texts and threatening to cash me out of the trust. I did not agree to this, and I pointed out to the family member that this was in fact NOT my desire.\n\nAs of a week ago I received a paycheck in the mail with a large disbursement from the trust, over half of it had taxes removes from it, let's just say a large lump sum. I was of course upset over seeing this as I would have sought out an CPA to see if there was a way to minimize some of the tax. \n\nRegardless of that fact, my money is no longer growing in the trust. I did not ASK for the total disbursement. I feel as if he was not acting in my best interest, and in fact I have numerous accounts of people who can admit he angrily stated he was going to cash me out of the trust, along with text messages to back this up.\n\nI'm wondering if I have any options open to me? Or any rights in the matter? ","title":"My father left money in a trust for me and my brothers, however...","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1444604724,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3odvt6\/apartment_complex_assigned_me_a_handicap_parking\/","id":"3odvt6","body":"Tenants of my apartment complex are assigned one reserved, covered parking space as part of their lease agreement. On move in day, I discovered that my parking space is a designated handicapped spot, even though I'm not disabled. I talked to management, and they assured me I would not be ticketed or towed, but I'm still extremely nervous and uncomfortable about parking in this space. Is this legal? It's private property, but the spot is very clearly marked...\n\nI live in Santa Clara, CA. \n\nEdit: Thank you to all who replied. It seems pretty clear from the comments that parking here would be illegal. The question now is what is my next step? The leasing contract I signed says that I get a parking space, so could this be a breach of contract if the space provided is illegal for me to even use?\n\nAnother edit: followup can be found [here](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3os2p9\/updateapartment_complex_assigned_me_a_handicap\/)","title":"Apartment complex assigned me a handicap parking space - but I'm not handicapped [CA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443707426,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n3ot0\/renting_out_apartment_in_nyc_lease_is_up_soon_and\/","id":"3n3ot0","body":"The tenant is paying well below the average price for rent and refuses to leave after the lease is up and gives us her sob story when we tried to raise the rent in the past. \nPlease help!!","title":"Renting out apartment in NYC. Lease is up soon and we need the tenant to move out. Tenant refuses. What can be done?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540908754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9so8v1\/not_allowed_to_plant_legal_weed\/","id":"9so8v1","body":"My landlord hires a gardening crew to come do the garden every week at the commune I live. The landlord instructed the crew to remove the legal Marijuana plants I have planted in the garden. I have called the owner, which is the landlord, to find out if I may please plant legal marijuana in the garden just one or two plants for myself and he said no because it might look bad to potential renting students. I live in South Africa. So does anybody have advise to offer me? Thanks","title":"Not allowed to plant legal weed?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504577358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y4xpp\/canada_on_can_you_charge_multiple_people_at_once\/","id":"6y4xpp","body":"If you're charging someone with criminal harassment, but there are other people involved as well, do you need to write multiple requests for the Justice of the Peace?\n\nAlso, bonus question, how does it work if you don't have the latter people's information (outside of their name), i.e address\/phone number, etc?","title":"[Canada, ON] Can you charge multiple people at once, with a crime?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1411428800,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2h6dfr\/crossborder_employment_advice_usaireland\/","id":"2h6dfr","body":"I run a startup in the US and I am trying to\/wanting to employ a citizen and resident of Ireland and am looking for advice\/knowledge of how best to do this. The person would work remotely from Ireland and would travel across to our office here in the US every few months. Ideally the person would simply be an employee of the company and work at home in Ireland. Does anybody know the best and easiest way to do this?\n\nThanks in advance for your help!","title":"Cross-border employment advice (USA\/Ireland)","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540668296,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rwz41\/sued_for_medical_bills\/","id":"9rwz41","body":"I'm being sued by the father of a friend of mine who was involved in a car accident for 25000 dollars. It happened in july, we were going to college for some books and I was driving, my girlfriend was in the copilot and her friend was in the back seat. We were playing around and my girlfriend pulled the steering wheel thinking nothing would happen. We crash on the highway and the ambulance takes her and her friend to the hospital. Her friend chose to not go to the hospital to give her insurance number so nothing gets covered for her","title":"Sued for medical bills","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446713123,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rlw8n\/kansas_follow_up_question_on_tenant_guests_in_the\/","id":"3rlw8n","body":"I posted this https:\/\/redd.it\/3rgpjq yesterday and got some good advice. I'm going to give the tenant in our home a 30 day notice to vacate tomorrow.\n\nThis guy is renting a room in our house, and besides many other problems, he increasingly invites other people over. These guests are girls he meets on hookup sites, and they are as much strangers to him as they are to us! Can we ask these other people to leave our house as we see them, and prevent him from bringing any other \"guests\" into our house for the remainder of his time here?\n\nI'm uncomfortable with these people in the house, wandering into parts he's not renting in the middle of the night, and leaving our front door unlocked and occasionally open after they leave.\n\nHe's basically lying to these guests, and tries to impress them by giving the impression he's an owner of the house. Then he shows them around like he owns the place! Last night he had one down in the basement and they were playing with power tools while we were trying to sleep. I had to yell at them to stop, and was clear that I didn't want guests in the basement.\n\nI guess we're stuck with this guy for another 30 days, but can't we put an end to these guests immediately?\n\nEdit: Also, if I can't stop him from bringing guests, can I demand that the guests only linger in the room and the bathroom he's renting? The other night one of these girls was in my bathroom because she liked it better than his bathroom. Annoyed doesn't begin to describe how I felt.","title":"(Kansas) Follow up question on tenant - guests in the house","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569103889,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7h7of\/max_hours_for_california_salaried_exempt_employee\/","id":"d7h7of","body":"An acquaintance of mine is a salaried employee ($70k) in LA and his employer schedules him for 14 hour days 7 DAYS A WEEK! Last month he got two days off. The Federal laws don't seem to address this but I've read that California has limits on hours for salaried workers. Does anyone know what California allows?","title":"Max hours for California salaried (exempt) employee?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1502956857,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u8j44\/recent_apartment_lease_to_la_vista_apartments_in\/","id":"6u8j44","body":"My Fianc\u00e9 and I signed leasing papers to La Vista Apartments in Santa Maria, CA. We currently live in Oregon and she received recent news about her possibly not being able to afford the tuition costs to a University with the Post\/911 Educational Bill as an out-of-state student. We wouldn't be able to afford the cost of tuition and rent if she ends up being  considered an out-of-state resident despite having grown up in California since she was 18 and enlisting in the Navy from California. My question is are we still responsible for the closing cost of the recently signed lease to La Vista Apartments, even though we haven't received the keys or moved in? Is there a way we don't have to pay near $1,400 to get out of the lease?\n\nThank you so much for your help and advice\n\nEdit: I wrote this around 1:00AM in a panic and I'll be up around 6:30AM Pacific Time to check back in.","title":"Recent Apartment Lease to La Vista Apartments in Santa Maria, CA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569645528,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dabjcc\/workplace_discrimination_for_not_having_a_child\/","id":"dabjcc","body":"So not long ago I posted inquiring about workplace discrimination towards me for not having a child. I took the post down because I got little helpful answers and mostly people telling me it wasn\u2019t illegal or discrimination to make me work more hours with less choice because I don\u2019t have children. I\u2019m updating to let people know that I have spoken to my manager\u2019s manager about it and it *IS* in fact workplace discrimination to alter hours based on not having children. Especially since I was explicitly told I wasn\u2019t allowed to pick hours and always had to close because I did not have children to go home to, even though I was hired as an opener. My manager was given a written warning with notice she\u2019d be put on probation if she continued the behavior, and my schedule was changed immediately so now I only close on three of my shifts in October, compared to all of them in September. They even had me work a mid shift today instead of closing! They said it was not my fault my manager had kids, nor was it my responsibility to pick up her slack. If she needed time to see to her children, she needed to request time off, not affect my work and personal life. Moral of the story is, yes, sometimes situations can suck, but you don\u2019t always have to stay in them. If people didn\u2019t speak up, nothing would ever get better. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll keep this post up, but I just wanted to share an update","title":"Workplace discrimination for not having a child Update","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569351834,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8rqb9\/due_to_lack_of_a_survey_poll_on_my_end_can_my\/","id":"d8rqb9","body":"Hey there, a month or so ago I had a paper come into my door asking residents of my apartment building\/complex about a smoke-free policy.\n\nNow, I'm one to be a smoker but I mostly use marijuana as it is legal in my country now and I use it more medicinally. So using it in my apartment complex helps me use it in a personal setting instead of going out potentially where kids could be and give them second hand smoke. \n\nI'd hate to do that, but I thought my partner had given them the agreement in which we were NOT IN FAVOR of the smoke free policy, but I'm not sure if he forgot about it and lost it or if he did actually hand it in. \n\nOtherwise, I got a note in my door saying that since only 15 units disagreed with the new rule, and that the other units either agreed or \"didn't hand in any survey poll\" that they were also in agreement of said smoke policy. \n\nI guess I'm just asking here, am I for sure now in agreement since I potentially forgot to hand in the survey form or am I not since I never signed anything to an agreement of the new rule?","title":"Due to lack of a survey poll on my end, can my landlord still apply a no smoking agreement on my lease even if I didn't sign anything that I agreed to the new rule?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569727030,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dapxec\/can_i_sue_my_landlord_for_a_rat_infestation\/","id":"dapxec","body":"(CALIFORNIA)\nMy family and I have lived in this apartment for 4 years now, and we\u2019ve just recently noticed a rat problem. They\u2019re doing repairs on the roof of the apartment building, and I believe this is where the rats migrated from. Our neighbors have also mentioned seeing rats on their balcony and in the garage under the building, and yesterday a rat got into our apartment through the screen door of our balcony. Isn\u2019t the landlord responsible for maintaining pests like this by having professionals coming over every now and then to check if there is a pest problem? There\u2019s no way he isn\u2019t responsible for this. We called and he said he can\u2019t get anyone there until Monday, it\u2019s currently Saturday and the rat got inside yesterday which means he\u2019s basically saying we have to live with a goddamn rat for three days and that we have no choice. Is there anything that can be done?","title":"Can I sue my landlord for a rat infestation?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505537885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70f3zv\/what_would_happen_if_i_left_parking_tickets_and\/","id":"70f3zv","body":"I live near Chicago and I have recently found out that someone has bought cars in my name and that I have been hit with parking tickets in Chicago and IL tollway violations with these cars. I have already filed a police report and will be filling out an affidavit with the FTC.  I' also may reach out to a lawyer if need be.\n\nThe thing is these tickets are over 2 years old and they have not hit my credit report.  Which is what I was worried about.\n\nIf these tickets were left unpaid, what would happen?  I have never seen these cars and when I spoke with the police the plates have expired and are no longer on the vehicles.  \n\n\n","title":"What would happen if I left parking tickets and toll violations unpaid due to cars being bought in my name without my consent?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553484683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b55ma7\/in_divorce_assets_debt\/","id":"b55ma7","body":"Can anyone help me with a few Indiana divorce questions?   I\u2019d like to understand the division of assets.  \n\n\nHouse:  if one party stays, does the house get appraised and the staying party has to pay (appraisal - mortgage left)\/2 to the party that isn\u2019t staying?\n\nCars:  if one party keeps a car that\u2019s paid off, so they have to pay half the value to the other?  What gets done with a car that still has a loan?  Is it the same as the house?\n\n401K\/IRA\/Stock Accounts:   What the hell happens here?\n\nPre-marriage items:  what gets done about the engagement ring for example?  If it\u2019s a large sum before the marriage, is it returned to the buyer?  \n\n\nAny general advice?  ","title":"[IN] Divorce. Assets. Debt.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541527257,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uqnvu\/we_now_have_3_multi_family_houses_on_my_street\/","id":"9uqnvu","body":"Two neighbors converted their garages into bedrooms and are renting them out. One of these neighbors has converted his living room and basement as well. These are families, not single persons, living in these bedroom conversions. As a result parking has become nearly impossible.  To add to this, a house has been under construction for over a year with lots more work to be done. Parking is now a constant struggle from 7am-7am. Street cleaning days I\u2019m forced to park a block over.  Houses are intentionally taking up curb space for 2 cars as a means of \u201csaving\u201d spots (obviously not illegal, but annoying). Not to mention one of the three homes is harboring a criminal, caught trying to break into our cars on our street 3 weeks ago. Is there any legal action that can be taken against these specific homes?","title":"We now have 3 multi family houses on my street. Parking has become a nightmare. Houses are forced to block their driveways just to park in front of their houses. Is there anything we can do to?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550257022,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqzvt3\/attending_college\/","id":"aqzvt3","body":"I\u2019m a full time Best Buy employee. I wanted to start attending college soon, since I never got that chance when I was younger. I live in New York and I wanted to go Monday Wednesday and Friday evenings. I called Best Buy HR and was told the scheduling for that would be handled by the store. I know my store manager would not allow me to take these times off every week to attend school. What are my options?","title":"Attending college","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571530690,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkc4mc\/work_contractlease_contract_with_shady\/","id":"dkc4mc","body":"I am in desperate need of help reddit. My mother not too long ago (on the April of this year) signed what she believed to be an employment contract to work in a hairdressing salon as a cosmetologist while she is in school as a way to gain experience and apply what she has learned, and then eventually begin working full-time once she got her license.\n\nHer Employer (we'll call her Sarah) was very welcoming in the beginning and told her she'll be working with a 40\/60 split of commission where as 40% is my mother's pay and 60% is Sarah's. English not being my mother's first language and her being too trusty, she signed without carefully reading the agreement. The contract is for 4 years.\n\nShe's been working in Sarah's Salon on her off days from class alongside another employee (let's call her Jane). Sarah explains to my mother that all appointment customers belong to Jane or Sarah herself, and she can only take care of walk-in customers, also part of her responsibilities include cleaning up the place before leaving the salon.\n\nBased on what my mother has described, she's working as a janitor without barely any walk-in customers, and Jane asserts that nearly all customers are 'appointments'. She wanted to end her contract, and after asking Sarah countless times for the copy of her contract, she finally was able to take pictures of Sarah's phone that had pictures of the contract.\n\nThere's an early termination clause which reads that my mother would be responsible to reimburse Sarah for $6,400 per the 80 hour training she received at a cost of $80. My mother has received a total of 3 to 4 hours of explanation of how things work there, and she is receiving her cosmetology training in her own school. In the past months, my mother have made a total of $400 from her commission and tips. I currently live with her as living with her was far cheaper than college dorms for me.\n\nIn this 'Lease' contract, there's a lot of grammar issues, inconsistencies and other deceptive and manipulative clauses that makes no sense so I am asking for your advice. Is this Lease agreement even legal? Would this hold true in case Sarah brings this to court? We are currently in VA state and I figured I reach out to you guys before trying to find a lawyer which I am not sure we can afford at the moment.\n\nThank you in advance. We really appreciate it.\n\n[Here are the pictures of the Lease contract.](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/OwXG2ew)","title":"Work contract\/Lease contract with shady termination clause.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569721774,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dap19d\/is_it_legal_for_a_man_to_have_no_shirt_on_in_his\/","id":"dap19d","body":"Is it 100% legal for a fat white dude to get fined and get put on the sex offender list, just for having no shirt on in his front yard. Shorts\/Pants are on and also sandles on. I was getting yelled at by someone that having no shirt is indecent exposure because I have man boobs, saying that if they called the cops saying that I'm making them uncomfortable (even tho I'm not doing anything except taking out the trash or checking on somebody in my open garage {it's open to air out as he paints a car} not even talking or bugging the neighbors or any passerbys in any way other than not having a shirt on. It's summer and it's very hot and having a shirt on is extremely uncomfortable for me. Am I legally safe to walk in my front yard shirtless or am I getting put on the registry.","title":"Is it legal for a man to have no shirt on in his own front yard (Belleville, Michigan)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571097078,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhzdmh\/hospitalization_caused_a_missed_quiz_college_tx\/","id":"dhzdmh","body":"Basically I was in the er and couldn't safely leave to go to class (viral tonsillitis), I emailed my prof. The day before (from urgent care) explaining that illness would cause me to miss the quiz. I was pointed to the syllabus that says no retakes unless you meet the schools absence policy (which doesn't include illness). I'm attempting to contact the chair of the dept. But I want to know if this is legal. Ada doesn't seem to cover this situation (doesn't cover temp disability) but its 10% of my grade and I couldnt leave the er without endangering my health.\nDo I have any law backing my right to take this quiz or is it up to professors discretion and im screwed?","title":"Hospitalization caused a missed quiz (college, tx.)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571370739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djhwm9\/qc_canada_noticed_damage_on_my_car_after_i\/","id":"djhwm9","body":"I was leaving a parking spot and a car was parked on the parking line between us.\nI tried my best to leave the spot but bumped into it. \n\nI didn't feel major. \n\nIt's only when I got home later that I saw that there's damage to my car. About 4 inches of metal on my bumper like a groove. I don't know how to explain it with words. \n\nI'm pretty sure I damaged the other car while bumping into it. \n\nWhat can I do to pay for the damage done to the other car?","title":"QC, Canada: Noticed damage on my car after I arrived home. What can I do? (Repost as I still need help and received no responses)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555030546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc7kav\/2_camera_tickets_in_3_months\/","id":"bc7kav","body":"I just moved to Portland Oregon for a job (I work in healthcare where I travel to patients home\u2019s to treat and average roughly 400 miles per 5 hour work week \u2014so I am on the road a lot). \n\nI received a red light camera ticket in February of which I paid the $265 (It was for turning right on a red  where apparently you cannot do that in Oregon) \n\nRecently I got another ticket for going \u201cexactly\u201d 50 mph in a 35. The ticket I got in the mail has zero explanation for how they calculate the speed and the picture of my face is completely washed out with no recognizable figure in it. The exact mph of 50 also seems suspect. \n\nI had no idea how many of these things are set up in the city until I checked online. Seems like a complete scam and money grab. \n\nI am concerned that I will get my license suspended or something and will not be able to work and see my patients. \n\nMy goal is to get this current ticket expunged from my record. Would it be better to just show up in traffic court and ask if I can take a traffic safety course, or should I hire a traffic attorney to fight it? \n\nThe ticket is for 170$ so I am not sure if the price of an attorney would offset that or not. Any idea how much a typical traffic attorney in Oregon charges?\n\nThank you everyone","title":"2 Camera Tickets in 3 months","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504325999,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xjpyj\/wa_possible_elder_abuseneglect_charges\/","id":"6xjpyj","body":"Hello, I will get straight to it: My mother recently contacted a social worker in regards to her disability benefits, who may want to press charges of elder abuse\/neglect against me. This is due to me not calling the police when my mother was being assaulted and choked by her ex-boyfriend during an argument. Our living situation has not been ideal for the last several years as well. I have been underemployed and our residence has not always been spotlessly clean. Neither one of us wants charges filed but it may be necessary for my mom to gain assistance with disability and housing (Section 8). \n\nWhat are my options? I am considering leaving the state to stay with my LDR boyfriend until the statute of limitations runs out, IF that is even possible. I realize the obvious advice is to contact a lawyer, but a) I cannot afford one, and b) with Labor Day weekend, I'm unsure if I can even get a hold of one, hence asking this sub before a choice is made for me. Again: *Neither* me or my mom wants charges but it may happen anyway.\n\nThank you in advance.","title":"[WA] Possible Elder Abuse\/Neglect charges","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1412006764,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hsqhj\/i_was_involved_in_a_motorcycle_accident_what\/","id":"2hsqhj","body":"Location: Bellingham Washington\n\nI was in the right lane going straight (motorcycle), they were in the left lane wanting to turn right. They cut me off, I almost hit them, and laid the bike down trying to avoid a collision. They drove off. My bike is pretty damaged, the front end is out of alignment and the fairings are toast, and I have a sprained ankle.\n\nA witness called the police when it happened and gave a description of the vehicle and part of the license plate. I waited around for an hour for the officer to arrive on the scene, then upon the advice of the dispatcher left the scene. I talked to a detective a little later and filed a report. I also have some witness phone numbers, and all witnesses agree that it was 100% the other guys fault. The officer said there was \"a good chance\" he could track the other driver down, and that because I did not actually collide with them, felony hit and run is probably off the table. I do not have insurance, which is not required in my state.\n\n\nWhat happens next? What should I be doing? Should I get my foot x-rayed? I'm pretty sure it's just a sprain and I can walk (limp) again, but I'm missing work today and possibly tomorrow. TIA for your advice.","title":"I was involved in a motorcycle accident, what should I be doing?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571687285,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dl5u1p\/employer_didnt_inform_me_i_no_longer_had_a_job\/","id":"dl5u1p","body":"I do cleaning for a company that does contracts for commercial businesses.\n\nOn Sept. 26th my boss texted me saying I don't need to come in today since he will be there the rest of the week. Him and some other crew were going to be doing cleaning of the carpets and other \"deep cleaning.\" I was told Im getting paid for those two days. I work the following monday and only get paid for that day. It was my understanding I would also be getting paid for all this time Im missing from an email he sent. \n\nFast forward three weeks of me texting everyday asking if Im needed there that day and he said no. Didnt give me any kind of estimate when Id be back besides, \"he's working on it.\" Im starting to get worried now. At what point do I ask if Im just fired? I havent gotten any complaints or anything. So, one day I email my boss and below is his full response on Oct. 18th. \n\n\"I saw that and will get that fixed. Yes look for another job we are going to use sub-contractors at the sites that are hard to get to due to not meeting contractual requirements. I will get payroll to get the pay your missing. I was trying to get it worked out to be able to keep our own employees there. It is just more costly than paying a sub-contractor\"\n\nI cant tell if this is a bs way to blow me off or actually true. So in that time I could have been looking for a job, have a job already, etc. Im not sure if there is anything legally I can do here, but I have bills like everyone else, so Im quite frustrated. The shitty part is I was good at my job, was at night, super flexible with school, and crazy close to home.","title":"Employer didn't inform me I no longer had a job for 3 weeks","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540374943,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qy82i\/aus_i_had_access_to_an_insta_accountthat_has_now\/","id":"9qy82i","body":"The one that created it named the account thecultof(name of teacher) and some went around asking for peoples paypal and saying sexual things. The account was only up for a few days. The school has said they have contacted the police and have said this is fraud\n\nWhat im asking is what will happen to me?","title":"(AUS) i had access to an insta account(that has now been deleted) where several other and i where we kind of pretended to be a former teacher","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539492219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o08dt\/forced_to_stick_hand_in_toilet_bowl\/","id":"9o08dt","body":"Is it illegal for somebody to force someone else that is meek and younger (young adult)  than them to stick their hand in a clogged toilet to clean it out. The person that forced someone to do this said that she clogged it when she didn\u2019t flush her tampon correctly. She stood in front of the bathroom door and wouldn\u2019t let her out and verbally abused her that day and days to follow. They don\u2019t work together but they were on the same floor. ","title":"Forced to stick hand in toilet bowl!","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541316881,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u1q46\/was_i_wrongfully_terminated_do_i_have_to_disclose\/","id":"9u1q46","body":"**Location: US, NC**\n\nI will try to be as detailed as possible in order to get the best advice. Currently, I am applying to law schools and am required to fill out a Character & Fitness questionnaire. I know I need to disclose everything and I will be subject to investigation when I eventually take the Bar exam. I hear that they review your law school applications. \n\nThe question I am dealing with is as follows:\n\n>**3. In a professional setting, have you been subject to disciplinary sanctions, or are any charges pending?**\n\nWhen I was 17 (from start until termination), I had a Federal Work Study job at my university as an office clerk. Federal Work Study is a government program that gives low-income students jobs on campus so they can save money towards their tuition. It lasted two months. I did not enjoy the job at all because of the environment. This was my first job but I still knew how to act in a professional environment. I am diligent and conduct myself professionally. I can get many of my current and former employers to attest to that statement. \n\nThere were red flags from day 1. My boss was extremely passive aggressive. My first day started at 11:30 AM, and I wanted to be prepared so I arrived on campus at 9:00 AM. I am that kind of person. I had an e-mail from her saying to come at 11:30 AM. At 9:30 AM, I got a call from her. She said \"Where are you? Do you want to come late? We're all waiting on you.\" I knew that she was wrong, so I said \"My bad, I thought it was at 11:30 but I'm on my way.\" When I arrived in the office, she admitted that she was wrong. I should have known then but I stuck through it. I acted friendly but I wasn't \"clicking\" with anyone there. My supervisor kept staring at me without an expression. I could tell that she didn't like me for whatever reason.\n\nSide Note: My supervisor and my boss had a close relationship. I think that they are family friends and my boss had gotten my supervisor this position. \n\nI was trained and I met everyone in the office. I was doing fine. Not to be bold, but I think I was doing more than my coworkers. I would never use my phone or browse the internet. They would just sit and gossip. That's all my coworkers would do when nobody was looking. I'm not a snitch, though. I never said anything because I didn't care. I finished all my assignments on time and my boss would praise me for \"picking up the slack\" and \"staying focused.\" I seriously thought I was doing okay. \n\nOnce, I asked my supervisor why the computer we were using wasn't updated like the other ones in the office. I was frustrated that it was being so slow. She said \"I don't know.\" I didn't think anything of it. The next day, my boss asked me if I could see her. I wasn't afraid because I couldn't recall messing up in any way. She told me that she heard about my comments yesterday and that they were \"highly inappropriate\" for an office setting. \n\nMy coworkers seriously didn't like me. They never said anything mean to me but they were always unwilling to talk to me or help me. They would ignore me most of the time. Again, I never made an effort to be overly friendly. I wasn't at work to make friends. It was difficult, though. They began to play blame games and blame me for their wrongdoings. I didn't know about this until later, however. \n\nMy boss was condescending and passive aggressive. And I mean very. She would constantly come in to remind us that this job was a \"great opportunity.\" It was very strange to me. Once, my coworker was doing some homework on the job when we had absolutely nothing to do. We had no tasks for a bit (probably like 30 minutes) so she got started on it. My boss found out and threatened to null my coworker's work for the day. She said that she wouldn't pay her for all the work she did today because of that. I'm not sure if this actually went through, but I suspected that that was illegal if not against my university's policies. \n\nI was the only person of my gender and race in that office. I obviously never commented on it but my boss asked me what my heritage was. She asked me questions about it that made me feel uncomfortable. I think she may have called me into her office just to ask these questions. Once, she had brought in a dish for everyone to eat during our lunch break. It had chicken in it. I was eating it because I have no dietary restrictions. She loudly said \"\\[OP\\], just letting you know this does have chicken in it\\].\" It wasn't racist but it made me feel uncomfortable. I am not sure why she thought I couldn't see the chicken, or why she thought I was a vegetarian. \n\nAccidentally, I had thrown away sticky paper. She was furious about this and called me into her office so I could explain myself. Although, I thought it was very minor... this was probably my second mess up. \n\nI had a third mess up. But I'm not sure if it counted. There were five women at my work named Christy. Seriously. They were all spelled differently. One of my superiors said \"Can you please give this to Christy?\" She handed me some change to put in her mailbox. That's the day I found out there were 5 of them. I asked the receptionist (who was close with my boss and supervisor) which one it might be and she seemed really offended. Nonetheless, I got it done.\n\nAbout halfway through my time there, I had found out that my coworkers, supervisor, and boss had gone on a \"team building\" weekend without me. They had events and went out to eat. I had no idea about this happening and assume that I wasn't invited. \n\nMy last day I remember well. I had a few different tasks. First was sorting mail. I had accidentally mixed two stacks. My coworker was very mad at me. She said \"Seriously. You know you're not supposed to do this, right? Do you need to get trained again?\" I said that we would sort it out because we always double checked.\n\nI also had to fill envelopes with my other coworkers. I was super tired (physically) because it was a lot of work. I jokingly remarked \"I'm gonna need a 2 hour lunch break. Hahaha.\" It was just my other two coworkers in the room. So I took my lunch break (I was allowed an hour) but after getting bored for about 40 minutes I decided to go back. We had another project to work on, too. I figured that I should go ahead and do that because my coworkers were about to finish our work (filling envelopes). So I went and starting doing said other task. One of my superiors came to me and nearly yelled saying \"Why are you here? I got a call from X, saying you need to be over there. I shouldn't be having to tell you this.\" I got my stuff and went back. I'm not sure why she was so harsh. That day didn't feel good.\n\nWe had an event the day after tomorrow (Saturday) in which I had to be present. There was a shirt we needed to wear. I told her I needed a men's large. She got me a women's medium which was very strange to me. That's beside the point, though.\n\nI got a text the next morning at 8 AM (I wasn't working this day) saying that I needed to see her ASAP and that it was urgent. She said that she worked the schedule out so that I wouldn't have to attend. I got to the office and my card wouldn't swipe in the door. That's when I realized she revoked my door access and that something was up. I got in the office and my supervisor was sitting in the chair with my boss and they both looked extremely upset. They asked me \"How do you think you're doing in this role?\" I replied saying I felt like I was making progress and I was on par with my coworkers. They both nodded no and said I was doing a bad job. They said that I didn't understand how important my role was and that they wanted me to pursue other opportunities. \n\nI'm not happy that I didn't even get an update on my performance or have any warning that this was coming. She then said \"Yesterday you took a 2 hour break?\" I told her I didn't. I told her that it was a joke but that she could ask anyone or check my time sheet that I was present. She made a sarcastic comment and dismissed what I said. She said that she knew this because the work group chat was talking about me. I did not know that there was a group chat. I didn't make a fuss and I just left. She asked me for the shirt back. We never had any communication past that except her telling me to submit my final time sheet. As I was leaving the office, I saw one of my coworkers give me this very surprised look. I said hi to him and he gave me this face and didn't say anything back.\n\nI feel like there is something definitely wrong about this entire experience. My boss was awful, my coworkers ganged up and blamed things on me, and everyone at the office excluded me (from the team building event and group chat). My boss was way too inquisitive about my background and it made me so uncomfortable. I was not given a proper warning or word on my performance. I remember my boss talking on the first day about how she's never fired anyone except for one person who was bullying others. It's so ironic when I think of that statement.\n\n**It's been a while, but I'm willing to take this up if something about it was wrong. Because AFAIK, I have to state this on my law school application but I'm not sure how to word it. I never got a statement of termination or anything. I don't want it to be a red flag on my resume that I've been terminated from a job before. I was only 17 at the time, too. All of my employers since then like me and would seriously vouch for me. After that experience, I learned that that isn't how a job is supposed to be. Any advice?** ","title":"Was I wrongfully terminated? Do I have to disclose this for Bar and C&F purposes?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553622195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5sqph\/nc_us_settlement_almost_two_years_after_car\/","id":"b5sqph","body":"Like any other legal matters, I know a car accident settlement takes time to get resolved. In short, in 2017 I was hit head on by another driver. After the accident I was overwhelm; I got out of my car like nothing happened. Apparently, I was in the car for about one hour or so. I didn't know that, so I said I was okay. The airbags didn\u2019t deploy and I hit my head with the steering wheel. About 2 hours later I ended up going to the ER. They said everything was okay and that all I needed was some rest. They gave me a Dr\u2019s note for a two days rest and some ibuprofen for the pain and off I go. The next day I woke up with a headache and could barely standup after some rest I get up and call someone to take me to work to give them the Dr\u2019s note and get my medicine. When I was walking, I had to stop every 3-5 mins, so I ended going to my physician and she told me to rest and that I had a concoction. After that, I was sent from one doctor to another for the next eight months. \n\nI talked to the insurance at fault and told them that if they pay my car, medical bills, and my lost wages we will be good. They paid my car in full in 7 days so they didn\u2019t have to pay for my rental longer. Then their adjuster told me that they will my medical bills and give $1000 for other damages. I told them that doesn\u2019t cover my time then they answered with that\u2019s all you\u2019re getting. So, I decided to get a lawyer. After almost two years I began to get settlement offers which I have denied, because all I will be getting after all the expenses is <$2000. \n\n**Today the I talked to my lawyer\u2019s paralegal and she told me that if I don\u2019t accept this offer, they have to go fight this case in court and it is a 50\/50 chance of me getting anything out of this. I told the paralegal to give me all the details of the next steps and what are the chances of me getting more than $2000 out of this. She is going to talk to the lawyer and contact me after. anyone has any advice, should I accept the last settlement or should I tell them to refuse and go to court? Thanks!** ","title":"[NC, US] Settlement almost two years after car accident.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554288519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8wdly\/malden_ma_apartment_company_charged_us_for\/","id":"b8wdly","body":"Hello. This is a long one so I will just make a list of events. My main question is wondering if its worth pursuing legal action against the housing company, or the collection company. \n\nReceived 2 months free rent as promotion to move into new apartment complex (large complex)\n\nMoved in January, lived happily for 4 months\n\nEaster weekend, roommate finds a bag of oxycotton in the building hallway (like a hotel hallway) turns it into the leasing office.  Cops come and check it out. (cameras in building) (OC bag was half a fist size)\n\nPolice report made, cops leave, end scene.\n\nAbout a month later we see a $5k charge (2 months rent) on our account we use to pay rent\/etc. We wonder whats up, assume they missed our rent payment on accident.\n\n After investigation we find out that it was them charging us for the 2 free months that we got when we moved in.\n\nReason- Violating our lease terms by possessing drugs (the Oxycotton WE TURNED IN!!!!)\n\nWe try to talk to the office staff about it but they have been told they cannot discuss it with us.\n\nThey start putting pressure on us to pay up, we stand our ground, roommate gets a meeting w\/ a mediator.\n\nWe receive the option to either not stay and leave w\/out facing punishment of breaking our lease, or stay for our lease and not pay, but the situation gets swept under the rug, and we cannot pursue action against the company.\n\nWe say F that, we are leaving. We assume everything is done and over. They were even required to pay for a moving company.\n\n\\[side note before part 2, they required us to move out 3 days b4 the end of the month so they could turn the apartment over to the next tenant, this was a pain but in the lease so we accepted, unfortunately our stuff could not be accessed until we were ready to take ALL of it, so for 3 days I lived out of my car, b\/c if i went to the storage unit, I would need to take EVERYTHING. Then we find out from our old across the hall neighbors that no one moved in for over 2 months. All that hassle for nothing...)\n\nPART 2 - Debt Collection\n\nJust when we think everything is all said and done, we each receive a collection notice in the mail for the $5k, plus $6k in additional charges. We absolutely are not paying that. However, anyone thats lived in Boston knows that housing is very competitive, and having a collection on your account basically means you wont be approved for housing. \n\nAfter a Month, my roommate (we no longer live together at  this point as i moved back to NY) pays the debt. He was having tons of issues with housing and decided to pay and take them to court later, so he could temporarily move on and be approved for housing.\n\nThe only problem is they never reported it paid on my end of the account. I went for over a year until I applied for an apartment and it came up on my credit report. A delinquent payment for $11k...\n\nWe call the company and they say they are going to remove it from my account. Never happens. Now my credit is screwed for a collection that was actually paid, off of a debt that was bogus in the first place. I have been declined from multiple hosing complex's, and was only able to get an auto loan at almost 9% interest. \n\nAm I able to hold the collection agency accountable for not reporting it as paid on time?\n\nAm I able to go after the housing complex for filing this $11k debt after we agreed on our dismissal terms?\n\n​\n\nTL:DR  - Housing company files debt for money we didn't owe, collection agency doesn't report as paid after we foolishly pay it anyways. Credit is absolutely ruined when it goes over its payment window. Consequences of having a  collection on credit report ensues. ","title":"[Malden, MA] Apartment Company Charged Us for Breaking Lease Rules, Were Proven Wrong, Then Put a Collection Out For the Charges Anyway","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570416269,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dedht6\/nj_i_was_contacted_by_a_lawyer_in_australia_who\/","id":"dedht6","body":"The man's surname is shorter than mine, and I have never met either him or the lawyer or have heard of their names.  Another vital thing to mention is that he apparently died in a car accident ***a couple of years ago.*** \n\nI was born in and grew up in New Jersey, and I have never visited Australia before, so I am not exactly sure how they managed to find my email? Maybe by searching up my name, but again I have never been contacted by these people before.\n\nI have received a total of 3 emails from the lawyer. The first one her introducing herself to me, the second one is a PDF of a letter that talks about all of the details, and the third one is exactly the same as the first one, as well as the most recent email I have gotten. I have only replied to the first one, which was what led to the lawyer sending me the second email. I have not checked to see if her law firm is genuine.\n\nWhat exactly should I do here? The only time I responded was to the first one asking her what she meant, only for her to send me the PDF letter. I have not responded since. I don't need to get law enforcement involved as long as I don't do anything right?  \n\nI also wanted to know if I can upload screenshots of the email into the post? (I've already blurred out all personal information in the email)","title":"[NJ] I was contacted by a lawyer in Australia who said that I share a surname similar to her deceased client and that she wanted to talk to me about how I was entitled to his estate?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1447187335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sbgoy\/legal_questions_about_my_moms_divorce\/","id":"3sbgoy","body":"Hi, I have some questions about my mom's divorce agreement (she hasn't signed yet). Her lawyer is very useless, she takes forever to do a simple thing. She was supposed to set up an appointment for mediation over a month ago, and we haven't heard anything yet. I try to convince my mom daily to get a new lawyer, but my mom says she doesn't have the money to do so. So my step-dad's lawyer is the one who wrote up the agreement, he gave it to my mom's lawyer but she hasn't signed yet because they found some parts that need to be written more clearly. I have some questions about the house agreement, they decided that my mom will live here for 5 years and after that he came move back in the house and my mom will move out. When she moves out she will get some money from the house (I believe the equity) or they will sell it. Looking at the agreement it doesn't seem fair how much money she will be getting (not much at all). this is what it says: \n\nUpon the sale of the property, the proceeds shall be distributed as follows:\n\nThe Wife shall receive one half of the principal mortgage balance reduction. On or about the time of the marriage, the property had a mortgage balance of one hundred thirteen thousand dollars ($113,000.00). The Parties have, at the time of filing the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage, a mortgage balance of sixty-nine thousand, one hundred twenty-seven dollars ($69,127.00).\n\nThe Wife shall be entitled to one half of the principal mortgage reduction of forty-three thousand, eight hundred seventy-three dollars ($43,873.00), which is twenty-one thousand, nine hundred thirty-six dollars and fifty cents ($21,936.50). Thereafter, up until the home sells, if the Wife is making the mortgage payment and is not otherwise in default, under this Agreement the Wife shall additionally receive one half of the principal mortgage reduction using the current balance of the mortgage of sixty-nine thousand, one hundred twenty-seven dollars ($69,127.00), minus the balance due to pay off the mortgage loan, the resulting difference being the principal mortgage reduction. The Husband shall keep the remaining sale proceeds.\n\nHow is it that she will only be getting $20k? That makes no sense. \nAlso, what should\/can she do about her lawyer? The lawyer says she will contact my step-dad's lawyer to change a couple of things, but my mom is worried that it will take months. This lawyer has been taking her sweet time and not even getting paid for it. She's been RUDE to my mom, telling her in an email that if she's in such a hurry to get the divorce, she shouldn't have waited 14 years to do it. Unbelievable. \n\nMy last question is, we heard that there's a way the government can help out with child support if the father is over 65 years old. My step is over 65 and him and my mom have a 13 year old daughter. He all of a sudden 'lost his job', but he hasn't said anything about requesting child support from my mom, which is good. She wouldn't be able to afford it. If she can get $500 a month from the government, that would help out a LOT. Where can we get more information on this? I tried googling it but I couldn't find anything. \n\nShould I look for another lawyer for my mom? Someone who would be more useful? There a couple of other things that my mom wants to change on the agreement but she just wants this to be over that she's willing to sign it without those changes, but I'm going to convince her not to do this. My step dad still lives with her and she can't afford to move out. She just wants him gone. Any help would be greatly appreciated, even if it's a redirect to speak to someone else. Thank you. ","title":"Legal questions about my mom's divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552654299,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1eklk\/legal_fee_options_for_prenup\/","id":"b1eklk","body":"I am getting married soon and my fiancee and I are getting a prenup. Her lawyer is drafting the document, so I just need someone to review and sign it. I have two options:\n\n1. Attorney 1 charges a flat fee of $1500 to review the document and be present at signing\n2. Attorney 2 charges an hourly rate of $225, and estimates 3-5 hours of work\n\nWhich would be the best option for me??\n\nLocation: Chicago\nReposting because I received no answers before ","title":"Legal fee options for prenup","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570644597,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfkxc2\/expired_car_insurance\/","id":"dfkxc2","body":"We got sideswiped. Damage to the passenger side of the car because they wanted to turn from two lanes away. Caught up with them and managed to call police and make a report. Got their license, insurance, and plates. Tried to put claim in with their insurance and they told me their insurance has expired back in August (accident happened 10\/4). \n\nI was driving. Car has full coverage but I\u2019m not on it. Owner of car was with me in passenger seat. No injuries. \n\nAny steps I can take against the other person? Also, insurance wants statement saying I\u2019m excluded so I\u2019m not sure if there\u2019s any way I can win.","title":"Expired Car Insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540113048,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q26uz\/poor_sanitary_and_teaching_practices_in_a\/","id":"9q26uz","body":"Now first of all, I have to say that I don't live in US, but any help is welcome. I can take this for a few more months until I graduate, but I'd love to help fix some things for the future generations of students there. Especially since our new principal is very uncooperative and is trying to influence what we do as students and what our \"student council\" does. It might get a bit wordy, sorry for that.  \n\n\n\nNow considering the poor teaching practices, there are a few \"small problems\" that kind of add up. \n\n\nFirst, we have quite a few professors that I would call unqualified for the subject they're teaching. Since we are studying to be computer technicians, in a school that mainly focuses on machines and stuff like that (car repairing, mechatronics, etc.) professor that are usually very bad at teaching us what we need to know when it comes to the computer part of studying. Some might even know less than we do. \n\n\nSecond, a lot of professors do not take us seriously, whenever we complain about school practices we get dismissed and ignored. \n\n\nThird, if we ask questions about the subject they get visibly annoyed and often even ignore us. Considering that I'm a really curious person and I love to debate things that don't seem right to me, usually I do it to contribute the class discussion. My math professor even stopped talking to me because of it, even when I need to use the bathroom she just nods. \n\n\nFourth, our classes are not interactive at all. Unless the school inspection comes, since they say when they will come, most of professors just prepare something for that day. \n\n\n\nMow for sanitary and \"quality of life\" issues. \n\n\nOne of the worst is mice in the school and a lot of stray dogs around the school and in the school yard. Second is the fact that a lot of our classes have very small windows and usually only a couple of them can be opened, which is awful when there are thirty people inside the classroom for 7-8 classes a day. Then there is the lack of doors in the restrooms and the cleaning consists of flooding them with water. \n\n\n\nOne problem that we managed to partially solve is the lack of places to sit during breaks, now we have a total of eight benches (there is more than a hundred and fifty students at the same time in school) ","title":"Poor sanitary and teaching practices in a highschool","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1412954445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2iv1pt\/washington_dc_employee_work_product_ownership_for\/","id":"2iv1pt","body":"Hello! \n\nI am a creative writer who has been hired to write full-time for a political news outlet. I will be writing something like two to three articles a day.\n\nFormerly I worked as a blogger for a major political blogging site. I was told I would have to quit there and not write for them anymore. I agreed to that.\n\nI have been asked to sign an Employee Work Product Ownership contract for my new job. As a creative writer at heart, I still want to be able to write and publish creative pieces in literary journals and presses during my employment with this news outlet. The content I would be publishing in journals does not and would not compete with the content at my current job. \n\nMy question is - am I completely disallowed from writing and publishing anything creative? Can I not do screenplays, novels, or short stories while writing for this organization? I've also been offered a small gig with vlogging (paid per vlog) and want to look into that, but I'm not sure I'll be able to. \n\nThanks for any and all help.","title":"[WASHINGTON DC] Employee Work Product Ownership for Writer","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1442335550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l27dq\/ca_divorce_question_about_marriage_settlement_and\/","id":"3l27dq","body":"Hello,\n\nMy STBX wife has proposed a settlement through her attorney and one of the stipulations is that I refinance my vehicle which we purchased together while married. The stipulation calls for it to be done within 10 days. \n\nThe problem is that the vehicle is upside down and I have horrible credit. I don't think I'll be able to refinance the vehicle in my name as a result (and there are no savings to use to make a down payment as part of a refinance). \n\nI have asked for that stipulation to be waived, but I have two questions:\n\n1 if I agree to the terms but don't refinance, what are the legal consequences to me? It's not that I don't intend to pay for the vehicle, I have made the payment on time every month since we bought it. \n\n2 if we go to court, will the judge make the same order if I agree to assume the debt?\n\nI asked the attorney to consider including language to protect the other party by agreeing that I would carry civil liability to her should I default on the loan. Does that sound fair?\n\nThanks!","title":"[CA Divorce] question about marriage settlement and refinancing a co-owned vehicle","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569978068,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc2zzj\/brothers_managers_dont_call_ambulance\/","id":"dc2zzj","body":"Yesterday at work my brother's lungs collapsed, as he was running out of his workplace to rip off his uniform due to overheating, his manager watched and did nothing, he managed to call my mother and she drove all the way to his workplace and bring him to the hospital (Sure he could have called ambulance himself but unsure why he did not). Is his work legally responsible for assisting him? Could they be in trouble for negligence?  \n\n\nI live in Ontario Canada, my brother is 20 years old (He also has mental disabilities).","title":"Brothers managers don't call ambulance","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570029785,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcbowb\/got_a_payout_of_about_a_grand_in_may_now_the\/","id":"dcbowb","body":"Hey everybody, I don\u2019t know if this is worth going to a lawyer or anything however I wanted to know if anyone had any insight into this. Takes place in ny, USA.\n\nI\u2019m a freelance \/ contract  employee where sometimes I\u2019m only on a job for one or a few days. I constantly have checks coming in from one of three companies who do payroll. In May, I received a check from payroll for around 1500 dollars and deposited it without thinking anything of it, figuring it was for a job I worked and forgot about, or that my check that I had received was split between two checks. I\u2019m now being contacted by the payroll company asking for the money back as of late September, 4 months later and after the job as a whole has been completed for a few months.\n\nRelevant info: the stub was marked vacation \/ holiday payout. I verified that it is not a phishing scam of some kind. \n\nSo my questions: \n\nAm I legally obliged to pay this money back?\n\nWhat are my tax implications with it? If I send my take home back, it is on the company to also get the taxes paid out to the government in my name back- is there any risk in terms of tax liability that I should be concerned with? Or am I responsible for reaching out to the irs?","title":"Got a payout of about a grand in May, now the company is asking for it back (NY)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568471470,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d45wc3\/usamo_leasing_company_keeps_ignoring_my_calls\/","id":"d45wc3","body":"I lease a house through a pretty popular leasing company in the US. I moved in around April and noticed in one of the basement rooms that a small amount of water would leak in from the outside when it would rain (walk out basement). You couldn't put anything in the room due to the carpet getting wet. It took them till July to send a company out to fix it. Well the company gutted the room, ripped up carpet and took drywall down. Then said they couldn't fix it and left.\n\n I have not heard anything from anyone within the company. The bedroom is unlivable as its still gutted. And every time I call the company, whoever answers transfers me to a line that rings and goes to a voicemail (I have left multiple messages) and no one calls me back. They keep telling me they'll send me to a property manager yet its a voicemail. It's been two months.\n\nI need advice on what my options are, I signed a one year lease. I enjoy the house but I don't think its fair I'm paying full rent and only getting 2\/3 of the bedrooms.","title":"[USA-MO] Leasing company keeps ignoring my calls about maintenance not finished in July.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538575646,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9l1h06\/months_of_hearing_offensive_comments_even_after_a\/","id":"9l1h06","body":"I have a co-worker (50ish years old, we'll call him R) who mutters to himself. The mutterings can be heard in the lobby (a public area, which includes a co-worker's desk) outside of his office and in my office right next to his. The issue is that R's language is super offensive and is not being dealt with. What I have bothered to catalog is not limited to racist, sexist, and anti-semitic. This includes threats towards specific racial groups and women, holocaust denial, and under his breath threats towards suppliers.\n\nI say \"bothered to catalog\" because as a result of this, I bought myself some noise cancelling headphones to drown out the mutterings. And I say 8 months specifically because he was previously \"warned\" 8 months ago for similar comments that other people and I heard. R chalked it up to his \"reactions to reading the news\" that he \"promised\" to not do anymore. He did not. In this instance he was heard yelling the N word while reading the news.\n\n It doesn't stop with the offensive things R says  He treats the female employees very differently from the male employees and as a result, they do not feel comfortable being around him. He likes to make jokes\/comments about his \"Britney Spears pictures\" and having an island of 18 year olds. Whenever he complains about other drivers, he always makes sure to mention whether they're a Clinton or Bernie voter.\n\nSo I recently reported him to HR and she has brought it up to my supervisor and the CEO. The CEO is concerned about possible discrimination lawsuit as a result of firing him. In a discussion with another co-worker, one of our supervisors said our complaints were being intolerant of R's \"beliefs,\" and what is considered offensive is subjective Even though the rest of the office is about 99.9% sure it constitutes as hate speech. None of this being the fault of the problem co-worker, thereby putting the blame on us who reported him.\n\nGiven the fact that I'm the one that hears most of mutterings, it should be pretty easy to piece together that I reported him. And given the aggressive nature of his comments,\u00a0**I am now mildly concerned for my safety**.\n\nWe have a meeting on Thursday with (hopefully) a neutral third party. I need help in reframing these concerns to force my supervisor to take action on this, otherwise I'm looking for a new job (which at this point doesn't sound like a terrible idea).\n\nTL,DR: My co-worker says some pretty terrible and uncomfortable stuff, management doesn't seem keen on doing anything.","title":"Months of hearing offensive comments, even after a \"warning\" [MA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570582554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df9iel\/are_promises_made_by_employees_of_a_company\/","id":"df9iel","body":"Honestly the title is the TL:DR\n\nHaving said that, I\u2019d like to fully explain my situation\n\nI recently moved from NC to MS back in April of this year to be closer to my girlfriend, she lives WAY off the grid and there are only 2 choices that get signal out there that I know them, AT&T being among them-for a variety of unrelated reasons AT&T is who I chose for service\n\nI\u2019m looking at switching and notice that I can receive an iPhone 8 for $10 a month after bill credits-I switch service to them and receive my phone no problem\n\nNow, after having done this(this is where the trouble begins) I decide that since my roommate wants a new phone, I might as well add a line and switch him over too and get him a new phone as well\n\nFor whatever technical reasons AT&T had, I was unable to verify my identity and add a line, so the online support tech I talked to created a whole new account for my roommate under his name and I paid for the phone with my credit card-this was April 30, the day the promo on the phone my roommate chose ended\n\nThe phone was supposed to be free after bill credits equivalent to the amount on the installment plan AND included a $200 visa gift card\n\nI received an email the next day(May 1) that my order had been cancelled due to possible fraudulence, so I went into a store the next day and talked to a sales rep at a corporate location about if I could still take advantage of what was supposed to be an expired online-only promo\n\nI was told I could and he even wrote in the notes for the transaction that the phone was supposed to be free\n\nThat was back in May and while I finally got a $250 rewards card back in August, I\u2019m still paying for what was supposed to be a free phone-it\u2019s an $800 phone-I personally have a hard cap on what I\u2019m willing to spend on a phone as I am a man of limited means\n\nEvery month that I have called or walked in store to discuss this until this month, I have been told I would receive these credits\n\nOver the past week I have called and been in store multiple times to try and resolve this in good faith only to be told that essentially I need to pony up the full amount\n\nSeeing as this verbal promise was recorded at time of sale by an employee of AT&T(not a contractor) does this count as part of the contract? If so, is AT&T now in breach of contract? If not, does this represent a misrepresentation of what I am agreeing to and thus render the contract void?\n\nMy primary desire is just to get AT&T to follow thru on what I feel was promised-barring that I want out of my contract with no repercussions (I haven\u2019t got $250 to repay that gift card I got) and ideally I would keep my roommates phone without paying for it beyond the sales tax that was paid at the time of purchase(unrealistic I know)\n\nWhat are my options here and how would I get in contact with a contract lawyer?\n\nLet me know if I need to clarify anything\n\nThanks and sorry for the wall of text","title":"Are promises made by employees of a company legally binding?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554851696,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbetmt\/home_near_me_expanding\/","id":"bbetmt","body":"Hi Folks,\n\nFirst off, obligatory this is on mobile, so pardon any formatting issues.\n\nMy parents live in a neighborhood in Montgomery County, Maryland. There's a 4 bedroom house that is rented down the street from them. Their vehicles end up clogging up the street when parked, but it's really nothing major. The owner then allowed another two renters by converting some rooms into bedrooms.\n\nThe owner is now looking at adding an addition for the purpose of adding more bedrooms\/bathrooms. I can't imagine there being more vehicles outside of this house. \n\nThere's a building permit notice posted outside of the house, and a phone number\/case number for appealing the build-out. \n\nI really don't want to sound like an asshole, but is appealing this my only avenue? Any help would be greatly appreciated!","title":"Home near me expanding","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445468210,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pp4oc\/got_a_call_from_collections_regarding_my_gym\/","id":"3pp4oc","body":"I got a call from a collections agency today saying that I owed my gym $1150.  This amount included my $20 monthly fee for 8 months as well as a $350 ten session personal training and then collection fees.\n\nAs soon as I got the phone call, I knew that it was because I had lost my card 8 months ago and forgot to change the card number with the gym.  I have not received any phone calls or text messages regarding this payment though.  Additionally, I had not signed up for 10 sessions of personal training.  I told the collector that, and she said she would contact the gym for paperwork.\n\nI went to the gym to inquire about this payment, and I spoke to the guy that sends things to collections.  He told me that everyone receives multiple phone calls\/text messages before things go to collections, but it turns out they had my phone number incorrect in their system so I never got anything.\n\nIn regards to the personal training, I did one free session that they provide when you join, and then I did one additional session that I had pre-negotiated with the personal trainer would be non-binding, and I would just pay a one time fee.  The guy working at the gym today looked up my personal training contract, and saw that it was in fact a 10 session contract, but I had never signed it, I had just made one payment towards it.\n\nI told him that I never intended to not pay for my monthly membership and just wanted to work it out, and here are the options I was given.\n\n1. Fight the payment with the collections agency.  It would eventually go to court and I would win because I never signed the contract, but I would still be out lawyer fees.\n\n2. He looked up how much I owed the gym and found that they had sent $760 dollars to collections.  He told me that he was not supposed to tell me this amount, but did it so that we could work out a deal.  If I pay that amount today, then they will give me 15 personal training sessions and wave a few months of membership fees.  This would supposedly let them reverse things with collections and it wouldn't affect my credit, nor would I have to go to court.  I am supposed to let him know by tonight if I want to do this because his boss comes back tomorrow and he won't be able to change it then.\n\nAdditional note: he tried to get me to sign up for physical therapy at the gym because he said my insurance would cover it (I broke my ankle a few years ago and still experience pain).  This made me feel like he was just trying to get his ass out of trouble with this whole deal while still signing me up for additional services.\n\nAre these my actual options or is there anything else I can do?","title":"Got a call from collections regarding my gym payments [NY]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1444955125,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oxev4\/i_think_our_landlords_are_trying_to_scam_us_we\/","id":"3oxev4","body":"These pictures of the yard were taken by us 2 days before we moved. The white bordered one is a before and after of a really bad heat wave where I saved the grass with my own money and hard work. It was almost 3 weeks of 95-100F weather in washington. They are trying to charge us for 9 hours of yard work and re seeding?! Also only three Vinyl tiles were peeling so they charged us for a whole floor? They didn't even give us a real recipt just this typed up document. Is this something I can take to small claims court?\n\nHere are some pictures. \n\nhttp:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/c70Ln","title":"I think our landlords are trying to scam us. We are young and I believe they think we are stupid. Help?!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540958197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9svdfh\/how_do_collect_evidence_or_establish_proof_in_a\/","id":"9svdfh","body":"My 19 year old daughter has been digitally stalked, harassed, threatened, gas lighted, torture dialed, had friends threatened, for the past 14 weeks. She did all the right things per recommendations of the police and the courts to protect herself as this transpired. We just today won an order for a 1 year Protection Order against the young man after 14 weeks of relentless harassment and 6 weeks of court dates.\n\nAfter the judge ruled today, the young man signed the order with his signature and added the phrase \u201cin entry but not in form\u201d, at his attorney\u2019s advice. We didn\u2019t catch the detail as it occurred so we didn\u2019t get a chance to ask in court about the implications or meaning of adding that phrase.\n\nI assume this indicates he has an intention to appeal the order?\n\nDuring the final hearing today his attorney reiterated over and over that we can\u2019t prove it\u2019s him and my daughter made this all up just to hurt him.  I assume the appeal will be based on this same tactic and I\u2019m concerned because in the digital age, she seems to be correct. There\u2019s no camera footage of his attacks on Instagram. No clear trail to the anonymous phone calls and texts from multiple new phone numbers, or the endless \u2018no caller id\u2019 phone calls. There\u2019s no IP address record publicly exposed that ties to any known public detail of the young man. His router is connected to Xfinity and his computer is behind that. His phone can be on Cell and uncoupled from his home WiFi. I\u2019m in tech and I understand what I\u2019m up against, I\u2019ve actually obtained the source IP for some of the events, but I still can\u2019t tie it to him.\n\nSome background: \n\nThey dated for the prior 10 months, lived together for 6 of those months, and spent time with me, and we went on multiple family vacations and I brought him along. Seemed like a goofy, nice kid. Always had a narrative that his parents neglected him and favored his older and younger brothers, but he never demonstrated overtly antagonistic or manipulative behavior that I observed. I furnished his apartment for him when my daughter moved in (I know, beat me up for it. I had known him 3 months and he seemed like a good kid). I have not asked for any return of the furniture.\n\n1 week after my daughter broke with him and moved back home, he followed my daughter and a friend, literally stalked them, by parking in a hidden spot, spying on our apt, following the kids when they went out for walk, remaining hidden for nearly 1 mile in the dark of night he tracked them down a remote path and then revealed himself to them. My daughter texted me out of extreme concern, he scared the hell out of them and tried aggressively to get them into a confrontation. One of her friends is 6\u2019 4\u201d., a good kid I\u2019ve known for years, who refused to engage other than to protect my daughter from his onslaught.  I immediately called him and spoke with him. He was disoriented, angry, quiet and non-responsive as well. I drove down our hill and parked on the side of the road, hiked into the path and found them. I sat with him and talked for 20 mins while my daughter and her friends hiked back up to our apt. Then I drove him up the hill and asked him where his car was, took him to it, and dropped him off, watched him leave.  His car was hidden across the street behind another apt building.\n\nAs we drove to his car and I tried to chat with him he was angry, hurt, spoke about feeling obsessed, spoke about being unable to control his obsession, apologized, and we talked about ways he could move on, focus on his life, and try to put this behind him.\n\nHe texted me the next morning and thanked me, said I was a better dad than his own. I thought he would move on.\n\nThat was the only physical stalking incident.\n\nAfter that night my daughter started getting 100+ phone calls per day from \u201cNo Caller ID\u201d. Every day all the time, day after day, 24 hrs per day. But that\u2019s not all...\n\nHe tracked her new connections on Instagram, and each time she made a new connection with a boy, he used a \u2018spam account\u2019 to send the boy a threatening message. I\u2019ve learned that a spam account is an account that kids use, that is just a place to post random stuff, whereas with their \u2018main\u2019 accounts they are concerned with the \u2018asthetic\u2019, the spam account is just a place to use as you wish socially. Using his spam account he sent private messages such as \u2018Stay away from xxx or I will kill you\u2019 - xxx being my daughter\u2019s name. We have 7 of these messages that were shared with us by the targeted friends. Actual death threats. Please understand these were not Tinder dates, but extensions of her friend group she was connecting with as she tried to reestablish a social life after their relationship ended. \n\nHe used Skype or an App of some sort to acquire new phone #\u2019s. Then he used those numbers to text or call my daughter. The texts are all over the board from \u2018we were meant to be together\u2019 to \u2018your a fucking slut\u2019 to \u2018I\u2019m going to track you down and kill you\u2019. Not in that order. All over the place from day to day and message to message. \n\nIn the texts he reveals some intimate details. But nothing anyone can prove that it\u2019s him.\n\nIn the phone calls, when she answered, he used Siri or his computer to play movie phrases \/ sound bits that include death threats, claims of deep love, songs they liked, a voice mail of my ex wife which he must have scanned off of her voicemail (!), etc. you get the picture. He NEVER once spoke with his own voice in a message or a phone call. But we do have the voice mails. The songs are relevant. The threats are scary. And my ex wife\u2019s voice... who else could have that? It was a recent msg.\n\nThere is no way with any of the information we have to \u2018prove\u2019 this was him sending the messages, making the calls, doing any of it. We know it is him because my daughter\u2019s familiar with his spam account, she\u2019s seen him joke around and mess with his friends with anonymous phone numbers, and because contextually it is the only sensible conclusion based on the content of his messages and threats. \n\nHe also has been doing this to his previous girlfriend, who reached out to warn my daughter when they first started dating. But he denied it convincingly and you can imagine my daughter thought she was jealous.\n\nThat girl came to court with us today. She was ready to testify to her experience but the judge didn\u2019t ask her up.\n\nThe judge today understood all of this this. He saw through the deception and connected the dots. We have extensive circumstantial evidence but little that you might qualify as factual? Our judge granted the order despite the attorney\u2019s objections and the boy\u2019s total denials. \n\nBut we can\u2019t prove it\u2019s him behind all of this. And after all this time thinking we would be able to put this behind us at the final hearing I find myself struggling with stress and anxiety over \u2018what\u2019s next?\u2019. \n\nIn this digital age there\u2019s no available data obtainable, outside of a subpoena to Insta\/Facebook, that will establish details that would allow us to \u2018prove\u2019 its him. For example an IP address, geo location data of the Insta poster, the IP address or username of the Skype user who allocated the anonymous phone numbers, call logs showing Cell info for the \u2018no caller id\u2019 calls that would place him at home or in his neighborhood, an email address connected to the account, etc. \n\nAs far as I\u2019ve been able to find out, there\u2019s no way for to establish the definitive connection between him and the contact methods. All we have is circumstantial evidence. We have a lot of that, but it\u2019s tedious to connect and prone to the opposition\u2019s denial.\n\nIn Conclusion:\n\nIn his response to the temporary order he denied all of his activity, all of my daughter\u2019s claims, and stated she\u2019s mentally ill and can\u2019t prove any of it is actually him, because 99% of the stalking was done digitally and \u2018anonymously\u2019:\n\n- through anonymous phone numbers he some how obtained and used via text messages and phone calls. \n- through \u2018spam\u2019 accounts that do not include obvious identifiable personal info\n- through *67 blocking of his call info\n\nAnd finally, its a civil matter so we have no subpoena powers I\u2019m aware of.\n\nOkay, apologize for typos etc. I\u2019m 51 typing this with my thumb on my phone :) I know I\u2019ll get trolls and haters, but please, any useful advice that can help us prepare for the appeal would be appreciated. I love my daughter\u2019s. This is my oldest, and I\u2019ve raised both of my girls alone for the past 10 years. They mean the world to me. While I\u2019m helping her grow and learn from the lessons the episodes reveal, I also have heard too many stories in the past 14 weeks from officer\u2019s sharing 10 year stalking stories with me about relentless obsessive sociopaths. Hoping to find a way to cut this off in a shorter timeframe than that.\n","title":"How do collect evidence or establish proof in a digital world","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568478022,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d47arl\/florida_landlord_is_on_his_deathbed_what_can_i_do\/","id":"d47arl","body":"So the long and short of it is, my landlord (a tangential cousin of mine) is not doing very well physically. More and more time in the hospital and recently moved to the ICU. And while this is very saddening news, this also brings into view the rather precarious position I'll be left in if he does pass. Also should be noted that I am no longer under lease and living month to month\n\nI'm currently barely making ends meet and a contributing factor in the fact that I AM making ends meet is how low my rent is. Due to the fact that we're family and I offered to take care of the property maintenance and lawn care etc he knocked a chunk off my rent. So should he pass the building will be passed to his wife to take care of but she has never wanted anything to do with the property. So I have a strong feeling that she will want to sell the property leaving me with a new landlord and probably a higher rent.\n\nIs there anything I can do to protect my current rental price if a new landlord does take over? Thanks a bunch for any advice!","title":"[Florida] Landlord is on his deathbed. What can I do to protect my rental?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444399425,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o3opq\/legal_minimum_for_per_diem\/","id":"3o3opq","body":"Hi all, I do work in various states across the US.  Anyhow, my company pays for the hotel as long as it's $100 or less (which I have to share with another coworker. .)  Then we get $35 per day for food. Which we keep regardless, it goes straight to our check. I'm curious if there is any law that would make them give us the IRS stated minimum of $46.  I don't want to keep talking to HR and give a negative or unappreciative view of myself. Thanks in advance ","title":"Legal minimum for per diem?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446163537,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qry4t\/getting_around_a_noncompete_signed_during_an\/","id":"3qry4t","body":"Fall of 2014 my brother worked an internship with a Strength and conditioning company in Michigan. This company has its own form of fitness classes that it sends out trained instructors to contracted facilities to teach. During this internship he was required to sign a non-compete requiring a 100-mile radius from any of their branches throughout the state. After completing his internship and graduating college he was employed by this company to work at a local facility that paid his employer to use their specific regime. Now the facilities contract has come up for renewal and his workplace is no longer going to use their fitness routines. His employer (fitness company) has stated that because he signed this non compete he cannot continue to work there because the facilities contract states that they cannot employ any person who works or has worked for the fitness company my brother is under. Basically he cant work there according to his employer but of he quits with his employer he still cant work at the facility unless he pay $35,000 for a contract buy-out. He has requested a copy of his non-compete over a week ago and is now being told he will not receive that for another 2-weeks. The facility he works through has been told he cannot be there as of Nov. 1st. \n\nWe are trying to figure out if the non-compete he signed as an intern can be considered valid under the term of employment post-internship. He doesn't think he signed another non-compete but until the company provides that he has no idea if he did for sure. After this I'm sure he will be keeping track of what he signs a lot better. Is there anything he can do about this in the mean time?","title":"Getting around a non-compete signed during an internship","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551835616,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axsz15\/my24m_girlfriendchilds_mother21f_is_anti_vac_not\/","id":"axsz15","body":"Little background her family is anti mmr etc. Literally need a essential oils diffuser to live. You know the type.\nI'm opposite of that.\n\nI'm on my son's birth cert. Wondering if I bring him to ER on one of my days off if any criminal charges can be brought against me in Wisconsin? We are not married but I'm on birth certificate. I'm at my wits end here cant talk any sense into her about it. She said she would call me in for kidnapping if I did this. Curious if I can legally? \nOn mobile sorry if shit formatting\nThank you!","title":"My(24m) girlfriend\/childs mother(21f) is anti vac. Not married!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554485048,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9u0tw\/question_about_my_employer_sponsored_plan_and_my\/","id":"b9u0tw","body":"So as part of my custody agreement I am required to have my kids on my employer sponsored plan, that is specified in the agreement. My HR department notified me that a certain amount would be deducted from each check and they have no choice in the matter. Well I work for a small specialized community who has the employers on their community plan. In this community there are many many unhealthy people which makes the premium pretty expensive compared to other plans. I've looked into the same plan not through my employer and it would be significantly cheaper if I were able to go that route. The problem is that I can't just call HR and have them remove my children from the plan.\nI want to know if there is any way I can have the order lifted it at least changed to remove the \"employer sponsored' part. And if so, what steps would I have to go through to make it happen?\nMy case was stored in Riverside county btw","title":"Question about my employer sponsored plan and my kids","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569355249,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8sjac\/where_do_i_even_begin_to_reach_out_to\/","id":"d8sjac","body":"Serious:\nA video was sent to me on Facebook messenger that is obviously a repost of a repost of a man abusing his small child. There is text around it which is in Portugese about how terrible the man is, but the person that sent it to me claims the man is Palestinian. It is totally disgusting, and I want to do all I can to try to help that kid, or try to find out if the child was helped?\nWhere do I even begin to go with this?? My local authorities, the FBI? Any direction would be greatly appreciated.\n\nFYI, I'm a US Citizen in the US","title":"Where do I even begin to reach out to?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541726229,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vg0j6\/i_am_a_childrens_book_illustrator_and_the_author\/","id":"9vg0j6","body":"Hello,\n\nThe title pretty much says it all. I did illustrations for an author this past summer and we signed a contract that said \"The Illustrator will be paid 30% royalty, made from print-on-demand, book stores and distributors. Royalties are furnished twice a year (August\/February).\"\n\nThere have been no payments for my work yet as the agreement was to just be paid based on royalty. The author contacted me by email today and said they wanted to purchase all of the illustrations and scrap the royalty idea. I didn't agree to this because it just sounds shady. To me it sounds like the book is doing well and they want to buy it before I should get paid for royalties in February. The only other option is the book is doing terrible and they want to pay me for my time, but it was just released in September. Also I don't see why anyone would want to lose money like that. Am I right to be concerned? \n\nMy next concern is I also have no idea how to track how the book does. I have no way to know if what I get in royalties is even correct. I've tried to ask the author about sales and royalties but they've been very confidential and say they don't know enough. I can't tell if they are being honest and they actually don't know anything, or if they are hiding something. I just feel very off about them. I'm not really sure what to do or if this is even the right place to post this. ","title":"I am a children's book illustrator and the author is not sharing royalty\/sale information. Now they want to do a one time purchase of the illustrations rather than pay me in royalties.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1503440101,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6veizb\/texas_person_i_subleased_from_threatening_to_sue\/","id":"6veizb","body":"I stayed at an apartment over the summer that was being rented out by two people, Andy and Carol. Each person subleased, Carol for $400\/month and she asked me to pay for utilities, then later Andy found a person Bob to sublease to for $500\/month and told Bob he didn't have to pay for utilities. I was gone half the summer and apparently Bob used a huge amount of utilities since he wasn't going to be charged for them, and now Andy and Carol are asking me to pay half the bill, which I don't think I owe. There was no lease agreement, I agreed to pay for rent on Facebook and they mentioned utilities but I was never told that Bob wasn't paying for utilities so I thought him and I were going to split the bill fairly. Carol is now saying she'll take this to small claims court. Would I be forced to pay?","title":"[Texas] Person I subleased from threatening to sue if I don't pay for utilities used by other tenant","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540876409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9skzlr\/texas_whats_the_best_course_of_action_for_a\/","id":"9skzlr","body":"first time getting a ticket and it happened in a city known for strict cops. i\u2019ve been told that they pay cops to show up in court to testify against you. citation was issued for passing an emergency vehicle without slowing down or vacating the lane. emergency lights WERE on, my speed was not captured, and cop did say that it was all on video? not sure if i should hire a lawyer or just opt for defensive driving. i would really like to keep this off of my driving record. should i hire an attorney to sort it out or just give in and sign up for DD before my court date?","title":"[Texas] What\u2019s the best course of action for a driving citation?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1416941625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2neavr\/creating_an_app_with_a_partner_in_nyc_what\/","id":"2neavr","body":"We will be splitting all the fees, but i will be receiving 71% of everything that the app yields since i came up with it and he is simply an investor.\nMy partner is a long time friend but we still want it all in legal form.\n\nWhat type of contract and whats the cheapest form of obtaining one?\nfull investment is $9,500 which is $4750 each.\n","title":"Creating an app with a partner in NYC what contract do i need as im the main partner?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554622468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bae014\/my_gf_isnt_getting_lunch_breaks_is_not_being_paid\/","id":"bae014","body":"Im the boyfriend and she had her first panic attack that I have seen l, and I dont know who to talk to or what to do. Also Her lunch break is taken out of her pay check, and isn't getting the wage she was promised.\nShe works at a medical spa in Northern California. ","title":"My Gf isn't getting lunch breaks, is not being paid overtime (almost 10 hours a week), and is being forced to do others work, who are the right ppl to talk to?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552786024,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1zx3g\/refusing_to_work_due_religion_ontario_canada\/","id":"b1zx3g","body":"Today I had a Jehovah\u2019s Witness refuse to write a St. patricks pizza special on the black board becuase she doesnt do hoildays. \n\nI said okay and started looking online to see what she could refuse to due at work because of her religion. I wasnt able to find any thing about it.\n\nDoes anyone know where I can find this information so I am better equipped to handle situations like this?\n\n[   ](https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/choose-language?locale=en&prefer=lang&docid=1011200)","title":"Refusing to work due religion. Ontario Canada.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539110548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mrtrk\/traffic_law_whos_at_fault\/","id":"9mrtrk","body":"My wife got into a very minor accident and the cops weren\u2019t called, but now we\u2019re worried about who\u2019s at fault. This was yesterday in Miami, Florida. \n\nShe was pulling out of a parking lot to turn left and the traffic moving from left to right had stopped to let her through. She pulled through and was hit by someone traveling left to right in the center lane that has yellow lines, basically the lane in between turn lanes. This guy was skipping traffic to get to a turn lane. Fortunately there was minimal damage so they didn\u2019t bother with the cops, just exchanged insurance information. Now we\u2019re worried about whose insurance will handle this. \n\nDoes anyone know who is at fault in this scenario? ","title":"Traffic law. Who\u2019s at fault?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541173366,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tl7tm\/is_it_legal_to_provide_direct_links_to_other_sites\/","id":"9tl7tm","body":"I have an idea for a site to create, but before I even start, I want to know if there may be any repercussions. \n\nBasically, it will center around direct links to movies that are uploaded on other sites. \n\nI am not very familiar with copyright infringement laws, but would like to see this work. Since I would not be uploading these movies myself, but rather provide the links instead. Is this legal? ","title":"Is it legal to provide direct links to other sites?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554153656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b89ago\/can_my_teacher_wear_a_picture_of_a_shirtless_man\/","id":"b89ago","body":"Probably doesn\u2019t fit the sub, so pls just remove if its a problem.\n\nMy ss teacher has promised me that if I put a picture of Daddy DeHasselhof (Check Post History) on a t-shirt. Is there any kind of dress code thing were this could get him in trouble?\nOnce again, if this doesn\u2019t fit, please just remove it or ask me too.\n\nLegal question: is there a law in Arkansas on dress codes for teachers, or is it based on school policy?","title":"Can my teacher wear a picture of a shirtless man in a speedo (AR)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568722161,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5g1n5\/i_got_a_speeding_ticket_for_doing_105_in_a_70_in\/","id":"d5g1n5","body":"To start things off, I did not do this. I was on a business trip with the COO of my company, I can not stress how bad of a look it would be if I was excessively speeding. I live in Kentucky, and have Kentucky plates. A cop pulled up behind us and followed us for about 2 miles and then pulled me over. How do I fight this or can I just mail in the payment for the ticket?","title":"I got a speeding ticket for doing 105 in a 70, in Illinois","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541096293,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tbz3d\/breaking_lease_due_to_mice\/","id":"9tbz3d","body":"Good Afternoon, \n\n​\n\nMy wife and i are currently renting a house built in 1966 (lease ends in February and we are in the process of buying out first home). We just had our first child in July. The past 2 months we have been hearing things in the wall. Turns out its mice\/rats. We have contacted the property manager and they don't seem to be doing anything serious other then laying down traps. These mice\/rats are smart. The traps are not working that well, only killed 2 so far. We are not messy people. Again, we are not messy folks. The house is clean inside. The property manager is coming tomorrow along with the owner of the home. We feel these conditions are unacceptable. We have a newborn in the house and the thought of rodents running around when we are sleep drives us crazy. You can hear them up and down through the walls and in the ceiling. There are droppings (which we clean up) on the floor. We sat down and decided not to pay rent today until they fixed the issue. My wife plans on staying home tomorrow and is going to explain the situation. \n\n​\n\nAny advice would be appreciated. I could be wrong but i think i remember reading that if the rental unit is unsafe or violates GA Health or Safety Codes that breaking the lease is legally justified. \n\n​\n\nIf you have any questions please let me know. They come tomorrow and we could use a guide on how to go about this situation.  ","title":"Breaking lease due to mice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445512688,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3prd6j\/landlord_is_selling_our_multiunit_apartment\/","id":"3prd6j","body":"Our landlord is selling the building that our unit is in. We're roughly halfway through our current lease, and I was wondering, if he ends up selling it, what the process would be for us to terminate our lease, or if we have standing to do anything of that sort. I read through the lease, and it didn't mention anything about policies\/procedures regarding if the landlord transfers ownership. I'm not worried about the agreement not being honored by the new owner, but I also don't know who that will be, and it's unsettling to be living in a place that suddenly switches owners, which is completely out of our control. Had we known that he was going to sell\/attempt to sell the unit, we definitely would not have signed the lease.","title":"Landlord is selling our multi-unit apartment (Central OH)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552783806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1zkfu\/mi_college_said_they_gave_me_3k_in_grants_for_the\/","id":"b1zkfu","body":"I\u2019m going to start by saying that I don\u2019t know whether this is an appropriate post for this subreddit or r\/personalfinance, so I figured I would try it here first.  I also don\u2019t know whether this would be considered tax related or school related, so i\u2019m flaring it school related and can change it if need be. Thanks for your help.\n\nI applied for FAFSA for the winter 2018 semester at my local community college. The college said I was eligible for $1800 in grants (I think $1840 to be exact, i\u2019m not looking at the paperwork right now). Obviously, I accepted it, as this would fully cover my tuition and books for the semester. \n\nNow, it\u2019s time to file taxes, so I\u2019m collecting everything to send to the specialist (he does the whole family for us for 1 price, so it\u2019s worth it). My forms from said community college are saying I was eligible and accepted $3000 in grants. This is not true and I obviously have the paperwork to back it up, but I\u2019m wondering what my actions here should be. \n\nI can\u2019t help but feel like I got cheated out of $1200. I will be contacting the financial aid office when they open on monday, but I would like to start getting a plan together now for my possible options. \n\nIf it also helps, they did the same thing to my brother, however it happened to him for both the winter and fall 2018 semesters. Papers say he was awarded and received $6k for the year, while he was told he was awarded $1800\/semester, which he obviously accepted as well. This would leave him cheated out of $2400, so we kind of have a lot of money on the line, especially for a couple of broke college kids.","title":"[MI] College said they gave me $3k in grants for the semester, however I only received $1800.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1507749070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75rckh\/missing_a_zero_on_my_lease\/","id":"75rckh","body":"My lease states that the tenants must pay $2000 a month to equal a total sum of $4800 for the entire term of aug 2017 - July 2018. \nDo I have a case where I can secure this low rent or does the typo nullify the lease completely?","title":"Missing a zero on my lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444100678,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nnrtp\/married_for_one_month_both_want_out_ny\/","id":"3nnrtp","body":"We've been married for a month and we need to have it annulled or get a divorce. It's sad and unfortunate but I don't really want to get into why unless I have to. \n\nThe questions I have right now are: \n\nWill this be quick since it's only been in effect for a short time? \n\nWhat do I have to do to make this happen? Will we both need lawyers or can we get this done in Family Court on our own?\n\nThank you all in advance. ","title":"Married for one month, both want out. (NY)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554806125,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb6c88\/legal_ramifications_of_false_statements\/","id":"bb6c88","body":"I\u2019m looking for advice regarding an interesting situation that my significant other is presently embroiled in. My girlfriend & I were renting a room from a close friend of mine, said friend was engaging in some less than reputable behavior that lead to both himself & his girlfriend receiving numerous drug charges after a full on police raid of the property. Neither my girlfriend or myself were involved in any of these activities & after being thoroughly interrogated by the police, we were released without charges. As it turns out, my landlords significant other had developed something of an infatuation with me & a general sense of disdain for my own girlfriend & months after the fact contacted the police from jail so that she could write a statement that falsely implicated my girlfriend in the aforementioned crimes, this may seem ridiculous, but I\u2019m lead to believe that she may have done so in order to remove my girlfriend from the picture & give herself a chance, the thing is, nothing that was written in her statement was true, it is altogether false & yet my girlfriend is receiving charges from it & has a pending court date. My question is, what can we do to fight this & is there any sort of legal ramifications we might pursue for her writing this false statement? There is no evidence to support her claims & we are honestly baffled as to how it\u2019s even possible for her lies alone to implicate my girlfriend of a serious crime. As far as I\u2019m concerned, the only thing we\u2019re guilty of is making a poor choice of living arrangement. I\u2019m half tempted to reach out to the accuser via text message & see if I can get her to admit to lying so that I can have proof but I dont even know where I\u2019d go from there. I\u2019m at my wits end here & I\u2019m having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that all of this is even possible based on lies. Can somebody please help & let me know what we should do here?","title":"Legal Ramifications of False Statements","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552449518,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0hgu0\/what_are_my_rights_to_talk_about_a_research_fraud\/","id":"b0hgu0","body":"While a graduate student at a large university- I found myself in a terrible position with my PhD adviser and another faculty member who worked in our research group. The former was a traditionally abusive boss. Most importantly- he made up a lot of the data that went into the grants that funded our research. This was reported formally in early November. A university-level investigation has started, but depending on the findings, the university may decide to handle the issue internally and not notify the funding agency. This feels wrong, as millions of dollars of taxpayer money are being given to the researcher. \nThe other research professor stalked me and blatantly propositioned me for sex. When I declined, stalking behaviors continued and retaliation followed. I reported this and a traditional Title IX investigation started, but it has been 5 months since and a decision about the case has not been made. \nI had to work everyday with two men that knew I had reported them to the university. The work environment ended up being so terrible that I ended up transferring to another program during my fourth year. Since I am no longer a student\/employee at the university- what are my rights to share my story on a public form? I signed no NDA or anything documentation during either of these investigations. \nTHANK YOU","title":"What are my rights to talk about a research fraud investigation\/Title IX investigation publicly?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568742776,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5kjy4\/judicial_review_of_license_revocation\/","id":"d5kjy4","body":"Good afternoon. Throwaway here.\n\n30ish year-old active duty Minnesotan with a clean driving record, stationed in Idaho. Bought a used sports car, got caught going 104mph in Oregon (yes I know it was very dumb), deployed for 6 months, went to  court in June when I got back, got convicted of speeding (no reckless driving), paid the fine and lost my driving privileges in OR for 30 days. When I called the OR DMV worried about whether or not this would affect my MY license, they specifically told me that they do \\*not\\* send notifications to other state DMVs.\n\nCut to August (2 months later), I get a letter from the MN DMV saying my license will be revoked in a week for violating MN statute 169.14.1a. I immediately did all of the reinstatement requirements (paid the $30 fee, re-took my driver's test, and applied for a new license). I also applied for and was issued a work permit, but the restrictions on it are significant and incompatible with my job (i.e. I'm on-call 7 days at a time for 24hr; the permit only allows driving for 10hr\/day 6d\/wk).\n\nI also petitioned for judicial review per Minnesota Statute, Section 171.19. My understanding is that this is a civil action filed against the commissioner of public safety, who is given a few weeks to review and then we appear before a judge. I'll be appearing by phone because I'm stationed out of state (was home on vacation when I got the notification, hence was able to re-do the DMV test).\n\nMy questions are:\n\n* What should I expect in this phone appearance?\n   * How long do these usually take?\n   * Will the commissioner or a representative be there or on the phone? Or will it be just me and the judge?\n* How likely is the judge to reinstate my normal license?\n   * Is this something where I can plead my case? (i.e. I'm military working a 24\/7 job that requires me to drive all around base and also to some places in the local city, I have an otherwise perfect record, I was stupid, new-to-me sports care with too much acceleration, etc.)\n   * Would a sob story (note: a \\*true\\* sob story, not fictitious) be helpful? (i.e. I was driving an 8hr trip back to a base for water survival i.e. \"controlled drowning\" after having just completed the interrogation resistance i.e. \"getting smacked around\" school, was thinking a lot more about not drowning than about traffic)\n   * Any point in bringing up the fact that the OR DMV told me this wasn't going to the MN DMV? Feels unfair to me, but I get that I was talking to a DMV employee, not a lawyer.\n      * Also, any point in bringing up that this is a violation from a year ago?\n      * Or that I already lost driving privileges for 6 months by being deployed to a combat zone in the middle east?\n   * Is the judge likely to say, \"naw you broke the rules, now deal with the punishment\"?\n* Should I get a lawyer?\n   * Called a half-dozen ones for the initial court appearance in OR and \\*nobody\\* was interested in being retained\n   * Not sure what my options back in MN are, but happy to call around if it is likely to make a significant difference in outcome\n* Any other options I'm not thinking of?\n\nThanks for your time! I'm \\*completely\\* new to this whole \"court\" thing and not very good at it =(","title":"Judicial review of license revocation","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551672620,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax2rca\/will_i_get_in_trouble_for_this\/","id":"ax2rca","body":"A year ago when I was 17 I had this friend who is a creeper. Well he sent me pics he edited of old classmates when they were 14-15 and had semen edited on them. I am from NY and was underage. I am a legal adult now. He sent me that over Facebook Messenger. I did not ask for him to send me that of underage girls. The were fully clothed it was just pics of them with semen edited on their faces. I had no intention of receiving this. It was sent to me. He was 19 I was 17 ","title":"Will I get in trouble for this","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1504804220,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yol80\/tx_possible_dog_custody_battle\/","id":"6yol80","body":"Not sure how well it well fare on my side of the story but, yes, I am emotionally distraught over this break up (not married, not divorced) affecting my relationship with my dog. \n\n**The Problem:** My ex and I broke up after a three year relationship. We recently took in a puppy from one of my long awaited impulses and now, there's a possibility of her wanting to keep the dog to herself. \n\n**What I've done vs what she has done:**\n\n* I signed my name with the breeder when the breeder we picked the puppy up\n* We split the puppy 55%\/45% (Me\/her) fee\n* Every sequential vaccination and spaying, we have put my ex's name down and address due to convenience of where she is staying. \n* I take the effort to take a 30 minute detour before heading over to her apartment to pick up the exact puppy food my breeder recommends. The first time, my sister accompanied with me because my ex wanted to play video games after a long day at work. The second time, I went alone. My ex paid the first trip. I paid be second trip. \n* I raised her the first month. I had summer school which had a more lax schedule which was optimal in my career path to raising a puppy. My ex was here. She went to work. But when she got back home, she just wanted to play video games. \n* I crate trained her. The two nights were absolute hell. I wanted to give her up. I knew my limits. My ex fought to keep her. We got the puppy on the sole promise of me saying I will take care of her no problem. I knew my limit and I was suffering. My ex didn't help out as much so she doesn't know the suffering that I went through. She was busy at work and when she came back, she wanted to play games. Granted, she helped every now and then when I kept fighting her to help. \n* I potty trained her the first 1.5 months. I walked her every 2-3 hours as needed. I walked her at 3am and 5am and 7am before I left for school. She occasionally helped. My sister came over for two weeks to help and god bless her soul, if I didn't have help, I wouldn't be writing this post. \n* I sacrificed my selfish desire to keep her here. I am currently living on the coast, and mosquitos are more than common. The pup won't be fully vaccinated for another two months and I would not want to risk her getting infected. Post fully vaccinated, the townhouse I rented doesn't have a back yard, rather small despite having three floors, and will only be my roommate and me. Where my ex lives, she's living in a house with my sister, and two friends of my sister's. They all take care of the dog (occasionally the ex). My sister was the sole care taker when my puppy was there. They also have a backyard. There's a park within walking distance. There's a dog park within driving distance. You can see why I chose to let my sister and ex take the puppy over there. \n* The issue is my ex has more legal papers under her name for the puppy. All I have are witnesses. My sister knows I raised the puppy. My friend who Housed me, my dog, my ex during the first month knows I raised the puppy. All she did was play games and go to work. Hell, even the landowner and the roommate (of my sister's and ex's) told me they've seen me raise the puppy compared to my ex. They personally would vouch for me if it comes to a custody battle. When my ex broke up with me and we discussed the dog, her response was \"When you're here on the weekend, you take care of the dog. I'm not.\" She sees it as a chore. I see it as a responsibility as a father. \n* Currently, if I could rate the affection of the puppy, it would be She would love my sister > me > ex. \n\nShe is financially more stable and thus have more power if this comes to a custody battle. How will I fare with my lack of legal documents pertaining my name?  \n\nThank you all very much! If there's more information that you would like to know, please let me know! \n","title":"[TX] Possible dog custody battle","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503679686,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vzpb6\/illegal_ad_popped_up_on_my_pc_not_sure_where_else\/","id":"6vzpb6","body":"Throwaway cause friends know my account, if this is the wrong place to post this could someone point me in the right direction. I was looking for a stream to a soccer game, and when i clicked the link it brought up the game, but also opened a new window called \"naked underage girls\" or something like that. I tried to close the page but it wouldn't close so eventually I force quit out of both my browser windows. When I opened up my browser again that page was gone (thank goodness) but there was like 300 entries for it in my browsing history. I deleted them and I am doing a malware scan. I'm just not sure what to do now. Do I report it to someone? Do nothing? Can I be held liable for this? Thanks in advance. I'm kind of freaking out right now.\n\nedit: The bot told me to include my location, I'm in Oregon though I don't think that will matter for this.","title":"Illegal ad popped up on my PC. (Not sure where else to post this)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1445002106,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ozklg\/il_salary_renegotiation\/","id":"3ozklg","body":"Hello, this is my first time posting in here.\n\nI was offered a full-time position in the spring to work for them after the program changed departments which went in effect over the summer. My previous boss gave me an amount that I would be offered if accepted through an e-mail between us. During the interview, I was offered a lower amount ($10,000 lower) at the time I assumed it was due to state budget cuts and didn't think any further. Recently I found a file in department folder that is under my program that I supervise and I found a file that stated a salary that my previous boss stated. On another note I'm recently unionized (occurred over the summer). \n\nHow can I approach my current boss or HR about the difference in salary without creating any hostility? ","title":"[IL] Salary Renegotiation","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555111018,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bck7yo\/nc_i_committed_a_misdemeanor_hit_and_run_with\/","id":"bck7yo","body":"I own a tow truck business. I was driving on the highway in my tow truck to go to a job and I was in the very left lane in standstill traffic. Traffic was moving in the other lanes so I put my turn signal to merge right and I hit the lady\u2019s car in front of me while I was doing that. \n\nI was worried  because I couldn\u2019t remember if I paid my insurance (Turns out I had) and I was scared so I just left and kept driving. \n\nEverything was fine, but the next morning a cop showed up at my door. I wasn\u2019t home but my 15 year old brother was. The cop told him to call me so he did. I was on the phone with him and he asked me if I was driving my tow truck yesterday, and I was polite and answered his questions honestly saying yes. He said I was involved in a hit and run and asked me to come home saying he wasn\u2019t going to arrest me, just cite me. So I got there and he asked me to get in his car. He asked me if I hit the lady\u2019s car knowingly and left, and I said yes. He asked me why and I answered honestly about being scared about my insurance. He told me that the lady I hit called 911 and had my plate #. He said she was complaining of neck pain and went to the hospital but that\u2019s all I\u2019ve heard.\n\nHe didn\u2019t arrest me but wrote me a ticket for misdemeanor hit and run. I have a court date in June. \n\nWhat are my next steps? I\u2019m working on a getting a lawyer but I\u2019m financially limited. What happens with my insurance? Is it likely I\u2019ll be convicted and have to go to jail because I confessed? If I have to pay fines, will they let me do a payment plan? Driving is my livelihood, will I lose my license for just a misdemeanor? Is it possible to just have this dismissed?","title":"[NC] I committed a misdemeanor hit and run with possible injury and confessed to the cops. What happens now?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504578564,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y51ou\/need_advice_about_starting_a_game_studio\/","id":"6y51ou","body":"I 18, and my partner 17 are starting a Game Studio together. When talking about who's going to get what share of the profits my partner got concerned. I told him from the beginning I'd get majority of the profit because I'm basically funding %90 of the games and most everything around it(Engine Licenses, Web Domains, Design Tools, etc). I'm curious how I go about setting up a contract for us both so we don't get things confused later.\n\nDo I need a legal advisor\/lawyer?\n\nCan I afford one if I need one?\n\nWhat other legal documents go along with starting a Game Development company?\n\nEdit: Location, South Carolina.","title":"Need advice about starting a Game Studio","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554664537,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bajx7q\/turning_my_small_operation_into_a_legitimate\/","id":"bajx7q","body":"California US, \nMy dad and I have found some small jobs in home maintenance - power washing, repairing drywall, etc. \nhow can we turn this into a legit operation?\nTried to register a business license on CA.Gov\nbut it said I didn\u2019t need one.\nWhere can I go? Who should I talk to?","title":"Turning my small operation into a legitimate business","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1410398831,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g29fr\/getting_charged_for_1_cent_that_we_dont_owe_the\/","id":"2g29fr","body":"So, basically we had to pay pet deposit and broke it up into 4 payments. The inital $250, and then 3 payments of $83.33 after that.\n\nWe just got a paper on the door saying that we are a PENNY short on the deposit. It literally says, on the official paperwork, that we give them 3 payments of $83.33. \n\nIs it OUR fault that they didn't calculate it to equal a full 500? Should we have to pay the 120 fucking dollar fee they're trying to tack onto this because we were \"short\" (even though it literally isn't included in the paperwork) a penny??\n\nedit: live in california\n\n**edit 2:**  (copy and pasted from a rely I made to a comment)\n\nAPPRENTLY the fee isn't for the .01 that wasn't added to the pet rent. I went in and they told me they wouldn't make a big deal over that.\n\nWhat it was is that apparently one of my roommates missed a fucking bill, and so we're being charged that bill and the late fee for it.\n\nSo it's a complete misunderstanding, what I don't understand is why they didn't make a note of that on the paper that was stapled to my door..  but whatever. I guess in the end things kind of worked out? Still gotta write that check for .01, but lucky no late fee for that one. \n\nThanks for the responses guys.","title":"Getting charged for 1 CENT that we don't owe the apartment complex???","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554405155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9h015\/i_hit_someone_with_my_car_and_she_chose_not_to_go\/","id":"b9h015","body":"Not sure if this was the right flair. I live in California. \n\nWhat happened was:\n\nThe car was parked and I was pulling out of a parking spot and I lightly damaged her front bumper. She was not in the car at the time. I left my phone number and name. Later that night, she called me and I explained the situation. \n\nFrom this point on, every discussion we had was through text. \n\nShe decided that she did not want to go through insurance we settled on me paying her $150 for the damages. I offered to have someone I know fix it up and she declined and stated she would simply prefer the money straight up. I sent her the money through Paypal. \n\nI have pictures of the damages, screenshots of the payments and texts, and there were two people with me when I hit the vehicle. If she wanted to (which I doubt because she was very cool about the situation and appreciated that I left my information), could she go back and still try say I didn\u2019t pay or try and go through insurance? Do I need to have a contract signed to be completely okay? Or do the pictures\/witnesses\/texts suffice?","title":"I hit someone with my car and she chose not to go through insurance and instead, I paid her \u201ccash\u201d. Could she go back and sue me\/still go through insurance?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1505096880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zcn1i\/my_sisterinlaw_is_taking_the_kids_from_my_brother\/","id":"6zcn1i","body":"My brother and his wife recently separated and she moved in with her boyfriend. She had said that she didn't want the boys because her boyfriend didn't want them. My brother wants to make sure that the boys are enrolled in this school district because it is a much better district than the one where she lives, and the oldest boy has a rather severe learning disability. She recently convinced my brother to give her copies of the boys' records, and now is refusing to give him the boys as per their previous verbal agreement. School starts tomorrow and he's afraid that she will enroll them in school where she's living. What are my brother's options?\n\nA couple of facts that might be relevent:\nMy brother has a letter from the OAG naming him the custodial parent.\nHis ex-wife's boyfriend is a convicted felon with a sizable gun collection in the house.\nHis ex-wife and all of her close family are drug users. Although my brother indulged in the past, he has stayed clean for several years due to drug testing at work.\n","title":"My sister-in-law is taking the kids from my brother [TX]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570407792,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/debv41\/custody_questions\/","id":"debv41","body":"Ok so I haven't paid child support for three months because iv been moving around trying to find a place I like and my son's mother is not letting me talk to my son I asked what my boy wants for his bday and she hasn't written back to that all she says is child support would be nice witch I understand but she is not letting me see or talk with my son even tho it's joint custody and my issue is how can I take her back to court about it when the courts are in Oregon and I'm in another state.","title":"Custody questions","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555091458,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcgjy4\/ca_crediting_flight_costs_towards_bills\/","id":"bcgjy4","body":"Background: My husband\u2019s ex has not had custody of my 13 year old stepdaughter for 3.5 years now. We\u2019ve had sole custody since. She lost it due to an alcohol problem and domestic violence. She had supervised visitations for a while (never showed up) then got unsupervised visitation for a few hours a week for two years, sometimes didn\u2019t show up for months but kept dragging us back to court (can\u2019t believe this was allowed). Anyways, last August we settled for her having EOW because we just couldn\u2019t afford going back and forth to court. Of course, missed some of her weekends and two months after we settled we get an email from her attorney that she moved out of state with no notice.\n\nSo she took us back to court with ridiculous demands for visitation. Judge didn\u2019t grant her it but did grant her a total of 20 days this whole year. And for some reason we were required to pay 50% of the flight cost (yes, very unfair). My stepdaughter\u2019s mother has not paid a dime in 3.5 years for my stepdaughter. She owes us about $3000 in dental, medical, ortho bills and school cost on top of that. Also, for some reason she didn\u2019t have to pay child support! \n\nAnyways, the first visitation (after she hasn\u2019t seen my stepdaughter in 6 months and barely talked to her) is going to be Memorial Day weekend. She is flying out Saturday early morning, flying back early Monday morning. I think it\u2019s ridiculous considering it\u2019s about $750 total for the flight for 48 hours. But okay, it is what it is. \n\nSo our portion is a little less than $400. She is responsible for booking the flights with our approval and we are supposed to pay her back within 10 days, BUT the judge also ordered her to pay us back the $3000 she owes us. There wasn\u2019t much time in court so they didn\u2019t go into detail how\/when she had to pay this by.\n\nHer mother isn\u2019t going to pay us for what she owes us, she has made this clear to us. Our lawyer said we could count the $3000 she owes us as a \u201ccredit\u201d and not pay our half, instead subtract it from the money she owes us.. While I know we should probably listen to our lawyer since he knows best, I don\u2019t know if I completely think this is a good idea or if it is even allowed? \n\nAnyone has experience with this, or knows if this is a good idea?","title":"[CA] Crediting flight costs towards bills","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571175561,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diexzg\/lodger_vs_landlord_california\/","id":"diexzg","body":"Problem: \n\n-      I came home to my room for rent and my room has multiple signs that someone has been in my room. A few examples I have documented are feces left in my personal bathroom. Candy wrappers in bathroom trashcan which attracted ants. Also in the trashcan was a bit of toilet paper with what seems to be make-up on it. My bed as yellow marks on it, pretty dark but not sure if stain or burn, and last night when I went to try and sleep there was a scent on my pillow that I would have no relation to. As in it smells like incense and I can't stand the smell. \n-     Another occasion, about two weeks prior, I came home and my toilet seat has a thin layer of dirt on it.\n\nQuestion: \n\n-     The minimum I want from all this is to request for a lock for my door. Further actions I am asking for advice. I have yet to bring up this occurrence to my landlord and want to be more prepared. \n\nQuickground: \n\n-     Found a room for rent near school where I stay        M-Th and return home Fri-M morning. Sometimes I leave Wednesday if I'm itching to get to my real home.\n\nSome details about my school living situation:\n\n-     Three of us live in the house where my Landlord, roommate, and I all live in the same house.\n-     My room does Not have a lock on it but my roommates does. They are different doors as his comes with a deadbolt.\n-     There are no guests allowed. I showed up with my gf of five years when looking and landlord reiterated that rule to both of us. To be clear, she is not to visit ever.\n-     Always asks when I am coming or going... through the consistency and being uncomfortable I stopped \"checking in.\" One night I stayed an additional night and woke up with a text from her seeing my car and asking if I stayed the night.\n-     My landlord is an older, older than middle aged, lady which I understand might just be trying to be cautious of her safety in regards of check-ins.\n-     I have re-read the rental agreement and inspection align with the tent laws I've come across.\n-     Landlord has mentioned she has come into my room via text message which I was not ok with. It was phrased in the past tense too mentioning a blanket I had brought and put on the bed. \n-     My other home is 2 hrs away\n-     we keep to ourselves, and I have yet to ask roommate about the situation, because I'm not certain who is coming in my room.\n\nThank you very much for reading and I really appreciate any advice.","title":"Lodger vs. Landlord California","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442984362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m13v1\/in_the_state_of_colorado_a_12_year_old_kids\/","id":"3m13v1","body":"In the state of Colorado, a 12 year old kid's parents both die. They have specifically requested through writing that a long standing friend (godparent) takes over parental responsibilities of the child. Do they contact this person to confirm this agreement and take this into account at court with other members of immediate family to battle out who would be in the child's best interest, what would be the legal proceedings? Hypothetical situation but if anybody knows what the most likely conduct would be that'd be fxcking grand!","title":"In the state of Colorado, a 12 year old kid's parents both die. They have specifically requested through writing that a long standing friend (godparent) takes over parental responsibilities of the child. What would be the legal proceedings from here?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1441822003,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k9vrl\/california_resident_with_a_renters_squabble\/","id":"3k9vrl","body":"Hey everyone. I'll try to keep this short.\n\nTwo friends, myself, and \"Person C\" (hereby referred to as *C*) rented an apartment in October of 2013. As of March 2015 *C* has moved out. They remained on the lease until mid August, 2015 - but did not pay any rent during this time.\n\n*C* left appliances at the apartment. A washer, dryer, fridge, and a coffee table. This part is debatable but these items were gifted to both *C* and myself from *C*'s family upon initial move-in of the apartment.\n\n*C* is now requesting that we return the items to them. What can I do? It would be a real financial hardship for everyone else in the apartment to lose these items right now. Do we have any legal grounds to keep them?\n\nWhat about the rent from May, 2015 - August, 2015? Is *C* obligated to pay the agreed upon rent for this time period, even if they were not staying in the apartment? If so, how do I collect or begin attempting to collect this amount?\n\nIf so, would it be kosher to use the back rent as leverage to keep the appliances? For what it's worth, *C* bailing on our initial agreement has already cost me $5000 over what I planned to spend this year. I don't want to just keep losing my hard earned money because I'm a nice guy.\n\nAny help would be appreciated.","title":"California resident with a renters squabble.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571321571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj6yjb\/think_im_being_black_mailed\/","id":"dj6yjb","body":"Hello,\n\nLet me start off by saying I own a business for entertainment media. A few years ago I was sent to court by someone who wanted a restraining order (over her claim that I was with some guys stalking her) so I wouldn\u2019t have contact with her. The judge didn\u2019t go through with the order due to having evidence I wasn\u2019t with the guys girl claimed I was with  as I was working that night and had proof of my time sheet, letter from company I work for etc. (second Job) last week I went somewhere and I saw one of her friends in the grocery store by random who told me that I had no legal basis to be in the same grocery store as her nor the girl who sent me to court and also told me that This girl had told hundreds of people to stay away from me not hire me under my own business. Can she legally do that? I was told by the judge it was best not to have contact with this girl and I have kept true to my word but then randomly ran into one of her friends and turns out she\u2019s going around talking about me. Like I said no restraining order was put through. \n\nI\u2019m from New Hampshire USA","title":"Think I\u2019m being black mailed","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539836838,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p5y9k\/ca_my_brothers_ex_gf_wont_let_him_see_their_kid\/","id":"9p5y9k","body":"Title. She lives with her mom also and she also blocked him. I\u2019m playing the middle man because she doesn\u2019t have me blocked and my brother just wants to see the kid. I message her and she always says \u201cI can\u2019t message  him\u201d or \u201cNo,  sorry\u201d.  Since they broke up, my brother has previously been able to see the baby. \n\nShe\u2019s been starting to act like this a lot recently and my brother has been keeping the baby for longer than he\u2019s supposed to when he did get the baby because of it and it drives her mad. \n\nShould my brother just file papers in court and stuff and see what happens? Any advice is appreciated! Thank you. ","title":"[CA] My brother\u2019s ex gf won\u2019t let him see their kid and blocked all contact with him.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1507441509,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7502fp\/in_police_raided_rented_apartment_didnt_find\/","id":"7502fp","body":"So about a week ago, the police department decided to raid my apartment because they \"got tipped off about me selling marijuana\"(Which is 100% not true and I don't know where they got that information from). \n\nBasically, they busted the back window(For what, I have no idea), blasted in the front door, and proceeded to tear up the apartment looking for this alleged marijuana. They completely destroyed a bedroom door that was locked(Computer room that I always keep locked). They ripped off a cabinet door in the kitchen. They also ripped up some ducting. Lastly they just ripped up random pieces of carpet.\n\nThey found nothing and no charges were pressed but the landlord is trying to say that the damage is my fault and I do not think the damage is in anyway my fault and I am refusing to pay. The landlord is saying he is going to take me to court but I have no received anything official yet.\n\nIn your opinion, who is responsible for the damages?","title":"[IN] Police raided rented apartment, didn't find anything and no charges were pressed, who is paying for the damage?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570237847,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddgkh0\/exfriend_harassing_me\/","id":"ddgkh0","body":"Hello everyone, I had a falling out with a close friend in March 2019. It was a very messy affair with him going around telling people how awful of a person\/friend I am. Long story short, none of our friends believe him because of the person I am (they've told me this themselves) and started to socialize with him less. Because of this he has started to take hostile actions towards me.\n\n**First** incident was during the falling out where my room was trashed (clean laundry in cat's food\/water, xmas gift he gave me was broken, various items are missing) the day he left.\n\n**Second** incident happened at work with him locking my corporate computer account preventing me from working until I called in and got it unlocked. (he worked IT in the company, which I got him a job at due to me knowing the department's management very well). No proof on this, but there are an awful lot of 'coincidences' that I won't go into in the initial post.\n\n**Third** incident happened at work as well, where he sent my work laptop shutdown commands twice while I was working. Causing me to lose hours of work. Luckily his corporate username showed up in my computer's logs for the shutdowns and he was terminated\/black listed from the company. \n\n**Fourth** and most recent incident, my email account has logins from a PC that does not belong to me. This is an email account of which he knew the password to since it was the same password as my hulu account which I shared for in home use. The login is from the ISP he uses in the same city **(Reno, NV)**. I just can't trace further than that.\n\n​\n\n**Things that I've done since:** absolutely nothing, I avoid contact, I have not retaliated, and I have kept to myself on this and not included any mutual friends by choice. I have only bought security cameras for my home and set them up in case he tries anything at my house. \n\n**My questions** here is do I have enough evidence to pursue legal action against him? Can AT&T be subpoena for his internet history to see if his IP Addresses match the ones shown on my email account? What are the legal repercussions that will be used in this situation? Any advice would be greatly appreciated on how to proceed!\n\n**Location: Reno, Nevada**","title":"Ex-Friend Harassing Me","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541363738,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u6uls\/new_at_job_and_experiencing_terrible\/","id":"9u6uls","body":"I had started working at a family owned and run company for a few months.  In that time it has been terrible I have been singled out told that people like me do not last there, meaning a minority (was verifies by a supervisor).  I have seen individuals harassed about injuries being called names and laughed at until they quit.  I have dealt with my boss giving me false information on how to do my job causing problems for customer relations.  These are just a few examples.\n\nI had then been in a accident which has me currently on restrictions.  Since released on restriction they had lied about getting more information from my doctors, replaced someone into my position, and ignored inquiries of their status.  Right now they had received the info from my doc but are now saying they need it reviewed by a expert per my restrictions.  It has now been 2 months since I have been on restrictions and no work.\n\nI am not sure how to follow suit, as I think I should.  They are making a hostile, discriminatory, and negligent situation.  I am in the midwest and am a managerial position.  I had been told that no one checks email and that any issues for HR should be dealt with in person.  I have seen the director walking around with RF detectors to make sure recording devices are not around.  Everything is off with this company but I am at a point that I need to work but cannot get unemployment, FMLA, and not even sure what to put on for reasons on leaving looking for a new job as I am technically cannot do some tasks and limited to part time now.\n\nI know if I follow for AWDA that I can only really go back to that job, but why would I want to go back to a place like that?  I know discrimination cases are super messy and this is really only a he said she said situation.  I am not under contract and am in a at-will state.  Do I now just wait for a termination and not follow suit?  Do I follow suit now before termination and go for my job back\/wait for them to terminate me after?  I am just really worried about losing the case and how it looks on future jobs.  I am also super struggling as I haven't been working and am still recovering.  Also from what I gathered from them is that they have also been sued alot and are well versed in what they can\/cannot do.","title":"New at job and experiencing terrible discrimination and harassment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569764188,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dav7bd\/job_handbook_company_policy_question\/","id":"dav7bd","body":"Location\/ job info: USA, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Small business. This welding company use to be union then when the company changed hands they got rid of the union. \n\n  \nI am currently working at a job though a temp agency. The contract with the agency is coming to the end so i was reading my employers hand book in anticipation of being hired and found a entry called **Employee Total Reward Program** this is a direct quote from the hand book.\n\n\"It is -unnamed company-'s policy that your pay rate and benefits are strictly confidential! You may not share or communicate your pay rate or contents of your benefits package to any employee of  -unnamed company-  outside the management team.\"  \n\n\nI was just wondering if this is legal. Does confidentiality work that way too? I have more so only heard it from the company not being able to share my info to others. Not me not being allowed to talk about my own info  to others if i wanted to.","title":"Job handbook\/ Company policy question.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540379312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qynqb\/web_scraping_personal_information_legality\/","id":"9qynqb","body":"Hi all,\nSo basically I'm doing a project about web scraping and how people can be found online by by linking and comparing different online profiles together. I've made some software which I will need to demonstrate. The software basically scrapes forums for user data, like their username, bio, interests, location etc.\nThe only thing is, I'm not totally sure where I stand form a legal point. The demonstration needs to completely legit, or I'm pretty sure the exam board won't award the marks. The demonstration will essentially involve scraping a few forums, getting their user information such as usernames, bios, location and interests and then comparing the results.\nSo my question would be, is web scraping in this context legitimate? Is there any legislation I can explicitly show to show that it is legal? Because before I can carry out the scrape, I think I need some proof it's legit.\nIt seems as though it's not legit within the European Union due to the new GDPR legislation. But I can't find anything explicitly saying it's not illegal anywhere else.\nThanks in advance, sorry for the ignorance\n","title":"Web scraping personal information legality","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570397996,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de9uql\/should_my_parents_get_a_lawyer\/","id":"de9uql","body":"My mom was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in February and has been on medical leave from work, a call center in Utah for a major credit card company, since about March. She has worked here for 13 years and has been promoted several times. She's jumped through every hoop this company has asked for in order to keep her job while she's undergoing treatments. I don't know all the details but it involved sending paperwork from the doctors and things like that. She's so close to being able to go back to work. She had surgery to remove the tumor 2 months ago and was healing well but due to some unforeseen complications she has to stay on medical leave for a few weeks longer. Now this company is threatening to fire her because she's been gone too long. Morally it's absolutely repugnant, but is this legal? Should they get a lawyer?","title":"Should my parents get a lawyer?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541628403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v3xpe\/poaching_in_oregon\/","id":"9v3xpe","body":"My friend and I had an argument over fishing without a license. Oregon law states that if you get caught a game warden can seize the things that you use to poach. Often times the boat is seized but my question is can they take the car you drove up to the lake\/fishing area?","title":"Poaching in Oregon","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445283076,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pe4e8\/free_as_in_beerlike_software_license_restricting\/","id":"3pe4e8","body":"I would like to use a software license for an application I am developing that allows for modification and distribution provided that no one charges anything for it (ever) and that the source code is not used in proprietary applications. This rules out all of the \"standard\" open source licenses (GPLs, BSD, OSL, MPL, etc). Does anything like this exist, or would I have to look at writing my own license?\n\nLocation: USA","title":"\"Free as in beer\"-like software license restricting users from selling?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539884655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pbidd\/va_failure_to_maintain_control_due_to\/","id":"9pbidd","body":"Hello all,\n\n​\n\nI was in an accident a month ago during Hurricane Florence. I was on the highway going down a slope when I lost traction and hydroplaned on the highway (going 60 in a 55mph to keep up with commuter speeds). I hit the jersey barrier and was the only car affected, no other passengers in my car. State trooper charged me with Failure to maintain control\/improper brakes. I have a perfect driving record (+5 points) and have been calling attorneys in my area for legal representation. I am a college student, so have difficulty paying the exorbitant, yet understandable, legal fees for this area (average is $1k). Three attorneys now have suggested I should try representing myself as I have a very good chance to get the charge reduced as it is difficult to prove I was driving recklessly during a single vehicle accident. I did file a written statement where I mentioned I was driving 60 mph at the time of the accident during heavy rains in a 55 zone.\n\n​\n\nMy question is, should I try representing myself? The court district is Fairfax County which is notorious for being difficult, but the attorneys have said that the judge would likely be merciful considering my good record and polite demeanor. And if so, how should represent myself in court (have never been to court for a traffic violation before)? Thank you in advance for any assistance","title":"(VA) Failure to Maintain Control due to Hydroplaning, attorney advised I should represent myself","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1409690953,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fakf4\/az_someone_is_currently_using_an_ip_scrambler_to\/","id":"2fakf4","body":"My company provides an online search for real estate information. We have been building our database of information for over 30 years. It includes floorplans, images of the homes and all information about the homes.\n\nSomeone has created a program that systematically goes through our system at a high rate and steals the information home by home. They started from one computer which we have blocked. They then accessed it from a second computer which was blocked. They are now using an IP scrambler to get around our blocks and they are currently in the process of stealing all our information. They have already stolen thousands of floorplans.\n\nWhat legal action can we take against these people for abusing our service and stealing our information?","title":"[AZ] Someone is currently using an IP scrambler to abuse my company's online search and steal information. Help!!","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568448196,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d42esg\/usa_if_i_leave_a_review_on_glassdoor_of_my_former\/","id":"d42esg","body":"When I began the job they made me sign like a 15 page contract and never sent me a copy so I don't remember what it said. I can say though that I only worked there for a little while and ended up quitting from the constant verbal abuse I received from my supervisor. The job was making me depressed and they had a lot of scammy practices with their customers. I'll add I have documentation of everything via screenshots but if there is a possibility they can sue me I'm not going to risk it. \n\n(sorry if I have the wrong flair...)","title":"[USA] If I leave a review on Glassdoor of my former job and their scammy practices could I be sued?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441816117,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k9f2t\/do_i_have_a_case_for_child_abandonment_fl\/","id":"3k9f2t","body":"To start, the goal is to obtain complete custody of the child and all decision making, as I believe it's in the best interest of the child.  I'm a single parent who has had physical custody of my child for the past five years.  The child is 7.  The father, by our agreement five years ago has had the ability to visit every other weekend, and also to become primary custodian during summer (off school) months.\n\nIn the last four years the father has seen the child on approximately 6 occasions (totaling about 11 days).\n\nIn the last four years the father has called the child approx 20 times.  \n\nFor the last 11 to 12 months father has paid about 2% of child support payments owed (as the max% is taken out automatically by the state from his paychecks), the rest goes into arrears.\n\nThe above mentioned contacts between father and child tend to occur immediately before letters from his lawyer (which I have no idea how he affords considering I can't) are served to me and a court hearing involving child support is imminent. \n\nAfter reading the definition of abandonment by Florida Statutes Chapter 39.01:\n\n'Abandoned' or 'abandonment' means a situation in which the parent or legal custodian of a child, in the absence of a parent or legal custodian, the caregiver, while being able makes no provision for the child's support and has failed to establish or maintain a substantial and positive relationship\" includes but is no limited to, frequent and regular contact with the child through frequent and regular visitation or frequent and regular communication to or with the child and the exercise of parental rights and responsibilities. \n\nDoes my situation fit this definition ?\n\n\nPersonal notes:\nIt's really heartbreaking to see my child so depressed after a visit with the father, cries for hours, wails \"daddy\" as he is under the (accurate) impression it will be a long time before seeing him again.  Even if the father tells him at pick up time \"just two weeks before you'll get to see me again\" (which has never happened).  To the point where on his birthday when he called, \"I'll see ya next week to give you your present\" was replied with \"if you say so\" by my seven year old (it's been three weeks now, although he has made attempts).  I just don't think it's healthy psychologically to have a father in and out inconsistency like that (especially when it's a lot more out than in) and think it would be (while not ideal) better to not set him up for disappointment in something so important.\n\n\nThanks!","title":"Do I have a case for child abandonment (FL)?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541098611,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tcbtg\/do_i_have_to_pay_spousal_support_if_weve_been\/","id":"9tcbtg","body":"DETAILS:\nNorth Carolina\nSeperated for 15 months\nParents of 1 child\nBoth have jobs\n\nSTORY:\nI was married for 8 years to a woman I no longer am with. We have 1 child together. We separated in August of 2018 and she has made zero progress on our \"uncontested pro se\" divorce. During our separation I paid ALL BILLS & RENT for both her and myself to allow her the best opportunity to save in preparation for our divorce (this might have screwed me over). The way I see it, if she struggles, my son struggles, and I'm not that heartless.\n\nShe dragged her feet on a child support claim as well so I ended up putting myself on child support (real difficult convincing the state as to what was going on). I went with state recommended guidelines so that I didn't short my son on what he deserves. She didn't want to transfer her bills to her name. I had to threaten, and actually did on one occasion, to cut off the services the month child support went into effect. She reluctantly put services in her name.\n\nI'm worried she might change our uncontested divorce into a contested one (extending this to a 2 year ordeal). She might want more money because she isn't receiving the same amount of money from me now that I'm on child support. During this time she has had numerous sexual relationships and emotionally invested in 2 men since our separation. This isn't to say that I've not done the same thing. I did them knowing a divorce was imminent.\n\nI eventually will get a lawyer for assistance. I'm just curious if I'm financially required to help her\n\nPS: NC doesn't require separation papers, but they definitely help... obviously, FML.","title":"Do I have to pay Spousal Support if we've been separated long enough to qualify for a divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568918328,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6iast\/cracked_broken_tub_and_other_landlord_charges\/","id":"d6iast","body":"Me , husband and our 3 boys ages 4 and under recently (May ) moved out of our rental.  \n\nNo it wasn\u2019t the cleanest, but it was not abused.  We had some serious carpet stains , kids had colored on the walls in a few spots, there was dust on the ceiling fans , and the fridge \/ oven needed cleaning.  \nAlso the week before moved out our tub cracked.  I was giving my kids a bath and my oldest pushed on the crack in the wall of the tub and a large chunk ( golf ball size ) pushed inward.  Along with cracks along the bottom of the tub.  \n\nWe had a 775$ deposit and paid all our rent on time and gave 30days written notice . \nIn May we receive a phone calling saying we owed 1200$ , and we asked for a detailed list of  damages and the reason. Next contact we receive is from a law firm claiming we owe 3200$.  We wrote back and explained how we never received a bill and they sent us back pictures of the apartment and said we owe for the tub.  We did not misuse the tub ( we are over weight but there was no funny business taking place ) and feel like this should be consider wear and tear.  Along with the cleaning \/ carpet etc should all be reasonable repair \/ cleaning when a tenant leaves.  We lived there over a year.  \n\nAdvice ?","title":"Cracked \/ broken tub and other landlord charges","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551657298,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax0brg\/evicting_roommate\/","id":"ax0brg","body":"living in Georgia, i have a monthly rental agreement with my landlord. A lease was signed the first year but not after that\n\nI let a friend move in last June, no lease signed. He hasn\u2019t paid rent\/utilities for January or February. He stole my credit card and banking info, and transferred money out of my savings account\n\nI filed a police report on Wednesday and will be going to the court house Monday morning to start the eviction process. When I found out he was stealing he said he would be out by the end of the week but is now saying he needs time\n\nDo I need to get my landlord involved to make him leave? Or can I do the eviction? ","title":"evicting roommate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554217693,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8kfdy\/property_manager_trying_to_charge_a_shit_ton_of\/","id":"b8kfdy","body":"My roommate and I are trying to move into a double room in Boston, and the property manager wants to charge us $500 to process our application\/paperwork. \nWe\u2019re both college students with co-signers, and have been living in Boston for 2 years now. We\u2019ve just found a girl who has an open room, and the property manager for her building sent us this email that requires first, last, security and a $250 paperwork fee per person (aka me and my roommate will pay $500 to her directly for this paperwork). \nI\u2019ve been looking at the legislation for renting in Boston, and it seems to be that landlords can\u2019t charge for anything besides first, last, security, and a lock fee. Is the property manager allowed to charge $500 extra for our paperwork?\nWe\u2019re just broke as shit and would appreciate any help.\nThanks!","title":"Property manager trying to charge a shit ton of stuff in Boston","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551902889,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay39na\/father_is_senile_took_steps_to_ruin_entire_family\/","id":"ay39na","body":"I do not know if disability issues or computer and internet are the proper flair so I\u2019ll just say that here to start. Will try to keep this as simple as possible, apologies in advance for my terrible writing. Will leave stuff out like personal things that I believe are not relevant.\n\nThe main point and question is related to keeping my cell phone number before I start ranting. I need to keep it I order to do basically everything from banking to logging into email, taxes, security in general, and the fact that it is the main way people know how to contact me.\n\nLet me try to explain his behavior.\n\nMy father is a disabled veteran with a long history of mental and physical problems. He has a nerve disease as well as an amputated leg. Brain damage from events like becoming septic, and cocktails of psychoactive drugs and copious amounts of weed smoking. Pretty sure he recently had a stroke as well or many small ones, not 100% sure. \n\nAbout 6 months ago he straight up abandoned my mother to go live on his own somewhere so he could have his money I guess. They are still married. Went from the nicest guy in the world to a complete monster. Blocking everyone from being able to communicate with him, leaving my mom in a position where she had to move many states over with barely any money. I ended up helping my mother move across the country in a 16ft truck pulling the family car on a dolly behind that he left her to deal with.\n\nHe signed me up for a credit card without my permission before he left, in my name, before he left and said to use it if there was an emergency. The first ever credit ever attached to my name as I never have used credit before. I stupidly did not destroy it or cancel it and ended up allowing my mother to use it because I cared more about her well being than my credit score. This was cosmic foolishness I know but whatever, this is just one point and not what I need advise on. He essentially used my name to sign up for credit to pretend like he was helping me and I ended up having to use it to support my mother and now I\u2019m in debt, but it is not that bad and I can fix it.\n\nMoving forward. My mom sets up her new life as best as possible and starts drinking a lot. I\u2019m living with her for about two months at this time trying to grind up enough funds to go back out on my own. I end up leaving for reasons before I am prepared and end up living homeless. \n\nI end up going to visit him just to see how he is doing after I get my crap together. Find out he is completely insane. Talking to the walls all day long, mumbling to himself literally constantly all day long every day with no pause. Spend about a week and half around him finding out he is assaulting people and walking around town harassing people. \n\nHe ended up throwing me out on the street the night before I was going to fly out for absolutely no reason after he was hearing voices. He smokes unhealthy amount of weed and THC from vape pens on top of this. At strengths that make even people with a tolerance trip out. The VA apparently caused him to have a stroke because of all the drugs they have him on, whatever those drugs are I don\u2019t know. Just that he is on some and some are absolutely psychoactive. He stopped going to the VA during the week and half I was there and I think he was taking whatever drugs they were giving him to get high. His mannerisms in general seemed tweekish like he was grinding his jaw and doing this throat clearing thing that I\u2019ve seen junkies do. Which is what makes me think that but I don\u2019t know if it is that or the stroke.\n\nBlah blah blah. \n\nFast forward to a week ago and my father turns off everyone\u2019s cell phones that we have all had on the family plan for 15+ years. He did not just turn off the phones, he completely removed them suddenly with no warning or ability to keep the numbers in any kind of transfer. This includes my little sister, bother, and my mother. In order to transfer the number to my own personal plan I need his authorization. Problem is he is crazy now and will not talk to anyone. \n\nI\u2019m trying to get my life together and all of a sudden not having my number that I use for everything and have always had, has essentially crippled my ability to access all of my sensitive files, banking\/credit, email. Calling and texting of course too. I just was hired at two different jobs and the stress of not having this stupid phone number anymore that I\u2019ve attached me identity to is stressing me out to infinity. \n\nI guess my question is:\n\nHow can I keep my number if I need his authorization to do so? \n\nIn a few weeks they will make the number available and I\u2019m freaking out as it is attached to my entire identity and security.\n\n","title":"Father Is Senile. Took Steps To Ruin Entire Family. NEED ADVICE PLEASE!!!","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1412737606,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2imjf8\/what_if_a_friend_doesnt_want_to_pay_me_back\/","id":"2imjf8","body":"Hey,\n\nI live in the province of Quebec, Canada.\n\nI recently used my credit card to buy a flight ticket for one of my friends. \nHe first told me he was going to give me the full amount before I buy the ticket, now he's saying he's gonna give me half first then the rest when he comes back + a bit more money ( Yeah, I asked for some type of interest, because I won't be able to use that money for two weeks, the duration of his vacation).\n\nNow my question is. . . Let's says he tells me some bullsh!t like he's not able to pay me half because of whatever reason, then when he comes back he tries to avoid me, what are my legal possibilities?\n\nThe only proofs I have are the confirmation numbers for the flight, my name on the credit card that paid for the ticket and the text message where he agrees to pay me back the full amount + extra even in the case of him no being able to go (misses flight, expired passport, etc.)\n\nIf the worst happens, is it possible for me to sue him for the total amount + lawyer fees or is it something that must be worked out between us without the possibility of legal option.\n\nP.S.: I'm pretty sure he's gonna pay me back but just in case he doesn't. . .\n\nThank You!","title":"What if a friend doesn't want to pay me back?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553705132,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b66id0\/my_boss_bit_me_on_the_face_in_a_room_with_no\/","id":"b66id0","body":"This happened in a huge billion dollar restaurant chain.\n\nThis was the only office in the company with no security camera. He had told me that in the past he was quite proud of this.\n\nThis guy was very close with the owners of the company and I'm sure he felt untouchable.\n\nOne day he grabbed me and went in for an aggressive mouth kiss which I did not want and I turned my face quickly to the side and he chomped down on my cheek in anger.\n\nI immediately ran from the office and called HR\n\nI had previously called HR about his advances and the way he was persecuting me for not accepting them.\n\nLong story short I was not welcomed to go back to work, I signed a NDA, and took a small settlement (about 3 months of my base salary at the time) \n\nThis ruined my career obviously I had 13 years with the company. \n\nTell me everything I did wrong and if there's anything I can do now","title":"My boss bit me on the face in a room with no cameras","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570593424,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfbmpk\/my_work_place_is_going_to_hell\/","id":"dfbmpk","body":"Hi everyone, sorry I\u2019m on mobile as I write this but! I need help, this is a throwaway account for more then a few reasons but has everything to do with what I\u2019ll be talking about below. \n\nIn short, I need help. And I need help fast.\n\nFor the sake of easy replies just call me WT, I\u2019m a 17 year old student who\u2019s working a part time job at a food store. Now this place is a \u201cfast food\u201d chain and very simply I'm gonna call it out as Auntie Anne's because they're are contract laws that may help in this I'm just not sure about it yet.  This location is found inside a mall and is under New Jersey law. \n\nNow to the problem: \n\nFor the past 15 years the business was a self owned store, basically since I was two that store had been run by the same husband and wife. In the past 72 hours the store has been sold to a larger corporation that owns 1\/3 of the Auntie Anne's in the United States. And they have fucked up royaly. \n\nIn the past three days since this was announced there's been one person confirmed to have quit on the spot after working there for two years. She was next in line to be a manager. \n\nTonight a coworker of mine told our original bosses that she was quitting and not showing up for her shifts past Thursday night. They had no issue with this because most of us where planning the same.\n\nNow I personally, don't want to leave my two bosses, (call them Carly and Nicky from here on out) alone with no staff that knows nothing about how anything works. At least up until they quit or are fired. So for now, I've promised them and JUST them that I will be working at least for the next week. \n\n\nSo here is where the law is being violated: \n\nFOOD SAFETY\nfirst and foremost this is fucking huge. The way working at a store like this works is we need to roll and shape the pretzels so we have to use our hands. The new three men who have come and bought the store did not \nA) use gloves like your legally supposed to in your contract \nB) took down all FDA or health inspector food stickers we have on our building and Kiosk. \nC) where leaving meat products out on the counter un-refrigerated \nD) let the pretzels in the case sit for almost 4 hours at our kiosk (I told a customer to go to our main store and ask for a fresh one because I refuses to sell a pretzel that old. Thankfully we where almost dead down their tonight) \nAnd finally E) they have been under cooking pretzels. \n\nThis brings me to my second point \n\nHARASSMENT\nIn the course of my first 6 hour shift under new management, one of the new \"managers\" I'll call ryan tried to swing at a custom. And I mean literally punch someone. This customer was someone who used to work at this place for three years so he was a regular so those of us who know him where pretty fucking pissed about ryan throwing a punch at this guy. He got it on camera and called security and Carly and Nicky are going to rip the \"new managers\" A new one tomorrow because of this incident.\n\nSo finally.... What do I do? What can I do? What can my coworkers do? Carly and Nicky this is their careers! They have to find a whole new job \/ are praying they are fired so they can collect unemployment until they can find a better place to be in. I myself can walk out at any point but the two have helped me so much so I want to know, how do I take down this store or at the very least, get the management changed back to Nicky and Carly?","title":"My Work Place Is Going To Hell","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508197281,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76um8h\/nyc_apartment_burnt_down_grounds_for_negligence\/","id":"76um8h","body":"Hello, recently my apartment tragically burnt down and all my possesions were burnt to a crisp. I'm writing this post to get a general feel of how to proceed with this legally. What happened was I came home one day and noticed the outlets in my unit were not working, worried that the food in my fridge would spoil, I promptly notified my landlord who stated he would try to fix it. My landlord was in my unit working on it within the hour. However, once my landlord started messing with the breakers and electricity in my unit, he in fact caused an electricial fire to start which subsequently burned down my unit. I'm trying to assess my legal options from here and would help a lot if someone could provide insight into whether this is groudns for negligence because of his actions leading to my apartment being burnt and what type of lawyer would be best in this case whether it's personal injury or landlord-tenant. Thank you so much and I appreciate the help.","title":"[NYC] Apartment burnt down, grounds for negligence?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504925197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yze1o\/what_is_commingling_and_why_is_it_illegal\/","id":"6yze1o","body":"Someone I know got disbarred over it.\n\nBot wants me tell y'all I'm from Missouri.","title":"What is commingling and why is it illegal?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1446229652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qvd8g\/suing_a_landlord_in_wa_state\/","id":"3qvd8g","body":"I apologize for the length of this post, but I'm questioning whether or not I should hire a lawyer or stick to small claims court with the issue at hand.\n\nThe background is that my family and I have been living in a rental property for approximately two and a half years now, with our lease up in March. There have been several issues with this property since we moved in. We've been taking avid notes and keeping all communications to emails if possible in order to have a record of communication.\n\nThe crux of the issue is that we discovered that our basement would flood during any type of rain after six months living on the property. We immediately informed the Property Management Agency of this issue and they did nothing for 9 months. For 9 months we had to keep our finished basement furniture in a \"flood ready\" condition, with things up on tables and plastic cups around the legs of furniture to prevent water damage. It flooded dozens of times and eventually they hired someone to repair the basement. \n\nThe short of it is we have compiled evidence through email and journal notes of their systematic refusal to deal with this issue. We have asked for a retroactive reduction in rent that represents the square footage effectively lost over the course of those 9 months. This amount adds up to around 7k dollars. They of course, have categorically denied even negotiating to settle this. (We informed them that a simple extension of our lease for another year at the current rate would have sufficed when we were 3 months into this issue. They refused.)\n\nAll of this has been compounded with the Property Management Company's failure to respond to basically any issue in a timely manner, despite being informed of things as soon as we discovered them.\n\nWe've investigated getting a lawyer, and everyone who has seen our timeline and evidence collection has agreed that we have a solid case within the guidelines of Washington State's Landlord Tenant laws. But the lawyer wants a retainer of 500 dollars even to meet with them.\n\nOur lease specifically exempts the property management company from any legal action and names the Property owners as legally responsible for any issues that may arise. Because of this, we are, in effect, going to be suing a private party, that it is safe to assume, does not have ~7k dollars lying around to pay a judgement, even if we win. Because of this, I'm hesitant to pay a retainer of 500 dollars and go to civil court, simply because the return on this likely wouldn't amount to anything real for a long time... (perhaps if they sell the house, because they would then be required to pay the lien.)\n\nWould it be better to simply keep it to small claims, where the claim limit is 5 thousand, and go from there? Or is it worth taking it to civil court and hiring a lawyer and accumulating legal fees?\n\nAnother note complicating the issue is that the property owner lives in California. However, based on our demands letter being signed for and received, we do have good contact information and should have no problem serving them, for small claims or civil court.\n\nTL;DR When is it worth it to move out of small claims and into civil court?","title":"Suing a landlord in WA State","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502798362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ttn8e\/ticket_at_a_red_light\/","id":"6ttn8e","body":"So I got a ticket at a red light for having my phone out. I was stopped but the cop said I was moving. I realize it's basically my word against his (and the magistrate will probably believe the cop), but what can\/should I do? Should I suck it up and pay the ticket or plead not guilty?\n\nWarminster, PA","title":"Ticket at a red light","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569465631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9dkjr\/my_company_is_pocketing_the_money_they_are_paid\/","id":"d9dkjr","body":"I work for a military contractor. We have a contract with the Navy to provide employees for 40hrs per week. I don't often work more than 40 hours, but when I do I have to record it on my time sheet. I was told when I started with the company over 4 years ago that we don't get paid for overtime because we are salaried employees (my pay is $X per year). I never really questioned it.\n\nHowever, I found out recently that the Navy still pays my company extra for any overtime hours I work, but that extra pay is not passed on to me. A co-worker of mine who works for a different company told me that this is illegal, and her company pays her for overtime regardless of being on a salary. \n\nDo I have any legal leg to stand on here or is she wrong? And if so, what should I do to address this issue?","title":"My company is pocketing the money they are paid for my overtime hours.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541541748,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9usxcr\/19yearsold_and_wanting_to_drop_out_of_school_but\/","id":"9usxcr","body":"So I'm 19-years-old, and behind on enough credits that I would be in High School until I'm 21... All of my friends have graduated, but I'm stuck here failing more classes than I have in the past, despite feeling like I'm giving my 110%. I talked to my parents about dropping out and getting a GED, and wanting to go to welding school. Here's where the problem lies:  \n\n\n1. My mom believes that I can do it, but my dad continues to be irrational and claims that if I drop out, I have to move out the same day, and can only take my clothes - as he \"owns everything else.\"\n2. The school requires both parents to be there for the unenrolling process, although that I'm legally an adult. I've also seen some people saying online that you do not need your parents to be there if you are over the age of 18.\n\nDoes anyone have any advice that might be able to help? Thank you in advanced.","title":"19-Years-Old and wanting to drop out of school, but running into some difficulties.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571229756,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dios1o\/vancouver_my_landlord_barged_into_my_room\/","id":"dios1o","body":"While I was sleeping accusing me of stealing something from his room. I pushed him out and he kicked me a couple of times. I called the police and they came and calmed things down. I told operator he had kicked me. Officers asked if I'm alright, I have a scratch on my neck. But at this minute I am in tremendous pain. A big shooting pain when my ankle lifted.\n\nWhat do I do, I'm a bit worried.","title":"(Vancouver) my landlord barged into my room","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569775587,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daxnjv\/can_i_throw_my_roommate_out_for_not_paying_rent_ga\/","id":"daxnjv","body":"Hey all, so basically my roommate made a last minute decision to move out. He is not going to pay october rent. He already moved some of his things out, but some of his things are still here. I told him he has until midnight October 1st (so tomorrow night) to get his things and get out. He is not on the lease and he has not paid rent which is due tomorrow, but we generally venmo the head of household the money a few days early. \n\nSo my question is, since he isn\u2019t on the lease and he hasn\u2019t paid rent, i plan on changing the locks tomorrow at midnight and placing his things outside the following day after i get off work. what are the repercussions, if any, of this. and if in this situation, what would you do?","title":"Can I throw my roommate out for not paying rent? (GA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553270123,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b46qf6\/wi_at_the_start_of_a_very_bad_divorcecustody\/","id":"b46qf6","body":"I will start by saying that I cannot defend my actions whatsoever, and I am not looking for sympathy, just some legal guidance because I\u2019m in a really tight spot right now and don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll be able to dig myself out. \n\nMy husband recently announced he was divorcing me (he has filed for separation) and had been having an affair with a close friend of ours and was moving her into the house. He gave me the option of staying in the home with them or leaving, and I left. We have a 13 month old child together. I am a recovering addict, and was clean for 6 years until Wednesday night. I was intoxicated at the time of arrest. I was very angry, had been drinking heavily for a couple of hours at that point and decided to assert myself (after what felt like weeks of concession and being walked on) and returned to the marital home at around 1am. Once I arrived I let myself in, and went to get my toiletries and some more of my clothing from the bedroom to move into our basement and heard what I believed to be them having sex in the bedroom. This is where the altercation began and escalated, though I do not wish to get into details about that. My husband was the battered party, and his side piece has some video recording of the altercation. I was arrested, and was released on bond late last night. \n\nMy biggest issue here besides feeling like the biggest failure to ever walk the planet, is that I cannot afford to pay for a criminal attorney *and* a family law attorney. I can\u2019t afford to pay one lawyer to fight both cases, either. I have always been so wary of public defenders, as I have had terrible experiences in the past (legal troubles years ago when addiction was at its peak). I have consulted with a few family law attorneys and with the amount of difficulty in my case, everyone wants a very expensive retainer. My biggest question is, would I be better of putting my resources into a criminal attorney to work on trying to get the charges lessened or work out a deal, to help my civil case with my divorce and custody? Or would I be better off rolling the dice with a public defender and focusing my effort and monetary resources into a really good family attorney? \n\nMy ex was granted a TPO and emergency custody of our daughter, and I have to appear in court next week, and I have no idea how I can possibly defend myself. I don\u2019t even know what to expect. My ex is claiming that I am mentally and emotionally unstable and have been an abusive spouse, and plans on bringing up past incidents (non violent) and text messages to prove that. I have never messed up something so badly in my entire life, and I would like to know what nexts steps I should take if I can\u2019t afford to fight both cases in court and what I need to do to help myself regain some sort of upper hand in the legal battle with him.","title":"WI- At the start of a very bad divorce\/custody issue, was arrested and charged with felony substantial battery. I really need to know how bad I just screwed up mine and my child\u2019s life and what to do next.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442030775,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kmnwo\/interstate_custody_and_child_support\/","id":"3kmnwo","body":"In April of this year, my fiance and I lost our house. We had 30 days to move out and with no money saved, our only option was to move 3 hours away, out of state. Myself (21), my fiance (24), his ex-husband (27), and our daughter (3), all lived in the house together. We understood that there was a 100 mile radius on their divorce agreement, but we were rushed for time and needed to move as soon as we possibly could, with the help of his mother. As a quick fix, him and his ex husband wrote up an unofficial document stating that he was giving permission for our daughter to live out of the 100 mile radius, out of state, with my fiance and I, and that the agreement was on-going and had no end. We had an unbiased 3rd party sign it. I understand that because it is not a court document, nor notarized, that it is unofficial and not legally binding. They had also left child support out of the divorce agreement, because we had all planned on living with each other for the foreseeable future, so money was not an issue. The losing our house is another, long-drawn out story, full of discrimination we were not protected against, but that really isn't necessary in this description. To put it simply, it was completely unexpected for all of us. \n\nWe (ex-husband not included) moved to the other state, with my MIL, on April 21 of this year. We had no problems with the ex, other than minor disagreements over child support, of which he has still sent us none. My MIL is mentally ill, and it became a hostile environment for my fiance and I, very quickly, but we felt stuck, as we had still not saved up any money. On July 22, my MIL and fiance were arguing about his gender identity by the pool, and it was starting to get loud and inappropriate. When I went to get my daughter and take her inside away from the arguing, my MIL grabbed me by the arm, twisting it backwards, and grabbed my daughter by the wrist, trying to pull her towards her, screaming \"You're not taking my grandbaby from me you little bi*ch!\" I broke free, picked up my daughter, but my MIL was still tugging on her arm. Thankfully, I got her free and carried her inside. Had she fallen, she would have landed on the concrete and probably gotten hurt badly. While we were inside, my MIL started to choke my fiance, threatening to throw him in the pool. This was, of course, the final straw, because although it had been uncomfortable for us there with the fighting between them, it had always stayed away from our 3 year old, and had never gotten physical. We moved out of her home on July 25th of this year, to another state, different from the one we moved from first, to live with my adoptive mother. We had to leave the car we were making payments on to my MIL's boyfriend, to avoid more altercations. \n\nRight now, we are without a car, working, trying to save money for a car, and then a place of our own, whether it be in the original state, or here. \n\n\nNow that I have explained all of this... Legally, as I understand it, we are viewed as \"fleeing\" the original state with our daughter because we had never gotten a court order allowing us to take her out of state. We have still received no money from her father, outside of $20 for gas, one time, to bring her to see him. She has only had 4 visits with him since we moved, and none since July 25th, when we moved to where we are now. \n\nWe want to get child support from him at the very least, but also want full custody as he is very uninvolved in her life. Before we had moved out of the house we had all shared, he had only taken her out of the house on his own 4 times, 3 of those being in the weeks leading up to our move. He doesn't bath her properly, take care of her (very long) hair, or feed her properly. During his last visit with her, which was for only 24 hours, he had fed her ONE popsicle, because \"she never said she was hungry.\" She's THREE! When we had picked her up from another visitation, she hadn't been bathed, and we could tell, because there was still the same dirt on her from when we had dropped her off (3 days previous), and she was wearing the same clothes. Currently, his communication with her is a 10 minute phone call maybe 3 times a week, where he spends about 5 minutes talking to her, and the other 5 bi*ching to my fiance about his problems that don't include either my fiance or our daughter. He also will sykpe with her maybe 2 times per month, but only when other people are around to boost his image of being a good father. When we have asked him to call more, or skype more (because our daughter loves it, she plays hide and seek with her dada, and can see his face), he always has an excuse, usually something to do with his girlfriend. His girlfriend is also the excuse he normally gives as to why he can't send money, because she sees it as \"supporting my fiance\", not his daughter.\n\nEx husband is loyal only to whomever his girlfriend is at the time, and is very much a pushover when it comes to whatever they want. We are worried that he would try to take us to court to get full custody if the girlfriend he is with hints towards it, OR if he catches wind that we are looking into child support. \n\nHere are our fears, and hesitations, regarding involving the courts in custody and child support: 1) the view that we have \"fled\" with our daughter, which may result in criminal charges. 2) a biased judge, who would use my fiance's transition from female to male against us, making us lose the custody battle. 3) ex husband making more money than us. 4) most of our daughter's family living in the original state, although she barely knows them, and he has never taken her to see them (we have). I don't know what to do. We are not exactly struggling to support our daughter, but struggling to SAVE our money towards our future and getting back on our feet. I'm hoping that there is a way to go about getting the court order without involving a huge custody battle, because we are terrified of one. We just want him to help support the child he created. I don't know what to do. \n\nAny and all advice is appreciated. Although I don't want to give up this information, we live in KY, and ex husband lives in MI. We plan on sitting down with a lawyer in the near future. \n\n(Also, to clarify, because reading through this, it may seem a little confusing, I call her my daughter, because I have been her primary caretaker for 1 1\/2 years. I have ALMOST SOLELY potty trained her, disciplined her, and taught my smart little girl so many things, with the exception of my fiance's love and help, or course. She is not biologically my daughter. She is biologically my fiance's and ex husband's.) \n\nThank you for your time, sorry in advance for the wall of text, and any confusion I may have caused with the way I provided my information. I will clarify as needed. ","title":"Interstate Custody and Child Support","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1411058065,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2grw1x\/car_got_towed_from_apartment_complex_tx_us\/","id":"2grw1x","body":"My rental car got towed from my apartment complex. My normal car is currently getting fixed and I had to get a rental car. \n\nMy car was towed at 8:45 PM.  I got a visitor pass from my apartment complex but I did not have it displayed. I did not have it up because I was told I had until 9:00 PM to make sure it was displayed. I even have a newsletter from two weeks ago stating, \"Visitor passes are required if guests are staying past 9:00 PM.\"\n\nI talked to the tow company and they said their contract states they can start towing at 7:00 PM. I talked to my property manager and they have not been helpful. They state visitor passes must be displayed all day. That has never been the case. I have always been told 9:00 PM. The newsletter for this month also says 9:00PM. \n\nIs there anything I can do? I am thinking about taking them to small claims court but the only proof I have is the newsletter. I don't think my lease has anything listed and if it does it probably states towing is enforced at all times. \n\nThank you for any help you can provide. \n","title":"Car got towed from apartment complex (TX, US)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539952535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pjecm\/friend_9603_miles_away_is_being_sued_by_own\/","id":"9pjecm","body":"Not sure if this is the right place to post this so I apologize in advance for using the incorrect flair and if it is not relevant.\n\nI met this friend of mine, B from Ecuador while we were studying in an Australian university 8 years ago. He graduated few years later and couldn't stay on so he had to go back to his hometown in Quito, Ecuador while I remained in Australia. We haven't been in touch since but I had a call from B this week out of no where and asking for help. Apparently B's elder sister and brother-in-law (sister's husband) is pursuing legal action against B for the threat of domestic violence, at least that's what I think it is according to the way he explained and also the legal documents he sent me which were all in Spanish (has to use google translate). \n\nHowever, B said that this is not true and he is being falsely accused and I believe him (from the time I've known B, he's not a violent person). Unfortunately he told me his family (parents and other elder sister) is siding with his sister and will be her witness in court. I'm not sure how is B's relationship with his family since he never mentioned them before but it must feel pretty shitty to be in his position where his whole family is against him. \n\nB told me that he doesn't have any evidence to defend against her sister and family's claims but he told me his partner and his friends are willing to be his witness and declare that B is innocent and the accusations made against B is false. \n\nWill the testimony of B's partner and friends be suffice for B to convince the Judge that he is being falsely accused or will it come down to what B's sister and his family say in court? If B loses the case, does he go to jail or get fined? Likewise if B wins the case, is there any compensation for the time, energy, money and emotions he had to go through? \n\nAppreciate all the advice I can get and hope the information above is clear and specific enough. TA.\n\n​","title":"Friend 9,603 miles away is being sued by own family for \"threat of domestic violence\"","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503201813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6utq8n\/mi_do_i_have_to_register_the_car_i_drove_from_ca\/","id":"6utq8n","body":"The car was purchased in CA and belongs to my parents, who live in CA. I am borrowing (in a loose sense of the word) the car for 5 years while I complete grad school in MI. I plan to drive it back when I'm done.\n\nDo I need to do anything, legally speaking, regarding my license or license plates or insurance?\n\nMy father says our insurance agent claims there's nothing that needs to be done, but the lady I spoke to at a nearby DMV seems to believe otherwise.","title":"[MI] Do I have to register the car I drove from CA?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1552335095,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azy46c\/i_was_sent_to_the_er_from_throattongue_swelling\/","id":"azy46c","body":"Starting off I live in a small space month-to-month in California. I have been living here around 4 years with minimal issues with my landlord. I am up to date on rent and there is no problems with that.  \n\n\nOn 2\/24\/19, I texted her stating that there was a leak in the bathroom window, and showed her pictures of the area that was drenched in water and had developed some mold. She replied saying \"there may not be anything I can do about the window right away.\" and told me to keep it clean in the meantime. I put towels underneath the window to try and help with all the water that was coming through (since it was raining nearly every day where I live.)\n\nOn 2\/28\/19, she texted me asking if I was around that day and said that she may have time to send someone there. She also stated she would come by Saturday 03\/02\/19 at 9:30am. I replied to her first message stating that I will be at work 2pm-10pm. Nobody showed up either Thursday or Saturday. My neighbors that live in the main house (of which she is also the landlord of.) said that she was at their house Saturday morning. She did not bother walking to my place next door.\n\nOn 03\/04\/19, I'd had a cough and a sore throat for a few days, and then on this day early in the morning, My throat felt closed and it was insanely painful to breathe\/swallow. I tried taking Tylenol\/Benadryl and it did not help. It got harder to breathe so I asked my girlfriend to take me to the ER. I went there about 7am, and was kept overnight and released at 11am the next day. While I was there, at around 10am on the 4th, I texted my landlord this:\n\n\"Hey can you guys try and help with the window and mold situation like ASAP? I am in the Er right now from throat\/tongue swelling. I believe it is from the mold and I really shouldn't go near it.\"\n\nShe replied 1 hour later with \"Hi.... I think it's probably time to vacate that space...that way I can deal with any issues there and do some remodeling that is needed. So lets plan this is your 30 day notice. I'll be by tonight between 6-8.\"\n\nI replied immediately with \"What? It shouldn't be too hard to deal with. I still need a place to live....\"\n\nShe didn't reply and just stated she will be there around 9pm. I said that I was still in the ER, but the door is unlocked. She cleaned the mold, but did not repair the window.\n\nOn 03\/06\/19 She messaged me in the morning asking me to call her. She stated that my place is \"filthy\" and I am not keeping anything clean. She said that the only reason I could have been put in the er was due to my \"lack of hygiene.\" She pointed out that my trashcan was full and my shower curtain had some mildew on the bottom. She also complained about the mold that was on my toilet plunger (which was right under the window that was leaking. She took pictures of my house while she was there cleaning the mold. She also sent a picture of the towels on the floor (that were there to prevent more mold.)\n\nskipping over some texts I messaged: \"Why was your response to me asking you to take care of the mold ASAP kicking me out then? You have not answered that.\"\n\nShe replied. \"We are on a month to month rental agreement, and either of us can end tenancy with appropriate notice at any time, for any reason. I am simply giving you your 60 day notice to vacate.\" (yes she changed it to 60 day)\n\nThen she stated she would come Friday the 8th to fix the window, and did not come. Then on Saturday she messaged me at 10am and said that she would be there in a half hour. I said that I had a Dr. appointment for more blood work at 10:45, and she walked up to my car while I was trying to leave and started complaining about my place and accusing me of things like having my girlfriend living there (she is over maybe once a week, and the rental agreement states as long as someone does not stay for more than 3 days at a time, it's okay.) and having 2 cars there when the agreement says I can only have 1(just purchased new car and working on selling old car. Old car is actually parked on neighboring property that landlord does not own. I know the people that live there pretty well, and they would definitely tell me to move my car if it was a problem.)\n\nI basically said nothing and just stared at her and nodded while she yelled at me, then I told her that I needed to go (ended up being late to my appointment) While she was there I'm not sure what she did. I came back from the appointment, and the window was still the same, just the curtain had been moved. Haven't heard from her about it since.\n\n​\n\nI have everything that we have been saying saved on text other than when she walked up to my car. I am still unsure if the mold is what caused my reaction, and my Doctor said that they could not prove it. However, I have been to an allergist in the past and I am highly allergic to several different kinds of mold.\n\n​\n\nSome of my friends were saying things like landlord not being able to kick people out in fear of legal action, or having to give 24 hour notice before they come by and what not. Anyways, I want to see what I can do in this situation. I had to take off work for a whole week after leaving the ER. And now I have to find a new place to live quickly. I do not have the money to pay for all of this easily as I work as a McDonald's manager.\n\n​\n\nFeel free to ask any questions. I will answer if it seems it will help. I am not sure what information is important. I also took a video of my whole house as soon as I came home from the ER showing everything so I have proof that I actually keep my house clean. As well as the pictures of the mold that I sent the landlord.\n\n​\n\nUnrelated: There was a situation a couple of years back where there was a severe plumbing problem in my bathroom. Every day the bathtub would fill up with water and overflow all over my bathroom. Not from being used, but just from the neighboring house using water. I told my landlord about it quickly, and she did not attempt to take care of it for over a month. I had to dry up my bathroom every single day and shower at my friends house. I couldn't use my running water and the carpet had to be entirely replaced because the flooding was soaking the carpet of my living room right outside. Were they supposed to provide me with some kind of compensation for that? I did not take any legal action at the time.\n\n​","title":"I was sent to the ER from throat\/tongue swelling possibly due to mold that landlord failed to take care of quickly. After telling my landlord I was in the ER, she gave me 30 day notice to vacate.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569914976,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbpt8y\/va_cop_lied_about_speed_limit_i_have_proof\/","id":"dbpt8y","body":"Hi, first time posting here. Not a Virginia native.\n\nBackground: I pass through Virginia fairly often, and have never been received a ticket. In August I received a ticket going 59 in a 45, when I thought it was a 55. I since then have been going through Virgina much more carefully. My only other ticket is a 50 in a 40 ticket in my home state when I was a teenager.\n\n**The problem**: Four weeks ago I got pulled over in the same country for doing 60 in a 40. I was going 60, but it was a 55. Cop knocked it down to going \"55 in a 40.\" I later went back and and recorded that part of my journey, **I recorded the speed limit signs**, including when it became a 40 AND when it became a 55, I then continued the recording to where I got pulled over, and took a screenshot of my coordinates.\n\nHow can I best get this dismissed? I need to call the court and while can visit it directly, it's inconvenient and a waste of my time. I don't want points on my license.","title":"[VA] Cop lied about speed limit, I have proof","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571368468,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djhgpt\/fathers_rights_for_unmarried_parents\/","id":"djhgpt","body":"On mobile, sorry for formatting. \n\nOklahoma.\n\nMe and the baby\u2019s father are in committed relationship, we\u2019re expecting a baby in 3 weeks or so. According to Ok law, the father has no legal right to child if parents are unwed. When he signs the birth certificate to acknowledge paternity, would that establish parental rights? Or do we need to go to court? We live together, have joint assets, not legally married. If something were to happen to me would the child go to him? Not sure if we need to set up some sort of legal documentation until we are married. Thanks in advance, sorry if it\u2019s a dumb question.","title":"Fathers rights for unmarried parents","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551729864,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axbmqo\/37_degrees_fahrenheit_in_my_office_is_that_legal\/","id":"axbmqo","body":"I live in Oregon, my girlfriend works for a company that makes and distributes bats and other sporting goods. Since the start of winter the company has claimed they don't have enough power to keep the heat on in the building. This past few months and has been the coldest this winter with today reaching 39 degrees out side and currently 37 inside the building. \nIs this legal, what can my girlfriend do about this ? She's having to take multiple blankets and wear 3 layers to not be completely Frozen and even then that doesn't help. \nAny advice is appreciated. ","title":"37 degrees Fahrenheit in my office, is that legal ?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504781660,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ymg8l\/person_i_subletted_from_keeping_full_security\/","id":"6ymg8l","body":"I've never been in this situation before and I am not quite sure what to do.\n\nThis summer I subletted a room from a college student in Boston. I signed a sublease agreement and gave her a security deposit of about 1000 dollars.\n\nYesterday, she sends me a message saying that she was disappointed in the way I left her bed. She said that there were hairs, crumbs and a bug on her sheets. Just for the record, I had put my own sheets on top as I thought she had just left a mattress topper. As a result, she went out and bought a whole new designer bed set that cost over 1000 dollars because she wasn't comfortable using anything. That means new pillows (including decorative ones), a comforter, etc. She sent me the receipt of these items.\n\nIf she bought herself new sheets, I don't think I would be upset but 1000 dollars is a lot to lose. Am I in the wrong? What should I do?\n\nThanks!","title":"Person I Subletted From Keeping Full Security Deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571034584,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhmntm\/woman_accused_me_of_breaking_into_my_apartment\/","id":"dhmntm","body":"I was walking into my apartment building, and as soon as I got in the door, this woman in my complex said she didn't believe I lived there. I said I did, and I tried to walk past her. Then she grabbed me and tried to pull me back towards the door. I made an attempt to get up the stairs with her trying to drag me. I turned around and I punched her. She kept coming after me so I kicked her and made a run for it. \n\nMy brother came over, and an hour later she ran into my living room and starting hitting me with an ice cream scooper. I didn't hit back. My brother got the scooper out of her hand and we talked her down until she left. The next day, I woke up to the sound of her trying to break my door down. She put dents in my door and the door knob is broken. \n\nShe is filing a report against me for punching her. Did I have cause for self-defense?","title":"Woman accused me of breaking into my apartment complex, even though I live there","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539139771,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mvpwn\/small_underthetable_business_advice\/","id":"9mvpwn","body":"Ok, so essentially, I\u2019ve been running an under-the-table business at my high school, where students will message me their food order and I pick it up for them and deliver it to them, then they pay me for it, usually rounding up to the nearest dollar, making very little profit (ie. 10-20 cents per order).\n\nIt\u2019s a small thing, but I\u2019d like to take it to the next level and expand it. However, I\u2019d just like to make sure that I\u2019m not breaking any laws in doing so, nor am I already breaking any laws.\n\n","title":"Small Under-The-Table Business Advice","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1541414855,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ucj3i\/ri_shoplifting_charges_what_can_i_expect\/","id":"9ucj3i","body":"Like the title says. 19, male, student, charged with stealing under $300 worth of stuff from Target. Police were called and I was arrested, court date is coming up and I have **no idea** what to expect.\n\n​\n\nAdditionally I'm kinda messed up in the head (**extreme** anxiety issues & borderline) so when I was confronted I was under the impression I was being detained without it ever being said (I know now this is dumb as shit) and I signed off on two forms without any counsel because I thought I had to. One was for trespassing (honestly whatever) but I don't know the exact terms and never got a copy of it. The other was the merchandise I was attempting to steal and me signing off saying that \"i tried to take this\" i guess but it wasn't written on the form before I signed off and I wasn't aware I had any kind of choice.\n\nI was asked by the LP if I had ever shoplifted from anywhere else and thanks to my issues (leading me to assume the worst etc.) I thought I had to not only answer but be completely honest, and admitted to lifting at another point in time as well as twice from walmart (in much smaller amounts). When I was arrested I was never once read my rights. From what I can find online this changes nothing since in my case Miranda law doesn't apply (confessed before arrest n whatnot) but I figured I should mention that anyways.\n\nI feel real dumb about this (especially the lifting part) and I'm mortified. I'm terrified of telling people I know and don't have any support. I've emailed multiple lawyers and gotten no reply. I'm a student but I'm willing to pay for a lawyer if I need to because I'm quite literally terrified about what's going to happen. I'm worried mostly about the possibility of expungement and having this on my record at a time where I really can't afford it.\n\n​\n\nIn short I'm fucking scared and could use any advice out there. I did dumb shit and I've been unable to function honestly since I got arrested. If anybody has literally any information I'm begging you to let me know.\n\nThanks","title":"[RI] Shoplifting Charges- What can I Expect?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444237411,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nv0to\/electric_company_messed_up_and_is_charging_the\/","id":"3nv0to","body":"Southfield, MI\n\nMoved to a new place 2 months ago. I took all the necessary steps to set the utilities up and even got mail from them. I have a recording of the phone conversation in which I give my information and set up my account. For some reason, its not in my name and they are sending the bill to the apartment complex. I wasn't 100% certain about it until I got a letter in the mail recently from the apartment saying I owe the money they were charged and an additional $40 for the \"inconvenience\" of them having to pay it. I personally think I don't owe them any extra money. I also think its not my fault that it got messed up. I do understand I am responsible for paying utilities but what right do they have to charge extra? ","title":"Electric company messed up and is charging the apartment for my electricity. Am I responsible for the payment? What legal implications does this have?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571255685,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diur9t\/michigan_us_employer_is_deducting_my_pay\/","id":"diur9t","body":"My company pays hourly for travel. Two and half weeks ago while enroute to Boston via ORD, the whole airport was shut down from 5pm until the next morning. I was stuck at the airport trying to line up my flight the following, and did not get to my hotel until 11:30 pm.\nA few days ago they informed me that they would be deducting 9.5 hours of OT off of my next check because they apparently only pay for 8 hours of travel delay.\nIn my opinion, anytime that you are not \"free to go\" you should be compensated.\nBasically my question is this: is it legal for them to take money from me because of a payroll mistake that they made?","title":"(Michigan, US) Employer is deducting my pay.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569955008,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbxnbg\/blackmailextortionrevenge_porn_advice\/","id":"dbxnbg","body":"Hi all,\n\nI am writing from a throwaway acct, and am hoping to receive guidance on this urgent issue. Please reserve personal judgment. \n\nI am a prominent poster on NSFW subreddits, with many followers, which obviously exposes me to a fair amount of creeps. I received a message from a redditor, asking for a paid cam session via Skype. I agreed, but only to the terms that I normally put forth: I don\u2019t show full face, and payment has to post halfway through or I hang up. He became aggressive, demanding to see my face, and didn\u2019t pay, so I hung up. He managed to obtain all my personal information from my anonymous Skype acct, and is now harassing me on my personal Instagram, email, Skype and Reddit to extort me for nudes\/cam sessions\/videos in exchange for him not exposing me to my employer. \n\nWhat can I do legally here? I have 2 IP addresses of his, attached to his Skype info, but they could likely be VPNs. \n\nThank you in advance","title":"Blackmail\/extortion\/revenge porn advice","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570459033,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dekavd\/do_i_need_an_attorney\/","id":"dekavd","body":"I've never gotten a ticket before, so I don't know if a lawyer would be useful in this situation. I received 2 tickets in GA, one for 84 in 45 (40-6-181) and the other for reckless driving (40-6-390) during the same stop. These are literally the first tickets I have ever had, so I am curious if it would be useful for me to pay for an attorney or just to plead guilty\/nolo to them and pay my fines. The speeding is not a super speeder in my state because it was a 4 lane divided highway, which means it has to be 85+ to be a super speeder. \n\nI have contacted some attorneys, but the amount they would charge me would basically be almost the same as the fine and I would still have to pay some of the fine. So what I'm curious about is if it's worth it in the long term to get an attorney, as I'm not sure the longer term ramifications of these tickets.","title":"Do I need an attorney?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553829136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6s9rq\/can_cps_take_me_out_of_my_school_and_put_me_in_a\/","id":"b6s9rq","body":"I'm going eith cps tonight because i have nowhere else to go while my mom is in jail. if i end up staying with them permanently can they withdraw me from my school and switch it?","title":"can CPS take me out of my school and put me in a different one?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569893413,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dblw80\/someone_is_blackmailing_me_with_my_own_nude\/","id":"dblw80","body":"This morning I got a text from a strange number, threatening me with old naughty pictures of me. I only sent these to one person. My neighbor, who I was playfully messing around with for a couple weeks last year.  The text read, and I quote: \u201cI have an entire album of photos of you. If you do not do what I ask of you, I will be sending these photos to your family members as well as colleagues and employment office.\u201d And they attached my address, parents\u2019 names as well as the phone number of the doctor\u2019s office I work at.....they then stated that I either pay them $2,000 or work for them on their \u201cadult content platform\u201d WTF???? Now, my neighbor knew all of these details about me. We\u2019ve lived across from each other for years now. He knows my family and everything. So I messaged him and kindly told him that someone is harassing me\/blackmailing me using the pictures nobody else had besides him. He replied right away. Now mind you, him as well as that other random number were messaging me at the same times. And whenever one would stop, so did the other. \n\nThis leads me to believe even more that this is him. He of course, denies it, offers to help me, asks me for  the number, etc. but I can just sense that he isn\u2019t being genuine. He is doing this. I\u2019m not stupid. Nobody else would do this. I keep a small amount of people around me and they would never.I\u2019m not sure what the hell he even really wants from me.  I rejected him after fooling around for a bit because it didn\u2019t feel right. Maybe he took that too harshly? Idk. Regardless he should NOT be blackmailing me with nudes. Isn\u2019t this illegal? And threatening to send them to my job\/parents is insane. I\u2019d get kicked out. I need advice fast. I\u2019m not sure if he is really going to do it or not, but I\u2019m extremely anxious and I absolutely can\u2019t have that happen to me. \n\nWhat should I do? Would the cops be of any help? I already told a close friend in case something bad happens. But this is insanity. I\u2019m really uncomfortable. Any advice helps.\n\n\nTL;DR neighbor is possibly blackmailing me with naughty pictures I sent a year ago. Need advice.","title":"Someone is blackmailing me with my own nude photos. I think it\u2019s my neighbor. How to proceed?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569015480,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d71jm2\/do_i_have_a_case_over_my_boiler\/","id":"d71jm2","body":"Back in November, my boiler cracked. No one knew, we were all on thanksgiving break. Our downstairs neighbor turned our monoxide alarm off because it was chirping. We came back later, turned it on, it chirped. We chalked it up to dead battery.\n\nAnyway, a week or so later, the downstairs unit beeped. Fire department called. Apparently, I would have died in my sleep that night from CO. \n\nMy landlord is being a prick about the security deposit, which I already have a case against him for, but do I have a case over the boiler if it was a hazard due to old age? Or does my partial negligence with the CO detector put me at fault here?","title":"Do I have a case over my boiler?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553893891,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b72rpi\/fl_wronged_by_the_criminal_justice_system_seeking\/","id":"b72rpi","body":"Just a warning, this post will get very dark.\n\nIn 2017, i was invited to join a special summer program at the college I was going to be a freshman at come Fall and I very happily took it. \n\nA few days in, I was told that I needed to move into a new dorm because I had a cat and my roommate had just found out that she's allergic to cats. I was given basically overnight to move my stuff.\n\nI asked one of my classmates to help me move and he agreed. That night, after things were moved, he got the wrong idea and sexually assaulted me. I said no, I screamed, but nobody could hear me. He left me with bruises all over my chest and really bad PTSD. \n\nThere was no security on that floor, the resident assistant wasnt set to move in until the following week, and no other student was housed on this floor. \n\nHe was arrested and booked. The clothes I was wearing at the time, the sheets it happened on, everything was confiscated by police. I was told I would get a chance to testify in court. \n\nA couple of months rolled around, I couldnt focus in my studies, and in October, the VA pulled funding (Im daughter to a vet). They had accidentally given me too much and pulled the money. I was left with $11000 in debt.\n\nAt this point, I gave up, left college, and went to go work full time. I never heard anything more about my case. There was no court date communicated to me, I never got to testify. \n\nIt wasnt until I pursued damages towards the school with a local lawyer in mid 2018 that I found out that all charges had been dropped against him, he got off on bail, got his bail money back, and that was that. It smelled really fishy. \n\nI want to know if there's any more legal action I can take at this point, against the boy or the school (for not providing adequate protection). The lawyer I talked to last year told me he didnt think its wise to pursue damages since his charges were dropped. \n\nI just feel like this whole case was handled unfairly and the odds were stacked up against me. ","title":"[FL] Wronged by the criminal justice system, seeking advice on what to do next","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1444899886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ou3pa\/want_to_try_and_get_custody_of_my_12_year_old\/","id":"3ou3pa","body":"I live in Maryland, and my family in Virginia. I am just wondering what kind of lawyer to speak too. I'm about to go to basic training, enlisting in the Navy. I want to know if I should wait to see the jag lawyers or do it on my own with regular ones. Also I need to know weather to call the police immediately \n or wait for solid evidence\n\nbackstory\nMy mom has always been emotionally and physically abusive and mentally unstable. She has dragged me up the stairs by my hair. I watched her sit in a bathtub filled with water with all her clothes on and cry about how she wants to die. I was 7 years old.\n\nWhen she had a third child I was responsible for him since his birth. He never had it as bad as my brother and I till tonight when my brother who lives with my mother still (we'll call him M) calls me and says my mother threatened to hang my little brother (We'll call him L) with the belt she was beating him with. I don't live with them but M and his girlfriend saw first hand and called me right after. M ended up standing up to my mom and telling her she was batshit and she kicked him out of the house. \n\nMy mother and her current husband are both horrible, they feed of of eachother's anger and negativity and try to one up eachother on punishing my brother. He is unfit to be L's guardian as well, but he adopted L and is legally his father, and L's birth father is out of the picture . \n\nThis is the first time she's done anything like this to L (But not to M or myself) and I won't let her do it again.\n\nI know she is capable of worse, but the eyes of the law won't unless I have proof. I was told to call CPS but CPS won't find anything and if I tell my mother that I know what happened I will burn that bridge and wont be able to see L again.\n\nTLDR; my mom is emotionally and physically abusive but I have no proof. \n\n\n*edit for spelling\n","title":"Want to try and get custody of my 12 year old brother","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542149878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wu4i6\/i_was_recently_doxxed_home_address_ip_name_posted\/","id":"9wu4i6","body":"Two days ago someone doxxed me over a Rainbow Six Siege match, I\u2019ve been DDosed 3 times since then and yesterday I was messaged to go to my front door. Upon doing so I found a black truck in my driveway, I quickly grabbed a knife and hid with my phone in hand. They left after 5 or 10 minutes but I do believe this is illegal activity. What is my best course of action if this continues?","title":"I was recently doxxed (Home Address, IP, name posted online) and now I seem to have a possible stalker","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568567202,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4n9a4\/land_inheritance_from_a_will\/","id":"d4n9a4","body":"Hey there so I\u2019m needing advice on where to go with this.\n\nMy grandfather owned a lot of land in Georgia and part of his will stipulated that portions would go to his kids then their kids. I had three aunts and then my dad. Two of those aunts died back in between 2011-2013. My dad passed in 2005. \n\nMy surviving aunt has one child. Both my aunt and cousin are drug addicts so I don\u2019t trust anything they say really.\n\nI would like to sell the portion that would have gone to my dad- my little brother passed in 2013- so I\u2019m assuming I have his land and mine. \n\nThe issue is I have no idea where to go to get the information. My aunt lives in Georgia where the land is and I am in Washington. I don\u2019t expect my aunt to live for the next few years as her use has increased since the passing of my grandmother a little over a year ago.\n\nI need advice as far as who to contact and what to do on this matter. Thanks in advance!\n\n(Reposting for answers)","title":"Land inheritance from a will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553615204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5rb2t\/i_want_to_create_a_podcast_that_involves\/","id":"b5rb2t","body":"My goal with the podcast is to read entertaining news stories and listener submitted experiences in the various locations of the restaurant and then discuss. The intention would not be to defame or disparage the company.\n\nThis restaurant is a popular national franchise and is known to have very interesting and entertaining news stories involving it. Think \"restaurant has car crash into it, continues to serve customers.\" \n\nThe main questions I have are: 1. Would this fall under fair use since this show would be essentially just reviews? 2. would using the name of the company\/restaurant cause any legal issues? 3. I would also like to potentially use fonts and colors similar to their logo. Is that allowed?\n\n​\n\nIf needing to know the name of the restaurant is important to answering the question, I can send a PM. Thanks!","title":"I want to create a podcast that involves discussing a specific restaurant company.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1552924396,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2kc5v\/fl_can_my_exhusband_get_a_modification_of_child\/","id":"b2kc5v","body":"My ex husband and I went back to mediation last week after having mediated just over a year ago. In the initial mediation, he agreed to not take child support provided I pay for school clothes and supplies for both households. This time he wants child support from me (50\/50 time sharing) but I earn double what he does. I earned that amount last year, so I am wondering if he will be able to claim a substantial unanticipated change to warrant child support. ","title":"[FL] can my ex-husband get a modification of child support if nothing has changed?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553840692,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6ttp3\/not_sure_if_this_is_in_the_right_spot_employment\/","id":"b6ttp3","body":"My boss has been making me miserable. It\u2019s like she is trying to get me to quit. When she hired me, she had me sign an agreement saying I would need to give 30 days notice if I wanted to leave. However, she has been promising to make me full time since she hired me multiple times and never made that happen. In fact. She told me I would be full time and I was going to take another person\u2019s hours but was also training a new hire for those same hours and never had any intention of making me full time. I just passed my board exam and I got another job so I gave two weeks notice. She threatened to take action. What can she do if I break the contract? ","title":"Not sure if this is in the right spot. Employment contract. Illinois","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570788603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgd0uj\/wrongful_death\/","id":"dgd0uj","body":"So to start it all a child had died from breaking a glass door and had lost blood and passed away. I can offer much more detail if needed. Could anyone sue the school for not having the child under supervision or not being able to save the kid?","title":"Wrongful death","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552075940,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayuqfk\/workplace_bathroom_broken_do_we_have_to_report\/","id":"ayuqfk","body":"Hi, so my workplace is in a warehouse with one bathroom shared between 5-7 employees (we have more but they\u2019re part time and gig based- they don\u2019t come to the warehouse unless packing and leaving to go elsewhere.) My boss has a history of penny-pinching even at his own expense sometimes, which frustrates us to no end.\n\nAnyway, the toilet broke today. It won\u2019t flush or whatever. That was discovered at 7am, and he put up a sign that said \u201cout of order- go to (fast food restaurant down the street). Idk if it matters, but according to google that restaurant is 0.3 miles away. \n\nIt\u2019s now 3pm and he left and went home for the day. He said he\u2019s not going to call anyone to fix it because he wants to see if it is a frozen pipe that will thaw out tomorrow when it\u2019s warmer.\n\nIf the toilet doesn\u2019t work when I am dropped off tomorrow, I want to call an Uber and go home. It\u2019s been an extremely uncomfortable day since my husband has our car and it\u2019s too cold out to walk up the street every time I have to pee so I keep buddying up and going when someone else has to go. \n\nMy question is- can he punish us for working from home if the bathroom is still broken tomorrow?\n\nNY state, but not NYC.","title":"Workplace bathroom broken- do we have to report?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441975833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kjbrd\/what_constitutes_proof_when_submitting_email_as\/","id":"3kjbrd","body":"This is purely just a discussion I had with a business owner as some IT guy.\n\n* He's got his own mailserver. When he sends a mail to example.net, the mail sits in his \"Sent items\". His mailserver will have a log entry that says \"250 ok\" when that mail is accepted by the example.net SMTP server.\nHow do you proof that ceo@example.net received the mail.\n\n* ceo@example.net sends him a mail. When you receive a mail, all the headers are intact with timestamps and IPs of all the mail servers the mail passed through. Including the logs of his own mailserver. Is that enough proof that ceo@example.net sent the mail?\n\n* Given both of these scenarios. I can take an existing mail and logs and modify the timestamps and IPs. How are anything in electronic form proven?\n\nLocation: NY, USA (Not relevant)\n","title":"What constitutes proof when submitting email as evidence. (hypothetical)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1409414681,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2f0hdq\/paying_for_damages_in_past_apartment\/","id":"2f0hdq","body":"Hello,\n\nI'm a college student in Kentucky, and I recently completed a 1 year lease with a rental company affiliated with the university I am attending. This apartment was shit from day 1. We probably put in nearly 50 maintenance requests during the time we were there, including the AC breaking down 5 times in 2 months. Overall, my experience was less than pleasant, and the company frequently displayed their \"We don't give a shit\" attitude towards us by not fixing things promptly or at all. In the end, we also were out AC during 85+ degree weather for about 10 days during the lease, and we lost heat for 3 days during the winter when it was sub 30 degrees. So thats 13 days of being in a relatively un-livable apartment due to extreme temperatures.\n\nThe apartment complex does not require a damage deposit, but rather they bill all tenants after the lease is over for any damages they find. They ended up fining us about 60 dollars, but honestly I don't want to pay them. The only thing we broke was the screen of the window, which was already hanging off. I'm assuming they also charged us for re-painting, etc. \n\nMy question is, do I really need to pay them this 60 dollars. My understanding is that it costs like $130 in court costs for them to sue me, so would they really sue me over 60 dollars? Its not that I just want to not pay them, but they did screw us over for an entire year of living in that filthy place.","title":"Paying for Damages in Past Apartment","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553445026,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4y94s\/trying_to_understand_my_employment_contract\/","id":"b4y94s","body":"I\u2019m working for a Government Office in the Caribbean as an expat. I started recently and I\u2019m still on probation. I hate it and I\u2019m job hunting. New jobs are asking about my notice period.\n\nI didn\u2019t get my contract till I landed and I know it\u2019s dumb I didn\u2019t see it before coming but I took a chance on a job in a new place. I\u2019m hoping to get another job and can leave here by Mid May and start a new job in June.\n\nMy contract says \u201cThe employer of the officer may terminate this agreement at any time without giving any reason, on giving (at the option of the terminating party) either 3 months written notice or paying one month\u2019s salary\u201d. \n\nIs this saying I have to pay my employer a month salary if I don\u2019t stay 3 additional months? It makes me feel like resigning right now, but then my boss could just fire me then I\u2019d have no money to make my last car payment etc. \n\nIs it possible to resign at the end of April, work May and just let them take the salary out of May? ","title":"Trying to understand my employment contract because I want to resign soon","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541185182,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tmzqc\/wi_i_feel_cornered_into_pleading_guilty_to_a\/","id":"9tmzqc","body":" I\u2019m facing ten charges stemming from an arson that was committed in March. Four of them are felonies. My \u201csuper lawyer\u201d has cost me and my family $25000 already. He wants to avoid a trial. He wants me to plead guilty to one of the Arson charges THAT I DID NOT COMMIT. He says it\u2019s a great plea deal and I need to take it. How can it be a good plea deal if I\u2019m pleading guilty to a crime I did not commit? I\u2019m feeling cornered and hopeless. I\u2019ve been told to get a second opinion and I intend to do that but where do I begin? I\u2019m willing to spend more money but I don\u2019t want that money to go to waste. ","title":"[WI] I feel cornered into pleading GUILTY to a felony arson I did NOT commit. I need a second opinion and I don\u2019t know how to go about getting one.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446068491,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qm9u7\/mental_disorder_redding_ca\/","id":"3qm9u7","body":"I have a few mental disorders. In the case that I got arrested what rights do I have? What if I had a panic attack? ","title":"Mental disorder redding, ca","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571300002,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj3a09\/apartment_complex_locked_me_out_while_i_was_in_it\/","id":"dj3a09","body":"My ex and I broke up, the apartment was in his name, and he moved away. I'm still there. I got info from him at the end of last month. The complex manager found out I am am an illegal tenant, but my two minor children are on the original lease. They proposed terms that said he had to buy his lease out, equal to one month rent and move in 30 days, or I had to start the application and be approved. So I chose to start the application. They said they would show up in person in 72 hours to verify, they never came. Today I leave the house, go to lock my door and my lock has been changed. The rent is completely up to date. They tried to lock me out. So I bought a lock and changed it. Is it legal for them to lock me out when rent is up to date and I don't owe them anything? I was planning to move by the end of the month , and when I called, no one returned it. I am in Pennsylvania.","title":"Apartment complex locked me out while I was in it.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554745955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bawv90\/my_school_is_blaming_me_for_being_harassedstalked\/","id":"bawv90","body":"I was friends with another student for a while, but cut the friendship off when I realized that this person was extremely manipulative, a narcissist, and just a toxic person to be around. When I cut the friendship off, the person got ahold of my schedule and registered for the same classes as me in the spring semester. I continued to ignore this person, and they began stalking me around campus, harassing me, and making me feel extremely unsafe to be on campus. This person had gotten me my work-study job, which I am dependent on, but I am forced to share the same office room with my perpetrator. \n\n​\n\nI decided to move forward with a student conduct report after multiple professors, students, and family members urged me to do so. When I first went into the office to make my report, I was asked a lot of questions, one them being \"did you ever say no\" when the perpetrator was stalking and harassing you. I never said \"no\" because in all incidents, it happened in a public place, and I felt too threatened\/intimated to say no. My student conduct director said \"well, when you don't say 'no,' people can get confused and think that what they're doing is okay.\" This is pretty much the ideology that took place throughout my whole case. \n\n​\n\nFive other people came forward against my perpetrator when my case began. All of their statements were dismissed because they did not have to do with my personal accusation of stalking and harassment. \n\n​\n\nThe rationale of finding my perpetrator not guilty is because of \"my lack of communication\" of never telling the perpetrator \"no.\" \n\n​\n\nAfter the case was finished, I was given the opportunity to make an appeal, which I did. During this time, I discovered that not all the evidence (54 pieces) had been opened before the decision was made on my case. I mentioned this in my appeal, and expressed my thorough disappointment in the school for blaming myself the victim. They made the same decision in my appeal, and continue to blame me. They did not address their failure to look at all the evidence before making their original decision. \n\n​\n\nThe appeal decision letter says that my case is closed. I want to keep fighting this BS decision of theirs but don't know how. I can't believe they expect me to share the same office with my perpetrator for my work-study job. I'm not sure what I can do next (if anything) to keep fighting this, or if I should just give up hope on ever finding justice for myself and all the other victims.","title":"My school is blaming me for being harassed\/stalked... what do I do?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1446218725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qukrd\/kansas_landlord_says_he_doesnt_usually_really\/","id":"3qukrd","body":"My family and I are at the end of the first year of a 12-month lease on a house we are renting. The landlord has been great, very responsive to our needs and hasn't been overly intrusive. If anything, he keeps things at arms length unless there is a problem, and we make sure we've paid on time every single month. In all, good relationship with no serious issues outside of some very minor annoyances.\n\nI told him today that we were happy to sign another 12-month lease (we'll be staying in this place for a while), he said he doesn't usually worry about leases -- we did sign one initially when we moved in, obviously -- and didn't really answer me when I asked if he wanted to do an annual walkthrough. His only stipulation is that we would give him 30 days notice before we moved out, whenever that time comes.\n\nI'll check w\/ him again about the walkthrough in a few days to get a definitive yes or no. My main concern is about the lack of a renewed lease, and that this could potentially leave us open to issues in the future. As I said previously, I have no reason to suspect there could be surprise problems because of this, but not having a defined, renewed agreement does leave me a little concerned. What does this leave me open to, and how much (if any) of the terms from the now-expired lease agreement carry over?","title":"[Kansas] Landlord says he doesn't usually really worry about leases, I'm concerned about possible unforeseen issues","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553006632,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2y99d\/can_my_employer_require_medical_clearance_to\/","id":"b2y99d","body":"I had an unremarkable delivery 10\/30\/18 and scheduled my return to work for 03\/18\/19. Today my HR is saying that I\u2019m required to get a release from my doctor (I worked yesterday). Company policy is that the note is required when a person returns after being out due to a medical condition. \nI\u2019m waiting for my dr to fax me a note but my HR had locked me out of my computer in the meantime.\n\nSide note, I asked HR to confirm they consider pregnancy\/childbirth a medical condition and the response was along the lines of \u201cugh why can\u2019t your dr just send the note!\u201d\n\nAlso, HR had me call the short-term disability provider a few weeks ago to confirm my return. They said I was cleared months ago and my claim closed in January when my FMLA ended. They thought it was very weird that my HR was having me call them.","title":"Can my employer require medical clearance to return to work after after a normal childbirth?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568940747,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6n8r6\/preorders_in_stores\/","id":"d6n8r6","body":"How long do businesses legally have to hold a pre-order for a customer. Small local store was saying they would hold items for 30 days unless I could legally prove otherwise. I'm not really sure how to do the research myself (Google not really showing results) so I thought I'd ask here. Thanks in advance!","title":"Pre-orders in stores","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505853741,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/715yz3\/would_an_attorney_be_useful_in_this_situation\/","id":"715yz3","body":"Im in the United States, NC. I was in a car accident 2 months ago. It totalled my vehicle and I am still receiving medical treatment for a fractured wrist, just started PT.  It also caused most likely permanent scar tissue in soft tissue that will have lifetime ramifications as a woman.  \nThe accident was deemed not my fault by police and my insurance company.  It is also being processed as a non-insured motorist claim as the other vehicle was not insured at the time of the crash. I had rather good coverage, as my vehicle was a lease.  \nCar insurance has paid off my totaled vehicle, I do have medical coverage that is being paid, and Ive been told that should the medical bills go above my medical coverage (which they will), they will assess and provide a settlement to me. From that settlement, I assume my health insurance will come for the rest of the associated medical bills that my car insurance did not cover.\n\nAs the title asks, would a lawyer be helpful in this situation?   Ive never been in this bad of an accident, and I keep receiving advice to contact an attorney.  When the wrist was thought to not be fractured, I had an attorney's office tell me that their involvement would be detrimental to my case because of what they would be able to get me would be negligible because of their cut.  Im not sure I need a lawyer because Im not having any issues with being harrassed by bill collectors or any issue (so far) with the insurance company paying for things. ","title":"Would an attorney be useful in this situation?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1542084804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wlzca\/things_were_thrown_out_who_is_to_blame\/","id":"9wlzca","body":"I'm in college in Pennsylvania I don't live in the same city that I go to school in. In May 2017, a friend agreed to store my things in his basement until I came back to campus. I took a year off. Then this semester I come back and find out he moved out and his landlord threw the things away. We're talking at least $800 worth of winter and college gear. Is the friend liable or the landlord? If it comes to court do I have enough to win?","title":"Things were thrown out, who is to blame?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570557675,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df3o5g\/is_there_a_way_to_have_my_professors_curriculum\/","id":"df3o5g","body":"Back story:\n-This is a community college (not a university) online English 2 course.\n-From what I understand, most universities and college claim that for every credit hour, there is approximately 3-4 hours of work for the class weekly. So, a 3 credit course is 9-12 hours of work. \nMy online teacher has assigned over 45 essays this semester disguised as \u201cassignments\u201d and claims only 4 essays for her curriculum syllabus. Each week I am spending about 20-25 hours on this course alone. I would just \u201cdrop\u201d it but it\u2019s past the date and I would loose financial aid. I would have dropped the class before the date if the professor would have been honest about the assignments being all essays.\n\nI feel like this has to be some form of the professor abusing credit hours or being extremely deceptive in her syllabus to the point her curriculum needs to be reviewed.\n\nWill the college board even review this issue? Is there a way I can enforce protected identity if I report her? I would hate to turn her in and then have this professor ruin my grade on purpose.","title":"Is there a way to have my professor\u2019s curriculum evaluated without being involved?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1414070360,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2k3ce9\/dog_adoption_contracts_vs_actual_ownership\/","id":"2k3ce9","body":"Periodically in \/r\/dogs the issue of adoption contracts comes up and I have not bee. Able to find a clear answer on the issue. This is a general question for the USA (not sure what format I am supposed to report location in).\n\nThere are dog rescues that specifically try to retain ownership of the dog, and others that use contracts that do not explicitly state that ownership is being transferred.  Many state that the person is adopting the dog, and I have seen it said that this phrasing does not actually transfer ownership to the \"adopter\".\n\nMy question is, what happens with these contracts if a rescue does try to reclaim ownership after time passes? How would a contract need to be written for a shelter to actually step back in a month or a year later and take a dog back? I know it's hard to make general statements , but it seems that a lot of adoption contracts aren't very clear. I am guessing most shelters don't have the resources for big legal battles and know that, but there are cases of rescues dropping big bucks on one dog (like Piper the sheltie).","title":"Dog \"adoption\" contracts vs actual ownership","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1538493320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9krhgf\/wrongful_termination_that_was_overturned_and\/","id":"9krhgf","body":"Roommate works for a big box supermarket chain in the midwest.   He has been working there for almost a year. My roomate works 3rd shift and has a set schedule.  He also does stand up shows but has always given his manager two weeks notice due to the nature of how live comedy shows work.  He would do shift adjustments and come in 1 hr late and work 1 hr later on those days. They were excused and approved by his direct supervisor.\n2 weeks ago, he gets called into the GM\u2019s office and they terminate him due to too many absences and claimed that the \u201csystem\u201d told them to fire him.  So he loses 1 1\/2 of work.   He calls the store director the next day who requests a meeting with him.   He goes up there and he explains how he did shift adjustments and they fact checked him and found he was actually on no grounds for termination due to him not signing some paperwork that was supposed to be given to him regarding this.  They reversed the termination and he went back to work the next day. Mind you, they didnt even apologize.\nIn that one day he didnt work, he was hired on to a new job and advised the supermarket that he wants to go part time.  He gave his 2 week notice for part time and that was that.\nLast night, the shift manager wrote him up for working \u201covertime\u201d when typically his direct supervisor allows him to do this because on certain days, it takes longer to unload produce especially when he works alone.   This shift manager was also the one that attempted to terminate him.  This shift manager is somewhat new to the company and treats him with hostility, constantly pulling him into his office to berate his job. (Mind you this is not his produce supervisor) So, my roommate asks him if hes doing anything wrong to be treated this way. RM notices how this manager will converse with other employees with a professional tone and that drops off when he sees RM to the point where a smile fades.  i advised RM to contact HR because to me, it seems like this man is bullying him after trying to terminate him and is retalitating towards him ever since he requested to work part time.\nTL;DR: RM was wrongfully terminated for almost 2 days, termination was overturned. RM requested part time and now is feeling like hes working in a hostile environment. ","title":"Wrongful termination that was overturned and bullying from supervisor","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506439923,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72l4gg\/what_are_the_benefits_of_being_married_over\/","id":"72l4gg","body":"I'm young, too young to be able to afford the wedding I want. My boyfriend and I have been together for years now and both have full time jobs, and go to school full time. We live in Michigan. For school we have loans and we share all of our bills. Would marriage be a smart move for us? We plan on it anyway in a few years, but would head down to the courthouse now and not tell anybody if it is a smart financial and legal move. \n\nUpdate: added text that didn't attach and location.","title":"What are the benefits of being married over cohabitation?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505267203,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zrkag\/unsafely_backing_up_on_a_public_street_vs_private\/","id":"6zrkag","body":"(Texas) So long story short I got a ticket after having backed up in   to somebody. The ticket was issued two weeks later saying I backed up unsafely on a public street but the incident happened in a mall parking lot so that's private property right? Am I able to get this dismissed? Going tomorrow and I want to get out of this lol ","title":"Unsafely backing up on a public street vs private parking lot","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571609535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkqrre\/can_i_claim_a_business_expense_if_my_business_is\/","id":"dkqrre","body":"I know what your going to say.....but just hear me out lol. My business is online (with the exception of one product I sold at a yard sale), I sell on Etsy and my own website. Since I run it myself (don't have any employees) I have not had to actually register my business. It's a super small business, more like a hobby, but I put a lot of work into it and it's still a business where people buy the products.\n\nGiven this information, money I've spent on advertising or charity work my business has\/will done, is ANY of this claimable, or can I write any of this as a business expense with proof that I've sold products, or does it have to be registered?","title":"Can I claim a business expense if my business is not registered?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570560403,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df4aik\/package_insurance\/","id":"df4aik","body":"My package was lost by UPS and was insured up to $500 by a 3rd party. At the time of loss, I filed a claim. Eventually, the package arrived a month late, but I had already bought new clothing. The insurance is now asking for the $500 payout back. Do I need to send it back?","title":"Package Insurance","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1542299408,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9xcp4b\/having_parental_rights_removed_from_absentee\/","id":"9xcp4b","body":"My son will be 5 in 2 weeks. When he was 18 months old, his father, my husband at the time,  abandoned us to go back to a life of drugs. He was put on child support a year and a half later by the state of LA because we were then receiving state assistance through Medicaid as a result of my husband leaving. I did not file and did not want to receive any compensation. J wanted his rights terminated because he had seen my son twice at the point. He was out on child support and had arrears set. I did file for sole custody and received it with him getting no visitation. \n\nMy question is, can I have his rights removed by the state based on no contact with reasonable accommodation on my end and also him never making a child support payment ultimately resulting in $14000 in arrears. I am remarried to the man that has taken care of my son since he was 2. He is the only man my son has had as his father since then. I'm trying to get this taken care of in the simplest and most affordable way. The biological father has unknown whereabouts and has blatantly refused to sign over rights the 2 times I tried to have a discussion with him about it in the last 3 years. He does not have a phone, a registered address, or any friends I know of to contact. Please help \ud83d\ude2a ","title":"Having parental rights removed from absentee father in Louisiana","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447238294,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3se5hw\/my_apartment_complex_just_email_blasted_all\/","id":"3se5hw","body":"So I live in a pretty decently sized apartment building and I guess today they decided to send out a winter announcement about there being some parking spots available to purchase. However they accidentally attached a spreadsheet containing all the tenants personal information. Including my full name, social security number, address, phone, email... Pretty much anything you could ever need if you were going to steal my identity. \n\nThe complex immediately sent three additional emails stating to disregard the email. Later we received this message:\n\n> Dear Tenants:\n\n> This afternoon at 3:17 PM, we unintentionally attached a spreadsheet containing personal identifying information regarding XXXXXXXX\u2019 tenants, their roommates and guarantors (\u201cSpreadsheet\u201d) to an email that was sent to the property\u2019s tenant email distribution list.  We understand the sensitive nature of this inadvertent disclosure and are working to remedy the situation.  In the meantime, please delete and destroy the Spreadsheet and do not otherwise disseminate the information as it is confidential and private.  We will be in touch with further details tomorrow.\n>  \n> Thanks,\n> XXXXXXX, Property Manager \n\nI am still waiting on the further details they talked about, but I am wondering what action I need to take moving forward to best safeguard myself and potentially defend against damages related to the breach. It's kinda a scary thought, and I am not really sure where to turn to for information on what to do.\n\nI live in Colorado. ","title":"My apartment complex just email blasted all tenants with my personal information attached (DOB, SSN, Name, Address, Phone, All of it) - CO","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540571596,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rmam0\/life_insurance_after_a_kidney_donation\/","id":"9rmam0","body":"I'm a 21 year female living in Indiana that will most like be donating a kidney to my significant others father. I don't already have life insurance because I had never thought about it and I'm still insured on my parents health care. When speaking with tha transplant advocate I was informed that after the donation insurance companies will be able to deny me due to having a pre existing condition.  Does anyone know any good life insurance plans and what the difference between term life insurance and permanent life insurance is? Any help is greatly appreciated!","title":"Life Insurance after a kidney donation","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1444849568,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3orbr5\/texas_dog_attack_at_apartment_complex_have\/","id":"3orbr5","body":"A friend of mine, her partner and their dogs were attacked on two different occasions by the same dog. The last time resulted in minor injuries to her partner and injuries to her dog which required a vet. The following is account of what happened this time. I just want to know if there is anything she can do.\n\n>So yesterday while walking my dogs I was attacked again by the same dog that had bit Dany. This time tho, I maced the dog, the owner and when the dog kept coming at my dog I kicked it away and got my dogs safely to the apartment. During all this, the dog owners threatened my life and threatened to physically harm me. While calling me a stupid fucking dyke. I called the police and the management office of the complex. When all was said and done, the cop said I was in my right to defend myself, but my complex still gave me a lease violation for using mace. On top of all that, the owner of the dog only got a a small fine and the dog is not being removed from the apartment complex. And about six to eight of her friends live in that building, were all outside saying nasty and derogatory things to me while I tried to contact the police. \n\nWhen I asked if she told the cop that this was not the first time and if she presented bills or a record of the last incident, she replied with this.\n\n>Yes we do, we showed them to the police and the complex management. It didn't make a difference.\n\nAny advice would be appreciated my friend and her partner are sweet peaceful people and I want to help them.  \n","title":"(Texas) Dog attack at apartment complex, have questions for a friend .","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1418327770,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2p04ms\/living_in_mi_charged_with_concealment_of_goods_in\/","id":"2p04ms","body":"It's just about all in the title I think.","title":"Living in MI - Charged with concealment of goods in NC - Can't make court date - Ought I call for a public defender to stand in for me? Where do I call?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1504795371,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ynmp7\/does_a_divorcing_couple_have_control_over_the\/","id":"6ynmp7","body":"(New York)\n\nMy spouse and I are about to begin the process of a pretty straightforward, amicable, uncontested divorce. It's important to us for a variety of reasons that we know the exact date that the divorce will be official. Is this possible? Do you get a specific date at some point? Or do you get a surprise in the mail one day informing you that you're no longer married?\n","title":"Does a divorcing couple have control over the exact date of a divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508398282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77cxk7\/can_my_employer_force_me_to_file_a_complaint\/","id":"77cxk7","body":"Yesterday, one of my colleagues made a very inappropriate joke to me about another colleague. The joke was \"why, are you afraid he's going to rape you?\" I'm female; perhaps that's relevant. Maybe not.\n\nI was a bit offended, sure, but not threatened by this joke, or this colleague (#1). I do not feel threatened by the colleague he's referring to (#2), and while I don't particularly like colleague #2, I work with him without conflict. \n\nIn any event, last night I did feel kind of threatened by the idea that #1 put in my mind, for reasons having to do with that #2's behavior since I started working with him. Today, still feeling kind of unsettled, I [foolishly] decided to inquire about my workplace's protocol for harassment reporting. As in, who should I go to with a complaint, and what happens to complaints when they're lodged? \n\nI asked an assistant manager to tell me these protocols, but she was more interested in why I was asking (which should have been obvious to me before I asked, I know. I am very angry with myself). I told her VERY clearly, more than once, that I did NOT want to file a complaint. However, I did tell her why I was asking, because I felt comfortable around her, and did not think it would lead down the path that it did.\n\nShe alerted my manager, and all of the other managers, who told me very clearly, despite my objections, that I have to put all this down in writing, and deliver it to them, signed, tomorrow (today---it's now 3:30am as I write this).\n\nThey told me I do not have a choice now, because I have already told them verbally. That they are now liable? I see some flaws in the logic following this one but I'm not a lawyer, hence this post. Still don't see why that means I have to write a complaint.\n\n*edit [missing critical info]:* My managers then told me that, while they can't determine EXACTLY what they'll do with the letter until I give it to them, they plan to follow up with BOTH parties (#1 AND #2) to get written statements from them, to let them tell \"their side of the story.\" They also implied there would be a meeting of some kind, like maybe with the two of them AND me? They didn't say that explicitly, because they kept repeating \"we won't know until you give us the letter,\" but holy shit that sounds like the worst thing ever.\n\nThe employment manual does say that I can be terminated for not cooperating... but even if I didn't initiate a complaint process? I simply inquired about the protocols. Telling my manager about a joke someone made because she pressed me to... requires me to write a complaint about him? I DO NOT WANT TO. I know he was joking. I like working with #1, I do not want him to get fired, or receive ANY disciplinary action! \n\nTo be honest, #2 is more concerning to me. He's awful to work with, and a very angry and unpleasant human being, who expresses a lot of hate on most occasions. But he too has not done anything besides than make racist\/antisemitic jokes. However, it seems like everyone in the restaurant industry but me makes racist, sexist and antisemitic jokes. It's just... not the hill I want to die on.\n\nAnyway, isn't this *my* decision? Can they force me to do this?!","title":"Can my employer force me to file a complaint against another employee? [NJ]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570566824,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df5sfc\/does_the_refund_clause_in_the_release_statement_i\/","id":"df5sfc","body":"Hi all, 22F in Iowa. I\u2019ve submitted several applications to grad programs via a centralized application. The application allows you to apply early decision (ED) to one program, and does not allow you to even begin applications to other programs until a decision has been reached about your admission by your ED program. That being said, you aren\u2019t required to apply ED to a school that does ED. \n\nI applied regular admission to a program that accepts ED applications at the same time, but does not review the regular admission applications until after the ED period ends. Regardless, I had to pay a $60 fee to the centralized application for applying to this school for \u201coperational and system costs for the service.\u201d About two weeks ago, I received this email from the school:\n**Dear katieburrito,\n\nWe received a high volume of competitive applicants during the Early Decision Admissions Cycle this year. As such, we have currently filled our student class, and will not be reviewing any additional applications for the class of 2023 program.**\n\nI understand that this happens and I\u2019m not upset about that. However, since they hadn\u2019t gotten around to even looking at my application since I didn\u2019t apply ED, I emailed the centralized application information services and asked if I would be able to get a refund of the application fee to that school. \n\nThe info services replied:\n**As soon as you submit your application, no refunds can be issued for any reason (this includes missed deadlines and programs no longer accepting applicants). \n\nBefore submitting your application, you are prompted to review and agree to the Release Statement. This agreement includes a clause about the refund policy. As an applicant, it's your responsibility to complete your application correctly, monitor the status of your application, ensure all required materials are received and posted to the application, respond to all notifications in a timely manner, and adhere to the deadline requirements posted by each program to which you have applied.**\n\nI went and looked at the release that I signed, and the only clause about refunds it has reads as follows: \n**Application fees are nonrefundable. Xxxxx does not issue refunds for withdrawn applications or missed deadlines. Once payment is posted to your application, your selected programs have full online access to your application information. It is your responsibility to complete the application correctly, monitor the status of the application, ensure all required documents are received and posted to the application by their deadlines, respond to all notifications in a timely manner, and adhere to the requirements posted by programs.**\n\nI really don\u2019t even care about the money, this is just a matter of principle to me. I feel like the clause doesn\u2019t really apply to my situation, since I did everything correctly on my part but didn\u2019t receive a service I expected. Does this clause legally allow the centralized application to keep my money?","title":"Does the refund clause in the release statement I signed hold when I never received a service I expected?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1409256960,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eura2\/i_own_a_business_in_california_i_have_signs_in_my\/","id":"2eura2","body":"I own a bike\/kayak\/outdoor shop in California, specifically Placer County (if that matters) For the past few weeks, I've had an older gentleman park his large SUV in our only handicap place, only to walk across the street to the marina and take out his boat all day.\nThis concerns me for a few reasons:\n\n1. He is not a paying customer. All of our 'normal' parking spots also have signs on them saying \"Parking is for customers only.\" If any other person parked here, we would politely ask them to park somewhere else (and there are about 15 public, free spaces that are 50 feet away).\n2. He takes the spot away from someone who could potentially need to use it. We specifically graded that section of our parking lot to allow for wheelchair access. He uses our spot, then walks to the marina and takes his boat out (keep in mind that the marina does have handicap spots - why he doesn't park there is beyond me).\n\n3. Least importantly (but still a concern) is the fact that his vehicle is blocking the from of our store. All of our other parking spots are in the side of the building; the handicap spot is at the front of the store. With any car there, it's much more difficult to see our display of bikes, kayaks, etc.\n\nSo, my question is, can he legally do this? Is there anyway to prevent this person from parking here? I tried to do some research on the matter, but came up with nothing.","title":"I own a business in California. I have signs in my parking lot that don't allow non-customers to park in our parking lot. Can a handicapped non-customer with a valid license plate park in our handicap spot?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554845051,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbdla5\/landlord_keeps_pretending_to_fix_leak_pa\/","id":"bbdla5","body":"Location PA\n\nMy husband and I rent an apartment in what used to be a house. We are on the bottom floor with tenants above us. There is only one bedroom and the bed can only fit in one location (relevant detail).  For several months now, we keep having water come dripping through the tile in our bedroom ceiling, directly over where my husband sleeps. This happens maybe 2-3x\/week and means he gets up and sleeps on the couch to not have water dripping in his face. \n\nWe alert the landlord every single time this happens and have been documenting each incidence, I clouding photos. The landlord always drags his feet about it, ends up coming over and looking around and claiming it looks dry (he only comes on days where he asks if it\u2019s happening that day and we say no) and does nothing. We finally said we were gonna hire someone and send him the bill - he came over while we were out and claimed to fix it. Cue a week later when it happens again. We move the tile to discover he just laid a sheet of tin foil on top of it. \n\nWhat are our rights? My husband is sick of being woken up by water on his face and we\u2019re sick of putting a bucket on the bed every day to catch any water. The rent here is fantastic, the place is perfect otherwise and I am in school so we don\u2019t want to have to move if we can avoid it. We just want the damn leak fixed.","title":"Landlord keeps pretending to fix leak (PA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568653614,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d53mbt\/company_relocating_from_nyc_to_jersey_city_do_i\/","id":"d53mbt","body":"I currently work for a company who\u2019s planning to relocate to Jersey City in a month. We were just told these news today.\n \n I currently live in Queens, so it takes me an hour to get to the current office in Manhattan. The new office in JC would add 25-30\nMinutes to my commute, I would spend $230 on transportation and also would have to pay taxes in NJ and NY.  My company said they wouldn\u2019t help with any sorts of accommodations or incentives.\n  \nWould I actually qualify for unemployment on this scenario given that my company is moving to another state?","title":"Company relocating from NYC to Jersey City, do I qualify for unemployment?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541454956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ui1w7\/what_work_could_i_possibly_do_without_an_i9\/","id":"9ui1w7","body":"My fee waiver for my replacement certificate of citizenship just got denied. I hardly even have money to pay the rent \u2014 and now I definitely can\u2019t find any steady work. I\u2019m at the end of my rope here, does anybody have any advice please?\n\nBefore you ask, no, my SS card was lost when my car got stolen. All I have is a picture of it but I doubt any legit employer would accept that. \n\nAll I have is a picture ID.","title":"What work could I possibly do without an I9","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554576852,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba7mhk\/illegal_lockout_after_a_lawsuit_hired_2_lawyers\/","id":"ba7mhk","body":"This story has a lot of background, but I'll try to make it as to the point as possible. \n\n1. I moved into a rent stabilized apartment and retained a lawyer to sue for rent overcharge. I had a roommate who signed the lease with me but she did not want to be part of the lawsuit.\n\n2. My roommate was my best friend, but soon we got into a fight and living situation became hostile so I took utilities out of my name and starting staying with my boyfriend. I still had a few things there, but I started having mail sent to my boyfriend. I told my lawyer i was staying with my boyfriend because the roommate was fucking crazy. \n\n3. Over the next 18 months i probably went to that apartment 3 times to grab some things. \n\n4. January 2019 My lawyer contacted me saying managent would settle and I should come into the office. Before going into the office, I went to the apartment and saw everything was gone except for my couch and a shelving unit. I changed the locks.\n\n5. I went to see the lawyer about settlement. I was told the roommate never paid rent so all of the money went to pay for that. I walked away with about $1.5k. \n\n6. I noticed that the settlement said I vacated the apartment and I mentioned this to my lawyer. He said, well, i did because i was staying with my boyfriend. I never signed the settlement papers, I only cashed the check.\n\n7. I asked my lawyer if I should stay there, especially since this paper says i vacated. The lawyer strongly insisted i do. Going as far as to say he would slap me if i didnt start staying there today considering the location and rent price. He said he would file something with DHCR to get my rent stabilized lease ASAP. and he warned they may try to evict me, but he will fight for me. I signed a retainer agreement for that potentially happening and me getting the lease.\n\n8. I sent in a check for the new legal rent and a few days later management broke into my home to change the locks. This happened 3 times, utilities and water were cut off, and eventually the windows were boarded to a point that breaking in would be beyond my level of skill used previously.\n\n9. Police said they would not help because it is a civil case and I do not have a lease to prove I live there. Even with furniture and bills in my name they said it's not enough. Handle it in court.\n\n10. Meanwhile one month had gone by and my lawyer had done nothing.\n\n11. I fired my lawyer and retained a new lawyer. One month had gone by and she had done nothing but talk a good game. \n\n12. Finally I decided to take matters into my own hands. I got a court date for next week on an illegal lockout case and my lawyer has ghosted me as I ask for advice on whT to do or will she be there in court with me.\n\n13. The more Googles I do, the more I am feeling that maybe I did not have a right to he in the apartment.... that \"vacated\" statement made me hesitant, but the insistence and confidence of my first lawyer made me feel like this was okay. And he is a big name lawyer in NYC. I really never would have went back if I thought what I was doing was illegal. Now I have paid 2 lawyers that ghosted me.\n\n14. Even if I never should have went back, dont I have squatters rights?\n\n15. How tf should I prepare for court next week. I have pics of the time they boarded up my door. I have mail with the Bill's in my name and a receipt from the day I changed the locks... anything else I should bring? Or what do i even say? I doubt \"my lawyer told me to do it\" will hold up in court.","title":"Illegal lockout after a lawsuit, hired 2 lawyers that ghosted me, now I finally have a court date next week and dont know what to do [NYC, USA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553715936,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b68rln\/someone_who_used_to_live_where_we_do_keeps\/","id":"b68rln","body":"Someone who used to rent the house I'm currently renting appears to be in some sort of trouble with the child support office in MA, and quite possibly the law. I haven't opened his mail, and I have left a message with (I think) the appropriate office letting someone know that he didn't live here anymore. We once had cops show up looking for him even! Is there any way for us to unambiguously establish that the previous tenant isn't here (and we've got no way to reach him) to the relevant authorities?","title":"Someone who used to live where we do keeps getting notice of child support, cops visiting, etc.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552591559,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b14keo\/questions_about_a_relatively_simple_divorce\/","id":"b14keo","body":"Married a couple of years, no mutual assets. Cars are in each other\u2019s names, obtained before marriage. House is rented. We have one child together. We share a joint bank account with not a whole lot to spare inside of it, so I\u2019m also not too worried about that. She carries a decent amount of debt that was mostly obtained prior to the marriage from credit cards, student loans, and her car loan. I carry nothing but my car loan. How would this play out in court? IN. ","title":"Questions about a relatively simple divorce playing out","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442538195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ldic2\/lawyer_is_threatening_to_breach_bail_terms_if\/","id":"3ldic2","body":"Ontario, Canada,\n\nSWIM is struggling with a lawyer who is causing a lot of mental grief. This lawyer was contacted, is not court-appointed, but is paid under legal aid.\n\nSWIM is awaiting a completion of their trial, and is currently on bail, with living quarters assigned to them through advice from the lawyer. SWIM does not want to live in this building; it has few amenities, and it is a negative environment. This living situation requires \"check-in\", has visitation restrictions, curfew rules, but staff are empathetic with SWIM's situation, and only ask for updates of contact every 24 hours with SWIM to ensure safety of SWIM, like any other resident.\n\nRecently (~1 week), SWIM had their phone stolen, and cannot afford to purchase another one. SWIM is making ends meet with odd jobs, also collects welfare. \n\nThis lawyer has directly threatened to \" breach \" SWIM's bail terms (which include staying in this transitional housing). Lawyer says that they are frustrated with \"trying to track SWIM down\", for reasons which do NOT include collecting payment or any further information required for trial.\n\nIs this legal? What are the options to protect one's self from a lawyer who is sabotaging one's own legal situation?","title":"Lawyer is threatening to breach bail terms if SWIM does not comply with their demands","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568743746,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5ksde\/im_supposed_to_be_a_witness_in_a_criminal_trial\/","id":"d5ksde","body":"Throwaway account because, well, frankly I'm just upset that I'm dealing with all of this. \n\nTo sum it up... about 2 years ago, I witnessed a hate crime assault & shooting that happened right in front of my house, involving my neighbors. I called 911 twice during the incident (once when they were fighting, once when shots were being fired). A couple weeks afterwards, I gave my full recorded statement to the detectives who were investigating. After hearing nothing more from it... and moving across the city to live in a better neighborhood... about 6 months ago I received a subpoena. The case was scheduled for trial in April and I was being called as a witness. Then right before the trial was supposed to happen, they told me it was delayed until September. \n\nOver the summer, I got a new job and moved across the state (almost 400 miles). \"Okay,\" they said, \"we'll fly you back for the trial.\" I called in July to give them my new address and ask for a time frame so I could let my employer know when I'd need time off. They got angry with me, and told me not to expect answers about scheduling (which day I'd be testifying, and thus what days\/times they'd schedule my flights and hotel) until the very week before or week of the trial. So I waited. \n\nThe trial was scheduled to start next week. Yesterday morning, I left a voicemail at their office, very friendly and polite, just saying \"hey, I know you might still be working out the details of the schedule, but once you do, please call and let me know\", etc. Their response: \"Oh, the trial has been delayed again until January. We're sending you a letter. Talk to you then.\" \n\nSo... is this normal? Being given next-to-zero details and expected to drop everything in my personal life at their beck and call, as a witness? Trials being delayed multiple times at the last minute, for months at a time? By January, it will have been well over 2 years since the incident occurred (and the alleged perpetrators were arrested just a couple days after it happened). \n\nEvery time I think the trial is coming up, it gives me incredible anxiety. For one, having complete strangers making my travel plans for me with no personal agency, and being informed at the last minute, is just not fun. Additionally, witnessing the event was traumatic for me, and every time I think of actually talking about it in front of people in a high-pressure situation, PTSD symptoms start acting up in the weeks leading up. And then, of course, there's the fact that I've never been to court before and simply don't know what to expect, which gives me anxiety. Having gone through this experience of anxiety ramping up in advance TWICE already and knowing I'll have to go through it at least once more (as many times as they delay it) is very difficult and frustrating for me. I'm looking into going to therapy for it, and honestly the only silver lining about ANOTHER delay is that hopefully by the time January rolls around, I'll be able to prepare for the experience with the help of a mental health professional. \n\nBut I'm just wondering... is this normal? All the delays and such?","title":"I'm supposed to be a witness in a criminal trial that keeps getting delayed. Is this normal?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554945621,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbu51b\/michigan_us_vice_principle_illegally_searching\/","id":"bbu51b","body":"A bit of backstory to explain why he is searching phones: This has to do with a teacher who we will refer to as DFS. Now, on Instagram there was an account that would post low quality photos and videos that were generally just shitposts that would take pokes at DFS. The account was rather small, around 50 followers, but when DFS saw this account it made her furious.\n\nThe actual problem\/conflict: Now the vice principle (now to be reffered to as VP for convince) was shown this account and consequently he was also greatly enraged. So enraged that he has screenshots of the accounts (and supposedly screenshots of the accounts followers, though I cannot confirm this.) printed out. He would call students who followed the account to the office and take their phones. He would then call them in and ask if they owned the account. Of the 6 students who were called down, none said they owned it. He would thrn counter play this by asking, \"then why do you follow it?\". \n\nFrom here, he would demand that the student in question wrote their phones password down on a piece of paper. Now, this happened to 6 people but I am going to use the story of my friend, who we call Big Mike, as I know the exact details of his experience. \n\nBig Mike's phone was completly searched - including his text messages, Instagram account and DMs, Snapchat, and Camera Roll - all in suspicions that he may have owned the account. \nNow, despite the fact that it's bad enough that VP decided to get so offended at a shit post teenager joke, as far as I can tell this is a direct violatuon of 4th Ammendment Rights. The fourth Ammendment clearly states:  The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.\n\nAgain, VP's \"probable cause\" (for something that, as far as I can tell, isn't a crime) was that these students followed the DFS account. In THAT logic, it is reasonable to assume that I am the President, my states police department, several politicians, and several women. See how that doesn't add up?\n\nBeyond that, he had no warrant. \n\nIn my opinion, calling these students down and interrogating was already pushing it, but is this legal? Most people I've asked within my groups agree this is illegal, but i would like to catch your opinions.","title":"(Michigan, U.S.) Vice Principle Illegally Searching Phones","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551590238,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awqvmm\/asked_for_salary_history_after_signing_offer\/","id":"awqvmm","body":"Accepted an offer. Employer is asking me to fill out a form on my first week that includes salary history (both starting \/ end at each company). Im going to be making more at the new job and am worried they\u2019ll try to bump my salary back down or deny future promotions to \u201ceven things out\u201d. Can they let me go if I object to sharing that info? It was never shared \/ brought up during the interview process.","title":"Asked for salary history AFTER signing offer","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503179031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ursmc\/father_passed_away_with_debt_as_executor_i_need\/","id":"6ursmc","body":"I'm in the USA, in New Jersey. My father passed away a short time ago and I am in the process of taking over as executor (will was old and written before he had me, his son). He had approximately 12-15 thousand dollars worth of credit card debt. No assets to speak of, save a few thousand in a checking account and an older vehicle in his name that was paid off. The only other accounts he had was around one thousand dollars worth of stocks in an account, a life insurance policy left to my mother (his ex wife), and possibly a pension. \n\nIf I understand correctly, I have to use the money in his checking account as well as the money made by selling the vehicle to pay back some of his debts. His life insurance policy shouldn't be used for this since it doesn't go to his estate. Obviously, there's not nearly enough there. What exactly should I be doing from here? I plan on notifying his credit card companies of his death and the fact that there's no money to pay them in his estate, but I can't imagine they'll accept this answer. \n\nI'm also not sure what happens to the stocks if there's no beneficiary listed.","title":"Father passed away with debt, as executor I need advice","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569113197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7jdm1\/uncle_threatens_to_press_charges_on_me_after\/","id":"d7jdm1","body":"Little back story, chums. My uncle was divorced and drank so much he is so \"disabled\" unemployed and living at my grandmas (his mom obv). i move back into my parents (Im 19) after my car broke down so i could use the one they never use. Anyway, i was told by my parents my uncle started drinking again and started beating my grandma. I started seeing red and i went over there and questioned him. \n\"Have you been hitting my grandma?\"\n\"THE FUCK? YOU LITTLE SHIT!\" \nhe jumps out of his chair and runs to me with a red face and out of instinct and self defense i shove him away. he falls over the other chair. and he calls the cops. i wait for the cops, explain that i did push him. i told the cops im gonna just stop talking to him. no arrest. i go home and my grandma explains that he yells and breaks things but never hit her. i apologize about everything after we bump into each other at walmart and i shake his hand. he says nothing.\n3 weeks later, yesterday, he texts me out of no where and sends 36 messages about how im a pussy, he could beat my ass, and that he is pressing charges. i tell him im sorry again and what can i do to figure this out. after 30 more insults and threats to ruin my life, he says come over and apologize to my face. i do. i go home. he immediately starts up again like i didnt just drive 20 minutes to apologize again. i told him to leave me alone i counted 8 times over text\ni dont want an assault charge. what can i do? what should i do? .","title":"Uncle threatens to press charges on me after agreeing not to","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446509155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ra6yo\/anyone_know_what_this_legal_document_means\/","id":"3ra6yo","body":"[link](http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6FOgPSE.jpg)\n\nNorth Carolina\n\n","title":"Anyone know what this legal document means?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506788626,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73fu60\/can_i_legally_drive_my_car\/","id":"73fu60","body":"I gotta question...so I have a car right? And I've had issue after issue at the DMV and have yet to get the title transferred to my name. I have insurance in my name for the car, emission test and VIN number registration, its got plates but they're Hawaiian. Can I legally drive the car to and from work over the weekend? The lady at the DMV says the plates are fine for now, but I don't fully trust that. I live in the state of Colorado.\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"Can I legally drive my car?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540548044,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rje5q\/computer_hacked_transfered_money_through_paypal\/","id":"9rje5q","body":"Hello guys,\nSomeone hacked my computer and transfered a large sum to their account via by PayPal account. I discovered the situation because they also tried to use my PayPal to charge a Russian phone but for some reason it didn't work so I got a refund for that transaction. Now I've talked to PayPal about it being an unauthorized transaction but they said that the transaction was made from my IP so the dispute and the complaint were all declined. The bank says they can't cancel the transaction. What can I possibly do? It was a lot of money and I really need the money so I'm counting on you guys to help me because I'm really desperate. ","title":"Computer hacked transfered money through PayPal","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1505353500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zz7ra\/my_landlord_is_trying_to_give_us_a_utility_bill\/","id":"6zz7ra","body":"We live in upstate NY. \n\nWhen my boyfriend and I first moved into this apartment we were told all utilities are included (we pay for our own internet). The lease does state that they can raise the rent when ever because of taxes increased other costs etc. \n\nWe recently got a noticed slipped under our door that we have to sign up on this website to pay a water bill. we got the notice in September and the bill is for July though September I believe. Are they allowed to do this? \n\nIf they raised the rent to accommodate the water costs, I would understand because the lease states they can do that. They are not doing that though. They are trying to get us to sign up to pay an extra bill. I just want to know if this is legal or not. I have a copy of my lease and the water bill notice if it helps at all. ","title":"My landlord is trying to give us a utility bill half way through the lease??","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506368720,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72exw2\/california_us_friend_needs_advice_on_possible\/","id":"72exw2","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice,\n\nLong time reader, first time poster. I am posting for a friend, who I will call Tim.\n\nIn Spring of this year, Tim reached out to his friend, who I will call Brad. Brad was currently renting a house, and Tim needed a place to stay and keep his stuff over the summer (because he did not want to pay for more expensive housing). Brad said that this was possible. They discussed pricing, but according to Tim, never reached a final agreement.\n\nOn June 11th, Brad's housemates had a meeting to discuss how to proceed, and came to the conclusion that subletting to Tim was the best option. On that day, they also reached out to their landlord about the possibility of subletting to Tim.\n\nOn June 16th, Tim moved in to Brad's house. On June 21st, Brad received communication from his landlord that subletting would not be allowed and that Tim needed to move out immediately. He did so. Tim never signed a sublease agreement and money was never exchanged.\n\nSo, my questions for Tim:\nWas forcing Tim to move out immediately an illegal eviction? I understand that if he had signed a sublease and money was exchanged, there would be a landlord-tenant relationship established between Tim and Brad, and even if subleases are not permitted in Brad's lease, Brad would have to follow the proper eviction procedure for California. However, no sublease was signed and Tim never paid Brad, so was what happened legal? Also, Brad is still expecting payment from Tim for the 4-5 days he stayed at the house. Is this something he can request or should Tim tell Brad to pound sand because no sublease was signed?\n\nTim's bike is still at Brad's house. Tim and Brad did talk about storing Tim's belongings in the house for some part of the summer but also never agreed on a price and money was never exchanged. What should Tim do if Brad refuses to give his bike back? My advice to Tim would be to call the police, but is that the best option?\n\nThanks for the help!","title":"[California US] Friend needs advice on possible illegal eviction","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503450993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vflv9\/bc_canada_im_on_disability_what_do_i_do_when\/","id":"6vflv9","body":"My only income is disability and I know it's illegal here for people here to refuse to rent to someone based on their *legal sources* of income--and that includes because they're on welfare, disability, etc.\n\nBut what do I *do* when that happens?  Where do I go to?  I've had it happen several times over the years--people tell me they ~only~ rent to people who have a job and turn me away.\n\nI can't just *not* tell them I'm on disability because the government requires that I have my landlord fill out a form proving I'm paying them rent from my disability check.","title":"[BC, Canada] I'm on disability. What do I do when people refuse to rent to me based on just that fact?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539707899,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9opbhj\/california_company_saying_if_you_dont_sign_this\/","id":"9opbhj","body":"The company I work for is not \"laying off\" people. They are bringing them into the office and telling them if they sign this paper they can get paid for two months longer and keep your health insurance for two more months. You can't talk badly about the company or about the circumstances surrounding you leaving.   \n\n\nIf you don't sign this now, you are fired immediately. As of yesterday 30 people were given this in the same day. We now realized that they have done this with hundreds of people. ","title":"California, Company saying if you don't sign this paper and \"volunteer\" to leave the company you get fired immediately","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445537634,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pswph\/live_in_dog_friendly_apartment_complex_thinking\/","id":"3pswph","body":"I just moved into an almost brand new apartment complex in Texas.  I paid my full pet deposit and the community is dog friendly.  I can't hear my downstairs neighbors at all, so I thought the sound proofing was excellent between the units.  I had an upstairs neighbor from hell when I was in college, so I already started trying to be considerate about the downstairs, even though I figured the sound proofing was good.  I take my steel toed boots off when I come in the door so I'm not thumping around.  I don't listen to music in the apartment and I accidentally left my TV power cord back home so my TV isn't working right now.  My dogs like to rough and tumble play when they're all excited when I get home, but I make sure they do it in the carpeted bedroom and not out on the hardwood floors.\n\nThe day after I moved in someone knocked on my door after dark (maybe around 8pm?)  I opened the door and the man introduced himself and said he was my downstairs neighbor.  He said his wife had been curious about all the noises upstairs because they hadn't had an upstairs neighbor until then and he just wanted to see if someone had moved in.  I asked him then if I was being too loud and he said no, I was fine.\n\nLast night my dogs were doing their rough and tumble play and jumping on and off my bed.  Our quiet hours are 10:30pm at the apartments, so I started getting them wound down around then.  Just after 10:30pm someone came and knocked on my door and it freaked me out.  I looked through the peephole and it was my downstairs neighbor again.  I opted not to open the door because I'm a single female living alone and my adrenaline was pumping.\n\nI went by their unit today at lunch and met the wife.  I asked if they had knocked on my door last night and she said no, which obviously wasn't true.  (I've seen the husband with the wife outside now so I know he is actually my downstairs neighbor).  I asked if the dogs were bothering them and she said when they play it is really thumping and loud in their apartment.  I said there wasn't much I could do about it during the day because I'm at work and she said during the day it doesn't really bother them but last night they had been \"pounding on the walls\" while my dogs were playing later in the evening.  I told them I go to bed around 10pm and the dogs come to bed with me. I also told them I can't hear anything from their unit so I didn't hear any pounding.  I asked if 10\/10:30 pm was too late and she said it should be fine.  They have a baby and I don't want to be a crappy neighbor, but my dogs were quiet by quiet hours.  I asked her if they were barking during the day and she said no, they don't bark at all.  I would be willing to do bark collars if that had been the case, and I let her know to tell me if it ever comes up.\n\nI'm worried that these neighbors are going to be upset by any noise coming from my unit after being used to having a vacant upstairs unit.  I'm the first person to ever live in that apartment.  My coworker used to live in the middle apartments at the same complex and said you can hear EVERYTHING coming from upstairs.  I really sincerely don't want to cause a problem for my neighbors, but I'm already worried this is going to escalate.  Are there any further steps I should take at this point after reaching out and making contact?  Having someone knocking on my door in the middle of the night freaks me out and ruins my sleep, plus they denied doing it.  I don't mind compromise, but if my dogs aren't barking and are in bed by quiet hours, I don't see how I can do much more.  I've been here five days and they've been up knocking at my door twice already.  My second dog is a large breed puppy so any banging and thumping from her is only going to get worse as she grows.   ","title":"Live in dog friendly apartment complex, thinking my downstairs neighbors and I are starting to have issues over noise already (Texas)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445482112,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pq148\/is_buying_stock_in_a_company_youre_going_to_buy\/","id":"3pq148","body":"If I'm a person with a lot value to my name would buying stock in a company I intend to buy be illegal or insider knowledge?\n\nLike if Oprah bought a bunch of weight watchers stock before buying the company knowing that her name will make that stock go up?\n\nalso let's say I'm friends with Oprah and I buy a bunch of weight watchers stock and then convinces her to buy the company. Is that insider trading?","title":"is buying stock in a company you're going to buy illegal?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1444069215,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nlr3d\/previous_apartment_texas_gave_us_final_bill_with\/","id":"3nlr3d","body":"Howdy legal advice! I was hoping for some guidance. We were (and still do) reside in Texas when this happened. \n\nSo, we move out on April 30th 2015, when our lease ended. We performed a final walk through with an assistant property manager on that same day, and handed over all keys afterwards. We were told that if need be, they'd be contacting us via mail. We went for several months without hearing anything.\n\nFinally, in  August, we got a letter stating we owed several hundred dollars,with rent being quoted until the 2nd day of May, despite handing over the keys and performing the final walk through with the APM on the 30th day of April. We immediately contacted the company for rectification of this error, which they immediately agreed to look into, however, they claimed they'd have to pull up the file and contact their offices in NY to get an accurate bill. \n\nIn the meantime, the company went ahead and submitted the bill for several hundred dollars to collections, despite us disputing and being in regular contact with them over the bill. We have received regular communications from the collections agency beginning on 09\/18\/2015, and despite repeated attempts at contacting the apartment complex (both via e-mail and over the phone) have just recently (10\/2\/15) received the final bill amount, being $142.86. We have received no itemized bill, just an e-mail stating this amount and claiming that because this amount was sent to collections, we will have to take it up with them. \n\nI was hoping you guys might be able to provide me with some guidance? Obviously my wife and I do not want this reflecting negatively on our credit reports as we intend on buying a house relatively soon. Also, we are opposed to having to work with the collections agency due to the simple fact that it was not procrastination or delays on our part that caused this bill to be submitted to them to begin with! Any help y'all can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! ","title":"Previous Apartment (Texas) gave us final bill, with obvious errors. We disputed it with them, however, the bill was submitted to collections during this process regardless.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503352910,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v6g8c\/my_father_is_being_evicted_from_a_solider_on\/","id":"6v6g8c","body":"So my 61 year old father, who is a Navy Veteran, and suffers from many aliments. Is currently renting an apartment at a Solider On apartment complex. He has been there for going on a year now...\n\nSo from time to time he is forgetful, so he mistakenly leaves his keys in his room, twice to my knowledge. Ive confirmed it was 3 time total.\n\nThey have NO ONE on site or near by with a master key and the keys he has all have \"do not duplicate\" on them, so its not like he can make a back up(s) to put in his wallet or something. Ive tried to make a back up for him at a key making machine, but know could do it as of the type of key it is. It took them over 3 hours to come the last time it happened(they had to come from basically across the state).\n\nThe \"Occupancy Agreement\" has been completed and submitted. Point being as seen in the letter served to him below, its because he locked himself out of his apartment.\n\nHe also has MS, and one of the major effects of it, is on memory. Apparently they said his reason for forgetting his key is because he is stupid. \n\nHere is the Eviction Notice: http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ayqoZ (ive removed person details)\n\nBasically, ill take all the suggestions, help and or constructive criticism i can get. It is welcome.\n\nThank you, i have no idea what to do in this situation, as the reasoning behind it, is just idiotic. To me it seems like \"you inconvenienced us, now you have to leave\".\n\nBasically, what should be my\/his next move?","title":"My father is being evicted from a Solider On apartment complex, for forgetting his key in his room a total of 3 times. Not sure what to do.(Chicopee, MA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552419653,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0c2ql\/boyfriend_is_17_got_kicked_out_and_coming_to_stay\/","id":"b0c2ql","body":"So my boyfriend has been physically and mentally abused for the past 6 years, his mother has hit him to the point where he needed stitches. Its a regualr occurance.\n\nLast night when she hit him (closed fist), he slapped her back, something he had never done before.\n\nHe left for a friends house after his parents told him to leave. They withdrew the $5000 he had in savings and left him on his own.\n\nMy parents are letting him stay with us, but there is just one thing. He lives in Califionia (Bay Area) and I live in Washington (Seattle area).  His flight comes in tonight at 11.\n\nHe is 17 and I am 18. \n\nMy mom is a nurse and a very smart lady who knows what she is doing, she told him to go see the school councelor today and get his trascript plus some other stuff he would need to transfer high schools.\n\nHe is there right now and his councelor said she is required to call CPS and they are also calling the police because of the physical violence. \n\nI just want to know what his rights are and if he is able to get here or will he be dragged back to his parents home. Is he able to come stay with us? What are our next steps? What will happen to his parents?","title":"Boyfriend is 17, got kicked out, and coming to stay with me, its kind of a long story","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568750009,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5m8kf\/do_i_have_to_mention_my_onceinalifetime_sidejob\/","id":"d5m8kf","body":"I work at a media company which produces movies, series, etc. My contract includes the phrase, that I have to tell them about ANY side jobs I plan to do and that they might even forbid it, if the said side job would mean I work for a competitor. \n\nJust a few weeks ago a friend in the same business but different company (so a competitor) asked me if I'd be interested in being an extra in an episode of his company's TV series. I just said yes, not thinking about my actual job or what phrases my contract includes (I mean, it's been a few years since I signed it and I haven't re-read it ever since).  \n\nBut recently I started thinking about whether it might affect my actual job and read my contract. I started thinking about my boss watching TV in a few months and seeing me sitting there on that bench in that one episode. \n\nIs this me appearing in the episode actually working FOR the competitor? I mean, the success of this episode or even the entire series does not depend on me sitting there. Any other person could've sat there. Also, in my company I'm part of the sales team and it's not like I tried to help the other company with their sales strategy or whatever. On the other hand I did have a contract for that day and got around 50 bucks. \n\nGoing further: Let's say my boss\/my company\/whoever finds out AND they are not happy about it \u2013 could something like this be the reason to get fired without notice or is this more or less a thing of \"well, just don't do it again and we're fine\"?","title":"Do I have to mention my once-in-a-lifetime sidejob?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552889354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2f4fe\/tenant_report_water_tap_leakage_after_moving_for\/","id":"b2f4fe","body":"The tenant moved in at the start of 2019, the water tap in the toilet has no water leakage. After staying there for over 2months, they send a video of the water tap leaking and require me to pay for a plumper to fix it. Legally, should they be the one who\u2019s pay for the plumper (since it was okay before they moved in) or do I have the responsibility to pay for it? Thanks in advance. ","title":"Tenant report water tap leakage after moving for over 2months. (AUS)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570319657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddvi96\/salaried_employee_45_hours_a_week_az\/","id":"ddvi96","body":"I can\u2019t find an answer to this online so I\u2019m hoping you guys can help me. \n\nI am a salaried employee, we are expected to work 45 hours a week (no overtime obvi.) \n\nMy last job I was salaried at 40, are they able to require those extra 5 hours as part of my regular salary and not as overtime? \n\nThanks in advance.","title":"Salaried employee, 45 hours a week? [AZ]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446493448,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r91ks\/does_this_small_claim_have_jurisdiction\/","id":"3r91ks","body":"Edit: Submitted my claim, will let you guys know when I win. Peace~","title":"Does this small claim have jurisdiction?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568556042,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4ksni\/how_long_can_we_stay_in_our_apartment_after_being\/","id":"d4ksni","body":"New Jersey\nMy family has lived in the same two-family home for 20 years, renting. Our landlord sold the house to our upstairs neighbors who have asked us to leave within a month. Obviously, since we've lived here for 20 years, it's going to be hard to just pack up and leave and find a new place that we can afford (our town is more upper-middle class\/upper class, but we had a pretty damn low rent since we've lived here so long). On top of that, my parents are physically disabled and elderly, and our funds for things like this are essentially nonexistent. We have a dog and two cats that we need to take with us, and therefore find a pet-friendly place to stay. I need to finish my high school education here because I've already started my senior year and a school switch at this time could be really detrimental to my education. Both of my parents have low credit scores. My mom has to request money from her 401k in order for us to afford this move, which might take a bit of time. What I want to know is how long we have to \"overstay our welcome\" until we are forced out. And if we stay past an eviction notice, how will it effect the chances of being able to rent somewhere else? Any kind of help is really appreciated. Thanks.","title":"How long can we stay in our apartment after being given formal notice to leave (not rent-related eviction) before we are forced out by law? [New Jersey]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571300475,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj3c8d\/tree_is_gone\/","id":"dj3c8d","body":"Hi, so I live in Honolulu Hi. I'm renting my unit from a leasing office and they cut down the tree that came with our backyard. Emotionall\/background: it was the reason we moved in because we liked the amount of shade it provided during the summer\/spring\/fall days and it provides a great place for my pup to lay under. It also helped keep the house cooler during the day as the sun hit on our unit pretty harshly and we have no wind coming through our place because we have to keep the doors and windows shut due to a strong ammonia smell and cigarette smoke that often came through to our bedroom. So we opted for an AC but don't turn it on while we're gone which is the hottest times of the morning. \n\nSo cut to Tues Oct 15th. I came home to find that the leasing office had hired landscapers to \"trim\" the trees in our backyard but somehow it just became cut down to nothing more than a stump. The landscapers said I needed to be done when I walked into my yard and that nothing could've been done otherwise so I let them finish their job thinking it's what had to be done. I contacted the leasing office and they stated that it was my fault for not notifying them to not touch the tree. I was under the assumption that it would only be trimmed not cut down as it was stated in the 48 he notice that it would be trimmed. She then stated that I had permission to plant a new tree but I have no money to do so, and am currently worried about the electric bill going up due to the lack of shade that was originally provided. It was also stated in our leasing agreement that it was the tennant's responsibility to care for any foliage that may be in our apartment. Is there anything I can take to small claims? I just want a tree back to provide shade and not pay out the ass for their \"terminology\" mistake. \n\nThank you for the help in advance.","title":"Tree is gone","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508377644,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77bduk\/in_mississippi_i_applied_and_paid_for_my_record\/","id":"77bduk","body":"A little back story:\nWhen I was 19, my (now-ex) husband and his best friend ran around at night every night. They would go ride and meet up with friends, go mud riding, etc., so I thought it would be a good opportunity to bring my newborn to ride around until she fell asleep, as she had colic really bad. We would go riding and as soon as she fell asleep, I would fall asleep and got some much needed sleep, even if it was for only an hour or 2. I rarely woke up unless she woke up crying - then it was immediately that I would wake up. I thought nothing of frequent stops, as we had car wash lots where the local teenagers\/early twenties folks would hang out. Some decent, some of bad character. One of those bad characters invited the two previously mentioned guys to an empty car lot and there, they stole radios and things out of the dashes. \n\n**Long story short,** when they were caught, the husband AND his best friend pinned everything on me. None of the officers believed me, mostly because the one that I was married to was pressing hard that it was all my idea. I was arrested and jailed for 4 days, was charged with burglary of an auto on 4 counts, $40,000 to bail out, and overall I have complied with everything asked of me. \n\nMy lawyer wasn't concerned with helping me fight this, and he was court appointed because my parents spent their last dime getting me out of jail and couldn't afford one of our choosing. He was my second appointed after the first one got tired of hearing \"I'm innocent\". He just wanted to get me the shortest penalty as possible - which was 5 years probation, restitution, and court fees.\n\n**Here is the problem as of late.** I got a good lawyer who has never lost a case as simple as mine. It's cut and dry. I have complied in every way, paid off every fine, and been a model citizen - even though I had never actually not been. I went today to check on the progress of my case, and she told me it would be a couple more weeks before court would be in session for them to hear these sorts of cases. Then she decided to check her docket email before telling me anything for sure. Turns out, the judge that was selected to handle my case has opted out to be in court for that (I believe she said) 3 week time span of hearings. That means I have to wait until March before the next set of hearings. I live in North Mississippi, and I know some people come to expect this kind of thing down here, but I have worked my butt off trying to do and be everything the court wanted me to do and be, but now I'm getting the shaft. \n\nI guess let's go with this...\n**TLDR** Is it legal for a judge hearing my case to opt out and prolong the time I have already waited to have my case done? I am currently at 7 years, 5 days and am expected to have to wait nearly another 6 months.\n\n(Hopefully I followed all of the rules to this sub. Thanks in advance if so)","title":"In Mississippi, I applied and paid for my record to be expunged, judge decided to take a vacation.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551973453,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aydypq\/used_an_unadvertised_coupon_code_while_making_an\/","id":"aydypq","body":"Followed a thread on \/r\/UnethicalLifeProTips about coupon codes and applied a coupon code 'test20' during checkout on a website I have been considering to buy 3d bulbs from. To my surprise, that code actually [worked](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/0us2hRx) and I got a $4 discount immediately on a $19 product. The company has even shipped the order and doesn't seem to have noticed what happened here. Can one get in trouble for this? Is this considered legal or unethical? ","title":"Used an unadvertised coupon code while making an online purchase.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554095447,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7xpyn\/i_want_to_flee_the_us_to_avoid_paying_student\/","id":"b7xpyn","body":"From my basic knowledge of law I know that avoiding paying debt is not technically a crime and debtors are not imprisoned. However, I know it's not ethical and so I'm wondering what I'm up against. \n\nI have dual citizenship with the United States and Poland and have a passport for both countries. I'm an \"anchor baby\" so I have US citizenship since I was born here while I have Polish citizenship through my Polish parents, both of whom are permanent residents in the US. \n\nSo my plan is to move to Poland and then surrender my US citizenship. My first question is if my plan works for me? Will my debts be traced to me? Also let me know if I'm breaking any LAWS (I'm not asking about ethics, I'm asking about laws.)\n\nSecond, I'm basically estranged from my parents but my mother is a cosigner and so I know I'll be in trouble if I leave her with the debt. Again, from a legal potv how can I avoid paying the loans? Can she force me to pay them? ","title":"I want to flee the US to avoid paying student loans. What are the legal ramifications of my actions?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1540438656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r6qux\/my_school_is_searching_random_phones\/","id":"9r6qux","body":"My public highschool is searching through people\u2019s phones tomorrow in an attempt to see if there is anything that can get students in trouble. This is completely out of the blue and they have no probable cause to my knowledge. Is this legal? If not, can I report them for breaking the law?","title":"My school is searching random phones","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1542046619,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wggh6\/establishing_paternity_pa\/","id":"9wggh6","body":"Okay. Backstory is that I am an American citizen and my husband was here on a student visa. We married and had a daughter together. He died when I was 18 weeks pregnant in an accident. When I filled out the birth certificate application at the hospital, I wrote his name down. When I received it in the mail, his name was not on it. I was told that paternity needs to be established through a buccal swab of a living relative. He has one brother in the US who is willing to do it. Does anyone know around how much something like this would cost? Would I go through a family law lawyer? Any advice is appreciated. ","title":"Establishing paternity [PA]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442257317,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ky0tp\/tenant_renting_from_landlord_whose_association\/","id":"3ky0tp","body":"I am an Illinois tenant renting a condominium from a landlord who is part of an HOA.  I recently signed a three year lease.  I know the landlord well, and he is a friendly acquaintance. Landlord recently told me that it has come to his attention that the HOA prohibits rentals.  I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the majority of the people living in the complex might be renters and it seems the property management group hasn't done much to go after them.  I believe management is going after this unit since it is very obvious that I am not the owner of the property, given the fact that I'm of a noticeably different nationality than the actual owner.  \n\nI have been given one week to leave by the association.  It isn't possible for me to find a place on such short notice, especially since I would want to stay around the school that my children are currently at.  I assume all my rights and remedies are against the landlord.  That said, who has the right to evict me?  I have a binding contract with the landlord that I have complied with, so I don't see how he has a right to evict me.  I have made no agreement with any association, so I don't see why they can evict me.  Is this an issue for the association and landlord to work out in court themselves?  Or do I have to fight the HOA eviction process and sue my landlord for damages?\n\nThanks!  Let me know if you need any other information.","title":"Tenant renting from landlord whose association bans rentals (IL)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1508225118,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76wz7f\/help_got_a_ticket_for_parking_in_a_handicap_spot\/","id":"76wz7f","body":"South Carolina.  \n\nOk legal geniuses of reddit, I really need your help here!\n\nSo I was dropping off my wife off, who is elderly, at a store near a Walmart.  It was late, dark, rainy, lots of traffic.  She has difficulty getting around so I wanted to play it safe for her, so I pulled into a handicap spot directly in front of the store ONLY to let her out.  It literally only took 10 seconds for her to get out of the car, then I went to park.\n\nSo I go into the store, come back out, and there's a ticket on my car.  And it's a friggen $500 ticket for handicap parking.  Like, I got bills to pay, I don't need this shit.\n\nOk my legal heroes, what's the best way to fight this?  Some important evidence:\n\n1. It was dark, rainy, and a lot of traffic.  \n2. My wife is elderly and I don't want her falling down, which is why I drove into the handicap spot.  \n3. I never got out of the car.  \n4. I never turned off the ignition.  \n5. I was only there for a few seconds.  Maybe 30 seconds max.\n6. I immediately went to park in a regular spot.  \n\nI don't think I should have been given the ticket due to all these ameliorating reasons.  Is this pretty much a slam dunk by myself, or do I need to shell out some bucks to get a lawyer to work their magic on this?  I really can't afford to pay this right now, so I'm willing to do whatever it takes to fight this!\n\nThanks in advance!!!\n","title":"HELP! Got a ticket for parking in a handicap spot but I did NOT park there.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555036034,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc8gbb\/me_college_housing\/","id":"bc8gbb","body":"So the community college I\u2019m going to in the fall has two housing buildings. One coed, the other exclusively for men. So around 3\/4 of the housing is just for men. Which means that because I\u2019m a woman, I have 1\/3 the chance of getting housing that a man does. This seems illegal due to title 42, chapter 21 of the US code, or title IX of the education amendments of 1972. I\u2019ve looked into it, but I don\u2019t know the details of law. I\u2019d love some advice.","title":"[ME] College Housing","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1446412709,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r4kxq\/issue_with_notice_to_vacate_vs_lease_agreement\/","id":"3r4kxq","body":"Hi everyone, I'm having an issue with my current landlord and need some advice. I live in Minnesota, and I provided my landlord with a notice to vacate letter in accordance with the terms of our lease. Wel in the letter I had our move out date incorrect. Instead of the date when our lease actaully ends (November 24th, 2015) I wrote October 31st, 2015 by mistake. I've posted the entire letter below, but the line specifying our move out date reads 'This letter constitutes our written 60-day notice that we will be leaving my apartment on October 31st 2015, the end of our current lease'. My question is which take precedence, the date that I specified or the phrase 'end of my current lease'. I'm really in a bind here, as I was not anticipating moving until the 24th (my lease expiration date) and I could really use some help here. Thank you in advance.\n\nEdit:\nThe major issue at play is that my landlord is pushing for me to vacate by the 5th (at the latest) as they said that they have a new tenant moving into my apartment on the 10th. They also have received a payment from me for the full amount for this month's rent as well. \n\n\nNotice to vacate Letter:\nDear Richdale Apartments, This letter constitutes our written 60-day notice that we will be leaving my apartment on October 31st 2015, the end of our current lease. We are leaving because we need additional space and our current unit is no longer bigger enough to accommodate our needs. Our forwarding address will be (forwarding address) and if any issues or concerns come up, we can be reached at (my phone number, on file with leasing agency).\nOur security deposit of (my deposit amount) should be refunded in full due to the fact that our apartment has been left in good condition. The deposit can be sent to (my forwarding address)\nThank you, (signed)","title":"Issue with Notice to Vacate Vs. Lease Agreement","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571054121,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhpi0m\/uk_school_removed_toilet_door_due_to_vandalism\/","id":"dhpi0m","body":"There are now only 2 toilets in school with doors.\nYou can see the cubicles clearly.\nThis has only happend to the male toilets\nIs this legal?","title":"[UK] School removed toilet door due to vandalism","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539288958,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ndi27\/ca_new_lease_has_clause_i_lessee_assumes_total\/","id":"9ndi27","body":"Pretty positive if I could show negligence on their part, it would go in my direction. Like if I told them the stair was breaking on the 1st and they didn\u2019t fix it till after the 11th after someone has already fell.\n\nMy question is, is that kind of thing even legal in a lease or would that be thrown out? I am hesitant to initial that section because it just seems weird and I don\u2019t want to agree to that, and that\u2019s from my simple minds understanding of the law","title":"[CA] New lease has clause \u201ci. Lessee assumes total liability of personal injury to all occupants and visitors and holds Lessor\/ agent harmless without exception.\u201d on it.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569021783,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d72tu8\/first_offense_speeding_ticket\/","id":"d72tu8","body":"Back in July I was caught driving 91 mph in a 65 mph zone on the freeway. My court date was set for August 22 and though I did not live in SD (I live 3 hours away) the officer refused to send my notification to the address on my driver's license. I requested an extension through the website because I was caught speeding in a car I did not own. I don't own a vehicle and my date to appear is tomorrow, I will show up but I was wondering how I would be able to set up my defense, or what exactly I should say.","title":"First offense speeding ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555086733,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcfm22\/moved_to_an_apartment_from_out_of_state_that_was\/","id":"bcfm22","body":"I moved to an apartment complex from out of state. I am paying premium rent for a small square footage space but the amenities are really great. Well, that is, the advertised amenities.. Over half of the common areas are still under construction and this information was not given to me until I pulled in with my moving truck to sign the lease. The pool and hot tub did not pass inspection, the courtyard is still not open to residents, construction of the dog park and dog wash have not even been started. \n\nAs of now, we have a club room, sky lounge, and gym. My question is, what are my rights about asking for a discount after signing my lease? I feel that I should not have to pay for these amenities while unable to use them- actually having to pay for grooming and go across town to use a dog park. But they were not transparent about these not being available when I moved here so I didn\u2019t even know to mention this before signing.","title":"Moved to an apartment from out of state that was not transparent about amenities being unfinished (Colorado)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554155885,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b89uqi\/school_allowing_students_to_basically_buy_grades\/","id":"b89uqi","body":"On mobile so sorry for bad formatting \n\nAlright so today at lunch one of our schools teachers who is also the drama club teacher\/director let\u2019s call her Mrs. G was talking to us over the microphone and told us that if we bought a 10$ ticket to both plays and watched them then she would give us a piece of paper that lets us turn it in to one of our teachers to get a 100% on any assignment as long as it wasn\u2019t an NHI (not handed in) so the school was basically indirectly allowing us to buy a 100% on any assignment. Is this legal?","title":"School allowing students to basically buy grades","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1508453477,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77i1f4\/divorce_advice_displaced_homemaker_us\/","id":"77i1f4","body":"ETA: We live in South Carolina.  \nBrief run down.  \nNote: some degree of sexual abuse and or neglect became the norm so I have only indicated the onset.  \n2011 - Met, and he financed a brand new car.  \n2012 - Married, he became depressed and sexually abusive\/negligent six months after we married.  \n2013 - His depression got so bad that we moved across the country.  \n2014 - In our own place for the first time. Birth control failed in first quarter. Had to get an abortion, it was a total nightmare. He claimed to be afraid to sleep with me. He would only initiate sex in his sleep but would stop if I shooed his hands away. He saw a therapist 5 times. Stopped going because of financial issues.  \n2015 - Hit the wall on my career. Burned out, bad. He encouraged me to quit my job and go back to school. With student loans to cover my lost income. This money always went to a separate account with only my name on it. The statements will prove how much he benefited from the debt. Complete 4 summer classes and 3\/4 fall classes. GPA 3.9.  \n2016 - Continue school. Spring 3 classes, GPA 3.8. He continues to encourage student loans and we finance a new used car for me. Under both names as: A or B. Take summer off. Fall, two major tragedies. Drop all but 1 class and get a B. GPA 3.7. During the events, got him to acknowledge he has clinical depression. He goes to a general practitioner, not a psychiatrist. Gets a little better.  \n2017 - I sustain physical trauma in an accident during an effort of good faith towards our marriage. Construction accident. Incurred medical expenses from the ER. Got fallopian tubes removed because he wouldn't get a vasectomy after two years of \"trying.\" Incurred medical expenses. Had a scope surgery to repair damage. Incurred medical expenses. This summer he asked for a divorce twice because he doesn't see me as a ticket out of blue collar life and so he doesn't need me anymore. I have been asking for therapy. I have been going to therapy on my own. He hasn't made it to the first appointment. He has been drinking a lot and I document what I can.  \n  \nThings in peoples names:  \nBoth: Rent, maybe electric, my auto loan, our auto insurance, phone.   \nHim: His auto loan, Netflix, comic book subscription.  \nMe: Internet, water, Hulu, medical bills, student loans, lawn care, trash service, my new rent. \n  \nPresent day. I moved out three weeks ago because he is too mean to be around. I'm not sure that he is certain I'm gone but I believe he suspects. He is making a lot of very frivolous purchases, making it difficult to be sure that bills get paid. I know he is withdrawing cash at every opportunity.  \n  \nMy situation.  \nI have basically no income of my own. My only opportunity for that is to return to the career that causes mental\/emotional breakdowns. My therapist said to talk to an attorney before returning to that career. A free consultation and an attorney told me not to do what I cannot sustain full time. No other industry wants to take a chance on hiring someone as overqualified as I am. I know this. They've told me to my face. I've been doing pet sitting and baby sitting as odd jobs to pay my rent at my new place. I have been told there is no legal aid available to women in my region who have not explicitly been hit by their husbands. I am terrified of how this could end up financially.  \n  \n  \nQuestions:  \n  \nWhat, if any, paperwork can I file on my own to get an order of Separation Maintenance? I want to protect our good credit scores. With him as the only income, this would ensure that bills are paid or he would be in contempt. If I understand it all correctly.  \n  \nI do have a small accumulation of photos with time and date stamps along with one that has a dated handwritten note from me expressing concern about his drinking. We talked about that one. He laughed in my face and said he's not going to change his behavior. Most of the pictures I have post date that conversation. In my region, for a no fault divorce you have to live separate for a year before you can file. We do have disagreements on debts and assets. Can I file on my own that I want a divorce because of his new drinking habits and refusal to change course?  \n  \nHow likely is an attorney to accept their retainer from the settlement? There's plenty to be had if enough of the right assets are liquidated. I just don't have cash money. I have not been able to get a loan because I don't have a job and cannot prove any income.  \n  \nCan he take me off our health insurance before we are divorced?  \n  \nWhat of the marital property can I take? Do I have to give him the spare key to his car back?  \n\nWhat of shutting things off and transferring service and closing accounts?    \n  \nWhere do I begin? TIA!","title":"Divorce advice, displaced homemaker. US.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553366552,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4mm82\/i_live_in_oregon_and_the_lease_on_our_apartment\/","id":"b4mm82","body":"We live in Oregon and the lease on our apartment is due to be signed again in August. They are 15 month leases. My concern is my husband is terminally ill and we don\u2019t have any idea how long he has. I can\u2019t afford to stay in this place with only my income. I\u2019ll need to downsize. I don\u2019t see anything in the lease about if someone dies. Am I stuck with that lease when he dies? Does the death of a person change a lease?","title":"I live in Oregon and the lease on our apartment is up in August.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1538943585,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m8djo\/parking_ticket\/","id":"9m8djo","body":"Hi,\n\nI received a parking ticket this afternoon for parking in a disabled parking zone ($250). The front of my car was about 1 foot into the back of the disabled zone (I have pictures) and the car in front of me (with disabled plates, for whom the spot was made) was already parked there when I parked. There's approx. 4 feet between me and the car in front of me, so it's not as if they had any issues using their spot. If it were a cheaper ticket I'd just pay it, but $250 seems excessive to me when I was barely in the spot. \n\nI'm planning to contest it, but I have a few questions:\n\n\\- Should I contest online or in-person? (this is in Chicago)\n\n\\- If they don't provide photos, should I provide mine, or would that only hurt me?\n\n\\- Any advice for how to write the letter?\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Parking Ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553556482,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5i5c4\/tru_fit_is_trying_to_revoke_a_privilege\/","id":"b5i5c4","body":"Hello all,\n\nA few years back I signed up with a gym here in Lubbock, TX. It was a Freedom Fitness at the time. My membership allowed me to bring a guest. Of course this membership costs a little more but that was fine since I enjoy bringing friends to the gym. Anyways the gym was then purchased by Bodyworks and my membership stayed the same. Recently the gym has turned into a Tru Fit. And now management has told me that I can only bring a guest Friday through Sunday. Is this some kind of loophole that still allows me this type of access without holding the establishment reliable? Or is it wrong for the establishment to take away this perk that I initially signed up for? ","title":"Tru Fit is Trying to Revoke a Privilege","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1571542236,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkec00\/should_i_go_public\/","id":"dkec00","body":" I  filed a police report of him raping me when I was 17 and of the abuse  he did to me through out the 8 year relationship we had together.\n\nNow  I want justice for the pain he put me through, and prevent new victims.  I highly believe my ex is a psychopath, but I can't prove that without  him violating his restraining order (need a warrant to request a psych  eval.).  He did try to appeal it, but to only take off the church I go  to,even though he drives 30-40 minutes to it, when there is one next to  his home in less then 5. I honestly believed he appealed it just to  stalk me. Every time I see him in church, no matter how far on the other  side he is, I still get scared enough that he will try to hurt me. And  I'm unsure if I should call the police to have him arrested, because he  is no where near me and I can't always know if he looking at me (not  going to watch him through out service, that'll increase my anxiety and  cause me to hyperventilate\/panic attack). Do you think it would be best  to call the police, even though I feel scared for my life, despite him  being more or less100ft away from me (small church)?\n\nOn  the other hand, I want to go public (news, media, etc) to see if there  are other sexual assault\/domestic violence victims out there, that he  has done this to. He has told me in the past that all his ex's were  crazy, and I believe there is more to the story then what he has led me  to believe. He has in the past apologized to one of his ex's, but didn't  give me details as to what, and why. Do you think I should discuss this  with my detective (going public)?\n\nI  believed he has also groomed me from the age of 16, since I informed  him I have a learning disability and a slight fear of heights in the  early start of the relationship.\n\nThis  happened in Surprise, Phoenix, and Glendale, AZ. (in case people know any laws regarding this as well) I'm 24 now. You can also view previous  posts I have made, if that helps you any.\n\n(I also posted this a r\/domesticviolence for advice as well) If flair is wrong, let me know.","title":"Should I go public?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554667347,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bakfum\/restraining_order_against_mother\/","id":"bakfum","body":"Hi there, looking for some legal advice. I think the flair is correct considering I\u2019m looking to petition for a restraining order against my mother.\n\nBackground: she abused me for years on end, I now suffer from PTSD and a chronic illness (science backs up that its due to her abuse). Anyhow, she just turned my grandparents against me and they kicked me out. She\u2019s a narcissist, I have posts about that also. Anyhow, she thinks she\u2019s somehow above the law and can assault me only b\/c she\u2019s my mother. I don\u2019t know if that would help me at all.\n\nI also have a picture of her splitting my lip which, my therapist has said would help. \n\nAnyhow, I feel very unsafe now (she knows where I am staying) and, I want to prevent her from ever coming near me. I\u2019ll figure everything else out after but, I am a very scared for my safety.\n\n","title":"Restraining order against mother?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445431198,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pmjro\/ma_friend_getting_hosed_in_divorce_and_doesnt\/","id":"3pmjro","body":"[MA] She can't afford legal support because her husband took all the money and has been hiding any assets and, I suspect) is likely paying for his attorneys through his business. He seems to have plenty of money to tear her apart in court with all sorts of specialists and accusations.\n\nHe has lawyers that are rumored to run up the bill by making all sorts of motions and dragging the process out for a long time. She is without legal guidance, overwhelmed and getting beaten up by his attorneys. She is emailed almost daily with thinly veiled threats by his attorneys asking her to do all sorts of stuff.\n\n\nIt was an emotionally (possibly physical but there is little evidence) abusive relationship with an active protection order, 2 kids, 2 cars, house and he has a company whose finally growing after years of draining their personal assets. He's fighting the validity of the protection order as it interferes with his profession. \n\nResources for this sort of thing seem scarce. I'll link her to this thread.\n\nHow can she get legal help in MA?\n","title":"[MA] Friend getting hosed in divorce and doesn't know how to get help.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552917822,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2j3oo\/am_i_entitled_to_my_salary_during_a_week_of\/","id":"b2j3oo","body":"So my company is unexpectedly closed down for a week. I am a salaried employee. My HR person asked me if I was using vacation during the shutdown or if I was doing unemployment. I was surprised and just said unemployment because I\u2019m definitely not using vacation days because I\u2019m forced to not go to work. But now that I\u2019ve filled out this stupid unemployment crap, why the fuck am I doing this? Why bother even having salary if I lose it for stuff like this? I\u2019ve spoken to a few people (my parents and a few other people I consider grownups) and they said I should confront HR. I don\u2019t want to get told off, because I\u2019m not working\/earning the money. But I\u2019m basically hourly at that point, or at least that\u2019s the way HR is treating me. So am I wasting my time to talk to HR\/my boss about this or are they really able to cut my salary?\n\nSorry for the shit writing, my thoughts are a bit jumbled about this. ","title":"Am I entitled to my salary during a week of factory shutdown? MI","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551981136,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayfgj3\/my_property_manager_walked_in_on_me_naked_taking\/","id":"ayfgj3","body":"So this just happened less than an hour ago and I am still furious about it.\nSo here\u2019s a little backstory. I live in a year old apartment complex in a nice suburb in Utah. I was the first tenant to move in and the only one for the first two months. so I\u2019ve got to know the property managers pretty well. the main property manager is an complete asshole. Even when he\u2019s being nice you can just tell he\u2019s an asshole. I have never liked him. I have always been a good rennet. Never written up for being loud or anything like that and always paid rent on  Time and I live alone. Rent is due on the by the 5th of each month and I work for a start up. So my work paid me late. And it went through last night. So I was going to pay early the 7th. Which is today. I\u2019ve never caused trouble so I didn\u2019t think it would be a huge deal since I\u2019ve always paid on time. \n  Well fast forward to today. I\u2019m taking my morning shit before I get the in the shower before work. I am butt naked and I hear this very loud pounding on my front door. And I\u2019m like wtf?? Well I\u2019m naked and about to shower. So I can\u2019t get up to get it. Then all the sudden my bathroom door opens in my bedroom and it\u2019s my asshole property manager yelling at me to answer the door when he knocks. WHILE I AM SITTING ON THR TOILET NAKED! he walked out and I get up to put clothes on and walk to the front door where he is. And he\u2019s yelling at me \u201cRENT IS DUE, WHERE IS MY MONEY??\u201d and pulls up his phone to record if even even recorded. And I\u2019m like half yelling cuz I\u2019m pissed  \u201cyeah dude I got paid late, I will pay in an hour when I get to my computer at work but, you just walk in while I\u2019m naked. The fuck dude??\u201d \u201c I am going to call your boss because that\u2019s fucked up and against Utah laws. You can\u2019t just walk in, especially into my bedrooms bathroom and open the door\u201d and now this dude loses it starts screaming at me he\u2019s going to take me to court and kick me out. Even tho Utah law says 24hour notice and on my lease before they can enter. \nIs there anything he can really do? I just paid my rent so I don\u2019t owe them any money. And also is there anything I can do back against him? I\u2019m furious and want this guy fired or his actions dealt with properly. ","title":"My property manager walked in on me naked taking a shi.....","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503268497,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uytmv\/can_i_use_a_previously_incorporated_company\/","id":"6uytmv","body":"About five years ago I started a company in Illinois as a single-owner LLC. The company didn't pan out, but I've been diligently paying taxes on minor income from residuals\/digital.\n\nI now have a new concept for a readily-deployable side-business (very removed from the previous, estimating less than 20k annual gross), the existing company name is just ambiguous enough, and I would prefer to skip the process of starting a new company from scratch.\n\nHow viable is it to repurpose the previous LLC into this new venture? I'm under the impression that it would be possible to set-up a DBA or separate brand identity without too much effort, so long as I continue legally operating as My Company LLC and keep paying my taxes accordingly.","title":"Can I use a previously incorporated company (Single-Owner LLC) for a new venture moving forward?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1441476892,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3jrp65\/what_is_going_on\/","id":"3jrp65","body":"My friend and I were talking about a dvd we saw at Dragon-con last year called Sailor Moon and the Seven Balls.  (I wouldn't bother looking it up because I'm pretty sure this just screwed me over)\n\nAnyways, now I have this come up whenever I open safari:\nEDIT:  Okay so I just managed to get a screenshot right before the white-text scroll comes up and this is the address that Safari goes directly to:  data:text\/html;__US_POLICE_________\n(I don't know how many underscores there actually are)\n\nCountry: United States\nRegion: ******** (it says it, i'm just being confidential)\nYour Location:\n3*.****, -**.****\nOperating System: iOS\n\nYou are accused of viewing \/ storage and\/or dissemination of banned pornography (child pornography \/ zoophilia \/ rape \/ facesitting \/ hardcore sex \/ urolagnia \/ fisting \/ suffocation \/ female ejaculation \/ bdsm etc). You have violated World Declaration on nonproliferation of child pornography.  You are accused of committing the crime covered by Article 161 of the United States of America criminal law.  The punishment for this felony is deprivation of liberty for terms from 5 to 11 years.  You are also suspected of violation of 'Copyright and Related rights Law' (downloading of pirated 'music, video, warez) and of use and\/or dissemination of copyrighted content.  Thus, you are suspected of violation of Article 148 of the United States of America criminal law.  Article 148 of the United States of America criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 3 to 7 years or 150 to 550 minimum wages fine.  Your mobile device was used to gain unauthorized access to information of State importance and to data closed for public Internet access.  Unauthorized access could have been arranged by yourself purposely on personal motives, or without your knowledge and consent, in case your mobile device had been affected by malware.  Consequently, you are suspected - until the investigation is held - of innocent infringement of Article 215 of the United States of America criminal law ('Law on negligent and reckless disregard of computers, computer aids and mobile devices').  Article 215 of the United States of America criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 5 to 8 years and\/or up to 100.000$ fine.  \n\nUnder that it says \"OK\"  which I am too freaked out to click.  \n\nA few things to mention:  \nIt comes up as a white bar in the middle of the screen with a scrolling text.  It does not appear to affect browsers other than safari.  Also, the gps location that it gives doesn't appear to be accurate, just a random address in Marrietta.\n\nTo me, it seems like a scam, but no money is being asked for.  So, what benefit does this give to whoever is screwing with me?  \n\nAlso, the fact that they forgot a comma after \"computer aids\" seems to give away the fact that it isn't real, but I just needed to be sure.  \n","title":"WHAT IS GOING ON?!","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1443831669,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nahs1\/nj_my_presence_is_antagonizing_my_neighbor_how_do\/","id":"3nahs1","body":"Hi \/r\/legaladvice,\n\nI'm not sure how to respond to a neighbor's passive-aggressive hostility toward me. **He really seems to dislike me, and has recently reported me to the management company on three separate occasions** [more info below]. \n\nI have evaluated my actions and while I do not feel his feelings are warranted, I can't help but feel guilty that my lifestyle seems to really irritate him. My landlords are being supportive of my end, but I want to make sure that I am doing what I need to in order to protect myself.\n\nI am 26, a white female. My neighbor is a 36yo white man. He lives above me on the 2nd floor; my apartment is on the first floor - the only apartment in the building with a deck above the backyard. The deck is private, as stated in the lease, and the backyard is common. Of the 8 units in the building, only 6 are occupied--4 of those have dogs.\n\nThe problem started (I think) because of a tarp that I put over the deck. I like to spend time out there, and the deck is in full view of all the windows around... I wanted some shade\/privacy. The tarp wasn't a pretty solution to the problem, but it worked. I tied it to the deck and supported it using PVC pipe. \n\nI learned about his feelings re: tarp when, in early August, **he came to my door to tell me that he had reported me to the management company for the tarp, and they wanted me to take it down.** This was really frustrating, because **he never confronted me about it before reporting me.** I was also confused as to why the management company didn't tell me this themselves.\n\nIn any case, **I took it down immediately**, and spent a few hundred dollars on some umbrellas that would do the same thing that the unsightly\/noisy tarp did. \n\nBut it hasn't stopped. Since then, **he has reported me for \"clutter\"**--he took pictures of my deck on a day when I was air-drying my laundry and mopping my floors, so a lot of my stuff had been moved onto my deck (he did not mention that I moved everything inside later that day). Also, **the deck is PRIVATE**. He has no right to comment on the state of my deck if it is not interfering with the rest of the property (all laundry is hung on a rack on the deck).\n\n **He also reported me for \"having a dog\"**--when as I mentioned, **HE HAS A DOG**, and so do our neighbors.\n\nI am not so worried that the management company will penalize me for these things, because I know I haven't done anything wrong... but it is incredibly frustrating to feel judged when all I'm doing is cleaning my apartment, and just existing. I am not loud, neither is my dog, we are respectful and friendly neighbors to everyone... besides, can you blame me for wanting to not be literally looked down on from the other apartments?\n\nI am looking into the bylaws (how do I find them?) but have read the lease several times, and I am not violating any of it**. I want to know what I should be doing (if anything) to protect myself from any further harassment\/legal retribution should he continue to report me for stuff like this.**","title":"[NJ] My presence is antagonizing my neighbor - How do I protect myself from further harassment or attempts at legal retribution? (x-post from r\/advice)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553736352,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6cont\/feeling_insurance_is_under_valuing_vehicle_and\/","id":"b6cont","body":"MN\n\n**Attn: Attorneys who specialize in auto accidents and claims for damages, repairs, etc.** \n\nFirst time posting, hopefully I am doing this right and if not, let me know.\n\nMom's Van.\n\nShe got rear ended and the other driver was considered to be at fault. Thankfully the other driver was insured, but the insurance company is Progressive. \n\n​\n\nBack story of my mom and the Van:\n\nMom developed severe arthritis in her knees, requiring the replacement of her knees. To top things off, her depth perception has been decreasing slightly as she gets older. She had an older Honda Accord sedan before the van which she absolutely loved and when it came time to get a bigger, easier vehicle to get in and out of; a friend pointed out the 1st generation Honda Odyssey was built on the exact same frame as her Accord. Which means the steering and handling, length of the vehicle, etc would all be the exact same with the exception of the Odyssey being taller and easier (for mom) to get in and out of. Approximately 9 months later, my friend and I finally located a 1997 Honda Odyssey that would be the perfect candidate for restoring the mechanicals back to near new condition to ensure it will last her for the next 10-20 years. After itemizing all the work performed to the van which was well above and beyond your standard maintenance, we have a grand total of just over $9k invested (includes purchase price). \n\n​\n\nAccident and continuing battle with insurance:\n\nSome idiot of a kid rear ends my mom, effectively destroying all the time, hard work and money put into the Odyssey in the blink of an eye. The van holds a lot of sentimental value and it would be incredibly hard for us to find any single vehicle that would be as reliable to replace it AND meet all her needs. Mom was quite proud of her Van and this whole ordeal has proven too stressful for her to undertake, so I am taking the lead in attempting to find a resolution. The condition of her Van before the accident was easily in the top 5-10% of any remaining 1st generation Honda Odysseys that haven't ended up in the salvage yard. All we want is for the van to be fixed, but the kids insurance company (progressive) keeps claiming the van is only worth $2700, which is approximately $500-800 short of the cost to repair the damages. I supplied all receipts of work performed and the pencil pusher at progressive only increased their \"valuation\" of the van from $2600 to $2700. \n\n​\n\nDo we have any type of recourse through the courts? Obviously, the current offer is like a literal slap in the face and we have yet to accept the payoff from the insurance company. \n\n​\n\nOur goal is simple, we just want the Odyssey fixed, period. \n\n​","title":"Feeling insurance is under valuing vehicle and trying to total it out vs repairing it","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571187679,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dihmoh\/bank_fraud_need_helpadvice\/","id":"dihmoh","body":"Asking for a friend\u2019s who has been subjected to a bank fraud. They already reported it to the bank, but the bank wants evidence that the case was reported to the police.\n\nHere\u2019s the catch, when my friend arrive at the local police station the police officer says everyone is busy and none will help him file a report.\n\nIs my friend doing this the wrong way? Is the police station the wrong place to go?","title":"Bank fraud, need help\/advice","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1414092444,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2k4h7v\/bone_collector_in_ca_dad_in_md_wills_me_his_skull\/","id":"2k4h7v","body":"My uncle also left his skull to me in his will, and I never got it. Of course the funeral parlor thought it was a hoax and wouldn't assist me in any way. My father is very special, still living, and wants to be in my collection when he passes. How can this be accomplished without breaking into a funeral parlor with a saw?\n\n","title":"Bone collector in CA. Dad in MD wills me his skull, donates his body to science. How do I get his skull?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553479777,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b54teq\/wa_what_are_my_legal_circumstances_if_i_do_paid\/","id":"b54teq","body":"Hi, to sum up the situation: I am a graduated accounting major who volunteers at a non-profit pet adoption society in Washington state on the weekends.  Recently, they learnt that I'm an accountant by profession and they have actually been looking for someone to help them with their finances.  I'm wondering that since they want to pay me, if I do accept, what kind of position will I be in legally speaking?\n\nSince I'll be paid, does that actually make me an employee and will I still be able to volunteer with the animals?  Do I need a proper business license if I'm handling their accounting as an outside individual?  Should I just decline the money since my main priority is to simply help out and being paid makes it legally complicated?\n\nThank you for your help!","title":"[WA] What are my legal circumstances if I do paid accounting for a non-profit I otherwise volunteer at?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1552486432,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0mhak\/what_does_order_to_come_mean\/","id":"b0mhak","body":"Fighting for custody of my child, her mother did not show up today. I'm currently in Presiding for docket call and my attorney called out for the other parent but seems she did not show up. Judge called for our case again and my attorney called for the other parent again with no response; therefore my attorney stayed \"order to come\". \n\nI know I can and will ask my attorney what that term means but right now I'm a little impatient due to the subject of the matter and docket call can take up to 30 minutes.","title":"What does \"Order to come\" mean?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446620333,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rgqf6\/california_alabama_i_made_a_dumb_mistake_sending\/","id":"3rgqf6","body":"I put up a listing on craigslist of a used a bed frame i was selling. A woman (i believe it was a she since she mentioned her husband on more than one occasion) who spoke awkward English texted me and offered to buy the bed frame. \n\nHer proposal was to send me a cashier's check of $1,250. I was selling for $275. However, her plan was for me to withdraw the $250 plus an extra $30 for assisting them then I was to give the remaining amount to the movers via Moneygram who would come to pick up the bed for the couple. \n\n\nNow, painfully obvious, I withdraw my $305 and deposit it into my checking account and proceed to a CVS and send the remaining $945 I pulled from the fraudulent check. I send it and she confirms they received the money. \nAbout a week later I get a notice from my bank that the check has been \"returned unpaid\" and deducted $1,262.00 from my checking account. \n\n\nThe woman gave me the name of the person to make out the Moneygram to as well address, city, state, and zipcode. \n\nAdditionally she sent the check via USPS and the envelope has what i presume to be her name as well as another address in Alabama. \n\n\nI emailed Moneygram about this and haven't heard anything back, which is not surprising as they didn't do anything wrong. \n\nIs there anything I can do to hopefully get my money back?If i talk to police, do I get in touch with the local (CA) police or do I contact police in the city of Alabama from the address provided by the woman? \n\nAny help would be deeply appreciated. \n\n\n\nedit: thank you all. i was already fixing to see this as an expensive life lesson so i'm glad you guys were kind enough to answer and bring a little bit of closure. ","title":"(California, Alabama) I made a dumb mistake sending cash via money gram to a scammer in a different state. Is there anything I can do?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505204947,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zlozc\/california_time_in_between_breaks\/","id":"6zlozc","body":"A few days ago I was working an 8 hour shift and was given my half hour break around 2:30 in. Clocked back in at 3:00 into my shift and around 3:45 was told to take my 10 minute break. Clocked back in at 3:55 and took my final 10 minute break around 4:30. This pissed me off quite a bit, enough to the point where I was complaining about this to a coworker and a manager (whom i hate) went off on the both of us and ended up sending my coworker home for asking why she was being so irate. But I digress. \n\nIs there any law that requires AT LEAST x minutes must elapse between breaks? \n\nAlso, unrelated, one day I worked 5 hours and only received my half. Didn\u2019t make me too upset because it was only 5 hours, but is that illegal for an employer to do?","title":"[California] Time in between breaks?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508444763,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77h2wg\/mn_asked_to_switch_with_someone_since_i_wasnt\/","id":"77h2wg","body":"So, i wasn't feeling well and I texted one of my bosses asking if I could switch with someone just for that night. She replies that she found someone to replace me and that I'll be on the on call list and not to come in. I thought she meant just for that night. But I texted her today asking if I'm clear to come to do my original job and I get a call from the other boss saying that I'm just on call, I've been replaced and I have a job tonight but that doesn't mean I have a job the rest of the season. (Which is only like 3 more weekends) is this legal? If so, should I stand up for myself and talk to the owner who I know and try to get my job back? (Text convo https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/te4Sa )","title":"MN asked to switch with someone since I wasn't feeling well and got demoted to on call","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539904176,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pea4q\/huge_power_surge_blew_up_my_lap_top_while_at_work\/","id":"9pea4q","body":"I work as a graphic designer and the company I work for is pretty small and I was their first professional marketer\/designer. They didn't have any of the software I needed for the job and asked me to bring my laptop as I have the needed software.\n\nMy employer constantly asked me to produce graphics using said laptop so it's not like I was volunteering my own device.\n\nThen we had a power surge and the power went out. One of our overhead lights was flickering badly afterwards and when I went to turn my laptop back on, despite it having been plugged into a surge protector, it refused to turn on. It's been about an hour and still refuses to turn on. I even plugged it into a different outlet in case the surge protector got messed up somehow. Nothing.\n\nThat laptop wasn't just a laptop. It had ALL of my expensive software on it. Since my employer is a small, local business. I know they aren't thinking about paying for it and probably will just tell me \"too bad\". Is there any way I can hold them responsible? I mean, this sucks but if there's any way I could be compensated, I would like to know.\n\nI would appreciate any leads\/help. Thanks! (it's been a rough few months for me. Dad died at 48 suddenly, lost insurance, car cracked windshield, got scammed out of $2000... I'm really don't want to take another loss..) ","title":"Huge power surge blew up my lap top while at work. Is my employer responsible for compensating me for the device?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570055594,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dchruh\/abandoned_vehicle_apparently_still_registered_to\/","id":"dchruh","body":"So I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019m on the hook here but figure I\u2019d get your opinion.\nFor context I live in Honolulu county, Hawaii. Had my first car, an old beater, and decided to sell to a family acquaintance for next to nothing. Step dad made made the deal and gave me the cash and a \u2018Notice of Transfer\u2019. Not thinking much of it I put the notice with my other documents and there it stayed.\n\nA year or so later I receive multiple notices from a local district courthouse saying a vehicle in my name was found abandoned in a neighborhood I\u2019ve never been to. Tickets totaling around $350. Don\u2019t recognize the license plate but have a suspicion. Look through my documents and see a notice of transfer and thought for a sec, \u2018Aha! I have the transfer notice!\u2019 Looked at it more closely and realized I was supposed to take the notice in within ten days of selling to complete the transfer of title.\n\nI realize the title was never transferred and so I\u2019m responsible for the vehicle but where do I go from here? I\u2019ll pay the tickets but where is the old beater? Am I responsible for picking it up? For disposing it somewhere? The ghost of an old beach car has returned and I don\u2019t know how to get rid of it.","title":"Abandoned vehicle apparently still registered to me.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541264513,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tvps2\/pa_can_my_landlord_evict_me_if_i_ask_him_to_fix\/","id":"9tvps2","body":"I\u2019m really worried he might try to say it\u2019s my fault and evict us. I don\u2019t know the laws in Pa and would really like an answer before I decide to inform him of this problem. I\u2019m genuinely worried about my health. ","title":"[PA] Can my landlord evict me if I ask him to fix slime mold growing under the sink from a leaky pipe?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568652250,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d53aqp\/what_am_i_up_against_to_gain_custody_of_friends\/","id":"d53aqp","body":"My boyfriend, myself, and a business partner and boyfriends long time friend (I\u2019ll call him John) are in the process of buying bfs dads business. Over the weekend John got arrested for vehicular assault and his victim isn\u2019t expected to live. I won\u2019t go into detail for privacy sake but he\u2019ll see prison. \n\nJohn has full custody of his son as biological mother abandoned him. She did have some visitation. My boyfriend and I are discussing taking his son in if no family can take him. What am I looking at as far as gaining custody and what should I prepare for in court hearing and petitions?","title":"What am I up against to gain custody of friends child? (Washington State)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552821323,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b246m3\/school_banning_kid_3_weeks_for_accidentally\/","id":"b246m3","body":"**DISCLAIMER:** This happened to the son of my mother's friend, hence it might be a bit vague\/biased.\n\n\nTL;DR: Son of my mom's friend (8th grade - 2 years before highschool) has been recently expelled from school due to hitting a teacher by mistake. There are no cameras in the classroom.\n\n\nBased on what I know, son of mom's friend did accidentally hit a teacher on his head by his hand. The teacher got furious and now the student has been in home for the past few weeks. The mother wanted to see a recording of what happened but the school says that there are no cameras in the classroom. The student did recieve a 2 days suspension before due to having a fight, but I cannot elaborate on that.\n\n\nI appreciate any advice.","title":"School banning kid, 3 weeks, for accidentally hitting teacher. There are no cameras in the classroom. (UAE)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1443758551,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n6vdm\/breaking_lease_early_how_can_i_minimize_my\/","id":"3n6vdm","body":"My family is renting a house.  We just renewed the one-year lease effective July 1, after having completed a full year lease.\n\nWe didn't anticipate wanting to move when signing the new lease, but for various reasons, we are moving and buying a house in a different state.  Our reasons for leaving don't fall under any of the permissible ones listed [here](http:\/\/www.caltenantlaw.com\/breaklease.htm).  We close on our new house in mid-November, and notified the landlord via text message - and he responded - on September 29.  We indicated we would be flexible with the actual move-out date anywhere between mid-late November, and would try to work with him as much as possible.\n\nDespite having a good relationship up until this point, my landlord is understandably upset at this news.  I still hope to resolve things amicably, but just in case this results in legal action, I want to know what I can do to minimize the amount I will need to pay for the early termination.  He asserts that he will have a hard time renting the place out over the holiday season, but I don't think that will be an issue at all.  This is in San Diego, CA and the demand for rentals is already high and still rising, with average rents up [5.3% year-on-year](http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/2015\/apr\/24\/rent-apartments-cost-of-living-sunshine-tax-lease\/).  In addition, I know that he received a high response rate from his original ad that we responded to in the summer of 2014.  Furthermore, the rent is below that of comparable houses in surrounding neighborhoods, and allows pets, which is very unusual for a rental house here.\n\nWith that background, here is the relevant clause from the signed lease\n\n> *EARLY TERMINATION CLAUSE*.  Tenant may, upon 60 days' written notice to Landlord, terminate this lease provided that the Tenant pays a termination charge equal to 2 months' rent or the maximum allowable by law, whichever is less.  Termination will be effective as of the last day of the calendar month following the end of the 60 day notice period.  Termination charge will be in addition to all rent due up to the termination day.\n\nMy first questions are around this notice.  Does my text message count as written notice?  I was planning to send a written notice via certified mail tomorrow just in case, but wasn't sure whether I could could September 29 as the notice date or the one for the letter.  Is there any specific language I should include, or avoid, in this letter?\n\nSecond, [this website](http:\/\/www.caltenantlaw.com\/breaklease.htm) suggests that the \"maximum allowable by law\" referenced above may actually be zero.  Relevant excerpt below:\n\n> If after going through the above legal reasons, you have no legal reason, you need to \"break\" your lease.  It's not a legal term, but it distinguishes this situation where you have no legal right to do so from the above situations, where you lawfully terminate your lease. In this case, your primary goal is to minimize your losses. Civil Code 1951.2 says that if you leave, you owe the rent for the rest of the lease term MINUS what YOU can prove the landlord COULD HAVE AVOIDED LOSING. The landlord also has a common law duty to minimize his losses [\"mitigate damages\"].  Therefore, you minimize YOUR losses partly by trying to minimize the LANDLORD'S losses, and partly protecting your interest in the Security Deposit which the landlord intend to apply.  If you do this right, the landlord could end up owing YOU money.\n> \n> The usual situation is that you leave, but others prospective tenants have expressed an interest in renting your place, because you placed an ad in Craigs List, or whatever, and have their applications, which you forward to the landlord. The landlord thinks that he's going to have your guaranteed payment, so he's NOT going to try to minimize his losses and accept one of your proposed replacements. Instead, he's going to \"test the market,\" meaning raising the advertised rent to see if people will pay more for his units. He may say that your proposed tenants didn't have high credit scores, or wanted to pay less than you, and turn them down. However, under Section 1951.2, his plan backfires, because you're off the hook to the extent that any of your prospective replacements were willing to pay anything. A replacement with terrible credit and bad rental history who is only willing to pay $100 less than you were would be rejected by your landlord, but since the landlord could have avoided losing all but $100 per month by picking that tenant, you only owe that $100 difference per month for the remaining months of your lease.\n> \n> Your landlord may attempt to describe your replacements as subtenants or assignees, and say he doesn't approve of them. However, these are NOT subtenants of yours, nor assignees. They would have a completely different rental agreement with the landlord, and yours would be over. You don't need his permission. You only need to present them, and enjoy the deduction from your liability to the extent that these people WOULD have paid something.  Some tenants in this situation also have a friend contact the landlord posing as a prospective replacement, and the friend can then testify as your lawsuit against the landlord how he handled the situation.  This strategy is also advisable to use even if you do have a valid termination, just in case the judge doesn't agree with your termination, and you have a fall back point to protect you.\n\nIf I'm reading this correctly, I should be able to advertise the house myself (via Craigslist, NextDoor, etc.) and forward all inquiries to the landlord to establish that there is sufficient interest in renting the house.  Is that the case?  If so, should I simply try to mimic the original posting the landlord made and to which I responded, or is there some other manner in which I should write the posting?  Should I list the available date the first of the month following the 60 day termination period described above, or just not mention an available date?\n\nAny and all advice\/suggestions are appreciated; thank you.\n\n","title":"Breaking lease early - how can I minimize my damages? (California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1409355119,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eyp1l\/returned_early_to_our_subletted_apartment_in\/","id":"2eyp1l","body":"I am in business school. My roommate and I got summer internships in other cities, so we subletted our unit to a group of 3 business school students from a different program who are in town for the summer.\n\nWe rented them the apartment through the end of August. We did this officially, with all parties signing a lease swap document for the summer. Two of the three guys were out by the 24th of the month, but the third is staying until the 31st. My existing roommate, for reasons that are uninteresting, ended up back in town four days early and knowing that two of the subletters were already out of town and her bedroom was unoccupied, showed up at the apartment. The remaining subletter went ballistic. Without our knowing, he was planning on having a friend\/business colleague stay in the spare bedroom for a few days, and so that person had to find alternate accommodations. He calmed down long enough to tell my roommate she could stay there for the four days, but conveyed that he was pissed.\n\nHowever, the subletter has now asked us for some of the rent back. Rent for two bedrooms is $2600\/month. He asked for $450. Given that my roommate is using one bedroom for 4 nights, I think $168 is fair ($1300\/31)*(4)=$168. I offered the $168 and an apology and he rejected the offer.\n\nOn the one hand, I feel like I have all the leverage. He has to be out of there at the end of the month in two days. I'm not worried about him trashing it - after all, my roommate is there. I also have a $500 security deposit from the three subletters.\n\nAm I being reasonable for not compensating him any further? I understand that he's frustrated he isn't able to put up his friend (the friend is a chef and they're starting a business together, so I think he also feels like he lost face with this person). And I think letting a friend crash in the place was reasonable by him, so I get that this is inconvenient.\n\nHowever, my take is that we're all students, summer internship\/travel plans are fluid, and good faith flexibility by all parties is a reasonable expectation (for example, the only reason I let three people rent a two bedroom in the first place was because they said one of them would only be staying there on weekends, due to work - however, he got a job in the city, so all three of them were there every night, which seems like more wear and tear than a 2 bedroom is designed to take - but no big deal, I didn't make anything of it, because I was trying to be flexible and reasonable). \n\nAnd it's not like I deprived any of the three actual subletters use of the apartment. I'm not offering zero - I just don't think I should have to compensate him because he couldn't let a third party crash, or because I somehow violated his use of the apartment.\n\nWhat do we think? Am I being unreasonable? I don't want to get screwed by some crazy tenants rights laws. Who the hell knows - maybe his parents are lawyers or something. \n\ntl;dr: My roommate returned to our apartment a few days early to stay in an already vacated bedroom, and our remaining subletter is demanding compensation. Am I making reasonable offer?","title":"Returned early to our subletted apartment in Chicago. Subletter demanding compensation.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569550715,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9txec\/is_a_tow_truck_company_liable_for_damage_to_my\/","id":"d9txec","body":"As the title states my gf was parked in private parking at my parking complex (we know it was wrong but we\u2019d been getting away with it for a year). \n\nWell the other day the inevitable happened and she got towed by a local company, no big deal we just called the number and went and got it, $140 dollars cash, again no big deal. \n\nAs my gf drives away she calls me and says that it\u2019s making a loud humming sound from the rear, so she gets it checked out at a local auto shop and they say her rear clutch is burnt and could explode at anytime, this would cause 1700 dollars with warranty to fix (the car did not make this sound the night before when we were driving around) the guys at the auto shop said the tow company used a pull behind meaning it tore up the rear clutch because her car is an all wheel drive vehicle.\n\nIs the tow company liable in any way even if she was parked on private property?","title":"Is a tow truck company liable for damage to my gfs car if it was parked illegally (Indiana)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539428941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nszxj\/what_do_i_do\/","id":"9nszxj","body":"I was recently catfished, I know. In this day in age it must take someone exceptionally dim to fall for something like this, and I\u2019ll admit. I haven\u2019t been at my best lately, there has beet plenty of things on my mind, so my guard was down.\nYesterday this catfish tried blackmailing me using inappropriate pictures that were shared with them, they stated that they would share these pictures with my friends and family. They planned on completely ruining my life, and most likely still do if I couldn\u2019t give make a sizable donation to an African Charity. The original \u2018donation\u2019 would have been $3,000, which they later dropped down to $60. \nI don\u2019t have the money to be spending to pay off any sort of ransom, be it for a family member taken captive or a few explicit photos on the line. I told them late last night to share the photos and do their absolute worst, with which they threatened to somehow have me labeled as a pedophile, despite having not done anything with anyone underage. They themselves even claimed to be 22. I believe they\u2019re older, but I could be wrong.\nI write this because I am willingly letting this person \u2018expose\u2019 me to friends and family, but if at all possible I would like to help others avoid this scenario. This person most likely has multiple fake accounts, but they also used a phone number which is, (956) 752-2407. They also used the screen name(s): Hema Sanchez, Sanchez Hema, and Romuald Parfait Adj\u00e9li\u00e9bi\u00e9. If any of these people or that number contact you, report them to whoever you can. They need to be stopped. I\u2019d share pictures, but I\u2019m relatively new to Reddit and don\u2019t know how.\nI also recently learned from a friend who I had add the catfish that they are in Dublin, so can I even do anything to this person?","title":"What do I do?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1503593476,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vs5jb\/starting_a_car_washdetail_service\/","id":"6vs5jb","body":"As stated above, a buddy of mine and I want to start a car wash\/detailing service, as there isn't a legitimate hand wash service within 15+ miles of our town (Northern NJ). I just want to know if it's legal to do such a thing if we operate it on his property, and if there are any permits, permissions from the town, etc. that I will need to obtain before starting. ","title":"STARTING A CAR WASH\/DETAIL SERVICE","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571789114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlqzk9\/holding_apartment_accountable_on_right_of_entry\/","id":"dlqzk9","body":"First of all, if you are a lawyer and interested in taking our case, please reach out so we can work something out. \n\nLiving in a CT apartment complex with my partner.\n\nThe lease is your standard wording that can be printed off a google search. We\u2019re 12 months with the lease up in December. We\u2019re supposed to be given reasonable notice to enter (24 hours in CT) and common spaces are supposed to be kept clean.\n\nWe\u2019ve had multiple issues with this place. When we put in maintenance requests, it takes a week or longer to get back to us. When they do follow through with the maintenance, they don\u2019t tell us that they\u2019re entering.\n\nIn addition, last March we came home at 9pm to find a paper shoved in our door, which opens to an outdoor catwalk. It said that pest control would be there in the morning and to please clear out your kitchen to allow them to spray. I sent an email saying this was NOT acceptable notification and to please not enter. In the morning, I got verbal notification that they would not enter. They still entered the apartment. \n\nOn Oct 9, they \u201cforgot\u201d to put the notice on the door. I have a security camera in there, saw what I thought was an intruder and called the police. By the time I arrived, the police confirmed it was pest control and told me I would have to sort it out. I, again, firmly told the staff I needed notice. I emailed and called the CT Fair Housing Center hoping for a response and got nothing. I then emailed the property holdings company (in CA). I got no response from them, but the apartment manager then emailed me to say that they would \u201cnever enter without permission\u201d and \u201cwhy didn\u2019t you call me after that because I was there all day when that happened?\u201d I should note here the property holdings company has reviews as being incredibly shady.\n\nHere is our fuck up - we were supposed to give them 60 day notice to vacate. I had it in my head that it was the standard 30 day for CT.  We received a notice in the mail about the renewal rates. The letter itself is dated Oct 14. The letter says we have to give them a notice to renew for the lower rent by Oct 15, otherwise the rent will be a higher price. The postage on this, however, was dated Oct 16. We got it in the mail on Oct 21 and immediately responded.\n\nI told the property manager that due to our experience with the right of entry issues, we plan to move out at the end of our lease (Dec 7). She did not respond all day. My partner called in the afternoon to confirm that she was there and they said to come in by 6pm to talk to her.\n\nWhen we arrived, she was in a meeting with the corporate office (presumably about our issue?). We insisted that we needed to talk to her then. She came out and said her hands were tied and we would simply have to pay for an extra month at a month to month rate, and in the meantime she would get in touch with corporate to ask for an exception. (I also emailed corporate but don\u2019t except a response). We also confronted her about the unlawful entry by pest control. She insisted she put the notice in the door herself and it was the most effective way to do it. We asked her if she had any evidence that the notice was definitely put there and she said \u201cI don\u2019t need evidence, I do it every week.\u201d\n\nHere is our next fuck up: she encouraged us to sign the notice to vacate and said we\u2019d be able to move out December 22 at a prorated price for the month to month rate. We signed it just in case they can\u2019t make an exception, in which case we\u2019d be on the hook for way less than if we gave notice after everything had been resolved. Upon further inspection, the form says we\u2019re supposed to pay for the FULL month at the month to month rate, and leave on Dec 31, which contradicts what she told us. It is not dated other than our signature being that day, but it just says \u201cfull month.\u201d\n\nWe have otherwise been perfect tenants. I have multiple (unanswered) email where we have requested full 24 hour notice and asked them to please stop entering without notice. We also have complained multiple times about dog piss in the stairwell and other unsanitary conditions in the common area.\n\nI know I can\u2019t necessarily \u201cmake\u201d money off of this, but how do I mitigate the costs we\u2019ll have to pay to them?\n\nAnd, I HATE that they\u2019re doing this to us and other tenants. They are preying on poor people, but we have enough resources to do something about it. They think they are above the law. I want to make life better for the hundreds of other tenants, even after I leave. Is there a way for me to take them to court so that they\u2019ll never treat people like this again?","title":"Holding apartment accountable on right of entry, possibly break the lease early","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551855876,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axvzt5\/pennsylvania_issue_regarding_lazy_and_neglectful\/","id":"axvzt5","body":"Hey \/legaladvice I was just wondering if someone here could help me and my roommates out. We\u2019re college students in East Stroudsburg, PA and are dealing with a sketchy landlord and overall nightmare of a house.\nBefore moving in, we noticed the lease was sketchy. It was so one sided to the point where if we went to court we had to plea guilty. On anything. It\u2019s a very bad lease but it was so last minute we needed somewhere to live so we signed it and moved in thinking that since we\u2019re going to take care of the place, there\u2019s no problem.\nWe started out with moving into a mess, broken bottles, left over alcohol, and a complete mess of yard. We paid out of our own pockets to fix and clean stuff. Never was reimbursed or anything.\nNext we noticed the upstairs bathroom was completely covered in black mold to the point of visibility and smell. The attic upstairs is master locked off so we can\u2019t check up there. When we reported it the landlord said \u201cI\u2019ll get a guy over\u201d after a week he showed up. We had mold and there was apparently an attic leak? Fast forward a few weeks and  they came in and fixed the mold, put new wall and stuff in. But this was the beginning of the hell we endured.\nHe has been showing the house without our consent during our winter breaks and time away from college. I noticed in particular because my roommate came home and my bed wasn\u2019t in my room. Apparently the landlord took it upon himself to lift up my mattress, put it on my other roommates bed, crushing his headphones, in order to make it look like it was one bedroom and my room was a living room. He did this because the inspector was coming and didn\u2019t want my bedroom to look like someone was living in there (I\u2019m assuming). Was he allowed to move my stuff like that without my consent? I left a message and they never got back.\nWe then started to notice none of the fire alarms worked. The one in the attic that we don\u2019t have access to was apparently dangling off the ceiling according to a work guy. The ones downstairs either has far gone batteries or none at all. In the lease it specifically says we\u2019re not allowed to tamper with, replace, or touch the fire alarms. Is that legal to tell people? Is it also legal to not have working fire alarms in your residences?\nAnyway, we were told that we don\u2019t rent the attic, basement, or backyard so we\u2019re to not worry about them. We only rent our rooms. So we stayed out of the basement until tonight. \nThe last few days we noticed the toilet doesn\u2019t flush and the shower fills up with water and gross stuff. So we went to buy draino in order to see if it\u2019ll do the trick. It didn\u2019t...immediately the shower filled up with sewage. Thinking to previous living situations I suggested checking the basement. We went down and saw a massive puddle of water and sewage. We found the source of a PVC pipe covered in black tape that we didn\u2019t put there. It seems that maybe they\u2019ve had a problem before and that was their way of dealing with it. The smell is unbearable and I plan on calling the landlord in the morning. \nI have picture evidence of all of these events, the lease, and names of work guys who\u2019ve come to the house. We also know the inspector said to the landlords to do things to fix up the house and potential hazards and they have not. What would the next steps be? I\u2019d really appreciate a response! We\u2019re just a couple of college students trying to get by in a deal we feel is taking advantage of us, our health, and our money.","title":"Pennsylvania Issue regarding lazy and neglectful landlord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507182359,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74e1b0\/is_this_policy_even_legal_canada\/","id":"74e1b0","body":"There is a policy at my university residence, which underlines the following:\n\nhttps:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/6Q0Cw\n\n\nIs it even legal to force the cost onto people who are not at all responsible for any damages?","title":"Is this policy even legal? (Canada)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553836612,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6tbi3\/there_are_inconsistencies_within_my_workplace\/","id":"b6tbi3","body":"I am an Assistant Manager. I believe that my general manager is staying clocked in but leaving for her shift without clocking out (on purpose) and revising her timesheet the next time she comes in for work so she can get paid for the time she isn't there. I tried contacting Human Resources to no avail - they belittled me and brushed the issue off.\n\n​\n\nIs this illegal? Who can I contact? What is my next step?\n\n  \nThank you for your time.","title":"There Are Inconsistencies Within My Workplace - Illegal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540001325,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pqa20\/im_worried_my_manipulative_aunt_is_going_to_force\/","id":"9pqa20","body":"So just for some context, this is going to involve me (23m) technically unemployed for a year now, but that's a different issue. My father, (63m), my Aunt (60's F) my cousins (24F, 28f and 30f) my grandparents (89F and 93M) and my mother, (60s F)\n\nMy mom and my dad separated around 12 years, and they didn't actually finalize the divorce until almost a year ago. My mom says she refused to sign divorce papers until my dad made me the beneficiary (not sure that's the right word) and when I asked her if he changed that, she said he never proved it.(my mom also mentioned I'm not in my dad's policies, but I'm not sure what that means andI don't even know if I'm in my dad's will, how would I even check that?) According to my mom, my grandparents on my dad's side will get everything when he's gone. According to my dad, my mom basically took half his money which he earned from his whole career (except when we moved to this country and he was unemployed for years while my mom worked), and divorced him, so my dad tends to dismiss anything I have to say about my mom, which brings us to the next issue.\n\nMy aunt has spent almost her entire life moving away from my grandparents. She literally moved countries (from England to Canada) the first time, then every time she moved, she would get a house that it would be extremely hard for my grandmother to get into (My grandmother uses 2 canes and has a very hard time walking) and although we could never prove anything, we (my mother, father, and myself) always assumed my aunt was just trying to get away. My aunt married and eventually founded an extremely profitable clothing company, they eventually sold the company and got divorced, the amount they sold the company for is view-able online, so my dad thinks he knows roughly how much my aunt got out of the divorce. My 3 cousins have all gone to private schools and had a horses to play with, and generally had quite a good life style thanks to this, although it seems as if my uncle was a bit of a deadbeat dad to them, aside from providing money. My mom shares this opinion with me: My aunt has always been a very cold, not-friendly person, and if you don't have money or power you're worth nothing to her.\n\nI live with my father and I don't want to quite say he hates women, but he definitely has reason to: he's had his career ruined by a woman who went behind his back to lie about him and have him \"early retired\" and obviously there's the divorce with my mother. My aunt lives about an hour away, and my grandparents lived about 4 hours away. . My grandparents have always hung on my aunts every word, and basically done anything she ever tells them too, aside from my both my grandparents generally being extremely intelligent given their age. A very good example of this is a family (80s F and M) we were friends with (they introduced my aunt to my uncle) The man in the family, John, absolutely doted upon my aunt, gifts, money, whatever else. When he died, the woman, Anne controlled the money, and she was super nice, but she didn't give my aunt the gifts that my aunt was used to, because she was retired and needed to watch the money. My aunt didn't like not receiving gifts, so she told my grandparents that, and they cut Anne out of their lives, they stopped talking to her and everything. My mom visited Anne every week even after my parents divorce (my dad claims this is because my mom wanted part of Anne's inheritance, but i doubt it) and my mom went to Anne's funeral, where my grandparents showed, and apparently most people at the funeral tried to get my grandparents to leave, they just didn't want them there.\n\nAbout a year ago, my dad decided that my grandparents need to move closer, because if anything happens to them we're too far away. My aunt eventually found them a house 10 minutes away from where she lives (in a mansion on the waterfront, mind you) and they moved in less than 6 months ago. My aunt and my youngest cousin have been there constantly helping them get settled and so on, and my dad hates hearing about it, because as far as he can tell, my aunt did to her ex husband what my mom did to him, take the money in a divorce, so my dad's tired of hearing about how hard a worker she is, when she's done nothing for almost 20 years.\n\nA few weeks ago, my dad told me that in a meeting with my grandparents, their accountant, my aunt and my dad, the accountant proposed giving $200,000 to my 2 eldest cousins, one is married and I'm not sure about the other. The money would supposedly be to help them get settled, and it would be an advance on my Aunts inheritance. Apparently my youngest cousin nor I would get any money until we've \"settled down\" but that attitude just pisses me off. This all bothers my dad greatly (and I agree with him on this) that my grandparents should have all the money they can, until they're gone.\n\nThis is where another issue comes in. About a year ago my dad started having memory problems. He's had trouble sleeping for years, sometimes 1-3 hours a night, and according to the specialist doctor he's seeing now, the sleep could be affecting his memory. Basically his long term memory is fine, but he sometimes doesn't remember things recently. I don't know all the details, but basically he completely forgot about a different meeting he was at with my grandparents, their accountant, and my aunt, and I guess something blew up because he didn't remember. My aunt was apparently greatly offended, and my youngest cousin was telling my grandparents how she hates me.\n\nSo basically: out of all this, I have no one to talk to. My dad is very passive aggressive about stuff like this, and tends to think if he ignores the problem it will go away. But as my mom pointed out to me, he usually forgets that while he was ignoring a problem, it was my mom who was fixing it. I've talked to my mom extensively about this, and her opinion I can greatly agree with: my aunt has always been a very cold and manipulative person, if anything were to happen to my grandparents, my aunt would get a lawyer, say my dad is unfit due to his memory, then take control of my grandparents finances, and neither my dad or would get a say in where money goes, let alone have any inheritance come our way. What worries me even more though (aside from not being sure if I'm in my own dad's will) is that if something were to happen to my dad, what's stopping my aunt from getting a lawyer and pushing me out?\n\nI desperately want to feel like this isn't about money and more about what's right and wrong, but I wouldn't say to that money if it came my way. I've talked to my mom so much about this because realistically she's the person in my family that is organized, is smart with money, just generally cares more about it than my dad.\n\nTL:DR I'm worried about my manipulative aunt getting lawyers to push my dad and I out of my grandparents will by saying my dad isn't suitable to care for it (It's a terrible TL:DR)\n\nAny help is appreciated because I feel like I'm getting crushed under the pressure here!\n\nThanks!\n\n*It's also worth mentioning that my relationship with my mom and my dad is pretty great. My mom lives about 12 away but we talk 2 or 3 times a week, and I live with my dad, but we get along really well.","title":"I'm worried my manipulative aunt is going to force me and my dad out of my grandparents will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569021104,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d72p6i\/im_8_months_pregnant_and_my_husband_decided_today\/","id":"d72p6i","body":"My husband just told me he changed his mind about our marriage and this child. It technically isn\u2019t his child because we used a sperm donor because of his infertility. He was 100% on board with using a donor, but today changed his mind. Is he still responsible for my child? What do I do?","title":"I\u2019m 8 months pregnant and my husband decided today to tell me he\u2019s leaving me.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539099391,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mq757\/i_think_a_bank_may_not_have_my_student_loan\/","id":"9mq757","body":"Anyone familiar with student loans (or investment banking) should know it is common practice for a lender to sell your loan to another financial institution. I\u2019ve had this happen with multiple student loans. \n\nOne particular loan was sold from the original lender to another company about 6 months ago. I had my student loans on direct withdrawal and would periodically reconcile my account to make sure there was no funny business.\n\nWell, turns out the new company didn\u2019t have my information. When I tried to log in to their website, I was prompted to set up a new log in. I couldn\u2019t do that without the account info. Because I was on paperless billing with the old lender, I didn\u2019t have the account info readily available. I thought, I\u2019ll just wait until the new guys send me a collection invoice.   The collection notice never came. \n\nIt has now been six months. I have not paid on that loan. The company has not contacted me. I just checked my credit score (to buy a car) and there is no default notice. \n\nMy question to this community, am I legally required to seek out the new lender to repay the loan? Will there be recourse if I keep waiting for them to contact me?\n\nTL;DR - new company bought my student loan but have yet to ask me to make monthly payments in 6 months. ","title":"I think a bank may not have my student loan information.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541639828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v5idl\/hoa_insist_to_add_another_layer_of_carpet_over\/","id":"9v5idl","body":"HOA said to just add another layer of carpet over the old carpet if the permission to change it is denied. The problem is that the old carpet has been here for a long time and I\u2019ve been living in the condominium for almost 9 years now.  The only thing I\u2019m waiting for is the permission of the person living on the bottom floor, who\u2019s only here 4 days a week every night only. ","title":"HOA insist to add another layer of carpet over the old one in the condo rather than giving permission to change it into a wood flooring","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540923833,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sqlio\/apartment_complex_excessively_spraying_for_bugs\/","id":"9sqlio","body":"I live in an apartment complex in Ohio and have been having issues with the extent to which the complex sprays for bugs. \n\nOne day every month, we\u2019re instructed by the complex to move everything from kitchen and bathroom countertops, take EVERYTHING out of our kitchen and bathroom cabinets (this is the most time consuming), and move al furniture away from the walls. We are given no notice of what time the spraying will happen, but when it does we have to leave the apartment and take all pets with us. \n\nThis is all extremely inconvenient. After talking to the maintenance office, they supposedly have an infestation of cockroaches and need to get rid of them. However, I haven\u2019t seen any cockroaches. \n\nIf we don\u2019t comply, we will be fined $100. For the second noncompliance, we will be evicted. \n\nAlso, this isn\u2019t mentioned at all in the lease. My question is, are they allowed to do this? Taking everything out of our bathroom and kitchen takes time, and it\u2019s inconvenient to have to take my animals and leave at a moments notice. \n\nTL;DR: My apartment complex makes us remove everything from kitchen and bathroom and makes us leave the apartment at a moments notice once a month. If we don\u2019t, we get fined. Can they do this?","title":"Apartment complex excessively spraying for bugs","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552212503,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azeboa\/bike_stolen_from_a_secure_apartment_garage\/","id":"azeboa","body":"Hi r\/legaladvice! I live in a residential apartment building in Seattle, WA. One of the facilities my building provides is a secure bike storage rack that is located in a room that has a flimsy old numeric lock on the door (ie, you would have to know the 4-digit code to get in). The room itself is located on a corner in the parking space which is very public, so theoretically anyone, resident or not, could walk right up to the door of the bike room but would need to know the code to get *into* the room. In the past there have been several attempts to tamper with this numeric lock - something that the residents have been bugging the management about hoping that they would replace it with something more secure.\n\n​\n\nThis evening, when I went to the room to get my bike I noticed that the numeric lock was missing altogether and the door slightly ajar. More importantly, my bike (\\~$800) was also gone. I promptly notified the police (who said the incident constituted burglary since the theft happened on private property). The investigating officer said that the chances of finding a stolen bike were low (my bike is very common), but also that it is borderline stupid for the management to have the bike room located in an area that sees so many visitors every day. When I emailed the building management, they apologized for my loss, but claim that there are no security cameras in the area that would have captured any useful footage. Which brings me to my question...\n\n​\n\nDo I stand a chance at holding my building management accountable for the loss? They prominently advertise \"secure bike storage\" as one of the differentiating features but have long known that the bike room was virtually waiting to be broken into.  \n\n\nPS: I can't claim the value of the bike through my renters' insurance as the deductible ($1000) exceeds the value of the bike.","title":"Bike stolen from a secure apartment garage","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1415074548,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2l8b9q\/they_told_me_i_was_going_to_be_paid_one_amount\/","id":"2l8b9q","body":"(Charlotte, NC)\n\nI recently accepted a position at a call center. During my interview I was offered three positions based on my resume and test scores. My interviewer informed me that all three jobs were for different lengths of stay and salaries. Two of the positions were for the same pay ($14 hr), and believing I could get that rate I accepted the position I preferred. Today, my colleagues and I were told that we would not be paid $14 but instead $10. We all signed contracts on the day we were hired and many of us received official offer letters. \n\n\nI want to know if it is legal for my company to change how much we are going to be paid. I turned down the other two positions and many other people turned down outside offers. If I have to bite the bullet then I will, but I want to know if there is anything I could do. \n\n\nAnother problem I am having is that I have still not received my official offer letter. I don't know if that will have any bearing on a possible complaint I might make. ","title":"They told me I was going to be paid one amount and now I will be paid another.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570679312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfsez8\/arizona_residency_employer_in_michigan_having_my\/","id":"dfsez8","body":"I received an offer letter from a company with great pay, benefits, retirement, opportunity. However, they want me to sign a non compete clause which states that I cannot work in any capacity in my current field \u2014 behavioral health \u2014 within a 50 mile radius of my clients for two years after the conclusion of my  employment with the company. Are they able to truly enforce this if I decide to work elsewhere later in my career.  I don\u2019t want to stay out of the field that I worked really hard to get into if I take a position with them.  \n\nAny help with this would be appreciated. I can DM the exact verbiage of the contract as well for clarification.","title":"Arizona residency employer in Michigan having my file a non compete clause","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554718919,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bas37q\/flight_right_scam_was_a_minor_when_signing_a\/","id":"bas37q","body":"Hello,\nIn 2017, when I wasnt 18 yet, my flight to Portugal had a 6 hour delay.\nI eventually wrote an email to the airline regarding my refund. Unfortunately I also contacted a company called flight right, they claim to secure your money but they take 35 % of it. \nNow when I signed the declaration of Assignment, I wasn't 18 therefore a minor.\nThe contract has a specific column for minors which at the time I DID NOT sign.\n\nIts 2019 and they are demanding 166\u20ac from me in the next 14 days?\nI doubt they had anything to do with my refund.\n\nWill I be in trouble if I dont pay?","title":"Flight right Scam, was a minor when signing a Contract. Help?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541392197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uaj41\/tx_car_accident_after_dentist_visit\/","id":"9uaj41","body":"Hi there, I am mostly trying to find the right thing to do in court and some advice on finding the right attorney. \n\nI had a few fillings done at the dentist where they made 4 injections of local anesthetic to my gums. I thought I felt fine and alert as I was walking out, especially because I had felt pretty bad the previous time I had the anesthetic and I waited in the lobby before leaving, and 5 min down the road I began to space out and feel drowsy which caused me to run a red light and hit another car.  I was honestly already a bit tired that morning, but I'm sure I wasn't dozing off on the way to the appointment, and I hadn't eaten yet.\n\nI'm not sure of the extent of injuries endured by the passenger that banged her head pretty bad because she wasn't wearing a seat belt. Since the accident is technically my fault because I ran the red light, they may likely press charges against me. I was totally uninjured except for minor bruising.\n\nIs this something I can even contest? If so, what plea do you suggest? Also, what type of attorney should I specifically look for? I see some that simply state that they work on traffic cases and others that emphasize personal injury from traffic accidents.","title":"[TX] Car accident after Dentist visit","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541430692,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uearh\/sexual_harassment_at_work\/","id":"9uearh","body":"So at my job, my boss was paying several of my coworkers to have sex or do sexual things with him. I\u2019m in sales. He would pay them in deals, cash, and other ways. One individual said no, and they were fired for that. I left the job because of all this and went to HR, but they are not doing anything about it. The manager also black listed me by calling all local companies and telling them not to hire me. Is this something I should get the police involved in? I want to talk to these other coworkers and see how many people are\/were actually involved. Any suggestions? ","title":"Sexual harassment at work","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446489659,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r8r57\/how_important_is_it_to_have_an_uninterrupted\/","id":"3r8r57","body":"I live in Orlando. My lease will be up at the end of November.\n\nI will then be moving in with my girlfriend until her lease is up at the end of February.\n\nAt that point, we will move into an altogether new apartment (hers is tiny).\n\nDuring that 3-month span when I'm living in her apartment, should I get onto her lease, or simply stay \"off the grid\"?\n\nWhat I want to avoid is applying for new apartments in February and being declined since I can't officially\/legally account for my living situation for the past 3 months.\n\nI'm probably being overly cautious; any perspective or advice would be greatly appreciated.","title":"How important is it to have an uninterrupted rental history?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570465251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/delpym\/im_a_senior_and_this_is_my_final_year_im_really\/","id":"delpym","body":"I have taken AP Mechanics, SAT, and will eventually take AP Chemistry, Statistics, and AP Electricity and magnetism. I need help, possible websites or article to read or any form of advice on what to do, I have about 9 or more months until I have to have a choice. I tried to research but i\u2019m probably using the wrong keywords for what I need.","title":"I\u2019m a SENIOR and this is my final year, I\u2019m really lost and worried because I\u2019ll have to eventually graduate and attend college yet I still have no idea what I want to study and work for a full time","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1409770635,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fdqiw\/dispute_with_landlord_over_parking_saint_paul_mn\/","id":"2fdqiw","body":"I lease the upper level of a duplex that is within the [State Fair Parking District](http:\/\/www.stpaul.gov\/index.aspx?NID=1853). I have a fairly standard lease that includes the not-uncommon phrase \"RENTER agrees to occupy said premises as a dwelling for the undersigned persons only as a private residence, and for no other purposes or business.\" But, according to the government site I linked to: \"The purpose of the overlay parking district is to allow parking in residential yards within this area during the 2014 Minnesota State Fair.\" I took this to mean that parking on the lawn would be an acceptable use of the private residence for the duration of the fair. It's also well established in this neighbourhood that parking on the lawn does not need to be free, and that each residence is able to set their own prices. It's also been established by letters from the MN Department of Revenue that any money earned in this way is subject to sales tax.\n\nThe dispute is occurring because the landlord is now demanding that I give him half of what was earned, despite no prior agreement, arrangement, or contract stating that anything earned would be shared with him. I even have in writing from him (after the fact) that \"We offer a 50\/50 split.\" - but is it even his to offer? What claim does he have to control this particular action in the yard during my period of residency?","title":"Dispute with landlord over parking (Saint Paul, MN)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446842702,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rt4mv\/got_married_in_canada_did_not_change_last_name\/","id":"3rt4mv","body":"As the question states I got married almost one year and ten months ago. We were married in canada as that is where I lived. My husband lives in texas and I have just recently acquired a greencard. I wish to legally change my last name to that of my husbands but I am having a hard time finding the information i need online. Would I have to go through the court system for adult name changes in Texas or would I be able to use my Canadian marriage certificate to change my last name on my documents.\n\nFrom what I have read residents of texas changing their last names due to marriage are able to do so using their marriage license. The other solution I have found is going through the court system but that seems more generic for any name change. \n\nI hope I am making sense. Any help would be great. ","title":"Got married in Canada, did not change last name during that time. Recently immigrated to (TX) wish to change last name","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505348925,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zyshx\/help_with_custody_teen_perspective\/","id":"6zyshx","body":"I'm 14 and I live in Minnesota, My mom and dad are divorced and my dad really mistreats me but all of my stuff is through through him buying it. I want my mom to have full custody but I'm afraid of losing basically all I have because I'm not sure how property works and if I won't be able to take it with me cause he owns it. Does anybody know if I would get to keep some of my stuff or would I have to give it all up to live with my mom?","title":"Help with custody (teen perspective)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1505275393,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zs8vo\/lied_by_roommates_saying_it_was_ok_to_sublease\/","id":"6zs8vo","body":"Irvine, CA. So we just moved into a house through a friend and it is our first month living here. We have lived here a total of two weeks while the others, over a year. We were told through our housemates that subletting was allowed and he collected our $1000 security deposit. 2 weeks into moving here we receive notice  that we have 45 days to leave the house because we the housemates were not allowed to sublease the house. The house has a history of bad relationships with the neighbors and told the homeowner. The lease says that the security deposit will be used for any unpaid rent due to breaking the lease.\n\n1. Can the owners give us notice to leave for breaking the lease without proof? How much proof is necessary for them to say that we were breaking the lease?\n2. Can the housemates who lied to us be liable for the $1000 security deposit?\n\nI've been on here for awhile and hope y'all can help. We just got out of college and $1000 is a lot of money when you're just starting out. Thanks!","title":"Lied by roommates saying it was ok to sublease house. 2 weeks later, receives 45 day notice to vacate the house. What do we do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569598455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da23ob\/apartment_and_mail_question\/","id":"da23ob","body":"A few months ago I moved out of my apartment and completed their checklist which included providing a forwarding address for mail. A few weeks ago I ordered a hockey jersey worth about $200. I accidentally sent it to my old apartment. Once I realized my mistake it was already in transit and I let the leasing office know it would be coming, and asked them to grab it for me so it wouldn\u2019t get stolen. They assured me it happened all the time and they would gladly get it and hold it until I was able to come get it. They notify me when it shows up, and I say it will be a few days before I can come get it because I\u2019m living in a different state and I\u2019ll be coming home to visit for a few days. They tell me fine and that they will keep it locked in a secure place that only employees are able to enter that also has cameras. I called to let them know I\u2019d be coming to get it and the girl tells me there\u2019s a problem. It\u2019s gone missing over the weekend. I ask to speak to a manager so we can get it worked out. She says they have footage of the girl taking it into the room, and even describes the package for me. She said she would review more footage and let me know. But before we get off the phone she makes sure to let me know that none of her staff would steal it because nobody is a hockey fan and suggests that I call FedEx and report it as not delivered. She said,\u201dReally we can\u2019t be held responsible because holding mail for people isn\u2019t something we normally do so you may be out of luck.\u201d I haven\u2019t heard back from her since. It seems to me that someone on her staff stole it, and that she\u2019s trying to keep that from blowing up. Not only that but she suggested I commit a felony. This place has been shady and uncooperative about every problem I had with them, from simple repairs to them losing my rent to things that would get any other place condemned (mold, waterlogged and rotten floor joists, rusty disgusting pipes that leak, no heat in the winter for days even after calling the emergency line). My question is, what legal recourse do I have to get my jersey back or to get the money back that I paid for it. If I can\u2019t get one of those two I would say my next step would be to call the police and have them review the tapes because someone obviously stole it. Would this be considered a case of mail theft since the unopened mail was left under their watch? Or am I really just out of luck because I left it under their watch. Thanks in  advance","title":"Apartment and mail question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568772273,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5r0pl\/advice_on_situation\/","id":"d5r0pl","body":"I signed a lease for 12 months starting November 1 this year thru October 31, 3020. Just found out the job offer I thought was declined I got accepted for over 100 miles away in another state and I accepted it. How do I approach this? The landlord already cashed my security deposit I can see on my end. Should I email them ASAP that I will have to break the lease bc of accepting job far away? I live in Wisconsin if that helps. Will I be able to break the lease contingent on them finding a new renter and if they cannot am I on the hook? Will I get my security deposit back?","title":"Advice on situation","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1410309102,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fykrx\/north_carolina_exfriendwedding_photographer\/","id":"2fykrx","body":"OK, so I am going to attempt to be as succinct and clear as possible, just bear with me a moment...\n\nMy wife and I have a \"couple friend\" who we will call Jane and Dick.  I used to work with Jane, and knew her before I met my wife, then her and my wife became good friends.\n\nWe were all a part of a group of four couples (8 people) who would hang out together.  One person from each couple worked at the same place (a hotel, I was one who worked there.)\n\nMy wife and I got married, and Dick and Jane were trying to break out into wedding photography, so they photographed our wedding.  **No contract was signed, it was all verbal agreement.**  Jane agreed to do our wedding for free in exchange for using our photos on her website and marketing media.  We paid them $300 because they also agreed to go on our honeymoon cruise with us to take photos (they paid their own way there and had their own room.).  After the wedding we were told that Dick took a video on his phone.\n\nFast forward three months: none of the \"couples group\" work at the hotel anymore, and one of them is actually the supervisor of Jane at a different company.  My wife and the supervisor friend hung out a lot, always inviting Jane.  Jane would almost always reply \"sorry, we just don't have the money for that right now.\"  Fine.  Cool.  Continue on!  One day, my wife got a pedicure with Supervisor and did not invite Jane.  Jane saw it on Facebook and asked my wife why she didn't get an invite, to which my wife responded \"I didn't think you had the money, so we didn't want to invite you just for you to not be able to.\"  This made Jane really mad, but my wife apologized three different times for it, stating that it wasn't meant to be malicious and was just a misunderstanding.  My wife refuses to talk about it any longer but Jane will not let it go.\n\nThen something else happens: Jane gets fired.  The Supervisor friend doesn't know about it till the day of, and was required to be in the office when it happened.  Now Jane thinks that the Supervisor friend got her fired.  Jane complains and accuses the company of sexual harassment so much that the HR department has to interview everyone in the department and send Jane a Cease and Desist.\n\nI had asked Dick for the video, and he said he would get it to me within a few days.  A few days turned in to two weeks, so I started texting him saying \"video?\" or \"got that video man?\" etc.  Every other day I would text him.  He does not answer for three weeks, but his wife chooses to explode on me.  She told me the video is on a hard drive that they can't get to because they lost the cord, but it is at the bottom of their priority list and they will get it to me later.  I apologize and tell them I would be happy to buy them the cord if it means I get the video.  To which Jane responds with a rant about how all her friends think she is poor and fire her from her job.\n\nMy wife tried to get a copy of the photos (she thought I didn't save them, for some weird reason) and was told by Jane that it would cost us $400 for the disk, even after we agreed on a price of FREE in exchange for use.\n\nIs there anything we can do to get our video from her and stop her from using our pictures?  Every time we contact her she becomes irate and refuses to help us unless we pay her.  \n\n**Please help, we just want our wedding video and our pictures taken down**","title":"[North Carolina] Ex-friend\/wedding photographer withholding wedding video","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555125124,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcmbpl\/canada_on_potential_landlord_wants_me_to_pay\/","id":"bcmbpl","body":"Im attempting to move into my first apartment and during my online hunt came across an ad for a basement apartment that fits my criteria and budget really well with the exception of the lease start date of May 2nd, where I need an apartment for August as it conflicts with other things (I figured I'd get a headstart looking for places just incase). I messaged the landlord and he seemed really enthusiastic to potentially having me as a Tennant.\n\n However, while he did surprisingly seem happy enough to change the lease start date to August, he baisicly asked me if I'd be able to pay him a bit of extra rent to make up for the money he'd be loosing from the change of date.\n\nHe didn't specify wether or not it would be a one-off payment, or if the rent I'd be paying will be fixed to whatever new amount he might suggest or anything like that. It's baisicly up in the air and it just seems a bit strange to me. I'm not sure if that's a red flag or not since this is all very new to me. Any advice? Thanks!","title":"[CANADA, ON] Potential Landlord wants me to pay extra rent to make up for changing lease start date.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408722291,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2eaasi\/boyfriend_may_have_incorrectly_reported_income\/","id":"2eaasi","body":"So as my title states, my live-in boyfriend seems to have reported incorrectly the income from his part time job approximately 5 years ago and he received partial unemployment benefits based on this. He had just been laid off from his main source of income and was working a small part time job, which is the reason he filed for partial unemployment. There were a total of about 70 weekly partial unemployment checks.\n\nSo now we get a letter (from the Department of Labor) in the mail asking him to sign a document confirming the dates he started working at the part time job he held at the time. It also had an itemized list of all the income he reported versus the record of the income that he earned (according to the business for which he worked part time). The letter comes to the conclusion that he owes ~$4000 USD and lists the possible criminal implications of the situation, including that fines could amount to 20% of the total that he owes, or a small fee per instance that the overpayment occurred, or even possible criminal persecutions (jail time?).\n\nWe sent the letter back confirming the dates he worked at his part time job, now we are waiting to hear back in regards to the \"investigation\". What would be our next steps? Is this something you need to see a lawyer for? Will it just be that they send us a bill for what is owed and we pay and that is that? My boyfriend has approximately 6k in stocks that he could sell if necessary in order to pay what is owed and we each have a small savings if we need to scrape together any more. Are we screwed? Affording a lawyer and paying fines as well would be pretty much impossible.\n\nBackground info: This is in New Jersey. Also, he did not save his pay stubs from this time period so we do not have our own records of the hours he worked.\n\nPlease let me know if there is any pertinent information I'm not providing in the post.\n\nEDIT: Forgot to note - the letter was from the Department of Labor NJ","title":"Boyfriend may have incorrectly reported income and received partial unemployment x\/posted from personalfinance","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551470349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aw90gs\/my_girlfriends_employers_are_threatening_to\/","id":"aw90gs","body":"Firstly let me state this is taking place in the U.K.\n\nMy girlfriend started working in her current job in October, she's a paraplanner, which means she does the background work for a financial advisor, gives the advisor her findings, then the advisor will meet with clients and give them advice.\n\nIt quickly became apparent that the way this practice worked wasn't for her and they were failing to provide her any training on the job. She was being criticised daily for the work she was doing, without being given any real guidance on how to improve. Understandably she wasn't enjoying the job, so decided to look elsewhere.\n\nShe had three interviews for a different company and was offered the job, better pay, much more and faster career progression, it was a no brainer and she accepted. She waited until she had received her offer letter and contract from the new company, and then handed in her notice as her current job on the Monday just gone.\n\nNow, her current contract states she must give 3 months notice, and her new job will start on June 1st, hence her handing it in this week. About an hour after she handed her notice in, she was taken off all her current cases and given purely admin work. She wasn't happy about this but I told her to suck it up, she's only been working there for 5 months so understandably her employer isn't happy about her giving her notice.\nOn Tuesday her boss approached her and asked if she would consider leaving early, possibly at the end of March, so two months before she'd be due to start her new job. She explained that due to her contract stating she had to give 3 months notice, she'd arranged with her new employer to start on June 1st, so would not be taking them up on their offer to end her employment early.\nToday she was taking into a meeting room with her boss, where she was told that if she didn't voluntarily leave by March 17th, they will take the disciplinary route and dismiss her this way. She has been in no trouble since she started the job, had had no verbal disciplinary and no written disciplinary.\n\nNow obviously she hasn't been at this job very long so has little\/no employee rights, but surely her employer can't threaten her with dismissal via a disciplinary route when she's done nothing wrong but hand her notice in? It was their choice to include a 3 month notice period, if they didn't want to pay for a 3 month notice period then that's their problem.\n\nAny advice on what she can do in this situation would be very much appreciated, she's obviously going to speak to an employment solicitor\/citizens advice but I just wondered if anyone had dealt with anything similar as she's understandably very stressed at the moment. Thanks! \ud83d\ude0a","title":"My girlfriend's employers are threatening to dismiss her for disciplinary reasons even though she's done nothing wrong.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507136861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/749k2u\/seattle_wa_does_this_wording_in_a_lease_mean_i\/","id":"749k2u","body":"I'm signing a lease at a new place and, after going over the conditions under which they will enter the unit, it says \"Refusal to allow us or our agents or vendors to enter the unit after proper notice, if required, shall be a material violation of this agreement.\"\n\nThe Seattle Landlord-Tenants rights packet I got from my current apartment building says \"The landlord still must get the tenant\u2019s permission to enter, even if the required advance notice has been given\" and that \"tenants shall not unreasonably refuse the landlord access to repair, improve, or service the dwelling\" (for which it cites RCW 59.18.150).\n\nThat made me wonder what Washington\/Seattle law considers a \"reasonable\" reason to refuse entry and whether I'm waiving my right to \"reasonably\" refuse entry by signing this new lease.\n\nWhat are cases in which one can refuse access without being unreasonable?  Let's say a landlord gives me 2 days notice they're going to enter to do some kind of inspection or repair, but I'm sick in bed and there's kleenex everywhere and I don't want to clean or deal with it that day. Can I refuse and reschedule?\n\nBy signing the new lease with the language above, does that mean if I refuse and reschedule, as in the case above, I'm in violation of my lease?  What are the consequence of a \"material violation of this agreement\"?\n\nThanks! Just curious what it all means.","title":"[Seattle, WA] Does this wording in a lease mean I cannot refuse entry to my landlord?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554560475,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba4reg\/need_help_regarding_an_ongoing_disputes_between\/","id":"ba4reg","body":"I am in dire need of advice regarding the blatant gross negligence of my employers and their attempts at silencing me. \n\nI'm employed full time (hotel night auditor) and a college student finishing my junior year. Next month I'll have worked for my current employer 2 years. I've always valued hard work and during the MAJORITY of my time I've ate some serious shit for these people. I have been NOTHING but 100% compliant (\"yes, sir\" ; \"yes, ma'am\") at all times. Even when I'm sure that I wasn't in the wrong, I still sucked up my pride countless times. \n\nAnyway, my employer has called a mandatory meeting today at 3:30PM to discuss issues around the office. \"Gossiping\" as they described it and issues addressing particular employees (myself) and other disputes. According to the GM, who I spoke with this morning, my performance has \"been lacking lately\" and they are disappointed in what they have heard others claiming I have said. *Others claiming what I said*. Essentially she tried giving me a written warning over something entirely unverifiable which I made clear is ridiculous since I have gone to neither her nor the owner (her husband) with any issues. She wasn't thrilled when I said what others have said is irrelevant. \n\nAnyhow, I said I wanted to meet with the owner regarding my \"performance\" and that I would be happy to meet at his convenience today. I explained to my GM that, other than the \"gossip\" the other thing which I was being accused of (using the printer for personal use) is entirely unverifiable given that any documents related to my studies are from over a month ago and the printer paper in my bag (which I bring from home for note taking) is my own. Seriously, over paper. \n\nGranted, i was reprimanded for printing some documents in the past, but since I've just opted to email myself said documents and print them at school. Which I showed my GM and she didn't seem thrilled that it was obvious I wasn't abusing their precious paper. \n\nAfterwards my GM started asking me why the quality of my work has been \"questionable \"lately\", to which I nodded and apologized. WHY has my work been questionable? Let's see;\n\n1. One month ago I got a terrible staph infection which resulted in 60% of my body being covered in blisters. Yeah, everything but my junk basically. I had a doctors note from the ER and Urgent Care and had to miss 2 weeks of work (and class) as a result. \n\n2. A couple weeks ago I was assaulted by a guest while responding to a noise complaint. Yeah, 6ft black dude (I'm probably 5'10\" myself) and I met at the elevator door as it opened and I could tell from the yelling I heard as it opened that it was him. Told him he needed to keep the noise down, dude punches me in the face. I call the police, contact my employer....and nothing. I went to the hearing for the assailant last week, but no accident report was filed regarding the assault. Neither my GM nor employer have asked about it either. Pretending like it never happened.\n\n3. I've had my belongings stolen (Macbook Pro 2012, at least $100 from the drawer when we were robbed (yes I covered it from my own pocket), $40 sunglasses) and management has never provided me with any video footage of the evening in question regarding my laptop. \n\n4. Insanely abusive \"ex-manager\" (they rehired her, but not as management?) who verbally abuses myself and other employees regularly and quite obviously takes pleasure in doing so given her propensity for it. I have audio recording of her doing this to myself, making baseless accusations and identifying herself as my manager (which she isn't), and contact info from GUESTS who have witnessed this while staying at the hotel.  \n\nSo, understandably I feel as though management is trying to liquidate me before I make it clear what they failed to do regarding these, and other situations. It's a shame because I feel I worked my ass off for people who have taken advantage of my labor and disregard for my own well-being. And this doesn't include the gentleman who came to threaten me at work after I got him arrested for breaking into vehicles in our parking lot. \n\nWhat do you think I should do? I have this meeting in less than 6 hours and I'd appreciate all of the advice I can get. Also, it's worth noting that it was only called an hour ago after I told my GM that calling me her \"son\" made me feel uncomfortable. I have audio of her saying this, myself saying that I was uncomfortable, and then my repeated request for her to stop touching me. \n\nYeah, her son that got punched in the face and worked the remainder of an 8 hour shift...which was still 7 1\/2 hours. \n\nHelp. What are my rights regarding the \"gross negligence\" of my employer's indifference toward my stolen property, my physical injuries and the constant abuse from this \"ex-manager\"?  ","title":"Need help regarding an ongoing disputes between my employer and myself. Please. I might lose my job.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539115590,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9msjv0\/lawyer_dodging_meeting_with_me\/","id":"9msjv0","body":"Hi, everyone. I will TL DR at the bottom of the post. I am on mobile so I apologize for formatting. I posted here a couple weeks ago about having hired a lawyer for a child visitation case here in Illinois.\n\nWe had already made a previous agreement on visitation back in 2010, that needed updated as it didn't work with my son's school and activities. The lawyer had initially told me it would be a cut and dry case. So far we have gotten absolutely nothing accomplished in multiple court dates going back to mid 2017.\n\nHis office never returns my emails. They mailed me documents stating that they needed to set up a meeting with me around 3 months ago, then ignored my calls\/emails about said meeting.\n\nOur last court date was in July, but they called me the morning of court and said that court got rescheduled again for a date in September. They never told me what the date was despite multiple attempts by me to contact them.\n\nI went to their office last week (Which they moved to the other side of the city without so much as a heads up) and was scheduled for a phone conference with my attorney today (Oct 9) at 11am. It is now 3 o'clock and haven't received a phone call. \n\nWhen I called them to check what was up, I was told that the attorney was currently \"in a meeting\" and would call me back right after. I made this call around noon today, since it was already an hour past my scheduled conference time. \n\nI am just wondering what I do? I paid a $1500 retainder, and cannot afford to hire another lawyer. Which I would assume I would need to do since, as I said, literally nothing has happened in at least half a dozen court dates. On top of that, the relationship between my son's mother is not a good one and she would fight me tooth and nail on everything.\n\nMy last thread got responses that said to get my case file, and hire another attorney. But like I said, that isn't an option monetarily for me since I am a full time college student with a 4 kids to take care of. Plus, I can't get the time of day from the lawyer to even attain the file.\n\nAny advice is GREATLY appreciated.\n\nTL:DR being ghosted by my attorney and not alerted when my court dates are. Can't afford to hire another lawyer because of college and a family.","title":"Lawyer dodging meeting with me","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540867831,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sk1ko\/moved_into_a_private_condo_rental_a_month_ago_the\/","id":"9sk1ko","body":"After a horrible experience at our previous apartment, we found an amazing private rental condo and moved in on 9\/29\/18. Today I received an e-mail notice from our landlord stating that they need to terminate our lease, as they did not realize that they are not in compliance with HOA. \n\n​\n\n**E-mail notice from landlord:**\n\n\"Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, we regretfully inform you that we must cancel our lease agreement with you.\u00a0 As owners of the condo unit, we were not aware that we needed clearance from the condo association for permission to rent out our own unit. There is apparently a waiting list for tenants wishing to lease so the association is asking that we terminate our agreement with you.\u00a0 As per *our*\u00a0agreement, we will give you a maximum of sixty (60) days to vacate the unit.\u00a0 Also, as per our agreement, we will reimburse you $2XXX for this early termination. Please use this email as your notice to end our lease agreement.\u00a0 You will need to vacate the premises by December 28, 2018.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nAn alternative solution, should you wish to stay in the condo, you have the first right to make us an offer to\u00a0 purchase the condo unit.\u00a0 We plan to list the unit at $2XX,XXX.\u00a0 New hardwood floors were placed a few months ago prior to you moving in as well as the entire condo was repainted.\"\n\n​\n\n**Included Reason from HOA, provided by landlord:**\n\n\\[Condo Complex Name Here\\] is currently in closed leasing status and our records show that your unit is not on the approved list for open leasing status. In addition, there is a waiting list to rent Units. As such, you have been found to be in violation of the governing documents.\\]\n\n​\n\nMy S\/O and I are completely distraught. (Trust me its been quite the year from hell, and for the first time, we both have felt grounded & at peace at our new place) ... at least we still have boxes and tons of bubble wrap... Gotta keep it moving... literally.\n\n​\n\n**Any advice on how we should proceed would greatly be appreciated. Here are some questions & general notes.** \n\n* Should I reply to our landlord with a simple \"I have received your e-mail, I will provide a response as soon as I can.\" ? (I don't want to reply with anything that would affect me legally, but I would like to acknowledge the message.)\n* I spent quite a bit just to get out of our previous place & have paid a security deposit & last months rent so far at the new place, which our landlord stated above that he would reimburse per the lease agreement... but what about first months rent? Should I even allow this check to process for Nov 1st? -- What if this was all a scam?\n* Should I try to reach out to HOA on my own to try and explain our situation? We literally just got to the last bit of boxes to unpack. Do you think there's a chance they would allow us to stay here?\n* \\^\\^ That being said - there's a bit of a language barrier to factor in-- I don't mean this in an offensive way at all, but english is not our Landlord's first language, and I fear that our scenario may not be accepted by the HOA if we did not try to explain it ourselves.\n* Is this something that I should pursue in small claims court? The cost of moving from our old place, into this place, only to move to another place? \n* Are there any options that I could present to potentially stay here? Maybe a lease-to-own option loophole?\n\n**TLDR: Moved into a private condo rental a month ago & the landlord is terminating our lease because he did not realize that he was not allowed to rent per HOA's requirements. What should I do?**","title":"Moved into a private condo rental a month ago & the landlord is terminating our lease because he did not realize that he was not allowed to rent per HOA's guidelines. What should I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570965980,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dh9dml\/texas_employer_not_paying_for_training\/","id":"dh9dml","body":"I started working at a small family owned ice cream shop. My boss called me on September 25th to tell me that a meeting was going to be held on the 26th at 5pm. I went in for about 4 and a half hours. I started training on October 1st and worked 4 hours and 34 minutes. I worked for three more days that week before quitting. On This Friday, October 11th, my former employer gave me a check for the three days that I worked. I asked if the meeting and training were paid. She said no.\n\nIs she legally not required to pay me for my time? What steps should I prepare to take in the case that she refuses to pay me for the meeting and training?","title":"(Texas) Employer not paying for training","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571150229,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di8sr7\/custody_jurisdiction_question_scde\/","id":"di8sr7","body":"Hello! My daughter and I flew my abusive husband in DE in January 2018. He filed for custody in Feb 2018 and we went to court in DE to determine custody, and we settled on a visitation schedule. The Order references the protective order that was in place and has since expired. My attorney at the time advised me to take the deal (8 days at the beginning of the month with dad, rest of the time with me) telling me that since I had already lived in SC for 6 months we would be about to modify in SC. Other lawyers I had spoken to had advised me of the same thing. \n\nNow my daughter is nearing school age, and of course this arrangement isn\u2019t going to work any more. My local attorney started writing the filing  and now she is saying that because of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction act I will be unable to modify here because the original order was made in DE. She said she is trying to find a way to let the judge hear the case here but is unsure as of now if that is possible? Is this a correct reading? That seems crazy to me! My daughter goes to preschool, her doctors, dentists, friends, counselors, dog, sister, babysitters are all here! Does anyone know of any case law that would justify our case being moved? Thank you in advance!","title":"Custody Jurisdiction Question SC\/DE","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553117180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3hpbb\/fired_for_missing_shift_with_less_than_7_days\/","id":"b3hpbb","body":"Hey everybody, lurker here.\n\nSo I work(ed) at a Pizzicato (locally owned franchise based in Portland, Oregon) up until my general manager fired me today. He is a cool guy, but I dont think he really know how to his job. Aside from smaller things like not posting any of the required workplace posters (the one that tell us about our rights as employees and all that), he likes to change the schedule to fit his needs with no regard for his employees. \n\nCut to last week when I get scheduled from a 5pm-9pm shift on Sunday. Ok no worries, that's my regular schedule. Wake up Sunday morning (March 17) to missed calls from coworkers saying I'm on the schedule. I double check my schedule to find out, no, I'm not. Coworker sends me pic of schedule with me notes as working from 9-3 that morning. \n\nOk so I get up and get to work an hour and a half late. At work I'm talking it over with my coworkers (GM doesn't work Sundays), and I come to find my friend has a time stamped picture from Tuesday the 13th which denotes me as scheduled to work the shift I was expecting to work. \n\nNow in most US states, employers default to federal laws when concerning things like advance notice of schedule. However, I live in Oregon. My state passed a bill last year that mandates a 7 day advance notice of schedule for every employer of at least 500 employees. At least, that is my understanding of it. \n\nHelp me out friends - can he fire me? What actions can I take? I have not gone over his head about this - should I, and with what evidence?\n\nIdeally I'd like to have my job back, but I suppose legal recourse would be my second best option. \nThanks for your times folks, all help is appreciated. ","title":"Fired for Missing Shift with less than 7 days notice of changed schedule","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571575567,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkj5pt\/could_a_bill_be_passed_requiring_elders_to_retake\/","id":"dkj5pt","body":"For my AP GOV class, we're supposed to propose a bill and prove its legality. My proposed bill is to make it so starting at the age of 65, all people a part of this population are required to renew their driver's license and retake a driver's test with an instructor once every 5 years (Starting at 65). The purpose is to ensure elderly drivers are capable of doing so, to keep them and others safe on the road. All I'm wondering is, is it legal? I can't think of anything that would prohibit this, but I also have an 83 in the class so I'm not certain.","title":"Could a bill be passed requiring elders to retake a driver's test every 5 years?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542241053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x5v3w\/tn_stuck_in_the_middle_of_a_custody_dispute\/","id":"9x5v3w","body":"I am posting for my friend (we shall call Margo) who had no desire to create a Reddit account.\n\nShe has a friend (now called Lilly) that has a toddler aged son. Two days ago, Lilly reached out to Margo and stated she was going to be stopping by to give her a box of things and a forwarding address because she was taking the toddler out of state to stay with family. Lilly wanted Margo to pick up a prescription and mail it to her.\n\nLilly has been living with her ex and father of their toddler. The relationship has appeared to be abusive on both ends, with each one claiming to file different kinds of paperwork against the other. Margo is unsure of what has actually been filed and how much is true because both sides are not exactly stable people. \n\nNow that Lilly has left the state, the father is continuously messaging Margo and also has family members calling her to find out where Lilly and the toddler are. Supposedly a police report has been filed and the father has contacted an attorney. Margo's questions is, if she continues ignoring their calls (as she doesn't want to be involved and Lilly surprised Margo by stopping by Margo's job on her way out of state) can she get in trouble legally? Of course, if police officers contacted her she would tell them any info she has. But does not notifying the police of what was likely kidnapping make her some kind of accessory?","title":"[TN] Stuck in the middle of a custody dispute","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570583338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df9ofv\/trouble_with_not_being_paid_and_hours_disappearing\/","id":"df9ofv","body":"I am in Oklahoma and I recently started a new job, after a very delayed hiring process and losing my previous job I was left struggling financially but my new job was starting so I thought it would be alright. \n\nWell, I have orientation scheduled on the 14th of September and I attend it and it is five hours and there is no clocking in just checking in through their new hire employees. Then the next day I show up for my first shift and watch a safety video and before I can start my training I am told that in their system it is showing me as terminated and I will have to be asked to leave and call their support line to get this fixed before I come back. I go through this process and I get a call from HR that I will start the following week and will be given back pay for the week that I missed due to the error.\n\nI begin working the next week and work through all my shifts, no problems, the 40 hours of back pay and 5 hours of orientation are showing as being credited to my account. The next week I come in to start my first shift and the same issue with me being shown as terminated in the system? is coming up and they tell me I will have to go home and I will most likely receive back pay for this day as well. A couple of days and HR calls me telling me they fixed the problem but I'll have to start the next week but not to worry because I will also be receiving back pay for this second week that I missed to the same error.\n\n   I was given a employee account and I login to check if the hours were correctly reflecting how much I would receive on my pay day which is the 4th of October. I see that the 40 hours of back pay that was on my previous account as well as the 5 hours of orientation. So I am missing 45 hours for my current check, I contact my HR immediately and he puts in a ticket and this is on Thursday, the third of October and he tells me that most likely they won't be able to get to it until Monday. Payday rolls around and I am not paid any hours at all, I contact the support and they give me the same stuff about Monday.\n\nMonday comes and I call the support and they get more information from me and send it to the Payroll team and they attempt to get verification from HR about the hours. The next day, today the 8th of October I call again and there has been no progress and they give me the same business. I was supposed to continue working this week but I cannot due to  being locked out of my car for financial reasons, I have an interlock device and I did not have the funds to get it calibrated which locked out my car and now I cannot drive and will need to tow it to get that done. They told me when they get it fixed the next dates that I will be able to get paid the back pay will be the 10th and 12th.\n\nI don't know what to do about this situation and it has only gotten worse and put me further into a hole and I'm just asking for a little guidance, I appreciate you for reading this.","title":"Trouble with not being paid and hours disappearing","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552364815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b03h9a\/landlady_accuses_me_of_smoking_drugs_in_her_unit\/","id":"b03h9a","body":"Hello everyone! \n\nA little background, my landlady asks 20hrs in advance if she can check on some appliances and things at the condo, I am renting from her (I live there alone and for about the past 7months). She shows up with her kids and mom who are loud and going through my things. Landlady determines she can't fix anything, and they leave, on a good note I might add with lots of thank yous and what not.\n\nAbout week later I get an email sent to me and my grandmother (who is the co-signer) about there being a \u201cstrong drug smell\u201d and how I\u2019m staining her new carpet and freshly painted walls with this \u201cstrong odor\u201d also that my lease clearly states that the Tenant shall not smoke or vape any substance blah blah, which is the only truth to this email she sent me. She finished it telling me I need to stop smoking in her unit, I have to pay for any damages caused and that she is going to have someone check on this issue again and that if it has not improved, she will need to begin the eviction process. \n\nI don\u2019t smoke and I don\u2019t do drugs (excluding caffeine and alcohol, I also live in Washington so weed is legal on the state level, I still don\u2019t partake though). I have never smoked, nor have any of my guest ever smoked anything inside or near this condo. I\u2019ve never even had someone who smells like any type of smoke in this place. \n\nSince there really isn\u2019t anything to be \u201cimproved\u201d is she allowed to just send someone to my place, have them say they smelt it again and then evict me? Does she need more proof than that? or at least a 48hour notice to come into the place?\n\nAny input helps! Thank You!\n\n\n","title":"Landlady accuses me of \u201dsmoking drugs\u201d in her unit and threatened eviction.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447552717,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sum6e\/ohio_can_my_employer_not_put_me_in_a_position\/","id":"3sum6e","body":"I work in a gym and I wanted to switch positions within the facility. I wanted to switch from my current position to working in the babysitting area watching kids. I've had experience watching kids before as I was a lifeguard and taught swim lessons.\n\nMy employer told me I couldn't work in there because I was a guy. Can he do this? Is that legal or sexist????\n\nthanks in advance","title":"[Ohio] Can my employer not put me in a position based on my gender?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505231599,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6znu9n\/fl_large_corporate_landlord_violating_12_hr\/","id":"6znu9n","body":"Hi,\n\nMy large (nationwide) corporate landlord is notifying affected units via email at 10 am on the day of routine (i.e., non-emergency) pest control entry into units. They do a few units each week. This is a violation of FS 83.53 (2) [link](http:\/\/www.leg.state.fl.us\/Statutes\/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String&URL=0000-0099\/0083\/Sections\/0083.53.html) which says 12 hours of notice is required.\n\nHow do I get them to start obeying the law? Is pointing out the violation to the onsite corporate lackeys sufficient?\n\n**EDIT**: I'm not trying to be uncooperative with my landlord, I just want my legally-protected notice before a stranger enters my house. They literally just need to email the night before and it's settled.","title":"FL - Large corporate landlord violating 12 hr notice rule for routine non-emergency maintenance","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504671960,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ydfhf\/throwaway_my_sister_accepted_an_offthebooks_job\/","id":"6ydfhf","body":"Hey, all. First off, my sister is not currently facing any legal charges, but I'm operating on the assumption that she is at risk. Thanks in advance for any advice you have. I'll weigh it all carefully. And if there are any clarifications I can make, please let me know.\n\nEarlier this year, my sister got a temporary job to cushion her regular employment. After her first few days, she complained that her boss docked her pay because she was a few minutes late back from lunch. This was a red flag for me since I'm pretty sure that's illegal, and I urged her to find a better job and contact the department of labor to report it.\n\nShe told me she wouldn't do that because she's technically not even employed there to begin with. I asked her to explain, and she said that her boss was out of the employment forms, that she had had trouble with temporary help in the past quitting on her without notice, and so this was a non-committal trial run for my sister to prove she wasn't unreliable. I was seeing multiple red flags with all of that and tried to tell her that if she had no way of proving she worked there, she couldn't press her employee rights, and if her boss was okay with abusing one, she would probably be okay with abusing others, like wage laws.\n\nTo which my sister essentially responded that, yes, she had agreed to work for a few dollars below the federal minimum wage. The owner had spun a sob story about not being able to afford to pay a real wage (despite operating two successful main street businesses). Giant red flags everywhere.\n\nMy sister is an adult and knows the law. I argued with her that it's the employer's obligation to have the necessary forms on hand before offering employment, it's their obligation to comply with all state and federal labor laws, and that her boss is without a doubt breaking the law, perhaps intentionally. She shrugged that off because she felt like it wasn't really hurting anybody. I tried to explain how it actually was, but none of it bothered her.\n\nFinally, I tried appealing to her sense of self-preservation. She already has a decent full-time job. Sure, she's not rolling in cash, but her needs are met. Why risk getting involved with a potential criminal? And that's where she revealed her brilliant plan: she believes that so long as she quits before she earns the minimum reportable income to the IRS, she's completely clean, no one will ever find out, and even if they do, she's the victim. So on top of voluntarily going along with possible state and federal tax fraud, she's admitted in plain English that she has zero intentions of filing this on her taxes (and yes, her normal job has earned her above the minimum for this year).\n\nI don't know a lot else about it. There were other people working there and, from what I understand, some of them were under the table as well. This is near a high school with naive or desperate kids looking for summer jobs. And those \"unreliable\" people might have just had the nerve to know their rights. So that would increase the chance that someone else reports it. Whether my sister took cash, check, or direct deposit, I have no idea, but she has since quit.\n\nSo, reddit, am I overreacting, or is my sister at risk of getting a very unpleasant call from the IRS? If yes, is there anything I can do to help her prepare for it? Obviously talking to a lawyer couldn't hurt, but she doesn't think it's even a problem.\n\n**TL;DR** - My sister accepted a job without filling out any work or tax forms, for well below federal minimum wage, doesn't plan to report it on her taxes, expressly is not claiming ignorance of the employer's sketchiness, and believes she is legally in the clear.","title":"Throwaway - My sister accepted an off-the-books job in WV and remains adamant that only the business owner will face legal charges if (or when) it's discovered.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555425191,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdumf1\/is_my_university_abusing_rights\/","id":"bdumf1","body":"I'm a student at a university within the UNC system. I am majoring in what is essentially an IT major and minoring in Data Analytics. I have an expressed interest in data and I wanted to be able to practice data in a personal setting that would not be seen by the public. The idea was to see correlations within the university system I'm enrolled, just because it's data I'm use to. We use SharePoint combined with Active Directory to define user rights. \n\nOne day, I was trying to find additional data points for my dataset (think, professor awards, something that isn't immediately available but might be in a spreadsheet) and I thought SharePoint could be an avenue to find it. We as students use SharePoint to share group work without issue, so I thought staff did as well. I started by searching by one the known Active Directory titles, Job Title, to try to see if there was just a database dump publicly available. What I found was confidential information that I as a student have no need to see, so I began to ask my friend who works in IT where to report OneDrive files, he told me not to worry about it, there's filters in place and the thing I was really worried about was not confidential. He told me to just not worry about it and not touch SharePoint again for that purpose. For reference, my dataset is Professor names,Job Title, Position, Department, salaries (Open data, UNC) and a rating from a 3rd party. \n\nFast forward 3 days later, I hadn't saved any of the files, I had no intention of ever saving the files, I just viewed them. I get a personal phone call from a upper member of the university saying that I needed to come into their office urgently because there was a serious allegation against me. Come to figure out, a OneDrive filter caught me viewing those files, I wasn't surprised by it, I knew everything was logged, but I didn't modify any files, didn't save them, so I was under the impression that I was free and clear since the files were shared with every member of the University. I was given a notice that I violated Code of Conduct, had a good possibility that I'd have a criminal trespassing charge placed on me, and would be expelled from the university.\n\nI told the department member in the meeting that the intention was to give me an educational practice dataset, I found something that I didn't want to see on the OneDrive, was told not to worry about it after I asked where to report it, and now I'm facing criminal charges and expulsion. \n\nI'm still a student, but all my networked privileges were taken away, no university email, no Blackboard to turn in coursework, and it's beginning to become a problem. I'm missing out on points and class assignments and I haven't heard anything from the university members. \n\nIs what they are doing legal? Am I truly facing a criminal lawsuit or was it a scare tactic? I know I can't cite any of you in my meetings but I'm looking for more educated advice than fellow students and my girlfriend's parents. The faculty member had no interest in seeing the data frame I'd created (not using the data from this event, the data I saw from this event was not saved), he had no interest in seeing the text message conversation with the IT employee, so I'm in a mental bind.  \n\nThank you all in advance, be as honest and unfiltered as you want.","title":"Is my University Abusing Rights","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1504438987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xsoz5\/all_inclusive_house_for_rent\/","id":"6xsoz5","body":"I live in Ontario, Canada. I signed a lease to rent a shared bedroom. It's my friends parents house that they bought to rent out to students and I'm sharing a room with her for a cheaper price of $450. This is still a little expensive for me but I have no other option at this point. She told me the house would be all inclusive, but when I moved in the kitchen only had a fridge, microwave and oven\/stove. \n\n\nThis may be a stupid question but, what exactly does all inclusive mean? I had the expectation that we would be provided with a toaster, kettle and stuff like that. I was always provided with all these with previous houses I rented.","title":"All inclusive house for rent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571100113,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di007j\/can_our_neighbor_block_the_alley\/","id":"di007j","body":"We recently moved in to a new house. Right beside our house is an alley, and the street the house is on is being torn up and replaced, so there is no access to any of the houses on that street. The people who live at the other end of the alley from us own the lots on either side, and want to make it look like a huge yard, so they have put a chain up blocking anybody from driving through the alley and ruining their grass, which at this point has overgrown the far end of the alley completely. They are refusing to take the chain down to let anybody have closer access to their homes. Our 85 year old neighbor asked them to take it down so she could drive closer to her house to bring groceries in. *They are making an 85 year old woman walk down the entire length of the alley with her groceries* which include gallons of milk, water and other heavy items. Is this legal? What can I do to make them take the chain down and let people use it like the alley its *supposed* to be? We live in the US, if that helps.","title":"Can our neighbor block the alley?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541791080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vndei\/uk_employer_trying_to_get_me_to_pay_for_his\/","id":"9vndei","body":"Throwaway of course to maintain anonymity.\n\n​\n\nSo I started an apprenticeship in September 2017. Throughout my time here I've not been massively enjoying myself but soldiering on \"for the qualification\". If you know a thing or two about minimum wage and apprenticeships, it's that after the first year, the employee is entitled to whatever the minimum wage is for their age bracket. For myself, that minimum is \u00a35.90 (aged 18 to 20). Before I was here a year, my wage was \u00a34.80. Even though I've been here nearly 14 months, my wage is still \u00a34.80, below the minimum.\n\n​\n\nA week ago I received an attractive offer for another job, one which will pay be a starting wage of \u00a35.90, not to mention a better role in a better environment. Since informing my employer of my notice, and of the fact that I'm expecting them to backdate my wages to correlate with what should have been an increase in hourly pay, my employer is insisting that I owe them the money they spent on my toolbox, which was provided by the college where I did my apprenticeship, and that I owe them money for the forklift training which was done in August.\n\n​\n\nIt does not state anywhere in my contract that I am required to pay back money for training, regardless as to whether I leave or stay, nor did I get any agreement in writing, or even an indication that I would owe them money for the training, so in my eyes they are in the wrong by trying to get me to pay back their \"investment\".\n\n​\n\nIn addition to this, they have been deducting \u00a310 monthly to pay back the value of the toolbox, which was not mentioned or explained until I spoke up about it. It does not say anywhere in my contract that they may deduct pay from me, nor did I ever explicitly agree for this to take place. When I asked about it, they explained it is to pay off the tools, to which I accepted, as it sort of makes sense, and at that time I had no intention of leaving, and wasn't too fussed by a reasonably small amount, but found out very recently that this wasn't really done \"by the book\" either.\n\n​\n\nAs for my forklift training, I was not told that would come out of my own pocket either, even if I left. My employer only told me today that if I had stayed 12 months after he would have let it slide. Is he allowed to do this? Surely that is changing his story to suit his case.\n\n​\n\nFor a sense of scale of the values, the toolbox is \\~\u00a3275, the forklift training was \\~\u00a3115.\n\n​\n\nSo, as a little conclusion - \n\n* Am I right in the fact that I must be paid for the wage discrepancy for the past two months?\n* Are they right in suggesting that I must pay for the tools and training, despite nothing in writing or in my contract?\n* Should I be reimbursed for the wage deductions made to pay off the tools, which I believe I shouldn't be paying for in the first place?\n\nIf I forgot an information that might be useful, do let me know. Many thanks.\n\n​\n\n**TL;DR** \\- I'm moving to a different company, old employer is trying to make me pay for the training and tools he provided despite it never being mentioned - in contract nor other writing - that that would happen.","title":"[UK] Employer Trying To Get Me to Pay For His Investment Because I'm Leaving","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539727287,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9os9rp\/i_dont_know_if_i_fucked_up\/","id":"9os9rp","body":"So, context, I'm a minor, and I applied for a part-time job (I got it). Now, I was 15 at the time of the interview\/hiring, and I falsified my birthday by about a week so I could get the job, as the window was closing, and I wouldn't have gotten the job. It was a stupid thing to do, I know, but, and trust me when I say this, I have my reasons. So, officially, I have not worked a single day, because I still have to be orientated, and I am to start next week, AFTER my real birthday.  Now, I guess my question is that since I was still 15 at the time of the hiring, but I don't work 'till I'm 16, is it legal for me to work?\n\nEdit: this is really stressing me out, so if you're only going to comment judgement, don't. Just don't.","title":"I don't know if I fucked up","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554479349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9su8f\/pa_medical_consent_for_minor_child\/","id":"b9su8f","body":"My son\u2019s dad and I have a great relationship, but he lives out of state (CT) so he\u2019s never around for medical appointments. \n\nAnyway, the psychiatrist asked for a form of consent to be filled out again and for his dad to send a letter to the office as well. \n\nAs usual, his dad has asked me to draft the letter. What is the easiest way to draft a letter? Can he agree to give consent for me to have sole authorization for medication changes, given the distance and his inability to be present for the appointments. \n\nIf this is possible, what information would be essential? ","title":"(PA) Medical consent for minor child","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444889362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3otpxs\/seattle_wa_tenant_moved_out_of_the_house_on_the\/","id":"3otpxs","body":"I charged my tenant for 20 days rent because he moved out of the house on the 16 but left a lot of stuff in the yard, driveway and filled completely the double car garage until the 20th. Now he says he was out the 16th  because thats when I signed the move out inspection document with his wife.  I did sign that. But I have photo's of all his stuff not gone until the 20th.  What day did he really move out? BTW He was supposed to leave on the following 1st of the month.  He wants a bigger refund.","title":"Seattle WA Tenant moved out of the house on the 16 the property on the 20th?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570457781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dek13n\/contracting_company_in_afghanistan\/","id":"dek13n","body":"Hello, I would like to start this off saying the company that I work for is based out in Virginia. I\u2019m under contract in Afghanistan, so this situation might be very unfamiliar. So, a lot of my co workers will have their Afghan work visas expire soon and the company had them send their passports to the embassy here in Kabul. In August the passports were sent out but, we are now being told that the Ministry of Interior is not signing off on our visas. That was the first thing we were told. Now we were just told that the company needs to renew their business license to work in Afghanistan and after that is approved we will get our visas. We believe that this is very sketchy behavior on our company\u2019s behalf because it\u2019s very unbelievable that they would let their business license just expire without it being renewed. Now some of us are worried because our Afghan visas will expire soon and might be either, deported out of the country or won\u2019t be able to leave the country because we need a valid visa and an exit stamp on our passports, that we don\u2019t have because they are still sitting in Kabul. Again I know this is an odd subject and I\u2019m sure the laws are different for these things but it\u2019s a long shot I\u2019m willing to try because it\u2019s very unsettling not knowing if we can leave the country or not.","title":"Contracting company in Afghanistan","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569551785,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9u4q0\/i_started_having_memoriesflashbacks_of_being\/","id":"d9u4q0","body":"Basically my whole childhood can be summed up by a pamphlet on childhood sexual abuse, but I slipped through the cracks. The memories started a year ago when I was 19. I don\u2019t have any proof, but my dad told me he remembered his friend had told him his teenage daughter was brought to court for molesting children. Unfortunately she died from cancer years ago so I can\u2019t speak to her, but that makes it likely he raped her too. I was thinking it\u2019s possible he could have other accusations on record and even if I don\u2019t have enough proof for a conviction they police could put a note in or something? I read the statute of limitations in Ohio is 12 years after you turn 18. How does that work I\u2019d really like some information or examples of similar cases.","title":"I started having memories\/flashbacks of being raped by my dads friend when I was about 5. What are my options? (OH)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1505926281,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71ce8g\/roommate_is_mentally_unwell_and_threatening_my\/","id":"71ce8g","body":"My younger sister and I grew up together but we've only been roommates for about 5 months. She was recently hospitalized for a panic attack brought on by consumption of synthetic marijuana. She later checked herself into the mental health wing of a hospital, but was discharged after a week (with a clean bill of health, apparently). She then showed up at our house with an unidentified, 40ish-year-old man she claimed was her father (our dad is actually away in another state on business). She has repeatedly threatened me, brandishing sharp objects and promising to get her new \"friend\" to deal with me. I called the cops, but they said since her name is on the lease, I can't throw her out of the house or keep her from having guests who I don't know stay with her. The landlord agrees that she needs to go but I'm not sure if we have the legal authority for a proper eviction. I've never had to do anything remotely approaching this so if anyone knows how this process works, I'd be grateful for some help.\n\nEDIT: I live in Alabama. Apologies for not including that in the title.","title":"Roommate is mentally unwell and threatening my life. How can I get her evicted?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539793589,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p06me\/a_bit_rhetorical_but_what_happens_when_you_want\/","id":"9p06me","body":"My friends upstairs neighbor is harassing her and threatening her. She lives alone, he may be a cop.","title":"A bit rhetorical, but what happens when you want to file a restraining order against your upstairs neighbors in an nyc apartment building?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554913770,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbo21o\/ny_landlord_is_evicting_me_for_owing_rent\/","id":"bbo21o","body":"I am a college student attending a public university in the state of New York.\nBack in February, my older brother, who lived in another country, passed away unexpectedly. He was born and raised in this country and had a lot of family there so we decided to pay for his burial there, but due to my parents\u2019 financial situation, I had to use the money I had saved for rent to pay for his funeral costs. \n\nThis obviously hindered me from paying rent on time and I fell back 3 months. I ended up moving in with my boyfriend (into his apartment) because I was in a terrible mental state, I barely went to class and slept so much and was just not really alive. I tried contacting the apartment building manager and the front desk person told me the only thing I could do was pay in full and sublease my apartment for someone else to take over.\n\nI\u2019ve been searching and couldnt find anyone, because it\u2019s the middle of the semester.\n\nSo two days ago, the person I used to live with at this apartment told me someone came in and handed a paper saying I have a court date in two weeks, and that to stop the eviction process I have to pay in full by tonight.\n\nI obviously don\u2019t have that much money available to me.\n\nThe only option I have is to prepare for the court date and I would like to know what to do; I have no experience at all, or money to hire a lawyer.","title":"[NY] Landlord is evicting me for owing rent.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568451625,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d42u9y\/ma_so_we_moved_into_a_supposed_rental_house_and\/","id":"d42u9y","body":"(Massachusetts) So this story is kinda weird story and i know i\u2019m an idiot...\n\nSo a couple friends and I \u201crented\u201d a house. The supposed landlord posted it on a know apt\/houses app and that\u2019s how my buddy found it. He went and saw it and talked with the lady. She liked him and said he can move into the house the next friday. This is where it starts where it gets weird! She said we could move into in the house and only had to pay first and security and wed pay extra money each month towards the \u201clast.\u201d So we move in on friday and we don\u2019t have to sign anything or pay anything (should of been our first red flag but we figured she was busy and she\u2019d stop by in the next couple days and we\u2019d pay her and sign the lease...My buddy tries calling her and she answers sporadically and other times just responds by text (A family member wS in the hospital so we just figured she was stressed out was dealjng with family thinngs. She texted us we could move in on the \u201cThe day we moved\u201d We kept trying to get her to come by so we could pay her and so we could sign a lease and get everything in writiting saying we\u2019d pay her back \u201cX amount\u201d a month extra to cover the last month rent we didnt have to pay upfront. But she kept making up excuses. She was supposed to come by yesterday (friday) but instead she called my buddy, friday morning and told him that we had an hour to pack our shit and get out of the house because she didn\u2019t have the right in the first to rent the house because it was her mothers and that supposedly her family was coming to house and that theyd call the cops if we were there...Since we never actually signed a lease or payed rent we didnt think that we had any renter rights so we just did that. Problem is none of us have anywhere to go! We\u2019re all homeless now! Since It\u2019s kinda hard to find a place to live in an hour, at least if we had 30 days we could find another place to rent! We were under the impression we had this rental house until march...\nSo did we or do we have any rights? Like could of we stayed at the house and if the family called the cops would we have been trespassing? We have texts messages sayjng we could moved in and other text messages talking about how much rent was etc etc...We honestly just didn\u2019t want to deal with the cops, but a part of me feels like we should of just stayed and saw went happened! Because kicking us out with an hour to pack and leaving us homeless was just plain fucked up! Like it\u2019s not on us that she shouldn\u2019t of been renting the house and was being shady! Like either she new this was going to happen and was just trying to make some quick money or she\u2019s just plain stupid!!! Either way, my friends and i are homeless now with no where to go!\nWe\u2019re currently at a horel trying to figure out wtf to do!\nLike i know if we woulda signed a lease or payed rent we would of at least had 30 days or at least squatters rights? But is there any action we can take against her for pretty much scamming us? Like honestly everything seemed legit at the beginning but it just started to become odd that everytime we asked her to come by so we could pay her\/sign a lease she had an excuse! But legit Friday (yesterday) she said she\u2019d come by! And then just out of the blue called my buddy and told him we legit had an hour to pack and get the fuck out!!!\nLooking back i wish we just stayed and had her family come to the house and explain the situation and if they called the cops, then explain the situation to them...Like I honestly doubt they would of charged us with trespassing but we just didn\u2019t want to have to deal with being arrested or refusing to leave and the family shows up with little kids expecting to sleep at their grandparents house so they could visit their grandparent in the hospital which from what out \u201cLandlord was saying, wasn\u2019t doing so well...\u201d\nBut like wtf lady you\u2019re like 50 years old! What were you thinking, renting out a house that\u2019s not even in your name, as a \u201cwinter rental\u201d \nAlso i know we\u2019re idiots for moving into a place without even signing the lease first...\nAny thoughts or ideas, because we\u2019re just confused and well now homeless...","title":"(MA) So we moved into a supposed rental house and was told yesterday (Friday) that we had an hour to pack our shit and get out...","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554276105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8utr9\/probate_california_death_inheritance_medi_cal_poa\/","id":"b8utr9","body":"My dad has Alzheimer's, and I am his healthcare and Durable POA. He is on Medi Cal and NEEDS to remain on it. He is deteriorating and I think his doctor would agree that he is no longer oriented enough to make informed decisions.\n\n​\n\nHis mom, my grandmother, just died and left behind a house and some acreage. There is a will, though I have not seen it. The property may also be in trust to my dad and his siblings.\n\n​\n\nSome of my dad's siblings want to sell the property, some are undecided or haven't made their views known. The siblings who want to sell don't seem to be taking account of my dad's stake (or mine as his proxy). **Legal question #1:** can my dad's siblings make the decision to sell the property without my dad's\/my input? As DPOA aren't I supposed to represent his stake?  \n\n​\n\nWith Medi Cal's asset limits, my dad can only own one piece of property (his house where he lives) and have $2000 in his bank accounts. **Legal question #2:** If the property is sold and my dad receives a share of the money, wouldn't it need to be transferred or placed in trust to my brother and I immediately so that he doesn't lose Medi Cal? Essentially skipping over him in the inheritance?\n\n​","title":"[probate] California - death, inheritance, Medi Cal, POA, real estate, WHEW!","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569174151,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7trpa\/landlord_asks_me_to_leave_basement_for_making_it\/","id":"d7trpa","body":"Hi \nSo i live with six other guys in basement and our landlord has said me to leave now for not keeping the house clean. I am the only one out of 6 guys who clean the whole house. I cleaned it last month 21 august and even sent pictures and video to the landlord. We have a camera in kitchen and toady i removed all garbage from kitchen, which is visible in camera.\n\nI don\u2019t cook at home and also do not eat at home. I dont make any mess at all, thats why I don\u2019t want to leave.\n\nAlso i suffered from depression and nervous breakdown earlier , which i am recovering from , so i don\u2019t want to leave.\n\nThanks","title":"Landlord asks me to leave basement for making it dirty, when i am the only one that clean it","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551242358,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av98zp\/vacation_time_and_maternity_leave_ontario_canada\/","id":"av98zp","body":"Hey guys just wondering when the wife goes back to work after her maternity leave, is she entitled to all of her vacation time or is it prorated\/ get only some of it because she didn't work the whole year?","title":"Vacation time and maternity leave? (Ontario, Canada)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503122226,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6unghu\/not_paid_on_payday_employer_informed_that_they\/","id":"6unghu","body":"I am employed by a smaller company in Nevada. We are paid on a schedule of every other Friday. (In case it helps in some way, state regulations for NV are semi-monthly rather than bi-weekly.) I have my paychecks direct-deposited, and upon checking the bank this morning, I noticed my check had not been deposited as it is usually. Came into work today to learn that this was an issue for all employees (including those who recieve physical checks) and that they were working on sorting out what's going on with payroll. Mgmt spoke to the bank, but didn't give us much explanation as to what the actual issue was. We were simply told there was some issue with [bank name] and they were unsure when it would be resolved. They stated they were hoping for it to be fixed at the beginning of this coming week - however, this is still only conjecture. We were not given a definitive time frame.\n\nDue to the nondescript explanation we received, I have no idea if this is legitimately a discrepancy with the bank, or if it is due to an error made by the employer. Can someone please provide some insight about the legality of late pay like this? There were no notices of a pay date change - written or verbal. I have bills that may draft over the weekend. If they do, my account will be overdrawn, and I will incur overdraft fees each day that the negative balance is not satiated. If I am charged those fees, I feel as though my employer is directly responsible, as we had an agreement to a pay schedule which they failed to uphold. Had I been paid timely, there would have been no overdraft. Legally, are they responsible to reimburse me for any accrued fees? What can I do in this situation? This has the potential to really screw me up financially, and I'm unable to get gas, food, personal items, etc. until I am paid (which is still completely undetermined). Does the employer legally have a responsibility to pay worked hours on the agreed upon pay date and pay schedule? If it turns out that the bank was entirely at fault for this issue, does the employer still have a responsibility to pay us our wages punctually?\n\nThis kind of discrepancy is unprecedented for me. I'm completely at a loss as to what my options are, and I would really appreciate some guidance.\n\nThank you for your time!\n\nEdit: Words","title":"Not paid on payday. Employer informed that they are unsure when it will be resolved. [NV]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1441906866,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kfh7n\/city_of_chicago_il_lease_renewal_advice_i_think\/","id":"3kfh7n","body":"Hey \/r\/legaladvice !\n\nAt this point I'm not sure anything can be done or if there was any law breaking but I just wanted to see if anything illegal has happened in the current situation my roommates and I are in with our landlord. \n\nSo, we rent a 3 bedroom flat and had signed a lease in August of 2014 which would expire on August 1 2015. During the last week of July we received a letter from our landlord explaining that if we wanted to renew the lease we would have until August 15th to make that decision and the terms of the new lease would be from September 1, 2015- September 1, 2016.  Additionally our rent would be increased by $30 per person. That same week she took out our August rent payment from my roommate's bank account. \n\nOur landlord requires us to deposit our rent into one of our Bank Accounts and then she performs a wire transfer from that Bank Account to her own. Though it has never been an issue she regularly performs this transfer on the 28th of the month preceding the month the rent is due for (February rent is collect on January 28th). She requires us to send rent this way though it is not stated in the lease agreement. This July, she went ahead and pulled the rent money for August even though our current lease had expired. Furthermore, she pulled much much earlier than normal, causing some mild financial distress for our roommate whose bank account is set up for the transfers. \n\nSince we're not lawyers and I didn't think to post here until now, we went ahead and signed the new September lease with the rent increase. Today she has informed us that we owe her the difference in security deposits from the first lease even though there had been no communication on her part about this additional cost. \n\nI guess it's probably to late now, but is there anything illegal in the way she collects rent, the fact that she collected rent without our consent for a month not included in the lease and then changed the lease after? Anything at all illegal in this situation? Please let me know, I will be happy to provide anymore information or clarification needed. ","title":"City of Chicago, IL - Lease Renewal Advice? I think our Landlord screwed and is screwing us.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444456818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o6wq1\/maineus_arrested_for_possession_of_a_fictitious\/","id":"3o6wq1","body":"I am a 20 year old college student from Maine. Recently two undercover cops had a campus safety officer call them up to tell them they had seen a young man enter a car with alcohol. They found our car (I was the passenger) and pulled us over for a \"broken brake light\" (was not broken) then searched the car and asked for my fake ID, which they realized I had. I gave them my ID and then was immediately arrested and taken to the local jail for one charge \"Possession of a Fictitious Identification Card\". I have my court date coming up and depending on the results my school may force me to leave. Is there anyway to have the charge dropped based on that story? I did not know that the penalties for having a fake ID could be thousands of dollars in fines and jail time. I accept that I was an idiot but I need to fight for my future at this school.","title":"(Maine,US) Arrested for \"possession of a fictitious identification card\" and depending on result my college may kick me out","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569017073,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d71vgv\/i_accidentally_backed_up_into_someones_car_on_the\/","id":"d71vgv","body":"Title is basically everything about the situation. This happened Wednesday morning btw. Was trying to pull into my school parking lot when a faculty member closed the gate on me so I had to back up and me and an adult hit each other. I had only a little paint chip. I pulled over and he just drove off on me so I went into school and parked. When I left school I saw the note on my car and it was his info. I called him and asked him if he had damage to his car multiple times and he said no. Now 2 days later he is claiming that I broke his bumper and scratched his paint. There is no police report but I really don\u2019t know if I can be at fault for this is he left the scene. Any help?","title":"I accidentally backed up into someone\u2019s car on the road and he drove off. He then left a note at my school with his contact information and I called him and he said he had no damage to his car. Now he is trying to claim that I broke his bumper and I need to pay for 2 days later. What do I do? [FL]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1503178438,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6urqo5\/unlawful_arrest\/","id":"6urqo5","body":"My fiance was pulled over last night because one of his headlights shorted out while he was on the road. A police officer happened to be right there to nab him.\n\nUpon pulling him over and running his plates, he was informed that he was being taken to jail for evading court for expired tabs??\n\nNot only are our tabs NOT expired, but we never received a summons, and the ONE incident where our tabs were out of date (last year, november?) We were told we weren't getting a ticket and that we need to go get them updated ASAP, which we did.\n\nSo my fiance (and caretaker, as I'm disabled) is currently being held in jail until Monday where they plan to take him to court.\nNot only is he going to lose his job over this, but I have no way to care for myself in his absence.\n\nWhat do I do?\n\nEdit: This took place this morning at 1am in St. Cloud, MN.","title":"Unlawful Arrest?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551746858,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axetvg\/employer_misrepresented_job_offer\/","id":"axetvg","body":"Posting for a friend in Illinois,\nMy friend moved across the state for a job based on the communication between them and their current employer. They were promised 36 hours a month and a full time job. Since starting late December my friend has worked in total 109 hours which is a far cry short on hours for being employed there for at least 8 weeks (math comes out to about what should be ~280 hours). My friend is only scheduled for 20 hours the next two weeks and they do not know what to do. Obviously they planned on having more hours when they took the position. Could this be considered misrepresentation of employment and could you take the company to small claims court over this? ","title":"Employer misrepresented job offer.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555149742,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcp0rv\/louisiana_apartment_lied\/","id":"bcp0rv","body":"I moved out of a complex over two years ago, and they stated to me that I could pay the remaining lease balance of $300 USD the following week (on my next pay day), they turned me over to a collection agency almost instantly.The agency they used told me that they charged me for damages that my pet (a small Syrian hamster who lived in a cage) destroyed the apartment apparently (which I showed the leasing manager when I left that my part of the apartment was clean, and perfect condition, my roommate, who got an a separate lease due to the issue causing me to move, had destroyed her half of the apartment.  got  The agency contacted me every moment of the day even when I said I was at work, took transactions out of my account without my approval, applied to my credit score when they told me they wouldn't. They only stopped calling when I said that this was harassment. I have no clue what to do anymore. The collections agency took the former roommate off the bill without verification from me that she had any part in the situation (which these damages that I was being charged for were all done by her  UN POTTY TRAINED DOG that ate the carpet up in her room). How do I go about getting this removed from my record? My partner and I are trying to find a better apartment but we cant due to this showing up on my record.","title":"Louisiana Apartment lied?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550426520,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/arn2be\/canada_on_supervisor_making_vague_threats\/","id":"arn2be","body":"A little background - our Southern Ontario industrial workplace is in the midst of a little restructuring. A manager was just fired, and there\u2019s a bit of a power vacuum. A temporary manager has been assigned, and is more-or-less auditioning for the role. Our supervisor who works under him seems to feel that his connection to the previous manager puts his position at risk and his doing whatever he can to appease the new guy. \n\nCut to we three underlings. Our positions only require a high school education. Due to understaffing in another department, we\u2019ve been assigned certain tasks outside of our job description. The job description of the person who would be doing this job requires a technical diploma and multiple years of experience. Our supervisor readily agreed to the additional duties and honestly, I\u2019m glad to help where I can, but these are well beyond the scope of our regular duties and above our pay grade. And aside from a pat on the back, we\u2019re not going to see any kind of recognition or compensation for this. \n\nShould these additional duties become a long-term part of our assigned role, what should we do?\n\nSecondly, I called in sick today. Legitimately, as always, but legitimate sick days are a rarity in the industrial field. Given the stress our supervisor is under, he gave me a call at home to make vague threats about setting up a meeting with HR, the manager, etc. I\u2019ll be asking for these arrangements to be documented going forward, but what else can I do?\n\nI admit that I make regular usage of the leave prescribed to us by our company, more than most, but I feel confident that done line is being crossed here. \n\nAny tips? ","title":"[Canada, ON] Supervisor making vague threats regarding sick leave, allowing his supervisor to assign us tasks above and beyond the scope of our duties.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553267686,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b468rj\/everything_she_owns_is_junk_in_my_house\/","id":"b468rj","body":"I let one of my daughter's friends live with us while she was on house arrest. She messed up and got locked up again for an unknown to me amount of time. My daughter has since moved out and I am planning to move in the near future. What legal obligation do I have in regards to all her belonging? I don't want any of it. It is junk to me but is pretty much everything the girl owns. I would feel bad throwing it all away but I am not taking it with me. I don't know any of her family. They are not the greatest people which is why we took her in. Am I responsible for making sure it is safe until she gets out? There was no written contract or anything when I agreed to let her stay here. Pennsylvania if that matters.","title":"Everything she owns is junk in my house","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540061777,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pwq9c\/can_my_landlord_tow_my_car_wo_written_notice\/","id":"9pwq9c","body":"My personal vehicle wasn\u2019t running for a couple of months while I was making major repairs after work and on the weekends. \n\nI came home from work a couple weeks ago and my car had been towed!? It wasn\u2019t parked in a designated spot but was off to the side of the lot. \n\nThe reason for towing was because I was in violation of the \u201cno non-running vehicles on premises\u201d rule.  I assumed this certainly couldn\u2019t mean my personal vehicle while it was under repair?! But apparently so. I guess they don\u2019t like me even though I\u2019ve been a tenant for six years.  \n\nDon\u2019t they have to provide some kind of warning in writing? I got a phone message that morning but didn\u2019t return the call before I got home. I don\u2019t usually have access to the phone when I\u2019m at work. \n\nI paid $280 to the tow yard, got my car back that evening, parked it in my designated spot and proceeded to complete the repairs that weekend.\n\nI want them to pay for my tow bill because even if they were within their rights to tow, I don\u2019t think they followed proper legal process. I\u2019m hoping someone with knowledge of landlord\/tenant or unlawful parking on private property in the state of California can confirm. \n\nThanks! ","title":"Can my Landlord Tow My Car w\/o Written Notice?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568877111,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6ah2y\/getting_ejected_out_of_a_house_i_no_longer_live\/","id":"d6ah2y","body":"My grandmother passed in August of 2018. In her will, she left her house to my disabled vet father. He lived with her for years and took care of her. \n\nUnfortunately, the will is invalid because it was a handwritten will that wasn't properly witnessed.\n\nSo my aunt (dad's sister) and my cousin ( dad's deceased brother's daughter) filed paperwork to be the personal representatives for the estate. \n\nBack in February, my husband and I realized my dad was really struggling living alone in the house. My husband and I talked and decided it would be best to combine our households. He doesn't need to live in a facility; he simply needs a little extra help. The house he was living in is the bigger house (I have two children still at home and one in college) so we decided to move there. The plan was to buy the house from the estate and sell our house. I realize now this was a mistake. I didn't know he didn't have the authority to have us live with him. An attorney told us it was ok but he does wills and the like. Not a litigator.\n\nMy dad paid for two separate property tax installments after Grandma passed, the most recent being in May. He paid the house insurance. We helped him with maintaining the house and the yard. He and his sister are not on speaking terms since grandma passed since she blames him for their mother dying. Grandma did not die from neglect. She died because she was in end stage stomach cancer that no one knew about until less than a month before she died. Since they weren't on speaking terms, Aunt called their other brother and asked him to ask my dad if he would pay the property taxes and be reimbursed by the estate once everything was settled.\n\nAunt showed up at the house one day in mid-May  with a police officer and a court order to be let in. Fine. She told me since I had never paid rent, she was going to evict us. She never asked for rent. Not from my husband and I. Not from my dad. She never offered a rent amount. She never produced a lease. She never asked my uncle to call my dad and ask him to pay rent. Nothing. She was absolutely awful that day. She actually hipchecked me when she walked into my bedroom, that I was in. My husband had let her in and went to get my dad who was in another part of the house. I had no idea she was there. When I tried to stop her from walking in the room, that's when the hipcheck happened as she physically pushed me out of the way. Then the yelling started (her) then the screaming started. My husband even got into a yelling match with him. He doesn't yell at people. He basically avoids confrontation at all costs. Then the accusations of how me and my dad are to blame for my grandmother's death. \nAfter saying my own bit, I tried to calm things down. She was absolutely cruel.\n\nI suffer from bipolar disorder and this encounter caused me weeks to get over. My anxiety was through the roof and I wasn't able to function.\n\n Before I'm asked, yes she knew we were there. My uncle told her back in February we were staying there in order to help my dad.\n\nMid June, me, my husband, my dad, and my then 18 year old daughter were individually sent letters from her lawyer asking us to leave the house by July 31st \"because you haven't paid rent.\" It said if we were out by that time, then no further action would be taken. If we weren't, then we would be evicted through the courts and back rent would be sued for.\n\nIt's important to mention that my eldest daughter never lived with us in the house. She left for college in June of last year and lives there full-time. She's stays with my husband's mother when she's in town because she doesn't have to share a room there.\n\nSince my house needed work in order to make room for my dad, we stayed until the last day. The house was not ready July 31st so we checked into a motel that night and had our stuff out. We gave the house keys to the nextdoor neighbor. We were never given instructions on what to do with the keys. My aunt lives 2 hours away. I'm not driving 2 hours to drop off keys. Cousin lives almost an hour away. The neighbor is a close friend of the family so Aunt would stop by to see her if she came over. She always does. Did any of us contact her to tell her we were out? No. It never occurred to us she wouldn't drive by to check on the house. She had driven by before. Would pump the neighbors for information about us. Tried to get neighbors to keep an eye on us and report back to her. Why wouldn't she check on the house to see if it were empty? That was our thought process, at least. Plus, no one wanted to deal with her after the last encounter.\n\n\n2 Fridays ago, the neighbor calls and says she has mail for us. They were letters for each of us from a law firm stating we were being sued by aunt and if we needed a lawyer, they'd give us a discount. We look it up on the online docket and sure enough, we're being ejected from Grandma's house. She's suing for back rent and damages. I spoke to her lawyer last week and told him we had been out on the day that was requested. Told him where the keys are. He said that should be enough to get things dropped although he was confused on how I knew about it. I told him about the letter we received from the law firm. That was a week ago. I checked today and there's a hearing scheduled for October 3rd. \n\nWe don't know where to go from here. We are literally tapped out of funds from having to stay in a hotel for almost a month and working on our house. Are there options besides a lawyer? I have receipts that show when we checked in the motel. We have my daughter's leases showing she's lived out of town for over a year.\n\nThank you for your help","title":"Getting ejected out of a house I no longer live in in Indiana","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568934475,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6ly62\/can_employer_change_employees_hours_michigan\/","id":"d6ly62","body":"Friend is a teacher at a private school. She has a contract that\u2019s says she gets pain X amount but her employment fraction is 80%. \n\nCan they force her to go up in hours? She would be unable to find childcare and would need to quit her job. Could she qualify for unemployment?\n\nI reposted this due to heading errors.","title":"Can employer change employees hours (Michigan)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540044994,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9puh87\/my_employer_refuses_to_pay_her_employees_for\/","id":"9puh87","body":"I\u2019ve never done anything like this before and I\u2019m not sure about the legality of anything but am looking for a little reassurance. \n\nSo I just started working at this pizza\/sandwich\/deli\/convenience store. The first red flag was, when interviewing me, my boss and store owner (Boss) told me she really wanted to hire me because I\u2019m so pretty. Along those lines she has also told other employees that she won\u2019t hire anyone she doesn\u2019t think if attractive to work in the kitchen (equal opportunity employment is a thing, right?). \n\nSeveral of the other employees, including the man she just hired a month ago, have noticed that she doesn\u2019t pay them every hour they work. They\u2019ve noticed 30min- 5 hours of pay missing. \nShe also favors those who are her \u2018skeleton crew\u2019 (front register and the ones who work in the kitchen most) and gives them raises. One of the girls, I\u2019ll call J had only been working then for 3 years, but after putting in her two weeks my boss offered her a raise to stay. She was being paid more than S who had been there for ten years. \n\nShe also refuses pay us who close past 9:30 unless we call her and get her to \u201cok\u201d it. Last night we were there til 10:15 and I almost guarantee I won\u2019t get paid for that 15... Same goes for coming in early if we are short staffed, and even if the boss does \u201cok\u201d it, one girl C, noticed she was missing 5 hours from her paycheck last week. \n\nAnother red flag was the fact that the mop was being emptied into one of the kitchen sinks, and when it was getting clogged, my boss refuses to buy a new plunger for the kitchen only, so they have to... use the toilet one... which I\u2019m sure is a health code violation. \n\nS just quit a week or two ago because she wasn\u2019t getting paid enough and because my boss had never let her take any time off, even when her mother was dying, and I had gone away to Florida with my family. \n\nShe also likes to play games with the people she knows she is going to lose. One of the cashier ladies tells Boss everything we say, she also has a recording device ( at least C told me) and can listen in on us. And if she thinks C is late she will tell Boss and boss won\u2019t pay her, even if she is there on time, and then will cut her hours for the following week. \nSo I\u2019m putting in my two weeks on Monday and I know C was already past her two weeks notice but had been staying as a favor for boss and for me so I wasn\u2019t alone. None of the hour cutting has happened to me and I haven\u2019t noticed money missing from my paycheck but I know it could happen to me eventually. \n\n\nTL;DR: My boss refuses to pay for unauthorized overtime, refuses to hire anyone she doesn\u2019t find attractive, requires that we use a dirty toilet plunger to plunge our kitchen sinks when the mop water from the floor clogs them, she withholds money from her employees weekly. If she decides to screw over those of us who leave, how many things can I report to the Labor Board?","title":"My employer refuses to pay her employees for unauthorized overtime and has been shorting their hours","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1444462494,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o73k5\/employer_problems\/","id":"3o73k5","body":"Hello,\n\nI'm in a weird situation here, where my current employer merged with another learning center to make a larger and more profitable after school learning center. However, the two owners had too many differences in teaching methods and opinions, which led to an abrupt separation. I, who, for obvious reasons, went with my former boss, and my current coworkers are essentially being threatened by the secondary boss at the other after school (she continually mentions that her husband's a lawyer and he can do x,y,z to us, our boss, and our after school - although it's questionable whether he is truly a lawyer or not, and what she means, as she's always incredibly vague). \n\nWhen we merged, we were all told to sign a contract, and we did. This included giving her our social security number, address, and name among other things.  Nowhere in the contract we signed does it state that we must work to a certain, specific date. It just says that we need to give 2 weeks notice before we quit. I'm pretty sure though that our situation doesn't count as us quitting of our own accord. However, the secondary boss is saying we were all supposed to work to our original date, which is mentioned nowhere in the contract or anything else we were given. In addition, since she no longer has any need for our social, address, etc. we asked for our original contracts back. However, she refused, and stated that she needs it for use later on. I'm not sure what she means, as she will neither explain what her intentions are, nor will she return the contract. \n\nIs there anything that she can do with our personal information that can jeopardize anything for me and my coworkers. In addition, is it legal for her to withhold our contracts after we have officially been separated from her after school? Can we use this problem to file a lawsuit?\n\nFor the record, we're based in Los Angeles, CA","title":"Employer Problems","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568814880,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5y4tb\/insurance_woes\/","id":"d5y4tb","body":"Last summer a huge storm caused a lot of water damage in our house.  Because the gutters failed, water poured through the first floor master bedroom windows, ran down the walls, and pooled on the hardwood floor across the room and into the dining room.  I took photos of all of this as it happened.  Insurance company sent water mitigation and over the course of a week the huge machines worked to remove the moisture all along the places that water had pooled and damaged the flooring.  As required, we fixed the cause (gutters were repaired).  After some time, the insurance company denied our claim citing one of their \u201cexperts\u201d who wrote a report that said the damage to our hardwood floors was caused by moisture in the crawl space.  This was absurd, since I had all the photos and the water mitigation company clearly knew the damage was from above and caused by interior water.  We had an expert look at it and he concluded that the water that had come in and pooled on the floor had caused the damage.  He took photos of the crawl space and sub-floor and all was dry with no water stains.  The insurance company refused his report, claiming that any challenge had to be made by a certified structural engineer (which he wasn\u2019t).  So we hired one at the cost of $900 and he concluded the same thing (which was completely obvious to anyone involved). They relented and allowed the claim.\n\nNow the work is being done.  Damaged flooring (the entire master bedroom, closet, and much of the dining room) had to be replaced.  Because the eleven year old flooring had darkened and could never be matched, the insurance company agreed that the entire first floor had to be refinished to match the new flooring.  However, refinishing the hardwood stairs (visible from most of the first floor) and the second floor to match have been denied.  SO our house will have a very obvious mismatch between the once uniform flooring.  This seems like painting half a wall or repairing half a car.  Very frustrating.\n\nQuestions:  1. Is the insurance company obligated to pay for the structural engineer?  2.  Is the insurance company obligated to make the house \u201clike kind\u201d as the hardwood flooring will not match?  (Insurance company says my policy only covers actual damage.)\n\nHonestly, I think that because of hurricanes, flooding, and wildfires the adjustors have been told to deny as much as they can get away with.  My past experience with this company was that they covered everything and more.  Very disappointing.\n\nAny advice, experiences, or suggested wording for an appeal would be appreciated.","title":"Insurance Woes","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504293011,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xgqdn\/is_it_legal_for_me_to_diss_my_car_insurance\/","id":"6xgqdn","body":"Car insurance company sucks and I wanna document my bad experience with them in a song. Is this legal? Location is NY. ","title":"Is it legal for me to diss my car insurance company by name in a song?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551808927,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axo3u3\/apartment_lease\/","id":"axo3u3","body":"Me and my wife are about to put an offer on a house we notified are apartment building we wanted to go month to month they stated they dont do that and that our lease automatically renewed. We never saw or signed a new lease and she stated she emailed it to me i never recieved it this is the secretary btw it was sent to an old email i do not use. She also stated to get out of the lease wed have to break it and pay 4 months rent. I did recieve a lease paper last year stating do we want to extend our lease another year expiring march 31st 2019 which i signed and sent in and which i have a copy of. She also said the lease we signed in 2014  for the one bedroom apt next door. (We moved to a 2 bedroom down the hall in 2017)states it automatically renews and we are signed for another year even though i signed nothing for after march 31st. Can a lease automatically renew? I never signed anything for after march 31st and said we will be out by the 31st in accordance with our lease. Am i ok legally? This apt managent has been sued before and had to change theyre name btw im assuming if im out by the 31st im free and clear as ive signed no new lease for after march 31st any help would be greatly appreciated im in pennsylvania btw","title":"Apartment lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552547170,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0x8b5\/can_i_get_arrested_for_a_suicide_attempt\/","id":"b0x8b5","body":"I\u2019m on mobile so sorry for formatting and I also didn\u2019t know which flair fit best so I\u2019m also sorry if this one isn\u2019t right lol. \n\nAbout a month ago (January 25th) I was in a single vehicle car accident. I drove my car into a guardrail on the interstate going about 80-90mph. When the police showed up I told them I fell asleep while driving home from work, when in reality I was actually trying to kill myself. I have sense then gotten into some legal trouble. \n\nSo my question is is if my car accident comes up in court while handling my other legal troubles (which are also traffic related) and I admit that it was a suicide attempt could I be arrested? I know arrest is probably unlikely so would I be more likely to revive a ticket or fine if some kind? I just don\u2019t want to get myself into more trouble while trying to get out of other trouble. \n\nAlso if it helps I\u2019m 19 living in Alabama. As far as I know there wasn\u2019t a police report filed about my wreck (or at least no one ever said anything to me about it) and it wasn\u2019t claimed on my insurance. \n","title":"Can I get arrested for a suicide attempt?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1550386912,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ari7ny\/breastfeeding_in_nursery_in_idaho\/","id":"ari7ny","body":" Cross posting from another group who suggested I post in here.\n\nIn Idaho \n\nBackground: I work in a gym nursery a couple hours a week in exchange for a gym membership. We can have our own kids with us while working as long as they don\u2019t interfere with us helping the kids, and during the orientation I was breastfeeding my daughter under a cover and the woman doing the orientation said I didn\u2019t need to cover that it was totally fine. I have a toddler(2 years old) by the way.\n\nSo my first two shifts I don\u2019t cover but still try to be discreet. None of the kids even notice and I\u2019m kind of hidden from any parents coming in. But my shift lead tells me that there is a back room for nursing.\n\nI figure she was just uncomfortable with me nursing, so yesterday for my shift I brought a blanket and nursed under the blanket. When I went to clock out the shift lead said she needed to talk to me. She said that there is a back room for nursing and I can\u2019t nurse out of the floor. She also said that I can only nurse my daughter once per shift. I was kind of flustered so I didn\u2019t say anything and just stared at her, she kind of repeated herself and said she didn\u2019t know how to talk to me about this but they\u2019ve had complaints from parents in the past that they think we just sit there holding our own kids the whole time. Which pissed me off because I\u2019m like the only one on my shift cleaning up the toys the whole time and picking up the crying kids and taking care of them and playing with them when they get sad their parents are leaving. She also holds her daughter just about as much as I hold mine. I just kind of uh-huh to her and left.\n\nI was also embarrassed because she said this in front of all the other employees and her husband sitting next to her. \n\nI cried on the drive home. But I also wonder if I\u2019m just being too sensitive. I always try my hardest to do a good job and be a positive person. I was trying to be confident in my breastfeeding because I\u2019m a pretty discreet person, and this just really tore me down.\n\nMy question is this legal? Can they force me to feed in a backroom in my shift once per shift? Is it discriminatory if it just depends on the shift lead that other women can breastfeed in the open and other shift leads breastfeed in the open, but my shift lead told me I can\u2019t.\n\n*we sign a contract when we get the job that says if we are fired or quit for any reason that we have to pay a discounted rate for the membership for the rest of the year(about $1000 for me) but we don\u2019t get to actually keep the membership, or we can pay a full amount(about 1500 for me) and keep the membership but we don\u2019t get out of paying something if we quit or get fired, someone in my other post said the contract sounds illegal like indentured servitude.","title":"Breastfeeding in nursery in Idaho","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569627777,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da8gtw\/need_some_advice_employer_wants_me_to_submit\/","id":"da8gtw","body":"Hi there, the company i work for has partnered with Telos to be a center for people who want to work for the US Census bureau to complete their application by providing fingerprinting services.\n\nHowever, to be able to take their fingerprints, the employee has to be certified themselves by getting themselve fingerprinted.\n\nThe document is a BC-1085, and requires quite a bit of personal information, which my company is not the best at keeping private. My employer is telling me I HAVE to submit the paperwork and my fingerprints, or else i will be terminated. I feel extremely uncomfortable on this and would like to know, if I deny this, could my employer legally fire me? It was not in my job description when i got hired over 2 years ago, and still isnt.\n\nI am not in a right to work state. I reside in New Mexico. \n\nTldr; employer wants me to submit my fingerprints and a BC-1085 form, I feel uncomfortable providing this information, would like to know if i can deny without fear of losing my employment status.","title":"Need some advice, employer wants me to submit fingerprints","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570201842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dd8nsp\/custody_rights_mother_and_child_in_tx_i_live_in_sc\/","id":"dd8nsp","body":"Hello I am looking for advice on my situation. \n\nThis happened in S.C. I (22M) had a child with an ex girlfriend (22F), our child is now 4. We lived together, for about 2 years and both raised our child, but things didn\u2019t work out and separated. While she lived in S.C. I got to see my child a lot until almost 2 years ago when she moved to Texas with her boyfriend. I have always provided a mutually agreed payment for our child and believed it was best our child lived with her while I got my life together. Her aunt also lives near her in TX. Her aunt believes that my the mother and boyfriend (they broke up at some point and are now back together) are not fit to raise our child and have now been granted emergency custody. Her aunt has called me and supports me gaining custody of my child and states that the mother is not in a good place. I do talk with the mother and have just recently enrolled our child into a daycare\/school program. I called the mother when I got the news about the custody and says there is nothing wrong and this happened out of the blue without warning. Again I just recently spoke with her and were enrolling our child into a daycare. She believes her aunt is out to get her as she does not support her living with the boyfriend, again just got back together.\nI would like to know what my options are over custody. \n\nThe emergency custody forms says I am required to go to court in TX. (I live in SC). While I am in agreement of our child living with the mother I am more than willing to gain full custody as now I have a stable job, vehicle, and can provide for my child. Before I was younger without financial stability now am I able. Her aunt has expressed concern with no specific examples (the custody form states the mother must submit a drug test) but does think the mother is not in a good place and will support me if i choose to go after full custody. \n\nMy concerns: the child is with the aunt. I am calling and checking in speaking to my child. Though I have not been actively calling in the past two years as i should have. \nI am concerned with my child and want him to be okay and am more than okay with me gaining custody. Unfortunately I live in SC and don\u2019t know if that will affect anything. When we separated no court was involved just an agreement between us. \n\nShould I consult a lawyer? Do I need one in SC or TX? I am most concerned about my child\u2019s safety.  Although the mother says everything is okay I have told her that I have no problem getting full custody but do not plan and shutting her out as we have an understanding that we just want what\u2019s best for our child. Our child deserves a safe environment and I can provide that.","title":"Custody rights mother and child in TX. I live in. S.C.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445964983,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qfvcj\/brother_getting_kicked_out_of_halfway_house_after\/","id":"3qfvcj","body":"My 19 year old brother has been in a halfway house in Monroe, LA for a few months now getting sober and working a construction job. He paid his rent for two weeks a couple of days ago, and the \"manager\" (or whatever, the guy in charge) of the halfway house kicked him out. What I'm told is that because of the rain, he hasn't been working and he's been hanging out with his girlfriend, and the manager made a comment along the lines of \"If you respected that girl, you'd get your shit together.\" Brother tells me they \"had some words,\" the guy kicked him out and won't refund his money, and has done this to five other guys in the house the last 2 weeks.\n\nI have no idea if that's the whole truth (and for addicts, it usually isn't) but either way, he should get all but his deposit back, am I right? Or are the rules different for halfway houses? He's about 6 hours away, and I offered to bring him here to live with me for a few weeks but he doesn't want to give up his job (and I suspect the girlfriend as well), but I can at least go straighten things out by showing up to this place with the cops if he has some kind of recourse. Does he?","title":"Brother getting kicked out of halfway house after paying his rent, landlord will not refund the money. What can I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554155433,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b89qq5\/gym_double_billed_and_is_now_sending_me_to\/","id":"b89qq5","body":"I had a gym membership which was month to month just to test it out and see if I wanted to get a year long membership. After two months I switched to a year long contract for the lower rate. After a year and two months I ended the contract. Went into the gym and went through their process. Confirmed it was canceled and there were no outstanding payments. They told me I was good to go and there were no issues. \n\nA year later I called to get a new membership. The rep sent me a contract and took down my payment info. I never signed the contract but received a charge today for the first months payment. I called advising I didn\u2019t not want to proceed with the contract and wanted the charge reversed. She advised if I got the membership it would erase the outstanding balance that was sent to collections from my last membership. This caught me off guard as I left in good standings and never received any calls or emails stating my account was overdue. The rep was less than helpful and was not able to provide an answer as to why this happened. \n\nI called back and spoke to a manager. We eventually figured out the issue was that they never cancelled the month to month contract when I switched to a year long contract so I was being charged for both. I asked why I was never notified. They stated they called but didn\u2019t get a response. I asked why I never got a charge to my account. I used the same cc for the month to month as the year long contract and all the payments went through on that without issue. They stated the account they had was a JP Morgan account. I do not own a account with JP Morgan.\n\nThey are now stating I owe 400 dollars.\n\nWhat do I do?\n\n\n\n","title":"Gym double billed and is now sending me to collections","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554947411,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbufk9\/property_probate_law_dispute_texas\/","id":"bbufk9","body":"My grandmother who passed away in 2010 left a will concerning a large farm (>100 acres). According to the will, should the land ever be divided up, it is to be divided equally among her 4 children. However, it was not designated as to how the land be divided and to what parts go to what sibling. My mother, her husband, and my brother along with his family live out on the property, and have been the only ones taking care of the land and the livestock on the farm.  This does include making sure that the taxes are paid every year. None of the other family members live out on the farm, and very seldom visit. Nor have they made any contributions to help take care of the land. My uncle is filing a lawsuit, and a petition has been sent out to the siblings to have the land divided so he can sell his share. There has been no attempt at mediation by my uncle.\n\nBesides this one family member, all others have not agreed to divide the property, and seem content in preserving the land as is for future generations. Is there a possibility to dispute or fight this division and sale considering this family member has not paid taxes, nor has maintained this land during the last 9 years?","title":"Property\/ Probate Law Dispute - [Texas]","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551626698,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awuxtz\/hi_sub_i_have_a_question_that_regards_source_code\/","id":"awuxtz","body":"Is it legal to sell a companies source to their application IF it doesn\u2019t contain a license such as GPL?","title":"Hi sub, I have a question that regards source code","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555622085,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bequ2p\/modifying_custody_agreement_too_good_to_be_true\/","id":"bequ2p","body":"So to summarize, I left my abusive ex about a year and a half ago (DE) and took my daughter out of state (SC). Went to court and agreed on a visitation schedule via our lawyers because we were unable to communicate in any way because of a Protective Order I had against him. \n\nOur daughter is three and ahead scholastically for her age, so I took a shot in the dark to see if he would like to change the schedule and let her start a pre-K program. Our current schedule (he has 11overnights all at once each month) has made enrolling her anywhere difficult and all administrators have told us they are doubtful of a child that young to handle that transition every month.  It is really rough for her to get back into activities after she comes back every month so I tend to agree. To my surprise he agreed as long as we keep the same number of overnights, so he would get the majority of the summer, spring break, fall break, and Christmas break. I have three questions:\n\n1. Will a judge even let us change it? It seems like if we are in agreement she would, but I don\u2019t know. \n\n2. Is there a way to modify the agreement in my current state where my daughter and I have been residents for a year and a half? In South Carolina you are considered a resident after 6 months, but our original agreement was issued by the court in Delaware. \n\n3. The fact he is agreeing to this makes me very nervous - he has never worked together with me on anything and has been particularly rude and unhelpful since the protection order ran out. Am I making a mistake by not asking for a different arrangement? \n\nThank you in advance!","title":"Modifying custody agreement- too good to be true?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1508429383,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77fene\/ma_how_to_legally_kick_a_roommate_out\/","id":"77fene","body":"My friend (lets call him Matt) decided a few months ago to get a roommate since the cost of living was getting too high. Matt owns his own home. He agreed to have a friend of a friend move in with him. The new roommate gave him 2 months worth of rent ($1400 in total) to get him through October and November. A lease was never signed.\n\nAs time is going on this guy turns out to be not so great. Matt finds out the roommate got his 3rd DUI last week and has had domestic abuse charges in the past. He is calling Matt over 30 times a day, driving him crazy asking him to come home since he does not like to be home alone, insisting Matt now drive him to work since he does not have a license anymore (Matt of course is refusing and asking the roommate to not call him anymore). He told the roommate that things are not working out and he needs to be out at the end of November, but the roommate is not hearing it. He is telling their mutual friends that Matt is letting him stay as long as needed. It has gotten to a point Matt does not feel safe going home. (The roommate is a big guy and can be quite intimidating especially knowing his past)\n\nBeing that a lease was not signed, is there any way he can legally kick the guy out of his house?","title":"(MA) How to legally kick a roommate out","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569437642,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d97qte\/my_mom_is_trapped_in_a_relationship\/","id":"d97qte","body":"I'm not sure on the flair appropriate for this. I put it under this, but I make it clear that my step mother pays no bills. She just spends her money on weed.\n\nI condone no one's actions in this, I just want to find a way to help. For the purpose of context, my mother is Mother and my step mother is unfortunate.\n\nYesterday night, my parents got back from Florida. Unfortunate, evidently, had crack. Unfortunate, possibly, was using crack. I was in my bedroom during this entire exchange. Unfortunate was caught in the bathroom when it slipped out. Mother had been drinking and freaked out.\n\nMother freaked out. Unfortunate's dentures lost their front teeth, she has several stitches on her head and lip. This was caught on video as well by Unfortunates visiting cousin.\n\nImmediately, the entire time, Mother was trying to get Unfortunate off her property and telling her to pack and leave. Unfortunate was refusing and now is using the video as leverage. I dont know what would happen to me if the video is out, no this isnt a normal thing. I'm still young and I dont want Mother to lose me. Shes not usually like this, but alcohol was in the equation.\n\nIs there anything I or she can even do or is this efficient blackmail? Any responses are really, really helpful..","title":"My mom is trapped in a relationship.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554666674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bakbaa\/help_a_broke_boy_out\/","id":"bakbaa","body":"Idk much about the law regarding this stuff and this is out of curiosity. I\u2019m a 17 year old that works in a recreation center as a rec leader. I\u2019m often left alone and in charge of the facility that often has more than 300 people a day. Is there any chance that I can get a lawsuit and make a quick buck? What situation can occur for me to even be able to get one? Fafsa ain\u2019t giving me shit for college so I\u2019m looking for loopholes. Please don\u2019t roast me if this is stupid I\u2019m just desperate for money this job sucks too. Thanks","title":"Help a broke boy out","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568913988,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6hb05\/tx_job_site_bathroom_access\/","id":"d6hb05","body":"My BIL works for a small pipeline drilling company in North Texas that is subcontracted to work on various job sites. His current job site does not provide any bathroom facilities, not even a port a potty, so the workers all go to nearby businesses to use their restrooms. (To my knowledge the businesses have not complained since most of the workers buy food and drinks. My BIL packs his own lunch and water every day but feels obligated to buy something each time he uses the facilities.) \n\n1. Is it an OSHA violation to not provide some sort of bathroom facilities on a job site, even if businesses are nearby? \n2. Who would be responsible for providing facilities, if they are required? The subcontractor my BIL is employed by? Or the owner or general contractor of the whole site? \n3. If it is a violation and he wanted to file a complaint, would the complaint name his company or the owner or general contractor of the job site? \n\nThanks!","title":"[TX] job site bathroom access","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540855110,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sie5g\/college_using_snapchat_chats_as_evidence\/","id":"9sie5g","body":"Hello,\nMe and my friends were hanging out in one of the group members dorm this past Friday evening. Yes there was alcohol involved and music playing. Quiet hours in our dorm begin at midnight, and shortly after midnight sure enough 2 female RAs knocked on the door, busting us for noise but catching us with alcohol. They took our school ids to take pictures to report everyone in the room. \nAll of this I don\u2019t dispute and we are guilty of. But one of the members of the group the next day said something in a group chat with other members complaining about us getting busted\/the RAs themselves. Apparently someone in that chat (possibly friends with the RAs) showed them the chat, and on my friends school rules broken is added disorderly behavior because of this.\nMy question is, are the RAs\/hall director allowed to use these Snapchat chats as evidence to \u201cconvict\u201d him?","title":"College using Snapchat chats as evidence","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541705159,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vd1vo\/trying_to_figure_out_how_to_get_out_of_my_apt\/","id":"9vd1vo","body":"Hey there. I'm new to this sub so forgive me if this is incorrect. I wasn't sure if I should post here or in finance.\n\nI live in a three bedroom apartment with two other people. One of my roommates is psychotic and making it impossible to live with him. He's obsessed with me is making my life hell.\n\nIt's come to the point where I need to leave. I want to completely legally leave this apartment but my lease isn't up until July. Does anyone have any advice or knowledge on this process? Is there any way I could buy my way out of the lease? I don't know if there is a breaking the lease clause in my lease.\n\nAny advice at all would be super helpful and I'd be extremely grateful. ","title":"Trying to figure out how to get out of my apt lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555232368,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd0xsa\/wa_housemate_needs_to_go\/","id":"bd0xsa","body":"Purchased our first home last July and decided to rent a room out to a co-worker. \n\nI had her sign a lease with basic things like the cost of rent, when it\u2019s due, late fees, no smoking, and that when she moved out, room must be in same condition as when she moved in. Nothing outlining eviction, as we didn\u2019t think it would come to this. \n\nIn January we knew it really wasn\u2019t working out. Particularly for the following reasons:\n\u2022Never done any chores in the home\n\u2022Damaged bathroom decor with her hair dye\n\u2022Let food rot in the fridge and pantry\n\u2022Broke the washing machine\n\u2022Began eating our food\n\u2022Using my bathroom supplies like my razor (ew) shampoo, and toiletries. \n\nAt that time, I let her know then that we weren\u2019t going to renew her lease in July in writing, and she would need to find a new place come August. I tried being nice saying it\u2019s a good time to look because it\u2019s winter pricing, she would have a while to find a nice place, etc. But this wasn\u2019t the living arrangement we pictured due to the lack of respect for common spaces and belongings. \n\nShe hasn\u2019t been home in the past week and while cooking this morning we noticed a foul smell coming from one of her cupboards. Inside there was rotten potatoes to the point of a black liquid. I\u2019m now absolutely fed up as this is our home that we plan to live in for the rest of our lives. She isn\u2019t taking care of and respecting our space anymore and we just want to end the lease now before she does some serious damage. \n\nI don\u2019t think she is the type to take legal action, but we\u2019ve been taking pictures this last month of how she leaves areas just in case. What can I do? Ask her to leave with a 30 day notice? Or are we screwed until the end of July? \n\nThanks!","title":"(WA) Housemate Needs to Go","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442878930,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lvd52\/california_hypothetically_speaking_if_someone\/","id":"3lvd52","body":"So completely 100% hypothetically, if a head of state of a major US ally were coming to SoCal in a few months to speak and somebody made themselves a fake press pass under the completely not real newspaper name and got it, would it be illegal at all? Completely hypothetical of course.","title":"[California] Hypothetically speaking, if someone were to sneak into an event held by a head of state under fake press badges could they be arrested for anything?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1409684410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fa85d\/power_of_attorney_from_mom_to_me\/","id":"2fa85d","body":"The Players:  Mom 85 (Arizona), Uncle 92 (California), and Me 55 (California)\n\nMany years ago (~20) my uncle gave my mother power of attorney should he become incapacitated.  Well, he has had dementia and was declared incompetent long ago so Mom has been making all his decisions regarding healthcare and finances.  However, Mom has been verbally delegating those decisions to me, for example, the hospital will call Mom then call me to get approvals for medical treatment for my uncle.  Mom doesn't want to make these decisions any longer -- she's old, tired and doesn't like getting 1am phone calls from the doctor.  Is there a way to legally transfer her authority over my uncle to me?  How?\n\ntl;dr:  Mom's old and can't care for my uncle anymore.  How can she give me her power of attorney over my uncle?","title":"Power of Attorney from Mom to Me?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555534737,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/becyp1\/using_acme_inc_on_website_graphics\/","id":"becyp1","body":"Hi, for our software homepage graphic which is a high level of image of our platform, then for our pretend customer we put Acme, Inc. in the box.\n\n​\n\nIs it legal to use Acme, Inc. in this way without having to have any consent?  Thank you in advance?\n\n​\n\n(Reference we are a Deleware C-Corp software company based in San Francisco)","title":"Using 'Acme, Inc.' on website graphics.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540129290,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q3l0x\/im_renting_a_room_in_a_4_bedroom_house_and_2_new\/","id":"9q3l0x","body":"Hi, new here. I'm renting a room like post above says and it is a 4 bedroom house. In the past 6 months the landlord has threatened to sell the house if we don't pay more money ($600\/month) or move more tenants in. Without even properly asking everyone he moved in two new people, one in the storage closet in basement and one in the utility room, also basement. We have since had a sudden infestation with cockroaches. We told the landlord and he laid traps in corners that are now filled to the brim with roaches. Me and my buddy that live here have done much work to clean every nook and cranny of the house on an almost daily basis to no avail.\n\nThis whole.situatikn has got me some credibly frustrated that I'm left wondering what other options I have to take action. Is it even legal in Newark, Delaware to rent 6 rooms in a four bedroom house? Surely stuffing people in broom closets has to be dangerous and illegal. Shouldn't the landlord also have to do something about a sudden cockroach infestation? (I've lived here 2 years and have only started seeing them since the two new people started renting closets) on top of all that, there is no paperwork or record to show that anyone even has paid any rent, he just takes cash and puts it in his bank.\n\nI've recently started looking at new places to move to and when I mention to landlord about giving him 30 days to get my security deposit back he tells me that I actually owe him money for the pinholes in the walls from my 5 posters that are hung. He's being extremely greasy and I've got to find out if he's allowed to treat people like this. Thank you all for any help or advice you can provide, I look forward to hearing what you've got to say.","title":"Im renting a room in a 4 bedroom house and 2 new people were moved in. One has moved into the basement storage closet and the other in the basement utility closet.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444381633,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3o2wgy\/ger_does_police_target_me_just_because_i_handle\/","id":"3o2wgy","body":"I was with a partner at a bank in Germany the other day. We were gonna sign a business deal, involving a large sum of money. There were several months of planing, signing, notaries and lawyers involved - all located in germany.\nSo we were sitting at the table with some bankers, when suddenly 3 police investigators joined us. I stayed calm, but my partner from a foreign country kind of escalated the situation by threatening to sue them and loosing it. They took us to the police station, and questioned us throughout the day. In the evening they let us go, because we did nothing wrong. My partner is furious and will contact his embassy and sue everyone. The deal and months of work are probably ruined.\nThe thing that i do not understand: Everything we do is legal and well-documented. Why did the german police not just ask for the documents before TAKING US IN? Is this not usually the last step?\nAny german Redditors involved with police, law and\/or government, please enlighten me.\n\nEdit:typos","title":"(GER) Does police target me, just because i handle large sums?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553706794,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b66uxm\/comcast_xfinity_called_me_then_proceeded_to_call\/","id":"b66uxm","body":"Title. ","title":"Comcast (Xfinity) called me, then proceeded to call me \u201cslow\u201d and \u201cretarded\u201d.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540682931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rys8z\/ive_asked_my_employermentor_to_not_take_photos_of\/","id":"9rys8z","body":"I'm at a vocational tech school in southern Utah, and I've told every one if my peers\/coworkers not to take photos of me without my permission. This request has been both ignored and declined on multiple separate occasions.\n\nI've cited my reasons being: 1. I very highly value my privacy, and I'm fairly certain the investors don't give a shit what I look like, so long as I'm paying them the obscene amount of tuition. 2. I'm currently going through a gender transition, and as a result of dysphoria, having photos taken of me while I'm looking like a boy(which lately is most of the time) makes me feel physically ill, as well as making me feel emotionally like shit. 3. They've (claimed but unproven) been working with my therapist to help me get my shit in order, and I've expressed this issue to her(my therapist) as well.\n\nNothing has changed, and I've had to resort to making rude gestures so they can't use any pictures of me for promotional material, or otherwise displaying my likeness.\n\nTo my knowledge, there is no contractual agreement signing away my right to refuse that, but I will double check and update this post accordingly.","title":"I've asked my employer\/mentor to not take photos of me. The request has been ignored. What can I do about it?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553400559,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4sacz\/school_going_to_kick_me_out\/","id":"b4sacz","body":"I have a learning difficulty and I attend a college here in Ontario. I won\u2019t mention which because they might come after me. I have spoken to student rights and responsibilities and they called me in about multiple issues\n\nIssue one: Accusation of threats.\nOn Thursday I was escorted off school property because rumours were going around that I wanted to bring a toy gun to campus. That is not true at all! I have training and development class on Thursday night and months before I asked my professor if I could do a roleplay in class about how to survive a holdup. With fake toy store handcuffs (me being the good guy that saves the day) and the gun being a water bottle or fingers. I told some girls in one of my other classes this and they completely blew it out off proportion. I had to meet with the head of security and the student rights officer.\nIssue Two: I signed a behavioural agreement. It said if I broke any policy again I could face suspension and they don't give two craps if my parents will get a heart attack or something happens to them. I was warned before about not tweeting rude tweets. For fuck sake man! why do you care if i go on twitter and say stuff like #happyinternationalwomensday more like make me a sandwitch bitch day?! Why?! Free speech is dead. \nI am not that kind of person. The reason why I tweet such stuff is because I AM FUCKING ANNOYED AND PISSED AT EVERYONE! I FEEL INSECURE. I cant help myself. i need some support.\nIssue Three: I was informed by security that IT of my college tracked my searches and some searches like mass shootings came up. I was like look, \"as part of my disability I cant help but read everything. It may seem like I am dangerous. But I honestly am not. I cant help when I go on the net and read an article about shooting or police stuff or anyting (except child porn, which I would never read or look at). Ever since as a kid, I wanted to read for the sake of reading. It has followed me to this day.","title":"School going to kick me out","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1442322068,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l1d5q\/fl_overweight_box_truck_class_b_cdl_needed\/","id":"3l1d5q","body":"I got pulled over while in my employers box truck which had a 5 year expired indiana tag which led to the Box truck being weighed on a portable scale I was 2600 LBS over the limit for my license. I got a criminal misdemeanor for not having a class b CDL. My empoloyer consistently over weighs the truck and tells us to avoid weigh stations.  We are asked to do this for work or pretty much told we don't have a job.\n\nI am being forced to deal with this myself. My employer won't hire me a lawyer. I can't afford one. I have no choice but to go down there and I assume plead not guilty. I have lots of questions.\n\nI was weighed on a portable scale by FHP 1\/2 mile away from the weigh station. I thought the whole weighing process was fishy to say the least for a few reasons.... We were down the street from the weigh station and the officer choose not to go back to the weigh station to get the weight instead used a portable scale. He had me pull over under a overpass in which the road had a slight incline. He then put 2 scales down in which he had me roll up my front tires on. Then took the scales out and did the same for the back. Doing 2 tires at a time instead of all 4. He added those 2 weights together and said I was overweight. He came up with a perfect weight of 28,600 lbs.\n\nHe never checked my load. I was carrying electronics equipment some on wheels very loosely packed in the truck. Weight shifts back n fourth on inclines and declines. The way in which he weighed 2 wheels at a time and some how came up with a perfect even number of 28,600 lbs after adding them together does not seem scientific in the least.\n\nDo I have decent reasonable case to fight this in court? How could he get such a perfect weight or even any accurate weight in from the way he weighed the truck?\n\n\nIs there any action I can take against my employer? I feel like they put me in a very bad position. Almost feel blackmailed into working. They know the truck needs a class b cdl past a certain weight but they keep asking guys to go out and do it. They actively tell us to avoid weigh stations. This criminal charge effects my life my credit my license, points....my ability to get another job which I really need. ","title":"[FL] Overweight box truck Class B CDL needed. Criminal misdemeanor.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539737554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9otms9\/student_with_asthma_in_a_moldy_dorm_room\/","id":"9otms9","body":"Hey all,\n\nFirst post in r\/legaladvice, didn't anticipate having to post but alright here we go!\n\nI go to a small college in Pennsylvania, and I looked up the mold laws for a little bit, and overall, they seem disturbingly lax. That's a little scary for me, since I have asthma triggered by allergic reactions to mold and pollen. Aaaaand just my luck, my college's on-campus apartment's AC units were covered.\n\nI had gone in person to the Residence Life Office at my school, and told the hall director about the mold issue on September 12th. I had sent him multiple photos of the AC in the common room, as well as each individual room after the meeting was over, over email. All five of the AC units within this apartment have some sort of mold, with the common room being the worst.\n\nWell, the maintenance crew finally came today, October 16th. I've been going to the ResLife Office sporadically in person as well as emailing the hall director. The time before their visit, the whole month, I have been sick and having colds, raw sinuses, headaches, and even heavy mucus resembling a respiratory infection or something. I've missed class because I've awoken to a spinning headache on multiple occasions. What did the maintenance people say you might ask? That stuff on the AC is just wet dust. Not mold. We'll just SHOP VAC IT UP. (Spreading spores EVERYWHERE.)\n\nI mean, I could be mistaken, but as of right now (9PM 10\/16) I'm picking up a mold kit, as they didn't clean out our individual air-conditioning units. However, please take a look at these photos and decide for yourself.. Is this mold or dust?\n\nhttps:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/AfxLBFc\n\nThese images are from the common room AC which was, by far, the worst.\n\nI'm not sure what to do, or if legal action is required, my mother is also freaking out since my health is her number one priority as is mine. But surely this is not allowed at all. \n","title":"Student with Asthma, in a moldy dorm room.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1550887708,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atpzpj\/do_i_have_legal_grounds_for_a_lawsuit\/","id":"atpzpj","body":"Hello Experts,\n\nI have a situation that I am not sure if it has any legal basis for a lawsuit, however, the situation is stressful enough for me to consider any type of action. Please help me! I recently got informed by my supervisor that all people in our department who used to have 'A' or 'B' as their job titles are going to get a new title; one that will encompass both jobs and basically is going to bump a salary grade; without an actual increase in salary. So, basically if your previous job title was 'A' or 'B' you'd now be expected to do both jobs. Now, let's say both jobs are sort of similar and in some companies, maybe those two specific skill sets are lumped together, but in our company, the two jobs had different job descriptions and now all of a sudden I am being expected to know how to do 'B's' job as well. I have not been given any sort of real training (knowledge transfer sessions are not real trainings). What do I do? I'm expected to deliver work next month? Using a tool I have no idea how to properly use. \nAny advice is appreciated. ","title":"Do I have legal grounds for a lawsuit?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552652129,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1e7ex\/my_school_has_broken_data_protection_laws_what\/","id":"b1e7ex","body":"My school (England) has broken data protection laws and has had many files displaying medical information, SEN information and other sensitive information. Since telling them about it they have hidden all the files and covered up their tracks, when telling them about it, I believed they were legally meant to report the data breach as it contained very sensitive information. \n\nThey have been very secretive about it and insist it's not a data breach but when asking them if they're happy with me letting everyone know about it, they insisted that I don't tell anyone which suggests that this is clearly a big data breach. They have been desperately trying to cover their footprints and have delt with the situation very badly.\n\nThis has happened multiple times now and I am fed up of them getting away with it just to do it again. What can I do as a student at this school to ensure my data is not available for anyone to see again?","title":"My school has broken data protection laws, what can I do about it?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1541635119,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v4vzv\/its_that_time_of_year_again_packages_are_being\/","id":"9v4vzv","body":"My wife and I moved down to Los Angeles in Sept. 2017. Within a month, we've had a few packages stolen. We live on the first floor, only two doors away from the \"mail room\". The \"mail room\" is out in the open and about two two doors away from the main entrance. After about a year, it's started again. We're now at $500 of stolen items. What we have not done is file any police reports.\n\nThe entrance to the building is broken. It was broken last year, and we've been in communication with the building manager. It took weeks to get it \"fixed\". The problem is that the door doesn't fully close, so when you open the door, it'll close, but it won't close fully.\n\nMy wife _just now_ witnessed the UPS driver open the door, deliver the packages, and through no fault of his own, left the building with the door slightly open. This is how the thieves are stealing the packages.\n\nMy building manager recently had their package stolen and was extremely upset. So upset that they stayed in the lobby area watching people walk in and out leaving the door slightly opened. The building manager saw my wife walk towards a delivery person use the building code to get in. The building manager confronted my wife accusing her of giving away the building code, concluding that, that was the reason why packages were being stolen.\n\nLast year, I put up a sign to remind people to close the door. It was promptly removed.\n\n \n\nI'm unsure what else to do. Would it be recommended to contact the management company directly and make a complaint? Their website is _broken_, and they only have _one e-mail address_ that we know of. Would this cause more trouble? I see that it's either very difficult for the building manager to do anything, or they've been dragging their feet.\n\nI'd like to start a paper trail, but unsure if my method is heavy handed. I don't want to call as it won't leave a trail.\n\nI do have a document outlining when packages were stolen from last year.","title":"It's that time of year again! Packages are being stolen again","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554599037,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bab4z3\/my_wife_is_having_her_hours_cut_because_she\/","id":"bab4z3","body":"My wife works at a studio downtown in my city, in British Columbia, Canada. Her bosses have always kind of been selfish and inconsiderate, but now I feel they crossed a line.\n\nDowntown here, especially over the last 6 months or so, has been filled with violent crime. Robbery, theft, muggings, vandalism, etc. Its really not a safe part if town. Usually there are 2 employees in the building at all times, but sometimes the bosses leave a few hours early and leave my wife alone at night.\n\nThis has always made her uncomfortable, but recently there was an incident of a scary disheveled guy trying to get in the studio that really made her fearful. Today, when she voiced her concerns about being left alone at night, her male boss said \"then you can stay home and not work\" and proceeded to cut all her nighttime hours. Do we have any recourse? If not I understand, but just really want to know what our options are. Thanks.","title":"My wife is having her hours cut because she voiced concerns about working alone late at night in a crime ridden area.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551918562,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay68am\/received_this_notice_in_mail_from_former_bosss\/","id":"ay68am","body":"I am in Oregon and received a cease and desist from my former employer in the mail with an non disclosure I allegedly signed. I say allegedly because I wouldn\u2019t put it past her to forge my signature as well as having access to many documents (W2, hiring paperwork, etc) to use it from. I would remember signing such a document. I will enclose all documents for review.","title":"Received this notice in mail from former boss\u2019s lawyer. Should I be worried?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1538978292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mcbj2\/actions_i_can_take_against_my_neighbors_barking\/","id":"9mcbj2","body":"So I just moved to Chicago and live in an apartment with 4 others. Our neighbor has a dog that barks from 7am to 10am everyday or whenever they leave, and we hear is audibly through the walls.\n\nOur houses are in the same complex but we don't have the same landlord. I have attempted notes, and the confrontation. The man who owns them pretty much told me to fuck off, that he wouldn't do anything about the dogs and that they belong in the basement. Wouldn't agree to training, or a bark collar or anything. Extremely rude and I just gave up.\n\nI've tried calling the police for a noise complaint and they never seem to show up. I don't know what else to do. It drives us crazy and these people won't listen at all.\n\nWhat should I do?","title":"Actions i can take against my neighbor's barking dog","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541793418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vnpac\/my_boyfriends_landlady_is_fucking_crazy\/","id":"9vnpac","body":"I have never met someone so vile in my entire life.\n\nMy boyfriend and his family (mom, dad, and his younger brother) live in a 2 family house. He lives on the first floor and has neighbors living on the second floor, and the landlady lives in the basement like a fucking gremlin. My boyfriend's family has lived there for years and have been unable to move because they have a dog and pet-friendly apartments with an affordable rent are very hard to find. My bf's family has no contract. Their contract ended about two or three years ago. The landlady increases rent every year by quite a bit with no real reason (at least none that I'm aware of). I'm pretty sure their landlady thinks they're illegal immigrants because they're Costa Rican, which I believe is the reason she abuses them like this. But they are completely legal. I'm pretty sure she's racist; she's an old Polish woman who had a Trump sign in her yard for about a year with two hispanic families renting out her house. She harasses these two families constantly.\n\nHere's a list of the bullshit she's done:\n\n- Told my bf's family that their loud music was disturbing the neighbors. Said the same thing to the neighbors about their loud music too. Probably to turn them against each other and avoiding the confrontation with either of them, because that would mean she has to ask them nicely to shut the fuck up.\n\n- Treated her yard with pesticides without putting up any kind of warning so dogs walking by her lawn would get sick, because for some reason her shitty lawn is like some kind of holy ground to her. She put up a fence after this.\n\n- Complained about my bf's bird being too loud even though said bird is a wonderful singer and just sleeps when no one's home. This bird is now staying with me.\n\n- Told my bf's dad that he needs to put their dog down, even though she agreed to let him stay in the first place. I'm not joking.\n\n- Called me a whore to my bf's dad because she deliberately looked into my bf's room through the window and saw us having sex. We're adults btw.\n\n- Accused me of throwing up on the side of her house and ruining the vinyl. It was my bf that did it. I wasn't even there. She maintains that it was me to this day. Bf's dad cleaned up the wall with a power wash and it is now cleaner than the rest of the fucking house and she still complains about the \"stain\" (you mean the clean, white spot that looks like stain because the rest of your house is dirty as fuck?). Then called me ugly to my face, accused me of spitting gum onto her lawn and leaving my trash even though I can't chew gum and wtf what trash??? This was her first interaction with me, ever. She was also complaining that I have a copy of the key (because my bf always misplaces his). This resulted in a shouting match between her and my bf and the cops were called.\n\n- Asked me if I was homeless. I visit my bf almost every day because my parents are emotionally abusive and I guess it annoys her to see my car near her house.\n\n- Tried to hit the neighbor with a rake. Pretty sure this was recorded, but it happened just today so I'm not sure.\n\nThere's more that I'm not remembering but I think I've made my point. \n\nMy bf and I are planning to move out west soon but I dont want his family to be stuck there with her. I don't want her harassing them anymore. They don't have the money for a lawyer, so I'm wondering if there's anything they can do?\n\nTLDR; My bf's landlady is a bitch and constantly harasses his family and the other family living there. They don't have much money. What can they do?\n\n\n ","title":"My boyfriend's landlady is fucking crazy.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569196292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7yk49\/seller_wont_refund_me_for_a_105_purchase\/","id":"d7yk49","body":"I bought something from a seller online and it totaled to exactly $105.00. It wasn't a shady website or anything, it was a band's merch store. I decided soon to cancel my order because I found something similar for much cheaper.\n\nI asked to cancel it and the seller responded really quickly, said it was no problem and to cancel the payment in PayPal. Problem is, the payment had already gone through, so I couldn't cancel it. I went to PayPal support with my issue and they won't do anything about it. I emailed the seller several times and he won't respond. I figured out the company that hosts his website and tried them as well, but no response.\n\nAnything I can do here?","title":"Seller won't refund me for a $105 purchase?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1445884428,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qb9nt\/fl_lawyer_hired_to_fight_speeding_ticket_fails_to\/","id":"3qb9nt","body":"Back in July 2011 I hired an Orange County, Fl. attorney's office to fight a speeding ticket (22+MPH) in Brevard County, Fl. for $160. They proceeded to file a Notice of Appearance and a Plea of Not Guilty on my behalf. In September I received a document from them stating:\n\n* You DO NOT have to go to driving school.\n* You DID NOT receive any points on your drivers license.\n* You DID NOT have to go to court.\n\nInstead the judge ordered me to pay a court cost in the amount of $259.00 which was due by 12\/06\/2011.\n\nI promptly paid the fee (which I have record of.)\n\nFast forward to this past Saturday. I received in the mail a letter from the Florida Department of Motorist Services stating, \n\n> \"That the Brevard Clerk of Court has notified us that you: Did not attend driving improvement school or did not provide proof to the clerk of attending driving school as required by the Brevard County Court for ticket #xxxxx. Florida Statutes 318.15.\n\nThis morning I called the Brevard County Clerk of Courts and confirmed via the Court Case Notes that driving school was mandated and a $16 late fee has been assessed.\n\nI then proceeded to call my lawyers office, only to find out that the lawyer who owned it has now been appointed as a local Criminal Judge. He sold the office to another law firm in town. When speaking with me they said they'd research the case and return my call. I just spoke with them and they stated that as it was handled by the previous owner (now Judge) that they can only offer to pay the $16 late fee. I asked to speak to a lawyer instead of the office manager, but they won't return from court until later today.\n\nI have records of ALL documents between the law firm & myself.\n\nMy questions are as follows:\n\n* Do I have any recourse against either the lawyer\/judge & current law firm? Should they be representing me after purchasing the office from the previous lawyer\/judge?\n* Do I have a right to ask for reimbursement of legal fees, traffic school, and or late fees?\n* Are there any statue of limitations against failure to take court mandated traffic school and license suspension proceedings?\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"[FL] Lawyer hired to fight speeding ticket fails to disclose mandatory traffic school, leading to potential suspended license.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539290946,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ndsjx\/grandmother_of_my_child_is_driving_me_crazy_need\/","id":"9ndsjx","body":"My daughters father hasn\u2019t seen his daughter in years. He pays child support through the state deducting it from his wages. We were never married and no custody case was ever made. I have never stopped him from seeing his daughter. My daughter is 11 now and doesn\u2019t want a relationship with him. I have never bad mouthed him in front of her or anything like that since I knew she could form her own opinions of him. I\u2019m going to refer to my daughters fathers mother as MIL just to shorten things. My MIL is not stable and that\u2019s not just me being mean or anything. She had her son taken from her due to alcoholism and depression and he was raised by his aunt and uncle.\n\nI\u2019ve always tried to include her in my daughters life but it\u2019s hard since she lives in NY and I live in FL. When I go to NY I make sure to let her know so she can see her granddaughter. \n\nBack in May she messages me out of the blue talking about her son is living with his dad who is a bad person and is letting drug addicts couch surf and that she doesn\u2019t want her son to have any contact with my daughter. We talked on the phone and I explained that he hadn\u2019t seen her for quite sometime so it\u2019s not a concern of mine. She says she wants to sue him for joint custody with me and that I\u2019d hear from a lawyer. I freaked out and my family explained that it\u2019s nothing for me to worry about.\n\nJune rolls around and she messages me saying I should make my daughter call her son for Father\u2019s Day. I pointed out how he\u2019s an absent father and she should be telling me happy Father\u2019s Day since I raised her for 10 years on my own. Then I pointed out how the last time she talked to me she didn\u2019t want them to have any contact. I told her that I didn\u2019t want to play these games with her and I blocked her number and blocked her on social media.\n\nI have recently moved and told my daughters father of a new mailing address. He asked for my physical address which I replied with\u201dwhat\u2019s your physical address?\u201d. I am now getting voicemails in my blocked folder from MIL saying I have to tell him where I live. For the record I never said I wouldn\u2019t I simply asked for him to disclose his physical address. And he never sent me another message.\n\nI\u2019m tired of dealing with MIL and she causes my anxiety to flare. Do I have grounds for a no contact order?","title":"Grandmother of my child is driving me crazy- Need to know if I can get a restraining order","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551238320,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av8lqp\/landlord_refusing_to_fix_a_leak\/","id":"av8lqp","body":"The faucet in the kitchen has been leaking for about two months and landlord says that we are the ones that should have to fix it. Isn\u2019t it the landlords job to fix it? If it is and he\u2019s refusing to fix it then shouldn\u2019t he pay the extra water bill that will be raised cause of the leak that has been going for about two months. The leak isn\u2019t even a drip. It\u2019s a steady small stream of hot water. So now it\u2019s both the water bill and the gas bill going up cause of the leak. What can I do? Any advice would be appreciated. \n\nLocation: Michigan ","title":"Landlord refusing to fix a leak","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554504931,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9xuqm\/oh_roommate_told_me_today_he_didnt_forward_my\/","id":"b9xuqm","body":"So, long story short my living situation is falling apart. \n\nI live in a three bedroom duplex. I\u2019ve been here 18 months. I\u2019m part of a month to month lease. \n\nWe recently had a new roommate move in. He\u2019s not the best, and then my other roommate told us he\u2019s leaving, and he does. The new roommate says he is going to try to find a renter for the third. Over the course of last month, I realize we just have different lifestyles and it might be time for me to find a place of my own. I inform him of this, very professionally. I do not cite anything other than my desire to live alone at 30, which I think is reasonable.\n\nI told the landlord I plan to be out by the end of the April. To which he said OK. I paid my roommate my third with the intention of the new person he supposedly found paying his and it all working out for the month.\n\nWell, today I come home and he immediately comes out of his room (the only times I ever see him) and says the new roommate has backed out, and that he has not paid the landlord any of the money I gave him. \n\nI have been in the process of applying to various places in the neighborhood. I have found a new place and it\u2019s pending application approval. I asked my landlord to verify for them my rental history, which he said he would. It\u2019s been two days and I have not heard back from the new management company. They did pull my credit however. \n\nI just basically am at a psychological impasse over all this. What are my legal rights over handing a third of the rent to my roommate and him not forwarding it to the landlord? How many days before any kind of evictions can happen? Would this have affected my application to the new place? Should I just call my landlord and try to explain everything?\n\n\n\n","title":"[OH] Roommate told me today he didn\u2019t forward my part of the rent, or any of it. How can I protect my rental history?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541794656,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vnvl6\/i_was_carjacked_while_delivering_pizza_and_i_was\/","id":"9vnvl6","body":"I was set up for a robbery while delivering pizza in the detroit area of michigan. When i got in my car a guy jumped in and said he had a gun and told me to get out or I will be shot, he later totaled my car, and theres not much hope of catching him. My insurance does not cover theft, but i was on the job and the police know I work there even though it had only been for a couple of days. Michigan buisiness are required to have liability insurance right? And I will still be covered even though I wasnt paying taxes?","title":"I was carjacked while delivering pizza and i was being paid under the table.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1552609345,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b182e1\/fraudulent_injury_clame\/","id":"b182e1","body":"Hi,\n\nMy dad got into minor motor collision. When I say minor I really mean it, his front plastic bumper got small punctured and he hit rear wheel of other car. I will post picture later.\n\nOther party opened a claim and my insurance told me that they also claimed that there is a body injury. It is NOT possible. \n\nI spoke with person earlier (before I gor info that they claimed bosy injury) to see if he can give me the cost of the car damage so we can pay cash. He said that appraisal is scheduled and he will let me know but over the phone he confirmed that visibly there is no damage. He is not picking up the phone anymore.\n\nHe was driving the car which did not belong to him. My father forgot to take a picture of counterparty damage. Currently our insurance policy is communicating with uber and lyft to see who is covering us. My father was alone in the car and the incident happened when he got a call on his uber app to pick up a customer. Incident happened on intersection at about 5-7 mph. It was raining and his car hydroplaned. It was his fault.\n\nCounterparty claimed there is a body injury and we don't have any evidence.\n\nIn california people wreck their cars to claim more. Is there anything I can do to bring justice to this?","title":"Fraudulent injury clame","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507147550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74asj0\/if_i_have_an_online_business_with_no_business\/","id":"74asj0","body":"Hello,\n\nI want to register an LLC for an online business that does no business in my home state of Louisiana. \n\nI want to register in Deleware because of the favorable laws and tax purposes.\n\nI will be operating out of my home in Louisiana but I will not be transacting business in Louisiana. \n\nDo I still need to register as a foreign LLC in Louisiana?","title":"If I have an online business with no business conducted in my state of Louisiana, can I register an LLC in Deleware and Do I still need to register as a \"Foreign Business\" in my home state?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1568509340,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4dtt7\/how_do_i_define_this_type_of_inappropriate_sexual\/","id":"d4dtt7","body":"1) Throwaway account, and 2) trigger warning. \n\nWhen I was a 10yo my mom used to come into the bathroom when I was showering, sit on the toilet (sometimes she was dressed, sometimes she was using the toilet and had pants down) and she would stare at my naked body through the glass shower door. I would press myself into the corner and try to conceal my privates as best I could. She did this several times until I learned to stop showering while she was around.  She wasn\u2019t needed in the room because I didn\u2019t need help washing myself; she would just look at me with no clothes on and did not stop despite my being visibly uncomfortable with what she was doing.  In family therapy sessions now, she says if I didn\u2019t like it I should have said something.  In other words, she blames me.\n\nI\u2019m having trouble conveying (to her, my dad and the therapist) the gravity of this abuse of power and she invalidates how I felt about it then and how I feel about it now. I told my sister (also recovering from childhood trauma) and my sister agreed right away that this was a serious issue. \n\nWhat would be the correct legal term for my mom\u2019s behavior? It doesn\u2019t constitute sexual assault since there was no physical contact, and I don\u2019t know if it falls under pedophilia because I don\u2019t know that she got any sexual gratification out of it. \n\nN.b., I know some people may urge me to switch therapists\u2014 I\u2019ve called several and he\u2019s the only one that would take our case. Talkspace and BetterHelp don\u2019t take groups like ours. I do sessions with both my parents, otherwise I\u2019m NC. \n\nTL;DR: I was repeatedly stared at while showering by a parent.  I need to know how to define this type of sexual abuse.","title":"How do I define this type of inappropriate sexual behavior?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541252883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tu7l5\/former_employer_paid_too_much_on_last_paycheck\/","id":"9tu7l5","body":"I live in Iceland so I'm not 100% sure if my question applies. \n\nI quit my job of around 2 years in september, my last day was around mid of that month. I was a customer service representative where I had a monthly salary plus a bonus amount based on phone sales or subscription sales. \n\nAt the beginning of this month I got a surprise amount added to my bank account that was around 600 dollars, and the description was that it was a bonus. I thought it might be the rest of my vacation pay or just something that they forgot to pay. \n\nToday I got a message that they deposited way too much into my account (it was supposed to be around 30 dollars) and they need me to repay the difference. \n\nThis isn't the first time I have had to repay a difference because of mistakes on the pay bill. After last summer I went from full time to part time due to school, and they deposited $600 too much because I didn't finish one whole month (basically I skipped the last week because school started on the 22nd of August) but they still paid me the whole month. \n\nIs an employer allowed to deposit amounts in your account and then request that you repay them a difference based on a mistake they made? I've been hearing so many different accounts that it's driving me crazy. Some tell me that once an employer deposits an amount in your account, it's yours to do whatever you please, but to me it just sounds weird, but I have to be sure, because this amount isn't exactly something that I can afford to just let go. ","title":"Former employer paid too much on last paycheck - requests I repay them","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1417831545,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2of9ah\/usca_employer_defamation_what_to_do\/","id":"2of9ah","body":"Long Story Short, I worked for a company about 9 months ago. I was hired in a management position for small business with about 25 employees. Throughout my 6 months there, the CEO let go of his sales team as well as a few other employees. His justification was that our \"inbound Marketing\" efforts was enough to seal the deal.  I was offered 10k increase in my salary after they were let go :-\/\n\nI was extremely disappointed about the whole thing as I felt he truly didn't understand the very basics of a business, but I didn't say much. The job was easy, and I managed my employees and did a great job not meeting but exceeding his goals.\n\nA month passes, and he calls me in one day saying he googled me and found all my online projects and blogs. He felt that although he hired an entrepreneur minded individual that he\/she were not to work on their own projects during the weekend. He felt that in management that individual would truly never understand the \"Mission and Vision\" of his company. Although I was doing great at my job, and he loved me coming in on saturdays to help teach him salesforce CRM. He felt that my business ideas or projects and blogs that had nothing to do with his business would get in the way of his mission and vision. Therefore he told me to deleted, wouldn't even let me sell some of my sites, but to instead get rid of them right away. I said no, I decided not to.\n\nHe fired me 2 days later, didn't give me my final check or EDD paperwork. He told the EDD I quit and was never fired. After a lengthy and long process I gave up and went into depression. I decided to focus on looking for a job, and leave the hate behind. I never until this day truly understood why he did what he did. I felt hurt, especially because I spent so much time investing into the company, and really helping it grow which in return made me so confident in my abilities to be able to make a difference.\n\n3 Months pass, I lose everything. I had to move back home for the very first time. I get a text message and call with a voicemail from the CEO threatening to sue me if I don't stop talking badly about him on glassdoor. I had no idea about this until I looked up the company and there were 80+ reviews of negative and both positive reviews. I responded in a text to simply leave me alone, and stop bullying me or I'll get a lawyer. Never heard from him again.\n\nToday, and in the past I've interviewed with various jobs successfully. They call my references and everything is good. The problem is, I never hear back from them. I'm starting to suspect the one man team at HR no one liked is talking badly about me. I'm going to have a friend call in and acquire about me to see what kind of response I get.\n\nIf my manager (CEO) or HR lies and talks badly about me, is there anything I can do? I've been trying desperately to move on and get a job but I'm now starting to suspect that the negativity is coming from my previous employment.\n\nAny ANY help would be appreciative, its been a really long road and I'm tired. I just want to move on from this.","title":"[US-CA] Employer Defamation - What to do?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540235104,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qgw7p\/california_discovered_heavy_flea_infestation_and\/","id":"9qgw7p","body":"  \n\nOver the last 8 days my girlfriend and I have experienced the rental from hell with multiple major issues stemming from bug infestations, to seriously dangerous electrical issues, to the regular doldrums of nonworking appliances. We are barely keeping it together, and trying to figure out all our options going forward. There are a bunch of different issues I will describe so a preemptive massive thank you ahead of time for anyone who reads this wall of text and decides to offer advice.\n\n​\n\n**The Bugs:**\n\nWe originally moved in to what we hoped was a wonderful 3-bedroom 2 floor duplex Sunday October 14th and immediately discovered a previously unknown or unnoticed heavy flea infestation originating in the parking area behind the unit and within a shared 2 car garage attached to our unit. During the moving process, a large volume of fleas were tracked into the house as our moving truck was unloaded and as a result we are now finding fleas in all carpeted areas of our home. Over the first 24 hours in our new home, we observed about 40 fleas and I personally received over 30 bites on my legs and arms. Over the first week, we have observed over 100 bugs and have combined over 70 bites. (As a side note I am slightly allergic to flea bites, so each bite results in a dime sized raised welt and a 2-3 inch hive in the surrounding areas.) \n\nI immediately went to the Doctor on Monday the 15th and received a topical medication to treat the bites. We informed the landlord Monday evening and received confirmation on Tuesday that an exterminator would be visiting on Wednesday meaning I would need to take work off to be at the house. The exterminator came, confirmed the fleas from a sample of live bugs I had trapped, and sprayed the inside of the house and the surrounding yard and garage area. For 2 days the problems subsided until a large wave of new fleas appeared as we had been warned they might due to unhatched eggs being immune to the spray. The exterminator is returning this Thursday however the fleas have returned in numbers and both my GF and I are finding many new bites and bugs on us each day. As the infestation is centralized in the only area available to park my car, I have since noticed fleas in the carpets of my vehicle. \n\nAs we are living in a location where we are being eaten alive and I am having daily allergic reactions to the fleas we decided to request that the landlord to help provide alternative accommodations for the duration of the flea infestation. We were denied and told that they were addressing the problem with the exterminator. The landlord admitted in writing to me that he had advanced knowledge of the flea issue in the garage and outside areas before we moved in. I have been documenting numbers of fleas observed and the number of new bites received daily taking timestamped pictures of fleas as well as the bites and welts on our bodies and providing this information to the landlord.\n\n​\n\n**The Electrical issues:**\n\nI build computers as a hobby and have a $2k+ workstation that I use both personally and professionally. We noticed that with the exception of the kitchen and one bedroom, all the wall outlets are un-grounded two plug deals. I did not feel comfortable plugging in my workstation to an un-grounded outlet and potentially risking the hardware, so yesterday (10\/21\/18) I decided to run an extra grounding wire to the same outdoor plumbing that the other grounded outlets in the house, are connected to, and connect that new grounding cable to the outlet in question. \n\nWe first reviewed our lease and did not see any mention of not performing very simple procedures such as this so we decided to go ahead with the repair. We started the process by attempting to flip the breakers to kill power to the outlets for safety at which point we realized that the switches in our breaker box are faulty. They do not engage, and do not kill power to the circuits in the house they are designed to control.  We quickly stopped all work and decided to put the outlet back in the wall and inform the landlord of the breaker box issue. Upon doing so, a frayed cable somewhere deeper in the wall touched the metal outlet box and completed a circuit causing a massive shower of sparks leaving scorch marks on the wall around the outlet box and melting a hole in the screwdriver being held to screw the outlet back into the wall. We got extremely lucky no one was hurt and that the event did not cause a fire. This is the exact kind of event that a functioning breaker box is designed to protect against.\n\nThis event did not trip any breakers in the house but seems to have killed a number of other outlets in other rooms. We informed the landlord of the broken breaker box and the massive fire hazard it represents and were told that he was sending out his handyman who is not a licensed electrician to check it out later tonight after regular business hours (10\/22\/18). \n\n​\n\n**Broken Appliances:**\n\nWhile not dangerous, these are more annoying then anything else. The included in unit dryer, and multiple built in room heaters have been nonfunctional since the time we moved into the house. We have asked the landlord to fix them and were informed that the same handyman coming out to the house to address the previously mentioned electrical issues would also fix these problems as well. \n\n​\n\n**Documentation of issues:**\n\nAs soon as the issues started, I decided to start documenting everything. I have been doing the following:\n\n* Daily log showing # of fleas observed, number of new bites, and notes about any communication with the landlord\n* Taking daily timestamped pictures\/video of fleas observed, and new bites received including my allergic reaction to the bites\n* Keeping all communication with the landlord documented via email\n\nWe are both at the end of our mental and physical ropes, we feel trapped, oppressed and unsafe in this house. We have been carrying flashlights to constantly check our legs for bugs and sleep with a fire extinguisher on our bedside table. We left our old bug and problem free home spending thousands of dollars in the process to move here. Outside of the issues we do still like the house and are trying to make it work however these problems keep appearing. Unsure of our options and half an inch short of contacting a landlord tenant attorney directly, I am reaching out to r\/legaladvice for some legal advice on what our next step should be. ","title":"California. Discovered heavy flea infestation and non-functioning circuit breaker box immediately after moving into new rental from hell. What are my options?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1445439375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pn21b\/looking_for_a_louisiana_statue_about_child\/","id":"3pn21b","body":"This is the 1st time that my husband has had health insurance and is providing it to his son - who was on medicaid.  And his son's mother is just making it impossible for us.  She's demanding medial reimbursements immediately and when I told her that realistically that we can't do that - she threaten to take us back to court since \"we can't mutually agree\"  sigh.\n\nThe custody arrangement says that they are supposed to split medial costs 50%.\n\nMy husband briefly talked to his lawyer the other day and he mentioned something about there is a Louisiana statue that states that the primary parent is responsible for up to $250 bucks for medial cost before the non-custodial parent has to pay.\n\nI tried searching for it, but I have no clue what I am looking for...https:\/\/www.legis.la.gov\/legis\/LawSearch.aspx\n\nAlso, I emailed the LA Child Support Enforcement and asked them how do I do medical reimbursements and they said \"You are legally obligated to enroll the child in any employer's insurance plan. Copays incurred as a result of that process are built into the support obligation and are the Custodial Parent's responsibility.\"\n\n\nSo what is it? 50% of everything (copays, prescriptions, procedures) or is it just prescriptions & procedures or is it when the custodial parent reaches the $250 threshold??  ","title":"Looking for a Louisiana Statue about Child support\/medical reimbursements","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552809842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b23061\/80mph_speeding_ticket_in_orange_county\/","id":"b23061","body":"So the cop pulled me over and verbally told me I was going 90, which I was, not going to lie about it, but after he then told me he was letting me off and \u201cgiving me a huge break\u201d by only citing me for going 80.  \n\nMy question is how huge is this break ? Will I still pay a ridiculous price ?","title":"80mph speeding ticket in Orange County.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1504353230,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xlftv\/canada_does_an_eviction_order_go_on_public_record\/","id":"6xlftv","body":"I was recently in a debate with someone about this. In the states, I understand there are numerous ways for a landlord to find out if the tenant has been evicted in the past.\n\nI'm currently in Ontario, and the person I was debating with mentioned that evictions are not public record and credit reports DO NOT mention a previous history of a tenants evictions.\n\nIt goes without saying that if the new landlord requires previous references and the tenant provides the landlord that evicted them as a reference, it would come to light, but is there any other way for a landlord to find out about a tenants previous eviction history?\n\n","title":"[CANADA] Does an eviction order go on public record?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507931593,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7681si\/fl_my_exgirlfriend_is_trying_to_falsely_accuse_me\/","id":"7681si","body":"Pretty much the title. I have no idea why this is happening and I\u2019m scared. I want to pursue a career in law enforcement so if anything were to come of this it\u2019s pretty much game over. I don\u2019t want to give more detail as I am 1) afraid of her 2) don\u2019t want to give away my OPSEC and 3) only suspecting this at the moment and currently going to speak with her mother to see what\u2019s going to happen.\n\nEdit: From what I\u2019ve been reading it\u2019s pretty much just shut up and wait. Which Is what I\u2019m going to do, I\u2019ll keep y\u2019all updated if something happens.","title":"[Fl] My ex-girlfriend is trying to falsely accuse me of Rape\/Sexual Assault after 7+ Months of being broken up.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1443746459,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n673i\/md_company_paid_premium_contract_question\/","id":"3n673i","body":"I was hired for a salaried position at a company. In the offer letter and my employment contract, my \"Compensation Package\" contains the following:\n\n\"100% employer-paid health insurance for employee and employee's children.\"\n\nAt the bottom of the list, there is the following language: \"Benefits are at the discretion of management and subject to change at any time without notice.\"  Similar language about the paid insurance and benefit waiver also appears in our employee handbook.\n\nIt's been floating around (from management) that our employer is going to begin charging employees ~$150\/month (employee only; spouse\/children are significantly more) towards our premiums.  My question is: does the language provided mean the contribution towards the insurance premium is part of my compensation (and the actual insurance coverage is the benefit and THAT is subject to change) and therefore my employer is contractually obligated to provide it? If this goes through, I want to know my rights.  I plan to ask for a corresponding increase in salary even if they have the discretion to change it.","title":"[MD] Company paid premium contract question","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541633044,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9v4lte\/the_court_date_was_wrong_on_my_traffic_ticket_and\/","id":"9v4lte","body":"I was super prepared to plead not guilty in court. I was dressed nice, showed up early, had a speech ready and answers for any question thrown at me. When I got into the city hall, there was nobody there. Nobody in the waiting line. I went to the county clerks office and told her I had a court date scheduled. She told me I was six days late, and all the traffic citations had been judged on Nov. 1st. I reassured her that I DID have a court date scheduled for today. I showed her my ticket that I brought. She was surprised and said the cop made a big mistake. We scheduled another court date for next month. I asked if me not knowing the original date is an automatic dismissal and she said no. \n\nHere's my problem: the court date for next month is not for my traffic ticket, it is to plead not guilty for not showing up to my original court date. The county clerk told me I've already been found guilty of the traffic ticket part because I didn't show up for my original court date six days ago. If I get a pass for not showing up, THEN I can plead not guilty for the traffic ticket. If I don't get a pass for not showing up, I'm not allowed to discuss the traffic ticket and will be found guilty automatically for not showing up to the court date. \n\nAre they allowed to announce me guilty to a court date I was never aware of? Can I ask for dismissal of my ticket since the court date was wrong?\n\nThere are also a few minor faults with the ticket besides the date. The first one is under road conditions, it says dusk even though the ticket was given to me in the middle of the day. The second fault is that there was no mention on the ticket of the second cop who was also on the scene. I think the cop only mentioned himself so the other one wouldn't have to show up in court too. \n\nMy original case for myself was that I was driving in the middle of the pack, with the flow of traffic. The radar scanned me from the bottom of a ravine at an uphill slope, which can overestimate the speed of a vehicle. I also have a perfect driving record, which further supports that I wasn't speeding as fast as the radar estimated. \n\nWhen I pleaded my case to the county clerk (after she asked me what I was gonna say in court) her response was that the judge wouldn't care what I had to say, and that I should just pay the ticket. \n\nI'm gonna keep fighting but I don't know how to move forward. I've felt bullied from the very beginning, from the cop who tried to make me admit I was going faster than I was, to the county clerk who said my voice won't matter in court. I can't afford a lawyer. I don't want these points on my record either. \n\nIf it helps, I'm in Arkansas. The county that my court is in, is Madison County. ","title":"The court date was wrong on my traffic ticket and I missed my court date. I need help!","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541720726,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vfaqo\/ive_been_staying_in_a_corporate_apartment_in\/","id":"9vfaqo","body":"I was informed this evening by my company that they were unable to convince the leasing agency to let me stay. I have not received any direct communication from the leasing agency and there doesn\u2019t seem to be a court order. The leasing agency says they can do this since I have occupied the apartment less than 30 days, so hotel rules apply. They are planning to come to my apartment tomorrow to remove all of my belongings and change the locks. And, BTW, my company has already pre-paid for the entire 4 month lease. Can I be evicted summarily as the leasing company intends to do?","title":"I\u2019ve been staying in a corporate apartment in Brooklyn the past 3 weeks. I\u2019ve violated the lease by smoking and now the leasing company wants to evict me tomorrow.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552966465,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2sduq\/ex_bf_is_demanding_contact_with_me_pregnant\/","id":"b2sduq","body":"I'm currently 21 weeks pregnant. My then boyfriend would come with me to every doctor visit. Then we started having frequent arguments and I told him I wanted to go to this next appointment by myself. He asked why and I said that there were things I wanted to discuss that had nothing to do with him or the baby. He threw a fit, accused me of keeping him from his child (you can't even feel her kick yet) and hiding things from him. I reminded him he needed to stop stressing me out as it was making my braxton hicks contractions worse, but he wouldn't stop. Finally, I just stopped responding. \nI'm on day 5 of no contact. He has texted me multiple times a day since. He's accused me of \"trying to take his kid away from him\" several times, even though I've already told him multiple times that I would never do that. On day 3 he broke up with me via text and demanded that his appliances be returned to rent a center. (We were reimbursing him) My mom called and got it scheduled. We also fed ex'd his belongings to his apt and it should arrive soon. Meanwhile on day 5, as if nothing happened, he texts asking how the baby is and asking when \"our\" next appointment is. He's messaging my family asking why everyone wants to keep him from his child.  She's inside me, that's why!\nAm I obligated to discuss my pregnancy with this guy? Can he really claim I'm keeping him from his child when she isn't even born yet? Is ignoring him going to hurt me in court when I file for sole custody? I'll let him have visitation, I just need to keep my stress levels down until the birth as i'm high risk and he won't stop harassing me. He's become unstable and I just want him to leave me alone. ","title":"Ex bf is demanding contact with me (pregnant), accusing me of keeping him from his child.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506639964,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/733uan\/state_assistance_and_marriage\/","id":"733uan","body":"Nebraska Is it possible to get state assistance without counting everyone's income when two married people do not live in the same house? Right now I am elsewhere and none of my income goes towards where my wife is living but we're worried the state will just lump us both together unless there is a legal separation. ","title":"State assistance and marriage","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553530669,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5cof0\/my_new_potential_roommate_is_actually_a_couple\/","id":"b5cof0","body":"I'm in California.","title":"My new potential roommate is actually a couple with a kid, which isn't allowed on the lease, but they moved in before the lease has been signed and I don't feel comfortable jeapordizing my lease.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541996344,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9waqsf\/facing_eviction_and_fees_from_a_lease_i_no_longer\/","id":"9waqsf","body":"Last August I entered a joint lease on an apartment in Provo, UT with two other men, we'll call them Albert and Bob. In March I took a new job in the Salt Lake area and moved to a new apartment in Salt Lake City at the start of May. My intention was to allow Albert (well, now Alice because they're transgendered, which isn't really relevant) to choose a replacement roommate to buy my contract, which would end in August and then switch to a month-to-month lease. I intended to pay my share of the rent until a replacement could be found, and I did for 1 month (May).  \n\n\nAlice wasn't able to find a replacement tenant, so I advertised on Craigslist and found a one, we'll call Charlie. Charlie decided he liked the apartment and I provided an application for a lease from the property management. I didn't hear much from anyone, including the property management, from that point on (early June I think). At some point in all of this Bob moved out to his grandparents home.  \n\n\nCome August Alice doesn't move out, as I had expected them to. I don't know exactly what the arrangement is but I know that Charlie hasn't bought my contract, but is living there, and is presumable helping Alice with the rent. But in September I get notice that the rent is overdue. Alice is able to scrape that together with help from the church, but it comes due again in October with late fees. I missed some of the emails from the property management, as they got caught by the spam filter.  \n\n\nAt some time in October the property management gave eviction notice. Also some time in October, I'm not sure when, Alice moved back to her families home in Los Vegas. So at this point, none of the original three of us are still living there. I myself paid out of pocket the whole of of the rent for October plus fees, requesting that the lease be fully terminated and nothing would need to be paid for November. They agreed, but only if the apartment was empty when they go to make a move-out check.\n\n​\n\nI got an email to all three of us from the property management two days ago saying that someone was still living there and that they therefore could not run a move-out check, and that if whoever is living there is evicted it'll cost us another $400 (each? it was unclear, and it's unlikely that the other two will pay anything as they're broke).  \n\n\nMy problem is: \\*\\*how do I get whoever is living in the apartment out\\*\\* so I do not have an eviction on my record, and avoid paying even more on a place I moved out of six months ago? I assume that whoever is still living there is Charlie. I don't even know is full name, and all I have is a phone number that he isn't responding to. I feel like none of this is my fault, with the fault lying with Alice, Charlie, and the property management company who have been very hard to work with. I also would really like to get repaid for the October from Alice and Charlie, but I think that's unlikely with Alice in another state and Charlie being essentially anonymous.","title":"Facing eviction and fees from a lease I no longer live at","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554172333,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8da2u\/mi_my_fianc\u00e9s_exwife_put_his_name_on_her_babys\/","id":"b8da2u","body":"My fianc\u00e9 and his ex-wife were separated in February of 2017, got divorced around the middle of the year and she gave birth near the end of the year (sorry, exact dates are fuzzy). They had not slept together for months before the baby would\u2019ve been conceived, and she was living with the man she cheated with, who she admitted was the father. She made the divorce process take a lot longer than it was supposed to, and it was before everything was finalized that she became pregnant.\n\nShe gave the baby her partner\u2019s last name, but apparently listed my fianc\u00e9 as the father on the birth certificate because she was told she had to with the birth being so close to the divorce. We didn\u2019t know this until now because they had gone no contact after the divorce. She and her partner have recently separated and she\u2019s trying to change it to his name on the birth certificate so he can have visitation. She told my fianc\u00e9 that there\u2019s a court date later this month and that he has to call a judge on that date and be involved to get his name off. He\u2019s very concerned about being on the hook for child support for a kid who couldn\u2019t possibly be his and we\u2019d like any knowledge the legal advice community can offer on how to get this taken care of because we have no idea. \n\nSorry if any details are messy, like I said we just found this out, and I didn\u2019t think we\u2019d have to deal with any of this after we heard she gave the baby his father\u2019s last name. Any advice is appreciated. ","title":"[MI] My fianc\u00e9\u2019s ex-wife put his name on her baby\u2019s birth certificate even though the father is actually the man she cheated on him with, how to get it removed and make sure he\u2019s not responsible for child support?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570237841,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddgkfz\/do_i_need_parental_consent_to_get_a_job_at_16\/","id":"ddgkfz","body":"I am a 16 year old in Minnesota, due to some bad situations at home, I\u2019m trying to get a job to spend some time at. When I tried to get a job at 14 I knew that I had to get my parent\u2019s signature. I\u2019m not sure if I need it now that I\u2019m 16","title":"Do I need parental consent to get a job at 16?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540915464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9spb34\/the_ministry_of_labour_threw_me_under_the_bus\/","id":"9spb34","body":"Last week I made an anonymous tip to the ministry of Labour via their website to come to a construction site I'm working on because there were multiple violations that could potentially lead to the serious injury of somebody. \n\nSkip to this week, the MOL came to the construction site and showed the general contractor the exact email I sent word for word. \n\nNow today my foreman comes to me and tells me that the contractor knew it was me based off of the information on the email.  I'll be honest,  this building contractor is probably one of the biggest in Ontario, and my company primarily deals with them. I'm now nervous about my job. \n\nShouldn't there be a law against this? I made an anonymous tip, the inspector, or who ever comes for the MOL should keep that email private. I feel like I can't trust the people who are supposed to protect me.\n\nWhat are my options? What do I do if I end up getting fired, or layed off for this? This is not right.","title":"The Ministry of Labour threw me under the bus (ONTARIO)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550895571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/atr98z\/my_new_manager_at_work_just_told_me_that_i_needed\/","id":"atr98z","body":"Just got switched to a new manager at work and had our first real one on one today. She mentioned a few things that she would like to see me improve. Among those things, she told me I needed to \u201cbe more white\u201d if I want to advance in my career. \n\nI\u2019m Asian American.\n\nI am absolutely appalled at what happened and still am shocked. I feel really uncomfortable working for this woman now and frankly even the thought of interacting with her at all makes me sick to my stomach. \n\nWhat should I do? I\u2019m afraid of retaliatory firing because the woman is very chummy chummy with some of the execs. \n\nState is Maryland, USA.","title":"My new manager at work just told me that I needed to \u201cbe more white\u201d to advance in my career under her. I\u2019m Asian American.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571625384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dktz3i\/promise_to_sign_contract\/","id":"dktz3i","body":"\"X\" is shares in a startup company. \n\nBoss and I created contract that said I would get X. \n\nI sign it (word doc). \n\nI email him my half. \n\nHe says he signed it. Great.\n\nFast forward 3 months of work later, I'm cleaning out my computer and notice I'm missing this contract. Whoops, forgot to ask for a completed version. I ask my boss to send it over. \n\nNow, he claims he never signed, and times have gotten rough for the company, so he's only offering less than X.\n\nDumb of me not to ask for a completed copy of the contract, but am I entitled to X? \n\nI have the emails as evidence. \n\nThanks.","title":"Promise to Sign Contract?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542203120,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x0803\/apartment_occupancy\/","id":"9x0803","body":"So I\u2019m from Canada first of all, Nova Scotia to be exact. Me and my girlfriend have decided to move in together. She currently is leasing a bachelor apartment, which is what we were going to move into together. She called to inform the landlord of this and was told that we cannot as a bachelor apartment has an occupany off maximum one person, and there are no other available rooms we could transfer to. Is this legally correct? I\u2019ve seen all over the internet couples moving in to bachelor apartments together and there is nothing on the lease about a max occupancy. Thanks. ","title":"Apartment occupancy","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570488239,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/der40n\/north_carolina_hit_car_behind_me_his_car_was\/","id":"der40n","body":"So I was leaving Walmart when I noticed a truck was parked behind my car where half of it\u2019s bumper was over the yellow line - literally right against my car. \n\nMe being the smart guy as I\u2019m on the phone with a client let my wife put the child in the car I told my wife I\u2019d get the truck in no problem. So I proceed to try without doing the smart thing and asking him to move forward temporarily or moving my car forward. \n\nNeedless to say I also didn\u2019t make the smart choice and hang up to apologize first. Instead I was intending to finish my call first then go up to him and apologize. Well apparently he\u2019s faster than the 20sec call and got out to yell at me. \n\nI apologized and told him I intended to talk to him after my call as I was just sitting behind my car. So he yelled in front of my child swearing telling me I should have came right up to him specially since \u201cI hit someone\u2019s shit\u201d. I looked over saw no damage (come on a light tap from some cheap plastic kids car) to the truck liner. \n\nI asked him to apologize for his language as my kid could hear it which he did. \n\nThen he continued all pissy and finally went to his car. I sat in my car waiting to see if he wanted to exchange insurance or anything but he did not ask in our altercation nor did he come back asking for it as I sat in my car. \n\nSo I drove home but now I\u2019m wondering can he follow up and do anything regarding this?","title":"North Carolina - hit car behind me (his car was parked over the line) with my son\u2019s little red truck(one of those ones you push around) as I was trying to put it in our trunk.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570458788,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dek8x7\/signing_bonus_questions_required_one_year\/","id":"dek8x7","body":"So long story so bear with me. I started working at this new job and it\u2019s been going horrible from the get go. Problem is I received a signing bonus so I have to stay for a year so I\u2019m going to stick it out and get out as soon as I can. The question when I can leave is debatable though. \n\nbackground Info about the signing bonus: In college I had a government sponsored scholarship that required I work for the government after graduation. I ended up talking a private industry job so I had to pay back the money for said scholarship. My new company offered to give me said signing bonus to cover the money I had to pay back. All I had to do was provide documentation verifying all this. \n\nHere\u2019s where my problem\/question comes in. So I got my offer and signed in Oct. 2018, and was told I didn\u2019t get my signing bonus till I started (June 2019). Ok thought that was odd since it\u2019s a signing bonus but that\u2019s fine. Provided proper documentation in Oct 2018. Job starts late June 2019 (7 months later) and immediately contact HR about the signing bonus. They have no idea what I\u2019m talking about and ask for my offer letter and the documentation again to verify this. (Apparently my original HR contact was terrible and got fired, my new HR contact also informs me that I should have received this when I signed, like I had originally thought) anyway even after giving them documentation again HR takes FOREVER and I literally got my signing bonus THIS WEEK Oct (2 1\/2 months after documentation was provided for the SECOND TIME) \n\nSo here\u2019s where my legal question comes in. my offer specifically states \u201cthe supplemental payment must be repaid to the company within 30 days should I voluntarily terminate my employment within 12 months of my receipt of payment\u201d. I received my payment this week (Oct 2019) so in theory I can\u2019t leave till Oct 2020. BUT my offer letter also says \u201csupplemental payment will be made within 45 days of the company\u2019s receipt of documentation\u201d which was provided months before I started and the second week of my employment (first week of July) so either way I SHOULD have received it 45 days after I signed or at the latest mid August (45 days after I gave documentation for the second time)\n\nSoooo do I have grounds to leave after one year\/one year after I should have received my signing bonus (aka at the latest August) without having to repay my signing bonus because the company did not deliver my signing bonus within the 45 days stated?","title":"Signing bonus questions: required one year commitment but signing bonus got delayed so when can I actually leave?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1507882521,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/763ejf\/new_flatmate_hasnt_signed_contract_and_keeps\/","id":"763ejf","body":"TL;DR: new flatmate who's already moved in hasn't signed contract and keeps stalling. I'm tired of this, consider moving out, and want to find a way I don't end up paying huge sums.\n\n\n\nHi there, I'm in a bit of a pinch with my new flatmate. First off, I'm in Austria, EU. \n\nAlthough I informed my house management (HM) way ahead and they assured me a new contract could be set up immediately, they were not able to send an alteration of contract before my old flatmate had left and the new one (Lukas) had moved in. According to HM, it also wouldn't be a deal if Lukas signed the alteration a couple days *after* moving in, as long as rent was paid. \n\nI did receive Lukas' rent for the current month, but since then, he's kept finding reasons not to sign. HM wants both of us to be main tenants, which I did tell him at the flatmate casting, but now he keeps having problems with that. He first argued that it was unfavourable for me if both of us were main tenants, as we have to pay a \u20ac 600 fee (partly to HM, partly to tax office) each time the contract has to be changed. Therefore, he argued, we both would benefit if just I were the main tenant and he could my subtenant. I checked with HM, but they insist both of us are main tenants. At this point, he asked me, hypothetically, what would happen if he just moved out. (I think he wanted to imply he could claim to have moved out, then there would be no question about me being the only main tenant). \n\nThen he said he doesn't want to be held responsible for damages which might have been caused by my former flatmate, and doesn't want to be main tenant for this reason. I replied that it's just plain normal to share such risks, especially in a shared flat, and that I too am responsible for damages caused by former flatmate. He kind of tried to justify his fear with some background story, but didn't provide details, it just seemed like a cheap excuse to me. \n\nNot knowing what to do about the situation and not wanting an argument for which I don't know enough facts, I asked him to get in touch with HM himself and ask how we could make an arrangement so everyone's satisfied. \n\nYesterday, Lukas called me (neither of us is currently in town) and told me he had talked to HM and they don't have a problem at all with just me being main tenant. I didn't have much time and asked him to call again later to provide me with more details. When I finally had some spare time and he hadn't called back, I called HM myself to ask what arrangement exactly they had found... only to be told that they actually told Lukas the exact opposite, and that they're still insisting on both of us being main tenants. So, apparently, either Lukas lied to me or he just doesn't (want to?) get it. \n\nI'm super uncomfortable. I don't have anything in my hands with his signature on, so right now I'm depending on his good will to pay next month's rent. Another problem is that he also hasn't paid his share of the damage\/security deposit yet, and I have the *slight* suspicion that he might have done damage to his room. He was ridiculously noisy in his room last week when assembling his furniture, and I heard it collapse several times (he refused my help). \n\nApart from all of the legal problems, I've also had more personal problems with him than expected, and I've found he doesn't stick to our arrangements, isn't as clean and polite as I'd have thought from our pre-moving-in meetings, doesn't respond to messages, isn't home much so I can't talk to him about important things etc. \n\nI have two options: option number one, the straightforward and obvious one, is that I insist on him signing the contract and paying the deposit or otherwise I'll throw him out and look for a new flatmate. We'll have to pay the a \u20ac600 fee and live together, but from what I can tell by now, we're not likely to become friends and living in a flat with him won't be too comfortable\/nice.  \n\nOption number two. I've been thinking about moving in with my GF. Back when I settled for Lukas, GF and I had only been dating for a few months, and I felt under too much pressure to decide whether to move in together, but that was almost three months ago. I already started regretting not having chosen her as my flatmate before the whole Lukas trouble started. We spend practically all of our time together anyways, we keep sleeping at the same place. It's as if we're already living together, but have to switch between our flats. \n\nI think the smartest way out of this would be to confront him as soon as we're both back in town, ask him to immediately pay the deposit (and of course give him a signed print document proving he did, if he does), then I'll at least be a bit safer if he's actually done damage to the room. I also don't see *any* plausible reason why he could say no to that. \n\nMy additional idea would be to just terminate *my* contract and find a new flat with GF. It's a bit of a dick move, but if Lukas keeps running from committing, he IMHO has to see this coming. The way I see it, there isn't anything he can do about that. If I do, he doesn't have any reason to pay rent though (the contract has a 3 month period of notice). I really can't afford paying the whole rent for three months all by myself. \n\nIs it legally possible that before I terminate the contract (and remain main tenant for three months together with my former flatmate who has already moved out) I ask Lukas to sign a sublease? According to *him*, HM is fine with that, and it's all he wants, so there's no reason he wouldn't sign that. HM isn't fine with me being the only main tenant, but if I terminate the contract instead of changing it, I won't be the single main tenant anyways. \n\nThis way, I could make sure to get his rent for at least another month or two, and we could both start searching for new apartments. I'm not sure how sound the sublease would be legally, but at least I'd have some sort of proof that he lives with me and owes me money as long as he does. \n\nThanks! ","title":"new flatmate hasn't signed contract and keeps finding reasons not to","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552409652,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0a2uz\/unfairly_suspended_from_work_what_are_my_rights\/","id":"b0a2uz","body":"Hey so two Mondays ago new employees were hired at my job. It was my day off and the current employees were talking bad about the company.\n\nUpper management caught word of this and launched an investigation. I was on a computer and read another employees statement on the matter and I confronted him about it because he told upper management that I planned to quit my job. We weren't supposed to talk amongst each other and he told my manager that I read his email and then suspended me last friday.\n\nNow they said they would call me Monday before noon and they didn't. I called and they said by the end of the day they would get back to me and they didnt. I emailed them before open and they still haven't got a hold of me.\n\nI feel that this is unfair. I just read my entire employee hand book and it doesn't say a thing about suspension. \n\nSo in Montana we are not an at will employment state. Can they suspend me like this and if so how long? And can they do this without paying me?\n\nI have never been late to this job or had any write ups if that helps.","title":"Unfairly suspended from work. What are my rights. Montana USA","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1414762909,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2kvsx0\/my_friends_exfianc\u00e9_wont_return_the_engagement\/","id":"2kvsx0","body":"Is it considered a conditional gift in Georgia? Does fault matter? She broke up with him after he was arrested for a felony (of which he claims innocence - he's been indicted but there hasn't been a trial yet). There was no infidelity. Thanks for your help","title":"My (friend's) ex-fianc\u00e9 won't return the engagement ring in Georgia","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570056245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dchx7s\/ky_landlord_asking_us_to_pay_overages_on_utilities\/","id":"dchx7s","body":"I live in a home split into two townhouses & our landlord keeps our water on one bill and has it included in our rent ($40). This was a typical month, no reason we\u2019d go over the bill at all, let along by that much.\n\nMy landlord says that the water bill for our apartments was $157 this month & that we can\u2019t go over the $80 mark for the overall bill without paying overages. \n\nOur neighbor says that, in the past, they have split it in half with whoever is in the other half. However, should we have to pay at all since we can\u2019t tell which apartment caused us to go over the $80 mark?\n\nNote: we do not get any sort of credit or reduced rent for going UNDER the $80.","title":"(KY) Landlord asking us to pay overages on utilities","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443302180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mibip\/leased_apartment_only_to_find_out_later_that\/","id":"3mibip","body":"My wife and I leased an apartment for one year on the 1st of September. Today I found out that the building is about to undergo a renovation\/restoration involving exterior scaffolding\/possible shrouding\/loss of use of balcony. All of this was known to the landlord prior to our signing the lease.\n\nRenovation is to begin at the end of October, exact scheduling to be announced, so we don't know how long \"our\" wing will be affected.\n\nDo we have any options?\n\nThanks for any info.","title":"Leased apartment only to find out later that building is about to be renovated (Portland, OR)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446605172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rfx1u\/annulment_of_marriage_in_missouri_needed_or_not\/","id":"3rfx1u","body":"Long story short.  Got married on the day I thought my divorce was final.  Turns out the judge didn't sign the divorce decree until 10 days later.  Thusly, making the marriage void.  We are no longer together, so we are happy that it is void.\n\nHowever, seeing how under Missouri Statute a bigamous marriage is automatically void.  Do I need to file for an annulment of the void marriage.\n\nFor the life of me I can't find any form on the internet that is a basic Missouri Marriage Annulment.\n\nSo two questions, is an annulment needed, and how can I do this myself?","title":"Annulment of Marriage in Missouri, needed or not?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442772869,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lp8y1\/a_question_about_family_photos_tx\/","id":"3lp8y1","body":"This morning, I saw [this](http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/sep\/20\/teen-prosecuted-naked-images-himself-phone-selfies) news story and it made me wonder about a similar situation. I recently helped my parents move, and while we were packing I found a bunch of old family photos, and a couple were nude bathtub photos of myself as a toddler. They are perfectly innocuous, nothing remotely sexual about them, just regular family photo kind of stuff. \n\nMy question is would this be considered CP? Do they need to be disposed of? I'm a little hesitant to try and search Google for an answer.","title":"A question about family photos [TX]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553023430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b31mx0\/is_this_legal_i_dont_know_much_but_it_doesnt_seem\/","id":"b31mx0","body":"I live in an apartment complex and I have two dogs. A 25 lb husky mix and a 8 lb chihuahua. There is no manager of the complex. Each apartment is owned by individuals but there is a \"Team Property Management\" that is made up of 3 volunteers who own their apartment.\nPeople who rent aren't allowed to participate. They have been sending us tickets because we have 2 dogs and there is a rule of only 1 dog per unit. The tickets have added up to $4,000. They also accuse us of not picking up after our dogs and that they have proof from the security cameras. Everytime we ask to see footage, they refuse to show it. This doesn't make any sense? We refuse to pay the amount of money but they keep harassing us by calling our landlord and sending tickets to our landlords house. NOT only that, but they have told my landlord to kick us out because we are \"problematic\" people. Our landlord has decided to let us stay because we pay our rent on time and she gets along with us. But what seems the most hypocritical to me is that one of the lady who is the the \"Team Property Management\" has 2 dogs. The dogs are pitbulls and look like they weigh around 30 pounds each. And she's allowed to keep them for whatever reason? Is this fair\/ legal? Our landlord wants to help us but she doesn't know much about laws so I want to help her gather information so we can avoid paying that ridiculous amount of money.","title":"Is this legal? I don't know much but it doesn't seem right to me.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569206299,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d80h00\/my_dad_sold_my_the_land_i_was_to_inherit\/","id":"d80h00","body":"My mother died unexpectedly in 2014. All her life she and my father had told me about the plot of land that she owned. It was the only plot of land that had been handed down through the female line in her family, it had been handed down for generations. I was always told that the land would pass to me after they died. My mother and father both told me that it was in their will that i would inherit it. After she died my father, my brother and I even took a trip to spread her ashes on the land.\n\nMy father told me that he would keep paying the taxes on the land until I was ready to take it over. My husband and I had been having financial issues for the past few years, so we hadn't been financially able to take over paying for the land. We did tell my dad that if he had trouble that I would take it over and we would figure something out. \n\nMy brother found out last weekend that my father sold the land. He just told me today about it being sold. He also sold the land to a male family member, which my mother had told me wasn't allowed to be done. She said it was in the will that it could only be sold to a female family member. My father has remarried and lately has been purchasing items that he shouldn't be able to afford. He purchased 2 new cars and a pull behind travel trailer. My husband and I were wondering where he got the money to do this. Now we know.\n\nI am going to try to get a copy of her will from the courthouse tomorrow. Lawyers, do I have any legal recourse here? What can I do to get the land back?","title":"My dad sold my the land I was to inherit","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1538966146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mb2kh\/girlfriends_friend_hit_a_car_and_got_a_recording\/","id":"9mb2kh","body":"Backstory: my girlfriend was in the car with her friend and they ran a stop sign and hit another car. That part was definitely her fault and her friend was willing to pay for damages and a later date. \n\nMy girlfriend ended up getting a room next to the lady who they hit and the lady was talking about what she was going to do. She claimed she was going to make her pay even though she knows nothing is wrong. She said she was going to lie and say things were worse than they are to make her friend pay her more money. I believe this is insurance fraud and I'm just wandering what she can do to save herself from getting sued. My girlfriend did get this on a recording and since it's in WV, they are a one party consent so it should be fine. I also need clarification if the recording of her conversation is legal and if she can share the recording with me. I want to hear the conversation, but I do not want to ruin the case by having her send it to me. \n\nTLDR: mutual friend hit a car and my girlfriend has a recording of her saying she is going to commit what I think is insurance fraud. What can she do to protect herself?","title":"Girlfriends friend hit a car and got a recording of the lady saying she was going to lie to get money.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540699283,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s0iaf\/ny_received_speeding_ticket_in_california_while\/","id":"9s0iaf","body":"I received a speeding ticket near Oakhurst, CA about a week ago. I was doing 70 in a 45 and the cop cited me for 64 in a 55. He told me I would receive something in the mail in a few weeks, but I'd like to get ahead of this and have an idea of the process or what the fines will be. ","title":"[NY] Received speeding ticket in California while on vacation - Need advice","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571002091,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhgv06\/ny_can_i_take_defensive_driving_twice_in_one_year\/","id":"dhgv06","body":"I originally took defensive driving solely for insurance discounts, I had no points or infractions. I took the class in January. It\u2019s been 9 months, and I have just received my first speeding ticket. My lawyer mentioned traffic school, but from what I\u2019ve read online, you can only take it every 18 months for point reduction. Since I didn\u2019t previously take it for point reduction, will I even be eligible to re-take it if I am assigned traffic school? I\u2019m also confused because I have seen people stating defensive driving appears on your driving record, but the class is not listed on my record at all. If you don\u2019t take it for point reduction does it not show on your record?","title":"(NY) Can I take defensive driving twice in one year?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553186379,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3sqr6\/my_landlordestate_agency_have_violated_both_our\/","id":"b3sqr6","body":"So, yesterday our estate agent (who owns our property so also act as our landlord) turned up at the house to conduct a house viewing for people looking to move into our house. According to the act mentioned above and our tenancy agreement, landlords are legally obliged to give 24 hours of either verbal or written notice when a viewing is going to happen, or when they are going to visit the house for any other reason. \n\nWe thought our house had already been let to someone for next year as we haven\u2019t had any viewings for months, and when we were having them we were notified every time. One of my housemates was completely undressed in his room ahead of getting in the shower when the agent turned up and only had a couple of minutes to grab his clothes to put back on before the agent knocked on his door and opened without waiting for a response. \n\nThe resident who opened the door felt like he wasn\u2019t on a position to say no to the house viewing and felt obliged to let them in, despite being uncomfortable with it. Alongside this, 2 residents were not in the house and so couldn\u2019t monitor their valuables that had been left in their rooms whilst 6 strangers walked around them. \n\nThis leads us to be concerned about any other house viewings that have taken place that we weren\u2019t notified about when none of us have been in the house. \n\nWhat (if anything) can we do about this?\n\nSide note: the agent showing the house also did nothing to stop the potential renters from taking pictures and filming our personal rooms without asking our permission. I personally feel this is a major breach of privacy as we could have had any kind of personal information on show.\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"My landlord\/estate agency have violated both our tenancy agreement in two places, and the Landlord Tenant Act (1985). What can me and my housemates do? (United Kingdom)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541478521,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ulaix\/are_employees_exempt_from_overtime_pay_if_they\/","id":"9ulaix","body":"^(Asking for...a friend.)\n\nMy friend is an employee of Acme, inc., a California corporation whose shares are not publically traded.  My friend happens to own <1% of Acme's shares.\n\nThe CEO (who owns >90% of the shares) says they don't have to pay my friend overtime because he's a part-owner of the business.\n\nIs that true?  Any idea what California law actually says on the matter?","title":"Are employees exempt from overtime pay if they own stock in the company? (California)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539028890,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mickx\/school_not_repairing_bathrooms\/","id":"9mickx","body":"My school has had bathroom problems for multiple years now (2, maybe more). Some of the male bathroom stall locks do not work or are partially broken, some of the sinks don\u2019t work, and some of the paper towel dispensers are broken. I had an issue come up and have requested to have the locks repaired twice. Both of the requests were acknowledged, neither of them did anything. Is there anything I can do to get them to fix the locker rooms or any policies I should know about?","title":"School not repairing bathrooms","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555488738,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be5923\/seeking_advice_before_i_lawyer_up_on_what_to_do\/","id":"be5923","body":"Seeking legal advice...\nThis is my throwaway account. My main is my username for everything, so I don\u2019t want it being linked back to me, and would like it very much if a face couldn\u2019t be put to the stuff I\u2019m about to type.\n\nThe mother of my child wants to put me on child support. The case is still pending.\nI don\u2019t want to be put on child support.\nI want my daughter to live with us equally (alternating four days of the week other week), and the cost be cut in half. I don\u2019t want to help the mother with her rent or anything. I just want to make sure my daughter is taken well care of.\nShould I get a lawyer? The lawyer I want to go with is asking for money even for advice. Would it be a waste of time and money since 90% of the time the mother always win.\n\nThings I have on her that could help me.\n-She has let my daughter get lice for months on end over the last three years. She waits until the last minute to do something about it. Always! She thinks that the over the counter stuff works, but she only buys it once they get really bad.\n-She\u2019s always sick while with her. I know little kids get sick a lot. It\u2019s mostly always strep throat or an ear infection.\n-On top of the lice thing on her hair, she developed a fungus on hair (which is now gone), but the doctor told her that it was most likely from being dirty, and not bathing. She would not bathe her because she rather her go to sleep or she\u2019s too tired.\n-She has an one bedroom apartment. I have a three bedroom house that she will have her own room in.\nThey share a bed over there. My daughter needs space.\n\nNow the more complex stuff I hate talking about.\n-I have videos of us fighting where she gets physical, and starts swinging at me. In the videos you can hear me asking her to stop.\n-When we would fight and I would just need space away from her; she would go as far as showing up to my job. One time she showed up with our daughter unbuckled in the backseat. We had to argue outside my job, and I told her to just go home, she sped off causing my daughter to fly backwards in the back of the car. I texted her and told her that I was going to call the cops and told her what she had done because I was worried about my daughter. She texted back \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that fast.\u201d \u201cShe didn\u2019t hurt herself. She\u2019s okay.\u201d\n-I wasn\u2019t always the best boyfriend. I let the stress of making ends meet get to me, and started neglecting her, and she ended up cheating. For two years we tried getting over it. I just couldn\u2019t.\n-I have pictures of the scratches she would leave on me after a fight we had because she was tired of me \u201cnot being able to see her\u201d and the effort she\u2019s putting into fixing the fact that she cheated.\n-I got pictures and videos of her breaking stuff outside my house just because I wouldn\u2019t let her inside my home for stuff that belonged to her. She also has stuff of mine that she doesn\u2019t want to return. I\u2019m willing to give her all her stuff back, but I need my stuff as well.\n-Before the separation. We shared my current home. She would apply for store credit cards, max them out, and let the bills to collections. That just shows she\u2019s terrible with finances. So I have a stack pile of letters from banks and debt collectors trying to collect what is due to them.\n-She\u2019s a shop lifter or was. I don\u2019t know if she still does it, but she\u2019s been caught three times at Walmart while being with our daughter. She\u2019s lucky that they didn\u2019t call CPS on her. She would text me that she was caught and she\u2019s really nervous, and whatever one feels when they\u2019ve been caught in deep shit. So I only have text messages of her saying she\u2019s been caught with dates and time stamps, so perhaps I could go to that Walmart and ask for a copy of that footage from that date.\nThere\u2019s more, but you guys get my point. I don\u2019t want my daughter developing such toxic habits like her mother.\nShould I go for full custody and be the one to put her on child support or should I just bite the bullet and take it up bum like most men who are put on child support?\nAny advice is appreciated.\nThanks.","title":"Seeking advice, before I lawyer up, on what to do about being put on child support.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569609154,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da4ilk\/so_im_being_charged_with_a_hit_and_run\/","id":"da4ilk","body":"I was parked at a restaurant when I started to back up. I must\u2019ve overshot it and I accidentally bumped into a car, nothing insane just a slight tap it felt like. I was with my s\/o in the lot, and it was super busy, so I panicked and drove back home. Later that night, we were hanging out in my car watching YouTube and a cop pulled up to me. He asked for my ID and my s\/o\u2019s ID. He then proceeded to tell us to go home and to not stay out late at night. I get home and the same cop is at my house. My mom is freaking out on the inside, and he tells me to get out of the car politely. I get out and he asks me if I was at chic fil a earlier that night. I tell him yes sir officer and he looks around the back of my car for any dents. He then tells me I technically committed a hit and run and that the most likely outcome will be a fine and driving classes, but I\u2019m a big goody two-shoes and have never been in trouble with the law before, so if anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated.","title":"So I\u2019m being charged with a hit and run...","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570489744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/derfop\/can_you_press_charges_when_you_only_have_a_phone\/","id":"derfop","body":"Do you have enough information to legally press charges against an individual if the only information you have about them is a phone number?","title":"Can you press charges when you only have a phone number?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553538349,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5ed9g\/va_show_cause_on_open_divorce\/","id":"b5ed9g","body":"Simple question, though we can\u2019t seem to get a straight answer.\n\nLegal separation 4 years ago determined division of property. Ex-spouse is refusing to sign quit claim deed on previously shared home. Divorce paperwork was filed in January, has gone thru uncontested but is not finalized. Can a show cause order be filed while the divorce is still pending?\n\nPlease and thank you!! ","title":"[VA] Show Cause on Open Divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541912938,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9w19cd\/is_it_inappropriate_to_email_a_court_appointed\/","id":"9w19cd","body":"My mom and step dad are currently going through a divorce. It's getting very ugly, and my mom is playing \"games\" in regards to visitation for my step dad to see my two little brothers (8 and 10 years old). My mom is a horrible person, and I do not feel comfortable knowing what she does when she has my little brothers and how she treats them. Currently, the court hired a 3rd party lawyer to interview my step dad and mom and my little brothers to help decide on a schedule for when my stepdad can see them or who my brothers should be living with. There's a lot to the story, but my mom is a narcissist and a crazy manipulator and I worry that the 3rd party lawyer won't see this. Is it inappropriate of me to email this lawyer, and just send him a letter explaining how great of a father my step dad is and how much my brothers love being with him? I really want my step dad to have custody or at least be able to see them more, but I also don't want to hurt the case by sending an email if it's inappropriate to do so. Any and all advice is welcome.","title":"Is it inappropriate to email a court appointed lawyer in order to help my step dad get custody?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539351643,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nkd7r\/ohio_i_was_sent_to_a_hospital_and_kept_on_the\/","id":"9nkd7r","body":"I informed my job while I was there. When I called to let them know I was out of the hospital and can return Sunday, they told me \u201cWe\u2019ll see if we can let you back on board\u201d\n\nAre they allowed to fire me for being sent to the hospital for an emergency and then put into the psych unit?","title":"Ohio: I was sent to a hospital and kept on the psychiatric unit for 5 days essentially against my will to leave.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541190832,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tnu5t\/hostile_work_environment\/","id":"9tnu5t","body":"First off, I\u2019ve never dealt with a situation like this, so please cut me some slack if I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about. I really need some help and advice.  A lot of this might be kind of confusing, but I will try to explain as best as I can the situation I\u2019m in. \n\nI work in a long term care facility in central Iowa. I\u2019ve been employed for a year coming at the end of this month. I\u2019m the youngest member of the administration, as well as the only male. I\u2019m a staffing coordinator with almost 3 years of experience in this field. My basic job duties are to schedule employees for shifts, and cover call ins when staff are sick. This boils down to contacting every available employee to see if they are available to work. \n\nI\u2019m hourly, and on call 24\/7. I do get paid 15 minutes per call (if I get a call at 3:00pm, I bill until 3:15pm. If I receive another call at 3:16pm, I\u2019d bill for another 15 minutes), and I\u2019m expected to respond to calls within 30 minutes. \n\nDuring the first 5-6 months, everything seemed to be going well. I had received some warnings from a few different employees, telling me to watch what I say and do around certain other staff members. They had been known to \u2018stir the pot\u2019 and target people who they didn\u2019t get along with. \n\nI tend to stay away from this type of thing in the workplace. I like to just buckle down and get my work done. My first supervisor and I got along very well together, and we had no issues working together. She had left soon after I started working there after dedicating ~30 years of service to the company. After she has left, an interim supervisor was assigned to the position, we also got along fairly well. I\u2019d received across the board 3 out of 4s on my 6 month review. \n\nI had noticed early that the administration had built a very cliquey lunch group. All of these people live in the same suburb, watch each other\u2019s children, go out for drinks together, vacations together.  and talk crap about employees through Facebook. A good chunk of the administration and employees there are related to each other (Mothers\/daughters\/grandparents\/etc.). \n\nSoon after, a permanent supervisor was hired. This is when the trouble started.  Right away, she pushed to change the physical schedule that had been used for years prior. After the change, more mistakes started happening with the schedule. I believe this stemmed from confusion with the new schedule, unclear expectations, and staff not being held accountable for their actions. \n\nWhen there is a change to the schedule, my supervisor wanted everything marked in red ink to note changes. There was a few times that I had not marked a change on one of the 3 schedules that needed to be updated. I was written up twice for this (1st in mid August, 2nd in late September). \n\nAfter this 2nd write up, I went to the director of the building to ask for advice, and she suggested that my supervisor and I just needed to communicate better with each other, and assured me that I was not being targeted. \n\n\nIn mid October, I received a 3rd write up. This was considerable more detailed than the previous two. My supervisor had written in specific dates when events\/mistakes happened. Summed up, the disciplinary form stated that I was not being proactive in filling open shifts, and not contacting employees to fill shifts. \n\nSo I\u2019ve provided staff with multiple different ways to pick up shifts. I\u2019ve created a binder with paper copies of open shifts that staff can sign up for. I\u2019d also text each employee asking for their availability. I\u2019d send out texts asking for specific shifts that needed to be filled.  This was all done AT LEAST 2 weeks before the shifts actually happened. Sometimes up to 6 weeks. New schedules were always posted  ~1.5 weeks in advance. \n\nI spent a week going through my work phone texts and recording every single instance where I asked an employee to pick up a shift, sent them a list of shifts to pick up, or asked them for their availability. ~1,700 in total. I totaled up these numbers and put them into response rates for each employee, and presented the findings to the director of the building and my supervisor in a meeting I set up with them to appeal the write ups. \n\nI made very clear notes of when I contacted people, how many times, and how they conflicted with the dates of my 3rd write up. During this meeting, I was informed that texting employees was not a valid form of communication (this was after being reprimanded in the SAME meeting for not responding to employee\u2019s texts in a timely manner).\n\nFinally, today there was an issue on the schedule with one of the staff members. My supervisor asked me about it, and I explained the situation and what had happened. A few minutes later, I\u2019d overheard my supervisor on the phone talking about terminating me sometime next week. \n\nI do want to make clear that I have made mistakes doing my job. I\u2019ve been open with all supervisors that there will be mistakes, even after double and triple checking my work, as I\u2019m usually the only person that checks my schedules.  There has been times when I\u2019ve been on call and not reached out to every employee possible. I\u2019m not completely faultless in the situation. \n\nI\u2019ve contacted an employment lawyer and gave them all the information they\u2019d asked for. They said they would get back to me next week either way. \n\nPlease don\u2019t hesitate to ask me questions so I can try to make this more clear. I apologize for the long post, but I\u2019m stuck in this situation that I\u2019ve never had to deal with and I\u2019m  coming here for guidance. Thank you all in advance. \n\n\n\n","title":"Hostile work environment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1410795708,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ggtym\/in_policeprosecutor_tactics_to_lie_about_my\/","id":"2ggtym","body":"[IN] This question is about police or prosecutor tactics. I was questioned by the police at their place about a felony, which I since have been charged with. I was not Mirandized. Here's the sequence of events:\n\n1. Taken to interrogation room.\n2. Police in the room vocally cue the A\/V person outside the room to begin recording (audio and visual), then do intros.\n3. I am questioned. Nothing interesting.\n4. Police do \"outros\", then cue the A\/V person to stop recording.\n5. Police ask me to take a polygraph test. I decline, in a normal tone of voice.\n6. I leave.\n\nThe detective who asked me to take a polygraph has since (at pretrial) testified that I started yelling and screaming when I was asked to take a polygraph. But I didn't, I just told them I wasn't going to take a polygraph because they're neither reliable nor admissible.\n\nIsn't it AWFULLY CONVENIENT that the police stop the A\/V recording and then they can make up a story that I started screaming ? Is this a tactic used by police or prosecutors to fuck with people? ","title":"(IN) Police\/prosecutor tactics to lie about my reaction to polygraph?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553478280,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b54k8k\/what_are_my_legal_options_for_pest_control_in_my\/","id":"b54k8k","body":"I've been dealing with roaches in a duplex apartment that I moved into last last year. I've contacted the landlord about the problem 1 week after moving in, and a handful of time since. His solution was coming over and spraying the walls with roach repellent. After about 5 times of him doing this, the problem still existed so I took matters into my own and contacted a pest control company, they treated my place and did a follow up and the problem has been slowly getting better though its still a problem. The technician said they definitely aren't coming from my causings and it's most likely coming from my neighbors' doings. He also told me to speak with my landlord about getting the other apartments in the duplex inspected and treated because just treating my apartment would probably not be completely efficient. \n\nIs there any way I can get legal action to help pay for the cost of the pest control? Also is there anyway I could break my lease without penalty because of the problem.  ","title":"What are my legal options for pest control in my Apartment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570036446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcd8db\/estate_dispute_texas\/","id":"dcd8db","body":"Acquaintance just lost his sister - cancer. She was living in hospice and did not have her affairs in order. She left him a car, and a savings account but only the car was taken car of through the proper channels (title signed over, etc...). \n\n​\n\nThe issue is the savings account with over $200k. He has a letter stating her intent to leave everything to him but not signed\/dated notarized and no will.... no children but there are 2 other brothers which the letter states are not to have anything or any say on her estate. There are also landlords, hospice workers, etc.. that can validate her wishes.\n\n​\n\nProbate lawyer handling the case says he has no legal right to the account and will only speak with the brother for $600\/hr. Pretty sure the answer is to lawyer up on his own at this point but wanted to see if there are any other considerations in this case.\n\n​\n\nTIA","title":"Estate Dispute - Texas","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555088622,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcfz4j\/am_i_able_to_take_any_action_against_a_stranger\/","id":"bcfz4j","body":"Let me know if I need to give more info! Live in the states for reference.","title":"Am I able to take any action against a stranger who has vaguely threatened me on Facebook and contacted my jobs to tell them lies to sabotage me?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1506110925,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71tmbs\/can_an_employer_terminate_me_for_refusing_to\/","id":"71tmbs","body":"I'm in IL, an at will state in the USA.  Employer wants us to install a program for building security on our personal phones, and I would rather not.\n\nIf I absolutely have to I'll probably just buy a burner phone, but then I've got to wait for it to come and that means not being to swipe into work because half the employee's badges have been deactivated (without an email warning about it either, how aggravating).\n\nI don't really know if this is business law.","title":"Can an employer terminate me for refusing to install an app on my personal phone?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1503077743,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ujet6\/il_my_checks_are_garnished_for_child_support_but\/","id":"6ujet6","body":"Sorry in advance if this has been answered, I could not find an answer when I searched the sub.\n\nLast month I went to court to respond to a summons for child support. We agreed upon an amount based on the new law that generates the support paid based on the income of both parents, I was literally the first person that has used this new system according to the judge. They told me it would take 4-6 weeks for my checks to start getting garnished and in the mean time to pay through their website. I made one payment, which was half of the monthly amount that I was ordered to pay, and then received a letter in the mail that described how to garnish the check. \n\n\nLater I found out this letter was a copy and my employer received the same letter so they could start garnishing. \n\n\nI get paid biweekly, so they chose the biweekly option. This option ends up being less than the monthly amount due because there are two months out of the year in which I receive three checks. Meaning the biweekly option is calculated by dividing the yearly amount paid by the number of pay periods in a year. \n\n\nSo I got another letter in the mail stating I owed money for last month even though 2 payments were sent. The amount is the difference that would eventually get covered by the extra pay periods in a year. \n\nBut I have no idea who to contact or what to do about this. I paid what I was supposed to, and my check was garnished the correct amount. Is there a way to resolve this so that I don't end up paying the difference every month and then get screwed on the months that I get three checks?","title":"[IL] My checks are garnished for child support, but I received a letter in the mail stating I still owe money.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1443215289,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mdun9\/former_lawn_fertilizing_company_came_out_and_did\/","id":"3mdun9","body":"So as the title states, I'm in Michigan. I had hired a lawn company to fertilize my lawn at the beginning of the summer. Pretty much everything was wrong with this company.\n\nFirst, the \"lawn assistant\" I had forged my name (spelling it wrong in the process) and had someone come out and spray for weeds, kill all the grubs that were on my lawn, and handle the mole problem I had in my yard. (Note: I had no weeds, no grubs, and definitely no mole). I assume they got commission on whatever they sold, so he figured I was some sort of an idiot. I ended up speaking with his boss and the employee was fired, and the balance on my account was credited so I didn't have to pay anything. That was the first sign that I was dealing with a shady company... but since they credited my account, I decided not to cancel my service right away. Boy... big mistake.\n\nNext, their guarantee. I had paid for them to come out and spray for mosquitos. I had been assured that their guarantee was so good, that if I ever was bit by a single mosquito, they would come out and spray again for free. One week after 4th of July, I called to complain because we were all bit up like crazy over the 4th, but instead of them sending someone out to spray again for free -  I was told that they would be out the following week (10 days later) for my next application, so I could just wait it out and they would do my next application ($200 cost). I found this to be unacceptable and having already dealt with the fraud guy, I responded to the email on July 10th telling them to cancel all future applications as I would not be doing business with them anymore. \n\nThe following day, I left town for 2 weeks to head to my cottage with some friends. Upon returning home, I found an invoice in my door. The company came out and did the application anyways and are trying to charge me. I have sent messages to numerous people via email and through regular mail - stating that I had cancelled prior to them coming out and it's not my problem they came out and sprayed anyways. I was told it would be looked into and handled. \n\nAs of today, I received an email saying \"The email we received from you stating you wanted to cancel was the day of the application was completed on 7\/15.\" Grammar issues aside with that previous statement... I have the email saved and printed. It clearly states the email was sent on 7\/10, 5 days before the application was even done - but they insist that the 10th and the 15th of July are the same day. Now they are threatening to send my balance to collections. \n\nWhat can I do to handle this? I've spent at least 10 hours or more dealing with these people. Can I invoice them for my hourly rate of $60\/hour since I have been having to deal with this for so long?\n\nAny advice is appreciated. Thanks.","title":"Former lawn fertilizing company came out and did an application after I had cancelled my service. Now they want $200. (Michigan)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1442944898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lyp79\/germany_bought_40tv_for_79_due_to_typing_error\/","id":"3lyp79","body":"I\u00b4m sorry if this is the wrong sub. If there is another sub more suited for my question i would appreciate it if you could direct me to it.\n\nSo on Saturday my friend sent me a link to this: \n\nhttp:\/\/imgur.com\/01oShrq  \n\nI immediatly bought one of those TVs for myself via prepayment. On their website it states that a conclusion of contract kicks in as soon as i get a confirmation of my payment. I got the email confirming just that.  But 2 days later they send out an email stating that they can\u00b4t send out TVs for this price.\n\nDo i have the right to get the TV or can they just say they made a mistake and send back my prepayment without any article being shipped?\n\nI would appreciate some advice on that, if there are further questions regarding my problem please feel free to ask them.","title":"(Germany) Bought 40\"TV for 79\u20ac due to typing error, company doesnt want to ship it.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1541101268,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tcq8z\/eviction_in_hawaii\/","id":"9tcq8z","body":"I\u2019m in college and renting a large house with 7 other students. We always pay our rent on time, and for the most part our quite and usually out of the house. We\u2019ve threw a party last Saturday for Halloween weekend, and the cops showed up around 11pm and told us to shut it down, which we did.\n\nWe all woke up today with this email from our property manager:\n\u201cGood Morning Everyone,\n\nWe have received multiple neighbor complaints about partying and having to call the police which is all in violation of the lease. With that being said, all of you will need to move out by the end of November. I would also like to schedule a day to visit the property and take a look inside, possibly tomorrow or Monday. \n\n\nPlease let me know if you have any questions or concerns.\n\n\nHave a great day\nThank you,\u201d\n\nI know you haven\u2019t seen the rental agreement, but I\u2019ve heard we have a ton of tenant rights in Hawaii. Is eviction as easy as this or is there ways around this?\n\nThanks in advance for any help, and sorry if you\u2019re not able to put in any input without seeing the rental agreement, this is all super new to me. And it\u2019s Oahu, HI btw","title":"Eviction in Hawaii","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552290261,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azqlul\/ca_my_friend_got_charged_for_murder_and_didnt_do\/","id":"azqlul","body":"My friend stupid as fuck\n\nHe was driving with his friend and his friend seen this dude he was beefing with and shot him he dead now. \n\nThe dude that shot him got arrested and snitched saying my friend was driving. 12 raided his house the next day and arrested him. They charged my friend with\nMurder but this happened right in front of a store with cameras in broad daylight and it\u2019s clear he didn\u2019t\nTouch a trigger . \n\nIs my friend fucked! What is legal rights cause he had a girl she\u2019s pregnant and everything","title":"[CA] my friend got charged for murder and didn\u2019t do murder","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554670441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bakzz9\/alleged_paedophile_on_a_minecraft_server\/","id":"bakzz9","body":"So I play on a Minecraft server and I have evidence of a 23 year old man begging for nudes off of a 14 year old girl (Screenshots of their chats). My friend has also told me that he has been in a discord call at the same time with said 23 year old whilst he was encouraging a 13 year old girl to masturbate on call (only audio).\n\nI call him out repeatedly in chat, however I get muted for a while (unable to type in chat) because what I'm saying is apparently \"18+\" which is against the rules of the server. People then call me out saying I'm out of line for calling him out like that.\n\nHe has also admitted to me through chat that he has done all of this however apparently \"it's not a big deal\".\n\nThe average age for people who play on this Minecraft server is around 15.\n\nOn the server I play on, he's friendly with everyone so I can see why people stick up for him when I call him out in chat. I have also reported it to the server staff with evidence but to no avail and I am labelled as the bad person.\n\nI don't know him in real life, nor do we live in the same country.\n\nWhat can I do?","title":"Alleged paedophile on a Minecraft Server.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539271906,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nazk3\/az_forming_a_business_what_do_i_need_to_do\/","id":"9nazk3","body":"Hi Legal Advice,  I am starting my company in the realm of gaming, we are in Arizona. I don't have a legal entity formed yet and want to know when I should go about this. I am the sole founder.  The end product is an online multiplayer game, where we will collect basic user information from the players (name,  location). We will also launch with a communication feature that allows players to communicate via voice and text. Our servers are based in the US and processing everything. We will be charging users to use parts of the service, but we plan to use a separate company for this..\n\n​\n\n​\n\nI want to know... \n\n​\n\n\\- Can we launch a playable demo \/ beta - with out forming a legal entity, (Like and LLC)?\n\n\\- I am concerned with the liability  aspect for  collecting users location and voice. \n\n\\- Do I need a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service drafted by a lawyer before we let anyone play?\n\n\\- Do I need to worry about the GDPR if we launch and our servers are based in the USA? (Now, as we are only entering a public demo)\n\n\\- Anything else I need to protect myself.","title":"[AZ] Forming a business, what do I need to do ?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1539122060,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mtgxc\/is_it_worth_it_to_fight_a_landlord_who_is_passing\/","id":"9mtgxc","body":"I am an American student in the UK (Cardiff, specifically), and I have a signed tenancy agreement with a landlord. This contract started in September, and for a variety of reasons that I don't think are relevant to the issue at hand, I decided to move out, as my contract says it can be renegotiated and tenants swapped.\n\n​\n\nThe way we first viewed the property is through an agency of sorts that shows many properties of multiple landlords, and it was in their presence that we signed the contract, though the contract itself states that \"all rental, maintenance, and contractual issue will be dealt with by the landlord directly\". \n\n​\n\nNow, the issue. The contract itself states that there will be a \u00a3150 + VAT cost to getting the contract updated, or \u00a3180 total. This is fine, and what I expected. However, the landlord is now telling me that he also has a \u00a3180 fine, on his end of the contract, and wants me to pay his as well, as \"it isn't fair to him to have to pay that fine twice (as he paid that when we originally signed the contract)\". I assume this cost goes directly to the agency that shows the property. Now, this puts the price of changing the contract to \u00a3360 if I were to go along with it. Because I did not have a guarantor, I put up my last two months of rent along with my deposit, so he has \u00a3975 of mine in rent and deposit combined. He's verbally put it in no uncertain terms that he will not let me out of my contract if I fight him on this. \n\n​\n\nI'd like to know is if it is worth it to try to fight this battle in a small claims court of sorts. I've spoken to a relative in the US who is an attorney, and while they said that I have no obligation to pay my landlord's fee, they are dubious as to whether or not I should risk fighting. Potentially I'm risking being stuck in a contract until next June with a hostile landlord. But I'd very much like to not have to pay a fee out of nowhere. \n\n​\n\nSorry if anything is unclear, let me know if anymore details are required and I will absolutely provide them. I'm just not sure what my options are and I feel like I'm being taken advantage of here. ","title":"Is it worth it to fight a landlord who is passing off his fees onto me?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568931126,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6l7st\/what_to_do_if_you_dent_another_car_but_the_police\/","id":"d6l7st","body":"My girlfriend had backed out of my driveway into my neighbors daughters car and the damage seems very minimal just a small dent and a couple scratches on the driver side door. We gave them my girlfriends insurance and took pictures of both cars. But the other party ended up leaving before giving us their insurance. And the police were not called. I was just wondering if anyone can provide insight in regards to what to do and how to handle this situation.","title":"What to do if you dent another car but the police are not called and the other party does not provide insurance","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554493373,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9vp49\/committed_a_case_of_theft_in_my_university_and\/","id":"b9vp49","body":"My university has a gym in which there were a string of thefts from the locker room. My dumbass finally broke down and gave into temptation to finally get money by going into the lockers. The thing is: the campus police actually set up a sting; I was recorded as going into the locker and taking money out of this guy\u2019s wallet. I admitted to it the following morning and the officer in question said he\u2019s going to bring it up with the Dean of Students for my university. I have made a mistake and want to learn from it so that this doesn\u2019t happen once more.\n\nHowever, since there have been other thefts going on and since I\u2019m the only one who\u2019s been caught (to my knowledge), what should I expect to happen?","title":"Committed a case of theft in my university and was caught.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539096761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mptfe\/totalled_my_car_over_the_weekend_and_have_been\/","id":"9mptfe","body":"It was a single car accident into a ditch with property damage and no injuries. My question is, when we do get in contact what should I focus on?  During the whole thing police were never called or drove by, will I be asked if a police report was done? Because one was never done.  Thanks in advance. ","title":"Totalled my car over the weekend and have been playing phone tag with insurance agent since then.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569972824,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc1wlj\/changed_my_mind_on_a_sublease_roommates_padlocked\/","id":"dc1wlj","body":"I recently agreed to a sublease in a 3-bedroom apartment. I paid for the first month, but had not yet signed a lease. I moved my possessions in September 1st, but spent all of September at my boyfriend's house, and halfway through we agreed I should just move in with him. I told my roommate\/subletee mid-September. She was furious, claiming I had promised a minimum of one year (she never mentioned this number before). Again, there was no lease presented or signed.\n\nI returned today (10\/01) to collect my possessions. No one was home, but I discovered a padlock on my bedroom door, blocking me from all of my possessions. I left, and I texted my subletee, but I still have recieved no response 12 hours later.\n\nWhat are my options? Can I involve the police, or is this a \"civil matter\"? Is she able to hold my things from me? Is she able to demand more money?\n\nLocation: VT","title":"Changed my mind on a sublease, roommates padlocked my door.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539548065,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9o5xwc\/i_have_been_traumatized_by_my_department_chair\/","id":"9o5xwc","body":"Hello good people,\n\nI am in desperate need of advice and help. This is an incredibly long story so I have to leave a lot of background out but will touch on the important issues. \n\nI\u2019m in a graduate program at a state school in Southern California. Last year our chair said some insensitive and racist comments in class and refused to apologize. Instead she has engaged in retaliatory acts and intimidation. Many students got involved to address it, including myself, but the department hijacked things and opened a title ix investigation into the department and was heavy handed in silencing us so we \u201cwouldn\u2019t taint the investigation.\u201d Several students were called into student conduct because they were \u201ccaught\u201d talking about it. My past Spring semester was ruined. The chair threatened to kick me out of the program if I didn\u2019t stop protesting and that she was building a case against me. She shared this with my internship SUPERVISOR. Everything went downhill and I fell into a deep depression and thought about killing myself because of all the bullying. I went on independent study and had to be removed from my internship. It was one of the worst times in my life. \n\nFast forward to now. Apparently the investigation is done but title ix isn\u2019t delivering the findings to us. Instead, the dean of our program is holding a meeting to \u201cdiscuss the investigation\u201d while simultaneously bringing in a researcher to promote her book\/do a signing. I can\u2019t make this shit up. \n\nI have asked title ix for my report that I filed last semester and he won\u2019t give it to me. I told him I can\u2019t make this meeting with the dean (and I don\u2019t want to anyway because the dean absolutely cannot be trusted) and that I want to have a meeting with title ix to receive the findings of the investigation. He said go to the dean and ask her for the info. He dodged my questions to have a meeting with him and has not replied to my emails. He won\u2019t give me my report. And is overall giving me the run around. This is how this department has worked for years. \n\nMy issue aside from title ix. When I signed up for classes I made damn sure I wouldn\u2019t be in any of the chair\u2019s classes. Not sure why she is even teaching. For my masters thesis\/capstone I noticed a professors name I never saw and signed up for his class assuming he wouldn\u2019t be biased. Nope. He is a prop. The dept chair has been teaching this class since the second week of the semester while this teacher does absolutely nothing. \n\nI refuse to look this chair in the eye and she has been grading my assignments poorly. I have managed a 4.0 since entering this program, I am a good writer and a great student. I\u2019ve never gotten poor grades on any of my assignments. Apparently when our final paper is submitted, it is submitted anonymously to the department to grade it. This chair knows ALL of our topics and I know she will be grading these. This runs me at significant risk because I may very well not graduate next spring because she will prevent me from doing so. This woman is my abuser and has been for the past 7 months. Now I am being forced to be in her class. I cannot tell you guys how traumatic things have been for me and are continuing to be. I can\u2019t ask for help in my capstone class because every time I ask the assigned teacher, he disregards me and tells me to go ask the chair. \n\nWe don\u2019t have an ombudsman but some other multidisciplinary team that is the liaison between students and the university. I have spoke with one of the case managers and has referred me to title ix to ask to be put on independent study for this class. \n\nWhat if title ix refuses to put me on independent study? What do I fucking do in general to deal with this monster of a chair? This woman needs to be OUT but she is still here. She has harmed more students other than myself. We are all being harmed and we are fucking scared. I need help desperately. I can\u2019t take it anymore. \n\nThank you for listening. \n\nTLDR: My department chair has harmed me by protesting against her, and title ix\/the university has done nothing to protect me and other students. I need to go on independent study but am afraid no one will help me. What do I do? ","title":"I have been traumatized by my department chair and the university\/title ix are giving me the run around.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554247761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8qkhb\/upstate_ny_training_reimbursement_agreement_advice\/","id":"b8qkhb","body":"Hi All!\n\nThrowaway for obvious reasons... I have a question I'm hoping the awesome members here will be able to help me with.\n\nI was in a position at XYZ company, when my director retired. I was then put into another position within the same department by the COO with no experience. I was told training would be provided to me. About a month after that agreement was signed, I was given the attached training reimbursement document to sign, with the untold assumption that if it wasn't signed, I wouldn't be employed any longer.\n\n​\n\nFast forward about 16 months later, I've found another position with another company that I'm excited for, and recently put in my 2 weeks notice. I was approached by my boss today and told \"don't forget about the training agreement.\"\n\n​\n\nNow, this \"training\" was never completed. I was given an online account for self-training that I perused, and I took a test in February, which I failed. After failing, it was discussed that we would further invest in training, but nothing has been discussed since the initial discussion.\n\n​\n\nI read this document like this: Since I did not have an official \"end\" date for training, am I responsible for the costs incurred? There was never an official program, but it was assumed that once the test was passed, training would be over.\n\n​\n\nWhat could be my arguments here? Is this legally binding? Would the company have any recourse to withhold final paychecks or vacation pay in NY due to this? There is also no actual repayment schedule, only percentages. The whole document just seems fishy, but at the time, I felt pressured to sign. (valuable lesson learned, don't sign something until you've properly reviewed it... with counsel if necessary)\n\n​\n\nAny help is appreciated!!!","title":"Upstate, NY - Training Reimbursement Agreement Advice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508146757,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76pecz\/employment_fired_and_blacklisted_from_a_large\/","id":"76pecz","body":"[TLDR Available at bottom]\n\n**Situation:** I'll try to be concise. I have severe insomnia, came to work one day with really sunken-in and \"bloodshot eyes\" due to no sleep. I work with patients directly and a co-worker (did not like training new hires) mentioned my eyes to my supervisor. The higher-ups were alerted and talked to me in private in which I explained my circumstance. They said due to employee suspicion that by policy I had to have a drug test done. I said \"I suppose I understand your suspicion\" so they called and walked me down for the urine screening that I knew I'd pass. \n\n**Screening:** I wrote down my medications (specific antidepressants, Ambien (for sleep), and Valium (multiple reasons as needed) for those giving the test. First test came back \"too cold...\" then second test was observed in person. Eventually the results came back positive for LORAZEPAM (da fuq) which I knew I've never taken. I immediately requested a re-test because something had to be wrong. \n\n**During Leave:** I was called in for a meeting before even the second results (which apparently are tested the same way and are apparently pointless) came back and they told me that they have all agreed on letting me go for safety concerns. I explained that the test results had to be inaccurate but they said that my few absences and unmanaged condition were the reason and not the drug results (which they aren't told what was drug it was). After shockingly handing in my work items they told me that I could never work for them again. Even in different states and facilities the recruiters know I'm blacklisted.\n\n**Post Loss of Employment:** I wanted to lawyer up and contest this but I was told by several of them that most lawyers will know this won't end in my favor. Apparently because my only defense would be the drug screen which is no longer preserved (2 weeks) and that most of these cases go in the favor of large or widely known healthcare facilities claiming patient safety.\n\n**Questions:** IF there is no legal recourse... what should I have done differently? Is there any way to reasonably go about reconciling this situation with the employer or organization. I did try to apply for several jobs I'm overqualified for with them and they all get rejected almost instantly.\n\n**TLDR:** Obvious false positive drug test has set back my career. Good lawyers won't take case because apparently it's not a battle worth fighting for from their experience. Employer found a way to undermine drug test but still tactically use it and preservation time against me.","title":"[Employment] Fired and blacklisted from a large national healthcare facility... said I can never work in any of their facilities ever again.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540693868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rzz2o\/usafl_my_boss_has_a_weird_bdsm_obsession_also_my\/","id":"9rzz2o","body":"Okay, so I work at a very small company Boss(owner), Clerical\/Receptionist(me), \"Warehouse\"(two employees that are not involved at all). I work in an extremely niche \"industry\" getting LTLs(Little tiny loads) onto trucks with spare room and time heading in the same direction that the LTL needs to go. I am 24F and my boss is 56M.\n\nI started working here two months ago because the pay was very decent with little to no experience needed ($14\/h and 55 hours a week). I did 2 interviews then started. It all was pretty good, it's kind of slow work with a decent amount of downtime but it pays so well and I get paid about 1\/3 of the time to be surfing the net or playing games on my switch so I can't really complain. It's pretty much just me and the boss all day and until recently he just sat in his office by himself watching Netflix\/Amazon in the downtime and we didn't speak much besides work when we had to.\n\nThat all changed a week ago when he started talking and talking and talking throughout the entire day, it didn't really bother me and I figured it just took him a while to get comfortable with me. I learned about his life, family and he learned a bit about mine but he kept steering it towards my boyfriend, sex life, and really focuses on fetishes. I told him several times that's not appropriate and he dropped it for at least an hour before brining it up again focusing pretty heavily on BDSM. I'm not a stranger to kinks but I'm not going down that road discussing it with my boss, whom I spend almost 60 hours a week with entirely alone with the rare in office visitors (a person comes by maybe once a week for 15-30 minutes).\n\nIt got to the point 3 days ago I finally told my boyfriend and I was trying to not tell him because he would of course be upset and probably want to speak to my boss. He's not the super jealous type or the macho man go hit him type but with how far my boss was taking it he probably would. The day I finally told my boyfriend what my boss was doing is when I left work early because my boss sat me down with his laptop and starting playing the movie \"The Secretary\", I've seen this movie before and if you haven't it's a BDSM movie where a boss makes his secretary his slave. (NSFW obviously, don't Google it if you can get in trouble). While he sat there expecting me to watch this movie he showed me his briefcase that had handcuffs, a crop, rope etc in it like he fully expected me to be his sexual slave after watching the movie. I noped out of there and called my boyfriend as I was leaving, he left work early also and then went to my work to pickup the things I left on my desk because I was not going back.\n\nMy boyfriend assured me he wasn't going to hit him or do anything stupid except get my stuff and tell him I quit. Fast forward to today and I got an email from my boss telling me I have been given a raise, $24\/h and I can work from home just putting the info from the emails into the Google doc spreadsheet like before.... Obviously I'm thinking wtf why did he just give me a 100% raise and I can work from home? I just had an interview scheduled through a friend for Monday.\n\nI talked to my boyfriend after he got home from work and asked him wth happened at my job when he went to get my stuff and quit for me. Turns out my boyfriend in his infinite wisdom told this old pervert if he didn't pay me a severance he was going to tell his wife what he tried to do... I wasn't expecting a severance because I barely worked there and just wanted my last check. I guess the old guy took it a bit further and doubled my pay and let me work from home to keep his crazy movie fantasy a secret??\n\nWhere do I even begin here to fix all this crap? I don't want to work for this guy but I don't know the legalities of what my boyfriend may have inadvertently just did.\n\n","title":"[USA-FL] My boss has a weird BDSM obsession, also my boyfriend might have made it worse with potential blackmail?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550720718,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asyaie\/im_being_asked_to_participate_in_a_possible\/","id":"asyaie","body":"Hi all,\n\nI suppose this may be a mix of both legal and relationship advice but I'll try to keep it to more technical details. \n\nI live in Los Angeles CA. I am female, all of the coworkers in this story are female, and my previous boss is male.\n\nBackground: I worked as an accountant for about 2 years. During that time, my boss (the controller) was very manipulative and essentially spent a lot of time causing drama. He was somewhat successful in turning me against my coworker and vice versa and I had finally had enough and found another job and left while my coworker stayed behind along with another person I trained into my position (whom was hired before I quit in an attempt to make feel expendable). \n\nNow the pattern is repeating itself with my old coworker and the girl I trained (this is now about a year after I quit). However, now it's gotten more serious - they were able to get him suspended and he is being investigated internally but they fear that this will be dropped because of his relationship with the owners of the company. They are asking me to come forward with additional evidence of his behavior to help this case but I'm weary of getting involved.\n\nI'm trying to advise them to get a lawyer for harrassment based on the following actions:\n\n1. He has been caught recording one of the coworkers via a webcam with out her consent (two party consent state). Which is why hes currently suspended. \n\n2. He has repeatedly closed the door to his office while talking to either of the girls and has been asked by both multiple times to stop closing the door as it makes them uncomfortable and he uses this as a tactic to fabricate stories about the other girl and corner them into giving him information. This has happened to me multiple times as well. This has also been witnessed by various employees working there.\n\n3. One of the girls tried to leave because he closed the door and he made her stay (I feel like this could fall under false arrest or entrapment)\n\n4. There have been multiple inappropriate conversations such as him asking one of the girls multiple times to lunch (off property) and she has declined every time. \n\n5. During the fires a few months ago he drove to one of the girl's houses to \"check if it was okay\" which is just really strange because he wasn't asked by her to do so.\n\n6. He has also called one of the girls multiple timed during a sick day to check with her to make sure she was okay. And called about 3 - 4 times and said to her the next day \"to always answer my calls even if you're sick\"\n\nTheres more but I feel like most of this constitutes harrassment and perhaps sexual harassment because of the door thing and the inappropriate conversations hes had with them.\n\nNow they're asking me to write\/email a statement to the person at the company investigating the claim to add credibility to their grievances.\n\nI have plenty of my own disturbing experiences to share about this guy as well. He also has historically only hired and interviewed women for this position which may also be grounds for sexual discrimination.  (Pattern has been the same with others as well and only women have been hired for the past 6 years)\n\nThere's a problem though - hes been working at this property for 12 years and is VERY CLOSE with the owners of this company, who are pretty shady themselves. When legal action is threatened my boss has basically said to these girls that \"they're not scared\" when it comes to lawsuits. The owners are multimillionaires and have a pretty good lawyer(s) from what I understand and I myself have witnessed someone at the company get fired for threating to sue due to a workplace injury. \n\nMy questions are: \n\n1. If this goes to court, could I be legally obligated to be a witness? \n\n2. What (if any) legal consequences would I face writing an email to the investigator? Could I alternately make a fake gmail account to protect my anonymity? Should I write it? I am afraid that it will be shared with ownership and then shared with him. I still have a good relationship with this company (believe it or not some good people do work there) and I frequently use them as references and I dont want to start burning bridges. Plus I'm not sure how credible my input on all of this would be. \n\n3. Would the above instances stand up in court? I advised them to get a free consultation and to start making paper trails of all inappropriate conduct NOW. \n\n4. Do they have a legitimate case or is this too circumstantial? From what I understand he has been very careful to avoid having inappropriate conversations via text or email (thus the frequent closed door sessions) so it will be difficult to gather hard evidence against him.\n\n\nApologies for the long post, any input or resources to look into would be greatly appreciated.","title":"I'm being asked to participate in a possible harrassment case against my previous boss","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571006575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhhrf5\/ut_fil_passed_away_last_night_no_will_but_he_was\/","id":"dhhrf5","body":"He had cancer that he had known about only since August. He has few other assets. He was going to name his daughter (my wife) and his son as beneficiaries of his retirement account, worth about $100k. \n\nNow, my worry is that the money will go to the estate and medical bills will take a huge chunk out of that sum. Is that true? If so, anything we can do to mitigate it?\n\nOn his phone, his retirement app will allow a beneficiary to be added very easily. I'm assuming it would be illegal to now add his kids as the beneficiaries, seeing as how he is now deceased?","title":"[UT] FIL passed away last night. No will, but he was planning on making it this week. What will happen to the retirement?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1539796657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p0n8n\/car_insurance_subrogation_letter\/","id":"9p0n8n","body":"hello,\n\nI got into a car accident a while back (at fault), I ended up totaling the other person's and my own car (and damaged another), I got a subrogation letter from the totaled car's insurance company asking for $3000, I am unable to pay for this, my insurance company says it can be settled without paying this (I'm guessing the totaled person will receive a bit less), my questions about this issue is:\n\n* likelihood of getting settled if I told them that I'm unable to pay?\n* since I got this letter is this considered over now?\n* likelihood of getting sued over this?\n* what are my options?","title":"car insurance subrogation letter","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1504052995,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wvj95\/texas_i_got_terminated_for_a_theft_i_did_not\/","id":"6wvj95","body":"Hello, I work for a hotel and upon hiring each front desk associate is given a bank of $500 to make change, accept payments, etc. Along with this bank, each associate signs a policy in regards to cash handling. \n\nI left my work keys (including my personal bank key) over the weekend. When I returned and pulled my bank - I noticed it was $245 short, and immediately notified my manager.\n\nI was then suspended pending investigation, and ultimately terminated. The reason I was given was \"There is nothing they can see from the security footage to show where they money went, so I am help responsible for the missing money.\"\n\nI should note, there is a camera facing the front desk, as well as one in the safe room where the banks are held. The management staff can \"clearly see\" my concern when I notice the money is missing from the camera at the front desk. And the camera in the safe room, is not pointed at the safety deposit boxes - so there is no way to see who is accessing which safety deposit box.\n\nI understand that it is my fault for leaving the keys, but I have been terminated for a theft that I did not commit.\nIs there anything legally that I can do in regards to this situation?","title":"Texas - I got terminated for a theft I did not commit","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553510500,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b591pq\/wa_temporary_family_law_order\/","id":"b591pq","body":"My husband went and filed all documents for a parenting plan along with a temporary family law order on 3\/11 and had the respondent served on 3\/16. The hearing for the temporary family law order is 4\/1 & there is still no response. What happens if respondent does not respond before the hearing but still shows up to the hearing?","title":"(WA) temporary family law order","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553782854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6jdi3\/got_a_parking_ticket_but_the_sign_was_unreadable\/","id":"b6jdi3","body":"I parked in an area that I soon found out via the ticket had street cleaning on that specific time period. \n\nWhen I parked I did check to see what the parking rules were. \nThe sign was very worn and covered in graffiti so the only thing I could make out was that it had 2 hour parking.\n\nI knew they did street cleaning from the template. But I couldn\u2019t tell when due to that information being painted over with graffiti. \nIt was a similar case with other signs in the area as well. It\u2019s as if people went out of their way to try and vandalize the signs and obscure all the relevant information. \n\nCan I fight this? ","title":"Got a parking ticket, but the sign was unreadable","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541864922,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vva9r\/minnesota_my_landlord_hasnt_charged_me_for\/","id":"9vva9r","body":"I signed a lease agreement saying I\u2019d pay $1748 a month for my rent and an extra $100 a month per parking spot. We had one spot from the beginning which put our monthly charge at $1848 and then added a new tenant to our lease three months ago and she also got a parking spot, and we all signed an updated lease that has the additional $100 on it so the total monthly charge is $1948.\n\nHowever, my landlord forgot to charge us the additional $100 for the last three months and is now trying to collect it. She claims we didn\u2019t sign an additional document that allows them to collect, however we never signed such a document for the first car and they apparently chose to wait three months to decide to tell us that they needed another document signed in order to collect for the additional spot, which all just sounds so sketchy and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s even true since now they\u2019re just gonna tack on an extra $300 to next month\u2019s rent. \n\nIs this legal? I did agree to pay $1948 a month but they are the ones who only charged us $1848 a month. Can they retroactively collect a large sum like that after neglecting to charge us?","title":"[Minnesota] My landlord hasn\u2019t charged me for parking in months and now they want to charge me next month for all of it. Is this legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555005929,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc32pu\/in_america_what_would_hypothetically_happen_if_a\/","id":"bc32pu","body":"(this is not based on any real situations I'm dealing with, I'm just doing this so that the story I'm writing for school has more accurate legal consequences.)","title":"In America, what would hypothetically happen if a 5 year old committed murder?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552073597,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ayuab3\/can_company_require_employees_to_pay_till\/","id":"ayuab3","body":"Posting for a friend \n\nLocation: Hawaii\n\nLocally owned salon requires receptionist(s) to pay till shortage if commissions paid to techs are incorrectly calculated. Receptionists are not the ones performing services but handle the transactions on behalf of the techs. \n\nExample: Receptionist charges client $200 for services instead of $300, pays tech their commission of $100 leaving drawer short $100. Receptionist required to pay shortage in cash by end of shift. \n\n\nBonus: Receptionist fired after calling out shady practice, owner terminated employee via group text. \n\nIs any of this legal?","title":"Can company require employees to pay till shortages? Hawaii","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540918380,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9spqse\/a_question_about_renting_moving_out_no_lease\/","id":"9spqse","body":"Me and my gf started renting a house a couple months ago and was expecting to sign a lease soon after. We never ended up doing so thankfully and we've decided to move out. I tried looking up my specific situation but nothing really fit the bill. I am wondering if it is the law to have to pay him this last month of rent or can I just have him take our security deposit that we gave to him before moving in? I do know that we had to give a 30 day notice even if no lease was signed. Any body know anything that could help? This guy was really shady and took forever to get anything fixed. There are still no fire detectors and a carbon monoxide detectors. He had to fix the toilets and we were without heat for 2 to 3 weeks because he didn't fix the pipe correctly and the has company had to come out 3 different times before finally getting it turned on. That was the ticket that made us finally decide to move out. ","title":"A question about renting, moving out, no lease signed.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503441400,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6veno2\/appealing_speeding_ticket\/","id":"6veno2","body":"Got pulled over doing 207mph in a 65. I'm getting all types of threats right now from the DMV, police, etc. \nFacing an eluding charge as well since the officer \"could not keep up with the vehicle\" when I was trying to break. This is complete BS. \n\nAre they gonna take my license ? \nAny way I can win the appeal (highly doubt) ? \nI have a clean driving record if that helps. \n\nSouth Carolina ","title":"Appealing Speeding Ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571330362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj8yng\/criminal_case_and_motion\/","id":"dj8yng","body":"I have a lawyer but we keep getting extensions and he\u2019s not filing motions I want filed. My case needs an expert witness (computer forensics). How do I go about filing a motion for a court appointed expert since I don\u2019t have the money to pay for one. Can I go down to the courthouse clerk with a motion or is there a form? I\u2019m in California if that matters. Thanks!","title":"Criminal case and motion","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554417148,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9jcwq\/minor_working_laws_advice\/","id":"b9jcwq","body":"I am 17 years old, and I\u2019m living in New Jersey.\n\nI already achieved a  Recognized High School Diploma Equivalent from the state of new jersey.\n\nI am looking to work, but the New Kersey law states that I need a work permit from my school counselor since I am a minor, but I already graduated and not affiliated with any school, and I believe Im not affiliated with my local Board of Ed. since I am considered a graduate.\n\nAnd there is a law limiting the hours of minors working on school days, but there is no school day for me.\n\nWhat would be the requirements for me?","title":"Minor working laws advice","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554819464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb8h2f\/can_i_be_evicted_for_repeated_late_rent_as\/","id":"bb8h2f","body":"I live in subsidized housing in Ohio. They raised my rent and now it\u2019s really tough to pay. I\u2019ve been late several times, but I\u2019ve always paid within the month. \nAm I in danger of eviction or other adverse action against me? \nDo I have any options here?","title":"Can I be evicted for repeated late rent as opposed to nonpayment?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568406312,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3v2c0\/new_york_dmv_took_spouses_plates_theyre_still\/","id":"d3v2c0","body":"My spouse changed insurance for her car, turned in her license plates for new ones, and has been receiving notices that the old plates are uninsured and she runs the risk of getting her license suspended. The issue is that the old plates turned into the DMV in person are lost, the NYS DMV phone number told her to file a report with the police, and the police say she cannot do that because the plates are not considered destroyed, stolen, lost, or suspended. Unfortunately she did not make sure to get a receipt from the DMV either.\n\nWhat can she do? Nobody can tell her where the plates are. The state is threatening to suspend her license over plates that are supposed to be no longer active. The DMV refuses to do anything and she cannot file a police report.","title":"(New York) DMV Took Spouse\u2019s Plates, They\u2019re Still Active","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1542029263,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wdzy4\/my_parked_car_got_side_swiped_in_the_middle_of\/","id":"9wdzy4","body":"Sometime, a couple nights a go, my street parked car got side swiped causing me to need to get my passenger side door, wheel well, front right rim, and front bumper replaced. Upon discovery of this damage I called the police, whom came and had a look at the damage and took a report, but ultimately said that I would be better off not reporting it as a hit and run. Why am I better off not reporting it as a hit and run? I have to notify my insurance anyways to get these repairs done so why does it matter if this gets reported or not?","title":"My parked car got side swiped in the middle of the night and police said I'd be better off not reporting it.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571285959,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj160i\/legally_allowed\/","id":"dj160i","body":"My friend1 logged into his email on my other friend2\u2019s phone. Friend1 never logged out so friend2 decided to play a prank. Friend2 sent an email to the entire class just saying \u201chow to get rid of pimples on my butt.\u201d Then he proceeded to send another email after that saying \u201cmy bad y\u2019all this ain\u2019t google\u201d \nThe school found out who it was, Friend2 got expelled, this wasn\u2019t surprising he\u2019s been on his last strike for a while and well he knew what was gonna happen. Although here\u2019s the funny part \nThe school took his phone, they searched every crevice and corner of every message he had, every photo he had; every single app and conversation that was available on his phone. Not only that, but they started calling people. They thought other people were involved so they started calling and texting other students in the school asking questions like \u201chey man that was a funny prank last night wasn\u2019t it? What did we do again though I forgot?\u201d They even called me. I didn\u2019t answer because I thought it was weird but i did text him afterwards about it. He got the messages at his Apple Watch and he told friend3 to tell me to stop messaging him because the school had his phone. The school also kept his phone, which they made him take off the password for, and they still have it even though it\u2019s overnight. We checked the location and it\u2019s about 10 miles from the school so we\u2019re assuming the dean or principal have it. \n\nOur questions are \n1. Can they legally make him UNLOCK his phone? I know they can take it but can they make him unlock it? \n2. Can they pose as him and make different calls and texts to other students? I know it\u2019s illegal in California to do this but we\u2019re in Michigan \n3. Is it legal for them to remove the phone off of school grounds and take it home to a staff members home?","title":"Legally Allowed?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1507719535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75oaxj\/il_my_brothers_exgirlfriend_lied_to_him_about\/","id":"75oaxj","body":"They were together consistently up until December 2016.  Right before they split (Oct\/Nov) she had started to show a belly, called it a cyst, then claimed she had a hysterectomy.  Hadn't heard from her in months until I saw her pop-up on social media under \"people you may know\" with a new last name.  Her profile showed pictures and videos (dated February 2017) of her in the hospital holding her newborn son and a post talking about her secret son she had just put up for adoption.  She won't return any of my brother's texts or calls and blocked him on social media.  As far as we know he is NOT listed on the birth certificate.  Can we legally confirm it was\/wasn't his?  What can he do?\n\nEDIT:  NOT trying to get full custody.  He's currently trying to get A) get a paternity test, B) explore possible legal avenues to address his ex for knowingly and willingly creating such a horrible situation, and IF IT IS HIS then C) visitation once in awhile and\/or correspondence in some form so we as a family can see the child grow up.","title":"[IL] My brother's ex-girlfriend lied to him about being pregnant then gave up their\/his son for adoption.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539186724,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n0o84\/spiritual_abuse_by_husband_texasmontana\/","id":"9n0o84","body":"My friend has been here (Texas) with her kid for four months - aiming at six to become a legal resident. She has fled from Montana and a religious (spiritual) abusive husband. If she can get through these six months without him filing anything legal, are there any laws in effect in Texas that will help protect her? She is now an American citizen (became one after a few years of marriage) if that makes any difference.\n\nI will delete this post as I don\u2019t want to be tracked in the future. Thanks for any help.","title":"Spiritual Abuse by husband - Texas\/Montana","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1552346272,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b00d3w\/is_the_sss_going_to_prosecute_me_for_not\/","id":"b00d3w","body":"I\u2019m 18 (bday was in May) and I got a letter from the SSS today stating I haven\u2019t registered yet. It says\n\n\u201cIf we do not hear from you within 10 days, we have no choice but to send your name to the Department of Justice with a request that you be prosecuted for refusing to register.\u201d \n\nIs this just a scare tactic? I have not and will not be applying to federal aid or a federal job, so I don\u2019t really believe they are actually taking the time out of their day to specifically prosecute me. I believe they send this letter to everyone who doesn\u2019t register, saying the same 10 days thing. Thoughts? And just to be clear, I\u2019m not asking whether or not I should sign up. I\u2019m asking whether or not the threat is real. \n\nThanks","title":"Is the SSS going to prosecute me for not registering?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568736539,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5j5fq\/penalty_for_driving_with_multiple_passengers\/","id":"d5j5fq","body":"What is the penalty for driving with more than 1 passenger (not a family member) in Ohio for people under 18?","title":"Penalty for driving with multiple passengers under 18?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1549943856,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/app34y\/fl_probate_need_or_no\/","id":"app34y","body":"Facts; My brother passed unexpectedly. His life insurance leaves beneficiaries but he has no will. His banking is in MD, he lived in FL. He did not own real estate. He had little to no debt. He owned his car. His banking contains less than 50,000 USD.\n\n​\n\n From the research I've done, his estate is in interstacy and probate court is mandatory if the estate is larger than 75 grand, is this accurate?\n\n​\n\nDoes his car (an expensive, newer model) belong to the estate as an asset, and would this be required to be sold if we are required to go to probate court?\n\n​\n\nWe are currently researching lawyers but have discovered they are around 2 to 3 thousand to retain. Honestly, we want to avoid probate court if we can - we can only speculate, but we know he would have wanted our sister to have control of his car.\n\n​\n\nAny help would be appreciated for this redditors. Research can only carry you so far when you are not a lawyer. I don't want to say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing here. I've never dealt closely with a family member's death before.\n\n​\n\nThank you.","title":"[FL] Probate Need or No?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554403894,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9gqk6\/landlord_rent_receipt_question\/","id":"b9gqk6","body":"Hi\n\n​\n\nSo at the beginning of the lease the landlord was giving rent receipts for the whole apartment rent payments (1 receipt per month) and now he is giving individual receipts per individual (4 roommates total) and is saying he does not give apartment receipts as a whole. I currently suspect one of my roommates is receiving some sort of compensation for an issue we had with our landlord (which I did not also get compensated for). Is this normal considering this isn't an individual renting and more of a collective renting of the apartment?\n\nLocation: California","title":"Landlord rent receipt question","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570423399,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deepzq\/got_robbed_by_force_agreed_not_to_press_charges\/","id":"deepzq","body":"First of all, hope yall having a great day.\nSecond, I live in Jalisco, Mexico.\nThird, excuse my poor grammar skills (english as second language)\nOk now to the good stuff.\nSo couple days ago i got battered and robbed by force by a guy while visiting my parrents (im From the US)Managed to pull a foto off my anti theft software (more of a RAT actually)  I have installed  meanwhile this guy was trying to figure out how to factory reset my phone . (Which i also put a stop to thanks to the RAT.) Then i hopped on my laptop and posted the pic on my social media and whatsapp contacts from mexico and what not.\nThen this guy (thiefs lawyer) says take it down we want to talk this one out.(since the thief could not reset my phone and also when i locked it i specified i had crap ton of important data[witch i had]) So i meet them with a lawyer talking me out of pressing charges and we settle for the phone and a 10k pesos about 500USD in my favor. We fill out paperwork and whatnot and seal the deal. So i get my phone back its missing all my important crap i needed back (bassicaly why i settled for no charges) also my sd and sim card gone. And the guy still asks me for 2000 pesos about 100USD in return for his \"cleaning service\" witch i did not ask for in any way shape or form. So i want to get him  back (nearly got fired [regional sales manager for mexico] and lost 2 big clients witch i was about 1 inch close before sealing a huge deal with) so what are my options?","title":"Got robbed by force, agreed not to press charges. then got \"blackmailed\".","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554395009,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9evip\/son_has_never_been_vaccinated_or_to_a_primary\/","id":"b9evip","body":"My ex and I both live in MT and have a parenting plan that states we have joint legal and physical custody of our son, who is 2 (we split up prior to him being born). Due to work schedules, my son's mom has him during the daytime when all medical offices would be open. The parenting plan does not discuss major medical decisions. \n\nI recently found out my son is not vaccinated, and spoke with my ex about why. She is adamantly opposed to them, and after discussing the issue several times and trying to find common ground we have been unsuccessful. Rather than take him to get vaccinations behind her back, I looked into filing a motion through the state to compel vaccinations. \n\nAs such, I requested a statement of recommendation to vaccinate from the physician I was told is his primary. However, I was informed my son has never even been a patient at this office. I called their other office and was told the same thing. I am unsure my son has ever seen a primary physician. \n\nI know my son has been to the ER on two occasions, and has been to a walk in clinic once, but either he has never seen a primary care physician or my ex is lying to me about who his physician is. I'm now wondering if I need to hire a lawyer to take this further. Here are my questions:\n\n1) Is not seeing a primary physician considered neglect in my state? \n\n2) Would this constitute grounds to file for medical custody of my son so I can make all major medical decisions, including vaccinating? \n\n3) Should I file for primary custody or is that pushing too far? \n\n4) Would I get in trouble legally if I just took him to get vaccinated behind his mother's back? \n\n5) If she is lying about who his primary physician is it would be a violation of our parenting plan; what would that entail?\n\nI don't have any intentions of taking my son away from his mom, but I want him vaccinated and to see a primary physician routinely as he grows. What is the best, most cost efficient way to do this? \n\nSorry for the length, I just don't know what to do now. Thank you in advance. ","title":"Son has never been vaccinated or to a primary physician [MT]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447217391,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sddni\/need_to_information_relating_to_aggravated\/","id":"3sddni","body":"I am not from the USA, but this question relates to a crime that happened in Huston, Texas.\n\nI've been doing a bit of research on Joshua Anthony Twohig, the then 21 year old who attempted \"suicide by cop\" during the Houston Occupy movement in 2011 (case no. 132796401010) . I can see from online records that he hasn't yet stood trial. I assume this is due to mental health issues.\n\nIf he is sentenced for aggravated assault on a public servant what sort of sentence is he looking at? Does his case fall under a first degree felony?\n\nThe law in Texas states:\n\n> If you commit an aggravated assault against someone with whom you have a domestic relationship, or against a public official, police officer, emergency worker, security guard, witness, or informant, the charge becomes a 1st degree felony, with penalties of  5 years to life in prison.\n\nThe only thing I can't see in the videos, or reports online, is any threats to an officer, although I can only assume again that ignoring a request to drop the weapon could be seen as a very real threat.\n\nThank you for any advice.\n\nP.S. Apologies for any grammatical errors.","title":"Need to information relating to aggravated assault on a public servant in Huston, Texas.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571311423,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dj4zk5\/vic_australia_apartment_building_electrical\/","id":"dj4zk5","body":"TLDR\/Brief: VIC, AUS. Apartment building 415V incoming floor cable arcing, electrician re-seated cable and turned power back on. What are the electrical safety codes?\n\nHi, I am a resident of an apartment building in VIC, Australia. Yesterday there was a power surge\/fluctuation that caused the entire floor's power to be intermittent. It damaged people's appliances and some electronic devices\/ lights flickering, etc.\n\nThe building management got an electrician to inspect the electrical cabinet during the day (I was not present) and performed 'tests' but ultimately apparently found nothing. Later in the day, there was more light flickering and my devices were not functioning (sitting on threshold power or something). After insisting the management get the electrician back, he arrived at night and used a voltmeter to measure between some points but couldn't find anything. Later he opened the panel behind the meters. It was found that an incoming 415V cable to splitter was not seated correctly and was arcing visibly (Note: he was not wearing PPE) . This time I was there to witness this. The 2 cables were arcing between each other for what I believe is a phase to phase arc which meant no circuit breakers tripped. The electrician then re-seated the cables and turned the power back on. The power now works fine but I am worried about whether other floors will have a similar issue or whether this problem will come back because the same wire is used. \n\nAs an aside from the electronics damage, everyone's energy bill for the last month was abnormally high. \n\nWhat are the building safety codes when it comes to this and is it possible to get a independent inspector to come and inspect the building? I called my distributor and they suggested getting my provider to do a metering inspection as well (I don't know what this does). I am also wondering whether re-seating the cable is a long term solution for a 415V cable as usually cable resistivity changes under stressful (arcing) conditions.","title":"VIC Australia. Apartment Building Electrical Code\/Advice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570999039,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhg6jm\/speeding_ticket_with_no_fine\/","id":"dhg6jm","body":"Hey I need help figuring out what\u2019s going to happen to me and what I should do.\n\nI was driving back home on leave and wasn\u2019t paying attention to speed and passing cars so I got pulled over for doing 94 in a 65 in a construction zone in California.\n\nI\u2019ve never gotten a speeding ticket before and it just has a court date.\n\nAnd if anyone is in the military should I tell my command or deal with it on my own.","title":"Speeding ticket with no fine","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1408481086,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e0nww\/how_binding_are_verbal_agreements_with_regards_to\/","id":"2e0nww","body":"A friend of mine has a voice recording of his girlfriend, stating that she will give him everything, by means of signing it over. On the recording she says \"I'm signing everything over to you\", \"Everything is going to be in your name\", \"I'm putting everything in your name\". They are not married for the record. \n\nBy everything she means, a multi-million dollar business, multiple houses\/property and assets such as stocks and gold etc. \n\nNow considering all that, how binding is the voice recording? Could he actually make her sign things over to him per the agreement? \n\nAK","title":"How binding are verbal agreements with regards to property, assets and businesses?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539393044,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9npxdq\/my_landlord_told_me_i_must_clean_the_bathroom\/","id":"9npxdq","body":"Our toilet stopped properly flushing last week. We notified the landlord, who is the owner of our single family home with three roommates, and he said he could not come for seven days. Today he came and once again, the toilet is not fixed. He now says that to return and fix it properly, we must clean the bathroom. \n\nThe condition of the toilet is: it will flush once to no avail only flooding the bowl more, a second flush barely sucks up toilet paper. Basically you can't get anything more than toilet paper down and even that takes two flushes. \n\nThe condition of the bathroom is: toilet, sink, and grout in the shower are cleaned weekly and do not have evident mold. Floor may have some hair (we are three women) but is not covered or moldy. No towels, beauty accessories, or anything else is stored in the room much less on the counters. A small trashcan with non-biological waste is about half full. \n\nI am obviously livid at this assertion, as I feel it is not fair to have waited a week and to now fulfill some unrelated obligation to clean my own bathroom to my landlord's standards. But from what I can find of Oregon landlord-tenant law, it only says \"plumbing\" is an essential service. Does that include a properly flushing toilet? What are my options? ","title":"My landlord told me I must clean the bathroom before he will get the toilet properly flushing (Oregon)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555384455,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdp2m6\/signed_a_6_month_lease_and_forgot_to_turn_in_my\/","id":"bdp2m6","body":"This whole story is very stupid on my part, but I still would like to know if there is anything I can do. I signed a lease for 6 months because I was in a bit of a bind and needed something last minute. 1 month into my lease the apartment complex was sold to a new management company along with my lease. 3 months into the lease while I was away, my apartment flooded though I lost really most of my things I was covered by my renters insurance and moved into a different apartment in the same building. My lease ended in March, but I decided to move out in February because this building is a piece of shit with abestos warnings in the basement and I was going nowhere in this city. I paid the last month of rent (March), but I completely forgot I had the key to the new apartment and never sent it back to the property manager. I assumed they would just check out the apartment at the end of my lease and didn't know I needed to tell them I was moving out due to the idea that my lease says I would leave 6 months from the move in day. Today I received an email and phone call that says my rent is due. I talked to the property manager a little while ago through email and told her the apartment is vacant and I haven't been there since February and she responded that I need to pay a half months rent effective today once I consent to \"terminate your tenancy in the absence of the keys\" versus a rent end date due once the key arrives through mail. Can they really say I owe them a half months rent even though I signed a lease? This is my first apartment by myself and I realize I am an idiot for not informing them ahead of time that I would move out and in forgetting the keys. Anyway please let me know what my options are which I'm just going to assume I'm probably fucked.","title":"Signed a 6 month lease and forgot to turn in my keys to property manager\/inform them I would not renew my lease, now being told I need to pay for a half of a months rent after my lease date ended.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570325564,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddwpww\/can_my_employer_withhold_my_final_pay_check_until\/","id":"ddwpww","body":"I put my two weeks in 2 weeks ago. The company gave me 4 shirts, 3 of which I have in my possession. I told my boss that I had the three shirts and would return them but that I may need time to find the fourth one. My boss told me that she won\u2019t give me my final paycheck until I find said shirt. Is this legal??","title":"Can my employer withhold my final pay check until I find a company shirt?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571250348,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ditg4k\/michigan_landlord_wants_to_keep_deposit_we\/","id":"ditg4k","body":"Okay first we are in Michigan. Lived somewhere for 6 years. In 2015, the apartment complex was sold to a different landlord\/company. The new landlords have told me multiple times that they do not have any proof of anything from the previous owners. This includes maintenance, repairs, or even our original lease beyond the signature page.\n\nWe moved into our brand new house and gave them more then 30 days notice despite us being month to month by that point. Returned the keys on August 30th. \n\nThey gave us a bill on September 7th. It said they would be keeping our deposit and were charging us 376 extra due to the flooring being bad. The only reason it gave us was the flooring which was actually completely fine. (The deposit was apparently 400 so it would be a total cost of 776 to repair the floor.)\n\nI immediately disputed this due to me knowing the flooring was good. Sent an email that explained in detail why there was no reason for this charge, first being the legal definition of wear and tear and second being the cost to replace the floor that was \"damaged\" would be significantly less then almost 800 if they did something of equal value.\n\n I requested a response as soon as possible and said they could do it by email or phone (but if they decided to do it by phone they would be agreeing to me recording all conversations for legal purposes). I called them after a little bit to verify and they said the property manager was going to figure out what they were going to do and let me know when they figured out how to handle it.  \n\nIt has now been 47 days past move out. Michigan law states they need to give back the deposit by this point (or they have lost the right to request keeping it). I contacted them earlier but they never replied so I called back today to find out what was going on. Spoke to the property manager. \n\nHe said that he was still waiting on quotes from the contractors because they had to do way more on the apartment then they originally thought and since I wanted to dispute charges then they were not going to be nice about it anymore and stick me with all the issues they had to repair. \n\nI said that doesn't really make much sense since they did not put that on the original item they sent to me itemizing the problems. If there were more problems then the floors they should have sent those issues at that time but they cannot now add more things. He said that they have the right to do that because I disputed the charge in September.\n\nMy question is, do they have a leg to stand on? They told me multiple times they do not have any proof except the original owners assurance that they replaced the flooring before we moved in. They also do not have any other documentation, (according to them). This includes the original state of the apartment. \n\nSince it has now passed 45 days are they even able to file a claim to keep the deposit? Are they able to amend what they said was wrong with the apartment this long after we vacated it? \n\nI am definitely interested in figuring this out. Originally I was not even anticipating getting a deposit back due to how long we lived there. It wasnt until they started getting greedy that I did a lot of research about tenant law and realized way more people should be getting their deposit back. And now I don't really want to let it go if I can avoid it. \n\nAny advice would be much appreciated. If I have to go to small claims court I will but I want to make sure I am prepared if it comes to that. (I am saving all correspondence).","title":"Michigan: Landlord wants to keep deposit. We disputed it. It's been 46 days post returning keys. Now I need help with the next step.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554937721,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbsshn\/my_landlord_wont_replace_broken_washing_machines\/","id":"bbsshn","body":"Idaho here\n\nOne of my neighbors had a guest that overloaded and destroyed both of our washing machines in our apartment complex. It\u2019s been about a month, and they don\u2019t have any plans on replacing them, so we\u2019re stuck paying the same amount of rent, but we have no where to do our laundry besides at a mat or a friend\u2019s. Are there any legal routes we can take so we can get our stuff fixed?","title":"My landlord won\u2019t replace broken washing machines","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553254197,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b43y3o\/got_paid_twice_will_they_take_it_from_me\/","id":"b43y3o","body":"In December of last year, I quit my hourly paid job. I clocked out and went home like normal, so my last paycheck was supposed to arrive via direct deposit, and they never gave it to me. I called them and went after it, obviously. I don\u2019t remember what they said exactly but in short, they told me they would need to cut a check and mail it to me, which was annoying but fine. Two weeks later, check arrives and is deposited, and all is well. \n\nYesterday, a second version of that check was in the mail, dated for March 19th, so they obviously sent it long after the other one had been mailed and deposited. I deposited the second check for now, but can they ask for it back? Will they?  It\u2019s the exact same amount as my last paycheck, so I assume they were balancing books and saw they had a prior debt to me that was never marked as cleared. ","title":"Got paid twice, will they take it from me?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541123279,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tftni\/looking_for_advice_about_a_car_accident\/","id":"9tftni","body":"Today, I got into my first car accident. I got into an accident in a neighborhood street. There were two stop signs - one on the street I was in and another on the street across from me. The streets to my left and right do not have stop signs. \n\nWhen I came to the stop sign, I waited 3 seconds and looked to both my left and right. The coast was clear. I began my turn and collided with a truck that was going straight. I am not sure if the car was in my blind spot or was speeding. My front corner hit the side of his car - causing more damage to my car than his truck. The guy acknowledged that he saw me at the stop sign and saw that I was turning, but claimed that there was nothing he could do at that point. He didn't honk to warn me . He just kept going straight. I know that the insurance will find me at fault because of the stop sign on my side. There were very few witnesses. I wanted to call the cops, but the guy rushed me and claimed that the cops won't even show up. I asked a few friends for advice and they said that the cops in this county only show up for traffic accidents if there was an injury. We exchanged insurance information. I called my insurance and gave my side of the story. \n\nThe questions that I have are: \n\n1) Is there anything I need to do after calling insurance?\n\n2) What are the chances that I won't be found at fault? \n\n3) How soon can I take my car in to get it repaired? Do I wait until the claim goes through or can I take it to a mechanic immediately? ","title":"Looking for advice about a car accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551901601,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ay30mr\/i_was_told_by_detectives_today_that_i_cannot\/","id":"ay30mr","body":"I\u2019m in an ugly situation legally, it has led to temporary loss of custody of my daughter. I\u2019m granted supervised visits and phone calls but have not been allowed either since Saturday. Her caregivers insist she\u2019s \u201cfine\u201d and that I need to be patient until they are told I can speak with my daughter again. Today two detectives came to my house with no paperwork and told me to not contact my daughter or her caregivers temporarily until the investigation is complete. They claim I\u2019m named a suspect in the matter but wouldn\u2019t elaborate a bit, they said police will come do their part of the investigation. I\u2019m at a total loss. My lawyer said she\u2019ll call the detective that came to my house today, but I won\u2019t hear from her today. I don\u2019t even know where to begin to research this. I\u2019m at a total loss. ","title":"I was told by detectives today that I cannot contact my daughter nor her care givers due to an ongoing investigation that I\u2019m a suspect in. They had no paperwork.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568397684,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3t2bd\/landlord_owes_us_money_how_do_we_approach_this\/","id":"d3t2bd","body":"Hi All,\n\nOur landlord recently gave us our despot back with an itemized list showing deductions. Per the lease, there is late fees that will incur if paid past the 31st. Unfortunately, we were late a few times. However, when we sent out checks in with the late fees we wrote in the memo \"Rent + late fees\". \n\nNow come time to receiving our money back. He took all of those late fees out of our return. We received this September 1st. We are currently collecting our bank statements to show that we paid rent in full plus the late fees for all of those months.\n\nHow might we approach this in terms of asking for our money back? Any advice would be great!","title":"Landlord owes us money. How do we approach this?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554849708,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbegy4\/us_freedom_of_speech_outside_of_school\/","id":"bbegy4","body":"So me and this teacher have some beef and after a little google search I found she has a cover band she plays in. I decide to email the band under the guise they would play at my graduation party. I start out joking and asking if they would play at Chuck E. Cheese. I\u2019m going back and forth with this guy in the band, not my teacher. I than admittedly take it to far and ask \u201cif there is any other way I can pay for them to perform ;)\u201d I get called down to the office and my principal cites this as harassment and disrespectful speech and conduct. I got suspended. Now I have been doing my research and I think I may have a case. I used my own email on my own device but the problem is I sent it during school hours. I never directly contacted her however. I saw that freedom of speech cases outside of school digitally never had a proper Supreme Court case yet. Do I have a case or nah?","title":"[US] Freedom of speech outside of school?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551087131,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aujekv\/failed_drug_test\/","id":"aujekv","body":"I stopped smoking weed a few weeks before my pre-employment drug test and ended up testing positive. Meanwhile this was about two weeks ago that I was notified by the testing center but I didnt get any notification from my job about anything of it so I wasn't sure if it would be enforced. Fast forward to now, after a few weeks of training I just got an email basically asking for a prescription for weed (I am in a state where it is legal recreationally but came from a state where it is legal with prescription). \n\nI haven't smoked for about a month, and I haven't smoked at all since I got hired either. What are my options with this? Could I ask for a retest and claim false positive, ingestion of hemp products that could have altered results, or fess up and face the music (possibly getting fired)? Is it possible to get a prescription now to cover my ass for the previous failed test? Any advice would be appreciated.","title":"Failed drug test","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540362560,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qx9w5\/when_is_the_problem_my_tenants_problem_and_not\/","id":"9qx9w5","body":"I have a multi level home and I rent out three rooms in it, while I live in the bottom floor where I have a private living space, bathroom and bedroom.\n\nTwo of my tenant's do not get along at all, and they regularly ask me to talk one another for them. At first it was for actual things that would be in violation of the lease, then it was noise complaints. More recently the complaints are getting pettier and pettier. I genuinely feel like I am being asked to parent them. I have no interest in being a referee to these tenants. They are both adults and older than me.\n\nI just heard the two tenants screaming at each other in the living room, and then lots of banging coming from one of their rooms. It's officially become ridiculous.\n\nI am still fairly new at this landlord thing. This is the first time I have rented to people. Legally, at what point can I just tell them to sort it out themselves?\n\nIf I hear them arguing in the common areas, am I responsible for their actions if the fight gets too heated?\n\nCould their petty arguments result in any legal ramifications for me.\n\nI don't know if it matters, but they both are under lease until June of next year, and neither one of them are violating terms of the lease.\n\nAnyway, thanks! I appreciate any input you all may have.\n\n","title":"When is the problem my tenant's problem, and not mine? (WA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444874203,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3osxl0\/my_parents_are_in_the_process_of_a_divorce_our\/","id":"3osxl0","body":"My parents have recently undergone a divorce after being married 15+ years, my father believes he is entitled to everything and is fighting tooth and nail to avoid paying for anything that involves my once at home mother.\n\nUnfortunately our phones, myself, my sister, and my mothers phone(iphone6 under sprint) are all under his name. They have not yet been paid off in full and were on a payment plan. My sister had put 300 dollars towards her phone before the divorce.\nHe cancelled our data plan without our permission, we attempted to contact him to no avail offering to pay for the phones, and have the phones moved onto our own plan so we can pay for them. We know he reads the emails and is home, as I have another sister who still lives at home because she is attending college. He is simply choosing to ignore us\n\nWe went to a local sprint and talked to them, they said their is nothing we can do since his name is on the account, so unless he authorizes it we cannot take out phones off the plan.\n\nWe have contacted our divorce lawyer on the issuse and are awaiting a response, im just wondering if there is anything else i could do in the meantime to attempt to rectify the situation. As having phones with no data plan, putting it short, is very inconvenient especially since we dont own a gps and have been doing several job interviews recently. They solely act as a phone atm, and I can do other stuff if there is nearby free wifi\n\nIllinois btw","title":"My parents are in the process of a divorce, our phones are stuck under our fathers name and he has cancelled our data plan and ignores our attempts to reach him.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568525441,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4ggfb\/dads_wife_claiming_rape_a_week_after_he_came\/","id":"d4ggfb","body":"I made a post summarizing their relationship [here](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AmItheAsshole\/comments\/d4gd1t\/aita_for_not_feeling_sorry_for_my_dads_wife_when\/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)\n\nThis post is biased, as I only know my dads side of the story.\n\nA couple of months ago, my dad came clean to his wife about cheating on her years ago. Idk how the convo went, but I saw them at a party a few days after this (without knowing abou the convo) and everything seemed fine. \n\nA little over a week after the confession, they had a party, got drunk, and both willingly had sex. Sex, that she \"participated in\" (according to dad, whatever that means). Nothing was said about not wanting it. She never said no, and they had sex 20+ times since then until recent. \n\nLast week she kicked my dad out of the house (I'm not sure why, but she has done this many times before), saying she wants a divorce and that he raped her that night they had drunk sex.\n\nThis totally took my dad by surprise. He says that's not what happened and he would not have had sex with her if she had said no. Hes also confused because they both come from a belief that they consent to sex with each other when they gave their vows (but obviously if the other person says no, they respect that), so he doesnt understand why she is saying that he raped her when she willingly had it, never said no, and they both had the understanding before this that they always consent (unless otherwise said).\n\nAnyways, she blocked him and all mutual friends on Facebook and made a post saying that it was for her \"privacy and safety\", and basically made my dad sound like a psycho. Look, my dad's not a good person, especially when it comes to being loyal in a relationship, but I dont think he would ever hurt someone. This is going to sound harsh, but hes a big","title":"Dad's wife claiming rape a week after he came clean about past cheating and is now filing for divorce, full custody of their kids, and is acting scared of him","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570405940,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/debiem\/hartford_connecticut_should_i_be_wary_of_this\/","id":"debiem","body":"I am in the process of signing the lease for an apartment, and reading through it there is a section that says the following:\n\n​\n\n\"By signing, you ... agree to grant us permission to use your likeness in photographs, videos and\/or other electronic ... reproductions, including voice, in any and all of our publications, including ... website entries, advertising websites, social media websites, and any other marketing materials.\" \n\n​\n\nSeems kinda invasive and odd that it's not something optional. I am planning to not sign and to go over this section with the landlord, but should I be wary of this in the first place?","title":"[Hartford, Connecticut] Should I be wary of this term in the apartment lease I'm about to sign?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542274321,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x9qis\/i_have_evidence_of_someone_confessing_to\/","id":"9x9qis","body":"So this story goes back a few weeks to when I was talking with a friend who was distraught about there 12 year old sister being in a long distance relationship with a 19 year old. My friend then forced there sister to cut ties with this person. My friends younger sister then began to act strange and erratic and we thought she may have been exposed to something she shouldn't have at that age. I decided to investigate and changed my Snapchat name and bitmoji to that of a female and then added the 19 year old claiming to be a friend of my friends sister. He then sent a response similar to \"okay I'll only talk to you if you send nudes\" and openly admitted to receiving nudes from my friends sister. I replied with only mutual responses as he demanded for me to send images of myself. I stated I was 14 and nervous but he continued to harass me. I recorded everything on a separate phone and was wondering if this would be enough to get the police involved. I want nothing more but to have this sick fuck arrested for traumatizing a child. Also for context I am a 16 year old from New Zealand and the 19 year old is also from New Zealand. I'm not sure if this is the right sub to ask for advice but anything would be appreciated","title":"I have evidence of someone confessing to soliciting child pornography, how can I get this person arrested without getting involved","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1416198800,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2mj4ed\/maryland_contract_at_stressful_job_says_it_can\/","id":"2mj4ed","body":"I recently switched careers and became a public school teacher. No training could have prepared me for the severe stress, anxiety, and 60-80 hour weeks that have lead to my extreme unhappiness over the past few months.\n\nI have been looking for other jobs, but I fear that if I find one then I will have to pay hefty penalties to leave before the year is over. \n\nSpecifically, the key phrases in my contract state:\n\n \"the certified employee will not vacate the position to which assigned during any school year, except in case of emergency, of which the Local Board of Edcuation shall judge\"\n\nand\n\n\"If any of the conditions of this contract shall be violated by the certificated employee named herein, salary already accrued will be forfeited, in the discretion of the Local Board of Education.\"\n\nIs it as simple as that? Is there any way around this? It seems that there is a lot of discretion at play. Does anyone have experience about how often they enforce the salary seizure? Thank you!","title":"(Maryland) Contract at stressful job says it can seize all salary accrued if I leave early...","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555656139,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bew3ya\/college_student_under_investigation_for_sexual\/","id":"bew3ya","body":"I received a call at midnight from campus police asking if they could stop by and ask some questions. I agreed to talk to the officer and gave him my statement for where I was, where I swiped my student card, what doors I used to enter the union, and names of freinds I saw durung these times.","title":"College student under investigation for sexual assault. I am major scared this is going to destroy me despite me not doing anything.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552337203,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azyjnb\/should_my_husband_cash_an_incorrect_check_nv_usa\/","id":"azyjnb","body":"My husband just got a job and worked 30+ hours for a company las week, he was promised $10 an hour. The check came and it\u2019s around $130, they paid him for 19 hours with the minimum wage rate in Nevada which is 8.25. \n\nHe told his boss he was promised $10 an hour and they didn\u2019t include all hours worked, he has the time stamp receipts to prove it (when he clocks out he gets a time in\/out receipt). \n\nThe boss told him to cash the check anyway and that he would correct it with corporate. I told my husband not to cash it because it might show he agreed to lower pay and hours. \n\nToday he confronted his boss and his boss said he would get a better check Friday and to just cash this one. Is this okay? Or should my husband refuse to cash the incorrect check? ","title":"Should my husband cash an incorrect check? (NV, USA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1443663810,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n1pr5\/are_we_required_to_pay_an_early_termination_fee\/","id":"3n1pr5","body":"The rental agreement that I signed states that there is an 'early move-out \/ early termination fee' of $2.00. However, I spoke with people who work for the building, and they are stating that we owe 1.5 months rent. They said that the $2.00 included in the agreement was a mistake. Keep in mind that both parties legally signed the agreement though. \n\nThe agreement that we signed states: \"If the early termination fee box has been checked by Landlord, and the early termination fee therefore does apply, then Landlord may charge tenant an early termination fee of $2.00 (one- and-one-half times the monthly rent if left blank) if Resident fails to fulfill the term of the Lease for any reason.' \n\nAs you can see, the space was not let blank and filled in with $2.00. Please help!","title":"Are we required to pay an early termination fee of 1.5 months rent for our rental agreement?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442368693,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3l4ble\/sd_joint_custody_who_gets_to_claim_the_children\/","id":"3l4ble","body":"We have two kids, we're separating, we agree on joint custody, 50\/50, but since I make more, we know I'll be paying her child support, as well as paying 65% (to her 35%) of the children's shared expenses (medical, eye care, etc).\n\nAs I was doing my taxes this year, I played 'what if' while answering the questions: Who do they spend the most time with? Equal.  Who pays more of the expenses?  I do.  It says I should claim them.  If I change that to one to we pay equal, it next asks who makes the most, I do, and again it suggests I should claim them.\n\nI'm curious as to what others have experienced, either in mediation or what was appointed by the courts.\n\nThanks\n","title":"[SD] Joint custody, who gets to claim the children as dependents for tax purposes?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541997768,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wawl4\/wrongful_collections_notice\/","id":"9wawl4","body":"i used to live in student living apartments and they forcibly made me move out of two bedroom apartment after notifing me that another one of their tenants was in need of the two bedrooms, i used work maintenance there as well and made me move into a 4 bedroom after constant threats of being evicted out out of my two bedroom apartment. I refused to pay the rent because i didnt not know they had my contract already rewritten for a 4 bedroom apartment and they were already planning to kick me out of my apartment after me telling them no repeatedly and they would not take the hint. Fast forward to today and i barely found out that they had sent me to collections and did not have a clue for the entire time since i moved back with my parents (this was late last year in 2017). On top of all this my old manager was caught sleeping with our lead maintenance guy several times and he constantly berated me and my best friend while we worked there. He was blatantly racist to my friend and made remarks to her being overly sexist and disgustingly sexually forward with her, he would insult about my weight and make me feel like i was less than him and was always disrespectful towards our other residents. ","title":"Wrongful collections notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550111929,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqewa2\/employer_abusing_me_after_my_green_card\/","id":"aqewa2","body":"My friend works at a fashion industry called Jobber Market (Jaba in Korean Slang) in Los Angeles and many business owners (usually family owned) abuse imported interns from overseas, pay minimum wages, ask for overwhelming amount of work without proper training and even sexually harass young women. But no one can dare to blow a whistle because many wants to get a green card through the company. My friend was one of them and she applied for one through her work and paid her company a lot of money for the legal fee. I've never heard of employee brining their own money for their employer but I heard this is common practice among small companies.   \n\n\nI told her it might take years to get a green card and asked her is she likes her current work. I remember her being not worried much because she liked her work. Apparently her employer treated her nice and all because she was new to the company and stayed very positive and enthusiastic about her field even though her work was demanding. Luckily, my friend was able to get green card really fast for some reason, after working there just about a year or two. It was fastest case of getting a green card in her company history and we all told her good karma returned her a big favor.   \n\n\nHowever that's when everything started to going down hill. The company owner and his family were so shocked because people usually take 3 to 4 years or even longer to get green card processed and they were expecting to use my friend as much as possible while she waits for her visa go through. Now she has the green card, they think she is going to quit soon.\n\n​\n\nSo instead of congratulating her, her boss decided to cut her salary by changing her hourly salary to monthly pay and started giving her extra work which she can not finish in regular working time. So she has to come to work on weekends without any extra pay. \n\nAlso the family members of the owner are all over her work and started gossiping about her attitude and appearance for no reason. Sometimes they will say it over the phone or even on her face while she is busy working. She started to develop symptoms due to stress but her boss did not allow her to take sick days because there is no one else who can do her job when she is away for a day.   \nOn top of everything, her boss started asking her her to clean up the inventory which is physically demanding. Her profession has nothing to do with unboxing and organizing the storage but they told her it was necessary even if there are people already doing that job.\n\nAll of these just started happen after she got her green card and she can not quit because it only has been 3 months since she got it and she is afraid quitting her job will have any negative effect on her green card. She says she has to endure this bullying for at least a year. \n\nI know where she works and I told her I may help her reporting this company as a whole and she told me not to because there are many other innocent people desperately waiting for green card through this company and she doesn't want to ruin their dreams.   \n\n\nIs there anything my friend can do to escape this situation?  \n\n\nNot sure if this belongs to employment or immigration but going to put employment flair first.  \n\n\nThanks. \n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\nTLDR: After my friend got a green card from her work her boss started mistreating her by: cutting her salary,   \nincreasing workload,   \nbullying and   \nordering physical labors unrelated to her profession.  \n\n\nbut she can't quit or report the company.  \nWhat is other option?  \n\n\n​","title":"Employer abusing me after my green card.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445712219,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q25vk\/portland_or_roommate_got_a_pet_while_the_rest_of\/","id":"3q25vk","body":"I live in a house with three other people. While three of us, including myself, left town, the fourth roommate got a kitten. We had previously discussed this, with two of us saying we don't want a cat, the other saying he didn't care, and had agreed to revisit the issue in the winter (our roommate was upset that we had said no, and we were planning on saying no again if\/when he brought it up). This roommate is a good friend of all of us, but me and one of my other roommates really didn't want this and don't know how to proceed. Also, our lease is very strict about not allowing pets. Our landlord is very hands-off (has never come to the house or contacted us since we moved in) so it's unlikely that he would discover the cat on his own... but it could happen, and a previous tenant was evicted because she had been hiding a pet.\n\nI'm not really sure where to go from here, but my main question is: if my landlord finds out about the cat, is it more likely that only the roommate who has it will be penalized, or are we all at risk of eviction now?","title":"Portland, OR: Roommate got a pet while the rest of us were out of town, our lease says no pets allowed. Are we all liable?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554613210,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bad11h\/ca_got_note_from_doctor_for_reasonable\/","id":"bad11h","body":"Okay. So, as the title says, I (34\/F) have a condition that means I need to wear headphones in the office (Misophonia). I got a doctor\u2019s note. Approached HR and had a meeting with my boss and was approved to wear my headphones.  \n\nMale coworker (50\/M) who I have had a LOT of tension with, after he made several advances and I turned him down, is \u201cuncomfortable\u201d that I am wearing headphones and not communicating with him. We work in entirely different roles and do not NEED to communicate.\n\nI have to meet with HR and my boss on Monday for a disciplinary action meeting, because this coworker says I am making him \u201cuncomfortable\u201d. \n\nWhat rights do I have here? What do I say in this meeting? I cannot and do not want to lose my job, and honestly, this feels SO inappropriate. \n\nThank you in advance. ","title":"CA: Got note from doctor for reasonable accommodation to wear headphones in the office. Now, male co-worker that I share an office with, who has made several advances (some over text, which I still have) is \u201cuncomfortable\u201d. Have to meet for a \u201cdisciplinary\u201d action meeting with HR. Do I have rights?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552332306,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azxjrp\/steps_to_break_lease_in_lawrence_kansas\/","id":"azxjrp","body":"The house I rent is on a bad foundation and it's caving in. I have notified the landlord. About 2 days passed before she responded (this was about 2 weeks ago). She told me her friend could fix it and I would have to wait until he was available (could not give me a date). I sent her photos (2 weeks ago). The thing is the floor is separating from the walls, and the ceiling is bowing at certain points, and there are leaks. I don't feel safe here and I want to leave. The whole house feels very flimsy. There are new cracks appearing daily. Clearly the landlord knew this was an issue before I started renting here (6 Mos ago).  Is there anyway I can get my money back that I've paid her for rent? What authority should I contact to have this home inspected? I've learned around town she has a reputation for renting crap houses. I did not know about this prior to my renting. ","title":"Steps to break lease in Lawrence, Kansas","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505258407,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zqr5k\/need_advice_on_how_to_proceed_with_my\/","id":"6zqr5k","body":"I'm looking for advice on how to proceed in regards to my grandfather's estate. He passed away at the beginning of August and left behind his boat, truck, bank account, and life insurance. Before I continue I need to explain the situation and details from the past year. \n\nLast year he lived with his sister, who did just about everything you would need a computer for like his life insurance, vehicle insurance, banking and more. When she passed away, her daughter (my cousin) took over and started handling all of his bills for him. Around this time in 2016, he called me begging me to come and move him out and into his brother's place because my cousin was acting suspicious and wronging him. I go within the next few days to pick him up and take him to his brother's with plans to return over the next day or so to move belongings. In that short period that he wasn't there, my cousin and her boyfriend stole a lot of items from him and flipped his sister's house, and his, upside down and ravaged through everything that would open or could be lifted off the ground. Among the items stolen was his will. A few days later he told me he ended up having to get a small loan and meet with bank personnel because she had also been using his bank account to pay for her car note and various other bills. \n\nSometime before he asked me to move him out, my cousin had also used my grandfather's information on her mothers computer to change the life insurance policy into her name. She presented the new policy to him asking for the signature and he refused. He told me this and showed me the fraudulent policy where he wrote no good on the front and had not signed it before he passed away. I was unaware she had done it via computer until I requested a dispute and I received a letter mentioning that the change had occurred online. That's how I knew she used her mother's computer.\n\nAt this point, I'm having difficulty finding out which court house the will was filed, if any. Knowing my grandfather, it most likely wasn't filed at all. I don't know which steps I need to take to proceed, the estate is worth less than $5,000. As far as the life insurance goes i sent the police report my grandfather made on my cousin for bank fraud, but couldn't supply the report for the stolen property because he failed to include her name in it. The life insurance company sent me a letter asking for proof that my grandfather could not have made the change himself and I have no idea how I would be able to provide such information.\n\nIf at all possible, I would really like to see that my cousin doesn't get away with this at all. Within the past year and a half I lost my father, 5 months following my grandmother, and now my grandfather. I cannot afford a lawyer, it took me almost a year to save the $2,000 to pay for an attorney in Oklahoma for my grandmother's estate. If this becomes too much stress I may just drop it and let my cousin have at it but I really do not want to because of how badly she wronged my grandfather. \n\nI also have an uncle that my grandfather despises, I've never met him personally but I've been told by many that he's a deadbeat drug addict. I know for sure he is not included in the will but without it he would legally be next of kin, further advice on that situation would help.\n\nAny advice or help is greatly appreciated. ","title":"Need advice on how to proceed with my grandfathers estate. (Texas)","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569590533,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da0c1l\/5_year_non_compete_clause\/","id":"da0c1l","body":"My wife is looking to get a job and the contract has a non compete clause in it for 5 years that seems a bit excessive. We are in Pennsylvania if that helps.","title":"5 year non compete clause","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503508151,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vkebr\/oakdale_california_usa_trial_by_decleration_and\/","id":"6vkebr","body":"Ok so on a long country road , no traffic in sight. Stop sign ahead of me I stop before the limit line about six seven feet away. (Still can clearly see the other 3- ways with out obstruction ) I make a fast stop like one second. Accelerate fairly fast and a cop was to my right on the right hand shoulder if you were coming to the intersection. The cops says I ran the stop sign as he didn't see me due to some trees in the way . But gave me a ticket . Anyone know how to go about fighting this possibly any examples of trial by decleration answers ( trying not to go to court , I have work and am busy alot) . Anyone know any good online ticket fighting services ? Cannot afford this on my record . Thanks alot","title":"(oakdale, california USA) Trial by decleration , and fighting a wrongful traffic ticket question?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555402632,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdrenj\/i_do_online_entertainment_i_usually_avoid\/","id":"bdrenj","body":"I\u2019ve had my fair share of scammers and fake friends. A fairly large company reached out to me for a 4 video sponsorship deal, and I am interested in accepting. The email certainly looks legit and I believe mostly everything checks out from names to location to company, but I haven\u2019t encountered someone needing my address and full name as of yet. I want to be careful due to threats such as swatting.\n\nSo my main question is, is it wise to give this official looking company my full name and address for the contract? They won\u2019t be sending me anything either. I upload the advertisement and then they pay. I\u2019m 18, if that helps any. Thanks!","title":"I do online entertainment, I usually avoid contracts. Looking into taking a 4 video sponsorship deal, and for the contract they are wanting my address and full name. The deal doesn\u2019t require anything to be sent to me. Is this normal?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1446958341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rz30j\/vspec_speeding_citation_in_pennsylvania\/","id":"3rz30j","body":"Miles timed was .02462, seconds timed was 17.51. Was cited for 50.6 mph in a 35 zone. But when you do the math, you get 5.06 mph. The V-SPEC unit meant 0.2462 miles or about 1300 feet. Is this error sufficient to throw out the ticket, and receive a not guilty verdict? ","title":"V-SPEC speeding citation in Pennsylvania","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1538777739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9lquxy\/mi_employer_laid_me_off_and_brought_me_back_says\/","id":"9lquxy","body":"As the title says, my employer laid me off a few months ago, I quickly found other work and started working elsewhere. They attempted to \"Call me back\" to a position that I wasn't able to take and I had to decline. (It was a midnights only shift, and I am not able to work midnights.) Now they are saying I need to wait a full calendar year to receive the vacation I would have received next month, and I lose the week I would have received in January. What are my options here?\n\n​","title":"(MI) Employer laid me off and brought me back, says I need to wait a year before I'm entitled to vacation, as I now have no seniority.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539112032,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ms1et\/ca_unpaid_overtime_claim_for_salaried_manager\/","id":"9ms1et","body":"Hello, and thank you for your advice!\n\nI have been working for a QSR restaurant in Southern California since March 2016, and in November 2016 was promoted to GM and offered $47k a year. I was told that the expectation would be to work 50 hours a week, including other non pertinent benefits. In March 2018 our franchisee sold the store, and I was offered to remain on as GM with the new ownership. Initially I was hesitant - long story short the hours and consistent issues with hiring in my store's area were starting to weigh on me, I never received a raise and securing time off was consistently challenging. I was offered the same salary, but countered to $53k a year - and was told that I would be put as an hourly employee - because the state law says that managers working team member positions are categorized wrong and are subject to overtime. This factor alone was the main reason I was willing to stay on with the new owners. I must add that all owners, and the company I worked for are really fantastic - and I am in no means trying to \"screw\" anyone. But fact of the matter is I was never changed to hourly and was working more than the expected 47.5 hours a week.\n\nFast forward to the end of September 2018, where I had still not been put on hourly wage. I was working on average 60 hours a week, 12+ hour days and 6 day work weeks. I consistently communicated that we needed support, myself personally as the long hours were weighing and I was missing a lot of things. After school started in August we lost a third of our employees, including several key management team members and shift leaders. I struggled to hire and train replacements, as I was working the floor during lunch and dinner and running shifts six days a week. I had asked more than twice about the plans for putting the GM's within in the franchise, and was told that it wasn't a priority at the time. I began looking for other jobs, and took interviews when I could and continued trying to peacefully transition. \n\nI put my two weeks in on Sunday 9\/23 - but after working 19.5 hours on the next Monday 9\/24 - I snapped and put in my notice effective immediately on Tuesday 9\/25 after sleeping for 4 hours in between having to close the store by myself and having to open by myself the next day - and having worked more than 6 days in a row up until that point.\n\nI understand the steps I need to take involving claiming unemployment and filing a claim with the labor commissioner. I asked my father who is an attorney if it would be appropriate to ask them directly for the money and not involve the state, as I had and still have great re pore with the owners.  As I said previous, I am not trying to screw anyone here - but I have been screwed out of overtime and I am rightfully owed it. I have a meeting confirmed and am now trying to figure out what to say, how to say it and most importantly - **how much do I ask for?**\n\n Before leaving I pulled a Labor Report of my total hours worked and took a picture. The issue with this is that I did not clock in and out consistently, as I wasn't required officially by policy to clock in as I was salaried. There were times where we were told that we were expected to clock in and out, breaks included because they were switching us to hourly - but that never happened, so I fell out of compliance. Even with the hours on the labor report for when I did clock in and out, my calculations are pretty substantial.\n\n  \nLabor Report pulled from start of new ownership to day quit.  \nSalary: $53,000 a year - 47.5 hours worked per week expectation.  \nLabor Report Total Overtime: 381.72 hours   \n$53k \/ 52 weeks x 2 (paid biweekly) = $2,038.46 per paycheck  \n$2,038.46 \/ 2 = $1,019.23 per week  \n$1,019.23 \/ 47.5 = $21.45 an hour  \n$21.45 x 1.5 = $32.19 OT rate, $42.90 Double OT rate\n\nPer the above, and just off the incorrect labor report mind you - asking for $12,288 to cover unpaid overtime doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I just know that the calculation is off, I can prove I worked more than that. I am thinking that asking for my salary for the month of October in lieu of filing for unemployment is also reasonable - this would put my total requested to $16,364.92.\n\nAm I completely off base here? I appreciate any insight, thank you!\n\n​\n\nTL;DR - Salaried manager in CA seeks guidance for reasonable amount owed in unpaid overtime for not having manager in correct labor category. What are the laws to cite in a meeting meant to de-escalate claims with EDD and Labor Commissioner? \n\n  \n","title":"CA - Unpaid Overtime Claim for Salaried Manager","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551557546,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awls8h\/florida_need_advice_on_if_we_should_pay_all_or\/","id":"awls8h","body":"This is our first place we have been here for almost 4 years. We just found a place a few days ago with a lower rent and we will be moving in mid March. The place we live in now has mold and the electrical outlets are literally falling out the walls and some spark. The landlord has k own this the entire time we have been here and has still or done anything and we've sent reminders throughout the years. Does anyone know what we should do? I don't feel like we should be giving the whole rent for only less than half a month. But I also do not want to do anything that might be illegal. I would really appreciate any articles or insight explaining what we should do. Thank you in advance. I don't normally post here so my apologies of I didn't do something right...","title":"(Florida) Need advice on if we should pay all or half of the rent if we are moving mid March.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551632542,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awvw87\/nyc_im_divorced_with_1_child_if_i_die_while_shes\/","id":"awvw87","body":"I have no will, so I\u2019m starting from scratch. My ex is historically terrible with money, and I have absolutely no faith that he\u2019d manage it in any kind of way to ensure my child has a secure future. Chances are that she\u2019ll be inheriting a variety of assets, all of which is rather not name, but cash and equities and real estate are all in the mix. \n\nI\u2019m somewhat versed in trusts and custodial accounts. I do have a brother I trust who could manage a custodial UTMA or 529 on her behalf. She\u2019ll be getting more $ than a 529 would cover though, and I don\u2019t really know how much flexibility one would offer in the case the 529 outlives her education. \n\nI\u2019m also not too knowledgeable about the pros and cons of having a family member as executor of a trust vs an attorney or other professional. \n\nThese are just the options I\u2019ve considered, but perhaps there are other ways to protect her assets? Any guidance about these or other options is appreciated!","title":"[NYC] I\u2019m divorced with 1 child. If I die while she\u2019s still a minor what is my best course of action to protect my ex from misusing my child\u2019s inheritance?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1415648762,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2lvzty\/ny_want_to_change_sole_prop\/","id":"2lvzty","body":"I have a business registered as a sole prop, but I want to change the name. Is it better to just register a completely new sole prop or is there a way to update the name? The original name is not an obvious part of the new name. (Ex: \"Doing Business As\" is now \"DBA Sole Prop Co.\")","title":"NY - Want to change sole prop","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554347180,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b97hqj\/landlord_wants_2k_to_replace_kitchen_bench\/","id":"b97hqj","body":"Hello, this relates to Australia, so I hope someone here knows a thing or two about Aus. But any advice is welcomed.\n\nI rented a unit that had these cheap white laminate bechtops. Very hard to keep in a good condition because even a hot coffee or tea cup left a burn on them. Anyway, I guess we accidentally left a hot cup on the bench and it left a burn mark. Google told us to get rid of it by sanding it down slightly. We did this. The real estate agent noticed some scratches from this that, mind you, could only be seen in certain light at a certain angle. We agreed to pay for a repair. The real estate agent has come back saying that they can not be repaired and need to be replaced at the cost of $3200. With deprecation of 5 years they want $1700. I should also note the current owner did not install the bechtops so I do not think they have evidence to back up this age. \n\nI think it's audacious to ask for a completely new bench top. We were prepared to pay $200-$300 to repair this, certainly not $1700. Does anyone have any advise on what I should do? If I take this to tribunal do you think they'll agree with the landlord or us on this?\n\nThank you. ","title":"Landlord wants 2k to replace kitchen bench","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553924181,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b77ngy\/probate_court\/","id":"b77ngy","body":"Does anyone know what rights that someone that stands to inherit has? My family has a fairly significant estate in Pennsylvania and I'm wondering what I stand to gain in relation to that. They recently cut off my allowance over some drama and I'm concerned they are going to try to write me out of the will, over some recent nonsense. I am trying to work my way back in, but some of them are refusing to talk to me. Like can your family reduce your stake against your will? Or even neglect your inheritance, entirely? I have heard of something similar before, but I thought you could challenge that in court.","title":"Probate Court","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1541827774,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vrvv2\/my_restuarant_lost_my_money_im_a_server_and_wont\/","id":"9vrvv2","body":"I'm in ID, I work at a diner and I had a table of 20 come in tonight. they paid with a credit card and left a tip on the signed copy of the receipt. a host came and grabbed that receipt and threw it away. I asked my manager what that meant for me and he said I just dont get it. is this legal for them to not replace the money their host lost? I'm very upset and honestly this isn't the first time it's happened, this is the most they've ever lost though. what steps can I take? i just want to quit. any advice would be much appreciated. ","title":"my restuarant lost my money (I'm a server) and wont replace it","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569368768,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8vh81\/wife_vs_sister_domestic_violence\/","id":"d8vh81","body":"This is a long story and I\u2019m using mobile so I apologize for any grammatical errors.\nSo about 1 year ago my sister threatened my life as well as my wife and sons life, this obviously struck a cord so we discontinued contact with her, she was living with my mother at the time and moved out shortly after that. All is well in the world my mother volunteered to babysit my son while we work because she no longer works, everything\u2019s going smooth until this week my sister pops back up claims she\u2019s homeless and convinced my mother to allow her to live with her once again. Now out of the blue today my mother called my wife and let her know she packed up all of my sons toys that we had left at her house and she told my wife she needed to pick them up immediately, my wife was confused but went over there to get them, before she left I told her to bring our neighbor with her so there was a witness Incase anything happened. ( my mother is bipolar currently off her meds from what I can tell and my sister is a self proclaimed drug addict that has checked herself into mental health facilities more than once) when my wife pulls into the driveway and walks through the door my sister bumped her with her shoulder as my wife was walking a box of toys outside to her car when my sister attempted to hit her, my wife defended herself and after the fight disbursed my sister called 911 and said my wife assaulted her for no reason. My mom her boyfriend and my younger brother are most likely going to agree that this is what happened but we have our neighbor as a witness. The police released my wife and she\u2019s filing a protective order in the AM she wasn\u2019t given a court date and she\u2019s currently at home. Does anyone know what kind of issues were looking at and how to keep my wife out of jail? We\u2019re both veterans, law abiding members of society and maintain a full time job. Neither of us have any discrepancies on our record and I\u2019d prefer to attempt to keep it that way.","title":"Wife vs sister \u201cdomestic violence?\u201d","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542295291,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9xc2zg\/school_searches_4th_amendment\/","id":"9xc2zg","body":"Hello all. I am a teacher in a high school in the US, and I can say with certainty, regardless of how overhyped you may think it is, we have an epidemic of young people using Juul vape pens on campus. \n\nTo address that issue, the administration decided to have a lockdown this morning and search every student with a metal detector systematically. I have planning first period, but I did have one student in my classroom who was making up a test during the lockdown. I saw the administrators come into the classroom to search the student. They asked him first to empty and rabbit ear his pockets. Then they waved a metal detector over him and had him take off his shoes. And lift his pant legs. \n\nWhile I am for combatting the vape craze that many of my students are into, I am curious if this sort of mass search is a violation of the students 4th amendment rights. I am not a lawyer, but I imagine a defense attorney would perhaps argue this if anything illegal was seized during the search. \n\nWhen I was in school, we did have random K-9 searches, which I imagines implies probable cause. A principal with a metal detector who lines up every student and makes them all empty their pockets before sweeping does not, as far as I know. Really curious about this. Are minors someone not protected by this right or does a public school have some sort of power that goes beyond its protection? ","title":"School Searches & 4th Amendment","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554416994,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9jbx5\/if_you_have_poa_or_guardianship_for_your_parents\/","id":"b9jbx5","body":"Hi, I hope this isn\u2019t a terribly dumb question. My friend\u2019s parents are elderly and accruing medical expenses and have no insurance. Is there any way that she can have them added to her insurance? ","title":"If you have POA or Guardianship for your parents, can you have them added to your insurance?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569731375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daqmeu\/fathers_rights\/","id":"daqmeu","body":"What rights does a non-custodial father have when their ex-wife who has custody of their two minor children is neglecting their health and educational needs? One child is non-verbal and has seizures. She allows him to be left unattended in car, he\u2019s supposed to wear glasses but they\u2019re constantly being broke and getting them repaired isn\u2019t a priority, he had numbness in his arm recently after a seizure and she did not seek medical attention for him. The other child is in 8th grade in school but cannot read at a 5th grade level. She allows this child to spend all her free time on her tablet while she has homework due at school that\u2019s turned in weeks late. This child has to be reminded to wash her hair and face when taking a shower because at home they don\u2019t take a bath more than 2-3 times a week. Both kids who are teenagers go to\/come home from school with body odor. The father pays child support but it is spent on everything but food and clothes. Most of the kids clothes are 2 sizes too small and they come to dad\u2019s house acting like they haven\u2019t eaten all day at 3 in the afternoon. On the weekends, their mother sleeps til 3-4pm while the kids are awake unsupervised all day. The special needs non-verbal child is allowed to use the stove as well. Sorry for the long post but venting was needed as well as advice.","title":"Father\u2019s rights","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570807886,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dggtdt\/ca_new_job_start_date_changed_but_was_never\/","id":"dggtdt","body":"Hey all legal advice, Looking for some clarification here on this one! So i went into my new job to do my starting paperwork on 10\/2. At the time of paperwork they gave me the schedule for the next 3 weeks to take home. I was not on the schedule until 10\/14 and we both agreed that was a good date to start, and they told me to call down if i wanted to start sooner which i declined (took 2 weeks off before new job).\n\nAt time of hire they had me sign up for \"Remind\" to get text messages about schedules and such sent. I was a little iffy on this but did it anyways. Today I received a call asking where I was because i was scheduled at 5am, I told them the paperwork they gave me said I start on 10\/14. \n\nThey said that was fine, but now are trying to say they sent out a 'schedule' for this week on their text message system.  I don't believe i got but I have been in the process of refinancing our house and selling my car so the phones kinda blown up with text messages and such right now.\n\n​\n\nIs a text message a legal way to communicate to me a schedule change?","title":"[CA] New job start date changed, but was never notified.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1446739338,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rn42a\/ny_hypothetical_say_a_towing_company_tows_your\/","id":"3rn42a","body":"This is really just a matter of curiosity. I've always been quite surprised by the legal protection afforded to tow companies, and what appears to me to be the relative lack of regulation and oversight over towing companies. \n\nSay they tow your car, and upon recovery there is moderate damage to your vehicle. What options can you take? ","title":"[NY] Hypothetical: Say a towing company tows your car, and upon recovery, it's been visibly damaged. What are your options, especially if the company denies wrongdoing.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539217573,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9n53k6\/mi_defendants_attorney_not_sending_judgement_of\/","id":"9n53k6","body":"Background - At the bench trial\/final trial, wife showed up with an attorney without notice. Judge tasked the attorney to draft the judgement of divorce. I contacted her attorney the same (Monday) afternoon to initiate getting the draft by email and meeting in person to pick up the physical form. He informed me he would not have it until the end of the week. A few days later, before the end of the week I asked him what he needed from me, all he said he needed was info on the 401k. I gave him everything I could locate, and asked if he needed more to contact me. I heard nothing back. \n\nA week later, I was told incorrectly from wife that he hadn't processed the paperwork because she owed him still. \n\nThe issue - I contacted him this Tuesday and (long story short) he told me he would have the draft that evening. I received nothing. I emailed him this morning suggesting my availability should he get the draft to me today, and heard nothing back. \n\nThe judge has given us until the first of the month to file the judgement. Due to work, my availability for the month is shrinking, and obviously I'd like to have this completed and NOT file for divorce again. \n\n​\n\nThe question - What are my options to urge her attorney to get me the draft and meet with me? ","title":"(MI) Defendants attorney not sending Judgement of divorce draft","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570504603,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deud8y\/my_boss_sent_me_all_my_coworkers_bank_info_and\/","id":"deud8y","body":"I just got hired at a bakery. I am not in charge of anything I show up and knead bread and slice bread and leave. I get a letter in the mail today full of all my coworkers pay stub info, including bank numbers and social security numbers. \n\nI feel this is pretty careless. I'm not going to do anything with this information. Like steal from poor college students that would be pretty sad. \n\nI was just wondering if there are any legal actions or anything like that I can do. Or do i just give it back and say no problem for mailing out this info to a random person. I feel like this was a huge info leak.","title":"My boss sent me all my coworkers bank info and social security numbers","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552930390,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2ljcq\/am_i_required_to_clean_up_bodily_fluids_if_im_not\/","id":"b2ljcq","body":"I'm a minimum wage, retail worker in the state of New York. We often have problems where people vomit\/poop\/pee\/get blood somewhere in the bathrooms or in the store. \nI do not have proper training in regards to keeping myself safe from these hazards, let alone does the company have proper equipment to properly clean up the mess. \nHaving to clean up these specific messes was not listed in the job description, yet they are required (management gets extremely angry when you refuse) part of the job.\nMy question is, is there any protection for me so I do not have to clean up these messes? How would I handle a situation where I do not feel comfortable cleaning up someone else's biohazard mess?","title":"Am I Required To Clean Up Bodily Fluids if I'm Not Properly Trained?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445740315,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q3tjj\/us_caurgent_please_my_landlord_is_undertaking\/","id":"3q3tjj","body":"**UPDATE 9PM:** So I politely asked the contractors to leave. They said they'll be here at 8:30 AM tomorrow. I still won't be able to have the upstairs cleared by that time, so I could still use advice on how to handle this situation, along with whether I screwed up by shooing them out of my house.\n\n**First, thanks for the help.** I apologize for the following wall of text. **The *TL;DR* version is that for the past two years, my landlord has promised major renovations to the house that I am living in. Without giving me specific notice as to when these renovations will occur, they just started two hours ago.** These are renovations (painting interior, replacing flooring) that I want, but I would have liked to know specifically when they were occurring so that I could make preparations since *I still live here.*\n\n>[I posted about this only a few hours ago today](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q2ouz\/us_ca_how_much_notice_is_my_landlord_required_to\/), but now have an update: After being told earlier today by my landlord that the contractors would not be coming today, they are here **right now** (7 PM local time). They had previously dropped by unannounced on Wednesday night and said they wanted to repaint the main floor Thursday, and that the upstairs would be done on a separate day. The downstairs is prepped and ready for work, but they are now saying that they also want to rip up the entire upstairs **TONIGHT**. My landlord provided no notice on what work would be happening tonight (or even tomorrow), and after performing a ***miracle*** by moving out everything from the main floor Wednesday night so that it would be ready Thursday, I am unable to repeat it with my and my roommate's bedrooms tonight. **What are my rights in this situation, and what can I do?**\n\n*I am including the text of my previous post below for reference. Thanks again for the help!:*\n\n>>Hi \/r\/legaladvice! I appreciate any help. **I can keep this brief in the first couple paragraphs, but I have included a wall of text below for the sake of providing a complete background.**\n\n>>I live in a house owned by my landlord - who lives in his own house next door - in California. I try to be a good tenant and accommodate requests he has, like when he shows up without any prior notice, but I'm getting rather frustrated. You have to know when to pick your battles, and I'm considering picking mine, so I'd like to be armed with knowing my actual rights before I start a fuss.\n\n>>**The short question is:** How much notice is my landlord required to give me when undertaking major renovations, while I remain on the lease and continue paying rent? The major renovations at this moment are repainting the inside of the house, and replacing the carpet. I classify them as \"major\" because they require a serious upheaval with regards to my living conditions.\n\n>>**Additional question:** Is my landlord responsible for any stolen or damaged property during these renovations?\n\n>>**Bonus question:** Am I entitled to any compensation for the challenges I'm experiencing with regards to these renovations?\n\n>>**Further information:**\nI have been living in this house for two years. For half a year, I sub-leased from the tenant on the lease, and then took over that lease for another six months. After that lease expired, I signed another year-long lease, which will be converting to month-to-month after a significant rent hike in a week.\n\n>>When I moved in two years ago (as a subtenant), I was informed that the inside of the house would be repainted \"soon.\" I've been given specific months or \"in two weeks\" which have always been pushed back. The house is around 25 years old and probably hasn't been repainted since it was built. There are *many* patches and markings *throughout* the house from previous owners\/tenants, so it really could use a fresh coat of paint.\n\n>>When I signed a year-long lease, the landlord also committed to replacing the carpet (among other things, like re-landscaping the front yard and fixing the leaking roof that had been leaking since I moved in.) The carpet needs to be replaced for much the same reasons as the house needs to be repainted. There are permanent stains (more like tracks) that even the highest-rated professional carpet cleaner (whom I paid for) couldn't remove, and it's bunching up and coming loose in places.\n\n>>The leaking roof was never much of an issue for me as a tenant. This drought means it rarely rains enough to affect anything, and the leak would run down the sub-roof (above the ceiling) to the front wall, and just leak into the house through the front door. There is undoubtedly dry rot in the front wall which the landlord is too cheap to fix. A couple months ago, he supposedly fixed this leak (which involved people coming inside my house and on the property with *zero* notice for several interspersed days), but we haven't had enough rain to tell. During my tenure here, he has consistently failed to give me notice for minor inspections and fixes despite me asking him repeatedly to give me a heads up.\n\n>>Like I said before, you have to know when to pick your battles. I have been mostly content with my living situation because he has not increased the rent over the past two years that I have been living here, and - despite its condition - I am a fan of the real estate.\n\n>>Now that my lease is expiring, he wants to increase the rent to \"market\" rate - which is actually an increase greater than the 8% allowed by my city within a 12-month period without both parties' agreement. I politely informed him that I would be ~~happy~~ willing to pay the going market rate, but that in return I wanted him follow through on some of his promises (specifically repaint the interior, replace the carpet, and fix the grout in a bathroom) to bring the house more in line with \"market\" condition. He agreed, and I was smart enough to get this agreement in writing. Though not in writing, I also told him I would continue to pay the full (current) rent while these renovations were taking place, and that I would handle all moving and storage fees associated with making the house ready to be worked on. I really do try to be a great tenant.\n\n>>Several people have come by to make bids for the work (yay!) - without notice, of course (nay!). Wednesday night around 7:30 PM, I was surprised by one of those contractors, a painter, knocking on my door asking to check my walls so he knew what paint to buy so that he could paint the main floor *the next day*. I called my landlord to check what paint he wanted, since it's his house, and he tells me he already has the green ^(I ^would ^rather ^keep ^the ^patches ^and ^marks ^everywhere) paint to use. I of course tell him that he *really* needs to give me more notice for these things, and then I had a *super fun* time clearing out my main floor that evening, and taking the next day off work because I don't trust the guy.\n\n>>That was Thursday. Now it's Saturday and the guy still hasn't come, though I keep getting told it will be ~~Thursday~~ ~~Friday~~ ~~Saturday~~ now Sunday, while I'm practically under self-imposed house arrest waiting for this guy to show up, and my largest belongings are in storage.\n\n>>I'm getting pretty frustrated, and I have a Halloween party that I am throwing at this house on the 31st (which I told my landlord about) that I do not want to cancel. However, if my landlord tells me that renovations are going to be taking place then, am I under legal obligation to cancel the party to let those renovations take place? **Just how much notice is he required to give me? I keep asking him to provide me with the time of day for these renovations, as well. Is that a reasonable request?** Or can he just say the day and have the whole 24-hour block carved out?\n\n>>I'm considering just telling him that he can't do these renovations without giving me XYZ notice (and that I still won't pay the increased rent until the renovations are completed) so I can have my life back and throw a kickin' Halloween party.\n\n>>Thanks for the help. I appreciate any assistance or insight into this you can provide.","title":"[US - CA](URGENT PLEASE): My landlord is undertaking major repairs on my house right NOW without providing proper notice! What do I do?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554409049,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9hsgh\/apartment_complex_slippery_tile_problem\/","id":"b9hsgh","body":"My apartment complex recently installed tile in the outside hallways or breezeways that lead to our front doors. When it rains water cumulates on the tile and makes it really slippery, every where. \n\n\nMy S\/O slipped and broke her wrist and shattered her phone. I already have an appointment with a local lawyer. I just want some outside opinions and perspective beforehand. \n\nThank you in advanced ","title":"Apartment complex slippery tile problem","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443701763,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n3dk3\/question_using_images_from_wikipedia_for_my_app\/","id":"3n3dk3","body":"Hello to all :)\n\n\nLocation: Germany but app will be uploaded to Google Play Store so its US law i think.\n\n\n*First of all i want to say that i googled a lot but didnt found an answere to this.*\n\n\nMy new travel app got a lot of pictures and backgrounds wich are images from wikipedia pages. The app icon is also made of 2 wikipedia images. All pictures i implemented are using **CC-BY** license.\n\n\nMy questions are:\n\n1: Can i really use this free licenced wikipedia pictures in my app ?\n\n2: Can i write the names of the photographs in the settings menue or do i have to show them somewere when their pictures are shown ?\n\n","title":"[Question] Using images from wikipedia for my app","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1554127412,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b82s61\/community_property_in_tx\/","id":"b82s61","body":"I will probably separate from my husband and for for divorce in the next few weeks and am trying to get an idea of how this will all work. \n\nI've been a stay at home mom since our first child was born. When we purchased our home I had bad credit, so my name isn't on any of the paperwork - including the deed. \n\nIf we divorce will I have any right to the house? If I want to stay (because kids) and he agrees will I have to pay him based on the estimated resale price? \n\nAdditionally, my name is included with his on all of our investments, which I have managed without his input for the duration of our marriage. I will have rights to 50%, correct? \n\nThanks for any advice you can give. ","title":"Community property in TX?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540685529,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rz32l\/legal_to_take_money_from_my_college_savings\/","id":"9rz32l","body":"\\[Georgia, US\\] This probably won't be a long post so sorry if I leave out details, but I want to know what I can and can't do.\n\n​\n\nMy dad has gone psycho and physically and mentally abused me. He just left my mom today. I am 19 and living at home because I am recently disabled. He saved up money for a college fund and the savings account is in my name and his. I think there is around $20k in there, and I'm worried he is going to drain it. There was a lot more, but he spent at least 20k of that on what's pretty much a collector's item. If that happens, I can't see any kind of way I could support myself, because college is all I have going for me right now. \n\n​\n\n I recently learned he has racked up a lot of debt. He was a millionaire (not by much) until he racked up that debt, and now we aren't worth anything. It took me 10 years to find that out. For example, he took out a huge loan on our house to pay off stuff and our mortgage is the same it was a decade ago. Ultimately, none of this matters, but I just wanted to give some context, because I think he might take the money tied to our names and use it to pay off his debt.\n\n​\n\nAlso, my mom has no money that's tied to only her name, so he is holding a lot over her right now. He also tried to divorce her a few years ago, and he basically held her hostage with money and made his way back (keep in mind this is before an incident where he choked me because I didn't like something he cooked). I don't think he'll ever actually divorce her.\n\n​\n\nI hope I don't seem like an asshole here, but I'm not here to discuss whether this is right or wrong. I'm wondering if it's legal. Keep in mind that we are co-signed (?) to the account, so I believe that I could legally just cash out on everything that's in there. Also keep in mind that I am an adult.\n\n​\n\nAlso, I hope the flair is applicable. If not, let me know.\n\n​\n\nThanks.","title":"Legal to take money from my college savings? (Georgia, US)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554514541,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9zclj\/asked_to_take_a_polygraph\/","id":"b9zclj","body":"I am a nurse in at a memory care facility in Oregon. I have just been interviewed in front of my house today regarding a missing ring from a resident. The police stated that people have named me as the suspect. I have absolutely no idea what they\u2019re talking about. And have never been accused of anything in my life. The police have asked me to come into the station on Monday to take a polygraph. What are my rights? And what should I do?","title":"Asked to take a polygraph...","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1549385327,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/anfzb9\/my_state_job_refuses_to_pay_overtime_wages\/","id":"anfzb9","body":"Made a throwaway account for this one. I work for the Department of Agriculture in Idaho. About 2 years ago the state basically stopped paying overtime pay. Instead overtime is considered comp time and held by the state for up to a year. For instance, any overtime I earn between now and July will be held until January of 2020. Overtime earned from July to December of this year will be paid in July of 2020, etc. Now after we earn 240 hours of overtime the state will start paying overtime, but considering I work about 10 of hours overtime a week, I'll get through the six-month allotment time right about when I hit 240 hours.\n\nSo my question is there any legal recourse I can undertake to get paid for my overtime? Really what the state does anyway is to whittle down the comp time I have saved by giving me random days off during slow seasons, which means they'll only have to pay straight time instead of time and a half.\n\nI really do like my job, it's just that I might not be able to stay with the job if I never receive overtime pay. Or when I do receive payouts of comp time it's at a higher tax rate.\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated. I understand I'm probably out of luck on getting this changed, but I figure it can't hurt to ask. Thanks for any ideas you may have.","title":"My state job refuses to pay overtime wages","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571441084,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djvo12\/town_police_log_issue\/","id":"djvo12","body":"I was arrested a couple years ago on a charge that eventually was cleared up, but the first thing when my name is googled shows up with this webpage: \u201c...Teen Charged With Kidnapping\u201d. \n\nIt has since caused lots of problems for me and people asking me about it every now and then. Is there a way to get rid of this, and is it even allowed? I did not consent to any of it going public or being on the front page of my town\u2019s news.","title":"Town Police Log Issue","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568405021,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3urrg\/can_i_have_this_car_towed_for_constantly_parking\/","id":"d3urrg","body":"I live in an apartment complex in TX where I am designated one covered parking spot as part of my lease agreement. \n\nOver the last month, I\u2019ve come home to the same vehicle parked in my spot on many occasions. I have taken pictures of the license plate to send to my apartment management (as per their request), and management have issues warning stickers on the vehicles windows multiple times (Sticker stating that this is a reserved spot and to stop parking here otherwise be towed). The driver of the car seems to be disregarding this warning and the apartment just keeps issuing stickers when I call them to complain. \n\nI am confused as to why they keep parking in my spot (because oftentimes there are other, non-covered spots available). However, there are times when I get home later at night that I am unable to find a spot since they are in my reserved spot and other spots are not open, so this has become a truly inconvenient and frustrating situation. \n\nI would like to ask the apartments to tow the vehicle the next time this happens, but I am worried about any repercussions of this. (Possible crazy and angry neighbor situation, keying my car in retaliation, etc.) Has anyone had similar situations? What should I do?","title":"Can I have this car towed for constantly parking in my reserved spot?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446948355,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rykuu\/car_damaged_by_uninsured_motorist_and_my\/","id":"3rykuu","body":"I bought a used car at the end of July. On October 29th, a driver hit it in the middle of the night. Turned out she didn't have insurance. Now I'm stuck without a car. I filed a claim with my insurance company, and they're refusing to pay for it. The reason they're giving me is that I failed to get the car inspected within the time they had specified. It turns out that in the state of Florida you are legally required to have all previously owned vehicles inspected within a timely manner before they can be properly insured. This is my first time buying a car, and I was not aware of this. What kind of avenue can I take on this? Would it be more advantageous to go after the insurance company or the uninsured motorist, and would would be the proper way of doing that? Money is a huge issue for me with this. Thanks for any help, and if there's anything I left out, let me know. ","title":"Car damaged by uninsured motorist and my insurance company is refusing to cover it. Need advice.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1410980274,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gooy5\/i_am_17_years_old_in_high_school_and_i_got_a\/","id":"2gooy5","body":"I live in Richardson Texas, but I got the ticket in Plano. This is my second ticket this year, and my parents say that this will make the insurance go up so high that I and they wont be able to pay for it. I need to be able to drive for work and school. Is there anything I can do?","title":"I am 17 years old in high school and I got a speeding ticket today. I could really use some help.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542300410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9xcuk6\/my_exhusband_is_suing_me_for_child_support_for\/","id":"9xcuk6","body":"My ex husband and I divorced in 2016, and in 2017 we came to an agreement that gave him majority custody by a little bit (it\u2019s like 55%\/45%). Prior to 2017, we had shared 50\/50 custody and he paid me child support due to the differences in our income. \n\nNow he\u2019s is suing me for child support for our daughter. I am trying to fill out the paperwork and they want me to provide proof of expenses for child care costs. I incur these costs to go to work. (I am currently on short term disability for 2 months so recent cost has been $0, but I am expected to go back in a few weeks) \n\nSince I was not tracking these expenses (no receipts) what do I do- should I estimate the cost of child care for a year? My sitter does keep her own informal records on her calendar with balances and dates I paid. Would a signed (or notarized) letter from me or the sitter be okay, or am I just SOL? \n\nObviously I will start keeping track going forward. Yes, I have a lawyer I can consult but I\u2019m just looking to see if there\u2019s an easy answer here. Thanks. ","title":"My ex-husband is suing me for child support for our 8 year old (PA)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539041903,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mk2li\/auto_insurance_driving_parents_car_in_new_state\/","id":"9mk2li","body":"Would like to ask the legality of the following:\n\n​\n\nThe car I have been driving for the past 2 years is titled and registered in PA, to my father. However I have been using this car out of state (FL) for the past 2 years (it was purchased with money obtained from someone crashing into me and totaling my old car). This allows me to pay a substantially lesser auto insurance rate than the state where I reside. **Seems super fishy to me but my parents informed me it is legal.**\n\n​\n\nNow I am going to move away to another state (to work and live). At this point I think it is time I get the car titled and registered in the new state. Just to make it clear:\n\n​\n\nI need auto insurance, which will allow me to get my car inspected and emissions tested, which allows me to register my vehicle in the new state. However, if I get auto insurance in the new state for myself, it will be significantly more expensive. \n\n​\n\n1. Is it allowable for me to drive my father's car in the new state, still under his insurance as primary policy holder, AND still register my vehicle in the new state (TX)? \n2. Can I just NOT register my car in TX? \n3. Can I drive the car in TX with a PA insurance?\n4. What if he gifts the car to me, can I still stay on the insurance from PA or do I need to now get TX auto insurance?","title":"Auto Insurance : Driving Parent's Car in New State","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1446420706,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r54mf\/michigan_what_do_i_own_if_my_parents_kick_me_out\/","id":"3r54mf","body":"Hi there guys. My parents might kick me out. Usually it's always a bluff (as early as my preteens) but now that I am 19 I am starting to take it more seriously as the threats grow more constant and serious. \n\nI am a full time employee and college student who commutes. If they kick me out, what things do I have ownership of? Obviously things I purchased my self are mine but what about clothes that I did not purchase? My room furniture? Glasses? Contacts? \n\nI don't expect to keep my phone since I do not pay for it and I was planning on purchasing my first one this next contract period (December). I am on the insurance for one car, pay maintenance, gas. I am the only one who uses it but I assume it will be gone too. \n\nMy bank account is shared from when I started working at age 16. I assume I should visit the bank or meet them and change that. \n\nWhat should I do if my property (things I know I own and paid for) are destroyed from a drunken rage if I am not home? Are they allowed to throw my stuff outside in the street? What about weather damage (i.e my computer is thrown outside and it rains from MI weather, etc). \n\nAny other advice would be great. Thanks in advance guys. Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit. This was the first thing that came to mind when my mother left the house screaming.\n\nEdit1: Thanks for the quick advice. I am going to the bank tomorrow morning to sort my bank accounts.  I collected the receipts for my computer and other major purchases. \n\nEdit2: Thanks for the PO\/deposit box suggestion I did not think of that.","title":"[Michigan] What do I own if my parents kick me out?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553261662,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b454vc\/ex_bf_is_trying_to_come_after_credit_card_points\/","id":"b454vc","body":"Still learning the Ps and Qs of Reddit , so sorry if I mess anything up. And this is a bit long...\n\nOk, so I posted  a while back asking you guys about what I could do regarding my ex BF's reluctance in selling the home we owned together. Same ex...\n\nFor quick background - we dated for 9 years, lived together for 8. We broke up Oct 2017 - I was way too nice and in the split of things took on all of our credit card debt (90% of it being from when he was out of work). I covered what I could through March 2018, then he took over everything. The one thing he wanted was all the points we had racked up over the years via Amex. For an entire year I asked for an account to transfer them to, he kept pushing it forward telling me just to give him more time (never told me for what). I want to move on with my life as much as he does - so, finally Dec 6, 2018 I told him I was keeping the points because I had been patient and heard nothing. Dec 7 he texts back some BS about it not hurting me in any way and blah blah blah. I told him it's been over a year - and that I didn't understand what I was waiting for, it's not cheap to transfer points and that wasn't going to change. He then said that if it was the annual fee ($100) that he'd pay it --- because he's an ass and always wants to make it seem like I can't handle myself -- I digress, I told him no. I want to close the card eventually but can't because he wants the points. Told him - I'll give you till Jan 15, he agreed (I have screenshots of the conversation, emailed to me, saved on the phone, and the conversation is still in my phone). I counted down the days to Jan 15 - that long passed, heard NOTHING from him. Not a peep. \n\n​\n\n.... till this AM - sent me a text to send him my Amex login so he can transfer the points ....\n\n​\n\nWell Reddit friends - I have not answered, I don't know if to ignore it (I'm sure that'll just piss him off), to answer with a screenshot of the conversation from December, or just a text telling him we agreed to Jan 15, it's March 22 - please stop texting me. I want to make sure that my response, should I need it for future (more on that below) would hold up in court and won't make me look bad. \n\n​\n\nFor a little more background - during the whole split of property \/ selling the house \/ etc he was a stickler for anything I \"agreed\" to and held me to it. Even after, when I asked for help with the credit card debt he ignored it. That AND - we leased 2 cars before we broke up, both under our names, lease is up Sept 6 of this year. I don't want to give him the points - I know some of you are going to say \"are the points worth him ruining your credit\" - he'd be ruining his as well as we are both on the lease. I'm tired of him bullying me - even way after we've broken up. \n\n​\n\nAll that said -- should he decide to try to take me to court for the points (which I wouldn't put it past him). Would my screenshots be documentation enough to show he agreed almost contractually to Jan 15 to give me transfer info? I'll deal with the lease if he decides to be a jerk about it, I can pay it and take him to court for that $ - I'm not having my credit messed up because of his childish antics. Any advice on the legalities would be appreciated - I am going to cross post on r\/relationship_advice as well. ","title":"Ex BF is trying to come after credit card points even after he agreed to a deadline to give me transfer info (Illinois)...","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443301845,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3miatw\/nyc_landlord_not_providing_hot_water\/","id":"3miatw","body":"So I moved to an apartment in Brooklyn, NYC a few months ago. \nLong story short I had a couple of problems regarding access to my mail box (which was fixed after calling USPS) and my boiler.  \n\nThe boiler works, but only for 4 minutes, a handyman came over and said that it would take him one full day of work to fix it, so the landlord did send someone to check it but never really fixed it. I called 311 an a HPD inspector came over last week and confirmed that there is no hot water. \n\nToday I sent a text to the landlord stating that I would proceed with legal action if I didn't hear back from him today (obviously I didn't).\n\nNow as next steps I think I would need to send a certified letter to the landlord stating the issue with the hot water and after that go to Brooklyn's Small Claims Court and start a HP Proceeding in hopes that I get the boiler fixed.\n\nIt seems that some people keep the rent in escrow although with that I might receive an eviction and could make things worse taking me longer to get the repair done.\n\nThe fact is that I only want hot water in my apartment and obviously heating now that winter is coming... Any advice based on your experience to get this fixed soon?","title":"NYC - Landlord not providing hot water","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554666437,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bak9os\/landlady_claiming_cat_urine_smell_that_no_one\/","id":"bak9os","body":"Hello, r\/legaladvice. My wife and I are preparing to move out of our current apartment (MA) and our landlady performed her first walkthrough on March 18th. My wife was the one there when the walkthrough was performed, and according to her, our landlady stated the apartment was fine and put it up on the market (we know this because we were contacted by two real estate brokers about it).\n\nTwo weeks later, we are applying for our next apartment (also MA), and we needed to provide a \"landlord verification\" (in other words, landlord reference). I asked our landlady to provide some information so our new place could contact her, and also asked if this was okay. The text I got back stated this:\n\n\"I wanted to talk to you about the apartment.  I have been reluctant to list it. I did a walkthrough a couple of weeks ago and it doesn't show well. I'd like to list it so it can be rented but it had an odor from the cat and frankly needs to be cleaned up.\"\n\nWe do have a cat, and are aware that there might be odors we are not noticing because we are used to it. While I was concerned that this was the first I'd heard there was a problem instead of being told during the walkthrough, I decided to work with her and follow her request to hire professional cleaners. We had cleaned the place, but perhaps her standards were not our own. This text came on April 1st, exactly two weeks after the walkthrough.\n\nWe hire the cleaners to do our apartment for the second and have email confirmation. The second walkthrough is planned for April 4th. She enters the apartment and immediately states that it still reeks and could smell it from the hallway. Much of her comments were rude and irrelevant, so I will skip most of it, but the jist was that she'd have to hire a contractor to come see the place and figure out where the smell was coming from. She leaves and texts me a few minutes later that her husband (a carpenter\/handyman who works on the apartment buildings) is coming by to see the place. I agree (and had a feeling it was a good idea).\n\nHe enters with her 10 minutes later and she asks him if he can smell it. \"It's overwhelming, and it's all I can smell\", she says. He stands in the doorway and slowly walks in to the living room, smelling the air. He states he can't smell anything. She pulls him to the litter box and said the smell was strongest there (duh?). He pulls the litter box aside, smells the floorboard and baseboards (as I said, a carpenter). He says nothing and follows her to the kitchen. He says he smells something, but also that it's not cat urine. I explained that the cleaners used bleach (something we typically do not do), and bleach contains ammonia, a common chemical found in cat urine. He nods and heads to our bedroom\/bathroom (asks permission to enter each). He picks up a smell from a closet on the way, and I indicate that the litter box scoop is stored there. He detects no other smells. He recommends airing out the apartment (which we are doing now), and wants to stop by Tuesday (the 9th). When she protested, saying it was in the wood flooring, he said it was not, because there would be staining. She was not very happy with him, and they bickered for a long period.\n\nShe stated that they are going to miss an opportune window to rent the place because it was not ready in March (peak renting season for June apartments). I have the text that shows she did not tell us about a problem until April first. I also have email proof from brokers that she went ahead and put the apartment on the market, and there was a viewing (March 22nd). She denies putting the apartment on the market, and denies that there was a viewing. I have emails claiming otherwise.\n\nI do not want validation, we already feel we are in the right. My question is if she tries to fine us\/keep the deposit, what can we do, and can we win? How should we prepare? I have never brought anyone to court or small claims before.\n\nTL;DR - how do small claims court vs landlady?","title":"Landlady claiming cat urine smell that no one else detects, will likely attempt to withhold security deposit. Advice?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505980226,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71hn7t\/fl_water_billing_company_strategically_charges\/","id":"71hn7t","body":"TL;DR: pretty much the title of this post.\n\nI'm single and I live alone in a small apartment. My water bill is managed by **Water Systems Inc aka Utility Billing Services**. My bill is usually $10-$12 every month. Their website charges a $5.00 convenience fee for any type of payment other than mailing a check. This means for me, the convenience fee is about **50%** of my bill; what a ripoff! The only option that is free from this monstrous convenience fee is if I mail a check, BUT, the check has be processed by them before 4:00 on it's due date, or else they will assess a late fee of $5.00.\n\nThe outrageous thing is that the the billing company is in TN, so it takes 3-5 for the bill to arrive to the consumer (if it was mailed immediately upon it's creation), and then 3-5 days for the payment (check) to arrive back in TN. Then, factor in how many days can go by before mailing a payment; reasonably, one should have 3-5 days to mail that payment). There's no guarantee that they will process that payment the day it arrives. In fact, they often miss it according to the plethora of bad reviews and complaints online. The due date is only 20 days after the billing date. So if one waits 5 days to mail that payment, and it takes 10 days for the bill-payment postal trip between TN and FL, there's approximately only 5 day window for the payment to be processed (but it could even be a smaller window if they don't mail the bill right away). \n\nTo add insult to injury; they state that it doesn't matter when the payment\/check was postmarked; all it matters is that it gets processed by 4pm on its due date. So basically, if my payment arrives on time but it sits in someone's queue too long or a lazy employee processes my check 1 day late, they get to pocket an additional 50% of my bill. **this happens a lot**. If they wanted to do this on purpose; **THEY COULD**. I understand that for a lot of other people with larger families, the extra $5 represents a smaller percentage, but I'm telling you, the internet is littered with this complaint, and they seem to service a bunch of states, from FL to WA. \n\nThis is clearly not good business practice, so how is this legal? What stops them from charging a $7 or a $10 convenience fee, or making that time window for payment even smaller? This is the kind of shitty business tactics that you see in other countries, but the consumers demand better in America. How can I jump start legislation to improve the quality of this business practice for the sake of consumers? Posting a plethora of bad reviews and complaints doesn't seem to do much since there's already a surplus of them online.\n\nEdit: formatting, spelling, grammar","title":"[FL] Water billing company strategically charges $5.00 convenience fee and $5.00 late fees.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1542157665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wv784\/my_siblings_in_foster_care_are_essentially_being\/","id":"9wv784","body":"I really can't think of any other way to describe this situation. Both my siblings have been in foster care for roughly 2 years because of my mother abandoning the family and them having no place else to go. Things were fine at first because we could talk to them and maintain contact but now any time we try to get a hold of them, their caretaker comes up with any excuse under the sun to avoid talking. \"Oh the kids don't want to talk to you\" or \"I'm busy I'll call you back later\" then proceed to not call us back for weeks on end. When we finally get ahold of the children, I know their conversations are monitored and watched because my sister told me in confidence she was ready to come home and that they have to say what they're told to say or they get into trouble. Now things are getting worse because they're being forced to yell at anyone who calls them and tell us they want nothing to do with us. \n\nI'm kinda in a rut here, being abused as a child was very similar to this \"keep your mouth shut, or we'll shut it for you\" mentality. I can't see this as anything more than them being taken hostage and afraid for their lives to speak about what's really on their mind. Any idea on what course of action to take would be wonderful. We've already tried filing a complaint with foster care but it's been 3 months, and thier social worker already told them \"You won't go back to your family, you're getting adopted\".","title":"My siblings in foster care are essentially being held hostage.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555634770,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bet3pv\/unable_to_receive_refund_for_security_deposit\/","id":"bet3pv","body":"I am a university student living off campus next semester, and I am looking for a refund.  I was supposed to live in a house with a few of my friends, but due to personal reasons I had to back out. After backing out, another student (we will call her \"new person\") has taken my place on the lease. \n\n​\n\nHere is the issue: I had already paid the nonrefundable deposit and first months rent for the house, and because of this payment, the new person has \"no obligation\" to pay. So, in other words, this new person gets a free first month of rent and security deposit because of my non-refundable payment. My ultimate goal is to be repaid the money that I paid to the landlord, which will most likely be from the new person. \n\n​\n\nHere is what I have accomplished so far: I contacted the person and asked them to pay me the money that I had paid, but  received no response.  Later on, I tried for a second time to contact her and received the response that said she would feel more comfortable giving the landlord the money. Unfortunately for me, since the landlord has already been paid the money, she is refusing to get involved. Meanwhile, I was blocked by the new person on Facebook, and they will not return my texts. I have also sent the new person's parents a letter in the mail kindly requesting payment, but have received no response. \n\n​\n\nOne last thing to note: This person was put on the lease by the landlord without my knowledge before I decided to back out of the lease.  \n\n​\n\nDo any of my fellow Redditors have any advice on how I should proceed with the issue?","title":"Unable to receive refund for security deposit, please help","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443320200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mjaar\/small_claims_for_breach_of_contract_for_an_event\/","id":"3mjaar","body":"I signed a contract with a company to be my venue for my wedding, 4 months later they call and email me saying they are selling the place and are giving me back my deposit.  Great and all but we have spent a lot of time and money planning with this in mind.\n\nLuckily, they are lousy contract writers and have no clauses covering any event in which they can cancel, only covering the \"client\" cancelling and losing deposit if they do.\n\nNot specifically looking to see if I have a case (though if you feel I don't let me know please! :)  ), more around who I should take to court.  The contract has the caterer's name on the title, though it talks about both the venue and the catering and guarantees the date and venue.  It also calls out the deposit being 3\/4 for the venue and 1\/4 for the catering deposit.  The people I have worked with for tours, menus, planning, and even the one who signed the contract is the venue.  I have never spoken to the caterer.  The signature at the bottom of the document is the venue but the line below it is \"signed on behalf of *the caterer*\".\n\nDo I take them both to court?  The caterer, which caters many venues, is willing to fulfill their end but obviously cant with the venue being sold.\n\nI live in Minnesota and our backup venue is in Des Moines, so we already tried to mitigate damages as much as possible (Mansion style venue...couldn't find another in Minnesota).\n\nAny help would be greatly appreciated!","title":"Small Claims for Breach of Contract for an Event Venue","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1446398682,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r3m3b\/arizona_apartment_complex_with_bad_signage_about\/","id":"3r3m3b","body":"My friend lives in an apartment complex where most of the parking is uncovered and unmarked. There\u2019s a sign on the front gate saying only spots with a green curb, with \u2018Visitor\u2019 painted on the ground are okay to park in unless you have a permit, and you\u2019ll get towed if you don\u2019t. This is the only place that sign is posted and you can\u2019t see it when the gates are open. \n\nThroughout the complex there are some standard restricted parking signs. They\u2019re small, rare, and sometimes in nonsensical places like on a wall next to a dumpster or fire line. There are parts of the parking lot where you could turn 360 degrees in your unmarked, uncovered parking spot and not see a single sign. My car was towed from one of these spots. \n\nI found this in my [city\u2019s municipal code.]( http:\/\/www.codepublishing.com\/az\/phoenix\/frameless\/index.pl?path=..\/html\/Phoenix36\/Phoenix36144.html) \u2013   \n\n>\u201cThe owner or person in lawful possession of any private parking area shall be deemed to have given consent to unrestricted parking by the general public in such parking area unless such parking area is posted with signs as prescribed by this section which are clearly visible and readable from any point within the parking area and at each entrance thereto. Such signs shall contain, as a minimum, the following information...\u201d\n\nI think they clearly violate this ordinance. I don\u2019t care much about getting reimbursed for anything, but I want them to have to fix their crappy signs. Who should I contact about this? \n\n(edit: I'm adding some more info because I read some more of the code. These restrictions are apparently only applicable after 7 pm, although I know that from my friend and not because it's posted anywhere. Last week I dropped her off and came inside for a bit. At 7:10 I heard the tow truck, went out and they were at my car again. I asked the guy to drop it and he said it would be $50. I was pissed but I didn't argue, just asked if I could put it on a card. He paused and said he'd drop my car without charging me, but that he only gives a free pass one time. This is also in the code: \n\n>\"The owner or any person authorized to represent the owner of a vehicle being towed or transported pursuant to this section may demand the release of the vehicle at any time prior to the transportation of the vehicle to a storage area. Upon such demand, the towing or transportation of the vehicle shall be considered complete and the tow truck operator shall release the vehicle pursuant to the requirements of subsection E.\"\n\n>Subsection E: \"No person shall hold or attempt to hold any vehicle towed without the consent of the owner of the vehicle as security for accrued towing or other charges. Nor shall any person require the owner of such a vehicle to give any security as a condition precedent for the release of such vehicle. A person may require the display of a driver\u2019s license or other reliable means of identification from the person claiming such vehicle to assist in the billing and collection of towing and storage charges.\"\n\nAm I right in understanding this means it's illegal to ask for $50 to drop my car, or to refuse to drop it if I'm there before he can leave the property with it? \n\nThanks. \n","title":"(Arizona) Apartment complex with bad signage about restricted parking","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569462193,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9cws8\/punished_for_discussing_payroll\/","id":"d9cws8","body":"I work for a company (in california) with no HR. It's a very successful company for being relatively young. I love what I do, and I put up with a lot of other issues that are able to be ignored, because of how much I enjoy what I do. It's unique. But the main issue at hand is a few months ago I discussed my pay grade details with a fellow employee. I am not a manager, nor do I have access to payroll information. My manager, who I was open with about it, notified the owner. Things took a wrong turn when I was abruptly told, in multiple meetings with different managers, that what I did was unacceptable and I should be fired, but I'm too valuable. I was stripped of certain privileges, and told \"you need to work back up from this\". Ever since, I have had accounts transferred to other employees, projects I was actively working on reassigned to other departments without my knowledge, and I am no longer included in important meetings and policy changes that directly affect my position and my ability to do it effectively.  \n\nI've been told numerous times that I should have been fired, but I struggle to find any basis in that other than I'm an at will employee. I understand that talking payroll can be considered frowned upon by upper management, but am I really in danger of being fired? Is there any reason to actually be worried or are they just trying to keep me from seeing behind the curtain?","title":"Punished for discussing payroll","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571582140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkkede\/make_sure_they_pay_up\/","id":"dkkede","body":"A friend is on a J-1 travel visa from Ireland. She has been feeling really under the weather and took out travel insurance (Blue Insurance) before coming here. It seems like her policy is underwritten by Mapfre Assistencia. Upon further investigation. Mapfre is notoriously bad with claims and has given people the run around where they\u2019ve been stuck with large medical bills for months. \n\nThere\u2019s a notification requirement to call the insurance company to let them know you\u2019re seeking medical assistance. But before she does that is there anything else she can do to make sure that they\u2019re held accountable and pay up before she goes in and sees a doctor?","title":"Make sure they pay up!","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570884160,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgunr0\/2_plaintiffs_michigan_small_claims_tenant_suing\/","id":"dgunr0","body":"My boyfriend and I are both listed on the lease and need to file a small claims suit against our landlord for failure to pay us our security deposit. He failed to return the money or give us the list of damages within the 30 day window (Michigan Act 348 of 1972 Section 554.609) and is now saying he owes us nothing because we trashed the place (which is not true and I have pictures to prove it)\nMy questions are, \n 1) Are we able to list both of us as plaintiffs or do only one of us need to be listed? Like put James Smith, Et al and then list other on addendum.\n2) After reviewing the lease again, he listed himself and his wife as the landlords. Do we need to list them both as the defendants? We only ever dealt with the man. If we do need to list them both, do we have to serve them both separately as they are married and live in the same house? \n\nThe trickiest I think?.. 3) The property we rented is in Michigan and still owned by the landlord. However he currently resides in Texas. The Landlord- tenant statute (Act 348 of 1972) Section 554.615 says \u201cThe attorney general or any affected individual may bring an action to enforce this act in a court of competent jurisdiction in the county where the defendant resides or does business.\u201d  So by doing business does that mean the rental and we are safe to file in the county where the rental is located? Or do we need to file in Texas? \n\nThank you for any guidance you can shed.","title":"2 plaintiffs. Michigan small claims, tenant suing landlord.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446133350,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qps1p\/employee_at_small_businessneed_help_with_health\/","id":"3qps1p","body":"I'm working at a small business. We have 46 employees. The owner just sends people to the exchange to get health insurance. He told me when I was hired that he would reimburse me for my monthly insurance premium up to $500\/mo. He does this, but it is as taxable income, so instead of getting $500, i'm only getting like $350. \n\nMy question: Can he reimburse me the $500 as a non-taxed item? I know you can't use FSA to pay for insurance premium, which was my initial thought. \n\nAny help is appreciated. Thanks. \n\nLocation is the state of Indiana","title":"Employee at Small Business--need help with health insurance","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569563195,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9w1zy\/major_mold_issue_in_my_apartment\/","id":"d9w1zy","body":"I have a serious mold issue in my second bedroom that was discovered on monday. The mold was caused my rain getting into the roof of my second bedroom by a vent. My landlord was notified immediately about the situation and told me that they are going to fix it. After the inspection I was presented with a letter of options that I have. Option 1 was to let me out of my lease or the other option was to stay with friends and or family or a hotel while the repairs are made. What I want to know is if I get a hotel room would they be responsible for payment or is that all through renters insurance. Also, am I allowed to withhold rent during this process? I love in oregon if that helps as well. Thank you so much.","title":"Major mold issue in my apartment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569286173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8fs3w\/car_insurance_refund\/","id":"d8fs3w","body":"I had damage done to my car by a tree trimming company.  Original estimate was completed and a check for damage was sent to me.  Collision center found more damage, so sent new estimate to my insurance.  Insurance send them a 2nd check to cover the cost.  During this time, they forgot my car was there and never did any work till I called them for an update.  After they completed all work on my car they informed me the estimate was over estimated.  They are sending me the refund via check.  I didn't pay for anything on the car, so this refund should be the insurance right?  It's illegal for me to keep it i assume.  Am I wrong and should I keep the money?  I think they are trying to give me the refund due to them forgetting they had my car.","title":"Car Insurance Refund","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1540253092,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qjk6f\/app_that_plays_an_ad_everytime_the_button_is\/","id":"9qjk6f","body":"Would it be legal for me to make an app that's only purpose is to play an ad everytime the button gets clicked? It would be marked so, and it is to help me raise funds for something I would rather not disclose at this current moment. Is this legal?\n\nAlso I think the CaI flare works the best for this post, if not I'll change it.","title":"App that plays an ad everytime the button is clicked?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570876878,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgtic9\/dentist_legal_advice\/","id":"dgtic9","body":"I put this under insurance, but I\u2019m not entirely sure that\u2019s where this fits so if that is wrong, I\u2019m sorry!\n\nSo, I (24F) have been going to the same dentist for years. I have never had a problem with them. They are always very transparent with me, and usually tell me about any underlying costs. Back in 2016, I lost my insurance the first time. I wasn\u2019t in college full time, and the law in America is that you lose your insurance at 21 if you aren\u2019t enrolled full time. I got my insurance back after enrolling in school, then a few years passed and I lost my insurance once again. I have dental insurance, but without medical insurance it only covers certain things (for example, cleanings, fillings, etc,.).\n\nRecently, I went to the dentist for a checkup and everything went as it normally did. This time, however, they used the large machine that takes a 360 image of your teeth. No biggie. I\u2019ve had this done with them before which I remembered. Everything is fine. Teeth are great. Don\u2019t owe anything, go home. All is well.\n\nA couple days ago, I get hit with a $500 bill from the dentist office. I\u2019m as shocked as my mom was when she saw the bill. I have been going to this dentist for YEARS and have NEVER received a bill like this! Whether I had insurance or not! I couldn\u2019t believe it. My mom thinks it\u2019s a mistake, so she calls the dentist to clear it up. That 360 picture was not covered by insurance, and they did not tell me that before they gave it to me. During my checkup, they told me they were going to get an xray, I said okay, and that was it. I have never gotten a bill for the xrays they have given me\u2014 again, regular or the big 360 one\u2014 so I assumed my dental insurance covered it. Once again, they never stopped before taking that xray to say, \u201chey by the way, this isn\u2019t covered so you will owe for it.\u201d\n\nMom calls the dentist, and they tell her that I signed a paper when I lost my insurance that says everything that is covered and not covered, so I should have been aware that it wasn\u2019t covered. They basically told my mom tough luck, and I still had to pay. Safe to say, I\u2019m livid.\n\nI don\u2019t remember signing any paper like this, but I have a feeling I signed it back in 2016 when I first lost my insurance. I don\u2019t think I signed another one after I gained my insurance back in 2017 and then lost it again this past year. So could I possibly use this as an argument?\n\nSo my question is, is there any way around this? I feel like this is kind of tricky. I definitely think I got played, and will have to pay up in the end, but I wanted to stop here and ask before moving forward. This whole situation makes me really sad, because again I have been going to this dentist for years and thought I had a really good connection with him and his staff. They have always told me about underlying costs, and usually take really good care of me. Recently, they\u2019ve changed, and it really sucks.\n\nIs there anything at all I can do? Thank you in advance!","title":"Dentist legal advice","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569522804,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9nrcv\/can_i_take_my_name_off_of_the_title_to_a_vehicle\/","id":"d9nrcv","body":"So a few years ago, my father bought a truck. He cannot own any vehicles, because he has had multiple DUI's in the past. He asked me to register it in my name and I did. Earlier this year, in April, he got arrested once again, this time because hes heavily involved with meth. He has been nothing but a pain in my ass for the last 6 months or so, and now he wants his truck \"back\". I have been driving it since he went to jail. At this point I dont care anymore about it anyway, so Im willing to do this in order to get away from his harassment. He wants the vehicle dropped off at his house.\n\n​\n\nMy issue with this is, his wife (my stepmother) and a handful of people I dont know live at that house. He doesnt want his wife to have ownership of the truck, and I dont blame him on that, she was a nightmare before she got hooked on meth. I wouldnt trust her to take care of a pile of shit. Is there anyway I can park the vehicle at his house, and get my name taken off of the vehicle, without someone else who is willing to take ownership? If not, what about taking the plates, insurance, and registration off the vehicle, and I could give the title to my younger brother (hes trying to stay neutral between me and our father, and I have already asked if he would hold the signed title for my father until he gets out of prison or decides on someone to put the vehicle in their name. My brother does not want to put the vehicle is his name, he would just hold onto the title so I dont have to see my father when he gets out of prison) ? In that case, the only way my stepmother could drive it would be with none of those 3 things (no plates or registration without the title, which nobody wants her to have, and I know she cant afford any kind of insurance), or with stolen plates and trying not to get pulled over. What would happen if she did that and got pulled over (honestly very likely, shes a terrible and scary driver anyway) ? The plates wouldnt be mine, but the truck would still be in my name. Any insight would be very appreciated. Thank you.","title":"Can I take my name off of the title to a vehicle if I am the only owner (Iowa)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1445997245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qi6dn\/ny_im_refusing_to_sign_this_quit_claim_deedgood\/","id":"3qi6dn","body":"Gave my ex the house in the uncontested divorce, which was final in 2014. He told me recently he cannot afford to refinance the house to get my name off the mortgage for \"a few more years.\"  Just this weekend, I finally received the Quit Claim Deed from his lawyer even though I had already told the ex that I'm not signing the quit claim deed until the time comes that he's able to refinance the house without my name on the mortgage.  Therefore, I plan on sitting on these quit claim deed papers and not doing anything until \"a few years goes by\" and he can hopefully refinance. I figure he won't be able to afford to pay the lawyer, either, to make a motion to force me to sign.  Sound like a decent plan?  ","title":"(NY) I'm refusing to sign this Quit Claim Deed...good plan?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1506671718,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/736ez4\/my_employer_is_not_paying_me_what_was_on_the\/","id":"736ez4","body":"I applied for an hourly job that was advertised as $8.00-$9.00 DOE. When I was hired we agreed that I had the necessary experience for the $9.00 an hour. Well, I also agreed to be cross-trained into another position and now I'm only working that position, but there was no mention of pay change. Is there anything illegal about what my employer is doing? Should I take legal action if so?\n\nLocated in the Alabama, United States of America ","title":"My employer is not paying me what was on the application.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504324568,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xjlq0\/ontario_canada_restaurant_location_of_major_chain\/","id":"6xjlq0","body":"I have been employed at a branch of a major chain restaurant for almost exactly one year. Today, I learned that our location will be closing, and our general manager has called a mandatory meeting for Monday (the purpose of this meeting is to give official notice). The restaurant will close on October 30th.\n\nOur location has more than 50 employees and we are not unionized. I do not have a written employment contract.\n\nIs it worthwhile consulting with a lawyer before this meeting? (Because it is a long weekend, how would I get in touch with a lawyer?) What options should I consider? I do not intend to sign anything during the meeting.\n\nFinally, is there advice I should be sharing with the rest of our staff before going into the meeting? (Our staff has a Facebook group that no managers can view, so I can easily contact everyone)\n\n*note the incredible irony of being laid off on Labour Day...*","title":"[Ontario, Canada] Restaurant location of major chain will be closing in 8 weeks. We expect official notice on Monday. Next steps\/options?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571731589,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dles09\/got_a_call_back_about_a_house_i_applied_for\/","id":"dles09","body":"Title is essentially it. I know my best bet is to look at my lease agreement which I will do when I get home from work.\n\nI've been living in my current house for a little over two years. To say the house is not desirable is putting it lightly. It's small, old, and parts of it are falling apart. Every time I've asked the landlord to send the \"maintenance guy\" over to fix something I'm met with radio silence. But if I wait until later in the day to pay rent on the first I'm bombarded with texts. \n\nAround February of this year a coworker was telling me about a housing complex just built and how she was moving in. I got excited and put in an application for one but was sadly told they were full and I was put on a waiting list. I didn't expect to hear back from them but did. I went in, paid the application fee, filed out all the paper work, and answered all her questions. It seemed to go well, she essentially said if I get approved I'll get the house, and they're hoping to have the next tenant (whether that be me or someone else, but hopefully me) moved in by the end of the month. \n\nSince I had a good chance of getting the house I sent my current landlord a courtesy text letting her know I had put in an application for a different house and if I got the go ahead for the house I would let her know. She replied by telling me I need to let her know if I'm moving out a month ahead of time. \n\nMy question is this: regarding the whole month notice when either moving out or being evicted, is this a legality thing or more of a courtesy? I'm concerned that if I get offered the new house and say I want to accept but cant move in until December in order to give my current landlord a months notice that they may say nevermind and go with the next person on the list since they're seeming to want it be filled asap. And I do not want to lose the opportunity on this 10x nicer house. I guess paying rent on both places for a month is an option but it would honestly mess me up financially a little bit. I'm also concerned about if I didn't give a proper 30 day notice if I would either be forfeiting my deposit or she would make it extremely hard to get it back.\n\nTLDR what's the legality of giving your landlord 30 days notice of moving out? Is it legally required or more of a courtesy thing?","title":"Got a call back about a house I applied for months ago. If I get approved they want me in on the first of November but my current landlord wants a months notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554354530,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b98k78\/noncompete\/","id":"b98k78","body":"Interviewed and was offered a job, received contract and it contains a non-compete clause which after leaving for any reason, bars me from working in the same industry anywhere in the state for 5 years. I feel like this is a lot of time considering I'm only in my early 20s and recently graduated from university. I have a meeting soon to begin the onboarding process. Is there anything I can do about this clause?\n\nThanks!","title":"Non-compete?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1508581254,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77smkq\/oh_approved_fmla_and_ada_termination\/","id":"77smkq","body":"I'll make this brief, the last one I typed disappeared because I incidentally hit the back button.\n\n15 year employee on a police department with the last 14 as a sergeant. I've had one verbal warning for a paperwork snafu several years ago. Evaluations were satisfactory up until the end of my employment. \n\nI was terminated for accumulation of points. 12 points you reach termination. This was tracked with software that my supervisors had control over.\n\nI had medical issues and the main one being an adrenal tumor that caused absolute chaos. I had several admissions into the hospital and FMLA was submitted and approved each time. This was over a year period. I also had a history of depression, anxiety and insomnia I was dealing with at the same time. My supervisors were informed every step of the way of my conditions. \n\nI requested a meeting with my chief to go over my issues, prognosis and treatment. I was going to request a modification of my schedule that certainly would not have had an impact on the department. \n\nDuring this meeting, I was advised that I had two options. The first was resigning, get surgery on my tumor and come back for rehire. The second being termination. I choose neither and left the meeting without incident. I was ultimately notified my employment was terminated the day of that meeting. \n\nOther employees received second chance agreements after reaching the termination level. I wasn't afforded that opportunity. \n\nSeveral employees were accommodated with schedule changes that included certain hours worked or reduction of hours. Again, I was denied that opportunity. \n\nFound duplicate points that were not corrected. \n\nMost of my points occurred on my approved FMLA. This caused a suspension at one point. \n\nI was ordered by my chief to come in and work a shift during approved FMLA leave. I reminded them I was on approved leave and that obvious didn't matter. I worked the shift \n\nMy points were manipulated and I have evidence of that from their own supplied time logs to the state unemployment. \n\nMy chief entered my time differently than others in the software without notice. \n\nI fortunately kept all my FMLA approvals and some were lost somewhere in the mix. I have all my medical records that coincide with my time off and hospitalizations. My chief even visited me a few of those times. \n\nIronically he promoted a patrol officer with a poor attendance record for about $10 less per hour to fill my position. I just can't wrap my head around it.\n\nBecause of this and my loss of income I lost my home, car and practically everything I worked for over the last several years years. After my termination I developed ptsd and other issues. I've practically been isolated in my bedroom since. I can't handle the embarrassment and humiliation of this. 18 months later and I was approved disability. I'm not proud of this but I just can't function outside of my house. \n\nAny input is appreciated. Please excuse any grammer or format issues, I'm on mobile. \n\n\n","title":"[OH] Approved FMLA and ADA = Termination","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570098877,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcp1cx\/advice_of_living_situation_with_my_mother\/","id":"dcp1cx","body":"I am 13, and I am looking for advice. I live in New Zealand.  \nMy mother is verbally abusive and sometimes physically abusive, she uses marijuana and smokes too much. I barely get taken to the doctor for anything. I haven't been diagnosed by a doctor (because I haven't been), but a counselor I saw at my school thinks I have autism. In general I don't really like my mother, I feel like I always get neglected by her and I don't like it.\n\nI want to live with my sister, she is very supporting and kind (she is 23), I feel much more safer around her and she treats me way better then my mother. I was wondering if there is any possible way to live with my sister or give my sister legal custody over me. All advice is appreciated, thank you!","title":"Advice of living situation with my mother.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551116919,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auo009\/we_got_end_of_tenancy_cleaning_for_free_from\/","id":"auo009","body":"Apologies for any mistakes, I\u2019ve never posted to this sub before but I\u2019m not sure where else to turn.\n\nMy partner and I recently moved out of our 1 bedroom flat (23rd Feb) more than a week before our official contractual move out date (4th March).\n\nHis mum, my mother in law, was a cleaner for many years before now. She recently stopped working to travel. She\u2019s worked both for herself and for agencies, therefore knows what is required for an end of tenancy clean, which is why we asked her to help us out, which she did for free.\n\nWe\u2019ve received an email today requiring a professional end of tenancy clean for which we are contractually bound by the tenancy agreement, and they require a receipt for proof. My question is, since we did in fact get the cleaning complete but a) from a family member and b) for free, would it be reasonable to ask his mum to create a receipt? If so, do we say we paid her, or tell the truth? \n\nThanks in advance.\n\nTL:DR - got a family member to do the end of tenancy clean for our flat. Would providing a receipt from her be legally sound? ","title":"We got end of tenancy cleaning for free from family - does the cover the contract clause?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539117527,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mstyu\/my_fianc\u00e9_just_asked_for_a_prenup_what_are_my\/","id":"9mstyu","body":"Not sure if this is the correct page, but I am hoping to get some guidance. \n\nFirst off, I am in Canada so I know it is different based from country to country and a little from province to province. My fianc\u00e9 and I have been together for 4 years, living under the same roof for 2. Neither of us have any assets from before- I am a student and he just graduated from his medical residency a couple months ago. We have been engaged since February and I know we briefly talked about a prenup before we got engaged, but decided together we didn\u2019t want one because neither of us had assets and we plan to be married forever (I know what you are thinking when I say that). It wasn\u2019t until yesterday that on a long car ride home he basically turned to me and said that he wants a prenuptial agreement that bars me from taking any spousal support if we divorce. Asides from the emotional impact of dropping a giant truth bomb while being stuck to process it in a small metal box being hurled at 100km\/h for almost two hours together, which is a large thing I need to process myself, I am wondering what the actual risk of doing such a thing would be. He told me that if I don\u2019t sign something like this he will have doubts about if I am with him \u201cfor him\u201d or \u201cfor the money\u201d (which is funny because we are both still poor students lol). \n\nCurrently neither of us has any assets or money, just debt from student loans. His is more than mine by about 30k. I understand his desire to protect his own financial future, but to me it seems like I would be relinquishing a right that was enacted in law that could severely hurt me later on if something happens. Especially knowing that I would be the one having larger career losses and needing his support during our marriage to do the majority of child raising. I would also be relying on him to support me while I complete my degree. To me it feels very last minute, reactionary, and something that can have large ramifications that I won\u2019t even understand or realize until later. I feel like I could be making a huge mistake. \n\nI spoke with one of my friends who has some experience with prenuptial agreements, and she said that there is a difference between just protecting the assets you had before a marriage (which is totally reasonable and understandable), and seeking to potentially harm me if I am taking on all the risk of our marriage. It feels one sided. \n\nWhat do I do? Am I being selfish by wanting to ensure that by marrying him I will get some sort of support if we split? Is there some financial advice from those who did\/did not sign a prenup that can be used to really help me in this situation? I really wish he talked to me about this before we got waist deep in wedding planning but it needs to be sorted as soon as possible. Thanks for any advice\n\ntl;dr: Fianc\u00e9 asked me to give up any spousal support in a prenuptial agreement. We don\u2019t have any financial assets and just debt with him more than me. What to do?","title":"My fianc\u00e9 just asked for a prenup, what are my risks?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1542127858,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wqq6u\/child_support_modification_georgia\/","id":"9wqq6u","body":"I'm the custodial parent to a 7 year old child. His father fled to China and began teaching at an international school right before I filed for child support. Before he moved to China, he had been doing some landscaping work, so that was the income they used to calculate his monthly amount. Even though he was employed full time as a teacher at an international school by the time our case was opened, he didn't give them his new income information so he pays the minimum wage amount basically. \n\nMy son has ADHD and I want to have him see a therapist, which is $125 every other week.  His medication isn't too expensive but I pay for his insurance and all of his co-pays. He also has to attend after school care because I work full time. Aside from his child support contribution, the non custodial parent has no other expenses related to the child. He travels extensively for leisure, recently moved to Bangkok, Thailand (higher cost of living), and he has recently sent me the pay stubs from his previous job and current job. He now makes nearly 4,000 less per year by choice, and I am pretty sure it is because he knew I was going to get our case reviewed this year. \n\nI cannot afford a lawyer, and I really want to make sure he is responsible for his fair share. I want my son to receive the therapy he needs. He has struggled so much in school and it really frustrates me that his father does not have any concerns about that. I can barely afford rent, daycare, and insurance on my salary. The child support I receive now has to go almost entirely to groceries and maybe a week or two of daycare. If anyone can give me some advice before I submit my case review information, I would greatly appreciate it. \n\nI am including proof of his previous and current incomes, my income, daycare costs, and the estimated cost of therapy every other week. I wasn't sure if I should list therapy or not, since he does not currently attend (can't afford it) but he would be attending if I received the proper amount. I also need to know any information about what is considered for a time deviation. We were never married and he has no custody. ","title":"child support modification - Georgia","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571531246,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkc8no\/oh_i_may_have_accidentally_hit_and_run\/","id":"dkc8no","body":"About 3 hours ago I hit a parked car in a parking deck. I left a note with my phone number but forgot to include my name, as I was late for work and in a rush. I didn\u2019t think much of the situation. But after doing some research I think I was supposed to include a lot more info, including my name, address, and insurance. I also realized how serious this was and that I could have just hit and run someone. Not only that, but I didn\u2019t take down his license plate or take any photos, so I have no info on who I hit. Now I\u2019m freaking out.\n\nI didn\u2019t want to get police involved but I feel like I should at this point. I plan on filing a report tomorrow and explaining my mistakes. My only fear is that I\u2019ll be in some sort of legal trouble for not handling this situation correctly.\n\nANY advice is appreciated. Thanks so much","title":"[OH] I may have accidentally hit and run","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541031255,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t4izo\/how_does_transferring_custody_work\/","id":"9t4izo","body":"I asked for advice about my current situation in \/rAdvice, and was told I should probably ask here for a more definitive answer. Basically, my mother passed away which caused my father to have a relapse in his old alcohol abuse habits, and he lost his job. My household has no longer has any income other than my $8.50\/hr McDonalds job, and my father no longer does anything but lock himself in his room or office, eat dinner, then drink himself to sleep. This has been going on for almost a month. I have contacted family who said they were willing to take myself and my sisters in if my father doesn\u2019t get his act together. How would that whole process of transferring custody work, and how long should I wait on my father before going through with it? Also, if custody is transferred what will happen to my father? He\u2019s always been a good father, but the passing of my mother was just too much for him. I love him dearly and I want him to get better, so what would his situation be looking like if custody is transferred? \n\nThanks for your help. ","title":"How does transferring custody work?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1538406506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9kh52c\/manager_missed_my_raise_date\/","id":"9kh52c","body":"My shift manager missed the date that I was due for a raise by 10 days, 12 at the time of posting. He said that there is no backpay which seems wrong. I was due for the raise on a certain day and he forgot about it, so why wouldn\u2019t I be reimbursed for the hours that I\u2019ve worked since then?? I work part time so I don\u2019t see him all the time, but it\u2019s still something he should have been on top of, is it not? I\u2019m in Idaho if that helps with laws. ","title":"Manager missed my raise date","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541816474,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vqoky\/amazon_prime_membership\/","id":"9vqoky","body":"I\u2019m a high schooler and have been trying to find ways to make some money, and I had an idea today. I doubt it\u2019s an idea no one has had but I don\u2019t really know what to look up to find info on it, so figured I\u2019d come here. Would it be legal for me to use my amazon prime membership for lots of people? Basically I was thinking of finding anyone who has amazon prime in my neighborhood and offering them the services of amazon prime for like $20 a year instead of $100. Like, I\u2019d have them tell me what they wanna buy and buy it on my prime membership with the free shipping, then bring it to them(maybe hire some kid to deliver it or something). I\u2019m not explaining it cos I\u2019m pretty sleep deprived but basically I figured that if enough people pay the ~$20 price I\u2019d make a profit because of only be spending $100. Is this legal or a violation of Amazon\u2019s terms and services? I assume that amazon have thought of this loophole but figured you guys might know more. Is this legal. Also, as I mentioned I\u2019m sleep deprived and I was the same way when I thought of this, so tell me if you see an obvious flaw or oversight in this idea that I missed.","title":"Amazon Prime membership","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444325332,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nzv6m\/roach_infestation_in_the_boiler_room_below_our\/","id":"3nzv6m","body":"My girlfriend is renting an apartment in Virginia and unfortunately there is a roach infestation in the building.  In her lease it states that she is responsible for any pest issues in her apartment, but it does not make mention of common areas in the building.  After talking with other tenants, we have determined that there is an ongoing problem with roaches throughout the building.  She has been paying for a pest control service for the past year to no avail, we still constantly find roaches multiple times a week coming into the apartment, mostly at night, but even sometimes during the day.  To make matters worse, we live above the basement boiler room, which is listed as a commercial space and therefore unable for us to take care of with the pest service on our own.  (they would require a separate contract with the landlord) My questions are these: Is there anything I can do about it for her since I am not on my girlfriend's lease?  What options does she have besides taking her landlord\/property manager to court?  Would this count as grounds for breaking the lease without penalty?  Is there anything we can do on our own about the common spaces legally?\n\n**tl;dr:** roaches below the apartment, what can we do?","title":"Roach Infestation in the Boiler Room Below Our Apartment. (Virginia)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552407439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b09mzm\/death_threat_after_restraining_order\/","id":"b09mzm","body":"Ok so this a loaded story as most are here, Im going to try to keep it sweet an short. Im in Florida for reference. \n\nI (m,27) was being harassed by a roommate who refused to leave after asking him to sign a month to month lease after a few small arguments. The harassment started small through basic social media videos into him tagging and going after my entire immediate family and girlfriend. He even physically went to my fathers place of work(5 hours away) and got kicked out by security. \n\nHe lived in an a studio apartment addition attached to the main house where my girlfriend and I live. Things got very hostile quickly once the videos got bad...( he was running car alarms in the middle of the night looking for a confrontation), I took my gf to a hotel and we stayed there until we figured out a plan. Eviction process was already happening at that point but FL has some brutally slow eviction processes. \n\nWhile I was gone roommate continued intense videos about my family and I. He claims he wants to be a social media \u201cstar\u201d an these videos were \u201ccontent\u201d. These videos included him saying family members were committing fraud,  have raped , and making sexual gestures to all the women in my life that he knew were watching these videos at this point( he was tagging and referencing them). He found out where we were staying and even stalked us there.\n\nFast forward a couple weeks I went to civil court to get a restraining order against him. The judge rules maximum on everything and said it was the most \u201cegregious case of stalking he has ever seen.\u201d During the hearing roommate was ordered to be evicted immediately  as part of restraining order.\n\nHe was only allowed to go back to the house once with the sheriffs office to get his stuff. He went back without the sheriffs department but called them once he was at the house. He then left with his stuff with the sheriffs department.\n\nLater that day, I went into the studio apartment he was staying in (Im the landlord) and found a stack of papers on the table. Under the table I found a death threat. The way it was worded was \u201cIm going to eliminate you\u201d and \u201cyou and your girl are going to have to hide for the rest of your life\u2019s.\u201d\n\nI called the police immediately. They reported it as a violation of the injunction (a misdemeanor).  I testify at the end of this month to the state attorney about the incident.\n\nMy problem is that they are not taking it seriously. I have lawyer, he suggest the person will get some probation tops. I could go back the Judge who ruled on the injunction but have been advised not to because that is the civil side of court and breaking the injunction is proceeding in the criminal side. \n\nSo here it\u2019s been over a month and half since this maniac left me a death threat. Ive been strapped to the gills at my house and honestly very cautious and terrified that he may shoot me through the window at night ect. I have contacted the state attorneys office and victim advocates and no one cares about escalating anything. Besides this incident, the kids record is pretty clean and thats why I don\u2019t think they are taking this serious. \n\nThe thing is I know this person well, he has grown mentally unstable. Has obsessive and manic behavior (my gf is literally a forensic psychologist)  I think the threat is extremely valid and would not surprise at all if he acted on it. I feel helpless and want to protect my GF and myself from this asshole. ","title":"Death threat after restraining order","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554949530,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bburxr\/my_signature_was_forged_on_legal_documents\/","id":"bburxr","body":"Hello, never thought I'd need to ask for advice here, but I'm glad this sub exists and would appreciate any advice or guidance.\n\nA few weeks ago, my ex-wife reached out to me and asked if I would sign off on trading in her truck so she could get a new vehicle. We originally purchased the truck in Texas, and had it financed together when we were married. I was the primary on the loan, and I told her yes that I'd be happy to sign off on those forms. We had a very amicable divorce, and still talk to this day. The dealership is in Austin, TX and I live in Alabama now. While she was in finance, they requested a copy of my drivers license to prove that I was actually the other owner of the vehicle. She called me, and I sent her a photo of my ID, which the finance manager said would suffice. After that, he mentioned that I would be getting some documents overnighted to me that would require notary to sign off on the vehicle to be released to them upon payoff. I was advised this would take about 2 days for them to arrive as they were going to be UPS overnight.\n\nA few days pass and I never got the documents, so I reached out to my ex and asked her to follow up with the dealership. She mentioned there was a delay getting a hold of the finance manager but that I should get the forms by Friday. Friday comes and I don't have them. I let her know that following Monday, to which she followed up with the dealership again. A few more days go by, still nothing in the mail. I followed up with her that Wednesday, because I was getting concerned as her payment due date for the trade in was coming up. She said she got a hold of the salesman that helped her, and that they'd get everything straightened out and get me the forms before another payment comes due. \n\nMy ex was in Mexico for the weekend so I reached out to her yesterday to find out what's going on with the forms. At this point she said \"I thought you'd already signed them, the pay off was already received.\" I checked my previous bank account and noticed it was indeed paid, and that a slight overage was sent to my savings account on April 4. Up to this point, I never received anything in the mail, email or fax from this dealership. I got seriously concerned at this point so she reached out to the dealership make sure that her ex-husband had \"finally got the forms back\" to them. She spoke with a finance manager that didn't help her originally, but mentioned that he could see the forms, and that both signatures were on them and that mine matched my ID that I provided. \n\nI asked my ex if she had anything to do with my signature being on the form, or if she had given any inclination to let someone else sign for me, which she said no. This is all in text messages as I wanted a paper trail. She's now trying to get copies of those forms for me so that I can figure out what to do from here, which brings me to these questions;\n\n1. What sort of legal recourse do I actually have here?\n2. Do I need to seek an attorney, and if so, what kind of specialty and state do I need?\n3. Do I need to continue to gather more information before seeking an attorney?\n\nIf any other information is needed, I'm happy to elaborate where I can. Thanks!","title":"My signature was forged on legal documents related to a vehicle trade in.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1552529414,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b0up2h\/pa_landlord_threatening_to_sue_me\/","id":"b0up2h","body":"Back in December of 2018 I made a complaint to the city that my unit was below legal limits. Which it was. After numerous arguments with the landlord she finally installed a baseboard heater in my unit (which I have to pay for out of my own pocket). After this installation in January, she said the city inspector contacted her to see my unit. \n\nFast forward to now to March. The landlord sends me an email saying her building will have a violation sign on it because the inspector didn\u2019t come by. I ask her why wasn\u2019t I notified of this until now. No answer. \n\nThen she sends me an email saying she\u2019ll sue me if I don\u2019t have this resolved. How would she sue me, on what grounds? It was her who didn\u2019t provide heat in the first place. Also, is it really my responsibility to resolve this issue? The landlord owns the building, I\u2019m just a tenant. \n\nHere are her emails word for word: \u201cYou made an official complaint to the city you don\u2019t have heat . Please notify City to remove Violation from Building otherwise we need to obtain an Attorney to resolve these issues that were created.\u201d\n\u201cWe found out yesterday about City Violation You started this process it is your responsibility and City agent that came out to resolve issue.\u201d","title":"[PA] landlord threatening to sue me","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554440562,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9n27s\/teacher_spanked_my_6_year_old_sons_bare_butt_what\/","id":"b9n27s","body":"My son had gotten in trouble for talking. According to my son, the teacher (female) took him to the bathroom and spanked his bare butt at least 3 times. I am infuriated right now. I don\u2019t even know where to start legality wise. ","title":"Teacher spanked my 6 year old sons bare butt. What are my next steps?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1504908830,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yy03a\/i_just_turned_18_and_my_parents_are_demanding_i\/","id":"6yy03a","body":"Do they have any grounds to do this? Once I become a legal adult, don\u2019t I get it? It was made out to me, not my parents in any way, shape, or form. I do think my parents get disability, as I have mild autism and ADHD, but I don\u2019t think that affects me. Please help!","title":"I just turned 18, and my parents are demanding I either continue to give my Social Security Checks to them, or else they\u2019ll kick me out. What can I do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539744776,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ouosy\/texas_apartment_infested_with_cockroaches\/","id":"9ouosy","body":"My fiancee, 18mo daughter, and I were supposed to move into our apartment on Friday (10\/12\/18) but we were told there were roaches there, and that we could either move in then or wait until they got rid of them. We decided to wait.\nWe were told today (10\/16\/18) that a quick walk-through came up clean, so my fiancee signed the lease (I did not because I was working, planned on going tomorrow)\nSide note, we are moving to a larger apartment in the same complex. With a new 1 year lease.\nThey told us that the closest pest control could come is in 2 weeks.\nWe were going to start moving things in tonight, but when we walked in and turned on the lights at night, the place was entirely infested with cockroaches. I mean everywhere! I took over 28 pictures with multiple roaches in different spots and rooms around the apartment!\nMy question: Would we have grounds to break our lease? Or at least grounds to stay in our current apartment until the situation is resolved? There are no other available apartments. Cockroaches carry diseases and I don't think I could sleep at night wondering if they were crawling on my daughter while she's asleep...","title":"Texas apartment infested with cockroaches.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568679673,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d597kv\/do_i_have_duty_to_yield_to_a_driver_making_an\/","id":"d597kv","body":"Washington State, USA - I was turning left onto a road. The traffic in the lane I was entering was backed up and a driver yielded to me and motioned to allow me to enter the lane. Making sure there was no one coming from the opposite lane of travel, I started to turn and was struck by a motorist using the 2-way left turn lane as a lane of travel to bypass the stopped traffic. She called the cops and I was cited for a \"failure to yield\". The 2-way left turn lane was narrowing to make way for a left turn only lane at the point I entered the road, so I could not have turned into it myself. I did not see the oncoming car, which means that she was either driving quickly in the 2-way left turn lane or had quickly entered the lane to bypass traffic.\n\nDo I have the legal duty to anticipate and yield to another driver's illegal driving maneuver? Should I request a contested hearing or a mitigation hearing to fight this ticket?","title":"Do I have duty to yield to a driver making an illegal driving maneuver?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1507043801,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/7411tu\/fixed_contract_early_termination_working_without\/","id":"7411tu","body":"Hi all, posting for a friend not my situation. They are an EU Citizen (British) but working \/ living in cyprus, if tihs is the wrong sub for this let me know (UKLegalAdvice didn't really match but might be closer than here?)\n\nThey have signed a fixed term contract, running Feb\/17 - Nov\/17. They asked about a work permit \/ visa before signing the contract and were told that they did not need one as they were part of the EU (I believe this is wrong?)\n\nThe contract defines their working hours as no more than 2 1\/2 hours per day, up to a maximum of 6 days per week, however there is nothing in the contract stating minimum working hours, or regular hours etc. They were initially told that if they have not heard by a certain time that they have work then there is no work that day, though this was gradually ignored, with getting calls as little as 2 hours before needing to be at work.\n\nIn the termination section of the contract, it states that the employee must give one months notice to the employer, and that the employee can be terminated for gross misconduct etc after a verbal warning & 2 written warnings, however nothing about the notice period if the employer wants to terminate the contract with the employee early.\n\nHolidays are aquired over the year as standard, however the contract states that \"any unused holiday would be carried over to the next contract\" not talking about the next year, just \"if we hire you again you can have them back\" sort of thing.\n\n\n\n**My friend has been told the contract is now finishing early, how much notice period do they get \/ should they be paid for?**\n\n* for the remainder of the contract (2 months) because they didn't state an early termination clause for themselves, \n* 1 month notice period which is what the employee would have to give\n* 1 week\n* nothing\n\n\n**The company are saying that the \"holiday\" has been used by days where there were no bookings \/ cancelled bookings, employee was not aware of this until now \/ did not consent at the time.**\n\n\nAs far as i know, an employer can only force an employee to take \/ use holiday if there is enough notice, and their work format is essentially \"on call\" and days where there are no bookings should not count as holiday as they have to be around in the event of work \/ can't make plans. \"Holidays\" should be days where there is no chance of work agreed on before hand, is this correct?\nAm i also correct is saying that any unused holidays at the end of the contract should be paid, and not \"carried on to the next contract\" ?\n\n**If I'm correct and she needed a work permit, it is the responsibilty of the employer to check the employee has one. As the Employee has no legal right to work in the country, are they entitled to the \"remainder\" of the contract payment notice period wise? I know that this would not effect any money owed for any work completed currently, but for the sake of the remainder of the contract?**\n\n\nIt's not a great contract but I have photos of the contract if this would help anyone.\n\n\nThanks for the advice","title":"Fixed contract early termination, Working without a permit in Cyprus as EU Citizen & Holiday disputes","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554914186,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbo51c\/friend_was_sent_confidential_information_of\/","id":"bbo51c","body":"Recently my friend received a citation for smoking in his dorm (a very minor offense) and the university office sent him another student\u2019s file. This information is highly confidential, especially since the offenses listed on this student\u2019s citation are far worse (distribution and sale of alcohol to minors, resisting arrest, etc.). Is there any potential financial gain that can be made by further pursuing this? We also happen to go to a school with extremely deep pockets (talking billions here), so I\u2019m not sure how this would affect legal proceedings.","title":"Friend was sent confidential information of another student by University","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569439896,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d989yi\/rental_car_red_light_camera_driver_unknown_ticket\/","id":"d989yi","body":"A group of co-workers shared a single car for a business trip. Company and rental company policy allows any employee to drive the car without being listed on the rental agreement. One driver ran a red light  and the person who rented the car was incorrectly issued a ticket. I expect she wasn't driving, her personal preference in general was that others drive. \n\nQuestion is: IL (Rosemont) has sent us photos of the rear of the cat but cannot show us who was driving, so we don't know. We could all split the ticket and call it a day, but that's not what this sub is for (I appeal to your bright minds!) I would expect burden of proof of driver should be on the traffic control entity, especially for a shared car.  \n\nCan anyone offer insight into what presidents IL may accept as valid reason for dismissal of the ticket?  TY!","title":"Rental Car - Red Light Camera - Driver Unknown - Ticket [US-IL]","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447274929,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sg8vy\/apartment_storage_can_they_clean_out_my_unit\/","id":"3sg8vy","body":"**Main information**\nI just received a letter on my door today stating that my storage unit needs to be cleaned out by Nov 23rd by 5pm and that they will be cleaning out ANY AND ALL items that are left the morning of the 24th. They are doing this to clean them and relabel all vacated units. They offer to transfer my items to the appropriate unit. I can take a picture of the notice if need be but that is pretty much what they typed up word for word.\n\nI contacted my landlord and said I just got the notice and that I have no where to put the contents of my unit for them to clean it out, however I did clean it out BEFORE I put my stuff in it (It was in bad condition cleanliness wise) and offered to move my stuff to a different unit AFTER they clean a different one out for me to use if need be, and then informed them of what unit I was using because none of them are numbered and many tenants over the years have crossed off old names & numbers people before them wrote on the doors. Their response was \"i'll letcha know\". \n\nMy unit is padlocked at all times, but I plan on going down there to take pictures to have proof of what the contents of the unit are. I know there doesn't seem to be an issue yet but my question is seeing as how they gave me less than 2 weeks notice if they choose to is it legal for them to dispose of my things?\n\n**Extra information, possibly important?**\nThe only reason I am asking is because this complex is ran very unprofessionally and after I signed the lease I was at the bar and the landlord saw me so we had a couple drinks together (have a picture to prove it) nothing sexual happened between us but shortly after that she has been very hostile towards me and recently posted a \"final warning\" on my door about noise complaints even though they do not keep paper records of complaints and I have had the cops called on me at least 5 times and every time the cops came out told me I was not in violation because I printed off the city sound ordinance and highlighted the sections that apply to music in apartments, as long as the sound is less than 5DB outside of my apartment I am within my rights, but the landlord is still holding those complaints against me.... Even though the previous tenants that complained about me got evicted because they complained about EVERYTHING. I dropped a water bottle one time and they called the cops... \n\nSorry for long post, just wanted to cover everything....\n\n\nEDIT: Came home today and found my storage unit empty.... They took my valuables and threw the rest in the dumpster.... After I blew up on them they attempted to help me dig through the dumpster to get my things back but not everything is there... What can I do? Also they cut my $20 lock of the door that had my unit number drawn on it and are offering to replace it with a $5-10 cheapo.... Then I go to talk to the property manager and she gets an attitude with me because her assistant manager didn't notify her? \n\nI have called the maintenance line, as well as her number to try to get a hold of someone other than the assistant manager and no one returned my calls and now some of my shit it gone... \n\nAm I stuck letting these people walk all over me or is there something I can do? ","title":"Apartment Storage - Can they clean out my unit? [Michigan]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569862612,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbeizc\/usa_ga_who_is_responsible_for_not_returning\/","id":"dbeizc","body":"Hi, I signed a lease last year with two other people. Two of us moved out, and one person renewed the lease and added two other people to their new lease.\n\nThe lease we signed clearly stated the property management company will not return our security deposit if we have not vacated the property. In emails, they have repeatedly written that \"the incoming tenants would need to work out their security deposit portion with out going tenants. Out going tenants will be refunded their refundable portion of pet deposit that that was paid.\" \n\nThe property management company returned the pet deposit as they said they would. My former roommate is not answering any calls\/texts\/Facebook messages about the security deposit. I know the first names of the two new tenants, but not their last names. I have found one of the new tenants Twitter account with their GoFundMe they set up because they need to pay money to the outgoing tenants. Due to this, I believe my former roommate and the two new tenants do not have the means to pay their security deposit. It has been 30 day.\n\nIs the property management company responsible in any way for not returning our security deposit, or are they in the legal right to say we have not vacated the property and they can't return the security deposit?\n\nIf the company is not responsible, who is it we will need to sue for the security deposit? Is my former roommate responsible? Are the two new tenants responsible? The two new tenants both signed the new lease with cosigners; are their cosigners responsible?\n\nThank you for any advice you can give!","title":"USA, GA: Who is responsible for not returning security deposit?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552818301,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b23uqc\/police_officer_leaves_me_a_voicemail_regarding_a\/","id":"b23uqc","body":"In 2017 I was in an auto accident with another car. The damage wasn't too bad and there were no injuries. The other driver lied to the police officer (who arrived on scene) about how the accident occurred (he blamed me).No one was given a ticket. So we both ended up filing claims with the others insurance company. Our insurance companies went to mediation to find who was at fault and eventually they came back and said the other driver was 100% at fault. So I got my money back from my insurance company thankfully.\n \n Fast forward to today and I get a voicemail from my local PD \"This is *officer name* and I'm calling in regards to the automobile accident you were involved in back in December 2017. I have a few questions in regards to that collision in light of a matter that the other driver has brought forth. Please call me back. Look forward to speaking to you.\"\n\n This message was left 30 minutes before my friend who lives at my previous address calls me and says the police were there looking for me. \n\n So now I'm wondering what is going on here. What could this officer possibly need from me? Do I need to call him back? Should I call him back? Ignore it? Could the other driver be suing me? Any ideas on what this could mean?\n\n Thanks for reading.\n\n Sorry for bad formatting. I'm on mobile.\n","title":"Police officer leaves me a voicemail regarding a traffic accident that occurred in 2017 and shows up at my previous address. This seems strange. Do I need to contact him? Washington State","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553837080,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6tdnk\/someone_was_in_my_apartment_without_me_knowing\/","id":"b6tdnk","body":"Okay so I left my apartment this morning and when I came back this evening all of my lights were on and my deadbolt was locked (which I never do until I'm going to sleep at night). Nothing was noticeably stolen and I checked all the rooms and no one was there, so I'm assuming the only other person with a key (i.e. maintenance) must've come into my home with no prior notice or any notice thereafter and then turned on all my lights and left. \n\nThe thing is, I'm a young woman living on my own so obviously this was very unsettling\/terrifying to walk home to. \n\nSo I can't reach anyone from property management tonight, but I'm sure as hell going to reach out to them tomorrow. My question is: isn't it illegal to enter my property with no notice\/ to let me know after the fact at least? Should they have records of what properties they enter? If it wasn't my property manager, what can I do? (Change locks, leave?)\n\nThanks\n\n​","title":"Someone was in my apartment without me knowing.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554843072,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbd7d0\/who_enforces_fl_parenting_plan_when_one\/","id":"bbd7d0","body":"The guy literally laughs at her and the police because he knows he can do what he wants.","title":"Who enforces FL parenting plan when one repeatedly violates judges orders?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570031114,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcc02y\/minnesotasalaried_but_being_asked_to_take_pto_or\/","id":"dcc02y","body":"Friend is a salaried employee for a consulting firm in MN.  When not assigned to a client, she works on internal projects and is paid her entire salary for the week. \n\nHer employer recently assigned her to a client. Occasionally, the client cuts her hours with little notice as the project is over budget and they\u2019re trying to get back on track (as in Thursday afternoon telling her to take half or all of Friday off). \n\nHer employer told her since the client didn\u2019t assign her 40 hours of billable work, she must take PTO to make up the difference, or unpaid leave if she doesn\u2019t have enough PTO.  She would rather make up the difference working on internal projects, but the employer told her it\u2019s not an option. \n\nTL\/DR: Is it legal for an employer to dock the pay of a salaried employee because the client they assigned her to is cutting her hours?","title":"Minnesota-Salaried, but being asked to take PTO or unpaid leave if not assigned 40 hrs of work for a week.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1555189057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcv6b8\/getting_a_esa_letter_onlinethru_certapets\/","id":"bcv6b8","body":"First off, I'd like to intro this by saying that I'm not one for \"abusing the system\", as I have been diagnosed with multiple things over the years, including PTSD, major depressive, anxiety, insomnia, depression, etc. And my dog, i have known him since he was 6 weeks, and had him since he was 10weeks (he is now coming on 3 years) he has realistically saved my life more then any mental health professional ive been involved with.\n\nI am moving across the country in a few months, and with breed restrictions on apartments where I plan on going, a lot of places won't take a 80lb German Shepherd unless he's a service animal or emotional support animal. I've talked about this with my therapist in the past, but it never went anywhere because my living situation never needed this. \n\nSo the question is, does an online company like this, provide actual, adequate legal notation for a ESA to provide to a possible landlord? If not, I'm sure I could have my doctors do one too, but online seems like way less of a hassle if it will legally work.","title":"Getting a ESA letter online\/thru Certapets","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444690273,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oigcn\/new_mexico_landlord_raising_rent_with_only_a_14\/","id":"3oigcn","body":"The end of my lease is up in two weeks and our apartment landlord only gave us notice today about the new rent for a 12 month lease, which has increased rent and increased pet fees. Part of New Mexico statute states that property owners are supposed to give notice of rent increases at least 30 days prior to the end of the current lease for fixed-term leases (NM Stat \u00a7 47-8-15 (1996 through 1st Sess 50th Legis)).\n\nI feel it's also worth mentioning that we never received a copy of our lease until 4 days ago (Oct 8), even though under New Mexico statute, property owners are under an obligation to give tenants a copy of their lease. When we signed our lease in October last year, we asked for a copy and were told to come back in a week when it's ready. Rinse and repeat a couple of times, we ended up forgetting about it until last week when we realized we didn't even know the exact date our lease was ending.\n\nIs this shady enough behavior to start looking for a property lawyer? Or should we just suck it up and pay the extra rent? My husband works full time, there's no way we have time to look for a new place, nor do we have the money for deposits, hiring movers, etc.\n\nEDIT 10\/13:\nWent to talk to a manager today, who said that she's not really sure what happened that we had that short of a notice. She's going to have something written up where our rent will be at the current rate until Nov 12, and then the previously quoted, higher rent would take effect for a 12 month lease starting Nov 13. The original renewal letter also stated that we would have had $10 more in pet fees per month ($25\/pet per month, up from $20), but the manager said she'd keep that at our current rate since they messed up in giving us proper notice.\n\nI didn't expect it to go that easily. I was expecting that we'd have to talk to the other manager, who is the one we usually have to talk to and doesn't have much of a reassuring bedside manner (for a lack of a better term). I was bracing for a much more difficult experience, to be honest.","title":"New Mexico - Landlord raising rent with only a 14 day notice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441691381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k27c9\/ny_is_it_illegal_to_watch_pornography_with_a_minor\/","id":"3k27c9","body":"I've searched the internet and Reddit, but alas, have not yet found anything! Is it illegal to watch porn with a minor? To clarify it's not in person, but over the internet. As in two people in separate states (the minor being in NJ) watching porn at the same time together, with one being a minor and one not. No web-cams or anything like that being used, just IM'ing.\n\nOn a slightly related note; is it illegal to masturbate while voice chatting with a minor?\n\nAny comments, helpful, or not, are welcomed!","title":"[NY] Is it illegal to watch pornography with a minor?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1568438869,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d415ah\/va_condo_board_stating_children_cannot_play\/","id":"d415ah","body":"At the beginning of spring, my very shy daughter (7) befriended some kids in our building that go to her school. One was an older girl (5th grade) and they would go hold tea parties and do homework in the courtyard of the back of our building. Only the privacy shrubbery that surrounds the ground floor patios is landscaped. Eventually, several other kids from the building would join them to play tag or hide and seek, etc. For six months, no one in our building has said anything, other than comments about loving seeing the kids playing. \n\n​\n\nThat all changed on Monday, when I was called by my landlord that someone had complained about the kids playing outside and apparently; earlier in the summer, the kids had moved a retaining wall stone (non secured and like 9\u201d long)) and dug a small hole in the ground. After some investigation and talking to the other parents, a few days earlier a resident had been taking flash photos of the kids playing with her phone and a few days prior to that, I had been approached by another resident that asked if I was a renter or an owner (that I didn\u2019t connect to anything pertaining to the kids playing outside). After talking to the kids, they fessed up to moving the stone because my daughter wanted to hold a worm and my husband had told her that they hide under rocks after it rains. \n\n​\n\nIn a COMPLETELY unrelated matter, a special board meeting was called on Wednesday to deal with a building painting contract that a bunch of owners are up in arms about. At said meeting, a parent asked about the kids playing and the president of the condo board said that per a 1966 by-law, children weren\u2019t allowed to play in the common areas of the building. He also said by the new by-laws (apparently just voted on), the people of the building had given the board members \u2018absolute power\u2019. Like, WTF sort of shit is THAT?\n\n​\n\nAt any rate, I\u2019m fairly certain that a fair housing act has been passed since 1966 and someone I know has mentioned \u2018familial status\u2019 laws. Would the kids not being allowed to play in any of the common areas (inside or out) be considered discrimination as it pertains to the above mentioned things? Do I have legal recourse? I want to shake this boat all the way up. \n\n​\n\nThanks.","title":"[VA] Condo board stating children cannot play outside in common areas.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554818583,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb8b6g\/advertisements_in_websitesgames_downloading_apps\/","id":"bb8b6g","body":"I can't seem to find any antivirus or adblock that will stop this. I'll be watching youtube and an ad will come up, then suddenly a tab in my internet is open and downloading something, whether it be a game or just a randomly named file. Sometimes, I can't even find the file to delete it.\n\nOften, it's on news sites. I have no trouble on the computer, but as soon as I use my phone, I get spammed with tabs of half naked women and a file with a string of numbers of letters starts to download without my permission while a popup that disables my buttons and only the option of \"OK\" blocks my ability to do anything but restart my phone. I'm not good with technology, but even when my phone was totally reset with all apps deleted but the internet it comes with, the same thing happened.\n\nMy dad, who works with computers, says it's not my phone so it's not a technology question. I'm just wondering why\/if this is allowed.","title":"Advertisements in websites\/games downloading apps on my phone automatically without clicking... Is this legal?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1446066347,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qm420\/fl_i_bought_my_house_before_i_met_my_wife_if_we\/","id":"3qm420","body":"I bought my house in 2004.  I married my wife in 2011 and she moved into this house.  We now have two kids.  I\/we do not yet own the title in full.\n\nMy question is: if we separate and I move out, but I continue to help pay the mortgage and help financially with the kids and the bills, do I still own the house?  Will ownership be split in a divorce?  Or if I move out, does that indicate to the State that I also relinquish all my rights to the house?","title":"(FL) I bought my house before I met my wife. If we separate and I move out, is she legally entitled to the house in a divorce?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571611318,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkr5mg\/when_there_is_no_will\/","id":"dkr5mg","body":"My brother and I were raised from birth by our paternal grandparents. Our grandfather passed away 3 weeks ago and last week we found out our grandmother's cancer had given her less than 6 months. She has always been adamant that my brother and I get the house. We asked her if they had a will. At first she said yes, then the next day said no. We worked to get one drafted. When the time came for her to sign, she wasn't able to. Her mental state at deteriorated drastically. She is now 100% not responsive and in hospice. I understand without a will there is no avoiding probate court. The issue we have is the house. Although our grandparents raised us and we called them mom and dad, we have a living biological father. Would the house default to him? I appreciate any advice. It's been a lot to deal with on top of accepting losing a parent and having another close to death.","title":"When there is no will","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568442836,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d41pd5\/can_i_dispute_this_ticket\/","id":"d41pd5","body":"I was pulled over because I didn't have my headlights on, got a ticket for that but that's not the ticket I'm talking about today.\n\nI got a $180 ticket for a temporary registration that I never replaced, I totally forgot about it. However the cop agreed with me that my dealership was supposed to send it to me in the mail, I never received it. At least I don't think, I'm going to call them Monday when they're open and ask them if they can confirm that they sent it, because I never received it.\n\nIf I went to the court with this? would I be able to get this waived presenting this evidence, or is it a 100% set in stone \"you're fucked\" kinda ticket. \n\nMaybe even if I can't get away from the court, I can get comped by the dealership?\n\nI don't know what to do. I need help","title":"Can I dispute this ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551571173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awo4ml\/mo_lease_spot_in_parking_lot_has_gate_that_opens\/","id":"awo4ml","body":"Hello, \n\nSo I lease a parking spot in a parking lot that has a gate, we have assigned spots, and display tags. Initially it was working fine, but ever since the weather got cold, the sliding gate has remained stuck open (you can hear it trying to close). I have contacted the office, but they have not fixed it in months. I have sometimes seen random cars parked in there, and one car (seemed abandoned, and did not have a hangtag ) was parked in someone else's spot for a week before it got towed ( the gate was open). \n\n​\n\nWhat recourse do I have?","title":"[MO] Lease spot in parking lot has gate that opens with and closes. Pay $80 a month, however, they haven't fixed the gate in month, so its always open.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540761028,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s6s40\/my_bosses_make_us_give_them_money_if_the_drawer\/","id":"9s6s40","body":"I work at a Subway restaurant in WV. Since I\u2019ve been here any time our drawer has come up short, they have made everyone on shift that day split the loss and put their share into an envelope in the safe. Today a sign was posted which reads \u201cATTN: The drawer was $30.00 Short! Friday. This needs to be taken care of ASAP. -Name Redacted -Name Redacted -Name Redacted - Name Redacted $7.50 each (put in envelope in safe)\u201d is this legal? I thought this would be considered garnering wages? And if this is garnering wages, how do I go about stopping this and saving me and my coworkers from being robbed?","title":"My bosses make us give them money if the drawer is short.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505720424,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70ti99\/victim_of_statutory_rape_ks\/","id":"70ti99","body":"For reference the state is Kansas.\n\nI was 17 at the time, and it was alleged that I engaged in sexual relations with someone in their 20's . This person was a substitute teacher at the school I went to, however I was never in her class, and I knew her from a completely different place. Now, a few years later I was contacted by a police officer investigating the case. I informed the police officer that I knew the accused, but did not have sexual relations with her. He mentioned it only mattered due to the fact she could have been in a position of power.   I know that someone in the accused past is attempting to get a criminal case opened, and they've been attempting to contact my family regarding the situation.\n\nA few questions;\n\nCan a criminal case even be opened if there is no evidence that the crime has been committed and that the victim denied the crime occurring?\n\nIf the crime did occur, could the victim face any legal repercussions for denying that it happened?\n\nShould I expect anything else to come of this?\n\nThanks in advance\n\n\n","title":"\"Victim\" of Statutory Rape (KS)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1538186809,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9jsyaa\/worst_case_scenario_for_leaving_a_job_early\/","id":"9jsyaa","body":"Hi legal advice,\n\n​\n\nEarlier this year I accepted a bump in pay after a discussion with the owner. It came with a agreement to stay for a year. This agreement was done verbally (over the phone) and by email. However, there was no formal paper, online paper (I'm remote), or importantly, no consequences explicitly stated (email, phone, or paper). I'm living in another state, but the employer is in KY, if that matters.\n\n​\n\nMy question is, what's the worst case scenario for leaving a job after an agreement that did not state consequences? Is this something common (couldn't find much)? I'm concerned they could sue me or something, but I have no idea.\n\n​\n\nI assume I will have to involve an attorney if they \"come after me\", just trying to mentally prepare.\n\n​\n\nFor other context, the owner **will** do his best to screw me over. I've made several friends here and those that have quit really piss the owner off (I'm not sure of any contracts though). I have another contract, but it's signed and explicit with consequences (pay X amount if I quit), so I'm not concerned about that one.\n\n​\n\nI can add personal reasons, but I'm pretty much burnt out and I have a short-lived opportunity to move to another company (and had others in the past). I know it's \\~3 months until I can quit \"safely\" though.\n\n​\n\nEmail below (modified slightly):\n\n>Owner had a discussion with Me today, we've agreed to raise their salary $X,000 for the payroll received 1\/1\/18 and $X,000 for on 2\/2\/18. Me has agreed to stick around for a year.\n\n​","title":"Worst case scenario for leaving a job early (verbal agreement) (KY)?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508441077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77gs38\/police_report_says_my_car_was_in_an_accident_it\/","id":"77gs38","body":"This is a throwaway.\n\nOk, this may be long, and pretty odd, but I'll start from the beginning. \n\nI'm interested in trading in my car, a white 2013 Subaru Impreza Wrx. The dealer I was in contact with ran a Carfax, showed up there was an accident that occurred in July of 2014 in a different state (Ohio) than I live in (PA). (During this time it was my dad's car, when he passed away I inherited it.) This was obviously odd, this car has been in my family since it was brand new - I know for a fact it was never in an accident, nor have we ever been in the state where the report came from. I submitted a research request to Carfax, they provided me with the number of the police department who reported the accident and the case number. They also provided me with some other info - like the color of the car in the report, which was reported green. My car is white. \n\nI called the police department and they supplied me with more info. The woman at the PD confirmed the VIN number and the license plate number of the car in the accident, and confirmed the color of the car reported was green. It came up as my car, my father as the owner too. The report stated the car was driven by a young guy, I'll call him Alan, who lives in the area where the accident happened, and a passenger from my state. I was provided their contact info, and I called and left a message for Alan. As well as getting their information, I got the policy number for the insurance provided by Alan. \n\nI called the insurance provider for the driver. I gave the rep the policy number I was given, and it did come up as Alan. The insurance rep could only give me so much info, but he was able to help me out a little. Alan was never insured for a car like mine. He did have a Subaru, two Legacys but never an Impreza. Also, he did not have a policy with this insurance company in July when the accident happened. He opened a policy a month later. \n\nOn my side, there was never an insurance claim. I also don't think my father was able to sneak to another state, paint his car green, have some kid crash it, fix it and paint it white again, then come home without the rest of the family noticing. I'm not sure what else I am to do. I was told the officer who reported the accident will give me a call but I'm not holding my breath. I also don't expect to hear from Mr. Alan either. \n\nIf you guys can give me any sort of help, I'd sure appreciate it. ","title":"Police Report Says My Car Was in an Accident - It Never Was","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551388020,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avw7r7\/the_entry_way_doors_to_our_apartment_is\/","id":"avw7r7","body":"Obligitory apology, I'm posting on mobile and I do not post on Reddit very often. \n\nThe apartment is in Otero County New Mexico\n\nAs I stated above, the entry way doors to my fianc\u00e9 and my apartment are on the verge of breaking. The entry way is definitely not a conventional entry way, it consists of two relatively thin wooden doors which close together, with no support bar between Them. The deadbolt from the main door inserts directly into the secondary door. The secondary door, let's call it the structural door, has a thin piece of metal screwed in to the door on the top and bottom, both of which attach small metal rods to help support the door and act as a door stopper. \n\nStrong winds in the area in the beginning of the year must have put enough strain on the doors to begin breaking them. I noticed early this month (February)  when a gust of wind blew the doors about half an inch inward until the deadbolt stopped the movement. The wood around both of the door stoppers had broken as I described in the title, and at this point is basically just hanging on for dear life.\n\nMy fianc\u00e9 called the leasing company that day (5 Feb) and explained that our entry door was breaking, and they said someone would call us soon. She was not contacted until around a week and a half later. A contractor called her while we were both at work explaining that they were responding to evaluate an URGENT maintenance request and that they were knocking but no one was home to answer the door. She rescheduled for the next day when she would be home.\n\nThis contractor looked at the door and said that he would suggest to the leasing company that both doors be replaced and that it was definitely a security issue. He also said it looked as though someone had tried to break in, but we don't believe that has happened since we moved in. \n\nThe leasing company however must have wanted a second opinion because the next communication we received was a different contractor who came out a two or three days later and told us that he could just replace the door stoppers and that would fix everything. We told him that we didn't think that would be good enough, and we have not heard anything since then.\n\nCertainly nearly a full month is too long for a leasing company or owner to allow a security issue on the entry way door of a tenant's apartment to go unfixed and to have no planned maintenance for it. Can we at the very least get out of our lease? What course of action would be best for us to take at this point? \n\nThanks for reading and thank you for any advice as well! ","title":"The entry way doors to our apartment is splintering severely. The leasing agency was notified on 5 Feb 2019. It is now 28 Feb 2019 and they have taken no action to fix it. What legal options do we have and what requirements do the leasing company and owner have?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569671567,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daf0hz\/nj_my_landlord_told_me_vis_email_theyd_enter_my\/","id":"daf0hz","body":"I should make note, I do NOT have any pets. This is in NJ.\n\nSo yesterday my landlord sent out an email to everyone in the apartment complex saying that people have dogs they shouldn't have and they'll be doing spot checks to try and figure out who is violating their lease.\n\nAll communication has been via email. I asked the LL if their spot checks involved entering my apartment, she said yup, if they believe there's pets. I said \"so I should expect written notice 24 hours ahead of the time you intend to inspect my apartment?\" She said no, they're not inspections, they're random spot checks and I will not receive prior notice. I told her I don't consent to anybody entering my apartment without proper notice with accordance to the lease and the law. She didnt directly reply to the fact that what they're doing is illegal & in violation of the lease.\n\nSo, as a result of that conversation I bought a wifi security camera. Gonna have that set up before I leave for work today.\n\nAnything else I should be doing? Should I go above LL to corporate and complain? I just want to make sure I have all my bases covered. Thanks!","title":"[NJ] My landlord told me vis email they'd enter my apartment illegally. Do I have all my bases covered?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568850916,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d65to3\/can_a_dealership_send_me_the_invoice_for_a_loan\/","id":"d65to3","body":"Hello guys, I've been wanting to buy my first car for a few weeks now, I found a car online and scheduled to see it, I looked at the car, drove it etc. I went inside to negotiate, I wanted to buy the car that same day and have it delivered to where I lived but the sales guys told me he couldn't do the delivery that same day. \nI said no problem I can come back other day, close the deal and have it delivered that same day. The seller tried to pursue me into closing the deal right then and there, and finally told me to give him $100 to hold the car for me. I was 100% sure I would buy the car so I said no sure why not. And he showed me the following document https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/20IcOMd  and made me sign it. I have never signed anything similar and probably shouldn't have signed anything without first knowing what it was lesson learned. That was the only document I signed for him. I also gave him an ID and my SSN  when applying for the financing. But didn't sign anything but the document I showed you. The following days due to school and work I wasn't able to go to the dealership. I had some time to do my research on the car and found many owners had lots of issues with the transmission so I just decided to not go forward. I know I wont get my $100 back but I really don't care.\n\n After I'd told the dealer he said I was a waste of time and that \"If for any reason my bank charges me a penalty for the loan...I will be sending you the invoice\". \n\nSo my question is: based on the events described above and on what I signed can he do such a thing? Can I just tell him to fuck off without having anything to worry about?","title":"Can a dealership send me the invoice for \"a loan\" of a deal we never closed?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1550564990,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/as86ze\/nv_my_so_works_security_at_a_casino_and_wants_to\/","id":"as86ze","body":"My husband witnessed a stabbing in the valet parking last year and preformed medical treatment (AEMT). He has also broken up an attempted stabbing. Guests are frequently intoxicated and angry. A guest pulled out a knife on another security officer just last week. My husband also works as an AEMT for the company, and would be in the thick of a shooting if there was one. He feels like there is inherent danger associated with his position. He also has supervisory responsibilities and often is the \"last resort\" for guests who are intoxicated and want things to go their way rather than the company's way, which leads him to believe they would be vengeful towards him. He has had guests wait past the end of his shift in the parking area in hopes of finding him off duty. These incidences have him fairly worried for his safety both on and off duty. \n\n​\n\nWhen he asked his superior if he could wear a vest to work, the response was that they would have to contact HR. That was over a month ago. He contacted his superior again tonight, and was met with, \"I'm on vacation. I'll contact them in a week.\" \n\n​\n\nAt this point, he feels like he is being strung along or in the least that he isn't being taken seriously. \n\n​\n\n​\n\nIs there any kind of legal precedent for a situation like this? Or is he at the will of his employer?","title":"NV - My SO works security at a casino and wants to wear a bulletproof\/slash proof vest, but his employer isn't being responsive.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447305621,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3si41l\/2_traffic_tickets_in_3_days_best_way_to_solve\/","id":"3si41l","body":"Ok so i have have gotten two traffic tickets within 3 days, both for \"Ignoring traffic control devices\". so what happened was i crossed the street to get into a Michigan left which had a had a traffic light, the light red but its a one way street so i went. Cop #1 pulls me over and is nice but gives me no explanation of what i did wrong beyond \"I ignored a traffic control device\" so i assumed it was the red light that got me ticket #1. I went back today assuming i would find a sign but there was none and i soon realized that crossing the street was the problem, i look over to see yet another cop eyeing me down about to pull out of a parking lot to flick me so i pull into the closest lane and he pulls me over and go into the nearest parking lot explain myself and the cop confirms that crossing the street is the illegal problem, yet still writes me a ticket. Now i got two tickets in 3 days after a clean record of 3 years. \n\nDo you think i might be able to get some points taken off, or am i pretty much boned. How would a lawyer help me in this situation? \n\nI have also taken a law enforcement class during high school, and a \"Jr deputy\" program at the police station. Any way to use these to my advantage","title":"2 Traffic tickets in 3 days, best way to solve this? - Mi","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1508020152,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/76f8gg\/noise_issues_from_emergency_fire_exits_of\/","id":"76f8gg","body":"Hi all\n(Location: Maryland) \nLiving in campus apartment housing at a university. The apartment building is set up in a U shape with only one proper entrance in the bottom of the U. This means that most people live closer to the emergency exists on the arms of the U than they do to the regular door. These alarmed doors are opened 15-20 times a day (probably more, but I'm not around) by students leaving the building who are too lazy to walk to the regular door. \n\nEvery time they are opened, the doors set of an extremely loud alarm for ~10 seconds. This happens at all times during the day and wakes residents up early in the morning and late at night. It's affected my quality of life for a year and I'm pretty unhappy about it. \n\nI have emailed the resident director in the past but I was basically told it was an issue but there was nothing she could do. \n\nSo, my questions: \nAre there laws against using fire exits when there isn't a fire? (My thought process being that this is basically pulling a fire alarm when there's no fire)\n\nDo I have any tenant rights to ask my apartment building to implement some kind of security like cameras or delayed action fire doors? I know these do not have any 15 or 30 second delay like many fire doors do. \n\nObviously if I called local police when this happened, the students would already be gone by the time they came. But perhaps it still might pressure the apartment to do something? \n\nI know the sound is loud enough that it breaks local noise ordinances, if that's helpful. ","title":"Noise issues from emergency fire exits of university apartment building 15-20 times a day- can I do anything?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570543430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df0eac\/friends_work_refuses_to_give_missed_payment\/","id":"df0eac","body":"Message from my friend below:   \n\n\nIve contacted every person I possibly could on receiving payment for 5 shifts that were missing from my final paycheck at my last job? I've sent multiple texts, everytime I call the owner he is unable to chat, and once told me to go to the manger responsible for my hours. The manager is not responding and he has no control over paychecks whatsoever. \n\nFilling through IDOL never does anything, and i cant afford a lawyer. Now what?","title":"Friend's Work Refuses to Give Missed Payment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570658914,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfoalw\/ma_is_it_legal_to_use_replica_merchandise_in_a\/","id":"dfoalw","body":"My mother runs a clothing store and used a replica Louis Vuitton belt, which she received as a gift from an acquaintance, as a decoration on mannequins, with no intention to sell it. She recently received a letter from Louis Vuitton accusing her of selling counterfeit merchandise. Is it legal to use replica merchandise as a decoration without the intention to sell it?","title":"[MA] Is it legal to use replica merchandise in a store as decoration without intention to sell?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1505391839,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/701v9c\/is_there_any_way_to_protect_myself_from_future\/","id":"701v9c","body":"We are in NC.\n\nWe have been married for almost 30 years.  5-10 years ago I slowly learned that my husband was a closet drug addict.  I forgive him after he quit.  We moved to NC a few years ago to get a fresh start and he has once again started trickle truthing me with lies.  There is no trust in the relationship and I need out for my own sanity as he is delusional.\n\nIf I understand correctly, in NC we have to live apart for 1 year before I can file for divorce?  Our lease is up soon so this is perfect time to move on, or so I thought.\n\nThen my husband lost his job.  He has had a very difficult time finding a job since the move and has been doing temp jobs, etc.  \n\nHe has a truck with a payment almost $500 a month.  My name is on the loan.  I have a car with a payment almost $300 a month.  \n\nHe can NOT afford to keep the truck.  His intent, as stated by him, is to just leave with it, not pay, and file for bankruptcy.  Obviously this will result in me being responsible for it.  He says I can \"just change back to my maiden name and they won't find me\".\n\nI can NOT afford a credit hit right as I am looking for a new home.  What are my options here?\n\nI can afford to take on the truck payment myself if I sell my car.  Is my only option selling my car, taking the truck over, and buying husband a clunker?  He can not handle any loans on his own.  I don't know if the truck will sell because he still owes quite a bit on it. \n\nThat brings me to my last question.  \n\nMy husband is awful with money.  We have had separate finances for years.  Money is not real to him- he will just spend and spend without thought and think it will all work out.  I just finished paying our debt off after years of hell.\n\nIs there anything to protect me from the debt he gains for the year we are separated but not divorced?  Do I state intent to divorce somewhere?  He has already said he will just spend and do whatever.  It will destroy my life.\n\nPlease help.  At this point I am considering staying with him so I can babysit our finances.  I can not take a hit on my credit at this time. ","title":"Is there any way to protect myself from future ex-husbands debts and car loan?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445185609,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p8p67\/tx_how_to_get_out_of_a_lease_early_due_to_mold\/","id":"3p8p67","body":"I recently moved into a home with a month to month lease. However I discovered A LOT of mold and a leak in the ceiling of my room. I have asked the landlord repeatedly to get it fixed. It has been over a month and nothing has been done and I'm constantly feeling sick from breathing the stuff in.\n\n\nI found a new place to live but I can't move in for a few more weeks. He expects a 6 week notice and if you leave in the middle of the month you have to pay for the whole month. How can I legally break this contract without having to pay for the entire month and get my deposit back?","title":"(TX) How to get out of a lease early due to mold problems?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554486674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9uct6\/can_i_sell_something_i_made_using_a_pattern\/","id":"b9uct6","body":"Specifically it\u2019s a pattern for a costuming accessory, and I want to sell the finished product that the pattern makes. I just want to know if there\u2019s any kind of copyright\/whatever going on.","title":"Can I sell something I made using a pattern someone else made?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1504160139,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x55px\/purchased_a_used_car_from_dealer_hasnt_run\/","id":"6x55px","body":"[CA, US] The car went to the shop using a warranty on the second day we had the car. We got the car back 2 weeks later and had to immediately  return it because it did not shift correctly. We feel we have been misled into purchasing a car that was advertised as reliable but is nothing but problems. I signed an arbitration agreement if that means anything. I'm not sure where to begin on getting my down payment back or what I can do.","title":"Purchased a used car from dealer, hasn't run properly since purchase.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1446074989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qmqmh\/fight_while_incarcerated_followed_me_home\/","id":"3qmqmh","body":"Well, Im upset this has happened. Im scared and im not sure what i should do or if ive done the right thing so far. Any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated.\n\nThis is what happened:\n\nI was incarcerated in the Missouri Department of corrections and have recently been released.\n\nAbout a month before i was released i got into a verbal altercation with another inmate (in a cell where there were no cameras, and 3 other cell mates present)\n\nHe pushed me a total of three times yelling (come on Motherf^%&er and as he was coming at me a fourth time (with fist closed this time) i hit him once in the face. Not hard enough to even leave a mark. and then proceeded to dodge the rest of his blows. he landed several body blows and no facial hits at all.  (i swung a few times back but none connected)\n\nThis is where it gets fed up. Somehow near the end of all of it he started getting very frustrated as he wasn't really doing much of anything and just started going crazy with his arms.. Well i talked to all of my cell mates and none of us can figure out HOW it happened.. but he hurt his arm... Broke it. the fight stopped.. He went and told the Correctional officer that he hurt his shoulder (he told us initially that it was his shoulder that was fucked up, What we all THINK happened is he hit his arm on my hip at a weird angle and broke it)  Hard to believe, but it happened.\n\nWell there was a shit storm that followed.. Everyone was interviewed by the higher ups that run the camp, Including the warden as they had to send him out to the hospital to get surgery done. They ALL thought that someone did that to his arm on purpose (aka held him down and tweaked his arm, etc.) I told them i didn't see anything. Somehow i managed to slip through the cracks and actually get paroled a month later. There were no cameras and NO one told custody who was fighting everyone just told them that they heard he fell or didn't see anything.\n\nWell i went and saw my parole officer earlier today and after i was done an institutional investigator informed me of my rights and tried to get me to give him a statement without a lawyer present. I wouldn't. After that he informed me that he is investigating criminal charges and that i am the primary suspect, and that others in my cell have named me as having an altercation with the man and being the one that broke his arm. AS WELL AS one of my letters to one of them was intercepted and they are interpreting it as evidence that i did in fact do that to the mans arm.\n\nThat's a pretty serious charge. I'm a little freaked out even though it was a clear cut case of self defense.\nThe guy came a long way to talk to me, so they clearly are not f'ing around.\n\nI want to give a statement and tell them that it was self defense.. and give my account of the story.\n\nIf that is a good idea should i hire a lawyer and have him present?\n\nWhat other steps should be taken?\n\nwhat is the likely hood they will issue a warrant?\n\nThis is a case of self defense, correct?\n\nIf they issue a warrant my parole will be revoked, correct?\n\nThank you everybody for the help, if this is too specific or is unwisely worded let me know i will take it down and re-write","title":"Fight while Incarcerated followed me home.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1507157861,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74bwie\/do_i_have_any_legal_rightaccess_to_view_my\/","id":"74bwie","body":"Location is California. \n\nProbably a dumb question, but do I have any legal right to view my college admission file? I am a graduate student, currently enrolled in the school I want to see my admissions file from. I am working on a passion project of mine regarding college admissions, so it's not entirely urgent. I'm just curious if that's a thing I can do.","title":"Do I have any legal right\/access to view my college admission file?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551729934,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axbn83\/need_advice\/","id":"axbn83","body":"My mom and I got into a fight about my dogs I have here in the house (2 puppies and 1 dog) well my older brother and sister overheard and had the nerve to but in and break my things they broke my projector and ps4 and at least 2 of my controllers\nIs there anything I can do?","title":"Need advice","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539808982,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p2g6w\/medicare_and_inheritance\/","id":"9p2g6w","body":"I am posting for my uncle who will be 70 in December.\n\nAbout 4 years ago his aunt passed away and left him 50% of her estate and his partner 40% of the estate.  I consider his partner my aunt even though they never married and I am not blood related to her.  They have lived together for 20+ years and the relationship is very healthy... this is not the problem.\n\nMy father, brother to my uncle, has a 10% share of the estate.  The entire estate consists of a house that was owned outright by thier aunt.  It has no liens and is unhindered by anyone else.\n\nMy father is pushing for a sale to help finance a roofing job.  My aunt and uncle are reluctant and this is where I need some advice.\n\n\"The Problem\"\n\nMy aunt and uncle are poor, have little income (all cash), and at least my uncle is on Medicaid or Medicare (not sure which).  They are worried the 'income' from selling the house will jeopardize Medicare\/Medicaid eligibility.  Furthermore, my aunt believes the government (US, New York State) will seize or confiscate the proceeds of the sale.\nThe house is expected to sell for anywhere between $100k and $120k.  \n\nCurrently there is one tenant in the house who is a lifelong friend, aware of the situation, and fully expects the sale.  He pays a discounted rent because he knows he might have to leave at some point and we know he won't trash the place\n\nI don't see Uncle Sam taking the proceeds of the sale, but I can see his healthcare being jeopardized.  He has numerous, serious health issues and NEEDS his insurance.\n\nSo there it is.  Any advice, relevant experiences, or ideas would be much appreciated.\n\nThanks, LoneBullseye\n","title":"Medicare and Inheritance","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555609576,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beohsk\/significant_other_was_sexually_assaulted_and_i\/","id":"beohsk","body":"I currently am a resident of Delaware with my significant other, and we both attend a university there. Recently, she was sexually assaulted while she was drunk by someone who does not go to the university - this was a few weeks ago, and she did not do any drug tests or a rape kit after it occurred. She currently does not want to take any action against this person, but I want to be prepared with an idea of what her legal options might be in terms of punishing this person (through the court) or protecting herself from him (through the court). \n\nMy specific questions are: In Delaware, what specifically constitutes a rape? Does this stay the same depending if the person is willingly intoxicated, but is near blackout drunk? I know that there is always the option of filing a police report, but with no evidence from a kit, is there a possibility that it could go anywhere? If so, what could this person be charged with?\n\nOne of her biggest reasons for not reporting it is because she doesn\u2019t want her parents to know, and she doesn\u2019t want the attacker to know (she is worried that he will come around and get defensive about it). Are there any legal pathways that can be taken where the reporter is protected and the attacker is not notified? Like, is there a way to get a restraining order or some other protection without the attacker being alerted?\n\nAs I said before, this is just in case my significant other decides to report it. A final question would be typically how long can you wait before reporting something like this before it fades away and nothing can be done? Thanks.","title":"Significant other was sexually assaulted, and I want to know the legality of the situation and possible legal options to take against her attacker","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1540243105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qi4iz\/neighbor_parks_their_speed_boat_in_front_of_my\/","id":"9qi4iz","body":"Just curious about everyones opinion on this  and how you all would handle this situation.\n\nMy next door neighbor and I got into an argument with one another about three years ago.  A few days after the heated exchange of words he began parking his speed boat out on the road in front of my house all year round. He only moves the boat away when they start snow plowing and then moves it back as soon as the snowfall ends.\n\nI live in a small subdivision consisting of smaller houses on less than .25 acre lots. This boat eclipses my entire house and is a huge eye sore to look at. I've spoken to state, county, and local police and while theyre in complete disbelief that he would do this they say that legally there is nothing that can be done to make the boat go away.\n\nWhen people come over to my house for the first time and see this thing they cannot believe it when they ask me about my boat and I tell them that it isn't mine.","title":"Neighbor parks their speed boat in front of my house year round.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1506822676,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73izzt\/just_got_out_of_jail_on_bail_and_i_need_advice_as\/","id":"73izzt","body":"I'm a 21 year old male living in Houston, Texas. Sorry ahead of time for the block post, I will include a tldr at the end.\n\nBackground: \"Family\" of 4: Dad, Mom, Sister, and myself. There is a huge background in regards to my family. One of the main issues revolves around the abuse both my sister and I received as minors. A common instance for the two of us was getting belted to the point of bleeding for ridiculous reasons, for example, getting a B or C on our report cards. Abuse continued for me until I graduated high school, but for my sister, the abuse continues although more verbal than physical nowadays, but the physical still occurred. DISCLAIMER: We have no recorded proof of this happening, only the testimony of my father and my sister (15). Please keep this noted until the end. \n\nStory: My little sister lied to my mom on Friday, September 29th, stating that she was going to school. She actually had no school and I took her fishing in Galveston. On our way back, she was caught by her mother and was constantly texted, but my sister ignored. I told my sister I'd take care of it when we got home.\n\nIncident: We get home and my mother immediately yells at my sister to sit down. She's already extremely confrontational so I step in and my mother and I get in to a verbal fight. I end the fight by trying to take my sister to her room, in which my mother puts her hands on me (at this point, I'm audio recording from my phone. I also have pictures of her hand marks on my arm.) and I push her to the leather couch behind her to a sitting position. She runs to call the cops and my grandma begins to strangle me by the neck, screaming \"Box me!\" repeatedly. I try to pull her off with as little force as possible, but by at this point, my mom is already on the phone with the cops. \n\nResult: Police show up, and ask both sides. I play the recording, which starts off with me saying \"*Sisters Name*, let's go.\" and follows up with my mother yelling and then me yelling \"Don't put your hands on me.\" and then my grandmother yelling. I don't let them know until this point in the recording that I've recorded the entire confrontation. I show the cop the recording along with the pictures, but I'm still arrested (no Miranda rights read) for the reason of \"Your sister is under the custody of your mother, therefore she has the right to put her hands on you but you don't have the right to put your hands on her.\" \n\nTrial: At trial, the judge, after giving multiple 10, 50, and 100+ thousand dollar bails, reads my file and gives me a 300 dollar bail. (Was charged with Domestic Assault 'assault causes bodily inj fam viol') Obviously no bodily injury was done, I pushed her into a leather couch. If anything, the bodily injury was done by their part since I have pictures of proof. \n\nSo my question is, what options do I have? Obviously I need an attorney for my trial in January, but in regards to that, is there anything I need to know or do? This is my first time going through the legal system. Ever.\n\nAdditionally, under the assumption of an innocent verdict, do I have any options pressing charges against my mother and grandmother for their actions? Do I have any ground to press charges for previous physical abuse done by my mother? My father and sister have already agreed to testify against her should I go down this path.\n\nTldr; Push mother off me while I try to protect my sister, get booked. Spend a day in jail, judge finds charge ridiculous and gives me an incredibly low bail amount. Need help now that I am out. ","title":"Just got out of jail on bail and I need advice as to where to go from here.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551556985,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awlomm\/texas_realtor_here_with_a_huge_rental_problem\/","id":"awlomm","body":"I am a Texas Realtor in the D\/FW area.  My clients were moving here from California and needed to find a rental in 3 days.  I found them a home in a beautiful old neighborhood in North Dallas for $3,500 a month.  The issue is this:\n\n​\n\nThe Selling Agent is working from Isreal and it was very hard to correspond with him as he did not have a cell phone or text.  Only email and it took about 12 hours on average to get a conversation going with him.\n\n​\n\nBecause of this, I did not get a chance to preview the house but I did advise my clients that they should wait and have me take a look at the house before moving forward with it because the photos can be deceiving. \n\n​\n\nLesson learned for me, the house ended up being in TERRIBLE shape.  We had already executed the lease and now are stuck with this home though.  I have 26 videos and an inventory and conditions form that is completely filled out with issues.  The main problem is as follows though... \n\n​\n\n\\-A minor leak was found in the guest bathroom and a major one under the sink in the kitchen.\n\n\\-Rat droppings were found throughout the house and the rat guy told them there is a rat infestation that could take several trips to fix, so the house is currently not livable.  \n\n​\n\nAre these 2 major issues a way we can get out of the contract and get our security deposit refunded?  I am on a time crunch right now and need to figure something out ASAP and cannot contact the TREC lawyers until Monday.  Please let me know if you guys have dealt wit something like this and what I can do to resolve it as soon as possible.\n\n​\n\nTLDR; Clients rented a high end home before having me or them preview it.  House ended up having several issues including a rat infestation and 2 leaks.  What can I tell them Landlord's agent and how safe are we to break the lease legally?  \n\n​\n\nThank you Reddit you guys are the best!","title":"Texas Realtor here with a huge rental problem! Please Help Reddit!","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1410097518,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fpuac\/need_advice_highway_patrol_refuses_to_add_my_car\/","id":"2fpuac","body":"Last Tuesday I was driving down the highway and a truck from the opposite side of the road drifted into oncoming traffic. I managed to swerve around the truck but unfortunately it struck another vehicle next to me, killing the driver. Debris (glass and such) from the collision hit my car but I was not hurt (I explained this in the 911 call). I immediately pulled over and called 911 and explained what happened and asked them to send EMS.\n\nOnce EMS arrived I took a quick glance at my car and saw no apparent damage, and truthfully from a distance you cannot really tell, but I was very shaken up at the time. I could see the person that was in the vehicle next to me appeared to be unconscious. I witnessed the EMT approach the vehicle, check his vitals and walk away (which confirmed that the person was dead). I frequently have anxiety and panic attacks, so sticking around the scene would have most certainly resulted in me having a full blow panic attack (that could have been me). I gave the 911 operator my name and phone number if they needed anything else and told them that I had to leave. They didn't instruct me to stick around or anything.\n\nThe following morning I noticed that there was a crack in my windshield (near the bottom, easily missed), as well as many small scratches on my car. No big deal really, I'm just happy to be alive. At the same time though, I need to get my windshield fixed and the scratches and dings from the flying debris will cost a bunch of money to fix. I opened a claim with my insurance company and provided them with a statement (which took several days). My claims adjuster told me I needed to get in touch whoever filed the accident report to get my car added to the accident report in order to receive coverage (which took another day or two).\n\nI met with the trooper who reported the accident yesterday to provide my account of what happened and hopefully add my vehicle to the report. He was quite rude and disrespectful the entire time and acted like he couldn't be bothered to deal with me even though I was nothing but polite with him. He gave me a pen and paper to provide my statement, which I filled out and returned to him. He glanced at it and said that my account of the events did not add up to what the other witnesses said. I had him elaborate and he said that the other witnesses claimed the truck was in the inside lane when I said it was the outside lane. He said that he wouldn't add my car to the report.\n\nI already felt pretty awful for having to file a claim for something so small considering that someone else lost their life in this accident and now he's acting like I'm trying to cash in on some free repairs. I tried to explain myself again and remind him that I was the one that called 911 so I was most certainly at the scene but he wasn't having it. I thought he would be appreciative of having an additional account of the events but he was not at all. He got very aggressive with me while I was trying to explain, and eventually got in his car and told me to get away from his car and drove off. I thought I was being a good citizen by calling 911 and waiting for EMS to arrive but he made it clear that he thought I was stupid and a bad person for leaving the scene.\n\nAgain, I'm happy to be alive but I'm just hoping that I won't have to pay for most these damages out of pocket. I know paint jobs can be quite expensive and I believe my insurance will only cover one of the cracks on my windshield. I think I may be out of luck but I'm coming here for advice.\n\nI had assumed that my 911 call would be enough for my account of the events. They had my name and number at the time. I also took a picture of the wreck and sent it to my girlfriend shortly after it occurred, so there are timestamps for both of those things.\n\nIs there anything else I can do or am I pretty much screwed over? I imagine that if I speak with his superior officer that I won't get anything out of it. I don't want to mention any of this to the claims adjuster as I assume they will see it as an excuse to not bother pursuing my claim any further.","title":"Need advice: Highway Patrol refuses to add my car to accident report (North Carolina)","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1554791867,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb4mon\/what_to_do_about_a_bad_lawyer\/","id":"bb4mon","body":"I am immersed in a custody dispute over my 2 year old with my abusive ex. He has a long rap sheet of awful things he has done and the first lawyer I hired was miserable.\nShe wouldn't believe me when I said my ex was abusive and pressured me not to pursue full custody. She included things in the parenting agreement that I didn't understand and she didn't explain to me. She lied to me on several occasions and told my ex's lawyer she didn't want to represent me (who told my ex who told me by proxy.) We went to court and when the judge questioned why the parenting agreement was set up the way it is, my lawyer urged me to agree to it and then called the judge a bitch in the hallway.\nI'm refilling an amendment with a new lawyer who is lovely and professional, but very new. I want to know what I can do about my old lawyer, if anything? Is it possible to get my money back? She charged me more than the average fee for her clients, which I don't feel is ethical.","title":"What to do about a bad lawyer?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569298897,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8i5h0\/girlfriend_and_her_father\/","id":"d8i5h0","body":"So my Girlfriend is 17 (about to turn 18) Emancipation is out of the picture, her father told her that if she can get somebody to sign a paper saying that they are responsible for her and not him than he would let her leave. We are worried that if we do this he will than go to the cops and say that i kidnapped her or she ran. Our plan is to get a local cop to oversee this paper signing. My question is could Me or my girlfriend get in trouble for doing this. and could i get in trouble for harboring a runaway or kidnapping even if a officer oversees this. (I live in Indiana for reference for laws)","title":"Girlfriend and her Father","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1502755837,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tqlq2\/oklahoma_eviction_help\/","id":"6tqlq2","body":"I'm usually scatterbrained so I'll try to put the facts in list format so I don't confuse myself or others\n\n*sister in law is staying in my father in laws extra mobile home in a trailer park (he lives elsewhere)\n\n*no written agreement\n\n*no rent was to be given\n\n*sister in law upset trailer park managers by being a nuisance to other residents\n\n     *her boyfriend stole a purse & used the credit card. she is seen on camera at walmart with him using the card (she has a prior misdemeanor for a similar crime) \n\n     *one of her guests were caught putting sugar in someones gas tank after coming directly from the home.\n*trailer park is evicting father in laws trailer unless she gets out\n\n    *he does not have the money to move the trailer\n\n*she agreed to leave but now is trying to say she has 90 days\n\n*she has broken windows in the trailer\n\n*she blocked my father in law and I from contacting her \n\n\nso my ultimate question is, does this require a 30 day eviction notice or is there another alternative? Tomorrow I am traveling down to his town so we can see a lawyer together but I would like to go prepared. Thank you in advance.","title":"Oklahoma- Eviction help","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571204088,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diks0l\/i_think_my_grandmother_is_being_used_by_her\/","id":"diks0l","body":"Obligatory first time poster and apologies for any format problems since I'm posting from my phone. My grandmother is a very hardworking lady in her 60s. She has been working as a general store manager of an independently owned clothing store in the Bay Area (CA) for 23 years. She makes $13.75\/hr and is paid \"under the table\" at the rate of $16\/hr for overtime. This sounds messed up\/ not right or am I mistaken? I feel like she should be making so much more as a GM especially since she lives in the Bay Area. She is the most hardworking, kind and dedicated person I have ever known and I hate the idea of someone using her this way... Doesn't this mess up things like Social Security & other important stuff? Or taxes?? I don't even know where to start so if someone could help guide me in the right direction I would be very thankful. If I need to add more info, I can.","title":"I think my grandmother is being used by her employers.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571007164,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhhvh7\/whats_up_with_trust_funds\/","id":"dhhvh7","body":"Okay so tl;dr my dad died when I was 2 and left a trust fund FBO yours truly. I'm 20yo now, and a trust fund check comes to a joint bank account between my mother and I at the end of every month. We set up the account around when I was around 17. Whenever I ask why it has to come to the joint account and not just hers, she dances around the question and avoids it. She takes the whole of the check except for a little bit on rare occasion. \n\nI've researched a little bit and have gotten mixed answers on when the trust should be going to me. Does it hit me when my mother passes? or is there an age when it should go to the beneficiary? Does it seem sketchy to anyone else that she doesn't want to talk about the trust? Thanks guys (:","title":"what's up with trust funds?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1570271716,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddlk0u\/sold_property_and_didnt_look_at_the_price_when\/","id":"ddlk0u","body":"Hello, I sold a property yesterday, and the agent said that they sold it for 830,000. Today they came in and I signed the contract without looking at the number. I am worried that they might have changed the price without telling me. Is this something that I should be worried about and is there anything I can do?","title":"Sold property and didn't look at the price when signing contract.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1538592639,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9l43ji\/want_quit_but_want_to_use_vacation\/","id":"9l43ji","body":"Hi. \n\nI\u2019m ready to put in my two weeks but I want to use my accrued vacation first. I have been unable to request leave (the administrator hasn\u2019t given me the option online). I requested they fix it two weeks ago and I still can\u2019t request it. \n\nIs this any grounds for getting them to just pay me out? It is in their policy not to pay out for accrued vacation.  ","title":"Want quit but want to use vacation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571335731,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dja7uu\/can_my_landlord_let_the_police_search_my\/","id":"dja7uu","body":"My questions is basically just the title. I'm signing a lease for a new apartment, and buried in the paragraph about access to the apartment the lease states \n>Agent [ie. property manager] shall have the right to give access to the Premises to any law enforcement personnel with or without a warrant.\n\nThis sounded fishy, and I spoke with a lawyer who said that they don't have that right, so I asked them to remove it. They emailed me back\n>The lease was draft by attorney who know Colorado Law, thus under Colorado we have the right to give access with or without a warrant.\u00a0\n\nAt this point I'm pretty confident that this isn't true. The Colorado Rules of Criminal procedure explicitly state that the landlord can't give consent to a warrantless search. Unfortunately I used up my free hour with the lawyer, and want to make sure my ass is covered before I respond to them that I think they're wrong. Is it possible that I'm missing something here? Is there any way that what they're saying is true?","title":"Can My Landlord Let the Police Search My Apartment w\/o a Warrant in CO?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541466674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ujpao\/wa_apt_lease_and_pets\/","id":"9ujpao","body":"WA state. So the wife and I moved in a new apt a few months. We didn't have any pets at the time so didn't ask if they were allowed. On the lease documents it says pets are allowed but a Pet Agreement must be filled out (not included in the lease packet). I emailed our property manager recently to ask for a copy of the pet agreement since we decided we'd like to get a pet. He responded back and said  2 years ago they became a pet free community. Only the then current pets were grandfathered in. \n\nSo the question I have is since the signed lease we have does not say pets are disallowed entirely, but had the provision of getting a Pet Agreement form, and we never signed anything acknowledging the pet free policy....do we have any pushing\/wiggle room in still trying to get a pet?\n\nIf I didn't explain something clear I'll try to re-word it. Thanks. ","title":"WA - apt lease and pets","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553919129,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b76xt6\/landlord_claims_our_dog_violates_our_lease\/","id":"b76xt6","body":"Location: St. Louis, Missouri\n\n​\n\n​\n\nOur landlords are selling the building we live in, and performed an inspection with a realtor after said realtor decided that our place was not up to par for taking photos\/having an open house. Our dog (which had been approved when we signed a lease amendment and made a pet deposit) greeted the landlords and realtors at the door enthusiastically, and had to be restrained so as to not overwhelm them or run out into the street. Several hours after our visit, we received an email from our landlord claiming that we were in default of our lease because we had 1) violated the pet amendment of our lease stating we could not have an \"aggressive guard dog\" because she \"growled and showed teeth\" when they entered and had to be restrained, 2) the dog had caused \"significant damage\" to the property, which we 3) had not reported. We have 5 days to re-house the dog elsewhere, or the lease will be terminated.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nAs to the first claim, this is simply untrue. As I stated, our dog greeted them enthusiastically, and was nothing but friendly afterwards. I handed each visitors treats to give to the dog, which the dog took happily. The restraint only took place because we did not want our dog running into the street. As to the second claim, yes, the dog has caused minor damage in that it scratched up the window sills it likes to jump on, and scratched the paint off a door frame, but it no reasonable manner could this be considered \"significant.\" As to the the third claim, we did not report this damage because it was small wear and tear. We considered it something that we could easily repair on our own. Their is other damage to the property that existed before we moved in that the landlords did nothing to address (even though they knew about it!) because we did not consider it significant.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nI apologize if this is rambling, but my partner and I are slightly panicked. We love our dog and would not give it up for the world. We have no legal experience, so we would appreciate any and all help. I am happy to provide as much detail as possible while still remaining anonymous.","title":"Landlord Claims Our Dog Violates Our Lease","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540925524,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9squlq\/rental_deposit_check\/","id":"9squlq","body":"I recently moved out of a rental home at the end of my lease and have been trying to get my deposit back from the corporation that owns the house. I followed all of the steps laid out in my contract including paying for a professional carpet cleaner, house cleaner, and landscaper in order to make sure I left the house in great shape. I provided proof of all of these services at time of move out but I received an itemized list of charges against my deposit, the bulk of which were for carpet cleaning, landscaping, and general cleaning. I obviously am disputing these charges with a letter and supporting documentation, but the company sent a check for the reduced deposit while the dispute is investigated. If I were to cash this check would I be waiving any possibility of recovering the remainder of the deposit later? I don't want this to wind up in small claims court, but the difference between what I believe I am due and what the company is paying is over $1,000 so I will pursue that route if necessary. Will cashing the initial check hurt my potential case in any way?  ","title":"Rental Deposit Check","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553384506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4psne\/im_a_union_member_and_my_former_employer_violated\/","id":"b4psne","body":"I\u2019ll try to make this as short as possible. I work through a union, so I\u2019m under a certain contract.  Labor laws still apply though. \n\nI was working for a contractor out of my local hall and got sick from the fly ash they were dumping on us on a daily basis. ( link to health effects if you don\u2019t know what it is  https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/m\/pubmed\/9375525\/)\n\nI took off 2 days went to the doctor and came back to work. A week went by (still the same working conditions so shocker I didn\u2019t get better) so I took off 3 days. Called in and had doctors excuses. \n\nNow between now and then my General Forman was trying to deceive me and my work crew about our schedule. We took a 6-10 (6 day a week, 10 hours a day) call. He was trying to lie and say we took a 7-10 call and make us work Sunday\u2019s as well or face write ups for Absenteeism. \n\nI called my union hall and verified the former was the schedule and they verified it was a 6-10 schedule. With our contract the contractor has to give written requests to the hall for a schedule change. None of which was ever submitted. After I verify this with my hall I told my job Stuart so in case they actually tried to write anyone up for missing Sunday, he would know the truth.\n\nFast forward to about 5 days after I called my hall and a week being back after my last doctor appointment. I\u2019m still sick (going on 3 weeks now) I show up for my schedule shift and start getting sicker. I tell my Forman I am headed back to the doctor because I have been coughing my lungs up for 3 weeks now and I\u2019m not getting any better,(doctor told me if I\u2019m not better in a week to come back and we will do more tests). He says ok, he will meet me at the shop and take me to my car. When I get to the shop my General Forman [gf] and Superintendent [SI] are waiting on me as well as my job Stuart [JS]. Conversation goes as follows basically.\n\nGF: What\u2019s wrong?\n\nMe: I don\u2019t feel good, I\u2019m going back to the doctor I\u2019m still sick.  \n\nGF: I don\u2019t think you\u2019re sick, I think you are faking it. You have missed too many days already. You only have 12 days you can miss. [ I\u2019m at 5 with doctors excuses, we\u2019ll below the fire me now threshold]\n\nMe: Ok well I have doctors excuses for everyday. \n\nGF: Yeah well [ getting really snarky now] people fake those all the time, we have had people out here give us fake ones before. [Basically implying mine are also fake and I forged them.]\n\nMe: well why don\u2019t you call them and find out? There is a number at the top specifically for that. \n\nGF: oh YEAH, we will. [turning towards SI laughing] I don\u2019t care how much money you spend at the doctor, you can spend as much as you want if you miss any more time you will be terminated. \n\n{SI: is sitting behind him the whole time snickering.}\n\nMe: .........\n\nGF: Oh and another thing, you shouldn\u2019t have called the Union hall, as a matter of fact you shouldn\u2019t even be listing to the hall! The contractor makes all the rules and has the last say so any way! \n\nMe: oh is that right? \n\nGF: yeah that\u2019s right! \n\nMe: yeah you can get my money, I quit. Cut my two checks while I\u2019m gone to get my shit. I\u2019ll be back as soon as I get my tools. \n\nGF: OH DID YOU HEAR THAT SHE QUITS! She said it!!! [turning towards our job Stuart and super] basically jumping up and down at this point. \n\nAt this point I was tired of being berated and screamed at and felt I really had no choice but to quit. My two bosses were obviously pissed I called the hall and caught them trying to intimidate everyone in to working a schedule that wasn\u2019t even legally in effect and I was being threatened for not only being sick but simply asking my union hall about it. \n\nSo that was on a Saturday and I went to my union hall Monday morning to talk about what happened and see about filing a grievance (complaint through the union agents a member or contractor). \n\nI told my business agent [our union elected official that deal with these sorts of thing and makes sure, or is supposedly supposed to make sure our rights aren\u2019t violated] this story. \nNow the GF is a friend of the BA\u2019s and has been a member way longer than me. The contractor give us a lot of work and is the local halls favorite to work for. So I imagine something like this would strain that relationship. \n\nI bluntly asked what could be done, can I file a grievance. BA said there was nothing that could be done that it was my gf\u2019s \u201copinions\u201d and he was in title to them. \n\nSo I file for unemployment because I did some research. I still felt as though what happened just HAD to be illegal. I won unemployment under the \u201cgood cause\u201d or \u201cjustifiable cause\u201d to quit a job. After I won that, which I never thought I would I called a local attorney and spoke with him. He advised on speaking with the National Labor Board. \n\nSo I guess what I\u2019m asking is, do I have cause to acually take legal action. I\u2019m within the 6 month stature of limitations to file with them. Can I file against my hall for lying and telling me basically to forget about it and I was treated legally when from what I gathered, pretty illegal?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","title":"I\u2019m a union member and my former employer violated my union rights (among other things). Union covered it up. [AL]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554129781,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b839vp\/renting_a_place_for_my_son\/","id":"b839vp","body":"Hi Reddit,\n\tMy son is going off to college, and since he got a lot of money through scholarships,  I deveined to help him with paying for his apartment. Would it be legal for me to rent the apartment under my name and we lives there or would I have to be co-signer? Also he is going to college in Texas.","title":"Renting a place for my son","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554514418,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9zbzi\/special_education_my_child_is_being_abused_and\/","id":"b9zbzi","body":"I can send details to a mod to verify this story is legit. My family, as well as 4 others (who have gotten on board) and a handful of others who have just \"reported\" their issues, need serious help.\n\n​\n\nWhere to start?\n\nIll start with the legal battles i am facing, and then share the story of whats been going on.\n\n​\n\nLegal hurdles:\n\nWe legally cannot record in the school. Sending the girl to school with a hidden recorder involves telling a single party involved, and well, shes handicapped and might slip up. Second the school has a policy against recording, and if caught, would face legal issues vs them. Cases we have read show the courts side with the school.\n\nThe school has a 2 door system, so we cannot ever \"surprise\" the classroom or anything of that nature (for good reason).\n\nThe superintendant of the district publicly stated he wanted to change how the district is ran(more then just this), and within one year faced legal issues and stepped down for fear of legal prosecution. Now no-one  is willing to speak up. (this is \"Speculation\" since the newspapers reported what a terrible human being he was. His wife has one teacher of the YEAR twice in the district for her ability to help students in need. People who know the family know how scandalous this all was. She continues to teach after this happened).\n\n\\~\\~\\~I will update with more my brain is going crazy \\~\\~\\~\n\n​\n\nThe Story:\n\nFor the last year, my sister has been having troubles in school. Not like normal, she doess have a hard time learning, she had a rough first week of life, and we adopted via foster care. She has faced many physical and mental barriers to be able to walk\/eat let alone be in school. Over the last year however, we have been getting numerous calls from the school stating that she was locking her self in the bathroom and refusing to come out and other incidents like this. My mom and the rest of the family intervened to assist them and make plans\/strategies to combat this. \n\nFast forward, and now she has, multiple times, ran out of the school (with the 2 door system) and ran from the adults at the school. We were very worried, and again, intervened to combat the issues and get her \"in line.\"\n\nWe noticed she was very emotionally rough when she would come home from school this year. She would be very angry and do crazy things like break everything she has etc.\n\nWhen she would stay home from school, she would have a perfect day and be super loving and sweet.\n\nShe has been bullied like crazy every day of her life. She comes home crying begging to be normal, asking how she can not be weird anymore. We have a system at the house where when she does \"weird things\" a lot, we tell her others see that sometimes as weird so she can learn what she does do that she can stop etc. She might have the biggest heart of anyone you will ever meet. Since shes endured so much bullying, if she sees a dog\/cat\/rabbit\/child\/adult who she thinks is being picked on, she will LITERALLY risk her own life to stop it. She will grab objects and threaten the \"attacker\" no matter what. She does not do any sort of violence or bullying. I my self, get put in line by her when i am picking  on my daughter or brothers, or wife\/mom etc. Shes not afraid of anyone. She will make sure everyone is treated nice. She has been bit by SO many dogs, because all dogs are good, shes the one that shouldnt have pet the dog behind the ear, so she will pet their back, get bit, apologize, and then proceed to pet a leg or something. She sees the world as the most innocent beaatiful thing there is, but has such a cold dark view of her self. She is 8 years old. I would challenge anyone in the world to hold them selves to the standards she holds.\n\nThis is where it gets good.\n\n​\n\nParent 1:\n\nA few weeks ago, a parent reached out to my mom to let her know they had pulled there child from school. There spec-ed child had been having similar issues, and they decided to try something else. They swapped stories of their children and my mom agreed she was facing similar things. This opened our eyes to potentially something going on.\n\nParent 2: \n\nNot very long after, another parent reached out stating they were having these issues, and wondering if she was as well. This is now case 2 of the same behaviours (which child psycologists originally opened an investigation into our household and found nothing when we complained. but apparently didnt question the school).\n\nParent 3: \n\nThis parent is one of the \"on board\" to making a change. She contact my mom after swimming lessons. She didnt approach her there, but stated she had been trying to figure out how to contact her for a while. She witnessed the following - \n\n\\- Daughter - Sees them come in to lunch room, gets up from her seat, and went to give a hug to Parent 3's Child. The teacher grabbed her arm and forcefully sat her down in her seat, and told her \"Your not to interact with others while we are at lunch \\*Daughter\\* now sit down and be quiet.\n\nThis parent proceeded to tell us how the special education children are not allowed to sit near the \"normal\" kids, and instead are to sit with the teachers at their own table away from their friends so they do not disrupt the other kids school experience. They are literally segregating the handicapped kids from a social life so the other kids are not \"tainted\". This is the point my mom started reaching out to other parents.\n\nMy sister also wears a GPS bracelet VIA the sheriffs department, and my old dog has now been trained and certified to be a service dog for her. She has had some issues wandering which has pretty much gone away since she was \\~5, but she still wears it. it looks like a watch.\n\nNow, this parent stated when she saw Daughter on XX day, she was walking down the long main hallway (around 150ft+). She was walking with no adults anywhere in site, and walked the entire length of the hallway and out the door. When Parent 3 asked the people in the office if she could go outsite and have Daughter come in (she knows her through girl scouts and swimming), the school stated \"no, we dont want anyone else interacting with DAUGHTER\" and then proceeded to complain \"We will be stuck out there for atleast an hour dealing with her.\" \n\n It is well known at the school that she does this, so she is not to be out of LOS per her IEP (individualized education plan). She did this in anger however, since we had set up a plan so she is rewarded when she doesnt lock her self away. Well, shes very VERY literal. Imagine computer programming. If you dont do X, you get Y. Well, walking out of the school is TECHINICALLY not X. And she believes that. Thats not the same thing. She didnt lock her self in the bathroom.\n\n​\n\n\\~\\~\\~\\~\n\nWhat we have seen:\n\nWe went in to the school to observe the classroom. We noticed 2 adults come up and interact with our girl, and attempt to play \"games\" with her like staring contests etc. Our girl didnt know how to do any of the things they were trying, and was very confused. It seemed evident this was \"for show\" since we were there, and not normal, but we are also aware we have a jaded tint to our view point ATM. \n\nWe did observe her friend attempting to sit with us, who was then removed to his own table to work by him self and told not to bother the other students in the class. I dont want to go into what we \"saw\" because i know it carries some bias, and am trying to give as much \"factual eye account\" as possible.\n\n​\n\nIm going to stop here and see how this goes. \n\nWe are lost, We cant take down a school district. \n\nWhat info do you need to help out?\n\nWhat legal grounds to we have to collect evidence\"\n\nWho do we reach out to to help us investigate.\n\nWe dont want money, we want our girl to have a life where only the kids torment and bully her, and not the trusted adults in her life as well.\n\n​\n\nTL;DR: The kids are being segregated and bullied by there teachers at school, as well as being physically restrained from interacting with other \"normal\" children at the school. 3 parents have come forward with stuff they have seen, 2 parents (not sure if 2 of the same, or 2 from other categories) have transferred out of the school, and atleast 3 more parents have corroborated the behaviors of their children changing.\n\n​\n\nPLEASE HELP US. \n\nPLEASE.\n\nHandicapped does not mean they arent human. She cries every day from the bullying. She is FUCKIN HUMAN!","title":"[Special Education] My Child is being Abused and Segregated. I need SERIOUS help. [CO]","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1503596532,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6vshqi\/making_a_documentary_about_happiness_and_have\/","id":"6vshqi","body":"they've all verbally agreed, but its taking ages chasing busy people to print, sign and post the contracts we sent out, so i'm looking for an easier way","title":"making a documentary about happiness and have included video interviews with our partners in other countries, and want to include some of their footage. is an email contract\/approval which they reply to with their name and date acceptable as a digital signature","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569141790,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7nue5\/driving_during_work\/","id":"d7nue5","body":"My main area of practice is in PI and Criminal Law (CA), and yes while I understand I have the means (and probably more-so than the layperson to acquire this info, but I also wanted to see what would come up specifically on here).\n\nMy Gf works at a Doctor\u2019s clinic which conducts surgeries at two different locations (let\u2019s call them A and B), but both clinics are part of the same practice (not separate entities) where he has 100% equity. Two days out of the week the Doctor conducts his surgeries at clinics A and B. As I understand the law an employee is responsible for their own cost of transportation to the main\/official place of employment, but travel time to different worksite(s)  \u201con the clock\u201d (I assume unless contracted otherwise\/or a particular field of employment with specific laws) and is to be compensated for cost of transportation. She remains on the clock, but travels an hour\/ 40+ miles, but does not get compensated for mileage. It is also further away from her home and if I\u2019m not mistaken when she leaves clinic B she should be compensated for the commute back (extra time on the clock traveling back along with mileage for 40+ miles). She lives ten miles away from clinic A so she\u2019s not supposed to be paid for mileage or for time spent traveling the last the last ten miles?\n\nTo sum it up she goes to clinic A in the morning ten miles away, she leaves clinic A around noon and remains on the clock but doesn\u2019t get compensated for mileage for the let\u2019s say 43 mile journey from clinic A to clinic B. She also is not on the clock for the additional difference accounting for commute time or mileage from clinic B to clinic A.","title":"Driving during work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568753612,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5n23q\/ontario_in_family_court_how_do_i_correctly\/","id":"d5n23q","body":"The child is 10 years old and already has a lawyer, but the claim my child made the other day about her mother is pretty serious.\n\nIn a nutshell, the Mother ( who is chronically ill) has been trying to convince the kids that they are lactose and gluten intolerant. They are totally healthy and have no allergy at all. I assumed it was so that she could collect a monthly subsidy for that, and she does. But my daughter said to her sister yesterday \" She wants us to be sick because it makes her feel better about being sick.\" And that's huge for my case. How can I include this without angering the Judge? Can I just make an affidavit explaining what happened?  \n\n\nAnd yes I know I need a lawyer, I'll thank you not to remind me.","title":"[ Ontario ] In family court, How do I correctly include a statement said by my daughter about her mother.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1441673759,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k1ar9\/odd_divorce_situation_in_utah_need_advice\/","id":"3k1ar9","body":"I am engaged to a man who is legally married in the state of Utah\/California. They have had no contact since 2008 due to a restraining order she filed against him. Her last known location was California that he's aware of, we live in Utah.\n\nI want to get the ball rolling on divorce proceedings, and we would rather not get a lawyer involved if we can help it. Someone told me we could get a judge to grant a one-sided divorce due to the length of time that's passed with no contact. \n\nWhere do we begin? ","title":"Odd divorce situation in Utah - need advice!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446945306,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ryeyk\/copywrite_art_can_a_company_take_your_fan_art_of\/","id":"3ryeyk","body":" its their creation and they own the images, the right to distribute. Say I come along and draw a picture of \"Bugs Bunny\" could \"Warner Brothers\" take my art I made and use it for their own personal financial gain? Thanks!!","title":"Copywrite Art: Can a company take your fan art of their charcater and resell it?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571105859,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/di14rr\/hit_by_truck_driverpassenger_potentially_swapped\/","id":"di14rr","body":"10\/9 at around 9 PM I was walking from my work across the street to a gas station. About halfway through the street my hand was hit by a truck and after a brief police interview and paramedics, I was taken to a hospital where I was diagnosed with and treated for a \u201cSalter-Harris Type II physical fracture of lower end of right radius.\u201d\n\nI was adamant that it was a man driving, but my parents and the police had said it was a woman. I talked to my manager about it and he said it was a man who he believed to be drunk.\n\nSince it\u2019s too late for a breathalyzer ofcourse, would I have any chance of a case against him if it turns out he was driving?\n\nI wasn\u2019t going to sue because shit happens, but if they lied about the driver and there\u2019s a single chance he was drunk I want to.\n\nDo I have any case here?","title":"Hit by truck, driver\/passenger potentially swapped. Taylorsville, UT.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568598381,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4u00x\/need_help_military_divorce\/","id":"d4u00x","body":"I\u2019m trying to get a divorce from my ex who is currently serving in the army and is stationed in WA. We got married on a whim and everything started spiraling downhill right after. Excess drinking, DUIs, and a lot more destructive behavior on his end. I tried to stick it out but something about him had changed.\n\nI moved back home to CA and decided to move forward with my decision of divorcing him. The closest base to me is about an hour away and their JAG only takes appointments while I\u2019m at work so I decided to do it alone. \n\nAfter filing the first documents and serving them on my ex he told me he wouldn\u2019t be responding and that I\u2019d have to figure out how to \u201cwin\u201d him in the case. I don\u2019t want anything from him\u2014including money and assets,  so \u201cwinning\u201d wasn\u2019t a priority to me.\n\nA year has passed and I finally got him to agree to a marital agreement that was made. Now my problem is that he still doesn\u2019t want to respond to my initial paperwork. I know in \u201cnormal\u201d divorce cases you could file for a default agreement but in the military I know that\u2019s nearly impossible. What can I do now? He told me he was done doing any type of paperwork or signing anything.","title":"Need help\u2014 military divorce","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1502991133,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ubkkg\/can_i_park_here\/","id":"6ubkkg","body":"[parking](https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/X5toH)\n\nMy roommates and I don't have enough space in our driveway to fit all our cars. So we park on the side of the road across the street from our house. It's not in front of someone's house, but is in front of someone's fenced backyard. We've gotten 2 written notes stating we can't park there and they will tow us. Are they allowed to do so? We're assuming that the property lines starts where the telephone pole is, and we park before that. ","title":"Can I park here?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1411420660,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2h5ygf\/received_first_ever_driving_citation_was_a\/","id":"2h5ygf","body":"Long Story:\n\nI was driving home in the early afternoon after a long weekend at a friends wedding. The wedding was in Greenville, \nIL and I live 7 hrs away.\n\nA little background of me. I'm 23, had my license since 16, never had even one citation. No speeding, not reckless driving, nothing. I've always been very aware of driving and of my speed and never go much over the speed limit, especially in construction (because I know how much that can cost...)\n\nShortly after leaving, I was driving through construction. The speed dropped to 55. I dropped from ~75 to ~58. Traffic went to one lane and it was bumper to bumper, but still moving along between 55 and 60. There was even a flashing sign that showed your speed. Mine was 60. The lanes opened up and there was sign indicating the speed zone was ended, so I got in the passing lane to pass a semi, sped to ~75 again and was on my way.\nNot 20 seconds later, there's a cop behind me and he pulls me over. He asks if I know why, you know how it goes. I said no (because I knew I wasn't speeding). He told me he clocked me at 74 in a 45. I was shocked... I asked him, \"where? Are you sure? I know I was going about 58.\" He told me he has me on video and audio. He told me I was the only one on the road when he got me a few miles back. I told him that it was bumper to bumper all the way through, he disagreed. \"I'll be right back\", he says.\n\nHe comes back after a while with a freshly written ticket. He hands to me and asks me to sign. I hold it in dismay.\nI look at him and question again, \"Sir, where was I speeding? I honestly don't know. I know I was going with traffic at about 60.\" He told me he saw me by the sign that indicated your speed as you drive by it.\n\"What? I remember that sign, it said 60\".\n\n\"No, you were at 74 and the only one in the left lane\". Well... now there people in the right lane huh?\n\n\"Sir, I've never had a ticket before of any kind, let alone speeding. I wasn't speeding\".\n\n\"Sign it and hand it back, I need to get going\".\n\n\"Sir, I really don't think this is the case\".\n\n\"Hurry up, I need to get going\".\n\nWell, I've never had a citation. I didn't know what I was signing and I was nervous. So I reluctantly signed it and handed it back and he was on his way...\n\nThe kicker? He knew where I lived. He knew it was a 6hr drive, and he scheduled a court date for 9am on a monday morning and told me to just call so I don't have to come.\n\nI believe I was the victim of profiling based on being a traveler who lived far away and wouldn't bother to defend himself.\n\nTL;DR\n\nHe fabricated a story about my speeding, gave me a ticket for 29 over in construction (I've never had a single citation in 7 years of driving), was rushing me, and took off. I was profiled because I live 6 hrs away and probably wouldn't bother to defend myself.\n\nReddit, has anyone here ever had a similar story? Has anyone actually managed to get out of it with no evidence other than a passenger in the front seat?\n\nI fully plan on driving down there and showing up. I want to defend myself. If I was speeding and he got me, well I'd be kicking myself and upset. But I was driving safely, and at the speed limit, yet I've been slapped with my first citation ever, and a huge one.","title":"Received first ever driving citation. Was a traveler to the area, and I believe the officer fabricated the situation. I need advice on how to defend myself.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1551290739,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avgdw4\/three_months_no_paycheck_still_no_w2\/","id":"avgdw4","body":"I worked for a major retail company at a local store for about 6 weeks back in November\/December and was supposed to received three paychecks in total. Well, three months later and I haven\u2019t received the second check yet. The first was paper which was given to me when it came into the store. The second was paper which was supposed to be received in the store the day after I quit and I figured they would mail it to my address like most companies do. *hindsight is 20\/20, should\u2019ve just went back and got it then* The third was direct deposited to my bank account because I set up direct deposit about a week or two prior to quitting. \nI have called their corporate HR a total of four times requesting what they call my \u201clost paycheck\u201d to be re-delivered to my house. I have the correct address on file with them (verified this the first time I called), have talked to the postmaster, and am receiving all other mail except my paycheck.. and now my W-2 from them as well. I have also asked for an overnight delivery and guaranteed delivery but they would not do that for me. \nIs there anything I can do at this point to get my paycheck from the company?\nAlso, I am free to wait a few more weeks on the W-2 but if I never receive that, I just contact the IRS, correct? \nThanks in advance, I really hope I can figure this mess out before my patience runs thin!\nIncident occurred in GA. \nFirst time poster here and also mobile so apologies for any issues!","title":"Three months, no paycheck (& still no W-2)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554308666,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b904ca\/what_charges_can_my_former_general_manager_face\/","id":"b904ca","body":"At my previous job which will remain unnamed for obvious reasons I had a manager who was, well, a piece of work. To put it lightly. And as the title suggests, she was a bit of a living nightmare for some of our staff to deal with. Namely a few unlucky supervisors who was on the receiving end of her temper tantrums.\n\n​\n\nBut it wasn't just supervisors who were being screamed at. Oh no. Turns out that she also was actively hunting employees at the time who tried to report her to Corporate. But she caught wind of it when she saw a Corporate head come in to ask for the staff member who called it in. The GM would get so pissed that while seeking them out, the reporting party would basically feel intimidated into quitting.\n\n​\n\nNow, she didn't physically threaten anyone. But she tended to put the fear of God in some company staff members there. Which demoralized a lot of folks. Along with the fact that she regularly yelled at some of us regarding poor production numbers when item organization was FUBAR. Due to being understaffed, few pieces of equipment to help take product out to be sold. Some of us being physically sick or tending to issues at home which she was going to find a way to blame us on.\n\n​\n\nHer temper was so bad that it got to the point where she would yell into the store's intercom to get a supervisor to come to her office. Or grit her teeth in a low tone of voice in a way of saying \"Don't F with me.\" Other demands she would give included having to pull product from the sales floor that was way over the alloted limit that was set by the company rulebook. Which could have presented a spilling hazard of our stock that could have hurt someone on the floor. Customers, employees. Vice versa.\n\n​\n\nI know that some of these other talking points aren't the main topic of this discussion that the title suggests. And thankfully I don't work there anymore. But what grounds could she be sued on?","title":"What charges can my former General Manager face after regularly threatening supervisors and others?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571075956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhuccp\/my_boyfriends_lease_has_visitation_addendums_ca\/","id":"dhuccp","body":"Just a quick question, and wondering if anyone would know, my boyfriend is in a leasing agreement that was written up by the parents of his friend (who owns the house). He and this friend are renting this house together. My question is if this is a legal addendum.\n\n\nAround the time this addendum was written, he had an ex girlfriend who was over a lot who cooked and cleaned for him, and his roommate didn't like any visitors over because he preferred noone being around him. He told his parents, and the parents wrote up that he was only allowed to have visitation rights three times a month.\n\n\nI have not seen the document personally yet, but if anyone is interested, I can make him bring it up.","title":"My boyfriend's lease has visitation addendums (CA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552240429,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azi91d\/missouri_apartment_resident_missing_for_5_months\/","id":"azi91d","body":"Resident gave 3 checks for advanced payment in October, to cover 11\/18, 12\/18, 1\/19. All three bounced. \n\nSince then have had no calls or texts returned.\n\nOther residents haven't seen her. \n\nAs far as we know, her belongings are still in the apartment. \n\nHow should we legally proceed in vacating the apartment? Should we have police do a wellness check before entering? Are we safe to assume whatever is inside is abandoned at this point? Are we even in our rights to enter yet? \n\nThanks in advance for the help. ","title":"Missouri Apartment resident missing for 5 months","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1447108173,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s6yl7\/locked_out_by_landlord_charged_for_deposit_ohio\/","id":"3s6yl7","body":"**Short Version:** My previous landlord took my keys before the end of the month with written consent to return them so I could come and finish moving out (storage things) and clean the unit. When I asked them about this, I was informed that they had already sent men into the unit to remove everything. They ignored me after that until I get a letter saying I owed them $2000 for cleaning\/damages.\n\n \n\n**Long Version:** So at the start of September, I gave my landlord written notice that I was moving out at the end of the month, when the lease was up. About two weeks later, they asked me what day I was going to move out. I said on the 26th, but in my experience it's never a one day operation and that I would be using the rest of the month (I had paid in full) to return to the unit after the furniture was removed to properly clean it. They agreed.\n\n \n\nTo skip the accounts of the move, which includes U-Haul reserving a truck half the size I requested, it wasn't a one day process. All that remained in the unit at the end of the 26th was furniture I did not intend on keeping that was too large for me to move by myself, storage items, and a few miscellaneous things I would get the next day. I informed the property manager of the current situation. They informed me that they had painter's scheduled to come in and inspect the unit on the 27th at 4pm, which I said should be fine since my friend and I were going to move everything in the morning.\n\n \n\nAt about 11am on the 27th, my friend informs me that the head gasket on his car blew - he'd be waiting for a tow truck and wouldn't be able to help. I said not to worry about it - I would just take what I needed, do what I could, and then return with him after work someday that week to move the rest of the furniture which would take us not even an hour. I immediately informed the property manager of the delay. We spoke on the phone and came to an agreement that I would leave my keys in the mailbox so that they could access the unit for the painters, and they would leave the keys in the mailbox for me to come and get everything else. There's a text message from them saying they left the keys in the mailbox to confirm this. I tell them that Tuesday morning, the 29th, is when I planned to finish. Until about 3pm on this Sunday, I moved boxes and cleaning the rooms of the unit that were vacant: dining room, both bedrooms, and the hallway.\n\n \n\nI took Sunday night off work (I work a 3rd shift, so that's my Monday) and spent Monday unpacking here at my new apartment. Monday night, my friend informs me he has plans Tuesday and is unable to help but Wednesday morning, the 30th, he's free. I say it's fine - I can't move this couch without him, and some other things, and Wednesday is still September. I figure, worst case scenario, I'll just call off so I can spend the entire day cleaning if it comes down to that.\n\n \n\nI text the landlord at about... I forget the exact time but it would be no later than 6am on Tuesday, the 29th, when I got off work. I inform them of the delay and the newly scheduled day of the 30th. I wake up to a text message from them at noon that says they never heard back from me, and sent \"our guys\" into the unit. Everything in it was thrown out. They say that I had surrendered the keys to them on Saturday, they had given me three days to fulfill my obligation, and they had then \"chosen to move forward\". I explained that they requested the keys, that we had an arrangement to return the keys to me, and that I had still paid for the entire month. This text message was read, but never replied to.\n\n \n\nOver the month of October, I sent several text messages to both the landlord and property manager to try and get some sort of answers about this. I was that without access to the unit before the end of the month, I can't clean the unit for them as I had intended, and as half of the apartment showed I intended. At the start of November, I got a letter from them saying that I owed them roughly $2000 for the condition of the unit, with a list of all the fees. Some of which was as odd as $100 for garbage left in front of the building (in\/next to the bins on the tree lawn, where trash pick up is done on Wednesday morning) to cigarette burns on the carpet (I do not smoke, never smoked, and work for a company that denies employment to smokers) to two separate charges for different amounts for the exact same thing. I was suspicious of something like this happening. The people across from me were friends of mine, I'd seen the inside of their unit, and knew it looked exactly like mine: kind of shitty, for being a rough part of Cleveland. When the new tenant moved in after them, I helped them move a couch in only to find the unit had been given brand new, soundproof windows, new light fixtures, hardwood floors, etc. When my heater went out last winter, the technician they sent informed me that they could replace the broken part or, for an extra $200, just replace the whole unit. He was sure they'd spend the extra money considering how low the cost was for a new unit compared to replacing this part which would probably just break again within a few years. They replaced only the broken part.\n\n \n\nMy question is that do I actually owe them the money for these charges if they locked me out of the unit? Understandably, I could have gone back on Monday or Tuesday myself to clean but, as I said, with furniture left in the unit, it'd be difficult to really clean everything. However, I don't even know for sure if they ever did put the keys back in the mailbox. While I do not have the full agreement recorded, since it was a phone call, I do have it on a text message where the property manager says that he left one key in the mailbox, implying the agreement was made. Also, like I stated, the list of charges just seems fishy. The numbers are all fairly even (divisible by 25 in most cases) and some things are listed multiple times for various amounts.\n\n \n\nBasically, I think it boils down to although I *did* give them the keys to the unit on Sunday, there was an agreement to return them to me before the end of the month so I could finish moving out\/cleaning. Is that still considered \"surrendering the keys\"?\n\n \n\nThank you!","title":"Locked out by Landlord, Charged for Deposit (Ohio)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571020087,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhkabm\/false_police_report\/","id":"dhkabm","body":"hi so recently i sold a pair of tickets to this guy and i guess the tickets that i gave him didn\u2019t work when he went to the show. bc of this he filed a police report even tho there was no communication for us to resolve this. i didn\u2019t know that the tickets weren\u2019t going to work so i even reassured him that if anything goes wrong let me know and i\u2019ll give him his money back but he jumped the gun. so be messaged me saying he filed a police report bc i wasn\u2019t communicating with him when i didn\u2019t even know that there was a problem with anything until he started to send me threats. \n\ni just want to know what is the likelihood of the police report going to lead to an arrest bc i\u2019m afraid that even if i pay him back he won\u2019t drop the report. don\u2019t get me wrong i\u2019m going to lay him back i\u2019m just unsure if he\u2019s going to uphold his side of the deal.\nalso he sent me threatening messages saying \u201ci will find you and i will kill you\u201d so does that give me reason to file my own police report on him for threats?","title":"false police report","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1554498869,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9wr8i\/can_investors_ask_for_financial_statements\/","id":"b9wr8i","body":"Hey so I live in California and I invested in this company three years ago put like 20,000 into it when it was a start up and now I\u2019m asking to see some of the financials to review my investment and they are telling me they owe me no obligation to share numbers. Is this true I thought that investors were obligated to see the financials? ","title":"Can investors ask for financial statements?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571532411,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkcgxp\/mn_us_can_an_employer_tell_other_employees_my\/","id":"dkcgxp","body":"I\u2019m in a situation where the owner (who pays my wage) of the restaurant I work at was casually telling other employees how much I get paid and that it must be hard to live off of. I\u2019m planning on walking out tomorrow and leaving a review on Glassdoor because of it but I was wondering if there are any laws against this. Is he allowed to do this?","title":"[MN, US] Can an employer tell other employees my salary and wages?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504906095,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yxqcx\/tx_work_for_a_large_bank_and_recently_moved_to_a\/","id":"6yxqcx","body":"I work for a large nation-wide bank. I left my old position making $85k for a \"lateral\" move career wise. However, the move came with a job title change and a pay bump of about $13k. My old job is being reposted next week and it's the same as my new job. \n\nBefore I left, I made the case that my job title wasn't right and I should be the new title. I based this on the corporate defined definitions of my job compared to the title and salary I was given. This obviously worked and they're hiring the new folks in the proper salary and title. \n\nHere's my question: am I entitled to any back payments? If I am, should I pursue? Seems like a quick way to alienate myself from my employer who I don't want to leave. \n\nThanks in advance.","title":"[TX] Work for a large bank and recently moved to a different department for more money. Backfill of my old job is a better title and pay than I left with.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569843815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbaave\/leaving_a_private_school_in_the_middle_of\/","id":"dbaave","body":"My son attends an independent private school, and due to concerns over his academic progress and speech, we have decided to leave. Currently we pay on a monthly basis, the school is claiming we owe for the entire school year. What should we do?","title":"Leaving a private school in the middle of semester, school claims we owe tuition for the entire school year. [Missouri]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1553918066,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b76sgi\/ca_my_sister_and_her_deadbeat_fiance\/","id":"b76sgi","body":"My sister is currently in a relationship with a boy she is 23 he is ~33. Their relationship started when my brother introduced his friend we'll call him Bobby and my sister we'll call her Michelle. I come from a Jewish family and for Saturday lunch was the first time I met him. He seemed like a nice enough person however he was a bit off. He never agreed with anything that went against his \"religious beliefs\". He was very very controlling and he acted very religious in front of my parents and rabbis so he could get an approved marriage from both of them. This man wasn't normal religious crazy he was crazy crazy he didn't believe in fundamental scientific facts and laws such as the speed of light. Any attempt to get him to understand these just got him to try and change the topic and act condescending and like an ass. I thought whatever, he is Jewish and my sister who is not completely normal (she has been institutionalized for mental problems) so maybe he would settle down and help her. I was wrong he is a terrible person he doesn't have a job and smokes weed all day in the past even in my parents home in my brothers room. Now she has moved out about 3 months ago and in with Bobby and from the time they met about 9 months ago and now my family has realized this guy is bad news. He is obsessed with my sister when she tried to break it off previously he called my sister and mother repeatedly throughout the day for weeks. My parents hate Bobby he is controlling and doesn't ever change his mind. My parents have said he can't come into their house and my father's name is the only one on the deed. I don't want this guy around the rest of my family as I have given up on my sister because she has betrayed our family. This morning while I was at home visiting while on break from school I was awoken to my mother speally loudly not really yelling at my sister to help her understand her errors, I thought ok they'll calm down soon. But then Bobby comes in through the back door and walks in and commands my sister to leave. She tries to and my mother grabs him to stop them from leaving so I run in to try and stop my mom from grabbing him. He then insteadtrying to diffuse the situation he pulls out his phone and starts recording and yelling at my mother saying she is choking him even though she was just grabbing his shirt. I break them apart  and as my mother tries to stop him I let my sister and him go out the house by holding my mother back. I knew this was the right thing to do to diffuse the situation. However my sister came by today to get her stuff from her room and called the police to escort her and her boyfriend he stayed out side she even claimed her name is on the houses deed which it isn't to get support of the policeman What can I do to stop my sister from coming back with her \"fiance\"  so I can help my mother and father.","title":"(CA) My sister and her deadbeat \"fiance\".","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554658037,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/baior2\/virginia_im_14_what_power_does_a_school_have_to\/","id":"baior2","body":"I am 14 and would like to have a peaceful protest\/get together of students with like minds who think the curriculum for schools is messed up and I am wondering about repercussions that could happen?","title":"(Virginia, I'm 14) what power does a school have to stop a protest? And what can they do to you if you have a peaceful protest against the school?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1554473696,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9rpo3\/ohio_us_rented_a_place_that_potentially_has_mice\/","id":"b9rpo3","body":"I just moved into a 3 bedroom house and I\u2019m starting to unpack everything and put things where they belong.\n\nWhen I got to the area under the sink I found some items left behind by previous tenants or by the landlord himself.\n\nThis includes:\n\n\u2022 Hot Shot Fogger for killing ants\n\n\u2022 Raid fly ribbons \n\n\u2022 Tomcat mice traps\n\nAnd\n\n\u2022 Raid roach and ant killer\n\nIf this house has all 4 above mentioned pests, was he allowed to rent this place to me without disclosing that information to me? Or is he within his rights","title":"[Ohio, US] rented a place that potentially has mice, flies, ants, and roaches and we were unaware","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552681862,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1jt3g\/wondering_what_the_compliance_hearing_is_for\/","id":"b1jt3g","body":"So my ex and I filed for divorce, have no kids, did the filing for non represented with no kids, and turned in a paper that we wanted to waive a final hearing. \n\nWhat we\u2019re both confused about is why we have a compliance hearing next week. Everything I read online says that a compliance hearing is related to parenting and custody but we don\u2019t have kids so I\u2019m confused. We also didn\u2019t have any joint debt so we agreed to just pay for our individual debt, we didn\u2019t have anything listed that we wanted decided by the court. \n\nSo I\u2019m really wondering what all does a compliance hearing apply to? What is it actually for? \n\n","title":"Wondering what the compliance hearing is for [Indiana]","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570631321,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfhtht\/i_17m_sent_consensual_nudes_to_a_16m\/","id":"dfhtht","body":"Me and this girl were talking and I wasn't quite ready for a relationship yet. I let her know and she seemed to be fine with it. So to get to the legal point I was busy one weekend so I didn't get to text her and I noticed she didn't text me so I figured she was busy. Since I didn't text her over the weekend she proceeded to block me and lie to everyone saying I ghosted her. She then went to the cops and said I sent nudes Unconcentuially. Now I might be facing charges of child pornography as I'm under 18. I've never gotten a charge on my record so I'm first time offender.  I'm wanting to know how much trouble I could get in for doing so on first offense and what charges I could face. The police have had my phone for a week and a half going thru it and I'm so stressed about it. Any help is appreciated!\n\nTLDR; I'm a minor and I sent nudes to a girl who asked for them. She went to the police because we didn't text for 3 days and said I sent nudes and had nudes on my phone. What charges will I face as a minor with no offenses?","title":"I 17M sent consensual nudes to a 16M","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568427504,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3zc6i\/pennsylvania_i_work_at_walmart_and_got_a_new\/","id":"d3zc6i","body":"There have been rumors that the new manager is racist and I\u2019m so scared. I\u2019ve only worked here for 2 weeks and haven\u2019t got my paycheck yet. People have said that she\u2019s only fired bad black\/hispanic employees. Never bad white employees. I don\u2019t know the system well and I\u2019m bound to make mistakes. I don\u2019t know what to do and I\u2019m so scared. I\u2019m low on money and probably can\u2019t get a lawyer if something happens. What can I do?","title":"(Pennsylvania) I work at Walmart and got a new manager. I fear for my employment.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445471518,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ppcpf\/my_landlord_thinks_my_rental_house_is_like_a\/","id":"3ppcpf","body":"I am renting a 4 bedroom house with 3 other people in a college neighborhood in Michigan.  My roommates are college students but I am not.  I am a young professional and this house is my permanent and only address, so I expect to be able to treat it like my home even though it is a rental property.  My landlords are a father and son, the very wealthy father purchased the house and poured tons of money into renevating it and gave it to his 21 year old son.  The son has lived in the house for the past 2 years and rented the other rooms to his friends.  This is the first year that they are renting to tenants with the son not living here.  \n\nI think that because they poured so much damn money into this house and because the kid used to live here they feel very posessive of it.  When we first got our keys the dad spent nearly 2 hours walking through the house with us, lecturing us to keep our bedrooms tidy, be careful while opening the dishwasher, show us how to use a vaccuum (I am not kidding), etc.  \n\nThey also seem to think that they are allowed to tell us what to hang on the walls.  The house is furnished and they also provided framed pictures on all the walls.  One of them was literally a maybe 15x15 inch picture of the son and his buddies (who used to live in the house).  It was super weird and everyone who came over asked us why we had random people on our wall.  I took it down and put it in a closet.  When the son landlord came by to \"check up on us\" (and park his car in our driveway for the weekend, which he did ask permission for) he said that \"everything looks good\" except for the picture in the kitchen.  I told him I took it down because we didn't want it there.  He tried to tell me it was in the lease that we couldn't make any \"alterations\" which includes apparently removing the pictures.  When we were texting about the issue he told me it was like a \"hotel\" that we are not allowed to remove anything from the common areas of the house.  \"Whenever somebody stays at a hotel they dont remove the pictures from the wall, its not their property\". I told him it was legally entirely different but he just said we needed to talk about it in person.  \n\nWhen father and son stopped by, the dad was very respectful and professional, and they ended up just taking the stupid picture with them.  I felt good about the conversation, except the dad landlord still defended the \"hotel\" language when I told him I was uncomfortable with that conversation.  My understanding is that a rental property is legally very little like a hotel.\n\nThe landlords also pay a cleaning lady to come clean the house once a month.  I have never had the luxury of paying someone to clean my house for me before, but apparently we are expected to clean up certain things before she arrives.  She came last week and cleaned up all the dishes in the kitchen sink and also took care of a bathroom trash can that was overflowing.  She apparently told these things to the landlords and they are upset with us for not doing these things before she arrived.  I want to be respectful to the cleaning lady, but I wasn't aware of these specific expectations before.  Although I want to be respectful to the cleaning lady, I also feel like it's just weird that our landlords pay a cleaning lady for a rental property, and I don't appreciate the way they communicate with us.  It feels like the purpose of the cleaning lady is to check up on us.\n\nThe reason I am posting this is because I'm curious about what parts of this situation are normal and what is not.  Legally, I am wondering at what point they violate our right to quiet enjoyment with the \"checking up on us\".  It bothers me that they tell us when and how to clean.  They even made a comment about crumbs on the kitchen counter one time.  At what point is this just annoying and at what point are they doing something I have the right to be upset about? They seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how rental properties work.  \n\nEDIT:  The four tenants of the house have signed one lease for the entire house.  We did not sign 4 separate leases for each room.\n\nAlso, it is a 1 year lease (ends in August 2016) and none of the four of us are going to resign for next year.","title":"My landlord thinks my rental house is like a \"hotel\" and is trying to parent us. I am wondering at what point these actions violate our right to quiet enjoyment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541284147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tyc93\/can_you_force_your_child_to_pay_rent\/","id":"9tyc93","body":"NY and PA: Can i force my daughter to pay rent, if my rent payment for section 8 (government housing went up because of her income). She is not on the lease. And if she refused can kick her out, or would i have to evict her legally? ","title":"Can you force your child to pay rent?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541692710,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vb6xi\/i_think_im_on_the_buying_end_of_an_online\/","id":"9vb6xi","body":"So I bought a pair of Nike running shoes on ebay that were less than I was seeing on the Nike website. I looked into the seller and the account was over a year old with positive feedback. So i purchased the shoes using paypal thru ebay. A day later I received a shipping email from fedex saying that my item was on the way (yay!). However looking further into the email it showed sender as nike.com (ordered thru ebay) and on the receiver side it showed my name and underneath (sysco corporation which I don\u2019t even know what that is). A part of me maybe thought the seller knew some discount code to use and I didn\u2019t know who I should contact regarding suspicions anyway. Today I receive an email from fedex that says  unable to deliver, refused by recipient. So i called fedex and explained I was home and I didn\u2019t refuse it. They said the shipper had refused it. So I put in a request thru ebay to contact the seller. \n\nIs there anyone else I should contact? This is all extremely fishy. \n\nIt seems to be a triangular scam where the seller uses a stolen credit card to purchase online goods and sell them to a buyer. This makes me sick that there are assholes out there like this. ","title":"I think I\u2019m on the buying end of an online triangular scam. Can I be held liable?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1542001932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wbd0c\/restaurant_being_unfair_to_its_workers\/","id":"9wbd0c","body":"My friends work at a Korean Barbecue. \n\nThey recently said that they are going to stop giving hostesses tips based off of percentage. They were told they were going to get 30 dollar tips max, 5 min but possibly 0 tip for the night. \n\n​\n\nWhen they work for 6 hours they only get 15 minute breaks.\n\n​\n\nIf workers mess up or make a mistake they get tips taken away. \n\nThis is in California.","title":"Restaurant being unfair to its workers.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568856721,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d66zw8\/house_i_am_renting_is_up_for_auction_because_the\/","id":"d66zw8","body":"So, as the title says, I am living in CT, USA where I am renting a single family home. About a month and a half ago there was a sign on the front lawn saying the house was going to be sold at public auction due to delinquent taxes. I contacted the landlord and he said he was going to solve the issue. \n\nFast forward to yesterday, my stepfather is outside mowing the lawn when multiple people come up to him. They say that they would like to know if they could look at the house since it is up for public auction. \n\nMy landlord hasn\u2019t said anything to me. Do I have to prepare to move out soon? Do I keep paying rent to the same guy if the house isn\u2019t really his anymore? What are my options and what should I expect if\/when someone buys the home?","title":"House I am renting is up for auction because the landlord did not pay the taxes. Do I keep paying rent to him? What should I do? [CT, USA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569433038,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d96o54\/speeding_ticket_is_missing_total_payable\/","id":"d96o54","body":"**Location:** Ontario, Canada  \n**Offence:** Highway Traffic Act Sect. 128  \n\n\nHello I did read the wiki but it does not fully answer my query:\n\n*They made a mistake on my ticket*\n\n* Errors on tickets rarely allow for the ticket to be dismissed. These errors will be corrected at court.\n\nI got a speeding ticket today in Ontario. It is a reduced ticket (40 over reduced to a 25 over; \"... we\\[two motorcycle police\\] were going 120 when you passed and I paced you at 140 so I'll meet you in the middle at 125 to save you some points and money ...\" providing that quote if the context affects anything) but, upon getting home and going to pay online I realized that the officer did not fill out the **Total Payable** or **Set Fine** sections of my ticket.  \n\n\nIn order to pay the ticket online or via mail I need to transcribe these amounts into the web app\/onto the slip. For more information the offence portion of the ticket reads: \"Speeding - 25km\/h in a ~~90~~ 100km\/h zone contrary to Highway Traffic Act Sect. 128\"\n\n​\n\nI think my question is, **what is my legal responsibility to get this resolved OR is there any sort of precedent for what I should do in this situation?**  \n^(My first thought, is that I pay 0$ as my ticket does not specify an amount but I feel that will get me in trouble and negatively impact me at a later date, say, if the true amount is put to collections. Is the onus on me to calculate the correct fine?)","title":"Speeding ticket is missing \"Total Payable\"","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541210613,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tqfas\/son_is_scared_of_my_gf_and_i_because_we\/","id":"9tqfas","body":"Apologies for the long post. A lot to take in. \n\nQuick background: My son (5) has been between two households his whole life. I finally obtained 50\/50 custody last September, but we have been doing 50\/50 custody since last March. My girlfriend has been in his life for over three years now and in the beginning, before we were together, he loved her and was very happy to see her. Then when we decided to start dating, I had her meet the mother so she can approve of her being around him way more often. Immediately after, there was a sudden change in his attitude towards my gf. He would act scared, be less loving, and overall distant. \n\nThen recently in the past few months there has been a disagreement in discipline with his mother and us. We hold him responsible for all his actions from lying to hitting and not following the rules. First offense was timeout, then it would be taking away something valuable for a time period, and thirdly would be a spanking. When we started 50\/50, he reacted harshly to any punishment, leading to extended periods of punishment. We would never be excessive with spanking, just one and he would freak out, so we'd just leave him sitting in a room until he calmed down and then we'd talk it out with him. Oh and to clarify, we do express to him why he is getting punished for each incident. He has told us recently he told his mom he is scared of us because we punish him. \n\nHis mother, though, claims to do the same type of punishment but has been back and forth on spanking. Once agreeing to it then being harshly against it. Like I said though, we don't overdo it at all and we don't reach spanking because he freaks out to even the smallest of the punishments. Then I find out she gives him toys, pretty much all the time. Buying from the dollar store or getting a happy meal most of the time she has him. She claims most of them are given, but when I pick him up there is a lot and they are all over the place. She gives him candy almost all the time and doesn't have a strict diet with him. We do though and have had him try many various foods, but usually it is a struggle. It is obvious he goes from a house with no structure to a house with structure and discipline. \n\nSo my question is, am I doing anything wrong? I know spanking is frowned upon, but it is something I grew up with and it worked on me and my gf when we were growing up, but it is the last resort to anything. What can I do in regards to him saying to her he is scared of us because we discipline him?\n\nSide note: he has a brother (1) from my gf but he has adapted really well to that. And lastly, his mother has tried to claim abuse because of me spanking him a few times and claims to have a photo of bruises, but the bruises in said photo were from him playing at summer camp, according to his word. I forgot to mention them to her and she is running with it as a claim of abuse. ","title":"Son is scared of my GF and I because we discipline him and tells his mother so. What can I do?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1442093192,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kpk65\/dorm_administration_isnt_sorting_mail_or_giving\/","id":"3kpk65","body":"I'm in Massachusetts. I live in a college dorm. Mail is delivered to the dorm, where the administration\/workers at the dorm typically sort it daily and put it into our mailboxes where we (students) can access the box and pick it up.\n\nHowever, apparently they haven't been sorting mail so we're not receiving it, and they say it's just sitting in the back not doing anything. It's been this way for about three weeks.\n\nI doubt it's intentional or anything (the people that usually do it aren't in, or are unavailable, or something?), but I keep asking daily and they just shrug and say \"idk\" whenever I ask about it. I heard there's laws against holding mail or preventing it to be delivered to the person of interest--how does that apply in this case?\n\nThanks!","title":"Dorm administration isn't sorting mail or giving it to students.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552765404,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b1wf31\/will_my_travel_insurance_company_reject_my_claim\/","id":"b1wf31","body":"While in Russia I dropped my camera and the lens became damages from the drop. I have travel insurance and am filling out the claim form. I'm based in Ireland\/EU\n\n​\n\nOne question asks \"Was the incident reported?\"\n\n​\n\nThe small writing in my policy says \"Report the theft, damage or loss to the police within 24 hours of discovery and ask them for a written police report.\"\n\n​\n\nNormally dropping a camera on the ground doesn't warrant going to the police and making a police report... Is my claim likely to be denied because I didn't obtain a police report that I accidentally dropped something? Insurance company is Allianz.\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Will my travel insurance company reject my claim because I didn't report that I dropped my camera to the police?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568655175,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d53z3v\/can_i_get_introuble_for_this\/","id":"d53z3v","body":"So we had this carnival this weekend and it's right next to the park. They are adding a new part of the park so it's under construction. I was hanging out at the park before the fair and went over the fence to ride the see saw and all that happened was I accidentally ripped the plastic fence on the outside. The next day they had glue and concrete mix and someone broke the bag open and it leaked all down the hill. Then the workers cleaned that up and poured the concrete in, then someone stepped on the concrete mix and left a footprint so they had to fix that. Can I get introuble for accidnetely taking down a piece of the orange fence?","title":"Can i get introuble for this?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445042599,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3p25wp\/question_about_child_support\/","id":"3p25wp","body":"I live in Michigan. I have a 2 month old baby with my ex-girlfriend. Because she is on Medicaid, an automatic child support case has been opened. \n\nWe are both students currently students with no income. She pays her tuition by receiving student loans. My parents pay my tuition. Is there any way this can be classified as \"income\" and cause me to have to pay something before I'm making money? Also, can she go after my parent's money?\n\nFinally, anything else I should know going into this? Thank you guys!","title":"Question about child support","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554994868,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bc0wc2\/legality_of_repossessing_or_remotely_disabling\/","id":"bc0wc2","body":"I have sold equipment to a business who is well overdue their 3rd and final installment. They aren't paying and aren't communicating despite many many attempts over 4 months. What ground do I have to repossess or remotely disable the equipment?","title":"Legality of repossessing or remotely disabling equipment","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1410657729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2gc2vo\/nc_best_way_to_avoid_points_on_a_license\/","id":"2gc2vo","body":"I just got a speeding ticket for going 60 in a 35. What can I do to get the minimum consequences of this ticket? And if I need to find a good lawyer how do I go about looking for one?","title":"[NC] Best way to avoid points on a license?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554071243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7to0b\/my_parents_are_divorced\/","id":"b7to0b","body":"Sorry if this is stupid but I'm a 14 year old boy and my mom and dad both divorced and remarried. Not to sound like an edgy teenager but my stepmom is awful and clearly chooses her kid over us in every scenario and it's a bad environment. My dad used to hit me and my mom and now mainly just verbally abuses me I have 50\/50 custody between them, can I switch to my mom's house full time or am I stuck? I'm diagnosed with depression and anxiety and my mom is way more supportive. My stepmom always says she has depression and anxiety too and she can deal with it so i should be able to. Any help is appreciated I guess? It's fine if this is a hopeless situation I was just curious in case I could do something about it. (I've tried therapy but when were alone they've told me they have to support my parents because my parents are the ones paying them).","title":"My parents are divorced","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541163933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tjwha\/sister_started_a_go_fund_me_page_to_divorce_her\/","id":"9tjwha","body":"So my sister has a history of being less than honest. As a matter of fact, she can be quite manipulative. \n\nShe started a go fund me page in order to leave her abusive husband. She\u2019s asking for around $12,000 to cover attorney fees and other expenses. If he is truly abusive, I would do anything to help her out. However, myself and the rest of the family have some trust issues with her. She\u2019s blown things out of proportion before.  Her only proof is that he sent her a picture of their crying baby in order to get her to come home. \n\nAnyway, my question is does it really cost that much to hire an attorney to divorce your husband?  Also, aren\u2019t there free resources for women who need to get out of a bad relationship?  \n\nWe live in the north east, and she is in Texas, so it is very hard for any of us to go and verify what is really going on. This is her third baby daddy, and we are beginning to see a bit of a pattern. \n\nThanks","title":"Sister started a go fund me page to divorce her husband. We think it\u2019s a scam.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1409214477,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2et11r\/uk_landlady_refusing_to_return_deposit_illegally\/","id":"2et11r","body":"Hi all, so here's the story;\n\nLived in a property for 13 months, moved in with two friends who left around 6 months ago within two weeks of eachother and both had trouble getting their deposits back.\n\nMy first friend had trouble getting his deposit as we rent a room each but our Landlady was complaining the shower wasn't working (Her fault we had told her countless times it was broken, refused to take a look) ended up being her issue and a plumbing one, the upstairs light was broken (It had been on from Halloween 2013 - March 2014 the switch was broken and would not turn off we had called and text her so many times to fix and she would not come round) and an electricity bill (All bills were included, it was my housemate leaving the heat on in the house and the light upstairs being on for about 7 months contributed).\n\nSame applied for my other housemate, now what he did was look up deposit schemes etc. and was aware she didn't have any of our deposits in any sort of scheme, he threatened to talk to the relevant authorities in regards to the deposits and she sent it back straight away and swore at him.\n\nAlmost 7 months later here I am. Her partner came round to see the house and see if there were any damages. There were boot smudges on the bottom of a wall from where I sit at my PC, upstairs bathroom (Not my room) wasn't cleaned and the floor was ready to be hoovered.\n\nSo we adressed what needed to be done and by the next morning i'd cleaned everything out and sorted it all, their hoover wasn't working it was an old one they'd left there and I was due to clean upstairs anyway which I knew was only fair so I sent a text asking to borrow their hoover and i'd meet them back that night... now here's where it gets bad.\n\nNo text back, text again a few hours later no text. The next two days carried on like this, there was a guy supposed to be moving in the weekend i'd cleared out, didn't show and I got a snotty text back saying I must have broken the hoover and would need to buy a new one they would NOT provide me with a hoover and they'd come when THEY were free not me.\n\nThere was a broken picture (Cheap tat that had a picture bigger than the frame causing it to start pulling apart at the corners. I text her soon as that started and took it down after an ex-housemate had a party another picture had fallen which i'd mentioned as well and had put them in a safe place, advised her partner of what had happened and that was fine but then I received a text saying they believed it was me and would charge me again not true.\n\nNow the main problem here was I was between jobs for 5 months and paid less rent all the while my landlady being very understanding and as soon as I came into my new job I paid double rent the next 6 months to sort her out and all was good.\n\nReceived a text this morning;\n\nYou aren't entitled to your deposit as you broke our agreement over rent that was in the contract (Wasn't in the contract wasn't provided a copy after signing). \n\nThere are other factors i'll mention below but where do I go from here?\n\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nDidn't pay rent for 5 months, then paid double rent for the next 5 no problem.\nHouse is let on a \"Per-room\" basis but am being charged for breakages to a downstairs picture that was reported instantly, is broken by poor-design and wasn't me.\nLandlady doesn't have my deposit in a scheme (Illegal?), fire doors or fire equipment per room as a \"Per-room\" renting agreement, would not fix boiler, shower or respond to texts. Has refused to pay every single deposit here for this reason or another none of them warrented and believes she is fully in the right. Is not an agency as a registered landlady just rents houses out.\n\nWhere do I stand?","title":"[UK] Landlady refusing to return deposit \"illegally\" where do I stand?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540144005,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q5i54\/do_i_have_to_legally_give_an_eviction_notice_to\/","id":"9q5i54","body":"Florida\n\nIm technically the homeowner, my name is in everything. The house, the insurance, everything. Shes not doing anything illegal or anything. Her dog keeps fucking up my backyard. I plan on renting it out next year and there are a lot of holes in my backyard.\n\nI thought itd be awesome to help relieve some bills so shes my roomate. There is no official contract or lease agreement.\n\nI have a puppy that digs too but they never dig under my supervision. Ive told my roomate to ALWAYS observe them when they are outside or they will dig. Im no hole-repairperson but holy fuck its already a few hundred dollars.\n\nI plan on giving her an ultimatum that if she doesnt stop letting them dig in the backyard she can either repair the holes or she can find somewhere else to live.\n\nDo I legally have to give her time? If so how much? She has her mail sent here so she has an address change if that helps.","title":"Do I have to legally give an eviction notice to my \"roomate\"? Or can I give her a week then throw her stuff on my curb?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502824188,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6twdxy\/utility_management_and_ownership\/","id":"6twdxy","body":"Hello, this is my first post, so please excuse any rules I may be bypassing. I am a student who is renting a house in the Northern California Area. The house I am renting is shared with six other housemates, myself included.\n\nNow the problem that is occurring is that the internet is cutting in and out, and it is the slowest anyone can get, about 50 mbps, and this is shared among six others who stream, game, and etc.\n\nNow, this comes with cable, and we are paying $100 for it monthly split among us. However, we all do not watch cable and only use internet.\n\nALL of us want to get rid of the cable, lessen our fees, and have faster internet for everyone! We are renting a house, and have all signed a one year lease.\n\nNow the landlord does not want to switch the plans, this is because they are looking for future tenants that might want cable and do not want to switch back and forth. The internet has been cutting on and off and has been affecting everyone's studies. I am asking for clarification on, since we are renting the house and the one using the utilities; shouldn't we be able to choose our plan?\n\nThank you for your time.","title":"Utility Management and Ownership","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541801137,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9voscx\/estoppel_questions_landlord_issues_and_potential\/","id":"9voscx","body":"This is my first time posting, but I felt it was necessary to seek advice on this subreddit regarding our living situation.  We have just been notified that our apartment is in the process of being sold. We have been given an estoppel document  to sign, and to my understanding, this will lead to the completion of the contract between the current landlord and the new owner. \n\n​\n\nTo give some context, my family has leased our apartment for about 30 years. In a month-to-month contract and under rent control, our apartment has been our home for quite awhile. However, with new housing developments in our neighborhood (literally 4 corners of the block and across the street), members of my family and I were definitely aware of the possibility that the property we live on could be sold. Its one thing to be aware, but its another to be prepared. \n\n​\n\nThis process of escrow, estoppel, and plans for relocation is very new to us, but we are trying to learn the best that we can. Although maybe some of the questions might be suited best for a tenant\/landlord specific subreddit, I do believe that better advice could be found here regarding some legal matters. \n\n1) Our landlord has been a bit impatient with us in signing the estoppel. We know that the a tenant estoppel certifies that a lease exists, that rent is paid, and other facts. An issue we have is with the statement: \"**All obligations of Landlord under the Lease have been fully performed and Landlord is not in default under any terms of the lease.\"** To put it bluntly, our landlord has neglected our building in multiple well documented areas. I'm talking about structural cracks in multiple walls and parts of the ceilings, door frames warped by flooding issues, and various areas much needed for renovation. \n\n\\- We understand that there is a serious case against the landlord if these issues directly impact habitability. However, we have been living with some of these problems for a number of years. We had some legal consolation (despite being very brief) that have advised signing the estoppel with the consideration of crossing out the statement with an asterisk, highlighting the failure to attend structural damage and the deferment of needed maintenance. \n\n* What are the potential pitfalls with signing the estoppel with this remark?\n* Is there any case for us to sue? \n   * We understand that a route would've been to notify the landlord of the issue, and state that we would fix it, and deduct the amount from the rent. My family is low income. In some cases, how can families expect to pay for repairs that exceed their budget? Furthermore, we have documented all of our efforts in communicating our concerns to the landlord for years while we have seen other units renovated, whether it'd be small or large renovations. \n\n2) We have not been able to identify the buyers of the new property. We were informed that representatives would come and inspect the property. However, these individuals came without properly introducing themselves by name. Furthermore, they entered our home taking pictures of everything. With no particular inspection of the structure, and indiscriminately photographing our home. In what we thought was a building inspection actually felt like an invasion of privacy and a possible tenant\/character \"profile.\"  \n\n* Basically, what can we do about this situation, if anything? \n* We are 90% sure that the new owners will demolish the apartment and build a complex for multiple single family homes. \n\nFor closing, I would greatly appreciate any advice or pointers concerning on what we should do immediately and the very near future. I understand the situation could and most certainly will change once the new owners start communicating with us. In essence, how could we be best prepared moving forward? We have issued our concerns and questions to our current landlord, such as: Who is buying the property? How will the current apartment problems be fixed in the near future? Will the property be torn down? \n\nAll of which have been bluntly averted by the landlord's request to have us sign the estoppel.\n\n​\n\nWe appreciate any and all comments and advice to come our way. I'll carefully read responses and answer the best that I can. ","title":"Estoppel questions, landlord issues, and potential relocation (USA, California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569096217,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7fhbc\/what_can_i_do_about_an_illegal_contract\/","id":"d7fhbc","body":"I'm not a lawyer (though I am considering law school) so my interpretation of this could be completely wrong. This is why I'm making my first post. Also I'm walking a fine line between too vague and too much revealing information, so here goes:\n\nA taxpayer-funded committee (which I'll call \"the Board\") functions similarly to a board of directors for an entity that provides services for citizens in the Board's constituency. Per state law, they shall hire an individual (the \"CEO-esque person\") for a three-year term. The document that governs the Board says that they do not have any powers that conflict with the state's laws; I interpret this as meaning that the state's laws will supersede this document in all cases.\n\nThe most recent individual to hold the title of CEO-esque person was first hired in 2017 for a term that ends in 2020. The majority of members of the Board, in order to offer this person more incentive to stay, offered the individual a 6-year contract (which would be appended to the current one, and thus end in 2026). Around two and a half weeks ago, the Board voted 7-2 to ratify said contract after rejecting (2-7, same split) a motion to postpone the vote by a month. I just learned of the discrepancy between the contract and the state law earlier today and completely by accident.\n\nIf my understanding is correct, the contract is thus illegal since the Board doesn't have the authority to approve it. What I'm unsure about is whether it's void automatically or if it needs to be challenged in court (whether by the Board, a subset of its members, or by the state). I imagine a Board member could argue that having a CEO-esque person with an illegal contract being in that role could hinder their \\[the member's\\] ability to execute their responsibilities, but I have no idea how this will play out. Also I have no idea whether or not standing can be established until the date in 2020 when the earlier contract ends.\n\nI have my qualms about the contract, besides the 6-year issue - notably that there's no definition for what definitely is \"good cause\" to terminate the CEO-esque person's employment, allowing them to argue against everything that no good cause exists, likely with taxpayer funds. It is thus in my interest that the contract be renegotiated, but I am resigned to the fact that I won't be able to demonstrate standing of my own, so I am seeking this alternative method to get them to renegotiate.\n\nAlso I plan to inform the Board's chair and the chair of the subcommittee on Finance and Operations (both of whom voted with the majority) about the question of legality, but I have no idea how to word my concerns to them. (The latter I'm separately concerned with, since he falsely claimed in public hearing and on social media afterwards that there's a group whose mission is to discredit\/hinder the CEO-esque person, though during that hearing there were 0 points made against the individual but rather against the contract itself; but that is a different issue.)","title":"What can I do about an illegal contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1446574934,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rdtj0\/how_does_the_statute_of_limitations_work\/","id":"3rdtj0","body":"My wife was molested as a child by a family member, who moved out of the country after it happened. She said that it was reported after the molester left the country. This all happened about 20-21 years ago. Her question is, if that person ever came back to the country, could she still be charged?","title":"How does the statute of limitations work regarding child molestation in PA?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569266003,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8bbcu\/need_help_dissolving_an_s_corp\/","id":"d8bbcu","body":"My ex gf started an S corp for me for a business that we never ended up doing anything with. Since then we have broken up and are not on good terms. I was wondering how to go about dissolving the corporation as I no longer plan on pursuing the business","title":"Need help dissolving an S corp","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555280354,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd8etx\/landlord_attempting_to_collect_money_we_do_not_owe\/","id":"bd8etx","body":"I would appreciate any help! My fiance and I signed a lease renewal for July 2018-July 2019 which contained all of the same terms as our first lease except the renewal additionally contained a provision for the payment of prorated lease in the amount of $800 for about a week of specific dates. The issue is that we simply do not owe any prorated rent. This is the second year we have rented this apartment, so it is not as though we moved in part way through the month. We are simply continuing our rent (We paid prorated rent at the very beginning of our first lease with this apartment so our \"extra time\" in the apartment was already covered and since then, all of our rent has been paid out for the full month.) Neither my fiance nor I realized this provision was in the second lease and so we signed it (we know, we should have paid more attention, and we did reading through the first lease but we \\[wrongly\\] assumed this would be fundamentally the same and were not in a place to apartment shop again in NY). Fast forward 9 months later and our landlord has contacted us to collect this prorated lease amount. All in all, $800 wouldn't be a complete killer but It might as well be if it is $800 that I am not actually obligated to pay. Do I have to pay this amount even though it is clear that I do not owe it and it is in the signed contract due to a mutual mistake? (If it helps, the lease makes it clear that this $800 is for prorated rent - so if I don't actually owe prorated rent, would this void the specific provision?) thanks!","title":"Landlord attempting to collect money we do not owe","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540679339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rycr1\/pa_traffic_accident_question_is_an_attorney\/","id":"9rycr1","body":"Question above, I was involved in a fender bender in the state of Pennsylvania, which is a no-fault state. Both parties, (myself and the other driver) appeared fine, and as far as I know we were both permitted to leave after the police\/EMS checked them. For some reason I wasn't checked for anything, but I'm fairly certain I'm fine, different issue for a different post.\n\n​\n\nMy main question is the other driver seemed somewhat, odd? I'm not sure if they're going to try and sue or if the insurance companies will take that over \/ disbar that. It's the first major accident I've ever been in, and I've been driving for almost 15 to 20 years now. Should I contact an attorney now and try to get them on retainer status before anything even crops up, or should I be fine to contact one if I get a notice. Given lawyers are pretty expensive I didn't want to put one on retainer just for them to not be used.\n\n​\n\nNot looking for defense portion, just is this a good idea or no? Will my insurance cover the cost of one possibly or help me out or is that non usual?\n\n​\n\nThrowaway for typical reasons.","title":"[PA] Traffic Accident Question; Is an attorney immediately required?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568694299,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5bybq\/using_moms_handgun\/","id":"d5bybq","body":"This is serious, I would like serious answers \nWhat would happen to my mom if I were to use her gun to kill myself?\n\nWould she face jail time, also, what other consequences (legally speaking)","title":"Using Mom\u2019s Handgun","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569594844,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da1a3v\/wrongful_demotion_pay_reduction_and_hours_reduced\/","id":"da1a3v","body":"My friend was demoted yesterday from line cook (possibly short order cook?)  to front of the house staff. He was originally given the position after working front of the house and the dish pit because the other guy quit. He\u2019s been working there for 7 months with good reviews from the owner and the head chef. He also got a pay raise and benefits in this time because he was working full time.\n\nThey\u2019ve been short a person in the kitchen for months, because someone left and they never rehired. Finally, last week, they hire a new person, supposedly for prep. He\u2019s been in the restaurant business for 18 years. Or so he says. And most of that wasn\u2019t in the kitchen, he was a server. \n\nAll the sudden yesterday my friend gets told by the owner that he\u2019s not working quickly or efficiently enough. The new guy is going to take his job, and my friend is going back to front of the house work with a 2 dollar pay reduction and only two guaranteed days of working. \n\nI feel that this was wrongfully done. He was never told before this that he wasn\u2019t fast or efficient enough. In fact, he passed the probation period for the position and got multiple raises. \n\nSo reddit, what can be done?\n\n**this is in california**\n\nAnd throwaway for reasons.","title":"Wrongful demotion, pay reduction and hours reduced from full time to part time. What are the options?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541520077,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9upjjh\/can_my_landlordras_enter_my_dorm_without_my\/","id":"9upjjh","body":"I\u2019ve been debating posting this for a little while, because really nothing malicious happened, but it made me feel really strange. I\u2019m not looking to take any legal route really, I just want to know if what happened is allowed.\n \nSo I live in a \u201cdorm\u201d while I am at college, but it isn\u2019t really a dorm. It uses my college\u2019s name and apparently only rents to college students (but not just my school), but it is owned by an independent company. The company also employs \u201cRAs\u201d, but they don\u2019t all go to my college, either.\n \nLast week, we had a \u201cresident appreciation week\u201d. For one of the days, the description was \u201cHalloween is coming early! Office staff will deliver goodie bags to you!\u201d (this is word for word from the email). All well and good. On this particular day, I had school, like I do most days. I cane back from school and didn\u2019t notice anything out of the ordinary at first, but then I noticed a small bag of candy ON MY BED. As in, instead of taping the bag to my door or putting it under the door or something, they decided to unlock my door and go inside to put the bag onto my bed.\n \nI understand that there were not any bad intentions here, but I feel very creeped out by this. They gave me no notice that they would be entering my room. My wallet was on my table, someone could have taken it. All of my possessions are in that room.\n \nI reread my lease, and there is no mention of when and how the office staff can enter my room. Keep in mind that this isn\u2019t a dorm, but an apartment building that only rents to students.\n \nIs this allowed? What do I do if this happens again?","title":"Can my landlord\/RAs enter my \u201cdorm\u201d without my permission and without informing me? [NYC]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554576309,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba7j1a\/ok_exemployer_defaming_me\/","id":"ba7j1a","body":"Hi - I was fired over a paperwork issue at work - my letter stated I was terminated over \"gross negligence.\"\n\nI am currently fighting that via government sources, but I have this odd feeling my boss is telling people I was fired for things that were not on the termination letter.  \n\n1.Old boss had my assistant block me from our public facebook page - cutting me off from all our event pictures (which was my resume basically) - I made a new account and started retrieving them - but it hurts.\n\n2.None of my former staff is speaking to me or inquired on my welfare.  I received no sympathy though we had great relationships.\n\nI think they are telling people at my work things that are not true about me.  I know when I lived in Cali you were legally not allowed to share anything with people calling to confirm work states - just the dates they had been employed.  \n\nThe tablet they compensated had some bookmarks from my home computer that had like two gaming erotica links on it  - no kids - no anything illegal - I thought I had removed them, but it turned out I saved them into my shopping folder.  I am really really worried they are using this to make up stories about me and gossip.  It is causing me extreme anxiety as I am a certified teacher by trade and I live by the certification.  \n\nOfficially I was fired for paperwork.  Legally I have never been charged or approached by the police or OSBI or whatever or told I was being investigated.  I've had three full FBI background checks in my life and I am cleared to work as a teacher on military bases.  I can't afford my career destroyed because someone is a prude when there is no legal suit or accusations against me or even proof of their opinion!\n\nWhat do I do? Is there someone I could file with state wise?  \n\nI can't find a lawyer who wants to go against my big employer of 50,000 in the state.","title":"[OK] Ex-Employer Defaming Me","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571782106,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlpe2x\/neighbor_is_using_two_handicap_spots_as_his\/","id":"dlpe2x","body":"I have a neighbor who is using two handicap parking spots for his own personal parking spot.\n\nMy apartments are low income and have a two car garage. The handicap parking is nowhere close to his apt number.\n\nHe\u2019s been having his red sport car sitting in it for the past two weeks wiping it clean to avoid suspicion. He use to let the parking next to it be free but has been putting another car of his there. We know these cars are he\u2019s as he has driven them or moved them. \n\nOur lease doesn\u2019t list any handicap rules besides it having appropriate handicap plate or card.\n\n\nI live in California. \nIs this legal?","title":"Neighbor is using two handicap spots as his personal parking spot.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540066604,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pxe7h\/patient_confidentiality_question\/","id":"9pxe7h","body":"My current stat is Kentucky I am moving to Ohio though.\n\nI want to get help for some personal issues I have and I want to make an honest fresh start and I'd like to discuss some things that have happened to me with a professional but I'm worried that some crimes I admit to might end up reported to the police.","title":"Patient Confidentiality Question","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542231801,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x4i8k\/father_of_child_is_threatening_to_commit_suicide\/","id":"9x4i8k","body":"Posting this for a family member. WA State  The father has 50-50 custody agreement with my family member. Today, the father (in-text) said he was going to kill himself, that today would be his last day. This week he has custody of the child. The police where called, but she was told that suicide isn't a crime. The father always carries his gun, she called him several times until he answered, he said he was fine. She does not want her child around a suicidal person who is always carrying a gun, or to have her daughter see her dad commit suicide or worse. What can she do?","title":"Father of child is threatening to commit Suicide","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1568445245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4210f\/can_a_parody_name_be_trademarked\/","id":"d4210f","body":"Hi - quick question:\n\n\n\nCan a parody of a trademarked name be trademarked?\n\n\nFor example: Coachella Fest is a music and arts festival that takes place in the Coachella Valley. Can one trademark the name, for example \u201cBooChella\u201d (a Halloween festival that takes place in the Coachella Valley). \n\nThank you in advance","title":"Can a parody name be trademarked?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1445350644,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pht6y\/landlord_is_attempting_to_force_me_to_pay_a_water\/","id":"3pht6y","body":"The house I am living in is student housing, and there are currently seven people living here--the landlord, her husband, myself, and my four roommates (also students). In our lease, it is explicitly stated that all utilities are included. Specifically, it says the following:\n\n\"Tenant's rent should cover all utilities including gas, water, electric, recycling, sewage, as long as tenants are conservative and non-abusive or neglectful.\"\n\nThis morning, I noticed that the water kept running in my toilet after it was flushed. I lifted the top, and noticed that there was a string tied around one of the parts and tucked in between them. I pulled it out, assuming that someone had put it there (probably the student who lived in the room before me). I did not have time to find my landlord and inform her of the problem right then, but I did send her a text and explain what was going on.\n\nLater, she responded not to my text but in the group message including all of my roommates, saying that their water bill for the month is $100 higher than it usually is during the summer (which makes sense to me, since there are now five extra people living here). She said that if no one else is having issues, and if the meter is working properly, I will be expected to pay the difference.\n\nThis is not outlined anywhere in our lease. I pointed this out to her, and she said that the lease says we are not to be excessive. My problem, though, is that \"excessive\" is extremely subjective, and seems like a way to take advantage of us.\n\nI looked at the lease again, and this is not even in there. The only other somewhat relevant line I could find was this one:\n\n\"Tenants are responsible for any repairs necessary to the plumbing, range, heating apparatuses, and electric and gas fixtures whenever damage thereto shall have resulted from tenants misuse.\"\n\nI don't think this really applies to the situation. The only \"misuse\" that occurred was flushing the toilet.\n\nAm I correct in saying that she cannot force me to pay anything if it is not specifically required in my lease? If so, how do I go about ensuring that she won't attempt to compel me\/take it out of my security deposit (which was $500)? Is there anything negative she can do to me if I refuse to pay it?\n\nAgain, there is no concrete \"difference\" that would need to be paid. It is just my landlord saying that the bill is a certain amount higher than normal, and expecting me to take her at her word.\n\nAny help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advance.","title":"Landlord is attempting to force me to pay a water bill I am not responsible for (Indiana, PA)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442771969,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3lp6ss\/usa_what_are_the_legal_rightsstatus_of_a_teen\/","id":"3lp6ss","body":"This is something I've been wondering about for a while... Say a teenager, a minor still under the care of her parents, gets pregnant and she wants to keep the baby, but her parents don't want her to and they don't plan on helping her take care of it. Would the parents still be legally responsible to take care of her as well as the new child? Or, say the parents do agree to help her take care of the kid. Assuming the parents don't sign as legal guardians, what happens if they have a dispute with teen mom over parenting decisions? (like, say, vaccines) Who would the court side with? Does the law differ if the teenager is 14 vs. 17?\n\nI dunno if the laws vary by state, but if they do, assume it's Texas.","title":"[USA] What are the legal rights\/status of a teen parent?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571269146,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dixwqd\/hit_and_run_mn\/","id":"dixwqd","body":"Two and a half weeks ago i was the victim of a hit and run in Minneapolis on the border of the University of Minnesota and City of Minneapolis so both campus police and city police are involved. The series of events is a man stole someone\u2019s headphones on campus and ran to a car off campus. I was turning on my bicycle to go to an early dinner, I think it should be mentioned that I was going the wrong way down a one way street. The man who stole the the person\u2019s headphones got in a car and on his way out hit me on my bicycle and kept going. I didn\u2019t take an ambulance but later that night went to the ER to ensure I didn\u2019t have a concussion or anything. I had some deep bruising on my legs but nothing serious that was diagnosable at the time, but sometimes things pop up much later from accidents.\n\nThe police found the owner of the care and emailed me that the owner \u201cwanted to pass on that the vehicle was used without her permission.\u201d They also gave me her insurance information and phone number and told me she does not want to get insurance involved. My bike repairs came out to just under $90 and I bought an upgraded helmet for just under $60 because I\u2019m scared I will get hit again, which I know sounds unreasonable. \n\nThe person who got their headphones stolen said she could facially recognize the perpetrator who stole from her and hit me with their car (I know facial recognition isn\u2019t super reliable but I didn\u2019t see his face at all). \n\nI want to be reimbursed but she didn\u2019t do anything to me. Is she the right party to pay me back? It kind of feels like they are trying to cover up for the perpetrator. I have had some anxiety since and have been thinking that it really could have been much worse and I could have still been in the hospital. I\u2019ve been paranoid crossing streets.I want the person to hit me to face at least a single consequence for their multiple crimes. \n\nI think I am going to take the payment but I will not sign anything stating I won\u2019t do anything in the future. What should I theoretically expect if I end up getting called into court over this? How much will me turning into a one way on my bike limit my chances at making the perpetrator have consequences for his actions?\n\nHaving the person whose car was used without their permission take the fall for the crimes of a different person doesn\u2019t sit right with me. What, if anything, can I do?","title":"Hit and Run [MN]","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445323674,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pgmco\/boston_ma_we_have_mice_and_the_management_wont\/","id":"3pgmco","body":"We moved in Sept 1 and there war boxes of mouse poison in each room of our three bedroom rental. We found some mouse poop under the stove, kitchen sink, and dishwasher; in the past month we have found new nesting materials under the oven and behind the dishwasher. \n\nThe first time we called management, the exterminators left some \"humane\" mouse traps; our maintenance guy came and filled every crack, crevice, and hole in the unit with pest resistant foam. We have a sonic pest thingy and were told by management that we had to get a cat to solve the issue. \n\nWe have had our cat three weeks and the mouse problem has not let up; the mice are just as bold, crawling around the kitchen during the day while we are in there. The cat has killed three mice in the last week and we have killed another two. Our neighbors in the unit below us are experiencing the same problem and have killed no less than 8 mice in the last two weeks (with the aid of their cat as well; between the two units there have been ~5 baby mice, indicating a nest(s)). \n\nWe have been calling management daily for almost three weeks now and they have not sent exterminators again and are not returning any of our calls. We were not notified of any rodent problem when we toured the apartment, when we signed the lease, or when we moved in.\n\nIs there any legal action we can take? We'd like a reduction in rent, return of our deposit, reimbursement for the cost of the cat (and laundering of my sheets\u2026), or for them to return rent and our deposit and pay for all moving costs to a safe and pest-free apartment? Can we get in trouble for withholding rent until the problem is finally and fully taken care of?\n\nIt's an unsafe and unsanitary environment to be living in (I have been sick since we moved in and am planning to get a blood test to see if it's something transmitted by rodents).\n\nI appreciate any and all advice in dealing with this situation! Any recommendations for Boston real estate lawyers would be helpful as well. ","title":"[Boston, MA] We have mice and the management won't take care of it.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1503782956,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w88u7\/hit_run\/","id":"6w88u7","body":"Hello all, quick question. I recently saw a person hit a parked car and leave the scene. The damages to the parked car looked pretty bad so I checked out the license plate of the other car. I called the police after it happened and told them the license plate I remembered. The guy got a lawyer and I'm now being called as a witness. \n\nMy question - would the police have done any investigating? Like would they have gone to the guy's house and looked at his car to make sure it was the right one? I'm pretty sure I had the plate right, but he has four charges on him and I wouldn't want to get an innocent guy in trouble on the off chance I did get it wrong. As you can tell, I don't really know how all of this works, ha. \n\nThanks. \n\nI'm in New Jersey by the way!","title":"Hit & run","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568404528,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3unhd\/apartment_manager_had_my_car_towed_after_giving\/","id":"d3unhd","body":"I renewed my lease in a student apartment near my university (12 months, September to August) this summer and assumed that renewing my lease meant I still wanted parking in my garage. Apparently that was incorrect, and all of the spots had already been claimed by the time I got around to asking for one (they're $100 a month).\n\nOver email, my apartment manager told me that there were \\~40 \"claimed\" spots in the garage that nobody had come to pick up a sticker for, and that she would allow me to park in the garage until we knew for certain whether or not I would be able to buy one of those extra spots. I have it in writing that my car would not be towed until the situation had been resolved, one way or another. I emailed her asking for an update on September 4th but never received a reply.\n\nOn September 11th, my car was towed. I realized it was gone on September 12th and then had to pay $286.60 USD to get it out of the impound lot to avoid the extra $20 that gets stacked on each night. I provided the towing receipt along with copies of each email that gave me permission to park to the apartment manager, who is now refusing to take responsibility for the permission given and says he will not be reimbursing me for my troubles. \n\nI know it's not a ton of money to some people, but that's a month's groceries to me and a huge deal, especially considering I only parked in the garage because I was told I was allowed to. I've asked my school's legal services for a meeting to talk about this, but want to know what else I should do\/make sure I have in order to get my money back. Any advice would be appreciated. Is this bound for small claims?","title":"Apartment manager had my car towed after giving me written permission to park in my spot, now refuses to reimburse towing fee. What should I do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541369372,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u7npv\/grandparents_passed_and_didnt_update_their_will\/","id":"9u7npv","body":"I honestly have no clue what I'm doing in this situation and have no clue where to start. My grandparents passed away within months of each other late last year and early this year. My aunt called me and mentioned to me since they had the house in their will going to her and my dad and since my dad is deceased, I'm next in line. She asked me if I want to keep my name on the deed or give her full ownership and to discuss it with my husband on what we should do. My husband says to keep my name on the deed in case she wants to sell the house and we can get some money from it and pay down our debts. I talked to my mom and she says to just take my name off and have nothing to do with the house. \n\n​\n\nThe house itself is not in the best of shape and also isn't in the best of areas. My mom (and other family members) have mentioned that if anything happens to the house, I will be on the hook for any repairs. I'm not sure I'm ready to take on something like that. I also have a house of my own in another state. I'm not sure what my aunts intentions are with the house, but it seems that she wants to get rid of it and move somewhere else. \n\n​\n\nI guess what I am asking for is any advice on what I should do in the situation; should I keep my name on it or take it off? What are the pros and cons of each? What are my options in this situation?","title":"Grandparents passed and didn't update their will. Their house was to go to my dad and his sister but my dad passed away long ago so the deed now has my name on it.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555655987,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bew3b2\/my_mother_is_still_getting_paid_child_support\/","id":"bew3b2","body":"This is my first time posting here, so I'm not entirely sure where I should begin. I guess I will start out with some basic info? I am currently living in Texas with a roommate, and will soon be living by myself. My mom and my bio-dad split up when I was really young, and at the time they lived in New York which is where they filled the custody agreement.\n\nEven though I am 21, and not is school, my dad is still paying child support. That money is still going to my mother, even though I haven't lived with her for the past 3.5 years. I have tried asking my mother for the money before because I was in a tight spot at the time, and she refused.\n\nI am considering suing my mother for the child support she has been collecting since I turned 18, and moved out of her house l, as well as making sure that the child support comes to me instead of my mother. My only issue is that the court case was originally filed in New York, and I don't know how to get ahead of the custody paperwork to see how it's phrased. I have tried getting this information from my dad, and he is no help, and for obvious reasons I can't ask my mom. \"Hey mom? I plan on suing you for child support, can you give the the case information from you and dad fought for custody? K thx bye...\" Something tells me that won't work very well.\n\nMy question is first, if I were to sue my mother what kind of lawyer would I need? \n\nMy next question is do I need to have the custody agreement and such before seeking a lawyer, or is it possible for them to help me get it?\n\nOver all, I'm not even sure how to start the legal process that is going after my mother for possible fraud, but I figured that talking to a lawyer is a decent place to start. Maybe.\n\nJust to restate the important bits:\nI am 21, I live in Texas, and I am not currently in school.\nThe court case was done in New York.\nI haven't lived with my mother for the past 3.5 years. \n\nPlease let me know if I need to prove anymore info.","title":"My mother is still getting paid child support even though I am 21, and haven't lived with her for 3.5 years. What information do I need to have before seeking out a lawyer?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503841571,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6wc8lf\/sideswipe_saturdays\/","id":"6wc8lf","body":"Last night my roommate attended a wedding and was driving home when it happened. He struck a black suv parked (legally) on the side of the road and totaled his car. \n\nWhen police arrived they obviously preformed a sobriety test which he passed. But we were just wondering what's worst case scenario here? Who is to blame and will he be paying for damages to the SUV? \n\nEdit: forgot to put location, this happened in Redding Pennsylvania, though we live in West Chester PA","title":"Sideswipe Saturdays","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541186644,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tn7lh\/noncustodial_parent_child_support_payments\/","id":"9tn7lh","body":"Quik break down , I'm a non custodial father of 2 boys. 1 is 8 the other 16. My 16 year old lives with me and my 8 year old with his mom. It's only a matter of time before my 8 year old decides to move in with me. \n\nI recently appeared in child support court for a review . I told the judge that my 16 year old lives with me but not my 8 year old. The judge said im still required to pay child support for both of my children.  I asked the state how exactly does this benefit my 16 year old son and me? Of course no legitimate answer. I then told the state I do not wish to participate in a contract that causes financial harm to me and my son. I also told him that the threat of jail for not paying is forcing me to agree under duress. \n\nState Texas. \n\nWhat can I do?","title":"Non-Custodial parent child support payments.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554876277,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbikqb\/tx_entitys_right_to_conduct_business\/","id":"bbikqb","body":"I hired a lawyer 12\/19\/18; that is date fee agreement was signed. He withdrew from my case 3\/1\/19; that is date court document is signed. \n(I paid a significant amount of month to him in 2 months and he withdrew because I would not give him more. Officially, however, the withdraw paperwork states, \u201ccouldn\u2019t agree on a course of action for case\u201d. ) \n\nUnrelated to his withdraw, I found out by researching his firm with the Secretary of State and Comptroller that his firm\/business lost its \u201cright to transact business\u201d on 8\/3\/18 because he didn\u2019t pay his taxes for 2016 or 2017. I reported him, the State contacted him again to notify him of his delinquent payments, and he paid for (at least) 2016. This allowed his business entity to be back in \u201cgood standing\u201d as of late March 2019. \n(Interestingly enough he hardly pays his taxes and he just changes his business entity\u2019s name every few years once he gets a lien. This is why his home, which is worth about $450k, has a mortgage on it for $22 million..... \n\n(Yay for Google and for me for knowing how to research. I may not be a lawyer, but I am not able to sit by and allow injustice.)\n\nMy Question:  What are my options to recoup my money since he wasn\u2019t allowed to conduct business during the time he represented me\/the time my\nFee agreement was valid?\n\n(I am purposefully leaving out all the malpractice issues on my case, which were the reasons for my agreement to his withdraw. I am just interested in how to deal with the fact the State of Texas said he could not conduct business from 8\/2018 to 3\/2019 and yet he continued to do so under his business name, and not under a different business name or under a different lawyer, which Texas law allows for.)\n\nI also know that his professional license is separate from the business aspect.","title":"[TX] Entity\u2019s Right to Conduct Business \u201cinvoluntarily forfeited\u201d by state, but still charging clients","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1553588541,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5n3x9\/can_a_college_give_me_a_free_class\/","id":"b5n3x9","body":"During my orientation advising I was told that i didn't have to take Bio 110 because I had passed a CLEP exam. After my first semester (fall 18) i got advised for spring 19 and was told the CLEP was for non-STEM majors only (I'm going for nursing, which is STEM). I am now a Biology behind in my scheduling due to the college's faulty advising. I was told to take my Bio as a summer class. The nursing schedule is very strict. TOPS is currently paying for my tuition. The summer class would cost me about $1,500 out of pocket, and i don't have that kinda money. Would I be able to get the college to let me take the summer class for free? (College is University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the summer class is 4 hours)","title":"Can a college give me a free class?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1552085310,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aywh2e\/what_time_does_visitation_for_a_holiday_actually\/","id":"aywh2e","body":"Georgia, USA. \n(Wife\u2019s account)\nI want to see my daughter the weekend of Mother\u2019s Day. My ex gets her every Mother\u2019s Day, which is a Sunday. So I would have my kid Friday and Saturday. \n\nBut there\u2019s nothing in the order that states WHEN that holiday begins. So would I have to drop our child off to her at midnight the night before Mother\u2019s Day (Saturday night)? Because technically that would be the start of the day, but that doesn\u2019t seem feasible to me at all, and isn\u2019t in the best interest of my daughter, who is four. There is nothing in our order that specifies what time the holiday begins. \n\nThanks for the help! Can\u2019t find anything online ","title":"What time does visitation for a holiday actually begin?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540004871,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pqo2n\/minimum_salary_for_an_exempt_employee_in\/","id":"9pqo2n","body":"I\u2019m assuming this would be the right subreddit for that question, if not I apologize. \n\nWhat is the minimum salary an employer can offer for a salaried employee and what is it based on? \n\n","title":"Minimum Salary for an Exempt Employee in California","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554426746,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9kyy6\/my_mother_died_without_a_will_and_only_gave_me\/","id":"b9kyy6","body":"My mother has been murdered yesterday. I don't want to get into detail I've been crying a lot. I'm handling the burial and funeral final expenses. She signed everything over to me I just did not change the deeds or interests before she passed away. What do I do for here? I love my little mama. I miss her so much :'(","title":"My mother died without a Will and only gave me POA and an Assignment of Interests and deeds","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1410359029,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2g09s3\/noncompete_in_alabama\/","id":"2g09s3","body":"I currently work in the cell phone industry in Alabama.  I have though about pursuing work with a rival company.  I signed a non-compete agreement preventing me from doing so for 1 year after I end employment with my current company.  I was doing some research into non-compete agreements and came across the case of Dawson v. Ameritox LTD.\n\nAs far as I can understand legal speak, as long as my non-compete was signed before my actual date of hire then it is not valid because one such document must be signed by an employee.\n\nI signed my NCA before my actual hire date.  Do I have any legal ground to stand on?\\\n\nI don't have the exact wording in front of me but the gist of my NCA states that I cannot perform the same type of services that I do now (sales and so forth) within a 75 mile range of the store that I was stationed at.\n\nSources of where I found my information:\n\nhttp:\/\/www.al.com\/business\/index.ssf\/2014\/07\/in_alabama_non-compete_agreeme.html\n\nhttp:\/\/www.noncompetereport.com\/files\/2014\/01\/AMERITOX-Dawson-Order.pdf\n\n\nEdit: photo of NCA i.imgur.com\/p2H8a22.jpg?1","title":"Non-compete in Alabama","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1555336638,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdg9ve\/question_about_tax_evasion_in_the_united_states\/","id":"bdg9ve","body":"(keeping this theoretical bc u know) \n\nso if a 16 year old works for a small business but doesnt file a W2 and gets payed under the table at a 1:1 ratio without any taxes, is the business owner the only one at risk or could he call his employees private contracters to avoid any trouble for himself?\n\nfrom what i can tell so far this doesnt seem to be a big problem and is a common thing all over the country with small businesses, just wanted a second opinion","title":"question about tax evasion in the united states","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540156367,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9q78a7\/cni_missouri\/","id":"9q78a7","body":"My girlfriend was driving on a county road in Missouri and was in an accident. She was with 2 friends and driving the speed limit on a gravel road. One of the friends told the police she was going 90mph. It was a 2010 chevy malibu, so luckily it had a chip in it to verify if she was speeding or not. The other friend argued that she was not speeding and the curve came out of nowhere, \"One minute the road was there and the next, it was gone\". Unfortunately, the police took the friend's word and started yelling at my girlfriend, calling her irresponsible, accusing her of being drunk or on drugs. They all had injuries from the wreck, considering they went off an embankment into some trees. After voluntarily blowing 0 on a breathalyzer, the police patiently waited for a drug test to come back negative. The police would not have known if she had not admitted she was not wearing a seatbelt. I personally drove that road a week after. There are no signs indicating a sharp turn. Some trees in said location had already been cleared before the accident because multiple people have wrecked at that very turn. It is a state ticket, one she cannot afford. She is a CNA working at a nursing home. She lost her vehicle and I have had to drive her around since the accident. Her friends did not suffer the type of injuries she had, since they were both wearing their seatbelts. The crash report may state different, but the one who lied had a bruised rib and the other had a few scrapes and bruises. GF had a grade 5 concussion, bleeding in the brain, 3 herniated discs, and large bruises on her abdomen, leg, and right breast. After the drug test came back negative, the officer who was first on scene apologized for his superior yelling at her and accusing her of things that weren't true, then handed her two citations. One for a seatbelt (which she is pleading guilty for) and the other for CNI (class a misdemeanor). She does not belong in jail. We cannot pay a large fine. She fucked up, she knows she did. We don't have enough money for a lawyer. We will lose our house if she goes to jail because I am disabled. I will likely become homeless and not be able to see her for a long time. She has court tomorrow. I told her to call the prosecuting attorney and talk to him, but she failed to do that, claiming she works too much and doesn't have time. I don't know what to do. Are we going to lose everything? Should she plead guilty or not guilty tomorrow? Should she wait to plead?","title":"CNI Missouri","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571018066,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhjx58\/inheritance_when_father_is_not_on_birth\/","id":"dhjx58","body":"How does inheritance  and estate stuff work for a children of a parent when father isn\u2019t on birth certificate. My dad has only two children but many years ago his name wasn\u2019t put on the birth certificate. He is now unable to have his name added to it and my understanding is that a DNA test is needed to prove to the courts we are his children. Does anybody know if this is the only way or what else could be a possibility. To add he did not have a will.","title":"Inheritance when Father is not on birth certificate","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1442757967,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3locrn\/bought_a_2014_passat_diesel_due_to_good_mpg_and\/","id":"3locrn","body":"Purchased it used with 6k miles (still has factory warranty, not sure if it matters).  VW charges more for the diesel models.  Some VW forums have done the software upgrade on the car and are claiming that the MPG & performance of the car is affected.  I feel like I paid extra for diesel & performance in this car and now it may change.  Do I have any legal recourse? Edit: Florida is where I live.","title":"Bought a 2014 Passat Diesel due to good MPG and performance, now a recall may change that, do I have any legal recourse?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569824725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db7hx3\/underpaid\/","id":"db7hx3","body":"(First of all im not 100% sure if that\u2019s the right tag for me to use, if it\u2019s not, I\u2019m sorry)\n\nI\u2019ve started my first job as a teenager and in my contract it said I was going to be paid \u00a36.15 an hour. That\u2019s all fine and dandy since I don\u2019t have to pay any bills and I don\u2019t have much of a spending habit. But last month I did 32 documented hours, and another hour of overtime. I received my first pay today and when I looked in my bank I only received \u00a341 from them. \n\nIf I\u2019m honest I have no idea what to do, as if I should contact the higher office, or if I should just wait or not do anything at all.","title":"Underpaid","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540957233,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sv9o5\/strangers_at_a_party_destroyed_rented_house\/","id":"9sv9o5","body":"New Jersey. My friends Dad rented a house for us and we all had to get signed notarized letters from our parents saying we would take responsibility for the house. These douches came (I didn\u2019t invite them) and trashed the place. Serious damage. I feel really bad. Really really really bad because he vouched for us and ppl made really stupid decision, but I\u2019m also trying to protect my own ass...\n\nDo I need to lawyer up? My friends dad seems pissed and it seems like we are screwed because of the notarized contract. I feel like he might not do anything because one of my friends called the police on the crazy douches and tons of people received underaged drinking tickets in the process. Doesn\u2019t look great for him.\n\nSeparate question. I see that the statute of limitation on property damage is 6 years and written contracts is 16. Which applies in this situation? He has 16 years to sue for breach of contract?","title":"Strangers at a party destroyed rented house","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551646720,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awyhtp\/gambling_website\/","id":"awyhtp","body":"I am creating a bitcoin gambling website . What do i need to know about regulations . Where to host servers. What to do and what not to do? ","title":"[gambling website ]","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1555289343,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd9wbn\/child_got_a_chest_wall_injury_and_says_its_from\/","id":"bd9wbn","body":"A child recently got a chest wall injury and he says it\u2019s from a classmate since she wasn\u2019t hurt in gym class, how do his parents go around or approaching this issue, he stated that he was being chocked in class, held upside down and videotaped without his permission and his teacher completely neglects him.","title":"Child got a chest wall injury and says it\u2019s from classmate","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1539728137,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ose6y\/my_boyfriends_father_owns_our_house\/","id":"9ose6y","body":"Hi. First time posting so forgive any nuances. I'm not super familiar with this subreddit. My question\/dilemma is a 2 parter.\n\nMy boyfriend's father and grandfather bought the house my boyfriend and I live in. My boyfriend was supposed to be the one to buy it, but he has virtually no credit. It was \"in the family\" so buying it myself was not an option.\n\nMy boyfriend's father is now constantly getting at my boyfriend about things that aren't done at the house. (It was unfinished when purchased and we are working on it, but both also work full time so it's slower than we(and he) would like.)\n\nHe keeps reminding my boyfriend that we are in a \"rent to own situation\" and that he is our landlord. \n\nMy boyfriend's father and grandfather are also his employer. They have a family business together. So my father in law knows what he makes and now exactly what we are spending for utilities, rent, etc.\n\nQuestion 1: is a \"makeshift landlord\" allowed legally to kick people out if they don't clean up as quickly as they'd like? I don't want to end up homeless when this man gets a hair across his ass and decides to do what he pleases.\n\nQuestions 2: (and I'm not sure if this is the correct subreddit for this one) What kind of credit score do you have to have to go to a bank and get a loan for something costing as much as a house?","title":"My boyfriend's father owns our house","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444773494,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3on5cx\/our_low_income_apartment_unit_has_bedbugs_and\/","id":"3on5cx","body":"I'm trying to preemptively avoid having to deal with legal troubles in the future, but I need help as to what I should do about the bedbugs in our apartment.  \n\nWe moved into our King County, Washington apartment complex in April of 2015.  We have not had any insect issues up until under a week ago when the bites started.  Last night, we found a bedbug crawling on the floor by our door, captured it, and took pictures.  There is a half inch gap underneath our door leading to the hallway.  We have not brought any new furniture into the apartment since move in, but people commonly leave old furniture in the hallways, near the trash chute.  Vagrants commonly hang out in the lobbies during all hours of the day.\n\nI looked up the tenants rights for our county, and found this bit of information:\n\nLandlords are obligated under state law to manage infestations in rental units, with an exception: in single family residences and in cases where the infestation is caused by the tenant. Infestations are considered repair issues and tenants should follow the Steps to Request a Repair. If possible, document the infestation with photographs of signs of the infestation.\n\nWith that, I created a simple \"We have an infestation, please exterminate\" using the letter sample the tenants rights site give online.  I brought my live bed bug and two copies of the letter to the office staff today, requested an exterminator, and asked for the office staff at the time to sign a copy of my letter proving that I informed them of the infestation today.\n\n**This is where my problem really starts.**  The office person refused to sign my letter, and requested that I come back to speak with the building manager later tonight (if the building manager does not sign the letter, I will be sending it by certified mail instead).  Then she told me that I might be held responsible for the cost of the exterminator due to signing a \"Bedbug Addendum\" with my lease, and that they had certified  my apartment bedbug free before move in.\n\nI don't feel I can be blamed for the bedbugs, and do not have the money to pay the exterminator if needed, but I also can't stand being bitten at night.  Are there any rights that I have if they refuse to pay for the extermination, or did I sign them all away with the bedbug addendum?","title":"Our low income apartment unit has bedbugs, and management might hold me responsible.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569170044,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7su6j\/broken_fridge\/","id":"d7su6j","body":"So my fridge has broken twice since I\u2019ve moved in. Both times I have put in a work order and it\u2019s taken a week or two for the complex to even come check to see what\u2019s wrong with it. I\u2019ve had many groceries spoil and get thrown away because it doesn\u2019t keep the freezer or fridge cold enough. Is there anything I can do? I can\u2019t afford to keep eating out because of not being able to keep groceries.","title":"Broken fridge","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553669362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b615cu\/lost_my_job_after_3_years_at_bank\/","id":"b615cu","body":"Hi I recently got promoted to assistant manager from personal banker. My branch manager treated me badly on my third day try to get me fired but I got a final. I spoke to HR they told this should of been fixed at the branch but they reported me. After that I reported her of things she doesn\u2019t do the right way. Then HR tells me I\u2019ll be transferred out soon. I spoke to the temporary market manager he told will meet with me on December 5th. I did meet with him and his manager and they said I\u2019ll be transferred out on the 25th. They told me my branch manager will be helping that branch till the 25th. We won\u2019t be working with each other. My concern was her name was still  above me and I told HR too. Then they sent this lady who normally helps new teller trainees. When she first walks in the branch she asked  what happened to my manager. Was talking to me in bad demeanor in front customers and employees. She would come once a week. I didn\u2019t let it bother me because it was once a week and I was going to get transferred out. On the 25th I called the temp market manager he said I\u2019ll be working in the same location until further notice. Then the lady would would still come every Wednesday. That week of the 25th my branch manager and that bombard me with emails the whole week. I knew their intentions for me to quit. I was really stressed at the branch my associates would tell me the branch manager told them not to help me or listen to me. One of my employees would call in sick a lot and I would be by myself on the teller line by myself. One day I get an email from HR I was stressed i said what did I do now. That day I had are cash shipment ready for the people come pick it up. It was in a bag with tickets I had to process on our system. At the end of the day I had to count the vault and printed a sheet of all the dominations in there from our system with other associate. We had so many coin bags in the vault with the money I was going to ship out. I counted the vault and it balance at night just remember that the shipment people didn\u2019t come to pick up the cash and coins. I forgot to reverse it in the system. The next day we get audited I told the audited I forgot to reverse the shipment. The lady who comes once a week came that day as well.  My appointment with HR was the same day. I spoke to HR and the temp market manager was on the line. They reported things about me that wasn\u2019t true but then they reported i force balance the vault. I said I didn\u2019t force balance I forgot to reverse the cash that was going out in a bag because they come that day I was stressed. They told they are going to do an investigation on these matters. I said that\u2019s fine because it wasn\u2019t true and my Market manager fully trying talk against me I had concerns. The next week the investigator asked me questions I told no one should get in trouble for the vault. It\u2019s not like I put fake numbers to balance the vault. She said ok but I met with the new market manager and lady who helps after few hours. They told me I will go on leave of pay till the investigation is over. I had to turn in my keys in the meantime. I go home and get a call two days later from the temporary market manager with the new market manager. The temp market manager told they want to go their separate ways with me and said make it  easy for all of us resign from your job. So they can tell everyone that I resigned but I told them no why resign and he said fine they will terminate me. Then I told him he lied to and use me and he replied yes he did and for me to go see physiatrist. I was stress and harassed treated unfairly at this employer. Please and advice should I seek legal help to bring justice.","title":"Lost my job after 3 years at bank","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541100134,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9tck3x\/old_landlord_charging_me_for_things_i_didnt_do\/","id":"9tck3x","body":"I moved out a month ago and I just got a letter from my old landlord saying I owe $700(after she took my $500 deposit). She charged me for a month I didn't live there. $100 for a counter top that was chipped when I moved in. $300 for mold that was already there(I know, gross I didn't clean it, I'm 20 years old and don't care). $50 for not returning the keys. $200 to change the locks. \n\nI get not returning the keys but doesn't a landlord need to change the locka regardless once someone moves out. \n\nI didn't live there for the month of October and I got charged full months rent. I didn't live there so I should have to pay that month right. \n\nI can't afford $700 right now and I need to get that number as low as I can. Is there anything I can do. I feel like she is trying to get as much out of me as she can. \n\nPlease help ","title":"Old landlord charging me for things I didn't do.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541355464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9u5mqa\/can_i_carry_my_parent_on_my_insurance\/","id":"9u5mqa","body":"Living in Texas and my mom has a type of stage 4 cancer and has had it since 2013. My father is thinking of divorcing her and this would take away her insurance benefits and not be able to make it to treatments.... When the day comes that he leaves, I want to make sure she'll be ok. What're my options? ","title":"Can I carry my parent on my insurance?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1502812339,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6tuzou\/louisiana_land_lord_had_our_rent_to_own_equipment\/","id":"6tuzou","body":"My spouse and I have chose to move back to our home state from LA.  In doing so we had to terminate our lease early.  Our lease was a basic printed out 1 page agreement with our deposit amount and monthly rent and the agreement the land lord would cut the grass as long as we had no animals using it.\n\nWhen we gave him notice of our intent to terminate the lease he let us know he would keep the deposit.  We told him ok we understood and that since we were paid up to a point we would be moved out by then.  \n\nThis past weekend my spouse and I moved a trailer full of belongings to our new home and upon return to the home in LA today my spouse found our washer and dryer missing and all our stuff rummaged through and pictures of my spouses daughter who passed away in the trash with other things.  Called the land lord and he said he had Aarons (who we did rent to own with) pick up the washer and dryer for us since we were leaving.... He then threw things out since we abandoned it...... Keep in mind we are paid up to a point that we agreed to leave we were gone for just over 24 hours moving one load of belongings.    \n\nThese are not the first issues we have had. During our months at this home we paid 1300 a month.  The landlord on more than one occasion let himself in with no notice. He even did so why we were home and the kids were playing just unlocked the door and walked in.  He refused to fix a leaking AC unit that kept soaking the floor at times as well.  He has threatened to throw all our stuff away as well because he has someone who wants the place now...\n\nAlso Aarons should have never picked up our stuff for him as he is not on the agreement at all and has no say so on our account.  They disclosed to him as well when picking up the washer and dryer that since that was being forfeited they also needed our kids bunk beds back  that we had already moved and that we owe X amount etc... They disclosed personal information and picked up belongings with out verifying anything or permission to speak with him.\n\nDo we have any action we can take against either the land lord or Aarons?  At this point we are trying to dig through trash to find anything else that was tossed.   The house is in the same or better shape than when we moved in as well.\n\n\nUPDATE: Addition info.  We were agreed to the date of 8-16-17 end of day to be out.  Today 8-15-17 is when we arrived to load up the last load of stuff left and had plans to drop off the key to him.  He moved things within a 24 hour period of 8-13-17 and 8-14-17 while we were moving a load to the new home aprox 8 hours away.","title":"(louisiana) Land lord had our rent to own equipment picked up and threw out our belongings","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446319604,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qzzjm\/illinois_my_brother_is_taking_care_of_his_sons\/","id":"3qzzjm","body":"So my brother has gotten himself involved with a girl who has a history you couldn't even make up:\n\nTwo months into dating this girl she got pregnant with his child. She was (and is) technically still married but is separated from her husband (whom she has a child with) because he caught her having a lesbian affair.\n\nThis all happened a little less than two years ago, since my his son just had his 1st birthday in September. She hasn't had a job in 2 years and all this time my brother has been supporting her and her daughter (including dropping her off at the father's house twice a week and picking her up), as well as giving this girl's mother money every time she comes and visits (saying it's a little \"thank you\" for the help she does with the kids when she visits).\n\nI asked him why he puts up with all this crap and his 2 big fears are losing custody of his son as well as having to pay child support (which he says is a flat 20%).\n\nI couldn't imagine a court seeing her as the better parent or making him pay any money if he took full custody, but I wanted to see if anyone on here has any experience with this sort of thing. Essentially I think she just using him as a meal ticket and want to know if there is anything he can do.\n\nThank you guys in advance!","title":"[Illinois] My brother is taking care of his son's mother, her mother, and her other kid because he's worried about child support. Help!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555336011,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdg62k\/female_friend_who_of_mine_had_been_sexually\/","id":"bdg62k","body":"( sorry if the formatting is bad )\n\nWe are in a American schooling system \n\nA female friend (FF) of mine had been sexually harassed by a classmate (P) over messages ( with screenshot proof ). When we had brought it to the administrators with proof, they had just claimed they will speak to him but they also said they could not do anything about the situation. The student who sexually harassed her has taken no consequences because our school typically goes by \u201cif they said they didn\u2019t do it, that\u2019s that\u201d and typically will just give a warning of \u2018don\u2019t do that again\u2019. I had also spoken to the school police officer who claimed there was nothing he could do of the situation because it\u2019s out of his jurisdiction. This I don\u2019t know how to feel about because, I may be wrong, but aren\u2019t the police officers of our school supposed to help in these issues and prevent students from feeling unsafe. He had also said it\u2019s not for him to do anything about and instead the teacher who they share a class together with, but the issue with that is that the teacher hadn\u2019t done much for his situation. The administrators still seem to not be doing anything of this situation and have seemingly passed it off. What I am wondering is if there is any direct way we can do something about this? The only way I do know to have our school take action is by going to the news because based on my knowledge from past experiences that have happened at my school.","title":"Female friend who of mine had been sexually harassed by a classmate ( over texts ) administrators nor school officer will do anything","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1553813047,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6phpm\/landlord_wants_to_make_us_pay_for_damages_we\/","id":"b6phpm","body":"I [20F] live in a house with five friends [19-24M and F]. Just recently, our toilet was clogged and overflowed, and then just stopped working altogether. We told the landlord and they called a plumber, who thought they fixed the issue, but the toilet still did not work. The next day, the plumber came back and looked further to see that our plumbing connection to the main line was blocked by tampons. The landlord is now blaming the three of us females for flushing tampons, but we\u2019re all on birth control and don\u2019t even have periods. And if we do on occasion, we don\u2019t flush them. There seems to be no way for us to prove that we don\u2019t do that, and now the landlord wants to charge us for the fixing of the plumbing. We don\u2019t know what to do. The house has been rented to groups of 5-6 people for the past few years, so could it be an issue that started that long ago and is just showing now? How do we prove this isn\u2019t our fault so we don\u2019t have to pay for it?","title":"Landlord wants to make us pay for damages we didn\u2019t cause and we can\u2019t prove we didn\u2019t cause them","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569050351,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d77g0n\/can_you_sue_an_employer_for_wrongful_termination\/","id":"d77g0n","body":"Thanks for reading this.\n\nA little background. I started working for a local hospital in January this year. I left my previous job with another hospital with which I had benefits, to go work for this new hospital through a temp agency because they were offering me more money. During my initial interview, the supervisor with whom I interviewed said to me he would bring me on board as a permanent employee within 2 months. This didn't sound too bad, plus the fact that they offered me more money made me quit my other job and join them as a temp.\n\n9 Months go by, and no permanent position was ever available. I realize sooner than later than it was a mistake to have left my permanent job to come here. This new hospital is very mismanaged, the small office is full of nepotism and extremely run down. 2 of the 3 supervisors were brother\/sister, one shift lead was dating her supervisor, and the rest of the employees were cousins of them and best friends. They were often absent for no reason with no consequence. My shift was full of drama. The 3 other people on my shift were constantly late (daily) and the supervisor seemed to be ok with it, nothing much was really expected of them. Again , the shift supervisor was friends with them, they were never any consequences.\n\nTo make the story short, one of the employees on my shift, who was friends with the boss, had beef with me because she overheard me talking to my other co-worker about my dislike for children. She often talked about her kids during her shift and was very sensitive. This is what I suspect led up to my termination.\n\nMy attendance record had to have been the best out of us 4, I remained engaged and active. I always fulfilled my duties to the best of my ability. I never broke procedure nor received any complaints from anyone. One day I get a phone call from the temp agency saying not to go back there, and the reason for the termination was not stated to them. One day to the other, just like that. They didn't even approach me that day or anything. \n\nI called the office manager and ask why I was let go if everything was going well and I was scheduled to finally be hired as permanent this month. He said the would talk to the supervisor and get back to me, which he never did.\n\nAfter a week of waiting for the manager's call back, I called HR to try to get a hold of the employee relations person. When I spoke to her she said she couldn't help me because I was a temp, and hung up the phone.\n\nI called the temp agency back after that, and they stated the reason the client had let me go was because I was not interested in my job, which is absolutely untrue.\n\nI was never approached by anyone to address my performance, because there was nothing to address since I was very very likely the best employee all-around, at least on that shift. As a matter of fact, out of the 9 months I was there, I was never given any evaluations, one-on-one chat with anyone, or talked to anyone at all, about anything. I saw my supervisor go into work on approximately 4 or 5 days out of the nine months. He was unresponsive to e-mails or other forms of communication. \n\nIs there anything I can do at all to get them to change their reason for termination? I am worried their statement to the temp agency about me not being interested will blemish my professional career if future employers inquire about it. I want to avoid that.  \n\nIs there any legal action I can take against them for doing this? Could this be wrongful termination?","title":"Can you sue an employer for wrongful termination if you worked for them through a temp agency?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505417200,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/704j17\/someone_wants_to_create_a_firm_using_my_name_to\/","id":"704j17","body":"Should I do it ?\nI don't know if it's a good place to ask that \nAlso I don't know if it's the correct flair\nThere is a project giving money to people trying to start a small business and someone in my family that is too old to do it needs me for that.\nThey keep telling me it would be mine but I really don't care about it. I am afraid of this guy doing anything that could get me in trouble.\n","title":"Someone wants to create a firm using my name to get some founds from the European Union","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1554755116,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bayobv\/us_calicense_suspended_for_30_days_back_in\/","id":"bayobv","body":"Hi,\n\nFor some quick context, I hired an attorney to go to traffic court in CA for me to fight a speeding ticket over 100. I lost the case but they dropped the 65+ mph citation, gave me a 30 day license suspension, mandatory traffic school and 2 points on my driving record.\n\nThe paperwork given to me and told to me by my attorney said that I didn\u2019t have to turn in my license or petition for it back during my 30 day suspension. I asked them (the lady on the phone) multiple times trying to clarify that what I understood was that basically they disable my license starting the on the day specified and it kicks back on after 30 days. They said yes that\u2019s what will happen. Cool, I don\u2019t have to do anything but just don\u2019t drive.\n\nSo starting that date, I didn\u2019t drive at all for the 30 days. I bought a bus pass and rode the bus everyday to work. I got driven by my parents and my friends to places.\n\nAfter the 30 days I drove again and finished my traffic school. I turned in the school certificate at the traffic court showing I did it, and then the lady at the desk said I didn\u2019t surrender my license back in February. What?? Apparently I was supposed to surrender it for the license suspension to even happen? I explained what I was told by my attorney, but they said had to surrender it, so my suspension didn\u2019t even happen?\n\nI told my attorney (the lady on the phone) what happened, and they said yes I didn\u2019t need to surrender it because on the court trial paperwork it did not say \u201csurrendered\u201d it only said \u201csuspended\u201d \u201c30 days\u201d \u201cstarting xx\/xx\/xxxx\u201d.\n\nNow I need to go to court again this Friday. I don\u2019t know if I should go or my attorney go, because my dad wants to appear with me. I have screenshots of the bus pass app and order number \/ receipts of my bus tickets showing when I bought it, and I\u2019m getting my friends to write statements saying they drove me around.\n\nWhat will happen? What should I do? I really don\u2019t want my license suspended again.\n\nTl;dr: didn\u2019t drive during my license suspension but didn\u2019t know had to surrender license beforehand for the suspension to happen. Going to court this Friday. Have evidence showing I bought bus tickets. What do I do? What will happen?\n\nThank you so much for your time!","title":"[US - CA]License suspended for 30 days back in February. Found out the suspension didn\u2019t even happen because I didn\u2019t surrender my license. What now?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553549969,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5gu3v\/i_am_a_17_year_old_orphan\/","id":"b5gu3v","body":"Hello, I am an 17 year old Orphan child in India.\nI don't have any guardian & I am not even in any orphanage.\n\nI work at a hotel & doing education on that money.\nI want to start my website on internet. And want to make some money though affiliate marketing online.\n\nBut, how can I get bank account without guardians? Also All those affiliate program website needs to be at least 18 in order to get paid.\n\nIs there any way without guardians?\n\nOr any way How can I hire guardians who will not steal my money?\n\nI have enough money currently to hire anyone for at least 1 year.\n\nPlease help me :)\n\nPlease don't tell me to wait 1 year or do something else.\n","title":"I am a 17 year old Orphan","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1444967357,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3oy47x\/insurance_fraud_fl\/","id":"3oy47x","body":"At the beginning of the week, I was involved with an \"incident.\" I had taken a friend to the local hospital, driving his truck. Upon dropping the friend off, and attempting to find a parking spot for his ungodly large truck, I ended up confronted by a couple who swear up and down that I hit them. Yet, I didn't. \n\nThere's no damage, there's a police report filed that states there's no damage, the responding officers state there's no damage. There's no damage to either vehicle. Still, because of the official police report, the other party has all my contact and insurance information. The friend doesn't currently have insurance on his truck, so they're contacting MY insurance for the nonexistent damage. \n\nWhat are my options here? This is obviously insurance fraud, right?  I'm waiting for my insurance company to get back to me so I can explain the situation,  but they are taking their sweet time in responding to me. All I have received are emails from my insurance about my \"claim.\" And no response when I contacted them. I just need to know the right steps to take.","title":"Insurance Fraud, FL","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1542181900,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wy2gh\/job_az_has_had_me_21_f_suspended_for_seven_weeks\/","id":"9wy2gh","body":"I am a 21-year-old senior at an Arizona University. I was suspended seven weeks ago after an altercation with another employee resulting in me asking my supervisor to leave early as I was in tears. I am a trans-fem, nonbinary individual but I am okay (to a point) with being gendered improperly. The coworker in question has made continuous remakes at my weight (I am thick), my haircut (mohawk), and my accent (I am originally from South Wales). This reached a boiling point to which I lashed out verbally, calling him \u2018a twink\u2019. After moving to the back of the store, I asked my supervisor twice to leave early, which he granted. \n\nI was called the following day and told I had left work without asking my supervisor, which is grounds for \u2018immediate termination.\u2019 After a long, stressful meeting with HR, they set me on a \u2018leave of absence\u2019 from the job. \n\nThree weeks in to this leave, I attempted to call the HR office and apologise and state that I was ready to work again. I repeated the call everyday for their hours in service for two weeks before being directed to the HR Director\u2019s phone number by a secretary who had twice left notes for the Director to set up a meeting.\n\nI have consistently left a message with the Director every day since then, with no response. I recently spoke to another supervisor at my place of work who told me that our GM told her that I was still an employee.\n\nThis has ruined me mentally. My parents have even given up on the prospect of me regaining that job. As someone who already suffers from an advanced anxiety disorder and manic-depression, these past weeks have brought me to the lowest point of my life. I have retaken up smoking to attempt to combat my worst symptoms. \n\nWhat would the best advice be to mitigate this problem? Should I hold out, or attempt to file some claim for improper termination?\n\nKindest regards,\n\nP","title":"Job (AZ) has had me (21, F) suspended for seven weeks with zero return communication from HR after multiple attempts to establish communication. Still receiving employee benefits, going insane over this.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569573932,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9xjth\/brother_has_active_warrant_but_terminally_ill\/","id":"d9xjth","body":"As the title says, my brother currently has an active warrant for failing to meet with his probation officer in Missouri\u2014no other charges with that warrant but he doesn\u2019t have a bond. I wouldn\u2019t normally care. However, our mother is currently in the hospital and she is dying from cancer. It would break her heart knowing he was arrested and not allowed to see her or say goodbye while this is going on. What can we do in this situation?","title":"Brother has active warrant but terminally ill mother.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569428597,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d95mqs\/va_illegal_sublet_suspected_elder_abuse_by\/","id":"d95mqs","body":"Tl;dr: One original lease holder may be committing elder abuse (in the form of financial exploitation) against the other, found out I was illegally subletting after I signed the lease. \n\nI moved into a room in Fairfax Sept 18, 2019. I signed the lease around Sept 1st, I think, but didn\u2019t know I was illegally subletting until Sept 20th, when she told me upon discussing a mold issue in the basement preventing me from moving into my room (I\u2019m currently sleeping in the living room until the mold issue is fixed). The land lady (CLL) suffers from paranoid delusions, and has indicated that she is ready and willing to break the law by locking me out if I don\u2019t comply with what she wants. \n\nEarlier this morning one of the other tenants [71M] took me aside and explained that he had called Adult Protective Services on her, and that he was prepared to call the police. According to him, CLL is: not allowing him a key, has control of his bank accounts and his EBT card, won\u2019t let him cook\/eat the food he wants (he\u2019s lost fifty pounds since he moved in with her in 2018), driven him to bankruptcy, and has him paying a majority of the bills. What he wants is to have a key and control of his own finances again, but he\u2019s indicated that he knows she won\u2019t allow him to have this if she isn\u2019t forced.\n\nMy questions are: \n\n1. If I choose to move in October, do I have to give 30 days notice? \n2. What will the original land lord do when they find out she\u2019s illegally subletting to me? \n3. What will APS do for the elder tenant? What can I expect if the investigations comes back and she\u2019s been abusing him? \n4. Is there anything I can do to help him? Protect myself?  \n\nThis is the first time I\u2019ve ever rented from someone, and I don\u2019t know what to do.","title":"[VA] Illegal Sublet, Suspected Elder Abuse by Landlady","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571450419,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djxhl5\/contract_with_vague_dates_and_terms_that_no\/","id":"djxhl5","body":"If a contract for school photos has dates that only state years ie. 2010-2020 is it valid? If it is would it be voided if the contents of the contract are not carried out ie. saying the students family can pick from 4 photos and 1 will go into the year book but in recent years only 1 is taken and the student doesn\u2019t know what the photo looks like till they pay for the book.\n\nSorry about format and shortness just requesting assistance for a local problem. Will edit if More info is needed.","title":"Contract with vague dates and terms that no longer fulfilled","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569524409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9o51n\/fired_from_my_job_for_wanting_a_deserved_break\/","id":"d9o51n","body":"so i'm going to keep this short because i am really fuming right now\n\nso i work in the netherlands at a pizza delivery job and i was scheduled to work for 5 hours and 4 hours in i wanted my break ( take note that in the netherlands after working for 3.5 hours you deserve a 15 minute break and also if you are working 5 or 4,5 hours you are allowed a 30 minute break)\n\nso i asked for my break they said no and i said that i was legally allowed a break to eat something and they said that if this was my behavior they didn't want to work with me and fired me right there\n\nis there any legal action i can take against this or am i just going to have to search for a new job","title":"fired from my job for wanting a deserved break","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1554110448,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b7zvvp\/tub_broke_after_we_asked_for_it_to_be_fixed\/","id":"b7zvvp","body":"When we moved into our apartment the claw foot tub in our bathroom had one leg that was not attached and when maintenance was called they fixed the issue by placing a block under the tub and haphazardly reattaching the leg.\n\nRecently I was taking a shower and the rub leg gave out and the tub fell over and broke the connection to our shower and I fell out but fortunately was not injured.\n\nDo I have any leverage legally against my leasing company or as long as they fix it is there just nothing I can do?","title":"Tub broke after we asked for it to be fixed","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554210566,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8j0h0\/my_little_brother_got_expelled\/","id":"b8j0h0","body":"So here is the backstory simplyfied (sorry for the bad English) \nTeacher: T\nLittle brother: LB.  \nLBwas in class waiting to do his exam the class itself was being pretty loud so T decided that he ain't gonna hand out the exam until it's silent which is fair however when it got silent he decided to wait another half hour before he is going to hand it out, LB asks him if they can start already since he had a appointment afterwards. So T called him up to his desk and said he can leave since they are in middle of a exam.\nSo he has to retake the exam which is shitty since he can only redo two exams.\n\nA couple days after this happens LB has to make another exam and has to be there between 8.00-8.30. He gets there around 8.00 he was with a friend of his and on the way to the classroom the friend tells him the door is closed and T (same guy as before) said to them they are to late and can go sign off at the administration. \nSo LB (who already talked with the principal who said he has every right to take the exam) said to that to T and tried to walk in and then T starts pushing him so LB pushes him back to try to make him stop in which the teacher screams out that he is being assaulted. Afterwards my LB managed to get in and said he wanted to talk to the principal before he is going anywhere. The principal said that he had to leave and that they'll come up with something.\n\nSo my parents get called and the schools says my little brother is expelled. What can we do. \n(Sidenote: these were his last exams before he's done with high School. Also there were kids who saw what happened)","title":"My little brother got expelled","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1551974923,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aye8jf\/insc_brother_died_sister_refuses_to_hand_over\/","id":"aye8jf","body":"Indiana\/South Carolina. My brother died last night in Indiana. He was visiting our dad and his friend when he had a massive heart attack and died. My sister lives in South Carolina and has all his paperwork (will, life insurance policies, etc.) and refuses to give any information to my dad, the funeral home or anyone else making arrangements here in Indiana. This isn\u2019t my first rodeo with losing siblings, but I\u2019m out of my depth here with this. What, if anything can we do to find out his policy information when we can\u2019t get anyone to give us information. She sent me a photo of his living will which states his property and and assets are to be split 50\/50 between our father and information withholding sister. AFAIK she can\u2019t even access his life insurance without a death certificate which we do not plan on sending her. ","title":"IN\/SC Brother died, sister refuses to hand over policy information to family\/funeral home","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551657773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax0eji\/what_happens_when_the_us_department_of_labor_goes\/","id":"ax0eji","body":"My ex boss is filing for bankruptcy and claims to have no money. My federal investigator thinks he can get my wages from him but what do they exactly threaten him with?","title":"What happens when the US department of labor goes after an employer for wages owed?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539371442,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nn5if\/i_am_a_residentemployee_at_a_very_well_known_and\/","id":"9nn5if","body":"**I think this post requires a lot of context, so I'll use bullet points**:\n\n* I work for a 501(c)(3) non-profit religious institution.  \n* This particular religious organization uses resident-employees to provide for *most* of its labor needs.  \n* Most of us make less than $500\/month, many of make significantly less\n* If we are asked to leave or forced out from the community, we are told we have no legal rights to compensation \n* They justify that by saying they do not need to abide by Fair Employment Act\n* We do have to pay taxes, we submit W-2's.\n* Our paychecks are called stipends and we're called students and not employees.  \n* However, under the ACA, we have to be given employee mandated health insurance\n\n**I feel I have the right to challenge their labor practices and receive unemployment for 3 key reasons:**  \n\n\n**First**, *the so called school we are of students of is a legal loophole to pay us below fair wages.  Technically it is accredited as a post-secondary school, but I believe that is simply not true, here's why:*\n\n* We do have several classes a year, but they are not mandatory.\n* They are not taught by qualified teachers, but by long-term students.\n* These are the classes you'd expect a church's priest to teach; they're basically like \"our religion 101\"\n* They did give us fake diplomas for fake semesters.\n* There is a fake dean, that has a different job all together, but they just posses the title for legal reasons.\n* They take attendance for classes and then file them away in some drawer because they don't keep records.  \n\n***The school is a way for them to pay us so little and for them to issue student visas and that's the reason it exists.***  \n\n\n**Second**, *the organization does have employees that do the same jobs*\n\n* Many positions that is filled by a student is later filled by a paid employee, it depends what is most convenient. \n* On average an employee is compensated by $50,000.  \n* Some employees are compensated significantly more for the jobs that students sometimes do.\n* Because of the school, they are very careful to call us students and to call our paychecks stipends.\n* To get accredited they said our job is a primary component to our studies.\n* Some of these jobs include accounting, processing donations, waiting tables, mundane things of that nature.\n* The organization justifies this by saying our room and board make up for our lack of monetary compensation. \n\n***While it is true our room and board is taken into consideration, that needs to be put into context of my final point.***\n\n* This organization owns many for-profit businesses.  One is a resort with a revenue of over $2,000,000\/year.  \n* The living conditions there for students are not even up to code, nor meet society's minimum acceptable standards.  \n* I was making $200\/month, got 1 day off every 5 days, and received 4 days of vacation per 5 months work.\n* My housing was a plywood box with only 3 walls, the other was screening.  \n* It was frequently over 100F and we had no air conditioning or electricity we could use for fans.  \n* Our food was the guests' leftovers that was served to us in violation of health codes.  \n* The fridge where they stored our food was frequently above temp by 10+ degrees.\n* When the health inspector came, they forged the fridge temp log book.  \n* They also outright lied to the health inspectors in other ways.  \n\n***Suffice to say our room and board doesn't add up to much.***\n\nNow it looks like I'll be facing termination after working there for 5 years due to issues regarding living in the community, which has nothing to do with my work performance.  If I am, I will have nothing because I haven't made enough money to save.  I don't want to hurt the organization, but they're putting me in a really difficult spot.\n\n**If I'm asked to leave for a non-work related issue can I get unemployment from this organization?  Would this unemployment take into consideration my room and board?** ","title":"I am a resident-employee at a very well known and well respected religious non-profit. I'm facing a situation where I feel I might be unfairly terminated and should at least receive unemployment, but I'm told I'm entitled to nothing. Do I have any recourse? [CA, USA]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1568688506,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5ay4l\/would_i_be_held_responsible\/","id":"d5ay4l","body":"If I were to buy a knife or pepper spray for a friend who is 16, as am I (with my debit card, his money), and he used it in self defence (not sure how legal that is in Canada), would I be held responsible or be in any sort of trouble?","title":"Would I be held responsible?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555563767,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beho5v\/my_future_exwife_and_i_are_filing_for_anullment\/","id":"beho5v","body":"As in the title, my future ex-wife and I filed for marriage anullment with a law firm. There was a verbal agreement that I will split the fees 50\/50 with her. We initially went for a consult together and split part of the initial lawyer fees.\n\n\nHowever the course of action the law firm took to try nullify the marriage is to only represent her and sue me for divorce on the grounds of nullity. Then I will not defend it for the nullity to go through.\n\n\nBut given that they're not legally representing me, and the documents that sue me explicitly states that she is not looking for any recuperation or incur costs to me, do I need to pay any legal fees?","title":"My future ex-wife and I are filing for anullment of marriage but the lawyers is now being her legal representative to sue me for anullment. Do I have any legal responsibility for lawyer costs if I'm not being represented by them? (UK\/Hong Kong law)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569542938,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9sf2u\/effectively_just_got_fired_from_my_job_mn\/","id":"d9sf2u","body":"I work as a delivery driver and  on Monday an issue with my eye came up that made it impossible for me to drive anything easily. So i texted my manager who said it was fine. I was scheduled working for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. When I came in Wednesday I was told to go home because part of my medication is a dilator that dilates my eye way open. Apparently at some point someone changed my work schedule unbeknownst to me until today when I get a text from my manager saying I should be working, I argue that I'm not working today because it wasn't on my schedule on Monday. In the end he says he won't schedule me for anymore shifts. I also mention that I have a doctors note clearing me from work.","title":"Effectively just got fired from my job [MN]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1549895471,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/apgsvg\/south_africa_we_are_experiencing_scheduled_power\/","id":"apgsvg","body":"In South Africa the power utility Eskom is having problems meeting the energy requirements of SA for those who don\u2019t know.\n\nThese happen during our working hours 7:30-4:30. They usually take about 2 hours and have at 10:30-12:30 and 4-6. So effectively we loose 2:30 hours a day without any power. We require our PCs to work, and therefore can end up sitting a little when there is no power.\n\nOur boss walked in today, and said we will have a meeting tomorrow, but with no power you guys will not work and therefore it\u2019s less hours so less pay. And then walked out of the office. I cannot see how this is legal, especially without the employees consent. Any ideas on how to tackle this so we don\u2019t loose our pay. Several of us have already suggested working flexible hours to make up for our 8 hours a day. ","title":"[South Africa] We are experiencing scheduled power cuts during the day. Boss just told us that due to the power outages we will work less hours and get paid less.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1508631704,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77x38h\/inheritance_advice\/","id":"77x38h","body":"First to start out, my sister had died and left an estate to my mother. It's been over a year and a half and the attorneys hadn't finished anything up. It had been hard for my mother to get any information as we live in Iowa and everything was being done is Arizona. However, my mother then passed away last December, so the small inheritance that she was going to get, instead goes to me.\nHowever, reading the documents: https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/covkX\n\nIt says (to my belief) that once I send it in and they get filed, they will have no reason to communicate with me further. I have not recieved any money, but I am afraid that I may get screwed over, since the document says I'm signing away all connections and responsibilities for them.\n\nI know I'm just being paranoid, but can anyone confirm if they are required to release the funds to me?\n\nI'm in a tight spot financially with having to bury 3 immediate relatives in the last 2 years, so I'm semi-relying on this money.","title":"Inheritance Advice","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551119245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/auogjz\/abuse_at_a_job_for_years_towards_their_workers\/","id":"auogjz","body":"A few years ago, I went with my dad to the corporate office of a pretty big restaurant chain in Oklahoma. My dad told me, has told me, that since working there in 1999, the supervisors are always verbally abusive towards all of the workers. They work at the milking farm. This restaurant also has a mini market where they sell things they make at the farm. \n\nVerbal abuse that has been happening recently:\n\u2022Humiliated non-English speakers\n\n\u2022Threatening people with firing them if they call in to work sick. My dad got injured at the job by a cow a few months ago and they tell him they don\u2019t want him there anymore. I\u2019m sure this affects my dad emotionally. My dad\u2019s 57. \n\n\u2022They treat older workers like crap. \n\n\u2022There is a couple who work there who are supervisors who constantly argue with each other in front of everyone, then take their anger out on their workers. \n\nI\u2019m sure there\u2019s way more my dad is too ashamed to tell me. I need advice. I called HR and left a voicemail. I\u2019m too scared to give my name or my father and uncle\u2019s names who work there. Please help. Please. ","title":"Abuse at a job for years towards their workers. Need help ASAP.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1445325065,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pgoa8\/cawill_i_have_trouble_renewing_study_permit_if_i\/","id":"3pgoa8","body":"Context: I recently moved out of my rental room due to verbal and physical abuse by the landlord. (Nothing too serious, but I had to get out ASAP).\n\nBecause I'm still on my lease, I did not give the required one month notice. And the landlord threatened to sue if I don't pay at least one month's lease.\n\nI really don't want to pay him after what he's done. Besides, he already has my damage deposit, worth half a month.\n\nMy question is: If he brings a civil\/small claims suit against me, will it affect my ability to stay and study in Canada? As I'll have to renew my study permit soon (I'm an international student). If it's going to affect me, then I might as well begrudgingly pay.","title":"[CA]Will I have trouble renewing study permit if I have a civil case against me?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571630212,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkuvx9\/non_custodial_mother_has_been_taking_my_kids\/","id":"dkuvx9","body":"[GA] Short version of this is. Their mother and I have joint custody but I am the primary. . My children have been talking about going over to someone\u2019s house that I know from years ago with their mother. That person is a registered sex offender. And I have NOT given any type of permission for them to go. This offender is also harboring a fugitive at the location. I have no idea what to do or even go about handling this with the authorities. My ex is also on probation if that helps any. Please help point me in the right direction.","title":"Non custodial mother has been taking my kids around a registered sex offender that\u2019s also harboring a fugitive","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504889439,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yvzog\/nm_uncle_refuses_to_leave_my_grandparents_house\/","id":"6yvzog","body":"After 6 months, my aunt and uncle's marriage has fallen apart. She told him she wanted him to leave and he did. Yesterday, when he was supposed to come get the rest of his things, he decided he was going to stay. They live in a house my grandparents own and they never wrote up a lease. He won't leave. He just stays there all day and constantly texts and calls her phone, begging her to give him another chance. Is there anything we can do? Do we go ahead and write up some sort of eviction notice, even though there was no lease? We know, by law, we can't just force him out. She has a teenage daughter and doesn't even want to go home, after work, because she knows it means more arguing.","title":"[NM] Uncle refuses to leave my grandparent's house; is harassing my aunt with texts and calls.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541020566,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9t308r\/gym_raised_rates_on_us_even_though_we_have_a\/","id":"9t308r","body":"2 year contract was signed summer 2017 stating rate to be paid on a monthly basis. Recently noticed bank statements show gym has been charging a higher amount than the agreed upon rate. Called gym and was told they put up a sign in November 2017 stating rates were going up for everyone. Never saw sign due to not going to gym during that period of time. Gym also said that in the state of Texas they could raise rates even if people had contracts. Called around and was told you cannot raise rates on people who have contracts but the only way to resolve this issue would be through small claims court. \n\n​\n\nQuestions I have:\n\n1) Is small claims court the only way to resolve this? If so, do I need a lawyer? The amount charged to us over the agreed upon rate is \\~$120 so not really wanting to pay someone for that.\n\n2) How does one go about small claims court? What's the process? What else do I need to know?\n\n​\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"Gym raised rates on us even though we have a contract. [Texas]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1569537384,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9r78k\/passed_a_stopped_school_bus_on_accident_in_georgia\/","id":"d9r78k","body":"I was getting out of my neighborhood, and when I turned to go out, there was a school bus in front of me. I didn't realize it had yellow blinkers on, so as it was pulling in to the side and stopping (I thought it was slowing down to go into the neighborhood it was stopping at...), I passed the bus. The only thing I've noticed was that the stop sign was coming out when I was passing it, and I tried to stop then, but thought it would be too late for me to stop and went past it. I know I am an idiot for not paying enough attention. I'm just worried about what will come out of passing the stopped bus, will I get points on my license? I've searched it up and saw posts where people just had to supposedly pay $300 with no records of it being left, which I would gladly take as it was completely my fault. Should I be worried about possibly getting anything beyond that?","title":"Passed a stopped school bus on accident in Georgia","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570716333,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfyhq9\/22m_usa_mi_am_i_entitled_to_any_kind_of\/","id":"dfyhq9","body":"Short and sweet, basically I got moved up to service advising and I work 47+ hours a week now with a commission pay plan. My base salary is $400 a week and my commission caps at $200. The base salary is supposed to be for warranty repair orders and internals. $100 a week bonus if my CSI scores are above national average. The cap itself is pretty bullshit since it caps at $5,500 customer pay and I've hit 8.7k my very first week. This just doesn't seem worth it at all. Am I entitled to additional pay?","title":"[22M] [USA] [MI] Am I entitled to any kind of additional compensation as a dealership service advisor?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1552322031,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azvhot\/legal_premium_snapchats\/","id":"azvhot","body":"How could one go about legally selling nudes, primarily via Snapchat? I know the requirements are that the buyer, seller and models all must be 18+, but I\u2019m not sure what legal repercussions there could be, or at what point one would need to claim it on their taxes. Would the seller file taxes as a business owner? Thanks in advance. ","title":"Legal premium snapchats?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540505450,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9revoy\/neighbor_keeps_parking_on_our_property_and_wont\/","id":"9revoy","body":"Was thinking about putting trees as a border around our yard or 2x4s. If they violate that it would be calling the police next, probably. ","title":"Neighbor keeps parking on our property and won\u2019t move their car unless we force their hand. What is the best legal way to spite them?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541998408,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9waz3y\/friends_claim_fake_credit_card_works_with_online\/","id":"9waz3y","body":"I have a lot of experience with credit card fraud. Unfortunately, my friends thought they could have a go at it before I got wind of it. My friend has convinced everyone to shop at adidas with a randomly generated credit card and fake information: \u201cFake generated card. Fake date and security code. Its literally all bullshit. As long as its that credit card number you can use it. Kids actually got their SHIT. Its a system glitch. Its like that shit, except the system for websites is blind to that number, they can't do anything about it, its a blank order, gets processed like normal, and works out\u201d \n\nDoes anyone have any experience with this? I cannot believe Adidas wouldn\u2019t verify funds and card numbers. \n\nLocation: Chicago, IL ","title":"Friends claim fake credit card works with online shopping","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539700550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oo6ly\/do_i_need_to_set_up_an_official_business_for_a\/","id":"9oo6ly","body":"Hello, I work in SEO and have a developer friend.\nWe're looking at developing a small web app to bring in a little extra income for ourselves just as a side project.\nThis would be likely be done through PayPal subscriptions\/payments.\n\nDo we need to create an official company and file returns and all that jazz? Is there a income threshold at which we need to start filing taxes?\n\nThis really isn't my area of expertise, any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.","title":"Do I need to set up an official business for a small web app?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1571186989,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dihhjq\/is_there_any_way_to_get_the_money_back\/","id":"dihhjq","body":"I\u2019m not sure if this is technically the correct flair but it seemed like the closest one to my issue. I\u2019m in NC,America \n\nMy MIL passed away a few month back ago to and left her life insurance policy money to my husband. Him and his step dad created an account together to deposit the money into, roughly around 150,000. Step dad was supposed to use the majority to pay of MILs medical bills(she wasn\u2019t in the hospital very long like 1-3 months spent the rest of her life at home and then at hospice paid for by her church)and leave us 20,000 + purchase a vehicle for husband(he has a van my mother gifted to us after his previous vehicle broke down). About a month after the money finished depositing into the account SFIL took all but $5,000 out of the account and we are starting to believe he\u2019s trying to screw us out of the money. Is there any way my husband could sue and win back the money that was left to my husband considering it was taken under false pretense? I\u2019m afraid it might not matter because his Sdads name was also on the account. My name was never attached to this account I was just there when they opened it. \nI\u2019m just mad and feel so stupid for not thinking to get legal advice before.","title":"Is there any way to get the money back?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1504248552,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xcvlv\/lady_i_rear_ended_at_5mph_is_trying_to_sue_me_for\/","id":"6xcvlv","body":"[CA,US] In April of 2016 I rear ended a lady going about 5mph, we were at a 4 way intersection the light turned yellow...from my prospective it seemed like she wanted to take the yellow light but she realized it was a intersection with cameras so she comes to an abrupt stop blocking the cross walk, meanwhile I'm already slowing down but since she slams on her breaks I slam on mine, lock my breaks and slowly skid into her hitting her roughly at 5mph. At this point I get out of my vehicle to make sure everything is ok, when I get to her window shes on the phone with the police and an ambulance was on the way so I figured the best thing to do was pull into a parking lot and just let the police officer handle everything. I give my statement, exchange information and get sent on my way...the damage that happened to my vehicle was substantial (broken license plate frame and small scratch) hers were also a small scratch and from what my agent said the damage was less than $300... now I understand in most cases who ever does the rear-ending is at fault which I'm ok with... BUT this is where it gets interesting... 8 months or so go by and I get a letter from my insurance agent claiming that the accident required her to get treatment for 6 months and her bills sky rocketed, and the reason I was being contacted was to get my permission to reveal my insurance policy to the opposing insurance agent, after talking to my agent I decided I wasn't going to deal with that and just decide to opt out on revealing that information... fast forward to a few weeks ago, I get another letter, this time with a copy of a letter her lawyer sent to my agent claiming that the accident caused her \"disc protrusions\" not allowing her to do her job (care-giver making $80k a year)... the letter also said due to the injuries she had to retire 14 or so years earlier than she wished... so basically they are trying to sue me for $80k a year for 14 years she would have made ($1,120,000) and for \"pain and suffering she continues to endure\"..... its obvious that she is trying to take advantage of the situation here, but my question is what can I do? My insurance suggested that I can possibly seek outside counsel because the claimant is trying to recover an amount that exceeds my policy limit and I may be required to pay the excess amount out of my pocket \n\n\n[damage done to my vehicle, try and spot it. ](http:\/\/imgur.com\/1Mn6GuW) ","title":"Lady I rear ended at 5mph is trying to sue me for $1.2Million","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1542263082,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x8nih\/zoning_violation_and_renters\/","id":"9x8nih","body":"So our landlord is pulling some shenanigans with the water bills lately. Apparently there was a leak somewhere on our property (I never noticed one) starting in September, today he told us he is trying to charge us for the increased water bill(utilities are normally included in rent) he came over twice when I wasn\u2019t home without notifying me about the visit or about the issue. I only heard about him coming to my house by a friend who saw him walk in. There are two units in this property and he isn\u2019t going after the other unit for the leak. Also I did some digging and found that the plot is zoned solely for single family homes not multi unit apartments and that there is no variance or exception on the local zoning maps for the plot so idk how to even claim that there is a second unit since there isn\u2019t supposed to be one. What should I do. ","title":"Zoning violation and renters","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540509118,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rfd09\/bf_about_to_be_fired_for_something_he_did_not_do\/","id":"9rfd09","body":"My boyfriend works for a used car company as a salesman. He is about to be promoted, has been head of his conference in sales for several months consecutively, and is a generally good and productive employee. \n\nToday, someone put a lead in their system that used his cell phone number and had an offensive and disparaging message toward the dealership he works for. They are telling him that if he cannot prove he didn't do it, they'll assume he did, and he will be fired. \n\nHe offered full access to his work computer, personal computer, and cell phone to prove he did not do it, but they said this was 'not adequate.'\n\nI know for a fact he didn't do this because he was about to move to be close to me into a new apartment and he would not jeopardize that transfer or his having a job for a stupid thing like this. \n\nHe meets with the head of his conference and his boss tomorrow, and obviously he has no proof he did not do it. Is this wrongful termination, and does the burden of proof actually rest with him? Is there any way he can legally combat this during the meeting tomorrow? \n\nThank you for any and all advice. ","title":"BF about to be fired for something he did not do [TN]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506989864,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73ww37\/dad_died_without_will_went_to_court_to_get\/","id":"73ww37","body":"location: Texas, US\n\nlong story short, my dad (a public employee) died earlier this year. Unfortunately, he left no will. My mom went to civil court and obtained a probated \"letter of administration\". It authorizes my mom as the administrator of my dad's estate, and this is what we have agreed upon as a family, and we are currently compiling a list of items in the estate. \n\nHuman Resources from my dad's employer is not cooperating to release my dad's benefits. They claim that because my dad did not have a \"probated will\", there is nothing they can do. The main reason my mom wants to access my dad's benefits is for his sick leave (my dad never called in sick :( it's probably why he died younger than anyone expected). \n\nIs there anything we can do to get HR to release his benefits, reddit? This whole situation is really distressing to my mom. ","title":"Dad died without will, went to court to get probated letter, but HR will not release benefits","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1443283431,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mh66v\/mi_show_cause_hearing_what_to_expect_what_to\/","id":"3mh66v","body":"This could be a very long, convoluted story but I'll try to make it brief to get it out there, and answer any questions\/fill in details in the thread. One of my housemates (I have two) divorced in I think 2003. At the time, his support order reflected a much, much higher income that he has been able to earn pretty much ever since (actually I wonder if the MI state support formula was applied correctly in the first place). In any event, over the years, even though he did pay on his support, because of periods of unemployment and underemployment, he fell into arrears, up to the tune of somewhere around $12K in '08 or '09. In '08, he tried to get the order of support reduced, but his ex wife refused to provide income information (just sayin -- she makes about 4X what he does), so he continued to have the original amount, plus arrears payments, deducted from his checks. Last summer, the FOC conducted its own review of the support order (getting the ex wife's income info from her state unemployment fund contributions), and his payments were reduced significantly, including the payment toward the arrears. At this point, the amount he's in arrears is down to just over $7K. His income tax returns also go toward payment. \n\nThis spring, he switched jobs, and the FOC didn't send any kind of support order to his new employer. I think about 2 months went by with no contact from FOC. I **urged** him to contact FOC himself, which he did. They sent out a new support order thingy -- for the original amount of the order from 2003, but corrected it, sending out the revised support order from 2014 a week later. Since then, the payments have been being deducted normally.\n\nLast week, he got a notice for a Show Cause hearing for being in violation of the support order\/being in arrears greater than the legally allowable amount. \n\nWhat can he expect at the hearing? Is he in danger of jail time? Losing his driver's license (and thus, ability to get to work and pay his support)? Does he just need to show some paystubs showing that he *is* following the terms of the support order or what? I'm really worried for his situation. I think he should retain a lawyer, but he really can't afford it.\n\nEDIT: I'm a frequent lurker and infrequent commenter in this subreddit, but obviously this is a throwaway I created to post this discussion.","title":"MI Show cause hearing - what to expect, what to provide, should a lawyer be retained?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541721581,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vfeqe\/company_went_under_filed_for_bankruptcy_employees\/","id":"9vfeqe","body":"To whom it may concern:\n\n\nCompany went under by side stepping  with the WARN  exemptions. \n\nEmployees very frustrated started looting shortly after taking company computers TVs monitors etc...\n \n\nAny legal ramifications? Company went bankrupt and president left agreeing to the looting  by co workers \n\nThanks in advance\n","title":"Company went under, filed for bankruptcy, employees did not get severance(3 day notice) -co workers looted computers and TVs since the doors were closing with 150k rent bill due","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552323375,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azvr16\/child_supportcourt_order_question\/","id":"azvr16","body":"  \n\nI have a question regarding child support, state of Arizona\n\nMy sister\u2019s ex-husband was paying COURT ORDERED support through his previous job. He quit the job last May, and he began writing her checks. She only signed a non-notarized piece of paper stating she received three payments. \n\nHe was shady about his job and had him served for parenting time, as he was not filling his 50\/50 deal. He was working nights somewhere and was not paying the clearing house.\n\nWhen they went to mediation recently, nothing was changed or signed, but the mediator told my sis that \u201che could fall behind 6 months before the courts care about it\u201d Since then, he hasn\u2019t paid her anything, and he is due for Feb and March.\n\nThe court order that is signed by both parties and his attorney says, verbatim:\n\n**CLEARINGHOUSE**: All payments shall be made through the Support Payment Clearinghouse pursuant to an Order of Assignment signed this date. Any time the full amount of support is not withheld, Father remains responsible for the full monthly amount ordered. Payments not made directly through the Support Payment Clearinghouse shall be considered *gifts* unless otherwise ordered. All payments shall be made payable and mailed directly to: (Clearinghouse address)\n\nDoes this mean that all the checks he made to her, since he didn\u2019t follow the court order and pay directly through the Clearinghouse, will be considered a gift? Doesn\u2019t that mean he has to pay all of that back with interest?\n\nAlso, does can she be forced to sign an affidavit regarding her receiving the checks? \n\nI'm assuming the court order will trump anything else, and he is going to lose his mind if all that money is considered a gift. \n\nLike I said, she signed that he paid her with checks for three of the months. He has been giving her checks, inconsistently for the amount, but has since stopped. ","title":"Child Support\/Court Order question.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1503254007,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6uxe4z\/in_terms_of_a_lease_what_is_the_difference\/","id":"6uxe4z","body":"I'm addressing a situation this week with my property manager about entering my apartment multiple times without notice. I'm addressing it as an ethical issue, not a legal issue, but I'm bringing my lease with me because I want to be clear about what my actual rights are. \n\nMy lease specifies that a landlord my enter my apartment as long as 24 hours written notice has been given. This is my property manager, though - what's the difference? I'm in an apartment marketed as student housing (it's not actually affiliated with the school, though - it is a private company), so it's a big corporate and bureaucratic mess. \n\nAlso - I live in Tennessee.  ","title":"In terms of a lease, what is the difference between a landlord and property manager?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568426046,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3z2zy\/san_diego_causa_gave_2_weeks_notice_today_was_my\/","id":"d3z2zy","body":"What should be my next steps be? I know that they can be fined for delaying my final pay. 1 hour before the end of my final shift, I sent them an email asking for an update on my final pay. My shift officially ended at 5pm pst and still no word from them. Should I contact the labor board? Thanks in advance!","title":"(San Diego, CA,USA) Gave 2 weeks notice, today was my last day. Employer didn't give me my final paycheck with hours worked and PTO.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540311282,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qqgz8\/i_think_my_job_is_committing_insurance_fraud\/","id":"9qqgz8","body":"I work for an inpatient drug and alcohol rehab. \n\nRecently, we\u2019ve had a handful of people who wanted to leave AMA (against medical advice). Once the director caught wind of this, she just kicks them out of the program. \n\nI\u2019ve heard from co workers, who are also pretty concerned that if someone leaves on their own AMA, the insurance company stops paying. If someone is an ADM (kicked out) the insurance must keep paying the remainder of the 28 days or whatever time they agreed to previously pay. \n\nDoes this fall under the category of insurance fraud? Where exactly do I take this?","title":"I think my job is committing insurance fraud.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568501554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4ccqd\/new_york_isp_monopoly_abuse\/","id":"d4ccqd","body":"I'm not sure how exactly to order everything sorry if it's all over the place. Looking for any legal help\/advice applicable to getting this resolved as i'm not sure where or what I should be looking at.\n\n\\-ISP daily shuts down my internet between noon and 2 p.m.\n\n\\-Throttled speeds and not getting what I pay for being 6 mb\/s download and never seeing above 2.2 mb\/s (Recorded) as well as 1mb\/s up and i'm in the kb\/s around 400\\~ depending on what they decide to give me that day (Recorded)\n\n\\-Overcharging based on price per mb\/s. The average from another major company (the highest i saw from 3 other companies) being roughly $0.7498333 repeating per mb\/s while i'm paying around $3.333 repeating per mb\/s (from the billing cycles)\n\n\\-Missing appointments to fix line and other general technical issues. Technicians haven't showed up multiple times in a row (5+) and I wait the 5 hour window given to me without a call \/ email. Multiple times after not showing they will schedule a new appointment without asking and I learn they're coming after they schedule without my consent.\n\n\\-No option for upgrades and having neglected where I live for 15+ years because no other companies come out to my address. Also showing disregard for where I live as in the summer my speeds get worse likely being throttled to allocate bandwidth elsewhere.\n\n\\-Being provided a price for speeds online then suddenly changing as soon as I attempt to make any kind of purchase either saying \"Not available where you live\" or \"You're in a high demand area this is the best we can do\" keeping in mind I live in a semi-rural area. Any internet speed above what i'm currently getting i.e 40+ mb\/s download stops about 500\\~ feet from my house.\n\ntl;dr slow speeds getting throttled lower, can't get any kind of service, and nobody to switch to need any kind of advice on what actions to take from a legal point thanks.","title":"[New York] ISP monopoly abuse","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1570246811,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddi2yy\/my_younger_brother_was_involved_in_a_car_accident\/","id":"ddi2yy","body":"Hello, sorry if I don't format correctly, back in August my brother was involved in an accident where a driver two cars in front of him broke unexpectedly and a woman in the front of him hit that car and my brother hit the women's, the car that was in front sped off. In the police report it says it was not his fault even the woman said it was not his fault, but her insurance is saying he was an unsafe distance so he has to take the blame, he says he was not close to her it was just an unexpected brake. Is there anything he can do? Please any advice would be appreciated.\n\nThank you.","title":"My younger brother was involved in a car accident, both the police report and the driver said it was not his fault, but insurance says otherwise any advice for him?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1570502744,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/deu0qi\/landlord_has_new_apartment_as_no_pets\/","id":"deu0qi","body":"I live in a 5 apartment house in Salt Lake City UT. I have lived here with my partner for almost two years now and our lease is almost up. An empty unit downstairs is being put up on the market as \"no pets\" but the previous tenant had two dogs. Should I be worried with the new lease coming up that they would say we can't have our cat anymore? We paid the pet deposit and monthly pet rent when we signed the lease with the original owner. Is it legal if they do?\n\n\nI guess I should add that our previous owner sold the building to a rental agency after we renewed our lease for the first time, and we're set to renew our lease with the new company in November.","title":"Landlord has new apartment as \"no pets\"","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551498773,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awdjla\/former_landlord_in_california_will_not_return_my\/","id":"awdjla","body":"My entire security deposit was $3500. After moveout, I specifically requested a walkthrough to assess damages and was ignored. Then at the 21st day (the legal deadline to return the deposit) I get a letter detailing charges against my deposit, that total $4200, and a statement saying to pay the additional $700. I intend to go to small claims court over this but would like an outside perspective.\n\n​\n\nThe biggest thing is replacing all of the carpet. The carpet is old and damaged when we moved in. The previous owner (the landlord) had a dog and we had a dog. The owner claims that our dog damaged the carpet to need replacement and is charging $2500. My dog did cause damage in one spot in particular, but I paid $700 to replace that spot. Otherwise, any pet stains were not ours. We did not do a good enough job annotating every single little thing on the move in form, I will admit. But the Tenant\/Landlord guideline says that typically people handle situations like this by prorating the carpet over it's useful life and charging for whatever amount of its useful life is left. That is just a guideline put out by California but it is not written in a law that I can find. The landlord will not budge and is charging me for the full amount. Additionally, the landlord is charging us for cleaning, even though when we moved in the place was a mess (he had to give us a few days free so we could make the place liveable), and California law clearly says that the place needs to be returned in the same condition it was received in, which we left it much cleaner. Also we paid a gardener to mow and fertilize, but he is charging us a gardener fee to mow and fertilize. Also, a shelf fell with just a small glass jar on it. The shelf was only in the drywall and very weak. We didn't know that, and one day it gave out and the glass jar fell and hit a the porcelain sink and broke it. He is charging us to replace that sink, even though the maintenance guy even left us a note about how the shelf was improperly installed and thats what caused the damage. \n\n​\n\nAnyway, my biggest concerns are, he does have some charges that are legitimate, but with his unwillingness to work with me, can I sue for all of my deposit back?\n\nWe had a guest bedroom and frequently let others stay there when they were in a tight spot. This is technically a violation of the lease and while he didn't say anything while we were there, he is now saying at the lawsuit he is going to bring evidence of breach of contract. He is technically right, but would this have any impact on the judge's ruling?\n\nWhat circumstances would entitle me to charge for punitive damages?\n\nHe lives out of state and is military. Can I make the property management company give me his address so I can serve him? Is there some way he gets out of this using some military benefit?","title":"Former landlord in California will not return my security deposit","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539342286,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9njb9z\/md_how_necessary_is_it_to_hire_a_lawyer_following\/","id":"9njb9z","body":"Location - Maryland\n\n\nDo you need a lawyer for a car accident when you WEREN'T the driver at fault? Was in an accident overnight, my car is likely totalled and I caught most of the impact in my driver's side and broke my foot. I took a few photos of the wreckage but I was having a breakdown until they took me to the ER in an ambulance. I took photos of our visible injuries. The other driver is at fault but I don't know if I'll need a lawyer or anything. I've never gotten into anything more serious than a minor fender bender so this is new territory for me.","title":"MD - How necessary is it to hire a lawyer following a car accident?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554454378,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9oqt0\/broke_rib_in_car_accident_a_week_ago\/","id":"b9oqt0","body":"Will I be fired for taking a week off work after breaking a rib? Or can I be fired? I do very physical labor at a warehouse. Its kind of our slow season atm, and we have plenty of people for the morning shift to cover, but I'm still kind of concerned. \n\nI plan to return Monday regardless, and try to be on light labor, but idk. ","title":"Broke rib in car accident a week ago","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1503343264,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6v5bhm\/oh_quick_questions_about_form_jfs_07076\/","id":"6v5bhm","body":"Hi LA!\n\nI'm getting divorced, our court date is next Monday, 8\/28. My lawyer sent me JFS 07076 to fill out and bring to court. She's kind of flaky, or I'd ask her for clarification. I figured it would be easier\/faster to ask you fine people.\n\nOn page 2, it asks if I've ever been on Public Assistance (when\/where?). What counts as \"public assistance\"? I was on WIC when our child was born, and I've received unemployment on a couple of occasions. I don't think unemployment counts, but I'm sure WIC does. I've never gotten SNAP benefits or anything else, but is there anything I might not be thinking of?\n\nOn page 3, it asks about the father's information. We were married when kiddo was born, he is who I am divorcing on Monday. \"Has paternity been established?\" We never did any DNA testing or anything, but he's the father. Do I answer \"yes\" to that?\n\nOn page 4, it's continuing questions about dad. It wants \"Father's name\" and \"Mother's (maiden) name\". That's my son's father's parents, right? And why would they care about that? \n\nThen it asks if he's ever received public assistance. Since we were married when I received WIC, should I list that for him? *ETA*: He DID qualify for and receive tuition assistance through WIA in 2010 -- does that count?\n\nI'm probably reading too into some of these that should be obvious. But thank you for any help! :)","title":"[OH] Quick questions about form JFS 07076 (Application for Child Support Services)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447051883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s3tpa\/used_kik_how_fucked_am_i_usa_california\/","id":"3s3tpa","body":"I'm 15 in high school and I started trading nudes over kik, I never entered my phone number but I did enter an email and used my wifi. People didn't know it was me, but I ended up receiving and distributing nude photos that were not of me, and were of minors. People are now talking about going to the cops to try and track me down, no one knows it is me but I am nervous the cops will track me down and I will be charged for possession and distribution of child porn. So legaladvice, how fucked am I?","title":"Used Kik, how fucked am I? (USA) (California)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507159335,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74c1yq\/pennsylvania_got_kicked_out_of_a_college_class\/","id":"74c1yq","body":"This isn't for me, but my girlfriend, and we're trying to do what we can to get her reinstated before she gets kicked out of her housing because she was withdrawn from a class.\n\nMy girlfriend started experiencing a lot of pain, and is at an elevated risk of a blood clot. This pain includes body pain, massive pain in her chest, and migraines. We went to the hospital 2 separate nights because of this. On one of those nights, we were there until 5 in the morning. She's been missing these classes due to said pain.\n\nWhat we have are doctors notes from the hospital with documentation. Another issue the professor had was the fact she didn't email her at all during her medical issues. However, my girlfriend swears she emailed her (she might not have) but does have emails she sent to her other teachers, keeping them up to date. On top of all that, she's been having an issue using the software to keep doing her homework outside of class.\n\nSo I guess what I'm trying to ask, is that is there anything we can do for her legally? If due to her being in the hospital, there's someone we can legally keep her in the class? If she loses this class, she gets kicked out of housing, and possibly disowned from her parents. This will screw her schooling up to the point where she can't continue, and possibly change her life forever. This is all due to her going through a very rough spot in terms of her health. Is there anyone we can get involved to help? She's already gone to the records office and they said the teacher should reinstate her, but the teacher does not seem to be letting up. My girlfriend is willing to make up whatever she possibly can and to do whatever she needs to to pass this class if she stays in. If this isn't exactly what this sub is for, I'm sorry, I'm just really trying to help her out.\n\nTL;DR - Girlfriend got kicked out of class for being sick. She has documentation of her doctors visits.","title":"(Pennsylvania) Got kicked out of a college class due to medical reasons.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1568960360,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d6qrx7\/wa_let_a_friend_drive_my_new_150cc_scooter_around\/","id":"d6qrx7","body":"My friend and I both passed our motorcycle endorsement class together, he went on to buy a motorcycle but rarely rode it as he was an inexperienced driver. I've spent years driving powerful scooters in North Africa so I continued riding. I taught this friend how to ride scooters on my old 50cc before we got the endorsement, to the point that he was generally proficient in riding and I trusted him pretty well.\n\nJust bought a Taotao 150cc Powermax used and got it registered. I brought it to work to show it off, and after taking my friend for a couple of laps of the parking lot, asked him if he wanted to try. He drove, took my helmet (I went without as passenger) and drove us around at \\~10MPH. Right as he gets close to the edge of the first lap, we see a large pickup truck rolling straight towards the tight corner. Instead of applying the brakes, he panics and overshoots slightly to the middle, right in the path of the truck, which barrels right into us. The scooter is completely destroyed, I suffered a scrape on my ass, my friend got some road rash on his leg.\n\nThe truck driver turns out to be the CEO of a medium-sized company in our office park. He quickly signals that he wants to take care of this without involving his insurance and I agree, as the value of the bike is around \\~$850 USD. No pictures were taken or insurance information exchanged, but contact numbers were exchanged. I told the owner of the truck I would calculate damages and then send him an estimate. My friend then leaves to go see a doctor as his arm is a bit sore. The doctor suspects that he pulled or damaged his rotator cuff.\n\nThe truck driver reached out and offered to pay 85% of the cost of the scooter ($750) as he considered it a partial fault, but only if me, my friend and the truck driver all signed a waiver releasing each other of all liability.\n\nMy friend is convinced that he was completely in the right and that the truck driver was too far to the left and hit us. My friend is afraid that his pulled\/damaged rotator cuff may require months of healing therapy, and he is thinking of recouping the costs from the truck driver. Therefore, he is hesitant and does not want to sign such a waiver.\n\nThe truck driver told me today he has dashcam footage and building security footage (that he's working on letting me have access to by tomorrow) showing the scooter clear as day driving fast and turning wide right into the path of the truck. From my recollection of the incident, I believe the truck driver as I remember feeling that my friend was overshooting the corner and panic-breaking.\n\nTruck driver says his offer stands until next week, but if he cannot get all three parties to sign the release, he will \"turn the matter over to his lawyers and his insurance\".\n\n**1. I, the passenger, was not wearing a helmet, which is against the law in the state of Washington** (which is why we decided to go around the parking lot at \\~10mph and not go out on the street in front of the complex)\n\n**2. The scooter technically is powerful enough to qualify as a motorcycle, meaning it must be insured. I just purchased the scooter, so I did not have it insured yet**\n\nIt would be sad to lose the potential $750 towards a new scooter, but I am actually much more afraid that my friend's indecisiveness will cause truck driver's insurance and potential legal council to get involved. Truck driver claims his fender is now bent, and as such his insurance will attempt to hold my insurance responsible, and the fact that no insurance was on the scooter will surely be discovered.\n\nCan someone advise me what penalties I may face if this does happen, and what my best move should be at this point, beyond trying to convince my friend to sign the agreement?\n\n​\n\nThanks!","title":"[WA] Let a friend drive my new 150cc scooter around the parking lot at low speeds, slammed into by F350 - Now caught in the middle between the friend and truck owner","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1571581575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkka40\/assets_after_step_mother_passes\/","id":"dkka40","body":"Second wife inherited everything after father's death. All his children were completely disinherited. When the second wife dies, will the assets pass to her children or would they have to go to the father's children?","title":"Assets after step mother passes.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1413600065,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jkr8b\/seattle_wa_business_partner_first_forced_me_out\/","id":"2jkr8b","body":"Here's the story, followed by my questions..\n\n1) I wanted to open a restaurant. The landlord of the building it was in, lets call him \"Jim\" (not real name..), wanted the previous tenants out.I did not have the funds to buy the restaurant myself. I offered him a solution where I would act as Managing Partner and he would be a Silent Partner. This arrangement guaranteed me $2000\/mo salary and a 5% ownership until I could afford to purchase more shares. I also cosigned for a $20,000 loan with Jim to fund the opening costs and orders etc.. We open. I do not personally sign a lease as my partner is also the landlord and owner.\n\n2) Long story short, my partner loses the building in a lawsuit. He is no longer the building owner or my (our) landlord. I DO sign a 10 year lease with Jim with our new landlords. He now also has no other real sources of income, so he decides he wants to take over the restaurant and act as Managing Partner as well, thinking he could show a better profit. I offer to let him buy my share out (about $15,000), but he says he doesn't have the cash right now. He offers to pay me $1000\/mo to let him use the concept, my menus and art, staff, etc.., until he can start to pay off the $15k chunk he owes, maybe 6 months to a year from now. I agree, and gave him a few weeks on the first payment because he says he's broke. \n\n3) I return three weeks later to collect my first $1000 payment. He flat out refuses. After reminding him of our arrangement and his debt to me, he told me I wouldn't be getting anything from him. I returned to the restaurant that evening to pick up my personal items, art, speakers, laptop, etc.. The chef informed me that Jim had been in before me and requested my laptop (it had been used by the managers to type menus, recipes, scheduling, NO financials at all..). I collected what I could and left because I didn't want to cause a scene, and I have another laptop at home. \n\n4)A few days later, I realize my Microsoft account password (the one that logs you into Windows 8) has been changed without my knowledge. I reset the password, it sends a link to my Gmail account. After trying to login, I realize that has been passord changed as well. Again, reset the password through security questions, and gained access to my account. My emails tipped me off to my iTunes password being reset also, which I still don't have access back to as he has reset my security questions as well as the recovery email. \nThis was my personal laptop, and my personal email, completely different from my restaurant email. \n\n5) On the Microsoft account, he used his own email address to reset the password, so I have 100% positive proof it was him. Microsoft provided times and IP addresses, it was pretty easy. \n\n6) I confronted him in person and emailed demanding my laptop and iTunes passwords be returned. In person, he first told me he didn't know where my laptop was, then he told me he would see what he could do, and finally ended by calling me a motherf*cker and speeding off in his truck.\n\nI still have no laptop or iTunes password. Not to mention, what about my $15,000, the investment from half of the loan, or ANY money for that matter! I son't have the extra money to drag him into court for fun, soooo...\n\nDo I have a case, and if so what kind?\nWould I be better off dealing with law enforcement and civil court?\nWould a lawyer be a good investment?\nAre there contingency options for cases like this?\n\nThank you so much for taking the time to read my post!","title":"[Seattle, WA] Business partner first \"forced\" me out to the tune of $15k+, then my hacked personal email, iTunes, MS accounts, won't give back my laptop. What can I do?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570023899,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcaena\/i_think_my_employer_is_trying_to_hack_into_my\/","id":"dcaena","body":"I called in sick this morning (I really am sick) and not long after I called my supervisor, someone tried to connect on my Facebook account today and the location of the connection attempt is the city my supervisor lives in.\n\nThe timing is highly suspicious since it's barely a few minutes after my call, which makes me believe he's the one trying to hack into it. I feel like this is a huge violation of my privacy if it's really him.\n\n\nIf it's him and I find a way to prove it without a doubt, what can I legally do about it? My contract has no clause regarding social media beside \"not harming the company reputation\". It's certainly not legal for an employer to try to hack into a personal social media account of one of their employees?\n\nI live in Ontario, Canada.","title":"I think my employer is trying to hack into my personal Facebook account. What can I do if it is the case?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1541083796,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ta2uz\/my_mother_fraudulently_used_a_durable_poa_that_i\/","id":"9ta2uz","body":"\n...at Schwab. This is money I\u2019ve lived off of for almost a decade, only pulling from when necessary. The money now resides in a new account, still under my name, but I have zero access to it. She certainly can\u2019t have access to it, right? I\u2019ve made it very clear that there is no longer a valid POA to all parties multiple times (per Schwab\u2019s advice to \u2018protect myself\u2019). Schwab has been kind, indicated that the fraud department would have to open an investigation, but I can\u2019t say they\u2019ve been helpful. I\u2019ve been promised, twice, a return phone call with an update from the fraud team. Calls never come. So far, nothing has happened. \n\nMy mother also says she is not required to provide me with any of my personal documents she has in her safe (I\u2019m 27!) and will not give me my birth certificate, ss card, tax returns, contracts I\u2019ve signed(or she\u2019s forged, who knows), copies of trusts, even the real estate docs and inspection report on a house she had bought but was not taking care of, so she asked me to buy it from her earlier this year because she had nothing liquid to pay her taxes with (so she says) and she knew I happened to have just around a liquid $1.5M to purchase it. So I wrote her a check. That was when I used to trust my mother. \n\nI live in this house now. Oh look, a few more spots of black mold appeared overnight. Super. \n\nI\u2019m so sorry if this is too lengthy,  I can explain why I believe my mother is doing these things but I didn\u2019t think it was necessary. Just ask. \n\nThank you so much in advance if you take the time to read this and respond thoughtfully with any kind of information you think would help me,  I do realize I will probably most certainly have to hire a lawyer. Thoughts? Thank you again. ","title":"My mother fraudulently used a Durable POA (that I had revoked months prior - not sure how she pulled this off - & she will not say) to authorize our shared Investment Manager to perform a bank sweep of my entire personal savings & investment account...","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1445740155,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3q3t9k\/louisiana_landlord_wants_to_sell_our_house_before\/","id":"3q3t9k","body":"We have rented this house for 22 years, and recently the landlord passed away and his wife and sons want to sell the house. We figured it was coming, but we got a phone call from the management property telling us they want us to move out before they put the house on the market since we have so many restrictions when it comes to showing the house to prospective buyers (we have 4 dogs, I work nights, so we don't want people just showing up without us there or when I am sleeping). They gave us until the end of November, but our lease isn't up until the end of December. \n\nSince they did give us at least 30 day notice, we weren't sure if it could be enforced, and as I said, we have rented from them for 22 years with no problems, so my mom felt like it was a slap in the face to not give us at least until the end of our lease - so we don't really *want* to fight if that's how they are going to be. We don't mind moving out by the end of November, but I am curious if we can't find a place by then, if we have to move out or if we can ask to stay until the end of December. ","title":"[Louisiana] Landlord wants to sell our house before the lease is up","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569873803,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbhcnl\/conflict_with_an_employee_of_the_landlord\/","id":"dbhcnl","body":"I'm in NY state\nMyself and two friends have been renting from a company since August. The house is a two apartment house, ours is upstairs and the downstairs one houses the maintenance person for the company and his wife. Since day one he has been in a state of conflict with us and has tried to make it very clear he's in charge and it's \"his house\". Him and his wife also regularly smoke cigarettes indoors and I have been woken up by cigarette smoke in my bedroom more than once. The lease says it's a smoke free property and we have mentioned this issue to the landlord multiple times. The maintenance man has reduced the amount of indoor smoking they do but it hasn't stopped. \nA week ago one of my housemates smoked a bit of marijuana in our home (decriminalized but not legal up to 2oz in NY). That day he called the landlords to complain about the smell and the landlords have been very aggressive towards us, suspecting us of selling pot (we own no scales in the house and removed the little amount we had since the incident), and have threatened to get the police involved. Our neighbors in houses nearby smoke pot regularly and the maintenance guy has falsely blamed us for their smell multiple times. \nThere is more to this than I've told but for the sake of keeping it short it's been a hostile environment from day one with the neighbor telling on us for everything, even when those things aren't violations of law or lease. I have two questions: first, do we have anything to worry about in regard to the marijuana issue, especially now that we don't own any? Second, does the fact that this isn't a smoke free environment and never has been leave the landlords in violation of their own lease? If so is it enough for us to break the lease and move out?","title":"Conflict with an employee of the landlord","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1502922436,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u5nnb\/update_landlord_stealing_electricity\/","id":"6u5nnb","body":"Previous thread: https:\/\/redd.it\/6u2he2\n\nI have written confirmation from the property manager that they are billing me for the electrical usage for a maintenance garage. They are requesting me to state what solutions i have in mind. Ultimately, i want out of my lease. How much, if any, financial compensation should i expect\/request due to breach of contract and inflated electric bills for a year?\n\nHenderson, NV","title":"[UPDATE] Landlord Stealing Electricity","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553165216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b3p1oe\/update_boyfriend_witnessed_a_fight_the_other\/","id":"b3p1oe","body":"After a few days, I convinced my boyfriend to make a statement. He was initially uncomfortable because the night of the incident, the true aggressor\u2019s significant other was pressuring people to make false statements. His friend called the non-emergency line to explain that they wanted to make a statement. Initially, the officer thought they were just trying to add an additional statement to support what was already known. When he realized they were providing new evidence, he stopped the phone call and arrived at their house within ten minutes. He took their statement, told them it could significantly alter this man\u2019s case, and said they should expect a follow up call in a few months and also be prepared to be subpoenaed if it comes to that. He chided them pretty hard for waiting so long to make a statement.\n\nI\u2019m deleting this account, so I apologize that you won\u2019t get an update on the final outcome of the case. I hope this is enough resolution at least!","title":"[Update] Boyfriend witnessed a fight. The other witnesses all lied and the man was charged with a felony assault.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1552182765,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/azau62\/never_enrolled_in_healthcare_through_past\/","id":"azau62","body":"I\u2019m in the US- Florida. \nLast year I worked Jan-May at a mental hospital, and I started working there June 2017 . My parents still have me under their insurance, so I didn\u2019t enroll in my employer\u2019s health insurance. I filed my taxes already, but I just received the 1095-C Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage form. It said I paid out $130.54 each month, totaling a little over $650. I think I would\u2019ve noticed that coming out, but I was living alone, single and it was my first full time gig out of college. My boyfriend worked there with me and told me I need to call them and try to get this money back because he thinks they illegally enrolled me in their program or stole the money from me. I have no way to know if they did this or not. All I know is that I purposely did not enroll; in fact, I filled out paperwork stating that I had other insurance and was opting out of their plan. Is there a way for me to get this money back or I\u2019m not sure what I should do. Any advice would be helpful!","title":"Never enrolled in healthcare through past employer and I just received a 1095-C form","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571599165,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkobaa\/is_this_illegal\/","id":"dkobaa","body":"\\[US - NEW YORK\\]\n\nHi everyone,\n\n  \nI just have a quick legal question regarding something I did years ago. Around 3-4 years ago, I was interested in nudism and the nudist culture, so I decided to do some research on it. I watched some videos about it on YouTube although I was concerned about one video. This one video I looked into that was a preview\/trailer, although the link in the bio (which brought you to another website with this one video) was the full video. The full video had fully-nude minors who were running around. There was nothing sexual about it, and I don't think it was the illegal stuff. I vividly remember that the website had a section asking if the video was legal, and the website said yes as it was non-sexual and even gave an example on how if every parent who posted an image of there child in the bath would be arrested if it was illegal. I visited the page twice in the span of one week. \n\n  \nI'm still a teenager, and I'm going to be graduating soon. I don't want to have the thought in the back of the head that my life will be ruined because of this. I'm a good person, not interested in pedophelia or any of that stuff. I'm very disgusted by that type of stuff and have NO interest in it. I'm very worried that my actions from when I was younger in the past will come back and haunt me. My question is did I do anything illegal? Will I get arrested and charged? What are the chances that I'll get in trouble?  \n\n\nThank you for your advice.","title":"Is this illegal?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1540943846,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9stjo0\/landlord_under_charged_us_rent_for_6_months_ny\/","id":"9stjo0","body":"Me and my wife have rented a 1 bedroom townhouse for two 1 year leases and then a shorter 3 month lease. The shorter 3 month lease was supposed to be about $260 more per month than the 1 year lease, however when we went to pay rent we were still being charged our regular 1 year lease rate. The three month lease was up at the end of August and since then we have still been paying the same amount as the 1 year lease. \n\nNow we want to renew our lease with the same company and move into one of their 3 bedroom townhouses. However they are telling us that before we can get a new lease we have to sign the old 3 month lease again. Why would they need us to resign an old lease? Do we have to pay for their mistake of under charging us for the last 6 months? Any advice is helpful!  ","title":"Landlord under charged us rent for 6 months (NY)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553632811,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b5uykt\/gfs_brother_needs_to_go\/","id":"b5uykt","body":"Title. My girlfriend lives with her mom and brother. Her brother is unemployed, and has serious anger issues that he constantly takes out on my gf and her mom. Theyre tired of the verbal (and in a couple cases physical) abuse. But theyre afraid to call the cops because they think without any evidence of this the cops wont be able to do anything and that\u2019ll just piss him off more. What can they or i do? ","title":"Gf\u2019s brother needs to go","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1412089224,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2hw7ku\/mo_getting_rid_of_a_16yo_warrant\/","id":"2hw7ku","body":"When I was in college and 20 years old I received a ticket for a minor in possession of alcohol. Paid a lawyer$200 and he got me a SIS. I did my 40 hours of community service and thought all was well. Apparently paperwork wasn't done correctly and it shows I did not do my community service. So I have a bench warrant for the MIP ticket. I don't live in the town that I got the ticket in anymore and really want this resolved. Being a parent of two young children I also don't want to have to do community service again for something so old. Should I just look up a random lawyer and call him or would a call to the prosecuting attorney be better?\n\n\n\neta:spelling\n","title":"[MO] Getting rid of a 16yo warrant","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1538936806,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m7dr1\/recieved_a_speeding_ticket_prepayment_site_was\/","id":"9m7dr1","body":"Hello everyone! As the title says I recieved a ticket for speeding. Since I'm in college and funds are tight I waited until the week before my hearing to pay my ticket online on the VA courts website. So when I tried to access the site on friday it was down the whole day. I made sure to try other devices and internet connections to make sure that it wasnt just my phone which it wasnt. I found a pdf that stated to email the site's webmaster to notify them if the site was down, which I did but not until the next day because I assumed I still had one more business day. Unfortunately I forgot that Monday is a holiday (Columbus Day) and now the site no longer provides me with the option to prepay since there are no more business days before my hearing. Anyways my question is, if I call them on Tuesday (the date of my hearing) how can I prove that the site was down and that I couldn't make the payment? The only \"proof\" I have is that email I sent to the webmaster, but that doesnt really prove that the site was down. I'm hoping that I'm not the only person this happend to and they are aware of the problem. ","title":"Recieved a speeding ticket. Prepayment site was down.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571420163,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djqw4f\/body_shop_and_insurance_keeping_my_car_longer\/","id":"djqw4f","body":"I don\u2019t know if this is the right place to ask but I\u2019m trying to see what my possible next steps are regarding my insurance and the body shop who is fixing my car dicking me around.\n\nBackground: \n\nI got in a solo car accident Sept 19th at 2AM (technically Sept 20th). I was in the left lane on a highway, veered while messing with my radio and my car hit and dragged along the medium. Only the front right tire area was where the impact happened but I messed up the suspension so I couldn\u2019t drive it home. My insurance roadside picked it up and brought it to a local shop that didn\u2019t actually fix cars there. They then transferred my car two days later to an actual shop. Originally, on Sept 23rd I was told it would take 2-3 weeks to fix my car. Around Oct 1st they \u201cfind additional\u201d damage and say that the original due date (Oct 8th) has now been pushed back a week. I also find out my car was transferred to ANOTHER shop. Oct 14th rolls around and according to my insurance agent, the shop tells them after they fixed my suspension there is even MORE additional damage they found and it\u2019ll be another two weeks. THEN I get a voicemail yesterday (three days later) that my car will now not be done until NOVEMBER 8th even though the shop has stated SEVERAL times that my car is high priority. I was VERY patient with them until they told me the new date and now I\u2019m pissed. They literally just keep pushing it back.   \nCurrent Day: \n\nThis can\u2019t just be me but who takes SIX WEEKS to fix a car that wasn\u2019t totaled when they have 4 hours a day to work on my car. My agent wasn\u2019t even sure the shop had started attempting repairs they asked them to make weeks ago. Thank god I\u2019m only paying my deductible but this is ridiculous. I need my car. I stupidly didn\u2019t have rental insurance so I am paying $220 a week out of pocket for a god damn rental car. To me it seems the shop just keeps finding additional damage to milk the insurance company for more money. This is my first car and accident (I\u2019m only 23) and my mom said this should not be happening and she\u2019s never even heard of a car taking more than three weeks. My mom wants me to threaten legal action against Progressive (my insurance) and say that we are going to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau about how my agent\/insurance company is working with sketchy shops and is not actively doing his job (mainly to scare them into doing their job). I haven\u2019t had my car for a month but I still am required to pay my insurance even tho I\u2019m not driving or even in possession of my car.   \nSo my questions are as follows:\n\n1. Can I threaten legal action?\n2. Can I demand they waive my last months bill since I am not driving the car? \n3. Can I demand they find a better shop to fix my car? \n4. Is there anything I can do to get my car back?","title":"Body Shop and Insurance Keeping My Car Longer than Needed","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1553702818,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b660xy\/did_i_break_any_laws\/","id":"b660xy","body":"I don\u2019t even know how to start this except to say I haven\u2019t slept in 2 weeks since it happened and I\u2019m just constantly anxious and stressed about it.\n\nI have met a guy, call him #1, sporadically over the last few years for casual sex, NSA. He always reaches out to me and it really was a few times here and there with weeks or months in between. I know he has kids and I think he\u2019s married. Just FWB.\n\nI have access to a private spot - not either of our homes.\n\nEverything was fine, no issues and seemed like a nice guy. He was always trying to use this space alone or with another woman and I always said no as I need to be discreet and I always felt like he was up to something.\n\nHe was meeting other people and so I met another guy, #2, also sporadically. After a while, he suggested we video ourselves and I agreed as long as it was somewhat anonymous.\n\nSo I would wear a mask, sometimes a wig and we videoed with a covert charger camera that #2 gave me as well as an iPhone from the side view.\n\nI met #2 on a Monday and didn\u2019t send him the video, right away as usual and then I met #1 on that Thursday. I had the covert charger camera in the room which turns on when I hit the light switch and I think he saw it. It wasn\u2019t particularly hidden at all.\n\nHe then asked me to check the door and after I did and returned, I saw the covert camera was gone. It was right at face level and not particularly covert.\n\nWe did our thing and I didn\u2019t see it anywhere and was too nervous to check his pants but I should have and didn\u2019t - mistake 1.\n\nI then said, I know you have my covert cam, you can look at the video but you can\u2019t keep it - mistake 2.\n\nWell he pretended like he didn\u2019t know anything, didn\u2019t acknowledge my comment and just carried on some mindless conversation about his eyes hurting.\n\nHe said he\u2019d call the next day and walked out and of course he didn\u2019t call or text and I haven\u2019t heard from him in 2 weeks.\n\nSo the only thing on the covert cam is my meeting with #2 and that\u2019s all. Since #1 took the cam before we did anything, he and us weren\u2019t recorded at all.\n\nI\u2019m so worried he\u2019s going to try to blackmail me somehow or show my work or any number of crazy things.\n\nI don\u2019t think I did anything wrong and certainly not to him but now I\u2019m just paranoid that somehow, someway I\u2019ll be in trouble.\n\nI have no idea what to do and I haven\u2019t heard anything at all.\n\nI\u2019m in NJ and it was not a streaming cam or anything fancy, just a usb plug cam according to #2 who has no idea it\u2019s been taken.\n\nWhat do I do?! If any lawyers or police have any insight, I\u2019d appreciate it. I have certainly learned my lesson but I\u2019m anxious all day and I can\u2019t go on this way!!!\n\nK (also my reddit says I\u2019m a 19m, no idea how that happened or how to change it but I\u2019m a 35f!!!\n\nThanks for any help in advance!!!!!","title":"Did I Break Any Laws?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1538940147,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9m7wa4\/caught_my_girlfriend_cheating_on_me_facing_felony\/","id":"9m7wa4","body":"So things between my girlfriend and I have been bad for awhile and things came to a head Wednesday night. I\u2019d been using my girlfriends google location history to sort of track where she had been going, since I\u2019d caught her in a few lies already. Wednesday she initially told me she wasn\u2019t feeling well and was going to bed early, but her location showed she was at a theater, so I texted her to see if her story changed. No, she said she was at home. I stewed on that for a few hours. \n\nI couldn\u2019t sleep so I decided to go over to confront her about my suspicions. I saw an unfamiliar car in the driveway and I decided to go in through the back door. Her back door is broken so if you turn the handle a certain way, it pops open (This is common knowledge among her friends and family, she hardly ever even uses the key to unlock it herself, it\u2019s basically open all the time). \n\nWhen I went inside it was really obvious that there was another man in the house, I saw his shoes at the front door and at that point my mind was made up, and something sort of broke inside me. I\u2019m really not a confrontational guy, never even been in a fight before. This is a week of firsts. Anyways, to get to the point, I walked in on my girlfriend riding some random guy twice her age. I hit him, she hit me, he ran, and then I grabbed her hair and slapped her. Not proud at all. The altercation deescalated from there. \n\nGirlfriend called the police and I was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery and felony burglary of an unoccupied dwelling. I was released on bond early Friday morning and have been given a court date for the end of the month. I really don\u2019t have the money for an attorney so I\u2019m going to end up stuck with a public defender. I have yet to meet with anybody yet, and I was wondering...how fucked am I? What are the sentences for these sorts of things and how much of an uphill battle will this be? I\u2019m also concerned because DCF called me this morning wanting to schedule a home visit (I have a 12 year old who was at my home at the time of my arrest, an officer picked her up and dropped her off with her uncle) and I don\u2019t want to lose my kid. \n\nAm I likely to face jail time for this? Do I need an attorney for DCF before they investigate? If I end up being convicted of any of these things or if DCF is involved, could that effect custody with my girlfriend in the future (she\u2019s 5 months pregnant right now)? I\u2019m just overwhelmed and heartbroken and don\u2019t know how to get out of this mess. ","title":"Caught my girlfriend cheating on me, facing felony and misdemeanor charges.","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1542193297,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wz4cx\/car_accident_need_advice_please_help\/","id":"9wz4cx","body":"Two months ago I was on my way home from work when a box truck pulled out from a side street without stopping at a stop sign. I have two witnesses that my personal injury lawyer has spoken to that confirm he blew a stop sign and didn\u2019t even close the back of the truck.\n\nI tried speeding up and going around him ended up colliding with another car who was speeding and basically got pushed into the truck anyways. Totaled my car and flipped the box truck on the side. \n\nPolice didn\u2019t ticket anyone however in the report  it states that a third witness said me and the car that Hit me were racing. But we weren\u2019t side by side at all and I know I wasn\u2019t racing him. Police also put in the report that the truck was still sticking out clearly in the left lane of traffic.\n\nSince the accident my lawyers and the insurance companies have pulled the black boxes on all three cars. Mine and the car that I collided with show we were speeding at the time of the crash.  However I was not racing and it\u2019s really worrying me that they are trying to claim this.\n\nToday I get a letter from my insurance saying they are attempting to investigate this further and they are making a \u201creservation of right.\u201d Basically saying \u201cit appears the vehicles involved may have been racing at the time of the accident.\u201d\n\nJust kind of worried and want to protect myself. I\u2019m not dealing with a defense attorney just a personal injury lawyer as I was pretty messed up after the crash. Any advice is welcome! I am in South Florida BTW.\n\n\n\n","title":"Car Accident - Need Advice (Please help)","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1502905993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6u3snj\/landlord_is_charging_me_for_normal_wearandtear\/","id":"6u3snj","body":"I moved into this apartment on July 1st 2016. I moved out July 31st 2017. We paid a security deposit of $600.\n\nAbout a week ago, I received the security deposit invoice from my landlord. The $600 was gone because of utilities, cleaning, etc. On top of that, they wanted $200 more for repainting. There was absolutely zero paint damage outside of \"normal wear and tear\". We didn't mess up the walls or anything.\n\nThe worst paint \"damage\" that I saw was some grimy looking dust on the ceiling from a large fire that started on the building next to us last August.\n\nAccording to the security deposit invoice, they charge $600 every 36 months to repaint, but they gave us $400 in \"wear and tear credit\" because we were only tenants for 12 months. They think that's as much credit as they're entitled to give us.\n\nI responded to their email saying that California law states that tenants are not entitled to pay for any repainting of \"normal wear and tear\". We went back and forth for two emails, and not *once* did they mention any damage outside of \"normal wear and tear\" that we supposedly caused.\n\nThey just emailed me saying that if I do not pay the $200 in full by this Friday, they would be sending my account to collections. According to them, we agreed to this in the lease. Is that clause in the lease enforceable, even if it goes against CA tenant law?\n\nI think all of the charges that reduced the security deposit to zero were fair (such as cleaning), but I don't think we owe them any more money on top of that. I don't want this to mess up my credit.\n\nWhat can I do?","title":"Landlord is charging me for normal wear-and-tear repainting. [CA]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539648154,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oibt1\/forensically_stable_digital_evidence_cook_county\/","id":"9oibt1","body":"Hi All,\n\nIn TX, but event happened in IL.\n\nAfter leaving an abusive exfiancee I had forgotten to log out of a desktop computer that we shared (I was not able to access the computer physically, but should have changed passwords sooner). She deleted some of my writing and associated files from my Google Drive.\n\n​\n\nI can screenshot the login info showing that machine logged on to my account when the files were deleted. Is this stable enough to present in court if needed?\n\n​\n\nThanks in advance!","title":"Forensically Stable Digital Evidence? (Cook County, IL)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1553319245,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4fhv6\/family_member_wants_to_take_pieces_of_will\/","id":"b4fhv6","body":"My father passed away in October, and in his will he left everything(not much) to my younger sister and I. My parents were divorced, I lived with dad, sister with mother. Mother is estranged and I am an independent now and receive no support from her financially or emotionally. Part of my dad\u2019s belongings were the titles to 2 cars, one was mine and one was his. Both are junkers and not safe to drive and my sister is at the age to begin driving, she wants the cars and I agreed only if she would sell them and use the money to buy a safe car. My dad owed a lot of money to people, mechanics, credit cards, IRS, etc. and so I\u2019ve been waiting for probate, but my mother had come out of the woods insisting that I give the titles, they\u2019re both in Dad\u2019s name, to the cars to my her so she can sell them. I\u2019m under the impression that everything has to go through probate and I\u2019m worried to hand them over because if they\u2019re sold, and then the cars are claimed by the mechanics, I won\u2019t have the titles and could get in trouble. So could I legally hand the titles over and avoid any trouble with court?","title":"Family Member wants to take pieces of will outside of probate to avoid court","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553877461,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6zhwj\/madrid_spain_landlord_keeps_letting_more_and_more\/","id":"b6zhwj","body":"I'm studying abroad in Madrid and I rent a room of a shared apartment. \n\nIn the advertisements it states that the maximum capacity of the apartment is 5 people and that couples are not allowed.  When I visited the flat the landlord told me this also. After I moved in I found out that there were actually 6 people because a walk-in cupboard had been converted into an additional room a couple of months prior. Then at the beginning of this month (March), a couple was allowed to move into one of the rooms bringing the total number of people up to 7.\n\nThis has made the living situation really miserable because the apartment is not made for more than 5 people. Among other things, I have to queue for the bathrooms in the morning, there isn't enough space in the kitchen\/common area\/fridges, and it is creating conflict between some of the other occupants.\n\nBecause of this I want to move out ASAP, but my lease doesn't end for another 3 months. I sent an email to the rental agency saying I wasn't happy with what they had done and that I wanted to leave in a month (so that they had time to find my replacement) with my deposit returned.\n\nThe problem is the there is nothing in the contract that mentions the number of occupants. While I saved copies of two different versions of the ad that state \"no couples\" and \"maximum capacity of 5 people\", which I attached to my email, their response was basically that I signed the contract so if I leave early I forfeit the deposit. \n\n​\n\nIs there anything I can do in this situation (to either leave early with the deposit or get some kind of reasonable compensation for the remaining months) or am I screwed because the contract doesn't mention anything about the number of occupants? \n\nThis is the first time that I have rented something myself. What should I do before I sign rental contracts in the future to ensure that things like this can't happen? Do I have to get such things added to the contract?","title":"[Madrid, Spain] Landlord keeps letting more and more people move into the apartment where I live despite the advertised maximum number of occupants","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570213329,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ddb8rg\/nebraska_uninvited_guest_trashed_our_hallway\/","id":"ddb8rg","body":"A friend was down on her luck so I let her stay at my apartment, after her time was up she told me she went to a battered women's shelter, I found out she didn't so 3 days later she snuck back into my complex and sat outside one of my neighbors doors. She had a mental breakdown and trashed the hallway spilling hairdye and white out all over the carpet, I've been cleaning all morning but the dye won't come out, could I get her charged with vandalism? I have text saying she did it and my neighbors also saw her do it. My apartment wants me to pay for it to get fixed but I cant afford fixing something she did. What do I do? Should I contact the authorities? I do not own the building and the dye is in the hallway outside my apartment","title":"(Nebraska) uninvited guest trashed our hallway, legal help?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569325583,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8m06u\/ca_parking_ticket_for_parking_near_a_red_line_no\/","id":"d8m06u","body":"Hi, \nTwo Canadians visiting Los Angeles. Not that it matters, but specifying in case we wanna contest as we won't be able to come back. \n\nWe went to Venice Beach yesterday. We parked our car on a side street. Only two signs near by. No parking on Tuesdays between 9 and 2 for sweeping. So we parked there. \n\nWe came back to a ticket. $95 US. For parking near a red line. \n\n- First, we had no ideas as Canadian this was a thing. Red line. We looked and couldn't find it. But it's a small tiny line on the curb. \n\n- Second, it's barely there and you can't read the writings because the paint is chipping and said red line and white paint is barely visible. So there's no way to even know what it says. \n\n- Third, we feel dumb for not knowing it's an actual thing here, but we would like to contest it. Normally, we pay our tickets if we feel it's deserved but how could we have known if there was no indication?\n\nThanks for your input legal advices.","title":"[CA] Parking ticket for parking near a red line. No signs indicating that. Paint chipped to hell.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446127385,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qpd8z\/fl_vehicle_loan_advice_needed_kinda_long\/","id":"3qpd8z","body":"In February of this year I went to a local Nissan dealership to purchase a used car. I was offered a 2012 Nissan Versa, sticker price was listed at $12k. I signed a sales agreement and put $2,000 down. The dealership told me they would negotiate my loan, I advised I wanted it to go through my credit union, but they said it would most likely go through \u201csomeone else\u201d. I was allowed to drive off the lot and was told my first payment of $277 would be due April 7, and to be on the lookout for my loan contract in the mail. \n\n\nFebruary goes by and I received nothing in the mail. Second week in March I began calling the dealership, requesting information about my loan. I received a confused and vague, \u201cWe\u2019ll have to call you back.\u201d I never received a call. April comes, and I started calling every week, prepared with money in hand, to make my first payment. No one could give me any answers, every time I called I was told I would be called back. In May, my calls started going to voicemail. First week in June, I get a paper message stuck to my door saying I need to call a 1-800 number because my car was in danger of being repossessed. This is the first time I received any information that my loan was through SANTANDER. I called and was told I was behind and that I needed to pay. I made the first month\u2019s payment only ($300) and requested my information, (and a receipt) stating I had never received their welcome packet or loan contract\/agreement. \n\nAll of June went this way, they called and demanded I pay what I was behind on, I requested my loan information, stating EVERYTHING above. I was told repeatedly, they sent it, but it wasn\u2019t until the end of June that someone happened to check my address, and we found out that the dealership had entered my address incorrectly, mixing up my old address and my new zip code. This address did not exist, and there was no way anything could have been forwarded to me. I was told my address was corrected and that I would receive my loan contract, BUT I STILL NEVER RECEIVED IT. July comes and I stupidly (so dumb, I know, I had the money, I should have just paid,) continued to refuse to pay, wanting my loan contract and information. My car was repossessed on July 10. I had to pay over $1,400 to Santander to have the release order made, and then had to pay another $400 dollars to retrieve it from impound. \n\nHere\u2019s the kicker: throughout August, September, October and now November, I have had to pay an additional $300 dollars to my $300 monthly payment. (August was when I finally received a paper statement in the mail, with only July\u2019s information, the repossession payment.) When I called October 7 to make my Oct. payment, I was advised that this additional $300 was repossession fees. I expressed I had been asked to pay a total of $595 every month since August, and asked how long I had to pay repossession fees. I was told that October\u2019s payment would be the last month of repossession fees and that in November, my payment would only be $298. When I received my November statement, the total required is $595, meaning I\u2019m still being asked to pay a repossession fee. Because of the repossession I am now at their mercy, being unable to refinance with my CU or any other loan company. They reported this to the credit bureau and now where I was rebuilding my credit and recovering, I am now back to the bottom.  \n\nIs there absolutely anything I can do? I am so overwhelmed and I can't keep making $600 payments every month. I have so far, but we are about to go into the holiday season and I am most likely going to run out of savings before Thanksgiving. Any advice would be appreciated.","title":"[FL] Vehicle loan advice needed (kinda long)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1570831043,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dglyfi\/20f_ny_will_any_mail_be_sent_to_my_house\/","id":"dglyfi","body":"I got a speeding ticket earlier this week and elected to hire a traffic attorney to take care of it for me immediately. I\u2019ve already asked him to hold any mail he would send to me, and I will just go to his office and pick it up. He\u2019s a very well known DWI attorney and has full confidence in getting this ticket bumped to just a parking violation. Mine is the only name on my cars lease, and I have my own insurance. I just don\u2019t want them to find out (atleast until it is settled and officially only a non-moving. Will anything be mailed to my house?","title":"(20F) (NY) Will any mail be sent to my house regarding my speeding ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1539798430,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p0wwy\/discussing_pay_at_work_il\/","id":"9p0wwy","body":"My girlfriend and I work for the same company and we were discussing pay at work and we both got written up because discussing pay is \u201cagainst company policy\u201d is this allowed and do I have any recourse if they are to fire me or her over this issue. ","title":"Discussing Pay at work (IL)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1542164761,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ww506\/my_sister_was_expelled_and_still_needs_to_pay_for\/","id":"9ww506","body":"My sister was expelled from High School and the family was forced to put her in another school on which most of the classes are online. It looks like she still under the same district and the same school in terms of papers but the actual classes are in another school and online. She is almost done, in May she will be graduating. However, the school just sent my father a letter saying  that  if he does not pay the fees my sister will not get her diploma. Even though my sister did not go to the school not even one day, they are making my father to pay more than $100 in fees. I don't think that is right? any suggestions on what to do? ","title":"My sister was expelled and still needs to pay for school fees","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1569641633,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/daaxet\/need_it_for_nursing_school\/","id":"daaxet","body":"Hello! I\u2019m not sure if this is the right place but i\u2019m a DACA recipient and I was wondering if we were able t obtain health insurance. (not through an employer)","title":"Need it for nursing school","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1444059788,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nl48l\/ia_tenantlandlord_law_can_my_landlord_force_me_to\/","id":"3nl48l","body":"So, my landlord has wired my entire apartment complex for cable previously. They charge tenants $35\/mo for their cable package, payable to the property management, not the cable company. The cable company says they could easily disconnect to cable service to a specified unit, but it's up to the property management about whether or not you have to pay for it. Talking to the property management, they say it isn't possible for them to cancel it (which I verified was a lie with the cable company) and that I *have* to take this cable package of theirs and pay them $35\/mo for it. \n\nCan they do that? I feel like I should be able to cancel. I've verified with the company that they can cut off the cable to my unit, so now I know that it is indeed possible. Can I approach the property management with this information to try and get them to cancel that charge? Can they even forcibly charge me that? It isn't included in the rent, and cable is not something I want or need, so saving $400+ a year would be really swell, since I won't even be using the cable. It just seems really weird to me that you can force someone to have cable and force them to pay you for it, when it could easily be cancelled, and they don't even want it to begin with. \n\nClearly IANAL, but I didn't find anything this specific or related in the Iowa code that I've read, so any help is appreciated! ","title":"[IA] Tenant\/Landlord Law -- Can my landlord force me to have a cable package?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570397041,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/de9naa\/wv_resident_never_served_papers\/","id":"de9naa","body":"I have an update to my last story. I was never served papers for a second date in court where my ex is trying to sue me for damages.(mind you cuz of her I was put away in the nut house) The court date is the 28th of October. She also got my description wrong! What are my options??","title":"Wv resident never served papers","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1408557443,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e3nt1\/im_a_swf_scared_of_the_guy_in_the_other_half_of\/","id":"2e3nt1","body":"I am a single female, and two weeks ago I began a one-year lease on a duplex in Austin, Texas. The tenant in the other half of the duplex is a single man. He was friendly at first, but three days ago he suddenly began sending me hostile text messages. In them he called me names, made confusing references to seemingly random topics, and told me several times that he doesn't want me living here and that I should move out.\n\nAfter I explicitly told him to stop contacting me, he sent almost a dozen more texts in quick succession. Then he stopped. It's now been about 24 hours since he last contacted me. \n\nThe sudden, drastic change in his attitude and his irrational messages make me think this is some kind of psychotic episode. And the fact that he is much stronger than me physically makes me feel unsafe in my house and afraid to run into him outside. I just don't know what he's capable of.\n\nOur duplex is both owned and managed by the same landlady\/realtor. What legally can I expect her to do in this situation? What would you recommend I do? Break my lease? Is there any way I can avoid moving out?\n\nJust an FYI, my landlady doesn't seem to have much tact, so I haven't told her about any of this yet for fear that she'll immediately call up my neighbor, ask him what's going on, and escalate the situation.","title":"I'm a SWF scared of the guy in the other half of my duplex. What are my landlord's responsibilities?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568507292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4dgoe\/im_a_5050_business_partner_and_now_i_want_out\/","id":"d4dgoe","body":"My business partner and I own a small s-corp together in California. Recently, I\u2019ve discovered my partner has been misusing our bank account for personal transactions and more.\n\nDue to this, I\u2019ve decided that I want out of this arrangement but don\u2019t know how. I don\u2019t want to be his partner anymore, but at the same time, I don\u2019t want to sign over 100% of the business to him. I\u2019d prefer it shut down completely than give up my ownership.\n\nHow do I go about doing this? Do I need a lawyer? Do I have grounds to sue for his part of the business due to financial impropriety?\n\nAny kind of advice or questions is appreciated, thank you!","title":"I\u2019m a 50\/50 business partner and now I want out...","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1570727446,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg14bs\/tried_to_climb_out_my_window_got_a_ridiculous\/","id":"dg14bs","body":"I\u2019m fully, completely and utterly aware I\u2019m a dumbass. I will proceed now.\n\nI was locked inside my flat and was running late to work, I was opening and for some reason the stakes felt higher than they were. I tried to climb out our kitchen window. We\u2019re the top floor. I knocked a bit of drain pipe off, had a panic attack and climbed back in. Not before my downstairs neighbour got an eye full and had a comment.\n\nSo, before my friend could fix it, downstairs reported me and I\u2019ve been issued a \u00a3200 repair bill. Thing is they mention a drain pipe (fair) but also downstairs extractor fan (not fair - I didn\u2019t go near that) as damages.\n\nI don\u2019t want to push my luck, we only have a month and a half left of our lease. But also??? \n1. Can I request they take the sum out of our deposit? \n2. How long do I have to pay it? (They said \u201cASAP\u201d in their letter) \n3. Can I contest the extractor fan or will that be pushing it? \n4. Fuck downstairs.\n\nAgain, I know I fucked up. But we all make mistakes. And I have learned I\u2019m not Spider-Man and work isn\u2019t that important.","title":"Tried to climb out my window, got a ridiculous bill from my letting agent.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1569187703,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7wtvs\/shopping_carriages_and_parking_lot\/","id":"d7wtvs","body":"Stores like Walmart have signs that say they are not liable for damages caused by shopping carts, aka if the wind blows and hits your car. Who would win in that scenario is court? What if you could prove that that location always does a bad job at maintaining the parking lot?","title":"Shopping carriages and parking lot","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569938519,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbttiu\/apartments_wont_fix_roach_problem_and_says_we\/","id":"dbttiu","body":"We recently (and I'm pretty sure our whole building as I've heard numerous other residents complain) have had a roach infestation starting in August. They have made a nest in our water heater so no matter how much cleaning we do they persist. We submitted a written ticket on August 21st to them (had talked to them before but of course can't prove it) about the roaches. After that we would go in ever week asking about it as they would never send someone out, and they'd claim they either called us (nobody did) or sent someone out and no one answered (nobody did, we had someone waiting ever time and cameras set up.) I read that this is in violation of our lease and we can move forward with breaking the lease. I tried to see about moving forward with it today, but the apartments said they needed three written statements, which for some reason does not include the work order we submitted in August.\n\nIs it true that does not count, despite being a written notice? Can we still move forward with breaking the lease? Is there any suggestions for how to get out of this God awful place?","title":"Apartments won't fix roach problem and says we can't break lease either (TX)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444674665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3ohdio\/bought_a_server_for_a_company_while_i_was\/","id":"3ohdio","body":"I was volunteering for a company and while I was there I bought a VPS for the company\/clients to use here and there. Now that I am gone who owns the VPS? It is registered under my name and I never signed it over but could the company technically own it? I am in Victoria, BC. Canada","title":"Bought a server for a company while I was volunteering for them","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1539968211,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9plouz\/in_resignation_in_lieu_of_termination\/","id":"9plouz","body":"A few weeks ago, I got called into my manager's office and was told that I was being let go. They walked me to HR, I did an exit interview and signed some papers, and left. That was that. I went about applying for jobs and was asked about if I had been terminated from a position before. Seeing as this was the first time I had been let go, I figured that yes, I had, because it wasn't my idea to leave the company, they told me I was done. It cost me an opportunity during the employment check. I was talking to a few family friends about it, and it turns out I may not have been \"formally\" terminated. I never received a letter of termination, and at no point on any of the papers I signed did it say anything about me being terminated, it looked like resignation forms. It seemed like because I wasn't fighting it (I knew I was on my way out anyway), they opted to treat it as a resignation instead. This experience has led me to have two questions:\n\n1. Was I terminated? Because employers seem to care about that part a lot.\n\n2. What's the difference between being terminated and resigning in lieu of termination? Some applications ask about only being terminated, some include resignation in lieu of termination.\n\nThis has been my first experience of leaving a job involuntarily and I really don't know anything about the process at all.","title":"[IN] Resignation in Lieu of Termination","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1506725470,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73bdj3\/usaoh_father_died_insurance_is_denying_claim\/","id":"73bdj3","body":"My dad was a rider on my moms life insurance plan with [AXA](https:\/\/us.axa.com\/axa-products\/life-insurance\/index.html).  He was supposed to continue as a rider on his insurance until his 70th birthday.  He would have turned 70 on May 31st 2017.  He passed away December 11th 2016.  When trying to file the claim my mom was told by AXA that he was dropped in November of 2016, one month before his passing.  She asked why he was dropped without notification prior to his 70th birthday and was told that November was the annual renewal month of her policy (she got life insurance November 11th 1989) so that is why he was dropped in November.  She never received a notice of him being dropped.  After this conversation we tried to file a claim online but never heard back and also never got any written notice of the denied claim. \n  \nI recently contacted AXA on my moms behalf and they repeated that he was dropped in November so the claim could not be processed.  I mentioned that the annual report from November 2016 showed nothing indication that he was dropped.  The representative who was reviewing it agreed that he had not been dropped.  He said that there was an additional report sent to out in December that showed he was dropped and a notice (that my mom never received) sent out in November.  The rep also stated that the info about him being dropped the November closest to his 70th birthday would be in the contract my mom signed.  I reviewed the contract and it was not in there.  The rep did the same and could not locate it either.  \n  \nI then let the rep know that if he was supposed to be dropped November 11th closest to his 70th birthday then he should have been dropped in November of 2017.  His birthday is the 31st of May and that makes November 11th 2017 closer to his 70th birthday then November 11 2016.  The rep agreed.  \n  \nInstead of approving the claim I was told to write a detailed letter to the claims department and see what happens.  \n  \nMy mom and I typed up a letter but then I thought that maybe we should take it to court.  My mom is 63 and was married to my dad for over 30 years.  She should not have had to wait this long or have had to jump through hoops.  Should we just send the letter and hope for the best or consult with a lawyer?  \n  \nI live in in Ohio and the life insurance policy is not very large. \n   \n","title":"[USA-OH] Father died insurance is denying claim. Looking for legal advice","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1569817250,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db6c5g\/hi_all_newbie_with_a_hot_question\/","id":"db6c5g","body":"I am about 1 year from retirement age, I\u2019ve worked at a huge company for 5+ years. Received accolades, raises, etc. Great salary. I\u2019m a writer. That is my education, skill set, and has always been my job at the company. Last week, my boss threatened my paycheck (no paraphrase) because I expressed concerns that he was \u2018telling\u2019 me to do IT Engineering work for which I have no experience or training. This work could severely damage this huge company\u2019s IT backbone security and could result in loss of client data, the organization\u2019s life-blood. Feels like a setup even though he swore it was not (he brought up \u2018setup to fail\u2019 in the convo, not me). Is this harassment or illegal? What recourse do I have other than HR which we all know is there to protect officers\/managers of the company.Any ideas\/input\/advice is welcomed (this is Texas btw)\nThanks in advance!","title":"Hi All. Newbie with a hot question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1412791445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2iojgl\/how_legally_binding_is_ebay_best_offer\/","id":"2iojgl","body":"I was wondering, how legally binding is offering a \"best offer\" on eBay? Does the buyer really have to purchase the item? Can the seller actually sue the buyer? (Has this actually happened?) The buyer has access to my address, phone number, and email. \n\nI am in Missouri, and the seller is in Texas. I'm considering just buying the item just to avoid a potential legal hassle. The problem is that it is a piece of lab equipment, and I'm worried that it may have been stolen (more than 6x lower than list price for new item, about 2x lower than used item) or seized from drug-making (may have toxic residues, but I have the setup to thoroughly clean it). \n\nI have tried (repeatedly) to contact the seller to provide a document that it wasn't stolen or seized. Will I get in trouble if I buy the item? Thanks! \n\nEdit: I contacted the seller, who was nice enough to cancel the order. No legal mess, just an eBay strike! ","title":"How legally binding is eBay best offer?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569827536,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db7wf5\/withheld_paycheck_question\/","id":"db7wf5","body":"I'm just gonna get to it. I work for an unnamed American fast food chain and it is currently Monday, September 30th at around 2 AM. I was supposed to get paid on Monday, September 23rd through direct deposit. I haven't had any issues like this since my first paycheck. Basically what happened was they missed my check, I was told to go to the bank, the bank said they had no records of any transactions of the same dollar amount into any accounts with a similar account number with the same dollar amount (if it helps my bank is Chase). I contacted my manager, and she told me to go back to the bank. Went to the bank on Wednesday and got the same answer. I got into contact with the person who manages the payment stuff and she said that the money was sent back with wrong information and that it was the bank's fault. She claimed none of my information was changed and told me I would be getting a paper check sent to the store I work at either Friday or Saturday. Well, my account information hasn't changed since my last check on September 8th which I got with no issues. I also didn't get it either day. Didn't get it Sunday either. And now here I am. A week later with 15 cents in my bank account and a missing paycheck for $236.29. I am not sure what to do. Are there grounds to sue for anything? How do I deal with this lack of transparancy and pretty blatant lying? Any advice would be very helpful.","title":"Withheld Paycheck Question","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551868903,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axxh0i\/tn_can_a_workplace_put_up_hidden_cameras_and_keep\/","id":"axxh0i","body":"Where I work, we have a storage garage full of extra supplies. There is an issue with theft and more of an issue with presumed theft. I've taken out hair supplies for a resident only for them to go missing out of her room the next day. (only me taking them out would be recorded so it would look like I stole them) and batteries to put in the remote. (I threw out the old batteries and felt it wasn't worth mentioning so again... It looks like I took them) if I had known there was cameras there I would have made a log of everything I pulled out, why, and where I put it. So can they do anything against me regarding what was seen? There's no mention of it yet but I'd like to be able to defend myself in case it does get brought up. ","title":"(TN) can a workplace put up hidden cameras and keep it secret for a month before putting up a sign","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570118130,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcstlf\/long_time_listener_first_time_caller\/","id":"dcstlf","body":"I am looking for any\/all advice on the matter of filing a non parental custody petition in the state of Washington.\n\nSome backstory: niece and nephew are 3 and 7 years old, their mother is abusive and their father (my brother) is currently a homeless drug addict. My mother, their grandmother has had the kids for the last 16 months (since June 2018) and has temporary guardianship that my brother granted her around December 2018. My husband and I would like to have full, permanent custody of our niece and nephew. Their mother abused them, physically and emotionally, and anytime my brother tried to intervene or take the kids she would punch herself in the face or throw herself down the stairs and call the police. There are currently 15 CPS reports against her and has an open fraud case for attempting to defraud DSHS for benefits, and my nephew can testify that she made him lie to CPS by threatening to take him only to the orphanage, and would tell him his sister would lay on the ground and starve when she \u201csent him away\u201d. That is the most mild thing that they endured. She neglected them, they were seldom if ever bathed, infrequently fed and taken care of, and at some point one of the men (who came in and out like a revolving door) molested one or both of them. He will not speak to us about it, and is in desperate need of long term intensive counseling and therapy. Either way, I cannot let my niece and nephew ever go back to her. And unfortunately my brother is not in, and may never be in a position to raise or parent his children. I am looking for any\/all advice I can get on filing this petition\/motion, what to include in the court documents, who I should look to for witnesses, and whether or not I\u2019m going to need to obtain bonafide legal counsel for all or just a portion of this process. Thanks so much! (Throwaway, because of sensitive information.)","title":"Long time listener, first time caller.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1441733757,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k4aae\/this_is_hard_to_title_butvisitation_questions_and\/","id":"3k4aae","body":"I wanted to start off by thanking anyone who answers, reads, jokes about, or spends any amount of time on this.  I am going to try my very best to give facts with out putting my bias on it.  I know from reading here and best of you guys won't take my shit if I do start to act a fool.  So here we go.\n\n\nI will go over the relationships briefly, after that my now wife will be W, my step daughter (first time I have ever called her that) will be D, and her dad will be DBD, I will refer to myself in the first person, and any other people in the story will be fake names or just called by his sister, her mom, and so on.\n\n\nI started dating my wife 5-5.5 years ago.  When we started dating she had been on her own and broken up with DBD for 6 or so months.  She was raising her daughter(now my kid in every way except blood) by herself, living in a one bedroom apartment above where she worked.  Prior to that W,D, and DBD (my kids biological dad) were living with his mother.  They had been on their own but he began to dabble in drugs soon after D, my daughter, was born.  Soon enough he lost his job and became a 24 hr a day drug seeker in Camden NJ.  DBD became hooked on heroin and other illegal drugs, this point is well documented with arrests and admissions by his mother in court documentation, rehab stints, and he has a history of B&E also.  Since W and I have been together he has been arrested at least 5 times for drugs, robbery, paraphernalia, B&E, assault, and a few other things that we know of.  \n\n\nDBD has always hated me, I don't do drugs, I work 60 hrs a week in my own business, I have lived on my own since the month I turned 18, and when he stopped taking care of D I picked up right where he left off.  He has been very vocal to D about how much he hates me, and that I stole her mom from him, and he generally would drag both W and me through the mud any chance he got to D.  At this point D is 4 years old and who in your life has more impression on you than you father.  So D was in a whirlwind, act one way with me, another around her father, until one day she had a little mini break down and cried to me about what her father would say and do and how she had no idea how to act anymore.  She was so confused and heartbroken, I hated it.  \n\n\nI approached him and tried to have a meaningful conversation.  That didn't go well.  It didn't get physical, just loud, and there was nothing I could do to stop him from continuing doing what he was doing.  \n\n\nSo this type of thing continues for about a year or so.  During this time my wife would drop D off for a night or weekend every other week(not court ordered).  D started coming home and telling us things that sent up red flags.  Daddy wouldn't wake up.  Daddy left me alone late at night and didn't come back until the sun came up.  Daddy looks sick.  Daddy was throwing up all week end.  Daddy fell asleep while talking.  So W and I talked to his mom who lived in the house.  We told her that she was going to have to be the adult and be responsible for D if we were ever to drop her off again.  She agreed.  And we reluctantly allowed D to go back making sure every time to remind grand mom what she agreed to.  His mother was always making excuses for him also, I can't blame her I would probably do the same for both of my kids.\n\n\nFast forward a month.  We drop D off and her grandmother accepts her.  We go X-mas shopping that night and then we go home.  W didn't get a goodnight call from D at night so the next morning she calls the house phone.  No one answers at 8AM.  W continues to call the phone until 1pm rolls around, maybe once an hour o so.  She then decides to go check up on D and make sure she is ok.  W knocks on the door and there is no answer, she grows more and more concerned and starts to bang on the door like 5.0.  Finally after a few minutes D comes to the door.  She is dressed in a wet suit that is way too small for her, and it is cold out.  This is December 23rd in NJ.  She said it was the only clean clothes in the house for her.  D then tells W she is hungry and that DBD has been asleep since early last night and won't wake up, and grand mom left this morning with out feeding her.  W goes into the house and tells D to gather her belongings, and she does.  DBD must have heard W and came stumbling down the steps cursing, obviously just woke him up.  He grabs D and throws her behind him and tells W she isn't taking D anywhere.  W says she just wants to feed her and get her cleaned up and then she will bring her back, she wasn't going to bring her back but thought he might let her take D if he thought she was going to come back.  He knew that she wasn't going to bring D back and started calling W every name in the book in front of D.  D starts crying and screaming for DBD to stop.  W grabs D from behind DBD and picks her up, like a hug and carry.  So W is walking towards the door D is facing looking behind W and DBD comes up and punches W in the back of the head 3 times, 6 inches from D his own daughters face.  W gets D in the car, buckled up, and they take off.  She calls me, I am at work, I say to drive directly to the police station.  As she pulls up out front of the police station grandmom pulls up as well and pleaded with W to not go in to the police station, DBD must have told her what happened and she ran to intercept.  W files a report anyway after some coaxing from me over the phone and is granted an emergency RO for her which umbrellas D.  I then do the dumbest thing ever and grab a weapon and go wait him out from across the street from his house in a parking lot.  Luckily for everyone he passed back out and didn't leave his house in the amount of time it took for me to gain my senses back.  \n\n\nImportant details left out above.  W had a witness with her in the car, her sister (they were shopping as W was calling), DBD sister was also there and slipped up to the police admitting that her brother had in fact punched W, DBD was arrested a week later for drugs and needles, and this was the last time D ever saw DBD.  It has been 4-ish years since they last saw or talked.\n\n\nInitially we blocked off that whole side, she got a PRO, and that was that.  The judge explained that the PRO covered W and D and id DBD wanted a chance to see her again he needed to file the appropriate papers and go before a judge.  We gently explained to D that she wouldn't see DBD until a judge said it was ok.  She said she understood.  But after a few months D started asking about grandmom, well grandmom never did anything except trust DBD to be a dad so we started allowing her grandmom to come see D after we laid out some ground rules. Then everytime DBD would go to jail, Approx. 6 times since this incident, we would allow D to go over the house as long as he was locked up.\n\n\nWell he just got out of jail a couple weeks ago.  He just made his first attempt to get visitation after a couple years and we received papers two hours ago for court in 2 days(Sept. 10th)\n\n\nI actually wholeheartedly believe that he is a danger to her mentally.  I don't think he would ever hurt her on purpose, but he will absolutely fuck with her head.  In any other situation I would have no problem with visitation, but this will damage my daughter.  If you can find the time please help me.  I am looking for any legal way to keep him at a distance or at the very least have supervised visits with a police officer there or a child welfare worker.  I will open my house and life to DYFS, they can search anything, test anything, look anywhere they want, I just want to keep my kid safe.  \n\n\nAlso is there a way to get the date postponed?  Two days doesn't seem like an appropriate amount of time to prepare for this.\n\n\nAgain thank you for your time.  I guess the TL;DR would be- Druggie woman beating dad, trying to get visitation after jail time and after beating child's mom in front of child.  Help!","title":"This is hard to title but-Visitation questions and receiving court papers 2 days before court, and more.(NJ)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571586194,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkla6d\/could_you_guys_help_me_settle_a_debate_with_a\/","id":"dkla6d","body":"My friend asked me what I would do if he broke Into my house and stabbed all my cats to death, I told him undoubtedly I'd shoot him in the face. His response was, you cant do that youd go to jail and get charged with murder.I do not believe this as 1 he is armed and had broken into my house and has clearly violent intentions, (killing all my cats) so reasonable thought says I would be in fear for myself. \nBonus question, even if he didn't have a knife and still brutally murdered my cats, and I turn the corner and witness this, could I still shoot him without serving time? \nI know you cant shoot a fleeing intruder but let's say I turn a corner, see what's happening and plug him in the chest 1 time.","title":"Could you guys help me settle a debate with a friend?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1571471251,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dk0nbd\/my_mum_keeps_posting_statuses_against_my_ex\/","id":"dk0nbd","body":"Alberta, Canada.\n\nIn a few months time I will be have a court hearing in regards to child custody. We've ready gone through three hearings prior. \n\nRight now my mother lives with me and helps care for my child. My ex claimed that my mum feeds my son (5) lies about the dad.\n\nMy mum now keeps posting vague statuses in Facebook that dont directly mention my ex but strongly insinuate that it is him. For example I told her that he cheated on me with multiple people under weird circumstances and she posts things in the lines of 'You were once my everything and I believed in you, now I've learned you're just a kinky mother fucker'.\n\nI usually get her to take it down but I know he or his family will have taken screenshots of it as he has been watching all my online activity on a near stalker level.\n\nI fear that when the court hearing arrives he will use these against me and say my mum is unstable and that the child shouldn't be living with us.\n\n I do everything I can to provide my son with the best life I can, I've been so careful to not say anything bad about him because I know he will attack me in court like he has tried to in the past. She helps take care of my son and wouldnt be capable by herself so I cant really remove her from my house.\n\nCould these posts be used against me at all in court?\nAre there any options I could take to try and minimise the use of them?\n\nThank you for any and all help. I greatly appreciate it.","title":"My mum keeps posting statuses against my ex husband on Facebook, we're having a child custody case soon and she keeps making vague posts about him.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570793734,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgdv7u\/northern_ca_19_yo_student_need_help_with_moms\/","id":"dgdv7u","body":"So my mom was under arrest for Domestic Violence and I need advice on how to go forward with bail, affording bail, questions regarding what happened in the police station and just the process of everything really. \n\nBackground: She made a 911 call because my stepfather was hitting her and she was defending herself. My stepfather whose a lot bigger than her but older (bad balance, slow cognition) lost balance while hitting her and hit his head. My stepfather is super verbally abusive and already got arrested before for hitting his ex-wife in public. My mom is his 2nd wife. \n\nStory: So after that whole shabang, my mom drives to me and when got to my place and found a bruise on her arm that was starting to appear. So she called the sheriff that handled the scene and told her to call him when she find a bruise and etc. She did that and she drives to the police station (30 minutes) so he can take a picture of it. He took pics and we were on our way back to my place (30 minute drive). Right when we got to my place he calls her saying that he needs to take pictures of her whole body so no bruises appear (idk why he didnt do that earlier...) so we drive back to the station (30 minutes) and she goes in. I wait in the lobby. BUT MY MOM DOESNT COME OUT THIS TIME. The sherrif come out instead with her stuff and say they are arresting her for domestic violence because in the state of california she is at fault since my stepfather received damage THAT MY MOM BTW DID NOT EVEN CAUSE.... It's from him losing balance from hitting her so much and hitting his head. \n\nQuestion: Is this california law of arresting the one who received more damaged an actual law? If so, how do i find more about it and read about it? I cant seem to find it online. Or can someone give me something regarding about how california sheriffs make decisions when arresting regarding domestic violence. \n\nDid the sheriff assigned to my moms case just lie to my mom in order to make my mom come back to the station to basically arrest her?! And is that legal? Or did he genuinely needed my mom back to take pics of her whole body. \n\nHow can I get a lawyer in california for this and what kind of lawyer? Divorce? Domestic Violence? Both? I want my stepdad to never step foot near my mom (restraint order i suppose) \n\nHow do I go forward about bailing my mom out of jail?\n\nTLDR: Mom arrested for domestic violence she didn't commit. Questions about how the case was handled and how to move forward.","title":"Northern CA. 19 yo student need help with mom's domestic violence case","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570749361,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg69uo\/can_my_landlord_post_up_in_my_house_during\/","id":"dg69uo","body":"Ok so lets just get to the point. My landlord is doing upgrades to the house I'm currently renting. Now I have no problems with her doing these things if given enough time. Since construction has started, she has made 2 major demands to which I'm not comfortable with. 1. That I completely leave the premises for how ever many hrs it takes to do the construction (IE at whatever time she feels fit to have things start and finish, defiantly not between business hrs.) and 2. She is going to stay in the house and \"monitor\" (basically be a thorn) while they are in the house.  \n\n​\n\nNow, I've rented for many many years  (I'm also a stay at home mom if that means anything) and never have I had a landlord DEMANDED I leave, ever... And I seriously don't trust this woman to not riffle thru my stuff. DO I have a legal recourse to tell her that she can't stay on the property all day? That she can stay only for the meet and greet\/details of things? Does this fall under landlord harassment?  I'm at a loss, so I turn to you my fellow redditors for some serious answers.    BTW, This is in Florida.","title":"Can My Landlord post up in my house during construction?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555364923,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdlqfj\/where_can_i_get_free_legal_advicehelp_in_michigan\/","id":"bdlqfj","body":"I'm on mobile, so I apologize for the formatting!\n\n\nA little background:\n\nMy father died in Mississippi three years ago, and I'm trying to get access to his medical records for two reasons: 1) I was never given the specifics of his passing (I was told by one of his ex girlfriends because he and I had been estranged for over 10 years), and 2) because I have two young nephews, am thinking about having children of my own and would like to know my full medical history - just in case. \n\nWhen I got in contact with my family, they got extremely defensive and wouldn't give me any information other than \"no he didn't have an estate or an executor\", which I don't believe due to how weird they were behaving. \n\nMy question is: is it possible for me to get legal help from possibly a law student? I'm not sure how to go about getting access to my father's medical records without having to pay a ton of money for a lawyer. I'm only 22 and don't make nearly enough money to be able to afford one. \n\nThanks in advance to anyone who can help!","title":"Where can I get free legal advice\/help in Michigan?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1507252853,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74kgbb\/louisiana_quickest_way_to_waive_the_cooloff_period\/","id":"74kgbb","body":"So I\u2019m filing for a 102 divorce tomorrow. My spouse has been emotionally abusing me for months now and I have text evidence to prove this. However, the divorce is non-contested and we both want this to be over as quickly as possible. Would it speed up the process if I claimed I was abused emotionally? If so, would cell phone text based evidence be enough in court? Or does the act of the divorce being non-contested speed up the process to a point where that wouldn\u2019t be relevant?","title":"[Louisiana] Quickest way to waive the \u201ccool-off period\u201d?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554762691,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb049v\/landlord_refusing_to_turn_on_ac_in_common_study\/","id":"bb049v","body":"So I live in an apartment complex by my law school. Naturally, the landlords hate law students cause they think we think we are know it alls. I don\u2019t want to look stupid or be contradicted so I was hoping someone could tell me if and what claims I may have based on the following:\n\nThe study rooms are extremely hot due to being all glass with the sun shining through. The heat is the mode that\u2019s on, but it\u2019s not really on cause it never is cool enough to trigger it. The rooms are consistently 80 degrees which is clearly not ideal for the long hours and concentration we need to put in. \n\nI emailed asking for them to put the a\/c on and she claimed a city ordinance required heat be on until May 31st, which is total bullshit. The ordinance reads as follows: Residential buildings intended for occupancy between the 15th day of September and the 31st day of May of the following year shall be provided with heating equipment as required by the property maintenance code of [X] state. \n\nNow I never had a doubt that they were simply trying to cut costs.  My understanding is that implied warranty of habitability is when there is lack of heat. Does the same apply for unreasonably hot rooms that can be fixed for utilities costs? Our rent is pretty damn high and the walls are pretty damn thin so they can squeeze as many apartments as possible into it. \n\nThere must be some course of action I have. \n\n\nFollow up: Assuming after I pointed this out that they still deny me the a\/c, if I threaten that I will dissuade future law students from living there (it\u2019s largely law and graduate students), I assume I\u2019d be legally clear. But could they terminate my lease for that?","title":"Landlord refusing to turn on A\/C in common study room area","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540370285,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qxtis\/current_job_is_inconsistent_about_paying_back\/","id":"9qxtis","body":"Hello,\n\n​\n\nBack in June, I started a job in a Security Operations Center. I signed an offer letter that states that if I leave within the first 24 months, I agree to pay back all training costs. This is never stated again on any signed document.\n\n​\n\nThis job is not what it was made out to be during interviews, talking to my recruiter, or the person who referred me. I'm supposed to be doing Incident Response, but it's more like being one of the monkeys with one of the typewriters attempting Shakespeare. We're a glorified security help desk. \n\n​\n\nMy last job, the one I had in college, was a Security Incident Event Manager (SIEM) administrator. I was the architect (I built the infrastructure), administrator (I managed the systems), content developer (I wrote the rules), and security analyst (I analyzed the alerts that fired). Now, I analyze alerts that fire, based on poorly written content that isn't tested before being put into production. My main job is to fix the content developer's rules, and if by chance they pick up on malicious activity, I let the customer know and walk them through how to fix it.\n\n​\n\nClearly, I'm not happy. I'm way over qualified for my job. There are other issues too, such as a lot of toxicity between departments, because we have separate goals (content is supposed to make rules fire, while analysts are supposed to stop them from firing. Our metrics are opposite and dictate whether we move up in the company.)\n\n​\n\nI want out. I'm becoming depressed, going into work, banging away at a computer for 9 hours a night, and arguing with coworkers. I interviewed at a company that seems promising. They want a full stack SIEM administrator, which is what I used to do. It pays slightly better (although benefits aren't as nice). They sent me an offer letter this week.\n\n​\n\nThe only problem is I agreed to pay back training costs. It's not on paper, but in training (1 month SIEM training on the other side of the country, housing\/food\/etc. was paid for.) we were told that the total amount came out to about $12,000. We were only told this because someone quit 2 weeks after training. The company is going after him for the full amount. \n\n​\n\nHowever, another new guy recently left because he couldn't handle the stress. He threw up in his exit interview, which occurred a month in. The company isn't attempting to get him to pay back training costs.\n\n​\n\nSo, I have a few questions:\n\n1. Are inconsistencies in policy that is not clearly defined in my contract\/offer letter up for debate? If this were to go to court, would I easily win?\n2. Because numbers are not clearly defined, am I allowed to haggle?\n3. Should I throw up in my exit interview?\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated. \n\n​\n\nOffer letter snippet where I'm asked to pay back the cost of training:\n\n\"We ask that you agree to repay the costs of your relocation and training(s) in the event that you leave us within the first 24 months of your employment\"","title":"Current job is inconsistent about paying back training costs - and I want out [NV\/FL]","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1507665505,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75jp4o\/dispute_over_recent_call_out_from_work\/","id":"75jp4o","body":"I am a nurse who is contracted at a hospital for a brief period of time. My employer is technically the staffing company and I work in the facility as a representative of them. \n\nI had a telephone interview with the facility in August in which I disclosed that there may be a day in the month of October  that I would have to call out of work for an unpredictable family matter. I fully disclosed the reason why at the time and was told it would not be a problem and they would accommodate. I communicated this with company several times and they were satisfied. \n\nI had to call out of work today. Yesterday while I would I contacted he facility manager I report to to give her notice I would miss work the following day as well as her input on how to handle some other work tasks of the day since I am new and received abridged training. She answered my call \"hi OP? I can't talk right now.\" And terminates call. She later communicated with me via text regarding how busy she was and she would call me later. This did not occur. I completed my work day. I called her later in the evening when I knew she was no longer at work. She did not answer. I sent an immediate text message to document that I was calling out for work tomorrow. She did not respond until 515 am by saying \"are you calling in sick?\" I responded at 7:15 \"yes\" to which I followed up with \"I apologize if my message was not clear. I am calling out for an unexpected family matter.\" Her response was \"ok we will talk Thursday.\"\n\nMy concerns are that they will attempt to document this as a no show. I did as I had been instructed: called to my reporting manager as soon as I knew I couldn't make it. I suspect she believes his is not a valid excuse to call out. Can she decide that? Do I even need to give a reason when calling out? I am under the assumption that a call simply means I am unable to come to work and perform my duties therefore I will not be there. Perhaps this is incorrect. \n\nSome background:\nI have growing concerns that she simply doesn't like me and is trying to make things difficult. I have heard word of mouth that there are other complaints about the speed in which I complete my work. 1. I am new and not used to be computer system yet 2. I have not been told this directly that  there was a more specific way I MUST manage my time. Which I would be happy to comply with but was unaware prior to this side comment from a peer. \n\nThis manager would not participate in my training and defer me always to other peers when I've had questions. And for my 2nd and 3rd week on the job the manager assigned  me to solely cover all the assigned caseload for the day and instructed peers not to assist me while they sat there and did no work all day or left the unit for unpredictable amounts of time. This was done for the sake of \"training\" and I received inconsistent or nonexistent breaks. Since they have scaled back a bit but I still seemed to be assigned to more than half the work. \n\nI have called my staffing company and they agree with all my actions with the call out and simply say my manager is just \"giving me attitude because she doesn't like the reason I called out\" and not to worry. \n\nCan the manager decide my reason isn't a good enough reason? How should I respond when she talks to me Thursday. Situation seems tenuous","title":"Dispute over recent call out from work","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540055522,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9pvu3g\/bank_sent_a_double_refund_for_gap_coverage_am_i\/","id":"9pvu3g","body":"I'll try to make this as short as I can while still including enough details. I purchased my first car a short time ago and the finance guy talked me into purchasing gap coverage and an extended warranty. Shortly after I realized what a poor financial decision this was and how over priced it was so I went back to the dealer and had it canceled. I received a refund applied towards the loan for both the gap coverage and the warranty. A couple months later I decided to refinance with a different bank. Today I received a check in the mail from the first bank with a refund that states it is for the gap coverage due to early loan pay off. This all happened over a period of a few months. \n\n\nShould I contact the bank or deposit the check and hold the money in case they ask for it back? ","title":"Bank sent a double refund for Gap coverage. Am I legally required to return it?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1540418782,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9r48of\/docking_pay_because_of_a_late_timesheet\/","id":"9r48of","body":"I received this e-mail today while asleep after a 12 hour graveyard shift last night:\n\nGood Afternoon Officers,\n\u00a0\nI have not yet received your timesheet for the hours you worked between 10\/10\/18 \u2013 10\/23\/18. I have attached a blank timesheet just in case you are in need of one. Please send in your timesheet ASAP. \u00a0\n\u00a0\nAny timesheet received after 3:00 PM today, Wednesday October 24th\u00a0will incur a late fee of $45.00.\n\u00a0\nThank you,\n\u00a0\nxxxxxxx xxxxxx | Director of Scheduling\n\nWe are all aware that timesheets are due by 3 PM today, but can they dock some of our pay for noncompliance with this? I'm a Security Officer in Utah. \n","title":"Docking pay because of a late timesheet.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1505882243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/718ro5\/my_identity_was_stolen_by_a_police_officer_how_do\/","id":"718ro5","body":"I live in CA and I recently had my identity stolen. I resolved the issue by contacting my bank and freezing what I had to. That was the end of it until today when I received a letter from the thief's home insurance company with his name and all the charges he'd made on my card along with my personal address and information. I did some digging into the thief and turns out he's a police officer in Florida. I can hardly believe it and want to handle this the right way. I have all his info from his name, address, phone, email and even his personal Facebook but I want to take the right steps in prosecuting. Any help would be appreciated!","title":"My identity was stolen by a Police Officer, how do I prosecute?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1446450754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r6r4f\/landlord_wont_replace_broken_dishwasher\/","id":"3r6r4f","body":"So I am not sure where to post this, but I am having some issues with our landlord.\n\n\nSo My BF and I moved into our apartment in August, and when we checked out the place it was great. Everything seemed in working order. (There was no electricity set up in the unit since it had been vacant but we had been assured everything worked)\n\nSo after moving in we found the dishwasher did not work at all, and we contacted our landlord and they promised they would order a new one.\n\nWell it is now November 2nd and I have heard every excuse as to why they haven't ordered a new one; in our lease it claims the landlord is responsible for all repairs and replacement of appliances (Though the dish washer never worked while we have lived here) and I am wondering is there really anything I can do? Every time I contact the landlord I am told they will get on it and get back to me and I don't heard back for 10+ days when I contact them first.\n\nWe're located in FL and I just feel like there is no use and I have to just give up the fight because there doesn't look like there is a dishwasher anywhere in my sights, and I am afraid if we keep pestering them they are going to try and find a reason to evict us.\n\n","title":"Landlord won't replace broken dishwasher :(","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506968292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/73ukxw\/how_to_go_about_forcing_squatters_out_of\/","id":"73ukxw","body":"First, the TLDR.\n\nI am in a dilemma. I have what amounts to squatters living in a storage shed in the back yard and need to know the most effective and quickest way to force them out.\n\n\nNow, the situation: I am a renter. I rent from one of my coworkers, who owns and part-time lives in the house as well. He has an out-of-town girlfriend that he spends a great deal of time with so he has verbally given me run of, and control of, the house.\n\nNearly a year ago, he allowed his adult son (21-ish) and girlfriends (18-19) to stay. They are, and always have been, unemployed. He told them short term, and now it's nearly a year later and nothing has changed except that he is now telling them they need to go. They do not, and never have, paid rent or signed any type of lease or habitation agreement.\n\nOver the course of the past year there have been as many as 5 people staying out in the shed but we have gotten rid of all but the three who are out there now. My roommate, the homeowner, is considering renting the house to me outright to move in with his girlfriend. I refuse to allow these lazy shits to stay here. I have already disconnected the electricity to their little love shack where all they do is play video games all day, and they are all but banned from the house itself. But I need to finalize getting rid of them completely, and WA eviction laws (as far as I have been able to google) do not cover non-lease tenants. \n\nIf I need to I will happily go to court, but I would much rather find a non-court method for removing them.\n\nFor the record, my roommate (the kid's father) is also on board with them getting out. He told his son rather bluntly last week he has to go. But dad is dad, so he is soft on it; I think the only way I will get him to follow through is to actually present to him a concrete plan to follow, and if it requires a day in court, so be it.\n\nThanks for your help.\n\nedit: details","title":"How to go about forcing \"squatters\" out of residence [WA State]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1550716487,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asxk05\/worried_about_being_fired_due_to_race\/","id":"asxk05","body":"My girlfriend is quite worried so i thought i would ask for advice or input. She has been working at a retail store for over four years and about a year ago a new manager for the location was hired. Since being hired the store has gone from diverse to 95% filipino. It's at the point where they speak filipino in front of customers (this is in toronto). Basically what im wondering is, if she were get fired or continues to be treated poorly at work, is there anything to this legally to protect her? Shes very worried about losing her job and at work is often excluded and treated poorly.","title":"Worried about being fired due to race","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1412344201,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2i6rdu\/my_mom_was_conned_by_a_man_into_going_on_an\/","id":"2i6rdu","body":"Hello,\n\nFirst off, thank you to any lawyers or legal professionals\/students who help me out with this, I am very grateful.\n\nI am looking at this from a UK standpoint if that helps.\n\nMy mum is extremely na\u00efve and easily lead. She met a man online and got talking and this eventually led her to believing that this man was involved with her.\n\nOne evening he convinced her that it would be great to go on a \u00a32,000 holiday with him to Senegal. He booked it using her card promising to pay 2\/3rds of it back once he had some extra cash (he pulled the story that he had just come back from charity work abroad and was starting from the ground up).\n\nThe holiday comes round, and on the flight he reveals to her he is a con man. He had played her into buying him a ticket (and holiday) to Senegal, he wasn't interested in her, and he would not be paying her back.\n\nShe stayed a couple of nights in her own room and flew back to the UK on the next available flight.\n\nThis man has previously been convicted for harassment of woman (3 woman, 9 counts) and conning. I have found evidence of this online but not sharing it as it identifies him personally.\n\nBefore we get started, I know my mum is an idiot. I warned her on multiple accounts that he sounded beyond fishy and that paying for a holiday what essentially is a stranger in my eyes is never a good idea. My mum knows she is an idiot as well so we can skip the bashing.\n\nDoes she have any legal grounding to sue this man for what he did. I know in essence everything that he did would appear to be with her consent, but is there any way that it can be shown she was misled and misguided.\n\nThank you to everyone who takes the time to read this.","title":"My Mom was conned by a man into going on an expensive holiday with him whilst he didn't pay a dime. Any legal stand point?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1551668589,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ax2495\/backing_out_of_a_lease_in_ct_before_a_cosigner\/","id":"ax2495","body":"Hello all. A friend and I signed a lease on Friday for two of the three bedrooms in an apartment. Seeing as the third guy in our group who was supposed to sign has now backed out and never signed it, am I legally allowed to back out of the lease (or is it even binding yet) seeing as it isn't complete without a 3rd roomate and the landlord's signature? I am 21, in Connecticut with the lease starting date of August 3rd. Another key piece of information is that the landlord also requires a rent guarantor (co-signer I guess) that is one or two parents. My parents haven't signed anything and we have not paid the security deposit either. Just trying to figure out if I'm binded to this lease or I can back out without any consequences. Any info is appreciated. ","title":"Backing out of a lease in CT before a co-signer signs","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540703965,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9s0x5t\/can_i_charge_my_roommate_for_sexual_harassment_qc\/","id":"9s0x5t","body":"My roommate (24m) continuously opens the door on me (21f) when I\u2019m in the washroom. It\u2019s gotten to the point where I hide in my room and pee in a cup because I am afraid of him walking in on me. I will also hold it for hours and wait for him to leave before I go to the washroom. He\u2019s creepy as hell and I feel scared and violated. When I asked him if he could knock before just entering he told me he wasn\u2019t gonna start knocking in his own home. He also told me that if I just asked him to go to the bathroom then he would know I was in there. This has happened too many times. You can see the light under the door and you would have to fully turn the knob and open the door to get in. I hate being afraid in my own home. Does this qualify as sexual harassment? I want this fuck to realize what he\u2019s doing is not ok and there should be consequences..","title":"Can I charge my roommate for sexual harassment? (QC, CAN)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1553888683,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b71r4l\/unstable_dad_50_wants_my_mom_40_to_file_a\/","id":"b71r4l","body":"This is my first time posting in this sub, so please let me know if there's anything I'm doing wrong.\n\nI am 18 years old, and my parents have been separated\/divorcing for as long as I can remember. Recently, they have been getting closer to a settlement, and I believe they're almost there. The thing is, my dad wants my mom to file a complaint against her lawyer saying the lawyer lied and accused my dad of saying something he didn't in court. As far as I know, my mom doesn't know if it's true.\n\nI feel like he's using her desperation to settle to get this done. Obviously, she's not asking her lawyer for help with this because she'd be filing the complaint against him. I don't lnow if this is legal, but I have doubts about it. \n\nHe's incredibly manipulative. What if he's just trying to break their lawyer-client relationship and go back on the settlement, leaving my mom without a lawyer? \n\nThey are going to meet in about an hour to do this. Please help. I am in California.","title":"Unstable dad (50+) wants my mom (40+) to file a conplaint against her lawyer as part of the divorce settlement. Is this legal?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569884409,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbjwed\/lawsuit_heading_into_a_settlement_conference_have\/","id":"dbjwed","body":"I'm party to a civil case in which a settlement conference has been scheduled. My lawyer is great but busy as hell lately and hard to reach so I thought I'd post a few questions here.\n\n1) At the end of the settlement conference, will the judge render his decision or advice to counsel or is there a delay? If so, how long on average?\n\n2) If both parties agree to the judge's advice, is the case then dismissed due to the settlement?\n\n3) If a settlement is reached, how long does the losing party have to comply with the terms of the settlement?\n\n4) How often do the complainants appear at these things? I've read that, most often, it's just the lawyers and the judge.\n\nIn case it's relevant, this is a labor case. FLSA violations and wrongful termination.","title":"Lawsuit Heading Into a Settlement Conference, Have a Few Questions...","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504654754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6ybw2q\/nyc_parking_ticket_unfair\/","id":"6ybw2q","body":"I drive a lot in Manhattan, which is probably the worst place to drive in USA. Since there's never any legit parking, I'll park in \"illegal\" areas like commercial vehicles only, loading zone, no standing etc. While parked there I'll be sitting in the car with my hazards on.\n\nI pulled into a \"commercial vehicles only\" zone at 6:47pm. The commercial rule was only in effect until 7pm. I figured I was good. I parked and got out of the car. I decided to stand next to the car (literally leaning on the car) until 7pm and then leave. Suddenly a cop car pulls up quickly and blocks my car in. The cop gets out and immediately starts writing a ticket. I have the door open, keys in hand and tell him I can move right then. He doesn't care and just continues writing the ticket. $115 ticket at 6:49pm (2 mins after I parked). I find the circumstances ridiculous and how the cop blocked me in so I couldn't leave.\n\nCan I get out of the ticket? I feel like if there's someone present at the vehicle and willing to leave the cop shouldn't be allowed to write the ticket.","title":"NYC Parking Ticket - Unfair","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1553808718,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6on3z\/local_lawyer_to_a_city_where_i_live_or_where_the\/","id":"b6on3z","body":"I live in Seattle WA where the average lawyer is definitely a step up above the medium size town I need to appear in court in.\n\nHowever, the lawyer in this town knows people within the system, etc. is that more advantageous? Or the big shot lawyer in the city? \n\nWhat are the pros and cons.  I assume the best lawyers naturally work in LA New York Seattle Detroit and cities like that","title":"Local lawyer to a city where I live or where the case happened?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1441687922,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3k223j\/tree_in_the_backyard_keeps_dropping_dangerously\/","id":"3k223j","body":"We just signed a new lease.  We have not moved any belongings over to the house yet.  Then new lease states that I am responsible for everything except \"HOA, Landscaping, or garbage removal services.\" However, it also states that, \"Tenant shall be responsible for watering and maintaining the landscaping.\"\n  \nThis tree is really old.  When we moved in there was ample evidence that a branch had fallen, shedding splintered wood and branches everywhere.  Before showing the property they cleaned it up and moved whatever had fallen off. We just got back from vacation and saw that another huge chunk of the tree crashed to the ground.  \n\nThe size of the new fallen branch is IMMENSE, it could have killed us if we had been outside when it fell.  The longest of them is over 15 feet long and estimated to weigh over a hundred pounds.  The remaining tree looks unhealthy and should probably be removed entirely.  Landlord says that she is willing to send a landscaper over to haul away the fallen branches, but is not willing to pay a removal service to take down the dying tree.  She says that the tree is falling down because we are not watering it enough.  There is an automatic watering system.  It is broken, and we said we wanted it fixed before we signed the lease.  She said her gardener would come over and fix it, so we signed the lease before the work was done. \n  \nWe are also struggling to get a shattered front window repaired (She says it looks ok to her, so she is dragging her feet to get it repaired).    \n  \nThe outside and the inside of the house is full of a thriving ecosystem of large spiders and silverfish. The garage has a number of black widows.  We also have a wasp nest in the ceiling of the garage, and an infestation of some sort of insect that makes a nest out of mud on the walls.  Landlord wont schedule a pest control service, because she says any pest control matters need to go through the HOA.\n  \nI am super stressed because this is a horrible way to begin a landlord\/tenant relationship.  I want the shattered window fixed before I move in, and I want the pests in the garage dealt with before we move our belongings in.  I don't feel safe in the backyard because that tree keeps dropping chunks large enough to kill us.  Watering the tree more wont keep it from dropping branches- We trusted her to send someone to fix the sprinkler system, but she never did.  What do I do?  Is the landlord required by law to deal with pests and dead trees, or did I accept the state that this is in when I signed our lease?  \nTL,DR- new landlord wont fix things she said she would before we signed the lease.  The dead tree in the backyard keeps dropping deadly branches, the house\/garage is full of pests, and the front window is shattered.","title":"Tree in the backyard keeps dropping dangerously large branches. Is it the landlord's responsibility to remove the tree before it kills one of us? [California]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553908453,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b75c4v\/i_made_a_showcase_website_and_im_not_sure_if_its\/","id":"b75c4v","body":"Hello fellow Reddit lawyers, an issue has been recently brought to my attention that may be the beginning of the end for a website I have made. https:\/\/betterdocs.us . This is basically an archive of all Discordapp (A Chat Client for Gamers) Themes & Plugins. There are communities around Discord that are dedicated to styling (Themes) and modding (Plugins) the Discordapp client. \nNow, the issue is that my website has previews of these Themes & Plugins & there\u2018s a developer that is trying to get the website down by claiming copyright to images that are being credited and aren\u2019t hosted on my website (links to imgur are used). Everything on the website is credited when credit is due and I am not claiming anyone\u2019s work as mine(clearly). If the developer doesn\u2019t get the website down by...let\u2019s say contacting the host provider then he may take legal actions that I would prefer to avoid at any costs.","title":"I made a showcase website and I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s illegal or not?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1416275526,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2mmdst\/va_question_about_notices_of_right_to_cancel_and\/","id":"2mmdst","body":"I've had a home improvement project scheduled for almost a year. Over the year, due to waiting for permits and various other things, several new contracts were written up for the financing of the project, each new one replacing the old one.\n\nThe most recent contract was signed on 11\/15\/2014. The install was started today and due to me being upset with the contractor and their attitudes toward me and my wife, I no longer am interested in the install. \n\nThe contract (and all prior contracts) has a 'Notice of Cancellation' section that states, \"You may CANCEL this transaction, without any Penalty or Obligation, within THREE BUSINESS DAYS from the above date.\" The \"above date\" is 11\/15 when I signed both contracts.\n\nMy question is if there will be any issues with cancelling my contract and not incurring any charges even though the install has already started.\n\nTo add to my question, due to financing issues, there were 2 different contracts with 2 different financing companies. One of the contracts have the date filled out as 11\/15 and to cancel by 11\/19 (within 3 business days). The other contract does not have the dates filled out. Will there be any issues with this? Will I still be able to cancel?\n\nTLDR: Can I cancel my install within the 3 business days lined out in the contract even though the install has started? \n\nTLDR2: Will I come across an issue with exercising my right to cancel if 1 contract has specific dates filled out and the other contract does not (both signed same day)?","title":"[VA] Question about notices of right to cancel and my rights","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1539636533,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ogo3k\/recently_laid_off\/","id":"9ogo3k","body":"Hi all, \n\n​\n\nI live in California. I was just recently laid off. I was not given any other kind of notice as it happened suddenly. I was not given a severance and was not told about one either. My original offer letter does not stipulate one either and does not go in to any details. I know we are an at will state. \n\nI guess what I am trying to ask is if I can ask for a severance, and how would I ask them. \n\nTo be honest, this was a blessing in disguise, because the working conditions sucked. The CEO is verbally abusive on a bi-daily basis. I did not receive his wrath as often as others did. The working conditions were not the greatest because of his verbal abuse. It impacted me psychologically and sent my anxiety through the roof, affecting my concentration on work. The vibe was always shitty because of him and people were extremely happy the days he didn't come in. There was a night\/day difference in the office vibe. \n\nThe reason I was laid off is because their biggest client no longer needed the services that I was providing. But that was not the only services I was providing to my company to begin with. They hired me to run their customer service department. It was nonexistent when they hired me. My job was to set one up. The problem was they didn't have the clientele to do so until the big one came along. Once the big client signed their contract, I started working my ass off to make sure it is running smoothly. They brought on several other clients, and their customer service needs lacked. It didn't exist with the customers, so my job turned in to running customer service for the big client, while providing engaging comments for the other clients. (I worked at a digital marketing agency. We ran social media for their clients. I ran half the accounts while doing CS for the big one.) \n\nThe big one suddenly says they no longer want to do CS anymore and want to focus on social media with regular engagement. (Pretty much what I have already been doing.) Because of this, they had to cut the budget, so my company was not getting as much as anymore and they were no longer the big one. My company sees me as expendable and terminates my employment. \n\nMy official termination letter consists of an email from HR stating that this is a formal notice that I WAS terminated on 10\/28\/18. They let me go on 10\/11\/18. \n\nThanks for reading.","title":"Recently laid off","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1570582387,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/df9h0f\/fl_employer_trying_to_short_payment_on_mileage\/","id":"df9h0f","body":"Recently my dad has been having issues regarding compensation for mileage driven in his personal car as he drives from store to store as a merchandiser\/detailer. He records his miles as instructed as he starts leaving from one store and drives to the next and never during trips from the house to the first store or from the last store back home. His miles has been getting rejected stating that the compensation is only \"for miles driven from store to store\" however since he has no structured route he goes to whichever store or employee with a route needs help at the time and logs the miles appropriately. Some of these stores he is being asked to drive to are in completely different areas and are far away from each other (not a couple of blocks but sometimes 5 to 10 miles away). \n\nWhoever is in charge of the compensation has constantly rejected every other report despite my dad writing down which he stores he was at and getting signatures of the managers working at each store at the time with a time stamp. Whenever he keeps trying to work out or get an explanation as to why he is being rebuked the person on the phone constantly tells him the miles don't make sense and demands that he reduce the miles dramatically (we're talking instead of being compensated for $150 they want him to drop it down to under $100). They refuse to accept any evidence detailing his trip and are getting more and more aggressive with each rejected report. He has worked for this company for roughly 3 years now and is only now having issues with the reports and yes he has already tried speaking with the people at the local office HQ but they say their hands are tied and can't help him at all. \n\nWhat can we do to get proper compensation for the miles he has driven as instructed to by his boss? I am thinking about investing in a dashcam with which we can download the video files and save them in a future case if we are pressed to hire a lawyer if the company gets any more aggressive with their compensation.","title":"(FL) Employer trying to short payment on mileage compensation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569254575,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d88j3q\/nieces_outofstate_university_wont_recognize_our\/","id":"d88j3q","body":"Hello everyone.  I have a question regarding Texas & Arkansas law in custody matters. I have raised my niece since she was 5, and in 2009, my husband and I sued her parents in Texas (where we all live) and won sole conservatorship...her parents retained possessory conservatorship - the court papers explained that this just means they still had visitation rights with her, which they never used. \n\nFast forward to 2019, my baby graduated high school with honors and got an almost full ride to a University of her choice in Arkansas. We applied for FAFSA too but initially didn\u2019t receive any aid, so there will be a small remainder at the end of each semester we are liable for...her parents have never chipped in financially with anything. We have always shouldered that and claimed her as a dependent on our taxes. \n\nLast week, she called to say that the financial aid office contacted her and said she does qualify for aid, but would need to show documentation of legal guardianship. We had already given them a copy of the custody papers, which were fine back in July but suddenly now are not. They are refusing to recognize the documents as valid because \u2018conservatorship is not guardianship in Arkansas\u2019. \n\nIn Arkansas custody law, there is no difference made between a disabled person\/elderly person no longer competent, and a child. They all fall under the umbrella of \u2018guardianship\u2019 in Arkansas. It was harder to find good information on what conservatorship is in Arkansas, but it appears to mean financial responsibility over another person for whatever reason.  \n\nIn order to keep the post short enough to not be deleted, I will list the long form of information I found on conservatorship and guardianship in Texas in a comment below.  To summarize it: in Texas, conservatorship usually deals with a child whose parents are still living but are incompetent to take care of the child...all decision making abilities for the child are handed to the conservator. Guardianship typically deals with a child whose parents are dead, or a special needs person or elderly person no longer considered legally competent...in those cases, you are handed all decision making and financial responsibilities. \n\nIn our case, both of her parents are still alive, but neither has ever been a part of her life. She was being raised by her maternal grandmother, and she wasn\u2019t any better.  Also, in our specific document, the court not only granted us all decision making abilities, but financial responsibility as well (which seems to be the college\u2019s hold up with accepting our conservatorship...they are saying we have no financial rights concerning her because we don\u2019t have \u2018Arkansas guardianship\u2019). Item #9 in our rights and duties as nonparent sole managing conservators states: \n\u2018Except when a guardian of the child\u2019s estate or a guardian or attorney ad litem has been appointed for the child, the right to act as an agent of the child in the child\u2019s estate if the child\u2019s action is required by a state, the United States, or a foreign government.\u2019 \n\nNo one was ever appointed, which means we retain those rights. We tried asking the financial aid people if they had read the document, seen item 9 in our list of rights, tried explaining that this is a Texas document, not an Arkansas one. All they have done is blow us off and will not respond to phone calls or emails now. We have been cordial up to this point, but it seems more and more that we are dealing with lazy incompetence here, unless I am missing something? No one has attempted to explain anything to us about why this document is unacceptable except saying \u201cin Arkansas you must have guardianship\u201d. Are they not bound by compact laws to recognize another state\u2019s document as legal, and take into account the different legal definitions, regardless of the difference in terms? We are traveling to the campus on Thursday and intend to talk to them in person, so they can\u2019t ignore our phone calls or not respond to our emails. I guess I\u2019m asking, lawyers of reddit, am I right, or is the college? Are there any specific questions I should be asking? How do they expect us to provide them with an Arkansas document?  Surely this issue has come up with a student from another state before? \n\nThank you for your time.","title":"Niece\u2019s out-of-state university won\u2019t recognize our conservatorship documents for financial aid - very frustrated!","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569434270,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d96yec\/virginia_husband_owns_business_and_engaged_in\/","id":"d96yec","body":"Questions:\n\n1. Should I re-file taxes married, separately for past years? Already separate for 2018 and 2019. \n2. How can I get information about his business? Apparently he is operating as a corporation, but not registered with the SCC since 2013 (which I believe is a crime.) I have his EIN, but don\u2019t know what information I can get without a subpoena...\n3. His original business was established a few months before we were legally married in 2008. However, the business entity was terminated since 2013. Am I now entitled to 50% ownership?","title":"Virginia: Husband Owns Business and Engaged in Serious Tax Evasion. Company makes some profit on paper, but husband claims barely any income tax.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1410815844,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2ghwxj\/17_mother_killed_in_crash_step_father_taken\/","id":"2ghwxj","body":"Alright, here goes. I was 17 when my mother was killed in a car crash, (july 27th) and my birthday was on Aug 2nd so I turned 18 5 days later. Now, my step father was drunk and driving when the crash happened, he lives and was fine. Now I know this isn't much to go on but I'm looking to get my sister and the money back from him, I'll list out the details below on things that may help and just simple things I think will be relevant.\n\n\n>I am living with my Great Grandmother now for support.\n>I have no job.\n>I just graduated.\n>I am going to college in the spring.\n>My step father moved out the day she died.\n>The insurance has given my step father $25k for her death.\n>My step fathers name is not on the insurance but my Great Grandmothers is (along with my mothers of course).\n>The police are still going over an investigation with the crash (insurance gave out money before investigation was over?).\n\nNow a bit about my step father which may help, also just explains why I am so angry with this outcome.\n\n>Was always yelling at my mother (2-3 hours a day 3-4 days a weeks, huge fights).\n>Threatened to 'beat my ass' after defending my mother during a fight.\n>Gave my mother a black eye at one point, most likely more injuries that I was not aware of.\n>After her death, stole her phone (bad conversations he doesnt want me to see?).\n>3 days after her death, has new girlfriend.\n>Is taking the $25k to buy a house for him and his new girlfriend.\n>His criminal record sheet is 2 pages long.\n\nSo, after all of this, I'm terribly angry. As of now I am starting college soon, have no income, no support from a parent, and no where to live (given my grandmother dies soon which is expected as she is 87).\n\nNow I'm fairly certain I can't get him for anything but in any way can I sue the insurance (well my grandmother, not me) for giving him the money when his name isn't even on it and before the investigation was over? Is there anything I can do to get my baby sister back?\n\n\nLocation: Ohio, Chillicothe.","title":"17, Mother killed in crash, Step father taken sister and money.","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1568605058,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4v7wm\/how_do_i_get_someone_out_of_my_house_who_refuses\/","id":"d4v7wm","body":"\n\nThis past month has been actual hell on earth. Letting my deranged sister live at my house for a little while was the worst decision I've ever made and my sanity is hanging on by a thread. All I wanted to do was help her escape a toxic situation and get her on her feet again after a ton of legal issues she's been dealing with and having burned every bridge with everyone else had nowhere else to go. But after stealing my car, using my credit card without permission, and texting me the worst possible things a human being could text another human being (mostly threats), I asked her to find another place to live. Well, considering she's a self centered sociopath, she refused to leave along with doing every little thing she can to get under my skin since then (i.e. using everything of mine, eating all the food, costing me more money than I have constantly, leaving messes everywhere she can, telling my kids horrible things about me etc.) So I tried to get an EPO, a mental inquest, you name it, only to be denied every time because the situation just wasn't \"enough\". So after an escalated situation with her involved calling the cops to my house (same day that I got denied a mental inquest, she makes a suicide threat) the officer in charge takes her to be evaluated at UofL, who release her within hours to come back to my home and continue her reign of terror. The officer followed up with me the next day to see if I was ok and assisted me in pressing charges against her for stealing my car and threatening me, which took 2 weeks to sign and complete, and even though I wanted to avoid adding to her criminal history at all costs I had no other choice as the officer said she'd be served a no contact order and it was the quickest way to get her out. It's been a week and still nothing has been served. We get into another escalated situation this evening where she insults my boyfriend and tells me for the 50th time that she wishes I were dead etc. and I call the cops again because ONCE AGAIN I FEEL UNSAFE IN MY OWN HOME. Cops come out, find a warrant for her arrest because of the charges I pressed and take her to jail. And unless the judge gives her a no contact order at her arraignment tomorrow morning, she'll get out in no time and be right back to terrorizing me. So now I have to go BACK to the courthouse and file for a legal eviction tomorrow morning as a fail safe to get her out of my house. \n\nWhat do you do when you have a parasite that refuses to unlatch itself?\n\nI have no sanity left. My mental health has widdled away to nothing. She has nowhere else to go and nothing left to lose because this bullshit isn't her first rodeo and I'm not the first person, nor the last, that she's drained. All of this on top of the insane amount of stress I get from my job I've barely eaten, slept, breathed, and I just uh...\n\nidk what to do anymore.","title":"How do I get someone out of my house who refuses to leave, but quicker than an eviction? (Bullitt county, KY)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1552860054,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2alu5\/can_we_refuse_something_in_a_will\/","id":"b2alu5","body":"My boyfriends dad has it in his will that we get the house when he passes. Thing is, we don't want it. It's not paid off and is in pretty bad condition. We don't want to get stuck paying for a second house or throwing a bunch of money into fixing it up just to break even. What are pop up options? Thanks.","title":"Can we refuse something in a will?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1552085383,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aywhld\/can_you_marry_your_adopted_siblingunited_states_nc\/","id":"aywhld","body":"My girlfriends mom is leaving (without an legal process) and forcing each of her siblings to choose who to live with. Her mom won\u2019t let their be any contact with the parent they don\u2019t choose. If something happens, and my parents adopt her, can we still be together legally?","title":"Can you marry your adopted sibling?(United States NC)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540855966,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9siif6\/dispute_between_roommates_and_property\/","id":"9siif6","body":"Posting for Friend: New Mexico USA\n\nBoth people have signed a lease and were living together. (Person A and Person B). \nPerson A has been physically abusive to person B and stole money from Person B. Person B got arrested on false charges made from person A of violence against HH member, and stalking. \n\nPerson B wants person A out of apartment, or to remove name from apartment and gather belongings. Does not know if Landlord will let collect items and remove name, is afraid of person A. Is afraid that Person A also damaged property and apartment leaving person B on hook. To top it all off, Person A and Person B have also had a child together, and Person B would like partial custody, but safety is #1 concern at the moment. \n\nWhat is the next move to gather items and get person A or person B off of the lease? (Since domestic violence was apparently \"involved\"?)","title":"Dispute Between Roommates and property","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570808854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dgh1dt\/fraud_and_family\/","id":"dgh1dt","body":"Hey I need some advice on what to do. This past week I was in the process of applying for a new credit card for my business and checked my credit score. It had dropped nearly 200 points since Jan 19'. I have never taken out a loan, pay my credit card off in full every month, and only have one bank account. However on the report it said that I had joint account open with another bank. When I called into the bank they said that I was a cosigner on the account, but I had no idea who or what the account was. While on the phone with fraud they said the account was linked with my sister!\n\nWhile I was traveling she had stolen my identity and fraudulently forged my signature with me as a cosigner for a $5000 lease, which still has an outstanding balance of $4,500. I don't know what to do. Do I submit the fraud claim and press charges? She has done similar things in the past but nothing as bad as fraud. My only hesitation is that she has two sons under 8 years old and the father is not in the picture. I don't know what would happen to my nephews, and I do not want to destroy her life. At the same time I do not want to be enabling to this type of crime, and pattern. Her destructive behavior patterns in the past have had no consequences and what will she do to others if she can commit fraud using her own sisters information?\n\nI also know that the legal system does little to rehabilitate people and they are often just caught in the damning cycle of the criminal industrial complex. My sister is sick and needs help, she needs consequences. \n\nAlso because this account is tied to my SSN it is my credit that is taking the plunge. Any help or insight is greatly appreciated.","title":"Fraud and Family","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504381167,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6xofdf\/tx_fake_proof_of_employment_for_rental_property\/","id":"6xofdf","body":"Hello,\n\nAn unemployed friend recently asked me to look into doing a fake proof of employment for him for a rental he is looking at.  He is currently unemployed, but is a veteran with PTSD and is trying to get on disability.  He has to be out of his current residence by Sept 30th (end of this month).\n\nHe is looking at moving to a new place but they asked him for proof of employment in form of a letter stating his position and salary.  He says he told them he is unemployed but apparently they told him they just need it for their records, which seems a bit odd to me.\n\nIf I make up something for him using a fake company and name, not my own, is there any potential legal issues I might be facing in terms of any kind of fraud if they find out the information was falsified by me?\n\nI want to help the guy out but not at the prospect of potential legal issues, especially since I am small business owner and don't want to have my company involved at all.\n\nThanks in advance.","title":"(TX) Fake proof of employment for rental property","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568815710,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5ybfe\/florida_restraining_order_for_emotional_abuse\/","id":"d5ybfe","body":"I ( 41F) am in Florida.  I am curious to know if the courts will grant me a restraining order to keep my ex(41M) away from my teenage son. We have been divorced since 2005. A judge awarded me full custody  and he has no visitation rights since 2007 when my ex became involved with crack cocaine. There have been stretches of years where he has been clean, and my son has seen him them. This year, he has fallen back into his old ways after a break up of a long term relationship.  He has been arrested for possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia several times. My son knew something was up based on texts from him dad asking to borrow $20, to borrow his bike, to meet him at Amscot so he can borrow his phone. My son said no to all this and stopped replying.  He told me about this, and I looked up my ex in the public records, and saw he was recently arrested again.  My ex kept texting, and then started texting me and my parents, wanting to know if my son was ok.  He finally showed up one day at my home.  I told him that my son was ok and that he couldn't just show up here, and that he needed to get himself clean before he could see our son. My son texted his dad saying that he does love him, but he doesn't want to be part of his life when he is on drugs. That he needs to focus on getting clean, getting a job, and a place to live.  Once he has shown that he is staying clean, then  they can talk. This was about a month ago.\n\n​\n\nFast forward to last night.  My ex texts my son, multiple times.  My son sent me screen shots of everything. He told my son that\" Your not making me feel loved. Your making me feel like shit\" and \"To have a nice life...but I'm not playing your games. I don't deserve how you are treating me.\" I have screen shots of texts like this.\n\n​\n\nMy son is under the care of a psychiatrist and being treated for Severe Anxiety and Bi-Polar 2 disorder. He is a good kid, great grades - is in 11th grade and doing dual enrollment at the local college. He participates in sports year round.  He wants to go to college and get his Ph.D.  I don't want or need his father getting in his head and making him even more anxious.  When my son gets anxious, he retreats to his room, doesn't want to socialize, and his sports fall to the wayside. The the bi-polar depression kicks in. He has cut himself, before I knew what was going on and was able to get him help.  He has been stable for about a year now.\n\n​\n\nWill the courts in Florida consider mental abuse as domestic abuse, and at least grant a temporary restraining order, which I would then go back to show my case for a permanent restraining order?\n\n​\n\nTL\/DR - My ex is mentally\/emotionally abusing my son. Will Florida grant me a restraining order (my son is a minor)?","title":"Florida - Restraining order for emotional abuse","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1446493645,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3r924j\/oh_i_think_ive_gotten_caught_up_in_a_situation\/","id":"3r924j","body":"**Short update: I'm getting my name the hell off this thing.**  \nMy sister is so smooth talking...so damn smooth talking. I talked to her without saying anything about this post. She didn't give me any specifics about what kind of proof she can get or what exactly she thinks our brother is doing to screw over the finances or hurt our grandparents, but she talks in such a...convincing manner that I was about ready to discount everything posted here.  I asked her how she thought we should manage my grandparents' care after my brother was removed and she said she thought we should move them back to their house & hire a cleaning lady off Craigslist to come out once a week so Grammy didn't have to worry about cleaning. \n\nThen I sucked it up and called my brother. He couldn't talk much since he needed to get his kids in bed soon, and he wasn't very friendly which I think I deserve.  I told him that I think I was being lied to and that our sister was acting shady.  He agreed to answer my questions.  \nI asked him why he'd moved them to such an expensive assisted living and I guess some months back Grammy left a pot on the stove and left to go shopping. My brother stopped by while she was out and found the pot on the lit burner billowing smoke, burnt & ruined and Grampa was watching TV totally unaware of the smoke. And Gramps had taken the batteries out of the smoke detector last time Grammy burnt something, so the fucking house could have burnt down.  He moved them out right after that.  \nAnd whoever said my sister owes our grandparents a lot of money was right, according to my brother. Just over half a million.  I feel sick.   \nBut it's worse than that even.  Okay, so Grampa kept really thorough financial files and he had signed loan agreements with whoever owed money and he kept everything in a file cabinet. Yes, I also owe them some money for a car but it's down to $4000 and I've made every monthly payment. So after my brother got my grandparents moved into assisted living, he went to gather all the financial documents so he could get everything in order and he found that all the loan agreements my sister had signed were missing from her file. He suspects she took them so there'd be no record of what she owes. Apparently Grampa kept photocopies of the important stuff including loan agreements and a payment ledger book in a fire safe as backup so my brother has proof of what everyone owes. \n\nI feel sick, I don't know what to do.  This is a nightmare. \nI'm going to call the lawyer tomorrow and find out how to get removed from this mess. \n\n\n**Original post below:**  \nQuick background: my parents passed away several years ago in an accident, my mom's parents are the only living grandparents, my sister, brother & I are their only grandchildren.  \n\nThis is a very long story so I'll try to be as brief as possible. \nMy grandparents are approaching 90 and both have recently started to be affected by Alzheimer's. My brother has been helping them for several years, especially after our parents died. My grandparents have always been very active, very healthy, very independent people and I thought it was ridiculous that my brother would bring them meals, shovel their walkway, mow the lawn, help them to doctor's appointments, etc because they were perfectly able to handle that themselves. \n\nEarlier this year my grandparents were diagnosed with Alzheimer's. My brother was given medical & durable power of attorney which was apparently how my grandparents set up their living trust. A few months after the diagnosis my brother moved them into an assisted living home. \n\nMy sister did some research and was getting very worried about everything. She explained that our brother now owned all of my grandparents' real estate properties and all their bank accounts and stocks and whatnot and that our grandparents were now powerless. That our brother controlled everything. I was really upset and worried, especially when my brother started renting one of the real estate properties out.  \n\nSo my sister & I decided to try to contest things. She found a lawyer who came out to my grandparents' assisted living and met with them, we talked to him about how my brother was taking advantage of my grandparents and how he'd gotten them to sign over everything to him, etc. That lawyer called my sister back a few days later and said he wasn't going to represent us because there was no case.  \n\nSo my sister found a different lawyer and things are now in probate court. She has way more knowledge about this whole thing so she's taken the lead on it.  The new lawyer filed complaints with the probate court that:  \n1. my brother had taken advantage of my grandparents by \"fostering dependence\" when he was bringing them meals, doing yardwork, and taking them to the doctor when they were able to do it themselves and therefore putting himself in position to be put in charge of their money  \n2. my grandparents money\/assets are being misused and\/or stolen  \n3. my brother is renting out the house at below market rates  \n4. he's trying to isolate my grandparents by taking control of all their affairs and moving them into a home   \n\nWe are asking the court to remove my brother as power of attorney and as trustee of the living trust.  \n\n**Now, here's my dilemma**:  \nThe probate court ordered my brother to submit an accounting of my grandparents' finances and he did. Our lawyer got a copy of it last week and said that everything is not only in order, but that my brother had improved some investments to bring in more money to the trust.  \nOur lawyer also spent a little time going over some of the information in the trust.  My grandparents updated their trust when my parents died to make my brother the first person in line to take over their affairs on incapacity or death.  When my grandparents pass all of their assets are to be divided equally among my brother, my sister & me - except any outstanding loans any of us still have with them would be deducted from that person's share. He said there's also a \"no contest clause\" in the trust but that he needed to do more research on what that means.  \nHe said that there's no way the court will make any changes based on the accounting because it's, as he said, immaculate. However if we have more information about my brother mistreating\/isolating my grandparents that we'll fight on that.  \n\nToday my sister is telling me that she believes my brother has falsified the accounting that was done and that she's going to have proof of it and that we'll get my brother removed. She also plans to have the part in the trust removed about the outstanding loans being deducted and get legal guardianship over my grandparents.  \n\nI'm starting to have second thoughts and I'm not sure what to do here. \nIf my brother falsified the accounting, what happens?  \nIf my sister comes up with \"proof\" (but I have a nagging suspicion that she's going to make something up...) and gives it to the court, can I get in trouble for being on her side?  ","title":"OH: I think I've gotten caught up in a situation involving lying to\/in court and I don't know what to do","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1555557415,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/begsjb\/subpoena_question_i_wasnt_personally_served\/","id":"begsjb","body":"Hey \/legaladvice.  I recently moved houses and someone showed up at my last address and gave a family member a supoena for me. I'm in the state of Florida. Over the age of 18.  Do I have any legal binding to show up if I wasn't personally served.      \n\nThanks for any advice!","title":"Subpoena question. I wasn't personally served","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1539867313,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p8zwt\/va_how_would_i_go_about_forgiving_child_support\/","id":"9p8zwt","body":"Side-note: I have a vision in my head of Michael Scott in The Office declaring bankruptcy by just yelling \"I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!\" Maybe I just yell \"I DECLARE YOU DEBT FREE!\" and boom, no debt? Is that how this works? Let me back up...\n\nMy wife and I are currently working on the beginning stages of my adopting her two kids from a previous marriage. Her ex is long gone and has paid very little child support since their divorce 7 years ago. He's gone to jail for 90 days in Virginia for not paying, but has since eluded authorities. We don't really know where exactly he is at the moment, though we believe he is remarried now (for the 3rd time) and lives in Florida (don't know if Virginia or Florida law would be applicable here). She has full custody and he has supervised visitation upon request, which he has not asked for in years. As far as the adoption, abandonment is definitely our angle, though there's also violence and substance abuse going on. I'm not asking particularly about the adoption part of this particular case.\n\nHe owes my wife over $40,000 in child support. We do not expect to ever see that money, but know that he generally has to stay off the grid if he wants to avoid either paying it or being mailed summons. In the past when we found where he lived, he got some time to pay something like $800 or go to jail. He'd get an actual job for a while, work until he paid the debt, then slide back off the grid. We will have to find him again to summon him for the adoption process anyway, but I know that doing so will cause him to either move quickly or go to jail again.\n\nHe was somewhat violent during their marriage, and has multiple assault counts on him involving others since they've split. I think the best solution moving forward might be to forgive him his full debt so that he can actually turn his life around if he wants and be a better person. I know that seems like letting him off the hook, and that's partially why I'm not asking our lawyer about this yet. I haven't talked to my wife about it because I'd like to know how that actually works before I do. But I think that it might be the best way to protect our family from him in the future. Kill him with kindness in a way, but also I know the adoption will stir a pot that hasn't been stirred for a while and I don't want his violent tendencies to cause us problems later.\n\nSo, how would I even go about forgiving debt like that? Is that a family court thing still or does that go to a different court? I would think there's some legal process to it, but no idea what that would look like. Probably not like Michael Scott, though that sounds way less expensive.","title":"[VA] How would I go about forgiving child support debt?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1551559204,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awm2ys\/does_a_will_from_mexico_carry_legal_merit_in_the\/","id":"awm2ys","body":"More specifically, Texas. \n\nMy grandparents made a will while in Mexico a few years back. They have property there and in Texas and the will covers them all. When they pass on, is that sufficient for the probate court to begin the proceedings? Is it better to have one made locally in addition to the one we have already?\n\nThanks!!","title":"Does a will from Mexico carry legal merit in the US?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568407156,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3v96m\/my_fiance_recently_got_a_job_at_a_local\/","id":"d3v96m","body":"\nMy Fiance recently started working at a local restaurant and during the interview her manager told her that she would be making $10-11 an hour. She took that as hourly pay and was very excited. She took the job based on that information and has been working there for two weeks now. She's about to be paid and just found out that she only makes $6 + tips for morning shifts and $4 + tips and hour for afternoon shifts. They didn't tell her that during the interview. She's devastated and unsure that she'll even be making minimum wage at this point. \n\nShe feels very deceived by their dishonesty. Aside from just finding another job is there anything we can do?\n\nSide note: it should be illegal to pay employees under minimum wage. It is not the customers job to straight up pay salaries. I was unaware how scummy restaurants were until now.","title":"My fiance recently got a job at a local restaurant but was mislead pre employment about her pay. What can we do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540483172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rbl7j\/va_unregistered_vehicle_ticket_not_in_online\/","id":"9rbl7j","body":"I renewed my car inspection and had my emissions test completed, but I was an idiot and completely forgot to renew my registration. I had \"car documents\" checked off in my mind and forgot about it. My fault entirely. \n\nAnyway, my registration expired in August and I was pulled over September 24th. I was issued a ticket. \n\n30 days later, I still cannot find my case in the General District Traffic Court system to pay it. I tried a name search, case number search, and hearing date search together and individually. I also did a general search of all the traffic court cases being heard on my court date and my name or case is not scheduled.\n\nInterestingly, I searched my officer's court dates and discovered that he has a completely different case with someone else on the same exact day and same exact time as my hearing is supposed to be. \n\nI have not said anything to anyone yet. Can I safely ignore this ticket? ","title":"[VA] Unregistered vehicle ticket not in online court system 30 days later. Officer has a different hearing scheduled for when my hearing is. Can I ignore the ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555698605,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bf2jrf\/parents_not_speaking_divorce_agreement_vague\/","id":"bf2jrf","body":"For background, I live in MA, and my parent's divorce was made official in summer 2018. I'm going to be a freshman in college this fall (hopefully). \n\nFrankly, their separation agreement sucks. I cried when I read it. My mother didn't even hire a real lawyer or anything, they just went through mediation. The agreement is about 20 pages long, and my mom forfeited alimony. \n\nThe section about college is incredibly vague. It says something about how each party will pay \"according to their assets and obligations\" up to the cost of instate tuition. (which pissed me off because it basically made my college decision for me) The passage ends there after a list of what qualifies as a college expense and there are no specifics about payment listed. I am going to an instate school and actually got a good amount of financial aid.\n\nOf course, it's college, so the bill that's looming is still quite hefty, but my parents aren't speaking to each other. At least, not effectively. My mom claims my father verbally agreed to pay 2\/3 of college expenses during mediation, and she is so obsessed with that she's not taking any outside action besides sending him messages about how he has to pay 2\/3 and squabbling over the fact that he only paid 3\/5 of my admission deposit. (its 33 dollars!!) \n\nMeanwhile, dad is only sending one sentence responses to my pleas to work this out soon before bills are posted in July. I've been looking on the internet but I'm not sure what to do about this. I've spoken to both my parents but they just keep putting it off. They are both quite well off, we're not broke. Not to mention they signed this agreement which if I'm not mistaken is binding. What do? I don't have a lot of savings, and I don't really know much at all about family law. However, I want to work this out at least before my younger siblings get old enough to go to college! Any advice is greatly appreciated!","title":"Parents not speaking, divorce agreement vague, first semester bills posted in three months","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1504979421,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6z33le\/nys_tinted_windows_law_license_points\/","id":"6z33le","body":"I have my car windows tinted illegally.  I know i can be pulled over and fined.  My question is can i get points on my license for being pulled over for it multiple times?\n\nedit: bot is saying i didnt put the location in my title. New York.","title":"NYS tinted windows law & license points","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555348237,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdikaz\/neighbor_recorded_my_partner_and_i_and_sent_to\/","id":"bdikaz","body":"I live in an apartment building right outside of NYC. My downstairs neighbor has made it a habit to complain to me about noise coming from my apartment. From the get I have been very accommodating- I purchased almost $1k in rugs and rug pads- and am conscious to make any noise during off hours in the living room as opposed to my bedroom (which is above her bedroom). \n\nFor some reason she decided to start going to my property manager instead of texting me. The first time she emailed them was because I was making loud walking noises one night. What was happening is that I had a grapefruit sized cyst near my ovaries (unbeknownst to me) and was in the worst pain in my life. I had to make frequent trips to the restroom that night before heading to the emergency room for surgery. She did not look great in that situation. I hoped it was over.\n\nThis morning I woke up to an email from my property manager. She forwarded me an email from my downstairs neighbor which contained an audio file of my boyfriend and I engaged in sexual activities. In our bedroom. In the apartment I own. At 9:30pm on a Saturday night. \n\nI am very angry and feel like my privacy has been violated. I have been very accommodating thus far, and feel like she is trying to embarrass and shame me for having adult consensual sex on my private property.\n\nI know that NY is a one party consent state for recording someone- but based on my understanding one of the people has to be involved in the conversation to give consent. She was in a different apartment recording us. And she shared that recording with a third party.\n\nI feel like she did something illegal, but I am not sure. And if she did, is this something worth pursuing legally?\n\nThank you for reading!","title":"Neighbor recorded my partner and I and sent to our management company","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542244871,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x6d5u\/wrong_hotel_booked_travel_agency_wants_to_charge\/","id":"9x6d5u","body":"I\u2019ve placed several trips with a trusted travel agent but somehow for the last trip, she messed up and reserved the wrong hotel. To cancel and reserve the correct hotel, the Travel Agency she works through or with has a cancellation policy of which I was aware of. The issue here being that the incorrect hotel was reserved by their again or representative. \n\nI have emails back and forth with my travel agent confirming all the correct details but somehow in error she or someone in her office booked the wrong hotel. \n\nShe is telling me that she is not the one charging me the cancellation fee and the agency is telling me that they reserved what they were told to reserve.  It does appear that my travel agent made the error but I don\u2019t understand the whole travel agent \/ agency structure or relationship but that doesn\u2019t sound like it should be my problem even though it has become one.  \n\nWho is responsible here?","title":"Wrong hotel booked. Travel Agency wants to charge cancellation fee. New Jersey to Florida","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1542208800,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9x0zbe\/husbands_new_job_in_mechanic_shop_seems_really\/","id":"9x0zbe","body":"I don\u2019t know which flair to use for this. I hope this one works. \n\nThe main issue happened today when he spilled diesel fuel all over himself and everyone just kinda laughed and said nothing. He works around sparks literally all day. He sends me videos of the cool displays of sparks that the machines make. \n\nThat, and he was trained by a guy who had worked there for a month. They trained him for like a day then let him drive a forklift and use heavy power tools. \n\nHe likes the job and doesn\u2019t want to get them in too much trouble, but it\u2019s really unsafe. Awhile ago he texted me about the fuel spill and I was like \u201cokay, so go clean up\u201d and he said \u201cthere\u2019s no way to clean up and I can\u2019t come change\u201d because we live 30 minutes away from the place. This feels crazy because he\u2019s WORKING AROUND SPARKS AND DOUSED IN FUEL. \n\nWhat do we do about this?","title":"Husbands new job in mechanic shop seems really dangerous. How do we report something like this to OSHA? (LA)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1411357819,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2h3go0\/speeding_ticket_spencer_tn\/","id":"2h3go0","body":"So, as the title implies, I was cited for speeding in the city of Spencer, TN. Let me set the scene:\n\nI was driving down a four lane highway with a 15-20 foot grass median and guardrails in between the lanes. I saw the cop from about 1\/2 a mile off, and immediately slowed down. When we passed each other i was going under 60Mph. He went about 1\/2 a mile further down, turned around, a thats when i got the blue lights. He asked how fast i was going, and i said 60. He never told me the speed i was supposedly going, and the ticket does not include any radar information, but says \"MF\" next to radar, and \"ou\" under that. He ended up writing me a ticket for 80 in a 65.\n\nMy main goal from this is to prevent anything from going on my record, or license. I have been told by MANY locals that that court makes all of its money from speeding tickets, and they highly suggest not fighting it, but attempting to plead it down and pay part of the fine, and try to get a driving class assigned from the judge, so that it won't go on my record.  I was also told to plead nolo, but i have plead nolo in a different state for a different offense years ago, so not sure that is still an option, especially for a speeding ticket.\n\nSo, should i get a lawyer  to fight it, fight it alone, hire a lawyer to plead it down to driving class, or attempt to plead it down myself?\n\nI just don't understand how a cop saying it \"looked\" like i was going 80 can possibly hold up in court? And if worst comes to worst and i do fight it and lose, what is a possible next step?\n\nThanks in advance!\n\nHere is a portion of the ticket:\nhttps:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_rtzwsM9pKoVnVEUHNzelltQVU\/edit?usp=sharing\n\nEdit: Removed Public Defender in place of lawyer. ","title":"Speeding Ticket- Spencer, TN.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1555462813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be1op8\/why_do_they_put_some_people_in_a_jail_cell_by\/","id":"be1op8","body":"I saw this one video where a woman got arrested for child abuse and such. They ended up putting her in her own tiny cell by herself with pretty much just a TV and a bed. They only let her get like an hour of social time. I was wondering in what cases do they put someone in a cell by themselves like this?","title":"Why do they put some people in a jail cell by themselves?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1506131920,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71vlan\/ca_landlord_sent_entirety_of_security_deposit\/","id":"71vlan","body":"I had an internship in Los Angeles this Summer, and I roomed with a few other interns.  We found a house to rent for the summer and signed a lease.  We originally agreed to pay different portions of the rent anticipating certain sleeping arrangements, and so we paid different proportions of the security deposit.  We each sent in a check for our portion of the deposit as calculated off this proportion.\n\nWhen we arrived, we noticed the house was much nicer than we assumed, allowing each of us to have our own room.  We then decided to split the rent evenly.  We adjusted the rent that we paid to the landlord accordingly, but we made it clear that we would be still considering the security deposit separately, as it would make the math simpler.  We would all mail in checks individually for the rent even though we were responsible for the rent as a group.\n\nAt the end of the summer, the landlord gave returned the full security deposit to one of the roommates.  This roommate then dispersed the deposits evenly, rather than to the original proportions (I paid 33 percent of the deposit initially but only got 20 percent of the deposit back).  Now my ex-roomate is not responding to messages regarding this question.\n\nWhat are my options?  Was the landlord in the right for returning deposits solely to one roommate would I be justified in asking him to make up the difference and then for him to sort this out with my ex-roommate?  I currently live on the East Coast but will be back in CA this coming summer.\n\nThis is a non-trivial amount of money for me (about two months worth of groceries) and I am a grad student who doesn't have a lot of money to spare.\n\nAny advice would be much appreciated!","title":"[CA] Landlord sent entirety of security deposit back to a single roommate, that roommate decided to keep the deposit for himself.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442265422,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kylc8\/uk_landlord_is_asking_us_to_aid_in_committing\/","id":"3kylc8","body":"My flatmate and I just received an extremely dodgy sounding phone call from our landlord.\n\nA short preface: Upon the original meeting with who we assumed to be the owner of the flat, the person stated that while it is him that owns the property, he lets his brother deal with the paperwork. Subsequently, his brother, who works for\/possibly owns a letting agency, then became our \"official\" landlord as written in our contract.  \n  \nAt the start of the phone call he was asking my flatmate whether or not there were any letters that had been delivered that had his name on it. After telling him that various other named post had arrived, yet nothing with his name on - he asked us to do the following:\n\n* Change the name on one of our utility bills to his own\n* Request a printed copy of the bill to be posted to us\n* Subsequently, change the name on the bill back to the original person, apparently before the next month \"is okay\"\n* This all had to be done before next Monday as that is when his appointment is scheduled for \n\nHis reasoning for this request is that he wishes to remortgage the flat so that he can buy another property to rent, but because he is not listed as living here, he cannot do so.\n\nHe then stated that \"consent to let\" has been obtained from his mortgagors \"very recently\", which leads us to believe that his lenders were not aware that he has been letting the flat. We have lived here for over a year now.\n\nEssentially, he is asking us to aid him in committing mortgage loan fraud, by providing fake proof of address.  \n\nWe are concerned for a number of reasons.  \n\nWe are concerned that upon refusal of his request, he may attempt to evict us. Although having done some research, it seems that this will be unlikely as he has no grounds to do so, and must obtain a court order.\n\nWe are also concerned with his mortgagors finding out that we have essentially (while unknowingly) been living here illegally for the past year, and then repossess the property. \n\nWe think it will be unlikely that the lender will be so kind as to let us rent the property from them, as we recently signed another 12 month contract, but are unsure whether or not consent to let was obtained before the signing of the contract.\n\nI plan to visit my local council tomorrow for advice, as well as attempting to book an appointment with the citizen's advice bureau.\n\nAny advice would be extremely appreciated, as while I know we have done nothing wrong, we are obviously concerned about the potential repercussions of this.","title":"[UK] Landlord is asking us to aid in committing mortgage fraud","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568699718,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5criz\/i_dont_know_what_to_do\/","id":"d5criz","body":"Hi everyone! Was wondering if you guys know what the laws are with cutting down trees with neighbors because we have a neighbor complaining about our huge tree in our back yard saying the trees branches are going to her side and she keeps cleaning up the leaves that falling in her yard. And she kept bugging my dad about cutting down the branches that are going on her side but he explained to her that it\u2019s way to high for him to reach ( he\u2019s turning 59 this week btw he\u2019s not able to do those things that much), so he started to ignore her cause she just kept saying stuff. \n\nYesterday she goes to our house and says that my dad has been ignoring her cause she\u2019s been asking for him to cut down the branches. And then she\u2019s says if he doesn\u2019t cut it down she\u2019s going to get a lawyer. \nWe\u2019re not sure if she\u2019s willing to half the price with of cutting it down. ( even though she\u2019s the one that wants it cut down). But the way she talked to us we\u2019re pretty sure she won\u2019t.\n \nWe just wanna see what our options are and if we have any right to refuse or at least save money with cutting it down.\nWe from the the Bay Area btw","title":"I don\u2019t know what to do","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1541596057,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uz9b7\/employer_is_stealing_copper_for_personal_gains_am\/","id":"9uz9b7","body":"In Illinois. Without giving to much detail, I'm employeed by a city, and our department has been stealing copper from old jobs, and now plans on selling it. There's material from maybe 2-3 job sights, worth well north of $5,000, and they plan to scrap it, and distribute it among the employees. Another co worker and I have done all we can do to keep our hands clear and avoid any talks about what's going on, but it's hard. If someone finds out, will we get in trouble even though we haven't done anything and refuse to do anything involving the copper? What options do we have to protect ourselves. Obvious throw away. ","title":"Employer is stealing copper for personal gains, am I guilty by association?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1555446727,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdytgb\/can_i_move_out_at_15_nyc\/","id":"bdytgb","body":"Parents found out I had a boyfriend (I\u2019m a guy) They shouted at me, hit me, locked me in my room. It\u2019s been going on for few months. We moved recently so I don\u2019t have any relatives to stay with. Even if I did they\u2019d find me there and bring me back. So, If I just get up and leave. Can they bring me back home legally.","title":"Can I move out at 15 (NYC)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1540520729,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9rgrt6\/update_cps_took_my_step_son\/","id":"9rgrt6","body":"Link to original post https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/8fmrr8\/cps_took_my_stepson\/?utm_source=reddit-android\n\nThank you to every one who gave us such good advice! My husband was approved for a public defender, and although there was no one available to be his p.d., they proceeded with court for the 30 day review. As we were sitting outside waiting for court to start, someone came up and told my husband an attorney that had just gotten out of a different hearing had been asked to do his case pro bono, and she happily agreed! The social workers all told him he was extremely lucky when they found out who his attorney was, and she has been nothing short of freaking amazing!!\n\nHe was taken from his mother in April, put on a 72 hour hold, placed with his step-dads mom for a week or so but she could not handle his brother and sister as they are undisciplined, addicted to electronics, nonverbal, and the poor little babies (4 and 2) were going thru withdrawals from meth which honestly makes me sick to my stomach.\n\nHe was placed in a foster care with an absolutely wonderful woman due to my husband testing positive for THC in May. We did a few supervised visits, moved to an unsupervised visit for our family reunion, and took him camping with us the next weekend. \n\nThe next week, at the 90 day review in August, we were told that we could pick him up from his foster home for what they called a 'trial home visit'. \n\nHis mother had not followed any of the court orders other than UAs (which she failed several of for various things), got arrested again for violating probation, got evicted, got her vehicle impounded for a \"crystalline\" like substance they found in her steering column when she got pulled over and she claimed wasn't hers (and surprisingly they believed her), is dating a felon with drug charges while living with her husband, and until two weeks ago, was having supervised visits at a neutral place. She is just now starting supervised in home visits, and the judge rejected unsupervised visits per the guardian ad litam's recommendation. She just started treatment 8 days ago. Her husband has cleaned up, but because they are living together as roommates, he is also doing the same kind of visitations as my husbands ex.\n\nWe had court today for the 6 month review, and my husband's attorney as well as my stepsons lawyer requested reunification with a transfer of custody to my husband (they previously had 50\/50 before this went down), and the judge agreed!!! So we have mister, and we spoke to a few people who have been a big part of his life to set up times to see them. We don't want to disrupt his life, we want to improve it. \n\nWe hope his mom finishes her recommendations so she can be healthy and refocus on being a mom. It just wasn't being done quickly enough, and it was apparent that recovery and the case plan were not her priority. She was telling everyone she would get him back regardless as MN is a *HUUUG\u0122EEE* mother state. Proving her wrong was in misters best interest. At least for now. So thank you again for all the advice! We are sooooo happy!!\n \n\nTL:DR Stepson got taken from mom after she was raided for dealing and using meth and heroin, ended up in foster care temporarily and was unable to br placed with us due to hubby testing positive for THC, hubby and I tested negative repeatedly, got s.s. for trial in home placement after 90 days, got awarded full custody today after 6 months, overriding previous 50\/50 custody arrangement!","title":"[UPDATE] CPS took my step son","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555416788,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdt787\/was_in_a_crash_that_was_not_my_fault_later_found\/","id":"bdt787","body":"The driver was working for a big lorry company, he admitted it was his fault to me, but not in writing. Their insurance company have found out about me not having an MOT but haven't said that it will affect anything yet. Important to note I love in the UK. Please ask as many questions as you want, thanks.","title":"Was in a crash that was not my fault, later found out my MOT ran out a few days before","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1508591460,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/77t9up\/california_landlord_security_deposit_deduction\/","id":"77t9up","body":"My situation is the following:\n\nWe had a month to month rental. I started the process to apply for a newly built home, but was not informed of the home completion date\/closing date (9\/29) until mid-september. We notified landlord as soon as we knew the closing date, but that was on 9\/20. We moved out completely by 10\/1. \n\nI understand I am probably liable for rent up until 10\/20 (correct?), but the landlord just told me over the phone yesterday that she is going to get an estimate of all these supposed cleaning costs that she claims will likely exceed the security deposit amount. \n\nHowever, as of tomorrow I have received neither a written nor verbal itemized statement of deduction for cleaning or damage, and that will be the 21st day since vacating the apt. Also I have the original signed lease copy with walkthrough checklist and most of the list is blank (no marks under either good or bad condition). \n\nWhat are my liabilities here? I'm thinking security deposit minus whatever unpaid rent I owe for late notification of leaving, with all other fees being either waived out of court (if she's reasonable) or the court even ruling in my favor minus the rent up to 10\/20 (given there has been no itemized statement in the 21 days and also a poorly filled out move in checklist).\n\nBasically I've violated the rental contract by not giving 30 days notice, but she's violated state law by giving me my itemized deduction statement after 21 days. What does my case look like? Is it worth pursuing legal action? Mostly dependent on the judge?","title":"(California) Landlord security deposit deduction not sent before 21 days.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553374064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b4o1u5\/i_called_the_police_and_vice_versa_how_do_i\/","id":"b4o1u5","body":"So I passed a guy on my way back from picking up my SO from work. \n\nHe then sped up and passed me like a maniac and almost took out my front end. \n\nHe slowed back down so I passed again and tried to indicate I wanted him to stop. \n\nHe then sped up again and passed me again.\n\nI once again passed him and completely stopped and hopped out of my car with cell phone in hand and snapped a quick video. \n\nHe legit backed up, and sped off back the way he came.\n\nI called the police as soon as he took off, and apparently so did he. \n\nThe police are coming to question us tomorrow, and I wanted to know how do I approach this? I don't want to be an asshole, but I know my rights and I don't want some crazy old guy getting away with this. (He was an older guy with a male passenger in a truck, nuff said)","title":"I called the police, and vice versa, how do I appraoch this?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568863952,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d68e1g\/my_ex_plans_to_use_my_very_specific_business\/","id":"d68e1g","body":"When we were together, we had planned to start a business together. I would run part A and he would run part B. I work in a very specialized career field in which he has little to no experience in. \nNothing is set in stone yet, my ex asked me to jump on board tonight. He doesn\u2019t have the funding or the approval yet, he is simply putting together his team. \nI declined his offer for various reasons. My ex plans to higher someone, with similar experience to mine, in order to implement my idea. \nIs there anything I can do to protect my idea? To protect my business model before he tries to implement it? \nTo clarify, this is not personal. In my career field, my model is likely to result in a high return. I plan on implementing my idea with my current company...I simply want to protect my idea and business plans.","title":"My Ex plans to use my very specific business model as an aspect to win a bid for a new business venture.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554324808,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b93kih\/can_you_sue_landlord_for_cockroach_infestation\/","id":"b93kih","body":"My boyfriend moved into an apartment building a few years ago with his friend. He paid a security deposit, but there was no lease agreement for this apartment building. It's a small building in Ohio with four units. People tend to come and go from this building as no credit or background checks or lease is required. In the past year or so, there has been a cockroach infestation in the building. The infestation is not just contained in my boyfriend's unit, as I've seen them in common areas of the apartment including the stairway. The infestation continues to worsen so, obviously, my boyfriend is looking for a new place to live. To me, this is a serious health concern and not suitable living conditions. Can he take any legal action regarding this issue and if so, what steps should he take? Does it matter that he never signed a lease?","title":"Can you sue landlord for cockroach infestation?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1444764955,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3omje7\/fl_can_a_nonofficer_use_deadly_force_to_stop_a\/","id":"3omje7","body":"I know that officers with probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others can be stopped with deadly force after inducing them to surrender peacefully...\n\nBut my brother was asking me if he could use deadly force on someone who just robbed him with a deadly weapon and was running away. Technically, armed robbery is a felony, which would make that person a fleeing felon and they are armed and could rob someone else. \n\nSorry if this has been asked before. I searched an nothing came up. ","title":"[FL] Can a non-officer use deadly force to stop a fleeing felon?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569973109,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dc1yrb\/need_help_concerning_a_roommate\/","id":"dc1yrb","body":"Here's the situation; \n\nAbout a year ago, my best friend, his girlfriend and I moved in together in a 3 bedroom apartment (they share a room and third room is used as a storage room.) Things were fine for the first 4-5 months, but around last New year's, his girlfriend began a cycle of disappearing for a week once a month to get high and drunk. This didn't really concern me, until she lost her job over it around March. She hasn't had a job since, and has stopped contributing towards rent and other bills for the past 3-4 months. My friend has for the most part picked up her slack, and I've done my part to help him when he's needed it. \n\nHere's the legal problem;\n\nHow do we get her out of the apartment legally? Her name is on the lease(all of our names are on it), but she has not payed any portion of the rent for quite some time. The water and power are also in her name, I don't know if that matters. She is mentally unstable and has multiple medications she takes for anxiety\/bipolar disorder I believe, but her behavior is getting to the point that I don't feel comfortable or safe living with her, and my roommate doesn't want her there anymore either. I'm also not opposed to moving myself, my main problem with that would be the cost, and it's not fair to us to have to pay more for her mistakes. \n\nSo, what are my options? Is there a way to get her removed from our apartment or should we be the ones leaving?","title":"Need help concerning a roommate","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1441904053,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kf8v4\/tenants_minor_kid_6_and_neighborhood_kid_7\/","id":"3kf8v4","body":"I own a couple of multi-family apartments in Salt Lake City, UT.  They are in a not so nice area of town, where you don't really have much parental supervision.  Anyway, I got a call from the fire department yesterday informing me that there was an exterior fire at one of the buildings.  Fortunately does not look like a ton of damage (~$1k - $1.5k), so an insurance claim does not make sense.  I spoke with the arson investigator and it was a little boy in one of my units and a boy across the street who were playing with a cigarette and lighter in the bushes and lit them on fire.  Parents don't want to take any responsibility because they don't have much money and probably wouldn't even if they did (neglectful to their kids).  \n\nIs there anything I can do about this to hold their parents\/guardians liable?  Do I have any legal repercussions?  Thanks in advance for your help.","title":"Tenants minor kid (~6) and neighborhood kid (~7) started a fire that damaged my building.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539741883,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ou96b\/ca_divorce_case_regarding_property\/","id":"9ou96b","body":"Throwaway account by my mothers parents bought a home which my mom and dad lives in after marriage. He was added to the deed long after to take out a loan. The deed states my mom and dad each own 24%. My grandmother has 52%. My grandmother passed  away and the percentage was given to my mother. They are going through a divorce now and my dad is claiming half the home. Is that possible? ","title":"CA - Divorce case regarding property.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553260287,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b44wko\/md_terminate_parental_rights_of_absent_father\/","id":"b44wko","body":"My daughter and I moved from NY to MD in 2016 to get away from my abusive ex-boyfriend \/ her father. She wasn\u2019t quite 1 yet.\n\nI filed for custody in NY since we hadn\u2019t yet established residence in MD. I have full physical and legal custody, but he got visitation. The plan was every other weekend, rotating between him coming to MD and me driving her up to NY. I didn\u2019t trust him to keep up his end of the deal and traveling to us, so I asked for a stipulation that if he didn\u2019t come for 3 months, or if he used drugs during a visit that I didn\u2019t have to bring her to NY. \n\nI brought her up to him once a month, and he came down on the 3rd month and he was high. I have a text record of him admitting that he was high, and therefore breached the rules. He came one more time but the last visit was about 3 hours in May 2017.\n\nHe\u2019s on SSDI so I never filed for support, and haven\u2019t received any. He\u2019s had no contact in almost 2 years.\n\nSince we left, I met a really wonderful man who has been helping me raise her. We just bought a house and we\u2019re saving money to hopefully have him legally adopt my daughter. We are also saving up for a wedding.\n\nOur daughter (she calls him Daddy and he calls her his daughter) is the most important, and we want to make sure she\u2019s protected. I want to terminate her bio dad\u2019s parental rights because if anything happens to me and she goes to him, it would be devastating for everyone involved. \n\nCan we terminate his rights and have my fianc\u00e9 adopt her? I\u2019m having a lot of trouble finding out all of the specifics on MD laws for this type of circumstance.","title":"(MD) Terminate Parental Rights of Absent Father","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554237284,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8ojfm\/issues_w_nda_and_nondisparagement_agreementwork\/","id":"b8ojfm","body":"Hello everyone!\n\n​\n\nFor safety reasons, this is a throw away account. \n\n​\n\nI have been encouraged by friends to come here and ask you all about a severance agreement from my last job. Without getting too into it, I had a personal issue with one of the owners that involved sexual and psychological abuse. There was also disability discrimination so a report with the EEOC was filed. I have since reported this guy to the police, but they basically told me there was no way to prove it wasn't consensual. I feared losing my job, or worse, if I didn't follow through with what he asked me to do. I had seen this happen to other employees so I was very afraid.\n\nAfter seeing what had happened to other employees, I wised up and got a lawyer who encouraged me to file an EEOC claim. This basically put us in a stalemate - they couldn't exactly fire me, and I had to stay there otherwise this would all be for nothing. We were in this stalemate for months, the whole time they were trying to make my life a living hell. They suspended me for minor reasons, eliminated my position and gave me \"busy work\" to do. One time they left my request for disability accommodation, as well as very personal medical information about me and correspondence with their lawyer about me in a common area of work. One of my more friendly co-workers came across it and gave it to me. I called the owners in to discuss why this paperwork was left in a common area of the building. They definitely freaked out about that, and started offering me money to leave.  I said I would think about it, but I really wanted to try to work this out. I was, admittedly, under a lot of stress and a bit delusional about my future at that place. They stepped up the pressure on me, baring me from certain parts of the building, talking to certain employees, as well as access to software I needed to complete the busy work they had given me. They even went as far as monitoring my social life outside work. I went out with two friends from work one day, they asked me what was going on, I explained to them what was going on, and they reported it back to the owners. That was kind of the final straw for me. I was under so much stress, I couldn't escape it, even after work. I admittedly was starting to self harm for the first time in 15+ years, I wasn't suicidal, but I was under so much stress that I was desperate for any kind of relief. The owner who was the main problem actually called the police on me once to do a welfare check. He told them I had a gun, and the only gun I owned was a nonfunctional antique gun that belonged to a great-great-great-etc family member of mine. Meanwhile this boss walked around work open carrying (legal in that state). This business has an even longer history of being a culture of fear and abuse. Again, this is a really long story, but I'm trying to give you all a little background.\n\n​\n\nAnyway, after that final straw I, against my lawyers wishes, tried to hash out a severance agreement with them (my lawyer wanted me to stay there as long as possible because I definitely had a case on my hands, but if I left I would be sacrificing that). I firmly believe, many years removed from the situation, that I was under extreme duress when they got me to sign that severance agreement. The agreement was a certain number of months of pay in exchange for a non-disclosure, non-compete, and non-disparagement agreement and for me to drop the EEOC claim. They also agreed to non-disparagement agreement, which they have broken, but I have no physical proof of, unfortunately. They basically \"doxxed\" me and it took years to bury that information in a google search of my name. Recently they have been called out for more illegal behavior and people have wanted me to come forward with my story, but I'm afraid to talk about the abuse I experienced there because of this contract.\n\n​\n\nNow onto my questions: \n\n​\n\n1) There is no time limit on the non-disclosure, non-disparagement, non-compete. Can it be indefinite\/forever like that?  I ask because I've had people tell me that there needs to be a time limit, it can't just be forever. I have no idea if that's true, which is why I am asking here.\n\n​\n\n2) Is there anyway I can argue that this contract was signed under duress? I legitimately have years and years of therapy and doctors appointments that support that this was an extremely traumatic few years. \n\n​\n\n3) Can they even legally cover up abuse with a contract? I've heard that legally abuse can't be covered up like this. Again, I have no idea, that's why I'm asking this here. There was sexual and psychological abuse. I also suffered monitory damage because of them that I continue to pay off to this day. \n\n​\n\n4) Can they come after me (and more importantly) win if I spoke up about the abuse I experience there?  The severance agreement is over 5 years old at this point. There was interest in a potential class action against them by all the people they abused through out the years - I don't know if I could even be a part of that.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nIf you've made it this far, thank you. Any advice I can get would be greatly helpful! I hate asking for help for free, but I had a lot of friends encourage me to post here.\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​","title":"Issues w\/ NDA and Non-disparagement agreement\/Work place abuse","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1569197224,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7yq71\/wifes_job_not_providing_paystubs_upon_request\/","id":"d7yq71","body":"Sorry for throwaway, I\u2019m a paranoid person. \n\nI recently lost healthcare due to leaving a job for health reasons. I can not afford COBRA and was able to apply for healthcare via Healthcare.gov\n\n\nI was informed I would be eligible for Medicare etc, and that I needed to provide paystubs for my wife\u2019s place of employment. My wife works at a very small health clinic with not a huge amount of HR to speak of. \n\nMy wife requested the paystubs requested by the state and we were directed to Intuit who does their payroll software. Intuit\u2019s website gives us an error when trying to access this info - a quick google search shows that several users are affected and have been for over a month. \n\n\nMy wife raised this issue with her place of employment and we were told to kick rocks and that we would need to wait for the website to be repaired, they could not provide paystubs. \n\n\nIs there anything sketchy going on here? I feel like withholding these paystubs - even after it\u2019s been explained that it\u2019s for me to get health insurance - can\u2019t be legal. I\u2019m sorry if this is not the right place to post- I just wasn\u2019t sure where else to ask for specific advice on the fact that they won\u2019t provide paystubs at all.","title":"Wife\u2019s job not providing paystubs upon request, expects us to wait for a 3rd party to fix website issue (NV)","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1551750917,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axfirg\/looking_for_eviction_advice\/","id":"axfirg","body":"I'll try to condense this as much as I can. Mobile Home owners, have lived in the same park on the same lot for 11 years. I have been working for the park without problems for 2 years this month. Husband was woeking as maintenance and fired after 5 months without any prior warnings or write ups. We have had a hard time catching up financially.\n\nHusband was approved for unemployment benefits and is currently owed $1,200 in unemployment payments. They told us to keep filing every week but that the park is being uncooperative and unresponsive. Letters were sent to the park we live in as well as the parent office in another city. Have to wait for it to be unresolved a certain length of time before unemployment department will issue a default and release his back payments.\n\nWe were late on February's rent. I talked to the main manager via text message explaining to her that we plan on paying in full and that we were waiting for tax refund to be deposited. Texted her copies of our refund stauts and expected ammou n't and confirmation numbers. She talked with me some that day, then responded the next morning that she had talked to the park owner and she agreed to hold off on sending us to their attorney to start the eviction process as long as we paid to catch up when we got our money. I still have the texts. 6 days later I get a voicemail to come to the office. The on site manager for our park told me they wanted February's rent plus late fees plus they wanted March rent all together in one money order. Said I had 2 hpurs to pay it or they were turning me into the park's attorney to start eviction. \n\nWe just got served with court papers this morning. Court date is this Friday, March 8th. In the court papers the first thing wrong I noticed is that they're claiming we have 3 minor children living in the home when we only have 2. Secind thing I noticed is that they're asking us to pay February lot rent and February late fees, as well as March rent, but also it states that we did not pay January either and is asking that we pay that as well along with a full month of late fees for January.  They're asking the court to order us to pay all of that plus court fees AS well as grant them ownership of our mobile home as well, plus evict us from the property. \n\nI must note that we did pay January's rent. I have the receipt from the office filled in by the manager as well as the money order stub with tracking number and the receipt for the money order from the store. We have been here 11 years and never had to have them file attempt eviction against us before. It seems like they're really out to get us. \n\nDoes the wrong information in the court papers ammount to anything? Also the agreement between me and the main manager via text didn't have a specific date, just whenever taxes came in, does that hold as a binding agreement? I did contact legal aid, filled out the basic application online amd had a voicemail asking us to call them in the morning because they have a few questions about our case. We are in Arizona also if that matters. \nTIA for any advice or info.","title":"Looking for eviction advice","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554780857,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb35p6\/gym_teacher_forcing_participation_in_weight_room\/","id":"bb35p6","body":"Not for me b\/c I personally love this unit and am a total fitness junkie as of late, but I have noticed and heard some my fellow students express their feelings towards weight lifting, whether its they are scared, uncomfortable in the environment, etc. The teacher is very coercive and almost threatens to not give them class participation grade if they don\u2019t. This isn\u2019t only wrong imo but I believe also illegal in some way. If you need more details please just ask.","title":"Gym teacher forcing participation in weight room.","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1446619775,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rgpjq\/kansas_want_to_evict_renter_from_our_home\/","id":"3rgpjq","body":"Thirteen months ago we allowed a friend to move into our home. He was being evicted from his previous situation with short notice, and we had an extra bedroom and bathroom upstairs. We weren't looking for a renter, and don't need the extra income, but we decided to help a friend in need. We settled on a ridiculously low amount of rent ($300 for private large room and bath and all utilities) and gave it a go.\n\nOver time this guy has become incredibly entitled and increasingly disrespectful of our home. We were dumb to think that we didn't need to set rules and boundaries from the beginning. He brings home girls he meets on hookup sites, and entertains them in our living room, which is way overstepping his rental expectations as we have expressed to him. Sometimes he lets then wander the house unsupervised, and because even he doesn't really know these girls it makes me very anxious and afraid for my safety. On several occasions they've left in the middle of the night and left the front door unlocked. He takes our food and cleaning supplies without asking. He talks really loud, had the TV too loud, and just makes a bunch of noise at all hours. His stuff has started creeping into other rooms without notice, taking up our living space. Just totally disrespectful of us, our property, and his place in this house as the renter of a single room. He thinks he owns the place!\n\nWe have plenty of reasons to ask him to leave, but I'm not sure the best way to go about it. Do I just give 30 days written notice? Do I have to give a written reason? What if he won't leave? I remember the last person he lived with had great difficulty getting him to leave. In hindsight, this was a terrible idea from the start!\n\nAny advice welcome! Thanks.\n\n(Sorry if I missed any important details. I should be asleep, but this guy was just down in the basement with his latest hookup playing with noisy power tools. I still have a hard time believing people this inconsiderate actually exist.)","title":"(Kansas) Want to evict renter from our home","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1413411875,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2jd0w1\/horrible_company_is_threatening_legal_action_if_i\/","id":"2jd0w1","body":"An awful company that does business in my trade has learned that I plan to express opinions about their products and services in a public form, and they have preemptively sent me a threatening letter claiming that my opinions constitute defamation.\n\nI'm pretty sure I'm okay there. I don't plan to say anything incorrect about the company, just offer an opinion based on well-publicized evidence. But now that they've sent me this threatening letter, what I'd really like to do is publicize *that* and let everyone in my trade see what the company is prepared to do to muffle opinion.\n\nDo I open myself up to any legal action by publicizing their attorney's letter threatening legal action? They actually sent two letters--one to me and one to my employer. I have a copy of the letter sent to my employer. Are there any additional concerns with publicizing *that* letter, since it wasn't sent directly to me?\n\nEdit: Having been chastised by the bot, I shall report that I am in Rhode Island but the company is in California.","title":"Horrible company is threatening legal action if I express opinions about them. Do I open myself up to trouble by publicizing threats?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1504138216,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6x3ddw\/oregon_apartment_repairs_estimated_to_take_up_one\/","id":"6x3ddw","body":"I live in a two bedroom, one bathroom apartment in Portland, Oregon.  One of the hardwood laminate tiles in the hallway near the bathroom started popping up in July, so I filled out a maintenance request to get it repaired.  Upon further inspection it looks like an issue with the water heater leaking caused the board to pop up and has caused damage in the bathroom as well.  It's taken some time and the landlord has had a flooring company come out to take a look.  Landlord called this afternoon saying the repairs will be made next week, which I do appreciate, but he says it will take the entire week and we will have no access to our bathroom during this time.  His solution is for us to use the facilities in the \"clubhouse\" (I use the term lightly because it a small, old building with a few folding tables and chairs in it).  This includes daily showers and middle of the night restroom usage.\n\nWe have two cats we can move into a bedroom, but we are concerned about not being able to use the one restroom and also having to live with what sounds like it will be an open pit in the bathroom floor.  We are considering getting a hotel, but that is expensive.  I tried to ask my landlord what kind of compensation we get for having no use of our restroom and he responded that getting to use the clubhouse is all we get.  He isn't the worst guy ever and like I said I appreciate they are getting it fixed, but it just doesn't seem tight.  Thank you in advance.","title":"[Oregon] Apartment repairs estimated to take up one week","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540234227,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qgr8v\/is_an_educational_institution_required_by_law_to\/","id":"9qgr8v","body":"This educational institution never provided me with a copy of the contract. They are the ones who produced the contract; they are the offeror. Are they required by law to give me a copy of the contract if I ask for one? If so, can you point me to a specific statute that says so?\n\n​\n\nThis is in California.","title":"Is an educational institution required by law to give me a copy of our contract if I ask for one?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554182368,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8euxp\/pregnancy_laws_in_ca\/","id":"b8euxp","body":"I\u2019m pregnant and working full time at a winery in California. I have already missed a couple days due to severe morning sickness and I\u2019m wondering if, even with a doctor\u2019s note, can I be fired for this? Would appreciate any insight. Thank you all. ","title":"Pregnancy laws in CA?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1553462410,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b51q1a\/want_to_move_out_but_have_roommate_bc\/","id":"b51q1a","body":"I have a month-to-month tenancy agreement with no contract. I am renting a basement floor with my roommate.\n\n\nI want to move out in a month, and would like to give a proper written notice to landlord and my roommate. \n\nWhat are my rights in this situation? Can I just move out in a month, or am I responsible for finding a person as my replacement? (Of course would love to help). \n\nAnd will my roommate\u2019s tenancy automatically cancel and he will have to move out too? \n\n\n","title":"Want to move out but have roommate [BC]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571777267,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dlo76g\/cant_afford_child_support\/","id":"dlo76g","body":"Not really sure what info is needed (I\u2019m told I talk too much so I\u2019ll try not to over share) \n\nDuring mediation it was discovered that my ex makes close to $58k a year, I make close to $30k.  Court documents show him making about $40k... not sure where the difference happened or what could have gone on there. \nAnyway\nMy obligation is now $186\/week I simply cannot afford this. \nIf I make $630\/week -$186 =$444-$40 (insurance) $404 - $80 (taxes; average) = $324\nMy rent alone is $1300 meaning I have to save an average of $333 for that... how can this be a fair judgment? \n\nIt should be noted that $1300 is on the low side of average for my area. Most places require credit checks which, due to my student loan debt, I don\u2019t qualify for. \nMy ex is emotionally abusive\/manipulate so he doesn\u2019t care about helping","title":"Can\u2019t afford child support","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1570064069,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dcjlbt\/last_will_and_testament_concern\/","id":"dcjlbt","body":"Recently, I was contacted by my aunt saying that she is working on getting her will put together and that she needed my social security number. Am I wrong to be hesitant? She is my godmother and has always treated me like her own child, but I\u2019m still unsure if this is legitimate.","title":"Last will and testament concern","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1554613815,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bad3nu\/oregon_my_tenantroommate_has_been_missing_for_3\/","id":"bad3nu","body":"I live in a room shared house (2 stories, 6 rooms) and also manage the tenants as part of my rent. \n\nWe have a tenant that hasn\u2019t shown up in 3 weeks, not entirely uncommon, before he got a cat. He\u2019s always been a bit sporadic and tends to take off for days or weeks, occasionally a month at a time but usually lets us know beforehand. Usually, not always. \n\nHe doesn\u2019t have a phone, so we can\u2019t get ahold of him. His boss stopped by the other day and asked if we\u2019d seen him, he hasn\u2019t been to work in 3 weeks. We let his boss know that we hadn\u2019t seen or heard anything from him in that time either. \n\nHe also has (had?) a meth problem that I thought we got past, I honestly thought he was dealing for a while because of his constant coming and going, all hours of the day and night. \n\nAnd disappearing for days at a time is pretty common tweaker behavior. Also, constantly giving rides to shady characters that we sometimes met. Not to mention he\u2019s had all four of his tires slashed, twice. So maybe this time he pissed off the wrong people and got buried in the woods? IDK\n\nMy question is; He has a (now currently dying) cat in his room. How do I go about gaining entry to his room? Do I call the police and have them perform a welfare check? Knowing full well he isn\u2019t home. Do I file a missing persons report? I am at a loss here and have no idea how to proceed and stay within legal landlord parameters. \nPLEASE HELP ME SAVE THE CAT!!! TIME IS LIMITED BEFORE IT DIES!!!\n\nAlso, I do NOT need advice on evictions. I am fully aware of tenant law regarding that and have plenty of court experience. This missing person stuff is new territory, please only offer advice regarding how to save the cat. That is all I care about at the moment. \n\nThank you. \n","title":"[OREGON] My tenant\/roommate has been missing for 3 weeks and his employer stopped by, wondering where he is. His cat is going crazy in his room, will probably die soon, I need advice on how to proceed.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571187935,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dihor5\/false_ticket_need_advice\/","id":"dihor5","body":"In June I was T-Boned by another driver.  The other driver was 16 and his car was not damaged.    My car was totaled.  \n\nOne officer arrived on scene a bit later and asked if we were ok and then left.  Another officer showed up 20 minutes later.  In the time the kids dad arrived.  \n\nWhen the second cop arrived he only spoke with the father and then allowed them to leave.  I was never provided their insurance information or anything.  \n\nOf course I was shaken up and upset.  The officer came to me and stated there was no traffic cameras or other witnesses to verify who was responsible.  But stated he was giving me a ticket because I appeared to be more visible shaken up over the ordeal and that was a sign to him that I was at fault.  \n\nInsurances conducted their investigations and both his insurance and mine stated there was no evidence that could place either driver at fault and we would both be held liable for our own vehicles.  \n\nSo I decided to go to court regarding the ticket because I know I was not at fault, and regardless there is no evidence to prove other wise.  \n\nNow the DA is refusing to dismiss the case saying someone has to be responsible and the cop gave me a ticket and not the kid so he is trying to cut me a deal.  \n\nThe first being I admit guilty to a lesser charge, lose 2 points, and pay 70 dollars.  Stays on my record.\n\nThe second being I admit guilty to the base charge, lose 4 points, pay 100 dollars, get 3 months probation, but at the end of 3 months everything clears off my record.  \n\nHe also stated he was seeking damage costs from the other driver that I would be responsible to pay as well as the fines and court costs.  The amount has not been provided yet.  \n\nHe is seeking an answer by 5pm tomorrow.  \n\nMy issue is that I know I am not guilty and there is no way to prove other wise.  It would be easy to just pay the fines and move on.. but I fear an admittance of guilt would allow the other driver to take me to court for financial obligations.  \n\nI feel as though I should tell the DA I am not interested in either of his deals and that I refuse to admit guilt in any way.  \n\nIf I did admit guilt would that set me up for the other driver to sue me?  \n\nI need advice please.","title":"False Ticket Need Advice","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569285061,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8fk08\/1500_for_pain_and_suffering\/","id":"d8fk08","body":"I was recently in a minor accident and got rear ended. I mentioned my back feeling differently after the accident. Just minor discomfort really. I may just be paranoid. Anyway, I haven\u2019t been to the doctor or anything yet but an agent from State Farm left me a message about getting me a 1500 check for my pain and suffering. Any advice on this situation?","title":"1500 for pain and suffering?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1507299970,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/74nxw0\/il_is_it_legal_for_voip_companies_to_record_your\/","id":"74nxw0","body":"Say, for services like Skype, Discord, etc. Is it legal for them to record my voice calls using their VOIP service with the consent only being that I registered to their service while they state on their privacy policy that they do record them?","title":"[IL] Is it legal for VOIP companies to record your voice conversations while using their service?","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1444307657,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3nyqrh\/i_may_be_sol_but_is_it_possible_to_sue_a_recent\/","id":"3nyqrh","body":"Back in February I had a pretty decent kitchen fire that damaged the apartment I was living in. The fire department had to get involved and we informed the landlady and her insurance what had happened.\n\nWe were informed everything would be alright and handled, and a month later I received a letter in the mail as a subrogation notice and that I was entirely responsible for the damages (though the extensive damage was actually caused by my roommate throwing the fire into water). \n\nThis came as a shock because I discussed with the landlady about making the repairs myself and she said it would be fine and we could go into more detailed 'when she came to town.' She never came to town. I moved out 4 months later, and her insurance sent more letters saying that she had filed a claim and that I would be taken to court if I didn't pay up.\n\nI called the landlady immediately asking what the fuck was going on and I was simply told that \"the claim had to be filed by law, my bad, I'll give you leftovers also btw I used the entirety of the security deposit on shipping cabinets.\"\n\nRepairs never happened. These 'cabinets' she bought were never installed. She pocketed the insurance money and my deposit (as well as my roommates) and then threatened to throw them out when they were ready to move out and that they had 'used up their deposit.' They promptly told her 'you pocketed the insurance\" and she shut up and let them stay another month.\n\nDo I have any grounds for a small claims\/civil suit to get her insurance off of my back since I more or less was lied to and am being robbed for 2 grand? I assume no, but after hearing about this back and forth between my old roommates and her I'm kind of pissed.\n\nIf any additional information is needed, I can try to provide.\n\nEdit: thank you location bot. This is in Upstate New York.","title":"I may be SOL, but is it possible to sue a recent landlord for pocketing insurance money and deposit without any intent to use it for what it was meant for?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504530252,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6y06zq\/do_i_still_have_to_appear_in_court_if_i_already\/","id":"6y06zq","body":"I got a ticket back in April for driving with an expired license (for financial reasons I couldn't renew until the paycheck after the ticket was issued). I paid it off already. The ticket amount was $26. \n\nThe ticket has a court date listed, but it doesn't have anything on it to indicate what conditions require me to appear. If the citation is already paid, do I still need to go to court? \n\n[Colorado Springs, CO]","title":"Do I still have to appear in court if I already paid the ticket?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1568775397,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5rmot\/i_grabbed_the_letters_from_a_rented_out_property\/","id":"d5rmot","body":"The house belongs to me and my property tax info was delivered to that address, so I needed to take the mail.\n\nI texted the tenants before going, but they didn't respond to my message. I still went ahead and grabbed all the letters from the mailbox. Now they texted me saying that I went through their mailbox without permission, and they'd like to sue me over this issue. The incident took place in Georgia.\n\nI'm shocked after learning that mail theft is a federal crime, which could result in serious punishment. If they had decided to sue me, I would, of course, seek help from a lawyer; but at this very moment, no actions have been taken yet, and I wish to hear a little bit from you guys. Much appreciation.","title":"I grabbed the letters from a rented out property of mine, now the tenants want to sue me, what actions should I take?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446679317,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rk3lw\/can_we_cash_a_check_if_its_not_the_full_refund\/","id":"3rk3lw","body":"Our old landlord charged our account in the amount of $1200.37 for October rent after we moved out in a clerical error (they didn't remove our account as we were informed they would). It was an uphill battle to get our money back and when we did get a hold of someone who could write us a check they informed us in an e-mail that they would be keeping an amount close to $50 for electric. (They did not provide a copy of an electric bill when they made this claim and I now have a request into them for it.) We did receive a check a few days later for about $1,150.00 as they said they would send us. \n\nFirst we would like to know if it would be ok to cash it while we wait to see if they give us actual evidence of an electric charge or is cashing it some kind of sign of acceptance and would bar us from pursuing further if they fail to fulfill our request.  \n\nWe would also like to know if taking a charge out of money they shouldn't have had in the first place is within their rights? After looking at the Security Deposit Refund form we received when the deposit came back to us there is something written in the electric box and then scratched out. \n\nThe whole situation feels off to us and we would just like to know if we are right in feeling that way. ","title":"Can we cash a check if it's not the full refund amount we where expecting? We're considering pursuing for the rest. Washington State","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506358129,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/72dpeo\/my_car_was_parked_outside_of_my\/","id":"72dpeo","body":"My father in law likes to drive my car - a 2005 civic - better than the other car we have, so he's decided to start taking it to work. This morning, about an hour ago, while the car sat parked outside the shop with no one inside (thankfully), two drunk guys in a mini-van hopped the curb from the street & totalled my car. I'm on the way down to the scene now. Cops have come and gone already. I don't have insurance but I'm a good 45-hour drive away, depending on traffic, so I'm sticking some liability on it as I'm headed down there.  Also, this is happening this morning in ABQ, NM. So, what's going to happen? Can anyone give me some ideas on what to do so that I can get another vehicle or not come out of this situation totally fucked? Is putting ins on it while I head down there a good idea or a waste of my time? Any advice and\/or ideas are appreciated! Thanks...","title":"My car was parked outside of my husband\/father-in-laws work. Someone hopped the curb and totaled my car....","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569047202,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7715r\/sued_for_joint_custody_but_now_he_doesnt_keep_up\/","id":"d7715r","body":"I had a child in high school at 17. My daughter was born in August. Her father and I broke up when she was about 4 months old. I was almost her sole care take for those 4 months. Then he took her for a night a week then two nights per HIS request.  At about 5 months old he sued me for joint custody. I was legally served papers. \n\nBecause I was 17 my dad had to come with me to court. We had to split the time down by the actual hour half and half. Had a schedule and everything. Years for holidays and taxes every other year. \n\nNow my daughter is 5 years old. He doesnt actually take care of her half the time like the legal contract says he needs to. He lives with his mother and she pays for everything. I have 4 years worth of texts from her saying she pays for everything. I have complaints of him taking up smoking and drinking. Once even him waking up on their front lawn in vomit from drinking too much. \n\nHis blew tax returns on junk. Nothing for my daughter. He blows his pay checks on junk. Doesnt buy her hardly a thing. \n\nI take care of my daughters appointments and make sure she doesnt need anything school wise.  I regularly offer his mother money to help pay for her expenses.  \n\nHe also has a negligent history of medication with my daughter. He has over dosed her a few times but nothing severely. He once had been giving her like 5 to 10 multi vitamin gummies a day because he thought they were like candy. He has stopped her on steroids for pneumonia because he didnt read the bottle. Now his mother takes care of her medication because we both agree we are worried he could harm her. I have proof in texts I have saved through the years. \n\nIf I could support taking my daughter full custody, I would try to. But she loves his mother and he can be a good dad when he wants to play daddy for a day. \n\nHere is where I need legal advice:\n\nThis year I went to the emergency room and also had to get a new car. My money is very tight paying for everything she needs and now extra Bill's. I want to claim her for taxes on what is technically his year so that I can pay off the remainder of my emergency room bill.  And save the rest for my daughter.\n\nI think i could do it because i am the main guardian and i can prove with texts and Bill's and receiptstm that i provide more than 50% of her care. \n\nBut would I have to take up a legal case proving he had violated his legal contract for coming 4 years now? \n\nI dont want him wasting the tax return on junk. I think one year he bought a gun. I could actually use the money for the well being of my daughter and I. \n\nI'm in ok, usa.","title":"Sued for joint custody but now he doesnt keep up with the legal contract","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1550716434,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asxjnw\/just_found_out_the_company_i_work_for_is_forging\/","id":"asxjnw","body":"Throwaway because I dont know how much of this I want tied to my public account in case things are worse than I'm expecting.\n\nI work part-time at a chain restaurant in Florida. I am a minor. I have been in the process of being promoted and received a large file of paperwork that I needed to bring to the class I was attending for this promotion. Mostly what we call training plans done by management and other trainers to prove that I am certified in a specific area of production.\n\nI have not been witness to these plans actually being done, but it's fairly well known that these plans are mostly just formalities and are usually spoofed to appease corporate by the management. Not the best business practice, but fairly common none the less. \n\nAfter the class I looked through this folder and have found several signatures signed under my name on these plans that I did not sign. I have never been witness to these forms being filled out, and most definitely did not sign them. These forms also have false dates, and what I presume are false signatures from those they claimed \"trained\" me. \n\nThese signatures are fairly good copies of mine, minus a few. There are 5 in total on 5 separate documents, all with the same spoofed date of completion. \n\nThis raises extra concerns about what other documents they might be forging my signature on. I have a couple write ups from the past that I know you're supposed to sign off on, but I have never been required to. This leads me to believe they may be forging my signature on those as well. \n\nThis is being done by my assistant manager as she is the one who deals with the promotions and most of the paperwork, but I'm not sure how much of this forging is within her control. What do I do from here? Is this a legal matter worth pursuing? Have they broken any laws? Is this worth bringing up to the management or will it cause my harm than good? Any input as to the legality and what my next steps should be will be greatly appreciated. ","title":"Just found out the company I work for is forging my signature. Where do I go from here?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539793417,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9p05q0\/grandparents_rights\/","id":"9p05q0","body":"So, I have this intense fear of my Future Husbands Mother pulling a \u201cGrandparents Rights\u201d hand when the baby comes. But does Grandparents Rights apply to someone who isn\u2019t a legal citizen of the USA and all their papers are forged? This woman is callous and vile. She has threatened my relationship with future husband in the past and refuses to give us his birth certificate specifically so we can\u2019t get our marriage license. Anyway we have a little one on the way and she has apparently been telling people that she will try to take custody of my child when born. Although I know she won\u2019t be able to get custody, the fear is her lawyer will tell her all about Grandparents Rights. Everyone I came in contact with her she would talk about her lawyers and how great she gets along with them. \n\nSorry if my format is bad or my post is out of sorts. I\u2019ve never posted on here, my hormones are everywhere and I\u2019m way too stressed out about everything right now. Feel free to take it down if it\u2019s not appropriate to be posted. ","title":"Grandparents Rights?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554567906,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba60qm\/engineering_father_having_me_fired_for_not\/","id":"ba60qm","body":"My father (47) and myself (22) both work at the same engineering company. He is a stakeholder and a Vice President at the firm. I am an engineering student and I began working there the summer of my sophomore year (senior now graduating in December, this will be my third year back). \n\nI have been to multiple counselors, there is no doubt about it, my parents are mentally, physically, and emotionally abusive. Because of this, our relationship is toxic, and has been taking a HUGE hit to my mental health. I suffer from C-PTSD from my time spent with them, and I live with crippling anxiety on top of that.  My mother is a narcissist, and my dad about divorced her two weeks ago but she got him back. \n\nYesterday, after receiving a text regarding my financial situation at school (money was always a means of control) which literally said \"I'm fucking you over. Get over it.\" I was done. I drove up, and expressed directly I wanted to continue a professional relationship but no longer an emotional one, and wanted to leave it at that. He then tells me I won't be asked back to the company and would most likely not come back this summer to an internship I've already accepted. \n\nThis heavily affects my plans and finances for this summer and after graduation.\n\nMy two questions are:\n\nGiven his text to HR was \"Don't ask E back, he doesn't want to pursue a relationship with me\", and I asked him directly if it had anything to do with my performance on the job with a response of 'No', what can I say to defend my position if asked by HR? I'm actually semi close to the director, and I feel this situation would lead into a conversation with her whether I like it or not. What can I say while avoiding defamation?\n\nGiven I am not a salaried employee, and he has stated it is only personal reasons for the firing, do I have any rights with this? I have alternative plans (I've gotten in the habit) so I'll be fine, and I'm a tough summabitch so I can get through, just looking for some much needed perspective from people who aren't 22. \n\nThank you any and all who read my post!\n\nE","title":"Engineering father having me fired for not wanting a relationship outside of work.","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1555210535,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bcyhwy\/ca_landlord_not_allowing_us_to_renew_lease\/","id":"bcyhwy","body":"Hi. We live in California and are up for renewing our lease. Our landlord verbally told us we won\u2019t be allowed to renew if we don\u2019t remove the gate we put around our patio. We have a toddler and our patio is directly accessible to vehicular traffic and a man made lake that is unprotected. Do we have to move, or are there any laws that will protect us from choosing between moving and putting our toddler in danger?","title":"[CA] Landlord not allowing us to renew lease because we added a gate to our patio.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1571277538,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dizkun\/sister_adopted_3_kids_and_has_had_0_assistance\/","id":"dizkun","body":"Hello everyone,\n\nThis is newly created account as some of my family follow my main account. With that said allow me to start from the top.\n\nTwo years ago my brother in law's cousin's wife gave birth to a little boy. The little boy was born addicted to heroin because they are drug addicts and criminals. They had 2 kids at the time, a newborn boy and a 3-4 year old little girl who my sister and brother in law have been watching previously. DCF was called and the kids were taken from them, none of my brother in laws family stepped up to offer assistance or help so my sister and her husband decided to take care of the kids in the hopes the parents would get there shit together. They took them in and raised them for a year while the mother and father went from rehab to rehab, halfway house to halfway house and finally were arrested for larceny\/grand theft.\n\nMy sister has 4 kids of her own and with the addition of 2 more kids in a 3 bedroom home, they have 6 kids total. Taking care of a newborn baby can be pretty expensive and they were told they would be reimbursed for diapers and baby formula and to save the receipts. Months went by and they received no assistance at all. They were then told that because my brother in law makes over 100k, they were not eligible for assistance. I don't see how this could be possible as 6 kids cost a hell of a lot more then that and not to mention a new born baby.\n\nThey dealt with the news and did the best they could, still living in a 3 bedroom home while the original parents spent some time in jail and were released mid last year. They were not supposed to be speaking with each other and were not to have contact with each other as they are hostile towards each other. Didn't work and she wound up pregnant (awesome parents right?). Things were going okay and they were still acting sketchy but passing drug tests and doing what they needed to do to get the kids back.\n\n  Courts awarded their mother custody earlier this year around the boys first birthday and the kids were back to a broken home. The father was out of the picture doing his own thing working and staying out of trouble. My sisters family began to get normal again. Drama just started up a few weeks ago and the mother gave birth to a baby girl. The mother failed a drug test shortly after for bath salts and cocaine and the husband wound up driving over to her house and assaulting her. DCF took the kids again (3) this time and yet again a new born baby and a 2 year old + the 5 year old girl. That brings my sisters household to 7 kids and 2 adults. \n\nThey have a new DCF case worker that has promised them reimbursements and the opportunity to move into a bigger home. Now they are saying they have to wait for them to be adjudicated independence and they are still dumping out money and having a hard time making ends meet. She has setup a gofundme to get help with these kids but knowing the shitty family she married into (not my brother in law he's a hell of a guy, hard working and treats her and his kids right) they wont get much. \n\nI'm looking for any advice on to how to get her help with getting the ball rolling. Her family should not have to suffer because she did the right thing and decided to take these kids in and keep them out of random homes where I'm sure the state would pay for someone keeping them.","title":"Sister adopted 3 kids and has had 0 assistance from the state","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1553516218,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b59ymg\/my_current_situation\/","id":"b59ymg","body":"So my mother was abusive for around 4 years and my dad joined in quickly. Thankfully they stopped but I can\u2019t see them as a real family.\n\nMy questions are: 1. How and can I be taken in by a different family with their consent (I\u2019m 15 nearly 16 if that matters) \n\n2. Should I even go through with that? Sure I hate them, but sometimes they show they care and have little sympathy for them. My main reason is my sisters. I don\u2019t want to hurt my sisters by leaving.\n\nSo what should I do?","title":"My current situation","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447632105,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3sygdt\/setting_up_a_trust_to_rent_a_safety_deposit_box\/","id":"3sygdt","body":"Hello,\nI am sorely in need of a safety deposit box for cash. All the cash is after-tax earned income. For reasons, I am not comfortable keeping all my cash in a bank account and want ready access to a larger sum of cash in case of travel, private sales, or general use. My questions are:\n\n* Can SDB be rented by a trust? If so, should the trust be irrevocable or some other structure?\n* Can a trust have many appointed executors that can access the box?\n* Can the trust be truly blind? As in, any creditors seeking assets could not find it?\n\n*Are SDB's insured by the holding bank\/location for reasonable rates?\n\n*Any other things I should know about before forming a trust? This is my primary reason for now, but I may use the trust in the future for real estate holdings or other financial uses in the future. \n\nIf this question is better asked in another sub, please let me know and I apologize. Thank you.\n\nThis would be structured and incorporated in the state of NC. I thank you all for your time. Any information offered saves me $250hr with my legal and wealth management consul.","title":"Setting up a trust to rent a Safety deposit box & other trust questions.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1553743462,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b6du96\/received_a_traffic_citation_in_new_mexico_but_the\/","id":"b6du96","body":"The citation I received states that I was doing 65 mph in a 79 mph zone. So according to the citation I was not speeding. I'm wondering if this will matter when I appear in court.\n\nThe zone had just changed from 75 to 65 as well. Not trying to get out of paying the fine if they do find that I'm guilty. I'm mostly concerned with the citation being on my driving record for insurance purposes.\n\nWhat's the best way to approach this in court? Thanks!","title":"Received a Traffic Citation in New Mexico but the Officer Failed to Complete the Citation Correctly","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554946834,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbuc57\/for_a_friend\/","id":"bbuc57","body":"Hes 12 and he was banned from a r\/teenagers. He doesnt think its really justified because it doesn\u2019t make any sense. We have a chat with one of the mods and we\u2019re talking about it. Can you guys help getting him unbanned?","title":"For a friend","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1503803009,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6w9z63\/pa_mother_changing_childrens_school_without_my\/","id":"6w9z63","body":"I have shared physical and legal custody of my children, 4 and 8. Their mother mentioned to my fiance that she's going to be moving soon (45 minutes away.) Oldest child is currently attending the school district that her mother lives in, which is about 15-20 minutes away. My younger child attends a pre-school that's a half hour away but is transported by my school district (special needs,) and there's no way my district is going to pick her up where she intends on moving to. I have custody on the majority of school days, so if they are going to change schools, I feel it should be to my district. My custody agreement also states who is to babysit my children on the nights that she (their mother) works and I'm unavailable (2 nights a week,) and said babysitter is in my school district. There is no way she will have time to pick them up at the babysitter after work and get them to school on time. She has no good reason for moving, and doesn't take into consideration what is best for our kids. She does what SHE wants, the kids deal with the consequences. I don't know if it's ignorance, or willful disregard for my thoughts on the matter, but she thinks she can just pick up and move without a) notifying me of the proposed relocation (I know it's not like she's moving to another state, but she is still required to notify me via certified mail, along with any proposed custody change) and b) Getting my consent to change schools.\n\nI will be consulting an attorney ASAP, but I don't know when this move is coming (could be this week for all I know.) What do I do in the meantime? Do I inform her of the [relocation documentation](http:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/pennsylvania\/2012\/title-23\/chapter-53\/section-5337) she failed to provide and tell her I'm not consenting to school district change? Or do I just wait for her to complete the move and enroll my daughter in my district (I wouldn't have her consent either but it would be a stale-mate?) Any other options or advice here?","title":"[PA] Mother changing children's school without my consent","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571273292,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diyqmj\/il_minor_accident_with_another_car_other_driver\/","id":"diyqmj","body":"I got into a minor accident where the car was rear-ended in a parking lot. I was at fault but the driver left without calling the police. I stayed at the scene the whole time. What consequences could there be for me? The accident itself was very minor, no injuries and only some scratches.","title":"[IL] Minor accident with another car, other driver left","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1541567579,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uwhxt\/landlord_chasing_me_for_money_they_spent_to\/","id":"9uwhxt","body":"I moved out of a 4.5 to 5 year old apartment building in Fargo, ND on June 29, 2018.  I lived in that apartment for 4 years and about 2 months (I had 2 leases during that time for a total of 18 months - if it matters).  I completed a walk out with the building manager - we both signed a move out checklist that has a few items marked that will need to be cleaned\/fixed.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nWithin 30 days from my checkout, I received an itemization of bills that ate up my $855 deposit. (Whatever - I never assume I'll get any deposit back.) Anyways, my problem is the fact that they are charging me an additional $816.  This is due to alleged 'floor damage' to the tune of $935.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nWell, after 2 phone interactions with the property manager's irritable leasing law person I sent a letter certified in response to their itemization. \\[Here's a redacted version of that letter\\]([https:\/\/imgur.com\/AVMdmCC](https:\/\/imgur.com\/AVMdmCC))\n\n​\n\n​\n\nThey sent me the \\[invoice\\]([https:\/\/imgur.com\/VvIulMD](https:\/\/imgur.com\/VvIulMD)) for the floor replacement.  After receiving that, I don't doubt they actually had the floor replaced but, that bill made no mention of any damages whatsoever.  I do have \\[general photos\\]([https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/uKcKANn](https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/uKcKANn)) of the areas in question that I took the day I moved out (but no close-ups on the floor).  The floor absolutely showed no visible signs of water damage.  Even if there was imperceptible damage underneath the laminate, who's to say it wasn't caused by faulty dishwasher hookup or the previous tenant?\n\n​\n\nIn any case, the move out checklist mentions every. single. thing from the deposit itemization provided to me, except there is no mention of the floor. at all.\n\n​\n\nI naively assumed that, once they realized that I wasn't going to be a push over, they'd cut their losses.\n\n​\n\nBut now, I received a call from a collection agency..\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nUgh, so Reddit, is it dumb to negotiate with the collection agency?  They asked for a copy of my move out checklist to corroborate my story.  Should i send it to them?  Is there a chance they would drop it?\n\n​\n\n​\n\nI will go to small claims before paying a dime of this - they already took a ridiculous amount from my deposit.\n\n​\n\n​\n\nThis collection issue will apparently begin affecting my credit come December 1st.  Should I take collections to small claims?  I would far prefer to defend against the payment of this claim rather than attempt to allege the collection agency is committing some wrongdoing.  \n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nP.S. - for any Fargoans reading this: Some news i had the misfortune of stumbling upon because of this - the West Lake Apartments are owned by Goldmark!  They're hiding behind Fargo Rents to pull one over on renters who know better than to rent from their shady asses.","title":"Landlord chasing me for money they spent to replace my apartment's floor","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1413323695,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2j9ara\/credit_card_imprinting\/","id":"2j9ara","body":"I work at a small business in Michigan. We ran into an issue recently where someone manually keyed in a credit card number wrong and charged someone else by accident. We are now required to imprint customers credit cards who will not swipe.\n\nI tried researching, but credit card laws seem complicated as there have been lots of changes recently.\n\nWhen we imprint their card their full # is saved on a credit card impritn slip. We keep them in the safe. This doesn't happen very often, but today someone raised a fuss with me and said it is not legal to keep their full credit card number on file. \n\nIs this true? \n\nThanks\n","title":"Credit Card Imprinting","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540862777,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9sjepp\/statute_of_limitation_on_solicitation_of_child\/","id":"9sjepp","body":"Say two minors are flirting, and one asks if the other would send them a sexy photo. Say the person in question denies the request. Let's say they live under New York jurisdiction. How long does the minor who was asked to post a naked photo have to punish the person asking? ","title":"Statute of limitation on solicitation of child porn between minors","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1507670348,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75k92h\/minnesota_i_might_have_a_half_brother_and_id_like\/","id":"75k92h","body":"I'll try to keep this short. Okay, so many years ago my uncle died. Just last year one of his old girlfriends who has a son in his 40's said that she thinks her kid is my uncles kid and that her son wants to know if it's true. Fast forward some time later and my other uncles agree to do the the paternity test and it's confirmed that he's related to our family. So everyone assumes he's my dead uncles son and that makes him our cousin. \n\nHowever, my oldest sister doesn't believe it since my dad didn't partake in the paternity test and she says that my uncles old girlfriend was also friends with my dad and she even lived with my dad before he was with my mom. \n\nMy dad says that they were just friends and he NEVER slept with her. I believe him. However, my sister is putting thoughts in my mother's head and making her have doubts which makes me angry. It's now turned into something that she and my sister will always have in the back of their mind unless he get's a paternity test. \n\nMy dad is willing to, but he doesn't want to ask our cousin to take another test because that would just come off as really bad and there's really no way to put it that wouldn't be disturbing. \"Hey, my daughter thinks you're my son and is putting thoughts in my wifes head so can we take a paternity test just to prove her wrong?\"\n\nSince we'd like to avoid him knowing is this something that can be done privately since he's already taken a DNA test? Shouldn't his DNA be in record now? And my dad can just go in and give his DNA and they can take the DNA that's in record? \n\nOr is that not legal? Do you have to have consent to get the DNA in record? \n","title":"(Minnesota) I might have a half brother and I'd like to get a paternity test.","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571411685,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djowst\/my_brothers_apartment_has_been_flooded_with\/","id":"djowst","body":"My brother just moved into a new place that ended up being a huge mistake. \n\nThis is not a super large apartment, maybe 20 units total. He has dealt with issues since day 1.\n\nMaintenance essentially refuses to fix things. Or they will start repairs, for example making holes in the floor for some leak, then not finish them. These holes have lead to a roach and mosquito infestation (which still hasn\u2019t been repaired).\n\nAnyway, all the other shit has been annoying. But now he is literally living in his own waste. They keep saying they will fix it but it\u2019s been 4 days with no action. What can he do?","title":"My brother\u2019s apartment has been flooded with literal shit and sewage for 4 days and they have not repaired it. What can be done?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570459045,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dekazk\/ga_where_do_i_report_or_can_i_report_this_general\/","id":"dekazk","body":"I just left my general care office where I was attempting to establish care after having been on the phone with my insurance just minutes before to make sure there was no copay for the visit. There wasn't going to be and the doctor's office does not require out of pocket for establishing care. They are listed as a covered provider under my insurance and when I got to the office they confirmed that they do take my insurance.\n\nAbout five minutes into me filling out paperwork, they called me to the counter and said that they called the number on the back of my card and I do not have insurance with that provider. So I called my provider and they told me that I *do* have insurance with them, obviously, and that no one had called at all to confirm care for me or to make a claim or anything regarding my member ID number. \n\nI live in a sort of shady part of town so I wouldn't put it past the office here to be trying to scam me. I asked her to double check because I had just called them a few minutes before about my account and she just said that she can't because I don't have insurance. Can I report the office to some board for this? I had to leave because I couldn't afford to pay out of pocket for this.","title":"[GA] Where do I report (or can I report) this general care office?","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1551222121,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/av5vsv\/nc_maintenance_entered_apartment_without_notice\/","id":"av5vsv","body":"I came home today and when I looked in the closet I noticed that there were some roof insulation and dust all over the clothes and floor. On the ceiling there is an opening to the roof and now dirty handprints on the tile.\n\nClearly someone entered the apartment today and I was not given any notice. They didn\u2019t leave a note like they usually do after they have been here. I put a maintenance request in Sunday night, they denied it and said they would call someone to see if they can fix it. This was two days later and we didn\u2019t have any sort of notice. When scheduling a maintenance request, we have three options: they call us for entry, they can enter anytime, or they enter by appointment. We weren\u2019t given the option for this. This seems like a breach of privacy. \n\nDo we have any rights in this situation before we bring it to the leasing office? ","title":"[NC] Maintenance entered apartment without notice or consent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1539134100,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9mv0wi\/landlord_wont_give_deposit_back\/","id":"9mv0wi","body":"Nothing speficied in the agreement that they would keep deposit over left behind furniture. That was their only complaint, that we left behind a old bed and couch. Wasn't ever discussed that we couldn't do that. I don't think that's worth a whole deposit. What should we do  to get it back?","title":"Landlord won't give deposit back.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1553014258,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b2zs0k\/ma_employer_deducting_too_much_from_check_saying\/","id":"b2zs0k","body":"Hi! I work for a large enough company that has a few pre-tax benefit options, I noticed about a month ago that one of the deductions they started taking this year was slightly more than it should be, so I reached out to ask about this. I was told this amount is pre-tax so I\u2019m not able to receive this credit back to me, and just considered it a loss as it wasn\u2019t much (and also canceled the benefit to stop this from happening) but after I canceled they continued to take money from me saying it would stop being deducted once the new month starts. But now the extra amount taken from me has quadrupled because of this extra deduction. \n\nI am wondering what\/if any legal steps I can take to fight this because my company is not willing to help and will not even take responsibility for this mistake. \n","title":"(MA) employer deducting too much from check, saying it can\u2019t be given back.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1550193064,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aqr4ev\/i_along_with_numerous_coworkers_were_verbally\/","id":"aqr4ev","body":"To protect myself from breaking my NDA by talking about this online; I'll try to keep this short.  \n\n\nWorking for most customer related companies, they get really busy around Christmas. So our manager(Actually I'd say it was his manager. He has more authority than the person I report to)  told us that the finance dept cleared him to give each of us a bonus if we were to pick up a certain extra number of hours. Me, and at least 10 other people did that, and only one of them has said they got their bonus.  \n\n\nI was patient knowing that there was a lot going on, but it has now been almost two months. I have mentioned this to HR numerous times and I just keep getting told I'd be updated when they find out themselves.   \n\n\nLegally speaking my job is hourly pay. The bonus was a set amount of money, and like I mentioned before it was all verbal. Nothing signed.  \n\n\nCould they back out of that deal since it was just a verbal agreement or are they legally required to give us that bonus?  \n\n\n\\*Note: We were paid our hourly pay still, but it was made clear that it would be an additional amount of money in an \"upcoming check.\" Them saying upcoming was back in about late November. I just went through every paystub for the last 2 months and do not see any extra funds.","title":"I, along with numerous co-workers, were verbally promised a bonus if we worked extra days around Christmas. None of of has received that money.Is the company legally forced to give us what we were promised?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1540273305,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qm19c\/is_it_illegal_to_not_have_fire_alarms_in_college\/","id":"9qm19c","body":"We have them all the way at the end of the hall. It just went off at 1 am and I was just barely asleep. If I was in a deeper sleep, I would not have woken up. I think it took me a good minute and a half for it to register and I had to wake my roommate up. This is kind of ridiculous because if we don\u2019t wake up and evacuate there\u2019s a $500 fine. I know at my friends schools they have an alarm in each dorm room. If this isn\u2019t required, I might try and pass a legislation with my student government because I think this is so weird.","title":"Is it illegal to not have fire alarms in college dorm rooms?","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1443816675,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3n9m79\/montreal_canada_trying_to_cancel_a_gym_membership\/","id":"3n9m79","body":"So I signed up for a \"6 month package payment plan\". The enrollment agreement say:\n\n\"The undersigned promises to pay a Monthly amount of ___ starting _______ and all subsequent installments on the same day of each consecutive period until paid in full\".\n\nSo that seems pretty damning, but it also says: \"There is no refund after 1 month\". I interpreted this to mean that I would not be refunded any money I had already paid, not that it meant I couldn't opt out of future payments.\n\nAnyway, is this a lesson in reading contracts carefully before signing them, or is the term refund applied here in a way where it would be reasonable for me to expect they would only not return money for services given? Should I be able to cancel? There was no explicit cancellation policy, all that was written on the contract about that was \"Prior to 1 month there is a refund of ____. There is no refund after 1 month\".\n\nThanks.","title":"Montreal, Canada - Trying to cancel a gym membership, did I misinterpret the contract?","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1568408380,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d3vj20\/water_company_is_digitally_reading_my_meter_the\/","id":"d3vj20","body":"My boyfriend and I both travel for a living. We just moved to TN. When we lived in FL we had 2 roommates, a 2 1\/2 bath house that had sprinklers that would go off once a week and we used about 6,000 gallons a month. \n\nNow it's just my boyfriend and I in a 2 bath apartment that doesn't have sprinklers. And the water company is saying we use 7,000-8,000 gallons a month. We both travel for work and are rarely home. He was home 2 days out of last period and I was home 12. We are being billed for 6,400. That's over 500 gallons a day in usage. Our first bill was for 1 day and it says we used over 600 gallons of water. We didn't even move in until 5pm. \n\nI have given all of this information to both the water company and the apartment manager. They both tell me \"3,000 per person is the national average.\" so the bill looks \"normal\" to them. The apartment sent out maintenance to look for leaks and came up with nothing. The apartment said they compared it to the person that lived there before me and usage is about the same so they don't see a problem. My argument is that *is* the problem. Seeing as the last people who lived here probably weren't gone for most of the month. I've found out that no one actually even reads the meter. They use on of those read-o-matic digital meters and the number on the bill doesn't ever match up to the number on the meter. When I called the water company and demanded they have someone check the meter to see if that number even matches up with what they are reading they said they don't service my area (WTF!?). The water company says that the apartment complex services the area. Both parties say there is no way to compare the meter to the actual read as the maintenance people can't see what the water company sees and vice versa.\n\nI am incredibly frustraited and don't know what to do. I know for a fact we can't be using this much water but I don't know how to prove it. The maintenance people are coming out again to \"check\" the meter, but apparently they are just a bunch if good ol' boys and can't actually tell me if it's correct. So I don't even know what the point is. \n\nI have kept track of the past 3 weeks. Our water meter in the apartment has only gone up 520 gallons. When I told the water company this today they told me 'for every 100 gallons it's actually 1,000 gallons.\" \n\nI missed a week in the billing cycle last month so I am going to track this entire billing cycle and go back to the water company with the proof. \n\nWhen they try to tell me I'm wrong about the meter and force me to pay more that what we use. What can I do? If both the apartment complex and water company are ignoring me, can I report this somewhere? Or am I just stuck here?","title":"Water company is digitally reading my meter. The readings are coming up very high and apartment complex and water company keep shifting the blame.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1570989904,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dhe2ar\/black_mold_isnt_property_managements_problem\/","id":"dhe2ar","body":"About a month ago, I noticed a black spot in my shower. Cleaning it was a hassle already. It seemed fine until the 29th of September, I came back from my parents house from dog sitting and noticed the the caulking in the same spot had peeled away from the wall. 3 inches was exposed and all I could see was black mold. I immediately filed to have this serviced along with the peeling floors in my roommates bathroom. \n\nNow my roommates bathroom had a leak that was going into the unit below us. They \"fixed\" the leak but never cleaned the floor until a month later. \n\nOn Sept 30th I called the apartment complex main office to let them know what I filed the previous night to make sure it would be taken care of. I told them how I am highly allergic to black mold. They said because it was in the shower, it was their job to take of that. That i need to use bleach to clean it and then they will come re-caulk it. I again told the property manager that I am highly allergic and I have already been feeling sick from it. It is apparently not their problem. \n\nSo today is October 13th, and I have not heard a word from them. I go to clean it but needed to peel away the caulking to get to it better. The more I peeled away, the more mold I found. I am horrified! They caulked over existing mold and thought it would be fine. I am extremely sick now. On tuesday, I need to go get a CT Scan because my doctor couldn't seem the reason why I had head pains and migraines and temporary memory loss. Now I know why! \n\nI have photos of the mold. Screen shots of when I called and placed the maintenance order that even states I am extremely allergic to black mold. I have records of my doctors visits. My apartment complex does not seem to give two shits about my health or any others. Do I have enough to build a case? If not, what would I need to build a case against these people? Any help or advice on what actions I should take would be extremely helpful. This should not be legal in the state of FL.","title":"Black Mold isn't property management's problem.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1568563629,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4mfut\/landlord_wanting_to_keep_security_deposit\/","id":"d4mfut","body":"I reside in Ohio and have been renting an apartment from my landlord since February of this year. I signed a 1 year lease and have been paying $595 rent on time every month. My husband recently got a new job that is requiring us to relocate.\n\nI reached out to my landlord to see if he would be willing to make arrangements to let me out of my lease. My side is this, I will be out by Oct 1 and am willing to continue to pay rent until a new tenant is found. However, my landlord is arguing that I will need to forfeit my deposit as well. \n\nDo I have any recourse to get my deposit back?","title":"Landlord wanting to keep security deposit although I'm agreeing to pay rent until a new tenant is found","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542059754,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9wim36\/my_fianc\u00e9s_ex_just_walked_out_on_their_lease_now\/","id":"9wim36","body":"  \n\nSo this all began last night with a voicemail received by my fianc\u00e9 from the apartment complex she lived in earlier this year. Here are the details: (for ease of explanation, we will call my fianc\u00e9 \"Sally\" and her ex \"Joe\")\n\n   \n \n\n\\- Sally and Joe signed a 1-year lease in March 2018 and paid a security deposit;\n\n\\- Sally experienced domestic violence from Joe within months after signing the lease;\n\n\\- Sally does not report this to the police, but decides to move out over night while Joe is away at work in June 2018;\n\n\\- Sally cuts off all communication with Joe and hides so as to never cross paths again;\n\n\\- Sally never returns to the area to remove herself from the lease;\n\n\\- Fast forward to yesterday \\[Sun. 11\/11\/18\\] - Sally receives a voicemail from the apartment complex explaining that her ex just \"skipped out on the place, and they will be sending her bill to collections tomorrow \\[11\/12\/18\\] if she does not respond by Mon. 11\/12\/18\"\n\n\\- Sally returns the call today at 12:00pm and asks for more information as to what happened;\n\n\\- Sally learns that on November 1st, the complex tried charging his account for the $1,400 rent which BOUNCED;\n\n\\- The complex served notice to the unit immediately explaining that the payment was not successful, and immediate attention is required to avoid collections;\n\n\\- The complex goes on to explain that Joe appeared in their office on Friday, 11\/09\/18 and placed the key to the apartment on their desk with final words, \"I'm done\" and walked away;\n\n\\- The complex checked the unit and confirmed it is completely vacated;\n\n\\- The complex is now pursuing Sally for a vague list of charges which was verbally broken down as: (pardon me for this terribly vague list of charges, we are currently trying to get more details. This is literally all I've been told.)\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n= Termination fee = $2,612.00\n\n\\----------\n\n= Amount due = $2,780.17\n\n= plus a \"45 day move out notice fee\" ?? = $2,100 \\[we'll come back to this\\]\n\n= total balance to go to collections tomorrow against Sally = $4,880.17\\*\n\n\\*\"Security deposit has already been applied towards this amount\" - per apartment complex\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n\\- Sally did not get this in writing, but explains to the complex that she cannot afford to pay this amount right now;\n\n\\- The complex offers her the following payment plan: \"Banks are closed today for Veteran's day, so send us $1k money order by mail post marked no later than 11\/13\/18, and we will agree to a payment plan of $300 a month for 6 months due on the 21st of each month.\"\n\n\\- Sally then received an email from the apartment complex titled \"MOVE-OUT ACCOUNT BALANCE PAYMENT AGREEMENT\" which details the terms of the payment plan \\[\"\"Total amount owed to complex $2,780.17 beginning tomorrow with $1k down via money order. Final payment to be collected on May 21st, 2019\"\"\\]\n\n\\- Sally calls back the rep at the apartment complex and asks why the $2,100 \"45 day move out notice fee\"?? is not factored into this amount;\n\n\\- The complex rep explained that they would be willing to waive this fee if she can actually get the money order in the mail post marked no later than tomorrow (still all verbal);\n\n\\- This is when Sally came to me (her fianc\u00e9) around 2:45pm and caught me up on what transpired during her phone conversations with the apartment complex;\n\n\\- My reason for being so involved in this situation is the fact that Sally just went into her 2nd trimester (14 weeks) with our child and this development will gravely impact our baby budget which we've been barely scraping by to build;\n\n\\- Sally is due in May 2019 and I am trying to do everything I can as her fianc\u00e9 to help her resolve this issue with as minimal of a financial impact as possible for the sake of our child;\n\n\\- I have advised Sally to call back the apartment complex and request a copy of her lease (which she left at the unit when she moved out and no longer has access to electronically) as well as a breakdown of all charges detailed in that vague phone conversation. I have also advised Sally not to contact Joe for assistance in this matter;\n\n   \n \n\nIN CONCLUSION: We have until end of business tomorrow to lock ourselves into this payment plan, or risk having $4,880.17 sent to collections against Sally. Is this payment plan really her only option? Is the apartment complex allowed to give Sally such short notice to pay this amount in Illinois?\n\n   \n \n\nI've tried doing some research and found some time frames in Illinois that a landlord must wait before taking legal action against you, but I can't figure out what date that starts from; the day they served Sally notice, or the day the check bounced on the 1st?","title":"My Fianc\u00e9\u2019s Ex just walked out on their lease - Now they are going after my fianc\u00e9 for thousands [IL]","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1504880341,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yv1qc\/landlord_is_lying_about_money_i_gave_him_and\/","id":"6yv1qc","body":"I need to get out of my lease with him, as yesterday he blew up and had a tantrum after I called him out on his lies. He called me 7 times over 30 minutes while I was still working. When I didn't pick up the phone he started texting me passive aggressive statements. He told me I had paid him rent when I had actually only paid him my security deposit, and for a half month of rent (and he never actually let me move into the place). He now wanted an additional $800 for the \"security deposit\" which I already paid. As of now I only owe him $230 for prorated rent. I have proof he is lying because he said in a text message 8\/31 that he would give me the keys after I paid him rent. To make matters worse I was not able to take possession of the unit when my lease started 9\/1 because it was uninhabitable. He's technically in breach of lease.\n\nAfter I told him I would not be giving him an additional $800 for the security deposit, he absolutely lost it, and started telling me to call him on his phone. I wanted to keep a paper trail so I refused, and told him to email me instead.\n\nAt this point he started threatening me, telling me if I did not call him that moment he would have his attorney \"deal with me\". I told him I was not going to be harassed by him and that I wanted out of the lease. This only made him more upset and he kept threatening to sue me and have his attornies deal with me. He then said I should expect to be served in the next couple of weeks. He ended it by saying (for a third time) that if I didn't call him right now, our contact would be considered over (???) and that the courts would deal with me instead.\n\nI replied and told him, no, that's not how this works, and I'm getting my box of items from the apartment tomorrow, and if he didn't let me in I would call the police. At this point his tone changed, and he generously offered me \"one last chance if I called him like an adult to discuss this\". I didn't respond.\n\nSo, my question is, how do I get out of this lease? Is this enough to prove landlord harassment? I have filed papers with small claims court to sue him for my security and deposit in the time being, and I have an appointment with a lawyer on Monday. I would greatly appreciate any advice you could give me. Thank you!","title":"Landlord is lying about money I gave him, and threatening to sue me when he is in breach of contract. I want out of this lease because I'm genuinely scared of him. NY","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1443396828,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3mmuc6\/i_electronically_signed_a_rental_application_in\/","id":"3mmuc6","body":"I electronically signed what I thought was simply the rental application for an apartment in a college town. It soon came back saying I was approved, but I would need a guarantor. I have no one who could be a guarantor, so I didn't respond and never sent anything to the office other than my mom's name and email on the application. I received at least 5 emails over the next 2 months saying I needed to complete my financial qualification and to send a notarized Guarantor Aggreement within 7 business days. Again, I never responded, and had no idea I had actually signed a lease for their complex.\n\nBy August, I had signed a lease for another location, and I've been living there for the past month. I just recevied a phone call from my mom a few days ago saying that the original apartment was attempting to collect rent. I went to the complex, and told them everything that happened. They printed off a copy of the lease that I apparently electronically signed back in June. Again, I had no idea I was signing a lease by simply applying for an apartment, and I am certainly not financially qualified to live there. I also never sent in the guarantor form - I only put my mom's name and Email address on the form. Do I have any sort of recourse on this matter, or will I be held liable for this phantom lease? I truly believe I was deceived by their online application process, and considering the 5 warnings saying I would be unable to move in until I proved I had a gurantor, I am shocked that they allowed me to rent from them.\n\nThank you.\n\n**TL;DR college apartment complex is saying I e signed a lease, not just an application, and are attempting to evict me out of an apartment I didn't know I was leasing until yesterday.**","title":"I electronically signed a rental application in June, and now the complex is saying I signed a lease and have issued an eviction notice that I just received (Virginia)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1542164364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9ww342\/ca_bought_new_car_got_ripped_off_from_the_actual\/","id":"9ww342","body":"Hey guys! I\u2019m in California. \nSo I bought a used 2015 Toyota Camry. Big mistake because there was no warranty and it had issues with the charging system. I went into Toyota dealership and was looking at the new Camry\u2019s. Sales person ended up selling me a new Camry. I stupidly didn\u2019t look at the contract correctly. They did everything so fast! The old Camry was traded in. So the new car itself was 27,000. The car itself is worth 25k. Toyota Camry SE. I bought this car on Sunday 11\/11. I tinted the windows today. Am I entitled to the 3 day cooling off period ? Especially since I was ripped off ? \n\nWould the tinted windows effect this ?","title":"CA. Bought new car, got ripped off from the actual worth. Having buyers remorse","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1441827479,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kaau0\/ny_mothers_estate\/","id":"3kaau0","body":"I am not entirely sure of the proper legal terminology, but I will do my best to describe the situation in detail. \nIn 2009 I was 15, and my grandfather died. He left to my mother ~$90,000. Two weeks later my mother died with no will. My mother's sister has just approached me (within the last month), and notified me that this existed. I had no idea. She also informed me that my grandfather had an IRA (I really have no idea what this is), and that my mother's estate has been getting money from it. \n\nI am my mother's only child. speaking to my aunt, she has said she doesn't know when I might have access to this money. I asked her to start the process two weeks ago and she continues to state that she is waiting to hear from a lawyer.\n\nThis smells like bullshit to me. How do I proceed?","title":"(NY) Mother's Estate","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1445982827,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qh76d\/ca_landlord_is_making_us_pay_for_bedbug\/","id":"3qh76d","body":"Our neighbor had bedbugs for a year and a half (she didn't tell us and we found out about this from her sister). Landlord came to check today and confirmed we had a bedbug infestation then said we would foot the bill of a 3 week extermination process. When I argued that it wasn't our fault, they basically stated \"our duty is to provide you with a working apartment. We gave you one, and now you have a bed bug problem which you can't prove was our fault so now you must deal with the consequences.\"\n\nMy friend found this link: http:\/\/cchealth.org\/bedbugs\/pdf\/Bed-Bugs-Law-California.pdf\n\nIt states that they need to pay for extermination, but there's one problem \"The law requires a tenant to personally repair damage caused by their own acts or neglect.\"  My landlord is blaming us for the bedbug infestation. Regardless of fault (whether ours or my neighbor's), if we can't prove that we \/didn't\/ bring them in, do we still have to pay? I tried searching on this forum, and nobody seems to address this issue (that I've found). Thank you!!","title":"[CA] Landlord is making us pay for bedbug extermination. Is this legal?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1414503760,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2kkfq6\/i_signed_a_deal_with_financing_for_a_used_car\/","id":"2kkfq6","body":"I'm concerned about my options here. I am in the US, MA, Boston area. I am in a legal agreement with a bank for more than $10K, and now I'm not getting that car. \nThe dealer is saying they'll give us one that's a model year newer, same type of vehicle. I am going to visit the dealer on 10\/29. I really have no other details except for some story they told my wife about \"an error\" and the car was sold the previous day.\nI'm getting in touch with the bank, because I've never been in a situation like this, and I want *them* to know the story. I don't want any kind of bad credit problems or other repercussions as a surprise. I also don't trust the dealer to inform the bank in the same manner I would with all possible information. \nHas anyone been through anything like this? Is there any legal ramifications I am missing and should be worried about? Do I need a lawyer? Honestly, this one has me stumped as how to best proceed. Thanks in advance. ","title":"I signed a deal (with financing) for a used car. Dealer sold the car to someone else.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1550705991,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/asvm5m\/parttime_employee_forcedunder_threats_of_writeup\/","id":"asvm5m","body":"I work at a fairly successful restaurant off of a college campus. On my schedule, every week I am required to be available at a certain time, and CALL the restaurant to \u201csee if they need me to come in\u201d. I thought on call was supposed to be the other way around, and this is hindering my otherwise busy college life (clubs, boards, etc.) Am I at least entitled to compensation?\n\nP.S - This is almost definitely based on employer greed. Instead of hiring one more cook, we are understaffed and forced to do this. There are no people to be saved, just food to cook. ","title":"Part-Time employee forced(under threats of write-up) to call in every day [Restaurant]","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569814842,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/db5wl4\/presenting_equity_as_a_contract_proposal\/","id":"db5wl4","body":"Hi I am creating a proposal for a contract. As part of the payment I am allowing a partial payment of equity  coupled with a lower dollar cost in the startup.\n\nHow to I make sure I do not get burned here if they accept equity as a form of payment?","title":"Presenting equity as a contract proposal","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1445466873,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3pp1av\/california_im_seeking_supervised_visitation_after\/","id":"3pp1av","body":"My court date is November 4th and I am extremely nervous about it. My ex has responded requesting removal of visitation completely. I filed for modification of a previous arrangement to supervised visitation with a neutral third party, preferably one of those professional services.\n\nI've been absent for 3 years, and was absent for a few months one time prior to that. No child support has ever been requested of me nor ordered. I have no history of substance abuse, but a long history of mental health issues. It was for these mental health reasons that shortly after 'disappearing' from her life I was nearly suicidal. It has taken me this long to get myself put back together and to get myself feeling mentally and emotionally stable.\n\n*(Sidenote: I have documentation from prior and current therapists proving such as well as medical records from being diagnosed and treated over the past many years. I also am on disability through social security for my issues. I'm wondering if having this information will help me as well.)*\n\nMy opinion is that if you cannot take care of yourself, you cannot take care of a child, so I needed to work on myself.\n\nI'm also transgender and have transitioned entirely during the absence, so she would not recognize me.\n\nMy question is what are my chances with the courts, considering I am only requesting supervised visitation for the time being and indefinitely until the courts would see fit otherwise. I just want to be a part of my child's life, and I always have. Now he wants to make sure I get no visitation, and it's distressing.\n\nAny further information can be provided via questions and I'll be happy to answer anything relevant.","title":"[California] I'm seeking supervised visitation after extended absence from my child's life. What are my chances going into court?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555422854,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bdu7se\/pa_roommate_that_was_never_on_the_lease_has_mail\/","id":"bdu7se","body":"I\u2019m currently living in an apartment with 2 other roommates, all 3 of us are on the lease. Last summer one of our friends came home from basic training with the military and didn\u2019t have anywhere to stay so we let him crash. \n\nA few months go by and he\u2019s still living with us and he had changed his address to our address.  Both with the military and the sherif for his carry permit. At which time we asked him to start helping with utilities and paying some rent to us. Unfortunately we had a falling out and he no longer lives with us but he still has his checks from the military and all his mail, insurance, etc sent to our address. We have asked him to remove our address from his things but he has yet to do that. I looked up about how to notify the post office that he no longer lives at this address but I\u2019m not sure if with him living here while not on the lease, I can get in trouble for removing sending the mail back with \u201creturn to sender\u201d. I really don\u2019t want to touch the US treasury department checks if I\u2019m not completely sure what I can do.","title":"[PA] roommate that was never on the lease has mail still delivered to our address.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551624396,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/awulat\/havent_heard_from_lawyer_in_4_months_should_i_be\/","id":"awulat","body":"My mom was in a car accident about 3 years ago that caused a traumatic brain injury and left her bed ridden for a year. She then passed away from cancer 16 months ago before her car accident was brought to court. Earlier in October I received calls from a law firm that was working on the case and had a court date set for December. A week before the court date a lawyer met with my dad, cousin and I where we prepared what to talk about and what not to talk about. A few days later I get a call from my cousin saying that the lawyer had gotten sick and that the date would be moved to late January.\n\nI could give more details if needed but I basically just want to know if i should be concerned about the lack of communication or if this is normal.","title":"Haven't heard from lawyer in 4 months. Should i be concerned?","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1551088149,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aujirf\/lease_required_deposit_but_lazy_landlord_never\/","id":"aujirf","body":"This is in Chicago. I signed a lease at the beginning of this year (Jan 2019) for my 2br apartment. the rent is 950 a month and the lease says a $950 deposit is required too. they let us sign the lease before collecting the deposit. the building manager said the landlord had not opened the account for the deposit yet but would give us one weeks notice to give it to him once he does. This landlord is stupid rich, he's just lazy.\n\nI had a medical emergency recently and had to dip into the deposit I had set aside. my question is, since i already signed the lease, if they ask for the deposit before i can make it back, can they actually do anything about it if i don't pay them right away? its now almost march and the landlord still can't be fucked to open the account. they already haven't been taking care of ice and snow removal like it states in the lease that they are supposed to. I suppose I'd worry about them terminating the lease but would they actually be able to?\n\nAlso what happens if when the lease is up and he still never collected the deposit?","title":"Lease required deposit but lazy landlord never opened account for it","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1507570834,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/75aqmy\/my_boss_wants_me_to_pay_56_for_a_lottery_ticket\/","id":"75aqmy","body":"Firstly, this happened about two weeks ago. I recently got a job (6 weeks ago) as a sales assistant and I was doing a shift with my colleague when I printed a lotto ticket worth \u20ac56 that the customer then decided he didn't want. \n\n\nWe were working an evening shift together (managers don't usually work evenings and there wasn't one working that night) when customer came up to my colleague, and asked him for a lotto ticket worth \u20ac50. \n\n\nWe were told when we were being trained in, that the only type of lotto ticket that CAN'T be cancelled were Telly Bingo tickets (I've paid for one which I wrongly printed before). \n\nMy colleague then tried fiddling with the lotto machine but couldn't figure it out to suit the man's needs so he asked me for help. I then try and get as close to \u20ac50 as I can but the closest I can get is \u20ac56. \n\nI then ask the man, \"the closest I can get to \u20ac50 is \u20ac56 if that's ok? \nHe replies \"ya that's grand\". \nI then print the ticket and hand it to the customer. After the customer realises that the ticket has \"Advanced Draws\" (basically the ticket will rollover for the next 2\/4\/6\/8 draws, depending on how many you buy). However, he never specified not wanting the advanced plays.\n\nAfter the customer left, I tried to cancel the ticket that he didn't want. I followed the instructions and did what I was shown regarding the ticket cancellation process. However, when trying to cancel the ticket, the lotto machine showed an error message; \"this ticket cannot be cancelled due to a break in the draw\" which I'm assuming is because of the advanced plays. \n\nBefore this, we had not known about tickets with advanced draws not being able to be cancelled. \n\nShortly after giving up trying to cancel the ticket, I pinned the ticket on the notice board at work along with a little note saying \"This ticket could not be cancelled due to a 'break in the draw'\".And signed my name. \n\nThe next day when I came in, there was another note pinned on top of my own, from my manager, reading \"07longa, please pay for ticket attached\". \n\nSince, she has asked me several times to pay for the ticket but I've tried to explain that it's not my fault but she insists that someone has to pay for it and that either I pay the \u20ac56 because I printed it, or get my colleague to split it with me. \n\nI've no idea what the laws are for something like this here in Ireland. I'm just hoping that someone can maybe point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance.\n\n\nAlso, I wasn't sure what to flair this post, sorry. And I apologise in advance for any formatting issues as I'm on mobile. \n","title":"My boss wants me to pay \u20ac56 for a lottery ticket that I printed which the customer didn't want.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569079172,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7bssv\/client_refusing_to_pay_me_ignoring_me\/","id":"d7bssv","body":"I'm a filmmaker; I worked as a Director of photography for a feature film. It was a micro budget piece so I did not sign a deal memo or contract (they did not give me one), but I have an electronic trail explaining the the terms & conditions of my services for their film, in which they have agreed to my typed terms. I have the evidence proving that they agreed to my deal terms.\n\nNote; I charged $2000 for my services. My usual rate would have made the amount $13,000 but I did this fee as an extremely good favor to the director (who's a great friend of mine). The client is not the director; her friend is the client, the producer & lead actress in the film.\n\nThe client so far has paid me 70% of my fee in total but has yet to pay me the remainder $600. It has been over 1 month since the film wrapped; I've emailed, texted, and called the client and they have not responded to a single message. \n\nI got paid through venmo; I checked to see if I can send a venmo money request and upon trying to send the request, their profile was suddenly \"not found.\"\n\nI have emailed my client a final payment notice to send the remainder no later than September 30th and if they dont I am taking it to small claims court. This client has been persistent on not reaching out to me; it's so bad that I've had to reach out to other crew members to try and contact her as well for me.\n\n\nIf I take this to small claims court, I'm wondering about the following;\n\n(1) Should I get a lawyer?\n\n(2) Can I charge for the maximum amount a small claims court can handle? Considering I gave them an 85% discount I feel I deserve my actual rate. I know small claims court cases have a limit so I under I wouldn't get my actual fee, but I'd at least want to get everything I can.\n\n(3) Is there anything else I should know or can do to get justice?\n\n\nAdditional Notes: \n\u2022When we wrapped I noticed $50 of missing equipment (mainly batteries)\n\u2022I was told that mileage would be covered. This was only told verbally, not through electronic means.\n\u2022I have screenshots and actual electronic trails proving everything; pay stubs on what was sent to me so far, text messages showing the agreed terms, emails of call sheets, etc.","title":"Client refusing to pay me & ignoring me","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1505243900,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6zp6yu\/i_am_unable_to_make_a_court_date_for_my_speeding\/","id":"6zp6yu","body":"I am a 19 year old college student in fort myers, fl. an area greatly affected by hurricane Irma. \n\non august 15 i got a speeding ticket on I-75 going 79 in a 70. This is my first ticket ever. For a while the ticket was not showing up in the system so i waited. Then i ran into some family medical problems that distracted me for the ticket for awhile and i honestly just didn't think about the ticket for awhile. Once i called the clerk office on my 20th day of 30 to make a court date i was informed that it was closed since last tuesday, days before the hurricane, for people to prepare for the storm. i have been calling ever since and obviously there is no one there to answer. the opening dates keep getting postponed from originally what was yesterday to next week monday due to power outages and flooding. \n\nmy original plan was to go to court and plead no contest and pay the fine with no points and 'maybe some driving school since this is my first offense and it's only like a hundred bucks of fines. However, i have not been able to make an appointment and my days since the ticket are running out. i do not want to just pay the fine because i will get points in my license and i'm young paying my own insurance. \n\nI want to know if there's any way that since the offices have been closed due to natural disaster if i will get some sort of extension on my 30 day period for action on the ticket. I don't think there is any way of making an appointment online because i have tried, the only options are through the phone or in person at the court house. if admitting guilt and paying the fine resulting in points is a better option than waiting past my 30 days and getting greater consequences, then please let me know and i'll do it. \n\ni know that i should have called way before but my family had an unexpected near death experience that really didn't have me thinking about a 9 mile over speeding ticket. It is my fault though so if there's no options then i'll take the consequences. \n\nAny tips on what my next steps should be are appreciated thanks. \n\n","title":"I am unable to make a court date for my speeding ticket due to Hurricane Irma forcing clerk offices to close. What should i do?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569176840,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d7udt9\/lease_type_randomly_changed_pa\/","id":"d7udt9","body":"Hi. In April, I let my landlord know that I was likely moving out in July, as I had found another place. That place fell through at the last second. I let them know, paid rent through August, and they never said anything more. Then, last week, I received an email saying they had changed my monthly lease into a yearly lease because I hadn't moved out in July, and that I could request to get it changed back, but they might not accept and I'd have to give another 60 days notice before I moved. Now the 60 day notice thing I can understand, as that's how much notice I had to give before. But can they just randomly decide to change the lease type without my signature? When I signed the lease initially, I was signing a monthly lease. Thanks in advance for the help!","title":"Lease type randomly changed - PA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1551388550,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avwb5r\/anonymous_workplace_harassment\/","id":"avwb5r","body":"TL\/DR: Receiving text messages from burner phone numbers over the last 6 months. The contents of the messages make it clear the person is at work. Was on a paid leave, but the employer is requesting I return to work despite this person still harassing me. \n\nI work at a well-known startup company headquartered in San Francisco. I am a full time employee in Arizona. When I joined the company, our personal cell phone numbers existed on an internal directory. For the past 6 months I\u2019ve received harassing text messages from 30+ burner phone numbers that have attacked my sexuality, accused me of masturbating at work, my wife\u2019s race, what I\u2019ve worn to work, pictures on my desk, and just about everything you can imagine. \n\nAt first, it wasn\u2019t obvious this was someone at work until I received a message about wearing sweatpants at work an hour after I had arrived. I notified my local HR representative about what was happening and she assured me she\u2019d work with the network security team to investigate if a work computer was being used. She also said they would get security cameras installed in the building which were not currently present. HR made an announcement to the floor I worked on and notified people of the ongoing incident. Not long after the announcement, I received a message calling me a snitch. The company contracted a security firm to investigate and someone sat in our offices for a few weeks and talked to coworkers, nothing came from the investigation. HR advised me to file a police report, which I did. \n\nA couple months went by and I continued receiving harassing messages. I was granted a paid leave while they continued to investigate the messages. I manage a team of people and felt strange being away and returned to work after about 2 weeks.\n\nAround the holidays, about 50% of normal staff was in the office and I went to use the restroom. I was alone in the restroom and went into a stall. After a couple minutes, someone else came into the restroom and I heard footsteps stop outside my stall and walk back out of the restroom. In hindsight, I should\u2019ve tried to look at the shoes but didn\u2019t think of it. A short time later I received messages saying that I was probably upset to have my alone time spoiled in the restroom. This was about 2 months after I was told security cameras were going to be installed, but there were still no cameras or badging in the building. \n\nI sent an email to people higher up the chain in HR and expressed my frustration at the lack of progress in the investigation. I was contacted by an HR manager in response to my email and she advised me to change my phone number and they\u2019d reimburse the cost. I was hesitant to change my number because that was the only cell phone number I\u2019d ever had. Instead of immediately changing my number, I informed my team and everyone at work I had changed my number in the hopes that the harasser would give up. They didn\u2019t. I kept receiving messages and decided to change my number. 2 days after changing my number I received more messages and they even taunted that changing my number does nothing. The company then offered to reimburse me for a new iPhone. I created a new iCloud account in case that was compromised but the messages continued. \n\nAfter the bathroom incident and length of this harassment I no longer felt safe at work and requested a paid leave until they caught who was doing this. In the ~ 2 months since I\u2019ve been gone from the office they\u2019ve installed security cameras, badge access, and on-site security. They determined the messages are coming from bandwidth.com and had me file a complaint with that site. However, that site would not provide me or my employer with any information about who is sending the messages. I\u2019ve continued to receive harassing messages even while on leave. Yesterday, I was contacted by HR and basically told I must return to work or they could negotiate a severance with me. I haven\u2019t had any success finding a lawyer who works in this area, I\u2019m not even sure what to search for. \n\nDo I have any legal recourse against the employer or messaging service in this instance? Should I return to work? Should I hire a lawyer to help negotiate a severance? What should happen if I return to work and the harassment continues and\/or escalates?\n\nAny advice is welcome, I don\u2019t have any idea what to do or how to handle this. ","title":"Anonymous workplace harassment","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1447421725,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3snro7\/can_i_go_back_to_the_us\/","id":"3snro7","body":"Throwaway because obviously.\n\nBackground: 3 years ago I was studying college in Philadelphia, PA on a student visa. I had a (false) accusation against me for sexual assault. Needless to say, I was shitting myself. I got a lawyer and I realized that if this went to trial we would go bankrupt; instead, the lawyer suggested I go back to my country since the police hadn't been informed yet, only the university. He drafted a letter to the university explaining that I was withdrawing effective immediately for personal reasons, and that if they needed to contact me for any reason they had my full cooperation. There was a disciplinary process from the university, but I was never contacted by police. I don't even know if they were involved or notified at all.\n\nI left because the lawyers I talked to all said my chances of getting off completely free were very slim. I was tricked into sending very incriminating texts to the other person, but I don't know how much weight that would carry in court. \n\nNow I'm thinking of looking for a summer internship in the US, so I would need to get a visa. However, in leaving the country in such a hurry, I may have violated the terms of my visa - I think I had to seek permission from my university to leave the country during the first year. I did not get that. I have dual citizenship and I would apply for a new visa with my EU passport, if that matters.\n\n**Legal question:** How can I check if the complaint was ever forwarded to the police? How can I know if they plan in ever doing anything about it? How can I contact a lawyer in PA to check this for me? Should I even risk it or should I just avoid the US?\n\n\nThanks!","title":"Can I go back to the US?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1504881874,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yv74f\/ct_speeding_ticket_for_3mph_over_the_limit\/","id":"6yv74f","body":"I just received a ticket for going 68 in a 65 highway on a clear day with extremely light traffic.  I've only had a license for a few months, so I think that may contribute into the reasoning behind the officer giving the ticket.\n\nThe specific citation is for \"Driving unreasonably fast\" and from what I have read, that would require me going at least 70-85 on a limited access highway (I was on route 2). \n\nThis is definitely something I should contest right? I've never had any type of legal infraction of any kind before.","title":"CT - Speeding ticket for 3mph over the limit","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569525362,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9ocn7\/back_pay_rent\/","id":"d9ocn7","body":"My landlord have been harassing me supposedly because I have not payed 2 months from three months. I cannot find the receipts of those moths but have received receipts from the other months. Can they procecute for those months that they allege are owed?","title":"Back pay rent","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1410334813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2fzjue\/employment_contract_question\/","id":"2fzjue","body":"So I was hoping someone could explain this to me in simple English:\n\n>COVENANT NOT TO WORK FOR CLIENTS, CONTRACTORS OR END USERS:\n\n>EMPLOYEE absolutely and unconditionally represents and agrees that during the term of EMPLOYEE's engagement, and for a period of eighteen (18) months after the EMPLOYEE's engagement with EMPLOYER is terminated for any reason whatsoever, whether voluntary or involuntary, he will not:\n\n>(A) Directly or indirectly, regardless of whether Clients shall contact EMPLOYEE or vice versa, individually or as an employee, partner, officer, director, stockholder, or in any other capacity whatsoever of any firm, partnership, corporation, or entity, transact, carry on, solicit, perform, accept employment from, divert to, receive, sell to, engage in or conduct any business dealings with existing Clients;\n\nDoes this mean that once the contract was completed, say 24 months later, I would then be barred from accepting employment with the company I was contracted out to for a period of 18 months?\n\nThis job would be in Washington, USA.  The contract has a clause saying that it acts as though signed and governed by the laws of Michigan, USA if that changes things.","title":"Employment Contract Question","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1443138060,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m9khe\/my_uncles_drug_addict_exwife_is_trying_to_claim\/","id":"3m9khe","body":"A little background. My uncle was an employee of New York State. He died recently after losing his battle with leukemia. Around the time of his diagnosis (a few years ago) his wife (lets call her Susan) got into hard drugs and ended up leaving him and moving in with her dealer. Lets just say that it was a very chaotic time for the whole family. There was at least one incident where she removed all the furniture from his house and my grandmother (who lives on the property) had to call the police to get her to leave.  \n\nMy uncle filed for divorce (which she asked for), but when he tried to serve her with the papers, she could not be located. She had no address of her own and was basically living on peoples couches. The only request my uncle made during the whole ordeal was that she return the engagement ring as it is a family heirloom. This request was communicated through my aunt (his sister) who was in contact with Susan's step sister, who in turn communicated it to Susan, who we still could not locate. The ring was returned along with a letter saying that my uncle was no longer responsible for paying her bills and that she didn't want any money. For the last 2 years she has not been seen or heard from, she was in no way part of my uncle's life.  \n\nNeedless to say, my dying uncle took steps to completely write Susan out of the will. What little he had was left to my grandmother except for a few thousand dollars (or so we thought) which he had in a NY state pension plan. This he left to my sister who is 13 and a special needs child. The money was to be put into a trust for her so that she would have some financial assistance when she is older. Unbeknownst to anyone, his NY State pension also entitled the beneficiary (now my sister) to a death benefit of over $100,00 dollars!  \n\nSomehow Susan found out about the death benefit and is now claiming that because she never signed the divorce papers, she is entitled to my uncles entire estate. In addition, should it be found that she is not entitled to the entire estate, she would be entitled to 1\/3rd by right of elective. She has filed a temporary restraining order in order to prevent the state from paying out the benefit and has served us with legal paperwork demanding that my 13 year old autistic sister show up in court. My parents can't really afford a lawyer and they don't know what to do. Can you guys help? Is there anything we can do to help our case going forward?","title":"My uncle's drug addict ex-wife is trying to claim over $100,000 which he left to my autistic sister.","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1569305331,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d8j4bi\/apartment_owners_wont_do_anything_about_bed_bugs\/","id":"d8j4bi","body":"Ok so about a month ago me and my mother started noticing that we had a bed bug problem, my mother contacted the office and they said they would call pest control to get the situation straightened out. My mother went down there every week up to this day and they have not done anything at all about it. My mother had to throw away her bed and I\u2019m going to have to throw away my bed. I found around 20 bed bugs on my bed just now and flipped it over to find over 40 dead cockroaches under my bed. I frequently have issues with huge roaches crawling over men during the night same with bedbugs. Is there anything I can do? I am a 16 year old and it\u2019s effecting my disabled grandma as well. My mother had already contacted everyone. Any help would be appreciated sorry if some parts of it don\u2019t make sense I was writing this in a hurry and I am stressed out.","title":"Apartment Owners won\u2019t do anything about bed bugs or pests.(California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554924258,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbq6oj\/custody_battle_advice\/","id":"bbq6oj","body":"Hey, this isn't for me, but for my older cousin. She will be referred to as B, her husband will be referred to as M and the woman will be called K.\n\n​\n\nSo, B is married to a man and has three kids. M often travels around as he works at an oil rig and because of this, it is often my cousin and her three kids alone in the house. My cousin does everything: Feed them, cloth them, change their diapers (two of them have not been potty-trained) and is with them all the time. However, M is often nowhere to be scene for weeks, sometimes months.\n\nHowever, last year, they had a massive fight and my parents had to go to her house (cousin's parents are both dead and we're the only family that lives close by) after my cousin was arrested by the police.\n\nWhy was this?\n\nM had discovered she was texting someone (she did not sleep with this man) and got extremely mad at her. It got to the point that my cousin shouted she wanted to kill herself and he threw the guns out of the house. My cousin did not get to spend time with her children for three months, but recently got to be with them again. My cousin, imo, is a great mom and used to throw big parties for her childrens' birthdays. Even if she doesn't anymore, she still tries to make their days special.\n\nHowever, today, my cousin posted about people sending screenshots of her facebook posts about a woman named K. I went to ask my cousin about it, as I was confused and this was essentially the conversation.\n\n​\n\nMe: B, who's K? I saw someone else type on your post with that name, but I don't think you're talking about her specifically.\n\nB: No. This K is who M cheated on me with and she's began to harass me.\n\n​\n\nI was naturally in shock and decided to talk to my cousin as I heard she had cheated on M, which she told me she did not, but did text someone. However, I did realize that M must have slept with K, possibly other women my cousin never knew about due to his job. \n\nI insisted she should get a divorce and did mention it was likely neither of them would receive custody due to their track records, with B's emotional baggage (she is getting better with therapy) and M never being around for his kids.\n\nIf they did divorce, who would likely get custody?\n\nWe're the closest family to my cousin and her children already like me. Along with this, I would be able to take care of the kid's guinea pig, as I have three of my own. However, B is afraid that M's mom or step-mother would get custody. \n\nCan you guys give me some advice? I want to help my cousin and I don't think she deserves to be in a marriage where she is cheated on and ignored.","title":"Custody Battle Advice","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1554925273,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bbqdu1\/can_we_lie_about_the_identity_of_our_current\/","id":"bbqdu1","body":"We live in the denver area, and have spotless rental history except for the place in which we currently live. We moved in a year ago, our lease is up soon, we havent violated any lease terms or made any late rent payments, but our landlord hates us. \n\nWhat happened is someone left a note about the parking in a neighbors mailbox and smeared dog shit on the inside, the neighbors were baffled and took it to our landlord (who is the tennant on the other half of our duplex). He assumed it was us and screamed at us about it without even considering our assertions that we were not involved. To make matters worse I accidentally spilled oil im the driveway and it had to be repaved. He has been very aggressive and has tried intimidating us and we had to call the police more than once to have them speak to him to warn him to stop being physically aggressive.\n\nNow our lease is up and we are in the process of finding a new place, but when i explain to prospective landlords that we dont have a good reference from our current landlord it doesnt seem to go over well. Im afraid this will prevent us from getting a lease anywhere, what should we do? We are honest people and the idea of lying about anything gives me anxiety but we need a new place. If we were to give a friends name and number and have them pose as our landlord would there be anything on our background checks that would show we lied?","title":"Can we lie about the identity of our current landlord to avoid the bad referral?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1446139993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qq9mz\/last_will_and_testament_question\/","id":"3qq9mz","body":"I used a template for a Will from rocketlawyer.com (and a free trial) to put it all together. \nPersonal Background: 29, Healthy, Married, 2 kids, Net Worth ~100k, located in Utah, USA. \n\nTwo Questions:\n\n1. is there a better resource to use get my will in place? I read a couple FAQs and looked up some definitions \n\n2. The will included this wording: \"I direct that my just debts, funeral expenses and expenses of last illness be first paid from my estate.\"  Can I remove and\/or exclude 'expenses of my last illness'? \n\nThank you.","title":"Last Will and Testament Question","text_label":"wills","flair_label":10}
{"created_utc":1568602445,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d4urfv\/a_tenant_cannot_serve_two_landlords\/","id":"d4urfv","body":"Hello legal advice!  I love reading posts here and sadly it\u2019s my turn to seek counsel.\n\nI live in Massachusetts.  The Boston area is full of sketchy sublet arrangements because rent is expensive and a lot of people want to rent a place on a student schedule.  I found a room for 900 a month in a 4bed, 1bath apartment.  The woman who showed the place explained that every year she rented the whole apartment and sublet the extra rooms.  I signed a lease with Main Tenant.  I liked that arrangement because I am not responsible for move-out cleanup or damage to common spaces, I negotiated the ability to relet my room should I wish to leave early, to have my fianc\u00e9 overnight a limited number of times per month, and the landlord can\u2019t come after me for a larger portion of the rent\/deposit if other roommates do not fulfill their obligations.\n\nOn September 1 I moved in.  I found out that Main Tenant has taken a job in a different part of the state and sublet out the fourth room as well.\n\nThis weekend Main Tenant sent me a notice asking me to sign a different additional lease with the other roommates and landlord directly.  She said the landlord is requesting this for the first time and she didn\u2019t know the arrangement was going to be different this year.\n\nI don\u2019t like the new lease because it lacks the protections that I listed above.  One of the roommates who moved in two weeks ago is ALREADY moving out because of a family issue, so the issue of being responsible for other tenants is very real.  Another thing I don\u2019t like about the new contract is that I can see that the total rent for the place is 2475.  I asked another roommate what she is paying, and it\u2019s the same as I am - I think Main Tenant is profiting about 1100 a month from having this arrangement with four subletters.\n\nI What are my rights here?  Can I negotiate for lower rent in exchange for my assent to the modified lease?  I feel a little bit skeezy about making demands but I also feel that the terms of this lease are also materially different.","title":"A tenant cannot serve two landlords","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1505682464,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/70q9y0\/incomplete_discovery_request_in_traffic_ticket\/","id":"70q9y0","body":"Background: I received a traffic ticket for improper turn. I believe I was innocent so I decided to contest it. My car is equipped with a dashcam and the video of the turn was captured including the position of the police car that stopped me stationed at the junction. The incident occurred in the state of NJ.\n\nI appeared for the pre-trial and plead not guilty. Right after, I sent a request for discovery to the prosecutor, the police department records, and the court for its filing. The police department responded by providing the dashcam video from the police car and the copy of the ticket. They did not provide any of the other information I requested (police logs for day, ticketing history of officer and department, educational and training of officer, etc). I reviewed the police video and it does not actually show the alleged infraction, only the segment of the traffic stop itself which was uneventful.\n\nThe prosecutor never responded to my request for discovery. Thirty days has past since the request was delivered. I emailed the prosecutor asking why my request was not fulfilled and why I did not get an explanation from him and the response was that I needed to work it out with police records. I know this is incorrect as per NJ Rule 7:7-7 stating that the municipal prosecutor is responsible for making discovery available to the defendant. I responded to the email saying that it was his responsibility to provide me with the information requested to which I received no response. This was my attempt to \u201cmeet and confer\u201d in order to resolve the matter.\n\nI would like to know what my options are next. The trial court date has been set for a month away. Should I file a motion to compel discovery in this case?\n","title":"Incomplete discovery request in traffic ticket","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1446648521,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3rhxb0\/kentucky_eviction_process_when_newborns_are\/","id":"3rhxb0","body":"Quick and simple. I've been told that a landlord must provide 3 months of notice when asking a family with newborns to vacate (in this particular case, not because they have done anything wrong, but because he is selling the place) but I can't find any sources. Is this true? Google search has got me nowhere, but I might be using the wrong terms.","title":"[Kentucky] Eviction process when newborns are involved.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1506020993,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71lg1b\/uswa_is_my_apartment_management_pricing_me_legally\/","id":"71lg1b","body":"So I live in Washington state in an apartment complex I've been at for almost two years. My agreement 6 month contract ended 4 months ago and because of uncertainty in future plans, I couldn't agree to another contract right away so I opted for a month to month plan that was more expensive. After paying month to month for a little while I walked into the management's office and asked them what the current rates were for the 6-11 month contracts. They told me that even though newcomers to the complex would get a reduced rate for the 6-11 contracts, I would be stuck paying the same expensive month to month price. Signing the contract just assures that my price wont get even more increased, but there is no way to reduce the price to what other people in the complex are currently paying. The complex I live at is a fair and equal housing. This is the first apartment I've lived at so I'm not sure if them keeping me at a higher price is legal or not.","title":"[US\/WA] Is my apartment management pricing me legally?","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540998991,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9szob8\/im_a_minor_that_got_into_a_small_car_accident\/","id":"9szob8","body":"I\u2019m 17 driving to college and about 20 minutes ago I hit a trailer connected to a car. I was going about 5-10 miles per hour and there was only a dent in the trailer. I talked to my parents and the driver is claiming he has head injuries or head pain. What do I do? \n\n","title":"I\u2019m a minor that got into a small car accident","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570599898,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dfcotb\/considering_breakup_with_gf_scared_of_legal_issues\/","id":"dfcotb","body":"I have been dating my pwuBPD (person w\/ undiagnosed borderline personality disorder) gf for 5+ years. She is jobless, has an illness preventing her to work in an office setting, and does not live with me at my place. Since she lost her job a while back, her savings ran out and now I pay all her bills, as her family has no means (nor desire) to help out.\n\nAll that said, the relationship is verbally abusive, and I need out. I feel guilty, and would like to leave some money so that she can make it a few months, but I would never want to communication again. What are my legal options to leave the money, file a restraining order if she starts getting hostile and\/or will not leave me alone (guaranteed), and solidify the final home for the pets when I leave? Do I owe anything more than that given her precarious position of being wholly dependent on my financial generosity?","title":"Considering breakup with GF, scared of legal issues","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1569479140,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d9fs1v\/florida_car_crash_scammers_and_insurance_troubles\/","id":"d9fs1v","body":"I don\u2019t want to post too much identifying info on the case but a very large van cut out in front of me and the the damage to their vehicle was pretty small, bumper damage (they drove a tank compared to the smaller car I drove) it was a higher speed crash though like 45 mph. \n\nThe lady claiming injury was in the psssenger side swiveling her neck all around before EMS got there then started wailing about neck pain when they did arrive. Also worth mentioning is she claimed she\u2019s the driver and was in the passenger side the whole time. The actual driver like panicked after the crash and was running back and forth from the front to back of the large work vehicle they were in(it was very shady), before finally settling down when the emergency personnel arrived. \nThey\u2019re going for the whole shebang, all 250k of the coverage and since it\u2019s a family insurance plan I\u2019ve been getting ragged on by my family for the last 5 months leading to some pretty bad depression because they keep saying they\u2019re gonna take us for all we have and sue over our coverage amount because our insurance lowballed them back about 1\/25 of what they\u2019re asking and it looks like it might start a drawn out court battle where my character is called into question. I just wish they\u2019d settle for my sanity\u2019s sake. \nMy record is spotless although I\u2019ve been in a minor fender bender before which admittedly was my fault but the plaintiff isn\u2019t being absolutely ridiculous in that one. In both cases though I think the real driver didn\u2019t even have a license and they switched it on the reports(this I know for a fact because the first accident was a male and they reported a female driver and the second one that\u2019s got everyone freaking out was a male driver and the lady claiming injury is saying she was driving). \nI told all this to my insurance and asked them \u201cisn\u2019t this fraud?\u201d And here it seems they don\u2019t even care about that it\u2019s just who hit who\u2019s bumper then find the dirty doctor (Florida is rife with them) to exaggerate injury and boom they wanna take you for every red cent you have. These scammers literally destroy lives and brag about it in billboards for injury lawyer adverts. Is it true they can go after my family\u2019s assets because we\u2019re on the same insurance or is my father just using me as a verbal punching bag for the last half year claiming I\u2019m a piece of shit that\u2019s going to ruin his life? If I missed something feel free to ask. Please I need some info this has been so stressful.","title":"Florida car crash, scammers and insurance troubles. Please help with advice","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1570741799,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dg4lsu\/military_veteran_work_situation\/","id":"dg4lsu","body":"I recently applied for a promotion at work. I come to find out by the Exams Unit, not my supervisor or Anyone In my office, I\u2019m not eligible for promotion due to my probationary period has been extended. A meeting was scheduled between the Head Deputy and I. She explains I\u2019m not being promoted due to a reprimand I received but did not agree or sign a few months ago. Let me explain. I received text messages threatening me at my place of work. Stating to watch my back at work. I came in to work before my shift started and told my deputy. I also disclosed that I had a pocket knife on myself for defensive reasons. I was sent home that day while an investigation happened. I also reported the text to LAPD. I work for Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services. I\u2019m a US Army veteran, OEF X Purple Heart Recipient. I suffer prom PTSD\/Depression. I am rated by the VA at 90%. Any help would be grateful. I just last Friday finished an outpatient program due to my PTSD. Thanks","title":"Military Veteran Work situation","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1549737627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/aov51c\/alabama_wife_got_terminated_over_email_this\/","id":"aov51c","body":"She got an email about 45 minutes ago saying she has been terminated from her job as they needed more \u201cdiversity\u201d in the workplace. Is this legal that they fired her because she isn\u2019t diverse enough? ","title":"[Alabama] Wife got terminated over email this morning to make room for \u201cmore diverse workers\u201d- is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1569854290,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbchse\/nc_previous_treasurer_of_college_club_changed\/","id":"dbchse","body":"I am the president of a club on a college campus and we had our treasurer create a Venmo for the club for members to pay dues. The Venmo has no personal information to the treasurer as the name for the account is just the club name. The treasurer had been talking about using the club to profit off of natural disasters like the Bahamas from the recent hurricane. Because of his attitude we asked him to resign which he did. Since then he has changed the Venmo password and is now using it as a personal Venmo. There is over $700 in member dues to be used on club events and items. He started to Venmo people for Uber\u2019s and other personal transactions. He even said he shared all the Venmo account credentials with his \u201cmarketing manager\u201d named Kelvin who has since changed the account name to Kelvin S. Members are still paying their dues to this account and he refuses to give us access to the account again. Is this embezzlement? What should we do?","title":"[NC] Previous treasurer of college club changed Venmo password and is using money to pay for Uber\u2019s","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1541410631,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uc6d1\/why_is_the_fbi_doing_nothing_about_my_pedophile\/","id":"9uc6d1","body":"I called once before and nothing was done. He's a child predator who looks at child pornography and even made an account on Tagged posing as a 13 year old when I was with him. This was years ago, but I grew up with him (15 years old till 17 years old) and had to witness him look at child pornography. He also took advantage of me sexually. I called the cops once but I was having a psychotic break (I'm medicated now) and they convinced me not to have him arrested because the court case would be complicated. But, now that I'm older and feeling better, I'm disgusted with him and I'm ready to take on the court case. When I called the cops again, they told me to speak to the officer who first took my call! The one who tried to convince me not to do it! Why would I want to talk to him again? Someone told me to talk to a detective instead of an officer. Will this help? I just want this fucker incarcerated. Good news is that the FBI this time around had to redirect my call to someone higher up due to the severity of it and forwarded my case to the local office near me. Maybe they'll finally call me with more questions... It feels so hopeless. ","title":"Why is the FBI doing NOTHING about my pedophile ex boyfriend?","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1445875736,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3qamhp\/rental_property_carpet_replacement_california\/","id":"3qamhp","body":"First off, I did attempt to search through \/r\/legal and \/r\/tenant before posting, but if I missed anything relevant, please feel free to post previous threads and I can always remove this.  \n\n**TL;DR - Landlord deducted carpet replacement from our security deposit without documenting or informing us there were any issues with the carpet**\n\nSituation:  \nWe live in California and recently moved out of a small house and during the pre-move out inspection our property manager filled out the checklist. Nowhere on that checklist, and never verbally did he mention an odor or issue with the carpets (outside of a couple spot stains).\n\nWe turned our keys in on 10\/5 and on 10\/8 they had the carpet professionally cleaned. The invoice from the carpet cleaning company doesn't denote any odor or use of a deodorizer as part of their cleaning. However, according to the property management company, on 10\/14 a new tenant was scheduled to move in but claimed an odor in the carpet and requested it be replaced. On 10\/19 the carpet and pad were replaced for ~$1500, of which we were charged ~$650.   \n\nWe do have a dog (fully house-broken) that we paid an additional $250 deposit for. While it is likely not relevant, the previous tenant before us also had pets--a cat and a snake.  \n\nOur lease states carpet has a 7 year life span, so we are being charged for 43% (3\/7) of the carpet replacement. I have the basic following questions and was hoping to seek guidance.  \n\n* Since no odor issue is mentioned on our move-out inspection sheet or the carpet cleaning invoice, is that enough to get a judgement against a landlord?  \n* Am I legally allowed to request proof of when the carpet was last replaced prior to our moving in? I question the actual age of the carpet based on its condition when we moved it. So even if I have no legitimate legal case, if I have proof the carpets are older, then I can at minimum lower the percentage they deducted from us.  \n\nThank you for your time.\n\nEdit: Formatting","title":"Rental Property: Carpet Replacement (California)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555463627,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/be1tnl\/interesting_situation_in_zootopia\/","id":"be1tnl","body":"Mods, if this is off topic, I'll remove it. \n\nIf you've seen Zootopia, you'll recall the scene where Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde have Mr. Big threaten to \"ice\" Duke Weaselton in an effort to get information. Weaselton tells them the truth and they investigate the tip. \n\nWould Weaselton's information and subsequent testimony stand up in court? If I were a lawyer (which I am not), I would argue in favor of suppression because Officer Hopps used coercive means to obtain information.","title":"Interesting situation in Zootopia","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1569629138,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/da8pzw\/workplace_changed_my_day_shift_to_overnight\/","id":"da8pzw","body":"I live in Hillsboro, Oregon and work for an employer with a few hundred employees. I\u2019ve been there for three years.\nI have worked a day shift for the last year, prior to that I was part time doing nights and days, and I almost quit back then because it was so hard on me. Without notice they have switched me from day shift to night shift. I have a medical condition that makes night shift not doable, as I require a regular sleep schedule. I brought in a note from my doctor, and my boss is livid, I\u2019m afraid that he might fire me, or cut my hours back. I signed a full time contract a year ago, it doesn\u2019t specify any shift, but day shift is what I\u2019ve been working. Would there be any legal recourse if they fire me or cut my hours since I\u2019m unable to do night shift? \n\nNotes:\n\nThere are many people within my department who also only work days, they don\u2019t have signed \u201cdays\u201d contracts. And they don\u2019t expect their schedules to change. \n\nThere are designated night staff and one of them was switched to days prior to my schedule being changed without notice.","title":"Workplace changed my day shift to overnight shifts, I can\u2019t do night shift for medical reasons. I\u2019m concerned they\u2019ll fire me.","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1504803243,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/6yohb2\/sugar_land_tx_cop_handing_out_citations_at_a_bad\/","id":"6yohb2","body":"So, essentially, there is a left hand turn lane that leads into two different parking lots and the only feasible way to get into one of the parking lots is to drive diagonally on the left turn lane. It's a very poor median and there's no other way to get into that parking lot without making a very roundabout drive, so most people enter the parking lot the diagonal way. \n\nI recorded videos of the officer waiting at the location for people to cross the bad median before flagging them down to hand out citations for Wrong Way Driving. A young man whose mother was given a ticket asked me for the videos, so I emailed him the footage, but now I'm wondering, is there anything, legally, one can do to contest a ticket with this information? \n\nEdit: Minor error, this is in Missouri City, TX, not Sugar Land. \n\nEdit 2: There seems to be this odd misconception that the people who were pulled over were just lazy and didn't want to drive to make a U turn at a light, but that's not the case at all. In the time I took to sit and record video, of the five people I saw cited, four of them were elderly and had handicap stickers. Each one of them tried to explain to the officer that there was a \"Left turn\" sign in an area of the median that looked okay to follow into the parking lot. Seeing it for myself, there is a left turn sign and I know it's meant for the parking lot on the left, but I understand how those people may have gotten confused. **I didn't get ticketed**, so in the end it's not really my problem, but those people seem to legit have just made an error based on sign positioning. ","title":"Sugar Land, TX: Cop Handing Out Citations at a Bad Median","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1447125891,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3s850d\/accidental_property_damage_how_much_do_i_have_to\/","id":"3s850d","body":"I live in Washington state and bike to school everyday (I am a university undergraduate). Today I was biking to school, took a turn, and hit a parked car pretty hard. I flipped over my handlebars, but luckily didn't sustain any bad injuries. Surprisingly, the car had occupants who came out and talked to me. I gave them my contact info, as I was in a hurry, and left. The car was parked legally, and I assume responsibility for what I did. Clearly, as I was biking, my auto insurance cant be used, and I am fairly certain my renters insurance will not cover it.\n\nSo I guess my question is, how much do I have to pay them? Will I need to pay for the car all out of pocket? Can their insurance cover any of it?(does it have to be better than liability insurance to do so)?\n\nLegally speaking, if they ask for something unreasonable and I cant pay, can they take me to small claims court and win? I do not know if they could prove if I was negligent or reckless, but I know that factors in to damage claims such as this. Did they assume any risk parking where they did?","title":"Accidental property damage: How much do I HAVE to pay?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1554786364,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bb3xks\/question_corporation_got_certification_of\/","id":"bb3xks","body":"Reason I\u2019m asking is because filled through lawyer a couple weeks ago using xzycompanyname. Didn\u2019t hear from him till today saying that it can\u2019t be used? But I further investigated and theres a parameter option in nuans corporate search that you can select active only. \nI then went and called bc corp registration and they said they couldn\u2019t find any trace of that company or the 7 digit numbered company version of it. So is my lawyer wrong?","title":"Question. Corporation got certification of dissolution (CBCA) section 212 on July 14th 2017. Am I able to register that name now for my own corporation?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1540951922,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9suma0\/son_needed_stitches_because_of_gym_class_va\/","id":"9suma0","body":"My son required nine stitches today and has a grisly mark that will apparently be on his face forever. He is in seventh grade, and in his gym class he was not required to wear a catchers mask while playing catcher during a softball game. Is there any legal action that I should take?","title":"Son needed stitches because of gym class (VA)","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1571262655,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/diwfz8\/california_minor_rear_end_accident_with_a_false\/","id":"diwfz8","body":"Initial apologies I am on mobile. \n\nIn May I got into an accident. I rear ended someone at a stoplight going no more than 5 mph. I fully broke and then let go of the brake and slowly rolled into the car. I am a new driver so I panicked and didn\u2019t know exactly what to do. I gave the driver my insurance and Drivers license without him exchanging anything with me. We then went on our way. \n\nFew days later I get a call from my insurance company saying there is a claim for $1000+ in damage which included a paint change and bumper exchange. I drive a Jetta while the driver I hit drives a Toyota pickup truck. My car never reached the bumper, just the back hook of the truck(mind you his bumper has previous severe damage to it). I immediately called my insurance back explaining everything and they wanted to see all evidence against the $1000+ claim, so I preceded to send photos of the \u201cdamage\u201d to my car and his car. \n\nMonths go by without hearing anything from my insurance company until yesterday when I received a letter now claiming the same amount of damage plus bodily injury. Obviously this person is trying to leech as much money as possible and raise my insurance. I\u2019m a new driver so my rate is really high as it is. \n\nWhat are the next steps I should take? I have been told to take this to a small court by a few friends but I\u2019m still unsure what to do if my insurance company sides with the other driver.","title":"[California] Minor rear end accident with a false damage and injury claim.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1540337158,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qubh3\/i_need_help_with_a_website_ca\/","id":"9qubh3","body":"I was on google and found a tech site talking about Facebook. I decided to look into in and then realized its a Ukraine site. I found a little tab to give stuff. I didn\u2019t realized what it was so I put in my phone number. I set it to call me at 8 o\u2019clock. Now I\u2019m scared that they won\u2019t stop calling me and they can track me. It\u2019s a secure site. What will happen? \n\nI know this is legal advice but I have no where else to post so just help me.","title":"I need help with a website. (CA)","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1541812813,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9vq96k\/landlord_schedules_inspections_with_less_than_a\/","id":"9vq96k","body":"As the title says, my landlord is being pretty shady and have engaged in this behavior for pretty much the entirety of our lease (since January of this year). \n\nIt all started when I asked them for some repairs to the master bedroom door. They said \u201cof course guy will be there this weekend\u201d. Predictably, it took a month for door guy to show up. Rinse and repeat over the course of the next few months. \n\nThen, my girlfriend informed me that she was sleeping and the landlord had let himself into the apartment. A week previously he had let me know that he would come by that weekend, but no showed and instead came by a week later. This exact thing happened several times later.\n\nNow, after informing him that I wasn\u2019t comfortable with him or his fix it people coming into the apartment without notice or when no ones home, he no showed on an appointment to come by with an electrician (to take a look at the wiring, it\u2019s old as fuck). My girlfriend had been waitin all day for this fucker to come by and he didn\u2019t even email me to inform me that he wouldn\u2019t be able to make it.\n\nWhen I called him out on it, he brushed me off.\n\nMy question is this; what exactly are my options here, how do I get them to take me seriously when I say \u201cdon\u2019t come without an appointment\u201d, and how do I get him to stop blowing off these appointments? \n\nFor context; I\u2019m in sf, this is my first apartment.","title":"Landlord schedules \u201cinspections\u201d with less than a day\u2019s notice, walks in whenever they want, and frequently no shows for appointments they set to make repairs (sf)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554534665,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/ba1ucb\/california_what_intersection_markings_make_a\/","id":"ba1ucb","body":"This is so minor compared to other questions, but it has been bugging me and I never think to ask anyone locally during normal waking hours. \n\nThis deals with an intersection entirely within a parking lot (not an exit onto a public street) in California. At a 4-way intersection, the east and west bound sections have a stop sign and STOP painted on the ground at the limit line. The other two - north and south bound - only have the STOP painted on the ground but no sign or other indicator of right-of-way.\n\nDoes the lack of a stop sign mean the north\/south doesn't have to stop, making the ground paint irrelevant and giving them the right-of-way? Or does the indicator on the ground only still make it a required stop, thus meaning all 4 directions have to stop and proceed when it's safely their turn? \n\nFor what it's worth, IIRC the south bound had a sign a few years back but it's gone. I don't know if northbound ever did.\n\nIt's a silly thing for me to wonder about late at night, but I figured the best legal minds of Reddit may be able to solve this riddle. \n\nTIA!\n","title":"California - What intersection markings make a required stop?","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1571601106,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkosrg\/school_suspensionwondering_if_charter_applies\/","id":"dkosrg","body":"                Hello. Two days I got suspended for a short film I shot outside of School that was deemed offensive. The film was called (n-words) on the beach by a friend but I referred to it as Kidz on the beach. The Vice Principal had informed me that I had actually referred to it using a racial slur and had targeted kids who were mentally inefficient to join a short film I was part of. At the time I had not known they were mentally inefficient because of the interactions between them but nevertheless, I was accused of targeting them to join the film. I never gave details of the film unless I was outside of the School during home hours (After 3:05 since that is when School ends). All this put together is a reason I was suspended for two reasons. \n\n                 The other reason I was suspended was that the Vice Principal assumed I had created an account that parodies another student while involving other students in text-based story's. I caught wind of the account and had not brought my phone on Friday due to the daily activity of the account during School hours however despite the activity of the account and the absence of my phone, the Vice Principal accused me of using another person's phone to become active on the account. I mentioned to the Principal that I knew who it was and mentioned some other things. I mentioned that before the account was created, the friend who I knew owned the account told me the account was going to be basically, \"I dropped my pencil today but my friend (NAME OF FRIEND) picked up the pencil and saved my life\" but the account then got turned into talking about students and teachers inappropriately after they received the pictures. The VP had told me that he assumes I own the account and even if he were to go with my story, I contributed images to the account which makes me a co-owner of the account. He then goes on to tell me that he had found my Private account and noticed that 2 accounts I own (A meme page account and a private page account) mean that I am breaking Instagram's ToS of not being able to own more than one account and demanded that I delete the account which I do not want to own immediately. Another thing to note is that last year when I had gotten in trouble for saying hello to a student I did not know in the hallway which was viewed as mocking them (I said hello to everybody in the hallway) he informed me that he would be harder on me next year (in reference to this year). All this aside I am wondering if he can be affected by the charter like the right to remain innocent until proven guilty, a fair and unbiased trial, the right to not be unreasonably searched (He had searched through my phone after taking it from my hands and had went through other peoples phones looking for the phone number of the other student (friend) who doesn't attend the school anymore) and possibly any other sections. If I am not protected from the charter, can I do anything? Currently I am suspended from School with no date given of returning back and told by the VP, \"and that's if you even do come back\".\n\nMy location is Canada, Ontario.","title":"School Suspension--Wondering if Charter applies","text_label":"school","flair_label":9}
{"created_utc":1555254070,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd3lh6\/question_about_insurance_of_a_truck\/","id":"bd3lh6","body":"I was pulled over in a truck I was driving that I was buying. The truck had dealer plates and was still titled under the dealer. I was written a ticket for no insurance. I am insured, I told the officer that I am insured on my car, but as the truck was not finalized yet and no title transfer had happened I couldn\u2019t and wasn\u2019t going to insure the truck under my name. I am going to court tomorrow with proof of insurance for me on my car for the date of the ticket, plus policy papers going back two years, so I can show I was indeed insured. I also have a copy of the policy I put on the truck about two weeks after I got pulled over and ticketed, as the title transfer had been done and I now own it. If I bring these items with me to court my ticket should be dismissed, correct? I live in Texas. Here if you drive you have to have insurance. If you don\u2019t own a car then you just get a liability policy under your name so it covers your ass if you get in an accident.","title":"Question about insurance of a truck","text_label":"insurance","flair_label":8}
{"created_utc":1506122941,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/71utpb\/landlord_came_in_when_terminex_was_here_and_made\/","id":"71utpb","body":"We moved into our apartment in California from overseas and had almost nothing when we started. We bought everything from IKEA and everything was brand new. Within a couple of days I was waking up with bites. Terminex came multiple times, said it was nothing, then said it was fleas, and then about  two weeks ago (after a month a half passed, the whole time we're waking up with bites) confirmed it was bed bugs.  We kept reaching out asking our landlord when they would treat and they finally came today. Our landlord gave us notice they would come with instructions which we followed explicitly.  I even labeled everything and went above and beyond preparing for terminex. I left a note saying thank you for coming with our cell numbers in case they needed to contact us. They came today and when I got home our note was signed by our landlord with the sticky notes I used to label saying he copied them and the some other documents I just happened to have out on the other table. (Lease agreement, receipts from cashiers checks for deposits, etc) \nSo my question is, is that even allowed? He said that terminex was going to come, does he even have the right copy those things or even come in? I feel like that is a violation of privacy or something. The landlord told us that terminex was coming but he just has the right to let them in, not come in and copy my documents right? What can I even do about this?\n\nTLDR: have bedbugs, terminex came to treat and I left a note, landlord came in and copied it along with other documents. Can we do anything ? Is this a violation of our rights\/ privacy? \n","title":"Landlord came in when terminex was here and made copies of our documents - CA","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1408571554,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/2e4eg7\/motorcycle_cut_across_the_median_and_hit_me_and\/","id":"2e4eg7","body":"I made a legal turn and hit a motorcycle that wasn't supposed to be there (cut across the median to skip traffic and get into the left turn lane that I was turning past) and I'm getting fined for it, and they're going to try to give me a ticket for it. I live in Illinois. Any other questions you guys have I'll be happy to answer.","title":"Motorcycle cut across the median and hit me, and now I have to go to court to dispute a ticket.","text_label":"driving","flair_label":4}
{"created_utc":1569907305,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dbolyx\/i_frequently_work_long_shifts_alone_in_a_sketchy\/","id":"dbolyx","body":"I\u2019m an 18 year old girl working in an outdoor mall. Some nights I work for 7 hours alone, with no contact from colleagues aside from right after I come in. The area where I work isn\u2019t the best. I\u2019ve asked security to walk me to my car before, but because I parked off mall property, they wouldn\u2019t. I really don\u2019t like working for so long and am considering quitting anyway, but I was curious about the legality surrounding being alone practically without any breaks. This job is pretty odd in itself, I haven\u2019t signed any paperwork and have had minimal training to say the least. I know this is kind of all over the place, but I feel like there are no safety precautions or resources for me.","title":"I frequently work long shifts alone in a sketchy part of town, is this legal?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1539453472,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9nvqj3\/do_i_have_enough_evidence_to_have_my_parents\/","id":"9nvqj3","body":"Apologies to anyone that is made uncomfortable by this post. I have been having flashbacks of the sexual abuse my parents committed. Ive remembered a lot of other more covert sexually inappropriate acts my whole life, but I realize these things alone are not enough proof. I felt the urge to look at the photo albums they made for me today and in one album alone I found 12 naked pictures of me as a toddler, some with clear view of my genitals. On the toilet, in the bath, around the house. They're really weird. I know there are some more in other albums. There are also a couple naked pictures of my brother. I also have a text from my mom making a joke about a store called \"the fondled child\" after I sent her a picture of my son, back when we were talking. I believe my grandma and maybe a couple friends would be willing to provide accounts of the creepiness they witnesses. Is this enough? Thanks \n\n","title":"Do I have enough evidence to have my parents charged? (Tw-sexual abuse)","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1442186836,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3kucn4\/can_i_sublet_my_room_without_roommates_permission\/","id":"3kucn4","body":"Im dealing with an situation where my roommate is verbally abusive to me, stealing my things, and I don't feel comfortable being at the home anymore. The roommate is not a family member or significant other, just a acquaintance. I am a co-signer on a 1 year lease with the roommate. She refuses to put in a 30 day notice or allow me to break my lease. The lease specifies that I may get a replacement tenant that can take my place. Do I need the roommates permission to rent out my room?\n\nIf I get a civil restraining order could it allow me to leave?\n\nIf I leave and refuse to pay my half of the rent and we are both on the lease agreement do I have an obligation to only pay my half or are we both responsible for my non payment? (Im hoping to scare the roommate into leaving by doing this, but I don't know if we are each responsible for half or both equally responsible for the entire rent)","title":"Can I sublet my room without roommates permission? (ABQ New Mexico)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1540257933,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9qk7dp\/ex_filed_a_petition_for_custody_because_she_says\/","id":"9qk7dp","body":"  \n\nMy ex has filed a petition for sole physical and legal custody of our child till I complete an alcohol treatment. I need write a written response to the clerk. \n\nMy ex is claiming I was intoxicated while our child was in my care. Our agreement states neither is allowed to consume alcohol when with the child. Here\u2019s the story, my brother and his son came into town and wanted to see my son. I dropped him off with them, they went their way, I went mine. At the end of the night, they all went back to their hotel room to go to sleep. I showed up at the hotel room at 2 AM. At this point my son texts his mother to tell her I\u2019m drunk. She doesn\u2019t respond and we all go to sleep. The next morning, my brother and his son leave to catch their train at 7 AM. My son and I sleep for about 10 minutes then my son gets a text that his mother is downstairs waiting to take him home. He goes with her. A couple weeks later I get a summons to write a response and to appear in court. What should I do? Get a lawyer? She does not have a lawyer. Obviously, I have to write a response. My response is he was not in my care, he was in my brother\u2019s care. In the morning when he was in my care, I was fine. ","title":"Ex filed a petition for custody because she says I was drunk with our child","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555234291,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bd14kr\/can_i_take_ex_to_small_claims_for_changing_his\/","id":"bd14kr","body":"Ex gave me permission to send our kids to their Grandparents' (my parents) this summer. \nI bought the tickets everything is done. \n\nHe got upset about something one of my parents commented on FB (our daughter was tagged which is why he could see it) and said he is now not going to allow them to go. \n\nWe have custody 50-50.\n\nCan I take him to small claims if he isn't going to let them go so I can get the money back?\n\nAny advice is appreciated. Thank you.","title":"Can I take ex to small claims for changing his mind?","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1555568050,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/bei7g1\/a_friend_of_mine_wants_to_hang_herself_but_shes\/","id":"bei7g1","body":"Basically she messaged me on reddit and wanted us to hang ourselves together. I attempted to talk her out of it, but she\u2019s persistent. She keeps begging and begging but in the end I\u2019m not gonna let her. Should I call police or the suicide hotline? I don\u2019t want her to","title":"A friend of mine wants to hang herself but she\u2019s in a different state.","text_label":"digital","flair_label":3}
{"created_utc":1447714805,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3t2y1z\/landlord_making_us_pay_for_neighbours_gas_and\/","id":"3t2y1z","body":"I live in a student house with 3 other people in England. It's a 3 storey house but the basement is rented to 2 other people completely separate from us. They have their own front door and everything so they are not at all a part of our contract.\n\nWe are currently in the second year of living in the house, but only at the beginning of the second year did we realise that something was wrong with our electric and gas bills (we use Glide for our utilities by the way). We apparently used twice as much electric as we were estimated by Glide, and a lot more gas than usual to. We aren't heavy electric or gas users either.\n\nOur gas meter is around the back of the house (by the basements front door) and our electric meter is actually in the basement so we can't check it ourselves. When we asked our landlord (I should point out that they are a student letting company) to double check our meters and everything, they took ages to respond and then gave us the same readings. At the end of the first year the people downstairs moved out, and we realised that there was a cleaning crew down there. So we went round and asked to look around. We could only find one meter (our meter), meaning that we share a meter with downstairs. And only recently did we discover that we also share the gas meter.\n\nThe other day we decided to knock on the basements door and ask to check our meter again. This is when they told us that they have their bills included (meaning their utilities bills are part of their rent). This means that our landlord is basically ripping us off by making us pay for our neighbours electric and gas and not telling us.\n\nPlease help. What should we be doing? We are also worried that they are going to install new meters and try and cover up that we were paying for our basements gas and electric for over a year. What can we do about it?","title":"Landlord making us pay for neighbours gas and electric without telling us. What should I do? Please help.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1442972268,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3m0gnj\/att_baitswitched_us_290_bill_is_now_800_xpost\/","id":"3m0gnj","body":"This was also posted in r\/advice. I work for a small shop in Texas. We were contacted by At&t, which we assumed was a call center acting on their behalf. They swore they were just At&t. We talked to them about some options. We were only on a 2mb line and seriously needed an upgrade. So we decided to get off VOIP and try them out. Sounded really good. We have very specific requirements for our four lines and spent hours on the phone trying to work them out. We agreed to a price, high $200s for everything. Just a bit lower than what we were currently paying, but better internet. A month passed, and nothing happened. They call again telling us they had some issues. The issues get fixed and we redo the whole pricing game. Come to an agreement on the pricing around the same price as before. About another month goes by. Still nothing. Now, one day we get a call from another At&t rep asking to schedule an install date, but at this time she wanted to \"try and give us better pricing, cause that department wasn't the right department for the best pricing\" (no an exact quote). We said no, we want what is under our order number. They scheduled an install. The install day came and nothing happened. They said our current provider won't give them the phone lines. I call the current provider and they said At&t hasn't even sent in a request yet. So, I call At&t, and am transferred to the number porting department. He ask me for all my information regarding my phones etc, and that he is going to give me a better department. I said \"no, I want what's under my order number.\" I swear he literally said \"oh they didn't do it right so we have to redo it anyway, so how many lines do you have?\" I'm pissed, and tell him he needs to find it. A few minutes later he has everything just how it was. Now, he sets up the process to have the numbers ported, cause At&t hadn't done that yet apparently. Back to my current provider, they now are tracking that I'm pushing for all this to hurry and not their fault. They are very helpful and I'm already wondering why I'm switching. Oh yeah, they think 2mb internet is plenty for a business with voip phones. Anyway. Installers come out, everything is set up. Wonderful! The internet is usable again and the phones aren't stuttering. Everything was good until a line went dead, turned out it was installer error and no charge on our part.\nThen, we get the phone bill. Our $290 phone bill is now $805... We call At&t and told that our \"Mrs. G\" handled everything and that she informed us of this and that her info was something something @signeamarketing.com Turns it out it's actually Signia Marketing a company that apparently scammed us into believing they were literally At&t and not a third party. Everyone at At&T talks departments not different companies so we had no was of knowing We were told the people we worked with at At&t were actually Signia employees. We think. Probably a mix of both. So everything we agreed to was apparently changed in some phone call we had with Mrs G. Which we've never heard of, we know the supervisors we talked to that started our contract, the lady that finished it, and the guy that tried to get me to start a new one right before I was porting the numbers.\nNow, how is this legal? Sure there are federal charges and tax, those are understandable and don't amount to $400 of fees(just under double our apparently starting price) and extras placed into our bill that we did not agree to nor had any idea would be there. $42 for caller ID Name and $42 for Called ID Number. That's not just one time, apparently that's $82 a month for Caller ID on just ONE of our lines. The rest are all about $7 a month per. WTF? What information do I need to fight this? Is there any way to fight this?\nI feel like we got sucked into a ebay selling tips scam. But this is a reputable company? Surely they wouldn't do this? Help, please. I thank you in advance and appreciate any tips or advice you offer. ","title":"At&t bait\/switched us. $290 bill is now $800 (xpost r\/advice)","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1554387836,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b9dcue\/process_of_getting_a_restraining_order_in_illinois\/","id":"b9dcue","body":"I am currently a student at a public university in Illinois. There is an open investigation with a professor who sexually harassed me (and possibly others) by sending inappropriate photos through text messages, offering money for sex, offering an A+ grade in exchange for sex, etc. I did not come forward for a long time until I was encouraged to do so by my sister and a really great friend who comes from a family of cops and really put the idea in my head that even though I may not be too damaged or effected by what happened, this professor could be doing this to many other girls and they may even be agreeing to having sex for money or a grade boost from him. Fast forward a bit and this professor got put on a leave from teaching and has not been teaching for a while and I believe students at my school think he is on a leave for a \"family emergency\" when in reality it is because I showed everything on my phone to my university's police (photos, soliciting sex for grade changes and money). What I am now worried about is that since he is on a leave he has a bunch of free time. He also knows where I live (he asked me once and I told him because I did not know who he really was at the time and I just thought it was a friendly professor making conversation). I am having very bad constant anxiety that he will show up at my apartment or follow me home etc to the point where it feels that I can't even breathe or think for 10-15 minutes at a time. Is there enough basis to get a restraining order filed against him? My university's investigation is still ongoing so that is the only reason I am unsure. If a restraining order is possible here, how do I go about that? Thanks in advance for any answers much appreciated!","title":"Process of getting a restraining order in Illinois","text_label":"criminal","flair_label":2}
{"created_utc":1568819896,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/d5z9qi\/landlord_has_been_threatening_me_with_legal_action\/","id":"d5z9qi","body":"So. I am a tenant in Bulgaria. Have a house with a proper contract, which is running out this september  30th. Landlord denied a request for prolongation of contract and has put up the apartment for rent (on October). We agreed interested parties may come in from 20th september for viewing of the room. \n\nHowever, he has gone back on that date twice by asking if someone could come in [today]. I have both times denied the request, since it did not fit my schedule and it was outside of the agreed dates.\n\nNow, he has been threatening me today with \"Non-follow through\". Im not familiar with what that is or what that entails, but I dont want to risk much (not worth the hassle). \n\nThing is, in our contract, he is granted ONE visit per month with 2 days in advance notification, which he already expunged as I saw him in my apartment _without prior notice_ when I came back from holiday this month. \n\nNote that I have none of that in written or recorded, merely proof of my rent payings. Most of interactions were verbal, although facebook chat does have some snippets.\n\nSo, what can he do? Whats my best course of action?","title":"Landlord has been threatening me with legal action","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1555618287,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/beq512\/tn_fiancee_divorced_exhusband_with_what_i_believe\/","id":"beq512","body":"Almost 2 year ago now my now fiancee's then husband took their daughter and moved to NY because he believed she was cheating on him with me. A subsequent investigation by the Army concluded she wasn't guilty of adultery. A messy court battle ensued with the husband denying the mother contact with their daughter. Over several court proceedings in TN and NY the husband slowly lost more and more control of the situation which lead to harassment over text. Eventually the trial was moved to TN and was settled at the mediator. Not wanting to have to pay more money and deal with more stress and anxiety she agreed to pretty lenient terms considering everything she went through.\n\n​\n\nShe retains primary custody of their daughter, but must consult him on decisions related to her well being as well. Additionally they share who claims her on their taxes. She can claim her on odd years and he can on even years. The issues comes with the fact we take care of her during the year and she goes to her father's house during the summer; all of which goes straight to the IRS due to how much he owes from not doing taxes in years. This means we provide everything during the year and can't claim her daycare because we can't claim her on taxes which puts a large strain on us during the year until she goes to him for the summer which, coincidentally, happens to be during her birthday, so my fiancee can't spend birthdays with her anymore which really breaks her heart. He also doesn't pay child support despite the fact he pay child support on 2 children from a previous marriage. She was military during the divorce so her income was larger then it is now especially with going to school. He provides nothing to her, rarely speaking to her on the phone and refusing to provide any support that isn't state on the court order, which was nothing.\n\n​\n\nI don't know if it pertains now but during the initial court proceedings he lost custody due to his unemployment, the fact he removed their daughter from their home and moved to NY and the constant harassment to his then wife. He now has a job driving a truck making more then she does.\n\n​\n\nMy question is whether taking him to court to force him to pay child support as well as taking away his right to claim her on taxes would be viable. Also would us getting married cause any issues should she pursue this. The ex resides in NY.","title":"(TN) Fiancee divorced ex-husband with what I believe to be unfair terms related to custody of their daughter","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1571546321,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/dkf1k3\/my_boss_has_failed_to_pay_me_for_the_last_2_weeks\/","id":"dkf1k3","body":"I worked at a university sailing center over the summer. I was paid every 2 weeks for my 40 hrs a week. The last week of work I was never paid for. He has said every time I text him that he is working on a payroll correction. Every time he says he will get a check to me he has a lame excuse as to why the paperwork was never filled out. It was the last week of August and it is now well into October. I don't think he will ever pay me. Is this against the law? What can I do to get paid. Is there any way to do it without hurting my chance of being rehired next summer? Should I get a lawyer? I signed all the paperwork to be a employee of the university. I am in the USA. Thanks,","title":"My boss has failed to pay me for the last 2 weeks of summer work. It is now October. What should I do?","text_label":"employment","flair_label":5}
{"created_utc":1571370156,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/djhsko\/kansas_businesses_and_university_charging_fees\/","id":"djhsko","body":"There are a number of local businesses who charge a fee for using your debit card. I was under the impression that this was illegal in Kansas, not to mention generally against the agreement with the card merchants. Am I correct?\n\nThere is also a local university that charges a \"convenience fee\" for credit card payments, whether online or in person. The credit or debit fee is 2.85% of the amount paid, which can be quite a lot where tuition is concerned. Does the fact that this is a university \"convenience fee\" make a difference?\n\nHere is the statute I found:\n\nKansas\u00a0Statutes 16a-2-403\n\nNo seller or lessor in any sales or lease transaction or any credit or\u00a0debit card\u00a0issuer may impose a\u00a0surcharge\u00a0on a\u00a0card\u00a0holder who elects to use a credit or\u00a0debit card\u00a0in lieu of\u00a0payment\u00a0by cash,\u00a0check\u00a0or similar means.","title":"Kansas- businesses and university charging fees for using a debit or credit card. Violation of Kansas law?","text_label":"business","flair_label":0}
{"created_utc":1551814317,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/axp5a3\/my_landlord_is_trying_to_let_my_ex_who_i_have_a\/","id":"axp5a3","body":"Long story short, both me and my ex fianc\u00e9 names are on the lease. I have a PFA order against my ex fianc\u00e9 with the notice of eviction and he is not to enter the property as long as I\u2019m still living there. My ex fianc\u00e9 keeps contacting the property manager to get some of my belongings while I am not there and the property manager is currently cooperating with him. I\u2019m not completely sure if this violates the PFA order and if this is legal. I currently live in the Philadelphia country. Is there anything I can do about this?","title":"My landlord is trying to let my Ex who I have a PFA order against into my apartment.","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}
{"created_utc":1554227289,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/b8mgwk\/stepkids_mom_is_out_of_control\/","id":"b8mgwk","body":"This ended up being a lot longer than I thought it would be, TL;DR at the end. \n\nAll parties are in California. \n\nMy two stepkids\u2019 mom has anger issues and has been violent toward my husband and the kids in the past. My husband was originally awarded full custody while she was given supervised visitation until she completed anger management. After that, BioMom was given every other weekend, split holidays, and half of summer break. That court order is still in place. \n\nAbout 3 years ago, Stepdaughter (12yo) was missing her mom and Husband agreed to let the kids see her every weekend instead of every other, without updating the order.\n\nRecently, her anger issues have returned full force. A few months ago police were called after a screaming fight with her father where she was throwing things at him while the kids were present. The kids downplayed this incident and Husband took no action regarding visitation at their behest. Then, about 3 weeks ago BioMom became enraged while driving the kids back to our house. Apparently she had already been angry about their behavior at a restaurant earlier. She felt that Stepdaughter was giving her attitude in the car and was set off again. According to both kids, she was speeding and weaving through traffic while screaming and cursing at the kids. Once they arrived at the house, she threw their belongings to the ground, ordered them out of the car, and peeled out.\n\nThe kids no longer want to see her because they\u2019re afraid of her. Husband filed an ex parte requesting full custody until a hearing, but was denied and the hearing wasn\u2019t scheduled until June. Husband called CPS: they did not speak to BioMom or the kids, but advised Husband that he was negligent in allowing BioMom more visitation than was ordered. He then informed BioMom that he was going back to the original court order and she can only have them every other weekend again. BioMom allowed Stepdaughter to stay at our house on her first weekend, but is now demanding that she comes too.\n\nStepdaughter is afraid to go because she often gets the brunt of BioMom\u2019s anger. BioMom has texted her telling her to say that the last incident wasn\u2019t a big deal so that she wouldn\u2019t get in trouble and lose visitation, and so Stepdaughter also fears BioMom will blame her for the consequences of her anger. \n\nMy questions are: is there anything we can legally do to prevent the kids from being forced to visit their mom until the hearing for their own safety? If not, would it be legal for the kids to record her if she has another outburst so that we have some definitive evidence? \n\nTL;DR: Stepkids are afraid to visit BioMom with anger issues and violent tendencies after her most recent outburst Ex parte was denied pending a hearing in June. Is there a legal way to avoid their court-ordered visitation, or can the kids legally record her to gather evidence to support a new order?","title":"Stepkids\u2019 mom is out of control","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1541528490,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9uqv2q\/the_child_support_system_is_broken\/","id":"9uqv2q","body":"My husband has been paying child support faithfully for his sons entire life. His sons mother\u2019s legal custody at one point was transferred from her to the child\u2019s grandmother- at which point child support was going to the grandmothers account. Once mom got her custody reinstated, Florida Child Support was supposed to reroute the money back to her account. However, they did not. So since May, my husbands child support payments have been going to the child\u2019s grandmother and the mother has not been receiving payments. Now, Florida Dept of Revenue has placed a lien on his bank accounts, suspended his license. \n\nHe\u2019s gone to the local child support office where he tried to resolve this but they had him make several trips there and back from the bank to get statement histories, pay stubs, etc. He provided all of the documentation they asked for and was told the liens would fall off between 3-5 business days. At this point we\u2019ve reached 3-5 business days and his accounts are still locked, and the Dept of Revenue is stating they haven\u2019t received his paystubs, which he now (after initially being told they did not have an email, only fax) is going to send by email. \n\nThis is in the middle of him relocating for work, and there are now fees tacked on by the banks and to get his license back for an error that wasn\u2019t his to begin with. Is there anything we can do to have the state reimburse him for these fees due this clerical error? \n\nWe can\u2019t afford legal help right now, but this isn\u2019t right. \n\nIt seems like every time he talks to someone, they assume he\u2019s some kind of deadbeat not paying child support until he finally is able to get a word in edgewise and explained what happened. ","title":"The Child Support System is Broken","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1447496090,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/3srnbr\/my_step_dad_is_crazy_and_my_family_and_i_are\/","id":"3srnbr","body":"This is texas\n\nFor the past 3 hours, my mother, my cousin(10YO) and I have been scared and trapped in our office room. My step father is outside of it being really quiet but every few minutes he walks in front of the glass doors and just stares at us with serial killer eyes. We were all frightened. Also suprisingly enough since we live in texas, we don't own a gun. At this point we decide to call the police even though he hasnt actually done anything wrong except frightened us. He has been acting horibly mad these past 3 months, getting into fights and just being crazy. No physical harm done to any of us that i know of but he has been punching walls and making holes. Anyways the police didnt do anything since they apparently cant do anything without him \"threatening to hurt us\" after things have settled, we find that we find out he has probably been poisoning our milk and outher drinks for the past 3 weeks. We have been quite sick with stomach and headaches and just said it was a cold, but we also found some sort of powder residue in our milk about a week a go and we just thought the manufacturer made a mistake. Then earlier I have a glass bottle of cider in the fridge that had it's lid off where I thought i put it on. I shrugged it off thinking i forgot to put the cap on so I just dranked it, it didnt taste well but i didnt think much of it. Later we find in our fridge in the garage an open milk which shouldnt be there as we always have open milk in the other fridge and we discussed it was not any of us doing that. Lastly I was throwing out the rest of a milk container and it smelt like alcohol or somehing funky and thats when my whole family came to this realization. I noticed 2 days a go that i seemed to have been running low on some medicine I take which i thought was weird since I thought I had more but I also shrugged it off, then yesterday I checked and saw 3 left after I took it. Today when I checked there was 2. We are pretty sure he took my meds and crushed them in and put it in our drinks. My mother is perusing a lawyer on monday and will get a divorce\/out of here hopefully before the week.\n\nCurrently we are so afraid to sleep that we have a high defense system up of loud noises and we will all wake up. I plan to stay up and stay watch since I really don't trust him. Ps he is like 400 pounds compared to me who is 160 so I cant do much to protect if it comes to something but I will damn try.\n\nAnyways tl dr: \nCrazy stepdad none of my family trust has crazy in his eyes and will probably try to harm us, he seems to be poisoning us for atleast 2 weeks and i need to know what I can do to prevent him from doing this and how police can take me seriously. I just want my mother and cousin safe. Thank you. Im sorry if it was long or badly wrote, im still shaken up right now. I have never seen anyone with death in their eyes before.\n\nEDIT: sorry about late update. I went to bed after no responders after an hour, thinking this just got swept under the rug. I will check the CO later today and at this point I hope it's that. If not my family and I will go to a friend of the family for a while. Right now I just need to have confidence and help us out. Thanks guys! \nEdit 2: I should also mention that Im not afraid of him harming as much as I am afraid of him harming my family.","title":"My step dad is crazy and my family and I are scared of him. Possible poisoning. Need help! (17 YO posting)","text_label":"family","flair_label":6}
{"created_utc":1539720667,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/9oraxa\/pa_i_was_promised_full_college_tuition_since_i\/","id":"9oraxa","body":"A little background,\n\nWe had a local paper salesman come into our 3rd grade class 9 years ago (I\u2019m a senior now) and he promised my entire class that if we graduate high school he will fully fund our college tuition bills. \n\nEveryone was ecstatic. And for the years to come the man would come back to visit our class to make sure we were all doing well. Each visit he would reiterate that he was paying our college tuition.\n\nNow he came to our school mere months before graduation and says he is not paying our tuition! Instead all he gave us was some lithium batteries. \n\nIsn\u2019t his promise contractable due to being a gratuitous promise? We all relied on his money for years and shaped our lives around his promise...I don\u2019t know what to do. ","title":"[PA] I was promised full college tuition since I was in 3rd grade and now it\u2019s being taken away.","text_label":"contract","flair_label":1}
{"created_utc":1551252895,"full_link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/legaladvice\/comments\/avar00\/can_i_call_the_cops_on_my_neighbor_for_smoking\/","id":"avar00","body":"Every day I come home from class and my downstairs neighbor is smoking marijuana. I have many different classes that I have to study for extensively and the smell is nauseating and on a regular basis forces me out of my apartment. It's illegal in the state to smoke it, I know, but can I call the police for it? I have already informed my apartment property manager on several occasions and nothing has been done. Do I have a legal right to not be bothered by their second hand smoke? Please help.","title":"Can I call the cops on my neighbor for smoking pot? (Texas)","text_label":"housing","flair_label":7}